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IV.INDEX.Domestic Missions 35,83,169Oakland, Cal 36,103,249India^^ÎNCIDENTS ra MISSION LIFE ;Bible and Dog Cart1''Tlie Word with Po wer 1'" Yet They have not Prevailed Against Me" 18A Bapti sm In India 38A Woman'8 Faith 39Our Glorious Jehovah 62What One Woman Did 63His Little One 84The Fiery Cross 85Oriental Gems 85,106, 251Faithfal Under Trial 104Three Kinds of Atheists 104Friends of the Heathen _ 105"He Belongs to me." 105It win Light you Home _ 106The Same the World Over 106With Me 106From Son to Father 128The Ministry of a Face 128Victory at the Lord's Tatole 129Daoudie;iThe Gospel in China _ 190A Christian Negress 192Mrs. Livingstone's Grave 209A Word Fitly Spoken.,jqOn God _ oojA "Brother of Girls.".,.TgThe Potent Spell^-ijImperium in Imperio,.,.,^.Self-evidencing „.That is Just What I Want • 19, 41, 64, SC, 107.130,152, 231, „,., 251The Lahorers Most Called Wonderful forIndustrial Schools250NOTES Onr AND New EEVIEWS:Missionaries ,, ,-,„„„Notes -40, 107, 130, 211, 231, 232Death of William Walker108Eesolutions of Latakia Mission108The Children's Organ129, 151, 212Mission to .If rica162Important Mission Literature , „- 18, 42, 64, 86, 211, '232

PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVALoftlie.BO ABB OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,BEFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,XT, S. A.#uv Wxm^ oi ^ m m W n kThe Herald of Mission News has a distincten and in eartb. Go ye therefore and teachand definite purpose. As ihe title indiall nations." And " the messengers of thecates, its specific object is to furnish the churcheschurches are ihe glory of Christ." Nowherewith reUable missionary intelligence and has the word " therefore " more force andto advocate more earnest and faithful endeavormeaning than in the great commission of ourio extend throughout the world a knowlSaviour. The impressive and solemn comedge of Ohrist. Full of gratitude to the Head mand to go and disoifile the nations was givenof the Churoh for what He has already done under very discouraging circumstances ; andihrough the instrumentaUty of consecrated laborerSjWewhere could His followers find a more stimuwould, if possible, rouse His professed lating assurance of success than in ihis asserpeople to increased fidelity and efficiency in everytion of Mediatorial Power? Were it not for thisdepartmentof Christian eifort. Brethren of assurance they mighthave been disheartened inlarge experience in the ministry have promised view ofthe magnitude and difficulties of theto contribute original articles on tbe work of work io which He called them. Were it noievangelism, and ourreaders mayexpect to find for ihis assurance His servants might bein these contributions, not visionary theories, alarmed to-day in the presence of prevailingbut the mature views of thoughtful men who infidelity and other disturbing forces. But wehave ihe cause of Christ at heart. Letters believe it is the purpose of God that the worldfrom Christian workers will sei forth tbe needs shallyet be viilling to put ihe orown uponand prospects ofthe several fieldsto the cultivationthe Head of the Lord Christ and we believeof which they have devoted their lives, that those whom the churches send forth towhile ihose, who are ready to faint, will find preach the go.spel are His glory.stimulus to renewed energy in recorded incidentsThe flag ihat flies from the ramparts of theof mission life and in tbe sayings of Oovenanter Church hears this inscription:those who in the darkest hour never dreamed " The Whole World for Ohrist." Where isof abandoning the field.the oongregation, or where is the individualOur Magazine is small when contrasted member who does not bear in mind the Covenantwith the larger papers that are issued regularlysworn and subscribed in 1871? Underin the interest of the same oause; but it confession of sin, it says : " We lament thatis dedicated to One who often employs very as professing witnesses ior Christ, we havefeeble agencies in effecting grand results io failed in obedience to His command . . .His glory. Our faith could noi be more io make known his will among the nations.clearly expressed than in the Mottoes on Our . While property is hoarded up, or wastedCover : " All power is given uuto me in heavupon the luxuries and vanities of life, and in

" Prepare ye the Way of the Lord,'"very many cases upon objects pernicious to moral wilderness, heralding the approach otboth body and soul, means are wanting to ihe " breaker up "( Micah 2:13 ), is stUI God'smake known the way of salvation in the sight way of introducing and enlarging his kingdomofthe heathen." Then inthe fifth paragraph on earih, and as the work goes on from age toof the bond you wUl find this solemn vow: age, the need of some agency to lay the axe to"Kejoicing that the enthroned Mediator is noi ihe root of the tree is still felt. Tbe comonlyKing in Zion, but King over all the mand, " Prepare ye the way of the Lord,"earth, and recognizing the obligation of Hi? is figurative,being taken from the need of acommand to go into all ihe world and preach pioneer torce to go before an advancing army.the gospel to every creature, and io teach all That large bodies of troops, with their comnations,baptizing them in the name ofthe misariat stores, and heavy implements of war,Father, of the Son, and of theHoly Ghost, and may pass more easily and rapidly, especially,resting wiih faith in the promise of His per- through wilderness districts, a large pijneerpetual presence as the pledge of success, we force goes before in advance, clears the wayhereby dedicate ourselves to tbe great work of of obstacles, forms roads, builds bridges, conmakingknown God's light and salvation among struots causeways over valleys, cuts downthe nations, and to this end will labor that the trees, opens a passage through forests, andOhurch may be provided with an earnest, self- levels hills, all io prepare the way oi the condenyingand able ministry. Profoundly conqueror. This force also prepares approachesscious of past remissness and neglect, we wid to cUies to be besieged, digs trenches, raiseshenceforth,by our prayers, pecuniary contribu- towers and conducts engineering operationstions and personal exertions, seek the revival that grciily facilitate the success of the armyof pure and undefiled religion, the conversion that follows. And such a pioneer force Godof Jews and Gentiles to Ohrist, that all men employs in all his wars to advance and estabmaybe blessed in Him, and that all nations lish His Kingdom, and even those not entirelymay call Him blessed."in the field can do much to " prepare the wayIn this faith and with a desire to be true of the Lord."io our profession and loyal to our King, we First. By seeking, as much as in them lies,ofl'er to serve the Ohurch as a herald of mis- to have all obstacles to ihe success ofthe gossionnews. P'il removed. There are many such obstacleswhich God himself alone oan remove, and hedoes it by his judgments. " Where art thou,"PREPAKE YE THE WAY OFTHE LORD." ^ , t- % u^ v i , u i .10 great mountain T before Zerubbabel thoullcr,Ja-nies Kennedy, D,D., New Ym-h, gijÛ become a plain." It is related of Xerxes,Whilst the royal proclamation in Isaiah, King of Persia, that the more easily to invade"Prepare ye ihe way of the Lord, make Greece with his immense army, he cut a passtraightin the desert a highway for our God," sage through Mount Athos, having first byan lihe promise in Malachi, "Behold I will letter warned the mountain not to oppose him ;sen 1 my messen.êr, and he shall prepare ihe and however ridiculous the story may be, it isway before me," both primarily refer to the not without a parallel in the ways of God.mission ol John the Baptist, as the forerunner Egypt was a great mountain in God's way,of car Lord, yet their prophetical import was when Israel was to be redeemed, and after befarfrom finding an exhaustive fulfilment in ing warned in vain not to oppose, was brokenhis ministry. The voice of one crying in fhe up and became a plain. Inthe same way

"Prepare ye the Way oj the Lord."Babylon was first warned and ihen leveled kingdom. There can be no greaier obstaclesihai ihe ransomed of the Lord might return. in the way of success in ahy cause than indifference,cowardice and a desire for ease andThe wind, earthquake, and fire go before tbestill small voice in the Lord's dealings with indulgence, t? the eschewing of labor and sacrifice.And yet in the cause of God how ofmen in establishing his rights. And so inprophecy ; ihe great composite image seen by ten we find all these limiting success. Manythe King of Babylon is broken in pieces and think only of their own salvation, their ownswept away, as ihe chaff of the summer threshingfloor,before the Kingdom that shall never take any interest in missionary work, pracii-privileges and comforts, and neither feel norbe destroyed shall be fully established. The oally ignoring any obUgation, and saying toangel " having the everl asting gospel to preachunto them that dwell on the earth, and to everynation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,"is in his flightclosely followed by anothercrying, " Babylon is fallen, is fallen."WhUst the vials of judgment prepare the wayfor his riding forth on the whitehorse, "whosename is called The Word of God." Andihough these judgments are God's, yet as webear testimony and prophecy against ihe foesof ihe warring Lamb, and pray for the overthrowof everything calculated to hinder theprogress of his Kingdom, we become active inpreparing the way of our Lord. For centuriesthe people of God have been praying for thedownfall of both Eastern and Western Anti-Ohrisi, and the souls under the altar havebeen crying " 0 Lord how long !" And Godhas all these prayers treasured up ; and asthese are answered in judgments, the wiinessessiill like their prototype Elijah, are said io" smite the earth with all plagues as often asall appeals, "Am I my brother's keeper?"And how many, through a kind of ignoblecowardice, and from dwelling on the obstaclesin the way, and the difficulties to be overcome,shrink from efl'ort, saying, " Tbe timeis not come, the time that the Lord's houseshould be built," and with a professed sense ofinsufficiency excuse themselves from attemptinganything. A desire of ease also, and ofhome comforts, and worldly good things, tothe shunning of danger and sacrifice, may demoralizeihe minds of others, as the soldiers ofHannibal were demoralized by the luxuries ofCapua. Now as far as all these obstacles iosuccess can be removed, and their place takenby holy enthusiasm and burning zeal, both onthe part of those sending and ofthose sent, willthe way of the Lord be prepared. Let everymemberof the Ohurch feel ihat the work ofgiving ihe gospel to ihe world is our work, mywork, toward which I can, and should, dosomething, and we will he on the eve ofihey will." Besides there are social and nationalevils, the foes of the gospel, we can Thirdly. We can prepare the way of thegreater success than yet realized.help to remove. Ignorance, profanity, irreligion,intemperance, and immoral and uncarry forward his work. As " no man thatLord by providing means and instruments toholy living on the part of many who profess warreth entangleth himself with the affaira ofto be ihe followers of Christ, we can do somethingto remove, and thus help to " prepare provide for his own maintenance and support-this life," so the missionary can, least of all.the way of the Lord."On ihat score however there would be noSecondly. We can prepare ihe way of the difficulty if Christ's professed followers hadLord by exciting and extending among the any right sense of duty in giving as the Lordfollowers of Christ a. livelier interest in the has prospered them. But, alas, we all givework of missions and the progress of His pounds for luxuries and indulgences -we couldi

Items of Missionary IntelUgence.want, and pennies to the oause of Ohrist. As sisters, and mothers, and chUdren, and lands,Dr. Duff once saidih Scotland, we are all dis- with persecutions, and in the world to comeposed io spend all on ourselves; and, if a small eternal life," is noi become obsolete, and nodriblet be left, we may give that to the cause longer reliable as an incentive to devotednessof Ohrist. How sad to see many inin the service of Ohrist. It should never beviting fields that cannot be ocoupied for forgotten that our Lord expects the Ohurch iowant of means, many earnest entreaties from furnish both the men and the means. Whenthe perishing to send them instructions that He is seen going forth on tbe white horse ofcannot be granted for want of means, and the gospel, " conquering and to conquer"many places, in which work has been success- (Rev 6:2), he " had a bow." But what aboutfully prosecuted, but which bave to be aban- the arrows? They are to be supplied by thedoned and the work contracted, for want of Ohurch. " As arrows in the hand of a mightymeans ! Surely such things wiU not be our man so are chUdren of the youth. Happy isreproach forever, when we become fully im- the man that hath his quiver fuU of them,pressed with our obligation " to prepare the they shall not be ashamed when ihey speakway of the Lord."with the enemies in the gate." Our LordThe same may also be said of the lack of Hiraself was "a polished shaft," in his publicsuitable agents to carry on the work. Why ministry (Ts. 49:2), and now He has the bow,is ihere so much difficulty and delay in get- the energy and power, like the force in theting medical and ministerial missionaries to bent bow to impel the arrow, and into ihis Heoffer ihemselves io the work? Is it not the fitspolished shafts of wise, earnest, successfulmost noble, honorable and sure to be re- preachers and teachers, and by these His arwardedwork, to which any one can devote rows pierce the heart of his enemies and bringhis energies ? " How beautiful are the them into subjection. In this also we shouldfeet ofthem that preach the gospel of peace, constantly be preparing the way of the Lord.and bring glad tidings of good things !" And And may this little Herald of Missionary News,surely that assurance by the " Faithfal Wit- that now for the firsttime enters the homes ofness,''" There is no man tbat hath left house, or our people, to tell them of tbe Lord's doingsbrethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or and of the state of His Kingdom on earth, dowife, or children, or land, for my sake and the much to promote all these ends, and so helpgospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold not alittle fo " prepare the way of the Lord,now in thia time, houses, and brethren, and and make his paths straight."Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD.couraged by tbe recent appointment of MissMaggie B. Edgar, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, to—LA-TAKIYEH,SYRIA—The school-work assist her in that responsible service. Thewas resumed in Latakiyeh, Sept. 14,1886, and day school for boys has a registered attendtheoutlook for the ourrent year is full of pro- ance of sixty pupils, and there are twentymise.On the roll of the day school for girls eight in the boarding sohool. Our I'centiate,there are eighty names, while in the boarding Mr. Jeredeeny, has been placed in charge ofschool there are fifty girls, eight more than this sohool.were reported last year. Miss Wylie, who isin charge of this sohool and has borne the bur- —Since the formal closing ofthe mountainden alone for many years, is very much en- schools by order of the Turkish government

Items of Missionary Intelligence.ihe teachers have been employed in itinerantgospel work. They meet with the inhabitantsof the various villages, sometimes in iheirhouses, bui oftener in the fields when at workor when resting under the shade of somefriendly iree. The following extracts froma translation of their reports io the mission,will serve to show the nature oftheir work." May 11. We went to ihe village of Rasgenand eniered the house of the sheikh.After tbe usual salutations of peace, we begana talk founded on Matt. 5:37. The sheikhlistened with apparent acceptance for somethe wicked he wUl cast into the pit of hell tasuffer everlasting pains. They said, ' Woe betime and then went out to his work. After a to us, for we have never attended to tbesethings,but to the things ofthe world.'while others came in and we read Matt. 5thchap., making remarks on different parts of it. "June 14. We went to Shemis. Our subjectwas the crucifixion of Christ. We askedThey said, your words are true and we are allsinners. In reply to one who inquired^ ' Are them if they believed what was written in thenotthe saints and prophets worthy of honor and Old and New Testaments. They said, 'yes.''worship, and are they not mediators between Then we said, ' The germ of the gospel was,God and man V we read Ezek. 14:12-21, showingthat Noah, Daniel and Job had no power redeem us from the curse of the law.' Theythat Christ died on the cross, and that toto save others. We showed them that there is replied, ' Oan it be possible tbat the Most.no way of salvation except by the one RedeemerJesus Ohrist. As we were leaving, said, 'no ; the pain and suffering

Items of Missionary Intelligence.In this way about 10 villages are being ihe American Mission in Persia, laid specialtaught the way to life ; and with the blessing emphasis on the fact that ihe Spirit has beenof the divine Master upon the humble yet earnestefforts of these teachers there is reason to of the field. One happy feature ofthe retropoured out at frequent intervals on fhat partanticipate good results to His glory. In spect engaged in during the jubilee celebrationof last year was that of repeated revivalthe opinion of the mission, when the pres-•ent oppositiou is removed, there will be blessing aU along the line. The experienceeven more urgent demand than before for of grace in the Oroomiah district last winterschools. It should be remembered thai has proved the most notable of all. Expectednot merely a f core, but hundreds of villages, by the Lord's people, and prepared for by waiiingupon God, the blessing came in ccnn -ctionare open to ihe gospel; a-.d all that is needed40 take possession ofthem for Ohrist is money with ihe services of the week of prayer. The.and laborers.testimony borne by Dr. Shedd, as to the characterand extent of that spiritual movement,—As yet ihe Turkish authorities show no-inclination to remove obstacles placed in ihe will bring joy to many a Christian heart. -way of evangelical and educational work In the aggregate there were over 500 enquirers.Of ihese about 200 have been rein Syria. But our rejoicing is that allmission interests are under the control ceived into the churoh, and many more haveof the Mediator, who claims power over all been proposed, some of whom will be admitted.flesh that he should give eiernal life to as at future communion seas:ns. The fruits ofmany as have been given him. The hearts of the revival are ihe more marked, as many ofK'ngs are in his hands. In a communication ihe converts are men in middle life or early.from the Department of State, dated Aug. 23, manhood, and heads offdmilies. More than.1886, the acting secretary notified our Foreign two-thirds of all our church members are women,but ofthe converts this winter more -Mission Board that the United Slates Minthanister of Constantinople had endeavored to securethe abolishment of the hardships whichmissionaries have lately been compelled to undergoin Syria and Palestine, and that inthese efforts hehad been supported by othermembers of the diplomatic Corps. " Mr. Cox's•efforts have received the Department's approval,and, it is hoped, that the OttomanPorte will abate the rigors of the late Regulationsas to schools and missions andsecure to them fair treatment and the enjoymentof their former privileges." As Dr.Bliss, Levant Agent of the American BibleSociety, says in a private letter, " Lei us hopeand wait and pray for the Lord to appear inthe matter."—TARSUS, ASIATIC TUKKEY.—TheBoarding School in Mersine seems io be conway.—Star in the East.-CHINA.—On March 19,1886,Dr. McKay,ducted with all the promise and efficiency ofmissionary ofthe Presbyterian church of Canadato N. Formosa, celebrated his fourteenthformer years. But full and accurate statisticshave not yet been received from any oftheanniversary oi work on ihat island, and 1273jSchools connected with tbe mission.converts assembled from all parts ofthe island—OROOMIAH.—At an informal gatheringof the friends of mission work in Bibleat Tamsui to express their gratitude for hisself-denying labors among them, some old menLands, held at 7, Adam Street, soma monthsago, the Rev. Benjamin Labaree, who spoke ofhalf are men. Many very hardened and profligatemen have been reached and brought toChrist. Some hard drinkers have made theirstand for Ohrist by giving up their wine, andall received to the Church are conscientiouslytotal abstainers. In the villages where theawakening has prevailed, there has been agreat decrease of drinking and quarreling, andother forms of evil, and the winter has passed,and the Easier feasts also, with marked sobrietyand morality.A mission thus baptized from above isfull of power, and though an attempt may bemade to sow tares, we trust the ProtestantEvangelical Church in Oroomiah, and in Persiagenerally, will be enabled to develop itsreUgious life in a harmonious and successfulwalking for five days to take part in the publicrejoicings and thanksgiving. Describing

the state of the country at the time ofhis arrival,14 years before, as contrasted with thejoyous service of ihat hour. Dr. McKayItems of Missionary Intelligence.writes: " All around was dark. Idolatry wasrampant. The people were bitter toward anyforeigners. There were no churches, no hospitals,no preachers, no students, no friends.. . . There is no sham, no romance, noexcitement, no sentimentalism here. No, butstubborn fact. When I landed there was notone, yesterday 1273 rejoiced in singingpraises io the Lord God Almighty."— A missionary writes from China thai ihewife of Prince Chung, the son of one emperorand the brother of another, has become aChristian. One of her lady attendants visitedihe Presbyterian missionaries and procured aNew Testament and some other Christianbooks. These were seen by the wife of thePrince ; she read them and became very muchinterested. The gospel was talked about anddiscussed, uniil now there is reason to believeihat no less than thirty-one inmates of thepalace have renounced their idolatry and professedtheir faith in Jesus as their Saviour.They meet together for worship on ihe Sabbath.—The following is taken from an editorialon Present Day Missions in Christian Worldof Oct. 14,1886. Referring to the several papers—a larger number than in any previous yearread at the Baptist Missionary Conference insince the great ingathering at ihe SandwichBristol, the writer says, " Of Mr. Glover'sIslands; from 4,000 to 5,000 youth are gatheredinto high schools, seminaries, and trainmasterly description of mission work in China,it would be difficult to speak ioo highly.ing classes, besides 32,000 children in 856In ihe triumphs of the past he sees the predictionsof future conquests. He does not,common schools, and that more than 15,000,000pages of educational and religious literatureiherefore, despair of the conversion of China,have been put into circulation in twenty-sixalthough he is not insensible io the difficultiesdifferent languages, of ihe best Christiancreated by the vastness of the Celestial Empire,iis immense population and iis ancientthought of the world, thus entering into thelife of millions of our fellow-men. The giftscivilization. Already much has been accomplished.In 1881 ihe Roman Catholics, whosent Jesuits io China 300 years ago,could report 41 bishops, 664 European priests,559 native priests, 34 colleges, 34 convents,and 1,090,000 converts. In these figuresthere is, says Mr. Glover, in his large-heartedway, ' a record of energy and service whichwe should generously recognize and set ourselvesto surpass.' The number of Protestantmissionaries in active service in China is about500, a clerical staff only equal to that foundin any English city of half a million of people.One-half of the missionaries are concentratedin seven or eight cities, and nine provinces,each about the size of England, are wiihoutany resident Christian teachers. It can,therefore, only be a day of small things. Yetthe various Protestant Missions can report amembership of 30,000 and an attendance atpublic worship of 100,000. Persecution hastried ihe reality of the faith professed by iheconverts, and they have born ii nobly."—JAPAN.—The evangelical alliance ofJapan reports 168 organized churches withinthe empire, with a total membership of 10,775.Of tbese churches 57 are self supporting.During the year 1885 there were 3115 baptizedon profession of their faith in Ohrist.—Ai the annual meeting of the AmericanBoard of Commissioners for Foreign Mission,recently in session at Des Moines, la.. Dr.N. P. Clark, Senior Foreign Secretary, closedhis Annual Survey in these words, as reportedin the Observer of Oot. 7, 1886. Tne gospelhas been preached by missionarie.^ and nativepreachers in nine hundred different cities,towns, and villages in various parts of theglobe; the number of churches has increasedfrom 303 to 310, to which 3,481 memberswere reported as added on confession of faithby converts to various Christian objectsamounted io nearly $80,000—a sum which, itthe price of a day's labor be taken as the unitof value, should be increased sixfold in orderto a proper comparison with contributions inAmerica.— A correspondent of the Presbyterian hascompiled the foUowingstatementtrom the figuresin the Missionary Beview for Nov. andDec, 1886. It shows ihe result of foreignmissionary work ttiroughout the world to theend of the year 1885.Amount of contributions of ali the evangel-

Bobert J. Bodds, D. B.ical Churches of Europe and America, over —SELMA, ALABAMA.—There were 200ten mUlion dollars, '($10,371,702,) being an inpupilcrease of $350,000 over the previous year. emy, Oct. 4, and in twenty-two days therepresent at the opening of Knox AcadNumber of native converts in all the foreignmission fieldsof the world, 802,590, being for the winter is a registered attendance ofwere 315 names on the roll. The prospecta gain for ihe year of 32,827.over fivehundred pupUs, and Mr. Elliot saysNumber of niissionaries, in round figures, that every year marks a steady growth in thefrom Christian lands, 3,000 ordained minisiers,700 laymen, 2,400 women ; total year's —At a recent conference of ibe Reformednumber attending school.gain in all classes 200.Ohurch, the Secretary of tbe Board of ForeignNumber of native workers ordained, 3,000, Missions reported 110 missions in the Unitedhelpers, 28,000 ; total year's gain, 2,700. States, with a total membership oi 6,910, inThe home strength given of all the churches charge of 93 missionaries, and supported at ain Europe and America is 28,000,000 members,a gain of 600,000. This statement in—The report of New York City Mission forcost of $44,423.cludes 13,000,000 members of the Churoh of one month is 6 churches and missions openEngland, but does not include the Protestant continuously, and 61 gospel meetings held,withChristians of Germany and Scandinavia, whocontribute about $800,000 a year for missions.AT HOME.—Ai a meeiing of New York Presbytery inbyterian, the Synod of North Carolina, whichhas under its care 253 churches and aboutBrooklyn, Oot. 26, 1886, Rev. D. McFall of21,000 communicants, is said to have madeBoston read a brief, but in many respects, admirablepaper on Tbe Present Mission of Ourvery healthy progress in its general workc'uring the year. At its meeting in Concord,Ohurch. After a brief discussion, in whichN. C, early in Ootober, the Sabbath Schoolall the speakers, while differing as to detailsAgent reported 175 schools, with 1,500 teachof method, were of one mind that some schemeers and 12,000 pupils. Of these pupils aboutshould be devised to bring ihe unenlightened650 had been received into ihe fellowship ofmasses in our great cities under the influencethe Ohurch, and ibe schools had raised $4,100of the gospel, the following action was tafor general benevolence and their own supken : " Resolved, Thai a committee of elevenbe appointed to secure the necessary meansand a properly qualified man to enter uponevangeUstic work in the bounds of the NewYork Presbytery." This is a step in ihe rightdirection. There is no reason why a churchihat, according to tbe 'Missionary Beview,stands ai ihe head of all Christian denominaan aggregate attendance of 8,731.—In a recent communication to ihe Presport.—According to the last report of the InternationalOommittee of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation only fiveper cent ofthe youngmen in this country are in full communionwith the Church, and only fifteenper centattend public worship with any measure ofregularity. So startling an assertion cannottions in contributing to foreign missions,fail to awaken great apprehension in the mindsshould not also occupy the front rank in earnestand aggressive efforts to evangelize theof the thoughtful. The stability and prosperityofthe nation will depend, under God,masses at bome.upou the moral and religious character of itsfuture citizenry.ROBERT J. DODDS, D. D.sociate, the late Joseph Beattie, left for theThe name of Robert J. Dodds is inseparablyinterwoven with our mission to Syria. twelve months were spent in ihe study of iheEast in October of the same year. AboutAt the inception of ihis enterprise in 1856, he Arabic language, and then Zahleh was selectedas a suitable fieldof labor. But unable towas unanimously chosen as one ofthe missionaries,and in company with his excellent asresist the popular hostility to their work in

Bev. Robert J. Uodds, D. D., Missionary to Syria.

Tivo Important Questions.that place, and forced to abandon it in the The truth is, a church as a whole seldom risesSpring of 1858, it was decided after careful above the spiritual level of the pastor. If heexamination ofthe whole field to occupy La- be dormant on the subject ot missions or hometakiyeh, which became in October 1859 the evangelization, his people will have but littlecenter of missionary operations. For eight interest in either. If he teaches that " charyearsthose devoted brethren preached the ity begins at home,"—and sbould stay ihere—gospel in ihat city and labored together with they will never be imbued with the missionaryuntiring energy and zeal forthe uplifting of spirit. If, therefore, your pastor be asleep onits degraded inhabitants. In 1867, Dr. Dodds these great themes, wake him up. If he bewas called in the providence of God to remove thoughtless or indifferent, stir him up. Andwith his family io Aleppo, where he resided this spiritual awakening in a ohurch will beand labored alone for over three years, and followed by more self-denial, moro liberalwhere he closed his earthly ministry.giving, more prayer and more heartfelt inter-Born near Freeport, Pa., Aug. 29, 1824, est in the Lord's work at home and abroad.and licensed to preach in June, 1848, Dr. We all need to be revived, quickened into newDodds was in the 47th year of his age and zeal for the Master's cause.had entered upon fhe 23d year of his ministry, If any of you feel ihat this cannot bewhen called to his rest and reward in Dec. 11, brought about by the usual means of grace,1870. Like all who have been specially hon- employ means that are not usual. Look forored in the service of theLord for the upbuUd- help from outside. I believe most heartilying of his cause in any place, he gave decided in the office andspecific work ofthe evangehst.evidence of personal piety in early life. For If he be an intelUgent, prudent, godly man,four years he was employed as home mission- deeply taught in the Scriptures, fiUedwith theary, visiting destitute localities and gathering Holy Ghost and burning with love for souls,scattered tamUies into societies, and for as he will be a blessing to your churoh and cornmanymore he was in pastoral charge of a- muniiy.widely scattered congregation, and thus he it_ How shall flie masses be readied ?received special training for the work io which ^.^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^g^ ^jj^m ^^^^ ^1^^^ yo^ ^,^^6he had devoted his life and in which he was ^^^ ^^^j^ g^^,g_ rp^H ^^^^^^ jf ^^^ ^^^^ ^f ^-^^so eminently successful. No language could g^rnest, faithful and interesting preaching.more clearly reveal his unreserved consecra- ^^^^^^^^ tji^m also in the singing—ask thsm totion io the glory ot God than his dying words, j^^jp ^^^ ;^ ^jjjg service. The study of hu-" It is the Father's time." ^.^^n nature proves that people are more• ~ pleased to grant a request than to receive aTWO IMPOETANT QUESTIONS. benefaction. It is such individual work asL HowshaUthe Churches be aroused? this that tells. Go from house to house andTo arouse dormant churches the pastor show an interest in their souls.must arst be aroused. A lady said the other Thirty years ago seven Christian men metday " Ifi bad a paper to read at this conven- in a shop in the city of Hamburg and detertionmy subject would be,'How to EvangeUze mined to evangelize the city andthe countryOar Mnisters;' if we oan only get ihem stir- round about. The result was, fifty churchesred up to tbe needs ofthe work the people were established, nearly half a mUlion BibleswUl respond." Surely this is ihe first step, distributed and ten thousand souls brought

An Apostolic Church.into tHe Church. But tbis required work— the slums ofour cities, let the standard of thepatient, prayerful, self-sacrificing persistent Cross be raised and let the old story of Jesuswork. And this mustbe done if the (hurch and His love be told to the most hardenedis to be saved and the State preserved. sinners, and thia will succeed where the lawWe are importing elements here antagonisticio our national institutions, opposed Our Government is now planning to expendand tbe club signally fail.to God, averse to law and order—a people five to ten million dollars to deepen ihe channelat Sandy Hook bar, for the benefit ofthewho have no fear of the policeman's club,the bullet or the halter. The only hope is great foreign vessels, while she cannot spendin softening their hardened hiarts by the a cent to make channels for the gospel forstory af Jesus' love.our people. We import foreigners by theLook at the cities of Paris and Marseilles million who popa'ate our cities and make ourand see how the ranks of the communists have laws. On their arrival the devil furnishesbeen lessened by the McAU Mission and them with rum, the anarchist gives them dynamiteand a pistol. Who will give them thepreaching stations. Such mission stations areneeded in our land.Gospel ? This is left for us. There is noOne who has great success in city evangel- one else to do it. Will we do it? This reizationlately said : " This is our hope. If we mains to be seen. -Extracts from an addressChristians in the large cities do not go for the of Bev. W. W. Clarke on City Evangeligation.masses, tie masses will soon go for us." Yes,if we do not go to their homes with the BibleA'^ APOSTOLIC CHURCH.and Gospel ihey will come to ours with theTo be in deed and in truth an apostolicpistol and torch. There is an element ofchuroh we must also be to the utmost reach ofself-preservation in ihis work. The massesour capacity a missionary church. Oh ! thatmust be evangelized to save the Churoh andGod would put it into the heart ot the churchprotect the State. Both our civil and religiousblessings are threatened by the growingmen of the land so far to imitate their brethrenofthe Churoh at Corinth as to be willingspirit ofatheism and anarchy.according to their power. The superfluity ofThere are two great forces at our commandmillions that now rust, or are abased to frivolousor sinful uses, would supply with spiritual—Church and State, and with these we canmeet our foes. We cannot destroy them, butwe can hold them in check aud say : " Back !thus far shalt thou go and no further."The power of the State is limited. It canmake laws to meet these dangers and it oanenlist enough policemen to enforce its laws.This is all the State can do and this is alltbat you as citizens oan do. You oan castyour ballot for .the law, and you can emptyyour pocket book to pay tor ihe policemen.food a famishing world. The strength of body,the gifts of mind, the weight of influence, theable bands and generous hearts, that now contentthemselves with secular ends, and laborbut for temporal interests, converted to theLord and consecrated by the live coal fromoff His altar, would supply an army that shouldleaguer every land. The noble rapture, likea flame of living fire, would spread from heartto heart. Again the arm of the Lord shouldNow turn to the Ohurch. Here is hope. wake as in ihe ancient times.Let a new tide of spiritual life be infused intoour churches. Let the gospel be preached inAgain the gatesof hell should totter to their fall. The Churchof the living God, roused from her sleep,

Letters firom Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.should shake the dust from her fair garments scarcely less distinct and resistless than thatand gird on her panoply for battle. " Strong which carried Paul to Macedonia, he left hiain the Lord and in the power of His might, ''she should go on " from strength to strength,"until, triumphant over every foe, God forChrist's sake bestows on her the victory.—Bishop G. }/. Doone in Spirit of Missions.A TRUE CONCLUSION.The Foreign Missionary is right when itsays, " those wbo are indifferent towardthe cause of Foreign Missions are either ignorantof the work and of the New Testamentteaching in relation to it, or they are at heartskeptical in regard to the whole plan of salvationfor either Jew or Gentile ; and ihose wholove Home Missions for fhe sake of Ohrist andHis kingdom, and not from patriotism, orpartizanship, or commercial gain, or social ordomestic relations, will also be tbe best friendsof Foreign Missions. With such persons Ohristis noi divided and no nation or race for whomhe died is consigned to perdition."FOREGLEAMS.—The Fiji Islands, filledwith savage canniobals only fiftyyears ago, contain to-day nine! why do you linger ? Gome now ere we die IThe years are so fleeting ; death ivaiis at the door ;Wlthh-old not Love's tidings ! Haste .' Haste lo our shore /'^hundred churches and fourteen hundredShall we answer the summons, and heed the demand Ischools : and, as some one has written, "the Oue day, before Jesus, in judgment we'll stand;first sound that greets your ears in the mornA.nding and the last at night isthe sound of famoh ! 'twill be sad to the Master to say,ily worship in ihe villages."—John Geddie labored for 24 years on Aneiteum.Under the impulse ofa divine call,pleasant home in Nova Scotia, and prosecutedhis chosen work among fierce and degradedcannibals amid difficulties and perils, manifold.The result? Behind the pulpit in alittle church at Anelcaubat on that island,there is a tablet to his memory that bearsthis inscription : " When he landed in 184Sthere were no Ohristians here ; and when heleft in 1872, there were no heathen."—The Sandwich Islands contain a ChristianNation, who themselves sustain a foreigttMissionary Society.THE MASTER'S CALL." We endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gaing that the Lord had called its to preaclitlie gospel untothem," Acts 16:10.The harvest is plenteous; the reapers are few:See! the ripening fields are white to the view!The Master is pleadinsln tenderest way;We owe Him our service: He claims it to-day.'Tis a piteous cry that comes o'er the sea;'Tis addressed, O my brother, to thee and to me:" Coine over mid help tis .'" sad heathen hearts sigh ;That " we heardVae loud call, but didnot obey,"Will you aid, then, my brother 1 what work will yon do tO, be loyal to Jesus; to conscience be true:II you cannot go forth as a herald to-day,You can give to the cause; you can work; you can praifSallie Morrison.Philadelphia, Pa,—Miss Evadna M. Sterrett, who has charge but were he strong and well, he should notof the Boarding School in connection with be required io bear the work alone. It i*Tarsus Mission, writes from Guzne, Tarsus not so much ihe actual service as ii is careM'ts, under date, July 22, 1886 :" I am exceedingly anxious to know whetherand anxiety which make missionaries in generaland physicians in particular perpetuallyany ofthe new missionaries are for Ciiioia. tired. Boih he and Mrs. Metheny are in need. . . Dr. Metheny is in feeble health. of rest, and, should they be spared yet three

Letters from Christian Wor'kers at Home and Abroad.years, they will have been in this country man-of-war, Kearsage, called at Mersine a fewtenyears. Some one ought to be on the groand, days last week and settled a Custom Houseleaning the ways of the people and how to difficulty for the Dictor. A letter from Dr.deal with them, while ihey study their language.. . ,"instructions from theU. S. Government to theBliss, of Constantinople, tells ofthe coming ofSpeaking of the school in Mersine and her own American Minister, to press the matter ofMeed of assistance there. Miss Sterrett says : schools."" True our sohool is small, but, had we —Mrs. Metheny also writes from Guzne underdateJuly 23,1886. The following extractsproper help, it could be larger. We need nolonger turn any one away for lack of room. from ber letter will b-i read with interest.Several wealthy people in Mersine have alreadysought admission for the coming year. "Our hearts were gladdened by the missionReferring to Synodical Reports, sht says,These wUl pay. Though the school contained news, especially the hope that the Ohurch isbut five pupils, I should like to have some one ai last in some measure awaking to a sense of^to share the responsibilityMrs. her duty toward China and Africa. How delightfulit would be, if persons having suffiMetbeny kindly alternates with me in havingiprayers with the girls, besides taking pains cient income, would go at their own expense'to teach them in turn. 1 feel half cruel in allowingher to take the time from her home duletters to Missionary Societies to impress uponto do the Master's work. I have been trying inties ; but 1 would not have the girls do withouther Bible lessons and personal influence. this work. It is not enough that we be willmothers the duty of devoting thoir children to" I was at Mersine last week and am delight- ing to let them go out, we should pray that•ed with the new house. It is not afair representationofit to say it has thirty-four rooms, for all my children, if they are spared, may bethey be made willing. I earnestly hope ihatthis includes a large chapel and dormitory of engaged in this work. There is no danger butthe same size ; a place we hope io have fitted that there will be plenty of people willing to«p as a reading room ; and apartments for stay at home. I remember bearing grandmotherDodds say to father when he was•offices, waiting room, etc. The partitions con •sist chiefly of closets and wardrobes. It is starting io Synod in 1856, ' Now, Robert,high and airy and on the seashore. . ," don't be letting them send you to Syria.'In closing her letter Miss Sterrett makes a His answer was, ' I'll be very apt to go, ifvery graceful reference to Mr. Elliot F. Shep-they ask me.'"erd, of New York Oity, who during a recentvisit to the Holy Land, spent a day with ourmissionaries in Cilicia, manifesting substantialinterest in their work, and since bis return hehas continued to show Dr. Metheny no littlekindness.—A second letter was received from MissSterrett, dated August 26, 1886. Havinggiven the names of some personal friends, whomight be inclined to consecrate themselves toForeign Mission work, she says : " We arenot urging the sending ofa helper ao much onthe plea of present necessity, as for futureneeds. . . The Doctor wishes me to sayfor him that he feels mortified that he cannot•write you more frequently ; that ihere are somany sick people to see when he is not engagedin overseeing workmen, that he hasnot time to claim for his own. The AmericanRespecting the need of another teacher inMersine, sbe writes, "we are exceedinglygratified that Miss Sterrett's health has beenwhat it has been all these years, but the anxietyand care connected with such a work are tellingon her strength. A new person coming outshould not have less than two or three yearsof preparation to get into the way of workingbefore it is thrown on her alone. . . IfMiss Sterrett is able to holdout three yearslonger, sbe will then have been longer on theground than any of our lady teachers haveever stayed. Mis Crawford came oui in December1866 and weni home in July 1872. Icame out in December 1871 and went home inJune 1878. Miss Wylie oame in 1875 and wascompelled by circumstances to go back in thesummer of 1880. In all probability the visitof less than a year, which sbe made at ihat

Letters from Christian Wor'kers at Home and Abroad.Mission at Hunis. He writes, 'I spent a dayin Mettin and went io the school and heardihe children recite in Brown's Oatechism, Astime, coming as it did, just as she was getting sembly's Shorter Catechism, Droppings offairly into aciive work, was the cause of the Honey, and in the Declaration and Testimony,good health whicb she has enjoyed since. and truly 1 found the c'lildren making fine. . Oue thing before I forget it. Miss progres.s. All answered each question withouta single mistake. The people too are deSberrett's is pioneer work, and ihai is whatnoie of us teachers have any practical knowledgeof except Miss Crawford. Before we tbe order of the government to close it.' Thistermined to keep the school open in spite ofcame the initial stage had been gone ihrough school has 27 boys and 5 girls in attendance."and success was a fact. The chief burden—In a letter dited Sept. 28,1886, Miss Wyliewas the number of pupils. Here we are yetwrites: "We have fiftygirls in the girl'sunder a ban, and the pupils of one week mayboarding school. Two pay half price, fivebe gone the next. Sometimes we teach themothers clothe themselves, sixteen provide theira few months and then some enemy poisonsown bedding and dresses for Sabbath, andthe minds of parents and they are withdrawn.shoes. The mission does not provide shoesA teacher engaged in such work has greatfor any one in ihe girl's sohool, only woodenneed of a companion to help to look after detailsthat must otherwise be left to thesa'idals. There are twenty-eight boys in theBoarding Sohool. Four pay full price, ihreeefficiency or carelessness of native help. Andso the burden of our prayer is that you wouldas soon as at all possible send Miss Sterrett ahelper."—A letterfrom Dr. Metheny closes with thefollowing sentences : "We are delighted beyondmeasure to hear that the Ohurch proposestwo new missions. I have written BrotherMiller to say 1 have $306 ready at your call,and also that I shall sell ouv Kessab summerhouse for whatever ii will uring for the samepurpose. Half is for our mission and the restforthe others. Surely this step of the Ohurchis highly proper and gives a promise of blessingon us. I am ashamed to have but oneforeign mission, when the testimony ought tobe lifted up in all lands. Our distinctive principlesare among the most important of all,and will be found to take hold of the heathenmind unbiassed by tbe glittering emolumentsof a corrupt world."—A letter from Rev. H. Easson, receivedduring the summer, contains an item of genschool. One of the teachers has beeninvited to go back into the mountains whereeral interest " You know," he writes, " that ihe government officers dare not go ; and severalothers have schools in their own villages,the school at Mettin, about 50 miles south ofLatakiyeh, was not closed with ihe others. Itis keeping a watch and dispersing ihe chUdren,under the protection of a very influential family.. . . We have thought it best not io The school at Suadea will be opened thiswhen they hear the soldiers coming. . . .visit ihe school, but that you may knowthat it is doing well, I send you a translationofa letter from a teacher of the Tripolihalf price, and all provide their own clothingand bedding. This sohool has been removedio the house occupied by the late Dr. Dodds.It is sometime yet before the lease is out. .. We are earnestly hoping that theBoard and people will respond to our requestfor means with which to erect a building foran industrial sohool for the boys. We feelthat next to a physician it is the great needof the mission. The trouble wilh these peopleis that tbey do not know how to work, andthey have no means of learning. . . . Wefeel that one means of elevating the peopleIs to teach them trades." As regards our work in the mountains, weare not without hope that we may be able insome measure to continue sowing tbe goodseed. Tho teacher at Mettin has receivedpermission to teach in thai Ctiristian village.Debbash is also a Christian village, and theythink they will be allowed to have aweek."Guzne, Tarsus Mts., Sept. 10, 1886. -—L. M. S., White Lake Cong,—Dear Sisters—Iwish that from my perch away uphere, where I have only to raise my head andlook out of the window to see the blue Medi-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.terranean, eigbteen miles distant, stretching we do succeed in getting a carrier be is veryaway far as the eye can see, I could personallyreach e\ery member of our ohurch. three cities connected now by ihe R. R., manlikely to belp himself Uberally. There areThe nearest approach T can make to it is io aged by an English Company. The two extremesare about 45 miles distant from eachselect the names of those mentioned in ourmagazines in connection with donations to our other. Each of these cities bas a populationwork. I mean the foreign mission work in of thousands, Adana tbe largest and Mersinegenera], and not Oilicia in particular, though the smallest. In Adana and Tarsus there areit is ofthis field I purpose to speak, as I bave Protestant congregations—A. B. 0. F. M.—a more intimate and personal knowledge of it.It is but natural ihat the donors should desireto know something of ibe use to whichiheir gifts are put. In ihe firstplace, youknow we have schools. At present tbere arein our employ four male teachers, three ofwhom receive $15 per month, and tbe fourth$30. One of them is employed among tbeAnsairiyeh in Tarsus, and another i.s now onan exploring tour away to tbe east of us. Wehave also two girls who receive $9 each.They have been teaching in Tarsus, amongthe Ans&iriyeh, and during their vacation arehelping Miss Sterrett in her boarding school.It has been in session up here aU summer.The heat is too intense to stay in town. Thfssummer we came unusually early, as we hadgiven up tbe house rented by us for the lastgathered from among the Turkish speaking orrather the Armenian population. In Adanathey have a large church building. In Mersinethey have a mission station. But in allthese cities there is not and never has beenany work at all among ihe Arabic speakingpeoples. So you see what a work there is tobe done. All these cities and tbe great populationof ibe plain and mountains are ourfield, too vast for our feeble strength. Eachcity should have a missionary and a lady teacher,and as her work iucreases, a second.What a grand opening there isfor our church !Whenever I see the name of any young ladyin connection with a missiouary society, I sayto myself, " I wonder if that would rot be agood person for a missionary teacher " Besidesthis work the influx of foreigners connectedwith the R. R. gives us a new elementwhicb seems to need conversion as badly asAsiatics. We must make an effort to stopihree years and had noplace to stay. By thefirst of October we hops to have our ownhouse completed, or near enough to completionfer occupancy. In addition to teachers' Sabbath traffic at the very outset. Whatwages, ihere is the expense of rent and the must the Turk and Arab think of a Frenchsupport of the cbildren in the boarding school. and English Christianity that tramples on itsLast summer tbere were nine; last winter, own sacred day ? We hope to secure thethirteen ; part of this summer, twenty-two, but privilege of placing Gospels and tracts on theat present, seventeen. Our aim is to support passenger trains, and ou'- desire now is toihese as cheaply as possible consistent with open a Reading Room where Christian literaturein all languages will help to counterbalgood health. Twice a week we give themmeat. At other times they have honey, molasses,eggs, cheese, olives, dried figs, walwith here as well as you have at home. Weance tbe saloon, which we have to contendnuts, milk, melons, or whatever fruit is in ask your co-operation in all these schemes,season. They do all their own work, except your prayers, and if possible, workers in thesethe washing, for which we pay a little less fields so white to the harvest.than twenty-five cents a week. Our greatSincerely Your.-^,trouble here is to get provisions, for most ofMaky E. Methest.them must be brought from Mersine on horse—A letterfrom Rev. Jas. Martin, M.D., of Anback, a distance of eigbteen miles. This is tiooh, dated Sept. 25, 1885, and published indifficult as very few people here are to be Oct. nnmhtiT ei Beformed Preshyterian Witness,trusted. Several times Doctor has engaged contains the following interesting items :a man to bring a load, has bought the fruit, Last week I leceived from Idlib a letterand then the man has failed to keep his engagement,causing us to lose the fruit.signed by four men, and containing their for-When

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.mal application to be received to meniber.'

The Bihle and the Bog Cart.whom we should have seen completed, three ihe churches at home having in 1881 and 1882years ago, not one mission building, but two, liberally furnished tbe means.THE BIBLE AND THE D0& CART.terminated. It is a most corrupting pollutionThe Bible was on the list of prohibited ofthe faith of any soul." The late Pope Piusbooks in Rome. Pope Clement XIII. threatenedevery one with the galleys who should selves to awaken a holy horror of such poisonIX. said to the Priests, " You must bestir yourread it in the language of the people. Pope ous reading."Pius VII. said : " I tremble at tbe spread of When visiting Rome our baggage was examinedmore carefully to see if we had an Italihe Scriptures. Their distribution is a mostartful crime—a pestilence which must be exianBible than for anything else. I knew wella brother who often visited Rome in order to the temporal power of the Pope. Two daystalk and to distribute portions of the Scriptures.He took unbound printed sheets and sia and thus wrought the destruction of hisafter this, Napoleon declared war against Pruswrapped them around his legs, acd with large Empire. On the 18th the Pope publicly proclaimedhimself to be God's Infallible repreboot and pantaloon legs be could concealquite a number. In his hotel he would fold sentative—returned to his palace and was neverseen again by the public. Aug. 1, theand then secretly give them away. Not acopy could be bought in a book store in Rome. French troops were withdrawn from Rome,Butthe light could not always be excluded. thus knocking the last prop frora under theJuly 13, 1870, the dogma of Papal Infallibilitywas decreed, thus sealing the doom of feated at Sedan and on the 4th, his greatPapal throne. Sept. 2d, Napoleon was dearmy

" 1 he Word with Power J^laid their guns down atthe feet of Protestant THE WORD WITH POWER.tory, and on the 19th, planted their batteries be- ^ service. No proposal could have been moreGermany-the Chamber of Deputies in Paris Qne evening Roiert Moffat halted at a farmdecreed the Republic and annihilated the Em- ^hmh showed signs of belonging to a man ofpire—tbe Empress escaped from Paris to wealth and importance, who had many slaves.London and the Emperor was exiled. On the The old patriarch, hearing that he was a mis-12th, the Italian Army injis marob on Rome gjonary, gave him a hearty welcome, and procrossedthe line and entered the Pope's terri- poêd tbat in the evening he should give themfore the Porta Pia and commanded them to acceptable, and he sat down to the plain butopen ihe gates, which of course they refused plentiful meal with a light heart. The sonswere two Ooloorteurs ofthe British and For- ^°«"^' ^^ y''" ^"^"^ * congregation of that sort.and daughters came in. Supper ended, aAt 5 o'clock the next morning the batteries clearance was made, the big Bible and thewere opened and after fivehours a breech was Psalm book were brought out, and ibe familymade in the wall—the Papal flag was hauled were seated.down and Victor Emmanuel's army entered in " But where are the servants ?" asked Mofiriumph.fat.T„ • „ i-u • Ui r iu i J " Servants! What do you mean I"Imposing as was the sight of that grand ^ , ^ •' .„ , • ..V, ., ,, it, • "I mean the Hottentots, of whom I see soarmy entering the city, there was another in-'/. ., 1 . ,. T, . ,, . many on your farm."finitely more sublime. Between the carriages ' •'j,.i, ..,1 „ ,.,,, , J , ''Hottentots! Do you mean that then?ofthe artillery was a little cart drawn by a•'dog, accompanied by two young men. These ^^* « g° ^^ ^^^ nô^'itains and call the bab-•D-ui Q • + -vr4- Ul i u Or stop, I have it; my sons, call ihe dogseign Bible Society. Not able io carry enough '^' > -j ) sScriptures on their backs into Rome, ihey that lie in front of the door-they will do."bought a liitle cart. Then seeing a great "^^^ missionary quietly dropped an attemptwhite dogguardingsheep, they bought it and ^^^''^ threatened a wrathful ending, andhitched it to ihe cart and piled in the Word of commenced the service. The psalm was sung,God and swung in between the great guns! prayer was offered, and the preacher read iheThis was the triumphant entrance ofthe Bi- ^^°'y °^ ^^^ Syrophenician woman, and sebleintdRome.That dog cart with its load ^"""^^^ °i«^« especially the words: "Truih,of Bibles was the biggest gun that ever en- ^°'^' ^'^^ «^«° ^^^ ^°g^ ^^^ °f *'»« '^''^''^tered that city. It was God's great piece of ^^^^ ^^^ ^'"''^ *^« "^^^^^-^'^ ^^"e." He hadartUlery and should have been at the head of i>ot spoken many minutes, when ihe voice of,, . -NT r J „ f the old man was again heard:the procession. Now we are free and one of^the last things I did before leaving Rome was " ^'^ ^y"^''^' «'* -ô^" '^"^ ^'^'^ * "*"to go into the Torture Boom of the old Prison "« ^ ê shall have the Hottentots."of Corie Savella and turn the wheel that drives The summons was given, the motley crowdthe press and help print 10,000 copies of St. trooped in, many who probably had neverJohn's Gospel. In ihat same " Court of hell " been within the door of their master's houseall the printing for our Mission is now done, before, and many more who never before hadheard the voice of a preacher.W. 0. VanMeteb. Wru il- .3 iu iWhen the service was over, and the aston-20 Piaem di Spagna, Bome, Italy. ished Hottentots had dispersed, the farmer

Notes and Beviews.turned to bis gijest, and said, " Bly friend, you they had prayed aloud to God in the fire.took a hard hammer, and you have broken a Many were tortured, mutilated, and speared,hardhead."—Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat, aod 32 were burnt alive together; yet withina week or two afterwards several converts"YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED ^^'^ baptized at their own earnest desire.tr. (TXTom ivi-n „MeanwhUe thern was no intermission m theAUAIjNSI me." . . , . r i. ®^* ^°'''^ *» ^îo*^ '^"V manmiles from him, as the bird flies. Dr. Metbeny ^^° consecrate his energies.is the only ministT wbo can preach in ArabicSommerville,to thousands wbo know no other language inCorresponding Secreta:y.Tarsus, Mersine, and Adana; and he is in ' "feeble and uncertain health. Is tbe Churoh "THE CRISIS OP MISSIONS; OE THEready to take the awful responsibility of le»v- VOICE OUT OF THE CLOUD."*ing these multitudes to perish without a ^"^^ -Arthur t. pia-son, d,d,knowledge of Ohrist? Tbere can be only one We have never met a more earnest andanswer. We appeal to our licentiates. We inteUigent review of mission work than is preappeal

i.i the history of missions—" a combination,"as he states it, " of grand opportunity andgreat responsibiUty, the hour when the chanceof glorious success and the risk of awful failureconfront each other; the turning point ofhistory and destiny." The evidence adducedin support of this position is overwhelmingand conclusive. Nothing would give us greaterpleasure than to be assured that this volumeshall find its way into every home in tbeland, as we are confident ihat no thoughtfulperson could rise from its perusal without beingimpressed with the awful responsibilitiesof ihe prvsent hour and fired witb a new desireto act for the glory of Christ in the salvationof a perishing world.We have read with special interest the chapteron The gracious signs. " The presence ofBoard of Foreign Missions to select two suitablemen to go out to China, as soon as t,heway opens, to found a mission there, and calledon the Church for $5,000 for that purpose.Notes aud Reviews.— W e deeply sympathize with our brethrenot the PresbyterianBoard in ihe sudden removalot Rev. Gerald F. Dale, Jr., whosedeatb at Zahleh, on the eastern slope of MountLebanon, on Oot. 11, closed fourteen years ofactive and efficient service, as a missionary ioSyria.—Among the missions in New York oity,none have stronger claims on the practicalsympathy ol Christian people than that conductedby the Rev. Jacob Freshman, 17 St.Mark's Place. His self-denying labors for thesalvation of Israel appeal to all who, believingthe eleventh chapter of Romans, have atheart tbe conversion ofthe Jews. His churchpromises to be tbe centre of a work far-reachingin its influence and results.God by His providence, in missionary history,"says ihe author, " is not more marked thanthe power ofHis grace in ihe mighty results,—Great Britain spends £124,000,000 onwhose only efficient and sufficient oause is theintoxicating drink, while the aggregate incomeDivine Spirit. Snch grace furnishes, and becomes,God's everlasting sign. . Theseof its missionary societies does not exeed onemillion and a quarter.gracious signs of God's presence and power—In the First ward of New York oity, withmay be traced in three prominent directions: first,in the transformation of personala present pppulation of about 20,000, thereare 335 liquor saloons, 3 schools and onecharacter and even entire communities, by thechurch. There is no need of any comment.gospel; secondly, in the consecration of t'he laborersthemselves to a life of heroic sacrifice ; —The Church of Scotland seems to be farand thirdly, in the reflex influence of missions behind in the support of foreign missions.upon the Church life, lifting it to a higher The last year the contributions of 250 parishesplane of unselfish giving and aggressive effort. with over 125,000 communicants did not reachThis threefold effect, wrought on so large $2,000. And in fifty churches, wiih an aggregatemembership of 50,000, the oause wasa scale and in so short a time, argues a finalcause that is nothing short of God Himself." not presented ai all. This is ihe official report;yet we hope ihe figures do not indicatethe spiritual condition of the people.—At its last meeiing Synod authorized the—Statement of Home Mission receipts fromJune 1st to Nov. Isi, 1886:Domestic Mission $ 23T.67Chinese Mission 863.96Southern Mission 1,926.90

Notes and Beviews.—Herald of Mission News is publishedmore than a month ahead of time to meet thescruples of ihose who never subscribe for aperiodical, till they have seen a specimennumber and have had time to examine thecharacter of its contents.—Each pastor who receives two or morecopies of this issue of the Herald is requestedto bring it to the notice of his people. Inevery congregation there must be many familieswho wish to receive regularly reliablemission news.—The price of our Magazine is fixed at 50cents a year that it may be within the reachof all wbo take an interest in mission work.Any one acting as our agent is entitled to bisown copy free.—Subscribers will please remember thaiour terms are fifty cents, payable when thefirst number is in their hands. New subscribersare requested to say, in sending forwardiheir names, whether they wish the Januarynumber; and, as the issue is limited to 1,100copies, an early application will be necessaryto secure it.—We are indebted to Our Banner for iheexcellent photo-engraving of the late Rev. R.J. Dodds, which appears in this number.—Through the courtesy of Dr. Ferris,editor of the Christian Intelligencer, we baveihe use ofthe addresses delivered at ihe MissionaryConference of the Reformed Ohurch,Oot. 1886. We give in this issue extractsfrom tbe address of Rev. W. W. Clarke oncity evangelization, and intend to publish infuture numbers an admirable address of Dr.Wortman on the Immediate Evangelizationof America.OUR MISSIONARIES.Key. Henry Easson,Miss M. Wylie,Misa Maggie B. Edgar,Latakiyeh, Syria.Eev. D, Metheny, M. D.,|Miss Eyaflna M. Sterrett,Mersine, Asiatic Turkey,Eev. N. E. Johnston,Oakland, Cal.Eev. G. M. Elliott,Eev. H. W. Eeed, Selma, Ala.CENTRAL BOARD.OFFICERS.EEV. THOMAS SPEOULL, D. D., Chairman2.59 North Ave.,Allegheny City, Pa..ME. M. A. COULTEE, Secretary,ME. JAMES E. McKEE, Treasurer,36 Sixth St.,Pittsburgh, Pa.BOARD OP FOREIGN MISSIONS.OFFICERS.EEV. JAS. KENNEDT, D. D., Chairman,334 W. 66th St., N.Y.EEV. D. GEEGG, Eee. Secretary,214 W. 48th St., N. Y'.ME. WALTEE T. MILLEE, Treasurer.6 Hanover St., N. Y--.E. M. SOMMEEVILLE, Cor. Secretary,312 W. IGth St., N. Y.HERALD OF MISSION NEWS,TERMSONE YEAESINGLE COPYADVERTISEMENTS.12 ms. 6 ms. 4 ms.FULL PAGE $60 00 $37 60 $20 00HALF PAGE 37 60 21 76 12 60QUAETEE PAGE 26 00 IB 60 8 26ONE INCH 6 00 4 00 3 00FIFTY CENTS.FIVE CENTS.Im.$12 007 605 002 00All contrlhuted articles, orders, subscriptions, remittances,et6., should be sent toE. M. SOMMEEVILLE,312 West 46th St.,New Yokk.

WAYS IN WHICH ALL CAN FULFILTHE GREAT COMMISSION.Rev. David Gregg, New Vork,PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN OHUROE,V, S. A,m t Wum of mimmx mhthThe great commission is " Go ye into allthe world and preach the gospel to every creature."Redeemer. As all Israel felt themselves toMany Christians act as ihough ihisbe in their High Priest on the Day ot Atonement,when he went into the Holy of Holies, letoommission were limited tothe disciples immediatelyaddressed. But such is not ihe fact.us feel ourselves as being in our missionaries,These words of Ohrist, which form part of tbewhen they enter for us upon the work of thecommission, show that it isnot the fact: " Lo,Lord in ihe far away fields.I am with you alway, even unto theend of the 2. By giving our money to the mission cause.world." The commission lasts as long as the I take for granted that you undersianddispensation lasts. To use ihe phrase of what money stands for, and what it embodies.Wellington, it is ihe " marching orders of ibe It embodies a man's past life. Analogy mayChurch " unto the end oftime. Now that we be used io illustrate this. Money is to man ivliatare all under obUgations to ihis great commission,the fruit is to the tree. In the red ripe applethe practical question with us is, you have embodied tbe whole life ofthe" How can we carry it out ?" The followinganswers may be given to ihis question :1. By sending missionaries to all nations.Our missionaries go to the nations of tbe the seasons. In money you bave embodied theworld as representatives. We go with tbem, whole life of a man.and in them. We look upon them as part of ing and planning.In it there is his thinkIn it there are the wearyourselves. Their comforts and interests are days of work which he spent in the shop.ours. Their efforts and iheir successes are If the money be earned by a professional man,ours. When they sacrifice and suffer, we sacrificethere is in it his profession. Again, moneyand suffer. We are not trus to our mismight be likened to knoivledge. Knowledgesionaries if we do noi feel this to be so. They stands for past study and research, and for theembody our ideas, our faith, our spirit, our time consumed in its accumulation. Moneyearnestness.stands for all ihat it took to procure it. ThisWe cannot enforce too strongly our identityview of money explains the grief which menwith our missionaries. If we are not have when ihey lose it. They do not mournidentifled with ihem in spirit, we are not fultor mere metal, they mourn for that which wasfilling the great commission of Ohrist, Consciousnessof our identity will make us faithfulin their support, and will give us that joywhich comes from rendering obedience to ourtree. In it you have the result of the pumpingof the roots, and the breathing of ihe leaves.In it you have the sunshine, and the dew, and

90 Ways in Which all can Fulfil the Great Commission.This exchange, which it is possible for us tomake, cannot be too frequently illustrated andset into prominence. It teaches us that, if veBut what we wish to set before you espe-are living iu the right spirit, we may be dailycially under tbis point is, The value of money executing this great commission, by conseas a medium ofexcliange. Wben we see tbegarnered in tbe metal. Wben a man loses a earns ten dollars a week in ihe shop. He canthousand dollars, he does not mourn because put the week, which be proposes to give intohe has lost the thousand paperbills, hemourns because be has lost tbe brain-work,and the hand-work, and that part of his pastlife which it took to accumulate tbe thousanda ten dollar bill and send it over the ocean.Wben it reaches its destination, the missionaiieswill convert it into Bibles and missionarywork. Thus work in an American shopcan be exchanged into work in a Syrian pulpit,or African scbool. We can follow stillfurther his contribution, and see even a granderexchange than this. Tbe Bible, into whichtbe blacksmith's contribution bas been converted,is taken by the Holy Spirit and madethe means of savingly enlightening all thedollars. He mourns because be has lost thatwhich the thousand dollars had the power todo for him and to purchase for him. Thisview of money gives dignity to the act of contributingmoney to the Lord. It lifts it intoone of the grandest of graces. As our moneycontains in it our life, tbe work which wehave done at the ledger, in the shop, ihe time members of a heathen familyand ihe thought of the week which we bavespent in buying and selling, when we give itto the Lord, we give all these to the Lord.When we give praise to God in the psalmwhioh we sing, we give to him the feelings andthoughts of the moment, but when we giveour money to the Lord we give to him morethan the feelings and thoughts ofthe moment,we give to him the labors of the past wbichare garnered in tbe coin or bill laid upon tbeplate.and of preparingthem for heaven. Wonderful but truefact ! Through tbe members of the familyredeemed and lifted to glory by means of hiscontribution, the ringing strokes of tbe blacksmith'shammer, who plies his hammer andanvil for Christ, are translated and transmutedinto the thrilling notes of the song of redemptionwhioh is sung before tbe throne of God.crating all our work and gains to the gospel.There i.s no remunerative work but what maybe made missionary work, if we so will it.The farmer, for example, may sow, and reap,noble uses whioh we oan make of money, wethank God for it as a medium of exchange. Itopens the high-ways unto the ends of theearth, in order that we may go into allnations and preach Ohi-i.it. Take a concretecase. A blacksmith, for example, in the workand raise stock, in the interest of this greatcommission. He can convert his grain andstock into money, and transfer these to missionfields. I remember bearing a farmer sayshop, wishes to give a week of his time towork in the foreign mission. Can he do it ? tbat be could not give to the Lord like cityHe cannot go to Syria, or to Africa. Even people who always bad ready money, aud notif he were in these countries, he could not grain or stock. He did not seem to realizepreach. If be were in Syria, differencesin language would separate him as was like tbe man who always had a twenty-that there was suoh a thing as exohaoge. Hewidely from tbe natives as the ocean doUar bUI wben the collection basket wasnow separates him. Oan he give the passed, and who apparently never caught thedesired week to Syria or Africa? Yes. He bright idea of breaking the twenty-dollar bill

Ways in Which all can Fulfil the Great Commission. 23into small change. I asked the farmer, " See- native ]a:d as missionaries of ibe cross. Ining you do not handle money, how many them, God has brought the heathen world tocows do you give to the Lord every year f our door, and he is now saying to us, " TeachThere was a comical smile playing on his face, these men ihe way of life." Would it not beas he exclaimed " Cows !" He asked me if I an awful crime to neglect thera, ov to turnhad not been born and brought up in the city, them away untaught? Let the Chinese comeOn answering, " Yes," his smile developed to our land, that the Christian Ohurches mayinto an out and out laugh; and he said, " I preach Christ to them. Cbrist's chief objectthought so, I thought you did not know the in sanding thera bere may be to bave themprice of a cow." But I did, nevertheless, and taught concerning Himself. If so, ths UnitedI put a price upon his cows which he would States government, in its Anti-Chinese law,gladly have acoept6d in sale. He would have may be striking a thwarting blow at the pursoldevery cow on the farm, if he could have pose of the King of Kings. Dare this nationreceived my price. There is no man who can do such a thing ? Let it hear the words ofafford to be so liberal as the farmer. God Scripture to nations which plant themselvespuis into his lap some thirty, some sixty, and against Ohrist: " He tbat sitteth in thesome an hundredfold. So long as grain and heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall bavestock can be converted into money, and so tbem in derision. Then shall He speak iolong as money is a circulating medium be- them in His wratb, and vex them in His soretween nations, just so long every farm may be displeasure. Thou shalt break them with aa missionary field, and every farmer a mission- rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in piecesary.like a potter's vessel. Be wise now, therefore,3. By off'ering earnest and believing prayer. 0 ye kings, be instructed ye judges oftheThe aged Anna served God night and day earth. Kiss ihe Son lest be be angry and yeby her prayers. Luke 2:37. Paul especially perish from the way." Psalm 2:1.asks the prayers of the Colossians for his mis- In the meantime let us as Reformed Pressiouarywork. Col. 4:3. " Withal praying byterians be true to these men of foreignfor us, that God would open unto us a door of shore. Let us work for their evangelization ;utterance to speak tbe mystery of Ohrist, for and this imposes upon us a reputation to suswhichI also am in bonds." He asks the tain. Wben a Chinaman years ago wasThessalonians, " Brethren, pray for us, thai murdered in the streets of New Yôrk, andthe word of the Lord may have free course when there were few to befriend the Mongoandbe glorified, even as it is with you." lian, our Churches in New York, in a public2 Thess. 3:1. Let us offer the very same meeting, lifted a loud protest again.st iheprayers whioh Paul asked the men of his day dastardly act. That protest was felt throughtooffer. out the whole city. Let us take no backward4. By Ghristianining the heathen loho come step in dealing with these men. The greatto our shores. oommission binds us to do our duty byThese converted heathen return to their them, and to give tbem the gospel.

24 items of missionary intelligence.ABROAD.LATAKIYEH, SYRIA.—At the administrationofthe Lord's Supper in Latakiyeh onthe second Sabbatb of Nov., 1886, seven werereceived into the fellowship of tbe Cburcb, .''ixby profession and one on certificate from Mt.Lebanon. The number of pupils attendingboth the day and boarding-schools is largerthan usual.—The teacher ofthe scbool at Mettin, whichwas never closed, reports 35 children in attendance,25 boys and 10 girls. Another schoolunder the care of Yacoob Hamdan, althoughnot proclaimed open, has been in successfuloperation all tbe time ; aod in Sept. and Oct.seven teachers lesumed work in the villagesand have each an average attendance of 12sphere of operation far larger than its title implies.About £1600 stg. were contributed inpupils. Inthe early part of Nov. the mission 18S5 onbehalf of forty-seven different agenciesopened a sobool in a village about 40 miles in Bible lands. " While from an imaginarynorthwest of Latakiyeh on tbe Aleppo Road, height you take a bird's-eye view ofthe fieldand at last accounts tbere were 15 names on you descry detachments of Christ's greatthe roll and a fair prospect ofa large increase. army, quietly but earnestly laboring to subjugatethe souls He claims for His own; or, toOne of the sohool overseers, who also act asevangelists and colporteurs in the mountains, use another image, here and there over theinformed Mr. Easson recently that several great area, which has so long lain waste, youfamilies in that place were manifesting special see parties of workmen preparing the grjund,interest in our work.or laying the foundation, or building up the—Permission has not yet been granted to walls of what will ultimately prove a part ofre-open our mission schools, but evidently the the great temple whicb is rising on earth toTurkish government is beginning to feel tbe tbe glory of God." Among the agencies employedfor the furtherance of this grand enterpressure at Constantinople. Coming eventscast tbeir shadows before. A circular has prise, the school and ttie printing-press hold abeen addressed to the Board of Education respectingtbe schools closeo by tbe local authorin European Turkey and Asia Minor tbere areprominent place. "It may be safely said tbatities ; and messengers have been sent to the over four hundred elementary schoolsmountains to gather from the people the inwitformation required by tbe Sublime Porte. mediate schools are furnishing a high-16,000 pupils. Twenty-three inter"We await results," writes Mr. Easson, class education to advanced boys aud"knowing that the work is the Lord's and that girls; there are four theological seminaries;He will conquer in His own time and way." andfourcolleges supply aoomplete curriculum,—Tbe Foreign Missionary, in speaking of and send forth young men of the several naPresbyterian mission work in Syria, reportsa growth of 240 percent, in tbe number ofcommunicants within 13 years, and a fourfoldincrease in the nuniber of children under instructionin Sabbath schools.MERSINE, ASIA MINOR.—Thirtygirls have been receivi^d into the boardingschooland others are seeking admission.In the day school for boys there are tenpupils.We take the following items from a reportof the Turkish Missions' Aid Society—anorganization formed in London, G. B., to aidin extending evangelical work in the lands ofthe Bible, and out of whose funds our missionreceives a remittance every year to a.ssist insustaining the work at Suediah. Lookingwitb a friendly eye towards all who seek torestore the power of gospel truth in the regionswithin which its first triumphs were won, andalive to tbe importance of bringing the variousnationalities of the East under the influence ofsaving truth, this Society claims an aim and ationalities fully equipped for professional andbusiness life. . . The printing press atConstantinople sends out a multitude of booksand papers in Bulgarian, Armenian and Turkish.The corresponding establishment atBeyrout does a similar service forthe Arabicspeakingpeoples, and the works which issuefrom that pre.ss are a marvel of typographicskill. Many Mohammedans have been led toread the Arabic Bible simply from its attrac-

tiveness as a work of art. It will give a moredefinite idea of the publication department, ifwe say that from the Constantinople centreten millions of prhiied papers were issued in1885, besides nearly 100,000 copies of theWord of God, and that during ihe same timethe mission press at Beyrout printed about 60,-000 volumes, embracing twenty million pages,while the circulation of the Scriptures in wholeor in part amounted to 16,000 copies."ON THE CONGO.—At Banza Manteke,a town some forty miles above the lowest fallson the Congo, and perhaps one hundred andforty miles from the mouth of the river, a remarkableawakening is said to be in progress.An American missionary in writing fromihat station likens the revival to Pentecost,large numbers coming together, throwing awaytheir idols and manifesting deep conviction ofsin. He claims thai ihere are already overseven hundred converts and that the regionshould no longer be spoken of as a heathen country.A Swedish gentleman on a visit to theplace ia represented as saying that BanzaManteke will be known as the firstChristianparish on the Congo.CHINA.—The latest statistics give thtnumber of Protestant missionaries in China assomewhere about 500. Five per cent, ofthese are from the continent of Europe, andthe remainder have been supplied by Englandand America in ihe proportion of 55 to 40 perItems of Missionary Intelligence. 25—The following figures are suggestive.The London Missionary Society, begun in1843, has 28 missionaries and over 3,000 converts.The Church Missionary Society, insouth and mid-China, commenced in 1845, has18 European ministers and about 2,500 conthe China inland mission, 177 missionaries, inincludingwives, and 1314 converts. TheBaptist Missionary reports 6 converts of 40'years ago as having grown to 30,000 who attho Table of tbe Lord confess His name. Noone, who has felt the power of the gospel in^his own heart and has witnessed its transforminginfluence on the moral wastes of society,.can read such statistics without feeling calledito more earnest and self-denying efforts toreach the yet unenlightened mUlions of thatvast empire.INDIA.—The mission field of India has^been described as a continent of many countries,1,900 miles in length and 1,900 in itsgreatest breadth, with a population of 250,-^000,000.Here and there in ihe midst of a vast surroundingdesert, are spots like the garden oithe Lord. But even in those regions wherenative help is most efficient and abundantChristians are but six per cent, ofthe population.'' Inland parts ofthe Northern OircarsHydrabad, some ofthe Rajput states. CentralIndia, the Northwest provinces, acd thePunjab are miserably deficient in missionaries,and tbe native states generally neither havenor care to have missionaries within their bordsrs.It is curious too that nearly threefourthsof all Christian converts in India arefound in the Madras Presidency, containingan area and population of less than one-sixth.of India."A recent address on the work in Indiacent. Among these are very few veteran laborers,as many having gone to China in 1883as were sent out during the firstforty-five names, as one obstacle in the way of successyears of tbe present century. One-halt of this the ignorance of the people. " In 1878 theentire staff is concentrated in seven or eight attendance at every kind of eduoational instructionin British India showed only one pupil,cities—ihe capital and treaty ports, while nineofthe provinces are said to be without a single for every hundred of the population. In Benresident missionary.gal out of 9,000,000 under twelve years ofage less than 12,000 went to school, or onlyone girl in 750; the proporiion in the northwestprovinces with their numerous andwealthy cities was only a shade better.Among the hill tribes not one per cent, of thepeople can read. Government education isverts. The English Presbyterian Mission, begunin 1847, numbers 20 miasionaries and over are increasing daily; but we see from thes©progressing rapidly, and the readers of ludia0,000 converts. The American Presbyterians statistics what limitations ignorance sets ioâve about 60 missionaries and 3,000 converts; the use of the printed page, and what needthere is for the living voice."

26 Items of Missionary Intelligence.In that country nothing seems to offer such glory of Christ in the salvaiion of our homedetermined opposition to the religion of Jesus heathen and the establishment of Hisi kingdomChrist, as the Mohammedan power. Accordingto the address from whicb we quote, there —At the annual meeting of ihe Americanin ihis and other lands.are 50,000,000 Mohammedans in India, a Missionary Association Oot. 1,1886, the committeeon Ohurch Work reported as ihe resultlarger number than in any other country inthe world, about one-fifth of the entire population.Of all false rehgions " this presents been formed, making the whole number 124,ofthe year's effort: Twelve new churches baveihe most undaunted front to ChristianUy, and while the additions amount to 1,272, keepinghere and there openly vaunts its converts the average membership above 61 for eachfrom our faith. Holding aloof from education churoh. That the quickening spirit has beenand practically uninfluenced by what is calledmodern thought, they areas firm as tbe hills intheir faith in their prophet and the Quran, and.proudly contemptuous of any religion but theirown. They were never more accessible toChristian influences ihan to-day ; yet are ina large measure neglected by missionarysocieties. To deal eft'ectively witb them aman requires to be master of Arabic and Persian,the languages of tbe Quran and its commentaries,and perhaps not twelve missionariesof ail the societies operating in Indiaare so qualified."AT HOME.We gather from tbe organ of the NewYork State Sabbath School Associationihat the attendance at Sabbath Schoolsin New York State is more than onemillion, and of these more than seven hundredthousand are cbildren and youth under twentyoneyears of age; yet there is a still largernumber, or at It-ast seven hundred and fortythousand children and youth not under instructionof any kind.This Association claims to be the only organizationwhich covers this field and is devotedsimply to the purpose of carrying theBible by the hand of tbe living teacher to everychild in tbe State. Its executive oommitteeis our authority for saying that during the pastfive years more than fifty ihou.sand personshave been gathered into churoti and neighborhoodschools, and during each of these yearsOn an average two hundred schools have been•established in destitute localities, and ten tbousandpersons brought under Christian influences.Surely an Association whose oSioersreceive no compensation, but give time, serviceand money, should not appeal in vain fortbe practical support of those who desire thegraciously and encouragingly active in schoolsand churches is evinced by the tact ihat morethan 1,000 persons have declared a newlyfound faith. We bave great expectation oflarge results from tbe influence of religiousteachers upon tbe more than 13,000 who areenrolled in our Sabbath-schools, and from the118 young men who are in course of trainingfor the gospel ministry.—Less than twenty years ago the northwestof Canada was almost exclusively in the bandsof the Hudson Bay Company, and was used fortrading purposes. To-day cities and townsare springing up in all directions throughoutthat great country, especially along the westof the Canadian Pacific RaUroad and its manybranches ; great lakes and rivers reaching forhundreds of miles to the north invite the settlers;and emigrants are pouring in from everyquarter. Away to the west and northwest ofthe central province of Manitoba are vast territories; already on the fertile slopes 'iftheRooky Mountains farming is in progress, andthe ranching district of Alberta is said tocontain about four mUlion acres of land adaptedfor agriculture and stock-raising. Accordingto a recent writer who seems to have givencareful attention to the matter, hundreds offamilies leaving their homes in eastern Canadaand in the United States have settled in thoseregions and are "battling there with tremendousdifficulties ; they are utterly unable toprovide religious instruction for themselvesand their families. They are in many casessurrounded by ihe vilest characters. Eventhe blaspheming infidel is found in most placesand for some inexplicable reason the apostlesof infidelity are remarkably active in propagatingtheir soul-destroying opinions. Wheretbe Christian Church is not represented the

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Joseph Beattie, D. B. 29agents of error are sure to be at work." It will lished institutions of the East, are brought torequire earnest effort and self-denial on ihe bear with increased power apon ihe plasticpart of all ihe churches to overtake and meet and formative society of the West. It is likethe necessities of ihus scattered residents. subjecting a child to evil influences, for resistanceto which ihe full strength of mature years—The Rev. Josiah Strong says in " Ouris none too great."Country : its Possible Future, and its PresentCrisis,"—a volumethat every Christian patriotshould read and ponder, "The west is beingsettled by nearly every variety of race, representingevery type of religion and irreligion—peoples different in antecedents, language,customs, habits, ideas and character. Theone thing in which a frontier population agreesis ihe universal and unbending purpose tomake money.We have already seen that the west is peculiarly"ixposedto the dangers of Mormonism,Materialism, Luxuriousness, and ihe Centralizationof wealth ; ihat conditions are exceptionallyfavorable to the spread of socialism ;that ihe relative power of ibe saloon is twoand a half times greater in the far west thaninthe east; that Mormonism is rapidly growing;ihat Romanism as compared with iheJOSEPH BEATTIE, D. D.What are we doing to meet these force ofevil and weaken their power ? The NationalReform Association is doing much to enlightenthe community as to the claims ofthe Mediatorto national allegiance, but not a tithe of whatshould be done, and, shall we say, noi a titheof what would be done, if the ohurches thatprofess to be set for the defence of His crown,were alive to the obligation under which thatprofession lays them to support that scheme.Fidelity to the same great principle would fillto overflowing the Treasury cf Domestic Missionsand enable the Board to send forthlaborers into every section of our country.Then it would be no longer true that ihereare many cities inviting to mission work, wherethe Covenanter Churoh bas no representative,and this when many in its membership couldpopulation, is about three times as strong in each pay tbe salary of a missionary, and meetthe territories as in the whole United States all expenses connected with suoh a missionand ihat into the west is pouring seventyfivepel cent, of immigration. These forces has learned to practice its written testimony, itand never miss the money. When our churchof evil, which are severely trying the estab-will be a power in the land.Mlseiem M mgreat ability and energy, who left on his pupthe impress of his own habits of thought.About a week after his licensure, May 26th,1856, he was chosen one of the missionariesof our ohurch to Syria. Ordained to the workof the ministry on the 27th September of thesame year, he left America on the 16th of Oct.for the scene of his future labors. On theoccasion of his second visit to this country in1876, he returned to Syria alone, only to findThe subject of this brief sketch was bornin Orange Co., N.Y., in the year 1830. Underthe careful training of a pious mother, thedaughter of Rev. James McKinney, whosename is held in honored remembrance, hewas drawn io the Saviour in early life. Onthe testimony ofthose most intimately acquaintedwith him, he was a loving and devotedson ; and after an uneventful chUdhood he enon reaching Latakiyeh, a cable dispatch anthe sudden removal of his wife, whotered Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., gradnouncinuatingfrom that institution witb a considerable had remained behind to superintend the educationof the children. The partner of his youth,degree of merit in 1853. The next threeyears were devoted to the study of Theology who had during twenty years of missionaryunder the judicious and faithful supervision of life proved herself a pious and efficient helper,Rev. Jamea M. WUlson. D. D., a man of gonOj he immediately returned to look after

30 Essentials to Success in Mission Workhis family ; aud seldom are we called to witnessa nobler sight than when Joseph Beattieresolved one year after to go back to Syria,taking with him six motherless children thatthey might be under his own eye while heprosecuted the work to which he had givenhis life.In Latakiyeh, his home lor 24 years and theful and sublime because eternal issues dependon them. Every fife which is filled with agreat purpose is blessed, noble, beautiful.Do you drive a great purpose through yourlives, like a bar of iron, and it will givethem steadfastness, and round it you mayflourish all manner of Arabesque for beautyand delight; for tbe men, wiio live most constantlyunder the continuous gripe ot onecentre from which he marked the wideningout of mission operations, he passed away great all inspiring purpose and the men bestafter a brief Ulness on the Sth of Oct., 1883. able with infinite flexibilityto change theirA lover of the truth and exemplary in the observanceot religious duties, Joseph Beattie Be enthusiasts. It is a soul all aflame thatmethods as prudence suggests.carried sunshine wiih him wherever he went, does tbe work. If you want to drive a pointedand was the life of the mission circle. His piece of iron through a thick board, the surestway to do it Is io heat your skewer. It isletters covering more than a quarter o{ acentury revealed a piety that delighted in the always easier to burn our way than bore it.things of God. To the FeUaheen he was The world tells us ihat enthusiasm is dangerous,that prudence is a virtue. Enthusiasm" that angel, Mr Beattie," and at his deatbbrethren of all denominations bore willing is prudence under certain circumstances, andtestimony to the beauty of his character and surely there can be no conditions which maketbe devotedness of bis Ufe.enthusiasm sobriety more certainly than theESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS IN MIS conditions under which you are privileged toSION WORK.labor for your Master. Oh ! thai we mayhave more of the spirit of Him who is our patternin this as in all things, and of whom hisHave ever clear before you the ultimate objectof your work. All great work which requires disciples remembered that it was said, " Thefor its accomplishment the co-operation of zeal of thine house has eaten me up."many hands and the realization of many lesser Cherish a boundless hope in the p>ossihil itiesends, is exposed to this danger—that the of your ivork, I mean not only the possibilitiesnearer ends, whioh are only nieans, should which depend upon the concurrence of circumstaaeesbeyond your control, but the possiobscure and blot out from the bu.sy workersthe remoter ends for whioh they are laboring. bilities whioh depend mainly upon yourselves,It is easy work going up a hill, when we can . . " Why did not we cast him out!"see the top all the way up; but men get very "Because you did not believe you could."tired, when the configuration shuts out the The confidence—" God helping us we aresummit, and " Alps upon Alps arise." If going to do it"—is a large element of fitnessamong all the trivialities, we can see, shininglofty above ns as our ideal life purpose, themaking known Jesus Christ and him oruoiliedthen and only then will the small things becomegreat, because they are ancillary to thegreatest, and the common place become aw-for your work. When hope is built on God'spromise and is not the eflloresoenoe of your ownimagination, then it becomes sober and exaltedto the faith which draws largo chequesagainst the infinite treasures of fulness, thatare laid up in Ohrist.

Keep on Battering. 31Live in close communion with your Lord, nize—but who are ye ?" As long as a pieceBy much meditation, by patient communion of rusty iron is held in contact with the magwithHim, as declared in Scripture and as nei it is itself magnetic. Drop ihe contact,realized in the secret chambers of the believ- and the mysterious energy passes away. Soing heart, by self-suppression, and by contin- "Abide in me." That is all, ihe secret ofually abiding in and referring to Him in all the everything.—Bev. A. Maclaren, B. D., atdetails of life get near and keep near to tbat Missionary Conference Bristol England.ever living Lord and Helper. All the poweris there. We only d'-aw from Him. If wetry to do our work, when the connection betweenus and Him is broken, we shall repeatexperience ofthe exorcists of old, and the evilspirit will only answer, " Jesus I know andPaul I know—the power that redeems I knowand ihe man through whom it flows I recog-KEEP ON BATTERING.If you have done work for Ohrist withlittle success until now, do not infer ihat youwUl always be unsuccessful. Regret the lackof prosperity, but do not relinquish the laborof seeking it. You may reasonably be sorrowful,but you have no right to despair. Nod-

32 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.success is a trial of faitb, which has been en- taken down in order io make room for ihedured by many a trusty servant who has been present noble" edifice, some of ibe walls weretriumphant in the issue. immensely strong, and stood like rocks.Do not then grudge the time, orthe strength Sir Christopher Wren, determined to throwyou lay out in tbe service of onr great Lord, them down by the old Roman battering ram.because you do not see your efforts thrive ; The battering ram began to work and the menfor better men than you have wept over failure.day, without apparent effort. Blow afterworked at it for hours and hours, day afterRemember, ioo, that if you really do serve blow comes on the wall : tremendous thudsthe Lord thoroughly and heartily, He will that make the bystanders tremble. Theaccept you and acknowledge your service, wall continued to stand till they thought iteven ihough no good should come of it. It was a useless operation. But the Architectis vour business to oast tbe bread on the knew. He continued working his battering ram.waters ; if you do not find it after many days, till every particle of the wall felt the motionthat is not your business. It is your business and at last over ii went in one tremendousto scatter the seed. Peradventure when your ruin. Did anybody commend those workmencourse is run, you will see from Heaven who caused the ^wa? crash, or ascribe all the(when it will be safe for you to see ii) ihat success to ihem f Not a bit of it. It wasyou did not labor in vain, nor spend your the whole of them together. Those who hadstrength for nought. One soweth and another gone away to their meals, those who had bereapeth.This isthe divine economy. I think gun days before, had as much honour intheevery man who loves hds Master will say, " So matter as those wbo struck the last blow.long as there does but oome a harvest, I will And it is so in the work of Ohrist. Wenot stipulate about who reaps it. Give me must keep ou battering, battering, battering,faith enough to be assured that the reaping and at fast—though it may not bo for anothertime will come, and I will be content." thousand years—the Lord will triumph.It does not much matter how any one man Though Christ cometh quickly He may notfairs. The mighty empire will revert to the oome for another ten thousand years ; but inworld's Redeemer ; and I can almost trace any case idolatry must die, and truth mustin the records of ihe future the writing of reign. The accumulated prayers and energies"These be the names of the mighty men, ot ages shall do the deed, and God shaU bewhom David bad," as tbe valiant deeds ofhis glorified. Ooly let us persevere in holy eft'ort,heroes are chronicled by our Lord. and the end is sure.—Spurgeon, in GoodWhen old St. Paul's cathedral bad to be News.FOREIGNLETTER.S—Under date, Nov. 2, 1886, Rev. H.Easson writes from Latakiyeh :"Our work is moving on as well as couldbe expected under the circumstances." Speakingof the pressure that is being brought iobear upon the Turkish government io allowthe school work to be carried on as formerly,he says, " I think God sent us our new consulat Beyrout for this very work. He is anenergetic man and no pains bave been spared;arguments based upon treaty rights and usagesand legal deductions therefrom have beenused by him to lay ihis school matter beforethe Legation at Constantinople and throughit before the United States government. Hwrites me that he has hopes of ultimate sue -

Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad. 33cess, and that it will be a most agreeable duty mission." He said, " Was not Ohrist able ioto inform me of anything that may transpire, save us by his word, hispower or his miracles?"I feel ihat he is working earnestly and effi- I said, " He could not secure forgiveness byciently for us."these for ' Without shedding of blood is no re-Passing to another matter, he writes, " I mission,'for God is just and loves justice, andhave said so much about a Home for our boys' justice has claims upon us. We are sinnersboarding school, that I am almost afraid to and bave broken the law and hence need amention it again, and only say, ' Don't forget Saviour." He said, " Is God not able toit.' The history of Geneva College audits save without the shedding of Christ's bloc^ ?"endowment shows that ' where there is a will, I answered, " His words are,' Without shedthereis a way.' I remember too that our ding of blood is no remission.' Why do theclass motto in College was, 'we will find away heathen shed blood, '. e., offer bloody saoriflormake one.' I believe, if a few friends of ces? Why do you, the Moslems, shed thethe mission were to adopt this motto, ihe funds blood of thousands of sUeep on Mount Arafat fneeded would soon be raised." The esti- Why ? Is it not because it is written, notmated cost of suoh a building as in the opin- only in God's word but in tbe heart of man.ion of Mr. Easson the present interests of the ' Without shedding of blood is no remission ?'"mission require is $5,000.He said God forbid that Christ should die.—The Ohurch will read with interest Mr. I said we are not now talking about the deathEasson's translation of parts of our Colporteur'sof Christ, but about the remission of sins.report to the Bible House, Constantinople, for the year 1886.How can he justify sinners and atthe sametime remain merciful and just?A Moslem whUe sitting in the Bible de- He said again, death would be a dishonorpot began to sing of the mercy of God and to Cbrist, it would be a shame and reproachspoke a long time on that subject. He said for him to suffer and die. When I saw bisthat all we had to do was to trust to the mer- mind was on that question, I said," Notso, Hisoy of God for salvation. I answered, " Yes it death brought him honor and glory both fromis true we are saved only by the mercy of God. God and man." He said God forbid. I con-All Christians believe that, but I would like tinued, " Suppose a friend of yours was worthyto ask you one question. Is God merciful of death and you went to his assistance andonly, is He not also just and does He r.ot love in order to save your friend you gave yourjustice?" He answered, " Certainly He is also own life, what would people say aboutjust." I then said, "How can God justify the yoar deed? Would they say that the deedsinner, pay the debt of justice and remain at you bad done was a shame and a dishonor toihe same time both just and merciful?" He you and that you would be held in dishonortried to change the subject but I held him to for it by future generations?"the question, and he finallysaid tbat he could He appeared embarrassed, and when Inot answer. I said perhaps you have men pressed him for an answer, he grew red in themore learned ihan yourself who could answer face, but answered not. Then I said I haveit. WUl you please inquire and bring me an one more question. "What do you say aboutanswer. He said fhat he would do so and the prophets who came into the world beforethat he had no doubt but that he could findan Christ, were they not despised and rejected ofanswer. I have waited long but no answer men on account of their work, can we sayfithas been brought.was a disgrace to them to proclaim the truthAgain, a Moslem police and two others, also of God to men?" He seemed to see theMoslems, came into the Bible depot. The truth and became much embarrassed. Thosepolice began to read ihe cards on ihe walls, who were with him did not understand ArabicAt last he read, " The blood of Jesus Christ but he translated my words to tbem intocleanseth us from all sin." He turned to me Turkish. At last tbey said, " We believe inand said, " Is there no cleansing but bythe Our Lord Isa, but we cannot admit that Holood of Christ?" I answered, it is written, died as you say." I said, "How then are we" Without shedding of blood ihere is no re- sa-°êd? I would like to know the way of sal-

34 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.vation without the shedding of blood." They New Testament voweled 6answered," By the meroy of God," I said," Godfont 1 8is just. How can he be just and justify the" 3 2sinner ?" I then read tothem several passages " " Turkish 5tound in ihe Bible on this subject. They ave " " French g-enemies to the cross of our Lord Jesus Ohrist. " " French and Eng ij NasaireyehAt last I said, " How can God be just and Matthew voweled 4( and Christjustify the sinner? See, if you oan bring Single Gospels 20Moslem.me an answer." The answer has not come. Gospel of John—Arabic and Turkish. . iChristian.In brief I say thai all my work among the The four GospelsgMoslems this year has been about justificationby the shedding of blood.Proverbs voweled 2" " " and Acts row 5MoslemThey do not like to hear the word cross. " Turkish 3How true it is, ihat " The preaching of the Psalms " I Christian.cross is to them that perish foolishness." Five Books Copies of Moses—Turkish g4 iThe Greeks hear of the crucified One aud English May Bible God bless every part of i his word tobelieve in Him, and I have had many opportunitiesto talk to them bo*^h iu the Bible of his chUdren, and dearer to them than purethe buyers, and make it powerful in ihe heartsdepot and elsewhere. I have plead with gold. This is my seventh report. I have soldihem io forsake their evil ways, to forsake in tbe four years and seven months of mytheir trust in the creature and put tbeir whole work here 2,571.10 piastres worth of scriptures.trust upon the Creator. They claim to beOhristians but a's a rule they do not keep the I trust that this will find you and yours incommandments of Ohrist.peace. And may the God of peace be withThe use of intoxicants seems to be increasing.They used to bring all they used from Salute your honorable lady and all of youryou always. Salute all the brethren for us.abroad but now there are several places bete children, and may the Lord be with you.where they make it.ISHOCK Es. Shama.When you were here, you asked me toEl. HuiiSET.place a bible in all the coffee houses. I did —Miss Evadna M. Sterrett writes, underso. I placed a copy in four different places, date Nov. 20, 1886:one of them a liquor saloon. In one place PersoDs desiring to contribute to boxeswhere only coffee was sold before liquor hadbeen introduced. The Devil did not like to•see the bible there alone, so be thought thathe would enter too. I hear that many readihe bible; some are pleased bui others do notlike to see the word of God there; it rebukesthem for their sins.The state of the Christians who do thesethings is sad indeed. They say God ismerciful and forget that he is also just.The following is a list of the books soldwith tbe total price. I have not recordedhere ihe price of each copy.To WhatBibles voweled. Name. No. Sect Christian Sold.'' font 3.."" 4..Moslem.Turkish.Christian.01 goods for mission schools, and not knowingexactly what is needed, may find thefollowing list useful.Dresses.SacksUudei-olothes.Stoctaugs.Cotton batting.Park night dresses.Work aprons.Slate.^.Pencils.Lead pencils.Scrap books, (ent out pictures.)Reward cards.Drawing cards.Sliced pictures, puzzles or auvtbiug to amuse convalescentcliildreu.Good strong combs.Hoop combs.Eejeoted or liall woru ribbons aud tiesTowels.Soap, Thimbles. Meefllcs. Needle Work Cheap bags, (ivoi-y Uaudkoroliiefs, books. Shuttles, tar for Crochet (uot mcdieiual •n-lilte, hooks. purposes il Knitting colored ) cau needles. be liad.)

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 351 believe the usual mode employed by L. hardness and barrenness of heart: we canM. Societies is to present a formidable subscriptionpaper to the people, and perhaps of " proving up " on land claims, and eventalk of banks, and of stocks, and of cattle, andthis is altogether proper, but it may sometimes sometimes on scientific matters, but as soonhave a tendency to discourage some who have as considerations of a moral and religiousa mite to give; but because it appears small kind are referred to the tongue is silent.upon paper they withhold it. If a child h-is a I began this when I was interrupted incent to spend for a pencil or a few more io my travel, and I notice that amid thespend in reward cards, why not allow it to noise, the profanity, and the thick smoke,buy and present its offering itself?—things tbat often go together,—of this barroomI have forgotten myself, but will nowWork bags will give some of your littlegirls work, and save losing thimbles, needtry to give you some items connected withles, crochet hooks, &c., here. Scrapbooks need never be expensive, and ihey willafford hours of entertainment io these littleArabs.A LETTER FROM THE WEST.and soon on Sioux City and Pacifictrain for Plainview, Neb. At this point I wasAs at least some in the church are much mei by Mr. A. Moncrief, formerly a hearer ofinterested in her missionary efforts, perhaps Rev. W. McFarland, Lisbon, N. Y.' At hissome items of my work may not be oui of home we find his wife, a son, and three daughters.place in the Hekald.I may say that since my appointment by The audience at iheir school house next dayour Central Board, I have endeavored io furnishto it monthly some account of what hasbeen done—a part ofwbich has already appearedai 11 A. M. was small but gave good heed ; at3 P. M. in Plainview, the Baptist church wasin nice order for us. It is fitthat I should sayin the R. P. and 0. and possibly some just here that the Baptist brethren at thisother items sent may yet appear, so I hesitate place and also at other places have actedto repeat anyihing before written.with great cordiality; they seem pleasedViewed in whatever light it may be, the with missionary work. When we asked forwork of evangelization is a great work— their churoh on Saturday, we remarkedgreat in its difBculties, in its encouragements, ihat we used nothing but inspired psalmodyin worship without the organ.and in its results. Thai ihe difficulties ofmissionary work are great and numerous and Their leader said if we would givevariep, he can readily testify who has taken them the book and the selections they wouldthe shortest step toward it; and they too can practice on them and help us all they could,readily testify to the same thing for whose benefitsuoh work is undertaken.who goes out to seek after scattered familiesand they did so heartily. The missionaryThe many litile and inconvenient efforts of must often expect in the matter of praise ioa personal and domestic kind connected with be the " Chief Musician " as well as preacher.this form ot labor for the Master cannot easUybe summed up.Moncriefs kind famUy, and after uniting MissAfter a very pleasant sojourn with Mr.The hardness and barrenness of the human Lucy Moncrief in marriage with Mr. C. Dewherst—avery respectable young man of heart, unsoftened by the grace of God, conthestitutes a difficulty of the gravest kind. Butfor that grace the " handful of corn " plantedon the barren rocky mountain top wiil producebut little, but the imagery used by the spiritof God is suggestive of luxurious growth andfruitfulness. Missionaries and ministers generallyoften witiiesb fearful Ulustrations ofthismy work.I left home on this my last trip on thenight of ihe 25th of November. On thenext morning I found myself at Omaha,adjoining county, I resumed my journeywestward.Traveling 134 mUes by Sioux Ciiy and P.R. R. io Stewart, 1 was met by Mr. W. F.Cook, who took me forty miles northwest inhis conveyance, passing over the Niobrara River—a very s\«ift and treacherous stream withshifting current and quicksand bottom,but most

36 Letters from Cliristian Workers at Home and Abroad.excellent water. He with two other Oovenanterfamilies lives near the Keya Paha river,not far from the north line of Nebraska. Thissmall river, also of good soft water, can beforded most of the time. It constitutes thesouth boundary ofthe great Sioux reservationfor a considerable distance.The soil and climate here are good and thecountry healthy. The winters are moderatelysevere, and the copious springs of water,never dry nor frozen, with a fair growth ofgrass, make this an excellent stock country.Good as to the thingsthat pertain to the presentlife, you are ready to ask what are itsprospects as to the better life ? Poor, poor indeed.As yet but little work of a publickind has been done in all this region for thekingdom of Cbrist.Looking across the litile river the eye restson a land reserved to the Sioux Indians—apeople numerous and powerful, and in generalelevated; but in moral and spiritual things,only a few removes above the savage state.In some places mission schools are carriedon among these by the Episcopalians andOcngregationalists of whioh I may speakagain. On ihe south side of our little river,our few Oovenanter friends must needs maketheir light shine, for outside of these we fearfew family altars are set up, few songs ofpraise are sung, and few prayers ascend toGod.I remained with these brethren about twoweeks, preaohing sometimes in school houses,built of sods out from the prairie, with floorofmolher earth, and sometimes in privatehouses.Mysojourn here was pleasant and profitableto myself and I trust also to them. AsI joined in family worship from time totime with them, and as boy and girl, each inturn, read his verse in order, the inq-iirywould rise in my mind what may be the futureof these, each one having from a childknown the holy scriptures which are able tomake wise unto salvation through faith whichis in Christ Jesus.As Mr. Cook returned with me to the R. R.station, and as I gazed at times to a distanceof thirty miles over this vast thinlypeopled country and thought of the thousandsupon thousands of acres, claimed andowned by white men, never yet cut by aploughshare, and of the forty millions ofacres said to be embraced in the great Siouxreservation, I could not but ask when wUlall this vast territory be subdued and cultivatedfor Christ ? When will tbis wUdernessand this solitary place be glad, and this desertrejoice and blossom as the rose ?But my article is already too long ; I may,if you should wish it, give other iiems in thefuture.W. W. McMillan.Bon Honimie, Dakota, Dec. 20, 1886.A PLEA FOR CHINA.The tenor of prophecy and the spirit of thisage cannot be mistaken. He wbo bas eyes tosee can easily behold tbe angel flying in themidst of heaven having the everlasting gospelto preach to tbem tbat dwell on the earth,and to every nation and kindred and tongueand people. The voice of Him who ridesupon tbe white horse is loud and clear. Andwho that loves God and man does not praythat the time may be hastened when thosewho oome after us shall hear with shouts oftriumph and joy, the great voices in heavensaying, The kingdoms of tbis world are becomethe kingdoms of our Lord, and of hisOhrist, and he shall reign forever and ever.Unprecedented is the spirit of missions nowprevalent in most of the churches of thewhole Christian world. No Ohurch Boardshave so much important business to transactas the Boards of Missions. As never beforeChristian women are beautifully and wonderfullyactive in helping the Cburch to spreadthe gospel. And woman's growing zeal in theholy cause of missions is one ofthe most promisingindications that the glad tidings shallsoon be heard in all lands. Already the islesot the sea, India, Egypt, the Dark Continent,Japan, and soon we may add China, are fastcoming into the light ofthe gospel. AlreadyThe morning light is breaking,The darlmess disappears ;Tho sons of earth are AvalimgTo penitential tears.As every Israelite built on the wall overagainst bis own house, so every worker in anymission field can most clearly see the necessityof work among the destitute. It is no

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 37wonder that ouv missionaries in Syria arepleading for more help. In the south wherethe fieldis so vast, the wants of the mUlionsso pressing, and the laborers so few, it is nowonder that brother Elliott so persistentlycalls for more aid. And who ihat lives ortravels in those parts of the west where suchmultitudes are without the preaohing of thegospel and the regular ordinances of God'shouse, does not wish that the church had inher treasury a fund of a hundred thousanddollars with which to send all over ihat vastregion a hundred earnest and thoroughlyqualified evangelists, so that to the people thegospel and ihe whole truth might be preachedwithout money and without price.And ihere is another standpoint from whichthe laborer sees a vast fieldin whioh the peopleare perishing without the knowledge ofGod and for whom almost no man cares. Onthe Pacific Slope a hundred thousand idolworshipers need the gospel. Very few ofthembave heard it; and these few are so wrongedand maltreated by people called Ohristians, itcan hardly be expected that many of therawill become followers of Ohrist unless thepolicy ofthe government be changed or Ohristianshave more compassion for the strangersWho will go to preach it? Who will go tolive it before the people ? Who of our savedwomen will go to save the women of China?How long shall their sUent sorrows find no alleviation,or tbeir cries for help hear no rein the land. Yet bere is a vast fieldvery invitingsponse from our mothers, our sisters, or ourto the hopeful as well as urgent to the daughters ? Nay, why do not the fatherscompassionate. Here is a harvest as great as and brothers ofour daughters and sisters sendthe laborers are few.But this view of our theme is too narrow.women to the rescue of women ?Let tbe testimony of another furnish an illustrationThree additional facts invite of my plea. our attention.A missionary who went1. Every Chinaman in California, truly converted,from California not long ago—Rev.C.R.Hager,may become a missionary. He may of the Congregational Churoh—writes thus :influence his own countrymen among whom " One of the unfortunate ones of earth, ofhe may become a worker in some other part whom there are thousands in China, tired ofof our country whither these foreigners are the drudgery of life,and ready to enter upon thescattering. Nearly every Christian Chinamanwho locates in an eastern or southern cityor town starts a Sabbath School among bisown people, or helps others to do so. Somuch the more seed is sown.2. Many who return to China have previouslylearned more or less of the doctrines and institutionsof the Christian religion and have beenfavorably affected by its divine influence.Some of the one hundred thousand stiUin ihe country, have become true disciplesof Ohrist and carry back totheir homes in the far off land thebible and the gospel and the love of theirSaviour. And thus every such loving disciplebecomes a missionary to some extent in China.They open the way for missionaries who follow,or they help those already there. Theirexample and their silent influence among thepeople with whom they had formerly gone asworshipers to the temples must tend to thefurtherance of the gospel. No more opiumsmoking, no more gambling, no more lying orstealing or Buddhistic superstition and paganidolatry, their very presence among tbeir ownformer friends must tell upon ihese for good.Gospel leaven works in pagan lands as in others.And all China must be leavened, who knowshow soou? The same seed that has producedsuch abundance in other lands will soon, bythe same divine blessing, grow up into aglorious harvest in the Flowery Kingdom.Who are to be the sowers? who the reapers?3. The condition of woman in China appealsmosi touchingly to the followers ofthe CompassionateOne. The gospel is her only hope.unknown and unseen of the next world ;.but let us notice her history. Some time sinceshe had been bought by an old man of 60years of age for his second wife, for wbomsome one hundred and seventy dollars had beengiven. In order to understand the young wife'sfeelings, we must understand in what estimationthese second wives are held. She notonly becomes the servant, or slave, of the husbandand parents of the husband, but of thefirst wife herself, who can beat and abuse herto any extent; and if she has any chUdrenthey are not considered her own, but the ohUd-

38 A Baptism in India.ên of the firstwife. In case of the death of helper's words, ' Bought and sold just likethe husband she must still be the servant of cattle !' These three pictures, coming to ourher mistress, and this is more like a slave notice almost in immediate succession, ougHtthan a wife."certainly to awaken our sympathy in behalf otTheforegoing was written after having seen Chinese womanhood. What can we do toihe dead body of tbe wretched woman who had alleviate her condition? Will some ot thecommitted suicide. Mr. Hagers letter con- American ladies, who are filled witb a loftycl-idesthus: " As we return to Yeung Kong and earnest purpose, Jinswerf China is anihe following day, our Chinese preacher comes old missionary field ? yes ; but some of iheto us, and tells us there are three bought habits and sins are also hoary-headed, and wegirls on the boat' immediately following ours, ought not io lose courage or faUh, because ourThey have been bougni, and are to be taken to hairs whiten in doing something for iheCanton or Hong Kong and reared there, after women slaves of China."which God alone knows their fate. Ab one ^ JOHNSTON.might well weep over the lot of some ot theseunfortunate children 1 How truei are our Oakland, Cal.iM^mSMTB IM Mimi&M Mfs»A BAPTISM IN INDIA. After a brief sermon about the entrancePalm Sunday of this year was a joyful of Jesus into Jerusalem, I catechized the candayin the parish of Tschombala. Dr. Scmolk didates. The elder persons especially maniwrites,ihat the words of ihe prophet, " Rejoice fested good understanding of ihe faith. I ihengreatly, 0 daughter o f Zion: behold, thy performed the sacred rite of baptism.K ing cometh unto thee ; he is just and hav- The firstto receive ii was a goldsmith froming salvation," sounded on ihis day as an espe- Mabe, named Tschattu, twenty-seven yearscially gracious invitation. The words were ofage. His first instruction in the Chrisfullof meaning to the nine candidates for bap- tian religion had been received from a Christism,who were io declare in tbe presence of tian married couple living in Mabe, whilethis Christian congregation their willingness he was at work in their veranda. Catechiserto open their hearts io this King and lay Tobias took an interest in Tschattu andiheir palms of thanksgiving at His feet, in September of ihis year he came hereWhat joy for us to be permitted to baptize to Uve. His relations, especially an oldertbese nine souls, and yet withal what fear and brother, besought him to return. The fearstrembling! How many of tbose wbo cried ofhis brother seemed io spring from real" Hosanna 1" when Jesus entered Jerusalem, grief of mind, but Tschattu remained steadjoineda few days afterwards in the shout " Cru- fast. He began to read the Bible with zeal,cify him, crucify him I" How many in our and was thus well prepared forthe instructionheathen-Christian parish who were baptized, in regard to baptism. In the short time thathave, asis said in the baptismal formula, "made Tschattu had been bere, be had gatheredshipwreck of their faith," eiiher by falling into quite a treasury of Christian knowledge andsin or by going ov er entirely into tbe camp we are able to rejoice concerning his atoiihe enemy. Yet while the presence of these tainment in spiritual things. In baptism henine call up such ihoughts, we should not received the name Jacob.be discouraged, but rather driven to lift up After him came a Tijer woman, twenty-onepraying hands tbat Christ may be found in years of age, named Nurumpa. She, and herihese converts.two-year-old son, came here in April from

Manikam from Tschombala is twelve yearsold. Her father is a brave old wood-sawyer,but a heathen. He has worked quite often inour neighborhood. Two years ago I succeededin curing him of a troublesome abcess, whichwon his csnfidenceand gratitude. As his daughtercame forward to be baptized, he humblybegged to be allowed to speak tober. The tearsstood in his eyes as he said to his child, " Manikam,will younot come home with me ?" Whensbe answered " no," he went away quietly, butdeeply troubled. He has not however brokenoff all intercourse with her as the heathenrelations in such oases do ; for he who stepsout of the caste is regarded as one dead.Manikam is a'dear diligent girl. She chosethe name of Naomi.The last to come was Mata or Liza, as sbeis now called, a young married woman, twelveyears of age. She belongs to a grand TijerfamUy. The good child has passed throughmany dark days, but has shown such a bravespirit, that involuntarily one esteems the littlewoman. Her father died several years ago,and before she was ten years old, she wasold by her mother and uncle to be the wifeA Woman's Faith. 39Kallamata, with the intention of becoming a of a Tijer and lived under the power otherChristian. This step was somewhat easy for heartless mother-in-law. A year ago Mataher, because an older sister had been in the fled and came to us—a beautiful girl adornedmembership of our parish for several years. with tbe jewels which married women wear.Nurumpa conducted herself well during She introduced herself and besought us to admither year of probation, and, although shecannot read, has acquired considerable knowledgeher.The relatives, often as many as forty, enof the Bible and matters pertaining to compassed the house day after day. Matathe Christian faith. She received in baptism gave back the jewels ; that satisfied tbe uncle,the name Pauline, and her son, Paul. but not the mother. She came daily, criedThen followed ihree young women, and afterand howled, scolded and tore her hair, andthem three girls. The youngest girl is the stood for hours in the pouring rain. Mataten-year-old Mani from Kalikut, whose newlybaphad severe conflicts to endure, but she onlytized mother begged me io baptize her could decide the matter. The fear that shelittle daughter. Mani is a pretty child ; she would be bewitched by her relatio-ns gave thehas studied diligently and behaved well in poor girl a great deal of trouble, because sheschool.knew that the help of the sorcerer, who issaid to charm escaped wives, would be employedto bring her back. Yet she overcamethis fear ihrough faith that the devil was notable to snatch the sheep of Ohrist out of Hishand. She threw all doubts behind her andmaintained a cheerful frame of mind until theday of baptism.—Translated by Miss EuphemiaCrothers from Ber Evangelische Heidenbote.A WOMAN'S FAITH.From the commencement of the BechwanaMission in 1816, for a period of more than tenyears, not a ray of light shot across the gloomto cheer the iiearts ot the missionaries. Adull and stolid indifference reigned : the Batlapingwould talk of any ordinary sabject, andwere willing to avail themselves ofthe presenceof thewhitepeoplein the country for any temporaladvantage that might be wUhin their reach,but the moment a word was said about divinethings their ears seemed to become deaf atonce, and they would walk away determinedto have nothing to do with that foolishness.There were times indeed when the brethren,Hamilton and Moffat, were cast down and disposedto cry with the prophet, "Who hath be-

40 Notes and Reviews,lieved our report?'' and to ask "Is this the right could but dread some new device of ihe devilpath?" but there was one member ofthe mis- to obstruct their path; but it was not long besion,weak in body, bui strong in faith, who fore they were forced to admit that there wasnever faltered. She would but fall back on something that could not be gainsaid. In athe promises ofthe unchangeable God, and say, few months the whole aspect of ihe station"we may not live to see it, but ihe awakening had changed. The meeting house waswill come, as surely as the eun will rise to- crowded before the service had begun,morrow." On one occasion a letter was re- Heathen songs and dancing had ceased, andceived from her friend Mrs. Greaves of everywhere were to be heard instead the songsSheffield, asking, if there was anything of use of Zion and the outpouring of impassionedwhich could be sent. The answer of Mary prayers. The missionaries were beset evenMoffat was, " send us a Oommunion Service; in their own houses by those who were seekingwe shall want it some day." At that time fuller instruction in things which had becomethere was no glimmer of the dawn, and in tbe to them all at once of paramount importance.course of two or ihree years which it took The moral condition of the community rapwiththeir slow communications to get that re- idly improved, and the dirt and the indecencyquest ot faith fulfilled, there was time for an of heathen costume were exchanged for cleaneverthicker darkness to overspread the sky, liness and European habits of clothing, asand the sorest cross of all was a rumor whioh far as the supply could be met by the occacamethat doubts were beginning to be felt at sional traders.home about the use of going on with the Great as was the change, the missionariesBechwana Mission ; but they held on.did not dismiss their northern caution. It wasIn the year 1827 there began to be a sort of only after careful examination thai-from thechange, almost like that change in the sky ever many who pressed forward they selected somebefore the dawn which is famUiar io watchers six in the firstinstance to receive the rite ofin the night. baptism. Fe-v can enter into the feelingsAt length in 1829, a marvellous awakening whioh must have animated the hearts of ihebegan. It came, as suoh things do come, with- missionary band when tbey first sat downout any human or visible existing cause, with that little company at tbe table of theThere was a wave of tumultuous and simultan- Lord. On the day preceding this memorableeous enthusiasm. The two brethren who wit- occasion in the history of the Bechwana Misnessedit were soberminded and hardheaded sion a box arrived which had been long on theScotchmen, by disposition not willing to lend road from England. It contained the comihemselvesto any movement which might munion vessels for which Mary Moffat hadseem to have the taint of mere sensationalism, asked nealy three years before.—iii-es ofThey had been schooled io adversity, and they Bohert and Mary Moffat.-Miss Maggie B. Edgar arrived at Lata- New York, has given a fourth $1,000 io thekiyeh on Thursday, Nov. 4, 1886, in good Tarsus fleld.health, and met with a warm reception.—The students of our Theological Semin--Mr. Hugh O'Neill, ofthe Fourth Ohurch, ary will receive the Heeald for one year

^ Notes and Beviews. 41through the kindness of Mr. John McWilliam thrust them out Would that the young meof Third New York. Until we have ihe cor- of our Church were alive to the responsibUreotaddresses we will continue to send their ities of the hour and ready to obey the voicepapers to Prof. B. J. George, Allegheny Oity. of tbe Saviour. For months He has been-We note with pleasure that Mr. Henry

42 Notes and Bevieivs.SIAM; ORTHE HEART OF FARTHER can teach and preach in the native tongue.INDIA.* Think of it 1 Three men for the ten millidBs—more than ihree millions for each! AndThis volume is from ihe pen of a lady who ^^^^^j^^ j^ f^,l ^^ christian men and womenhas been for ten or eleven years a resident of ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^.^^^ themselvesthe strange but interesting land of which she ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ consecrated all they havewrites. On its pages we have peeps mto pal- ^^ ^.^ ^^^^j^^^ ^j^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ j^ 1^^^^^^âces, visits to shrines, chats about the curious .^ ^^^.^ ^^^^ j^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^_customs of the people from the king of the ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ the lrealm to the little dark-eyed children among i^ this connection the author speaks of a lwhom the author labors, and V^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^, ^^ ^^^ ^f t^^ ^^^^,^t nobles in th^descriptions of men and things. Several ^^^j^^ ^.^j^j^^ ^^^ ^^j^^^,^ ^^ Petohaburee,chapters describe tbe legendary and idola- j i • +v, n u „ ;.i •„ +1,.. -„„ „ „ „f^ & .7 and during the call she said in the presence oftrous character of Buddhism, the enormous ex- , i

PUBLISHED VITH THE APPROVALof theBOARD OP FOBEIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBYTEBIAN OHUROM,TJ, S A.mv Wxtm tfi § i m m m t hTHE IMMEDIATE EVANGELIZATIONOF AMERICA." Onoe to every tnan and natioii comes the moment todecide,In the strife of Trutli with Falsehood, fop the good or eviside,"Rev. Denis Wortmaii, D. D., Pastor Reformid Ohurch,and he is filled with a certain great horrorSaugerlies, N. T.lest the fateful moment pass, and the toils,Over and over again it happened in ourthe prayers, the sacrifices of long years becivil war, just as in almost all great conflictswasted, and a triumphant foe have with stillof arms, that victory was won upon the arrivalgreater expenditures to be reconquered.of reinforcements just in tbe niok of time. AnOur motto is, " Christ for America, Americafor Christ," and by and by this consumhour early or an hour late decided tbe day,decided the year, almost decided the war.mation must be, shall be reached; but shall it*' I guess its time to go in, Phil," was the laconicorder of Grant io Sheridan, and tbe acbe after alternating triumphs and defeats,with bloody Bull Runs, Sbilohs, Vicksburgs,tion suited to the word, the terrific blow givenAntietams, Gettysburgs, or with one surewhen it would tell the most, secured the finalstraight march down through ihe wildernesscrowning victory of tbe war. Emerson tells us to one signal Appomatox decisive ending ofhow Napoleon accounted for his victory at the struggle ? Fortunately it is not too lateAreola, by seizing the very moment of a for us to determine upon victory, and yet ii ispanic and frightening the enemy into defeat not a moment too early for us to lay oat ourby a couple of dozen noisy, mounted trumpeters.On a oertain time some twenty years therewe must, as patriots acd Ohristians, at onceplans and enter upon our campaign. Thisafter, a Prussian officer comes to the help of begin to do, or ours must become the sorrowreflection of Quintilian: Dum deliberamushis enemy just at the crisis moment, and Nafupoleonand France meet their Waterloo. guando incipiendumj incipere jam serum fit.*The American patriot and Christian contemplatesthe stupendous struggle now on formed Chureh have not been so enthusiasticIt is most unfortunate tbat we of the Rehand ior the possession of the land he loves ; in our home work as in our foreign; and whilehe sees the hosts of good and evil mustering our zeal in the latter has " provoked veryfor the fray; he cannot fail to see that the many " who now equal or surpass us, our ownvictory is with those who strike tbe hardest vineyard bave we not kepi. The family thatand the quickest; he sees the vast and aloumost endless stores of munition on the side ofLord especially liked was one in which* While deliberating at what time to begiu, it becomesthe right, but he also recalls how,already too late tobegin.

44 The Immediate Evangelization of America.one sister seems to have done the unselfish opportunity. To-day is the day of salvation!work outside, and tbe other to bave kept Never, it seems to me, in all ihe history ofthings snug and cosy in the house ; we seem the world bave there been such rapid andto have let Martha as well as Mary do ihe overwhelming gatherings to a great politicaloutside chores, as a consequence of which we and religious crisis as confronts us here andhave much need now to attend to our own now. Our country is of a most compositekitchen fire. nature and in its formative state. Renan tellsBy whioh I suggest no CDnflict between us how Antioch was "the ancient point ofevangelization abroad and at home. The departure of the Church of ihe GentUes, thespirit that truly loves the one will love the prima! focus of Christian missions." Not;other; but there may be needed a broaden- Jerusale-31 with its most Holy place ; He hading of view, and a better systematizing and been rejected therefrom who was more bolydirecting of charity and labor. Indeed, I at- than the temple. Not Rome, with its imtributeour laxity in tbis rather to a virtue perial prestige and power; a greater thanin the first place than a fault; only the Caesar was ihe Nazarene. It was in Corinth,grace of our charity, our undenominationalism, corrupt beyond almost all the cities of theour heartier love for the wbole Ohurch than East, whence the pure waters of Zion were toa section of it, has grown into a certain ab- flow out through all the Gentile world. " Itnormalism. We have been in a race and have was a city, where all lands met, where Syriancheered our rivals' horses, and in our levity, Babylonian charlatanism, and all themagnanimity have often given ihem the in- impostures of Asia mingled, making it theside track; we have gone into the battle and capital of lies and ihe sink of every descriptionbeen so loyal to ihe cause that we have often ofinfamy ; an inconceivable medley of Merrygivenour guns and batteries and commissariat Andrews, quacks, buffoons, magicians, miracleandour very leaders to the regiments contend- mongers, sorcerers, purists, impostors ; a oitying by our side! All very chivalrous, all of races, games, dances, processions, fetes,very magnanimous ; but, I say, if the great and debauche.s, of unbridled luxury, of all tbeLord God has commissioned us to fight and follies of tbe East, of ihe most unhealthygiven us good arms and good men, we have no superstitions, and of the fanaticism oi thebusiness to transfer them to others, but must orgy." And yet it was in this multitudinousfightwith all the concentrated might and with ness of riot tbat a young, innovating andall ihe materials of war God gives us. ardent " Ohurch, full of ihe future, because itIt were a sorrowful blunder for all io make, was composed of the mosi diverse elements.Nay, let others nor let us blunder more, even was quickly founded." (Renan's Apostles ,pp.from motives however noble ; but one and all 196,197,198,202.)consider ihe peril that is so instant, and put It seems to me tbat in that city of a maltiforthour instant, utmost endeavors. One tudinous populace and large di.soouragemenfs,thing is certain : with all our equipment of we have a fitting symbol of our national oondiwealth,of talent, of culture, of truih, and of tion, and on the one band not frightened bytbe spirit of God, tbere can be no question sf the large unpromiseness, nor on the other imtbefud conquest of all this land for Christ; prudently sanguine, we are witb a certain gladonly we must not spare our energies, nor de- zeal whicii exults in adventurous undertakingslay one fatal year the stern seizing of our to plant most firmly here through all our land

T'he Immediate Evangelization of America.i'tthe only religion that oan save it, make the of an inundation of Anarchy and irreligiousveryheterogeneousness of our populaiicm aud ness ? How shall we achieve our hopes of thetendencies contributive to our vigor, (just conversion of all ihis mass to Christ ?as fhe infusion of Gemianio and Keltic blood, Verify, ihough, we must own thai all thissanctifiedby Christianity, renovated Rome comes aboutin ihe Providence of God.VerUy weand saved Europe ) and then send forth from are io fie thankful that while we are sendingthis vigorous Ohurch at home the gospel to aU the Bible to distant lands, the work seems too^*''°®'slow to the Redeemer,and he brings his millionsAnd still we must bear in mind thai we oan of benighted here; bere to labor more hopehardlyexaggerate the peril. Already tbree fully in our industries, to grow more normallyquarters of the people of the land of the Puri- in ihe midst of our freedom, to be ministeredtans are foreign born or of a foreign parentage; to ofour charities, to spend iheir time in thealready ibe land of ibe Hollander and Hugue- close vicinity of oar Sabbath-schools and ournot IS seven-tenths ihe same ; one-third of churches, where every one of us can be a misthewhole white population of the nation is of sionary, where with ordinary zeal and sacrithisclass, and sixteen of our largest cities are fice they may be led in large and rejoicingunder their control. Last year more immi- flocks into the fold, and where the honor andgrants came from Germany alone (90,000) reward of doing it are ours, or ours the perilthan ibe full membersbip of our Reformed and reproach of failure.Churoh ; twenty times as many as we in our Nay, I say we are uot io dread all tbis,own denomination had conversions from ihe noi io distrust God, or disparage our own reworld.There landed in ihe port of New York sources; but with brave hearts and all ouralone in the years 1880 to 1884 inclusive might embark on the splendid enterprise of1,220,552 immigrants from Bohemia, Germany, gathering ihese miUions for Cbrist. Nay, weDenmark, Norway, Hungary, Sweden, and are not to fear them, only as we fail to do ourRussia. Wben one calls to mind that tbere part. Rather let us take our lesson from theare 10,000 Poles and 40,000 Bohemians in world. Tbe rough projecting quarries forbidChicago, in addition io the 200,000 Germans, the plow and the grain; we lift the very quaramuch betier class, and all the oiher foreign- ries from iheir beds and with them paye ourers, one hardly wonders tbat there should be avenues, build our bridges, construct ourPolish Anarchists and Bohemian bombs. In dwellings. The Alleghenies, ihat stretch up18711880 inclusive 2,944,095 men, women, and down across our continent, impeding ourand children came to our shores, a very few of travel to the west and bearing no harvest*tbem people of culture, morality, religion, meanwhile, yet furnish the fuel that hastensthevast bulk of tbem dwarfed by ignorance, our journey and draws to tbe seaboard thealienated from the Church by papal exactions products of the prairie. On ibe ocean theor cowered by stupendous superstitions, impov- same. Wbo loves not the words of Geo. Hererishedby privations, angered by unjust rule, bert ?against government and law of any kind at all. " The sea which seems to stop the traveler„,, ,_ i. i. I r J. , Is by a ship tUe speedier passage made;T he bare mention of such facts suggests a ,j,^^ ,„^^^^ .„ô think they rnle the marinervery multitude of allied and consequent tacts, Are ruled by him and taught to serve his trade."a very multitude of questions as to our perils So I conceive God means us io have aclearand our hopes. How shall we escape ihe peril head and a strong heart, and enter witli

46 Items of Missio^nary Intelligence,abounding a&aw(iow on the simply magnificent as we parley or as we instantly do. "Awork of turning, with His help, the very neglect of duty to-day may cause a centuryroughness and hardness of the rock to tbe up- of regret."building ofHis temples, ihe very tempests of Surely we can hardly fail to hope the opportheocean to the safe commerce of His ships, tunity shall be properly met. God's provithevery brine undrinkable of tbe sea to that dence consults ooportuneness. To prepare-which, as " the salt of the earth," the Master the way for the Gospel He develops themakes a type of Christian pureness and sal- choice language ol Greece, and to make readyvation ; the work of making all that is so forthe kingdom oi his Son He establishesthreatening a peaceful helper to every good the Roman empire, wiih highways runningcause. So I conceive ihat He who turns gut into all tbe world, and for the time beinghuman wrath to the divine praise shall, if we commands all wars to cease, to signify thebut do our errand here,- out of the diverse and Pfjnce of Peace is come. To make theantagonistic elements, developed under differ- Reformation effective He discovers theerent civilizations, different governments and printing-press to us, and He tells England totyrannies, different atmospheres and surround- ^jve the Bible in best English speech to herings, different heredities and trainings, differ- people, just as Sliakespeare and his confreresent religions and irreligious, evolve a race of are perfecting fheir mother tongue. He holdslarger humanities and more splendid possibil- a Western continent ai arm's length beyondities than any that yet have been; a race that, the sea, unknown, untU with Netherlanderbeing more fully human than any before it, and Huguenot, with Puritan aad Quaker andshall be capable of growing all the more L^rd Baltimore's sort of Catholic, He makesdivine. a savage land a Christian America.But there must be no delay. The opportunityis close upon us, a peril or a blessing,Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD.schools bas been withdrawn from them. TheLATAKIYEH, SYRIA. - On his way fan'n'^v^^pTdTn'S'^'''"''''''°'mhome *--,I^^*^^'y«»^.J^'t"had btn seT trcheTs X ca3drn"rom the' mountSsummoned to visit a man who nad been sen- ' schools have a new imnoriouslvinjured by a faU from his horse, Dr. to see me say tne scnoois nave a new importousiyiig"'°" "J „ ,r,i_ 1 c 1 II ance in the eves of the Deoule.Metheny writes: " Tbe work goes on finely." -"^ " '"" y^^.In his opinion, after weighing matters care- —Rev. H. Easson bas recently received afully, the bitter opposition of the Turkish letter from the United States Consul atauthorities will result in helping forward our Beirut, in wbich he says : " It is with feelingswork. " It has," he says, " opened the eyes of unfeigned satisfaction and pleasure that Iof many who were careless before. The ory am enabled to announce to you the encouragoftbe people is that the government tias de- ing prospects just communicated to me in aprived them of means of education, for which special dispatch from Constantinople, that itthey were unable to pay, without substituting is hoped that an arrangement will speedily beanything in its place. Even the schools consummated witb tbe Sublime Porte thatamong the orthodox Turks in the mountains, will be acceptable to all parties concerned.should tbey never open again, have created a I am sure this gratifying intelligence will betaste and desire for education tbey are unable bailed with unusual interest by you and allio procure and which by the closing of our the worthy gentlemen engaged in tbe laudable

task of promoting by educational means theintellectual and material welfare of the subjectsof H. I. M. the Sultan."The foregoing paragraph was in type wbena letter was handed us from Mr. Easson withtbe cheering inteUigence tbat the Consul hadjust notified him that the arrangement referredto " has been consummated." "We are," hesays, " to inform the Turkish local authoritiesthat we are ready to submit programs ofstudies, text-books, and the diplomas or ceriificatesof our teachers to an examination,and to re-open our schools without asking forpermits. The Turkish authorities haveagreed not to iuterfere with any of our schoolsconforming to this request, providing the saidprograms of studies are found to be in conformityto Section 129 of the Laws of PublicInstmction."PERSIA.—We find the following item ofinterest in the Star in the East:The spirit of the Gospel is working for theItems of Missionary InteUigence. 47of the people. Such of the subjects of Chinaas wish to beoome converts may lawfully doso, and so long as they abstain from eyil-doingtbere is no law prescribing inquisition into, orprohibition oftheir actions." "Bear in mind "he continues, "that when missionaries live inthe midst of your viUages, you and theyaremutually in tbe relationship of host and guest.Under ordinary circumstances it is your foreelevation of the women of Persia. Its effectmost duty to act towards them with courtesyis evident among nominal Christians, and and forbearance. Should there arise any misunderstandingrequiring to be set right, letthrough ihem is making its influence felt uponthe Mohammedans. In the worship of tlie each submit his side to the local authoritiesSabbath oongregation, hundreds of Christianfor eqitable arbitration and decision." Simi.women may be seen reading from iheir Bibles lar instructions, or orders, may be read to-dayand singing ihe songs of Z'ion, forgetful of the on the public boards in tbe eigbteen provincesof the Empire. In their energetic measfact that but fifty years ago scarcely one ofihem could read. At the Jubilee celebrationures to remove from the popular mind prevailingprejudices against Christianity, we reat Oroomiah, in answer to tiie call for allwomen capable of reading to rise, 600 women cognize the doing of the Lord. As King ofarose in that one assemblage. "Take a lookinto the homes ofthe Protestant Ohristians ofPersia—I say homes, for their houses, withmany additional comforts, and a considerableincrease of the amenities of life, deserve ihename of homes. There is a mutual love andconfidence in tbe family ; the wife is the compaaion,not the slave ; daughters, as well assons, are sent to school and nurtured in the fearof God, and the family altar renders up itsmorning and evening incense. The increaseof chnrch membership in ten years froai 800to 2,000, the majority of whom are women, indicateshow the Gospel influence is workingupon them.S. G. Wilson,Tabriz.CHINA.—Good news has reached ibiscountry from China within the past fewmonths. We are told that the authorities invarious parts of the Empire have issued proclamations,caUing on the people to live atpeace with tbe missionaries and their convertsand explaining that the religion of JesusOhrist teaches men to do right and should thereforebe respected.^ Tbe Governor of the districtaround Shanghai says in a proclamation issuedon 27th oi Ootober, " Their sole aim is theinculcation of the practice of virtue, they havingno desire of interfering with the businessnations he has taken away a formidable obstacleto the progress of His cause and is ihuscalling His servants to more prayerful effortand self-sacrifice on behalf of China's millions.1837-87.—The Chronicle of the LondonMissionary Society has in its January uumbera leading article on missions during the VictorianAge, from whioh we make the followingextracts: "Tbe heathen and Mohammedanpopulation of the earth was in 1837 about1,000 millions, and the whole number ofProtestant missionaries were placed as follows: There were not ten in Egypt and Abyssinia,nor twenty-five on ibe whole westeracoast of Africa, nor thirty in the south; whilstihe whole east coast, the northern states, andall the interior was without a single one.

48 Items of Missionary Intelligence.Small missions had just been formed inSyria and Palestine.The missionaries in India did not exceed180, wbile tbe native Christians did not numl«r75,000.Ceylon had several missionaries : Burmah,•ot more than six.T'here were about twelve missionaries forthe whole Cbinese people. Half of them werein the straits of Malacca, where there wereknown io be seven converts and one ordainedaative evangelist. The other missionarieswere on tbe coast, but did not know of a singleeon vert, and ihe Empire was practically®losed io Christian effort till 1842.The remarkable movement in Japan towardCibristian civiUzation had not yet revealed itself;nor was there in all ibe Empire, or inSiam, or throughout all central Asia, one singleProtestant representative of missions.The considerable though defective efforts®f the Dutch to Christianize iheir splendidpossessions in the Indo-China seas, early inthe 17th century, had died down, and most ofihe congregations iben gathered were left" assheep without a shepherd," until early in this1836 the last missionaries were constrained todepart. About 15,000 had passed througiioeniury. The London, and subsequently the the schools, numbers had heard ot Christ, between1,000 and 2,000 attended worship inNetherlands Society, sent missionaries to Amfeoyna,Tinor, and Riouw, in 1831 to Celebes, the capital and 200 bad applied for admissionand in 1834 to Borneo. But whilst ten or into the Christian ohurch. But now thetwelve islands were most inadequately held schools and chapels were closed; tbe professionfor Christ by as many missionaries, hundredsof Christianity became a penal offence;©f other islands, some of tbem large and populousas S'jmaira, had not one.tbe first martyr fell in 1837, and not until1862 were missionaries allowed to return orThe most successful and promising missions people to worship God.at that time were in Polynesia. The work Passing by tbe Mauritius, where for thebegun in Tahiti in 1797, whioh blossomed first time the gospel was preached in 1837 byabundantly after 1815, was extended after the missionaries exiled from Madagascar, we1812 to the Society Islands, to ihe Harvey turn to Soutb America. Captain Allen Gardener,group in 1821, io the Samoan in 1832, bad turned bis attention to itsin 1836, andwith more or less success to other islands bythe London Missionary Socieiy.wants, but absolutely nothing had been doneby Protestants for its evangelization, exceptingIn 1820 missionaries from ihe kindredby tbe Moravians on the extreme northAmerican Board landed in ihe Sandwich east. There, and on tbe West India Islands,Islands, and nineteen years afterward a most small companies of the brethren bad laboredjiemarkable and genuine manifestation of the since 1732. Later on in tbe century EngUshpower of the spirit of God occurred, whichoverthrew heathenism and finally led to iheconversion of about 90,000 people, 23,000 ofwhom became members of churches.Similar results were produced at the sametime by tbe labors of Wesleyan ministers inthe Friendly Islands with iheir 50,000 inhabitants.Begun by two Tahitians in 1823, whowere joined by two Wesleyans in ihe followingyear, ihe work developed into a remarkablereligious movement in 1834, which culminatedin tbe islands becoming Christianeleven years after.But most of the islands in the vast Pacificwere yet heathen. Two missionaries hadsettled among the Fijis in 1835; but morethan 200 small islands of Melanesia, tbeLoyalty and Penrhyn groups, tbe NewHebrides, New Caledonia, and numerousisolated islands had not yet heard the voicesor beheld the feet of tbose who bring goodtidings and publish peace.Samuel Marsden had carried the gospel toNew Zealand in 1814. In 1825 the firstconvertswere received, and tben came presagesof a glorious harvest; but war between thenative tribes and enmity between the aboriginesand Europeans checked its ingathering,A thick cloud overhung Madagascar.Ranavalona had been crowned in 1829, and inEpiscopalians and tben the Methodists sentevangelists. The Baptists followed in 1813,and the London Society in 1834.In North America, isolated endeavors hadbeen made since 1640 to convert the Indians,but only in 1820 did missionaries settle yet

farther north, in the vast Hudson's Bay Company'sTerritory. More had been done inGreenland and Labrador. Hans Egedi hadcarried the gospel to the former in 1721 andand in 1752 five Moravians settled in desolateLabrador. But fifty years ago on the wholecontinent of America—^North and South—there were not twenty-five missionaries, andof these more than half were Moravians.Thus it will be seen that there were vastpopulations untouched by any true Christianagency; that others, as in India and China,were most inadequately cared for, and thatonly in a few places of limited extent and populationwas the evangelistic force of adequatestrength."Such was the state of missions half a centuryago, and in closing his article the writer,Rev. 0. Storrow, says in reference to theirpresent condition :" If the missionary spirit is not as intenseas it was, it is at least far more diffused.Splendid facts attest this. The total incomeof missionary societies in 1837 was less than£50,000; now it has steadily grown to£2,200,000. Then the converts numberedabout 50,000; now they are neariy 3,000,000.Every Protestant denomination of the leastimportance has its foreign missionary society.* Their sound has gone into all the earth.'If a chart could be so tinted as to exhibit therelative presence of Christian teachers throughoutheathenism as recently as 1837 and now,the contrast would be very great. Someregions iben entirely dark now have somelight; others, then having a little, no\? havemuch more. . . . Central Asia, includingThibet, is indeed the only large regiot wheremissionaries do not reside; and, if Zurtu .an,in the middle of the third century, andJerome, a hundred years afterwards, wrotewith surprise, not untouched with exultation,of the spread of Christianity, not only amongvarious classes in the Roman Empire, butfar beyond its limits, we, with equal surpriseand exultation, but with stronger confidence,should hail the extension of the kingdom ofGod now." The extension of our missionary agencieshas been followed by results in the foreignfield, direct and indirect, which here canItems qf Missionary Intelligence. 49only pointed at in a paragraph. The hundredsof thousands of converts gathered, andthe almost 30,000 native preachers and evangelists,are the outward and visible signs of asplendid work for Christ and man. Butfarther, tens of thousands of converts havedied, giving clear evidence of calm trust ortriumphant hope. Not one is known to haveregretted at the last hour bis change of faith.Myriads give every evidence which reasonablepersons oan require of changed hearts andlives. Then converts are found amongst almost all races, nationalities and classes ofsociety. They are gathered into churches;they advance in morality, civilization, and allthat is distinctively Christian, and they areeverywhere growing in numbers, strength, andinfluence, as no other sect or party is.And the collateral results of missions arefar more varied and important than is usuallysupposed. In 2,200 oentral stations, and afar greater number of out-stations, Christianmen live and labor to extend the kingdom ofGod. And their influence extends far beyondthe number of their converts. Education isspreading; bad and cruel customs are fallinginto disuse; civilization is growing. TheChristian conception of God is taking theplace of gross polytheisms and the falsamonotheisms of the East. New Testamentideas of the soul, of virtue and goodness, andof ihe universal brotherhood of mankind areundermining the pantheism, caste, despotism,and immorality of great pagan empires. . . .Instead of being a faUure, as only ihe superficialcall tbem, missions are a splendid success; and it is not the least of the gloriousfeatures of the Victorian age that during itChristianity has spread more widely, gainedmore triumphs, and made more solid advancethroughout heathendom than during any monarch'sreign of any age or century.The successes that bave been won, and theimmensity ofthe work requiring to he accomplished,demand that our liberality and zealbe greatly increased. If the missionariessent out by every Protestant Society be distributedamong the 1,030,000,000 of the paganworld tbere is but one to each 200,000. Isthat enough?"be

50 Items of Missionary IntelUgence.AT HOME.THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,This National Society will complete itssixty-third year March 1st, 1887. It is composedof Christians of different denominations,who unite to send missionaries into tbe newsettlements along ihe frontier, or back into theisolated communities where ihe Cburch is notreaching, io gather the children and adultsinto Bible schools where they may study tbeWord of God and learn of Christ, noi creed.This work on so broad a basis of Christianunity disarms criticism and so is pre-eminentlyfittedio reach ihe people whom denominationalworkers could not interest.Thousands of schools have grown intochurches, and the average number of conversionsresulting from ihis work per each missionaryequals like results attained by residentpastors, in addition io the vast amount ofother work done every year. During the last1886. From ibis we gather tbat one of itsfiscal year 1618 Bible schools witfi a membermosship of 70,000 were planted, and nearly 30,000efficient agencies is Colportage. DuringfamUies were visited.In New York State where it is estimatedthere are at least 700,000 children of schoolage not reached by any church organization,this society has employed a missionary fornearly three years, and at times two missionaries.Their work has been signally blessed,and some neighborhoods completely changedthrough the instrumentality of the Bibleschools. Many weak schools have beenstrengthened and aided, trom three schoolschurches have sprung up, revivels bave followed,and preaching is regularly sustained inplaces that for years had Leen without any religiousprivUege. This work is supported bycontributions from schools, churches, and individualswhich will be used upon any desiredfield, and in return tbe donors will receiveletters telling of how and where the moneywas used in gathering the neglected ones inour own land to be instructed in moraUty andChristianity.No. 10 Bible House, L. Milton Marsh, secretary.S.We take at random from a leaflet, publishedto show the permanent character oi the workdone by this association, two reports of itsmissionaries. One who is laboring in WestVirginia says; As near as I can ascertain,200 new schools have been organized with anattendance of over 7,000, among wbom over400 have been led io Christ. And anotherwrites from Kansas : From ibe 122 schools Ihave organized since 1880, reports havereached me of 62 church organizations, 17 ofwbich have buildings valued at $21,350, anda membership of 1503. But wbat is best ofall, and interested me most, was that 753 personswere said io be hopefully convertedthrough ihe instrumentality of these schools.These are fair specimens of the reports receivedfrom twelve or thirteen States.—We have received from ihe AmericanTract Society a summary of its operations forthe past year " 186 colporteurs, of whom 21were students, distributed in 32 States andTerrifories,made 131,686 family visits, found21,035 Protestant families who attend no Gospelservices, and 7183 of ibe Church of Rome,13,657 were destitute of all evangelical literature,and 5703 without tbe word of God. Theycirculated 106,447 volumes and addressed5,006 social or public religious meetings."In ihis way this Society has visited within45 years 13,280,345 families and put into circulation15,040,932 volumes of Christian literature,and have thus reached, with tbe savingtruths of the Gospel, that great multitude ofour population who never go to chureh.—The annual report of Hebrew-Christianwork in New York is very interesting. Sevenadults were baptized during ihe past year andnew members bave been welcomed to tbe fullprivileges of tbe Cburch at every communionservice. Seven young men, converted throughtbe instrumentality of this mission, are makingThe office for tbis district is atpreparations for the Gospel ministry.

Eev. Samuel K. Galbraith, Missionary to S-s-ria.

SAMUEL RENWICK GALBRAITH. and in the twenty-eighth year of his age, justa - :»„ 5 fl. « Jessupgheny. ,. ,. Pa., and , was licensed ' io preach in the long as our' Father IS at the helm.'"spring his readiness of 1869. to go. After His a oame brief appears pastorate among of tenthose of the ordained ministers wbo signed the THE CHRISTIAN'S DEBTcovenant in 1871, a short time.before bis election; and this fact seems to have had great Wherever there is a human being inweight in his decision. " The renewed conse- wretchedness within your reach, to ihat humaoration of myself in ihe solemn act of being you are a debtor, and you are bound tocovenanting seems," he wrote to a friend, "to pay as far as your means will go; behold tibind me to this course." On tbe 16th of De- open spring of all home-mission effort! Itcember of the same year he reached Latakiyeh, bas been observed that when certain reformaand entered with his usual energy upon pre- tory institutions, which at first were supporparatory studies. Bui his work was done, by voluntary contributions, were transferredIt seemed desirable that he should be spaifed to a tax imposed on the community by impeformany years, so loving, so deeply interested rial authority, the difficulty of tbe manIn everything relating to mission life, and so disappeared, and the coffers were kept falwise. But it soon became apparent to physi- Ob, the treasury of missions would be alwayscians and|friends that ihe forces of life were charged, if the authority of Christ's Kingalmost spent; and on tbe 31st of June, 1872, were as effective in the hearts of Christian53

54 Woe is Unto me.as that of the government on the means and inserted into our consiitution by tne hand olsubstance of tbe citizens. God. Behold, they are very good; they areBut though we refer to pecuniary revenue ihe stern execution of a wise and benevolentfor the purpose of Ulustration, let it not be government, charged to watch wben dangersupposed that it is in money only or chiefly approaches us, and sharply prompts to wardthat Ohristians should pay their debts. If we it off. The pain ot the wound is our Maker'spay only in money, we do not pay at aU. messenger to send us forth quickly in searoiiPersonal service is the legal tender, and it is of a cure; the pain of thirst, his messenger toonly io a limUed extent and in certain circum- send us forth quickly in search of livingstances that money may be received as an water.equivalent. Personal dealing with persons is It is ihe same wisdom and mercy that comthelaw of Christ's Kingdom, and ihe liking of pel our spirits, by a kind of lashing whioh theyits subjects, when tbey are in a quickened feel, to avoid waste and seek earnestly thatstate. This is the need of our day; tbis is which heals. It is consonant with God'sthe direction in which an advance sbould be ways to keep his creature busy witb usefulsought. It is a conspicuous characteristic of work by pressing bim with pain, if he indopresenirevivals, that converts are brought lently or ignorantly cease. Paul preached themore consciously and more closely into per- gospel io Jews and Gentiles, to friends andsonal communion with the Lord Jesus ; this is foes, in season and out of season—preacheddoubtless destined, in the Spirit's administra- night aid day, by sea and on dry land—tion, to increase tbe number and tbe energy preached without intermission, for this amongof those who go down into tbe world and other reasons, that wben he relaxed he wasgrapple, person with]' person, io bring the lost scourged as with scorpions. Woe is me, if Ito the Saviour. Wben Cbrist is closer to jireach not tbe gospel.Ohristians, Christians will come closer to the By ihe secret line fixed in tbe conscience,world. When every member of the cburch which God in heaven holds in his own hand,shall feel debt io Chiist pressing like hunger many a man is compelled to run errands ofat his heart, and the work of winning souls benevolence, who otherwise would sit at homelike the food wbich satisfies ii ihe Kingdom in indolent ease. I knew a boy once who,of God wUl advance with rapid strides across when be was doing some work for his fatherthe world; these waters issuing from the on the wayside near the bouse, was asked forsanctuary, which now trickle scarcely seen an alms by a passing beggar. The boy rebeneaththe grass, will speedUy beoome fused; tbe beggar passed—not, however,be-" waters to swim in."—Arnot's Roots and fore he had pierced the youth by a certainIruits of the Christian Life.languid look from a pale face and droopingWOE IS UNTO ME.'J\ '^^.' y^*'^ ^"''^^""^J mechanically tohandle his tool for the next balf hour, scarcelyIncur physical constitution, provision is knowing wbat he did. Woe, woe was comingmade for the entrance cf pain. We smart in like a flood upon his soul because he hadwhen our flesh is wounded, or a bone is not given the beggar a penny. This woe inbroken; we suffer pain wben we are in want creased and accumulated until it became unofwater or food. These pains—or at least bearable. The boy threw bis instrument onthe machinery that produces them—have been tbe ground, and ran off through the fields by

The Nameless Good Samaritan. 55a shorter route, until he struck the public Ask no questions about thai beggar's wantpath in advance of the spot where tbe weary or worth. Although the penny were thebeggar was trudging along. Coming back and same evening thrown into the sea, or, wbatmeeting bim, be silently placed tbe penny he is worse, into ibe public house, it was tbe bestpossessed in the beggar's hand, and ran home laid out penny the lad ever won. From penagainto his work. The woe lashed him to nies so spent, fortunes spring. From suchduty, and left him light of heart as tbe birds pennies come the riches of grace and the kingthatsang beside him on tbe iree. dom of God.—Bev. William Arnot, D. D.^^^T^ c, .Tif AT.Tm *-\T grouna was deeply covered with snow, andTHE NAMELESS GOOD SAMARITAN, f^ , , .. • ui tt ujiXHJ11 i\ji.m.iuut^%Dyj yAKj ^^^ roads were almost impassable. He hadlOberiin, tbe well-known phUanthropist of reached the middle of his journey, and w«bSteinthal, while yet a candidate for tbe minis- among ihe mountains, and by ihat time wasiry was travelling'on one occasion from Stras- so exhausted that be could stand up no longer.bou'rg It was in tbe winter time. The He was rapidly freezing io deatb. Sleep

56began to overcome him; all power io resist itleft him. He commended himself to God, andyielded to what he felt to be tbe sleep of deatb.The Duke of Burgundy was waited uponby a poor man, a very loyal subject, whoHe knew not how long he slept, but suddenly brought him a very large root wbich he hadbecame conscious of some one rousing him and grown. He was a very poor man indeed, andwaking bim up. Before bim stood a wagondriverin his blue blouse, and tbe wagon not sequence to him; but merely as a loyal offerevery root he grew in bis garden was of confar away. He gave bim a little wine and ing he brought to bis Prince the largest bisfood, and ihe spirit of life returned. He tben garden produced. The Prince was so pleasedhelped bim on the wagon, and brought him tothe next village. The rescued man was profusein his thanks, and offered money, wbichhis benefactor refused." It is only a duty to help one another,"aaid tbe wagoner. " And it is tbe next thingto an insult to offer a reward for such a service."much as it was worth, and he presented it"Then," replied Oberlin, " ai least tell me with that view. The Duke, like a wise man,your name, that I may have you in thankful quietly accepted the horse, and gave theremembrance before God."greedy steward nothing. That was all." I see," said the wagoner, " that you areSo you say, " Well, here is a Christianman, and he gets rewarded. He has beena minister of the Gospel. Please tell me thename of the good Samaritan,"giving to the poor, helping ihe Lord's Ohurch,and see, he is saved; ihe thing pays. I shall" Thai," said Oberlin, " I cannot do, for itmake a little investment." Yes, but you seeiWas not put on record."" Tben," replied the wagoner, " until youcan tell me bis name, permit me to withholdmine."Bewards of Grace.—Liberal Giving.REWARDS OF GRACE.with the man's evident loyalty and affectionthat be gave bim a very large sum.The steward thought, " Well, I see thispays; this man has got £50 for his largeroot; I think I shall make the Duke a present."So he bought a horse; and he reckonedihat he should bave in return ten times astbe steward did noi give tbe horse out of anyidea of loyalty and kindness and love to theDuke, but out of very great love to himself,and therefore had no return. And if you performdeeds of charity oui of the idea of gettingto Heaven by them, wby it is yourself youare feeding, it is yourself you are clothing.There are many who do tbeir good worksto be seen of men. " Tbey bave tbeir reward"—all fhe reward ihey are io expect.Blessed is he whose good deeds, seen by God All your virtue is not virtue, it is rank selfishness; it smells strong of selfhood, and Ohristalone, far outnumber ibose tbat men know of,because be has learned to live by faith and will never accept it; you will never bear himnot by sight, to live unto God, to walk with say, " Thank you for it."—Bev. C. H. Spurgeon.• God ; outof the abundance of a heart trustLIBERAL GIVING.ing Ohrist and receiving out of his fulness,good works will flow,as water from a bubbling A rich merchant in St. Petersburg at hiswell. Sucb a man claims no reward as of own cost supported a number of native missionariesin India. He was asked one daymerit; but God delights in bis renewed characterand good works, and will give him how he could do it. He repjied : " Wben Ian abundant reward, of grace.—Good News. served the world, I did it on a grand scale and

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad, 57at princely expense, and when, by His grace, made that promise it has broaght me in moreGod called me out of darkness, I resolved ihan double what it did the year before, soOhrist should have more ihan the worid had that I oan and do double my gifts in Hishad. But, if you would know how I can give cause." Bunyan said :so much, you must ask God, who enables meto give it. At my conversion I told the Lord " ^ ""^''^'^^'^ ^^^' ^°^^ '"'"*'^ ''* "'^'*'-f-r.The moretie cast a-way the more lie had."His cause should have a part of all my businessbrought me in ; and every year since 1—Missionary Gleaner.In a letter, dated Jan. 10, 1887, Mr.Easson writes : " I send you a few extractsfrom the December report of Hana Iskander.I find that he has visited twenty-two viUagesduring the month, his words being listened towith joy in some places and rejected withscorn and anger in others."Dec. 9th—Went io Haboureiyeb, where Imet Sheikh Yunis from Kusmeen. In thecourse of our conversation we spoke of tbeCrucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus theCbrist. The Sheikh was not pleased withour words and said that, if he had tbe power,no one should be allowed io hear such lyingwords, for Christ was never crucified.Dec. 15tb—Went to Gunsei and took forour subject Isa. 9th chapter.After we had read the chapter, MustaphaAga El Haronn of Latakia, who was presentasked me, " To whom do tbe words you have.read refer ?"I answered, " The prophet in ihis and the^preceding chapter tells us about the comingof the Ohrist, the true Light in the world ; Hetells us that the coming one is the cnly Reedeemerand Saviour of man. He is the Princeof Peace and there is no salvation in anyother."When tbe Aga heard these words he wasvery angry and said "The right is with ihegovernment in stopping tbe work of the Americansin our country; for they are trying tomake all of the Fellahin Ohristians and thuscause them to sell their religion, as ihe peopleof Jendereiyeh have done." Having said thishe arose and the people dispersed.(Mustapha Aga belongs to the first Muslemifamily in Latakia.)Dec. 20th—Went to Sitmarcho, took formy subject John 15th. After reading thechapter, they asked me to explain the meaningof our Lord's words, "I am the irue vinf, &o.'I answered : "You know tbat men who havevineyards or gardens take good care of eachvine or tree. They visit iheir garden veryoften and examine each branch and when theyfind a branch that is not bearing fruit theytrim it and try ii again, and, if it does not bear,it is cut off, and then they go through thegarden and gather these for the fire. So hereOhrist calls bimself, a vine or tree, and his professedpeople, the brancbes; He sends hisservants to trim and teach us; but, if we refuseto bear fruit, that is live as he has commanded,He will finallycut us off from His Kingdomand cast us into tbe fireof eternal punishment."A.I1 present listened with apparent acceptance.Referring to the official opening of schools,Mr. Easson says : If we open all of our schools,ft will increase our expenses. Yet we wouldUke very much io re-employ as many teachersas we sent away last summer. The Lord, wefeel, has heard our prayers ; shall we not goforward and take possession in His name ?—Miss Matfie R. Wylie wriies under date,Jan. 12 :The last time I wrote, we had just openedour schools and now the firstterm has passed.And I think I have never enjoyed a term ofschool more. The girls have been more quietand studious than usual and my heart hasbeen made so glad by tbe arrival of MissEdgar that work has seemed light.I learn from several private letters to methat our friends at home have received the im-

58 Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad.pression that our work here is at a stand-still. A new missionary is supposed to haveI am very sorry ihey should think so, for suoh abundance of material for letters, in the nov.is not the case. True, the government bas elty ofa strange land and customs and people,closed our mountain schools but the children and yet it has all been told over and over soare being taught secretly. They meet one often that one feels that it is an old story.day in one house and the next in another and The warm welcome which was given to meso on. Then as you are aware the teachers on reaching Latakia made me feel at home atspend some time going from viUage to village once after the long wearisome voyage. Therereading the Bible and explaining it. It is not could be no more beautiful situation found foronly our opinion bui the opinion of missionariesin other fieldsthat perhaps this kind of commanding a full view of both it and theour mission than ihis just outside the town andwork has been neglected. The Gospel should sea.be carried to the old as well as the young. It In none of the schools which I saw on theis to be preached to every creature. The way did the girls seem quite so bright and attractiveas in our own. The boarding pupilsLord's hand is not shortened that it can notsave. And as you will have heard we hope especially look so clean and comfortable, andshortly thai matters will be so adjusted that many of them are mosi interesting. Theywe can open the schools publicly. In Latakiatbe enrollment in tbe Boys' Day School Wylie's noble work and untiring devotion tobear witness in their appearance that Missreached exactly one hundred. The enrollmentin the Girl's Day School one hundred vain.their good all these years has not been inand seven. We have twenty-eight in the One of the most interesting exercises is theBoys' Boarding Sobool and could have more girls' prayer-meeting held on Sabbath evening.Miss Wylie gives them a short who would pay, if we bad room. We haveexposififty-one in the Girls' Boarding School and tion of some Scripture lesson and it is pleasingto observe the close atiention given bycould have more if we bad means. • » *We had our examination just before the some of the older girls to her words.vacation and we were all pleased with the They are then questioned by one of theprogress made. This vacation we have been teachers on a lesson studied during the afternoon.They are studying the " Life of Paul,"calling on all the pupils. As we were passingone place, I was caught by the hand. I ai present taking a chapter each Sabbath, andlooked round and a dear little face met me and so much interested are they that ihose whoa dear little voice said, "When will sohool went home for the New Year vacation requestedthat tbe lessons be discontinued wMleopen ?" I told ber on Monday, and I askedher where she had been, and she said in the they were gone as they did not wish to misacountry. She and her sister are two little Maronitegirls. They attended school all lastthem. The little ones are questioned also onyear and I was sorry to lose trace of them andso glad to see tbem again. It is a great laborto make these calls but we always have fullerschools after we do and we feel it our duty.The rule holds good here as well as elsewhere," A man who hath friends must show bimselffriendly."I wish io return thanks for a nice box ofgoods received. It is either from Blancbardor from Bovina. Also to Mrs, Slater and Mrs.Dinsmore for a present ot money to be usedfor the school.—In a letier dated Jan. 11, Miss Maggie B.Edgar says :a Bible story which has been read to them.One of ihe older girls who are members of thechurch is appointed each evening to read achapter and lead in prayer. The meeiingcloses with the singing of a psalm.During the last few days I have had myfirst glimpses of the native homes. Many ofthe people had called on us since my comingand others had called on New Year's day,whioh calls had io be returned. We havegiven the past four days entirely to that andin thai time visited one hundred and fortythreehouses. Everywhere among rich andpoor tbe missionaries are made welcome now.In many places ibe sohool children were

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 59watching for us, and when we came nearwould call out, " Here's my house," " Here'smy house." Poor little ones, it makes one'sheart ache to see the rooms many ofthem livein; and it is not always those who are poorestwho are most uncomfortable. Many ol therooms which are dark and bare and dirtycould be made clean and tolerably comfortable,if the inhabitants would work.In every house the question would be asked,"Does the new lady not speak Arabic?" Someof them seem to think it very strange that anyone should noi be able to speak their language.One certainly leels very helpless with people small and greajt. A young man,among people whose language is so far reihmoved son of the priest, said: "Oh teacher Ifrom their own.Rev. Henry Easson writes under date Dec.2, 1886:have found that your words are true that Godiwill not accept any sacrifice at present but the' sacrifice of praise,' for I have found it written,' Whosoever sacrifices unto any god 1 send you a few extracts from a letter resaveceived from our teacher at Umzarat. Hehad 45 pupils, when the schools were closed,and, although he cannot officially open hisscbool, we believe that he is doing good work.A Nusaireiyeh woman's little baby girldied, and in my presence she said to her husband," I grieve and mourn exceedingly forthis heavy blow tbat has fallen upon us." AsI was trying io comfort her and lead herthoughts to Jesus the Great Comforter, shesaid, " Oh, man ! if my lost one had been fullof years, she would have been able to takecare of herself, and defend herself in allthings wherever she went, and I might haveMersine, 23rd :Nov., 1886.been comforted, but woe is me, for she, young Br. Metheny, Mersine—Bear Sir:—Enclosedplease find copy of the translation of ain years, has departed to her generation, and,if sbe is born again among men, she is not able letter I have received from the Oaimacam andto defend herself, and, if she is born among the beg you will let me have your reply thereonwild beasts of the field, oh what a loss to as soon as possible, as the Turkish Authoritiesme." When she had finished I began to have sent to-day asking for same, although Ispeak to the parents and others present of theimmortality of the soul, and of the just andmerciful Judge before whom we must allstand and give an account. I told them ihatthis Judge was " King of kings and Lord oflords," Jesus of Nazareth the crucified.Sabbath, October 17th, there assembled ioprayers twenty-six boys, old pupils, twelve ofwhom can read well and answer questions ;six girls, also old pupils, and fifteen men,forty-seven in all. Our subject was Jobn 1:1-5, and Psa. 51, calling attention especiallyto verse fourteen: "For thou desirest not sacrifice,else would I give it; thou delightestnot in burnt-offerings."After prayers the little girls oame to meand said, Oh teacher, hear us our questionsand verses. I heard them repeat the questionsand verses they had committed wbile in schooLI ihen said io tbem, let us all pray to theKing of kings and Lord of lords, and ask Himto help the American Missionaries, and opento you the door of freedom, that all may learnthe Knowledge of the truth.Sabbath, Nov. Mth, the place was crowdedJehovah only, he shall be utterly destroyed.'"Our subject was Isa. 53, and we sung Psa. 27.Don't forget our teachers are all at work.ORDERS TO CLOSE MERSINESCHOOL.Mersine, Asia Minor, 13 Dec, 1886.Bear Bro. Sommerville:—The Turkish Govermenthas at last ordored our Mersine schoolto be closed till we get an official permit. Wereceived from the U. S. Consular Agent thefollowing:United States Consitlar Agency,only received the letter yesterday.I am faithfully yours,Wm. Dawson,U. S. Cons. Agt.No. 398.Monsieur le Consul:—The President of themunicipaUty bas addressed me a letter dated^the 10th of November, 1302* (No 71) in whichhe asks if Doctor Metheny, the AmericanMissionary, has the official permission to openthe new sohool in bis house opposite the*A. B. 1886.

60 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.that the teachers pass an examination which,if successful, will entitle ihem to a certificatewhicb bears with it the right to teach withoutany further formaUty or permit. Should thisturn out to be the case we trust the matterwili become easy. Let the churches pray theLord of the harvest who has promised to bewitb His workers. He wiU turn all things totbe furtherance of His work.Should the hoped-for Balkan Confederacy beestablished on an evangelical basis, as we prayit may be, it will be a short road to enlargedprivileges all over this empire. There isIn, reply I would state that nothing like tbe petition "Thy Kingdomcome." It expects and awaits answer withoutprescribing a plan for Him. His wordand Spirit will do all. Let us endeavor to beco-workers with Him. More anon.Catholic church. I therefore beg of you if theDoctor has the aforesaid permission io presentit at once, otherwise the school must be closedfrom to-day until he receives the official permissionaccording to the regulations.(Signed),The Oaimacam.REPLY.Mersine, 26tb November, 1886.Mr. Wm. Buwson, TJ. S. Consular Agent,Mersine .-Dear Sir—Yours of November 23 has beenduly received.Dr. Metheny, the American missionary, hasnot "opened a new school in his house " atall.Miss Sterrett, an American missionary lady,occupies a portion of Dr. Metheny's house asher domicile, in which she is bringing up,gratis, orphans and indigent liitle children putin ber charge by their parents (or representatives)for this purpose. She has conductedii about four years. Tbe indigent mothers ofsome of the children reside with them.Respectfully, David Metheny.The United States Consular Agent herereferred the matter to Beirut. The Consulthere writes that his efforts to interest thevarious European Legations in Constantinoplein the question of the present sohool law,which is in confiict with the protocols(treaties) with the government prior to thelaw formulated and promulgated by tbe Turkishgovernmeni without the consent or concurrenceofthe signatory powers wbo have ari^ht to be consulted in such matters, availedlittle.Subsequently when ihe irue animus of thegovernment began to appear in their endeavorto curtail all privUeges as far as possible, and,as he rightly judges, intending to abrogateprivileges already granted as in the closing ofschools recognized for many years, upon theurging of our Consul they seem now to betaking the matter in hand with vigor. Allthe benevolent Christian institutions of thevarious European governments are endangered.We hear privately and indirectly, thatit is likely the government wUl only require asupervision of the text-books to be used, andON THE WAY.Fraternally,D. Metheny.Latabtia, Stria, Dec. 1, 1886.Miss- -,Phila.—Bear Friend : —I supposeyou will want io know something aboutmy voyage from England. I landed at Laiakiaon the 4th of November, seven weeksfrom ibe time I left Phila, I was so muchlonger than I anticipated, that I was gettingvery impatient to reach tbe end of the journey.My passage was taken from Liverpoolto Ismailia with ihe rest of the missionaries forEgypt; as the steamer did not stop at Alexandria,Port Said was her firststopping place,and we reached that port jnsf^two weeks fromthe night we sailed. The firstfour days outwe had quite a gale, and, as we were goingagainst both wind and sea, it was very rough,and unpleasant; the waves dashed over theship constantly so that we could not go outon deck at aU. The second night the ship'scarpenter was washed overboard, it was supposed,for he was missing in the morning.I did not feel at all afraid, though I couldnot help thinking of Dr. Dodds. After thefourth day we had beautiful weather, all theway. I found that the Syrian coast steamerstouched at Port Said, and hoped to reach thatport in time to get one.Dr. Lansing who was with us frora Englandwent ashore and inquired about them, and

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 61found that I would have to wait a week forone. Mr. aud Mrs. Alexander and Dr. andMrs. Lansing wanted me to go on with themto Cairo, and go from ihere to Alexandria forthe steamer; and, as Mrs. Harvey of Cairohad sent me a note inviting me to stay attheir house, I concluded to go.famous principally for its age. Then we wentto ihe citadel, tbe mosque of Mohammed AliWe landed at Ismailia on Monday morningbeing all day Sabbath in tbe Suez canal.(it is quite grand), the military hospital, andthe English officers' headquarters.Ismailia is half way through it, and, thoughThe next morning Mr. Alexander took usit is only forty miles from Port Said, theto the pyramids. It is a drive of an hour andsteamers go so slowly that it requires a longa half along an avenne shaded by acacia trees.time. It seemed strange to see those largeOf course we wanted io go io the top of thesteamers passing through a canal, very littlegreat pyramid, so we had three Arabs apieceif any wider than our canals at home. Theto help us, and up we went. It was hardscenery on either side is very monotonous,work, bui ihe view from the top was worth it.just sand, sand, and before we reached Cairo,We could see all the way across ihe NileI began to understand wbat a desert it is.valley to the sands beyond, and to our rightWe took the train from Ismailia to Cairo atthe Nubian Desert; to our left the Saharanoon, and should have been there at half-paststretched away in the distance. I think Ifour, but were delayed more than two hours.will always carry that picture in my mind. IThe firstbalf of ihe way is through a perfectnever realized before how large our owndesert and the stations seem io be small oases,country is until I saw that little country ofjust a grove of palms, and a few houses. WeEgypt all spread out before me. We reachedpassed Tel-el-Kebir where ihe English defeatedArabi Pasha ; from ihe train we couldthe foot ofthe pyramid in safety, but we wereso tired. We went into it, however, visitedsee the cemetery where the English soldiersthe kings' and queens' chambers, and finallyare buried, and the remains of the earthworkswhich were thrown up ai ihat time. It musthave been terrible work marching throughthat desert. After we passed Tag-a-Tig, thecountry was more tertile, for we were cominginto the Nile valley, and fields of corn andcotton became frequent. Now and then wewould pass a village of mud houses, and whenwe came to a station, as soon as ihe trainstopped, little ragged boys and girls crowdedup selling fruits and cakes, or drinksof water.Tbe train was almost filledwith pilgrims cominghome from Mecca. When we reachedCairo and they got off, it seemed as thoughthere must be a dozen people to meet each one,went with us to the museum, where there is agreat collection of antiquities, and wbat wespecially wished to see—the mummies of thePharaohs. There they were five or six ofthem, just as they were laid away in theirtombs, all excepting the one that was drownedand such a bedlam as it was—of course itin the Red Sea. Old Rameses II., the Pharaohofthe Oppression, had red hair, and it issounded worse to me because it was all unintelligible.led still; it is tha more noticeable becauseMr. Harvey and Dr. Watson were at theall the rest bave black hair. We were verydepot to meet us, and the crowd was so greattired after tbat day, but now I am glad ihat Ithat we had to keep hold of one another, orwe should have been lost. However we gotaway at last and you may be sure tbat we enjoyedour supper and rest that night.The next morning we went through MissThompson's scbool, that is. Miss Brown andI, and aiter dinner Miss Thompson and MissHarvey took us out for a drive. We visitedan old mosque, built 1,100 years ago, andcrawled out. These old kings surely had agreat time buUding their tombs. Tbe Sphinxand tbe temple seemed to me more wonderlulihan the pyramids ; how those great blocksof granite and alabaster (some of them18x4x2 feet) were ever brought ihere andplaced in position and polished as they are iswonderful.After we came back io town Dr. Lansingsaw all these things. Next morning we visited tbe two mission schools taught by MissConner, and Miss Smith, and some of thenative homes. Arabi Pasha's wife and daught-

62 Our Glorious Jehovah.ers live in Cairo, and we called on them.They were very friendly, and condoled with usbecause we were not married. I am afraid wedid not properly appreciate their sympathy.I went up to Alexandria in the afternoon. Iwas alone, but Mr. Ewing was to meet me, soI did not feel afraid.It was real hard to say good-bye to tbefriends ; it is wonderful how warm an attachmentgrows between strangers who are throwntogether for a time. Tbey had all been sokind to me and we bad had such a pleasantjourney together. I reached Alexandria abouteight o'clock and took the steamer the nextafternoon. Mrs. Ewing took us to drive in themorning through the city. So much of Alexandriais new—built since the war and thefire—it is not nearly so interesting as Cairo.The sea was quite rough when the steamerstarted, and continued so all night. I was verymany kind friends and welcomes all ihe wayas I have. I feel quite at home and contentedhere, only sometimes a feeling of homesea-sick, worse than I had ever been, andeverybody on board was French, not a stewardor officer could speak English. Tbey traageit, and it soon goes away. I findsickness comes over me, but I do not encourvelonly ai uight, stopping all day at the ports pleiity to do. The Arabic is difficult,along the coast. Saturday we were all dayat Port Said, and Sabbath at Jaffa. There agentleman came on board, a missionary of theEnglish church,and I soon became acquaintedwith him; he was going to land at Beiiut,and offered to take me ashore with him, andintroduce me to the Presbyterian missionaries,so I went. Mr.C. took me io Dr. Dennis' homeand Mrs. Dennis gave me a cordial welcomeand insisted on my spending the day with her.She took me to call on Mrs. Eddy and Mrs.Jessup. They had all heard, ihrough MissWylie, that I was coming. 'Dr. Harris, oneof the Tripoli missionaries, was in Beirut,and was going home on my steamer, so.I had hiscompany that evening and spent the next dayat his home. Mrs. Harris is a dear littlewoman, very kind and friendly, she sent herservant out to the steamer with me in the evening.Next day we were at Cyprus, and nextmorning at Laiakia. Mr. Easson, and MissWylie with four of the teachers came out tothe steamer, and Mrs. Easson and little Mizziewere at the landing.I received such a warm welcome that I feltat home at onoe. When we reached themission all the little girls were out in ihe yardto sing a song of welcome for me, and itsounded very sweet. Altogether I had a pleasantjourney and I do hope that when MissJosephs comes out, she will meet witb asbut I do not find it so bad as I expected.Sometimes I do wish I could talk so much,and it is rather queer to go to church and notundersiand anything that is said. The missionariesare all wishing ihat the commissionwould come out, it would do everybody good.The school is doing nioely this year, thereare fifty boarding pupils, and some of themare nice girls.Please remember me kindly to all thefriends.With much love your friend,Maggie B. Edgar.OUR GLORIOUS JEHOVAH. whose heart is nerved by a perfect trust in theThe Rev. T. B. Vinton writes from Rangoon Lord of Hosts. Would to God you could seerespecting ihe religious rising or revolt in our Karens now ! I have never seen suchBurma: " This insurrection is purely Buddhist.The priests have led their men on ihe hearts now. Ten ^years of preaohing wouldquiet assurance of faith in God as nerves theirbattlefield—a thing unprecedented in history. never buUd tbem up in faith as the wonderfulIt is Buddhism in arms against Christianity. deliverances God has wrought for us in theseOf course the rebels especially gnash their bloody days. One of my ordained preachersteeth against our Karen Christians, but in has been shot at in my presence five times.every 3ase the Karens show how a man fights The last two shots were fired at twelve feet

Notes and Beviews.go(I measured it). God's work for the Karens lishwoman was young and timid, but she knewhas been so wonderful that they now often her duty; she went, remained two monthssay, 'We now know we have a God fit to be and cured the patient. When she was abouttrusted, and infinitely greater than we had to return the Ranee sent for her, and beggedsupposed.'her to go in person to Queen Victoria with ihe" Oh I if you could hear the prayers and message that Indian women, not being allowedspeeches of a Karen levy when marching to ihe attendance of male physicians, d'ed inthe attack 1 The evening before an attack, great numbers every year for want of care.one rough, uneducated man prayed : ' O Lord, The Ranee brought paper, pen and ink, and,1 need no lawyer or intercessor io plead my with tears, besought Miss Beilby to write heroase with you, when I ask you petition to the Queen to send them womento bless this levy to - morrow. You doctors.know this insurrection was raised by " Write it smaU, Saheba," she begged, «forthe poongies (priests) against you. Tbey j ghall put it in a locket and hang ii aboutcould not reach up to overthrow your your neck, and you must wear it untU you putthrone in the heavens, and so they try it in the bands of the great Ranee herself."to hurl you from your ohurch in Burma. Miss Beilby returned to England the nextIt is for your own self-interest to help us, for year, obtained an interview with Queen Victheyhate us, cnly because they first hated toria, and placed ihe locket in her hand withyou, our glorious Head. To-morrow give us the message. The Queen was deeply touched,cool heads, strong arms, and steady fingerson and empowered Lady Dufferin, the wife of theour triggers, and give us a chance to measure Viceroy of India, to form an association forwith these idolaters, not our weapons or our sending out female medical aid to the women ofbravery, but their wooden gods against our India.glorious Jehovah."—Free Ghurch of Scotland Many women doctors have been sent out byMonthly, Decem,, 1886.the association, and Indian women are nowWHAT ONE WOMAN DID. ''^''"^ educated as physicians and nurses. Anestate of fiftyacres, with large buildings, hasSeveral years ago Miss BeUby, a young been given by a native prince as a hospital forEnglishwoman who had studied medicine to Hindoo female patients.fit herself for usefulness as a missionary at Had the timid missionary refused to under-Lucknow, in India, was sent for by the wife of take tbe perilous duty to one woman, thesethe native Prince of Punna, who was ill. great blessings—whioh are but the beginningPunna was a long distance from Lucknow, and of belp and hope for all the women of India—the journey was a dangerous one; if Miss probably never would have come io them.Beilby went she would be separated by more Sow tbe seed, however small ii may be, ofthan a hundred miles from any white man. good deeds. Only God knows wbat theHer friends urged her to refuse. The'Eng- fruit will be.—Youth's Companion.§$U^ mA §mm^,—No response has yet been made to our ap- The churches sit home have not been able topeal for another missionary to Latakiyeh. employ all our licentiates during the past year.

64 Notes and Beviews.and yet the Redeemer calls in vain for one ofthese to go for His glory to a most interestingland and a sphere of usefulness at once attractiveand full of promise. The outpouringof the Spirit upon our College and TheologicalSeminary should be tbe unceasing prayer01 all who have the interests of our foreignmission at heart. Then the young men undertraining for ihe ministry will realize the importanceof the Lord's last command, andmany will be led to say in the spirit of selfsacrificeand with loyal hearts, Here am I,send me. Before any will undertake the responsibilitiesconnected with this work, animpulse is needed tbat will overmaster allselfish motives, and this impulse only theSpirit can give.—At a missionary conference held in NewYork ciiy a short time ago, seventeen men, ofwhom fifteen w^re medical students, signed apaper headed with these words : " I am willingand desirous, God permitting, to be a foreignmissionary." We are glad to know tbatat least one physician in our ohurch has, inspirit, if not in form, put his name to a similardeclaration. This should be irue of manymore.—Two laborers have been called for io fill years opposed all efforts to introduce the newvacancies in the working force of bur foreign ideas of Christian civilization. But a changemission^—a mission that has been in operation has taken place, and tbe present outlook isduring the whole Irftitime of some who are brignt and full of promise. Protestant missionariesare winning favor with its rulers andnow in the ministry, but no one seems readyold prejudices are passing away. To thoseto go. Can it be ihat fathers and mothers inwho wish to make themselves familiar witbour ohurch have during all ihese years lost the history of the " hermit nation," " the lastsight of what is implied in the baptismal consecrationof iheir cbildren, and so have failed the nations," aud of its present condition, weoutstanding and irreconcilable scoffer amongto keep clearly before their minds the claims commend a neat volume of some 300 pagesof Christ and His right ie assign them io anyfrom the pen of WUliam Elliot Griffis. Thesphere of service 1 We commend to sucb theexample of one mother, as given in ihe Churchat Home and Abroad. When the plate waspassed around ai ihe close of a monthly concertmeeiing for prayer, Mrs. Williams hadno money with her, but tearing the fly-leafoutof a hymn-book and borrowing a pencil frOm alady who sat next to her, sbe wrote, " I givetwo sons," and placed tbe slip of paper on theplate. As the years weni by these sons werenot only called into the gospel ministry, butwere chosen from among the chosen, to behera'ds ot salvation to the ends of the earth.No one familiar with ihe history of foreignmissions need be told tbat both of these consecratedsons have left an excellent record offaithful service in their respective fields oflabor."—Portions of the Bible have been translatedfor the use of the blind into 250 languages.It is maiter of gratitude that in theprovidence of the Mediator the light and sal.vation of the gospel are brought within reacheven of tbose who seem to us almost beyondthe reach of human help.—We call tbe atteniion of the churches tothe fact that in ihis number of The Heealdwe print important news from Syria within onemonth from tbe time it was officially communicatedto our Mission.COREA; WITHOUT AND WITHIN*The insular kingdom of Corea long resistedthe intrusion of foreigners, and even in recentobject of the writer is to interest Christianpeople in a land that after long resistancegives cheering indications of soon becoming akingdom of Christ.•Presbyterian Board of Publication, 13S4 Chestnut st,Philadelphia, Pa.

AFRICA IN AMERICA.PVBLISltED WITH THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED FRESBTTERIAN CHUROH,U, S, A,#ut Wxtm of mx^mn ^"^mkRev, G. M, Elliott, Selma, Ala.The true history of American slavery hasnever been written. It never wiU be written.It cannot be written. There is but one recordof that institution that for years was the stigmaof American character ; that record is in work, the nature of whioh is known only tothe Book that is to be opened in the day when ihose wbo have visited the field, and spentthe great Judge shall take bis seat upon the some time. It is difficult; it is slow as to ihegreat white tbrone to judge men for the deeds results. Two hundred and forty years of harddone in the body.bondage bas made impregnable wallsSlavery is gone. It has gone forever. But against truth, virtue and morality. Theseas we pass along its terrible pathway, and see barriers must be taken away piece bythe wreck and ruin, the misery and woe, the piece. It is useless to attempt to scale thempoverty and degradation, that it left behind,wecan say it was well termed the " sum of allvillainies." It is dead, but its offsprings Uve.They Uve in a progeny of all the evils whichfallen humanity produces.The poor African was brought from tbewilds of his native home—from ihe heart ofheathenism and barbarism, and for years wassubjected to cruel bondage, and hard labor,under a task master that was equally astranger to mercy and to the spirit of Christianity.If he knewGod, he didnot acknowledgehim as God. So much of manhood, asbarbarism and heathenism allow in a man, wascrushed out by ibe oppression of slavery."When men, strangers to a knowledge ofthetrue God, should have hoen taught to knowand fear God, and to worship him properiy,they only got a few veins of Christianity which,blended with a superstitious paganism, presentsto us now a form of godliness without thepower thereof.The displacing of the ideas growing out ofsuch training, and the counteracting of theevil influences of such a system, is the greatwork of the missionary to-day.This is aor batter them down. They were built bytime and they must be removed by time.There is only one successful way of removingthe evils ef slavery. That is by Christian education.Secular education wUlonly strengthenthe nerves and sinews of these evils. It willonly cultivate craft and skill to practice them.Those best intellectually trained are not alwaysbest in their lives. To see the real needsof the Freedmen we shouldlookat their moral,social and religious condition. When we havedone this we will see the great need there is ofsending.more laborersinto tbe field, and of enlargingour contributions for this work. Imust be understood from the outset that moralityis a principle slavery did not teach. Ifthen there is a lack in this direction, it isnot to be a matter of wonder, nor anythingdifferent from what we see in any other peopleunder similar circumstances.

66 The Immediate Evangelization of America.Slavery ignored tbe famUy and aU correct THE IMMEDIATE EVANGELTZA.TIONnotions of society. Hence its teachings withOF AMERICA.reference to social relations were bad and incorrect.RtD, Denis EvU Wortman, and wrong D, D., became Pastor ingrained Reformed Cimrch,and was transmitted from sire io son for generations.Have we We not corae now enter to the a kingdom mission for field such toSaugerlies, New Tork,undo and counteract all the baleful influencesa time as this ? With our crisis comes theregrowing outof such a system. Our only hopenot a corresponding help of God, and with itis ihe Word of Truth animated by tbe Holyshall there not oome our corresponding enthusiasm1 Aye, shall we not rise gladly to theSpirit.Tbe effects of tbe gospel will be the samefull height of our occasion, and make our Ubertyand our laws^ our institutions and our afSu-in tbe South as in other parts of tbe vineyardof tbe Lord. Much of our work is unteachingent wealth, an energetic Church and ihe simpleGospel ofthe Cross, all to fullest measure,what an imperfect system of Christianity (socalled) taught. I am fully persuaded, thecontributive to the immediate evangelizationlonger I am in the mission field,that tbe reliof America ?gion of the slave-holder is not tbe religion IYes ; we must, and we will. So need we,find in my Bible. His made an entirely differentman from that which the religion that Iand so must we, to save our sacred institutionsof liberty, to conserve our nineteenth centuryhave learned produces. Hence even tbe recivilization, to preserve our very Christianity.Our own work in our own land we mist faithfullyand instantly do, if we would carryforwardtbat sister work, so cherished, of sendingligion tbat he gave the black was of a very inferiorquality, and must be moulded overagain, before it is fitfor use. The slave-traderand slave-holder only brought Africa a littlenearer to us for work. We do not just nowneed io cross ihe ocean unless we especiallydesire to do so. Our American field is largeand " white to ihe harvest." The cry is continuallygoing up from all parts : *' Come over.and help us."These people have been put into our poUticalfabric and they cannot be put out. Theywill go, inevitably, into our country's historyio affect it for weal or for woe. They willfurther or hinder tbe work which the Churchof Christ in America is to do for the world.All this has happened under God's providence.It has a meaning. Our duty is plain. Preachihe gospel, teach ihe commandments, leaveibe rest in the Master's hands.—Circular toSoutliern Ministers,the Gospel to lands abroad. It is a suggestivefact in history that the early Ohristiansof Ireland were they to whom Germany wasindebted, from the fifthto the ninth centuiy,for the most successful and evangelical workamong ber people ; so that it is truly said,"the seed of the Lutheran Reformation wassown in Germany by Irish missionaries." Sadthe thought fhat by and by darkness settleddown upon ihat land, rests there now, andsettles over us as her peasants thicken on ourcoasts. But the teaching of her Oolumbanusalong the Vosges, her Callich in Alemannia,her Kilian in Thuringia, her Trudpest in theBlack Forest, lived again in the Reformation,,is preserved to-day in the ohurches of Protestantism; and now, in the German immigrant,and in us, the children of the Reformation,tbe sons ofour Celtic missionaries are met bythe sons of tbeir continental converts 1 God

The Immediate Evangelization of America- 67help us to pay back our Gospel indebtedness heterogeneousness, their multitudinousness,in full Itheir peculiarities, all contributive to the advancementTo me tbere is a certain pathos in suoh aof His kingdom. We will not fearreflection. One feels an unusual tenderness lest in suoh a tremendous process as alltoward ihe one in his bigotry, and the other this, there shall oome about an amalgam ofin his scepticism ; and tous, chUdren mayhap now separate Christian communities or a certainof both, and in whom we trust, is preservedthe very faith ihe ancestor of the one preachedto the ancestor of the other, opens here onihese favored shores an opportunity, unwontedin tbe centuries, of re-introducing thuse peoplesdifferentiation, not of doctrine, but ofdogma, not of Cbrist, but of ecclesiasticism ;but will gladly merge individual and ecclesiasticalprepossessions in the united effort ofa united Christendom for tbe hastening on ofto each other in love, and re-introducing the dominion of our Lord. We will think ofthem to their pure ancestral faith 1 Here tbe enormous increase of ihe world's wealth,ceases all thought of strife, of discord, of perU; and tbe immediate, pressing claims of tbeand somehow we feel a reverent assurance Gospel, and lay all our wealth as well as alithai God is indeed meaning America for Christ. our labor at the Saviour's feet. We will rememberTouched by tbe very patUos of our situation,fired with patriotic zeal, and urged onby a thorough Christian devotion, it seems tohow the very rapidity with whicb iheapostolic preaching was pushed on, was thecause of its success, so that " in five yearsme we cannot fail to enter loyally and at once after the death of Jesus, all Palestine hadupon our work, and make any sacrifice to insurebeard the Gospel from the mouth of missionits success. We will remember how aries sent out from Jerusalem; " and will wisenoble a foundation of liberty and religion our ly plan for nothing less than America's immediateevangelization. fathers laid, and we will have all the structureWo will take courageequally grand. We will remember the early from our work abroad; and as in British Indiathe number of Christian communicants intraditions, and we will see to it ihat tbey shallnot find reversal in our future history. We creased from 22,400 in 1852 to 78,494 inwill think with gratitude of the full resources 1878, and to well nigh 100,000 now, to sayofthis land in its rich mines and its broadacreage, and highly resolve they shall not benothing of the mUlions brought under generalChristian influence ; and as in Britain the publicinterest in foreign missions has so greatlythe possession of infidelity, or superstition, orluxury, or anarchy. We will reflect how, if increased that in place of the £50,000 of 1800,America is not for Cbrist she is against Him, 1882 supplied £1,000,000; so we shall hopeand bend every energy to ber redemption from that, love for country and love for Christ conjoiningsuch large hurtfulness. We wUl behold thehere, shall lead us to increase indefiforeign peoples crowding to our shores, but nitely our contributions, and with them Godshall not be so much dismayed by their appearance,will increase indefinitely their efficiency, andbut render thanks to tbat Divine the Twentieth Century of tbe Christian eraProvidence that brings them within our influence,and simply exult in spending and beingshall open with our national redemption wellbegun, and close with its consummation, joyfulspent in their conversion to God. We willand complete. II we be but faithful, wethink, unappalled, of tbe perils possible through have Christ's promise of help, and history'sthem, trusting by God's grace to make their endorsement of His pledge.

68 The Immediate Evangelization qf America.The Gospel that without arms subdued the $3,000,000,000 invested in manufactures,Roman Empire, that without earthly wisdom that in a single year works up $3,500,000,000supplanted the theologies of Greece, the Gospelthat from age to age went on saying the and makes a clear gain of over $1,000,000,000;of raw material into manufactured products,vicious, reforming tbe family relations, abolishingslavery and serfdoms, that made possible wealth and loss of men, gave its governmentthe country that, with all its depreciation ofthe Justinian Code, made woman man's equal, $4,000,000,000 to sustain its unity, will surelyequalized proprietary rights, substituted the shortly rise above its present parsimoniouspeace of God for private war, did away with allowances for saving it for the kingdom ofwager of battle, and torture, and wreckage, ber Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!and piracy on land and sea, that civilized barbarians,tbat had the inherent energy to reform the beginning of our lamentable Civil War.One naturally calls to mind an incident ata corrupted oh-arch, inaugurated temperance The President had made his call for the firstlarge war loan. His great Secretary of theTreasury visited New York and met a councilreform, e.stablished hospitals, asylums, retreats,gave inspiration to art, led the way forall our later sciences, made the nineteenth centurypossible, this religion of law, of Uberty,of love, of Christ, this ever-triumphantGospel shall have no fear as it confrontsthe possibUities of our country and ourtime, but, under God, shall rise equal to thisemergency, and show how invincible is truth,how omnipotent is Christ!But, we must not mistake. This Gospelshall come in no bodiless way ; it must be incarnatedin Christian workers, in men andwomen inspired with the love of Jesus. If webe idle the oause goes backward, and willneed other centuries and better men. Wemust appreciate our present opportunity andduty, and meet it with true heroism. Prejudice,indifference, pride, hopelessness, mereecclesiasticism, miserUness, we must lay aside,and be instant at our work. The times forpennies and dimes has gone by. He who gaveof the bankers of tbe metropolis. He laid beforethem his request. They knew not howto meet it. They sat in silence, thoughtful,perplexed. At last, quick as a flash uprosethe youngest man of them all * and exclaimed: " Gentlemen, it is not a questionwhether we oan afford the country this loan oinot. Wc must afford it. If the government ispreserved your money is safe. Ifthe governmentis not preserved, where is your money,where your banks, your commerce, your institutions?I move we grant the loan." Andtbe motion was immediately and unanimouslycarried. Ob, Christians of America, thecountry is in peril, God wants your largestpossible loan ; He wants it at once. You maynot question whether you can afford it or not.You must; and therefore you can. If thiscountry is saved, then your property, your institutions,your children are safe ; but if thiscountry be lost, there is nothing left to you—of wealth or of labor, of family, of civUization,a dime shall have to give his dollar, and hewbo gave his one dollar now his five, and hewho gave his ten must give bis fifty and his of Christianity, of hope Ihundred; and there must be no retreat,and no littleness. Tha country that hasI move you ihat wegrant the lo'tii ''Geo. G. Coe, Esq.. Pres. Amer. Exch. Nat. Bank.

Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD.LATAKIYEH, SYRIA.—The attendanceat the schools in town is larger than it hasbeen for years. Teachers who were formerlyemployed in the mountain schools continue toact as evangelists, and make regular reportsof their work to the Mission. The followingextracts from their letters will be read withinterest, and should caU forth earnest prayerfor a blessing on their labors."Jan. 4, I went to ihe viUage of Fitro.After the usual salutations I read the 144thPsalm, and after I had finished one of thosepresent asked me to explain the fourth verse,' Man is like vanity, his daysAs shado-ws pass away.'I answered. You all know that a shadow isall present believed his words and marveledat his power. But I said to bim, ' Oh Sheikh,wbat you say is an impossibiUty, no man inour day can go into the fire and come out withoutbeing burned. Tbe revelation of God tovery unstable and changing. At times it Uesto the easi and at times toward the west, man has been completed. God's Word is completeand sufiioient for tbe salvation of manand, ifthe sun goes behind the cloud or belowthe horizon, it disappears altogether. and hence there is no more need of miracles."So man is dependent upon God as the StUl he continued to repeat that he wasshadows upon the sun. Man is not permanentlyfixed in this world. The time wben the able to do as you say, arise, step into thisable to do so. Then I said io him, if you areshadow will disappear is uncertain, so is the fire that we may believe your words.time of man's departure from the eartb. We "He arose but when he was about to placesbould learn then not to place our thoughts on his bare foot on tbe fire he was overcome withthis world and its riohes, for they too are like fear and withdrew from tbe fira. His ownshadows. They will leave us or we will be people then laughed at him and called him acompelled to leave theni." Is it not ihen far better for us to awakefrom our careless sleep and take refuge in theSaviour, even Jesus the Ohrist. He holdssalvation in his hands and will save all whobelieve in him and ask it. Remember tbereis no salvation in any other, for there is noneother name under heaven given among menwhereby we must be saved." Jan. 25,1 went|to the village of Fidio. Oneof those present asked me which is better, bapoan be made, work will be resumed in Adana,Aleppo, and other places where schools weretism or circumcision? I answered baptism is previously in operation. In the opinion of Dr.better than circumcision at present, for Ohrist Metheny our work now stands on a recognizedsaid, ' Whosoever believeth and is baptized basis which will give it effect and permanency.shall be saved.' He did not say whosoever "It is," he says, " lifted out of the hands andbelieveth and is circumcised shall be saved; over tbe heads of all local officials or otherbut still everything depends upon faith in jealous intriguers by a Vizierial order, whiohOhrist and not upon either baptism or circumcision.He who does not believe in Jesus received a copy of the oSioial paper ; butconstitutes it common law." We have not yettheChrist will not be saved. Christ mentionedfaith first. He said, ' Whosoever believeth,'etc. And if a person believes in Christ hisfaith will be followed by baptism as a fruit inobedience to the command of his Master."The Christian reUgion consists in faithinJesus Christ and a Ufe in accordance with thelaw of God."—Hana Iskander." One day whUe sitting among a number ofpeople one of whom was a religious Sheikh, heasked me a number of questions on religioussubjects and especially about the miracles ofour Lord and Saviour, all of whioh I answeredto the best of my ability. At length heturned tome and said, ' Oh teacher, I can gointo the fire and it will not burn me.' Nearlyliar and a deceiver."—Hassan Hamedan.MERSINE, ASIA MINOR,—Our schoolat Mersine reports twenty-seven boarders. Atthe old Tarsus sohool there are twelve or fifteenpupils, and in the Fellalieen schools, thereis a registered attendance of forty-seven boysand girls. It is hoped that forthe present allformal opposition on the part ofthe authoritiesis at an end, and, as soon as arrangementsDr. has taken the trouble to transcribe the instructionsforwarded to the Mission.I. Existing schools of American citizens

70 Items of Missionary Intelligence.have the authorization of the Imperial Governmentby virtue of long usage and all pastinterpretation of the Capitulations. Hence applicationfor permits for these schools is notnecessary, and, as it would imply the right ofthe government to refuse permits, should notbe made.II. No text-books should be used in iheseschools which have not the approval of theDepartment of Public Instruction. Noteacbers should be employed save tbose whoare authorized by ihat department to teach inthe Ottoman Empire, and the course of studyshould also be approved by the department.Hence those in charge of such schools ;3houldat once present to the local authorities requestsfor the approval of such text books as do notalready bear the authorization of the Department,as also the course of study and tbediplomas of teachers. Every facility for theinspection of schools should also be offered tothe proper authorities.III. In opening new schools it is desirableto select such text books as have already beenapproved and to put the schools in charge ofteachers wbo are already provided with thebeen received into its fellowship during tiepast year, six of whom were from a youngladies' boarding fcbool connected with ihatbrancb of the mission. There is also a dayschool for children at that station with a registeredattendance of two hundred pupils. AtSoochow there is an organized church withnineteen members, and sobool work is carriedon with great effloienoy and with a promisingoutlook for the future. At tbese two stationsand at Cli'enkiang religious services are conductedevery Sabbath with the assistance ofGovernment certificate to teach. The authoritiesnative preachers. In connection with thiscan then be notified tbat a new schoolconforming to the law is open to their inspection.mission tbere are nineteen cbapeL«, in ten ofwhioh preaching is maintained daily; and atAll teachers from America should, on each service, which lasts from fifteenminutestheir arrival, secure authorization to teaoh io half an hour, there is an average fittendancejust as doctors secure permission io practice of from twenty to fiftyhearers.medicine.BRAZIL.—This missior. was established inIV. Theological Seminaries attended onlyby candidates for the ministry who pursuestrictly theological studies are not supposedto be subject to inspection since they dealsolely with spiritual matters.ALEXANDRETTA.—In a vUlage nearAlexandretta there are a number of Protestants,wbo are at present suffering persecutionfrom the Armenians who hold tbe governmentoffices tbere. Their property is being takenfrom ihem, and some have received violentpersonal abuse. The brethren of Adana andMarash have sent a Protestant lawyer to investigate,but we do not know yet witb wbatsuccess. A letter from him to Dr. Methenystates tnat he feels his own life to be in constantdanger.E. M. Stbkrett.FOREIGN MISSION WORK OF THESOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANCHURCH.Tbe following facts are gleaned from ihe publishedreports ofthe foreign mission work carriedon at present by the Southern Presbyierianchurch:CHINA.—In thai interesting fieldtbere areseventeen miasionaries, one of whom—a lady—i,« a medical practitioner, and the work is atpresent limited to two ofthe eighteen provinces.At Hangchow there is an organized churchwith fifty-six communicants, twelve having18i'i9. Its present working force is nine missionariesand three native preachers. Thelocations selected for work are Compinos,Mogg,Mirim, Pernamhuca, Ceara, a.nd Maranhoa,and the fruit is ten organized churcheswUb a membership of two hundred and ninety.MEXICO.—The headquarters of this migsion,which was commenced in 1874, is atMatamoras, In this fieldsix missionaries areemployed and the present results of theirlabors are six organized ohurches with a membershipof three hundred and twelve. Themission ia in a very prosperous condition notwithstandingtbe bitter opposition of Romishpriests.GREECE.—This mission was also begunin 1874. It is located at Salonica and is incharge of two missionaries.

ITALY.—At Milan two ladies are conductinga school in whioh there are seventy-five•cffildren under religious instruction, withgood promise of an abundant harvest.JAPAN.—Tbis mission is located at Kochi,and, although only organized in 1885, the reportsof ibe three missionaries are full ofencouragement.The southern church is also doing importantand efficient work among the American Indians,which in some sense may be called foreign.In 1861 stations were established at Moxey,^/apanucko, Caddo, and Boggy depot, IndianItems of Missionary Intelligence. 71Territory. In reference to this, ihe SouthernPreshyterian for Feb. 10,1887, reports twelveministers, twenty-two churches, and eight hundredand ninety-five communicants. Thesechurches form a presbytery.The Presbyterian church south is constitutedinto sixty-nine Presbyteries, composingthirteen Synods. There are one hundred report, shows the steady progress of the gospelin the United States during the presentand forty-four thousand names on its communicantroll and its ministers number eleven cenlury. In 1800, according to the best availablestatistic, there were 365,000 evangelicalhundred. Its contributions to foreign missionwork from AprU 1, 1885, to Feb. 1,1886, communicants in ihe country, being seven peramounted to $51,141.84, and for the fiscal cent of the population of 5,308,483. In 1850year ended Feb. 1, 1887, the amount was $57,- tbere were 3,529,983 such communicants,C58.54, or about forty cents per member. The being fifteenper cent of the population of 21,-Foreign Mission Board state that the sum of 191, 876. In 1870 there were 6,673,396 com$85,000 will be required io carry on this workduring the current year. Considering thegeneral destruction of property and consequententailment of poverty on all classes throughoutthe Southern states by the late civil war,ihe above will compare favorably with thecontributions of the northern churches for similarpurposes D. T.Thomasville, Ga.AT HOME.No one can read the OOth annual report ofthe New York City Mission without rejoicingin the success that bas attended the efforts oftbat association to reach the masses with tbelife and light of the gospel. Its field is belowFourteenth Street, " where are found themost crowded quarters filled with the poorestand most depraved and neglected ofthe people.From ihis part ot the city twenty-eight Protestantchurches have removed within thelast twenty years, leaving about one hundredchurches for a population of 600,000, or 60,-000 sittings for 600,000 people. There is noreligious destitution anywhere to be foundcomparable with this." The firstplace in the churches erected bythe city mission is given to the preaohingof the gospel: all other instrumentalities areauxiliary to tbis. The labors of tbe pastorsof the churches are supplemented by the intelligentmissionary visitors and nurses of thewoman's branch. In practice it is found ininstances not a few that woman's tact andkindness and practical sympathy have preparedthe way for the reception of the truth." The city mission is at present sustainingfour churches and two missions, making sixdifferent appointments, and the entire chargeforthe six churches and missions is $19,000,ora little over $3,000 apiece."—The following item, taken from the samemunicants, being seventeen per cent of the populationof 38,588,371. In 1880 the communicantsbad risen to 10,065,863, being a littleover twenty per cent ofthe population of 50,-153,866. The increase in popul ation since1800 has been nine-fold; that in evangelicalcommuniants bas been twenty-sevenfold, tbreetimes as great as in the population.WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY OFTHE NEW YORK PRESBYTERY.Representatives from eight congregationsof tbe Presbytery met in New York, Feb.10th, 1887, and signified their desire to form aWoman's Missionary Society. It was notthought advisable by the members to takeany steps toward assisting in the establishingof a new Mission Field, but to aid those nowin existence. It is most earnestly hoped thatall the congregations in the Presbytery wUlsee fitto unite wiih those already in the Or

72 Archibald J. Bodds, M. B.ganization. The following Constitation was be held in October of each year." Semi-annualadopted:meetings shall be held for conference on mis-ASTICLE l.—Name.—Thia Organization sion work, the arrangements to be previoullyShaU be known as the Woman's Missionary made by the Committee on Programme. ItSociety of the New York Presbytery of the is lecommended that the ladies m each con-Reformed Presbyterian Church. gregation should meet monthly for devotionalArticle n.-Ohject.-The object of this exercises, especially relating to missions.Association is to afford an opportunity to ihe Article ti.—Contributions.—Contributingwomen of the Ohurch to contribute to the g]iall not be governed by any specified sum,maintenance of Mission Work, as carried for- but shall be entirely a free-will offering to theward by the Reformed Presbyterian Church Lord tor the object above mentioned. Eachthrough its respective Boards.congregation shaU use its own method of worh.Article iii.—Ofiicers.—This Association whether in an organized Missionary Society orshall bave the foUowing ofiioers, viz: A Presi- otherwise; but it is recommended that theredent, a Vice-President, Recording and Corre- shall be in earnest effort made to have everyspending Secretaries, and a Treasurer. woman of every age in the Presbytery enrolledArticle IT - Committees.—The Executive i? ^his Organization; also that the contribu-Committee shall consist of seven persons in- ^T"" be collected, not later than the fifteentheluding the officers. There shall be a Com- °^ ^P"' ^" ''^°^. êar, by persons appointed mmittee on Programme and also a Committee each congregation who shall forward tbe sameon Entertainment tothe treasurer ot the O/ganization, Mss.,^.„,^,'„^ 7,1- ,. mu ffi X, n James Duklop, 326 West 48th St., NewArticle t.—Meetmgs,—The oificers shall York Citvbe elected at ihe Annual Meeting which shall^^r* '^'ARCHIBALD J. DODDS, M. D. third child oi the late Robert J. Dodds, D. D.At a meeting of the Board of Foreign Mis- our missionary to Syria, who died at hissions March 30tb, 1886, the following minute post in Aleppo, Dec 11, 1870. He waswas placed on its Records: born at Damascus, Syria, May 26, 1857.Again the Board, the church we represent, After the death of his father, Ms mother reandthe cause of missions are called to mourn- turned with seven cbildren to Lucesco Westing.The power of the shock caused by the m orland Co. Pa. In the fall of 1872 Archicable-gram,saying to us, " Dr. Dodds is not bald, who was the eldest of the family, went toamong the saved," may be seen in the other live with Dr. Sloane in Allegheny to attendsad fact that Elder John Caldwel], a member school; and, enjoying his oversight and inofthisBoard, while speaking ofthe heavy struction, he made good progress. When readytidings in a meeting of the friends for prayer, for coUege, he made his bome with Dr. Sterrettsank to the floorand died from a secret affeo- in Pittsburg, and entered the Western Unitionof the heart. The blow seems irremedi- versiiy, from whicb he received his degree ofable. The loss is tbe present extinction of A.B. in 1879, and afterwards A.M. Idthe medical department of our mission. The 1881 he graduated from Jefferson Medicalberevemeni takes from a mother her firstborn, CoUege, PhUadelphia, taking the Chapmanfrom the mission their beloved physician, and gold medal, the firstprize in physiology. Infrom the cburch her young, talented, conse- May ofthe same year he offered himself tocrated and self-sacrificing missionary.Synod and was appointed medical missionary,ArchibaldJohnstonDodds, M. D,, was the to locate at Latakiyeh, Syria. He entered

A.-J. Dodds, M. D., Missionary to Syria.

The Fellaha, 75with spirit and consecration upon the work, not destroyed." "Help, Lord, for the godlytaking up tbe fallen mantle of his lamented ceaseth; for the faithf'il faU from among thefather, and for four years did excellent[[servioe children of men."as physician, as treasurer and financial agentof the mission, and as a man of God seekingJ. 0. K. Milligan,Chairman of Commiitee.the salvation of souls. He married MissTHE FELLAHA.Mizpah Metheny, the daughter of Rev, DavidMetheny, M. D., and of Emma Gregg, his The term "Fellaha" is the feminine ofwife. Two obildren were born to them, ihe " Fellah," and " Fellah " is the singular ofyoungest living only a few hours. A few " FeUaheen," and tbese words are all derivationsweeks later his wife died, April ofthe verb " Falaha," whioh means "io14, 1885,when Dr. Dodds returned to America to plow," so that a " Fellah " is a plowman, orplace his Httle son under his mother's care. husbandman, and the term Fellaheen is appliedHaving provided ihus for his motherless boy, to the Nusairiyeh of Turkey who are all plowmen,he was on bis way back and correspond to to the mission field,ibe peasantry ofand sailed from Liverpool in the Canard European countries. Woman in all EasternSteamship Sidon, whioh was wrecked Oct. lands is degraded. Her condition is destitute27, 1885, in ihe Atlantic off the North West aod hopeless and her life is more or less secluded.coast of Spain. Dr. Dodds and ihree othersShe is regarded as an inferior being,perished; conflioting statements are made as and although the Fellaha is not shut up in ato bow he was lost. Itis of interest to know hareem as many of her Oriental sisters, yetihat Dr. Metbeny and bis wife and their infant,she is excluded from whatever advantage ofDr. Dodds'future wife, firstsailed to Symenial or religious training ihe men mayria in ihe same steamer. Dr. Dodds bore the enjoy. Sbe is not considered a creature ofname of his paternal grandfather, ihe middlename being added by ihe father as a token offriendship for Rev. N. R. Johntson of Oakland,California. His Uttle son WUUam JamesDodds died of tubercular menigitis, March 12,1886. Thus this young mission family withina few years were all transplanted from«arth to heaven.In this mysterious providence of Jesus, weGod, but the offspring of the devil, and is consequentlyregarded as unclean. She is notaccorded the commodity of a soul, and henceis not supposed to be capable of comprehendingor appreciating the principles of religion,and therefore is not taught them. Her adventinto the world is unwelcome and her motheris often cursed because she gave birth to adaughter instead of a son. The Fellahbow to the divine will and kiss the rod with scarcely considers girls as chUdren and he possessesthis idea in common with many oiherwhich he has visited us ; for be will not utterlytake away his loving kindness, nor suffer his Orientals. Should he bti asked bow manyfaithfulness to fail. In faith let us take couragefor new endeavor, and strive to fill ibe ihat he bas two children and three giris. TheychUdren be has, he wUl answer for instance,breach, relying on tbe Almighty Captain of regard ihe effort to educate giris as utterlycur Salvation. Let us say with tbe apostle, useless and nonsensical, and it was with great" We ara troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; them in school, although tbey have madedifficulty that ihey could be induced to placepersecuted, but not forsaken j.casi down, bui some progress of late with respect to this, be

76 The Fellaha.cause it bas been demonstrated that they are not be conveniently placed on tbe animal theas capable and as impressible as the boys woman is allowed the privilege of carrying itand even more so, because in most instances as she walks. If a woman's ways either asthe girls in the vUlage schools lead the boys, regards work or anything else, do not pleaseThe Fellaha is the property of her father and her lord, he exercises his right of beating her.is sold for a wife, thus becoming the property Should he cripple, maim or kill ber, it is hisofher husband. Sbe is a slave and a drudge, own loss, and tbere is no one to call him to auIn the early morning you may see a number account therefor, unless it be her friends, andof women leaving a vUlage (there the people not even ihey unless they be stronger andaU live in villages) with their mangels (heavy more influential than her master. When a mansickles) and ropes in their hands going to the grows tired of one wife he usually resorts tobrush to cut wood, which they tie in bundles the expedient of getting another if able iosupandplace upon one another's backs—or, sbould port more than one, as the Fellaheen, like thethere be but one, she binds her bundle, lays Moslems, are polygamous; and tbe first wiUherself upon ii^ ties it to her back, then enjoy the pleasurable satisfaction of servingscrambles up and plods along bent to an angle ihe second for a time. But ihe latter's dayof forty-five degrees, and, as villages are often will come bye and bye also, as there is nobuilt on an elevation, she must toil up the limit in Turkey to the number of wives andascent however steep, bent to a right angle— concubines. A man may have just as many asso that tbe sight is painful to behold.be cares to support, and thtere is a sayingShe goes to the field in harvest and gleans abroad ihat when a Fellah gets a comfortableall day after the reapers, sometimes taking her supply of this world's goods, he must eitherchild with hor, carrying it in a cradle on her kill some one or get a new wife.head, placing it in the field near her under a Many ofthe girls and younger women havefriendly iree, if there is one, or spreading a points of real beauty, large lustrous eyes,garment over the cradle to protect the child heavy eye-lashes, raven hair, regular features,fromthe scorching rays of a summer sun. In clear complexions, beautiful teeth, symmettheevening sbe places her gleanings and her rical forms. But their rude and uncivilizedchild upon her head and wends her toilsome manner and deportment mar everything else,way to the vUlage where she must bake bread and they do not possess that witchery andand prepare supper for the family and perhaps delightful attractions whioh characterize thebeat outthe grain that she has gleaned. She girls and women of civUized Christian lands.must bring water also, and sometimes from a In enlightened communities one meets with soconsiderable distance, as gleaning, bringing many nice old ladies, mothers in Israel, butwood and water are among the accomplisb- the Fellaha does not grow old gracefully. Shements tbat a man never acquires. It would is married young and the drudgery that shebe a reproach to him and a deep disgrace to is called to undergo makes her look old atbe seen engaged in such employment. Thnt 25 or 30, while ai 40 she has positively grownis woman's work. Should a man and his wife to be anoldhag, and when she bas reached ihatgo to town to irade, having an animal between stage when she is unable to work any moreihem, it is customary forthe man to ride and she receives but little atteniion. She laystbe woman to walk a respectful distance be- her down and dies "unwept, unhonored andhind, and sbould tbere be a burden which can unsung." Her advent into the worid brought

Are Pastors to Blame ? 77no joy and her departure causes but little sor- women are willing to deny themselves therow even io her own children. Puny and pleasures and resist the allurements of civilizedsickly female children are sometimes thrown society forthe sake of the Master and in beoutto die. The able-bodied girls bring a half of their perishing sisters ic heathena higher price and are more profitable, since lands, perishing yet insensible ot it. Womana Fellah selects his wife somewhat as he is particularly degraded in heathen lands,would choose a horse or a cow. Some years and it is the Christian woman's especialago alittle girl that was thrown outto die was worfc to elevate her and render her capable ofbrought down to Latakia by one of tbe mis- enlightening her own children. Man cannotsionaries, nursed back to health and placed in do as woman can, because he cannot reachthe girls' school where she remained until she them in their secluded retreats, and, whenwas graduated a few years ago, and since then woman shall have accomplished the work thatshe has been teaching in the girls' school of God has given her to do, the world will all buiLatakia. and now she is Miss Wylie's chief have been converted to Christ; for all theassistant. She is an interesting, intelligent world must pass under the influence of woman,and devoted Christian girl, so much so in fact just as the plastic clay passes through thethat Mrs. Dr. Lansing, who in company with hand ofthe potter, and she can mould it at herher husband visited Dr. Beattie and his fam- will. Woman has played her part in all pastily some years ago, wss so much pleased history and is destined to play a still morewith her that she wished to take ber along to important part in the future, not only in allCairo. I do not not hesitate to say that abe moral reforms, but in the evangelization ofis the most intelligent native woman in all the world andthe enlightenment ot the huthatsection of country. Her name is Hanaify man race.Wm. Sproull.Naoumy. There are others also who haveARE PASTORS TO BLAME ?been cut out of tbe rocks of heathenism andhave beoome as corner stones poUshed after There is a way for supplying needed funds, ,the similitude of a palace through the instru- not only for home missions, but for all othermentality of ibe Gospel. And when we com- needed sacred uses, whicb, if it could bepare ihese who have been enlightened and brought into general exercise, would prove itsChristianized with those who are still in efficiency, as it now does, wherever it is apheaihenishdarkness, we are astonished at tbe plied. The plan is not new, but it is true toprogress thai can be made in a very few years the genius of tbe gospel and of our churoh life,by the transforming power and moulding in- and the only effectual plan for raising fundsfluence ofthe religion ot Christ; and tbis fact for benevolent purposes in the churches. It isindicates the possible—yea tbe probable—re- for the pastors to take the oversight of the worksuits of more extensive missionary effort in the and feel that on them devolves the responsinearfuture, especially tbe results of woman's bility—not of giving the money, not of colworkamong women. It is said that many lecting it even—but of seeing that some sysmorewomen than men are offering themselves tematic plan is adopted and maintained forto-day for the various mission fields, and, al- securing contributions in their churches for theihough it may be discouraging that men are leading benevolent objects of tbe denominanoiso ardent and zealous as women, yet it is tions. *• * * No plan will work itself, andparticularly encouraging that so many young the wisest method ever adopted wUl tall into

80 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.living. Tbe members received by me in Idlib, A few days ago this man discovered some idolsare young men. The father of one of these (pictures of saints and angels) bis wife bad secretedin a lumber-room. Although generallywas a man whose name may be reckonedamong Christ's faithful martyrs. He died of slow to wrath, this made bim very angry, andinjuries received ai tbe hands of the members he broke tbe pictures in pieces and threw theraof the Greek Church who committed a murderousassault upon him because of bis testimony he said, "afier, not only, all that I have beeninto the fire. "Could I have supposed this",for ihe Gospel. Teacher Aesa, wbom Dr. teaching my wite but all she has been hearingDodds appointed io labor in Idlib, and who me diligently teach others." He rises beforehas been, in later years, working in connection day and begins his reading of the Scriptures,with the Latakia centre, helped us much bymaking, last summer, with Rev. Mr. Easson'spermission, a visit to Idlib. Tbe wife of thepresent teacher at Idlib, is Teacher Aesa'sdaughter Miriam, whom Mrs. Martin trainedat Latakia. She is a willing and able missionaryworker, and does much good.But the accessions mentioned do not representnearly all the good results wbich theLord has wrought through the mission workin tbis field. Besides some wbo have giventheir names as appUcants for membersbip buthave not yet been received, there are not a fewpersons who are evidently moving towards us.And one result of the Bible-teaching in tbeschools, enjoyed by hundreds, has been tberising of a people in Antiooh with more regardfor the Word of God, less in bondage to thecommandments given, and less disinclined tohear the Gospel, than their fathers.Kurra Yuseph is one of those who have notyet applied to me for admission to our Oommunion,yet I have no doubt he is one of thosewho have truly turned to the Lord. He is aman of much influence among the GreekCburch people and possessed of a strong intellect.At the commencement of our work hewas a determined enemy to our doctrine.Witb the view of preparing himself to controvertit, he began to read the Bible. The resultwas thai, year by year, he gave up oneafter another the heresies ofthe Greek Ohurch— Mariolatry, picture-worship, prayers tosaints and angels. Prelacy, priestly sacrifice,andabsolution, auricular confession, transubstantiation.Baptismal regeneration, justificationby works, etc.—till now he appears only todiffer from us, if at all, in relerence to themode of Baptism, contending not any longerindeed for the Greek Churoh immersion, butfor a pouring, more ample than sprinkling,which he thinks the idea of washing calls for.which he continues during hours together.His wife is grieved to find some people disliketo visit the house because, to all wbo come in,her husband never faUs to open and warmlypress the one subject tbat occupies his mind,the glorious Gospel of the Grace of God, andthe Question ofthe one tbing needful.She laments that if he goes on thus her daughterswill bave no marriage; but he replies thathe can keep bis daughters, and that Christand eternal Ufe through Him is first and aboveall. Kind and gentle, he is at the same timefull of enthusiasm. He has fllled ihe Greekquarter with the doctrine of tbe Gospel, and,to priest and people, has testified openly,against the heresies and idolatries ofthe GreekChurch. In the house of a Greek member ofthe Local Government, addressing a youngman who had been a Fellah but had joined theGreek Churob, he said, in presence of ihe masterof the house, "Now, if you had beoome aProtestant, that would have been profitableand praiseworthy indeed; but to join theGreek Churob! why you might just as wellhave remained a pagan Fellah."Up till a recent date, I had some fear thathe was not as yet free from hesitation as tothedoctrine of justification by f-eiih. A fewweeks ago 1 said to him, "I hope you clearlyunderstand, now, tbat Justification is by Faithalone." He was eager to assure me, and proceededto quote numerous texts establishingthe true doctrine; and when be emphasized"But to him ihat worketh not, but believeth •on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith iscounted for righteousness," my heart leapedfor joy, for I said to myself, "if he has seizedthe meaning of that, he understands, indeed,the way of a sinner's justification". He mournsbecause the people are blind, and prayers forthe outpouring of the Spirit of God are muchupon his lips.

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 81About a month ago I was attending medicallyby the dying-bed of Bishara Naami, aman, who, we understand was a leader amongtbe enemies of our work here. He was one ofthe chief men in the Greek community andwas, as we were informed at ihe time, the organizerof the mob who, in 1883, in their rageat the accession to us of Hanna Elyas, invadedour premises and assaulted me, Mrs. Martinand others. Wben he had been ill of Pneumoniafor eight days, attended by a nativepractitioner, he sent for me.Standing by his bed I took opportuniiy, inpresence of members of his family, to point himto Cbrist as the only Saviour and exhort himio put his trust in Him alone. On the lastnight of his life I was present wben be proceededto make his will, a priest being besidehim. Hereupon I retired to an adjoining apartment.But soon he sent for me to come inand bear him pronounce bis wishes respectingtbe division of his property, whioh was large.He said he perceived the priest did not correctlyapprehend his statement. I bave rea*-• son to believe he could not trust the priest asWe are so thankful they learned to read beforethoy were removed, ihat they may beable to not only keep in mind what tbey havealready learned but tbat tbey may make progressand add to their knowledge. They havethe Psalms and part of the New Testamentand are earning, or trying to earn. Bibles bycommitting the oatechism.The mother is very fond of singing and sheherself is learning some of the Psalms, asisalso tbeir little brother, Mustufa. He is adear, little boy, and knows quite a numberof Plble verses and most of the Lord'sPrayer. Their being ai home may result inmaking that a Uttle centre of light from whichsome gospel rays may beam. Hindea wastelling Mrs. Metheny that one day she wasteaching a little boy an English song when,said she, " I thought what is the use of teaohingbim tbat, why not teach him a verse fromihe Bible."Nahwie says that sometimes Satan asksher who created God.Good Katrina, of wbom I bave writtenmuch, is not allowed to come to school butshe comes to visit and comes on Sabbath occaa witness, dissension being apprehended inibe family in reference to the estate.sionally. She is in the Greek scbool and isWe desire to acknowledge, with best thanks, their best scholar.the donation ot one hundred and twenty-five I told you of Miriam Karroom's goingdollars by Mrs. Ferguson of the 2d R. P. to Beirut. Sbe returned to us in GuzneOongregation, PhUadelphia, for furnishing about a month before we came down and isMission MedicalDispensary, .Antioch, which with us yet. Maryana Daoud came at theroom will be spoken of by us as The Ferguson same time. This is a curious little girl ofroom. We rejoice at the appearance of The whom I never wrote. She had been in ourHerald of Mission News, and wish it may be school from the firstuntil the Greeks openedgreatly blessec" and widely read.Yours very faithfully.Jambs Martin.A LETTER FOR THE CHILDREN.Mersine, Turkey, Jan. 29,1887.My Bearest Children .-—You will be sorryio bear that our two little Mohammedan girlswere not allowed to return to school after ourtheirs. She was remarkable for ber stupidityand for her love of eating. Sbe rarely rememberedanything ihat was preached about unlesssome article of food had been mentionedand that too in detached words, showing thatthe bare naming of words, such as bread, figs,pomegranates, etc., caught her attention immediately.She is much brighter now and willsoonbe able to read.coming from Guzne. They are kept away becausetheir poor, silly mother thinks sbe cannotendure the petty persecutions sbe seems toOur boy Mohammed Ali, in showing one ofthe girls how well he could jump, jumped intohave io bear on their account.an empty lime pit and broke a bone in one ofThe girls come often to see us, and eacb atbis ankles. That happened almost a monthdifferent times has stayed from Saturday untilago, be is able now to hop. His nice sisterMonday. Both are still studying the ShorterSaida, is as diligent as ever and making goodCatechism and recite when they come to visit.progress. Zahara and Sophia, the other littleTarsus Fellaheen pupUs are quite bright, and

82 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.Sophia, the younger, is thoughtful and inter- At tbis moment I can think of but one littleesting. Sbe asked her aunt if people giri whom I bave never heard speak an angryate in heaven; her aunt thought not, when word.Sophia said, " Tben I always want to stay at Yours with much love,Dr. Metheny's house." Her hands are everE. M.Sterrett.fuU of rags, and like treasures. Tbese are LETTER TO A. M. MILLIGAN MIScarefullyplaced under her pillow at nightSION BAND.and not unfiequently we find her sitting onthem at prayer time. In her searches aLiTAKiA, Stria, Jan. 25, 1887.few weeks ago she found a silver teaspoon Bear Cousin M'lttie,—! bave had two lettersfrom you since I bave written, one a fewbelonging to one of our English neighbors.Hannie Nadir is a broad lassie wboweeks ago and the other last week. I haveunderstands English conversation quite well, been trying to find time to write to you, butbut when spoken to in English answers have not been able to do so. We had a vacainArabic. There are thirty-one pupils in tion of two weeks, but my time was all occutheboarding school now, and I cannot speak pied even then. New Year's Day we spent asof each one, but I shall try from time to time usual in receiving callers, but we did notto keep up your acquaintance with those to have so many as on some vacations, for therewhom I have already introduced you. had been a death a short time before, and aUI am sure you will be delighted to hear of the distant relations and also the neighborsthe gifts our school received from a wealthy were in woiirning with the family, and peopleArmenian neighbor, who gave them out of in mourning do not make calls. Bat we hadgratitude to Dr. Metheny for having attended forty chUdren and more than seventy grownhis wife through a long and dangerous sick- people, and I felt tired enough wben nightness and who is now quite welt, The presents came. I had not been able to call on allwere about as follows : A sheep, eight or ten ths school children for two years ; so thispounds cooking butter, about the same amount vacation Mr. and Mrs. Easson, Miss Edgarof salt, twenty gallons of petroleum, twenty acd I started out. We went to see nearlyloaves of bread, (each loaf large enough for every one we knew, high and low, richandthree children,) one hundred and sixteen sweet poor, going to one hundred and forty-fivelemons, perhaps twenty pounds rice, two hun- places. It has been quite cold since schooldred pounds charcoal, and a loaf of sugar opened, but for all that it is full. We haveweighing about ten pounds. Before New one hundred and'ten enrolled inthe day schoolYear's, a kind English lady here sent them a and there are fifty-twoin the boarding schooi.basket of nuts and cakes, and yesterday she Week before last a Muslem brought his twosent Baby Esma a pair of shoes and stockings, daughters and I do hope that they will stay.The vexed shoes, the little however, creature; proved sbe too seemed small, to which doubt You of them know under we have our never instruction, been able and to I get do any sowhether I knew how to try them on ber; for long to get a chance to tell ihese two aboutshe insisted that her sister would know Christ. They believe hewas a great prophet;how to put them on.but they say he is not the Son of God, or heThe past few days bave been very cold for could not have died. They beUeve thai Mo-,this country, water Ireezing to the depth of hammed was a greater prophet than He andperhaps a quarter of an inoh. -^sras taken to heaven without dying. TheyAlmost a month ofthe New Year has passed; say the New Testament was not written thebut late as itis I wish you each one a " HappyNew Year."Monday morning, Jan. 31. Rejoice witb us.Nahwie has oome back to stay in school.way we have it, but was translated wrong.Our teacher in arguing with them sbows themthj,t the Koran tells of Christ and that he wasa good man. If He wag a good man,he mustNow I ask your special prayers _ . for these be the Son of God, as he testified himself thatchildren,thatthey may dwell together in peace, be was, and every good Moslem learns U byI am distressed at times with them quarreUng. heart. Wehave had a good many Moslem

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad 83ladies visit us in tbe last year and visit ourschool. They started a school of their own,but tbey say it is not as good as ours.The U. S. consul in Beirut takes a greatinterest in our work and is making every effortin his power to have ihe scbool troubles setiled.We have received an order ihat we willnot be obliged to ask permission to openschools ; but the text books must have thesanction of the government and our teachersmust be examined by its Board of examiners.The government regulations is ihat half oftheBoard shall be Chrisiians and half Muslems ;but in many places there is no Board, andwhen there is, the members are all Muslems.after the prairie. The mission, therefore,is located in tbe celebrated "ParkRegion"—so called from its unrivalledcombination of lake, prairie, forestSo the consul is asking the Powers at Constantinopleto bave Boards appointed in every ing beyond the power of pen or pencil io porand stream. In summer tho scenery is charmplace according to Law. By Christians are tray. Each year finds it growing in favor asmeant any sect that believe in,Christ. a resort for the lovers of nature and the tiredBut no one must think we are not busy at denizens ofthe city. Evenin winter it haswork. There are fewer schools in the mountains,yet we have a good many secret schools. days when the mercury sinks to 40 or 45 deg.much to commend it. Although there areMr. Easson was off on a tour not long agoand found several earnestly enquiring the differencebetween Protestants and Greek Catholics.I am very glad tbat your society intends towork for our school next year. I wish youcould see our sohool, and see bow many niceliitle girls ihere are in it. Of course youthe weather is mild, and there is no rain, slush,or mud till the approach of spring, when a fewdays take all the snow away, and almost immediatelythe ground is ready for the sower.would see plenty not so nice. Some oan tell Tbe climate ali theyear through is remarkablylies easier than they can tell the truth, wbile healthy—the death-rate per thousand isthere are a great many ihat are growing more smaller than any other state oi ttie Union.careful. When I oame here first,there were We have three places of preaching: atfew whom I could have trusted to come to Round Prairie every Sabbath at 11 A. M,;my room to bring me something; now I can every second Sabbaih at Thornguist's schoolhousetrust a good many of the older ones. ai 3 P.M.; every alternate Sabbath in theIt is inthese little things thai we see the general Baptist Cburch of Long Prairie. Strangerschange ihat encourages us to work on. are present at each of these places, but iheI hope you will not be weary in well doing. largest attendance is at Long Prairie, whiohYou have begun well and early, and in due is the county-seat of Todd County. Here theseason you will reap the fruits of your labor. Baptists offered us the use of their cburch,God will reward you.Your affectionate cousin,Mattie R. Wtlie.Miss Mattie McNaugher,Cor. Secretary.free of light and fuel, &ny Sabbath that theyhave no preaching of their own, whioh is everyalternate Sabbath. We gladly accepted theirfriendly and generous offer, and, every secondSabbath evening, I occupy iheir pulpit. ThisSIX MONTHS IN MINNESOTA." open door" is full of encouragement; it affordsan important vantage ground forIn August, 1886, I came here by the apthepointment of the Board of Home Missions ofthe Reformed Presbyterian Cburch to laborfor six months. My special charge is the congregationof Round Prairie, which consists ofsome twenty communicants scattered over aconsiderable are», the txtremes being abouttwelve miles distant one from the other.Round Prairie (after which the little oongregationis named) is one of the most beautifulprairies of Todd County, Minnesota, "TheSauk Centre and Northern Branch" of the"St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway"runs through it, and has a station namedbelow zero, yet the air is so dry and pure, andthe sunshine so bright that one does not sufferso much as in Ohio or Pennsylvania wben15 or 20 deg. are indicated. At other timespresentation of our principles. The Baptistsalways meet with us, and occasionally some ofthe Methodists, even though ihey have preach-

84 His Little One.prospects for a permanent organization of our Christian Charch observes the First day ofing in their own ohurch. Besides these, others io increase our influence in this community.attend who have no cburoh connection. At One feature of our work (whicb I think isihese meetings the organ is silent, and only the likely to be characteristic of all frontier setpsalmsof the Bible are sung. There may be tlements) is thatwe are brought in contactpresent one or more lawyers, bankers, physi- with "false teachers" and propagandists ofcians, editors and school teachers. The lady error, and it becomes necessary sometimes to^ho leads oursingingis a member ofthe Bap- oppose them face to face. The Seventh daytist Church, and the wife of a lawyer who is Adventists are especiaUy strong and aggres-Clerk of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, sive. I have lately preached three sermonsWe doubt not that good is being done, and, (one in eacb ofour places of worship) on,U we had a few more paying members, the " The Change of the Sabbatb or Why thechurch here would be bright. the week instead of the Seventh." Notices ofBesides visiting our own members, I call these discussions were given in the papers ofupon famUies ot other ohurches or otno ohnrcb. Long Prairie, and larger audiences than usualin the vicinity of our different places of wor- were in attendance.gtiip_ " At present I am engaged in the duty ofIn addition to preaching twice on Sabbaih, family visitation.during the week as opportunity is presented. Yours in the service of tbe blessed Master,I deliver lectures on some question of Re- J. R. Hill.form. These are well attended and do much Long Prairie, Minn.lM€immMTB IM MmsioM lilW-E^TTTcj TTmniT-n rvTVT-cibut especially did she excel in the beauty ofMib LiiliLiJii UJNJBj. u I, j -i-- J Ul 4. • i •her handwriting, and was able to assist inAmong the pathetic incidents of ihe work teaching for a few years, but, smitten by disforwomen in Canton is the story of a little ease, she was soon rendered helpless and madedeformed girl—A. Keet. She was bunch- to suffer months ot agony. Her face was everbacked, small in stature and in delicate health, ^ picture of sweet serenity, and her greatand regarded wiih disfavor in consequence, delight was io talk of Jesus and urge herShe became a pupil in tbe day scbool, and her friends' to receive him; through her prayersheart, rendered more susceptible by hardships and entreaties her mother was brought to theand suffering, soon opened io receive the peace Saviour. Her tavorUe passage was, " Comeof Christ. Her conversion was a complete and unto me, all ye ihat labor aud are heavy laden^joyous one ; she astonished the elders and pas- and I will give you rest," which she wouldtor by her deep experimental knowledge of quote as expressly given for her comfort. Herihe truth. Her happy trust and consciousness pure spirituelle face, upturned with eagernessof Christ's presence and help were shown, as to receive the message of divine love, ber pahereyes kindled when she spoke of his love to tient resignation and perfect trust, were beauherand her faith in his care and protection, tiful to look upon, and showed what a pricelessAlthough eleven years old, when she appeared peari was found in that frail body. Livingbefore the session, preparatory to uniting with ^jth her mother in ihe merest hovel, she neverihe Church, she looked like a ohUd of six ; but murmured at her fate, but ever shed ihein the pale, bright face upturned ihere shone radiance of a sweet and gentle spirit throughthe light of peace tbat gave unmistakable the comfortless room, and filled it with theeroof tbat the seoret of ibe Lord had been re- fragrance of her joyous trust in Jesus. Hervealed to her. She distinguished herself last days were brightened by permission toin ihe boarding school in general attainments, have a room in the boarding sohool where

The liery Cross—Oriental Gems 85during vacation she was carefully tended by steeple of a City Mission Church is lightedher mother until the bright spirit took its glad every Sunday evening, and this was all sheflight. Without the gospel tbe story of this had seen. It was more to the woman. " Itbeautiful life would bave been one ot misery was God's voice to me," she said. She cameand neglect, her misfortune only tending to to churob, was converted, and, cheered andincrease the unkindness of her people.—The sustained by the uplifting power of God'sCross and Bragon.dear Son, she began to work and pray for berhusband. Her prayers were answered; andTHE FIERY CROSS. he, wbo had been an infidel and a drunkardbecame an earnest Christian, Whenever theA poor woman sat in a small rear room on „ u i, u iu t U4. j i*^ woman beholds the lighted cross, she says,the fifth floorof a large tenement house. She ,.j. r, j, • • i • i ;;.,. ° -, -TT , .1-. tt was God's vision and voice to me."was completely discouraged. Her children cf;^,.-,^-^^ -p^^,.^^ ^^q^_were ragged and hungry. Fifteen years agoshe bad a beautiful home, valued at several ORIENTAL GEMS.thousand doUars hut some old tax papers were The best capital a man oan have is a mindthe only reminders she had of the brighter and that wUl guide him to what is right, and turnhappier days. It was the Sunday evening him aside from what is wrong.before Christmas. Her heart was like a stone. MuhaUab says: I bave often wondered atJust a year ago she baij said to her husband, him who buys slaves with his money, and yeti' I hope I wiU be dead next Christmas, because does not buy the free by his actions.during these days, when other people are ^j^^ jjj^g^^l ^^^ jg ^^^^ ^^ ,^^^^ ^^^^ ^^happy, you make me doubly miserable." q.^^^ „ear to Paradise, whUe the stingy manThe past year had been worse than any that j^ f^^ from man, far from God, and near topreceded it, and, as usual, at midnight or in perditiontbe early morning sbe expected her drunken „ , -j ,, . xu- i • n/ ,, " , '^ .,, , Nusr bas said tbat every thing oegins smallhusband would come home with curses and , , ^ i -i. i,- v, u-, . , . and grows larger except calamities, which beblows,for his was a temperament which Uquor . , , n j û-'., , ., -r,.., r gin large and grow smaller; and everythingalways drives io violence. If it were not ior , . -^ ..• v i. i,.•'.,,.,, , ,, , , ,^ cheapens wben it multiplies, except morals,their little children, she would throw herself ...out of the window io escape her misery. Sheopened the sash andlooked down into the dark ^ôd never gave a man knowledge exceptcourt. An intense struggle between maternal ê enjoined him not to hide it, and he neverJove and a desire to escape from suffering took ^njoms the ignorant to learn, without enjoinplace,when suddenly a cross of fire sprang '"^ ^^^^ learned to teach him.out of ihe surrounding darkness. " It is a It is better that a man keep sUenoe forever,vision of hope, a voice from God," she ex- rather than utter his own praises.claimed. She called her children and they There are ten things which are abominablesaw the fierycross, standing out against the in ten, viz.: Distress in kings, apology iu nodarksky. All ihat Sabbath evening the sym- bles, lying in judges, deceit in tbe learned,bol of redeeming love stood high in the hea- anger in the upright, closeness in the rich,vens. The woman inquired of her neighbors levity in old men, sickness in physicians,where tbe mysterious light came from. Sbe scorning in the poor, and boasting in tbe obwasinformed fhat ibe cross wbicb crowned the scure.

§$U^\xU'§mnn.—Wise sayings, translated for our columns this direction than ihe death of Bishop Hannington,the young missionary, who with afrom Arabic Literature, will appear now thenunder the title of Oriental Gems.number of native chrisiians was massacred byorder of King Mwanga, in Ootober, 1885.His last words were, " I am about io die forthe Ba-ganda, and have purchased the road—We are indebted to Mrs. Sterrett of Pittsburgfor a contribution of ten dollars towardsthe cost ofthe plate from whicb tbe photo-enrgraving of the late Dr. A. J. Dodds is printed.—Our readers will find in this issue an interestingarticle on the Nusairiyeh woman.It is from the pen of Rev. WilUam Sproull,wbo was for nearly seven years connectedwith the Latakiyeh mission, and has beenengaged for several months in visiting tbeohurches, giving an account of the work inthat field and urging to greater liberality intbe support of our foreign mission.our Circular for 1886-87.He isThree maps are in preparation for HeraldOF Mission News : One will represent Latakiyehand its vicinity, another will includethe Tarsus field and give all the places of anyimportance at the head of the MediterraneanSea, and a third will show the different routesthat our missionaries .take on leaving Liverpool,G. B. and points of interest on the way.Within recent years much has been saidand written to awaken an interest in OentralAfrica, but nothing has accomplished more into them with my life." These words, if notin the fullest sense of the term prophetic, revealan unwavering faith in the reality of adivine providence in human affairs, and wemay be sure they were linked with a ferventprayer for the spiritual uplifting of tbe savagerace into whose merciless hands he had fdllen.In the graceful language of his biograper," not to mention the deep impress of his ownpersonality whioh he has left upon thosewho were brought into close contact withbim, he has given to the mission iu EastAfrica, an impulse of whioh we may confidentlyexpect that it will not lose the momentum.He has completed the circle of thatgreat ring of Christian stations of whioh thesignet stone is the Yictoria Nianza, and, injoining the two ends, has welded them togetherwith his death."We do not give even an outline of this marvellousstory, as we wish all our readers toEach of these maps will cover a page of themagazine, and it will require more than oneprocure it at once aud then recommend it tohundred subscribers to meet the cost of production.Those, who are interested in our work with rare literary skill and has given totheir friends. Tbe biographer has done hisforeign mission, and at the same time know tbe world one of tbe most fascinating and atihe educational value of such maps, will not the same time edifying life-histories in modernliterature. This volume is au invaluforget to aid us in this way. Or, if any memberof the Church would like to bave ibe able contribution to tbe cause of missions,maps, and yet does not care to read tbe missionnews our paper heralds, we shall be deepening the religious Ufe, and kindling iuand it cannot be read without broadening andpleased to forward a set for seventy-five the hearts of its readers a desire for more unreservedconsecration to the cause of Christcents.at home and abroad.LIFE OF JAMES HANNINGTON.*•James Hanniiiginn, D. D., F. L. S., F. E. G. S., FirstBishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Aliislory 0(Illslife and work, 1847-S,5, bv E. C. Dawsou, M.A. Small 8 Vo,471, pp, witli portKiit, map, iciul t\h'e full pa«o iHustratioua, and aiiuuUierot small skecolies. ClotU?2,00. NewYorlf, Aueon D. F. Raudoliili & Co.

PUBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF POREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN OHURCH,r, s. A,OPENINGS FOR CHRISTIAN WORK INCHINA.Rev. B. C. Benry, Canton, China.The coast of China is well fringed with missionstations. Every treaty port is the center of workwhich radiates in the form of schools, dispensariesand preaching stations, far into the interior. Beyondthc cordon of missions that line the coastand the Great River of Central China, tbere isthe vast inland domain with its myriad populationand only a few missionaries at isolated points sepis in size and shape not unlike the State ofTexas, though very different in the conformationof its surface, and in the character ofits people. It is to a large extent a mountainousregion, exceedingly rich in mineral productions.In the fertUe plains, and in ti^^'eutersof trade and of official jiower, the tCuese arefound in larger numbers, while in the mountainsand upland valleys the aboriginal races still abide.Their tribes are numbered by scores, their peculiaritieshave been noted and described by varioustravelers, but their history, customs and race affinitieshave yet to be unfolded. Yunnan is a prizefor which the commercial world has long been contending.The costly campaign of the French inTonquin had for its chief object tbe possessionand control of the Song Ka or Red River, as themain water way into the supposed eldorado ofarated by long distances. This immense territory Y'unnan. Tbe great rivers of Cambodia, Siamaffords almost boundless scope for the energies of and Burmah, take their rise in this province, andthe Chnrch, and any body of Christians hitherto expeditions disastrous to the lives of the explorersunrepresented and desirous of doing something but rich in contributions to geographical and generalscience, have ascended these rivers in hopefor the Christianization of this great people, wouldmake no mistake in selecting any of the eigbteen of finding a highway into Yunnan. The late changeprovinces or smaller divisions of the Empire as in the government of Burmah made England tbethe fieldoftheir operations.nearest neighbor of China on tbe southern border;The aggressive spirit of Christianity ever urges and the latest scheme on foot is the building- of aus on into the regions beyond, and, while so much rail road from Burmah through Ijaos, and the upperShan country into Yunnan, which, if it is acland remains to be possessed, we cannot toostrongly urge the claims of tliese destitute regions. complished, will bring this wild romantic and muchIn the south of China, there is the great province coveted region into the circle of civUizing influences.Tbe practical point for the Christian Churchof Yunnan with only one, or at most, two missionariesof the China Inland Society on its extremewestern border. This immense territory the world, nations, if you will, in theirto consider in this matter is, that while men ofambitioussearch for new possessions and increased revenue,have sacrificed large sums of money and preciouslives besides, in their efforts to penetrate this regionand tap its rich mines of precious metals, themillions of people in its broad expanse are left uncaredfor, the precious immortal treasure Christcame to redeem is left to perish unsought. Shal!

SHItems of Missionary Intelligence.the Chui-ch allow the worid tn outstrip her in to occupy this field, and are not likely to do .so fseeking to gain entrance to and i)ossession of this years to come. The opening is before the Chnrch,province of Yunnan ? The provincial capital, the time is opportune. Who will step in and a.s-Yunnan fu, is a large and influential center in a sume the precious burden of .work for this needyhealthy situation; next in importance is Tali fu, and waiting people ron the shores of a beautiful lake almast under thc Tbe .signs of advance at present in Christ'sshadow of lofty mountain range.s; besides tbese, work in China are many and most cheering. Theare many other important towns and cities tbat increasing demand for education in -western leariicouldbe occupied. ing ')" the part of scholars, the new and promis-It may be urged that Yunnan is too distant ing openings for preaching and teaching that areand difficult of access for a new enterprise. If so, coming all over the country, and tbe decided adletme call attention to a field much nearer the vaiic-e made toward self-support in the nativecoast, in the province of Canton. A short study Church are among the most significant. Theof any good missionary map of this province will day of small things is gradually rising into the dayshow that nearly all the leading centers are al- of greater thiugs. Tbe firstfruits have been gathreadyoccupied. In the southern portion, liowever, ered, and the rich fieldsof this broad land, whiteis the large prefecture of Ko Chow, reaching from already to harvest, invite the earnest laborer, andtbe coast inland to the borders of Kwongsi and the sower and reaper rejoice together. A constretchingalong nearly oue hundred miles of sea- vention of tbe preachers in counection with thecoast, including six large counties in its domain. Presbyterian Mission in Canton was recently heldThis territory which is se))arated by natural bar- in which more than forty natives took part. Meetriersfrom the adjoining districts, and has a river iug-s were held three times each day for a week,.system of its owu, and several fine bays aud har- they were largely attended, and.the speakers tobors from which merchant junks ply up aud down tbe nuniber of seven or eight at each.session werethe coast, is entirely unoccupied, and waits only earnest, enthusiastic and practical. AnKjug thefor some enthusiastic band of missionaries to go subjects discussed Avas the 1>»A/o/'C/i/-(W/o;i (t'(iîn and take possession. It contains about 2,000,- imj, and after several rousing addi-esses no less000 people who are very ignorant and degraded, than thirty rose to their feet and pledged thembutnot nearly so inaccessible and hostile as the selves to give one-tenth of tbeir income to thepeople nearer Canton City. Nut, far from Ko Lord. The impression left upon tbe minds of allChow-fu, the capital of the district, are the cities who attended the eonvention was, that wc had aof Fa chow and Mui-luk, large and important noble body of earnest, consecrated, practical mencenters of trade and influence. Tbe missions now working in unison with us, and that the work heestablishedin Canton have not thus far been able ing doue is real, solid, lusting.Items of IVlissionary Intelligence..\ BRO AI). His jiioinise, " Lo I mu with you always." ShortlyREPORT OK LAT.uiiA Missiox —i ,S8tVl SH ( '^^^f "''' """^ >''•'" ''"'' '">''* report, OUI valucd friend"nd associates, Mr. and Mrs. Sproull with theirDear Brethren, dear little children, left us As we accompaniedAuothci- yenr hiis passed, tliem to the ship, and bade tbem .nxxl bvc, wi',and we are glad to be able once more to send you like the friends of Paul sorrowed most foronr annual report. W'e have had many things to the words wliich thev spake that ive should .secdishearten us, but .lesus has grnciously fulfilled tbeir faces n„ more with us in our work The

mountain schools were closed, we were few in number,and, as post after post was received andthere was no word of any one who had offered tocome over and help us, our hearts almost sankwithin us. It was indeed like cold water to athirsty soul, the letter that brought the news thatone had been found wUling to take up the untriedburden of carrying the glad tidings of salvationto those of her o-«'n sex who know not that theyare perishing eternally for lack df this knowledge.Her coming has not been a disappointment. Withher brightness and energy, she has infused newlife into us all. Surely "Iron sharpeneth iron, soa man sharpeneth ihe countenance of his friend."The Lord has also shown us that He is able tocarry out His own work. You wUl rememberthat just before we sent you our last report, theTurkish government by a general order had closedall of our mountain schools. This order was sentto the people, forbidding them to send their childrento the American schools under pain of fine andimprisonment.all our schools except Mettin and Idrahanna wereentirely closed. You are also aware that we sentour teachers two and two from viUage to villagereading the word, and teaching the way of escapefrom the wrath to,come to young, and old. Manyhad the Saviour presented to them, vvho had neverheard of Him before. , Each teacher spent oneor two days each week with his pupils, going fi-omhouse to house when they did not dare come togetherin one .place. But about the firstof September,the governor who had closed the schoolswas removed, and; with his departure the fear ofpunishment partly abated, and the pupils beganto come together for instruction, so that sinceItems of Missionary Intelligence. 89October first, we have had ten schooh open andthree teachers acting as evangelists. During thelast two rnonths, there has heen an average of Latakia Boys' Day School is in a flourishingcondition.It contains one hundred and ten pupUs.fourteen pupils to each school, one hundred andforty-four in all. In the various departments of The attendance is more regular than heretofore,the work, we bave at present thirty-eight employees.Last year we reported thirty-seven.. We large number attend Sabhath School, and remainand we feel that a good work is being done. Ahave, however, two less than we had a part of for the sermon -\vhich follows. The Latakia Boys'last year. Just at the time of sending our last Boarding School contains twenty-eight pupils andreport, two of our mountain teachers -were in the tvvo pupil-teachers, making in all thirty boarders.army. They received kind treatment while there, Of tbese, four pay board in full and furnish themselves,three pay half price, sixteen furnishwere soon discharged, and have resumed theirwork. When we compare their treatment with bedding and clothing, flveare free. The nuniber ofthat which Daoud received, we recognize new tokensof God's goodness to His people, in that Heis restraining the wrath of the enemies of thegospel of peace.Tbe, Latakia schools were all re-opened aboutthe middle of September, after a vacation of twomonths. We received fifty-two girls into theboarding or bome school. Three pay half price,five others clothe themselves and sixteen providetheir own bedding and dresses for the Sabbath.All the others are entirely free. It takes neariyfifty dollare to support a girl in this school for ayear. Every effort is put forth to make it a homefor them. They are tSmght housework, Iciiitting,sewing and the kinds of fancy work that will as-.sist theniin supporting themselves hereafter. Familyworship is kept up night and morning. OnSabbath tbere is Sabbath School in the morning., Between the public services there are portions oftime set apart for study. The beginners are taughtBible stories and the older girls have beeii studyingthe Life of Paul. In the evening there isprayer meeting. The giris who are members ofDuring the firsthalf of the year,the church take part. There is a little talk takenfrom the Lesson Leaves of the Statesman, andthe,lessons studied during the day are reviewed.The Latakia Girls' Day School has an enrollmentof one hundred and sixteen. Tbe girls recitewith and pursue the same studies as the girisin the Home School. A portion of eacb day isdevoted to religious instruction. These little GreekChristian girls will generally listen, and tbeir eyesbrighten when appealed to for Christ's sake. Greatimportance is attached to our schools for giris, becauseChristian wonien must have a great deal todo in the evangelization of Syria. Woman waslast at the cross, firstat the sepulchre, and wasfirst sent to tell the news of our risen Lord, andwe do not doubt that she bas yet in tbat sameland to teach that same wondrous story. Thepay pupils could be greatly increased if we had alarge comfortable building for the school. In all

90 Ifeiiifi if Jli.iKiiiiKini Intelligeiice.respects, with the exception ofa home, this school At the beginning of this school year, September15th, we removed tbe school to the house inis in a prosperous conditiou.It might be well just here, to glance at the town formerly occupied by the late Dr. Dodds.history of this scbool. It had its origin and first This lifts a most fearful responsibility from thosehome in Bhamra under the care of the Rev. S.Lyde, and is in reality the gerin of the LatakiaMission. At bis death, the school carae underthe care of our lamented predecessors, Drs. Doddsand Beattie, and soon after it was removed toLatakia. When the bmlding for the girls' scboolwas erected, it bad its home in one end of it. In1871 it was returned to Bhamra and put undertbe care of teacher Yacob Jeredeny, but it wasfound that the friends ofthe boys had to be boardedas well as the boys themselves, which provedtoo expensive, and it became necessary to dismisstbe large boys, and the small ones were broughtto Latakia. But boys will grow, and soon there-were large boys again and a room was hired intown for tbem, the small ones remaining in tbegirls' boarding school.In 1880 it was decided that a boarding .schoolfor boys and giris could not be be carried ou in thesame building in this country, and, as we had nomission building for the boys in Latakia, theywere sent to Suadia, Mv. and Mrs. Easson goingwith them. In the fall of 1882 the school wasdivided into two grades. The primary pupilsAvere left iu Suadia, and the advanced ones werebrought back to Latakia. The firststory of thedouble mission dwelling- bouse wa,s vacated tbatthey might be domiciled tbere. Tbey vvere separatedfrom tbe girls' school as well as circumstanceswould permit. But there wa.s only a wall betweenthe two playgrounds, and from the flatroofs of therooms of the girls' school, yon could look downinto tbe boys' playground, and from the same yardyou could look into one of the girls' sleeping- dormitories.We gave this place a fair trial for three years,and we found that tbe good name of our schoolsand we may say ofour inission deniaiided a removal.W'e also found that for the good of our boysboth ill spiritual and temporal things, we neededto teach them some trade, whereby they conld earnan honest living- after leaving- school, in case theywere not needed as teachers, or were iiica.pable ofserving tbe mission in that capacity. Hence inour last report, we laid the matter befin-c you, askingfor at least $5,000 to erect a suitable buddingfor our boj-s' school, including an industrial department.to whom has been intrusted the keeping of thegood name, as well as the training of giris for theservice of Christ.But the lease for this house will soon be oat,and, even if it could then be obtained, it would notbe without cost, and the place is too small, sothat we now renew our request for a Home for ourboys' school with an industrial department included.You thus see that our scbool bas wandered fromplace to place for more than thirty years, and stiillives. What then might we uot expect if providedwith a good comfortable bome ?Each trade will need an extra $300 or $400 forthe firstyear, after whicb we think it will pay allexpenses, aud perhaps be a source of income tothe mission. But if you do not wish to begin athing of wbich you do not see the end, please donot forget that our boys' boarding school is a homelesswanderer, and during the coming year give ita good comfortable home.The Suadia station has had quiet, pereevering,encouraging work carried on in it throughout theyear. We have bad an average of twenty-two boys intbe boarding school, and twenty iu tbe day school,forty-two in all. Tbe first part of the year, thestation was under the care of our licentiate andhis efficient vrife, assisted by one teacher whoboarded in the scbool, and looked after the boysout of school hours. During the latter part of theyear, teacher Ibrahim Jukky and his wife havehad charge with an assistant as above. LicentiateYacob Jeredeny preached on the Sabbath,and held prayer meetings and Sabbath School,also prayer meetings on Thursday evenings. TeacherIbrahim has kept up the same number of services,substituting a prayi-r meeting for a sermon.The change iu the oversight of this sohool wa.«brought about by tbe needs of the Latakia Mission.Wc felt that teacher Ibrahim could take goodcare ofthe statioii at Suadia, and our boys'.schoolin Latakia needed just such au overseer as ourlicentiate would make. .Vlso we felt it would bebetter to have a licensed preacher to preach tothe })eople when Mr. Eassmi was called away tothe mountains or Suadia, as he ofteii is, in order tooversci- the work, and in-eacb to the people.

The pupils in Suadia are niaking fine progress.Three finishedthe course of studies appointed, andentered the Latakia .school last October. Ourthanks are due to onr friend and fellow worker,Mrs. M. A. Yates, her zeal and interest in thisstation having furnished the funds necessary tocarry on the work as at present established. Mayher prayers for the Orontes Valley be answeredby the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon tbehearts of the pupils and people.The sacrament ofthe Lord's supper has been dispensedat Eldany, Suadia and Latakia during theyear. Seven have been received into the church.Mr. Easson has had a heavy burden to carry alone,buf, notwithstanding the numberless duties, caresand anxieties which fall to the lot of the missionaryoutside of ministerial labor, he has been able topreach every Sabbath, either in Latakia or in oneof the outside stations.Through the efforts of Mrs. Easson, and tbewife of of our licentiate, a woman's prayer meetinghas been organized and carried on, and considerableinterest has been manifested.The teachers have all been faiihful in iheirwork, and the pupils have for the most part beenquiet and diligent.Four infant children of native members havedied during the year. But vve have great reasonfor gratitude to the Giver of all good, thatneither teachers nor pupils of the boarding schoolhave suffered any severe illness, and that theraissionaries have enjoyed uninterrupted goodhealth.The people, who have for many years been mostfriendly, have been even more cordial than everbefore. The Muslems also are not as cold as tbeylfeiiit< uf Mixsioiiarij Tntelliyei 91have been in the past. Numbers of the womenhave visited the girls' school, a thing unprecedented,and the ladies ofthe inission with the teachers Thus a synopsis of our year's work is presentedwere invited to visit their girls' school. Aud for to you. Our prayers, words and deeds are writtenin the Book of God's remeinbrance. It is ourthe last few weeks, we have had two daughters ofa Muslem Effendi in our day school.trembling hope, that when the Book is opened itWe make grateful acknowledgment of favor will be found that many made their first startreceived from the British Tract Society. They heavenward in this year. Having been few ingive us a yearly grant of books for distribution in number, we bave not been able to do as much as athe stations of Latakia, Suadia and tbe mountains, full corps would have done. But the general workto the amount of nine pounds sterling.of the inission has not decreased. We have beenWe were favored last Spring with a visit from waiting anxiously and prayerfuUy thongh perhapsDr. I. J. Bliss, agent of the American Bible Soimpatiently for the coming of help. Ouv Heavenciety, Constantinople. He deserves our thanksfor his many kindnesses to us. Through his effortsthe Bihle Society pays half the wages ofthe agentin our book store. He has secured a grant ofbibles for the use of the Ansaireyeh children inour schools, and he has been untiring in his effortson the school question.A weekly correspondence has been carried onbetween Mr. Easson and the American Consul iuBeirut in regard to the schools. And we feelthat tbe energy and zeal of Consul Erhard Bissengerhas had a great deal to do wiih the settlementof this much vexed question, and we thinkthat the thanks of the church are due to him. Wehave sent you before the substance of the agreementreached between our Legation and the Ministerof Public Instruction at Constantinople. Butour Consul at Beirut is not pleased with theTurkish School Laws as at present organized, asa compliance therewith is not possible at present,in many parts ofthe Empire. .He has written th'eLegation, asking thai the law and the article withwhich we are required to comply, be modified, andhe writes to Mr. Easson—"Pending a reply fromtbe Legation, I think I am fully justified in suggestingto you the propriety of awaiting tbe resultof our negotiations before taking any furthersteps towards the re-opening of your schools.A few weeks, and even months of delay in accomplishingthe object of our most ardent desires,may be inconvenient, and may even involve materialloss, but tbe subject is of too vital importanceto admit of the acceptance of any arrangementthat will not insure to us for all time to come,absolute immunity from any further interferencefrom the Turkish authorities. To obtain tbis, wemay have to submit to temporary sacrifices, but1 feel confident of ultimate success, aud thereforecounsel patience and perseverance."We were very much disappointed that Synod'scommission failed to visit us.ly Father has answered us in part as we have beforementioned. Miss Edgar arrived safely Nov.4tb, 1886. She has since been diligently study-

92 Itevis qf Mis.sionary Intelligenre.ing Arabic with marked success. She has alsobeen able to render much needed assistance in theEnglish classes.We are stiU waiting for others. May the Lordpf the harvest answer our prayers and fill up ourbroken r9,nks with those whose hearts are yearning"To give knowledge of salvation unto his peopleby the remission oftheir sins through the tendermercy of our God; whereby the day spring fromon high hath visited us, to give light to themthat sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,to guide our feet into the way of peace."RespectfuUy submitted, in the name oftheMission.Mattie R. Wylie, Secretari/.Lata/cia, March 1st, 1887.Statistical report of the Latakia Mission, for the yearending March ist, 1887;I. Communicants 145Missionaries 4Native Members 1452. Baptisms 8Children 7Adult ., I3. Increase of Communicants 8Mission.iry , iNatives 74. Decrease of Communicants 5Missionaries 2Natives 35. Deaths of Children 46. Schools 16Day schools under ban of Government... q,, ,. pubHcly open 4Boarding Scliools 37. Pupils... 506Day pupils in schools under law 126„ ., the other schools 278Boarding pnpilsI028. Employees 3gMountain teachers 13City teachers 14Overseers of schools 2Bible ColporteuriGeneral AgentiTeachers in Suadea 2Servants, etc 59. Contributions *7058 04Missionaries 3502 37Native donations 976 23Congregation collections 395 06Missionary Society 2184 38AT HEBBEW In it *.Î this does HOME. = CHRISTIAN representatives cosmopolitan I36 piasters, WOKK and city IN of $1.00=28 NEW every of YORK. ours, nation piasters embracing and nearly. clime asunder heaven. Christian people are afforded, infact have as it were forced upon them, wonderfulopportunities for preaching the- Gospel. Theuttermost parts of the earth, bringing with themtheir peculiar religious beliefs, have come to ourvery doors. That many devoted souls have eagerlyavailed themselves of these opportunities,the annals of the various missions prove. At thistime we wish to call your attention to a brief accountof one very important branch of work,namely, the subject of this article. There areliving in .this city 100,000 Jews. Tbese constitutean important factor in tbe social, politicaland financial world. Religiously, they are indeeda separate, people. Retaining their distinct Sabbath,theLrancient ritual and traditional observances,they are among us, but not of us. We areconstantly brought into contact with them, andhold familiar converse together on all subjectssave the one which we profess to consider of vitalimportance. Faithlessness regarding the possibilityof their conversion is almost universal. Thisis however a baseless theory. That they can bereached by the Gospel has been proved. One man,almost single-handed and alone, has solved theproblem.Some five years ago. the Rev. Jacob Freshman,at that time a Methodist minister in Canada, feltconstrained to resign his position in order topreach Christ tbe Messiah to bis brethren accordingto the flesh in this city. In so doing,Mr. Freshman was not actuated by any suddenimpulse. Tbe burden of souls was upon him. "Hecarefully counted the cost." Himself a Hebrew,the son of a converted Rabbi, he had beeu translatedout of ,s])ivitual darkness into the gloriouslight of Christ's Gosjiel. He therefore knew bypersonal experience, all the prejudice, ignoranceand opposition to be overcome among his Hebrewbrethren. He als(i knew how chimerical hisundertaking would appear to the Chvistian worid.In the fixce of all these obstacles he came. Atfirst he held mectiiig-s in his own "hired bouse"—small gatherings wbicb constantly irvc^\ Then inhalls heve and there, moving many times. Godblessed his effort. Souls were won to the Messiah,and boldly they testilied to their devotion toKing Immauual. The need of move sevvices becameappaveiit, and thev weve multiplied. Sundayevening he preached in a small hall in CooperUnion, Friday evening held a pvayev meeting inhis own bouse, Satnvdav aftevnoou was devoted

lAilfiL-ia nnd i.l,-< Vivinity, 95Prom the amiu-al report we make the following for the peace of Jerusalem -. they .shall prosperto a meeting fov unconverted Je-^-s. A Sabhath (ifferinos.^School was held in another place. Tliere was Free-will oflerings for the " Hebrew-Christianurgent need for a building in which the various Work," may be sentto Rev. Jacob Pre.shman, Itbranches ofthe work could be concentrated. How St. Mark's Place, New York.shonid ii he procured ? There seeined no way.objects.With importunate prayer, Mr. and Mrs. Fresh- 1. 'j'he General Mission Work.man, for the latter has thoroughly identified her- For contributions to the above a printed andself with the work from its very inception, be- numbered receipt is sent to the donor.sought the Lord to provide them with a church 2. The Building Fund.• home. God honored their faith in almost mir- All amounts received for this object are pubaculousways; they were enabled to purchase an lished in our paper. The Hebrew Christian.old fashioned dwelling house, which by many alter- 3. For Mr. Freshman's personal use.ations was transformed into the first Hebrew We do not receive a salary, but are dependentChristian Chnrch in America. The basement con- on the free-wUl offerings of the Lord's people.taias a lecture room and a reading room. The These offerings must be distinctly stated as forparlor floor makes a perfect gem of a chapel. The personal use, otherwise they vvill invariably beupper rooms are used for the Parsonage. It is put into the General Fund. All offerings forexactly the locality for this work. As a part of personal use are acknowledged by a private notethe results, Mr. Freshman has had many baptisms, of thanks to the donor.There are now, nine young Israelites in differ- The whole cost of this beautiful building inentTheological Institutions preparing for the eluding repairs and alterations, was $25,000. AChristian ministry. During this winter the meet- mortgage was given for $10,000 at 5 per cent.ings have been well attended, and have been fill I Mr. Freshman has put forth every effort to reduceof thriUing interest. At the Friday evening prayer the whole indebtedness to this, and all he needsmeeting, most wonderful testimonies are given, now to enable him to accomplish that is $2,500.The Saturday service is creating a great spirit of May the Lord raise up some friends who vvill esinquiiyamong its attendants. teem it a privilege to remove this burden. "Prayextract: ' that love thee." M. C. S.LATAKIYEH AND ITS VICINITY. of military service and surveiUance, he maintainedThe mission field, of whicb Latakiyeh is the faithful testimony for Christ. But it must be left forcenter, extends north to Suadea and south to those wbo are on tbe ground, to describe points ofTartoos, a coa.st Une of over one hundred miles, interest in the field. Inmany of the places, markedand embraces the whole of the territory lying beon the map, school work has been carried on suctweenthe shore of the Mediterranean Sea and (-essfully, even in the face of recent opposition onthe River Orontes, which may be regarded as its the part ofthe civil authorities; and within easyeastern boundary. On the maps are located as reach of our missionaries are hundreds of viUages,accurately as possible, without an actual survey ready to receive the truth. Everywhere there isofthe locaUty, some ofthe leading villages where a manifest desire among the people to secure for.schools have* been, and are, in efficient operation, their children tbe instruction tbat is furnished inTo all who are famUiar with the history of our the American Schools. Doors are open in everymissions, Jendaireyeh wiU recaU the name of direction, and all that is needed to take possessionMiriam, the firstfemale convert fvom Ausaiveyeb of tbe whole ofthis interesting portion of SyriaPaganism, wbile Meij wiU bring yividly " to is money and laborers. The church in this country' mind the story of Daond Sulieman's conscription is abundantly able to supply both men and meansfor the Turki.sh Aimy, where during many years for tbis missionavy enterprise, and so hes

9(i Tak'e Away Hie Eoinii^li Vail.—Dirine Method of E.rleiiding Mellyloii,undev a, hcavv huvdeii of vesponsibiUty in this the Pope denied the Bible to the people, wheninatter. ' ' tbey weve seavching fov Calvary, they did notbave it as "a lamp unto the feet, and a lightTAKE A W A Y THE ROMISH VAIL. ^^^^^ ^j^^ p^^j^,, ^p^î^^^ ii9:105). if they hadThe self-styled "Infallible" cburcb of heathen had it they never would have gone to theiv pve.s-Rome, iu ignovance ofthe Holy Scviptures, calls ent wrong site. Xor did they know that at a pointits autocratic head "The Holy Father." "This is which has always been outside of every waU Jedivectlyfovbidden by the Saviouv, who command- vusalem has evev had since Augustus Caesar, neared, "Call no man youv fathev upon the eartb: fov the northerly wall-gate, at the fork ofthe voadsone is youvFathev wbich is in heaven" (Matt.-23:9). leading to Damascus and Caesarea on the Medi-This all-ignovant, all-knowing earthly ecclesias- tervanean, is a little knoll, having the pvofile of aticism, has selected Mount Tabov fov the site of skull in its indestructible stone stvueture, and al-Christ's Transfiguration, in ignorance of the divine ways a garden on its Westerly declivity, "nighword, wbich .says, Jesus "bringeth them up into to tbe city," "without the gate," and that "ina high mountain, aud was tvan.sfiguved befove the place wheve be was crucified theve was a gartheni,"(Matt. IT :12), and he "leadeth them up in- den, and in the garden a new sepulchre * * thereto a high mountain apart by themselves, and he they laid Jesus" (John 19 : 41, ii). This knoll,was transfigured befove them," (Mavk 9:2), and known as tbe " Gvotto of Jeremiah," is bythethat before His tr-ansfigm-ation, "Jesus came, into common consensus of-all sciiolars, travelers, archethecoasts of Caesarea PhUippi" (Matt. 16:13) ologists, of evevy nation and cveed, except that ofwbich has iieav it seveval sepavate lofty peaks the " infallible," the tvue Calvavy.amongst tbe Auti-Lebanoii and Hevmon vanges. Unshackle the Bible ! Let the Romanists readeach of which well answers tbe description "a bigh it ! The entrance of God's word will give themmountain apart;" and it was not until aftev the light; will take the vail fvom oft'theh hearts. Gettvansfiguvation tbat "tbey depavted thence and jt out of the dead Latin into living Amevican.—passed tlivough Galilee," (Mavk 9:30) inwhich is Elliott F. HJiepard.Mount Tabov. And also in is-novance of secular „„,. , , . , , ,u , 1 +• u ,1 n + DIVINE METHOD OF KXTENDING REhistorywhich shows tbat Antiochus the Greatbuilt a city B. C. 218, on the top of Tabov, whicbLKilON.was gavrisoiied by Roman soldievs in the time of •'"'"'^- ^'°' *--Ouv Lovd. So it was inn)ossibIe fov Jesus and This whole jiassage is full of "findings" byhis three apostles ami two pvopliets to be "apart Chr'.st aud by the disciples. Simon is found.Phiiipby themselves'' on Tabov.is found, Nathanael is found, aud they ave broughtThis vailed oracle has also fixed the Holy Sep- to Him who came to seek that which was lost. Itiilchev, Calvary and the Resurrection, at a point seems to be witb a divert puvpose that we havein .levusalem wbich is, aud always lias been with- tbis minute mention of the finding of one disciplei-n the walls, in ignovance tbat the Son of God by aiiothev, of liim wbo has not yet been with Je-"suffeved without the gate" (Heb. 13:12), that it sus, by liim wbo ba^. It is as ifthe Holy Spivitwas the "jilacc called Golgotha, that is to say, would set befove us coiis])iciiously, at the vcvy opnplace of asknll," (M-att, 21:33) that from the ening of the Ohi-istian dispensation, ono of theplace "some of the wa.tcli came into the city," gveat laws by wliicli the whole economy is to be(Matt. 28:11) tbat "the placi.- wlieve Jesns was veiilcnished with new lite and extended to stillcvucified was nigh to tbe city," (John 19:20). .Vs wiiU'v bounds. Tvnc, tbis is uot tho only law of

Divine Method, qf Extending Beligion. 97tliis great joy. It is true that this blessed pvivilege ov to use not the wrong- speech, bnt the right; notis neglected, or timorously nsed, and with but little the rough self-vighteous tone and the sound ofgrowth; the kingdom is to be extended in many tures; and of couvse there is no need for one toways—^by writing, by preaching, by quiet living, speak personally to another in order to convey theby suffering—but through aU these it wUl be found, literal iuformation of Gospel truth. But afterif we examine closely, that the personal element making all such allowance, the pvinciple remainsof influence permeates and lives. The gveat that whatevev one possesses ov attains in spiritualpreacher of the desert points to Jesns, and cries, things he is bound, by the vevy law of the life he" Behold the Lamb of God," and the pveaching has veceived, to try to communicate to others whotakes effect. But how small would be that do not feel and possess as he does. Nor is iteffect if it reached no farther than the flrst much to the point to say that we ought not to behearers of it. It led to Christ these fivstdisciples intvusive ov rude in our spivitnal zeal ; that wethemselves, and then the power of personal influ- ought not to take familiar liberties with humanence and persuasion makes itself felt. One strong spivits for Christ's sake. No, each man's personalspirit,and another, and anothev still, is caught and ity is a thing- so sacved and awful that we oughtheld with these covds of love, these bands of a man. to approach it with reverence, and stay our footIn this way, in little more than one day, Jesns has as on tbe threshold of a holy place. Nor is it tofive disciples. Surely this has some instruction the point to say ihat injury has been done in cerforus. It shows ns what a sphere opens at once tain cases by a forwavd and officious manner ofto every believing man. He has discovered the speaking on sacred subjects. I have seen some ingreatsecret; he has fonnd the peavl of gveat genuous and susceptible young people wince andpvice, and has sold all he has to buy it; and yet tvemble, as if an iron hand had been laid on them,without losing it himself, (vather making- it so and then kindle into ivvepressible vesentment nndermore fully his own), he can offer it to his friend; snch rough spiritnal tieatment. But are vve tohe can enrich his house; he can find,at least he can evade a duty by such excuses as these ? Becausetvy to find, a brothev, a sistev, a neighbor, a feUow- unwise speaking is worse than silence sometimes,workman, a fellow-man, to be a sharer with him in ave we to keep silence always ? We ave to endeav-or slow results. Theve is veason to fear that the theological phraseology, but the calm, earnest,direct sense of this obligation in the minds of wise and winning voice; and on us, as Christians,Christian people is not so strong as once it was. vests tbe responsibUity of findingout what is theThere never was so much evangelical preaching, best way to draw those around us to the Saviour.never so much public teaching and work for Cbrist it may be, aftev all we have said, the way ofas theve is in ouv day, and perhaps fov this vevy simple directness. There ave some whom plainveason, we abate and slacken the quietev and move dealing suits, and who do not vesent it; some perpersonalefforts.sons who have not much delicacy either of natureWe desire to discriminate heve, and to consider or of culture, and who wonld not understand thesethe great difference in the circumstances in which cautious and considerate approaches to the subjectwe stand, compared with those of the fivstdisciples, of personal religion, which would be appropriateTheir example cannot be proposed, fovmaUy and in other cases. And if this be so, you must takeliterally, for pur imitation. In Christian famiUes the direct way, if you are to be faithful. Youat least, we are born almost in the Kingdom of must say, " I have found the Saviouv, have yonObvist; we ave, many of us, nursed amid divine found Him? Let me bring you to Him. He is thethings; we know fvom childhood the Holy Scrip- Lamb of God. He taketh away the sins of the

98 Significance in Oriental Namca.world, mine and yours, if you will come." You we group the descendants of great-grandfathermust say this to husband ov wife, to bvothev or Smith with as much precision as we arrange bosister,to son or daughter, if you see that only so tanical specimens in a cabinet. Our family namescan you fulfil the duty taught by inference in this are mere marks of relationship.passage. Or it may be by quite anothev way— Oriental names are, to a large extent, signifitheway of seeming circuitousness—of daUy watch- cates. They are not mere labels affixed io indifulness,of quiet gentle suggestion, of earnest love viduals to mark them off one fvom another. Theyand of much self-denial. You may be required to veveal the chavacter, disposition, ov civcumstancedischavge this duty, by inaevting only as much as that distinguishes the bearer from other men.you can of your influence into the little openings If no special circumstance marks the birth ofof life as they occnv, contenting yourself with a an Oriental boy, he is called throughout theininistvation as unobstvusive and invisible as that stage of unifovm babyhood simply Habiby (" myofthe angels; only you must be suve tbat you beloved"), or 'Ainy ("my eye") ; but as soon asstand fivm at heart yourself for the Master, and he develops a marked characteristic, he is stampthatyou render this as the best service you can ed with a new name. If he is fi-actious and uiioffer.And He -ivill bless you so.- He will make manageable, he is called Wahsh ("wUd beast") ;youv silence vocal, youv love penetrating, youv influ- if stubbovn, he is called Dubb ("bear") ; if cunencestrong to win. There can be no doubt that in ning and sly, he is called Thalib ("fox"); ifmost famUies this kind of service "wiU be the best gentle and docile, he is called Khavouf (" lamb ").and most appvopviate, fov it is a fact not easUy ex- As the child is fathev to the man, so the peculiarplained,yet unquestionable, that the law of spivit- ities of the boy sometimes become the habits ofual vesevve holds nowhere so strongly as within the youth, and the old name sticks to the man.the circle of the famUy, and in relation to those By courtesy, however, tbe youth on reachiiigwho ave neavest and most loved. To them, last man's estate is bonoved liy the name Abuof all, can wovds be .spoken on personal veligion, ("father"). He may be designated " the fathevand the things of God. Each in choosing how to of a red beard ;" ov "the fathev of a tongue,"ifact in this mattev, must be ftillypevsuaded in bis he be a great talkev ; ov "the fathev of hoI•sôwn mind, seeking wisdom from above, and U shall manship," if he be a hard vider ; but, as a rule,be given him.—Bev. Alexander Raleigh, D. D. he receives such a name as Ibvahim, ov AbiiSIGNIFICANCE IN ORIENTAL NAMES. ^^^''''^'' '" anticipation of the tune when heshall have a smi Abraham ov Jacob. Should he" What's in a name ?" is an Occidental ques- live an obscuve and colovless life, he is likely totion, asked in a metallic age, and addvessed to a be known ouly as the fathev of his son to the endpvactical people, who weav their names withont ofthe chaptev.any vefevence to theiv chavactevs. The Anglo- We know nothing of the early life of the patri-Saxon WiUiam calls his eldest son, William', and arch Abvani, ov what names be may have bomedistributes ancestral epithets among the vest of in his youth. When he fivst appeaved on thehis chUdven with as little vefevence to theiv dis- stage of Bible bistovy he was sixty years of age,positions as the labels on his boxes beav to theh and then be bad alveady attained to the loftycontents. In the West we ave caUed bynames name, " Father of highness," or " Exalted father."simply to facilitate recognition, and that we may The life and deeds that had won that name hadanswer -(vhen we ave called. On the same \mw\- made bim liy far tbe gveatest mau in the Bast,pie, we have family names and .suvnames ; and so and to the pvcscnt da" be is by fav the o-vandest

human personage in the whole Oriental laudscape.at his birth. The event had avrived for whichMore than Alfred to the English, ov the astute Eliezev had gone on his matrimonialWashington to the Americans, is the patriaveh inission to Havan, Isaac, the son of SarahAbraham to the Ovientals.The whole Orient is full of traditions thai have(" princess"), fitlymavried the daughter of MUcah("queen"), and she had been given to him to begrown np around the name of Abraham. At "the mother of thousands of miUions." Theevery Bedawy camp-fire, he is the theme of legend,marriage had been the business of the whole emisacred and heroic. Shrines dedicated to grant tribe, and the thoughts of all were concen-the "Friend of God" (KhaliluUah) abound on tvated on the bivth about to be. The breath ofevery side ; aad the people of Damascus, for instance,prophecy had stirred regarding the children to betalk famiharly of the good King Abrabom—one set of traditions say by the voice ofham, who humbled the proud and showed mevcy Shem ; others by that of Melchizedek—but moreto the fallen ; while their own Amawee Khalee-likely the message Avas delivered by Abraham, theprophet-priest of the tribe whose faith was flxedfehs, and Suleymans are fast falling into oblivion.Even Muhammed himself, with his seedy andblood-stained record, is a shady chavacter in theeyes of his foUowers beside the chivalrous Fathevof the Faithful.Significance iu Oriental Names. 99follower centered in the blessing to be vouchsafed.Abvam the exalted father had heavd aniong A heavy responsibiUty rested on the simple andthe moon-woishipevs of Ur and Haran a Diviue illiterate but believing women, wbo met that dayguiding voice, and he came out of the conflict in Sarah's tent, and presided at the birth of thewith the ^knowledge of a personal and a holy twins. They had awaited theiv summons withGod as his friend. Abvam, the exalted fathev, intense expectancy, and they noted evevy circumstancebecame Abraham, the father of a multitude, whoin Egypt, in the desevt, aniong the Canaanites with more than the revevence of superstition.They were engaged in the manufacture of sacredand other iia.tions of the world, continued to be history, and they were true to the trust.witnesses of the one living and true God. Inconflict, as the friend of God, Abvam becamestrong, heroic and holy ; and Abraham, victoriousthrough faith, not only became the fathev ofthe numerous Semitic peoples descended fromhim but of the greater multitudes stiU who are" of like faith with Abraham."The change of name was thus made not onlyto foreshadow the patriavch's natuval velations toEdomites, Ishmaelites, and Isvaelites, but also tomark him out as the spiritual father of aU thosewho are " Abraham's seed and heirs according tothe promise" (Gal. 3:29). Thus the exaltedfather, the unique central figure among Orientalpeoples, becomes, by perpetual covenant, fathevof the whole hnman famUy in covenant v\ath God,Jacob received his name from a simple incidentin the promise. The eternal covenant hung onthe fvuit of the womb about to be revealed ; andthe hope of every black tent and every campJacob's name lent itself to evevy phase of hisdeveloped charactev. He was the " heel-seizev,"the "comev after or behind," the " tripper-up,"the "supplanter," the "deceiver." The namecovered the act of base selfishness by which thebirth-right of a starving man was secured for amess of pottage, and it included the cunning cvueltyof deceiving his father and robbing his brother."Is not,'' said Esau (Gen xxvn. 36), "he rightlynamed Jacob ? fov he hath supplanted me thesetwo times ; he took away my bivth-vight; and, behold,now he hath ta.ken away my blessing."Unlike Abvaham, the greater patriarch, Jacobcontinued to be caUed by his old as well as by hisnew and nobler name, and ihis may serve to indicatetbat the grace given to Israel did not all aionce change the character of Jacob, as is clear

100 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.from the suppleness of his language on meeting " Bring back the colors !" so we cry, distrustful.Esau, and from his favoritism in his own family. ^"'^ P~^ ^^

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad 101said tbat since he had fivst come here he has read He and Doctov ave busy over the Confession ofthe whole Bible. He wishes to come back the Faith. He expresses his desive to lêcoine one offivst evening- Doctor has to spave for him. Hoiv us, and agrees with all that he has heard of ourmuch good a man of his intelligence might do if principles. What is to be done in such a case ?tbe Spivit were given to wôvk in him faith in Of course we do not intend to be preci})itate in theChvist! We musi all be eavnest in prayer fov him. matter, lint in any case it makes one long for theHe saw veadily that it was dishouoving to Cbrist po-\yev of speaking with tongues, for we have noto pray to the saints—even to the Virgin Mavy. common language well i.-nough nndevstood to lie" Fov instance,'' said he, " I am a clerk in Mr. ^\.''n able entively to cinnpvehend one another withoutoffice. He wonlA be justly offended, if a personwanting a favov fvom bim should pass him by, pa^•no attention to bim, and sue to me fov it. That isthe way with the Papists; thev have flve pvayevsto Mavy for every one they have to the Savifniv.''He is convinced that Catholicism is -wrong, and bisquestion uow is, "What is truth?"3d,—Doctov got home late to-night from A dana.This time he took school books and Miss Stervett'sdiploma along to be examined by the ScJwol B,oard,Fov two days they ivied to find and have an audsome jugglery with a mouse pvetendiug that itwas out. He did not dave to say anything untilience with that body. Late on the second day lie had received compensation fov his injuries, fovthe man who was acting fov him found the office should he slight the Government doctor his caseof the Board but at fivstonly the clevk was in. -would be dropped. Last week he veceived his" You must have a gveat deal to do examining all money and divectly sent for Dv. Metheny. jVs yetthe teachevs." " Why no," the man said, "we ha^-e he has been unable to extvact the ball. He washad nothing of the kind to do at all." By and Sabbatb morning until late sevvice time, and hisby the Board appeared iu the person of one man little English girls had to go home withont a lesson.Xt the close ofthe preacliing service Mavy,who asked to be excused for the present. Hemust communicate with the Governor General, as danghtev of Hannah and Feveda Boulad, washe did not know what his duties weve. It now baptized. 1 counted seventy-five of an audience,falls on them to cavvy out theiv part of the law. aud jnst about the close ofthe sevvice, six ov seven7th,—Yesterday was a sample of Doctor's Sabbatbdays. After breakfast the three little Englate, as Doctov had a good many patients aftevwomen -with their cbildren came in. Dinner waslish givis came, and he gave them theiv Bible lessonivith onr older children. He jireaclied on "Waite came Ijaek for their lesson. Before it ivasjiveachiiig. In tbe afternoon Lucy and KatyJohn 1:51 aftev explaining the fivstthree stanzas done Moses Moritz, the young Jew came in, butof the 5th Psalm. Wben pveaching was done, the time fov aftevnoon sevvice came and Doct

102 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.Duse giris were baptized here last week, and about the question of consubstantiation. Hejs nownext week they unite with the chuvch with consentof theiv parents. Tbey have been educatedconvinced that the supper is a memorial ofthe death of Chvist, andthe'Bvead and Wine'arein Miss Taylor's school. At' Zahleh Mv. Fovd is symbols of his body and blood. As soon ashelping Mv. G. in holding continuous meetings,he was convinced himself, he began to argueand they have between five hundred and six huiidvedevevy night, besides full day meetings. "—Under date, March 9, Rev. Henry Eassonwvites fvom Latakia :We have flnally been vequested by urn-Consul at Beivut to proceed in the opeuingof our schools in accordance with theagreement reached at Constantinople. We areto give certificates to ouv teachevs and vequestthe local board of instruction to endorse them, audalso send a copy of each of onr text-books to themfor inspection, accompanied with a schedule ofthe studies pursued in our schools. This we ave has never been very fviendly to us, and, althoughgetting veacly to do, and, if no opposition is made, I'had called on hicQ several times, he had neverouv schools wUl soon be re-opened. There may vetuvued my visit.be delay, but we feel sure of success in the end. When His ExceUency the Patriarch came, weThe leaven of the word is being hid in the gave him aU the honov we conld consistently.hearts of the people, and we feel that it is I met him at the harbor and called on himworking.in the city at the house of the Bishop. ThisYou will remember that 1 mentioned in my last was on Saturday, and on Monday he returnedmy call, and tbe Bishop seeing that thisletter a visit to the viUage of Iiikzek where weopened a school last fall. The teacher is theonly son of one of Rev. S. Lyde's servants. I nowsend yon the tvanslation 'of a letter received fromone of our overseers, who has just returned froma visit to that village." According to your request I went to Inkzekand staid there eight days. The school, praisebe to God, is prospering. It contains twentyeightpupUs ten of whom have finished Brown'squestion book, and have memorized thirteen pagesof the Shorter Catechism. I charged the teacherto drill the pupils well in the Shorter Catechism."The house was full of people every night from5 P. M. to about midnight. We began eachevening by reading a chapter from the word ofGod and prayer. Then opportunity was given toany one to ask questions on any subject thattroubled them. We tried to sho-w them the falseness-of the traditions of men, and many of thosepresent professed conviction of the trnth. OuSabbath our subject was Rom. 12:1. I explainedthe word accovding to the grace given me."The following persons declared themselves witbus, tbe father and mother of the teacher and fourothers, of whom Aboud Saroor had been troubledwUh his father and the priest of the viUageon the subject."On my way home I spent the night at theyiUage of Guniiiieyeh; a large crowd gathered atthe house of Tadoor, we had prayers and a longtalk on religions subjects; all seemed pleased.Tbey want a school here very much. Tadoor'swhole family wish to join us. I will teU you morewhen I sec you, etc.— 'ha El Hauranie."The new Greek "Patriarch of Antioch"-wholives at Damascus is making a tour of his Patriarchate,and is in Latakia at present.You -nnll remember that the Bishop of Latakianewr Patriarch yas a man of peace, made a pubhcapology for past shortcomings and promised tobegin anew, and asked me to overlook the past.I invited the Patriarch to visit om- Latakiaschools duving his stay heve, and last Monday(Mavchi) he came, and with him the bishops ofLatakia, Beivut and Hamah, and all the pviestsof Latakia and hundveds of the people.AVe had ouv sch(.)ols all gatheved hi our chapel.Boarding pupilsSoDay pupils 226306The jHipils were prepared for the occasion witha few original pieces of prose and poetry. Theexercises began with an addvcss of welcome inFveiicli; then followed addresses on "Love andUnity," on the words of Jesus ''Learn of me,"etc. One class of givls vecited a Psalm; anothervecited an appvopviate \-erse in poetry, and presenteda JMctvical Psalm Book to the Patriarch,and to each of the Bishops present. After an addvcssof thanks to the Patviavch for his visit toom- schools, he expressed his gratification at the

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 103kindness and good will ihe Mission had shown Martin Luiher, the great reformer, and afterhim personally since his arrival in Latakia, and for Dr. McLean, the pastor of the First Congrethegood work we were doing in the town, and gational Churoh, ofwbich Jee Gam is a memespeciallyamong the Nnsaireyeh in the mountains, ber. The word ' Yien ' in this child's name.From the school he went up and caUed ou Miss means ' God's grace.'Wylie and Miss Edgar. , " The youngest child is only seven monthsHe spent about three hours wiih us, and seemed old. His name is Jee Shin Boo Morrison.much pleased with aU he saw and heard. The The word ' Boo' means ' seed sower,' andBishop again repeated his desire to be bettev the name of Morrison is given in memory offriends in the future.Dr. Morrison, the first Protestant missionaryI do not know as this wiU interest you much, to China, and the translator ofthe bible frombut we feel that the Patriavch's visit instead of English to Chinese.hindering as I feared when I heard of his coming,wiU be a great help to ns in our wovk."All of Jee Gam's children have been baptised,and are consecrated io missionary work.The above newspaper clipping does noi tellA CHINESE CHRISTIAN.all about Jee G-am that is -worth knowing. IEditor Herald:—Here is a clipping from the have been familiarly acquainted with him forOakland (Cal.) Enquirer, which wili be read about ten years, and I take pleasure in sayingwith interest by all who rejoice in the conversionof the heathen. The article is headed, tian that has made great attainments. Andihai he is a man of great worth and a Chris"Jee Gam's Children," and reads thus : he is a monument of the power of religion, ofThis morning ihe usual quiet routine of the power of Christianity, and of ihe power ofihe Police Court and ihe apathetic indifference individual effort to save individual souls. Forof ih

iMmBBMTB IM M i m m MEsiwm^FAITHFUL UNDER TRIAL. son now ihan I was before I became a Christ-There is scarcely a man, woman, or child ian? I do not gamble ; I do not smoke opium;among the four thousand, four hundred I keep myself pure, and love you a hundredChrisiians in Canton, who has not been ex- fold more ihan ever." Unable io understandposed to reproof, calumny, injustice, or phjsi- the change ihat had come over him, she wouldcal violence, because of his religion. The say, " I would rather have you a gambler, anmildest form in whioh it comes is that of opium smoker, a profligate, ihan to have youpersonal abuse and verbal reproaches ior the a Christian." All the best feelings of lovesake of Christ.and reverence whioh his Christianity had kin-A young man of unusual talent and good died toward his mother made the bitterness offamily was brought to study the word. His her reproaches harder to bear ; but he remainedattendance at the chapel resulted in his ac- firm,professed his faiih, and is an active memceptanceofit as the word of life, but the habit ber and an ornament to the church in that city.of using opium stood in ihe way of his recep- Trials of another kind also beset his path. Astioninto ihe church. His full conviction of soolated with his father in business, his dutythe truth was shown on the occasion of an was often to entertain the richer customersidol procession, in whioh a popular local tbat came. The passing of the opium-pipedivinity was carried back and forth from his forms an important part of polite entertainshrineto call down rain upon the parched mentjthisas a Christian he could not do.earth. Ascending a platform near the hotel His refusal was taken as a slight, and businesswhere the idol was temporarily received, he began to fall off, so that his father becameboldly denounced the folly and uselessness of alarmed, and accused him of neglecting tbesuch ceremonies, proclaiming the sovereignty interest of the firm. He has stood the test ofof the one true God, in whose hands were the these trials, and is now in a position where hedestinies of all men, and who gave " to all is full master of his own time and conduct.men life and breath and all things." He was —Tlie Cross and the Bragon.interrupted by the jeers of some companions, „who demanded of him, " How much do th^ R E E KINDS OF ATHEISTS.ministers pay you for such harangues?" He Ayoung clergyman came to the house ofreplied that, so far from receiving anything his sister and found quite a company roundfrom them, he was not yet a member of the ihe table—among them a talkative miUtarychurch ; but he knew the doctrine they gentleman, who rather freely flavored his witpreached was true, and was urged by an un- with perverted Bible quotations and anticontrollableimpulse to proclaim it to the Christian inuendoes. A bantering remarkpeople. SpirUual help was given him to about God that amounted to no less than abreak off the opium habit, and tbe way thus parade of his atheism aroused the hostess atopened for his baptism. His father was indif- laat. " You seem to forget that my brotherferent; but his mother opposed him in every here is a minister of the Gospel," she said.way. She would hide his shoes and clothes, " Oh ! " quoth the unabashed officer, " myso ihat he was often late at ths service or clerical friend and I understand each other;"dressed in laborer's clothes. She would plead and turning to the young man, with patronizwithhim to return to his old ways; and he ing impudence he asked, " Is it not so sir?would answer, " Mother, am I not a better Your ofiice requires you to teU the old s'tory,

" Friends ofi the Heathen." —" He Belongs lo Me.' 105which for the ignorant may do very well to be- pressions wbich youthful minds are capablelieve, but as a man of culture you yourself can- receiving:not put faith in these worn out doctrines." " Dear Heathen :The clergyman eyed his questioner a mio- " The Lord Jesus Ohrist hath promiseduie, and then said, "• Sir, before answering ihat the time shall oome when all the ends ofyonr qnestion I must ask you three. Yoa are the earth shall be His Kingdom. And Godan atheist. Suoh people have always been in is not man that He should lie, nor the sonthe world. One class of these are thinkers of man that he should repent. And, if ihiswho have speculated and groped till they have was promised by a Being who cannot lie, whyfallen into despair, and said, ' There is no do you not help it to oome sooner by readingGod.' Do you belong to ihat class ? " "No," the Bible, and attending to ihe words of yourlaughed ihe officer, " thinking is not to my teachers, and loving God, and, renouncingtaste. I am no philosopher." your idols. Take Christianity into your tem-"Another class are those who speak irivo- pies, and soon there will be not a Nation ;lously of God merely because they learned to no, not a space of ground as large as a footdoit where sucb talk was the fashion. Are step that will want a missionary. My sisteryou one of them ? " " No, sir," said the ofli- and myself have, by small self-denials, prooer,slightly reddening; "lam not a blind cured 2 dollars which are enclosed in thisfollow'sr of others."letter to buy tracts and Bibles to teach you."There is but one more class of atheists,'" Akchibald albsandee Hodge.quietly continued ihe minister, " those who" MART Eliz. Hodse.have wallowed in sin till ihey must either ex-" Friends of tlie Heathen"pect ihe horrors of remorse or kill iheir con- How many of the Sunday-school childrenscience; and, as the shortest way to get rid who read the above oan say they are "friendsofit, ihey declare that ihere is no God." This of the heathen ? " How many are learningtime the clergyman did not utter bis question; io deny themselves tbat they may have morebui the eyes of ihe whole company turned on money to buy Bibles 1 — The Banner, ofthe confused scoffer, made question and Boyleston, Pa,answer needless.—-Briîsfe Messenger.,, ^j, BELONGS TO ME."" FRIENDS OF THE HEATHEN." ^„ .^^^l^.^t minister m the state of NewA letter, yellow with age, lies on the table. Jersey, the late Dr. E. Phelps, who died atIt bears date June 23, 1833, and was sent to the age of ninety, acted through his pas-India in the care of Rev. Dr. .James R. Eo- toral life on a principle which he expressedkard, then a missionary in that far away land, thus, "The man who belongs nowhere belongsIt was written by a boy ten years old. That to me, and I must give an account of him."boy became a missionary himself—was a pastor One oi the wealthiest men in his neighborinthis country—and was esteemed the most hood was believedio be unapproachable on theeminent theologian of his day. Recently subject of religion. The minister, not dauntedArchibald Alexander Hodge heard ihe sum- by the report, called upon him, followed himmonsto a higher service; and" he was not, for into his magnificent garden, and, after disctss-God took him." Subjoined is the child's note ing the fruits ofthe season, iill his host seem-—so suggestive of the strong and correct im- ed io be in good humor, he sat down with bim

106 "It Will Light You Home."—Oriental Gems.on a bench in the arbor and told him his erhanderand. The old man drew himself up and said, back one of them saying, " That is for God'sbim, as usual, ten rupees, he pushedin hackneyed pride, " Sir, my religion Ues betweenme and my God. Wben I feel the need The missionary took it, but wondered muchwork, sir."of other aid I will send for you."how the man, wUo was really poor and had aThe pastor grasped his hand and replied, large family, would get on without it. Meetinghim two or three weeks after the bazaar,"My friend, you and I may both be in eternitylong before that time. I cannot afford to he asked how they were doing. Instead ofwait, if you oan."In three minutes the sinner of sixty yearswas weeping like a child." IT WILL LIGHT YOU HOME."Being about to return by a narrow paththrough the woods where paths diverged, Iwas provided with a torch of light wood, or" pitch pine.'' I objected; ifc was too small,weighing not over half a pound."It will light you home," answered myhost.I said, " The wind may blow it out."He said, " It will light you home."" But if it should rain 1" I again objected." It will Ught you home," he insisted.Contrary to my fears, it gave abundant lightto my path all the way home, furnishing anapt illustration, I often think, to the way in" I will tell you the secret. Before my conversionthere was just one ot us at work; nowwhioh doubting hearts would be led safely there are two always together—myself andalong the " narrow way." If they would takeChrist. So I easily get ihrough my work."the Bible as their guide, it would be a lampDo you feel that, believer, with respect toto their feet, leading to the heavenly bome.your duties 1—Br. A. A. Bonar.One man had five objections to the Bible.If he would take it as a lamp to his feet, ii ORIENTAL GEMS.would "light him home." Another told me hehad two faults to find with the Bible. I answeredbim in the words of my good friendwho furnished the torch, " It wUl light youhome."—American Messenger.THE SAME THE WORLD OVER.A Hindoo Christian agent, who used to bealways grumbling at the smallness of his salary,made up his mind to give one-tenth toGod. So next pay-day, when the missionarygrumbling, as usual, tbe man answered cheerfully," Well, thank you, sir."" Then tell me how it is that you, whoused to always grumble when you were spendingyour ten rupees a month on yourself, nowdo so well with only nine."" Because, sir, nine-tenths with Gud'sblessing is better than ten tenths without it.""WITH ME."You know the story of the Kaffir Christianwho could not find time, before his conversion,even on the Sabbath day, for anything butsecular work. When be was converted, hewas never absent from the service, even on aweek-night. When some of his old friends upbraidedhim with his former words, he said,He who is able to refrain trom forming fourtraits, will never be despised, viz : importunity, haste, dUatoriness and conceit. The fruitof importunity is perplexUy, the fruit of hasteis repentance, the fruit of dUatoriness is contemptand the fruit of conceit is anger.A fowler was catching birds on a cold day,and as he killed them the tears rolled downhis cheeks. Then one bird said to another," Tbere is no danger. See how th« manweeps 1 " 'The other answered, " Don't judgehim by his tears, but by what he does."

After May 1, the address of Herald ofMission News wUl be 126 West 45th St., NewTork.The committee appointed by New YorkPresbytery to engage a man to labor as evangelistin connection with the New York andBrooklyn churches, have raised ihe necessaryfunds and .secure,the services of one of our licentiates,Mr. I.M. McElhenny, who wUl enter uponhis work early in May.Miss Lilian B. Joseph, of Hopkinton, la ,who was appointed missionary teacher to Mersine,inthe Fall of 1886, left home for her neldof labor on April 14th. She aud Miss WiUaDodds, who has accepted the invitation of Dr.Metheny to visit Tarsus Mission for ihree orfour years, will sail for Liverpool in a fewdays.In our next number we will publish an excellentarticle on Medical Missions from thepen of Rev. A. P. Happer, M. D., D. D. Hsprepared it at our request for Herald of MissionNews, with the expectation that it couldbe printed on the date of its appearance in theSunday School Times, to whioh he had promiseda copy. This we have been unable to do ;but the paper will appear in the followingnumber, and, we are sure, will be read withspecial interest.At a meeting of the Board of ForeignMissions, March 29, J. M. Balph, M. D., ofRose Point, Pa., was unanimously chosen^$Us Mil imtm.medical missionary io Latakia. In accepting We note in oar foreign exchanges a proposalto hold in London next year a Generalthe appointment, the writer says, "AlthoughfeeUng my unfitness tor so important a position,I accept it as coming from Him, whose held in 1878. The oommittee appointed toConference on Foreign Missions, similar io thatthe work is,, trusting in His guidance, and make necessary arrangements have issued anlooking to Him for strength that I may faithfullydischarge required duty." Dr. Balph ihai " there has never been a time since theaddress, in whioh they express their belief,wiU leave for his new fieldof labor in August, days of ihe apostles, when it was of more urgentimportance ihan it is now, ihat all if nothing unforeseen occurs io prevent his dewhoparture at that time. We are confident thatour new missionary with his devoted wife andchildren, wili have the sympathy and prayerof the whole church.This number of the Herald opens witha brief, but thoughtful, paper on " Openings forChristian Work in China," from the pen ofRev. C. B. Henry, who has been for ten ortwelve years a missionary in Canton. Duringa recent visit to tbis country, fhe writer gaveto ihe Churoh a volume with the suggestivetitle, The Cross and the Bragon ; or Light inthe BraadEast. We have already taken an incidentor two from its pages, preparatory to afuller notice. After careful perusal, we donot hesitate to say that the work is invaluableto those who wish to make themselves acquaintedwith the extent, progress, and presentrequirements of the missionary enterprisein China. In the private letter that accompanieshis article, after wishing this Magazinesuccess and prosperity, and generously promisingan occasional letter or brief article onChinese missionary topics, Mr. Henry says," I trust your church will not give up theidea of establishing a mission in China." Thissingle sentence from one on the ground, whosees openings for the spread of ihe truih inevery direction, and realizes the pressing needof help, should lead our churoh to enquirewhether she is doing all that present opportunitiesand ability demand for the furtheranceof the Gospel.

108 Notes a-nd Bevieivs.love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity shouldlabor in the unity ofthe spirit, and the bondof peace, in order that the 'gospel of the Kingdomof God ' may be carried ont into all theworld, and preached unto every creature."That is true. Nothing is more inimical to theinterests of true religion than sectarianism ;and so we should pray, not simply forgreater harmony among Christians ofevery name, but in the language ofour covenant " for the visible onenessof the Churoh of God in our own landand throughout the world, on the basis of truthand of soripitual order." The Church thnsunited would soon have the world at the feetof Christ. Then only can the question beasked in its full significance: " Who is shethat looketh forth as the morning, fair as thereap benefit in our counselings together frommoon, olear as the sun, and terrible as an armywith banners 1" This is the express tesol the Master.bis extended experience, he received the calltimony ofour Lord Himself: "Neither pray Especially do we feel his death to be ourI for these alone, but for them also which loss, since bis judgment had ripened in theshall believe on me through their word ; that school of Christian experience and his heartthey all may be one; as thou, Father, art in was filled with a longing desire for the ingatheringof souls.Me and I in Thee, that they also may be onein Us ; that the world may believe that Thou In his removal, we recognize the loss of onehast sent Me."of the oldest, truest and most earnestRESOLUTIONS OF LATAKIA MISSION.Besolved:—That we tender our gratefulacknowledgments to the American Bible So-•ciety* for their many kindnesses to us, and especiallyfor their generous supply of Bibles tobe distributed among the Ansaireyeh. TheScriptures are able to make wise unto salvation; they that sow the good seed shall receivean abundant harvest.Besolved:—That we also tender our sincereand heartfelt thanks to Dr. I. G. BUss for hisnntiring efforts on our behalf.Besolved:—That we gratefully aokno-wledgethe kindness ofthe British Tract Society,tandtender them our thanks forthe liberal grant ofbooks which they send us eacb year.Besolved.-—That a copy of these resolutionsbe sent to fhe American Bible Society, to Dr.I.G. Bliss, and to Heeald of Mission Ne-^s.In the name ofthe Mission,Mattie R. Wtlib,March 1,1887.Secretary.MINUTE ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM WALKER.It is with sorrow that we record our senseof the loss sustained by us in the death of ourbeloved Brother, William Walker.j'ust at the time when we were hoping tofriends of our Foreign Mission work.May the death of this loving wise-heartedBrother cause us to draw nearer to Him whoalone can give ns fhe wisdom whicb comethfrom above and which is profitable to direct.May his work and watchfulness for themanifestation of tbe Saviour's glory in thesalvation of the souls of men, bring a quickeningto our lives as we go forward in ihis greatservice of the Lord.March 29, 1887.J. K. McClurkin.T. P. STEVENSON.Committee.'This Society also pays lial f tlie wages ol our Colpor t Our Mission receives yearly from this Society books toteur.tlio yalue ot £0 stg.

PUBLISHED WITH IHE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHUROH,r. «. A.#ttv Wxm^ 0! i|Ti^î0tt ^ m I ,this prophecy "he healed all tbat weve sick ; "he " bare our sicknesses by healing tbem.''The trnth that the healing of the sick and thevelieving of the bodily snffevings of men was a pavtof the work of our Lovd as the Messiah, is alsoMEDICAL MISSIONS.ave cleansed, and the deaf heav, the dead areraised up, and the poor have the gospel preachedRev. A. P. Happer, M. D., D. D.to them." This passage teaches us that theThe scviptuval warrant for medical missions, healing of the sick -was as truly an integral pavtand the obligation to heal the sick in mission pf the evidence of tbe Messiahship of ouv Lovd,work, is clear and unmistakable. Ouv blessed as is the fact that "to the poor the gospel isLovd and Saviouv, who is in all things ouv expveached.ample,went about healing the sick, opening the We are not, howevev, left to move infevence aseyes of the blind, and causing the lame to walk. to the duty of disciples of Chvist to heal tbe sick.This was not done by ouv Lord luevely as a manifestationof his commisevation fov tbe suffevevs, apostles and the seventy disciples, he gave bothWhen ouv blessed Saviouv sent forth the twelvebnt as an integval pavt of his mission as the companies the express command " to heal theMessiah. In Matthew 8:16, IT, it is said : siek," Matthew 10 : T, 8, reads thus : " As ye" He cast out the spivits -\yith his word and go, preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is athealed all that weve sick that it might be fulfil ed hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the-which was spoken by Isaiah the pvophet, saying. dead, cast out devils : freely ye have veceived,Himself took our infirmities, and bave ouv sicknesses."This passage pvesents the tvuth that ijnmecliate connection with the command to healfveely give.'' It is to be obsevved that it is init was foretold of the Messiah that, as a pavt of the sick that the injunction is given, " Fveely yehis work, he " himself took our infirmities, and have received, freely give." While this injnnctionbound the apostles to make known the bare our sicknesses,'' and that in fulfilment ofgospelwhich they had fveely veceived, it equallyenjoined npon them to heal the sick, the powev todo which they had also fveely veceived. Theduty to iiiipavt to othevs what has been fveely receivedis the same, w^hethev these blessings cometaught in Matthew 11 : 4, .5 : "When John the miraculously, as they did to the apostles andBaptist had heavd in the prison the works of early Christians, ov whethev they come in tbe ordinavypvovidence of God, as tbey do to us.Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said untohim, Art thou he that should come, ov do we It is also to be cavefuUy considered that ouvlook for anothev ? " meaning to ask explicitly if Lovd, in his infinite wisdom, chose the incidenthe was the expected Messiah. " Jesns answeved of rendering assistance to bodily distvess to teachand said unto them, Go and shew .lohn again us the gveat lesson of who is ouv neighbor, or thethose things which ye do heav and see : the blind common brotherhood of all men. The beautifulreceive their sight, aud the lame walk, the lepers and impressive parable of tbe good Samaritan

110 Our Vieirn qf Mhtiion 'IVori:has inculcated the duty of veHeviiig the sufferings thei' had no coimectioi) either by kin.ship, raceof ouv fellow-men more effectively than all other veligion.teaching on the subject. The fvuits theveof ave ft is a very veniavkable fact thut scientific andseen in the hospitals and the dispeusavies fov the healtb-giving medical and suvgical pvactice ishealing of the sick, the societies for theveliefof fonnd on]y in tliose lands wlieve ('hvistianity hasthe snffering and the distressed, the asylums for lieeonie establislied. It may therefore be acceptedthe halt, the lame an'd the blind, whicii are found that vatioiial and beneflcial medical and suvgicalwherever the gospel of Jesus Chvist has been ve- science and skUlave blessings which come divectlyceived ; arid they ave only found where the teach- in the jn'ovidence of (iod, as many othev blessingsings of the gospel ave accejited. do, fvom the gosjiel. The pvoniise of our LovdThe parable of the Good Samaritan teaches is : " Seek first the kingdom of (i-od and Irisus the duty of veheving the Ijodily distresses and righteonsness, and al! tbiuji-s w'l]] be added niitusnffevings of ouv fellow-men in heathen lands as a you.'' does not this fact u'ive special force tnduty we owe to ouv neighbovs because they ave tbe injniiction of ouv Lord, oviginally given iuin distvess. The Jew who had fallen amoii.i;- innnediate connectiou with the coininand to healthieves was not connected with the good Siiniar- the sick, in its application tci us iu (.Chvistianitan either by vace or veligion. But he wus a lauds, "Freely ye have veceived, freely give " ?fellow-man. He was hi distress. The fact came in the light ofthe example and of these teachtothe knowdedge of the Sainavitan, and, having iugs of onr Lovd, it is clearly a duty tti use meditheopportunity and the means of doing so, be cal missions, not only as a help to preaching therelieved his suffering. The command of onr gos].)el, but as a duty in itself to evidence the traeLord is, "Go thou and do likewise." Tbis en- natuve of Clivistauity, wbich teaches ns to lorejoins upon ns to aftbrd assistance to the snffeving otlievs as ciuvselves, and to do go

Our Views of M'luîon Work. Illness by velieving sufiering by pnUing teeth. He des- Wbat a heavenly idea ! When 1 mentioned thicribes the crowds that often line the road he is to my dear sistev, the fivst qnestion she askedtvaveling, waiting his coming, that they may lia\(' me was simply this, 'How can I wovship tbistheiv teeth extvacted, eithev by his assistants ov lady, with flowers and sandal-wood ?' With somehimself. In most pavis of China, whenevev it difficnlty 1 explained to hev that Hev ExceUencygets noised abvoad that a European physician is Lady Dufferin would not like, though she maywilling to heal, multitudes come to lum fov rehef «'ell desevve, to be included among ouv inytholfromthe various ills and sicknesses that afHict ogy.'' (Rei>ovt of ovganizatioii ofthe Nationalthe people.Association fov India, etc.).In India, the National Association, which was Other uative pvinces and vulevs of nativeproposed by Lady Duttevin at the suggestion of states in India spoke wovds of like impovt, bothQueen Victovia, to pvovide female medical atten- as to tbe need of medical and suvgical tveatmentdanceforthew-omen of India, has been welcomed for the wôinen of that land, and the wondevfulby many of the native pvinces and othev influen- blessing U would be to those suffeving multitudes.tial people of India with wondevful intevest and The testimony of inissionavies iu China, Kovea,unanimity. They crowded in large mimbevs to the Siam, India, Pevsia,Tnvkey, and Africa ' is unimeetingsw-hich weve,held to fuvthev the forma- form and abundant as to the wide-spread and iivtiouof the Association. Some of them spoke at gent need of medical tveatment in all these lands ;these meetings, with great earnestness and uv- so that this point may be considered as sufhcieiitlygency, ofthe importance and necessity of snch established. But one such testimony may beprovision being made. It is their deep couvic- quoted. In TJie National Baptist, of Philadeltionof the need of such velief that leads them to phia, the following pavagvaph appears : " Two ovwelcome it. One of the native pvinces. Rajah three yeavs ago, wdien ouv gifted sistev. MissSiva Pvasad ofthe novthwest province of India, Adele M. Fields, was descvibiug, at Chautauqua,in seconding a vesolution in favor of the fovma- the feet-binding of the female chUdven of China,tion of the Association, said: "Here is a new many ladies had to leave the room; they couldera which India is now entering iuto. The Hin- "ot endure tbe hearing of it. And yet, whatdus hitherto took their women as pavt and pav- women in this land cannot bear to hear, millionseel of theiv property, as goods and chattels. They of women in heathendom have to endure. Oneshowed their pity hi buUding hospitals, in Bom- •^'^wi scarcely endure to heav the accounts of thebay and Calcutta, fov mosquitoes, and fov snakes mmttevable anguish inflicted upon women inandscovpions ; bnt if theiv mothevs, wUio bove them the couvse of what is caUed mecUcal tveatment in, and who nuvsed them when they weve helpless Burmah and Japan.''babies, are unfortunately attacked with some dis- Thegreat advantage wdiich the healing of theease, they ave allowed to die a clog's death vather sick is in helping to make known the gospel, is prethanexpose them to a doctor's gaze or touch, sented in scviptuval nari-atives. It was by veasonNow, here comes a lady fvom other shoves of the ofthe healing oflli-J man who was lame fvomsea, full of sympathy and compassion fov ouv his bivth, as velated in the third chaptev of Acts,women, ouv reveved mothers and davliug daugh- that so large a multitude gatheved together iuters. The noble lady, the noblest of the noble Solomon's Porch, and gave Peter and John such[Lady Duft'evin], shows that wonien have souls, a favorable opportunity to preach to them, withthat they are sentient beings, that they also de- the vesnlt that five thousand believed.sevve to'be looked aftev, What a noble thought ! It is unpossible to compUe a complete enumeva-

112 Onr Vieici< qf Mifimm Work.tion of the very many instances in the expevieuce patients. Provision is also made to prescribe foof missionai-ies where special facilities for propag- all outdoor applicants. In all these different waysating the gospel have come through the healing this medical -work not only gives much relief fromof the sick by medical missionaries. In some physical sufiering and clistress, but it always andcases, the liberty to remain in the country to very efficiently helps in the making known ofpreach the gospel bas been obtained through the the go,spel, not only to the patients themselves,healing of the sick. The most remarkable as but to others. In the large hospitals at Cantonwell as the most vecent instance happened some and Swatow theve have been patients in the hostwoyeavs ago last Decembev, in Kovea. During pitals fvom several hundred difterent viUages anda riot in the capital city, a nuinber of officers of towns, in the couvse of a year. Many of them,the government weve -vvounded, as well as many during their stay in the hospital, have learned thesoldiers. Among the wounded officers was a way of salvation ; and when tbey return to theirnephew of the king. In consequence of healing vUlages, where perhaps no missionary has everthese wounded men and officers. Dr. Allen has ob- been, they have told " the old, old story of retainedspecial facilities in tbat exclusive and se- deeming love." In many cases, they have writelusiveland. The king has established, and lie ten for the missionavy to come to the villages.suppovts a hospital, which is undev Dr. Allen's And in not a few instances it has led to the coiiichavge.mencement of Chvistian wovk in these vUlages.In China, the healing of the wife of the prime- But pevhaps the most vemarkable outcome otministev of China by Miss Dr. Howard and Dr. medical missions, after so shovt an experience ofMackenzie led the pvime-ininistev to establish two the -wovk, is that which has lia])pened in Indiahospitals,—one for Chinese men, which has been during the last two years. In no country hasnnder the cave of Dv. Mackenzie ; and the othev theve lieeii more snffeving among the people, esfovwomen,which has been undev the cave of Miss pecially among the hundved and twenty mUhoiisDv. Howard. Evevy medical mis,siouavy ma)- not of the women, thau in Iiuha, fov the want ofexpect to meet-with such exceptional vesults. But proper medical practice. In 1,^70, the firstfemaleit may be stated as a very general rule, almost medical missionavy was sent to India. Othev ladywithout an exception, that tbe healing of the sick physicians have lieen successively sent theve fi-omby missionavies gveatly facUitates the ilisseniina- tbe United States and Gveat Bvitain. In 1885tion of the gospel. This work is cavvied on iu theve weve some twenty-two lady physicians iuvavious-ways and undev different circumstances, dift'event pavts of the countvy. In 1885, LadySome missionaries cavvy a supply of the most Duffevin, the wife of the g(.ivei-noi--geueval, tookcommon medicines with them when they go out measnves, liy the special suggestion of Queen Victhroughthe viUages, and prescribe for such sick toria, for the organization of "The Nationalpersons as they meet with. Some have a supply Association for Providing Medical Attendanceof medicines on haud in the preaching halls or for the wonien of India." Lady Dutteriu stateddispensaries, and prescribe fov those who come to in the prospectus whicii was published explainingthem ; ov they g(j to the houses of the diseased the object of the pvoposed .Vssociatini, aud uvgandsuft'eving ones when tbey are sent for. Wlieve ing all to co-opevate in its formation' that thisthe missions have been long established, aud iu effort was the direct outcome ofthe labovs ofthelarge cities, well-appointed haspitals have been female medical missionaries anion- the woiiieu ofprovided. Here provision is made to accommo India, duving these lifteen yeavs; fov theiv successdate indoor patients, whethev surgical or diseased had established tbe tm-ts and made them known,

Items of Missionary Intelligence.H.Sshowing that the pvoposed object was entively The wife of the viceroy of India is its presidentfeasible. The work of female medical missiona- Among its members ave envoUed not only manyries had shown that the women of India weve of the highest diguitavies of Church and State inwilling to be treated accovding- to Westevn sci- England and India, but also many native pvincesence by physicians of theiv own sex; that they and native gentlemen of wealth and position. Allwere wUling to receive lady physicians in theiv lovers of mankind wUI wish and hope that withown honses, go to the hospitals and dispensaries this great effort to give wômen of India the benwhichwere nnder female doctors, and take»West- efit of a rational and beneficial medical tveatmentevn medicines. Though men physicians had been theve may also be combined a more extended efinIndia for move than a hundved yeavs in com- fovt fov the introduction of the glovious gospel ofmon pvactice, and medical missionavies had been the blessed God among those who have been sotheve fov move than fiftyyears, yet it -oâs not till loug secluded fvom its blessed light aud comfovts.the vesults of the effovts of the female medical Witb these nuinevons testimonies to tlie manymissionavies had made known the above-stated and gveat advantages fvom obeying ouv Lord andfacts, that the fovmatiou of snch an Ass(.iciatioii Saviour's command to heal the sick, may we notwas possible. The nnivevsal concuvvence of all hope that theve will be iiicveased numbers whoclasses and all pvofessions and nationalities in its will go evevywheve preaching the gospel, aud, atfovmatiou shows Avbat a God-send such atteudance the same time, velieving bodily suffeving and disfovthe women of India is consideved. The tvess?Queen of England isthepatvou ofthe Associatiou.Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD. has been opened fov theiv inspection. Our onlyTARSUS MISSION-1886-188T. ^\f """' }'\ f"^^^^^^^ '^""^S Tuvkey, and manyultva-orbcials being o]i]iosed to .such large hbevtieslo die Board qf Foreign Missions:on such easy tevms, they will endeavor to thwavtDear Brethren—With gvatitude to God we us by the many devices in whicii they ave adepts.record the kind providences of another year. Owing to the attitude of the government, whUeTheve has been no death, and vevy little sickness, this question was pending we did not open anyamong us. The Lord has sent a correction on new schools, nor bring new teachevs to keep ouvthe mission, the chuvch, and the people among fovce up to its complement. ]Miss Stevvett'swhom we labor, in allowing the work to be boavding school has held prospevously on, and unputin jeopavdy and lavgely suspended for so dev her efficient and economical management oflong. After much prayer in concert and many hev thirty jiupUs she is doing a gveat, good work,combined effovts, the Lovd has blessed the means suve to vesnlt, in due time, in ac(pusitious to theand answeved onr pvayevs, estalriishing ouv wovk chuvch. We intended to continue the school, iiotona recognized legal basis on move favovable withstanding official ovders fov its closuve, andconditions than we had expected, in&ke it a test case. Tea (.'her Jedeed and hisAccovding- to the new^ vegime, ouv schools ave danghtev, Lulu, have a vevy pvospevous school ofacknowledged officially to have all along been on fovty piipUs—some of them boavdevs—among thea legal (the point at issue) basis, as shown by the Fellaheen of Tarsus.uniform past interpvetatiou of the capitulations As soon as ê caii settle ouv wm-k on the newand the concession of suffvages. As it now stands, scheme, yve hope to have ouv yeavly communion.a teachev, having his certificate or diploma ap- I scarcely think it will lie iu time to vepovt toproved by the Board of Education, and his text-. Synod. Many haye asked admission to thebooks and course of instvuction olficially sane- church. We ave hoping to accept some of themtioned, may, without further formahty, g-ive word at our next Communion Season.to the local authorities of any place that a school On account of buUding last smnmer, I was un-

114 Items of Missionary Intelligence.able to teach the Theological Class, but I amhoping to resume it tbis snminev, iu the mountainswheve we vemove, the girls of the boavdingschool, and hope to have a boavding school fovboys, too, in the inifsion's new house fov tbatpurpose in Guzneh,We have been much liavassed tbe last yeav byof Antioch Avas vetuvning from a brief visit to thiscountvy in 1884, she sent her and the childrensome little presents. In a few months the mailbrought an acknowledgment that is fuU of gratitudeand kindly feeling. Surely there is in suchthe attitude of the Government. The attendanceon pveaching is now beginning again to iinpvove grateful remembrance a large and encouragingmavkedly. The pvospect fov the future seems to vewai'd.ns to be more than usually bvight. The sectsFrom Idlib, ]which all so bittevly oppose us have made manyOx THE 17vH or JuxE, 1885. [malcontents by their policy. Many of these are To the Iwnored lady, Mrs, F.:evev ready to bear the tvuth. Recently a RussianJew of extvaovcUnavy intelligence in the many salaams, I would say that the vespectedAftev asking for youv pleasure, and sending yonBible has indicated his puvpose and desive to be house (family) of Dv. Martin have arrived backbaptized. Last -week for the fivst time, he from tlieir owu countvy to the Avabic countvy inpvayed in the name of Christ whom he now jieace. Aud ^ve are all verv glad at theiv coming.acknowledges intelligently to be the true Messiahtin)on account of the distance between us, audBut I cannot see the face of the Sitt (Mvs. MarThere ave some FeUaheen of pvomise too whom difficulty of tvaveling in this, ouv countvy. Butwe are exi.iectiiig to join us. The othevs are of bis honov, Dv. iiartin, came to see us, and madeChristian sects.us exceedingly glad by his presence. Her honor,We wish to enl-arge Miss Stervett's school uow the Sitt, wrote to me and told me about yonrthat we have the prospect of help. Also we honorable self; and his honov, the Dv., told mewish to have an industrial school in Tavsus about yonr zeal and love and kindness. I amfov boys. We have sent fov a teachev fov j^dana. vevy much obliged fov your kindness to raeThe moneys at our disposal for village schools and my children. They are very precious to raeave still on hand. As soon as possible -we hope indeed," aud I Avould ask that yom- good mayto begin the long hoped fov and much chevished be much increased. How I wish you eould comework. I expect opposition but hope fov success. to our eonntry, to Syria, so that I could look youFovtunately ouv -wovk being in thvee cities -with a iu tbe face, and become acijuainted with you;lavge nuinbev of FeUaheen inhabitants in their immediatesubuvbs, it seems to me to oft'ev gveat facildone heve.and so that you could see the fvnit of youv goodities for mission work, especially as the I\.-ailroad The Doctov spent a Sabbath -with us, and mauyconnects tbem all, making theni easy of access. came to heav him preach, and they weveallI find that inordev to compete in onv schools pleased witb his preaching, and many came backwith the Jesuits and othevs here, -we must have a on the week days and evenings to hear him..French teachev in each of ouv centval schools ami I think yon would like to hear about the placesthus secure a safe litevatuve to tbe young whowould othevwise use Catholic ov infidel literaturefor the sake of the language. Deav Bvetli,venuvge the chuvch to increa.sc die lahorei;-< Noseed evev soavu is so certain of a cvop. Tjct usSQ-w beside other watevs t0(j.FrateniaUy in the Lovd,David ]\Iethenv.—The following translation of au Arabic lettevfvom a former pupil in La,ta,kia Scliool showsthat tbe people among whom our bretliveii arelaboving in Syvia do not fail to appreciate whatis being done for theiv education. A benevolentlady in connection with the Second Chuvch, Philadelphia,contvibuted evevy year to the support ofMiviam whUe at school; and, when Mrs. Martinof my staying. At fivst I was in Latakia withmy mother, (^Mrs. ;Mavtin now), -who brought menil. At lirst I was with her in the school atIjatakia, and I cauuDt describe to you the greatlabor and vexation which she expevieuced intheschool with the FeUaheen givls and othei-s. I^yas the fivstgivl iu bev school hi Latakia, and,slie was the fouudev of the school theve. Afterwavdsit so happened tbat we came to xVutioch,iuiil there also she nsed all hev dihgence to tellthe "glad tidbigs" to the women, and to teachtbem. And 1 Ilid not fiud it hard to come to.Vntioch, and we have never been separated since

sbe came to Syvia, until this year. Xo^y, I andmy famUy have come to Idlib, a town which isabout fifty mUes from Antioch. I hope the Almightywill cause this to be for good, though separationis so hard, and that our coming may befor His glory and the spread and success of HisWord.There are about thirty-five boys iu the schoolhere and some five girls come to me. There weremore than this at fivst, bnt ouv house is in theflcins qf Missionari/ Tnlelligcnce. 115male, who ave assisted by 8 ordained native missiona.vies.Moslem quarter of the to-wn. There ave aboutTheve ave 21 ovganized congregations,six thousand inhabitants iu Idlib. About five aud 70 places where preaching takes place. Thehundved are Greek Christians, and the rest Moslems.immbev of schools is G5, -ivith 126 teachevs, andI pvay God, that He wall bless His work, 5,414 pnpils hi attendance, who pay fov tuitionand make His word a light in the hearts of all and othev fees no less a sum than (in vound figures)who hear.Will yonr honor please give my salaams to allyouv fi-iends who love the Lord's work ?May yon be preserved iu peace.youv daughter and fvieiid,MiRi.iii Abbood.— A covvespondent of the Christiaii World re£300 pev allium. The coinmunicants (allcently spent a Sabbath in Caivo. The followingextvact is from one of his letters :At a valedictory service Avbich was held a fe-wweeks ago in London, to bid "God-speed" to severalmissionaries of the London Missionary Societyabout to proceed to their stations iu India, and China, one of the miinbev w-as Dv. Fahmy, ayoung Egyptian, who had been In-ought up in theMohammedan faith, but who had been led to renounceit, and to accept the veligion of JesusChrist. On becoming a convert to Christianityhis family and friends had cast hun off; but theEarl of Aberdeen, who happened to be in Egyptat the time, brought him ovev to Bdinbuvgh,where he passed through a Medical School, andobtained hi's diploma as a Doctor in Medicine.Desirous of becoming a medical missionary, heoffered himself to the directors of the 'LondonMissionary Society, and, being accepted by them,he has been sent ont to China. Naturally enough,his great longing was to preach Christ to bis owncountrymen ; but the London Missionary Societyhaving no missions in Egypt or Syria, it was notpossible for them to send him thither. Beingaware of these circumstances, the writer resolvedon visiting Cairo, to see for himself something ofwhat is being done by the society which has beenthe instrument of providing the London MissionarySociety with so excellent a vecvuit for itsstaff.The society which has been thns honored is"The American Boavd of Foveign Missions ofthe United I'vesbyterian Ghnvcb," which fov someyeavs past has been wovking in Egypt with a considevablemeasuve of success. The latest statistics,-whieh weve kindly fnvnished to the wvitev by theRev. Dv. Watson, the head of the .EducationalDepavtment in Caivo, are as follows :—The numbev.of American missionavies is 9 male and 6 fenative convevts) number 2,042, showing a net incveaseovev the pi-e\-ious yeav of 199, ov, com-])aved with eleven years back, an iucvease of 1,.366.Those who are interested in Snnday-school wovkiu c(3iinection with missionavy opevations amongthe heathen wUl be ,glad to hear that tbe schoolsave w-ell attended. The Snnday-school at theCentral Chuvch in Caivo commences at 8.30 in themorning, and on the Sunday on -ivhich the writer-was present theve weve in attendance 138 boys,21 men, 18 women, and 65 givls. The totalnumbev on the books fov the yeav 1885, iu 62Sunday-schools, -was 2,649, of whom 1,346 weveadults, and 1,303 were childven. One pavticniavlyencouraging feature in connection witb the workas a whole is the fact that during tbe year 1886the native churches raised fov veligious puvposesthe sum pf 90,878 piasters, or iiearty £950. Thecentval buUdings at Cairo compvise a large schoolvoom,which is used fov day and Sunday schools,and fov reUgious meetings of various kinds, anda church, which seats comfortably 400 persons.On Sunday, Februavy 27, theve eould not havebeen less than 150 men pvesent at the movningsevvice, which commences at 9.15 a.m., and,jndg--ing from tbe sound of the voices in the singing,theve must have been a large attendance of women; but these not only sit by themselves on oneside of the chnrch, but, according to Eastern custom,ther are shut off' from the gaze of the menby a wooden screen, surmounted by a curtain runningfrom end to end. During the service themen kept their head covevings on, which consistedof turbans and the fez, just as Mohammedans and.lews are accustomed to do. The service began witha brief pvayev, w4iich was foUowed by a hymn, a

116 Ilema qf Missionwry Intelligence,metrical version of Psalm Ixxxiv. ; then came thereading of two povtions of Scvipture—one fvomthe Old and the othev fvom the New^ Testament;hfter this theve was anothev and longcv prayev,then anothev hymn ; and then came the sevmon,dowai at the viUage of Shaikh Othman, ten milesin the interior from Steamer Point, where allwhich was founded npon the words, spoken by maU steamers to and from India and farther Eastour Lord to Martha, " But one thing is needful, coal. There tbey ave buUding, ov have buUt, afor Mary hath chosen the good part which shall Mission House and Dispeiisavy-Hospital. Whennot be taken away from hev" (Luke x. 42). .Of that is finished, and Dr. Cowen has tvavelledcourse, we were unable to nndevstand anything of among the Bedawin tribes and studied the prevailingdiseases of tbe people, as well as their lanwhat the preachev said ; bnt the eavnest maimevin which he spoke evidently interested his heavevs. guage, he will retnrn next July to complete hisThe sevmon seemed to ns unduly long (neavly surgical and medical outfit.thvee cpiavtevs of an hour), and then came an impressivesight—viz., the baptism of a little Egypthe Fvee Chiivcli has been sent, was undoubtedlyThe land to which this latest Mission oftian babe, which the fathev held in his arms as the empire of the Queen of Sheba, -\vho, when shethe ministev spvinkled it with water in "the name "heavd of the fame of Solomon concerning teof the Fathev, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." A name of the Lovd," took gold, spices, and pveciousstones, " vevy gveat store, to prove him withbrief prayev and hymn concluded a sevvice whicbwas calculated, taken in conjunction with statisticsgiven above, to fillour hearts "with hopefuledfrom tbe Red Sea to the Persian Gulf, andhard questions " {1 Kings x.). Hev empire stretchnessvespecting the ultimate convevsion of even the ruins of her great cities, named Saba, still testifyto its splendov. She and her successors hadthe Mohanimedan wovld to Christ.MEDICAL MISSIONS IN SOUTH ARAlong monopoly of can-ying the trade of India toBIA.—The fivstnew land added to the Bvitish the Mediterranean, fvom far Ceylon and Malabar,Mission.he belongs like his fathev, accepted his noble offevto found and conduct a Mission in its name tothe Mohammedans of Southern Arabia, and tothe Somalis of the opposite coast of Af'vica.Last autumn, 1886, Mv. and Mvs. Keith-Falconerreturned to Aden, accompanied by Dr. B.Stewart Cowen as tbe fivstAledical Missionary.Leaving the towni and camp of Aden to theChnrch and Missionary Society, they have settledEmpive in the veign of Queen Tictovia, was the to Jerusalem and Egypt. As _Professor Keith-Peninsula of Aden, which guavds the gate of the Falconer, ivith his ripe scholarship, makes hisRed Sea. The Arab tvibe theve used to attack missionary tours in what was justly termed Arabiathe mevchant vessels and wrecked seamen. As Felix, he may throw much light on the past, sothe Ovevland Route began to make the Red Sea dimmed by succeeding centuries of superstitionthe highway to and from India, the Indian Navy and cruel barbarism.punished the Arabs who would not desist fvom The people whom these missionaries have begmitheiv wickedness, and annexed Aden. In this, to teach and to heal, as the Master chd aud commanded,ave the direct descendants of Abvahamthe Jubilee yeav of the Queen's veign, ouv veadersave asked to take a pavt in the Medical Mission and Ketuvah, puve Avabs, the cousins of the Jeivs,sent to these Avabs.-with whom they have to be bvought iuto the kingdomof Jesus Chvist. That Mohammed roseFov nearly fiftyyeavs nothing was done to givethem the Gospel. The great missionavy, John among them as a false pvophet is due to the corruptionof the Christian Churches and te,a,ching,WUson, of Bombay, often asked the Chuvch tosend a Missionavy, especially to the .JeAvs there, which he borrowed and corrupted still more. The >and he himself sent Avabic Bibles. Bnt nothingelsewas done until 1885, when the Hon. I. Keitli- plains with their camels, cavvying the trade likeBedawin Arabs are a manly race, roamiug theFalconev, M. A., son of the late Earl of Kintore, tbe Ishmaelites of old, and airpassing thioughwent there with his wife to choose the site of a Shaikh Othman on their way to and from theThe Free Church of Scotland, to wbich gveat British povt and fovt of Aden. AYe shouldnot be sui-pvised to heav that ouv missionavies attachedthemselves to one or other of the tribes,and accompanied them in their roaming, to healtheiv sick, and pveach Chvist to them all. Moreparticularly the missionaries -wUl work among theten protected tvibes avouiid Aden, who are attachedto our Govevnment of India, by tveaties and

Briiish sUver, amounting to 10,620 Germancrowns in the year. Already the capitalof the Sultan of Lahej, El-Hautah,is an out-station of the Mission. Maythe Lord Himself soon make it what the wholeland was at one time, a center of Christian light !Thus every one, who prays and makes someself-denying sacrifice for the Medical Mission inYemen or South Arabia, will be an instrumentin the hands of the King for carrying out the inspiredprediction of Solomon, in the seventy-secondPsalm, which he may have written after thevisii of the Queen of Sheba—"The tongsof SlieVia and Seba shall offer gilts,-yea all kings shall fall down before Him,AU nations shall serve him;, . To Him shall be given of the gold of Sheba,And men shall pray for Him continually,"—Illustrated Missionary News, London.REPORT OF THE CHINESE MISSION.lo the Central Board of Missions:Dear Brethren—In making this annual reportwe wish to caU attention to an extract from thelast report of Rev. F. J. Masters, Superintendentof the Methodist Chinese Mission in San Francisco.Much of it is language that we can use asto our Mission; and it will show what discouragementswe have had io meet during all ihese yearsof labor among ihe Chinese. Mr. Masters says:" Our Chinese work has been conducted undercondiiions so adverse ihat we have done littlemore ihan hold our ground. In Septemberlast commenced a mosi cowardly persecution ofthe Chinese residents on this Coast, culminatingin massacre, pillage and fire. The news of suchfiendish cruelties as were perpetrated npon Chineseat Rock Springs, Tacoma, Eureka, and otherplaces, fiUed the entire Chinese community withhorror and panic. San Francisco hoodlums indulgedin outrages of a milder character. Everyweek Chinese were beaten, kicked and stoned,when found alone on the streets. Complaints ofiU' treatment were made, almost daily, by ourmembers and scholars. Some were cowardlyattacked and wounded while on their way to onrItems of Missionary Intelligence. 117school. Women on their way to our services badtheir ear-rings torn oui in broad daylight. Ourschool windows were broken, and filthy refusewas cast ihrough the open windows upon tbeheads of the Chinese while sitting at theirdesks * * * * The effect of these outrageshas been to seriously embarrass our wovkMen who, on leaving theiv native land, had beeninformed that they were going to a Christianland, and who, while residing heve, only see thestreet side of onr Christian civiUzation, have notbeen impressed with ihe purity, morality, andhumanity of tbe white man. It wonld not bestrange if, after these shameful outrages, theheathen should manifest a deeper repugnance tous and to our religion. It was only natural, also,that members of our Church shonid feel indignantat the ill treatment endured by themselves andtheir fellow-countrymen. Some of our brethrenhave been boycotted and driven out of employment,and some have gone East or returned toChina." The persecution of a people whom we havebound ourselves by solemn treaty io protect, hashappUy subsided. Had it continued to rage nn-. rebuked by the pulpit and the press, our workwould soon have been broken up."Since the foregoing was wvitten the change forthe better has continued. The boycot—the madeftbrt of the anti-Chinese workingmen and politicians—overreacheditself. It was so unreasonableaud so unjust, good people became alarmed andaroused. Reaction followed.The condition of the Chinese is now much better,though many of them are suffering for wantof employment, -and some are veduced to want.Only the other day a man in San Francisco diedof starvation.Duving ihe past year, evangelistic work amongthese wronged strangers and sons of idolatry hasbeen carried on with unabated toil, and withalternating success and discouvagement. Notwithstandingthe many difficulties we have had ioencountev, God has given ns so much of the confidenceof this people that many of them haveheard the gospel, learned many of its truths, andadopted some of its customs, while others haveaccepted its offer of salvation and have becomedisciples of our Master.The character of this work is not to be estimatedmerely by the number of baptized convertsduring any given period. The first and the longestcontinued effort of the missionary is not, as somesuppose, to preach the gospel in the old and ordinarymethod. His work, rather, is to removepvejudice against Chvistianity and to weakenattachment to Idolatry. This may be done bythe long and patient effovts of the teacher, by the

118 Items of Missionary Intelligence.preaching of the missionary, or by the constantor frequent intercourse of the heathen with Christians.Then the way is open fov direct evangehsticefforts. Many who attend our missionschools become weaned from idols and see thatChristianity is superior to the pagan veligion;many see the supeviovity of our Christian civUizationover that of China; and many are -ivilling tohear the gospel, or vead the Bible with intellectualdelight; but vei'y few ave pevsuaded to give upancestval wovship, and fewer still become disciplesof Christ. Happy would we be if the hst of baptizedconverts were identical with the roll ofattendance at our schools.The importance of the work can be estimatedonly in view of the fact that so many Chinese people,unbaptized as well as converts, return toChina to carry with them such influences in favorof Christianity as must, ere long, result in greatgood. Who can know how many souls God intendsrian mission, including a large church ov house ofto save through such influences ? Seed wovship, is wovth o-\-ev forty thousand doUai's.sown here in this generation may spring up there That of the Methodist mission is worth nearly asin the next, giving one hundred fold. And if it much. And both have prosperous missions amongbe the diviue will that we, heve and now sow the women, doing a most praiseworthy work forin teavs, He will wipe away all teavs when He those whom the Chinese customs and the Chineseshall cause ns to know that othevs, aftev ns, religion bave so long and so painfully neglected,veaped in joy.How we rejoice to see so much good work done!Ouv work among the Chinese is not all divectly But -when we compare ouv vevy limited facilitiesevangelistic. We must needs convince of the sin with the abundance of othev missions, we canof idol wovship, of the evvov of doctvines believed scavcely be veconciled to our lot.(for all are more ov less satuvated with Boodhisni), Since my last yeav's veport I have baptized fiveand of tbe folly of pagan superstitions inherited converts, thvee in May and two iu January ofand universal. Ouv work, also, is to show that this year. And in accordance -with the directionall are not enemies to the Chinese; to destroy the of last Synod I dispensed the sacrament of theold and prevalent habits of lying and gambling;to instruct some who ave membevs of othev missionchurches, and to save some who subsequently pvofessfaith, and ave baptized in othev missions. Ifsuch receive baptism by other hands surely wewill rejoice. And we do rejoice.In California the Chinese missions of otherchurches are six in number. The United Presbytevian is located at Los Angeles, under the supervisionof Rev. J. C. Nevin, long a missionary inChina; and he is doing a most excellent -work inhis locality; though there ave not many convevsions.The othev five ave located in San Fvancisco,and, with one exception, the Episcopalian,have bvanch missions at othev places, mostlyinland cities. The missionavies having charge ofthe Methodist and the Baptist inissions, havinglong been labovevs in China, are good Chinesepveachevs. Rev. Dv. Loomis, of tbe PresbyterianMission, though a good Chinese scholar, cannotpreach in the Cantonese dialect. The preachingis by lay helper.s. Rev. W. C. Pond, who has thesuperintendence of the Congvegational missions,knows nothing of the language. Mv. Jee Gam, aChinese convert of vevy superior attainments,bears the burden of the labor. Though in noneof tbese missions is tbe attendance as large or theconversions as numerous as some years ago, yetthey are all doing a good work. The missionariesare men of gveat Avovth, of most eavnest consecration,and of unsurpassed zeal. And in theirwôrk they are heartily enconvaged and libevallysustained by theiv vespective Boavds and Chuvches.Most of them have commodious mission housesand well furnished; and they all have convenientlodging houses ov homes fov Chiistian convevts.The mission pvopevty belonging to the PresbyteSuppev to the Chinese Clu-istiaus of the mission.During tbe yeav the condition of the inissionhas not changed very much; aud yet no previousyeav has it been in such good wovking ovdev, soregulavly attended, and so fvee fvom annoyances.This is the more noticeable as the othev Oaklandmissions have become sanall. The Methodist mision was closed some time ago. The R. P. is themost largely attended, and the numbev of baptisms.duving the }-eav is either gveatev, or -wUl comparefavorably -with tbo others.The roU of attendance in the mght schoolsduring the past year numbers oue hundred audorty-eight. They may be divided into three kinds:First, tbe baptized converts. Tbese continue theirefforts to become good English scholars, and theystndy the Bible habitually. Some of them havebecome intelligent men and earnest Christians,

Items ofi Missionary Intelligence. 119iity of the Sabbath day, are move likely to seek let us have more and well educated helpers ; andaud in some respects wonld be models among the munion, it is almost strange that any convertyoung m any of ouv congvegations. Second, the wonld seek membevship in the R P. Missionunconvevted who have been attending the mis- And yet God has singulavly manifested hission much of the time throughout the yeav, and favov during the past yeai-. While the othevsome of whom we hope yet to see coming to missions in Oakland ha;e been much diminished,Chnst fov salvation. Third, those who enteved and some ave almost veady to be closed, the atatdifferent times, and who contmued only a few tendance at ours contimies good, and the outlookmonths, or pevhaps only a few weeks. The names in some aspects is quite hopeful, if we can onlyof some of this class were never emoUed.have patient endurance in labor and in waitingFrom the foregoing statements it is manifest for the SphU's convevting powevthat the avevage attendance in the schools is far The foUowing statistical table ^viU show thebelow the entive number envoUed, or occasionally condUion of the mission as to membevship :at our public missionary meetings to hear theffosnel Attendanceln the mission schools during past year USfîôpi^j. Baptized since last year's report 6As far as possible every session of the evening ISZrc'e^îSê SSînation 'Ischool IS made a missionary meeting. In addi- certified to congregations in New York •"".' 2tion to the regular exercises, the object of which llSpenSed.'".!!'!'!;;:::;:;:---: Iis to allure ihe heathen into Christian influences ?,'^*!

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The Gospel Broaght Inlo Europe. 123in settlina; the questions which affect the detaUs of" A certain woman, named Lydia, heard ns, sitoplest faith, the largest charities, the tenderestbe ihe first behever is about equal. Not so— brought her masters much gain by sooth-saying :interesting to know ihat arrangements have ve- hev elevation. She is no longev to be clvudge,cently been made to establish in that city a slave, plaything to man. She is to entevschool for the education of poor and orphan chil- the kingdom by his side. Many questions condrenin Asia Minor, as a memorial to the great cerning wonien, her powev and place and func-Apostle of the Gentiles. The oviginatov of the tions in society, and in the chuvch, as weU as inenterprise is H. S. Jenanyan, a native of Cihcia, ihe family, ave stirring in our day. I take leavewho has just completed a theological course in to thiuk that some of these questions cannot haveUnion Seminary, and the oflicers and managers divect solution eithev by inteUectual avgument ovof the Institute include representative ministevs by parliamentary legislation. But questionsand business men of New York ciiy.which can never be authoritatively settled mayOn the direct line of communication with ouv sonietimes be indirectly disposed of in a moststation at Suadea, near the mouth of the river satisfactory manner. Half the women in theOrontes, is Antioch, once a place of considerable wovld ave unblessed with the elevation that Chvisimportancehi Northern Syria. There our breth- tianity brings. Tbey ave yet in prison. Openren of the Irish and Scotch Synods have been the door and let them ont into so much of socialconducting mission work fov seveval yeavs with a fveedoin and puvity and happiness as Chvistiangood measure of success, a recent letter reporting women enjoy. Teach them the inusic containedtwenty-six names on the communicant roll and iu that one word " home," and tell them ofabout one hundred and fiftypupils attending the Him who will be a divine visitant there. " Yonschools. They also have a promising school and wnthout them cannot be made perfect." It isseven communicants at Idlib, some fiftymiles not given to any one part of the world to advancedistant.and continue very far in advance of any otherIn all the towns along the coast from Port pavt. We must g-ive what we have, ov we loseSaid io the Southern boundary of Latakia dis- it. Hold out the hand of help to the vast sisteririct,missionaries of other evangelical denomin- hood yet toiling and sorrowing in the darkness.ations are doing effective work. To these we Spread the gospel over the sin-bound, east-boundshaU caU attention at another time, as well as to countries of the East, and wheve heathen womenJevusalem, Damascus and other points of historic in gveat ntimbevs have become Christian, theinterest in the Holy Land.women of Christian states wiU have less difficultyTHE GOSPEL BROUGHT INTO ,, . "" ,., \. ^, .,,, .-nn-riom k ^their own liberties. Christ's kingdom is aEUROPE. kingdom of souls, of sacrifice, of virtues ;THE FIEST CONVERT A WOMAN. aud they stand highest in it who have thewhose heart the Lord opened, that she attended hearts.unto ihe things which were spoken of Paul." the second convert a slave girl.You may say thai women and men being numeri- " As we went to prayev, a cevtain damsel,cally equal, the chance that either of them should possessed with a spirit of divination met us, whichand for many reasons. At aU events here is the the same foUowed Paul and us, and cried, saying,fact that in this great Europe a woman's heart is ' These are the servants of the most high God,first opened to receive God's message. In that which show unto us the way of salvation.' "tact-(ye hi^ye the pledge and actual beginning of This cry may have been a repetition of Paul's

124 '7 Will See Toa Again.''own -avords, used now in irony or in scorn, ov un-•willingly, undev that etevnal necessity whichmakes even devils speak the tvuth. At firstPaul took no notice of hev wovds, but aftev thisscene had been repeated day after day he—gvieved not fov himself, but for the poor possessedgirl—commanded in the name of Christthe devil to come out of her, restored her to herself,and ultimately, as may be hoped, to herand the rulers take counsel together,'' not againstbut for the Lord and His anointed.The order of these conversions is worthy ofnotice. The proselyte, the Greek, the Roman—that has lieen the order of the diffusion of Christianitythrough the world ; and it is so in principleat this day. We expect our first successesamong those who have had some religious advantages,our next among the susceptible around,Saviouv and her God. We have in the deliveranceof the slave-girl another typical and provarieties too are beautiful. These converts haveand our last among the men of the world. Thephetic circumstance. It wônld be almost universallyallowed that the two most important social before this time knew the othevs, nov would theynothing in common ; probably not one of themrevolutions produced by Christianity are the have had the least interest in each othev—theamelioration of the condition of woman, and the fivst an Asiatic, the second a Gveek, the thhd aabolition of slavery. And here in Philippi we Roman. A merchant, a chattel, a soldier. Andyet they are brought easily into the kingdom ofhave the second as well as the first. The poorharmony, into the brotherhood of the gospel. Soslave-givl was deliveved, we may hope, from athey come from the east and fvom the west anddouble bondage ; and the same jiowev that fvom the north and from the south, and sit dowubvought freedom to her on the street of Philippihas smitten slavery down, has banished it practicallyfrom the European and from the Americancontinents, and Avill yet banish it from the othert-ftfo. Let all tbe nations know that the veligionof Christ comes with justice and liberty in herhand to break everij yoke, and to let all tbe oppressedgo free.THE THIED CONVERSION A EOMAN SOLDIER." Then he called for a light and sprang in,and came tvembling, and fell down befove Pauland Silas, and bvought them out, and said, sirs,wbat shall I do to be saved ? And they said :Believe on the Lovd Jesns Chvist and thou shaltbe saved, and tby house. * * * ^nd hevejoiced, believing in God witb all his house."This convevsion points to tbe influence that theChvistian religion was destined to exert over lawand political institutions, and prevailing idolatries,and civU govevnmeuts. This conquest oveva soldier and servant of Rome is indicati\e of thesubjection of the gveat empive hevself to the swayof the cvoss. That came in due time, and in duetime " the kings of the earth shall set themselves.with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdomof Heaven.—Bev. Alexander Baleigh, D. D." I -nÎLL SEE YOU AGAIN."John 16-22." I -will see you again," were the words of the Saviour,Wheu from His disciples He soon must depart;" I will see you again for your joy and your comiortI -will see you and fold you again to my heart.""I will see you again," comes to all true believers,As with that same Saviour they meet and commune;" I will see you again, yea, I pledge you my promise,To cheer your sad spirits, and scatter your gloom.•• As ye walk and are sad in tbe day of desertion,Anrt mourn lest your faith in the Saviour were vain,I'll commune with you theu, till your hearts burn withinyou,To abide with you ever, I'U see you again.*' 1 will see you again iu the hour of temptation,When Satan would have you. to sift you as grain;That your faith may not fail, I will pray for you ever;To keep you from falling, I'll see you again."I will see you again as you work in my vineyard,And oft drop a tear lest you labor in vain.Ob, be not dismayed, your reward is before yon:When the even is come, I will see you again." I will see you again at the graves of your loved ones.When grief and breavement o'ertake you amain.To say to you tbere' I'm the great Eesurrection,Yea, even Ihe Life. I will see you again.'"Wben the summons of death to you comes,and you fondlyYou " To Take And ' My fliUmlelpliia, As keep Through can you rod orown leave you say enter and amid to Jesus of you my death's them Ba, with staff my loved then dark glory, will Saviour, valley, Cbristiau in " swellings uphold the I'll even I'll fullest see and I friends see of you ' will sustain; Jordan, you assurance, again." be • that again.' with la. remain, you A, P

We are indebted io Mrs. Metheny, of Mersine,for the foUowing extracts from her diary:very good.' Then I sang for them some versesof the 22d Psalm, and they asked us to singmove, so we finished it." After all she may bethe means of bveaking down the prejudiceagainst us.S4th.—-Wednesday and Thursday Doctor spentas usual in Adana. To-day he had an interviewwith the Governor-General, and found him ableto talk Arabic, so that he did not need an interpreter.He received him very politely and gavehim a letter to his School Board (which, by iheway, is not legally constituted). Miss Stervett'sdiploma, as head teachev, was presented, and thebooks in nse in the school. These latter he saidhe would call in his teachers to examine, and the'' girl" would have to come and be examined.Here Doctor's intevpvetev iutevposed, and saidthat she was a lady just like the one who hadchavge of the school theve in Adana, and hevMarch 19th.—Doctor yvas telegraphed for togo to Tarsus. The irain was gone, and he hadsch ool jnst like that, and they had not vequiredto take a carriage. To-morrow we wUl have toher to be examined. " 0, well," then they wouldhave prayer-meeting instead of preaching.wave that point. This interpreter used to beÎst.—Yesterday evening Moses came andDoctor's dragoman, and is now^ the official governmentlawyer, and is glad to assist us in anywas disappointed io find Doctor away. Doctorgot back this morning ; his patient proved toway.be Mr. Dibbak's youngest child, who was ill withTo-night, just as we were ready to vetive, MosesMoritz came in. After talking a little. Docepilepsy. Doctor preached in the Fellah quarterin M.Yusef Jedeed's house. Lulu Jedeed hastor said, " we do not differ about the attributes often little girls in school. The daughter of Imthe Messiah." The question for you is, " Has heIbrahim, the blind woman in school, came withcome, or is he to come yet ?" " Yes," he saidher little child from Tarsus to visit her mother,(his English is not very fluent), " I find in thebrother, and sister. They came up to call on nsI3ook that he has come ; aU the Book teUs methis evening, and the old lady was telling somehe has come, and my heart tells me so." Thenof her experience with her Ansairiyeh friendshe brought a difficulty to be solved. "John thehere in Mersine. She said she told them that weBaptist, when he baptized Jesus, said. This is hewere here specially for the Fellaheen ; that allof whom I spake, etc. He saw tbe dove descendour teaching was good ; we taught them not ioon him, and heavd the voice fvom heaven, howhe, or swear, or steal. They said, "What dowas it, then, that aftevwards he sent to ask Jesusyou get to eat ?" They are taught to believeif he was the Chvist ?" It was explained to, himthai we make them eat pork. " Everything thatthat the pvophets weve not always nnder tbe specialinspiration of the Spirit. John, like the disis good," she told them. " If a Christian and aPeUah were quarreling, whose pari would theciples of Christ, had not a very clear idea of theDoctor take ?" asked one. " Oh !" she said,spiritnal character of Christ's kingdom. He himselfwas in prison, Christ had not set up a throne," there was such a thing happened one day, andhe took the pari ot the Fellah." " Wondevful !and had no followers bnt a few fishermen, andwonderful!" they said. I suppose she referred to,Iohn's faith had perhaps sunk low, so that hean occasion when he interfered to prevent a railroadoflicial who was abusing a poor young felsent to inquire, " Art thou indeed the Chvist?""Ah 1 yes," he said, "just as Job ; sonietimes helow whose ox-cart had got stuck on the track.speak good words, sometimes he teU God yon no"Then," she said, "I had Saada (her littlegood for me." Then he said, " Let us look atdaughter) read to'them from the Gospel, and theythe llth chaptev of Isaiah." He opened the He-said, ' Is that ihe book of the Christians ? It isbvew Bible, veading and translating as he wentalong io the 10th verse. " Now," he said, "itsay when the Messiah come this will be, but-\yenot see this." " You know," Dv. said, "the wolfand the lamb do not mean beasts." " No," heintervnptecl, "I know, of course, when God speakhe speak good wovds, he not speak foolishness. Iundevstand that." Then Doctov went on to explainto him that though Chvist himself had come,his kingdom bad not come. Then he told himour doctrine of the mUlennium. Before he wentaway something was said about his employer'sdislike io his coming- here. "He is not veryglad," he said. " I was going to come just aftevsupper, and he said, ' Why do you study the Bible? Do you find that Christ has come or not ?'

126 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.I find that be has come. He was very angry, childven of Isvael will be fulfiled upon you, (Lev.bnt I said, ' if the prophets are true, he bas come.' 26:19,20), ' I will bveak the pride of your powerDoes it not say in Daniel that after seventy and and I will make your heavens as iron and yourtwo weeks shall Messiah be cut off ? Are they earth as brass,' etc. He said, 'Do not youprophets ? If they are not throw them in the fire, Christians commit sin ?' I answêred, ' Yes; weit is foolishness.' My master said, ' Why do sin every day in thought, wovds, and deeds.' Heyou study the Bible ? Why do you not study said, ' Then bow will you be saved V Wea!skthe Talmud V I said ' I don't know that the Chvist to intevcede for ns and forgive our sins, forTalmud is from God, but I do know that the he is tbe Saviouv of man—the sinner. He thenpvophets ave from God.' Tben he was very angry,and I said WhUe I work, I work for you ; him Chvist was the Saviour of all who beUevedsaid, ' Does Chvist belong to you only ?' I toldwhen my work is done, yon have no right to say in his name. Every one who feels that he is awhat I shaU read ov where I shaU go. " It was sinner and needs a Saviour, by coming to Christlate when he went away, but our hearts were will be saved. But he must believe in Christ andglad that he had found the tvue Messiah.—Undev date April 1, 1887, Rev. H. EassonAvrites from Latakia : That you may understandthe foUowing extract, I may say that wê have hadlittle or no rain this winter, and to all appearancethe wheat and barley crops are a failure.Our cisterns are all dry, and most of the springsand many of the weUs. The Moslems appointedthree days of fasting and prayer last week. Theygathered about 5,000 little pebbles, prayed overeach one separately, and sewed them in a bagand cast them into the river, with the belief thatthis would bring a floodof vain. I heav that theGveeks prayed over a cross and then cast it intolive in accordance to his commandments. Hesaid, ' We believe in Christ.' I answered. Whythen do you not keep his words ? few he gave us asign by which we may know who love him.Christ said, ' By iheir imits ye shall know them.'" May God lead these people to the truth a«itis in Jesus."Our certificates and pvogvamme of studies arestUI in the hands of the Government. They don'tlike to give permission for schools among the Nusairiyeh,and they don't know how to answer myletter; the law says they are only to prohibitbooks contrary to "good morals and politics."Under date April 12, Mr. Easson wvites : Thelocal Government has refevved the veopeiiing ofourthe sea, but still the rain does not come. To-dayschools to the Yagi. Some of the local Boavd, asorders were given again for aU the Moslems to assembleto pray for rain and consecrate some moreI wvote you before, do not wish ns to reopenamong the Nusairiyeh. Tbey claim the Nusairiyehas a Moslem sect. I have -\yvitten a longpebbles. God will not listen to such prayers aslong as there is no repentance and tuvning fvomlettev to the consul to-night, and asked him toevil and an acceptance of his Son, fov whose sakelook aftev the mattev while in the hands of theand in whose name all blessings ave given.Yagi, and I feel tbat he wiU do what he can.Teachev Yacob Hadud wvites that a Felah(favniev) said to bim one day, " Ouv gvain needs LETTER TO THE CHILDREN.vain vevy much." The veply was, " Yes ; vain is Meesine, Tuekey, March 16,1887.vevy necessavy, and God knows that as well and My Bear Little Friends:—Noi long sincebettev than we do, and be also knows why he has when Dr. Metheny was in Adana, he saw akept back the vain fvom ouv land. My fviend "we great number of Moslems gathered togetherought to considev onvselves as ehildven'of God' the in a large common to pray for rain. They hadCveator. He is our Fathev, and hence -\ve should brought with them about one hundred andobey fvom the heavt his commandments, and then fifty mother cows whose liitle calves had beenwe would secuve his blessings hi their seasons." left af, home to fast, (they too, were fasting.)'" Then I asked him, ' Do yon believe in the It seems thai they thought thatthe HearerLaw (Bible) V He said, 'The law of Moses ?' I of Prayer would be moved to compassion atansweved, 'Yes ;' and be said, 'i aci-ejit it.' I the lowing of tbe dumb brutes as though Hethen read to bim fvom Mal. .3:1-12, and said 'if did not know they were lowing tor theirye obey God, he will fulfil this pvomise to you • calves and for their food, instead of for rain.but if you are rebellions, Ibe Avovds of God to the The Moslems who failed to go to the place

Letters from Ghristian Wor'kers at Home and Abroad 127One day as she watched the flame creepwhom have yielded io staying in bed, while along the wick or my oil stove as I lighted it,ihe others go bravely on with work and play, she remarked " thai is just the way withand I commend them heartily in their efforts. God's word, when one learns he tells anotherHowever, I do believe Marianna Daoud (one and that one another and so on until ai lastof the three in bed) feels very badly as I noticedthat she supported herself against ihe Our good Armenian neighbor of whom Iall will hear." She remembers Scripture well.wall as she combed her little sister Fedora's wrote you in my last continues to send gifts.hair in one of her last efforts to stay up. Since then he has seni in another 20 gal.Mohammad is well again. He used to talk oil, one web calico, one web chintz and oneoi picking ihe gold oui of my teeth sometimewhen I might be asleep. Filling and thread and buttons for the garments. Soonweb muslin wiih about ninety cenis to buyfalse teeih are curiosities to the children. after 40 loaves with enough molasses for severalmeals oame in. Last Saturday he sent oneNauvie and Miriam Karroom are particularlyintei'ested io know something concernof his servantstocarry waterforthegirls'wash.ot prayer were required to pay a fine. Poor ing ihe construction of our bodies andignorant creatures. If they only believed in Miriam asked me a few days ago whatthe Lord Jesus Ohrist and would pray in His disease I considered most painful; withoutname, we might hope for an answer io their having thought of it before I answeredpetitions. The Greeks, Catholics and Armenianstoo have set about praying for rain, but distressing, and of course she asked me to tellthai I beUeved lock-jaw to be one of the mostas yei none has been sent. It has rained but her about it and, as I did so, she wept. I wishtwice all winter; one of the showers little more she might some day be a physician; she isthan laid ihe dust, the other a moderately heavy both thoughtful and studious. While I speakoue lasting a few hours. However, we are of ihis I must say that the desire of my heartglad to say ihat other parts of ihe country at ihis moment is, ihat every little boy andare noi suffering as is ihis district and Tarsus. girl who hears this letter read, may become aSome time ago there was a little girl here physician and a missionary. Ton can be minwho was very much delighted and interestedwith all she saw in and about ihe house, andyou will noi wonder, when I tell you ihai ihehouse in whioh she lived is made of boardsset on end supported by a light frame andbrush, the floor consisting of earth only.Their beds are spread upon a platform madeof boards io whioh iheir two cows are tied atnight, for they all lodge togeiher. Many peoplelive in the same way and even thatia comfortablecompared with some oiher modes ofliving. The little girl of whom I speak wasbeing brought from a village near Alexandretta,(a city on the sea coast between Mersineand Latakia) to be put in Miss Tucker'sschool in A.dana. The little creature sawmuch ofthe world within a few days; comingto Mersine by steamer and from here to Adanaby raUroad. Our little folks spend much ofiheir play-time these bright warm days diggingin the sand and wading in the sea. Thereare no rocks on the shore here, hence no dangerfor them when the water is calm. Oneliitle girl hasjust recovered from mumps, andseven others have the disease, only three ofisters and teacbers too, if you wish; butstudy medicine, and you will have greater opportunitiesto help people.I think you would have smiled ihe othermorning had you been here and seen a womanreaching about under our breakfast table tryingio get hold of I)r. Metheny's feet to kissthem as she besought hira to go with her tosee her sick husband.Remea does not stay good long at a timebut tries and tries again and,although the progressis so slow we can scarcely see it, thereis evidently a change since' we took her; forKatrina who was here Sabbath week told meihat she had heard different people say thatihey would hardly know her to be the samegirl. She is quite bright in the study of Englishand aliho' she only commenced io studylittle over a year ago she can read and understandsimple stories and give intelligent answersin English. The English families wholive here speak Greek, and when I have anerrand to ihem I send Remea because she usesas much English as she knows.

128 Incidents in Mission Life.I imagine I see how pleased you wUl all (Extoor) while siUl another calls me Miaslook when you hear the many names by which Trit.I am known in ihe mission. The Aiabic word I have only heard two variations to Methenyan(? these are Meieny and Meseny. I fear" Sit," corresponds to English Miss and Mrs,and sometimes ihey prefix both titles at whioh I bave wearied you with too long a lettertimes I am Sit Miss Esterret; ihe most usualnames are Sit Esterret and Miss Esterret,very frequently I am Sit Estare and onewoman persists in having me Miss Estureihis time and if so I beg your pardon.Tours most lovingly,E. M. Steeeett.FROM SON TO FATHER. soon after that I met ihe man in ihe street,and said, " My dear friend ii gives me great" One day," says Robert Eaikes, the founderof Sunday schools, " as I was going topleasure to hear that you have left off goingto the alehouse on ihe Sunday ; your boychuroh, I overtook a soldier just entering thetells me ihat you now stay at home, and neverdoor. This was on a week-day. As I passedget tipsy."him, I said that it gave me pleasure to see" Sir," said he, " I may ihank yoa for it."that he was going to a place of worship.""Ah! sir," said he, "I may thank you forihat."" Me !" said I; " why, I do not know thatI ever saw you before."" Nay," said I, " that is impossible; I donot recollect that I ever spoke io you before."" No sir," said he, " but ihe good instructionyou give my boy be brings home to me;and it is thai, sir, whioh has induced me to^' Sir," said he, " when I was a little boy Ireform my life."—Good News."wpas indebted to you for my firstinstruction inmy duty. I used io meet you at the morning THE MINISTRY OF A FACE.service in this cathedral, and was one of your For some time I attended a liitle chapel inSunday .scholars. My father, when he left Germany, and got io know the faces of manythis city, took me into Berkshire, and put me of iis congregation. In one of the pews nearapprentice io a shoemaker. I used often to ihe pulpit, there sat, Sunday after Sunday, athink of yom. At length I went to London, quiet, unassuming man, who always kept hisand was there drawn to serve in the West- eyes on the minister, and was always first inminster militia, I came io Gloucester last his place. His earnest face and attentivenight wiih a deserter, and took the opportunity manner more ihan once rebuked me, when Iof coming ihis morning to visit ihe old spot, was tempted io beoome restless acd wander-,and in hopes of once more seeing you." ing in my thought.He then told me his name, and brought One Sabbath the clergyman who hadhimSeli io my reoollection by a curious cir- preached asked me after service, " Who wasoumstanoe whioh happened whilst he was at that man on my left 1"—describing him ; " heschool. His father was a journeyman currier, helped me io preach ; he seemed to be listenamost vUe, profligate man. After the boy ing so attentively."had been some time at school, he oame one It is many a month since I sat in thatday and told me that his father was wonder- ohapel; but ihat face still comes up beforefully changed, and that lie had left off going me; and I often think how we all might helpto the alehouse on the Sundays. It happened our minister by a quiet, attentive listening to

Notes and Beviews. 129his words. There is much In a look. Tbere of ihe church, and take his seat. WhUe theis a world of influence in a tace. A bright, missionary was wondering what ihis meantsunny countenance will bring cheer and sun- and before he had recovered from hia surpriseshine into the most rainy day ; ii will ease ihe ihe man returned io ihe place, and receivedpain of ihe sick-rDom. There are faces ihat the Communion.rest us to watch them ; and there are honest. The man's manner in doing this was soopen faces we would trust anywhere.strange, ihat after the service was over, theThen let us beware of frowns and fretful missionary spoke io him about it, and askedexpressions; they will leave their mark, if *'. "^^7 J« ^^^ disturbed ihe whole oongre-The Church was filledwith hundreds of tbe prayer for His murderers, ' Father, forgivealiowed often to visit our faces. Let us cher- ^Vh"s was hSmorable answer: "When Iish bright looks and cheery words^^„t up to receive the Oommunion, I did notStanding near a cofl&n a few days ago as ^^^^ l^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ j j^ ' " J/the mourmng fnends passed slowly by--tak- j„^ ^^ ^^^ Wmg their last look at a beautiful form, I heard tu^t fi,.. rv,o„ îî- +« w, j.^ '""""one say, i T louii- 1 1 _v,„ ^"^^ ^"^ „ f„_ 111*1 ,,„„»„ H6xt i,„f„.„ io me i, was j ihe verv j i manone J say, . Vu " How If beautiful Cil. she J was J 1" I look- J wfio, ,„_ ^ a . tew ^^„^^ years ,.^ before, , had , ^„ murdered , ^ "!" mved at the pale face of the dead woman, and f„tuL „„j i>.,v.i, i„-„ u^ f -v i ^"'".'"Jthought, what made her beautiful ? The fea- 11 ",trnL tb! Sii f hi II ""'^ ''"^tures w^re not regular; no artist would have IZ^ft A l V l l n l " t '^T^y ''chosen her for a model of beautv. It was ihe Z n ^nS T Zfe hflv .oi T t ^'^^Ta-, t r^ J J t u i u ' j f I, tnen, and i swore by my gods ihat I wouldlove, for God and man, that beamed from her ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^„ the firsttime I saw him. Ieyes hghting up her life, and makmg her a ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^.^ ^.^^^ ^^ ^jj, ^^ ^^^ ^^

130 JVbfes and Beviews.sire to help in the work of bringing others to ceal what we do from others, forget' that tihe Saviour. The same mail brought another two hands are on the same person. The obletier,bearing on the envelope ihe post-mark, vious design of the command is to condemnProvidence, R. I. It also contained ten cents self-adulation in tbe matter. It is quite posforthe same purpose trom Edith R. Foster, sible to let ihe world know ihat we are doingThese children are unknown io us; but iheir something for benevolent and religious purinterestin her work wiU encourage Miss Ster- poses, and at the same time conceal the factrett, and we shall be glad to send them ihe from ourselves. In this giving of money asHerald of Mission News that they may read well as in other acts of worship we are to letthe letters thai she wriies now and then to the our light shine.children. ,^ , ,,,...,,o- •4- lu u V. „„„;„„.! —We are no longer able to furnish theSince writing the above we have received ,. -rr -,-,,. -„r. • -.-r, , „ 4. r XT 11 TXT- J f January number of i/era(a of Mission Newstwenty-five cents from Newell Wood, of , ., -^rr ,-,,,-,-TTT,... -n UT jr. i. tr T to subscribers. We shall be glad to receiveWhitinsviUe, Mass., and five cents from Laura „ ,X, T^ 1 f

PUBLISHED WITB TBE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH,U, S. A.mt Wxtm 0! mmm mxkTHE BENEFITS WHICH THE CHURCHAT HOME HAS DERIVEDFROM MISSIONS.Rev. 'Wm, M. Taylor, D. D., New Tork.I know that the benefits which the chnrch athome has derived from the prosecution of missionsabroad is, after all, a secondary consideration,in as much as, with the Christian, the lawof his Lord is enough, and so long as the commission" Go ye into all the world and preach theGospel to every creature" remains unrepealed,he wUl need no other stimulus to uvge him forward.On the one hand the Master wUiom he of the power of the Gospel have been given byloves says, " Go, preach ; " on the oiher, the men and women at home. Too frequently, however,they have been in circumstances in which,man of Macedonia still cries, " Come, help ; "and with these sounds ringing in his ears, tbe though they have been recognized and honored bygrateful beUever will be prompt and earnest in God, they have been to a large extent unnoticedhis efforts to give light to them that are in darkby their feUowmen, and, therefore, they have notillnstvation of self-sacvifice, holiness and activity.It may be said, indeed, that we have always befoveus the pevfect pattevn of our Lord Jesushimself, and that next to him we have theseraphic ovder of apostolic devotion, andI neither ignore nov undervalue these; butwe need to have them constantly reproducedamong us as far as they can be reproduced in theactions of our contemporaries. Now this hasbeen done for us by the noble men who havegone far hence among the heathen to proclaimthe unsearchable richesof Christ. I do not, ofcourse, mean to aUege that no such illustrationstold so extensively upon theiv age as otherwisethey would have done. But our foreign missionarieshave been, by the very necessity of thecase, isolated from their brethren. They havebeen set out from and above their fellows, andihus the example which they have furnished hasness. But on an occasion like tbe present,it is sometimes of service to get a fresh standpointfrom which to look at the subject, and asGod never allows either an individual or a churchio work for him unrewarded, it wUl be interestingto note how the streams of missionary effortrunning iuto the ocean of love, have, by God's been known and read of all men. Like Aaronspiritual evaporation, been drawn up io heaven ascending np Mount Hor, they have been inand sent back npon the churches in showers of sight of all the tribes, and the result has beenblessingthat the churches bave glorified God in them.1. I findthen, in the firetplace, that we have They may not have been better or done morereceived from the mission field some of the most than others in their circumstances would haveinspiring examples of Christian zeal. Christianity been or done, but the eyes of their fellows haveis a life as well as a system of religions belief, been on them, and so, as showing move conspicuouslythan others what Christianity is, they haveand one of the greatest blessings which can benjoyed by the church, is a warm and breathing elevated the church as a whole, and given new

182 dur Views of Mii^nion ifiorkyinspiration to its rising members What a blank souls ave pevishing and JesUs is to be glorified."would now be created in ouv Chvistian litevatuve, And thus the influence of one whom he had beenif you weve to take away fvom it the biographies instvumental in leading to the Lord came backof onr modern missionaries ? It would be much to water his own soul. But what Mavtyn was toas if you should remove the book of the Acts of him, ouv missionavies, as a whole, have been tothe Apostles fvom the New Testament. And lowasthe type ofchavactev is yet among us, it WouldCbvistians at lavge.said thatOne of our own poets hashave been fav less exalted, if it had not been fov" The tidal wave ol deeper soulsthe'effecy upon the chnvches of the example of ; Into our inmost being rolls,And lifts us unawaresoUv, foveign agents, When the coin of the coimtry'has passed fov yeavs fvom hand to hand and 1 know few finer ov more striking verifica-Above all meaner cares ; "."among the people,'the image of the sOveveign is tious of his words, than those which have been'-ffovi^ down and the inscviption well-nigh eft'aced ; given by our brethren on the field of missions.but then' it is called in, and being fused and It is the fashion in some quarters to sneei- atminted ' anew, it comes forth again with everything-them, and whenever it is announced that one oton it tiilly relieved and perfectly distinct. them is to occupy a pulpit, there be intellectualSo in an age when the peculiar features of the exquisites among us wbo wUl say, " Then we shallChristian character have been inade flat and alriiosttake cave to be absent.'' But have you consid- -imperceptible by the constant abrasion of eved that those bvethren have fov long- years beea,contact with the -(vovld the' Lovd has taken and labovevs aniong degvaded people, away fvom themelted it again in the fiveof enthusiasm, and mintedadvantages of uewspapevs, and books and lycedea;yov,it afvesh in the wovkshop of missionavy enums,and libvavies, and that they have heeuand sent it fovth again to vepvove us fov pveaching constantly in foveign languages to hearevswho need to be addvessed the indiffevence of the past, and incite us to newin the most unso-as'pivations for the future. Who can read of phistical manner ?• Above all, have you lookedEUiot teaching Indian chUdren their letters even at the glovious sermon of then- lives? Theodorewhen he was lying dying, of the Moravian who Parker, whom no one will accuse of over mucliwent but into the lazar house of pestilence, out of enthusiasm on this subject, has said that "ifthewhich no one was evev pevniitted to pass, that he modern missionavy entevprise had done no moremight preach Christ to- the perishing inmates, of than pvoduce oue such charactev as Adonii-amthe sufferings of Judson and his noble wife among Judson, it was more than worth all the moneythe Burmese, of the labors of Carey in India, andof WUUams, EUis, and Turner in the islands ofthe Pacifift, or of the sainted WUliam Burns,dressing and living as a Chinaman, that he mightgain the Cbinese for Chvist, -without feeling himselfuplifted by the influence of theiv example,and being sent fovth with new energy to do hiswhich had been spent npon it.'' They have notall been Judsons, indeed, and heve, as everywhere,there ave exceptions; but, as a class, ouv missionariesstand in the very fovefvont of Christian heroes,and their names would form no unworthyappendix to tbat catalogue of the peerage offaith wbich hn.s been ."-iven in the llth chapterMaster's wovk ! It is told of Chavles Simeon, of the Hebrews. They have taught us whatof Cambridge, that be kept the povtvait of Henry ; self-sacrifice means by exchanging the comforts ofMavtyn hanging in his study that it might sa,y to Christian civilization for the revolting surroundingsof licathenisni. They have shown us "howhim :' " Be in earnest. Don't tvifle, don't tvifle 1 "and that he would often look up to it and say : sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."" Yes I wiU be in eavnest; I wil! not tvifle, fov Tbey ha\-e let us see boiy to labor, and, more di

Our Views ofi Mission Work.ficult still, they have shown us how to wait, faint idea of the manner in which, in tbis particu-Read such a memoir as that of Henderson, the lav, the church of Christ has been blessed by hermedical missionary to Shanghai, and if you have devotion to this cause.any Christian nobleness of soul in )-oa, it will 2. Bnt in the second place, we have receivedrouse you "like tbe blast of a tvumpet." It wiU fvom the inission field some of the most strikingcry to yon as with the voice of the Master him- iUustrations of the fact, that " the Gospel is theself : " Why stand ye here all the day idle?" It power of God unto. salvation to every one thatwiU read to yon like a condensation of the piirsnit believeth." We heav. a, great deal in these daysof knowdedge under difliculties, with the added of the Bible being obsolete and effete. Its supevelementof Christian consecration ; and yon wUl natuval character is denied, it is declaved to bevise from its perusal wdth the- cry of Paul burst- inconsistent with scientific discovery, and .altoiiigfrom yonr heart: "Lord, what wUt-thou gether our pvetensious sceptics treat it with conhaveme to do ?" They say in England that the temptuons scorn, and would have us beHeve thatbooks which record the deeds and daring of Bvit- the age has outgrown it—that we should cast itish naval heroes have clone move than anything aside, as full-grown men throw away the garmentselse to man the ships of that countvy and to de- of theiv infancy. Now, though all this is pevfectlyvelop youthful enthusiasm for a seafaring life; capab e of a direct answer, I am not sure thatsuchbut something of the same kind has been done a mode of reply is always the most effective. Itfov ouv young Cbvistians by the liiogvaphies of seems to me that in modevn missionavy successes,our missionavies. Why sbould these now be so God has furnished us with a very teUing audlargely superseded in ouv Sunday-school libvavies triumphant answer. In the . vevy neighborhoodby little novelettes of the "goody goody" sort? of the marshy place that breeds the malavia, theTheve is no stovy in fiction so thvilling in its in- Peruvian bark tree is to be found, from wbichterest, or so wholesome in its influence, as the life the quinine antidote is obtained. So in the genofHenderson,which Ihave just named; and by it eration which has .seen the attack, God-h9,s wonaudothers of its kind I know that many have derfuUy set befove men's eyes the facts which arebeen led to Christ, and to the wovk of the minis- to counteract it. We say to ouv antagoniststvy, both at home and- abvoad. Duving my Liv- that tliey have been so long accustomed to theevpool ministvy I had in my congregation a noble atmosphere of the Gospel, that they ave not in aman who was led by the reading of that life to faiv position to judge of its chavacter, and do notlay down a lacvative mercantUe situation aud fit really know how much they o^ye to it themselves.himself by medical study for following in Hen" One may bveathe fov yeavs the vitiated aiv of adei-son's footsteps, and 1 reckon it one of the crowded room and not be conscious of its impurigreatestprivileges God evev gave me that I was ty until he goes outside. And, rice versa, onemyself pevmitted, in the liours of early morning, may not perceive how clear the outer air is, until.to give him all the prepavatory training which he he enters a badly ventilated and closely packedrequired to fit him for entering college. Lei that pnblic hall. Now, in the same way, one may becase be multiplied many fold ; take in, if you can, so long in a Christian land and be so used to itsaU who have been blessed by reading the me- atmosphere and its civilization that he may losemoivs of Hai-riet Newell, and John Williams, sight altogether of the inflnence of that Gospeland WiUiam Burns ; veckon up, if you are able, which has cveated it, and the only way of conthenumbev of those who have been kindled into vincing himself of his ervor is to take him to an-.undying enthusiasm by the flaming wovds of other locality, where that agent has just recentlyAlexander Duff ; and then you may have some begun, to work, and .show him there its powev^.I33

134 Our Views of Mission Work.Snch a moral experiment, if I may so call it, has have such trophies to point to abroad, and grabeenmade iu the islands of the Southern Pacific, cious revivals occurring in our great cities at home,and the result is of a kind to put all antagonism we do not need to fear the assaults of skepticismto confusion. Take the story of the voyage of or the sneers of materialism. Tt is no new thingCaptain Cook, who, just about a hundred years for the Gospel to be foolishness to the Greek. Itago, set saU in the "Ende-avor" for those un- has been so before, aud we might fear we weretravevsed seas, and vead his description of the not preaching the trae Gospel if it were not sosavagism of the people who inhabited these still. Bnt while we have such manifestations ofislands. Then, take up the records of the London the fact that it is the power of God unto salva-Missionavy Society, the statements of the Amevi- tion to evevy one that believeth, we do not needcan Board of Commissioners, and the descrip- to be alarmed. No I no ! ye philosophers. Thetions of inodern travelers, and see in them what Gospel day is not decHning, as some of you suptheseislanders have become. From savagism pose. It is only dawning, and you, in forgetfulnessthey have risen into civilization, from idolatry of the fact that the centuries of earthly historythey have been reclaimed to the worship of the are but as moments in the chronology of God, hayeoue God. Infanticide and cannibalism, formerly mistaken the twilight of the morning for that ofprevalent among them, are now unknown, and the evening. It will not darken down, as yoiithose who were running wUd and naked, with imagine, unto the blackness where there shall bewar for their greatest occupation and cruelty for no Saviour of men, and no hope for tbem beyondtheir highest pleasure, are now engaged in the the grave; bnt it wUl brighten, it is now brightenartsof commerce and peaceful industry. Now, ing, towards the perfect day, whennot to speak at present of their faith in the future..jgsus sbau reign -where'er tne sunlife or of the Christian graces that appear inDoes Ms successive journeys ran."theiv chavacter, I ask what has produced this Thus, as giving us a new branch of Chvistianchange ? Where in the whole history of the evidence, as furnishing us with the virgin soil ofworld wUl you find a simUav vesnlt from a mevely heathenism, in which anew to put the Gospel tohuman cause ? Which of the ancient enipives tlie test of cvucial experiment, the missionarjvaised itself in so shovt a period to snch a char- enterprise has been a blessing to the homeacter ? The thing, if mevely human in its cans- churches.ation, is unparalleled. Now, from what we have 3. But in the third place, we have receivedseen of the creation of such civilization far away fvom the mi.ssion field abvoad an impulse to earfromourselves, we may discover what that element nest labor for the conversion of the heathen atis which contributes in the largest proportion to home. It is often alle.ged that in sending misourown national pve-eminence. But not in the sionaries abvoad we ave reversing the Savioar'sislands of the Pacific alone is this transformation law, " to all nations beginning at Jerusalem," andseen. We may meet with the same thing in when we appeal for foreign efforts we havecertain districts of India, in the island of Mada- quoted for our edification the world's proyerbgascar, and among the tribes of Southern Africa, that "Charity begins -at home."The leaven is just beginning to work in the Now we might have little reason to complwEmpire of China, and among thc interesting in- if either the persons giving tlie advice were themhabitantsof Japan, all proving that so far from selves earnest in beginning at home, or thosebeing obsolete and effete, the Gospel is vhtnally urging the claims of distant lands were forgetft'litile move than entering on its miasion, and has ofthe ignorance and misery at their own dooRits noblest triumphs yet io win. So long as we But neither of these things are true. Those fflw

Our Vieios ofi Mission Work. 135ridicule foreign missions ave, too fvequently, also ence. Ragged schools had not yet come intonon-subscribers to and non-workers in the home being. City missions were unknown. Biblemissions, whUe the most earnest and indefatiga- readers, tract distributors, dis+rict visitors,ble advocates of foreign missions, are, at the same and all the home missionary machinery withtime, ihe mosi energetic hi their effovts to evan- which we are now so familiar, were thingsgelize ihe heathen at home. There may be ex- unheard of. But when ihe reports of theceptions on both sides, yet the general law is as agents wbo had been sent abroad came home,I have stated it. But without dweUing upon the members of the churches were awakenedthat, the attempt to set home efforts into an- to individual responsibility. They felt t'-'at ittagonism with the foreign enterpvise, betokens was not enough for them to give money, bututter ignorance, both ofthe origin of onr vecent that they ought to work as missionaries whereactivity in tbe foreign field, and of the effects they were. This led at length to thewhich that activity has produced on the efforts establishment of town and cify missions, ofof the home churches themselves. Wbat cveated which David Nasmyth was the chief apcstle,our modern societies ? Go back to their ovigin and since that time, ihe home enterprise has(and as being more familiar witb tbe history of been widened so as to include many valuableBritish missions I must be aUowed to draw my agencies, too numerous to mention. Now, ifillustrations mainly from ihem), and you will the prosecution of missions abroad be incomfindthat they grew out ofthe great religious patible with the discharge of our evangelisiicrevivals, whioh, during the latter part of the duties at home, how came it ihat fhe morelast century, roused ibe church of Great heartily the British churches went into theBriiain from iheir formalism and indifference, foreign fitld,ihey labored ultimately only theThese revivals, however, were just great more earnestly at home ? The two have inhomemissions. Whitefield, Wesley, and creased together or, rather, ihey have actedtheir coadjutors were itinerant home mission- and reacted on each other; the home revivalaries. They went everywhere over ihe land, creating the foreign activity, and the foreignawakening the common people to the reality aciitity leading again to fresh energy atand importance of spiriiual things, and iheir home. They are not contradictory bui colaborsresulted in ihe conversion of myriads, ordinate enterprises, and interest in both hasand in ihe builJing of great numbers of sprung out of revived interest in Christ.places of worship throughout the country. This is beautifully illustrated in the one de-The new converts had their attention partment of medical missions, by factsdirected by such men as Claudius Buchanan, ihat came under iny own observation inCarey, Bogue, and others, to the con- Liverpool. With the view to adding to tbedition oi the heathen, and the founding of efBciency of the work at some foreignthe London Missonary Society in 1795, of the stations, medical men of Christian characterBaptist Missionary Society in 1792, ihe and gifted with ihe power of utterance, wereScottish Missionary Socieiy in 1796, ihe sent out, in order that they might, in someGlasgow Missionary Society in 1797, acd the measure, follow in the footsteps of the LordChurch of England Missionary Society in 1799 himself, by attempting to reach the malady ofwere the results. Up till this time, be it re- the spirit through the cure of the disease ofmembered, there were no organized efforts the body, and so great was the success, thatfor reaching the poor and neglected at home, in Edinburg, a special institution for iheThere was hardly a Sunday-school in exist- training of such laborers was founded, and

132 Cur Vievis of jjf/.ssi'oii. Work.inspiration to Us rising members. What a blank souls ave pevishing and JesUs is' to be glorified."would now be cveated in our Chvistian litevatuve. And thus the influence of one whom he had beenif you were to take away from it the biographies instrumental in leading to the Lovd came backof our modern missionaries ? It would be much to water his own soul. But what Martyn was toas if you should remove the book of the Acts of him, ouv missionavies, as a whole, have been totbe Apostles fvom the New Testament. And low Cbvistians at large. One of our own poets ha.sas the type ofchavactev is yet aniong us,'it w'onld said thathave been fav less exalted, if it had not been fov " 'iiic tidal wave of deeper souls'-; „ ,,, ., -, ' , ,. ,-, . 1 e Into our Inmost being rolls,the effect npon the chuvches • of the example of ^^^^.^^^ ^^ unawaresOUv foveign agents. When the coin of the conn- Above all meaner cares; "tw' has passed fov years fvom hand to hand and I know few finer or move stviking vevificaainongthe people, the image of the sovereign is tions of bis words, than those which have been'Worn down and the inscvip tion weU-nigh eff'aced ; given by ouv brethren on the field of missions.but then it is caUed in, and being fused and It is the fashion in some quarters to sneer atminted anew, it comes forth again with evevy- them, and -wbenevev it is announced that one otthing on it fully velieved and pevfectly distinct, them is to occupy a pulpit, theve be inteUectualSo in an age when the peculiar fe-atuves of the exquisites among us wbo will say, " Tben we shallChristian character have been made flat and al- take cave to be absent." But have you consid--most imperceptible by the constaut abrasion of eved that those bvethven have fov long'yeavs been,contact with the world the' Lovd has taken and labovers among degvaded people, away fi-omthemeltedit again inthe fiveof enthusiasm, and mint- advantages of uewspapevs, and books and lyceedit afresh in the workshop of missionary en- urns, and libraries, and that they have beendeaJvQv, and sent it forth again to vepvove us for pveaching constantly in foveign languages to hear-, the indifference of the past, and incite us to new evs who need to be addvessed in the most unsoaspivationsfov the futuve. Who can read of phistical mannev ? Above all, have you lookedEUiot teaching Indian chUdven theiv lettevs even at the glovious sevmon of theiv lives? Theodorewhen he was lying dying, of the Movavian who Parker, whom no one wiU accuse of oyer mnchwent out into the lazav house of pestilence, out of enthusiasm on this subject, has said that "ifthewhich no one was evev pevmitted to pass, that he modevn missionavy entevpvise had done uo moremight pveach Chvist to- the pevishing inmates, of than produce one such chavacter as Adonhamihe sufferings of Judson and his noble wife aniong Judson, it was more than worth all the moneythe Burmese, of the labovs of Carey in India, and which had lieen ,speut upon it." They have not, of WUUams, Ellis, and Tuvner in the islands of aU been Judsons, indeed, and heve, as everywhere, ,the'Pacific, or ofthe sainte.d WiUiam Burns, there are exceptions; but, as a class, ouv mission-, dressing and living as a Chinanlan, that he might aries stand in the very fovefvont of Christian hegainthe Chinese fov Chvist, without feeling bim- voes, and theiv names would fovin no unworthy.self uplifted by the influence of theiv example, appendix to tlint catalogue of the peerag-e ofand being sent fovth with new enevgy to do his faith which has been given in tbe llth chapterMastev's wovk 1 It is told of Chavles Simeon, of the Hebvews. They have tanght us -ffhatof Cambridge, that he kept the povtvait of Henvy sclf-sacvilice means by exchanging the comforts ofMavtyn hanging in his study that it might say to Chvistian civilization fov the revolting snrroiindhim:' "Be in earnest. Don't trifle, don't trifle ! " ings of hcatlieiiisin. They have shown us "hoffand that he would often look up to it and say : sublime a thing it is to suffev and be strong."" Yes I wiU be in earnest; I wiU not trifle, fov They have let ns see bow to labor, and, more di

Our Views qf Mission Wor'h. 133ficnli stiU, they have shown ns how to wait, faint idea of the nianner in whicli, in this particu-Read such a memoir as that of Henderson, the lav, the church of Christ has been blessed by hermedical missionary to Shanghai, and if you have devotion to this cause.any Christian nobleness of soul in you, it will 2. But in the second place, we have receivedrouse you "like the blast of a trumpet." It will fvom the mission field some of the most strikingcvy to you as with the voice of the Mastev him- mnstvation.s of the fact, that " the Gospel is theseh: " Why stand ye here all the day idle ?" It power of God unto, salvation to every one thatwin read to yon like a condensation of the pnvsiut beUeveth." We heav a gveat deal in these daysof knowledge nnder difficulties, with the added of the Bible being obsolete and effete, Its supevelementof Christian consecration ; and you, will natuval chavacter is denied, it is declared to berise from its perusal with the-cvy of Paul buvst- inconsistent with scientific chs'covery, and .altoingfvom )-our heart: "Lord, what wilt-thou gether onr pretensions sceptics treat it with conhaveme to do ?" They say in England tbat the temptuons scovn, and would have us beHeve thatbooks which vecovd the deeds and daring of Bvit- the age has outgrown it—that we should cast itish naval heroes have done more ihan anything aside, as fuU-growm men throw away the gavmentselse to man the ships of that country and to de- of theiv infancy. Now, though all this is perfectlyvelop youthful enthusiasm fov a seafaring life; capab e of a direct answer, I am not suve thatsuchliut something of the same kind has been done a mode of veply is always the most effective. Itfov ouv young Christians ijy the biogvaphies of seems to me that in modern missionary successes,ouv missionavies. Why should these no-(y be so God has fnvnished us with a very telling andlargely superseded iu ouv Sunday-school libvavies tviumjihant answer. In the . vevy neighborhoodhy little novelettes of the "goody goody" sort? of the marshy place that breeds the malaria, theThere is no story in fiction so thrilling in its in- Peruvian bavk tvee is to be found, fvom whichtevest, ov so wholesome in its influence, as tbe Ufe the quinine antidote is obtained. So in the genofHenderson, which I have just named; and by it eration which 1ms seen the attack, God,h9,s wonandothers of its kind I know that many have derfuUy set before men's eyes the facts whicb arebeen led to Christ, and to the work of the minis- to counteract it. We say to our antagoniststry, both at home andabroad. During my Liv- that they have been so long- accustomed to theerpool mimstry I had in my congreg-ation a noble atmosphere of the Gospel, that they are not iu aman who was led by the reading of that life to faiv position to judge of its character, and do notlay down a lucrative mevcantile situation and fit veally know how much they owe to it themselves.himself by medical study for following iu Hem One may breathe fov years the vitiated aiv of adevson's footsteps, and I veckon it one ofthe crowded voom and not be conscious of its impurigi-eatestpvivileges God ever gave me that I was ty until he goes outside. And, vice versa, onemyself pevmitted, in the hours of eavly movning, may not perceive how clear the outer air is, until.to give him aU the preparatory training which he he enters a badly ventilated and clcsely packedrequired to fit him for entering colleg-e. Let that public hall. Now, in the same way, one may becase be multiplied many fold ; take in, if you can, so long in a Christian land and be so used to itsall who have been blessed by reading the me- atmosphere and its civUization that he may lose,,moivs of Havriet NeweU, and John Williams, sight altogether of the influence of that Gospeland WiUiam Burns ; veckon np, if you ave able, which has cveated it, and the only way of conthenumber of those who have been kindled into vincing himself of his ervor is to take him to an-'.undying enthusiasm by the flaming words of other locality, where thai agent has just recentlyAlexander Duff ; and then yon may have some begun. to work, and .show hini there its power.]

