MISSION NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 50.

MISSION NOTES.

THE jubilee of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission was celebrated in London a few weeks ago. The society has three hospitals under its charge, where 24,000 patients are treated annually; 65,000 receive help at the dispensaries. Numerous elementary schools are maintained at its mission stations, besides excellent high schools for girls at Bombay, Lahore, and Panchgani, and the help rendered to similar schools in Poona and Benares.

THERE was very sound theology on its practical side, in the negro laborer’s reply. A large steamer was taking on its cargo, and this man was laboring very earnestly at his appointed work. But another man was idling in the shade, and his comrade called out to him. “Sam, do you want to go to heaven?” “Yes,” was the reply of the idler. “Then take a hold and lift.”

A mission hospital has been opened on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. It is under the charge of Dr. D. W. Torrence, a medical missionary of the Free Church of Scotland. The floors of the hospital are of marble; the operating-room is supplied with every known scientific appliance; and a trained nurse from the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh is in attendance.

THE British and Foreign Bible Society has sold in Singapore on an average about 3,500 copies per annum of the Malay Scriptures; but last year the sales exceeded 11,000 copies. “In Japan the sale of Bibles and portions of Scripture last year was 137,422 copies, as against 98,439 the previous year.”

PROTESTANTISM is gaining strength in Italy. The Waldensian Church has over 20,000 communicants, and the Wesleyan and Methodist Episcopal churches are represented. “All these bodies own church buildings in different cities in Italy, and spend large sums for buildings and schools.”

“The church that is no longer evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.”