MISSIONARY MURMURINGS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1890

MISSIONARY MURMURINGS.

"Sufficient is the word of God." The whole Reformation is embodied in that truth. "To know Christ and his word," said Lefevre, Roussel, Farel, "is the only true, living, and universal theology. He who knows that knows everything."—D'Aubigné.

THE church is dreaming of the conversion of the world by means which never yet converted the people of a single town, city, or nation. How long will she persist in this dream and refuse to be consoled by the hope of speedy rest and redemption?—Messiah's Herald.

THE Zenana Bible and Medical Mission, which works in conjunction with the Church Missionary and other Protestant missionary societies in India, has a mission staff of 238; they have 66 schools, over 4,000 pupils, and hospitals and dispensaries where over 9,000 attendances were registered in 1888. This work of women among women is one of the most urgently required of any branch of work in India.

Two Syrian Christian young men came to New York a year ago. They were graduates of the collegiate and medical departments of the Syrian Protestant college at Beirut, and last spring they graduated from the medical department of the University of New York. One of them sought to engage in mission work in New York soon after their arrival, thus setting an example which is not always followed by Western Christian young men when arriving in a foreign city.

PRINCIPAL GRANT, of Queen's University, Kingston, says that he met men in Japan who had lived in Yokohama for ten or twelve years, who had gone into society "and discussed everything—as they supposed—at the club, yet who did not know that within a gunshot of their office was a crowded, self-supporting congregation of native Christians, ministered to by an eloquent Japanese. They had never visited a missionary institution. They had a hazy idea that Roman Catholic priests were devoted men, and that they could show some results; but they would assure you in a loud and lofty, or an absurdly confidential tone, that Protestant missions were a failure."