Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 22, 1906

AMONG the new missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, six are assigned to the new mission in the Egyptian Sudan.

THE Society for the Propagation of the Gospel calls for six men for Japan. The money is ready, but the men are not yet found.

THERE are one hundred and twenty million women in India, and there are one hundred and eleven million women who can neither read nor write.

“Who can understand the dreadful darkness Of these realms of sin and death? E'en the very air is scorched and tainted With the dragon's putrid breath. But across the widest, widest billows, Love can reach to distant lands, And beneath the deepest, darkest surges, Prayer can hold a brother's hands.”

A GREEK woman employed in the American Hospital in Cesarea, Turkey, was stirred by a revival. She straightway asked leave to visit a woman whom she had injured, and to whom she had not spoken for ten years. When she trudged through the snow three or four miles to ask her “enemy's” forgiveness, her relatives were sure she had lost her mind. But the next day, when she came back to the hospital, she said, “We made peace, and the stone in my heart is gone.”