The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-03

ablet of COnfuciuS; the mausOleum
4 which it Is supposed hat his body
laid away was opened to the
Of the conference, land
everent ~obeisances were paid to it by
H." Amongst the Chinese scholars,
officials, the representatives OF
Onrucian societies, the students and
he foreigners who attended the conf
erence, a notable figure was King
Al-y, who claims to be seventy-second
q descent from Confucius.
An African Bishop.
An interesting ordination Of a
e Indian negro, by Bishop Ola
KOle, a native West African bishop,
s recorded. The candidate for dea-
orders was Mr.. w. A. Thomp-
ION. who has been working in the
I oruba county, having been trained
1t the Lady MicO college, Jamaica.
far as is known to the c. M. S.
authorities, he is the first West In |
han TO be ordained in Africa.
Airship in Holy City.
A recent press dispatch from Jeru.
says:
General Francois Xavier BONNER, !
French aviator, making the fight
from Paris to Cairo, landed near the
Of Sloan recently. The arrival
Of Gen B~Onnier'S acceptance, the first
ever seen by the inhabitants Of the
holy city, created great excitement.
The entire population turned out to
see the machine n welcome the
airman."
From Korea.
Korean Christians eagerly sell their
rings, hairpins, donkeys, oxen. and
often mortgage their homes in order
to give to the cause of the Lord i'll
whom they ave earned to believe.
All over Korea the people put aside
of rice when preparing the
daily meals, and after a measure has
been thus gathered together it is sold
OF their pastor or schoolteacher.-
Missions,
Little Facts of Big Interest.
In Bnrfnah, where Judson began
missionary work 100 years ago, there
now $4,000 Christians.
1t is said that s. per cent Of the
officials of the province of kwantung,
China, are either Christians or SO
closely related to the church that
they are considered Christians by
those who are without.
The average yearly net increase of
churches Of all denominations in the
United States from 1900 to 1910 was
$4,000.
OF the 1000 weekly religious meet
ings in the Southern Presbyterian
missions of Korea, 5000 or more are
conducted by laymen. Many mer
walk twenty miles OF more every
week to services.
A young Sunday school teacher,
poo seamstress, one Sunday gave K
a rough street Arab a shilling to in
duce him to go to a Sunday school
that boy, Amos Sutton, was conver
ed, went to work DIS a missionar.
among the TeluguS, and after twenty
five years 10000 converts were wo,
in a single year,. Is. Meyer.
The Presbyterian church, U. S. A.
has on the foreign field a staff OF 10
American and English missionaries
and S22 native workers, a total o
1,013.
MY. Payne, d missionary in Shan
shi, reports finding a group of Chinse
coal miners meeting occasionally t
study a smoke-begrimed gospel @
, ; Mark, dated 1854. Bought by tn
: father of one Of them years ago,
still serves for instruction where II
. missionary has yet come.
Y ANY man who has no use for mis-
. sions is as much out of date as a
old fiint-lock gun. Life moves to
Ia oidly in these days for us even t
stop and look at him."-Bisho
Lawrence.
s "The Japan Sunday School A;
@ ISOLATION was formed in 1907 All
: although only six years paSse
z since then, thirty-tWo district o
carnations have come into existenc
!, with Ala schools, 1876 officers al
teachers. and i6. scholars
The members of q church in Ok
holna te cu1tlvENe and mark
% ten acres of cotton. the proceeds
be divided equally between mlssiot
=, Africa missions in China. Ha