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Lord's box." At the end of the month the treasurer of the church calls, collects the rice, sells it, and the money goes to assist the native missionary society in supporting native Christian helpers in different villages.

The Revival at Kengtung

The widespread movement among the hill tribes of northeastern Burma and the borders of China seems to be gathering momentum with the passing months, and already is recognized as one of almost unparalleled significance in modern missionary experience. Such are the demands upon the time and strength of the workers that they find it wellnigh impossible to send adequate reports of what is going on. Rev. W. M. Young furnishes abundant cause for praise to God, increased earnestness in prayer, and generous contributions, that the reenforcements for this white harvest field may be suitably sustained. Mrs. Young writes:

Early in the year (1905) I sent three men north into China and the Wa country on an evangelistic tour, and to gather fuller information regarding the Was and the Muhsos in China. A little later, two men went on a long tour into the adjoining Shan State, whence they were to return along the southern boundary of Kengtung.

The last of March the group sent to the north returned, accompanied by a large delegation from the districts they had visited. Their report of the great open door in the Wa country was the most soul-stirring of anything in the history of the work here.

"The men who had gone to the southwest returned after six weeks, with a most encouraging report of the vast field open there. Mr. Ba Te also came back from a six weeks' tour to the east with a similar story. On the next day a group of 155 Kwes, whom Mr. Ba Te had gathered on his tour, arrived on our compound. Groups from all sections of the state and from over into China kept coming for days. We had as many as 500 on the com

pound at once, some of whom had been traveling nearly a month. The result is that 1,636 have been baptized up to the present date. Groups have gone all over the state and far over into China on evangelistic tours. The door is open wide and the call comes from every section, Come over and help

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Growth of the

It is estimated that China not less than 50,000 Inland Mission Chinese have heard the Gospel through

the instrumentality of Rev. J. Hudson Taylor. In the last five years near 6,000 have been baptized in the C. I. M. stations, and there are now over 12,000 communicants in 12 different provinces. The missionaries number 825 and the stations 200, with 521 outstations. There are 1,152 native helpers and 418 organized churches.

Christian Chinese It is interesting to see Women as Nurses how the dignity and usefulness of the nurse's profession are growing in the eyes of Christian girlhood in China. But a very short while ago those who nursed were thought ridiculous and undignified. The beauty of voluntary service is a new idea. But now in Hankow 4 young women have taken a course of training extending beyond 3 years, and perform their duties with a high-toned industry and sense of responsibility that are very cheering. In the Girls Boarding School at Hanyang, of the outgoing class 3 wish to be trained as teachers, and no less than 6 as nurses.-Foreign Field.

Korean Women Four hundred Korean Hungry for women, all on foot, the Word many of them unable to read, a baby on the back of most, and often a bag of rice besides, through pouring rain, with no umbrellas, across rocky passes in the hills, and narrow, dizzying paths between watery rice-fields-3 or 4 days they traveled to Sven Chun, last April, to be taught the Word of God. No wonder missionaries love their classes. What would not Sunday-school teach

ers at home give to be met with a tithe of such eagerness in studying the Bible?-Woman's Work for Women.

A New The various PresbyJapanese Church terian missions in Japan have recently fol

Longfellow, a son of the American poet. Here the school was opened on a very modest scale, with 3 teachers, Messrs. Blanchet, Cooper, and Newman, and 5 students. The following year Bishop Williams bought 3 small

lowed the example of the Anglican Japanese houses and moved the school

missions, and have formed a native church in many respects similar to the Nippon sei Kokwai. The title of the new body is the Nihon Kirisuto Kokwai, or Church of Christ in Japan. A vigorous agitation has sprung up within the new organization, which has for its object the termination of the connection between the native Christians and the European and American missionaries. According to a book entitled The Christian Movement in its Relation to the New Life in Japan," which we have received from Tokyo, the number of Japanese baptized by "Protestant bodies" is now 66,133. "The enrolled membership of all Christian churches in Japan aggregates 154,000, representing a community of fully 450,000; that is, about I per cent. of the total population. It would appear that the increase during the year was approximately 10 per cent."-Mission Field.

The Doshisha "A recent report conUp to Date cerning the Doshisha," says the Missionary Herald, shows that, with but few exceptions, the 950 graduates of the institution have been Christian men, and have remained true to the high ideals of Christian service. Eighty are now preaching, 161 are teaching, 221 are engaged in business, 156 are pursuing advanced studies, 27 are officials, and 16 are editors. About 5,000 students have been connected with this institution, which has had no small part in shaping the life of Japan.'

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Another St. Paul's College, Christian College Tokyo, established by in Japan Bishop Williams in

1874, is the largest and oldest Christian school in Japan. The first home of St. Paul's, No. 40 Tsukiji, was a house rented from Mr.

to them, establishing at the same time a boarding department.

