Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-09-01

Allen. now American minister at Seoul.
VINO as a missionary helped open the
gates of Korea to civilization. Thoburn
who has been spiritual father to thou
sands of midas dark skinned children;
Jessup. who has been a torch in bright
ening Turkey; and Hamlin, diplomat.
educator n missionary in the same
realm. The roll Is too long to be called
here, but it is part of the unfinished
eleventh chapter Of Hebrews.
Among the real missionary heroes Of
early American history are the Jesuits
of Canada and the Mississippi valley.
Their methods We're not always Of the
best. but their zeal, their enterprise,
their ~self-sacr;f1ce and their devotion
to the salvation of the red man We're
truly apostolic.
When the government wants special
information concerning Alaska, Oh
contemplates any movement for the
betterment of that region, ii calls in
consultation Il little mar named Shell
don Jackson. Newspaper know
him as the father of the project for
importing reindeer into Alaska, an eX-
pertinent which has been a beneicent
success. Well informed religious cir
cles. however, know him as an indefa-
tigable Presbyterian home missionary,
whose impress has been left not only
upon Alaska, but upon the great west
as well. He is still living, and as en-
terprising. patriotic and d-visioncd
AZ ever.
Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Hol-
yoke college, Whose disciples have
blessed every state in the union and al
most every country in the world. was
not. strictly speaking, "a missionary, yet
1t was the missionary motive that made
her such a power In the lives of young
women and In the history of female
education in his country.
Sweet and SDiritual David RrainprU.
whose great soul was too big for his
feeble body, died when he was only
twenty eight, yet his missionary la
bors among the Indians, and his re-
corded religious experiences, make his
name a precious heritage of the
NEWS AND NOTES.
Japan has sent Japanese Christian
missionaries to Korea.
Religious work in New Zealand is no
longer missionary, the Church Mission
airy society having closed it's connection
Herewith, as completed.
The king OF Abbeokuta. West Africa.
was given a bible by King Edward
on the occasion of his recent visit to
London. Queen Victoria CAV the faith
err of this king Il bible which was ac-
~cidentally destroyed.
Electric fans have been installed in
the city temple, London, where, even
on the hottest days, Rev. r. j. Camp
bell breaches to Overlooking rowds
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a
mems organization of the Protestant
Episcopal church is planning for a ma
tfonal convention in Philadelphia. Sept.
20 to Oct. 9
A curious fact has been reported by
a missionary to India, who says: I'm
dia never had any barrels or bottles
until the white mans liquor came.
Practically all the barrels and a large
share of the bottles one sees in India
today are imported filled with LIQUOR"
Presbyterians report a net growth for
the year of 27,431, making their total
membership 1,094.9OS. Their actual
growth in the country is thus 2.57 per
cent. whereas the annual population
growth In the country is 1893 per cent.
The average gift per member during
the year was a tri1e owe ST..
The Pennsylvania State Sabbath
school association has twenty five stu
dents In he field for the summer, or
ventions. stimulating Sabbath school
interests, etc.
Christians of the japanese port cit
les gather at the trains and wharves
and sing to the incoming or outgoing
Japanese soldiers. later distributing
among them printed slips containing
the hymns.
Y. NJ. c. A. property in this country
Is estimated to be worth $780, 600. 900.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
You are not very holy II you are not
very kind.-Bonar.
The friend shows me what I can do.
the foe teaches me what I should
Shiller.
To know that God never leaves his
work uncompleted. that he gives it to
us to carry on, and that those who 20
before us have entered into his rest
while we take up their unfinished
task-this is the threefold solace of the
sorrows alike of the church and Of the
Christian family.-Pressens.
Every particle of glass rejecting the
sunlight Is a witness to the sun.-Pe-
loubet.
The highway OF holiness is along the
comtuonest road of ~life-along your
very way.-Pearse.
Govern the lips
Az they were palace doors. the king
within;
Tranquil and fair and courteous be all
Which from that presence win.
Arnold.
II we work upOn Marbles Al will per.
ish: II we work pom brass time will
efface 1t; II We ear temples, they will
crumble into dust; but IL we work upon
immortal minds, IL we Undue them
with principles with just fear Of God
and love OF u fellow men, we engrave
on those tablets something that will
brighten eternity.-Daniel Webster.