The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

nese and foreign CHRISTIANS VINO nao
met to inaugurate an evangelistic
movement preparatory to the Worlds
Sunday School Convention in 1915.
Understaffed Medical Missions.
The Church Missionary Society has
now on its staff only eighty-five doc
tors. as against ninety three years ago.
Practically all the existing medical
missions are understaffed. From mis-
sion after mission come appeals for
| more help to keep the present staff
from breaking down under the strain.
At one station In India, during the
| cold season, there were often more
| than 1000 out-patients day, and
only two doctors to see them all. The
following figures give some idea OF
the pressure:
In a typical English hospital there
are 100 beds. served by fourteen doc
tors and seven nurses. At the c. NJ. s.
Hospital at Old Cairo there are 3s9
beds, two doctors, and three nurses.
Loyalty of Natives i'm Africa.
In the operations carried on in East
Africa one thing at any rate is very
satisfactory--the loyalty OF the ma
tives. All along the coast, In Ger
man as well as in British territory.
the Swahilis. VINO are Moslems. are
praying for the success of the British
arms, and In the Zanzibar Protecto-
rate $4,000 has been subscribed for
the British Red Cross Society by men
OF many races and creeds Although
raids have been made on British ter
ritory, no missionaries or mission
property have received any harm.
The work of the Church Missionary
Society has continued In spite of hos
tilities.
Huchow Mission Schools Honored.
The governor of the province was
recently in Huchow and after being
invited to call and inspect our work.
volunteered to make an address to our
students. Accordingly we assembled
the pupils of all our schools. boys and
girls in the church. and he made them
splendid address. Hr urged upon
them the necessity of cherishing the
ancient principles of respect for par
ents and for elders, and emphasized
the need of purpose and determination
in study He also held up before
them the ideal of righteousness as an
indispensable qualification for true
citizenship. This meeting with the
governor was a fine thing for the stu
dents, and the very fact that he was
willing thus to recognize us will give
our schools an even better standing
in the community than they have ever
had.-W. A. Estes, Huchow, China
Facts that Count.
In the foreign mission fields of the
Southern Presbyterian Church there
were last year 1859 additions to the
church. which is s74 more than were
La grho To
est number reported was from Africa,
where there were 1887 additions dur
ing the year. The total number OF
members In foreign fields is 2s,700.
OR more than ten per cent OF the
membership at home. The increase
during the past ten years was 240
per cent.
1t has proposed by DIR. IS. M.
Zwemer and a number of workers
among Moslems In India and north
Africa to observe June 80. 1915. as a
special day of prayer for the Moslem
world. June 80 of this year marks
the six hundredth anniversary of the
martyrdom of Raymund Lull. the first
and greatest missionary to Moslems-
1t is hoped that not only missionaries
but ALI Christians everywhere will OBJ
serve the anniversary by uniting in
prayer on that day for the people for
whom Lull gave his life.
In India the mass movements to-
wards Christianity continue, and most
Indian missionaries are put to II to
find teachers for the numbers who are
turning to them. IN one district there
were $500 inquiries. but there was
not one to teach them.
The Universities Mission In Africa
was begun under the inspiration of
Livingstone, while on his first fur
Tough. While his body was being car.
ried to the coast the stone
of the Zanzibar Cathedral was being
laid. The communion table stands
on the spot where the whipping post
in a slave market stood.
The Foreign Mission Journal, pub
lished by the Southern Baptists, states
that there Is one rich man who lives
on one-tenth of his income and gives
nine-tenths to the support Of the gos-
pei. His income Is abouts 100000 oil
year.