p. 16 | Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1907

Mission Notes

THE brother who accepted the Sabbath at Dehra Dun, India, recently, through the labors of Brother and Sister Burgess, was baptized at the Annfield Home. There is a stream running across the estate. A dam was made, and here this dear brother was baptized into Christ Jesus and this precious message. Brother Shaw says, “The Lord witnessed to the occasion.”

IN Japan at the present time there are seventy thousand professed Christians, or about one in six hundred of the population. This, however, represents only a portion of the fruit of missionary work in that empire. Rev. Miyagawa, of Osaka, recently said: “There are in Japan more than one million people who have not publicly professed Christianity, but who are ordering their lives by the teachings of the Bible, and who require now only to be brought to a public confession of their faith.” Dr. Nakashima, Professor of Psychology in the Imperial University, says that this statement is far inside the facts, that the number is greater than Rev. Miyagawa has given it. There has been a rapid increase in Japan in the number of converts within recent years. Of course, many of these are merely nominal Christians; but the leaven is working among the meal, and the honest in heart are giving heed.