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r p H E Africa Inland Mission, an inter- denominational and international so ciety which works in British 'East Africa, German East Africa, and the Belgian Congo, has now over 100 missionaries on the field. It has recently taken over three stations o f the Leipzig Mission. Funds are urgently needed to provide for the regular forces o f the Mission, to provide passage for several missionaries whose furloughs have ended and who are anxious to return to their stations, and to equip, send out and support on the field nearly a score o f accepted candidates who are only hindered by laclc o f funds. Five thouJ sand dollars would accomplish much for the Lord if given just now. Dr. Torrey is President o f the Council. The native church in Hinghua City, Fukien, China, recently set out to raise $5000, silver, to complete a church building to seat 3000 persons, $10,000 having been given for the building by the Gamble Brothers o f Cincinnati. When the native subscriptions were added up, the sum of $12,435 had been raised, and it will prob ably reach $15,000. Latest Chinese Mission figures show the following totals given in Missionary Review o f the W orld: Members o f evan gelical churches, 470,000; ordained Chinese pastors, 546; unordained native workers, 5,364; Chinese Christian school teachers,- 4,712; native Bible women, 1,789; native assistants in hospitals, 496 ; native con tributions last year, $320,000 ; pupils in primary and day schools (mission schools), 85,241 ; pupils in intermediate and high schools and colleges o f the missions,- 31,384; hospitals, 235; dispensaries, 200; patients treated last year, 1,322,802.
There is a district in ,Yunnan, China, thousands o f square miles in extent and with a population o f several millions, for which the first native evangelist has just been appointed by the China Inland Mis sion. There are' numbers o f tribes who have no teacher nor have/they ever heard the Gospel. Prayer is earnestly requested to meet this situation. Interesting News from China Miss Helen E. Smith, a graduate o f the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, now o f the Presbyterian Mission at Nanking, China, writes thus o f her work: m “ Mrs. Wong, Mrs. W o and I are re turning in our houseboat from a visit to the Home for Destitute Women outside o f Moh Doh, where we preached the Gos pel right on Satan’s territory! W e went back in where the idols were with lighted candles and burning incence set before them, and right beside the cushions where, they kneel to worship Budha we told them about Jesus. Mrs. W o has just told me that once before when they had visited the Home, they were not allowed to go into this place o f idol worship except- for a look around, but hot knowing this I went in; for I saw several women wefe in there embroidering silk. My two comrades fol lowed me and soon the women gathered from their quavers. It was hard to get their attention at first but after the first excitement o f seeing, visitors, especially a foreign lady, we were able to get them all seated and quiet while Mrs. Wong talked to them. During all this time the six or seven women who were embroidering kept on with their w ork; others were eating their morning rice. One old woman noisily objected to our preaching ‘the Jesus
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