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Show TIBET OPEN TO CHRISTIANS Official Have Invited Missionaries to Enter Freely Into the "Forbidden "For-bidden Land." Those disciples of 'In 1st who Inter est themselves in foreign mlMtons are aroused over n Invitation coming to American disciples from Tibet, lircifl-Ing lircifl-Ing to the Boston Bvenlflf TrSftarrlpI This Isnd, occupying the "roof of Hie world," has heretofore lieen pni' ileal-ly ileal-ly closed to all foreigners. That n ha been so was due, so Tlliet oStitls tell American disciples, to tlie InftaOOc. of China. Now Tibet has thrown off Chinese control and 00 of Its lr1 nets Is to appeal for Christian mIsnIoiiui ies The illselples have a mission si.itlon at Itntnng, one of the f.utlicsi west ctt lea of China, nearly 1100 miles op the Yangste rlvor. A venturesome American doctor . sent out by the disciples, Journeyed 18 days farther west, getting Into Tl bet and Into a city wherein disease In Its worst form, unnttemled nnd not un deistonil, ravHKed the people. The doctor set up an Impromptu clinic nnd dispensary. The relief wns so great ' Hint on of the highest civic officials In all Tibet begged luin to stay, or If he could not do so to return, build n hospital and official Tibet would help him. Now the disciples srgue that here Is n call they tiro not at liberty to Igaor. Their missionary society lins acted to ; this effect. An nppenl has heen marte I for four famine, two of them ptiy stclnn families, to go. It Is snld there , are no hospitals, no churches, no , schools, no Christian ugencies of any kind In that country of 4,n00.0X) DM ' pie. American manufai lured goods , are beginning to reneh Tibet and j Scotch whisky has heen there for a i decade or two. |