Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 20, 1906

Who, with the prophet Isaiah, can say, “Here am I; send me”?

SINCE its foundation, the British Bible Society has issued 198,515,199 copies of the Scriptures, complete or in part.

A GREAT change has come in the island of Sicily. Where formerly Protestant services had to be held in secret, and Protestants were stoned, now public services are well attended, and mission services are held in public squares.

A SWEDISH missionary, the first who has been permitted to establish a permanent station in Abyssinia, has sold out the first shipment of Bibles and New Testaments in Amharic, sent him by the Bible Society. Abyssinia is slowly opening to missions.

THERE are said to be over eight million Chinese students attending schools in Japan. They come from seventeen of the eighteen Chinese provinces. No such movement of students from one land to another has ever been seen before. It is one of the signs of the Chinese awakening.