Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1905

The Society of Friends in Great Britain now has a larger number of missionaries in the foreign field, in proportion to the number of its members, than any other religious body in England.

The king of Siam has been led by the American missionaries to decide to abolish gambling in his domains. Gambling is a scourge of the Siamese people, and a source of revenue to the government.

The British South Africa Company, looking about for articles which will bear taxation in Barotseland, has finally decided to tax wives. Every polygamist must pay each year five dollars per head for all his wives except the first.

Rev. G. W. Rawlings, of the C. M. S., has been asked to take charge of the moral instruction in the great government Technical School in Osaka, Japan, both masters and boys welcoming his lectures, although thoroughly Christian in tone.

Malay women, says an English Bible woman, are often afraid to let their Mohammedan husbands know of the Christian instruction they receive. They hide the Malay Gospels which they buy, often behind the picture of Mecca which hangs on the wall in most Mohammedan homes.

In the C. M. S. training-school at Oyo, Southern Nigeria, is a young man from Katsina, Northern Nigeria. He came to the school after being assured that he would not be pressed to become a Christian. But after a time he voluntarily asked to be baptized. This young man's father was a Mohammedan doctor of canon law at Katsina, near the southern edge of the Sahara. The young man visited Mecca, and, like Luther at Rome, was disgusted with what he saw of the lives of the great men of his religion. Now he is studying to preach to the Hausa-speaking Mohammedans of western Africa.