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Mission-work will then receive a new impetus ; while " seed 
of the kingdom of God will be sown in far-distant hamlets 
and villages, where a missionary's voice could never be 
heard. This word is the great evangelizing agent. 
The American Bible Society's agent, Dr. L. H. Gulick, 
reports that he printed about 75,000 volumes of the New 
Testament, in 1880. Beside these, he furnished nearly 
8,000 volumes to the British and Foreign Bible Society, and 
30,000 to the National Bible Society of Scotland. Twenty- 
five native colporteurs have been engaged in circulating these 
copies, up and down the country, under efficient direction. 
A Bible hand-cart is used in Tokio j and so successful 
is the agent employed there, that in about three months, 
over 10,000 portions of Scriptures, beside 121 Testaments, 
were sold in that city. The people manifest the utmost 
desire to obtain the volumes, and listen attentively to the 
preaching of the agent. One poor old woman brought out 
a Greek Church Prayer-book, wishing to buy another like 
it. The agent told her that he did not sell Prayer-books, 
but that he had the Word of God, which was better than all 
the Prayer-books in the world, and would make her wise to 
salvation. She went home, fetched out all the money she 
had, and, returning to the agent, paid it down for a copy, 
pleased and proud that she was able to become the pos- 
sessor of such a wonderful book. A Buddhist priest^ having 
bought a copy of the Testament some weeks before, came 
out, and recommended the people to buy it, saying it would 
do them good. Everywhere a pleasing reception was met 
with. 
The Rev. Jonathan Goble has opened up the country, 
north and east of Yokohama, travelling with a horse and 
cart and magic-lantern. He lectures and preaches to the 
people on the way, and secures attentive and polite 
