MISSION WORK IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9596, 7 February 1910, Page 5

MISSION WORK IN CHINA.

APPEAL FOll MORK HELPEKS

At Kuox Church, JMastfjrton, hi«t evening. Miss Henry, who for tlirv last nineteen year-; lias worked as a missionary iv China, interested a fairly large congregation with an account of i'or experience-: in that mighty Empire. One-fourth of thn. human race, said the speaker, aro Chinese; and while much has boon uuno to Christianise this euoniions percentage of the world's population, much nioro still remains to Im accomplished, v'hina is waking up; reforms are being carried out. ami if fhe natives are not- now influenced for good, the consequences iv a few years' time, when the country fully realises its power, will Iμ? -enons ro Western nations In rhe near future it will be nnssihle to place no fewer than fwoMty-ii i , ; , million lulls -rraim l I vm- , .) in the lirld ; runs fii' , ucci'S.-itj' for 's; i. l v.'iu'K is aijji.irnnr. r J.\iday there ;na [our tiiuns.iud missionaries, with ten ; hou-uu:' Cdiiueso helpers, roiling for th' -1 niiirituisl euof the nation; two hmid'.od anil !ii'ry ih:ir..-.-.i!r.l natives have accopred the message, btit the vast !>uik of the pr-oplc :\v.- still walking in darkiK--. and in J. v<l walVi! citjos, lie-id' , .- many towns an.l vilhigo--!, there :ii'-? l<> resident missionaries As shnwii;g the irany reforms now boiuu pi'OM'ciited with vigour in Ciiiit:. lU : .s> Henry in-.tanced rhe npinm curs'' 1 , wlncii i- gradually being sfa:n;i!-.i out. The Government, by their action iv tin- matter, have forfs.-itr-d ivvciuu: amounting to no loss rhaii si:-: and a-hair' million 'pounds, this ii..-,are iiiiistnu ing the niagnitiv.io of ihu tr;uie and the oour-:tg-.i with which the authorities aro seeking ro benefit the people. A few yo:<;•.'-• ago there w<r-rr no newspapers,; ro-dny ihc-i'e are two hundred daily papers, including a Ladies' Gazotte, (■iited by a woman. In UK")? two million copies of the Scriptures were distributed iv China, also tweuty-stx million copies of Chvisiian books, tracts, etc. There are now lifty-sevcn •thousand (diildron n.: nnssiou schools. In coijciusi'i:i, riio ssiots ker ii'iidc an earnest upi<eal to ycuiug mfw aud Nvonien to ort'er tii- niseive- for nii.sri Io Li v.oric in the vast Mongolian Empiro. Every moistii a luillion Chiueso ]):i« away, the majority of them without hearing r 1 u>. Gospel ; aud there was a crying need i'or conseciared workers. Thu pooplfi are cagor for new light .'md kiJO'svb-dgfi; iv only ••('mains for fho Church of God ro jirovid'j i-iie, instructors. The Chinese Empire wiil soon have to be reckoned with. ;n:d iv is to be ho])ed th.at when the awakening comos China wiil fake her si:au<l as a Christian nation. .Miss Henry's address, :i-: a whole, was exceedingly inter-c.-;!:iug, and made a marked impression upon her heare-t;-.