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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 4, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 18.

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Mission Notes

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.
A MISSION worker in India used a strong illustration when he said to some Hindus, “Suppose a woman should dress a god in men’s clothes, and tell people it is her husband, how would the husband like it? But you do worse; you dress up a stick or a stone, and tell people that it is God!” Such an appeal, right from the mission field, helps one to make the work real to the mind.
“THE Paris Missionary Society faces a time of great stringency. In this year the churches of France must begin to provide the salaries of their own pastors, hitherto paid by the government, but no longer to be paid after the separation of church and state is voted. The problem of supplying the foreign missions when the churches are struggling to meet home expenses looms great on the horizon.”
IN Hinduism morality consists in outward observances and rules of eating and drinking. “A Brahman may be known to be a monster of wickedness,—a liar, thief, or adulterer,—but his sanctity as a Brahman remains unaffected by these crimes; but let that Brahman, even by accident, eat forbidden food or touch an unlawful object, and the curse of uncleanness at once falls upon him.”
CURIOUS are the happenings in missionary work in Japan. A missionary of the Church Missionary Society had gained permission to give a lantern lecture to wounded soldiers. When he reached the place provided by the officers for the meeting, he found it was a Buddhist temple. There, at one side of the high altar, and under the shadow of Buddha, he stood and preached Christ to a most attentive audience. The missionary had to tramp that night seven miles in the rain to reach his home, but his heart was light, for joy of having had the privilege of that talk to the friendly soldiers.