The Missionary Review of the World — November 1932

1932

A Brahniin Who Sought Peace Glenn B. Ogden The Conquering Christ in·South America Samuel Guy Inman Religion-By Evolution or Revelation· Samuel M. Zwem.er A Pastor's Opportunity Francis Shunk Downs Missions to Indians-Yesterday and Today Thomas C.· Moffett Oases in the Good Earth G. Carleton Lacy

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A. C. CHAKRAVARTI (WITH BABY) IN HIS CHRISTIAN ASHRAM, WITH HIS FAMILY AND CHRISTIAN

A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OF HINDU GURUS, PRIESTS AND PANDITS, WITH CHRISTIANS, AT MR. CHAKRAVARTI'S ASHRAM Sweeper (untouchable) Christians are included in this Ashram, with Purdah women (behind the doors)', who have never before joined in any Christian meeting. (See page 583.) REVIB ORLD VOLUME LV AN INTERDENOMINATIONAL REVIEW OF WORLD-WIDE CHRISTIAN PROGRESS NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER, 1932 Topics of the Times THANKSGIVING UNDER DIFFICULTIES and difficulties; for the incentives to return to a Many may find it difficult this year to celebrate simpler, more healthful manner of life; for fam- the national Thanksgiving Day with the zest they ilies reunited through the new need for economy; have shown in prosperity. In America alone for public officials who are true to their trust and some ten million workers are out of employment; are seeking to serve with all their powers; for thousands have lost all their material possessions the example of nations like Great Britain and and multitudes are dependent on public charity statesmen like President Hoover; for schools, hos- for their daily bread. pitals, churches and other institutions that con- It is true that prosperity has led to thoughtless- tinue to build up character and life; for our in- ness, wastefulness and self-indulgence. Many heritance-individual, national, religious.

have thought that they could do without God and We may also give thanks for the true founda- have neglected His laws, His worship, His Word tions of society that are laid bare when the tem- and His service. Like Israel of old we have gone porary superstructure is laid low; for the love of astray and have turned everyone to his own way, family and friends; for our homes and children; rather than walked in the way of God. for the business man and teachers who remain Adversity has a sobering influence. Men see true in the midst of adversity; for the conscious- that money will not buy security or happiness ness that troubles come to pass-not to remain; and that human institutions are weak and apt to that the future holds larger possibilities of satis- crumble. Unless blinded by ignorance and preju- faction than the present; for God's good gifts of dice, we realize that the spiritual things are the sunshine and showers, of the many dependable things that abide and that we cannot truly live natural resources of earth and the heavens, of without God. Dr. J. Stuart Holden of London in- mind and spirit.

terprets the prophecy of Habakkuk as bringing We may well give thanks for God-given ability us this message: "Though all my profits be to learn lessons from past and present experi- swept away and I be left without a credit balance; ences; for the privilege of work and the opportu- though all my dividends be passed; and though nity to show kindness to others; for the many the value of all my securities disappears in the earnest endeavors to establish peace, righteous- economic blizzard, yet will I rejoice in God and ness and brotherhood among men; for the prog- joy that I am living! The world has lost noth- ress of Christian missions and the establishment ing till it has lost God ! " . of groups of earnest believers in God in all lands; When we set ourselves to thinking seriously we for the spiritual awakenings in Persia and Africa, find that we have many true reasons for thanks- in India and Burma, in Siam and China, in Korea giving in these days through which we are pass- and Japan, in Latin America and the islands of ing. Here are some topics for thought or for the sea, in the cities and towns all over North sermons. America; we give thanks that the mercy of God We may give thanks for the failure of folly to has not failed; that the eternal verities cannot satisfy; for the sobering influence of adversity; be swept away by material catastrophies; we may for the shattering of self-complacency and self- still rest confident in God as the all-wise, loving sufficiency; for new sources of help revealed; for creator, in Christ and His Way of Life, and in the the spirit of courage manifested by those who fulfillment of His promises.

suffer; for unselfish service rendered to those in In fact, when we compare our cause fordissat~ need; for many victories over discouragements isfaction with our reasons for thanksgiving, have [579 ]

we any reasons for discouragement or complaint? meantime extensive extracts have been given to There is good reason to make this season one the press. The "Appraisers" commend Christian of true thanksgiving to God; a season of hope missionary work as a whole and recognize many and joy; a time to mark new beginnings and a benefits that have come to humanity from the sinbrighter outlook. Let us think and thank God! cerity, courage and devotion of men ,and women who have given their lives and their money to pro- LAYMEN APPRAISE FOREIGN MISSIONS mote it. But they declare that "far reaching changes" must now be made if further support is In January, 1930, a small group of American warranted and if we are to expect success. Christian laymen decided to look into this Foreign Missionary business. This was natural and They summarize their view of the problem and right. Over $40,000,000 are contributed annually point out what they conceive to be the present to be spent by American Protestant mission weaknesses of the enterprise. They then make boards to promote Christianity abroad. Nearly general recommendations along the following 30,000 American and European missionaries are lines: giving their lives to this service. The work has not been without result, for forty thousand mis- 1. Mission workers should join with the Hindus, Mossion churches have been established in non-Chris- lems and Buddhists to counteract the growth of athetian lands and over eight million people are now ism, irreligion and materialism, rather than undertake allied with these Christian missions. But re- to combat the non-Christian religions. cently missionary contributions at home have been falling off. Travelers and others have criticized 2. Missionaries must make a sympathetic study of other the work. Some say that it is faulty and old religions to discover the points of agreement with fashioned; some that it is useless; others that it Christianity; they must present positive rather than is the greatest work in the world. 'Some hold that negative conceptions of life and religion. we spend too much for foreign missions, others too little. Some complain about the methods, 3. We should drop theological disputes and "separate others about the type of missionaries sent and Christianity from our Western history and agencies, the kind of institutions established abroad. Whom presenting it as a universal religion." shall we believe? 4. The missionary personnel must be more carefully se- When funds for an investigation were independ- lected by home boards, with a view to technical effiently provided, this small group of laymen decided ciency, discarding those of limited ability and narrow to look into the matter-not as opponents of the outlook. work but as friends. Seven large church boards agreed to cooperate, and sponsors, or "directors 5. The churches on the mission fields should take the of the inquiry," were selected from the cooperat- initiative in indicating how many and what kind of ing denominations. Three groups of specialists, missionaries they wish sent to their field. "Fact Finders," were sent in advance to India, China and Japan to gather material. Next fifteen 6. Sectarianism at home and on the mission field should men and women were asked to visit these fields to be discarded in favor of unity and cooperation-not investigate and report-all expenses paid. Before necessarily uniformity. they left America a year ago five volumes of the printed report of the "Fact Finders" were placed 7. Boards at home should unite to set up a general adin the Commissioners' hands. Then they set out ministrative board to promote and supervise the work to discover the answers to three main questions: of all the denominations. This super-mission agency should be made up of executives and of laymen out- 1. In view of present conditions is there need to continue side the boards. or expand foreign missionary work in non-Christian lands? There are commendable points in their recom- mendations. There is recognition of the value of 2. Are the present ideals and methods satisfactory; if the Christian message and the need for sharing not, what changes should be made? with others the values we have found in Christ; there is acknowledgment of the common need of 3. In view of modern conceptions of culture and religion, "salvation" from ignorance and failure. There is what should be the attitude of Christians toward those frank recognition of faults of the Christian of other religious faiths? Church and the need to correct them-sectarian rivalry, self-complacency and lack of appreciation The Appraisal Commission, after nine months of others. There is emphasis on the importance on the field, has recently returned and has pre- of sending only our best as missionaries, and on sented their report to the Directors of the Inquiry. the prime importance of a vital Christian life and Later this is to be submitted to the seven cooper- experience. The Commissioners realize that Christianity grows by "sharing" and that the ating boards* and may then be published. In the strength of the Church in the field is shown by its quality and influence rather than by statistical tables.

* The cooperating boards are the Baptist (Northern), Congrega- tional, Dutch Reformed, Episcopal, Methodist EpIscopal (North), Pres- byterian (North), and United Presbyterian. These boards have coop- erated only by conference with the Commissioners and by facilitating their investigation.

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

The personnel of the Commission* assures us of God as manifesting His purpose and power to- of an honest, courageous and intelligent piece of day in Christian missions; no recognition of the work. M.any of their criticisms seem justified. guidance and work of the Holy Spirit, or of the Any careful appraisal of their report must await importance of prayer. A humanistic philosophy its publication in full, but these advance instal- dominates the recommendations.

ments give grounds for some misgivings as to its 8. A super-board of missions will not be ac- real value and influence. ceptable to the Church at home. The Inter- 1. The report deals with generalities more Church World Movement brought catastrophe, not than with concrete facts as to methods and re- triumph.

sults. The Commissioners might almost have This report should not be taken to represent written it without leaving America. the judgment of the cooperating mission boards.

2. They conceive of missions from the stand- It will not be presented to them until November point of human philosophy, and on a cultural 18th. What are conceived to be weaknesses in basis, rather than as the fulfillment of a divine the report should not prevent acknowledgment of commission to spread everywhere the Good News its commendable features or hinder the correction of life through Christ. The Commissioners of weaknesses in missionary work as conducted clearly speak as philosophers and educationalists today. We need to reappraise our motives, our rather than as evangelists. personnel, our expenditures and our methods to 3. They apparently fail to see any vital dif- bring them into harmony with the Spirit and ference between "religion" in general 'and the standards of Christ. We believe that if the re- Christian religion in particular; between human port as it stands were adopted by the boards- ethnic beliefs and practices, and the revelation of which we doubt-it would weaken rather than God through His Son Jesus Christ. As a result strengthen evangelical missions ; it would reduce they suggest alliance with other religions to com- rather than increase missionary gifts; it would bat irreligion. This is unthinkable and unwork- lead to a greater division rather than greater able from a Christian point of view. unity in the churches. Christianity is not a phil- 4. Apparently the Appraisers have very little osophy of life. The essence of Christianity is understanding of the evils associated with Hindu- Christ. The only successful mission work is that ism, Buddhism and Islam or of their failure to which extends His rule over men who acknowl- make known God and victorious love. The New edge Him as Divine Saviour and Lord. Let us Testament teaches that the followers of these re- seek to make missions more Christ-like.

ligions have an equal spiritual need with atheists WHERE THERE IS NO MISSIONARY and materialists, that men are immortal souls, as DEPRESSION well as social humans.

5. The attitude of the report toward Christian It is an astonishing fact that the cooperating evangelism is unsatisfactory. The Appraisers missionary societies in the Netherlands are not recommend that medical and educational missions suffering from the present depression. The in- be separated from evangelistic work-the definite come of these societies in 1931 was F1.25,000 effort to win men to Christ. ($10,000) larger than in 1930; and in the first 6. There is a lack of any consideration of the six months of 1932 it was F1.70,000 ($28,700) comparative spiritual values and results of vari- larger than in the same period of 1931. Three ous types of mission work-educational, medical, reasons are suggested to explain this fact.

social and evangelistic. Apparently the Ap- The first is that these Christian people love mis- praisers are not very familiar with such remark- sions. The National "Mission-fest," held last July able spiritual awakenings and transformations as on the grounds of the palace of the Queen-Mother have taken place in North Korea, ,among the at Soestdijk near Amersfoort, gave ample evi- Telugus in India and in many parts of China. It dence of this. In spite of a rainy day, over three would be interesting to know how they would ap- thousand people were present. If the weather praise such work as that of the China Inland Mis- had been more friendly, from eight to ten thou- sion, the Japan Evangelistic Band and the Dohna- sand people might have been expected. From vur Fellowship. three platforms speakers gave addresses to peo- 7. There seems to be no adequate recognition ple sheltering themselves under umbrellas.

• The Appraisal Commission was made up of the following: Prof. There were many interesting features to this and Mrs. Wm. E. Hocking of Harvard; Pres. Clarence A. Barbour of "fest". In the program especial consideration Brown University; Edgar H. Betts of Troy; Pres. Arlo A. Brown of was given to the younger people. Popular ad- Drew University; Dr. Charles P. Emerson, University of Indiana dresses were interspersed among those of a more Medical School; Dr. Henry S. Houghton, University of Iowa M<dical solid character, required to satisfy a Dutch audi- School; Prof. Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College; Dr. Wm. P. Mer- ence. The varied and picturesque costumes worn rill, pastor of Brick Church, N. Y. C.; Albert L. Scott of N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester; Dr. Henry C. Taylor, agricultural specialist; Vice-Pres. Woodward of the University of Chicago; and Miss Ruth F. Woodsmall of Indianapolis.

were evidence that the people came from all parts vidual giver is card-catalogued. Every gift is of the country and from rural classes as well as systematically followed up, and if it is not refrom the city. The Queen-Mother was there, but peated in due time the reason is sought. Here the Queen and her Consort were prevented by is a lesson for wasteful, inefficient Americans! absence from the country. The deep interest in What gains in economy and in effectiveness might foreign missions and the manifest devotion of the be made if our mission boards would seek the people to this cause was evident. What other largest possible cooperation in administration! purpose could bring them together on a rainy day for an outdoor series of addresses? A. L. WARNSHUIS.

A second reason for the steady support of mis- SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADERS AT RIO sions by the Christians in Holland may be found in the fact that the income of the societies de- While Brazil was experiencing a formidable repends not upon large gifts but on a multitude of bellion (which has since been terminated), Parasmall gifts. This means extensive and effective guay and Bolivia were contending for Chaco, missionary education, and a thorough-going culti- Chile was experiencing one political upheaval vation of individual givers and of pastors and after another, and Colombia and Peru were on church leaders. A detailed study of the methods the verge of warfare, representatives from thiradopted by these Dutch missionary societies in ty-three nations gathered at Rio de Janeiro in the cultivation of their constituency·would be the interests of world-wide Sunday school work. suggestive and stimulating. But the essential fact is that the base of missionary support is The number of enrolled delegates was 1,619 broad and wide as well as deep, and when the and one of the open air meetings brought together shock of economic depression comes the results some 10,000 people. Several hundred more were are not so destructive as when the opposite is prevented from attending the convention by the true. revolution which blockaded Sao Paulo.

A third fact to be noted is the extent of suc- This great international gathering represented, cessful cooperation in the work of the missionary as Sir Harold Mackintosh, the President, said, societies in Holland. Eight societies have united "the greatest and mightiest voluntary movement their administrative work. Each has maintained in the world, cooperating for the Christian eduits separate organization, treasury, and work in cation of the coming generation." The motto of the field, but the executive secretarial work, both the convention, "The Living Christ"-or in Portuas related to the cultivation of the home constitu- guese, 0 Christo Vivo-presented a striking conencies and the administration abroad, has been trast to images of the divine Babe and the dead united under one staff in the headquarters at Christ seen in the churches of Brazil and so uni- Oegstgeest, near Leiden. Instead of eight or pos- versally held up for worship in Roman Catholic sibly ten secretaries for these eight societies, countries. there are five-two for the homebase, two for the work abroad, and one general secretary. This One of the significant features of this convenunion has resulted both in economy and in effi- tion was the series of six seminar groups which, ciency. With separate organizations and one sec- under skillful leadership, discussed important retary, or in some cases two for each society, one topics connected with Christian religious educaman must spread his service over the whole field, tion and presented their findings to the convenboth at home and abroad, and can specialize in tion. The first session was opened on July 25th neither without weakening his effectiveness in one by Dean Luther A. Weigle of Yale University, or the other department. and the program was enriched by addresses by Christians from many lands. A chorus of 500 A visit to the Oegstgeest headquarters im- voices, an impressive pageant, "Christ of the presses one with the efficiency of the administra- Ages," and an educational exhibit were attractive tive organization, in the most improved machines features of the convention. Daily noon prayer and methods for their office work and in their meetings were held to seek divine guidance, felknowledge of missionary problems, always abreast lowship and power. The use of the large Municiof the best in the world. This effective coopera- pal Theater was granted by the Government free tion makes possible the successful missionary edu- of charge and many Brazilians united in offercation to which reference has been made. Summer ing generous hospitality. The convention made schools are provided to such an extent that every a profound impression on Brazilians and has pastor in Holland can attend. one every three or without doubt given a strong impetus to evangelifour years, and by the systematic working of the cal work in this great country which has now the home field every pastor has such an opportunity. strongest Protestant body in Latin America and The record of every congregation and every indi- where there are still large reaches of territory untouched by the Gospel of Christ.

A Brahmin Who Sought

By the REV. GLENN B. OGDEN Kasganj, United Provinces, India Missionary of the American Presbyterian Church. 1916- I T was a hot, sticky evening such as Calcutta came so fast and so easily? He had in a few produces in abundance during the course of years edited and sent through the press nearly all a year. A high caste Bengali business man of the ancient and best loved Sanskrit books of sat cross-legged on his floor mat, surrounded by the Hindus. Among his friends Chakravarti his ledgers, closing up business for the day. numbered outstanding men like the great poet "Just what am I getting out of all this sweat- Tagore, business men, professional men and land- ing over money? Who would pick up the lines lords. Houses he had, lands, country estates. A and drive on as I am doing were I to drop out hundred seventy-five miles from Calcutta, on the of the picture this night? Have I found heart banks of a stream chiselling its way through gran- peace-Shanti? Am I getting the best out of ite banks, he had built a country house in a de- life? Does the way I am going promise ultimate lightful garden, surrounded by mangoe, guava satisfaction? Will it bring me at last to peace?" and other Bengali fruit trees; there he expected Thus the soliloquy went on in his heart. to spend the latter years of his life in quiet devo- As a boy A. C. Chakravarti had gone to school tions, religious exercises and meditations.

in the city of his birth, Dacca, some two hundred This would be quite in keeping with the prac- miles east of Calcutta. All during his school days tice of Indian gentlemen. After money had been grinding poverty fostered within his young breast accumulated, and children grown to maturity and the determination to become a rich man when were able to look after the family affairs, then once school days were left behind. At last, with the father might retire from business and try to a capital of thirty rupees (about ten dollars), he find satisfaction in the consolations of religion.

started a book shop in the great University city. For years Chakravarti had been trying to find Such was his skill, application, and resourceful- the peace which the "world" gives. His last worry ness that within a year ten thousand rupees had would disappear when he had successfully comrolled in. Chakravarti began to acquire wealth pleted the marriage arrangements of his two and fame-but he forgot all about God and future charming and much-loved daughters. He thought life. that he was free from cares and anxieties and would be able to live on the income turned in by Some years passed, bringing us to the time his agents. when our story begins. Just why this Hindu should be talking thus to himself he did not know.

Ought not he of all men to be happy? He was Disillusionment a Brahmin of the Brahmins, having an excellent Sanskrit education; he was a writer of school But now something was disturbing him. He textbooks and a good enough salesman to per- was tired of this sort of peace, and disillusioned suade the Department of Education to accept his he gave himself to the study and practice of palm- books in competition with others. Money was istry and astrology. Again quick proficiency re- coming in, more money than he knew what to warded his efforts. He had been terribly upset do with-book seller, printer, writer that he was. by the horoscope of his elder daughter, for it re- He gave help to others with a free hand. The vealed to him that she was doomed to die within oGcasional wandering fakirs (out of the hundreds three months. Pain began to crush his heart.

of thousands of naked or half naked sadhus who The world had failed to give him peace and he wander over India in the name of religion) who resolved to seek it from some other source.

came to Chakravarti's shop found themselves well Then came this arresting, puzzling, gripping rewarded. For into the till would go his hand question: "Have you found God .?" The Hindu to gather whatever might come first, whether sil- has some conception of God even though it be ver or notes. Why bother to count it or account nothing more than that of the impersonal, un- for it when one had more than he needed, and it knowable, non-emotional IT, called Brahm. Being [583 ]

reabsorbed into this state, and losing one's iden- their stock of merit by casting coins or gifts of tity completely, is the Hindu conception of bliss. food before the holy man, he had abundance. If Chakravarti sat for a long time thinking. He lean days came he gave it little thought. He was had to admit that he was far from having found giving himself to the reading of the sacred scrip- Shanti, for which every devout Hindu longs most. tures of India, meditation, certain forms of Having everything that the world could give, he prayer, self-denial at every hand.

had with it all a heavy, burdened heart. Imagine yourself following such a course of "Well then," said he, "why not find? If the rigor for ten days. This man followed it for ten way you are following leads only to a dead end, years. He was in earnest; he was heart hungry; if it has not brought you what you most desire, he wanted something supremely. No cost was too why not set out and find? Why not act now? great if only it would bring the desired peace of Nothing is gained by delay. The present course heart. Then he began to evaluate the way he will never bring you what you want." had come since in the counting house at Calcutta But what would bring peace? Could one be he had made his great decision. Again came the sure of a way? He acted with firm resolve and questions: "Where has it brought you? Does it decided on the only way of which he knew-the hold out hope of ultimate finding? Have you way of the Hindu Yogi. It is the way of austeri- found God ?" To all of these questions, in all hon- ties, putting away of the world and repressing esty, he had to answer that he was precisely where all human desires. The trail of the Yogi leads he was ten years back. The practical mind of to the desert, the mountain cave, the grass thatch the business man could have but one reaction to by a river's brink. It means days and months this discovery. "If you have not found, if you and years spent in pious, rigorous devotions, see no hope of finding along this way, you are on meditations, exercises, with the hope that at last the wrong road. Try another."

one will be able to break through into the pres- At this juncture an old debt was paid by a for- ence of reality and find peace. mer debtor in Calcutta. This provided enough So it was that Chakravarti divested himself of to take him and his wife and daughters back to his business, turning it over to a company of men Dacca. Here he joined, first, the popular school who later ran it into the ground. With just of Vaishnavism and then, a reformed Vaishnav enough money to take him and his wife and two sect of Hindus, the "Chaitanya Math" or Theistic little daughters to Puri, he set out from the great Vedantist society. It is this society that sends city to take up his new life as a Yogi by the sea- the Hindu Swamis over to America to delude gulli- shore. Three hundred miles southwest of Cal- ble men and women with a plausible philosophy cutta, by Puri's sacred bathing ghat where every of Krishna. They have sloughed off much of the year hundreds of thousands of weary, heart- more crass elements of Hinduism. They consider hungry, yet hopeless, pilgrims come to bathe and the Bhagavata, the book of books. They hold and seek release from the burden of sin, he took up teach many noble truths derived from this and his abode. other of their sacred books.

Life as a "Holy Man" Chakravarti, leaving home and family and sev- ering all connections with those who loved him, Hair uncut, finger nails left to grow as they soon became one of the leading workers of this would, body neglected, trying ever to subdue the society. With a band of disciples he would go material desires, he lived the life of a "holy" man. about over Bengal preaching and teaching in her To a visitor, the love India still has for her villages and cities, collecting funds for his soci- "holy men" is phenomenal. Poor, ignorant, ety and furthering the interests of his mission.

yearning, wistful, hungry India all but worships To be a devotee one must leave home and love only at the feet of these men who have seemingly sac- the world of men.

rificed everything and who have, in popular esti- Finally his society determined to send him to mate, gone so much farther along the way to America to preach reformed theistic Vedantism release from the inexorable wheel of rebirths and (as contrasted with the pantheistic Vedantism the hopelessness of human existence. Pilgrims preached by Vivekananda). Though Chakravarti visiting the popular bathing places feel it a part speaks English fairly well, he did not have suffi- of their pious exercises to give gifts to these men cient command of a specialized vocabulary to en- who have made the supreme self-renunciation. able him to throw Sanskrit scriptural terms into Chakravarti and his little family, following the English in public address. He therefore set him- bitter and exacting road of the Yogi, sometimes self to the reading religious books from the West.

had an abundance, while at other times they went He secured, along with other books, a copy of hungry. If devout pilgrims, coming to bathe in the New Testament and began to read it for idio- the waters of the Bay of Bengal at Puri, added to matic expressions of spiritual experiences. His

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note book contains the first eleven verses of the an Indian, lest I be tempted to say that his relififth chapter of Matthew. He eagerly read books gious genius accounted for what I saw, but let borrowed from a missionary in Calcutta. me find this even in a foreigner."

Chakravarti had not dreamed it possible that In Bindaraban there lives a woman sent out there could be other books so sublime as his by one of the great Christian Mission Boards, who Bhagavata and his Gita. These had been the for years has been finding joy and rich reward in source to which he had always gone for spiritual loving, sacrificial service for India's women and food. He had been a most enthusiastic promul- children. Her reputation as a "holy" person had gator of their ethical and philosophical teachings, spread among the Hindus of her community. She trying all the while to put into practice what he was not concerned about that, but the reputation taught. But as he read this other book he found she had. Chakravarti had heard of her and deit strangely fascinating. The Gospel, like his cided to go and see her for himself; to see if own scriptures in certain of its teachings, was he could find that which he sought in a human yet very unlike them in other ways. Here he life. found One who had Himself found peace and who offered it to all. Here was a strange new world which he discovered and which was stirring him to the depths in an inexplicable way. It haunted him, left him restless and uncertain. Could it be that he was to find that priceless peace here? He must find out. He must waste no time for ways that fail to give.

His society now asked him to take charge of their great temple at .Bindaraban, the very center of theistic, not pantheistic, Hinduism. Here, on the banks of the Jumna River, thirty miles north of Agra-most of India's great rivers have many places held sacred as bathing places for the seeking, yearning throngs who month by month flock thither for ablutions, giving gifts to the Brahmin priests, seeking release from the burden of sinstaking charge of the temple, arranging for its administration and the daily duties of temple assistants, Chakravarti reserved for himself a little room where he might give himself to the protracted study upon which he was resolved.

When the Light Broke Day after day, often eighteen out of the twenty- MR. A. C. CHAKRAVARTI AND HIS WIFE four hours, he gave himself to a most exhaustive comparison of New Testament and Hindu scrip- With doubts in his mind he went. He had tures. Reading, meditating, trying to pray, puz- heard that she wore decent clothing, ate ordinary zling over it all, he went on from day to day until food, lived in a comfortable little house, even wore in the third week the light broke. As the glorious shoes on her feet. How could this be a holy permorning sun shines through the clouds, so at last son, and so utterly unlike the typical Hindu holy the darkness gave way and light flooded his soul. man or woman who tries to deny himself all such In Christ was God revealed. He says, "I had be- worldly things? He did not tell the missionary fore heard a voice saying, 'Come to me my child why he came. But he was much impressed by and I will give you rest,' but instead of coming her spirit. Busy as she was, pressed upon by to Him I went first in this direction and then in duties from every side, she took time to sympathat only to end up in utter disappointment." thetically answer his questions and talk with him. Now he said to himself, "If Christ is more than Something indefinable about her he could sense historically a character who walked the paths of though not describe. He went away to think and Galilee two thousand years ago, if He is more than a beautiful dream, He must be living and contemporary, able to prove Himself to every heart that will open to Him. Let me see in some human life Christ reincarnated, preferably not in

read and pray. Again and yet again he returned our house again. We do not want you to ever for an interview. She was being read like a book, darken our door, you renegade." He did not by one who has an uncanny ability to read men. reply, but he could say, "Here is where Christ At last he said within himself: "I have seen it. must prove Himself and will prove Himself to That woman has what I most want; that life, that me." He prayed for these who had turned against peace, that love and power for living, which must him and he expected a positive answer to his be in Christ and is incarnated in a human life if prayer. He is still a contemporary reality." In order that Chakravarti might fit himself for At last Chakravarti told her why he had been a life of service he was sent by friends to a semicoming and that he was now ready to declare nary in central India. A few months passed; to the world his new found faith. He had writ- then one day there came a 'letter from hi.s wife ten over the door of his heart, as he puts it, "Let in which she said, "If you will come to get me, Him who can come in here and take possession. I will come back to live with you." I am through with the old self-life." He prayed with child-like faith, "0 God, if there be a God, The attitude of many of India's men is still such prove Thyself to me now." On Christmas Day, that it is not safe for her women to travel alone. 1926, he received baptism, thus openly declaring With joyful yet trembling heart Chakravarti went to all his Hindu friends that he belonged utterly to get his wife, resolved that he would not violate and forever to Christ. in any way her personality. He said: "You are my wife and I love you, but you are also a Hindu Made an Outcaste woman. I want you to take no step just to please me. Be your own genuine self. Never become With this step, peace and joy came surging into a Christian just to please me. Bring with you Chakravarti's heart. In his own Bengali vernac- everything you wish-this chain of beads, mala, ular he expressed in song the thought of two much and these utensils of brass, everything which you Joved Christian songs, without knowing that they use in your morning and evening worship. If you .had ever been written: "I Heard the Voice of discover the source of joy and peace that I have Jesus Say" and "Just as I Am." He knew well found I shall be glad, but until then be your own what would be in store for him when his family self, a devout Hindu woman." She returned with and his friends learned that he had become a him. Though he persuaded her to begin the read- Christian. The time has not yet come in India ing of the Gospels he carefully refrained from when one may be an out and out Christian and hurrying her pace, for he said to himself, "If I yet be allowed to remain in a high caste Hindu have found the secret of peace, my life must rehome. Prominent friends in Bengal, the family veal it." at Dacca, his brother priests and disciples at Bindaraban would turn their backs upon him, out- Nine months passed. One day she surprised iCaste him, hate him. He would be called upon to her husband by saying: itread the way of suffering and loneliness. But thad he not suffered much to find peace, building "Do you think I have further need of this chain Ion a false hope? Could he not now rejoice in of beads, this mala which I have used for so long ;suffering for Christ, the source of his new found in saying prayers ?" peace ? No need to wait now for ten years to learn whether his hope was based on reality. Each "Why do you ask me," he replied. "It is yours day was distinctly better than the day before. and I can not tell you what to do with it. When Each day marked progress in realization. you came from Bengal to live with me again I did not ask you to get rid of it. You must de- His wife in Bengal thought it her religious duty cide." to tell him how she hated him for having brought disgrace and shame upon their family, their reli- A Christian Ashram for Pilgrims gion and their caste. To her letter, which deeply wounded him, he wrote, "I am asking my heav- This brave, wise answer was made possible by enly Father to speak to your heart. He can and his unshakable, simple faith that Christ was provwill. When He does, all I ask is that you try to ing Himself each day. He knew that something listen. He has made Himself real to me and is was going· on in his wife's heart. He was not proving Himself day by day." surprised to discover a few days later that the mala had been thrown away. She too had made There -was no arguing, no defense, just this the great discovery and was ready to take her patient, loving reply to one who was on her side place by his side as a happy, convinced Christian. deeply wounded. The son-in-law, who wrote from Calcutta, "Don't ever show your face around When their years of study, growth, and prepa- ration for richer service at J ubbulpore were com- pleted, the question came, Where shall we plant our lives and share with others what we have found? The Bishop of the Methodist church

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'asked them to come to Calcutta to take charge of and finding. Former friends, who had turned a flourishing church. But another call was sum- against him, now welcome Chakravarti to their moning them back to a little house by the side homes and as disciples sitting at his Master's feet of the road in Bindaraban where they might be ask, "How did He open your eyes? Tell us that friends and helpers to pilgrims along the way. we too may find. What have you found in your Here was a wonderful place to fish when one was new religion that you did not find in your old sa- fishing for men. Men and women, with such need cred Hinduism?"

as only those may know who have themselves ex- To all he says, "I can not tell you what I have perienced it, are coming constantly to Bindaraban found. But I can tell you that you too can find.

as a place of sacred pilgrimage. Turning their Write over the door of your heart, and mean it faces away from a position that promised good utterly, "Let Him who can give peace come in salary, distinction and comforts, Chakravarti and here and take possession." Then see who re- his wife soon found themselves established in sponds to your invitation. See if Krishna or their little ashram, beginning a life which is prov- Buddha can meet your need. There is One who ing to be one of increasing usefulness and joy. has responded to me and has proven Himself over Here they are helping man after man, woman and over again. I call Him Christ. You learn after woman, to find God in Christ, and by find- the taste of a mangoe by eating one. Taste and ing Him to find peace. see, and then one word will be enough from me."

The story of their life and service is still being The Ashram of Chakravarti, by its unique suc- written. Scarcely six chapters are completed, if cess, has begun to stir up opposition among the each year be called a chapter, since that day when Hindu priests at Bindaraban. The orthodox con- .

Chakravarti stepped out into the light. Has servative groups have been pressing the landlord Christ proven Himself? After a five years' si- to drive Chakravarti out of the present Ashram lence that son-in-law, who so violently expressed house which is amidst temples in the very heart his helpless rage, wrote again, "I have everything of the place. A legal notice has already been that the world can give. I am at the head of my served and proceedings instituted. His word to profession as a doctor; I have money, houses, all his friends in America is: "The work is Christ's, that I need, but my heart is weary and I have not that of any particular mission. Are there not found peace. Can you help me to find God?" Christians who can build an Ashram house here '!Yes," was the reply, "if you will come to the and thus hold up Christ in Bindaraban? I believe ashram at Bindaraban I believe we can help you there are. Christ will find them out and inspire to find God." them. Let me see what He does for His own He came and spent six months there seeking work here."

