Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 1, 1904

A JAPANESE woman, teacher in the Ferris Seminary (Reformed church) in Yokohama, has been invited many times to leave the seminary and take a better position in a government school. They offered her ten dollars, and finally twenty-two dollars a month salary, if she would accept. But she stays in the missionary school on a salary of seven dollars and a half. The reason? — She could not teach pupils in the other school to seek the blessing which she herself has found in Jesus Christ.

IN 1833 three white men from France appeared before the great chief Moshesh in Basutoland with a message about a Saviour and a gospel. The chief compared their message to an egg, and said he would wait for it to hatch before forming an opinion. The egg has hatched. After seventy years there are in connection with the Paris Mission in Basutoland 27 missionaries and 425 native workers, with 22,356 professed Christians, of whom 14,950 are communicants. In the year 1903-04 these Basuto Christians gave nearly $20,000 for home and foreign missions. That is to say, they supported all of the 197 outstations of the Paris Basuto Mission, and besides this they sent $400 to the mission in Barotseland on the Zambesi.