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 Is It God’s Will? 
 The Lord for the 
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 By His Stripes 
 Temples of the 
 Holy Ghost 
 How to Take It 
 How to Keep It 
 Should We Care for 
 Our Bodies? 
 
 Faith and Fanati¬ 
 cism 
 Questions and 
 Objections 
 How to Help Others 
 
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NEGLECTED FIELDS. 
 
 W HILE we rejoice and thank God 
 because of the spread of the gospel 
 already in so many lands, yet we 
 cannot forget the many places that are 
 still unevangelized, and lying in spiritual 
 darkness. A shaded map of the world 
 representing the proportionate division 
 of the light of the gospel leaves a very 
 sad impression upon the Christian’s heart. 
 How vast a portion of the map of the 
 world is covered with a dark pall of 
 heathenism, besides the territories still 
 shaded with the crimson of Romanism 
 and the green tint that marks the realms 
 of Mohammedanism! 
 
 Suppose we begin in Northern Asia. 
 Look at Siberia, so rapidly growing in 
 population and containing now at least 
 6,000,000 people, and yet closed by the 
 Russion government to all foreign mis¬ 
 sionaries. Sweep your eyes over the 
 plains of Mongolia, whose 2,000,000 have 
 been barely touched by the feet of half a 
 dozen pioneer missionaries. Pass on to 
 Tibet with 8,000,000 of souls utterly shut 
 
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out from the offer of salvation, if we ex¬ 
 cept a few tribes on the borders of India 
 and China, where a handful of mission¬ 
 aries are preparing to enter this long 
 closed land. Hard by lies Nepaul and Bhu¬ 
 tan, with a population between them of 
 about 30,000,000, and here we find one or 
 two mission stations which can scarcely 
 be called established. West of Tibet lies 
 Afghanistan, with 4,000,000 Moham¬ 
 medans, and Beluchistan with about a 
 million, all utterly steeped in Moslem 
 fanaticism. North of this lies Turkestan 
 and the Russian provinces of Central Asia, 
 with an aggregate population of at least 
 8,000,000, and these are all without the 
 gospel. Then we come to Arabia, the old 
 land of Ishmael, first cousin, we might 
 say, to God’s chosen people, and surel> 
 entitled to a share in the blessings of the 
 gospel. And here we have at least a mil¬ 
 lion souls who have never heard of Christ. 
 If we add to these Tonquin, with its 20,- 
 000,000, we have in Asia 80,000,000 of 
 people in these ten countries who are still 
 sunk in heathen darkness. 
 
 Coming next to Africa, we reach the 
 provinces included in what is known as 
 
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the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, including 
 Khartoum, Dongola, Kassala, Sennar and 
 Kordofan, all containing a population of 
 at least 10,000,000, and these are all with¬ 
 out the gospel. But now we strike the 
 western Soudan, taking in the great 
 Haussa country, the region around Lake 
 Tchad, the French and German territory 
 and all that vast region south of the 
 Sahara Desert, and here we find at least 
 50,000,000 without the knowledge of 
 Christ. Two bright spots meet us in 
 Central Africa, namely, Uganda and the 
 Lower Congo; but when we pass up to 
 the headwaters of the Congo and go 
 north and south for a thousand miles, we 
 find a vast region uncivilized, unevangel¬ 
 ized, and with at least 30,000,000 souls in 
 heathen darkness. Here then we have in 
 Africa, nearly a hundred million more, 
 not only without Christ, but without the 
 opportunity of even hearing His message 
 of salvation. 
 
 In the islands of the sea, among the In¬ 
 dians of South America, and in several of 
 the republics of that continent, we should 
 find 20,000,000 more who may be said to 
 be entirely unevangelized, making a total 
 
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of 200,000,000 of earth’s inhabitants— 
 more than the entire Protestant popula¬ 
 tion of the globe, without the gospel and 
 without the chance of hearing it. 
 