The Miracle of Indian Missions An illustration of the miracle of Indian missions is found in the story of the brave and devoted missionaries who ventured out to that hostile country during the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. Henry Martyn, a century ago, with mingled discouragement and yearning, declared that "to see one Hindu a real believer in Jesus would be something more nearly approaching the resurrection of a dead body than anything he had ever seen." The Abbe Du Bois, after a life-time of devotion, mourned that he had never seen one genuine convert. Looking back upon the great awakenings, and measuring the silent but sure interpenetration of India by Christian ideals, watching the indirect influence of the missionaries upon India's own reformers from Ram Mohan Roy to Mahatma Gandhi makes us marvel at the patience and the faith of men who toiled on through the darkness of those early days.

Could these men come back today and see the haughty Brahmin who has been led to Christ kneeling beside the despised Pariah, together partaking of the Communion Cup; could they listen to the record of the Travancore Mission, or hear the verdict of the centuries, what would they say? In India the Kingdom 'of God has come "without observation." The practical Christian of the West, in a hurry to "evangelize the world in a single generation," would do well to remember the lines of Kipling about the man "Who tried to hustle the East."

-Dynanodaya.

Conquering Christ in

By the REV. SAMUEL GUY INMAN, D. D., New York Secretary of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America SOUTH AMERICA is the only continent that system. He distributed 400 copies of the Scrip- has so honored Christ as to erect a statue to tures during his first year in Argentina and en- Him. The world famous "Christ of the rolled 5,000 children in his schools. Argentina Andes," placed on the mountainous fastness be- was so impressed with his work that it conferred tween Chile and Argentina, commemorates the honorary citizenship upon him. In Chile and settlement by peace of their long standing bound- Peru he likewise had wonderful success and was ary question. Columbus on writing to King Fer- received most cordially by the leaders of the new dinand said, "In all of the countries visited by governments which had just secured their free- your Highnesses' ships I have caused a high cross dom from Spain. In Colombia he organized a to be fixed upon every headland." Balboa on dis- Bible Society in which leading evangelists and covering the Pacific, "looked toward the sun, saw government officials participated.

the sea and fell down on his knees and praised God who had granted him such a wonderful Not Interlopers sight." Evangelical missionaries are not interlopers in It is true that these early conquistadores often South America as some have indicated; in prac- treated the Indians in any but a Christian way, tically every country they have been invited by so that a Cuban chief, who was about to be burned government officials and leading citizens. In at the stake in 1511, asked his father confessor, 1888 President" Sarmiento, whom many regard as "Will there be Christians in Heaven ?" When the the greatest of modern South Americans, asked confessor assured him that there would be, Chief Dr. Goodnow of the American Methodist mission Hatney replied, "Then I will not confess because to secure a number of teachers to inaugurate nor- I have no desire to go where they are." It is mal schools and kindergartens in Argentina. As true that homage to Christ in South America has a result a dozen North American teachers had the too often been divorced from His emphasis on privilege of inaugurating a modern educational ethics and liberty; the symbol of His cross has too system in Argentina. A few years later the gov- often meant blind ecclesiastical obedience rather ernment of Ecuador invited the Methodist mis- than real sacrifice for the salvation of the people. sionaries to take charge of public education of Henry Martyn on arriving at the City of Bahia that country and to organize a modern educational in 1804, on his way to Persia, was so struck by system. One of the leading citizens of Colombia the immense number of ecclesiastical buildings in the early sixties invited the Presbyterian Board and the profligacy of the clergy that he exclaimed, to send missionaries to that land.

"Crosses there are in abundance, but who will In 1871 a group of Paraguayan gentlemen sent preach the true doctrine of the Cross?" On the an urgent invitation to evangelical missionaries other hand Padre de las Casas, who worked in Argentina to open a school and church in Asun- against the enslavement of the Indians, was one cion, promising a valuable property for such de- of the most brilliant reformers of all times. His velopment. The Methodists were not able to ac- enemies tried in every way to stop his work, cept and later asked the Disciples of Christ to which they claimed, as the enemy of modern take up work for the evangelical cause in Para- prophets often do, was destroying the economic guay. The President of Paraguay and many of development of the new continent. But the the leading citizens were eager for the Disciples Padre's fighting spirit continued unimpaired until to open their work in the City of Asuncion. From he died July, 1556, at the ripe age of ninety-two. the beginning of the establishment of the work in One of the first Protestant missionaries to Paraguay the leading citizens have been most cor- South America was James Thompson, who in 1820 dial. At the dedication of the new buildings of began a remarkable trip around the continent as the Colegio Internacional the President of the agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society Republic, the Minister of Education and the lead- and as a representative of the Lancastarian school ing educators of the capital were present. The [588 ] Minister of Education recently gave a lecture in than in the youth of Catholic blood who embraces atheism the new auditorium urging the necessity for put- with the furor of a Roman gladiator. Sooner or later, in ting religion at the base of all progress. This an hour of travail, the two branches of the faith of Christ is one of a series of lectures on religious and moral will come to understand that their fighting one another is the greatest misfortune for all the peoples of Spanish questions that have been inaugurated in the new America.

building. It is not too much to say that the open- Santiago College, the school for girls in Chile, ing of the Colegio Internacional has been the most recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by lay..: outstanding event in the City of Asuncion during ing the corner stone for a new building. There the last year. All Paraguay looks with pride to were present the President of the Republic, the the developments of this institution. American Minister and a most distinguished The athletic program carried out both in Cole- group, including representatives of twenty-seven gio Internacional and Colegio Americano is at- classes in the institute. This college has educated tracting very wide attention as a promoter of in- many daughters of presidents, ministers and ternational friendship and as a developer of moral other distinguished Chileans and has furnished stamina and the principle of good sportsmanship a large number of teachers for that Republic. It in every department of life. Parents are deeply was founded as a school for American children impressed with the interest that missionary teach- but soon the distinguished families of Chile asked ers take in the moral and spiritual problems of that their daughters become students. One of their children. Public education in South Amer- these earlier graduates is now married to a lead- ica has gone to the extreme in secularization and ing business man of New York City, has contrib- often in universities and even in primary and sec- uted $150,000 for this school, and is giving prac- ond~ry schools animosity toward religion is deeply tically all of her time to its advancement. The inculcated. former editor of the Pan-American Bulletin re- Testimony of a Chilean POet signed that work to become the Secretary of the school, believing that thus she can give the largest Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet, who is prob- service to bringing together North and South ably the most widely read Latin-American writer Americans. of today, said recently: These schools really assist the conquest of In Chile there are many schools where the Lord's South America by Christ as well as contribute to Prayer is no longer heard. One night I found myself the general cause of education and better underwithout lodging in a southern city of our country and a standing. A thousand illustrations could be North American teacher took me to her home, a North given to show how deeply these schools impress American school. I accepted because of necessity, but the teachings of Jesus Christ upon the lives of with a questioning conscience. Did I have the right to partake of her table without partaking of her creed? The the students. following day, after breakfast, which was blessed with Former President Alessandri of Chile told us beautiful words revealing inward faith, I was invited to common prayer with the pupils. I entered the room with the story of meeting his little niece, whom he had hesitation. The Bible was given me to select the reading not seen for some time, and asking her how she for the day. I chose a psalm of David, the common ex- was getting along. He received such an enthusi- pression of faith. I read it, followed by the students, with astic reply that he inquired further. The little an emotion I have seldom experienced. There was the girl said: joy of being in a school where it is possible to study every day the Holy Book, where atheistic effrontery was not able "Oh, you ought to know my teacher in Santiago to cast out the author of Grace, who is superior to all College. She talks so beautifully and reads to us knowledge. Some day this example will be a revelation from such a wonderful book and then we all pray for my brethren in the faith, the Catholics. They will see together that God will help us to practice what that the materialistic movement is so great that now they this book teaches. Uncle, do you know I think have no closer brethren than those Protestants with whom it would do you good to read that book. Won't they are able to unite in the common struggle for Christ.

. . . The United States has in our country the unhappy you promise me to read it?" luck of being interpreted as utilitarian, as a work-shop, and not as a religious field, which it was, is and will con- The President made the promise if his niece tinue to be. would bring him a copy. The day he received it had been filled with the many struggles in the Continuing she speaks a word much needed both midst of which Chile's executives have been by Catholics and Protestants as to the necessity plunged the last few years. He forgot about his of ceasing mutual recriminations and endeavor- promise until he had retired. It suddenly came ing to center on Christ Himself: to him that his niece would be around the next The materialistic current in our countries is enormous. day and inquire· as to whether he had fulfilled his It counts as adepts the great majority of the educators word. He snapped on the light, took the little of our youth. Our Church should remember its essential Testament from his vest pocket and lay down to unity of interest with Protestantism and consider that it read. "Literally," said President Alessandri, "a loses infinitely less in the free-thinker who is evangelized

balm of healing was poured upon my weary spirit. half of these twenty nations have declared in For more than an hour I read the wonderful favor of constitutional separation of the Church words of Christ and every day since then I have and State, and others have granted equal rights read a part of that book." to all faiths.

The Evangelicals have been responsible for in- There is a new demonstration of interest in the troducing into South America many kinds of so- spiritual life given by many leaders in these cial movements. Dr. H. C. Tucker, who for forty southern lands. As the Minister of Education of years has been the agent of the American Bible Argentina expressed it: "Strange movements and Society in Brazil, was walking along the street awakenings are being felt among us. Men not one day and saw some old discarded rails where in the ministry of any church are beginning to the street railway repairs were being made. He write about Christ. There are signs that a need asked the superintendent of the road if he could is being felt and confessed and men are seeking use these in the development of some playground to have that need satisfied in the Divine."

material. The whole thing was so amusing that The present movement in the southern conti- when the mayor of the city heard about it there nent toward the integration of evangelical effort was a development which brought real playground on a basis of well-considered territorial division equipment from the United States, the first ever is due in large measure to the leadership and known in Brazil. In Uruguay the Secretary of counsel of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin the Y. M. C. A. introduced the playground idea America. The function of the Committee, cre- which has developed until Montevideo has a mar- ated by the Panama Congress, is purely advisory.

velous system of playgrounds. Composed of representatives of some thirty Mis- The evangelical movement has not neglected the sion Boards supporting Christian work in most of direct work of taking the message of Christ to the Latin republics, it has given constructive at- individuals and organizing converts into churches; tention to the whole problem of an effective dis- In Chile the first evangelical missionary began his tribution and correlation of Christian agencies work in 1845 under the auspices of the American and activities over the vast area with which it is Foreign Christian Mission. The Methodists concerned. Evidences are abundant that its serv- began work in Chile and Peru in 1877 under ices have been welcomed by Latin-American lead- Bishop Taylor. Permanent work in .spanish, in ers and churches. Elected and sustained by the Argentina and Uruguay, was established by the organizations it represents it has no ecclesiastical American Methodists about sixty years ago. control in missionary affairs, but its cooperative The first missionaries entered Brazil in 1859. influence is indicated by the statement that it has Today Brazil has its own Independent Presbyte- helped to effectuate in Latin America such appli- rian Church, with its general assembly, and its . cation of missionary statesmanship as may well own Independent Methodist Church that elects its attract the attention of the Christian world.

bishop and conducts entirely its own affairs. The many-sided evangelical movement operates under Faith That Will Not Shrink so many different conditions in various countries The fortitude, courage and patience of the and over such vast territory that results are often Chinese Christians should challenge our attention unseen and pervasive rather than concrete and and restore our confidence in the work of the misvisible. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to sionaries and their associates. Only God knows cite some of the statistics that were gathered to the sacrifices, sufferings and sorrows that are recompare the strength of the evangelical forces quired of those who call themselves followers of when the first Latin-American evangelical con- Christ in China. gress was held in 1916 at Panama and the second All the opposition does not seem able to scare men off. conference in Montevideo in 1925. The worst they can do is to kill and non-Christians get Another important effect of the evangelical killed just as readily. The heart seeks peace, and they movement is its contribution to civil rights and find it in Christ. So the government can legislate but religious liberty in South America. Fifty years people still turn to Christ. The Russian Government said ago not one of these republics had written liberty "As soon as we down capitalism the Church will vanish." Since this was not the natural consequence they began of worship into its constitution; the cemeteries to persecute in their indirect way, and would not punish were open only to those who had died in the faith those who persecuted the Christians. of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, and the Let us thank God that Chinese Christians are marriage rite could be performed only by a priest ready to follow the path Christ trod to Calvary. of that communion: Even evangelical workers, This is the way we must go if we would own His marrying on the field, were obliged to have their cause, and become more than conquerors through union blessed by some friendly priest in order Him, who loved us and gave Himself for us.

that their marriage might be legal. Today nearly A .. R. BARTHOLOMEW in Outlook of Missions.

Religion-by Evolution or

Revelation* ..:{ A Review by the REV. SAMUEL M. ZWEMER, D. D. ): ..

Professor of the History of Religion and Christian Missions, Princeton Theological Seminary A N unaccountable omission from the pro- to the evolutionary hypothesis as the sole key to ~ gram of the Jerusalem Meeting of the the history of religion. Among them we may International Missionary Council in 1928 men t ion the late Archbishop SOderblom of was the consideration of primitive beliefs and the Sweden, Alfred Bertholet and Edward Lehman, presentation of the Gospel to so-called animistic Alfred Blum-Ernst, Le Roy, Albert C. Kruijt, but pagans. A careful and sympathetic study of the especially P. Wilhelm Schmidt, founder of the anreligions of these· primitive peoples discloses thropological review Anthropos and Professor of "spiritual values," in some respects superior to Ethnology and Philology in the University of Vi- those found in the ethnic religions, and brings us enna. The exhaustive work of this Roman Cath- face to face with the question of the origin of olic savant on the Origin of the Idea of God, Der belief in God. Ursprung der Gottesidee, is to be completed in Until recently the evolutionary hypothesis four volumes. In the three which have already seems to have had the right of way in every de- appeared, he weighs in the balance the various partment of science and religion. The first mod- theories of Lubbock, Spencer, Tylor, Andrew ern writer to emphasize the fact that monothe- Lang, Frazer, and others, and finds them all want- istic ideas were found among primitive races and ing. The idea of God, he concludes, did not come must be taken into account was Andrew Lang in by evolution but by revelation. his book, "The Making of Religion." In 1924 Redan delivered an address before the Jewish Anthropology and ethnology are also swinging Historical Society on Monotheism among primi- away from the old evolutionary concept as re- tive peoples, in which he rejected the evolution- gards primitive races. Dr. R.obert H. Lowie of ary hypothesis. the American Museum of Natural History; in his recent important study on Primitive Society, says, "Most of us," said he, "have been brought up "The time has come for eschewing the all-embrac- in or influenced by the tenets of orthodox ethnol- ing and baseless theories of yore and to settle ogy and this was largely an enthusiastic and quite down to sober historical research. The Africans uncritical attempt to apply the Darwinian theory did not pass from a Stone Age to an Age of Cop- of evolution to the facts of social experience. per and Bronze and then to an Iron Age " . . Many ethnologists, sociologists, and psychologists they passed directly from stone tools to the manu- still persist in this endeavor. No progress will facture of iron tools." (13th Edition N. Y., pp. :ever be achieved, however, until scholars rid 436, 437.) He concludes "that neither morpho- themselves, once and for all, of the curious notion logically nor dynamically can social life be said to that everything possesses an evolutionary history; have progressed from a stage of savagery to a until they realize that certain ideas and certain stage of enlightenment." concepts are as ultimate for man as a social being as specific physiological reactions are for him The American public is to be congratulated that as a biological entity."t the exhaustive work of Wilhelm Schmidt has now appeared in an abbreviated form, and translated It is encouraging to note that the tide has from the original German, is available as a study turned and that we have, especially on the Euro- textbook on the History of Religion. Whatever pean Continent, outstanding scholars in this field may be the reaction of students of anthropology who hold fast to supernaturalism and are opposed to a doctrine alien to the tradition still prevailing among many scholars, it will do no harm to face • The OrigWt and Growth of Religion: Facts and Theories. By the arguments here presented with such force and W. Schmidt. Translated by H. J. Rose. The Dial Press, N. Y., 1931. apparently so well documented. The London Pp. 297. $4.00. Times Literary Supplement, in reviewing the book t Primitive Man as Philosopher-po 373.

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at considerable length, does so under the title, itive culture is really the god of a monotheism, "Evolution or Eden." It is inevitable that Dr. and that the religion which includes him is genu- Schmidt divides investigators of the history of re- inely monotheistic-this is the position which is ligion into two classes-the believing and the un- . most attacked by a number of authors. To this believing. By the latter he means those scholars attack we may reply that there is a sufficient num- who have themselves repudiated all faith in the ber of tribes among whom the really monothe- supernatural, and "will talk of religion as a blind istic character of their SU,preme Being is clear man might of colors or one totally devoid of hear- even to a cursory examination. This is true of ing, of a beautiful musical composition." the Supreme Being of most Pygmy tribes, so far The work before us is divided into five parts: as we know them; also of the Tierra del Fuegians, The introduction deals with the nature, aim, and the primitive Bushmen, the Kurnai, Kulin and methods of comparative study of religion and the Yuin of Southeast Australia, the peoples of the history of the subject. Part Two sketches the Arctic culture, except the Koryaks, and well-nigh theories that were in vogue during the nineteenth all the primitives of North America."

century; namely, those that found the origin of Again, in massing the evidence for the charac- religion in Nature-Myths, Fetishism, Manism or ter of this Supreme Being, he says, "The name Ghost-Worship and Animism. Part Three deals 'father' is applied to the Supreme Being in every with the twentieth century, and sketches the Pan- single area of the primitive culture when he is ad- Babylonian theory, Totemism, Magianism and Dy- dressed or appealed to. It seems, therefore, that namism. In every case Dr. Schmidt gives an ex- we may consider it primeval and proper to the position of these various theories and a refuta- oldest primitive culture. We find it in the form tion of them based upon more accurate data from 'father' simply, also in the individual form ('my later investigations. father') and the collective ('our father'). So far, Belief in the Supreme God this name has not been discovered among the Cen- tral African Pygmies, but it exists among the In Part Four we have an account of the su- Bushmen and the Mountain Dama. It is lacking preme Sky-God whose existence was posited by also among the Andamanese and the Philippine Andrew Lang and others. It appears that during Negritos, but is found, although not commonly, the twentieth century there was a progressive rec- among the Semang. Among the Samoyeds we ognition of the primitive high God by European find the formula 'my Num-father,' i. e., sky-father.

and American students of ethnology and religion. In North Central California, the name occurs This protest against the evolutionary theory ap- among the Pomo and the Patwin; all three forms plies not only to the religion of primitives, but to of it are widely distributed among the Algonkins.

those who find the same development in the re- It is also widely current among the two oldest ligion of the Old Testament. Dr. Israel Rabin Tierra del Fuegian tribes, the Yamana and the has recently published an important treatise in Halakwulup, who use the form 'my father.'

which he enters an energetic protest against the Among all the tribes of Southeast Australia it is view that monotheism was a later development in in common use, in the form 'our father.' There Israel, and that it was preceded by henotheism, it is the oldest name of all, and even the women pol y the ism, and polydaemonism. "Not only and children know it; the oldest of the tribes, the Moses," he says, "but the patriarchs were already Kurnai, have no other name for Him. There is monotheists. The covenant idea is as old as Abra- no doubt possible that the name 'father' is intend- ham, and the covenant at Sinai is history, not fic- ed in this connection to denote, not physiological tion. The God of Sinai is no more mountain-god paternity (save in cases where the figures of the or local Kenite god. Monotheism is not the result Supreme Being and of the First Father have of an evolutionary process, it rests upon revela- coalesced), but an attitude of the greatest rever- tion and existed from the beginning of Israel's ence, of tender affection and steadfast trust on history as portrayed in Genesis; there is no bridge the part of man towards his god."

from polytheism to monotheism." The evidence for these astonishing statements Dr. Schmidt follows the historical method, and is abundantly given in the larger four-volume traces the belief in a supreme God across wide work, to which we have already referred. Not areas where primitive culture prevails, for ex- evolution, but deterioration, is found in the his- ample, among the Pygmies of Africa, the Indians tory of religion among primitive tribes and the of North America, and certain tribes in Australia. higher cultures that followed after their migra- The last chapter of this epoch-making book is en- tion. As Dr. Schmidt expresses it in the conclud- titled, "The Origin and History of the Primitive ing paragraphs of this most interesting volume: High God," in which we have the summary of the Thereafter, as external civilization increased in splendor argument. "That the Supreme Being of the prim- and wealth, so religion came to be expressed in forms of

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ever increasing magnificence and opulence. Images of by a number of German missionaries under the gods and daimones multiplied to an extent which defies all direction of Dr. Heinrich Frick of Marburg. In cLassification. Wealthy temples, shrines and groves arose; a recent number of "Africa," a journal of the more priests and servants, more s.acrifices and ceremonies International Institute of African languages and were instituted. But all this cannot blind us to the fact cultures (July, 1931) London, Professor Dr. K. T. that despite the glory and wealth of the outward form, Preuss of the University of Berlin, has a striking the inner kernel of religion often disappeared and its article on the conceptions of a Supreme Deity essential strength was weakened. The results of this, among primitive peoples, and his conclusions corboth moral and social, were anything but desirable, read- roborate those of Dr. Schmidt. ing to extreme degradation and even to the deification of the immoral and anti-social. The principal cause of this The evolution hypothesis in religion has been corruption was that the figure of the Supreme Being w,as overworked, and has seriously embarrassed stusinking further and further into the background, hidden dents of religion who have grappled with the beneath the impenetrable phalanx of the thousand new problem of sin, its universality, and the universalgods and daimones. ity of its correlate, namely, conscience that is a sense of sin as a subjective reality. In the history But all the while, the ancient primitive religion still of religion, and in the study of the origin of the continued among the few remainders of the primitive cul- idea of God, we may no longer neglect the early ture, preserved by fragmentary peoples driven into the chapters of Genesis and the statement of the most distant regions. Yet in their condition of stagna- Apostle Paul in the first chapter of his epistle to tion, poverty ,and insignificance, even there it must nec- the Romans. Revelation, and not evolution, is the essarily have lost much of its power and greatness, so key to the origin of the idea of God and of prayer that even among such peoples it is much too late to find· and of sacrifice. a true image of the faith of really primitive men.

It is of deep interest to note, in conclusion, that the question of primitive monotheism raised by Dr. Schmidt is now being carefully investigated One Hundred Dollars for Flow-ers-But By Robert E. Speer* The Rev. William Sidebotham, who died in Bay and Mrs. Sidebotham have made all their lives in City, Michigan, on February 6, 1931, was for over their children and in their prayers which, under half a century a most faithful, self-sacrificing and God, give to the missionary cause its glory and devoted Presbyterian minister. He had five chil- bring down upon it the blessing of Him who loved dren, and although he never lived where there was us and gave Himself for us. a high school until all of the children had passed high school age, everyone of them went to col- Now Mr. Sidebotham himself has passed on, and lege. Three sons became Presbyterian ministers; shortly after his death his daughter, Miss Emily one daughter a successful home missionary teach- Sidebotham, wrote to the Board in part as follows: er, and the other a public school teacher. One of the sons went as a missionary to Korea. When we opened my father's will we found a sheet of instructions. Among them was the following: When Mrs. Sidebotham died in 1929 her husband wrote to the Board of Foreign Missions: "After my funeral expenses are all paid, take $100 for flowers. Do not buy flowers, but send it to Dr. Speer, My wonderful wife died last night. The funeral ar- asking him to see that it is used for work in Korea in rangements are all made. For some years the money to memory of my son Richard." cover expense of funeral has been ready. Many times she has said: "Don't spend a cent for flowers when I die. So I am enclosing a check for that amount. I am glad Give it to Foreign Missions." Accordingly I enclose $100 father was able to do this, and that he commissioned me from her for the field in Taiku, in memory of our son. to carry out this wish. She has often wished she was rich, but never that she might have a better wardrobe, etc., but that she might During the last eight and a half years that I have been help the poor and help foreign missions. My salary was at home caring for my parents, I have realized how dear never more than $700 and manse (often less) till I was the work of His Kingdom was to their hearts. I have apsixty-four; never more than $800 and manse till I was preciated more than ever before the sacrifices they made over seventy, in 1918, never more than $1,200 and manse in their earlier years, that we might be educated, and I till I retired, and began to get $50 a month from the Board have come to understand a little more fully the joy they of Relief. Yet she uncomplainingly gave her children and had when we all entered Christian work. I feel as though rejoiced in our tithing until the end. I am, we had been left a great heritage, something that will be an inspiration to us all our lives. Your brother in the work, (Signed) WILLIAM SIDEBOTHAM. These letters illustrate the true basis on which the missionary enterprise rests, first, in the pur- It is such a gift as this and such gifts as Mr. pose of God with regard to His only Son, the Saviour of the world, and, second, in the pure love • Condensed from The Presbyteriwn. and sacrifice due to Christian spirit in such true and simple lives as this.

A BIBLE STUDY CLASS AT THE RHODA ROBLEE BARKER BOYS' SCHOOL AT HOPO, SOUTH CHINA What the "Man of Hopo" Thinks of the Christian Church T HE views of the "Average Man of Hopo" in is growing and meeting the needs of new condi- regard to the Christian Church are given in tions. As education has widened women's sphere, Missions by Arthur S. Adams, an American the Church has met the enlarged situation. Chi- Baptist Missionary in South China. nese say: "If the Jesus religion will do so much for the foreign wife and mother, it is worth trying Thirty years ago the Chinese soldiers tried to for Chinese women." The Mission hospital also prevent the Baptist Mission from building a has proved a blessing, which "Mr. Average Man Christian church in Hopo. The church won the of Hopo" can recognize. case, however, and the building was erected. It became popular both a3 a church and as a day Third-Because the Church shows power to school. In the meantime the military post which change broken and wrecked lives, to reclaim and opposed the building was abolished and the yamen remold them into something fine and good. An was sold. example is found in Mr. Liu, a scholar but an opium smoker, who had fallen so low that his Later when the church school outgrew its quar- wife turned him out. He was reclaimed by the ters the use of a Confucian temple was granted to mission and joined the church. Then his wife carry forward the work. Thus the missionary also came and said, "I can't come to church much, became guardian of the images. When the new but the Jesus religion has made my husband over, Rhoda Roblee Barker School was built, the temple so that I too want to join and be baptized with was returned in good condition to the Confucian him." This couple was not satisfied to keep to elders. These caretakers were less careful of the themselves what they had found in Christ. Three property and today it is a wreck. months later they had brought together their neighbors and had raised money to build a chapel Why is "Mr. Average Man of Hopo" impressed in their own village. with the Christian Church? asks Mr. Adams. The answers may be summarized as follows: Today Hopo Church has an ordained Chinese pastor and the people are making vigorous efforts First-Because the Church of Christ stands un- to put over the five-year evangelistic program. changing in the midst of change. The yamen and Good results are already reported. No wonder temple are gone, but the Church abides. "Mr. Average Man of Hopo" believes in the Chris- tian Church! Second-Because the Church changes in the midst of change. She is alive and not dead. She

A Pastor's

By the REV. FRANCIS SHUNK DOWNS, D. D.

Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, California I s there any greater opportunity? A pastor month. If one cannot purchase sufficient books, holds his divine commission from the Mission- he can make regular visits to the town library. ary of the Ages. He specializes in the great- "Reading maketh a full man," Bacon declared, est missionary Textbook of all time. His parish and a wiser than he said: "Out of the abundance is not merely what he sees at some crossroads or of the heart (and mind) the mouth speaketh."

in some metropolitan center-it is the world. Personal contacts can also be made with mis- The opportunity is inescapable. His call to be sionaries today, if there is a will to prompt it.

a minister inevitably made him a missionary to Fellowship with these missionary spirits, whether all men. He is ordained an ambassador to the , in a church or at conferences, by correspondence whole world. His orders are clear, and he ful- or through first-hand friendships help a pastor fils his ministry only as he obeys them. mightily to keep fit for missionary leadership.

It is a privileged opportunity. Who would not The pastor who hungers and thirsts after mis- covet the privilege of walking with the Son of sionary food shall be filled. The pastor who takes God into the hearts of men? Who would not to his heart the whole world of God's needy chil- thrill to a place of service and leadership in the dren will somehow obtain the equipment that will Kingdom that embraces every race and that en- fit him for missionary leadership in his world compasses time and eternity? Who would not parish.

pour out his life for a Leader and a Cause that brings blessing to every life and to all of life? 2. To Train the Officers and Leaders.

1. To Equip Himself for Leadership. Blessed is the pastor whose elders, stewards'or deacons are missionary-minded. Some are and Many pastors must do this after they leave the theological seminary. But more and more the some are not. Some official boards are instruseminaries are recognizing their obligation, not ments for bringing the world to Jesus Christ. only to inform their students in the fields of mis- Others would keep Jesus Christ imprisoned in the sionary history, biography and comparative re- little world in which they live. ligion, but to give them the spiritual and practical equipment which enables a pastor to exercise wise A pastor has a wonderful missionary opportuand liberating missionary leadership to the church nity with his comrades of the official boards of which he serves. his church. He largely holds the key to their missionary sympathy and cooperation. A pastor The responsibility for a worth-while missionary whose heart is on fire for the evangelization of equipment, however, rests primarily on the pas- the world, whose head is level and equipped with tor himself. It begins in his heart, in the secret facts, whose will is girded to the purpose of Christ place where God and he commune alone. Not and the central program of the Christian Church only must a minister be sure of God's call but he and whose heart is warm with love for his commust clearly discern its missionary implications. rades and his church, can do unbelievable things Time and again he must go apart alone, see anew with ninety-nine per cent of his church officers. the vision splendid, hear again the unmistakable command to "go into all the world," and must One pastor in a small church, whose Session dedicate himself unreservedly to the world field felt that the church could give little or nothing and the world task. If the pastor regularly re- to missions and that even the little must be raised news his strength and refreshes his spirit at this through "fairs and bazaars," persuaded those men point, the battle will be more than half won. from the Word of God that they could support a missionary and through free-will offerings. As He should read the best missionary literature one of the elders put it: "It will ruin us, but the available. This means both old and new books. Bible tell us to, and we will be loyal, to our It certainly means at least one outstanding mis- Saviour." He'lived to see the plan succeed and sionary periodical coming to his study each learned from experience that God's way was the best way.

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One Session takes a half-hour of its stated under the pastor's wise guidance should find ex- meeting each month to study the work of the pression in a larger giving of the church's life church and the Kingdom and to unite in prayer with the whole world.

for specific objects and needs at home and abroad. Is it strange that those officers are all missionary- 4. To Release the Financial Resources.

minded and active missionary leaders? In days of financial stress, when there is much When a pastor trains his officers in missionary unemployment and a reduction in incomes, does leadership what a joy it is to see the missionary the pastor of the average church have a mission- policies and program of his church develop as the ary opportunity in the release of the financial re- product of their mutual labors and prayers. sources of his congregation?

3. To Educate His People. He does, because the principles of Christian stewardship are as binding and as applicable in John R. Mott once said: "To enable Christians times of financial depression as in times of pros- to realize the need of the world, missionary edu- perity. A faithful recognition and practice of cation is necessary. If the world's need is to be Christian stewardship, as applied to our money, met, Christians must know the need and be led to whether little or much, will release sufficient will to meet that need." funds for the missionary enterprise, will make People are most interested in that about which for adequate support at home, and will give God they know most. If there is little interest, it is the chance to open the windows of heaven and usually because there is little knowledge. We go pour out upon us such a blessing as there shall as we glow and we glow as we know. Was it not not be room enough to receive it.

Emerson who said that every great achievement The pastor must give the leadership that will in life is the result of some great enthusiasm? spiritualize the budgets of the church, that will Enthusiasm is generated when a personality put all giving of money by Christians on a spirit- strikes fire with irresistible facts. ual plane, that will call forth funds for real mis- The pastor's sermons should give his people a sionary needs and specific objects, that will cause vision of the world and their responsibility to the members of his church not only on Every meet its needs. Four or five missionary sermons Member Canvass Day but throughout the year to rooted in the Word of God and fruited with the hear the call of struggling men, the appeal of achievements of a marching Christ, should be crushed women, the cry of little children, and that given each year. Each Sunday, whatever the having taken from the Lord all that He offers subject of the sermon, a missionary illustration gives back to Him all that He asks.

can be used to advantage. The missionary spirit One pastor, before his church became self-sup- and the missionary thought will crop out in a porting, led it to give regularly to all benevolences missionary pastor, whatever the topic may be. of the church. Within three years after the I know a pastor who at the time of the "announce- founding of that church, by an act of great faith ments" gives five minutes each Sunday to the pres- and through tithing, that small congregation of entation of mission work in a different country. wage-earning people took on the full support of Missions in the Sunday School should have its a missionary to Africa. Another church, after place regularly in the worship program. A letter several successful Schools of Missions under the from the field well read, a little play, a brief talk pastor's leadership, took the entire support of by a missionary or by one who has visited the field two missionaries. In a third church sixteen quickens interest. There is no substitute, how- classes in a Sunday School took sixteen shares of ever, for persuading each teacher in teaching of financial support in sixteen mission fields in six- the Bible lesson for the day to bring out the mis- teen different countries. In this way not only sionary thought that is there and to apply it by was the giving of the boys and girls stimulated, some fresh and telling missionary illustration that but their imaginations were stirred and their spir- a boy or girl will never forget. itual responsibility was awakened.

