Whatever Miss Mildred Cable has to say about missionary work deser-Yes to be listened to with sympathetic attention. When, therefore, she sui gests that methods similar to those employed by the China Inland Mise sion out here should be Used. In Britain and that religious societies should distribute posters depicting Bible parables and illustrating the Ten Commandments, her suggestion worth considering. Miss Cable is the joint author of a number of most interesting books on Christian work and travel in the north-eastern provinces of China, Mongolia, and Chinese Turestan, She has been in touch with primitive peoples in unexplored territories, and has seen them in moods devout and hostile, and never has she lost sight of her principal objective, which has been the propagation of the Gospel. She speaks. therefore, with authority. The cabled account of the address she delivered at the 435th anniversary breakfast of the Religious Tract Society is necessarily condensed, and it is, therefore, pos sible that the full sense of her words may not have been reported. She complains that, while books such as Shaw's "Black' Girl and Her Search for Goa" can be obtained at any railway bookstall. no book "telling you how to find God' can be bought, It that is 0, things have greatly changed during the past few months, A cent visitor to the homelands has recorded as one of his impressions the remarkable manner in which rellgio\ works, chiefly those issued by the ford Group Movement or dealing with social welfare among the poor, are displayed with the same prominence as the thrillers which were formerly regarded as the correct fare for the railway traveller. The increase the popularity of these books has been almost as phenomenal as the demand for instructive "outlines" of this and that. Tt is, therefore, possible that a second Jock at the bookstalls rimy convince Miss Cable that her criticism has been a little hasty,
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