The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-20


their doors to the best young men ant
women OF the land. Nearly go. 900 pupil,
are found in our schools. Our primary
education is probably further advanced
than in any other eastern country ex.
cept japan.
In no country, as far as know. has
the task Of preparing christian liter.
ature been crowned with greater sue
cess.
Literature Has Been Made.
hudson laid the foundation to a lit
erature that now speaks through a
dozen languages. and dialects. He
taught the Burmana the grammar OF
their own language. Books in collie
quial Burmese, on modern topics are
finding their way to every village and
home.
The missionary press holds uni
que place in the progress and Develop
ment of modern Burma. In one OF the
! government examinations one Of the
questions In one Of the higher stand
ards was this: What does M. p. stand
for?" Some of the pupils instead Of
| answering Member of Parliament"
said Missionary Press"
Most significant is the attitude Of
the Buddhist leaders towards christian
| ity Some in violent terms do all they
can to oppose the progress Of christian
| truths, but the masses begin to real
lie that Christ only can satisfy their
needs.
1.-THE Burman expects an incarnation
of the new Buddha, the Mat-aiya. the
Merciful One. They are beginning to
learn that in Christ they will find their
Matraiya, their merciful Lord and
Savior.
Stead Tells of Persia.
d. M. Stead is from Persia. He said
in part:
Il speak for 100000 Mohammed-
ans in Persia, divided between the
Presbyterian church in the north and
the Church Missionary society in the
south. Our work is gradually under
mining the Mohammedan system. Our
schools have won friends from the
highest classes. In our Teheran col
4ege there is a larger r 3mber of high
class students, princes and mobiles,
than in any other similar institution
under Mohammedan government. our
medical work is reaching an increas-
Ing number of people. One doctor last
year treated 10000 patients.
"One does not live ing in Persia.
before learning the necessity of reach |
ing the villages. My wife and / have
spent number of years touring in the
country. We have faced many vicis- |
situdes. Last year we were attacked |
while on tour by $50 armed men. |
robbed of all we possessed, even most |
of our clothing and obliged to walk 1
eight hn
destination. Yet these things are in
significant compared with the privilege
OF preaching the gospel to SOC, 900 peo-
pie where no other missionary is
working.
Some OF our converts make splendid
praying christians. BY the prayers of
one group last year opponents of chris
tlanity suddenly became followers of
Christ, audiences gathered apparently
without human fundamentally. An
ardent evangelist was freed from dan
ger Of persecution that threatened him.
Some make good giving christians.
When we started regular offerings for
the Lords service one poor woman
brought some bread. She said IT was
her supper, but it was her breakfast
and her dinner also and she tasted the
whole day to make her offering. One
poor girl brought little copper coin
which she had earned by gathering
refuse in streets and fields and ped
ding it through the village. She was
clothed in rags and went bare footed ,
summer and winter, and the gift /
meant long hours Of tie hardest work. {
''In view of these things an ADEQUATE ,
advance on the part of the home {
church would mean the evangelization
If even this Mohammedan country Of
Persia in this generation"
The Work in China.
Rev. DIR. Isaac Taylor Headland. of
China, said:
In 1890, boarded Pullman palace
ar at Chicago bound for San Fran
.isco. could go to bed as comfortably
IN the Pullman palace car as | could in
NY own home. / could get up in the
morning and go into the dining car and
AXE as good a breakfast as / could
my own home. And In three DAYS
was in San Francisco, 1000 miles
way. There boarded q. floating nal
ce to cross that-shall say trackless
cean No, 1t was trackIess until the
Gospel Of Jesus Christ found IL but
rom that time until the present n
las been tracked all over by these
loating palaces. could go to bed as
omfortably in that floating palace as
could in my own home, and il did
ot get up In the morning and 60 into
ne dining room and take as good a
reakfast as could In my own home.
was not because the breakfast was
OF prepared. But in thirteen days
ad crossed that ocean and there
oarded a still smaller floating palace
,hich took me comfortably over to
hanghai, where / boarded a stiIl
mailer one which took me comfortably
p the coast to Tonghu, the port Of
ientsin. At this place / went down to
ne riverside and chartered a boat All
~ own to go the rest of the way TO
ekin. 1t was house boat. II was
lmost high enough for me to stand
p In, ! could go to bed in that boat &
nd though solitary 7 was not alone b
ut 1t took me from Monday morning
nth Friday evening to reach Tung- Is
1ou, eighty miles away. There
oarded still another boat to go to &
ekin. 1t was called a sam-pan. sam
Ieans three and pan means boards
hree boards makes boat. one for
lch side and one for the bottom To
le front OF this, men had q rome at
lched and pulled us to the canito1
pe could not all sit on this boat 80
'me of us hired donkeys and rode IN
the walls of Pekin.
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