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Title: Missionary, Visitor, The (1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
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ss remain and, perhaps, thenational shrines will be preserved ashistoric monuments. J. H. De Forestsaid: While writing this, I asked aripe Christian leader, how to go about,to convert a Shintoist. His instant re-ply was: So far as Shintoism is anembodiment of loyalty to the imperialline, we are all Shintoists. But so faras there are superstitions find erron-ous worship, the best way is to do asI have done in making my lawn whichwas full of all sorts of weeds. I put inhere and there a few tufts of cloverand that clover has spread and con-quered the weeds, so that I now havea clean lawn of clover only. Brother and sister what are you wait-ing for? An open door? Isnt that onewide enough? They have rejected theirold religion; the government has re-jected it as a state religion; and thosepeople are open to western teaching.Only one more thing needed, that is,your willingness to go. Money needed?That is a very small consideration,when a consecrated man or woman isbent on going. Will you go?
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One of the Lions Found in the Excavations at Babylon. TO BABYLON VIA BOMBAY-No. 2 W. R. MILLER. As before stated the Tigris River hadnot been so high for thirty years, andreports from carriages Three daysstuck in the mud was in no way verycomforting to our hearts, for we hadalready traveled almost three thousandmiles, and had been on the way twentyfour days, and now this consolation That to get to Babylon was an abso-lute impossibility. Within sixty milesof the object of our visit, the many daysconsumed and thousands of miles trav-eled, and much money spent alreadyon the journey; to receive this infor-mation was greatly disappointing. How-ever, we were not ready to give up, andreturn on the steamer that brought usup, but found lodgings, and began tolook around for some one who wouldbe willing to engage himself to safelyset us down in Babylon. Now a word about Bagdad. Thiscity has about one hundred and fiftythousand inhabitants, it is said at leastforty thousand of them are Jews, anda

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