Missionary education should have its place in It is true that today some must reduce their every organization of men, women, and young glvmg. But frankly, many could increase their people. We cannot discuss here the possibilities giving, not only because of the money with which in these fields. Every year a period of four to God has put them in trust, but because for the six weeks should be given to intensive mission- first time they yield themselves to the Lord and ary education through a church-wide School of begin actually to practice giving in a Christian Missions. Properly planned this will reach a big way. Some so-called large givers in the church cross-section of the men, women and young peo- are truly small givers, for they fail to give pro- ple of a congregation. The new knowledge and portionately. Some so-called little gifts are big interest gained through missionary education in God's sight and go far. "All dollars are not

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alike." As long as the average church member influence. On the wall of the meeting room of gives only a few cents a week to make Jesus the Calvin Club, the Christian Endeavor Society Christ known to the world, the pastor of the aver- of the church for students of the University of age church, even in times like these, has a real California, there hangs a large missionary map missionary opportunity challenging him to release of the world. Lines stretch out from the First the financial resources of his congregation accord- Church to mission fields throughout the earth. ing to God's standards and in God's way. Around the edges of the map are cards bearing in block letters the names of seventy-one men and 5. To Recruit Young People for Life Service. women, members of First Church, who have gone as missionaries to every corner of the world. One of the greatest needs today is for more qualified young people to offer themselves for mis- 6. To Gear in the Prayer Life of His People. sionary service. We want young men and women who are qualified not only physically and educa- The day will not be won in this great cause by tionally, but spiritually, who throb with mission- human wits or human strength. "Not by might ary purpose and passion to share a Saviour, who nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." themselves have· had vital and satisfying expe- The prayer life of some churches must be very riences of Jesus Christ, who know Him personally ineffective for the simple reason that the pastor as a Saviour from sin and as the Lord of Life; and people are not obeying God's known missionwho have a message to deliver and who know why ary commands. Andrew Murray was right when it is a message; young people who, whether they he said: "God always gives His power to the go into educational, medical or evangelistic work, church that puts into practice His world prohave a passion to win souls to Christ, and who gram." are qualified through the Holy Spirit in personality, message and spirit to go forth on a spiritual There is no substitute for prayer. How may mission to the ends of the earth. the pastor lead his people in this respect?

To recruit such young people for the service of In his study, in his private devotions, he can rehis Master's world kingdom is a pastor's high member them in this way, even as he remembers duty and supreme privilege. The pastor's mis- the missions and the missionaries on the field. In sionary spirit will be caught even sooner than the public worship, he should carefully prepare his missionary instruction will be. assimilated. for his period of intercession, so that not only Faithful and wise contacts with parents will often general petitions may be made, but specific, fresh, yield results where least expected. Natural and and immediate needs may be voiced to God. The happy fellowship with young people, with the Church Year Book of Prayer should be used each word fitly spoken or an observation wisely used, Sunday. The objects for prayer should be briefly makes for life decisions. stated, with special reference to missionaries, phases of work or particular needs with which the A class on vocational guidance, held perhaps congregation has a point of contact. Churches in connection with the School of Missions, will set using a calendar may print from time to time choice young spirits to seeing visions of opportu- missionary subjects for prayer. Where groups nity. The knowledge that one is borne up regu- in the church meet only for prayer, the varied larly in prayer that the life may be guided aright and immediate missionary needs of the world that is indispensable. The Lord of the harvest Him- week as well as the more intimate needs of misself is hindered or helped in His call to the young sionaries and the missionary life of the home life in proportion as a pastor is faithful in his church should be taken to God in prayer. asking and in his faith. The Mid-week service where it is still alive has Many pastors find in young people's summer a large place for personal testimony and prayer. conferences the opportunity they covet for their It is an inspiring and dynamic meeting when a young people. Beside some lake or sea Jesus is dozen or twenty-five individuals remember in walking again, and when He calls youth today rise earnest prayer to God suggested missionary needs up and go after Him. and those which the Holy Spirit prompts. A pas- tor with missionary fire and purpose in his soul From the First Presbyterian Church of Ber- can enlarge and deepen the prayer life of his peokeley, during the past thirty years, there have ple for all the world. A church that prays through gone into the ministry and to home and foreign its prayer aims and goals, that links itself up to mission fields one hundred and thirty-seven of its world needs and opportunities, that asks greatly own members, many of whom took this step be- and expects greatly, will find God faithful who cause the pastor, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee, was con- promised and will see that prayer is the arm that stantly faithful in prayer and approach to the moves the world. hundreds of young people who came under his

7. To Mould the Spiritual Life of the Church. little opportunity to suggest or to influence. The Begging on the floor of his Conference, Associ- . theoretical right is there, but in practice it falls ation or Presbytery, wherever he meets with his down. This is partly the pastor's fault, partly brother ministers and the laymen of the church the Board's fault, partly the fault of the denomiin ecclesiastical affairs, the pastor will have many nation in its procedure. Nevertheless, a pastor opportunities in committees, in public debate, in who has the facts, who has convictions, and who personal' contacts, to speak a word in season for exercises genuine sympathy with constructive the missionary enterprise. criticism, plus the perseverance of a real saint, will not only get a hearing, but will exercise a His reading should encompass the annual re- real missionary influence in the church at large. ports of the Mission Boards; he should be familiar with the personnel, policies and programs of these His most pervasive and farthest-reaching influ- Boards; he should see that the aims and plans of ence, however, is to demonstrate in his own the Boards become articulate in his Church, so church that spiritual obedience to the great Comthat they are truly interpreted and understood, mission along all lines makes for spiritual revival and so that they are so channeled to the individual in the home church. Many are praying for such congregation that they become effective in the life a revival today. Many factors enter in. But a of the people. revival that is not geared in to the evangeliza- tion of the whole world is not of God. When The Boards are helpless without the intelligent church members give Christ the pre-eminence in and devoted cooperation of the pastors. Mission- all things, God will open the windows of Heaven ary promotion should primarily be church-centric to pour out His blessing upon us. When the Holy and not Board-centric. If every pastor fulfils his Spirit is in complete control of the believer's life missionary responsibility, there need be no Home and of the church life, that believer and that Base Department in the Board, save a secretary church will be on fire for the world, and will trifor coordinating purposes. umphantly exercise power in the hearts of men.

Every pastor should exert his missionary influ- The winning of the world to Jesus Christ ence through his representatives or in person in largely waits upon what each pastor will let the larger gatherings of his communion. This Christ do with his life and with his ministry in is not easy, for the technique is such in most de- this day of the pastor's unparalleled missionary nominations today that the average pastor has opportunity.

An Old. Papuan Pastor Koani Miki of Port Moresby was the last of the old band of Papuan pastors. While still a lad, his life was saved by Chalmers and Lawes. One day, while a group of boys were play- ing leap-frog, a young man joined in, and as he reached Koani, he stopped, saying, "You are too weak to bear my weight." So he brought from a nearby house a broken length of a canoe pole and told Koani to rest on that. As the heavyweight jumped, little Koani bowed under the strain, and the broken pole pierced the leaper, so that the young man died shortly afterwards. The relatives of the dead youth carried him home, and armed themselves to attack Koani's section of the village and kill him. Lawes and Chalmers, from the mission house on the hill, heard the tumult and rushed down through the armed and noisy crowd in the village, up into Koani's house, and, seizing him by the hand, they walked him between them, daring anyone on either side to lift a spear. Lawes forbade Koani to leave the mission grounds, lest the aven- gers should kill him.

He grew up in Lawes's household, and on attaining manhood entered the college. In 1888 he was ordained and, with his wife, was sent to Porebada, about twelve miles from Port Moresby. When he went to this village it was comparatively small, but the virile people in- creased in numbers, and Koani's work bore fruit. When he retired in 1930, he had been schoolmaster, pastor, and friend to the whole village. Out of a total population of 550, 120 were. adult church members, and 108 more were in the day school under his tuition. Prac- tically all of the inhabitants are able to read the books published in their own vernacular.

Koani was one of God's gentlemen; courtly in manner and speech; and full of fire when preaching the Gospel he loved. He was a true friend and a father, beloved by his colleagues, Papuan and European alike. When Koani Miki retired as pastor, he was, at the earnest re- quest of the villagers, succeeded by his son, Gorogo.

-J. B. CLARK, in the L. M. S. Chironicle.

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TOYOHIKO KAGAWA WITH HIS "COMRAD OF "THE ROAD" AND THE LITTLE COMRADS A Japanese St. Francis* T OYOHIKO KAGAWA is one of the best Dr. Kagawa has a wife and three children WllO known men in the world and one of the most love him, admire him and sympathize with his useful. He is only forty-four years of age high ideals and sacrificial life. Although he re- but is making his mark in Japan as a Christian ceives many thousands of dollars in gifts, from social reformer, a politician and government ad- lectures and the sale of his books, this money all visor, a student, an editor, a novelist and poet, goes into the work to which his life is devoted. a philanthropist and philosopher, and an evan- Dr. and Mrs. Kagawa live as though poor, li,ke gelist. In the world at large ·he is known as the his Divine Master; he wears a $1.85 laborer's suit most famous Japanese Christian, as a popular and lives with his family on a budget of $40 a author and a lecturer on social and religious sub- month in a house that cost $80, and was made jects. The story of his inner and outer life gives from lumber salvaged from temporary shacks us the picture of a man of remarkable character, erected after the earthquake.

ability and achievement. He accomplishes the Whence comes this man-an intellectual giant work of four men, rising before daybreak for pri- but a physical weakling, a man with a great lov- vate prayer and Bible study, traveling long dis- ing heart, spiritual vision and close fellowship tances lecturing or preaching from once to five with God? He himself says that he is "a living times a day, conducting or supporting three so- miracle" of God's grace and power. He came, cial settlements. He is a leading spirit of the like a pure lily, out of the moral morass of an Kingdom of God Movement in Japan, and for a evil environment. He is the son of an unregen- time spent ten days a month reorganizing the erate father, born out of wedlock, the unsought Tokyo Bureau of Social Welfare. This work is offspring of a dancing girl, was reared in an atin spite of the fact that he is frail in body~has mospher e where sensuousness, selfishness and had tuberculosis, and still suffers from serious eye self-indulgence held undisputed sway. Taught trouble, a weak heart and kidneys. from his earliest boyhood by precept and exam- * "Kagawa.·" By William A x ling. ple that wealth, position and power are life's goals, nevertheless Kagawa has grown into a pure H arper & Bros. N ew York. 1932. Illustrated. 8 vo. 202 PP' $2 .

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flower of manhood with honesty, love and serv- "God dwells among the lowliest of men. . . .

ice to God and man as his standard of life, and He throngs with the beggars at the place of alms.

literally following the example and teachings of He is among the sick. . . . Therefore let him Jesus as his one compelling aim. who would meet God visit the prison cell before Early in life Kagawa was sent to the Buddhist going to the temple. Before he goes to church temple to study. From Confucian classics he let him visit the hospital. Before he reads his learned filial piety and patriotic loyalty and from Bible let him help the beggar at his door. . . Buddhist teachings and ritual his mystical sense He who forgets the unemployed forgets God."

was developed, and he was taught the value of *** quiet contemplation. As a boy he came to have a passionate love for nature and his early suffer- "The civilization of steel and concrete separates ings at the hands of his grandmother led him to mankind from the soil. The soil is God's. footfeel deeply for all other creatures that suffer, stool. The scent of the soil heals me. I have no whether man or beast. desire to become a civilized man, living in luxury. I want to live close to the soiL"

In the providence of God t.llis lonely lad at *** school came into touch with Christian missionaries in Kobe-Dr. H. W. Myers and Dr. C. A. "Christ's fool! A public laughingstock! Truly Logan-who welcomed him into their hearts and that is myself. The world's so-called pleasures homes.. Here Kagawa became acquainted with have all slipped by me. I have not leisurely witthe Bible and learned of the loving God who cares, nessed even one cinematographic display. Tied and who offers life and joy to those who seek. up to society's rubbish heap I have passed half Under Dr. Myers' influence Kagawa learned to my allotted days. . . . I have been ostracized know and love Jesus Christ and cried out eagerly, as a heretic and a socialist but these things move "0 God, make me like Christ." After seeing the me not. I am Christ's captive, a slave of the degradation and sorrow so prevalent in Kobe Cross! The world's fool! I am determined to slums and after reading of Canon Barnett's work abandon everything that bears the marks of the in the slums at Toynbee Hall, London, Kagawa world and, naked, sally forth along the road which was impelled to dedicate his life to help the out- leads upward to the state of the sanctified."

caste and unfortunate in the name and spirit of *** Christ. "The religion of imposing edifices is a heart- The story of his life in the slums of Kobe is breaking affair. It is the soul's castoff shell. A thrilling. At the age of twenty-one, taking a religion that builds men rather than temples is room six feet square in the worst quarter of the much to be preferred. . . . Well would it be city, he shared this abode with beggars, criminals, if most of the world's temples and churches were diseased paupers or moral lepers who came to razed to the ground. Then possibly we would him. Though misunderstood, slandered, threat- understand genuine religion."

ened, attacked and imposed upon, he never retali- *** ated or sought police protection, but for fifteen years shared his meagre supplies with the needy, "He who calls evangelism antiquated is a novice and unfailingly showed the love of God to all with as regards life. When the destiny of mankind whom he came into contact. He not only lived as a whole is considered, we must acknowledge the Christ-life in the -slums but, in streets and that Christ made no mistake in His passionate factories, he went proclaiming the Good News of effort to save."

God and the offer of life in Jesus Christ.

The fascinating story is told in this volume only Some Financial Surprises in outline but it is the narrative of a prophet, a Dr. W. J. Dawson tells of seven surprises which missionary, a servant of Christ, a martyr. Dr. will come to the man who begins to tithe his in- Axling, who has been intimately associated with come: Dr. Kagawa in the Kingdom of God Movement, 1. The amount of money he has for the Lord's has given us more of an interpretation than a work.

biography. One of its most valuable features is 2. The deepening of his spiritual life.

the self-revelation of Kagawa as seen in the nu- 3. His ease in meeting his own obligations.

merous selections from his two hundred medita- 4. The ease in going on to larger giving.

tions and other voluminous writings that allow us 5. The preparation this gives to be a faithful, a glimpse into the workings of his mind and heart. wise steward over the nine-tenths that remain.

Many of these, like the following, have in them 6. That he did not adopt the .plan sooner.

living truth: 7. That every Christian does not adopt it.

to the Indians-Yesterday

and Today By the REV. THOMAS C. MOFFETT, D. D., ..:( New York }!: ..

Author of "On the New Indian Trail"; Secretary of ~he Indian Mission of America H ow much progress have our Protestant era-especially in the last two or three decades. churches made in their work for the Red- We have perceived more and more that the In- men of America, in their methods, their dians, a truly religious and spiritual race, must programs and plans? What have we learned, and be won to belief in Jesus Christ through our sym- how effective are the efforts to evangelize, edu- pathetic understanding of their natures and their cate and develop the American Indians in Chris- unmet needs, and through befriending of them in tian citizenship? the plight into which the white man's aggressions The work among the Navajos of Arizona ahd and conquering civilization have plunged them. If the Nez Per<;es of Idaho, for example, presents anyone doubts that the old order must perish, giv- some vivid contrasts in this year 1932 to the pio- ing place to new, and that "Indianism" must be neer labors of John Eliot supplanted by civilization, let among the Mohican and other Why have we not made more a representative of their race tribes of Massachusetts in the rapid progress in winning the speak the conviction which presevent~enth century. Though American Indians and others vails. Ruth Muskrat Bronson, the same Gospel is preached, to Christ? Is the fault with a talented Indian graduate of declaring that the Lord Jesus the message, or the messen- Mount Holyoke College, in an Christ is the only Saviour to- gers or the methods used? address at Haskell Institute to day and then, what we term the a thousand young Indian stu- implications of a well-rounded What has been learned about dents from forty-five tribes, and up-to-date Christian pro- better methods in producing said: gram present many adapta- results, even as farmers have The Indian race is now at the tions and methods of service learned better methods in greatest crisis in all its history! If which differ from the methods raising crops? Dr. Moffett we can prove our fitness to live, we of pioneer work among primi- gives us a glimpse of some shall survive as a race. You know tive Indians in the early dec- that the old life has gone. And you ades following Colonial days. changes in methods. know that already, whether we wish This change in methods arises it or not, a.new life has come to take its place. We have a greater task from the new appreciations of the message of ahead of us than any warrior kinsman of ours who ever Christ, from the changed conditions on Indian lived. If we would be a great race we must put our minds reservations, and the new order of things for the to the difficult task of living greatly.

Red Men in the complex civilization of twentieth We have learned or should have learned, neither century life. Three hundred and fifty thousand to try to make the Red Man an imitation "Pale- Indians in the United States of one hundred face," nor to discourage him by forced processes twenty million population must be approached of leading him out into the artificialities of the with the Christian Message and must "work out white man's life and civilization. The recent suitheir own salvation" under very different condi- cide of Buffalo Long Lance in California is a tions from those which Pilgrim Fathers found among "the low-browed forest rangers,"-aborig- tragic instance of the failure of a misplaced and ines of a great continent and from the environ- misguided Indian. Hugh Fullerton, the newsment which surrounded them in the two centuries paper columnist, wrote of him : following. We have traveled long distances in this machine age and in the new missionary Long Lance killed himself the other day, weary of try- ing to live the white man's life. A chieftain of the Black- feet, handsome,. proud, a man of extraordinary intel- [601 ]

ligence; and rare beauty of form and of mind, he at- methods of educational and industrial work in altempted the impossible-found the white man's life bitter most all of these church institutions have been ~and ended it amid the luxury of the Santa Anita ranch, greatly improved and modernized in recent years. California. The Blackfeet are the most proud of all the Secular and governmental leaders pay tribute to Northern Indians, and Long Lance had that shy, fierce pride of his people. He grew tall and strong at Carlisle the more intimate contacts and the superior serv- School and learned the acts of the white man. He performed heroic deeds in France during the World War. ice which these Christian schools are enabled to He wrote, he lectured, an~ he grew weary of it all and attain. went back to his tribe again. One day he declared he Vocational guidance is receiving attention of would lead the life of the white man. He said it bitterly, both Church and State in relation to Indian young and he did not mean the best of that white man's life, people in school and following their graduation. but perhaps the worst. He drank deep and seemed to The systematic efforts, recently inaugurated by find it more and more bitter. He was a very brave and a Mr. Wm. R. Johnston, who has given forty years very gentle man and, I think, a very lonely one, failing to of service to the Navajos of Arizona, to contact find that companionship for which he longed, either among his own people or those he adopted. every returned student on the vast reservation of More than this one, among the large company that tribe, is wisely planned. A bulletin is pub- of educated Indian students, have encountered lished, and by auto trips and visits, the boys and similar experiences. We have learned to deal girls are being followed up with personal and cul- more wisely, if not always effectively, with "the tural influences and linked to the mission centers.

returned student problem." St. Augustine's words A great adv.ance has been made in the rela- rise from weary souls of many Red Men: "Our tions of the government service and the mission- hearts were made for Thee, 0 God, and we are ary forces, both on the reservations and in federal ever weary and restless, till we find our rest in Indian schools. Some fifteen years ago a plan was Thee." To lead burdened souls to Christ, in wQrked out by the Protestant mission boards for whose service alone they will find the yoke easy religious work directors at boarding schools, and and the burden light, is the chief task of emis- suitable buildings have been erected at a few in- saries of the Church. stitutions, notably at Sherman Institute, River- The present-day program of Indian mission side, California, for carrying on united evangeli- activities includes evangelistic, educational, voca- cal services and church activities. The Commis- tional, industrial, medical and social service. sioners of Indian Affairs have repeatedJy ex- Racial characteristics, heredity, environment, pressed their appreciation of missionary labors reservation systems, pedagogic method, all are and have provided for due recognition of the studied, and plans are developed to cooperate church programs in the schedule of federal with the Indians themselves, with government offi- schools.

cials, with traders and with the surrounding white Hon. Charles J. Rhoads, himself a Quaker, sent populations, along all lines of Indian welfare. out a year ago to the superintendents and em- Some leaders of the Indian mission enterprise ployees of the Indian service the following in- realize that this is a racial problem and are de- structions : voting their energies not to a single tribe or par- No effort should be spared to encourage effective coish, but are viewing the opportunity in its larger operation and prevent misunderstanding and friction.

relations, studying the ethnological and national Religious education and character training are necessary sources of Indian life, and reaching out for con- factors in the development of the Indian. Adequate recogtacts with the neglected millions of Red Men in nition of the status and responsibilities of the missionary nineteen republics of Latin America. Among the as a part of the local program, independent and yet cor- Pueblos of New Mexico a returned missionary, related with the government program, will still develop and make efficient the personal friendship and mutual formerly in Japan, is devoting his full time to lin- good-will which should always characterize the relation guistic research and pastoral labors among these of missionaries and Indian service employees. We suggest Indians, whom he believes to be definitely linked therefore that our superintendents be responsible for with the Mongolians and the ancient Japanese calling group conferences to be attended by missionaries, Indian church workers and employees, for the purpose of culture. discussing the plans and lines of cooperative effort which The field of Christian education, and the schools will promote active participation in a common program.

conducted under the direction of mission boards, A half century ago under the old political spoils can only be briefly mentioned. Institutions such system of appointing Indian agents no such con- as Bacone College, Oklahoma, Santee Institute, structive proposal had been conceived.

Nebraska, and the American Indian Institute, It must be noted that Protestant undertakings Wichita, Kansas, carry forward the more ele- for the Red Men of the United States, while pro- mentary instruction provided for in many denomi- gressive and modernized in recent· years, have national day and boarding schools in various also been theologically conservative and strongly states. The teaching staff, the curricula, and the evangelical. The missionaries, especially on the

MISSIONS TO THE INDIANS-YESTERDAY AND TODAY

reservations and in their contacts with primitive tions. Associations, conferences, presbyteries of and pagan tribes, have realized the need of simple the various denominations are composed in some Christian truth, of earnest and practical work, instances entirely of Indian members. The native and of basic instruction and methods, rather than organizations are the fruitage of long years of controversial or "modernistic" trends. The true missionary service. Self-government of indigemissionary ever leads to Christ as Divine Master nous churches is the goal toward which the labors of the heart and life, and to the Bible as God's of the past have· always been directed. The Word. Sioux, Nez Per~e, Choctaw and Pima Indians probably represent the largest measure of self- The united strength of the denominations has support and of reliance on a native ministry. On been one of the causes of progress in Indian mis- the whole a definite expansion and up-to-date sions. Dr. Charles L. Thompson, as president of forward-looking policies have characterized the the interdenominational Home Missions Council activities and program of the evangelical churches more than a decade ago, stated that he regarded since the "President Grant system" allocated inthe work of the churches for the Red Men of dividual tribes to separate denominations for re- North America as furnishing the finest example ligious nurture. This plan did not prove wise or of practical comity and cooperation in missionary permanent, but it stimulated later activities. The service in the homeland. Neglected fields were Dawes Act, providing individual land allotments, allocated, rivalry and duplicating of effort by gave the Indians new dignity and opportunity for evangelical forces were largely obviated, and a self-support, also has the declaration of citizensolid front was presented which greatly strength- ship for the "native Americans," which had been ened the impact of Protestant Christianity in the so long deferred. Of the reward of faith and face of paganism and secularity. service for this Cause, the memorable words of John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, may be re- Self-supporting Indian congregations, minis- called: "Prayer and pains through faith in Jesus tered to by native pastors, now constitute a large Christ will do anything." part of the organized religious life of the reserva- Oases In the Good Earth By the Rev. G. CARLETON LACY, D. D., Shanghai, China Agent of the American Bible Society in China EVERYONE who has read "The Good Earth," nese moved in he brought with his family retain- knows something of China's crying need of ers, bodyguard and secretaries, his Bible, family the Gospel of Christian love. To me the worship, and a personal life that together created book seems to ring-yes, and to wring-with this an atmosphere entirely different from that picappeal. tured in "The Good Earth." Here was a Chris- tian home in the midst of odd surroundings. Yet it must be remembered that there are spots in Chinese society that have been changed. There The story of my friend's conversion is a good are regions that have experienced a touch of God's illustration of what Christianity has done for love. There are lives that have been redeemed China. There remains vividly in my memory his by it. Here and there a new glory shines; some narrative of three incidents that turned him about rough places have been made smooth; some bur- in his life and in his attitude to Christ. They are dens have been made easy; some yokes have been typical of experiences that through the past one lifted. hundred years have been coming to very many others in less conspicuous places. Not long ago I visited the city in which Pearl Buck spent her childhood. My host was a high As a youth this young Chinese was a soldier government official. He occupied a big house such in the ranks. One day he went to his commanding as is so well described in the now familiar story. officer for permission to go into the nearby city. Its absent landlord preferred the luxuries of life "Young man," said the kindly disposed superior, with electric elevators and porcelain bathtubs in "when you finish your errands in that city and Shanghai. So for a nominal rent my friend, the have time left to play, there are just two places official, had taken over the rambling place, with where it is safe for you to go. Find either the its courts and gardens and inner rooms, to pre- Y. M. C. A. or the Methodist institutional church." vent the squatters from taking possession and The soldier boy heeded this friendly advice and ruining the premises. When this Christian Chi- went to the church. There he found decent read-

ing, wholesome recreation, and strangely enough, can to exalt Christ in his home and community.

on this first visit, a patriotic rally. He sat down But the influence of that Christian home is now in a back seat and listened with amazement. Al- exerted through a more famous home upon every ways before he had thought of Christians as trait- visitor to the great house at Yangchow. Scat- ors, "running dogs of foreign imperialism." Now tered all over "the good earth" in China are thou- he heard from their lips the highest ideals of na- sands of humble homes of peasants, merchants, tional loyalty and found them adding to their own teachers and laborers that have been illumined zeal an earnest appeal to God to do for China by the light of Christian love, where life has be- what human strength could not accomplish. come much more than the daily toil and the be- That was twenty years ago. In recent months getting of children.

this man, from his difficult position in govern- Late one Christmas Eve we landed in Nanking ment office, has been striving with all the clear- on a cold starlit night, and drove through the city sightedness and passion of a Jeremiah to turn in an open carriage to the home where we were his people to peace and to prayer, pointing out to be entertained. Here and there along the the insufficiency of human diplomacy and the fu- streets, and dotting the open fields like brilliant tility of civil war. The burden of his none too fireflies, was to be seen the flicker of little red popular prophecy is that "righteousness exalteth candle-lanterns. We asked what it meant and a nation" and that the faithful prayers of a few learned that each Christian home in the great city hundred thousand sincere Chinese Christians will had hung out this token of thanksgiving for the avail more than millions of dollars and lives spent birth of the Christ. There are now myriads of in fighting for "national defense." This at least such homes made glad by what Christ has done has Christianity done for China-it has raised a for the Chinese family.

voice crying, "Prepare ye in the wilderness the A third incident narrated by this official at first way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a sounded undramatic, almost prosaic, but it was highway to our God." When the nation is plung- significant in his experience and is typical of a ing blindly toward militarism and anarchy, great contribution which Christianity has made toward materialism and cynicism, one who has to Chinese life. A great national convention was led victorious armies on deadly battlefields now arn:mged in Tientsin by the Young Men's Chris- seeks with stirring conviction to lead the Chris- tian Association. My friend attended one day to tian forces to the victory of faithful prayer. Here hear a distinguished Chinese scholar speak. As is bright hope in the midst of dense gloom. some years before he had been surprised to dis- The second incident of which my friend told cover that Christians were loyal patriots, so now me occurred some years later when the young he was astonished to hear from this literary au- military officer had been entrusted with a secret thority that the Christian Bible was a classic of mission to rally military leaders against the usur- real worth. He himself had delighted as a boy in pations of the dictator Yuan Shi-kai. His duties the study of poetry and philosophy, and had ac- were taking him to many places, into the yamens quired a penmanship of some distinction. His .and the intimate presence of many powerful gen- pride in his own country's literary achievement erals and army chieftains. On one such journey was pricked by this master boldly urging his he came to a Yangtze river port and was enter- hearers to turn to a diligent reading of the Old tained by the Defense Commissioner. Instantly and New Testament Scriptures. His response he detected in the atmosphere and conduct of this was thorough-going. He became an earnest stu- household something he had never before known. dent, spending hours each day with his Bible. In For a time he could not analyze the difference, it he found more than "the greatest classic under nor define his experience. But when he sat at heaven." Here was spiritual food. Here was a meals· and heard his host offer thanks to God, lamp to lighten his way. Here was the priceless when at the beginning of the day he saw the fam- story of salvation.

ily and staff assemble to worship under the lead- One day in his headquarters at Tungchow I ership of this powerful general, and when he met picked up on the general's table a copy of the in the large family of children several orphans Bible. Its pages were heavily marked and lined.

who had been affectionately adopted into the home Verse after verse was emphasized in one way or in which they were receiving, not the abuse of another. A few moments later in another room slaves, but all the privileges of sons and daugh- I opened another Bible which showed the same ters, there stirred within his heart· a desire to signs of persistent scrutiny. When the matter share in that sort of Christian life. was mentioned to my host on his return from the The Defense Commissioner has now passed barracks he explained, "Without spending hours from the political stage and lives in quiet retire- each day in Bible study I could not carry the load ment at Kiukiang, still trying in every way he of heavy responsibility entrusted to me."

OASES IN THE GOOD EARTH

A few months ago at an appreciation dinner and the apostles had been degraded to the level given in his honor by Christian organizations in of the filthiest novels and obscene pamphlets Shanghai, General Chang Chih-chiang was pre- which till then largely held the field of vernacular sented a large family Bible and a framed certifi- writings. How different the attitude today! cate of honorary life membership in the Ameri- China's literary leaders now offer their tribute to can Bible Society. One of his chaplains made this the work of these foreigners who were most ably statement: "Through all these years I have never assisted by their Chinese colleagues. Dr. Hu known a day to pass when the general did not Shih has more than once praised the style of the find time to study his Bible. Whether on the bat- Union Version Mandarin Bible. Dr. Tsai Yuantlefield, or in the long weary marches through pei has given it as his opinion that Christianity's Mongolia, or in the midst of pressing duties of greatest contribution to China has been made in civil life, always he has found time for this form opening the way to popular literacy, chiefly of spiritual nourishment." From the richness of through disseminating the Scriptures in the his own experience he has donated thousands of spoken language of four hundred million people. Bibles and Testaments to personal and official In several dialect regions the colloquial Bibles friends, earnestly praying that to them as to him it might become a source of real blessing. GENERAL CHANG CHIH-CIDANG For more than a hundred years Christianity virtually created the written language and are has been contributing to the change and the en- recognized by students of philology as the standrichment of Chinese life through the circulation ard work in these fields. of the Scriptures. The American Bible Society, in its story of a century of work among the Chi- What all of this has done to the life of the nese, reports a circulation of approximately sev- nation is too long a story, even if it could be told. enty million copies. The British and Foreign It is of real significance that Bible translation and Bible Society began its work several years earlier distribution now makes it possible to reach diand has labored even more widely; and the Na- rectlya large part of China's vast population with tional Bible Society of Scotland and other organ- the Gospel message. Each year from ten to fifizations have added very largely to this growing teen million copies of Christian Scriptures are stream of religious influence. finding their way into the hands of Chinese read- ers, with the endorsement of their own leaders as A volume might well be written on what this "the greatest classic under heaven." The revolucirculation of the Bible has done for the language tion which has followed in the lives of thousands and literature of the Chinese people. The story of individuals and scores of communities is an inof the Bible in the Reformation of Europe, or of evitable result. the Tyndale translation made with a view to familiarizing even the humblest ploughboy with the sacred writings, is very familiar. Some day a no less thrilling romance may be told to show the influence of the Bible on the transformation of China. Last year Madame Chiang Kai-shek graciously accepted for herself and her distinguished husband copies of the Bible with this reference to her father, Mr. Soong, whose printing press years ago was largely patronized by the Bible Society: "My father established his press in Shanghai to print the revolutionary writings of Dr. Sun Yatsen when no one else dared to publish them. But he published not only Dr. Sun's works. On his press were printed also many thousands of copies of the messages of Jesus Christ, the world's greatest revolutionist."

