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gone out, tiVo by’two, where men would not be permitted to go. They carry with them Bibles and Christian literature which they sell in their house-to-house visiting. They nurse the sick, clean homes and prepare food. Some conduct ' kindergartens and their kindergarten stories are Bible stories. They organize Sunday schools and evening Bible classes and even at times preach in chapels and market places. A distinguished man was speaking at the opening of a reformatory for boys, and remarked that-if only one boy were saved from ruin it would pay for all the cost. After the exercises were over, a gentleman asked him if he had not put it too strongly when he said that all the cost of founding such an institution would be repaid if only one boy should be saved. “Not if it were my boy,” was the answer. A ll who have been in the Punjab realize that God has given the privilege of seeing the Holy Spirit work in great power. Men and women, living for years a cold, in different life, have been moved by the power of the Holy Spirit. Lives saturated with sin have been cleansed and purified and have become flames of fire burning for God. This quickening began in prayer; prayer in which His Word was lighted up by the Holy Spirit and His will revealed; times of waiting upon God when victories were gained which resulted in multitudes being turned to the Lord. D uring the Chinese revolution, while the city of Tatung in North Shansi was be sieged for forty-seven days, our colporteurs had free passage over the walls. They were let down by ropes, and the soldiers were willing to help them up and down. Once when Colporteur Li .came near the city the soldiers, began to shoot at him, but he quickly took out one of our Gospels and waved it, and the . firing ceased. They recognized the book, and knew he was not an enemy or a spy. The officers of the besieging troops were also always kind to
our colporteurs, and bought books and told fheir soldiers to do the same. .F rom the girls ’ boarding school of Ta briz, which, since its formation forty years ago, has been a torch leading the way in the education of women, never quenched by all the wars, famines and persecutions which ,have followed the fortunes of that greatest commercial city of Persia, comes this cheering word : “Of all the girls with fis- this year, of church membership age, ’only one was not a member; for her we hâve, strong hopes. We strongly believe in the possibility of evangelizing the girls of our boarding department-and feel justified in the- belief, there’ never having been a boarder graduated from the School who was; not a professing Christian and church mem ber. i - S hall we Christians trifle and tarry while Africa is in darkness? r While we delay and dally Mohammedan ism is increasing in geographical extent and in influence. While within the last ten years fifty Mos lems in Africa have been converted to Christianity, there have been some fifty thousand pagans who have gone over to Islam. And they are more-difficult to reach than they would have been as pagans. On the other hand, there are signs of decay in Moslem political power. Today there is not a single independent power in Africa. Egypt, the Sudan, Tripoli, Mor- rocco, have all come under European con trol. ' The supreme problem of unoccupied fields today is the problem of. Moslem territory in Africa. ____________ D own in the sugar district of Brooklyn is -the Williamsburg Rescue Mission. The leader, Mr. Carlton Park, works every day ajt his trade and on Sundays and evenings devotes his time to search for “the down and out.” Mr. Park was, in earlier life, a_ Methodist, but falling to drink passed to the lowest stages of despair. Attempt-
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