Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1907

A common practise of self-torture in India is to pierce the body with large needles.

When a missionary gospel is preached in the pulpit, then the people will give, and their sons and daughters will go.—Mateer.

In speaking of the slave traffic in the Pacific islands, John G. Paton estimates that seventy thousand of these islanders have been taken for slaves.

When Mackay went to Uganda, in company with other missionaries, in reply to the chairman’s farewell address, and he said he wished to impress on the minds of the committee the probability of their hearing within six months that death had removed one of their number. The words were startling in solemnity, and amid profound silence he went on to say, “Yes, is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive six months afterward? One of us at least—it may be I—will surely fall before that. But what I want to say is this: When that news comes, do not be cast down. Send some one immediately to take the vacant place.” Within three years, seven of the eight had either died or been invalided home, and Mackay was the only survivor of the band.