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3:24, glory to God!” “In passing the sen try guard,” continues the same writer, “I was signaled by ¡him for a ‘Traveler’s Guide,’ which I had in my hand. He un buttoned his tunic and smilingly slipped the book into a warm place. Asked if he knew the way to heaven, he replied: ‘Yes, sir, and what’s better, I’m in it.’” Miss Anna Gohrrmann, a missionary of Central America, writes: “I have been stoned, beaten, chased, sworn at, but never have I heard anything as bad as in Sigua- tepeque. The priests (Romanist)' sent deputations of from thirty to fifty on two nights with the express purpose of scaring the 'Gringo’ out of town. They came armed with rocks, rubbish, olfal of animals, sand, whistles, mouth-harps, horns and, above all, with vile language. The Lord laid it upon my heart not to reproach them. I implored the believers to bear all patiently and to ask help only of God. The next day a delegation of the leading citizens went to the alcalde and demanded protection for us. Before we' left the ring-leaders were entering thé' hall_every night and buying Testaments and begging us to remain. 1 have never seen a place more stirred over the Gospel.” The Kasai Herald, a journal of the Congo missionaries, has the following: “In this connection, also, >,we must note the ever- present opportunities before us in our out- stations. Delegation after delegation has been refused because we had no one to send. One chief was so' persistent that after he had come to us three or four tunes to beg for an evangelist, he said: ‘Well, I ’ll sit down here on you until you give me one, I cannot face my people without him.’ At last we had to give him a boy who had not finished his course, with the promise of returning him when we could supply a regular man. Eight other vil lages were recently supplied in the same way—with men whom we had to take from the Training School before their course is finished. It isn’t a wise policy in many
respects to send out these men so poorly trained and equipped, but we must supply the field or the opportunities may be lost for a long time.” “Before coming to Korea, I thought mis sionaries were so good and walked so close to God, that they never needed a revival. I remember what a disappointment it was to me to find when I became a missionary, on the field, that I was not made over in some way, into an angelic being. In fact, I think it is in some ways harder to keep up to one’s duties and responsibilities here than at home. So, you see, we need your prayers and sympathies perhaps more than you know. It is a great help to know that so many good people at home are praying for us and for the work here. “W'e are intensely interested in news of the European war. There are French, Bel gian, Russian and many English residents here in Seoul, so we hear it much discussed. We Americans all try to be neutral, and I can truly say I am. “Sometimes I think it is all to make us hope more and pray more for the speedy coming of Christ. The Korean Christians feel this is very near, and are talking and praying for it more than ever before.— Mrs. E. H. Miller, of Korea. A Word- from Hblland. “Although many thousands moved on, yet over 60,000 remained for three weeks to be fed and housed in little Bergen-op- Zoom. Committees were formed to feed and care for the refugees, and tents and sheds were rapidly erected for their accom modation on public squares and empty lots. The gentleman at whose home I was en tertained was at the head of a committee that waited on four to five thousand people a day. He told me most heartrending tales of incidents coming under his personal ob servation. One woman reached the town with three children all suffering from measles. The father was in the war—she had no idea where. Another Woman with a child in arms came weeping, for her other
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