"a little light." I have just a word to say for our kindergartens. When we opened these we did not take the name kindergarten. We called them schools for little children. The people were not long in giving them a name. They call them "schools of paradise." They say when we take the older ones, "Oh, yes! you will make teachers and preachers out of them. But these little ones, they are not big enough yet to be cared for; even their own fathers and mothers only strive to keep soul and body together. When they are bigger then they will be worth looking after. And you have a care for them?" When they see the happy little ones they say, "That must be like paradise," and hence the name, "schools of paradise." Friends, will you not take these schools, these boys and girls for whom Christ died, as objects of prayer? God has used the schools in that field to His honor and glory. He has made them an instrument by which He may be revealed to the people. They have been a messenger sent before to prepare the way for the King of Glory.

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHINA

REV. GILBERt Reid, of PEKING, CHINA

At the present time no country presents such great opportunities for wide educational development as China, and yet in the conference held yesterday on China only some five minutes were devoted to education, and to-day in the conference on educational work only some two minutes are devoted to China. The fact remains, China presents the loudest call to educational missions. I would be glad to speak of the educational work of all my missionary friends in China, but because of the limitations of time I must limit myself to my own special work in this line.

The plan of the International Institute which I am seeking to carry out is different from that of any educational work yet undertaken by missionaries in any country. The plan is that which is called for by the critical condition of the times in that vast empire. There is to be a library and reading room, to reach the educated Chinese through their love of literature—the first public library to be started in China. There is also to be a museum or exhibit hall to show forth the inventions, skill, goods and products of different countries-presenting the results of Christianity in civilization. There will also be reception parlors, to touch the Chinese from their social side, establishing friendliness between them and all classes of foreigners. There will be a large auditorium for having lectures on all manner of topics and for holding meetings which would draw in the official classes of

China. There will also be classrooms for giving instruction and information to the grown up men in positions of authority-a university extension course among the mandarins. In addition there will be literary work adapted to the times and suited to the ruling class. As for direct evangelistic work, it will be more largely carried on in connection with the churches.

Thus all this work appears secular, but to us engaged in the work it will be Christian, as done for the glory of God and to illustrate the beneficial results of the spirit of Christianity. Hence I find a difficulty in a convention like this. The volunteers here assembled feel called to missions from the demands of pure evangelization; yet if one out of a hundred should be drawn to this kind of work I would be satisfied, for then I would secure all I am asking for, when the work shall be fully started. This work comes in direct contact with the leading men of China, and aims through them to help China to become strong, prosperous, more tolerant and enlightened. There is a movement of progress and education in the Chinese government; shall Christian men, shall missionaries, take the lead in shaping this movement for the good of a great empire?

THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE NEED IN TURKEY

MISS EMILY C. WHEELER, OF HARPOOT, TURKEY

Christ says: "As the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you." What is our opportunity? I say it reverently-to be a Christ to men. He said: "I am the light of the world," and added, "ye are the light of the world." As the prism hangs in my window and sends the glorious colors of the sun dancing into the darkest corners of my room, into corners where the direct sunbeam cannot reach; so you, the prism for Divine light may reach souls which without you may never know the truth.

"Without Me ye can do nothing," says our Lord and Master. But "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me." Have you that strength? "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto My Father." "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it." "Ask of Me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

Student volunteers, "God is not a man that He should lie; neither the Son of Man that He should repent; hath He said and shall He not

do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" We say with Paul, "Faithful is He that promised." The world lies before you. Will you do the greater works?

Shame on us that the map of the world tells the story it does of Christ's witnesses. The green of the false prophet flaunts itself over wide spaces, sways more men (I do not say women, since women do not count in that religion) than are swayed by the last command of our Christ. Look at the heathen, the pagan lands. Count up the millions that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, bound with affliction as in bands of iron. Fellow-workers, where is your light, your faith, your witness bearing?

Listen to the calls for help from every mission field. Look at Turkey, one of the fields. See the missionary over-borne by the triple labor of schools, evangelistic work and relief. Churches, preaching stations, schools, whose pastors, preachers, teachers, have laid down their lives for Christ, or, fearing new massacres, have fled to other lands, all call for help. Towns and villages which we have tried in vain for years to enter have, since the massacre, been asking for teachers and preachers. Girls' schools are established in villages, where before the massacre only one little girl knew how to read. Still newer ground waits to be broken by the laborers yet to go. Leaders are called for. Will you be one? Will you look on these multitudes as Christ beheld the multitudes, "with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd"? "Then saith He unto His disciples," and He speaks again to-day, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest." Have you prayed with faith, prayed without ceasing? Then, next, “He gave them power." Has He given power to you? Without it you can do nothing. Lastly, "Go ye into all the world," and, "lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

You may not have the blessed opportunity that was granted us to prove that promise: as shot and shell rained on every side, to stand in perfect peace with your people round you, while with ax and club the doors were broken in by those who threatened to drink your blood; to sing "God is the refuge of His saints," and "My faith looks up to Thee." Frightened people cannot sing.

