Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 2, 1903

ELDER B. G. WILKINSON writes concerning his recent trip to Spain, that the country is decidedly more open to receive the message than he had thought. He urges that this field have special attention.

DURING the year 1901 no less than 3,106,295 Bibles, Testaments, and Scripture portions were, not given away, but sold in China by the two great Bible societies, the British and Foreign and the American.—Exchange.

AT the recent Decennial Missionary Conference held in Madras, one thing was made prominent—the urgent and immediate need of more missionaries, at least nine thousand, for India. The present force of three thousand, or about one for every one hundred thousand of the people, is totally inadequate to cope with the work waiting to be done.

A RUSSIAN woman has undertaken the arduous work of reclaiming the convicts at the penal settlement of Saghalien, where only the worst type of criminals is sent. The czarina is keenly interested in her work, and is taking all pains to have it continued. Eight thousand murderers are among the convicts, and this brave woman lives among them entirely unprotected save for the courtesy shown her by the officials in charge. It is said that the conditions of life at this settlement are such that even the keepers become brutalized through association with so hardened a set of criminals.