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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 52.

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Mission Notes

THE British and Foreign Bible Society has promoted the issue of the Word of God in 409 different tongues. Three fourths of the volumes issued go to the mission fields. More than 1,000,000 copies were circulated in China last year; in India, 693,000; and in Russia, 510,000. The circulation in Japan was more than double that of the previous year. Nine hundred native Christians are employed as colporteurs in the various countries. Also eight new languages were added to the versions of the Scriptures during 1906.
AT a conference held in Johannesburg, July 26, at which representative members attended from the Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Congregational, and Baptist churches, it was unanimously agreed that there were no unsurmountable difficulties in forming a union upon the essentials of belief held by these denominations in South Africa. They invited each church named above to elect eight delegates, to meet and prepare a basis of union to embrace polity, administration, and the like. Thus forces are confederating all over the world, as foretold by the prophet Isaiah. Chapter 8 : 12.
“At the recent great conference of missionaries at Shanghai, Dr. Lowrie, of Peking, the veteran missionary, directed the attention of the assembly to two striking proverbs of the Chinese people, emphasizing the difference between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant churches. They were to the effect that ‘the Roman Catholics controlled lawsuits but not converts,’ the Protestants controlled converts but not lawsuits,’ and ‘that the Roman Catholic Church was easy to enter and hard to leave, while the Protestant Church was hard to enter and easy to leave.’”
ELDER JAMES E. SHULTZ reports that on the same ship on which he and his wife took passage for Korea were eighty-nine missionaries, bound for the Orient. Eight were going to Korea, many to China, and not a few to the Philippines. Also, among the passengers were some men of note, among them Secretary-of-War W. H. Taft; Brigadier-General Edwards; and Hon. Mr. O’Brien, United States ambassador to Japan. When we think of the great need in the East, it does seem that out of eighty-nine missionaries bound for the Orient, only two to herald the third angel’s message is indeed a very small per cent. We must pray for more workers.