The literary form in which these messages were published proved also to be revolutionary. When evangelistic zeal drove Bishop Schereschewsky and other missionary translators to put the Bible into the vernacular Chinese-the Mandarin and the colloquial dialects-the fruit of their labors was hailed with derision and protest. It was charged that the sacred writings of the prophets

Obstacles in

By the REV. WM. H. GLEYSTEEN, Peiping, China Missionary of the Presbyterian Church, V. S. A.

SOME wonder whether, with all the complex their influence through their organization. Choice, organization on the mission field, the most rather than compulsion, is the keynote. central need, namely, that of making Christ The Church in China is very much concerned really known, is at the center of the program. with Christian universities. It would be fatal, in Have we sufficient glow in our faith in Jesus an age so largely humanistic, for the youth of the Cb:rist, in His teaching, person and Way of Life Chinese Church who attend the university, to to.make us daily grateful for God's gift, and eager have to do their thinking in science, economics, to share with others this radi- philosophy, and history under alit faith? a the i s tic professors. The iInstitutions are meant to be Not all the obstacles to Chris- Christian university is price- tools for the master workman. tian progress in China are due less to the Church, but it is es- They are of use only if they to ignorance, poverty, revolu- sential that its universities be- enable him to realize his pur- tions, banditry, communism come fewer and better and pose. If he becomes hampered and idolatry. Some are due powerfully staffed with Chris- by the organization, then his to faulty missionary methods, tian professors who will adorn power is weakened by it. The mmChiesrssissiaotg.nearMieosrr. wGtihtlheeoyustStepaenirG,itowsphoeofl the class-room as truly as any most moving power in Christi- Christian preacher adorns the anity, outside of Jesus himself, has been twenty-five years in pulpit. We need an uncompro- is the individual Christian China, gives us a view of ·how mising Christianity in our preacher, scholar, merchant, these obstacles are being over- schools, and this may be farmer, artisan, housemaid, fa- come. achieved even with the restric- ther or mother. This is where tions which registration of the Holy Spirit of God resides schools with the government and operates. If the Holy Spirit resides in an insti- has placed upon them.

tution, it is only because He resides in the individ- The Church in America and Europe should send uals in it. Hence it is imperative that the Christian out youth in whom mingles the passionate love of must continue to function. There are not as many learning with the passionate love of Christ; let fiaming evangelists in the world as there should them go to the Christian colleges and universities be, and they are especially needed in Christian in- of China, work hand in hand with an increasing stitutions. The Christian leaders in these institu- number of choice Chinese Christian scholars. This tions must be free and determined to accomplish contribution to the Church will be second to none their great purpose through the organization. in all the land. The scholar class in China is still There is a girls' school in Central China, with her most promising and powerful group. Is approximately one hundred and fifty students. Christianity unable to grapple with this problem?

Ten American missionaries are giving themselves Does not her spirit .rise within her as she con- to this piece of work. Some are teachers of Bible fronts this opportunity?

and conduct worship; others are teachers of Eng- Then there are the Christian secondary schools.

lish and history and physical directors. These A few years ago, before Government registration, ten women and their Chinese colleagues, all focus all the students used to file into chapel every their lives on their students. Christianity to them morning, and most of the students took Bible is more than a creed and ritual, it runs through- courses. These were considered happy days by out the entire school life. The Church which many educators. But many of the Chinese lead- operates this school finds not only that the girls ers who were themselves students in those "happy become Christians, but also that when church days" are quite as certain that the method was leaders are needed, this is the best place to find not good for the cause of Christ in China. In our them. These Christian teachers have multiplied own school in Peiping, three hundred fine lads and [606 ] young men came to chapel regularly, but we knew, China is the conclusion to which many thoughtespecially in recent years, that this is not the way ful Chinese have come that Europe and America to a young man's heart and head'. Now the same are not measuring up favorably to the teachings institution has a beautiful chapel, the most at- of Jesus. In 1924 the Student Volunteer Movetractive room in the building. It overlooks the ment sensed clearly that the race problem in hills to the east and the west of Peiping, and such America and economic injustice were so menacing students and teachers as may desire, come to this that unless quickly remedied, they would cut the quiet upper room for worship. There is not a nerve of the Church in its missionary efforts. more worshipful service held in any of our Americans and Europeans cannot say to China. churches in Peiping than is held in this chapel. "Look at Jesus, do not look at us; listen to His In the final analysis, have we more faith in com- teachings on peace, do not pay attention to our pulsion than in the drawing power of Jesus armaments; read the Sermon on the Mount, do Christ? That, ancient summons "Come follow not consider our factory system." The fact is that me" still has its power. Christianity has one sure the Great War with its wanton destruction of life, guaranty that it will never lack devotees, and that and the hypocrisy which led the warring nations is the drawing power of Christ when He is "lifted each to pray for success, rather than a spirit of up." understanding and forgiveness, disillusioned the Orient as to the influence of Christ upon the West. If a teacher in a mission school really believes It has been said by not a few that Christianity that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, the Life, even has not even been tried in the West. The fact is though he may not be free to discuss religion in that Christianity has not been applied to certain the classroom, his influence with his students areas of our social, economic and national life. will be in proportion to the love of Christ in his Our sins are finding us out. We must repent, or heart. The door of opportunity will' be wide we will find that our missionary force is spent. open. As Emerson said, if he has something to give which the world needs, a path will be worn Wu T'ing-fan, formerly Chinese Minister to to his doorstep. Winning men to Christ is largely Washington, said that he became a Christian as by personal approach to the will. In our mission a young man, but that he had returned to Conschools there should be an adequate staff not only fucianism as a more practicable religion. He for teaching, but also to give the Christian teach- thought Christianity too idealistic, too remote from the possible. Martin Luther did not feel disers time to win their students to Christ. mayed when he saw the Church and the priest- There is a Christian Fellowship in the Peiping hood corrupt and worldly-minded. He discovered and applied the dynamic in religion, the power of school. Two years ago, when the new term which we still feel. Shall we do less in such an opened, the members came together. We num- hour as the present? bered only forty-one, for the senior members had just graduated. As we were about to tackle the The missionary is not always the kind of man problems for the coming year, the Principal, a one would expect. Perhaps he has more of the Chinese, got up and said, "The only way to start marks of his civilization upon him than the stigthis year right is for everyone of us to go among mas of Christ which Paul carried about. The his friends, teachers and students, and each one missionary must make it unmistakably clear that to invite one other friend to unite with the Fel- he is dealing with vital experiences, and that he is lowship at the very beginning of the year." This an apostle of faith, hope, and love to the people was readily agreed to. One week later when we to whom he is accredited. These testify of Christ; met again, not one member failed to bring a friend these lead men to Christ, for they flow ever fresh with him. There were eighty-two present. It and full from his heart, and are the Living Water was an experience which I shall not soon forget. for which all men thirst. It revealed what purpose and prayer and personal work can accomplish. I went to the finest A situation which is causing strain in Chinese non-Christian student in the school and asked him Christian circles is as follows: Until recently, to become a follower of Christ and to unite with the Chinese Church was largely dominated by the the Fellowship. He asked for time to talk it over missionary. In trying to remedy this evil and to with his family. Later he came sadly and said, give Chinese pastors and workers and the Church "I should like to do so, but my father and mother itself its rightful place, a new menace to progress are opposed and I cannot disregard their wishes." has arisen. The churches are not self-supporting, Another strong young man in the senior class re- and self-propagating so that a new policy is dessponded immediately, "Yes, I am willing and glad perately needed. .Some missionaries feel that the to follow Christ and become a member of the best procedure will be for them to withdraw both Christian Fellowship." financial and missionary aid from these churches so that the fledglings may really learn to soar One obstacle to the progress of Christianity in

aloft. They have a new evangelistic program in When the rich treasures of human thought in which the mission work is generally independent China have been gratefully accepted at their full of the Church. value, the Christian missionary has best prepared The dominance of the mission over the Church the heart of the people for the reception of Jesus is unwise and the Church must in reality be inde- Christ, for He came to fulfill their incomplete- pendent of the mission. Left largely to them- ness, which many of them recognize. One does selves the missionary hopes that these new not find the cross of Christ in ethnic faiths. Nei- churches will avoid that same evil of developing ther does one hear that deep solemn note, "Ye along lines of Western pattern. One may fairly did not choose me but I chose you." One does not ask whether Western missionaries can found find anything comparable to the resurrection.

Christian churches without the cooperation of the Why be troubled over all that is noble in systems Chinese Christian Church. Might not the mis- not Christian? Rather let us believe more vitally sionary better ask the Chinese Church to be al- in Jesus Christ, and try to re-enact his experilowed to cooperate with her in the more extensive as well as immediate program of building the' ences in our own lives. China truly needs Christ. Church of Jesus Christ? The evils' of the past must not be repeated, but it must also be made There is in China a Church of Christ, composed clear that the mission is not a rival to the Chris- of several denominations, with over one-third of tian churches already existing. The missionary the Protestant Christians within its fold. One from the West can still make a spiritual contri- would not attempt to force the matter of union, bution to the more or less inarticulate Church of but the impression made on thoughtful Chinese the East. One does not need to develop this thesis by the great heterogeneity of Christian denomi- nationalism is distinctly unfortunate. A Christihere. anity which exalts division among followers of Christ, in a country where communism is making A wise Chinese Christian once remarked to the headway and where atheism is not uncommon, is writer: "Many of you missionaries seem to under- not apt to make a deep impression. Christian go a harmful change when you go home on fur- cooperation has added to the strength and dignity lough. When you first come to China you treat and power of appeal in the missionary message. us with great deference and affection. You have faith in us. We Chinese know full well that the There is some fear lest the Chinese Christian facts do not always accord with confidence, but Church become more ethical than religious. A still your fresh and living hope and your respect minister in America said to a Chinese student, and love grip our hearts and lead us into realms "I hear that Christianity is more ethical than re- where we have never been before. And then you ligious in your country." "Yes," was the reply, go to America and return to us 'enlightened.' You "that may be true. I have observed that in Amer- are no longer the same. You think you know us ica Christianity is more religious than ethical."

too well now. You become cynical, suspicious, not It is said that the Orient is fast discovering the really friendly. It is true you do know us better moral supremacy of Jesus. It is of great impor- in some of the superficialities of our life, but tance that the Christian Church in India and really you have ceased to know us and to move us. Japan and China relate l'eligion and ethics. The When you first came with your confidence and mystical, moral, and intellectual must be con- love, it was then you knew us most profoundly served and properly related.

and we longed to follow the Christ. Now often The supreme obstacle to the progress of the you antagonize us." How true this principle is! Kingdom of God in China lies in those who claim What trust Jesus reposed in the most unworthy to be His followers and messengers. It is so much persons, Peter for example; and how he won out easier to teach a doctrine than to practice it. Alwith his abiding faith. most everyone can say, "God is love," but how The Chinese sometimes feel that the missionary hard it is to manifest it in life; and yet, does any gives them what he wants to give rather than one suppose that by reiteration of this doctrine what the people most need, and what would best the hearts of men are changed? The missionary lead them to Christ. The missionary must offer must delight to follow the Master in his own liv- the Bread of Life, but he will be wise to move ing, and his heart must be aglow with joy and along the felt needs of the people and will surely gratitude to God for his unspeakable Gift. The come to the profoundest need of all., Teaching Christian often has cast a shadow upon Christ, English often discloses an attitude of service that but He is invincible, and the measure in which He is most compelling and leads students to inquire is allowed to have His way in the Church of the as to the sources of strength of this teacher's life. West will be the measure of the gift of the mis- Thus they are led into the presence of God. sionary from that Church to China.

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'fested Methods for Increasing Interest at Home I EDITED BY MRS. ESTELLA S. AITCHISON, GRANVILLE, OHIO ~,—====~-===-====-===–==–,~ SEASONAL PLANS A Look Into December dressed as angels, sing carols A Thank-offering Across the Where can the missionary responsively and read passages of Scripture referring to the Sea mood and motive be more at first Christmas; one or more brief talks are given on Holiday The Edinburgh Medical Mis- home than in the month wherein celebrations on the Home and sion Quarterly tells of a new Foreign fields of your denomiventure-a Thank-offering Day, we observe the birthday anni- nation, arranging them in geoin place of the customary sale versary of the author of The graphical rotation to follow the of work, in their Junior Auxili- Great Commission? The follow- sunrise around the earth; a ary. ing suggestions will be found tree ablaze with lights receives the gifts of the guests for some Acceptances for an "At adapt,able to various depart- definite missionary objective. Home" in a large hall were so numerous that the seating ac- ments of church activity. "The Old, Old Story." (1) commodations had to be in- A Christmas Manger Service. In Song: Begin by having concreased to the limit. Upon en- At the morning service on the Sunday before Christmas, a special program is rendered af- fording opportunity for all tering the hall, surprising classes to bring gifts for those gregation sing, as the request, scenes greeted the guests-an less fortunate than themselves, "Tell Me the Old, Old Story." African Hut, an Indian Bazaar, as well as a missionary offering Follow this by having one verse a Palestine Well, a Chinese for some designated object, all each of hymns in which the first Room and other attractions. these being placed in an impro- Christmas is described or -re- Members of the Auxiliary, in vised manger at the foot of the ferred to, by various persons appropriate costumes, took pulpit. who answer this request. This charge of the exhibits. The most A Good Christmas Program. may be done by a group behind delightful feature of the after- The roll call may bring re- the scenes, or by individuals noon was the reception of the sponses with Christmas quota- rising as if spontaneously in thank-offerings by a lad and a tions ; the devotional service various parts of the audience lass costumed to represent doc- may include a talk on "The (very effective), or by one tor and nurse, seated in front Birthday of the King," Scrip- woman if the musical resources of a large illustrated poster and ture passages, hymns and com- of the audience are limited. with a tray between them on ments; the special music com- Close this feature by congregawhich the gifts were to be posed of carols. From a huge tional singing of "0 Come, All placed. Later they headed a col- red muslin Christmas stocking, Ye Faithful". orful procession of Africans, hung up at the front, each per- (2) From the Book: Cut a Indians, Palestinians and Chi- son pulls out some part of the number of stars from pastenese as they passed up the hall ensuing program-letters from board, write on one side a to present the offering, salaam- missionaries telling of past cel- Scripture verse referring to the ing to the platform party after ebrations on their fields; one or Nativity, and tie a tiny green the special fashion of their re- two short Christmas stories; a candle to the other side. Darken spective countries. After a de- scrap book with a Christmas-y the room where possible. Have lightful tea, missionary officials cover and containing pictures the leader read her star-verse by and workers accepted and dedi- of Christmas celebrations and the light of its own candle cated the money and an address scenes cut from past December which she has lighted from a was given on "Pain, Its Problem numbers of THE REVIEW or Christ-candle on the table, then and Its Place in Life." Music denominational magazines; sev- nass the light on to the next was interspersed throughout the eral four-minute talks on woman's candle so that she may afternoon. Christmas in non-Christian read her verse, and so on until And now for the sequel: De- lands; an appropriate solo for a all the passages have been ren- spite the depression, the amount special singer; a tiny Perry Pic-_ dered. of this voluntary thank-offering ture of The Nativity for each (3) In China: Any other exceeded that from the sale of one present. country or group of countries work in the average of the past "Around the World with may be substituted, but China five years by £185! Christmas." A sextette of girls, is most appropriate in view of [609 ]

the study topic for this year…. ceive relief from friendly for- Hymn: "When I Survey the Live, concrete subject matter eigners; (c) Policy of soup Wondrous Cross."* should be handled by a good kitchen unwise. Chinese speaker. At its ~lose, have some one sing softly, "As with Glad- should receive aid which will VALUE OF LIVING LINKS ness Men of Old," the congrega- preserve stamina and morale tion finally marching past a of community. Digging of "Our plan for teaching mistree, manger or othe~ appropri- wells in past is a sample of sions has paid good dividends," ate receptacle for missionary sort of relief needed; (d) Ir- says the Rev. Frederick W. offerings as they sing heartily, rigation projects to help Backmeyer, pastor of the First "Joy to the World". large areas; (e) Motor roads Presbyterian Church of Gary, will help; (f) Properly man- Indiana. "In the beginning we Carrying Christmas to the aged, much money can be had a double motive. We want- Shut-ins. The Courtesy Com- raised in China for relief; ed our people to know our mismittee, Extension Department (g) With care and preven- sionaries and we wished to or other appropriate body in tive measures future famines vitalize our mid-week services. your church arranges to enliven may be avoided. The manse was opened on the sick rooms of invalids with 6. Hymn: "Break Thou the Wednesday evenings to groups tiny decorated trees suitable for Bread of Life." of forty or fifty persons, invited implanting in flower pots, a alphabetically. A special card group of young people singing Fitting the Eyes (Chapter IV) was sent out, neatly printed, carols at each place. Messages and in the year's time every one of love from absent friends, the Room fitted with charts, chair of the almost fifteen hundred individual's Sunday school class, and table as in oculists's office. members was reached." the missionary society or other Impersonator of woman doctor suitable group, may be neatly presents material in chapter to The plan, as explained by the two patients, one suffering from pastor, included a brief devo- written on tiny cards and at- eyes of Ignorance, the other tional service and special music, tached to the trees as gifts. from Indolence. First is cured by Informational glasses and followed by a social hour. A missionary was introduced for PROGRAMS ON second by Inspirational ones. an informative, heart-warming "LADY FOURTH DAUGHTER First patient can see China but talk. By scanning the itiner- only in peculiar way-much aries of those at home on fur- OF CHINA" farther away than it really is. lough and arranging a schedule She is particularly distressed weeks in advance, it was possible Chinese Witnesses (Chapter III) 1. Women witnesses sharing in about medical missions, thinks to have the church folk get acthe new social order. (pp. she sees clearly enough to know quainted with the workers in a 85-89.) that her denomination is doing home atmosphere-a very con- 2. Poverty in China with which too much of that work in China. siderable advantage.

Christian witnesses must She does not see why we do not "The fact that these were not deal. insist on their government at- church meetings gave the visit- (a) Struggle for exist- tending to it all. The doctor ing missionary an opportunity to ence. (pp. 89-94.) gives her diagnosis-terrible win individuals who would have (b) Politics. (pp.94-96.) disease called Ignorance. Shock been indifferent elsewhere. For (c) Sun Yat Sen's princi- and grief on part of patient. the listeners these talks had all ples. (pp. 96, 97.) Doctor tries on some glasses the effect of a personal touch.

(d) The Church and pov- and has her read something in Knowing the missionary they erty. (pp.97-111.) text. (Cover material on pp. wanted to know about his field.

3. Spiritual transformation. 115-138.) Patient's eyesight im- They asked questions. They re- (pp. 112, 113.) proves and she sees some things membered what the missionary 4. China today. See story of for herself. told them. To them -it was in- Mabel Lee, a Chinese wit- Second patient shows bad formation-news. They could ness in America, in Literary . case of Indolent eyes. Does not repeat to others what they had Digest for March 5, 1932, or know that the Chinese are learned from one who was actother down-to-date material bending every energy to get out ually engaged in the work. The of Salt Marsh of Ignorance, be- congregation, as a result of on topic. 5. China Famine Relief, U. S. cause her eyes are too lazy to these group meetings, became A., after careful study, laid look. The doctor dishes up In- more and more interested in the down these beliefs regard- spirational medicine (from pp. missionary work of our denoming economic situation: (a) 138-158). Patient at last gets ination, and the entire program Primary responsibility must up· energy to look; does not of Christian missions had a new rest on the Chinese people; want to stop looking; then she meaning for them." gives. When the second year opened, (b) Chinese need should re- China Today: Inspirational the meetings had to be taken to * Remaining program by Anna Canada the church because the manse talk on "The Great Physician could no longer contain them. Swain, as published by the Baptist Board of in China Today". Education. in next issue.

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A dinner was instituted. The the life and w<?rk of great mis- are discussed with the children and definite prayers are offered membership was divided into sionaries. groups which, in turn, provided Have a large poster sheet for on the basis of specific needs and served the meals. Twenty- each country to be studied, with shown in previous lessons. This five cents per plate was charged names lettered across the top- series, carried through sevento take care of the "overhead" "China," "Africa," etc. Place teen sessions of a Junior Chrisand to pay for the kitchen serv- these at the front of the room tian Endeavor, was described in ice so that the entire member- where all may read the inscrip- Women and Missions, of the ship might be included in the tions easily. As each child se- Presbyterian Board.

meeting. From an estimated lects the poster which repre- Books of Friendship seventy-five to one hundred, the sents such designations as those attendance grew up to two hun- below, he may stand at the These were made for the pur~ dred per night. front of the room and hold it: pose of interesting children con- This plan has been in use for "In the Dark Continent, our mis- cretely in missions–something three years and is still "going sionaries tell the story of Jesus, the the children might make for strong." Not only have the Light of the world"; themselves. The synthetic books church folk learned to know were headed: "When you come and love the missionaries, but "In the land of more boys and girls to see us," the idea being to than any other in the world, our misthose workers themselves get a sionaries are working while we are heart-warming, helpful reaction sleeping and sleeping while we are show what children of other from the church. When it occa- playing-;-all to tell those boys and lands would see if they visited sionally proves impossible to se- girls that Jesus loves them"; ours. The pictures included cure a missionary, a stereopti- those of the Goddess of Liberty, "In the land of a million idols, our con address on some field whose missionaries tell the people of that missionaries are already known land that God wants their hearts for the children themselves, their or are soon to visit the church His temple"; houses, streets, churches, etc. is profitably substituted. One of Thus was the World Friendship "In the land of flowers and parasols and pretty kimonos, the missionaries Contest born in the state of Pennsylvania, in the plans of are telling about Christ"; "In the land of jumping beans"

the best features of this plan . ';In' th~ land of jungles and golden the Children's Synodical Secreis its linking up with the prayer tary and the Young People's temples" . . . ; Secretary (Presbyterian) for life. On Sunday mornings and "In the land where Jesus Himself that commonwealth. It visual- Wednesday evenings, names of once walked" . . . etc.

missionaries for whom prayer When each poster has been izes imaginary visits of children is to be offered are read. "In claimed and all are lined up, of different foreign mission staour church," concludes the pas- sing "We've a Story to Tell to tions upon coming to America, tor, "the whole missionary pro- the Nations," and repeat, "Pray or of those in home mission stagram is a living issue. This ye, therefore, the Lord of the tions, coming to the community solves any problem of benevo- harvest," etc. Then suggest sub- in which the book-makers live. lent quotas."* jects for sentence prayers. Ask Leading questions are: the children to bring pictures Missionary Poster Studies of boys and girls of different To whom would you introduce countries to be classified, selec- them? The purpose is to. study the Where would you take them?

children's foreign mission ob- tions made and pasted on the What would you show them?

jectives. The aims of the post- posters. Then letter names of These books are entered in a ers are to create interest in the at least one missionary for each competition by their makers. countries where stations for ju- station, and as the children se- The rules require them all to be niors' benevolences are located; lect the corresponding posters of medium size-eight by ten to keep the people before the from such descriptions as the inches; all the work is to be children; to familiarize juniors following, they are allowed to done by the children. These with the names of stations and paste the right name on each books are sent in to headquartypes of work; to acquaint them poster and offer sentence pray- ters, each one accompanied by a with at least one missionary at ers for a blessing on the work- letter written by its maker to each station so that prayer may ers. For example, "Mrs. J- the imaginary child of the stabecome more definite; to lay the B- is the name of the mission- tion he had ih mind. After the foundations for confidence in ary who is taking the Gospel to announcements of the awards, the effectiveness of prayer by the Dark Continent. On which one book is sent to each station teaching Bible passages that poster shall we paste her it designates, inscribed with definitely state the necessity for name?" data concerning the junior prayer and the promise of its At subsequent sessions, have . group sending it. What are answer; to stimulate interest in a story told for each of the other states doing to introduce posters, life stories of mission- their juniors to young folks of • Copyright, The Duplex Envelope· Co., Rich- other races at home and mond. Virginia. Abridged. aries like Livingstone, Morri- t Adapted from Women and Missi""",. son, Carey, etc. These stories abroad?t The Council of Women for Home Missions ANNE SEESHOLTZ, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, 105 EAST TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK ~'===============I~ THE NEW DAY HAS COME A Report of the World Day of Prayer, February 12, 1932 In these troubled times "more changes are wrought by prayer" than hurrying worried persons will believe. The source of endurance of many stalwart souls, courageous today for themselves and others is the same as with the Psaimist of old who sang of the help which came from "the Lord who made heaven and earth."

It is also true as someone said but yesterday, that "one does not stop the mouths of lions or of gossips and critics by argument, but by de"Inonstra- tion." The observance of the World Day of Prayer in Febru- ary, 1932, was a great demon- stration of the growing world afenldlowinshisphairningfaigthoo, dinnepwrsa,year~ WORLD DAY OF PRAYER MEETING AT WEIHSIEN, SHANTUNG well as earthly goods. the new day. February the Rico opened its doors that stu- "But the time is coming, it dents of any faith might unite has come already, when the real twelfth had been announced as with the Christian women of worshippers will worship the the Women's Day of Prayer in the world on this, their Day of Father in Spirit and in reality; Prayer. The program had been for these are the worshippers the vernacular mission paper. prepared by India and Old Mexthat the Father wants. God is It was an unheard of thing that ico. And Spanish voices bathed Spirit, and his worshippers must women should conduct prayer the shores of heaven with wave worship Him in Spirit and in meetings on their own initia- after wave of prayer for China; reality." (John 4 :23-24 Moffatt tive. In some cases, the native for the Disarmament Confer- Translation. ) ministers conducted the meet- ence now in session; for ex- ings. In one village the young ploited peoples; for cleansing Both the spirit and the real- men prepared refreshments for from all race prejudice; and for ity of the services held around the women-a strange reversal Christians everywhere 'that the world last February are of the usual order of things. . . they all may be one.' Every day evident in the nigh two thou- The Fijian women had a soul brings us closer. United, by sea sand reports received at the stirring time. They all felt that and cable, by radio aRd air; and Council headquarters. We know a new day had dawned for the now today it is by the mystery that many groups did not re- women of Fiji"-thus word of prayer. No use pretendingport to us. One scarcely knows came from Daviulevu, Fiji. our world has changed, and we how best to select from the in- pray for a cosmic consciousspiring accounts in order to And from Rio Piedras, Puer- ness; for Christian love infinite give a clear picture of the ex- to Rico, came the message now enough to keep up with the tent and significance of the ob- . echoing round the world, "Love aeroplane and the radio." servance of the Day of Prayer. from these palmy isles to the women of the world. It is only In Other Lands The Isles of the Sea on paper that we are divided. In the Belgian Congo, Wil- T.hi.s tropic sea must no longer dIvIde us. It must unite us with the ends of the earth. Today, "The day-line runs right February 12, 1932, a church helma J aggard, the missionary through Fiji; so we begin near the University of Puerto was called to the meeting for [612 ]

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prayer and praise at 5 :00 A.M., "over the combination of prayer money we told them to bring "although we had announced and food" planned for the same anything they had and we the meeting for the time when day. Many were the opinions would buy it from them. So the break of day awakens the pro and con, but the results they came with baskets of corn, birds which we hear sing usual- justified the combination. "The beans, corn meal, eggs, chick- ly at 5 :20 A.M. I found the women gathered at half-past ens, and a few brought money.

church well filled with men, ten at our house," wrote the We had several baskets and women, boys, and girls; and missionary. "There was a spirit boxes to hold these things but they lingered until 6 :30 in of deep concentration in the soon had to send out for sacks. prayer and worshipful hymns. meeting that day; the prayers When we had counted and There were 438 at the meeting were earnest and clearly measured everything we found and they went forth to invite thought out. One stranger gave they had brought gifts worth their friends to another prayer a remarkable testimony con- just ten dollars. Now I know service at the regular meeting cerning her conversion by one that ten dollars from a group of the Christian Endeavor at of the women of our little of two hundred and sixty wom- prayer group. She made us en does not seem much to you at 7 :00 P.M." In Persia, Rabi Lucy Shabag, realize the comfort of a religion home, but when you consider the wife of the Assyrian pas- that the weekly Sunday offering tor, was "the moving spirit in of about 500 people scarcely Kermanshah's first observance averages one dollar you can see of the Day of Prayer. Years how well they did do. During the ago when she was a school girl three services, two in the morn- in West Persia, one of the mis- ing and one in the afternoon, sionaries had arranged a local seventy-four prayers were of- day of prayer. Rabi Lucy never fered. During the first service forgot it, and the idea of a the women were rather hesitant World Day of Prayer thrilled about praying."

her. There were well over a hundred women at both the In Canada and at Home morning and afternoon services FIJIAN WOMEN GOING TO WORLD DAY "In Canada this year it is which she planned. At the close OF PRAYER MEETING certain that very many more of the services several women communities participated than asked that a kind of 'cottage of love. 'We are happy until ever before, and here and there prayer meeting' be arranged now thinking about it,' they say throughout Canada little groups where women living on one of isolated women, five or ten in street would meet weekly in number, met in homes, and here to me each Sunday." and there one woman followed From Angola, Portuguese the program through quite West Africa, we learn that the alone. This year with a program program "Hold F a s t in specially adapted for their use, Prayer" was translated into the scores of young women's groups, native language, Umbundu. The Sunday school classes, and Can- women came from eleven vil- ada Girls in Training groups lages nearby, Missao de Chiles- held their meetings-all follow- so, Caundi, Andulo, Lobito, An- ing, as far as we know, all de- gola (the address given) so nominational gatherings. On the that "the women could make Indian Reserve, Manitoba, men WORLD DAY OF PRAYER GROUP AT the trip and return home again came as well as women. The AI.EPPO. SYRIA the same day. Another year we prayer for peace rests too in the different homes 'to learn to shall give a general invitation heart of the Red Man." pray'." When the report was to all of our outstation women," The offerings have been more written such meetings had al- wrote Mrs. D. V. WaIn. She generous than ever-Christian ready been held. One is remind- continues in the same letter, literature for non-Christian ed of the disciples' request, "We were pleased with an at- lands was particularly cared "Lord, teach us to pray." What tendance of two hundred and for. The report says that there miracles might be achieved if sixty-one women and girls-the was "especial joy in the amount wherever Christians meet on youngest was a week-old baby. we were able to give to China, the Day of Prayer, they would He came on his mother's back since the loss in manuscript and resolve to continue steadfast just the same as his older and . equipment of the Commercial and grow in their prayer life. livelier cousins. We told the Press there, due to the recent From Aleppo, Syria, comes a women that an offering would military activities, has been incharming story that one of the be taken but knowing how diffi- calculable." The Kingdom of church elders shook his head cult it is for them to get any God Movement in Japan, and

Japanese Christian literature ings-one held by the young for so long that pea~e should were likewise cared for. people, one by women, and one come to the world and that In the U. S. A., cities and by the Negro Christians. In Japan be one of the nations to help establish peace, that we towns in forty-four states, Ha- Winnebago, Nebraska, Indian have no peace." waii, the Philippines, and the and white women met the sec- When in December, Mrs. C. District of Columbia, considered C. Chen of Shanghai, sent to ond year for meditation, praise, the American Committee for what it means to "Hold Fast in the World Day of Prayer the and prayer. "A small group as program which she had pre- Prayer." A student in the Ag- pared for us all to use in 1933, compared with meetings held in she wrote, "It is a very simple ricultural College, Laguna, P. I., program. The prayers are my where sixty college boys united larger places, but the spirit of own daily ones . . . China is in trouble. The troubles come one in the service of meditation and devotion, the earnestness of the after another. There is potent prayer, said that he appreciated power, intelligence, and energy being the one to offer the prayers, the sense of standing in the Chinese, but at present it prayer for "the churches in does not seem that we are using America." Some one from Uni- in the very presence of God it in the right way. I believe it versity City, .Missouri, gave as is due to the fact that we have her impression after the meet- were indeed great." American not enough Christ-like men and ing there, that "six hundred women to handle the present women in silent prayer gives Indian women ,prayed for wom- situation. Pray for us." spiritual power to each one present beyond words to meas- en in India, China, Japan, Af- ANNE SEESHOLTZ. ure." One place in North Carolina reported that "All the rica, and they knew that women NOT ONE DAY ONLY women of our town five miles away united in the service." in other countries were praying Not alone by word of mouth, "The Salvation Army attended dear Lord, this year," was the news from for-all one in Christ Jesus. a town in New York. From a Would I give thanks today- Kentucky town we hear "of the "So we were quite interna- My brothers and my sisters great difficulty beginning the Day of Prayer four years ago tional, interraCial, and interde- walk with me Along the broad highway; and today (1932) it is well es- nominational," was the concludtablished on a high plane." Ac- They are thy children also, cording to our records Penn- ing statement in the account of sylvania led with reports from union services in Philadelphia i n w h i c h "Episcopalians, Friends, Mennonites, Naza- renes, members of the Church of our Brethren, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap- tists, and members of the Re- formed Church joined in wor- ship. There were also some for- eign-language churches partici- pating." . .

