MISSIONARY NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 34.

MISSIONARY NOTES.

"THE greatest study of the age is foreign missions; the greatest miracle, what it has accomplished; and the greatest and weightiest obligation that rests upon the individual Christian and upon the church, the fulfilment of the last command of the Son of God."

"THE church has had the men and the money to evangelize the world fifty times over. What is needed is not greater wealth, but a complete consecration of the means that God has placed in our power."

"SIX native Christians on the banks of the Euphrates, whose property averaged perhaps eight hundred dollars, gave toward their school-room and chapel three hundred and eight dollars, an average of more than fifty dollars each, which meant for one of those poor mountaineers more than one thousand days' work."

A MISSIONARY in China tells a pitiful story of the finding in a deep ditch of a little baby, abandoned by its parents because it was a girl. In a few hours more the dogs would have eaten her. The parents had given her so much opium that she was a long time in recovering.—C. E. World.

"FOR every two Christians in Japan there are five Buddhist temples, in all about 263,000 houses for idolatrous worship."

IN MANILA.—A newspaper description of the Philippine capital unconsciously pays a poor compliment to the Roman Catholic prelates, who have been practically the rulers of the island. The writer says:—

The inhabitants are very faithful to their church, and the archbishop possesses almost unlimited influence with the inhabitants. There is no library, and their amusements are mostly limited to hearing the band play, attending balls on Sundays and cock-fights. The cockpits are licensed by the government, and, though the betting is limited by law, the citizens will not hold to it.

Of nearly 300,000 people in the province, there were not more than 5,000 Spaniards before the outbreak of the war.

THE White Cross Society of America has transformed a passenger steamer into a well-equipped hospital ship, which is stationed in Cuban waters to accompany the fleet attacking the Spanish ships and forts. It is the first time the society has thus taken peaceful part in naval combat. The ship has swift steam launches to pick up the drowning and gather in the disabled.