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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 6

Tlio national commiHc? of Y.M.C.As. in China is conducting ii campaign of oihication amongst the_ Chineso literati. l'rofessor Kobortson is continuously employed in giving lectures on such subjects lis wireless telegraphy, electricity, magnetism, gyroscope, and physical science and its application. Tlus work is br-i ii|; dono because it. is clearly acknowledged that ilit; political, social, economic, and scientific products of Christian civilisation are anions tho most important' of tlio points of contact ior constant' and aßßi'essive evangelism. Tlie Chinese Government so clearly recognises thy moral power of tlio Y.M.C.A. that they have largely entrusted them witli the worlc of stamping out tlio opium habit. Already the association has conducted a good number of public Ijiunings of opium pipes. Tim usual stock t-'ale will 1» hold at Palmerst'in North to-day. Messrs. Abraham and AVilliams, Ltd., have received instructions from Messrs. Hooper and Wood, JCarori South, to «dl by public am-iinn a number of cov.-s, helves, etc. The sale will be held at the farm on Friday, April 4, beginning'at , 1.30 p.m. •