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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 29.

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Mission Notes

A SILK factory in Japan is carried on by Japanese Christians. They not only observe a day of rest, but conduct daily morning and evening devotional services in the factory, which have proved a great blessing to the employees.
A MISSIONARY of the Church of England writes from northern Nigeria: “From my house I can walk straight away until I have walked the whole length of England and Scotland combined five times before I could see another missionary; and if I then saw one, he would be in a ship going to Uganda.”
SLOWLY but surely the shackles of popery are being loosed from that most Catholic of the South American countries, Ecuador. “The minister of war,” says a late report from that republic, “has willingly granted the Protestant missionaries permission to labor without hindrance among the soldiers in the barracks and in the military hospitals. The same privilege is extended to them for work in the prisons by the minister of the interior and police. This official has also given special orders that the public authorities are to maintain order at Protestant meetings, and to see that the evangelists are respected, and that freedom and safety in their work is guaranteed to them.”
A CENTURY ago foreign missions were unknown. There were only 170 missionaries of all Protestant denominations, while now there are over 15,000. The contributions then amounted to about $250,000 annually, while now the sum raised by the church for foreign missions is $15,000,000. The work of the missionary was then the subject for the sneers and witticisms of the world, and many in the church, as well; but lately it has been solemnly declared that missions are “the primary work of the church, the work for which the Christian church was consecrated by our Lord.” The testimony of hundreds of thousands of converts bears witness above all other human utterances to the century’s missionary triumphs.— Union Gospel News.
A STRONG anti-foreign sentiment prevails throughout China. Foreigners everywhere are under the protection of Chinese soldiers, who may turn Boxers loose at any time. But never has there been a more hearty welcome to the missionary than at the present time. There is a manifest searching after truth on the part of some, which only the Word of God will satisfy. The Lord will have his message to go to the ends of the world, and China is not to be neglected. We have evidence that the time has come to enter China, because of the increased interest in missionary efforts in that field.
A goodly company of our own young people have volunteered for service in Inland China, among them being four physicians. Help is needed for the transportation of the workers and for securing supplies. Every one may have a part in giving the last message to the four hundred millions of China.