Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ownthat the population of the city is only about35,000, while the surrounding regions arenot thickly settled, and that besides ours there is a Methodist hospital and dispensary,besides the native and Japanese doctors, itwill be seen that the attendance is very 20,000 patients, most all of whomare from the country about, have workedand mingled and mixed with the literature they received at the dispen-sary and the word they heard there has beenscattered among thousands more. It isimpossible to estimate the influence of thehos
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ownthat the population of the city is only about35,000, while the surrounding regions arenot thickly settled, and that besides ours there is a Methodist hospital and dispensary,besides the native and Japanese doctors, itwill be seen that the attendance is very 20,000 patients, most all of whomare from the country about, have workedand mingled and mixed with the literature they received at the dispen-sary and the word they heard there has beenscattered among thousands more. It isimpossible to estimate the influence of thehospital in this way during the past two anda half years. Our schools havent as yetbeen developed, so our only means in thepast have been the dispensary and hospitaland itinerating by the missionaries. Allthings have worked together. The secret ofour success from a worldly point of viewis, we think, the esprit du corps among themissionaries and among the natives. Thetrue secret, which is no secret at all, is thepresence of the Holy Spirit in River Jordan. 1898.] A SPECIMEN MISSION PRESS. 27 Concert of PrayerFor Church Work Abroad July—Christian Literature in Missions. (a) Necessity for a Christian literature—the Bible,religious works, text-books, etc. (6) Processes of creating—translating, printing, diffi-culties attending. (c) Colportage. Mission newspapers and magazines. (d) A SPECIMEN MISSION PRESS. The following interesting and able accountof the American Mission Press was preparedby Prof. Orne, of Cambridge, about sixyears ago. With his permission this ex-tract was made for the use of the Presby-terian Board. It furnishes a clear andstriking illustration of the value and influ-ence of a mission press in a country likeSyria. In a prefatory note Prof. Ornestates as an extreme illustration of the pre-vailing ignorance in regard to missionarywork of this kind, that he had met acollege-bred and scholarly gentleman whoproved to be ignorant not only of what hadbeen acc
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