The Next Observance 380 places; New York, 201; Il- In preparing for the observ- Lord, and I linois, 138; Ohio, 128; and so on ance of the annual World Day Cannot be clothed and fed, with a total of 1,836 places at of Prayer March 3, 1933, it is Then kneel apart to thank thee the last counting. Some states well for Christians everywhere while they go sent in fewer reports this last to remember our Lord's com- Their way uncomforted. year. Whether or not this means a lapse in observing the mand that we love one another I cannot thank thee only with my mouth, day, is not certain. The fact even as He loved us. In the Far East, Christians are troubled My heart and hands must that February 12th was a na- share· tional holiday and also that in because their governments are some parts of the country bliz- In service, and thus prove my hostile to each other. Last Feb- ruary in Tokyo, Japanese wom- gratitude zards and wind storms made en planned for morning and For thy great love and care. roads impassable may have re- afternoon sessions. A missionduced the number. However, women from Iowa, Nebraska, ary writes, "Coming together I would be kind-for there is so as they did not long after the much need and the Dakotas wrote that outbreak of the Shanghai Of kindness every day; when the weather made impos- trouble I was interested in the I would be wise-Oh, wiser sible going to town to the Union women's reactions to that ques- than I am; Services, they observed the day tion and the Manchurian one. Lord, make me wise, I pray. in their homes. "We shall not They faced the issue squarely expect a blizzard as late as and devoted a good part of the Not alone by word of mouth, March third," was written dear Lord, hopefully from North Dakota. morning to talks about it, and a long prayer service." One Jap- American men and women, anese woman said in a personal But that I too shall give, Not only on this one day set young and old, and children as conversation, "I can't sleep at apart, . well, kept the first Friday in night thinking of the whole Lent for prayer together. Ter- matter, and wondering why But every day I live. -Grace Noll Crowell. rill, Texas, reported three meet- when so many of us have prayed

AMERICA that Bolivian rights have been St. Paul's Cathedral fdr

Destruction in Puerto Rico violated, and her forts attacked. Church in India.

For the second time in four The war fever has run high in This outreach of Christian years Puerto Rico has heen visited by an intense tropical hur- both states. Forces are mobil- friendship, amid international ricane. The storm of September 26 this year wrought its worst ized and ardent youths demand- suspicion, carries with it the destruction in the populous districts of the island surrounding ed arms that they may rush to promise of fresh hope and love the capital, San Juan. The Roman Catholic Missions suffered the defense of their country's to the churches and through severely and the Presbyterian and other evangelical missions honor. The United States united them to the peoples of India. doing work in the eastern and northeastern part of the island with four South American gov- The following compose the miswill require funds for relief and for extensive repairs to their ernments in asking Bolivia (1) sion: property. Every mission is making an effort to respond to the for a suspension of hostilities The Right Rev. J. S. C. Banappeal of Governor Beverley for aid. Over two hundred peo- and (2) for immediate negotia- nerji, B.A., Assistant Bishop of ple are reported killed, one thousand injured, fifty thousand tion with Paraguay for the sub- Lahore (leader); the Rev. A. or more homeless, acres of coffee trees ruined and many mission of the controversy for RaIla Ram, B.A., Secretary of sugar plantations destroyed. The island was just recovering settlement by arbitration. Later the Student Christian Associafrom the effects of the storm of 1928. This coffee crop which nineteen American states united tion of India and a leader in the was just ready for harvest is ruined. Dr. W. R. Galbreath of in a similar protest, but peace United Church of Northern Inthe Presbyterian Hospital at San Juan reports serious dam- has not yet been established. dia; Daw Nyein Tha, B.A., age to the nurses' and doctors' residences. Japanese in Brazil Headmistress of the Morton Lane Girls' High School, Moul- The Chaco Conflict Scattered over the coffee plan- mein, Burma, and one of the Bolivia is a small country and tations of Sao Paulo are two leaders of the evangelistic Paraguay even smaller, the one hundred or more colonies of movement recently carried on with about 3,000,000 inhabit- Japanese, ranging from small by students in India and Burants and the other less than a groups of only a few families ma; and Mr. A. M. Varki, M.A., million. A dispute between to large settlements of a thou- LL.B., Principal of the Union them over the sovereignty of sand families, and aggregating Christian College, Alwaye, Trathe rich, undeveloped Chaco 25,000 families. In 1923, Rev. vancore, the only Christian colarea became so bitter that other J. Yasoji Ito, Episcopal mis- lege in India founded. controlled governments laid restraining sionary, undertook single-hand- and directed by Indian Chrishands upon the contestants, and ed to evangelize these colonists tians. put the world's peace machinery to a test. Paraguay's protest is and since then friends and helpsimilar to that of China against ers have come to his assistance. British Church Cooperation Japan in the Manchurian case, and the attitude of Bolivia is His present parish is seven hun- At the recent General Assemnot unlike Japan's. She claims dred miles long and extends bly of the Church of Scotland, that Paraguay is the aggressor, from Iguape, south of Santos, held in Edinburgh, the Arch- through Sao Paulo, and five bishop of Canterbury came to hundred miles west. To reach support the renewed invitation the twenty stations, where the addressed by him as president Gospel is now preached, takes of the Lambeth Conference to one month by train, steamer, the Church of Scotland to enter horseback, wagon and afoot. into unrestricted conference. These stations have 507 bap- The purpose of the conference tized members. Two churches is not immediate union, but is have been built and ten mission to map out a way by which that stations established. may ultimately be reached. The Archbishop maintained that EUROPE there is no such value in mere Mission of Fellowship identity of government as would make it worth while to face the Four Indian missioners have difficulties of history, law, char- arrived in Great Britain to un-· acter and of sentiment; and dertake a work of creating fel- there is no reason why the two lowship. The visit will conclude ecclesiastical bodies should not with a thanksgiving service in continue to be autonomous. The [615 ]

ideal which he held up is that Tent Evangelism in Saxony When I got to a group of people each can come into full commu- on the street corner I was stopped and nion with the other, enjoying Returning from 'Saxony, Dr. questioned. They were greatly interan unrestricted inter-commu- R. E. Diffendorfer brings an ac- ested in the message I gave, especially nion among their members and count of the tent campaign car- the Jews. They asked whether I could an unrestricted fellowship of ried on by Dr. Martin Funk give them some of my literature or their ministers. last summer in German cities. even the Book that I held in my hands He pitched his tent on the out- and preached from. Visit to Spain and Portugal skirts of industrial cities and preached Jesus Christ to people There was an old Jew, like a pa- Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Nor- more familiar with the Gospel triarch, so I gave him that Testament ton, of the Belgian Gospel Mis- according to Marx. Communists of four Gospels. Then trouble arose. sion, recently visited Spain and came to heckle and debate, and They began to argue and started to Portugal to look into religious throngs came to listen and fight. I left them in a warlike conconditions there. They write sometimes stayed to pray. Herr dition because everyone of them that the British and Foreign Funk gave communist spokes- would like to have a Book of God and Bible Society has been at work men a fair field and has won to search in it for the true Messiah, in Portugal for almost a cen- some great battles in this hand- our Lord Jesus Christ. tury; as a result, converts, go- to-hand fighting. ing to South America, have In the Balkans formed strong churches there. Children Journey to Russia The largest church in Portugal, A new missionary situation numerically, is the Anglican; The Evangelische Pressedi- has arisen in the Balkans. Three the largest congregation is the enst says in the August issue million Moslems in Albania, Presbyterian in Lisbon. The that the communist press is Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece Brethren have work in 18 cen- again mobilizing the "mass of and Bulgaria, are open as never ters. A significant prison work all proletarian" for the journey before to Christian influencesis conducted in Lisbon and of a delegation into the "prom- especially in Albania. As the Coimbra. There .are approxi- ised land of the Soviet Union." Turks are repudiating Islam, mately 15,000 Protestant adher- This time 175 German children and reviving the traditions of ents in Portugal and her depen- will journey to Russia for a two their pre-Islamic Tatar and Tudencies, Madiera, the Azores months sojourn in "the only ranian civilization, so the Baland Cape Verde; and about land that knows no crisis, in kan peoples are harking back to 3,200 communicants. which there is no unemploy- the i r Christian civilization ment and in which the exploita- which Islam submerged in the In Spain, beside the British tion of children and need is un- early fifteenth century. The and Foreign Bible Society and known." The delegation of chil- Christian missionary would find several independent organiza- dren will be quartered in insti- a desire for teaching which has tions, the leading evengelical tutions where they will live to- been hitherto unknown. Albania groups are the Igelsia Espanola gether with the "liberated chil- wants her children educated, Reformada (Episcopal), the dren of the proletarians." More her women uplifted. Albanian Brethren, several independent than this they will hardly see, women are held in unusual Baptist churches, the Iglesias because a glimpse of the great honor, so that a woman's es- Bautistas, and the Iglesia Evan- sections of misery in the cities cort in the Albanian hills is gelica Espanola, the latter a in which there are yet children more effective to a traveler than federation of Presbyterians, dying by the thousands, would a troop of soldiers. Congregationalists, Lutherans probably work harm to the suand Methodists. Despite the perficial exhibition of the Soviet -World Evangelization. faithful work of all these agen- paradise. cies today there are only from AFRICA five to ten thousand evangelical A City Without Bibles believers in the land out of a Personal Evangelism in population of 23,000,000. Malech, a city in Poland . Cameroun Statistics for Italy about 45 miles from the nearest The students of Dager (Pres- byterian) Bible Seminary of The 1931 census for Italy mission station, has neither West Africa, Cameroun, spent gives 82,500 Protestants in ad- their month's vacation in doing dition to the Waldensians. They Bible nor Christian literature of personal evangelism in the nearembrace Methodists, Baptists, by villages. At a meeting held Adventists and Salvation Army. any kind. A small, Russian to hear reports on this work The Roman Catholic church many interesting stories were registers 41,060,963 members; Greek Orthodox Church has recounted. One worker was while 17,493 declared they were driven from a house by a without religious affiliation. been closed for three years; a heathen with a cutlass in his hand. In one district the peo- Hebrew synagogue may be ple said that they would be saved if the Catholic Father found with a handful of old permitted; the reason they be- came Catholics was because the people in it. A Christian work- etor~aJtaionn Wladysuk, tells in Res- Herald of a visit to this city.

OUR WORLD-WIDE OUTLOOK

Father allowed them to keep all for the past few months, and istered here, all the helpers and their fetiches and gave them all showed a deep desire to· be- loving givers. Knowing that a building and equipsome of his besides. come Christians. Most of these ment of itself is lifeless and unable The men brought a collection evidence genuine sincerity. This to aid any sufferer, of fetiches and medallions brings the number of accessions We now dedicate ourselves to be the which were surrendered by for the year to ninety or more." humble servants of those who come here in pain and need and seeking those who confessed. When re- Madagascar Slave Girl health, and thus, ports were all in it was discov- We dedicate ourselves to the service of ered that eleven hundred and Fifty years ago a Malagasy God in this place. five had confessed Christ as a woman bought a slave girl in result of this house to house Madagascar. In her loneliness New Work in Mesopotamia evangelism. the little slave found comfort in Iraq has recently been admit- -Harry C. Neely, reading her Testament. Then ted to the League of Nations- her mistress began studying un- a great step forward for the Lolodorf Cameroun.

Missions in Portuguese der her slave and learned to ancient land made famous by Territory read. She invited others to join Nineveh, Babylon, Ur and her and thus seed was sown. Baghdad. Portuguese East Africa has Realizing her need for help A new station has also been an area of 770,000 square miles and counsel, the mistress set out opened in the heart of Mesopoand a population of some 3,500,- upon a long journey of two or tamia, at Dier-ez-zore, on the 000. The northern two-thirds of three. weeks to the capital, Euphrates River and has been this area is practically un- where she sought the aid of the touched by Protestant missions, London Missionary Society. The thoroughly equipped with a hosand only two of its seven dis- next year a missionary went to pital and residences for what is tricts is adequately staffed. The make a survey and as a result a expected to be a great work six societies at work have a church was formed and a build- among the Bedouin of the des- Christian community of 17,290. ing erected. The missionaries ert. This work is conducted un- Difficult, though not impossible, died, but still the ex-slave der the auspices of the United conditions are laid down by the owner-she had freed all her Mission of Mesopotamia.

government. In the main these slaves-carried on and the Confession in Persia are: church grew. Now the London A recent letter received by the Church Missionary Society 1. All missionaries must have a Missionary Society has decided good knowledge of the Portuguese lan- to send a missionary to open a guage. station in this district. There from Persia shows what follow- 2. All schools and out-schools must will then be a church, a mission ing Christ means to men and be built of brick and must be in house and a missionary as the women in that country and charge of a native who has passed the result of the faithful witness of their fearlessness in face of second grade government standard. 3. No teaching in schools is allowed the little southern slave-girl and persecution. One man employed in any vernacular language, but it in a government office was must be wholly in the Porteguese lan- her Malagasy New Testament. transferred to another town in guage. WESTERN ASIA the hope that, away from Chris- 4. Churches and places of worship New Hospital at Talas tian influence, he would cease to need not be built of brick, though schools must be. preach; instead he is a fearless 5. The use of Bibles, etc., in the na- A new hospital of the Ameri- missionary. Another Christian tive languages is allowed in churches can Board at Talas, Asia Minor, employed in that some office and for worship. was imprisoned, but he took the 6. There shall be an absolute pro- was dedicated May 22. It was a opportunity of preaching to his hibition of reading and writing in the guards and fellow prisoners, native language. girls' school building, remodeled for hospital use. It has been and was released and trans- Many Baptized at Tunda running at full capacity with 24 ferred to the capital. Two men beds. The hospital was dedi- were thrown out of work. The E. H. Lovell, Methodist mis- cated in the following words: sionary at Tunda, Belgian Con- wife of one man was beaten in go, writes in the World Outlook To the glory of God, our Father, by the street and fell unconscious; (Nashville) : whose favor this hospital has been built; another woman was forbidden "On Sunday, December 20, a by her husband to read the To the honor of Jesus, the Great Phyvery large class was received into the church by baptism, sev- sician, whose living spirit caused Bible to the servants at home!

the erection of this hospital; enty in number. There were To the praise of the Spirit of God, INDIA twenty-five schoolboys, eighteen Christian Census Figures women and twenty-seven work- the source of life and light; men in this class. Of special in- For the healing of suffering . . .

For the children who suffer in inno-. cence, the mothers who so often terest was the baptism of eight suffer needlessly, the manhood of Census Tables for 1931, published by the husbands and wives together. the land, for the rich and the poor. Government of India Gazette, include Euro- These have been on probation peans and Anglo-Indians but not Burma. In grateful remembrance of all the Christians include Protestants, Armenians. doctors and nurses who have min· Greeks, Syrians and Roman Catholics.

Provinces Population Christians the cow; Moslems ceremonially of these schools have been held slaughter a cow at one of their with a total enrolment of 5,000 India's Total ………. 350,353,678 5,962,(89 great religious festivals. Hin- or 6,000 each winter. Thus, 3,531,702 dus love music and song when during a period of eight years (I) British India……. 271,273,107 they are at worship; Moslems nearly 40,000 have been en- 6,947 demand an austere silence for rolled. There are probably few Ajmere Marwara …… 560,292 1,461 the chanting of the Koran. It areas in China where greater 202,586 is the difference between the membership gains have been re- Andamans and Nicobars 29,463 8,044 jungle and the desert, between corded in recent years. Nearly 180,572 an elaborately organized society all these new members are Assam …………….. 8,622,251 341,710 and a simple brotherhood. From young and from progressive every point of view there is families. Baluchistan … . . . . . . . . 463,508 317,042 conflict. Chinese Evangelism Bengal ……………. 50,122,550 50,584 -Dnyanodaya. 3,450 The Executive Committee of Bihar and Orissa …. 37,676,576 Madura College Jubilee the National Christian Council 16,989 has issued a statement of the Bombay (including Sind 1,770,328 The American College at general objectives of the Five- Madura, founded by the Ameri- Year Movement as adopted in and Aden) ………. 21,854,841 12,213 can Board of Commissioners, 1929, followed by four objec- 414,788 has completed its first fifty tives to be aimed at by local Central Provinces & 205,009 years. It is now affiliated with churches during the next two the University of Madras. A or three years. These are the Berar …………•.. 15,507,723 2,430,786 scheme of extension and re- following: 46,660 search in the socio-economic Coorg …………..•.. 163,327 15 field, in cooperation with the 1. An individual approach 7,262 other missionary colleges of the to every church member in or- Delhi …………….. 636,246 2,768 south, gives this college a com- der to enlist groups for Bible 74,613 manding position. The vice- study, prayer, some form of Madras ……………. 46,575,670 16,011 chancellor of the University of church and community service, 10,476 Madras who is a Hindu paid a and evangelism. N. W. F. Province •.. 2,425,076 51,701 tribute to the work done by 1,198 Christian colleges. He referred 2. The establishment in each Punjab ……………. 23,580,852 to the apprehension existing in church of groups to train for 151,946 some quarters that nationalist parenthood and for leadership, United Provinces ….. 48,408,763 India might not look with kind- and to teach illiterates and en- 2,177 ly eyes on Christian missions, quirers; a Iso well-organized (II) Indian States and 334,870 and said that "educated India Sunday schools with work dur- Agencies ………… 79,080,571 1,604,475 would never permit the de- ing the week. struction of the great mission- Assam States ……… 625,606 19,466 ary institutions, which are 3. The encouragement of 87,538 among the most valuable edu- family worship in Christian Baluchistan State ..•.. 405,109 cational and moral assets of homes, the nurture of children 4,286 this country." in Christian ideals and the win- Baroda State ………. 2,443,007 4,565 ning of non-Christian members 5,778 CHINA of the family. Bengal States ……… 973,316 2,890 1,396 For a Literate Church 4. The observance of the Bihar and Orissa States 4,651,076 great Christian festivals and There is an inclination to seasons, and also of appropri- Bombay States …….. 4,468,343 make literacy a requirement for ate Chinese customs, to. which church membership, at least in end a church calendar for 1933 Central India Agency.. 6,615,120 the case of those between the is in preparation. ages of 15 and 25. Ten years Central Provinces States 2,483,240 ago Dr. James Yen organized Dr. Stanley Jones is now in a literacy campaign through China, conducting special evan- Gwalior State ……… 3,523,070 the use of the thousand char- gelistic meetings in ten centres acter system. For more than between August 16th and De- Hyderabad State …… 14,437,541 e i g h t years the American cember 15th. BO;1rd, through thirty evangel- Jammu and Kashmir ists in fourteen districts, has Missions in Manchuria States …………. .. 3,646,244 maintained village schools for Cochin State ……… . 1,205,016 which villagers provide places The Christian Century pub- Travancore State ….. . 5,095,973 and the pupils their own text- lishes a report concerning J ap- Other Madras States.. . 453,495 books. anese interference with Chris- Mysore State ……… . 6,557,302 tian activity in Manchuria. Each year from 150 to 200 N. W. Frontier Prov- Inevitably all Chinese organiza- tions, Christian as well as non-Chrisince …………….. 46,451 tian, are eyed with great suspicion. Any organization which appears to Punjab States ……… 4,910,005 Rajputana Agency …. 11,225,712 United Provinces States 1,206,070 Western States Agency 3,999,250 Immorality Entrenched The United Provinces Legislative Council has rejected a bill which sought to check "immoral traffic." The Government remained neutral when the final vote was taken and this made possible the rejection of the bilI by Indian members. Supporters of the bill criticized the Government and non-official votes might have carried the measure, but a majority of the Council did not wish to interfere in the present practices and customs that prevail in the United Provinces. It was evident that many of the members have no concern regarding the evil.

-Indian Witness.

Hindu-Moslem Differences A former resident of India, writing in the Manchester Guardian, declares that the differences between Hindus and Moslems are India's most critical problem. Their social and religious customs are antithetic; their good qualities as well as their bad are exactly opposite, and because each is too virile to accept a secondary position both are aggressive and afraid of the other. Hindus venerate

oppose the new regime will be of favorably granting your request. the Christian faith his son- crushed. Christian visitors to Man- This decision of principle does not who during an illness had been churia find themselves subjected to in- hinder the Cambodian Government studying Christianity. A minute quiry as to the purpose of their visit. and the French Protectorate tolerat- examination of the young man Some Christian organizations find ing until a new order those of your revealed genuine understanding conditions quite depressing. Detec- establishments which exist at the mo- of the step, so that Mr. Nishi- tives sometimes attend religious meet- ment, on condition that they are for- mura baptized him-in the tem- ings, and sit in on Bible classes. Sys- bidden all extension, all creation of ple and in the presence of the tematic searches by Japanese of new chapels, and all active proselytiz- priest.-The Omi Mustard Seed. Christian buildings are the order of ing among the Cambodian populathe day. tion." Buddhists Study Christianity Japanese Christian organizations JAPAN-CHOSEN Fukui, on the west coast, has have been trying to initiate coopera- been called "Back Japan." The tive undertakings with Chinese groups Some Recent Changes people are conservative; educa- in Manchuria. In both Japan and tion has been backward and it Manchuria funds are being raised to The Tokyo Trans-Pacific, an is a stronghold of Buddhism. assist Christian work and relieve dis- American-owned weekly, points In a population of 60,000 there tress, Chinese as well as Japanese be- to three typical Japanese in- are over 600 temples and a ing designated as beneficiaries. stitutions which appear des- large monastery just outside of tined to extinction. the city. Many years of pains- Gospel Work in Tibet taking work have been required They are the Yoshiwara, the to establish Christian w 0 r k A worker for the Scripture world-famous licensed quarter there. It is especially difficult Gift Mission writes from the of Tokyo; the Geisha, who is to find a point of contact with Tibetan border: "The people rapidly being displaced by the working girls, because they are listened attentively to Gos'pel waitress and dancing-girl; and so burdened with heavy schedstories, and often we found a the Kabuki drama, popular for ules in the silk factories. crowd reluctant to disband. In over three centuries, which is one village at the foot of the giving way to modern plays. But one feature of the situafamous 'Panch Chuli' some two tion is hopeful. Bud d his t hundred collected into a small All three have lost much of priests are less antagonistic and open space and asked each of their appeal and fascination for have stopped criticizing Chrisus to speak twice calling for the public, and particularly for tianity before their congregasong after song. We took a the youth of Japan. tions. They even asked to quantity of Scripture portions, study Christianity, and for a and thought we had enough for The disappearance of the Yoshi- year and a half the Rev. Matsuthe entire tour; but these were wara will automatically rid Japan of taro Okajima had a Bible class all gone before the tour was one of those institutions which, from for twenty-five Bud d his t half finished. Some wealthy the foreign viewpoint, has cast a stig- priests. Buddhism fails to Tibetan traders had come twen- ma on Japan's moral reputation. The meet the "dangerous thought" ty days' journey with 7,000 existence of a segregated licensed which Japan sees coming into Tibetan sheep to trade wool for quarter, the inmates of which were its ports from Russia.-Spirit Indian products. These said frequently sold into slavery, has long of Missions. that they had never seen a been condemned in the light of Westwhite face before.-Evangelical ern standards, and its elimination has Pertinent Facts About Korea Christian. been the object of an insistent mis- sionary campaign. Korea has had Buddhism for Anti-Missionary Edict in ages. Christianity came less Cambodia The closing of the Yoshiwara in than fifty years ago. Of Ko- Tokyo does not end the system, but it rea's twenty millions, less than In French Indo-China doors is likely that an institution which is four persons in every hundred have been shut repeatedly in unable to survive in the capital will can be counted as in any way the past to Protestant missions not long linger in other cities of the affiliated with the Christian but have been opened again Empire. Church. And yet the head of only after persistent prayer and the department of religions of patient effort. A recent obsta- Encouragement at Omi the government-general recentcle appears discouraging. Gor- ly told us that Christianity don H. Smith writes of this in Surprising things happen in operated 82 per cent of the World Dominion.: Omi every now and then. Re- church schools, 90 per cent of cently two events occurred that the Sunday schools, 87 per cent Since 1922 the Christian and Mis- bespeak bet t e r tolerance be- of the places of religious wor-' sionary Alliance has been tolerated in tween Buddhism and Christi- ship, and enrolls 85 per cent Cambodia, with much persecution and anity. One was the visit to of all the religious workers. restriction. Two years ago it was de- Omi Mission (Omi-Hachiman) creed that all foreign missionaries of a group of eleven Buddhist Christianity preserved and must be authorized by the govern- Sunday school teachers, seeking made popular the native Korean ment. Accordingly, request was made, improved methods of w 0 r k and the answer, translated, reads in among children. The second part as follows: was the request to Mr. S., Nishimura, of the Kat a t a "The Cambodian Government has Branch of the Mission, by the esteemed, after a minute examination Buddhist priest of a neighborof the question, that there was no way ing temple, that he baptize into

script which the old type schol- ed of roast chicken, pigs and native class drove thirty-five miles. At ars looked upon as too easy for wine. The main item on the altar was Carson City a confirmation a learned man. Christianity a pig's head. After most of this had class of 28 included 14 Indians. brought to Korea the first been eaten and only the skull re- -Churchman. school for girls, and at present mained, the priest swung the basket maintains the only college for with the "sacred head" slowly around Denominationalism girls. Christianity established the altar, howling prayers to the spirthe first modern school for boys its. This performance continued until Over against the wasteful use in Korea. Christianity has Sunday, with the worshipers intoxi- of energy and funds in small made it possible for the women cated, quarreling and howling. towns, where seven or more of of Korea to be freed from the the 191 denominations in the prison of the inner yard of the On Sunday morning quite a differ- United States struggle to surhome. Christianity is leading ent kind of service was held, conduct- vive, is the fact that no one in the fight against the evils of ed by the missionary, when the people state has all of the 191 denomidrink, social vice, intemperance. were directed to worship the one and nations. Illinois comes nearest only true God. After praying, singing with 144. New York lags, with "Pioneer Program" for Children and reading the Word, they gathered only 122. Nevada has only 15. in groups to study portions of the Less than half of all the bodies Dr. McCune and the Rev. Bible. listed have as many as a total Francis Kinsler are working to- of 10,000 members. Forty-five gether to interest "older youth" NORTH AMERICA have less than one thousand in winning children who have each. In general, the large dehad no chance to know God's Erasing the Color Line nominations are growing larger Word. After three years there and the small are growing are hundreds of such boys and The General Conference of smaller. Community churches girls meeting daily under the the Methodist Episcopal Church are increasing rapidly and leadership of college students. passed the following significant there are now more than 2,000 The "Pioneer Program" is used, resolution by an overwhelming in the United States.-Presbybased on Luke II :52, "Jesus in- majority: terian Advance. creased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and Whereas: "There cannot be Greek Nez Perces' Centennial man"; in the effort to develop and Jew, circumcision and uncircumthese children into a fourfold cision; barbarian, Scythian, bondman, Christian Nez Perc;es Indians Christian 1i f e : intellectual, freeman, but Christ is all and in all"; are this year planning an apphysical, social and spiritual. therefore, propriate celebration of the one At first much time was given hundred years since four Nez to primary instruction. Gov- Be it resolved: That the General Perc;es journeyed overland from ernment authorities, seeing the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal the Kamiah Valley in northern numbers grow to thousands, Church shall hereafter meet only in Idaho to St. Louis in search of made it impossible to continue. cities where hotels, sufficient in num- the "white man's Book of It was then decided to call all ber to accommodate its delegates, Heaven." They now number these gatherings "Children's shall in writing agree to meet the fol- about 1,400. About two-thirds Bible Schools." Textbooks in lowing conditions: of the tribe are Protestant reading, history, geography, Christians, or nominally so, etc., are now being compiled (1) No segregation of specific most of them being Presbyterifrom the Bible itself. groups in room assignments. ans. The other third are either Roman Catholics or heathen.- ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC (2) No discrimination against any Presbyterian Advance. delegates in the use of hotel entrances, Savage Tribes Hear the Gospel lobbies, elevators, dining rooms and New Japanese Church other hotel services or facilities. Henry DeVries writes in the The new building of the First Moody Monthly of pioneering (3) Specific instruction of hotel Japanese Baptist Church and the southern islands of the Phil- employees by the hotel authorities re- Japanese Chris~ian center, Sacippines. Thousands of natives garding the interracial character of ramento, California, was dediare scattered along the river the conference and the treatment of cated on July 10. More than 500 Giqua. The missionary gath- all delegates with equal courtesy. Japanese, Chinese, Russians ers them in groups for meet- and Negroes attended the servings which last all day, and the Federal Council Bulletin. ice. The property is valued at audience is constantly changing. $50 000, and is recognized as Parish of 46,000 Square Miles one' of the finest Christian cen- At one place we witnessed a pagan ter buildings of America. There service, lasting three days. The wor- In Nevada, Elko County par- are 8,000 Japanese in Sacrashipers built an altar in the center, ish is about 200 miles long one mento.-Watchman-E xaminer. decorating it with ferns and flowers. way and 230 the other, with a Their offerings to the spirits consist- popUlation of 9,000. Cattle and sheep raising and mining are the chief industries. Rev. Fred- erick C. Taylor, in charge of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, visits Wells, Clover Valley, and other points, involving motor trips of 150 to nearly 300 miles. Last winter the roads were blocked from December 1st until late in March. At Winnemucca four people came fifty miles for their confirma- tion. At Lovelock three of the

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Recent Boo~s Reviewed for the Readers' Information ~,======================-,~, The Republic of Brazil-A Survey of political power, has such a num- their problems and their unique the Religious Situation. Nine maps, erous following. He is a force Nationalist leader. His book is seven charts, eleven illustrations. to be reckoned with, not only described as the "story of an By Erasmo Braga and Kenneth in India but in the world. It experience and an attempt to Grubb. 8vo. 184 pp. 5s. net. is the belief of the authors of weigh Eastern and Western World Dominion Press. London. this book that he and the move- ideals, as well as spiritual wea- 1932. ment which he incarnates are pons and machine guns, in the not adequately understood in scale of practicability." Brazil is twice the size of Europe and America, and they India but with only about one- have endeavored to interpret Many will not agree with Dr. ninth the population of that him a.nd the Indian mind to Fisher in his estimate of Mr. great peninsula. The white in- Western readers. They are Gandhi and his philosophy but habitants number 51 per cent, members of a brotherhood the remainder being Negro, In- known as Christa Seva Sangha, all will be interested in his dian or mixed. There are in composed of Englishmen and story of the young Indian who Brazil immense natural re- Indians, living together accord- was educated in India and Engsources and unclaimed areas. ing to Indian customs, and land, practiced law and es- It is nominally Roman Catholic seeking to interpret the Chris- poused the cause of his fellow but its people are lacking in a tian Gospel to India in the ut- countrymen in South Africa, c I ear understanding of the most possible detachment from and returned to India to at- Christian message and life. purely European or British ele- tempt the release of his coun- ments. They are therefore try from British control and This survey is an excellent uniquely competent to discuss from everything non-Indianbrief study of the land and the their subject. The Archbishop a difficult, if not an impossible, people, the growth and influ- of York writes a Foreword in task. Dr. Fisher rightly comence of evangelical Christianity which he says that he neither mends Gandhi for his personal and the present tendencies and commends nor criticizes the self-sacrifice, his patience, modunfinished task. Six appendices contents of the book, but that deal with the statistics of evan- he commends it as a contribu- eration and opposition to armed gelical work, education and the tion to the English understand- revolution. This "fighting pacichurch. Thirty-five Protestant ing of the Indian mind, and as fist" set out to organize a peaceorganizations are at work in one that will give a truer ap- ful army to oppose "disciplined 153 stations. The ev.angeIical preciation of the Indian out- violence." He established his communicants number 135,390, look than many of us are likely Ashram at Ahmedabad in 1916 and the total adherents 702,377. to receive from either Indians and required all students who The largest evangelical com- or Englishmen who have not came there to take an eightfold munity is in Sao Paulo. The had this intimate association vow of truthfulness, non-vio- Presbyterians in Brazil number with the people of India. lence, celibacy, control of the about 30,000 and have their palate, non-stealing, non-possesown independent, self-support- A. J. BROWN. sion, swadeshi, and fearlessing church. The Baptist Mis- ness. sion (Southern Convention) re- That Strange Little Brown Manports 34,358 communicants and Gandhi. By Fred B. Fisher. Illus. Dr. Fisher recognizes that 103,074 in their Christian com- 8vo. 239 pp. $2.50. Ray Long Gandhi is still a Hindu who munities. One diagram shows and Richard Smith. New York. that less than half the organ- 1932. looks upon Christ as one of his ized churches have Brazilian ideal characters and teachers. pastors. Dr. Fisher, who was for ten He seeks to live according to years Missionary Bishop of the the Sermon on the Mount but Gandhi-The Dawn of Indian Free- Methodist Church in India, has denies the deity and atonement dom. By Jack C. Winslow and Ver- been a friend and admirer of of Jesus; he does not accept the rier Elwin. 224 pp. $1.50. Revell. Mahatma Gandhi for some fif- Son of Man as the unique reve- New York. teen years. He idealizes "the· lation of God and the Saviour Little Brown Man," but it is of men. The author seems to The eyes of the whole world worthwhile to see Dr. Fisher's think that a man can be both .are fixed on that extraordinary viewpoint of Indian peoples and Hindu and Christian. Gandhi, personality, Gandhi. Probably no other man of this genera- [621 ] on the other hand, says that he tion, without official position or is a Hindu and not a Christian.

