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Among Chinese emigrants in Boreno idolatry—-even among non-Christians— has practically ceased, because of the influence of the American Methodist mission. About Sitiawan it is the regular thing for non- Christians to come to the Methodist chapel to be married. There is no heathen temple for miles around. In Sarawak thousands of Chinese have taken up land, and scflne of the Cantonese immigrants are asking for Christian instruction .—Record of Christian Work . Eager Korean Bible Students At the annual session of the Men’s Winter Bible Class in Pyengyang, Korea, 675 men paid the enrollment fee of ten sen (five cents), for the two weeks of Bible, study; and in addition, 138 students were registered for the Bible Institute which began the same day and continued one month longer. The regular classes of the Pyengyang College and Academy were sus pended, and 246 of these students were enrolled, making a total of 1,059 men and boys in attendance. A group of about 150 men who were especially interested in becoming better teachers -spent an addition al hour each day in a normal class. These men expect to give frpm one to three weeks’ fime free, teaching local Bible classes throughout the Pyengyang territory. O
Chinese schools, and doing almost nothing for native Javanese. Nominally thé people of Java are Mohammedans. In point of fact, they are only a very little advanced over their old animistic religion. The Dutch government is gradually providing schools which will give them some knowl edge of reading and writing. The native people of Java are said to be ready and willing to receive the Gospel message. Wherever aggressive missionaries have been able to reach them, there have been definite and encouraging results. Industrial Mission in Borneo American Methodists are initiating suc cessful industrial educational work in Borneo. * One method of financing it is both novel and practical. The Sitiawan Industrial School is deriving revenue from rubber trees planted^ in 1910. Nearly 20 acres are beginning to bear, and the in come will go to the support of boys whose families are unable to pay the usual board ing fee. Thirty f more acres are to be planted with rubber and cocoanut. The Sitiawan village schools, are assisted from revenue which comes from 10 acres of rubber. This is known as the Church Lot. The Bukit Lan • (Sarawak) Industrial School has 250. acres of land and lots are being assigned to students to cultivate. In four or five years an income is expected from this source.
Sherman Institut® By EDITH H. MENZER Graduate of the Bible Institute, Class 1914
S ITUATED seven miles from the City of Riverside, on the world-famous Mag nolia Avenue, in Riverside county, Califor nia, is Sherman Institute, one of our Gov ernment’s great schools for Indian boys and girls. Well-equipped dormitories, dining hall, hospital, schoolhouse and shops are located upon the beautiful grounds, and a corps of efficient teachers provided for all
departments. About 680 boys and girls, their ages varying from 10 to 25 years, are enrolled as students at the present time and these are representatives of thirty-one tribes, from almost every State west of the Mississippi. In the | school the regular grammar and high school courses of study are pursued, the girls also receiving instruc tion in domestic science, dressmaking.
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