134 Our Views of Mission Work.Such a moral experiment, if I may so call it, has have such trophies to point to abroad, and gvabeenmade in the islands ofthe Sonthevn Pacific, cious vevivals occuvring in onr great cities at home,and the result is of a kind to put all antagonism we do not need to fear the assaults of skepticismto confusion. Take the story of the voyage of ov the sneers of materialism. Tt is no new thingCaptain Cook, who, just about a hundred years for the Gospel to be foolishness to the Greek. Itago, set saU in the " Endeavor " for those un- has been so before, and we might fear we weretraversed seas, and read his description of the not pveaching the tvue Gospel if it were not sosavagism of the people who inhabited these still. But while we have such manifestations ofislands. Then, take up the records of the London the fact that it is the power of God unto salva-Missionary Society, the statements of the Ameri- tion to every one that believeth, we do not needcan Board of Commissioners, and the descrip- to be alarmed. No! iio! ye phUosophers. Thetions of modern travelers, and see in them what Gospel day is not declining, as some of you suptheseislanders have become. From savagism pose. It is only dawning, and you, in forgetfulnessthey have risen into civilization, from idolatry of the fact that the centuries of earthly historythey have been reclaimed to the worship of the are but as moments in the chronology of God, haveoue God. Infanticide and cannibalism, formerly mistaken the twilight of the morning for that ofprevalent among them, are now unknown, and the evening. It wUl not darken down, as youthose who weve vunning wild and naked, with imagine, unto the blackness where there shall bewar for their greatest occupation and cruelty for no Saviour of men, and no hope for them beyondtheir highest pleasure, are now engaged in the the grave; but it will brighten, it is now brightenartsof commerce and peaceful industry. Now, ing, towards the perfect day, whennot to speak at present of their faith in the future..jesus sUaii reign wiiere-er the sunlife or of the Christian graces that appear inDoes Ms suocessivejourneys run."their character, I ask what has produced this Thus, as giving us a new branch of Christianchange ? Where in the whole history of the evidence, as furnishing us with the vu-gin soil ofworld wUl you find a simUar result from a mevely heathenism, in which anew to put the Gospel tohuman cause ? Which of the ancient empires the test of cvucial experiment, the missionaryvaised itself iu so shovt a period to such a char- enterprise has been a blessing to the homeacter ? The thing, if merely human in its caus- churches.ation, is unparaUeled. Now, from what we have 3. Bnt iu the third place, we have veceivedseen of the creation of such civilization far away from the mission field abroad an impulse to earfromourselves, we may discovev what that element nest labov fov the convevsion ©f the heathen atis which contvibutes in the lavgest propovtSon to home. It is often alleged that in sending misourown national pre-eminence. But not in the sionaries abroad we are reversing the Saviour'sislands of the Pacific alone is this transformation law, " to all nations beginning at Jerusalem," andseen. We may meet with the same thing in when we appeal for foreign efforts we havecertain districts of India, in the island of Mada- quoted fov our edification the world's proverbgascar, and among the tribes of Southeru Africa, that " Charity begins at home."The leaven is just beginning to work in the Now we might lia\-e little reason to complainEmpire of China, aud among the interesting in- if eithev the persons giving the advice were themhabitantsof Japan, all proving that so far from selves earnest in beginning at home, or thosebeing obsolete and effete, the Gospel is virtually uvging the claims of distant lands were forgetfullittle more than entering on its mission, and has ofthe ignorance and misery at their oWn doors,its noblest triumphs yet to win. So long as we But neither of these things are true. Those who

Onr Vieius of Miss-ion Work. 135ridicule foreign missions are, too frequently, also ence. Ragged schools had not yet come intonon-subscribers to and non-workers in the home being. City missions were unknown. Bibleinissions, while the most earnest and indefatiga- readers, tract distributors, district visitors,ble advocates of foreign missions, are, at che same andall the home missionary machinery withtime, the most energetic in their efforts to evaii- which we are now so iamiliar, were thingsgeUze the heathen at home. Tbere may be ex- unheard of. But when the reports of theceptions on both sides, yet the general law is as agents who had been sent abroad came home,I have stated it. But without dwelling npon the members of the churches were awakenedtbat, the attempt io sei home effovts into an- to individual responsibility. They felt fât ittagonism with the foreign enterprise, betokens was not enough for thera to give money, bututter ignorance, both of the origin of our vecent that they ought to work as missionaries whereactivity in the foreign field, and of the effects they were. This led at length to thewhich that activity has produced on the efforts establishment of town and oity missions, ofof the home churches themselves. Wbat created whioh David Nasmyth was the chief apt stle,our modern societies? Go back to theiv origin and since that time, the home enterprise has(and as being more famUiar with the history of been widened so as to include many valuableBritish missions I must be allowed to draw my agencies, too numerous to mention. Now, ifillustrations mainly from ihem), and you will the prosecution of missions abroad be incom-Snd ihat they grew out ofthe great religious patible with the discharge of our evangelisiicrevivals, which, during the latter part of the duties at home, how oame it ihat fhe morelast century, roused the church of Great heartily the British churches went into theBritain from iheir formalism and indifference, foreign fitld,ihey labored ultimately only theThese revivals, however, were just great more earnestly at home ? The two have inhomemissions. Whitefield, Wesley, and creased together or, rather, they have actedfheir coadjutors were itinerant home mission- and reacted on each other; the home revivalaries. They went everywhere over ihe land, creating the ioreign activity, and the foreignawakening the common people to the reality aciifity leading again to fresh energy aiand importance of spiriiual things, and iheir home. They are noi contradictory but colaborsresulted in the conversion of myriads, ordinate enterprises, and interest in both hasand in ihe buiUing of great numbers of sprung oui of revived interest in Christ.places of worship throughout the country. This is beautifully illustrated in the one de-The new converts had their attention partment of medical missions, by factsdirected by such men as Claudius Buchanan, ihat came under my own observation inCarey, Bogue, and others, to ihe con- Liverpool. With the view io adding to thedition of ihe heathen, and the founding of efficiency of the work at some foreignthe London Missonary Society in 1795, of the stations, medical men of Christian characterBaptist Missionary Society in 1792, the and gifted with the power of utterance, wereScottish Missionary Society in 1796, ihe sent out, in order that they might, in someGlasgow Missionary Society in 1797, and the measure, follow in the footsteps of the LordChurch of England Missionary Society in 1799 himself, by attempting to reach fhe malady ofwere the results. Up till this time, be it re- the spirit through the cure of tbe disease ofmembered, there were no organized efforts the body, and so great was the success, thatfor reaching ihe poor and neglected at home, in Edinburg, a special institution for tbeThere was hardly a Sunday-school in exist- training of such laborers was founded, and

Items of Missionary Intelligence,Congregationalist bas found out the exctUence ot missionaries of different denominations inofthe Episcopalian, and the Presbyterian has India. Thus, through the great enterprise.discovered the merit of both. These senti- wbich this day I plead for, the reproach ofourments have come back to the churches by divisions is being wiped away, and we are comwhomthey were sent out, and so, side by side ing, nearer than since the Reformation we havewith the prosecution of the missionary enter- ever been, to the realization of the poetic ideal:l)rise abroad, the spirit of union bas increased " Behold how good and how pleasant it is for.at home. The different denominations have brethren to dwell together in unity. It is likelearned to know each other. They have seen ihe precious ointment upon the head that ranthe Christ that is in each other, and have been down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, thatû^prised to discover how hapfily they can went down to the skirts of his garments, aswork with each other. 'Thus the Evangelical the dew of Hermon and as the dew that de-Alliance is one ofthe direct results of foreign scended upon the mountains of Zion; for ihenmissions, and the Week of Prayer by wbich the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forail over Protestant Christendom the year is evermore."now begun, was first observed at the requestitems of iîssionary §nte3iig:ence.A\iK(JA.U. compelled to endure, and it Avas hoped, asheEEPOET OF FOREKix Missio>» Bo.iED.13^^ '^ siippovteU in his clfovts by othcv membevs ofthe Diplomatic (Jov].is, that faiv tveatment andIn pvesentiiig ouv annual vepovt we ave glad the enjoyment of former pvivileges wonld soon beto be able to speak of eavnest aud fvuitful wovk.- secuved to mission schools iu >S}-via and Pales-Whethev we considev the lavge attendance at tine. The vesnlt is alveady known to tbe Church.the mission schools, the devotion of those who An arrangement has been made with the Sublimeave engaged in teaching, the success that has Povte, tbat puts au end for the pvesent to allfollowed the ministvy of the wôrd, or the weak- fonnai opposition ou the i)avt of the Tuvkishening opposition of the Turkish authorities, we Govevnment. " \Y(i ave," wvites Mv. Easson,have veason to thank God aud take courage. " to inform the, local officials tbat wc are readyActing on the instvuctioiis of Synod at its last to submit programs of studies, text-books, andmeeting, avvangements weve made to bvingto the diplomas ov certilicates of ouv teachers to an exnoticeof the State Depavtment at Washington aininev, and to ve-open onr schools without asktheaction of the Ottoman Porte in closing onr ing fov permits. The Tuvkish authorities haveschools. In the absence of the Chaivman, who agreed not to interfere with any of ouv schoolswas nnayoidably detained at home, the case was confovming to this vequest, provided the saidpvesented by the Secvetary of the Boavd and pvogvam of studies is found to be in confovmityRev. WilUam J. SpvouU, who had recently ve- to section 129 of the Laws of Public Instvucturnedfrom Syria. The Secretary of State ve- tion." These weve given in ouv last vepovt andceived youv- delegation with gveat couvtesy, ex- ave in substance that the foundevs or professovs ofpvessed his pevsonal intevest ih evangelistic wovk fvee schools, eithev Ottoman ov Poreign, mustand his high admiration of the men who'weve have diplomas certifying to, their capacUy, andseeking in that way to quicken and pnrify cov- that no teaching against politics or moval pviuruptcommunities, and assured us tbat the whole ciples wiU be allowed. To pveveiit this thematter shonid have the immediate attention of books used mast liaye the approval of the MintheDepartment. In a few weeks the Boavil was istev of Public Tust).-nctioii ov that of the Acanotifiedthat the ministev at Constantinople was demical Council, Of couvse the Moslems do notendeavoring, with the approval of the United want the Bible taught to the Nusaiviyeh and aveStates Government, to secuve the abolishment of placing evevy obstacle inthe way of ve-opening thetlie hardships that missionaries had lately been schools and so bringing the young undev Chvis-

138 Items of Missionary Intelligence,tian instruction. But their jealousies cannotlong interfere to any extent with our educationalwork, which, in the opinion of Dr. Metheny, nowstands on a recognized basis that will give it effectand permanency. "It is," he writes, "liftedout of the hauds and over the heads of aU localofficials and jealous intriguers by a Vizierial order,which constitutes it cominon law." We agreewith the inission that the thanks of the Churchare due to the American Consul at Beirut, towhose untiring energy we are indebted for officialpermission to continue ouv wovk. In all year, and the day school for boys reports onehis corvespondence with the missionavies, Mv. hundved and ten names on the voll, thivty moreBissenger has manifested unusual interest iu the than were registered the previous year. The attendancetoo is said to have been move vegularoperations of the inission, and he is at presentlaboring to secuve certain modifications in the exthan hevetofove.isting school laws, that ave iu his judgment In the boarding school a home was providednecessary to prevent tvouble in the future. In a fov fifty-two givls, ten more than were receivedletter to Mr. Easson, he says, identifying himself,as clearly as language csn, with the misselves,and sixteen pvovide theiv own bedding andla.st year. Three pay half price, fiveclothe themsionariesin their work, "a few weeks and even dvesses fov the Sabbath. The othevs are entirelyfree ; and the anuual e.xpense of supporting amonths of delay in accomplishing the object ofour most ardent desives may be inconvenient, an'd givl in this school is nearly fifty dollars, 'fhemay even involve material loss ; but the subject Secvetavy also writes, vespecting the religiousis of too vital importance to admit of the acceptanceof any avrangement that will not insure to is observed night and morning. On Sabbathcharacter of this institution, that family worshipus for all time to come absolute immunity from there is school in the morning and in the eveningany fuvthev intevference fvom the Turkish authorities."the communion of the chuvch take pavt; and be-a prayer-meeting, in which the givls who are inNotwithstanding this annoying interruption to t-iveen services there are portions of time set apartouv school wovl?:, it has not done us any matevial for study. Under the wise and faithful managementof Miss Mattie R. Wylie, this home-schoolhavni. At Mettin, some fiftyniUes from Latakia,the school was not closed. Under the protection has reached a high measure of efScieney. Torof an influential fainily it was in 'efficient operationduring the whole year and reports an attenwe ave glad to say that .she is no longer withontseveral yeavs Miss Wylie has laboved alone; butdance of over thirty pupils. Iu one other village a companion, aud one who is already able to rendermuch needed assistance. Miss Maggie B.the people disregarded the ofBcial order to closethe school ; and since the fivst of October theve Edgar saUed fi-om Philadelphia Sept. 15, arrivinghave been ten scliools at work with an avevage at Latakia Nov. 4.attendance of one hundred and .forty-four pupils. The boarding school for boys reports twentyeightpupils, an increase of six over the But this does not fuUy represent the work of thenumberteachers. Ever since the government fovmallyclosed the schools in the mountains, they havedone what they could to instruct the ehildren intheir homes and have not ceased to go fromhouse to house, reading the Bible to the peopleand showing tbem the way of salvation.Three of the teachevs eontinne in tins evangelisticwork, and theiv inonthly reports to the missionshow them to be well qualified at once to aidsincere inquivevs and meet the avgunients ofscoffers, 'ihe value of this itinerant ministry ofthe Word, it is impossible to ovevestimate ; andthe ehurch, to which has been entrusted so interestingand promising a field, should rememberthat only money and labovevs are needed to carrythc message of etevnal life to the multitudes that,veady to perish on the dark mountains of theirnative land, are appealing to her for the light oflife.In the town of Latakia the schools seem to bein a very prosperoas condition. The day schoolfor girls reports one hundred and sixteen pupils,an increase of thirty-one over the attendance lastthat were received the previous yeav. Of theseonly five ave free; and the number of those whopay in full ov half-pvice would be far larger ifthere was a suitable building. The ueed of betteraccommodations fov this school, aud the desirabilityof establishing an industvial department,weve bvought to the notice of Syuod iu our lastreport. The estimated cost of such an institution,inclnding pvic(> ol' lot and the erection of buildingsfov thvee tvades, weaving, shoemaking, and tailoring, is $6,000—$4,500 to provide accommoda.tion for the boys' school and $1,500 to establish

an industrial department. In the opinion of theniissionaries, the latter wonld soon not only payexpenses, but be a source of income to the mission;and, after careful consideration, Ave haveagreed to press this matter on the attention ofSynod and ask all the money needed for this purpose.Our returned missionary. Rev. Wm. J.Sproull, who has visited, as our agent, most of thecongregations in six presbyteries, writes that hetook special pains to present this question to thepeople, pointing out the urgent need of such aninstitution and its probable cost, " They wevenot slow," he says, " to pevceive what a gvandhelp it would be in mission work and how muchgood it would accomplish in a country like Syria,so that when a definite plan is laid before themand an appeal made for funds, I think therewill be a hearty and prompt vesponse." For detailedinformation we refer the churches to theannual statement of the Mission.The head-teachev of this school is licentiateYakob Jeredeeny, who occupies the Latakia pulpitin the absence of Mv. Easson, w^ho is necessarilyoften away, inspecting the school-work in tbemountains and in Suadia, and pveaching to thepeople. A heavy burden was laid upon our missionaryduving the past yeav; yet he has beengraciously sustained in his arduous wovk and hasbeen enabled to conduct public sevvices every Sabbath,eithev in the city or at some ofthe outlyingstations. Nor have his labors been fruitless.Seven were received into the fellowship of thechurch, raising the roll of native membership to145, and the mission is obviously making itselffelt npon the whole community.We regret to have to report that we have notyet been able to secure ihe services of anotherminister. No response has been made to our appeals.To those who are in close correspondencewith the mission and know ihe urgent need oflaborei's, as well as the encouraging character ofthe work, it seems strange that no one is wUlingto consecrate himself to this service. We canonly pray the Lord of ihe harvest to thrustforth into the field those whose ministry he wUlown and bless. A terrible responsibility restsupon the church at this crucial hour in the historyof her foreign mission.It ii cheering, however, to know that the staffof workers in Latakia will soon be reinforced bya medical missionary. At a meeting of theBoard, on March 9, it was unanimously resolvedItems of Missionary Intelligence, 139to tender the appointment to J. M. Balph, ]\I.D., of Rose Point, Pa. Dr. Balph was vecommendedto us in ihe highest tevms by his pastorand othev membevs of this Couvt, who had beenintimately acquainted with him fov yeavs. Hehas been ordained to the eldership, and wUl leavefor Syria early in the autumn. 'We are confidentthat he and his family wUl have the pvayevsof the whole church, and we commend them tothe guidance of a covenant God.The Doctov and Mvs. Wm. Holt Yates' missionin Suadia reports twenty-two boys in the boavdingschool and twenty attending the day school.The Lord's Supper was dispensed at this stationas usual; and although theve is only occasionalpveaching, the teachev in charge conducts apvayev meeting evevy Sabbath a? well as onThursday evening. He, with his wife and oueassistant, carries on the wovk, and the whole expensehas been met this year ont of funds raisedby Mrs. Yates for that purpose.The following table will show at a glance thecondition of school wovk in Latakia distvict, ascompared with that of the previous year :March i, i886.March i, 1887.Schoolsig Schools 16Teachers 30 Te.ichers 29Pupils 393 Pupils 506Here we find a decvease of three schools and oneteacher, but an increase of 118 pupils—a verymarked evidence in onv judgment of advance inthe line of pvogvess.The wovk in the Tavsus field, as bvought tolight in the correspondence and reports of missionaries,has been conducted in all its departmentswith dUigence and self-denying devotedness.With an energy that seenis to be intensifiedby difficulties and discouragements Dv. Methenyhas, lavgely, if not exclusively, at his own exjjense,erected a large building for mission purposes.This buUding, which contains, besidesprivate apartments, offices, class-rooms, a lavgedormitory, and a chapel, is located at Mersine andoccupies an elevated position on the seashore.At the time of sending his annual statement tothe Board, ihe yearly communion had not beenheld; butthe Doctor writes that he is expectingsoon to receive into the fellowship of the churchsome Fellaheen of pvomise and others from Christiansects. There has been a mhrked improvementin the attendance on preaching, and the

140 Items qf Missionary IntelUgence.tvuth seems to have made a favovaljle iinpvessionon the minds of many who are not yet ready toconfess the Saviouv.This mission vepovts a pvospevous school offorty pupils among the Fellaheen of Tavsus; and,now tha't oppositiou is to some extent removed,steps will be immediately taken to vesume thewovk in Adana and extend it in othev directions.The boavding school at Mersine with its thivtypupils has done efBcient wovk duving the year,and we ave glad to know that Miss Stevvett, whohas laboved so faithfully for several years alooe,will soon have needed assistance. On the 5th ofOctober, 1886, Miss LUlie B. Joseph,'who cameto us recommended in the highest tevms as a successfulteachev and a devoted Chvistian, was appointedmissionavy-teacher. Hev depavtuve wasnecessavUy delayed untU the 2'Ith of Apvil; but,as she left Liverpool on the 8tli of May, we e.xpectthat she has veached hev destination. MissJoseph is from Hopkinton, Iowa; andthe chuvchwest of the Mississippi is thus identified moveclosely and tenderly than evev with ouv foveignmissiou.Ouv wovk has havdly been suppovted with thebeen established upon a legal basis. This meansa large incvease in disbursements ; and, while wethank those who have made special offevings andthose who have given personal sevvice in vaisingsome of our funds, we appeal to the churches togive us in theiv congvegational collections ihe fullai)pvopriation of $10,000.In this ciinnectiou we wish to say that Mr.SpvouU in visiting the various chuvches made noappeal fov money at his meetings ; but collectionsweve taken up, except in a few instances, vavying,he says, fiom $3.50 to .$26.50. He vepovtshaving lectured seyenty-five times, besides talkingto Sahbath schools, whenever an oppovtnnityoflevcd, and say>j that lie was well veceived everywhere ; and the general imjivessiou left on hismind is that the people are heavtily interested inthe mission and will support it in a libeval manner,so long as they feel that good is being done.The call for $5,000 to establish a mission inChina has been ineffectual. Our devoted missionavyin Oakland pledged himself and family to onetenthof the whole amonnt, and Dr. Metheny alsomade a very geuevous offer of help ; but withthese excejitions nothing has been contributedusual libevality of the church. The total veceipts fov that purpose. "We find from conversationat the close of the fiscalyeav Aveve $16,691.15— with vetuvuecl inissionavies and covvespondencean incvease oi ^2,560.91 over the total fov the with missionavies vesident in China tbat theve arepvevious yeav. We call special attention to the many desival.ile fields as yet unoccupied in thatfact that this increase is to be found in the lavger vast Empive. Rev. B, C. ilenvy, of Canton, hasspecial contvibutions of individuals. WhUe the taken the trouble to descvibe two, one inland andsum of the moneys received from congvegations. anothev having an extensive coast-line, that theSabbath schools and missionary societies is only a missions established there have not ret beeu ablefew hundreds less than last yeav, theve has been to occupy, and that ave waiting fov some euthusiasticband of wovkevs to go in and t.-ike pos- -a sevions faUing off in the congvegational coUections,which amount to ouly $4,736.31, less than se.ssioii. But it is not one ov two, but a band ofhalf the ajipvopviation of Synod. We wish to lal)orcvs that is needed to insuve success. In theemphasize this poiut. Unless theve is movegenerous giving at the annual collections, we shallopinion of Key. Dv. Happer—and au experienceof forty yeavs ought to give his opinion weight—we should not enter upon tbe work unless we arenot be able to carry on the "\yovk on its jn-esentbasis, to say nothing of extending it in vesjjonse pvepaved to send out two pioneevs, to be followedin t wo ov thvee yeavs by two additionalto the urgent appeals of those to whom wehave undertaken to preach the gospel. It is tvue laborers. ^ iVe hare thc same authority fov sayingthat it would vequive in round numbers fromthat you will notice in the synopsis of the Tveasuvev'svepovt a balance of $4,932 But we wUl six to seyeu thousand doUars to locate and suphaveon the pay-voU of next yeav a medical missionaryat a salary of $1,000, and two new lady docs^ not include the working expenses of the]iovt two mavvied missionavies ; and this estimateteachers, who will each reseive a salavy of $500, mission.and the school wovk among the Fellaheen shoukl We have also made " dilio-eut inquivies as tonot only be resumed where it was i»-(;\-iously in the mission fieldiu Afviea." The Secvetaries ofefficient opevation, but extended in evevy divection,now that that form of mission wovk has the Congo N'allcy and in othev pavts" of thethe vavious Boards that ave operating missions iDar

Continent have kindly furnished all necessavyinformation. From their reports we gather thatto establish and carry on an independent missionwouhl vequive a wovking fovce and costly appliancesthat we ave unable at preseut to put intothe field.Ill the judgment of the Boavd thevefove, unlessthe Chuvch is veacly to devote at least $30,000to the wovk of foveign evangelization every yeav,it would be Avisev to concentvate ouv effovts onthe inviting fieldsthat we occupy. Tbe desireof the Chuvch is to secuve results fov Chvist, andit is bovue out by expevience and history thatItems of Missionary Intelligence. 141Beattie. The only child at ].)vcsent deviving anybenefit fvom the fund is WUlson, who is pvose-'Ciitinghis studies at Geneva College. His bvothev,John, having expvessed a preference fovcommercial:life,^was taken into the employ of the firm of H.AT HOME.SELlI.i. JIISSIOX.Central Board of Missions,Dear Bretliren .-—It affords me gveat pleasuveto lay befove you my twelfth annual veport ofour wovk among the Fveedmen. Though myown work has been limited to a special line— -aud in this vespect difievs fvom what it has beenin fovmer yeavs—yet I have fonnd none the lessto do. I hare bad no school wovk, but becauseof this i have had larger and move fvequentdvaughts on me for outside work. I have beenconcentvation tends to tbe lavgest results. The enabled to do what I could not have done, had IUnited Presbyterians withdrew fvom Damascus been confined to the schoobroom. I have hadthat they might devote theiv whole strength to an oppovtnnity to visit some ofthe places whevethe wovk in Egypt, and the vesnlt is that they tliose are at wovk tbat have been tvained in ourcan now point to one of the most flourishing school, that I might see what they ave doing andinissions in the wovld.how tbey ave doing it. I have also had an oppovtnnityto see the needs of this great field, andSince last meeting of Synod, the Boavd hassustained a seveve loss in the vemoval of Mv. know move fully the iinpovtance of sending outWin. Walkev, who enteved into vest pn the 30th move wovkevs. I have also had a chance to seeof December, 1886. A man of unmistakeable w'hat other wovkevs, that are not of ns, but areChvistian character and a devoted friend of missiondoing the Lovd's wovk, ave doing in those placeswork, he had consecrated himself fully to the wheve wc have no rcpvesenta,ti\cs, 'Ihe conclusevvice of our Divine Mastev. We shall miss hiskindly pvesence at oui meetings and ive shalllose the beneflt of his lavge expevience ; but theLovd lives, and he is ouv all sufficient Help.The Boavd was unable to find among its membersa delegation to visit ouv missions.A wovd as to the famUy of tbe late Dv.sion that 1 have veached aftev these obsevvationsis, tbat the demands fov wovk and wovkers amongthe Fveedmen weve nevev gveatev and moveuvgent than now. The exceedingly vapid incveaseof this people, the growing povevty of theSouth, theiv long neglected condition, and theirlittle ability to do mnch fov themselves, makeouv wovk inipevative and impovtant. When wesee the vastness of the field,the numbers to beveached, and then see how few and wea,k we ave,we ave ready to exclaim, " what ave these amongso many? "fov we seem to be doing vevy little.Ô'Neill & Co. in Septembev of last yeav, and, It seems so long befove we get men ready fov the•after remaining theve a few months, accepted a field that it looks as if much of ihe pvecionsiSituation fvom his uncle in Lebanon, Pa., where gvain wiU waste. But each yeav we ave able tohe expects to reside in the future. The special vepovt something as the fruit of our labov. Since-committee, appointed last year, bas veceived fresh last Synod I have veceived seventeen into tbeinstructions to look after the interests of the church, ten of these I baptised. Ouv congregation•younger childven, who continue to reside atduring the year has lost three by death, ihree^Camden, Delaware.by suspension, and two have gone to otherWe have thus endeavored to present anoth- churches. With these changes it now numbers'Bv yeav's history ofthe interests entrusted to the seventy-seven.management oi the Board, and we once more We have not had chavge of the " Society ofcommend our foreign work to the confidence and.prayerful support of the whole Church.Inquiry " this yeav, not being in the school, butwe have laboved move divectly thvough the SabbathRespt'y submitted, In the name of the Board,School, and wovking agencies connectedH, M. Sommeevillb,, Cov. Sec. with the congvegation. We aim to give aU of

142 Items of Missionary Intelligence.ouv membevs something to do. We have a and the excitements that are often seen in otherYoung People's Wovking Band, that is made up churches, are often compelled to preach to Tevjofthe young people ofthe congreg-ation. This small audiences. This is my fivst year in exclunieetsweekly fov veligious service and also to .sive pastoval wovk, hence I have taken no Ilttleavvaiige and develope plans fov wovk. I meet time in the study of my wovk vather thau thewith them once a month^the last Wednesday actual work, that I might show myself an apofevery month, to receive reports of work done, proved wovkman. I believe with Mv. Moody,and to 'make suggestions concevning new ov move that it is bettev to set ten men to work than toefBcient plans of wovk, and also to encourage indo ten men's work, hence I have been endeavorexperiencedworkers. We aim to ovganize the ing to avrange such plans as will give everycongregation into such a wovking shape as will member of tbe congregation something to do. Inbe inost helpful to the pastor in performing his the Sabbath school we endeavor to do the same.wovk. Theve is a cominittee to covvespond with The childven ave encouvaged by vewavds to bringabsent members, auother to seek non-church others to Sabbath School. When God put itgoers, one on Sabbath obsevvance. We have in the heavt of Phavaoh's danghtev to savealso a Missionary and Tempevance Band. It is Moses, hev words tohis mother weve, "Take thisalso our aim to 'build up throngh the agency of child and nurse it for me and I will give theethe Sabbath School. In my vepovt I have given thy wages." Our Saviour told his disciples139 as the number ; this does not covev the that he tbat veapeth veceiveth wages. We thinknumbev in attendance fov the whole yeav, but beit pvopev to encouvage childven thns to wovk forgins with Januavy of this year. The envoUment the Lord. Not a few of our children have beenfor the entire year would be much lavgev. We awavded Bibles for repeating the Books of thehave not had ouv aftevnoon catechism class this Bible in ovder, and for leavning the Shorter Cateyearfor these reasons : 1. The elder that had chism. We feel that onv gveatest effovts mnstchavge of this work is doing missiona,vy work in be made among the chUdven and yonth. Thethe countvy evevy Sabbath. 2. The catechism oldev ones do not change much, but the mindsis now taught in connection with the Sabbath of fhe youth can be moulded. Almost all of ouvSchool lesson in the movning. 3. It was a accessions of latev years have been fi-om thegreat draught on the strength and time of our young—those that we have had fi'om the heworkers.The Testimony and Confession have ginning. We must firstget the children in thenot been tanght, because we had no special train- school, that is the day school, then we can training classes this yearj all the larger persons hav- them. T\'e are now just beginning to gathering- studied these, ov having had them explained, fvuit fvom the yeavs in which we have been sow-I have not done the amount of city visiting ing. We now have young men out that are dothatI had planned, and that I had hoped to do, ing a good wôrk. Theve ave seveval others thatfrom the fact that much had been done in shap- will soon be ready. If they get a thoroughing and deyelopinji' plans and doing the same training in Knox Academy, few of theni wifl detbroughothevs. it was my purpose to visit the sive to go to any highev school, and they wiU becity by streets, with a view to finding out those qualified fov good missionary work.who do not attend any chuvch, nov any Sabbath Besides my pastoral wovk in the city I haveSchool, and find out the cause, and leavn if any aimed to reach hundveds outside of the citything can be clone to remove that cause ; to thvough the Guiding Star I havebeen led tofind ont how many hare Bibles, and how many do this wovk from the following considerations:get any religious instruction of any kind. I have i. The colored people of the south cannot getdone almost nothing at carrying out this plan on without a mouthpiece. There is scarcely afrom many hindering causes. I tvust I shaU yet paper published by the white people of the southat no distant day be able to veach it. The col- ia which they can get a hearing either in deovedpeople are not as much of a church going fending themselves against wrong,'or in advopeopieas I desire to see. They al ow excuses eating their causetoo frivolous to keep them away fvom church 2. Even the papers published at the north,.service. And we that have not the attractions a,„d that ave fviendly to the nco-vo ave not adapofthe ovgan, the hymns and ibe lively nmsic ted to bis ivauts aijd needs'. The New York

Witness comes nearest, and yet it does not fullyreach the desired end.3. The many papers thai are published amongthe Freedmen miss this object : they do notgive the people what ihey need ; they advocatemeasures and things that are detrimental to theinterests of the race. Many of them are alliedwith corrupt political rings, and their columnscan be bought np and nsed by designing menand tricksters. Nearly aU of ihem are advocatesof secret societies.i. The press being a powerful agency, itspower can be used for evU as well as good, andthis evU can only be counteracted by the press.5. What this people need is teaching—sound,wholesome, moval and Chvistian teaching ; thiscan be quite effectually done thvough a goodpaper. One can reach thousands every week orevery month, whereas, if his teaching is confiuedto the pulpit or school room, only a verysmall number are reached. These considerationsled me to undertake the publishing of theGuiding Star. For ihis entevpvise I ask thepvayers and co-operation of the church and of allItems ofi Missionary Intelligeiice. 143good people. To make it a success, as I believeit wiU be, I need much assistance. In it I feelthat I have the approval of God ; in short Ifeel that he has laid the work on me. Anotherobject of this paper is to put pure litevatuve in been victimized and fleeced for yeavs, and putthe homes ofthe coloved people and displace the him on it. He is now getting on cpite well withimpure that is already finding its way into many a faiv prospect of making a good crop. To anothevwe sold fovty acres of land with such timehomes of ihe colored people.During the year I have also done something io pay as he needs. We could relieve more, buttoward relieving the physical wants of my people. we need move honses on the place. By thisI see that one of the greatest calamities of the course we feel that we ave doing a good service.Freedmen is their poverty. They were emancipatedpennUess and withont any knowledge of decai the Jew was next unto the king Ahasuerus,In Esthev 10:3, I read this language : "Morbusiness. For these years of freedom many of and great aniong- the Jews, and accepted of thethose who could no longer hold them as slaves, multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealthhave sought to get their labor and earnings by (good, R. V.) ofhis people, and speaking peacefraud and violence. So that the majority have to all his seed." My mind has been speciallyworked for ihese years, and have been able to directed to this passage in my recent effortslay aside scarcely anything for themselves, but among the people. Looking at the condition ofhave year by year come ont in debt. This hasresulted from at least three causes : 1. Inabilityto make the right kind of contracts, that is, havingno education (thousands of them cannotcount money). 2. Double-dealing on ihe part ofthe landlords. 8. Improvidence on the part ofthe employe ; which of course grows out of theirformer condition, and a want of business knowledge.These considerations make the poverty of thispeople immense. They do not own the "soil theytiU. Only a few have theiv own houses. Theyave subject to the bidding of their landlords, whohave it largely in their power to keep them fromgetting enough ahead to buy a house. Tbere arehundreds of plantations in this southland whevetheve are from 50 to 300 coloved people that arein a species of slavery. They are unable to getaway, and yet tbeir children are getting no education.Thus they continue year by year in thesame condition. They labor for the owner andat the end of the yeav he gets the pvoceeds oftheiv labov, and they receive vevy little. If someof ouv vich men would come south, ov send theirmoney soutli, and buy iqi these places (for manyof them ave now fov sale) and stavt missions onthem, a gvand wovk could be done—a wovk thatwould enable the poov to have tbe gospelpveached to them, that would enable them eventuallyto own their own homes, that would resultin a faiv profit to the purchaser, and aboveall would redound gveatly to the glovy of God.This state of things led thvee of us last fall tounite and bny 440 acves of land thvee miles fvomSelma, with a view to helping-some of the unfortunatevictims ofthe southern planters. We got oneof our members off of a plantation where he hadmy people as I find them in the south, this Scviptuveto me teaches a special lesson, and pointsout a plain duty. As a missionavy aniong thispeople I feel that my wovk among them is verybroad. I feel that it. is my duty to do all I canto bring them out of Egypt; to minister to themin both spiritnal and temporal things. Our menof means in the north could do these people asevvice that to them would be equivakut to

144 Routes from England to Syria ond Cdicia.pveaching the gospel. Theiv only hope of eleva- themselves, and glorify God. Here is a featuvetion is the getting out fvom undev the sevfdom of mission work at the soutli, thc impovtance ofth-at now prevails so extensively in neavly aU the wliich only a few have yet seen.Soutbevn States. We hope when we get more Let me conclude by saying, much has beenpeople on this place, we shaU be able to begin done in this field, much is beiug done, muchmission wovk. is being done by the people to help themselves ;The missionavy of the Congvegational Chuvch but with aU this, only a fair start has been made.in this place has enteved very lavgely into this Theve ave in the Soutbevn States, alone, ovevkind of wovk. He began several yeavs ago, and 6,000,000 coloved people, scyenty-five pevcent^ ofriowou one ofhis places he has a chuvch organ- these ave vepovted to be unable to vead and write.ized, and an excellent wovk is going ou, I wish Theiv moral, sjiivitual aud tenipoval condUion arethat some of ouv northern men could be enlisted each alike deplorable. Nothing but the purein work of this kind. They could organize go.spel of ouv Lovd Jesns will make theiv condi-Sabbath Schools and iu a few yeavs these might tion what it ought to be. What tliey need isbe ovganized into congvegations. it seenis to me schools and the vight kind of wovkevs. Out ofthat this is about the only Avay th-at the jieojile— these will grow Sabbath Schools,- and eventuallythe masses—in the vural distvicts will be veached. congi'cgations. ^\'e ought to have move youngWe mnst go to them, for they do not eome to men in our college preparing for the higher worktown, neither do they find theiv way into onv of this held. Those wbo ave to be beads andS(.-lioi.ils. It is in this way that the countless leadevs need thovongh tvaining. Tbose who havemultitudes at the south ave to be vcaclied with a not the time nov the desive to take a full couvsepuve gospel. ' It is in these places and in such ought to be tvained in Knox Academy.civcumstances that we see the alavming illitevacy We need move money and move heljievs, fovand degvadation of the south. Somctbiug must " The havvest is tvnly plenteous, but the labovevsbe done to veach these, ouv uufovtunate felloAV- ave few."Sincerely yours,beings. Here is wovk fov tbe chuvch. Heve ave G. ^1. Elliott.opportunities for the vich to bless others and Selma, Ala., Maij llth, 1887,ROUTES FROM ENGLAND TO STRIA Channel, along the west coast of Spain, ihroughAND CILICIA. the famous Straits of Gibraltar, calling atThis map will enable the reader of the Her ^'g'*""' °° ^^^ ^^y to Alexandria. ThisALD to trace the course that our missionaries '"''^'^^ possesses a melancholy interest for thetake to reach their fields of labor. Some of Church, because of its connection with thethem on landing at Liverpool go direct to death of our beloved physiman, the late A. J.London, and thence to Dover, and crossing °'^'^'^^'°° Oct. 27, 1885. The dagger on tbethestraitstravelbyraU through France. This l«ft hand shows the course that the Sidonenables them to visit Paris and other points ^''°'^''^ ^^^« followed; but, having lost herof historic interest in that country. The dot- '"eckoning some one hundred miles from capeted lines and daggers indicate ihe route fol- S'inislerre on the coast of Spain, she followedlowed by the Circular Line of steamers from ^^^ "'•"''•^^ indicated by the dagger on ihe rightMarseilles to Alexandria, Port Said, Beirut, ^^'^^' ^"^'^ ^'^^^ directly upon the rooks nearTripoU and Latakia ; and on the return trip the Sisarga Light in Malpica Bay.the steamer calls at Mersine. Other of our Whichever route our missionaries take theymissionaries prefer the outside route which is have fhe opportunity of seeing many placesless expensive, but occupies more time. The that are noted alike in the political and ecclesteamersails from Liverpool, down St. George's siastical history of the world.

Value Men, 14*7MluN. Your house, for example, is not so preciousThe general scriptural rule, " Be imitators as its human inmates. It is right to keep theof GoQ as dear children," readily admits of house in order, and right that children andapplication to this particular case. God's es- servants should work for that end; but youtimate of man is marked distinctly in creation ought jealously io watch the comparative esandmore fully manifested in the mission and timate which you insensibly and habUuallyministry and sacrifice of Christ. . . . The entertain of a weU kept house, and of thoseobject whom he oame to seek and save was ^bo keep it. If you tenderly care for wallsworthless and wicked. But man in his lost and ornaments, careless of immortal creaturesestate was siill precious in the eye of God. So made in the image of God, who dwell underhigh in heaven was the estimate of even ruined your roof, you are contending with the Alman,that, when no other price conld buy the mighty, and will be crushed in the conflict. . .captives, the Son of God gave himself, the just The God of the families of the whole earthtor the unjust.ia dishonored and displeased when things areA jewel has dropped from the wearer's neck êt over the heads of persons. This .ûndaintoa deep and filthy sewer. The owner look^ mental error in the estimate vitiates aU youring from aloft loathes the fetid object and calculations, and disappoints all your prospectsloves it ioo;_so loves it, in spite of its loath- „f happiness. Devote your chief care to thesomeness, that, rather than lose it, he plunges household, and the house will be better caredinto the pool, wades among its filth, and feels |-q„forthe lost treasure. If he find it, he goes -^ . . . „ ,, . , , . , ,. ,. ... n , i, . 1 . . Your farm is, in God's sight, and should behome rejoicing ; and, when ihe jewel has been . ^ , - , . , . , f, . , , . , . . ,, , in yours, of less value than the farmers. Scotburnisheaagain, he reioices more than ever to , _ . ,. ,, . , . . ,.-,,. land, as an agricultural country, owns no suseeit on his own bosom receiving bright . , ° , . i^, ,, -,., ^, . ^, , , perior, perhaps no equal in the world. But aglances from the sun and throwing them back ,,. , /,. \, • -, . ,

148 Ihe Church ofi God to the Regions Beyond: Greeting,napkin which, ihey say, was used to wipe the hope, and lead his spirit from darkness intosweat from ihe brow of Jesus, and retains his light, your gifts go all into a bag with holes.image still. There is at least a fine idea in You must be always giving, and yet he isthe fable. It the pale hands and haggard never full. On the other side ihe ordinarycountenances of ihe workers were photographedupon the web, the spectre forms glancing senses; and all your efforts for spiritual goodpath to ihe soul lies ihrough the body'sfrom the luscious folds, would startle both m^y prove abortive, if you do not clear materialobstructions out of your way. Do goodthe sellers and the wearers. But picturesof the neglected and lost,—lost perhaps, becauseneglected,—are preserved somewhere. Neglect not io entertain these strangers thatto the whole man as you have opportunity.God's image does not go out of God's sight. step about in human form upon the earih, forHe recognizes it tlirough rags and squalor in so doing you entertain angels unawares—which some dainty eyes would disdain to look fallen indeed, yet capable of a glorious immortality.—Arnot'sCorrected Estimates.upon. We cannot save every one; perhapssome of us are in a position so bumble in itself,or so distant from the scene, that wecould not save any one. We are not responsiblefor the talents whioh the Lord bas notentrusted to our charge, but we are all responsiblefor obeying tbis command, " Honormen." Value highly immortal beings madein their Creator's likeness and capable yet ofliving to his praise. We act according to ourestimates. Estimate humanity aright in thehabit of your hearts, and your conduct willfashion itself naturally accordant, as a riverfinds its way to the sea. Value the wholeman, and not a part. In particular and forobvious practical purposes, value his soul aswell as his body, and his body as well as hissoul. So did Christ, and therefore so shouldwe. The body's sufferings did not occupy hisatteniion to the neglect of the soul's sins ; thesoul's sins did noi occupy his attention to theneglect of the body's sufferings.As the legs of the lame are uot equal, a onesidedphilanthrophy Is abortive, whicheverside it may be. You cannot do good to ihepoor by merely supplying his material wants.Unless you lift his spirit from despair intoTHE CHURCH OF GOD TO THE BEGtONS BEYONDGREEriNG.Dark regions beyond.Recognizing no bondTo our covenant Lord,We would carry to you,In 8-weet charity due.Hia excellent Word.Wc "would joyously soundUnto earth's farthest hound,The glad news of the cross ;We would tell of the OneOur redemption who won.From sin and from loss.We would speak: of His grace,That you too, may flndplaceIn the depths of His love;Nevermore to be sad.You may joy and be glad,As His goodness you prove.All through life He -will guide,If you cling to His side,•W,'ith a resolute faith:In His presence you'll stand.With the glorifled band.Triumphant o'er death!To Immanuel bowlKiss the Son here and now!Enthrone Him your King!Let your life speak His praise.And through all future daps,Exultingly eing!Sallie Morrison,Philadelphia, Pa,

of the chief priests pvevailed."Matt. 21:35, "And they cvucifiedhim, etc." Also I read Mavk 15:21-26 John19:11-19, and John 20:1-20. But the sheikh refused,with evident signs of displeasnve, to acceptthe truth, and avose to depart, saying, If I wasto accept these passages as pvoof of the cvncifixionand vesnvvection of tbe Chvist, I would be likeyou, and my subjects, or foUowevs, wonld all belike me; I cannot admit that the Christ was cvu—Undev date May 2, 188^, Rev. Henvy Eassonwvites : Paul Cvawfovd Mavtin died of dyi)htlieriathe voice of them andSabbath evening, AprU 24, aged fiveyeavs.He was sick only a few days. This is a sad bereavementfov Dr. and Mvs. Mavtin. He wassuch a bright stirring boy. Theiv home will seemvery empty without him. May God in Chvist betheir comfovtev in this liouv of need.Mv, Easson has also tvanslated the followingextracts from the monthly report of Hana Iskander:cified.Al Dasat,—Took for my subject, Hosea4:13—"Tbey sacrifice upon the tops of mountainsand buvn incense upon the hUls and under theoaks and poplavs and elms, because the shadowtheveof is good, thevefore, etc., etc,"Some of those pvesent, after heaving thesewovds, asked. Is it a sin for a man to make a vowto a Mazarat ?' I answeved, Yes; it is a sin,and God wUl be angry with every one who doesso and with those wdio ave pleased, wdth ov believeiu such things, and in pvoof of what I have saidlet me read to yon fvom the Word of God : Isa.1.28-29, " They that fovsake the Lovd shall beconsumed, fov they shall be ashamed of the oakswhich ye have desived, and ye shall be confoundedfov the gavdens that ye have chosen." Isa.5T:4-5 and T, " Ave ye not children of tvausgvession,a seed of falsehood, inflaming yonvselvesWe have just veturned from Eldany, wheve Mv.Easson has been holding a communion sevvice,with idols undev evevy green tree, etc." Ezk.and pevhaps an account of it may be of intevest to16:16-25.you. We left Latakia about nine o'clock Thursdaymovning and veached Eldany about thvee inThey said. We will ask ouv sheikh if thesewovds are tvue ov not. I said. If you pvefev tothe aftevnoon. Six houvs on a jouvney of fifteenwovship the cveatnve instead of the Creator, saymiles is slow tvaveling.so. They answered, We believe in the Cveatôv.Theve is, connected with the teacher's house, aThen I said. The Cveator has forbidden thesevoom which Mv. SpvouU had built fov the nse ofvows and offevings to the Mazavats, and if youthe mission, and heve in a shovt time we weve settledso tbat we could live fov a few days fl'ithlisten io the word ov command of ihe sheikh andreject the Word of God, God will call you to accountfor rejecting- his word.some degvee of comfort. Fviday movning thepeople came over fvom B'hamva distvict,two houvsRanaset El Harsh.—Met theve Sheikh Saleh,distant, and fvom Debbash, about one liouv. Theand in the course of our conversation the cvucifixionof Chvist by the Jews was mentioned. Tbetwo Ausaiveyeb tvibes bave had tvouble, and aveveady to take vengeance on each othev shouldsheikh said, I can't accept that doctvine, fov it isnot true; the Christ was never crucified. I answered, I can prove what I have said from theWord of God. Jesns the Christ was crucifiedand was laid in the grave, but aftev thvee days herose again and appeared to his disciples and thenasscended into heaven. We read Luke 33:33," And they (the .lews) were instant with loudvoices requiring that he might be cvucified, andHe was afvaid to lose his wovldly liouov. Hissubjects would all be bis equals if be weve to become a Christian. He chose the world find itshonov and vejected the Chvist. Bnt may thewovds of tvuth vead and spoken pvove the powerof God to the salvation of bis soul.Begsat.—We .spoke of Jesus as tbe GoodSliepbevd, How be caves fov and feeds his peopleas the shepbevd his sheep. If we accept himas ouv Sheplievd he will give us all we ask fovwith faith in him as onv Lovd and Saviouv.Those pvesent weve pleased with ouv wovds, andsaid, tvuly tbe Chvist is able to do all things,—Ouv veaders will be glad to have anothev letterfrom Miss Maggie B. Edgar :Lataki.v, Apvil 19, 1881either go beyond theiv own tevvitory. B'hamvadistvict being within the limits of the one and Eldanythe other, ouv B'hamra people weve natuvaUyafvaid to come ovev, although they had no pavtin the quavvel. Howevev, M. lessa, the overiSeerof the mountain schools, obtained a pvomisefvom the heads of the tvibe that they might comeundev his pvoteetiou, and would not be molested^

150 Letters from Chrisfian Workers.at Home and Abroad.Accordingly M. lessa went as fav as the divisionline to meet tbem and bring them ovev. Themen and women walked and cavvied the children,while theiv beds and provisions fov the way wevebvought on donkeys. M. lessa pvovides voomand food fov the [leople while at Eldany, fovwhich they each pay a small sum. A veportreached them during Fviday that they would bewaylaid on theiv vetuvn Monday, and they talkedof going back that night, but 'Six. Easson pevsuadedthem to stay until Sabbath night, anci onhis pvomise to go with them they finallyconsentedto wait till aftev the Monday sevvice. Befovethe sevvice on Satuvday aftevnoon a numbev ofteachev Ibvahim's pupils vecited Psalms aud chaptevsfvom the Bible. They are tagged, wildlookingAvabs, some of them, but it does onegood to heav them repeat such chapters as Matt.5, Eph. 3 and 6, Rom. 12, and John 3, vemembeviugthe promise that God's wovd shall not vetuvnto him void, and that it is " quick and powevful."Sabbath morning- we arvanged the schoolvoom,in which all the sevvices weve held, for thecomniuuion. It was used at night asa sleepingvoom fov some of the company. The beds wevepiled up in one cornev, on the wall hung- one ovtwo guns, the pulpit Avas a table with a pillowlaid on it and the whole coveted with a whitecloth. We covered a native chest which stoodin the voom with a vug, and ovev that a whitenapkin, aud so improvised a table fov the elethe hardest thing to learn is to be w-illing to feelments. A low table extended down the ceutve that I can do so Uttle, Please tell the next ladyof the room, and mats weve spvead ou the floov that comes that the fivstthing she wiU find is thatat eithev side as seats fov the communicants. Onv she is not worth a cent till she can talk. Misscommunion wave was not silver, liut ovdinavy Wylie is a most pleasant companion, both to liveglasses and plates; nov weve ouv people dvessed and to wovk wich. She has been thoughtful andas they would be iu ouv countvy on such an occasion.But theiv decent, cleanly appeavance and vcvy comfortable togetbev.considevate fov me as a sistev could be, and we arethoughtful, intelligent faces weve cfuite a contvast What wovk I cau do I enjoy very much, andto the people wdio came in to witness what was hope that I may be able soou to give move help.going on. Theve weve jn-esent iu all twenty-fouv Miss Evadna M. Sterrett writes from Mersine,April 29th, 1887 :native communicants. One uew membev was veceivedand two childven baptized,A few minutes ago as Mrs. Metheny sat^Monday movning evevyone A\-as astiv betimes, meditating and wondering whence a telegramMv. Easson packed evevytbing veady to load onthe auiinal, and at half-past six tbe usual closiu.^sevvicesof tbe commnnion season weve held; aftevwavdwe all bveakfasted, and shovtly afteveight o'clock the B'hamva people weve veady tostavt with Mv. Easson, M, lessa and two of theyouun- teachevs as guavds, Evevy man iu thecompany was avmed, but Mv. Easson's pvesencemade them feel move secuve, as they knew no onewould dave to touch him, ov them while underhis protection. Conducting a communion in themountains of Syria is not quite so easy as in ourchurches at home, Mr. Easson had, of course,no assistant in the services, and on Mondaypveached befove breakfast and aftevwavd took hispeople an hour on the way home, came back toEldany, where Mrs. E., little Mizzie and I werewaiting, and rode down to Latakia, and that ona very wavm day. But to have the people comeout as they did, though in some dangev, was enconvaging,and no one who witnessed the wholeservice could help feeling that the past years otthe preaching of the gospel of Christ among thesepeople are now bearing some fi-nit. But the fieldis wide, these mountain villages ave many, theirheathen shrines ov holy places are "on every highhill and nnder every green tvee," the people arein davkness, and the gleams of light ave yet fewand fav between. Tbe outpouving of God's spiritis greatly needed, both upon the people and thewovkers heve and at home befove " Lebanon shallbe tiivned into a fvuitful field and the fvuitful fieldshall be esteemed as a fovest."In my Avabic studies I am, I think, makingsome pvo.gvess, but not neavly so much as I wouldlike. I find it quite difficult. Do you vemember-wvitiug to me that a new missionary might expectto have some nnpleasaut duties to pevform ? bntmight come concerning our coming friends, instepped the "Telegraphie" (the man who deliversthe telegrams) bearing one from Mr.Miller, telling of their sailing to-day. Itreached us C:45 P. M. We are delightedto hear that a physician has at last been ap_

pointed to Latakia. . . Many would joinour little churoh were we to widen the gate.'There is nothing new io write concerning theschool question here, except that the ProtestantDoctor, who is a member of the Board,remarked to Dr. Metheny a few days ago that^he thought that the Turks were about tiredof the question at issue, and that we are notlikely to be interfered with, should we proceedto open np new schools.We sent a teacher to Adana io iry thereagain to-day. . . Owing to the lack otNotes and Reviews. 151I wrote io you last week telling you of be so many English speaking people here forMoritz Greenberg's departure for America, it. The congregation joined heartily in thebut I had not then time to tell you of our servicesthe previous Sabbath. We had appointgentlemen left 2^ Napoleons ($8.65) for thesinging, and afcer the service some of theed Sabbath the 18th for his baptism, and armission work.ranged to have an English service, as he knowsno Arabic. On Saturday morning a party ofgentlemen called off the French steamer,on their way to Tarsus, and after a pleasantcall promised to come ashore the next day.One was a minister of the Free Ohurch ofScotland, another an Episcopal minister, athird ofthe U. P. Church, aod a fourth oftheWesleyan, in Wales. With them were twoCambridge students. In the afternoon fiveladies, another Cambridge student, a brotherof the others, made us a call, and they alsopromised to come ashore. We appointed11:30 as the hour in order to give them timerain, the distress in these three cities is inereasing;in Tarsus a cow and a calf was soldfor less than a dollar and a half. The probabilitiesare ihat poverty will drive as many wore on the sea became so rough that weto breakfast and come ashore. As the morningpupils into school as we oan receive.hardly expected any one to come ashore.There has been more fever in school within Doctor went over the sermon in Arabic beforethe past two weeks than has been all winter ; the time for English service. When the hourthere is also much in town.carae a party ot twenty fromthe steamer wereThose oppressed Protestants in the village present and Mrs. Wartz of this place and hernear Alexandretta of whom I wrote you some two daughters. Doctor explained ihe 102dtime ago, have obtained redress from the Psalm from the 13th to ihe 23d verse, andTurkish Government, and ihe leaders in the preached from Luke 1:68th. After the baptismalservice we sang Psalm 72 from 17tbpersecution have been put into prison.In a letter, dated April 20th, Mrs. Methenydescribes an interesting service recently onoe more hear English preaching, and itverse to the end. It was very refreshing toheld in Mersine:seemed a strange providence that there should%Û^ miA"—The promised paper on Sulieman Daoud Taylor, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle,will appear in the next number.has kindly sent us his address on the Befi,exInfl'uence of Missions. This admirable addresswas read at ihe first convention of—On the evening of Sabbath, April 24th,Dr. and Mrs. Martin of Antioch, Syria, werethe Inter-seminary Missionary Alliance, andcalled to pari wiih their only child. After awas'printed at the time in its oflaoial report;brief illness little Paul passed away frombut, as many of our readers are not likely toearth to ihe eiernal world of peace and purity.have seen it, we gladly accept it as a contributionto Her,vld of Mission Ne-ws.While we deeply sympathize with ihe bereavedparents in iheir loss, we are sure ihat it iswell with ihe child. Death is his gain.—In reply to a request for an article onsome aspect of mission work, Dr. Wm. M.W^mm^.—The cbildren have undertaken to buy anorgan for Miss Sterrett's school in Mersiue.This idea originated with the little readers of

152 Notes and Reviews.The Pansy, who have contributed very liberallyfor tbis purpose. But five times the amountalready received will be needed to purchase asuitable instrument. Do not all the childrenwho read Miss Sterrett's letter in Heeald ofMission News want io give something? AUwho wish to help should send their mites atonce, ihat the organ may be shipped with Dr.Balph's goods, when he leaves tor Latakia inthe latter part of August.—The following letter was received a fewdays ago:Hopkinton, Iowa, May 30, 1887.Mr. Sommerville, I send you twenty-fivecents to start a mission to Africa. I earnedthe pennies all myself. I will send some morewhen I earn them.Sloane Methent Wallace.It gives ihe Heeald great pleasure to receivethis money, which has been deposited in theUnion Dime Savings Bank of New York City.While there is no immediate prospect oi theReformed Presbyterian Churoh entering uponmission work in Africa, these pennies may bethe nucleus of a fund that shall be used toaid in the future enlightenment of that benightedland. When we,who are now activelyengaged in the great work of evangelizationat home and abroad, are laid aside or havepassed away, this generous lad may be amessenger of the churches holding forth iheword of life in some part of the Dark Continent.This little fund may originate a religiousmovement, far reaching and lasting in itsresults, converting into a fruitful garden ofthe Lord the moral wUderness of Africa, as ifsown NUe, flowing from an unseen spring, îvesbeauty and fertility to vast stretches of countrythai would otherwise be dreary and desolate.—One ofthe most interesting sessions of theSynod recently held in Newburgh was thatduring which ihe mission work of ihe Churohcame up for discussion. The report of theCommittee on Missions will be printed in ournext issue, so that every one will have anopportunity of examining tor himself tbe Resolutionsthat outline the policy of Synod for thecurrent year. It will be seen that the Boardsare instruoted to reinforce the missions in thevarious fields ihat are at present occupiedat home and abroad, and to inquire into thefeasibility of extending their operations in otherdirections. There are not a tew indicationsthat the Churoh should take measures to establisha mission in China. No one can readfor instance the carefully prepared report ofour devoted missionary, who has labored foryears, alone and amid many discouragements,on the Pacifio coast without feeling ihat thework in Oakland demands ihe hearty supportof the Church. Through his instrumentaUtymany Chinamen have been led to confess theSaviour, and surely some provision should bemade to look after ihese young converts ontheir return to China. We are glad io kno¥that the Church is waking up io the importanceof doing more for the enlightenment ofthe heathen and we believe ihe day is at handwhen our foreign work shall not be Umited tovigorous missions in Syria and Ciiioia.A larger appropriation than usual hasbeen made to the Southern Mission this year,and there is a manifest determination to prosecutethe work among the Freedmen with aggressivevigor. And evidently the churchesare feeUng as never before their responsibilityto labor for the enlightening and uplifting ofthe unconverted in our great cities. We anticipatea year of consecrated effort, and consequentlyof large results to ihe glory ofourdivine Master.

WHERE SHALL OUR CHURCHPREACH THE GOSPEL?PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHUROH,U. S. A.mx Wxm^ d §imm mxhRev. R. B.M'Cready, Ooldenham, N. T." Thus it is written : . . that repentanceand remission of sins should be preached inhis name, unto all the nations, beginning fromJerusalem."foreign field. She should begin in Jevusalem, notJerusalem was ai ihis time the centre of the in China ov Afviea; at the centre, not at the circumference;where her wealth, and talent, andhistoric and present Chuvch. It was soon to bethe scene of the trial, crucifixion and resurrection numbers ave, not wheve they are not; at home,of Christ ihe forgiver of sins. For ihese and rather than abroad. If she has extra money formany other reasons, such as the verifying of his new missionavy entevprises, let them be begun inown declarations, the fulfilling of prophecy, the Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Cin •showing of his infinite love, it was imperative on cinnati, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco.the disciples to begin to preach to ihe nations To ihose who ave Coveuantevs, the Chuvch offrom Jerusalem.Christ in America is the Covenanter church.But let this reason be distinctly remembered, And she recognizes the grand purpose of her organization:" Ge ye therefore, and make disciplesthat while Jerusalem was the centre of the iruereligion and nominal believers, it was also the of all the nations, baptizing them in the name ofnational centre of influence. It was the centre of the Pather, and of the Son, and of the .Holyscepticism and of immorality. It was ihe place Ghost; teaching them to observe aU things whatsoeverI have commanded yon; audio, I am with•where the nations were congregated together. InActs 2:9 we are told that fifteennationalities were you alway, even unto the end of the world."represented. It was the place where ihe disciplescould use ihe talents and opportunities thatThree courses are open to her. Fivst, to asGrod had given' them to secure the best results.They had also a divine warrant ior beginningthus at the centre—ihe national centre. It wasa most cominon' sense thing io do.After preaching to Jerusalem God found meansto send them to ihe other nations. He did ii bypersecution. What he did for them by persecutionhe is doing for us by wealth and peace. Buithe gospel was preached faithfully in Jerusalembefore the persecution came—preached to themany foreigners who came to trade and to die inthe sacved city.Surely the infevence is cleav. Tiie Ghurch ofChrist in Amevica should use the talents and oppovtnnitiesihat God has given hev at home, inorder that she may go better equipped into thesume thai she is the only Church of Christ, inwhich case the world is open to hev doctrine andevangelistic effovt.Second, a recognition ihat she is a branch ofthe general Church of Chvist, with a missioncommon io ihe evangelical chuvches, yet possessingpuver doctrines and more orthodox methods.In this case her duty is to seek a place whevethere is no chuvch and endeavov io build one.Third, that she is a branch of ihe Church of

154 Our Views of Miss'ion Work.Christ to which in addition to the common mis- Christ. This wUl bring the natiou, to Christ assion a special work is given. The special work nothing else will, and without it the nation willis the proclamation of Christ as the King of na- never be brought to Christ.tions. This is the course practically followed by Says .J. M. Sherwood, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.:ouv church, and hev past policy hjis been to es- " There is more sjjiritual destitution prevalenttablish a chuvch wherever she could, tbat souls to-day among a million of tlie dwellers in Newmight be saved and this doctrine pvoclaimed. York and Brooklyn than exists among a dozenSbe bas even made effovts to plant chuvches in whole states and territories at the West!"the strategic points, but not with that as the ob- Why draw out all the wealth in Sodom toject in view. In some cases^she has been success- convert China ov Africa, pvessing as their needsful, in others she has not. Three things, it seems may be, ov to convevt even the West? Theto me, make it inipevative that she gvapple with flood of iniquity in Sodom and Gomorra isthe responsibility laid upon her in the present cir- growing greater. Statistics show that Brooklyn,cumstances to preach Christ in the centves of " the city of chuvches," has now the least chnrchpopulation.accommodation for her population of any city in1st. The necessUy fov pvesevving our national the Union. Why not begin in America tomorality. ' preach, and purify, and lift np humanity ? Why2d. Theforeign immigration and the increase ^^^ let Sodom purify Sodom.? Why not turnof scepticism.the wealth, and talent, and prayers of our Utile3d. The aggressiveness of other denominations, church upon these centres, upon all the centres ofWe may as well recognize as a chuvch tbat ouv the United States, as vapidly as possible ? Chinameans ave quite limited. The gveatest care, '^ there, Africa is there, Rome is there. Everytherefore, is needed to use them in such a way as nationality under the sun is there. The highestto secure the best vesults. Fov there seems to be scholavship and the blackest ignovance; the sinlaidupon the Covenantev chuvch a move gvave revest Christianity and the most bavefaced hyporesponsibilitythan rests - upon othev chuvches. ^risy. No place in the world needs Christian ef-She, more thau all others, is vesponsible fov f°''t so much as these centves of living men andthe bvinging of this nation to Christ. She immovality.claims this fov hev special inission. She is ^"o V^^^'^ offevs bettev vesults, because it offerspreeminently a preacher of national right- the grandest of opportunities. There are scoreseousness. As, our national government and ^^ Christian women, yonng and old, in these cenournatioual life are stvongly influenced by our ti'es, asking, " Wbat can I do for Christ?" Manygreat centres of population, eithev she must give ot them ave dying spivituaUy from religious inercolpringto the life of tbese centres ov she must tia. Theiv hands ave tied fov want of methodsfaU to affect the, national life and govevnment. ^'^^ money. The money ihat should be nsed inThe movality of the govevnment will vise no this "colluvies gentium—sink of nations," ishighev than the moval life of these great centres, sent off to a not move needy field, and half of itWe, the people, rule in these United States, and spent in tbe getting of men and women ready forwe rule according to what is in ouv heavt, wheth- wovk.er it be God's will -or ouv own. What tbe God has laid upon the Covenantev churcji inChurch needs, therefore, is to turn all her talent, this country a gveat wovk. If it is to be accomandwealth, and pvayevs upon these stvategic plished theve must be some attention paid to thepoints that ave so open to us, and fill them with diviue injunction, begiimiiio- at Jevusalem. If we

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 155canuot save America, how shall we be able to scarcely any one has faith in it. It is only tbesave China, or the people of the Congo ?few who have money and prayers for the move-New York has already joined hands with ment. WUl not the chuvch say most emphati-Brooklyn in an effort to do the mission wovk of cally that this is the place to begin to preach rethechurch at home. It is the most hopeful work pentance ?that the cjiu-rch has ever undertaken, and yetStems of IVlissionary Intelligence.REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MISSIONS.,The Committee on Missions respectfully reporttbat a careful examination of the papers referredto them, impresses them with the growing impovtanceof this department of ihe church'swork, and of the need of increased zeal and devotionin its prosecution. The mission work of thechurch, both at home and abroad, is in a peculiarsense the execution of her gveat commissionfrom the Lord himself. Nor can theve be anyforwavd in those fields, and to entev only uponsnch new work as the church is clearly able toundertake and pvosecute with success, and tow^hich Providence manifestly opens the doov.conflict between ihe diffevent povtions of theIn accovdance with this view of onv missionwovk covered alike by this commission. Thework, your committee submit the following recommendations:home mission work, and the foreign mission work,are simply parts of one great comprehensive mission.The more earnestly and faithfully the one1. That the wovking fovce at Latakia andTarsus be incveased by one ovdained minister atof these departments is prosecuted, the moreeach place, and by one lady teacher, all to bezealous and efBcient may we expect to be thechosen in the wisdom of the Foveign Boavd.prosecution of ihe other.2. That the erection of a buikling for a boys'We rejoice in the revival of the mission spiritschool, with an industrial department, has uowin a number of our congregations, as shown inbecome necessary for the successful prosecutiontheir evangelistic labors, their earnest and generously-supportedendeavors to reach the unevanof tbe work at Latakia ; that the Board of FoveignMissions be anthovized to pvoceed with thisgelized masses in their own iinmediate neighborhood,and we hope to see every congregation inentevpvise as soon as the means can be pvovided ;and that we call npon the devoted and libevalthe chuvch engaging in simi av labovs. No suvevfviends of missionavy wovk tbvoughout the chuvchmethod can be employed fov deepening the intevestof all ouv people in mission work remote fromto provide at once the $6,000 required for thispurpose.them, than by engaging them in mission work at3. That the Centval Boavd is heveby anthovizedto send to the Pacific coast a well C[ualifiedtheir own door,Youv committee ave pevsuaded that the speciallabovev to pveach, whevevev there is an open door,wovk to which ouv chuvch is called in the missionespecially in maintenance of vefovmation piincifield abvoad is the move vigovous pvosecution ofthe missions already established with their centresat Laiakia' and Tarsus. To inaugurate andsuccessfully maintain a new foveign mission, as, fovexample, in China ov Afviea, would vequive auannual income far beyond what the expevience ofpast years warrants the church to expect. Besides,the work in Syria is now more than everdemanding re-inforcement. To secure the fruitsof the abounding labors and contributions of thepast, there sbould be the concentration of thechurch's effovts inthat special fleld. An incveaseof laborers and vesouvces in that divinely assignedand divinely blessed field, is a necessity avisingfvom the development of the work to its presentencouraging condition. A wise policy wOuldseem to require uS to hold the ground alreadywon in onr various fieldsof missiou effovt, to pvessples, to bving togetbev in pvaying societies, so favas possible, the membevs of the church who are,scattered ovev that coast, move pavticniavly inCalifovnia, and thus save them fvom being lost tchev fellowship, and in evevy other way practicableto aid in the inission work of the chuvch inthat pavt ot ouv countvy.4. That ihe Centval Board be anthovized tomaugurate a mission among the Indifins iu Indi-

156 Items of Missionary Intelligence.an Territory, and that the ladies of the PittsburghPresbyterial Missionary Society be requestedto devote the money raised by ihem toihis mission. It is to be hoped that other generoussupporters of missionary work, such as ihefriend in Lind Gvove congvegation, who offevs $50per yeav for ten years for a new foreign mission,will appropriate special contributions io this newwork in onv own land.5. That the veports of the Foreign and CentralBoards be published in the minutes of Synod.6. Thai the Boavd of Foveign Missions be instructedto make inquiry in regard to a suitablefleld in which to inaugurate a new foveign mission,and report at next meeting of Synod.1. Th-at the time has arrived when we, as achurch, should enlarge our missionary effortsamong the Freedmen of our southern States, ifthe means can be provided for that end.PtespectfuUy submitted,David McAllister, lJ. A. Speek, |D. G. Thompson, |- Committee.ABROAD.S. McNaughee, |James Milroy, JAMERICAN CITIZENS AND TURKISHOFFICIALS.was before uniil a new valuation should be made.But alas for hopes placed on or in Turks. Whenthe tax-gathering time came the Doctor waspressed for tax at the price he paid. Instead ofiorty piastres, they demanded one hundred and,fovty-six piastres !Again. There is a quarry on the coast nearMersine. The Doctor sent stone cutters to takeout stones, and bought donkeys to take themdown to the shore for loading ihe boats. Hundredsof men engaged by other people in Mersinecut and carried their stones io ihe sea duringthe winter and as soon as the stormy weatherwas over began to bring their stones m littleboats. For some reason unknown, the governmentordered that no more stones be cut there,but allowed those already cut to be taken to theseashore. But the government now gave a settime in which to bring the stones. Storms hayingprevented the boats from bringing them all,an extension of time was asked and granted.The Doctor had no boats, as the others had, hutdepended on hired boats which he employed tothe utmost of his ability, so as to bring thestones in the given time,but did not succeed. Theday the order was due his boats and their crewswere put nnder arrest, and seven thousand stonesweve confiscated and sold at public auction inMersine. The Doctor applied through the U.S. Consular Agent to have his stones, detainedThe American citizens in this Turkish provincehave suffeved much inconvenience, insult and he got no redress. The stones were a total loss.from no fault of his, by an arbitrai-y order. Butindignity during the last two yeavs. It may be Again. The Doctor had gotten the usual permitfrom the city councU to brdld a house andintevesting and instvuctive to learn ft-om a fewinstances, theiv gvievances and theiv vecent faUuve paid the usual fee for it. After having been engagedfor seveval months on the foundations andof vechess. The mattevs I velate occuvved inMevsine, Asia Minov, in the Pvovince of Adan. in having the stones dvessed, an officev came onDoctov Metheny, an Amevican missiouary, puvchaseda lot in iSIevsiue, paying fov it one hundved the avchitect to appear before the city authovities.the gvounds and ovdeved tbe wovk to cease andand sixty Turkish pound, in ordev to avoid The Doctov went in pevson, as he was his ownpaying the title tvansfcv dues, he was uvged by avchitect, aud asked what was wanted. Theythe Mohammedan fvom whom he bought it to said that according to law he owed the city $55represent to the government that he only paid —i. e. thirteen Tuvkish livas. He remonstratedone hundred pounds for it. Tbe seller nrged that that demand was never made on others, asthe Doctor to make this representation or to he had taken pains to ascertain, and moreover heallow him to do so, and thus save to tlie Doctor had his permit and had been buUding for severalfive pev cent, on the othev sixty pounds. The months. The Doctor threatened io take it toDoctor stood out against it and paid tbo full court, but knowing that much time would be lostvaluation transfer fee. The government expressedits satisfactfion for his honesty, and inticompletion that year, was pondering what to do,and the season pass by utteriy preventing itsmated to him that the tax should remain as it when the president of the council said that therewas a certain clause in the law according to

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 151which one-fifth of the sum demanded would sufficecategory with the vest of ouv household things,the demands of law. The Doctor immedivvhich, having been used, were not subject to duately took him at his word and paid the money, ty. Theu baying- come from a Turkish port to ataking a receipt for it. The house was suffered. Turkish povt, as the ship's manifest showed, noto be erected. The council had already cut ten good veason could be given fov detaining- it. Butfeet off one side fvom one end to the othev of the it was not given up. Being an Amevican missionavy,and my name registered in the customfront to widen the stveet, and a like amount fvomanothev side. Accovding to law no damage can house, another way was open to me, by which webe claimed fov widening the stveet.bving all ouv goods fvom Envope and Amevica,On his recently applying for a permit to build accovding to special capitulations. This was, toa waU around his premises, they gravely refused bving a papev signed and sealed by the Unitedthe permit on the ground that they wish to open States Cousulav Agent here that the piano wasa new road through his lot so that it would for us. This couvse the Divector of Customs suggestedhimself, knowing I was also aware of it.cut it into two thin slices unfitting it fov anything.There is already tbe above mentioned road only I did so. But on presenting it to the Director,140 feet distant. The permit has not yet been he rudely thrust it back to me, and said, "I dogranted to hhn, though the stones are ready and not recognize him at aU." Ouv Consulav Agentthe lime lying exposed for several months, and had been duly appointed by our government andnow the season is nearly past in which it is possibleaccepted by the Tuvkish govevnment. I veturnedto build. The confiscation of the stones his papev to him, and the Consul then went incompeUed him to bring stones from Latakia, pevson to attend to the mattev. He was flatlyninety miles distant, with all the attendant cost. vefused and vebnffed. He then vefevved the mattevThis is what any one will get fov taking moneyto Beirut, wUience it was pvomptly vefevved tointo Tuvkey. How glad any govevnment might Constantinople.be if people would, like the Doctov, spend somuch money among the poor laborers and craftsmenIn couvse of time the United States FrigateKearsarge, of famous cleeds,steamediiito port liei-eHis work kept a hundred men at wovk to inquire into the mattev of our Consul's honorfor nearly a year, and that too at his and his and ouv intevests. After the routine usual onwife's own private expense, and all fov a place such occasions, and the. usual pvofessions andin which to cavvy on mission schools and mission fovmalities, the mattev was supposed to be sowovk. Such havvassing things weav npon tbe neavly settled tbat all would l)e well, and shestvength of any sensitive man. This is one phase steamed off. The Tnvks laughed in their sleevesof missionavy life.An Amekican Citizen,Resident in Tuekey.Mersine, Asia Minor, May 6, 1887.EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICANMISSIONARY.It may be interesting to read some of ouv experiencesin this unique land of disappointments.Just a year ago I asked our United States ConsularAgent at Latakia to procure a customhouse pass for onr piano and send it with ourat ouv credulity. The Consul's honov, and ouvintevests, like the smoke and steam of ouv gallantpvotectov, vanished into thin air. His honor hasnot been vindicated, and Doctov Metheny's- pianowas aUowed to stand outside of the custom house,on the sea beach, exposed to the damp sea spvay,and the sun and rain, all sunimev. At last, being-me of the lavgest pattevns of upvight piano, itwas puvposely tuvned upside down and placed onits thin edge, so that a voUing cask might veadilythvow it ovev and insure its ivvepavable injuvy.other household goods to this mission station This deshable end, as is believed, having been attained,it was removed into the inside of the cuswhither we have come to reside. The customauthorities in Latakia said, that as the piano had tom honse, near the gate opening on the sea, side,been in nse no pass was necessary, as it was not where it spent the wintev, and stUl stands awaiting.We bave undevgone in pevson, and in thesubject to duty. On avvival at the mission, ouvgoods were all passed except the piano, for which pereon of our United States vepvesentative heve,duty was demanded. This was, of course, to get the United States Consulav Agent, Mr. Dawson—a bribe from me, for ihe piano was in ihe samean Englishman,—indignities harder to endurethan the loss of the piano. This gentleman exer-

158Rems of Missionary Intelligence,cises for ns an offlce we would custom not like officials to hold fov heve would not allow Rev.ourselves, and that, too, fov no pay whatevev. Thomas Chvisty's agent to receive his goods forOuv pvospect is truly one causing us anxiety. him, though having the usual certificate as usedWe have invested lavgely in veal estate, and have for many yeavs, duly signed and sealed by fan,extensive missionavy wovk in baud. Tben, too, United States Consulav Agent heve. He wastbis is a port of lavge commerce, and Amevicans compelled to come fvom Mavash, five days' journey,in ovdev to take his packages out of thehave intevest in the Mevsine, Tavsus & AdanaRailroad. American macbinevy—many reapevs— custom house. I was pvesent with Inin when hisfind sale heve. One of Mv. Dawson's clevks is a goods weve examined. Tbe inspecting offieerYice Consul fov a Uttle Euvopean nationality detailed to examine them took ont avtiele bywith few citizens, little tvade, and less pvopevty avticle, holding it up in his hand and jibing,to pvotect. He has a highev vank and move questioning and insinuating in an insulting mannevas to the uses of each Fov instance, a lad/semoluments and move defevenco shown him bythe Tuvks on account of his highev grade, whUe dress, I remember in particular. He opened itMr. Dawson, representing a reality—the United out, asking whether it was^for his or some otherStates Govevnment, is only a Consular Agent,to be snubbed by petty Tuvkish officials, and insultedwithout being able to obtain vedvess, notwithstanding-the pvompt and kind efforts of hissupeviov, Consul iJissiugev, of Beivut.Inaismuch as onr Uuited States ConsulavAgents veceive no pay fvom ouv government,why not have them made Consuls out aud out,ov at least Yice Consuls on the same cheapterms. This would give them a gvade of officesecuving and insuviiig that influence and consider-ationouv Amevican interests demand, and atthe same time be move commensuvate with thedignity of ouv govevnment and the interests involved,'l'he vevy smallest ihiroiieaii nationalitiesby theiv caveful attention to this mattev, soessential aniong these venevable Oriental Impevialisms,secuve immediate vedvess, while ouvoflicial vepvesentatives, as in the case of ouvMersine CoiLSulav Agent, is snubbed to his face—has been insulted by officials, and up to datehas had no vedvess. Indignity shown him, if notsoon veparated, will be—has been, shown to onvcitizens who vepvesent move veal estate andmoney intevests than a majovity of all the Euvopeantogetbev. Ouv aff'aivs are at a stand-still.Educational missionary estaijlislimeiits, costinglavge capital and ackuowledKed liy the '1 uvkishauthovities to have beeu established on a legalbasis, ave hainpeved and evevy conceivable obstacleis put ill ouv way by minov officials, and vigbtsduly and cleavly nominated in the capitulationsare withlield on the most tviv-al and avbitvavy pvetenses,subjecting us to Vexatious delays, lossesand incoiiv(.'iiienccs wovse than losses.I am not alouc. The niissionaries of theAmerican Board have Uke expevieuces. Theone, what material it was, tbe number of buttons,the rufiles, the style, the cost and aU kindof silly questions and insinuations purposely intendedto annoy, insult and detain Mr. Christy.He was kept the whole day to accomplish whatneed not detain over twenty minutes ov over halfan hour. He had to remain over night, ilr.Christy, a soldier of honorable record in our latewar, feltaU tbis very keenly. The stipulationsmade by the signitory powers with the I'm-kishgovevnment, in the intevests of humanity, educationand religion, as a quid pjro quo for substantialhelp when in dangev of annhilation, ave nowset aside by petty officials witb a nonchalancepeeuliav to themselves and contvavy to the wishof the centval Impevial authovities.another case of other AMERICANS.Rev. G. F. Moiitgomevy, of the A. B. F.Missions at Adana, came to iMevsine fov his householdgoods and the outfit of Miss Webb, a missionavywho came with him fvom Amevica lastNovembev. He had his papevs duly made out,signed and sealed accovding to law. I weut withhim to the custom house. 'ihe Divectov flatlyvefused to give them up, saying: "I do notvec(.)g-nize you to l)e a missionavy," Mv. Montgomevyhad lived in this vegiou twenty-threeyeavs, as well known as he is highly vespected,Accovdingly he took his credentials back to theConsul, who, ou going iu person tn the Divector,was as flatlyvefused until a cevtificate could besent b)' the Consulav Agent to tlie GovernorGeiieval of the jn'ovince to be attested by hiin,Tbis was accovdingly done, and simply meansthat the United States Consulav Agent's ot&cialseal and signature goes for nothing, and he is to

Items of Missionary Intelligence, 159be belittled as much as possible in the eyes of first among the lands wbich in recent times havebystandevs, so as to demonstvate with what veceived the Go,spel. While in mauy couiitvies aimpunity his pverogatives may be set aside and pvofound iinpvession has been made, in none hastrampled upon at will. The Governor's signature,however, was, after the usual delays, atgenevation, Fiji bas ]iassed fvom the most degvathe subjugation been so complete In a singletached, and the paper forwarded io tbe Director, ded bavbavism to a high degvee of Chvistian civilization.And Madagascav has now fov someand the goods, detained contrary to law and thecentral imperial wishes, were delivered to Mv. yeavs been a Chvistian State, the Wovd of GodMontgomery. A few days ago, with proper being honoved and owned in the public administvationof the countvy, and the Chvistian veligion,papers as before, he presented himself as before,asking for four boxes addressed to him. The Director,with whom alone we need have to do, faith both of iulevs and of the gveat bulk of thethough on a voluntavy basis, being the pvofessedthough not engaged, sent Mr, Montgomery to the ruled. At least tbis is true of the main portionChief Clerk, who, as before, said : " We cannotrecognize you as an American missionavy," To the early Christian history of Madagascarand the principal dominion of the Island.Mr. Montgomery remonstrated: "Did not I shall not advert. The story of the introducof Christianity, of tbe season of His Excellency, the Governor, certify to my betion persecution,ing a missionavy ? " The clevk veplied : "No.He cevtified that the Consul said you weve amissionary. We cannot receive such testimonyas that. You must get a paper signed by iheGovernor that yon are a missionary." Again theUnited States Consul sought to intevcede, butwas fiatly refused. Mr. Montgomery had auseless journey back to Adana after all this timeand expense withont his goods, which still vemainand then of tbe mavvellons resuscitation of tbewellnigb cvushed and buvied faith, has become atveasnved memovy of tbe nnivevsal Chuvch.But recently tbe countvy bas been passing- thvougha tvial of a dift'event, though still of a vevy sevevedescviption. The Fvencli, founding on a tveatyAvhich the Malagasy declave to have been illegallyobtained, sought fov many years to actpiive anovevwhelming influence ovev tbe nation, and to secuvetbis at length went to wav. The stvangein the custom house. Some clays since the Governorhaving told him he had sent the attested spectacle was seen of a so-called Chvistian powevlist to the Director, he accordingly came down hasting, at the bidding of a poov envious ambition,to destvoy the fivstfaiv blossoms of a yonngfrom Adana again. Although the list was thereand duly attested, the Director said he could not civilization, and to ovevthvow a noble and pvospevousChuvch. Nov bad England, which hasgive him his goods now, but he could take threeof the four. They would retain the fourth as a lavished so much tveasure fov the lepvous, decvepit,sick man of Euvope, boldness to uttev onesecurity tUl the Director could get instructionsfrom Constantinople. So Mr. Montgomery had wavning wovd. Newly emevged fvom bavbavism,to return without it. The legal fact is simply the nation of the Hovas had to stand the onset ofthis: The Consul makes out a list once a yeav an empive. In tbe vevy process of fovmiiig a settledgovevnment, they had to oppose in council theof aU Amevicans having a vight to the franchise,and on this certified list they receive it. Tbe signatureof the Governor General is not necessary How well they succeeded, how bvave wasdiplomacy, in the fieldthe arms, of Fvauce.theivat all. This is the point I have made and on demeanor, and how wise were their plans in thewhich i have stood still more recently. We have face of imminent pevil, and bow lingeving and ingloviousweve the militavy opevations of the enfoUowed this for twenty-two years, and it cannotbe called in question.emies, the wovld well knows. Even the tveatyDavid Metheny. with which Fvance salved hev wounded honorMersine, Asiatic Turkey, May 7, 1887. turns out to be no great gain for hev and no humiliationto Madagascar. A well-known in's-MADAGASCAR.—Ît is a singular coincidencethat hitherto ihe island-power of Bvitain sionavy wvites :—" Tbe French bave vctivcd undercovev of a tveaty, full of fine high-soundinghas achieved its gveatest immediate missionavytriumphs in islands. Fiji, in the Pacific, and Madagascar,off the eastern shores of Africa, stand really mean very little. Their ci.nisul is to bephrases, such as theiv soul loveth, but wbichcalled a Resident, as the fivstEnglish agent to

160 Items of Missionary InteUigence.the Court of Radama I. was called, and is aUowedto have a guard of honor at his own expense; butbeyond that they have gained nothing exceptabout fouv mUes of sea-coast in the extveine iiovthof the island, which wUl only be a gvaveyavd fortwo-thivds of the men tbey send theve,"But how have the Christians stood tbe tvial ?It is pleasing to find fvom a vepovt of the LondonMissionary Society, published at Antanavivo,on the Slst of Decembev, 1886, that theivgveat mission has passed almost scathless thvoughthe five, Theiv congvegations, if diminishedsomewhat in uumbevs, " have not depavted fvomthe faith, nov been moved away fvom the hope ofthe Gospel through the wild alavms of wav andthe disquieting news that reached them evev andanon fvom the scene of the conflict," Now thatpeace has been restoved, the missionavies findthe veligious and educational wovk in which theyave engaged has suffeved little, if at all, fvomthe distuvbed state ofthe countvy, "The pveachingof the Word of God, tbe teaching both inSunday and day-school, and the vavious effovtsof the missionavies and the native Chvistians topvomote the enlightenment and the civUizationof the people, have been energeticaUy sustained,and in some respect augmented, so that it maybe said the things which have happened to thecountry have fallen out unto the fuvthevance of theGospel and the advance of the Kingdom of Christ."Like so many missions, that of the LondonMissionary Society in Madagscar has passed beyondits initial stage. There is now inthat islanda great organized Chuvch, rivalliug in the numbevof its congvegations and in its membevship someof ouv pvominent denominations at home. Inthe Imerina Mission theve ave 892 chuvches, 165native pastovs, 102 Evangelists, 3,709 nativepveachevs, 5iS,898 church membevs, and nearly182,000 native adhevents. Some of thesechurches ave vevy small, but many ave large andthovoughly ovganized Alongside of the

for everything English was so strong. TheQueen and Prime Minister have just granted acharter to an English company to found a bankin Madagascar, and I fear ihat all ihe MalagasyCustom Houses on ihe coast are to be put intothe hands of BngUshmen." Surely we wUl repaysuch trust and love with earnest prayers for thespiritual prosperity of thai remarkable people.—Rev. John Smith in Missionary Becord.AT HOME.In connection with the proposal of our churchto enter upon missionary operations among iheIndians, the following extract from the address ofan Indian wiU be read with interest :There can no longer be a question as to iheultimate civiUzation of the red man. To reachthis,end is only a matter of time and patient missionaryeffort. The Indian is capable of a higherachievement than is ordinarily predicted of him.Por illustration of this you have only to considerthe prosperous condition of the five nations ofthe Indian Territory. Go among the Cherokees,Choctaws, and others in that territory, and youwiU be received wiih more kindness and hospitalitythan by many of your own people. And youwill recognize in many of them ihat moraUty andrefinement which are characteristic of an enlightenedpeople. W e have well-organized governmentsofour own; good systems of education nnderour own management; and we are self-supporting.W e live in good houses, cultivatefarms, raise stock, educate our children, dress respectably,ask only not to be interfered with inour legal rights.Nor is this all thai mission work has accomplishedfor ihe Indians. It has done more forthe elevation of the Indian race than all otheragencies combined. Under ihe elevating influenceof the Gospel of Ohrist, Indians will accom-Value all Men. 161plish more in the way of individual and naiionalimprovement than they could under any otherpower. Not only does it make them a law-abiding,peaceable and industrious people, but it alsoqualifies them for the nobler spheres of human life.The few white missionavies now laboring in theIndian Territory are doing immense good. Theyare organizing new churches and Sunday-schools;instituting more effective methods of Christianwork; and educating the people for the serviceof Jesus Christ. .But, whUe the foUowers of Chvist in the fivenations " sivive togetbev fov the faith of the Gospel,"endeavoring to become more enlightenedand self-supporting, they are stirred by the" Macedonian cry" of the brethren of the plainsin the western part of the tevvitovy, " come overand help us." Here again we are confrontedwiih pressing needs. These Indians of the plainsare uncivilized. They are in a state of comparativeheathenism. Among them the war song maystill be heard. The iaces of some are still ornamentedwith paint, and their hair with eaglefeathers. And the ancient symbolisms of warstill linger in their memories. Moreover, thatholy Day which God has sanctified unto manpasses by unobserved; and thai " name which isabove every name " is comparatively unknown toihem. Notwithstanding all this, these tribes arein the main peaceable and friendly, and anxiousto know what is right.I appeal to you as Christian people not to ignoreour interests. You have occupied this vastland, and surrounded ns on every hand with thebeauty and grandeur of civiUzation and Christ'ianity, and we feel that in your might and gloryit is your duty to help the weak and ill-treated inyour midst to a reaUzation of the irue import ofhuman existence.YALUE ALL MEN.chances. Permit noi ihe immortal to be t-wisied,at the very starting of iis growth for ihe want ofYalue the Young. How precious ihese germssuch protection as it is in your power io afford.are 1 These spring-buds are lovely io look upon By faUing practically to Value Utile ones ai theirbut their worth is greater ihan their beauty. An real worth we boih suffer and infUct an incalculableinjury. They wUl be ihe men and womenimmortal life is opening ihere; heed it weU.Proprietors rear strong fences round young trees, of ihe generation when we become chUdren again,while they leave aged forests to take iheir If ihey grow crooked for the want of onr care to-It^r.

162 Value all Men.day, we shall lack support when we are too fee- yet a sister beloved, and in heaven a daughterble to bear our own weight. the Lord Almighty. Despise her not as youDon't spoU these tender precious things. TeU pass. Let yonr heart glue itself to hers; andifthem no Ue. Speak no vile or profane word in you must pass, unable to draw her from the pit,their heaving. Let no dvops fall on that polished let it be such a passing as will leave your ownsurface, which may eat like vUst into the heavt heart torn and bleeding for the outcast whom youand become the death of a soul. cannot save. Let not the frequency of such aYalne the Poor and Ignorant. In that state contact rub your heart hard and smooth, so thatChrist valued you, believer. . He did not pass other victims passing to perdition shall slip easilyyou because you were worthless. He came to over, getting no grip, and leaving no pain withinmake yoQ rich in grace, and to rejoice over you you. Never leam to pass the lost without athen. ' sigh, fov she is human, immortal. If she is lost,Yalue the Rich. We speak heve not of the the loss is etevnal; if she weve won, the gainChvistian brotherhood, but of humankind. Many 'would be unspeakable, to your Lord and you,of those whom the world calls rich are seUing It is time that the brotherhood in Christ wevethemselves for vUe stuff. They give themselves aroused to estimate aright the value of a di-unkformoney and show. The rich man's soul is ard, and the pecuUar danger of his state. Theymore precious than aU his viches. If he cannot who spuvn him away in disgust, and they whoestimate the things at theiv pvopev wovth, you make merry with his weakness, are alike out ofcan aud should. He is as precious as the poov, theiv veckoning. We should not lightly laugh atand wUl be as worthy, if he is redeemed, when he him on the one hand; we should not hopelesslywalks with his Redeemer hi white, give him up on tbe othev. The saddest featureYalue the Yicious, Although they wallow in of the dvunkavd's sad case is the tendency thata deep mive to-day they have fallen fvom a high may be obsevved, even amoug eavnest Chvistians,estate, and may yet vegain it. If one who had to give him up as beyond the reach of humanbeen a King's son should, in the frecj[uent vevoln- help. I see that some, even of tbose who aretions of these days, be cast a naked and penniless girding themselves fov saving- work upon thewandevev on ouv shoves, we would not thiuk of wovld, without saying that the inveterate inebrihimas of a common beggav. If he should come ate is absolutely ivvepavable, are deliberately pasinwant to your doov, you would look witha kind sing by the class, in ovdev that they may quarryof awe on him who is the heiv of a soveveign iu othev veins wheve experience holds out greaterhouse, and may yet sit upon a throne. Under hope of success. The peculiar hopelessness ofhis piteous condition you would recognize what the advanced stage in this form of sin gives pecuhehas been, and may yet be, ' liar fovce to the maxim, Pvevention is bettev thanWhen an abandoned woman passes you on the cuve,stveet do not despise hev. Perhaps beneath that That poov staggering dvunkard is worth morebold look shame begins to sweU, and would buvst than wovlds, if he weve won. If you could wininto vepentance, if it could get an outlet. She is him, be would be a cvown oi joy to you in thehuman; Christ is human; aud thevefove she may gveat day. " Of some have compassion, making;yet be a pavtaker of the divine natuve. A jewel a diffeveuce, and others save wUh fear, pnUingmost precious lies undev these loathsome incvus- them out'of the five," They who hope in Christtations. That is a pvecious soul. If she weve should not count any case hopeless.snatched fvom the buvning, she might be oneavtb Yalue youvself. Do not hold yourself chea

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad 163ye who may have Christ for youv brother, and hammer with which he kept pecking away at theheaven fov your home. This body the Lord has rock fov a long time, apparently withont thecleansed, ihat he may make it his own dwelling slightest impression. Believing that it was of noplace, and why should these loathsome lusts be use trying any longev, he made up his mind topermitted to possess and defile it ? 'These leave. His master, standing by his side, askedlips are needed to support a part in this new song him, " Why ave you leaving youv post ?" "Beofthe vedeenied out of all nations, and why cause," said he, " 1 have not been able to bveakshould they be lent out as instvuments of sin? the vock." "But," said the mastev, "I nevevI shaU not lightly accovd my company to evevy engaged you to bveak the rock, I simply engagedcomer, for the King is courting it: " Ijo, I am you to keep on pecking at it.'' This word of thewith you always, even to ibe end of the world." master, with its manifestation of new light andIn estimating the value of yourself, for all the love, kindled within the desparing toiler freshpractical purposes of life, adopt the stand-ard of enthusiasm. So he , resumed his labor at once,the King eternal; and the value which he at- and kept on pecking away with great energy andinched to the subject may be seen in the pvice zeal, and at last, he saw in his dveam, the entivewhich he paid : " Who loved me and gave him- rock bvoken into atoms. This dveam was reaUzedself for me."—Arnofs Corrected Estimates. soon after in the happy experience of that missionary^He remained at his post ; obstaclesTHE DREAM OF THE CANADIANwere cleared away on evevy hand ; theve was aMISSIONARY^gveat vevival, and as the vesnlt, many souls weveA Canadian missionary who had become thor- gaved. Christian workers in the great missionoughly disheartened through apparent failure, fields at home and abvoad, do not be discouvaged,and who had resolved to leave his fieldof labov, jj-ggp on faithfully pecking away, and Christ willwas favoved with a dveam. God can teach men do the bveaking, ay, and the binding too, andin dreams now as he did of old. The missionary, the beautifying, and the brightening, and in duein his dream, fonnd himself upon a great rock, x\xn.e the beautifying for evermore.—Jewis\ Herwhichstood in his way of success. He had a gid^ London.Rev. H, Easson has translated the foUowing claimed to have from God, he said, gave him theextractsfromthereport of Hanna Iskander forthe power to strike knives into his body without inmonthof Mav : > i^'^Ji ''âlk into fieryfurnace.s and the fire would1st. May'3d.—I went to El Mageiret and not kindle upon him, &c. He was sitting striknoticingsome of them with charms on their necks, ing a lavge knife into his body and the peopleI asked them for what purpose they wore them, were looking on in amazement, and saying tbeThey answered, "to keep away the devUs." I secret of God is with him. After a wbile I saidtold them that God was not pleased with them there is no secret oi God with him, but it is aU afor doing such things, but if they reaUy wished trick, and he does it only to get you to give himthe devU or devUs to depart from their hearts some gvain, They said no, but the secvet of Godthey must believe in Jesus Christ and ask Him is in him. I then said let him get up and striketo cast them out, and he would do so, but their himself with his knife before me that I may seecharms had no power to protect them, Thev did the secret of the Lord that you say is in him.not seem pleased with my words.They spoke to him, and he arose and struck2d May 6th —Went to Khabonreiyeh and himself with his long knife, and it went up to thefound there a man who claimed to have the hiU in his clothes, and they all thought that Usecret ot God in him. This power, which he had gone into his body. I took one oi those pres-

164 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.ent io the man and showed him the trick ihat hehad played upon them, and when they saw thetrick they laughed and said truly it is all a trickihat he has been playing upon ns. The manarose and left the village.3d. May 26,—Went to Demcirkho, We tookfor our subject intemperance and the injuries thatflow from it. At last I said drink was the causeofthe niuvdev committed onthe Nusaiveiy eh feastday at Khvinam, and now the village is in ruinsand the cause of it all was drink. All presentacknowledged the truth of my wovds,down with the intention of destroying the viUage—-We give below the copy of a lettev ihatand putting to death every male found init.Mv, Easson recently wrote to the Uuited StatesThey had begun their work of destruction, hadConsul :kUled two and wounded fiveov six when the CaiMy Dear Sir :—I have been thinking that perhapsa short statement with regard to the conMa-Cam of Sah Yome, with a band of soldiers,came upon them and put a stop to their work ofdition of the civU affairs of this district might bedestruction. SiUl no one is punished, althoughof interest to you personally, if not officially.the leaders are well known. His Excellency, theThe Nusaireiyeh of the mountains are dividedinto families or tribes, something like the ancient"clans" of Scotland or the tvibes of' the childrenof Israel, Each of these tribes has a tract ofland belonging to it, which it cultivates. EachKhvissana is velated to the head iamily in Dyebhtribe has its own civU chiefs, who are held • vesponsibleio the government for all dues, such asDavyus, aud no doubt they will demand the"pvice of blood" fvom Sah Yôme, and this maysoldievs, taxes, tithes, &c. The leading tvibes oflead to wav between these two tribes. Theihe Nusaireiyeh are as follows :Kilbeyeh and Mahailbeyeh are also qnarrehng1. Kelbeyeh, 5. Beit I'a Shant,2. Beni AU, 6. Beit Es Shelf,3. Mahelbey, 1. Dyebh Davyus,4. Amamava, 8. Krahley, &c.The chief Muslem tribes of the mountains areEs Sahyaren and Dyelb Ekrad.If, as a people, they were all united they wouldbe able to demand and secure theiv rights fromthe government, but there is very liitle unityamong them. Sometimes one or two tribes wUlunite together for defence.The main cause of all the wars is the old customof "blood for blood," and the idea that thenext of kin must avenge the blood of his friend.Only they have broadened the rule, and it is notthe "next of kin" only, but ihe whole tribe towhich the slain belongs ihat becomes the avenger,and it is not the slayer alone that is held responsible,but the tribe io which he belongs,Por example. The Nusaireiyeh had a greatfeast about a month ago and gathered from allparts of ihe mountains to Mazar, near Khrissana,about eight miles north of Latakia. While theywere feasting and dancing, a Muslem, from thedistrict of Sah Yome, came forward and took hisplace as the leader of the dance. The youngNusaireyeh from Khrissana, who held this placeof honor, considered this as an insult to himseifpersonally, and a fight was the result. A largenumber were wounded on both sides, but as theNusaireiyeh were in the majovity, the Muslemwas kUled.The fviends of the slain ave niaking raids uponKhrissana and neigliborhood and carrying offcattle, sheep and goats, and last week they cameYali, was here w^hen this trouble began, but hewent away without trying io settle the matter.A¥hat wUl develop in the future no one cantell. One of the slain in this last affah atand several men have been killed on both sides.The goyernment seems to like to have thesequarrels continue, for they weaken the tribes andmake them easier to manage.Yery truly yours,Henry Easson.Mersine, Turkey, May_14, 188^.My Dear Children :—No doubt 'ôu haveallattended weddings, and know what they are like,but I want to tell you of a Greek wedding whichI attended in Mersine some time ago. The younglady who was married is between fourteen andfifteen years old, and her husband is a few yeavsoldev. Upon enteving the house we find thebvide sitting upon a divan, still as a statue, closedeyes, and her hands, a Uttle apart, placed carefullyupon a kerchief, which was folded lengthwiseand laid acvoss hev lap. After the usualsalutations were over (the bride speaks to noone), we were asked if we would smoke, butofcourse we declined. In the course of a half anhour or so we were invited to go to the house of

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 165the groom, which is next door. Here we foundthe priest and his famUy with a number of othersgathered together to bless the groom and hisclothes, a lengthy ceremony, consisting of prayingand chanting.When all were ready to depart for the homeof the bride, an animated discussion took placeas to what route thither was most desirable, whenit was finallydecided to make a ionv some roundaboutway. Those of us Avho ivere wilUng toforego that part of the exercise passed thvougha gate between the two yards, thus reaching thehouse in a -few seconds.In due time ihe procession avrived, when theceremonies were continued. We had been seatedby the side of the bride, and as she arose in hevplace we were now in a bad position to see theproceedings, bui the priest noticed it when hewas about io begin and kindly conducted us toanother part of the room, where we could havea good view of both priest and pair. A standwas placed before them, upon whicii were thelamps, the Bible, two wreathes of pretty whiteflowers and a full glass of wine and such otherarticles as seem to be indispensable at suchtimes. The priest remarked that there was suificientquantity of wine in the glass io make allthe inhabitants of Mersine drunk, bnt no changewas made until he had veached that point in theceremony when he gives them to drink; then heordered an empty glass and emptied mosi of thewine into it and sent it away. The bride dranktimidly, so he put the glass io her lips again,with apparent success ihis time. Immediatelybefore ihe wine-drinking took place ihe priestread the account of the marriage in Cana of Galilee.In the course of the ceremony most of thepassages of Scripture nsed by Protestants uponeuch occasions are read, and a great many more,and much, too, thai is not scripture.Finger rings for each are nsed in the service,and in this instance ihey seemed to have gottenthem mixed and neither seemed io be of theproper size, bui after much trying on matters gotrighted, and ihai belonging to the bride founda place upon the little finger of her right hand.Near the close of the ceremony the priest leads amarch around ihe stand followed by the coupleand attendants. This is repeated three times,and eaiih time the bride and groom must kiss ihe if I do not forget.Bible. I neglected to say ihat before the marchtakes plaee the wreathes are put npon iheirheads, and you can imagine how ridiculous a manman would look wiih a wveath on his head, andpavticniavly on top of a fez, ov turban, as thisman wove his.The Gveek teachev and ibe pviest's two littleboys did most of the chanting, pavt of which wasin the Greek language. I rather enjoyed thelittleboys' singing. One of them—a cute littlefai fellow—used to be one of my pupils. Incenseis burned all the while, whicb, with the chantingsand numerous '' amens," seem to be indispensableaccompaniments. There is a mavviage song sungat all weddings befove and after the ceremony,and when the festivities are carried on for daystogether, as is often done, it is one of the chieffeatures. It has hardly enough tune about itto be called a song, in that a long strain is sungin the same tone on a very high key, which alwaysends in a wierd shriek, or yell, this lattermade tremulous by patting the mouth vapidlywith the hand,Aftev all was over, the priest and wife regaledthemselves in smoking a hubblebubble. By thistime it was quite late, and we started for homewithout having waited for coffee, which is alwayspassed, wedding or no weddiiig.The bride is not allowed to return to her father'shome untU aftev flfteen days. And tbisyoung lady's mothev fell ,U1 fouv days after thewedding, and although in sore need of the daughterio be with hev, custom conld not be tvansgressed.The poor mother was bvought heve ina cavviage to the Doctov, and remained thegreater part oi two days and a night, very sick,I suppose if she had died, the daughter wrouldhave been aUowed to go to see her.An Armenian woman must not speak in thepresence of hev husband's mother until the lattergives hev pevmission, which, in many cases, is notfor years. This is not a bad arrangement, sinceit prevents direct quarrels between the two for atime ai least, and which, pevhaps, aftev all, wasthe oviginal design.May 21,—Since writing ihe above the scrapbooks have come. Please accept our unitedthanks for them; such pretty lieoks wiU not begiven for nothing. We will arrange as soon aspossible what amount of work and good behavioureach book shall demand, and I shall tell you,The books are so nicely arranged,and the many cards and loose pictureswhich came with them we are nsing for reward

166 Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad.cards, and ihey ave highly appveciaied, although theiv avvival to stavt back to the mountains andmany of them are advertising cards. The picturescut from papers will give oppovtuuity fov few days have been very hot. The streams andhope to get away on Monday early. The lastlessons in painting to two little givls to whom vivevs ave dvying np so that gvist mUls can notMvs. Metheny gave paints last yeav and who do ruu. The stream of ouv fountain in the mountainis said to be neavly dvy. I am afvaid we willnot have much cliauce to tvy theiv skill. Tbefvinge cavds will be almost equal to books, I have some tvouble to get enough watev to supplygave the childven a peep at tbein, and I know such a numbev of pevsons. Theve ave much largeryou would have felt repaid fov all youv labov and fountains favthev away. M. Y'usef Jedeed was,eacvifices had you heavd theiv expvessions of de- down to-day fvom Tavsus. You know he haslight and seen tbe clapping of hands. Heve ave instaUed Moosa Syagh in bis own school of fovtyisome ofthe wovds I caught: " My heavt!" " My boys, and he is going about trying to open new•eyes!" " How beautiful!" " We cannot say which schools. Some littie time ago he took a youngare prettiest." Such a confusion was produced man (a Fellah) who has been in our school sincethat I was obliged to run away Avith them into it was first opened in Tarsus, and instaUed himanother room.in a village a little distance fvom Tavsus. He hasMost of the chUdven ave in good health. Joitvais vevy deUcate aftev hev seveve attack of inejidve (between 80 and 90 cents) a yeav fovfifteen pupils, each of whom ave to pay him afevev, and has had seveval lightev attacks since. tuition, and the people themselves board theWe hope that a stay in the mountains may vestorehev.sul in Beyrout is urging she United States Agentteacher and supply him with a room. Our ConDeath bas come vevy near to us tbis wintev, here to push the government to come to an issuethvee fathevs having died since last Novembev. on the school question.Fivst Katuna and Miviam Khalaehy's fathev died Straw and feed are so scarce this year thatin early winter; this day one week ago Hannie's, muleteers and carriers ask exorbitant pvices fovand day befove yesterday Selma and Esma animals to transport ns and our effects to theKhayot's, Hannie's father was here for preach- mountains. For this reason the Doctor boughting the Sabbath before he died, Selma's and two horses in Tarsus, and by making repeatedEmma's father had been Ul a long time, and after trips they can take us all. One of these horses,he was no longer able to come here, they went with the pack-saddle, cost nineteen Turkish doltosee him, and whenever he was able to hear lars, the othev twenty-seven. The Turkish isreading they read to him—Sehna from the Bible about sixteen cents less than the American dollar,and Esma, who is a beginner, in the " Peep of At the same time he bought two cows with theirDay." He could not read himself, and was so calves for seven and one-half dollars. By thispleased that his children could.used to come he had them vead, and on Sabbathwhen he came eavly they vead until time fov service,and if late he would remain a few minutesafter.How busy we need to be, for the night comethwherein no man can work.Yôurs in Christian love,Evadna M. Sterrett.Evevy time he you can see how gveat the distvess is. Y'e havebeen sending np supplies. Ouv kind Amevicanneigbbov who has given the school so many pvesentshas thvee hovses wdiich he wishes us to use.By judicious mixing of lavgev and smallev, MissStevvett hopes to be able to pack fouv givls oneach hovse.It seems to me that theve is a gvowing intevestamong the givls in vegavd to veligious mattevs,and a desive to tell theiv fviends at bome the glad—Undev date, June 3, 1887, Mvs. Mavy E.tidings of salvation. The fathev of Hannie, ourMetheny wvites :fivst a-ivl, died a few weeks asro, and more recentlya tailor wbo has two Uttle girls in school.The fivst of June bvought us Miss .loseph andMiss Dodds. '\'ou may be suve that we weveAlas ! tbat we sbould bave no hope in thehvejoiced that the Doctov didnot come back alone, death. The way of Ufe had been made plainas he had done on thvee other occasions. They to them, but they trusted in man and not in God.had a comfovtable voyage nnd came all the way When will it be God's time to fulfill His promiseby English steamers. We had been Avaiting and pour out His spivit on aU fiesh? "The world

Letters from Christian Workers ai Home and Abroad. 167lieth in wickedness." When will the foUowevs ofthe Saviour cf men become so much like him thatthe burden of this wickedness of theworld will lie upon their hearts as it did on Hiswhen he was in agony ! God's word is true andall must be put undev Him, but 0 Lovd! howlong, how long? It is nttevly impossible to knowwhat heathenism is wiihout being in the midstofit.—Letter from Antioch.Dear Sm :—As the time for the Doctor's visitto our inland station, (Idlib,) had arrived, andit seemed impossible fov me to remain alone, inthe now sUent house, so soon after the removalof ouv little Paul, he took me wUh him,and 1 have thought that some notes in vefevenceto ouv jouvney and the place might be intevestingto your veaders.We left Antioch on May 4th, and ridingthrough the valley of ihe Orontes ovev a flatcountvy, now stony and bavren, and now coveredwith fieldsof waving grain, reached in a littledoor to receive ns. A flight of steps on the leftleads np to the men's appartments, to which Doctoris shown. The Agha escorts me through adoor, and caUing a Servant be waves his handpolitely and I follow a girl up several steps andinto a second court-yard witb high rooms buUtavound thvee sides of it. This is the Hareem.I am shown into an apavtment wheve sits theAgha's wife (he has but one) in a position fvomwhich she can see all that goes on in the voomsopposite and-fvom whichshe shouts divections toihe sevvants theve who ave pvepaving suppev. Allihese apartments belonging to the Hareem ave,of couvse, entively sepavated fvom the vest of thehouse.She seats me beside hev on a divan, and ayoung givl, hev danghtev, comes in followed by asevvant-givl cavrylng a tray on which ave glassesof a cooling drink. The daugliter cavvies a lavgemuslin napkin embroideved incolovs, and aftev Idviiik the shevbet she hands me the napkin towipe my month. Seveval women move about thecourt in high wooden clogs which, with the scantover three hours, Jisir-al-Hadeed—The Irondrapevy, makes them look very taU. Two veryBvidge. "Ivon" it is not, howevev. CvossingUght garments made of gay print (ved and yellow)the bridge, we dismounted and sat down undermake np theiv whole costume. Even the mistvessa wide spreading mulberry tree to lunch. Theof tbe house was bavefooted. I am being- pliedday was intensely hot, and we were glad to restwith questions, when a knock on the convt-yavdawhile in the grateful shade. Mounting again,doov is heavd and the Agha's wife ovdevs the servants"-to pour out the supper." A girl, oisaywe soon left the river to the right and came iutoa roUing country, growing, as we proceeded, movetwelve years, carries the dishes down stairs andhilly. The vine, the figtveearid the pomegvanateihey are taken off to the men's apartments. Thefiouvished evevywheve, and, as we neaved Snlkeen,danghtev then comes iuto the room where we aveouv halting place forthe night, these became iiitevspevsedwith olive gavdens. Snlkeen viewed fvomsitting and taking a ved cloth fvom a shelf spveadsit on tbe floor. She then brings a four-leggeda distance, with iis white stone houses nestlingstool and sets it upside-down on the centve of theamong the hiUs, and suvvonnded by these gavdenscloth, and on this she places a whitened copperis a pretty sight, especially iu the moonlight.ivay. A sevvani brings in a dish of boiled riceBut there the false prophet reigns supreme. Thewith melted butter poured over it, one of beansvillage is entively inhabited by Moslems, and theyand meat stewed, another of vice and choppedlook on us " Christian dogs" with no friendlymeat wvapped in gvape leaves, looking like largeeye. Thieves and robbers they are, and humangreen caterpillars, and one of rice and milklife is of small value in their eyes. Outside -wesweetened and' flavored. Thin loaves of breaddare not stay, and theve is not even a khan inlike lavge gviddle-cakes are laid on the floor avoundthe village ior shelter. Doctor, does stay in athe stool, and I am invited to come fovwavd.coffee-house, but for me, among Moslems, this isDown on the floov, avound the table, with ourimpossible. A wealthy Ag-ha keeps open honsefeet cuvved undev us, we sit, and with fingers orfor all who pass that way. He is friendly to themetal spoons from dish to dish in common, eachEnglish and does not like Doctor to pass hisone passes to their mouth tbe food before us.door. Yuseph, our man-sevvant, goes fovwavdMy appetite is poov, and it is not stimulatedand asks if we can be accommodaied, and as weby the sight, and I am in danger of giving offenceby not showing proper appreciation oiride up the Agha himself is waiting at histhe

168 Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad.entertainment. After we had finished a sevvani in daytime and the men chiefly at night, andbvought in a coppev ewev and basin, and thecontinual opportunity was presented for conversationon veligious subjects.Agha's wife offeved to pouv watev on my hands,bnt I got quite into her good gvaces by vefusingOn Fridays the women of Idlib go out toto allow such a thing, and anothev of the womentake the air, the government having set apartperfovined tbe offlce fov me. Ouv westevn habit for them a special place where the men areof dipping the hands into the Watev is thought anot allowed to go. The Teacher's wife asked mevevy divty one in the Ovient. After a time a to go oui with her. And, thinking that curiositywould draw some of ihe women aboutsevvant came to say that ouv voom was veady, iiI wished to retire. Thanking my hostess andus and so give an opportunity for speaking tobidding good night, I gladly crossed io the otherthem on the concerns of ihe soul, I consentedside of the house where we rested comfortably. to go. But I was not at all prepared for theirAs soon as daylight appeared we resumed ourexcessive curiosity.journey. Our road ior a couple of hours was We had gone but a short distance when thevery vough. Soon we began to descend until we women and children began to run from allagain weve viding among gavdens of figs,almonds,apvicots, vines and pomegranates. Ondirections and in their haste to see ihe Franjiethrew oue another down and threw us down.the outskirts of Armanaas, another Moslem village,we sat down in the shade to eat our breakAnd had not some men^ seeing from a distancethe commotion, come io our assistance, wefast, having vidden about two hours. Resumingshould bave been trampled uuder foot. Theseouv journey we chose the higher though rougher men, with sticks, kept back ihe women, untHroad to escape the flies,dust and heat of theusual path acvoss the plain. We vested awhileundev a flgtreeat the remarkable ruins of SheikhBahar; after which ouv road ran through a rockydesert-looking country without a tree and scarcewith a shrub to be seen untU we neared Idlib,when tbe country again became fine. The richred soil there contrasted beautifully with thewaving fieldsof wheat, and with the vines andoUve-trees. Soon the minarets of the town beganto appear and at half-past one p.m., we reachedTeacher Yûseph's house. The population ofIdlib is about twelve thousand, mainly Moslem.There is not a spring of water in Idlib or withinthe house of the representative (in the Turkishgovernment) of the Greek Ohurch Community.His daughter was sick and hermother told us thai she had just been toaMoslem Sheikh and got a charm and an incantationwritten and had put them on herau hour's vide of it. The town is dependent onthe wintev vains for its supply of water. The daughter's head io counteract the "Evil Eye"washings from the roofs and court-yards are collectedin cisterns. This yeav the vain-fall has woman told us she had brought an old witchby whioh she had been smitten. Anotherbeen unusually small ; and wheveas, ovdinarUy, to mutter some incantation over her child toat this season, there is from twelve to sixteen cure iis sore eyes. Early one morning, duringour stay, a woman came to the schoolfeet of water in the cisterns, Teacher Yûseph tellsus there is now but two feet and three inches.yard and asked for some salt. The Teacher'sIt is said that,, were all the cisterns in and avound wite asked what it was for. The woman replied," To dissolve and pour on the groundIdlib iu ovdev, the supply would be sufficient eveninthe dviest season ; but many ave " bvoken" andwhere my child fell just now, to cleanse the"can hold no watev." And to bvoken cistevnswhich they themselves have hewn out do thesepeople go fov the watev of life, having- fovsakenGod, the fountain of living watevs.During the firstfew days of our stay, we hada constant fiow of visitovs ; ihe women comingI returned safely io ibe house. So, thenceforth,during our stay, in going out to visit 1donned the sheet and face cover and becameto all appearance, " a daughter of Araby,"What a corrupt system this Greek religionis 1 In some of its rites it is, if possible, moregross and blasphemous than Popery. And,African fetichism can hardly be worse in itsuse of charms and incantations. We went toplace from evU spirits ihat they may not injuremy child." I tried to talk with her onGod's providence. But, she asked impatiently," will you give me the salt V " Not forsuch a purpose," I said. She went to a Moslemwoman who lived in the court-yard and

Daoud. 169got the salt. Here, in Antioch, lately, a little would kneel before ihe picture in adorationgirl had been ill for some time and her and say, "Everything that I bave is frommother, tired of caring for ber, determined she thee. All the blessings of my house thou hastshould either " die or get well." She went to given. I am thy servant: and thou art myher neighbors and borrowed seven keys and Saviour."soaked them in cold water. Sbe then went to But is it the common people who are mainlyresponsible for these things 1 No, thethe street and caught a little puppy and putitunder a large basket. 'The child was brought weight of the responsibility rests on the headsout and set on the basket and washed with of Patriarch, Bishop and priest who countenancethese lying superstitions, nor by onethe water of the seven keys, the water runningdown on the dog " so that it might take the word forbid fhem.disease." The puppy was let loose; but ihechild died in ten minutes. Accidents, disastersand sickness, Moslem, Fellah and Christian (?)alike think are caused by " the Evil Eye," tne" Jahn," or evil spirits. And, blue beads,white shells, egg-shells, relics and sheikh'swritings are worn as charms to ward off theevil infiuences. Evils will happen and antidote.'âre at hand. The hairs of the headsand beards of the Greek priests are carefullypreserved and burned over the sick. Thewater in whioh the clothing of the Patriarch(who is now here) is washed is every droppreserved as a Lotion fo heal the sick. Everyhair from bis beard and head is likewise preservedto be burnt like incense. The Testamentis put under ihe head of the sick, or heis washed in its weight of water. Pictures ofthe Virgin Mary and of tho saints are setaround the sick, and iheir belp is invoked.Conversing with a woman in Idlib in referenceI am. Dear Sir, Yours Sincerely,R. C. Martin.We publish with pleasure the followingnotice of Jonathan's Creek L. M. S .This society was organized Oot. 26th, 1886,with ten members. The oongregation beingfor many years without a pastor and alsomuch scattered, this is the firstmisa-ionarysociety ever organizel in this place. Dr.Cannon coming among us a year ago has,with the energies of his family, endeavored toawaken within us a missionary zeal.We have held our meetings each month, andour membership has increased to nineteen.The attendance, considering the inclemecoyofthe weather during the winter months, hasbeen good, and our contributions although notlarge, we trust have been given in the truemissionary spirit. It is our desire io haveour society enrolled among the many alreadyto their invocation of saints, I remarked thaton record, so tbat we may have an ia*-eresfc inthey were God's creatures, saved by His grace the prayers of the churoh and all missionaryalone, and could not save themselves; How workers.then could tbey save us ? " They can help " 'Trusting that the good work already begunshe exclaimed. " St. George ! To mention thall not fail in its purpose and that we mayhim is blessed, and from him are all blessings. grow in zeal and earnestness and have theGlory be to his name." The agent iu Idlib ofapprobation of tbe Master, is our sincere desire.the Greek Bishop kept a light burning continuallybelore a picture of the Virgin. HeJennie E. George, Secretary.Im€imm'mf& im M m m & M Esifm^height, light build, has dark hair plentifullyDAOUD.sprinkled with grey, fair complexion, sharpThe above name is no doubt familiar to grey eyes and is of aquiliue profile. He has anmany of your readers. The bearer is of interesting family of three girls and two boysNusairiyeh origin and is a member of a very (although I beUeve one of the boys died notinfluential family in his own community. He loog ago) the boys being the youngest of theis ab.out forty-five years of age, is of medium family.

170 Daoud.One of the giris (How-wa=Eve) is a gradu- sad fate would be a wholesome warning to allate of the Latakia sohool and is now teaching others who felt an inclination io come o-jt ofihere. The second (Miriam =Mary) will be darkness into light.graduated this year or next, and the ihird Eventually the boys were seized and(Raheel=Rachel) wUl follow in due course, whiried away to Damascus, whence they wereThe two boys are named Saleem and Asaad, to be sent to the seat of war.and were born since Daoud returned from the Then the question was raised whether thearmy. Turkish authorities had a right to conscriptDaoud attended school in B'hamra more Christians into the army, since all the Chrisihantwenty-five years ago where he first tians of ihe Empire are exempt from militarylearned of Christ, the Saviour of mankind. A service and pay a yearly tax' instead thereof.number of others became believers in Christ But, on the other hand, it was claimed thatabout the same time that he did and this those who bad been conscripted were nottended to fnsten the attention of the neighbor- Christians, ihat they were Nusairiyeh and ofing Nusairiyeli chiefs on ihem and the school. Nusairiyeh origin and consequently were sub-Their suspicions were aroused in regard to ject io draft, and this was a tacit denial ofihis new influence whioh was making itself their right to become Christiana. They reafeltamong them and was drawing away some soned ihus: " if these boys are allowed toof their brightest youth. Doubtless they were beoome Christians, and are acknowledged asmore apprehensive of danger than was neces- suoh and are exempted from military duty onsary and began to devise means of extirpat- that account, then the whole Nusairiyeh peoing,ihis new religion whioh had sprung pie will beoome Christians and the Sultanup in their very midst.will lose thousands of soldiers in consequenceThe government officials saw a danger in it thereof." Bnt they were unduly alarmed onalso and became alarmed likewise, for if igno- that score for Christians are not so easily maderanee isthe mother of devotion, falsely so as they supposed, and, although many of themcalled, itis the foster mother of tyranny and migbt have been desirous of uniting with theoppression, and when ignorance is dispelled Christian community for the sake of fhe rethetyrant's grip is relaxed. Thus Herod and Uef from mUitary duty that it would have af-Pontius Pilate were made friends together forded them, they could not have been received(for the Nusairiyeh and Moslems, the ruling until they gave evidence of tbeir integrity andrace, are sworn enemies) against the little sincerity.knot of Christians who had so recently re- Nevertheless the seizure of the convertsnounced heathenism. As the Turoo-Russian created quite a stir in'the Christian world andwar came on ine tapis some time after and as representations were made to the EvangelitheNusairiyeh are compelled to furnish soldi- cal Alliance and to the Representatives oftheers for the Turkish armies it was thought by various Christian powers ai Constantinople,both parties that the little movement could be Little, if anything, was done by the powers,effectually squelched by catching the boys who thought that any interference on theirand sending them away to ihe wars where pari would be meddling with the internalihey would have every opportunity of being affairs of tbe Empire. But I believe ibe Aldevouredby the savage Russian bear or liance sent a delegation to the Sultan, one ofdying of starvation, cold or disease, and their whom was no less a personage ihan Gladstone

caped but Daoud, wbo was taken to Constantinopleand sent to the seat of war. He wassubjected to sharp persecution for a time onNotes and Bemews. 171himself, but His Majesty refused to receive during whioh time his health was shatteredthem, thinking no doubt ihat they would beg by persecution, hard service and exposure.to be admitted to his presence. But in ihis When the time to muster out came, the regimentalauthorities wished him to remain inhe was disappointed for they immediately tooKtheir departure. However when the delegationthe army. He did not say nay, because inwas sailing down the Bosphorus ihe Sultan sent for ihem to return, bui they continuedon their way, and their course in this regardthat oase they would probably have returnedhim to the service nolens volens, but he saidhe would like to have his discharge before restantinoplecreated a profound sensation at Conenteringthe army in order to have somethingand produced a deep impression to show that he bad served a certiin period.on the mind of the Sublime Porte, so that ihe They said, " Never mind, tbat will be allboys were treated more leniently and guarded right." But he persisted until he received hisless closely than formerly and they all espapers, when he immediately skipped for aRussian steamer wbich was about to weighanchor and intended to touch at Latakia. Hearrived in port one bright Sabbath morning inthe spring of 1880, and great was the rejoicingat bis arrival. It was as though he bad risenaccount of his r.ligion, being reproached,beaten, starved, imprisoned, according asfancy led his persecutors, the design being to fromthe dead and it was a day of veritableforce him to attend Moslem prayers and abjurehis own religion. But he endured it all teaching in bis native village (Merj) and hasthanksgiving. Since his return he has beenmeeklyj patiently and manfully, although at done effective work. His convictions aretimes death would have been a relief. The strong. He is a thorough Christian and sincerelypious. He is well informed with reeverlasting arms were underneath to sustainhim, ani one like unto the Son of God was in spect to the superstitions and religiou of histhe furnace wiih him. He remained staunch own people so that he is able to meet them atthrough it all and manifested such a commendablespirit that he won the regard of h.s demolish their arguments. He possesses aevery point, penetrate their subtleties andpresecutors, who relented, for when a man's good degree of acumen and his language isways please the Lord he maketh even his enemiesto be at peace with him. He was made knows how to deal with men. His infiuenceincisive. He has seen much of the world andquartermaster of his regiment and ihus relievedof much heavy duty. He enjoyed a light house on a rock bound coast. Godand example are of the best and he stands asneither the rank nor the pay due to the position,but it was an implicit acknowledgment of give Hira glory and do His work.grant ihat many such may be raised up tohis fidelity and ability. He served sevenWilliam J. Sproull.years, two years after the close of the war, May 6, 1887.%t^W Mi\ %mm^^" that the erection of a building for a boysINDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN LATAKIA.school, with an industrial department, hasAt the last meeting of Synod it was resolved now become necessary for the successful pros-

172 Notes and Reviews.ecution of the work at Latakia; thai theBoard of Foreign Missions be authorized toproceed with this enterprise as soon as themeans oan be provided; and that we call uponihe devoted and liberal friends of missionarywork throughout tbe churoh to provide atonce the $0000 required for this purpose."This whole question has been parefully considered by the mission in Latakia; aud atour request Rev. Wm. J. Sproull has furnishedihe following points, which with slight modifications,we present as the basis of an appealthey could be taught trades and so qualifiedto earn an honest living, would prevent theirbecoming a burden on the mission and wouldat the same time inculcate thriity habits anddiscourage idleness and pauperism.3. In Northern Syria there are few openiugssuitable for converts to Protestant Christianity.Even Christian sects have no regard for theLord's Day as a reUgious institution, muchless the Moslems and the Nusairiyeh ; andthose taking employment in any of the businesshouses, Steamer agencies or Miningcompanies of ihe locality are compelled towork on the Sabbath at one time or another,or surrender their places. A little more thana year ago three of our converts—school boysof sixteen or eighteen years of age—enteredthe employment of a mining company operatingin the mountains adjacent to Latakia; andrefusing to violate their convictions by work.ing on the Lord's Day, when a steamer calledto take on ore, they were discharged at once.So the question of an industrial school is onevital to the interests of the mission.4. An industrial department would probablybeoome self-sustaining in a few yearî and,if not a source of income to the mission, wouldprevent necessary expenditure, whioh amountsto the same thing. It would furnish, for examble,shoes, material for clothing, etc., for thebeneficiaries in the boarding schools.5. There are schools of this nature in otherto the churches.parts of Syria, graduating classes every year,1. There is no building in Latakia, either and from these graduates teachers can be securedat an average salary of $10 a month.belonging to the mission or for rent, suitablefor a boys' school, and the expense of addingan industrial department would be very trifling.We ask the churches to consider whetherthey do not owe our young converts in Syriaassistance of this kind. Indeed we feel that2. Young people, on abandoning heathenism it is only necessary to lay the matter beforeandthe effete religions of the Orient, are usuallythose to whom the Lord has entrusted hiscast off by their people and thrown upon their money, to secure all that is required for thisown resources. An industrial Sohool, where purpose. Those who have so generously respondedto the claims of educational work athome, will not refuse the trifling sum neededto erect a suitable building for a boys' schoolwitb an industrial department in Latakia, and80 aid our young converts in becoming usefulmembers of society.By order of Board of Foreign Missions.James Kennedy, Chairman.R. M. Sommerville, Cor. Sec,New York, July 13, 1887.—Some months ago our missionary at Sei-'ma, Ala., started a paper called The GuidingStar. In this way he hopes io enter as a messengerof Ufe into thousands of colored familiesthat he is at present unable to reach byany other agency. 'Those who desire to dosomething for ihe social elevation of thefreedmen in the South are invited to aid Rev.G. M. Elliott in his enterprise.

FAITHFUL STEWARDS.PUBLISHED WITH TBE APPROVALoftheBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,BEFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH,U. S. A.mx mm^ 0f §imm WmhMrs. Mary E. Metheny, Mersine, Asia Minor.The April number of ihe Missionary Beviewgives a diagram showing the proportion between•the sums expended in the United States for differentarticles. At the base of the pyramid,which is composed of cubes, comes the annualliquor bill, $900,000,000, next $600,000,000spent for tobacco. Coming to the necessaries oflife we have $505,000,000 for bread, $303,000,-000 for meat, $237,000,000 for woolen goods,-$210,000,000 for cotton goods, $196,000,000for boots and shoes, $85,000,000 for education,committed io their charge, in the accursed thing.Is it needful, Christian brothers, to mention tobacco? Can any of you consume in smoke thesmaUest part of your substance, when you knowthat $50 a year, ai ihe outside, wiU not only feedand clothe some little child in heathen lands, butbring them under ihe influence of the Gospel,and, if your contributions are followed by yourearnest and constant prayers, we have every reasonio beUeve ihat the word wiU be blessed to thesaving of ihat soul. Smoke is a very intangiblething in one way, but are you wiUing to takethe responsibility of blocking by it the wheelsof the Chariot of the King of Peace ? It mayand the very apex $5,500,000 for Home and be ihat the sum spent for tobacco is very smaU,Foreign missions. 0, wondrous liberality ! Is bnt it is too large by just that much. Look aithis what we render to the Lord for aU his gifts the enormous aggregate, and think what mightto us ? It is easy, however, to cry out against be, if thai were spent in the diffusion of the Gospel!extravagance in general, bnt let us each examinehis own record , and see if he dare give an accountof his stewardship, for the day will come for when we come to ihe items of cotton andIt is irue too ihat women are much io blame,when we must do so. That day wiU try every woolen goods, none of ns will pretend to say thatman's work. The article referred to above says all that is spent on ihose articles is necessary." if Christians spent every cent of their wages, This does not include all the et ceteras which gosalary and income on ihemselves, and gave io io complete the toilet, nor the oftentimes costlymissions , only one cent on a dollar of iheir realand personal property, their contribution would be187,284,000 instead of $5,500,000." That is,nearly sixteen times what it is now.Let us " search and try our ways" ihen, andand luxurious furnishings of our houses. We areverily guilty in ihis thing.The money that is sometimes spent in adorningcollege programmes in this age, is, I am afraid,more ihan is given for reUgious purposes. I am.'See wherein, we faU io do onr duty. I shall say glad to see ihat the Christian world, and ournothing ofthe enormous sum expended for liquor, own church in particular, is awakening to thefor in this enlightened age I would fain hope that fact, which every year in heathendom makesnone of God's people—and ii is to ihem thai I plainer to me, that " too much is spent on churchspeak—-spend one cent of that which God has edifices whUe the means are wanting to make

174 Our Views of Mission Work.known the way of salvation in the sight of the David, but until the reign of Solomon—theheathen."* All honor to ihe sister for hev time- Pvince of Peace—the ark of God remained inly wovds, for, as she says, it is a delicate subject, tabernacles. Now, Solomon's temple was abnt the ice must be broken, for I am sure that type of the Gospel church, and also of the heaythisgeneration has much to answer for in this enly temple. Let us be busily engaged in preregard.We cannot plead thai they are neces- paring living stones ior this temple, so ihatsary io attract people to ihe Gospel ordinances, when our King of Peace comes in his millennialfor I think Dr. Pierson in his vecent avticles in glovy, he may be enabled speedily to evect thisthe Christian Statesman has pvoved that they spivitual edifice.do not attract and hold the masses. Neither are But there remains yet another class of extheyneedful for comfort, I find we can worship penses for wbich we must give account. Alas!comfortably on deal benches, and with bave alas 1 must extvavagance and rain show foflowwhite-washed Walls. I venture to say that our even to the door of the tomb ? This finalcovenanted ancestors enjoyed the sevmons pveach- move of man, to his long home, is a costly mattered to them on the vocky bill-sides, often in the in these days. 0, brethren and sisters ! foUowrainov snow, at least as well as theiv childven of evs of Him who died to save sinnevs ! Do thesethese days on cushioned pews in costly and luxu- things become us ? Let those whose hope is onlyvious edifices. Their discomforts, however, weve in this life, wear the garb of deepest mourning.enforced, and We are not called upon to suffer Let them cover the coffins of their dead withthese things, The essentials in a church edifice numberiess flowers ; they are the last ihey shallare room and comfort, and we have no right to overwear; cZmcZ indeed ! They only wake toluxuries until the Gospel shaU be made known to everlasting death. But we ! Conld they, ourevery creature. WhUe we plan and deliberate dear ones gone before ns, could they speak to usin what style of architecture our chm-ch shall be fi-om that other life which they have begun, wouldbnUt, how high shaU be its steeple, what kind of tbey thank us, praise us because we have thimpaper shall be on its -*alls, miUions are going out honored them ? No ! a thousand times no!of heathen darkness to darkness everlasting. Would they not say, " make known His gloryShall we say " their blood be upon ns and upon among the heathen ? " Shall we then have noour chUdren ?" Whethev we say U or not, I tokens of respect and affection ? No monumentsfear these things wUl be swift witnesses against to our departed friends ? By no means. WssUS in the day of the Lord. "Doth God take there then no respect in the grave and solemneare for oxen," says Paul. If the ox, one of ceremonies of a generation ago ? Were peopleGod's li-ying creatures, is in God's sight of less wanting in respect because there were not costlyyalue than the bodily welfare of God's ministers, caskets, and floraloffevings costing ten, twentywhatwiU the Master say to us ff we sacrifice the five, or fifty dollars ? Let there be all due resoulsof men to inanimate brick and stone ? spect, but not useless—nay, sinful extravagance.Grandeur and luxury in church buUdings came What can it be but sinfiil, when thousands uponin With other corruptions, When Rome began to thousands are perishing for want oi the bread ofcause outward rUes and ceremonies io take the life, which we profess io believe is more thanplace of spirituality. It is worthy of notice that meat aud raiment? Let there be monuments,ihe temple Was not built until ihe reign oi Solo- but not of that character that those whomon. Much of the material lyas prepared by raise them must say, " I cannot afford to•Mrs. Eeljeca Law, Our Banner Idr AprU, p. 102. .give much to tiiechurch." Y'"e may safely leave

Items of Missionary IntelUgence.the posthumous reputation of our friends withHim who has been their portion. " The righteousshall be in everlasting remembrance." Theseare the immortelles which God bas provided forHis people.If all Christians, instead of giving the dollarwhich would swell our _/ine millions odd, to n^varAsoteigldy-sevenmUlions, would give onetenthof their income, what a grand total itwill in the inatter of giving, just as He does withregard to accepting salvation by Christ. Nonewould make. I suspect that this rule is oftener the less will we be free from guUfr if we neglectfollowed by men in moderate circumstances than to do His wUl. " Thy wiU be done," we prayby men of large wealth. Certainly if all these daily. Who is to do it ? " Even so it is not thelatter gave every year a tenth of their income, will of your Father in heaven ihat one of thesethere would be a much larger sum in the Lord's little ones should perish." Ahl I'm afraid thentreasury. Trig the tenth system—not that I tbat we are not doing His wUl, for the means towould restrict any man to that—the Gospel rule prevent theiv perishing is not forthcoming.is " as the Lord hath prospered him ; " bnt I Shall we not begin from this time, arid takeknow, if you try the tenth system faithfully, you God at his word ? Shall we not prove Him herewithif He will not open the windows of heaven,win enjoy it so much that you wiU want to givemore. But brother,, that tenth. It isn't yours. and pour us out a blessing that ihere shall not beIf you withhold ii, you ave a vobbev just as veally room to receive it ?as the bm-glar who abstracts the contents of yourItems of Missionary Intelligence.175safe—nay, more, for has not God more right to Uall than you have—and if you enter his kingdom,it is only through His mercy pardoning a sineven so great as withholding His own from Him,All the sUver and gold are His. He can take itall should He see flt, but He allows us the privilegeof using it, and leaves ns to our own free—In Special Numbers of the Ghristian World a great influence upon the conversion of Asia.there are full reports of the work done by the IjOudonIt had been said that China did not need theSocieties. WhUe some lament a falling off in gospel, but he knew that neither Confucianismcontributions, all declare that there were never nor Buddhism—greatly as he might admire muchgreater opportunities for doing missionary work. in both those systems—was sufficient for the saltionThe resolutions and addresses at their anniversariesof the people. There were difficulties in thereveal unshaken confidence in tbe ultimate way of that empire receiving the gospel, and yetsuccess of ihe missionary cause, and a determiuationany ovdinary common sense man might be sureto labor with unabated zeal for the Kingof an attentive audience in that country. As andom of Christ.The gross income of the London MissionaryiUustration of this wUlingness of the people tolearn the way to life, ihe speaker related the followingSociety for the past year was a trifle over £105,-touching incident: It is now more than382, yet this was not sufiicient io meet the expensestwenty years since I traveled into the interior, aof carrying on the work. The Chairman, distance of over a thousand mUes, visiting a mulafter giving a resume of the annual report, remarkedtitude of places where no foreigners had been before,thai, as be read ihe letters and statetitudements which reached him irom missionaries in the and preached in the city, markets, town,and village, not only without serious hindrance,field, he saw his Master moving round the world, but often with the marked intelligent interest ofas the conqueror of all human hearts. A missionarythe people. Such journeys have become frequentclaimingfromthatTientsinit had nowpleadedcomethetocausebe lookedof China,uponsince,experience.yet it isSomerarelypresenttbat onemayhearshaveof ahearddifferentmeas one of the world powers, and urged that ihe relate a touching incident I met with on a shorterevangehzation of that land would not fail to haye tour a few years ago. It was near the close of a

176 Items of Missionary Intelligence.winter afternoon, and my carter was pushing on another province it was yearg before a church wasto reach our halting-place for the night, when formed, but last year the missionary had the joypassing through a vUlage my eye was suddenly of baptizing ten converts. Last year the numbercaught by what was evidently an extemporised baptized, according to the reports received, wastemple mat-shed. Thongh pressed for time, curi- 402, but as some reports had not yet come in,osity led me to enter. Y'es, theve was the idol— the pvobabiUty is the actual numbev is about 450.a large picture hanging at the end opposite to This is a much larger number than in any previthe door, and there was the famiUar altar-table, ous yeav, and we thank God fov it. Two telewithits incense pot, candlestick, and various of- grams have quite recently come to hand, the oneferings, while the sides of the enclosure were teUiiig that in the pvovince of Shan-si nearly twowere made gay with pictures. A few old men hundred weve added to the Chuvch last year, andweve at the -moment the only visitovs. As I the othev that some fviend in China had donatedstood theve a man came to buvn incense and to £1,000 to the Mission.pevfovm his prostrations. Then we talked. Y"ou The report of the Baptist Missionary Societycan imagine it easily enough. They told me that speaks of the work as being prosperous everytheirworship was to secure good crops. I spoke where, and fuU of promise. In India there haveof the great loving Father in heaven who supplies been many conversions, the establishment of newaU our wants, and then I spoke of Jesus. Ris- stations and schools, the widespread pveaching ofing io go, they begged me to ve-teU the stovy; the gospel, and gveatly incveased circulation ofand when at length I had to leave, sad at heavt the Scriptures. In place of two missionaries athat we might almost certainly never meet again few years ago in China, there are now nineteen,on earth, one old, white-haired patriarch cried out: The revival in connection with the work on the" Oh do stay and teach us. We did not know Congo caUs for special thanksgiving. There arethis was wrong. Ouv fathevs wovshipped thus; said to be move than a thousand convevts at 'we cannot find the doov." Those wovds haunted Banza Manteke, leading the missionavy in chargeme for many a day; they haunt me stiU. There to write, "Old things have passed away; andare myriads who, consciously ov unconsciously, behold all things have become new. Now thisave feeling fov some one ov something, they know part of Ethiopia stretches out its hands to God,not what. They cannot find the doov. and sends out its heart to Him in thanksgivingAccovding to the encouraging vepovt oi the and pvaise."China Inland Mission, the work of this Society At one place, San Salvador, ovev one hundredis carried on in fourteen provinces, in which there pevsons bave given in theiv names with the deterarefifty-two regular and fifty-sixout-stations, mination to follow the Lord Jesus. And fi'omThe staff of laborers, including forty-three wives the continent cheeriug- accounts have been reofmissionaries, now numbers 225, and there are ceived of good work done and membership inbesides117 paid native helpers. The following creased iii the face of difficulty and pevsecution.statement was made at the annivevsavy as to the The Church Missonary Society veportspvogvess of the wovk and its present condition: a gvand total of £234,639, exclusive of the sumsWe have to pvaise God fov 2,438 pevsons who collected and disluivsed in the various fields,have confessed Cbrist in baptism in connection where its operations are cavvied on.with the wovk of this Mission since its fovmation. The following account of a movning meetingTo some this might seem a small numbev fov so ofthe Religions Tract Society is taken fvom themany yeavs' labov, but the difficulties in opening Christian World : The Ciiaivman began byup some pvovinces weve vevy gveat. One bvothev praising the society, with its century of vigorousfor six years lived a homeless life in traveling aud flouvisliing-existence,as one of "the oldest andfrom city to city of two provinces trying to get most honored in England. Its turnover ofa settlement. Yet, though there was no direct £200,000 a year shows the gigantic nature offruit, he is not discouraged, fov not only has God its tvadiiig operations in distributing a vastrevealed himself to him in a wonderful way, but amount oi' wholesome literature throughout thein aU these places the Word has been preached, world ; in doiug which it seeks to counteract anand tracts and other Gospel messages have been ever-spreading stream of vile and corrupting literleft,of which for certain there wiU be fi-uit, In atuve. Tbislnfidel pvopagaiida is going on not

only in London, aud throughout the country, bymeans of clever but noxious tracts, but also inIndia among the newly-educated natives. It requires,therefore, to be met by books of not toolearned a character on the Evidences of Chvistianity,and in supplying them the Religious TvactSociety is becoming the handmaid of the missionarythroughout the earth.Aftev the Chaivman came many speakevs whocould tell from personal knowledge of what wasbeing done by the society in the vavious countviesof the world, the firstof them being Rev. JohnBrown, -of Calcutta. Every year—as he toldthe meeting—an addition of 3,000,000 is beingmade io the reading public of india; and if theseare not to drink from the muddy stream ofIndia's own classics, or from the flood of infidelliterature imported from abroad, the Tract Societymust provide them with the means of takingof the pure river of the water of life. Byleaflets for the zenanas, by easy books for Sunday-schools,by gifts of the Scriptures to theUniversity students, a great work is being done;and though the Englishmen who do it bave tocontend against the influence in the opposite directionof some of their powerful fellow-countrjrmenin Government employ, ihey yet have mauygratifying testimonies of noble results broughtabout in out-of-the-way vegions ihrough thechance reading of tracts. From India the meetingwas suddenly transported to Russia by ColonelPaschkoff, who told how in that land,—where there is no Evangelical preaching and rehgiousteaching is null,—the tract is about thesole means whereby to teach the people the wayto salvation. As they learn to read, they evincea thirst for religious literature, which a TractSociety estabUshed in St. Petersburgh in 1875has done its best to meet. It has worked withcolporteurs. It sent large supplies ot tracts tothe soldiers in the war of 1877, and these tookthe Gospel home wiih thenj to all parts of theCountry. At the Moscow Exhibition of 1882 itgave away 1,200,000 tracts. Ii got high officialsto circulate the tracts among the soldiers.It received testimony of the special blessingsbrought by such tracts as Newman Hall's "Cometo Jesus," and Spurgeon's "Heaven and Hell."And though it had lately had its work partlystopped by Government interferance, yet still itis allowed to sell tracts wholesale, though uotretail, and to strengthen its work by the publiItems ofi Missionary Intelligence. 177cation and distribution of a journalistic organ ofits own. The ineeting was next called, liy theRev. W Wyatt GiU, to visit in thought theSouth Sea Islands, where twenty-six years agothe ignorant native children were taught to writeby tracing letters in sand, but wheve now evevychild of seven can vead a book in its own language,and needs just such help as the Tvact Societycan give it. Tvacts like " Come to Jesus"and "Line upon Line"—tvanslated by Mvs.QUI—had been lavgely sold there, and in one aman who went to steal fvom his neigbbov andhappened to take a religious book was, throughreading it, vescued fvom his evil couvse and veceivedinto chuvch fellowship. Tbe " land ofHuss" was next represented by the Rev. A. W.Clark, the Amevican missionavy at Pvague, whodeclaved that in Bohemia they had veason toenvy the veligious freedom of Siberia ; but that,by providing them with hymns, by assisting tbemin the republication of the old BohemianBvethven's commentavies on the Bible, and bysupplying the Sunday-schools with the " HistovicalOvigin of the Bible," the Religious TvactSociety had rendered valuable service.At the annual meeting of the British andForeign Bihle Society, the President said: Leius considev fov a moment the compavisons betweenfiftyyeavs ago and now.Fifty yeavs ago ouv receipts weve £100,000 ;now they are nearly £225,000. Fifty yeavs agothat great test of the interest taken in this noble^york—the auxiliary societies—amounted athome to 2,370 ; now they are over 5,300. Ifihere is any proof of the spread of interest takenin the circulation of the Bible, that is one.Abroad you had 260 auxUiaries and branchesfifty years ago. You have now 1,500. Fiftyyears ago what was the issue of the Bible andportions ofit from this great Society ? 'l'he antialissue was 600,000 ; now it is about 4,000,-000. The cheapest copy of the book, half acentury back, was issued at about two shUlings,now the price is sixpence. The cheapest Testamentthen was tenpence ; the cheapest is nowLord Shaftesbury's and the price is a penny.And ihat not done by any grinding of thepeople who produce these works. One of thefirst questions I asked when I had the honor ofbeing called to occupy the chair was, how werethe "work people treated who manufactured thecheap Bibles ; and by the testimony, not only of

178 Items of Missionary Intelligence.ourselves, but of the outside Pvess, I have assuved this American mission, now more ihan .thirtymyself thai there is neither overwork nor underpay.In how many tongues and languages weve the establishment of a true and living Gospelyeavs old, has striven nobly and successfully forthe Scviptuves civculated fiftyyears ago ? In one Chuvch in Egypt, and is destined to play an impovtantpart in the uplifting of the people. Ithundred and thirty-six. That figure is actuallydoubled, for now they are circulated in two has made its mark among tbe Copts, and the dayhundved and eighty. Fifty yeavs ago fonvteen fov success aniong the Moslems is coming.fvesh languages of Euvope had been honored by " Let me mention one ov two things which inteiestedme much. One was tbe school at Bou-Bible pubhcatiou. Now the Bible has been publishedin twelve fresh languages in Central Asia lak, under the charge of Miss Connor, whoseand Siberia, twelve in India, fourteen in China bright, loving spirit is evidentiy meeting a response.In the central iustitution at Cairo, tbeand Mongolia, nineteen in the Pacific, thirty inAfrica, and thirty in America. That surely is a elder lads, undev the cave of Dv. Watson, showedmost marvelous vecovd, and, enviously enough, in veniavkable aptitude, and gveat geneval knowledge.Then, at Luxov, I had the pleasure ofihis fiftieth yeav of the Queen's reign there isonly one great language which has not acomplete translation of the Scviptuves—namely,the Japanese. I am told that by Midsummevthe complete Bible will take its place in theJapanese language.The infovmation given in tbe annual vepovtofthe Turkish !\Iissions' Aid Society vespectingevangelical wovk in Bible Lands is peculiavly interestingand satisfactory. The Secretary, Rev.T. W. Brown, having recently returned from athree months' tour in the countries aronnd theeastern shores of the Mediterranean, was able topresent in the report the results of personal observation.This is what he has to say of theAmerican missions:" As most people are aware, the chief agencyin Egypt is that of the American bvethven, andto the opevations of that mission in Alexandvia,Caivo, Asyout, and Luxor, I gave special attention.I am fvee to say that my anticipationswere more than fulfilled. Tbe half had not beentold me. At the stations just named I came incontact with hundreds of Christians efficientlytaught, congregations listening eagevly to theWovd of Life, individual Chvistians whoseknowledge of Scviptuve is tvuly wondevful, eavnestand faithful native pastovs, and a system ofeducation which, in its completeness and the spivitbveathing through it all, gives assurance of greatresults in days to come. Several times I spokethrough an interpreter, and my very presenceseemed to be an element of encouragement.My only vegvet was tbat i could not see move,and Dv. Lansing, whom I encounteved in themission boat on one of the canals, vepeatedly expvessedhis vegvet that my visit was necessavUyso short, Yet I saw enough to satisfy rae thatmeeting a venerable elder of the church at Koos,Fam Stephanos by name. He had been longknown io me by vepovt, as one who was bvoughtto the Lovd thvough the simple study of Scriptuveapplied by the Spivit, and who had enduveda gveat fight of affliction on acconnt of his Christianfaith. He came all the way to Luxov to seeme, and it was a tveat to hold convevse with sucha tvied and faithful foUowev of Christ. Mycrowning satisfaction was to witness the workingof the CoUege at Asyout, so long presided overby the late Dr. Hogg, and now under the care ofthe Rev. John Giffen and his able coUeagues.Besides a preparatory department, which is amodel school, there is a collegiate one, in whichthe training is carried well forwavd. Candidatesfov tbe ministry go from tbe higher class to theTheological seminary at Caivo. As I was an inmateof the Mission honse at Asyout fov sevevaldays, I had full opportunity of observing theways of the place. The order and effectivenessof the work are beyond all praise. I saw thestudents both at work and at play, and was pvesentat the Satuvday evening pvayev meeting conductedby themselves." The Amevican Pvesbytevian Mission in Syviamay now be likened to a stately cedar of Lebanon,so thovoughly vooted in the soU that its ovevthvowis, humanly speaking, impossible. Its headquavtevsis in Beyvont, but theve are fouv othercentres—Abeib, Sidoii, Zahleh, and Tripoh.Round each of these are grouped schools andcongregations. Zahleh, the station of the latelamented Gerald Dale, is substantially a Christiantown. Mr. Ford, ofSidon,whowasholdingspeeialevangelistic meetings there in March last, thuswrites;—'Here is a solid Christian population of

A Pilgrimage. 179nearly 20,000, and nowhere else in Syria, so fav hovers 179. The Chuvch membevs ave 1,440, ofas I know, is theve snch a fine opporttinitjf to whom 153 were added last yeav. The Syvianpreach the Gospel. 'The native preacher tells Protestant community number 4,165. The nunimethat he counted 427 in the audience last even- ber of day schools in aU is 4,505. Workbig ining, in attendance on a preaching service. What harmony with the Amevicin Mission is a schoolwonld one not give to know who of those pvesent for Moslem girls, conducted by Miss Taylor.have begun to be the subjects of quickening and She has been working in Beyrout for 20 years,converting grace.' Other viUages in the Leban- and one of the many gratifying fruits of her lionare budding and bringing fovth fvuit. Two bor is, that in March last six of hev pupUs, ofof these, Sukel-Ghuvb and Shweifat (little lips), vavious ages, from 14 to 20, were baptized on awere visited by ihe Secretary, and he veports fa- profession oftheir faith, in presence of a goodlyvorably of both. In the former is a boavding company of Chvistian people—missionavies andhouse, containing 63 boys, whose obvious thirst visitovs. It was a touching aud solemn service,fov knowledge gives pvomise of gveat futuve ve- and will nevev be fovgotten by those present."suits through them. 'Yo show io what lavge pro- Our limited space compels us io reserve for aportions the Mission in Syria has now attained, it future issue all reference to the admirable vepovtsmay be mentioned ihat the American missiona- of missionary opevations pvesented at (7to>-c/j .45-ries are 87 in number, and ihe native Syrian la- semblies in Britain and in this eonntry.A PILGRIMAGE. and going up to Jerusalem, whence they begin aThousands visit Palestine every yeav ; some as touv of the Holy Land pvopev. But many touvtourists,either out of curiosity or to gain infovma- ists and almost all pilgvims land at Jaffa andtion regarding the lands of the Bible, and othevs forthwith pvoceed io Jerusalem. Jaffa is built onas pilgrims to pevfovm a reUgious act as being the slope of a hill facing the sea, and its foot isefficacious in atoning for past misdeeds and as- bathed by the waters of the Mediterranean. Thesuring a pasport to the elysian fieldsof the heav- city is surrounded by delicious g-ardens and risesenly country. A pilgrimage to Jerusalem is of with its stately minarets in the midst of a fovestthe fivst importance to an Oriental Christian and of palm trees, olive orchards, fig plantations,to most Roman Catholics, bnt in order that it orange groves and many other varieties of fruitmay be highly meritorious ihe pilgrim must be trees. There is no harbor at Jaffa, and there ispresent at high mass on Easter in the Church of a ledge oi rooks opposite the town, a few rodsthe Holy Sepulchre when the holy fire is said to from the shore, appearing a little above the surcomedown from heaven. To a Moslem a visit face and rendering debarkation in stormy weatherto Jerusalem is second only to a pilgrimage to very dangerous. The passengers are landed inMecca, and the Moslem who has visited fivst small boats and, occasionally, some of the frailMecca and then Jerusalem is considered to have craft ave capsized by the violence of the breakers.capped the climax in pilgrimages.We cast anchor heve one movning eariy in Mavch,Some tourists land at Alexandria, Egypt, pro- j^st aftev a stovm. Tbe waves were still roUingeeed thence up the Nile to Cairo and othev to a pvodigions height and bveaking over iheplaces of interest, and thence to the Sinaitic rocks in a most reckless manner. A stovm atpeninsula, traversing more or less closely the route sea is terrible indeed and awful to contemplate,of the children of Israel from Sinai through the but a storm near the shore, particularly amongwUderness and the countries adjacent to Pales- the rocks, is infinitely move terrible and appaltine,crossing the Jordan near the site of Jericho Img. As the wind was falling the passengers

180 A Pdgtimage.waited untU the watevs became move peaceful, countenance. The intelligent and enterprisingbnt even then it was necessary fov the boatmen Euijppean and Amevican dressed in the more conicuse great care in ovdev to have the little boat venient costume of ihe West. The tonvists andcut the waves and not be taken bvoadside, when pilgrims distribute themselves among the yarionsa disaster would cevtamly have occuvved. The hotels and inns in ovdev to enjoy a short breathwaythe waves danced above our heads was fearing spell before going farther or look about forful to behold. The women clung to the men and conveyances to transport them to .Jerusalem. Atthe men clung to the boat, while heve and theve a little distance fvom Jaffa lies the plain ofone was leaning ovev the gunale with pallid Shavon, wheve gvew the lovely vose. It is spavsebvowand open mouth, as though he would pene- ly settled in these days, and, -with the neighboriratethe mysteries of the deep vegavcUess of con- ing hills, forms the plains of .Indah. Althoughsequences. Sometimes wben it is impossible for the soU is cultivated to a very limited extent, yetboats to make the landing the boatmen take the it seems capable of prodncing a fairly good yield.passengevs on theiv backs and wade to shove It is only heve and there that the eye rests onwith them; but by taking advantage of the calm some modest plantation in whose centve stands abetween bveakevs -nê reached the shove and land- village which pvesents anything but a pleasinged in safety. aspect. The houses ave low—move hovels—Although Jaffa is situated almost on the bor- joined togetbev fov mutual support, bnilt of smallders of the immense desert that separates PaleS- stones, daubed with mud and covered with claytine from Africa, the air is embalmed with the roofs, and usually consist of one apartment which,fragrance of many flowers. In the month of out of the kindness of the owner's heart and a dueMarch the orange tvees ave in bloom and nothing vegavd fov the thievish pvopensities of his neighcanbe more enchanting than to see an orange bor, serves as a shelter for his animals and poulgrovewith its golden fruit, silver flowers and try as well as for his family. To every villagerich green foliage, while every breeze that stirs belongs a gang of vicious curs that make theirthe trees comes laden with perfume.presence known by rushing out pell-mell in aThe scene is further animated by the strange body and yelping and snarling at the passers by.and picturesque costumes, both of inhabitants The inhabitants ave fovlovn looking cveatures—and travelers, Here is the Bedawy with a loose ragged and filthy. Y'omen, unbecominglywoolen mantle ihvown ovev his ,shouldevs, a black dvessed and with unkempt haiv, sitting about inkerchief tied on his head with a vope, and hang- the sunshine, some engaged in spinning, othereIng loosely ovev his neck and fovehead, and pev- like monkeys, seavching fov parasites' in the headshaps a pair of broad coarse sandals on his feet or of their chUdven. Ragged m-chins ruuning afterstack in his belt, and armed with an old flint-the conveyance, begging from the tourists andlock gun of pecuhar workmanship. The shrewd singing to them in vough dogs-evel,Armenian wearing a large robe of blue and " Atiny buksheesh, ya hajiywhite. The savage looking Russian peasant, of Rowwihn Salim, ya vubby,"whom the pvevaricating Turk stands in whole- which, being interiM'eted, siu-uifiessome awe, clothed in flowing garments of coarse « Give me some money, 0 pUgvim;linsey-wolsey matevial, Heve is the ubiquitous Send him safely, 0 my Lovd,"Jew, also, fvom evevy pavt of the globe, adovned The iiasseiigevs often amuse themselves byWith the habilaments of all the Worid, charactev- throwing them pennies to see the scramble forized only by certain unmistakable peculiarities of them. Occasionally a penny is tossed well to

At Home First and Then Abroad. 181the front of the vehicle, when* two or three of AT HOME FIRST AND THEN ABROAD.the swiftest of the liitle vagabonds will rush for i am very impatient wiih the objection oftenit. The foremost of all wUl be in ihe act of stoop- urged : that we oughi firstio convert our owning to pick up the prize when ihe one next to country and then turn io ihe heathen worid.hhn wiU give him a vigorous push, send him When this objection is raised, I cannot helpsprawling, and pick up the penny himself. The making ihis comment: " My Christian friendfirst boy does not enjoy this pastime as weU as he has never read his New Testament." Let suchshould, and I suppose you would scarcely be- an one look ai the 13th chapter of the Acts oilieve me were I to say that the passengers do not the Aposties, and he wiU find it there stated, inenjoy it either. Lydda appears io the North as describing one of the eariiesi missionary efforts,we pass on our way. This is one of the places how the Holy Ghost said : " Separate mePeter visited when he was making his tour of the Barnabas and Paul to go for mission work." Itsaints who dwelt in Judea, and it was here thai was ai Antioch where ihe disciples were firsthe healed a paralytic of eight years' standing, called Christians. Antioch : the London of theThe ciiy is now in ruins, but few buildings re- Eastern Mediterranean in ihose days, with amaining, and in iheir midst stands a minaret, million of population, with a gigantic Oxfordlike a huge sentinel guarding the plain. street four mUes long, lined wiih markets,.Far in the distance we see Ramleh nestied in a palaces and haUs, and just outside its gates theforest of olives. We alighted here for the re- celebrated grove of Daphne, where ApoUo wasfreshment of man and beast, the place being worshiped with indescribable and unimaginableabout three hours fi-om Jaffa. In looking about lust, and where £30,000 of annual' endowmentswe descried a number of beggarly looking maintained this iniquitous worship. I can imwretchessitting hy ihe roadside. They per- agine our fi'iends in Antioch ai that day gettingceived us about the same tune and started toward up in ihe church, at the monthly or weeklyus and we soon discovered that they were lepers, missionary society, and saying: "Don't sendThe effects of this mosi loathsome of aU dis- your men away till you have converted Antioch.eases appeared in ihe nose, lips, cheeks and eye- Convert this city, inteUigent, cultivated, wealthy,lids being partially eaten way—the whole visage and intensely impure, and when you have conpresentinga hideous and unnatural appearance, verted Antioch, send your missionaries to con-The fleshof the entire body seemed dead,and ihey vert Asia, Italy and Spain." But ihe Holycame forward thrusting out stumps of hands from Ghost separates ihese men for the mission work,which the fingers had iallen away, and uttering and the result justified it. For what happened ?with a piteous waU, "give us something; we are When JuUan, the apostate, went io Antioch inlepers." And one readily throws them a piece of the middle of the fourth century, hoping to remoneyio rid himself of their loathsome presence, estabhsh the pagan reUgion, he paid a visU toHere-we behold the most lively type of sin, and ^^^ of Daphne and found there a solitaryof lis dreadful effects, that is io be seen on earth. ,*=. / , ,,. , • -,The unhappy victim endures a living death, pale pnest, who brought him a single goose,his body slowly disintegrating iintU his wretch- furnished at his own expense, which was the soleed life literally drags iiself oui of what is left of surviving inmate of the great sanctuary. Thehis miserable system. Had not Paul something j.gg^n. justified the measure. Whenever thelike ihis in mind when he cried out, "O wretch- hî (jhost begins to speak in any church, the°d man thai I am! who shall deliver me from , f , ,, f . ^ x • • - ^le body ofthis deaih?" * * * * church should begin to separate missionaries ioJuly 26th, 1887. send abroad. You want to evangelize Iôndon.

182 Christian Giving.Y'es, and it was time you did. Y'ou want to see wovld thai theve is a vevy great difference innnchristian England converted. Y'es," and it is professing Christians in vegavd to this matter ofhigh time. Well, the way to do it, pavadoxical giving ; and that the difference is not always exasit may seem, is to pick out ouv Pauls and onv plained by a vefevence to iheir respective civcnm-Bavnabases, ouv vevy best men, and send them to stances, and by saying that the man who givesisIndia, to China, and to Africa, to pveach the rich and he who withholds is poov. It is not aigospel to evevy cveatuve.—Bev. R. F. Horton, at ways so. It is sometimes very far from being so.London Mny Meetings. ' Sometimes the vich man is niggavd, sometimes'/-iTTTiTcmT A AT m T-TAT/-I thc poov mau Is liberal, and thai not becausethey are not both Christians, but just becaiiseBeg-in to give as soon as you begin to get. one of them has been untrained in this specialThai and only that, will prevent the dangev of a grace of libevality. And, thevefore, it is wellgvowing covetousness. W3 ave all vevy much and wise to begin to give as soon as we begin tounder the inflnence of habit, purely as such. Of gathev. As soon as the stove begins to swell, -couvse we are liable to the inroads of evil prin- however small it may be, the hand of love oughtciples and affections ; we are liable to imbibe to be seavching it, and taking from it, not allthe love of evU things for their own sake, as for that comes, but some portion regulavly for prethesake of the passing pleasure of them ; bnt we sentation to the gracious Givev. As soon as theare Uableto be drawn towards them, and by de- well begins to vise, one or more streams ought togrees fixed in them, by habit even more than by he drawn from it for the watering and refreshingfirst affection. Many a man becomes a drunk- of some thirsty places. There is vevy greatard by not watching habit. Many a man be- danger in separating iiy any long distance thecomes a pvactical miser by habit. He is not in beginning of giving from the beginning of getting.pure nature a miseriy man, but he buUds his soul " Honor the Lovd with thy substance, and withnp and, vound and Vound with civcles of h,abit. It the fi.rstfruits of aU thhie incvease.''cannot gvow ; it cannot bveathe ; it can havdly How significant and pictuvesque in its beautylive. Habit has been called "a second nature." was the pvesentation of the fivst fi-uitsin the oldAn amendment of this apothegus might be that Hebvew times! The basket laden with thehabit is not a second, but a. firstnatuve. Habit rich clusters. The owneris confession as h^ preisnature acting and growing, taking fixed and sented it to the priest. The selling of it beforeenduring form. Habit is I, my.'îelfi, becoming the altar. The articulate speech °of the offererwhat probably I shaU be through life, and per- befove the Lovd, ending with the venewed solemnhaps fov evermore. How important, thevefove, presentation vows: "And now, behold, I havethai in the growing time, in youth and eavliev bvought the fivst fi-nits of the laud, which thou,manhood, the form should be good, that the robe 0 Lord, hast given me !" AU that must haveI am weaving for my spivit to weav thvough life been vevy beautiful aud instvuctive, and it emboanddeath shoukl be of the right textuve, and dies an etevnal pvinciple. It sets fovth God's unshouldhave in it some coloring of celestial beauty changing claim to tbe fivstas well as the last ofthat wiU never fade. Not to give is to fall into a all we have. Givioo- late in Ufe, and after longhabU which U wiU be difficiUt to ovcvcome. withholding (there is very Uttie of such giving atYoi to give is to neglect to form a habit which it all), is as though a Jew liad come up to the ternwillbe hard to attain. It,s vevy well known to pie with his basket filled with the fvuits of yearsthose who are acquainted with the religious long gone by—all the bloom and fraa-rance gone

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad, 183from them long ago—old grapes, old figs, old. domestic fowls were once birds of long wing andsheaves of withered corn; what were such a basketput beside ihe offering of a man who,' with within easy reach, they discontinued all wish forgreat flight, bui ihat, as food was placed by ,manodors of summer all about him, comes straight migration, their wings got shorter and theirfrom the fig tree, the vineyard, or the yellow bodies heavier, and now they are victims of acorn field ?—Rev, Alexander Baleigh; D, 1). narrow policy, and idle, clumsy occupants of afew square rods of ground. Men and birds areAN ARGUMENT FROM ANALOGY, much alike in this vespect. If ouv, Chvistianchuvches navvow theiv flight, and confine themselvesto home wovk, they will lose theiv powevSome nervous people fear that foreignmissions will injure home work. They will not. of wing and become occupants of a court yardForeign missions are always the best helpers of rather than of the infinite expanse,—Rev. J,home missions. NainraUsis tell its that our Ossian Davies at London May Meetings,—Under date, May 24th, Rev. Henry Easson,of Latakia, writes:We are expecting the appointment of a ministerto come out with Dr. Balph, and that our buys'--One month later he writes:The latest news on the school question can begiven you best by sending you an extract ofa letier of the 8th inst. from ouv Consul atBeyvut :" This consulate has been instvucted that inasmuchas the seveval applications ov petitions ofmanagers of our schools through Syria have beenignored, not to say treated with contempt by the'lurkish authorities, the Yali be officially informedby me that our schools, are veady to submit 1st,their text books; 2d, their programmes of studies,3d,—in the absence of legaUy constitutedacademical councils—their own diplomas issuedto their teachers, and that after the lapse of areasonable time, our schools will be reopened inconformity with an understancjing with H. E.Muntf Pasha,"As soon as our Consul hears that all the managersof the schools have infovmed the localauthovities that they are veady to cavvy out theirpavt of the agveement, he intends io send anschool project wiU be acceptable and that onrofficial statement to the YaU, the substance ofwealthy men will come forward in support of it.which is given above. Shovtly aftev this lettevThe Turk is a vevy uncertain man to dealIS sent, wiiethev we secuve official pevmission fvomwith. Our Consul has had to make another appealto Constantinople. Dr. Bliss, of Conthe Yali ov not, we ave going to veopen ourschools officially, but quietly, and we hope allstantinople, writes me: "I think that there is aschool managers will soon inform the Consul oflittle bit of easing np on the school qnestion;their compliance with the law, so that he ca,nthe French Ambassador has talked pretty plainlyto the Grand Yizier. We will see what cansend his ultimatum to the Yali.Since sending you an extract .from a letterbe done and write you."written by me to ouv Consul about the affaiv atKavsano, the Cai-ma-Cam of Sahyoun, andseveval of the chiefs of the distvict, wêni up toDzeble Daryuse to try and avvange about the"price of blood" vequived fov the young manwho was killed at Karsano. The Sahyounpeople say tbey did not mean to kUl this manand that they ave ready and wUling to pay tbe"blood money."The friends of the slain refused to settie thematter in this way and demanded "blood forblood." This being refused, they began togather their men with the intention of fallingupon the Cai-ma-Cam and his men. The latternot having many soldievs with him vetreatedfvom the field.The government shortly after sent an officerand a bqnd of soldiers up to Dzeble Daryuse tocoUect ihe taxes. The chiefs refused to pay anddrove the soldiers out ofthe district, 'They have

184 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.decided to pay no taxes untU the governmentputs to death ihe murderers of the son of theirSbeikh or deliver ihem into their hands. Insteadof doing either, although the murderers are knownto the goyernment, soldiers have been sent toSahyoun to protect ihem from Dzeble Daryuse,The former are Muslems, the laiter are Nusaireiyeh,Last week these same people of Sahyounwaited in ambush on the Aleppo road about twohours north of Bahloobyde and fell npon a partyof Armenians, who, in company with the ArmenianBishop of Latakia, were coming fromto the intercession oi Palryns, and thus makeGunifneiyah io Latakia, The Armenians fought gods of them; then the Nusaireiyeh, someiimesbvavely, but they weve ovevcome by numbevs, called Mohammedan, all of whom make partnersbadly wounded, and their animals and loads of to God, of men and of other things which Godcocoons taken from them. The Bishop's horse has created, for they worship the sun, moon, andwas taken wiih the rest and he had to walk to the winds (air), although Moses, the servant ofLatakia, a cUstance of about eighteen mUes, Jehovah, speaking by the Spirit of God, forbadeThe men being known by the Armenians, the such worship, as we see from Deut. 17:3, " Andgovernment caused ihe horses and mules to be hath gone and served other gods and worshipedreturned, but no one has, as yet, been punished them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of theior the deed. Thus you see we have no governmenthere at present; about all the rulers do is tocollect taxes.—Mr. Easson also furnishes the followingtranslation of an extract from ihe monthly vepovtof Yacoob Haddad :One day a sheikh came into the school with afalcon on his hand, with which he had been huntingbirds, and I said, 0 sheikh, why do yon kiUbirds ? He answered. The sparrow and the quailare not mentioned in the Bible. I said, Y'es theyare. We read Matt. 18:29: " Are not two sparrowssold for a farthing, and one of them shallnot fall to tbe ground without your Father," etc.;and Luke 12:7: " Fear not therefore, ye are ofmore value than many .sparrows," also, when thechildren of Israel were coming out of Egypt,where they murmured for lack of meat, God sentthem fleshto eat, Ex. 16:13, " And it came topass that at even the quails came np itnd coveredthe ground," One of those present asked me," What was the religion of the cbildren oi Israel?" I answered, They worshiped God thecreator of all things. They said, so do all mensay, " The Lord he is onr God." I answered.Yes; and that is true. He is the Lord of aU,but all do not worship him according to his wUl.They said, How do you prove ib.it? I said, aUwho make the creature a partner of God in theirworship, and ask help of ihese, as if God cannotsave without the help of the creature, whetheroulia or saint. God has said, " My glory wiU Inot give to another, neither my praise io gravenimages." From Ezk. 14:14 we learn ihat Noah,Daniel and Job could save none but themselvesby their righteonsness. Then one asked, "Whatis ihe true religion ? is it not the Mohammedan?"The Mohammedans are of different kinds. Someof them accept the Koran in full as it is foundto-day, and they say there is none but God,God has no partner, etc., bnt in reality they trusthosts of heaven, which I have not commanded,"etc., and Ex. 20:2, "Thou shalt have no othergods before me."And now we plead with you to return throughthe only Mediator, Jesus Christ, the Saviom' ofsinners.—A lady of PhUadelphia, who is devoted tothe interests of onr foreign mission, has kindlyforwarded the interesting letter given below fromMiss LiUie B. Joseph :Mebsine, Asu Minor, June 17, 1887.Dear Friend : Just two weeks ago yesterdaywe landed in Mersine, and, I can assure jou, wewere glad to reach our destination. The friendshere were anxiously awaiting our arrival. Dr.Metheny had been to the ships twice, once onSaturday and on Sabbath day, thinking we mightbe on me;' but it was Wednesday before we arrived.We found them all in usual health, butitis not very good. As usual the Doctor is doingfar more thau he should, owing to his failinghealth. He is now engaged in putting the boys'and girls' school bouses in readiness to be occupied.So he works from "early morn till dewyeve," and can never see the time when he can sitdown and rest. It is very dry, and has been forso long—there haying been no rain to amonnt toanything since last Fall—the fountains are dry-

Letters from Chtistian Workers at Home and Abroad. 185mountain overlooking ihe sea. Although wowere nearly eighty miles off, yet we could plainly'perceive a flag flying from one of the towers.Along the coasts the ocean was full of queer littlefishing smacks; they have ihe sails arrangedso that at a distance ihey look like birds fiyingclose to the water, or like a big butterfly.There were only three passengers on board thesteamer besides ourselves—Mrs. Blythe and MissThomson, her niece, ladies from England on aing up. The Doctor is having a well dug- fcofurnishwater for the school. He has made two orthree futile attempts, but we hope he wiU soonsucceed in obtaining abundance. There will begreat snffering this winter on account of thedrought. Indeed people are already suffering.Itis almost impossible for them to get work.They offer to work for what wonld be in oiirmoney about ten cents per day.Miss Sterrett has not yet come to ihe mountains,but'wiil probably come next week. The pleasure trip to Cairo, theu to Constantinople,Doctor's famUy, Miss Dodds and I came np last hence home; and a gentleman. Just enough toweek. This is quite a pretty place, and we enjoybeing here; but it is quite a task to reach a photographer, and took pictures of places as weappear pleasant and homelike. Miss Thomson ishere. Everything has to be transported by passed.meaUs of horses, donkeys, or camels. Think of We hai a fiue view of the coasts of Spain andriding eighteen mUes, in the hot sun, over stones Africa as we were passing Gibralter. The daythat at any moment you might expect your horse was beautifully calm and clear. The coast of •to stumble over—up steep hills and down steeper.Sometimes I was sure I would be sent flyiug the background, sloping gradually io the sea,Spain presented a deUghtful aspect; mountains ineff into space over ihe horse's head. But no with a little village resting at iheir foot. Littlesnch direful calamity befell us, and we arrived farm houses dotted the mountain side, lookingsafely, thongh very tired, at our home in Guzne. like mere specks; but by means of a marine glassOur voyage from New York to Mersine was we could discern the door and windows. Fartheran exceptionally pleasant one. There were no along, just at the entrance of the Mediterranean,storms, and the sea was unusually calm, exceptingtwo days, one on the Atlantic and one on the lion crouching, guarding the entrance to its den.we came to the rock Gibralter. It resembles aMediterranean. It was just rough enough to re- It is a vast, vast rock joined to the main land onlyby a sandy neck of land, and that is underMeve ihe monotony. We were, eight days crossingthe Atlantic, and three days in Liverpool, mined with dynamite, so that it is impossible forwhere we were very hospitably entertained by another nation to obtain possession of the highwayto Oriental powers.Mr. Peoples and his excellent sister. Thatworthy couple ought to have a gold medal for Our firststop after leaving Liverpool was Algiers.Looking at the ciiy from the harbor, the solicitude they show the missionaries.itWe left Liverpool May 9, Monday morning, seems Uke a vast amphitheatre. We went onI see by the Review we left on the 8th. We did shore and drove around the city for an hour.expect to leave ou ihe 8th, but the persons dispatchingThe small villas of palm trees, the geraniums andthe steamer "Ararat" thought we roses blooming in profusion, were a welcome sightwould not like io set sail on the Sabbath, thereforeit was detained iUl the following morning.It was such beautiful weather from Liverpoolto us, who had seen little but water for so long.The streets—that is, the carriage ways—do notrun parallel or cross at right angles, but wind upto Algiers. We passed close to the coast of the hill. There are stairways from one street toWales. In the distance Snowden could be seen. another, by means of which the foot passengersWales presents a beautiful view io passing ships. go from Street to street.One evening, on the bay of Biscay, we saw a The next place we harbored was thc island offishing net that was nearly a mile long. At first Malta. Early in the morning we passed thewe thought it was a sea serpent, or some monstrousplace where Paul was wrecked. There is aanimal; as all we could see of it was the monument ei-ected on the place where the wrecksharp points projecting above ihe water, like the occurred. Yaletea, the seaport town, is a naturallyspines of an animal.fortified ciiy. Here we went on land, andPassing along the coast of Portugal we saw being Ascension Day, we visited St. John'sthe king's palace at Cintea, It is situated on a church. The building is magnificent, and the

186 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.music, which consisted of male voices, several —TheTollowing vecovd was prepared for ourviolins and a pipe organ, was grand. But how columns and forwarded some months ago by Mrs.vexed one feels at tbe hypocritical priests, deludingthe people by their silly maneuvers. ThereFOE THE CHILDEEN.Metheny, of Mersine:are 100,000 inhabitants on the island, and thereA few weeks ago as Dr. Metheny was.goingis one priest for every eight pevsons.into Tarsus he met a poor looking man carryingtenderly in his arms a little dead baby.We veached Alexandvia on tbe 23d of May,That afternoon Dv. Ewing of the D. P. inissionUsually in such a case it would have been carriedunder the arm and hurried away to thecalled on us, but we were nOt in, as we had goneto see the city with the C'aptain ofthe "Ararat."grave as fast as possible, 'i'his man walked.slowlyand reverently and with a sad face. ThoughOn the next afternoon Mrs. Ewing and her daughtercalled, and invited us io lunch with tbem onhe was so poorly clad, the little body was wrappedin a beautiful and expensive shawl. WhenWednesday, an invitation we gladly accepted.They had dismissed their school the week before,Doctor went to Mr. Dibbak's, our teacher, heon account of the severe illness of their teacher.spoke to him of the sad sight he had seen. Mr,Miss Strong. When we left Alexandria, sheDibbak said he knew the man, and told the followingstovy: The man was a water-carrier; thewas still lying very low with typhoid fever. Asyei ihey could not tell whethev she would live ovwatev was put in eavtben jars; two of these jarsnot.were carried in panniers on each side of a donkey,Tuesday, May 24th, was the Queen's bivthday,and delivered at the houses for so many cents aand all the ships lying in the havbov weve decoratedwith flags. At noon a salute of twenty-jar. This watev-cavviev was fvom India, and wasa Bvitish subject. He had no famUy ov kin, andone guns was fived, and at sun-down one gun waswas vevy poor. A few days befove he had, foundfired and immediately all flags were hauled down.this littie baby givl, only a few days old, on theWe visited the gardens and Pompey's Pillar.steps of a ^Mohammedan mosque, ov place ofThe gardens are situated on the Suez canal andworship. He took the Uttie thing home, gotare beautiful places. Pompey's Pillar is made of,some one to take charge of it while he was atred gvanite and is seyenty-eight feet nine incheswork, and bought it a goat, that he might havein height and twenty-nine feet eight inches in civcumfevence.On the gvound lying about thefood for it. In his ignorance he . gave the childthe undUuted milk, and it sickened and died.pillar are other samples of ancient sculpture.It is likely tbat the shawl was a relic of his Indianhome. So, poov though he was, he hadWe left Alexandria on the 26th for Mersine,given the little waif the best he had.stopping at two ports on the island of Cyprus,]Mary E. Metheny.and at Beivut.,, Mv. Ewing had wvitten us a—Mavch 28tb—Sabbath aftevnoon.—Moseslettev of intvoduction to Dv. Bliss, of the Pvesbytevianinission at Beivut, so we pvoceeded to call onMovitz came and told us tbat aftev he had gonehome Satuvday night his employev and his familyhim. The Captain and his wife weve acquaintedhad talked and veviled him tiU haU past onewith Dr. Bliss, and they went with us. We tooko'clock, and had at last told him that if he persistedin studying Chvistianity he would nottea with the Doctor's family, and then tbeyshowed us all over the mission grounds audkeep him in his employ. Mv. Yexler said, "howthrough their school buildings. They- have acan you believe that God could become man?thriving college and girls' school. There ave atIt is impossible that God sbould be man andpvesent about one hundved boys and neavly asdie." "Do yon uot beUeve," said Moses, "thatmany girls in their schools. They have in theivGod could and did divide the Red Sea ! Iscabinet a gveat many envious specimens of Ovientalwork, among them the tear bottles of flneanything, to ouv minds, move impossible thanthat ? I believe that he became man and diedglass, which fvom having lain in the eavtb so longfov us. The pvophet says, ' He shall be calledwere the colors of tbe rainbow. Then theveEmmanuel—God with us.'" Mr. Y., "It isweve small lanips, alabastev boxes, &c. Weabsurd to say a vivgin had a chUd." " Then youdvove out on the Damascus voad for three ordeny youv own pvophet. Isaiah teUs you so."fouv miles, which was vevy enjoyable.

