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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 14, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 50.

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Mission Notes

A missionary laboring alone in one of China's large cities sends this message home: “I am burdened with the awful need—hundreds, or even thousands, of inquirers from all the country round. I could open twenty centers tomorrow if I had the men. Make this known.”
The Bible Evangelizing Company is a Japanese organization now three years old. Pastors, Bible women, and other workers engage in its work, which consists of reading one Gospel from beginning to end at fixed times, and with explanations to one inquirer. This method of concentration has had good results.
The Presbyterian Church of England Jewish Mission in Aleppo, Turkey, has a school in which one half of the two hundred and fifty pupils are bright and progressive Jews. Every now and then the Jewish pupils are scared away by the curses of angry rabbis, and the school is left half empty. But they come dropping in one by one again, as soon as they are sure that the rabbis are tired of cursing. Then the school booms until a rabbi remembers it again.
Put the people of China in rank, joining hands, and they will girdle the globe ten times at the equator with living, beating, human hearts. Constitute them pilgrims, and let two thousand go past every day and night, under the sunlight and under the solemn stars, and you must hear the ceaseless tramp, tramp, tramp of the passing throng for five hundred long years. By these strong figures the Mission Field explains to the reader’s mind what four hundred million means.