Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 11, 1904

SINCE last July there have been twenty-five baptized in Kobe, Japan. Five of these are young men, all of them actively engaged in the canvassing work.

Two nurses have recently gone from Australia to connect with the sanitarium work in Samoa, and a company of workers was expected to reach Singapore early in July.

THE total number of ordained missionaries in the foreign field is 5,863. Of these, 1,999 are from America, 2,017 are from Great Britain, and 910 are from Germany and the Netherlands.

SIX native Filipinos will probably attend the University of Missouri next year at the expense of the government. This is a part of the plan to Americanize the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands.

IT is said that the widows of India are four times as many as the total population of London, and that the children of India, should they walk four abreast and two feet apart, would make a procession five thousand miles long.

THE Japanese War Department gave permission for the distribution of Scriptures among the soldiers as they embarked for the seat of war. A special thin paper-covered edition of separate Gospels was prepared and given to the soldiers. A bound copy of the New Testament was given to each officer.