Evening star., 1916-07-29

it time for me to speak of these good
Indians"
| ton in Nevada, says: '.At Beatty we are
| to purchase a building once used as a sa-
| loon and later as the home of medium
where other Spirits were invoked. It Is
now to become temple for the spirit OF
| the Christian religion. Its present sole
furnishing Is a decrepit BARRIERS chair.
which some one facetiously suggested
might serve for the bishops throne
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| Opponents of foreign missions have
sometimes asserted that after a century
Of work and the expenditure of vast sums
| Of money there is not single self-sup-
porting church on the mission field
terian) In 1914 reported 1.4o6 churches
| entirely self-supporting There are other
boards that report more than thousand
given anywhere, but altogether there are
| many thousands Of self-supporting
! churches.
| 1t is said that DR.. Stewart a mission
ary. who lately died in Africa, was asked.
then make them Christians? He ans
wered, I'VE don't do work twice over
when We have made them Christians we
have made them civilized
The Japan Sunday School Association
was organized seven years ago; 1t now
affiliates over 1000 schools, with an en-
rollment of over 100000. About twenty
| books for teachers and workers have al
ready been written in Japanese or trans
lated.
The Japan Methodist Church was or
ganized as an independent body eight
years ago and 1t now has las ordained
| ministers and $4,000 members.
| A mems Bible class in Indianapolis
| raised $1,000 to support its missionary
on the foreign field and did it in ten
minutes. Twelve hundred dollars are in
sight. and no member Of the class gave
more than $50.
| Rev. Henry w Tiffany of Elkins, w.
Va, is to occupy the pulpit Of Metropoli-
| tan Baptist Church tomorrow morning
| and evening. His topic for the morning
will be "a Morning Cloud Religion while
ject Are There Degrees Of JOY In
Heaven?"
The following letter from Eugene E.
Barnett. formerly of Florida, now secre-
tary Of the Y. M. c.. A. at Hangchow.
| China, tells a surprising story Of the sue
cess Of association work in that city:
1.-THE membership Of our association
now exceeds $50 men. Our auditorium
seats less than fifth of them. but once a
city. so as to bring them all together:
On these occasions they present a great
sight. Students, government clerks, young
business and professional en men tlSa! ralWay;
and officials are all in evidence. Among
them is a sprinkling Of returned students
from the universities of America and
Europe Whenever I see them together
fhrf1l lod fy 70
tentialities they represent. Win these men
to Christian ideals and Christian living
and who shall doubt that the kingdom
ers, not SO much that doors be opened,
but that power be given US to enter the
doors which already swing wide before
u.s."
Jeffrey of Aruppukottai, a Congregational
missionary:
Things are certainly moving in India
A marvellous revolution is in progress.
stoned for innocently taking a low-caste
Christian through the Brahmin street.
The other day he sat down to banquet
with college students Of all castes, includ-
ing three divisions Of Brahmins. All were
served by servants Of low-caste extrac-
ton. In Bombay. December %, an all
India intercaste dinner, organized with
| the avowed object Of doing away with
guests from various castes 225 were
Brahmins, so were Indian women and 20
| were the so-called 'untouchables
Chinese students who volunteer for the
| ministry sometimes have serious opposi-
ton to contend with at home. For ex-
| ample. member of the volunteer band
ceived the following letter:
"Sing-teh, my son, read. Yesterday
I heard Mr.. Yu say that you had Joined
! the band Of volunteers for the ministry.
and are bound to it for life. Whereupon
| for long time my anger was irrepressi-
BILE. and I could neither eat nor sleep.
Later. your mother exhorted me, saying
that this was only rumor. and hard to
believe. Then my anger and anxiety
to command you to tell me the truth. II
] the report be mere rumor there is no
more to say: but II it be true you must
before the head teacher revoke your un-
dertaking, to avoid further trouble.
| "Since you are already disciple of
Christ, and as such have the duty of
spreading the doctrine, why need you
enter the volunteer band and act so
stupidly? Moreover you have not
right have you to exercise authority? If
you again act so blindly and unintelli-
gently I will not give you cash for
your education Let us have no more
Wofos ABOUT IL Your 1ather commands. ;"
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A Presbyterian missionary of Yucca
| tan. called homo when the crisis be-
| tween the United States and Mexico
became acute. tells this narrowing
story Of the awful poverty prevailing
among certain classes:
II have seen women crawling on
i hands and knees, with eagle eyes fixed
| on the street. and suddenly snatching
| at grain Of corn or a bean that has
| dropped from a passing sack, and then,
| quickly masticating it to make 1t soft,
| they slip 1t from their own mouths
into that Of the starving babes
| strapped on their backs.
II have seen dozens Of homeless
| children. with no one to care and no
one to feed them. sleeping all over the
| streets, covered with dirt and shiver-
ing in the cold. could write volumes