Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1905

AT the opening of the new Free Methodist college at Wenchow, China, about thirty government officials were present in state, and one hundred students from a Chinese school came twenty miles to see the opening ceremony.

IN five months the baptisms in the American Baptist mission at Kentung, north Burma, have amounted to 1,396. During 1904 in the China Inland Mission, 2,387 people confessed Christ in baptism. The number baptized in 1903 was 1,729.

WHEN you will be homeward bound and crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean, the sons and daughters of Africa will be raising their hands to you, shouting together with one voice: “Help! help to drive out this great darkness.”—Letter from a native pastor to a returning missionary.

THE Church of England Zenana Missionary Society has Bible women in many South India villages. One is in a village many miles from the nearest Christian church, so that she can not go to church at all. Another is of low caste, and therefore must live outside of the village where she works. By walking six miles, she can attend church, however, every Sunday.

“WITH the coming of the Lord and eternity so nigh at hand, we are altogether too cold on the missionary question. We have not as yet done our best; we have been slow to give the Holy Ghost an opportunity to accomplish his office work. Shall we not, one and all, be honest, confess our coldness, and permit the God of missions to swing us into line and carry forward his glorious enterprise in us and through us?”

PUT the people in China in rank, joining hands, and they will girdle the globe ten times. Make them an army, and let them move at the rate of one thousand a day, week after week, and month after month, and they will not pass you in one thousand years. Constitute them pilgrims, and let two thousand go past every day and every night, under the sunlight and the solemn stars, and you must hear the ceaseless tramp, tramp of the weary, pressing, throbbing throng for five hundred long years.

“AS a redeemed soul, are you in a position to take your place and do your part, and so add fuel to the missionary fires now burning? Some of God’s dear servants are being mightily stirred with regard to missions, consequently more time is being given to prayer, and more money is being placed upon God’s altar. How about the stand you take and the interest you manifest, beloved? Are you in the year of our Lord 1905 pressing on, denying self, sacrificing, or are you cooling off, and being left behind?”