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All Letters should be addressed to The Spirit of Missions, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York. ་ Courtesy Leslie's Weekly. OUTGOING MISSIONARIES AT THE CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE, July 20, 1908 Copyright Judge Co., 1908. Miss Byerly, Hankow (returning): Mrs. Ackley, the Rev. C. B. Ackley, Cuba; Mr. Gardiner, Tokyo (returning); the Rev. F. C. Meredith, Philippines; Miss Wheeler, Hankow the Rev. Murray Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, Philippines; Miss Gardiner, Tokyo; Mr. Miller, Hankow THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS VOL. LXXIII. N August, 1908 THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM TEVER before in the history of China have there been such opportunities for the Christian teacher. Our mission has always laid emphasis upon Christian schools. Other mis A Nation and Its Schools. sions are coming to the conviction that this policy is the right one. Bishop Roots recently wrote: "I feel more and more that the educational work is the most fruitful line of effort at the present time. I do not mean to underestimate the other great branches of our work, but the educational work is that which now appeals more than anything else to the Chinese people, and if we develop it in the right way I am convinced that it will give a solidity and effectiveness to all the rest of our work, which cannot be gained in any other way." There can be no doubt that the Far East offers opportunities unparalleled in the modern world to prove the truth of Bishop Westcott's words: "What you would put into the life of a nation, put into its schools." St. John's University, Shanghai, St. Paul's College, Tokyo, Boone College, Wuchang, all need teachers, at once and urgently. there laymen willing to volunteer? Are No. 8 N July 20th a service was held in the House, as a God-speed for seven mem A Farewell Service for Thirtyfour Missionaries bers of the staff of some of the distant missions, returning to their work, and for twenty-nine young men and women going out for the first time. The Holy Communion was celebrated by the General Secretary, assisted by the Associate Secretary. In his address to the missionaries, Dr. Lloyd asked them to think of the Church Missions House as home, as a place to which their thoughts might always turn, and to which their calls for help might be sent, with the assurance of sympathetic consideration. The work to which they were going, he reminded them, was a normal effort to interpret to the people who do not know, the facts which the Christ came to teach about a man's life and his relation to God and his fellows. As they went about this work, day after day, with patience and courage, they would experience something of the solid satisfaction that came to St. Paul until he was able to write: "I have kept the faith"not simply a creed, but the consciousness |