 Among these neglected fields we may 
 emphasize four as of special importaice 
 and urgency. The first is Anam, or Ton- 
 quin, the French colonial possessions of 
 Southeastern Asia. Here are more than 
 20,000,000 without a Protestant mission¬ 
 ary. There are thousands of Roman 
 Catholic priests, but the gospel they 
 preach is little better than heathenism, 
 and, in fact, the heathen accept it be¬ 
 cause its processions and image worship 
 are so much like their own Buddhist 
 ceremonies. The effort has just been 
 made by a young French missionary of 
 Montreal, Mr. Dyan and his wife, to lo¬ 
 cate in Tonquin, and they are at present 
 studying the language in South China 
 with a view to begin work. But what 
 are these among so many ? 
 
 The second great neglected field is 
 Tibet. This is the headquarters of 
 Oriental Buddhism, and its chief city, 
 Lhassa- has a paramount influence all 
 over Asia. The borders of Tibet have 
 
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been reached for some time by the Mo¬ 
 ravian mission in northwestern India in 
 Little Tibet, by Miss Taylor and her 
 friends by way of Dharjeeling and Si- 
 khim, and by the Alliance mission on 
 the frontier of Tibet, and it is believed 
 that the recent treaties with China will 
 go far to open up Tibet to foreign in¬ 
 tercourse ; but still this great land re¬ 
 mains to be occupied in its real citadel. 
 
 The next loud cry comes from the Sou¬ 
 dan. Somewhere between sixty and a 
 hundred million of people are scattered 
 over a vast belt of Africa, more than a 
 thousand miles wide, reaching from 
 Khartoum on the east, to the Niger on 
 the west, and God has recently been 
 moving in a marked way through His 
 providence to bring both the eastern and 
 western sections of this territory under 
 the control of a Protestant government— 
 Great Britain. The defeat of the Mahdi 
 in the east, and the more recent annexa¬ 
 tion of the Haussa country in the west, 
 to British territory seem like a direct 
 cl allenge to the Church of God to arise 
 and possess the land. The difficulties 
 of climate, language and transportation 
 
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are still great, but if the soldiers of an 
 earthly sovereign could penetrate these 
 barriers, what should hinder the army of 
 the living God? 
 
 Next in importance among the world’s 
 neglected fields are the Indians of South 
 America. Here are nearly 5,000,000 of 
 the original owners of the continent. We 
 have robbed them of their heritage; let 
 us give them a better one. Shall we not 
 labor and plan that the thoughts and 
 plans which have been so long discussed 
 in both hemispheres, looking to a real 
 forward movement to reach the Indian 
 population of South America, may be at 
 length really fulfilled ? 
 
 The great apostle Paul, the true pio¬ 
 neer of modern missions, declared that it 
 was his great ambition to “preach the 
 gospel in the regions beyond, and not to 
 build upon another man’s foundations.” 
 Let this be the noble ambition of the 
 young hearts and lives to whom the mes¬ 
 sage of this tract shall come, to do some 
 definite work that no one else has done 
 or would have done, and to reach some 
 race which but for you must have per¬ 
 ished in heathen darkness. 
 
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The value of mission work does not 
 merely consist in the aggregate number 
 of souls you save, but largely in the dis¬ 
 tribution of the work, so that it shall 
 reach all tribes and tongues without ex¬ 
 ception. It would seem that as a pre¬ 
 liminary preparation for His coming, the 
 Lord requires that the gospel should be 
 “preached for a witness unto all nations.” 
 
 Therefore, it is not enough to satisfy 
 His plan if we reach great numbers in 
 one or two nations; He wants every race 
 to be represented in that company which 
 will meet Him at His coming, and which 
 He shall present to Himself in that day 
 as His glorious Bride. Shall we then, 
 beloved friends who read these lines, 
 endeavor with intelligent zeal and self- 
 sacrificing liberality and love, to do our 
 best to hasten His coming and prepare 
 His way? 
 
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