Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1904

THREE of the great Japanese newspapers of Tokyo are in the hands of Christians as managing editors.

THE general centenary of evangelical Christian missions in China will be reached in 1907, Rev. Robert Morrison having landed in the empire in 1807.

The London Times contains an account of the laying of the corner-stone of an English church in Khartum, on February 7. The site of the church is within a few yards of the spot where General Gordon fell.

The manager of a big publishing house in Yokohama, Japan, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Every Monday morning he assembles the two hundred and twenty workers of the establishment for a religious service, as a preparation for the work of the week.

The Berlin Missionary Society and the Moravian Missions have a group of stations in the mountain region north of Lake Nyassa, in German East Africa. The Moravian Missions-blatt for April mentions the preparation of a hymn-book in the Konde language for use in all these stations. This little fact suggests more of progress than a page of statistics.

HERE is one missionary’s experience with the plague in India. At the German Baptist Brethren’s Orphanage at Ankleswar (Bombay presidency), one of the boys was taken sick on a Saturday in March, and died on Tuesday. By noon six others were sick. Mr. McCann, the only missionary there, carried one of the plague-stricken boys out of the house, and laid him in the shade. In less than an hour he was dead. The missionary carried another boy out, and laid him under a vine for shade and fresh air, but the boy died before the grave was ready for the first, and both were buried in one grave. Mr. Lichty, another missionary, now arrived from a tour, but Mr. McCann refused to allow another besides himself to run the awful risk of handling plague-patients, and continued to care for the sick single-handed. The next day at eight o’clock another boy died, and Mr. McCann, with the help of four boys, buried him. At ten o’clock, another boy died. Mr. McCann carried him to the grave, and on his return found another boy dead. Him also the weary missionary carried with the help of three boys to the burial. Then the plague was stayed as suddenly as it had begun, exactly as if the angel of the Lord had been sent to stop it in answer to prayer. The spectacle of a true missionary doing his duty under such circumstances, and as a matter of course, acts upon one like a tonic.