Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1912

As an object and incentive for the raising of funds for missions, the Baptist Laymen’s Missionary Movement has adopted for its motto, “Ten cents per week per member as the minimum for missions.”

CHINA now has the Scriptures translated into about twenty of her languages and dialects. Just recently two new versions were brought out, one in Lisu, the other in Laka, spoken in Yun-nan, a province in southwestern China adjoining Tibet and Upper Burma. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark only have as yet been printed.

A CHIEF near Lake Tanganyika, Africa, in order to vex the missionary, cut off the ears, nose, and lips of an old woman, and sent them to the station, with his compliments. Later his headsman, with a raiding band, descended upon the mission garden and beheaded three of the men peacefully working there. This headsman is now a Christian, and sits at the Lord’s table with those he once persecuted.

A NEW mission boat is to ply the Nile. The American Mission has purchased a boat, the “Alleghany,” for five thousand dollars. It is seventy-four feet long; has a deck of sixty feet, suitable for meetings; a dining-room, a kitchen, and a bath-room. A barge will be secured to tow with the boat, to be used for clinic and doctor’s office. Through the means of a smaller boat operated last year, the British and Foreign Bible Society distributed twenty-eight thousand copies of the Bible or portions of it.

WRITING of “Woman’s Work in Home Missions,” Frances M. Schuyler, in Missions (Baptist), has this to say of the tasks lying close at home for American womanhood: “Why are the millions of aliens permitted to come to us? Why has God placed the black man in our midst? Why are we given centers in which poor, struggling women and helpless little children suffer and die in tenements and sweat-shops? Why, but that we shall rise above the self-excusing attitude of regarding them as insoluble problems, and in the name of the all-conquering One give to the alien our glad songs of victory and hymns of praise to the world’s Redeemer; to the black man, through the training of head, hand, and heart, a perfect manhood and a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; to the cities the gentle touch of the Great Physician to make them clean and bright—‘cities of refuge’ indeed?”