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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 23, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 25.

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Mission Notes

THE experiences and needs of all Christian missions, at home and abroad, are the concern of every Christian because of their part in God's irrevocable plan to bless all nations through Jesus Christ.
IN an English missionary school in British New Guinea the students were lately asked how many of them had ever tasted human flesh. Only one could deny the accusation. A mission in such surroundings is like a forlorn hope in warfare; when it attains success, the result is worth the long and terrible struggle.
IN some parts of India, Hindus are making serious efforts to dissuade the people from sending their children to missionary schools, because the teaching given does not end with the time of schooling, but sticks to pupils throughout their lives. It is a testimony to the value of mission schools which is worth bearing in mind.
THE Church Missionary Society reports its gross receipts, for the fiscal year 1902-03, as $1,972,309.68. Deducting several sums designated to special objects, the net receipts of the society for the general work of the year were $1,910,609.36. This total is an increase of $372,680 over the receipts of the previous year, and it has covered an increase in appropriations of $72,600, besides reducing the old deficit from $169,400 to $27,762.24. It is not surprising that in view of this magnificent result, the committee decided to continue the “Forward Policy” followed by the society during the last seventeen years, which has received God's blessing in so marked a manner.
A SLAVE woman named Ogumro living in the Ilale country west of the Niger longed for freedom, and worked hard until she secured it. Then she traveled to another region to enjoy life. There she was converted to Christ. This gave her a new longing. What she now longed for was to tell the Ilale people, among whom she had been a slave, what good things she had learned. She went back to Ilale, worked hard, earned money, got a church built, and late in 1903 she placed the church at the disposal of the nearest Christian pastor. The Church Missionary Intelligencer now reports that five young men from Ilale have been baptized through these efforts of the ex-slave. It seems that Anglo-Saxons have no monopoly of the strenuous life. The Christian name given to Ogumro in baptism was the appropriate one of Dorcas.