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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 25.

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General Mission Notes

Miss Ellen M. Stone has returned on a furlough to visit her parents in Roxbury, Mass. She has been a missionary in Bulgaria and Macedonia for nearly twenty-four years. The proceeds from her lectures in America will be used to repay her ransom.
The native churches of Basutoland have recently raised ten thousand francs, toward the debt of the French Missionary Society. This offering was not asked for by the society, but was a spontaneous offering of affection and gratitude, arranged by the native churches themselves.
“What are churches for but to make missionaries? What is education for but to train them? What is commerce for but to carry them? What is money for but to send them? What is life itself but to fulfill the purpose of foreign missions, enthroning Jesus Christ in the hearts of men?”
The Moravian Church has missions to-day in twenty different provinces in Canada, the West Indies, South America, Africa, Australia, and Tibet. The number of mission stations is 131, with 460 missionaries, besides the large corps of native assistants, the total number employed being 700.
In northern Bastar encompassed by unroaded hills, are one hundred thousand of the wildest people yet left in India. Shy, brave, strong, worshipers of the hills that surround them, they must be won. To go and settle among them would be to be misunderstood; they would flee from us, forsaking, if need be, their own villages. These people must be sought in their homes, and their friendship won, and they won to Christ.
From the Bible society’s missionary report we note that Mr. M. A. Allen, the colporteur whom Dr. Caldwell and Elder E. H. Gates met during their visit to the Maoris, has completed a journey of fifteen hundred miles, during which he sold the Scriptures in scores of widely scattered native hamlets, for the most part non-Christian, where such sales had hitherto been impossible. He disposed of three hundred and forty-four volumes in Maori, and one hundred and twenty in English.