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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 12, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 28.

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Mission Notes

THE liquor traffic on the Gold Coast of Africa is said to have amounted to nine million gallons in twelve years.
“BLESSED are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.” Isa. 32: 20.
THERE are twelve million souls in Brazil, besides a million wild Indians who have scarcely any knowledge of the gospel.
EVERY village on the eighty inhabited islands of Fiji has built for itself a church, and a good house for its native minister.
SEVEN shoemakers in Hamburg, Germany, founded fifty churches in Africa, which have to-day ten thousand communicants.
“AND that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” Luke 24: 47.
MANY Chinese Christians have gone to the Transvaal to labor as evangelists and catechists among the forty thousand Chinese coolies there.
“AND this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24: 14.
DR. GEDDIE, of Aneityum, has this epitaph on his monument: “When he came, there were no Christians; when he left, there were no heathen.”
BEIRUT is to-day a Christian city. Stately churches, hospitals, a female seminary, a college, a theological seminary, and steam printing-presses are to be found there.
AN EAST Indian, an intelligent man, well-educated in his native language, was baptized in Kingston, Jamaica. It was expected that his wife would receive the rite the following Sabbath.
DURING the month of March, our press in Shang-tsai Hsien, China, put out nine thousand tracts. Brother Allum was expected to reach that city in April, and join Brother Miller in his work.
A VETERAN missionary from China tells of a Chinaman who had read the whole New Testament three times. He was not an avowed Christian, but when asked what most struck him in his reading, he replied: “The most wonderful thing I read was that it is possible for us men to become temples of the Holy Ghost.”