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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 45.

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Mission Notes

W. F. BEAMAN, a Baptist clergyman who recently returned from China, having labored in the large southwestern province of Szechwan, is “hopeful as to the final outcome of the revolution, and believes in the ability of the people to adapt themselves to the new order; but he recognizes the tremendous difficulties that have to be overcome, and the time required. The question in doubt is the willingness of the masses to accept the provisions made by the government, when these involve an apparent yielding to foreign influences. We must remember that the people at large are not educated in public affairs; that there is no Chinese daily press in all parts of the land to carry the news and enlighten the masses, and that the provinces are very loosely connected with the new government. A large part of the people do not yet know what the new government is with any degree of particularity, nor do they care, so long as taxes are not heavier and the rice crop is fair. This will give some idea of the perplexities of those who would like to prophesy as to China’s future.”
BROTHER E. E. FRAUCHIGER, in Turkey, writes: “I returned yesterday from my journey to Brusa. We had good meetings there, which were well attended by those not of our faith. I have great hopes for this town. Both the Protestant ministers in the town were present at different times in my meetings. A sister only sixteen years old desires to be baptized, but has been persecuted by her mother on account of the truth. I brought her with me to Constantinople to be baptized. She still goes to the American school. The condition of the government was never in such confusion as now. It was feared yesterday, on the occasion of a national celebration, that a revolution would break out, and precautions were taken against it. But we are glad that the government became master of the situation. Who knows what the next excitement will be? One lives here in continual dread of what the future will bring.”