# THE FAR HORIZON é 1 A Glance at the Field at Home and Abroad i
SOUTH AMERICA A new paper in Buenos Ayres printed each week a paragraph about Christ’s teachings. The result has been 160 letters enclosing payment for New Testaments to the British and Foreign Bible Society. Seven requests for ' Testaments came from inmates of the jail. When the story of the War is writ ten, in the annals of missions there will be found many instances of the way in which ¡governments and officials everywhere have trusted the mission ary. One striking instance of this is in China. The Chinese Government would not allow the coolies, of whom there are some 300,000 at work in France, to go for service unless they were under the oversight of the miss ionary, for if the missionary was there the Government felt sure the coolie would receive fair treatment. Each missionary therefore has the oversight of about a thousand men. When the available missionaries in China were exhausted the British Consul circula rized Japan, and there are now mis sionaries from both countries “ some where in France.” —Assembly Herald. One of the interesting discussions in the Home Mission Council has been how far the Protestants in Utah should co-operate with the Mormons in social and community affairs. PHILIPPINES No Mission of the Board is today face to face with a greater opportunity for expansion and with a greater degree of urgency than confronts our mission aries in Mindanao. Whole towns have broken away from théir previous relig ious affiliations and are declaring them-
CHINA Robert Morrison landed in South China a century ago and preached the Gospel, in danger of his life, beaten by his own servants, publicly insulted, laboring for Seventeen years to trans late the Scriptures. After seven years, in secret and in danger, he baptized his first convert. The Chinese in those days stretched across the river a chain cable, forbidding access to all foreign ers, like the great wall of exclusion which shut out the hated “ foreign devil” and his new ideas and religion. Here in the city where Morrison seemed to labor so long in vain, we have seen gathered what was said to be the most influential audience of non-Christians ever assembled in an evangelistic meet ing in the city. Here with open mind and earnest purpose they listened to a presentation of the Gospel and here several hundred non-Christian men have publicly taken their stand and entered the Christian life. A new day is dawning, a new Orient is being born, and the call comes to the West for us to enter our great heritage-of oppor tunity for service and the regeneration of the Orient. —-G. Sherwood Eddy. For fourteen years a simple Gospel work has been carried oh among the post-offices of China. Copies of the New Testament and “ Gospel Mail” maga zines have been sent to the offices in every province. The response has been encouraging and often surprising. One writes “ You manifest your, loving desire in sending the Holy Book of the New Testament, which I have received and read with great pleasure. I have for long desired this teaching, but alas! there has been no door by which I could enter.” — The Missionary Link.
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