Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1904

ONE new use has been found for the village cock-pits in the Philippines. A Bible Society colporteurs use them for lantern-slide exhibitions, which open a market for Bible sales.

“WE promise to keep the ten commandments and the eight beatitudes. We will daily pray in our homes also, beseeching the Lord to send us a teacher.” This is the form in which a band of heathen Chinese in the province of Szechuan, writing to a member of the China Inland Mission, offered guarantees in order to have the mission recognize them as inquirers. There is something attractive about a country where inquiries begin at this point.

THE receipts of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the year 1903-04 amounted to $1,156,179.20. Its expenses were not met by this sum. The deficit amounts to $83,581.96. During the same time the American Bible Society received $496,194.34 from all sources. Among the missionary societies the Presbyterian (North) received $1,131,510. Its expenditures exceed this amount, however, by about $40,000, and for the first time in six years it closes the year with a debt. The American Baptist Missionary Union received from all sources $735,585.02. The Presbyterian Church of Canada received $109,454, but its expenditures amounted to $135,057, making a deficit of $25,603. The Southern Baptist Convention received $247,629. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel received $766,927.28.