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THE WONDER-WORKING CHRIST

IN MISSION LANDS.

For years past, not a few, the statistics of mission churches in the darkest regions of the earth have distanced amazingly the records of the most favored parts of the home countries; not only in the proportion of conversions to preachers and expenses, but also in the labors, personal sufferings, and pecuniary sacrifices, undergone joyfully for the sake of Christ by men and women of every shade of black and yellow, just lifted out of African or Asiatic darkness and degradation into the glorious liberty of the sons of God!

These facts raise the startling query:

WHERE WILL CHRISTENDOM BE IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

The Christendom of the present (so called) does not know itself nor what is before it. While taking to itself great credit for the progress of the Gospel by the comparatively paltry dole squeezed out of its immense trust of Christian wealth, and at the same time closing its purse tighter and tighter against the appeals of awakening heathendom for the Gospel, is not the situation really full of menace and rebuke? Shall we not listen lest we hear again applied, that tremendous sentence: "The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to nations bringing forth the fruits thereof?" Let us listen in time!

Let us listen to the cries of the perishing and pleading afar, and to the fervid testimonies of the saved who go forth proclaiming the mighty power of Christ, and giving out of poverty unto starvation for the Gospel's sake-compare their self-denial and zeal with our self-indulgence and lukewarmness-and realize the fact that it is CHRIST, with a handful of martyrs, carrying on this wonderful mission work, while we at home are only "playing at missions," and, comparatively speaking, are not in it. Whether ye will hear, or whether ye will forbear, brethren, it has become in truth and soberness a real question: Are we, or shall we be, IN IT?

We condense and arrange some of the current evidences of the Lord's mighty presence with a few other heroes, in parts of the world, alas! not our own, for Christian zeal to stir itself afresh, and for self-complacent "ease in Zion" to tremble at. These are all from a late number or two of a single periodical, The Missionary Herald; and probably still more striking passages from the modern Acts of the Apostles might have been, or may be yet, selected.

Where Will Christendom be Next?

MARATHI MISSION.

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Mr. Edward Fairbank writes from Wadale, of being so overcome by the greatness of responsibility in view of the awakened interest within the district that he cannot keep quiet about its present needs. He finds that the estimates for the standing work of his station call for about $2,255, while his appropriation from the American Board amounts to only $852. He is, therefore, in need, for work already begun, of about $1,400 a year more than the Board can give. Mr. Fairbank says that in place of the once twenty-six or twenty-seven schools there are now only twelve village schools. Reductions have done this. There is an actual need of and demand for three times as many schools as there are now. If these schools were opened tomorrow I would guarantee a daily attendance of from fifteen to thirty pupils in each school-a good attendance in this country. There is no greater evangelistic agency among this people to-day than the district school. But instead of these twenty-four new schools needed, reductions from America demand the closing of seven out of the twelve schools now open. I cannot do this.

The reductions mean that we must turn away two-thirds of the station school corps, and dismiss three out of the five teachers. I cannot do this. This period of schooling usually means everything to the boy so far as his spiritual welfare is concerned. Scores of men who today are Christian teachers, preachers and pastors have gone through the Wadale Station School. In almost every mission in western India representatives from this school may be found as pastor, preacher, or teacher. In a slightly different way the same might be said of the Girls' Station School.

Some of the school buildings are inadequate for the number of pupils who attend. Some schools are held in the village rest house, where the village gossips always sit, and some are even held under trees.

Our Boys' Station School has one building with a single room. It is not large enough for the six classes who recite in it daily. The same room is used as a dormitory. About eighty boys sleep there at night. The same building, inadequate for the school, is used on Sundays and week-days for church services. I have again and again seen that building, at the regular Sunday preaching service, with the inside and the verandah packed, and many people standing in the yard. The same building is dormitory, schoolroom, hall, church, and not large enough for any one of these purposes.

I cannot cut down my staff of evangelists. three, and one of them a medical catechist.

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least six evangelists now in places where recent conversions have taken place. The pastors cannot begin to cover the ground. The new converts have really no instruction, a thing that never ought to be in a heathen country. There are places today where people are urging us to come and baptize, to which I cannot go because I have no one to send to teach the people to observe all things which Christ commanded.

The buildings in the Wadale district have been put up at the least possible cost. In general, they have not had anything spent on them unless a wall fell down, or a roof broke through, or something absolutely compelled the missionary to spend a few rupees to keep the house over the heads of the pupils.

We cannot reduce the pastors or their salaries. The churchès are not self-supporting yet. The poverty of the Christian people is the great reason.

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All the work now in hand is, to my mind, indispensable. in the Wadale district hundreds of people are ready to turn to Christ, thousands anxious to have their children educated in Christian schools. Three missionaries could not properly do the work now given to one missionary in this district. And yet the churches at home are cutting down the work over one-half!

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Mr. Gates, of Sholapur: "After an earnest talk with several hundred persons, an old man said, very warmly: 'Come to our town often. Such things as you say will do our people good.' This is the sentiment of a rapidly growing number of people in India. The Hindus are said to rise religiously, bathe religiously, dress religiously, eat religiously, and sin religiously. A religion they must have, and, as they wipe the dust of their old faiths from their eyes, they are not so foolish as to fail to see the importance of Christ and his message to the world.

"Of the eighty-five boys in our boarding-school at Sholapur it is a pleasure to say that their faces are Zionward. Some have recently united with the church, and many others are under instruction for a like step."

A GOSPEL OF FACTS.

Missionary preaching can only be successful when it follows the same course as that of the first witness. It cannot result in the earnest preaching of repentance save on the ground of great saving facts. Therefore the simple narration of the great histories of God's doings, in which the saving facts are presented to us, must be the principal object of missionary preaching. The facts of the life of Jesus, of His meritorious death, of His resurrection and His ascension, must, with God's messenger, stand objectively beyond all doubt. If, in the so-called modern theology, there is anything dangerous for the missionary work, it is that spiritualistic touch, which calls in question the objective actuality of the Biblical histories.-Bishop Buchner (Moravian).