Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 25, 1904

THE population of Japan, exclusive of Formosa, at the last census, was 42,270,620—more than 4,000,000 larger than the population of Great Britain and Ireland. Of the seven and one-half millions of children of school age, over 3,800,000 are in government schools of various grades.—Selected.

A KOREAN was so deeply impressed by the message he heard from a colporteur in the market-place, that he came the following day with his wife to hear further about the way of life. After listening attentively for a long time, both expressed a desire to pray, and thereupon prostrated themselves and prayed to the only true God, asking his forgiveness, and beseeching him to help them to believe in Christ and to live holy lives in this world.

PUT the people in China in rank, joining hands, and they will girdle the globe ten times at the equator, with living, beating human hearts. Make them an army, and let them move at the rate of one thousand a day, week after week, and month after month, and they will not pass you in one thousand years. Constitute them pilgrims, and let two thousand go past every day and every night, under the sunlight and under the solemn stars, and you must hear the ceaseless tramp, tramp, tramp of the weary, pressing, throbbing throng for five hundred long years.—World-Wide Missions.