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This pastor knows how to do it. Other wise pastors will mention the best missionary books; they will see that their people know of the latest missionary literature.—, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.

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MISSIONARY MARTYRDOM

A convert from Islam took advantage of the Ameer's visit to Kandahar and crossed the frontier, unbidden and uninvited, to preach Christianity in Afghanistan. He was arrested, taken before the Ameer, and sent in chains to Kabul, but was murdered before reaching there. He was named Abdul Karim, and was at one time one of the workers at Bannu. Mrs. Pennell wrote that when he was taken prisoner and refused to repeat the "Kalima," saying he was a Christian, he was taken to Kandahar. The Ameer questioned him, and on his again refusing to repeat the "Kalima," and saying he had come to preach the gospel, he was ordered to be flogged, put in chains, and to be taken to Kabul, where he was to await the return of the Ameer, and unless he changed his mind would get due punishment.

Heavily chained hand and foot, he set out with an escort for Kabul; that at the villages he was spat upon, and the hairs of his beard pulled out—and at length the poor, weary sufferer, at a village before reaching Kabul, was murdered. (Text.)

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Missionary Power—See.

MISSIONARY PRAYER

The late Joseph Cook is the author of this prayer in verse for the spread and triumph of God's kingdom:

One field the wheeling world, Vast furrows open lie; Broadcast let seed be hurled By us before we die. Winds, east or west, Let no tares fall; Wide waft the best; God winnow all.

Heaven hath a single sun, All gates swing open wide; All lands at last are one, And seas no more divide. In every zone, Arise and shine; Earth's only throne, Our God, be Thine.

On every desert rain, Make green earth's flintiest sands; Above the land and main Reveal Thy pierced hands. Thy cross heaven wins; Lift it on high; And in his sins Let no man die.

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Missionary Preaching—See.

MISSIONARY RESULTS

Charles Darwin, the scientist, described the Terra Del Fuegans as the most degraded specimens of humanity he had ever seen. He considered them beyond the reach of civilization. The missionaries carried the gospel to them, and Darwin, seeing the change wrought, said with great frankness and willing publicity, "Truly the missionary's message is a magician's wand."

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Rev. Egerton R. Young, a missionary among the Indians of Canada, tells of an obdurate old man whose heart had been touched by the missionary whose ministrations had brought his child back to health:

He attended an open-air meeting standing at first a quarter of a mile off. At the next meeting he drew a bit nearer, then nearer still. Six weeks later he was among the circle kneeling at the foot of the cross, making his confession. "Missionary," he said, "I was a fool, but now I have got the moss out of my ears, and the sand out of my eyes, and I see clearly, and I hear all right. I am so glad I came."

Was it not of such scenes as these that the prophet was thinking when he wrote, "The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopt." (Text.)

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MISSIONARY SACRIFICE

San Quala was one of the first converts among the degraded Karens. From the lowest state the gospel raised him, with a rapidity that no civilization ever knew, to a noble Christian manhood. His first impulse was to tell others of Jesus. He helped to translate the Bible into the Karen tongue, for fifteen years guided the missionaries through the jungles, and then himself began to preach and to plant new churches. In