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Dr. Long, Protestant evangelist, of Lim erick, Ireland, writes that there has been no violent attack on his mission since October, 1912, when the front of the building was wrecked by a mob. The average monthly attendance at the hospital is 550, most of whom are Roman Catholics. Mr. Hare, who attends to the evangelistic side of the mis sion, is having great success in selling Scrip ture portions and New Testaments for many miles around Limerick. The reasonings of one recent convert are ingenious. He could no longer believe in the mass on these grounds: “If the priest really does sacrific Christ in the mass he is anti-Christian. .In the mass the priest washes his hands to represent Pontius Pilate, who delivered our Lord to crucifixion. He also kisses the altar in the mass to represent Judas who betrayed our Lord with a kiss. He does not, therefore, symbolize Christ, but Christ’s enemies.”— R. C. W. Christians of China are praying for suf fering Europe. A day of prayer to this end was observed last October in many parts of China. The meeting at Nanchang, Kiangsi' was addressed by a Dr. Chang, who re marked”on the uniqueness of the fact that Chinese Christians all over the Empire were praying for foreigners. Then he added per tinently: “The foreigners have been pray ing for the Chinese barbarians for many years. Now it is the turn of the Chinese to pray for the foreign barbarians.” An awakening to Jewish evangelism is ap parent in America. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has directed its Home Mission Board to co-operate with any Presbyterians willing to undertake missions among Jews. It has been and is one of the most deplorable facts that the Church has so long ignored specific evangelism among the Jews, who in our midst are yet without the Gospel unless it be carried to them. They will never seek it.
F. G. Mitchel, working among the Nava- joes, writes : “At Ganado several have been converted from heathenism, one woman of sixty told me she had now believed God’s Word for six years; she has thrown away her hair string charm, and her little bag of sacred corn pollen, she has no more use for the medicine men. She prays daily for her un saved relatives. She is happy in the Lord and has just one regret, there are no songs of praise to God in the Navajo tongue with which to sing His praise. “Another, a woman of forty, says she cannot hide it, she is a child of God. She had heard the Gospel a number of times, but two years ago a light came to her from heaven, just as the light comes down through the smoke hole in the Hogan; she fervently wished to see the one who was sending it to her, later she saw as with her two eyes the place of punishment for the un believing and turned to God with all her heart. “At Tuba nearly twenty of the pupils of the Government school meet for prayer each week seeking to know the Lord as Savior.” Special prayer is asked for this work. Foreign missions employ the life and labor of more than 20,000 Christian mission aries and expends annually about $30,000,- 000. There is no better answer to the sneer that Christianity is a petty thing, and the interest of people of small caliber, than the simple statement of the magnitude of for eign missions, a project which is the most dazzling ambition that ever entered mortal mind, namely, the subjugation of the whole world to Christ’s reign. Liquor sales in Terre Haute, Indiana, fell off nearly one-half as one lesult of union tabernacle meetings led by Evangelist Mil ford H. Lyon. The forces of vice were put to rout, indifferent church members awak ened and large accessions made to church membership. The conversions mounted into thousands.
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