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negroes, and some of the talks were given by men
still in the field, among them two colored pastors.
Field Secretary Bakke had charge of the arrange-
ments of these inspiring services, and much of their
success is due to him.

Notes from Mount Calvary Congregation,
- Mount Pleasant, N.C.

Sunday, July 12, was a day of great rejoicing
for the members of our congregation. Promptly
at 2.30 o’clock rp. M. an unusually large number
had assembled to witness the first ordination service
held in our midst. ‘The candidate for ordination
was Mr. Henry David Perry Kent, one reared in
the immediate vicinity. The sermon for the occa-
sion was delivered by the pastor, Rev. John Alston.
Basing his discourse on 2 ‘Tim. 4, 1—5, he preached
one of the most powerful sermons ever delivered
from this pulpit.

Especially impressive was the ordination service
in which the candidate took wpon himself the holy
office and promised to fulfill his duties according
to the ability which God giveth. The pastor was
assisted by the Rev. W. G. Schwehn, pastor of
Grace congregation, Concord, N. C.

Mr. Kent is the second son that has gone out
from our congregation as a minister.. The first

was Rey. R. O. L. Lynn, now pastor of Grace.

Church, Greensboro, N. C.,

A happy coincidence on this day also was that
it was the pastor’s fifth anniversary, of which
mention was made. And for this blessing fervent
thanks were sent up to the Giver of all good gifts.

On Monday night, July 13, the Luther League
gave a reception in honor of Mr. Kent, at which
all had a delightful time. May God continue to
bless this congregation ! Harry W. Lynn.

Items of General Missionary Interest.

Moravian Misstons. — There are twenty Mora-
vian mission provinces: Labrador, Alaska, Canada,
California, Jamaica, St. Thomas and St. Jan,
St. Croix, Antigua, St. Kitt’s, Barbadoes, ‘Tobago
and ‘Trinidad, the Moskito Coast, Demerara, Suri-
nam, West South Africa, Hast South Africa, Ger-
man East Africa, Victoria, Queensland, and West
Himalaya. ‘They support about 500 missionaries
'Jaboring at 150 mission stations. The day-schools
have an attendance of more than 25,000 pupils.

The total number of members in their spiritual
care is over 100,000.

How Many Mission Converts Lapse? — In
reply to this question a missionary of Blantyre,
British Central Africa, gives the following figures:
Out of a total of 314 men (with five exceptions all
young men) who had been baptized in his mission,
only 26 had lapsed from membership, despite their
heathen environment and the peculiar temptations
besetting young men. This is certainly a very good
record, much better than that of many of our
churches in this country.

New Guryea. — One of the sights on the river
Mamba, New Guinea, is the native church built
by the mission at the village Ave. Its proportions
so impressed some men from the Gara River that
they took its measurements with strips of bark tied
together. First they measured the length of the
building and folded that measure up; then one
climbed the post in the center and measured the
height, that measure also being folded up and laid
by. ‘The width was then taken in the same way,
and the three measures treasured up to display to
wondering friends at home.

German Iast Arrica.— The Lutheran Her-
mannsburg Mission Society intends to open up new
fields in the German colonies of Africa. It is
probable that the Morayians, who have more terri-
tory under their care than they can well attend to,
will turn over to Hermannsburg their mission
province of German East Africa. :

German West Arrica.—In Kamerun a Ger-
man mission society is about to open a new field
among the Laka, who number about one million
persons, and among whom the Gospel has not yet
been preached. It is a distance of several hundred
miles from this new field to the next mission field.

RueNisu Misston Socitery. — This aggressive
society reports having had rich and abundant har-
vests during 1913. ‘The workers of this society
baptized 16,908 adult heathen and 9,214 children
of converts last year. ‘The number of communicant
members in charge of the missionaries of the-

-Rhenish Society is 219,153.

Brivis Bisie Soctery.— This great mis-
sionary institution last year distributed 8,958,000
Bibles, ‘Testaments, and separate books of the Bible.
More than a million went to India, more than two
million were distributed in China, and more than
600,000 were disposed of in Japan. During 1913,
six new translations of Biblical books appeared in