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Mission Work for Japanese

HE Japanese are surely an active, vigorous race. The Christian Japanese missions and churches on the Pacific coast have now founded an interdenominational missionary society, the "Dendo Dan," whose aim is to bind the missions of the various churches together and cooperate in reaching all Japanese in this country where organized Christian work is

being done. They have sent out two traveling representatives, who, among other things, are carrying Japanese Scriptures for sale and distribution. Mr. Mell, our Agency Secretary, has made an arrangement with them to supply them with Scriptures on terms satisfactory to them, and they will report monthly on their sales. The "Dendo Dan" has the good will and support of all denominations and is the authoritative Japanese agency for such work on the Pacific coast.Bible Society Record.

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A Japanese Y. M. C. A. Secretary HE Union Pacific Railroad Company employs more than 700 Japanese, while in the employ of various other railroads west of the Mississippi are enough more of the men of Nippon to bring the number of Japanese railroad men up to 6,000. Most of them are engaged in the construction and maintenance of the roadways. To be a friend and guide. to the Union Pacific's Japanese employees Mr. Y. Inouye has recently been appointed by the Railroad Department of the International Y. M. C. A. Mr. Inouye is a member of the Congregational church in Cheyenne, Wyo., and will conduct his work from that city.

Canadian Fruit of the Laymen's
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in all to $2,499,815, an increase in five years of sixty-six and two-thirds per cent. Of that amount the largest denominations contributed as follows: 338,500 Methodists gave $870,408; 290,000 Presbyterians gave $808,637; 180,000 Anglicans gave $353,762; and 135,000 Baptists gave $292,842. Canada's Immigration Problem WATT SMITH, Ottawa, dealing with the unparalleled influx of people into Canada, writes in the Glasgow Herald: "The stream of settlers is running at the rate of 1,000 every day at present. The Government and railway authorities have little diffiunpreculty in coping with the cedented rush, but the churches are miserably behind. They can not do anything like enough to provide the necessary means of grace in lands where townships are springing up in a week. Therefore, from the practical side is coming a strong appeal that wasteful overlapping shall cease, if only to set at liberty a host of men for service at the frontiers, among those who need the ministrations of the Gospel most, when they are forming their homesteads and rearing their young families."

Porto Rican Progress

"THERE have been many doleful

prophecies as to the certain failure of American occupation and administration of the islands which were taken over at the close of the war with Spain. These forecastings have failed of realization. Observers of other nationalities bear flattering testimony to the happy results which have followed American occupation in the Philippines. A French writer has been studying the results in Porto Rico and bears witness which is most gratifying. Property values have more more than So have wages. doubled. There has been notable progress in education. In 1899 over 83 per cent. of the population could neither read nor write. There is now compulsory education. There are over 1,000 schools,

111,000 pupils enrolled, 1,000 pupils in high-schools, and 8,000 in nightschools and kindergartens. Under the Spanish régime the pupils in schools did not exceed 18,000. There has been remarkable improvement in public health since American possession began. The hookworm had plagued the inhabitants without regard to race or color. It caused onethird of the deaths. Public dispensaries for treatment of the malady have been organized. About onethird of the entire population has been treated. Of 50,000 patients treated last year 40 per cent. were cured, and 20 per cent. much relieved. There is honest and efficient admininistration of public affairs."

Missionaries Return to Mexico

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OR nearly a year now our work in Mexico has been prostrated by the revolution. Particularly have we suffered in the state of Chihuahua where revolutionary bands have crossed and recrossed the country, destroying villages, homes and property generally, until the people were in desperate condition. The missionaries, except at Mexico City and Guadalajara, who were obliged to leave the country upon the advice of our

government, have been patiently waiting until conditions were sufficiently settled to warrant their return. Surely the people never needed them as they do to-day.

Mohammedans in Latin America

THE HE Revue du Monde Musulman is a scientific and well-edited publication. In a recent number Mohammed Dschingniz reports that the number of Mohammedans in Central and South America is about 158,000. The majority of these live in Brazil, where seven papers in the Arabic language are being published. A large number of these Mohammedans are coolies from India. .

Missionaries to the Putumayo Indians

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America, an independent mission which has headquarters in London, has sent Dr. Elliott T. Glenny and Rev.

John L. Jarrett, both of whom have had long experience in Christian work in South America, to establish a mission in the Putumayo country on the headwaters of the Amazon in Peru. This is the district out of which there recently came horrifying stories of tortures atrociously inflicted by their masters on the Indian slaves who gather rubber from the Amazonian forests. Word of these outrages stirred the British people deeply. While politicians demanded that the government should protest to the republic of Peru, church people began to consider the sending of missionaries to work among the Indians and be as far as possible their friends and defenders.

