Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 18, 1904

“PRAYING and giving go hand in hand, and a neglect of the one obligation leads to a disregard of the other. Let us pray more, care more, think more, do more, during 1904.”

It was a wonderful thing when Stanley crossed the continent of Africa in nine hundred and ninety-nine days. But it is a more wonderful thing that a quarter of a century later sees a chain of missions established across that same road, the last now to be opened.

THE report of the condition of the missions of the American Board gives strong evidence that work in the foreign fields yields good returns. They have 535 native churches, under the care of native pastors and assistants. The additions to these churches last year numbered 5,902, an average of more than 110 to each church.

A FEW months ago the Presbyterian Church South placed a missionary steamer upon the Upper Congo, for the use of the Leubō mission, at a great cost. The report has just been received that the vessel has capsized, and the captain and twenty-three of the crew were drowned. Only two who were on board were saved. The details of the accident have not yet arrived.