The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-03-23
By southern Missionary News Bureau
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.

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Bishop Nuelson, Of the Methodist
Episcopal church. gives an impress
siye description Of the heroism Of
Methodist de~aconesses on the battle
fields OF Europe. aside from the
many who are attending the wound.
I'D in the hospitals, there are about
two dozen of III girls at the front,
immediately behind the firm CLINE P"
ale says:
The few letters that have been re-
eeived from them reveal deeds of
beroism and hardships equal to the
most renowned featS Of warriors
Think of those girls on the cold
claims of Poland, sleeping night after
night on bare ground. counting them
selves happy when they can procure
some straw to sleep upon; being UNI
able to change their clothes for three
weeks; going without food for a iay
and night in succession; giving the
last morsel Of bread to a hungry sol-
der and not tasting bread for tive
days: walking for miles, sometimes
in the dark of night over muddy bot
,omless roads; being ready at any
hour day and night to render hrSt as
sistance to horribly mutilated SOL
diers. at times in places where burst
ing shrapnel would %endanger their
own lives, or fighting not only disease
but also ~unspeakable filth.
Truly ! never realized as much
what the heroism of woman can en-
dure and perform as 1 did when l
read a few of those simple. unaSSum-
ing letters written by those Methodist
Urls to their deaconeSs sisters in the
Mother House. Little wonder that
The first woman who ever received
The iron cross as a reward for dis
tinguished bravery was a tho
,~leaConesS.
Missionary Day In Baptist Sunday
Schools.
Sunday, March %. is to be mission
AIRY day in the Baptist Sunday schools
If The South, and on this day the
hundreds of thousands Of Baptist
Young people will have their atten-
ton directed definitely to the great
cause of missions.
Last wear the offering on this day
amounted to more than 800 OOO. and
this sur was devoted to home and
foreign missions. Because or buSl-
ness conditions and prevailing fnan-
cial stringency, there is a peculiar
need for even larger contributions
this year, and it is believed by those
in close touch with the situation thai
The increase in numbers of small gifts
will bring the offering up to a sum
sufficient to meet the really urgent
demands Of the work.
As an aid to pastors and superln-
tend-nts in preparing their program:
for his day, the Sunday school and
mission boards have sent Out sOmt
strikingly interesting posters for u.s.
on that day. One OF these contain:
these statements: The South hA.
thirty-three million populations; elev
en million church members. twenty
two million unevangelized. Thes'
millions we must win"
Christianity In Japan.
Tho report OF the commission o
the Foreign Christian Missionary So
ciety to the far east contains som
statements and observations that viii
interest not only every one who l
vitality interested in missions but ever,
student Of modern affairs.
Particularly interesting is the re
port on Japan. The commissio
says:
1t is true that in point OF tn
numbers Of baptized believers and tn
'ns~titutionalized forms Of Christian
", the results have not been as lare
IN Japan as in many other missio
iields. But 1t is doubtful whether tn
diffused results of Christianity hav
been SO great in any other non-Chris
ban nation.
In an interview with the commits
SION, Count Okuma, Japan's leadin
statesman. nov premier. gave test
mony as to the influence Of Chris
tanity in his own personal life, SAL
lng that. though unbaptized. his II
terest in Christianity was as great
that Of man. who had been baptize'
I'm a striking tribute to the Unfit
.nce which Christian ideals had e!
erted upon the social and political II
OF the nation, he stated that Chri
tlanity had done for women in tt
short time since it had been intr'
uuced into the empire what the rel
sions Of Japan had been unable to {
throughout the entire history of II
nation. 1t was his conviction that
christianity had made its contrib1
tlon to the life of Japan, SO Japane
thought would make its contribute
10 the Interpretation which u
oriental mind will bring to Chri
tianity.
"This same statesman, who is al