We agree with him, though he Now he publishes some of the cient nation, tells the story of holds many things in common favorite scriptures of the Budd- his own adventurous journeys, with Christians, and though hist Zen Sect, which arose in describes unusual experiences Christians shamefully neglect to Japan early in the thirteenth in medical practice and his follow many of the teachings of century. It maintains that the contacts with the picturesque Christ and fail to live the state of enlightenment cannot monarch at dinner and at the Christ life. We can learn much be attained by external means. It coronation. He clearly reveals from Gandhi but it is difficult disregards ritual and empha- the great need for medical and to understand why a man of his sizes simplicity of life. The general health work and for ideals does not condemn the author admits that the "original giving the people the pure Gosevils of Hinduism such as are text of these Buddhist scrip- pel of Christ. The story of tures are very corrupt, disor- Blind Gidada is worth repeatfound in Siva worship. The Book has been banned by derly, and in places very ob- ing.

the Indian Government. The scure." We have, therefore, an The appendix includes a bibchapter on "Sex in India" is dis- interpretation, rather than a liography, and a suggested outappointing and we believe is er- translation. His sympathies are line for the use of the book by roneous and misleading. One not with Christianity but with mission study groups. This is worth reading is that on Buddhism, which he believes to the latest and in many respects "What's Wrong with Foreign be the most promising of all the the best and most comprehen- Missions ?" We should not be great religions. "Ch'an Budd- sive of the comparatively small too proud to learn, even from a hism in China and Korea and number of volumes on Abys- "Little Brown Man," who is a Zen in Japan, for a thousand sinia.

non-Christian and a Hindu. years, have been powerful in Charge That to My Account. By moulding the spiritual, ethical H. A. Ironside. 122 pp. 75 cents. The New Crisis in the Far East. By and cultural life of great na- Bible Institute Colportage Assn. Stanley High. 128 pp. $1. Revell. tions." Chicago. 1931. New York. The fruits of Buddhism as Twelve Gospel sermons of the The author is well known as seen in Buddhist countries to- passionate, evangelistic type ina Christian publicist, who be- day do not fulfill this promise: clude vivid word pictures which lieves that the war clouds have "By their fruits ye shall know tell the old Gospel story in a way never hung more ominously on them." that will hold the reader from the horizon in the Far East beginning to end. Dr. Ironside, than they do today. Russia has S. M. ZWEMER. the pastor of the Moody Memobeen trained for a decade and a rial Church in Chicago, sets half in the school of Soviet Na- The Rainbow Empire-Ethiopia. By forth the way of salvation in tionalism, and Japan is at pres- Stuart Bergsma. Illus. 8vo. 294 plain scriptural style. The first ent under the domination of a pp. $3. W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. sermon, "Charge That to My Acmilitary regime. In the back- Grand Rapids. 1932. count," is alone worth the price ground is the colossal figure of of the volume. China embittered by her harsh Abyssinia-the ancient emtreatment at the hands of the pire of Ethiopia is, in a modern H. A. ADAIR. Japanese. The book is impres- sense, still an undeveloped counsionistic and undocumented, but try. There are only fifty miles Chief Men Among the Brethren. Comfair and Christian in its view- of good road in a total of 350,- piled by Hy. Pickering. 223 pp. 000 miles of nondescript roads 3s 6d. Pickering and Inglis. Lon- and mountain and jungle high- don. 1931.

point. Mr. High's conclusion is: ways. Banking, railway, manu- The personalities back of any "In the whole category of the facture, education, medical and religious movement are always forces that are now at work in sanitary work, courts of jus- a fascinating study. One can the life of Asia, it is only tice, modern science and inven- better understand the move- Christianity that, working close tion, public utilities and im- ment if he knows those who to the people, is laying the foun- provements of all sorts are in have been most largely used in dations for those convictions their infancy. its promulgation. "Chief Men and aspirations on which per- But Abyssinia is a unique among the Brethren" introduces manent peace can be estab- and interesting country and its one hundred of the leaders of lished." people have many fine charac- the Brethren Movement in a A Buddhist Bible: The Favorite Scrip- teristics. Most of them are most interesting and instruc- tures of the Zen Sect. 316 pp. Ed- nominal Christians but know tive way. The sketches are ited, Interpreted and Published by little of Christ and less of His necessarily brief and one finds Dwight Goddard. Thetford, Ver- Way of Life. Dr. Bergsma, a himself wishing they Were longmont. medical missionary of the er and more detailed. It will The author in his earlier United Presbyterian Church, have a special appeal to books on Buddhism expressed gives us an unusually graphic Brethren, but is a worthy adthe opinion that Jesus derived picture of the land and rugged dition to any library in which his teaching regarding God and people, recounts the peculiar biography is appreciated.

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(Concluded from 2d cover) Give Me L1;:1£e.f" John Ellis Manley haS been chosen as the new General Secretary of the cries this homeless, despairing National Council of the Y. M. C. A. leper who waits at the gates of He succeeds Fred W. Ramsey, who a Mission hospital thinking, "If has held the position since the retire- I stay long enough, perhaps they ment of John R. Mott about four will take me in." years ago. Mr. Manley has been en- But THERE IS NO ROOM. gaged in Y. M. C. A. work for the last 30 years and has had a wide experi- He is typical of two million others without homes, health, liveli- ence in this field. hood, hope. * … * in 40 countries at 150 hospitals, the Mission to Lepers (cooperating with all denominations) ministers through medical treatment to Dr. S. G. Inman, Secretary of the lepers broken in body and spirit; while kindly care, Christian Committee on Cooperation in Latin teaching and useful occupation build their faith and morale. America, has recently returned to New York, having attended the Christ said "Cleanse the Lepers!" World's Sunday School Convention in Rio, and after visiting a number of Help in the modern fulRllment of His command by sending a South American cities, traveling by contribution today. ~irplane from Mendoza, Argentine, to Santiago, Chile. 55 feeds a leper for 2 AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS months. Room 1118.RW, 156 Fifth Ave., New York * … … Enclosed is 5 ••••••••to help save a leper's life. 510 gives weekly treatments Dr. William B. Lipphard is the wor- for 2 years. Name •••.•……………………… .• thy successor to Dr. Howard E. Grose, editor of Missions during the last 540 provides a year's com- Address ••••••.•••••••••••.••••••••••••• twenty-three years, who is to be pro- plete care. moted January 1, 1933, as editor emeritus for life. William B. Lipp- THE BIBLE T0 0 AY An evanselial che_brinser for hard has been associate editor since deprellion and other day., also 1922; associate secretary of the a visorous, popular, pertinent, assrellive, evanselistie and Bible.study magazine American Baptist Foreign Mission Society since 1919; and recording sec- DON O. SHELTON, LL.D., Editor retary of the Board of Missionary Cooperation since 1920. He brings to SOc a Year, Single Copy 1Sc the office a wealth of editorial ability and a background of missionary (Published by the National Bible Institute) knowledge and experience. THE BIBLE TODAY contoins strong, informing and stlrrlns articles, editorials and Bible expositions by Obituary Notes Christian leaders, and also mOVing accounts out of the thrilling life of the National Bible Institute which Is ensaged in a world-wide evangelistic ond Christian educational work. Lucy Hale Tapley, 75-year-old President-Emeritus of Spelman Col- Comins durins 1932·33: lege, died June 7 at McKinley, Maine. "Th. Men Who W.nt to Se. Wh.t H. Could Se.," by MELVIN GROVE KYLE, President Xenia During the 37 years she had served at Spelman College many thousand Theological Seminary, St. LOUis, Mo. young Negro women had been helped because of her radiant influence. "I•••'n. the Blbl…. by AMOS R. WELlS.! litt.D., Honorary Editor of the ··Chrlstlan Endeavor World." "An Inspi,ln. ContKt with. Spi,lt-lilied ..en….lily… by WILLIAM C. POOLE. successor to the late … lit … F. B. Meyer. former pastor of Christ's Church. London and now postor of the First M. E. Church. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. A. F. Grant, head physician of "Tlln.n In War TI…… by CHARlES ERNEST SCOTIJ>'~'I of the American Presbyterian Mission. Tslnan. the American Mission Hospital in Shantung. North China, AND MANY OTHER INlII'IRING ARTICLES. Tanta, Egypt, died on July 4 while preparing to take up his customary Combination Offer Both SI.35 duties in the clinic. He went to Egypt Sev.65c in 1904, spending his first nine years THE BIBLE TO-DAY (bl-monthly)…………………………………. S.50 at Assiut Hospital. THE MISSIONARY REVIEW OF THE WORLD (monthly) •••••••.••••.•.••• S2.50 … lit … AcIcIna Your Orden to Either OlJle. Th. Blbl. To-D.y Th. Mllllon.y R….w Publishln. Co.peny 340 West 55th Street, N. Y. The Rev. Dr. Alfred Gandier, of the United Church of Canada, died of 156 Fifth Avenue. N. Y. heart disease on June 12th, a few days after retirement as principal of Emmanuel Union TheolOgIcal College.

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INDEX FOR 1916 MAPS, CHARTS AND CARTOONS PAGE PAGE Asia, Russian Advance in …………………. 328 Porto Rico, Evolution in………………….. 863 China, Comparative Size of United States and.. . . 89 South America, Comparative Size of. . . . . . . . . . . .. 191 Etah District, India… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 137 – Missionary Map of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 248 Gifts to Foreign Missions, 1902-1915………… 87 Sudan and the Mandingo Country, West Africa… 408 Indian Pennies, Mile of… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 860 Turkey; Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow …… 914 Magazine Tree. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 217 What Lack I yet? ……………………… 362 Mexico. Barrier can be Battered Down in …….. 579 Where the Men's Missionary Conventions Were Monument, Your.-What Shall It Be? … . . . . . .. 138 Held this Year, 1915-1916 ……………… 426 PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE PAGE Afghanistan, Group of Afridis Traveling in. . . . . .. 329 Bliss of Syria, Dr. and Mrs. Daniel…. . . . . . . . . .. 746 – Mohammedan Villagers of." …. , , . . . . . . . . .. 333 Blue Ridge, N. C., Latin-American Student Con- Africa, Beginning of a Mission School-First Pupils 412 – Gathering of Kru Mission Converts in ……. 597 ference …………………………….. 351 – Human Fetish in .. , …………………… 601 Boy Scouts Under the Old Roman Aqueduct, Near – Introducing Christian Family Ideals in. . . . . . .. 409 – Mr. Hilford's Pioneer Mission Station in West. 411 Smyrna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 673 – Typical Town Scene in West. . . •. . . . . . . . . . . .. 415 Brazil, Garden in Interior of Evangelical Hospital, – West, White" Ma 's .. Quarters at Akpap. . . . .. 771 African Mother's Meeting, First White Baby at a, RiodeJaneiro ………………………. 117 – Service in the Presbyterian Church of Rio de West ……………………………… 417 America, Making the Foreigner at Home in …… 513 Janeiro ……………………………. 115 – Need of Moral and Spiritual Sanitation in ….. 509 Buddhist Education in Burma… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 American Citizenship, Helping Boys into Christian Burma. Christian Education in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 – Christian Karen Jungle Chapel in…………. 12 Manhood and……………………….. 514 – First Christian Baptism at Kaha…………. 15 Armenian Orphans at Work on the Threshing Floor – Great Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Rangoon. . . . . . . . 1 – Native Christian Evangelists in. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 in Van…………………………….. 177 – Two Kachin Women of. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – Village School Children and Teacher in Van. .. 174 Cabrera, Luis …………………………… 801 Asia Minor, Mission School in ……………… 745 Canal Zone, Balboa Y. M. C. A. Club House in … 189 Assuit College a Force to Evangelize Moslems, –Union Chapel, Cristobal. …………….. 190 – – Wing of Hotel Tivoli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 191 Those Who Make…………………… , 666 Canton in Celebration of the Suppression of Gam- –FieldDayat………………………. 663 – Student Volunteers for Christian Life Service .. 664 bling………………………………. 575 Baron, The Rev. David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Catholic Industrial School for the Blind, Shanghai. 573 Basket-ball Among Students in Peking… . . . . . . .. 572 Chapel Car, Children's Meeting in ………… , 671 Belgium, City of Tremonde Destroyed by Bom- – – Railroad Men's Noon Meeting in the …… 679 China, Bondage of Filth and Poverty in… . . . . . .. 500 bardment………. " .. , . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. 33 – Child of the Hope Receiving Home Enjoying – Protestant Church at Wasmes in 1850…. . . . .. 35 – Some of the Evangelical Pastors of. . . . . . . . . . .. 37 Noodles in ………………………….. 759 Bliss, Daniel, Statue of. , ….. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 751 – Church Missionary Society Girls' School, Fuchau ……………………………. 481 PAGE PAGE China, Continuation Committee in their Fourth An- Korea, Victim of Heathen Law in …………… 501 Korean Colporteur ……………………… , 275 nual Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 689 – Man and Woman …………………….. 904 – "Door of Hope," Bride in ………………. 758 Lake Geneva Conference, Japanese Student Dele- – Girl Escaping to Door of Hope Receiving Home, gation at….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 355 Foochow Road ………………………. 753 Lansing, Secretary ……………………… , 801 – Headquarters of Princeton Y. M. C. A. Work in. 603 Latin-America, Cause and Result in. . . . . . . . . . . .. 844 – In Need-Typical Beggar Out-patient …….. 491 Latin-American Student Conference.. . . . . . . . . . .. 351 – Inside the "Saved by Grace" School. . . . . . . .. 761 Laymen's Missionary Campaigu and Congress – One of the Dying Religions in. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 81 – Opportunity for the Ministry of Love in …. " 488 at Washington, D. C., Executive Officers of.. 424 – Republic, Wu Ting Fang and Long Shao Li of Lee, Dr. T. H ………………………….. 571 Lepers, Protestant Chapel for ………………. 357 the ……………………. , ………… 568 Li Yuan Hung………………………….. 570 – Rescued Girl in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 757 Liberia, Kru Devil Preacher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 599 – Some Love at Work in …………………. 491 – Kru Girl of.. . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 598 – Waiting………. " ………………….. 493 Long Shao Yi. ……… '.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 568 Chinese Houseboat, Starting on a Journey on a … 6-75 "Lovest Thou Me?". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 488 – StudentS at a Northfield Religious Conference.. 353 Mackenzie, W. Douglas …………………… 401 – Students in the Commercial College conducted Malay States, Mahammedan Mosque at Kuala by Princeton Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 605 Lumpur.:………………………….. 347 .College Men Conducting a Boys' "Gym Club" Mandingo Girls, Showing National Garment and at Williamstown …………………….. .515 Headdress ………………………….. 413 Constantinople, Dr. Riggs, Dr. Goodell and Dr. Mardan, Dispensary Patients Waiting at the New Schauffier Translating the Bible in. . . . . . . . .. 277 Zenana Hospital. …………………….. 431 – Turkish Quarter of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 721 – Some Out-patients at Zenana Hospital. . . . . . .. 433 Continuation Committee in their Fourth Annual Mathews, Shailer………………………. " 401 McConnell, Bishop F. J …………………… 401 Session, China …………………….. " 689 McQuere, William …………… , …………. 281 Cuba, Girls' Dormitory of the El Cristo Baptist Mexicans Know, Only God Some……………. 581 Mexico, Another Force for Permanent Peace in … 818 School near Santiago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 844 – Group of Country People in Guerrero. . . . . . .. 611 Dervishes in Constantinople, Sect of Whirling. . .. 743 – Independence Day Holiday in……………. 812 Eddy, Geo. Sherwood …………………… " 401 – Members of the American-Mexican Peace Egypt, Students Coming to Chapel at Assuit Conference…………………………. 801 College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 – Needs a New Program, Why………….. 814,815 Ewing, Arthur.. ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . .. 826 – One of the New Forces for Peace in ……… " 817 Filipinos, the Blessing of Labor, Teaching .. '" . .. 504 – Peon Family at Home in ……………….. 183 Fisherman'S Money-jug…………………… 375 – Political Excitement in…………………. 816 Foreigner at Home in America, Making the …… 513 – Preparedness Program for …………….. " 819 Foreigner's Opinion of America…………… " 511 – Tehuana Matron with a $3,000 Gold Coin Neck- Gambling, Procession in Canton in Celebration of lace, Tehuantepec……………………. 185 the Suppression of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 575 – Tehuana Woman in Wedding Dress, Tehuan- Goodell, Dr., Dr. Riggs, and Dr. Schauffier Trans- tepec ……………………………… 185 lating the Bible in Constantinople. . . . . . . . . .. 277 – Typical Home of the Peon Class in ……….. 181 Gordon, S. D…………………………. " 401 Military Posters Adapted to Appeals for Mis- Hilford, Mr. and Mrs., and Son…………….. 409 India, Babies' Beds in the Plague Hospital at Miraj. 269 sionary Recruits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 696 -Children's Ward in the Miraj Hospital. ….. 271 Missionary Children Starting for America from – Operating-room in the Preshyterian Mission Van, in Times of Peace……………….. 179 Hospital, Miraj ……………………… 272 Mohammedan Mosque at Kuala Lumpur …….. 347 Industrial School for the Blind, Shanghai. . . . . . .. 573 – Villagers of Afghanistan ………………… 333 Japan, Congregational Church ……………… 337 Moslem. Twins Whom the Missionaries in Smyrna – Facsimile of Card in Card Index. . •. ••. . . . . . .. 653 – Involuntary Missionary in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 648 Kept Alive with Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 668 – Rev. Albertus Pieters, at his Desk in Oita. . . . .. 649 Moton, Major Robert R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 106 – Setting Type for Chinese Bibles in the Fuknin Mott, John R .•………………………. 401, 801 National Bible Institute Headquarters ………. 281 Printing-house, yokohama…………….. 273 New Haven, Week-night Meeting at the Yale Hope Japanese Newspaper, Gospel Advertised in a ….. 651 – Nicodemus: Murata Wakasa no Kami. ……. 657 Mission ……………………………. 285 – Rapid Transit when Dr. Thompson Arrived in New York, National Bible Institute Meeting in Tokyo …………………………….. 659 Herald Square ………………………. 279 – Student Delegation at Lake Geneva Conference 355 -Sleeping on the Floor of the National Bible In- Karen Girl, Missionary and a Christian. . . . . . . .. 16 – Jungle Chapel in Burma, Christian… .. . …. 12 stitute's Beacon Light Gospel Hall ………. 283 Kimura San……………………………. 321 Northfield Religious Conference, Chinese Students – with His Wife and Two Daughters……….. , 337 Kimura's Meetings for Japanese, One of ……… 339 at a ……………… : ……………..• 353 Kongo Christian Soldier, Little ……………. , 438 Oldham, Bishop William F ………………… 589 Korea, Sabbath Congregation at Taiku ………. 50S Panama Canal Zone, Balboa Administration Build- – Sunday School Convention •…………….. 881 – Union Evangelistic Hall, Seoul………….. 4 ing and Settlement in the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .• 187 – City, Street Scene in …………………… 188 – Congress on Christian Work in Latin-America .. 248

INDEX

PAGE PAGE Thompson, Dr. David……………………. 641 Panama, Hotel Tivoli, Where the Congress Met at 249 –and his Students in 1871……………… 655 Pathans of Afghanistan…………………… 331 Tsur, Dr. Y. L………………………….. 571 Peace Conference at Hotel Biltmore, New York, Turk of the Lower Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 739 – Village Scene in the Land of the………….. 736 American-Mexican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 801 Turkey, Bird's-eye View of Van and the Lake, from Peking, American and Chinese Staff of the Prince- Castle Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 173 ton Center in ……………………….. 602 – Castle Rock, iust outside the city of Van. . . . .. 172 – Basket-ball Among Students in. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 572 Turkish Writing………………………… 921 Pierson Memorial Bible School Property in Seoul.. 494 Turks, One Phase of the Religion of the.. . . . . . . .. 743 Pieters, Rev. Albertus, at His Desk in Oita. . . . .. 649 Tuskegee Institute as it was on Commencement Poling, Chang………………………….. 571 Po,ters to Christian Missions, Adapting Military Sunday, 1915……………………….. 101 – – a s it was Twenty-five Years ago ……….. 100 Recruiting…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 695 Underwood, Horace Grant. ……………. 902, 904 Princeton Y. M. C. A. Work in China, Head- Van and the Lake, from Castle Rock, Bird's-eye quarters of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 603 View of. …………………………… 173 Raynolds, Dr. George C., of Van ……………. 170 – Armenian Orphans at Work on the Threshing Reis, Pa,tor Alvaro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 116 Riggs. Dr., Dr. Goodell and Dr. Schauffier Trans- Floorin.. .. .. .. . .. . .. .. . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . … 177 – Village School Children and Teacher in… . . . .. 174 lating the Bible in Constantinople. . . … . . . .. 277 – in Times of Peace, Missionary Children starting Schauffier, Dr., Dr. Riggs, Dr. Goodell Translating for America from.. . .. . .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. 179 the Bible in Constantinople…………….. 277 -on the Border, between Russia, Persia, and Seeking Men ……………………………. 511 Shanghai, Catholic Industrial School for the Blind Turkey……………………………. 169 – Place of Refuge-The American Mission Prem- in………………………………… 573 – Home for the First-year Girls of the "Door of ises in …………………………….. 175 – Some of the Buildings of the American Mission Hope ………………………………. 755 Siam, Market Day Scene in Chieng Mai, North .. 499 in ………………………………… 171 – River Boat in the North of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 500 – Turkey, Castle Rock, Just out,ide the city of.. 172 Slessor, Mary N….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 769 Wallace, A. J …………………………… 401 – The Okoyong Household in Scotland………. 770 Wang, Cheng-Ting………………………. 561 Smyrna, Boy Scouts Under the Old Roman Aque- Washington, Booker T……………. ………. 99 – – speaking during the Louisiana Tour of 1915. 103 duct Near………………………….. 673 -influenced the Negro Crowd, How the Negro… 105 – Christian Work Among Starving Moslems in.. 671 – D. C., National Missionary €:ongress in ……. 425 – from Mt. Pagus, View of…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 669 Wasmes, Built in 1901, Third Church at……… 3S – Typical Group of Turkish Children in a Bazaar Wen Shih-Tsen …………………………. 571 Wilder, Amos P …………………………. 401 in………………………………… 670 Wu Ting Fang………………………….. 568 – Typical Street in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 667 Yale Hope Mission, New Haven, Week-night Meet- South America in the Open Air, Evangelical Mis- ing in the ………………………….. 285 sionary Preaching in………………… 844 Yuan Shih-Kai…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 South Americans Worship, What Some ………. 841 Speer, Robert E. ………………………… 241 Speers, James M ………………………… 401 AUTHORS PAGE PAGE ANDERSON, HERBERT….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 265 DUBE, JOHN L …………………………. 205 EDDY, D. BREWER………………………. 451 ANET, HENRI K………………………… 33 BARON, DAVID………………………….. 197 EDDY, G. SHERWOOD …………………….. 443 BARTON, JAMES L ………………………. 774 EMENS. E. A …………………………… 427 BEST, NOLAN R ………………………… 425 FRITCHLEY. E. W ..•…………………….. 682 BLISS, THEODORA CROSBy…….. . ………. 373 GILL, HOPE ………..•…………………. 209 BRAIN, BELLE M ….. 51, 131, 213, 291, 373, 451, 533 GLASGOW, SAMUEL McP……………….. 212 849 GOFORTH, JONATHAN …………………….. 204 693 777 853 GORDO"", A. J.. . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .• 130 GORDON, S. DO' ………………………… 820 BROWN, ARTHUR J ……………………… 911 GRENFELL, LORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 GRIER, M. B…………………………… 201 BROWN, C. MAUD ………………………. 619 GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT ………………… 655 BURGESS, JOHN STEWART… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 603 GULICK, SIDNEY L…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . • .. 685 BUTLER, JOHN W ……………………….. 813 HAHN, THEO. F…. . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • .• 38 BUTLER, MRS. JOHN W …………………… 181 HALLIWELL, HERBERT……………………. 278 CABRERA, LUIs…………………………. 831 HARLOW, S. RALPH ……………………… 667 CLARK, J. L …………………………… 426 HAVEN, WM. I. ………………………… 273 CORY, ABRAM E ………………………… 764 HICKS, HARRY WADE ……………………. 845 CROWTHER, J. E ………………………… 449 HILFORD. M. R …•…………………….. 409 CUNNINGHAM, R ………………………… 128 HILL, MRS. WILLIAM BANCROFT……………. 675 CURTIS, PIERSON ……………………….. 279 DANNER, W. M ………………………… 357 DANIELS, MARY LOUiSE ……•……•..••. 132 697

PAGE PAGE HOLST, M. K. S ……………………… 329 431 RICHARDSON, CLEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • 99 HUDSPETH, W. D ……………………….. 127 RIGGS, C. T …………………….. 737. 915, 939 HUME, ROBERT A ………………………. 350 RINDGE, FRED H……… . ………•. 509 HUNTER, ETHEL HAMILTON…. .. … .. 200 ROBBINS, HOWARD CHANDLER…… 19 HURREY, CHARLES DUBOIS ……………….. 351 ROBBINS. J. C ….. :………….. 932 HUSTED, JAMES D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 ROBERTS, LORD……… …… . ……. ….. 450 INMAN, S. G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359, 801 Ross, CYRIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 INNES. GEORGE…………………………. 661 ROWLAND, CHARLES A ……………………. 425 ISMAIL, MOHAMMED ……………………… 827 SAILLENS, RUBEN ……………………….. 289 JEFFERYS, W. H….. . ………………… 490 SANDERS, MRS. ROBERT STUART. . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 JONES, GEORGE HEBER… . . . . . … 590, 803 SCHAUFFLER, MRS. A. F ………………….. 767 JOWETT, JOHN HENRy …………………. 363 495 SCHIEFFELIN, DR. W,LLIAM J.. . . . . . 425 KOMATSU, MmORI. ………….. , ………… 891 SCHULZE, PAUL …………………………. 367 Koo, V. K. WELLINGTON…………………. 763 SCOTT, CHARLES E… ….. ……………. …. 89 LEONARD, GEORGE L….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 595 SHEDD, W,LLIAM A ………………………. 585 MACKAY, ISABELLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 SHUEY, E. L ……………………………. 425 MACPHAIL, J. M ……………………….. 369 SINGH, ST. NiHAL ……………………….. 269 MARTIN, MRS. MOTTE …………………… 438 SMITH, EGBERT W ……………………….. 135 MAXWELL, CHARLES H…… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 688 SPEER, ROBERT E ………. 109 249.341,517,576, 935 McAFEE, J. ERNEST…………………….. 92$ SPEERS, THOMAS GUTHRIE…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 499 MCCLENAHAN, R. S.. …………………… 6.63 STEAR"S, D. M. ……………………….. 46 M'CRAE, MISS LEE……………………… 525 STUNTZ, HOMER C ….•………………….. 118 METHUEN, LORD ……………………….. , 450 SWARTZ, HERMAN F………………… 192 MEYERS, MISS ANNA EDITH ………………• 677 TANAKA, T …………………………….. 825 MONTGOMERY, HELEN BARRETT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 TASKER, FRED E….. . . . . . . . 427 MONTGOMERY, JAMES M ………………….. 426 TAYLOR, W. E……… ….. .. ……….. 529 MORRIS, MISS M. C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753 THWING, E. W…….. ………… 123 MOTT, JOHN R ………………………….. 694 TISDALL, CHARLES E. G…… 347 NASSAU, ROBERT HAMILL …………………. 507 TUCKER, BISHOP………… . .. " ….. 208 OKUMA, COUNT …………………………. 825 UNDERWOOD, MRS. H. G……. 903 OLDHAM, W. F…… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……. 340,592 VAN DYKE. HENRy………….. 772 OSUNA, ANDRES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 VAN PEURSEM, MRS. G. D… 773 PALMER, FRANCIS…………… 941 WALLACE, MRS. WILLIAM … . 579 PIERSON, DELAVAN L.. …. . . . . . . 419 WANG, C. T …………. . 569 PIERSON, MRS. DELAVAN L ……………….. 335 WEBSTER, GEORGE SmNEY … . 187 PIETERS, ALBERTUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 649 WHERRY, E. M ……………. . 445 POLLARD, SAMUEL ……………………….• 108 WILLIAMS, MRS. J. M ………. . 218 POTEAT, E. M ………………………….. 428 W,LL,AMS, WALTER B …….. . 597 PRICE, WILLARD ……. , ………………….. 528 WILSON, SAMUEL G …….. . 683 RAYNOLDS, G C …………………………. 169 WINTON, G. B …………. . 611 REIS, ALVARO …………………………… 115 ZWEMER, SAMUEL M ……. . . ……… 24, 523 SUBJECTS * PAGE PAGE ABYSSINIA, Bible in…………………….. 461 Advertising the Gospel in Japan (aJ. A. Pieters .. 649 Africa in 1915………………………….. 3 Afghan Frontier, On the………………….. 627 AFGHANISTAN Remain Closed, How Long Must – !tongolo, The Black Fisherman (b). R. H.

(aJ. M. K. S. Holst ………………….. 329 Nassau…………………………….. 507 – Remain Without Missionaries. How Long Must – Letter from. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 315 (a). M. K. S. Holst …………………. 431 AFRICA, Black Problem in South (b). J. L. Dube 205 – Mass Movement in Central…. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 565 – British Missionaries Interned in .. ………. .. 396 – Busoga Christian Chief in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 711 – Missionaries Returning to West. …………. 325 – Consecrated to Work for Moslems ………… 632 – Drink for ……………………………. 462 – Moslem Woman Defies a Sheikh ………….. 555 – East, Effects of War in…………………. 875 – East, Unfinished Task in ……………….. 712 – New Mandingo Association in…….•…….. 872 – Experiment in East …………. " ………. 732 – Fighting the Devil in (a). W. B. Williams …. 597 – New Missionaries for …………………… 798 – German Catholic Missions in …………….. 463 – German Mission sin …… ………… .. 396, 9j6 – New Race of Pigmies in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 876 – Pag"nism on the Gold Coast…………….. 462 – Revival in Sout'h.. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 235 – Setting Too High a Standard for America, is .. , 442 – Striking Facts About (bJ. J. E. Crowther …. 449 – Suffering of German 1:1issions in. . . . . . . . 38 – To-morrow in.. .. . . . . . .. ……………… 401 – West, News from…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 155 African Bishops Reply to Kikuyu St:;tement ….. 148 * (a) indicates an article over 3 pages in length; the letter (b) a brief article from one to three pages in length.

All other subjects indexed are less than one page in length. The number of the month when any given article + appeared may be found by dividing the number of the page by 80 and adding 1 to the unit so obtained. For example: page 548. + 80 = 6, 1 '" 7 Ouly).

INDEX

PAGE PACE African Boy, Through the Eyes of an………. 207 Australian Bible Institute. . . . • . . . . . . . . 397 – Boys, English of ………………………. 633 Austrian Jews, Plight of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 – Evangelists, Devoted.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 BAGANDA Missionaries for the Sudan ……….. 155 – Native Christian on the War. ……………. 397 Balkans in 1915. ……………………….. 2 – News, Recent West …………………… 316 Baptism. Heathen's Idea of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 708 – Problem, Solving the …………………… 409 Baptist Convention in Mexico, Southern ……… 617 Africans, College for. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797 – Secretary. New……….. " . ……… 63 Afro-American Synod….. ; . . . . . . . . . 635 – Work in PortugaL………….. . ……… 865 Aitchison, J. T., Baptist Secretary…. 636 Baptists to Enter Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . 546 ALASKA Opportunity in………. 794 BAROTSILAND, King Lewanika of (b)….. 287 – Progress in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 -and Basutoland…………………. 314 – Union Work for (a). J. E. McAfee. 925 Basutoland and Barotsiland.. . . 314 Alaskan Indian's Sermon. ….. . 544 Beatty, Sir David, on a Revival in Britain. . 225 Algerian Women Baptized……. . . . . . . . 235 BELGIUM in 1915…….. ………….. …… 2 Amazon, Bible Colportage on the. 153 – Protestltnt Churches in (a). H. K. Anet. . . . . . 33 AMERICA, Churches on Wheels in the West (al – Suffering in France and………… ……. 523 Miss A. E. Meyers……… … .. … 677 Best Methods, Department of. Miss B. M.

