American messenger . great movement among the abo-rigines in South West China startedamong the Miaos and swept large num-bers of them into the Church. TheseMiaos were serfs and their new attitudetoward life and man and God displeasedtheir overlords, the Nossus. Hence a bit-ter persecution. To overcome this oppo-sition the missionary leaders, Mr. Adamand Mr. Pollard, felt it best to engagein evangelizing the Nossus also. The re-sults have been beyond all started, the work among theNossus grew of its own momentum,since those who were converted spreadthe Gospel among their fello
American messenger . great movement among the abo-rigines in South West China startedamong the Miaos and swept large num-bers of them into the Church. TheseMiaos were serfs and their new attitudetoward life and man and God displeasedtheir overlords, the Nossus. Hence a bit-ter persecution. To overcome this oppo-sition the missionary leaders, Mr. Adamand Mr. Pollard, felt it best to engagein evangelizing the Nossus also. The re-sults have been beyond all started, the work among theNossus grew of its own momentum,since those who were converted spreadthe Gospel among their fellows. Atpresent there are possibly 10,000 Miaoadherents to Christianity and an equalnumber amongst the Nossus. The workhowever, has grown so fast that it hasbeen impossible to keep close track ofit. WTiile Nossus and Miaos are dis-tinct from each other, both are also dis-tinct from the Chinese. 132 American Messenger July, 1916. IMAGINATION 0, for a grain of imagination,Give us men; but pray equip themWith imagination!. IMAGINE long rows, row topping row, of perfectly selected books on all the live present daysubjects by vigorous writers who know of what they speak, volumes of poems by both Ameri-can and English masters of rhythm, all the best and latest fiction judiciously marshalled, notmore than two of a kind—vying each with the other in attracting attention and welcoming a chanceto be taken up and read. Imagine these books all carefully arranged in proper order under their respective heads oftheology and religion, psychology, devotion, travel, history, poetry, fiction and so on interminably,not to mention gift-books, reference works, standard sets and general book supplies. Continue theprocess to include one copy at least of every kind and style of Bible published; both Old and New Tes-taments, separate and combined. It does your soul good to walk into such a bookstore filled with realbooks of the right order. When you have a mind picture of all these wonders, then glance a
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