Schereschewsky Returns to China with Chinese Bible
A VANCOUVER, B. C., despatch of August 23 stated that Rev. Dr. S. F. J. Schereschewsky is about to return to China. He went there in 1859 as missionary of the United States Episcopal Church. In 1882 he suffered a sunstroke, which compelled him to resign. He visited Europe and began the translation of the Bible into Chinese, and now this stupendous work is done. The bishop has with him a translation of the whole Bible in Roman characters. On arriving in China he will have it reproduced in Chinese characters, printed and published. This will take three years more. DR. H. MARTYN CLARK, in the Church Missionary Intelligencer, states that a translation of the Koran has appeared in simple idiomatic Urdu. “That is a blow under which Islam will reel for many a day. Its safety hitherto has been that its ‘holy’ book was shrouded in unapproachable Arabic, or in cumbrous, ambiguous translations. This literal, faithful rendering has produced dire consternation. The Moulvie says, ‘I am now old and gray haired. I thought I knew the Koran, but I never knew the iniquity of it as I do now.’” NEVER since Pentecost were the fields so white, the opportunities so urgent, the call of God so imperative, as now. My most earnest prayer is that God may inspire our best and bravest and most scholarly young men to give themselves to the work of foreign missions.—Bishop Mallalieu. A CALCUTTA paper relates that recently a young Brahman came to the house of a missionary, seeking an interview. In the course of the conversation he said: “Many things which Christianity contains I find in Hinduism; but there is one thing which Christianity has and Hinduism has not.” “What is that?” the missionary asked. His reply was, “A Saviour.”—Ocean Grove Record. THE Japanese Government has authorized the employment of native Christians as army chaplains. Some of these are at the army headquarters at Hiroshima, Japan, and others are with the army in China. Among these is Y. Honda, president of the Anglo-Japanese College of the Methodist Episcopal Church, located at Tokyo, and a member of the Japanese Conference. This is a step toward making “Christianity” the state religion. A COMMITTEE appointed by the American Board of Foreign Missions to investigate questions involving the existence of American missions in Japan will sail from San Francisco September 12. They will stop at Hawaii on the way, and will remain in Japan about four months. Some Japanese Christians do not believe that further presence of missionaries is necessary. Some of the best educated and most influential men would be glad to see the Japanese in full control of the Christian forces in the empire.