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 187Then he said : " Where is Judah now 1 Do you I do; ShaU I let (leave) him myself, or shaU Iknow where Judah is?" "No." "WeU, the wait until he will get a servant of my place.prophet- says : ' The scepter shall not depart Dear Sir acscnse me wat I write so bad.from Judah till SliUoh come.' Where is theMosEs Moritz.scepter ? It has departed, for Shiloh has come."Mrs. Yexler then said : '• Put tbese foolish Y'esterday evening be came here. His masterthoughts out of your head. How can you say on finding him firm, hadsent him away, not evensuch things ? What wUlyour father say ?" " I giving him supper, though this we only learned bycannot help that; my fathev is noi God. I must accident. He bad offered him three things. Todo what is vight.", Then she said : ',' We did let him have a branch shop in Adana, with a salaryof firstfour and then six pounds a month; tonot bving you to be a sevvant. We ave going toopen a shop in Adana and you may bave charge go some place himself and leave him this shopof it." He was firm, however, and they used with a boy to attend on him; or, to send himvery harsh language to him. Doctor told him back to Russia. "WeU," he said, "you mayif he chose he could stay here, but he said he send me back to Russia." Doctor thinks thaithought it better not to leave until, they sent Mr. Yexler will yet be glad enough to have himhim away. Yesterday afternoon Doctov Avas in back, but if not, he will try to find employrnenttown and went into Mr. Yexler's shop. Moses some place else. At ihe close of family worshiphanded him a lettev he had wvitten to him, not on Sabbath evening, before we rose from ourexpecting to see him. I will insert tbe letter knees,' he prayed in the name of Jesus, askingjust as it was written:that hig enemies might also be brought to Jesus.Dr. Monsieur Metheny :—The firstthing wat He told them yesterday that he would pray forI write is that wen I comed oii Sunday from, you them, but they exclaimed against it in horror.I have got very much Conversations with all thefamUia about Christianity. Aftev that my mastertels me with angre if will go more to studyabout Christianity you mnst go away from tbisHouse, but after, if you • will gone away fromheve then you will see wat I wiU do to you. IwUl try to send yon back to Russian from thepohce, but the first I wiU, let you to be baptized,and after I will do all that; and with that he asfinished talking, but. the answer Wat I have givewas this. Y''pu can do wat you like and I haveno got afraid for man, but I have afraid for God.And after that In this morning we have got againa talking about that, and he say I shall tell himI • no gone more to you, and no study any moreabout Christianity ihen he wUl send me to Bej^routh,to the Derector from this Company, and heshall give me a place for six pound a month, andif I wiU no gone away with the -French steamer.And if I like to study more about Christianity Imust gone away from here. But the littleanswer wai I have give him is that I do not liketo let (leave) my study,'and you can seek you aServant and I -wiU gone to,take the truth wat IDoctor started to Adana' to-day, a day earlierthan usual, so that he might bave an interviewwith the Governor-General and, if possible, haveMr. Dibbak's cevtificate appvoved'.Last Sabbath ouv audience was large, and Ihad four women and'three men in my Bible class,in addition to the girls.To-day one of tbe givls was sent away fov badbehaviov and insubovdination to the teachevRosa. She is lavge, and though she has onlybeen a few nionths with us, she has had ampleoppovtuuity to know the tvuth, having been fovsome time in ihe Latakia school, the injuvy shewas doing to the othev givls by hev example outweighingany probable good that she might veceiveherself. When one goes another is generallyready io take the place! So in ihis case, alittle FeUah boy was brought to-day, and our oldblind woman irom Tarsus offers him a share oiher bed. He is smallev than hev son who is heve.Miss Stevvett's faithful pupil, Katvina, was inBible class on Sabbath, too.Moses tells me this evening that his emplovevsaid it was better to be a robber than a Christian,that is, a Protestant. He said, " if yon will bebaptized by the Gveeks, I will say nothing."" WeU," said Moses, " let me be baptized by thehave findeth it. Now the name of the-LprdJesus Christ, we thank God trow our Lord andSavyor Jesus Christ. The grace from our LprdJesus Christ be upon us aU. .Amen. And I ask Gveeks, and wovship idols." " Be a Moslem, ifvery mhch that yon shall send an answer wat shall you like, but. not a Christian." That is the ani-

188 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.mus of all these sects. Each one says be anythingonly a Protestant.Slst.—Doctor got home from Adana late lastnight. He went to the President of the Governmentschool, who told him frankly that they hadno legally constituted Board, but were composingone, and as soon as it was done he would let usknow. He then took him through the buUdingand showed him the school. He also told Doctorthat he was coming to visii our schools. Doctorgave him a cordial invitation to do so, and tomake his home at our house. The Board is tohave a member from each sect, and the Protestantsare to be represented by Dr. Chan, whostudied in America.The vacancy occasioned by the sending awayof the girl two days ago has been fllledto-day bya little Fellah girl about four years old. Yêsterdaythe mother of the two Moslem girls who werenot allowed to come back last fall (Nahwe, theyoungest, has been back for two months) washere yesterday, and she says, "Before Hindeyacame to scbool I had to scold her and punish herview with two young men from Latakia, who arewanting to get into business here. One of themto make her do anything. Now she goes to work wants to join the church. They spoke of the apparentimpossibUity of doing anything here, andof her own accord, and does up all the work, andthen sits down with her Testameut or Psalm then the talk turned on the wickedness and oppressionso rife here. The people in thousandsbook and reads."Moritz and I (his surname is Graenberg) had turn out to pray for rain, but stUl go on in iniquity.The poor here who have borrowed mona littie talk about the Psalms a day or two ago.I told him that we never used human compositionin the worship of God. " Of course," he unable to pay, for the seed has dried np in theey to buy seed to sow their ground have beensaid, " what God make is better. We must give ground, and so their lands have been taken possessid^nof by the grasping rich. I look upon,thisGod the best." "Some people," I said, "saythey do not find anything about Jesus in the withholding of the rain as a direct judgment ofPsalms." " True," he said, " the name Jesus is God upOn these people, who, by theh spasmodicnot there, but the Psalms are full of Christ. effort to put down Sabbath shipping and allitsThere is the 2d psalm, the 22d, the 23d, the24th, the 72d, the 110th, and many others."Before he left Mr. Yexler, he said, " If you goaway, where will you eat the passover?" " Wedo not need any more to eat the passover," hesaid. " Where do you find that ?" he asked."In the New Testament." "How do youknow that the New Testament is true ?"" Because I find it in the Old Testament." Justthen be came to me with his Hebrew NewTestament and told me that he foundin Matthew that Christ said, " Think not that Iam come to send peace on the earth," &c."What does that mean?" I told him that itjust meant what had taken place in his own case.''Ah ! I see," he said. "It says in Isaiah thathe wiU be a 'prince of peace.' " " Yes," I said," when aU accept him." To-day he found an ariiclein the Missionary Beview about Sir MosesMontefiore, and his aunt, who was a Christian.He was much interested, and said he had readof her before, and had seen Sir Moses twice,Moritz is much interested in Hanna's Life ofChrist, and to-day asked for a map ot Palestine.Doctor said to-day, " Did I not understand youto say tbat you had never till this week prayedin the name of Jesus?" "Yes," he said. 'Youshowed me Saturday night the words, ' no mancometh unto the Father but by me,' and 'whatsoeverye shall ask in my name I wiU give yon,'and you told me if I beUeved in Jesus I mustpray in his name. After I went home I thoughtoi this, and then I was reading in Uncle Tom'sCabin, and I learned to pray there." Strangethat one link in the chain shonid be forged byMrs. Stowe!Pavt of this forenoon was taken np by an interconcomitant evils, confessed iheir knowledge thatSabbath-breaking was a sin. They could notafford to let two or three merchants send and bein advance of them in ihe market, so they driftedback into the current.Ax>ril Sth.—A very large audience last Sabbath.A esa Ferah (Jesus Joy), a new teacherfrom Beyrut, came with his fannly—his wife, Katrina,and four children. Yesterday morning hewent with Doctor to Adana to see it they couldget a house there, that he might begin work.Monday evening, whUe we were at worship, awealthy Moslem and his little boy came in. Afterwardshe expressed his pleasure at seeing thechildren all read, and take part in the worship.Moritz began this week to study regularly—

Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad. 189English grammar and geography. He is readingHanna's Life of Christ. He is now anxiousto know more about ihe history of the ChristianChurch. Y'esterday he asked if he could nothave a Bible lesson every day. Doctor's time isso broken that he cannot teach him regularly.To-day he says, " I was reading again the 36thof Ezekiel, and though I have often readit, I saw new things that I never saw before. Itthirteenth of April and has been getting warmerevery day. It is not safe to be out duringihe middle of the day. Our doors and shuttersare closed about nine a. m. and kept closwasn't so in my old time." It seems that henever read the New Testament till he came to ed until seven p. m. The Pankhas were putMersine. Hafiza, onr teacher who died last year, up the firstof this month, and day and nighthad given a German Testament to Mr. Yexler's these Pankhawallas keep these in motion.children, and it was it ihat he read.GujBAK-vyALLA, ISDIA, May 4, 1887.Bear Brother :—No doubt you have learnedere this of the safe and pleasant journey of allof our large party to distant lands. I shallnever forget the kindness of your people tome at my home before leaving it. More especiallyihe kindly interest of your servants.Revs. 'Trumbull and Love. Never can I forgetmy farewell to the latter. He was nearingin the evenings. Those who work must do itin the early part of the day. Now, our morningservices begin at seven, and the eveningat six. With all means available, wefind it difficult to keep cool. Mrs. McKee andmyself intend going to the hUls the firstofJune, perhaps to Dharmsala. I am anxious toescape the heat ofthe plains this year. I amvery busy these days in ihe study of thelanguage. So are all the other new missionathe end of his earthly journey. He claspedmy hand and uttered a silent prayer thai Godwould bless me in my'work. I knew he andI would never meet on earth. How sweet tories. I long to be able to converse with thethink of him as being ripe for heaven, and aspeople.going home to receive his crown. These partingwords and counsels have, as it were, beenIt is very hard to be patient when you seeso much work to do. The harvest of wheatincentives of cheer when my heart was castdown. His work is finished, and, I trust heis now with his Lord and Saviour. What acomfort to loved ones to know their friends areasleep in Jesus. How fittingthe words, " Letme die the death of the righteous and let mylast end be like his," " Blessed are ihe deadwho die in the Lord." Every one thought sowell of his wife, she was so kind and attentiveto him. Our mission has been visited by affliction.Rev. Martin's wife was taken io herreward ahortly after our arrival. Her last workwas teaching her native sisters of Jesus. Shewas beloved by all. Rev. Martin is now onhis way home with the three motherless children,win probably latd the last of this monthin America. Miss McCahon, one of the youngladies, was ill seven weeks with typhoid fever,.She is rapidly regaining strength and vigorand is now in Murray, a hill station. Wehumbly submit to God's will, knowing he doethall things well.May Bth. 1887.-~Yh\s evening I will try ioadd some more io my letter.The hoi season began about a month earlierthis year. It began to be very warm iheThe houses are built with every means tokeep out the heat here, there ihe cold. Thedays did seem so long io me, and I thoughthow like a prison. We find it very necessaryto take a drive early in the mornings and lateand grain is just over. The wheat was a Ughtcrop but good, what there was. It is firstcutwith a hand sickle, bound in sheaves, thentaken io a floor or a clean swept piece ofground, when it is tramped out by oxen. Afierthisis done, it is cleaned from chaff by large dustpan shaped fans of straw. By holding in thewind it gets quite clean. 'This and manyothercustoms appear very slow to we Americans.Their garnering of wheat makes thosepassages of Soripture so plain found in Matt.3:12, Luke, 3:17, Zephaniah 2:2. My healthand that of all in the mission is quite good.How thankful we should be for tfiis blessing.,I am your sister in the cause,Rosa 'T. Wilson.—Miss Evadna M. Sterrett wishes to acknowledgereceiving the following articles fromfriends in America ;

190 The Gospelin Cliina.One case of goods fvom " The A. M. MiUiganBand," Eighth stveet congvegation, Pittsbm-gh.One lavge case of goods, the united contvibutionsof the L. M. S 's of Blkhovn, Chuvch HiU,Old Betbel and Bethel congvegations. Thesearticles consist of dresses, dvess goods, skivts, underclothes, stockings, toweling, quilts, thvead,buttons, aprons and veward cavds, enough fov twoor three yeavs. An unknown giver of New Y'orkwill also accept thanks for a large package ofnapers and cavds.We are indeed thankful to all those good peo-IM€IMMMI'& imthe gospel in china.Four hours distant from Nyenhangli anders are very friendly people ihough zealousfive hours from Hofschnwan lies the villageworshipers of idols. Now and then missionariesstay here over night, and thus theseof Yongtsongphai. In Ootober 1885 BrotherLeonhardt wrote from Nyenhangli: " Onpeople have had opportunities of hearing theSept. 5, I rode on horseback ovor to this villageand alighted at an inn. Fourteen personsword of God. Years ago they were convincedthat God's Word was worthy of acceptance,great and small lived together in this habitation.They had thrown away their idols andbut tbe fear of ridicule and probable persecQtionkept them from receiving it.desired io worship God. As it was not possiblefur all of them to aitend divine service mother, her ihree married sons, iheir wivesIn this place is a family consisting of aat Nyenhangli, they had asked me io come to and children, all living in the same house.them. On the next day after my arrival, I Tbe second son died before his mother, thepreached to tbem in tbe morning from Matt. eldest smoked opium and the youngest gambled.The one who used opium came three13:44-50, acd in the afternoon gave them adiscourse on the Fall. Afterwards many years ago to Nyenhangli and askad to be receivedin order that he might be cured ofhisother heathen came to hear or ask me questions.I hope the gospel has found an entrancehere."days when some of the dwellings-were thrownbad habit. He had only been there a fewIn July 1886 Brother Leonbardt wrote again down. The consequent disorder and lack ofin regard to Tungsimpa : " Thirty years ago room shortened his sojourn and he went homemissionaries came to this region and sowed iheseed ofthe Word, but all ofit seemed to havefallen upon the wayside. Ten or twelveyears ago a man came io Nyenhangli to hearthe Word. He received at the same timesome tracts. To-day we were besought to dothat which we ardently desired, viz: form alittle congregation ot the Lord in that region."About an hour's ride from Nyenhangli onpie for relieving us of so much work and expense,liesides making our girls look move vespectablethan they have evev done before. Many of fhedvesses sent last yeav by the kind ladies of MorningSun ave still lying by until some pevson gvowsto them. All the under clothes have been usedand a uumiier of the dresses rendering good service3'et. The Lord reward you all abundantly.Y'ouvs sincevely,E. M. Sterrett.Mersine, Turkey, June 7, 1887,MimmM MilWMmthe way to Tungsimpa is a large farmhousewhich is at ihe same time an inn. The ownunhealed. Soon after his retnrn the motherwas taken sick and in a few days himself andhis wife were very Ul. Everything was doneto cure these sick persons. Again and againsome one would go to Lyungtschon, a longway off, to inquire of a famous god the causeof this visitation and get advice as to whatmedicine should be taken. All in vain! Theold mother died and two days after her the

Tlte Gospjel in China, 191son died, whUe his wife hung between life and he had to go to bed. After a few days hedeath. Then the master of witches was became worse, was unable to move, and laybribed to drive away the devil who bad caused in bed three or four months. Tlien there wasthis sickness, and call back the soul cf the a great outcry, " Now it is clear that the godsick one. The court wall was 'tarn down beis revenging himself, so let us do everythingcause it hid the prospect from the spirit, and possible to reconcile him." Those who wereby the house four brick pillars were broken be- not yei well-established in Christianity werecause they gave the devil occasion io torment easily persuaded and said, " In necessitythe people. The great-grandmother's grave everything must be tried." A deputation washad also to be changed, because the spirit sent to the iiol temple, revellers were lethad revealed to the diviner, that the old lady loose, gold and silver paper was burned, inwasvery angry at her grandson for not keep- cense and candles were lighted and in theing her grave in an orderly manner. All this name ofthe young man, his ambassadors saidcost a great deal of money and when the peo- before the idol, that he had grievously sinnedpie found tbat nothing was gained thereby, and begged that the condition of forgiveness(hey let matters go as they would. By-and- might be revealed. The spirit answered thatby the wife of the oldest son got well. She the god was very angry and would engage innow became the head ofthe house because uo negotiation unless Konyim (the delivererher mother-in-law was dead.out of all necessity) were called_în as arbitra-Thls happened in ihe spring of 1884. The tor. Atter Konyim and her priests had beenfailure of their gods to help ihem in tbeir satisfied with sacrifices and gifts, she decided,time of trouble brought ihem nearer to the that the god should have a new dress, becausegospel and ihey again attended divine service his had been torn when he fell off the table,at Nyenhangli. But another chastisement new sacrifices and a repast prepared for him.was necessary to make them separate eniiiely Konyim also named a medicine which wouldfrom their idolatrous ways. The oldest son heal the siik man in a day or two. Neitherof the housekeeper (who was also the widow pains nor money were spared to carry outof the oldest brother) was a carpenter. He ihese directions, bui all in vain.helped to build a mission house in Hoschuwan, When in his extreme necessity, it came inloand whUe so doiug had an opportunity to hear the poor young man's mind, that he had heardthe Word of God. He also helped io build an from God's Word, that one could pray to Godidol temple and after his return from Hoschu- and be heard, his family procured for him awan he persuaded himself to work npon an- New Testament. He read and the same nightother building of the same kind. It happened dreamed ihat a doctor having a medicinethat he did not put ihe table, on which the basket came io him, promised to healidol was to stand, on a level place, so, the him, and gave him the medicine heidol fell down. Some one said, "Thegod wUl was to take. When the man awoke hebe revenged on you." The man replied only remembered the name of a medicine."How can he be revenged on me? Wby This was bought, he began to pray, and fromdid he not seat himself firmly ?" Really ihe ihat time was a liitle betier. This was inoccurrence gave him very little concern. But Feb. 1885. His mother and a nephew nowa short time after he went on a fox hunt and came and begged that we would visit themwas thrown. He was so badly injured ihat for they would probably beoome Christians.

192 A Clmstian Negress.Broiher Ayun went, remained overnight withthe.3e people, read and prayed wiih tbem,then they threw away their idols and turnedto Jesus not regarding ignominy and reviling.Since then ihe sick man has improved visiblyin health. He astonished people to day bycoming to his carpenter work.A deep impression has been made uponthese heathen. Their idols appear as liars,and God is seen to be ihe only deliverer intime of need. A year ago only about twentypersons came to divine service, but now betweenfiftyand sixty assemble.On the 9th of May twenty-three personswere baptized. These had previously beeninstructed by brother Leonbardt, and many ofihem had a very interesting history, becausethe conflict of light with darkness and the-victory of truth over lying was made manifeti.As this was the firsttime that baptism hadbeen administered in Tungsimpafrom 200 to 300came to observe how the rite was performed.The house was crowded. They wanted tothe interests of humanity and freedom, and.placed on the Island of Fernando Po underEnglish protection, and, from contact with Englishsailors, they had acquired some knowledgeof the English language. Our missionaries,fuII-hearted as they were, were ableforthwith, in their own tongue, to tell out tothese benighted ones the story of God's lovein Jesus. There was a young woman in ihelitilecongregation, hanging upon the preacher'slips, and she has told me again and again that,as she listened to the ni.ssionariea preach andpray, it seemed that the Jesus of whom theyspoke was no stranger tober, although she hadnever heard his name; he was so like the friendshe had long felt she needed. That youngwoman was one of the fiveconverts baptizedduring ihe firstyear of our West African Mission.She is aUve to-day, and the testimonyof all who have known heris,- thai during theseforty-five years she has, by the grace of God,maintained a consistent and beautiful Christianwalk and conversation.She has labored for years in the Gospol atVictoria, teaching in the day-school, conductinga Bible-class and a class for inquirers, visitingthe Baquilli in their huts. People from longsee if the apple of the eye was really taken distances all round anxious about spiritualont, and how " the people were washed." All things will just as readily oome to her as tothis they learned and we hope much more. the missionary, so well does she know herBible and understand the mind of God. Aye,Many of ihem have thrown away their idolsand often during my term of service at Victoria,when I was disappointed and troubledand in spite of threatening declare openlythat they worship God. This little flock weand perplexed, the ime place other than thecommend to the care of the Good Shepherd,—Throne of Grace to which I would go for comfortand for guidance was the simple home ofTranslated by Miss E. J. Crothers from BerEvangelische Heidenhote, Basle.that saintly negress. Again and again IhaveA CHRISTIAN NEGRESS.sat down beside her, and she has taken herBible and pointed me to some promise oftheOn New Year's morning, 1841, the littleFather, which for the time being I had lostmission-ship. The Golden Spring, anchored in sight ot; again and again I have been able tothe bay at the Island of Fernando Po, and our draw water for my thirsty spirit out of thetwo pioneer missionaiies, Mr. Clarke and Dr. well of hor experience of God's grace andPrince, went ashore as ambassadors of Christ. goodness. I never yet have heard her prayThey were met on landing by a group of negroes,who greeted them in English. 'These Africans praying for Africa—I never heardfor her country—oh, I wish you could hearhad been bought or stolen away as slaves from her so pray without feeling a new impulsedifferent parts of the African seaboard. They from ihe Divine Spirit to live and labor,had been shipped from the West Indies, liberatedby English cruisers scouring the seasthat orphan spirits everywhere may see theinface of the Father in a loving >Saviour, andrest in that love.—Bev. B. Wright at MayMeetings, London.

PUBLISHED WIIH THE APPROVALofttieBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTEEIAN CHURCH,U. S. A.#ur Wxtm 0f ^xumx mn\i.FOREIGN MISSIONS: THEIR RANGEOP APPEAL FOR MISSIONARIES LIMITED.*Rev. Austin Phelps, D. D.foveovdained them to some special depavtment of"We are three millions, one-fifiii fightingservice at home. Wben I go into a student'smen," are the words whicb Webster puts intoroom and find him reading La Place's MechaniqueCeleste for recreation, and discover upon histhe mouth of the elder Adams, of revoluiion-aryfame. The proportion of young men in ourshelf a novel chvonometev of his ow-n inventionseminaries who can go into the foreign fieldis vestrictedsomewhat, as is the proportion of " fightand manufactuve, and leavn that he is the onlyman in Massachusetts who has calculated the dateing men " in the populatiion 'of a countvy. Thetwo proportions are not equally low, pevhaps ;but that of the possible foveign missionavies vavely,if ever, exceeds one-third of the whole nnmberon ouv seminavy catalogues, and often fallsas low as one-fouvth..Arabic and Chinese," must be sent with each todo the preaching fov him.A further fraction must be set aside, for thepossession of some rave gift ov , taste which hasof a coming eclipse, I stvongly suspect that Hewho cveated him did not intend that he should bea street preacher in Canton, but predestined bimto be a pvofessov of natural philosophy in aWestern college ; and my zeal for missions isnot offended by his drifting into that position forhis life's work.Does this seem to be a low estimate ? Lookat the facts. A lavge section of these youngWhen the late Professor Putnam, of DartmouthCollege, one of the most accomplishedmen ave excluded fvom this veckoning by considerationsof health. Theiv own health, ov, as pvobably,that of their chosen companions for life, form at his graduation at Andover, more thanGreek scholars of the countvy, stood on the platsettles the question imperatively and adversely. one of his hearers, taking their cue from hisAnother fragment of variable size must be oration, pronounced him the young Grecianstruck from the list, ior special infirmity in linguisticacquisition. One devoted missionary, after and theological instructors that the God ofthus confirming the judgment of his collegiatetwenty years of service, could not preach intelligiblyto the natives, and was obliged tonations had made him to be a professor of thereturnGreek language and literature. Unfortunatelyhome. The churches ought not to afford many for the missionary aspirations of such men, thesuch experiments. Yet not aU students have the demand for professors of natural phUosophy and" gift of tongues." If some of them should be of Greek literature among the Zulus is not oppressive.sent abroad, some brother Aaron, of whom itcan be said, " I know that he can speak well in My friend, Professor Churchill, will pardon me'Reprinted from " My Portfolio," with tlie special perfomission of the puhllshers, Charlea Soribner's Sons, histrionic gifts developed themselves at Harvardsaying, that when his rare elocutionary and,Broadway, N. Y.

194 Our Views of Mission Work.CoUege and in the seminary, ihere was but one which lack words for Christian thought, the piovoiceamong sagacious educators as to ihe reason neers, defenders, teachers, and fathers ot Chrisofhis creation. But the need of American pro- tian civUization among nations which make godsfessors of elocution among the Arabs is not over- of their heathen ancestry. Who is sufficient forwhelming. these things ? A young man may be very use-Only once in my life have I ventured to ad- ful as the pope of a mountain town, in Newvise a young man to sacrifice a remarkable natuval England—yes, he may grace one of our metrogeniusfor mechanical invention to a study for politan pulpits—who could not be trusted tothe ministry. Unfortunately he foUowed my master the TamU language, debate in it withcounsel. His glib tongue led me to trust that erudite Brahmins, and bnUd the foundations of^he had been " made upright." 'But he ".sought Christianized .society in Ceylon.out many inventions." One of them was of such Y''et another reduction of the list is made byastounding originality for a country parson, that the misfortune of a few young men in havingit has raised him to the distinction of being the been born to luxury and wealth—their misfortuneonly one of ihe more than three thousand stu- noi their fault. ^Vith rare exceptions, so raredents of Andover seminary whose services the that they always excite commendatory remark,commonwealth has found it expedient for its own those are restricted in tbeir range of place and sersafetyto employ in the State prison. "AU is vice, who have been reared amidst the refinevanityand vexation of spirit."ments and delicacies of an affluent metropolitanCertain natural tastes and gifts are God's home. They cannot " endure hardness." Thehints of revelation. They cannot be safely cost of the endurance, beyond the brief stimuluscrossed. Mischief comes of it. Yet they divert of an emergency, is very apt to be the destriicsomemen from foreign missions, and ought io tion of health.withhold some men from the ministry altogether. In the firstyear of tbe civU war, when a regiThe best work done in this world is joyous work, ment from Lowell encamped near Washington byAnd joyous work must command a man's whole the side of the New Y'ork Seventh, famed for itsbeing, free from the friction of misplaced powers enlistments from the wealthiest famiUes oftheand ihe gasping of stifled tastes.metropolis, the factory operatives and farmers'StiU another small section, but an appreciable sons volunteered to the work of the trenches, orone, must be omitted for want of adequate natur- something simUar, saying to the metropolitans,al force for the foreign work. Time was, when, of " you are not made for such work." It was tniean inferior preacher, the proverb ran, " He may and no crime of theirs : they were not made fordo for a missionary." We are wiser ihan that it. AVith mutual and rare generosity eachnow. Foreign missions demand our ablest men. supplemented the other, every man doing what heThey must stand before kings. They must con- was made for.found learned and adroit sophists, demolish So in the allotments of ministerial service, withancient systems of phUosophy, uproot reUgious just exceptions enough to pvove the vule, the sonswhich have stood a thousand years. They are of luxury and wealth can not be depended nponto be constructors of new institutions, the foun- for rough work. Generally speaking we do aiotders of churches, of colleges, of professional look to them for recruits fov foveign missionai'yschools, of national school systems, the creators service. Other service ihey cau do, and have doneof written languages from their very alphabet, nobly. AU honor to the young man, who, likethe originators of a Christian literature in tongues the late Dr. Codman, of Dorchester, with no

Our Views of Mission Work. 195necessity of labor for his livelihood, enters the Newell, and the two Niobes together make ourministry and remains in it as ihe loved work of young missionary feel thai he is a monster.his life ; but Dr. Codman could not have done Professor Stuart was an early and life-long friendequal service as a missionary, even in Constanti- of missions, and not a man of mawkish sensibili-"op'6-ties ; yet he never could bring himself io ask, forYet again : the candidates for the foreign ser- the sake of the missionary service, release fromyice are reduced by considerations of domestic the marriage engagements of his youth. Whetherduty and pecuniary liabUity. One yonng man such obstacles as these ought to exist or not, theyhas a widowed mother or an invalid sister depcn- do exist ; young men cannot control them. Theydent upon him for society and support. Another are often ihe decisive weight thrown into the peristhe eldest son of a large and fatherless family, haps trembling scales.A third, left an orphan in his infancy, has Foreign missions, therefore, when they applybeen nurtured and educated by foster-parents, at the doovs of a Theological Seminavy fov men,who now in their old age are dependant upon him. are compelled to pass by these various fragmentsA fourth represents dozens who have debts inof a graduating class. What then is the result ?curred for their education. They cannot honest- These fractions swell in the aggregate into a maiyleave the country tiU these debts are paid, jority. The result is that the range of choice forSuch debts overhang our pastors at home, for ten, foreign missions is narrowed down to not moreeven twenty years. One professor in a New ihan one-third and often one-fourth of the wholeEngland institution has been paying such debts nnmber of candidates for the ministry. Tbosefor thirty years. True, parsonages at home are who can go, those to whom the question is annot mines of gold, any more than missionary equal one, those io whom it is even an open queshomesat Beirut, but young men may more reason- tion are but these few. So much ihe more urgentably hope to liquidate debts in some way here then is the appeal to them. So much the morethan abroad.impressive is the magnitude of their responsibility.Once more : students are withheld from the for- So much the more exalted is iheir pvivilege.eign wovk by the sivenuous opposition of family They are the few chosen ones whose opportunityand friends, A father interposes objections, with is world-wide.a power behind which gives them tbe force of a Said one of England's greatest statesmen in aveto. A mother objects with strong crying and crisis of ihe nation's history and with proud contearswhich a son cannot resist. The best of sciousnessof a great opportunity, "I am the onlythese yonng men are but men at best. Through man in England who can save this country ; andcollege and seminary one has waited seven years I can do it." May not this group of youthfulfora certain Rachel, " beautiful aud well favored," preachers, who labor under no local limitations ofand " they seem to him but a few days for the Christian service, say with humbler but morelove he has to her." But she, at the last reasonable exultation, " We are the only preachersmoment, draws back from the unknown perils of of Christ who can carry ihe gospel io the heathen,exile in a foreign land. Unlike hev namesake, and we can do it." Ii the limited fraction, conshedoes not say, "Whatsoever God hath said sisting of those who can, would volunteer to theunto thee, do." Or, more probably, her mother work from which their less favored brethren areobjects, who, unfortunately, does not live in Pad- excluded, our foreign missions would at least beaii-aram. She breaks down hev daughtev's couvage saved from retrogression and disaster. Again :y a tearful reminder of the facts of Harriet he that haih an ear to hear, let him hear.

196 Items of Missionary Intelligence.But tbis conflict of duties to the home and the tbe policy of incveasing the numbev of candidatesforeign work suggests anothev phase of the expevi- for tbe ministry, and especially of those who seekenceof the young men of the seminaries. It is that the ministry, not for its metropolitan and suburinview oi the »Hii>e/',sa/cvy fov veinfovcements, and ban sevvices, bnt for the sake of Us missionavypevhaps weavy of the doubts of a hesitating con- pvivileges ? Let us go to the colleges and thescience, they often come to the conclusion, at last, chuvches fov missionavy candidates. Let men bethat it can make bnt littie diffevence wheve they dvawu fvom the chuvch to the college, and fi-omgo. Go wheve they may, they ave but a dvop in the college to the seminavy, fov the sole puvposea maelstrom. Go where they may, they plunge of pveaching Chvist as missionavies only, and theyinto exigencies beyond theiv stvength. Go wheve -^vill lie the move likely to stick to theiv firstthey may, they go under the high pressure of an choice.intense conscience. Neither to the wovk nov Such men ave the best missionavies too. Thethemselves does it seem to mattev much which vevy best ave tbose who uevev had othev ambiwaythey turn their steps. tions. Tbe charm of David Scudder's brief mis-Said Gen, Howard at Gettysbuvg, to a squad sionavy life was due to the fact that he was bornof stragglers who were scrnpnlously hunting for in it. He never h-ad another choice of his Ufe'stheir regimental colors, " Fall in, boys, fall in -work. He had no yonthful aspirations io surrenunderthe fivst flag you come to ; theve's the dev. In aftev life he had no vegvetful memovies.enemy ; you can't go wvong," So, in the tuvmoil His whole life was cumulative towavds one endofthis gveat moval confiict, this httle squad of Hence the concentvation of his aim. Hence hisyoung men sometimes lose sight of " depavtments " joy in his wovk. Hence'the fascinations of hisand " fields,"of east and west and south, Tbe sway ovev othevs and the resplendent promise of"here" and "there" become insignificant. They his manhood, Snch men are the missionaryare apt at last to settle the question in the mood po-wers, wherever they ave—in the home, in theof feeling, that, if they "fall in" anywheve, they church, in the coUege, in the seminary, in the" can't go wrong," Y'et " the first flagtbey come field. Let us multiply such young men and theto" means perhaps tbe vacant pulpit ofthe church future of missions at home and abroad-\rill bewhose spire is visible fvom their study windows, progressive and triumphant.Is not the conclusion of the whole matter thenItems of IVlissionary Intelligence.and about 30 in Idlib, Tbree children haveABROAD,been baptized during tbe year, and five men andtwo women were welcomed to tlie fnll privilegesThe Reports on foreig-n missions presented at of the church. " We think,''writes the Secretary,the Ghurch Assemblies in Britain contain most "that the time is now fully come when weshouldinteresting records of the work carried on in tbeir make a new advance in our missionary work inrespective fields. Syvia. God has blessed us. Fov present need'The P>,epovt made to ihe Reformecl Presbyter- he has filledouv tveasuvy, and given us somethingion Synod in Iveland records encouraging tokens over, and we most assuredly think that He is,of success. Dr. Martin and his staff of helpers not obscurely, indicating unto us His will that wehave been preserved in health and graciously should go forward. We shall miss our oppor-.snstained in doing their wovk. 'The mission tunity, if we do not obey, and we gveatly mistakeschools have been lavgev than at any fovmcv time, the spivit and teinpev of ouv people, if we aveas many as 150 pupils being sometimes in atnot pvessed to obey the plainly intlicated will oftendance in Antioch, the centve of opevations, Heaven, and to take immediate steps to secuve

fuller equipment of working agencies fov ourmission."The Report read ai ihe Irish General Assenihlywas an admirable paper showing that churclito be far ahead in the missionary movement onthe other side of the Atlantic, and an example inItems of Missionary Intelligence. 197liberality and zeal, l'he income from all sourcesamounted io £12,728, an increase of about £700, tvance has been now secured everywhere. .some , congregations having more than doubled It is hard to realize the difficulties which theformer contributions. There were at the close of early missionavies met with. Most of them havethe year eleven missionaries in the field,eight in vanished now. He who said ' Go and pveach,'India and ihree in the province of Manchuria, has by His pvovidence made that commandmentChina. The mission in India consists at pvesentof seven centval stations, and nineteen evanmostcompleted. In 1837 theve weve two placeseasy. In some lands the wovk of missions is algelistsand six colpovtenvs ave at wovk undev the to which the eyes of God's people natuvaUysupevvision oi ihe missionavies in chavge. Duvingthe yeav, 43 adults and 74 children, or 117 pvise. In Madagascav the missionavies had justtuvned when they thought about missionavy entevin all, were received into the membership of thechm-ch, making a local Christian community ofclose on 3000 pevsons. Coming to the nnattev ofeducation, the mission has 215 schools fov boysand 15 fov givls, in which instvuction is entivelygiven in Gujavati, with 2137 names on the voll.Theve ave besides thvee English day schools with905 pupils in vegisteved, attendance. " As theresult of onr labors.in Gujavati," says the veport,"there are at this momenta number of congvegationsof converts from heathenism requiring theservices of pastors of their own, and at ihe sametime a number of men who, in the opinion of thePresbytery that has had them nnder training fovyeavs, ave fitto be ordained over ihem. This is,after all, ihe great thing to aim at in any missionto the heathen. In the nature of things it is impossibleihat India can be thoroughly evangelizedby men and women sent from these countries ;and if one result of our mission be the formationof an earnest church with a good native pastorate,then, under God's blessing, the stability and pvogressof the wovk at Gujarat are assured for alltime to come." The Zenana mission has alsodoubled its income within the last few years, andthere are already two or three well qualifiedmedical women in ihe field. The work in Chinais only in its infancy ; but the labors of ihe ihreemissionaries at work in the province of Manchuriapromise large results.The convener, in moving- the adoption of ihisReport, delivered an address in every way worthyof the ihenie. The following paragraphs, takenfrom the address as given in the Belfast Witness,should at once awaken gratitude and quicken inthe great work of foreign evangeUzation : "Thereis much to encourage us in the story of missionsduriug the last fiftyyears. The Word of Godhas been tvanslated into almost every languageunder heaven, and thereby a foundation has beenlaid upon which future wovkevs may safely build.For the wovd that has been thus tvanslated, en-been dviven out, and the tevvible pevseCutionswhich lasted fov twenty-five yeavs had begun. Inthe islands of the South Sea many tviumphs hadbeen alveady won for the gospel, but now wholegroups of these islands have been long since evangeUzed,and some of them have missionary societiesof their own by which they are pushing outinto and taking possession of the region beyond.The Sandwich, Fiji, and Samoan Islands areproofs of what the Gospel of Christ can do ; andas we look at them we may weU exclaim with theapostle, " I am not ashamed of the Gospel ofCbrist, for it is the power of God unto salvationto every one that believeth." Besides, the worldis growing small. In one sense it is larger nowthan fiftyyears ago ; for almost every part of ithas been cliôvered and mapped out. But bysteam and electricity all the parts of it have beenbrought close together. It is no great feat nowto go to India or China. Every Eastern countryis responsive to the infiuence of the West,which is continually being exercised upon it. Ifthe world is growing sniaUer, the Church is growinglarger, and more earnest and united on thissubject ; and surely the day is near when, in agreat Ecumenical CouncU, the Churches ofChrist shaU meet and divide the world amongthem; giving guarantees that within a certaintime there shall not be a province or a city inwhich the Gospel shall not be declared. As wecompare the present state of things with whatexisted fiftyyears ago, we are almost tempted tosay that the work oi preparation—îhat long,weary, trying work^s nearly over. 3,000,000have been gathered into the Church of Christ

198 Items of Missionary InteUigence.from the heathen and Mohammedan wovld.Groups of self-sustaining and. self-governingnative churches have l)een formed to maintainand extend the tvuth. Wovk among heathenwomen in many places is rivalling in extent andsuccess the work among the men. The best ofmen at home are offering tliemsel ves for tbis work.The great nations of the world to-day are Pvotestani,having God's Wovd themselves and doublybound to carry ont Christ's dying command bysending it to others Doubts and scoffings withregard to inission wovk ave to a gveat extentsUenced. Money is being generously given.No doubt there is a dark side to the picture,liut, in contvast with fiftyyears ago, the pictureis a bright one. As I have seeu a gveat mountainlift its head out of the mist whicii bad longenveloped it, so that, while its sides were stillwvapt in the clouds, its summits vose into thebvight unclouded sky, so the Chuvch is liftingitself np, out of the mist of selfishness and what has been done, I look iorward to the nextthoughtlessness witb vegavd to this subject, into fifty years with hope. If any of ns be spared tothe light of tvuth, and love, and holy zeal. It see" 1937, I trust and hope we shaU find thatis thus the Church becomes attractive ; thus it is Africa shaU be the Dark Continent no longer;fitted to be a blessing in the midst of the world. India shall have flung off the iron yoke of old andAnd the day is fast approaching when the prophet'swords shall be fulfilled—"The mountain of to the Heavenly Father the homage which isdegrading phUosophies ; China will be seen givingthe Lord's house shall be established ou the toji lavished now on "the tablets of earthly ancestors;of the mountains, and all nations shall flow ov, as the Bible puts it, 'The knowledge of theinto it."Lord shall then cover the earth as the watersThe speaker then descvibed the interest taken covev the sea.' God help us as a chuvch to doin foveign inissions by the Ivish chuvch, fvom ouv duty move faithfuUy to the heathen during1812, when the Secession Synod vesolved to " encouva,geby their exevtions, as far as possible, past one ; to labov and to fight with evev incveasthe next half centuvy than we have done in thethose who ave engaged in the difficult yet gloviouswork of evangelizing the heathen wovld," to sliaU veign over aU the world; and in fightinging zeal and hope, as weU we may, fov Christtbe pvesent day. And aftev a bvief sketch of under the banner of the Lovd Jesus, we, in onrtheiv own special wovk, begun in 1840, when two mission entevpvise, are on the winning side."men weve set apavt as inissionavies to India, he At the Asscmhly qf the Free Cluirch ojsaid: " Suvely the seed sown in 1812 and 1840 Scotland the vepovts on inissions both at homeis heaving blessed fvuit. Tbis is the bvight side and abro.id Aveve specially intevesting and suggestive.The foveign stafi', including male andof the pictuve. 1 know it is. I am well awarethere is a dark one. Fvom anothev point of viewwe may be said to be only beginning, only layingthe foundation, only pvepaving onvselves fov thewovk that is to conic. The heathen liy natuvalgrowth ave fav move nuinevons now than fiftyyeavs ago. We bave drawn 3,000,000 of convertsfrom their midst, but 30,000,000 ave dyingin davkness every year Many of ouv own uiiinlievarc still ca,i'(h.'ss about missionavy wovk, audpevhaps some few opposed to it. It will tax ouvstvength as a Church to the utmost to do thework we have undertaken; yet I do not doubt itshall be done. The Reformation in Epgland inthe 16th century put out the tapers which forhundreds of years hadlieen burning on the tombof Henry Y. iu Wesiminstev Abbey. The taperswere extinguished, for the blessed Sun of Heavenhad begun to shine upon the land. That lighthas been shining npon us ever since. It is allaronnd ns now—the Ught of pardon, of peace,and of the hope of immortal glovy. All that wewant is to realize onr privileges, to keep in thelight, to walk in the light, to contrast tlie Ughtin which we live with the darkness which is roundus, and then it wiU grow natural and necessaryfov us to try to share that light with those whoare sitting in davkness, or trying to lighten thehpath with the tapers of their own kindling. Iknow that difiicnlties still face ns; and yet tonightas I look back on the past fiftyyears and seefemale wovkevs. noAV numbevs 634, besides 26natives who ave under special training for theministry. There weve 519 adults baptized on apvofession of theiv taith in Chvist duving the year,and theve ave at the pvesent time 5598 in the fuUcommunion of the chuvch. In schools and collegestheve ave 17,946 undev instruction, and almostevery mission sbows quickened spii'itual lifeand vesults above those of previous years. Onthe evening fixed fov the discussion of foveign

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 199ordinances of the gospel Church. In our variousmission fields we have 87 congregations, with anaggvegate membership of 13,214, and upwardsof 2000 candidates for admission. At the Sabmissions the Hall is said to have been, as usual, bath schools, which are attached to tbose eongregations,there ave 11,000 in attendance ; audfull fvom floor to ceUing, showing no lack of inteveston the pavt of the chuvch, and all the addvessesof returned missiouaries -were fitted,so far snpevintendence ofthe missionavies, 13,574 chUdat the day-schools, which are under the divectas can be gathered from meagre outlines, to encourageconfidence in tliis department of its work. The success of ouv work is not to be measuredven ave veceiving a sound Chvistian education.One timely note of warning was sounded by a simply by the numbevs that ave added to theMr. Howie, who had recently visited the field,. Chuvch. The influence ihat is being exerted byHe reported that he had found among ihe second our missionaries, and by theiv convevts too, isgeneration of native Christians § tendency to relyon inherited privUeges. Often, when speaking tothem of the necessity of regeneration, he had receivedthe reply, " But I was born a Christian."And this led him, while cheerfully admittingthat very much good had been accomplished bythe colleges, to argue strongly for more wovkthat would be divectly evangelistic.The report points out as a vevy encouvagingfeatuve of the wovk in India, that done by converts,who are in the service of the government,and yet devote theiv leisure io evangelistic wovk." The Bengali brethren with their families, whowere vequived to go fvom Calcutta to Simla onduty with the government of India, arranged tojoin themselves into a Bengali Union Cburch forthe season. Every Lord's day accordingly a servicewas held in the house of one of the bretlirenby an early convert of the mission, himself anofficial of the government."The Report submitted to the Synod of theUnited Presbyterian Ghurch in Scotland furnishesminute details of effective work in Jamaica,Trinidad, Old Calabar, Kaft'raria, Spain, India,China^ Japan. It closes as foUows : In our eightmission fields we have a staff' of 112 fully tvainedagents, of whom 60 are ordained European missionaries,8 medical missionavies (4 of whom arealso ordained), 3 European evangelists, and 19female niissionaries ; whUe under the superintendenceof these missionaries there are 502 nativeevangelists, teachers, and other helpers.WhUe much ofthe energy and time ofour agentsis devoted io the breaking np of new gvoundov sowing the firstseeds of the kingdom, we canpoint in all ouv mission fieldsto much fvuit alreadygatheved in—not only multitudes caUing themselvesby the name of Chvist, but Christian congregationsfully organized, and enjoying all theseen in many f'ovms and in many divections. Wehave veason to believe that undev the suvface agveat power is now at wovk, slowly yet steadUysapping the foundations of the old idolatries, andhastening on the time when one after anothevthey shall crumble aud fall. Many thousandswho have as yet made no open pvofession of faith,ave vapidly leavniug what Chvistianity is, and insome cases ave not unwilling to acknowledge itsbeauty and its excellence, and to shave in theblessings that it brings in its train. Those who,in India and China, are still bound by the fettersof caste and wedded to hoary superstitions, areto be seen, often in secret, sometimes openly, inquiringas to the new doctrine that is beingtaught, and, though freciuently arguing andsometimes contradicting, many of them, doubtless,will soon become, if they are uot alveady, disciplesin their hearts. While fvom all classes of thecommunity, even from the princes of Rajpootahathemselves, come tokens of respect and favor toour missionaries which we cannot fail to vegavclas a proof that they look with some respect and favovupon the cansewhich the missionavies vepresent.We have not received the Report of the EstablishedChurch of Scotland, nor that of the EnglishBresbyterian Ghurch, and are unable to giveany account of their missionary operations.All reference to the mission work of thechurches aud societies in this country mnst bereserved for a future number.—We clip the following item from The Pre.sbyterian: The friends of the evangelical faith inSyn-ia have been awaiting with solicitude the resultof the oflicial examination at Damascus ofthe various publications of the Mission Press inBeirut. Some few months ago when the customhouse officials seized a large consignment of Biblesen route for England, and the goverument put anembargo on all printed matter not officially recognized,the American missionaries gathered togethercopies of all their printed works, to the

200 Items of Missionary Intelligence,number of three hundved books, etc., and sent The indications ave, howevev, that at some timethem immediately to headquavtevs, and asked in the futuve theve will be pvominent tax-payersthat the authorities would make a careful exam- among them, and tbat they will exercise considerinationand pass a judgment upon their contents able influence in local affairs. Even now itis notIt was a most critical point in the history of unusual to hear it stated in many of the countiesPvotestanism in Syvia. Would a Mohanimedan of this State that the number of the colored taxpayersis gradually increasing. Doubtless theboavd oi examinevs put its seal of official appvovalupon all these evangelical books ?same thing is beard in many of the other SouthernStates.The issue has been awaited with a prayerfulinterest. At last after these months ol waiting, There is no doubt ihat ihe colored people haveofficial notice has been received through theAmerican consul that two huudred and ninety ofihe books have lêsn approved, and it is probablethat .the remaining ones will be equaUy successfulin passing the ordeal. Henceforth these booksand tracts can be sent out to the whole Arabicspeakingwovld with a pvestige hithevto unknown.This act on the pavt of the Amevican inissionis one that must make a stviking impression uponthe authorities who are inclined to view evevy departmentof the wovk done by foveigners in Syriawith suspicion. This readiness to show tbe goyernmentour wbole plan of wovk must have someinfluence in school mattevs. This bvilliant victoryiov Pvotestanism is a bvight omen for the futuve.WOODWÂBD.Beirut, April, 26, 1887.AT HOME.We ave vevy glad, at the vequest of Rev. G.M. Elliott, to give a place in ouv columns to thefoUowing clipping from a southern papev. It setsfovth the pvogvess that the coloved people avemaking heve and there in the south and furnishesanother proof that some measure of matevialprosperity always attends the moral elevation ofan individual ov a community •There is a great difi'erence of opinion as towhether or not the coloved people of the Southave making any moval, matevial, and intellectualadvancement. This diffevence of opinion is duea great deal to contend with in their struggle toimprove their condition. Without anything intheir past history to be proud of, and without anythingvery promising, apparently, in the future toinspire them with courage and hope, it is ratherremarkable that they ave doing as well as theyave. Having all tbe dvawbacks which are attachedto ignorance to contend with it is not surprisingthat their advancement is slow. Thereare not wanting individual instances of thriftamong them, which wonld serve as excellent examplesfov a class of white people found in not afew localities in the South.A very considerable proportion of the populationof Savannah is colored. What pvogvess thecolored people have made, and what they havedone towavds secuving homes since they began tolook out fov themselves can be - easily seen byvisiting the city's suburbs. Fov yeavs they havebeen quiet but pevsistent puvchasevs of veal estate.Theiv settlements just without the municipallimits, almost encircle the city. It must not besupposed that all their houses are mere shanties.Some of them ave quite pvetentious, and ave suvrouudedby well kept gavdens. .These homes were not paid for in a year ortwo, but represent the proceeds of years of patienttoU and the most rigid economy.' On some ofthem there ave still movtgages," which, theve isnot much doubt, wiU be paid in time. It is a factwovth noticing that vevy few colored men faU tothey do there is always a good cause for the failure.And there is another fact worth noticing.largely to the difference in the points of observa- niêt the payments on then- homes, and whention.ored people In some is localities better than the condition it was twenty of the years colago, wbile in others their progress is vevy marked. It is that they pay their taxes willingly and returntheir property above, rather than below, itsA careful and impartial investigation will showthat generally they ave becoming move intelligent, market value. 'They ave not yet sufficientiy civilizedto be tax-dodgei's.that their morals are improving, and that theyare acquiring considerable property.Those of them who bought lots a few years agoThey have not acquired sufficient pvopevty and weve quite foviiunafe in theiv puvchases. Theinfluence in any community to be taken into considerationas a factor in its material development. times as mueh ns was paid fov them. Manylots ave now wovth all the way fvom thvee to tenof

A PUgrirnage. 201the lots which were bought for $100 could now ôr our own communion we have reported, durbesold for $1,000. Within two miles of the ii^g tlie year, an unusually large number of con-Court-house in this city, there are now as many "versions. The net increase reported by the springas one thousand pieces of real estate owned by conferences is upwards of 49,000, almost twice ascolored people. This certainly looks as if they much as ihat for the previous year. The Presweremaking some progress. The white people byterian Chuich added 54,177 on examination,are glad to see .their material improvement, and ^^'^ largest number inthe history of that Church;are always ready to lend ihem such assistance as ^'^^ the Congregational Churches received nothey can afford.—Savannah {Ga,) Neivs,fewer than 27,159 on confession, the net gainr> -tl, T J) T» 4.1. J- J. CTTT- • lêing 17,777. Not only have the evangehcal_ -On the Lord's Day the sireets of Winnipeg, churches gained large accessions from the world,m north-western Canada are empty and the ût they have raised large sums of money fo;churchesful. There IS said to be church accommo- gospel purposes. Onr missionary treasury gathdationfor 15,000 m a population of 23,000, and ered almost a miUion of doUars ; and the PresbyitIS aU utilized. There is no street car traffic ; all terian Church increased its Home and Foreignplaces of business are closed and the people en- Missions by more than two hundred and thirtyjoy one day of true rest. thousand dollars. Such evidences as these are—The year 1886 was a year of our Lord in a fuU of encouragement and inspiration, and makespiritual as well as in a chronological sense. The doubt oi God's directing and sustaining presenceaccessions io the Church have been numerous, in the church impossible.—Ghristian Advocate.A PILGRIMAGE. ^^^^ ^ 1® o^ ^^^^ to overcome ihe numbnessof such a long journey.The road from Ramleh traverses the plain of Upon the stroke of twelve ihe jaded teamSharon eastward, enters the valley of Ajalon drew up at ihe Jaffa gate and we alighted andwhere the moon was stayed i n her course until entered ihe city of Jerusalem on foot, because ihethe armies of Israel had avenged themselves np- streets of the ciiy are eiiher so narrow or patedon their enemies, and finallypasses into a ravine in such a peculiar manner ihat a vehicle cannotamong the toot hUls of ihe Judean mountains a'nd traverse them. The city was wrapped in slumber.gradually ascends until it reaches the summit of Not even a dog -nâgged his tongue. We retheWestern range. It was 6 p. m. when we be- paired to a hotel and knocked bui ihere was nogan to zigzag up ihe mountain and night soon voice, nor any thai answered. We knockedbegan to spread her sable pall over mountain and louder but all was stUI. We thundered uniUplain, so ihat, although the silver moon was shin- ihe roar reverberated ihrough the streets oi iheing brightiy, little could be seen on the upward seemingly deserted city, when we heard a yawntrip. Now and then an impudent jackal or a as of some one sUghtly disturbed in his rest, butlaughing hyena would leisurely trot off ihe road, who rolled over on the other side and fell into aas though careless of the presence of human be- deeper sleep. How profoundly the Arab slumings.Here and there a nimble fox would leap bers! We then went to another door and knocked,the gutter, seat himself lazily on his brush and and it so happened that a traveler, who had ar^gaze vacantly at the passers by. 'Thus, ihe even- rived ihat day, was sick in that part of the house,ing hours drew their slow length along and the and a friend who was caring for him came to ihetraveler would occasionaUy drop io sleep only io door and, having learned what was wanted, routedbe rudely awakened by having his head thumped np a porter who opened the door and found us aagainst the carriage top, or he would aUghi and place to rest du-weary hmbs. Thus the old adage

202 A Pilgrimage.was again verified, ihai ii is an iU wind; ihat spot like ihe valley of Rephaim which rolls offblo-ws nobody good. We slept long and sweetly ihe south-east in the direction of Bethlehem.and arose ijoo late to get much for breakfast. One can secure very comfortable hotel accom--After our repast we sallied forth io, view ihe mod.ations in Jerusalem at from one io three dol-Holy City. It is, in general, just like any other lars pev day. I thought it would be more con-Turkish town, very uninviting. There is litile sistent with the weight of my. purse to occupyabout it that is attractive. It is surrounded by quarters at a one dollar establishment and occaawall of comparatively modern construction and sionally pick my teeth at a three dollar one inthere are gates on the four sides of the city, order to keep up a show of greater respectability.With an occasional exception the buildings are To Christians the chief object of interest in Jerninsignificant,unsightly, few being more than two salem is the Chm'ch of the Holy Sepulchre. Thisstories high. The streets are so narrow that Church is said to be built on the spot wherefriends can shake hands across,them, and they are Christ was cvucified, where he was buried, whereoften arched, having rooms above. The city is the true cross was found, where Adam is buried,stiU compact as oi old and laid out in a very ir- over whose grave Mark Twain wept such bitterregular fashion. None of Solomon's Jerusalem tears, where the centre of the world is said to be,now remains bnt a fragment of wall here and etc. But the most sacred place is the Holythere and ihe present city is buUt upon the ruins Sepulchre, whence the Church takes its name.of the old as well as of them. The place would The Church is a large structure of various apattbevery uninviting and uninteresting indeed were ments surmounted by a huge dome. These apartitnot for the hallowed associations ihat cluster ments are claimed by the different Eastern sects.around it, and ihe historical interest that centers The Greeks have a chapel. So with ihe Latins,in it, taken in connection wiih the yearly rush Armenians, Copts, etc.; all except the Protesthitherof travelers and pilgrims from almost all tants who mnst content themselves with beingparts of the world. What scenes were enacted observers oi the superstitious rites that are prachereI How much of vital interest to the whole tised there. But if they have do place in theworld and that drew the attention of both heaven Church they have Cbrist himself which is far better.and earth! The city contains about twenty thous- The Russian pilgrims outnumber those of anyand, inhabitants, ten thousand of whom are Jews, other nationality and among them ihe womenwho are an imbecile-looking class of people com- outnumber the men as well as being more zealouspared wiih iheir brethren of other lands, and tbe and enthusiastic. Both men and women have theremainder equal numbers of Moslems and Chris- appearance of strength and determination and ittians. Outside ihe walls there are vUlages spring? is noi at all strange that the Turks are afi-aid ofing np, planted by colonists of various nationali- ihem. As a class they seem more devoted thanties, some of whom are Jews. The city is nestled others as the foUowing incident wiU show. T'heamong ihe hill tops, being surrounded on all sides Russians are buUding a church and bell-tower^xcepi ihe south by mountains, the most con- near the summit of the Mt. of Olives. The bellspicuous of .which is Mt. Olivet, immediately is very large being at least ten feet high. It waaacross the brook Kidron eastward rising 200 ft. brought from Odessa to Jaffa by steamer. Thereabove the city, 2,700 above the Mediterranean stiU remained the thirty-six miles to Jerusalem,and 4,000 above ihe Dead sea. The country more difficult of accomplishment than the distanceround about is rough, broken and stony, except fi-om Russia to Syria. A Bishop with a greatthat here and there we see a delightfully fertile number of pilgrims accompanied the bell. "When

Government Interference with Missionary Work Among the Indians. 203they arrived at Jaffa the Bishop sought means of wheiher they dishonor the Lord Jesus muchconveyance to Jerusalem. He learned thai such more ihan the Christians ihemselves who paymeans would cost him one hundred and fifty Na- Divine honors to saints, angels and the Yirginpoleons or $585. He refused to pay so much, Mary. A Protestant is tolerated within the prehada truck made for the bell, called on ihe pil- cincts oi ihis holy place only because he hasgrims to help him, inspiring them with the thought power ai his back, but he is considered as beingof the great service ihey would be rendering in without religion and without devotion because hetaking ihe bell to ihe top of Mt. Olivet. They does not make the sign of the cross and prostratelaid hold of the iwick, a majority of them being himself at every turn. How sad to think theywomen, and continued tugging and pulUng for forsake the substance and follow the shadow.the space of a few days, sleeping at night nnder _ * * * *the canopy of heaven, until ihey succeeded in (^^ ^^ continued.)placing it within the tower, ready for elevation, GOYERNMENT INTERFERENCE WITHand aU that U cost the Bishop was the bread and MISSIONARY W O R K AMONGwine that sufficed to sustain them while engaged THE INDIANS.in this mosi laudable enterprise, and he thus in the Bible Society Becord mention is madegained his end by an expenditure of less than one of ihe U. S. Government " excluding the Dacotahundred dollars. The Russians possess large language from aU the schools in the Indian reserpropertyjust outside the walls of Jerusalem. A vations." The effect of this is to break up thefine cathedral. Three homes for pilgrims, one for schools established by missionaries where themen, two for women. A hospital for the indis- Indians are taught io read the Bible in theh ownposed. Extensive grounds belonging to the con- tongue The Bible has been translated into thatsulate beautifuUy ornamented with fiowers and language, and a large number oi volumes haveshrubbery. They also possess a home for pil- been sent to the different schools. All the exgrimsat Jericho, as all Russian pUgrims visit ihe pense of translation and ihe time spent in learningJordan and bathe in its waters. Moreover, Rus- the language are in a measure lost, and the teachsiansare building private dwellings at Jericho, ers have to begin to instruct in the EngUssh lan-It is thus manifest ihat Russia's interest in guage those who had acquired such a knowledgePalestine is great, and she will noi sit idly by and of divine truth as io make an intelligent professeeihe country passing into other hands than gion. In this the Government is following the exhers.She even aids ihe pUgrims of the lower ample of France that has forbidden the teachingclasses in reaching Palestine, thus creating an inof the natives on the west coast ot Africa whereterest that will intensify their zeal when the time the French Government has jurisdiction.comes to act.The reasons given for this course is to naturaUzsNo Jew is aUowed io enter the Church of the the Indians. It is assumed thai taught in theirHoly Sepulchre. Were he to make the attempt own language, even ihough converted io thehe would very probably be taken out a corpse. Christian faith, they will stiil retain their naiionalHe is denominated a Christ-killer by ihe oriental tribe organizations. No account is taken of iheChristian and is looked upon as a fugitive and a unifying power of the Christian religion. Accordvagabondupon the earth, as well as being an in- jng to his assumption a converted Indian wouldtrader among -the haunts of men, very much as rather associate with the savage race than followmissionaries were regarded by all classes a few his religions impulses to seek the feUowship ofyears ago. However, it might be a question Christians.

204 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.This is the legitimate working and a strikingproof of the Christlessness of the Government. Allthat is aimed at is to make the Indians citizens.It seems not to have eniered ihe mmds of. ihosewho manage public affairs ihat the way to makethem good citizens is firstio make ihem Christians.UntU the Nation bows to the authority ofihe Mediator, and takes his revealed wiU as iherule, its influence -wiU be against his cause andkingdom.Thomas Sfhodll, D.D.,Allegheny City, Pa.APPEAL OF THE SOUTHERN FREEDMEN,Oh, will you not aid us,Kind Friends of the North ?"We earnestly heg you,Send laborers fortli;Send preachers and teachers,To shew us the -way;Send heralds of Jesus ;We need them to-day.Oppressed and down-troddenFor centuries back.Our race is neglected,True knowledge we lack;Yet, still, like the Wise OnesWho came from afar,We follow the leadingOf Bethlehem's Star.To Jesus, the .Saviour,Glad tribute we bring,We hail Him our Prophet,Our Priest, and our King.We ask you to aid us.Our life-work to do ;To teach to us clearlyThese truths that are new ;To send us, as brothersBy covenant tryst,In fulness of blessing,The Gospel of Christ.Sallie Morrison.Philadelphia, Pa.By terrible things in righteousness God has answeredour prayers and opened the door for the gospel-wider than we had expected.In this province, from the drought the cropshave failed, Business is at a standstill. Shopkeepers,tradesmen, laborers and farm-hands arewithout employment and unable to purchase ioodwhich is still plentiful in the cities and cheap. TheAmerican missionaries in Adana have organizeda reUef committee, and appealed for help from Englandand America. Relief has been given alreadyto 3,300 destitute people. We propose to feedA STRONG APPEAL.felt cloth mat with a felt cloth covering ; tvmdollars wUl furnish snch a bed for six children.Taesus Mission, Asia Minob, Jnly 29, '8T.Now, for the sake of Him who has saved you, doTO THE CHURCH:not let the opportunity go by. Any oppositionDEAR BRETHREN, to_ such a work from any official here would receiveuniversal reprobation. AU who read thisand feel wiUing to help, lei us urge you io do soaf; once. Your contribution may be the one whichwiU be blest of God, in bringing forward someheathen chUd which wUI be a Luther, a Knox or aCalvin, powerful in bringing his people to ChristDo try it. We have the room, we have the teachersand helpers. It wUl not increase the expensemuch to add a hundred more.Fraternally and earnestly yours,David Methent.Contributions may be sent to W. T. Miller,school children only. This will furnish ample P. 0. Box 558, New York.scope for a great evangeUcal work, while at theA NEW SCHOOL.same time giving relief to the hungry. Providencehas, no doubt, opened this door to let the gospel More than a year ago Mr. EUiott F. Shepard,enter. Dea,r brethren, a few bushels of boiled of New York, on returning from a visit to thewheat and a few pounds of butter wUl healthfully East generously forwarded to Dr. Metheny moneysustain a child till it can learn ihe main teachings io meet the expenses of a viUage school. Recentiya school has beeu started at Da-at-esh.essential to the soul's salvation. We have atpresent seventy-one. Many of them sleep on a

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 205shiekh, ihe opposition of the Turkish authoritieshaving prevented its being opened sooner. In aprivate letter io Mr. Shepard, dated July 30, '8T,the Doctor writes : The young man who teachesit was trained in our Tarsus Central School. Hecame down io Mersine last winter io visit me. Iasked him pointedly, " Well, Mohammed, of whatbenefit has our teaching been to you these years ?"He promptly replied in substance, " I have learnedthe word of God and ihe way of salvation byOhrist." 'WeU, do you believe ii?' "Yes, firmly,and I desire to be formaUy received into theChurch." He is a sheikh in rank. Judging himto be a fitperson to open a village school, I sentone of our experienced men to negotiate for him.The result is that a -school has been opened onthe best basis of any heretofore started amongthose strange pagan Ansairiyeh. They give hima school room, a place to lodge, and his board.They pay for their books and give him eight centsa month for each pupil as tuition. This is thenearest approach we have yet made to self-support.So your one hundred and sixty-eight dollars willpay for a long time io come. His monthly wageshave not been fixed yet, as he is on trial. I thinkwe may fix them ai about six dollars a month forthe first few months. I rode ont in a carriage (!)last week to visit him, and found him at his postand his fifteen chUdren at iheir studies under alarge mulberry tree, beside • a pleasant runningwater in a garden by ihe village. I am hopingto baptize him this summer.TARSUS MISSION.Guzne, Tarsus Mts., July llth, 1881. never entered a school. He—or she—must beDear Herald : We were much delighted with able to speak a word in due season to every oldour congregation yesterday. There was an audienceof more than ninety. Most of them were No teacher can teH how short a time a chUd mayman or old woman who comes under his influence.the children of the twô schools. We have some remain under his care, so that the very first dayworkmen digging for water, doing carpenter he should try to teach it so much of the truth as,work, bnilding a bake oven, etc., and they were with the blessing of God, is sufficient to show itpresent. One of them had never heard a sermon the way of salvation. It is worthy of remarkbefore. He afterwards said ihat the words pierced tbat the gift of tongues was bestowed on thosehim like a knife ; to-day he said ihat his own who spoke. It would have been just as easy forsheikh never had told him anything about right God so to ordain that those io whom the apostles,and wrong. It takes a gi'cat supply of provisions spoke shonid all have been able to understandfor' seventy persons, and a great deal of care andthought to plan to the best advantage. Ourown oven is not yet ready, aad, the bread had tobe baked in a neighbor's oven on the other sideoithehiU, There were seventy-two loaves, AUour arrangements are of a primitive kind as befitsthis stage of the work, bnt things are constantlyimproving, and those who come to take our placewill findthings prepared io their hand. Duringour first summer here—1883—we had only onelittle girl, now we bave seventy-one boys and girls,,large and small,'The young ladies are dUigently studying Arabic,Miss Joseph teaches English an hour and ahalf, three afternoons in the week. With regardto teaching EngUsh, I have been credibly informedthat many people at home thiuk we should makethat the language taught in our mission schools,and so avoid the great labor and loss of time involvedin learning a new and difficult language.It is said that many who wonld be glad_to engagein mission work are prevented from offering theirservices for this reason, that they mnst firsiof allencounter this obstacle. It is within the rangeof possibility that ihe English wiU in process oftime become the universal language, but we mustwork in the meantime, and we must in each individualcase endeavor at the very earliest possiblemoment to instil into the minds of pupils tbegreat truths of the gospel. One can readily seethat would be impossible to a missionary comingfrom home and beginning io teach a child in English.However difficult it may be for an Americanwith a good education to learn Arabic or anyother foreign language, it mnst be mnch harderfor heathen children to acquire such a knowledgeof English as to be able io grasp religious ideas.'Then again it must be remembered that the missionary'mustcome in contact with hundreds whoihe Jewish language. No, brethren and sisters,learning ihe language of ihe people to whom weare sent is one of the crosses incident to our work.Let us take it np and bear it in the Master'sstrength. It is safe to say that no missionary hasever accomplished much without a knowledge

206 Letters frrm Ghristian Workers at Eome and Abroad.of ihe vernacular of the people among whom helabored.Our Governor General has been removed hately.Yarious reasons are assigued therefor, one ofwhich is that his homely visage has been the causeof the drought this year. I suspect it is reallybecause he is not at heart a Moslem but a skeptic,and the faithful fear that this prevents theirprayers for rain from being answered. It remainsto be seen whether his successor will be more orless favorable to our schools. Most of the AmericanPress publications have been authorized bythe government at Damascus, and we are at lastable to order school-books. We hope by Monday'smaU to have Synod news in fuU. We areindebted .to some kind friend for sending us theNewburgh papers during its session.Yours in the wôrk,Maby E. Metheny."At Makhons my subject was Mark 5:2-1.Rev. H. Easson writes from Suadea under If this date, poor man with the unclean spirit confessedJuly 23, '81 :that Christ is the Son of God, ought not we whohave our right minds confess him with our wholeI have just finished examining the school atSuadea, and find that the pnpils have made goodprogress, while the teachers testify to their excellentbehavior during the year. Our schoolbuUding and the teachers in the employ of themission could care for thirty-flve boarders. Thiswould be ten more than were received last year;and, as most of the new pupils clothe themselves,fifty pounds extra would meet the additional expense.Twenty-five dollars will board a boy, a ndthirty dollars wUl board and clothe him. Manyare pleading for admission, and the money couldbe given in such a way that if not needed in Suadea,it could be used in Latakia. We have raisedenough money among ourselves and tbe Suadeateachers to buy twenty-two iron bedsteads, and,if God grant our request as to the ten new boys,we will arrange to furnish them with beds.At our communion, on July 25, we bad an accessionof one, an American Protestant from Kessab,now living in Suadea. One of our Nusairiyehboys, from B'hamra, expressed a desire to makea similar confession, but said be could not at thistime, as he was afi-aid of his people. Anotherapplied for admission to tbe church, but Ave cousidaredit prudent for him to wait untU he shonidunderstand more fully tbe important step he wasabout to take. We bad a very pleasant season,and trust our Lord will bless bis ordinances, notonly to those who sat at his table, but to aU whowere present.Mr. Easson also wrote on July 16 :I find from the report of Hana Iskander forJune, that he visited over twenty villages duringthe month. The subjects of his conversationswere about as follows :1. The duty of man to cease to do evU andlearn to do good.2. The duty of man to make preparation inthis worid for the life that is to come.3. The sin of theft and murder.4. Man can only receive the grace andfavor of God through Jesus Christ His son.5. Christ Jesus the only mediator betweenGod and man.6. Jesus Christ is both God and man.The following are a few extracts :hearts ? Let ns confess that Jesus is the Son ofGod. They answered, ' We can't confess that, forwe consider it a sin. We cannot accept that Godcould have a son,' etc."At Makhtarat I spoke of theft and murderwith some men from Sebyann wbo had been presentat the destruction of Karsano. They confessed,saying, ' We have sinned, and we know that Godis not pleased with such deeds.'" At Khabareyeh I met Sheikh Esau, and hada talk with him in the presence of a large numberof people about Cbrist as Prophet, Priest andKing. The Sheikh said, ' We believe that Jesuswas a prophet Uke the rest of the prophets" Ianswered, 'Yes, he is a prophet, but not hke therest of the prophets, for they aU committed sin,bnt Christ lived a perfect life, fulfiUing aU thedemands of tbe law, and that without sin, andall the other prophets spoke of his coming, andthat by him man would receive forgiveness of sins.'The Sheikh then said, ' Your purpose appears tobe to make me confess that Christ is God.' Ianswered, 'Yes, Christ is God.' The Sheikhsprang to his feet sayiug, ' It is a sin to sit withyou longer,' aud he and all present departed andleft me.'"As of old, the leaders are the most bitteragainst Jesus,His,May he gather in those that are

Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad. 201—Under ihe same date Mr, Easson sent thefollowing translation of an extract from a letterhe had received from Hasson Hamdan :One day in June an aged religious sheikhcnme into the village and in the presence of alarge number of, people began to speak aboutJesus the Christ and deny his Divinity and crucifixion.At last he turned to me and said,'' You Christians are all doomed io destruction.'I said, " How do you prove that ? " He answered" You have changed your Bible—the one you haveat present is not the Torath oi ihe prophets, andthe Gospel of Jesus to which the Koran testifies."I said, " Mention some of the changes you speakof." He answered, " You say that Jesus is theLadies' Missionary Soc. Hopkinton, la.Lord; but we believe that he was only a Dear friends : Next Monday it will be twoprophet ; you say that he was crucified, but Gocl months since I set foot in the land of tbe Crescent,forbid that we should accept any snch doctrine." and I have been here long enough to learn somethingof the ways and customs of the people withI then asked him, " Do you believe that theTorath and the gospels are the Book of God, whom we are working, and also of the work thatspoken by the prophets under the inspiration of is being done. I think yon take a great interestthe Holy Spirit." He answered, " Yes, but not in the school, so I wUl begin with that and tellyour present Torath, and gospels." I then said it you what I can. We have at present seventyis not becoming for you Oh Sheikh, a leader of pupils in school. Of course this includes bothyonr people, to talk in that manner. Have you boys and girls. There are 41 girls. If we onlynot read in the book written by the prophet of had the means we could obtain many more.the, Moslems, " The Torath and gospel come to The famine which is all througii the land hereyou worthy of acceptance? " also, "that God sent would drive many io us, if we could take them.his Word to Mariam and that the Holy Spirit It is not because of the room, for we have roomenough to accommodate a hundred. But wehaveovershadowed her, etc." This is what we aretaught in ihe gospels, and in ihe book of Revelation not the means to buy food for them. A fewwe read, " I saw heaven opened, and behold a bushels of wheat and a few pounds of butter, or a•white horse and he that sat upon it was called Uttle rice, would keep many children nntU theyFaithful and True, etc.; His name is called 'l'he had learned of the way of salvation. But weWord of God, etc.; and He hath on his vestureand on His thigh a name written, King of kingsand Lord of lords." I then read to him ihe beginningsand endings of Paul's epistles whereJesus Christ is caUed " Our Lord and Saviour."I brought proofs from Isa. 9, where we read," Unto ns a chUd is born and a Son given, andthe government shall be upon his shoulder, andhis name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,the Mighty God, Everlasting Father and tbeaccording to ihe scriptures, bearing in his bodyihe sins of all who believe in his name.I then turned to those present and said, " Doyou believe in what I have said about Jesus theChrist ? Some were silent, and others answered," God forbid."May God give them faith in Christ that theymay accept his death as revealed in the scripturesand flnd eterna,l life.—The Ladies'- Missionary Society of Hopkinton,la., has kindly sent us the foUowing letterfrom Miss LiUie B. Joseph :Guzne, Turkey, July 30, 1881.have not the money, and what are we to do ? InAdana the American inission of the CongregationalChurch have constituted a relief committee.They made an estimate of the needy and fonndthem to be 8000 and of course as. time goes onthe number of destitute ones will be increased.They have appealed to- the Turkish governmentand to the Uuited States for aid to the sufferingones, but have only succeeded in giving relief toabout 3300. The rest must perish unless aidPrince of Peace." I showed him from Paul's comes from some other source. One day, a woman,epistles that aU men are sinners and in need of a momentarily insane from starvation, threw herselfSaviour and thai Jesus Christ, of whom tbe Bible and child into a well. Another tried to sell hertestifies that " He is Lord," came and dwelt two children in order to provide food for herself.among us in the flesh, that Cbrist died for Mr. Montgomery came from Adana last evening.our sins according to the scriptures, and ihat he He said he saw people eating bran mixed withwas buried and thai he arose again the third day waterj roots and grape leaves. One woman and

',208Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.her children weint by a house where the inside ofan egg-plant had been thrown out, and they immediatelyseized tbis and began to eat. 'Ihesesuffering people have already had several breadriots in the cities of Tarsus and Adana. Whensnch suffering prevaUs at present, wbat will bethe condition of these people before spring?Surely it is our duty to do all in our power forthese afiiicted ones. We have riches in comparisonwith these people. But I must hastenon and tell you about the school. In the girlsboarding school we have but one native teacher.Mrs. Metheny teaches two hours a day, one hourin the forenoon and one in the afternoon. I teachthat she might learn of Christ and the way ofsalvation. She has a soul io save as well asthose who are not afiiicted as she. I think shecould talk if she could hear, for she can say papa,mama, and Oh,—I taught her to say Oh, and sheprobably could say the other words before shebecame deaf. Her mother was the cause of herdeafness. She threw the little babe into coldwater which destroyed its hearing. Perhapsthere is some Asylum that would receive her freeof charge if we made application. But I knowso little of the Asylums in America. I want towrite a letter to our Sabbath School and mustbring this to a close.Hoping you will not forget us in our sore needfor help, I am, Yours most sincerely,Lillie B. Joseph.English for an hour and a half each day. Thereare five girls who are studying English. Allread in tbe EngUsh Bible and one reads in Wilson'sThird Reader. I am teaching all the girls'in school the 23d Psalm. Some of them are A FAITHFUL STEWARD GONE.very quick to take up English. Then two, Hannieand Remza, stndy Brown's Shorter Catechism My Dear Mr. Sommerville:—Our missionKessab, Aug. 6, 1881.in EngUsh.has met with a great loss in the death of onrThere are in school noAV seven out of the nine good and faithful steward, Hanna Deeb, whowith whom the boarding school was started. calmly fell asleep in Jesus, Friday evening, JnlyThese have not all been in school all the time, 22d. He has been connected with the missionbut are in this summer. Probably some will not almost ever since it was founded and for manybe allowed to stay on our return to Mersine, bnt years has been the steward, and during aU thatit is our intention to fllltheir minds with the truths time has had the entire confldence of all the missionariesand the native people. We have neverof the Gospel while they remain, hoping that theseed wUl grow and produce fruit after they leave heard the least suspicion that he dealt uniairly byus. Wednesdays and Fridays are our sewing us, and we never found mistakes in his accounts.days. The girls are tanght to make their own He seemed to have as much interest in the workdresses and to do fancy work of all kinds. I'his as we ourselves had. The new missionaries alwaysbecame acquainted with him flrst,as hefancy work is useful as wella,s fancy.But one thing which is needed very badly indeed,is a sewing machine for the school. We need necting link between us and home. Then he wasbrought om- letters, which made him seem a conone to do their sewing on, and to teach the girls cheerful and had a smile for everyone, and seemedto sew on it. Only one knows how to sew on the to care particularly for everyone. It is said thatmachine, and she not very well. They are all he studied long before he avowed our principles,taught to wash, cook and wash dishes. Saturdayis their washday. The school is divided into opposed him in it. His wife, though a goodbut afterwards he never wavered,thongh his fi'iendssections and each section has a week for washing housekeeper, is very ignorant and superstitious,and the other work in turns. The older girls and she has a number of relatives wanting in intellect,who depended on him for support. Andare taught to care for the younger ones—thosewho are too small to care for their own persons. they made his home to him when he was in itOne little girl is deaf and dumb. I am trying to " like a continual dropping in a very rainy day."teach her the alphabet and will try and teach Yet, he never complained, and few knew of theher to read. But it is slow work and requires burden he carried.more time than I am able to give. Besides I do He was sick for three months, but he nevernot as yet know just how I can give her the idea gave up his worktiU a few hours before he died,of a sentence. I do wish she could be sent to and, as long as he could speak, he maintained hisAmerica to some Asylum for deaf and dumb.

Incidents in Mission Life.cheerfulness aud his polite thoughtfulness for him, but it is noi God's will; send for Manlimothers, so that it was a marvel to everyone. At Yacoob " (our hcentiate). He came, and he toldthe beginning of his sickness we urged him io go him all he wished and then said, "Now, let all myaway and see a doctor, bat he said, " If I must friends come one by one till I bid them good-bye."die let me die in my own bed where I can bid Those who did not come, he sent for. He badegood-bye to my friends." At the urgent request me good-bye very tenderly, and asked me to lookof Mr. Easson, Dr. Harris, of Tripoli, came to see over bis shortcomings and to tell Mr. Easson tohim. The trouble was a cancerous tumor. The do the same, and to bid him good-bye. And heDoctor said, if it was removed, ihere was a chance said, " Ask him not to forget my poor wife."of his life. When Mr. Easson told him what the He said, " I wanted to see him." 1 asked himDoctor said,he replied, " I will submit io the operation,but I want a little while to thfnk." When yes ! there is none other."if h* had faith in Christi He said, " 0 yes ! 0I repeated, " Let notthey came to give him the chloroform some one your heart be tronbled, etc." He raised his handsaid, " Do not be afraid." He said, " I am not and said, "Those are the precious words.'' I toldafraid, I have committed my spirit into ihe Lord's him he would meet ihose of our friends who hadkeeping. He will do with me what is best." The gone before, mentioning Mrs. Metheny, Dr. BeattieDoctor said he had never seen a native patientso calm. The next day when I went to see himI said, " We hope you will soon be well now."He said, " Yes, I hope so, but we must submitand Dr. Dodds. .His eyes brightened and heto whatever is the Lord's will." It was not theLord's will to answer our earnest prayers. Theteachers, members of the chnrch, and all whoknew him were alike solicitous for his recovery.And in our prayer-meetings the brethren wouldsay, " O Lord, thou knowest that we feel we haveneed of him." But God knoweth our needs betterthan we do, and his ways and his ihoughts arenot as ours. Instead of growing stronger he grewweaker. Mr. Easson was obliged to go io Suadea.He was very mnch affected at parting with him,and seemed to count ihe days iill his return. Onthe afternoon of ihe day he died he seemed sosaid, " 0 yes, but Jesus first." When Mrs. Eassoncame, he again repeated his desire of seeing Mr.Easson, and again .gent him his " salaams" (lovewishes oi peace). At last he called for his wife,and, kissing her, he said, " This is the last; I wiltsoon be in heaven," and in a few minutes the soulhad departed. It was sad to look on the dearkind face for the last time, bui it was comfortingto feel that his trials were over and all was joyand peace with him. His latter end was peace,and one could not help thinking ofthe text, " WeUdone, good and faithful servant ; thou hast beenfaithful over a few things, I will make thee rulerover many things ; enter thou into the joy of thyLord." Snch a life of honest godly integrity, andsnch a death of calm hope and trust show moremnch weaker that one oi ihe brethren who was than pages of words the beauty and triumph of thewaiting on him asked if he had any directions to religion of Jesus, and such trophies for Emmannal'scrown are worth laboring to save.give concerning his affairs. He said, " You donot think ii possible that I can live till Mr. Easson Yours in the Master's work,comes?" He repUed, "We are afraid the endMattie R. Wylie.is near." He said, "I wanted so much to seeMRS. LIVINGSTONE'S GRAVE.of a hippopotamus told how neglected ihe spois now. Pushing the door open, we foundWe were to spend the night within ourselves a few in a long, dark room, its mud flooryards of the place where Mrs. Livingstone broken into fragments, and remains of nativedied. Late in the afternoon we reached the fires betraying its late occupants. Turning tospot— a low ruined hut a hundred yards fromthe river's bank, wiih a broad veranda shadingthe right we entered a smaller chamber, ihewalls bare and stained, with two glassless win •its crumbling walls. A grass grown path dows facing the river. The evening sun, setstraggled to the doorway, and the fresh print ting over the far off Morumballa mountains/

210 Notes and Beviews.filled the room with its soft glow and took our offered himself as a candidate tor chathoughts back to that Sabbath evening twenty bership.years ago when in this same bed-room at this " 1 should Uke to know," said the minister^same time Livingstone knelt over his dying "whioh of my arguments convinced you."wiie and witnessed the great sunset of his Ufe. " Not your arguments at all," was ihe re-Under a huge baobab tree—a miracle of ply.vegetable vitality and luxuriance—stands Mrs. " But I noticed you attending my course ofLivingstone's grave. The picture in Living- sermons," was the minister's remark.stone's book represents the place as well kept "Yes, sir. But do you know the poor oldand surrounded with neailj" planted trees. Bui blind woman who sits in such and such anow it is au utter wilderness, matted with place?"jungle grass and trodden by the beasts of ihe " Yes."forest, and, as I looked at the forsaken mound " Well, sir, the evening I was there, she wasand contrasted it with her husband's marble creeping her way down, and 1 thought shetomb in Westminster Abbey, I thought per- would stumble. I took her by the arm, andhaps the woman's love whioh brought her to a said, ' ShaU I lead you down f ' If you please,spot like ihis might be not less -worthy of im- sir,' she answered ; and when I had done so,mortality.—Prof. Drummond at Chatauqna- she took me by ihe hand and said, '^Do youlove Jesus, my blessed Saviour?' She said itA WORD FITLY SPOKEN. ,^ ^„,, ^ ^^^ \^^^ I ,^^^ ,,^ ^^^ ^ g^^j„„^Î heard some time ago ofa minister whore- and that her heart was glad in all her afflicsolvedto preach a course of sermons upon infi- tion. 'That was the turning-point in my cadelity.Amongst those who were attracted reer, sir. My infidelity could not hold outwas an infidel, who sometime afterwards took against such a testimony as that."—V. Charlesaseat in the place of worship, and eventually worth.M0U^ mil ^mm^.C5"WHO WILL GO ? , . I. « , , . ^ .^. ,-^ rwork in each field depends on the life of one• Acting on the instructions of Synod at its man. Henry Easson is alone in Latakia, lablastmeeting, we issue another call for men to oring with great diligence and zeal, but liable,devote themselves to missionary work in Syria as all are, to be laid aside at any time. Davidand in Asia Minor. Two ministers are needed Metheny is alone in Ciiioia, never at rest inat once; and the success, if notthe continuance, his devoted efforts to enlighten and elevate aof the work seems to demand this immediate dark and degraded community, yet ready tore-inforcementi We are unwilling to believe faint under the burden of ever increasing rethaithe young men of our church have lost sponsibUities. These brethren are wUUng totheir interest in its foreign mission and have spend their strength in the service of ourhad no share in the blessed awakening: that Divine Master, and we trust ihat he will sushasled so many in all oiher denominations to tain them in their arduous labors for manygive themselves in willing consecration to this years; but they should not be asked to laborservice during the past year ; and yet they alone. Our Lord, in sending out his disoiplescertainly do not realize that at present our two and two to preach the gospel of the king-

Hotes and Beviews. 211dom, has taught us the true method. And —The attention of students and licentiates isthere can be no extending ofour lines and no directed to the admirable essay from " My Portfolio" that opens this number. It sbould bepreaching of the gospel to perishing multitudeswho are eager to hear, unless there are some read in connection with the call of the Boardamong our students or young ministers to consecratetheir talents and energies to this serhapsit will aot be out of place to say hereof Foreign Missions for two laborers. Pervice.The demand it urgent, the field is a*-- that young men who are collecting a librarytractive, ibe posiiion is honorable, and the call cannot make a mistake in buying any book thatis from the Lord Himself. Who is ready to bears on its title page the name of Professorrespond, " Here am I, send me." We do not Austin Phelps of Andover.want to conceal ironi those who go forth as therepresentatives of ihe Church that there will —In the last report of Foreign Missionbe hardships and difficulties to face; but ihey Board occurs ihis clause, " two new ladywill be associated with men of tried fidelity teachers who will each receive a salary ofand unconquerable 3ourage, can rely on the $500." This is a clerical error. It shouldpractical sympathy and prayers of friends in read " asalary of £80 or about $400."this country, and above all have this unfailingassurance to bear them up and bear themthrough, " Lo ! I am wich you always."By order of the Board.James Kennedy, Chairman.R. M. SOMMERTILLE, Cor. Sec.—On Monday evening, Sept. 5th, a meetingTfas held in 2nd New York Churoh to bid ourmedical missionary and his family good bye.The attendance was for a variety of reasonsnot large, but those who were present miisthave received a fresh impulse io devotion inthe missionary cause. We hope to give abrief account of the meeting in our next issuewith an outline ot the addresses. Dr. Balphwith his wife and ihree children sailed forLiverpool, Wednesday, Sept. 5th, on iheSteamship, Italy, of the National Line.—The strong appeal of Dr. Metheny, publishedunder Letters from Christian Workersshould call forth a quick and generous response.We hope the Church will not neglectto " buy up this opportunity " of doing somethingfor Ohrist.—We record with deep sorrow the removalon Wednesday, Aug. 31fet, of Miss SarahKennedy, daughter of Rev. James Kennedy,Chairman of i

212 The Children's Organ.commending the liberality and business-courtesyTHE CHILDREN'S ORGAN.of the New York representatives of thisThe above cut is an exact representation of deservedly popular firm.the organ purchased for Miss Sterrett's school, The children have not yet contributedin Mersine. The fact of its being manufactured enough to pay for tbis instrument. But theby the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. is a sufficientHerald advanced the balance so that it couldguarantee of its excellence. In their be shipped with Dr. Balph's goods, believingcatalogue it is described as " a very fine organ, that he would be reimbursed bef ire the end ofwith large variety; full, brilliant, and very the year. There are surely fifty Sabbathpowerful in its combined effect; well proportioned,and capable of satisfactorily filling aSchools ihat could give one dollar each for thispurpose; and this amount would meet all expenses,not counting the advertisement, whiohposition where a good deal is required." Forobvious reasons the Heeald is not at liberty the Hekald will contribute in ihe name ofto publish the percentage of reduction fromthe catalogue price allowed the purchasers,hut he cannot deny himself the pleasure ofmany little children who would like to havean interest in the fund, but have no dimes attheir command.

PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVALoftlieBOARD OF FOBEIGN MISSIONS.REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHUROH,U. S. A.HOME EVANGELIZATION.Rev. J. F. Carson.It is the glory of the Reformed PresbyterianChurch that the missionary spirit of moderntimes has been kindled in the hearts of her sonsand daughters, and that up to this hour, in proportionto her numbers and means, she lias beenamong the foremost to publish the gospel to thenations. In ihis work, however, we have notcome up to the iull measure of our duty, we havesimply realized what our duty is, but that is agreat attainment.The spirit of missions is the vital spirit ofour eminently qualified senior missionary. Dr.Metheny, as well as his intense love ior souls, induceshim to urge the Church to broaden and enlargethe foreign work. While doing this, letus not neglect home. Many who will contributeten dollars for the conversion of the heathen wUlnot give ten cents for the conversion of theirneighbors. Why is it ? It is a freak of the humanmind, and capable of no other explanation.Our Church must be alive at home. The Indianmission is to be established. AVe mnst aid in iheevangelization of the oppressed Red Man, inwhose defence our pulpits are always earnestThe Sonthern inission must be heartUy supported.We were loudest in demanding the emancipationof ihe Negro, we must not fall behind in our effortsto secure his spiritual freedom.Christianity. All who have felt ihe transformingpower of the gospel must breathe the missionaryspirit, must feel committed to missionary workin its world-wide extent.Intimations are given in many directions thatour work has advanced about as far as it is exThe Chinese mission in California should besustained. We, as a Church, denounce the Government'spolicy toward the Chinese, and demandpedient. While men do not advocate a decreasingof our efforts, yet they deprecate any increase, that they be admitted to all the rights and privand,therefore, practically advocate a backward Ueges of our country. What are we doing forstep. If it is not by oblivion of the past, certainlyit is by transcending ihe past, that progress is more congregational schools for their trainingthe Chinamen already here ? A half dozen orto be made. And progress is the law of missionarywork; at ihe same time it is the condition of results mainly because it is not heartUy sustainedand a mission that is not accomplishing grandersuccess. If our work is to be permanently successfulour efforts musi be increased in Syria and in our own laud. In addition to this, there is anby the Church. Much ioreign work can be doneextended into other lands. In the providence of eminently domestic work—a work among onrGrod, China is calling loudly to us and ihe black owu race, on the frontier and in the neighborhoodhands of Africa's mUlions are lifted up in their of every congregation of our Church. Recentlyearnest appeal for help. The Church is wedded we worshipped with a cong-regation of coloredto Syria, and we love the work there. But if biethren. The pastor appealed to the whitewe desire its ultimate success we musi extend our members of his audience, which were only two,present efforts. Hence the keen perception of for aid, and backed up his appeal by saying,

214 Our Views of Mission Work."We wonld just as soon pray for the salvation masses. Tbe Committee on Missions of our lateof a white man as for the salvation of a black Synod recommended that all our congregationsman." Truly the soul of a white man is equally engage in such work as has been carried on inprecious with thai ofthe black; but it does seem New York, Brooklyn, and other places. Whatas if many would pray, and contribute, and labor was that work ? An earnest and special effort toon behalf of men of color—black, red or yellow— reach the masses with tbe gospel. The question betothe absolute neglect of their own race who are fore us now is, how can this work be made mo.s

Items ofi Missionary IntelUgence, 215him that heareth say. Come." Every Christian pride and church machinery must be abandoned,is thus constituted a herald of the cross, and we if it interferes witli the carrying out of Christ'shave not rightlyheard, if there is not within US a command, "Go ye and preach.'- Humanity isstrong impulse to say, " Come.'' "To every man suffering all around us, 'Take the leaves ofthehis work." Gathering all the commands of God Tree of Life and lay them on humanity's woundson this duty into one, and from it as a centre nn- that they may be healed.folding them until they embrace every conceiva- III. The Scriptures teach our individual rebleChristian duty, and so sweeping the whole sponsibility for carrying the go,spel to these.sphere, we fold them all down on every humble. However degraded men and women may be,trusting, believing Christian heart in this one though ihey may have foundered on ihe rocks ofmeasureless, emphatic command, " Go ye into all crime and sin, and thongh we may shudder as wethe world and preach the g-ospel to every crea- pass them, belonging as they do to the greatture."brotherhood of our race, we are compeUed to takeII. We should engage in this work because to them the blessed tidings of salvation. Weofthe needs of men for ihis gospel which is en- cannot shut ourselves up incur home, or factory,trusted to us. We are all familiar with tbe ap- or store, or shop, or office, or school, or study,palling condition of heathendom. But we need aud say it is no concern of ours. It is. Andnot go to distant lands io learn the needs oi men God will ask us for an account of our stewardforthe gospel. We see it in our own land, ship. If we have not done the work what excuseEverywhere around ns souls are perishing for wUl we make ? Will we say, " Lord, we havelack of knowledge. We mnst take it to them, had so many things to attend to, our business," Ah,'' say some, " the idiurches are open, there or pastoral, or family cares have been so pressingthe gospel is iireached, let men come to them,'' that really we had not the time"? Tben weYes, the churches are open, I believe, two or may expect to hear the reply, " Inasmuch as yethree hours a week, and the stranger will be wei- did it not to one of the least of these, ye did itcomed. But don't let us be so bound to the not to me," And we all know the consequence.church thai we can't leave the pulpit and the 0! for an intenser work among the multitudes Ipew and go to the people wherever they are, 0 1 for a voice that shall sound forth and shakeSays one, " This hugging the church is a sort of the Church, a voice of summons to the gatheringan inshore method of fishing, and we are sadly battle, a voice which shall cry not in gentlesaying to the Master, ' we have toiled all day whispers, but like tbe voice of the archangeland have taken nothing,' to which, if wc listen, and the trump of God, " Go ye,"—ye, and not anwemay hear him reply, ' Cast your nets on the other—" Go ye aud preach the gospel to everyother side' "—on the side where the non-church- creature." The call is from God, and to him begoers are. " Launch out into the deep,'' where all the glory forever.the vast unchurched masses are. AU churchItems of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD y^*^' ^^'^^'^^ April 30, 1881, records many tokensof the divine favor.The report of the Board of Foreign Missions, The mission in Syria comprises fivecenters ofs\ibm\tted to the General Assembly of the Pres- operation, Beirut, Abeih, Sidon, TripoU andhyterian Church in the Hnited States for the Zahleh, with eighty-six ont-stations, The pre-

21fiItems of Missionary Intelligence.sent membership is 1,440, of which 153 were receivedon a profession of their faith during the commnnicant-roU. The KoUiapur mission is sitthe Savionr and there are now 398 names on theJ'ear. The average attendance at Sabbath serviceswas 4,293.southwest India, The Mahrattas uumber aboutuated among the Mahratta speaking people ofThe missions in Persia are located at Oroomiah, fitteen mUlions, of whom between twô and threea town of 40,000 inhabitants, ou a lake of the miUions belong to the field exclusively occupiedsame uame—Tabriz, with a population of 150,- by this mission. The work was begun in this000, one hundred and fiftymiles to the east—and field in 1853, but has been under the specialSalmas, a plain of 12x20 mUes in extent, almost supervision of the Presbyterian Board only formidway between these cities. Work is also sue- about seventeen years. There are three churchescessfiiUy carried on in Teheran, the metropolis of and ninety-two communicants, an increase of ninethe empire, and at Hamedan, some two hundred during the year.miles to the southwest of the capital. • • In ' the •' The Siam mission comprises two centres ofwestern section of this mission there are 1,932 operation, Bangkok, some twenty-five miles fi:omcommunicants and 1,045 adherents. Three hundredand twenty-one members were added during istic work has been carried on with more or lessthe mouth of the river Meinam, where evangelihe year. In the eastern section there are 120 success for nearly half a century, and Petchaburi,in full communion with the Church, marking an about 85 miles southwest, on the western side ofincrease of five during the year. The organizedchurches are said to be growing slowly but steadilyin the line of self-support and self-reliance, andto be gaining in the spirit of consecration andself-denial for Christ's sake. As to the outlookof the work among the Moslems, the missionarieswrite that, " whUe fanaticism still rules, and openprofession of faith in Christ is at great peril, agreater measure of toleration exists than we hadclared to hope ior a few years since The Lordevidently calls us to go forward in this line ofeffort." 'The two older missions in India are in thenorthwestern part of that country. " A geographicalline across india from the mouth of theIndus, 'via Allahabad, to the Himalaya Mountains,would in a general way mark the southernlimits of this great field. The population of thisnorthwestern region is reckoned at sixty millions,composed of people mostly marked hy greaterenergy than their countrymen in the rest of Indiacommonly evince. . In the Lodiana andFurrukhabad missions, four presbyteries havebeen organized, two in each inission, which haveproved to be of great service in superintending andrendering efBcient the various parts of nussionarywork according to the principles of onr Churchand its Scriptural order."The tabulated statistics show fhat sixty-threewere received into the fellowship of the Church,on a profession of their faith, during the year,and tbat there is a present inembership of 643in^the Lodiana mission ; while in thc Furrukhabadmission fifty-five made a public confession ofthe gulf of Siam. This latter field has been occupiedfor more than twenty-five years. Thestatistics ofthis mission report an aggregate membershipof 354, of which thirty-five were addedduring the year. The missionaries have beenvery much encouraged by the marked interestthe Government has taken in their work in recentyears. " We may .specify here," says the report,"the offer of the Siamese Prime minister to give,for the use of the missionaries in Ratboree, threecommodious houses, if they wonld open work intbat city, and the remarkable cordiaUty displayedby the king himself in a personal visit to Petchaburi.His majesty expressed the warmest interestin the educational and medical work of themissionaries, conveyed to them in person histhanks for the succor extended by them to someshipwrecked sailors, and presented them with asubstantial sum of money, nearly $1,500, to enlargeand extend their medical work, chargingthe Minister of Education also to aid them freelyin their schools. Similar interest, accompanied bysiinUar tangible proofs, was shown by the queen inihe efforts of ihe lady missionaries. The countrystands with doors, if anything, more widely openthan ever to the entrance of missionary laborers.Extensive and successful tours, especially downthe west coast, in the southern provinces are reported,and it is evident that nothing but thesmallness of the missionary force prevents suchitinerant trips from being pushed into every partof the kingdom. All the more important, becauseofthe present limited number of those whoproclaim the gospel by word of mouth, is the

part played by the increasing amount of Christianliterature in reaching many who have neverlooked upon the face of a missionary. Tbe Siameseare not an illiterate people, looking to themen alone ; a very small proportion ofthe womencan read ; and with a native literature exceedinglyrestricted in all branches which are not coi'-rupting and immoral, the opportunity of a Christianpress is evident. That this opportunity isbeing seized upon by the missionaries finds evidencein ihe list of religious and educationalworks, swelling year by year, which is in additionio the Scriptures issues fi-om the printinghouse."The mission among the Laos at Lakawn andat Chieng-mai, 500 miles north ot Bangkok, reportan accession of ninety-two to the membershipof ihe Church on profession, making a presentroll of 322 communicants. A great change,we are told, has taken place in the character ofthe work of this mission during the year. " Thisconsists,"—in the language of the report, "inthemarked territorial expansion of the Church.At the opening of the year it was pratically truethat the whole Laos Church lay within a radiusof twenty mUes from the mission chapel at Chiengmai.This state of things has passed away. TbeProvidence of God, leading to the establishmentof the station at Lakawm and the removal ofChristian families fi-om the vicinity of Chieng-maito points from fifty to one hundred and twentyfivemiles distant, and his blessing upon the extensivetours taken during the year by missionariesand their native assistants, make good theassertion thai ihe work in the Laos provinces hasentered npon a new stage. The membership ofihe Church can no longer be, as in the past, underthe direct supervision of the missionary. Duringthe whole of the rainy season—neariy six months—the companies of Christians in these distantplaces must be without support or stimulus fromhis presence. The maintenance and growthof Christian life within the Church and its extensionamong the heathen community must dependto a greaier degree than ever before upon nativeagencies. In other words the Laos mission isentering npon that stage so momentous iu thehistory of every mission, and so much to be rejoicedin, when the aim of the missionary labormust be less and less ihe direct evangelization oithe natives by foreigners and more and more theequipment of the already existing native ChurchItems of Missionary Intelligence. 211with the means necessary io its own expansion."Turning to riiina, we find a present membersbipof 586 in the Canton inission, of S36 in theCentral missiou, and of 2,884 in the North Chinainission. The aggregate increase for the year is238, We cannot aflbrd space for detailsofthe work that the Presliyteriau Church is doingin tiie commercial centres of tillsvast empire.Few fields are more inviting, and the largemeasure of fruit yielded in the past is an earnestoi larger results" in the future. The outiook iseverywhere and in every way better thau before.The work carried on in Japan is peculiariy interesting,being part of a union work in whichfour other branches of the Cburch are engaged"On .lune, 21, 1811, theniissious of the ReformedChurch, and the Presbyterian Chunh, (North) ofthe U. S. A, and tiie Umted PresbyterianCburch of Scotiand united and formed the UnitedChurch of Christ in Japan, Within tiiepast twovears the missions of the Presbyterian Church(South) and of the Reformed German Church ofthe U, S, A, have also cast in their lot with theUnited Church and become an integral part ofit, Tbe plan of tbe United Church is, as rapidlyas possible, to place the churches under the careof Japanese pastors, who must look mainly totbeir respective churches for support, leavingthe general supervision of inission interests andmost of the educational work in the hands of theforeign missionaries. The total membership ofthe United Churchis 4,356, of whom over 1,100were received during the nast year, being about35 per cent, of tbe wbole. The contributions oithe churches for self-support and evangehsticwork show an increase of 12 per cent, over tiioseof the previous year ; an average of $1.82 permember." The Osaka mission, witii its ninechurches and 561 communicants, comprises thework done at Kanazawa on the Japan sea, abouteighty mUes northwest of Yêddo, and at Osaka,a seaport in the Island of Niphon, thirty-threemUes from Miako. " The letters of the missionaries,"says the report, "give a story of continuedand increasing prosperity. The actual gain mthe membership of the churches bas been fortyfiveper cent. Their contributions have averaged$2.04 per meniber. An interesting work hasalso been going on in a place called Odzu, on theisland oi Shikoku, about two hundred miles southwestoi Osaka. Nearly fiftypersons have beenbaptized there during the year, and have applied

218 Hems of Missionary Intelligence.to be organized into a church. The work hasspread into several of the neighboring towns, andgreat interest is manifested by the people throughall the surrounding country. Yet it has beenonly a little more than a year since the publicsentiment of the community was so strongly opposedto Christianity that no one in the town ofOdzu would rent a house to our native helpers,nor even a room for a single preaching service." One of the marked features of the missionarywork in Japan is the firmbold which the gospelhas taken npon men in high position both insocial and official circles. While the governmeutstill withholds any formal recognition of Christianity,many of its officers are not slow to recognizeits power and further its extension."The mission in Korea reports there are nativeswho profess to have received the gospel ; but the.situaiion is so critical tbat it seems too soon totake open steps for the organization of directlyChristian institutions. " The outlook is not assuring.The constant factor in the case is the confessedweakness of the Korean government audnation, together with the grasping spirit of thepowerful and ambitious nations which surround.He that sitteth in the heavens, however, controlsthe destinies of this as other nations, and it is believedthat the recent developments of Cbrist'sown kingdom in that long benighted land willnot be sacrificed. In this confidence the Boardseems warranted in pushing- forward its workvigorously but judiciously, believing that Korea,like Japan, wiU soon rejoice in unmistakable andundeniable blessings of Christianity."The missions in Western Africa have badm-any difficulties to contend with during the pastyear. Yêt efficient work has beeu done. Thenew communicants in Liberia form more than oneeighthofthe whole number and only one churchis reported as having added tant one name to itsroll. After more than forty years' occupation,the Board has been forced to withdraw its workfrom the Gaboon and Corisco Territory. Thisis due to the embarrassing restrictions of theFrench authorities. It is hoped, bowp\-(.r, thatat least a part of the work can be transferred tothe Egara country innnediately north of the i'i\-ci-Cainpo, tlic dividing line between the Germanand French jurisdictions, Tbe Benga laiipuagocan be used among tribes on both sides of thisriver. It is gratifying to know that the spiritnalwork ofthe missionaries has been attended withmanifest proofs of the divine blessing, inUhe faceof all obstructions. One missionary writes that"a hundred and sixty men have this year decidedfor Christ, on the Ogove. Surely God has beenwith us, and I am sure yon wiU not only join usin our thanksgiving for these past mercies, butalso in our prayer that he will bleiss us yet moreabundantly."We must reserve all reference to the foreignwôrk conducted by the Reformed Church inAmerica and the Baiitist Missionarya future number.AT HOME.OUR SOUTHEESr .VIISSIOX.'Union forThe first field of mission work among the negroesof the South was Port Royal and Beaufort,S. 0. 'l'he.se places bad been captured by theU. S. navy in Novf-mber and December, 1861,and occupied by the U. S. army. So completewas the defeat of the Confederates that not aslave-holder remained on all that coast, but, gatheringup their goods, they fledfor safety to Charlestown.The Sea Isles became the refuge of manyruu-away slaves, who, seeking escape from theirlife-tiine bitter bondage, tiednp their scanty stockof valuables, and rushed in scores to the watersidebegging to be taken aboard ship. 'The numbersteaclily increasing by refugees from the mainland,they were set to prepare the cotton for themai'ket. In answer to a cry that came from allciuarters—" from the commanders of the navaland mUitary departments—from benevolent officersand men—from those who from motives ofphilanthropy and religion had visited and madepersonal inspection of the refugees—and loudestand most earnest of all, from the chUdren of oppressionaud sorrow themselves,"—the Board ofDomestic Missions appointed Rev. N. R. Johnston,of Topsham, Yt,, to missionate among- thatpeople. He left his home Feb. 14, 1862, sailedin a g-overmnent ship, and arrived at Port RoyalMarch s, 1862, For two months did he labor•among that people, ministering to their temporalwants, teaching as he could, and preaching thepure gospel of Christ.The Board, having- assumed this work, appealedto the Church for the means to prosecuteit. The response was encouraging :"The zeal and promptness ofthe Board in thisnijitter meet ihe hearty approval pf Synod, and.

they are hereby urged to .spare neither time norpains iu its future prosecution."Oct, 8, 1862, Rev, Joshua Ivennedy -and soonafter Mr. Robert Shields, by appointment of theBoard, sailed from New York in a governmenttransport. Their passage was free. In Nov.'62 the mis.sion wâs removed to Fernandina, anisland off the N. E. coast of Florida. By Dec. 1,Mr. Kennedy had a night-school of 160 pupUs,while those in Mr. Shields' day-school numbered130. Rev. T. M. Elder was subsequently chosento labor at St. Augustine, but, as there ivas apress for transportation of troops, was detainedin the north. In June, '63, Mr. Elder arrived atFernandina, but owing to the temporary absenceof Mr. Kennedy, did not proceed to St. Augustine.June 1, '63, Mr. Kennedy returned North ou avisit to his family ; shortly after, Mr. Shields beingprostrated by fever, was ordered North by hisphysician, and was accompanied by Mr. Elder.Through the summer the schools were closed.Oct. 1, Mr. Kennedy returned to Fernandina,labored among the people till June 1, '64, whenhe finallyresigned. His res'gnation ended theinission work at Fernandina.The Proclamation of Emancipation on Jan. 1,'63, and ihe progress of tlie Federal armies,opened new fieldsfor missionary work. To missionarieswho labored among- the Freedmen werepromised free passage, free rations, buildingsfree of rent, and personal protection by the U. S.governmeni. In addition to the Domestic Boardof Missions, by whom aU mission work in the U.S. had been conducted, ihe Synod of '63, createdthe Western Board of Missions, to whom wasassigned the mission work in the West andamong the Freedmen of the Mississippi, w-hUethe Eastern Board retained the oversight of missionarywork in the East.Items of Missionary IntelUgence, 219mestic and Freedmen's Missions, This Boardwas organized .lune 8, 1864, and found itself inThe Western Board organized ,iune 23, '63, charge of two encouraging missions among- theelecled Rev. Jas. Wallace missionary to the Freedmenand directed hun to explore the Mississippi W-ashiiigton. The Natchez missiou was inFreedmen, on

220 Items of Missionary InteJligence.discontinued, and Mr. .Johnston was transferredto Washington. The work at Natchez was promisingand encouraging, but the Board had notthe funds to carry on the work effectively.The Washington mission, when the CentralBoard took charge of it, was superintendedby Mr. .1. 0. Bayles. The Board appointed Rev.T. M. Elder as superintendent. He took chargeof it in September, 1864, aud remained tUI March,1866. Pêy. .1. M. Armour was next appointed,and continued iu charge till October, 1866, whenhe resigned. He was succeeded by Rev. .1. M.Johnston, who was transferred thither from theNatchez mission. A good and great work wasbeing done, but the inission had two needs, anorganization to gather in the converts, and ahouse of worship. In December, 1861, a communionwas held, at which time four personswere admitted to membership, the firstfruits ofmissionary toil. The property of the missionwas sold, and a buUding reuted for school andchurch purposes. In .January, 1810, the Board,pressed for funds to carry on the work and meetthe necessary expenses, felt itself constrained towithdraw the teachers and discontinue the misenergy, zeal, and prudence of those in charge,and soon became as promising as ever. In January,1811, Mr. Wm. McKinney arrived at Camsion.The remaining property was directed tobe sold. It was a severe necessity, yet it was den, Ala., to enter npon mission work, and fonndnot the intention to abandon altogether work in the field encouraging. The death of his wifethe Southern field.was a severe blow, and the withdi-awal of StateIn addition to carrying- on the work aniong aid which had hitherto been granted, necessitatedthe Freedmen, the Church had gathered and was his recall.educating youug colored men for the ministry, August 21, 1811, G. M. EUiott was ordainedthat they might be the heralds of Christ tb their to the ministry and installed, December, 15, pasown oppressed, degraded race. At the time theWashington mission was discontinued one ofthese men had entered the Theological Seminary.Though this man turned aside and disappointedthe hopes of the Cburcb, another, Mr, LouisJohnston, entered the Seminary the uext year,and on April 8, 1813, was licensed to preach.That Suminer he spent in exploring the South,and returned in the Fall to complete his Theologicalstudies. In March, accompanied by Mr, G,M, Elliott, he was sent to Sehna, Ala,, to inauguratemission work. They reached Selma, AprU24, 1814, and opened a school with fourteenscholars, May 11. In two weeks the numberhad increased to fifty-two. On May 10 wasorganized a Sabbath School with twenty-sevenscholars. On October 14, 1814, Mr. Jobnstonwas ordained to the ministry. Ou December,1814, the property on wbicb the missionbuildings stand was purchased. April 14,1815, Louis Johnston, Sr., and G. M. Elliott,at the request of the Board and on the recommendationof the Pittsburgh Presbyterywere ordained to the eldership by the Pittsburghsession tbat they might constitutea session to admit applicants into Church member-.ship. May 21,1815,ibe,se were constituted asessionby the Rey. L. .Johnston, and twenty personswere received into full communion. 'These thenelected three elders and two deacons, who wereordained on the 22d. On the 23d was administeredthe Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by Rev.L. .lohnston, when there sat down together twentyfiveCovenanters ofthe sablerace. April 12,1816,Mr. G. M. Elliott was licensed to preach the gospel.The prospects of the mission were good, thework was progressing, and much good was beingaccomplished, when the mission received a severeblow. Mr. Johnston fell, was removedfrom the mission October 31, 1811, and suspendedfrom the ministry November 14,1811.The mission thus crippled was saved through thetor oi the Selma Congregation. In the summerof 1818 a church buUding was erected on the missiongrounds, and in the summer oi 1881 waserected the commodious buUding in whichschool was opened in January 1882. Tn'entyyears have passed since mission work among theFreedmen was begun. The results of the workduring these twenty years are one colored minister,the pastor of a colored congregation andprincipal, of a school for the education of coloredchildren. The results are not great, but as greatand greater than could have been expected.What has been done is a promise of better resultsiu the_ future. The childhood of the missiou ispassed, it is now in its youth. Let us not weary,but, looking to God for success, continue in welldoingH. W. Reed,Principal of Knox Acad-emy.Selma, Alabama.

CHILDREN AND MISSIONS. audience, and received an expression of homageOur children should be early imbued with a that gold conld not have purchased. The vastmissionary spirit. Many Christian men and congregation rose up as one man, and many eyeswomen, with this cause upon their hearts, are un- were wet with tears. A responsive chord wasable to enter a foreign field. They are bound by touched in the orator's fine appeal : "Fathersindissolvable ties. But may they not do a great and mothers of Scotland, is it true that ye wiUwork through the dedication of iheir children to not let your sons and daughters go io preach thethe Lord's service ? Ai twelve years of age gospel ? I spent twenty-five years of my life inHannibal of Carthage was sworn upon the altar India, lost my health, and have come back to die.of his gods, and the vow of eternal enmity to If it be true, I wiU be off to-morrow, and let theRome breathed its spirit into a life of relentless heathen know that, if I cannot live for them, Iand indomitable purpose. Yonthful decision has can die for them."—Bev. John Lathern's Maceoftenbeen influenced at the most critical moment, donian Cry.and character shaped trom the consciousness of —Children ought to he trained to contributeparental solicitude. There need be no hesitancy to the cause of Christian well-doing. It is notin regard to sacrifice of feeling. No higher honor enough thai the children's nanies be entered in ihecould the Saviour confer ihan in claiming our books of the missionary collector, and regularlychUdren for the noblest work on earth. paid out of the parent's purse. They shouldThe missionary addresses of Dr. Duff, after his rather be taught to earn or save money, subscriberetnrn from India, were urgent in appeal to Chris- and pay themselves. The work is thus broughttian parents. He demanded in the name of his directly home to them, and they feel personallyMaster ihe consecration of Scotland's most gifted interested in it. Children speciaUy are not Ukelysons and daughters. AUusion was made on one tc faU of interest in what they pay for ; by thisoccasion to the steadiast loyalty of a Highland' method they are habituated to giving, and willfather and mother. Only one son had been cheer- thus readily respond in after life to ihe appeals oifnlly given up to the royal cause, soon probably Christian charity.to find a gory or a grassy bed on a wild moor or. Aninstance of parental training, which occurredin some lonely glen. " But Oh, had I ten, they more ihan thirty years ago, comes up vividly bewouldfollow prince Charlie.'' Thai was the un- fore me. I had been sojourning at ihe house of aswerving attachment to the unfortunate house of revered friend—a true mother in Israel. WeStuart. What ihen does the cause of Christ de- had been at church and were purposing returningmand ? ShaU Christian parents grudge their chil- in ihe evening io hear a sermon on behalf of miS'dren to the service of the King of Kings ? sions. When dinner was concluded, ere withdraw^Before the General Assembly, 1861, a most im- ing from the table, the object of the sermon waspassioned appeal was made for ihe sustentation of introduced and the subject of contributing sug'missions. Overcome by exhaustion, Duff fainted gested. The mother, addi'essing each of the childonthe platform and was carried oui io an ad- ren in their order, put to them the quesiion—joining vestry. " I was making a speech," he " What will you give ? " Various sums had beensaid—coming to and wondering for a moment announced in reply; but on coming to her boywhere he was—" let me go back. I must speak James, no response was forthcoming. " So then,or die in the effort." The missionary veteran, James," said the mother, "you give nothing; forwith massive brow and long white hair, tremulous giving to be accepted by God must be cheerfulfwith emotion, stood once more before the immense and having said this the question passed on. The

222 Children and Missions.maiter dropped, but, on the way io church, sUver sixpence, dropping amidst a plateful of cop-James came alongside of his mother and, catching pers from the fingers of an apprentice boy ; andher by ihe arm, whispered in her ear, "Mother, Jesus put it into that man's heart to open Up theI'll give a fourpenny." Conscience, under the in- way to the youthful donor for a distinguishedfinence of judicious parental counsel, had been at career of Christian usefulness. From that day,work, and had brought up from the pocket of a as he told his wife, he never was without silverwarm-hearted, cautious boy a very fair contribu- money for a good cause. Ere long he obtainedtion io the evening's collection. Thus it was that employment in a mercantUe ofiice and ultimatelythis generous hearted woman transfused her own rose to be a partner in the concern. His generspiritinto her chUdren, and fostered in the church osity and Christian activity kept pace with hisof which she was a member a spirit of liberality success in life; widows and orphans became thewhich is felt to this day.cherished objects ofhis care; missions, schools andSuch isi an instance of domestic training in tract societies received his liberal support. PewChristian liberality;,take now an instance Ulustra- Sabbaths passed without some village congregativeofthe effect ofsuch up-bringing. WiUiam tion enjoying the .services of the "merchantMeGavin, well-known as the ''author of the preacher;''the abominations of Popery specially,Protestant,'' was ihe son of an Ayrshire farmer; roused his indignation, and never perhaps has thehis parents were most exemplary members of " the Man of Sin found in a layman a more formidableSecession," and liberal beyond the generality of opponent. The same dip of the pen, which transthosein their station of Ufe. Their children were ferred a thousaud bales of cotton to other hands,taught not only ," to fear God," but also " to keep not unfreciuently finished a paragraph of thehis commandments;" and among the command- " Protestant,'' on the weekly issue ofwbich mniments, the injunction " to do good " was specially titudes all overthe country waited with nevercommended, as of the nature and evidence of the flagging interest. Having through a generousChristian life. , Much migbt be expected of child- accommodation of a friend lost his entire fortune,ren thus trained ; nor was expectation disap- " Oh WiUie," said his wife, casting her armspointed. Theêniirefamily attained distinguished around his neck, " I'm right glad to hear it; nowpositions,both in tbe.Church and in the world. I'll get yon on the Sabbath to myself." HisWilliameariygaveiudicationof fhe generosity and money being gone, she calculated on his beingabUity which ultimately secured for him the chief henceforth obliged to stay at home, as on all hisplace in aU Christian and benevolent movements, preaching excursions he defi'ayed his own expenses.His widow informed me ihat, whUe a boy, he "I have been," said he, "like a channel thronghlonged to express,hi?love of God by at least once which money has flowed; sometimes thousandsdropping a coin into " the plate," as he passed havebeen in the course of passing through, andinto His hous,e onthe Lord's day. Copper by sometimes only shillings; but to me it mattered.copper was carefully laid aside, and. When ihe littie which it was, as I feel I am responsible onlyrequisite number were secured, he with great grati- for what God gives me and no more." And now,fication exchanged them for a six-penny piece, and if any of my young friends should, when in Glaswithgreater satisfaction stUl added the piece to gow, pay a visii to the Cathedral, let them rethe" weekly offering." Not only was Jesus that member to look across the ravine, which separatesday " sitting over against the treasury, beholding the Jmrial ground from the steep and ruggedhow people cast money into the treasury," the hUl bej'ond, and they,,wUl perceive on the sumelderin attendance was struck with the fact of a mit an elegant monument surmounted by a

The Strength of Mohammedanism in Syria, and iis Practical Hold on the People. 223statue of Mr. McGavin, erected by the citi- three brothers. Oneof them being asked one dayzens to the memory of hhn, who, when a boy. how itwas they gave so Uberally and so cheerlongedfor the'pleasure of dropping silver money fully, replied, " We were trained to it when childforonce on " the plate " on ihe Lord's day. How ren, and we could not sleep on onr beds if wetrue is it that, as is the boy, so is ihe man ! The kepi back the Lord's money." They were trainedhabit of giving is to a large degree a matter of wheu they had littie, and when the Master gaveeducation, and thus habituated to it in eariy life them an abundance, the habit was formed andwe will feel little difiiculty in exercising it in after they gave of their fulness, wiUingly, and gladly.—years. Were chUdren trained after the model of Mrs. John L. Scudder, in theSpirit ofMissions.the Christian household io which I have adverted, ' - . •or,encouraged to do as WiUiam McGavin, there '^Ê STRENGTH OF ;JtOHAMMEDANwouldbe no stint of funds for, the Church'; oper- ^^M IN SYRIA, AND ITS PRATICALations.-i?.u Wm. Beed HOLD ON THE iÊOPLE.— Train children to be generous. Some peo- The Mohammedans of Syria nuniber about onepie feel that if they give their chUdren a comfort- million, not counting the sixty thousand, Bedawinable home, suitable clothes, proper food and a .Arabs, who are claimed as Mohammedans, butgood education, they have entirely fulfilled their in reality observe none of the " fivepUlars or foundobligationsas parents, and yet childreu who have ations of Moslem practices." 1'hese five dutieshad the best of the.se four requisites, have grown are :to be men and women so stingy, so close-fisted, I. The recital of the creed or Kalimah daily -.and so small inmany ways, that one might almost " There is no God but God, and Mohammed isquestion whether the world would not have beeu the Apostle of God."richer, U they had never been born—-for the H- Sulat, ihe five stated daily periods ofground they occupy might have been possessed prayer, viz -.by a nobler type of being. Such people are no 1. From dawn to snni'ise.benefit to society. . These persons may 2. Noon.not be wholly to blame for this—a great part of -3. A!sur, or middle of the afternoon.this wrong may have been done them by their 4. Sunset.parents, whose constant cry may havebeen, " Get, 5. One and a-half honi;s after sunset.get, get; never give."III. The thirty days' fast of Bfimadhan.This training chUdren to be generous is a mighty lY. .âto ; the legal alms.responsibility. ChUdren are plastic. Shape them Y. Hajj ; the pilgrimage to Mecca.early and you may shape ihem well. That gol- The Bedawin, though politically regarded asden-hahed boy may be a millionaire, even ihough Mohammedans, observe none of ihe religioushis parents are struggling with poverty, and any duties, and hence are classed among the nonlackof training by that father or mother may rob religious peoples. Tbere is a Syrian proverb thatthis world of places of refuge for ihe weary and " Three classes of people have no religion, as theysick, and leave the Gospel light out of many a do not observeihe duties of the law, yiz ; women,darkened home. muleteers, and Bedawin Arabs." , ,A smaU town in Massachusetts gives the larg- In Syria, the Mohammedans,,are ihe rulingest contri'bntion of auy couniry parish in the state, class, and hence despise those of otiher sects. AUOne year that little church gave, ior benevolent the Syrians of all sects are Ârabs in blood andobjects, nearly $9,000, and it came largely from language, and are ruled by ,a foreign dynasty,

224 The Strength of Mohammedanism im Syria, and its Practical Hold on the People.the Ottoman Tm'ks, whose Sultan, Aj^dul Hamid, The Scriptures in Arabic have opened the eyesresides in Constaniinople. The only bond of of not a few who read God's Word in secret, andunion between the Arabs and the Turks is ihe await the day of deliverance.Koran and ' the religion of Islam. The Arab The Moslems find it necessary to defend thehMoslems submit to be ruled by the Turks, on the peculiar doctrines in newspapers and tracts, quiteground thai the Sultan is iheir Khalif or religious a remarkable concession, yet we are not allowedPrince, although in other respects they hate the to answer them. The repressive measures usedTurks as foreigners. It is astonishing to observe to prevent printed discussions are justified by thewith what ease a handful of Ottoman Turkish offi- anthorities on the ground that they would occacersrule all Syria, collect the taxes, and enforce sion riot and bloodshed. This is probably truethe enrolment of soldiers. ' in the present state of society. As the Koran re-If it be asked whether Mohammedanism is quires of all Moslems that they read the Old andstronger or weaker in Syria than it was forty New Testaments, the wisest and best course is toyears ago, I should say, both : it is stronger in offer to the people the Word of God, and leavesome points, and weaker in others. It is stronger God's Word to accomplish its own blessed mission.through the efforts of the Government to revive Should the way ever be opened for judicious,the old war spirit of Islam. The army is a Mos- courteous, and kindly printed discussions with thelem army, not a national army made np of all Moslems as to the claims of Chrisiianity, thereclasses, but a class army, the army of the prevail- wUl be many ready for the task, as there are nowing sect. It is as though England should exclude iu India.all Catholics from her army and navy, and France The practical hold whieh Islam has upon theexclude all Protestants. The whole male Mosleni people is marvellous ; it is a relentless system opopulation are reckoned as soldiers, ready to fight ritual, yet they perform its rights with wouderfiilfor'the Sultan and the faith. All the modern mill- patience and regularity—every male child is cii;-tary inventions and appliances introduced intothe cumcised, every man mnst make the pUgrimagearmy and navy, are meant to help the reUgion of to Mecca. They frequent the mosque and holdIslam. The military and civil service schools are extraordinary prayer-meeting-s caUed Zitr, inalmost exclusively for Mohammedan youth, and which their voices sound at a distance like a hoareethe evident intent of the authorities is to favor one bark or growl. I once heard a strange noise onsect, io ihe disadvantage of all others. And in Sabbath evening, and asked my cook whether mythe civU courts, the testimony of Christians and neighbor was sawing wôod ? He looked out andJews is not received. Only Mohammedans can repUed, " No, U is only a Moslem prayer-meeting."testify, and this in spite of various firmans declar- 'The sound to a stranger is weird and terrifBc. Aing that Christian testimony shall be received. crowd of men sitting or standing in a ring, beginAll these things tend to strengthen the hold of slowly in unison, each repeating the motto "iaislamupon the Mohammedan population. It is i-hi-ha,"—"No God," with each exhalation of hisfor their interest to remain Mo.slems,breath, aud with each inhalation, " Il-lal-la-ho,"-On ihe other hand, they feel their inferiority as "Bnt God," These words are repeated fastera nation to Christian nations, ami find their re- and faster until the voices merge in a rapid grofflligion an insuperable barrier in the way of pro- or coarse bark, and finaUy cease from the exhausgress,Many'of ihem are disgusted with polygamy tion of the worshippers. It is very exhausting,and its attendant evils, whUe they find ii conq- and hence regarded as most meritorious,melided in the Koran.Mingled with the religious duties and belief

It is ibe cnrse of Mohammedan society. The degradationof their women and their homes is asad comment on this abominable system.The Moslems believe in one God, Their monotheismis the saving feature in the whole system,but it is so interlinked and interwoven with theimmoraUties of polygamy, ihat the elevatingpower of the doctrine is well-nigh lost in the degradingpower of the practice.There are Mohammedans all throngh the Eastwho long for retorm, or foi liberty to embraceChristianity.Multitudes feel that their system has grownGOOD DEEDS,The weary traveller in the South of Spain,who, after passing many an arid plain and manya bare hUl, finds'himself at nightfall under theheights of Grenada, wUI hear splashing and ripplingunder the shade of the spreading trees, andalong the side of the dusty road the grateful murmurof running waters—of streamlets whosesweet music mingles with his dreams as he sleeps,and meets his. ear as the firstpleasant voice inthe stillness of the early dawn. What is it ? Itis the sound of the irrigating -rivulets called intoexistence by the Moorish occupants of GrenadaGood Beeds. 225are numerous superstitions, especially among the five centuries 'ago, which amidst all the changeswonien, who believe in charms, amulets, in tne evil oi race and religion, have never ceased to flow.eye and evil spirit, and, are in bondage to fear and Their empire has fallen, their creed has been suppressedby fire and sword, their nation has beenvague apprehensions aU their lives. Polygamy is'egaUzed in the Koran, and strenuously defended driven from the shores of Spain, and their palacesby modern Moslem writers, yet many of the most crumble into ruins ; but this trace of their beneficialcivUization still continues ; and in this consensible men repudiate it and marry bui one wife.tinuity, that which was good and wise and generousin that gifted but unhappy race still lives on,to cheer and refresh their enemies and their conquerors.Even so it is wdth the good deeds of those whohave gone before us. Whatever there has beenof grateful consideration, of kindly hospitality, offar-reaching generosity, of gracious charity, ofhigh-minded justice, of saintly ' devotion—thesestill feed the stream of moral fertilization, whichwUl run on when their place knows them no more,when even their names have perished. The visionof anoble character, the glimpse of a new kind ofold and is ready io perish. They despair of reformingit, and believe that their children will a thing of beauty, is a joy forever.—Stanley.virtue does not perish. A thing of goodness, Ukefive io see ihe triumph of Christianity, HO 1Let us work patiently on. Light is dawninggradually in the East, When the sun begins torise it never moves backward. Pray that it mayshine more in Syria even unto the perfect day,—Rev. Henry H. Jessup), D.D., in Woman's Workfor Woman, New Tork.Wlio is it that calls '!Througii the liot quivering air the sweet voice fallsLilrerippling -waters on the traveller's ear;Across the burning sandsA form of majesty and beauty stands.With outstretched arms to draw the -wanderer near;So full of strength, of tenderness, is He,Would it might heThat He -were calling me IWho is it that calls ?I gaze around to the far desert -wallsWhere brazen heavens meet the glittering sand;From east to glowing westI find no form on which mine eyes can rest,Save Him aud me, iu all the weai-y land.I hear His voice, His look of love I see ;O, can it heThat He is calling me?" Ho, all who thirst! "With dry, hot lips, and veins that -well nigh hurst,I've travelled since the da-wning of the day ;Ever before mine eyesThe mocking image of cool water lies.To dra-w me on my weary, hopeless way." Every one that thirsteth," crieth He.Yes, it must beThat He is caUing me!

226 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad." To living water come !"Beneath the willow near raychildhood's homeA little brook ran murmuring sweet and low;How have I longed in vainPor one fresh draught to cool my burning brainAnd calm the quivering pulse's fevered flow 1" Come ye to the waters l " still eaith He.Lord. I come to Thee,Since Thou art calling me!—Cliristian Union,Under date, Sept. 8th, 1881, Miss Mattie R.WyUe of Latakia sends the following account ofa communion at Gendareyeh :Two weeks ago Mr. Easson held a communionat Gendareyeh. It is a village about tenmiles from Latakia. It is situated on a barrenrocky knoll and can not be called beautiful forsituation, but what is beautiful about it is that anuniber of the people have made a profession oftheir faith in Christ and they are not ashamed tomanifest their love for Him before their friendsand neighbors. Several years ago they built aschool-bouse. Tbe men gave money and thewomen helped to carry lime and stone. Theyhave money collected to build a church and itwould have been done before tbe communion, butowing to the scarcity of water they were obligedto wait. Mr. Easson returned Friday evening,but remained Saturday night. On Sabbath morning,I in company with Mr. Geredeny and threeof tbe teachers started just at daylight. Wereached there at half past seven. They werewaiting for us to begin the service, so as to bethrough before the heat of the day. They wereheld uuder a large olive tree. A box was placedin the trunk to make a comfortable seat for me.There were mats aud felt rugs placed round forthe others. The pulpit was a Avooden chair,nsed by the teacher wben tbere is a school. Mr.Easson had put a piece of a board on the back onAvhich he placed his Bible. The same chair Avasused afterwards for a side table for the bread audwine. We did not arrange the table before tbeservice began as we were not sure where the sunwould be when tbe sermon was over. A womanwhose husband was in tbe army asked to baveof the church and he says it is Mr. Easson's faultthat he does not belong to us also. He has twowives and he would be willing to put away thefirst one, and provide for her, but Mr. Easson tellshim she is the lawful wife. " One thing thoulackest." He was dressed clean and his whitehair, beard and spectacles made him lookquite dignified. He had his Bible with him andhe listened very attentively, always looking up thereference as if to be sure no mistake would bemade. Our own people though in tbe peasantdress were easily distinguished by their earnestthoughtful mien and tbe pains they took to havetheir children sit beside tbem quietly and listen.A very impressive sermon was preached on thelove of Christ. We then arranged the table,wben Mr. Easson proceeded with the sacramentalservices. Twenty-one gathered around the table.It seemed very solemn and impressive. Onethought " A table in tbe wilderness, did God preparefor us." I am sure every one felt it good tobe there. It was such a comfort to feel that theMaster of tbe feast looked down on us with thesame love, as he did upon those who in other landshave honored him with beautiful churches.The services were over at about eleven o'clock.We were taken to the bouse of one of the membersfor dinner. Afterwards several of the womengathered about me and I told them the story ofChrist as simply as T could and urged them to acceptof him. i then met with the women of thechurch and talked to them of their duties to theirhusband, cbildren and neighbors. One of thegirls who did not commune and thinks she has agrievance came to see me and I talked earuestiyto her. This took up the time tillevening service.After it was over we would gladly haveber baby baptized. She lives in another villagestarted home at once, but my teacher Zahoorfour,or five miles distant and she had walkedwould not hear ofsuch a thing till after supper.that morning carrying it and another child ofWe started at half past five and reached home attbree years. The child was baptized after tbe explanationof tbe Psalm, Quite a number froma quarter to eight I wish we had as many membersin every village as there are there, both onthe viUage gathered in to witness the proceed'the plain aud mouptain.ings. Prominent among them was the sheich " a'The followiug extracts are from a private letterhard case." His son and daughter are members

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 221of Mrs. Metheny's, written at Guzne, Sept. 12th,1881 :Your note of Aug. llth, reached the mountainsSept. 9th, a pretty quick trip. It is well thatlittie better and though he isstiU quite weak, wemissionaries cannot travel so quick as tlie post,hope he will soon be well. Doctor is expectingor you would have them running back and forthto go to town to-morrow to stay a few days andevery little while. When the longing to see thesei in order some things preparatory to our return,fnends at home becomes very strong, there arewhich will be next month some time. Our movementswill probably depend on what we hear ofseveral things to keep ii within bounds. Thedread of the sea itself, the thought ot the fearfulDr. Balph's coming.qualms of mal du mCr, and last but not least theOur teacher from the viUage near Tarsus, camethought of inquiries and remarks,as to the shortnessof the intervals between missionaries' visits,up last week for advice. The Turkish tax-gathererin his rounds had seen his school, and theall operate as checks to ihe desire to be in civilizationonce more. We hear of new railroads onnext Sabbath an officer came to arrest the teacher;he was at home in the city at tbe time, so the officertook with him a Primer io examine. Whenevery hand now. A late paper speaks of the certaintyof one being built from Constantinople tothe teacher heard what had happened he came upthe head of the Persian Gulf. In that case thehere. Dr. gave him some more books with theMersine, Tarsus, and Adana will doubtless beGovernment stamp on them and sent him back.extended to meet it, so that we will be in directHe is teaching among his own people, and theycommunication by land with Constantinople. Ifpay him a certain amount for each pupil, so withthe Siberian raUroad goes on, who knows but wehis authorized books I do not see what the Governmentcan do. Our work for the winter willmay some day go to America by the Pacific route.Our summer is drawing to a close and Septemberhas brought a few clouds, aud a very pleasantdepend mueh on the response made by the churchto Dr's. appeal.change of weather, but very little rain yet. YesterdayTO THE CHURCH.and to-day we had a little sprinkle. 'Theclouds seem heavy to the north of us, and I thinkthey must have had a good deal of rain in themountains behind our range. Mr. Montgomerysaid that a delegation from Cio had come toAdana, and they report that their river is driedup and, they have to: go au hour and a half for alltheir,water. The Government undertook io giverelief to the sufferers in Adana, and set apart agood sum for that purpose, so the missionarieswithheld their help for a little till they shouldOur baby has been quite sick for nearly threeweeks, and since last Friday we have been veryanxious about him ; last night he began to get aTarsus Mission, Asia Minor, Sept. ll, 1881.Dear Brethren :Recently i wrote yon of the door Providencehad opened for us in sending a famine on thisprovince. Bro. Montgomery represented the matterto his constituents and received thousands fromthem ai once. By a,few more strokes of his penhe asked andreceroed a thousand pounds—15,000io enlarge their school already built. In thesetimes men are glad to work for 12 cents a day II had to pay for the same kind of work 21 to 32see what would be done. The people complaincents a day 1 Material is cheaper than it has beenthat the food supplied them by the Governmentfor many years. His enlargement is much largeris deficient iu quality and quantity. Two .weeks'than the original building. Now, if any or severalof the brethren desire, we can put np morerations were given out four weeks ago. It isquite possible thai much of the fund may find itssuitable buUdings than we can possibly rent andway into the pockets of the agents. There are inat a cost which we may never be able to reaUzeAdana and Tarsus a number of British subjectsagain. Thus giving employ to the needy, tbefrom dift'erent parts of India. The Turkish Governmentdeclines io aid them, and refers them tochurch can do more than it has heretofore beenable with the same amonnt. Mrs. Metheny offersthe EngUsh Consul. I just now heard that ita fine site for a boys' school. It cost over $500.rained quite heavily in Tarsus for six hours lastNow with a few zealous helpers the church willnight. Now that it is nearly time for tall rainshave a nice suitable building bringing into the mission$125 a year from the resident missionary inwe are anxious to see whether the drought wUlbe broken up.

228 Incidents in Mission Infie.the same buUding. I have spent much for a foot- beautiful site with a mce fountain on it—a conhold.Let us have $3,500 or $4,000 and we wiU sideration itself worth the whole money we paidbegin ai once while this crisis lasts. Surely, ifthe for the lot. The boys' aud giris' schools wiU bechurch could see our work here, the money would separate, and yet near enough that one missionary,be forth coining at once. I am hoping that there if need, be, can g-ive instructions in and have theare eleven men who will give tbe whole amount immediate oversight of both. Please act at once.at once and relieve us Oi many burdens we are un- I have conscientiously placed the matter beforeable to carry without it. I am hoping my ex- you and now leave it io God.perience may avaU to make the work much Resnectfullycheaper than is possible to a new man. 'The lotMrs. Methenv offers fronts on the sea and is aD.avid METHE>fS'.OUR GOD. women as his sisters, and strength and courage,, -r, -1 T Q „ 1 -1 • • to fight for their protection."' Do your gods love you ?" asked a missionary f .,.,,,, , ^, , ,, „f T J-

Incidents in Mission Life. 229he was not Ukely to be daunted by a man of tbat io work ; and it wrouglii, tiS it often doesstamp. He looked at him and said, " And I too, flrst instance, anger, astonishment, awe, affright,sir, have a spell; and, if I work that spell npon amazement; then, uuable to endure it, the manyou, it wiU subdue you utterly ; and if you resist rushed out of the place in despair. But the spellthat spell, it avUI grind you to powder." was over him. He could not go far. He cameWell,.the man did not understand anything of back again by-and-by. " TeU me about that spellthis particular fashion, and thought that he had again."unwittingly come into the presence of a greater So then the missionary took him to the greatmagician than himseli It was the slave of the place—the place of divinest sorcery ; the placering, in the " Arabian Nights,'' who had just hap- where, by that exquisite magnetism of the Gospel,pened unwittingly to trench upon the province of if He Avere lifted up. He would draw all men untothe slave of the lamp ; and he was quite ready Him ; and he showed him the sacrifice of the life,to apologize for his intrusion. " Oh ! " said he, crowned by the deeper and costlier sacrifice of"tell me about that spell." the blood. And while he was speaking, the spellThere was nothing in tbe world the missionary wrought again. It was working all the while,wanted more than that; so he began and took and it Avrought, wrought, wrought, until it wroughthim to the shores of ihe lake where the Gadarene all the devil out. Tbe man became a witness formaniac was dispossessed, and he showed him how, the truth that be had formerly despised, and isunder the influence of this wonderful speU, ihe man now himself an energetic, earnesl pleader for thewas clothed, and in his right mind at the feet of dominion of ihe Crucified.—Dr. Punshon.Jesus, Andthen he took him off again to the IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.gates ofthe city of Nain, where there was a young. , , ,, , f-,- +1 „, „ J „K„ The story which I have to tell this monthman carried ont, the only son of his mother, and she ^^ '-> ja widow, and showed him liow there came a sUence may startle our readers east of the Rockies,stiddenlyoverthesoundsof woe, because the Son of though ihe hard tact underlying it has longGod was passing by. The poor woman wept not ago been known to us on this Pacific slope,noisily, bnt aU that looked upon her saw that her and especially in San Francisco.heart was crashed ; and the Lord pitied her, and On Sabbath June 5th among seven Ohi-TT i 1 -J i'X- T ,„,+„+1,,,^ nese who were baptised and received into Beth-He went and said, '-lonng man, I say unto tbee. '"^'î^ " f , ^ --. . -.,.,, -, -,J. 1 T 1 anv churoh, was one young woman about fifai'ise,"and he that was dead stood np and began ''"J' ^"'^'^"'''' fi ^ .' 1 1 . . .i 11 X J I TJ .^„ teen vears of age. She was the second temaleto speak, and oh, inimitable tenderness ! He de- leeuycaiû g,.,,.,.,. ,, A J j-i 1 „ M ,-. „ri Chinese received to our fellowship, for out ofhvered him to his mother. And then he showed '-^"'""^""^ „,.,,, ,. /,. , . 1 ,.. -1 .1 1 T, il .A more than 120 of that nation whom I havehim that vine-latiiced cottage by Bethany, and ^"^" „,\, , , ,, , . il 1 i f *i bairtised all bui two have been males.the agony that was m the hearts of those weep- oaptiseu an u ^ , i, , ^-, ,ing sistei;, as they mourned theh beloved-brother. This young woman is remarkably beautifula four da;s' dweller in the tomb. And then he i^ person, pleasing in her ways, and interest-, ., JV. 1 inff in character. Her father is in China. Herpainted a grave-side scene, pathos and power '"B '"

230 Incidents in Mission Life.she had pawned this girl for $250, but had she holds her under such protection now.paid $100 on her debt. A very estimable The day after Ah Yung's baptism, I thinkChinaman, not a professed Christian, but one it was, ihe mother appeared. Entreatiesof whom we have hoped much, knowing the proving vain, she sought by oiher methods toparties and hearing that little Ah Yung was bring her daughter under her own control, orbeing harshly treated, advanced the balance else get from some one the coin she was supofthe debt and took possession of the child, posed to be worth; for such a girl just bud-He placed her in the famUy of our helper, Jee ding into womanhood in our Chinese matri-Gam. Thus she became known to the lady monial market is said to be worth from $500teachers in our Central Mission, one of whom io $1,500. Last Saturday ihe Chinaman whowent up-stairs each evening to the apartments had befriended Ah Yung appeared at myoccupied by Jee Gam's family, to give her a study. Itwas with difficulty that he couldlesson, and also (as always) to speak to her of maintain his self-control, though he is a manCbrist. of strong and steady nerves. His lips quiv-At first indifferent and even hostile^ she ered as he talked, and his athletic framesoftened at length, and began to wish ihat she often trembled. The mother had appealed tomight become a Christian. With this soften- the Six Companies, and his life was at stake,ing of ihe heart towards Christ, there rose of Since then, as I have been iniormed, a meetcoursean abhorrence and dread ofthe destiny ing ofthe representatives of the Six Companwhich,according to heathen customs, awaited ies has been held, and our friend was sumher.She did not, however, at first open her moned io appear before them. He was givenheart fully io her teacher, but said ihat she till to-day (June 17th) to restore the girl towould like to earn some money, and to work her mother—an act entirely beyond hispower.for wages in some American family. A place Meanwhile, tbe High-binders were already onwas found for her whici, as being a little re- his track, and he scarcely feels safe even inmote from the city, was likely to be a safe re- Oakland and in his own employer's house.fuge. But when the time for her removal He will probably be obliged to flee,perhapscame, unexpected obstacles were interposed, to some point far East, for he will not be able,Jee Gam, while quite wiUing to have her go, even if disposed, to surrender the dear child tofelt that it would be neither honorable nor safe the fate to which in her mother's hands shefor him to deliver her to any one except the man would be doomed.who entrusted her to him; and this one shrunk This has brought closer home to me thanfrom the responsibility of letting her go where ever before the tact of an imperium in imperioit might be diflioult for her mother to resume in our Chinese communities. It stirs one'spossession of her. Meanwhile the case became blood to think that this young man can makemore urgent because of a report tbat her no effective appeal to our Government againstmother would soon be in San Francisco, for this secret tyranny. It may very likely bewith her arrival all possibUity of legal pro- that if he should be murdered, his murderer,tection tor the child would be gone. Miss if convicted, would be hung; b'at this is atJessie S. Worley, the principal of our Central best a cold and shadowy comfort in the pre-Sohool, suddenly cut the knot by causing her- sent emergency.self, with no one's consent except that of the "Agogd argument this," some one avers,child, io be appointed her legal guardian, and " for hustling the whole brood out of the land !"

Notes and Beviews. 231But in go doing we should not help ourselves ing in with intenser zeal and more practical enatall, and we should hustle them back into deavor, ihe life-giving, freedom-giving light ofdeeper darkness and severer cruelty. A good Christ.—W. C. Pond in the American Missionargumect,rather, as it seems to me, for pour- ary.—After an uneventful voyage of two weeksour medical missionary and his family reactedLiverpool, and saUed from that Port on the24th of September-for Alexandria.§at^^ mil §mm^.A very interesting farewell meeting forthe family of Dr. Balph was held in the R. P.congregation of Beaver Falls, August 29th,under the auspices of ibe young ladies' missionarysocieiy known as " The King's Daughters."They provided and served an elegant—We have secured a copy of Dr. Pearson'sadmirable address on The Ideal Church, deliveredat a recent Convention of Christiansupper at the residence of the pastor, whereDr. an Mrs. Balph were the honored guests,Workers in New York city. If will appear inand to which all the congregation and somean early number.others were invited. Aiter this they led the—The Heeald op Mission News wUl becontinued for another year at tbe originalway to the church where a public meetingwas held. Miss Maggie McCartney, Presidentprice. Our receipts have not met the cost oi of the Society, presided, and conducted theproduction ; but we trust that our present subscribersexercises wiih much grace and dignity. Afterwill not only renew, but commend the devotional exercises, addresses were made bymagazine to others, and thus extend its circulationRev's. J. 0. Smith, S. J. Crowe and Johnin the churches.Alford, and by Professors H. H. George, W.P. Johnston and Geo. Kennedy of Geneva—Monday. Oct. 10, Rev. Royal G. WilderCoUege, and R. J. Dodds, son of Dr. Dodds,finished his earthly work and rested from hisand now student in the Semina>'y.labors. For thirty years he served his DivineMaster with untiring energy and zeal as missionaryto India and for ten years, as edilor ofthe Missionary Beview, he labored to quickenthe churches into greater a ctivity in the causeof foreign missions. It was his desire to returnthis autumn to India and he was making preparationsfor his departure, but the Lord hasdecided otherwise. We extend our Christiansympathies to the bereaved family.—Few things are more encouraging than theunabated interest that so many take in thepersonal welfare of our foreign missionariesand the work to which they have given theirlives. A pleasant illustration of this is furnishedin the following communication :That our missionaries might bear awaysome suitable memento of the occasion, theyoung ladies had gathered by voluntary giftsfrom the congregation a purse containing $100,in gold coin, which the pastor, at their requestafter a tew remarks placed in the hands otDr.Balph. Miss McCartney then arose and with acharming address presented to Mrs. Balph abeautiful sUk and velvet quilt, as ihe specialgift of their Society, whioh they had wroughtwith their own hands, and which they offeredas a pledge of affection and of abiding interestin their work. These tokens Dr. Balph acceptedfor himself and his wife and respondedto the sentiments expressed in a modest andtouching address.

232 Notes and Bemews.The meeting was a most delightful and upliftingone and greatly enjoyed by all.circula.tion in our churches. Those who haveWe wish for this attractive volume a wideOur Young Ladies' Society was recently ihe cause of missions ai heart could not renderbetter service to that cause than by put-organized and ihis was their firstintroductionto public work, and their skill and devotion in tintf a dozen or more copies in every Sabbathcarrying it out give good promise of their efificiencyas true Daughters of theSchool in America.King.— A cable-telegram dated Oct. 16th, announcesthe safe arrival of Dr. Balph and familyat Latakia.LING-NAM.*Never, perhaps, at any former period in thehistory of missions were there so many opendoors and suoh earnest appeals from the heathenworld for help. We gather from the addressesof living missionaries and from -volumeswritten in the interest of evangelisticwork in foreign countries that ready accesscan now be had io multitudes that only a fewyears ago were deemed inaccessible. In thepublication of " Ling-Nam," Rev. B. 0.Henry has laid the reading world, and espeoiallythose who are interested in the missionarycause, under deep obligations. A narrativeof personal experience and adventures intheinterior of China and in the "hitherto uniraversedisland of Hainan," the book is full ofvaluable information respecting the daily lifeand moral character of the people, and cannotfail to interest those who wish to make themselvesfamiliar with the extent of this vastempire and wiih the spiritual condition andclaims of its inhabitants. The author tells usthat he has traversed the interior of SouthernChina in all directions, and no one oan risefrom the perusal oi the.se clear and graphicsketches without being filledwith amazementat the seeming apathy of the Christian public.when such abounding opportunities are presentedfor the spread of the gospel.*Ling-Nam; or Interior Views in Southern China, pp.611. By Eev. B. C. Henry of Canton. S. \\. Partridge &Co., Loudon,MISSIONS AND RUM.iOi all obstacles that missionaries have tocontend with in their efforts to save the heathen,not one is more formidable than thedrink-traffic. Vessels, sailing under the American,or British flag, are to be fonnd in allparts ot the world, loaded with ardent spiritsfor heathen countries ; and the profits of thetrade go into the pockets of many who havethe affrontery to call themselves followers ofOhrist. The story ofthe Berlin Conference iswell-known. HenryM. Stanley used alibis influenceto prevent the importation of spirituousliquors into ihe Congo Free State; butthat Conference, representing nearly all theso-caUed Christian Powers, turned a deaf earto tke earnest appeal of that eminent explorer,and perhaps 11,000,000 dollars worth of rumweni into the Congo Basin in 1885. Itis simplyappalling to think of the multitudes thatare beiug ruined ii? this way for time and foreternity, to enrieh nations ihat owe all thehprosperity to the uplifting power of the gospel.The author of " Two Years in a Jungle,"is right, when, speaking of the unprincipledmerchants who engage in this traffic, he says"All men who are mean enough to promotevice for money deserve to be hanged, or elseput where they oan prey only upon each other."An important article on this subjeot from thepen of Archdeaoon Farrar, contributed to theContemporary Beview, has recently been publishedin pamphlet form, and should hava thewidest circulation.tAf ilea and the Drink Trade. By Canon Farrar, D. D.,F. K. S. The National Temperance Society and PublicationHouse, 63 Eeade St., New York.

THE IDEAL CHURCH FOR THEPEOPLE,*Rev, A, T. Pierson, D, D,rUBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOABD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED I'RBSBTTERIAN CBURCB,U, S, A,#uf Wxtm of §Xmm ^xhan accommodation total for about three hundredand fifty tbousand people, or but Uttie over onethird of the population of Pbiladelpbia and theCicero lays down as an axiom that a publicsuburbs. Asa fact, ihe average atteudance doesspeaker should, early in his address, establishnot reach two hundred. 'J bis gives us a totalbetween himself and his audience a mutual understanding.I have not come here to read aof about one hundred and forty thousand as theaverage attendance at tbose places of worship,or less than one seventh of the population.paper, or in any sense whatever to make au elaborateaddiess. I bave no time for mere UteraryI was for thirteen years a pastor in tbe beautifulcity of Detroit. 'I'here were accommodationsefforts. I wish to speak with great plainnessthere for about sixty thousand, which included alland simplicity and without written preparationplaces of worship of every kind and size. 1 hisupon a vital and most important topic. Prayleft about as many more people, entirely unprovidedfor in tbe way of church accommodations.that I may be restrained from saying anythingthat will be in any way injurious to the cause ofUnhappily we can still say in all these churches,Christ and may be led to say only things suggestiveand helpful. The topic assigned is the ideal"And yet there is room," but it is only becausethe members themselves are growing more andChurch for the People. Let us consider some ofmore neglectful of their own attendance.the great necessities which ought to be met, andthe ways in which they may be met, though time 2. In tbe second place, we are actuaUy losingmay compel lis to omit, many things Of whicii we instead of gaining ground in our churches withshould be glad to speak.ihe common people. I may be pardoned for1. First, let us try to appreciate the problem speaking with some little emphasis, for after. that is before us. The simple fact is, the great studying this subject for twenty-five years, onemultitude of people are not now reached by any gets some little knowledge about it. 'I'here wasof the metiiods of Gospel work ; and accommodations, especially in our large cities, are entirely Christ twenty-five years ago than ihere is to-day.larger average attendance on the Church ofinadequate to the population. In the city of Churches in the city of PhUadelphia, such as thosePhiladelphia there are seven hundred places of of Dr. Brainerd, Mr. Barnes and others, whichworship or assembly on the Lord's day, includingwere tben filled,lower floor and gallery, do notPapal, Protestant and even Spiritualistic placeaverage one hundred and seventy-flve in attendanceto-day. This is a well known fact; I amofmeeting. Allowing an average accommodationof, say five hundred, which is very large, we havetelling- no secret. It is precisely so in New York.There are a few crowded central churches, becausethere are very uncommon men in ihe'An address delivered at a convention of Cnristianworkers, iu New York, September, 1887. Copyrighted.pulpit.

234 Our Views of Mission Worh,or very uncommon attractions to draw the peo- moral miasma. Robert Peel gave his daughtefpie together, but the majority of the churches an elegant birthday habit. She wore it out onhave a smaller attendance than they did a quar- her birthday, riding in the parks of London. Sheter of a century ago. Who or what is responsi- was immediately taken ill with the*most violentble for it, we are not here io discuss ; the horse form of Typhus fever and died. The reason wascar system does not help the matter at all, if I that the poor seamstress who had embroideredmay be allowed to speak with perfect freedom. the magnificent robe was compelled during the3. In the third place let us remember that, chills of a terrible and fatal fever to cover herout of what is sometimes called " the common poor husband \vitli the riding habit and it tookpeople," the backbone of tbe Cburch and State up tbe germs of the fever and conveyed them toalways has, and always will, come. The condi- the daughter of the Peer. Society has a peculiartion of the common people is the condition of the way of avenging her poor and outcast children.commonwealth. The fact is, that the vital ques- There is not a fainily that is exempt from thetions of Society concern wbat we call "the moral as well as the physical contagion that emmasses"—theterm is invidious, but it is commonly anates from the .slums and diseases of society.used—there is too mnch grandeur in human souls It is more necessary that we should carry theto m.ass people togetlier ; but when we speak of Gospel down to the lowest than that we shouldthe masses we mean the common multitude ; and carry it up to the highest. " There is room atthecoiiditionof the common multitude determines the top," Daniel Webster said. There is plentythat both of Church and State. The Church of of room at tbe bottom and no room at the top.Christ is always of the common people as it mnst Society is a pyramid, the top is an apex, audbe iu the nature of the case. Society always you cannot get many stones on an apex—not onetends from the extremes to the mean. Riches do more, if tbe top stone is already there ; but therenot abide in the hands ofthe rich. 'J'he rich men is plenty of room at the bottom. The top of soofone generation are represented by the poor ciety is an apex. The bottom is a broad basemen of the second and third generation and so and there is where the Christian Church oughton. On the other hand, there is a constant ten- to begin. If you have a Gospel that will reachdency, as there is a constant struggle of poverty the lowest, you have one that will reach the higlitowardsriches. The more civilization extends est and middle classes. It does not follow, howinthe community, the larger and more respectable ever, that the Gospel tbat reaches the highestis tbe Aiddle class. The work of the Church of classes is going to reach the lowest and middleCbrist must always be, therefore, to reach the classes ; yet, if the base be unsound or unsetried,common people ; and, in so far as tbe Church tails nothing is secure or stable above it. 'Iheinthis, she faUs in t'ne great colossal work which Chnrch of to-day has made this fatal mistake-God has given her ; and such failure implies ruin trying to reach tbe highest classes and allowingto the most precious interests. the bottom of the pyramid to sink lower and4. Another fact that I beg you to notice is lower, deeper and deeper.that the slums of society are iu some respects fhe If there is auy conviction that thrills me froramost important objective point of Christian labor, the crown of my bead to the sole of my feet, itYou cannot have a defective drainage about your is this, that if anything wiU ever solve the prohouse,or a filthy cesspool, without malaria and bleni for tiicmultitudes, or enable the Church toa deflling and poisoning effect. In tbe centres of regaiu the ground sbe has lost, it is found in theof society moral slums exist and they exhale a gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christianify

Our Views ofi Mssion Work. 235the only salvation for ihese classes aud the only pie Bwaj from. If there is anything we ought tosolution to these great problems, thank God for, it is for Charles Haddon Spur-Bnt how can this great need be mei ?geon, who, in the metropolis of the world, has1, The Ideal Church for the People wUl, in dared for thirty years to preach the gosf)el withoutthe first place, be a thoroughly evangelical meretricious adornments or attempts at rhetoric,Chuich. I mean that it will give special pro- He to-day migbt have twenty tbousand people torainenceto the great central doctrines ofthe gos- preacli to every Sabbath instead of six tbousand,pel. One of the faults of our day is that if the Metropolitan Tabernacle conld bold tliem.there is so much preached iu our pulpits that is All substitutes for the old gospel are short livednot gospel. There is a large degree of conse- in tbeir power, just as God meant they should be.eration, humUity, and fealty to the Word of God 2. In the second place, any Cburch that is goingon the part of ministers ; they deserve to be held to draw and hold the people must be an evangeinthe highest possible esteem, as a grand set of listic church. Churches have various objects inmen, even if I do, unfortunately for the rest, view; all of tbem, more or less, have their peculiarhappen to belong to them. Bui there is a great characti-r. Some are especially sacramental,deal of preaching that is not gospel. Some min- they magnify the sacraments; some are espec allyisters, instead of using a text to enter the Lord's socia?, they cultivate society; some are especiallygarden, content themselves with getting on the educational, and they magnify the truth that istext as a gate and swhig'mg to and fro. Lectures to instruct and edify tbe believer. Other churchesof a moral, scientific, or religious sort, may be are especially evangelistic; they forget themselvesprofitable and useful and helpful, while they are and go out after the lost. The Ideal Churchnot "the gospel oi our Lord Jesus." Essays on should combine all these things. It will magnifytheological and philosophical topics may help to in due proportion the sacraments, tra'ning ineducate, but even these are not saving truth, and truth, social life and evangelism. An evangelistict-he Church that is to save the people mnst be a Church wiU magnify the conversion of souls evenChnrchthat magnifies the gospel ofour salvation, in its prayer meetings and Bible classes. AnyEvery sermon preacbed upon one of these out- Cburch that combines evangelization on the oneside topics and not resting alone on the gospel hand and edification and aU that pertains to it ontruth, is, for gospel purposes, a lost sermon, the other, is a model Church for all the purposesNothing can ever permanently draw the people for which God has put ihe Church into the worid.bnt "the gospel. Some scholariy form of oratory Yery few of the churches of this or any otheror aesthetic attraction in the house of God %r land AviU stand a microscopic examination. Gothe time being may draw the people, but for per- into some of them and you will find an eloquentmanent attraction there is nothing equal to this orator in the pulpit who is intelligent and learned,samegospelthatliftsup theLord Jesus. Ifthe and doubtless instructs and entertains many-inangeldoes not come down and stir the waters of telUgent hearers with his literary lectures audthe pool, you will call in vain upon all ihe quacks learned disquisitions, but it would take fiftysuchh-cm Jerus-alem to impregnate the water wUh sermons as these, condensed, to furnish enough oftheh medicinal drugs. If you wiU show me a the gospel to bring one soul to Christi Thehearchurchwhere men and women, who go, get the ers sometimes think the man is very deep because,pure gospel every time they go, and where God's perhaps, be is very muddy. I heard of a speakerSpirit stirs the waters with healing power, I will in a town in New Jersey, who began to addressshow you a church that you cannot keep the peo- a Sabbath.school, thus : "I am going to speak to

236 Our Views of Mission Work.you on two propositions. In the first place, man went into one of the cathedral churches of thisis a causative being; and in the second place, ac- city and heard an anthem It was the firstve'sctions are exponential of character." We observe of tbe fortieth Psalm. If it had not been that 1that our blessed Lord, when be taught, taught so recognized the inusic as being connected with thethat the common people could understand bim, words, I should not have known a word theywhich is a great tbing ; even his forms of illustra- sang. I myself preached in a cimrch on one octionand explanation were drawn from common casion, where " Jesus Lover of my soul," to theobjects that they were familiar with and could tbe tune of ' When tbe swaUows homeward fly,"understand. Au illustration is a window to let was sung by a woman, yon would not have adinthe Ught, but you may incumber an illustration, mitted to your firesides, and the man that sangas you may a window with so much stained glass the tenor was her paramour. In another churehand carved framework, that tbere is no place for tiie wbole choir went out to a beer saloon nearthe light to successfully get through. The first by. The system, prevailing in our churches to atbing in aU public utterances is to have sonietiiing large degree, sets up an ae-thetic standard, in theto say, and then io say it as plainly as may be, pulpit, in tbe choir and in the buildings. Xoand trust to the virtue of what you have to say wonder we have not God's power inthe churches,to please tbe people. All these elegant ora- when tbe worid is worshipped as an idol, for thetions and phUosophical essays should disappear Holy Ghost will not stay in his own courts, wheuout of the pulpit; all this highly aesthetic sing- he finds idols there,ing should disappear out of the choirs. 1 have 3. The ideal Church for the people wilfl bebeen called a musician irom my cradle One may ihe Church that is not only evangelical in its docliketo play and sing, and like to hear finesinging trine, and evangelistic in practice, but it wifl heand playing, but the house of God is not a con- an edueaiiorial Church, or one whicli wifl endeacertroom. We have no more right to seek a vor to become a school aud a home for the people,purely artistic standard in singing than we bave and the more a Cburch can make the people feelto seek a purely artistic standard in prea(;h- that every legitimate advantage, everything thating and praying. Nor have we any more business is beautiful, attractive and helpful, is found withinto cut an unconsecrated singer into the choir, her bosom, tbe more success will there be in winthanto put an unconsecrated preacher into the ning and holding the people. I happen to bepulpit. It is no wonder that God curses with pasior of a cburcb, composed almost exclusivelybarrenness the cburch that pays ber thousands of of the " working classes.'' There are eighteendollars for her quartette choirs and her opera- hundred nominal inembers and perhaps as manysinging inusician-< without regard to their power more who are occasional attendants, and perhapsto make melody in the heart to tbe Lord. In- two hundred families ijeside, who are connectedstructors in music always say to their pupils, with the church only through their children in•" when you sing, pay as little attention to the con- the Sabbath-school. Of course there are greatsonants as possible, and dwell upon the vowels." evangelistic possibUities in such a field. WeThe consnquence is just as Mr. Finney said iu a have been endeavoring with the help of God, toquaint prayer one Sabbath morning. Tbe cboir make tbis church educational in the best sense, ahad performed an anthem, and when tbey bad fin- kind of university for the people, not only in reishedhe said, "Ob Lord, we suppose that Tbou ligious but in secular departments. For examplebeing omniscient, hast understood this singing, but we have what we caU a lay-college. We haveas for us we bave not understood one word." I classes in French aod German, phonograph

Our Views of Mission Work. 237book-keeping, etc.; not because ihese are of religi- prayers. They went out at once to do what tous importance, but because they are useful and could. I'hey went into an outside district audwill help the people to enlarge their fieldof labor started a prayer ineeting and Sunday school inand increase their service in the world. Wc have a dwelling- house ; they began to preach on thethe Ideal Church in view, and are doing what we open lots near and the interest increased. Notcaa to reach toward it. We have in connection one of tbese young men had received a colwiththat college various methods of religious in- lege education. The interest increased in such astruction; classes in the interpretation of the marked manner that when Rev. T. C. Horton,Scriptures, examinations of the parts of the Gos- the associate pastor was called, he advised thempel, and instruction with referencetoreaching souls, to put up a tent, Tbey went out and with theirOurchurchesoughttobevastlymore than they are, own bands put up a plain structure of posts audinstitutions of eriucation for the people Tbere are timbers, stretched over it a canvas covering madevery few congregations where there are not people of second hand sails, made a platform and put iuwho wonld gladly give one or two evenings of a a small reed organ, Tbey have had conversionsweek to help others. When I came to Bethany, i at nearly every service from that day to this,found perhaps six or seven hui\dred young people Looking over the list of the original signers toin the congregation, a large nuinber of whom were this agreement, it is noticeable that one of themready to be moved in the direction oi Christian is just about to go to a foreign mission fleld fromwork, I asked some of the young men to meet a tbeological seminary ; another is one of thewith me and for perhaps five or six weeks gave most prominent teachers in Bethany Sundaythem my impressions as to what could be done in School ; another bas gone to Louisville, and isthe way of evangelization ; that tiiey need not doing a noble work for Christ in that city, andwait for education or to go tlirough college or there is but one or two of tbem all on whom thefhe theological seminary, but might at once enter Lord has not laid his band in the service of winuponwork for souls. So after we had met for a ning souls. Rev. Mr. Horton, moreover, formedfew weeks, they formed, of their own accord, a youth's association. When, for instance, a Iaawhat they called an evangeUstic hand. After feels that he has come to believe on the Lordthis little band was formed, numbering perhaps Jesus Cbrist, and accept hira as his Saviour, hefrom twenty-two to twenty-five at tjie beginning, is requested to join our youth's association, whoseI met them week aiter week and instructed them members have a compact between ihemselves thatat firstin the knowledge of the Word of God and each one shall be prepared to tell the meaning ofthe wise use of U, and in the foundations of some one of the texts on a given topic and lead inChristian trnth and the various departments of prayer. We are trying to train up tiiere a bandChristian endeavor, e.specially lay preaching, of boys and giris who wUl be of some use mGod laid his hand on these young men, Tbey Christian work and not be afraid to lead insigned a solemn agreement, as foUows :prayer or read the Scriptures, or open the mouthIn joining the Evangelist Band, I propose, for Christ before others,with God's help, to maintain and live, not only 4, The Ideal Church for the People must bestrictly inoral and temperate, but to be an exam- jj.^ ^j-^g ^^^^ ggjjgg gf the word a democraticpie to aU believers in godliness and purity, and q^^^,^^^^ jf ^^^ ^ju êad history, you wiU findto devote such portion of my time as may be con- ' - , ^ ii,

233 Our Views of Mission Work.rigid and despotic, that whatever a man's service Now I am very much afraid of the spirit of casteto the Church or State may be, he can never rise in our churches. Oue of the most elaborateabove tbe conditions in which he was born. In churches in Montreal ihey call the "PuUmanEngland caste is not so rigid, for a man may rise Palace Car Church" because the common peoplefrom a common apprentice to be a master workman,are not supposed to go to heaven that way.then a merchant prince and from the mercbant'The Earl of Shaftsbury, a man who refused briiprince become a meniber of Parliament. liant posts of public service in the highest positionsAmerican institutions are stiU more flexible. in the kingdom, said, " it is not plain to me thatThe possible upward career, here, of any man has G od wants me to be an officer of state ; bnt Ibeen compared by Garfield, to the facility with know that God wants me to help and befriend thewhioh a drop of water rises from the trough of the poor." On one occasion this man had a convictsea to glisten on the crest of the waves. But come to him just out of prison. A man had senttbere is nevertheless a spirit of caste whicb invadeshim to the Earl as his surest friend and so theeven our churches, aud seriously affects convict came direct to him Five years aftertheir vitality and theii- usefulness. We are gettingwards, when that man was a respectable merchantto have the most contemptible of all arisin a small way, in a business supporting himselftocracy—that of mere money. 'The rich ami and his fainily, he said to a friend, " The Earl ofpoov do not meet together, though the Lord is Shaftsijury Ls responsible for all this." His friendthe maker of them all. Tbe simple iact is tbat, said, " What did the Eari say to you ?" "Ah !"if we would add to our congregations, we must said lie, " it was not what be said, but his touch,welcome even the poorest and outcast classes. I as he put his hand on my shoulder, and said,have seen in the little tent which these young " Jack, we'll make a man of you yet; it was hismen of Bethany put up, a poor woman come in, touch that did it." 3iy friends I wish I couldragged and tired, with four little children clinging impress upon you all that a kid glove is a nonconductor.to her. I wondered if oue of tliese rich chur(;hesThere are people ready to gowonld receive her. She found the Saviour iu that and labor among the poor if tbey could go in thetent and theu went home to gather her childreu extreme of fashion or without any personal contactaround her, though her brutal husband was; but they caunot stand the •" poor smeU."drunk, and lead them iu family prayer. The We ought to get rid of this fastidiousness. Thepoor man does not want to go to a chnrch, maguiflcentlymore we lovg Christ, the more our souls must gobuilt and magnificently decorated, with a out to His poor. Now the way to go among theten thousand dollar minister in the pulpit, and a poor is to go in a spirit of love. You cannotfive thousand dollar choir in the organ loft, bework for these men unless you love them. Mrs.cause he cannot furnish his proportion for the sustainingof that great financialenterprise. A mandoes not enjoy the beautiful when it is theproperty of another man, even though tbat manmay show bimself a friend, so long as he knowsthat he himself cannot bear his proportion of theexpense. Such pride is not wholly an ignoblepride. Is it very strange that there is somethingin the mind of the poor man ihat revolts at intrudingupon the pew that is owned by another 1Rhea weut in Persia into the huts of the poorestwomen, where the children were almost naked,and slie said she wished tbey were absolutelynaked, for then there would be less room for thevermin to hide. Returning to her own room shesaid, " 0 my Jesas, I canuot work for thesewomen unless 1 lov.:' them." That is the onegrand requisite for labor, and the caste spiritmakes this impossible. Love tbem for the sake oftbe salvation of tbeir souls. God will not use a

Our Views of Mission Work. 239man, in ihe pulpit, or out of the pulpit, largely In booths they resided for eight solemn dayas a winner of souls that does not consider the of festivity. Suppose a man, king though hegospel the great leveUor, and does not go himself were, had entered and portioned off a spacedown to the level of the basest and lowest. • and said, " that belongs to me "; would it not5. Now I want to say a word more in con- have been monstrous? We have a system inelusion. In the Ideal Church we must not only the Churoh of God that there is not a partihavean evangeUcal tone in tbe pulpit and ole of foundation for inthe Scripture. Not apreacher, and seek tbe education of the people in particle. I call it "monstrous" because itthe broadest sense, looking after their elevation, erects a barrier between the common peopleand in a democratic sphit recognizing uo distiiic- and the Church of God, and whatever doestions whatever ; but the Ideal Church wiU, in that is monstrous. Whilel was a pastor in theray opinion, also be a free Church, A free city of Detroit, ihere was always room in myChnrch is not a Church where people do not give churoh building ; but God permitted it to beanything, I mean bythe free Church, a Cburch burnt down on the twenty-fifth day of March,where the minister is supported, and the ordin- 1876. We immediately took possession ofances ofthe gospel are maintained by voluntary the Grand Opera House, and I threw aside allofferings. Under the free system a man gives what attempts at literay and elaborate essays, andhe is able and wiUing to give, and the minister of preached the simple gospel extemporaneously.JesGS Christ accepts the free-will offerings of his God gave us one continual revival of religionpeople, be they small or large, as the basis ofhis for sixteen months ; more souls were convertsupport.It is utterly impossible to bave a free ed in that time than in the whole of my pre-Cliurcb, if the minister insists on being paid a vious ministry. The se-its were free andtixed salary, especially if it be a large salary, A large numbers of the outside classes found,large fixedsalary for the minister, compels some their way into the meetings. The church wasfixed system by which the salary shall be regu- rebuilt substantially as it was before. I pleadlarlyprovided. I believe that the free Church ed with my people to make the seats free,is one of the main factors in the solution of our but they did not see their way clear to do it,problem, and ihis candid honest conviction has but returned to the old system of selling pewsbeen wrought within me, after twenty-five years and whatever be the reasoa, from the day weof thought and study. Cyprian says that, " cus- entered across the vestibule of that ohurch,torn is often only the antiquity of error." Now the converting power of God's grace declined.there are some customs, particularly inthe Church, Pardon me for this reference to personal exthaihave not even the sanction of antiquity, perience, and for feeling a little enthusiastic.You go back to the Old and New 'Testaments, and speaking with what may seem to be undueand there is not a shadow of a foundation in the excitemHut. Nothing more takes hold of mewordof God, for such a system as that of to the tips of my fingers, than the convictionmodern sale and rental of pews. 'The name that we wiU never gain on the people veryby which I think that system should be largely by our present church methods. Wecalled is, " fnonstrous." The feast of Taber- will never reach the people as long as we sellnacles, the greatest of all ihe three feasts, was the pews to the highest bidder. And whilethe Type and Ideal of the coming Church of the minister may get his support in large partChrist. It brought ihe king and the least of f'om the man whose character and trade hehis subjects together, on a basis of equality, loooks upon with the utter loathing and detes-

240 Items of Missionary Intelligence.tation. We talk about the " bondage of the of ihe bread he puis into the mouth of himselfpulpit." I should like to know what you expect. and his family, comes from a man of vile lifeA young minister just beginning to preach because he can pay for a pew. I would ratherventures to touch oneof his small thunderbolts -be John the Baptist, in the wilderness clothedon the subject of intemperance. A trustee with camel's hair und feeding on locusts andtells him that a man who sells liquor was so wild honey, and be free to go into Herod'soffended that he will never come again. The court and preach against ihe evil there, thanLord may give that preacher enough intrepidityio face that issue, but the design and tendencyof suoh a warning is to fetter his utteranceto have the largest salary that could be givenand have my tongue trammelled.But my dear friends there is no reason why,as to prevailing sius. Or again, here ia the same old Gospel and the same Holy Ghost,a man living in improper marital relations and eternal in his existence, power and eflftoieneythe minister preaches on the seventh commandment,may not still be in the churches. Alreadyand he gets a gentle reminder that there there are certain signs ot a new era, and in theis a man living with a divorced wife, who is name of the Lord Jesus Ohrist let us at leastthe man that holds the highest pew, etc., etc. lift up the ideal standari for the people. IfHow can we have anything but bondage inthe pulpit, when a man knows what proportionwe cannot do anything more, let us hold upthe ideal of a true church and work towards it.items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD.The report on foreign missions presented atthe general Synod of the Beformed Church inAmerica, June, 1887, is full of interestingfacts and statements. 'The Amoy Mission,China, occupies four cities and covers a territoryof about eighty by fifty miles, with apopulation of more than three millions. Organizedthree years ago, it has a present membershipof 802 communicants, fitty-eight havingbeen added during the year on a confessionof faith.The Arcot Mission, India, reports an advance in every department of its work—-ninety-fivereceived into ihe fellowship of theChurch, ac increase of one hundred and sixteenin the number of adherents, and two hundredand eighteen more pupils attending theninety-five schools in active operation. Thereare at present 1,669 communicants. TheZenana work inaugurated in several placeshas met with encouraging success, and innearly all the large towns of the mission favorableopenings are presented for the wideningof tbis important work. Not only havereligious services been maintained with regularityat stations and outstations, but duringtours in tho district, and visits to the greatfestivals, the gospel has been" preached 12,-964 times, in 6,009 places, and to audiencesnumbering 436,835 people, accompanied bythe sale or free distribution of more than 12,-000 books, tracts, leaflets, and portions ofScripture." Thousands have also been reachedby means of free reading rooms, " while theresumption of hospital work at Arcot has affordedunlimited opportunities for disseminatingthe gospel. More than 7,000 patientshave been treated, and in this way broughtunder the influence of Christian teaching andexample."The progress of mission work in Japan, andthe openings for further effort, as reported,are simply marvelous. In a previous number,we referred to the vigorous operations of theUnited Churoh with its fifty-fivecongregations,nearly half ofwbich are self-supporting,and an increase in the adult membership ofabout 45 per cent, during the yeav. In illustrationofthe interest in ihe Chrisfian religionihai prevaUs throughout the Empire, the seoetarywrites: Missionaries and nativepreachers, on extended tours, receive everywherean attentive hearing, often in theatres,

from audiences numbering hundreds and eventhousands. The people willingly sit for hourslistening to gospel sermons or lectures uponChristian topics. The newly awakened andwide spread desire for instruction in English,and for female education under Christian infiuences,are further indications pointing in thesame direction. It is felt and publicly statedto be dangerous to commit the daughters ofthe people to other than Christian hands andChristian influences for their instruction. Menof influence and wealth, or communities, areseeking teachers, whose salaries they are willingto pay, for schools, which they are readyto support, preferring Christians and missionaries,to whom will be freely accorded theprivilege of teaching Chrisiianity.The report of thc American Baptist Missionary'Union, repeats the story of large opporItems of Missionary Intelligence. 241the pastoral work among- the converts has boenmarked by diligence and efiiciency. '.Ihe Shanghaidistrict reports an increasing attendance uponreligious services and flfty-flvebaptisms, while intunities and marked progress in Japan, China, the Wachang and Hankow district thirty-eightand India, with an additional chapter on the adults were baptized and five children. Therework in Africa. In all the missions ihere are are 362 names on the native communicant-roll.248 missionaries, including lay-evaiigelists, 1730 One missionary, giving an account of his visit tonative preachers, 1265 churches, 123,530 members,of which 9,342 were baptised in 1886. one year a far better position than our highesta recently opened out-post, writes, " We have inThe report 'says respecting the interesting missionson ihe Congo : For several years much activity in missionary operations to the fact tbathopes could have expected." He attributes thisfaithful and patient work had been done in acquittmgthe language, in translating hymns and porselves been spiritually blessed and quickened.the old church members and workers have themtions of Scripture, and in preaching the gospel The work in Africa has taeenprosecuted wdth anas opportunity offered, but without large apparentresults. In August, 1886, a remarkable opposition. In tbe language of the Bishop ofencouraging measure of success in spite of greatmovement manifested itself aniong the Congo people,who began to throw away their fetich idols, ihe powers of darkness ; and it will be no wonderCane Palmas, " We are engaged ina conflict withand to profess the religion of Jesus Christ. The if, in attacking ihe strongholds oi the enemy, weinterest centered at Bange Manteke, where, inthe course ot a iew weeks, one thousand and sixtytwo professed themselves followers of Christ,butthe tide oi feeling overflowed to other stationsof our own missions, and to those of other missions.the missionaries are taxed to ihe utmost and thework that presses upon them of training the Christians,teaching inquirers, and providing for the innumerabledemands of the new work, which hassuddenly assumed such hopeiul proportions.The report on foreign inissions of the ProtestantEpjiscopal Church, is able to speak of remarkablesuccesses, although the work has insome iustances been carried forward in the faceof serious difficulties. The statistics of the yearrecord the baptism of 20*1 adults and thirty sixchildren in Japan, and the number of native communicantshas increased from 229 to 408. InChina tbe evangelistic work, whicb is to a largeextent conducted by a native ministry as well asare exposed to his fierceassaults. The troubleto which I refer is that which has grown out ofthe rebellion of the Half Cavalla tribe againsttbe Liberian goveimnent, which has forced the nativeChristians and workers io abandon the staThe flrst Christian Church in the Congo Free tions and take refuge in the city. Worse conseciuencesmay possibly follow this evil, for the poState was organized Nov. 21, 1886, at BangeManteke of forty-two members. The missionarieshave been very cautious in receiving candiitjust as we had got fairly started with our work,litical outlook is as dark as ever ; bttt,inpermittingdatesfor baptism ; bnt np to tbe last advices I believe threre is some good which an infinitelyninety-seven had been baptised at four stations, wise and over-rnliug Providence means to bringand others will be received from month to inonth out oi it. We may have cause to say with thess the brethren are able to satisfy themselves tbat great Apostle of the Gentiles, ' The things whichtheir faithis sufficiently intelligent to enable them happened unto me have fallen out rather unto theto adorn their profession as members of the body furtherance of the gospel.' It is true the work at•of Christ. Tbere is an encouraging interest at all Cavalla station has ceased, and that we are subjectedto considerable incoiiveiiience elsewhere the stations ; and especially at Bange Manteke;

242 Ten Thousand Per Cent.hut on the whole we are advancing. The wallsof our Jerusalem are beingbuilt even in troubloustiines. The baptism of converts from heathenismhas nearly equalled that ot the previous yearand,if we take into account the number of converts now awaiting baptism at one of our new interiorstations, the advance in this direction hasexceeded that of any foriner year."A brief review of the work of tbe AmericanBoard will appear in our next number.AT HOME.The Jien's Missionary Soc-iety of the First R-.P. Cimrch, Rev. T. P. Stevenson, D. D., Pastor,llth aud Baiubrid.ge Streets, Philadelphia.This ;Missionary Society was organized, 25thMay, ISSii. W. G. Carson, Junior, beiog President;Joseph Taylor, Yice i^res.; Samuel Irwin,Senior, 'J'reas. ; and Charles A. Pullinger, Sec'y.At the first meeting the Presitlent contributed^156 for the purpose of openmg a scliool in Syria.'Ihe Society meets inonthly, a feature of the proceedingsbeing that members are appointed everyevening to sjieak at the uext ineeting on missionwork in difl'erent parts of the world. 'Ihe society isalso provided with the nucleus of a missionaryUbrary. Lectures on missions are periodicallygiven by missionaries, and letters from luissionariesiu the field are received aud read atthe meetings. The members contribute heartilyand liberally. On Tuesday eveiig, Oct. 25th, arpn'ular monthly meetiug of this Society was heldm the Church, the President, Y'. G. Carson, Jan.,in the Chair. The meeting was opened by prayer;the minutes were read and aiiproved; andafter usual routine of business was transacted,the President presented S200 to the Societyfor Missioiiui-y purposes. A vote of thankswas givou him for his generous gift. It wasagreed to endeavor to raise the fuuds now onhands to S300, aud that tbe money be apphedto opening t n-o schools iu Xsm ]Miiiorin the nameofthe Society. Ou motion it was agreed to sendthis money to Mr, Millar (Treas. of Missions),New i'ork, and to notify Dr. ^Metheny to openthe schools, 'ihe ineeting adjonrned with prayer.'The total coUections to elate amount to S488.32.CUAS. A. I^rLLINGFK;PhiladeljMa, Pa.Secretary.—According to thelast report of the Board ofIndian (Commissioners, the expenditure of religioussocieties for Indian education and missiouslast year shows a total of s250,951,T5.—The Indian department of the Dominion reportsiu Canada J 24,T48 Indians, and the totalnumber attending school during the year 1886was 5,595.MIi:SL§ 10toi, M'-Qnog',1* £1 pils iTEN THOUSAND PER CENT.^^^^^^^ ^-^ ^^^-^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^-^ fî^^^ beMr. Johnson dropped into the office ofhis seated in another. Mr. Johnson noticed it, andfriend Mr. Biown in a mood decidedly blue, said :occasioned by a business investment vrhioh had " What are you up to. Brown 'I Had a strokeproved a failure. It was a little after business of luck, eh? "hours, but Mr. Brown was still in his office and " 0 no, Johnson," he replied, " nothing unalone.He had laid down his pen and greeted usual or new in particular. I was only thiskhisfriend with a cheerful " How are you, ing of a little investment I am just aboutJohnson 2 " " Sour as an east wind," was Mr. making."Johnson's response as he looked atthe beaming " I thought so," said Johnson, " and agoodcountenance of his friend, whom he had known one I'll be bound."for many a year, and whose counsel he had "I think so," was the reply. "What wouldsought many a time and scarcely ever had been you say to ten thousand per cent.?"disappointed." Ten thousand per cent.! You are raving.''There appeared to be a little more than the =' Not a bit of it," said Brown. " And theusual brightness in Mr. Brown's face, as he very best of security—a regular royal pledge."

