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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 29, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 52.

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_Mission Notes_

THE work is one — to show Jesus Christ to men. The field is one — the world for which Jesus Christ died. The glory is one — His who teaches our hands to work for him.
A LADY writing from Uganda says: “One can tell the Christian women almost at once in visiting a place, by their looks. They are much quieter in their manners, less quarrelsome, and have a superior look about them.”
IN a village near Hotsin, Shan-si, China, the village “elder” is a Christian. He has got the people unanimously to consent to his tearing down two heathen temples in order to build a Christian church out of the materials.
IN the Hankow district (China) the American Episcopal Mission has lately opened a training class for Bible women. One gets a sidelight on antipodal customs from one of the regulations: “Women who join this class must not expect to make their own shoes; they will not have time.”
THE warden of the prison at Siao-shi in Szechwan, China, is a Christian. So he holds morning and evening worship for such of the prisoners as wish to attend. Eighteen of the prisoners, some of them under sentence of death, attend these services regularly, and have and use Bibles and hymn-books. Whenever a native convert begins aggressive evangelistic work in this fashion, the deep and permanent quality of the change produced by the gospel is thrown into relief.
FRANCOIS WILLARD, the heroic missionary to whom the work of the mission on the Zambesi had been the one absorbing interest, naturally inserted a clause in his last testament to the following effect: “On the threshold of eternity and in the presence of my God, I solemnly bequeath to the Evangelical Church of France, my native land, the care of the work of the Lord in Barotseland; and in his holy name I adjure them never to abandon it — and thus to despise and renounce the rich harvest that is to be expected as the fruition of seed sown in suffering and tears.” These words from the heart of a great missionary, will not be unheeded, for the Paris Missionary Society has already announced its intention of vigorously continuing the work.—Selected.