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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 44.

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The Brighter Side

AN American teacher was employed in Japan on the understanding that during school hours he should not utter a word on the subject of Christianity. The engagement was faithfully kept, and he lived before his students the Christ-life, but never spoke of it to them. Not a word was said to influence the young men committed to his care. But so beautiful was his character, and so blameless his example, that forty of his students, unknown to him, met in a grove, and signed a secret covenant to abandon idolatry. Twenty-five of them entered the Christian training-school at Kyoto, and some of them are now preaching the gospel which their teacher thus unconsciously commended. Christ's gospel received its corroboration in its fruitage.—Missionary Review.