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A ssam . —The Garo women put aside one handful of rice each meal and bring the week’s.contribution to church on Sunday, where one woman collects and sells it. The proceeds are used for the support of the evangelist in the Garo field. S witzerland .— In the Spring of 1914 a mission among the gypsies in Switzerland was started by the Evangelical Mission of Switzerland. Already a number of stations have been established whose purpose is : (1) to help wandering gypsies where it is necessary and possible to do so; (2) to distribute suitable literature among them; (3) to bring the Gospel to fhem in a simple, childlike manner. C hina .— A missionary introduced tithing into the Christian church of Tsingtau, China. These Christian Chinese adopted the plan with such enthusiasm that they have posted upon the walls of several churches a list showing what each family is giving and what it might be expected to give on the basis of tithing iti income. The result has been a startling increase of gifts. . . . A missionary in Yunnan, China, labored faithfully for twenty-five years without seeing one convert. Last year there were 4,200 baptisms on that field. . . . While Dr. Sun Yat Sen was carrying on his propaganda in Japan, his wife resided in Macao. While there she attended the services at the Mission church. Last Feb- ------------O- T HE minister of public instruction in Argentina lately inquired of bankers and mercantile houses why they preferred to employ young men from the mission schools rather than from the public schools. They replied that they found them more honest and trustworthy. The president of the Anglo-Chinese (Methodist) College at Foochow gave similar testimony. A Chinese said to him : “I can have my son as well taught in the modernized gov ernment schools as in yours, without cost. I prefer to pay you for his tuition, not because of your religion—I don’t care for
ruary she expressed a desire to he baptized and now, after having been properly instructed, we hear of her baptism at Macao by one of the Southern Baptist missionaries there. T urkey .— In the history of missions no missionaries in any field have been called upon to pass through such a period of strain and privation as have the mission aries in Turkey and the Balkans during the last two and a quarter years. In addition to being surrounded by war con ditions, with all the uncertainty that arises from such conditions, many, of them have been face to face with atrocities too hor rible to describe. All avenues of approach for every form of supplies, even medical, have been cut off, and the missionaries have been forced to live upon what they could secure in the country. They have eaten what was not thought edible before; have been unable to renew their clothing and have been cut off from all periodicals, and thus deprived of any knowledge as to what is taking place in the world, and yet in the midst of these conditions there has not been one word of complaint, but rather constant expression of the sense of recog nition that they are in the place to which the Lord has called them, and that they are then able to render their largest serv ice as missionaries and ambassadors of JesuS Christ. This war has opened our eyes to the fact that a civilization under formal Chris tianity does not prevent bloody conflicts between nations. Everything is not gold that looks to be gold. So is this true of Christianity. The great masses of peoples of the powers now at war, were not soul regenerated-Christians. The heart as well as the head must be Christian if conflicts —local or general—are 'to be prevented.— Baptist Observer. that—but because of your ethics, which I find nowhere else .”—All the World.
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