The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-05

FOR RITE OF BAPTISM
In Ono District In India $4,000 Have
Been Baptized and Thousands
Are ON Waiting List.
BY southern Missionary News bureau.
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.
Charles E. Parker, Methodist mis-
sionary in India, tells of one district
where 5000 are waiting to be bap'
tized. He says:
"The work has grown so rapidly
during the last few years that Vika-
rabad had to be cut off from the Hy-
derabad District. and this new district
has today a baptized Christian COM
munity Of more than 10000, with
8, goo still waiting to be received At
our last third quarterly conferences
the various workers brought in long
lists of names Of those who are ready
to be received into full connection
with the church. Numbers Of our
young men are coming forward and
offering themselves for the ministry
some with very little education, Of
course, some having had none at all:
but they are those whom God has
chosen to help to carry on this great
| work.
Another very impressive thing 10
me Ia the fact that hundreds of our
| Christian people are now holding
| family prayer in their homes. They
pray before they go to work in the
morning and when they return In the
evening. AS a woman expressed II
to me just q few moments ago, on
our front yeranda, We work with
our hands which God has given us.
and we think abut Jesus Christ and
talk to Him all the time that we
work
What a lesson people like. these
can teach us! Though our Christians
are very, very poor so far as this
worlds goods are concerned, yet they
give of what they have to God! may
| say that they give enthusiastically.
| for they will bring their last chicken
| or their last sheep or goat. and give
| IL to the church collection. They are
| learning to 1.-THE. also, and are already
looking forward to the day when they
will become seif-supporting church.
AS / mentioned before. we stffi
| have 8, 900 on our waiting list, Friends,
| there il very little pleading with the
| people her TO become Christians. in
these days: the pleading Is on their
| side, that we will receive them. IL
| is true that numbers Of our young men
are coming forward and offering them
/ selves for the ministry. but with all
that. it is impossible for us to meet
| the demand
Returning Chinese Students.
| The importance for Chinese missions
| OF throwing around Chinese students
In this country kindly ana Christian
influences is brought out in an inter-
estinx paragraph In the report OF the
Chinese Student Volunteer Movement.
Since the revolution of 1911-12. the
association has been brought face TO
| face with a new problem, namely.
| that of the returned student and MS
| influence among his fellow country
men, Graduates OF American and
| European colleges are coming back
to their home land In large numbers.
Quite q number of these are
Christians and are assisting in the
Christian work OF the community in
which they happen to be living: but
there liz woefuliy large number who
are not Christians. and whose inffo-
ence among the rising generation OF
| students in China In anything but the
best
These men are in the custom
service, in business, In official life.
teachers In government schools, and
engineers supervising construction
work employing hundreds of men. In
fact. wherever the returned student
goes. he is In q position Of influence"
| The Little Negro Martyr.
frfn NJ ya rH nY -.
went to hear the preaching of one OF
the missionaries ana became a con-
| vert to the Christian religion. His
master. hearing II. commanded him
never to go again, and declared he
would have him whipped to death 1t
he did. He could scarcely refrain
from going. yet he knew his death
was inevitable IL he did. In this criti-
cal situation he sought direction at
| the Throne Of Grace. and having done
| this he felt that attendance was still
/ his, duty. He went. and on his re-
| turn was summoned TO his master
presence. and received twenty-five
| lashes and then his master exclaim-
"a. what can Jesus Christ do for you
nowys' HE enables me to bear II
patiently" said the poor child. 'Gfve
him twenty-five lashes more. said
4 the tnhuman wretch. And what can
Christ do for you now?" said the un-
feeling monster. He helps me to
look forward to a future reward" re-
| piled the little sufferer. Give him
! twenty-five lashes more" vociferated
| the cruel tyrant in q rage. This was
done. and while ne listened with say
ara delight to the extorted groans of
his dying victim. he again demanded.
l'sWhat can Jesus Christ do for you
I nuwf., The yotstffui martyr with