The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-05

center og active eyangelistic work
Contributions Should be sent to the
American board. Beacon street, Bos-
ton.
The example eli American educa.
tional missions in Turkey il work
ing. An Armenian lady has left
$1,000 to the Armenian Patriarch
TO found an Armenian University.
The tremendous educational move
nent in China may be appreciated
from the fact that in 1908 there
were in the province of Chill alone
some 10000 students in modern
schools Of all grades, where six years
before there Syare@bTt g. o6v. An army
OF 1850 teachers ministers to these
young people. There are normal
schools, medical schools, agricultural
schools. commercial schools. schools
for foreign languages, for telegraph
ing, seventeen industrial schools,
night schools etc. The other great
centers Of China are developing edu-
cationally. pari passu with Picking
and Tientsin.
III is r@forfetir ffofn Enangsfla that
during the riots sTeat numbers OF
tho common people on tie streets,
together with Chinese Christians. ac-
tually threw themselves on their knees
before th~ hospital and station OF
the Norwegian mission begging the
rioters to spare th4 buildings because
in there they wish us only well and
de only /ood-"
Professor Bujeakon. professor OF
political economy and numa mem
her. formerly au atheist. Is as a result
Of religious experiences in England
now industriuusN working for the
souls of students IN Ioscow and st.
petersburg, teciuriag on religio-scien-
tiic subjects, Something amer the
manner of Professor Drummond. In
ST. Petersburg alone there are some
10000 students, 1000 of them being
young women The collapse of tho
revolution has terribly disillusioned
them. SO that pessimism, an immoral
epicurism, and atheism are every
whore rife among hem. Women stu
dents form associations for enjoyment
Of life with the pledge OF suicide
after n term OF Years. The Neva
yields UP more bodies OF suicides than
any other river in the world.
In the japanese Red Cross Society
there are 1,525,522 members, and the
society funds amount to 1i,I43, 327
yen or SIS. 500. 900.
A Canadian missionary in a Japa-
Hese town advertised in two local pa
pers to mail religious literature free
to any sending in their names.
II was quite delighted with the
response Cards came from all over
the province and for a week my help
or and myself We're kept busy mark
ing Bibles, selecting suitable tracts
and sending them Off"
The first Protestant orphanage in
Japan, that lit 9kayama, has cared
TOR 1000 children. During the recent
M:Ars.. 1he., ts9y5sa bansis from tfrfS- ur'-'
phanage attracted much attention and
the emperor him ss,!f has. made an an-
nuai subscription Of 500 yen to ii.
In 1909 Jaffa, Palestine, exported
q million boxes Of oranges. This ex-
port will Increase fourfold when the
trees now planted are in full bear
ing. As result of orange culture
land about Jaffa has increased in
value in forty years some % per
cent
Newspapers have sprung UP in all
the larger centers of China during
the past few years and are proving
70 be real yellow peril in that they
circulate all sorts Of malicious calum-
MES about churches and Christian ir-
nfviduas without restraint. A pure.
Just. truthful and wise daily paper
nnder christian auspices Is needed. II
"ouio cost much, but would pay far