-in the Far East……… ………. 73 Brain. 51.131,213.291.373.451,533.693.777.853 – Italians in …………… . 636 –from Many Magazines ……………….. 291 – Japanese. View of ….. . 715 – – from Many Missionary Workers ……….. 533 – Ministry in ………. . 151 BmLE, Buddhist Girls Learn ………………. 790 – Negroes in……….. . 635 – Colportage on the Amazon. . . . 153 – Self-exiled in (b). Miss L. M·Crae ….. '" … 525 – Distribution, Century of (aJ. W. 1. Haven…. 273 – Troopers' Bible Class ………….. . 874 – in Abyssinia …………………………. 461 – World Challenge to W. F. Oldham……. . 340 – Institute, Australian …………………… 397 American Bible Society, Hundred Years of (a). – Prisoner and the.. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 71 W. L Haven………………… . 273 944 – Society, Centennial of the American. . 223 American Board in Mexico ….. 616 – Yuan Shih Kai and the (a). E. W. Thwing … 123 – Church and the Task .. . 465 Bibles by the Hundred Thousand …………… 386 – Church Statistics ……. . 167 – for the German Troops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 226 – Indians as Farmers .. R75 -for Troops and Mexicans ……………….. 716 – Missionaries in Turkey. . 304 -for West Point Cadets……………… 543 – Schools in the Philippines…….. 233 – in Korea………………….. … 871 – Work for Moslems….. . . . . . . . . . 224 – Lost at Sea………. …… . 317 AMOY, Visit to Picturesque (b) Mrs. W. B. Hill. 675 – Needed for Soldiers…. . 623 Ance~tor Worship in China, Views of., 883 – Porto Ricans Know Their. 385 ANGOLA, Child-sacrifice in…….. 315 Birthday Box, Missionary. . . . . . . 856 Anniversaries of 1916. Missionary,.. 57 Black Problem in South Africa (b). J. L. Dube.. 205 Appeal from Indian Villages…. . . . . . . 230 Blessings, Stagnant ………. . 62 Appealing to the Heroic. J. R. Mott.. . . 694 Blind in China. Schools for the … 552 Apostle of Christian Unity, David Thompson. An -of India…………….. . 302 (a). W. E. Griffis………… 655 Bliss, Daniel, Grand Old Man of Syria (a). D. S.

Arab, Object Lesson for the. . . . . . . . 228 Dodge…… …………………… 747 ARABIA, Armenian Workers in…. . '710 BOLIVIA, Changes in …………………….. 468 -in 1915 …………………… . BOOKS, New. 80, 160, 240, 320, 400, 480. 639, 559 – Revolt in ……………………………. 564 – Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada.

– Under Arrest in Turkish ………………… 146 F. H. Abbott…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ARGENTINA, Evangelical Conference in.. . . . . . .. 545 – Along the Trail. S. G. Pomeroy.. 159 ARMENIA, Conditions in …………. 228. 786, 945 – Annual Report of the Foreign Missions Con- – Mercy for (Poem). Henry van Dyke……… 772 ference of North America, 1915………… 80 – Thrilling Experiences in (a). G. C. Reynolds.. 169 – Apostles of India. J. N. Ogilvie ………… 880 Armenian Atrocities, German Protest Against….. 867 – Bahaism and its Claim. S. G. Wilson. . . . . . .. 159 – Problem. German View of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 304 – Black Prophet. G. F. Phelps……………. 880 – Refugees at Port Said………………….. 396 – Black Sheep. J. K Mackenzie ………….. 557 – Refugees in Cairo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 68 – Blood Against Blood. A. S. Booth-Clebborn .. 160 – Refugees, Russians Help. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 469 – Call to Service P. E. Howard ………….. 238 – Workers in Arabia…………….. .. 710 – Called. E. M. Crawford…….. ……. ….. 78 Armenians, Future of the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 625 – Campaigning for Christ in Japan. S. H.

– Latest News of the ……………… '" 305 Wainwright ………………………… 800 -Sold in Turkey ……………………….. 227 – Carol-Sweet Lover of Christ ……………. 559 – Under Persecution …………………….. 388 – Centennial History of the American Bible Armenia's Hope …………………………. 548 Society. H. O. Dwight ………………. 799 Army, Indian Christians in the. . . . . . . . . . . 303 _ Challenge to Life Service. F. M. Harris and ASIA, Casting Out Demons in (a). T. G. Speers. 499 J. C. Robbins ……………………….. 880 – Japan's Leadership in (a). R. E. Speer ……. 517 _ Children of South America. Mrs. K. A. Hodge. 239 – What an American Saw in (b). W. Price ….. 528 _ Children of Wild Australia. H. Pitts. . . . . . .. 239 Assuit College as a Factor in Evangelization of ~ Children's Missionary Story Sermons. H. T.

Islam Ca). R. S. McClenflhan.. . • . . . . . . . .. 663 n Xerr …………………. " ……… ····

PAGE PAGE Books-China Mission Year Book in 1915. D. Books-New Life in Christ Jesus. C. 1. Scofield. . 77 MacGillivray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157, 879 – Nez Perces Since Lewis and Clark. K. C. Mc- – Christian Literature in the Mission Field. J. Beth ……………………………… , 239 H. Ritson…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 – Old Spain and New America. R. McLean and – Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire. G. P. Williams ………………………. 879 J. L. Dearing ……………………….. 879 – Overtaking the Centuries. A. E. Paddock….. 160 – Penetrating South America's Darkest Part. A. – Christian Psychology. J. Stalker. . . . . . . . . . . .. 160 – Church Finance. F. A. Agar. …………… 480 R. Hay……………………………. 78 – Conditions Among the Indians on the North- – Reapers of His Harvest. J. T. Faris …….. , 480 – Reign of the Prince of Peace. R. H. Mc- west Coast. S. A. Elliot…… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 – Conditions of the Flat Head Indians. W. H. Clearney ………………………….. , 239 – Revelation. A. C. Goebelein …………… , 159 Ketcham…………………………… 79 -Round Dozen. C. 1. Davidson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 – Confessions of a Hyphenated American. E. A. – Septuagenary of the Presbyterian Mission Press, Steiner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 479 Shanghai. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 320 – Constantinople, Old and New. H. G. Dwight.. 77 – Short History of Japan. E. W. Clement. .. _., 800 -CrisisintheHistoryofthePapacy. J. McCabe 638 – Sketches from Formosa. W. Campbell …….. 319 – Slessor, Mary of Calebar. W. P. Livingstone. 238 – De"olution in Mission Administration. D. J. -Sputh To-day. J. M. Moore ……………. 800 – Students of Asia. S. Eddy ……………. _. 157 Fleming…………………………. 399,639 – Sunday-School Missionary Incidents and – Disintegration of Islam. S. M. Zwemer ……. 879 – Dravidian Gods. W. T. Elmore …………. 479 Exercises. J. W. Somerdike ………….. , 880 – End of the Law. Gilmore and Smith ……… 240 – Sunday-School Teacher and the Program of – Ethics of Confucius. M. M. Dawson …….. 477 – Fifty Years of Association Work Among Young Jesus. G. H. Trull and J. S. Stowell …….. 319 – Three R's of Rescue Mission Work. P. J. Women. E. Wilson ………………….. 557 – Five Hundred Thousand of a Hundred Millions. 79 Roberts….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 79 – Future of South America. R. W. Babson ….. 159 – Tourist Guide to Latin America …………. . 78 – Hero of the Frontier. A. M. Pennell ……… 558 – Union of Christian Forces in America. R. A. -Historic Churches of Mexico. Mrs. J. W. Ashworth …………………………. . 399 Butler …………………………….. 159 – War and the Jew. S. B. Rohold ……….. . 79 – Home Missions Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 – War Journal of a Missionary in Persia …….. 320 – Home Missions in Action. E. H. Allen.. . . . . . 79 – Was it Worth While? Life of Theodore Storrs -How to Live. 1. Fisher and E. L. Fisk …… 239 – In the Wake of the War Canoe. W. H. Collison 558 Lee ………………………………. , 558 – India and its Faiths. J. B. Pratt…………. 237 – Western Hemisphere To-day and To-morrow. – India's Protestant Missionary Directory. J. F. H. Giddings……… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Inglis…… . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 78 – Why and How of Missions in the Sunday-School. – Inspiration of Responsibility and Other Papers. W. Brown…•………………………• 880 C. H. Brent.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 639 – Will of God and a Man's Life Work. H. B. – Introducing the American Spirit. E. A. Steiner 159 – Japan and America. C. Crow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 719 Wright …………………………….. 559 -Japanese Crisis. A. B. Scherer …………… 720 – Winning the World for Christ. W. R. Lambuth 77 – Kingdom in History and Prophecy. L. S. – Working Women of Japan. S. L. Gulick ….. , 158 – World Missions and World Peace. C. A. Mason 638 Chafer………………………….. 239, 479 Borden Memorial Hospital, China, At the …… 791 – Land of the Cherry Blossoms. M. W. ¥adden 238 – in Kansu ……………………………. 553 – Leavening the Levant. J. K. Greene ……… 799 BOSTON Laymen Organize ……………….. 223 – Leaves from the Log of a Sky Pilot. W. P. Boy Scouts. McAll Mission and the ………….. 623 BRAZIL. Baptists to Enter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 546 Puddefoot ………………………….. 557 – Evangelical Colony in ………………….. 221 – Life Abiding and Abounding. W. H. G. Thomas 559 -FiveYears·Workin …………………… 65 – Man and His Money. H. R. Calkins……… 78 – Revival Meeting in…………………… , 795 – Mary Bird in Persia. C. C. Rice …………. 319 – Warning Against Colporteurs in …………. 716 – Mary Slessor. of Calabar. W. P. Livingstone. 767 – Wide-awake Church in (a). A. Reis ……… 115 – Masmoud the Bedouin. A. P. Carhart.. …… 77 Brazilian's View of Protestant Missions. . . . . . . . .. 154 – Maze of the Nations. G. G. Atkins………. 79 Breaking Home Ties ……………………… 702 – Men and World Service ………………… 880 Brent's Report on China, Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 554 – Mikado-Institution and Person. W. E. Griffis 319 Britain. Revival Needed in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 – Missionary Calendar 1916………………. 79 British and German Missions ………………. 139 – Missionary Crusaders. C. Field ………….. 558 – Isles in 1915 ………………………… . – Missionary Speaker and Reader. W. E. Cule. 79 – Laymen's Movement and the War ………… 622 – Missions and Leadership. J. C. White …….. 157 – Missionaries in Mrica, Interned. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 396 – Missions VS. Militarism. R. G. Stevenson ….. 638 – – i n German East Africa ……………….. 234 – Modern Movements Among Moslems. S. G. – Missionary Finances …………………… 166 – Missions to Jews ……………………… 710 Wilson …………………………….. 477 –War and ………………………….. 65 – Mohammed or Christ. S. M. Zwemer…….. 557 – Universities. Orientll.l Students in …………. 226 – Moscow to the Persian Gulf. B. B. Moore …. 478 Buddhism. Romanism and ………………… 703 – Most Vital Mission Problem of the Day. F. Buddhist Comments on Christian Conference in Schwager…………………………… 158 Japan ……………………………… 394 – My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard. E. Cooper 158 – Nancy's Mother. J. C. Cochran…………. 239 PAGE PAGE Buddhist, Girls Learn Bible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 790 China, How the Revival Came in (b). M.B.Grier. 201 – Opposition to Christian Sunday-schools…….. 631 -in 1915……………………………… 3 – Priests Oppose School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 69 – Inland Mission in War Time …………….. 149 Buddhists Start Sunday-school. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 554 – Inland Mission Notes ………………….. 306 Bukumba, Little Brown Soldier in Brownie Land – Japan Influencing……………………… 554 (a). Mrs. M. Martin ………………… 438 – Land of Surprises (b). S. Pollard ………… 107 Bulgarian Christian Campaign.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 66 – Lord's Day in ………………………… 307 Bulletin Board, Announcement of the ………… 217 – Marked Changes in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 565 BURMA, Charms of (a). Mrs. H. B. Mont- – New Cathedral in……………………… 307 gomery……………………………. 9 – New Conditions in (a). C. T. Wang………. 569 – New Judson Memorial in ……………….. 627 – New President of. …………………….. 790 – Opium in……………………………. 551 -OldandNew…………………………. 98 Business, Christian Men in ……•………….. 793 – Opportunity in Chengtu ………………… 307 -for Missions, Gives up ………………….. 714 – Political Outlook in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 869 – Missionary… .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 793 – Princeton's Work in (a). J. S. Burgess ……. 603 C. M. S. Losses Through the War. ………….. 309 – Public Health Campaign in ……………… 306 Cairo, Reaching the Young Men in ………….. 633 – Results Gathered in ……………………. 393 – President Charles R. Watson of. …………. 542 – Results of a Y. M. C. A. Campaign in……… 553 – Work for Moslem Children in ……………. 875 – Revival Meetings in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 553 CALABAR, The White "Ma" of (a). Mrs. A. F. – Revolt in……………………………. 474 Schauffier………………………….. 767 – Schools for the Blind in ……………….. 552 Call, Getting a .. , ……………………….. 783 – Scout Movement in ……………………. 231 – of Christ to Me (Poem) ………………… 362 – Slave Girls Sold in …………………….. 552 Campaign in England …………………….. 387 ~ Striking Facts About ….. 0; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 98 CANADA, Aborigines in …………………… 312 – Suffering of German Missions in…… . . . . . . .. 39 – and Prohibition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 715 – The Coming Power (a). C. E. Scott…. . . . . .. 89 – Church Union for ……………………… 566 – Tithing in Spite of Famine in ……………. 870 – Statistics of Protestant Foreign Missionary – Twenty Rich Years in (a). From a Missionary Societies of. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 168 Viewpoint ………………………….. 689 – Temperance Reform in …………………. 794 – Twenty-five Years in Honan …………….. 324 – War Problems in ……… , …………….. 384 – Union Meetings in War Time in ………….• 393 Carey House Purchased.. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 796 – Union Theological Seminary in …………… 473 Carey's Test Outlined, William …………….. 861 – Unoccupied Territory in ………………… 141 Caste, Breaking of…………………….. 69, 868 – What Missionaries Have Done for (b). V. K.

Casting out Demons in Asia (a). T. G. Speers … 499 W. Koo ……………………………. 763 Century of Bible Distribution (a). W. 1. Haven .. 273 – What Progress Has Been Made …………… 232 – of Missions, After a……………………. 61 China's Contribution to Christianity…………. 392 CEYLON, Deputation to ………………….. 713 – Ruler and Christianity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 481 – One Hundred Years in …………………. 789 -Two Needs ………………………….. 231 – Tamil Coolies in ………………………. 627 Chinese Ambassador a Christian… . . . . . . . . . . . .. 62 Charms of Burma (a). Mrs. H. B. Montgomery. -Army, Christians in……………………. 482 CHIENGMAI, Laoo, Leper Asylum ………….. 391 – Christian Diplomat ……………………. 142 Child-sacrifice in Angola ………………….. 315 – Christians in Business ………………….. 628 Childless Societies ……………………….. 294 – Daughters of the Night (a). Miss M. C.

Children, Working With. 1. Mackay ………… 853 Morris …………………………….. 753 Children's League of Pity …………………. 622 – Father's Letter……………………….. 473 – Societies, Suggestions for. Mrs. R. S. Sanders. 853 – General, Christian …………………….. 394 Chilian Young Men, Reaching ………………. 545 – Islam, Changes in ……………………… 562 CIDNA, At the Borden Memorial Hospital in….. 791 – Literati, Reaching the ………………….. 705 — Bishop Brent's Report on ……………….. 554 – Missionary-Not a Church Member ………. 706 – Blessing of Unbound Feet in …………….. 142 – – t o America………………………… 64 – Borden Memorial Hospital in Kansu ………. 553 – Moslems Alarmed ……………………… 643 – Building up the Church in ………………. 790 – Moslems, Among ……………………… H2 – Changes in.. .. .. .. . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 84 – Christian Literature for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 869 – Church-going in ………………………. 870 – Postal Officials, Gospel for… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 629 – Church Member Now ………………….. 870 -Proverbs. W. D. Hudspeth …………….. 127 – City Evangelization in …………………. 141 – Slave Girls. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 71 – Coal Mine and a Church ……………….. 393 – Students, Mission to.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 474 – Counter Revolutions in …………………. 323 – Weekly, Christian …………………….. 629 – Difficulties in .. , ………. , ……………. 552 – Women as Bible-class Teachers …………… 629 – Dolls as Missionaries in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 306 Chosen, Mission Schools in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 485 – Effects of the European War in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Christian Doctrine of Property (b). E. M. Poteat 428 – Encouragement in West ………………… 705 – Endeavor in India…………………….. 627 – Evangelistic Movements Among Students in (a). – Endeavor Society, Largest ………………. 462 W. E. Taylor……………………….. 529 – Science in Ebony.. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 463 – Every-day Religion in (b). H. Gill ……….. 209 – Woman's Board of Missions in Mexico … … .. 619 "', – Great Work for ……………………….. 473 Christianity a Force in Japan (a). S. L. Gulick .. 685 – Grinnell College Plans for .. , . …. . . . . . . . • . . .. 70:> – World-wide Blessing of. ………………… 752 PAGE PAGE Christians in Japan, Imperial Honors for ……… 143 Death. Strong, Dr. Josiah………………. 476 Christmas Party, Club's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 855 -Swearer, Rev. Wilbur c., of Korea ………… 878 Christ's Missionary Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784 -Thorn, Mrs. Helen D., of Turkey……… 236 Church and the World (Poem),……. ….. . …. 52 – Thompson, Dr. David, of Japan……….. 318 – Assistants Organize… .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 151 – Thompson, Dr. R. Wardlaw, of London.. . . 718 -How Interest my (b). D. M. Stearns……… 46 – Underwood, Dr., of Korea……………. 877 – Missionary Work in U. S. A …………….. 223 – Ussher, Mrs. Elizabeth E., of Turkey…… 236 – Union, New Type of. ………………….. 713 – Wilson, S. G., of Persia…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 Churches on Wheels in the West of America (a). – Wolfe, Archdeacon, of China.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Miss A. E. Meyers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 677 Demonstration Day. Missionary.. . . . . . . . . . . . 536 Club Agent………………………….. 214 Denominational Administration (a). J. E. McAfee 925 Cohn, Leopold, Exonerated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873 Developments in Home Mission Work (a). H. F.

COLOMBIA, Open Doors in…………….. 65 Swartz…………………………….. 192 Colporteurs in Brazil, Warning Against. . 716 Disciples, Progress of the (b). A. E. Cory ……. 764 Conference, American Horne Mission Leaders. . . . 164 Divorce in South America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 313 -for Negro Women ……………………… 875 Doan, R. A., Gives up Business for Missions… . .. 714 -in Cuba, Missionary…………………… 385 Doctor Burned Alive.. . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Congo Land, Needs of……………………. 876 Dolls as Missionaries in China…. 306 Congregational Council, Missions at the…. . . . . .. 63 -Teaching Missions through… 859 Congress Worth While, Make the …………… 425 Dowieism in Zululand…….. . . ……… 314 CONSTANTINOPLE, Threats Against Robert Col- Drink, Cuba Fights Strong.. . . 467 lege ……………………………….. 148 Duke, Mr. H. Z., on Giving……. 874 Cooperation in Home Missions ……………… 806 Eastern Asia, Challenge of. . . . . . . . 340 -in Porto Rico …………………………. 326 Eddy, Sherwood, Adventures of.. . . 317 – Spirit of (Editorial) ……………………. 726 –in India……………….. 551 Corbett, Dr. Hunter………………… 71,305,472 Editorial-Forward Look…. . …. 725 Crawford, Dan, Message from. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 73 – New Beginning………………… ….. 721 Crawford's Converts, Some of Dan. . .. . . . . . . . . .. 464 – Spirit of Co-operation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 726 Cross, Triumph of the (b).. … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 49 – Suffering Non-Combatants.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 727 CUBA Fights St.rong Drink ………………… 467 Education in the United States, Cost of. . . . . . . .. 542 – Missionary Conference in….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 385 Effect of the War on Missions to the Jews (a).

– Worth While, Are Missions to ……………. 734 D. Baron…………………………… 197 DANIEL in Babylon, Like …………………. 862 EGYPT, Christian College in (a). R. S. McClena- DEATH han. ………………………….. 663 -Atkinson, Henry H., of Turkey …………… 236 – Evangelistic Campaign in…….. … . 461 – Baird, Mrs. Wm., of Chosen …………….. 637 – Islam Active in…………… . 314 – Barnum, Rev. Henry S., of Turkey ……….. 2.>6 – Mission Schools in………. . 73 – – Mrs. Mary E., of Turkey…………….. 2.16 – Moslem School in…………… . 555 – Bliss, Dr. Daniel, of Syria ………………. 718 – New Kind of Funeral in…….. . 632 -Bowen, Dr. Marcellus, of Turkey …………. 877 -Old Greek Chains in………… . 461 – Chatterjee, Rev. Dr., K. C., of India ………. 718 -Railway Gospel Carin…………………. 73 – Clarke, Dr., of Bulgaria ………………… 798 -Rescue Work in ………………………. 797 – Dobbins, Dr., of Philadelphia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 798 – Testaments by the Thousand in… . . . . . . . . .. 396 – Ely, Miss Charlotte E., of Turkey ………… 236 – Welcomed in Moslem School in…. . . . . . . . . .. 395 – Eveland of Manila, Bishop. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 717 – Woman Historian of. .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 711 – Fergnson, Right Rev. Samuel D ………….. 798 Elijah II. Movement in Nigeria…… … 876 – Gorbold, R. P., of Japan ……………….. 318 Emergency Supper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 – Harris, Dr. Ira, of Syria…… , ………….. 236 England, Church Union for…………. . 406 – Johnson, Miss Bertha G., a Friend of Lepers… 718 – Simultaneous Campaign.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 -Jones, Rev. J. P., of India ………………. 878 -Work for Women in Munition Centers in,.. 546 – Killie, Dr. C. A., of China……………….. 717 English Churches in Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 – Knapp, Rev. George P., of Turkey ………… 2.16 Episcopalians and Union Work……… ….. 486 -Leonard, Dr. Adna B …………………… 476 Erzroom, Awful Scenes in…………………. 549 – Leslie, Rev. Francis H., of Turkey ………… 236 Eskimo Hungry for the Word………………. 22.1 – MacNair, Theodore, of Japan ……………. 318 Europe, Christian Work for t!:!e Soldiers in ……. 245 – McBeth, Kate, of Idaho………………… 67 – John R. Mott in………………………. 546 – Monroe, Harry, of Chicago ……………… 798 – Spiritual Engineers in.. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 561 – Moore, Rev. P. H., of Assam …………….. 556 Evangelical Union, Porto Rico Rejects the ……. 795 – Newton, Dr. C. B., of India……………… 556 Evangelism and Women Speakers …………… 864 – Peel, Bishop, of Mombasa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 636 Evangelistic Campaign, Japan's…………….. 23.1 – Pollard, Samuel, of China…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 76 – Movements among Students in China (a).

– Raynolds, Mrs. George C., of Turkey. . . . . . . .. 236 W. E. Taylor………………………. 529 – Riggs, Dr. A. L., of Nebraska……………. 637 Events, CQming, 8, 88, 168, 247, 327, 407, 487, 567, 647 -Ross, Dr. John, of Mukden……………. 76 – of 1915, Leading.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – Sandler, Dr., of Constantinople…. . . . . . . . . . … 76 Ewing, Arthur H., Life of (a). M. Ismail.. …… 827 -Shepard, Fred. D., of Turkey…..•………. 236 Farming Evangelism in India.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 303 – Simpson, Sir Alexander, of Scotland……….. 556 Fear, Bondage of.. ………………………. 785 – Sjoeholm, W., of Sweden ……………….. 878 Federated Work in Japan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 641 PAGE PAGE Fellowship of Faith…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 299 God Cares. Men-Money (b). G. Innes ……… 661 – of Reconciliation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 62 God's Plan for Your Life. E. W. Fritchley …… 682 Field-Marshals, Testimony of Three.. . . . . . . . . . .. 450 – Word to His People ……………………. 299 Fighting the Devil in Africa. W. B. Williams …. 597 Gordon Bible College…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 874 Fiji Islanders, Generous ….. , ……………. .. 541 Gospels for Italian Soldiers………………… 226 Filipino, Distinguished……………………. 872 Grenfell's War Experiences ………………… 468 – New Point of View for the ………………. 634 Grinnell College Plans for China. . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 Finances, British Missionary…. . 166 GUATEMALA, Christian Books Make their Way Fisher, Fred B… . . .. .. . . . .. . . . 312 in……………………. …… 863 Fisherman's Jug…………… 375 – Narrow Escape in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Five Millions for Relief. . . . . . . . 460 Guide Books, Missionary……. . . . 379 Forces that Win (a). R. E. Speer.. 576 Guinness, Successor to Dr.. ………….. , … .. 226 Foreign Missions, Americ: '1. . . . . . . 165 Gypsies, Mission Among Swiss ……………… 865 – Students at Conferences.. . . . . . 873 HAGGARD Goes to Russia, Dr…………….. 383 – – i n U. S. A., Winning……. 310 HAINAN, Faithful Christians in ……………. 142 Foreigner~, Mission Work among….. 543 HAITI, Better Days for.. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … 404 FORMOSA, ~lind in.. .. . . . . . 72 Hallelujah Kim of Japan (a). Mrs. D. L. Pieri;on 335 – Jubilee in…. . .. .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 HANGCHOW, Y. M. C. A. in ……………… 472 – Sunday-school Work in… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632 Harris, Japanese Tributes to Bishop …………. 630 Forward Look (Editorial). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 Hatred and Love in the War ………………. 810 FRANCE and BELGIUM, Suffering in….. 623 HAWAII, Good and Evil in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 -and Islam……………………. 547 – Memorial Building in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 793 -in 1915………………………. . – New Crisis in. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 – War and Religion in (b). R. Saillens…. 289 Heathen's Idea of Baptism… . . . . . . . . . . . 708 – Y. M. C. A. in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Hebrew Christians in Conference.. . . . . . . . . .. 543, 943 French Appeal for Unity………………….. 645 Hepzibag Faith Missionary in Mexico. . . . 619 – Churches, Needs of the.. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 796 Highways for Missions in Palestine. . . . . . . . 323 Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, Hindu Students, Earnest….. . . . . . . . . . . . . 868 American Committee on (a). C. D. Hurrey…,51 Hindus Become Christians? Do……….. 350 Friendship, Promoting National. ……………. 405 -in California, Something About the (a). Miss Fuel for Missionary Fires …….. 1, 81, 161. 241, L. M'Crae……… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 321,401. 481, 561, 641 –in the West Indies………………… 153 Funeral in Egypt, New Kind of. ……………. 6.32 – Spiritual Unrest Among ………………… 242 Furman University, Chair in Christianity in …… 151 Home Mission Gifts Last year ……………… 311 GARDEN Party at a Summer Resort ………… 379 – – Leaders in Conference, American.. . . . . . . . .. 164 GERMAN and British Missions …………….. 139 –Task To-day ………………………. 224 – Catholic Missions in Africa ……………… 463 – – to Consider, Some Facts for Those Interested – Colonies Captured by Allies ……………… 469 in ………………………………… 360 – East Africa, British Missionaries in. . . . . 234 – – Work, American ……………………. 465 – Missionaries in India ……………. 69, 145, 229 – – Work, Developments in (a). H. F. Swartz.. 192 –Newsof …………………………… 387 Home Missions, Cooperation in… . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 806 – – Troubles of… . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 – – Establishing Christianity on the Rio Grande – Missions After the War.. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . 6 (a). S. M. Glasgow ………………….. 849 – – and Missionaries, Suffering of (a). T. F. HONAN, Twenty-five Years in…………….. 324 Hahn.. ……………………….. 38 How Long Shall I Live (Poem). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 662 –Help for……………………….. 874 IDEAS for Speakers and Workers …………… 527 –in Africa. …………………. 396 Illustrations from Life… .•. . . . • . . . . . . . 862 – – in India, Caring for. . . . . . . . . . . . 390, 950 Imposters, Beware of…. . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 –So P. G.Appealsfor…………………. 146 Income Will Do, What One's Day. . . . . . . . 138 – Orphanages in India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 INDIA, Appeal to Students in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 73 2 – Protest Against Armenian Atrocities… 867 – Blind of… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 302 – Report from Palestine…… . . . . . . . . . . 548 – Breaking Down Caste in………………… 550 – Troops, Bibles for the. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 – Caste– Caring for German Missions in. . . . . . .. 390 – View of Armenian Problem……….. 304 – Caste Breaking Down in ………………… 868 GERMANY, English Churches in …………… 309 – Challenge of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 340 – in 1915…… .. …. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . . .. 2 – Christian Endeavorin ………………….. 627 Gideons, Convention of the.. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 793 – Conversion of a Holy Man in ……………. 868 Gilts, Some Ways of Increasing Missionary. – Cross and Crescent in ………………….. 230 B. M. Brain………………………… 131 – Evangelism Through Charts in…. . . . . . . 301 – to Missions, Presbyterian ……………….. 713 – Facts About …………………………. 390 Giving-Ap Erratic Proportion. M. L. Daniels .. 132 – Farming Evangelism in …………………. 303 – Experience of a Tither.. .. .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . … 874 – German Missionaries in……… 69, 145, 229, 950 – During Passion Week.. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . … 311 – German Orphanages in …………………. 302 – in War Times, Missionary .. …………… .. 622 -Heathenism in……………………….. 303 – Lesson in Church ……………………… 715 – Homecoming of Young Princes in …………. 708 – Specific ……………………………… 137 – Hopeful Signs in……………………….. 241 Glad Conference in Siam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 707 – Immense Field in ……………………… 301 God Cares. Do We? A. J. Gordon ………… 130 -in!915 …………… , …………… , .. ,. ~ PAGE PAGE India, Influence of Outcaste Christians in ……… 145 Japan. Christian Maternity Hospital in…. 703 – Influence of the Life of Arthur H. Ewing in (a). – Christianity a Force in (a). S. L. Gulick …… 685 M. Ismail. …………………………. 827 – Christian Silk Mill in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 703 – Jungle Tribe in (b). P. Schulze ………….. 367 – Dr. Nitobe and the Teacher.> in …………… 871 – Mass Movements in ……………………. 302 – Episcopal Church of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 – Medical'Mecca in (a). St. N. Singh ………. 269 – Factory Slavery in………. ……… … 394 – Meerut Mission Centenary in ……………. 550 – Federated Work in……… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 – Missionary Survey of….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 – Hallelujah Kim of (a). Mrs. D. L. Pierson. 335 – Moving Christward in.. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 – His Citizenship Restored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 – Overturning in………………………. 593 – Imperial Honors for Christians in…. .. . . . . . .. 143 – Power of Chri,t in (a). E. M. Wherry ……. 445 -in 1915……………………… 3 – Restrictions on Missionaries to………. 788 – Influencing China……………………… 554 – Ritual Murder in (b). H. Halliwell….. 278 – Loyal Church in………….. ….. 71 – Salvation Army in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 – New Open Door in…………….. 72 – Saving a Robber Tribe in…… . . . . . . . . . 391 – New Premier in… .. . …….. . . . . . . 871 -Signs of a New…………………….. 350 – Plans for St. Paul's College in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 475 – Snake and Tree Torship in ……………… 366 – Sad Religious Status in…… . . . . . . . . . . 474 – Social Service in ………………………. 707 — Use of Tracts in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 – Spiritual Awakening in….. …. .. .. ……… 82 – Work of Christ in (a). R. E. Speer……… 341 – Student Social Service Work in …………… 301 – "Worth-While" Work in…………….. 791 – Suffering of German Missions in… .. . . . . . . . .. 39 – Y. M. C. A. Making Headway in….. . . . . . . 308 – to Educate the Outcast in ……………….. 626 Japanese Christian Students, Unique Gift of. … 232 -' To-day, Hope of. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 390 – in the United States……… ',' . . . . . . . . 312 – Training Leaders in……….. ….. … …… 83 – Northfield…. …. . . …. . . . . . . . . . 143 – Unoccupied Fields in …………………… 301 – Sailors Accept Testaments…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 -"Untouchables" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 – Students Accepting Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 474 – War and Missions in (a). H. Anderson …… 26'; – Take Over German Islands………. 635 – What a Converts' Home Did in ………….. 145 – Testimony. T. Tanaka and Count Okuma …. 825 – With the Territorial Troops in. . . . . . . . . 303 – Tributes to Bishop Harris ……………….. 630 – Woman's Medical College in…… 230 – View of America. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 715 Indian a Citizen, Making the…. . . . 794 Japan's Evangelistic Campaign …………….. 233 – Christians and the War……….. 448 – Leadership in Asia (a). R. E. Speer. ……… 517 – Christianity Community………………. 626 – Progress.. . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554 – Christians in the Army. . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . .. 303 JAVA, Day of Opportunity in………………. 46.1 – Convert, Notable ……………………… 788 Jew, The (Poem). E. H. Hunter…………… 200 – Missions of the Protestant Churches of the Jewish Missions in the War Zones.. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 66 United States, 1915, Statistics of the . . . . . . . . . 776 – Refugees in Russia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 — Farmers Turning to Christ……. . . . . . . . . . . .. 550 – Relief for Suffering Jews………………… 225 -Rajahs Show Interest in Mission Work .. c.. 470 Jews and Palestine………………………. 625 – "Sadhu" Standing all Day for Christ. . . . . 708 – British Missions to…………………….. 710 – Villages, Appeal from.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 – Christian Relief of the………………….. 224 Indians as Fanners, American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875 – Co-operation in Missions to.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 85 – Brighter Days for the………………. . -Effect of the War on Missions to the (a). D.

