pression, "So as no fuller on earth can whiten them," often came to mind in the old days, when out of the little squalid huts came forth coats that shone like polished marble.—The above four illustrations from James S. Gale, "Korea in Transition."
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BIBLE, EFFECT OF
The Rev. E. W. Burt, of the Baptist mission
in Shantung, says that three men came
from a distant village in the hills begging
the missionary to visit them. He expected to
find some lawsuit at the bottom of their
eagerness, but instead found a chapel built
and everything ready for a splendid work
in their midst. Three years before a colporteur
of the British and Foreign Bible
Society had sold them Bibles, and without
any human instruction they had come to believe
in Christ.
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Bible for Missions—See Gospel, Sending the. BIBLE FROM GOD At a large dinner given in New York, Mrs. Margaret Bottome, for a long time head of the King's Daughters Circle, sat beside a German professor of science. In the course of conversation, Mrs. Bottome said quite naturally for her: "The Bible says so and so." "The Bible," remarked the professor. "You don't believe the Bible!" "Yes, indeed, I believe it," replied Mrs. Bottome. "Why, I didn't suppose that any intelligent person to-day believed the Bible!" "Oh, yes," Mrs. Bottome said, "I believe it all. I know the Author."
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BIBLE FROM HEATHEN VIEWPOINTS Certain parts of the Bible appeal with unexpected force to various races, and to men in different stages of civilization, who read the Scriptures with other eyes than ours. We may illustrate this point by a few actual examples. When Dr. Kilgour was translating the Old Testament into Nepali (India), he found it an arduous, not to say a tedious, task, to render the long chapters of ritual regulations in Leviticus; he was surprized, however, to discover that his Nepalese assistant considered these chapters to be among the most interesting and important in the whole Pentateuch. So, again, the Chinese, who lay enormous stress on reverence for ancestors, are profoundly imprest by the first chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, because it begins with the genealogy of our Lord, which, as a colporteur wrote last year, "goes back to our Chinese Hsia dynasty." In Egypt, Moslems are attracted by the Book of Genesis, which they call "the history of the creation of the world." In the south of Europe the Book of Proverbs is often purchased eagerly by Freemasons, who look back to King Solomon as the legendary founder of their craft. In heathen countries it is by no means uncommon for the missionaries, who are translating the Old Testament, first to make a version of the Psalter and perhaps of Genesis, and then to translate the Book of Jonah before attempting any other of the prophets. They realize—what we sometimes forget—that Jonah is the one thoroughly missionary book in the Old Testament, and they find that its message comes home to their converts with peculiar power.—The Lutheran.
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BIBLE FRUIT
The following incident is related in an issue of the Illustrated Missionary News:
One day a Chinese scholar named Ch'u
paid a visit to an old friend, Chang, who was
priest of a Buddhist temple among the
mountains of Shansi. As he looked over the
library his eye fell upon a book of unusual
appearance lying on a dusty shelf, and he inquired
of the priest what book it was. "Ah,"
replied his friend, "that is a strange book I
picked up on a journey—a foreign classic.
You will not think much of it." It was a
copy of the Gospel of Mark, and Ch'u became
interested in some things he read in it.
He had never heard of Christ before, and
now that life so simple and sublime laid
hold on him. He came again and again to
the temple to read that little book until he
knew it almost by heart. But no one else
could tell him more, for no Christian had
ever penetrated to that lonely mountain.
Could all this story about Jesus be true? If
so, when did it happen? Where were His
followers whom He told to preach His gospel?
Could Jesus help men now? At length,
after long waiting and much inquiry, he
learned that there were some Christians in a
town three days' journey away, and he set
off to seek them. There he met Pastor Hsi,
a Chinese evangelist, who was able to tell
him that Jesus Christ was alive and he could
