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THE KING’S BUSINESS
Once more Korea is passing through a revival. In Seoul it started in the powerful intercessions of a Korean pastor, who rose at five in the morning and went to a moun tain to pray, later making the church his oratory and inviting believers to join him at that early hour. For three weeks revival services were held in that church, after which they were begun in another and an other, in each of which the meetings before daylight ushered in the blessing desired. In Pyeng-yang more than three thousand men and women confessed Christ. After the Church’s recent trial through Japan’s treat ment of Christians, this time of refreshing is doubly helpful. Frank L. Brown, joint general secretary of the World’s Sunday School Association, writing in the S. S. Times, mentions" sitting on the platform with the Italian, Penzotti, who many years ago was confined for a year in a dungeon in Peru for preaching the Gos pel. .“The authorities offered to let him out if he would promise not to preach the Word. His reply was that he would rather stay in the dungeon until he rotted. Finally the American, Italian and British ambassadors secured his release. He is now an agent of the Bible Society, and has lived to see prac tical -freedom for his loved work everywhere in South America.” The Jewish Missionary Intelligencer (London) states that the present distress among the Jews of Russian, Austrian, and German Poland, as well as in Palestine, is driving them back to God as their Father, as well as to the searching of His Word for light on the present dark outlook. An American mission from Los Angeles has a school with 217 girls enrolled at Port Said, Egypt—three-fourths of whom are Moslems. It also carries on evangelization among the Coptic colliers working in the harbor. -------- An old elder who has been in the church for many years was asking the other day
about Europe and the war. He said, “Is not the -German Emperor a believer in the Lord?” “Yes,” was the answer. “Is not the King of England a believer, too?” “Yes,” again. “Is not the Russian Emperor a believer?” “Then why are they all fight ing each other?” In Southern California, Mr. Sutherland, a colporter among thé Roman Catholic pop ulation, with his load of Bibles got into a skiff to cross from steamboat to shore. A priest and another man got in also. “When the boat put off, the priest deliberately turned it over in deep water with the un doubted purpose of drowning the colporter, hampered as he was with the heavy bag of books. Mr. Sutherland, being an expert swimmer, soon reached shore, but the third passenger would have drowned if the owner of the skiff had not rescued him.” Twenty-two years ago there was not a man in all the Luebo country (Belgian Congo) who had heard the name of Jesus. Now there are 10,360 believers and 67,500 adherents. Twenty-two years ago there was not a man there that knew a letter in any alphabet. Today there are 7000 pupils in the various schools. Twenty-two years ago there was not a man, woman, or child in all the vast region who could utter a syllable of intelligent prayer. Now at 6 o’clock every morning 20,000 people gather for morning worship in various villages. The Indian Witness (Lucknow) states that Miss Lizzie L. Johnson, an invalid whose sufferings have been intense for twenty-six years, has wrought upon her bed of pain for the missionary cause, so that she has raised about $24,000 to date. Besides using her needle, she has made book-marks that have been sent to many parts of the world. “The work overtaxes my strength,” she writes, “yet I am eager to toil on and do all I can to enable these native pastors and Bible-women to continue their soul-sav ing work.”
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