Of the 573 students, more than half are from Tokyo, the remainder coming from all over Japan, 2 from Formosa and I from China. The boys are drawn from all classes of society, the majority, probably, being the sons of merchants, as St. Paul's is situated in the business section of the city.Spirit of Missions.

Methodist Union Steps have been taken in Japan to provide for a con

ference of all Methodist missionaries in Japan (of whom there are 7 denominational bodies), to be held annually, beginning in August, 1906. The following reasons for calling such a conference have been published in Tidings from Japan: To cultivate and promote a closer fraternal feeling and union among the various Methodist bodies in Japan; to compare methods of work; to discuss difficulties in the work; to present the conditions and needs of the united work to the home churches represented in the conference; and to take such action from time to time as may be deemed necessary to preserve and foster the friendly relations now existing between our missionaries and the Japanese workers of the various Methodist churches. World-Wide Missions.

AFRICA

The Cairo Over 25,000 out-paMedical Mission tient visits were recorded at the Church Missionary Society dispensary in the Old Cairo medical mission last year. The in-patients in the hospital were more than double those of the previous year. The receipts in fees sufficed to pay all expenses, save missionary allowances, and to end the year

with a substantial balance. Some weeks ago a Sudanese woman in hospital came because, as she put it, she had seen, in a dream, some one come and say to her: "Go to the English hospital in Old Cairo." After admission she showed great interest in the Gospel story, and expressed herself as certain that the One she had seen in her dream was Christ Himself. She has been daily taught, and learns rapidly, with the full intention of being baptized after she has put her affairs in order. She recognizes the probability of persecution, but says she will say to her son: "We have been on the wrong road. Christ has found me and put me on the right one. Will you come with me along it? Even if you won't, I must keep on it.”

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Good Result The Yoruba people Among the received Church MisYoruba sionary Society missionaries at Abeokuta in 1846. They were then pagans, used human sacrifices in worship and sometimes practised cannibalism. In 1904 the whole charge of the Anglican Christian work at Abeokuta, both educational and evangelistic, is in the hands of native pastors and teachers raised up from the old pagan stock within 50 years. The paramount chief of Abeokuta called last year at the Church Missionary Society house in London, to express warmly his sense of the benefits his people have received from the society.

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Sudan from Egypt. This effort is a fine outlet for enthusiasm and sacrifice in the Baganda church, and may offset relapse in heathen customs which have been the grief of the mission these last years.

The Old and the New in Uganda

The Bishop of Zanzibar has recently published in the Intelligencer:

I stayed a week at Mengo with Bishop Tucker, and was able to see a good deal of the working of the mission. Of course, in a passing visit like this, one only sees the outward appearance of things, and gets but a superficial view of the whole work. It is only by living for a long time among the people yourself that you can form a just opinion of the depth and character of the work. But speaking as a superficial observer, I can truly say that I was immensely impressed with the excellence and thoroughness of the mission's methods, and with the astonishing progress that has been made in so comparatively short a time. Readers of the history of African discovery, or of books like Mr Ashe's "Two Kings of Uganda," will remember the description given of the court of Mutesa and Mwanga, of the cruelties openly perpetrated, of the martyrdom of the first Christians-of the murder of Bishop Hannington. When the Uganda boys were mutiliated and burnt twenty years ago, there were but 108 Christians in the country. There are now, Bishop Tucker tells me, over 60,000 baptized Christians, 15,400 communicants, 18,484 children under instruction, and 3,683 catechumens. Last year 6,335 adults were baptized and 2,965 infants. And there are 1,082 churches, 32 native clergy, 1,552 readers and teachers, and 224 women teachers; 303 teachers in training and 12 candidates are being prepared for ordination.

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Testimony of Missionary Grutzner. of the Berlin MissionAfrican Convert ary Society, tells the story of a white farmer near Bethany, in the Orange River Colony, and a black native Christian, who attended the services at a distant church. The farmer was only a nominal Christian, and did not like the frequent church-going of his hired man, and one day reproached him by saying: "Why take that long walk to the church? Stay at home, and pray and sing here. Is not that just as well?" The black Christian answered

nothing, but took a live coal from the fire before which they were seated, and laid it upon the ground. As soon as the coal had become black he returned it to the fire, where it soon glowed again. Then he said: "See, master, I go to church that I become glowing again. My going will not make me a bad servant, but if I stay at home you would soon find that I would not be as good a worker as before."

A Revolt in German East Africa

The rising of the natives in the southern part of East Africa has led to the destruc

tion of some of the stations of the Benedictines (Roman Catholic) in the Lindi district. The stations of the

Anglican Universities' Mission, along the Rowuma River, and the numerous stations of the Berlin Missionary Society, are in imminent danger. The work of the Berlin Society, which is very extensive, is threatened in its entirety. The work of the Leipzig Missionary Society, which is limited to the northern part of German East Africa, is untouched by the trouble. The war has already broken up the English Universities Mission station at Masasi, in German East Africa. Mpangile, a station of the Berlin Missionary Society, far west of Masasi, has also been attacked.

