CHURCH’S MISSION WORK

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 3

CHURCH’S MISSION WORK

The “International Review” The January, 1935, number of the International Review of Missions contains a survey of the work of the Christian Church all over the world in 1934. Beginning in Japan and working westward, the editors have given well-documented accounts of what lias been happening iu the political, economic ami social spheres iu each country, as a background against which they describe the activities of the Church.While it is plain from these accounts that the world situation holds very grave problems for the Christian movement to-day, it is equally clear that Christian missions are not only keenly aware of these problems, but ape facing them with vigour and versatility. In the India section of the survey is a striking account of a movement which is rapidly extending throughout the Telugu country. The same story of spectacular advance is told by other missions in the same area, and the problem of teaching the great mass of new Christians is one which is exercising the churches aud missions concerned. The Central Asia section of the survey is short, but contains two interesting points concerning Tibet. One is that the town of Lhasa is now lighted by electricity—a sign of faster progress in scientific matters than that indicated by the belief, still held, that the Dalai Lama of Tibet becomes incarnate in a child born nt the time of his death. The other point is the completion of the translation of the whole Bible into Tibetan —the task of 30 years. The work of the Roman Catholic Church is dealt witli in a special section of the survey. Interesting mention is made in this of the progress of the German organisation known as “Miva,” which exists to provide missionaries in remote parts of the earth with modern means of transport.