p. 13 | Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1905

Mission Notes

It is announced that every African tribe from the mouth of the Kongo to Stanley Falls, a thousand miles in the interior, has the Bible in its own language.

WHILE the Russian war-ships were passing through the Suez Canal, B. F. B. S. colporteurs were allowed on board, and during one day and one night sold to the sailors seven hundred copies of the Scriptures.

THE only institution in India conducted by Protestants for the deaf and dumb, is that of the Church of England Mission in Palam-cottah. It is caring for and educating about a hundred deaf and dumb children. Their progress is said to be rapid, and their achievements wonderful.

OF the Christian women in India, more than thirty per cent can read. But among the women of India as a whole, only seven out of one thousand can read.

A MISSIONARY, who is working among the lepers at Pakhoi, South China, describes one of these poor folk who, though bodily Mr. Ready-to-halt, is spiritually Mr. Greatheart. “He has lost one of his legs, his hands are stiff and useless, besides which he is very weak in body. Nevertheless he can do something, and by the grace of God he does it. During the past three weeks he has been out into the country with a bundle of Gospels, etc., which he has sold to the value of 1,300 cash. You will understand what an amount of work and preaching this means when I tell you that the most expensive book he carried was worth ten cash, and many were only three cash each.”