– Christian American… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 Baron …………………………….. 197 – of South America (a). H. C. Tucker. . . . . . 840 -of Tangier, Among the…………… 712 India's Great Need, Meeting (b). G. S. Eddy … 443 – Plight of Austrian.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 – Students, Among………………… … 471 Journeys to Mission Lands… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 – Young Men, Work for. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 22 8 Judaism Disintegrating, Is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886 Infidel Missions in New york…………… 881 Judson Memorial in Burma, New……… 627 Insane of Syria, For the…….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Jungle Tribe in India (b). P. Schulze………. 367 Interest my Church? How (b). D. M. Stearns. 46 KAMERUN, Uncensored Facts from …………. 461 Intoxicants, Prohibit Exports of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 Karen Christian, Honor for a………………. 789 – War Against…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 Khama, New Church of King…………… …. 74 IRELAND, Evangelistic Work in ….. Kikuyu Region, Progress in the.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Islam Active in Egypt. . . . . . . . 314 – Statement, African Bishops Reply to.. . . . . . . .. 148 – Changes in Chinese…….. .. 562 Konds-Their Origin, Customs, and Beliefs (a).

– France and………… 547 P. Schulze………………………….. 367 Italian Soldiers, Gospels for. . .. ………….. 226 Koo, V. K. Wellington…. .. .. . .. . .. . . . . . .. . … 62 – Soldiers, With the …………………….. 387 KOREA, Aggressive Work by Seoul Christians…. 308 Italians in America ………………………. 636 -"Better Babies" in ……………………. 631 ITALY, American Pastor in ………………… 310 — Bible for Every Home.. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 871 – Among War Prisoners in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 865 – Convention for the Blind and Deaf. . . . . . . . . .. 144 Itongolo, the Black FisheTIflan (b). R. H. Nassau 507 – Dr. Underwood's, Service in (a). A. J. Brown. 911 JAPAN, Advertising the Gospel in (a). A. Pieters 649 – Education in Chosen…………………… 143 – and Sunday-Schools ……………………. 6.31 – Evangelistic Campaign in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – Buddhist Comments on Christian Conference in 394 – Fruits of Colportage Work in ……………. 144 – Chair of Christianity in Tokio ……………. 792 – Grows, Why the Church in (b). C. Ross…..• 195 – Christian Business Men in……. , ……….. 307 -in 1915……………………………… 3 PAGE PAGE Korea, Life of Dr. Underwood (a). Mrs. Underwood 903 MANCHURIA, Korean Missions in………….. 642 – Phenomenal Christian Growth in… . . . . . . 143 – Practical Christianity in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 869 – Prayer Restores Sanity in…. . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Mandingo Association in Africa, New ………… 872 – Progress in……………… ……. … . 555 MARSHALL ISLANDS, Japanese Take Over …. 635 – Religious Liberty in (a). M. Komatsu…. 891 Marsovan Girls Rescued. . . . . . . . 68 – Soul Winning, How They Do It in… . . . . . . .. 632 – Missionaries Return to. . . . . . . . 866 – Test for Church Membership in.. . . . . . . . . 704 Mass Movements (a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 592 – Yun Chi Ho now Y. M. C. A. Secretary… 792 – – i n Centr~tl Africa……….. . …….. . 565 Korean Men's Home Missionary Society. . – Missions in Manchuria………. .. .. 704 MeAn Mission and the Boy Scouts …. . 623 642 Medical College Progress in Peking ….. . 706 – Opinion of American Churches. . . . . . . 871 – Mecca in India (a). St.:-<. Singh .. . 269 – Prison, Moody's Sermon in a…. . . . . . 144 MELANESIAN, Puzzled …………. . 156 – Railway Y. M. C. A…….. . . . . . . . . . 704 Men, Work for India's Young .. . 228 – School Closed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792 Men's Congres~ of Missions (a). D. L. Pierson … 419 – Sorceress Gives up Tools. . . . . . . . . . . 474 MESOPOTAMIA, Future of … . 305 Korea's Record Year.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 – With the Troops in …… . 147 L. M. S. Crisis averted…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 386 – Y. M. C. A. Work in … . 788 Labrador Missionaries on Parole……… ~ … 152, 384 Methodist Board Financial Policy. 715 Land Closed to Christians (a). M. K. S. Holst, – Church (South) in Mexico.. 618 329, 431 – Episcopal Church in Mexico. 618 Laos, Leper Asylum in Chiengmai…… . 391 – General Conference, Mission" at the.. 486 Latin-America and Rome ……….. . 221 Methodists, World-wide Work of (b). G. H.

– – Challenge of.. …………….. . .140 Jones….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 – – Church of Rome at its Worst in.. 151 Mexican Border, Work for Troop~ on. . … 646 – – Enlargement in …………… . g02 – Governor, Progressive. . . . . . . . . . . . 385 – – i n 1915 ………………………….. . 3 – Protestant Leaders…… . . . . . . 243 –Light on (a). H. W. Hicks. 845 – Puzzle (b). S. G. Inman……… 801 –Panama Congress on Christian Work in (a). Mexicans, Bibles for Troops and. . . 716 R. E. Speer………………….. . 249 -Return, When the………………… 466 – – Raffling Image(in………….. . 795 MEXICO Becomin" New, Old…………. 45 –Unreached (b). S. G. Inman. 359 -,. Before and After (a). A. Osuna. . . . . . . . . . 41 – – Why Study……….. . 808 – Better News from….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Laymen Organize, Boston.. . . . . . . 223 – Economic Problems in…. 467 – Ten-Year Program for……….. ….. .. 38·! – Missionary Situation in (a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 Laymen's Congress at Washington, Gleanings from – Misunderstood (a). Mrs. W. Wallace…. 579 the………………………… … 527 – Outlook in……………………….. 162 – Missionary Campaign………….. 63 – Program of Peace for (a). J. W. Butler….. 813 – Movement Secretary………………. 312 – Protestant Episcopal Church in………… 615 – National Missionary Campaign…. ….. 163 – Protestantism a Force in. . . . . . . . . . . . 222 – National Missionary Congress at Washington.. 246 – Protestantism in……. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Leper Asylum i!t Chiengmai, Laos …………… 391 -Reconstruction in (a). G. B. Winton. 611 – Poet, Christian… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 630 – Religious Question in (a). L. Cahrera. 831 Leper's Church in Louisiana (b). W. M. Danner. 357 – Revolutionists and the Clergy in. 313 – Cured, Surinam………………………. 864 – Signs of Harvest in. . . . . . . . . . . 545 – Print the Bible.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 70 – Typhus in……………….. 313 Lewanika of Barotseland (b)…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2R 7 -Women of (a). Mrs.J.W.Butler ………… 181 -Successor of……… . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 797 . Mid-summer Missionary Pilgrimage …………. 533 Liberation of Slaves (a). J. H. Jowett.. .. . 363 Mightier Than Treaties (a). C. D. Hurrey …… 351 Live, How Long Shall I (Poem)…… ….. 662 Ministry in America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.~ 1 LIVINGSTONIA, Forty Years in…. . . . . . . . . . . .. 877 Missionaries Have Done for China, Vlhat (b).

LOmSIANA, Lepers' Church in (b). W. M. V. K. W. Koo……. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 763 Danner……………………………. 357 Missionary as a Police Force. . . . . . . . . . . 475 Love and Hatred in the War. ……………… 810 – Boxes, New……… ……… …… 856 –the Sum of the Gospel (a). W. H. Jefferys.. 489 – Multiple Life of a Foreign (a). J. M. Mac- Lovedale Institution…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.1 Phail. …………………………….. 369 Lowrie, Rev. W'l.Iter………………. 310 – Review Publishing Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 459 MADAGASCAR, Christians of……… .. 877 – Situation in Mexico (a) …………………. 614 – Church and State in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 Missions Boards and Theological Students. 224 -Co-operation in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 464 – Plans of the Commission on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 150 – Editor Converted……………………… 397 – Spiritual and Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Magazine Meetings………………………. 219 – Turks and American.. . . . . . . . . . . 563 -Tree ……………………………….. 217 Mohammedan Malays, Ideas of (a). C. E. D.

Magazines, Best Methods from many…….. 291 Tisdall……………………… 347 – Making the Most of the………………… 213 Mohammedanism in Petrograd……… 150 Malays, Ideas of Mohammedan (a). C. E. G. Money-God-Men (b). G. Innes…… 661 Tisda!I. ………………………………147 Money-raiser, Great……………… .. 213 MALAYSIA, Fifty Years' Progress in Nias ……. 324 Moody's Sermon in a Korean Prison …………. 144 Man Who Pays the Bills.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 360 Moorish Soldier Converted ………………… 797 PAGE PAGE Moravian Crisis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 548 Outlook for 1916….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 3 Morgenthau's Tribute to Missionaries in Turkey. O-w-n, W-o-n, N-o-w. S. M. Glasgow……….. 212 Ambassador…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 388 PACIFIC, Conquering Fear in the …………… 541 Mormons Losing Zeal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 466 – Suffering of German Missions in the. . . . . . . . .. 39 – Missions of the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 PALESTINE, Conditions in ………………. 148 Morning Star, End ofthe …………………. 712 – German Report from …………………… 548 Moros, Successful Work for the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 716 – Highways for Missions in ……………. " .. 323 Morphia Succeeds Opium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 630 -Jews and ……………………………. 625 MOSLEM Boys and Girls, Winning.. . . . . . . . . . .. 234 – Missions Suffer in. … . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 470 – Boys, Life of Livingstone for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 227 -Shaken by the War……………………. 470 – Children in Cairo, Work for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 875 PANAMA Canal and Christianity …………… 735 – Convert, young………………………. 129 – Congress. …. ……………………….. 59 – Imam Discovers Christ (b). J. L. Barton. . .. 774 –After the ………………………….. 244 – Independence Proclaimed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 787 – – and the Protestant Episcopal Church (a).

– School in Egypt ………………………. 5.15 H. C. Robbins………………………. 19 – School in Egypt, Welcomed in……………. 395 –on Christian Work in Latin America (a).

– Wife, Prayer of a (b). Mrs. G. D. van Peursem 773 R E. Speer…………………………. 249 – Woman Defies a Sheikh ………………… 555 – – Pray for the……………………….. 81 – World, Challenge of the………………… 340 – Religious Work in (a). G. S. Webster …….. 187 Moslems, Africa Consecrated to Work for …….. 632 Parish of the Streets, New York (a). P. Curtis .. 279 -Alarmed, Chinese ……………………… 643 Passion-week. Self-denial During.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 311 -American Work for ……………………. 224 Pastor at Work for Missions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 777 -Among Chinese ……………………….. 142 – Does It. How One …………………….. 527 – Christian Literature for Chinese.. . . . . . . . . . . .. 869 – Missions and the ……………………… 382 – Future of the (a). S. M. Zwemer. . . . . . . . . . . 24 Paton Family, News of the…. ……. ………. 75 – Way to Reach ………………………… 708 Peace, Church and ….. : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 465 Mott, John R., in Europe…………………. 546 – for Mexico. Program of (a). J. W. Butl~r …. 813 Multiple Life of a Foreign Missionary (a). J. M. – Movements, War and ………………….. 482 McPhail. ………………………….. 369 PEKING Medical College Progress………….. 706 Munition Centers in England, Work [or Woman in 546 – Student Volunteers in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Music Effective for Missions, Making ………… 451 -The New ……………………………. 141 – Some Practical Suggestions on. D. B. Eddy.. 451 Pentacostal Church of the Nazarene in Mexico …. 619 NATIONAL Bible Institute…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 299 Persecution. Annenians Under……………… 388 —Facts About the Work of the (a). P. PERSIA Around the War Zone, To (b). S. G.

Curtis …… , ………………………. 279 Wilson…………………………….. 683 – Missionary Campaign, Laymen's …………. 163 – British Missionaries Leave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Necessity the Mother of Invention. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 556 – Christian School in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Negro, New Attitude Toward the …………… 714 – Doctor Burned Alive in. … …….. 390 – Women, Conference for …………………. 875 – "If War Would Only End."…….. 787 Negroes in America…. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 635 -in 1915……………………. .

New Beginning (Editorial) ………………… 721 – Open Hearts in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 NEW HEBRIDES, Changes in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 792 – Opposing Forces in (a). W. A. Shedd. 585 New Year, Suggestions (a). B. M. Brain .II – Situation in…………………………. . 6 NEWYORKEvangelisrn ………………….. 312 – What the Future May See in….. . . . . . . . . . . .. 389 –Infidel Missions in ………………….. 881 Persian Christians, Gifts of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 710 – Parish of the Streets (a). P. Curtis ………. 279 – Christians, Heroism of. ………………… 625 NEW ZEALAND, Bible-work in …………….. 156 – Pastors Killed ………………………… 5'9 NIAS, Fifty Years' Progress in…….. .. … 324 PERU, Religious Liberty in ………. ' 5 Nicodemus. Successors of. . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 305 Peruvian Family Baptized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 386 NIGERIA, Elijah II. Movement in ………….. 876 PETROGRAD, Mohammedani<m in …………. 150 Ninety and Nine (a New Version) …………… 453 PHILIPPINES, American Schools in the ……… 233 Nitobe and the Teachers in Japan, Dr………… 871 -America's Duty in the ………………….. 634 NORTH AMERICA in 1915……………….. 3 -Conversions in the…………………….. 75 Northfield, Japanese……………………… 143 – Education in the. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . … 75 – Women's Conferences in ………………… 714 – Experience in the……………………… 592 OAKLAND Sunshine Club………………… 854 – Hospital Ship for Moros in the …………… 872 Officer's Testimony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 463 – Progress in the (a). R. E. Speer…………. 109 Oldham. Bishop William F. (b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 589 -Rome in the…………………………. 541 Opium in Burma ………………………… 551 – Successful Work for the Moros in. . . . . . . . . . . .. 716 Opportunities for the Southern Tourist. T. C. !- Sunday-school Unites Forces in the. . . . . . . . . .. 717 Bliss ………………………………. 373 – Union Work in the…………………….. 316 Opportunity in Chengtu. China.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 307 Pierson Memorial Bible School in Seoul, Progress Oregon Towns. Churches in Some. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 361 of the (b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 493 Orient. American Relations with the (b). G. H. Playing at Missions. . . . . . . . .•.• . . . . . . . . . . 534 Jones ….••………………………… 803 PORT SAID, Armenian Refugees at …………. 396 Orientals in Christian Work……… . . . . . . . . .• 311 Porto Ricans Know Their Bibles ……………. 385 Outcast Christians in India, Influence of. . . . . . . .. 145 PORTO RICO and Prohibition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 544 -in India. To Educate the……………….. 626 – Cooperation in……………………….. 326

INDEX

PAGE PAGE Porto Rico. New Ideals for ………………… 863 S. P. G. Appeals for German Missions ……….. 146 – Rejects "The Evangelical Union ………… " 795 Sabbath-keeping, Revival of.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 309 PORTUGAL, Baptist Work in ……………… 865 Saiki, Dr. Hezekiah R .. Maternity Hospital of.. .. 703 Possessions, Great-Where? …………….. " 785 Saint Good Jesus of the Pardons ……………. 154 Postcard, Prisoners of War… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 SALONICA Burned, Mission School in……….. 547 Prayer and Priests in Tibet (b). R. Cunningham. 128 Salva~ion Arr;>y in India ………………….. 626 – – I n RussIa………………………….. 227 -and the "Uttermost Parts" Ca). S. D. Gordon. 820 Samoan Women, Brave …………………… 316 – British Business Men at ………………. " 796 Saratoga, Conference of the Methodist Episcopal -forI917.Callsto……………………… 810 – of a Moslem Wife (b). Mrs. G. D. van Peursem 773 Church in (b). G. H. Jones……………. 590 – Peace and Unity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 61 Sargis, Dr. Jacob………………………….WO Scandinavian Book Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 711 – Raising Money Through …………. """" 134 Schools in Chosen, Mission.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 485 – To Your Knees. 0 Ye Christians … """"" 53 Scout Movement in China…………………. 231 – Week of.. …………………………. " 61 Seed Thoughts for Missionary Addresses.. 784,861,941 Preparedness-Are We Ready for War? (a). J. H. Seeking Men and Finding God (a). F. H. Rindge 509 Self-Exiled in America (b). Miss L. M'Crea ….. 525 Jowett…………………………… " 495 Presbyterian Assembly. Southern…. . . . . . . . . . . .. 636 SEOUL, Progress of the Pierson Memorial Bible – Church (South) in Mexico… . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. 617 School in.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 493 – Gifts to Missions ……………………… 713 – Missionaries Returnin~ to West Africa …….. 325 – Women Leaders Confer…………………. 152 SERBIA, Distress in…………………….. . 150 Princeton's Work in China (a). J. S. Burgess …. 603 Sennons, Missionary Story ……………….. . 779 SHANGHAI Press and the War……………. . 142 Prisoners in Italy. Among War……………… 865 – Socia1 Service in……………………… . 231 – Liberating the.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 542 -of War. Among……………………….. 60 – Opportunities amonr: War ………………. 161 SHANTUNG Christian University, $300.000 for .. . 231 – Work for Russian War (b). G. L. Leonard …. 595 SIAM, Christian Fraternity in…………….. . 628 ~~~~~~:·i~i;;;,;;.·.: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: m Prohibition, Canada and ……….. """'" … 715 – Christian Sabbath in………………….. . 146 – Conquering Spirit Worship in .•………….. 706 =~11~ SC':i:r:~~e ~;.c.t~~~.: – Porto Rico and.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 544 628 – Russian Church and.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 404 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 707 – States in U. S. A , New……………….. " 223 – Good Things Seen in………………….. . 392 Property, Christian Doctrine of (b). E. M. Poteat 428 – Hospital Patients Baptized in…………… . 146 Protestant Churches in Belgium (a). H. K. Anet 33 -in 1915…………………………….. . 2 – Episc,?pal C~urch and Missions…………. " 224 – Influence of the Gospel in ………………. . 551 – – – I n MeXIcO ………………………. 615 – Present-day Movements in ……………… . 403 —Panama Congress and the (a). H. C. – Progress in ………………………….. . 392 – Scripture as a Mirror of the Heart……….. . 472 Robbins……………………………. 19 – Tithing in …………………. ,." .. ,., .. 789 Pyramid, Unsettling the Human (a). W. F. Old- -Untrodden Ground in …………………. . 707 – What Kru Sook Said in ……………….. . 868 ham.. , ….. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 QUESTIONS Some Pointed. C. H. Maxwell.. " 688 – Yao of. ……………………………. . 471 Siamese Inquirers. Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 RALLY DAY Missionary …………………. 782 Siberian Prisoners, Work for ………………. . 111 Reconciliation, Fellowship.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 62 Sight-seeing Religious ……………………. . 384 Recruiting for the Missionary Army……….. " 693 Slav Religion ………………………….. . 866 – Hour. Mary L. Daniels ……………… " 697 Slave Girls Sold in China…………………. . 552 Red Letter Chart ……………………….. 216 Slaves, Liberation of (a). J. H. Jowett ……… . 363 Relief Committees, Consolidation of.. . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Slessor, Mary, Review of the Life of (a). Mrs. A.

– Five Million for.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . .. 460 F. Schauffier ……………………….. . 767 Religion, Universal.. …………………… " 62 Snake and Tree Worship in India ………….. . 366 Religions, World's……………………….. 784 Social Service in India…………….. . 107 Religious Question in Mexico (a). L. Cabrera…. 831 – – in Shanghai………………………. . 231 – Work in the Panama Canal Zone (a). G. S. – – in South America ………………….. . 222 Webster……………………………. 187 Socials. Missionary …………….. . 298 Revenge of Love in Turkey (a). S. R. Harlow … 667 Soldiers, Bibles Needed for …………. , …… . 623 Review of the Review ……………………. 701 -in Europe, Christian Work of the ………… . 245 Revival Came in China. How the (b). M. B. – Recreation for ……………………….. . 468 Grier.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 201 SOUTH AMERICA and the War (a). H. C.

– Scripture Messages (b). J. Goforth ………. 204 , Stuntz ……………………………. . 118 Rheinish Missionary Society in Malaysia……… 324 ==gi~~~~:~~·.:·.:::·.::::::::::::::::::::::: : 64 313 Richard, Timothy, Resignation of.. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 393 Rio Grande, Establishing Christianity on the (a). –Facts About ……………………… .. 221 S. M. Glasgow………………………. 849 –Indians of (a). H. C. Tucker ………… . 840 Roadside, Pleading on the…………………. 862 – – Social Service in …………………… . 222 Robber Tribe in India, Saving a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 391 – Seas, Missionary Spirit in the …………… . 233 Robbins, Joseph Chandler… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 63 Spanish Attack on a Colporteur….. , ………. . 546 Robert College, Graduates of ………………. 709 Spirit of Cooperation (Editorial) …………… . 126 – – Threats Against…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 148 Spiritual Engineers in Europe ……………… . 561 Robins, Raymond, Evangelistic Work of…. 383 Standard, Ten Point …………………….. . 527 Rockefeller Foundation War Aid ……………. 635 Roman Catholic Missions in Great Peril. . . . . . . .. 476 STATISTICS, American Church …………… . 167 Romanism and Buddhism…………………. 703 – for American Foreign Missions ………….. . 165 Rome at Its Worst, Church of. …………….. 153 – of the Indian Missions of the Protestant Churches of the United States, 1915…….. . 776 -in the Philippines……………………… 541 – Protestants in.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 623 – of Protestant Foreign Missionary Societies in United States and Canada …………….. . 168 RUSSIA Changing? Is…………………… 484 – Dr. Haggard Goes to………………….. 383 – of Protestant Missions in Mexico………… . 614 Stelze's New Work, Charles ………………. . 635 -in 1915……….. " " " " " " " " " " ' " 2 Stewardship…………………………… . 430 – Jewish Refugees in… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 866 Stonemen's Fellowship …………………… . 161 – Open Door for (a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 260 Student Social Service Work in India ……….. . 301 – Salvation Army in…………………….. 227 – Volunteer Movement, Progress of the …….. . 405 – Testaments Given in……………………. 387 – VolunteeNl-in Peking………………….. . 232 – War Prisoners in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 547 Students in the War, Christian …………….. . 246 Russian Church and Prohibition …………… , 404 Study Class, Defining a …………………..• 296 – Church, Facts About the ………………. , 310 – – Magazine ………………………… . 220 – Prisoners. Gospel for.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 460 – – Tourist Mission ……………………. . 377 -Reform, Another……………………… 227 – Club. Mission……………………….. . 294 – War Prisoners, Work for (b). G. L. Leonard… 595 Subscriptions, Securing…………………… . 214 Russians help Armenian Refugees. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 469

PAGE PAGE SUDAN, Baganda Missionaries for the ……….. 155 Unity, French Appeal for…. . . . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. 645 -Boys of the Munchi Tribe Seek Christ ……. 155 Unoccupied Territory in China …………….. ' 141 _ For the Children in the.. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 633 Unsettling the Human Pyramid Cal. W. F. Old: Suffering Non-Combatants (Editorial) ……… " 727 ham ………………………………. 592 _ Spiritual Victory in…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 URUMIA Continues, Suffering in……….. … 68 SULU ISLANDS, Hospital Ship for the ………. 156 – Unabated, Misery in ………………. : … : 389 i':'::::: ::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~:-~rF~~~~; Sun Vat Sen, Mrs., Baptism of. …………….. 790 566 Sunday, Providing for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 536 _ School, Buddhists Start ………………. " 554 VAN, Thrillirg Experiences in Cal. G. C. Ray- 406 _ _ Unites Forces in the Phillippines ……….. 717 nolds ……………………………… 169 __ WorkinFormosa…………………… 632 VENEZUELA, Dark Ages in……………….. 4 Sunday-Schools, Japan and ………………… 631 Voltaire's Prediction.. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Suranam Lepers Cured ……………………. 864 WALDENSIAN Church Among Italian Soldiers .. 387 Swiss Gypsies, Mission Among ……………… 865 Wanted: A Missionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 211 _ m SYRIA, Daniel Bliss, Grand Old Man of Cal. D. S. F.?r°!~ei;'~~;'~·~i.'''.:::::::::::::::::::::::: WAR, African Native Christian on the ……….. 397 – Af~eBT,,:"o Ye~rs.of. …………………… 643 – an nbsh MIssIOns…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. oS _ Missionary Opportunity in………………. 5 -and Missions in India Cal. H. Anderson …… 265 -Opportumtym……………………….. 470 -and Peace Movements …………………. 482 _ Starvation in Northern ……………….. " 787 -and Religion in France Ch). R. Saillens ……. 289 Syrian Mission Property Safe …………….. " 147 -Are We Ready for Cal. J. H. Jowett ……… 495 _ Protestant College…………………… " 389 – C. M. S. Losses Through the …………….. 309 TAHITI, No Heathen in ………………… " 464 – Christian Students in the ……………….. 246 Talent Plan. E. W. Smith ………………. " 135 – Cost of the ……………………….. 468, 861 Tangier, Among the Jews of. …………….. " 712 – Gennan Misions after the……………….. 6 Testament, Demand for Khak! ……………. " 66 -Hasn't Stopped Some Things, The ………… 398 Testaments by the Thousand In Egypt……… " 396 – in East Africa, Effects of.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 875 _ Japanese Sailors Accept ………………. " 395 -in Europe………………………… ,… 1 Testimony, Officer's ……………………. " 463 – Indian Christians and the. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 448 Thanksgiving, Plan for ……………………. 859 – Losses in the Great. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 784 Theological Students, Missions Boards and ….. " 224 Thinking Gray in Missions (b). S. M. Zwemer.. 523 -Love and Hatred in the………………… 810 Thompson, David, Life and Work of (a). W. E. – O?portunjties of ~he. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 731 – PrIsoners In RussIa ……………………. 547 Griffis……………………………. " 655 – Problems in Northern Canada …………… 384 _ Dr. Wardlaw, Memorial to …………….. " 796 -South America and the Cal. H. C. Stuntz….. 118 Tibet, Prayer and Priests in (b). R. Cunningham 128 – Time in China, Union Meetings in ………… 393 Tither, EXl'erience of a …. '" ……………. " 874 -Zone, To Persia Around the Cb). S. G. Wilson 683 Tithing in Spite of Famine in China …………. 870 Warfare, Christian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 621 TOKYO, Influencing China at ……………… 554 War's Worst Peril. ………………………. 620 Tourist Opportunities for Missions ………… " 373 Washington, Booker T. (a). C. Richardson…… 99 Troopers' Bihle Class…………………… " 874 – – Memorial …………………………. 543 Troops and Mexicans, Bibles for ………….. " 716 WASIDNGTON, Laymen's National Missionary Congress at …………………………. 246 -on Mexican Border, Work for ……………. 646 Turk Worth Saving, Is the Cal· C. T. Riggs ….. 737 – Me!"s Congress of Missions in Cal. D. L. T~~, An:ba~sador Morgenthau's Tribute to Wat;;:!'~~.r:'Ne'~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 54~1~9 MlSSlonanes In…………………….. " 388 Watson, President Charles R., of Cairo ……….

_ American Hospitals in ………………… " 624 Week of Prayer…………………………. 61 _ American Missionaries in……………….. 304 _ American Schools Not Closed in. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 549 Welsh Christians at Work…………………. 865 – and the Zionists ……………………… ; 709 WEST INDIES, Hindus in the ……………… 153 -Armenians Sold in…………………….. 227 West Point Cadets, Bibles for ……………… 54., -Awful Scenes in ErZToom ………………… 549 What an American Saw in Asia Cb). W. Price…. 528 _ Confiscated Missions in ………………. '" 786 – Would Jesus Do? ……………………… 154 _ Graduates of Robert College in …………… 709 Wiloer in America, Robert P ……………….. 635 -in 1915 ……………………. ··········. 2 Wilson on China and Missions……………… 97 –: Missionary Return to M arsovan. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 866 Win, Forces that Cal. R. E. Speer………….. 576 — Missions and War·in …………………. " 402 Woman's Baptist Home Mission in Mexico ……. 616 _ Missions in Captured Cities in …………. " 322 – Medical College in India….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 230 _ Mysterious Postal Card from …………….. 709 Women, Brave Samoan…………………… 316 -NewAmbassadorto …………………… 786 -of Mexico Cal. Mrs. J. W. Butler………… 181 _ Pan-Turanian Movement in ……………… 805 – of the World …………………………. 861 -Plightof. ……………………………. 321 Women's Conference in Northfield ………….. 714 -Recent Newsfrom …………………….. 67 – Work at Home. …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 – Recent Reports from.. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 483 Workers, not Shirkers …………………….. 785 _ Revenger of Love in Cal. S. R. Harlow ……. 667 Wor~d. Challenge to America. W. F. Oldham….. 340 – Signs of Death in…………. , …………. 729 – VlSIon …………………………….. " .,56 -Signs of Life in ……………………….. 730 World's Sunday-school Committee, Change in….. 398 -ThingsthatRemainin …………………. 624 Wu Ting Fang, Experience of. ……………… 152 _ Thrilling Experiences in Van .Ca). C. G. Raynolds 169 Yao of Siam……………………………. 471 -To-morrow In Cal. C. T. Riggs ………….. 915 Ye Did It Not CPoem). C. Maud Brown…….. 619 Turkish Educational Laws Modified …………. 1-17 Y. M. C. A. Among the Soldiers in Europe …….. 561 Turks and American Missions………… 563 – Campaign in China, Results of a …………. 553 UGANDA Heresy Subsiding ……………….. 634 -in France……………………………. 149 – New Cathedral in……………………… 315 – in Hangchow.. .. .. . . .. .. . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. … 472 -True Heroism in (b). Bishop Tucker ……… 208 – International. ………………………. " 617 Unbound Feet, Blessing of. ……………….. 142 – Korean Railway… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 704 Underwood, Horace G., Life and Work of. Mrs. – Making Headway in Japan ……………… 30R Underwood……………………….. " 903 – Secretary in Korea, Yun Chi Ho now ……… 792 . Union for Canada, Church ………………… 566 – Work in Mesopotamia ………………….. 788 -for England, Church…………………… 406 – Work, World-wide…………………….. 460 – Work, Episcopalians and ……………….. 486 Y. W. C. A. Jubilee ……………………… 150 – – in the Philippines.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 316 Young Women's World Work… …. . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Yuan Shih Kai and the Bible (a). E. W. Thwing 123 United Effort, Value of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 292 Yueatap, ~eform Governor in. " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 864 – RCVlval m…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 UNITED STATES, Japanese in the …………. 312 Yun Chi Ho now Y. M. C. A. Secretary in Korea. 792 – New Prohibition States in………………. 223 – Stati~ti<:s !Jf Protestant Foreign Missionary SoCIetIes In. . . • . • . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . .. • .. . . .. 168 ZIONISTS, Turkey and the ……………….. 709 – Winning Foreign Students in the …………. 310 ZULULAND, Dowieism in …………………. 314 Unity, David Thompson, Apostle of Christian Cal. Zulu's Testimony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50 W. E. Griffis ………………………… 655 Zwemer, Dr., and the Magistrate…………… 954