Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . h the uniuhab-ited forest, but afterthe towns were reachedI gathered the peopletogether and had a lit-tle service. Amongthe Bulu people we feltquite at home. Onerainy evening I held ameeting in the streetof a small town. Isat under the eavesand the people stoodout in the rain, soeager were they to hearwhat I had to tellthem. This is not thesame place that it wasa year ago. The peo-ple are , spears andknives have given wayto walking sticks andclothing. One thingwhich causes us alarmis the great amount of rum coming inwith the trade
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . h the uniuhab-ited forest, but afterthe towns were reachedI gathered the peopletogether and had a lit-tle service. Amongthe Bulu people we feltquite at home. Onerainy evening I held ameeting in the streetof a small town. Isat under the eavesand the people stoodout in the rain, soeager were they to hearwhat I had to tellthem. This is not thesame place that it wasa year ago. The peo-ple are , spears andknives have given wayto walking sticks andclothing. One thingwhich causes us alarmis the great amount of rum coming inwith the traders. Then the example ofthe white traders is extremely bad. Theyare even worse than the Bulus cannot stand with them in what theydo, and it is hard to know just how toreceive them. If we treat them as friends,what will the people say ? The only thingwhich helps me to decide is the hope thatpossibly we can be helpful to them inrestraining them in their sins, and inmakiug them think about their soujsj whichthey are selling so cheaply,. Arab Sheik. St. Paul and Manila. W. E. Curtis, writing to the ChicagoRecord, says: I notice most of the Sena-tors refer to the archipelago that was thescene of Admiral Deweys recent exploit as The Philippians, and when I asked oneof them if the well-known epistle of the apostle was addressed to the in-habitants of those islands he looked at mewith an interrogation point on his face, andremarked, * Blamed if I know. The Great Korean Har-vestfield. The tidings fromthe Moukden Circuitcontinue to be ofdeepest new communi-cation seems to con-firm the widespreadand deep character ofthe trend towardChristianity. Dr. Rossgives a striking sum-mary of the results ofhis visit to the says: f On a jour-ney extending over amonth, and just com-pleted, I baptized inall 122 Chinese andninety-five Koreans are bare-ly a quarter of theapplicants in the threecentres visited. Far-ther south there aresettlements
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