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a copy of a Gospel and turned away. The scene made such an impression on the young man standing by that it led to his conversion.” The Angelican bishop of Hongkong says, “What I chiefly look at is the quality of the native church. The Chinaman is a very practical man. It takes a great deal to make him a Christian. But being so prac tical a man, when he adopts Christianity it assumes a very practical form in his life. He knows that he has found salvation, and he will not cast .it away for the fear of man. Moreover he realizes that a profes sion of Christianity implies holy living. And then, too, he acknowledges that having got the knowledge of salvation for himself, he is bound to tell it to others. The Gospel is now being spread through China almost entirely through the work of natives. ' In such facts lie the reason for hope of China.” A language school is to be opened at Nanking, China. By joint action of mis sionaries representing more than a score of societies and boards at work in the Yangtze Valley the University of Nanking has been requested to open such a school, and the trustees of the institution, both in China and the United States, have voted to endorse the plan. Thus this new de partment will be opened next autumn and missionary recruits for Central China, al most without difference of nationality or denomination, will spend the first year, at least, of their Chinese sojourn at Nanking in an effort to master as much of the Chinese language in one year as average students used to make in two years under the old method of private instruction. The following picture of an aged Chinese colporteur in the province of Shensi, China, comes from the Rev. G. F. Eastman of the China Inland Mission, Hanchung. Though Chang is seventy-two years of age,
Among the larger provinces in North ern Nigeria not yet reached by any Chris tian missionary is that of Bornu. The fol lowing is an up-to-date list of all the tribes waiting for the Dawn: Moslems: Kanuri, including Kanembu, Manga, Mobber, etc.; Fulani or Fellata, Shuwa Arabs. Pagans: Bedde, Keri-Keri, Ngizim, Borlawa, Gam- awa (Fika), Babur, Burra-Nyung, Marghi, Gamerghu, Budduma. The Missionary Review of the World tells us of a church in Africa with eight hundred members, where less than five years ago the people had never heard of Christ, but which today is supporting 123 native missionaries to other African tribes. One other church, with 300 members, to whom less than three years ago the name of Jesus had never been spoken, is support ing fifty-one native missionaries. The Filipino Bible women are carefully trained in the Bible training school at Jaro. Then they are distributed .among the various fields. These young women go in couples, each couple going to different towns and villages, visiting in the homes, gathering the children to children’s meet ings and Sunday schools, holding prayer meetings in the homes, talking to the peo ple in the markets, inviting them to Sunday service, and selling Christian literature. In many places they have been gladly wel comed. To live the Gospel under provocation is the strongest evidence we can give of its truth. A missionary of the China In land Mission, writing recently of a young man who was formerly a Boodhist priest, tfells of a Christian evangelist who came to his monastery to preach, and who said something that one of the priests sharply resented. “The priest was so angry that he hit the missionary a hard blow across the mouth. The missionary wiped the blood from his lips-and, smiling, laid down
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