Mission Notes

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

ELEVEN Protestant denominations are represented in evangelistic work in Cuba.

THE Germans rank third in foreign missionary effort, Great Britain, including her colonies, being first, and the United States second.

It is said that “a line could be drawn inside the Sudan inclosing an area of a million and a quarter square miles, and from sixty to ninety millions of souls, and yet find that inside of that line there is not one missionary, not one Christian, and scarcely any have so much as heard of Jesus Christ.” What does this mean?

IN China, when the Boxers were killing the Christians, two little boys were left till the last, and then were told to say they did not believe in God. “We will kill you if you do not deny him,” said the enraged Chinese. “Even if you do kill us, we will still believe,” said the brave boys. Without further parley, the Boxers slew them.—Extract from a Missionary’s Letter.

THERE are three thousand lepers in the colony of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, South America. They are of various nationalities, but about one half are coolies. For the safety of the colony, a leper home is maintained at Groote Chillon, known as Bethesda House of Mercy. Three Moravian missionaries—a minister and his wife, and a deaconess, who is also a nurse—are at work among them. To work among these people requires that heroic self-sacrifice of the Master himself, who gave his life that we might live.