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cloud overspread the Tabernacle in the wilderness; God spake out of the cloud; a cloud enveloped the transfigured Christ on the Mount; the Lord went away in a cloud and He will come again in a cloud; and in the Revelation we find a rainbow around the throne. The bow is also a
sign of God’s covenant and the heathen nations know it as God’s bridge and God’s messenger. God’s compassion is mani fested to men in times of danger. The sky cannot be Wholly overcast when the bow appears, for the sun must shine through the rain.
Items of Interest at Home and Abroad R EV. W. W. BORDEN, a young Chica go man, and a millionaire, devotes his life and his wealth to the Master.
S EED GROWING SECRETLY. Mr. Leech of the American Bible Society reports that in New Mexico they fre quently meet in out of the way places with groups of neighbors met for the reading of God’s word, copies having fall en into their hands from unknown sources but traceable doubtless to some faithful colporteur. “And fell upon good soil, and brought forth fruit.” D O MEDICAL MISSIONS PAY? A mother and daughter, neither of whom had ever seen the other, met face to face, in a hospital in China, and thanks to the Christly physician who had restored their sight, they saw each other. Through that happy circumstance a church of one hundred believers has been organized. C UT IT OFF.” A striking instance of the literal interpretation and ap plication of Scripture is reported from Japan. A straggling gambler and quack into whose hand a New Testament came, was converted. He read how it said “If thy hand offend thee cut it off,” and charging his dextrous middle finger with most of his trickery, he cut it off. He now propogates the Gospel, and the stump of his errant finger does good serv ice in testimony to the reality of his faith if not altogether to the wisdom of his works. A r e for e ign m issions a fa il URE? If so, so are Home Missions, for the percentage of confessions at home is far below that abroad. In the last decade the African church has in creased about forty per cent, and the 112,000 additions exceeds, probably, mani fold those of the first decade of Christ ianity. E vangel ist ic r e c i p r o c i t y . There have been many reciprocal visits of evangelists between the days of Moody and Sankey and those of Torrey and Alexander. The Moody
He goes to China to evagelize, particu larly the Chinese Mohammedans. T HE NORTH CHINA HERALD tells us that a new preacher has arisen in Shanghai, proposes to start a new religion, a conglomerate of Confu- clonism, Taoism, Buddhism, Mohammed anism and Christianity! This man is not much in advance of some “Christians” in our own land, but both are engaged in an impossibility. There is only one kind of Christianity that will mix with the world, that is Christianity with Christ ruled out. P ERU IS TO HAVE PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AFTER ALL. They will labor in the Putumayo region, at the sources of the Amazon. Many Protestant, and missionary (!) leaders had conceded to Romanism a monopoly of that country; a monopoly as cruel to the souls of the natives as the rubber monopoly had been to their bodies, and under the patronage of which the latter monopoly had thrived on the Congo as well as on the Amazon. The govern ment of Peru does not frown on evan gelical teachers as had been asserted. T HE BIBLE BY POST IN CHINA. Mr. Price of the American Bible Society through a long mailing list reaches with portions of the Scriptures hundreds of Chinese gentlemen inaccessible to the colporteur. Some have returned thanks for his courtesy and orders for his sav ing merchandise. G REATER THINGS. One medical missionary in one year has operated for cataract on 2,500 Chinese pa tients; thus “the eyes of the blind have been opened,” and works greater in num ber, if not in power, than those of the Master have been wrought; and yet all equally “by the word of the Lord.”
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