The Christian \/orlcer's Motive. 243" Now I know you are crazy. Who ever so large a return ih solid pleasure, and—whoheard ofsuch a thing?"could tell what per cent, was laid up for him" Crazy ? Not a bit ot it," said Mr. Brown; in tbe Lard's treasury 1—L. J. Kirkwood, inand he added, wheeling round and laying his British Messenger.hand unon a paper on his desk, " This is acheck whioh I have jast signed, and intend for T CHRISTIAN WORKER'S MOTIVE.a poor western missionary whom I know, and A Christian laborer for the Lord sends uswho, I have just heard, is sick and in much the following extract from a letter receivedneed. The Scriptures say that ' He that giv- from a friend, just before commencing specialeth to the poor lendeth to the Lord ,' but I was work for the Lord. Having found through itnever awakened to the fact ot what interest the a rich blessing, our friend sends it in the hopeLord pays, until yesterday, when our minister that it may be blessed to others. We Uke itstarUed me by saying He had promised ten so much that we gladly afford space, believthousandpercent. I pricked up my ears at ing that the practical words may be of realthe statement, and waited curiously to hear service to many :the proof; and there it was sure enough in " I was greatly interested by your letter,Mat. 19: 29.and will at onoe answer your question about" ' And every one tbat hath left horses, or work in ; bui I oan only do that bybrethren or sisters, or father or mother, or asking you a c[uestion first..Is it work for thechildren or lands for ray name's sake, shall re- Lord, or is it work to gratify and interest'yourceivea hundred fold and inherit eternal life.' self, that you are looking forward to "I Ifit, be" I was struoK at the sound ot ten thousand work for the Lord, have you thought oi whatper cent,, but I figured it out and found it a crucifixion of self that involves ?'There mustcorrect. The preacher was very much in ear- be no thought as to what /like, what I wishnest, as he declared the Lord's diviclend. He to do. This thing must not wound my pride,was as enthusiastic as a stock broker, only in that thing must not cross my S6//(0J/Z. If 1 aman infinitely more noble oause. I was very doing the Lord's work, I must be ready andmueh impressed at the t'lme with the thought, willing to tate the lowest place, to do whatand,i'ufact, have been ever since. It was in ever I am desired, to go wherever I am sent,my mind" when you came in. Not that I can to fill up a gap whenever necessary, to balay claim for a moment to the spirit of self- overlooked, not considered, apparently evensacrifice whioh the text quoted indicates ; but slighted, to see my work upset and undone,my gift to ihe poor is a lone tothe Lord, and and be quite cheerful and good-humouredI am not afraid but that I shall reap a good about it, to yield my way to others, though Idividend."am quite convinced I am io the right, to have"You take a worldly-wise view of the "no feelings," no sensitiveness, but to bematter, don't you ?" inquired Mr. Johnson. always good-humoured and amiable in little" Perhaps I do ; but it will bear it, although things, when no one seems to know or careitis only one view of " Here the ofBce about it,door opened, and the conversation was at an "Thisis the very-least that is - needed inend ; but Mr. Johnson went on his way com- oue who desires to be a fellow worker—withparing his own unlucky investment with the Whom ? With (7/im< Himself. As He is, sosmall one of Mr. Brown's, which had yielded should His followers be. I do not say all this

244 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.to discourage you—far from it; but I wantyou to do the Lord's work in the spirit inwhich He would have it done—that meek andquiet spirit which he is sure to bless, becauseit is so precious in His sight."—Word andWork.BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD.A STANDARD-BEARER falls! O ready hearted,Bear up the colours for your gallant band!Though in the combat friend from friend be parted,No pause, for warrior leal! The sword in hand,The host must onward press with firmertread ;O who will be baptized for the dead ?A soldier falls! Another, yet another!-Fill up the ranks with soldiers true and brave.The memory of every fallen brotherShall speed love's heralds o'er the ocean wave.Vê hear the call of nation's from afar!Who will fill up the serried ranks of war?A messenger of peace caught up to glory!Love's sweet evangel silent on his tongue!Who will arise to tell the deathless story?Labour is brief, eternity is long!On every herald be the Spirit shed!O who will be baptized for the dead?Clara Thtuaites in British Messenger.Under date Sept, 22, Pi,ev. Henry Eas,son m-j hand'? " I then turned to him and said " 'Wewrites from Suadia :have a spiritual pastor and we try to foUow hisOur schooi opened in Latakia last week with teachings, and our pastor does not reciuire us toa fuller attendance than last year. Y'"e have au kiss his hands, and aho it is written in the Holyincrease* of five full-pay pupils iu the boys', and Gospel by Matthew, the apostle of tbe Christ,three in tbe girls' department. '1'hese are the Math. xxiii:9 : 'Aud call no man your fatherfirst full-pay pupUs in the girls' school. 'Teach-upoei-s the earth ; foj One is your Father which isand missionaries have joined together and in heaven.' " 'The Shiekh answered, " Is (rodsent for thirty single bedsteads, twenty-three for our Father ? How can that be ? Can Godthe school in this place and seven for the Latakiahave children ? That would not be seemly orschool. lUie sum contributed for the purappropriate." I answered, " Quite right. Godpose is about $112, and of this amount the native does not ba-ve children after the manner of sinfalbrethren gave $52. 'We felt that these were mankind, but He sends His Holy Spirit into theneeded, and that the money could uot be spared heart ofthe sinner. The sinner is renewed and'from the mission treasuries. A little chapel forsakes his evil waj-s, and God gives him a newabout 22x23 feet is being built at Gendariyeh. heart and assists him to live uprightly beforeThe funds for this purpose have been furnished God, and gives him the privilege and power toby the native brethren belonging to the village take the name ' ChUd of God,' and God is hisduring the past year. It will cost about $50. Father. Thns tbe believer in Christ becomesMr. Easson also sends a translation of extractsfrom letters of Yacob Hadad :Cbrist's brotiier, for Cbrist is the Son of God.All believers are beloved of God and theh soulsSept. 2?.—Oue day when my wife's nephew are precious in His sight. So precious is thewas with us on a visit an old Shiekh enterecl and soul of man that each"soul is worth more thansaluted ns. We returued his salutations without all this worid. JIan is not like the beasts whoany expression of extra honor or worship. The die soul and body. "We should think of theseShiekh turned to the boy and said " Prom whence things and strive to have our life hid whh Christare you ? " Hana answering from the vUlage of iu God and there it will be safe."Bahaura, be then asked me about bis sect. I Oct. 12.—One day a company of Karbaisanswered, "He was origina!ly a Nusaireiyeh, bnt (Gipsys) came and sat down in' fi-ontof ournow a christian, of thase called ' Go.'jpel Cbristiaus.'"door and asked for alms, as if they were unableHe then turned to Hana aud said, to work. Tbey wander irom place to place and"Why did you not accept my salutation?" live liy begging. 'They do not love to work andHana answered '' I did accept your salaams.'' believe idleness more honorable. If the wife ofThe Shiekh then said, " Why did you not kiss oiK' of these men is absent from camp for a

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.while and returns, he does not ask her wliere shehas been, but what she has brought with her.Their manner of life is very low, and theyseem to be without a god in the world, althoughsome people say they worship Fire, for they reverenceit very much.After a short talk with them about alms audtheir duty to work, they asked me, "Y^hat doyou do here ? Are you the man who gives outsilkworm seed?" I answered them, "I am aman whose work is to teach the people the Y'"ordof God, which brings eternal life to the soul ofman." They were astonished at tbese words. Ithen spoke to ihem from the Gospel and showedthem that all mankind are sinners and from oneparent, and that all are in need of salvation.Some confessed themselves sinners, but otherswere silent, for being ignorant as the dumbbeast, they did not understand.to Jesus Christ as the Saviour, and told themthat He had given His Word that all who wouldbeheve on Him should be saved.May God open their eyes that they may seethe true light.In a private letter from Miss Maggie B.Edgar, dated Oct. 4, we fiud the following interestingparagraphs :Miss Wylie and I spent part of our vacationin Kessab and, part in the Ansaireyeh mountains.I did not care for Kessab very much ; it is soclosed in by the mountains as to oppress one.And then it is either so warm or so windy thatone must stay indoors. It was very warm alsoin the Ansaireyeh mountains but tbere was somuch more to interest me there that I did not belonging to our own field. We are the guestsfeel the heat so much. El Murzh is tbe prettiest of Daoud Sulieman whose name of course is familiarto yon. He and his family are I thinkVillage I have seen. Owing to an abundance ofwater it has a fresh greenness that is very pleasantafter the barrenness that one sees every Living out in tbe mountains and among tbeir ownthe most interesting of aU our native brethren.where else. We were tbe guests of Mr. Daoud people, they are obliged to live Uke them, butand lived in regular native style. The family are so neat and cleanly compared with those aboutwere very attentive and kind indeed, seeming to tbem that it is a pleasure to see them. 'Theyfeel that they conld not do enough for our comfort.Daoud is one of the most interesting of our plastered inside for our accommodation. It is setbuilt a booth of branches woven together, andAnsaireyeh members, an intelligent, earnest and on four posts, planted in the ground and a ladderconsistent Christian, and also a man of great influencein his village.a half feet high, over it is hung a curtain whichreaches to the doorway which is perhaps two andIn the evenings we went to the fountains and we drop when we wish it closed. This curtain isMiss Wylie talked with the women, who gather made of reeds and hung by grape-vine stems.there to draw water. I do not think we met Two Uttle round holes in the wall serve as windows.The room is just large enough to allow any one during the time we yvere there who didof9A5not hear from her of their need of salvation fromsin and of ihe Saviour provided. Sometimes itseems almost useless for they are apparently sodegraded by ages of ignorance and sin that theyhave not tbe slightest desire for anything higheror better than the life they live. But perhapssome word wUl be seed dropped on goodground, which will bring forth fruit. Beingamong them one's whole soul goes forth in longingto help tbem. If our ministers could onlyrealize something of tbe state of these people itwould surely not be so difficult to get some oneto come.School has been in session now for three weeksand everything is going on nicely. One little girlwbo had been in school three years, I believe,and had not learned to read, we thought best notto receive again. A few days after scbool openedI pointed themv.'e heard tbat her father had sold her to a moslemhere in Latakia.Pêceiving pupils is one of the most difiicultparts of the work, I think During vacation,and especially two or tbree weeks before schoolopens, Mr. Easson and Miss Wylie are besiegedby applicants who argue, and plead, and demandsometimes, that their particular child be taken,and it is very difficnli often to say " No."We are glad to publish the following letterto a friend in Philadelphia :Latakia, Sept. 3, 1881.Dear Miss T.: Miss Wylie and I spent fourweeks of our vacation in Kessab with Mr. Easson'sfamily, then came back to Latakia, and are nowspending a week in one of the mountain villages

246 Letters from Chtistian Workers at Home and Abroad,•our traveUnig beds beiug placed one on eitherside of the doonvay, having a narrow passagewaybetween. Small as it is we can be quite comfortablehere for a week or two. We ha\-e oarmeals by ourselves out of doors in a nice shadypliici'. They set before us a large round tray ofwoven straw and on it arethe dishes of food, riceand milk, fresh eggs, chicken, lebben, li.t^s andpeaches ; and aU so nicely prepared tliut they aremost tempting ; we both eat out of the same dish,true Arab fashion, and would of necessity use ourfingers ouly we brought our knives and forks withus. It is soincthiug wondtrful what appetiteswe bave, and yet wê cnunot make them thinktbat we eat enough. Y'e are waited on likeprincesses, the girls are delighted if we wil! uUoivtbem to com).) onr hair or button our shoes for us.L'Murzli is the most prettily situated village Itheir supply of clothing- renewed, and soon afterhave seen, there are so many green trees about it,most ofthe boys weut to Tarsus. Some of thosewhich is a rare thing in this country, and sueh awho are lai-.^-er stayed to work at fence building,beautiful view away toward the sea, and the air isetc., to earn a little money to buy clothing forso plf'a,Sin)t,that one cau enjoy a little visit so much.theiiiselves. Last week Mr. Dibbak and hisI like toj;-o ont to the mountains, even tliouglifamdy went to Tarsus on Tuesday, and on WednesdayMiss Joseph with the rest of the girls,it is a roiii;'li life, because it gives mean opiiortnnityof becoming actpiainted with tbe people andthe school steward Stejilien with his family, wentof knowing sometliing about their habits and customswhich will be of much use to me in the futo Mersine. IMiss Sterrett has thus for a weekbeen eDjoyiii,^- the lu.Yiiry of freedom, and dayture. Esjiecially does their life impress me withafter to-morrow she and Miss Dodds too will go.a sense of their need ofthe Gospel. These mountainpeople are so ignorant and degraded, thatThe occupation of the front rooms ou the groundfloor of our house iu ]Mersine by a native family,they reully do uot kuow what sin is. 1 was muchhas so fiUed it with vermin as to render it uninhabitableuntil it can be plastered, and Doctorastonished one evening- when jNliss Wylie wasspeakin;.;; to a number of women who had gathered-roundus ; sbe was telling them about themust n-o down aloii^- aud oversee that.We had service iu our own house yesterday.Son of God who had come to die for sinners thatIn the morning Doctor explained Ps, xv. andthey might be saved ; one of then) asked " '\\njatpreached from John xvi : 33, '' In the world yeis sin, and who aro sinners ?" It seems, as Blissshallhave tribulation; but lie of good cheer IW. said last night after we had talked witb someliiive overcome the world " in the evening afterwomen at the spring, as though it were castinga few words on " I am tbe Y'ay, thc Truth andpearls before swine to tell them of Chiist,tbe Liie," he baptized tive young men from the1 belie-i'C almost the only way to reach tbemFellaheenÎMoliainmcd .'-âleli, Ahmed and HassanHcjab, Suleyman Dervish and ismael ilukli-is throuo-h the education of their cliildi-en in theschools; tbey need to be Irained lo know rightloof, 'i he lirst is the yonng sheikh who hasfrom wrong aud evil from good. How i lon.i^- toknow the lu)igua;_!;c well enough lo be able to helptbem. It is a very slow process teaching one'stongue to .s|iea,k the uiifninilia,rRound,s.Our scliool o]ieiis again iu two weeks from thistime ; we have the pro.sjiert ofa, nice school thisyear, both uniong the girls and boys. We will"be glad when we get the new l)oy,s' school, it is SOmuch needed.There is a prospect also ot more work among thewOmen of Ijatakia thau heretofore. Miss W. expectsto spend an afternoon of each week visitingamong- them, and it is a great deal of pleasure tome to know tiiat i can take charge oisome ofthework, so that she will have the time to go.AVe ave all looking very expectauUy for the(ioiiiiiig of Dr. Balph soon. I presume that lieisalioiit leaving America at this time.Yours sincerely,M.i.G(.;lE B, ElllJAR.'Mrs. Mary E. ]Metheiiy, to whom we arespecially indebted for news I'olating to TarsusMission, writes from Guzne, under date, Oci 10:Our company here has almost all scattered.Y'eek before last tbe cliildren who are clothedby their parents went down to Mersine to getbeen teacliiiii;- this summer in Daycl-esh-sheikh.andwas interfered with lately. lie was a pupil iuour school when it was first opeued in Tarsus inlyy.'l The second is a young man who camehere this suminer as a nuiieteer, and to work atwhatever was to be done. He has been makingefforts to learn to read. 'The third is his broiher.He and tiie fourth ouly began to learn this suul-

Letters from- Christian Workers at Home and Abroad, 217mer, but can now read pretty well. They are sent for the closing of the boys' broadingwilling workers. Tbe last is the ^ brother-in-law school opened in Adana, under the careof Yusef Jedeed and Uves iu his family, and of 01 Hanna Boulad (John Steel), He wascourse bas been nnder Christian infiuence much ordered to close the school but refused to doof his life. Tbey are all from Tarsus. Two so, throwing upon them the responsibility ofchildren of Yiiscf ,Iedeed were also to have been closing it by force. They then sent policemen,baptized, but his wife had fever so it was postponeduntil to-day. This morning we went to and presented them in the Court. Examiningwho took away the pupils, seven little boys,their house, and after a sermon on the words, them and finding them Moslems and Fellaheen," Pear uot little flock,for it is your Fa,tlier's they dismissed them forbidding ihem to gogood pleasure to give you the kingdom," thc two back to school. In spiê ot this, tho cravingslittle girls, Temciny and Beshera \vere baptized. of hunger being strong, some of the little fellowsslipped back, and were again taken away,A Fellah shop-keeper, who wâs our next neighbor,when -n-e Uved in Tarsus, brought some and the parents forbidden to allow them to return.The parents are loud in their denunciahoards during the service and came in. Hemade comments freely, giving- bis a.ssent to what tion of those who will neither feed and clothewas said and asking cpiestious. On hearing- his their destitute children, nor allow others to dopartner below with the boards be rose aud called it. Tbis week a summons for doctor and theto him from tbe window, giving him directions. teacher io appear before the 'Turkish courtDoctor waited till he was done and had resumed has come. The time has now oome to makehis seat. At all events he witnessed Christian a practical test of the working of the Turkishbaptism for the first time. Week before last sohool law published in your columns someDoctor weut down to town hoping to administer time ago. 'There can be no doubt of the result,it our Government will only insist on itsthe same rite to our friends, Senor and SenoraGrimaldi, who had been spending a few weeks in being carried out.our house preparatory to sailing for Alexandria Aiiother storm of wrath was raised by thein search of work. Tbey are both convinced of action of the Governor in regard to the reliefthe invalidity of Homan Catholic liaptisin, bnt fund administered by Mr. Montgomery. HeSenora Grimaldi's mother, an old lady, was uot sent for Mr. Montgomery and told him hewilling to go so far, and Doctor thought they had no right to distribute food to ihe hungry,and requested him to hand over thehad better wait a Uttle, pray with and for berand talk to her on the subject. She is convinced funds to the Government as fhe proper personsofthe truth of Protestantism and may ere longseeher way ^more clearly. 'They w-ent aw-ay could not do that, as the funds had been sentto administer them. Mr. M. told him herecommended to the care of our IJ. P. brethren to him, not to the Government, but he couldin Egy]it. So onr sowing- is beside all waters— desist from giving alms. So when the peopleJews, Homan Catholics, and FeUaheen., Alreadyour room for wrorship is too smaU for communion,if all our members were present, so this Fall itmust be held both in Tarsus aud Mersine to accommodateall. Yê need the prayers of thewhole church that the opposition in high placesto oni' schools may be talcen aAvay.As of old the " common people " are anxiousto learn, bnt those who are bigh in place wishfor their own sinister ends to keep them in ignorance.Mrs. Meiheny writes from Guzne, Oct. 19th,1887:Since writing last week some eventshave taken place whioh will interest yonrreaders. I told you that an order had beencame for their usual allowance Mr. M. toldhim that the Government did not wish him todistribute alms to them any more. 'The feelingsof the people may be imagined; tb-js theGovernment itself is taking ihe very means tobring these people to see the difference betweenthe true religion and the false.At last a little impression is beginning iobe made on these hitherto unimpressible 'Turcomans.One of them told the Doctor yesterdaytbat be was convinced there was somethingin our religion better than in others, forwe were the only people they could trust.He testified that witn us they had never foundanything but uprightness and honest dealiog.Henceforth whoever comes to this fisld should

248 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and 'Abroad.learn Turkish loo as there is so much to bedone among these Moslem people. ThoughDoctor's Turkish is not strictly grammatical,he can convey the truths of the Gospel in abelieve sbe did not know any thing ofit until aftermanner that can be understood. we had heard it. I forgot toTbe poor girl weeps butsay thai this same man said that so soon as that wiU help her none. Nahwie say.s, "Wehis children were old enough, he would put used to laugh at and teaze our neighbor's httiethem in our school.girl who was engaged and now it has come to beDr. D. Metheny says, in a private letter receivedHindea's turn io be laughed at." Since thesea few weeks ago :Providence bas favored us remarkablytwo girls lost so much time from school they havein givino;been continuiug to study their catechism duringus two nice houses in the mountains, where part of the five weeks' vacation which we haveat present (Sept. 17) seventy two pupils and been having. Both are very slow students andtheir teachers are comfortably boused during the Nahwie particularly so, and until this time she hashot summer.cnly reached the 2"6th question. She is rarelyYour letter was warm and cheering. If the able to commit a whole question for one recitation; but last Sabbath, being eager to church shall appreciate your efforts as we do,stpdyyour Journal will surely he a success We shalltry and do our part to make it interesting anduseful. I am not without hope even at this late datethat, ifi could only findtime to write some of mymany experiences daily, it would at least be usefulto those ^yho are sincere in obeying the ascension—theexaltation command. " I do not e.xpectever to be able to interest people wbo give lessthan two cents a week " in testimony of their desireand assurance to be heard," when saying," Tiiy Kingdom come.''LETTER TO THE CHILDREN,Guzne, Tarsus Mts , Sept. 24th, 1887.My dear little readers :You remember perhapsof my having written you last winter of Hindea'sand Nahwie's removal from .school; and then beforeI closed that letter, of Nahwie's having beenbrought back. That letter had scarcely reachedAmerica when away she was .snatched again ; thistime because of her mother's rage at ns for havingrefused to lend money to her son who was alreadydeeply in debt to Dr. Metbeny, This summerwhen the time came for starting to Guznethe repentant (?) iiarent begged to bave bothgirls received again into school and we being wUlingto keep Moslems upon almost any terms tookthem again, aud here tbey are we know not forhow long. When you go home ask some experiencedperson what ''to be engaged" means andthen you will understand wbat I mean when IteUyou that Hindea is engaged to be married—a child engaged to be married I Just think of it !An engagement here is different fi-om one in acivUized land in that the girl is not asked whethershe wants to be or not, and in Hindea's case Iabout ^yho is the Redeemer of God's elect andhow He being the Sou of God became man, shestudied both those and recited better than usual.Sbe was asking me that morning what she wouldtell Moslems when they would ask her how Godcould have a son. She said " Tbey used to askme and laugh about it and I not knowing how toanswer kejit quiet." Tbe Moslems profess to believethe Psalms of David, so, as one means ofpreparing answers for them, she has committedthe 7th verse of the second psalm which declarestbe fact, and that is sufficieni. She says she hasbeen very much confused in regard to religionsfor she has seen so many difierent kinds and heardof others ; some worshiping animals, others thesun and moon, and others pictures, bnt she concludesthat those who worship the Creator of allthese must be right.She arose one morning not long ago and wasabout to say prayers when, said she, " Satan triedme by telling me it was too cold to pray thatmorniug and I was walking slowly towards thestairswhen 1 turned and went back and saidtbem." One day a child mueh smaller than herselfwas teazing- her as she was swinging upon abranch of a tree, when she grew angry aud struckher, but because the litile girl did not strike her inreturn as she exjiccted her to do, she was immediatelyseized with remorse and stopped her playand went off alone to cry. She added " I wasso ashamed then and always am wheu I havestruck back ; when struck, I think that anyhowthat was a little thing compared with whatChrist suffered and He did not return anything."I hope both these girls have the Spirit of God in

Letters from Cliristian Workers at Home and Abroad, 249their hearts. Hindea sometimes takes her TestamentHe left us with a sad heart. He was goingand Peep of Day with her when she goes back to his old home—to father and mother,to see her friends and usually finds every oue brother and sister, all of whom are yet in theready and pleased to have her read to them ; she bonds of idolatrous superstition. He goes backis trying to gather money to buy a Bible for a to be deprived of that gospel and of tbat fellowshipMoslem neighbor who can read and was interestedof brethren that he has enjoyed for years.in what she read io him. I am obliged to He had hoped that when he would be back atclose this letter suddenly but will try to write his old home he could, at least occasionally, seesoon again. I will only add that for most of the a missionary of his own church. Now he haspast year we have fonnd great comfort in teachingUtile hope. 'This will make his return to CaliHannie Nadin and Nuriam Karroom, boih fornia more probable, though as he has adoing as near right as they know how in school brother, a Christian and a member of the Presbyterianor out. We Church in Honolulu, he is more likelyhave employed the good Katrinato teach primary pupUs and in tbis way we have to go to the Sandwich Islands to engage iu businessher with us again and she is continuing somewith ihat brother.of her studies.Seu Hoo Sing is a young man of remarkableWith kindest greetings to each one of you, amiability and excellence. Here he is loved byI remain, Your sincere friend, all. 'We are exceedingly sorry to lose him fi-omE. M. Sterrett. our little group of Chinese Christians. AndSEH HOO SING.when I stood on the upper deck of the steamerabout to carry him away, and saw that fineDear Brother : Before the last meeting oflooking young man in American dress passingSynod, when it was hoped that action would bethrough in the long line of his departing countrymenand submitting to the indignities totaken in favor of a foreign mission in China, afew of the young men of the Oakland Missionoffered to pay eighty-eight doUars for tbe firstyear. After Synod, when they learned ihatnothing had been done in favor of the proposedmission in their own country, they were greatlydisappointed and the missionary who had excitedtheir hopes was ashamed. And, my brother, Imay here add that I now regret that, when I wasin Synod and might possibly have been heard inbehalf of tbe advance movement, I did not makegreater effort to be heard. But my heart wassad and courage failed. And now my prayer isthat God may inspire some, even many of hisservants, at the next meeting to plead for Chinaand not rest until the good work is inaugurated.Seu Hoo Sing is one of the eight Chineseyoung men of our mission who offered so Uberallyto the proposed foreign mission. Now he isgone. A few days ago he sailed in the steamerCity qf Sidney for China. Before his departurehe wished to give me ihe money he had previouslypromised for the mission in his own land.As he did not know that he would ever be backhere again he wished to leave the money in thehope that the next Synod would determine toenter the foreign field. I had to decline themoney, for I could noi assure him that anythingwould be done.which ihat people are subjected, I was indignant.Look at the sight. Four hundredChinamen—a few of them Christians—afterhaving been examined and measured andbooked and tagged at the Custom House (allin accordance with the red-tape of the Kestrictionlaw) pass on the wharf through a gauntletof Inspection that would enrage the meekestAmerican. I counted ihe number ot men employedin this work of inspection and red-tapeand saw that it is about as difiicult to get awayfrom the United States as it is to get into it.There were sixteen ofthem—ten whites andsix Chinese. Every emigrant before goingaboard has to show a variety of papers to themen on Dis right and on his left. No. 1 is acertificate that he has paid his poll-tax. No.2 is a certificate thai he owes nothing to hisChinese Company, or that he is a Christianand independent of Company. No. 3 is his redtag wtiich entitles him to his pass^-ort or hispermission to enter the United States again ifhe wishes. No. 4 is his steamer ticket. Ifall these are right the emigrant is permittedto pass up the gangway. Well may he beglad he is through the long ordeal; for, ifaught is defective he is thrust back abusivelyand not allowed to depart.

250 Incidents in Miss'ion Life.Seu Hoo Sing is on board. Our parting He is gone; and another Bible goes towords are spoken as the gong rings off all who China. Another disciple oi Jesus goes to teUare not io saU. I stand on the dock. The the story to the benighted. Thus seed issteamer cables are loosed and she begins to sown; and thus our prayer, thy kingdommove off Again as he looks down upon me come, is being answered. How glorious theI hear his voice: "I am so sorry I have to Acal result!go, Mr. Johnson, good-bye. Be sure to prayYours in the gospel,forme."N.R.J.iMmmBMTM IM MIS8IQM LlF'M^"THAT IS JUST WHAT I WANT." when he then weut on speaking of His love to,,,,., . , . n^^,,- man, I could ,stand it no longer; and jumping toAn old bund man, m the province of luhkien, „ ,-, , - 1 < rm I- - .. r, + t ^ „r;. ^, , ^ , ' my feet, I exclaimetl, ihat is just what 1 want.'in China, not very lono-atro presented himself to • . ,, , , ,. a- ++i,,•„*„,+'. . •; o o l " ôw to-uiglit here I am, standing at this font,a Christian missionarv for baptism. He s.aid, , , , , • 1 • i iu /-ii i, „

tion ihan are the converted Indians. 'The writerhas heard their words of pathos regretting theirfriends who have died in ihe past years withoutthe gospel.Notes and Beviews 251ORIENTAL GEMS.'When the pious Chippewa chiei Mi-ne-geshig,known to the writer, returned from a visitto our Eastern cities two years ago, his brotherchiefsgathered around him and said ;"Tell us what, of all you saw, was mostwonderful."After a long silence Mi ne-ge-shig replied :" When I was in ihe great churches andheard the great organ, and all the palefacesstood up and said, ' The Lord is in his holyAnd ihe chiefs said :" 'That is indeed most wonderful ! Now itis late. It is indeed noon."—The Presbyterian.Says one : He who aids the far off insteadof the near at hand is blameworthy.Says another: A book is a companion ihatnevergrows weary, never complains, if you layit aside, and never reveals a secret.'There is not a homely man upon earth butwhose face is the handsomest part of him.'The devil says : If I overcome a man inthree things I ask nothing more, viz., If he betemple. Let all ihe earth keep _silence,' I pleased with himself, and if his achievementsthought, 'The palefaces hape had this religion multiply, and if heforget his iniquities.all these four hundred years and did nbt give it Says one: The best thing for a man istoto us, and now it is late.' That is the most know his place, and the calibre of his mind,wonderful thing I saw."and tben to act accordingly.^0U^ aiul ^mxxv—We will send this number, containing Dr.Pierson's article, to new subscribers for tbe—The Herald of Mission News has onlyone object in view, and that is the advocacyyear 1888, until the edition is exhausted. We of mission work at home and abroad. Howeverlarge the income, all avails, after meetingwill aot on the principle of " first oome, firstserved." Single copies of this issue will not the bare cost of production, are to be devotedbe sold.to the spread of the gospel. We are anxious—We shall be glad to send the Herald of that our friends should bear ihis in mind. InMission News this year free to any or all of subscribing for this paper and helping tothe Ladies' Missionary Societies, in return for widen its circulation, you are not puttingsome account of their work. Hitherto we money into the pocket ot tbe Editor, whohave been unable, in reply to very pressing gives his time and labors to the cause, butinquiries of other papers, to give any informationrespecting these associations.the irapirtance of more vigorous and aggresare so far contributing to awaken others to— Asive effort for Ohrist.few who ordered this Magazine andhave forgotten io pay will not be offended, if —We would remind the churches ihat thewe strike their names from our mailing list time is at hand for making their annual offeringsio Foreign Missions. The appropriationafter sending out the first number for nextyear. This does not reter to those to whom of Synod for this scheme is $10,000, and thewe have sent the paper voluntarily, but only whole of this amount will be needed to carryto those who gave special orders to have it on the work with any degree of effiuienoy.mailed to their address.Three new names are on the pay roll, the

252 Notes and Bemews.Board is calling for two more laborers, and ers recently held in the city -J m f OJ TVT -V ^ of the most devoted and successful of Chris-—Elder David Torrens of 2d New York, . . ,, , , J . 4. • X F tinn workers in America, and so presents nowho has ior years and in a great variety of , ' ,, r ^ ,.„ , J . , ._ . . . , fine-spun theories, but the results oi actualways manifested an interest in mission work *^ ' , m. •. i_,",, . • i.. i. V. n observation and experience, ihe churchesâmong Chinamen in this country, has recently ""^ ^ " f ri. -u i. J A- An/-, i i.1- 1 i c iu awakening in every direction to more earnestcontributed $o,000 to the endowment of the "•""^-"' s J .-, ^, , .-,,r-,, • .. ri n - r-ii.- -n TT • effort to reach thoso outside their fellowshipChristian CoUege in China. Dr. Happer is i^ " c , ^, .,, .. c • iu J- 1 iu- J with the eospel of eternal life, need the incurauthority for saying thai nearly one third = ^ .- ,:,•,• jf,, , , , i .L i JJ. iv,- r J- takia. struction Turn and inspiration to page 17.1 turnished of the August in this number. and read ^ the '^ circular issued by order of thegrowing interest in the work of Foreign Missions,and trust that many others may be ledadofthe whole amount contributed to this Institutionhas been given by members of the Re- Board 'â''^« of address. Foreign Missions. Mr. Easson writestoformedlabor,Presbyterianin prayer andChurch.by a fullerMr.consecrationTorrens that t-i he has , secured i. -u a x- site, for which j j he i. is toof their property, .,•'. for , the subjection ,. ,. ,, of China ,, —Liberal -,„„ m 1 contributions • ,. j are needed u •. ,Ânr, at once awill X /-,, also • X aid T in J the erection of the college pay , 100 ., Turkish , pounds, < . , , or . about , u $400, i • t andto , .,,. Christ-our _, Lord. . . . ;,. . c 1. to ^ provide .u u a -â- home for the ^l boys'school 1 /.^ u in f Labuildings.We rejoice in this new proot of ihat .f. the _,__^ building ^„ „„„„ must -,,71 be „f completed,h. j.,^„„/., before—Th-'se-viho ha.Ye reai the Herald of Mis the close of the school year. The lease ofsion News with any measure of interest dur- the house at present occupied will expire ining the year, wiil please favor us with an early May, and, even if suitable for the purpose, itrenewal for 1888. Pastors who have com- could not be secured for another term. Whomended our paper to their congregations— will help ? Elder S. K. McGuire handladiesand gentlemen who have voluntarily ed us $150 a few days ago, and all theacted as our agents—and brethren, who have brethren that we have spoken to in Newcontributed original articles, giving us the re- York, are in favor of the enterprise, andsuit of their brain-work without any thought say that it is their intention to contribute ;of remuneration, will accept of our hearty only asking a little while to decide on thethanks. We apjireoiate the Christian courtesy amount. Are there not twenty men in thethat has prompted so many to show in these Church ready to give ihe $G,000 at onceways their interest in our efforts to keep the that our missionaries may be freed from allcause of missions before the churches.anxiety in reference to the future of the boys'—The Ideal Church for the People was pur- school in Syria ? Surely those to whom thechased from Rev. John 0. Collins ot New Lord has entrusted large means will not letHaven, Conn., who has copyrighted the pro- slip this opportunity of showing their loyaltyceedings of the Convention of Christian Work- to Him.

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I N D E X -OUE VIEWH OF MISSION WOEK:The Opporlunity ef the Ages; or, India for Chiist 1Eev. Jacob Chamberlain, M. D., D. D.Baptized for the Dead 21Eev. Jamea Kennedy.Onthe Mountain 41Eev. Alexander Baleigh, D. D.The Sensible Young Man , 61Eev. J. C- WoFeeters.Ihe Eeligious Outlook in Japan 81Eev. F. N. Zabriekie.Preeent A spect of Foreign Mission W ork Among Women 101Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster.The Arm of the Lord Made Bare 121,UEev. J. Monroe Gibson.For the Pake of ihe Name 171E. M. Sommerville,The Mif sionary's life 193Prof. W. P Johnston.Eeport pf Our Delegates 217Eev. D. McAUister, D. D., L.L. D.itISSIONAEY INTELLIGENCE:Items, Abroad and At Home 28,66, 87, IM, 177, 201Annual Survey American Board 8Italian Bible and S. S. MlesioE 10United Presbyterian Foreifm Missions 26Eepoiteof L. M. S. and Mission Bands 28,29, 47, 48,66, 67,166, 231,232New School Law for Turkey , 45Notes of Work m Antioch 46,66Statistics of Eef'd P Missiona for 1887 64Eeport of Tarsus Mission for 1887-88 85Eeport of Syrian Mission 104American S. B. Union 88C hristian Work Among the Spanish la New Tork 108Mersine 120,157News from our Delegation 131On the Field. 1«Eeport of Committee on Missions 132Items from Annual P.eport of Central Board 166Our Indian Mission 166Eeport of Foreign Mission of E. P. Church, Ireland 175Kcportof Foreign Mission of the U. P. Church, Scotland 176Group of Facts on ForeignMissions 197, 22'Farewell Meeting, Allegheny 201Letterfrom Eev. J. Milligan WyUe 229Letter Mission from Work Eev. in N. A. Y J. McFarland 2328

INDEXTTTMISSION MONOGEAPHS:^'^^•Laborers Together of GodOur Senior MissionaryWhat is Implied in the Aot of Sending Out a New Missionary*"l^gAPUgrlmage ; " .ZZ'ZZ^ZÎio! w'l3M67SuadeaEeal ChristianityThe Moravians and Their Mission to Greenland^9 ggEeligion of CoreaAPleafor Industrial Schools „„11500 ^jApostles and Priests „Livinsstone on Missionary Sacriflces 90Filled with tne Holy Ghost^jqAsWeGlve We Getjjj" Always Avoiding the Work of the Lord" H2A Vital Questionjj2The Drink Traffic In Africa '. 135Prayiag by Name 137Dr. Boanerges Discourses on the Widow's Mite 138What can the Pastor do 1 139Cyprus 169The Enemy at Work 160The Covenant Promise 161The Nation that shall Perish 162Christian Service, and an Approved Life 181,182Prayer for Missions 182Our Heads for our Ancestors 202Sympathy with the Wives of Missionaries 203A Lesson in Giving ,, 204Money in a Napkin , 205Withholding Corn 233Bible Circulation in Italy ; 234Missionaries and Bum 234Glad Tidings of Great Joy 13The Eainbow inthe Rift 32The Fog Bell 54What Doest Thou Here J 93To the Point 113One Year of Church Work , UOYour Calling 105LETTEES FEOM CHRISTIAN WOEKEES :Tarsus Mission .' U, 34, 37, 56, 7a, 93, Ui, 140, 162,186,206Latakia 13,14,33,65,57, 76,96, 113, 116, 142,163. 183Antiooh 16,209Chinese Mission 17,211INCIDENrS IN MISSION LIFE:A Merchant Becomes a Christian 18S, t tetter The Best from Room Christians for Ohrist in Uganda 58 38

v. ' INDEX.The Law of Kindness 68What Can I do!.., ..-. --'• 69Practical Christianity. ; 59How General Gordon Died 78Winyan - TYA Cheerful Giver 78'Talking with Jesus 79The Story of Four Pearls 97First Martyr in China , 98All Nations Shall Serve Him 98Power of the Gospel 9»Tested 143Grown White with Waiting 1«I'm a Chrietian 164A Piece of Paper 165Couldn't Ten It 165Buy Opportunities 165•'Mither" 189The Life-giving Word 189Unconscious Influence 190Opatinia - 312Hannah Wakeely 213Oriental Gems 144,190NOTES AND EEVIEWS:Notes - 19, 39,60, 79,99,118,144,166,190,214,289Mission Literature 80,168Industrial School : 40, 60, 80,100.118,144,190

PUBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALoftlieBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.THE 0PP0K.TUN1TY OP THE AGES ;OR INDIA EOR CHRIST.*EBV. Jacob Chamberlain, M. D., D. D., of Muclanapalle,TiHliri.The world was never so open to evangelisticefforts of every kind as at the present day. Neverhave there been such evangelistic agencies, soorganized, so prepared, ready to push on into allthe world.It would be instructive io review the centuriesfrom the time when the echoes of our Saviour'sUnited States ; or, to speak a little more accurately,if you draw a line from Dakota souththrough Texas, India is equal in size to that partlast command reverberated down from His ascensioncar. It would be stimulating to see howof the Hnited States -which falls east-ward of thatline—from Dakota io Texas, from Maine towonderfully the doors of entrance to all ihe nationshave been opened during the life-time ofFlorida—and it has tive times the population ofthe whole of ihe Uuited States by the last census.some of us; for ihose of us who are not very agedThere are forty languages spoken in India ;remember well the earnest petitions that wemany of those stiU .spoken are very ancient, veryused, in our childhood, io hear ui the monthlyhighly wrought out and finelypolished ; beautitulconcerts that God would open the doors for the and perfect vehicles for the jiresentation of Divinemissionary and the Gospel to enter ihe ihentruth. The Sanscrit in which the 'Sêdas wereclosed nations of ihe earth. Now ihe doorshave been opened—opened 1 they have beentorn from their hinges and trodden in the dustand can never more be shut.But time forbids ouv delaying to recall thesecheering providences of the past, or even toglance at the marvellous openings now takingplace in every missionary country the worldaronnd. Onr view mnst be chiefly restricted toone missionary field and God's marvellous doingsin it, and the opportunity, unprecedented in thehistory of the world, for victorious service there.India is the home oi one-sixth oi the whole hu-*Delivered at I). L, Moody's Summer School, Northfield,Mass., July 7, 1887.man race. Reaching as it docs from the burningtropical sands of Cape Comorin, within eight degreesofthe Equator, up 2,000 miles to the frozenpeaks of the Himalaya Mountains on the north,and from Afghanistan onthe west through 1,800miles to Indo-China on the east, we have a countrythat is inhabited by 252,000,000 of people.India is equal to about one-half of the area of thewritten, the elder sister ofthe Greek, rivals eventhat in fullness and po-sver and beauty, and thatis still the language of ritual in all India, beingto the Hindus all that Latin is in the RomishChurch and even more. The people are as differentas their languages ; not ot oue cast of countenance,not of one ethnological descent.The religion of the people in India is one, as inEurope in the time of Martin Luther. WhenMartin Luther -was born there were in Europemany languages, many kingdoms, many differentraces ; but Europe was of one religion, with theexception of the Mohammedan conquerors, whohad conquered Turkey andstill maintained Mo-

2 Our Views of Mission Work.hammedanism. Thus it is itt India. The relig- in a Telugu city. It -was the firsttime the GoS'ionoi India is Brahminism, or Hinduism, with pel was ever preached there. I said to the audithe exception ofthe ilesceudants of the I\iohamme- ence -which had gathered in the street to hear me,(Ian invaders of some seven centuries ago. Of that no matter what their religion might be, allthese 40,000,000 remain in India still, and are intelligent people admit certain acts to be sinful.Mohammedan, but the re.st oi the people of India I mentioned different acts, and then I came toare Brahminists, for Buddhism is not now found falsehood. As I weut on expatiating upon that,atfill in Hindustan itself the audience, an uneducated audience, assented toLet me remind you also \'ery briefly of what -what 1 said, and admitted that lying was a sin.Brahminism or Hinduism is. With their ancient " But,'' said I, " yon Hindus tell a lie as oiten asYedas, the most ancient of-which is believed to yon tell the truth." "What, sir ! " saida Brahhavebeen written about the time of Moses, they min before me, " do yon say that we Hindus tellhave many glimmerings of Noachic traditions, a Ue as often as we tell the truth ? " " Yes," saidand many pure and holy ideas. The Yedas teach, I, intending to stand my ground. " Sir," said he,in the main, a true conception of God, and man " -we Hindus tell ten lies for every truth weand sin, and sacrifice. But, though they have utter." That time he certainly told the truth.ihese ancient Yedas, and these purer ideas oi Hinduism lias two chiei bulwarks in this gener-God, as man wandered into sin, and farther away ation. They are, caste and the endowed temples.from God, there came later the teaching and the Caste, you know, is a religious distinction. It ispractice of polytheism and idolatry, until at last not a social distinction, but one of birth ; forwhat there once was of light in Asia has become Brahma created each caste by a diff'erent creation,darkness. they hold. The Brahmin claims that he is holierAs the purer religion of the Y'edas degenerated than the rest. " Stand by thyself, for I am holierinto polytheism and idolatry, their purer morals than thou.'' If we give place to caste, we can nogave place to sensuality, corruption and vice. I longer proclaim, "As in Adam all died even so.speak on this matter as a physician who has in Christ shall all be made alive," for they holdtreated many thousands of patients, and mingled that there were a dozen Adams. Caste is soin their homes from the highest to the lowest, firmly rooted that I have known of a Bramiufrom the Ra,]ah on his throne to the beggar in that died by starvation, when there was foodhis hut, when i say that there is no such thing placed by liis side for him to eat, because, foraspurity or virtue among them. And I have sooth, that food was cooked by one of a lowerthis from the confessions of their best men. caste. " Better die," said he, " and reach heaven.Honesty in dealings is scarcely known. Caveat than eat that food and live, and lose caste, andeinpjtor is the rule, for houesty is not expected in lose heaveu." Caste, then, is the adamantinetrade, and no oue is disappointed. And as for the chain \vliicli Satan has wound around people totruth, although their ancient Yedas, although hold them back from embracing the trutli.their poets and sages, call on the people to main- The second ,nreat bulwark whicii supports thetahi truth as their choicest herita,,u-e, yet there is system is its myriads of Endowed Temples. Fromno truth among the people. A. common provevli Cape Comorin to the Himalaya ^Mountains, theyamong the Telugu people is. dot every hill-top and every plain, endowed inUnna marta cheppite urn atsa radu : former ages with rich lailds—the choicest of thei. e., " If a man tells the truth, the town will soon fields. All the reveiiiies of those lands go to thebecome too hot for him/' i was once preaching support ofthe priesthood, who ca,rrv on the cere

Our Views of Mission Work. 3uiouies of the temples. If Christianity prevails, succeed. Look at our position. We reap thethe Brahmins will cease to reap those revenues, rich revenues from all these temples. Ws areTherefore, like Demetrius of old, they call their treated as demigods by the people. At everyfellow-craftsmen together and say, "Sirs, by this festival we receive rich gifts. We are looKed upcraft we have our wealth," aud they lock arms to to and worshipped. But let your system succeed,defend their ancient system against the mission- Avliich teaches that there need be no human medial)-,ator, no mediator between God and man butI well rememiier what was said to me after a Jesus Christ, and we Brahmins drop from our highdiscussion which we had, another missionary and pedistal down to the level of what we are worth,myself, in the Mysore country, in a city where no and you know what that means as well as we do.missionary had been before, with the chief priest We would have to come down from our exaltedof that region, the President oftheir Theological position and mingle with the ignoble throng. No,Semiuary, if I might use the term, for there were sirs ! Y'our system is better than ours. It is soseventy young Brahmins studying under him for pure, so holy, so good ; it appeals so to thethe priesthood. He, surrounded by his disciples, highest desires of the human soul, that it seemsliad come to meet us in the market-place, and we as though it must be Divine ; but, sirs, we Brahhadhad a discussion which lasted hour after hour niius can't afford to let you succeed. We havebefore the assembled multitude. He had been got to fight you." And fight us they do.pushed to the wall ; but at last, darkness coming How then, is snch a system, defended by theon, he said there was no time to discuss farther power of caste and of an endowed priesthood, totheu, bui he wonld renew the discussion the next be overcome ? I cannot detain you to state atevening, if we were there. But he did not wait length the particulars of our work. I must simforthe next evening.'ply remind you that we missionaries in India as IAt noon the next day when all the people were trust everywhere, try to follow our Master in theindoors at their midday meal, he stole out of the oral proclamation of the Gospel to the people,northern gate of the city, and coming around carrying it to them in the highways and the bythroughthe rice-fields and behind the trees to ways, in their towns, their villages, their hamlets;our tent, asked if he might come in. " Certainly." at their markets and fairs. We take our tent" May I let down the curtain of the tent?" " Cer- and pitch it by some central village, and preachtainly." " Is there nnyone within hearing besides in that and each of the surrounding villagesouiselves ? " " No ; all our people are away at within a radius of say three or four miles, reachtheirdinner."ing, perhaps, forty to eighty villages, before mov-At once his whole man and appearance changing our tent on to another centre.ed. " Sirs," said he to us, " what you said yester- We go into the market-place, or some eonvendayinthe market place was utterly unanswerable, lent str( et, mount upon some platform, or cart, orI did the best I could to defend my own posi- pile of building materials, and gather the peopletion, surrounded as I was by my own disciples ; together, and preach io them of Christ and hisbnt I am not going to meet you again. What salvaiion. In our iiart of the country we gatheryou said is so pure, so holy, so good, it appeals them by ihe voice of song.so- to ihe highest needs and desires of men, that The eighteen millions of Telugu people, amongit seems as if it must be Divine ; it mnst be true, whom I have labored for twenty-seven years, areAt all events it is a better religion ihan ours, a very musical people, and their language is aBnt sirs, we Brahmins cannot afford to let you language of poetry and song. They have old

4 Our Views of Mission Work.tunes by the hundred, not like ours, but weirdand sweet and pleasant, which ihey have snugthrough twenty generations—sung to be sure inthe praise oi their gods. But in the desperateconflict that is going ou there between the powerof light and the power of darkness, we, anxious toseize the Devil's choicest weapons to thrust himwith, take these old and dearly loved tuues oftheirs and convert them by marrying to themChristian words,and set them afloat again througiithe country, in tracts with the Gospel messageput into their style of poetry, and adapted to theirchoicest tunes, with the name of the fitting tuneprinted at the head of each of our songs of redeeminglove.They, curious to see how the new words fittheold tune, will often sing and sing until they sometimessing the Gospel message into their understanding.They sing away their predjudices, they.sing the love of Christ into their hearts, and, thusled, come to him and are saved.I will sing you oue of those sweet tunes oftheirs that linger on the ear and prompt a repetition,which, with loving Gospel words, myselfand native assistants have thus sung in hundredsof Hindu towns and villages. I wiU sing it tothe Telugu Christian words.Refrain . Ni charanamule nammiti, nammiti.Ni padamule battiti, battiti.|; Dikkika nive, tsakkaga rave? :j|Mikkili mrokkudu, mrokkudu, mrokkudu.II: Aihika sukkamu narisiti nit3'a, :|Mahaha drohini, drohini, drohini.Rendered into the same metre iu Englisli it isas follows :My own works, all so vile, filledwith pollution,I abhore, I renounce. Saviour, turn me not away.Refrain : Thy refuge, etc.My hard and sinful will, my baser passions.Pluck them out, drive them hence ; free me, Lord, deliverme.Refrain . Thy refuge, etcMy nature so corrupt, canst Thou not change it?Ease my pain, O my God ! Save me. Lord. Save menow.Refij'ain : Thy refuge, etc.I well remember how, one time on a preachingtour in the " regions beyond," we sang this songto call the people together in the evening, in anative city where they had never before heard of.lesus Clirist. We sang the refrain again andagain. Some of the people caught up the wordsand joined us in singing. We preached to themof this >Iesus and His love and His redemption.Singhiu the song again, we went back to ourtents. In the still night air, after we had retiredto our beds, we heard the same beautifnltune, and listening we caught the words of therefrain :Ni charanamule nammiti, nammiti.And then they took up the words of the song.My only help art Thou ; Wilt Thou not hear me ?And on in the night mingled with my sleep, 1was conscious of hearing songs of redeeming lovesung by Hindus who had that day for the firsttime heard of the Redeemer, Jesus.Thus with preaching and with song and withtract and Scripture scattered as we go, do wecanvass the country sowing the seed of the kingdom,and the seed is taking root. We go overthe ground again when able, watering the seedalready sown, and scattering anew, and the harvestill mail}- places is already beginning toRefrain . Thy refuge would I seek, blessed Jesus, a,p|ieai'.blessed Jesus.We are reaching the people also by medical'Thy mercy-giving feet would [ clasp, work. You know that many of us missionariesblessed Jesus.iu India are physicians as well as ministers. WeMy only help art Thou. Wilt Thou not hear me ?have gathered in thousands from all the villagesFor on Thee, Thee alone, Thee alone, do I call.Refrain : Thy refuge, etc.around, simply by the knowledge that, if theyThe fleetingjoys of earth have not I tasted?came, their diseases would be healed. They haveTraitor I wandered far. wandered far, far frora Thee. comeRefrain : Thy refuge, etr.from hundreds, from thousands of towns

Our Vietvs qf MssiOn Work. 5aud villages in all directions. Scarcely a day of the truth in these schools; and thns we arethat we do not have some from a hundred miles reaching the secluded zenanas everywhere.away present in our dispensaries. They hear the There we have our Anglo Yernacnlar Schools,Bible read ; they hear tUe proclamation oi the High Schools and Christian Colleges, with whichGospel oi Jesus Christ; they listen as we raise we reach young men preparing ior the Unversithevoice of prayer to Him who made ns and who ties, and help them on their way through those.can save ns ; they go back to their homes ; they In every one of these schools the Bible is studiedtake with them the tickets on which are printed as a text-book in each class every day. To showa concise statement of Christian truth. My own yon how this Christian Education is looked nponhospital ticket, of which 50,000 have been dis- by many of the people, let me give you a singletributed, has this on its back in Telugu :incident.In December, 1883, 1 received oue day a verytake away our sin, gave Hisown son, Jesus Christ, to ^^^^ ^^^^ brought to me by a special messenger.and pr'^rv'L'a"! thTngrthaPelt. ""' "^"^'' '^°"'°'^ -"^"1- petition. It came from Yayalpad, timHe is sinless; but we are hlled with sin. He, to county town of the adjacent county. T he peti-come into the world as a Divine Redeemer. '^ j i oThat Divine Reedeemer, Jesus Christ, gave His life It was signed by the chief men of that Countya propiatory sacrifice for us ; and now whoever believes ^^ ^q^. ^^g qJ- ,^1^^^ .^^^S a Christian. Theyin Him, and prays to Him, will receive remission ol -sins and eternal life. This is what the true Veda, the petitioned me to receive under my charge theHoly Bible teaches us.Auglo-veruacular school, which they had estab-Your own Telugu Poet, Vemana, has truly said : jj^j^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^j^j ^j^^;^ ôns, to1 he soul defiled with sin, what real worship paysit ? . . ' , , . . 1 , 1The pot unclean, the cookery who eatsit ? receive it under my charge as a mission-school.The heart impure, though it essays devotion,and to introduce the Bihle as a text-book in everyCan Diety receive it ? Nay, nay ; be pure, O man.' , ,„ . ^,. ., t r T^- • r> class even./ daii.10 give us this very puntv of soul our Divine Re- ./ .7 , , ^.tdeemer, Jesus Christ, came into tbis world. Believe in That petition was signed by heathen. Nota^-"Christian was ihere ; not one lived in the town.They take these and similar Hospital Tickets Much surprised at the tenor oi the request, Iwith them to their villages, and thus the iruth is went out at once to see ihem, and see ii they werebeing scattered where we have never set foot. in earnest. A meeting was summoned oi all in-Our schools present the truths of Christian- terested in the school. I read this petition toity. Heathen pupils come to them with the them. I said : " Is ihis your wish ? It is signedunderstanding ihat they will study what the by a number of j'Our people. The request is ihatChristians do. Every one of them studies the this school be received under my care, and ihatBible, and so we initiate the young into the pure the Bible be taught in every class every day.teachings of the religion of Jesus. Then we have You know that we missionaries, while helpingour caste-girls' schools, as you know, for, glory you to gain a sound education, also seek yourbe to God ! He has brought the mothers and the conversion to Christ ; we make no secret of that.wives and the daughters of America to the front. If this school is placed under my charge, it willsince first I went to India, to take hold of the be my aim to present the truth ; the highestwork of lifting up their heathen sisters ; and we trnth ihat man can conceive of to all the pupilshave these girls' schools now, which are filled with ot ihe school. With ihat understanding, do youthe highest caste ot Hindu young women. They wish me to receive ihe school ?" The head-masterall read the Bible, learn onr Christian hymns, of the school, a Brahmin, not a Christian, butstndy our catechisms, and eome to a knowledge who had himself been educated in a mission

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Our Vieios of Mission Work. 7The mass of intelligent men all through India that Gospel ticket. It has shown us that Hinduhavelost faith ill their old religiou, and noAV ism is not the complete soul-satisfying systemSatan comes in to reap the harvest from the that we imagined it to be, by pointing out a noblerseed that we missionaries have sown. They are way. We have talked it over. Sir, Hinduism isdisatisfied with their ancient system, and he brings doomed. It must go by the board. Now, Ihavein books of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, come all this way to ask you. What are you goandHuxley, and men of that class—yes, and of ing to give us in its place ?"Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant, and oi Voltaire and There ,seated nnder the banyan tree, I tried toThomas Paine. The writings of these are scat- tell him of the pure religion of Jesus Christ,tered all throngh India, and ihere are presses which, I said, we were going to give them in iherunning night and day, casting off pages by the place of Hinduism ; and, as I talked with him,million for the poisoning of these awakened Hindu suddenly ray voice faltered, my tongue clung tominds. Anything opposing Christianity, no the roof of my mouth, cold sweat came out uponmatter how vile it be, vvill be published by them me. I could not speak. Said I to myself : "Amand scattered through the country broadcast. I telling this man true or am I telling him false.The whole natioii is on the eve of coming out of Are we going to give to India—to these teeming-Hi nduism aud going into—what? and now awakened millions—are we going to"Sir,"5aid a Brahmin priest io me one day, give them the religion of our -Jesus. Or are we"Hinduism is going. Wliat is to take its place?" going to awaken tliem, and dissatisfy them withI met him on the road as I was rapidly riding their own system, and then leave thero to drifttwenty miles from my station to perform a surgi- out into skepticism, or rationalistic Deism, orcal operation. Seeing me coming, looking intently black Agnosticism ? That is what they are driftatme as I approached, he held up his hands to ing to, and that does not interfere with their castearrest my progress, and eagerly asked me : " Sir, aud the enjoyment of the revenues of the Hinduareyou the missionary doctor from Madanapalle?" temples. Shall ive let them go out into that" I am," said I. " Well, sir, will you please stop realm of davkness ? Shall the ruins of Hindu temandlet me talk with you a little ? I have come in pies be bnilt up iuto temples for Satan, or intoon foot eighty miles to see you, and now yon are temples for the Most High God ?going away from your home. I know not when There is a " tide iu the affair,? of men" inmat-I could find yon again. Will you please let me ters spiritual as well as temporal. That tide inhave a litile conversation with you ? The Master's India is now at its flood. If it recedes, the adbusiness is always my business. I sprang irom my vantage that we now have will never again behorse, and let him rest while we sai under a ban- offered. There is not a province from C-apeyan tree and conversed. " Sir," said he, " I have Comorin to the Himalaya Mountains, where Elinneverseen a missionary. I have never seen your duism stands firm, unshaken on its ancient basis.Veda. But one oi our townsmen went to your There is not a caste or a creed in all India whosehospital and was healed, and brought a ticket— serried ranks do not show gaps made by thosea little ticket which yon give your patient.s, on who have deserted them and enlisted nnder thethe hack of which was printed a statement of banner of King Immanuel. The thirty fiveinisyourreligion. Thai is all I have ever seen. He sionary societies now in India are coming togethertold me what he had heard of your preaching at and locking arms for the conflict. The strat egicthe hospital That is all I have ever heard of points all over India have been gained. Plansyom' religion. We Brahniins have been reading for the final attack are matured. The enemy

8 Items of Missionary Intelligence.are \veakeniiig aud are dispirited. Already do " Sir, I am uot a Cliristian. I am still regardedwe see them on their citadels loosening the hal- as a devout Hindu. I still periorm enough Hinduyards, preparing to let down the flag and surren- ceremonies to avoid suspicion. But in my heartder, if a vigorous assault be made. But, alas ! I dare not deny the claims oi the Bible. / seeour forces on the fieldare still too weak to make the pjower ofi Jesus Ghrist in the lives of Histhe assault. We send back an appealing voice folloicers so distinctly that I cannot deny Histo our home i.-linrches in all the lands that support Divinity. He mnst be Divine or he could notus, asking thera to hasten on the reinforcements, work such a change in the lives of those who bethatthe finalassault may be made. , come His disciples. He is not yet my Saviour.When out upon a tour in 1879, in a county Caste, wealth, position, iamily, all hold me back.where there was not a Christian, a native official. But even now I never allow Him to be spokenhigh in office, in caste, in social position anci in against in my presence. I have long been readwealth,sent a message to me saying that he ing the Bible in secret The more I read ofwould hke io come and see me privately for the Christ and ponder over His life and teachings,treatment of an ailment. At the appointed time and the power to conquer ,sin that comes fi-omhe came along to my tent. 1''o my surprise I embracing His rehgion, the more do I feel thatfonnd that he had some trifling ailment, the in the end I shall have to accept Him at anytreatment of which was despatched in a few mo- cost as my personal Saviour. But how can I doments. I wondered he had corae until I had it and bring ruin upon my family?" That wasfound that he had nsed the little ailment merely six or eight years ago. He has not yet come toas a cover. He wanted to talk to me about the Saviour.Christiamty, and, Nicodemus-like, he had come There are thousands in this position all overliy stealth. He introduced the subject himself. India. They are not being reached. They needAfter an extended conversation on the char- not polemics, but a loving feeling presentation ofacter and claims of Jesus oi Nazareth to be the the gospel of Christ.Saviour of the world, he said to rae in substance :items of IVlissionary Intelligence.—The annual survey of the work of the Ameri- are the fruit of past labors. Christian educanBoard, presented at its annual meetiug, cation has of late made great progress, especi-October, 1887, reports the following items : ally in behalf of young women, till the number ofThe agencies sustained and encouraged in the pupils in high schools, many of them from theTurkish Empire are 170 missionaries, men and highest castes, who couldnot otherwise be reachedwomen ; 105 churches with a membership of by the gospel, already number over two thousand,9,701 ; 57 pastors aud over a hundred other or, more exactly, 782 young men and 1,275preachers ; 313 cities and villages occupied ; fifty young women. The common, or village, schoolhigh schools, colleges and seminaries, attended is in these missions au indispensible factor inby 2,420 youths of both sexes and not far from evangelistic work ; it is one of the first means of14,000 children in common schools. introducing the gospel into a heathen community.In India the portion of the population depen- Siuce the founding of the firstchurch in Japaii,dent upon the missions of the 13oard tor the iorty more have beeu organized, reporting at theknowledge of the gospel is not far from seven end ofthe year 1886 a inembership of over fourmillions, among whom there are only twenty-nine thousand. Within a year over sixty of the threeordained missionaries with their families, aud hundred students in attendance at the Christianeleven unmarried women ; seventy-seven churches, college, established iu that country some twelvewith a membership of over six thousand souls, or thirteen years ago, have made profession of

Items cf Missionary Intelligence.their faith in Christ, In the rapid changes thaiare taking place in ihe political, social and religions condition of the Empire, "we seem," writesDr. Clark, " io be witnessing the birth throes ofa great nation out of heathenism into the lighttind blessedness of the Christian civilization.Hioughtful Japanese see ihe marked diff'erence inthe moral character of youth trained in missionand in government schools, and are ready to furnishtheir thousands of dollars to erect the necessarybuildings and io furnish the needed equipmentfor higher Christian education, if missionaryshow earnest work and important gains atmany points. The Eoochow mission reportslifteen churches with a total membership of 336,more than ten per cent, received upon a professionof faith during the year ; two boarding schoolsably manned and gathering sixty pupils of specialpromise ; and a field that embraces many millionsof sonls. The number added to the churchin North China is greater than for several yearspast, 107 in a total of 961, and the tone of Christianlife is perceptibly improving. Large numberswait upon the preaching of the gospel,inquirers are both more numerous and more deeplyimpressed by the truth, and in some places theChinese houses are freely opened to the ladies of178 pupils and send out well trained laborersevery year, while forty-two common schools,taught by natives and wholly self-supporting,give instruction to some 2,800 pupils. TheScriptures are translated wholly or in part intothe mission. Eight native preachers, ihat graduatedfrom the Tung-cho Theological Seminary, erature, as well as school books, has been profive different languages, and other Christian littwo years since, have been actively engaged in vided by the missionaries.evangelistic work, some of ihem with marked This admirable survey of the work that thesuccess, and are proving a most valuable reinforcement.. . A population of from six to unevangelized world closes with theAmerican Board sustains in so many parts of thefollowingeight millions is easily accessible from the twostations in the province of Shantung ; and thisfact, taken wiih ihe almost limitless openings inthe province of Chihli, the seat of the Imperia Igovernment, wiih a population of thirty-six millions,suggests unparalleled opportunities. Themissions at Shanse and Hong-Kong are in an encouragingcondition, and give promise of largeresults.There are three missions in Africa. These,we are told, are near the coast, but are so locatedas to advance by natural growth into the interioraud are established among people whose languageaud race-connections promise a wide diffusion otteachers will only take charge of them. In one the g-ospel, when once they are fully imbued withsuch school the native trustees, of their own action its life and power. The brightest iact recordedordered that the Scriptures should tae read and respecting the West Central Mission, is the baptismat Bailunda oi iourteen young men, allprayer offered daily. . . . We note in all thesemissions a steady advance in the direction oi selfsupport,a healthier tone of spiritnal life on the of the flrst church of the mission, officered withunder twenty years oi age, and the organizationrart of professed Christians, a livelier interest in its own deacons, and set at once io Christianrehgious education, a great and hopeful change work. The Zulu churches report an increase ofof public sentiment in regard to the social and 129 members in a total membership of 969. Onemoral elevation of women. . Never before hundred and sixty-nine pnpils are under instructionin the Theological Seminary and in the highwere such opportunities offered to men and womenof generous Christian ambition to make their lives school, and the only limit io the number attendingthe two schools for girls, is want oi room.tell for the promotion of the kingdom of Christ."The four inissions in China with a presentforce of sixty-seven laborers, of whom desire for education is wide-spread and veryMany of these pnpils have been converted. Thetwenty-four are ordained missionaries in the strong: ii is no infrequent occurrence thatfleld, and ten new niissionaries on the way, girls come from the Kraals without the knowledgeor consent of their families and beg to beadmitted into the schools.The work among the Pacifi,c Islands has beencarried on with marked efficiency and success. Themission in Micronesia, though it is scarcely morethan a quarter of a centnry since the first convertswere baptized,now includes forty-six whollyself-supportingchurclies, with 5,312 communicants.Six night schools for training- nativepreachers and teachers and their wives, gathersummary : In almost 1,000 popular centres, aforce of 2,500 laborers, foreign and native, are

]0 Mission Monographs.preaching the gospel in 25 different languages, icines for their sick poor. We paid the salariesnd conducting a great evangehstic and ednca- of the Chaplain and Matron of the Protestanttional work. Fifteen new churches have been Hospital in Rome, of which De. Gason, one oforganized, and out of a total inembership of 28,- the most prominent and successful phy,sicians in000, nearly 3,000 have made profession of faith the city, is director.this year. In ninety-six high schools and col- We paid the salaries of thirty-fiive teachersleges, 6,000 picked youths of both sexes are iu iu the Ey,iK(iF.LiCAi. NniiiT Schools ix Italy, Sictrainiugto reinforce the native agency, besides ^!.Y axo Elba. These schools are chiefly for34,000 pupils under Christian instruction and in- Young Men, and are usually taught in theHuence in common schools. And above all, the preaching place by the 3Iinister, or a ChristianChristian character of the native converts is as- man under his superintendence. The object'n to.suming greater depth and earnestness, and their teach them the Bible, lead ihem to the Saviour,share in'evangelistic work is steadily increasing and train them for Christian work.in value as well as in amount.To assist Ministers in preaching, and Teach-A ATT-i • 1 Tvir-i T^-iv '^'^^^'^^^ woik, WC havc had the InternationalITALIAN BIBLE AND S. h. MISSION. ,s',„ifZav'St/ioo/Zessoi^s translated and adapted_ . ,, , J. i J 7 7 7 to the capacity of the pupfls, printed aud sentDuruit)- the year we have sent to tiro itunarect . ,i m. - ,.• ^ i ii, n"V i ^ -ir--'. i r^ 1 J. -\T- -i 1 /ree to these Christian workers. As those foraiid two Ministers, Colporteurs, \ isitors and 'j., r- , . ^.., . ,-, • ,, ,,,' , .i . . ' f . 7 Ji 7. -• the firstpart ofthe year were m Crewe.s'2.s, we hadieachers, living in one nundred and twenty-tour , „ „fu, • f4.7. ,. i 1 •i. 1 i i. 7..";. '7 J. " , J ,7 ,1. f c 10,000 copies oi that book printed and sent tocities and towns, twenty-three thousand fo'ur -, , K-,i., , j.7, t -e.-. ^.^, , , , ,, n., 7 * ri7 7. 7. TJ 7 be used with them. As the Lessons tor the sechundredand three Bibles, i estaments, .Psalms, 7 1 77- j- ,.1, ii, r-jf ^ o„ , , ,, 7 1 i-7.7 T.-U1 nî, ond half of the year are on the i»/e 0/ our Sav-Proverbs and other books of the Bible. Ihese . ... \ -,r ,n -i i lonnn,, , r 71 T 7. -1, 4- J i.:i- towr, as written by Jlattheic, we printed 10,000they have carefully distributed aniong soldiers • c4.1 ^ n i 7 t. T-i. Tj,-' ., .7 •'•, , q ,• „,-, ;, j-k • a copies of that Gospel, and seni them as we did.and saflors, m hospitals and prisons, m their day, p ,•night and Sunday Schools, and among the ]30or ^^^ ^ *'around-them.The above extracts from a report soou to beThrough these brethren we have sent into the published indicates the wonderful success of thefamilies seven thousand copies of a most excellent work of the Itahan Bible and Sunday Schooland beautifully illustrated paper for children aud Mission dnriiig the year jnst ended. But theyouth, given ns by the Children's Special See- work has only commenced. In ten weeks fiftvvicEMission, London, and 9,000 beautifully il- two requests for Evangelical Schools have reachedluminated Scripture Cards.us, and applications ior Scriptures are increasing.In the Medical Mission department of our W. C. YanMeter.work we sent them seven cases of excellent med- 20 Piazza di Spjagna, Bome.'Mtmmimm Wimmm^w >apjis.*A PILGRIMAGE. flight of stairs a,iid lauds upon Calvary (so called).As the devout pflgriin enters the Church of where an image of Christ hangs npon the cross.the Holy Sepulchre he reverently uncovers his Here he prostrates himself many times, mutteringhead and executes the sign of the cross repeated- ^ pi'^yer, and all the while busily engaged crossly.Just inside the door is the spot where the hig himself. Here the rent in the rock, probodyof Christ is said to have been prepared for diced by the earthquake, is shown. A little disburialand the pilgrim kneels down and kisses tance from Calvavy is an image of the Yirginit, displaying signs of emotion. He arises from Mary, enclosed l.)y iron grating. This is an olihiskneeling posture, proceeds a little farther aud .ject of great veneration among the Oriental sectsperforins the same acts, where Christ is said to and tbe Roman Catholics, audit is almost covhavemet Mary Magdalene aiter he had risen ered with jewelry—the gifts of devout worshipfromthe dead Presently he ascends a little per.s—such as a tiara, embellished with diamonds.

Mission Monographs, 11a je\yelled necklace, elegantly wrought bracelets, minutes, and crossing himself iucessantly. itisnumerous rings, plain, enchased and diamond interesting to observe how the various iiatioualiearrings,even to a gold watch and chain, that ties execute the sign of the cross. The Syrianssome thoughtful person has kindly iiestowed perform it hurriedly, using the arm from thc clinorder that this piece of lifeless wax might have bow only, thus manifesting the shallowness ofsome idea of ihe flightof time. Her image re- their devotion, while the Russian executes itceives much mote attention than she herself did slowly and deliberately, with a majestic sweep oiwhen in the flesh, and many more gifts are be- the whole arm, indicating at once the depth oistowed upon it. Ladies of rank and c(nality, his religions convictions, and the sublimity ofprincesses, etc., have stripped themselves of their his ecclesiastical pride. And indeed lightnessjewels, and have placed them upon the Ma Donna and haste are characteristic of the Syrians in allwith their own hands, considering it a precious their religious observances, and a priest who caninivilege and a work oi great merit, The image expeditiously perform the services incumbent ujreceivesa new outfit of jewelry every year or so, on him is very much to their taste. I havethe old being treasured in a vault, and it is said known a priest who -svould hastily trot back andthere are hundreds of thousands of dollars worth forth from altar to table in the performance oiof jewelry under bolts and bars, all ofit the pro- mass, to receive from the laity the fanciful sobripertyoi this lifeless image. Somewhat similar quet of " the Racker." There are two apartisthe custom of ladies of fashion—and gentlemen ments in the shrine, the inner of which containstoo—who wear a suit a few times and then lay the sepulchre and is entered by an aperture soit aside as obsolete. This wax figure is enclosed low ihat the head must be bowed to enter. Thein a strong iron screen tc prevent burglary, be- sepulchre is a marble sarcophagus, and there arecause some sacriligious persons entered the church cavities worn in ihe hd by ihe lips of the pilgrim,a few years ago and appropriated the ornaments such as would be worn in a rock by the continualthat then adorned Our Lady's person. dropping of water. The pilgrim reverently eii-As we enter the rotunda of the Church wn ters here, as though io vie^v a corpse, passionatetherebehold the shrine that contains the Holy ly kisses the sepulchre and remains a few momentsSepulchre. It is a neat stone structure of about in contemplation or silent prayer. He then passtwentyfeet in length, ten feet in width, and fif- es ont backwards, thus doing very gi'eat honorteen feet in height, hung with numerous olive oil to the sepulchre.lamps of various shades and sizes. The prevail- Near the time of Easter, the dignitaries, priestsing shape is that of a vase or of a tumbler. The and monks of the various eastern sects marchlamp is partially filled with oil, and a little piece arouud this shrine iu solemn procession, clad inof cork with a hole in the centre,in which is placed iheir robes of ofhce or in ihe vestments of theira piece of wick, is then set afloat on the oil, and various orders, bearing holy candles and chantthewick being ignited, emits a soft hght the color ing funeral dirges, each denomination on thehof the lamp, and the various lamps being of al- particular day. During Easter week the Patrimostevery imaginable hue, the effect is ((uiie archs oi some of ihe sects pretend to bring downpleasing.holy fire from heaven by their incantations withinThe pilgi'im, especially the Russian, approach- this shrine, and it is passed through an aperturees this shrine with profound reverence, prostrating in the wall to the expectant crowd outside, whohimself down to the earth in the humblest possi- eageriy sieze it and light their tapers therewith,ble manner, sometimes remaining so for fully five believing that there is a blessing in it. This

12 Mission Monographs.miracle is not performed openly as Elijah's was, Romans, it must have contained upwards of abut secretly, within the sacred precincts of this million, since eleven hundred thousand lost thehholy shrine, and, when it is announced that the lives during the siege, and the space now oceuflrehas descended and is ready tor distribution, pied by the city would not contain so many menthe throng is so great that persons are often massed together in regular battle array.trampled upon, and it is said that on one About a year ago excavations were beingoccasion the rush was so impetuous that made forthe foundation of a hotel, and tbe remanywere cru.shed to death in their frantic mains of a wall were encountered, wbich wereefforts to obtain some of the fire creating cou thought by antiquarians to be a part of the insternationand panic, so that the Turkish sol- most wall, and were this wall followed it woulddiets had to be caUed to quell the distarbance, no doubt furnish mnch silent evidence toward aand ever since, on important occasions, a Turkish final settlement of the question. Christ sufferedgu'ard occupies the com't immediately outside of without the gate near to the city, on a spotthe church to prevent a recurrence of such a ca- called Golgotha, the place of a skull, and therelamity. Not that the Turks eare whether the is a little knoll a short distance north of Jerusawholerace of Christians trample one another to lem, resembling a human skull with the foreheaddeath or not, perhaps, indeed, they would rather facing the city, which seems to answer tbe Newthey should, but it might be considered a proof Testament description in almost every particuthatthe Turkish authorities are incapalile of lar. It is the place of a skull, without the gatemaintaining order, and wonld consequently neces- and near the city. And how it solemnizes one ssitate the entrance of ioreign troops. thoughts to traverse the same path that Jesus.A very interesting relic is preserved in this took, .staggering under the ponderous cross, tillchurch, the sword of Godfi-ey de Bouillon, the he was relieved of its crushing weight. Is it anysame with which he ruled Jerusalem during the wonder that the hearts ofthe women, whofoflowtimethat he was in authority there. It has ed, were wrung with grief at the sight ? And,every appearance of integrity and genuineness, although Christ was in anguish of soul, yet heand it is one of the few relics shown there that thought only of the great tribulation whieh theyare genuine, because it is far fi.-omcertain, that would soon be called npon to endure in tbe dethechurch of the Holy Sepulchre is bnilt on struction oi theh city, saving, " Daughters oi Je-Calvaryat all. Bibhcal scholars claim that the salem, weep not for me, but weep ior yourselvesplace is outside the wall of the present city. It and for your children."is well-known tbat there were three walls per- Moreover, tradition locates the grotto wheretaining to the city, bnilt at various stages of its Jeremiah is said to have composed his lamentagrowthand expansion, and it is claimed by East- tions, ou the southeru side of Golgotha. Heern Christians, and by Roman Catholics too, wept bitter tears when he thought of the poputhatthe place of the crucifixion is outside the in- lous city becoming solitary, lonely as a widow.most wall only, but the question as to the site of The mighty among the nations, the princessthe firstwall has not yet been settled, and it among the provinces had become tributary. Hermust have enclosed more space than the present friends are become her enemies. Her wayscity occupies, as it is so closely and compactly ^^îT"- Her streets were deserted^ , S ' S n•! ^ ' •> , f, .-^ are desolate because none come to tbe solemnbuflt, and contains only twenty thousand iiihab- ^^^^^_ ^^^, ^^^ l^j.^j j^j^^j^ afflicted her for theItants, witb the chnrch near the centre of the multitude of her transgressions, and her childrencity, whereas, when Jerusalem was taken by the .-are gone into captivity. '^ *

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY.With joy I read the wondi-ous storyOf Him who dwelt in Galilee,The Saviour, now enthroned in glory,Who died for me.Who bore my sin in fullest measure,Fulfilled for me the law's demand.Who holds my life, my love, my treasure,In His dear hand.Exalted to the highest heaven.Glad Lord of providence and grace,Command to all earth's sons is givenTo seek His face.His loved ones hear this grand Commission :" Erangelize the •world for Me,If ye would know Joy's sweet fruition,Work loyally," Announce to every waiting nation.My gospel tidings full of love ;Proclaim to all my free salvation,Sent from above." PAX power is IMlNE in earth and heaven,Lo, I am lailh j ou all the days 1Therefore, go forth with sins forgiven.And speak My praise,"Thus has the potent word been givenThrough eighteen centnries of time.Since Christ the Lord went up to Heaven,In cloud sublime!How FE^v have heard the Proclamation !Much land is still to be possessed.Ere wear}' ones of every nationEnjoy His rest.Can AVE not aid love's s-weet endeavor '.Ôh, let us weary not nor faint,But grasp the grace that faileth never.Sinner nor saint!Sallie Morrison.Philadelphia, Fa.13—Under date, Nov. 9, Miss Mattie R. Wyliewrites from Latakia :We opened onr schools Sept. 15th, after a vacationof two monnhs. We have fifty-threepupils in the giris' boarding school and aboutninety in the day school. The boys' boardingscbool numbers thirty-nine and the clay schoolabout eighty, but we e.xpect a larger attendancein the day school next month. The weather hasuntil now, been very warm, and many have feverand others sore eyes.Some of onr classes have been kept back onacconnt of books. They have been in the CustomHouse more ihan a month. The bookswould be called at home a " street Arab." Theteaclier complained of him at flrst tbat he wasvery bad, but aiter studying him, Miss Edgarand I concluded that he needed a little petting,so we notice and encourage him whenever wehave opportunity, and he seems anxious to haveus pleased with him.The Moslem girls I wrote of last year came toschool several months. The father was orderedto remove them, but would not. At last, theMutasuief appointed the oldest one teacher in theMuslem girls' school and they were obhged toleave. Friday is tbeir holy day, and they baveno school and they come here that day. Thehave the Government stamp on them, having oldest one says she tries to have her school arrangedbeen examined in Damascus, but the officialsjust as much like ours as possible. Whenwill not let us have them until they have receivedshe went away I told her 1 hoped she would yetword from Damascus, whether the stamps believe in Christ as the Saviour, the Son of God.are genuine or not, and they take their own time She said she hoped her father would yet believe.about finding out.We took two Moslem boys into the boardingShe is still teaching this year, but her sister hasreturned to us and attends school in the forenoon.school. Last week the father of one of them, We have three very small giris in the boardingschoolbeing an official, was ordered to remove him. who pay full price. iiThere mother is deadhe had not done so, he would have lost his position.and then- father put them here to have themI hope they will allow the other one to taken care of. We allow the girls from Latakiaremain. He is a little boy and has no mother. to go home an afternoon once a month. Bedera,He has been allowed to roam the streets, till he the second one, is the speaker of the family. The

14 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.first time tbe} were home after they came, the and cliii.g to the old ones, and ii causes many aservant swore, and Bedera said, " Y"ou must not pang, needless perhaps to the missionary, thatsay that. Y'ôu must sa), ' Believe me.' That there must in time be no place for them in theis what Ohri.st said." The parents of mo.st of lieart.s and places that were once so dear. Ithe girls attend chnrch from time to time. The hope to be able to write to all in time, but atfirst day their father did not come and they were present will ask their patience as we are so busy.very much disappointed. The next time he came,Bedera said . " You did not come and we wantedyou so much. After this you must come lation of extracts from Hanna Iskander's JourKev. Heury Easson sends iJie following transevery Thursday aud every Sabbath. He hasnal :been very obedient and has missed but one day.1st. Weut to Jabaryoun and took for my subject,the Sabbath or day of rest to God. AfterTwo little girls of eight and uine years learnedthe shorter catechism in five weeks, and twoI had spoken, those present said : Y''es, we allothers in six weeks. Can any of tbe little girlsought to worship God and keep his Sabbaths,in America do better than tbat ?but we cannot because ot our work. We caunotWe have sewing an hour and a half each day.afford to rest one day every seven. I replied,Miss Edgar has taken charge of tbat department.ihat answer will not be accepted by God, bntThe girls are trying harder to sew well than theystill they answered, we are living as our fathershave ever done before.You will have learned long ere this ot thesafe arrival of Dr. Balph and family. Both Dr.and Mrs. Balph took very heavy colds on theway and have not been well since tbey came. Itishard to be sick at any time, but especially whenamong strangers, aud before yon are accustomedto doing without home comforts. No one canimagine, till he has tried, what it is to dowithout good bread, butter, milk and meat, tosay nothing of other things. We have been recipientsof several gifts, for all of which Miss Edgarand I wish to return our most sincere thauks.A preseut of money from Southfield SabbathSchool, which has enabled us to make some neededchanges, has helped us in our work greatly.Picture scrap books and other articles frora theand grandfathers lived and we cannot changetbeir customs.2nd. Went to Khrebey. Onr subject wasMatt. 15 ; 30-31, with regard to Jesus Cbrist'shealing the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, andmany others. Those present said, no one butGod could do such things. We answered, thatOhrist is God and there is uo God but the OneGod iu Christ Jesus. They arose saying, wecan't accept that, we caunot believe ihat Christis God, even if you brought -all your books astestimony.3d. Went to iloaset El Harsh. Just outsideof the village I saw a little giri about sevenyears old. Sbe was repeating or singing tbeThe Lord's Prayer, Our Father which art inHeaveu, &c. I stopped and spoke to her sayiug :the same school. Scrap books from school girls" Oh my little daughter who taught you that?''fi-om Seneca, P. O., Pa. A box from Utica,She answered : " Last summer a girl fi'om theOhio, from the Diligent Mission Band, containingscrap books and other articles for prizes andmountains, 1 have forgotten her name, came toour village and she taught me this song that 1dry goods. A box from the Band of Hope,might sing it."Mansfield, Ohio. There was also from Mansfield,a donation of five dollars from parents ofI told her that it Avas not a song, but a prayer,whicb Jesns Christ taught his disciples that tbeytwo loving daughters of whom they had been bereaved.Tbe money had been found in theirmight [u-ay it in faith. If they prayed with faitbin Christ, they would be saved and go to heaven,banks and the parents sent it to purchase Bibles.ft place or re.st and happiness ; and, if you prayIt will be used according to their wish. Therethis prayer every morning and every evening, andwas also sorae dry goods from another 1 lereaverttrust in Jesus I Jirist, you will go to heaven, themother from Olathe, Kansas.place of rest. There is uo Aveariness, nor pain inWe were also personally remembered by manythat beautiful place. Slie then asked ; Are thereof our old friends. It gladdened our hearts toany girls there to play with 't I answered, thereknow ihat we had not grown strange to them.are many girls fhere and they are continuallyWe do not make so many new friends as they do.

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 15singing songs of praise to God. She promisedme to pray every morning and eveniug, " OurPather whicli art in Heaven hallowed be thyname, &c."The following correspondence relating to TarsusMission will be read with interest:De,\e Brother, I enclose copies of the Doctor'sconsular letters, thinking that by them thecburch will undersiand how matters stand. Y'esterdaywe got the ultimatum with regard to thepiano. Our consul here was directed to inquireon wbat terms it would be released. The officialskindly threw off' the charge of storage fortwenty months, and, if we pay '21,.0piastres ofduty, we can have it. So the Government concedestbe whole question, whicii was not one ofvalue, hut the jwinciple ot h-Av'mg to pay dutyat all. Missionaries may complain of taxationwithout representation as well as the old Bostouiaus.Maky E. Metheny.Meesine, Nov. 3, 1887.Win. Dawson, Esq., U. S. Cons. Agt., Mersine.Sir: Yêsterday you handed me ConsulBissingei-'s No. 54, October 26, letter of instructions.'I'o-day I weut to Adana, and gave thefollowing letter in Turkish to the Waly.To His Excellence, Hassan Pasha, Gov. Geu.of the Walayat of Adana : After respectfullysaluting your Excellency, I wonld state that inthe month of Febrnary last, I, ihe manager oicertain American schools, went with text-booksand documents to your honorable predecessor,.Raif Pasha, and presented him with a letter statingthat I had come to comply with the schoollaw. H. E. endorsed the letter, and sent me withit to the President oi the Academical Council towhom I delivered it, and also the text books,and the diploma of Miss Sterrett, who has chargeof the Mersine School. He asked me to returnthe following week which I did. He now toldme that having but recently been appointed hewas not yet acquaintedoffice, and that he had given the books to theteachers in the Rushdi School there for examination.Moreover, he said that an academicalCouncil had not yet beeu constituted, and thereforebe requested me io wait, and in due time hewould send me word and arrange for the certificatesand Diplomas. I have up to that date receivedno reply from him, and my teachers' papersare still awaiting action.Now in order that there may be no further delayiu the execution of the legal formalities, Itake occasiou this second time to conform withthe specifications of the school law, and for theofficial action ot your Excellency lay before youthe diplomas and certificates of our ieachers, ourcourse oi study, and a copy of each text book inuse. The books have been officially authorizedliy the Ottoman Government in the Walayat ofSA-ria.Respectfully,D. Metheny.Here follow the names of teachers, etc., courseof study, etc. The Waly pleasantly received theabove letter, certificates and books, and theu repliedihat I should first bring a permit fromConstantinople, and then I would be in order inwhat I had just done. I referred H. E. toyour instructions as to the three things specifiedby thti law as all ihai was required by us. Hesaid he would refer the booKs, certificates and diplomasto the Academical Council.I then took leave of His Excellency.Respectfully,D. Metheny.Mersine, Nov. 4, 1887.Wni. Dawcson, Esq, H, S. Cons. Agt. Mersine.Sir : I recently reported io you verbally thatthe police had entered our school in Adana, andafter taking down the naines of the children, tookthem out and sent them away. About the sametime the police went to one of the Tarsus cityschools and ordered it closed. Last Sabbath Mr.Dibbak who has charge of the central schoolthere, was asked to appear at the City Councfl,(our school is in ihe house of the Chief of iheCouncil) where the Chief read him an order fromthe Governor General closing the schools of Methenyin Adana, Tarsus and Gnzroet, and orderedhim to close his school.On the 2d inst. a policeman came into my houseiu Mersine, and said that the English Basha (Corporal)reciuested me to visit a sick man ior him. wiih tbe duties of hisIwent with him and was ushered into ihe police station,where, indeed, a sick man was sitting. Heimmediately reached me his handio feel his pulse,and, while I was doing so, ihe Chief of Police saidhe was ordered by the Walayat to close our schoolsby force, if I did not close it, and, as he was sayingthis, was preparing- to read me the order. Iinterrupted him by saying I had come by requestto make a professional visit to a sick person, and

16 Letters .from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.not to be entrapped iu this unseemly manner, andthat I could not allow him to read me the order.He was free so far as I was concerned to do a,s hisorder bid him. I reierred him to our Consul asihe proper medium of legal process and left theroom. Two weeks before, I had a warrant served I hope to receive to membership next weekon me at Adana, for (if necessary by force—so the wife of Hanna Elyas. It was she wbo beadedread the warrant) my arrest. the rioters, who in 1883 invaded onr domicileSubsequently acifaft'oi for appearance came through you. Allow and assaulted ns, she striking- the first blow,me to call especial attention to the Mersine policewhich she dealt to Wm. ^tartin. For a year oraffair as involving important prineiple,s far too more past, she seems a converted woman. Mrs.serious to be allowed to pass without action.Should these indignities lie alloAved much louger,Martin has taken great pains to instruct her.Several friends at home have united with us inresideuce hen.' will become almost intolerable. prayers for her.As vou will see by my answer in compliance with She applied some raouths ago for admission tolegal.Respectfully,D. Metheny.ing, "The Mrgiu utterly failed me ; would nothear me," and theu continuing to ery to " SheikhHasson," " Save my child ! and I will go bareLetter from Re^-. James Ylartin ;Antioch, Syi-.l^, Nov. 10th, 1887. foot to your shrine."My De.ik Sik ; We returned a mouth ago A few days ago an intelligent shopkeeper mrefreshed by our stay ou the mountains. "We town, wbo never attended any of our meetings,hardly call the days spent there a vacation, for called ou me and said he wished to -visit me occasionallyfor Bible instruction. He returnedthere are parts of our ofBcial business which wetransact there, being unable to overtake them at since, and we spent an honi' together, he askingany other time.me to solve questions the Greek Church peopleThe week after our return, Yuseph, tbe eldest (of whom he was one) raise against the Scriptures.Also, be inquired particularly my arguson of Kurra Yuseph of whom i wrote you, waspublicly added to the number of our brethren ments against Free :Masom'y, which has enteredhere. He is a man aged perhaps thirty-five, aud Autioch in some force, and a'gainst which I bave,has for years attended our meetings and given of course, been uttering my pubhc protest. Aus much satisfaction. He is the sec(nid young sister of this man has attended our meetingsyoung man received by me to membership in the for a year or more, aud is apjilyingfor admissionpast three months, and both are very promising. f o membership. My hopes cont-erning him wouldFrom Idlib, teacher Aabbood writes me thereare some applications for admissiou to membersliiptbere. I hope to conduct commuuiou servicesin Idlib soon. The great eflbrts recentlymade by the Greek Church in Idlib, to obtainclosure of school there have utterly failed, andtbe teacher reports the scbool flourishing. Againthe Lord has defeated the enemies of His ownwork a,nd Gospel. To His name be the praise,P. Henderson, Esq., British Consul at Aleppo,bestowed his usual -sigilance and active attentionupon the case, and was the means oi protectingand maintaining our inission work in Idlib.Consul Bissinger's No. 54, Oct. 20,'87, I had literallymembership. She manifests a real abhorrence ofcomplied with the school law as far back as the wicked ways of the multitude with which sheFebruary last, aud there can be no possible valid formerly ran. She was telling- Mrs. Martin tbisreason for the recent action so injurious tri ns week, with much ajiparent pain, of a Greekand our work.Chiireb woman (oue of whose chilclren had justOn Saturday last on my applying for the died and another was dying,) whom she beardrelease of Rev. G. F. Montgomery's goods from crying- to " Sheikh Hasson'' to whom the Paganthe Custom Honse I wa.s iuformecl that an order Nusahiyeh pray, aud that some Greek neighborhad been sent them not to allow the franchise was reproving tbe woman, saying, ""V\'hy don'tfor the American schools here, as they were not you pray t( > Tbe Yirgin ? " the woman replyl.ic good, bnt for the fact that he is connectedwith the liquor trade.We had a very pleasant visit two weeks ago,frora two travellers, the Rev. Dr. :March and theRev. ]\Ir. Porter, from the neighborhood of Boston,Mass. No! mauy travellers come so farNorth as Antioch, but these gentlemen had beeueven to Aleppo, aud to the îissionary centresAintab aud ]\larasb, and on to the ancient Car-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad, 17chemish on the Euphrates. Their visit revived youngr Chinese woman recently married to aand cheered us, and we trust and pray they shall heathen idolator who has occasionally attendedhave a safe and enjoyable tour on eastward and, the mission during the past year. Before heras tbey contemplate, around tne world. The marriage she had been an inmate of the PresbyterianChinese Women's Home in SanRev Dr. March is the father of our friend RevMr. March, Missionary at 'Tripoli, Syria. He is Francisco two or three years. Here she hada hearty and vigorous traveller at seventy. been instructed in the elements of our religion ;We are to have the marriage of Yhiseph KurraYuseph to-morrow. The bride is a sister of admission io ihe churoh. After her marriagebut she did not profess faith in Ohrist, nor askour head native teacher.Our Colporteur is gone to ihe town of Alexandrettaon a tour of work, aud has sent for afurther supply of books. We rejoice to think theWord is finiiug entrance in ihat very needyport.I am, my dear sir, yours very sincerely,James YIartin.NOTES FEO.'VI THE CHINESE MISSION.Dear Broiher : In the progress of our workamong the idolators, within the last thrpemonths there have been ihree conversions andrequests for baptism. Two of these after regularand satisfactory examinations, were receivedinto our fellowship and were baptized—L"e Lup, on September 11, the Sabbath of ourlaat communion; and Seu Hoo Do, November13. These names added to our previous rollof Chinese converts make thirty in all. Onthe Sabbath of the baptism of the last our textwas that memorable declaration of Jesus inLuke 15:10: '* There is joy in the presence ofthe angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."How much happier would we be if allthe thirty had continued steadfast. Not thatany of ihem are known io have made absoluteshipwieck of their faiih or to have gone backto idolatry, but that several of them have notcontinued consistent in their lives but haveyielded to temptation and fallen into sin.Two things are detrimental to the best interestsof the converts—ihat wehave no homefor the young men living here ; and that ihemarried men leave their families in China.The causes of the first are two—the greatdiffioulty, almost impissibility, of procuring asuitable house, so unwilling are owners ofproperty to let dwellings to the Chinese; andthe lack of necessary means.Of the three recent applications for baptismonly two were admitted. The third was aand removal to Oakland she attended our missionand from time to time heard the gospel.In the evening school she received special attentionfrom one of the mission teachers. Shemade steady progress up until the time of ourlast oommunion. After her request for baptismwe held several meetings for instructionand examination. This was satisfactory untilwe learned that she is the second wife ofthisman, whose firstwife is in China. He had obtainedher consent when she did not know thathe had a wife already. He even deceived theminister who performed the marriage ceremony—Rev. Dr. Loomis. After the marriage,however, he confessed co her that he had beenmarried before.These facts being known—and we learnedthera from herself, or rather, she confirmedwhat we had heard—we were compelled to arrestthe examination and say to the anxiouswoman that we could not—not yet, at least—receive her into the fellowship of the church.The law of Christ Jesus, we informed ber, didnot permit a man to have two wives; that hermarriage to this man is unlawful; and that wedid not see how we could admit her to baptismwhile she consents to live as a wife with anadulterer.That I might have counsel without delay Iconferred with the ministeiial superintendentsof all the Chinese missions in Sun Francisco,and also with Rev. Mr. Nevin of the U. P.Mission in Los Angeles. They all were ofnearly the same mind—that the woman shouldnot be received to baptism.At our final meeting before the communioawhen I informed the anxious woman ihat Iwould have to withhold baptism, at least for thepresent, she wept—wept long and with apparentbitterness of soul. Nor was she the onlyone unable to control ihe feelings, My wholesoul went out in compassion lor one whoseemed very desirous to be reckoned among the

18 Incidents in Mission Lfedisciples of Jesus. But what could be done butto advise her to wait and pray in the hope thatGod may give light and open the way by whiohshe may yet have the desire of her heart.You must not be oensorious towards Mrs.would have been the first Chinese womanbaptized in this city, in whioh there are aboutone hundred Chinese Christians. Our disappointment,therefore, was peculiar when theway to her baptism was hedged up. AndChiu Juk. Her present condition is not of what this providence ofthe Pêdeemer indicateschoice. She was an orphan. She thought we know not.she was marrying lawfully. If fhe would now During the past two months two more of theleave her husband she would be homeless and Christians of the mission have gone back toalmost friendless. Among the Chinese people China. Soo Hoo Sing departed in Ootober;she would be an oliject of scorn ; and she would Lo Hoy in November. They are choice youngbe liable to be an outcast in a strange land. men, exceedingly amiable in disposition andHe is kind to her and seems to love her. very praiseworthy in deportment. They carryAnd, strange to say, he seemed altogeiher with them the leaven of the gospel; aod yetwilling that she would become a Christian. we were sorry to see them depart, ior they havePerhaps he does not expect to return to China a warm place in our affection, and they areto his firstwife. Probably she was not his needed here.own choice, for nearly all wives are selected T'Uree years ago Lo Hoy visited his motherfor sons, and the man rarely ever sees his in China. Since his return to California heintended wife until the day of bis marriage. has saved all his earnings, over seven hundredBut while we would be exceedingly glad dollars. Wheu I asked him what he intendedto receive this woman into our fellowship, to do with his money when he would returnfor she is not only a lovely woman but, I hope, home, he replied:" build my mother a nicealso a true convert, yet we cannot. We little house." And when in parting he graspedmust wait. Relief may come ior her from my hand a warm " good-bye" and I was turningto depart he added: " take me with you."some quarter. Meanwhile she continues toattend the mission occasionally ; and she receivesinstruction at ber bome by one of the Hoo Do, the last baptized. Several ChrisNext Tuesday he will be followed by SenWl men of the mission family.tians from ihe San Francisco missions willYou can easily see that this case is not only accompany him. May we not hope that oursad but discouraging also, and probably involvinga mysterious providence. For years who have learned to tell the story of the crossless will be China's gain ! The lips of thoseihe women of the mission family have been here will not be silenced there.anxious to be permitted to engage in missionwork among the the Chinese women of SanYours in the Gospel,N. R. Johnston.Oakland, Cal, Nov. 25, 1887.Francisco. This was the first woman whoever entered a mission in Oakland: and shelM€imMMWS IM MimiOM Eciwm.A MERCHANT BECOMES A CHRISTIAN.Baltt Chetti, a merchant of Palamanair, India,was converted in 1865 under the ministryof Dr. Silas Scudder. He was a well to-domerchant of the town, of high caste and extensivefamily oonsections. He had been an inquirerfor somemonths.He finally broke his caste and became aChristian. A mob collected—armed withvarious weapons—seeking to kill him. Heeluded them and escaped to the mission premises.On Sunday, when he went to churchwith the missionary to bebaptised, the carriagein which they went had to be guarded by thepolice. The churoh was surrounded and takenpossession of by the mob. Only He wbo restraineththe wrath of man could, and he did

Notes and Beviews, 19restrain that mob. Bala Chetti took refuge for the Christian ohurch, was all gone.a time at the missiou house. When tbe ex- After a time he brought suit in court for thecitement was somewhat over, he went to his recovery of his wife. She was summonsed andhouiie. His wife had, before this, when he firsi appeared at the District Court. She was askedbecame a Christian, spat upon bim, and gone if she would return to him ? "No." .Kad hehome to her parents, taking their only son not been a kind husband? "Yes." Had hewith her.ever abused her or neglected to provide for herHe now found that his brothers had walled and their son? "Never." Wby would sheup with masonry the entrance to his part of not return to him then? " Go with thatChristhelarge common residence. He could only tian dog I Never 1 " Did he not love her andget in by climbing over the scullery gate. He did .she not love him 'I " Yes, before he becamefound it deserted and empty. He wished to a renegade to his ancestral faith; but now hecontinue with his brothers in the management was dead, so far as she was concerned." Heof their bazaar. They spat upon him in the lost wife and child and brothers and house andstreets, and would not let " this dog ofa Chris- lands and property for Christ's sake and thetian" enter their place of business. Foiled in Gospel's. All was gone but his faith in Christ,this, he brought suit in the Civil Court for ihe but to that he held firm.division of the paternal estate, that he might He remained for a time with the missionarytake his share and do business alone, if they studying the Bible. He could not again be awould not allow him to keep on with them. merchant. He had no capital, and nobodyHis brothers brought in forced documents wonld buy of him if he had. To gain a live'iandperjured witnesses to swear that he had hood he enlisted in the Governmeni police,already drawn out and squandered the whole under a Christian offioer. That he might beof his share of the estate. Nat a witness could free from continual insults and persecutionsfae found to testify for this " renegade and out- he was sent to a distant district. The choleraeast." They dared not. The judge openly said swept through that district, and Bala Chettihe suspected the documents to be forged and was taken up. His old friends said, " What athe witnesses false, but there was no rebutting wreck ! " They little knew his eternal reward.testimony, and the oase went against hira, and —Bev. Jacob Chamberlain, D. D.his property, that might have been a help toAt the bi-monthly meeting of the ForeignMission Board, Nov. 29, 1887, Miss WillaDodds of Mersine was, at her own request, appointedmissionary-teacher. She will labor inLatakia, and, if the mission approve, will deroteherself to Harem work.§iot^0 Mil §mm^.—Recent letter.^ report the serious illnessof Miss Lillie B. Joseph. Soou after returningfrom the mountains she contracted a coldthat developed into a complication of pneumoniaand malarial fever. The disease, however,seems to have spent its force, as she was ableto sit up on Saturday, Nov, 12 ; and there isreason to hope she will soon regain her strength.—Our missionaries in Ciiioia have specialclaims on the sympathy and prayers oftheChurch. OfiSoial interference with their work,as seen in the recent forcible closing of thoAdana school, continues, and personal insultsin one form or another are of frequent ooour-

20 Notes and Beviews.rence. In a letter not intended for publication,Miss Sterrett writes : The most distressingtbing to us is the prospect that our ownGovernment will do nothing for us, even thoughour domicile should be violated. In vigorousterms she contrasts tbe manifest indifference ofthe American Government to the rights ofmissionaries from this country, and ihe promptnesswith whioh the British Government extendsprotection to thi^ interests acd work ofthose who are under its flag. When Turkishofficials recently attempted to interfere witbschools in Antioch, the Eoglish Consul interposedat once and effectively. But no effectivemeasures are taken to protect our missionariesin the enjoyment of their personal rights asAmerican citizens. It is true that a U. S.frigate called at Mersine to inquire into thematter; but, while the captain seemed to bein earnest, he remarked at the close of his interview with ihe mission, that he wonld reportthe circumsta-iioes to the admiral, but he didnot know that it would amount to anything.Dr. Metheny's correspondence with iheconsular agent at Mersine will give our readersa correct idea of the present condition of affairsin Tarsus Mission.—Miss Sterrett requests us to convey tbethanks of Tarsus Mission to the children whocontributed to the purchase of an organ for herschool at Mersine. " Aside," she says, " fromthe burden it lifts from our tired throats in ourendeavors to train these wild voices for singingGod's praise, it affords us useful entertainment."We are sure ihat all the children areglad to have been able to do so muoh good at,so trifling a sacrifice., —At the November communion in Latakiafifteen were received into the fellowship of theChuroh on a profession of faith in Christ; tenfrom the boys' and two from the girls' boardingschool, two from town, and one from Mt. Lebanon.In this large accession we read freshproof of the divine presence and favor. Tbehearts ofour missionaries are glad ; and surelythe churches will be encouraged to greaterliberality in tbe support ofa mission ihat continuesio report such results.In this connection Mr. Easson writes : Thereis one thing we do not want the lovers of Jesnsto forget, namely, that tbese ten additionalboys make seventeen church membera in ourboys' boarding sohool, a strong argument foran industrial department. What are we to dowith these boys when they finish their education% Again, the house that our school occupiesat present has been sold, and we will haveto leave it about next June. Where are weto go ? Unless money is sent soon there willbe no time to build. May the Lord, whosework it is, provide the means. We commit thewhole case to him.—We call attention to the address on TlieOpportunity ofthe Ages, or India for Christ.The author is an experienced missionary nf theReformed Church, whose long residence in Indiaentitles him to a respectful hearing. Nothingis sadder, in view of the waiting attitudenot only of India, but of all nations, than theseeming indifference of those who have beenentrusted with the gospel. To be half-heartedor to procrastinate, instead of " buying up theopportunity," is to imperil the progress ofChristianity. The furrows are open, and if wedo not sow tbe good seed ofthe kingdom, theenemy will sow tares.Permission to publish this address is onlyone of many courtesies shown us by Dr. HenryN. Cobb, the excellent Secretary of the Boardof Foreign Missions of the Reformed Churohin America.

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22 Our Yiews of Mission Work.his noble volume on I Cor. xv., we rather wish to saying, " Y''e are not your own." God the Fathconcentrate attention on the great practical points puts on his name to mark his original possessionin the passage when thus explained. The view of us as his creatures, " Thine they were." Thereferred to contemplates the baptized as ever Son puts on his name, saying, " Thou gavestcoming forward to fill up the vacancies created them me," " bought with a price," twicefold mine,by the removal of the deceased, so that the one by gift, and right of purchase. The Holy Sphitclass is ever rushing in to supply the places of puts on his name as having taken possession, andthe other. Or, as more fully expressed in Dr. " sealed us to the day of redemption," and theCandlish's own words, "The vacancies left inthe practical import ofthe whole might be expressedranks of the Christian army, when saints and mar- in the words of the prophet, "Bnt now thustyrs fall asleep in Jesus, are suppUed by fresh re- saith the Lord that created thee, 0 Jacob, andcruits, eager to be baptized as they were, and he that formed thee, 0 Israel, Fear not, for Ipledged by baptism to fall, if necessary, as they have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thyfell, at the post of duty and danger. It is a touch- name, thou art mine." But for what purpose His ?ing sight which the Lord's baptized hosts thus pre That we "stand all the day idle?" No, butsent to view, especially in troublous tiines. " to every man his work." As the smaUest ves-Column after column advancing to the breach, as ide or particle of tissue m our physical frame hason a forlorn hope in the storming of Satan's cita- its functions and purpose in the economy of anidel of worldly pomp and power, is mowed down mal life, and every part needs all the rest, so itisby the ruthless power of persecution. But ever in the body of Christ into which we .are baptized.as one line disappears, a new band of volunteers The poor need the rich and rich need the poor,starts up, candidates for the seal of baptism, even the ignorant need the instructed, and the instructthoughin their case, as in the case of their pre- ed need the ignorant, the afflicted need the comdecessorsin the deadly strife, the seal of baptism forter and the comforter needs tbose towardis to be the earnest oi the bloody crown of mar- whom his better feelings can be profitably exertyrdom.''This view of the passage, as Fairbahn cised ; so that in Christ's service there arewell remarks, requires only to be extended so as work and wages for all, aud diligence alwaysto embrace all times and seasons of the Church's brings its reward.history on earth, the peaceful as well as the per- But not in imperative obligations alone, but insecuted, and it -will not only satisfy all the con- holy, all-persuasive motives to obedience, wbataitions of the text, and make the context more a power, practically, should baptism exert overeasily understood, but will suggest many great the lives of the people of God. Is uot baptismpractical duties which we can afford in no gener- the sign of God's everlasting love in its purpose toation safely to overlook.save, and the seal of that purpose beiug carried in-First, it shows us how much, hy way of obli- to effect ? Does it not show the blood tbat cleangation,is implied in our baptism.seth from all siu, and the unspeakable love andBaptism, whether in the infant or adult, is a deep devotion that prompted the shedding of tbatMost instructive institution. Not only does it blood on our behalf ? Does it not seal our adop-•ggest our need of cleansing, and the provision tion into God's fainily, and, in letters of light,#od has made for that end, but in it he seals his write on us his new name, " My servant," " Mineright to possess us in all our powers and capabil- elect? " Is not baptism inputting on of Cbrist,ities, and puts on us his name to indicate that not only of his righteousness for justification, butwe are wholly his. It is a symbolical way of of his nioral likeness and image in every form of

Our Views of Missiim Work. 23consecrated obedience ? Are we noi thus " bap- to generation, is nothing more than has beentized with his baptism," and made "to drink of promised her by her glorious Head, " Instead ofhis cup ; " and are not the highest, holiest, noblest thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thoumotives supplied to every form of active service, mayest make princes in all the earth." It mayas we recognize " our engagement to be the not be in the Hue oi natural generation or succes-Lord's ? "sion any more than in ihe case of Joshua, EhshaSecondly.—Bui again the passage represents or Timothy ; but as the plant seeds every year sothe baptized as, in some sense, baptized for others, that there may be plants every year successively,!' Wbat shall ihey do who are baptized for ihe so it is in the family of God. And thus it is thatdead ?" We may be sure thai this does not mean we have so many promises in reference io the seedgetting a name at baptism from some relative, or or offspring. " A seed shall serve him ; it shallfriend, or distinguished person in the Church, for be accounted io the Lord for a generation. Theygiving the baptized a name is no part of the bap- shall come, and shall declare his righteousnessuntismalordinance. The Greek preposition {huper), to a people thai shall be born, thai he hath donehere rendered/or, gives us a very clear idea of this " " Por I will pour water on him that iswhat is meant by being baptized/or o^/ier-s. Con- thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground ; Iwillstrued as in the passage, it signifies instead of, or pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessingin the room of, or on behalf of, and is frequently upon thine off'spring ; they shall spring up asused in the New Testament to express the sub- among ihe grass and as willows by the water courstitutionarycharacter of Christ's sufferings/or us, ses ; one shall say, I am the Lord's, and anotheror, as the old preachers used to say, " In our law- shall call himself by name of Jacob ; and anotherroom and stead." The force of this preposition shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, andis cleariy seen in Paul's words to Philemon, when surname himself by the name of Israel." Andspeaking of Onesimus, " Whom I would have re- thus it is ihat among the symbols of tbe Apocatainedwith me, that in thy stead (huper sou) he lypse the Church is a travailing woman, and themight have ministered to me in the bonds of the " remnant of her seed," for a long period, doesgospel." Now, in the expression, baptized in the noble work for God, and when one generationroom or stead of others, we have only what has " cease from their labors," even on earth in ihosebeen promised to, and enjoyed by, the Church of who succeed them, " iheir works do follow ihem."Christ since the beginning oi ihe worid, namely, Thirdly.-^Bui those for whom some are bapthatshe shall have, from generation to generation, tized are, moreover, here styled "the dead."members raised up, quaUfied and sealed, and under " What shall they do who are baptized fior thecovenant engagement to take the places and per- dead." To understand the force ofthe expressionform the work of those gone before. As eariy here, we have only to remember that through aas the days of Adam, Eve said, on the birth of large part ofthe New Testament era " the dragonSeth, "For God haih appointed me another seed was wroth with the woman, and went to makeinstead of Abel whom Cain slew." Joshua, with war with the remnant other seed, which keep themany formalities, was appointed 8,nd prepared to commandments of God, and have the testimony oftake the place of Moses, and act in his stead. Jesus Christ." Through this whole period theDavid reigned in Saul's stead, and Solomon in Church is in conflict with ihe worid, whether inDavid's stead, and Elisha was called and pre- an orga.nic form, having heads and horns, or thepared to act the prophet in Elijah's stead. Now, unorganized sea ofthe godless masses that rejectall this, going on in the Church, from generation the offers of reconciliation with God, and despise

24 Our Views of Mission Work.and resist his authority. In this conflict how and storm, if the man at the wheel, as often bapmanyof her noblest sons have fallen ? Whether pens, is disabled by a sea, or perhaps carriedin those terrible massacres by bloody old Rome overboard altogether, the nearest hand aboardin the early days of Christiamty, or in ihe much who can handle the rudder rushes to his place.longer continued Crusades under ihe direction If a saflor fall from ihe shrouds disabled, anotherof the woman "arrayed in scarlet," and mounted instantly cUmbs np the ladder to perfect his unon" a scarlet beast," and which aimed at the accomplished task; and so it should be in tbetotal extirpation of ihe saints, and of which Eng- Church oi God. Onr Ehshas shonid stand readyland's blind poet so feelingly prays :to take up the mantle that falls from the shoulders" Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints,whose bones of OUT translated Elijahs, always remembringthatLie scattered on the Alpine Mountains cold . consecration to God in baptism binds UStven them who kept thy truth so pure of old, _ iWhen all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, whether in war or peace, to close up every"n' 11 ;,, 'r/r Their martyred blood and ashes sow t^^^-^^^ ^^^ gjj ^ ^,j^^,,_^,^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^j.O er all the Italian helds, where still doth sway ' . .The triple tyrant; that from these may grow unteer for every service for which we are fitted,A hundred-fold who having learned thy way^hat it may never be with US, "As when a standtarlymay fly the Babylonian woe ; ,or whether in later times, wben our Reformation ^'^^ bearer fainteth."fathers passed through a great fight of affiiction; ^^ need hardly be said, tbat, whilst iu the abovein all these the Church has been in battle array, ^^nse the expression, " baptized for the dead,"and in the Shulamite was to be seen " the com- applies to every form of church work, we havepany of two armies." Often bas the enemy thinned specially in view the duty of those properiy qualherranks and slain her most valiant champions.so iS^d to be ready to reinforce broken ranks in thethat her history is, in some respects, a Gilboa, missionary field. It is a strange fact that tbesuggesting ihe lament, "The beauty of Israelis most successful missions of modern tunes haveslain upon thy high places ; bow are the mighty °o* o"'? commenced amid many difBculties, butfallen ! "have been subjected to many discouragements byNow, as the soldier is chosen, enlisted, and the unexpected removal of devoted men, justpledged by an oath of fidelityto keep the lines "svhen qualified ior their work. In a most interunbroken,by stepping forward and fillingthe esting little book, " The Dawu of Modern Misplaceof any one who has faUen, so baptism en- sions," by the late Dr. W. Fleming Stevenson^lists and pledges us to fill up the vacancies thus for many years the devoted Convener of themade in our ranks. It is the spirit of the familiar Committee of Foreign Missions of tbe Generalillustration, an ox standing between an altar and a Presbyterian Assembly, Ireland, and who madeplough, Altera paratus, ready for either, to work a tour of the world to see the -ts-orking of modernor be sacrificed for Christ. And how nobly tbis missions everywhere, we have this fact emphasizedwas exemplified in the glorious struggles of onr in various examples, especially in the case of oneown covenanted ancestors, when men and even most devoted man wbo after long study by way ottender women, breathing the martyr spirit, thought preparation to conduct a inission in Surinam, wasit an honor to aspire to the martyr crown, when ordained an apostle of the Gentiles, and reachedCameron and Cargill and Peden and Renwick in the fieldjust to die. Aud how many such casessuccession led tbe forlorn hope, and volunteers might be cited of men who had just reached tbewere ever ready to fill up tlie broken ranks. But scene of operations and seen the work just started,not in war times only is this exemplified. When and then dropped out of our ranks on earth. Thisthe goofl ,sjnp is ploughing her way through -nrave Jg no doiil.it a providpuco wonderfully inscrutable,

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 25and a trial of our faith, patience and persever- may be safely affirmed that many of our homeance. But with the felt obligation oi our bap- pastors, in weak, scattered charges, have reallytism, and our consecration therein to God, why greater difficulties to overcome than they wouldshould ihere be such difhculty in finding men to find in the foreign field. And the same remarkfill the places of those who have been removed ? may be made in reference to those who are askedWhy bas onr Board of Foreign Missious had for for support to foreign missions. Letsuch think thatyears to appeal in vain to our young men io come once the faithful followers of the Lamb, " tookforward and fillthe gaps in the ranks of mission joyfully tbe spofling oftheir goods," were subjectedwork? Has the martyr spirit deserted our to fines, imprisonment and many forms of barbar-Church ? Did our fathers dare io face the scat- ous cruelty, and even to shed tbeir blood and layfold and tbe stake, and when one fell a dozen down their lives in the Master's service, and thatwere ready to stand up in his place, verifying the in our day of privilege and peace we are onlyold saying, that the " blood of the martyrs is the asked for such pecuniary help as we can easilyseed of the Church," and shall we not have men afford, and surely in the most liberal and enlargedwilling to encounter the far less hazardous and contribution they can make, they may well feelself-denying work on the mission field. We are that Christ's " yoke is an easy yoke and his burthankfulto know that in many departments of den a light burden."the Church, matters, in this respect, are greatly And surely ifthe obligation of our baptism ischanged for the better, and that from many col- enforced by tbe lull assurance of a glorious resurlegesand seminaries young men are volunteering rection, if it can be our certain and sure hope,to work in the gospel, in lands where Christ has " Thou shalt be rewarded in the resurrection ofnot been known. But, alas, the baptism of the the just," if " they who are wise shall shine as thcSpirit seems not to have reached us yet, or en- brightness of tbe firmament, and they who turndued us with sufficient power from on high, else many to righteousness as the stars forever andwben our "faithfuls" ascend on the fierychariot ever,'' surely there is no lack of encouragementto heaven, our " hopefuls " would rejoice in being to be in this and in every service for Christ, " Alcalledto filltheir places and carry forward their ways abounding in the work of the Lord, foraswork.Nor should it be overlooked that work much as we knoAV that our labor is not in vain in theiu tbe Foreign Mission fieldis not now subjected Lord." Such '• abounding,'' however, on the partto tbe same hardships it had once to encounter, of all the baptized, we cannot hope to realize tillWitb the Church behind ihem to sustain them, the higher baptism be received, " Until the Spiritand tbe wonderful facilities for travel, and the be poured upon us from on high, and the wQderopendoor and welcome they find everywhere, the ness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field beneed of self-denial is become small indeed, and it counted for a forest."Items of Missionary Intelligence.UNITED PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN In Egypt, with a population of 6,817,265, ourMISSIONSmissionis the only one carried on amoug thenative people at large by auy formally organizedThese are two, Egypt and India, the former missionary body. It lias its stations and nativecommenced by Rev, 'I'homas McCague, in Cairo, churches in the Delta and up the Yalley of theNovember 15th, 1854, and Rev. Jas. Barnett in Nile as far as the firstcataract at Assouan. Withthe following month ; and the latter by Rev. the exception of a few individual efforts it is theAndrew Gordon, at Sialkot, in August, i855. only systematic organization at work seeking the

26 Items of Blissionary InteUigence.evangelization of the millions of this most interestingand needy land.In India the field embraced in our mission includesthe Districts of Sialkot, Zafarwal, Eastand West Gujranwala, Jhelum, Gurdaspur, Pasrurand Pathankot with the nearly five raUlionsoi people in their bounds. These millions are inall cases, except so far as tbe Gospel has beenmade to reach tbem, Mohammedans and Llindooheathen, witb no proper knowledge of the trueGod and Jesus Cbrist whom he has sent. Withthe exception of a few more or less irregular missionarylabors aniong them, all these people aredependent npon onr mission for any knowledge ofthe salvatiou—and as things are now, must, likethe vast multitudes in Egypt, have the Gospel atour hands or perish in their sins. What a responsibilityis thus laid at this very moment upon ourHnited Presbyterian Church! Can we as achurch fail through indifference or neglect orotherwise to send the Gospel to the multitudes ofthese two great fields and be guiltless ? " Noidolator shall inherit the kingdom of God."The laborers in both these missions from thiscountry are both male and female. Indeed thenuinber of unmarried female missionaries fromour home-churches is larger in proportion to thewhole niembership of the Hnited Pre.sbyterianChurch, than from any Protestant body in theworld, with the possible exception of the Moravians.The names of the missionaries with their stationsare as follows :In Egypt—Revs. G. Lansing, D. D., AndrewWatson, D. D. and Win. Harvey, with MissesAnna Y. Thompson, Margaret A. Smith andHarriet M. Conner at Cairo ; Rev. S. C. Ewing,D. D. and Misses Mary A. Frazier and MatildaStrang at Ale.xandria ; Pêv. T. J. Finney andMiss Isabella Strang at Moiisoora ; Revs. JohnGiffen, J, R. Alexander and J. K. Giffen andMisses M. J. McKown, Ella 0. Kyle aud JessieJ. Hogg at Asyoot ; and Rev. Chauncy Mnrchand Miss Adella Brown at Luxor, in all, 9 menand 10 women, total, 19 missionaries.In India—R,evs. Robt. Stewart, D. D. and D.S. Lytle and Misses Elizabeth G. Gordon andMaria White, M. D at Sialkot ; Revs. James S.Barr, D. D. and Samuel Martin, D D. audMisses Mary J. Campbell and Kate M. Corbettat Zafarwal ; Rev. .1. P. McKee and Mi.sses C,E. Wilson, Rosa A. McCullough and Rosa T.Wilson at Gujranwala ; Rev. T. L. Scott andMisses Emma D. Anderson and Annie F. Givenat Jhelum ; Rev. A. B. Caldwell and Miss JosephineL. "VVhite at Gurdaspur ; and Miss EupbieE. Gordon at Madhopur, in all, 1 men and 11women, total, 18 missionaries.Oi these missionaries, Rev. Dr. Martin andMisses Frazier and Eupbie E. Gordon are nowin this country, but will each return to the workat the earliest day the Providence of God permits.In each mission all ihe wives of the missionariesare doing much efficient work.With these foreign missionaries there are 375native workers, viz.: 221 in Egypt and 148 inIndia. Of these. It in Egypt are pastors andevangelists or licentiates, and 12 in India. Mostof all these workers, having been taught the Wayof Life themselves by our missionaries, are anxiousnow to make it known to their benighted people.'I he firstchurch organized was in India. Itconsisted of the missionary and his immediatecircle, and was at Sialkot, in 1856. The secondwas in Egypt, with native elders and deacons,and was at Cairo, in 1863. From these beginningsthe work has advanced until now there areeight organized churches in India and twentythreein Egypt, with a total native membershipon tbe 31st oflast .December o" 4,019 conimudcantsin tbe foriner, and 2,042 in the latter. Theincrease in the iorraer during the year was 1,936by profession, and in the latter of 246. The totalthus of organized churches is 31, and of nativeconverts gathered in to be communicants in themis 6,061 What a return for the labors of theseyears—over 6,000 souls turned fi'om darkness tolight, and from the power of Satan unto God !From the beginning both missions have feltthe importance—indeed, the necessity—of havingnative schools. All the people needed to readas well as hear in their own tongues the work ofGod. Only throngh proper schools also couldproper persons be brought forward to teach, andfurther ou iu the course of education become thesuitable and necessary native ministers andteachers of the people, and pastors of the nativechurches.Accordingly scarcely sooner had the pioneerlaborers in each field opened their mission thanthey took steps to meet this great want, aud tbework has steadily grown to be of very greatmoment. In tbe two missions there are now 194schools, besides the 138 Sabbath-schools. In

Items of Missionary InteUigence. 27these schools of which 129 are in India and 65 of good that comes from this work in both mi.:-are iu Egypt, there are 9,219 pupils, of whom sions.1,650 in Egypt and tt5 in India are females. Our needs are manifold and are most importantIn all these schools women are being taught as and pressing. They are specially of two things :well as men, and every year their numbers iu the First. A need of a larger number of laborersschools are increasing. In Egypt 53 of the New and most urgent caUs for more missionaries,schools are self-supporting, and the interest of the male and female, are being constantly made.people at large in helping forward the educational Most earnest pleadings are made for new schoolswork of the mission may be seen in the fact that to be opened. Often heathen men will go longtbe sum contributed during the past year by the distances to the missions to entreat that a missionarywill be sent to them. Most tender andnatives of Egypt alone for school purposesamounted to $14,823. In all of these schools in solemn is the call for more missionaries to takeboth missicns a considerable portion of each day the constant oversight aud training of the largeis devoted to the direct reading and studying of number of new converts that are almost dailythe Bible, and of thns making the pupils know being gathered in. In both missions also triedthe way of salvaiion. T"'he one condition of allwho attend any mission school, whether Mohammedanor Jew or Braman and other heathens isthat the Bible shall be used and the way and thelessons of Christianity shall be taught.Among these schools are boarding schools asready to filltheir places.Second. A ueed of moans to carry on thcwork. (1) Means immediately to remove thein Sialkot, Cairo and Asyoot, and two colleges debt that is burdening and crippling the wholeor training institutes, that are of very special work. This debt amounts to $22,000 and forimportance for raising up the native teachers and much ofit a heavy interest bas to be paid. (2)ministers of the people at large. These institutionsare at Asyoot in Egypt and Sialkot in Insions.These amount according to the approMeans to meet tbe current expenses of the misdiarespectively, and have already rendered most priation of the General Assembly this year touseful service to each mission and its great work. $8t,000. This estimate is tbe very lowest thatNeither of them should lack any of the nieans after a most careful examinations it was believedthey need ior fulfilling their great purpose. could be made. It is nearly $10,000 Jess thanEach of these missions have Sabbath schools the missions most earnestly asked ior, and evenalso, of which there are 68 in India and tO in with it some of the work will in all probabilit)-Egypt, with a total ot 5,625 scholars in them, of have to be curtailed or stopped.whom 1.608 are in ihe former mission and 4,Oit Such are our missious. They were begun inin the latter.prayer and in following the leadings of DivineIn both missions also much thorough and usefulZenana work is done—that is • the workProvidence. They were carried on in a continofChristian women visiting the home of the peoplewhere none but they can have access to theheathen women. There they can read the Scripturesto the native women, teach them to readand talk with them of the way to be saved, andpray with them. Almost all our missionarywomen do some of this work, but some of them,like Miss McCullough and Miss Elizabeth Gordonof India, and Miss McKown and others ofEgypt, devote themselves exclusively to it. Thestatistics of this kind of work in the India missionare not in hand, but in Egypt there are 25persons engaged in it, and 62t native women arereceiving instructions thus in their Zenanas oruative homes. No one can estimate the amountand veteran laborers are being worn down orcalled away, and most necessarily should newmen and women be sent out to relieve them or beued offering of men and women and money forthem, and down to this honr tbey been accompaniedwith the blessing of God that has madethem, both in India and Egypt amoug the moststrikingly successful and fruitful missions of moderntimes—specially in the nuinber of convertsgathered in and in proportion io ihe resourcesthat could be commanded for the work. Hathnot the Lord done great things for us whereofwe are glad ?In all this great work the Lord hath beenmindful of us. He hath most manifestly blessedus in ihis great missionary effort of our church.Only let every congregation and every memberof the church abound in prayer on its behalf, and

28 Items of Missionary InteUigence.make their offerings for it, and he will bless usyet more and more.J. B. Dales, Cor. Sec.PhiladeljMa, Pa.ABROAD.smaller numbers in Arizona, New Mexico,MAD AGASCAR.—On this island there Dakota. are Washington, Oregon and Alaska.over eight thousand communicants and twelvehundred Protestant churches, more than halfof which were built.within fourteen years.AT HOME.ALASKA—Under the influence of Mrs.MacFarland, the motherof missions in Alaska,a girls' boarding-school was started, ten yearsago, at Fort Wrangel, but the opposition ofthe government officials, culminating in theunwarranted arrest of Dr. Jackson, hinderedits earlier growth ; yet, since the appointmentof a new set of officers, ihe school has prospered,and been subsequently removed to Sitka.The Greek Church has done some work amongthe people, but the results are insignificant.The good effects of our missionary labors thereare seen in the improved external conditions oftheir homes. The great bain of the Indians iswhiskey, whose use the missionaries endeavorzealously to repress. The zeal and patiencedisplayed by the Christian laborers in Alaskaare not excelled on any missionary soil.—ThePreshyterian.THE WEST.—The Ghurch at Home andAbroad, speaking of that part of the UnitedStates lying west ofthe Mississippi river, says:Vastly as foreign and interstate immigrationhas poured into this area, the population is, ofcourse, still almost as small, relatively, as thearea is large. There are doubtless twelve millionsof people, or one-fifth of our whole population,west of the Mississippi. Nine and onehalfmillions are native born—children of immigrants,or sons and daughters of parentsfrom New England, from the Middle States,from the Oentral West, or the South. Twoand one-half millions are foreign born. Tbenorthwest contains one-half of our whole Germanpopulation. The porportion of Irish isless than in the large cities and the easternstates. On the other hand Minnesota alonecontains one-fourth of all the Swedes andNorwegians in the land. The French andEnglish, muoh fewer in number, are more generallydistributed, except that there is a considerableconcentration of French in NewOrleans. The surviving remnacts of Indiantribes, numbering two or three hundred thousand,are mostly in the Indian territory, withThe one hundred and fifty thousand Normansare mainly concentrated in Utah, but havespread into Idaho and Wyoming.What is tbe state ot religion ? The membersand adherents of all Christian denominationsnumber about two and a hall millions, or lessthan one-fifth of the whole population. Ofthese some three hundred and sixty thousandare members and adheients of our ownchuroh.The nine and one-half millions outside ofchurch ties, from the remoteness and inaoffioienoyof the means of grace, are less underthe pressure and restraint of religious influencesthan the godless masses in the olderstates. Intemperance, gambling, lawlessness,and violence are general and unchecked.Roughness and reckless license largely characterizethe modes of living. The Sabbathis widely profaned, often almost wholly disregarded.Materialism and infidelity pervadethe masses and clog the advance of the gospeland the kingdom.What has the Presbyterian chureh done forthis region 1 The Board has 853 missionariesat worn there, many of them covering largedistricts, and miuistericg each to severalchurches and out stations. There are besidesthese a considerable number of self-supportingchurches, most of which were once under theBoard's caie. There are a'so maintained by theWomen's Executive Committee some eightyschools, with about two hundred teachers,among the Indians, Mexicans and Mormons.The Board expended in this region last yearnearly $300,000,Jand its receipts from the samefield last year were over $42,C00, a markedevidence of hfe and growth and success.ANNUAL REPOR P OF THE A. M.MILLIGAN MEMORIAL MISSION BAND.To-day ends the second year of our existenceas an organized band. Of what use hasbeen our existence? What good have W6

MISSES M. B. EDGAR & M. R. WYLIE.LATAKIA, SYRIA.

Mission Monographs. 29done.during the past two years? we hope that by another annual meeting weWe answer : We have done what we could, shall be able to accomplish much more and moreWe have tried to be of some use in our Master's efi'ective labor in Christ's vineyard.. 'vineyard. We feel assured that we have accomphshedsome good for Christ's kingdom.E. M. Aethue, Sec'y.Miss B. Oudry, Pres.During the year the Band has held ten regularmeetings, and two special meetings, which have REPORT OF CRAFTSBURY L. M. S.had a veiy good average attendance and have This Society was organized Nov. 1885 withbeen full of interest. Death has hot entered ourcircle during onr organization, and sickness hasbeen a rare visitor, for which we feel thankful.We were busy during the firstpart of the yearin the preparation of a box of clothing which wa,sshipped to the Tarsus mission in April, reachingnine members. There are eighteen names on ourroll at present, while two have been taken off attheir own request.The last year we had nine regular meetingsand one called :meeting. . We prepared clothingfor, boys- in the .Southern Mission. , As we sent itits destination in due time. It was heartily welcomedas we afterwards leai-ned by a letter reflood, -we' received.quite a loi of second-bandat the time of the suffering caused by the greatceived from Miss B. M. Sterrett of Mersine; clothing from others, which was sent in our box.The, _ preparation _ of the box was the occasion of During the past year wehad ten regular meetmanypleasant meetmgs. The box wag valued at ings. 'Our wprk has been for giris in the Southern$60 and contained various kinds of clothing be- Mission.sides scrap-books, cards, and other things of in- Rev. W. J. Spronll delivered an' interestingterest to children. Of our funds we sent $9.81 and profitable lecture,on Syria, its people custotheChinese Mission in Oakland, California, in toms, habits, etc. The proceeds of the lectureJanuary, to finish the work of the year 1886, were devoted to Foreign Missiou workwhich was devoted to that mission. Pifteen.dol- As, we enter upon another year, we should enlarswere also given at the last Presbyterial . deavor, with the help of promised strength toLadies' Missionary Society for the new mission woi-k more for our blessed Master and the preciousand immortal souls of the perishing thanwhich it was hoped i would soon be established,and now at the close of the year we have about we, have in time past.$60 which will be sent at once to the Latakia, Respectfully submitted,Mission, for which we have been working this year.Miss Minnie Seaver, Sec.We have tried various scheines for raising January 6, 1888.money among whidh were a lecture by Rev. W. Report of Treasurer from Noyemher 5, 1885J. Sproull on the Latakia Mission, and an exhibitionof Stereoscopical views by Proi McCartney. Received from members $51.03t6 December 15, 188t.We have tried to interpst ourselves in every Proceeds of Lecture 6.04important mission work of the .church. We havecorresponded through'Secretaries and by this$5t.0tmeans have been made to better understand the '$10.00work ofthe different missions, the interest in which Pîd for to Dry Foreign Gopds :ftI)ssion26.t9for Express8.40has been largely increased.When we look back and find, hpw Utile wehave done we are inclined to feel discouraged, butve take encouragement from -what onr Mastersaid concerning the " widoTf's mite," and, as ourmembership has increased nearly four-fold andour funds correspondingly in ihe past two years.$45.19Balance in the treasury$11.88Respectfully submitted,Lisa A. Mitchell, Treas.LABORERS TOGETHER OF GOD. portrait. Miss Mattie R. WyUe has been atThese words might weU be printed under our ^"rk in Latakia for more than twelve years.

80 Mission Monographs.The child of many prayers, she yielded her heart last we climbed upon a rugged cliff and there ato the Saviour in eariy life, and, when called to our feet lay the harbor of St. Simeon of CrusaenterHis service in the foreign field,there was no ders time. To tbe east rose the mountaiQ ofhesitation. Ever since her appointment in 18t5, St. Simeon, and, flowing seaward through theshe has prosecuted her life-work with rare devo- plain, winding in and out gracefully, as if conscioustion. Her companion is Miss Maggie B. Edgar, of its historic burden, we saw the Orontes.Appointed in the Spring of 1886, she has been The little plain is largely alluvial and mustin the fieldfor only a short time, yet she has al- look very differently now from its appearanceready developed a singular aptness to distinctively when Antiochus held sway. The soil is fertilemissionary service. and gardens are becoming abundant. Just nowThe attitude of these two young ladies in the the craze is in the mulberry direction and manypicture is a true representation of their intimate acres of ground are given up to its cultivation.relations. As we say, they seem to have been We crossed the river by a ford and then crossedmade for each other and are welded together by a part of the plain, now dry with the summer'sa common consecration to the same Lord. We heat and sunshine, and so reached a hillock aboutwish for them many years of joint-service under which the river has brought the fertile soil tiU itHis leadership and for His glory.is only a finger telling of tbe ruggedness of theplace now so beautiful with fruitful gardens OnSUADEA.this hillock stands the largest house in the place.Syria affords so much old material of historic We enter the grounds and stand on an eminencevalue that we are prompted in searching for the slightly raised above the plain and affording aold to cut through and entirely disregard the fair prospect quite different from any other to benewer strata of life which we find here. But to seen in Syria. We looked down upon a great exthetraveller who passes through the land from panse of verdure and saw no village. InsteadJerusalem to Aleppo nothing is more noticeable each little field had its own low house of onlyhan the new elements which have so lately entered °^^ story usually, but roofed not with mud aa isinto the whole life of localities.tiie custom here, but with tiles made in the vicin-Jerusalem with hundreds of thousands of ity- Elsewhere in Syi'ia houses are always hudpoundsdrawn from all Europe is taking on the died together in groups but the ideal picture ofaform of a new city, with churches, hospitals, con- home with its own vine and fig tree may be seenvents, and monasteries. here literally. Each house in its own garden isBeirut -with its boulevards, water and gas works almost hidden bythe surrounding foUage, but theis almost Europeanized. While Horns and Hama roof fells us of life hidden there among the trees.in the river Orontes valley are getting to see the Beyond the garden stretches the plain, and atlight of a western work whirled round by the fhe edge ot the plain breaks in a white foam thewheels of a daily diligence. In each place indi- baffled waves of the Mediterranean. The bnadvidualenterprize has done much, and itwas upon ing just behind us is very different from the rest.one special scene of such labors that we looked '^''ô stories and a French tiled roof give an undownfrom the summit of Mount Casius, when we mistakably aristocratic appearance in this land.saw Suadia lying in ihe plain below. We de- Here stands one of tbese places where individualBcended Casius on the northern side, and the outer effort is seen in its results. This building is usedworld was lost in the many valleys and mountains to-day as a scbool for boys and is under the carewe traversed above the plain now reached. At of the American Mission at Latakia, now repre-

Mission Monographs.SIsented by the Rev. Mr. Easson, to whom I am faith for the ultimate restoration of some measureindebted for both my information about this inter-' of power and prosperity to tbe Syrian people.esting place, and for a long and delightful horse- Bnt especial emphasis is needed upon the fact ofback ride through all the region. Let me state individual power The trifling sum of two hunthatin Syria, aland of low prices according to onr dred pounds provides for this whcle school withideas, a capable man is hard to find at any price, twenty-five boys. There is room for many morebut here is a native, keen and inteUigent and an such schools in Syria The little visit to Suadeaearnest Christian, who has charge of this school has given faith a better field and new strengthand conducts it at a rate below possible competi- for approaching struggles, and the future oftion. Here twenty-five boys are gathered, and kept this land is iull of such grand possibilities as Ifor ten months ; boarded and cared for at a cost have suggested here. R H Beattie.of eight pounds per annum per capita. This in- Prof, in Protestant College, Beirut, Syria.dudes all the running expenses of ihe boys'board- „„ ^ ^„„^„„, , , r • f . I. REAL CHRISTIANITY.ing school I cannot conceive of greater purchasingpower, yet here is room for many more boys; What the world needs now is less of our formsbut the very few pounds necessary are not forth- of Christianity and more of the real Christianitycpming and the boys must be sent away. Thisis of Jesus Christ. The missionary energy whichthe present status ; but the question may then be seeks to gather from aU nations the new society,How was this started ? belongs to the Chrisiianity of Christ. His also.Tears ago an English gentleman, Mr. Yates, is the Christianity which in a city seeks to savetried to find a place to Uve in peace and comfort, men from sin and suffering, and to bring allThe plain of the Orontes seemed to him the right classes of men together in a new society in theplace, but changes came, and he left a home-like one sufficient Name. That is not the Christianityplace unto strangers. Property so far from iis own- of Christ, which is content with filUng its owners does not thrive, and the place was not a finan- pew and letting the rest of the world find itscial success. The owner therefore wisely decided Messiah, if it can. That good thing comtomake it a success in some other way, and finally mitted unto us guard There were two waysput it into the hands of the Mission with the nn- during the war of guarding the national capitol.derstanding that Mrs, Yates should continue to One was by keeping a large body of troops insupport the schcol. This she does, and yeariy the fortifications around Washington at the perilsums are forwarded by her for the help of needy of the army in the field. The other way was byboys who are only too glad of a chance to get supplying flrst the army in the field,sendingthe instruction. Individual effort here as else- them forth, where the enemy were, and caringwhere tells. secondly for the home fortifications. The latterBoys are brought from the hidden ignorance of way saved Washington, while it took Richmond.mountain villages, and a few years here transforms This also is the best way now for us to guardthem into intelligent industrious men ready to help the Christianity of our churches. They best detheircountry to a higher form of Ufe. The process fend the faith once delivered to the saints, whomay be a slow one as a method oi reforming a do the most brave and aggressive work againstwhole nation, but, if the reader will looK in upon the actual sins and real denials of the worid.—the school under ihe watchful eyes of Muallim Bev. Newman Smyth, D. D.Ibrahim, he will learn the particulars of the trans- As the Father hath seni me, even so send Iformation in Syrian character and wiU have new you. The exact form of the language is most

32 Mission Monographs.significant. Generally the words express a re. comes in us a spring of supplication ; for thesemblance of character between the mission of world around us shows that there is grievousChrist, and the mission of his apostles, and not need that we should all hear the divine call andmerely a resemblance of form. At the same answer it. The special duties, privileges, retimethere is a difference between the two verbs sponsibilities oi the Christian ministry remain unequallytranslated " send" which cannot be over- diminished and undisparaged, when we recognizelooked. The first marks a definite work to be the common priesthood of all believers as sharersdone ; the second a personal relation of tbe ia the Life of the Risen Lord, and charged tosender and the sent. And in this connection it make known that which they have experienced.is important to notice that Christ speaks of his The greatest danger of the chnrch at present,mission as present and not as past, as continuing seems to be not lest we should forget the peculiarand not as concluded. He says, ^.s the Father functions of ministerial office, but lest we shouldhath sent me, and not merely. As the Father sent allow this to supersede the general power whiehme. He declares, that is, that his work is not it concentrates and represents in the economy ofover, though the manner in which it is done is life. If only every Christian would have thechanged. Henceforth He is and He acts in courage to confess what he has found in his faith,those whom He has chosen. They are in Him simply and soberly, without affectation and witbsharingthe fulness of His power ; He is in our reserve ; if, that is, our apostles were maltithemsharing in the burden of their labors. They plied a thousandfold ; we should not wait sohave beheld the glory of the Lord. And now sadly, so doubtingly.as we do, for the last triumphit is their part to bear witness that the world of Christ. We should rejoice to hasten His commaybelieve. ing.—Bev. Brooke F. Westcott, D. D.We have only to realize the change which waswrought in the disciples within the short hours '^^^ RAINEQ-W IN THE RIFT.of the first Easter day, in order that we may un- "And now men see not the bright shining that is in thederstand the substance andthe authority of thiscloud."witness which they had to give. They had 'Twas the glow of an autumn sunset,known the defeat of death ; they had receivedWhen the days waned fast and chill;forgiveness ; they had felt the breath of a divine ^^^^'^^ '"ô" steed flew onwardlife. Christ had inspired them with the power Through valley, and gorge, and hill;of His glorified manhood. He had eiven them „° °^^. ?^^^ ^*, . , XT. ,/. T 1 o a mighty nft,the Holy Spirit through Himself. It was then where the clouds seem standing still.iheir office to proclaim their experience, each accordingto the measure of his gift, and that of- ^^ 2aze as we fly still onward :fice remains to be fulfllled as long as the Chris- ^^' ''^' '^ ""^ ^s'°° ^^''^tian society exists. From the time of the apos- ^°l ^ °''°«;_««7^ "Priî^g, ,, ,, . , In the cloudland realms of air.ties ever onwards, the same blessings have been '-j-js ^^^^ „. .imparted to every generation of believers, and And the Heavenly bowthe blessings have brought and still bring with Gleams out, like a mirage rare,them the same obligations.Christ came to perfect, to serve, to enlighten 1°

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 33But in the paling archIn its silent marchUprose like a deathless thing ;And it seemed to climb the stairwayOf the Heaven's ethereal blue.Twice severed—yet still its outlineIn faintest but perfect hue.As it rose uprightLike a vision bright,My spirit caught the gleam of a lesson true.For the bow of hope thus severed—T-wice severed yet gleaming stillThrongh the storm-clouds of the sunset—Was a message, at God's will,To the weary heart,In its silent smart,'When the blasts of life blew chill.And it told of a glad uprisingFrom the ashes and dust ot life,From the mists of earth's sarroundings,From the battle and din of strife ;And in my spirit freed,In its hour of need,Drank anew of the " water of life.''-Selected,A private letter from Rev H. Easson, datedNov. 30, 1887, furnishes the lollowing item :Owing to an insurrection in one oi the mountainvillages, where one of our best teachers wasat work, he had to leave the place, and, as theschool question is not settled yet, we could notsend him to another village withont attractingthe attention oi the Government; so we concludedto send him to Larnaca, Cyprus. Quite anumber of Arabic-speaking Jews are living there,and other Arabic-speaking people. The Jewishpriest thanked me very much, and indeed ah ofthe people are pleased. The connection withLarnaca is very easy. Leaving Latakia on Fridayevening, we land in Larnaca Saturday morning,and can return the next week, reaching homeThursday morniug. There might be schoolsopened in Nicosia and in Limassal, but funds willnot warrant our doings at present.This whi not increase onr current expensesmuch, and we are still within the limit of the£1,300 aUowance for the year. mMr. Easson also sends under date Dec. 5, thethe ending, saith the Lord wbich is and whichwas and which is to come, the Almighty." Isa.40:10. " Behold the Lord God will come withstrong hand, and his arm shall rule for him, &c."When I said to tbe sheikh, what do you sayto this testimony, all of it the testimony of profollowing extracts translated from a report ofHana Iskander:phets and apostles, and all of them testify thatI visited the village of Manjonwanie, and tookJesus the Christ is Lord and God ? '1 he sheikhfor my subject 1 Cor. 8:6. " One Lord Jesus answered, " I can not accept that Christ is God,Christ by whom are all things and we by Him."for that is contrary to my religion." A man ofA sheikh of the village, being present, when hethe village by the name of Abraham arose m theheard the words, " One Lord, Jesus the Christ," midst of all present and cried with a loud voice,said, " I do not accept those words, that Jesus saying, " ihe Christ, He is God." The sheikhis Lord."for trial; if we can bring witnesses to prove it,1 we gain the case or not 1The sheikh answered, " You will gain the case.if the witnesses are God fearing men and loversof truth, and hence give true testimony." I thensaid, I intend to bring testimony concerningChrist, tbat He is God, and my witnesses shallbe prophets and apostles ; will you accept them,Oh 1 sheikh or will you not ? He answered, Iwill accept them.[ then read the following passages: Acts2:36. " God hath made that same Jesus wbomye bave crucifled, both Lord and Christ." 2 Tim.4:22. "The Lord Jesus Christ be with thySoirit." Gal 6:18. "The grace of our LordJesus Christ be with your spirit." 1'iim. 1:1-"Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope " Jer. 23:6. " And this is His name whereby He shall becalled, the Lord our Righteousness." Rev. 1:8." I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning andI answered, the subject is before usarose^'and threatened to strike the man, but hestood boldly before the sheikh and repeated hiswords, " The Christ, He is God, and there is noreligion but the religion oi Christ."

84 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.Mr. Easson has translated the following extractter of one of our teachers. Three Greek girlsfrom a letter recently received from the from Miss Sterrett's school and an elderly manteacher at Larnaca, Cyprus:from the Congregational church of Kessab completeDec. 8.—After yonr deparaiure, whilethe ten. Another of the school giris apwaiting for the making of benches, &c., I pUed Ior admission, but it was not thought bestwent up to Nicosia, and met a number of Arabicspeakingto admit her at this time. Miss Sterrett is writresidents. 'I'hey are all very anxious ing to-day of tbe opposition met with by one ofto have a school opened there, and promise to the girls, so that I need not repeat it. How littlesend their children. A we, who are brought np in a Moslem, a member ofChristian landthe Government, said he would be the first toput his son in the school, and thai there wereabout t5 children of their sect whose parents, hewas sure, would be glad of such an opportunityto have iheir children learn Arabic.and have every encouragement from our childhood,can appreciate the feelings ofthose whoconfess Christ among this anti-Christian people IThe Maronite whom I mentioned, has been constantin his attendance ever since our work began,and though not very intelligent, unableI was told that the inspector of schools. Rev.Mr. Spenser, would no doubt help us by his influence,either to read or write, has long repudiated theand perhaps secure government help also doctrines of his former faith, andacknowledgedby giving us a share of the school money. Iwanted very much to see him, but he was absentfrom the city. I believe a large door is openhere for the entrance of the Gospel, in this islandthirsty tor tha knowledge of the truth.It will perhaps be expensive at first, but inthe near future the pay-pupils would pay all expenses.The present need is to have a few ableteachers on the ground, who could learn the languageof the common people iu order to preachto them in their own language, for there is nota Protestant on the Island who knows the lanJesus to be the only Savionr. The Fellah boytoo, who was baptized on Saturday, thongh farfrom being so intelUgent as any of those whowere baptized in the fall, was very persistent inhis desire to commune. He said he knew he didnot know very much, but he beUeved that Jesuswas the only Saviour, and that he would savehim. In addition to the pleasure of a visit fromDr. Balph, Dr. Metheny had the advantage of anelder to assist him. Dr. Balph was on his wayto Constantinople and landed here on Saturdaymorning.guage of the natives Yes, as I said, money is Doctor returned from Beirut week beforeV needed to start the work, but in the course of a last. He enjoyed his visit and his interview withyear the schools would pay their own expenses. the Consul very mnch. Tbe Consul seems toAfter my retnrn from Nicosia, I opened the have no doubt of the ultimate success in theschool here, and have at present 14 pupils, Jews school matter, though at present it is at a standstill.3, Arabs 3, Greeks 8We can still go on in other ways, such asA friend came down from Nicosia on Saturdayvisiting from house to house.and told me that the editor of the Nicosia So far as we can see. Miss Joseph is fairlypaper, when he saw your notice in the Larnaca, on her way to health again. I think when I" inserted a request for the opening of a school in wrote last, two weeks ago, sbe was getting betterNicosia." of her pneumonia. These are the things I have seen andOnly two days afterwardheard, and have thought best to make them she was seized with acute inflammatory rheumatismknown to you. in her left shoulder, and has beeu compelledI think it would be good for thefuture if you conld send a teacher to Nicosia.Mrs, Mary E. Metheny writes from Mersine,Nov. 28, 188t :to keep her bed most of the time since. Towardsthe last of last week she was free from the severepain, and able to sit up most of the dayI hasten to write of onr communion which was wrapped in blankets. To-day she is dressed andyesterday. We had an accession of ten, four of up-stairs. Her shoulder is still sore, and she iswhom ware baptized just before we came from unable to use her hand and arm.the mountains. On Saturday another FeUah At last we have had rain. There was quite ayonth was baptized, and an elderly man from the storm two weeks ago, aud the rain washed awayMaronite CathoUc church, also the iniant daughthe railroad between 'i'arsns and Adana, so thatthe cars have been unable to run. We have had

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 36several showers since, and there have evidentlybeen heavy rains in the mountains. Still theweather is not cold enough to make fire necessary.Mr. Montgomery was here last week and wastelling me of some of the ways in which the Governmentseek the welfare of its subjects. Beforedistributing the seed wheat provided by the GeneralGovernment, those engaged in the matter inquireif the would-be-recipient is in debt for backtaxes and deduct the tax from the amount ofseed wheat. As most of them are in debt to the Julia is a little girl who has been in our schoolfull amount or more, there is not likely to be only about one year, and can barely read and ismuch wheat distributed. All these things must by no means smart in studies, but a good workerin the end tend to show the blessings of Christianity.One day last week our baby was at the told me that Julia wanted to commune, I laughedat honse work. When some days ago some onewindow watching the waves come in and listeningto them breaking on the shore. He put his night after prayer-meeting, she told me she wasat the idea, and laughed more when on Thursdayfingers in his ears, and said, " I'm not going to going to go to the Doctor to be examined. I waslet the water make a noise." It seems to me about to prevent her from going np stairs to histhat all the efforts of this Government to stop room to bother him, as I tliought, but concludedthe progress of Christianity are about on a par thai ihat wouldn't do, sol said, " Go on." leannottell you how surprised I was to learn ihat shewith the baby's stopping the noise of the Mediterranean'by closing his ears to it.had shown herself intelligent in things we had notThe following letier to Miss E. J. Crothers tanght her specially and that her examination wasof New York will interest our readers :in every way satisfactory. She is thirteen; motherMeksine, Turkey, Nov. 26ih, 188t. dead and father as good as dead in that he apparentlycares nothing whatever for his My dear Miss Crothers : I posted you a letterchildren.to-day, but inasmuch as I told you that none of Selma is about eleven and has always been agoodthe four girls and Fellah boy who applied for admissioninto the church were received, 1 mustchild and her mother is willing for her to do aswrite and recall the statements, since all but onelittle girl have been granted their desire.The poor boy was so persistent iu followingup his request, that he prevailed chiefly by bissaying that, although unable to answer all thequestions put to him, he believed that there wasno salvation out of Christ, and at last he said," I may never have another opportunity to jointhe church;" so he and an old man, (a Maronite),were baptized this evening. A babe of one ofour teachers was also baptized.Ofthe little girls, I want to speak at length.You are acquainted with three of them, Remra,Miriam Karroom and Selma Khayot; the otherassailed; but her preaching is better than herpractice. Her strivings after new obedience notbeing the most vigorous, it was thought bestthat she should wait. ') he poor girl sobbed pitifullythis evening, and before we leit the prayerroom she asked me with trembling voice, whetherit would be very long until another communionwould be held. She said, " I was so glad before,but now my gladness is turned into sorrow." Ihope she may improve by this seemingly severelesson.she pleases in regard to being a Protestant.While I am speaking of Selma, I will mention anamusing remark she made a day or so ago, whichwas this, " I often and often think that, if I shouldbecome a Protestant and then marry a man whois not, I would talk and talk to him until he wouldbecome one too." One would hardly have patiencewith an American child of that age who wouldtalk so, but when we remember that these peopletalk to their girls of their matrimonial prospectsalmost from the cradle we do not wonder at herthinking of it.Miriam's story of to-day's experience is long ;but I shall endeavor to reherse to you as much asI can remember ; it needs to be told in Arabic toone; JuUa, I think I never mentioned. Bemra is be as forcible.only ten years old, but, as far as knowledge isconcerned, I venture to say she would compareMiriam had not understood that there wouldbe a service this afternoon and I did not think towith many home communicants who are beyond mention it when she asked permission to go home ;her in years. She is ready to answer for the so, when night was coming on and she had notfaith which is within her, and does answer whencome, I began to grow uneasy least her parents(whom I knew were not willing that she should

36 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.be a Protestant) had kept her from returning. . Miriam—" No, I do not want that."Supper and worship over and Miss Joseph helped Mother—" They do not confess their sins, andto bed, I had just sat down to read awhile to her, don't you know the Book says, 'Whosoever shallwhen Miriam came in quietly and announced that confess me before men, him will I confess also besheand her parents had quarrelled to-day, but she fore my father which is in heaven'"added " it has been my best day wiih them for I Miriam—" But it does not mean that we arewas not afraid to answer and talk ; I was always to confess our sins to a man that is sinful like ourafraidbefore, but I knew it was wrong to know selves. You pay money for your confessions, butand keep quiet." First she said her mother asked no one can forgive sins except God."her to read some, which she began to do, and stop- At each meal her parents scolded her for notping she said. Mother I am going to commune crossing herself and tried to persuade her to honorwith them," (meaning ns). " Hush," said the the cross by quoting Matt.l0:38; " And he thatMother, " better to hush than that I should kiU taketh not his cross and followeth after me is notyou."worthy of me."Miriam—" Well what if I do ? What do they Miriam explained to them that bearing theworship ? Do ihey not worship God and Christ ? cross did not mean crossing one's self or carryingTheir religion is better than ours."about a wooden cross or the picture of one, butMother—" Your father, grandfather and all that it when sickness or any afSiction befell ns oryour forefathers were of this church, and must if we found it our duty to perform unpleasantjust you be a Protestant ? I shall keep you at duties and we bore all and did aU patiently, thenhome from henceforth, and not allow you to go we would be bearing our cross and followingforth, until we carry yon out for burial ; you have Christ.learned enough of sucb doctrine."A week or two ago when she was at home, sheMiriam—" What will staying in thehpuse do ? remarked to her mother that we were intendingwill it change mj heart ? "to have a communion in a short time, when herMother—"The rod and knife wUl probably mother's significant reply was, "You take care."change your heart."When Miriam told me, I asked her what she saidEnter Father.to that. She replied with tears in her eyes, "I kepti)fo;/«er—,'See here, your daughter is intending quiet, but thought if they would not let me comtocommune to-morrow."muue with you folks now, I would commune withmy Father—" la.st. If This you commune is my first with word them to yon you and may you A in few heaven days " after the Bible lesson in Mrs.account yourself without iathsr or mother." Metheny's class touched ou that subject andMiriam—"Christ said to his disciples, ' He Miriam asked her what difference it would makethat loveth father or mother more than me is not if one believed all these doctrines and yet did notworthy of me ; and he that loveth son or daughter unite with the Protestants. Mrs. Metheny simplymore than me is not worthy of me.' "referred her to Cbrist's words in regard to con-Father^" Is it not wrong that you should fessing and denying. I rather suspect that helpedleave your father and mother who have fed and her to decide as to her duty now.clothed you and brought you up" ?Her mother says she herself hopes to be savedMiriam—" I wiU not leave you, but I wih re- by means of the Virgin Mary and hopes tomain in my relig'ion."walk according to the traditions of their churchMother—"There is Hannie, who has eaten and as her forefathers walked Miriam remindedtheir bread longer than you have, and she is not her that the Virgin herself testified that she wasjoining "saved through Christ when she said " My soulMiriam—" Am I going to take Hannie as doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath remyexample?" joiced in God my Saviour," and as for her o-htiMother—And Teacher Katrina too, sbe was walk she would not take Protestants or any otherwith tbem before you, were."sect as her guide but hoped to walk a.s nearly asMiriam—'What have I to do with them ? " she could according io tbe teaching of the Bible.Mother—"We will bring the Priest here to- Monday, Nov. 28,—I'owarda evening onmorrow, he wiU give you the sacrament." Saturday, when her mother was upstairs put-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.tiug down the beds for the night, she kept onscolding and cursing Miriam who was belowwithin hearing. In her rage she made use ofsugh sayings as the following ; " 0, that myeyes had never seen her," and " O, that shehad died," and " I hope she will die," (meaningsoon). Wben Miriam was telling us this,she said, "I did not feel angry with herat all for I knew she did not know anybetter. I thought of Jesus, when the Jewswere putting him to death and he prayed forthem, saying, ' ihey know not what they do,'and so I prayed lor her in my heart, and whenshe came down her heart seemed softened, Ithink the prayer had done it." Soon afterthis, she told her she might do as she pleasedin regard to uniting with us, and went so faras to intercede with the father to allow her,adding, "What does it matter?" He thengave his consent.That night when I was walking down stairswith her, after she had received her tokenfrom the Doctor, she remarked, " I have suchrest these past two weeks." " In what way ?"I asked, "In your conscience?" "Yes," shereplied. On Sabbath, yesterday, the motherwas on hand and it would seem that she hadgiven her consent on the presumption thatMiriam would not be received, for she scoldedat a great rate, not only at Miriam, but atthat in addition I must bring a permit fromeverybody within hearing. Miriam asked herConstantinople. I remonstrated that I hadwhether she had not given her permission.done all that the law required. Still he"Yes," she said, " but I did not think youwould not oonceed. After having closed allwould commune without a paper,'-(meaning athe other schools he sent to the Mayor of Mersineordering the sohool to be closed by force.token). Miriam told her she would not havecommuned, had she not been received. TheSo, not being able to go about it directly, Ifather came for afternoon service, immediatelywas asked to make a professional visit to aafter whioh Miriam went to him and said,man in the police station near by. On taking" Did you not tell me yesterday that I mighthis pulse, the Chief of Police began to tell mejoin." " Yes," he said, " but you had nohe had received an order from the Governor topaper." Miriam assured him that she hadclose our sohool by force, if I did not do it.and called upon another churoh member toAs he was saying this he began to take thewitness. Then she asked, "Are you angryorder out ot his pocket. I immediately interruptedhim by saying I had not oome to hear•with me?" " No," was his reply. She thenbegged a penny from him, whioh he gave her,an order, but to see a sick man at the requestand whioh she passed to me, saying, it was toof the Chief of Police. He might try to executethe order if he liked, bnt he must notbe used forthe spread of the gospel. Thefather passed on to Dr. Metheny, asking himread it to me, aud it was to his disgrace toto go and see his brother who was very ill. Ientrap me while performing an errand of meroymight remark that the " Chief of Police " wasat his request, I referred him to our Consul.present during part of the service, waiting toI reported the matter immediately, as it wastake the Doctor to see his wife who waa ill3ialso. So he did not return until âftefor evening services.r-~ ^ "uiqAfter all the discussion, it seemed so ridiculousfor those parents to mention the toktjn asthough that was an important element in herchanged religion. They apparently desiredthat their daughter should make a perfectlyorderly entrance into our midst. How sillythe poor creatures are anyhow.Four of the Fellaheen boys who were baptizedin Guzne this year were present; ourcommunicants numbered twenty two. TheDoctor hopes to hold a oommunion in Tarsussoon. Our earnest prayer is that this littleflock may remain faithful and be true witnessesfor the Master.Yours affectionately,Eyadna M.Sterrett.Letter from Tarsus Mission, Asia Minor,Dec. 23, 1887.Dear Brother:—On the nineteenth I wroteBroiler Miller that tbe long expected closingot the schools had at last taken place, andthat now there only remained the Mersineschool. I carefully reportedto our Consul thecircumstances and went to Beirut to see him.I had formally complied with the provisionsofthe law, but the Governor of the provinceof Adana had noi done bis part and insisted

38 Incidents in Mission Life.a virtual arrest of an American citizen. Thisoccurred on the 2d of December. Ou the tenthI was in Beirut, I have not heard the resultin full, but the trap tbat was laid caught themselves,for they were reported to Constantinople.On the 16th of December, a telegramcame from Constantinople to the Consul here,saying, that an order had been sent to theGovernor to open the schools he had closed.So His']Excellency had to eat humble pie andorder the Mayors of Tarsus, Adana and Mersineto open the schools they had closed. Theschool-teacher in the village of Karadowarwas ordered to come to the Governor. I toldhim not to go unless a warrant was sent forhim. This ihe Mayor would not do, but tooka bond from the Chiefs of the village not tovisit nor allow the people to visit the teacheror sell anything to him so that he would leave.It must have been intensely aggvavating tothe Evil One to see six pagans, one Maroniteand one Jew baptized into our church thisyear, and five others frora sects little betterthan heathen received on profcision, besidestbree on certificate, and four infants baptizedinto ihe body of Christ, in all twenty immortalsouls this year, and others knocking andknocking at the door for admission with aprospect of being ere long received. Thewhich come only to those who firstdrink theTurks find their law impracticable. It is impossibleoup of sorrow. This is not like the roll, atio carry out some of its senseless profirst sweet and then bitter, but a oommunionvisions. Then, too, as I pointed out over a in sorrow's cup soon to be followed by theyear ago, terras for our compliance are entirelytoo easy to suit the bigoted ones. They chafetremendously under it. So a new law is beinghatched. A copy of it has been seen in Consweet consolations of the Holy Spirit. Allstantinople. Should it beoome a law, it willclose every mission sohool in Turkey. Maybethat is just what Providence lM€imBMTB wants to IM bring MimiQMLETTER FROM CHRISTIANS INUGANDA.*Beloved ot authority in the Churob ofJesus Christ, our English fathers, and allChristians who love us: our brethren. We,people to a sense of the enormity of their indifference to religion and education. Maybethe Spirit is saying to our Churoh, if you donot unite and listen to the urgings of Ohrist inHis providence to open other foreign missions,the doors already opened shall be closed againstyou.We are considering these providences withan earnest solicitude. Our call for a relieffund has been answered by a liberality sobounteous, that we are taking in al! the cbildrenour house will hold, and are now preparingto make the utmost of the means for HisGlory and Cause. We feel it to be indeed aweighty responsibility. God is certainlyblessing the work. I had thought this to beabout the hardest field I know of, and yet theresults are beginning to encourage as you see.Miss Sterrett has seen the goodly fruit of herintensely laborious work. Her energetic andvigorous efforts are being crowned with success.Miss Joseph is slowly convalescent. Hersevere illness added many cares and labors toMiss Sterrett's already heavy burden. Godbas at times sent us far down into the valleyof humiliation for draughts of comfort giventhere only. There He has prepared us for joysjoin in fraternal salutations. Dr. Balph washere to day on his way from his successfulvisit to Constantinople.Fraternally,Dayid Metheny.LlFM,you tor the letter which you sent us. We rejoicedmuoh io hear news whioh came fromwhere you are, to cheer our hearts through ourLord Jesus Christ.We thank Gid that you have heard ofourbeing persecuted. Thank God who broughtyour Buganda brethren, write to you to thank our broiher, where you are, whom we love,*The original of this touching letter is dated from Mr. Ashe, and made you understand the evilBuganda Mission. May 13, 1887.whioh has befallen US Christians in Buganda,

Notes and Bemews. 39your children whom you have begotten in the inthe least degree give up the Wordof ChristGospel.Jesus. We are willing indeed to die for theMr. Ashe has told you how we are hunted, Word of Jesus; but do you pray for us thatand burned in the fire, and beheaded, and calledthe Lord may help us. Finally, our friends,sorcerers, for the name of Jesus our Lord. let your ears and eyes and hearts be open toAnd do you thank God, who has granted to us this place where we are at Buganda. Nowto suffer here at this time for the Gospel of we are in tribulation at being left alone. Mr.Christ.Mackay the Arabs have driven away out ofWe hope, indeed, for this thing which you Buganda. 0 friends, pity us iu our calamity.hoped for us in your letter, namely, that in a We, your brethren who are in Buganda, sendshort time other teachers will come to teach. you greetings. May God Almighty give youAnd you who have authority continue earnestlyto beseech Almighty God, who turned theEmperor of Rome to become a Christian, whoformerly persecuted the name of Jesus as todaythis onr king in Buganda persecutes us.And do you our fathers hope that we may notHis blessing. May He preserve you in Europe.We remain your children who love you,Heury Wright Duta.Edward.Isrya Mayanja.—The Illustrated Missionary News.%ts\u—The paper entitled " Suadea" will be readwith special interest by all the friends of ourschools there. It is a pleasant record of theimpressions that the place and its surroundings,as well as the work carried on there, madeupon one who was looking at the pioture froman outside point of view. The writer is asecond cousin of the late Dr. Joseph Beattie,of Latakia Mission.—The author of " Baptized for ihe Dead "is well known on both sides of th^ Atlantic asan independent thinker and a devoted studentof the Bible. His article is a clear aad satisfyingexposition of a text that has been interpretedin a great variety of ways. We havemi%mtM>—Do not neglect to read what is said in never read a more forceful appeal for the entireLetters from Ghristian Workers respecting consecration of person and property to the serviceof Ohrist. It should at once call forthopenings for Christian work in Cyprus.larger liberality in support of mission work,—If any one would like to have a copy oftheand awaken among the young men in ourengraving in this number, and yet do not carechurches a friendly rivalry for the honor andto subscribe for the Herald of Mission News,privilege of fillingthe yet vacant places of thosewe will furnish it for seventy-five cents.who have fallen on the field.—We call attention once more to the pressingclaims of ihe boys' boarding sohool in LatakiaThe lease of the house occupied at presentwill expire in June, and, as the buildinghas passed into other hands, the sohool willthen be without a shelter. Will not thechurches reaUze this fact ? The following resolutionwas passed at synod, without a dissentingvoice : We call upon the devoted andliberal friends of missionary work throughout thechurch to provide at once the $6,000 requiredforthe purpose. Once in the representative magazinesof the church and four or fivetimes inthii little monthly has been published theformal appeal of the Board for tbe means nee

40 Notes and Beviews.essary to proceed with this enterprise. Andnow we lay before the people another paper,which shows very clearly to all who haveears to hear and are willing to consider theirpersonal responsibility in the matter, that ihelife of one department of our missionary work,depends in a large measure on the prompt exerciseof liberality. The noble ladies, whoseportraits will make this number ot the Heralddoubly welcome in many homes, have writtenwith their ovinhands and milled at their ownexpense, to every congregation and mission stationunder care of Synod,the following circular :a subscription for this purpose ? Will you notgive us a New Year thank offering for thisLatakia, Syria, Dec. 1,1887. cause for Christ ?To the B. P Congregation, .-We send this with prayer, and with faithRev. ,Pastor : If you w.dl refer to our two that we will noi be disappointed.last reports to Synod, you will see that we ask The Church knows the trials through whichfor $6,000 with which to build a house for our our mission has passed. We pray that theboys' boarding school. In our last report we Spirit may be poured out upon you and us,,told you how the school had been moved from and ihe work of Christ here and at home ; and,place to place. We know that you have repeatedcalls to exercise your liberality, andwe never as^ for extra money as long as wecan help it. You will see that we have triedevery possible plan to save the expense of ahome to the Churah, but every plan has tailed.We asked, not because we thought it a nicething to have, but because we felt it to be anecessity- It will be a calamity to the work,if we are obliged to give up the boys' boardingschool, and we must do so if we oan not havea house. Our school is growing in influence.This year we had more applicants for admissionof pupils who would have paid than wecould take. At our last communion, ten youngmen united with the Church. Many of ourconverta are from the boarding sohool. Wecan have an infl'aence with them there thatwe can have in no other way. There is an impressionthat it is only to be an industrialsohool. That is a mistake. We need a houselor our boarding sohool, and when we are buildingwe want an industrial department attached.The appeal of the Board has elicited no response,we have thought because you did notknow the need. We, feeling the great importanceoi this object, have concluded to writeto every congregation in the Churoh for help,feeling sure we would not be refused. Wefear we would be blameworthy, and that youwould blame us, if we did not cry out. Thisappeal is to your congregation. May we requestyou to bring this matter before them,and urge them to take up a collection, or raiseif it be our Heavenly Father's will, may it b&" According as the days have beenWherein we grief have had.And years wherein weill have seen,That God will make us glad."Respectfully,Henry Easson.J. M. Balph.Mattie R. Wylie.Maggie B. Edgar.In reply to our personal presen'âtion ofthe oase, many of the brethren in New Yorkhave promised their assistance. In our lastissue we acknowledged the firstcontribution rMr. S. K. McGuire. $150.00-Since that time we have received the followingpledges :Mr. Thos. E. Greaeu. $500.00Mr. Hugh O'Neill. 500.00Mr. D. Torrens. 250.00Mr. Henry O'Neill. 500.00Others will give according to their means.But we need the oo-operatijn of all thechurches, and there is no time to lose.

0}^ i'HE MOUNTAIN.*PUBLISBED WITB TEE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOBEIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxm^ iJf mmm mxhREV. ALEXANDER BALEIGH, D. D.Oa the very morning of the resurrection, whenour Saviour met the women who had been at the•tomb, He said to them: -'Go tell my brethrentkat they go before me into Galilee, there shallihey see me." The place where he had fixedthat the meetiug should be was a mountain.That is all we are told. It is, however, highlyprobable that it was ou Mount Tabor thatJesus made this memorable appearance to Hisdisciples, and where He laid on them the greatcommission to go into all the world and preachthe gospel to every creature.Mount Tabor stands about six miles fromNazareth to the south-east, rising up abruptlyfrom the great plain of Esdraelon. It is defined,solitary, altar-like, grand to the sight, seen fromthe plain below. The sides of the mountain arecoTered with woods, beautiful in appearance andaffording an excellent shade. T'here is a smallof redemption. That covenant is now fully andopenly ratified The resurrection is its finalseal.The ascension, of which this scene on the mountain-topmay be said to be almost a part, will bethe taking possession of the inheritance and theassumption of its royalties, and the firstroyalword is this : "go ye, therefore."How do toe stand related to that assembly onthe Galilean mountain and to that last commandof our adored Lord ? The answer which I trustwe shall all feel disposed to give is this, that weare related to that assembly just as though wehad formed part of it, to that last commandas ihough we had heard it in audible words fromthe lips ofour Lord. Thai we may be confirmedin this couviction, let us ask and answer somefurther questionsFirst. Is the world's need any less now thanit was then ? Substantially, it is the same. Itwas great and urgent then, it is great and urgentnow. The world, indeed, is in many ways a differentworld from that into which the first displain on the very top, and ihe view from thence isone of the most splendid to be found in the whole ciples \vere sent forth, and it concerns us, as Christianbelievers and honest men, frankly to admitworid. To the eye of the sacred poet, ages beforethe time of Cbrist, it had stood out in sublimity,and had drawn from him words which are which this world may have made. Ii tbere beaud siucerely rejoice in any steps of real progressto-day to'have a wonderful fulfilment.—" Tabor such a thing as the education of the race, as such,and Hermon shall rejoice in Thy name."with a view to its coming perfection, we ought" All power," our Lord said in the hearing of surely, within the compass oi eighteen centuries,His disciples, " is given unto me in heaven and in to be able to see that some lessons have beenearth." This power, the chief purpose and use learned not to be unlearned, some points of progressgained not to be lost.-of which is to redeem and save, is "given"in fulfilment of the eternal covenant or purpose Slavery has been all but extinguished. It''Seleoted from a volame of sermons published since the lingers stiU only on ihe outskirts of civilization,oeath of the devoted author.

42 Our Views of Mission Wor%.and it is happily being pursued by these into its " How shall man deliver hunself from tke evillast retreats. his own nature ? Hew shall man be just withThe condition of woman has been immensely God ?" And, if Christian people are silent, and,improved, is still rising, and must rise in if the gospel of atonement and free forgivenesssome grave respects yet more, if we are to have be withheld from the knowledge of mankind, thethe best relief from some of our most appalling problem remains insoluble, however, men maysocial difBculties. This is true ; although it is advance iu general culture, and hve amid thealso true that there are extreme and unnatural abundance oi outward prosperity. "Go yeclaims, made on woman's behalf, which will cease therefore ;" go into all the world, preach thejust in proportion as the real and reasonable gospel to every creature. He who died on theclaims are seen and admitted.cross, rose from the grave,, shone out on thatI hardly know whether we may venture to mountain-top, and who lives now in Heaven,specify as another point of advancement this— King and Priest upon his throne, ever living towhich is undoubtedly a fact—that the world tomake intercession for us—"He is the propitiarday is immensely richer than that which was tion for our sins, and not for ours only, but alsoknown to the first Christians. It is richer in for the sins of the whole world." • Tell the woridstored up wealth, in the accumulated fruits of the news.human labors. That would be a benefit, as Whatever be the cause of it, is not the miserylessening the necessity for exhausting toil, if men of man great upon him still ? How sorrowful iswere true and just to each other. All our wealth hfe to many a one ! How heavy the burwillbe a benefit, when it is held and used on den of personal existence ! How dark are theChristian principles. shadows of affliction when they faU 1 Wbat aThe world, on the whole, is more highly in- fathomless pit is the grave I What realms offormed than it was then—not in everything; dread uncertainty lie beyond it 1 The world callsthere are some spheres of knowledge in which itself wise; but is not the world finding,as itwe have never excelled the ancients ; but knowl- has never yet found, the truth of the old saying,edge in general is far more widely spread among " in much wisdom is much grief," and tbat " hethe people than heretofore, while within the that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow?"realm of physical science grsat discoveries have You see it in tbe eagerness of human faces ; youbeen made, and great benefits of a material kind hear it in tbe tread ofhuman feet along the busyare accruing to man. But are we so simple, so streets ; it throbs through all industry ; it is proshallow,so untrue so our better selves, as to put claimed in the strains of new enterprises ; it issuch things as these—good as they are in them- painfully present in some of tbe .deeper sceptiselves,and as far as they go—as capable of cisms ; it goes like a sigh through.part of oarmeeting the deeper needs ofthe human soul ? best literature If man will continue estrangedThese needs are still unsupplied by any material from God and keep his soul uuportione'd, he musisatisfaction. Sin is yet sin, and cau not live iu perpetual restlessness, and be. the victimchange its nature, and can not be reasoned out of of a ceaseless sorrow. " His flesh upon hira shallhuman hearts by any arguments, nor vanquished bave pain, aud his soul within him shall mourn,"by the strength of human wills, nor washed away "Go ye therefore" into, the .Ipusy world imbyhuman tears, l'he conscience of the world at mediately around you, and into the wide worldthis hour, in so far as it is an active and honest beyond with the good news of God.conscience, has cast npon it the old problem : Such is the great commission—the most im-

Our Views of Mission Work. 43portant ever entrusted to men. Secondly. I ask r Are the encouragementsLook at its universality. " Its line goeth given to those who put themselves instantly in aout into all the earth, and its word unto the end way of obedience to this last command, in anyof the world." "Goye into all nations Preach manner or degree less than they were at flrst orto every creature." through the primitive ages ? The followers ofLook at its intellectual character. " Go teach Christ had heavenly power on their side then,all nations" The gospel is, in the firstinstance, and ielt that they had it. Have we any less?au appeal to human intelligence. It is a message Has the power waned ? Has it been withdrawn ?to the reason of man. It is not a mystery en- Is it like any of the forces of material nature,acted, an imposing ritual with hidden meanings, capable of transmutation into another form, soIt is no doubt divinely high and deep and far that now it may have found some more congenialreaching—in length and height and depth be work than the salvation of men ? Or is theyond measurement—yet in its point of contact promised presence withheld ? Is Christ notwitb man it is a clear and simple message. Its with his people still " alway," " every day,''plainness is beautiful. Who dares to say that he and with especial nearness and fulness, whencannot understand the gospel of Christ ? ihey are faithiully and zealously engagedConsider its gentleness. This will grow upon in this service ? We should not dareyou as you look. Tho terms of this commission to answer any of these questions in the afshowus ibe divine condescension in act of bend- firmative. But let ns make the test still moreing down to reach men, stooping to the lowly, practical by applying it to the region of phewaitingfor the slow, helping the weak Go nomena. Christ's assertions regarding His powteachmen; disciple them ; bring tbem to His er and presence were immediately put to thefeet who alone can call up the dawning of ihe proof by his His followers, and in no long timemoraing upon the tossing to aud fro of troubled they were able to point rejoicingly to certain demen;who can walk upon the wildest waves, and finite results not only in the inward experiences,say, " peace, be still" to the rudest winds that but in tbe lives and character of men. The mostblow. Bring them to the place where the heavy marvelous changes took place, such as had neverladen lay down their burdens, and the weary been obtained under any other teaching or influenterinto rest. Disciple men, then put the sign ence whatever. The apostle Paul, in writing toupon the disciples, " baptizing them ; " give the Corinthians, enumerates some nine or ten oithem the baage that men may know them, and the worst vices and crimes which have ever disfigthattbey may know themselves. Then teach ured human nature, and then he says, " Suchagain more fully and exhaustingly ; lead on into were some of you, but ye are washed, ye are sancafurther deeper peace ; teaching ihem to ob- tified." Every one of these men was a living witserveall things commanded, until not faith only, ness for Christ, a living proof of the power ofbut love and obedience possess the life, and " the Christianity. In a state of society like ours,peace of God which passeth all understanding which has long been under more or less of the genershallkeep the heart and mind." Peace shall al Christian culture, we cannot expect to see manymount guard—that is the meaning of the phrase changes so vividly striking as those of the early—shall do the soldier's duty, shall keep the soul, times But those who will look below the surasa garrison keeps the fortress, beating off face of things will see that changes the same indoubts, fears, distractions, cares, miseries, " shall essence are being produced, that the same sanctikeepthe heart and mind through Christ Jesus," fying grace is still at work. Take any of the for-

44 Oivr Vieios of Missio'n Work,eignmissionfieldsof any of ihe Christian churclies, a despot's dream. He was indeed going to uniand is it not true that in the places where you versal empire, but by another road—^through thehave ihe most consecrated men—men of devout night-shades of Gethsemane, throngh the anguishenergy; of faith and prayer, other things being of Calvary.equal—ihere you have the surest and the richest The temptation failed with the Master. Ip itharvest ? When Paul plants and Apollos waters, now going to succeed with the servants ? " AllGod gives tbe increase.the kingdoms ofthe world and the glory of them"Or take the heathenism which e.vists at bome. are again put before us in a fair picture and asWould it be possible for any Christian society to a great inheritance into which not only single intakeone of the dark, wretched nei.g-hborhoods dividuals, but the race is invited to enter. Modwhichcan easily be found in any city, or found ern progress sounds her trumpet and calls us toeven among the villages oi the country, under the mountain. " See," .saith she, " how the counculinreand sympathetic care, giving, not much tries are chequered with railways, how everypecuniary help, but much wise thought, much so- ocean is ' shadowing with wings,' how the citieslicitude, much prayer, much personal presence— grow, bow the axe fells the forest, how theliving men and women meeting living men and ploughshare tears open the prairie, how homeswomen, and all for the love of Christ, and in or- soon to be filledwith plenty spring up in many ader to bring them to Him—would it be possible far wilderness. In a moment London speaks tothat any Christian company should do this with- Manchester, Manchester to New York, New Yorkout fruit, and in vain ? Can we believe that they to San Francisco. Look how on the wings ofwould stand up and say, " We have tried the ex- every morning the literature of the day spreadsperiment faithfully, we have waited and labored itself thick as the leaves of Tallambrosa ! Sciand prayed, and we have failed—there is no re- ence is multiplying her discoveries and applyingsuit." No, no. It is as it was at first. When them to practical uses—-to vanquish diseases, tomen go forth , and teach the true gospel in the increase comforts. The world, in fact, is allspirit of love and loyalty, tbe Lord works with yours on tbis simple and easy condition—thatyouthem and confirms the word with signs following, satisfy your immortal manhood with these things,It is a great work, so great that no other can be that you take possession, enjoy the present, andlikened to it ; all other good works are only let the future provide for itself."part of it. It will be a long and a hard work. Can any one who bas been witb Jesus Christ—but it will be done. As surely as God is the on tbe mount of Beatitudes, to listen to HisFather, and Jesus Christ the Son, there will be teaching ; on the mount oi Transfiguration, to"glory .to God in the Highest, on earth peace, behold His glory; on Mount Calvary, to, seeand good will towards men."Him die ; on the mountain in Galilee, to meetOnce before our Lord bad seen the world and Hira in His risen life and hear His last commandits kingdoms "from a high mountain." At least —be held for one moment in any anxious suspensea certain phantom and show of tbem jjassed by such a vain and visionary offer as that ?through the air in vision before Him, called u]), " What would it profit a man," what would itas it were, by-the wand of tbe great enchanter, profit the race, " to gain the whole world" thus?And He was,asked to enter there and then into Can matter be a portiou for spirit? Can compossessionon certain conditions.' He saw fort satisfy a creature made for duty and the lovethrough tbis disguise. It was a mocking vision of God ? Can a brief gleam of mortal life, howindelirious air ; it was a fool's paradise ; it was ever splendid while it lasts, yet always soon stilled

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 45in a coffin and quenched in a grave, fillthe desires whole earth. And when that day shall come,of im Immortal creature ? We who have been when all material advantages of modern progresswith Jesus do not need to reconsider the question. shall be caught up into the service of Christ, and" We know whom we have believed." Our philosophyof life is settled. We live to Him who ing to His ieet, then shall the old song be sungearthly science and achievements shall come bendlived and died ior us. Ourselves subject io His with a new name written on it:kingdom, we look for its appearance more and " Thou hast made Him a little lower than themore among men. Not by natural knowledge, angels, and bast crowned Him with glory andnot by force, not by self-will or self-confidence, do honor. 'I hou madest him to have dominion overthe works of thy hands : Thou hast put allmen enter into it, but by self-sacrifice, by dyingthings liuder his feet. . . 0 Lord, ourunto sin and living unto righteousness. This is Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all thetbe kingdom that shall grow, until it shall filltbe earth."Items of IVlissionary Intelligence.ABROAD.A NEW SCHOOL LAW FOR TOBKEY.Among the difficulties with which our missionariesin Syria and Cilicia have had to contend foryears, none have been more formidable than theopposition ofthe Turkish government. Even inthe face of a formal agreement not to interferewith .the mission schools, provided certain legalregulations were complied with, the authoritieshavenot ceased io throw obstacles in the way ofth3ir. efficient operation. All this has been doneunder cover of law. And now another attempt has asked the other embassies to join him in oppositionto it. From the outset Mr. Straus hasis being made to have a law enacted, the effectofwbich would be to put a stop to ihis form of discharged his duties with a fidelity and abilitymisMon work. In a recent letter to tbe MissionaryHerald, Rev. H N Barnum, D. D., of to the Porte, and he has now given a new proofprobably never excelled by an American MinisterHarpoot writes : Mr. Straus, learning that a of his fidelity.new law for schools was under discussion at the * * * * "We believe, however, thatPorte, claimed that as a large amount of Americancapital is invested in educational institutions tion of long-standing treaties, and tbat thethis new attempt of ihe government is a violain the Turkish Empire, in fairness the American powers, our own amongst the rest, will not allowMinister ought to be consulted in regard to it, these to be lightly set aside. Tbe region coveredin oraer that these interests might be properlyprotected. He was furnished with a copy of theproposed law, aud he then learned that it provides:" 1. That no foreigner shall be allowed toopen a school without a special firman from theSaltan himself. [Such a document is not easilyobtained.]" 2. No Ottoman subject shall be allowed ioaitend such a school until after he has had acourse of religious instruction in one of his ownschools." 3 Foreign schools are to refrain entirelyfrom religious instruction."4. That all foreign schools already established,which do not conform to this and to certainother conditions, and obtain the Sultan'spermission within six nionths, shall be permanentlysuppressed."Mr. Straus at once saw that this law wouldput an end to ihe whole educational system ofAmericans in the Ottoman Empire, not onlythose of our own missions, but of tbe PresbyterianBoard ; and he has protested against it andby the Turkish Empire was ihe home of theearliest civilizations and of the earliest triumphsof Christianity. The country has reaped nobenefit from the dense ignorance which has prevailedso long The aim of Christian missions isto give it new life and light. The light is spreadingin every land the world over. No walls arehigh enough, no superstitions are deep enough,to shut it out, and it is yet to fillihe earth.NOTES OF WOBK IN ANTIOCH.July, 1887: Thursday.—Aiter teaching myclass in school, gave Kethra Abbood her usual

46 Items of Missionary InteUigence.lesson ; then went to a neighboring house where Thursday.—Returning from sohool went intosome eight persons gathered. With ihese I Abd-Il-Maseeh-Bezbooz's. All the women in thespent an hour reading to them and conversing on different rooms in the court yard gathered in toour lost condition and the way -of recovery listen. The blind woman, who some time agothrough, Phrist. As I read of the sufi"erings of ordered me to quit reading the Bible to theour Saviour and his wondrous compassion in prayingGreeks, as they had no need for it, was visitingfor His crucifiers, a woman said: " Pray for in one of the houses, and she at once came in andthem,_ did He ? If any one injures me I want to listened attentively, ejaculating once in a wbile,eat his heart." And her countenance confirmed " It is all true ; it is no lie "her words.August: Sahbath.—Stebriaanos was receivedSabbath.—Usual class in the morning. Over formally into inembership in the congregation.seventy-present at preaching in the forenoon and The Sabbath audiences are so large and tbefifty in the afternoon. Expositions of historical schools so good that we have concluded to putevents in Genesis in order Doctor bas been off going to the mountains for two weeks, thoughgiving for some time on Sabbath mornings. Such the usual time has arrived.imagery has a special charm for the Eastern mind. October: Intensely hot dry weather. A greatGave Kethra her lesson in the Shorter Catechism deal of sickness in Antioch. Yusef, our servant,before the afternoon meeting.sick ; several of our church members seriously iU;Tuesday,—After teaching my class went to Doctor kept busy day and night—bef9re andAbbood's and taught Kethra. Her -brother after preaching on Sabbath, as well as on othercame in to his dinner, and taking a Bible from a days. How can he go on bearing such a burdenshelf he read some passages from Ecclesiastes, without assistance ? Is the missionary spiritand said the Book contradicted itself, for Solomondying out of our church ? Will our people contanght that the good and the bad were alike tinue to allow tbe progress of the Lord's work in--that the righteous bad no advantage over the each of our mission fieldsto hang on the life ofwicked—that all went to one place, &c. I repliedone man ? Our Lord commanded His church tothat in those passages Solomon spoke as "go, preach the gospel to every creature," andone would looking abroad on passing events how can they preach except they be sent ?without reference to God's Word or providence. Thursday.—Resumed my Bible class, takingMr. Abbood then asked : " Did not Solomon up Matthew. Eead and conversed in fivehousestell the youngmanto do as he liked ? " and be in the Affan quarter. Found the women morequoted part of the 9th verse of Ecclesiastes 12. than ordinarily ready to listen."Rejoice 0 young man . and walk Monday.—Went throngh the new quarter nearin the ways of thine heart and in the si^ht of mission grouuds ; then visited the families ofthine eyes." I said, "please finish the verse." members of our church, whose wives still remainUnwdlingly he continued—''But know thou that outside. H. Makhloota's wife gave me morefor all these things God will bring thee into satisfaction and more hope than I ever have badjudgment." " And," I continued, " what did in regard to her. She can read and knows aSolomon say was the conclusion of the whole great deal of the Bible, but the superstitions ofmatter ?"but Lbegan, "Fear God and"—"keep his commandments,for this is the whole duty of man,"—he finished. Then to hide his chagrin he beganto abuse Solomon, and said Ecclesiastes wasMr. Abbood tried to turn the subject, her people bind her in chains.not a canonical book. Afterwards went to visita woman who has attended the Sabbath afternoonmeeting several times. In the course ofconversation it was remarked that it was uselessto invoke saints for they could not hear us—beingin heaven ; when'the woman said : " Not knowor hear ? By experience we know they do;have we not seen their miracles ?"She argued tbatihey used charms, incantations, pictures oi saints,&c., just as medicine is used, and sometimes, -'bythe blessing of God, they cured and sometimesnot, just as medicine did. "But," I said, "you usethese things to keep off misiortune and evil; nCone takes medicine for that." A shrug of bershoulders was all the reply she made,Tuesday,—Thirty pupils in my class to-day ;lesson Matt. 5, 12 -verses. The sou of the secondGreek priest one of tbe most interested membersof the class. Had them memorize Gal. 1 : 8-10.GaveKetbra her lesson and the same verses to learn.

