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to the school: there are now nearly a
hundred enrolled. All the seats in the primary room are in use, so that
when Miss Smith has a full school she has to seat some of her scholars
in chairs. The seats in Miss Page's room are also full. We have eight
pupils who room here and board themselves. Four of them come from
Scott Co., Va., coming ninety miles. They are young men and women,
but they have had very little opportunity for education. They are
anxious to learn and try to carefully obey the rules of the school. We
hope they will gain much from church and Sunday-school and the
influences thrown around them here, as well as the lessons from the
school room. Yesterday we had applications from four others from the
same region for accommodations--a young married man and his little
daughter, seven years old--a young man and a young woman. We said,
'Come and we will do our best for you;' but if others apply we shall
have to tell them we are full. These are just the kind of people we want;
eager to learn and willing to do the best they can."
From a school in North Carolina:
"Your letter of the 28th, informing us that we can have assistance from
the Hand Fund for a certain number of pupils, is received, and we have
had a continual thanksgiving ever since. If I could tell you how the
mothers looked when I told them, and if I could put down the tones of

their voices as well as their words, you would be sure that the help is
appreciated."
The pastor of the church and teacher of the Theological Department of
Straight University writes us:
"The religious interest has so deepened that for several weeks I have
been preaching three times a week. Four or five prayer meetings have
been started by the students of their own accord in each other's rooms.
Eleven united with us on profession of faith at our last communion, and
as many more have made a start at different meetings, and will unite
with us at the next communion. A remarkable feature about the work is
the fact that numbers of the older students who are most deeply
interested are Roman Catholics. One young man who united with us is
a Spaniard from Matamoras, Mexico, and has been educated as a
Roman Catholic. I believe he may be counted on to do loyal service in
his native city. In this way the A.M.A. is ever doing 'foreign work,' and
work which I believe will tell in Mexico, Cuba, and the Central
American States.
"If some benevolent friend in the North would send us twenty-five
copies of Stalker's Life of Christ, it would be of great help in this
work."
Information respecting a very interesting revival of religion comes to us
from Sherwood, Tenn.
Increased religious interest is reported from Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn.
The teachers in the Normal School at Lexington are taking new courage
in their work in view of their increasing facilities.
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One of our young men who expects to take up missionary work this fall
thus expresses himself: "I don't suppose that I know very much; but one
thing I know, and that is the Dakota Bible. I can read that to the people
and talk about it in my own language, and they can understand me, and
that is what they need; they need the Bible."--_Word Carrier._
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A CHINAMAN'S VIEW OF A FAMILIAR TEXT.--The writer was for
a time a pupil in the White Street Mission School in New York, but he
is now a prosperous laundryman at Kingston, N.Y. In a recent letter to
one of his former teachers, he gives the following bit of New Testament

exegesis: "I led the Young Men's Christian Association meeting on the
Sunday before January 11th. The subject which I gave out: 'The
Christian must be born twice;' and also read the Scriptures in chapter iii
of the Gospel St. John, and explain to them. I said if a man in this
world born twice, he only die once, and if a man born once he die twice.
I mean if a man born twice he must born again of the spirit; his soul
shall save; that is, he only die once. If a man born once his body shall
die and his soul also perish; that is, he die twice. After the meeting was
pass one of the old gentleman came to me and said, 'Are you a
missionary?' I answered him 'No.' I said 'I am a laundryman.' And good
people thought I was missionary."--_The Foreign Missionary._
Full of encouragement to the workers for the Chinese here in