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Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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was not one baptizeperson, there are now seventy communcants, and a visit two Sundays ago f*confirmation revealed to me as never bfore <what had been done. A full coigregation rendered a full and hearservice, led by a choir of men arboys. I fully believe that with proper asistance now we can make this mocompletely heathen town in the Unit«States have a thorough Christi£ileaven in it. We must always remerber also that our work touches the Oiient constantly. Two, hundred of oiChristian Chinese have returnedChina since I came here in 1902. Oi^Japanese and Koreans will go back alsIt is with this wide vision that the wo:here should be treated. Chief Justij THE CHURCH AND PARISH HOUSE AT LAHAINA Hartwell recently said to me that hewas convineed that this was supremelythe place for Oriental work. We havelarge numhers of children who, under the conditions here, laugh at heathen-ism and are anxious to be taught theChristian religion. And their parentsare quite willing to have them taught.
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KOREAN CATECHISTS WHO ARE HELPING TO EVANGELIZE THENON-CHRISTIAN PEOPLE (G9.>) BY E. L. ROOTS TWO years ago last January LiuChing-an, a teacher of Chineseclassics in the Wuchang Divin-ity-school, was arrested on thecharge of being one Liu Chia-yuin,leader of the revolutionary party in theProvince of Hupeh. Though none whoknew him believed the charge, his pasthistory was most carefully investigatedby some of our best men, and we becamethereby doubly assured that he reallywas the quiet, scholarly, patriotic gentle-man that he had seemed. The Chineseauthorities also investigated, failed toprove even to their satisfaction the orig-inal charge, but, obtaining false testi-mony from a teacher, an acquaintanceof Lius, who was himself under sus-picion, finally condemned him to death.His life was saved at the last moment byan order to Pekin to delay until the casecould be more thoroughly investigated,and his sentence was finally commuted toimprisonment for life. He is still inprison, and now

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