Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1905

THE company at San Fernando, Trinidad, is reported as growing in numbers, and several await baptism.

ELDER J. A. MORROW, of Bermuda, reports that five were baptized in those islands recently. Others were expecting to go forward.

THE Brownie Orphanage (Presbyterian) at Kodoli, north India, had a bright service not long ago, when sixty-three of the orphans made open profession of faith in Christ.

A MISSIONARY of the Presbyterian Church of England describes a ten-days' touring among the villages near Chiang-hoa, Formosa, and adds: “It is a great comfort to be able to roam all over a heathen country, and yet seldom be more than a mile from a Christian dwelling.”

THERE has been a great extension in the work of the Chinese post-office. The number of articles with which the postal authorities deal has increased from 49,350,000 in 1903 to 72,150,000 in 1904. Couriers are traveling unmolested throughout the empire, except in two districts on the borders of Kwang-si and Kwei-chau Provinces, and 1,192 post-offices are now open.

HENRY KIMURA, a native preacher in Japan, thus tells how God answered his prayers for his own family: “On the third day of July, we had a wonderful and blessed time at my home. My father was baptized at the Niigita church. He has persecuted me fourteen years, since I gave my heart to God, but my prayer was finally answered, according to his promise. He came to the same common Saviour.”

MORE than two hundred of the native agents of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in the Fiji Islands owe the awakening of a sense of sin, as well as the peace of Jesus Christ, solely to reading the New Testament. Scripture alone, without counsel, admonition, or spiritual instruction from any one, does the work of conviction and conversion in many mission fields. When missionaries are lacking either at home or abroad, the Bible should be sent out the more abundantly.

ONE of the secretaries of the American Board says that some forty years ago, he, a small boy, was inveigled by a sister into giving a precious (and regretted) fifty cents to a mission band for the education in Turkey of an Armenian girl named Kohar. Years may well tend to make one forget a vaguely distant Kohar, and even a painful sacrifice of which she was the innocent cause. But the other day Kohar came to light again; this time to astonish the good man with a gift of two hundred and fifty dollars for the treasury of the American Board. The true convert knows the emotion of gratitude exactly as well as her teacher.