At a farewell meeting in London Messrs. Glenny and Jarrett declared that they anticipated no interference with their mission from Peruvian officials, and Dr. Glenny reported that he had had private assurances from friends connected with the government of Colombia that moral support at least If there is any difficulty whatever, the would be given them from that nation. missionaries propose to live across the Colombian line and do their work in Peru on itinerating trips.

Progress of the Gospel in Peru

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HE missionaries of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union have been at work faithfully in Peru, and have many signs of God's approval, especially in the city of Curzco. There have been conversions, baptisms, well-attended preaching services, and Sunday-schools. This has naturally aroused the Bishop of Curzco to strenuous efforts to counteract the influence of the Protestants. He tried to have the civil authorities support his efforts, but they refused. Then he issued a pastoral letter and caused it to be posted on all the church doors of the city and district. He stated that the object of the Protestant propaganda is the spreading of the false, erroneous, immoral doctrines of the apostate Luther, and warned his people of the dangers which "the sons of lies and false reform" had put before them, to make

them fall into heresy and vices to the danger of eternal perdition. Then he forbade the faithful, under the penalty of mortal sin, to go to the meetings of the Protestants; to send

their children, pupils, or servants; to

read or obtain Protestant Bibles and literature; and to bring immediately to the clergy or to the father confessor all Protestant printed matter which they had in their possession. Thus opposition has come to the I work of Christ in South America,

from those who profess to be His followers, but who have kept the light of the Gospel from the people. EUROPE

Dr. Barnardo's Homes

THE 46th annual report showed that on December 31, 1911, altogether 75,462 children had passed through the rescue doors of Dr. Barnardo's homes, and that 2,211 of them were admitted last year. Twothirds of these children came from the country, and one-third came from London. At the end of the year there were 9,049 boys and girls in the homes. Of the 1,008 young emigrants sent out in 1911, 1,002 went to Canada, and 6 to Australia. In 46 years 23,622 emigrants went out from the homes, and 98 per cent. of them are successful. The total in come of the homes was $1,192,750, of which amount $283,500 came from legacies. Lately the Boys' Garden City, which accommodates 900 boys, and the Australian Hospital at the

Girls' Village Home (consisting of 1,300 girls), have been added to the grand work.

The Salvation Army

THE Salvation Army Headquarters

in London receives, on an averists have distributed 10,000 leaflets age, 1,000 letters a day. Salvationin the prostitute quarters of Japanese homes are open to those wishing to cities, explaining that the Army leave their present life. The owners tically buying up the circulars. of the places are described as franThe Salvationist report announces that 105 fishing-boats were saved in the North Sea in 1911 by the Army lifeboat, "Catherine Booth."

THE CONTINENT

New Center for the McAll Mission

THE fortieth anniversary of the

McAll Mission in Paris was celebrated by the dedication of a fine building on the Rue Pierre Levé, just off the Avenue de la République, the great thoroughfare of Eastern Paris, which has been provided by American contributors at an expense of $100,000. In the building are two lecture-halls, one seating 500 and the other 200, room for boys' and girls' guilds, classrooms, roof-garden, gymnasium, evangelist's apartments, etc. The president of the meeting, M. Bach, remarked that, in giving this building, America had done far more for Paris than in presenting the statues of Washington, Lafayette and Franklin. These recalled a glorious past.

The new building will contribute to a better future.

Religious Toleration in Spain!!!

SPAIN is breaking with its intoler

ant past. Religious toleration is now secured for all evangelical workers, who find many ready to welcome their ministry. The circulation of the Bible increases, and there is a greater willingness to read Gospel literature. In the recent synod of the Spanish Reformed Church, the ministers read encouraging reports of the divine blessing that rests upon their work, and told of increased self

The excesses of antisupport. religious propaganda in Portugal have led seriously minded people to consider their duty to God. Evangelical literature is being read, and many new faces are seen at the services. Mission tours have brought the Lusi

tanian Church into touch with Bible readers in rural districts, where work was formerly impossible, and in spite of the pervading political discontent, the church makes progress.

The "Los Von Rom" Movement

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in Vienna has published the figures concerning the accessions 1911. The Lutheran Church was joined by 4,302 persons, and the Reformed Church by 589, no figures being available in regard to accessions to the Old Catholic, Methodist, Congregational, Moravian, and other churches not officially recognized by the Austrian Government. Of these,

4,891 were admitted to the Evangel ical Church, 4.348 came directly from the Roman Catholic, while only 1,179 members of the Evangelical Church became Roman Catholics. In 1910 the number of accessions from Romanism directly to the Evangelical Church was 4,695 (see MISSIONARY REVIEW, September, 1911, page 646), so that there was a decrease of 347, but 1910 was the year of the promulgation of the infamous Barromaeus Encyclica, which drove large numbers of Roman Catholics out of that church. The number of accessions to the Evangelical Church in 1911 was larger than that of any year from 1902 to 1909. Since the "Los Von Rom" Movement commenced in November, 1898, 63,635 have joined the Evangelical Church, while the Old Catholic Church has received almost 18,000; and the large majority of these thousands came from Rome.

