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 Have you read the words of Bishop Law¬ 
 rence in his opening sermon to the General 
 Convention ? They are worth you r while. 
 
 HRISTIAN missions have justified them¬ 
 selves and confounded their critics. 
 While Christian peoples have entered 
 other nations for conquest, commerce, exploita¬ 
 tion or travel, Christian missionaries have been 
 quietly teaching, healing, comforting, helping, and 
 uplifting the people. They have gone, not to get 
 but to give. To the trader the Chinaman is a 
 trader; to the missionary the Chinaman is a 
 brother. With the Christian faith always goes 
 the sacredness of the individual, the integrity and 
 the rights of man as man; hence civic freedom, 
 seligovernment, democracy. With the blessings 
 of Christian hope the missionary has taken also 
 the blessings of civic freedom. ... Any 
 man who has no use for missions is as much out 
 of date as an old flint-lock gun. Life .moves too 
 rapidly in these days for us even to stop and look 
 at him. 
 
 When the Church plans for world-wide mis¬ 
 sions, she plans for the honor 'and spiritual wealth 
 of this country, as well as for the welfare of dis¬ 
 tant people. Men everywhere are discovering 
 that the Saviour’s command, ‘Go ye into all the 
 world,’ has philosophy as well as religion in it. 
 The greatest glory of the Church throughout the 
 ages has been in the fact that in spite of timidity 
 and cynicism her heroes have thrust her outposts 
 
44 7 place no value on anything 1 have or possess except 
 in relation to the Kingdom of God ." 
 
 David Livingston 
 
 to the ends of the world, in the perfect confidence 
 that this Faith is the Victory that overcometh 
 the world. 
 
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 Every day in the year the Board of Missions 
 has to send to the field an average of $3,000 for 
 the support of the Church’s Missions in 40 home 
 dioceses, 23 domestic missionary districts and 10 
 foreign districts. 
 
 This amount makes possible the service of 23 
 bishops and 1377 missionaries in the home field, 
 of 10 bishops and 232 missionaries abroad, with 
 1,000 native helpers. 
 
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 The transforming power of Christianity is 
 evidenced in a striking statement made by 
 Bishop Morrison in one of the joint sessions of 
 the recent General Convention. The instinct 
 of revenge is one of che fundamental impulses 
 of the Indian. But there is one power which 
 can change even that. The Bishop told how the 
 fourteenth of June is the great holiday of the 
 Ojibways, and is the time he chooses for his 
 visitation. This year many Sioux were present 
 to join in the annual reunion. One of the Ojib¬ 
 way native priests administered the chalice to 
 Sioux who in years past had killed his father; 
 they had told him how bravely his father had 
 died in battle against them. But peace and 
 brotherly affection had brought them together by 
 the Blood of the Cross. 
 
&(ot “How much of my money shaft 1 give to God ?” 
 but “How much of God's money shaft 
 l keep for myself ?" 
 
 The central expenses for administration for the 
 year ending September i, 1913, represented 8Ta¬ 
 per cent, of the gross sum handled. Of this 
 3 tV per cent, was used for office expenses, sal¬ 
 aries, etc., the remaining $i 6 o for making the 
 work known, or what a business house would 
 call “ promotion.” 
 
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 Bishop Ferguson says that in times past the 
 Church’s workers in Africa had to go where they 
 were neither invited nor wanted in order to 
 deliver the Christian message. A wonderful 
 change, he declares, is now taking place,especially 
 where the tribes have come in contact with 
 civilization. They are manifesting a desire for 
 the light as never before. Applications have 
 been received from several tribes, begging that 
 mission stations be planted among them. 
 
 Bishop Graves of Shanghai says: “The real 
 emergency is in the United States rather than 
 in China—the emergency which calls us to seize 
 for God the marvelous opportunities He is plac¬ 
 ing before us. We need to rise to the realization 
 of the fact that our missions are not small and 
 feeble, but powerful in their influence upon the 
 national life of China. Chinese laymen are 
 showing by their gifts how fully they realize what 
 a force for upbuilding their national and moral 
 life our work among them is. And we need, 
 above all other needs, men for the work. 
 
44 And he said unto him, 4 Ho<w much cnnest 
 thou unto my lord " 
 
 HOW MUCH OWEST THOU ? 
 
 '‘THE path made smooth beneath thy feet, 
 A The way made plain before thy face, 
 He brings thy soul, with patience sweet, 
 Unto His love’s appointed place. 
 
 And how much owest thou? 
 
 The thing thou could’st not be, He is; 
 
 The goal thou could’st not, He has won; 
 About thee throng His ministries, 
 
 Before thee shine the lights of home. 
 And how much owest thou? 
 
 Yet thousands wander, far from light; 
 
 Poor sheep look up, and are not fed; 
 
 His loved ones perish in the night— j 
 
 Thy brothers faint for lack of bread. 
 
 Then how much owest thou? 
 
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 A religious census at the Imperial University 
 in Tokyo has revealed the distressing fact that 
 more than 4,000 of the students frankly declared 
 themselves either atheist or agnostic. Only 
 eight desired to record their allegiance to Shinto. 
 Fifty were Buddhists and sixty were Christians. 
 
 The Church’s prosperity is the test of our 
 fidelity as Christians.— Bishop Lloyd* 
 
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 Copies of this leaflet can be obtained in any quantity from 
 the Board of Missions, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York, by ask¬ 
 ing for Leaflet No. 980. 
 
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