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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 34.

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Mission Notes

THE colleges of Japan now have some 5,000 Chinese students who are receiving an up-to-date education. They will return to China as missionaries of Japanese civilization. Since Japanese civilization is not yet quite the same as Christian civilization, the present is a most critical moment for China, and calls for greatest efforts to make Christ lead both in Japan and in China.
A MISSIONARY to a South African tribe has translated Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” into the language of the people. The illustrations have a modern and unusual aspect, but serve to make the story plainer to the understanding of dwellers in that region. The “slough of despond” is the mudhole of the “veld.” Christian starts from a “kraal.” A war-dance feast serves to represent Vanity Fair. Apollyon is a formidable creature, having the head of a wolf, the scales and tail of a crocodile, and the eyes of an owl.
THE American Baptist missionaries at Kengtung, North Burma, have come in contact with some tribes who have a tradition that men from the West will come and teach them the true religion. There seems to be an extraordinary movement toward Christianity among one of these tribes—the Muhsos. Rev. Mr. Young has baptized seven hundred and twelve converts in that tribe, and word is going into all the north country, and on into Southwest China, that the men of the west are teaching the true religion at Kengtung, and every village must send its head men to learn.
THE First Lutheran church of Altoona, Pa., supports a missionary in Liberia; individuals and various organizations in the church support several native workers in Africa and India, while others have taken a number of shares in the “Seventy Missionary” scheme. The Sunday-school, on Foreign Missions' day, made one of the largest offerings in the General Synod. Altogether the church has given between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred dollars to foreign missions during the year. Moreover, it does this foreign work without crippling its local abilities or stinting its support of other benevolent operations at home. This church is an object-lesson in giving and yet increasing.