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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 22, 1904

Mission Notes.

THE Church Missionary Society is about to build and equip, at Khartum in the Sudan, a girls’ school, in memory of General Gordon.

THE Japanese government has insisted that interpreters hired by foreign war correspondents must be Christians. It wishes those who go with foreigners to the seat of war to be men who will not soil the Japanese name by dissolute lives. Japanese officials know the high moral influence of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

THE North German Missionary Society, cultivates the idea of self-support in its stations in Togoland, West Africa. Its native Christian constituency numbers 3,790 persons. Reckoning as money the value of materials or work contributed to the church buildings, the contributions of the Togo Christians’ last year to church work amounted to a little more than five thousand dollars.

THE power of caste in India is such that one of the Christian lepers at Kothran, in Berar, refused to come to the communion because a low-caste man had been received into the church. He left the leper village with his family. But in April of this year he returned, worn, feeble, and repentant. He said: “God has punished me for my sin; I confess, and ask him to forgive me. Now I want to obey him, and am ready to take the Lord’s supper at any time that you are willing to give it to me.” The victory over caste gave the poor man perfect peace at last.