Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-09-29

llSDlaySQ III recent years lncIc HAS utSii
4 real revival among students since Mr..
John r.. Motifs visit to Japan. The feel
ngs Of the people have been deopcned and
made more receptive since the
II the war: and there is reason to believe
,hat in the SORROW which has visited the
aaticn many VIII turn to the comfort
which only Christ can hestow.
Japan has 10000 ~ OF people, with about
so Christian missionaries. The population
Of Korea is between lo.cNo.o0o and 1900. COO,
with about 100 missionaries.
.Admirals Togo and Uriu, of the victort-
Gus Japanese tieCt. are Christians. So are
som' of the generals.
So recent is the beginning of Christian
work in Korea that many of the pioneer
missionaries are still Twin gand hard at
work.
The author of the Recently issued no
rcan story. The Vanguard" which has
been widely praised. is Il Presbyterian mis-
sionary. Rev. j. $. Gale, who has been on
the field from the beginning. The story.
i, is understood. is Il thinly disguised re-
cital of the authors personal experiences.
Many Korean Christians engage In evan
yclistic roi,eration at their own expense.
Christian unity is markedly manifest in
10Th Korea and Japan. In the former
country the Presbytcrians and the Motho-
iistS, who chiefly occupy the field, work
together almost as ono body. In Japan all
branches of Prcsbytcrianism are united.
and so are the Mothodists. Episcopalians
and Consrcsationalists.
There are $4,000 thousand Protestant be-
levers in Korea says one authority.
and the spread of Christianity is due al
most wholly to spontaneous cvcngclistic
forts of Korean Christians
The present American minister to Korea.
Or. Horace n. Allen. who went Oh, as a
nissionary-physician, and as such secured
81, mast IL, tho A,,-,rirap lrnnfinn 1oiirirv
a revolution he saved the life of a prince
by his medical skill and notable hcroism.
He stayed at his post when all other for
eigners had fed and established the pres.
tige of his country and his calling.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Providencetown, IN the tip of Cape Co
is to build a floating church for summer
religious work.
Missionaries in Africa say that the Cape
10 Cairo railroad will he Il great boon to
missionary work.
The centennial of ,hc Church Missionary
society's work in Sierra Leone, Africa,
is about to be celebrated.
A new Christian Endeavor secretary for
India has been chosen in the person OF
Roy. Herbert Halliwcsl. a Baptist pastor
from England.
An international congress on Sunday
Rest is to be he'd October 1l-14 at the St.
Louis exposition.
Filipino women attend religious services
as freely as the men and there is no need
Of special missionary work for them. as
there is in most other oriental countries
A saloonkeeper in Minneapolis is build
ing a church., a theatcr and Il saloon all
under one roof. and it is even said that II
minister has been secured to lend his
name to the enterprise.
A unique memorial is that devised by a
Chicago woman to her husband. She has
endowed her family pew in st. Peters.
church for the use of strangers and 1t is
distinguished from other pews by a cross.
From correspondence with 600 pastors n
Massachusetts minister has learned that
more than 30 per cent. of the pastors
in the four leading denominations of this
country are regularly engaged in Sum
day school teaching.
English Wesleyans have found the class
meeting test of membership impossible to
maintain and they are trying to rcorgan-
iGe the entire basis of church membership.
What is called n Congregational North
field has been established at Frankfort
on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
1t is expected thai it will become to Con
gregat.onalism in the middle west what
Winona is to Prcsbyterianism.
one of the smaller islands of the New
Hebridcs group contains but scvcnty-nine
inhabitants. and of these as many as sew
cnty-four have been seen in attendance
upon the mission services maintained by
the Scotch United Free church.
1T is authoritat.vely announced that
Booth-Tucker will r%clinluish the COM
mand of the Salvation army in the United
States this fall. He will probably be
placed in charge of the literary work of
the army in London.
Three -Americans-Dr. and Mrs. Shelton
and Or. Susit Rcjnhart-havc reached the
borders OF Th.hct and rented quarters for
two years. They are the latest addition
10 the company of almost 100 missionaries
along the border who have long been wait
ing to enter Thihct to do missionary work.
Mrs. Rcjnhart once penetrated we'll ipto
the interior of Thibct with her husband.
but the latter was killed or captured and
sne barely escaped.
Now that Japan has come to he the fore
most exponent of religious liberty In the
orient, it is of interest to note that scarce
" more than fifty years ago the following
official warning vas displayed throughout
japan: so long as the sun shall continue
10 warm the earth let no Christian be so
bold as TO come TO Jal.an. and let it he
known ,hat Il the king of Spain himself,
or the Christians God. or the great God
of all. shall violate this law, he shall pay
for it with his head