p. 14 | Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1903

Mission Notes

AT an exhibition held recently in Osaka, Japan, the agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society sold 22,000 Gospels in one day.

A CONGREGATION of one hundred and twenty-five Christian Chinese gave two thousand dollars to foreign missionary work in one year.—Selected.

IT is officially stated that Miss Ellen Stone, whose capture by the brigands has made her name familiar everywhere, will return to Turkey and resume her missionary labors.

THE island world includes not less than two thousand inhabited islands. Only three hundred and fifty of these have as yet been reached by the gospel. Although on a few islands cannibalism is unknown, originally most of them were inhabited by cannibals; and to-day in one group alone it is reported that there are fifty thousand cannibals. To these people the message must be carried. How much longer must they wait for His law? We are answering this question every day by our attitude in prayer, in giving, and in consecration.

AN English missionary journal, the Greater Britain Messenger, speaks of the urgency of the call for self-denying workers in the spiritually destitute portions of the British empire. It says: “Every number of our little magazine contains illustrations of spiritual destitution, of white paganism, and of brave men struggling to minister to districts as large as English counties. Canada and Australia need almost every clergyman who can be got to go. South Africa is crying out for men; and so it is with well nigh every outlying part of our empire.”

OF Cuba as a missionary field, the Missionary Review says: “Except in Havana, where a Protestant church was formed several years ago, mission work in this island has had its beginnings within three years, but has already spread into each one of the six provinces. The following figures, compiled a few months ago by a resident missionary, give some idea of what is being done:— Number of societies............. 12 Churches and preaching stations.. 92 Pastors and teachers............. 137 Church edifices.................. 8 Church membership............... 2,400 Candidates for membership....... 551 Candidates for the ministry...... 17 The Sunday-schools .............. 72 Pupils.......................... 3,450 Church schools................... 51 Pupils.......................... 1,880