Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 9, 1905

NEARLY a million copies of the Scriptures are sold in China every year.

DURING the late Boer War copies of the Scriptures in fourteen different languages were given in one Boer hospital.

THE Russian government has given free passages over the Trans-Siberian railway to the agents of the Bible Society.

THE Bible depot in Madrid was once the home of an Inquisitor general, with its secret staircase and private passages, one leading to the old dungeon of the Inquisition, another to the Tribunal.

A FRIEND of the American Bible Society has offered it a contribution of five thousand dollars, provided nineteen others can be found before April 1 to give an equal amount. Another friend offers to be one of fifty to give one thousand dollars each; the offer to be open until July 1.

A MISSIONARY writes from Madagascar: “My conviction deepens that the kingdom of Christ has made wonderful progress in Madagascar, and that at the present time there is very much to encourage both the workers here and the Christians at home, notwithstanding clouds which are in the sky, and the presence of some things which cause anxiety in relation to the future of our missions.”

THE son of a Mohammedan Afghan robber chief has left his father’s castle, crossed the frontier, and made public profession of faith in Jesus Christ at the C. M. S. mission in the bigoted Mohammedan city of Peshawar. He has done this at the imminent risk of being shot by his angry father, and he is himself still little more than a half-tamed savage, liable to lose control of himself when anything stirs his wrath. Yet there he is to-day, trying hard to be humble, gentle, and Christlike. He is, therefore, within reach of the prayers of all Christians.

THERE are eight hundred millions of heathen in the world. This does not convey very much to our minds, does it? But let us try to understand a little what these figures mean. Suppose only one million of people were to walk past you in single file at the rate of one a second, and suppose they went on day and night without a pause, eleven and a half days would have elapsed before the last one passed by; and if all could pass by, twenty-five years would have come and gone ere the long, long line came to an end. And these millions of people are passing on into eternity, thousands every day, without ever having heard of a Saviour’s love, because no one has ever told them.—Selected.