General Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 3, 1903

SINGAPORE, in the Malay Peninsula, is perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in the world. The British and Foreign Bible Society sells Scriptures in over seventy-five languages and dialects in and about Singapore, and nearly forty languages and dialects are spoken among the six hundred boys of the Anglo-Chinese college in that city.

A CONGREGATIONAL church in Chicago has a membership of twenty Chinese enrolled on the record as a result of a Chinese Sunday-school conducted in that church. Five members of this school have gone as missionaries to their own countrymen. One is preaching in Canton, one in Hongkong, one in Hoinjen, and another in his native town, to which, before he returned, he sent sixty dollars a year to support a native teacher.

A ROAD has recently been constructed in the Congo Free State ninety-three miles long, which is thirty-nine feet wide, with a space twenty-six feet wide available for vehicles. The surface is especially hard and durable, and there is no incline of more than one foot in ten, the hills being few in number, and short. It is said that the road is practicable for automobiles of all kinds. The survey for the extension of the road sixty miles farther has just been completed.

“CORSICA has for long years appeared utterly intolerant of Protestant teaching. The few McAll missionaries who years ago entered upon the Corsican field were driven from the island with open violence. Three times has it been necessary for Protestant Bible colporteurs to flee from the island, barely escaping with their lives. But the truth they sowed found good soil at last, and formal application has been made to the minister of the interior to recognize the Protestant church at Aulene, Corsica, as the parish church, and to allow to it the support which was formerly given to the Romish priest. The petition declares that as a body the village has renounced Romanism, and has embraced the Reformed faith. In four villages of Corsica regular evangelical worship is held.”