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South Africa

important conference of missionaries from the 4 German societies at work in South Africa was held at Bloemfontein from July 19th to 24th. Fifteen missionaries represented the Hermannsburg Missionary Society, the Berlin Missionary Society, the Moravian missions, and the Rhenish Missionary Society. Superintendent Kropf, of the Berlin Society, who has been a missionary in South Africa for sixty years, presided. The papers and addresses referred to the joy and glory of the missionary's life and labor, to church discipline, to training of native helpers, to instruction of appliçants for baptism, and to educational

work. It was a fruitful gathering, where the spirit of unity and brotherly love prevailed.

Increasing Difficul. The Berlin Mission{ies in ary Society reports South Africa 3.855 baptisms South Africa in 1904,

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so that there were on January 1, 1905, 45.575 native Christans in its South African stations. In the annual report Superintendent Schoemann says that time for decision has come unto the natives of South Africa. "Most of the tribes in South Africa are feverishly restless, and show a hitherto unknown discontent with existing circumstances. Thus there is created on one side bitter hatred toward all Europeans, on the other side an ardent desire to be on equal footing with them. A striving after greater knowledge is caused by the dim idea that knowledge is the way to recognition, power, and liberty. This endeavor drives thousands into the missionary schools." In Natal the opposition between blacks and whites becomes more and more pointed. The Zulus are especially despised and treated in hostile manner. In the capital of Natal the watchword is: "No black is to be permitted upon the sidewalk." This racial hatred causes the missionaries to suffer, as they are accused of corrupting the blacks by proclaiming the liberty of the children of God, and especially by educating them as teachers and preachers. In short, the missionary work in South Africa is now more difficult than it was ten years ago.

ISLANDS OF THE SEA

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necessary, in order to distribute the Testaments at all widely, to refuse to sell more than five copies to any one person. Some were demanding as many as 100 copies each.

During the last 5 days of July there were laid 2 corner-stones for Methodist chapels in Porto Rico, and 2 other chapels were dedicated. The two corner-stones were those of the chapels at Maunabo and Patillis, where buildings of concrete are being erected, each one capable of eating about 250 people. The chapels dedicated are in Jobas and Jojome, the latter far up in the mountains toward Aibonito. At the two dedications there were five persons converted.

Hindus Flocking Says the Australian Methodist:

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Fiji Islands

"The changes likely to be wrought in Fiji by Canadian commercial enterprise is a matter for serious commercial consideration by the Methodist Church of Australasia. The Vancouver Sugar Refining Company recently purchased the Navua sugar mill, and with an energy characteristic of Canada, matters are rapidly developing, and in a very short time it is expected that there will be a sugar mill at Ñavua rivaling in size and importance that of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Lautoka. What does this mean? It means that more Indians will be brought into Fiji. The C. S. R. Company is mainly responsible for the 35,000 Indians who are there. An equally large company may be expected to require nearly as many more. What are we going to do? This new work will either overwhelm us, and cause us to take a very secondary place in Fiji, or it will arouse all the latent energy and reserve strength which we believe to be in Methodism, and which we sincerely believe to be equal to its great mission. What are we doing at present for these Indians? We have two European missionaries, one of whom has to divide his time between the Indian and the European work at Lautoka, and one

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missionary sister, and at the outside. two Indian agents."

MISCELLANEOUS

Excuses of the Heathen

"My

"It is my fate: thus did my fathers walk," said one. "If I fall into the Christian teaching, who will marry my daughter?" asks another. "When the rest of the village becomes Christian, I will come to: I can not come alone," argues a third. wife will not fall into the way. True, women's sense is half-sense. But if she does not come too, what can I do?" is the excuse of a husband. A son says: "My father is old. He will never enter the Christian assembly, and when he dies he would be buried in the old way. Then I may become a Christian." What is this to me? If my lord becomes a Christian, I will follow," is a woman's word. "All ways go to the village. Walk thou in thy way; I go in mine,' is a more definite refusal.-Foreign Field.

Modern Journalism and Missions

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One of the shortcomings of modern journalism is its readiness, not to say its deliberate desire, to give currency to news, from near or far, which has to do with actual or supposed human failings. An interesting instance of what we mean came to our attention the other day in a despatch, ostensibly from a small town in the State of Washington, to a Philadelphia paper, giving at some length the observations of a Hindu visitor in that Washington town, derogatory to the character and work of missionaries in India. Dozens of men who bear the honorable name of home missionaries, in the State of Washington, are doing fine constructive work both on behalf of the Church and nation, yet

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