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GREAT WORK OFiJr?,-tjrti1010)0;o50First Missionary Sent to China io 1378—Influence of Chris?iunity in Japan,The Woman's Board . of Foreign jMidsinns of the Methodist Episcopal chureh, South, opened its first work in China in 1S7S, sending to Ihsu llehi Miss Luc hie Hank in, who is si ill an effective member oE the mission. Jn 15S1 work was opened in BraziL by Miss Martha Watts, and the same year Miss Rebecca Toland began Mexican work at Laredo. The society entered Korea in 1S98, Mrs, J. P. Camp bell being transfer red to that field from Chinn,At the end of the first sixteen years-the VVomau’s Board reported sixteen missionaries,, four boarding schouJs with seven hundred ami fifty-eight pupils, fifty-two native helpers, six Bl-hl« women, one hospital treating one thousand sevea hundred and fifty-one. patients, two medical missionaries, and property valued at $600,000.Twenty years later the Foreign Bc-purlment of Woman's Work reporlx forty-seven missionaries, nine boarding schools., forty-three day schools, two thousand and seventy-two pupils, ;t hospital treating six thousand seven hundred and twenty-four patients, a medical school, a nurse-training school, a kindergarten training-school ar.d property valued at $21-1,105.the criminal.. Such institutions vrero practically unknown in old Japan. Revenge was one of IJie cardinal virtues of Bushido, the moral code of the upper classes; but- now Japan prsiJscp Christianity for Its philanthropic fruits, and 1 lie adherents of the old faiths pay to it tlie tribute' of itnila-tion.—Slier wood Eddy..40.40lers,bymu2x-tBA Priest of Buddha Converted.1L Is stated that U. Po Tbit, a yei-?ow*robed priest of Buddha,-:in the city of Syriani, Burma, baa become a disciple of Christ. **Such Instance? are very rare—for a priest of Buddha, protected and cared for, lives a life of eaae. Ills position is exalted and Ida followers worship him. Having a knowledge of herbs and roots, ..U. ta Tbit will become a doctor and go among bis people/ healing the sick and preaching Christ. ■Five thousand Navajo children are, without a missionary, teacher, or physician; and in sections of-this reservation .aggregating slxteea thousand square' miles in extent the Indians are absolutely in heathen darkness.Bishop J. W. Bashford, of the Methodist- Episcopal church, recently reported that be has never witnessed In any -Christian' college a more remarkable series of revival meetings than that recently held in Peking TJniver* sily.. President H. II, Lowry was In charge of the services, and bis audiences, composed largely of students, numbered from eight hundred to one thousand,(Virginia school grounds, Huciiow, Chinese preacher and family.)Influence of Christianity In Japan.A leading Japanese estimates that there are In Japan 1,000,000 persons who are fashioning their conduct according to the principles of Jesus Christ, Fifty years ago there wa? no Bible jn public circulation; today Sts circulation is numbered by millions. There baa been hardly a hospital or asylum in the land, Christianity has been the pioneer in establishing homes, hospitals, and refugee for the poor, the blind, the fatherless, the insane, tM leper, tho outcast, andSwellings of the flesh caused by inflammation, cold, fractures of the bone, toothache, neuralgia or rheumatism can be relieved by applying BALLARD‘5 SNOW LINIMENT. It should be well rubbed in over the part affected. Its great healing and penetrating power eases the pain, reducesswelling and restores natural«conditions. Price 25c, 50e and SLOO. Sold by A. T. Smith Sc Co.i f Do Not Grips,W« bare pleasant laxative tfeai.will„ do Jusl what you want it to do. ^ We eeil thousands : lt;5f them and wehave never seen a bitter remedy for the bowels. Sold only by us, 10 cents.• Let's,Everybody Reads The Pinnacle News
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Middlesboro Pinnacle News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Thu, Sep 09, 1915
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