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June g, 1909.
Missi<
WHAT ONE !
Stanley tells this story c
plished: "In 1875 Miss Livi
id Livingstone, presented me
On a subsequent visit to A
chapters, and as I finished ii
that Uganda was destined to
not permitted to carry that
forgot the wonderful words,
had upon me; and just as I
country to continue my ex]
Dark Continent, a messenger
200 miles, crying out that Ml
he got it. Today the Chri
many thousands; they have
stake ano under torture
Helper.
THE ISLES O
Within the last 77 years
Pacific have been evangeliz
become altogether Christian,
left. They have not only se
arc engaged in mission work
bors on other islands. Isai
isles shall wait for his law."
MISSIONARIES
Primarily the missionary
he cannot represent a highe
faith without leading in all <
leges begin education. His i
has more than once begun, ,
His hospital and his dispensa
cine. He opens stranee toi
grammar and dictionary lead
When trouble comes he is
faces the riot, fights fire and i
him. His house and school
hunted by the mob. Two i
years ago in Aintab, Turke;
alone to open their doors to
and held back tihe Moslem
and personal presence. Th<
Peking led the defense of th<
converts, against the Boxei
with an engineer's training, j
incessant fire the fr>rtifi^o+i^
and led the attack which s
defense.
At Adana, Tarsus and M
from the Moslem massacre ci
houses.?Philadelphia Press.
The extraordinary change
Boxer uprising in 1900 is illu
of the China Inland Mission
preceding the Boxer uprisin
converts were baptized in tl
Within the seven years since
fifteen thousand.
1
THE PRESBYTSRI/
snary
BIBLE DID.
?f what one Bible accomingstone,
the sister of Dava
beautifully bound Bible.
Itesa I read to him some
t flashed through my mind
be won for Christ. I was
Bible away. Mtesa never
? a.1?:n:
iiui me miming eirccc It
was turning away from his
plorations farther into the
caine to me, after traveling
:esa wanted that book; and
stians in Uganda number
proved their faith at the
unto death."?Missionary
F THE SEA.
300 of the Islands of the
r.ed. Many of them have
with no professing heathen
lf-supporting churches, but
among their heathen neighah
nronhe<;iprl tmlu "T.u**
__ r-_r ? "V > x ,lvAS
LEADERS.
preaches and teaches, but
r civilization and a better
else. His schools and coljrinting
press is first, and it
as in Turkey, a free press,
iry introduce modern medilgues
to learning, and his
the way.
at the front of danger. He
isks his life for those about
is the one refuge for those
\merican teachers thirteen
f, laced all that concourse
i fleeing Armenian women,
mob by sheer moral force
e Catholic missionaries at
;ir cathedral, crowded with
s. A Baptist missionary,
planned and laid out under
?ns for the legations there
eized the central point of
[ersina today the refugees
rowd the American mission
effected in China by the
strated by the latiest report
During the thirty years
g, some thirteen thousand
he China Inland Missions.
1900, the number has been
k.N OF THE SOUTH.
Quiet I
PRAir]
Our Father in Heaven, Th
with Thy kindness and mere;
loving kindness and Thy mer
yet, like thoughtless and ung
receive Thy richest gifts as a
hearts are not lifted up in joy<
member the time of trial an
blessings that have been sho
bountiful hand. Enable us
spirit; help us to see Thy lovii
experiences of life, and to see
ness finds its highest expressi
As we look into His face and
may it awaken a responsive I
gratitude be manifested in \i\
Amen.
The tourist who goes up tin
the guide the route or what imj
If he is not willing to trust 1
stay at the base of the mour
many an emergency in whicl
steady brain and stout arm
certain destruction. My brot
the rugged uphill of self-der
summit are heaven's flashing
stiff hold on the loving hand o
on the dizziest places, "I wil
L. Cuyler.
They know who works, not
If rest is sweet.?J. A.
It is better to be beaten in t
victorious, if the victory can (
liance. it is better to live in
into public notice by methods
It is better to be poor, and fill*
Christ, than to be rich and en
to be loved by a child than to 1
only purpose is to serve perse
Ethics."
It is the story of ail His de
it any hint of indifference, an;
If we will but take it rightly
that which we long for. It is
up into a greater faith, that w<
er, fuller blessing than we e
ask.?Mark Guy Pearse.
The fortunate people?the t
much those who succeed in
in living.?Edward S. Martin,
The truly excellent characte
towards oneself and mildness
II
-lour
ER.
ou art crowning our lives
y. Thy kindness to us is
cy is tender mercy. And
rateful children, we often
matter of course, and our
dus thanksgiving. We red
forget the unnumbered
wered upon us from Thy
to cultivate the grateful
lg hand in all the manifold
how all Thy loving kindon
in the gift of Thy Son.
see Thy great love to us,
ove to Thee, and may our
res of consecrated service.
i Matterhorn must not tell
elements it is safe to carry,
his guide he would better
itain ; for there will come
i nothing but that guide's
will lie between him and
her climbers, before us lies
lial and of duty. At the
glories. Can you grasp a
f your Guide and say even
11 trust"??Rev. Theodore
they who play.
Symorfds.
lip strpee r>f lifo U ? ? ? ? 1?
?V. HIV man IU UC
>nly be won by unholy alobscurity
than to be lifted
repugnant to moral sense.
:d with the consolations of
ipty hearted. It is better
>e flattered by those whose
>nal ends.?"Tinklewellian
laying. Never is there in
y possibility of forgetting,
the hindrance is to secure
only His staying to lift us
; may have a richer, greatver
should have dared to
I
ruly fortunate?are not so
life as those who" succeed
x is maae up of strictness
towards others.?Schiller.