You may not have such privilege, but I know that if you go in power Christ will be with you, no matter what you meet-the slow fire of daily toil and loneliness, or the quick fire of martyrdom. Glorious fellowship! to know that He is with you and to see His power transform a race, raise them out of the dirt and sin of ages of heathenism or dead Christianity to the light of God; yes, bring them to the place

where you watch the boy you have brought to Christ and trained to proclaim His word, winning hundreds, yes, thousands, to the Master.

Is the work hard? It is the hard work that pays. It was no easy battle that was fought in the days when to read the Bible meant a beating for a man; meant coming home from the Protestant chapel to find wife and children sitting on the doorstep weeping because they were turned out of his father's patriarchal home. Was not a battle. fought for female education? A long and bitter fight it was. But now Gregorian and Turkish schools for girls vie with our college to make the women of the land queens of the home. The question used to be: "If she has a soul why is she a woman?" Does it pay to teach a people that their mothers have souls? A battle was fought for self-support— one not easy, as my father well knew-but now self-supporting churches, preaching places, schools and Christian homes greet us on every side.

Is this work crushed out? There are those to-day who have not faith enough to give for work in Turkey. But can God's work be wiped out? It is true the besom of destruction has swept over one fair field. In every town and hamlet the blood of God's consecrated ones calls to heaven. God is now hearing the prayers that go up from all lands for Turkey. A China tea merchant is sent from England to cheer God's weary ones. The missionaries, the almost discouraged Christians, give utterance to shouts of joy as they feel the power of the Spirit opening up the old, old story. Meetings are held with all classes. Men, women and children are seeking Christ. All the girls in the college, the high school and the higher grammar school are rejoicing in the Savior. Many of the boys and even children from the kindergartens are telling of His love. Skeptics and bad men are confessing their sins, so transformed that the congregation looks on in wonder. The work goes on not alone in Harpoot, but in surrounding cities. Was there ever a time so hopeful as the present?

Lord.

Would you settle the Eastern question once for all?

"What if, amid the forces rare

Which move and sway this wondrous ball,
The law of faith, the power of prayer
Should prove the mightiest of them all?"

Wield that power of faith and prayer, and take Turkey for the

The Bible has been widely scattered among the Moslems in years. past. Its entrance always gives light. It shall not return unto God. void.

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." It has been poured out like water. Now, student volunteers, now is the day

for us to take even the strongholds of Islam for Christ. Some of the Turks are asking: "Who is this Jesus who makes these Christians willing to die for Him?"

The medieval Church poured out her treasure to gain the holy sepulchre. How grand the opportunity now for the Christian Church to pour out her millions to make that whole land the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.

Shakespeare sings:

"True hope is swift, it flies with swallow's wings,

Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings."

You, student volunteers, have a greater mission.

To you is

given to teach men how they may become "Partakers of the Divine nature," "Sons of God," "Heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ."

THE ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL AT SINGAPORE REV. W. F. OLDHAM, D. D., FORMERLY OF SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA

In the providence of God, when I went to the mission field I was ordered to open a mission in Malaysia, a far-away land, half-way between India and China. I found the way of entrance for the gospel in this great archipelago was by way of the Christian school. The volunteers present will be interested to know that without mission grants for wages or buildings or supplies, with no capital but the desire to serve and the assisting grace of God, there was founded in that far-off mission a great school, which is to-day a meeting place and a Christian training school for hundreds of lads from all the races of that polyglot land. The Anglo-Chinese school at Singapore, founded but thirteen years ago, begins to be as influential in southeastern Asia as the Roberts college in southeastern Europe. The school has never cost any missionary society a penny for current expenses and there are at this time five volunteers at work in it, for whom the Mission Board could not be at charges.

There are educational opportunities for service all around this world, waiting to be developed by volunteers who are courageous enough to forego the question of guaranteed fixed wages before they leave for the mission field.