Items of Missionary Intelligence.I asked " has not God a right to do what he willwith his own? You know he took my onlychild too." She answered, "Yes, and do younot curse him?" I exclaimed, cwrse Mm.^ whogave me the precious gift 1 I ihank my heavenlyfather every day for lending my child to me, and,wben he saw fitto take him to himself, shall I notsay, "Thy will be done." She rephed" happywoman, if you can sav that; I curse him everyday."Talked long with them of Jesus' love in givingHimself for us vile sinners ; and said, if God soloved us that he gave his only son for us, wouldhe do anything to us that was not for our good ?They listened with such hungry eager eye's fastenedon me, they haunt me still. What need,what need for the outpouring of the spirit onthem that their hungry souls may be fed !After my teaching in school, read ib a housein Matthew and Ephesians. A Woman afterlistening attentively to the reading'and explanation,remarked, " who can keep those commandments1 It is impossible for us to live accordingto them and God will not count it against us." Ireplied "we must all stand' before the judgmentseat of Cbrist to give an account of the deedsilfhursdaf—'rweuty-eight in my class. Had after the order of Melchisedec* "It refers totkem memorize 2 Tim. 3:15 to end. Visited Ohrist," I answered. He replied, "I thoughtthree houses, in all of which women from outside you d'ld not kpow anything ; it does not. (Thegathered. , In one of the honses, two little giris Greeks say it proves a continued priesthood likeof six and ten years had died in ihe same week. their priests in the church.) I asked, " Do youThe mother gave marked attention to what was know what the epistle to the .Hebrews was writtenfor? Have you read it?" Sneeringly hesaid and seemed comiorted. A neighbor womanwho had lost her only bqy two years ago spoke said, "What was it written for?" I answeredangrily and blasphemously of God's dealings with " To prove to the Hebrews ihat Jesus of Nazarethwas the promised Messiah and the one aton'her. Raising her hands she asked her Maker,"after I had waited twenty years for tbe boy and ing Priest." He ran out of the room, but returnedand asked, " Does it not say in the you gave him to me did you repent ihe gift ? "Testament' He that beheveth and! is baptized shall besaved, and he that is noti, baptized shall bedamned ?' " I fonnd him Mark 16:16 and let bimread it. He ashed, " Can any one be saved withoutbaptism?' 1 asked, " was the thief on thecross baptized ?" He rephed, "No ; but his salvationwas a miracle, as a reward ior his defenseofour Lord against the. other thief (!). Willyou s^y that baptism does not save ?" I replied," Simon the sorcerer had been baptized when Petersaid to him, ' I perceive that thou art in thegall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.'"He again ran out of the room, wben some of thewomen laughed, saying, "She bas beaten you."This made him return to the attack, but so rudely that I recommended him to go to the Doctorwith his questions, as my business was with women.so. He said he would, but as yet has not doneAT HOME. Mrs James Martin.annual report of the l. m. s. of eighth ST., R.p. CONGKEGATION, PITTSBURGH, FOR 1887.Another year witb its duties, its responsibilities,its. pains arid its pleasures has rolled by.Another milestone in our journey of life as asociety has been passed. In presenting this ourSaid she, " give me somedone in the body."annual report, we do so in a spirit of thanksgivingand gratitude to our Heavenly Father for hiswool and to-morrow you can take a sheep," meaningI'll live now as I like, the future can take kindness to us during the year that is gone. Wecare of itself.have held twelve.regular meetings, all of whichTuesday.—After school, while reading in Abd- have been well attended, the average attendanceIn-Norr's, a young man from Aleppo came in and being sixteen. We have added to our rankssaid to me, " You go about reading, do yoa ?" twelve new members, ihe largest number addedand taking the Bible from me, and turning over in any one year to the society, The hand of thetbe leaves as though hunting for a passage, he Lord has been laid upon us aud two of our men:-said, " What does the passage from Hebrews bers removed by, death. Suitable action wr.smean?" (He did not know where to flnd Hetakebrews, by the society in regard to ihese at theso I said, "You do not seem to know time. Two members removed to another congremuch about, the Book ; let me find the place for gation, and two have withdrawn, niaking a totalyou.") Then he read, ' Thou art a priest forever

'48 iiems of Missionary InleUigenci.loss of six members during the year. Our society annual report of a. m. iiiLLioAN iviEMORiAL MissfoNhas still a membership of seventy-seven. It band for year 1887.is a great cause of thankfulness that so many of jgg,. heceu'ts.our women are awakening to the fact that work Jan. i. balance in treasury $ s siis to be done for the Master and are coming and Eo.?at?oZ"!^'"''.^";:::;::::".:::::::::::::". u laorganizing themselves for that purpose.Collected for uewiuissioD 15 00This year should also be marked, as one of From Prot. McCartney's exhibition 68 70especial goodness to us from tbe fact tbat we Total , $126 21DISBURSEMENTS.have had a pastor given us, one much beloved By cast to new mission 15 00and fully worthy to be an efificient servaut of tbefor box of clotlilu-. expressageMaster. May his counsels and kind words encourageus to make renewed efforts for Christ's BycHSli to janitress 1 00and trunk 24 58•^^"l^^- " to printing Latakia tickets mission for exhibition 60 2 00Our correspondence has been well attended to Balance in to Prof. treasury McCartney jau. i.isss... 2235soand we have had some very interesting letters Total $125 21read before the society from the various mission Also box of clothing to Tarsus mission valuedfields.at $60.00. Respectfully submitted.Our Treasurer's report will show our financialEdith M, Hice, Treasurer.standing for the year. Our auxilliary society willalso report for itself.Total.1887,By cash for bookDI8BUKSEMESTS.$ 2 40Jan. 20, by cash to Latakia mission 100 00" " " Tarsus mission 100 00" " " Chinese mission 100 00" •' " Southern mission, 100 00Mays, " " G. M. Elliott ler printIng press 26 00ANNUAL report OF THE L M. SOCIETY OF NEWCONCORD R. P. CONGREGATION, FORLet us then with joyful hearts fulfil our mission,looking to the Saviour for his blessing.THE YEAR 1887." Then triumph we must, for our cause it Is Jtiat, The year 1887 has closed Anotheryear of ourAnd this be our motto, • In God Is our trust.'" society bas gone with its record before theRespectfully submitted.judge of all. The sleepless eye of God has beenMrs. S. McNaugher, President. noticing our work all through the year. FromMrs. John Gibson, Secretary. the experience of the past we desire to learnwisdom for the future. During the year jnstL. M SOCIETY OF EIGHTH ST., B. P. OONGREGATION,closed we have held eleven regular meetings.PITTSBUEGH. TREASURER'S REPORT.These meetings have been of interest, and1887. KECEIPT8.we trust, profitable to those who have attended.To balance cash on haud, January 1, 1887..$127 08 At the beginning ot the year the number of memTo cash received during year 328 15bers enrolled was twenty-five. Have receivedS455 2'ieleven new members ; one name taken from tberoll by request ; six have gone to other fieldsoflabor, while God in his providence has calledaway one, Mrs. Nannie Wilson, fi-om her laborhere to her eternal reward, leaving enrolled forthe year 1888 twenty-eight members. Interestingletters have been read before our societyfrom other missionary societies in the Presbytery.Dec. Total. 6, by cash to home mission work 37 71 $466 23 Selections and essays on various themes have beenIn '• addition " " Tarsus to the mission foregoing funds 37 72 passed read are piecing at each a quilt of our which meetings. the society At present expects we tothrough Balance on the hand Treasurer's Jan. 1,1888 hands, the sum 2 40 of one dispose of in whatever way they think best. Thehundred dollars ($100) was raised by the society Treasurer's report will show the condition of theby special collection for the Woman's Missionary finances of the society. We do not boast of anySociety of Pittsburg Presbytery, which amount great effort, but trust we have done what wewas paid to the Treasurer of that fund by the could, and with united effort we still hope to concommitteecollecting the same.tinue our work, knowing that if we work andRespectfully submitted,pray dihgently, we shall not lose our reward.Mrs. W. M. Hice, Treasurer.Etta S. Jamison, Secretary.

TEEASUKEK'S REPOKT.Received from former Treasurer $ 4 30Eegular monthly fees 34 80DonationsTotal.19 60Mission Monographs. 49DI8ETJKSEMENTS.To Southern misaion $ 15 00To CUlclan famine sufferers ..'. 26 00To the boys' boarding school 11 00To the poor of our own village 740Total.$68 60 For sending money 20 S 58 60Hester A. Speer, Treasurer.THE MORAYIANS AND THEIR MISSION TO GREENLAND.The Moravians derive their name from a countryin the east of Europe which is now under therule oi Austria. There and in the neighboringcountry of Bohenua, ihere were Reiormers before himself, but whose family had settled not farthe Reformation. In this region ihere appeared, from .Dresden, in German Saxony. 'Phis noblemanwas Count Zinzendorf—one whose name isa century before Luther nailed his theses to thechurch doors at Wittenburg, Jolm Huss and well worthy to be held in reverence by all whoJerome of Prague ; and, as the result of these love the gospel. He was brought into the kingdomin his infancy. efforts, a church was formed holding the fundamentalWhile yet a child of four heprinciples of Protestant doctrine, and was known as waiting upon God ; and wben hecalled the Unitas Fratrum,was at school at Halle he established among hisPersecuting times came, however, and what school-fellows a nuinber of praying circles. Ashappened in France happened in Bohemia and he grew up his devotion to Christ and His causeMoravia. Many were driven into exile; many became more and more earnest a.nd conspicuousand,when he heard of the poor Christians ofwere put to death; and by-and-by Popery seemedto triumph as completely as it now does in Spain Moravia who had no liberty at home, and wboor Ireland. Bnt, though io all appearances were now looking abroad for some haven in whichevangelical religion was stamped out, the embers to serve God in peace he at once wrote and offeredthem an asylum ou his own estate. Hisof the fire remained, and ii required only thebreathing of the Spirit to kindle them again into ofier was accepted. In 1722 Chi'istian Davida flame.Sucb a flame was kindled in 1715, in a Moravianand other friends arrived at Herrnhut, and thereand then was laid the foundation of that remarkvillage, when a Roman Catholic carpenter able communion to whose labours inheathen—called Christian David—was brought to theknowledge of the iruth. He had never seen aBible tin he was twenty ; but then he came intocontact with some sincere followers of Christ whoworshiped God in secret, and being taught bytbem the way of life more perfectly, be immediatelybegan zealously to communicate to otherswbat be himself bad received.Tbese evangelistic efforts necessarily broughthim into conflict with ihe authorities, and findingno freedom to tollow his conscience in his ownland, he began to look abroad for some refuge towhich he could betake himself elsewhere.While making these inquiries, he came acrossthe name of a nobleman, of Austrian origin likelands I am now going to refer.It was by no means the idea of Zinzendorf,when he opened his doors to these fugitives, toset up with them a new Church organization inSaxony. Saxony, it will be remembered, wasLuther's country. The Elector of Saxony washis great friend and protector, and the ReformedChurch established there was the LutheranChurch. The count wished the Moravians tooccupy in Germany a like place with that which

50 Mission Monographs.John Wesley wanted the Methodists to occupy in him to clear np our minds in this important af-England—to be, in shoirt, a merely spiritual com- fair, and to lead us in the right way. Thereuponmunity—a company of pietists—an association of our hearts were filledwith uncommon joy, andgood people hving together for their own edifica- we omitted no longer to lay our desire before thetion and that of their neighbors. But as they in- congregation in writing, with perfect resignationcreased in numbers they could not help organiz- as to which tribe of heathen our allotment shoulding, and in the end they became, insensibly be, though we felt the strongest leanings to tbealmost, a distinct denomination, Count Zinzen- Greenlanders."dort being one of their earliest bishops.Hltimately it was resolved to send a missionI have referred to Wesley, It may give an from Herrnhut to Greenland ; and the firstidea of the character of the Mora.vians at the agents designated to the work were the youngoutset, if I quote the impression which his firstin- man whose words I have just quoted and a cousinterview with them made upon his mind. He met of his own—their names being respectivelysome of them in 1736, and thus wrote to his Matthew and Christian Stach, The leader ofbrother J "God has given me at length the the Moravian band, however,' from the east—desire of my heart I am with a Church whose Christian David—resolved to accompany themconversation is in heaven "and see them fairly settled in the fieldthey wereBut how came the Moravians to engage in for- to occupy.eign missions ? It was in this way. Their preparations were easily made. " WeIn the year 1731 Zinzendorf was sent by the had nothing," they tell ns, "butthe clothing onKing of Saxony to Denmark to be present at the our backs ; but we had been nsed to make a shiftmarriage ot the King of that country ; and while for ourselves, and did not trouble our heads aboutthere he »w and conversed with two Eskimos how we were to get to Greenland, or how wefrom Greenland and a negro from the West In- were to live when we got there."dies. They set out for Denmark on January 11,What he heard produced a deep impression on 1733, and arrived in course of tune at Copenhismind and imagination; and, when he returned hagen, wbich was the Antioch of those days—to Herrnhut and told the story to his co-religion- the place whence the successors of the apostlesists there, an inextinguishable fire was kindled in set-out on their missions to convert the world.their bosoms hkewise.But they did not meet irom the Danish Chris" I was then at work," writes one ofthose who tians the hearty reception they had anticipated.were present—"I was then at work with Fred- A mission to Greenland had been maintamed forerick Boenish on the burying-ground called the a number of years, but little success bad attendedHutberg. He was the firstperson that I made it, and it was to be abandoned. But tbe friendsacquainted with what was passing in my mind, from Herrnhut were not easily daunted. Tbeyand I found that he was actuated by the same persevered in their endeavors to re-awaken tbedesire as I had to promote the salvation of the interest, and tbey succeeded ; aud about the beheathen.. . As we were both of one mind, ginning of the month of June tbe little band ofand confidently believed that our. Saviour's pioneers landed at the mouth of Ball's-Riverpromisewould be verified in us, ' If two or three tbe only river that Greenland is known to possess.shall agree on earth as touching anything that The country which we know so well by namethey shall ask,' we retired to the wood near at from the missionary hymn we so often sing ishand, and kneeled down before him and begged four times the size of the present Germam Em-

Mission Monographs. 51pire; but only one narrow belt is accessible, starvation. But, worst of all, their faith waslying chiefly along the western shore. sorely tried. Five years passed and they saw noTbe hymn speaks of Greenland's icy mountains, sign of impression being made on any of the inandof their inhabitants calling us io deliver them, habitants. During that time they learned theBnt it is doubthil whether there are any such language of the country, and made great progressmountains, and at any rate if they do exist they toward translating the Bible into it. But on nocannot be inhabited We know, in fact, a great one did the truth seem to take hold.deal less about the interior of Greenland ihan we At last, however, a glimmer of hope wasdo now about the interior of Africa. All that awakened.we feel sure about is ihis, that away inland from One day in the month of May 1738 John Beck,the coast there is a vast, dreary, desolate ex- one of the men who had joined the original piopanse,covered with ice and snow, where an awful neers, was copying out in a fair hand a translasilencereigns, broken only by the sough or roar tion of the Gospel of John, when a company ofof tbe tempestuous winds. The supposition is. Eskimos passed by, and asked what was in theindeed, not thai it is a solid continent diversified book. Beck told them the old, old story—howby bills, but a congeries of islands bound together the Son of God became man and died in order toby masses of eternal ice and snow. redeem us, and how all tbat he asks of us is toThe western coast, which alone, as we have put our trust in him. He enlarged at the samesaid, is very accessible to visitors, is bold and time on the subject, and read especially the acrocky,like our own Banffshire or Aberdeen- count of Christ's agony in the garden.shhe; and it is indented by numerous firths or When he finished, one of the party, a mangulfs and fiords, from out of which come the named Kaisanak, stepped forward, and said withicebergs.all earnestness, " How was that ? Tell me thatDown from the heights move slowly the frozen again. I too would like to be saved." Themasses which we call glaciers. These, when longed-for hour at last had come. The soul ofthey come into contact with the sea, tend io lose an Eskimo had caught a ghmpse of the glory.then cohesion ; and great fragments break off. And with a joy such as we can well imagine, thedrift away into the ocean, and often endanger the missionary saw the Spirit of the living God hadsafety ofour Atlantic steamers.come in the plentitude of his power and love toTbe inhabitants of this bleak region are Greenland.Eskimos—a polar race—the most northern Kaisanak become an undoubted Christian. Heon tbe globe—occupying the Arctic shore from laboured with his companions until they too grewGreenland right across the continent of North interested, and before the month was out threeAmerica. I'hey are not by any means au inter- large families had setiled down near the missionestingpeople-naturally ; and most surely we may aries, that they too might hear the news of resaythat nothing bui earnest love for Christ and deeming love. After the ground had thus beensouls could have moved men to leave the comforts broken, the work went on and prospered, and atof home and civilized life in Saxony to spend this moment the whole of that region is dottedtheir hves in laboring in such a field. over with Moravian stations.—2%e Free ChurchThe hardships which the early missionaries enof Sco'land Monthly.dured were terrible. Ouce they did not hear RELIGION OF COREA.irom Herrnhut for two whole years ; and againM agai^ they were brought to the briflk of /' Af for rej'f i9»> *•»« Oox^m^ baY« scarce

52 Mission Monographs.any." This is the testimony of a Protestant pies " are nothing more than huts.Dutchman in the seventeenth century. A One of tbese village shriues not far fromScotch clergyman who spent six weeks of the the newly-opened seaport of In-chiun is thusAutumn of 1883 in the capital and treaty- described : In ihe center of a small grove-.ofports seems to agree with Hamel. He says: low fir trees, on a bluff about two hundred"What in western nations is usually under- yards from the hamlet of nine houses, was thestood by the term ' religion' has no existence sacred structure—the symbol of the aboriginalin Corea ; and in this it differs somewhat from religion, of wtiich Shinto (the way or doctrinethe other countries of Asia." French Romanist of the gods) is the analogue in Japan. It conmissionarieswho have dwelt long in the land* sisted of a conical straw hut, nine feet highand various visiting travelers, tell the same and the same in diameter at the base, in thestory.shape of those old-fashioned bee hives, whichYet, though tbere are no gorgeous ritual were made of twisted straw and bad a smallsystems, voluminous sacred literature, or dis- square hole at tbe base for the entrance of theciplined priesthoods, as in Siam or Japan, bees. In the Corean temple tbe opening wasthere is a tad deficiency of religion of the triangular, throe feet high, and faced the east.right sort in the peninsula. The national in- Inside were no idols, incense or pictures. Thetellect is sunk in a tangled net work of super- ceiling was formed of bare, rough poles, laidstitions. These form a baneful re-%io« that across and sloping toward the back, tbe ayerbindsand holds back the souls of her ten mil- age height from the back being four feet. Atlions of people from their Creator, and to the rear wall, facing the opening and tied tomental slavery, terror and the gross dark- one of the rafters, hung a bundle ot strips ofness of ignorance. The preaching of Ohrist white paper—the unmistakable counterpart ofto the Coreans will be a real " opening of the the gohei or wand of wood holding white paperprison to them that are bound." in Japanese temples. On these sirips of paperThere are three distinct strata of ideas the spirits of the gods are supposed to dwellwhich, iu tbeir historic order, underlie the na It is believed to be deaih for an ordinary pertivebelief. There are the aboriginal fetichism son to enter these shriues.and shamanism—worship of visible objects Gutzlaff in 1832 was unable to discover anyand invisible imaginary influences—Confucian- traces of idol-worship, nor did he everism and Buddhism. witness ihe performanoe of religious rites. OnAll three of these phases of the benighted visiting the village temple on the hill he toundCoreans' faith have tbeir representative " tem- that it consisted of one apartment hung roundpies." Yet to any one accustomed to the size with paper, and with salt-fish in the middle.and splendor of the sacred edifices of China No idol was visible. A small metal dragonand Japan this word has scarcely any mean- rested on the ground. The names of the coningfor Corea. Most of the village, and even tributors, with their several sums, were careofthe city temples, are surprisingly small, poor fully noted down.and bare. In Seoul few of the Buddhist tem- Comparatively few wayside shrines, so complesare any larger than common dwellings, mon in Japan, are seen iu Corea, but the cem-They are, as a rule, recognized merely by the eteries on the hills or mounds, the mileflutingor carving round the eaves or by their stones carved on the top into grotesque humanpeculiar gateways. In the villages the "tem- figures, the saored trees gayly hung with co

Mission Monographs.5Slored rags, the heaps of stone laid beside oho- and foolish pride of Corea. It will be, as Itsen places or objects, the avoidance of injury always haa been, the unyielding foe of Christtoserpents and the feeding of these reptiles, ianity. It is pagan agnosticism with no rootwhich find a home in the foundatiou stones or of progress in it. ita force is all conservathatchedroofs of the houses, are all signifi- tive. lis tenets ^^ summed up in thecant of the primeval re'igion.doctrine of " the five relations—" of king andThe Chinese superstition called Peng-shuey subjeot, of parent aod child, of husband and(wind and water) dominates all Corea, and wife, of tbe elder brother and younger brother,gives employment to crowds of sorcerers, for- aud between friends. The relation expressed,tune tellers and geomancers, who fatten upon the duty follows. In spite of its excellences,the purses of the people. No Corean would it is atheistic. It makes no provision for thethink of building a house, selecting afield, greatest of all relationo—of man to God. Thegarden or tomb, without consulting one of chief enemies of truth, progress and spiritualthese gentry. The influences of the spirits religion in Corea have been, and for generaarebelie-êd to be ever potent, and oue of the tions to come will be, Confucianisis. Christiancommonsights everywhere is the pole stuck ity, that levels tbe pride of man, must by itsup on mound or house witb its strap oi bells nature arouse tbe wrath of the literati.or tiny cymbals jingled in the breeze, to ward At the expense ot the State sacrifices ofoff their malign breath. Already the empty pigs, sheep and goats are made bythe magpetroleum-oansfrom America, are utilized to istrates at particular seasons. The ceremoniesrout the goblins. Feng-shuey is the great na- are very similar to those practiced by thetional school of superstition in which iunu- Chinese in honor of the spirits of earth andmerable professors teach millions of docile heaven.pupils.Older than the Confucian cult, yet closelyThe air is far from empty to a Corean. Itis connected with it, is the worship of ancestors*populous with active and malignant spirits. The veneration of forefathers, tbe burning ofEvery tree, mountain, water-course, and even incense and doing of homage to their tabletsthe kitchen or chimney has its tutelary genii, are aa universal in Corea as in China. Thewho must be propitiated by prayer, gifts or system is so deeply implanted thai nothingpenance in some form or another. but a total change in the Corean mind andThe cult professed by the official and liter- heart can extirpate it. Piety and worship bearyclass is founded on the ethics of Confucius oome one in theory and practice. It is aand the system set forth inthe classic books great tree, the roots ofwbich strike into the01 ancient China. Temples in honor of the soil of primeval history, while its dense outsageare found in the large cities of Corea. growth of superstitions overshadows everyStrictly speaking, Confucianism is a system household. Against it the axe of Christianityof morals and politics, but not a religion. It is to be laid with many a sturdy stroke behasni element of progress in it, but is a mode fore it disappears. To preserve the spirit andof thought and practice calculated to stereo- letter of the fifth commandment, with its gratypethe human intellect and petrify a civili- cious promise—the salt of national preservazationinto unvarying routine. It is largely tion, as shown in China's long continuance—isresponsible for the inertia and arrested deyelop- the problem of the missiouary of Jesus inment of China, andfoi the hermit-like seclusion Corea.

54 Mission Monographs.Booldo or Buddhism first entered Corea in Japanese temples oame originally from Corea,the fourth century, probably by way of Thibet which to the priests in the Sunrise Land wasand Mongolia, and again directly from China long the " l.'reasure Land of the west."in the sixth century. Its golden days were Buddhism, being a humane system of moralsduring the dynasty of Ko rai (960-1892. AD), and of aspirations to noble character, stimulatesHaving overspread the peninsula, and being men to good works for the sake of their ownpatronized at court, it was made the state re- salvation and to the advantage oftheir fellows.ligion. The Buddhist priesthood was during Hence it is a civilizt^r, and in its first energythis period very numerous, influential and and freshness it fills a country with benefits,learned; the monasteries were numerous and nourishes art, diffuses education, makes roads,cosily and the temples grand and magnifi- establishes resting places, promotes beneficencecent. Education and the arts were iostered, and multiplies comforts in a thousand forms.and the status of Corean civilization was Buddhism did much for Corea—far more, wehigher than at the present time. think, than Confucianism, which soon beSince the accession of the house ot Ni, comes intolerant, bigoted, hide-bound and narwhiohnow rules the kingdom, Buddhism has row, paralyzing all progress. The high waterbeen disestablished, the faith has sunk into mark of Corean civilization was reached underdecay, the priests into ignorance and most of Buddhism.the finer temples into ruin.Tet after all that may be said in its favor,A village shrine visited by an English gen- Buddhism is an atheistic system, and, like alltleman last year is described as standing in a such cults, becomes the prey of parasitic supergroveof firs. It was a hut six feet square, stitions which smother its vitality. Its forcethe aides of which were formed of coarse wicker in Corea seems to be well nigh spent.and straw, wbile a thick mat, suspended by a The mind of the Corean peasant resemblesrope, formed tbe door. The roof was tiled, a peat-bog init.s mixture of decay. The faithsA rough stone image, about three feet high, wbich influence him onoe had each a distinotofa Buddhist saint, in the usual sitting pos- ive life and form. Their frame and substanceture, with a square stone in front containing a now gone, he propitiates all gods and professestew copper coins were all that the " temple" all superstitions. Yet doubtless he has thecontained. While, however. Buddhism is in soul and heart of a man, and yearns for a relowestate in and near the capital, it flourishes ligion whioh can satisfy both. How earnestlyin greater strength in some of ihe provinces, he will receive the purer faith of Christ theCertain neighborhoods are strong'y Buddhist; fut'are is yet to reveal.—* Corea, without andand there the monastic establishments and within.temples are old and rich, the shaven pates *Presbyterian Board of Pablication, 1334 Chestnutmore numerous, and the revenues from tem- street, Philadelphia, Pa.pie lands yield handsomely. Some of the „„g „„„ BELLmost famous ahrines, visited annually byJ r -1 •„, -, :„ ,1, ,, 4- • ' Wakeful, and weary for the dawn,crowds of pilgrims, are in the mountains. .„,.,, ' , ,° 1 he night for me wore slowly on,Idols are of three grades-bronze, stone and ^hen sudden struck upon mine earwood. Some of these are highly artistic in The fog-bell's warning sweet and clear.workmanship. Many of the images of Buddha ^^^ ^^^^^ I ^„^^ ^j^ ^^ ^,„ ^^^^-^^^mi hjs disoiples wljip!} &re no^ fo^^^ jq ^j,^^^ ofj ^^^ ^^^ i^ ^^^y ^4^^

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 55Had thickiy fallen, fold on fold.The sea mist's curtain, wan and cold.How should the pilot turn his hand,-Which way, to seek the hidden land-So near, so far ? Serene and strong,The answer came, a steady song.In accents emphasized and loud,The fog-bell rent the woven shroud,And each long cadence seemed to say," O baffled sailor, steer this way."Ah ! soul, thou hast thy groping hours,When gloom obscures the heavenly powers ;No star illumes, no sunbeams smite,Across that dread eclipse of light.But Hst ! and to thy need shall come,With swift relief, the bells of home ;In love, in pity, full and free,How sweet their bidding, " Turn to Me.''—Selected.Under date, December 28, 1887, our medical college. Another night's sailing and wemissionary. Dr. J. M. Balph, writes fi'om reach Tripoli, where another day is spent takingLatakia:on cargo, chiefly lemons, whieh are exported inOur voyage to Latakia was in the main a large quantities. At 10 p. m we are again onvery pleasant one, although somewhat tedious.' our way, feeling- now that we are nearing ourFrom Liverpool to Alexandria, we enjoyed the destination, and hoping in a little while to be withcompany of the Rev. Mr McCague, a former our friends. About 3 a. m. we are aroused bymissionary to Egypt, and of Mrs Rev. Ewing the steward telling us that we are approachingand daughter, of the H. P. mission at Alexandria. Latakia. In a few minntes the ship has castTbe yoyage from Alexandi'ia to Latakia occupied anchor, and Brother Easson with a nuinber ofsailed stop-the native brethren are on board anxious to bidus welcome to their midst. We are soon downin the little boat in which they have come to conveyns io the shore. They soon row back, ourbaggage is examined at the custom house, and afew minutes later we are at the home of BrotherEasson, where we meet with such a cordial welcomeas to make us feel as much at home as it ispossible for persons to do who, leaving theirhome and friends far behind, arrive for the firsttime in a land where all is strange and new.How anxiously we wait for the morniug light,that we may have a view of what is to be ourfuture home; and how thankful we feel tbat attera long journey we have at last arrived safely.Truly " He maketh the storm a calm ;" " so HeNight againfive days, the steamer on which weing at all the principal ports on the Syrian coast.Our first call was made at Port Said, at theentrance to the Suez Canal. While here wesaw a new and palatial steamer of the P. & 0.line enter the canal, being the largest steamerthat had ever passed through. Leaving inthe evening we awoke the next morning to findourselves at Jaffa. Looking out upon the town,the hills beyond, the towering mountains in thedistance, we experience a strange sensation inthns gazing for the first time upon the Holy Land.We think of Peter lodging " in the house ot oneSimon, a tanner," and of Jonah as he left thisport to set forth upon his tempestuous voyage ;and we almost feel like asking ourselves,can all thisbe real, or are we only dreaming ?approaches and we are once more sailing onwardtoward our destination, and another day findsus at Beirut. This is the chief commercialtown of Syria ; here we find that almost everythingmay be purchased that we can procure inEuropean towns. This place is very beautifullysituated on a promontory—the hills graduallyrising behind it, and away in the distance thehigh range of Lebanon may be seen. Much missionarywork is being done, chiefly by the PresbyterianBoard. They have also a good medicalbringeth them to their desired haven."The first week was taken up getting our goodsunpacked and things arranged in order for housekeeping; stopping occasionally to prescribe forcases of sickness which came in.Mrs. Balph and I were both sick for sometimeafter this from colds and fever, but have entirelyrecovered, and are now enjoying splendidhealth. I made one trip to B'hamra, whereone of our schools is situated, with Mr. Easson,and prescribed for a large nnmber of sick people,while there. In order to comply with the law

56 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.relating io medical practice in Turkey, I lefthome November 24th for Constantinople to passan examination at the Imperial Medical College,and have my diploma endorsed by that institutionOn my way up I spent two days with theiriends at Mersine, beiug present at their communionservice. While waiting for the steamerI also spent several days at Smyrna, making theacquaintance of the missionaries of the AmericanBoard there, aud who are carrying on a lara;ework in that place. I also visited the Scotchmission school and Scotch hospital tlierr. Mystay of ten days in Constantino]ile was renderedvery pleasant by the kindness of the niissionaries,who gave me much assistance in getting mybusiness attended to. I was very successful, notbeing detained as long a time as is often tbe casewith those who go there for that purpose ; forprocrastination seems to be the watchword of theTurks ; never doiug to-diiy that tbey cau possiblyput ofl' until to-morrow.Ou rny return trip i spent a few hours at Meisine.The friends are all well with the e.veeptiouof Miss Joseph, who is making a very slow recoveryirom the attack of pneumonia aud rheumatis;nfrom wbich she has lieeu suffermg. Dr.Metheny aud I are uuited in the opinion thatit would not be wise for her to think of returningat the present, hoping and praying thatshe may regaiu her health sufficiently to remainin this field, where laborers are so much ueedcd.The work here is progressing favorably. Tbeholiday vacation for the schools commences thisweek. I arrived home December 25 th, having beeuabsent one month. Hope to soon be busy atwork again, but feel that until i become somewhatacquainted with the language I will beworking at quite a disadvantage. 1 hoiw, howeyer,from this time on to he able to give moretime to the study than I li.'ive beeu as yet,I would like to be able to write you morefully of the work here, but it is all very new tome. There is much, very mueh work to bedone ; and what are we among so many ? Butthe Mighty One is on our side and we bave nocause to be disi.-onran-cd. May tlie prayers of theChurch constantly ascciid on behalf of those wbolabor here, that w'l' may he made fit to do theMaster's will, aiid tlic instruments in his handof accomplishing a great work.The following letter dated December 29, isfrom Mrs. Mary B. Metheny, of Mersine :We are haviug delightful winter weather jnstnow—that is, rainy aud muddy. We are gladto see the rain. We kept 'I'hanksgiving day twoweeks ago. Our home Thanksgiving day camatbe week of our communion. By postponing ours,we had a number of additional causes for thanks.Greatest of all these was the order which ourlocal authorities were compelled to give for tbere-opening of the schools ; then Miss Joseph'sprogress to-wards recovery ; and last the consentof Miriam Kirroom's parents to allow her to stay.rhey had threatened the week before to take heraway, aud she wus in great distress Miss Josephis still weak aud not able to go about the housemuch. Last Saturday whicii was a bright sunnyday sbe took a short carriage ride.• As we supposed, the authorities here do notlike to carry out the orders they have received,aud put every difficulty they can in the way.When Mr Dihliak went iu Tarsus to inquire ofthe Governor if he had received an order to allowthe .'Schools to he re-opened, lie was compelled loadmit that he had, though he had uot promulgatedit. The teacher at Kara-da-war told tbepeople they were at liberty to have their schoolagain, if they chose, bnt they said they wouldconsult the Governor ot ^Niersine Gurgis to'dthem, if they did that, of course he would advisethem against it. They received word that tbeGovernor General of the Proviuce would sendthem a teacher, hnt I suppose they concludedthat they were safer on the whole to take whatwas ready to their hand, for the teacher yesterdayreported twenty-nine pupils. Dr. rode ontto-dayto see tbe school. Bovs bave come in heretilltbere are now thirtv-three large and .small. Wetalk of sending those who are Christians to Tarsusto Mr. Dibbak, and taking Fellaheen here wheretlicy cannot he ititerfered with. There are seventyonehoys and girls here. Dr. is having desksand seats made for the school rooms, whicb wiUmake teaching much easier. Some of the childrenare from Adana, and some from Tarsus Wehave four Catholic children from Tarsus, whosefather was origiually a Druse from IMt. Lebanon,a relative of Mrs Dr. Selim who died summerbefore last.Oue of our new members Ahmed Rez.hab had anadventure night before last \\hich gives some ideaof what it is to them to become P'roh'slants. AFellah with wbom he is acquainted, aud wbo lives

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 57in town here, told him to go to his house and geta letter and a bunch of flowers which he hadbrought from Tarsus for him. Ahmed offeredhim a few cents aud told him to please bringthem to him, but he said, no, he could only giveihem if be went with him. It was then aboutdusk. When he went in he found another manand woman. They welcomed him, and offeredhim liquor, but he tdd them he did not drink.He overheard them speak of calling the rest, sohe got up to leave, when immediately both menseized him. Being very agile and slrong heknocked them down, but the woman seized him,and gave him more trouble than tbey did. However,he got rid of her too, and fearing least heshould be seen in the moonlight, he crouched inthe shadow of some bushes. " The others " hadarrived by this time and he dared not move, how lonely she was and I read tober, "Let notthough near enough to bear them talk over their your heart be troubled, etc." I spent an hourchagrin at losing him. He thought it was about with her, and, as I was leaving, she said, '• I havean hour that he stayed in hiding, but I dare say enjoyed your visit so much, I wish you wouldtime went slowly with him. At last he ventured come often." Then I went to see a sick woman,to creep out, aud got home safe. His clothes I read to her, and she raised up on her arewere pretty well tattered in the frayto listen. My third visit was to a house.A branch of the Ottoman Bank has been establishedin Adana. It seems to be controlled there, sends for me to read to her. On this ocwhere I often go. The old lady who lives•chiefly by Englishmen. The Turks liave not casion I thought it wonld be too late to read, butmuch credit but what they procure from abroad. she soon said, " Where is your Testament ? " II must not omit to mention a little incident replied, "In my pocket," when she said, " Whywhich took place the other day. It will illustrate don't you take it out and read to me ? " * * *the ignorance of these people, to which we are There was a death not long ago in town of anot fully alive till something like this brings it young girl. She was to have been married soon,out. Our Bible lesson was in Joshua about the and was buried in what was to have been herLord's command to circumcise all the children of wedding dress and her vail and crown. Sbe wasIsrael who had been born in the wilderness. one of our best day-pupils, when she attendedThis brought up the whole subject of circumcision, school, and I had often talked with her on religioussubjects. I called to see her two days beand one of the very brightest in the class askedme •' was Ishmael a Moslem ? " Nothing could fore she died. I told her to put her trust inexceed their astonishment when they heard that Jesus and she said that she did. The night shethere had been no Moslems till six hundred years died sbe kept repeating the Psalms and theafter Christ. Mohammedans boast so much of Lord's Prayer. It is a great comfort to meettbe antiquity of their religion, and they have solong been the dominant race, that it seems almostimpossible for oriental Christians io understandthat it ever was otherwise.P. S January 3 —The local authorities haveagain closed tbe Kara-da-war school, and thepeople now want to send iheir children here tothe bearding school.A private letter from Miss Wylie of Laiakiato Mr.' Walter T. Miller, dated January, 13,contains the following items of general intersst :Our last term oi school was very interestino-.Miss Edgar has made wonderful progress in theArabic, and can now do a great deal of work.The people are very much pleased withDr,. Balph. . Miss Willia Dodds will beginwork on her return from Mersene, where she isat present on a visit io Miss Joseph who waslonging to see her. . . Mr. Easson startedthis morning for a trip in ihe mountains, and ioSuadea. He is not so strong as he used to be,yet he does a great deal of work and makes nofuss about it.I have been trying to visit a little among thewomen and I will give you one afternoon's work.I went first to the house of an old woman, who badrecently lost her husband and sister. She told mewith cases of this kind, even though many of ourpupils have not become Protestants.Hnder date Jan. 10, Mrs. M. E. Methenywrites from Mersine :Tbe Government now claims that their schoollaw does not apply io Moslems, and that theyhave a right to remove any Moslems who may bein our schools. Of course tbey make the term includeFellaheen. The question arises, Suppose ourboys from the Ansairiyeh should be seized by the

58 Ll eidents in Mission Life.Government, and declare themselves Christians, about 1874, and are both Protestants, and thiswhat would the Christian powers do? The last year her youngest son also joined. ItisTurks will deny the right of a Moslem io change quite probable that when her husband hears ofhis religion. What then is the meaning of the this thai he too will come out with her, as he,hasfamous clause granting religious liberty in Turkey? Surely the Christian powers can enforce it is married and lives here, is a very bigoted Greek.long been convinced. Her oldest daughter, whoif they will. I cannot think that the world will Last week we sent ten Christian boys to Mr.move backwards so near 1900. Surely the "all Dibbak, in Tarsus, and took some Fellaheen insteadfrom tbe village near by where our schoolnations" must include Moslems and Fellaheen.We cau only wait the will of God. Our hearts has been closed. We can protect Fellaheen betterthan Mr, Dibbak. The Governor tells ourare cheered by one here and there coming to theknowledge of Christ. Only this last Sabbath the Consul that unless we have an authorization formother of our teacher Rosa expressed her determinationto come ont openly as a Protestant you see the Church will need to be instant iathis school in tbree mouths it must be closed So-Her two daughters entered our school in Latakia prayer.iM€imBMTB IM MimiQM EÎWE*THE BEST EOOM FOR CHRIST. invite Him to my bouse. While I offer myAb eminent legal gentleman* who hadfirstbeenfamily prayer you can remain if you will;a sceptic until middle lite, one evening surprisedhis wife by saying: "I have foundChrist, and I must set up my family altar.Let us go into the drawing room and praytogether."His wife was a Christian woman and mighthave been expected to assent at once; but ithappened that the drawing room was ocoupiedand, the guests not being Christians, sbe feltthat their presence might interefere with devotion."There are four lawyers in fhere, husband,"she said, " hadn't we better go andI leave it to your choice."The lawyers all declared they would beglad to remain, and they did so, while the hostconducted his devotion.Noble was the example he set them, andhis act contains a lesson for everyone, whoeveror whatever you bave with you, giveChrist the best room.THE LAW OF KINDNESS.The work of rescuing the degraded, whateverelse it may involve, means at the least a severetesting of the feelings.have prayers in the kitchen ?"A young woman was walking down the" My dear," was the reply, " thisis the first street with a friend whom she would efpeoiallytime I ever invited Jesus Christ to my house, dislike to take up an odd impression of her, andand I am not going to invite him into the kitchen."a tug at her dress, and heard a voice say,was just about to get into a oar, when she feltHe went directly to the drawing room, " Kiss me before you get in." Looking round,greeted the laywers, and said to them : " My she saw one other Sabbath School class, veryfriends, I have just been convinced of the far from being in the cleanly condition she wastruth of Chriatianity. I have found out that wont to exhibit on the Sabbatb. Por a secondJesus Chtistdied forme on the cross. I have she hesitated. The car had stopped, the conductorheld the strap ready to give the signalgiven myself to Him, and now I am going toto go, her friend looked on with astonishment,"Judge McLean, afterwards Clilef Justice of the SupremeCourt of the Unitedand there was an amused smile on the face ofStates.

Incidents in Mission Life. 59others who had heard tbe request and who saw your light. Let it so shine, that men maythe petitioner. The little face with the gee. And in thB bright resurrection morning,grime of the street upon it was turned up full what joy will It give you to hear the " Wellof expectancy. There are few young ladies ône," and to know that you have unawaresbut would have taken refuge In the car from saved some soul from death \—Bev. Spencersuoh a trial. To her honor, be it said, however, Qompionthat her hesitation was only for an instant,and then, mastering her conflioting feelings,PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.she stooped down and impressed a kiss upon Sir Henry Havelock was, irom the time of histhe waiting lips. It was a victory worth ob- conversion to his death, a zealous and eartaining.The stronger hold which ^-he would nest worker. He firstattracted attention bothhave upon that little one, and upon her class, as a Christian and soldier, when serving with hiswould repay her for the sacrifice. That kiss regiment, the 13th Light Infantry, in the firstmay have been the means of saving a soul. Burman war of 1823-4. It happened that thereAnd so in other instances, we must by f^race was no chaplain with the British troops on thatventure the loss of position, wealth, friendship, occasion, so Havelock determined to supply tbishealth, reputation and sometimes life, if we want himself, and used for his services a largewould do real good.Baddhist temple iu Rangoon, where amidnumer-W H A T CAN I DO?°'^^ images of Buddha he and his men worshiped-n„»:„ «„..„„j.Tj-T i ji the living and true God, thus testifying againstDuring a voyage to India, I sat one dark , ° ' /. , -,«.„«r„-,„ ;„ „ „„k; *• i: n, ui that deadly suare which in those days ol aboundeveningm my cabin, feeling thoroughly un- •' , j„,,.„„ *u ••

CONotes and Beviews.still continued in a chapel which he procured for from 1838 to 1842, the Governor-General saidthat purpose. A fellow officer bore testimony to of Havelock that he was " every inch a soldierthe value of his noble missionary work by saying and every inch a Christi-an ;" and history tellsthat the best evidence of its reality appeared in how he concluded his useful and distinguishedthe fact that " Havelock's Baptists were never in career in 1859, after being signally used of Godthe defaulter's sheet and never iu the lockup." to reheve Lucknow and give the decisive blow toAt the close of the first Afghan war, which lasted the Indian mutiny.îs\u autl %mm^.-At a meeting of the Board ot Poreign The latter is a fine example of large heart-Missions, held in New York, January 31, Rev. "d liberality. But more is required, and prompt-D. McAllister was appointed with Elders Thos. ness in sending forward the money will en-E. Greacen and Henry O'Neill to visit and in- hance tbe value of the offering. Those whospect the mission work in Syria and Oilicia. cannot give hundreds can give tens, and thoseThis delegation is expected to leave eariy in who do not feel able in view of other claimsMarob, and we trust the visit will be fruitful to give tens can give ones. Only do it at onee.in results of great and permanent value to our A trifling sum from each oongregation willForeign Mission.eet the whole demand.—At the same meeting of the Bwd Revs. Lst every one who uses tobacco, give us aD. McAllister and D. McFall and Elder An- sum equal to the amount he has wasted indrew Alexander, were nominated as daleîtes that way during the past year, and we willto represent the Reformed Presbyterian Church have far more than enough to erect and equipat a general missionary Conference, to be held the building. " Who is willing to consecratein Exeter Hall, London, from the Qth to tbe his service this day unto the Lord."19th of June. An invitation has been extend- —In reply to many ii.quiries we have pleasedto all Evangelical Societies throughout the ure in saying that the portrait in the Februworld,to take part in the Conference. It is ary number of the Herald, is the work of thenot easy to over-estimate the importance and Moss Engraving Co, 535 Pearl Street, Newvalue of suoh a representat've gathering of York. Their calendar for this year has beenthose who are interested in tbe great work of laid on our table. Upon it are combined twelveForeign Evangelization. Tbe churches should beautiful little engravings, made directly frombe earnest in prayer, that this Conference may photographs, recent invention of Mr. J. 0.be led to devise wise and eflSoient measures for Moss. It is justly claimed tor this new prodisoiplingthe nations of the world.eoss, as our portrait clearly shows, that it se-—The attention of the churches is once more cures accuracy of expression and detail, iqualcalled to tbe fact that $6000 are needed to to the original photograph or drawing, andprovide suitable accommodation for the boys' second only to nature. Those who are interschoolin Latakia We are glad to learn from ^^^^^ j^ tîs class of work cannot do betterMr. Walter T. Miller, Ireasurer, that contribu- ,, ••^^,- ^ •. ^ j ctions are coming in for this purpose in larger ^^^"^ ^'^''*'^'^ enterpnsmg firm and see forand smaller amounts, and we have received themselves. Unless ours has been an exoepsineeour last issue the following :tional experience, all orders will be executedMr. John McWilliams, $100 00 promptly audio their entire satisfaction inMr. Wm. H. Cochrane, 25.00 every respect.

UBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREWN MISSIONS.REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wum 0f ^mm mnhTHE SENSIBLE YOHNG MAN.Rev. J: 0. McFeeters, Parnassus, Pa.robe of character, bright as the angel's, or blackas the devil's. But the wise young man willprefer the Christ-like character, both for this lifePaul tells the gospel minister to exhort youngmen to be sober-minded. Accordingly it is onr and for the next.duty, and our wish, to speak a word to this class, Character is not received as a legacy ; yourto whom we look for character, and intelligence, mother cannot give it to you ; your father hasand moral strength, and Christian heroism, and none to spare Nor is it made to order, and fittedfinancial treasures, to carry ihe Church forward on, in a day ; it does not come so quickly. It isin triumph, under the leadership of Christ, through grown; the elegant Christian character, substantialand enduring, is of slow steady growth. Itthe conflicts of the next thirty years.The sensible young man will build up a noble is woven, like the gold-threaded web of silk ;character. He will prize character more than built up like the massive edifice out of hard marble,chiseled with toil and skill.Like the hardygftld. A Christian character is more suitabletban the finestsuit of chithes. No kind of characteron earth is to be compared with that, which sugar sap in the time of Spring, with cool andmaple, it grows with tender fibre and sweeti8 solid with the principles of pur-i religion, and salubrious shade in mid-summer, with glory-tintedbfeautiful with the graces of the Spirit, honorable colors when touched by the frosts of Autumn. Itwith the active services oi faith, radiant with hope, is developed by living, and moving, and havingshining as the morning star, and glorifled with the your being, in the spirit of Christ Jesus.companionship of Jesus. Every other character, The sensible young man will also find hisnot possessing the heavenly traits, is like the foUage strength in the Lord. The young man feelsof Summer, to be stripped off by the winds that strong as a matter of course. Health is then income sweeping up the valley of death, if not byits prime, if ever. The fleshis anointed with newsome preceding storm.strength daily. The nerve is not chilled with disappointment,but lies iu the glow of high expecYou can get through the world with any kindof a character. Yes, you can get across the littletation. The vital forces are not redueed byspan of life with any kind of a name, making anygrappling with crushing obligations. The physicalpowers are not going down—down—down,kind of a mark. No danger of sticking in thenarrow places of the years for want of a character.Ifou will be pushed on through the calendarto disappear gradually under the incoming tide ofinfirmities, which is sure to cover all that is mortal,leaving above surface just one Ilttle mound,of )our days ; pushed on till you reach your December ; pushed on till you arrive at its thirtyfirstday, and twelve o'clock strikes in your earsto tell of the lite that was, tautis not. The youngare;confident in health and have great hope. Butyott'fcan finishthis life, and begin another, with aihis confidence in the flesh may burst like a butable.

62 Our Views of Mission Work.This consciousness of strength may be shattered religion ; it is windy, shadowy, spectral, speculin a moment hke a golden dream ofthe morning, tive, light and drifting as a vapor. Young man,The young man who is not strong in the Lord is you must have an employment, you mnst be emweekas the grass that bows under the breath of ployed, if you be worthy of the high calling inthe Summer -wind. It is not the strength of Ohrist Jesus.sinews that makes man strong ; it is not the They who are sick may give up active work,strength of money ; it is not the strength of friends, and turn aside with Jesus, while he talks privatelyIt is the power he gathers into his person, which with their souls. And they who are feeble withis able to suppress sin, and control desire, and old age, may rest a while under the mellow lightdefy temptation, and accept of duty, at whatever of the setting sun, while the marriage supper iscost. It is the power which he gathers into his being made ready for their reception. But thebeing, making him firm in the right, decisive youthful, the healthful, the active-minded, theagainst wrong, ready to show his colors when sin ready-handed, whose ambition is in its firstshows its head ; the power that enthrones Christ flames, if it ever flames at all, may they sit downin the conscience, and the law of God in his heart, on the hill of indolence, and remain at their ease.This is the strong man. We can put him up listening to tbe din of labor, and the bum of enagainstten thousand Sullivans ; and when the terprise all around ? Is not business-ability a talhard-muscled,hard-hearted constitutions of the ent ? Will it not bring you into judgment ?despicable sluggers melt into dissolution, this man But you say, you have no need to work. Nowill show strength firmer than the granite hills, need to brown the face with the toil of the field ;This strength comes only by relying on the or whiten it with the toU of the workshop. YouLord Jesus Christ. Young man be strong in the have the means, and can Uve hke a gentleman.Lord. Let the secret of your strength be your faith Then possibly you are excused from active busiinJesus. Let a sanctified conscience be the seat of ness, and equally excused from loafing. Yonryour power. Let Christ dwelling in your heart freedom from the burdens of toil lays only tbebe the glory of your life. Let the love of truth, heavier responsibilities upou you. Release fromthe magnetism of principle, be the source of your tbe struggles of business is for the higher activitycourage. Let your test conflicts be on the fleld of your mind-power, your heart-power, your moralwhere sin is defeated ; let your victories be upon power, your religious power ; your opportunitiesmoral battle grounds, where your Lord will meet are all the greater for visiting the sick, uphftin|fyou with a garland of compliments for your soul the fallen, encouraging the weak, helping the fortowear forever. Business tbat wins wealth is gotten, supplying the poor ; bringing the gospelnot to be compared with strength that wins vie- to the degraded ; casting up a highway for thetories.chariot of salvation to reach the out-posts of civ-The sensible yonng man will also make his em- iUzation. Free from the necessity of toil, you areployment add to the revenues of Christ and his under ten-fold obligation to work for the kingdomChurch. Every young man ought to bave some of Christ.employment. Idleness is Satan's factory. An The young man wbo would make his religionhonorable fieldof labor is the ground-work of re- golden to the world must embark in some employligion.T^'ithout this there can hardly be any ment that will make the money come. This istrue earnest useful religion. Religiou gets swamp- natural; this is honorable ; this 'is high-spiriteded, sinks utteriy out of sight, in the vanity of a ambition ; this is iu accord with first-classreligsimperinguseless life. There is no body to that ion. But make your business a source of revenue

Our Views of Mission WorTc. 63for the kingdom of Christ; let your employment clear your title in the courts of earth. And hebe a sinew of war, to win for him the world. Pill generously cancels the debt; he counts ii no moreup some space in the treasury, as well as in the against you ; and he comes to you, not a collector,pew. Let your name be on the receipt page of but as a borrower. 0, the condescension of him,the church, as well as on the roll of membership, whose the world is, and all its wealth, the heavens,Let your cash make music in the service of praise, and the star-built universe! He comes to you as aas well as your voice ; this will be no corruption borrower. And what does he desire ? yonr heart?of worship, in the opinion of the most radical. Yes, but he does not borrow that; it must beLet the beautiful stream of God's blessings, which given, and will never be returned. Your confiflowsin upon you, flow first through the sea of dence? Yes, he wants that, but he does not borrowGlalilee, where the golden fingersof sunlight will it ; he will have it, but you must never withdrawcatch up some of the shining treasures, and waft it. He asks to borrow your money to supplythem afar into other lands ; then let the rest of his poor ones, to support his church, to fill up histhe river flow on, if you will, into the Dead Sea treasuries for the progress of his kingdom, andof self-interest to disappear forever. Stop your the triumph of his crown. Tbat is what he asks.money for a count, before it goes into your pocket; He comes into your presence, and holds out onelet a part of it be laid upon the altar of God as hand to receive your loans, and holds forth in thea thank-offering ; then let the other part be laid other his proffered securities. See how they read:npon the altar of your necessities." He that hath pity on the poor lendeth unto theThe young man is not wise, who makes no good Lord ; and that wbich he hath given will he reinvestments,as he passes down through life. Nor P'^y ^^^ ^,f'V' .,^'1^ !'v. '"'"''^'T paper signed.-• , . *^ , ° " Honor the Lord with thv substance, and withIS there any investment so good, so secure, so sure ^^^ ^^.g^. ^^^,^^ ^f thine incre'ase ; so shall thy barnsofheavy profits, as those given to the church, be filledwitb plenty, and thy presses shall burstThe deposit grows by compound interest, and out with new wine." Here is another bond withso rapidly, too, that its value is multipUed by one the same signature, " Bring ye all the tithes into\. A A • i.\.- re 4.1, 4- + 4.U J the storehouse, that there may be meat in mmehundred m this hfe; that means ten thousand per ^^^^^^ ^^^ p^^^ ^, „ow herewith, saith thecentum. This is heaven's legal interest. You l^j.^ qJ jjogts, if I will not open you the windowswiU findthe law recorded in the tenth chapter of of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that thereMark. shall not be room enough to receive it." Can youGod does not do much borrowing ; he has no ^sk for a safer investment than that ? Can you, , , . , , . ,.4.., \. , t • ask for higher rates of profit than ihat ?" If youneed whatever. And what little he asks for is ^.^^ ^.^^ semvitj, down with the dust." God isIrom our bankrupt world. And he offers such a in earnest U e stands before you, with one handMgh rate in return, that his purpose is apparent, extending the securities, with the other reachnghis object is clear as the sun. He wants an op- for your loans. Can you trust him ? then place„„,i. -4 4. • t,- 1,1 • 4.U 4-1, vour dimes and dollars in his hand. You wiUportumtv to spring his blessings upon the earth •>". "1'^^"=° "^"^ "^ .z ,' , . , TT . • 1 TT 1 get it all back agam. The money you place inand make her rich. He is not in need. He only gj^ treasury will not merely go to the missiondesires an expression of confidence from man, that field • a reflex current of providence will drift itGod may load him with everlasting wealth. bacK again into your business, and into yourYoung man, you are in debt to God for all homes, and the joy of it into your heart But„ i . . , ,T T-T , -JI-i.- e do vou doubt him? then keep your wealth;you have in the worid. You have paid him for J .^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^ J ^ . ^^, ^^ ^^neither farm, nor counter, nor factory, nor waUet, g^j.^^ ^-^^^ (.{jg^g jg ^ railway between your banknor the chinking change. You have received all and Canada ; and a still shorter route betweenfrom him; yon are in debt to him for aU, however your investment and the displeasure of God.

Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD.oaÔItotoh-^CD1—1.CO00COoh-1.hf^QOCSCOOD-pits8h-"McCOS 1OT OS00 rf^hf-ôgh-1 toCOOT OIOD 00CO00*^PleachingStations.Day.in•soBoarding.GODay.Day.STATISTICS OF REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONSFOR 1887.H rIU pT ri- NAME OF THE/) pi'MISSION.Boarding.Boarding:..Hale.Female.Male.Female.td03SOther Aprents.aIS-.02NativeCommunicants.Increflpe duringthe year.Adults.Children ofCh. members.BNativeCor itribut ions:These statistics from theforeignmissions presenta very satisfactory sho-wing in view of all the oppositionthat has recently been made in one formand another to the work Yet some explanationsare necessary in order that the churches mayhave a correct idea of the work. In both fieldsthe interference of the Turkish authorities hasoperated disastrously. For instance, before theclosing of the schools connected with Tarsus missionthere were upwards of 400 children in registeredattendance, nearly three times as many asare at present under instmction. Since Dr. Methenyentered upon missionary work in Cilicia in 1884,thirty-five have been received into the fellowshipof the Church as the direct result of his indefatigablelabors. The gospel is preached wheneverand wherever he can find one hearer. Evangelisticservices are also conducted every Sabbathby Mr. Dibbak and Mr. Yusef in Tarsus, and inAdana by Mr. Hanna; but, as they have notbeen formally set apart to the work of the ministry,the mission reports only one preaching station.In Syria, ioo, the work in twelve of our schoolshas been carried on under the ban of the Government,and four of them have recently been closed.But the Word of Life is not bound, and hnmanproclamations cannot impair its efficiency. Hereis one illustration. On January 15 the Lord'sSupper was administered in Gunaimia, where workwas begun in the year 1879:"In 1880," writes Mr. Easson, "we examinedand admitted to the Church the heads of twofamilies, Tadour Kazanzie and Abdulah Astoor.Shortly after the school was closed, and for onereason and another never opened again until lastSummer. Ibrahim Razouk, who had been appointedteacher, found the place ready for harvest,and so we decided to leave him there as anevangelist. We had our examination on Saturdayand admitted fourteen new members, makingsixteen in all. Thus God is making thewrath of man to praise Him and gathering in thosethat are His. Tbere were others who wished tojoin, but we thought it better for them to waituntil another time. There are also four childrenunder the age of ten, belonging to the familieswbo have been received into our fellowship. Sowe may say we have in the village a small churchof twenty Protestants." The school at Inkzek is closed at present becauseof a complaint of the Greek Bishop and

driest to the governor; but the teacher is doinga good work among the older people. His fatherand mother, one of his cousins and one or twoothers have lost all faith in the traditions of thecouncils and have decided to take the Biblealoneas their guide."Items of Missionary InteUigence. 65deceased prepare an offering of four cakes of fineNOTES OF WORK IN ANTIOCH.flour each day. These are taken to the grave,where a priest repeats a prayer for the dead overNovember.—T'Mesrffflj/.—My class memorized for them. The cakes then become the priest's property.A dish of wheat covered over with pom-me " Remember ihy Creator," etc. From schoolwent to a neighbor house. 'The woman's brother granate sugar and almonds is also taken to thehad lost a grown sou some months since, and she grave, and, after the priest repeats a prayer fortold me of her sister-in-law's wild grief, and how the dead over it, he takes off the sugar, etc., intosjie spread out his picture and his clothes to set his handkerchief and scatters the wheat over thehefself crying. One's love for the departed is grave for the birds, " that the dead may be compassionated."measured here by the amount of weeping that isdone and the injury done to the health and to Sabhath.—Hanna Elias' wife was formally receivedinto the cburcb ; and afterwards their littlethe eyesight. People literally " weep their eyesout"; they tear out their hair, a.nd beat their girl was baptized.breasts until they are black, " sorrowing as those Monday.— Busy helping Doctor get ready forwho have no hope." They think we shall not Idhb, His medicines had to be packed at nightknow our friends in another world. Read to after the people quit coming.tkem the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Tuesday.—People coming and going untiland in Revelation. In another house read Acts3 and 4; tried to impress on the listeners ihatthere was salvation in none but Christ.Afternoon: Visited a family who had lost a littlegranddaughter who some months since losther .sight. The people coming in comforted theparents and the grand-parents by saying that itwas a good thing the child had died, being blind,and they really seemed io regard her death as arelief. They are wealthy people.Thursday.—When I got heme from school Ifpiind the woman who had been so rebellious inreference to her son's death had come to see me.She had brought a married daughter along withher, and a neighbor girl. Read and talked toher. She said I had comforted her so that sheiQved me more than her sister, and she wished shehad a little house near me so that I could read todaughter to come to the house and I would givsher medicine,—but sbe did not come. As I readin Luke of the sufferings of Jesus, a woman askedwith an incredulous laugh. Did Jesus pray for hishpr every day. She has a little girl of about murderers ? Wbo could do that ? My hnsbandseven years, and I urged her to send her to school was sick and we had no money to bny iood, soso tha,t she might learn to read. She has doneso. Doctor preached in the street at sunset.Our old neighbor, Mekhieel Wurd, was buriedto-day. When he took ill he distributed a thousandpiastres (about forty dollars) among thepoor, "for the good of his soul." The family haveto-day distributed another thousand among thepoor forthe same purpose. The Bishop of LataWawas present, and performed the burial service.One of those present told us his words, viz:" O Lord forgive the dead all bis sins and shortcomingsby means of me the sinner, and by thepower given to me I pronounce his sins forgiven "For forty days after death the friends ol theDoctor had to mount his horse and leave soraedisappointed at last. After Doctor left I visitedthe Wurd family in their sorrow. Made severalother visits also.Wednesday.—Read in five different honses.Oh, the poverty and misery of these people, andtheir fearful ignorance of the best intersts of bodyand soul 1 An elderly woman was raving in feverin a house where I entered. 1 asked, "Why doyou not get medicine for her ? " " Give her medicineand she in fever ? " was the reply. I asked,"When will you give it to her ? when she is dead?"Thinking that perhaps it was their poverty preventedthem getting advice I told the woman'swe sent out the brazier to be sold and the buyerdid not give us half price for it though it was new." Could I forgive him ? " I rephed, " Surely, ifyou realized what a sinner you are against God,and how ready God is to forgive you, if you askedhim for Christ's sake." As I was leaving, thewoman's husband came in and she asked me tostay and read him some of those _ good words."They might do him good," she said.

66 Items of Missionary Intelligence.After dinner went to see a young woman who, in his heart, but does not seem to have becomeshe said, had been suffering ior three months. I a living power within, until one day at Tomsk,asked her why she did not take some treatment. where he had gone to meet his family, he fonnd a" Treatment 1" she replied, " I have beeu to tract, containing Rabinowitz's confession of faith.every one and tried everything and I only grow He at once entered into correspondence with theworse." (My inward comment was, ' No wonder, -ivriter, and procured more of his writings. Thesepoor woman.') She went on, " Might not God were read by some thirty of the Jews at Tomsk,have pity on me and relieve me ? My face musi and Scheinmann expounded to them what thebe black (offensive) to Him, that he does not Talmud and other Jewish books say about thehear me." Then in a taunting tone she added, Messiah. " The scales," he says, " fell at once" Thanks be to Him for all things." An expression,from their eyes." In the letter in which this pasand a tone, so common among these sage occurs, Scheinmann asks Eabinowitz for apoor people,New Testament, only one copy of which he hadDecember.—Thursday.—Wet and cold. Gave ever seen, and no one in Tomsk knew whatmy lesson in school, then went to the Bersha's. it was about ! All the books and tracts whichShe gave me unusual attention and said she was were sent to him, except the New Testament, hehaving her daughter, who learned to read in our distributed among his brethren in Siberia and Poland.school, read the Testament to her in the evenings,And there is reason to think that theyand the people called her a Protestant. She has are being read to good purpose. Scheinmannher little orphan grand-child with her ; and she seems to be devoting his energies to the propagatold me that, when her son-in-law died, the priests tion ofhis new ideas.sold his effects and pocketed the money ; andwben she remonstrated, (she has a very eviltongue) the senior priest replied, "Are we to getnothing for our work ? " She asked me as thoughit were a thing too hard to believe, " Has theVirgin no power to help us and she the motherof Christ ? " She gave earnest heed while I readpassages showing her that God gave his only begottenSon, and him only for our salvation, andthat in him alone must be all onr trust and allour desire.SIBERIA.Mrs. Jambs Martin.A Judsea-Chrisiian movement has begun in Siberia,analagous to that which for two or threewe are again called to note the work of our society.It has been our aim to meet once a month,years has been proceeding at Kischnieff, in SouthernRussia, under Joseph Rabinowitz. It owesbut the November and December meetings wereboth failures ou account of the condition of theits institution to a Polish Jew, one Jacob-Zebiweather. The attendance has not beeu as goodScheinmann, who, on the ground of utterly falseas could be desired, yet we trust it was not onaccusations, was banished to Siberia in 1874.account of any want of interest in the greatHe settled at Irkutsk, where he set up in business,work before us. Since our last annual meetingand at the end of fiveyears found himself in possessionof a certain competency. In his nativeone of our number has been called from time toeternity, which should be to ns an admonition toland he had heard something about Jesus Christprepare to meet our God, for we know not whichirom one of his friends, the late Dayid Levinsohn,and the indirect occasion of his banishment washis having roused the wrath of his co-religionistsby declaring on a public occasion his beiiei thatthe Messiah came in the time of the second temple.This conviction doubtless remained rootedHe has pubhshed severalletters, in one of which he calls upon the Jews to"take np the New Testament, the true Thura,which Jesus, the Son oi God, and our Master, hastaught ns, and give yourselves to the study of itday and night." We shall watch this movementwith interest. It is certaui that the New Testarment is being read by ihe Jews as it never wasbefore.—The Chronicle ofthe London MissionarySociety.AT HOME.REPORT OF LAniES' MISSIONAEY SOCIETT OP R. P. COGREGATION OF OLATHE, KLANSAS.Another year is numbered -with the past, andof our number will be called next. We have hadbut little opportunity to increase our fund by remuneratingwork, as we have in years past.Short crops and consequent hard times have reducedour usual donations, but we are still doingwhat -we can, hopeful that we will be able to do

more in the future. Our collections from allsources for the year aggregate $83,21, which hasbeen divided out to different departments of thechurch's work, according to the best judgment ofthe society.We would note the change in our situationMission Monographs. 67by death, but we bow in humble submission tohim who doeth all things well. We have hadseveral removals from our roll, but still havesince onr last report. Then we were without a a membership of twenty-five.pastor, aud discouragement seemed to meet us Our receipts for the year closing with December,1887, have been one hundred andon every hand. But, by a kind Providence, theseclouds have beeu dispelled, and we are now yery eighty-six dollars ($186.00). This has beenhappily situated. Let us then enter upon the our dues of each month, work done by the society,and also donations from its members.work of the new year with a determination ihatits record for us will be a bright one. And may We liave observed two anniversaries of our society,and at our last the ladies of the oongreour hves be made like our dear Master's, whogave himself a ransom for us.gation were invited to unite with the ladies ofMaggie A. McCrea, Sec. the sooiety in making a thank-offering. EachThe Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society of lady was presented with an envelope, to givethe B. P. ChuToh of Bellefontaine, Ohio, was as she felt she could, without the name of donororganizedDecember 4,1883, with a membershipThe response was quite liberal, and theof twenty-three.Our society meets regularly the first Tuesdayamount of $9.05 was raised for the socieiy.We are not discouraged in our work, thoughof each month. The ineeting is always opened what we have aooompliNhed is not what itwith devotional exercises conduoted by the ought to have been.presidsBt, after which rolloall. Each member, We believe it has been good for us to meetiu responding to her naine,repeats a portion of together. May we continue at our work andScripture, containing some speoial word given increase in zeal, and may God bless our feebleat a previous meeting.endeavors to serve him. If this review of ourSinoe our organization, and to the close ofthe year ending with Deoember, 1887, we haveheld forty nine regular meetings and severaloalled meetings, all of whioh have been pleasantas well as beneficial to its members.Oneof our own number, Miss Maggie Edgar,having gone into active work in the foreignfield, incites within us a greater interest in missionarywork. Two have been removedpast work will induce any of the other congregationsto organize in a similar capacity, toforward the good work already begun, our objectwill be accomplished.Mes K-G-Fostek, Secretary.Bellefontaine, Ohio, March 1, 1888.iimm^wm^Mm®A PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. former methods failed. Men study the remedy.The education of to-day is not what it was in This age is in advance oi all the preceding. Informer years. The methods of gaining and acquiringnothing is it more so than in methods oi instrucit are quite different from those used in tion. The educator has made as much progressformer days. The training of to-day ought not in his line as the scientist has in his. Scienceto be the same as formerly. If it were, the world was never before developed up to the point it haswould indicate Httle progress. The world is attained in tbis generation. The same is true ofmoving on. Men are learning from the experienceeducation, that is, methods of instruction. Andof those gone by. They study to improve there is continued progress. Every year makes aon their methods, their work, and their attainments.change. The progressive school-superintendentevery year has something new to introduce iaAs the world grows older, it grows wiser. Man's some department. The live teacher has somethingneeds are seen more clearly. new to suggest to his It is seen whereinsuperintendent—some

68 Mission Monogrc^hs.new idea thai struck him as he sat iu the class day are the same as those used in Elisha's droom during the Summer normal course. Thus The methods of plowing are the same. Youchange is continually going on. Teachers study may yet find twelve yoke of oxen plowing inmind. Tbey study disposition and character, the field, and the chief husbandman with the'They study all that former great educators have twelfth. So, then, missionaries must teach thestudied, developed and presented io us, in the way Improvements that Christianity has introduced,of adaptation of methods tojmind, and they seek to andthat are the outgrowth of a Christianadd the knowledge that the light of this latter civilization.end of the nineteenth century is revealing. 2. The people may be more easily reachedOne of the grand accessions io the schools of and held where there is industrial work.this day is industrial training—the training of It is oftentimes the case that a parent willthe hand along with ihe head. This idea has al- send his son to school where he knows he willmost become universal. It is seen that oi the have an opportunity to learn a trade, whereasnumber who attend school comparatively few were there no such opportunity he would keepenter the literary or learned professions. They him at home. Itis also true that a boy willgo to school to get ready for business. It is at go to a oertain sohool because he knows heonce seen that attention should be given in school oan learn a trade, while he is also acquiringto those things that one expects to do in after an education. Alabama has three normallife. schools for colored people. Each of these hasMissionaries are now beginning to see thai an industrial department. Hundreds of youngtheir work can be more successfully carried on by men and young women attend these solely forattaching an industrial department. It is there- the manual training given. Tuskegee Normalfore a good step thai the workers iu Syria have is especially an Industrial sohool; it is crowdtakento establish a boys' industrial school. ed every term, and the number of students isNow what are some of the reasons for adding increasing every year. There the boys learnthis modern feature of training even to mission carpentry, bricklaying and brickmaking, paintschools? The reasons are stronger than for ordi- ing, smithery, type-setting, shoemaking, and innary schools.short, attention is given to all the trades. The1. In places where it is necessary to do girls learn housekeeping, how to wash andwhat is commonly oalled missionary work, as iron, dressmaking, type-setting, and gain aa rule the missionary has almost everything to knowledge of the various kinds of work done inteach.the many avenues that are open to women inExcept, as In some exceptional places like this progressive age. In other words the stusomeparts of India and Japan, where there dents are taught the things they are exarecivilized heathen, the arts are in a rude peoted to do when they enter the work of life;state, and science has made very little progress, and they are taught to do these thingsThey know but little about skilled labor, in workman-like style. These things beingEverything is done by main strength and awk- taught, the very things that most people need,wardness. Agriculture is carried on in a poor suoh schools will be usually crowded. Hereway. The implements are poor, and the use then is an opportunity to take hold of the peoofthem is awkward. For thousands of years pie, and thus the head, the hand, and thethe world made very little improvement in heart oan be trained together. Suppose thenfarming ptensils. The plows used in Syria to- suoh were a mission sohool, what an oppor-

Mission Monographs. 69tunity to preach and spread the gospel! Chris- THE MORAVIANS AND THEIR MIStianworkers are beginning to learn that they SION TO THE WEST INDIES.cannot teaoh people unless they can get them, I mentioned that when, in 1731, Zinzendorfand that they cannot get them unless they was at'wopenhagen, he met not only two Eskiholdout some inducements. Manual labor is mos from Greenland, but a negr.i from theno sin; it is a good thing; it is a necessary West Indies. This negro had also told a sorthingjit develops both mind and muscles, rowful tale of how ho and his fellows wereand thereby makes a basis for a better heart held in slavery, and had no one to tell them ofthan is in one who is not thus developed, that blessed lifein whioh they might find corn-Then why not have suoh in connection with pensation for all their present troubles.mission schools, as well as with secular This story the count rehearsed at Herrnhutschools ? We ought to think on these things, when he got home, with the result tbat twoHere is room for the Churoh of Christ to young men, Leonhard Dober and Davidgrow wiser.Nitschmann—the one a potter, the other a car-3. Those taught in such schools will be penter—offered to carry the gospel to theprepared for wider usefulness. ^'*^«^ "f St. Thomas. What a quixotic entermu.. u- 1. c • - u \ : i. prize theirs must have looked in the eyes ofThe great object of mission schools is to ^^. ,, , rnu u i- ; A the oulooking world around thempropagate the gospel. Those who are trained r^, „ ,: .-, . • , V, , -1 • „ xu „ „i Ihe Count took them so far on their way inin industrial sehools, and receive the gospel , , . , , , ,rnu • i V. J.U i. -11 1 u his carriage, and then dismissed them with aof Christ, when they go out will scarcely be , .. .. r^, . , ^ , ,... , i -D • X • J xu -11 benediction. Their plan was flrst io walk toWithout employment. Being trained they will „ , , c • , -.-,... J Tx • X J u . . . Copenhagen, a distance of six hundred miles.be in demand. It is asserted by missionaries „ , , , , , , . , , , ., . , ,. , . X • xu X xu u XI Tbey had only their clothes on their back, andin foreign countries that even the heathen pre- in ,, their , way. ,, They , . were , . assured , that ^ even , ,, ifhave received helps them to get employment., ^ ,. ^, .... , , X • / . they three did dollars get each to the in West their pockets. Indies, they But would theyWhen these young men and young women gofar ^ to , hire those , . , that , . have been , , trained . in , find , no , access . , .„ to the , slaves . unless ,. they ,. became ,-,outof „ , . i"chool . . , , with fair , mental culture, , ,., with ^ set , out in , faith, , and in t> x..- course •• oi time x- reached, Ooristian , , . , „ schools. , The , government ., , „,. likes .., to slaves ^ , themselves. , , ' . , Butthis . . , objection . was sethands .,, skilful , to woik, and , hearts , filled with ,, safely ., that stage . in , their tv. pilgrimage. + rnu Here,, get them. ^ „, . They , are ' not only . , more , , . capable, . „ , aside •' as sovereignly „ ° as . ..„*^ the rest, °. ° ihey , were 'love f , to Christ, X Xhow X , potent mi will X be • their • influ- Xl however, ,, all manner ,, ,, oi diinoulties , • x were 1 thrown -^xu xbut more trustworthy. ' *^ The training they . prepared ,, . to sell m, themselves into ,1+1,+ slavery if thatence for good! They will be livina; epistles -, x u jr 1 j ^^ xu x 1^ •' ^ ^ proved to be needful: and after tbat, ol courseknown and read of all men; they will be burn- ,, , ,, „. „„„in u„ „ ;j x* x' •' there was no more that could be said. Beforeg a inmg ig s. ^^^ ^^ resolved everything behooved to giveTherefore, we plead for Christian Industrial ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^.^^ j^^^ ^^^ ^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ j^Schools as a means of rounding out that fitness ^ ^^^^^ ^j^.^ ^^ .j^^ g^j^ q^^^^^^^ -^^32for such work as is everywhere G. M. needed Elliott. to-day, is cold. ^,^^ ^^^^ They ^^^.^ are chiefly j^j^^^^ inhabited j.^ ^^^^^^^ by negroes, ^^^^^ând Selina, especially Ala. in those places, where darkness ihe ^^^ white South settlers America, being and in as the they proportion are not far ofand oppression have long held sway.^^^^ ^j^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ Greenland

70 Mission Monographs.one in iour. St. Thomas is about twenty miles its importance was made upon the white setsquare,but when the Moravian missionaries tiers j and by the blessing of God on the meansarrived it had a population of twenty tbousand. of grace, a great awakening took plaoe amongThe negro whom Zinzendorf met in Oopen- the people.hagen had given the missionaries a letter to It is interesting to know that to his experihissister, who with her husband lived on this ences on this oooasion we owe a hymn comisland.They easily found her out, and the posed by Oount Zinzendorf, which is in ourappearance of strangers on the plantation to own collection, and whiah we often sing—which she was attached brought others to hear "Jesus thy blood and righteousness."what was their business. An opportunity was It is of course impossible in this shortthus given at once to preach the gospel, and sketch to go inro particulars, but just to showthe poor people now heard with extraordinary what a mighty blessing the Moravians broughtjoy that they had friends who were thinking to the West Indies, let me mention one or twoot them, and that all the good things of life facts.were not intended only for their white masters. As we have seen, the message of salvationAt first no hindrance was placed in the way was firstcarried to St. Thomas, but the workof the work. The two missionaries were skilled did not ead there. Some Christian slaves soldlaborers. Nitschmann, who was a carpenter, to planters in Santa Cruz conveyed the light toeasily got employment; and although Dober, that Island. From thence it spread to St.who was a potter, could not work at his own J'ohn, to Jamaica, to St. Kitts, to Antigua, totrade because there was no clay ou the island, Barbadoes, to Tobago, and I suppose at thishe, too, readily founda sphere, flrstas steward moment you could not find a spot in all thatin the household of the governor, and next as group which has not been trodden by the footwatchman on a plantation. Thus mMntaining o^ « Moravian.themselves, they were able to spend their leis- The extent of the influence exercised is illusuretime in teaching and preaching.trated by what is told of Jamaica on theBut their very success began by-and by to morning of Emancipation Day.awaken jealousies. The slave masters saw i'he slaves, it will be remembered, weretheir servants becoming, as they said, better fre«d by order of the British Government onChristians than themselves—a very likely ^^^ 1st of August 1838, and at four o'clockthicK, we should suppose—and through their the negroes connected with the Moravians inintervention the Moravians were thrown into the island, assembled at Fairfield, their prinoiprison.Here they languished for three months, P^l station. Two thousand who had up tothe slaves, however, cheering them by assemb- that time been slaves, ranged themselves inling under the windows of their cells and sing- order behind the chapel, clothed in white toing the hymns which they had been taught. give God thanks for their liberty.At last Count Zinzendorf himself suddenly When the missionary, speaking from thearrived in the island ou a tour of inspection, words, " If the Son shall make you free, yeand the prisoners were released. This visit shall be free indeed," dwelt on the duty ofproved a memorable one. The missionaries gratitude to their Father in heaven for theirtheir bishop. The work was extended and thank the Lord for It! Bless the Lord !"—consolidated. A very distinct impression of Tlie Free Cliurch of Scotland Monthly.

Mission Monographs.Tl^•'-i^^^' monument is?We have had a circular read from our pulpits, With this double object before the Church,which was also published in our periodicals, ask- viz., the memorial for the eminent servant ofiiig for the sum of not less than fifteen hundred Gl-od, and the salvation of lost sinners, might notdollars to erect a monument in honor of the late much more than flfteen hundred dollars be raislamentedDr. Sloane. Should not such a great ed ?* * • »and good man have a better memorial than canbe carved in marble ? There are schools and uni- APOSTLES AND PRIESTS.yersities in memory of great men, such as the When Jesus as our High Priest passed intoHoward and Lincoln Hniversities. And now the heavens. His personal ministry as onr apostlethat there are so many grand openings for benevo- ceased ; but He has not left Himself without alent enterprises, could we not have something witness. He has leit that work to His servants.like that, in memory of Dr. Sloane ? A church or He prescribed their task and promised them aid:school in his name ? Something that might be in- "Preach the gospel to every creature ; and, Lostrumental in bringing souls into the kingdom ; I am with you always, even unto the end of thecorresponding with our noontide prayer, " Tby worid." One sun shines in heaven ; the sea, inkingdom come." While the church is raising the all its length and breadth, lies spread beneath it.lifteen hundred dollars and planning the menu- How many ripples stand at one moment on ament, how many, many precious souls will have hemisphere of the ocean's surface ? No imaginapassedinto eternity, who have never heard of " the tion can conceive the number, and yet a suntrue God, and of Jesus Ohrist whom he hath glances on the edge of every wave. How manysent." Are there not abundant opportunities to leaves are trembling in the forest atter a summererect such a memorial in the foreign fleld,in the shower ? Yet that one celestial sun reduplicatesSouth or in our contemplated Indian mission ? itself in each ana all So, while Christ alone isConld our beloved friend speak back to us from the apostle who makes mercy known to men, athe realms of glory, which, think you, would be multitude whom no man can number, publish themost pleasing to him—fifteen hundred dollars in same salvation. Christ, tbe messenger of mercy,a monument on his grave, or such a memorial as shining on uplifted, receptive hearts, imprints Hismight be the means of " making known the way own likeness on His people, manifold as the wavesof salvation in the sight of the heathen?" and or leaves that glance in tê sun of summer. Notwhich would be most pleasing in the sight of only every preacher, but every believer of theHim who is " not willing that any shonid perish? " Word is an apostle, charged and qualified toA period will come when marble will have per make it known. When He ascended He left onished, when " the heavens shall pass away with a earth a multitudinous ministry. Nor is a divinegreat noise and the elements shall melt with fer- commission wanting to the meanest: " Let himvent heat; " but souls brought from darkness to that heareth say come." Every face that islight, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, will " turned to the Lord " shines more or less brightlycontinue throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity; in His blessed light. Epistles of Jesus Christ areand in this way this righteous man's memorial the best apostles. The more legibly they areshaU everlasting prove.written, and the less they are blotted by confor-Mr. Sloane's grave should be marked ; but -x- gee an article from the pen of Mrs. Metheny oncould there not be an inexpensive monument on " Faithful Stewards" in Herald of Mission Newsthe grave, and on it inscribed where his real for Sertember, 1887.

72 Letters from Ghristian Wor'kers'ai Eome and Abroad.mity to the world, the more effectually will their only a consuming fire ; from the height of heavenevidence propagate the faith.it sheds dowu light and heat on every land. SoIna similar manner the intercession of the High Ctirist after the days of His humiliation were done,Priest in heaven is reduplicated on the earth. was a '• Light inaccessible and full of glory.""• Brethren, pray for us " expresses the true instinctof a new creature in a time of need. Those mitted to pass through the veil after the ascension,Hnder a momentary glimpse of the light, perwho, under Christ and in His name, intercede for the disciple who had familiarly, lain on Jesus'men, are a more numerous band than even the bosom in the days of His fiesh "fell at His feet asapostles who bear witness of His salvation. All dead" Well might we entreat that the voicewho preach in any form to men also pray for should not be so spoken—the light not so shownthem ; and, besides these, a great uumber of the to us any more. The arrangement of tbe covenantis best. He has entered His people's foreLord's little ones, who lack courage or skill tospeak a word for Christ, speak in secret to Him, runner within the veil, and there will remain until,through the ministry of the Spirit, the kingfor their neighbors aud for the world.In view of both these ofiices He said to his disciples," It is expedient for you that I go away." ciples in the body lie towards Him, and shine indoms of this world shall become His own. DisHis ascension into heaven spreads both the apostleshipaud the priesthood over the world. In His goodness, and priests to intercede for more.—His light Thus they become apostles to witnesscontact with the earth's surface the sun would be Boots and Fruits ofthe Christian Life.We are glad to publish the following letterfrom Dr. Metheny to the Meu's Missionary Societyof the First Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Philadelphia It is dated January 1*1,1888.Me. Chas. Pullingek, Secretary:Dear Brother :—Tour 2ist November, andone from Brother Miller inclosing three hundred 1 hope to propose a plan to our Synod thisdollars from your society duly received.. Your year, ft bas uot merely been the suggestion ofkind donation, with the kindly assurance, came as my own experience ior nearly a quarter of a century,but the conspectus of many missions in manytbe rays of the millennial dawn dispensing anddiffusing beneficence all around. Bach gift to lands. I am doing all in my power to put it iutoGod sincerely given is a cheering token that his action here in the Tarsus Mission as soon askingdom has already come within. When we possible.truly believe and are led by tbe Spirit, the buds Iu short, it is to have an industrial farm, andand flowers will now ripen into fruit—the goodworks that follow faith Our foreign mission isin a crisis. It has never been harrassed so muchas the last two years, nor never has the cburcbgrown so rapidly as during this time.Although we have only beeu here live yearsour membei'.sbip is thirty with the infants andchildren liesides. This year I have received sixteenadults—three by certificate, five by profession,eight by profession and baptism. I have baptizedfour infants of our members—in all twenty havebeen formally recognized as members of Cbrist'sglorious body—during the last year, and moreare asking admission. This encourages beyondmeasure We always find tbe encouragementsoutweigh the discouragements by far. I am confidentthat our church is able, abundantly able, tosupport many missions.industrial school. Every locality will not admitof both, some will not aclmit of both at first. ButPauis example is beyond doubt a good one. Inalmost any place in the world a physiciau andsurgeon eau

Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home dnd Abroad. 73which the converts can be engaged and gain their We take the following extracts from a letterlivelihood without such a heavy and constantto Mr. Walter T. Miller, Treasurer. Dr. Methenywrites under date February 6, 1888 :strain on the church at home.This was ever a pet idea of mine in Latakia.But no ground near enough to Latakia, and securefrom the invasions of lawless people outside, the device of sending a letter to our Consul—The Governor General, Turk-like, resorted toto render it eiiher secure or certain, could be gotten.I am offered three farms cheap. They all that unless we got special authorization fromafter having been ordered to re-open—statinghave running water on them. This is a great Constantinople for our schools, he would closepoint with us. One of them has a water-power them all in three months. At the same time befor a mill. I am going to-day, January 18, to re-closed a school, Kara-da-war, which was on thesee themlist of old schools. On being inquired of why heWe have been trying for five years to have a did so and wby he wrote a letter in opposition toschool in Adana. But the school there has alwaysbeen weakly, sometimes intermitted. Now then acknowledged " some mistake must havethe Vizierial order, he at firstprevaricated andwe have a large school. I cannot give the numbersin the schools yet but hope ere long to take who carried out his order has been dismissed andbeen made." We reported him. The officerthe •• census" exactly. There is always a fluctuation. a new order sent to him not to meddle with ourWe have a large scbool in Kara-dash on the schools. Our work is progressing.coast directly east oi Mersine. Tbere were thirtythreepnpils at last account. Allow me to suggest February 18, gives very interesting intelligenceThe following letter from Mr. Metheny, datedto' your society to subscribe for the Heeald, Mr. respecting the condition of the work in TarsusSommerviUe's missionary magazine. Being thesecretary of ihe Board, all details are regularlypublished. It is quite impossible for us to keepnp witb all the many mission societies. It wouldIndeed afford us much pleasure. We will try tosend you an occasional letter. If we are long inanswering you, you might try what effect a secondletter would have, especially if accompanied bysucb munificence as your last letter ! It will ever(jiye us pleasure to co-operate with you in doingthe- very best we can with the money trusted tooar care. 'l'he Lord reward you for all you andyour congregation have done. Please give ourHalted salutations to your good pastor, DoctorStevenson, and his wife and family and all thecongregaiion. The Lord bless and build you allnp in the image of Jesus. We are unable at thepresent to open new schools wbile the new schoollaws are being remodeled and we do not knowwhat the conditions are to be upon which we areto open schools or carry on those already open.The Turk wishes to prevent us entirely if he can.I have put teachers in all the places we have everhad schools before the present crisis, and the governmenthas been ordered to let us alone. Theywill offer every possible hinderance io the opening of schools among the Fellaheen, as they areconsidered Moslems. All our circle join in fraternalsalutations. Fraternally,D. Metheny.mission :Dear Brother :—I have been unable forsometime to keep you posted in mission affairs.A little more than a week ago we were rejoicingin a Vizierial order which came to the local oflicialshere, ordering them to open the schoolswhich they had closed, and not to interfere withour work. To-day we rereived through Dr.Balph, word that a new law had been passed forbiddingMoslems, (interpreted to mean Ansairiyehalso) to enter Christian schools We havehad no official word \ et, but many look for it atany moment. We learn, however, by a letterfrom Mr. H. 0. Dwight, of Constantinople, receivedthis morning, that the Americans thereare not going to let the matter drop. He instructsus to communicate with Min'ster Straussimmediately if our schools should be interferedwith. We have bad quite an increase in thenumber of pupils since the order not to interferewith our .schools. The Kara-da-war school,which the Governor ordered closed about thelast of the year, was re-opened as soon as the ordercame to us to re-open. The house whichwas one we bad rented, had been locked, and thekey taken away. Doctor then opened the house,and told them they need not send their childrenif they did not wish, but as we had paid the rentwe had a right to the hous The tea, her was

74 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.in this morning and says he has ninety pupils, who said he was a Protestant from Diarbekr,and I wen y more wish to come next week. In a He had come here to flnd his brother, who hadletter received f om America this morning, one died in the meintime. His money was gom-, andof my correspondeuts says, tha- one of our good the inn-keeper had seized his clothing. No onepeople at home feared that the money of certain would belp him because he was a young man.congregation contributed lasi fai for the Cili- Tne sum needed to redeem his goods was aboutclan Famine Fund, was likelv to be lost. This ten cents. Doctor gave it to him and somethinghe inferred from Doctor Metheny's letter con- to buy food till be would reach Adana, Tbecerning the closing of the schools. I am very poor man crie I with joy. Already the poorglad that this was mentioned, for it gives me an M-slems and Fellaheen are beginning to find oiii.opportunity to assure ever v one who have con- that Protestants are their friends. We to k intributed to this object tbat not one cent of their a little giri last week who is between three andgenerous gifts has been wasted or lost. Itis four years of age. A wealthy G'eek who has atrue tbat our work has been greatly interfr-red c 'usiderable in erest in Kara-da-war, was met atwith, but our boa ding school for giris here in tbe village sometime ago, and launched out in aMersine, has n t been touched, for the reason tira 'e of ab 'se against Protestants. " We dotbat tbe- dare not enter an Am-rican domicile to not find what you say of them true," said oi'e ofdo so. Finding that our other schools were in the villagers. '• T'hey don't worship pictures anddanger of beiug closed, we concluded to accept images ; they do not lie to us, nor cheat ns ;boys here too. We reuted a room in an adjoin- they feed us and teach us."ing house, but it was soon over-filled, so we fin- We have had copious rains this winter, so tbatished off a large room on the ground floor front we have good rea on to expect that we will haveof our own house, and filled it. This had been a fruitful season. In the meantime^ we will beintended as a dining-room for the girls, but we able to support these children till the coldthought it better to let them eat in the kitchen, weather is over, if indeed, we be allowed to doand have more pupils under instruction As thi-. And now we e rnestly desire that all whosoon as ever tbe order came in December, we have so generously contribu;ed to ihe relief fund.opened the closed schools, l hey had only been will add ye:, riiis,their fervent and earnest praycloseda short time, so tbat now we bave ninety ers tbat God instead of allowing the door to bepupils, all boarders. In Kara-da-war, there ar.' closed, shutting out the light of the Gospel iromninety wbo are fed at our expense. As many as ihe Moslems, and Ansa riyeb, wi 1 grant that itthe house would accommodate sleep in it, and may ne opened wider nnd wider. I have severalthe rest in ne ghboring houses. In Adana there times mentioned the remarkable adaptition ofare flfty-sixboarders. In Yusef Jedeed's scbool the Psa'm sung in iamily worship to the circuminTarsus, there ar-forty-five boys, and his daugh- stances of our work. This mornmg just beforeter Lulu has forty girls. These are provided we heard of the passage of the new law, we hadwith one warm meal a day ; they sleep in theh- sung Psalm 118:1 to the 10th verse. To-nightown houses. In Mr. Dibbak's school in Tarsus then we sing,there are thirty boarders au'i from forty to fiftv •• The nations joining all in one,pupils altogether. In Karadash, twelve hours Uld compass me about," &c.irom Adana, there are f rty. 'These are also And are they not compassing the Saviourgiven one meal a day, so you see there are four about, as reall i as they did in the days of hishundred poor children, not only being fed, but flesh ? We know l,e will " root them out."le'ari ing the truths of the Gospel. Some of " No weapon iormed against Zion shall prosper."thosein this school, most of them, are clothed Our great care must bf. that we ourselves he notalso. A young man, the eldest son of the blind formin • wea ons against her.wompn whi was in the sci'Ool with her t'o We have had other trials this winter; first,young r children, bas app'ied for baptism for the the serious illness of Miss Joseph. ibis wassecond time. Ills sister also, who has been in notonU a source of anxiety in itself on ber ownschool for tffo years wishes to be baptized. Many account, but a so on account ofthe additionalgrown persons come asking relief. Only a few burden on Miss Sterrett. l'he great increose indays ago a young man came to the Doctor numbers has made this very heavy. Miss Joseph

Letters from Christian Workers at Bome and Abroad. 75went to Latakia towards the latter end of January,accompanying Miss Dodds, to make a visit for these we wonld have had none. Just aboutMrs. Fife, sent her several jars in the Fall butto tb- missionaries there. Letters rHceived tod»yri-port her as much improved in health, and getting Danish butter irom Cyprus put up inthe time this was done we had »n opportunity ofstudying Arabic, but not yet able ior ai tive one pound tin cans, but it cost us about sixtywork, so she stays at least another fortnight. cents a pound. Since then an English sta-cap'-In view of a probable attempt to close the Adan-i tain brought us some irom Alexandria whichschool, Miss Sterrett started this aiiernoou to only cost about half as much ; it is Irish. Atake up her residence there for a httle while to young Hollander here has opened a store andawait the development of events. It pleased proposes to bring butter, bacon, hams, cheese,Grodto take back to himself our little boy, Carey &c. If he does it will save us a great deal ofWyckUffe, when only a Uttle more than four trouble with the Custom House, to say nothingdays old. We know that it is in mercy both to of the trouble our kind friends in America havehim and to us.in buying for us. When we think of the inconveniencesuffered by early missionaries, the MofIt is almost mail time and I must c'ose. Almostall the mail steamers come here at the fats in Africa for instauce, we should be ashamedsame time, so that ihougti there are quite a to call these things trials. In the flrstplacenumber of thera, it is almost two weeks between theh long and dangerous journeys of three andmails.Yours in Christ's work,iour months to get to their destination. ThenMaby E. Metheny. their long labor tor more than twelve years withMrs. 0. Metheny, of New Brighton, no Pa., apparent has result.sent for publication at the request of Mrs. MaryB. Metheny of Mersine, the following extractfiQm letter, dated January 23:'As yon see the public news in the Hekald, afew domestic matters may interest you. Perhapsyou know that we are not very fond of thebatter made here. We try to get what we needfor table use from America. We have bei-n trymga series of experiments ever since we camehere. For a year or two we brought butterfrom New York put up iu glass fruit jars. Sometimesit was good and sometimes it was detainedon the road until it was spoiled. I had my suspicionsas to its being butter at all. In somecases the salt in which the jars were packed hadeaten the lids, and the rubber rings were renderedUKeless. I then wrote to my sister-in-law tosee if she could supply us.thirty and forty pounds packed in glazed jarswith glass lids. It was delicious. Last summerwe h' ard that a certain place in New York wasfamed for good butter, and my brother havingmoved west, and not being able to send us anymore, I wrote early so that we might be sure toget it in the Fall. My letter was detainea sothe butter could not be packed, as we had wishedit, but a certain amount in a crock was sen',Their tedious journeys inox-carts when they often had to wait for days onthe banks of some swollen stream till its waterssbould subside. All this, to say nothing of theperils from wild beasts on the way. Then whenwe go back farther still to Paul with his stripes,imprisonment, shipwrecks, fastings, and all hissufferings, the modern missionary turns to be avery luxuriously fixed personage indeed."LETTERS TO THE CHILDREN.Mersine, 1 urke-v, January 1, 1888.My dear children :—My last letters to youwere chiefiy taken up with facts concerning Hindea,Nahwie and Miriam Karroom.Hindea and Nahwie were again removed fromschool upon our return from tbe mountains andthere was mnch talk about having Nahwie engagedto a man who has a wife living yet, butbecause her brother Ahmed (the giris guardian)She sent us between would not consent to such an arrangement, thematter seems to have dropped. For the samereason Hindea's supposed engagement is not perfected.They do not come very often ; Nahwiewas here the other day and devoted most of hertime to 'ieljy.—the little deaf and dumb giri—sewed her dress where it was torn and fondledher saying, " 0, that Teljy were my sister 1 "'i'he next week after Miriam united with thechurch, sbe went home on an errand and her parentsannounced to ber their intention of taking herleaving New York December 21 st. It has notyet.got here. Cousin Vaddie Sterrett's sister, out of boarding school; that was on'T\iesday or

76 Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad.Wednesday, but she gained their permission tostay until Saturday. Thursday and Friday weresad days to her and to us for she said her Sabbathswould be so hard at home. We agreed tomake it a special subject of prayer that theywould leave her. Saturday came and when I sa-:vher father walk into the yard, I supposed he hadcome for her bed and clothes. I did not watchhim, but expected Miriam in every minute to say" good-bye." She came by and by, but as soonas I saw ber bright happy face I knew all waswell. She said he would leave her, only he wantedher to keep quiet, that is he did not want herto proclaim her religion to any person, but upongoing away he gave her a penny which she handedto me saying it was to go with another she hadgiven me before to aid in the S'pread of the gospel.By special arrangement she is allowed to gohome to help her -usother wash every Saturday exceptthe day it is her time to help here ; sometimesshe reports having had a good day at homeand sometimes otherwise. Her mother is not always in a mood to listen to reading, bnt isusually.To-day—Greek Christmas—is a great day andthose who can afford it at all pass liquor to callersand they drink it in the family. Miriam basa brother and sister younger than herself, theboy is about eight and the girl about four, andthese little ones drank when their father gavethem, but Miriam refused, saying it was wrong.He was angry with her and told her that if sheintended to follow us and do as we do, she migbtforget that she had father or mother and that sheneed not name them again, neither would theyown her as a daughter nor take her name upontheir hps. She answered by saying she meant tofollow God's Word. She enraged her fatheragain by speaking of the grave yard or cemeteryas the Greek grave yard ; he said why don't yousay " our grave yard," adding "When you dieyour body will be cast to the Moslems or anybody just as theirs (meaning ours) will be.'' "O,"said Miriam, "my body at any rate will return todust, tfie soul is ihe chief matter of concern."This morning he called her to him saying," My daughter, do you mean to forsake the cross,the virgin and ihe saints ? " Her reply was, " Itis not mentioned in the Bible that the crossshould be honored, and as for the virgin and thesaints, 1 do honor them, but I do not worshipthem." "Well," said he, " if you will follow themyou may, and perish in your sin alone. Iflshould draw you to our church again, what wouldit profit for your heart would still be there." Attable she reminded them that their own Greekbooks tell them they ought to ask a blessing upontheir food ; but the father explained that thatwas only meant for nuns. Miriam said shethought they needed a blessing on their food aswell as the nuns do.I cannot recall all the interesting experiencesshe has at home, but this such- as I write youfi-om time to time will give you some idea oi thework we are doing in this dark land.Yours lovingly,E. M. Sterrett.Hnder date February 15, 1888, Rev. HenryEasson writes :The Turkish Government are trying to pass anew Lw for the schools in the Emphe. Thesubstance of the new law is that " all Monlemboys and girls are to be removed from the Poreignschools," tbis is to include the Nusaireiyeh,&c. I understand that our minister Mr. Strauss,is opi" sing the law, and that the English andFrench Ambassadors are assisting him. We fearit will become law, and what the result wUI be noone but the all kr owing One can tell. The workis His. We ask the prayers of his people.Mr. Eassm also send^ the foUo-wing extractstranslated from the .lournal of Hana Iskander :January llth.—Went to Karsana and tookfor my subject Luke ITiiS, about giving sight tothe blind. Those present accepted aU this, saying," May our Lord make us possessor of hisfavor." I said, we plead with you to accepthim and believe on him. They answered, " Wedo believe on him. We believe that he gavesight to 'he blind and ra'sed the dead to life."I then s id. Do you believe that Jesus the Cbristis the Son of God, a' d that he was crucified,that all who beheve iu him m'ght not perish bnthave everlasting life? Tbey said, "No. "we arenot able to believe that" I said to tbem, thenyour faith is vain for Christ will not accept it.January 19th.—Went to Jebro. Our subjectwas Ma'-k 5:7, about the devils recognizingChrist as the Son of God. After talking a whfle,I said. Every one of us ought to know and confesst.liat Jesus the Christ is the Son of God.'I hey answered. We can't do that. To confessthat the Christ is the Son of God is hard for us.

Incidents in Mission Life. 77and contrary to our religion. We could not pleading ior schools, and they will come and lisconfessthat Jesus is the Son of God, no not if ten to an evangelist or preacher with marked atallmankind be-ide made the confession.tention.Spent January 23d and 24th ai Dimsarkho. When lately in one of their villages speakingOur subject was Eph. 6:1-5, on ihe obedience of oi salvation through Jesus the Christ, one ofchildren to their parents, &c. My remarks their religious chiefs said, " Hell is in a yery deepbrought to their r^-membrance our school and valley, and that the only way to Paradise isthe conduct of the children while in it, and they across a very narrow bridge whicb crosses thissaid "M«y God destroy the hou-e of him who valley very high up. Yea, higher than ihecaused the closing of our school. Sheikh Yusef heavens. To reach heaven or Paradise everyAbed Ed Deen, the man who caused the closing one must cross this bridge, and if he succeeds heofthe school, was present and heard their re- earns a right to enter Paradise. That is themarks and said, "The Moslem school is better strait and narrow way, and the lamb we offer inthan the Christian school." They turned on him sacrifice carries us across. We mount him andin anger and accused him of always stirring up betakes us saf-ly across." These remarks ofthe Government against them and told him to the Sheikh opened the door for me to tell themleave the village, &c.- Then they added "We about the Lamb of God who takelh away theask God to return to us ihe American school as sirs ofthe world, and that indeed Jesns is thebefore."bridge by which we must cross ihis vale of tears.I read to ihem Psalm 84 about passingMr. Easson also sends under date, 1 ebruary through Bacd's vale, that is, this world and ils22, the followiug extract from letter of Saline sins and temptations. Jesus Christ is tbe onlyg[ilg]j . -way to salvaiion and heaven. I brought proof"Tbe law of the Lord is perfect restoring the fro the Bible, that all the sacrifices of old wereI. types of Christ our Lord, and tbat his bloodThe testimony of the Lord is sure, making cleanseth us from all sin. Then one of ihemwise the simple.'' Psalm 19:9. Pi'^sf t said, Have those no reward who nowIf we compare the present condition of the g° *^5'f'^"* ^^^,f t ^"^ ""^f,, ^^°' !f' •"Nusah'eiyeh with their condition twenty years f^'th that they will be heard?" i read inago, we see a very great difference.î^êr, John 4:19-24, about the true worship of^hen they cared nothing for knowledge, and Gf- When they heard these words they weredidnotwish to see a teacher in their midst, silent.Now they are very anxious, andlM€iMMMr& IM MimmM Mîfm*WINYANare alwaysBible in the Indian tongues was issued, Winyan'ssohool was closed—as were all the BibleWithal praying also for us, thai Ood toould open unto us adoor of utterance, lo speak the nvystery of Chrisl, for wliich SChOOlS.lam also in bonds.—St. Paul." What will you do about It, Winyan ?" saidFar away upon the Dakota prairies, beyond one to her. "You can teach your people toor near the Upper Missouri, lives a converted read the Bible no more."Indian woman, who for years past has taught «' I must teaeh them God's Word," was hera Bible sohool, or as opportunity served, has reply.taught one and another of her tribe to read the " But the Indian Department forbids you.Dakota Bible. She speaks no word of English. If you persist, they may put you in prison."She oan think only in the language of the " Then shall I be like the Apostle Paul. HeDakotas. was in 'bonds' and 'imprisonment' fortheWhen tbat wicked order of a Protestant gov- gospel's sake. I must teaoh the Dakotas to«rnment forbidding the teachers to read the read the Bible."

78 Incidents in Mission Life.It is not past the memory of some of us that .But for his own life he disdained to sue ; he hadBrave Winyan. Your spirit is akin to that and four Egyptians do against tho.usands ofof the martyrs of old, to that of the Church bloodthirsty fanatics ? On the other hand, it waswhich for "Christ's orown and covenant" just possible that, if no resistance was offered, thepoured out her blood till every glen and enemy would spare the sergeants. It was onheather-clad hillside in Scotland was red witb their account that our hero refused to make usethe blood of the saints. Will ihe United States of the weapons with which he and they weregovernment dare imprison for teaching to read armed ; that amount of submissiou was the pricethe Bible ?he was willing to pay as a ransom for their lives.tbe noble State of Georgia sent Worcester and defied the impostor of Kordofan all through tbeButler, and other ministers to the penitentiary long siege of Khartoum, and he would continueforthe sin of preaching the gospel to tbe Chero- to defy him to the very last So he sat therekees. I am not at all oertain that our law- with the four Egyptians at his back, and a sea ofmakers have in any wise " grown in grace" savagery raging all around—calm, undaunted,from that day io this. It may yet be given you preferring death to the dishonor of being Mahdi'sto " suffer also " for Hi? word's sake. We, a prisoner. And death came, bringing tbe crownChristian (?) nation, have shut fast "the door of martyrdom to as noble a Christian hero as everof utterance " io your people. Do any of us trod the earth. Smart Parisian -writers calledpray that it may be "opened " to you? Surely him " mad ;" prosaic critics dubbed him "unweought so to do.—The Presbyterian. practical," "a dreamer," "an enthusiast." Letthe babble pass ; it would be well for the worldH O W GENERAL GORDON DIED. îd it contain a few more such " madmen." Gor-On January 26, 1885, Khartoum fell, and the don was a dreamer in this sense : he dreamed ofmost heroic personality ofthe century disappeared, a hfe devoted to the service of humility by cham-Althougb three years have elapsed since that pioning the oppressed against the oppressor.—tragedy, it is only now that we learn the truth London Globe.about the manner oi Gordon's death. Previousaccounts represented him as sallying forth into A CHEERFUL GIVER.the street on hearing the approach of the Mahdi's One of the young ladies just appointed totroops, and losing his life flghting. No one ac- the China Mission, while arranging her trunk,quainted with the record of his service iu China the other day, was asked by her lirtle brotherwould have said that this conduct was out of to take a ride with him. Upon her hesitatingharmony with his antecedents. When battling fir a moment, her father seconded tke request,against the Taepings, Gordon repeatedly con- urging that it might bea lasting benefit to theverted defeat into victory by his personal valor, little fellow,being associated with her departureBut it appears—if we may believe the tale of the from home. It flashed upon father and daughfourEgyptian sergeants who were with him— ter at once that this might be her last ridethat he gave up his life at Khartoum without a with her brother, and both burst into tears.single struggle. " Gordon will die to-day " was " This will never do," said the father, " wehis prophetic remark ou learning Fareg Pasha's shall both of us lose our faith and our peace,treachery, and he subsequently repeated the words, if we yield to our feelings." In a moment, theHe saw in an instant that the situation was such daughter brushed aside her tears, thraw herasto render resistance hopeless ; what could he self upon her father's neck and said, with the

Notes and Beviews. 79returning sunlight on her face, "I willnot there that nobody seemed to know about. Hemake a gift to the Lord that 1 cannot bestow went on climbing till he tound his way intocheerfully and with all my heart." A beauti- that garret room. As he entered th«ful sentiment this, not simply in view of the room, he looked around. There was aoonseoration to whioh it referred, but in its re- bed, and a chair, and a table with alation to the discharge of every Christian duty candle burning dimly on it, a very little fireonand the exercise of every Christian grace. No the hearth, and an old woman sitting by it,acceptable gift can be made to the Lord that with a large Testament in her lap. The minisnot proffered cheerfully and with all the ister asked her what she was doing there. Sheheart; for " God loveth a cheerful giver " said she was reading." Don't vou feel lonely here ? " he asked,TALKING WITH JESUS.-< â, na> was the reply.In a large oity in Scotland a faithful minis- " What do you do here these long winterter was one winter's day visiting among tbe nights ? "wretched poor. He climbed up into a garret "0," she said, " I just sit here wi'my lightsat the top of a very high house. He had been and wi' New Testament on my knees, talkingtold that there was a very poor old woman wi' Jesus ! "g;^^^ mxl §xvxm^.—Subscribers to ihe Herald of Mission visit to the Holy Land. These, coming fromNews are reminded tbat tbis is the fourth num- a careful observer, in whom all the churchesber of the secoMc?year. Many have sect forward have confidence, should be worth far morerenewals, and we shall be glad to hear, as soon than the price of tbe magazine.as convenient, from the rest of our friends. Oae word more. In some parts of the ooun-Half a dollar is not a large amount, but multi- try it is not always easy to command evenpiled by four hucdred and fifty, it produces a fiftycents on short notice. Other claims, too,sum that would help very materially to meet are pressing and must be met. So, where it istbe necessary expenses of publication.not convenient to forward the renewal at once.We do not wish any one to take our little a postal card to that effdot and promising themonthly, unless he is satisfied that he is receiv- amount before the end of the year will be alingfuUvalue for his money. Nor do we wish most as good as money. All we want to knowthose who have been reading it for sixteen ig, what we oan rely on to meet the cost ofmonths to feel that they are under any obli- producing the paper.gation to continue. AU that we ask is duenotification ihat their names may be erased —All ihe money needed forthe erection andfromthe mailing list, and five ce«fe for each equipment of a building for the boys'schooinumber over the time for which tbe subscrip- in Latakia has not yet been received, and wetion has been paid. That seems to us a fair hope ihat ihe congregations or individuals,and reasonable proposal. At the same time that have not yet contributed, will not delaywe would advise all who are interested in our making their offerings for this purpose. It isforeign missions not to discontinue at present, desirable that the whole amount should be inas our columns are to be enriched with special the hands of the treasurer betore the meetingIsiters from Rev. Dr. McAllister during his of Synod. Since last issue we have received?

80 Notes and Beviews.Sabbath School, Selma, Ala. $ 2,40. sympathy with the writer in the views thatOash - - 50.00. are so modestly yet earnestly presented. TheWe cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of say- reasoning is cogent, and cannot fail to stir thejng that " Cash " is a young meniber of Second hearts of those who are alive unto God, and soNew York; and, while respecting bis wishes in realize the claims He has to their zealous cothematter, we are sorry not to have the privi- operation in bringing the world into subjectionJege of publishing his name in connection with to the Lord Christ.this generous donation. It would encourage EVANGELISTIC WORK.*others, who have larger means, to Imitate the ,. , ^ ,J 1 ivT .u- u u • The work of evangelism IS the constant workgood example. Nothing can be more cheering =.,., , ., - c J • iu- of every believer, and the one great purpose ofthan to see the young coming forward in this •' ' , f /, , , ,, , (,, , . c • I, J his life. This is the central idea of a recentway to fake the plaoe of those who have finished , , _ .^.1 . .Ul 1 u TIT u -1 u a - volume from the pen of Rev. Arthur T. Piertbeirearlhly labors. We hail suoh offerings ^,. u 1 J i f < 11 .. son, D. D. While there is nothing originalas the symbol and earnest of a full surrenaer ' ° °t „ . • t 4.U Q • in the subject matter of tbe book, the centralBf person and possessions to the Saviour. ' 'A sohool of colored children in Selma can ^"ths of the gospel, so familiar to every stuaffordto give $2.40 to help provide the build- ^«"* "^ t^^^êw Testament, are presented withIng for a boys' school in Syria, and the offer- ^"^^ freshness and wealth of illustration thating comes from sincere and earnest hearts, characterize all the writings of the esteemedIProportionate gidng, in a similar spirit, on the '*"'''"'' ^'^'^ ^'^^ ^^'"^ ^ P^'"^^'^'' «^"°^- ^«part of other schools, would furnish all the '"^^^ '^""^ ^'^^ ^P^'''^^ pleasure, and, we trust,money called for in a few hours. ^'^^ °° '"^^^^ '^«^«"''« "^P-^^^^ ^^^ ''^^P*®" "^" Aids and Accessories " and " The Evangel-—We are sure that Dr. and Mrs. Metheny i^ti^ gpirit." How important for the Christianhave the sympathy of the whole church in the ^^j^^^ to have clearly and constantly beforeremoval oftheir infant son,Carey Wyckliffe, on ^^^^ ^jj^^ g^^h ^^^^^^ ^s these: " He who wouldFeb. 8, ai Mersine, Asia Minor. " He shall ^j^ gûls needs the winning grace which onlygather the Iambs with His arms." (.^d can give. . . . When the Spirit comes—The Chairman of the Foreign Mission on the believer for service, all God's truths areBoard, Rev. James Kennedy, has been called sucb verities and realities that he knows themto part with another daughter, Elizabeth C, as truths, and cannot hold his peace. . . . Suohwife of Mr. Wm. Kilpatrick, who passed away a divine gift comes only in answer to jprayer;on Saturday, Feb. 17. We trust he may en- and, therefore, all evangelistic work not begun,joy the presence ani supporting grace of that continued and ended on our knees, gauged bySaviour to whose tender regard for his people God's standards, is a failure." We are glad toin their affiiction he has so often pointed others commend tbis attractive volume to ourreaders,during his ministry. All who know our brother confident that all who wish to glorify God inand his family infold them at this hour in the the salvation of sonls will derive benefit fromarms of heartfelt sympathy and prayer. its perusal.— A litlle article in this issue, entitled *Evangelistic Work in Principle and Practice, byact-iKpnv 11 fv. A- -nr • f 1, Arthur T. Pierson, D. D. The Baker & Tolos Co.," $1,5C0," is well worth reading. We are in full Broadway, New York.

PUBLISBED WITB TBE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxm^ d §imm mxhTHE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK IN JAPAN. One of the most remarkable indications of whatBeo F. N; Zabriskie, D.D,, Princeton, N, J. might be styled a European (or rather. Occidental)"craze " is the adoption of our style of dressJapan began its career of civilization underthe conquerors from Corea about the beginning by the women, at the recommendation of the Empressherself,—so that it is already not only fashof our Christian era, and carried it forward withbrilliant progress, interrupted by a period of inti'inalfaction and foreign war from the eighth to bihty, for women to wear foreign attire and toionable, but is getting to be a mark of respecta-the seventeenth century, since which time the clothe their children in foreign style. Surely aEmphe has enjoyed profound peace. The sixteenthcentury was distinguished by efforts on thepart of the Portuguese and Dutch to introduceChristianity and commerce. . . But it wasreserved for our young Republic io eftect thefirst treaty of re-admission to foreigners, and tointroduce a pure and Protestant religion.Tben all at once Japan reahzed that, howeveralways proved to be the very citadel of Asiaticheathenism has in Japan yielded at a touch,—highly civilized in her own way and in her own the isolation and immobihty of woman. Bettereyes, she had stood still as respects the great even than this, Japanese manhood has ceased toworld-movement in science, politics aud ideas, wbich despise womanhood, and is eager to raise her to ahad been sweeping over the nations that make history.social and intellectual standard corresponding toThe foreigner who had anything to teach, thai of Europe and America.or any improvement in living to offer, was now The demand for schools, especially ihose taughta« welcomed as he had a little while before been by missionaries, is such that it cannot be supplied.The I aac Ferris Seminary ot our Church*repulsed, 'l'he knowledge possessed by othernations was eagerly sought ior, both that which with 105 pupils has to turn away applicants constantlyfor want of accommodations, and couldrelates to the philosophy and to the arts of life,—so much so that they could not wait for tbese to easily double its numbers ; and the same is truebe brought to them, but sent their choicest young of all the mission schools. Prominent men aremen to acquire them abroad. The d'siinctive enlisted in the movement. A meeting was recentlyfeatures of nineteenth century civilization are beingheld at the house of the Prime Minister,rapidly adopted—railroads, telegraphs, steam-aera, which two Japanese gentlemen pledged thembanks, hospitals, daily papers, and a complete selves for $50,000 to establish a girls' school ofschool system, a code of laws, a military andnaval organization, all based on the most advancedmodels of Christian lands.typical act! For is not Japan therein, as by afigure, casting off 'vsold clothes ? And the sageTeufelsdrockh, you know, has demonstrated thatclothes are character. It is to my mind significantof more than any other incident ofthis revolution.For it means that the thing which hasthe highest grade. What is especially encouragingis the fact thai ii is Christian schools which' EeforBied Churcli in America.

82 Our Views of Mission Worh.aro wanted. It is considered dangerous to send I may here state that the entire Bible has nottheir daughters to any other. In many ways, only been translated, but revised for final pubh-Christian ethics are recognized as the only hope cation under the care of Dr. Verbeck, and willof the moral salvation oi Japan. All of which soon be issued from the press, if it has not nowportends essential reforms in the entire social appeared. At least half a million copies of the'and domestic life, alike in the fr-eedom and tbe Scriptures, or of portions of them, have alreadypurity of the relation between the sexes. been circulated, and the complete and revisedThis whole matter of providing Christian edu- version marks an epoch of great and joyful imcationfor Japan is " the burning question "of portance.the day. It is not something which we need to Besides these great signs of the time, tbere isurge upon them, but simply to devise how to still another quite as extraordinary. This is themeet their increasing demand. Towns and transformation of an ancient oriental absolutismprovinces are inviting teachers, and contributing into a representative government—it i^ to beto their support. Statesmen and editors lament hoped, after the model of England rather than ofour slow compliance. 0 for a Peabody or a Germany, though the latter would be an almostSlater to furnish at once the millions, which shall inconceivable advance upon tbe old monarchputthis Archimedean lever of a Christian educa- ies and duarchies and feudalities, which hayetion at the very fulcrum of Asiatic heathendom ruled the country for nineteen hundred yt-ars.ior its upheaval and elevation !When the Mikado was restored to his suprem-A great point has been gained iu the educa- acy in 1868, by the extinction of tbe usurpedtional outlook by the adjusting of the College of power of the Tycoon and the overthrow of thethe Hnited Church to the educational system of great feudal lords, he made promise uuder •athJapan, under the name of The Meiji Oaku-in, to establish a national parliament of two bouses," The College of the Era of Good Goyernment." which should be responsive to public opinion.1 his now takes its recognized place among the It is well that obstacles have heretofore precollegesor gymnasia of the country, preparing vented the practical consummation of tbis scheme.students for the Imperial University (which com- But in 1881 the Emperor definitely fixed thepares favorably in plan with the German Univer- date for the assembling of this body in the yearsities), and supplementing the professional schools 1890, by which time we may hope that the naofthe University with a Christian theological tion will be sufficiently educated for its bigh callschool,ing. T'his is being done not only through theNot the least significant feature of the intellec- great changes already alluded to, but by the extualrenaissance is the movement to substitute ercise of local self-government, in the election toRoman letters for the Japanese characters ; for minor offices and in a species of town meetingswhich purpose a society has been formed, already for deliberation on taxes and expenditures. Letnumbering 6,000 members, with a monthly us trust that the wholesome restriction of thepaper. '1 his is in addition to the fact that the suffrage, which requires tbe voter to be able tostudy of English has been taken up by all classes write his ballot, will not be allowed to slip out ofwith passionate enthusiasm, and schools for teach- their hands, as it has with us.ing how to speak that language are springing up In a word (to quote the remark of a foreignall over the country. The New Testament in resident) there seems to be "nothing left in Japanthe Romanized characters is finding an increased as it was ten years ago, except the naturalfavor and sale. scenery I "

Our Views of Mission Worh. 83All these miraculous indications of an awak- and homes and institutions, and the men wboened and a wider life in Japan, would be not guide them through the rapids, bearing the flagonly sadly imperfect but of dubious import, if it of peace.•ivere not for still another. It were in vain, aud The most striking aspect of this whole moveworsethan iu vain, ior Japan to cast off her old ment is the sudden and complete change of fro tclothes if she were not prepared to arise and put towards a religion which was expelled 250 yearson the beautifiil garments of a true righteousness, ago with fire and sword, and absolutely effacedher light being come from the cross of Jesus, and from the land by persecution and wholesale niastlieglory of the Lord having risen upon her. It sacre. It is inly since 1859 that a Christianwould be a horror to the world io have a sleep- could even venture to set loot on those shores ;ing giant suddenly arise with half-blinded Hyes to and not till 1869 could a missionary teach ingrope bis way among tbe nations ; to have a public, or a Japanese beconje a Christian exceptpeople showing such supreme vitality, and such by stealth at the peril of imprisonment orfitness to assume tbe intellectual and moral exile.leadership of the Eastern world, inaugurate a This interdict rem-iiued in nominal force tillneo-paganism of godless culture. The peril of fifteenyears ago, But the Church of Christ didthis movement is in its suddenness and swiftness, not wait tor its comphte and formal withdrawal.like the breaking up of the ice on our northern It seemed like a for'orn h 'pe for our Reformedrivers. For in the awakened a'tention to the Church in America to undertake as eariy as Febeivllizationofthe outside world, and in theimita- rnary, 1859, to send three men to such a peoplelionof its customs and fashions, is involved an inwhose double-'ocked gates had only just beendiscriminate adoption of its worst aloui with its wrenched open by outside force, and for Drs.better features, of its vices and follies and infi- Brown and Verbeck to sail, not knowing wheredelitieswithout the restraints which even the im- unto they went, on the seventh of May, threeperfect rbristianity of Christendom affords. And months later.with the eager reception of modern science and By November, 1864, our missiouary, Rev.mo'lern thought, without the revelation to the James H. Ballagh, performed the first baptismhungering beart of the Wisdom and the Word of of a convert since i he opening of the country, andGod, tbere is sure to < ome a blankness of agnos- in 1868 was able to administer baptism in public.ticism, more dreary and deathly than the dreams The week of prayer iu 1812 was the occasion ofof Buddhism or the puerilities of Shintoism. Al- great religious interest among ihe pupils at Yokoreadytliislatter process is too far under way, hama, i-nd onthe iOth of March the first Japandthe educated classes are not only as familiar anese Christian Church was organized in thatas we are with the philosophy of Mill and Spen- city by our missionaries with eleven menicer,but are very largely their disciples.bers and a native pastor ordained over it. ByBut, thanks be to God 1 the Japanese mind is the latest report there were over 200 churchesshowing itself as alert and receptive in respect with 16,000 members, 256 native pastors—altothe crowning and basic element of our civiliza- ready far outnumbering the foreign missionaries,tion as to its other features. The sudden break- and many of them bright, eloquent, and wellingup of the river is sweeping down not ouly the read men—and about 200 theological students,crashing ice and the muddy deposits, but the One-fourth of this number of members were addedfresh water from the upper fountains, the rafts of in 1886. These churches are not all weaklings,lumber,which are to construct Christian churches but one-third are already self-supporting. Neariy

84 Our Views of Mission Work.$27,000 were contributed last year by the native this proposed body has churches in every imporconverts.The First Church of Yokohama has a tant city, five col'eges and theologicai schools,membership oi 440, more than half of them men. and contributed last year more than $20,000. ItAs many as twenty-flve churches have over 100 is destined to shape and control the religious demembers.More than a fourth of the churches are velopment of Japan.conneeted with the Hnited Church, which consists The above is a mere glimpse of what has beenof the Reformed and Presbyterian Churches of and is being, done. This is all but as tbe firstAmerica ; an equal number are connected with sheaf of an over ripened harvest field, whicb waitsthe Methodists, and one-seventh wi'h the Con- only for the laborers, to be reaped as fast as thegregationalists. While of ihe membership nearly crop can be gathered. There is no longer needfour-fifths are connected with these bodies. of pressing the Gospel upon Japan. " The king-This Christward moveme-t is as remarkable in dom of heavensuffeeth violence" fi-omthose who.its details as in its grand totality. It looks as if are pressing into it. '1 he call is not on our sidehere was being solved the great problem of Chris- but from theirs. We are not able to cry, " Ho,tian unity for the missionary work, if not for the every one that thirsteth !" but they are crying :world. Already the Presbyterian and Reformed " Ho, ye that have the waters, come give us toChurches have formed an organic union, under drink throughout this whole dry and thirsty land,the uame ofthe Hnited Chnrch of Christ in Japan, where 38,000,000 are being supplied by aboutAnd the Congregational churches, comprising with 530 workers of all grades, or about one to everyihe United Church more than two-thirds ofthe 11,000 souls !"whole number of Protestant church membership. This cry, of course, is still largely nothinghave agreed upon a basis of doctrine and polity, more than the universal thirst for knowledgewhich has in all probability bten by this time which has overwhelmed tbe nation on suddenlyratified, and the proposed organic union consum- catching sight of the glittering stream, as wbenmated, by the action oi the Conierence and Synod Israel caught the flashingof the waters of Horebof the respective bodies. The doctrinal basis is or the followers of De Soto when they came inthe Apostles' and the Nicene Creeds, and the sight of the broad expanse of the Mississippi.nine articles of the Evangelical Alliance. The But this is found to be soon exchanged for aproposed polity is a compromise, whereby deeper thirst and a more eager relish, when oneechurches may, if they prefer, man-ge their own they have tasted of the good word of God.affairs without the intervention of a session or I confess tbat I am not as afraid as some haveconsistory, but an appeal can be taken to Pres- expressed themselves to be, of a premature nabytery,ofwbich all ministers must be members, tional adoption of the Christian rehgion by the—in other words, an optional Congregationalism government. I remember that this was the waywithout Independency.in which our own ancestral nations became Chris-The prospect is, that this union of thegreat tianized ; how it was the submission of Ethel bertbulk ofthe Churches of Japan will sweep into the which carried not only the Kentish men in a bodymovement most of tha others. The result cannot to tbe new standard, but the East Saxons andtail to give a tremendous moral impulse to evan- the Bast Anglians ; and how that of Eadwingelistic work ; and it is sure to obtain from the carried with him the powerful kingdom of NorapproachingParliament a recognition, and an thuniberland. And it was the conquering poweraward of rights and privileges, which the separ- of the great Prankish Empire of sJharles Martelate denominations could not command. Already ani his sucssîrs, w'.iich bi,-e aloin- with

Items of Missionary Intelligence, 85Christiamty into France and Germany, and the writes : " The avalanche of opportunities, thatNetheriands. And at an earlier period, we know slides down upon us, almost stuns us " Wherewhat an impulse and enlargement were given to the enemy's hue of bat'le weakens—and here itthe new fai h when the Roman Empire took its is already waver'ng and in di order—therestand unaer the sign of the Cross. shoild the grand attack be made. A recentTbere is no harm in Chri-tianity haying writer on military science has shown that successa State recognition so long as it is not made in war has depended more on marching thanan esta'di^hment, or in its going before the fightin-, and that tobe atthe right p'ace atpeople with the prestige of a national rehgion, the right moment is more than half the battle,—but on the contrary pn immense advantage, illustrating his case by every decisive engagementThis is precisely what is needed in Japan to give in the European wars of the last century, fromthe old religions their coup de grace with the Waterloo to Metz and Kandahar, and the Holypeople, as they have already become a scoff to War is no exception to the rule.the educ ited. And even the higher classes would Shall we not have a eharge all along the line ?find themselves in a different attitude toward the 0 for another Bernard of Clairvaux to preach anew religion under the new regime.new and holier crusade, so that a veritable arrayThe only danger of prematureness is in the of preachers and school teachers, physicians audfailure of ihe Christian world to respond with men of science, Bible readers and devout women,corresponding promptitude and even impetuosity, and Christian households, shall move upon theAll are agreed thatthe sole alternative for Japan isles that wait for tbem! 'Ihere ought tobeis now Christianity or godlessness. And the thousands of new recruits for the work in thequestion will he substantially settled in the next next three years—many of whom, like Dr. Scudtenyears, and unmistakably indicated in the next der, shall not ask to be provided for by inissionfiye.ary boards, but shall go at their own charges, orIt is neither desirable nor necessary to inter- in the simplicity of a faith which deals directlymit or abate our missionary work in other direc- with the Treasury of Heaven. But there aretions, but it is as clear as the vision which appeared millions of money, too, which the churches canto Paul on the opposite coast of Macedonia, or easily spare forthese thirty-eight millions of sonls.to Peter on the housetop of Simon the Tanner, Japan is the key of the Eastern world. Thisthat God cills the Christian Church to concen- Japanese people looks to me like the Saul oftrate its energies at once upon this unparalleled Tarsus among the nations, whom Christ hasemergency. Dr. Chamberlain at Northfield did called and chosen for the evangelization of Asia.not exaggerate, when he declared the present hour It is not so much Christianity in Japan whichto be " the opportunity of the ages " for the evan- is in question, b'lt the Christianity of Europe audgehzation of India. But of Japan a missionary America which is on trial.Items of Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD. struct the execution of orders fEom tbe centralT> m -»r TooHoo authorities addressed in a circular letter totheReport of Tarsus Mission for 1881-88. Provincial Governors not to interfere with schoolsThe Board of Foreign Missions : conforming to the law, and to allow tbe re-opeu-Dear Brethren—The year 1881 has been event- ing of schools that had been closed Our U. S.ful in the Tarsus mission. The local authorities Secretary of State has taken an official positionof the Province of Adana have endeavored to ob- in advance of anything heretofore done by our

86 Items of Missionary Intelligence.government, by officially declaring that investrments in educational establishments iu Turkeyhave as much right to protection as mercantile orother interests. He has instructed our representativesa':cordingly to acton this principle Theyhave taken up the case of our schools with vigorand had orders sent to the provincial governorhere to carry out the above mentioned order.It is the opiuiou of many that such obstacleswill be put ui the way of our schools o$ to rendertheir work hopeless. But God reigns. TheMersine ccliool remained open all the time. Theothers were closed bnt a short time. Tbere Uasbeen a great advance in public sentiment regardingour work. Providence has helped us in wayswe knew not and had not looked for. Tliedrought brought almost every industry to a standstill,making it impossible for the multitudes togain a livelihood. I his province was soon suppliedwitb good and cheap provisions iu abundance,but the poor had not the means to buyand soou f ll victims to want. The better-to-dokept away the evil day for a little longer by pawningor selling their scanty movables. Mauy o thewe l-te-d I now began to mortgage their oxeu orhouses or farms at exorbitan rates of interest tillthe government interfered and made such contractsthe present. Those eating once a day sleep athome. All the children are daily fed with tbebread of life and thus more good has been donethan \ye had at all dreamed of and this at a timewhen the arch enemy was doing all iu his powerto shut out the GospelThe " Cilicia relief" moneys are all carefully accountedfor to Mr. Miller, the Treasurer of theBoard, in our regular quarterly statements whereall can seethe manner in which their moneys havebeen spent. This will stand as a permanentchurch record At first I made direct acknowledgmentto the kind donations, but this soon becameimpossible to me in my feeble health. Willbe glad to answer any inquiry about anythinganyone may wish to knowfufther respecting thework.We have been called to monrn with Rev. Dr.and Mrs. Martin the death of their lovely andonly ehild Paul.Just after Miss Joseph had begun her workshe was takeu very ill and even at this date hasnot sufficiently recovered to resume her labors.One of our pupils—a little girl—during a spell ofillness was taken home by her parents aud soonafter died, Carey Wycliffe Metheny died Avhenscarcely four days old. To-day I hear oue littlenull. Still the governm^t rendered little assistanceitself and forbade Rev. G. F. Montgomery ments are never so great as onr encouragementsboy in the Adana school died. Our discourageto assist tbe poor, and recommended him to pay Since our last yearly report, we have, duringover to the government moneys he had received the fifthyear of the Tarsus mission baptized sevenfrom abroad for relieving tbe hungry. The prompt adult converts from Paganism, one Catholic andand liberal relief money sent by our brethren has one Israelite. Five adults ou profession, andbeen greatly blessed. At flrst we feared our three by certificate, were received into the church.plan would be thwarted, but the repeated aud Four infants of church members were baptized—strong orders—" Open what schools you have in all twenty-oue. Several others have applied.closed aud don't interfere with the rest," seem to We hope to accent them soon. ^liss Sterrett'shave had the desired effect, and now all the work has been blessed. She has had the joy ofschools are full. This kindness of our cburch to reaping the firstfruits of her patient and I. boriousefforts. Three of her pupils united with usthese poor has called forth the gratitude andadmiration of many who before had nothing for us at last communion, and several more desire to dobut imprecations ; many hurtful prejudices have so at our next.been removed People now see for themselves At our last communion we had the plea.sure ofhow Priest, Shiekh and Mullah have only stood Dr. Balph's presence and assistance. I'here basin the way of their best interests.been no case of discipline. 'I he ordinances haveWe have bve schools for girls and six for boys been administered every Sabbath except one.with an aggregate of nearly five hundred cbildren. The attendance continues encouraging. We areOver three hundred of them are fed, many receivingbut one meal a day. We fear that this laborers into his vineyard. The set time for hispraying the Lord of the harvest to send us moreis nearly all the poor things get. But one meal remembering Zion seems to have come all thewill keep them from death. Clothing is not to world over. AVe are hoping that he that lettethbe tbougbt of—we have given that up now for will soon be taken out of the way, and that in

Hems of Missionary Tnieltigence, 81every land a way is being now prepared for the tell us about God?" The chiefs from up aud downkings of the East to overthrow Babylon. When the river visit the station and invite the missionariesto corae to their towns and build, Mr.will our Chui'ch hear what the Spirit is saying toher in His Word, and by all ihese providences, Richards finds much encouragement in his medicalwork. The influence gained by the missionand begin mission work in lands where theobstacles have been more completely removed aries is seen from the fact tbat, at their requestand the Gospel is so much less hampered and at a recent burial of a chief, the usual slaughterhindered than in the Turkish dominions 1 Our of human victims was omitted. The purpose ofdoors already entered m-ay be closed to us unlesswe enter others He has manifestly opened one on his long journey, but in this case the prothis slaughter is to provide company for the deadfor us and given us ample means to enter aud occupy.Why not reap blessings of great increase people seem to accept the teaching they receivemise was kept tbat no one should be killed. 'Theas other churches are doiug in China, India and as reasonable and true, but as yet th»re are fewJapan? "We are well able."conversions.Fraternally,New Islands Occupied.—Tidings from NewDavid Metheny. Hebrides np to the last of October Indicate that—The good tidings come from Syria tbat the the worn is prospering. Four new mission stationshave been opened this ) ear among a peoplelate attempt of the Turkish authorities to forcenew and intolerant restrictions upon tbe cause of to whom the gospel has never been preached. AChristian educat on has been so earnestly resisted singular fact is stated that on tbe six new islandsby the diplomatic representatives of the different of the New Hebrides group the languages spokenpowers, that it has utterly failed and has finally are unlike those of the other portions ofthe group.been withdrawn.At Malekula, a large island over sixty miles long,ihe natives welcome the English-speaking mis—A s'nguhir illustration of the influencesionaries, expressing great dislike of the Frenchin India oi Western culture and opinions is affordedby the recent action of the Maharajah ofA flerce-looking man, with a cross of red painteddown his nose and across his cheeks, conductedDarhanga in establishing a hospital and dispensarythe party to a suitable place for a station. Atlor female patients near hisi ancestral palace inanother point occupied, the owner of the landBehar, and erecting, at a cost of 55,000 rupees,who had been in Queensland and knew a littlea new building for the purpose. This step is aEnglish, when asked if he wanted a missionary,remarkable sign of the great social changesreplied, " Yes, me plenty too much want missionary."The report states that all over the groupwbicb have taken place in India during the pasttwenty or thirty years. This hospital is thethe work of the mission is evidently advancing iuthird which the Mdbarajah bas endowed, and bethe right direction. The annual contribution ofhas built and mairjtains twenty-three schools inarrowroot sent to England amounted to 3,650addition to many other charitable works, his giftspounds, the majority of the people entering mostup to the present representing no less a sum thanheartily into this work of giving for mission purab ut $350,000.poses.—Missionary Herald.The Upper Congo.—The English BaptistSumatra.--î the meetingof the Rhenish MissionarySociety, a Dutch gentleman, Graf O. L H.missionaries at Lukolela, the firststation on tbeUpper River, make a cheering report of theirvon Limburg-Stirum, gave an interesting reportwork. They have gained the confidence of thepeople to a great extent, and instead of findingit difficult to obtain food, as at the beginning,tbere is now more brought to them than tbeycan well purchase. It is not easy for the peopleto comprehend the reason for the coming ofthe missionaries, aud when they learned it wasnot for the purposes of trade, they were greatlyperplexed. " Why should you care to come toof a visit he had paid td the stations of the Societyin Sumatra. He had beeu travelhng forfour years in the Dutch E-ast I ndies, and at firstallowed himself to be prejudiced against missionarywork by what Europeans living there toldhim concerning it. He was accustomed, indeed,to write home, and in tbe mildest way say thatthe missionaries were enthusiasts. But havingat last met with a missionary, he went to see

S8Items 0} Missionary Tniclligenii.some of the stations, and at once his views were bath, and it is expected that six hew sub-statiohsentirely altered. He says that the results of will thus be formed. The latest report statesthe Mission to the Battas are so striking that iu one day as many as 190 persons had comethat the worst enemy of missions must be com- forward for baptism. 'These tidings are the more])elled to rejoice in them. Among other places cheering, as it now appears that the Toba Lakethat he visited was the Valley of Siliudung—a is much larger, and the populations living alongregion rather difficult of access, but lovely in the its shores far more numerous, than was supposed ;extreme. Looking dowu into it from the pass by and also there is a fear lest Islam and opium,which it is approached, the traveller sees a river the two great foes of Christian missions, maywinding through it with many islands, and here soon penetrate into that region.—The Ghronideaud there groups of houses, the brown roofs of of the London Missionary Society.which rise up among the bamboo hed

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Mission Monographs. 89of those who, under the specious guise of personal leave it to prosper or dwindle away as it maliberty, would introduce among us a reign of li- On the contrary they make an occasional circuitcense and anarchy.among the schools already planted to assist andWe emphasize with special force the union encourage them. Often, too, they help pastors,basis upon which this work is prosecuted, because without regard to denomination, in evangelisticit is the only principle which can insure the best work. This is an especial feature of their laborssuccess. The board of management, consisting iu the Winter season, when few new schools canof thirty gentlemen, represent six ot the evangel- be established. Revival services are sometimesical denominations Our missionaries, numbering held in the Sabbath School room, by our missionseventy-ninein the field,represent many denomin- aries, and every year hundreds of conversions areations, but they " know nothing among them save reported.Jesus Ohrist and Him crucified." If asked, as The aim of our missionaries is to penetrate intothey often are, when going into a community on out of the way districts, where the largest amounttheir errand • of mercy, what Church they came of spiritual destitution is found, and gather in thefrom, the missionaries reply that they come sim- lambs of Jesus' fold. During the past year oneply to do them good and save their children by thousand five hundred and thirty new Sabbathestablishing a Bible school, where they cau be Schools were organized, including six thousandtaught the way of eternal > life for this world four hundred and ninety teachers and fifty-sevenas well as the next. Frequently churches tbousand two hundred and forty-seven scholars.develope from the germ planted by the Sabbath In the sixty-three years of our Sunday SchoolSchools. These churches assume the denomina- Union's history, it has made a record of nearlytional connection which may be decided by ma- eighty, thousand Bible schools, with only ajority votes of their members: In these matters few hundred lacking of four million children andour missionaries use no influence. It is not their youth enrolled. Dr. Griffin,habit to establish a Sabbath School and ihen Secretary for New England.OUR SENIOR MISSIONARY. Pittsburgh for two years.Dr. David Metheny was born near Wurtem- The circumstances that led to his devotingburg, Lawrence County, Pa., October 16, 1836. himself to the work of foreign missions, as well asDeprived of both father and mother, who passed his licensure and ordination to the work of theaway within twelve days of each other, when he gospel ministry, are well known to the church.was little more than eighteen momhs old, he was In 1864'he went to Latakia, Syria, where hesent with his infant sister to live with their paternal labored for over seventeen years, always manifestgrandmother.In the home of this pious woman, ing diligence and fidelityin promoting the interestsa member oi the Methodist church, he received entrusted to his care.his early training and his firstreligious impres- In November, 1882, Dr. Metheny removedsions. The enthusiasm, that has distinguished with the'approval of the Board to Asia Minor,aU the years of his missionary life, may be traced making Tarsus the centre of operations. In thisto the holy infiuences that were brought to bear interesting field he has labored up to the presentupon him at that plastic period in his history. time with indefatigable ddigence and zeal, Not-Having removed to the home of his maternal withstanding strenuous opposition to his work,uncle, the late Dr. S. A. Sterrett," when about large success has attended his efforts. At Merfifteenyears of age, he attended school and col- sine, where he resides, he erected last year, largely,lege in Allegheny City, graduating in 1859. He if not exclusively, at his owu expense, a largetook his medical diploma in 1861, in Jefferson building-for mission purposes. This is only oneoUege, Philadelphia, and practiced medicine in of many examples that might be given of his

90 Mission Monographs.self-denying devotedness. Wholly consecrated . A missionary surely cannot undervaluehimself, it is a marvel to Dr. Metheny thai any his commission as soon as it is put into his hands,one can hesitate to lay person and property at But what means the lugubrious wail that toothe feet of the divine Master.oiten bursts from the circle of his friends ? TheDr. Metheny has been twice married. His tears shed might be excused, if he were going tofirst wife was Emma, third daughter of Elder Norfolk island at the Government expense. BntDavid Gregg, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a young sometimes the missionary note is pitched on thelady of a singularly lovely character. Subse- same key. And then there is the neverquently he was united in marriage to Miss Mary ending talk and wringing of hands over mission-E. Dodds, who had joined the mis.sion in 1811. ary'sacrifices.' The man is surely going tobeIn his present wife, a daughter of the late hanged, instead of going to serve in Christ's holyR. J. Dodds, D.D., he has found one not only m Gospel ! Is this such service as be deservesfull sympathy with him in his desires and efforts, who, though rich, for our sakes became poor ?but in the fullest sense ofthe term a fellow-laborer. There is so much in the manner of giving : someLIVINGSTONE ON MISSIONARY SAC- bestow their favors so gracefully, their value toRIFICBS. the recipient is doubled. Prom others, a gift isIt is something to be a missionary. The as good as a blow in the face. Are we notmorning stars sang together, and all the sons of gîl^y o^ treating our Lord somewhat more scnr-God shouted for joy, when they first saw the 'îlj than we would treat our indigent fellow-men ?field whieh the firstmissionary was to fill. The ^^ stereotype the word ' charity' in our languagegreat and terrible God, before whom angels veil '^ applicable to a contribution to his cause. 'Sotheir faces, had an only Son, and he was sent to any charities—we cannot afford them.' Is notthe habitable parts of the earth, as a missionary ^"^^ ^ô""^ ungraciously applied to the Lord Jesus,physician. It is something to be a follower, how- ^ ^^ ^^ ^^''^ a poor beggar, and an unworthyever feeble, in tbe wake of the Great Teacher

Mission Monographs. 91what thousands rushed to California, from differ- tives. The rock is in the center of the Mosqueent parts of America, on the discovery of gold 1 and is enclosed by a wicket. Outside of thisHow many husbands left their wives and iamilies! there are two rows of pillars running the entireHow many Christian men tore the-mselves away circuit of the edifice, dividing it into three circularfrom ali home endearments to suffer and toil and aisles. The pillars are of compound granite ofperish by cold and starvation on the overland various colors, such as red, white, blue, grey,route ! How many sank from fever and exhaus- yellow, green, etc., and are polished like a mirrortion on the banks of the Sacramento ! Yet no presenting a most beautiful appearance. Hereword of sacriflce there. And why should we so and there in the walls the eye falls on tablets ofregard all we give and do for the well-beloved of Mosaics exquisitely wrought and harmoniouslyour souls ? Our talk of sacriflce is ungenerous blended, representing heraldry and various kindsand heathenish.oi figures.This work requires zeal for God, and love for Before entering one must remove his shoes andsouls. It needs prayers from the senders and don a pair of slippers, and it is thus in all mosques,the sent, and flrm reliance on Him who alone is for the place is considered holy ground, bui it isthe author of conversion. Souls cannot be con- hard to discern the distinction between the two,verted to order. Great deeds are wrought in i. e. slipper and shoe—as regards fitness and saneunconsciousness,from constraining love to Christ ; tity. We were taken in charge by a ragged, yetin humbly asking " Lord what wilt ihou have cleanly, old Mosleni sheikh, who was very obligmeto do ? " in the simple feeling, we have done ing and communicative in the expectation of rethatwhich was onr duty to do.ceiving a handsome " buksheesh," and he pointedA PILGRIMAGE out various interesting features, besides telling ofThe Mosque of Omar is built on the site of curious legends in connection with the place.Solomon's Temple and out of its ruins, and is so Turkish rugs are spread about on thc floorforcalled because it was built by the Caliph Omar, the accommodation oi the worshippers, whose dewhosubdued Syria and Palestine about 631 A. D. v-otional exercises consist of muttered prayers andHe it was who assumed the title of " The Com- a system of genuflexions toward Mecca in Arabia,mauder of the Faithful," (Ameer el Mu 'mineen), the city of their solemnities. There is a Koranand who laid ihe foundation of the vast Arabian in t^s Mosque 24x18 inches, besides a numberEmpire which extended fi'om the Pillars of Her- of smaller ones, about 12x12 inches, all in manuculesto the Straits of Babel Mandeb, and al- script very neatly and beautifully written, m factthough he was a mighty conqueror and a wise with the same preciseness as printing. Arabic isriiler, yet he died by the hand of a slave because the sacred language of the Moslems and it is iorherefused to lessen or remit a flne imposed for bidden to translate the Koran into any otherhis adherence to a strange religion.tongue, consequently whatever be the nationalityThe Mosque is an octagonal structure, sur- of the devotee of Islam, he must read the Koranmounted by a large dome, and is built on Mt. in the original Arabic. This seeras to have beenMoriah, over the rock where Abraham is said to a wise inhibition on the part of the Moslem leadhavebuilt the altar on which to offer his son ers, because when the composition is translatedIsaac, and whence Mohammed is said to have into any other language it loses mnch of its beautyascended to heavem Hence it is called " Knbbet- of expression and majesty of movement, whilees-Sukhra," (The Dome ofthe Rock) by the na- parts of it become the purest nonsense.

92Mission Monographs.There is a fragment of Mohammed's beard but, according to appearances, they have beenpreserved in the Mosque, but it was not shown much more extensive than now as they seem tous as being too sacred for infidel eyes to behold. have been partially fllledwith debris and mayThe Moslems swear by it and consider it more easily have been spacious enough to contain fortysacred than the Mosque itself.thousand stalls for horses. The place is wellThere is a cave under the rock where it is averredthat various persons, such as David, Solomon wall. It was about tbe close of the rainy seasonlighted and ventilated by windows in the cityand Mohammed resorted to pray, each one in his wben I visited the place and even then one wasparticular nook, and in the roof of the cave immediatelyover Mohammed's corner there is a it would be a capital place to stable animals atnot sensible of ihe presence of humidity, so thatlarge dent where he bumped his head as he arose any season of the year.from prayer. On the top ot the rock is a mark Emerging from the stables by a stairway inresembling a footprint which tradition says was the southeast corner of the city we mounted themade by Mohammed when he mounted the rock wall whence we obtained a clear view of theto ascend to heaven. Moreover the rock left the rugged sides of the valley ot Hinnom, or Tophet,earth to follow him, but the angel Gabriel who the type of hell. The full name is Ge Hinnomwas superintending the ascent, kindly laid hold of and the Arabic name for the place of torment isit and stopped it, and, strangely enough, the Jehennom, taken directly from the name of thisprints of Gabriel's flngers are still seen in the valley. It is immediately southeast of Jerusalem,rock, only that one cannot but notice that these and is the place where all the refuse of the citymarks are arranged in a straight line instead of was poured out and burned, so that it was anassuming a circular form as would naturally be abominable place. There the worm never diedexpected. The Moslems pretend to believe thatthis rock still remains suspended between heavenand earth, and they declare that when a Moslementers the cave underneath, it remains stationary,but when a Christian enters, it begins to oscillateas though it were about to fall on him and crushbim, because all Christians are both defiled anddefihng in the eyes of Moslems.The Mosque is situated in the southeast cornerof Jerusalem, and its enclosure is bounded onthe east and south by the wall of the city, and inthe extreme southeast corner of this enclosurethere is a very large underground apartment, saidto have been Solomon's stables.about twenty feet high and is a system of compoundarches supported by square pillars abouttwenty feet apart, each pillar having holes in thecorners where horses could be tied and thus atleast four stalls could be arranged around eachand the fire was not quenched. Then immediatelybelow us eastward lies the vale of Kidron whichDavid and his men crossed when they fledbeforeAbsalom. " And David went up by tbe ascentof Mt. Olivet, and wept as he went up and hadhis head covered ; and he weut before, and allthe people that were with him covered everyman his head, and they went up, weeping as theywent up." It was a sad scene. They weredriven from home aud their hearts were wrungwith grief, and when they reached the top of thehill they halted to worship God and to take alast look of the Holy City, now in possession ofThe root is the enemy, which they might never more be allowedto enter. On the eastern side of this valestands Absalom's pillar in basso rilievo remindoneof his vain ambition and disastrous folly.Across the valley at the foot of Olivet whichstands out in alto rilievo against the eastern skypillar, and perhaps more. There are said to be lies the Garden of Gethsemane which vividly recallsour Lord's passion. It is enolosed by three thousand pillars in these stables at present,aston

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 93wafl, and inside of this there is a neat iron fenceforming a pleasant walk the entire circuit of thegarden between the fence and the wall. It is abeautiful flower garden, having a fountain nearthe center, and with here and there an old andgnarled olive tree, all kept and tended by aFranciscan monk, who lives in a cosy little housein a corner of the Garden, and who accompniesone throngh the grounds to prevent the cullingof flowers. Also there are some inferior paintingsplaced in alcoves on the wall representing theclosing scenes of the life of Christ, and picturingthe agony he endured for our sakes. It was nearto this place that Judas approached him, and,saying. Hail, Master, kissed him as a signal tohis enemies, and it was here that he displayed hispower to overcome them, thns verifying his owuwords in regard tohis life, "No man taketh itfrom me, but I lay it down of myself, I havepower to lay it down and I have power to takeit again." " He was delivered for our offencesand raised again for our justification."Mr. Walter T. Miller bas kindly allowed usto make the following extracts from a letter receivedfrom Dr. Metheny on April 1, 1888 :As matters are running at this date (Feb. 22)we bave atMersineKaradawarCaradashAdana1st Tarsus2d Tarsus90 pupils100401035090Over three hundred are from Moslem and Ansairiyeh.We are greatly delighted to have beenable to thoroughly break down prejudice whereever a school has been opened. The people nowsee for themselves and freely comment on thecharacter of the benevolent people who supportso many. As there has not been work tor themultitudes, although food now very cheap andplenty has been imported into the province, the"•WHAT DOEST THOU HERE 1 "-What doest thou here, O Christlaii,In the light of the noonday sun 1Lahor on, ere the shadows lengthen ;Weary not till thy task he done.Oh, lie not down In dejection.Beneath the dark juniper tree ;Though Uf e's .journey he long and dreary.The Master will comfort thee.Gto work today In His vineyard;Gather sheaves for Him while you may ;Let earth's famishing ones around theoFollow atter thee day hy day.Scatter down for them generous handfulsOf the pure, life-giving grain;Iq their need, unto thee applying,Let them never seek In vain.Dispense to them Bread from Heaven,The glad Iood that can satisfy,That their yearning souls, partaking.May not hunger, uor thirst, nor die.Point them on to the Shining City,-With Its portals of purest gold;To the Best tor eacti faithful worker.When the years of this life are told :Where the sower shall meet with the reaper.As each one, with his sheaves, shaU oome.To rejoice in the Master's presence,Inthe Heavenly Harvest Home,distress will continue for a long—SALLIBtimeM0BR180N.to come.Philadelphia, Pa.Indeed multitudes have mortgaged all they haveat a rate of interest from which they can neverrise. The money-lenders are utterly heartlessand cruel, Supposing the harvest to be gatheredeven now, the earnings of the summer—yes, inmany iustances, the earnings of the year havebeen mortgaged in advance, and the poor borrowersmust work for the man who lends to him.At home it can scarcely be understood how suchan anomaly can be—plenty of food, very cheap,butso it is, A poor mau, eating soup at Mr.Montgomery's some days ago, was overcome andwept He had not tasted anything warm forfour months.The expenses of many ofthe children are only about four cents and a half,as they eat only once and go home for the rest.But this once, we fear, is nearly all the poorthings get. Others stay and sleep eating tbreetimes a day.Please note our policy:

94 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.1. To help as many as we possibly can, withfood only, so that the money will tell.2. To bring as many as possible under religiousinstruction.3. To break down evil prejudices to the veryfurthest extent among ihe masses.God has not before given us such opportunity.We prayed, contrived, labored, devised everypolicy, bnt could never overcome the venerablehierarchies, pitted against ns, till God's time posted about the number of ehildren in thecame, the set time to remember Zion. He sent schools, it is so constantly changing. They increaseevery day. M. Yusef was here yesterdaytbe famine and then the means for us to helpthem in such a way as he will bless. They will from Tarsus. He says he could bave twice ashave thankfully eaten our bread, but will also many girls if he would give them two meals a day.have been supplied with our evangelical teaching. As he does, it at a cost of about two cents a day,My teacbers are all Covenanters and are instructedto make the very most of this providence, There have been some remarkableDoctor told him to do so.providencesTbey will every one have learned of the falland its direful consequences and the only way ofescape from these through our Saviour. Verymany will have committed to memory the entireShorter Catechism and all the leading doctrinesof salvation. I do not remember to have seenso much done with so little money.I -wrote you of my purpose to buy a farm uponwhich to initiate some homely and inexpensive industriesby which the boys can gain an honestliving and help to maintain themselves. Thisidea has been a long cherished pet with me, butI never saw my way to it till now. A beautifullittle farm of about seventy-five or eighty acrescan be purchased for about $1,500 to $1,800.The money would be invested and ever appreciatingin value, so that it would be no loss at all,overworked, for in addition to teaching so many,should it ever be sold. I should immediately the people come to him at night to talk. Weplant it in figs,grapes, fruit and potatoes, etc., do not know yet what may be done by the Turksfurnishing work and paying its way. i am flnally, but in the meantime seed is being sowngreatly put to to not let this chance slip.which may bring forth fruit, though all AmericansA recent letter from Mrs. Mary E. Metheny should leave the Empire. Doctor was told inof Mersine, contains the following items : the Custom House yesterday that an order hadMarch 1.—We have had quite a storm so that come from Stamboul forbidding them to give usthe steamers have been delayed. The wind goods without our paying duty.began to blow on Sabbath evening, and Monday Rev. Samuel Jessup writes that at last ordersand Tuesday it continued and the sea was very have come for the re-opening of their closedschools.high. We have not had such a storm since wecame here. The French steamer, which cameMonday evening from Smyrna, aud an Englishsteamer from the same place were uuable to dischargecargo. The sea was so high yesterdaythat no boats went out. In the evening bothsteamers left, and went to spend the night fartherout at sea. It is much calmer this morningand they are both back again. Our last newsfrom Latakia is that Miss Joseph was going toBeirut with Mr. Easson by this steamer, but itwill be quite behind time. We hear by this mailtbat the delegation appointed by Synod is tostart irom home this month.It is impossible to keep the people at homeconnected with those who have been active in opposingour work. First the Governor of Mersinewas removed ; then on Monday of last weekhe had a stroke of paralysis which affected histongue. He sent in great haste for Dr. Methenywho attended him, and he has now recovered.Next we heard of the removal of the GovernorGeneral and the chief of the school Board. Lastweek the man who locked the door of the Karadawarschool fell dead suddenly in the street.Another man—a wealthy Ansairee—who hadbeen a great enemy to the schools, has bad symptomsof paralysis which have so alarmed him,that his brother came Saturday begging Doctorto treat him.The teacher of the Karadawar school is qiute.March 12th.—Again the Governor sent forthe headmen of the village of Karadawar andordered them to close the school. They repliedthat they could not do so. He then put themin prison tiU they would sign a sealed paper tothe effect that they did not want the teacherthere. This they did yesterday. Of course this

Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad. 95breaks np the school for the present. On hisway down this morning the teacher passed severalTurkish horsemen going up. He presumed thatthey were going to arrest him ; he has just nowgone back. His labors have not been fruitless, fortwo of his pupils ask to be baptized, and thecommon people have learned to count us theirfriends. Adana school was honored with a visitfrom a Government officer last week, who tookdown the children's names and carried away someof the books. I suppose this is preparatory toan attempt to shut it again.March I5th.—Doctor went to Tarsus day beforeyesterday, and has been sick ever since,which has prevented his finishinghis accounts forthis mail. The Karadawar school has dwindleddown to four. The Doctor had a call from theGovernor yesterday. He had become alarmedabout himself and came to see if Doctor thoughtde looked ill ! Strange that he can be trusted,when their life is at stake, if he is such a dangerousperson. Truly they testify against themselves.I inclose you part of a paper written by Dr.Livingstone. Perhaps it may be useful for theHerald of Mission News. I do hope some onemay be found to come out soon, for I do not seehow Doctor can stand it much longer withouthelp.The weather begins to be quite springlike.March 16th.—A letter came this morning fromthe Adana teacher saying that policemen hadbeen sent to the Sheikhs telling them to forbidthe attendance of their children at our school,and threatening with fines and imprisonmentthose who did not comply with these orders.Twenty-one have been taken away, but one hundredand fourteen still remain. I suppose thesetoo wiU be taken out.LETTER TO THE CHILDREN.Meksine, Tubket, Feb. 25,1888My Dear Little Friends : We have receivedseveral Fellaheen girls into sohool since I lastmandments herself, but does pretty fairly atteaching what she does know. She can saythe 23d Psalm in Arabic and partly in English,and knows portions of others. She is a nicelittle girl, and pretty, and has suoh a babyvoice. She and tour other girls about Jier ownsize make a nice class for L'.nnie Sletheny,and it is fun to see tbe little teaober and herlittle school. The two new little Muslimieswill probably be added to the class. Theirnames are Falima, Sadie, Edma, Teljy (thelittle deaf and dumb girl), Sakena and Aizema.Lotefa and Hameedie are lively little girls,aged about ten and seven years respectively.They oame as most children come to ua—raggedand dirty. So, as soou as Hameedie gota new dress on, sbe began spitting upon someof the other children, saying that her dresswas nicer than theirs. That same evening 1went into the sohool-room on an errand atterK ohool was dismissed, aud Janet Metheny wentin with me. 1 suppose she thought there wasone she had not yet spit upon, so Janet camein for a share. Upon being reproved, she defendedherself by saying that she had notknown that that was a daughter of the doctor.I haven't heard of any one having been spatupon since. The older sister tries to do asnear right as she knows, and is very diligent,learning nioely; she is also a willing worker.One day, when she saw me sweeping, she seizedthe broom, saying, " By the meroy of yourfather, let me sweep in your stead." Tbis isa form of adjuration j they adjure by whatthey think we hold most dear. I suppose shethinks my greatest desire is that my fathershould obtain meroy.I wonder whuther any of you ever heard ofa full grown camel taking a cart ride 1 Onemorning, a week or so sincOj I heard a camelroaring most ferociously dowu on the seashorebeside our lot, and, as it kept it up for a longtimeÎ commenced to feel provoked, and beganwrote you, and two tiny girls from the Muslims.One of tbese latter is only three years to inquire as to the cause; when I was toldold, but she oan learn something. Our little that it was sick, its noise ceased to annoyEsma, who was younger than she when we me, and I thought a great pity of thetook her, has become quite a little teacher. poor animal, but after a while I was toldShe teaches parts of verses to newcomers, tbat it was not sick at all, but contrary. Iand on sewing days she tries to teach the ten rather tbink there was something else than illoommandments to some ot the little folks who behaviour the matter, for I do not think itdo not sew. She does not know all the com,-would have allowed the caravan to move awaywithout it had it been able to rise. Its poor

96 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.driver who was a servant to its owner was in they be reopened or not ? The seed sown ingreat distress, as his companions had all deyearparted for Iconium whence all belonged, and bear fruit as seen by the ingathering at Gunpast in these oat stations is beginning tohe did not know whether to shoot it or leave aimia on January 15th, when we had the pleasureot giving the right hand of fellowship toit or to remain until it should feel disposed tostart. He finallyconcluded to putit into a fourteen persons. We leave this matter withcart, whioh he did, roping it securely. Two the friends of Jesus.buffaloes were attached and away they went. Mr. Easson has also translated the followingYou may be interested to know that we are extract from a letter of Jacob Hudeed's:feeding nearly 400 poor children who attend While sitting one day iu the house with aour schools, and while they are thinking abouttheir bodies we are trying to make them thinkabout their souls.Very much love to you all,E. M. Steekett.why do you not circumcise your children ? IRev. H. Easson writes from Latakia under answered him, "My children have no need ofdate March 7 :We feel the Lord has been with us duringthe past year. I got word from the Consullast mail permitting us to re-open our closedschools. He recommends wisdom and prudence80 as not to cause friction, and alsoasks me to wait a week or two to be sure hisExcellency the Vali has sent word to the undergovernors. Whai the result will be 1know not J but this we do know that He -whoseGod." He then said, " Jesus is not Lord butonly a prophet like the other prophets thatwork it is holds the reins and will control allhave appeared on the earth." I answered, we.things to His own glory. If this order can behave proofs many that he is Lord. We havecarried out, that will take our ten schools,Lawand the prophets to whioh we may add themarked as under Government ban, out intoPsalms of David, All these tell of the comingof the Christ the Lord, and the Gospelsthe light and no doubt will increase the numberof pupils in them. Hana Iskander who ismake it clear that Jesus is both Lord andnow going from village to village will be located;but more than this we can't do withoutChrist, And we are commanded to worshiphim and obey him. He asked, " Who is moremore money Tartous, Melket, Souda, Istubgo,Karsano, and many other villages haveancient, Jesus or Mose.-i?" I answered, Jesuswas before Moses, for He as Lord is an unchangeablespirit. He said, " Before Abrabeen asking for schools, and, as soon as theyhear that the ban has been removed, their callsham was I am.." He then asked whiob iswill be louder than before and we know fromgreater, Moses or Jesus ? I answered," Jesuswhat we have seen and heard that the appealour Lord is the greater, for he created Moses j"Come over and help us," will come tousand all of the prophets are tbe servants of hisfrom many other places. Will the friends ofhouse and he is the heir to the kingdom of theChrist inform us what to answer ? You haveFather." Uhe Sheikh then said, " the Koranbeen pleading with us to the Lord of the workdoes not call him Lord." I answered " thethat he would restrain his enemies and re opengospels and the books given betore are sufficientas a testimony that he is Lord and a greatthe closed doors, and 1 have no doubt many ofyou have added. Oh Lord open wider doors,prophet. This is also proved by the manyfor tby word of truth to enter. We will saymiracles performed by him and recorded inthese fiveschools ought to be re-opened andand they can be opened at an average cost of$120 a year each or $600 for the five.Shallnumber of people a Sbeikh came in and satdown with us. One of those present turnedto his friend and said, this is a Sheikh whocircumcises children. Then he said to me,cleansing ( as they call oircnmoision) becausethey are clean and we gave them the sign audseal of their cleansing in their baptism, in thename of the Father, ofthe Son and of theHoly Spirit, the one God, and their cleansingis by faith and union in God and in his Sontheir Saviour and Mediator." The Shiekhthen turned to me and said, " Then you havethree Gods?'' I answered," We have only onehis book. Also his enemies said of him, " Noman ever spake like this man." The Sheikhthen asked, " why do you not aooept Mahom.

Incidents in Mission Life.mar, he and his younger brother found thesepearls. At the time when tbe hearts of allthe brave men in America were stirred at thenews of tbeir country's peril, these two brothersenlisted in different Minnesota regiments.While in their countiy's service the pearlswere found by them in the oysters, two in thePotomac River, and two off tbe coast at Newbem.North Carolina.Through many severe conflicts and longoontinuedsickness in the hospital, the tryingwdeal was passed; and at the close of thedreadful contest the brothers reached home,the elder much enfeebled in health, the youngersoon to die from injuries received in the service.The years pass by, and we find the elderbrother a husband and father. God gave him,among other children, a dear little light-hairedMaster's feet, sayiog, " He hatb nted of these."It was during the meetings ofthe Missionaryblueeytd girl, oalled Azula, who was the Union, held in Minneapolis, May, 1887, thatbrightness and joy of his home. Pure and dear " Aunt Lizzie " went upon the platformsweet was her little life, and the precious and presented for sale a neck lace and bracelets,—giftswhich a noble hearted lady hadpearls came into her possession. God permittedher to stay upon earth only fiveshort years ; consecrated to tbe oause of missions. Responsesin one-dollar offerings came from allbut she seemed to have been sent as a sweetlittle missionary from heaven. Her thoughts parts of the room, and finally little Graee97mad as a prophet f I answered, "Our gospeldoes not tell us of a prophet of that name Many profess with the tongue tbeir love tobook, and commanded us to accept thero.and thia gospel oloses by the words : 'If any Jesus, but tbeir hearts are far from hira.man shall add unto them (tbe words of thisUiail0111*11 m;v«v.» «î,.. xîL^^^M.. û.ju TTUiuuvri JUIOThetmjLIharvest truly i,3 great but tbe laborersbook) God shall add unto him the plagues are few. Pray ye therefore, etc. If we planwhich are written in tbis book, &o.'" I never and sow faithfully and earnestly, our Lordread that Mahommed performed miracles, but will give us to see the fruit ofour labur.he toek words and ideas from God's HolylM€IMMMr& IM M i m m M MiwmbTHE STORY OF FOUR PEARLS. were always of the heavenly home. She wouldNestling in a tiny box, on soft tissue paper, fix her eyes, of peculiar brightness, upon thoselay four precious pearls. Tender memories wbom she met, and say, " Do you love God 1 "clustered around them. Loving little hearts "Do you pray to him ?" Her brief life washad cherished them. They were the choicest a benediction to those by wbom she was surrounded,and two precious jewels for the Mastreasures of two little girls, Mittie and Carrie,aged, respectively, eight and eleven.ter's crown were won as the results ot her hallowediifiuence. Her grandfather and a Years ago, when their father was a youngbrotherwere led by her to Christ. Living io thehearts of all who knew her are precious memoriesof little Azula.In a few years atter her death God stnt intotbis home two more little girls, Carrie andMittie, and the pearls tbat were Azula's weregiven to them. In a safe hiding place theywere stored, until the careful savings of olderbrothers should be suflScient to purchase goldsettings in which they might be worn by thelittle girls. Seasons of discouragement came.At one time it seemed almost necessary topart with them in payment of a debt, but Godgave means in another way, and the preciouspearls were kept.'The time oame, however, when willingly,even witb joy, tbe little girls laid them at the

98 Incidents in Mission Life.Freiday, the child of one of the missionaries The Christians were driven from their vii'upon the platform, was lifted upon tbe back lages, and their pr. perty was plundered. Theofa pew, and presented from her chubby little colporteur was seized and twice within fortyhand" one dollar from Upper Burmah." eight hours dragged before the literati andNear by sat Mittie with her mother, and called upon to recant. This he refused to do.with tears in her eyes she said, "It I had He was therefore tortured by being suspendidtwelve dollars, I would give them all." The by tbe arms during the night. The nextnext day the children decided that they must morning he was brought forward in an enfeehgivetheir precious pearls. Soon afterwards led state, pale acd trembling, for a second trial.they were presented to the treasury ofthe So- The cffioials and mandarins were cowed intociety of the West, at an early morning meet- submission by the gentry j but tbis brave olding, just after the leader, by a fittingcoinci- man was still firm In his resolve to cleave todence, had been reading the words, " Suffer his Bible and Christ, and expressed a hope thatlittle children to come unto Me." Tbe box his judge would some day embrace the newwhich contained them was wrapped up in a doctrine. This was more than they could tolpaperwith the words, " Silver and gold have erate, and, like the judges of Stephen, they ranI none, but suoh as I bave give I thee.—Car- upon him with one accord, and killed him onrie and Mittie."the spot by repeated blows of their side arms.Their father said that the children were and threw him into the river. Thus perishedglad to dedicate their treasure to tbe Master's the first Protestant Christian In China.—use, hoping that their pearls might help some Christian at Work.souls to obtain the " Pearl of great price." ^lL NATIONS SHALL SERVE HIM.Weeks after the gift was made, he said it wastouching to hear his little daughters in their ^''®° William Carey pleaded long ago withdaily prayers asking God to bless their pearls. * pastoral meeting at Northampton to send thej/jg King's Messengers gospel to the heathen, the president arose andFIRST MARTYR IN CHINA.said, '' Young man, sit down ; wben Godispleased to convert tbe heathen, he will do itIn the City ol Pok-Io, on the Canton East without your aid or mine." By God's grace,River, a Confucian temple-keeper received the William Carey's zeal was not extinguished byScriptures from a colporteur ofthe London the presidential rebuke, and the Baptist Mismission,became convinced of the folly of idol- sionary Society that delights to honor hisatry, and was baptized by Dr. Legge. He name and works is striving with ever-inoreasgaveup his calling, and set to work among ing efforts to carry out the Lord's commandhis acquaintances and friends as a self- ppoint- and preach the gospel to every nation. " SixedScripture-reader. He would go through ty years ago," said the late Mr. Rice, of thethe streets of the city and country around London Missionary Society, " the Indian govwitha board on his back containing some text ernment ordered that missionaries must notof Scripture. So successful was he that in preach to natives. Now Hindu children flockthree years' time about 100 people were bap- by thousands to Christian schools, natives buytized ; and so mightily grew the word of God Cbristiau books in great numbers, and the edandprevailed; that surprise and hostility were ucation of th

Notes and Bemews. 99" is blind, and the other nearly so; this mustbe the saving of some time, and the denial ofa little tea and sugar for some time to oome."—Quiver.POWER OF THE GOSPEL.An Indian Fakir, having been converted tothe gospel, still occupies a position by the sidesinoe." This year the Churoh Missionary Societyis eighty-eight years old ; some of thehoBored men who oalled it into being wereJohn Venn, Henry Thornton, Scott the commentator,and William Wilberforce. In theSociety's Fuhkein Mission eleven years passedwithout the apparent result of one convert;after fourteen years of labor, that branch reportedthree thousand adult converts and sevof a great thoroughfare, but instead of standingenty preaching places. " Ye shall reap, " says on one foot and holding his hand above histhe Master, " if ye faint not." A work bouse head for hours at a time, as before, he haschaplain telh of two poor women inmates whocame to him after the service and brought himbuilt a little chapel and dug a well, where heentertains passers by with a cooling draugh*-,a contribution " for the missionaries." He while he discourses to tbem of the waters offound three six pence and two pennies in the eternal life.paper, "One of the old women, '' says he,§(Û^ mil §mm^.—At the bi-monthly meeting ot the Board devotion and conscientiousness. In many ra'of Foreign Missions, held in New York on the spects I would class him, A. No. 1. He is a27th ot Marob, Mr. James S. Stewart was, at young man oi sound judgment.his own request, appointed missionary to Latakia,The following certificate was received fromSyria. In making this request, he Prof. D. B. Willson : Mr. James S. Stewartwrote, " I realize, I trust, the importance of has been known to me for tbe four sessions ofthe undertaking, and the difficulties to be cveroome.his term uf theological study. He has beenI do nut plead any speoial fitnessfor a careful and diligent student, aud has shownthe work, nor do I trust in myself, but in Him in his cours e toward the ministry patience andwho says, ' Thy shoes shall be iron and brass, perseverance in overcoming difliculties. Heand as thy days, so shall thy strength be,' and has been a teacher and has had experience in'My grace is suflaoient for thee; for my city mission work during the summer of 1886strength is made perfect in weakness.' I am in Beaver Falls, and in pastoral work in thepersuaded that the Master calls me to this New Ca.slle oongregation in 1887, during Rev.service, and that I can depend on Him for support.J. M. Wylie's absence in tbe West. In hisShould you appoint me it is my puroffer of himself for foreign service, he carriespose to give the remainder of my life on eartb with him my good will and prayers.to this work."The above statement bore the cheerful andAccompanying this application were excellenthearty endorsement of the venerable Dr.testimonials to the personal character andattainments of Mr. Stewart. Rev. J. C. Smith,of Rose Point, Pa., wrote : I have known himThomas Sproull.The following appreciative sentences arefrom the pen of Prof. J. K. MoClurkin : Mr.irom boyhood. He was examplary in childhoodStewart is a thorough scholar an experienoedand yiutb, and has always shown unusual teacher and a successful preacher. Aboveall

100 Notes and Beviews.these attainments he manifests also a deep called for should be raised before the meetingearnestness, and a spirit of true consecration, of Synod.I know that he has not taken this step with- It is right to say that liberal donations forout deep tbougbt and continued prayerful con- this purpose, not noted in these columns, bavesideration ; and I feel assured that his willing- been forwarded by individuals and congreganessto surrencêr himself to this work is tions to our Treasurer. For instance, the Suppromptedby the truest motives. We were erintendent of the Sabbatb Sohool connectedall greatly rejoiced when Mr. Stewart decided with 2d Philadelphia writes that on receipt ofto take this step, and from my own personal the Circular arrangements were at once madecontact with bim during the past session of for a special collection, which amounted tothe Seminary I feel great confidence tbat he $178,23. Then the Sabbath School, learningwill prove worthy of any trust that may be of tbe need of prompt action unanimouslycommitted to him.voted $331 of its collection for 1887, the bal-Arrangements bave been made for tbe or- ance of $300 going to the general Fund ofthedination of our young brother on Thursday, Foreign Mission Board. The boys' MissionMav 31st, at 7: 30 P. M, during the session Band of Miss Katie Brown's class also devotedof Synod. The Pittsburgh Presbytery has their offerings for tbe whole year for the benefitcourteously invited members of other Presby- of the boys in Latakia. This is good newsteries to take a leading part in the services, and reveals a missionary ppirit that is abovehoping in tbis way to deepen tbe interest of all praise. We shall be glad to bear fromthe wbole church in our foreign missions. other churches.. The need yet is urgent.Mr. Stewart will leave with h'S wife, and two ^ , -,.,, f, ., „..,, cai- u —Our delegates to Syria and Oilicia reachedchildren as soon after the middle of September ,, ,, , J f .1, • 1 i. Alexandria safely m nineteen days from Newas arrangements can be made for their depart- „ , . •; , •'^ York. A letter from Elder H. O'Neill, datedCairo, March 29tb, brings the good news—Since our last issue there bas been handed that the brethren are both in good health andto us forthe Boy's School building in Latakia: are ei joying their tripCash $10,00This is the offering of one of the devoted —

PUBLISBED WITE TBE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBT'fERlAN CBURCB,U, S. A.mx Wxm^ 0f ^mxm ^^mkPRESENT ASPECT OF FOREIGN MISSION WORK AMONG WOMEN.Margaret E. Sangster. Reformed Church,'Women have always been among the chief supportersand ardent friends of the cause of foreignmissions. With a confident love and a readinessto believe and obey her Lord, the woman who isHis disciple in a Christian land realizes her debtto llim'for all that makes life beautiful and full ofopportunities that are precious, and so hastens tofulfil His last command.We grieve at the admission, but we do notfind the universal interest and sympathy with ourWhere shall we begin ?Lord, which leads to continual and efficient cWe do not hesitate to answer : First, on the operation with Him. A general feeling of earnest'home-side her duty is plain. eonviction would crowd our missionary meetThere is somethingto'be done at home by every woman whose desireings, although no special attraction had been prois to live a consecrated life. Onr Lord bade vided, would train the little children from theHis disciples begin at Jerusalem.outset in snch love and desire that they wouldEach of us in her own special sphere must find gladly help to send the gospel to the heathen,her.Jerusalem. Her own place ! Her own work ! never remembering the time when they had notPlace and work which belong to nCbody else, for the missionary spirit, wonld make us eager eitherwhich nobody else is responsible.to go in person or to send our substitutes to theIn ber closet, where in still and sacred hours, front. We should not need continual spurring,a divine presence condescends to meet her in communionnor would our Boards groan under wearying burand a divine illumination is poured upon dens of debt.her soul. In her nursery, where dimpled fingers Rejoicing in every token of a kindling enthusiasm,we lament the apathy which yet exists ascling to her gown and rosy lips are lifted for herlîss. In her drawing-room,where she meets friends a reproach upon the Christian name. We longand neighbors and often has an opportunity to for a revival in the home church, and in thesay a word for her Master, where every day she church in every home.may fillthe atmosphere with the fragrance of The work abroad, as we survey it, is full of encouragement.some alabaster box broken for His sake. AtThe reluctance which once barredlier desk, where she writes her letters, at her the door against the missionary and made it diificultkneading board, where she to moulds the familyreach the hearts of the women, isbread, at the table where she presides, in all her rapidly passing away. At the point of the tinyoccnpatioiis and engagenients, however unobtruneedle has been found the entering wedge, andsive or even horaely, she may show such devotionto Jesus, that beginning there her influence willbe felt in the ends of the earth. We all feel themother's spirit in the foreign work. Indifferenceon her part means indiff'erence in the conduct ofher husband and children.Would that there were more fully consecratedChristian women, awake to the duty of spreadingthe good tidings ofthe kingdom.