The increasing strength of the Protestant cause in Austria is seen from the fact that last winter a society for church sustentation (Gemeinschaftspflege), in Austria and Hungary, was founded, to which an Evangelical Central Society for Home Mis

sion Work (Inner Mission), was added in Vienna on May 28th. It is intended to secure the cooperation of all Austrian societies and institutions through this central body.

Is Rome to Be Reformed?

PROF. LUZZI, the eminent Wal

densian professor of theology, residing in Florence, Italy, believes that Roman Catholicism is on the eve of a marvelous reformation from within; he writes: "In the whole history of the church of Rome there has never been a period that compared with the present one. History records in every period sporadic cases of rebellion easily hushed by violence. But now the rebellion is growing vast, is gaining the enthusiasm of the best, is beginning to rouse the interest of the laity."

Settlement Work Impossible in Russia N

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November, 1906, a number of public-spirited Russians organized a society for the purpose of carrying on social settlement work in one of the most crowded and neglected parts of Moscow. The government granted a charter, the society was duly registered under the name "The Settlement," and before the close of the year a little corps of teachers had commenced work. The people gladly received them, and the work extended rapidly, until it included nurseries, schools, libraries, playgrounds, children's gardens, lectures, excursions, and uplifting agencies of all kinds. Then the reactionaries' attention was attracted, and soon the Police Prefect of Moscow was told that the Settlement was "exerting an injurious influence." He appointed a special commission of investigation, which, without visiting the Settlement or examining its managers, reported in such a way that the GovernorGeneral of Moscow ordered the matter laid before the Council for the Regulation of Societies. It closed the Settlement and stopt all its activities. The managers of the Settlement thereupon appealed to the Russian Supreme Court, asserting that the

superficial and secret investigation of the special commission had wholly misrepresented the aims of the Settlement and the tendency of its work by stating that its methods of instruction tended to undermine authority or change the existing structure of society in a political sense. The Supreme Court asked the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Public Instruction for an expression of opinion concerning the case. Both sustained the conclusions of the special commission. Then the Supreme Court approved the closing of the Settlement, and thus an end has been put to all settlement work along liberal lines in Russia. The Russian Government seems still to be afraid of the amelioration of social conditions among the poor by means of schools, libraries, public lectures, and similar agencies.

plunged in this war, says Dr. Barton. The most of these are in the Balkan States, while II are located in four different places in Macedonia. Four of these, Rev. and Mrs. Phineas B. Kennedy and Rev. and Mrs. Charles T. Erickson, are in the interior among the Albanians; four others, Rev. and Mrs. William P. Clarke and Misses Mary L. Matthews and Delpha Davis, are at Monastir, one of the Turkish. frontier military headquarters; three others, Rev. and Mrs. William C. Cooper and Rev. Dr. Edward B. Haskell, are at Salonica, on the sea.

human family. "Of the high personal qualities of the Turk-his courtesy in intercourse, his intellectual capacity, his courage and his ability to lead-there has never been any question. Had he developed a capacity to adapt himself to the free institutions which he nominally adopted after the revolution which expelled Abdul Hamid, he might yet remain. secure in his European possessions." There are no foreign missionaries in Servia, Montenegro and Greece. The Board has stations at which missionaries reside-Samokov, Philippopolis and Sofia in Bulgaria, and Monastir, Salonica, Elbasan and Kortcha in Macedonia. At Adrianople there is a native Greek church connected with the Constantinople station. The Methodist Episcopal Board has a small missionary force in Bulgaria, chiefly north of the Balkan range.

Uprising Among Oriental Women

WITH the proclamation of the

constitution in Turkey in August, 1908, thousands of women threw off their veils and streamed into the streets with their husbands to join in the general shout of "liberty." Tho this proved to be a premature attempt and the women have since been forced back into their former seclusion, yet below the surface the ferment continues unabated, and it can not be long before the social life of Turkey is transformed. The last few years have seen the birth of a national consciousness in Persia, and with it there also an awakening has begun among the women. In one town a hundred schools for girls have been opened within a year; in one of the largest a mother was found sitting in the same class with her two daughters, the youngest a child of seven. In China, also, schools for girls are springing up like mushrooms in almost every province, and tho, owing to the lack of qualified teachers, much of the work that is being done is almost comically crude, yet the pathos of these women's eagerness turns laughter into something nearer tears.