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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

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MISSION NOTES.

THE "Heavenly Foot Society" in China is attempting a crusade against the practice of binding the feet of women.
It has been computed that the average giving of Protestant Christians to missions is about thirty-seven cents apiece annually.
A mission to lepers, India, founded in Edinburg in 1874, has thirty different centers, in connection with twelve missionary societies.
When the missionaries first went to Uganda, sixteen years ago, there was no written language. Now ten thousand of the population are able to read their language.
"This will do more for Christianity than anything that has been done, for our people know nothing of such love as this," say the native Japanese Christians of a hospital that missionaries are erecting for lepers.
The Chinese Christians in America give more than American Christians. With a membership of 161 in the various churches in California, the Chinese raised last year $629,040 for all benevolences, or $39.07 for each member.
The most liberal contributor to the Methodist Episcopal mission in Singapore is a Chinese banker, Mr. Tan Jiakkim. He gave fifteen hundred dollars for the mission in that city, and collected from his Chinese friends nearly five thousand dollars more.
It is gratifying to note that practically all the missionary societies in England have this year been able to report an increase of income. The London Missionary Society alone is obliged to speak of a deficit, but the deficit is owing simply to an increase of expenditure.—Christian at Work.