JANUARY STUDY OF THE FIELD
Articles for Study in the January Missionary Magazine: The Ethnology of Malaysia; Among the Russians; Buenos Ayres and Our Churches in Argentine 1. NAME the peninsula and islands in which the Malays are found. How numerous is this race? 2. What relation does it sustain to the other great divisions of the human family? Into what peoples is it subdivided, and what part of Malaysia does each occupy? 3. Give evidence that this race was once much more widely diffused than at the present time. 4. Describe the Malays. The Javanese. The Bugis. The Filipinos. The Tagalogs. 5. What alphabet is used by the different tribes? To what religious belief does each adhere? 6. What traces of the intermixture of the Hindoo are found among the Javanese and the Malays? Tell something of the Dyaks of Borneo. 7. Describe the system of civil government which the Russian peasants have been under since 1861. 8. Why have the peasant classes emigrated into the more sparsely settled parts of the Russian Empire? How has this been encouraged by the government? 9. What opportunity does it afford for the advance of the Third Angel's Message? 10. Name the nationalities represented in the capital of Argentina. 11. Tell something of the rich and of the poor of Buenos Ayres. Relate briefly the progress of the Third Angel's Message in that city. 12. Locate the other churches of the Argentine Republic, and tell what you can of each. 13. How many nationalities are represented among our brethren? What can you say of the openings for work and of the importance of improving the present? 14. Through what medium has the Third Angel's Message been introduced into a number of places in Jamaica? Give two illustrations of the power of the printed page. 15. Tell something of the progress of the message in St. Andrews Island, Colombia. Of the famine in India and the need of laborers. Of the Utilla school.