102 Our Views of Mission Worh.with tbis truly feminine weapon women have Christ and her hope for her country-women inpierced into the guarded seclusion of Oriental His name.homes. Also the woman who comes, following From our Women's Board after five years ofher Saviour's example, with heaUng for the body, patient waiting and persevering search, a gentlehas found a way to heal the aches of the soul. Chinese girl, who graduated first on the roll inIt is the old magic ofthe sunbeam penetrating her class in medicine, who had received in herthe ice armor and winning its way by soft per- American home the highest possible trainmg,.suasion.has gone to Amoy to represent us as our medicalDuring her recent visit to our shores, the missionary there. Dr. Y. Mey King, a ChristianQueen of the Sandwich Islands spent much time Chinese, representing an American church onin visiting our institutions and looking into our Chinese soil, carrying comfort to beds of pain,educational methods, in itself an interesting fact, carrying life to the dying !since much more lately than our own, her ances- Is not the mention of this fact full of inspiratorswere heathen. We forget the debt that we tion ? Enough to thrill us with thankfulness,and most civihzed peoples owe to the early Chris- making us thank God and take courage.tian missionaries, who preached the gospel to our Par from reaching the lower classes only, thonghfar away savage forefathers. Let us not forget, thank God we are joyful that the poor in everysince it is tbe miracle of the age, the history of land have the gospel preached to them and aremissions in the Sandwich Islands, so marvellous the first to receive it gladly, we now find theas to excite the word of praise, " What hath daughters of the rich and noble crowding to theGod wrought 1" doors of our schools. A Princess of Japan is aLet us glance at India. Ignoring the tradi- resident pupil in Ferris Semiuary, Yokahama.tions of centuries, in the most conservative coun- A Buddhist priest has placed his daughter theretry in the world, high-caste women oi India have within a few weeks.actually left home, undertaken a journey formid- From the doors of that school during the lastable indeed when contrasted with the narrow year 110 pupils were turned away for lack of acrangeof thek previous life, and come to us to commodation, the lack which the beloved Prmdstudythe science of medicine. The slender fig- pal. Rev. Eugene S. Booth, worked so diligentlyures of graceful Hindoo women in their native to overcome during his vacation at home. It isdress flitting through the streets of Philadelphia not every school in America which can count itson their way to and fi-omlectures, would, a gen- entire alumnie as Christian, strange to say, buteration ago, have been deemed, as indeed they thus far every graduate of Ferris Seminary is awould then have been, not flesh and blood reali- baptized believer.ues, but airy creations of the brain. The best In this school, uot inferior in any departmentofit all is that they do not in vain dwell within to the highest seminaries iu our own land, educaourChristian envhonment, but return to the ted women are being trained so that they will beEast clothed upon with that beauty of holiness the friends and equals of the educated men whowhich isto change the whole face of Eastern will seek them in marriage. One ofthe hopefulhousehold life.aspects of foreign missiou work among women isThousands of American women and giris have the importance accorded to giving them a symlistenedto the sweet voice and viewed the serene metrical education. Already at Ferris Seminarycountenance ofthe learned Pundita, who has there are those who have cheerfully borne perseipokensobravely and feelingly of her faith in cation for Christ's sake, and in the weekly prayer

Our Views qf Misaion Wor'h. 108meeting held oy the girls their accents are full of at theu* birth, and then remember how Chrispersuasion, because it has cost them something to love has already wrought some change, broughtserve the Lord.better conditions in even the most degraded places,When in the early Autumn Mr. and Mrs. our hearts are full. But there is very much stillBooth returned to their school after the long ab- to be done. There are yet mothers in China whosence at home, there was a pretty sight for any throw away the sickly girl babe, whom it wiUinterested observer. Dra-vn up in two long lines cost too much to rear. There is yet a publicto receive them were the Japanese pupils, crying opinion which justifies this course as -tnse econintheir ft'esh young voices, "Welcome! Wei- omy.come ! Welcome home !" Garlands of flowers Still, we hope and pray and labor and give.were everywhere with " Greeting ' and " Wei- God's blessing will rest ou the liberal hand, ascome" repeated in leaves and buds ; and Mrs, on the devout heart. For ere long we expect toBooth, writing to a friend here and describing it cry : " Mine eyes have seen the glory of theall, said touchingly : " Nothing in the home land coming Lord 1''except my mother's welcome went to my heart as Education without Christianity would be nodid the reception of these girls., I can scarcely boon to the heathen woman. It would placewrite to you about it for the tears !"her only where the dancing girls of India haveRemembering the faith, the courage, the per- always been, the ministers of depravity and handsistencyof Mr. Booth in raising money for the maids of vice. Education without Christianityenlargement of Ferris Seminary, do you not feel would take from the heathen woman the childishlike raising a Te Deum Laudamas that his work panoply of ignorance in which she drifts throughwas crowned with success ?dreamy and idle days, a child to the end, evenBight hundred miles away, across Japan, in the when her premature age drives childish charmbeautiful harbor town of Nagasaki, we have at away.lastthe Jonathan Stuiges Seminary in actual op- Education and Christianity, in combmation,eration with two teachers and giris crowding in the one the complement of the other, wiU loosento be taught AU honor to our brave little lady, her fetters, bless her home, and enable her toMary E. Brokan, who held the fort so long alone, bear her sons and daughters iu equal joy andNo difficulty, she writes, exists in findingpupils, pride of maternity. It is this which our Women'snow that we have a building in which to accom- Board is trying to do.modate them. That the Lord's Work is to be carried on inDo we not behold in anticipation the home the future with no drawbacks or hindrances welights twinkling across the sea ? Betier homes cannot suppose. Only two years ago in thefor China, for India, for Japan! Homes in bright month of October, in Central Africa, Jameswhich woman emancipated from serfdom shaU sit Huntington, that splendid Englishman, whoseby her husband his equal, companion and friend ? life we have lately read, faced the levelled gunsWives who shall not be only the play things of of the savages who had led him out to die. twopassion, not even only the mothers of their years ago ! We shall never be sure that thesons. Brightening on to the perfect day, this glo- martyr's crown, in some sudden outbreak of hearious workof woman for woman is only in its dawn, then fury, may not be bound upon the brows ofOh ! When we think of the long wail of down- some dear missionary pf our own. Christ's wittroddenwomanhood, of the unwelcome giri child- nesses whether in Ufe or in death, the noblem, 4espl5|e4 fpoijj %ir praties, if pot ptr»n|Ie4 firmj' 9f fft%Bip|iaries, men ^pd wom,en, ar? êep-

104 Items of Missionary Intelligence.ing nothing back. Theirs is the crystalline vision.Theirs the unstinted service.Shall we dare to be less faithful ?An open door, wheresoever it is set, means forUS a deepened responsibility. It Zenana workbeckons and we refuse to give it aid ; if Amoypatiently teaching and patiently sending out nativeBible women, calls for more material aid, andour purse strings are tightly drawn ; if anywhere there is a God's call which we decline tohear, then to us will be the woe which waspronounced on the servant who hid his lord'smoney.Over against the treasury I think I see a faceonce marred with thorns, and I hear a voicewhich says, thrilling through all the world's confusion," I gave my life lor thee;What hast thou given for Me 3"Are there those who have sons and daughters,and who shrink from giving them to the Lord'swork ? Never was the work so urgent. Neverwas the harvest swifter to ripen for the sickle.Let the lesson of the hour come home to us, dearfriends, dear women of our Church, wives,mothers, daughters, looking forth over the heathenworld " Work while the day lasts.''Blessed will each of us be, if the Master regardingus from above, shall tenderly say, " She hathdone what she could."Items of IVlissionary Intelligence.ABROAD.REPOBT OF SYRIAN MISSION, 1887-88.To the Board of Foreign Missions :Dear Brethren : In the past year we havehad many things to encourage us. The missionarieshave none of us been prostrated by sickness,and we have been able to pursue our work withlittle interruption There has been an iucreaseto our numbers. Dr. Balph and family reachedLatakia, October 15, 1887, and later MissDodds, who had come to meet her sister Mrs.Balph, was appointed by the Board to work inthe mission.This has been a harvest year in our history.Thirty-one have been received into the fellowshipof the church, and seven children have been baptized,making an addition of the native membershipof thirty-nine. In Latakia there has beena friendly spirit of inquiry very refreshing. Inthe mountains although the local government hasrefused to allow the opening of the schools, yetthe children, where we have had schools, havebeen tanght and God's Word has been expoundedto many. Very lew refuse to listen and manytake a deep interest. Tbe people of Gendareyehhave erected a little chapel, the first that hasbeen built in our field by the native people. Wehave been able to have two schools for girls inthe villages, and we have opened a school in theIsland of Cyprus.We have also had our discouragements. Ithas pleased the Lord to take from us our goodand faithful steward. He was endeared to all ofus who had known him for his long and faithfulservice, and humble honest integrity. He was agood true man, an Israelite in whom was noguile, and we miss him sorely in our work. Whilewe endeavor to teach a pure and undefiled religion,Satan is unwilling to let go his hold. It ishard for the people to give up old customs andsuperstitions, aud to bear reproach for the sakeof the truth, it is understood that Mohammedansdo not use intoxicating drinks. It is prohibitedby their religion, but only the religion ofJesus cau keep men from falling into that snare,so that we meet with this curse to fight on aUhands. The government annoys us in many waysand oftentimes we would be well nigh overwhelmed,only that we kuow that the Lord reigns. Hehas told us to be still and know that He is Godand that He will be exaited among the heathen.'We know that the Lord of hosts is with us,the God of Jacoi) is our refuge. Therefore,through all the mist and darkness we can see thelight sown for the righteous, and we rejoice inthe Lord and give thanks at the remembranceof His holiness.The schools in Latakia have been carried on asin the past. We had the usual summer vacationof the boarding-schools of two months. It is theopinion of the mission that this is best both for

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 105ourselves and the pupils. Christ said to his disciples" Come ye yourselves apart into a desert tions of the young to something higher than merethe people. We have tried to raise the aspiraplace and rest awhile." We need a little leisure worldly amusements. The sick and those into think of and discuss plans for the future. We trouble have been visited. When time and opportunityhave ofiered we have read to themust write letters to interest friends in the workand gather up many little odds and ends. We women, and have held reUgious conversation withhave found also that the pnpils appreciate their them'. The women of the Christian sects seemprivileges here more, after they have visited their pleased to enter into religious conversation Thehomes, and have contrasted them with this. And Moslem women are not anxious to hear ofwe think they need to know how to stand the ' Christ the true prophet, but they would be gladtrials, and to know wherein they are weak, before to have us visit them. This is a step in advance,they leave us altogether, as they must do sooner and -we.pray that in God's own time they wdlor later.The boys' day-school has an enrollment of onehundred. It was carried on during the vacationmonths with the exception of two weeks. Theboys' boarding-school numbers thirty-nine. It isunder the care of licentiate Yacob Geredeny.Miss Edgar has visited it once a week and Mrs.Easson has taught one of the English classes.Ten boys from it at the last communion made aprofession of their taith in Christ. We are grateful,for money with which to purchase a lot for abuilding for this school. A suitable one can beobtained, not too far away or too near ihe presentmission grounds, and we are making arrangementsfor building as soon as we shall have receivedfunds for the purpose.The girls' day-sehool numbers one hundred andten, and the girls' boarding-school fifty-three.As heretofore the girls in these schools recite together.Miss Edgar is now able to take a shareof the responsibility, as well as of the work, andMiss Dodds since her appointment has takencharge of the cutting ^nd oi an English class. It„is. qur hope and,,,trnlt that this'our " three-foldopen a school for girls in connection with herfather's school. She has a good school of fromtwelve to fifteenpupils. There are'from twentyfiveto- thirty in the boys' school in this place.cord *' of workers' nl&y not;' quickly'be broken.Five girls at the''end"of the schobi year finished ' Tartoos, Melchi and Souda have sent several petitionsasking to have their schools re-opeued, buttheir course of study, and three of' the nnmberhave since been engaged in teaching and have the present time we have not been able to getshown very eomniendable zeal. Two of the girls permission of the governmentat our last communion applied for admission and " 2d, Nusairiyeh Mountains. In this district wewere enrolled as' members of the visible church. have n© schools oflicially opened. But we have, 'ihe little girls under onr care are loving, tractteacherable and promising, and those of us who have Debbash. Part of the year we had, a teacher atat Idrahana, Coloria, Murhz, Eldany andcharge of them feel it to be the very highest privilegeto train them, for Christ. The women's daughter Howa opened a school in connection' Umzara. In , the Murzh Meaulim Daoud sprayer-meeting througii the efforts,of Mrs. Easson with her father's school, and has earned it onIS StiU carried on and" seems to givp_ comfortenjoyment,^ to tbose who attend. ' , , ^ .,._ ,It has heen the aim of all of us outside of routmeduties to use all the infiuence possible withbow at the loot of the cros--, and humbly payhomage to the King of kings.In Latakia the brethren have not forsaken the" assembling of themselves together." We havehad services twice every Sabbath, and the Thursdayevening prayer-meeting ha,s been hold, thesehaving been conducted by Mr. Easson whenpresent, and by licentiate Yacob Geredeny in hisabsence. As formerly the week of prayer wasobserved.Mr. Easson during the year has dispensed theLord's Supper in fivedifferent places,viz.: EldanySuadea, Gendareyeh, Latakia and Gunaimia.He thus reports in regard to the work outside ofLatakia :" 1st, Markab. In tbis district we have onlyone school at present. This school, which is atMettin, since August 1st has had an apartmentfor the giris. the daughter' of the teacher theregraduated from the girls' boarding-school in Latakialast summer and was sent by the mission toand since July. In these seven villages about onehundred and twenty .pupils are taught either mthe teacher's house or in the house of the parents.' " 3d, PMns near Latakia. We have m this

106 Items qf Missionary Intelligence.part of the fieldat present four teachers, three ofwhom tfeach in the villages of Ain Lebn, Gendareyehand Mosherafa ; and the other goes fromvillage to viUage reading and explaining theWord of God to the peoplp. In these three villagesthe pupils taught will nnmber about forty.The people of Gendareyeh deserve to be commendedifor their zeal in building a chapel forworship. And we must npt forget the womenwbo have helped, not with " that which theyhad spun" as did the Wpmen who helped withthe tabernacle, but to carry stones and water,thereby deserving to be counted with those "wholabored in the gospel." i" 4th, Jabel Ekrad. We have two teachers atpresent in this district ; at Gunaimia and Inkzik.The school of the latter is closed at present, butduring the firsthalf of the year there were fromtwenty to thirty pnpils At present there are inthe schdol at Gunaimia twenty pupils, in allforty-five. The leaven of &e gospel is workingin both these villages and the Lord is blessingthe work of His servants At tbe communionin Gunaimia on the I5th of January, 1888,fourteen persons united with us in the commemorationoi ;the dying love of our Lord and SaviourJesus Christ. At Inkzik many have lost theirfaith in ihe creature and are beginning to trustaU to the Almighty Saviour, and we hope soonto reap an abundant harvest here." 5th, Suadea The work here seems moreprosperous than ever before. The schools arefuller and tbe feature of the work which causesus to rejoice more than all is the awakeningamong the people of Suadea, Formerly the dayschoolwas very small, numbering from ten totwenty This year there ar^ fifty names on theroll and a daily attendance pf over thirty pupils." In the pa.st We could not induce the people toput their boys in tbe boarding school, and whenthey did put them in, a word from the Bishop orPriest would cause them to take them out again.This year tbere are twenty-six pupils in theboarding school in Saudea.j nine of whom arefrom tbe Suadea district and there are fivepupilsfrom there in the Latakia boarding schools' Praybr-meeting has been held twice every Sabbath,an(t on Thursday evenings during the year.Also Sabbath-school every' Sabbath, and theword has been officially preadhed seven Sabbaths.The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was dispensedin iJftlj' after the closing pxaRînation ofthe school, and one person united with the Church."Mrs Yates has been prompt in her remittancefor the support of the work, and by the donartions of native brethern and missionaries twentythreesingle bed-steads have been provided forthe school, which not only improves its appearance,but lightens the labors of the teachers ahdprevents sickness among the pupils." 6th, Cyprus. This island at jiresent is veryeasy of access to our mission one night's travel bythe steamer. We have been thinking for yearsthat Cyprus, one of the Bible-mission stations,ought to again be occupied for Christ, there beihgneither missionary or mission station on theisland. In the Providence of God a way wasopened, and about the same time a suitableteachef Was left without work by the closing ofhis school in the Nuaiariyeh mountains, and themission decided to enter this new fieldtrusting tothe Master of the work to provide the means forits extension to Nicosia, Lunersol, Farmagartaaod other parts of the island." 'l'he work opened at Larnica is new, and wecan say little about its fnture, but the prospectsappear good and eveu better than we expected." There are from twenty-five to thirty pnpUs indaUy attendance made up of Syrians, Jews andCypriates. About half of the pupils meet withthe teacher on Sabbath afternoons and spend anhour or more in the study of God's Word. Thelanguage of the island is Greek and hence we hadto employ a native helper. The head teacherreceives about $15.00 per month, and the helper,$7.00. 'l'he school rooms cost $.{.28 per month,in all $27 28." We hope as soon as the hardthn&s pass to rediicethis by charging a smÛ'tuition ofthosewho are able to pay. The Cypi'us agent of theBritish and Foreign Bible Society ver^ kindlypromised to sell Testaments and Bibles to our.pupUs at half price ; and perhaps he will be abletQ.secure a free grant to very poor pupQs." During our next visit we expect to call uponthe Governor of the island and the Superintentientof schools, and we hope to secure an interest inthe school funds."We pray tha t the friends of Jesus may be inducedto come forward to the help of the Lord'swork in Cyprus. Hnder EngUsh rule there isperfect religious liberty ; and aU English officialsas well as residents seem pleased -with our work.l^ tlfig connectioj^ \ pight mentiQB V^^^ ^Jf^^

ttems of Missionary Jnteliigence.inight prove a great benefit to our converts as a these opportunities. While feeling my own inaplaceof refuge where they can worship God in bility to perform acceptably this great work, Ipeace and satety. trust that I may be -^ndued with the wisdom" The books which we received from tbe British that cometh down from above, and realize in itsTract Society we distributed as prizes to worthy fullness the Masters' promise, 'Lo I with you alpupilsin aU our schools. We also give a Bible way even unto the end of the world.'"to a pupil who has committed the Shorter Cate- Since we began our report Mr. Easson has reehismwith proofs, aud a Psalm book to a pupil ceived a letter firom the Consul in regard to ovkwho has memorized the Psalms in meter. 'We closed schools, saying "that a reasonable timeearnestly desire to see another minister with us having been accorded, within which to examineand hope that ere long the Lord wiU moye the the documents submitt^ to the Viliyat byHhe reheartof some one to devote himself to this impor- sponsible heads ot our sehools it has been decidedtant work."to authorize the re-opening of all our closedMEniCAL DEPARTMENT. schools." Aud he further says, " I bave commu-Dr. Balph made a successful trip to Constanti- nicated this decision to.our Envoy Extrao('dinai7nople and has since with the aid of an interpreter and Minister Plenipotentiary at Constaniinople,been vigorously prosecuting his work. In the who promptly submitted it to His Highitess themeantime he^ is diligently studying Arabic so Grand Vizier, and a telegram has just bieen rethathe may"^ be able to offer soulr-emedies to ceived approving my proposed action, and requesttheseneedy people.ing me after informing to Valy to proceed." AndThe loUowing is hjs report:he instructs us that if after, waiting, a reasonable" We arrived at Latakia, Oct. 15th, 188T„ and time, the Valy to have given word to the localduring the month following our time was largely authorities no disposition seems to manifest itselftaken up with matters pertaininng to our new on the part of the Turkish Authorities to facilihome.Diiring this time, however, we treated tate the resumption ofthe studies in our suppressedover one hundred cases of various diseases, a nurn- schools, we will proceed to re-open them. 'ber of which was seen necessarily several times. And now, dear brethren, although at times itAs soon as I could leave my family, I proceeded has seemed that the way would be closed to us,to Constantinople to comply with the law relat- we all see that that time has never yet come.ing to medical practice in this country. I was Let us wait upon the Lord and be of good courabsenton this trip about one month. As soon age, for we know that when His set time is come,as possible after my return the necessary arrange- He will arise and have piercy upOn Zion.ments were make for holding a Clinic at stated Respectfully submitted - >hours in the lower pajt of the mission building inIn the namo;pf the mission,which I reside. My lamented predecessor, theMattie R. Yu yiie, Sec'y.late Dr. Dodds, had found that this plan greatlyfacilitated the work of examining patients withstatistics of latakia mission.the least possible loss of time. For this purpose j.ob tbab bndino hakch isr, isas.three rooms are used, viz., a waiting room, officeand medicine room. Five Clinics are. held each ^-^%"Zn2rie8.-:.V.V:."V.V;.V;;.V.;.'.".:::'.:::. i "'week from 9 to 12 a. m. I append a statistical Native Members.... \v)report relating to the number of cases treat- 2. ^*5!duTtB"."".".".'.'.'.'.".".".;.";.'ii.'.'.'.';!"!.'.'.'!"".".' i *ed from the opening of the Clinic Jan. 12th children'.'.'. .'..."..'.....'.' ito March 1st, 1888, as weU as the diseases for ^-^^î^^foJl'^Jf"""""'*'. ••-•• 3 ^*which they were treated. And although the re- Native mem'b'era!.'.';;"."•!.';.'.'.'.".'!.'.'.".'.'.'.;". siport covers only a brief period of less than two 4. Decrease of oora«iuuicant«; &months, yet the experience of that time has been " °* i'Meriinesufficient to enable me to reaUze somewhat the Death*" """"" 1great opportunities that open up before the medi- ^ DeathsoiishiwVeu...................-....'..... acaiman in this land, and the great influence he 6. 8ch>ois 21may wield with this people. I hope that I also f.^^pSirySpî.^."'"-'."!!"'.'.'.'.".'.-.';.-.-.'.: 'arealize the weighty responsibilities that attend Boarding ., $l07

_1Q8 Our Views of Mission7. Pupils 6.59Day in proscribed, schools 212Day In other sehool 300Boarding 1178. Employees 41Mountain teachers 16Oity 'Ieachers , 1:IBible agents ,., 1General asent - -! '. 1Overseers of schoolsRuadea teachers 2Larnaca : 2Servant 8 ,. 5;;9. Contributions to the Churoh and its work.2 ^Missionaries7.184,onNa'lve members 2»1'2 03Cong, collections 897 32Medical Fees 1035,30Total, 13 028 67=8466 35Henry Basson.AT HOME.CHRISTIAN WORK AMONG THE SPANISH IN NEW YORK.*The work among the Spaniards may seemsmall in comparison with the work amongst thePoles and Germans, who number in this country,,probably somewhere near one hundred th«usand,but it is not less important because of the numbersbut rather perhaps more so, for they representmore than fiftymillions of people speakingthe Spanish tongue who are to be found in SouthAmerica, Me.-dco, Cuba and Spain. This work,is difficult and arduous and needs more friendsand more money. When this work was comSabbath I had the happiness of taking them withmenced here in New York city, three years ago, me to the Protestant church, this same woman-the great obstacle in the way was that many said and her little boys; and as we walked from thethat there were no Spanish here. Now we generallyfind what we look for, and I looked for how blessed it is to believe in Christ and believechurch she spoke of the sermon and said, "Oh,them aud found them. I had spent fiveyears in the promises of his Word ! When will the timeMexico ; I had seen the wonderful transforming come that my people shall be liberated from thepower of the Gospel over the hearts and homes chains of error and superstition that have keptof those who had been reached there. I was not • them down so long ? "afraid to go among the Romanists. I told them The most beautiful part of tbe work, however,the same story here that I told them there, aud is among the little ones, for to many of theseI have witnessed the same transforming power homes we have no access. They will receive usthat I saw in Mexico. I wonder why it is that perhaps cordially, or with tolerance aud kindnessour Christian people, those who love Christ and to a certain extent, but very soon show they wishwho believe in the precious promises found in the us away. They are too polite to refuse us entrance,but, at the same time, one with sensitiveWord of God, are so troubled about taking upthis work among the Romish ]ieople ? Tbey can ness cannot continually intrude, especially wherepray for everybody, even for those who have there is no hope of doing good. The childrennever heard of the gospel, but tbey cannot pray come to us from these same homes. We bavein faith for those who have been enchained by opened for them an industrial wdrk to which IRomanism. We do not glorify God wheu wedoubt His Word, for He has no where said thatYork, He "Address could September, at not Convention release 1887. of those Christian who Workers, are bound In New inWork.error. I wish you could have gone with me tosome of these homes and witness what I have witnessedin this city of New York. I wish you couldhave gone with me to see the shut-in ones thosewho are shut in their own homes by a lack of theknowledge of the English language, and mothersshut in their daughters to the same hopeless, aimlessexistence. The first beautiful thing I sawwas a Smile which met me when I began to talkwith them in their own tongue ; the next wastheir interest in music. Although I was nevermuch of a musician, and could do little beyondsinging the simplest hymns these hymns wouldtouch their hearts and they would respond withemphasis, " Oh, how the Christians must love usto send you to us," for I told them tbat tberewere Christians in New York city who lovedthem One touching instance gave me greathope and courage. One Romanist, who hadbeen brought to this country, had lived an entirelysecluded life for eleven years until I wentto see her She was taken suddenly ill, so illtbat the physician warned her that life would bevery short. She at once sent for me to come toher bedside. She said, "You do not know whata comfort it has been to me tobelievethat Christis the media' or between God and man ; to know,when I have no friends, no one to intercede forme, that he is ready and willing to help me." Shesaid, " If I go home to dwell with Jesus, willyou take my little boys and train them in thegood Protestant way ? " She recovered, and last

Items of Missionary Intelligence 109have given the name simply of " Societe," so that purpose to New York. I have found the sameall classes and conditions may come Some of Spirit in those who have been brought to Christthem are from the poorer families and some are here, and I find many of them efficient, selfdenying,earnest Christian workers One Saturthose who once Uvea in splendor but are now inpoverty in New York city. They will go into a day, after I had been out to visit some poorsociety. The children are sent into the school, families, I said, " How I wish that these peopleand if you could see their bright, intelligent faces, could he got into a Sabbath School I " Comingif you could hear their sweet voices, you would into this city, they have no friends and no socialfeel the power of music We have uiw thirty life. One poor woman said her family was inmembers with a good prospect for many more, Mexico, and her husband was not Uving. "Oh,"and these bright-eyed cbildren are already the she said, "I wish God had let me stay in Mexico.missionaries to tbe homes where, as I have said, This place is not home."others eannot enter, and all the Gospel that I saw a notice of a Spanish service one day.some of the parents ever hear will be through It was a great surprise to me, for I did notthese little cues. " I was so comforted when in know that anyone in the city was laboring iorgreat trial," said a mother, " to hear my boy the Spanish except myself. 1 went into the littlesing, 'Ven a Christo, Ven ahora,' (Come toJesus, Just Now) that I knelt right down andtold Jesus.'' Another ceased drinking becausehis little one prattled of his wickedness. " Papa,"said he, " I wish I could die and go to heaven.""Why so, my son? " "Because I am afraid if Ilive to grow up I shaU never get there, but shallbe a big wicked man Uke you, and drink andmake cigars on Sabbath."The question is often asked, "Do you be'ievethat these people are really and truly converted ?"Most certainly I do, and I can stand here andtestify to-night that many of the most self-denyingand eflScient Christian workers I have everhad the pleasure of knowing, are among thosewho have been saved from Romanism. I knowof one of these people who walked four hundredmiles to obtain a copy of God's Word, andthen had to learn to read before he could understandit. There are hundreds and hundreds whohave been brought to a knowledge of the truthchapel. Seven persons were present. A manwas standing, reading the service of the Episcopalchurch, and I soon found that he could prayfrom the heart as well as read from a book, andat tbe close of the service he thanked God thatone more had been added that day to that littlebody of worshippers ; that God was pleased tosend in, that day, another to worship with them.I then resolved to be present often, if it gavesuch encouragement to that little band I foundthat he had been brought to a knowledge oiChrist when a Romanist in Cuba. He hadbeen treated for blindness. He had recovered,but he was using his eyes, that ought to be resting,in writing a book, in order that he mightleave it for these people. This man has beendoing work for Christ among his countrymenfor three years, asking assistance of nobody, andsupporting himself without a word of sympathyor cheer from anyone. When shall wewake up and obey th- command of tbe dearas it is in Christ Jesus, through him. I wish Lord, who has said, " The stranger that sojournethshall be as the home-born among you, andyou could have seen him when his dead childrenwere taken away, having died with the s.mall pox. thou shalt love him as thyself." W hen we doI went to his room to give him a little comfort, this we shall give the G-ospel to these friendsimagining that he would need comfort. I knew who come to our shores, whatever may befrom tbe motion of his lips that he was praying. their nationality, whatever may be our prejudicesagainst them, and we shall love them asHe looked up and said, "I am uot praying formyself in this time of bereavement. I have been those for whom Christ died. I want to interestyou to-night, that you may pray for thispraying for you that you may not be discouragedm tbe work you have to do for Christ among my work. There are some laborers who have comebeloved countrymen. , I have been praying that in the past year ; some who have been broughtyou would not sink down in sickness and despair to Christ, who are visiting from house to housebecause my dear children hav been taken to with this same preacher who is connected withGrod." Working for them, believing them, and the Episcopal church. Have faith and courage; beUeve in and pray for these people loving them in Mexico, I have come with the samewho

110 Mission Monographs.have been so long enchained and under the can do to train up these people here in onr ownbonds of Popery in Mexico, South America and land to carry this blessed Gospel to the landsCuba. Thank God and take courage that we which have been so long in darkness.have a free Gospel here, and in our gratitude to For the past year 1 have had great pleasure inGod let us go forth to this work of ministering visiting these foreign homes, but I often thinkto those who have beeu so long enthralled. The that, of very many, it can still be said, " I was achildren are doing, and will continue to do, good stranger, aud ye took me not in." Let us takework ; tbey wili, in the future become missionar them into our hearts in love and sympathy, andies to those lands which have been so long en- give thera tbat which makes • s so happy, so cornslaved,fortable and so peaceful in our lives.This is as grand foreign missionary work a,s we Miss C M. Strong.FILLED WITH THB HOLY GHOST. îU make the Chureh, both missionary and pliiiI wish I could depict its function and its value anthropic, with an enthusiastic zeal for ministry.in such glowing terms that every heart shonid " Filled with the Holy Ghost," tbe Church willburn with passionate desire for a fuller and not descend to carnal and unworthy methods torricher experience of the Spirit's power. Oh, that spreading the Kingdom of God. It is only whenGod would lead us up the shining mount of vision, the tide of the supernatural is sluggish that theaud reveal to us the completeness of the resources Church resorts to low and vulgar tricks and senwhichHe places at our disposal in the promised sational devices to ensure success, as Saul bereftfullness of the Sphit 1 It will do for the Church ot the Spirit of God invoked the aid of familiarwhat nothing else can possibly do. All the evils spirits The Church will cease to bow at thewe deplore, it will remove ; all the good we de- shrine of Mammon, will refuse an unholy alliancesire, it wiU bring. "FiUedwith the Holy Ghost," with Cffisar, wiU disdain the expedients ofthe Church wiU be guided into all truth ; for a woridly wisdom, and will not measure its successfuUer tide of the Spirit means finer spiritual dis- by statistical tables or woridly standards. Incernment and discrimination, a wider view of the quiet majesty of spiritual power she wih protruth,deeper insight into the great eternal verilies. secute her work, leaning upon no arm butthe"Filled with the Holy Ghost" the Church arm of her .Beloved, relying npon no force butwill be "glorious in hoUness ;" for wherever the His Spirit, and seeking no reward but His ap-Spirit of God dwells, He is as a fire which proval. "FiUed with the Holy Ghost," thepurges away the dross and refines the gold. Church wUl have an attractive power, and untoSanctities of character are the tokens ofHis pres- it " shall the gathering of the people be.'' Weence. " FUled with the Holy Ghost," the peace look too much to external things—to the mereand harmony ofthe Church will be insured, for accessories of religion and worship, to music andbrotherly love wUl reign supreme ; and even ritual, intellectual brilliance and sensational serwhenfidelityto truth requires that unpalatable vices—to make our churches attractive, forgetfulthings shall be said, there will not be a trace of of the fact that the magnetic spell of the Churchpersonal bitterness in the controversy. " FUled is in the intensity and beauty and fulness of itswith the Holy Ghost" the Church wiU be pre,- spiritual Ufe. Where the fruits of theSpiritserved fro-.a that subtle selfishness which is so abound, and manhood is made resplendent, fuUwell described by Lucretius in his discourse on of sweetness and generosity and love, men willNature, and which, alas 1 has been so sadly ex he drawn to that community as the bees areemplified in many a Christian community. It drawn to the apple-tree in blossom, or as the

Mission Monographsloose particles of steel are drawn to the magnet. Luther once said that certain persons cried>••'Filled with the Holy Ghost," the Chnrch will " Spirit, Spirit, Spirit I" and then struck downexert a mighty power, greater miracles than aU the bridges by which the Spirit might enter.those of Christ wUl she perform, and in the In our unreserved consecration of all personal repiesenceof her mighty and beneficent works the sources there must be a broad avenue ior thevoice of the caviller wiU be hushed into silence. Spirit's entrance. At the moment of bis ordiiia-Our preaching will be " in demonstration of the tion Whitfield says, "I offered up my wholeSpirit and of power," and we shall have to respirit, soul and body to the service oi God's sancjoiceover constant accessions of regenerated men, tuary "—and the result we know. If the sacrithemiracles of Divine grace, the trophies of re- fice be upon the altar, the firefrom heaven willdeeming love. The operations oi the Spirit are come down. Let all the latent energy of theso marvellous in their scope, so manifold in their Church be called into play by the uprising ofvariety, and so fundamental in their resuks, that every member to take his part in the Church'sthey contain all the needful elements ior church work ; let all gifts and possessions, all time andprosperity and efficiency. talent and influence, be freely devoted to theHow, then, may we be " filled with the Spirit ?" spread of the Redeemer's kingdom : then, just asFirst of all, everything which grieves the Holy in the olden time the glory of the Lord filledtheSpirit must be put away. And the second con- Temple, the Holy Spirit wUl fillthe Church, anddition is earnest importunate prayer—prayer that make its labors effectual in the salvation of manissomething better and more vital than the re- kind from sin and woe.volution of the Tartar's wheel—prayer that is However great and difficult the task to whichnot a mere repetition of conventional phrases— God has called His Church, we have adequateprayer that has iu it the utmost intensity of desire equipment and ample res urces for the work. It—prayer that links together the wbole communion demands the supernatural, bnt the supernaturalof the faithful, and knows no cessation until the is at our disposal. God isi u the midst of us, andanswer comes. " Your Heavenly Pather will He has promised a yet larger bestowment of Hisgive the Holy Spirit to them that ask Hhn "— Spirit if we will but seek it —Bev. T. Grahamnot to those who are indifferent, not to those lam, at the Assembly of the Baptist Union,who are satisfied with the measure of the Spirit London.they aheady possess, but to those who hunger AS W E GIVE W E GET.and thirst for his indwelling. The experience of There are difficulties in the way of a new dethedisciples on the day of Pentecost, and again parture in the liberality oi the churches. Thereafter the imprisonment of James and John, is a are so many collections already ; the appeals foron for aU ages: "While they prayed, the different objects are so numerous ; and the peopleplace where they were assembled was shaken with who are never tired of receiving become tired ofa mighty wind, and they were all fiUed with the giving. The minister's stipend, a debt on chapelHoly Ghost."or school-room, collections for Sunday Schools,Then, too there must be open avenues by which hospitals, county missions, render it quite impostheSpirit may enter into the Church—a large sible to do more. The good deacon gravelymeasure of receptivity, sensitiveness to His influ- shakes his head and says, "If you multiply theseence, fidelityto the truths which He reveals, appeals you wiU drive the people away." But Icheerful response as He calls to duty or to sacri- think we are as yet far enough from " the lastfice, and an implicit obedience to His commands, straw," with its proverbial iU effect. The churchegill

112 Mission Monographs.that are most deeply imbued witb the missionary Christians shirk personal work with souls respirit,are the most prosperous in all respects, minds me of a passing remark I heard from aThe bread multiplies as we give it; the grace somewhat eccentric preacher. In giving a rungrowsas we dispense it. The experience of An- niug cominentary on a portion of i Cor. 15, whendrew Fuller in his church is repeated in many inhe came to the last verse he read : "Therefore,stances in the present day. There are some little my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable,churches, as parched and withered as gardens in always avoiding the work of the Lord, forasmuchdry weather, simply because their sympathies do as ye know that your labor is not in vain in tbenot go forth in generous effort for the spread of Lord ; " aud then added, ' 0, it is not ' alwaysthe gospel among the nations. If you would be avoiding,' but ' always abounding in' the workmiserable, live for yourself; do not take an inter- of the Lord ; but really it is read • avoiding' byest in any religious enterprise, do not teach, do so many Christians, if we may judge by tbeirnot give, let the world, with its load of supersti- lives, that I almost insensibly fell into the mistionand sin, roll on unhelped, try to forget that take of reading it so " And indeed, when I seethere is anybody living except yourself and the in my own experience how fertile many Chrisfewimmediately near you, and your nature will tians are in expedients for " avoiding " the workbe shrivelled, your heart will contract, it will beofthe Lord, I am amazed. They will get overcome dry and small like a withered kernel in a it, or under it, or around it, or walk by it, andnut. But if you wish to be blessed, to be rich in not see it, or they will otherwise avoid it, as ifcharacter, to make life a large and noble thing, a tbe chief end of Christianity was to serve ChristChrist-like benediction, and uot a Cain like corse, as little as possible.—G. F. Pentecost, D. D.then you must be generous, you must have a j^ VITAL OHESTION"sense of stewardship, which means respon-ibiUty , ,.^,, , .,, ., . . , ,^ , , 1 ,, , 1 ,. .^, /-, A little child, pondering m her heart concerntoGod, aud brotherly dealings with men. Our . ,, -r t ^ , , , , ,. . . , , ^ ° ^, , ,, ing the Lord to whom she prayed, came to hermissionaries have begun to enter through the ° , .,, ^, ^. „ t -r ,., , ,_ , ,, J ,i ,1 mother with the question, " Is Jesus like anybody"open doors," and now, shall we falter on the -. , o„ . , . ,, ,, , ,^„ „, „ r-, ^ T i XI • Iknow.f" And in all reverence we, who movethreshold/ Shall we fad to respond to the cries ., î • x- n. , ,-, , ,, .., , , , , „ amid Christian surroundings, should be able tothat come from sad hearts and darkened homes.' ,, _^ ^ -,.,,.„ ,. ,. , . . n , , T 1 r. T • answer Yes" to a question like this from littleAfrica, torn, manned, robbed, has found a voice ; ,. , ^, , , , ., , , , 1, 1 . bps. Are there not those helping and prayingthe moan has reached us ; shall wc keep our oil „^, , ., _ , . ^ ° . . ., ^ ^ ' ^ ' , , for the children who, in some degree, picture himand pence, and uot act the part ot a neighborly , , , , .„ ., \ . X . „ fi whose arms were stretched out to bless and com-Samaritan I Are we too niggardly, or too poor, „ , , , , , .^ , ,..,,.,, ^ .^ ,„ „i 11 J tort them; A more vital question is this: Amto buy up the opportunity.'"' Sh-all we regard -^ ir - • -r -i , ,, ,, .^ , .) Ol 11 i 1-1 1 mysef/mirroring Jesus, if ouly to some littlethe price as too great ( ShaU we set a higher , .i; o • tt. ,• . , ,, ^ ., , ., -1 1-, ... child ( or IS His light m me obscured, so that thevalue on our corruptible silver and gold than on „ ^ ,, ^ _ ° . , . , ' ,, 1 J J, ,,, . , ,„ T • 4. • t'lct that 1 name His name hinders, rather thau" the precious blood of ( hrist .'" Let us not in- , tt. , „ .^ ,f T f + + V, + u iu ^ promotes. His glory ? We know the tale of thenot,cur„^ "to" ALWAYS , Thethehim , it -,. IS deplorabledisgrace• that sin."—Eev, ^, • ° ,1 kuoweth AVOIDING ,'iHE -nofreadinessretreat,James .u LORD.'' r to i do J OwenbutTHE good, with /Iremember•m WJ which and • OChristian Rm. doeth J K 1 manythat• OF 4.1 it ,•-i that'so ries, little would l"'t'e cause irritable, ... every iu things carry which one ,, mamma one,who of His would, the who daily ,, said objected •' spirit eves stands of that life, of course, into grandpapa, out the children ft-' the upon lesser entering go home there. and ° domestic who Lord's ci-cle, heaven servants was Would wor- side •> always the be-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.and perchance many others, are upon us—influencedby our example, and helped or hindered byour bearing. A child should see God mirroredin its mother's face ; our Sabbath scholarsshould get some some glimpse of the eternal lovefi-om the teacher's heart and looks. This cancome only as we tarry at the mercy seat, as wekeep our own gaze Christward.—The Quiver.TO THE POINT.Well, wife, I've had a round with Wayne'Bout jlnin' our church ;He tried the skeptic dodge on me,The argument of smirch.Says he. " Look at your members now,There's Jones got drunk, and SwemUnder date, March, 24, Miss Maggie BEdgar writes from Latakia :It has become a question of importance amongus, how to help our native young- people toavoid and resist the temptations which surroundthem on every side. Many of them have nopleasant or comfortable place in which to spendtheir evenings, and we found that sorae of therail.SWill cheat a friend to make a trade;Ain't I as good as them ?"Savs I, •• A butcher buying stockDoes Just the way you do ;He hunts around the cattle yard,An'flnds the meancHt two ;Then every offer that he makes,An' every oue he hears." Is coupled with the sneerin' word.s—' Jest look at them two steers '.'•you pick the meanest Christians out,An' then with triokyjeers,You ruu the whole church down by that^' Jest look at them two steers !'" No farmer's fooled by that ole trick.An' ao'you can't affordTo risk your soul in tryin' itUpon the all-wise Lord."—Fred. Nye,in Omaha Woild.and the mistakes are criticised and corrected afterthe reading. These are sometimes very amusing,owing to their imperfect knowledge of EngUsh.Most of our young men know a little of the languageand they seem to enjoj haying a society oltheir own.Our school work goes on as usual. Miss Dodds'class of little girls think it one of their greatestpleasures to have her sing to or with them.They seem to consider her their own special property,and when she comes over to prayers theyare delighted to be allowed to take her homepfterwardMrs. Ea'-'son and Miss Joseph are stUl inBeirut; we look for them home next week. Mr.Easson will by this time have gone to A'exandriato meet Dr McAllister and Mr. O'Neill. Misswere getting into bad company Many of ouryonng men stand alone. That is their relationsand friends are not Protestants and though theymay not directly oppose their efforts to do right,yet they do not help them. And it is not easyfor a young man to resist temptation when guestsare invitea to his father's house to spend anevening, with smoking, drinking, and card-playingas the order of entertainment. Especially asthe young man is expected to make himself agreeable.If he wiU not join them, be is tauuted shoulder, and when we last heard from her, twoJoseph had an operation performed on herwith " Protestant," told that he is bound by his days after, she was getting along nicely. Shereligion and laughed at for it. And it seems to has been so brave and patient through very muehbe a weakness of theirs that they cannot bear a suffering. We are iu good hope that now herlaugh In order to give them some interesting health may be fully restored so that she may beemployment during at least oue or two evenings enabled to prosecute the work she seems so wellof the week an English literary society has been fitted to do. We greatly enjoyed her six weeks'iTganized. and Mrs. Easson aud Miss Dodds stay with us and have missed her since she lefthave undertaken the work of carrying it on us. Miss Wylie has spent most of the time sheMiss Dodds has also a singing class.could spare from school duties this winter in visitingamong the women, especially the sick, readThe meetings are held at iVIr. Easson's or Dr.Balph's on 'iuesday and Saturday evenings. One ing and explaining the liible aud praying withofthe exercises is the reading of the society them Everywhere she has met witb a cordialpaper to whicii all the membeis contribute articles reception and atti iitive listeners. There is goed

114 Letters trom Christian Workers at Home and A broad.prospect ot growing opportunity for that kind oiwork in Latakia. We have no lack of work here.There has been so much said about the closing ofthe schools that our friends at home perhapsthink sometimes that aU their giving is in vain, ifwe caunot work But the tbreatened evU hasnot yet befallen us except iu a partial degree, andshould all our schools be closed we could yetto the steamer office—there was a vessel in portat the time—got them tickets for Smyrna, foodto last tbem till they arrived and a Uttle moneyto buy them food when they got there. Whilegoing out in the boat they told him they wouldnever forget the kindness they had received, andsaid that they had prayed (or all in our houseevery day since they had first come.every one find work for all our time in other We have rather an amusing matrimonial transactiongoing on in school just now. A youngways.The following letter, dated Mersine, March Protestant of the Turkish brethren here came toour cook, Giragose, to consult him about settling2'Ith, is from Mrs Mary B. Metheny •down iu Ufe, and that he would like to have oneSpring has fairiy come now and the days areof the school girls for a wife. He mentioned abeo-inning to get quite warm There is stillcertain one, but Giragose said he did not knowgreat distress here, and a woman who came fromthat we would want to give that one np, andTarsus to-day told me she had seen a girl soldsuffgested another. I wrote before about threefor less than five doUars. People are sellingCathoUc girls of Druse origin from Tarsus. Ittheir household goods to get bread, and that tarwas the oldest of these that he suggested, abelow their value One of our people who waspleasant girl of seventeen. We have been mnchin Tarsus last week, saw a copper cooking vesselpleased with her all wint'- r She applies herself,sold for about six cents. The I'urcomans whoand reads very nicely. She has committed morecome dowu from the mountains complain of greatthan half the Shorter Catechism since coming andstraitness. Many of their cattle are dying. Ais very well behaved. In the Bible class I havenumber of them have come here asking the loanoften been astonished at her intelUgent understandingof the points of difference between theof a few piastres, promising to work for us in thesummer, or to supply us with food It is impossibleto respond to all the calls made on us forCathoUc church and ours. She has almost givenher assent to Protestant doctrines, a.nd upholdshelp. Some time ago two Germans came here,them when assailed by others. WeU, the younghaving walked from Beirut They said thatman took kindly to both suggestions, and saidMr. Moth of the English school there had toldhe was building a house, and hoped soon to havethem to come to Dr. Metheny. Doctor gaveit ready, and he wanted Giragose to speak totbem a sleeping place iu tbe school-room andMiss Sterrett and the Doctor. He declined andsuppUed them with money to buy food They intendedto go to Smyrna overland WhUe theytold him he would go with him to the Doctor,and he must speak for himself. He did so, andwere stUl here (they staid several days). Doctorfound the Doctor wUUng, provided she and herpicked up another German in tbe street andfather vvere so. I do not know which spoke fii'stbrought him home. He was travelling in theto JuUa about it ; not the young man, for I don'topposite direction—going to Jerusalem. One ofthink they have spoken to one another yet,the first two was a boy of nineteen. They startedJulia was agreed however, and took a trip to1 think on Wednesday, and the next SaturdayTarsus to consult her father, but he referred berevening when at Supper, they returned lookingback to Dr. Metheny ; said he had given her tovery woe-begone. After going some distancehim and she was to do as he said. At this junctureMiss Sterrett thought it about time to inthey had corae to a stream, and in crossing theelder had faUen in They had no way to makequire iuto the affair, as Julia, whatever her sentia fire, and sleeping in tbe wet clothing hadments were, had not yet openly professed Protestantism,She questioned her, aud found that, asbrought on fever ; so as soon as he could movetbey retraced their steps. '1 be rapid disappearanceof a dish of soup, a whole loaf of bread, awe had hoped, she was eutirely Protestant insentiment and williug to be re-baptized, when thequantity of meat, and a dish of sour railktestifiedmatter of baptism was explained to her. Towardsthe end of the conference Miss Sterrettto their hunger. W ithal tney asked a blessingbefore they ate. Doctor took them right downasked her what the young man's name was.

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 115Julia with the utmost simplicity answered ihat to destroy the Lord's work, and prevent theshe did not know. Giragose had told her but spread of the gospel, our schools have only beensbe had forgotten. You can imagine what an effortshut for a short time.it required on the part of Miss Sterrett topreserve her composure.The boarding school in Mersine has been iuoperation all the tirae, simply because the authorities. The Kaimakam did not dare to enter an American domicile.of Mersine some time agoordered the people of Karadawar to secure a They have made many threats both oi closing theteacher for their children, or he would send one. school, and of taking out the Moslem pupilsThey selected one who asks four piastres a month (they persist in caUing the Ansairiyeh, Moslems).for each pupil, and " boards round." They are Just after they had closed the schools, ordersto teach the Moslem prayers, and 1 suspect that came from Constantinople not to intereiere withis about all that will be taught. Some days ago our work. Immediately we opened aU the closedno one invited the teacher to dinner, and he had schools, and the numbers who flocked into themto dine by getting a bite here and there from his show the desire of the people to have their childrenpupils. There will Ukely be a hitch when ittaught. At last accounts in Adana therecomes time to pay.were 85 ; in Karadawar 110 ; in the FellahIn Adana the government opened a school school in Tarsus 90 ; in Karadash 40 ; iu thejust opposite ours, and by threats of imprisonmentTarsus central school between 40 and 50, andcompelled the people to send some of their here 11 Besides these quite a number havechildren to it. There were still at last accounts been here for some time and for various causes106 left in our school. I forgot to mention that been taken away, or sent out Ever since wethe teacher at Karadawar reported 50 pupils to came to Cilicia, we have been trying to get athe government, but our teacher says there are foothold in Adana, but with little success untilonly 10.this winter. People misrepresented ns to the31st Yesterday Doctor examined Julia Tal Fellaheen tiU they actually believed that wehook, the girl whom I mentioned before, and carried off children aud sent them +o Americathis morning Aesa, one of the FeUaheen boys. to be soldiers. When we first opened the school,They are both to be baptized to-morrow. Rosa's only a few chUdren carae. They were takenmother, Mrs. Juban, was also examined and receivedthis morning.Among the boys in our school was one namedMersbid, who has been in our school ever sinceaway by the government officials and forbiddento go back During the time the school _ wasclosed they had found out where their best interestslay, and now the school is full. DoctorMetheny and Miss Sterrett both visited it notlong ago, and report it as being well managed bythe native teacher and his wife. He is an oldpupU of Latakia school when I came to this counit was opened. He told us some time ago tbatit was only for fear of offending his father thathe did not be baptized. His uncle is one of thegreat enemies of the school in Karadawar. Heis likely to annoy them more there than if he try sixteen years ago, and his wife was one ofwas in school. He defends Christianity to all Mrs. Martin's first pupils. A number of theirwho come in, and is encouraging a young man pupils are biarders, while the rest have their dinnerthere who wishes to be baptized. given tothem and return home at night. TbisNot long agowMle arguing and defending Protestanism, some sets the minds of the parents at rest about theirone sneeringly said, " Perhaps you are one of being carried off. The Fellah school in Tarsus isthem, too." " Yes," he said, " I am. What of the most economical of aU ; the children in itit?"only get iheir dinner. The teacher of the boys isA letter from Mrs. Metheny to the Missionary Yusef Jedeed, one of the very firstconverts fromConvention at Beaver FaUs, Pa., furnishes the tbe Ansairiyeh. His daughter Lulu, the daughterfollowing extracts :of tbe firstAnsairiyeh woman who was converted,This has been indeed an eventful year to us. is teacher of the giris. Tbe Central school usedThongh its has been one continual battle, yet the to be much in advance of our others, but for iheLord has given us many tokens of His goodness. last three years the influence of aU the noniinallyIn spite of the desire of the Turkish Government Christian sects has much impaired it. It is nnderthe care of Mr. Dibbak and there are a num-

116 Letters from Ghristian Workers at Home and Abroad.ber of boarders Karadash is a long distance read all you say and do in your conventions.away, and is not easily reached during the winter,but we have bad a number of letters from that we feel that we have in yon and you in usSo many of us bave personal ties among youtbe teacher. Karadawar has been the last place a special interest. We learn from friends andto yield. It is a village about three miles east of from magazines that there is a good deal ofus, on the coast. When the government ordered discussion in the Church about opening up newthe school clased the villagers were afraid to refuse,aud so joined with them They were orbut I hope you will bear witb me when I sayfields of mission work. This is all very well,dered to hold uo intercourse with the teacher that some of our triends do not seem to understandmissionary operations very well and areand his family, 'the government closed thesehool a second time, locked the door and gave like people griping about in the dark, and thethe key to the head man of the village. After most hopeful sign I know of is tae meetingsthe last orders came, Doctor said he would notcompromise tbe head-man with the government,but he hiinsel) took the responsibUity of openingthe bouse, as we had paid re\it for it and it waslegally ours ; they need not permit their childrenfor consultation and inquiry by the women ofthe Church ; lor wben tJiey come to understandthe men will too, and I beg leave toatswer some things that are said to me inletters as well as some things I see in print.I may state what may be a surprise to someto come to school if they did not wish. At theeud ol the first week their were 50 children ; the of you tbat this mission is not well supported.second, 90 ; and when Doctor was there on Mondayof this week, 110. Some ofthe headmen time to know where I would get money forI have been in an agony of suspense many aduly reported to the Governor of Mersine, who the next day's marketine. But it is said, therereproved them sharply aud said tbey must not has been enough given here, it is time for themallow the children to attend school at all. " But," to support themselves. I know there have beensaid the men, " what can we do ? They feed fields where the results have been greater onthem and the people are poor." " WeU, weU," shorter time. Suoh places are where the governmentshave beoome convinced, and we allsaid the Governor, " Let them eat, hut don't 'letthem learn anytMng," As many as can be accommod-atedsleep in the house, and the rest Mohammedanism is. But all will eventuaUyknow what a formidable enemy to Christianityam mg neighbors. A Catholic, who owns land come to Christ and the more obdurate thein the village, had been warning the people soil tnere the greatest effort should be putagainst the Protestants. " We don't flnd thera forth. The Lord led our predecessors to thiswhat you tell us," said the villagers. " We see very spot. To my most capable teacher Ithat tbey don't worship pictures or iraages. They give the very hardest work. If this is a difficultfield,the Ljrd bas honored our Church bydo not lie to us, nor cheat us ; they feedus andteach us''giving us this work to do. It would not beSince the beginning of the year thirteen personsworthy onr name and ancestry for us to fainthave joined the church, and four children and grow weary at what is hard. It is saidhave been baptized. It is worthy of notice that too that there are missionaries enough in Syriaof these three were from Miss Sterrett's boardingto carry on tbe work. At your last convenschool, and five from that of Yusef Jedeed. tion there was a remark made about ChinaDoctor, though feeble, preaches twice every Sabbath,that will apply to this country. It was this,and hears a class in the Shorter Catechism. " Why tbe mission stations are indeed likeMost days of the week also he hears this class, golden lamps of light, but they strike only theand we all meet iu the large sehool-room for shores of tbat (this) dark country. Theirfamily worship iu the evenings.Latakia, Syria, Makch (5, 1888.To the \/oman's Presbyterial Missionary Societyof Pittsburgh Presbytery.rays are struggling to penetrate the gloom,bnt are revealing unthought of depths of darknessand degradation."It is said repeatedly that living is cheap ;Dear Slaters:—and, if missionaries would make the proper* * * * Although so far away, yet weselt-denial, new missions could be started.Living is cheap tor the native people but not

Letters from Christian Workers at Eome and Abroad.for us. We oan not eat the cheap food which chance to do mission work under Bishop Tay-Ihey relish, or live in the hovels of the poor, lor's plan. Tnat eight out of ten men wouldTo keep up in this debilitating climate we die from the effects of ihe climate, and tbat itmuat have strengthening food; and, do the requires such labor to secure a living that nobest they can, many missionaries break down time isleft for missionary work. We missionariesexpected that result.eariy. When we keep help to do our houseworkit is not that we enjoy it, for it increases I bave often repeated a remark made to meour anxieties, but we do it that we may devote by our lamented Dr. Wylie in my last conour time and strength to the work to whiohyoH bave sent us. I often wish that I couldtake the time to prepare souie little delieacythat I long for. The Church pays us asalary that enables us to live comfortably,and our friends send us our little luxuriesthat adorn our homes. I know the earlymissionaries did not .have ihe luxuries thatwe have, neither did the hoase people inthose days. And even now what is to usolder ones bright and cheerful, to the newones coming from cosy, happy homes is bleakand bare. And ihe food whioh we feel sothankful that in these days we are able to get,is cot palatable to them, and many a time aillversation with him. Said he, " I have beenwatching with interest the progress of missionsfor the last fiftyyears, and have become convincedthat the two hundred years wili makea great diff-srenoe in the heathen world." Wemust not expect to conquer Satan in three orfour years. Whatever we undertake and haveundertaken, those missions we have startedlet us never let go until our object is accomplished.And let us all be willing to spendand be spent in the cause of our Master.Affectionately,Your sister in Cnrist,Mattie R. Wtlie.Tbe following item IS from Mrs. M.- Elump rises in their throats as tbey sit down to Metheny :the table and a picture of the home land and April 3d.—Some time ago, one of our boyshome us are board here long rises till before we find them. that But our greatest none of named Mershid, left sobool. He had been intrial is not the want of food and clothing. We school a long time, and was well advanced inhave trials such as we cannot explain, such his studies. He had told Doctor that it wassinking of heart at times as no one can under- only the fear of vexing his father that preventstaadtill they have passed ihrough it. I ask ed him from being baptized. His friendsyou if it is just that the missionaries and the seem to have become alarmed lest he shouldfriends who give them up should have all the become a Christian, so they took him away,self-denial' You can not start a new mission and his unole, who is a bitter enemy of ouron less than was stated on the floorof Synod, work, opened a shop for him in Karadawar.If it is done, every member of the Church It would bave been better for tbeir purpose,must expect to make some sacrifice. Even had they left him in sohfiol. The Governortwice the amount you now give would not be sent orders not long ago to the people of thea " drop in the backet," compared with the village that they must call the people tosacrifice of giving up home and friends and prayers regularly. This is to support thenative land. Is it asking a great deal to have fiction tbat they are Moslems. One day Mershidwas told that it bad come to his turn tothe means only to live ? I know that BishopTaylor's plan looks very plausible. That Is, call to prayers. " Why should I call to yourfor the missionaries to work for their own support.A minister at home who must do thatprayers?" he asked. " I am a Christian."cannot do much pastoral work. I read anitem in a New York paper not long ago of afarmer wbo with his wife and two childrenwent to Africa last April to join Bishop Taylor'sraistiioD,that be had recently returned toAmerica bringing a most discouraging story ofhardship and failure. He thinks there is no"Whatl a Christian ! Are you a Protestant!''" Yes," he answered, " I am," and took hisTestament out oi his pocket. The boys whoare not allowed to attend our school take theirTestaments to his shop, and he teaches ihem.He oame not long ago to ask for a Concordanceas he could not always find the passagehe wanted.

Since our last issue we have received for felt that she could not appropriate it tothe or"the School Building in Latakia :dinary uses ot the family, and knew that if herMrs. M. Strange $10.00 . boy oould be consulted, he would desire toWillie C. Liddell (deceased) 30 00 have it appropriated to some religious purpose.Cash 50.00 So, after consultation with bis teacher. Missrpt,

—Mr. Hugh O'Neill has:$1000 to the Tarsus Mission.THE BLESSED DEAD.Notes and Beviews.given a sixthMrs. Sarah Edgar, wife of Mr. Wm. Edgar,and mother of our missionary Miss MaggieEdgar, died at her home in Beaver Falls, Pa.,Sabbath, April Sth, 1888.Mrs. Edgar was the eldest daughter of Mr.Wm. MoDie, for many years a ruling elder inCoUege Street South congregation, Belfast,Ireland. Born in the Reformed PresbyterianChurch she became a member by professionat an early age, under the pastorate of Re'v.Wffl. MoOarroU. In early life her mindwa.'= enriched with Scriptural kaowlei^ge -andotir mission wcM-k.fctj' eharaoter adorned with Cbrl£tia,n graoaB.4th, That Ifo the bereaved hueband andShe was married to Mr. Win. Edgar in 185S>, children, ahd especially to tbe worthy daugh^4nd removed to this country with her husbandand family in 1869. She had been oon-'Sisterly Christian sympathy.•ter in the distant mission fields we extend ousfieoted with the congregations of Cincinnati,Cedarville, Rushsylvania, Bellefontaine, andBeaver Palls,and her memory will be cherishedin all these places with high esteem and deepaffection. Mrs. Edgar was a woman of eminentvirtues. Breadth of thought, decision ofcharacter, purity of heart, unselfishness andoharity_toward men, reverence and saintlinesstoward God—these are some of the gifts andgraces by which she reflected the image of To the Pastors and Teachers ofthe ChurcChrist. She was a faithful wife and a good in the British Isles, and on the Continents ofmother. " Her children rise up and call her Europe and America.blessed, her husband also and he praiseth her."Dear Brethren.Her husband was absent from home and didWe would with all respect and affection approachyou, with the same request for prayernot witness her departure; and the children whowere with her had not sufiBcient warning to bid to Almighty God our Heavenly Father, whichher farewell. Peacefully and with no sign of we have addressed to all the European andsuffering, in the early Sabbath morning, she American Missionaries aud their converts laboringin all parts of the habitable world. Weentered into rest. Our Lord had said to her,^'Arise my love,my fair one, and oome away."desire to realize the true oneness ofthe Churchof God in all her branches, and scattered fieldsCom.of labor—a unity felt and enjoyed at the footstoolofthe one "God and Father of all."Resolutions of the Ladies MissionarySociety of Beavee FallsIn looking to foreign fieldsof the Church'sWhereas, since we last met, it has pleased labors, we have great cause for rejoicing in the119our Father to visit us for the firsttime bydeath, in the removal of onr beloved sisterMrs. Wm. Edgar, and we realize that we shallno more receive help and inspiration from herpresence—Therefore resolved :1st, That we humbly bow to his will, praisinghis holy name for the example of herlife, for her peaceful death, and for the assurancethat she has entered into glory.2d, That we will cherish her name as onewhose gifts were crowned with graces; whosewealth of wisdom was enriched by purity ofheart and life; whose maturity of judgmentand force of character were united with sweetnessof disposition and gentleness ofspirit.-3d, That we recognize in this visitation oarMaster's voice calling ua to faithfulness whilelife la^ts, and i&onseofate ourselves aoew toMas. H. H. Geobge, Pres.Mfis. R. J. Geoege, Sec.—We are glad to publish at tbe request ofthe oommittee of Conference the followingCALL TO PRAYERon behalf of theGeneral Conference on Foreign MissionsTO BE HELD IN 1, OND O NFEOM THE 9th TO THE 19 OF JuNE, 1888.

120 Notes and Beviews,blessings which have aocompaniedthe preaching the 10th and 17(h of June, and the Prayermeetingsheld in the second and third weeksofthe gospel by the Missionaries ofthe Churchof Ohrist during the last hundred years of of that month, may be made occasions formodern Missionary effjrt, whereby about three speoial public prayer on behalf of the Conference,aud to urge on families and individualmillions from among the heathen are at thisho'jr found gathered into the fellowship of the Christians the duty of making tbese weeks aChurch on earth, and many more into the season of social and .private prayer for thoseChurch in heaven; while at the same time important meetings, when many hundreds oflarge tribes of our fellow-men, who were sunk the representarives of almost every Protestantin the grossest barbarism and superstition, Mission will be assembled from all lands," withhave been socially elevated, and have derived one ac3ord iu one place"—a pledge, we trust,manifold secondary benefits from the preaching of a Pentecostal blessing.of the glorious Gospel of ttie grace of God. Let us encourage one another in the thoughtAnd while we are unceasingly grateful to that unnumbered brethren throughout theGod for the great things accomplished in the whole world are uniting inthe same prayer.past, we lament over the feebleness oi ihe We have good reason to hope that this willefforts put forth by the Cuurches of Cbrist, and be the most universal cry that has ever gone upwe mourn over the great andincreasing mass of from this sinful world, for one definite object,heathenism which still confronts the Church into the ear of " the Lord of Sabaoth." Mostin this nineteenth century ofthe Christian era. of all would we strengthen our mutual faitbIt is one great object of the Conference to be and trust in the oath and promise of God madeassembled in June, to look this appalling tact in tbe dark hour of Israel's apostacy, "As trulyfully in the face, and by applying the lessons as I live, all the earth shall be filledwith thetaught by the past to the conditions of the glory of the Lord " (Numbers 14:21) ; and bypresent, to exert more adequate efforts for the looking to tbe sure word of prophecy, "Forevangelization of the world than have been put the earth shall be filledwith the knowledge ofthe glory of tbe Lord, as tbe waters cover thesea"(EIababkuk 11:14). But let us remembertbat along with the assured promises andprophecies of the|Word of God (Ezakiel 36;33>there is coupled the prescribed duty of earnest,humble, importunate, united and believingprayer. " Thus saith the Lord, I will yet forthis be enquired of by tbe house of Israel, to^do it for them " (Exekiel 36:37). And let usgo to our Fdtber in heaven witb the argumentforth heretofore. For this end we would earnestlyseek the awakening ot a mission spiritfor the conversion of tbe heathen, assured thatit will return in as rich blessing on fhe Church'swork at home as was seen in the revival ofihe spiritual life of the Churches of this co-antrya hundred years ago.Our great object in now addressing you is toask you to call upon your people to unite withyou in prayer and supplication for a Pentecostalblessing on the Conference, from Sunday, put into our mouth by His own Son, "Iftbe 3rd of June, to Tuesday, the 19th of the ye tben, being evil, know how to give goodsame ; 'being tbe week before, and the ten days gifts unto your children ; how mnch more willduring whioh the Conference will be in session. your Heavenly Father give the Hjly Spirit toPray that, under God, the Conference may them that ask Him."be the means of introducing a new era in Mis We are, dear Brethren,sionary enterprise. That it may hasten the (Signed)Yours in the Lord,day when " the earth shall be full of the knowledgeof the Lord."H. M. Matheson, ).Aberdeen, President, Chairmen.We do not prescribe hours, or lay down a Edward B. Undeehill, ]list of subjects for prayer. 'The one speoial S. G. Green, igift whioh includes all " good things," is tbe Henry Morris, V Hon. Sees.gift oithe Hcly Spirit, whose presence we seek J. Sharp, )in all the plentitude of His grace and power.James Johnston, Secretary.But may we ask that the Sundays falling on

PUBLISBED WITB TBE APPROVALoftheBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxm^ oi ^mx0n mx%.THE ARM OF THE LORD MADE BARE.* More than twenty centuries have rolled away;Rev. J. Monroe Gibson, M.A.. D.D. the firstis now literal fact, the second is plainly" The Lord hath made bare His holy arm In the eyes o£ drawing nigh. The Lord God of Israel 'hathall the nations ; and all the ends of the earth shaU see made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all thethe salvation of onr God."—Is. 62:10.nations ;' the Bible in 250 languages ; the heraldsof the Cross in every part of the worid ; allWhat a marvel are these missionary chaptersof Isaiah. Almost every sentence is a wonder. tongues and all lands open to Isaiah's gospel ofTo us it is no longer so, because it is so old asalvation ; converts multiplying, not indeed asstory now, and so much has happened since itwe could wish, but enough at least to verify thewas firsttold. But think of words like theseprophet's words,—Lo, these shaU come frombeing spoken then. If the traditional date isfar : and lo, these from the north and from thecorrect, it was the time when Israel had just beenwest : and these from the land of Sinim.' Mostoverthrown and Judah was hastening to its fall-And yet this prophet of Judah declares withabsolute assurance and in the most majesticlanguage that the God of Israel and His salvationshall be known to the uttermost parts oi theearth ; and time has proved that what he saidwas true. This is miracle enough. But the wonderis greater still if those inodern critics be correctwho bring down the date of these chapters tounquestionably " the Lord hath made bare Hisholy arm in tbe eyes of all the nations ;' andthis being so it ought not to be so very difficult, inlooking forward to the fnture, to read the secondmember of tbe sentence with as unfaltering tones :' All the ends of the earth shaU see the salvationof our God.'The first thought suggested to onr minds byconsiderations like these is the exceeding hopethe days of the exile ; for in that case the voicefulness of our present position as compared withcomes to us, not from the sunset of the nation,times that are past. We have seen how darkbut from its midnight; it is a shout of victorywas the outlook in the days of the prophet Isaiah ;oat of Judah's grave.and yet even he felt that there was encouragementto be had by looking back. See how heWhat utter nonsense these glowing periodsmust have seemed to the politicians ot the day—avails himself of this in the chapter immediatelyto all the people except those of ' like preciousbefore. ' Look unto Abraham, your fatherfeith' with the prophet himself. Will any onefor when he was but one I called him, andjdare to speak of them as nonsense now ? TakeI blessed him, and made him many'(R. Y.).the sentence before us as a sample. It consists' When he was but one ;' and to this one man•of two parts, holding forth prospects both equallywas given the missionary promise in its largestout of sight at the time, the one as purely visionscope: 'In thy seed shall all the nations of theMy as the other when the words were spoken.earth be blessed.' And this one man believed it*A sermon preached on behalf of the Baptist MissionaiySociety, in London, on AprU 36,1888.too—believed it no doubt as firnslvas «m- most

122 Our Views of Mission Wor'h,successful missionaries do to-day. WeU indeed announce the coming of the Chaldeans to put anmigbt he be called ' the father of the faithful.' end to its career. The prophet ventures to pleadHave you not observed that it has been in the with the Lord, like Moses of old ; and, havingdays of deepest discouragement that the great urged his plea, he says. ' I wUl stand upon mymissionary promise has rung out in fullest and watch, and set me upon tbe tower, and will lookclearest tones ? Recall, for example, that time forth to see what He will speak with mein the history of God's people when they had concerning my complaint.' So he betakes himreachedthe borders of their promised land, and self to his lonely watch tower, and the answertbe sconis had been sent forward to prepare the comes—confirming, indeed, the sentence of judgwayfor an advance in force. Back came the ment, but giving the assurance, at tbe same time,scouts with this report: ' The people be strong tbat tbis crowning disaster will not interfere withthat dwell in the land, and the cities are wpUed, the fulfilment of the great missionary promise,and very great ; and moreover we saw the child- for on tbe thick thunder cloud of judgment thereren of Anak there.' ' And all the congregation is spread once again the bright bow of promise—lifted up their voice and cried, and the people ' Tbe earth shall be filledwith the knowledge ofwept' (such an army !) and clamoured for a cap- the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover tbetaiu to lead them back to Egypt. Oh! miser- sea' (Habakkuk 2:14).able faUure ! After all the patriarchal training, We are sometimes discouraged when we seeafter all the discipline in Egypt, after all the those missionary diagrams, with their little spotswonders of the Exodus, after all the inspiration of Ught and their great masses of darkness.of Sinai, after all that ' glorious marching' What sort oi a missionary diagram would youthrough the wilderness, the hosts of the Lord, have to draw for the days of Abraham, or ofinstead of going forward to set up His kingdom Caleb, or of Habakkuk ? A pin-point of light onin the ajipointed place, are abont to beat an in- a page of darkness would be too much. Andglorious retreat back to Egypt and slavery again, yet it was at these times that the faith of God'sBut all is not yet lost. There remain still on the people took firmest hold of the great missionaryLord's side tbe prayers of one old man, and the promise that 'the earth'should one day 'befaith and courage of two young men ; and in an- filledwith the glory of the Lord as the watersswer to that old man'sprayer, and tofortity these cover the sea.' Surely this is a rebuke to Uttleyoung men's courage, whUe the decree is passed faitb in days like ours when, however far we maytbat not one of all this faithless multitude shaU be yet from the grand consummation, it is at leastever set foot in the land, there is given this grand plain that ' tbe Lord hath made bare His bolyassurance, 'As truly as I live, all tbe earth shall arm in tbe eyes of all the nations.'be tilledwith the glory ot tbe Lord,' (Numbers We might refer to other epochs io the liistorj14:21). of the missionary enterprise. We might speak.Recall another time later on. Tbe land has with reverence, of'the Holy One of Israel' Himbeenwon and occupied for centuries, but the na- self, who, when Israel as a nation had finallytion has not fulfilled its lofty destiny ; it has not failed to be the ' light to the Gentiles ' she oughtbeen the blessing to the world it was meant to to have been, came forward Himself to fulfil thebe: the people have failed of their high vocation ancient covenant. You remember that whento be 'kings and priests to God ;' and now the the shadow ofthe Cross was darkest, and to alldays of the nation a'-e nearly run, and a prophet earthly appearance failure seemed about to beis charged with (lie heavy buj-deii of havingf,o .stamped upou His mission too, a few Greeks

Our Views of Mission Work,came to one of the disciples with the request,'Sir, we would see Jesus.' To Philip it nodoubt seemed a very slight occurrence ; not soto the Master. In these few Greeks He recognizesthe first fruits of the Gentiles ; and theshame and pain of the Cross being lost in thethought of' the glory that shall foUow,' He exclaims,'The hour is come, that the Son of Manshould be glorified;' and, after struggling withthe dark forebodings which fill His human soulwith dismay at the thought of the awful darknessimmediately before Him, He closes withthis note of triumph, ' I, ii I be lifted up fromthe earth, wiU draw all men unto Myself.'We might speak of the last of the Apostle inlonely Patmos, his fellow laborers all gone, hhnselfsUenced,—sadly aware that error and corruptionare eating out the life of the churches heand his fellow Apostles have planted, while persecutingRome seems everywhere triumphant,—not a gleam oi Ught, one would say, in all thedark horizon ; and yet out of that darknesscomes the great Apocalypse,—a vision of stormindeed; but beyond all storms there is peace andfinal victory ; again the great missionary promiseglorified,' so did the disciple, when ChristianRome was tottering to its faU, rally the faithrings out, strong and clear as ever : ' The seventh and courage of a weU-nigh despairing age withangel sounded ; and there followed great voices the old assurance, ' Glorious things are spoken ofin heaven, aud they said, ' The kingdom of the thee, 0 city of God.'world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of Or we might refer to your own Carey, only ahis Christ ; and he shall reign forever and ever.' century ago, when the Church of Christ was asEven since the canon of special inspiration oblivious of her high calling as ancient Israelclosed there have never been wanting men, in ever was—the old missionary covenant madedays of deepest discouragement, to hold high with Abraham treated as so much waste paperabove all the changes of the passing time the the idea of the Church of God ' awaking andhope of a regenerated world. We might speak putting on her strength,' in order that all theof Augustine of Hippo, in those days so dark and nations of the earth should see tbe salvation ofdreadful to the Christians of the time, when the God, as much despised and ridiculed as it couldheathen barbarians were pouring in on all sides, have been in the days of Isaiah himself and123dom of Christ seem absolutely bound up with thefortunes of Rome ; and there is Alaric the Goththundering at the gates ; he has broken in, andRome is at his mercy ; the churches are burning •the worshippers are scattered ; their blood isflowing fast ; again the hopeless cry goes up toheaven, ' O God, the heathen are come intoThine inheritance. . . . The dead bodies ofThy servants have they given to be meat untothe fowls of the heaven, . We are becomea reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derisionto them that are round about us.' Across thesea, in little Hippo, the great Augustine answersthe taunts of the mockers of the time by thatmonumental work, so influential from that dayto this, in which he summons the people of Godto look fibove and beyond the faUing cities ofmen to the great City of God, the only eternalcity, which mnst rise, though all Babylons andRomes should perish, ' in the Ught of which allthe nations yet shall walk.' And just as theMaster, when the cross was near, cried, ' Thehour is come that the Son of Man should beand threatening to sweep away that Empire of there that noble hero stood, braving all ridiculeRome on which, since the days of Constantine, and scorn, another Caleb, stemming almost alonehad been fixed the hopes of the faithful for the the tide of unbeUef and cowardly retreat ; enfinalconquest of the world for Christ. To the couraging the people, as he did, with the words,Ohristians of the West the fortunes of the king- ' Let us go up at once and possess the land ; for.

124 Our Views of Mission Work.with God on our side, we will be well able to do distance, but they are more alarming. HnbeUefit ;' another Abraham, leaving his country and and apathy on the part of Christian people werehis kindred, and going ont to a strange land, so far excusable a centnry ago ; it needed suchfeelihg weU assured, though he sees not how, strong faith in these days to believe in God'sthat the Lord will, in His own time and way, ability aud wiUingness to ' make bare His holyfulfil His ancient covenant that in His Christ all arm in the eyes of all the nations,' that it wasnations shaU be blest, and the whole earth ' fiUedlittle to be wondered at that so many, even otwith the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as those who might fairly be called good Christianthe waters cover the sea.' Are we not ashamed people, showed themselves quite incapable of itthat our faith should waver or our courage fail But simUar apathy and unbelief now, being sowhen we think of these men ? These men ' against utterly inexcusable and unaccountable, is muchhope beUeved in hope ;' tUey ' staggered not at more discouraging than it was then. We havethe promise of God through unbelief,' but were our heroes of faith and devotion—men who nostrong in faith, giving glory to God, and being doubt could stand alone if it were necessary, likefully persuaded that what He had promised He Caleb, or Uke Carey. And besides these, we havewas able also to perform. And shall we ' stag- tens of thousands in fullest sympathy with them.ger at the promise of God through unbelief,' now But, on the other hand, the great majority ofthat ' the Lord hath made bare His holy arm in those who call themselves Christians are so faiththeeyes of all the nations,' now ' that the little less, so selfish, so apathetic, so indifferent to theone has become a thousand, and the small one progress of the Gospel of Christ among the naastrong nation,' now that we have a thousand tions, that it would seem as if this generation,times as much to encourage us to beUeve in the taken as a whole, were as unfit to set foot in thefuture of the divine kingdom as had Abraham, or promised land as were the contemporaries ofCaleb or Habakkuk, or John, or Augustine, or Caleb and ot Joshua. And when we lookback aCarey? Let us be done, then, with unbelief and hundred years, to the time whenaU that the Chm-chcowardice, and let oor faith and courage be at of Christ could raise for missions iu a year wasleast as strong in d-ays when the world is open not one-tenth part of what is sometimes given bybefore us, and Ught is spreading fast, and the single individuals now in a day, instead of boastmorningstar of hope at least has risen on the ing of our progress, we are inclined rather, as wedarkness oi heathenism, as it was in the hearts think of what the Lord has wrought since thenof these faithful ones when hope seemed dead, to encourage om- faith and call out our devotion,and light was quenched in night.to say that if the mighty works which have beenSo far we have only been looking at one side done in sight of this generation had been doneof the great question. It is indeed true that in the days of Sydney Smith and the other criticsnever before has there been nearly so much to enof the ' consecrated cobbler,' they would have recouragens in ^looking forward to the future of pented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Wbenthe kingdom of God, But it is equally true that looked at iu this light, the apathy of the majoritynever have the discouragements been so prominent in our day is as deeplj discouraging as the apathyand conspicuous as they are to-day. The combat and unbelief of all a century ago.thickens as the Church of Christ advances. The And then there is the enemy sowing tares,faithlessness of friends and the fury ot foes may with far busier hands than ever, with powers atbe no greater in the thick of battle than when his disposal such as were not dreamed of a centheopposing forces eye each other from a greater tury ago. As before, he has the worid at hie

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 125tionate increase of Christian converts in heathen ' awake and put on her strength' as she hasback ; and the world is a far mightier force than ours can be. So, though we are certainly o-ainitever has been. As long as he can have selfish- ing in a mathematical sense, we can scarcely beness for his prime minister, the world is his, and said to be gaining practicaUy, for it is at so .slowits forces are on his 'side. It costs money to send a pace, that there seems no reasonable prospectmissionaries, and Bibles ; but it makes money to at the present rate, of even getting within sightsend drink and sell opium. So drink is sent in of our goal.cargoes, cargoes of death passing continually from From aU this it follows that wliile, if we simplyChristendom to heathendom, over those seas of look at the progress which has been made in thewhich our country boasts herself the mistress ; last hundred years, from the days of Carey untiland the trade in opium is sacred, because, though now, we might conclude that we were alreadyit is ravaging with ruin the most populous nation within measurable distance of our glorious goal,on the face of the earth, it pays. What hope yet, when we look at the other side, and think offor the world's redemption can there be so long the magnitude ot the work still to be done, theas selfishness can deal out death with far more terrible might of the forces arrayed against us,lavish hand than love can scatter words of life ? and the sad lack of faith and hope and love andAnother discouragement is that, after aU the devotion on the part of very many whom weprogress which has been made, the field is larger reckon on our side, it becomes evident that, thoughand the work vaster than ever before. It is true victory is certain, it is certain simply becausethat on our side ' ,the little one has become a ' the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it,' and bethousand;'but theh, on the other side, the mill- fore it can be reached there must be a change,ions have increased. It is true that the proper- a mighty change; the Church of Christ mustlands is most encouraging, much greater than never yet done. W bile we have a thousand timeseven of Mohammedans, of whose multiplication as much to encourage us as there was at any of¥6 have lately heard so much. But then in those past times of which we have been speaking,these eastern lands the figures on our side are so we have as much need as ever for faith in God,very smiM, aud on the other so enormously large, and for that devotion without which ' faith isthat though our' rate of increase is much higher, dead, being alone.'yet the numerical increase on the side of Moham-{Concluded in next issue.)medanism and heathenism is much greater thanItems of IVlissionary Intelligence.REPORT OP, THE FOREIGN MISSION The Turkish authorities have uot ceased toBOARD.oppose the work in both fields,yet the brethrenIn presenting another report of the important ^re able to report progress in every departmentwork entrusted to our superyision, we desire to more marked and encouraging than at any forrecordour gratitude to the Redeemer and Head "êr period in the history of the missions.of the Church. His presence and power have ^"^ latakia there are four schools in efficientbeen cleariy revealed in the exceptional success operation: A day-school for giris with 110that has attended the labors of onr missionaries '^'^'ês on the roll, and a boarding-school wherein the face of multiform opposition. To His 53 giris are under careful religious instructionname be aU the o-lory'^'^^ ®°j°y *"" *® adyantages that flow from the

126 Items of Missionary Intelligent.constant oversight and training of a Christian been accorded within which to examine the dochome. This spring five of the girls finished the iiments submitted to the Valiyat bythe responsiprescribed course of study and three of them have ble heads of our schools, it has been decided tosince beeu engaged in teaching. Miss Wylie, so authorize the re-opening of all that have beenlong at the head of this school, has iound con- closed." He farther says, " I have communicatedgenial associates in Miss Edgar and Miss this decision to our Envoy extraordinary andDodds, who, after spending some months at Mer- minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople, whosine, was on tho ITth of November, 1881, ap- promptly submitted it to His Highness thepointed to labor in Latakia Their assistance Grand Vizier, and a telegram has just been rehasenabled her to devote more time than usual ceived approving my proposed action and iatoBible-reading and religious conversation in the structiug me after informing the Yali to proceed.''homes of the people. These efforts to reach the The missionaries, are directed, after waiting awomen with the gospel message and Uft them reasonable time for the YaU to notify the localout of their present deplorable condition should authorities, to proceed -with their work.draw forth the earnest prayers of the whole No change has taken place in the managementChurch. A day-school for boys reports a regis- ofthe Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Holt-Yates' mission attered attendance of 100 pupils and in the board- Suadea. The same teacher is in charge, bat theing school for boys there are 39 Suitable ac- work is far more promising than in previous yeare.commodations have not yet been provided for this In the boarding-school there are 26 pupils, and onschool; but a lot has been secured and arrange- the roll of the day-school there are 60 names withments are being made to erect a building as soon an average attendance of 30 pupils. The usualas tbe mission has received the necessary funds, remittances have been regularly received fi'omAbout two-thirds ofthe amount required for this Mrs, Yates of London to meet current expenses.purpose have been raised, one of our congrega- A school has also been opeued at Larnaca ontions having given more than one fourth of the the Island of Cyprus. In the opinion of the$6,000 called for Others have responded to Board our missionaries should be encouraged toour appeals with great liberality ; and it is hoped send laborers, as opportunity offers, into this inthattbose wbo have yet done nothing wUl pay teresting field. Noted in Scripture history asinto the treasury at ouce the needed balance, the birthplace of Barnabas and closely identifiedthat there may no longer be any delay in going with the earUest operations of Christianity, it isiorward with this important enterprise. spiritually destitute to-day. It should not beOn the plains near Latakia, in the Nasairiyeh true of an island tbat once had its own messenmountains,aud in tbe other outlying districts gers of liie to others, that there are none to teachthere are ' ver 242 children uuder the instruction its inhabitants the Way.of 14 teachers. The schools at Mettin and The statistics of the mission report a total ofMurgh have each a department for girls. Many 659 pupUs, 153 more than were enrolled thevUlages are petitioning the mission to re-open previous year and 266 in advance of the attenschools; but nothing cau be done without the dance in 1886.permission of the government. Relief, however. The gospel has been preached at Latakia andseems to b-at hand. In closing their annual atthe outlying stations with aU the regularity ofstatement the secretary of the mission informs us former years, and God bas owned and honoredthat a letter has been received from the consul, the ministry of His word to the gathering in ofin which he says, " A reasonable time having many souls. Thirty-one, including two girls and

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 127ten boys from the boarding-schools, were received September of this year. Having consecrated theinto the feUowship of the Church, lifting the roll remainder of his life to this service, wo knowof native membership from 145 to 116. Deduct- that he wiU have a place in the hearts of theing one death, three certificates to the inissions at neople.jMersine and Antioch and two dismissals, we are The medical department of this mission is onceable to report 111 communicants in good stand- more in successful operation. Dr. Balph reacheding, a net increase of 25. Tbis is most encourag- Latakia on the 15th of October, 1881 ; aud uping, and there is promise of larger results in the to the 1st of S\ arch he had held 32 clinics, fillednear fiiture. 590 prescriptions, treated 215 different cases.The Lord's Supper was administered at Lata- and made 100 professional visits. Our medicalkia, Suadea, E'-daney, Gendereiyeh, where the missionary seems fully alive to the responsibUityconverts have recently at their own expense of his position, and we trust that aU the churcheserected a place of worsliip, aud Gunaimia, which will unite with him in his constant prayer for theseems to have been during the winter the scene wisdom that cometh from above. It it impossiofa religious revival of considerable extent and ble to overestimate the influence that a Christianpower. In this village, which is situated about physician may exert as he goes among the sick,twenty-seven miles east of Latakia, Ibrahim healing their diseases and preaching the gospelRazook, a student of theology, had been teaching of the kingdom.and conducting evangelistic services for some Not les^ remarkable than iu Syria has been themonths; and, wben Mr. Eas.son visited the success attending the work in Cilicia. Tarsus misplace in January, he found many auxious to con- sion has seen an eventful yet prosperous year. Itfess the Saviour. Aiter careful examination, reports 39 native communicants, which indicates afourteen were welcomed to seats at the table of large net increase, including seven girls from thetlie Lord. In other parts of the same districts boardiog-school in Mersine. There are at presentthere is a growing ieeling of dissatisfaction with six schools for boys and five for girls with an agtheold life. Many have declared their intention gregate attendance of 506 pupUs under the carelo take the Bible as their only rule and yield of 14 teachers. This branch of our work has beenthemselves to the Saviour. They are under in- very much disturbed and retarded by the opposti'uctionand wUl, if true to their present convie- sition of the local authorities. Yet good seemstions and resolve, be received into tbe feUowship to have been done. The drought that coveredof tbe Chnrch.tbe land with desolation and filledits homes withIn this connection we are glad to say that Mr. hungry children, has been God's agent in the re-Easson is soon to have an associate aud fellow- moval of many hurtful prejudices. Dr Methenylaborer. On the 21th of March the Board re- writes that the " Celicia ReUef Fund" has beenceived an application from Mr. James S. Stewart wonderfully blessed. It has called forth theto be appointed missionary to Latakia Excel- gratitude and admiration ofthe people, it has inlenttestimonials to his personal character, intel- spired confidence in our missionaries, and it haslectual attainments and experience as a teacher brought several youurf: men and women underand preacher were read at that meeting, and he gospel teaching long enough to secure their acwasunanimously chosen to labor in the Syrian ceptance of the great salvation.field. He is to be ordained to the work of the A loud call comes to us from this fieldfor help.ministry during the sessions of Synod, and ar- Miss Joseph, so well quaUfied in the opinion otrangements wUl be made for his departure in every one connected with the mission, has been

128 Items of Missionary Intelligence.laid aside for many months, and will probably These brethren have accomplished that servicehave to return to this country. But in any and possibly before Synod closes its sessions weevent the services of another lady are demanded may be able to give in part the result of theirby the extent of the work. Miss Sterrett has examination. We know the chairman wiU uselabored on summer and winter for fiveyears, not all diligence in the matter ; but as he and his asonlyteachiug, but attending to the wants of the sociate were not to leave Tarsus mission tiU thesick, and overseeing all the details of a boarding- end of May, the information wiU be necessarilyschool, and she must have help. Who wUl go ? incomplete. Immediately on their retnrn, how-Nor have we yet been able to secure an associate ever, a fuU report will be presented to the Boardfor Dr, Metheny. We have issued one appeal and published at once for the information of theafter another, but uo licentiate, nor minister has churches.been found to say, " Here am I; send me." At the last meeting of Synod we were " in-Surely our young miuisters do not realize tbe structed to .make inquiry in regard to a suiturgentneed of laborers and the enviable position able field in which to inaugurate a new foreignthat a missionary occupies, or there would be no mission.'' We are unable to give any inforlackof yolunteers. mation respecting China and Africa in addi-A word as to the finances is necessary. At tion to what was furnished in. our previous retheclose of the fiananciaiyear the total receipts port. But there are not wanting many indicawere$16,691,15, nearly $500 less than were paid tions that the Lord is calling us to preach theinto the treasury the previous year, while the gospel in Cyprus. This island has an area ofdisburseuients foot up $18,115.41, an excess of 2,288 square miles and contains over 190,000 in-$2,518.18 over the receipts from all sources, habitants, of which 80,000 are Greeks, 30,000V\ e are glad to know that the deficiency is to be Turks and the remainder Roman Catholics, Martraced to a falling off m special contributions ronites and Armenians ; and for their spiritualrather thau in the congregational collections, wants no provision has beeu made.Tbe latter amount to $5,533.14, almost $800 Convenient to the two fields we now occupymore than last year, VV bile it is gratifying to and in regular steam communication -with tbem,note this increase, the churches shonid remember a minister located there would enjoy the practithatthe work cannot be carried on unless thay cal sympathy and co-operation oi the brethren infurnish tbe who'e apprspriation of $10,000. Syria and CiUcia. A British possession, thereActing on the instructions of Synod, we have add- would be no opposition to the carrying on ofed three laborers to our working force, and the evangelical work, and the people are in the waitefficienoy,not to say the existence, of the service ing and pleading attitude that characterizes thedemands two more. This means an increase of whole world to-day.from $3,000 10 $4 000 in salaries Nor wonld Since our last report we have been called toit require the least self-denial to give all that is part with one of our number, Mr. William Brown,ealled tor, and more. All that is needed is a one of the original members of the Board andlivelier interest in the canse that we repre.sent, for many years its effieient treasurer. On Julyand a deeper sense of individual re.sponsibility. ITth he finished his work on earth and enteredEarly in the spring a delegation, consisting of into rest. Respectfully submitted.Dr. McAUister and Mr. Henry O'Neill, was ap- , ,, ^., t> j- . , ._ , ,._ r - n ,\ , - - • In the name ofthe Board,pointed to visit our foreigu fields and inquu-e intothe condition und requirements of tbe work. R- M. Sommerville, Cor, Sec,

Ikms of Missionary Intelligence129MERSINE.to the Doctor personally. We infer that he isIn one of those mornings of mingled mist and blessed with means, and with the more blessedsonshine, while the clouds still hung over the spirit leading him to use them in the Master's service.The work done by him in Latakia duringhills, our ship anchored off this beautiful littlecity. It is strung along the shore and presents the last twenty-three years, and the work recentlya peaceful appearance, all the apparent activity begun here, show both the liberaUty of the pluckybeing in the movements of the boatmen, with little church he represents, the Reformed Presbyterian,and his own benevolence in its behalf.their mauy colored costumes, fezes and turbansHere we went ashore in quest of our countrymen, It makes a showing of which any Presbyterianthe missionaries. They are always hospitable church might take comfort, and especially whenand glad to see those from the far-iway fatherland. it is considered that this denomination has onlyA guide conducted us to the house of the only about ele yen thousand members in the HnitedAmerican who represented our country, and we States But they are of the right stuff. Possiblythis may be the reason why they are notmounted one stairway after another, pounding atthe doors as we passed, not knowing whether we bulky.were going into a home or a harem, until a room This mission has a good neighbor, tbe AmericanBoard, and good fellowship and helpfulnesswas reached on the walls of which hung certainidentifying pictures, familiar to walls at home. come out of their mutual friendships. As anThe flrst was " The Spirit of '16," the drumming evidence of this Dr. Metheny pointed to a placeup of recruits by the old heroes. There was also iu the firststory of his house and incidentally rethespirit of'64 in the battle of Gettysburgh, marked, "This is where brother Montgomery,and other more peaceful pictures, which assured the famous missionary of the American Board atns by their severe welcome that this was a home Adana, keeps his horse. I keep mine out ofin which both religion and patriotism dwelt, and doors." It wUl be understood that in the constructionof Oriental houses the ground floor iswere sustained at the same altar.Pushing on a little further we received the devoted to such uses. The American Boardhearty greeting of Rev. David Metheny, M.D. works mainly with the Turks, tbe Retormed PresWe had never looked into each other's faces, butwere friendsat once. He was at his breakfast,and with his genuine -missionary hospitality hadat his table a family ol ItaUans, feeding them forCbrist's sake They had been converted fromRoman Catholicism in one of the Missions, andwere on their way to Egypt to find employmentbecause of the famine now prevailing in this partofthe country, caused by the utter failure ofthewinter and spring rains. His family were attheir home, eighteen miles up in the mountainsbut owing to the clearness of the air it was insight and did not seem more than five mUes away.At this mountain home the school is kept in thewarm weather, and down in the city at the ocean'sside in the winter. These two properties belongbyterians with the Arabs. In Mersine, under thecare of Dr. Metheny, are schools for both boysand girls—fc-ty-two pupils in the boardingschooland abont thirty-five giris in the dayschools. In Tarsus there is a boarding-school ofthirty-two boys and ten giris. In another villageschool near Mersine there are thirty boys andtwenty girls. In Tarsus is a day school of thirtyboys and ten girls. In another there are fiveboys and thirty girls, and stUl another near Tarsushas fifteenboys. There are reUgious servicesin all these, preaching wherever a place can befound to stand upon and people to hear. TheReformed Presbyterians are slow in receivingpeople into their communion even at home, butmore careful here. But they have over two hun

130 Items of Missionary Intelligence.dred communicants worthy of the name. In that men and women for the unconquerable loveLatakia the Turkish government closed several of they have for Him who redeemed them, wUl leavetheir schools. Nobody thinks of asking any rea- home, friends,ambition, famUy ties, literally forsonfor this. The Turkish government does any saking father and mother, strangle patriotism,thing it pleases, and no reason that ever governed give up the luxury which wealth tempts aU men toany other peop'e would explain their action, long for, for foreign missionaries are not all poorNothing but what is known in our country as and they have had good social relationships, lay-" pure cussedness '' will approximate to a con- ing all down at Christ's feet, and patiently eudurclusion.Sitll there are several schools in good ing here as seeing Him who is invisible. Let inconditiondoing good work uuder the care of P

orable providence of God.—Bev. Dr, Mutchmorein The Presbyterian.Items of Missionary Intelligence. 132In addition to the Sabbath services we mentioned above, are three classes of girls, meetingNEWS FROM OHR DELEGATION. at half-past one and continuing one hour. TheLAT.iKiA, Syria, May 3d, 1888. f °'* advanced of these classes studies Alexan-Rev.R. M.Sommerville, Seo'y :^^^'^ Evidences of Christianity, and the otherDear Brother: We send through you to the *'^° '^^^ engaged in the study of Bible historyBoard of Foreign Missions the eariiest possible ^"^^ practical lessons deduced therefrom. In theword concerning the work which we were sent evening a girls', and separately, also a boys'to examine. Since we reached this place last prayer-meeting is held. Of these additional Sab-Saturday, AprU 28, we have given the work bath meetings we at'ended only the girls'prayerascareful examination as the brief time would meeting, under the direction of Miss Wylie,permit and now avail ourselves of tbe firstmail, '^^'^'^'^ impressed us, so far as we could judge ofgoing out with the French steamer to-morrow, to exercises in an unknown tongue, as an earnestsend this report, trusting it may reach you before aud affectionate conference between teacher andSynod adjourns.scholars, and of all with the Master himself.On Sabbath morning we attended the Sabbaih ^'^ ^"s'^ °ot fail to mention Mrs. Easson'sSchool, which assembles for opening exercises at class in her own home for the study of English,half-past eight, the classes going to theh re- nor the meeting of the Society on .Saturday even^spective rooms at nine. Tben foUowed the re- i°g *o'' ^^^ same purpose. Tbis Society hasgular preaching service by Mr. Easson at ten. Proved so popular that Mrs. Easson's parior wiUThe usual general afternon prayer-meeting at ^ârdly hold tbe young men who gather from thehalf-past three gave way on this" occasion to a tô^° as weU as from the school. Many haveservice in English, at which there was a good atbeen led by this means to take an interest in thetendance from the town. On Monday we visited mission work on the Sabbath.the classes both in the giris' school and in the We have ample proof every day of the imporboys'school, paying particular attention to the ânce of Dr. Balph's work. Often as many asstudy of the Scriptures by the more advanced thircy-five or forty patients flock to his office inpupils. Tuesday we visited the mountain village tê morning ; and the day we went to Jenderia,Jenderia, a Uttle over two hours' ride from Lata- after lunch, twenty or more were brought to himkia A very large gathering welcomed us. Dr. for treatment, while on the way home he wasMartin, who arrived the preceding evening from constrained to stop and minister to a sick manAntioch, preached, and Mr. Easson baptized a '^ a village that we passed. In all this medicalchild, the whole service being very impressive, ô* t^® opportunities for spiritual instractionOn yesterday the united schools gave an enter- are unbounded, and the indirect advantage totainment in honor of our visit to the mission, at the general work of the mission is hard to eswhichthe many addresses spoken and read af- timate.forded abundant evidence of the literary attain- ^nef and incomplete as our examination of themen's of both girls and boys. The customary mission in this place has thus far been, it hasweeklyprayer-meeting this evening, in which many nevertheless enabled us to make something of aofthe native members took an active part, was comparison with the work ofthe Hnited Prssbylargelyattended, as we understand it is every terian Cburch in Egypt, of the Church of Engweek.A pair bf twins were baptized at this laud in Southern Syria, and of the Presbyterianmeeting Church in Beirut and adjoining districts, to all

132 Items of Missionary InteUigence,ofwbich missions we gave considerable attention REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ONon onr way here. We were made to feel as MISSIONS.never before the greatness of the work being ^ careful examination of the papers laid bedoneby the Presbyterian and United Presbyter- fore us reveals great diligence and faithfulness onian Churches in America. With strong forces the part ofthe mission boards and of the missionandlarge financial resources, they are opening aries of the Cburch.and cultivating fieldsin comparison with wbich The report of the Board of Foreign Missionsour own may appear t-xceedingly limited. Aud ig fuH and satisfactory. It is matter of devoutyet considering the amount of money invested in thanksgiving tbat our young brother, James S.buildings, the number of workers employed, and Stewart has been moved to consecrate himself tothe annual current expense, our own mission can foreign mission work. There is still a loud caUshow quite as encouraging results. With an invest- for laborers in the foreign field. Theory comesment of over $200,000, the mission in Egypt had from the Tarsus field: "JSend us an ordainedan increase last year of 384. The mission cen minister and another lady teacher to aid in thetering in Beirut, with an investment oi $368,- -nrork," and from the isle of Cyprus, with scores000, including the publication department, had of thousands of souls in utter destitution of gosanincrease of 104. Our Latakia mission, with pel instruction, the Macedonian cry comes to us,an investment of $25,000, including $5,000 be- " Come over and help us "queathed to ns from Mr Lyde's labors at Suadia, The report of tbe Central Board of Missionshas enjoyed an increase during the last year of 31 shows a large and constantly growing work infrom the natives, whUe at Mersiue there bas been charge, in all its departments. Hnder the fosanaddition of 16. But the figuresgiven iu any tering care of this board new mission stations aremission indicate only a part ol the work accom- being established and new congregations organplished.The training of young men and women j^g^ every year. Your committee desires to emtogo forth with the truths of the Word of God phasize the importance of increased efforts in thisto other places is a work of whicb only the revel- branch of the work, first,to save to the Cburcb -ations of the great day will show the influence, those who have emigrated to tbe frontier; and.If our people in America could but see the six second, that others msy be gathered in and sonative temale teachers here, and the still larger the Church greatly enlarged.number of men, younger and older, who are day j'rom the reports laid before us it appears thatby day by precept and example impressing divine the Southern Mission is in a prosperous condition.truth on the minds of tbe bright b ys and giris This mission stUl appeals to tbe Church at largegathered into this mission, they would have such for sympathy and prayers, as also for a liberala conception of the noble work already done, and supportsuch an outlook for the future, as would stimu- There bas been no change in the work amonglate them io redoubled zeal and liberality. the Chinese, yet the mission •iry in charge hasWe send this early statement in the hope tbat offered his resignation, which has been accepted,Synod will more cogently than ever present the and will take effect when his successor has beenclaims of this mission to the Church, and that the chosen and is ready to enter on the work.Church will respond according to the appeal. The question as to the ways and means of es-Yours in the Lord's work,tablisbing a mission among the Indians presses oDAvm McAllister. „s for solution. The Woman's Missionary So-Henrt O'Neill. ciety of Pittsburgh Presbytery have $1,200-

Mission Monographs. 133ready to turn into the treasury for this work as and that he be intrusted with the general over^soon as a satisfactory plan of operation is adopted, sight of the Home Mission worl^ in the west,In view ofthe facts brought before your com- îth authority to establish societies and missionmittee in the several reports, we recommend as stations and to dispense ordinances to those enfollows:titled to enjoy them, and that said secretary be1. That the Board of Foreign Missions be instructed to keep the Central Board of Missionsinstructed to continue their efforts to secure an- informed as to the conditions and needs of theother ordained missionary and an additional -jôrk.lady teacher for the Tarsus field. 8. That we recognize the earnestness and de-2. That the coUection of funds for the erec- yotiou of Rev. N. R Johnston and famUy in thetion of a buUding for a boys' boarding school, work among the Chinese in connection with thewith an industrial department, be prosecuted, Oakland Mission, and that in view of the accept-,and the work entered upon as soon as the state ance of his re-ignation by the Central Board,ofthe funds wiU justify.gaid Board be instructed to secure 9 successor to3. That the^ question of estabUshing a mission carry on the missi m work among the Chinese.in the isle of ryprus be left with the Board of 9 With reference to the steps necessary toPoreign Missions, with instructions to enter on be taken to inaugurate a mission among the Inthework as soon as the way is clear.dians, your committee recommend the reference4 That we approve of the purpose of opera- of the whole matter to the Central Board ofting the Southern Mission reported by the Cen- Missions with instructions to inaugurate at oncetral Board of Missions io give the schools a more a mission among the Indians, and to make an apdistinctivelyreligious character by the introdnc- peal to the Cburch to provide the necessarytion of catechisms, Bible study, etc., for daily means.study in aU departments of the schooi 10. That Revs. D. McAUister and J. K.5. That we approve of the extension of the McClurkin be added to the Central Board 0work in the South to new fieldsas rapidly as the Missions.«tate of the financeswill justify. RespectfuUy submitted,6. That we urge all congregations of the 0. D. Trumbull, ]church to double their contributions in support ofW. J. Sproull, jthe Home Mission work so that this field may be John '''eaz, |- Committee.cultivated with greater diligence than ever before. a w v 'h ri.i iVlGiNEILL, J1. i hat the general sec etary of the HomeMissions be recognized as synodical missionary,A PILGRIMAGE. the Dead Sea plain. We leave the holy cityBethlehem is about six miles south of Jerusa- by the Jaffa gate, passing on our course the moulemand is buUt on a ridge with deep ravines on astery of St Elias, one of those useless institutionsvarious sides. There is a carriage road between where lazy monks congregate and derive their susthetwo places and it is a pleasant drive of a tenance from the community like the ParasitesSpring morning just as the orb of day begins to that infest their own filthy bodies, since eachtint Mt. Nebo and his fellows, throwing their monastery is endowed with lands tUled by thelengthened shadows across the Jordan valley and peasantry for the benefits of the monks. Pro-

134 Mission Mo ographs.ceeding farther we cross the valley of Rephaim vent depradations either by man or beast. Morewherethe PhiUstines came and spread themselves over I saw snow faU in Jerusalem about the 26th-when they had heard that David was anointed of March, and rains are frequent even so late inking over Israel. It is a broad level expanse be- the season. The interior of the church wastween two ridges of low hills and one can easUy adorned wsth numerous Bible or historic scenespicture David and his men under cover of these finely wrought in Mosaics, but tune has playedhills fetching a compass behind them the second havoc with them and destroyed their beauty.time they advanced upon Jerusalem where he Near the church is a cave named " The Grottostruck them in the rear and chased them like wUd of Nursing " where Mary is said to have takenroe from Geba to Gazer.refuge with the child Jesus for a brief season toNear Bethlehem is the tomb of Rachel which escape the jealous wrath of Herod, and where sheis now in the form of a shrine and is patronized nursed the child previous to starting upon theirby the people of the community as a holy place, long journey into Egypt. Mothers resort hereA short distance from the town is the hillside from time to time to replenish their failing breasts.where the shepherds were tending their flocks by This Grotto is presided over by a peasant woman,night when the angel appeared to announce the who probably derives enough revenue from it tobirth of Christ, and with him a heaven'y host sustain herself and family. The walls are compospraisingGod and saying, " Glory to God in the ed ofa soft chalky rock of which she makes smaUHighest, and on earth peace, good will toward cakes and disposes oi them to tourists and pilmeu."grims, who pay a trifle for them as souvenirs or be-Bethlehem is a neat town, orientally speaking, cause of the blessing that is in them. She statedof about 3,000 inhabitants and contains " The that the pilgrims said that when these cakes wereChurch of the Nativity '' said to be built on the dissolved in water that it turns to mdk. I saidspot where Christ was born and the m.anger is to her, " Do you really think that it does ?'still preserved in the crypt of the church. The "The pUgrims say so,'' she answered. "But dosurroundings are embellished with lamps, curtains you believe it," I asked. " I suppose it is true,'and ornaments of various kinds. It is probable she said. " Then why don't you go into thethat the ehurch is near the place where the man- milk business," I enquired. " You could undergerwas because their have been few changes in seU aU competitors and rise to affluence." "Don'tBethlehem since the beginning of the Christian be an infidel," she repUed, becoming somewhatera Amid all the commotions that occurred rufHed. A bystander then told her that, I was aand the ruin that was wrought in Palestine dur- Christian minister, and when I purchased some ofing the past centuries Bethlehem has remained her wares as a memento, she kissed my hand insubstantially tbe same, and the church was token of reconciliation and respect.built while tradition was fresh and tolerably ac- Many articles ef piety and ornament are macuratein the minds of the people.nufactured in Bethlehem, such as crosses, rosaries,A grand celebration is observed here every brooches, necklaces, napkin-rings, drinking-cups,Christmas, when each sect vies with the other in etc., made of mother of peari, amber, olive wood,the elegance of its display. But it is highly asphaltum from the Dead Sea, gold, silver, etc.,probable that Christ was not born at that seasou and are sold to pi'grims and tourists for religionsof the year at all as the weather is too inclement purposes or -as curiosities A very profitableat Christmas tide to watch flocks in the fields by trade is driven at certain seasons of the year andnight, and they are consequently housed to pre- exorbitant prices are demanded of Europeans

Mission Monographs 135and Americans who are all supposed to possess Becord for Msy cciifains an iaportact papera mint for coining money, and it is considered a on the i-fftct of the I'quor trtfBc on native raofavorto relieve them of as much of it as possible, es. We lay it before our readers that theyThe inhabitants are mainly Christians, and are may be more eairestin prayer for the successnoted for their industry and civUiiy. ol the efforts that are being made for the en-Bethlehem is a romantic and interesting spot, tire suppression of the traffic and forthe speedybeing the birthplace of the sweet singer of Israeli removal of so foul a blot Irom the name ofthe place where he pastured his father's flock, and Christianity. It is from the pen of Rev. Hen-, just as to-day, in the siUlness of the evening hour, ry Duncan, Convener ofthe Committee on Inmaybe heard ihe soft and winsome melody ofthe temperance. He writes :inodern shepherd's flute,so, no doubt, the melUflu- The subject has been discussed in bothous tones of David's flute reverberated among Houses of Parliament. And the differentthe hills and gently died away along the winding churches acd Temperance organizations arestreams. It is also the birthplace of Christ, the combining in an earnest effort to grapple withSon of David and his heir to the throne, not only fhe evil.of Israel, but of the Hniverse itself as the reward One of the minor difficulties of tbe problemof his sufferings and death.lies in the fact that the traffic is carried on byTbe town has been wonderfully preserved un- men of different nationalities, and that no sindcrthe Providence of God, and is, in every sense, gle Government has the power of preventingworthy of preservation as reminding us of the or even controlling the traffic. All that canwonderful condescension of the Lord Jesus and of be done in the meantime seems to be to coltheintensity of the love of God. " For God so Iect and disseminate intormaiion on the sublovedthe world, that he gave his only begotten ject, in the hope thata plain narrative of factsSon, that whosoever believeth in him should not will lead to such a rousing of the conscienceperish, but have everlasting Ufe."of the Christian ®hurch, and such an awaken-Three miles east ot Jerusalem on the eastern ing of the European and American Powers toslope of Olivet, stands Bethany, the little vUlage the gravity of the question, as will issue inaround which cluster so many haUowed associa- combined and energetic action forthe supprestions,so many tender memories, the home of sion of a traffic tbat ia a disgrace alike to ourMary and Martha and Lazarus, the family in Christianity andour civUization.which Jesus was so deeply interested, for which In dealing with the subject, it is extremelyhe had done so much, where he was so hospit- desirable that we separate the case of the naablyreceived, the place that was more like home rive races of India from that ot the native raotohim than any other spot on earth, for he clung es of Africa and of other parts of the worid.to it most fondly even untU he passed into the Not that there is no room for earnest action inheavens, his eternal home. " And he led them regard to India, but because tbe cases are inout as far as Bethany and he lifted up his hands many respects so widely different, that whatand blessed them, and it came to pass whUe he is true of the one is by no means always, or inblessed them he was parted from them and carried the same sense, irue of the other. Confiningup into heaven" # # * our attention, ihen, just now to Africa, whatare the facts with whioh we are confronted ?THE DRUNK TRAFFIC IN AFRICA, briefly these, that British, German, French•Ihe Ghurch of Scotland Home and Foreign and American traders are pouring alcohol into

136 Mission Monographs.tbe .Bark Continent iu such quantities and in among the natives we are told some of it goessn6fa'forms as to produce the most disastrous by the name of death I And tbis, which ruinsresults not only oa the moral and spiritual body and soul, imported by men who are memconditionof the natives, but even on their bers of our Churches and subscribers to ourphysical and commercial interests—that, in missions! It is perhaps not to be wonderedtact, as has been said by an eminent traveller, at that men who are destitute alike of princi-'" the .great continent of Africa is being ruined pie and humanity sbould yield to the temptaby-rum,"One or two facts will make the tion to engage in so nefarious a traffic when 700meaning of tbis slatement clear. per cent can be gained by it. But surely theWtia a well known and admitted fact that Christian churoh should protest in the strongnativeraces cannot partake of alcohol in its est possible manner against a traffic whioh isÊuropean forms without sinking into a state a disgrace to Christendom !of decay and 'degradation. Men sometimes But the evils of the traffic consist not onlyspeak as if the decay of the native races was in the character of the spirit that is imported,a necessary consequence of the advance of civ and its general tffects upon the native populailization.But clearly there is nothing in civ- tion. It is only when certain testimony whiohilization to account for such decay. Sir John has recently oome to hand is carefully cousid-Thnrston, Assistant High-Commissioner in the ered and weighed, thatthe full extent of theWestern Pacific, states the case tersely and evil can be at allapprtciatcd. The Rev. Hortrulywhen, repudiating such an idea as re- ace Waller, F. R G. S., not only says thatgards the natives of these islands, he says, ''the degradation ofthe wretched tribes of"Arms, gun powder, and alcohol are tbe solv West Africa has reached a depth which is apentsunder which native lile disappears." And palling," but testifies to hig having seen hunyet,in the face of this fact of the total inabil dreds of native girls lying in a state of intoxiityof these native races to survive the intro- cation round the wagons of the spirit sellers.duction of this agent, there is carried on at A-'d that bis is no exceptional experience apthismoment by professedly Christian men an pears from the testimony of others no lessenormous native trade in alcohol in its most trustworthy. Dr. Clarke, speaking of Southdestructive forms. The merchants of Mauri- Africa, says that he has seen thousands oftius sent their refuse rum, which was worth- girls lying drunk round the traders' wagons.less in any other market, to the recently con- And Mr. Moir, of the African Lakes Tradingverted island of Madagascar, and, despite the Company, writes, ''I haye seen boys and girlsentreaties of rulers and people, forced upon of fourteen and fifteen getting their wages inthem a trade which has done muoh to nullify rum." In /act there are parts of the countrythe work of Christian missionaries for many in which there is practically no other currency.years. It is the same on the West Coast of Let the cburch consider such appalling factsAfrica. As the Archbishop of Canterbury as these, and tben say whether it is possiblesaid lately in the House of Lords, " there is a that Christian Mission work should be successtraderum and a trade gin which are neither ful wben all this shame and degradation andmore nor less than liquid fire, mere poison, ruin is connected in the native mind with thewhich destroy in a very short time the men Chrisrian uame. " The time has surely oome,"andwomen who consume it, and they con- in the words of Mr. Joseph Thomson, thegreatsume it without slint." So deadly is it that traveller, " when, in the interests of our mdion-

Mission Monographs. 16„alhonour, more energetic efforts shouldbe made these changes which are always pos.3ible in anto suppress this diabolical traffic. Tnere can be unsettled country, drin''should be introducedno excuse for its continuance, and it is a blot among the native population there, our misaionon Chriatian oivilization.'may be wrecked, and the labor of years whollyOne of the most pathetic circumstances con- lost.oeoted with the whole subjeot is to be found It is earnestly to be hoped that measuresin the pitiful appeals which come to us from will speedily be taken to deal praotioally withthe natives themselves. Sensible of thei'" the faots now set forth. There is no lack ofweakness, they have appealed again and again facts to prove the greatness ofthe scandal; theto the Christian people of this country »nd diffioulty is to get the citizens of this country,the Governments of Europe, to protect them the men in power in the State, and even thefrom a temptation they feel powerless to resist- Christian people in our Churches, to look themQiotations from such appeals could be given in the face. I trust therefore that the Churchto a large extent. But space will not permit- of Scotland will take her place among the" There has broken out," Mr. Waller tells usj other branches of the Christian Church, and"not only in one or two, but in several dense" throw herself heartily into a cause with whiohly populated tracts of Africa, an intense desire is so closely bound up the success of her Mistoshake off the drunkenness which has arisen sions and the progress of the cause of Christ.as a contact with civilisation.'' " Why," askspraYING BY NAME.the Rev. Mr. Johnson, the able native pastorot Lagos (into which small island, with a pop- Praying for our missionaries by name isulation of 37,000, Europe imports 1,231,302 another means which we would suggest forgallons of spirits, l,2(i5,160 gallons of which drawing out our interest toward the foreignare " trade rum" and ''trade gin," described field. Wholesale intercession has always aabove)—" why should European proximity to dangerous tendency. Prayers which are soAfriia be Africa's ruin ?" Archdeacon Farrar, inclusive tbat they cease to be incisive, whichin a powerfully written article in the Contem take in so many interests that they take holdporary Beview (now reprinted in pamphlet of none, who has not been wearied at such cornform),tells us that in 1883 the natives of the prehensively feeble intercession 1 OrthodoxDiamond Fields implored the Cape Parliament Christians have as muoh need to be on theirto have public-houses removed from them for guard against platitudinarianism as againsta distance of six miles, and that their petition laritudlnarianism. Evangelical vagueness ofwasrefused. Strange that theory of weakness desire and petition is a weariness to God andand helplessness should 1 e so shamefully dis t j men, and we may almost approve the bluntregarded ; and that nationa that stand in the irreverence of an evangelist who impatientlyforefront of civilisation and udssionary effort broke in upon the vague and aimless prayer ofshould turn away from such appeals, and force a Chrisrian man with the exclamarion," Do asknpon unwilling people that which is working God tor something, brother 1" Now instead oftheir complete destruction ! prayiug for the Lore's blessing upon our mis-Hitherto, our own special mission field at sion fields, and upon our missionary brethrenBlantyre has escaped the blighting curse that iu gmer&\, let us gst a list of their names, andhas fallen on other parts of Africa. But we take some one of them before the throne ofshould reaUse the fact that if, through any of God each d.y. Let us make ourselves so far

138 Mis.sion Monographs.acquainted with their circumstances of trial means for religious purposes, have no right toor success that we shall have definite petition^ quote the example of that widow. I mustor thanksgivings to make for them. Let the pull you out from behind the widow and putmissionaries be reminded to send home specific youi conduct under a true light.requeots for prayer, and let them be taken up In the firstplace, gentlemen, I say,for definite remembrances at our monthly con-YOTJ ARE NOT widows.certs. For ourselves we have found great rpj^j^^ j^ ^j^g^g y^,„, ^^^^ breaks completelyblessing and profit in going through the mis- ^^^^ you are not widows. You are men.sionary list day after day at family worship. ^ widow often has hard work to keep the wolfThe heartfelt solicitude of the apostle to the ôm the door. She has often to fight a terri-Gentiles nowhere comes out more manifestly j,ig battle to get bread tor her chUdren. Shethan in the frequent recurrence of that saying, j^ ^^4^^ ^^^^ ^^^ helpless. You are men." Without ceasing I make menrion of you al- gj^^j^g^ stalwart men, and yet every time theways in my prayers."—^. T. Gordon in Mis- collectors go around you try to palm yonrsionField.g^j^^g ^^ ^^ widows ! Some of you are bach-DR. BOANERGES DISCOURSES ON elors. I have reason to believe that two orTHE WIDOW'S MITE. three of you are trying to induce some youngHaving learned that a number of people in ladies of the congregation to go to the marhiscongregation are in the habit of excusing "age altar with you. That is right enough,tbeir small contributions by alluding to the ût do you think any spirited young womanwidow's mite. Dr. Boanerges called tbem to- will give her hand to a young fellow who callsgether for the purpose of explaining to them himself a widow 1 Bo you think any decentthe exact nature of that Scripture incident. ai* î'^ gi^« îs daughter to a fellow whoHe also desired to show to them that the wid "alls himself a widow every time the collectorow's mite could not be made a precedent for oomea around ? If you do, you are much missmallgiving, and to prove that the widow was *^8-ken. Young ladies worth having don't maroneof the most liberal givers ot whom we have 'y widows. Rtspectable men don't bring upany knowledge.good daughters and hand them over to sneak-Like some of the meetings held by modern '°° fellows who call themselves widows whenevangelists, the Doctor's meeting was " for ^^^y ^""^ called upon to do their part like menmer only." The congregation looked some- '"^ ^"y S^^'^ 'ôrk. if this talk about the widwhat" hara,' and its looks did not iu any way ow's mite cannot be stopped in any other way,belie its real character. The Doctor addressed I shall instruct the collectors to say to everyhimself to his task in plucky style, and spoke •"*" who drags in the widow to make his centas follows .collection look religious.Dear friends, I am credibly informed that MI TER, ARE TOi: A WIDOW?when you give a cent apiece for Home Mis- Notice again that this widow was ôo>-. Yousions, and two cents for Foreign Missions, and are not poor. Heaven forbid that I shouldtwo cents for Colleges, you strike an attitude, say one word that would hurt the feelings oflook solemn, and say, " I give the widow's God's poor. May my tongue cleave to themite." My purpose in thii address is to show roof of mj mouth when I consciously utter ayou that men of property like you, who don't word that wounds the feelings of any of God'si-ê perhaps the ten-thousandth part ot vour children who have little of this world's goods,

Mission Monographs. 139but are rich in faith. I repeat, you are not men. The poor woman gave all she had, andpoor. Some of you grumble all season about the reward she usually gets for it in this worldpoor crops, but if one of your barns should is to have her conduct quoted as a cover forhappen to burn down after harvest, somehow the meanest of collections. Gentlemen, thator another you always lose $2,000 or $3,000 kind of work must stop in this congregation,worth of grain. Some of you never have any Don't tell the collectors again that you aremoney, but I have noticed that when a bank giving the widow's mite unless you are a poorbreaks or a loan company goes to pieces, you widow, and are giving all you have.— Canadaalways lose a lot of money. That's queer, Presbyterian.isn't it ? Mere coincidence, I suppose. ^^^^, ^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^ ^Now, gentlemen, I have disposed of twopoinls—You are not widotcs, atd even it you 1- He can himself embrace the missionarywere, you are not ôor.idea, div?nely taught, of the missionary char-Let us now turn to a third point, and you acter and oonstitution of the Ohurch. Thiswill findthat your case breaks down again, too many pastors utterly fail to do. The localThis widowchuroh, its interests, its preservation, ar itsGATE ALL SHE HAD.progress, limits and engrosses their attention.Do you give all you have when you give a Ifthe thought of mission comes in at all, it iscent or fivecents, or even $1 ? Do you ? If on'y on rarest occasions, and then rather assome of you gave as much as this widow, you the thought of Boards or companies of men towould give good farms with all your stock whom something must be given for the sake ofand implements and everything you possess in decency onoe a year, but to whom care mustbethe form of property. Others would give all taken not to give too much, lest it be so muohtheir buUdings and town lots and property of subtracted from the strength of the localthat kind. Others would hand in their bank church. Never was mistake more radical orand other stocks. To give the widow's mite fatal. These are the churches that dry up,means that we give all." When a man has down to the roots; that fiud it hard to holdgiven the widow's mite he has no more prop- tbeir own, and make good their annnal losses.erty left than Job had after he met his severe Wiser than they was He who said, " There islosses. Alter a man has given the widow's that scattereth and yet increaseth." " Give,mite he hasn't money enough left to pay toll and it shalt be given unto you."or break the Soott Act. Gentlemen, let me 2. The pastor, impressed with this truthtell you plainly you never gave the widow's himself, can press ii upon his people, illustratemite. The church wouldn't take the widow's it, enforce it iu a multitude of times and ways.mite from yoa. Even the Methodists would He can make it prominent in hia prayers andnot take all a man has. Nobody gives the conversations, and draw his frequent illustrawidow'smite now. Perhaps nobody ever did tions from the work and history of missions.but the widow herself.He oan show how this thought runs throughNow, gentlemen, allow me to ask you not all the Scriptures, and is especially prominentto attempt again to make a cent collection de- iu the last utterances of the Lord, from thecent by an allusion to that widow. That noble first coming after His resurrection, when Hewoman has suffered for neariy 2,000 years by aaid to hia disoiples, " As my Father hath sentforced into company with close-fisted me, so send I yon," to His last appearance on

140 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.Olivet, preceeding Hia diaappearaice in tbe poriodicals are abundant, furnishing details ofclouda of heaven, and Hia last declaration, ô^k and progress in distinct fieldsof opera-'' Ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, tion, while general publications, cover theand in all Judea and Samaria, and unto the broad field of the worid.—TAe Mission Field.uttermost parts ot the earth." And this thef-i.,- 1 . : t j4.j.ri. ij OUR YEAR OF CHUECH WOEK.faithful pastor is bound to do if be would(( 4^»«„i. iu„ i «k _ 11 »u- u , "Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and"teach tbem to observe all things whatsoever establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, theHe has commanded." The responsibility of ôv^ ot ouv M^^na^ establish thou u."-p^.^cienCP 'Twas humWe and lowly, our labor of love,whether men will hear or forbear.^"^^""""•' "• ° *'^"'"'' "'"^poêrfrom above-3. He can carefully inform hiraself, and Establish it, free it from error and sin.•' ' Let Thy blessing go with it, lost sinners to win.then Inform his people, in regard to the nature, co-worbera with Jesus. His merit our piea.history, methods, progress, and prospects of Letthe workof our hands be accepted by Thee.the missionary work. There was a time per Estabiishit; ne'er let it falter nor fau;, , ., . J 1 , . T Let the seed we have scattered flllmountain and vale Jhaps When It was not easy to do this. It is -Twas sown at Thy bidding, Thy truth unalloyed,easy now. The volume of missionary litera- on, ne'er let it, fru tless, return to Thee void.ture is great and constantly increasing No Establish it, Father, and Spirit, and son,Krannk nf i;4-n.«t.,.„ : .», .u -ll- A • Oh, Impart Thy rlch graoo as WC Still Shall work On;branch of literature IS more thrilling and ir.- speed, spe.d the glal day when Thy kingdom shall come,spiring, or furnishes richer food for thought. And on earth, as in heaven, Thy win shaU be done.or _ Mrs. material Mary for E. discourse. Metheny writes Denominational frora Mer- atreet, rnua-utphia.ra, a custom house ufladal -sallie called morkison. him andsine :told him that they had received an order toApril 28th.—There is nothing specially new deliver up the piano, without either duty orto write by tbis mail. Our larger boys have ground rent; they had intended to put it upall gone away to see if they can fine' any work at auction to pay the latter. It was a bitternow tbat Spring has opened up. As Doctor piU for some of them to swallow, but the newtold them, it was like sending partridges out bead clerk, wbo ia quite friendly to up, seemedamong bawka. We have not yet beard from glad. It is not so much damaged as we hadthem. Mr. Dibbak's sohool had increased to feared, owing to the zino lined box in which it45 at last accounts. was packed.We have been expecting Mias Sterrett by The weathei still keeps cool and showery,every .'jteamer thia week, but as yet she haa which is very pleasant to ua. Grass is nownot come. Our last from her was written abundant and the crops look well. The TurfromJerusalem. The girls bad a wreath of comana in the mountains are in great distress,myrtle made over her door to-day.aud come to borrow money now to buy food.Doctor hasjust come in to say that a Mos- promising to bring wood, cheese, honey andlem lad bas arrived to enter school. He is other produce for us in the Summer.sent by tbe Pasha of Zelifka, a town further 3(9Wi—Yesterday brought Miss Sterrett andwest along the coast. I wonder if he will be Miss Joseph back from the Holy Land. Satallowedto stay.urday we had a party of fourteen from variousTbe long detained piano is at laat in our placea in the interior, aome going to Constanparlor.After Mr. Strauaa went home he fin- tinople, some to America, and othera returningished the matter up very shortly. One day to their fluids. Among he first waa the venthis week, as Doctor was passing through the erable Dr. Riggs, one of the pioneer misaiona-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 141ries of Turkey. He has seen fiftyeight years pleasure with all, and the Judge said that heof service in this country.would send hia own son. A few days afterWe are troubled by the news received yesterdayDaoud was passing through the street, whenthat our teacher in Karadash has been the Governor accosted him and read an orderput in prison on suspicion of being a Russian stating that he was suspected of complicityspy. Not that I think they believe that at with a Russian spy in the village, and that heall, but simply as a pretext for closing the must search his houae. This the teacher refusedto allow him to do, aa a Greek subjectschool. Doctor will go aa soon as be can getthe steam tug to eee what can be doue in the unless it should be done in a legal manner inmatter. The teacher is himself a Greek subjeet.the presence of a representative of Greece.His house was then put under guard and beMr. Bissinger is very ill with dropsy. We imprisoned for six days. He was then removedare much afraid that we will soon lose his valuableto Adana, and there claimed to be aaid, but God will raise up other instrumentsGrt-ek subject and asked for the interference ofto do His will.the dragoman of the Greek Consulate. HeOnr good friends in Hopkinton will be glad said he knew nothing of him. Daoud told bimtohear that Miss Joseph and Miss Sterrett if he would send to Mersine he would find hiswere gladdened this morning by the receipt of passport registered in the Consulate, but hethe sewing machine, in good order. They are did not take the trouble to do so. The Rusriangoing to work immediately to make new calicospy accuaation did not aeem very terribledresses for their girls to wear on Sabbath. so they changed it and charged him with haviig—Another letter from Mrs. Mary E. Metheny contains the following items :opened a achool without perraiasion andwith teaching Moslems, wbich couldnot be tolMay Sth —I mentioned Daoud Saade, theteacher in Karadash. I will now add theaeparticulars, whieh we have since learned.Last Sabbath bis letter saying that he hadbeen arrested as a Russian spy—or in connectionwil hone—reached us. Doctor made arrangenoents on Monday to go by sea as soonashe could obtain tbe steam tug. He andMr. Dawson, our Consular Agent, had intendedto go on Wednesday morning. Just then'letter came from Hanna Boulad, in Adana,the authorities openly as visitors before, andtbey had seen the books; for tbis reason hesaying that Daoud had been brought there,declined to deliver the key j they must takeand enclosing a letter to the Greek Consul.upon themselves the responsibility of enteringDoctor then we nt to the latter, and deliveredhis domicile under such ciroumstanoes. Thethe lettt-r, wneêupon he sent instructions toofficers opened the door by force, and broughthis drsponuan in Adana. On Tuesday morningDocior went to Adana, but found thathis school books, letters, etc., to Adana.When produced before the Council, and toundDuond had been taken back under escort toto be all stamped with the approval of theKaradash. On Wednesday evening we gotImperial Government, it seemed to be thoughtôrdthathe was again brought to Adana.best to revert to the original accusation. InDoctor went up on Thursday morning andstayed till Friday morniog. He first obtainedpermidsion to see Daoud, who gave bim the'hole state of the case. Sume time beforebis arrest, the Governor oi Karadash and theJudge, accompanied by other official!), hadVisited his school of forty five boys. TheyMmined the text books, expressed theirerated. They then took him back to the village,and a commission from the Council ofPublic Instruation was sent with him. Ontheir arrival he was ordered to open the doorthat the school bcoka might be examined. Hereplied that he had been arreated aa a Russianspy, but now he waa being treated with aaa schoolmaater, and proteated againat the wholeproceedinga as irregular. He bad receivedtbe meantime the Greek Consul's letter hadreachbd Adana, and it may bave bad somewhatto do with hia return to Adana. Duotornext went to the Governor General, who receivedhim very pleasantly, but to his inquiriesabout Daoud he said he was a very dangerousman, and hia correapocdenoe implicatedhim in plots againat the government. Dr.said he did not see how that could be for to

142 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.his knowledge he had received all his lettersthrough him, and besides what be himself hadwritten he had only received three or four,and those from hia brother in Beirut. Heafterwards saw Dr. Ohan, the Protestant memberofthe Council, who told him about the examinationof the letters, and it turns out thatI enclose a slip from " Public Opinion,"the treason is in the Dr's. own letters. In one which makea still more plain the determinedletter be had used these expressions " I hope effort that Satan is making to shut out thethe work of the Lord will prosper in your " Light of the World." Oh that the followershands, and that he will open a wide door." of Christ were aa determined to resist that effort!And in another in answer to Daoud's askinghim to send his mail by aome faithful man, Our medical miaaionary, Dr. J. M. Balph,Dr. had aaid " Yoa aay to send your letters writes from Latakia in Miy ;by the hand of a faithful man : that meanseither that you muat bring them or I muat Since your letter arrived we have also retake them." So to-day Doctor went to attendthe trial.Sth. The Governor was aick last weekand the trial did not take place after all,so poor Daoud is still in prison. Mr. Dawaonwent up yesterday and had a long interviewwith the Governor General in which althoughseeing perlectly that he had no ground whateverto atand on, be refuaed to accede to Mr.Dawson's demands.Mr. Dawson demanded the releaae of Daoudand tbe impriaonment ofthe Governor of Karadaab.A number ofthe inhabitanta of the villagetestify that Daoud was much abused, andprovoked. Mr. D. insisted that as he hadcomplied with the regulations his imprisonmentwas illegal. " Oh," the Governor said,"this was not a question of schools at all; theman was in prison because he bad reviled tbe12th. Daoud is still In prison ; he sent wordthe other day to Dr, not to trouble bimselfabout the matter, that he had a good stock ofpatience. The Greek Consul and Mr. Dawsonhave each made a second attempt to settle thematter, but to no avail.ceived the cheering newa that we are to receivean addition to our ranka, in the personof Brother Stewart, who we are informed hasoflfered himaelf for this work. Tbere is plentyof work to be done; and we are glad to hearthaf there are those who are willing to enterupon it. He will meet witb a hearty welcome,and I trust the church at home will be stirredup to such an interest in this work that othersof our young men may be found willing tooome also. The success of the work bothhere and at Mersine daring the paat year hasbeen very encouraging. I think if the Heealdwith its news from the mission fieldeouldonly be introduced into every family in ourChurch it would be a very potent factor inarousing our people to a proper sense of theirobligations in this direction. Our people mustknow what is being done, and the necessity offurther eflfort before they can be expected tofeel the interest in the work that they should;even with all tbat haa been written in reSultan." (This reviling consisted in his sayingthat he was not under the authority of tbeSultan.) " Very well then," aaid Mr. Dawaon," shall I send up another then, and go on with gard to thia field,not the balf has ever beenthe schjol ?" He was fairly caught then, and told. I have sometimes thought that if thesaid " no, that we bad no right to have a achool degradation and misery among these peoplethere as it was a Moalem village." Mr. D.then told him tbat the law aaid nothing aboutoould be told, it would aeem almost incredible.Only to-day I visited a young man sick withfever, in a small room about ten or twelve feetsquare, without any window or opening exceptthe door, and so dark and damp one couldscarcely breathe in it; in this room lived afamily of several peraona; thia aerving thethat. Mr. D. intends now to carry the matterto Constantinople. All these things will onlytend to hasten the coming of Christ'a kingdom.Consul Biaainger is atillin a dangerous condition.At Mr. Dawson's own proposal, hiafamily met with ua last Sabbath to pray for purpoae of kitchen, dining room and aleepingapartment.And thia is only a fair sample ofMr. Bissinger.We have need of the prayers ofthe whole dozens of other oases whioh I have seen. Addohurch in thia crisis.to tbis the unwholesoma and aoanty allowance

of food upon which these poor people subsiat,and yo'i may have some idea of their physicaloqndition. Their spiritual condition is certainlyno better.* * * * * *Incidents in Mission Life. 143In regard to Miss Joseph's health, 'ihere isnot muoh change. ... I hope she maybe able to atand the heat of the summer. MiasSterrett needa help verydown and needa a reat.much, ahe is workedTESTED.of hia sceptical friend. Abandoning bis jourAdoniram Judaon, the apostle of Burmah, ney, he returned to his father's house a dazed,graduated from Brown University an avowed stricken man. The shock unsettled scepticism.He determined to make a thorough exinfidel; his most intimate friend, a brilliantstudent, was also a sceptic. The two friends amination of the claims of Cbristianiiy uponoften talked over the question—momentoua to his faith and conduct. He entered Andoverone on the eve cf graduation—" What ahall Theological Seminary, not as a student forwe do to make for ouraelvea a carter ?" Both the ministry, not even as a Christian, but simplyas a truth-seeker. What he sought for he•were fond of the drama and delighted in thepresentation of plays, each wrote with ease iound in Him who is the truth. He foundand skill, and so, after many discussions, ihey more—the life and the way. He submitted toalnflost determined to become dramatists. the truth, received tbe life and walked inJudson gradual* d iu 1807 with the highest the way with a martyr's spirit, and nigh oftenhonors. A few weeks later he went to New to the martyr's orown, until he heard the call,York to study the " business" of the stage, sothat he might be familiar with its requirementsin case he should become a play-writer.His dramatic project did not, however, retainhim long in the city, and prompted by a loveof adventure, he started on horseback to makea tour of two or three of the New EnglandStates. One evening he put up at a countrytavern and was assigned a room adjoining oneoccupied by a young man sick unto death.Tbe dying man's moans were distinctly heard" come up higher 1" Then he departed fromhis earthly apostolate. He wrote no drama,but his life waa a aublime spectacle. Nocrowds laughed at his wit or were thrilled athis delineation of human passion, bnt hundredsof men blessed him as their father in God.—Youth's Companion.GROWN WHITE WITH WAITING.*• Do you see this?" said a Brahmin toamissionary who had been speaking of Jesua,by Judson, whose scepticism was not strongand he held up a long buncti ot hair at theenough to keep him from musing on the question,"Is that young man prepared to die ?"back ofhis head, " Do you see this? Itisgetting white now—ia it not? It waa asblack aa a crow's wing once; and sir, it hasDuring the night the groans ceased, andearly next morning Judson arose, sought thelandlord and asked:" How is the young man ?"" He is dead.""Whowaa he?""Hehad recently graduated irom Brown,and his name was ."Judson was stunned, for the name was thagrown white witb waiting for words like these :"'• Grown white with waiting for words like these,"O, wonder no more that we rest not at easeOver whose heart strings such words have thrilled 1How, think you, can echoes like these tae stilled 1" Grown white with waiting!" O brothers all 1Is there for you in these words no calUStirs there no pulse in your inmost soul.As by you these heart waves of pleading roll 1" Grown white with waiting !" O, think how soouMust their voices be hushed! It is long past noon,And tbe Master calleth—O! hear his Toi

144 A'btes and Semeivs.ORIENTAL GEMS. Said Lukman to his son, Let the firstthing you get after faith be a good friend : forA man is like a fruit tree. While the fruit ^ ^^j^^^ j^ 1;,^^ ^ê palm tree; if you sit downlasts it is surrounded by those who wish to de- under its shadow it will protect you; if youvour it; but when the fruit is gone it is left to ^^^^ ^^^^ j^ ^j,, ^^pp,y ^^^ . ^^^ jf ^^^ ^^êndure the heat and dust alone.hungry it will satisfy you.§0te^ Mil §mm^.At a meeting of the Board of Foreign Mia age, our faithful fellow-laborer has at last beenaions, held in New Yurk, June 11, 1888, R^v. oalled to bis rest atid reward. We pray forEllsworth M Smith of Staunton, Illinois, was grace to be as faithful, each in his station andappoiuted at his own request to the foeeign to his trust as waa he, that we too may enterfield. He will be saaociated with Dr. Meth into that better life which we are perauadedeny in the Tarsus miasion. Arrangementa he now enjoya. T. P. STEYENSON,will be made for hia departure with R-v.Chairman.James S. Stewart in September. The Lord —Since our laat iaaue there haa been handhasheard our prayera, and we are glad. We ed ua for the Induatrial School Building :commend theae devoted young miniatera, whom L M S., St. John, N. B. $5 30He has^raiaed up and qualified and aent to us Miss Bell's S. S. Class, $4.70for the work, to His promised guidance and Mas Sjmmerville'a S. S. Class, $5 00care. L. M. S , Barnesville, N. B. $10.00—At,ithe same meeting of the Board the L. M. S , Clarksburgh, Pa. $16 50following minute was placed on its records : Olathe, Kmsas. $50 00The Board of Foreign Missiona of the Re- Cash, $100 00formed Presbyterian church records its deep " Cash " haa been among the moat liberalsense of the value of the services rendered to contributors to this fund. If we were at libthiscause through a long period of years by erty to give the names that it represents inits firstTreasurer, Mr. Wm. Brown of Phil- this instance, all wbo have the pleasure ofadelphia, who departed this life July 16,1887. knowing the generous donors would simplyThe strength and steadfastness of hia Onris say,''It is just like them." Tbeir lives seemtian character, hia fidelity to the great trust to be devoted to the aingle purpoae of doingwhich the church repoaed in bim, hia unfailing good in one form or another. We are glad tointerest in the missiona, his patient, always ac- know that concealing names from earthlycurate, and often laborious care for the funds of friends will not render the offering less aothemiaaion and the remittancea to.the foreign ceptable to Him who never faila to reward sefield,and hia kind attentions to the miaaionar cret aa well as open service.ies will never be forgotten by any wbo ever —Tbere will be no September Issue of theassociated with him in the work. We place Herald of Mission News this year, as theour appreciation of these on record here that Editor expects to be out of the city during thethey may be remembered for instruction and month of Auguat. But this ard the remainencourogementby jail who in future years may ing numbers for 1S88 will contain twenty fourperuse theae records ofthe beginnings of the inatead of twenty pages, furnishing the samework of the Lord in Syria. Spared to a great amount of reading matter.

PUBLISBED WITB THE APPROVALoftheBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBVTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxtm ot m%m mml.THB ARM OF THE LORD MADE BARB.* forth to-day, and in a moment the earth wouldKev. J. Monroe Gibson, M. A., D. D. be filled with the glory of the Lord. But" The Lord hath made bare His holy arm In the eyes of that would not be the accomplishment of theall the nations; and all tUe ends ofthe ©artli ahall seeDivine will. That would not be the salvation oftlie salvation of God."—Isaiah 62:10.[concluded from last ISSUE.]the world ; it wonld be the annihilation of theIt is true that the work is God's and He alone world that now is, and the creation of another.can do it; but it has been His purpose from the It is the purpose of God that His people shallbeginning that it shall be done through human carry the hght, that His Church shall stretchagency. When Israel refuses io go up against forth her hand to save the world. ' The Lordthe children of Anak, the Lord's purpose is notfrustrated; but its execution is delayed. Itwould have been easy for God to drive ont theCanaanite, and leave the land open for His peopleto enter without opposition; but it is Hisshall make bare His arm.' What do you understandby the arm of the Lord ? Is not theChurch His body ; and if the Church is sufferingfrom atrophy of the heart or palsy of the arm,how can the work be done ? The old watchwill that Israel shall do the work, and so nothing word is as true as ever, ' not by might, nor byis done till Israel is ready. So was it, again, power, bnt by My Spirit, saith the Lord.' Butwhen Israel finallyfailed of her high vocation. the Spirit must animate the body, the vital currentof force must flow from Him ' who is theThe purpose of God, that in the seed of Abrahamall nations should be blessed, could never head of the body, the Church,' into the heart,fail; but the chosen nation lost the privilege of and out to the arm, which then, and not tillbeing the arm of the Lord to carry it out. The then, will be 'the arm of the Lord,' and, therefore,mighty to carry His salvation to the endsHoly One of Israel was compelled in sorrow topronounce the sentence : ' The Kingdom of God of the earth.shall be taken from you and given to a nation First of all, then, the heart must be right.bringing forth the fruits thereof' Now it is our There must be more life and warmth and powertune. Even if we were as foolish and selfish as at home. This has always been the firstnecessity.Caleb recognized this when he said, ' IfIsrael of old, the purpose of God that all theends of the earth should see His salvation would the Lord delight in us then He will bring us intonot fail; but then it would fail of accomplishthiment by us. By other instruments the great received the answer to his ' complaint,' he at onceland.' In the same way, when Habakkukwork would be done. God could do it by miracle,of course. As at the first He said, ' Let thy work in the midst of the years.' The Apocpoured out his heart in the prayer,' 0 Lord, revivethere be light, and there was light,' so over the alypse begins with an earnest appeal to the sevendarkness of heathenism the same fiat might go churches to come back to their firstlove. And*A sermon preached on behalf of the Baptist Missionthaiy Society, fiiLondon, on April old missionary psalm, which mingles prayer25,1888.

-j^4G^"*' Views of Mission Work.aud pr yjliccy in such a wondrous way, enshrines imagine the work at home would suffer IoSlS? Itthe satne thought: ' Ood be merciful to us and wonld be au incalculable gain ; for the doubledbl '3s us and cause 'ihy face to shine upon us, that zeal of those that remained wonld not only accom-Thv way may be known npon earth, Thy phsh more, bnt it would enkindle others, and besaviu"'health among all nations.' Nor can we fore many months were gone the army of workersforiret how our blessed Lord Himself connects in at home would be more numerous than ever.the closest way His own personal devotion, His Devotion is like steam ; it must be concentrated,bemsr'obedient unto death, even the death ofthe or it cannot accomplish anyihing. Suppose theCross' with the ultimate triumph of His cause, faith of Paul had been divided among a hundred'I if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men, would the whole hundred have accomplishedmen unt® Me' ' This He said, signifying by as much as the one ? Distribute the steam ofwhat manner of death He shonid die.' In every one engine among a hundred, and see how muchway 'is borne in upon us the great law of the driving power you can get. If we could rekin^-dom• if we would have more power in the duce the Church of Christ in the worid toarmwe mnst have more love in thc heart; ii we day to one-hundredth its present size, and letwould win those that are without we must have that part have as much faith and devotion asmore of the spirit of self-sacrificing devotion there is in the whole of it now, it wonld be hkewithin' ' Ye shall receive power, after that the Gideon's 300, a power that nothing could resist.Holv Ghojt is come upon you.' The firjt and We need not be afraid then of diminishing ouronto-reatthin"" then, is more life and love and power ward bulk so long as that diminution is the resthome^°'t of increased energy in our proper work.Does this mean I he slackening of effort abroad ? Though exercise diminishes bulk, it increasesThat would be the last thing that would help the strength and promotes health. Let us by alloause at home. Some people foolishly imagine means then have, not less, but more, exercisethat the fewer men and less money we send to especially at the extremities, where there is mostforeien lands the more we can accomplish at our need and greatest scope for it; bnt as to theown doors. Experience proves that it is rather vitals, what is above all necessary is purer blood.the exact contrary. It is not men, it is not What is wanted is far more devotion, more ofmoney "we lack at home. There is abundance of the Spirit of the Master, more of the blood ofboth What is wanted is the outpouring of the the Cross in the veins of the Church.So'rit of God to consecrate the men, to conse- My attention was recently called to a beautifvatethe money we have. If only the Church ful device adopted by some American missioc-•wonld awake and put on her strength she might aries, an ox standing between an altar and aauadruple her foreign force and her foreign cou- plough, and, engraved beneath it, the motto,tributions, and at the same time increase tenfold ' Ready for either'—to do or to die for Jesus'ber power at home. Is not oue man endued with sake. That spirit is wanted all through thenower from on high far more influential than a Church ; and it is a great thing that, even inthousand commonplace Christians content with these self-indulgent times, we have so many sthsthe savino- of their own little souls ? Suppose ring examples of it in the foreign field, aud nol--we conld halve the number of Christian workers ably in Africa, of which no better illustrationat home by sending the other half away to far could be given than in the history of your ownmore needy fieldsabroad, and at the same time Congo Mission. The heroism of General Gordondouble the faith and love of all, does apy one is known to all ihe -fi-orld, because his name wa

Our 'Views of Mission Work. 147coQuected with great national enterprises, and is the word. And the nature of the salvation hefor this reason it has been of priceless value ; sets forth with wonderful distinctness. Centuriesbat the records of purely missionary enterprise in must yet elapse before the Christ of God cauthe Dark Continent can show many Gordons— come ; but already the prophet of the Lord seesmen by the score as brave, as devoted, as self- Him afar. 'Behold, My servant! " He cries, andsacrificing, to the uttermost ; whose heroism then describes the snffering Saviour, in that wonwouldstir men's blood all over Christendom if derful 53d chapter, as if the Gospel story hadonly the history of missions received half the atbeen already told. Later on he sees the Saviourtentionit deserved ; and no mission has been King at the head of His forces. ' Behold, Imore highly honored in this respect than your have given Him for a Witness to the peoples, aown; so far as I know, none has furnished a Leader and Commander to the peoples'(55:4).larger contingent to ' the noble army of the The salvation of our God through a crucifiedmartyrs' than the Congo Mission of the Baptist and'exalted Christ, this was the banner oftheMissionary Society.Evangelical Prophet,' and surely it should sufiiceWere such faith and devotion to become gen- for us, as it sufficed for the great apostle, whoeral, all men would see and recognize the unity of wrote ' I determined to know nothing among youChristians. Who thinks of Hanningtou as an save Jesus Christ and him crucified ' Here, then,Episcopahan or Comber as a Baptist ? We only is our rallying point. It need not mar our unity,thmk of them as servants of Christ, and mission- that we differ on those matters of the circumfer,aries of His glorious Gospel. So ought it to be ence oi truth in which true Christians of all ageseverywhere ; aud when it is so, the Church may have differed, so long as we are one in Christlift up her head, for ihe day of the world's re- Jesns, glorying in His Cross, accepting for onrdemptionwill then be drawing nigh. We learn selves and proclaiming to the world the salvationfrom our Lord's intercessory prayer that, as soon of our God. Why, then, should not the peopleas the Chm'ch is seen to be one in Him, the of Christ, of every name, on whose banner is inworldwill believe ; and our prophet gives a hint scribed, ' The Salvation of our God,' advance toofit too, for he has just been saying (verse 8), gether now, as a mighty army, responding to the' Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice ; with the summons—voice together shall they sing ; ior they shall see "*Onward, christian soldiers,° . , . , , „ ' . rr. , Marching as to-war:eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion.'-vvitu the cross of jesusAnd throughout all these missionary chaptersGoing on before ithe summons is addressed, not to individual be- Then should we march to victory. It was alievers, but to the Church as a whole. But the true instinct that led Constantine to put theunity the prophet has. in view does not preclude cross on his banner, and set round it the device,diversity ; it is the unity of an army, which may 'By this I conquer !' Had not the Lord Himbemade up of different regiments, and of various self, said, 'I,/if l he lifted up from the earth, willservices, all united, however, nnder one banner, draw all men unto Me ?' See, too, how oiirWhat this banner is he makes very plain. It is prophet, immediately on concluding his greatwhat all the ends of the earth are yet to see, the prophecy of Chris|; crucified, breaks for*, insalvation of our God. ' , these inspiring^ strains, ' Sing, O barren, thou'The salvation of our'God'—this is the ke^- that didst not bear; break forth into singing,note all through the great missionary epic. Not and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail withritual, not philosophy, not theology, but salvation child: for more are the children of the desolate

148 Ow Views qf Mission Work.than the cliildrGn of the married wife, saith the we could do it Wc wonld not, of com-se, standLord. Eukrge the place of tby tent, and let alona Closely linked as are now all the nationatuem stretch forth the curtains of thine habita- of the civihzed world, there could not be such ations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strength- revival in Britain without similar movements inen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the the Hnited States and throughout nil Christenrighthand and on the left; and thy seed shall in- dom But even if we stood alone, the one Chrisheritthe Gentiles, and make the desolate cities tian nation on the face of the earth—but Christobe inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be tian to the very core—Christian throngh andashamed : neither be thou confounded ; for thou through—Christ lifted up everywhere. His Gosshalt not be put to shame : for thou shalt forget everywhere believed, His will everywhere done—the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the nation as a nation seeking, first,the kingdomthe reproach of thy widowhood any more. For of God and His righteousness, we could bring thethy Maker is thine husband: the Lord of Hosts is heathen world to the feet of Christ in a very shortHis name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of time. The whole world is open to ns in sucb aIsrael; the God ofthe whole earth shall He be way that, with our great resources consecrated,called" We can readily see how all this would as they would in that case be, to the cause ofcome about if only Christian people of every name Christ—delivered trom apathy at home aud anmadeit evident—as evident aa those African tagonism abroad—our politics, our trade andniissionaries of yours have made it—that they commerce, our literature,—all the forces of thewere followers of the crucified Saviour. If the nation on our side—we should soon see the mostChristians of every denomination were only glowing prophecies of these missionary chaptersthoroughly consecrated^living in the world as fully realized. Even the sixtieth chapter wouldChrist was in the world, loving one another as cease to be prophecy and become plain history—He loved us—entitled every one to say, ' To me the history of our own times.to live is Christ'—would the world ever think of But, alas I to talk in this way seems almost aaraising the question whether we agreed as to Htopian as it must have seemed in the aays ofmethods of government or form of worship ? ©r the prophet. We are so far from it, so sadly fareven whether we were all at one as to the from it. It is true that if the Chnrch werephilosophy of that salvation by the atoning thoroughly roused she could gain the nation ; and,death of Christ, on which we rest as the only if the nation were saved and sanctified, she couldsure foundation for the hopes of lost sinners of gain the world ; but who or what will rouse themankind? No; they would see Christ in all ; and Church, who or what will unite all her forces,that would be enoagh to make it plain that all and so prepare the way oi the Lord ? Will notwere one in Him. Against such united testimony you rouse us all a second time ? You did it a cenunbeliefcould not hold out for a single genera tury ago. From you sounded out the Word oftion. Then would the Church grow as she did the Lord to a slumbering Chnrch, to awake andin the gldw of her fir.stlove and devotion ; the put on her strength. Now that a century hasnation wonld speedily become Christian, not ih gone^ can you not give us all another impulsename, but in ^fery deed ; our commerce would be that will make the coming yeare as much greateroonverted; our ships would no longer caii-y drmk and moTe fruitful than the present, as these are^ deatb, but life and Kght everywhere. Then better than the old days, when the claims of thethe work* would noi be too great for us. We heathen were utterly neglected and forgotten ?could do it very speedil;f. Even if we stood alone We can all at least fall back on good Habak-

Items of Missionmry InteUigenm-. 140kuk's prayer ; and we can look to ourselves and great promise is fulfilled, ours will be the honorsee to it that we, as individuals, are thoroughly of Caleb and of Carey, of having done what wedevoted to our Master's service, and never cease could ; and it will not be onr fault that, though,frora our endeavors to maintain and promote the at the time We lived npon the earth, the Lordunity of the Spirit, on which so much depends ; did make bare His arm in the sight of all thethat we do what we can, and give what we can, nations, there had to be a further postponemenkfor the sending of the Gospel of salvation to the of the time when al! the ends of the earth shouldends of the earth ; and then, even though this see the salvation of our God.deration, tooj should pass away befbre theItems of I^Slsslonary int©lllgene@.ABROAD.ent oa the Sabbath to see If he would commnnBi._,The examination of applicants was ih the pres-ON TliE FIELD. /. , . , . „ , , i i-ence oi a large gathering of the people who ns-Antioch, Syria, May 22, 1888. tened with close attention. One of them, anTi-avellers in this land are compelled to suit nnnsually intelligent man, bad attended servicestheir arrangements to the movements of the Med- from the ear'y days of Drs. Dodds and Beattie.iterranean steamers. Ea,a;er u,gc as we are to reach Long after the laborers have entered into theirMersine we must wait for the French steamer, rest is the fruit of their sowing reaped. Whatwhich leaves Iskandoon next Friday evening, an encouragement to all who are now at workarriving at Mersine the following morning. We amidst difliculties and trials.conld find no more comfortable place, however, Sabbath morning the rain was over and gonefor such waiting than here with Dr. and Mrs. and the singing of birds was all about us in bushMartin, to whose hospitable home we were wei- and tree. As the time for service drew near, thecomed last Saturday evening. Besides the time school-room was filled to overflowing. Some ofwill be little enough for visiting places of inter- the brethren had come frora Jenderia, a distanceest, and examining the important work of these of fiveor six hours. It was a strangely mixedefficient missionaries ; and I trust that there will company that crowded the room. The preacher,be opportunity io write a short acconnt of the Mr. Easson, stood at one end, at a little table;communion at Eldany, in which the readers of near him were a few chairs on which we AineritheHeeald may be interested. Let me attempt cans were seated. Along the wall ou one side ofthis now.the room were benches accommodating fifteen toOn Friday foTenoon, May 11^ Mr. and Mrs. twenty. The rest of the audience sat on the matsEasson, Miss Wyhe, lilr. O'Neill and myself and rugs that covered the floor on both sides ofrode through a drenching rain frora Latakia to ihe communion table, fcfr which benches WereEldany, a distance of four and a half hours, or made to serve, and which extended from theabout sixteen to eighteen miles. The raiu made preacher's desk to within a few feet of the otherbad footing for the horsas and this lengthened end of tho room At this end, near the door,coir ride to five hours. Preparatory exercises sat the armed Fellahin to whom I have alreadywere held in the afternoon and again on tho referred. There were three of them, each oneafternoon of Saturday. Three applicants vjptd with two or three large pistols and a knife like aadmitted, and one was counselled to wait till the short sword in its sheath thrust within his girdle,next communion, mainly because of his fear ol his and with a gun held in band throughout the serreJatives,some of whom, fully armed, were pr«e- vice. When the aotioo sermon and other pt

150 Items of Missionary Intelligence.aratory exercises were over, a space was cleared eldest brother, undertaking another robbing expeaboutthe benches neatly covered with white, and dition, was himself shot at Bahamra. And now,thirty-eight sat on the floor at the communion according to the law of blood atonement whichtable. Of these, thirty-three were natives. It prevails among them, the second of the threewas a joyful occasion. That little company was Mahel'be brothers is watching for his opportunityan earnest ofthe harvest that will yet be gathered, to kill two of the Kil'be tribe. The near maleI thought of the time when our missionaries first kindred ofthe leader of the band that slaughteredwent to the same village only to meet with bitter the youngest of the three brothers are in specialopposition, and ofthe time when the Rev. Mr. danger. The leader of thethree armed men whoLyde, that pioneer missionary among the Fella- sat all through our communion service, and whohin, was stripped of his clothing and yoked to a returned also to the Monday service, was thisplough beside a donkey. What joy must there surviving second brother. Terrible as this storyhave been in heaven among the white-robed is, it is more than equalled by another of earlierthrong, in which those noble laborers. Dr. Dodds, occurrence. A company of the Kil'be tribe, onDr. Beattie, and Mr. Lyde are included, as these their way to Latakia, met a prominent sheich of tbeconverted heathen commemorated in their simple other tribe. I'hey compelled him lo dismount,service the death of the Saviour.then made him thrust out his tongue which theyOne of the brethren, a teacher, Ased Canaan, cut off, then cut oflf his ears and nose, and liter-(pronounced Kahnahn,) living at Bahamra, was ally cut him to pieces alive. What a changeanxious to attend the communion, but on coun- does the gospel need to make among bloodsellingwith Mr. Easson and his visitors, it was thirsty savages like these ! And what a changejudged best that he should wait and commune at it does make 1 A more gentle and tender-heartedLatakia. The reason ior this absence is a strik- people conld not be found than that little coningcommentary on the character of the unconver- gregation that partook of the emblems of theted natives. It is a story of the worst of savages, body and blood of the Lamb of God, and pledgedBahamra and Eldany are about one hour themselves in these emblems to be worthy followanda half, or four to five miles apart. The ers of the Prince of Peace.former belongs to the Kil'be tribe of the Fellahin, The question which at once arises in regard toand the latter to the Mahel'be tribe, which have scenes of murder such as I have narrated, is,long been at enmity. The oldest of three Why does not the government arrest and punishbrothers of the last named tribe had committed the guilty ? Iôt au inquiry is made into theserobbery among the former tribe at Bahamra. cases. If a Moslem is suspected of eating a crustA chief of the tribe, a brother of our teacher, of bread before sundown during the fast of theAsed Canaan, led an expedition a little overa Ramadan, in such towns as Antioch, rigid inquestyear ago against the other tribe, hoping to take will be made, and the punishment by fire inflictvengeanceon the robber. They found the young- ed. But in the mountains of the Ansairiyehest of the three brothers ploughing, and seized him there is no investigation whatever into the bloodiasa hostage. While taking him away, they metthe est of crimes that concern those tribes alone.oldest brother, who shot two of the company and The only explanation that I heard was that tbeescaped. Emaged at this issue of their enterprise government would be glad to have thsm extertheyfell upon the young brother with their great minate each other, and that it rejoices in everyknives, and butchered him beside the yet warm quarrel that tends to their more complete alienabodiesoi their two comrades. Soon after, the tiou. If they were uir ted, they would be a much

Il-ems of Missionary Intellige-nce. 151fmore troublesome element for the government to they are not slow to pass judgment on the use omanage. Among the mountains are passes and the language by ministers and teachers, andcaverns, where a few men well armed might defy their judgment is soon known among the massesthousands. It was at the mouth of one of these of the people. But I must leave the work atcaves, in a most romantic gorge below Eldany, Antioch for fuller consideration at another time.that we succeeded in obtaining a picture of Isa,D. M'Allister.the survivor of the three brothers before mentioned.MERSINE.At the prayer-meeting on Sabbath afternoon, In the far-off heathen land bloom the rareand again in the evening, we had four or five flowers of self-sacrifice. A young Jew was endiscoursesby as many teachers. They were cer- gaged in a clothing house and came into friendlytainly creditable performances, as we could judge relations with Dr. Metheny, who in course of conoui'selvesin reference to manner, and in reference yersation remarked incidentally that he ioo betomatter, as the substance of each was made longed to the household oi the faith ; which ledknown to us by our missionaries. We have at the young man to enquire how this could be. Heleast seven or eight men who are already, practi- took up the Scriptures with him and read thecally, evangelists ; who expound the Scriptures promises of the Jew's Messiah, his character, bisand inculcate sound theology in all the villages work, his treatment, as described by the prophets;to which their work as teachers or otherwise may and then compared these with the facts oi thetake them. May their number be lorgely in- New Testament. Patiently the young mancreased. Had our schools done nothing but studied for himself, f ir he was a first-clasa Greektrain these men, the results would more than com- and Hebrew scholar, until he was able to giv-'pensate for the outlay. suflicieut reason for a change of heart. His em-I shall close this letter with a brief reference ployers became rest'ess and warned him aboutto the work here in Antioch. Dr. Martin and his friendship with Dr. Metheny, saying that hewife have rare helpers in thc family of Jurjis would upset his faith, but he said, " He has notWakid, The sou, Ibrahim, is a teacher of ex- done it, but the Book," and commenced showingceptional energy and thoroughness, as well as a them out of their own Scriptures. But this wasman of more than ordinary inflnence in the com- all the more exasperating, and they told him hemunity. The daughters, two out of four of would have to leave. But he said, " Am I notwhom are teachers, have a good knowledge of doing your work as well as before ? am I worthGerman,-a most unusual acquisition among the any less to you because I believe what the Jewnativeshere, and would take rank in any com- ish Scriptures have written ?" Here was trial atmunity as young womgn of fine ability and ch«- the beginuing; to be an outcast from all his peoacter.The fluency and accuracy with which pie and lose three hundred pounds ayear and h.sDr. and Mrs. Martin use the Arabic language is commissions besides. He could have kept hisitself a power. It commands the confidence and place, and his convictions too, if he had not beenrespect of the people. Nothing short of many baptized. But in the faee of all, he confessedyears of hard study cau secure such proficient before them his rejected Lord and was baptized.scholarship. And this test is apphed, as I had Ue was ostracised by the Jews and hostilitiesnot beiore coming to the East understood it to were awakened by them m the mmds of the naheapplied among natives. Good scholars among tives. His father, who was rich, disowned himtbem are not so rare as mi^ht bo supposed ; and and he was, as his first-bornentitled to every

152 Item.s ofi Missionary Intelligence.thing. As is usnal, when a Jew gives up the her profession will win others. Thus the workfaith of his fathers, funeral services were held, of reformation will go through her father's concurseswere pronounced against him and all born gregation, and before they know it they will beof him, and he declared a vagabond on the earth, lifted to a higher plane of life and duty.But he endured all rather than give up his con- A little change in onr consular arrangementsvictions of the clear teachings of the Scriptures, would help these self-sacrificing countrymen, andAs he was penniless and without friends or any we are sure if the President or Secretary Bayardpossibility of making a living, he applied to Dr. understood the petty torments which the TurkishMetheny to send him to America that he niight government inflicts upon them without mitigationget away from the curses of his people. The from our consular service, ihey would cbangeDoctor gave him the means of going, saying, it. The fact is but too apparent that these con-" This is but loaned to you ; I will not give the snls of ours often have no sympathy and no senseslightest occasion to the Jews to repeat their of justice to their countrymen in this struggle.usual story that I bought you. If you are never Often, being worldly men, they do not believe inable to pay it back, or are sick, it will be for- Foreign Missions, and say, " What is the nse ofgiven; but if you are prosperous you must return bothering about such an abominable people asit," and the morning of our arrival Dr. Metheny these Turks, they are not worth saving." Onehad received a letter telling him that his money of our consuls said to me, m 1879, about thewas ready for him.Syrians, " If I had my way I would send themAnother case is almost as remarkable. A all to the devQ." Others say, " Their religion isGreek bishop sent his children to the mission good enough for them ; let them alone, you onlyschool, for which his people persecuted him and make them good-for-nothing in giving them anycalled him a Protestant; for the hostility of the other." If this had been the logic of the church,dead Greek Church to missious is greater than the world would be in heathenism, it would havethat of the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, left onr own shores in barbarism. Heathen Turks,But the bishop kept on ; he would not deprive Armenians, Arabs and Egyptians are not a parhischildren of the knowledge of the truth which tide worse than heathen Indians, whom we seehad perished in his own Church ages before ; and Christianized every day.what was the secret of all this ? It will show Of course we are speaking only of a tronbletheindirect influence of mission example and some minority ofour consular service, but it needsteaching. He had been reared in his youth correcting. In Mersine the man who acts as conunderthe influence of Protestant missions in Syria sul is an Englishman who has no symyathy withand had absorbed the quiet influence, which so anything American ; he is a hindrance, and ourshaped his life that he was ready to stand the people conld get on better with the Turkish offipersecntionof his peonle for the good of his cials without him. In no case ought a foreignerfamily. Now his daughter is a teacher in one to be appointed unless an American cannot beof the mission schools and is doing good work, found. The missionaries, if they will accept suchthough reviled by her own people. She has not a position, are the best fittedfor it, for they haveleft the Greek Church, but is living a Christian the confidence of the. people and represent thein it and doing Christian work out of it, and country to them as no foreigners can do ; theysoon her life will tell on the young among her are loyal and loving to iheir country, some ofcompanions; for the good will always conquer them have served in its battles and hospitals.and opposition will develop her superiority, and It would help their influence if tbey were

Items of Missionary Intelligencemade either consula or vice-consuls instead of shall seem like torches and run like the lightnings.consular agents. In thia country a government)7title means everything; and this need From Mersine to Tarsus, about eighteennot increase their compensation, where they miles, is a railway whioh was intended to beget any, and where they do it without compensationcarried on to a junction with a road throughit gives them ability to do their the valley of the Euphrates toward China.work better. For instance, the consul at Beirut,Our own countryman, Mr. Elliott Shepard ofof whom we hear only in terms of univerNew York Oity, was here, whether or not insal satisfaction, would be helped greatly in railroad interests we do not certainly know,his usefulness if he were made consul-general. but he did not leave this part of Asia MinorWherever we have a first-rate man, he ought without memorials of his Christian sentimentsto have all that dignity which the government and beneficence. There ia a school in thecan give, especially as he does not get muchelse.bounds of the territory of the Reformed Presbyterianmissions, founded for him and sustainedThere was a verse familiar to our childhoodby him. There is another worker wellwhioh we found verified in eyery part of the known in our country, and deservedly so, forglobe:he haa founded and is carrying on a grand" If you roam the world belcwwork for the American Board. We regret exceedinglyTou -will flnd New Englajod men.And if you roam the -woild aboveYou -will find them there again."that we did not see " Bishop," as weshall style him, G. F. Montgomery, whoseheadquarters are at Adena; he haa one of tbelargest mission ohurches in Asia Minor, if notthe banner church, with a building whiohNew England men are planted all over AsiaMinor, not only as missionaries, but as adventurersin trade. Agricultural implements of would appear well in any of our home cities,every kind are everywhere offered for sale, and hundreds of communicants. His peoplereapers, mowers, separators, patent medicines. are Armenia Turkish; he has a denominationalsohool, a female aeminary and districtIn sight of where we anchored, right in Alexandretta,18 an American engine, puIEng its scho Dis all over the country, and we were informedthat he had from three to five hundredbest, snorting until the mountains echo in genuineAmerican fashion, pressing and preparing persona at his ordinary prayer-meetings. Hisfor the Philadelphia market the licorice root brethren believe in him and love him, both forwith which the tobacco, which our countrymen himself and his work; and from their enthusiasticaccounts we infer that he is a missionmasticate, is mixed, and with whioh they makeself-ejecting squirt guns of their mouths. ary war-horse with the bridle pulled off.There are also railroads, either owned or manThis little city from whioh we are partingaged by Americans. Strange as ii may appearthere is a railway into Tarsus, which is tion. In sight of the harbor is the spot oncehas some history worth a word of recapitulafar beyond the prophetic dream of the apostle, covered by a fort ani city oalled Pompeiopolia,though he had travelled in thought into the built by Pompeii tor the purpose of cutting offthird heavens. Nahum was the only railroad the ancient pirates, who neariy dominated thisprophet, but even he did not say exactly when part of the cost. In the mountains in the back-" the chariots should rage in the streets or jo.s- ground, whose heads are bathed in the miststie against each other in tbe broadways, or which creep up from the sea, is a notch or153

154 Items of Missicnary Inle'lligence.deep depression known as the '• Cilician Gates," FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES.through whioh the great Persian generals led . . . , ,their hosts backwards and forwards in their The London City Mission during the pascontests either in victory or defeat. This twelve months received more money and sentmorning, deluged in rain, we find ourselves an- ""^ more miaaionaries than at any previouschored In a snug little bay between famous period in its history. The average number ofranges which enoloseitfrom storms, just oppo- "•i^îonaries on the staff during the laat yearsite tne town of Alexandretta. Before, as in ^^« 473. At the end of March there werea little valley in a oreacent of the mountain, 481. The number of visits paid was 3 288,-ia tbe spot where Alexander the Great gained 763; testaments, etc., distributed, 4,563,763 ;over Darius the famous victory of losus. All °>««tings held, 68,543, and 8,233 outdoor seroverthese mountains men speared and thrust ^'"e^" The receipta were £87,738, and theeach other until their dead bodies rolled into expenditure £54,876. Upwards of 300 ofthethe sea and their blood soaked the soil. No missionaries now have a misaaion hall or room.marka are left; the green mountaina have The British and Foreign Bible Society duroleansedthemselves loug ago of the stams i„g tbe year just closed has issued the largestof numan cruelty aud the marka of violence „u„,ber of copies ever known. The total numthroughhuman ambition. It ia peaceful now ber of Bibles, Testaments, and portions waaand a September aun has conquered the storm, ^ goe 032, an increase beyond the issues of theand tbe light dances on the ripples of the blue p^.^j^Qg yâr of more than a quarter ofawatera in the bay, while the noontide rays ^^jj,^^^ .^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ .^^^^^^-^ ^ ^^^^,^,have climbed tothe mountain tops, where they ^^ ^ minion sterling.are glorifying in gold and opal tbe clouds ofmists so reluctant to quit tl-e scene. The eighty-fifth Report of the Sunday-The town, whioh squats on one side of the gchool Union represents 6,165 schools, with abay, was, as its name indicates, intended to million and a half of pupils, with about oneperpetuate the name and fame of a man whose teacher to every ten obildren. Seventeensoul went out on the breath of Bacchus. It gabbath school missionaries are at work onIs a fit monument of one who died aa a fool the Continent. Of Sabbath school teachersdieth, and thia greatness is only the background £(,^f Qut Qf ^^q are old pupils.to show his amazing folly. The town ia likeall Turkish remains; the few houses standing At the eighty ninth annual meeting ofthelook imposmg, for whitewashing with the Religious Tract Society the annual report aetTurka ia the ultimatum of splend.or; but if one forth that the receipts from all aources durmgventures upon the shore he will return disgust- the past year, including the balance attheed. There is an old version of Jonah and commencement, were £311,108. There waatbe whale aaaooiated with it which may give a ««* increaae on the year ot £9,093. Thea better pioture than jaded imagination. It total expenditure wa.". £208,662. The numberis said that after the whale had gone all of new publications issued during tbe yearthrough the Mediterranean with its human amounted to 757, of which 214 were tractafreight, and was not able to relieve itself, it and leafleta. In the year 1887 no fewer thansaw Alexandretta and it made it aick, and 222,000 of the London Board School childrenJonah waa ahot out ou dry land.-ZJet;. Dr, were presented for examination in Scripture,Mutchmore in thf. Presbyterian.of whom 5,555 received prizaa.

Ittms of Jlissionary InteUigence. 155AT HOME.Afte-- visiting several places they sfleotedFt.SiU, in Indian Territory, as the most availableThe following items are taken from the Au- pQjj,tnual Report ofthe Central Board of Miaaions: a oommittee was appointed to visit Wash-The Rev. G. M. Elliott has carried on the ington, D. C, and ascertain the terms uponregular Congregational work at Selma during v^hioh a mission could be established. It wasthe past year without interruption. Here- found that the mission would be welcomed andports a membership of eighty-one, showing a encouraged by the government and the govaetincrease of four. ernment agents. The Board was informedOn tbe 5th of Dec, 1887, Rav. J. W. Dill, that there were three ways in which it oouldwho had been acting as assistant principal of engage in the work:Selma sohool from the first Monday in Ooto- First. To send a missionary to preach andher, the beginning of the sohool year, was labor among the tribes. This would be probel"otedprincipal and placed in charge of the ably the least expensive way.Pleasant Grove Mission. Second. To send a sohool teacher vpith theThe largest number of pupils in attendance missionary. In conaideraliou of the iostruoatany time during the term waa in the month tion given by the teacher, ihe governmentuf February, when there were 398 names on would grant some aid, bat perhaps uot quitethe roll. The average term attendance was enough to support the teacher.two-hundred and sixty-five. Third. To open au industrial boardingR?v. N, R. Johnston report-i four baptisms school and take full charge of the pupils, supfluriiigthe year in thn misaiim, making thirty- plying them with clothing, subsistance, bdgtwoconverts in all. Ouly ten of them are at ing accommodations, medical atteudance,present in Oakland.school books, school appliances, &o., and toRev. J. Milligan Wylie's work in the west- supply the sohool with meohanica.1 tools, seeds,ern fieldduring the time of his temporary em- and all other articles necessary in a properlyployment as general agent was .so satisfactory conducted industrial aohuol.to the Board that it decided to make hia ap- This way would require a larger outlay atpointment permanent, at asalary of $1,000 first,but after it is established the governmentper year. He accepted the appointment and will contribute very liberally toward its supbeganhis work January lat, 1898. Kansas port, the appropriation last year being sufiio-City is such an important point and the out- jent to pay $107, for each boarding house pulookthere has been so promising that Mr. pU. It also guarantees the use of a sufficientWylie has boen giving the work in it thegreat- amount of land on which to locate and conerpart of his time and attention. It ia hoped, duct this school.however, that some one will, ere long, be A committee of the Ladies' Missionary Soplacedin charge of this place, who will give ciety of Pittsburgh Presbytery met witti theit his entire time and attention.Board, and stated that on June 1,1888, thereMr. Wylie was directed by the Board to would be about $1,600 in their treasury forvii'it Indian tribes and obtain the information the Indian Miasion. They also stated thdtnecessary to enable him to advise the Board they deaired to have this money (and also tbewhere to establish a mission among the Indi- money contributed by them annually to thisana. At his request Mr. J.R. Lee, of Wahoo, mission), used for payicg salaries of the work-Neb., was associated with him in this workers in the mission.

156 Items of Missionary IntelUgence.The government requires those to whom itgrants land to proceed at once to erect theirbuildings and fumish them, and to secure theirfarming implements, seeds, &o. As this wouldrequire a large outlay of money, and as therewas no fund on whioh to draw for this purpose,the Board published an appeal to the church,to which the response has been in cash $78.65and in pledges $280.40. We are informedby those who are conversant with the matterthat it will require from $3,500 to $5,000 tostart the mission. We have been, and westill are ready to enter upon the work whenthe funds necessary to do so are furuished ns.OUR INDIAN MISSION.As directed by Synod at its late meeting,the Oentral Board of Missions, has taken stepsto inaugurate a mission among the Indians onour Western Frontier. At a meeting, June18th, Rev. J. Milligan Wylie was appointedto proceed to explore the field. Mr. Lee, auelder, was appointed to aid him in selecting aproper location. The readiness with whiohthe ladies of the Missionary Society of PittsburghPresbytery offered of the funds alreadycollected for that purpo3e,encourages the Boardto press the work forward with all oonveuiehtspeed. As an unavoidable outlay will be requiredto get this mission into successful workingorder, it will be necessary for other similar associations to send forward their offerings.The last order of the Government in regardto these schools contains the following thatapplies to our mission :" In purely mission schools, that is, sehoolstoward whose support the Government contributes nothing—religious and other instructionmay be conducted in the manner prescribed bythose who maintain the schools; provided thatone half of the sohool hours shall be employedin instruction in English."It will be the duty of the missionaries toact solely under the guidance of tbe OentralBoard. If the Government intereferes withthem by requiring other kinds of work thanordinary mission service let them report to theBoard.Thomas Speotjll.CHILDREN'S MISSIONARf SOCIETY.Tbe Children's Missionary Society of theE. P. churoh of Beaver Falls, holds its meetingsonce a month, with sn average attendanceof about twenty noembers.When no sewing or other mission work laon hand the hour is taken up with devotionaland literary exercises.At last Christmas the children made andpresented a small but useful gift to each ofthe scholars of the Mission Sabbath Sobool.Onr pastor preached a sermon on last Sabbathto the Children's Society, showing k>wChrist honors children and how children mayhonor Christ.The children are earnest and are desirionaof doing anything whereby they may furtherthe Master's work.CoiLThe Men's Missionary Society of the FirstR. P. Church, 17th and Bainbridge streets,Philadelphia, held its annnal meeting onTuesday evening, May 29, in the lecture hallof the church, the president, Mr. Wm. G. Carson,in the chair.The meeting was opened with prayer, andthe minutes of laat meeting read and approved.Tbe treasurer presented his report showingthe eolleotions for the year to be $404.75 anddisbursements to be $342.57, leaving a balancein the treasury of $62.18.The following officers were re-elected forthe ensuing year, William G. Oarson, president; Joseph Taylor, vice-president; SamuelIrwin, treasurer; Charles N. Pullinger, secretary.The coUeotion for the evening amounted to$106.50.

Mission Monographs. 157This Missionary Society was organized, great interest in the meetings and showaMay 25fcb, 1886, and now sustains two schools zealous desire to work for the Master by send-In Asia Minor, from which interesting reports ing to those in heathen darkness the light ofare received and read at the meelings. Al- tbe gospel.though the membersbip is not large, the mem-Charles N. Pullingbk, Sec'y.hm evin le a very liberal spirit, manifest 1013 S. 19th St., Phila., Pa.A PILGRIMAGE. discoveries are often made, and it is done sime-Passing on down the mouatain side is the what after the following manner. A man ofway to Jericho. The road is wild and tortu- of some ability will cudgel his brain to deviseous pursuing its serpentine windings between how he oan render himself famous and at tbehigh mountains, across deep ravines, up rocky same time make some money, and he conslopes,down perilous deolivities, on the verge ceives the idea of pretending to dream for exofprecipices and athwart narrow plains until ample, that Moses was buried in a oertainthe valley of the Jordan sweeps into view. spot. He accordingly repairs thither to verifyOn almost any fine day in the month of his dream, and then he visits the governor ofMarch a company of tourists composed of fair the district, or the religious chief of the cornwomenand brave men, mounted on various munity and relates his so-oalled dream. Thekinds of animals, or snugly esoonoed in palan- idea is considered a grand one and likely toquins, may be encountered descending this take hold of the minds of tbe people sincekbarynthian route. Many of them would Moses is considered to be one of Mohammed'saoaroely be denominated skillful riders, and most glorious predecessors. Hence, they agreesome of them, perhaps, had never been mount- to publish the discovery, build a shrine overed during all their lives long, and it would be the grave, call it " The Prophet Moses " (Nebyvery strange if accidents more or less serious Moosa) and divide the profits, the dreameror amusing did not occur occasionally. For being made the keeper ofthe shrine, aud thusinstance, a lady inadvertantly descended from it becomes one of the holy places that are soher horse and sustained an abrasionof the nose, numerous throughout Syria and the East.She became discouraged in consequence and The poor deluded inhabitants will reaorcreturned to Jerusalem for repairs.thither from all directions to do the placeIn another company was a very affectionate honor, to receive a blessing, to be healed ofand motherly lady who oould not so muoh as disease or relieved of distress, bringing withbndure to part with her poodle, no not for an them presents of flower, rice, butter. Iambs,hour, and consequently it lay on her lap quite kids, etc., which are appropriated by thecontentedly as she trudged along on horseback, keeper and his chief, and thus these holyWe passed by what is said to be the burial places are made a grievous bufden to theseplace of the prophet Moses, held in high honor benighted people. However,, they are utterlyand deep reverence by the Moslems, and in insensible of the great wrong they suffer.discovering this place they have displayed They walk In darkness and know not themore ingenuity than even Michael the Arch- ligJ^*-»»gel, oKthe Devil, who, at one time, held a At length we are in full view of the Deadlively eispute ih regard tb this tilatter. Such Bea whioh l8 a beautiful sheet of water forty

158 Mission Monograph,?,miles long and ten miles wide, nestled in be- feet deep aad very swift. The distance fromtween the Judean hills and the mountains of the Lake of Tiberius to the Dead Sea is aboutMoab. It is 1,320 feet deep at tbe northern 65 miles, but the Jordan ia so tortuous thatend but fordable at various points in the It traverses more than twice that distance besouth.Its waters are strongly impregnated tween tbe two bodies of water and acoomwithmagnesian and soda salts, so that while plishes a descent of 700 feet whioh will, in asea water contains 32 parts in 1000, the waters great measure, aooonnt for its tortuosity andof the Dead Sea contain 250 parts In 1000, rapidity. The banks are fringed with baland,although they are as bitter aa wormwood sams and willows, sycamores and oleanders,yet they are as clear as crystal and aa buoy- and shrubbery of various kinds making a bomeant as hope, the salts being held in such per- for animals and birds wbich resort there infeci solution, and the specific gravity of the considerable numbers. We passed the sits ofwaters being from 1172 to 1227.Gilgal where the Lord rolled the reproach ofAs we pass along we clearly perceive the Egypt from the children of Israel and whereodor of sulphur and of asphaltum, wbich ex- Samuel and the people renewed the kingdomhale from the shores by tbe intense heat of and made Saul king before the Lord, Thethe sun as these substances are found there in site of ancient Jericho is ocoupied by a meanconsiderable quantities. In the vicinity of village of weed-covered huts inhabited by lazythe sea the soil is like ashes and vegetation ia Bedowina who work barely enough to sustainvery scant within a mile or more of the deso- their miserable bodies and partially clothelate shore. There is no living thing in the them with rags, and thev are far from aversewaters of this sea. Not a shell appears on to stealing aud robbing, if they can do so withthe beach. Fish sometimes wander into Its safety to themselves. The Russians havewaters from the Jordan, but they soon perish erected a very respectable Hospice or Hoteland are thrown upon the shore bj its waves, here for the accommodation of pilgrims andAlong the shore there are pools constructed tourists, where one can be comfortably lodgedinto which the water is thrown by the at reasonable rates. But the traveller cannotstorms whioh agitate the surface of the sea avoid picturing in his mind the magnificentfrom time to time. The intense heat of the city that onoe stood there, and whose pnndersuncauses this water to evaporate quickly, ous walls fell with a mighty crash burying beandlarge quantities of salt are thus aecured. neath the ruins thousanda of the unsnspeotiDgThe waters of this sea contain medicinal prop- inhabitants, when the armies of Israel rushederties, and are particularly beneficial in the into the heart ot the city and put to the aworaoase of fluhh wounds and sores, and being ap- every living thing and burnt the city with fireplied to the parts affected the healing process according to the command of God.is accelerated very materially. The valley of Not far from Jericho at the foot ot the moanthe Jordan is about twelve miles wide, and is taina of Judea, issues the fountain that Elishareasonably fertile. Vegetation waa tar ad- purified, thus furnishing the people with anvanced tbe 25th of March. The wheat was in abundance of clear and healthful water, whiohear or " shot," as the saying is, and the barley meanders lazily through the plain like a threadwas advaociag to ripeness. The river is 180 of shining silver, imparting life and freshnessyards wide at its mouth and three feet deep, to the whole landscape. And thus every stepOpposite Jericho It is 80 yards wide and sevfn reminds us of the wonderful works of God,

Mission MonograpJis.his bountiful Providence, his infinite mercy, eral healthy, except in some points on thethe exceeding riches of his grace exercised to- soutb coast during the heats of summer muchward tbe perisbirg sons of men and brought ,..._ to icoreased by the burning winds from the Ara-a glorious consummation on Calvary, where bian and African deserts, whioh, causing rapidevaporation, give rise to a dangerous mathe precious blood of Christ was shed for youpnd me. And now, gentle reader, we would laria.tike our leave of you, hoping our conversations Tne mountaina ot Cyprus are covered withhave not been void of interest and profit. Au vast forests of excellent timber and the islandrevoir. # * »is esteemed the richest and most fertile in theCTPRUS.Levant; yet it has few level tracts of countryCyprus is iin Island ofthe Levant, in the Med-thosearoundNicosia,Famagostailerrarean, LarnIca,'Lim'near the mouth of the gulf of Is-asal and Baffa being the chief. Agriculture'kanderoon, 44 miles South of Cape Anamoor, however, is in a backward state. The oultiva-'in Antolia, and 76 miles west of Latakia in ble surface ot the island is estimated at aboutSyria. It is about 148 miles in length, with 2,500,000 acres ot which not muoh more thana width of about 40 miles ; but its northeast 130,000 acres are actually under tillage. Oft-xtremity diminiahea greatly and terminates in the vegetable products, cotton, wheat, barieyalong, narrow peninsula about 40 miles long, a^d tobacco of good quality are grown • madand not over 15 miles broad. The Island ia dea, after that from Smyrna the best in theoccupied by a range of mountains stretching Levant, is raised in numerous localities. Silkfrom north-east to south-west, whose culminatingis produced abundantly, and carobs are ex-points, Santa Croce (Olympus) and tenaively grown, but the olive is neglected.Thrados, are 7000 feet high. On the northeastWine is the most noted production of the i.^lside ofthe Island the slopes ofthe mounland and is of excellent quality. The othertains are bold and rugged; and one of the elevatedvegitable products are sugar, flax, sesamum,valleys contains Nicosia, the modern poppies, liquorice, and fruits, including the'capital of the island.orange, citron, date, fig,pistaohionuts, capersOn the south side the hill slopes are even &c. Cyprus is famed in the east tor its finebolder, presenting a deeply serrated outline, mules. Many camels are also bred.with thickly covered sides, furrowed by deep Manufacturing is also carried on to somevalleys. The prevailing formation of the extent. Salt in large quantities is obtainedmountain range in its north-east division in from Salines ai Limasal and Larnica. TheImestoue. The south-west portion ofthe mourtainGreek females of some ofthe towns and villagper,yields excel lent asbestos, also talc, red jases do beautiful embroidery and make silk netcopper, gold and silver. Its copper mines which will stand comparison with the finestwere once important, and tbe modern name of lace. The females also weave cottoE, woolenthat metal is derived from the word Cyprus. and linen fabrics. Good morocco leather isCyprus is deficient in water, its streams beingmade at Nicosia. Pottery sufficient for homechiefly mountain torrents, which dry up in consumption is manufactured.summer. Tae only permanent river of ImportanceFor ecclesiastical affairs the island isia the Pedia (ane. Pediseus) which waters divided into the four dioceses of Nicosiathe valley of Nicosia, flows east and falls into Larnica, Cerina and Baffi, aad Limasal thethe sea at Famagosta. The climate is in gen, first being administered by an arch-deacon^59

160 Mission Monographs.appointed by the Sultan. The principal porta, with thn rest of the world.—Chambers' Ency'as well as the principal towns, are Cerina, clopedia.Famagosta, Larnica, Limasal and Baffa. ,j,2:e ENEMY AT WORKOriginally peopled by the Phoenicians, andafterwards colonized by the Greeks, Cyprus Rev. G. M. Mackie, a missionary of tbewas by the latter people dedicated to Venus, Church of Scotland, on returning to his workwhose most celebrated temple was at Paphos, among the Jews in Beirut, wrote home renewBaffa. It belonged successively to the speoting the opposition that gospel laborersPersians, the Egyptians, fhe Romans and the have to contend with in iSyria. The letterGreeks of the lower empire. It was one of the from which the following extracts are made iafirat places, out of Palestine, that received the dated November 30, 1887:gospel, and was visited by Paul and Barnabas In Scotland I had been privileged to adontheir missionary tour. In the time of the dress large congregations on the subject ofCrusades it was taken from the Saracens by Jewish Mission work, and wherever I hadRichard I. of England, and given by him gone I had met with such warm interest andto the princes of the Lasignar family, who held hearty encouragement, both from ministerait till the year 1570, when it was conquered and congregations, that I bagan to feel thatby the Turks. Prior to the Russo-Turkish missionary work nowadays had the sympathywar in 1878, the island formed a pashalic of of the world at Ita back.TurKey, of which the capital was Nicosia. In But a few days in Beirut dispelled such1878 it was conveyed by treaty to Great Bri- soothing reflections. There with you in Scottain,the Sultan retaining the sovereignty of land a missionary can enjoy the sunshine ofthe island and receiving annual payments of general approval; but here the nostrils soonmoney in plaoe of its revenues; in 1887 it was begin to tickle with the smell of the battlecededto Great Britain.cloud.Since the discovery of rich and abundant re- Among the Jews, for example, I foundmains of antiquity in this ioland, increased inthat they know about the Rabbinowitz andterest has been taken in its eventful though Lichensteln movements among their brethren,somewhat obscure history. Its antiquities but that they had their own accounts and exhavespecial importance as illustrating some planations, in whioh the whole work is rapudstagesof the early history of sculpture and lated and caricatured. Caricature, however,the kindred arts. The population in 1881 was requires some acquaintance with the original.185,916, of whom 80,000 are Greeks, 30,000 I found that for more than a year theTurks and the remainder Roman Catholics, Jesuits had been carrying on an inoesaant pa-Maronites and Armenians.—Lippincott's Gaze- per war—altogether one-sided, I am thankfulteer of the World for 1888.to say—againstthe American Mission here.There nre mauy proofs of progress in Cyprus. Their Arabic newspaper, published weekly.The breadth of land sown is annually on the every week rakes up something that can beincrease and greater care is bestowed on its made to loDk like error or indisoretiou on thecultivation. But especially noteworthy is the part otthe Protestant missionaries ; and wherefact that in 1871 Nicosia waa, by meana of a this fails, every kind of personal impertinencesub-marine cable to Latakia, on the Syrian is indulged in. Here also there is the concoast,brought into telegraphic oommunieation solation of knowing that, while attacking

Mission Monographs.Protestant work, they are laying a mine under same as we have, and that what meets ourstheir own position, and furnishing explosive will meet tne irs too.proof that they are little belter than political What one finda in the loasr run isthat theinteriopers, and devoid ot Chriatian spirit. people do not yield to ua, but they yield toMeanwhile, howeve-, these abusive alan- what they see tUat we yield to. Aud what iaders are widely read, and to thg Syrians they true for the missionary ia true, iu a widehave aU the charm of detraciion connected for sense, for the Churcn that sends him out.the firsttime with names that they have al- When we preach ouraelvea, pernonally orways considered as above reproach. ecclesiastically, we preach foolishnesa; butAnd, lastly, comes Canon Isaac Taylor, when, for the Gosp^d's sake, we riae abovewith hia cheap magnanimity about Islam, offer- our diffdreuces into the higher level of Christingspermaceti suggestions about the inner- ian union—in work and worship—we find thatmost of all bruises tor the spiritual welfare of people look straight into that, and understandAfrica. His Wolverhampton address was it, and yield to it. Perhaps the time mayprinted by the Moslems in Constantinople, and not be far distant when the hope of winninghas also found a place in the Moslem news- for Christ His Gentile inheritance will makepaper in Damascus and in that of Beirut, the divided host at home spring forward withOne Moslem editor calls upon the faithful to a great cry of self-renunciation. What ahear what'the Engliah monk'says about pulling down of strongholds that would leadthem. Where Canon Taylor describes Islam to !as a b'otherhood, the editor puts in paren- I alao found, on my return to Beirut,the-sia,' Wculd to God it were so ;' and where that the Turkish Government is looking intothe addresa claims for Islam advantages aa to our missionary work with the sharpeat andprohibition of gambling, etc., the editor adda moat suspicious scrutiny. The books pubjishag.iin,'Yougamblers, bear this, and may God ed at the American Mission Press here havejudge you 1'all to be sentto Damascus, and lie acoumulat-It is perplexing to tbink how such an ad- ing there until they be examined by thedress eould be rend and listened to in a Christ- official, and get the Turkish pass nr approvalian land, where tbe missionary meaning ofthe stamped upon each book. Ir, threw the workGospel is understood. Charging a society or back some six or seven montha ; but tbu dtcommitteew'th indolence and extravagance lay has been more than reoompenaed. Tbeis onH thing, but making a speculative stab B'blea, Pilgrim's Progress, Schongherg Cottanto the ultimate miaaionary aim ot the Gos- iâmi/^, and a boat of othera, can now go out'pel is another thing. It does not matter ao intothe world aa hooka thatthe SuUHnrncouiifluehto us out here in Syria, because we aro mends to hia subjeota—Moslems, of ooar.-se, aathankful for anything that will start a rum well as others.bling and cracking among the iceberg forms This gives alittle id"a of the atmoaphereand traditions of these Jews, Moslema, that wo breathe out here.and Eastern Christians. We feel tbat insideof all this there muat be an open polar sea ofr.umanity, ifthe Gospel ship could only find aTHE COVENANT PROMISE.Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathenway intoit; that these people have religioua for thine inheritance and tHe uttermost partsreeds and desires and destitutions just the of the earth for tby possession.iqi

162 Letters from Christian Workers ai Some and Abroad." For the nation and hlngdom that will not serve tliee knowledge, who believed that the Lord was hiaBhall perisli; yea, tliose nations shall he utterly wasted." ^. ^^^j^ î^^ j^j^ commandments, would look—Isolah 60:12. °' , , , i. , r^ -,T X 1 1 i. .tl. u- i^ n( +1.V ^^r.c^ oT,^ on this text as he has to sometime ; bepause GodLet us look at the subiect of this verse, and ^. ' . ,,,.,,,., Tx i 1 4. „„„ savs that man has io serve Him, or perish.think what it means. It means not only to say """J" . •. x i... • n, ;, .1 u 4. n„A ;„ n^ It means also that every nation has tomakewe believe m God, or to know what God is, or ~., . , . -r x x i-i xu t. ,, ^, ^ -, xl. u X i+ Jesus Christ kinsr. Let us not say like the Jewsto coin the name of God on the money ; but it "'=''"'' ^ ,° . ? -n ^ i.- ^-.-,.-,, x- 1 X -o- „A when the Messiah comes we will make him kmg.means that all nations have to serve Him, and ""''" "'"' f ^ , ,, , ^ ,^. TT- XI, • 1 • A /I +« =,„,.„ TTirv, But thank God that we are not any more underrecognize Him as their king. And to serve Him ., .,° , „. 1 X • the old cnrse ; bnt we are nnder the new covenantmeansto make Him ruler to reign over us. I'ueuiui. , , , ,, Xl,T,x,x T i x u - x j I. ^ These nations that are enhghtened, shall tney notBut let us go back to our subiect, and see what -^"

Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad. 163Bliss of Constantinople, who had an interview from all the great bodies engaged in miasionwith Mr;. Straus after receiving our letters about work in Turkey to see Mr. Straus while he is inthe arrest of Daoud and the breaking up of Kar- America and confer with him ? He is to goadawar, and Karadash schools. Mr. Straus went soon, having obtained leave of absence for threeimmediately to the Grand Vizier and obtained his months.promise to telegraph orders for the immediate We had a very pleasant visit from Dr. and Mrs.opening of the schools. If this order was sent, Jessup of Beirut last month. Since going homeit has been kept secret.they write ns of their interest in the work here.Our schools arc very small now, as the harvest and they have agreed to remember it specially inis going on. Dr. McAllister and Mr. O'Neill got their nravers every Friday.here just a Uttle too late to see the work, whenthe schools were full. They went away a week ago, Rev. Henry Easson of Latakia, s^nds us thehaving spent just a week here. Tbey proposed fo'loî°g translation of an extract from a letter ofthat Doctor should go with them to Constanti- Teacher Yacob Hadeed's :nople, and see what a personal interview with One day, when one ofthe cbildren came to methe authorities would effect. On consultation to read his lesson, I asked, What is the name ofwith Mr. Demson it was thought best that he the book in which your lesson is found ? Heshould do so. They went by an English coasting answered, The book of Judges. I then askedvessel. Their plan was to go to Nova Scala, the why was it called " Judges ?" He said, I knowsea-port of Ephesus, where they expected to land not. I then said to him. The book tells ns aboutThursday morning. Then they would take a oar- the judges of the children of Israel, whom Godriageto Ephesus two hours and a half distant, gave them to rule over them. They had theand go by train to Smyrna the same evening, right and power given them to punish the trans-We remain in town till Doctor comes back, grosser and save the oppressed. I then askedHappily the cool weather keeps away the sand- the boy. Were the judges men or women ? Heflies so that it is very comfortable here. answered. They were men. I then said. SomeMiss Joseph is much better since she came of them were women who were prophets, as forback. She is able to do a great deal of work, example Debora, by whom God saved Israel.and is studying Arabic diligently.We also read in the book of Exodus that Miriam,We are all rejoicing in Mr. Stewart's appoint- the sister of Moses, was a prophetess, and in thement. It is time Mr. Easson had some help in gospels that Mariam, the mother of Christ, prohispastoral work. Tbe authorities in Syria do phesied and was approved of by God. We alsonot seem to be much more inclined to remove the read of many good women in the word of God.obstacles put in the way of mission work, than do I spoke thus to the boy to prove to him thatthose in Cilicia. It is very hard to work when God chose the good, both men and women, to dohampered by opposition. Antichrist is the same service for him and worship him. Then one ofall the world over. I see by a late number of the men present said. Men are better than wotheMissionary Serald, that the Ruasian Gov- men, for they know God, but women have no reerumentis interfering to check the work of ligion and a woman is not permitted to pray, andRabbinowitz among his own people. God will not accept her prayers. I said. MyI must not omit the cheering news that, at last friend you should not believe so. The spirit ofaccounts, Consul Bissinger was better.the woman is the same as the spirit of man, andWould it not be possible for representatives God will call her to account for all her deeds, good

164 Incidents in Mission Life.or bad, I also said to him, you ought to teach a soul and should be taught io worship G od.yonr women the worship of God, for God wOl May the Lord take away their darkness fromcall you to account for the way you treat your their eyes.women. Bnt he would not yield that woman hadI'M A CHRISTIAN. afraid to die. I am a Christian and you can takeA poor woman came to Dr. Metheny from the tumor away, if God will hear my prayer, andihe vast heathen population, the Nusairiyeh, jf i get -wfll I will bless His name, and if I dieoutcasts of the Canaanites. She had a terrible jt is all right." So she laid herself down for thetumor, such as makes the heart of the most knjfe and endured in Christ-like meekness until itdaring surgeon sick, and begged him to remove -,,,1^^ removed, and when it was over thanked Him,it but he said to her, " I conld do this easily ^'|j all the time she lay upon her bed, which beenough,but everything is against you. There came her death bed, she praised God in pain andis hardly a hope that you can recover if I pa„g. She did uot have strength to recover,take it away, and yon will soon die if I do not ^^^g^ ^tjen the end came she said again, "It is allThen your people are heathen and are airaid of ^.j^j^t, Doctor. You told me my danger and diddeath, and ifyon should die inthe operation they all you could for me, and I am a Christian andwould never forgive me." am not afraid to die." She sank away in peace," Take it away," she said, "I am a Christian, j^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^p^^^^ .^ ^^^ acceptance of that^ w f x^^^'^^-i"!,^".^""-" ni, • X- 1 Saviour of whom she had heard in the woods"What," said he, you a Christian, who are aX -A 1 11, • 91. from the young girl.woman not considered wcrlh savmg ?" *' °'^"Yes," said she, " I am a Christian, and there Among this heathen people, from whom theare manymore women among our people who are martyr woman came, the Reformed PresbyteriansChristians and not afraid to die "had twenty-five schools and a large number of" And how is this ?" he asked. scholars. But the Turkish government has shut" Well," she answered, " you remember one of most ol them up. This will be confusing withourorphan giris in your school some years 8go ?" out word or explanation. The Turkish govern-" Yes," he replied. " I did not know what ment only draws its soldiers from the Mohammehadbecome of her." da^n populations. They will allow no ChristianSaid she, " When sbe came home she gathered in the army. The Christians are taxed for itasome of us women together and took us away into support but the fighting is done by the " iaithintothe woods and said she had something to tell ful " These descendants of the Canaanites areus, ' There is religion for women, I have found it nominal Moslems, and are therefore a continuedout in Latakia, in the school. Jesus Christ, source of bullet targets, and whoever among themGod's Son, died for women, and he blessed women becomes a Cbristiau is at once beyond army reguwhilehe lived, and when he died bespoke to lations, and if any partof the Mohammedan popthemin love,' and then she told us how lo bave ulation embraces Christianity it is just as if sohis love and help, and there in the secret place in many had deserted from the army. This willthe depths of the forest she taught ns to pray explain the hostility of the government to alland read to us out of His Word, and many of us Protestant progress, it is largely political.—Bev.believed it aod we are Christians and are not Dr. Mutchmore in The Presbyterian,

Incidents in Mission Life, 165A PIECE OF PAPER. portions, for a silent glimpse during the time. OnI was asked to go to a public house in Netting- ^^'^ occasion, Miss Havergal's " Royal Commandham to see the landlord's wife who was dying. I ments " was the book in nse. Some one observedfound her rejoicing in Christ as her Saviour. I '*• '^"'^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^^ ^ "^'^ê that we should readasked her how she found the Lord. " Reading *® "^^y's portion aloud, îhis was done; and thethat," she replied, handing me a torn piece of pa- ^^^^^^^ ^^'^^'^^ ^ ^t^'^'^'^S one.per. I looked at it, and found that it was a part ^°* *°y '^^^^ '^"^^r- ^ '' to^'^ P^^^^tely read and thought over. Andto Australia, part of it torn off for the parcel dis- on her leaving for Germany, the writer let thepatched toEngland, and after all its wanderino-a, ^^ttle book, which had been made a word ofgiving the message of salvation to that woman's "quickening" to her, accompany her abroad.Boiil. God's Word shall not return unto him void- ^""or was its mission completed even then. ForAvhen the lady reached Germany, the marriedCOULDJN 1 lELL II. sister to whose home she went became equallyDr. Richard Fuller, in that remarkable sermon impressed by its message of truth ; and she, too,on "The Cross," says : " I was much affected begged to have it in loan from her sister duringnot long since in a distant city, by the words of a month's absence.an humble individual W e were receiving him This lady, in turn, read it among the friendsinto the Church, and he was telling us, as well as "vi'hom she went to visit; and here, the awakenhecould in his humble, but strong language, of ing to the perception of Divine truth was so greatthe change wrought in him. At length he stop- that she was constrained by importunity to leaveped, and looking at me with a countenance ex- the little "messenger " behind, to continue thepressive of the deepest emotion, said: ' Sir, I work it had in God's name been made the instrucannotspeak what I feel ; God, sir, has not given ment of.a poor man like me power to talk on this thing.'" A hearty thanksgiving went up as we heardYery similar to this is what one of our missionar- of all this. It was God's blessing, that hadies reports ofa Japanese convert, who said : " I given the "increase." Our Saviour's declarationcannot tell it in this Japanese tongue ; I don't as to the " thirty," " sixty," and " hundred fold"beheve I could tell it n your tongue ; nor if I had stood out in realized clearness, as fulfilled to thean angel's tongue, but one poor heart can feel it writer of that little book, who now " rests fromall."—Canada Presbyterian.her labours and whose works do follow her."To ourselves it was a stirring memento, to beBHY OPPORTHNITIBS. „ instant in season and out of season ;" to scatterWe were staying in the South oi England for seed by the wayside, and to watch for opportunihealth;and, as was our custom, brought with ns ties of making mention of that Name which is asto the breakfast table our little book of Scripture " ointment poured forth."—British Messenger.

