Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1914 — New Epoch In Java. [ARTICLE]

New Epoch In Java.

In Java there are more than twen-ty-four living converts from Islam to evangelical Christianity. There seems to be much ferment in the Moslem community. A great popular organization, the Sharikat Islam, has been formed and holds immense congresses. A missionary in Java writes that greater changes have come into the minds of the Javanese in the past year than in twenty-five gears. “We stand before a new epoch."