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Christianity in China protests against. that ancient barbarism, and Jesus Christ is saying to many a woman there just what He said to one He healed long, long ago: Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity."-CHARLES C. ALBERTSON.

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Those who scoff may well be thankful that they live in the land where the Gospel has tamed the beastliness and ferocity of men who but for Christianity might long ago have eaten their carcasses, like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tanned their hides, like the monsters of the French Revolution.—JAMES Russell LOWELL.

Is it not perfectly erroneous to speak of the failure of missions, when they started with a hundred and twenty despised Galileans, and when there are now at least 120,000,000 Protestants, and they have in their power almost all the wealth and almost all the resources of the world? -FARRAR.

The Bible is found in the languages of three-fourths of the people of the globe. As of old, it is running very swiftly. There is scarcely a ship that goes to the heathen world which does not carry reinforcements and supplies to the missionaries. In all hearts there is the instinct of

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All the shallow pretexts for our neglect and meager offerings and few laborers are shamed into silence when our opened eyes behold in the history of missions itself a "burning bush" whose every leaf and twig is aflame with the presence of Jehovah.-PIERSON.

In my opinion, Christian missions have done more real and lasting good than all other agencies combined. They have been the salt of the country and the true saviors of the empire. Sir Rivers ThOMPSON.

Every other faith in India is decaying.

Christianity alone is beginning to run its course. -SIR Herbert Ed

WARDS.

Overcoming the World.

I believe that a great many Christians are overcome because they don't know what a terrible fight we have. Now, it is no sign because a man is a Christian that he is going to overcome the world, unless he resists temptation when it comes. Do not let any man think that all he has to do is to join the church. That will not save you. The question is, Are you overcoming the world, or is the world overcoming you? Are you more loving than you were five years ago? Are you more patient than you were five years ago? Are you more amiable? Have you more patience? If you haven't, the world is overcoming you, even if you are a church member. That epistle which Paul wrote to Titus says we are to be sound in patience, faith and charity. We have got Christians-a good many of them-who are good in spots, but mighty poor in other spots.—MOODY.

Investing in Christianity.

Our King is coming! Surely, then, the best investment of money is in His treasury; the best expenditure of time and strength is in His service. We shall not wish. to show Him large balances, nor selfish reserves of either

the one or the other; but we shall love to bring Him the lost ones found, the weary ones refreshed, the suffering ones comforted; for His name's sake.

Stand before Calvary's cross; see there what it cost to redeem our souls; and then hear Him say: "How much owest thou unto thy Lord?" Will you then make calculations? Will you say: "So much for Thee, blessed Jesus; so much for the world; so much for myself?" Can it be so in the full view of the love which gave Himself? -PENNYFATHER.

A True Philosophy.

Christianity as Christ taught it is the truest philosophy of life ever spoken. But let us be quite sure when we speak of Christianity that we mean Christ's Christianity. Other versions are either caricatures, or exaggerations, or misunderstandings, or short-sighted and surface readings. For the most part, their attainment is hopeless and the results wretched. But I care not who the person is, or through what vale of tears he has passed, or is about to pass, there is a new life for him along this path. -HENRY DRUMMOND.

Belief in Jesus.

A Christian is a believer in Jesus. He believes that if he only throws his own lost and sinful soul on the Redeemer, there is in His sacrifice sufficient merit to cancel all his guilt, and in His heart sufficient love to undertake the keeping of his soul for all eternity. He believes that Jesus is a Savior. He believes that His heart is set on

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