Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1905

THE Presbyterian mission in the Canton field gives new testimony this year to the great influence of native evangelists. In that field there have been 1,284 accessions to the church, and over $11,000 contributed to Christian work by the people during the year. The village visitors who preach to little groups in out-of-the-way places stand for much in this result.

THIRTY years ago (1875) Stanley gave King Mtesa, of Uganda, his first lesson in Christian doctrine. At that time there was not a Christian in all Central Africa. This year the London Times, in the regular course of its news, publishes an account of the consecration of the great Christian cathedral, built by the Uganda church, at Mengo, which was formerly King Mtesa's capital. Ten thousand native Christian Ugandans attended the consecration services.

A LUTHERAN (General Synod) missionary in India tells of finding out in the course of the year that one of the native workers, besides doing his regular work among the people of his station, is walking eight miles, when he gets time, to teach the people of two other villages who wish to hear the Bible. It is no more than his duty to his Master. Yet what meaning there is in the fact that this man, who was a pagan, now has such a sense of his duty to Jesus Christ.

A MISSIONARY of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society tells of a native lady in India who was ordered by her father to repeat the Mohammedan confession of faith. She refused, although a hot iron was pressed upon her bare foot as a persuasive. “I can not,” she said. “You will not?” thundered her angry father, and with that he heated the iron in the fire again. Pressing the hot iron upon the other foot, he triumphantly shouted, “Now you will!” The brave woman, white to the lips from pain, answered, “No, I can not, for I am a Christian.” A conclusive answer. But let us envy the sturdiness back of it.