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Thé political situation in Southwest China continues unsettled and uncertain. A few days ago the newspapers announced that the province o f Kwangsi had declared its independence; but the source o f the infor mation has since been discredited. It is now reported on what seems to be trust worthy authority that the monarchy is to be cancelled, and that China is to remain a republic. What effect this will have on the revolt it is impossible to say. The situation in North Shansi is again normal. —China’s Millions. When a Presbyterian missionary in Chosen asked the fifty men in his class how they had been led to Christ, two Said they had gone into a Christian Church as sightseers, and there had ? been led to believe; two had been convinced by read ing tracts; twelve had been brought by personal w ork ; and twenty believed through reading one-cent ; Korean gospels, sold by colporteurs. The Conference Echo, reporting the Annual Missionary Conference o f mis sionary societies working in Central Amer ica, gives some interesting facts concerning the American Bible, Society’s work in the countries o f that particular part o f the world. These facts are o f especial interest in view o f the hundredth anniversary of the society which was celebrated all over the world a- few weeks ago, churches in Los Angeles holding a union afternoon ser vice in the Bible Institute Auditorium. The Central American Agency includes all Central America, Panama, Canal Zone and nearly all Colombia, a territory o f 704,000 square miles with a population o f 11,000,000 souls. Twenty-five persons are devoting their whole time to the work o f this agency, while a number o f others are devoting a part o f their time. Since the establishment o f the agency 375,708 Bibles have been cir culated, and it is estimated that about one million Copies o f the Scripture have been scattered by all the different societies;
A trader passing a converted cannibal in Africa asked him what he was doing. ' Oh, I am reading the Bible,”" was the reply. ‘‘The book is out o f date in my country,” said the foreigner. “ If it had been out o f date here,” said the African to the Euro pean, “ you’d . have been eaten long ago.” Less than a year after the arrival of Miss Elizabeth Coan at Urumiah, Persia, she was called upon to nurse several of the twelve missionaries who were ill with typhoid fever. Two o f the missionaries died, and Miss Coan herself contracted the fever. Yet the young woman declares, “ In spite o f the experiences of my first year, I would rather be a missionary than any thing else in the world.” Dr. Fred P. Haggard, D. D., for many years home secretary o f the Baptist foreign society’ has accepted a call from the Inter national Committee o f the Y. M. C. A. to go to Russia to take charge o f work among German, Austrian and Hungarian prisoners o f war.'1 His work will be to organize, develop and extend Christian work among the million or more prisoners that are today concentrated in over a score o f Russian and Siberian prison camps. These prisoners have all o f their time to themselves, so the prospect o f reaching them with the Gospel is decidedly promising. A worker among the Hopi Indians of Arizona tells o f a young Indian girl, who who shortly after being converted came to the Missionary’s home , in great distress over, the fact that her two brothers were not saved. Calling in some other Christian girls, they knelt in prayer for the salvation o f her brothers. While they were on their knees a knock was heard at the door, one o f these brothers having come to announce that he wanted to become a Christian. A short time afterward the other brother, too, found the Lord Jesus Christ. What about our unsaved ones, Christians, are we burdened for them?
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