Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 17, 1905

THE British government of the Sudan has prohibited the sale of liquor to the natives.

THE Sunday-schools of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in twenty-seven yearly Lenten offerings, have given to missions the sum of $1,469,077.60.

THE agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Japan calls for expansion of Bible work in that empire. He holds that the needs of Japan at this moment are greater than those of any European country.

THE Baptist Missionary Society (England) has built a new steamer for its work on the Kongo River. She is named the “Endeavorer,” and was launched on the Thames in February, amid the plaudits of quite a number of Endeavorers.

At the end of 1904, the C. M. S. had on its roll 981 missionaries. Of these, 572 are supplied with salaries wholly or in part without drawing on the general funds of the society, 101 of them having gone out wholly or in part at their own expense.

IN China last year the total number of copies of Scripture circulated was 1,086,670. Of these, 34,873 were free grants made for special purposes, which leaves the actual sales well over a million copies. This far outstrips all previous records.

DURING 1904 more than nine thousand persons, over six thousand of whom were adults, were baptized in connection with the C. M. S. mission in Uganda. There are now 18,484 pupils and 50,574 baptized Christians in the whole Uganda protectorate.

DR. DE FOREST has written again and again of his astonishment at the number of fine Christian officers he meets among the Japanese troops in Manchuria. At Yenkow a Japanese lieutenant-colonel spoke with him to the soldiers, and men tired out with hard work came to hear, saying that they preferred to hear preaching rather than to seek amusement elsewhere.