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A Modern Joseph I N AFRICA, as in other places, Satan cloes not allow nor leave the earnest soul in peace, and something was committed by his fellow-townsmen that caused Zoo to be put in prison. He,-like Joseph o f Old, found favor in the eyes o f the prison mas ter, and Zoo was given charge o f the prison ers at work. All went well for a time, and then one Monday morning Zoo was sum moned into the presence o f the prison mas ter and explanation was demanded o f him, as to the reason why the prisoners were not at work on the previous day. Zoo tried to explain that “ it was God’s day, and He had commanded us not to work upon His day,” but this honest explanation did not fit in with the warden’s idea o f prison life, and poor Zoo was tied over a big log and cruel natives severely beat him with a wet rope. His prison posi tion was taken from him and he was reduced to the lowest place among the prisoners. About this time his wife became untrue to him, and Zoo was left alone, yet he was not alone, for the Lord, whose he was, stood w ith him. At this time his word and testimony to us was, “ I am learning to walk close behind my Saviour; pray for me.” The testimony o f his fellows was, “We all marvel at the faith o f Zoo Ango, He is a real man,” which is to say a real Christian .—Assembly Herald. At Northfield, in 1914, an Indian student stood before the conference and said, “W e are hungry; will you bring to us the Water o f L ife? W e are naked; „will you clothe us with the garments o f righteous ness? W e are in darkness; will you bring to us the Light o f the W orld?” And he added: “Will you come? Will you Come?”
War Time Life Work T HE relative importance o f different phases o f our work depends very largely on circumstances. Recently one o f our student leaders, during a voyage to Europe, had as a traveling" companion one o f the foremost organists o f the continent. This man was going to Europe not to delight audienees with his special gift as an organ-, ist but to become a private in one o f the armies. What ordinarily he considered to be his great life work could not hold him in the presence o f a specific need o f his country. What is our war time service? Is the presence o f a special faculty or taste for even highly worthy tasks a sufficient warrant for refusing to serve the King under whom we have enlisted in some place where the battle line is exceedingly thin—or perhaps broken ?—North American Student. “It is probable that as many people are killed in A frica every year as a result of witchcraft as were killed in all the armies o f Europe during the first year o f the present war,” was one o f the striking state ments by Dr. J. E. Crowther o f the Board o f Missions o f the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, in an address at t.he National Laymen’s Missionary Convention. What do you say to this ? In the United States there is one ordained minister^to every 594 people; in Africa, one to every 82,152; in Korea, one to every 123,711; in Japan, one to every 172,538; in India, one to every 321,448; in China, one to every 476,462. Sisters Pike and Pohnert are still hard at work on the study o f the language in China, and are beginning to have some share in the women’s and girls’ work.
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