Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1905

THE twenty-four German missionary societies have about 1,000 missionaries in 615 stations; 2,500 schools, with 120,000 scholars; and about 460,000 professed Christians, of whom about 20,000 were baptized in 1904.

THE Japanese Educational Department is calling on the Y. M. C. A. to supply English teachers for the middle schools of the empire. This shows that Japan has tested one more Christian institution, and found it good.

THE American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions has recently received a legacy of twenty-seven thousand dollars from the estate of a Mr. Aslan Sahagian, an Armenian gentleman of Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Sahagian was born in eastern Turkey, almost seventy years ago, coming to America when about thirty years of age. Although never openly allied with the Christian church in Turkey, he recognized the blessings which he himself and his people had received from the labors of missionaries in his native land, and gave a large proportion of his property for this purpose.

THE British government has lately issued a “Blue Book” on the condition of the native races in South Africa. The book contains the details of a study of these races in all the provinces of South Africa by a commission of hard-headed laymen appointed by the government. It recommends among other things recognition of the utility of the work of the churches which have undertaken the duty of evangelizing the heathen, declaring that the weight of evidence shows improved morality among the Christian section of the native population.