§ifU^ mH§mm^.The Board of Foreign Missions has received that you are to give yourself to this work. Yourthe highest testimonials to the personal character devotion to atudy, your gentlemanly bearing, yourand qualifications of Rev. E. M. Smith, recently Christian deportment in your student days comeappointed to mission work in Mersine, Asia up before me as I think of commending you MayMinor. Read the following letter from his former you be long spared to win many souls to Christ,pastor. Rev. R. J. George :the travail of His soul to be your joy and croivn.Dear Brethren: Having learned that you ^t ^« ""t surprising that the congregationare considering the name of the Rev. E.M. Smith t^^t Mr. Smith has served in the ministry ofas a candidate for appointment to the Foreign the gospel for more than a year is reluctant tofield, I take pleasure in certifying to you my be- ^^^^^ him leave. The touching paper that welief in his eminent fitnessfor this position. ^'^^ below tells its own story of love and rareMr. Smith was received into the full fellow- appreciation:ship of the Church in our congregation during ^^tion taken by the Reformed Presbyterianhis senior year at Geneva College. He exhibited fô^gregation of Staunton, III, with reference towhile here a beautiful Christian character, and tbe appointment of the Rev. E. M. Smith,was esteemed among ns as an upright and con- tothe foreign field, bythe Board of Foreign Missistentmember ofthe Church. I had still further sions.acquaintance with bim during the session I taught '' ^^ announcement to us on last Sabbath, thein the Seminary, and have the most profound re- ^^th of June, 1888, by our esteemed pastor, thatspect for his religious life, and devotion to the ^^^^^ received and would accept an appointcauseof our Redeemer.ent from the Board of Poreign Missions, to la-His good natural gifts have been cultivated by ôr at Mersine, Asia Minor, was to us startling,dihgent and faithful studies, and he is well P'*'°'"'^l ^""^ disappointing. H has moved everyequipped for the work of the holy ministry. He ^'^'^''t' ^^^ caused all eyes to weep. While wea a most Christ-like character in gentleness and recognize the splendid qualifications of our youngma-nanimity, in conscientious obedience to the P^^tor for a foreign missionary, and the noble,will of God, and in zeal for the souls of the per- ^^^^^^^^ spirit that led him to offer himself fori»hing. I do not recall among all my acquaint- that work, having been made aware ofhis enancesany one whom I could more heartily retire consecration to his Master by our intimatecommend to your favorable consideration for this relations to him during the past year, yet weimportant work. If I were in the place ofthe '^'^ ''°^ ^^'"^ this happy and blessed relation tomissiouaries already in the field,there is no one "^^ to be so suddenly broken off withont urgingwhom I would more gladly welcome asa compan- the claims we feel we have upou him.ion in labor, I regret his removal from our work ^® ^°'^°^ ^'^^ to seem rebellious to thehere, bnt I hail it as a token of God's tavor to our Church nor indifferent to the condition of the heathforeign.work, that he is moved to undertake it. «° ^"rld when we take it on us to speak on onvVery sincerely own behalf. In view of the following considera-R. J. Geoboe. tions we believe ourpastor should remain with us:I. He is now our unanimous choice as pastor,We are permitted to make the following extract as he was when we called him, and wheu he wasfrom a letter our young brother received soon ordained and installed over us more than a yearafter his appointment from Prof. D. B. Willson: ago. He was brought up amongst us, and hasI can but congratulate the Board and the Cburch so endeared himself to us all, that we think of

Notes and Iteviews.him as a member of our own family. We can sions, to our estpemed pastor, and to the Presby'not conceive of any one in his relation having tery of Illinois for their respective consideration.more influence over the hearts of young and old, Second, That our pastor's peculiar fitnessforthan he wields over ours. We can not bnt ask. work in this particular place seems to us to indi-" Has the gospel call which brought him to us cate that hia coming to us was a special provibeenso soon reversed by Him who is so free from dence and we would ask in all humility and earnchangeVestness, " Has the design of tbat providence beenII. His success amongst us has been more fulfilled V Considering the state of morals andthan the most sanguine expected. He came to religion in our village, we believe it has not, andus after we had been -for seven years without the we balieve any attempt to supply his place satisserviceof a regular pastor. Various attempts to factorily will be, for the present at least, almostunite in calling one had resulted in failure and hopeless.as a consequence factions had arisen and nn- W e regard this time as the supreme crisis inpleasant feelings were rife. Hnder his kindly the life ofthis congregation. We fear the existministryevery trace of these has disappeared and ence of a Reformed Presbyterian Congregationwe are once more united. He has put new life in this place depends on our pastor's remaininginto all the departments of our work and haa with ns. His departure will most likely be fol.created new ones that were much needed. lowed by the withdrawal of numbers ofour yonngThe young people have been regularly drilled people from active participation in congregationalin the standards of the church in special classes work and may result in their final separationheld for that purpose.from our denomination.In the prayer-meeting, the various talents of Signed in behalf of the congregation,both male and female were developed. The care- Silas Smith, Chairman.less have been exhorted and the sorrowing com- Wm. Feanoy, Clerk.forted. He is muh needed to carry forward a Where can you find higher testimony to thework so auspiciously begun.eminent fitnessof Mr. Smith for the position thatIII He commands in the highest degree the he has been called to fill 1 We know that ourrespect and confidence of the enthe village and young brother is receiving many letters fromcominunity. Their protest against hisremovalis friends, pleading with bim to turn aside from thestrong and, as far as we know, without exception, work to which he has devoted the remainder ofIV. There is a mission field at home where he his life. But those who imagine that such aphasbeen successfully laboring. This field sadly peals will move Ellsworth Smith to abandon hisneeds cultivating, and would, with the divine purpose do not understand ihe man and the iullbleasing amply repay all his toil. In a village surrender he has made of limself to Clirist.ofnearly 2,000 inhabitants he is the only local He may well say to his friends, as Paul said toEnglish-speaking minister. The masses have those who besought him not to go up to Jerulittlerespectforany ofthe institutions of rehgion. salem, " What mean ye to weep and to breakFor their sakes and for the sake of our cliildren mine heart ?" Do not thus increase the sorrowwho are growing up among them we view with that is necessarily connected with leavmg home%kras apprehension the prospect of our pastor's and country, but rather pray that in his chosenremoval. field of labor he may be full of the Spirit andMesalved, iherefore. First, that copies of these lead a life that shall be fruitful in grand resultsstatements be sent to the Board of Foreign Mis- for Christ.1C7

168 Notes and Bev'teics.—We have taken the liberty of reprinUng fromSUMMER READING.*Lippincolffs Gazetteer of the World a valuablearticle on Cyprus. It contains full and reliable Do you want to give your children somethinginformation to which many of our readers could to read at the seaside or in the mountains? Letnot otherwise have access. Nothing is needed them have " Missionary Labors and Scenes inio make the island what it was in the eariy his- Southern Africa." Do you want to give thetory of Christianity, a very garden of the Lord, pupils in your Sabbath School pleasure and profitbnt the preachiug of his gospel in purity and inat a very trifling cost ? Place withm tbeir reachtegrity. The work entered upon at Larnica last on the shelves of the Library " Missionary Laborswinter should be extended from one point to an- and Scenes in Southern Africa." Robert Moffatother till the whole country shal! have been went to Africa in 1816 and remained at his postbrought once more under the power of tuv, truth, for twenty-three years On returning for a briefWe hope the churches will not be slow to respond visit to England in 1839, he wrote an account ofto its ca for help. As Cyprus has been ceded his life on the dark continent. Though the volteGrea >itain, those engcping in missionary ume was first printed nearly half a century ago,work there may rely onthe fullest protection and it lâs lost none of its power and unpressivenesssympathyas a simp! e narrative of faith, courage, and energy.„ .,.,,. , . . , Don't forpret to take this remarkable story with— We reprint m this and a previous issue two , , , , • ,.-i x- ix^. , -nr • ^ , r ., f r, VOu whctt you IcavB home tor a holiday trip. Itarticles on Mersine from the facile pen of Rev. r . . . . ,„ - x x -T. T,, , , r -,,,.,,, 1 . -^^ . , . IS Quitc OS fasciuatiiig and far more interestmgDr. Mutchmore of Philadelphia. During Ins , . . , ,. j .able to form so high an cslim.ate ,,, of ...,,, what tbe Re- . and instructive than any romance you can find mrecent tour around the v.'oild be visited the mis- , ,-The ., next ,. number of ,-^ the ^ Heraid of Missionformed Fresbvterian Church is doinjr there. We ,, .,•, x • xu j xi aa ^., . ,,. , , , , , , the Library Ol summer literature.•' '^ News will contain the serinon and other addres; e!sions in Asia J'unor, and we are s;lad that he wasare sure that all our readers will thank him for , ,. j x xi, j- x- i-o t a a..,^. delivered at the ordination of Rev Jas. S. Stewthisinendlv recognition ofthe work and for his ap- , ,,. • x t xi-",, ^ art, Missionary to Latakia.preciative allusion to the energy, zeal and successof Dr. Metheny and his devoted co-laborers in —Subscribers will please examine the wrappersthat field. of the next number of the Herald of .Mission-It gives us pleasure to note that on Sabbath ^^^^- ^^^ ^1^° ^^^ ^'^°'' ^^' "'^'' ^ ^'^'âfternoon, Jnly 8, the Brooklyn Sabbath School ^^'"^ "'^'^ ^'" ^"""^ that they have failed to paypledged one tendred and #/em dollars to main- their subscription forthe Magazine forthe curtaina native helper in the foreigu field duriug '^«"t year. Those that fiud there a double huethe coming year This is to be in addition to *" '"'"^ penciling will remember that they havetheir usual collections.°°t made any remittance for t^YO years. Ourreaders who are in arrears will be kind enough—Those who have not contributed towards to remit as soon as they are r^minded in tbis waythe Industrial School Building in Latakia, will of their indebtedness to the Herald for rehabloplease remember that money is yet needed for mission news.that purpose. We shall be glad to record the x,r«.„„ o x- .», ,„. t, , *> i..?;/;^,,. ^ , . , " * M iffal's Soutaern Afrliia. pp. 406. Fourleenth EdiUoii.offerings of iudividuals or congregations. Prompt- KoUeit ( arter and Bros., eSO Broad^vay,New'York.ness in giving always enhauces the value of thagift.

PUBLISBED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxtm 0f ^mm mxkFOR THE SAKE OF THE NAME * truth as it is in Jesus that will put to flightthe"Because that for his name's sake they went forth,infidel reasoning and sceptical tendencies of moderusociety. What the world needs more thantaiing nothing ot the Gentiles." Ill John, 7.It would be hard to find anywhere in the saoae anything else to-day is this living Christianity.space as many compliments as are paid to Gains I gather from this letter that in nothing is thein this friendly letter. The writer congratulatesreality ofour faith more clearly evinced than inhun on his spiritual prosperity 8,nd on the high esteemin which he was held in the community forearnest efforts to promote the truth, doing all wecan to secure the comfort and welfare of thosehis personal integrity and his many acts of generoushospitality. " I rejoiced greatly," he says,who have consecrated their energies to the workof foreign evangelization. Gains seems to have"when the brethren came and testified ofthe truthtaken a special interest in foreign missiouaries,and the Apostle commends him for his fidelitythat is in thee, even as thou walkest in thetruth.''and hearty good will in helping forward ou theirThere is nothing more attractive and impressivethan a consistent Christian life—a conversajourney certain brethren, with some of whom hehad no previous personal acquaintance. At thetion such as becometh the gospel both in its generalcharacter and in its special elements and assame time he reminds him that his profession requiredhim to act as he had done, and as he nowpects. When loyalty to Christ is the governingrequested him to do ior others who were goingpower of the whole being and life in all its activitiesis shaped by the principles and precepts offorth to the work of Christ. "Because," hewrites, " that for His name's sake they went forth,the gospel, an impression favorable to religion istaking nothing of the Gentiles."made even upon the world. When Morse firstproposed the magnetic telegraph men were verysceptical. When he said that by touching a• little key here he could communicate a messageI find in tbese words the two great principlesthat seem to me to underlie the work of foreignmissions:1. Obedience to our exalted Lord. Theseto a man a thousand miles yonder, wise and conservativepeople shook their heada and shruggedmen " went forth." The command, " Go ye intoall the world and preach the gospel to everytheir shoulders and said, "nonsense"—"imposcreature," given under very solemn and impressivecircumstances, had taken hold of theirhearts;sible." But, when the wire had been laid fromWashington to Baltimore, and the first messageand, in the spirit of men who realize their po,-itionsas bound to obedience, they went forth.had been fiashedalong that wire, "Behold whatGod hath wrought," all doubts were removed.There was no reaerve in the surrender of themselvesto His will, and there was no he.-itancy ;So it is not profession but practice, not talkingbut acting, not teaching but exemplifying thefor He had said, "All power is mine. Goye* Sermon preached at tho ordination of Eev. James S. therefore and make disciples of the nations." InStewart, missionnry to Latakia, Syria, at Allegheny city,the early ages of Christiamty His followers ac.Pa., on Thursday, May 27,1888.

170 Our Views of Mission Work.cepted as true and indefeaaible His right to give fill. " Here am I"—obeying with the wbole heartthis command ; and they " went forth " in the on fire. " Behold here am I." Such obedienceconfident assurance that the same authority that would soon have the world at the feet of its Lord.said, "Go" would shield them in the hour of How is it with us ? We are under solemndanger and render their message effective in the vows in this matter. In formal covenant weoverthrow of Satan and in the salvation of men. have dedicated ourselves to the great work ofWhen Paul went for the first time into Europe making known God's light and salvation amonghe filledthe capital of Macedonia with the fame the nations. We have promised to seek byof " another King, one Jesus." ' The name that prayer, pecuniary contributions, and personal ef-Peter inscribed on his banner, as he led the van- fort the conversion oi the world. But is thereguard of the Church on to Gentile territory was, not a great want of reality in our religious life." Jesus, Lord of all." The end ofHis mediatorial What value is there in prayers without any heartsupremacy is that all nations may be made will- in them, actions without any religious principleing to serve him; and every believer and every behind them, a profession of religion far in ad-Christian community stands committed in simple vance of onr real convictions and feehngs ?obedience to His command to labor for the unit- 2. Fidelity to a trust Christ has reposed ining of all mankind m aUegiance to His person. us. 'Phese men '• went forth, taking nothing of1 need scarce say that love to Christ is set the Gentiles." Thefr mission was to give, notforth in scripture as the most distinctive feature take. It is a constant surprise to the heathenin the character of His followers and as virtually that missionaries should visit them for other purinclusiveof all others. But there can be no love poses than those of trade. Asa convert at Luapartfrom obedience. When genuine, it is al- kolulo recently expressed it, " W hy should youways followed by cheerful submission to the di- care to come to tell ns about God?'' Christianityvine authority andan intense desire for the di- looks fahly at the misery and helplessness ofthevine glory. So the Savionr says, " He that hath human family, and it is the glory of the gospelmy commandments and keepeth them, he it ia that it reveals a remedy adapted to the wants ofthat loveth me." Ohi I would like to see among all. It embodies in itself the most effective rnusthe entire consecration that such love implies, flaence that operates anywhere in the vast em-Let me recall in illustration ofit, one scene in the pire of God. Think of what it has done in Madlifeof Abraham. 1 see him standing at the altar agascar and in some Islands of the Southernwith one hand upon the brow ofhis son, the seas. Think of what it is doing here and there allyouthful heir of promise, while in the other gleams over the world for the uplifting of society. Thinkthe knife of sacrifice. Hold on one moment, thou of its power to ennoble human character andgrand old hero. Standstill, till we can look at make the slaves of vice rejoice in spiritnal liberty.thee, thou father of the faithfal, thou leader of I heard a lecturer the other night tell how, whenall who have a right to profess fidelityto Christ, in England recently, he visited a weaving shed.Hark 1 At the moment that comes between the To his uneducated eye it was a bewilderment ofperft-ct surrender of the will and the blow of the whee's and a labyrinth of ropes. The shuttlesflashing knife, a voice calls from the clouds, " Ab- flew madly back and forward, and his ears wereraham, Abraham !" Listen to the reply, " Here deafened with the whirl of machinery. And yetam I.'' What force and significance in the words 1 he saw that somehow ont of all this apparent"Here am I"—where told to stand and in the confusion there grew a fabric, finely woven, tbemost trying situation a father can be called to colors blending in exquisite harmony. The reason

Our Views of Mission Worh. 171was plain, when he looked up at the jacquard i. The firstthat I would name ia, full symandsaw that the pattern was formed Irom above, pathy with God m Sis purpose of mercy.And, as we look out upon the mountains and Whether we consider the missionaries or thoseplains of Syria, into the crowded cities of China, who sustain them in the field, a leading featureand down the beautiful valley of the Congo, we in their character is self-denial for the good ofwonder as we see amid prevailing vice and misery others. I need not say that this is the verycharacters being fashioned into exquisite beauty, spirit of ihe loving Saviour Himself, who " cameTo know the cause we must look above. Through notto be ministered unto, but to minister and tothe simple preaching of the cross these Uves have give his life a ransom for many." Just as He bybeen brought into touch with God, and, as the His infinite atonement and self-sacrifice put Hisshuttle of life flies,the divine hand takes the heart under the human race and hfted it up, wemanifold threads of experience and interweaves are to hft our fellows out of moral degradationthem after the beautiful pattern of the life of and sin by the power of a love that denies itselfChrist. The one instrument in effecting this for the good of others. I suppose you have seenmarvellous change in human character and life is a rude engraving in which a frail woman is repthegospel ; and for this, millions are waiting resented as clinging to a rough rock in the shapeto-day, though they know not what they wait for. of a cross with one hand, while she stretches outWith this gospel we have been put in trust; the other to grasp the hand of a drowning sisterand there is no aspect in which the matter can be and lift her above the waters that dash againstviewed, that does not urge on us in the tender- the base of the rock. That is the picture of aest and taost powerful manner our responsibility, true believer, clinging to the cross of Christ, theThe way to life has been revealed to us that we rock of ages, for his personal salvation, and atmay make it known to others ; and a voice comes the same time reaching out as far aa possible inringing from the throne, " Be faithful." Noth- every direction to rescue those that are ready toing can release us from our obligations to a lost perish in the wild and desolating waters ofand perishing world. To use an illnstration of heathen superstition and spiritnal death. Oh !the late WilUam Arnot's : If a company of very that we were all more inclined than we seem topoor people held a claim against a citizen for a be to yield ourselves to this ministry of succorlarge sum of money, and if he should take advan- and salvation.tage of their ignorance and poverty to evade the " '^^s^^ "««darkupon the earth,° , ^ , ^ •'. . And we have light,payment, he would be cast out oi society asaSo many have to grope their way,dishonorable man. In like manner, although And-we have sight."those who now hold Christ's claim on us, not I know that in the present day very hopeMknowing its value, do not press for payment, we views are entertained by many respecting theare bound in honor to seek them out and dis- salvation oi those who live and die in ignorancecharge the obligation. of the gospel. Indeed, as some one has recentlyWhat does the service required of us mean? said, the advocates of this theory seem to claimIt means the consecration of our redeemed self in for themselvea a monopoly of culture and rightwholeness to the glory of Christ and under Him feeUng, and charge aU who dare to differ fromto the service of aur feUowmen. them with great uncharitableness. That doesI will now name two or three thinga that are, not matter. Such opinions are no good, if notas it seems to me, essential to the faithful dis- true ; and, if they are false—? I am free to adchargeof this trust :m't that God may save individuals from among

172 Our Views of Mission Worh.the heathen by some special revelation of Christ convert in Burmah. He was asked to go as rewithoutthe use of ordinary means ; but that does ligious teacher to a war-like tribe, where his salnotaffect the general question. One thing is ary would be less than one fourth the amonntsettled beyond all controversy, and that is that paid to him as boatman. " No," was the replymen cannot be saved by anj false system of beof Shapon, " I cannot go to that tribe for fourlief. In not one of these is there anything to rupees, but I can do it for Christ.'' Was not thesatisfy a man under conviction of sin. Travel governing principle of that offer the true one ?where you will in pagan countries, and you will "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receivefind that the religion of the people is wholly des- power and riches and wisdom and strength andtitute of spirituality, and in many instances there honor and glory and blessing." In looking overis the grossest immorality connected with the some old letters of foreign missionaries not longobseivance of their religious rites. The direct ago, I turned up one from a lady, who was in suchtendency of idolatry is to debase and degrade the delicate health at the time that her friends in thissoul, and so unfit for fellowship with God. And country had, without consulting her, suggestedwhat saith the Scriptures ? The Ephesians are that she shonid be released from service and alsaidto have been in their unrenewed state "with- lowed to return home at once. On learning ofout Christ having no hope, and withont God in what had been done, she wrote to this effect: Ithe world," and in the Apocalypse we read that think I can say literally that not the faintest de-" idolators are without the Holy City." Oh I if sire to return to America has once tormented mewe ever come to doubt the certainty that there is since I came to Turkey. It is unbeUef that probutone Lord and Savionr for all mankind, a duces such mawkish sympathy ior foreign misblightwill rest upon all our missionary endeavors, sionaries—I say mawkish dehberately. As misasuntimely frosts npon the flowers of Spring, sionaries we love sympathy, provifled it be Chris-As one beautifully puts it: In the darkness the tian ; but we do not want that which considersflickering lamps of earth are not to be despised, us martyrs, and simply because we are deprivedbut the world needs the sunlight.of great easy chairs, brussels carpets, gas, evenThose who believe that the heathen can be ing papers, railroads and refined society. " Gosaved without a knowledge of Christ are excusa- ye into all the world and preach the gospel toble in doing nothing for them ; not so we who be- every creature," and " Lo I am with you alwayUeve that otherwise they can never be delivered even unto the end of the world," is the simplefrom the mighty evils that oppress and degrade reason that I came to Turkey, and it is amplythem. Every one is bound to hold forth the sufficient. Missionary discomforts are uniforaalyword of life that the unenhghtened may see their inversely as one's love ior the Saviour. Tbatway out of sin and misery into holiness and the yvas her theory ; and I believe there is no moreservice of God. Sympathy with God in His inspiring and exalted motive to foreign servicepurpose of mercy is an essential element in Chris- than this personal loyalty to the Saviour. Wastianity, and I do not hesitate to pronounce the not this the chief motive in the case of those whoreligion that lacks this characteristic expression " went forth " in the early ages of Christianity.a counterfeit thing.ê are told that they '• went forth for the sake2. Another requisite to tbe faithful discharge ofthe Name " (Rev. Version). In every age andof this sacred trust that chaUenges special atten- in every land the mightiest motive to labor andtion ia, a sensitive concern for the honor of self sacrifice in the cause of foreign missions is aGhrist. I recall a familiar incident related oi a sensitive concern for the honor of Christ. If we

Our Views of Mission Work. 173are not moved in this way to more determined with no wealth, no worldly prestige, no specialefforts in the missionary cause, we need not ex- fitness for such a task ? No ; with an instinct unpectto be stirred into special activity by com- erring as the infant's to its mother's breast woepassion for His enemies, who openly avow that always knows where to turn for help. Twotheywill not have this man to reign over them, years ago a woman on the streets of Tokio mChrist alone is the rightful sovereign of the world; Japan, begged some one to lead her to the Chrisand,when we see men trampling His name and tian people. When asked what she wanted ofauthority under foot, we shonid be fired "viith an them, she said, " I am told they know how toenthusiasm that will permit no rest until the heal broken hearts ; and my heart is broken andwhole worid is willing to put its crown on His I want to find them." There is no evidence ofhead, who wore for us a crown of thorns. Christianity more clear and satisfactory to myI beheve the real reason that our interest in for- mind than this waiting and pleading attitude ofeign missions is so fitful and feeble is that so little the world to-day.reference is made in appeals on the subject to But what did these men do ? " Immediatelythe kingly claims of Christ and the loyal regard we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredlythat His followers should have for the establish- gathering that the Lord had called us to preachment of His wdl as the governing power among the gospel there." How unlike the courae thatthe nations. The obstacles that seem to lie in we are apt to take ! We convene meetings tothe way, instead of discouraging us, should stim- pray for the coming of the kingdom, and howulate to more earnest efforts to win the world for fervent are our requests. But when the answerChrist. And we are to look not so much to the comes in the shape of open doors and invitingmeasure of success attending our efforts as to fields, we confer with flesh and blood. Thesefidehty to the kingly command, " Go and mak^ men " assuredly gathered that tbe Lord haddisciples of aU nations."caUed," and that was an end of the matter.3. Not less necessary to fidelityin this matter "Immediately they endeavored to go." "If,"is, an ear quick to discern the call of provi- says a living expositor, " they had waited tiU todence.I think it will be easier for me to make morrow, the ship would have gone, and no onethis point clear by telling a famiUar story than in knows how long it would have been before ananyother way. Many centuries ago a minister other vessel wonld sah in that direction." Theirdreamed that he saw a man standing at a dis- ears were quick to discern the call of providence,tance, beckoning with his finger, and saying, and three days did not pass tiU they were in the" Come over and help us." And there was need capital of Macedonia at work.of help. The power of Rome was oppressive ; To day is preeminently the era of missionarylibertv was almost extinct among the nations of opportunity, and on the way in which we use itEurope; the moraUty of the people was unspeak- depend solemn and far-reaching issues. Bveryablelyimpure ; and the laws were bitter to a de- thing—whether we look over our own field orgree we cannot easily imagine. But has not the consider the condition of the whole worldmessagegone to the wrong place ? It is the Em- seems to point to this as the hour when a decisiveperor and Roman Senate ihat have authority to blow may be struck for Chrisiianity ; and, if wemodify unjust laws, and look after the interests are true to the trust reposed in us, we cannotof the people, whereas, he has gone with his ap- fail to render effective service. To use an oldpeal for help to a lowly home, where some travel- illustration,there is a scene in Scott's Lady of thestained and weary men are resting for the night, Lake, in which Rhoderick Dhu gathers the clans

174 Items of Missionary InteUigence.to war by sending through the land across dipped stans L. Goodell says in one of his fascinatingin blood. Wherever the symbol went there was letters, "We must believe more, trust more, acta general uprising, and Norman left his newas if God did not make His promises for bunmadebride and took hold of the consecrated sym- combe. Many now seem to think them orienialboland rushed forth to rouse ihe land ; and all isms." These are the wise words of one, whoseminor duties were lost sight of in the one absorbing personal trust lay at the root of a very efficientduty of the hour. I would that this spirit pos- ministry. This faith would deliver us from allsessed all the clansmen of King Jesus. When anxieties as to the future, it would bring ns to athe king calls there shonid be an instant response, throne of grace with greater regularity and holdOur private joys and sorrows, and all minor dut- us there untU the blessing came, and it wouldies should be forgotten, as we rally to His side inspire us with an assurance that the kingdom ofand strike home for victory.Christ, though still small and little recognized on4. I shall only wait to name one other essen- earth, shall yet come in power, fullness and visitial—andit underlies all the rest—-full confi- bility. An eye to Christ, as Matthew Henrydence in the word of promise. I am convinced puts it, and constant reliance upon the covenantthat the sturdiest foe Christianity has to contend promise relating to His cause and the ultimatewith to-day is unbelief in the churches. Were owning of His authority will not fail to carry nsthe news to reach us now that the religion of the throngh all difficulties in His service.false prophet was overthrown, it would simplyOut of the shadows of nightfiU us with surprise ; yet it is foretold that theThe world roUs mto light.whole system with its obstructive policy of de- ^^ ^^ ^^ everywceit shall be broken without hand. Like the It only requhes a Uttle more faith on the partdisciples of old, when certain women of their of the ministry and membership of the church,company reported a vision of angels who said the and we shall hear the praise-song of a ransomedLord was alive, we are " made astonished," when worid : The kingdoms of this worid are becometold that in fulfilment of the faithful word, the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ.prophecy has become history. As the late Conitemsof Missionary Intelligence.ABROAD. of any other year. Repeatedly the Sabbath at-The Report presented by the Synod of the tendance has been from 80 to 85, and on com-Beformed Presbyterian Church in Ireland says munion Sabbath there were 110 present.respecting the work in Syria during the past At length there is a certain prospect of obtainyear: We can report progress and success ing an additional missionary for the Syrian field.greater than we have heretofore reached. * * * A young Scotchman of great promise, an ad-It is pleasing to learn that souls are being gath- vanced student in Theology, has intimated hisered to Christ, as the result of our efforts, and willingness to give himself to the work. Wethat a good and holy work is being done for God are inclined to regard this fresh token of Divineaway in a dark and dreary land. Since January favor as an answer to our prayers.last Dr. Martin has received iuto membership We take the following paragraph from thefive persons in Antioch, and one in Idlib. * » * Report laid before the Synod of the BeformedIt is gratifying to be able to report that the at- Presbyterian Church of Scotland. It relatestendauce at public worship has been in advance to tbe same mission : Mrs Martin continues her

Hems of Missionary Intelligence. 175Bible Reading and religious conversation with agents of whom 60 are ordained European misthenative women, and is of opinion that greater sionaries, 24 ordained native pastors, 8 medicalinterest is taken by them in these matters than missionaries, of whom four are ordained, 3 Eurformeriy.But uot only are they generaUy in a opean evangelists, and 21 female missionaries ;state of gross ignorance in regard to all that is while under the superintendence of these agentsgood, bnt most ofthem have contracted evil hab- there are 95 native evangelists, 301 native teachitsof both speech and action that it is difficult ers, and 100 other native helpers.to keep under restraint and more difiicult to get In our mission fields we have 87 congregations,wholly eradicated. They say, " While we listen with 155 out-stations at which services are regutothe reading and conversation about onr evil larly held. These congregations have an aggrestateand the way of recovery, our hearts grow gate membership of 13,491, with 2,014 candisoftand we want to obey Christ and leave off our dates for admission. At the Sabbath schoolsevil lives. But we are all so bad, we make one which are attached to the various mission conanotherbad. After you go away, our neighbors gregations and stations (not inclnding China andor our children provoke us ; we grow angry and Japan, about which we have no return), theresay wicked things, and it seems oi no nse to try are 11,418 in attendance ; and at the day scho jlsand do better." The Colporteur continues to 13,616 chUdren are receiving a sound Christianmake journeys to different places at a distance education.from Antioch, such as Aleppo, Alexandretta, In all our mission fields,save one, there hasetc., for the purpose of selUng Bibles and reUg- been an increase in the membership of the nativeious tracts and of reading the Scriptures and ex- congregations. In some, in-leed, the increaseplaining them to all wHo are willing to listen, has not been great, but 283 have beenHe reports that he has never previously found sc added to the membership during the past year,many ready to purchase from him, and to listen The total membership, which in 1880 was 9,G81to his Bible readings and exhortations as he has now stands, as already stated, at 13,491, beingfound during the past winter. In these various an increase in the seven years of 3,810 or neariy•ways by the preaching of the gospel, instruction 40 per cent.—the average increase each year beinthe schools, reading the Scriptures among the ing 544. This represents a native Church ofpeople outside and conversing with them in re- considerable strength and resources ; and, asgard to divine things, the good seed is being those who have been gathered into it come to resomewhatwidely sown, and the result must be alize more and more the privUeges they are enleftwith Him who alone can command the bless- joying, we trust that they will not only stand fasting. The success that has attended the missions in the faith, but wiU also be the bearers of them the past we regard as very encouraging aud good news to those who are stiU without.fitted to caU forth our grateful thanksgivings While in several of onr fields the professedto the Head of the Church for His goodness, and believers are as yet a small band, we have goodto lead us to increaaed zeal and devotedness in reason to know that the work of our missionariesthe prosecution of the work in Syria.and the lives of the converts are powerfully in-The United Presbyterian Ghurch of Scotland fluencing the several communities among whomhas eight mission fields under its supervision, they are placed. Education is being extended,The Annual report submitted to Synod, May 9, Christian literature is being cfrculated, inquiry1888, closes with the following summary : In onr is being awakened, superstitions and customs thatmission fields we have a staff of 116 fully trained have held sway for centuries are being exploded

176 Items of Missionary Intelligence.or quietly set aside, while the Christian mission- the General assembly of the Church of Scotlandary and the Christian convert are winning the 821 baptisms as the fruitsof the labors of theirconfidence, the respect, and the admiration of missionaries during the year 1887. Of these 676men of all classes, and find an open door and a were in the Panjab aronnd Sialkot; 120 in theready welcome, and even an attentive audience, three-iold Casjeeling mission ; 13 in Madras andwhere iormerly there was no admission. Jamaica 13 in Arkonam ; 4 in Calcutta ; and 1 in Bommaynow be said to be almost a Christian land. bay. There are at present about 3,000 baptizedThe negro tribes of West Africa, far into ihe persons in the missions oi this Church to theinterior, are crying out for the missionary and heathen in India, Africa and China. As regardsthe teacher to come among them, and the Kaffirs income, results and additions to the Staff, 1881in the South are pleading for the same advan- has been the most prosperous year in the historytages. The natives of China are crowding of the Foreign Missions.around onr missionaries, eager to hear of the new In the Annual report of the Free Church ofreligion which is making its way through all the Scotland we find the following figures, showingprovinces oi their empire. Japan is already ex- the result of mission work in fourteen fields: Thehibiting a native Christian Chnrch of such extent nnmber of adults baptized and admitted to theand su-h self-governing energy, that it would native Church last year was 565 ; the number ofseem as if in a very few years the foreign mission- the chUdren of native Christian parents baptizedary may safely leave the carrying forward of the were 513 ; the catechumens, or candidates forwork of God in that land in the hands of its own baptism or full communion, numbered 1,231.people. In India, too, we are gladdened from time No statistics can show the number of secretto time with the tidings of many being added to Christians, especiaUy in India, timid souls, whomthe Church ; and though it appears as if the work the social tyranny of Hinduism keeps from pubmuststUl go on for a long period beneath the sur- lie baptism sometimes till death approaches, butface, yet the day shall come when, as the result whose whole Ufe otherwise is ruled by the stndyof the patient labor of years, the people not by of the word of God. The feature of the year'sindividnais, but by whole tribes or castes, will spiritual work is seen in the number of famiUesdeclare themselves for Christ. who have come over as such. The Spirit of GodWe have been privileged as a Church to take is bringing in the tide, slowly to those who watchno inconsiderable part in the sacred enterprise of it only for a Uttle, but with ever increasing volextendingthe Gospel throughout the world, ume in the eyes of those who prayed for whatWe bave felt all along that the doing of this they now see, forty, thirty, twenty years ago.work for God in the distant mission field has —There are, according to Rev. H. Loomis,brought rich blessings to ourselves at home. ShaU agent of the American Bible Society in Yokohanotthe memory of om* experience in the past ma, 253 missionaries laboring in Japan. Theyunite with the call that comes to us from every occupy sixty-nine stations and have 316 out-staregionof the heathen world at the present hour, tions connected with them. Last year 5,020and lead us anew to consecrate our strength and adult converts were baptized, and the presentour substance to the service of Him who has number of church members in 18,829, an increasecaused the light to shine upon us, in order that of 5,014 over that of the year before. There arewe may carry that light to those who are stUI in 102 Japanese ministers, 191 un ordained preachdarkness1ers aud helpers, and 14 tbeological seminaries, inThe Poreign Mission committee reported to which, 216 students are being trained for the

Items of Missionary IntelligenceChristian ministry. As only thirty years have leaying Selma in May, is much better and exelapsedsince the the oldest mission was est»blish- pects to be able to resume his duties at the openedin Japan, we may weU thank God and take ing of the school, October 1st.courage. Mr J. R. Lee, a man of great practical knowl-A1 HOME. gjjgg Qf .^regtern frontierUfe, has been appoiutedThe 62nd Repori ofthe American Some Mis- to aid in the inauguration of the mission amongsionary Society contains the foUowing items in the Indians.its summary of results for the past year :Rev. John Teaz has declined the appointmentThe nnmber of ministers of the gospel in the to the Indian Mission, and Mr. Jobn S. Thomserviceof the Society is 1,620. 'I he number of son, who was his alternate, was notified of his apcongregationsand missionary districts which have pointment, and he also declined. The Board atbeen fully supplied, or where the gospel has been its August meeting appointed Mr. S DeU Johnpreachedat stated intervals, is 3,084. '1 he num ston to the Indian Mission and are now awaitingber of Sunday school and Bible class pupils is not hia answer.far from 13,000. The organization of 288 In the meantime progress is being made : Theschools ia repoHed and the number under the authorities at Waahington, D. C, informed usspecial care of missionaries is 2,205.that we would have to send commissioners toThe addition to the churches, as nearly as treat with the Indians to secure a grant of landcan be ascertained, have beenjl0,012 : 6,310 on from them, and the government then would conconfessionoi faith, and 1,102 by letters from oth- firm to us that land.er churches. Mr. J. R. See, who has been appointed toOne hundred and thirty churches have been i^bor for three months with the missionary thatorganized in connection with the labors of the .ôuld take up the work, has been sent to Fortmissionaries within the year, and fifty-nine have gjn îth faU power to deal with the Indians inassumed the entire support oftheir own gospel or- thenameof the Board and secure a grant ofdinances.land sufficient to locate a mission and if it isOne hundred and sixteen houses of worship found wise an industrial school.have been completed, one hundred and forty-nine -^^ j^^^ p^^^^^ j^^g accepted the appointmateriallyrepaired or improved, and the buHd- ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Chinese Mission at Oakland, Cal.,ing of many others commenced. Eighty-seven ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ arrangements can be made willmen in connection with the missionary churches ^^-^^ ^p ^-^^ ^^^^ j^. jg expected he wUl be orarereported as in different stages of preparation ^^^j^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^Yie lUinois Presbytery.for the gospel mimstry. j^g^ j^ r Johnston writes as follows : The mis-—Rev. W. W. Carithers, Corresponding gion night school is largely attended now. ManySecretary of our Central Board of Missions, has late immigrants from China, and mostly quitesent ns the foUowing items :young and ignorant heathen, have recently en-Rev. N. R. Johnstone, insisting on being re- tered. And at our Chinese prayer-meetings andleased from the work of the Chinese Mission at Sabbath services from ten to thhteen of our Cov-Oakland, CaUfornia, that he might take rest, enanter Chinese are present. Three of themth»- Board has appointed Mr. James Patton to have recently retnrnea from China. One oftake charge ol that mission. them departed for New York on Monday. An-Prof DiU, who was in very poor health on other talks of going to PittsbnrghYll

178 Mission Monographs.The work at Birmingham is prospering. Mr. The Topeka people have also arranged withKingston writes that about 10 are enrolled but the settled ministers in the neighborhood forthey rarely ever have more than 35 or 40 present preaching one half time ; so they expect to haveon any Sabbath in their school. He visits from preaching all the time for the next four months.house to house, and distributes tracts, reads the Rev. J. MUligan Wylie is getting the PsalmBihle and talks to the people on religious themes; Singers of Minneapolis and St. Paul together forhe also visits the shops and talks to the mill men worship. It is too soon to speak of the prospectat the noon honr and has succeeded in interesting there but he has found a number that are readymany in the work and securing their attendance to co-operate with the few of our people there inon Sabbath.carrying on the work.Mr. John Sloane and wife, who labored one Miss S. R. Guy and Mrs. Cardozo are emwinterin Selma Mission, have been appointed to ployed in a house to house visitation of the coltakeup this work when Mr. Kingston returns ored people in and near Selma. The influence ofto the Seminary.this work is already seen in the Sabbath SchoolTopeka has been taken under the care of the and it is expected that it will bring into theBoard and John Rev. Teaz has been appointed school many of those that now receive no educategive one half of his time to Kansas City, and tion either secular or religious It is hoped weone-half to Topeka, untU January 1st.may be able to give them both.WHAT IS IMPLIED IN THE ACT OF how it would nerve this brother's arm, and thriUSENDING OCT A N E W MIS- every heart of friend here and laborer yonder, ffSIONARY.*instead of one we were to-night ordaining threeRev. D. H. Coulter, Winchester, Ka^nsas. Or four missionaries for the foreign field!This weBy this act the church seeks to strengthen a ^ ^'band of noble workers never strong in numbers Our response to the Master's caU coming to usand never needing re-enforcement more than now. through the foreign mission will not be commen-With a fieldever and rapidly enlarging and an î^rate with the opportunities and demands of theever growing task before them, our foreign mis- ^^^^' "^îl ^^^ church awakens to a deeper intersionarieshave called long and earnestly for ad- ^^^^ the cause, and redoubles her prayers for itsditional help. The church has heard the call, success and her contributions for its support andand now responds. enlargement. The action of this hour assures theBrother Stewart's response has been prompt, °^^ missionary as he goes out to the scene of hisdecisive and full. At once upon the completion 1^^°'"^ ^^^^ ^^ shall be sustained by the liberalof the requhed course of study he stands forth S^^^^ of the church's prayers and sympathies andand says : " Here am I ; send me." And of his nic^'^s.recognized gifts and fitness for the work this He goes sent by the church, her son and serreadyoffer of himself is the crowning evidence, vant and representative, appiinted to do herWould that the church's answer were all that it work. We want the work well done ; and byought to be 1 How pleasing would be this duty, this brother it will be well done, if we perform* Addref^sdellvred I.efore Syrod at the orulnatlon of ""^^ P*^"*' ^"'^ ^^ ^ praying congregation makeEev. J. s. Stewart, as MisuioDary to Syria. a Successful pastor and preacher, a praying

Mission Monographs. 179church wUl assuredly make a successful mission- mands. Our duty is to discern the grand opary.Let us therefore pledge ourselves to pray portunity of the present, and to plan and labordaily for this new worker, and for all the laborfor the discharge of the responsibility it involves.ers whom the Lord in answer to prayer hath sent Duty neglected now cannot be done then. Shallforth into his harvest. Amid the perils and we not then bind ourselves and the church wetrials of missionary life, few things wUl give him represent to enlarged interest and increased effortand them greater encouragement, than to know in the foreign mission work ?that they are remembered in every closet, at There are two supreme needs of the hour. Oueevery altar, in every sanctuary of the church, is young men fittedfor the ministry who are will-And for you and for the church may I not also ing to go, ready to lay themselves on the altar ofpledge him and the laborers whom he joins a Christ in the foreign field. And the other islarger interest in the work, a larger sympathy money, larger contributions, more Uberal gifts.with the worker ? Are not these impUed in this The door is open aud wide. The call is loudact ? unceasing, creasing,—Macedonian in its earnest-As the field enlarges and new laborers are nggg^ more than Macedonian in the frequency andsent out our interest should grow deeper, our emphasis o f its repetition. " The harvest truly issympathies broader and stronger. I'o this end great, but the laborers are few." Our duty is plain.there ought to be a larger and freer correspon- c Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest thatdence between the church aud her missionaries, he send forth laborers into his harvest." We haveand all avaUable means of information concern- the men, many young men of promise, fitted,or fifingthe progress and needs of the mission ought tjng themselves for the ministry. 0 that the Lordto be used. Every member of the church ought of missions would put it into the hearts of moreto keep himself abreast of this work ; for you of these young men to go ; that the students ofwill find that ordinarily those members who inour college and seminary were visited by a spiritform themselves of the condition and wants of of consecration, of readiness to labor in the forthemission are tbe ones who are prompt and eign field ; baptised with the Holy Ghost andliberal in its support. with fire until one and another and anotherThis act of the chnrch is also vfrtually a bond would rise up and say, " I wUl go."given the new missionary that she will provide The Lord called Samuel thrice over and hefor his temporal welfare. His freedom from thought it waa only the voice of Eli. At lengthharassing care, his Uberty to serve Master and the aged priest perceived that it was the call ofmission and church with unaivided attention and the Lord, and instructed him what to do ; andtime is essential tohis fulfillment of the trust his answer to the fourth call was, " Speak, Lord ;we now commit to his hands ; and for this lib- for thy servant heareth."erty he is dependent upon us. He will need lib- Young men, you may have thought that theeral pecuniary support, and we now unite in the oft repeated call of the mission and the churchsolemn agreement that this need shall be promptly was not for yon ; or was only the caU of themet. mission and the church. If not for you, forThus onr Lord is by us sending forth another .^^jjom could it be ? And brethren, is it not timelaborer into that far distant field already white ^^^^^t the church should perceive that this reitertothe harvest. Future years wiU bring other ^^^g^ ^^ji is from the Lord, and should instructand larger demands ; and well wUl it be if the her yonng men to say, " Speak Lord, for thychm-ch is then found ready to meet those de- servant heareth."

180 Mission Monographs.If we want more miasionaries, we should pray , and, lo, I am with you alway, eveu untofor more missionaries, pray for them earnestly the end of the world."and without ceasing, and throughout the church; The command is plain. It comes to us asif we so do we shall soon have them. truly as to the eleven. It comes from him whoThe church is able to sustain more mission- has received all power to give protection andaries. We have been asking for ten thousand success to his appointed ambassadors. It comesdollars for our foreign mission, and giving at the to us with peculiar emphasis in an ever-wideningrate of about one dollar per member. The excess door of opportunity and a cry of ever-increasingabove this estimate represents the product of earnestness for help.invested funds and the donations of wealthier And the promise of Christ's presence is clear,and more Uberal friends of the mission. We and definite, and full of encouragement Butcan, if we try, give at the rate of two dollars per the promise is grounded on our obedience to themember, and instead of $16,000 raise $25,000 command. Go ye ; and, as ye go, Io, I am withor $30,000 for this noble work.you.What we need in order to double our contri- If '^^ do not go in the persons of trained andbutions to this cause is a deeper interest in it, consecrated missionaries sent out and sustaineddeeper compassion for perishing souls, a better by the church, we cannot plead the promise. Theunderstanding of Christ's revealed counsels and fulness of the Redeemer's presence and powerpurposes, a truer sympathy with his plans and and favor is guaranteed to the church only uponwork, larger faith in his promises, and a spirit of the condition of her laying out her talents inwilling obedience to his command and call. With missionary work.such interest, such knowledge and compassion. Once when the Mahrattas, a brave and patrisuch sympathy, faith and spirit of obedience as otic people of Hindostan, were engaged in battlewe ought to have, the church cannot fail of befor t*ie defence of theh country, the commandering fiUed with enthusiasm in this work. Go to ^nd the national colors were bome on the backthe people in this sphit and the people wiU do of ^ tamed elephant trained to service in thetheir duty.army. In the thickest oi the fightthe commanderAnd the action now taken implies a renewed was shot dead from his seat. The army wasconsecration of ourselves to Christ and his bless- beaten back and fleeing from the field. But theed cause of missions. It implies a clearer believ- great dumb standard bearer knew only to obeying recognition of the great commission he re- the voice of his master ; the last order he heardceived from H s Father when all power was given was. Forward 1 and he pressed steadily onwardunto him in heaven and in earth, that he with into the ranks of tbe foe, the standard still fioatrightand might might send his servants into ing out proudly over the field.every land, to every people, and through the The routed Mahrattas turned and saw thegospel give eternal life to as many as the Father thrilling sight. Roused to the highest pitch ofhad given unto him.patriotic valor they rushed to the support ofIt implies a clearer perception and a readier their flag,followed it and fought around it untilacceptance of the duty involved in that other a great victory was won. To carry the gospelgreat commission, following and founded upon of peace into Syria and Cilicia and out over thehis own, and given by him to his disciples, to woild the Captain of our salvation laid down hispropagate the gospel througuout the world, when life.he said " Go ye, therefore, and teach all nationa. The last order he gave the Church as his

Mission Monographs.standard bearer in the worid was. Forward 1 our Lord declares with solemn reiteration that" Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations " Aid no one can be His disciple who does not take upshall we not be as faithful to our slain Master as His cross, and no one who is not willing to givethe dumb color bearer was to his slain master ? up all for His sake. No suffering, no glory 1 NoThe standard of the cross is still floating on the narrow way, no large and wealthy place 1 Noshores of the Mediterranean in the very face of dying with and for Christ unto sin and self andthe foe Shall we not, believing victory near, the world and time, theo no joyful living withrally again with renewed purpose and effort in Him in the pure land of light —Alexanderits support? Brother, the church is saying to you Baleigh, D. D.to night. Go thou, and the Lord be with thee " No man having put hia hand to the plough,always.and looking back, is fitfor the kingdom of God."Brethren, by this act of sending out a new This saying of our Lord was addressed to onemissionary and all that it implies we pledge our- who volunteered to follow Him, but marred theselves anew to go in the spirit and prayer and grace of his offer by interposing a request. Thepower of a mission loving, mission sustaining answer he received shows plainly that the man'schurch. And the stiU smaU voice of the Master heart wa-* not yet thoroughly engaged in Christ'smay be heard saying, " Lo, I am with you always, service, and that he was therefore unfit to be aeven to the end oi the world. Amen." discipleif we are looking back to anything in thisCHRISTIAN SERVICE. .ôrid, we are not fitto be his disciples. ThoseDo you see that young man, the very type and who look back want to go back. Jesus wUl notpattern in many respects of what a young man share his throne with any one—no, not with ourought to be, leaving the Master's presence in sor- dearest relatives. He must have all our heart,row? He will not be crucified. He wiU not or none. No doubt we are to honor father anddie. Do you see that scribe walking close be- mother, and love all around us. But when lovehind Christ, andthen venturing to speak : " Mas- to Christ and love to relatives come in coUision,ter, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou go- Christ must have the preference. We must beest.'' A noble resolution, if he really meant ready, like Abraham, to come out from kindredit, and knew what it meant. But at any rate he and father's house for Christ's sake We mustshould know the whole case, and then foUow or be prepared in case of necessity, like Moses, toforsake as he will. " The foxes have holes, and turn our backs even on those who have broughtthe birds of the air have nests, but the Son of us up, if God calls us, and the path is plain.Man hath not where to lay hig head." Harder Such decided conduct may entaO sore trials onyet. Here is one who must not go even to his our affections. It may wring our hearts to gofather's funeral when he is needed to preach the contrary to those we love. But such conductkingdom of God; and one who, quite resolved may sometimes be positively necessary to our salnow,is hasting home to say farewell, when he is vation, and without it, when it becomes necessary,told that fareweU even must not be said, but we are unfit for the kingdom of God. The goodthat, if he puts his hand to the gospel plough, he soldif r will not allow his heart to be entangledmust hold it fast, and look the way the plough is too much with his home. If he daily gives waygoing, and draw the furrow atraight, or be judged to unmanly repinings about those he has left benotfitfor the kingdom of God. Something ex- hind him, he will never be fit for a campaign.ceptional there may have been in some cases. But His present duties—the watching, the marching,jôi

182 Mission Monographs.the fighting—must have the principal place in taste, culture and refinement. " Does she deemhis thoughts. So must it be with all who would that stern duty calls her to resign the home andserve Christ. They must beware oi softness friends of her heart, the fame wbich she has sospoiling their characters as Christians. They gloriously won, nay more, perhaps even life itself,must endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus for the sake of the far off heathen ?" But in ve-Christ.—%Ze's Expository Ihoughts.pndiation of the charge of " madness," throwingAN APPROVED LIFE ^^^ ^^^ splendid gifts, she pointed out the follyof tbose who are spending their lives in the pur-When it pleased God, who separated rae from g^jt of earthly pleasure, and exulted to laymy mother's womb, and called me by His grace, «iûrels and life " at the Redeemer's feet. Costto reveal His Son in me, that I might preach ^^^g counted. Her father would never waitHim among the heathen; immediately I con- agîn for his daughter's coming tread. She wasferred not with flesh aad blood.—PawL to be regarded as with the dead. But there wasWhen will people learn to stop pitying those the hope of reunion in a land of life and love.whom God honors and blesses by sending to Notsorrowing tnen asnow,foreigu and difacult fields 1 We at home in our ^^"'^ ''"ê^'' ^^'^- '^'^^ "o^^ percbanoe° , ^ ,. , Witi jewels on ter brow.selfish abundance, who never know what self-de-j'Ae Macedonian Crynial for Christ is—we are the ones to be pitied.When we come before the throne to receive our PRAYER FOR MISSIONS.crowns, then we shall know what class oi Chris- The greatest, the most responsible, the busiesttians need pity, and what class God honors. I and the most successful servants that Christ everstill see many an hour when I wish I were in had divided their functions into two departments.China, or beyond the sea, in obedience to that We wUl give ourselves continually to prayer,highest command, " Go, and preach the Word" 'and to the ministry of the word." What would—Constans L. Goodell's Letters. be thought of dividing the twelve hours of ourIn the earher days of missions, a young girl of day by giving six hours to prayer for the gos -the Hnited States read of a remarkable work of pel and six to the ministry of the word ? HadGodinBurmah, and was fired with the thought of aU Christ's servants acted thus, could any oneservice for Christ. "And I too," was the re- estimate how miglity the re>ults would be to-day ?solve, " yes, I too will be a missionary to the What should be the tenor of our prayers ? Ifheathen." But for a time life took another di- the promises of God may be regarded as moulds,rection. " Fanny Forester''became a star of the our prayers should belike liquid metal pouredliterary firmament and won both fame and for- into them, in dimensions corresponding with thetune. Then came a genuine surprise. A whig- capacity of the mould, and taking on all the lines,per went out, indistinctly at first,afterwards grooves and figuringof the interior.confirmed, that this favorite of society was to be- If then we find sucb promises as this, " Thecome the wife of a distinguished missionary. Tbe earth shall be filledwith the knowledge of theproposal was met by an indignant protest. Had glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," athe fuU chalice of popular applause been offered promise twice given in Scripture, and which hasin vain ? That one who shone with such distinc- many c irresponding with it, our prayer sbould betion in circles of wealth and fashion should be commensurate with the promise. We are not tosacrificed to the cause of missions, and be borne pass by moulds, even of extremely limited capacity,off to grim Burmah, was deemed au outrage upon but by all means let us match the great promises

Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad. 183of God with great prayers. Doubtless this is lands for which you have prayed; or by enablingpleasing to God. In what manner God may see you to write a volume which may stir the misactivity of hundreds. fit to fulfil his promises is quite another considersionaration.God may enableBut would it uot be weU could we train you by your addresses as ministers, professors andourselves to take up all the countries of the laymen, to rouse congregations and entire Synodsworld in detail, and make mention of them systematicallyto their duty to the heathen, as well as to callbefore God ? There are persons who forth the Christian enthusiasm of young men inhave attempted to do this every day of their lives, colleges and universities, and mothers in Israel,while others divide the world into portions, and like Hanna, Lois and Eunice, may throughtake them up on successive days. I hope I may prayer be the nieans of sending forth a Carey, anot offend any hearers if I venture to recommend Henry Martyn, a Duff, a William Burns, a StanleySmith, or a Stndd. the use of a prayer-book, which I have found ofI beheve that the Dayservice, and which can be had from the shelves of wUl declare that solitary individuals have simplyKeith, Johnston & Co., I mean a pocket atlas, by their prayers prevailed to introduce the gospelwhich should be spread out Uke Hezekiah's letterbefore the Lord, and be gone over carefully into vast and populous dominions.The ancient Jewish fihurch was not directlyfrom day to day, and irom year to year, so that evangelistic ; yet, like David who prepared theevery kingdom, capital, • stand and ocean should materials for the temple wbich another was tobe individually remembered. If this were done buUd, the Jewish Church provided an immenseon an extensive scale among Christians, blessedissues would ensue.Let me say that our iaith should lay accountwith a blessing coming to whole regions and kingdomsio response to the prayers of even one individual.Moses, when he prayed for himself tobe permitted to cross the Jordan, was refused;yet, when he fell down before God on Sinai's solitary top, forty days and forty nights, in intercessionfor two mUlions of guilty people, to avertjudgment from them, God, as he tells us, hearkenedunto him.If we find that individuals are employed tochange the face of continents by exploration orpersonal effort, why may not individuals equallyprevaU, when they by prayer lay hold of the Armof the Almighty?The answer to your prayers may come by God'ssending you as evangelists or settlers to the verytore of intercessions which became invaluable athousand years afterwards. If you search thebook of Psalms, you wUl find that upwards offorty ofthem contain prayers for, or refererice to,the spreading of the gospel among the nations.These prayers were answered when the hour forihe reconciling the world arrived. The GentUescan never discharge their obligation to the JewishChurch for its prayers in their behalf in thesesacred songs.And now, carrying out a kindred idea, let mesay that during these nineteen hundred yearssince onr era began, prayers, like metallic conductors,have been continually laid down, alongwhich in God's good time, answers, like heaven'selectric force, will pass with an energy intensifiedin proportion as the answer is delayed.—^. N.Somerville, D. D.Rev. Henry Easson writes from Latakia under to our schools at Mettindate June 25th, 1888 :As the place is about fiftvmiles d'stant fromI have just returned from a very pleasant visit Latakia, it is almost impossible for the teacher's

184 Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad.wife and family to come to our communion there, and prizes. Boxes from Staunton and NorthShe had expressed a desire several years ago to Cedar, Kansas, with prizes, clothing and quilts.join with ns, but never had been able to be pre- And, last but not least, a box from our dear oldsent. I examined her and a son about twelve home, Logan County, Ohio, with nresents foryears old and received them into church feUow- our girls and ourselves. We always appreciateship. The daughter who teaches a girls' school the kind friends who remember us, especiallyn connection with her father's boys' school ia a those who have never seen us and have felt ourmember, having joined us while in the boarding unworthiness. And " thine own friend and thyschool at Latakia. father's friend forsake not." None others willOn Sabbath morning the school room was bear us any ill will when we tell that we lingeredcrowded and both doors full as far out as they long and lovingly and recalled pleasant reminiscouldsee and hear. After service I told them cences over the slips of paper bearing the namesthat we would meet again in the afternoon when of those dear friends with wbom in times gone bywe would dispense the Lord's Supper with the " we walked unto the house of God in company."teacher and family.Our box contained many things that wiU be ofAt the time appointed the room was full again use and pleasure to ua, even " buckeyes " fromand although the service was quite long for them the good old "buckeye State."they gave good attention during aU of the ser- r^^^ .j^geks ago we distributed the prizes. Wevice and seemed pleased with all that was done, had offered a special prize in sewing, and not aand said, it was the firstProtestant communion gjî lagged or was lazy when the sewing hourthat any of them had seen. came. They always work hard to receive a prize.We had a small meeting in the evening and not so much for the worth of it as for the nameagain in the morning in connection with the ex- of it. They made neariy four hundred garmentsamination of the schools. In all we had a very ûîng the year. Those who had done the bestpleasant season. work, and made the most garments, and hadWe spent the rest of Monday going from house been best in conduct received the nicest prize.to house in the vUlage.-^g gave them publicly audit bas created a sphitThe schools here when full have about 30 boys of inquiry concerning tbe rules of the school. Iand 15 giris. At present about 10 of the poorer announced that the picture books had been madepupDs are busy in the harvest field. hy littie giris in America. They would haveAll passed a very good examination ; but, ax heen rewarded, if they had heard " weU done"this was Miss Wylie's firstvisit to this vUlage, ^nd " thanks to tbem" from people all over theI wUl leave the particulars for her to describe. house, and the pleased happy faces of theBelow is Miss M. R. Wylie's letter. It is recipients.dated Latakia, July 25th, 1888:And now I wiU dismiss thoughts of school andI believe that Mr. Easson several weeks ago ask your readers to follow me patientiy throughpromised you a letter from me. The firstthing the detaUs of a trip to Mettin, a village moreI will do is to thank the donors of gifts to the than fiftymiles from here. I had never visited theschool. First the A. M. Milligan Band of Pitts- southern part of the field, and Mr. and Mrs.burgh, for tbe generous gift of sixty dollars to be Easson persuaded me to accompany tbem. Leavusedas we wished. A box from Walton and '^"Êthe sohool in care of Miss Edgar and Misspackage from Miller's Run containing clothing Dodds we started at three o'clock one hot after-

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 185noon and rode about twenty miles to a Moham- women of the place called on us. I found shemedan village called Gebaly. The Moslem who could read. Mr. Easson had given a book toseids his giris to school is telegraph operator the little boy and she promised the women tohere and his .brother-in-law is operator in Gebaly. read it to them. She went round with us to iu-He had a sister in the last stage of consumption troduce us to some of the people. WhUe out weunder Dr. Balph's care. When the operator here met what I had never witnessed before, a Moslemheard we were to be in Gebaly over night he sent funeral. It was ot a young girl the daughter ofa telegram to his brother in law, who came out an official. The body was carried on a kind ofto meet us and took us to his house. The house bier, something like a wood rack only narrow. Iis built on an old castle. It is reached by circu- conld not see how the body was wrapped but Ilar steps, the remains of an old amphitheatre, ex- have heard of it. They call it " seffin." Overactly like what we have seen in pictures. As we the bier was a rich silk " Azar " (the covering asat there and had a beautiful view of the sur- woman wears when she appears in public) whichrounding country we thought of the many thiugs had belonged to the girl. Before was a manwehad read about in those old exciting times, half clad with loose garments, carrying a flagWhat changes have been I But the fear of God and another beating a drum. Behind were men,is not before the eyes of the people yet much and following them women screaming and wringmorethan then. A few steps away there is a ing and clapping their hands. Such a feelingmosque built over the grave of " Sultan Ibrahim" of sadness came over me. People going down towho died on the Island of Arva and was brought death and we cannot save thom. " Arise, Ohere for burial. A Moslem woman told me that God, plead thine own cause.''the pure cold water that flows from a fountain in- We were invited to dinner with a son of oneside the mosque had cured many diseased people of the families in Latakia who are warm friendson account ofthe Sultan's grave being so near it. to us. That evening we went twelve miies fur-As we entered the house we were taken ther to a village called Banias. On the way weinto the " hareem" and Mr. Easson was con- passed a settlement of Circassians. They wereducted to another apartment. It seemed banished after the Russian Turkish war. Alfannyto have him spirited away in that nncere- though such a lawless people, they have somemonious way. You know he is a most successful enterprise. They have invariably settled near aladies' man. At least when on a journey we are good stream of water. We fouud wide fieldsofmost successful in giving him an infinite amount corn growing that reminded us of home and weof trouble and he is successful in making us as actually saw them loading wheat on a wagoncomfortable as circumstances wUl admit. I drawn by oxen.pitied him in not having anything to do for once At Banias we were entertained by an old acandasked him afterwards if he were not lonely, quaintance from Latakia. The chief attractionThe people treated us as weU as they could and of this place is a clear stream of water issuingwe in turn paid them by sending for Dr. Balph's from numerous little springs all near each otherinterpreter to come and see the sick giri to gratify among picturesque rocks. This would be nothher.She has died since; and the question comes ing at home, but here, m this dry and parchedwith solemn force; did God hear onr silent praver land, you can not know what a boon is a founfojjjgy ' tain or stream of water. It is not much wonderThe next day was spent in getting acquainted that poor human Lot chose i region weU wateredwith the people. One of the few Greek Christian everywhere.

186 Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad.The next day we went on to Mettin. Com- with incessant talking. But it is necessary.munion was held on Sabbath afternoon. The Not only does the minister preach at every opporhouseof the teacher was filledat every service tunity, bnt we form acquaintances and gain theand we were kept talking and answering Bible good will of the people. Many will come andquestions from the time we were up till we had talk to us that would not listen to preaching andto ask to be allowed to retire. After commun- in evtry conversation it is the aim to point themion service I discovered that the adjoining room to the way that leads to life everlasting.was full of women who could not get into the We made the journey home in two days. Theroom where we held the service. I went in first to Banias. The next mom'ng we startedand talked to them of the Ufe aud death of early to Gebaly. We thought that we wonldChrist. They are Greek Christians, and more rest and eat our lunch under the trees withoutrefined than the most of their sect who Uve in disturbing any one, but the Muslem familyvillages. They would be quite surprised if they found us out and we were obliged to go andsaw this, for having a good share of this world's eat dinner with them. We were on our waygoods they rather patronize as. They were very at three and reached home at eight. I hadhospitable and seemed to feel pggrieved that we not been away so long when we had scbooldid not stay long enough to partake of a grand on hands for several years and I was welcomedmeal with each one of them. Their honses are into the outstretched arms of Miss Edgar andgood and they seem in a degree to enjoy a little the giris. I had been wondering for the last twoof the comfort that farmers do ar, home.hours how I would make my entrancs quietly soMonday we examined the schools. I was as not to disturb Sabbath School teacheris meetverymuch pleased with the girls' school taught ing which I supposed would be being held as usbyBedara, one of onr girls who finishedlast year, nal in onr sittiug-room, but Dr. Balph and MissThey are bright pretty looking giris and answer- Dodds had welcomed it to their house. My headed Bible questions very readily.was aching, and I was glad to be helped upIn the afternoon we called on those who had stairs and to lie down on the lounge in my owncalled on us. room. How bright and cheerful my little roomTuesday we set our faces homeward, I wishing looked, and how glad I was to be home again.I conld reach there in some other way than theslow process of step by step on the mule's back. The following is a letter from Mrs. Mary E.I fear that sometimes I have been rather glad Metheny, written at Mersine on the 21st of July :that my duties in school have prevented me Wendell PMUips says, " The answer to thefrom making many trips of this kind. They Shaster is India ; the answer to Confucianism isare among the most necessary labors of the mis- China ; the answer to the Koran is Turkey ; thesionary, but the most wearisome. Wearisome in answer to the Bible is ihe Christian civilizationthat we ride over rough roads under a hot sun of Protestant England and America." Those ofin summer, and in winter either through rain or our citizens who are so anxious to divorce thatshort biting winds. There are fleas,sand flies civilization from Christianity should come andmusquitoes, etc., to keep one irom sleep. And take up their residence in Turkey. One mightoften we share the only room they have with the wvite a volume on the outcome of Islam. Ourfamily and their donkeys, cattle, sheep, goats and neighbors here in the mountains are Turcomans,chickens. They do all for us they can, but their roving nomads, and are devout Moslems. Somefood does not agree with us and we get tired of them are beginning to acquire land in smaU

Letters from Christian Wor'kers at Some and Abroad. 181tracts. A few faots about one of them are very in their lot here, and that, no maiter how iheysuggestive. In ihe wintev he eame down to town have lived, to say, " There is no God but Godto borrow money to buy seed barley to sow his and Mohammed is the prophet oi God," wUlground ; one of our brethren got him the seed, cover all their sins. How long are they to beand he has a fine crop. In the spring our given over to such delusions? So far as I amman was coming np here to attend to some busi- aware not one of these people has ever become aness, and fonnd this man (Coosa Mahommed is Christian. There is not a single missionaryhis name), his father and mother all lying by the among them.road sick. They bought some flour made of The Mersine merchants have at last notifiedwheat which was full of tares, and were suffering the Egyptian Steamer Co., that, if the steamerfrom the giddiness arising from that form oi poi- continues to come on Sabbath, they will neithersoning. They recovered however, and a few days ship nor send maU by it, but will employ an Engagehe came np here to reap the wheat on the lish steamer which will come some other day ofschool grounds. He brought his wife and mother the week.to carry the hnge bundles of grain to the thresh- Will Miss Joseph's correspondents please putiiig floor. In a short time some one came and her letters in an outside envelope addressed totold us that he was sick and unable to work. In- Dr Metheny? Having had no letters fromvestigation revealed the fact that he and his America for almost two months and a half, shefamily were on the verge of starvation. Although concludes that/ier mail must be taken from thehe bas flourishing fieldsof wheat and is considered office here. We are all pretty weU. The heatwealthy among his people, they had no food and is unusually oppressive.his grain is not avaUable uutU threshed, and thetax collector has taken the government share. Mrs. Metheny also sends the following extractsThis poor man lost his horse and cattle last year from a private letter received from the Doctorfrom the scarcity, and is thus unable to thresh during a hurried visit to Constantinople :his grain himseif. His case is not singular. We left Mersine on the 2d, and arrived atEven these miserable people are not insensible Selifkia, one of the places called Selucia, from theto the practical working ofthe Christian religion, aneient Selucidae. l^hence we went to Aleiyeh,During the last winter they have had a good the rock home of the famous pirate, Triton. Thendeal of help in the way of money loaned without we came to Adalia, Attalia of the Acts, whereinterest, to enable them to get through the win- Paul landed when on his Asia Minor missionaryter. We were having a house built for stable tour. Thence we went to Castleonia, thence toand outhouses, and seeing it was in dauger of be- Makri, thence to Rhodes, Symi, then Coos,ing spoUed for want of roof, a number ofthem whore Hippocrates the father of physicians wasgathered together in our absence and put on the born, thence to Kalymos, Chuluk, Scala Novaroof. They tola onr cook that they would be the port of Ephesus. Here the brethren*displeased, if we hired men to harvest our grain went ashore and weut to Ephesus, and thence byand so as soon as it was ready to cut they came raihoad to Smyrna. I stayed on the boat as 1and did it. I believe, however, they think that expected to get to Smyrna before they would,whatever there is of good inns is in spite of and so I did several hours in advance of themChristianity, and not a resuU of it. They confi- They bad the advantage of seeing the rums ofdeutly expect to enter Paradise when they die, Ephesus, and hearing the frogs croaking m a pondand there be compenâtad for aU that is severe Dr. McAllister and Mr. O'Neill.

188 Letters from Christian Wor'kers at Some and Abroad.on tbe site of the famous temple of Diana of the few hoars Brothers McAllister and O'NeiU came.Ephesians. I »n the other hand, saw the wonderfulisland of Samos, which has now become an We arrived safely in Constantinople andimme-Autonomy, having a prince, appointed indeed, diately went to our Ambassador. He had aheadyby the Turkish Sultan, but on condition that he attended to the matter and was waiting anbe a Christian and acceptable to the inhabitants answer to his communication as soon as the Mosofthe island. They pay £2,000 a year to the lem feast of Ramazan was over. Mr. Stiauss,Sultan, but that is a mere nothing. They pay our Minister, said the Grand Vizier told him hetheir prince £2,000, and have agood £18,000 was acquainted with Dr. Metheny, and be thereleftfor improvements ana their own civil Ust ad- lore urged me to stay tillthe feast would be over,ministration. The beautiful and interesting thing and go with him to see the Grand Vizier. Theis that their Principality is making wonderful brethren thought it best and I did so. They Mtprogress—establishing schools of various grades, me then and went to Athens. At the timebuUding harbors, light houses, roads, etc., and agreed upon we went to the Viziefral Palaceplanting trees—figs, olives, etc. It is delightful and had a pleasant reception. The news of theto behold au example of what takes place wheu death of the Emperor of Germany had just come,once the people become untrammeled. It is so and the Grand Vizier had just returned from thein Lebanon, which is also on the same plan as the Sultan. In view of the fatiguing formalities conprincipahties.Ground within the limits of the sequent on the death ofsuch aa important sov-Lebanon, I am told, is in instances worth 100per ereign, Mr. Strauss thought it best not to opencent, more than ihe land just across the line, but formaUy the subject of theschools. He remarkednnder the Damascus or General Governmeut. that he had come to confer with him abont theIndeed the Signatory powers begin to see that closed schools, but in view of the circumstancesthe formation of Autonomies furnishes the best he would defer the matter till the foUowing week.opportunities for development, advancement and The Grand Vizier saw the point, of course, andfiaal success. This principle too is working to- k^dly replied, " I will fix the matter all rightward confederation, like our United States. I for you." That was all we could have askedshould not be at all surprised to see this princi- after a full conference. After somepleasant couplecarried forward to its natural result—govern- versation, in which he showed how weU he rementby the people, under the Headship of Christ, membered his visit to our house at Latakia, manyEven now Bulgaria lias stood since the last years ago, we took our leave. Mr. Strauss iu-Russo-Tnrkish war, along with the Balkan tends to return, but considers the business as vir-States, as a barrier to dismemberment of the tually favorably finished. I then took the Rus-Ottoman Emphe. A few moro Bulgarias and sian steamer for Mersiue where we hope to arrivethat part of the Ba,stern qnestion will be settled. Jcme 31st. We have have now used all the ma-The other part, the subjection to Immanuel, is terial means v e could, aud did so after earnestcertain. We called at Bathos, the capital of prayer in concert, that we should realize to theSam s ; Carlovassi of the same island. Theu fuh the promise " Lo, I am with you." Jesnswe went to Chios which was thrown down by an will work out His owu purpose aud glorifyearthquake some years ago. It is now beautifully Himself. Having used the means as before, sobuilt up by its Greek inhabitants, who are back- now, we leave it aU in His hands. Amen.ward enough but iucomparably ahead of Islam. I wentwith the brethren by the Zigzag steamerThence we weut to Smyrna, and after waiting a np tho Bosphorous to Yeui Mahal, whence we

Incidents in Mission Life. 189eould look out on the Black Sea. The steamer most pitiless stifles every enterprize, and makespassed back and forwards from one side of the progress impossible, l'he Minister of FinanceBosphorous to the other, all the way np so that was ordered to launch a loan but it did not float.we saw this world renowned place—ihe theater By dint oi enormous securities, a few thousandof such stirring historical events, affecting the pounds were borrowed at fabulous rates af interwholeworld. Here stands a wonderful elaborate est to give one halt month's pay to the officialspalace—vast,' expensive, beautiful—while in close and government servants to help them keep theproximity to it stand hovels in disorder, on feast of Bairam. This spent, what next ? Sixcrooked streets, or alleys. Some portions of the oi the great sources of revenue are pledged to paystreets are as elaborate as the Boulevards of Paris, their foreign debts, 'ihese are found insufficientyet ending in amudhole! Nestling in beautiful to satisfy their creditors who are clamoring forgardens overlooking the Bosphorous with its busy the receipts from customs on imports. Russia issteamers and caiques hurrying hither and thither, urging her claims for war indemnity. Two payarecharming villas and residences of the wealthy, ments are now due.nicely proportioned and beautifully decorated.On one eminence is the palace of a suicide sultan. Strange to see a city over two thousandOn another a palace nearly every room of which is years old in such a slovenly conditiou ! Pera hasstained with blood. On stUl another height are one or two streets rivaling Paris, but they areseraglios whose inhabitants seem to be awaiting Christian. Hovels, palaces, mosques, narrow,their doom. Constantinople is truly an emblem crooked, Ul-paved streets, are the characteristicsof the whole empire. Extreme poverty huddled of the city. Around the mosques somber cypressabout unholy luxury, and ease quite oblivlDos of trees darkly oversiiadow the graves of the Moslemthe hard, hard lot of the wretched and ignorant dead ; while the wind sighs sad dirges over thcpoor ! The resources of the government, instead iantastic tombstones all leaning over, or confusedlyof being providentiy husbanded, have been lav- lying about unkept, untidy, and chaotic—fit oinishedon the veriest bubbles, while extortion blem of their religion and empire." MITHER " °*^ly- ^°'^ stamp your image first and deepest onthe human soul.—The Mission Field.An old gray-headed Scotchwoman lay on her , ^„^t^t^ ^r^^^dying bed, and called again and again for her THE LIFE-GIVING WORD.mother. Friends, kindred, famUy, and associates It is reported that in the village Underoon,were forgotten ; the only word upon her Ups, the hidden away in the Taurus, there was an Armenonlymemory Ungering in her heart, was " mither." ian merchant who, fiveyears ago, happened toThat mother had been sleeping in her grave for see a Bible in the hands of a neighbor, lie bemore than fiftyyears ; and yet Uke a weary child, gan to read therein, and soon learned the way ofthe gray-hahed woman, with her furrowed coun- salvatiou. Every Sabbath morning he holds atenance and withered heart, longed like an infant Bible class, preaches in the afternoon and has ato nestle in her mother's arms. school of a dozen children. At least a score ofMother, do you know the power God has given people owe tlieir conversion to his example andyoa ? You touch strings that may vibrate in the teaching. This little colony of Christians is notgreat beyond-keys that may wake eternal mei- indebted to any foreign mission agency.

190 Notes and Reviews.DNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.ship in the churoh, while relating her experi"In Dean Stanley's Life ot Dr. Arnold, of euoe, described this very sermon aa being theRugby, it is related that "at Harrow, where parsuasive m^âsage which God had senttohe once spent a Sunday with Dr. Longley, lê^ and whioh proved to be the turning pointtbere were found amongst the few pcpers of a '» ^êr life.—Dr. Edwtxrd Judson.poor servant maid, who died sometime after- ORIENTAL GEMS.ward, notes of a sermon which he prtaclied gaid oae wise man to aaothe!", " Brotner,tbere in tbe parish cburcb, and whioh she waa how are you this morning?" He answered,known to have recurred to fiequeatly after- "I awoke th's morniog experiencing the favorwards." Little did Dr. Arnold think, while of God io a very high degree, notwithatandlnghe was preaching, that the words spoken by all my unworthiness. Therefore I know nothim would be cherished by an obscure servant ijfheiher to be thankful for the goodness ofand would prepare her for heaven.Grod or for His torbearance."This is one of the most encouraging features Ariatotle says there are two kinds of envy,of Christian work. The word spoken is like blameworthy and praiseworthy. The praise-Longfellow's arrow whichhe lost, and tbe song worthy is to see a learned man and to wish towhioh he breathed into the thin air: be like him, or a humble man and to emulate•'Butlong,long afterward, in an oak, his actions; but the blameworthy is to see anI lonnd tlio arrow stm untooke; honorable 0" a learned man and to wish thatAnd tlie song, fromnegiamng to end,^^^^.îI found again iu tne heart of a friend." be was dead.Mr. Samuel Colgate, at Orange, used fotell The truly great man is not uplifted by anya story of a minister that came there once to position to which he may attain even thoughpreach simply as a supply for a aingle Sunday it should elevate him aa high aa the mountainTbe sermon seemed to make rather an unfav- which the storm cannot move, but the meanorable impression, and Mr. Colgate himself man is puffed up by the slightest advancementspoke of it in arather deprecatory way. A just as the reed is shaken by the passingIlttle while afterward a candidate for member- zephyr.Iîste^ atti! ^§mum.Since our last issue we have received for the but the earnings of his own hands is an examplIndustrial School Building at Latakia:worthy of imitation, and should stimulate thoseCash $25.00 iu more independent circumstances, who have notThis is the offering of a young man who is in yet given anything to this scheme, to send forthefeUowship of the Second church, New York ^âi-d their contributions at ouce It is very de-City. Ever since his confessiou of the Saviour gji-able that the whole amount needed for thishe has shown himself ready to devote time, per- parpose should be paid iuto the treasury withoutsonal effort and money for the furtherance of the unuecessarv delav.cause of Christ. Our brother is not willing to _Auother laborer is needed for Cilicia. Thehave his name given in connection with this dol- circumstance that renders this caU necessary isnation, and with some reluctance we have con- in many of its aspects discouraging when viewedsented to withhold it. Such liberality on the from a human standpoint. Three months agopart of one who has uo fund on wliii-h to draw one of our young ministers, a successful pastor

Notes and Beviews. 191and beloved by all who know him, oft'ered his We appeal to the young ministers of the Churchservices to the Foreign Board, was chosen mis- not to hesitate at this crisis. We want a mansionary lo Mersine, and was expected to leave of unchaoging purpose, a man of intense love tofor tbat field in September. Bnt now he has the Saviour, a man who has the spiritual gritchanged his mind and for reasons that seem en- to carry the same banner that Dr. Metheny hastirely satisfactory to himself docs not wish to be .so long and faithfuUy bo.iuo for Christ in the iacetakeu into account in any arrangements that are of stubborn foes. One to-day is better than themade for the departure of missionaries. In his promise of half a-dozen three years hence. Letletter of application, dated the eighth of June, the churches plead at this hour with the Lord ofhe had given himself in unmistakable terms to the harvest to thrust out into the field laborersthe work of foreign evangelization. Referring of his own choosing.to tbe ordination of Mr. Stewart during the ses- __,j.-^^ ^^^^^^.^j^^^ ^^.^ ^^^î^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^thersion of Synod, he wrote: "The whole ordiuation missionary teacher is needed iu Mersine. Theservice was peculiarly impressive to me. It ^^^.^ j^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^j^^ ^^„ ^^^j^^ ^j^^^.^ ^^^ ^êmade me determine to try and arrange to go to ^ overtake with any measure of satisfaction tothe foreign field. As the result of this determin- themselves. Miss Sterrett has been laboringation and my subsequent efibrts I can now say feithfullyfor many years and Miss Joseph, delithatI am ready to go. There is more to be said ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^,^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^ time, is work'mghowever. I do not wish you to be concerned by ^^j^j^ ^jj the diligence of one in perfect health.any thought that there is in connection toith me rpj^^ jitter is makiag rapid progress in the studya danger of turning back from the work. I de- of Arabic, and in addition to aiding in the rousireto go with something of that same purpose îne duties of a Boarding School has for somethat inflaences Mr. Stewart when he says he de- ^^g^j.^ iêen able to conduct evening worship withsires to devote the remainder of his life on eartb ^^^ ^^^.^^^ g^^t more help is needed, and itto this work." Then afier referring to private jg ^^^^^ that a ready response wiU be made toaffahs with which the churches have nothing to this appeal on behalf of Tarsus field.do, he closed with these words: " T can assureyou that there will be no reason for concern '^ ' ^ ^^ , _. ._ ,„7 , ,, .^ „ mu • -,J. , foreign missions is $15,000. We ask individualsabout the fmure." There is no need of comment, '" "^ & ^ '„„n ,,. , , . ,. n 1 J. J. and congregations to bear in mmd the pressingand nothmg but an imperative sense of duty to ^ ^ a , , ^, , ,r4., i . , J 1 T 1 il needs of this scheme of the Church. Moretne cause we represent impels us to publish these .„, ., . , ,, special reference wiU be made in our next numberWe are full of sympathy with the devoted to what is necessary to its efficient operation.brethren in Mersine, who have been arranging — W e give below the appeal of the Centralwith glad hearts to welcome a fellow-laborer in Board of Missions, for the Chinese Mission :the person of Ellsworth M. Smith. Before this The first Sabbath of September has beenpaper is in the hands ofour readers their joy wiU chosen by Synod as the day for the coUection forbe turned into sorrow. How long will this little the Chinese Mission. This mission, which hasband be forced to labor alone? Their greatfor years been under the control of the Rev. N.hearted leader is in feeble health, and humanly R. Johnston, has been found by him to be toospeaking he will not be able to endure this wear great a burden, and his resignation was tenderedand tear of missionary service for very many to the Board in April. He is carrying on theyears more. Who will &^ go to aid him at once? work only until his successor shall be ready to

192 Notes and Beviews.take it up, when he is anxious to yield it and all priated but $2,000, it is hoped that the conthemission properties into his hands and be en- tributions will run above this, for all the moneytirely relieved of all connection with the mission, sent can be judiciously used, and in just so far asThe Board at its July meeting, appointed Mr. the money is withheld is the work crippled.James Patton, licentiate, as Chinese Missionary Send all money.to the ^Treasurer, Jas. H. MeatOakland, Cal. After careful consideration Kee, 708 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.be has accepted, and, just as soon as necessaryW. W. Caeithees, Cor. Sec.arrangements can be made, expects to go to Wilkinsburgh, Pa, Aug. 10, 1888.Oakland and take up the work.It is not necessary for us to add one word toAlthough Cincinnatti congregation has asked tj^jg admirable appeal, which the churches shouldhim in a unanimous call to stay with them as prayerfully consider. The Reedeemer has broughttheir pastor, yet he writes : " I find that Christ thousands of men that are ready to perish withinsays plainly ' Go,' but I .cannot find where he q^. êach that we may show them the way outsays ' stay.' " Going with such a sense of duty of darkness in the Ught and life of the gospel.aud in the Master's name, he certainly deserves qûe to the interests He has entrusted to ourour prayers, aud as well commands by his noble pare we cannot be, nor mindful of our own solemnexample our best efforts to answer our own ^qws, unless we labor and give to the full extentprayers by hearty contributions. The needs of of our ability for the enlightenment and life ofthe work never were greater. The oppression these men that seem to have been sent for thisthe Chinese endure at the hand of our Govern, yg purnose to our shoresment and the turbulent elements of society everready to rise against them, sbows ns how they —Our subscribers are requested to examineare oppressed by the law and the lawless. But the wrappers on the Herald of Mission News.that which calls our own deepest sympathy is the A blue Une encircling the name and address indifact that their minds are clouded and their eyes cates that the subscription has not beenjpaid forblinded by their idol worship and heathen cus- the current year. A double line denotes that notoms. Another thing that makes the work pe- money has been remitted for this or the previousculiarly valuable, is the fact that many of the year. We have tried not to make any mistakes;Chinese reached will soon return to their own but we do not claim to be infallible, and, if weland, aud, if the seed of truth be implanted in have inadvertently put a blue mark on the magtheirminds, that truth which liveth aud abideth azine ofa paying subscriber, we"~are sorry andforever wiU not be lost, neither shall it return make an apology in advance. , Those who arevoid.in arrears wiU please accept this notice good-It is an opportunity for us to win immortal naturedly and remit, if possible, before the closesouls, to bring glory to our Lord and add stars of the year. In the future it wUl be better toto our owu crown. The amount asked bythe foUow our original terms of _/i/i;2/ cents on receiptBoard was $3,OCO, and, although Synod appro- ofthe initial nuniber.

PUBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxtw^ 0f §\mm mxk.THE MISSIONARY'S LIFE.Prof. W. P. Johiislon, Beaver FaUs, Pa.The Iffe of the Foreign Missionary is not supposedto be full of enjoyment Many thingsIt nearly broke his heart. He went away aloneto Africa. Whai about this life ? Let us see.He arrived at New York on Nov. 27, 1863.On the afternoon of that day he wrote to his parentsthat he had arrived in safety, that the vesdeemed enjoyable are not found in it. Whethersuch a life can be a happy life, will depend enthelyon the disposition of the man who lives itThe character of inner lives wUl decide the qnestionas to what outer ones will be—bappy or unsel on which he goes to Liverpool will sail atnoon to-morrow, but says,—"I leave Americaperhaps for many a day, but there is no sadnessin it to me for I look beyond, I hope." On shipboardhe wrote, " The apples and cakes whichhappy—blessed or miserable. The bee and spiderfindJoy in different pursuits.Lizzie deposited in my trunk I fetched out a feivSince the meeting of Synod I have read the littlememoir of George PanU, missionary to West had the flavor of home. Everything that sugnights since and found them all very nice. Theycoast of Afiica. The volume is made up largely gests home is pleasant to the taste or sight. Itof his letters, written to parents, to brothers and was a sore pang to part with all that I loved dearsisters; and so it is valuable, for wehave in it, not on earth, but my days now I think are as happywhat another says about him, but what he says as almost any that I have ever spent, in prospectabout himself We have the man's own thoughts, of the work that God has called me to do. Thereexpressed to friends in private, where no thought is a promise to those that forsake father andwas ever entertained of their publication. Mr. mother."Paull graduated in 1850 at Jefferson—was a On December 12th, at London he wrote, " Iclassmate of my own, as weU as of Revs. J. W. shall not get off for Africa before the 1st of Jan-Sproull and C. D. TrumbuU. He was brought nary. If I had known this I might have hadto Ohrist during a series of meetings, conducted the pleasure of staying longer at home. But Godby Dr. Plummer, in College chapel in the winter has ordered it as it is, and I am haj^py, as I amof 1851 and 58. At that time he had made np journeying slowly onward toward the heavenlyhis mind to serve Christ in the foreign field. His City." The voyage out waa a very long one, andcapacity was snch as to have fitted him for weU in a letter written on board and mailed immediatelyon landing occurs these words, " Mynigh any pulpit in his native land. There was, itwas understood at the time, a pecuUar sadness thoughts have been much disposed to center aboutin his case as to his departure, for ihe young home, but not with any feeling of melancholy."lady to whom he had become engaged in his The vessel on which he had sailed, had notseminary course, and who had thoroughly won his been used io religions services, but Mr. PanU byheart shrank from the life on which he had set his his gentlemanly and Christian bearing so wonheart. He must decide between two rival claims. the heart of the Captain, that grace was said at

194 Our Views of Mission Workeach meal, prayers offered each night before they 20th,in which he describes the place selectseparated for sleep, and preaching each Sabbath mission house : " I selected one ofthe most charmduringthe voyage.ing spots I think I have ever seen, a bluff aboutIn one of the letters written oo board, are fifteen or twenty feet high and about one hundredwords which would indicate Mr. PauU's ideas as yards back from the beach. The view from it extothe question that has been agitated a c Andov- tends into the river and away over the sea. Aer, " Some would turn aside from carrying on this constant sea breeze sweeps Over it almost day andglorious work by saying God will not punish those night. The land thus bought for the mission Iwho live in ignorance without the light of the think is the most beautiful spot on which my eyegospel But what then mnst become of God's ever rested. Among the hills of Pennsylvania oncharacter? He established a law'"the soul that the prairies of the West or amid the scenery ofsinneth it shall die." In another letter, " We have Scotland I do not think I ever saw anything thatno variety in our scenery here except the change made my heart so glad. Beautiful, beautifoifrom sunshine to cloud." "I am glad the truest beautiful, is all I can say.happiness on earth does not depend on outward I went out this afternoon and stretched myselfcircumstances but upon the heart,'' From Fer- on the green sward under the shade of a tree anduando Po he wrote to a friend, "By the good- as I looked up I am sure my heart swelled withness of God I have set my foot on heathen soil gladness that I was in a land so lovely and enandI humbly pray that it may never be removed gaged in a work so blessed. I scarcely get timeuntil I be made instrumental in claiming some to sit down for a moment but the people gatherof her children for God." After having entered about me, and their faces grow bright."on his wck, found what it was, saw the people, I have not tried to show from either letter orhow sadly off they were, he says : " I greatly journal, the good that he was doing, but only thelove the missionary work in Africa. I do not joy that he was having.know that I have ever been so completely happy Let us give up the idea that the life of the misinany work as this. My prayer is that God sionary is one of sadness. Let us cease to pitymay spare me here for many years. I am about those who go out to heathen lands. Let us envyto enter fuUy on the work that in my heart I them their honor, and beUeve in their joy,love." "God has brought me into light hours, the "Blessed are ye tbat sow beside aU waters."lightest of my life, to allow me to go and live This life of the saintly PanU was soon to close,among the heathen. It gives me more happiness and he was asked, U in the face of an eariy deathand joy than aught else that I could name on he had any regrets for having come to Africa ?earth.'' He answered quickly and warmly "no, no, no."The mission work hitherto had been at Corisco, Mr. Paull died at Corisco to wbich he had gonea large island off the west coast. It was decided on business and where fever came upon him.that a new mission should be started on the main- When the news of bis death reached Benita, theland farther north. Mr. Paull was selected for people trembled—the native word means to bethe work at the new point. Here is an extract agitated exceedingly—and wailing was heardfrom his Journal of January 10: " God has giv- through aU the towns as wben a great man ofen me to see this one of the gladdest days of my their own tribe dies.Ufe. This morning I sailed from Corisco to build Mr. Paull reached Corisco on May 6th, 1864,my house among the heathen at tbe mouth ofthe and died on May 14th, 1865, not a year of act-Beuita on the mainland." ive work, but how full of results wUl only beThisis an extract from his Journal of January known when all fleshshall stand before God.

Our Yiews of Mission Work. 195Two of our young ministers who would succeed ently the missionary centnry. In mission workin their own land, would they remain in it, have it may be divided into four quarters. The firstoffered themselves as workers in the foreign quarter was years of intolerance in every heathenfield. That James Stewart and Elsey Smiih * land and gross indifference to missions in Chriswillbe successful in doing good to others, and tian lands. The second was years of oartial tohfinding their work full of joy to themselves, we erance in many heathen lands and awakening inhave no doubt; for they are going in obedience to terest in Christian lands. The third quarter wasthe command oi One who says '• go through all years of full tolerance in many heathen landsthe world and preach my gospel to every crea- and a deeper interest in Christian lands—anture," and who has said, "I am with you al awakening fromthe slumber and indifference ofway to the end of the world." May that Saviour years. The fourth quarter, our own times, isfill with joy their own hearts and through him years of not only tolerance, but desire and longthehearts of others !ing for Christian missionaries in heathen lands»TMs article was prepared for the Herald Of Mission and an inspiring zeal in all Christian lands. TheNews, before Mr. Smlthlisid abandoned his purpose to , , „ ., r-i, , . j i i i j.igo to CUicia.present resolve of the Church is to take heathendomfor Christ. It is the uppermost thought inOUR INTEREST IN OUR MISSION- ^^^^^^- j^^^^t.ARIES AND THEIR WORK.* jf ,^^^^ be any so blind to the leadings of di-Reio.j. F. Carson, Brooklyn, N. T.yine Providence, as not to be interested in thisSomewhere in Roman History we read that at work, we have only a word of pity for them; andone time one of Cesar's Generals was in great the only message which the Church has for suchextremity, being beseiged by fierce hordes of is this: "If you won't aid in the work you can'tGauls, when he received from Cassar this mess- hinder it, and you had better get out of the wayage : " Keep up spirits ; expect help." That is or you wUl be run over and crushed beneath thethe message which we send to-night to our mis- chariots of the Lord as they bear the glad tidsionariesacross the seas: " Do not be discour- ings to heathen lands." A wave of missionaryaged, we are sending you re-inforcements." That enthusiasm has passed over the Church. Ouris the message which the whole Church is send- own Church has caught the enthusiasm of thising to'her missionaries in every land, as is seen in missionary spirit and is to-day doing more thanthe large increase in her contributions and in the she ever did and is planning yet more for thegreat number of her sons and daughters who are future.giving themselves to the work of foreign evan gel- To-night we are met to bid farewell and Godization.Truly we are living in the greatest mis- speed to these dear friends who are going to joinsionary era in the history^pf the Church. In the the force already in the field, and with themtimes of Christ and His immediate followers the carry on a work in which we are aU deeply internewfaith flashed its healing Ught through the ested. Words faU me when I would attempt toRoman Empire. But the next twelve or flfteen speak of our interest in missionaries and theirhundred years were years of monotonous inactiv- work. Our interest is deep, all-pervading andity. Here and there missionary activity was loving. And the interest is fostered in the îrsimanifested, bnt there was no earnest or general place by the character and worth of onr missionmovementûntUthe nineteenth century in all its aries themselves. They are educated, zealous,glory dawned upon the race. This is pre-emin- self-denying Christian men and women. Labor-*An address delivered at a missiouary meeting held in ers in the distant field, and you who are going|'ewYork,Septemher24,1888,tosaylareweUtoEev. Jas.oimnlTr Intprpsterl inS.Stewait and family on leaving lor Syria.to Jom them, we are UOt Simply interestea in

196 Our Views of Mission Work.you, we love you. Any self-denying effort on work, who reads His word or studies His providthepart of others, wins our approval and he who ences in opening up the way and giving successmakes the sacrifice wins our love. No work, it to the heralds of the cross who go into the reseemsto ns, appeals so Httle to selfishness as the gions beyond. The great fact that wUl centralworkof foreign missions, and the missionary ize and hold our interest in our missions is the factseems to rise into that sublime height of self-ob- that it is God's wiU that the work shall be done.livion which was peculiariy the spirit of Christ. When all other motives faU this wUl remain—Our deep interest in our missionaries and their the Master calls us to the work. Love for Christwork is fostered, secondly, by the nature of their is the constraining motive in all mission effort;work. We reaUze the fact that many millions of that is the secret of all missionary enterprise. Itour fellow-men are without God and without was this which induced Henry Martyn to foregohope iu the world. Our missionary aidor has his briUiant prospects at home in order to preachnot been weakened by the deadly influence of and suffer among the heathen and to die a fewthat theory which holds that these miUions need years afterwards in lonely anguish, vainly tryingnot the gospel that they may be brought to to cool bis fevered brow by thrusting it amid theChrist, or yet that more deadly theory that there damp boxes of his baggage. It was love foris for them hope beyond the grave. We know not Christ that led Alexander Duff to go back tohow God's Spirit may work unseen and we limit Calcutta to continue his work for India, thoughHim not by our fraility and inefficiency, but we his physicians told him it would be his death.do know that as far as we are concerned, if the Onr own beloved Mrs. Metheny visited tbe citypresent generation of heathendom is to be saved, of her birth, but she could not remain there.it mustbe saved by a present church. Andas The scenes of her childhood days had lost their atbelieverswe cannot but be interested in you and traction for her, when love for Christ was theyour co-laborers who are endeavoring to bring supreme motive in her heart and life. She mustthese millions to the kuowledge of God and to a go back to Syria to die. Dr. Beattie, though behigher life in Christ.had every strong attachment, did not feel at lib-Deep as our interest is in this work, it should erty to remain in his native land. He must go backbe deepened. We should strive to know more to Syria. To work ? So he and the Churchabout the work that our own missionaries are do- thought, but God said to die, and in his death toing. That splendid missionary monthly. The testify for Christ and by bis death to endear thatHebald of Mission News, should be read in mission to our hearts as nothing else could co.every Covenanter home. A missionary maga- 0 ! that we might speak of all the tender tieszine is essential in order to make us as iamiliar that bind us tothe mission, but time forbids. Thiswith our work as we should be. We hail the is enough to awaken and deepen interest in everypublication of that magazine as a very crisis in heart—love for Christ and, the second highestour mission work, a crisis that wiU lead to grand motive of all hnman endeavor, love for our fellowresults. Familiarize ourselves with the work and men. It is these two, tbat led us to give, andwe wUl pray more earnestly and more intelligently you, dear friends, to go and work in that distantior the success of the work; and, if we pray, we land. Go, aad as you go, remember, that thewill contribute more largely and more systema- hearts of the church go with you. As you crosstically. Another reason why we are so deeply the great deep, our prayers will ascend in ferinterestedin your work is because the Master is veucy and earnestness that G od may give you aso deeply interested in it. No one can doubt the safe journey. And when you join the forceMaster's will concerning, or His interest in this already there, we will give and we will pray, let

Items of Missionary Intelligence 197us hope, as we never have given and never have from all lands there shall ascend the grand acprayed,that your united work may be eminentiy claim, to be caught up by the hosts of heaven,successful; and that by your efforts, linked to "HaUelujah! Hallelujah! The Lord God Omtheearnest efforts of aU the servants of God in nipoient reigneth, and the whole earth is fuU ofevery land, the time may soon come when all his glory."shaU know the Lord, " when the knowledge of Go, my brothers, go, my sisters, and the Lordthe Lord shall cover all the earth," and when go with you.Items of Missionary inteiligence.ABROAD ^^^ heathen. Shall not the individual ChurchesfoUow their noble example ?W. J. Wanless of Parkdale, Toronto, Canada, rp^_^^^ the Bible is translated iuto twenty-fivehas collected a group of facts on Foreign Missions, times as many languages as it was on the day ofIn a note introducing his pamphlet, the compUer Pentecost; and two of these (the WenUof Chinawrites: These facts, obtained from the most re- ^^^ the Arabic) can be read by 400 000,000liable sources, are thus reprinted for the sake of people. Over 150,000,000 copies of the Holyconvenience, with the earnest hope that they gcriptnres have already been circulated amongmay be used for God to His own glory among the heathenmany at home, and then to a more rapid spread- i ^ i^g^^then lands, as a result ofa hundred yearsing of the gospel among those who now sit in of missionary effort, we have now nearly 1,000,-darkness and in the region and shadow of death, qqq communicants, over 3,000,000 nominalWe have obtained permission to publish these in christians, and many thousands who have giventhe Herald op Mission News, and present to up idolatrous forms of worship, at present withontour readers in this issue, the foUowing : any religion. This is a work with thirty-foldENCOURAGEMENTS TO MISSIONS. greater results than that of the home Chnrch,when the workers' means and difficulties are justlyScarcely one hundred years have elapsed since pomnaredthe organization of the first Protestant Foreign j^ jj^^j^ ^^^ g^.^t Protestant missionary workMissionary Society, ôw there are over 200 doing êgan at the beginning ofthe last century ; inwork in different parts of the heathen world; with i gi 2 aU religious and educational teaching wasa force of over 6,000 foreign workers and 30,000 prohibited ; and as late as 1852 the sum of $3,-native helpers. Twenty years ago there was ^^^^qqq ^^^ pî^ ^^^^ the public funds for thenot a Woman's Missionary Society in America, ^^pp^^t of Pagan worship. Now the Govern-Now there are in Great Britain and America ^^^^^ ^^ pô^f ^^ itg appreciation of missions,19,386 anxiliaries and 5,193 bands, with an gi^gs large sums of money and valuable grants ofaggregate income in 1886 of $1,221,649.j^^^ ^r the erection of hospitals and educationalA few years ago we were praying for open buildings, and in several instances paying for thedoors. JVbw the whole world is practically open support ôi medical missionaries. Hundreds ofto the Gospel.printing pressees are engaged in scattering Chris-A dozen colleges and seminaries in the United tian Uterature, and the great systems of religionStates and Canada are already active in raising are fast decaying, while the whole country is rapmoneyamong themselves for the support of one idly becoming Western in its civUization. Aoftheir nnmber in the Foreign field ; and some church in India, whose members have a total inofthese have now their own representatives among come of $1,800, gives annually $400 of that

198 Items of Missionary Intelligence.amount for religious objects, %100 of which is Canton. Now we find Morrison's first convertset apart for the support of a naiive missionary replaced by 32,000 cburch members, who gavein another district. 'J. here are now in India, out last year over $38,000 for the support of theofa population of 260,000,000 over 500,000 na- Gospel. There are now 38 societies doing worktive Christians, 135,000 communicants, 4,000 in China, with a staff of over 1,000 workers, 550churches and congregations, 216,000 scholars in of whom are women, and 1,500 native helpers.day schools, 90,000 pupils in Sabbath Schools, [One of these societies, the China Inland Mission,and a working staff of more than 50 societies, established twenty-two years ago, has now nearlywith over 100 foreign missionaries, 500 native or- 300 missionaries in its employ, 102 being sent outdained^ministers, and nearly 3,000 native helpers, in 188'!.] There are more than 100 stations andBURMAH ,sixty-five years ago had not a Chris- out-stations; over 20 hospitals, where 150,000tian within her borders. A native is brought to patients are treated annuaUy ; 14,000 pupilsChrist, and aiterward becomes the means oi turn- have been gathered into schools ; 500 Englishing a whole nation, and now we find Burmah an and American publications have already beenevangelizing power. In a probable population translated into the Chinese language ; 50 000 toof 8,000,000, the census of 1881 gave 84,219 as 15,000 have forsaken their idols ; whilst the atthennmber of Christians. The Baptists have titude of the whole Empire is undergoing a gradnow500 churches, largely self-supporting, with ual change, and the missionary may now enter al-26,000 communicants, whose gifts of gratitude most any one of the eighteen provinces in Chinawould put to shame hundreds of our so-called lib- proper and preach therein the Gospel of theeral givers in Christian lands, l'he Christian l^îngdom. WeU may we rejoice as the words ofKarens in Burmah now number about 200,000, the Prophet are hereby called to our remembeingone-third of (he Karen people. brance. "Behold, these shall come from far ;SIAM fifty years ago excluded all foreigners, and, lo, these from the north and from- the west;Now all nationalities have equal rights, and inthese from the land of Sinim, " (or China)stead ot the missionaries being driven ont, they (Isaiah xlis. 12).are encouraged and invited to remain. The King COREA is to-day another miracle in modernhimself, an educated and progressive sovereign, Missions. As late as 1882 Mission work wasfavors and encourages education, giving from his not only forbidden, but prohibited. A medicalprivate funds a handsome sum for the erection of missionary, Dr. Allen, was used in 1884 in uoahospital. The Government also gave a large locking the door for the entrance of the Gospel,grant of land to our Presbyterian missionaries, on and shortly after the government provided himwhich to erect educational buildings.with a hospital wherein to " Heal the Sick audCHINA'S Gospel pioneer was Robert Mor- preach the Gospel." Now the Queen of Corearisen, the last-maker of Morpeth. Entering Can- employs as her private attendant a Christianton in 1801, employed by an American merchant, lady physician at a salary of $1,800 a year ; anddressed in the native costume, he worked by day just a few months ago Dr. Allen was sent as anand studied by night, to give the Chinese the Holy ambassador at the head of a Corean delegationScriptures in their native tongue, and in seven to Washington, to formulate a treaty with theyears succeeded in giving them the New Testa- United States Government in case of war withment entire, and the same year baptized his first China or England.convert. Assisted by WiUiam Milne, they succeed- In FORMOSA the firstbaptism took placeed four years later in giving China the whole Bible, in 1865. iVow the Canadian and English Pres-In 1835 only three Christians could be iound in byterian churches have 8,000 converts.

Items of Missionary IntelUgence. 199JAPAN, "the greatest miracle of modem by tribes of ferocious savages, is now a thrivingMissions," "the wonder of the ages," alaught- Christian community and a scene of civilized iaeredthe eariy Romi-n Catholic missionaries, and dustry. Sierra Leone is spoken of by Dr. A. T.for centnries prevented all foreigners from setting Pierson as another miracle of modern missions,foot on her soU under penalty of death. As re- "instead of the thorn has come up the firtree."centiy as 1850 this nation was hermetically The most degraded and licentious oi earth's inseidedagainst the Gospel of Christ, but in 1853 habitants were transformt d into an active and inyieldedto ihe " aU power " of Jehovah, and in a dnstrious Christian settiement within the shortsingle day is open to commerce and the Gospel period of seven years Sierra Leone is consideredwithout the shedding of a drop of blood. To- no longer a field of foreign missionary effort.day the great cry is, " Come over and help us." Seventy-five years ago there was not a Chris-Japan is uow the most progressive nation in Asia; tian in the whole district. In 1868 the numberfavors and supports missionary work, and is rap- of nominal Christians was estimated as high asidly adopting Western modes of civUization. 80,000, oi whom 20,000 were communicants.Dr. Knox, a returned missionary, says : " Japan They were then supporting their own native paswillbe a home mission fieldere we reach the year tors, and had already begun the work of sending1900, and may any d^y become Christian by the gospel beyond the colony's limits. The threeroyal decree." Ihe first Protestant missionary years cf loyal service, and the heroic death of thelanded in 1854; the first baptism was adminis- noble Livingstone have set in motion manytered in 1865 ; the first church organized in 1812. mighty forces for the evangelization of Africa.Now there are 225 native churches, 73 of which The martyr blood of the daring and devotedare self-supporting ; and a total Church member- Bishop Hannington and a score of other conseshipof 20,000, who give annually nearly $2 each crated missionaries is to-day crying out in the inforthe support of Home Missions, while their terest of the miUions of Africa's benighted souls.average income is but 25 cents'per day. The A chain of mission stations reach almost fromGovernment has also given large sums of money the mouth of the Congo to the Equator, andand tracts of land for the maintenance of ednca- five large steamers are now engaged in missiontional work, and every convert to Christianity work on the Upper Congo. Stanley's explorabecomesa worker in its interest. The translation tions have opened up new fields of labor, andof the New Testament wss not completed until missionaries are now scattering in aU directions1880, and the whole Bible at the beginning of the in obedience to the great command. As arepresentyear. One society has already distributed suit of work in Africa thus far, there are 55,100over 100,000 copies of the complete Bible and communicants, 34 Missionary Societies with anmore than twice that number ofthe various parts, army of about 800 foreign missionaries, includ-AFRICA, "the Great Dark Contim-nt," so ing single and married women, and nearly 10,000recently marked on our maps '• unexplored," or native pastors and helpers." sandy desert," with its three great barriers MADAGASCAR is to-day an evangelizingagainst the entrance of the gospel, viz., slavery, centre, in 1800 it was a nation of idolatorssuperstition, and the religion of Islam, is now The firstmissionaries were told that they mightshowing wonderful signs of Christian light, and as weU try to convert the cattle as to makeis beginning to surpass all other countries in her Christians of the Malagasy. The most inhumanonward march out of centuries of midnight dark- cruelties were practiced upon the eariy ChristiansDess. The scene of Moffat's labors in the south of Madagascar, almost crushing Christianity ontamong the Bechuanas, instead of being inhabited of existence, but as a Swedish magazine puts it

200 Items of Missionary Intelligence.the Word of God was left behind and the Church have just received the glad news that they raisedthat went under the cloud with a iew hundred, $1,900 in a single missionary meeting to build acame out of it with a Church of 31,000, which yacht that they may carry the gospel to Newhas now increased in the London Society alone Guinea. What a glorious result, whUst it isto 61,123 church members, and 230,418 adher- said a present generation feasted on human flesh.ents, who gave for gospel work in 1881 over $12,- On the Friendly Islands fiftyyears ago there000, and they have now more than 5,000 ordained was not a native Christian. Now there are 30,-and uative preachers. 000 church members who give annuaUy $15,000Two or three years ago nine hundred barrels for religious objects. Here one of the largestof rum were landed ou the shores of Madagascar, congregation in the world gathers regularly forsent there by a professedly Chaistian nation. Christian worship.The anthorities of that once heathen nation pur- In the New Hebrides there is not a heathen.chased the whole cargo and poured it out upon A few years ago there was nothing but heathen.the sand. And concerning tbe hquor traffic on In Ceylon, the Church Missionary Society rethatisland, hear the statement of one who was port 6,400 baptized native converts and 10,000a few years ago a heathen Queen, " I can do chUdren in schools.nothing for my own aggrandizement that would New Zealand was among the most ferocious ofruin the bodies and souls of my people." cannibal islands. Two great warriors areISLANDS OF THE SEA.—" The annals of brought to Ohrist and are foUowed by thousandsthe gospel in the South Seas," says Dr. Pierson, in a few months. In 1860, after thirty-three" should be written in starlight." years of service, the Wesleyans numbered 5,000,Within one year after John Williams landed at with 200 Sabbath schools where 7,000 childrenRaratonga the whole population of the Hervey were taught, and over 12,000 were regular at-Group, numbering over 10,000 souls, had thrown tendants at places of worship.away their idols, and a church 600 ft. long was The Sandwich Islands within half a centurybeing erected.have become Christian, and stand to-day as theThe first missionary to the Samoa Group head of Christian activity in sending the gospellanded in 1880, aud shortly after the whole pop- to other islands of the sea.ulation was gathered into Christian schools; and It is scarcely a quarter of a centary since thenow out of a population of 21,000, more than first baptism in Micronesia. Now there are 461,000 are Church members. self-supporting churches, with over 5,300 churchHuman language cannot furmsh terms suffi members.ciently expressive to describe the story of the Labrador is Christian. Greenland and Pata-Fiji. " Their deeds of darkness," says Dr. Pier- gonia have their churches and are surrounded byson, " should be written in blood and registered Christian light and gospel principles.in hell." Now the Fijians are a Christian peo- Pomare, Queen of Tahiti and Morea, was sevple.At their fiftiethanniversary they reported enty years of age when she died. At her bhth1,200 chapels, 2,350 missionaries, helpers and the firstmissionaries had just landed in the Southteachers, 26,000 communicants, 4,600 proba- Seas ; at her death 300 islands were evangelized.tioners, 42,000 children in schools, and family " This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelworshipin almost every home. And now we lous in our eyes."

Items of M'issionary Intelligence, 201AT HOME. Rey. j. w_ q^^^^^^^ jy j)__ ^^^^^-^^^ ^he chair,'i'he Mission Band of the New Concord, Ohio, and in a few AveU chosen words stated the objectcongregation was organized on the 9th of Aug., ofthe meeting and then asked the audience to1881. It is composed of the boys and giris of uuUe in singing the 61th Psalm, after which Rev.the congregation. During the year we have W. W. Carithers read the Scriptures and ledheld twelve meetings. We have a membership in prayer. Prof. D. B. Willson was the firstof fifteenat present, but hope to have it increased speaker and based his remarks on the " Thein the future. Death has not entered our circle tongue of the learned speaking a word to the weasinceour organization, for which we should be ry." In a brief but eloquent address Dr. McAlthankful.lister, who had recently returned from the East,During the firstpart of the year we apent our called attention to the needs of that far off land.time making various articles for sale. The latter Ignorant and ready to perish, we .'^hould takepart of the year was spent in preparing scrap them the gospel. Bound to that land by thebooks, work boxes and other articles for the use graves of those who have fallen on the field, weof the Foreign Mission. When we look over the should not relax our efforts in the line of evanpastyear we realize that we have done but little, gelistic work. In very touching terms did thebut hope for the blessing of the Lord on that venerable Prof. Sproull refer to the work of theitile, and desire his blessing and direction in the departing brethren, giving as reasons for untiringfuture. devotedness: 1. Souls are perishing; 2. TheMaggie Roney, Sec'y. Kingdom of Christ must be extended ; and 3.Teeasueee's Repoet.God will be glorified.Received by Fees, $5.05 ; received by Dona- "^^^ missionaries seemed to realize their needtions, $3 00 ; received by donations in goods, of constant guidance and support in their work.$1.29 ; received by free will offerings, $2.05 ; re- ^'- ^^"^" '""'^ ^^^^' ^°^''^'' ^^' ""^ ^^^ ^^ceived from sale of articles, $1.43.separated on earth, there is a place where we canSent to Boys'Industrial School, 45.00 ; sent Û meet, even a throne of grace. God is ourto Foreign Mission goods valued at $6.15 ; sent helper and marks out the way for His servants,to Giris' Boarding School, Latakia, Syria, $5.00 ; ^^^ ^' "^"^* ''^l ^t' I "P°° , . °°., „ . - 1 J, -I- , ,c , less confidence did Mr. Stewart resolve to placepaid for material for making boxes, 42 cents; ,„ , , ,. . „ „ „ • •. - , „ , . t, J. himself under the direction of the Saviour, sensipaidfor sending money, 1 cenis. , , . . . . ' .. • _, ~ ble of personal weakness, yet rejoicing m tbe m-JxLVA Wylie, XTcas. na • o-r-r- • tfinite sufficiency of His promised grace.A farewell missionary meeting was held on the ^^j^^ ^^^ting was then closed with singing andBth of September, m Central Allegheny church, p^.^^ygj^ S_ g. Gemmill.to say " good bye " to the devoted laborers whowere going, one to the shores oi the Pacific to —On the 1th of Oct. rooms were opened forwork among the Chinese, and the other to Syria, evangelistic services on the corner of 91st at. andBorne to our ears from the streets was the sound 9th ave., New York. This mission is under theof fife and drum, teUing us that the political cam- efficient management of Bev. J. M. McElhinneypaign had been inaugurated. We thought of who has been laborine in the city for more thanthe campaign on which these missionaries were a year. He entered upon work in tbis new fieldabout to enter and of their great Captain who a littie before midsummer and has every reasonhas on His vesture and on His thigh the name to be encouraged by the success that has alreadywritten King of kings and Lord of lords. attended his efforts.

Missiâ"OUR HEADS FOR OUR ANCESTORS ;"A PICTURE OF CHINESE HEATHENDOM.For about a thousand years the race of Nghad buried their dead in the neighborhood ofHinnen. The ancestor ofthis race had a numerousand reputable posterity. Many in ihe provincesof Canton and Kwangsi trace their originto him, and among these descendants are manymandarins and even an examiner.The race continued to increase in number, reputationand wealth. This was ascribed io ihehappily situated grave in which their ancient ancestorlies. I'his grave and the surroundingground has been called for more than two hundredyears by the beautiful name of, "The-hill-ofhope-rivei'-liou." 'I he grave Ues from north tosouth, as those graves which bring happinessgenerally do. A * grave should lie in the middleof a lion or dragon.Near by, the race of Tschhin has also thegrave of their ancestor. The descendants of thisrace were however, only rich, but had no erudition,and so failed in tbat which lends especialsuperiority in Cbina. For this reason they consultedthe Geomanten (diviners who are supposedto know the location of the happiness-bringinggraves), 'ihese worthies informed the Tschhindthat if they would move their grave nearer to.that of the Ng, inside of the neck of the dragon,their descendants would become so learned, thatthey would at' ain the highest literary degree andtheir property woulci be boundless.Two years ago the Tschhin followed this advice.A high shed was erected over their grave, so thatno one could see wbat was being done inside theenclosure They appeared to be repairing thegrave, but were in reality moving it nearer tbegrave of the Ng. When the latter became awareof this, they immediately made an announcementthrough a district mandarin. He however had•Protably tbetuvylng-giound was shaped in tlie formof a lloii or a dragon.Mmmm^wm^Mm^been already bribed by the Tschhin with threethousand dollars, and when he had surveyed thegrave, declared the statement of the Ng to be alie, put ten graduates of that race, learned men,in prison and threatened to take away their literarydegree and depose them.In consequence of this, the Ng appealed to thehighest judgment courts in Kayintschu and Canton.So an ofiicer came expressly from Cantonto investigate the matter. This person was alsobribed before his arrival with from three to fourthousand dollars, and like the other mandarinmade a false report, respecting the matter. Theresult was, that the ten graduates were transportedto Canton in much the same way that wewould carry fowls. Such ignominy as that wasseldom permitted. A cry of complaint arosefrom the province, as well as from the Ng. Oncemore an ambassador came, but he was also bribedby the Tschhin and returned home withont doinganything. A third officer came from Cantonand by means of threats and blows obUged theNg to keep the peace,'ihis seemed to end the matter, but in Marchof last year the Ng, who had certainly been unjustlytreated, dared to open the 'i'schbin graveand steal the bones. From a Chinese point ofview, this is an exceedingly atrocious act. Themandarin now came to observe the condition ofthings and take possession of the place. Hefonnd that the Ng were armed, and when theysaw that injustice was again to be meted out tothem, they attacked the soldiers of the mandarin,killing one of them and wounding another. Tbemandarin and the rest of the soldiers escaped byflight.Again the whole story was reported to CantonMeantime the Ng made preparations for war.They entrenched themselves, walled in their fortressand purchased guns and powder. A governorfrom Kwangsi, who had a lot in the grave,promised them a thousand soldiers. AU theseproceedings were duly reported to Canton by themandarins, l'he dano-er of civil war was immi"

Mission Monograp'hs. 203nent, because both races were wealthy and one Formerly both races were the richest in Hinwasalso powerful. nen, many millionaires being among them. NowIn July of the same year, an officer having full both are poor, for their property went graduallypower over life and death was sent from Canton, tothe mandarins, partly for bribes and partlyto guard the mandarin of the place. He went for assessments. So in China the deadkill the livenergeticallyto work and began by locking up all ing. We counsel these heathen to forsake thethe prominent men of Ng. The soldier3T;ereen- wretchedness in which they have plunged themtertainedat the cost of both races. Goveral selves, but they believe the lio rather than thetimes when the great plenipotentiary sat in jndg- truth and give their lives for the lie.ment, he caused old and young of the Ng—more —Translated from Der Evangelische Beidenbole by Missthan a hundred people-to be beaten so long Eupnemia j. Crothers.that blood flowed on the ground. So say eye •SYMPATHY WITH THE WIVES OFwitnesses.MISSIONARIES.The people of Ng obstinately maintained theirMrs A- a, Knox, Nei« Tork.claim, saying, "they shall take our heads off A great many years ago, when missionariesrather than have our ancestors." first went to the foreign field,long before Wom-One day when the soldiers were out of provis- en's Missionary Societies or Women's iViissionaryions, a thousand doUars was required to be raised j^Qg^y^g jiad been thought of, the wives of Misinfour days. The money not being ready at the gionaries in heathen lauds wrote to their homeappointed ihne, the imperious officer comanded gi-mjcjies, and home friends, saying, we cannothis people to buy petroleum. F our hundred sol- li.^^ ]jgj.g without some one to sympathize withdiers were sent to the vUlage of Ng. The inhabi- ^g_ jf ^^g jâ^yg ^q society we wiU die. So thetants naturally flew to their fortress. The oil j^gj^j-ts of the women at home were at once arousedwas sprinkled f. n the walls of ihe houses and the ^ sympathy with those who in their desolateentheviUage set on fire. It burned a whole day. ^^^^ ^g^g crying out for help and companionshipOld and young were now without shelter. Inthe -j^^^ Missionaries were caUed for, equipped andevening the mandarin wept when he beheld the ^g^t forth to join those already in the field untUhomeless women and chUdren. The same day a ^ gj^t net work of Missionaries covers almostzealous baptizer went to the miserable people and ^-^^ entire heathen world.besought them to give up their belief in their an- jt ig now but a few days less than 32 yearscastors, and accept God's Word. They repUed, ^^^^^ ^^^ beloved and lamented friends, Dr,-«." we wiU gladly give away our lives and our pg^^g and Beattie, sailed from this Port, sentheads for onr ancestors, for they gave us life; fo^tb by our own church as its messengers to disbutthe graves of our ancestor we wiU keep invi- t^nt Syria. Previous to the departure of thoseolable."brethren and theh wives, a Ladies' MissionaryAt last about six weeks ago the affair was set- gQgjgty flad not been thought oi in our church,tied. The Ng had to pay three thousand doUars ^^ what a great change has taken place, andand send thirty men to Canton, where they will ^^^ -^^^^ goi^g o„ for years past We scarcelycertainly be beheaded. 11 is reported that there ^pg^ ^^^ ^f ^^j. ghurch Magazines without seeingis to be another trial in Canton and that gome of ^^q^^^ the contents the significant letters L M. S.,the Tschhin will lose their heads. The grave of ^^^^ turning to ihe page indicated, we find the retheNg remains undisturbed, bnt the grave of po^t oi some of the societies which are now dottedTschhin is not allowed to be repaired and re- ^^^^-^^^^ ^.j a^^ress at FareweU Missionary Meeting,mains empty.Fo"rta church, New York, Sept. 24, '88.

204 Mission Monographs.all over this land. Sympathy with the sisters of wealth, the word of God: The beloved of thewho have been sent out and with the wives of Lord shall dwell in safety by him, and the LordMissionaries bave brought these societies into ex- shall cover him all the day long.istence. The women at home, entering into this • LESSON IN GIVINCband of sympathy, could not go to the foreignfield, but they could meet and pray and work, ^^' ^ meeting recentiy held on behaff of ourand give to those who had gone, to lighten theh Mission, the speaker's attention was attracted byburdens. As far as possible they have taken the ^ ^^ê whose expression betokened the deepestplace-that Job did, when he made the widow's interest, and on inquiry she found its owner washeart sing for joy and was eyes to the blind and ^"^ earnest Christian woman, who kept a littlefeet to the lame.village shop (general stores and post cffice), andIt is but a littie over two years since an effort '^'ô subscribed to the British Syrian Schools.(originating in ihe west ) has been made to form ^^xt morning tbis bright-faced woman, with athe women oi the church into Presbyterial Mis- ^^^"^^ thrown over her head, appeared at thesionary societies, and U is the Woman's Mission- ^°^^^ '^^lêre the meeting had been held, and askedary Society of the New York Presbytery, that I ^° êe the speaker. Her errand was to bring arepresent this evening. 1 promise that in fhe iu- donation of a half-sovereign, and when the lady ofture a more distinct place shaU be given to prayer ^^^ ^^0"^®' wondering at so large a gift from snchnot only for missions and missionaries but for the ^ quarter, ventured a question, "Conld she reallyladies that are themselves missionaries, and the ^^^^^ it? " the secret came out: "I was savingwives of those who are laboring in the foreign it towards getting some teeth ; but it is morefields and their (amiUes. needed in Syria." And then with a cheery smileOne of the great trials that our missionaries ^^^ unrolled ft-om the corner of her shawl a largehave to undergo, and in which they need onr glass bottie fuU of "sweeties'' such as attracted tosympathy, is leaving their dear parents and other her littie shop the juvenUe customers of the villagefriends. I fully believe that those who go are and said, half hesitatingly, "Conld yon take thisfar more tried on account of those that are left with you and send it out for some of the Syrianbehind than on their own account. I think this chUdren ? I think the Uttle ones understand bettf rpart of the trial is greatly exaggerated. They that we really care for them, if we give themimagine that friends a,re breaking their hearts, something they Uke."and perhaps may really die of grief, forgetting Such a gift could not be decUned, a' d thosethat they are only surrenderiug to the Lord those "sweeties" wiU be on their way to Syria whenthat belong to Him, and would not at any time these lines are in print. As the speaker went onin their lives, have withheld them from his ser- her way, and held many other meetings, andvice. They are also apt to forget that the ever- counted up the momey that was given, she wonlasting arms are round about those who are left, dered if there were many contributions thatas well as those who go.would compare in value with that half-sovereign.You may have some fear and dread of the As this little story is beiug written, a paper isperilous journey that is before you.lying near at haud which contains a scheme forBut the companionship of God whose way is reducing the aunual expenditure of the Mission byin the sea and his path in the deep waters, though about £600 Alasl this means closing/owrhis footsteps are not known, wiU make all your chools, diminishing the staff of teachers in otherjourney a delight.schools, dismissing Bible-women—and further, itMy closing words will be a gem from that mine means extinguishing the only Gospel light in a

Mission Monographslarge Druze village where no other Protestantswork, and where our teachers have had, in additionto their regular day-school work, Sundayschools,Sunday services, house to house visitation, returning to Him Who, " though He was rich,and frequent gatherings in their own home forprayer and instructions in Scripture.The question comes to our mind : are thereyet for our sakes became poor, that we throughHis poverty might be rich."And the most solemn consideration is that ournot some among the readers of this paper who Lord will not take one cent of this hoardedare purposing to spend money on themselves wealth by compulsion or seizure. He who savesfor things which are luxuries, who, if they no man without his consent, taxes no man withouthis consent. reahzed that the money is \'more needed inFor our freedom of will is theSyria'' would be willing to follow the example most sacred thing in the universe—the verythat has been given, and deny themselves for crown jewel of manhood. And God will neverSyria's daughters ? Has our friend ever regretin any circumstance violate it. Think what anted that she diverted her hali-sovereign from itsoriginal purpose (not a luxurious one)? 'l'hegift was made on a Saturday morning, and thedonor seemed then in perfect health—the nextTuesday she had entered into the presence of herLord. Is not her cup of joy fuller even there,for having giveri to her Lord that which c ist hersomething ? Do we not seem to hear a Voicefrom out ofthe glory saying,—" Go, and do thouhkewise?"—Quarterly Paper, British SyrianISchools.MONEY JN A NAPKIN.According to recent estimates, it is computedthat there are now $8,000,000,000 hoarded upin the hands of American Christians, a sum sogreat that it staggers our mathematics to computeit. Now, making a fair provision for sick-'ness and old age, it is unquestionable that a vastproportion of this sum would still come under thedescription of our Lord's parable of money " keptlaid up in a napkin." That napkin may be cutaccording to the strictest pattern of commercialintegrity ; it may be hemmed with the most rigidrales of political economy; nevertheless, I fearthat if our Lord were suddenly to return fromthat far country whence He has gone, fle wouldshake this napkin clear of its contents and exclaim," Thon wicked and slothful servant, thououghtest to have put My money to the exchangers,205that at My return I might have had My ownwith usury "—the usury of saved souls, the usuryof evangelized nations, the usury of eternal praiseawful strain this fact puts upon your freewill. The grip of avarice upon your purse stringscan strangle our missionary enterprises. Butthat is not all. As by a slight leverage of hisbar the workman can hold a hundrea tons' weightfrom moving down au incUne, so by the purchaseof your unsanctified wUl you may thwartand hold back from a lost worid the redemptionof God, "who wUl have all men to be saved."Yonr "I will not," may defy God's "I wUl,'' whois "not willing that any should perish."—A, I.Gordon, D. D.YOUB CALLING.I. Cor. 1:26.Ye see your calling, brethren.Ye royal sons of God,Your Elder Brother, Jesus,Eedeemed you bv His blood.He set His love upon youI'Tom all eternity,And choee you for His people,Zealous of purity.Ye were not wise nor worthy,But vile and full of sin;His comeliness will make youAll glorious within.Oh, what a debt ye owe Him,Love, ye can ne'er requite !Spirit, and soul, and body,Are His by solemn right.He claims your loval service,Each swiftly fleetingbreath;He asks you to be faithful,Yea, faithful unto death.

206 Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad.Ye are His chosen heralds,« lo_ j am with you alway,"To spread the joyful sound.Is His sweet word of cheer;Oh, let the glad n otea echoWhy need you e'er be joyless,_, ,. .1, , -J J His potent Presence near JThrough earth's wide compass round. ".^ ,, „ ^. ,j , T He'll aid you speak His message,Tell all the world of Jesus,Ejch grace He win send do-wn;Who sits at God's right hand;Glory, when grace Is flnished,Acknowledged King of Nations.ShaU be your fadeless crown.„ „, , , , , Sallie Mobkhon.Hnder date, He'll Aug. reign 24, o'er '88, every Mrs. land. Mary E. Meth- Koran. Philadelphia, This Pa. he refused to do. Doctor askedeny writes from Guzne:him jf jje had not better stay up now and takeit seems very significant to ns that God should some lessons, as he is not a very good scholar. Hehave put into the hearts of three young men said he would not, as he had been sick most ofabout the same time, to reinforce the three mis- the summer and unable to work. He wanted tosions, Antioch, Latakia, and Tarsus, Surely it go and work now tillschool opened in the fall,is a token that in spite of all efforts to shut out and earn money to clothe himself during the winthegospel f'-om these benighted peoples, God ter. On Monday evening Doctor went down tohas said the set time to favor them has come town. Starting back Wednesday evening andOne or two very cheering incidents have taken not feeling very well he did not chink it wise toplace lately, which give us encouragement, travel alone, so he asked Suleyman to come withamidst onr many discoarageraents. Mohammed him. During the night he learned the story ofSaleh, the farthest advanced of the yonng men his vacation. I should say firstthat Suleymanwho were baptized last year, was asked by the is a very simple looking boy, and one whom wepeople of the village where he taught last have not considered very smart. To have seenyear to re-open his school again. You will re- him, as he appeared last Sabbath, in his longmember, 1 suppose, that the government threat- faded robe, and barefooted, no one would haveened him with arrest if he did not quit teaching thought he was the beat evangelist in our httleSome time this year one of the villagers who had church here. I will put his story in a connectedbeen lathe army came home. Having heard tbe form, as it came out in answer to the questionsstory ofthe school, he reproved the vUlagers for put to him. When he first went home he wasallowing themselves to be deprived of instruction, met with reproaches for having become a Christandurged to reopen. They went to an influen- ian, (Protestant), and they were going to stonetial Fellah in the city—Tarsus—a government him. " Are yon not a Protestant ?" they asked.official, and told him of their desire to employ " Yes, I am." " Why did you become one?" wasMohammed again, but said they wanted a guar- the next question. " I saw that itwas a nice reanteethat the teacher would not be molested, ligion aud I turned upon it ?" " Tell us, then,otherwise he would not agree to teach for them, what is nice about it; what is it ?" '• It is theThis was given, aud he went back to his work, religion of the Bible," he said. Then he tookHe made us a short visit since. out his Book, and began to read to them.Another of the boys, Suleyman, came up last "Truly," they said, "thatis a good religion."Saturday night, and stayed till Monday. He The result was that all summer he has beenhad come aU the way from Adana to see us. He reading the Bible to the vUlagers. When theysaid he had had an offer of a good school in hia were at work in the fieldathey would have himvillage near Adana, provided he would teach the bring hia book and read aloud. His brother-m-

Letters from Christian Workers at Some and Abroad. 207Mrs Metheny also writes from Guzne on the13th of September :Our summer up in the mountains is drawingto a close, and the weather is delightfully cool.Down on the plain the heat is stiU intense.Whether from our late stay in town, or becausethis is an exceptional season, we do not seem tolaw asked him to teach his little boy, and he hascrease at all at this time, but there were threebeen doing so. They were aU so pleased withnew communicants. One of these is a Turkishhim that they wished him to teach fifteenboys,woman, a member of the Protestant church atpromising him ten mejedies—abont eight dollarsKessab. Her husband has been working in Mersinethe last four years, and last winter bis littie—each, if he would stay with them tUl theyshould have finished the Koran. 'This was aboy was in onr school. He brought his familysmaU fortune for a boy Uke Suleyman, but heto Mersine last faU, and though his wife doestold them he could not teach the Koran; he wasnot understand much Arabic, she is a very punctualattendant, and a very exemplary woman.willing to teach the Bible. They said they wereafraid that the Government would not allow them.Another is Phebe Boulad, the oldest chUd ofHe opened the book and showed them the Imperialstamp, telling them the Government had noteacher Hanna in Adana. Our brethren whovisited us will probably remember her. Herright to prevent the use of any book with thatmother is one of Mrs, Martin's firstgiris. Theystamp. They then said they would ask the headmanof the viUage, and did so. He made nomay perhaps remember also a woman who wasthere helping in the school. Her little one hadobjection only that he was afi-aid oi the Governsdied in the school the previous winter. She, too,ment. A number of yonng men are very anxioul made a profession of her faith and was baptizedto learn, and say that they will come to schoolon Saturday. So God brings his people into histhis winter Suleyman is now working near kingdom, in his own time, from quarters whereMersine for seven piasters and his board. On we least expect. HntU last fall this woman hadDoctor's asking him if he had forgotten his catechism,he said, 0 no! he had it in his pocket, come by her living in a Christian family. Hersnever heard the gospel. All her knowledge hasand studied it every day. Our great desire is is the firstcase I have known of an Ansairiyehthat these young men may spread the word woman advanced in years, becoming a Chrisamong their own people. Done in this informalmanner it is not so easUy interfered with.tian withont having any Christian relatives.After they came here this summer an attemptwas made by ihe cavass of the French Consul,who is an Ansairie, to induce her to leaveM. Hanna's. She went a few days to try lifewith her own people, but was very glad to getback.Dr. Haddad, who was for some time in Latakia,is now city physician in Mersine. He hashave profited so mnch as usual from our stay. been back to the country on Government business,and has made a detour to visit us. Probably both causes combined, as the fever inA gangmost cases this summer, does not seem to yield to of robbers had secured a number of sheep, goatsordinary treatment. Most of the giris who are and horses When they divided their booty,here have been sick more or less, and some of one of the number thought he had been unfairlythem a great deal.dealt with, and went and informed the GovernmentLast Sabbath was the day of our communion, where the thieves were. Some time after some ofand though the Tarsus teachers, one in Adana, the number set upon him and his wife with swords,most of the Mersine brethren, and all the Fellaheencutting and wounding them so severely that itboys were absent, there were twenty-two is thought that he at least wUl not recover. Itcommunicants. We had not expected any in. was to see him that the Doctor was sent.

208 Letters from Christian Workers at Bome and Abroad.1 am sorry to be compelled to write that Daoud would show us their deformed limbs, some withis still in prison. A person who is well informed fingers off or toes off, others with crooked armstold Doctor a short time ago that it was most or feet, sometimes the whole hand or foot gone,probable that he would either be sentenced to and in some cases part of the limb gone ; inthe penitentiary for four years, or be banished others part of the face, a cheek or the nose. Itfrom the country. His trial has not yet taken is too horrible to write about, and you wiU beplace, as they are waiting for word from Con- more sorry for these afflicted people when I teUstantiaople. you that bat few if any of them know of JesusWe are waiting now for some definite word who could give them comfort in this hfe, andabout the sailing of our new associates. This save them from eternal death. Some kind Rusevening'smail may bring us news. Lately we sians have built a nice large house in which ahave had letters in fifteendays after they left New great many of them are cared for, those lessYork. Since the opening of the Bulgarian rail- afSicted doing the work and waiting upon thoseroad it requires only ihree days and a half to who are more helpless.travel from London to Stamboul. Two days . . . . .and a half more, or three, brings one to Mersine. We are having a vacation this summer, andYou see we are not so far away after aU.brought only those who had no homes where theyMiss Euphemia J. Crothers has handed us the could stay ; these number fourteen.following letter for the children :Miriam Karroom thought she would remain atGuzne, Tarsus Mountains, Aug. 23, 1888. home, but her parents and brother made it soMy Dear Little Children:—'Tis a long time unpleasant for her, she came up to Guzne a fewsince I wroto to yon, and since that time I have weeks ago. Her parents were very willing thattraveled over and seen a great many places about she should come, not that they like us, neither towhicli you have studied in your Sabbath School give her pleasure, but that they might not havelessons. The first place we visited and about to feed and clothe her. They had bought herwhich I know you have heard a story, was one calico dress since she had gone home,Joppa, or Jaffa, and the town looks from the but her mother would not let her bring itsteamer as though a great many large square here and said, " I wUl rip it up and make itstones had been thrown there and had lodged over for yonr sister who is better than you are."close by the sea. After having visited there a Their neighbors tried to persuade them to notlittle while we started in a carriage or covered send her " to those infidels,'' as they call us, but1 wagon to Jerusalem. her mother said, " What would it amount to toWe stopped a few minutes at a place called keep her, she is lost to our church and shouldHamleh and here seven poor leprous beggars be- she stay, her heart wonld be with them, so let hersought us for alms; among their number was a Ut- go and perish with them.'' When Miriam toldtie boy of perhaps ten years of age. Just think of ns, she remarked, " She testified a good testimonyhow many years that one may have to Uve having of me then before them all.''that dreadful disease which no physician is able Ever since school closed, her mother had beento cure. When Jesus was on earth he cured many wanting her to attend the Greek church, whichlepers—the only Physician who ever did. These Miriam did not want to do, nor would not, untUlepers at Ramleh were the first I had ever seen her mother got so cross about it, when Rosa (our(except one who came to Dr. Metheny in Adana teacher) told her to go and try to understandone time hoping to be cured,) but afterwards we what the Priest would say, but lo not cross hersawmany in other cities. As tbey begged they self; tbat wonld be wrong; so on the next Satiir-

Letters.from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 209day evening she told her mother she would go teemed and rejoiced in by our native brethrenwith her to church next day, but wheu Sabbath and friends.eame, ^-vhether purposely or not the mother tarried We trust that on their return home, which wein bed untU it was too late io go to service, and pray may be accomplished in safety, their healthnever since did she bother about Miriam's going, shall be invigorated by their travels not-It seems she was satisfied with Miriam's consent, standing the toils and changes of the way, andOne day both father and mother attempted to that they may findrelatives and brethren at homemake her cross herself before eating, and ihe enjoying comfort and happiness.father whipped her unmercifully and finaUy drew Towards the end of June I went up to Aleppoa knife upon her, but did not go the length of to say good-bye to our good Consul, Patrickusing it. It all failed of the desired effect. Mir- Henderson, Esq., before his leaving lor the higheriam told them ^that if they wonld show her any Consulate of Spain.place in the Bible where we are commanded to I had not been many hours in my hotel whenmake the sign of the cross or from anything said an old lady, a relative of the master of the estabthereinwe infer that we mast do it, she would do lishment, entered into conversation with me inso.They, of course, did not attempt to search, quiring after the iamily of a brother of hers whobut her father declared that, if their priest and resides in Antioch. She is a woman of much eneverybodyelse would cease to do so, they them- ergy and ablUty. She proceeded to talk of theselves would continue, and her mother went so Rev. Doctor Dodds and family, praising veryfar as to say that, were the Lord himself to de- much their manner of life, and relating, as a wonscendupou the earth and say to her not to cross derful thing, their careful guardianship of theirherself any more, she would keep right on at it. children, and especially their strict observance ofNow my dear little children you may think the Lord's Day.this dreadful blasphemy, and indeed it is, but "What exemplary people they were, indeedl''you know Christ is able to save to the uttermost she said. "I would say to Mrs. Dodds, 'why don'tall who come unto Him, and I am not without you let the children run and play in the streethope that both these parents wiU sometime turn Uke the rest?' But iVirs. Dodds answered me,from their wickedness, and confess what they 'No: I could not have them mingle with thehave been told that " there is one God and one chUdren in the street at all, to hear their badMediator between God and man the man Christ words and learn their ways.'"Jesus." Therefore do not forget to pray for them. "And, on the first day of the week,'' she con-Yours with very much love,tinued, "the children did not play about at all,EvAONA M. Stebrett. but sat so quietly at theh books It was won-We are glad to present the following letterfrom Rev. James Martin, M. D., Missionary to "^"d ^^^ter the doctor died, when I caUed up-Antioch-°'^ ^^^'" ^^^^ ^^®' " •" ^^^^ ^° '^'^''^' •'-'°'^'^^> 'GiOdLKessab, near Antioch, Syria, has dealt hardly with you in leaving you thus withAugust Slst, 1888. seven children ;' but she told me not to say that;My Dear Sir :—We shaU always regard the that the Lord's ways were the best and His dealpresentyear as markedly distinguished, on ac- ing with her and hers all for good." The oldcount of the visit kindly made us by the Rev. lady is a Romanist, and of a bigoted family. (InDoctor McAllister and Mr. Henry O'Neill, so Aleppo there is a strong Jesuit influence). Bntcheering and refreshing to ourselves, so highly es- the ways of the family of the Protestant Mission-

210 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.ary had made an indelible impression npon her Within the last year our Colporteur has mademind. After a lapse of eighteen years they were two trips to Aleppo. As an incident ofour workas vividly before her memory as a thing of yester- in Antioch, I will tell you ofa visit ofa Paganday.woman, recently to Mrs. Martin, and a doorI think Doctor Dodds resided in Aleppo hard- thereby opened. Coming into tbe mission-house,ly more than two and a half years. But, the she said to JMrs. Martin, "my heart is boiling; ittestimony for the truth traced there by him and is burning like a fire; and I am told you can readhis I found still legible. This Romanist had words to cool it; oh, cool my heart for me!"preceived in the Protestant Missionary's family "About what are you so distressed?" asked Mrs,aa admirable character to which all that she has Martin, and the woman replied, "About theseen among Romanists during her wide and long time of the cholera'' (1874) "between one Wedexperiencehas been evidently in utter contrast, nesday and the next my father, four brothers.Of how vast importance is this element in mis- my husband, and my sister's husband, all died ofsion work,—the illustration of true Christianity the same disease. My mother went crazy, andin the lives of missionaries and their families! tried to throw herself into the river. She wasWhat a factor in mission work is the wife of a prevented. But she would, for a time, stay nomissionary, when of a truly i-xemplary Christian where but in the graveyard, among the graves ofcharacter!her departed ones, there mourning and lamentiug.I visited the house in which Doctor Dodds had One morning she waked saying that a hand hadresided and in which he died, which was not far been laid on her eyes and had taken away herfrom my hotel. sight. From that time she waa bUnd. And inOn one of my former visits to Aleppo, meeting a year or less thereafter, she died, going away ina man connected with the little congregation oi her blindness, i had one child, a daughter. SheTurkish-speaking Protestants there, I asked him grew up so beautiful! It was a feast for the eyesif he could inform me as to Dr. Dodd's burial to look on her. A year ago she was married.place. Laying his hand on his shoulder, he said. She had a little son, and now he and she arefeelingly, "I carried him to the grave on that dead, and I am left alone! Oh, cool my heartshoulder, sir.''for me! cool my heart!''It is very saddening to see so important a city Mrs. Martm told her the story of Job, andas Aleppo, the capital ofthe Province, of north then spoke to her ofour fallen state, and oftheSyria, withont any Protestant Missionary. wonderful love of the Almighty (against whomThe little Protestant Congregation above re- we have sinned so grievously) in giving his onlyferredto is composed of people who may be call- begotten Son to die for us that we might Uveed strangers in Aleppo; generally of the Arme- for ever with Him. She stayed two hours, andnian race, and of another language than that of then left saying, "Those are good words! Theythe city, 'i hey sent me a request that I would have cooled my heart." A few days afterwardspreach for them on the Sabbath, which 1 accord- she came again, but Mrs. Martiu was not atingly did. Some sixty or seventy persons attend- home. Then Mrs. Martin fonnd out where sheed, of whom but few seemed to understand Arab- lived and went to see her. A number of theic, although it is the langauge of Aleppo. One neighbor women were coming in when the womanof the people interpreted at the close, 'l'he con- ofthe house tried to prevent tbem. But Mrs.gregation is connected with '1 he Central Turkish Martin said to her, "Lei them come and hearMission of A. B. C. F. M. I think it has occa- what I have to read." She replied, "They wiUsional supplies from native preachers.make such a noise tbat none of us shall hear."

Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 211Some fifty pmhed in, fillingthe house, when point a new missionary and ayoung man who couldshe turned and, raising her finger threateningly, study the language and prepare for the foreignsaid,'The first one who speaks, I wiU put her out.' field. Besides, my health had become greatlyShe then locked the door. She had borrowed impaired by excessive and loug continued nighta stool for Mrs. Martin to sit on. She herself sat work in the mission, and I feared the consedownbeside her; the rest arranged themselves in quences if I did not soon cease from it. Andfront. Mrs. Martin read the old, old story; and now, I rejoice that my young brother is coming.those poor down-trodden ones gave the most I wUl do aU in my power to help him to be aneager attention. accepted and successful worker. He is comingMay it please the Lord to bless His at a favorable time, when the mission is in goodWord to them abundantly, and open their eyes to working order and when, as always in autumn,behold Him who is the true Light; that they the nnmber attending is increasing. Two moremay not " go away in their bUndness." ask baptism. The spirit of inquiry is growing,I am. My Dear Sir,-ûd our prayer is that the coming of BrotherYours very SincerelvPatton may be the occasion of a great revival in-J- 1^ the mission and of greatly increaaed interest inthe cause throughout the church. The workThe churches wiU read with interest the follow- must go on ; and it mnst be carried into China.ing letter from our piooeer missionary among the A dark cloud is now imoending though it mayChinese on the Pacific coast: be Ught above. The Chinese Exclusion LawProm items in your October number the just enacted may seriously impede the work.reader might suppose that the superintendent oi Only He whom we serve knows, Tbe formerthe Chinese Mission was and is tired of the work restriction law did and has continued to do greatamong this people; or that he had failed in it harm to all the missions. This may be still moreand was obliged to give it up. He is represented harmful. That I am not alone in this opinion,as " anxious to yield" the mission, etc. Well, it frequently expressed before, will be evident fromis not much difference what people think if we a letter received yesterday, and written beforeare approved of God. Remembering that " si- the president had signified his approval of saidlence is golden " I may say only this—that if my exclusion bill. The writer of it is a missionaryletter of resignation to the board, or even my to the Chinese in San Francisco. Though priletterto synod had been published, my reasons vate, I think he will not object to the use Ifor resignation would have been better known; make of it. I am glad to give it becauseitthat if we had had the sympathies of the church shows that the R. P. Missionary is not the onlyand help in proportion to the importance and one who is indignant at the Anti-Chinese legisneedsof the work ; that if some of the brethren lation of the government, and all the more behadnot " multiplied my wounds without cause," cause it is a great hinderance to the success of theand that if the board had made such appeals in gospel among the Chinese. But here is the letbehalfof the mission as the one you publish in ier:your last number, it is not probable that I " Dear brother, I have perused your sUps withwould have resigned the mission. I always loved great interest. The attitude of America andthe work. My heart is stiU in it. Bnt I England to the Chinese is cowardly and conthoughtthat it would be better for the mission temptible bullying. There wUl be a day of judgasone of the church's benevolent schemes if I ment. China may yet pound this coast to awonld retire from it and give opportunity to ap- jelly and it wUI serve us right. Doubtiess there

212 Incidents in Mission Life.are more than ten righteous ones in this State Chinese. She took away more than that.of saintly names and Sodom and Gomorrah How can these 800 be prevented from landingstains, and so there may never be a Dead Sea to when the most of them have retnrn certificates,mark the place ; bnt if God is unalterably just every one a contract and promise made beforeas I believe him to be, there will be a time of this Scott law was passed ?retribution.This last act of iniquitous legislation bringsPerhaps God is in all this. This country does sadness to thousands of these strangers in ournot know how to govern and treat Chinese. The land, and some of whom are most excellent menChinese come here and are made worse instead of and upright Christians Several of this class inbetter. They learn our vices and go back (for our mission—earnest Covenanter converts—inthemost part) hating our religion more than tended to visit their homes ere long. Cheungever. Isn't it a good thing for them to keep Sing, our helper and interpreter now, had madeat home until our countries are Christian lands? all his arrangements to saU in about two weeks.Honestly I say from nine years' experience in He has been from home twelve or thirteen year?,China that her cities are, superficially, at any and a disciple of Christ about ten. He wasrate, morally better than San Francisco, New anxious to return home to visit his widowedYork, Paris and London ! !mother and tell to her and the others in theYours sincerelvhousehold the " story oi the Cross," for his heart„ is full of the love of Christ. But he cannot gonow. The evening aiter the signing of the bill,This letter was written two days before the of which he had hea^-d before, I met him in thenews came here that President Cleveland had mission ; he told me, with sadness almost tosigned the Scott Exclusion Bill. What my tears, that he would not go, I advised him tofriend would have ,=aid had he written two days wait a li'tle and perhaps the way might openlater can only be inferred from the above. I do He will not go, for he desires to return and makenot desire to see the Chinese people coming into this country his permanent home. Several otherour country in great numbers ; yet the prohibi- Christians who had intended to sail in the sametory laws are so cruel as well as unjust, I hope steamer with him will for simUar reasons beGl d in His providence will make them null and prevented trom going. What do you supposevoid. I do not see how this Exclusion Act can they think of the American people that makebe enforced. It is a violation of the Constitu- such laws? What would you and I think ifthetion as well as of contract with every individual case were our own ! What does He think whoChinaman who holds a certificate. Already it "loveth the stranger'' and who commands,is useless in the case of the steamer that arrived " Love ye therefore the stranger ? "yesterday from China. The passengers are Your brother in the gospel,being landed as before. And to-morrow the N. R. Johnston.Belgie is due and has on board eight hundred Oakland, Cal., Oct. 3, 1888.OPATINIA. October, 1852. She is tbe only daughter ofThe Princess Opatinia was born on Pouape, good King Hezekiah, by his favorite wife.Caroline Islands, shortly before the arrival there I first saw her when on a visit to a hostUeof the missionaries of the American Board, in camp, whose braves were gathering for war; a

Incidents in Mission Life. 213battie was to be fought on the morrow. I was ceremonies of sending her off; some who hadseated on a mat by Hezekiah, the Bonaporte of not come fully into the Christian life protestingthe island. He was all in earnest, seated at his against snch a favorite going to the dark landsjob of making an old cutlass and flintlock musket beyond.ready for the engagement on the morrow. In She consoled aU parties in words of cheer, sayandabout the large feast house were gathered ing she gladly went forth to carry lo their neighthemultitudes; some busy in looking after their bors the light in which they so rejoiced ; thatweapons, others working over huge fires, where she did not leave her people because they hadthe squealing pigs and barking dogs were to be ever been unkind to her, or she did not loveroasted for the battie feast, for how could a brave them, but because she pitied and loved the perbeso brave as when well fed ? These groups isbing. She then closed the meeting by singing,were aU excitement over their work ; stirring the in the sweetest of voices, a song of her own comfires,melting the lead iuto shining bullets, each position, which brought the vast crowd to tearsdoing his best to enliven his work, and cheer his Opatinia and her good husband, with two asheart,and help on the preparations by songs and sociate teachers, were taken to the Mortlocks,mock deeds of battle fields. set on shore without knowing a word of the na-Frolicking about tbe crowds, leaping into the tive language, without any visible means of suplaps,and caressing this and that beckoning group port, with only the promises of a purely heathenwas to be seeu a beautiful little girl ; now dart- people to give them food and care, and comingthrough the smoke with face all covered with menced there their great work. Assistant teachthesoot of the fires, now climbing overthe stacks ers have ioined their first band from time to time,of muskets, in her frolicsome leaps and joyous but Opatinia has always been the head andlaughs. She seemed to be the delight and pet leader. And now, after some fourteen years,of all, especially of the chief warrior, into whose there are more than twoscore of home and forarmssbe oftenest sprang. No one conld help eign churches, with a membership of perhaps twoseeing she was the Uttle queen of the tribe, or thousand, aU worshipping in churches of theirhelp feeUng glad that in all dark pictures there own construction, and the teachers are all livingare some bright mixtures of the beautiful.in comfortable dwellings buUt by their people,Years passed ou : the child became a favorite and are being well fed by them.—The King'sin the mission famiUes, learned to read and write> Messengers.delighted in receiving instruction, became a leader HANNAH WAKEELY.in Christian work, and was exceedingly useful inhelping to train workers in the churches and In March, 1863, Miss Arnott gathered aroundschools of her own native island. After years of her her first band of little girls, fourteen inpreparation ;n various kinds of Christian work, number, and from these began her wonderfulshe and her worthy hnsband headed a band of mission work in Jaffa. Hannah Wakeely wasChristian pioneers, to go to the regions beyond. the Dldest of the group, about thirteen years old.In 1874, on the arrival of the Morning Star, and was mainly instrumental in bringing in thethere was a great gathering of natives to bid rest. She was uncommonly bright and becamefareweU to this princess and her band of workers, afterwards a teacher, but her work was soonwho were going to try their skUl as laborers on done, she was a frail reed and was not onlythe Mortiock Islands. It was a notable gather- shaken but broken by the wind. At eighteening at the church of her native place, many of her work was finished, life began to wither downher Christian subjects joyously assisting in the to its roots.

214 Notes and Beviews.Her life was drawn heavenward as a flower to and there alone with her mother and her poorthe sun, and heaven was giving her more won • blind father, who groped his way to her bed, notdrous beauty. She studied the New Testament to see, but feel his chUd before the Ught of life towith saintly fondness, she saw plainly the heathen- them aU should go out of the household, she laidism of the church which had only the Christian his hand on her forehead and kissed it, and said,name clinging to it as a ray of its iormer glory, " Father, I am going where ihere shall be noand greatly desired to unite with the Protestant pain, and where, dear father, the blind shall see."Church. She fought death until sbe knew God's He stood there, the tears flowing from thosewill concerning her, and then she gave her sightless eye-balls. She struggled once more inlife away in the expectation of a better, her mother's arms, saying, " 0, mother, I amIt was on Saturday and the hot sirocco wind dying. Jesus help me,'' and her spirit had foundwasted her strength, but in the afternoon she re- its rest. Hannah, the firstmissionary, who hadvived, and her teacher read about the vine and gathered the first fourteen into Miss Arnott'sits branches, and said, " Who are the branches ?" school and had been her most helpful teacher.She quickly repUed, "I am one." "Then," said was gone. Her memory has been as helpful asthe teacher, " why has the Lord sent you all this her presence. The good never leave us, theysuffering 1" " For my soul's sake," she replied, only change form from body to memory, and thusIn the gray mists of the Sabbath morning she reembodied are clothed in the good they haverequested her mother to take ber in her arms, done.—Dr. Mutchmore in the Preshyterian.^0k^ Mt\ §tnm^.FOREIGN MISSION CIRCHLAR. " Players pecuniary contributions and personalexertions " the conversion oi the world.The attention of the churches is called to the Acting on the instructions oi Synod, we havepressing need of giving a more liberal support to increased the staff of laborers, and a call hasthe work of Foreign Missions. For several been issued for another missionary and anotheryears the financialcondition of the Mission has lady teacher. Yiewed from a human standpoint,been presented cleariy and in detaU on the floor this increase in the working force of the missionof Synod and the several congregations urged is necessary not only to its efiiciency and success,through their representatives to greater liber- but to its very existence. To meet tUe addiality.And yet, except in a few instances, there tional expense that would be incurred in thishas been no increase in the congregational collec- way, Synod without a dissenting vote appropritions.What is tbe result ? At the September ated $15,000 for this branch oi the church's sermeetingof the Board tbe Treasury was reported vice. As no member in any way opposed thisoverdrawn several hundred dollars. Money that appropriation, we take for granted that all realshouldhave been forwarded to the Mission to ized the necessity and acted in the fear of Godprocure supplies at a season when purchases can and for His glory.be made to special advantage, had to be with- It is only necessary to examine the statistics ofheld to meet other claims that called for immedi- the church to see that, with a few honorable exatesettlement. And it looks as if the whole ceptions, the congregations have not been conmachineryof the Mission was to be brought to a tributing to this scheme according to their severalstandstill through the thoughtlessness of those abilities. The larger appropriation only meanswho are under solemn vows to seek by their an average of one dollar and a half a member ;

Notes and Beviews. 215and surely no one wiU hesitate to give that tri- rate return were made,'it would be found to reachfling amount to help bring the nations into sub- fully ûe millions. Tithe that vast annual injectionto Him whom we call our King. If we come and say whether $15,000 is more than acannot do that much for Christ, let us be honest fair proportion for the work of foreign evangeliandcease lifting up a, verbal testimony for His zation. Surely the churches will not faU to paykingly rights. Let us be consistent and stop the full appropriation into the Treasury. Wepraying " Thy kingdom come."ask it " ior the sake of the Name."By order of the Board,_ W e are glad to be able to record one in-E. M. Sommerville, stance of growing interest in'the work of foreignCorresponding Secretary. missions. The Ladies' Missionary Society con-If the 10,970 communicants in the Reformed nected with Long Branch congregation havePresbyterian Church represent at least 2,000 agreed to contribute $125 annually toward thefamihes, it should be an easy matter for them to support of a school on the island of Cyprus.give aU the money called for in the foregoing cir- This money, writes their pastor, " has beencular. Taking the Scripture rule as our guide, raised over and above and irrespective of the" If thero be first a wilUng mind, it is accepted regular monthly offerings, which for the lastaccording to that a man hath, and not according quarter amounted to more than $20, and wasto that he hath not." We would apportion ihe given to the new Indian Mission." But for thiswhole amount as ioUows :timely donation the Board would not have feltFamilies, Contributions.justified in continuing the work already begun in50 X $50 = $2500.Larnica. According to the statistics for last100250XX2510 =2500.2500.year this little congregation contributed more forforeign missions in proportion to its membership500 X 5 = 2500.than any church under the care of Kansas1000 X 2.50 = 2500.Presbytery, excapt Winchester, which stands at— the head. And we are assured that this annual$15,000. gift to widen our work in the foreign field " isAccording to this table one-half of the com- not intended to divert, or lessen even to themunicants would only have to give fiftycents, extent of one dollar, the regular congregationaland those in more independent circumstances collection for Syria." Such liberality stands out•from one to fivedollars each, while the wealthi- in vivid contrast with that of some larger organiestman in the communion of the church would zations in the same Presbytery, that have onlyonly require to contribute at the rate of ten dol- heart enough to give for this scheme at the ratelars for himself and each member of his family, of ten to twenty cents a member. It is hopedIn this way the whole amount would be raised, that many others will be led to imitate this exleavingout of the calculation one hundred large ample' that distinctively evangeUstic work mayfamiUes or neariy one thousand individuals, too be begun at once on the Island.poor to give anything but prayers for the cause, A valued correspondent in Northern Syriaor too rich in the things of this world, to realize says in a private letter respecting the proposal oftheir obligation and responsibility in the matter, our Synod to estabUsh a mission in Cyprus :The annual income of those in the membership " There appears to be there a most inviting opofthe Covenanter Church in this country, in portunity. If Christianity gained a footing inmoney or the equivalent of money, cannot be less the land and began to leaven the people, thethan $3,650,000, and we believe that if an accu- population would no doubt soon be increased.

216 JVbfes and Beviews.the prosperity that ever follows the gospel draw- fieldof labor. AUow me, then, he continued, toing people from all the adjacent countries. What say, not simply as an individual, but in the namean oasis in this barren Eastern world might it of the Board, and giving formal expression, I ambecome 1 And might not the day come when sure, to the feelings and desires of aU thenot only from its location, but from the charac- churches thiit are represented in tbis meeting,ter of the people, it would be a hospitable place Fare ye well. And I do so in the fuUest confiofrefuge to many in dark and troublous days." dence that, though leaving us and other friendsOur correspondent further says that recently he behind, you will enjoy even to the end the preslearnedfrom Mr. Storey, the agent of the Bri- ence ofa loving Savionr. When He said, "Gotish and Foreign Bible Society that during the ye into all the world and preach the gospel topast ten years there have been sold on the island^ every creature," He linked to that command anor circulated in one way and another, as many as assurance that is sufficient to sustain under the40,000 books, i.e, Bibles, New Testaments and most trying circumstances, "Lo, I am with youScripture portions. '' In this way the ground alway." As you leave the land of your birtbhas been prepared already ; and so large a cir- and the homes of earthly relations, soon to beculation of the Scriptures in the time would shut out from the pleasant fellowships of Ameriseemto indicate that the people there are ready can society, it wUl be your privUege to hear Himto receive the Word with avidity.'' say, " I am with you." His presence will accom-In the opinion of -Mr. Storey, who has re- pany you to Latakia and fill your home theresided in Cyprus for some five and a half years, with rich tokens of His love.the mission work on the island would naturally The speaker also referred to the success thatconsist mainly of preaching, the British govern- must attend the efforts of those who act underment having established a system of secular edu- the guidance of Ono who has been invested withcation there.All Power for the salvation of His people and— A larewell missionary meeting was held on the furtherance of His cause. We have everyMonday, Sept. 4, in the Fourth Church, New reason to give ourselves to His service with con-York, 'Ihe auditorium was fiUedwith friends of fidence and courage, however sensible we may bethe departing missionaries. Two of the ad- of our own insufficiency. The closing point indresses—" Our Interest in Our Missionaries and hia address was the rich reward that awaits the'.iheir Work," anu " Sympathy With the Wives faithful and devoted laborer.of Missionaries "—are printed in this issue of Then the Chairman, Rev. James Kennedy, ledthe Herald of Mission Nbws, and will be found in an earnest and uplifting prayer, commendingpleasant and profitable reading. The address of the brethren to the care of our covenant GodMr. Stewart will appear in a future number. In and Saviour.the absence of Rev. S. G. Shaw, of Walton, the On the following Saturday, 29th Sept., Rev.Corresponding Secretary of the Board was ,Ias. S. Stewart, with hia wife and two cbildrencalled on to speak the " Farewell Words." He left New York to make their home in Syria,said that if the term farewell conveyed simply and arrived in Liverpool on the Sth of Oct., extheidea of separation and departure, he would pecting to sail on the 20th for Alexandria. Mr.hesitate, but when it means, as it is sometimes A. El-Hshkir with his wife and child left Newwritten, fare ye well, he counted it a special York the same day on tbe French steamship. Lahonor and privUege. 'Ihis is to send our friends Champagne, reaching Havre in ten days. Theseaway with good wishes for their personal welfare families have a claim on the sympathy and prayandearnest prayers for success in their chosen ers of all the churches.

PUBLISBED WITB TBE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREWN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxtm oi ^mxm Wm%,REPORT OF OUR DELEGATES. Gunamia, and from there by the way of Kesaabto Suadia, taking afterward a number of dayaThe Oommission appointed by the Board for a view of of the work by the aiater churcheaForeign Missions ofthe Reformed PresbyterianChurch of North America to viait and inand Mra. Martin. On the 26th of May theyof IrelanI and Scotland at Antiooh under Dr.spect the work under its care in Syria and reached Meraiue, and examined for nearly aAsia Minor, would respectfully submit the week the work at that place, at Adana, andfollowing report:Tarsus, and went then to Smyrna and Constantinople,accompanied by Dr. Metheny forAfter careful deliberation your Commissiondecided to go directly to Egypt, while the reasons which will appear in the sequel. Thisweather waa slill oool, and then pass northwardwith the advance of the season. Tbiscourse was all the more desirable, because itwould afford an opportunity tu examine iotothe working of other missiona in Egypt, Palestineand southern Syria, and tnus preparethe Commiasion for a more Intelligent inspectionof the work of their own church. Accordingto thia plan, your Commiasion sailed fromNew York on March 3, and went directly byway ot Liverpool, London and Maraeillea toAlexandria, arriving there on March 21. Tendaya in Egypt gave a fair opportunity to befour questions constantly pressed themselveabefore our minds. The answers to these questionsfurnished, in our judgment, the beat testcome acquainted with the miasionaries of the of the work being done in any given oase.United Presbyterian Church of America, andtheir admirable work, particularly in Cairo.A tour of alittle over three weeks in Palestineand southern Syria brought the work of theChurch Missionary Society of England andthe Presbyterian Ohurch ofthe United Statesnnder review. Beaobing Latakia on the 28thof April, your Commissioa visited from thiscenter the mountain villages of Jenderia, Bahamra,the Mergh and Eldaney, and made also« trip of five days to the island of Cyprus.On the 15th of May the Commission went totrip, after leaving our own mission fielda, gaveyour Commission a further opportunity of comparingthe work which had already beeu undertheir inspection with that of the missionariesunder the American Bârd of Commissionersof Foreign Missions. And now, after thisgeneral view ofthe method, of conducting theirdifiScult and responsible work, the Commissionproceed to details.During all our investigation of mission workTheae four crucial questions are:I. To what extent does the evangelistic elementpervade the missionary work?II. What is the management of the financesand property in the field 1III. What is the organization and employmentof native help ?IV. What is the character of the ultimatecontrol and superintendence ?Witb these questions in view we propose tolay beiore the Board the results of our inquiry.I. The application of the firstof these test

218 Our Views of Mission Work.Inquiries will determine the relation of all in- true missionary success in the use of thesedusirial, medical, and educational departments special means.of missionary effort to the one paramount aim But the application of thia firstcrucial quesofsaving souls. Manual induatriea, medical tion carries us still further. It inquiresand surgical aid. and mental culture may be whether mi-

Our Views of Mission Worh. 219of withdrawing from, the resources of more to our medical miaaionary for bodily relief.directly evangelistio effort. Your Commission And when he visits a mountain village, crowdsare fuUy persuaded that in all living and ef- come with their sick and afflicted ones as infeotive mission work there will be a growing the days of the Saviour's ministry. Therepreponderanoe of the simple and most direct can be no doubt, moreover, that the proposedpossible making known of the Saviour, industrial department of the boys' sohool illAnd this will be far from diminishing the prove an effioient aid in evangelistic work.number of those noble women who prove But more than all this, our miasionariea andsuccesslul workers in mission fields. In the teachers are doing immediate evangelistiozenana and hareem work, now opening so en- work. In season and out of season, in schools,couragingly, Providence is pointing out bow at homes of natives, and in journeyings by theour female missionaries may be the heralds of way, as well as in stated and special 'eligiousthe goapel to multitudes not otherwise aooes- services, the worK of pointing souls to thesible. With the Bible in their hand they are Saviour is now going forward. Not a few 'ofwelcomed into many homes, and enjoy most the native teachers are doing as direct evanfavorableopportunities to point the souls of gelistic work, as if they were liceatiafces sentthe inmates to the Saviour. We confidently forth for that speoial service.anticipate the time, in the near future, when WhUe we testify to these gratifying facts,the words of the Psalmist, in the accurate ren- we still feel that the evangelistio labors of ourdering of the Revised Version, shall in this miasioD ia only well begun. The paat haa butway have a literal fulfilment—" The Lord laid a foundation for a muoh more extendedHimaelf giveth the word: the women who work in the future. Wehave been gatheringpublish it are a g.Teat host."and training forces for a wider field of moreTesting our mission work in Syria and Asia vigorous and systematic evangelization.Minor by this flrst crucial inquiry, we are Through the Master's rich blessing upon thehappy to bear witness that all our schools are work already done, we occupy the vantagepervaded with the teaob-ngs of the gospel of ground for such earnest adyanoed efforts asChrist. The Bible is the great text-book day the following:by day. The little obildren are made familiar 1. Sending, in addition to the one who haafrom the very firat with the lacts of Bible just gone to Latakia, another ordained miniahiatoryand the truths of salvation by the cru. ter to the mission field. Theê reinforcementscified Saviour. The Psalms ia metre and are necessary to the evangelistic character ofother portions of the Scriptures are committed the work. Our ordained ministers already into memory. The catechisms are taught most the field are so heavily burdened with othercaretully, and the Bible proofa are often given work, that time and energies are diverted fromwith remarkable readiness and accuracy in the paramount aim of preaohing the goapelconnection with the answers. The ordinary It our ordained minister at MHi-aine, whoaebranches of study are all seasoned with the consuming desire has ever been, like that ofsalt of Christian truth. Aud as for the medi" Paul, to spend and to he spent in the servicecal work, it does not fail to keep spiritual of the Saviour, were laid aside from hishealing in view. The opportunities which abounding labors, the diviue ordinance of thethis work affords to speak a word in season are preaching of the gospel In that whole fieldmost abundant. Scores ofpatients flock daily would cease; At the best it will take years

220 Our Views of Mission Work.to train a man to take up and carry on thiswork. Shall thia state of things be pt-rmittedto continue ?2. Female miaaionarlea ahould be added tothe force. Tbe opportunities for work inII. Our second crucial question inquiresinto tbe management of the property and financesin the mission field. This question isas difficult as it is practical. Misaion workinvolvea large financial intereata. Suitablehomes are rapidly multiplying. Few sermons buildings must be erected, and this means theare ao effective aa the face to face and heart to purchase of land and material and the employmentof labor. heart appeal of an earneat Christian woman*The operation of tbe evangel-pleading with her aiater in the calm atmoa iatic work is itself also a matter of businesa.phere of the houaehold. In thia department of After everything possible has been done byevangelistic effort, native married women the business management at home, there remainscan render excellent aervice. a heavy burden of finanoialreaponaibil-One of the beatkinds of mission work is to train native women ity and labor for tbe miasionaries themselves.for suoh service.3. Teachers and scholars in day schoolsTh's whole matter of the management of financesand property in the field needs to bând Sabbath schools should be engaged in most thoroughly systematized in order that thedirect evangelistic work. Disadvantageous missionaries may be relieved as far aa practicalas tbe circumstances often are in eastern from the mere aervice of tablea and give themselveatowns and villages, there is always opportunityto the miniatry of tbe word. It ia notfor mia&ion-viaiting athouaea of frienda and meet tbat thoae who are aent out to preach theneighbors, and even for good work in the gospel should become mere men of buaineaa, orstreets. All who share in gospel blessings, even largely auch. There are emergenciea, iteven to the little boya and giria wbo are gatheredinto a day scbool, sbould strive to make the labors of the mechanic. And it is well foria true, wh

Our Views of Mission Work, 221aot on a settled purpose to prevent Christian tended with no little difficulty, but whiohmissions from estaolishing ihemselves on any has been successfully adopted by Dr. Martinpermanent basis. The securing of real estate at Antioch, ia the execution of a deed of trustis hampered with every conceivable reatriotion, not before a Consul from a foreign countryand delayed or hindered by every possible for which document a Turkish tribunal wouldmeans. Permission will be refused a resident not care a fig, but a deed of trust before aforeigner to buUd a churoh or a sfhool. He Turkish court, by which the resident holderwill often find it diflieult to obtain permission of the property declares that it is held for theto bmld even a dwelling-house. Objections legal incorporation of the churoh at home.wiU be made to plans, and new objections The miasion property at Moraine is in factraiaed when plans bave been revised, and the private property io the name of Dr. Metheny.building enterprise killed by repeated delays. He has long since iudicated his purpose toIt permission is granted and work in progress, make it over to the church. The schools inarbitrary objections are made and work is ar the adjoining towns of Tarsus and Adana, andrested. If to avoid diffioulty the title to the in smaller places, are held in rented buildings,land and the work of building are in a native's ia some of whioh teachera reaide. One of thename, claima may be made against him involv- teachers in Tarsus is erecting a home in whiohing him in most serious embarrassment and it is intended to hold the Fellahin school. Theendangeripg tbe whole buUding enterprise. property at Suadea, originally in the name o fIn the midst of these difficulties the practice J^r. Holt-Yates, waa by bim made over to ourofthe various missions in Turkey has differed missionaries in trust, but not by a deed exewldelyin different places, and even in tbe cuted before a Turkish Court. Tbe propertysame place at different times. Sometimes real "^t Latakia is held.in the name of four Individestateis beid by a native in trust for the oal missionaries, one of whom is deceased, thechurob. At other times it is bought in tbe deed of trust executed by them having beeuname of one or more missionaries as Individ- befora the American consul.uals and heid in trust by them for the churob. Now, while all properly in Turkey is heldA deed of trust is in such cases usually by an uncertain tenure at beat, as no oue oanexecuted before tbe Consul of the coun- tell what overturnings may occur with a fewtry from which the missionaries come, and in years, it aeema important to your Commiaaionwhich the ohurch for which the property ia that all mission bu.siness should be governed byheld is located. Tn a ve^y few cases the gov- the strictest business rules. We therefore reernmentbas given a deed direotiy to tbe legal spectfully make tbe following suggestions:ineorporated body ot the churoh in the home 1- '^^'^^ constant care be taken in all thscouniry. Such a deed, itis agreed on all development of the work, so to organize andhands, cannot now be obtained. The govern- systematize businesa mattera that undue draftsmeat has finally decided not to grant suoh ti- may not be made upon the time and energiesties. A special grant lor a churob or a achool of those who are called to the preaching ofhas in rare cases been obtained by a firman the gospel.from the Sultan, wbich exempts the property 2. Whatever may be the temporary arrangefromtaxation; but thia is not desirable, as "'en* of purchasing or holding real eatate insuch property reverts to the empire in case of the name of a native, or of one or more misanychange of use. A method which is at- sionaries, a deed of transfer or a declaration of

222 Our Yiews of Mission Work.trust should be promptly executed in due must show some suoh reaulta as the following:time before a Turkish tribunal, making the 1. Every native member received should,corporate body of the church at home the le- from tbe first, according to the measure ofgal owner of the property.ability, and there ia always some ability, be3. The law ot domicile ahould be used aa made a working member of the churoh. Infar as possible in the prosecution of our mis- Turkey especially, the natives need to learnsion work. This principle ot international law tbat in Christian hives there are to be nolias a most important application to our work drones. However little any one may be ablein Turkey. No part of that law ia more zeal-to do, it ahould be made sura tbat that littleously guarded. To secure the in lalculable is done. Eaeh convert should be made toadvantages of the law of domicile, tbe misaion underatand that whosoever receives the combuildingmuat be a domicUe in fact. It may fort and joy of the gospel ia under obligationbe more, but it must be that onu at least, of to labor to maka othera partakers of the sameour American missionaries must live in it. If bleaaioga. Careful instruction in the duty ofns American reaidea in it, or if only a native, honeat toU ia needed for thia. Chriatlans musta subject ofthe Turkish goverument, haa his work, and have to give of the fruits of theirdomicile there, it may be entered by the authoritiesat pleasure, and serious interruption the worda of the Lord Jeaua, " It ia moreown works, tbat they may know the truth ofof the work will be the result. But let an blessed to give than to receive." All who areAmerican subjeot have hia residence in the employed in any department of mission laborbuilding, and it ia most sacredly guarded by should be marked examples for other nativeathe law of doinioile.of the grace of liberality. If but little pecuniarymeans can be given, there can be III. The third teat query regards the ortimeganization and employment of native help. Aaerious objection urgfd againat Chriatian missionsis that tbey encourage weak and childlikedependence of iiativea on outside aid. Andthere is no little danger of affording occasionspent in helping forward the miaaion cause.Wise mission management wUl look after reanltsin giving and working from all who arereceived into the memberahip of the ohurch.2. Native evangeliata, properly qualifiedfor this objection, particularly iu tbe infancy and duly lioenaed aa preachers of the goapel,of a mission. The only sure way of avoiding ahould be aent out in aa large numbers and aatie evili-i by early and assiduous training in aoon as possible. Even before licensure wulltrainedaelf-aupport. Indeed, there can be no truenatives may do muoh evangeliatlo work.aucceas in inissioDary work unleaa it results intbe establishment of self-sustaicing congregations,But formal licensure clothes them with authority,secures for them a larger measure ofwhicb iu turn become miaaion workera respect, intensifies their own sease of responwith tbeir influe»jce extending to othera. Any sibility, and thus greatly inoreaaea their infludrawamiasion must be counted a failure wbich simply ence for good.its reaources trom the churob at home, 3. Mission statious should be organized,and uses these from year toyear in trainiug up and tbese should be developed into oongregaalarger or smaller foice of subordinates to tions with native elders and deacons. Orhanglike so many dependencies on ber supportingganization is essential to effective work. Iso'arm. If answers to tbis third queslated memliers of the churob, or memberation are to be aatlafaotory in any dagree, they loosely aaaooiated, will do little. Organize

them into a oongregation, aud their workingcapacity is increased tenfold. Conditions requiringtheir own effort up to the standard oftheir ability in securing supplies of preaohingor the settlement of a pastor, will stimulatetbeir liberality.4. Native pastors should be settled overOur Views of Mission Worh. 223authority of each need to be accurately defined.Questions of local control, such aapulpit suppUes, the settlement of a pastor andthe organization of new oosgregations wouldoome properly before the Presbytery. Thenative congregations. In the early stages of management of schools, aud in general themission work the missionary is virtually a disbursement of the moneys contributed bypastor. But this relation should be recognizedas temporary. The Mission Board that mission acting directly under instructions fromthe home churoh, would be determined by thepays the salary of a missionary to be the pastorof a native oongregation need not be disFollowing tbe order of theae aix points wethe Board.appointed if such oongregation continue indefinitelyin swaddling clothes. The pastor needs mission, accompanied with our reoooimenda-give a review of the state of affairs in our ownto feel his dependence on his people, and tions.they need to feel that they are responsible for (1.) Our native converts in many inatanceshia aupport. Beaidea, a people need a pastor exempUfy in a most gratifying degree tbeof their own race. An American, or a native grace of giving to the Lord. The building atwho by residence in America has become Jendaria is a noteworthy instance. TheAmericanized, is not the kind of pastor needed teachera are exemplary in systematic giving.in Syria or Asia Minor.We have good reason to believe that our visit5. Coaferenoes should be held with a large has stimulated all teachers and many scholarsplaoe for native members. It has been shownin some missions that these missionary conferencesoan be successfully held in connectionwith meetings of the church courts. Paperscan be read, with general discussion following,on all the most important aspects ot miasionwork. Such conferences afford opportunityfor the co-operation of missionaries of differentbranches of the church, without any complicationsas to questions of government anddiscipline.6. As soon as two or three congregationsare organized, a Presbytery should be formed,or what corresponds to this in any other formof church government. Wben miaaionaryworkers are in widely separated fields, yetconstituting one miasion, at least one annualmeetiag, suoh as a Presbytery would demand,is essential to their unity and cordial co-operation.Such a court, with its native pastoraand elders, needs to be carefully distinguishedfrom the mission proper, and the limits of theto more earneat efforta for tbe evangelizationot thoae about them. And we would recommendstill more deter'nined efforts to quickenall our workers, younger and older, in theduty of Christian giving and in their activeendeavor to bring perishing sinners to thekcowledge of the Saviour. The delicacywhieh in the paat has kept finanoial claims inabeyance should be now oast aaide. Theduty and privilege of giving as God prospersHis people, whether in Syria, Asia Minor orAmerica, needa to be urged witb faithfulnessfts well as prudence. There should be no servicewithout an opportunity for all to contributesomething to it in material means, orlabor, or both.(2.) We have our native licentiate at Latakia.Many of our teachers in both Syriaand Asia Minor have done just such work as alicentiate might acoomplish. But your Com-

2^4Our Views of Mission, Work.mission are agreed in recommending »n onwardstep fhat may surprise both the Boardand the Church. We nnhesitafingly uige,and with the hearty approval of our raissionaries,after tbe fullest consideration of thisimportant matter, the licensare at the earliestpracticable date, ofthe following ten nKtivtaj.Malaam Isa, Selim Saali, Selim Hadad,Saleh, of tbe Meraine field. A few of theaemen bave been faithful laborera from theearliest daya of our miaaion, pupila and oompanionaof Dr. Dodda and Dr. Beattie. All oftheae give evidence of ample preparation forthe ateps that we herewith propoae. It wouldtake years of study to qualify any one of ourhome lioentiatea for aa effective work aa auyone of theae nineteen natives cau now do inour miasion fielda.(3.) We have many misaion stationa both inAaia Minor and Syria. Indeed, every placewhere we have a wohool, aud there are nearlythirty of three placea in all, ia praotioally amisaion atation. Bat we have no organizedcongregation. Your Commission bad evidencein tbeir viait that our work would be greatlywould include tbe members at Bahamra andMerzh, and in other cases somewhat distantmembers would also be included.In this connection we may refer to onr visitof exploration to the island of Cyprus, wherea school has been in operation for nearly ayear past, under direction of the missionarieaat Latakia. The prospect for educationalIbrahim Jukki, Ishor Es Shama and Abood work in Larnaca and Nicosia, the chief townsEl Ushker, of the Latakia field,together with of the island, is exceptionally bright. ThereNicolai Debbak, Yusef Judeed, Daoud Saade, is a considerable population of Arabic-speakingpeople in these towns, and the way isand Hakim Yunf Salim, of tbe Meraine field.And we further recommend that, after a brief open for evangelistic work among them. Butadditional courae of study, the following nine we believe that a knowledge ot the modernbe alao licensed to preach the goapel : IbrahimRazouk, Hanna Samaam, Yakob Hadad, necessary to effective work. Your CommisGreek, the principal language of the island, iaand Ibrahim Iaa, of the Latakia field,as wellas Jurjua Thuma El Mardinlo, Safe Ali,Hanna Boulad, Muaa Soyegh, and Mohammedsion would recommend that the sohool workbe strengthened for the present, and that stepsbe taken to occupy this island as a missionfield, if favoring providences point the way, assoon as competent laborers can receive therequisite training.If our church is eager to undertake newmission work, she can easily discern manycogent reasons for tne selection of Cyprus asan additional field, (a.) It is the field ofthose wbo were firstoalled Christians at Antioch.The memory of the labors of Paul andBarnabas would be an inspiration to tbeir successorsof to-day. (&.) A mission in Cypruswould strengthen our work in Syria and AsiaMinor, and would in turn derive strength fromit. The eaay communication between theseplaces would preserve the unity ot our missionwork while yet enlarging it. (c.) Thischoice would avoid the hazardous experimentbenefited by organizationa at the following ot opening a new field where the heavy expendituremight prove most damaging to ourfive placea: Latakia, Jenderia, Eldaney,Gunamia and Meraine ; and we recommend present work. Two widely separated foreignthat the Commiaaion of Synod, which still missions might cripple each other in a churohsurvives in our Mission, be instructed to organizethe members in theae places into conCyprus we could have the stimulus of a newno larger nor wealthier than our own. Ingregations. The congregation at Eldaney mission, not only without any risk to our

Our Views of Mission Worh. 225present efforts, but wilh positive advantages, tively extended obaervations taught us that(d.) The ooaupation of Cyprus by the British the home management of a mission in a fargovernmentia a favoring providence. While distant land may very readily fall into one ofwe fully believe that our missionaries, though two extremes. On the one hand, home auamidstgreat difficulties atid opposition, will thority may be too rigid. It may unwiselyhold their ground in Asia Minor and Syria, it determine questions whicii should ba left tomay be prudent to provide a near aud conve- local discretion. It may arbitr,4rily decidenient refuge to which in an emergency they upon matters which the judgment of the mencan betake themselves and still carry forward and women in the field could more wisely demissionwork. termine. We met with missionariea whose(4.) We recommend the earliest praotioabla hands were tied by cut and .iried orders fromsettlement of native pastors over the congre- the home authority. There waa little or nogations when organized. Native licentiates local govercment, no freedom, no flexibilitywill not change their mode of life. They will adapting itself to exigenciea, and consequentlystill ie linked by the closest of ties with the little or no expansion and development of thepeople to whom they wiil preach.. In dreas, work. It ia possible, too, that the authoritiescustoms, borne life, and in all that marka the at home may listen to the oomplaiuts of dispeopleaa a distinct people, native preachers satisfied and disaffected natives, or other.^, andand pastors will be among and of their own. that decisions may be given without full ex-There can be missicnary labor, but no true amination into the facta of the caa^, and nopaatoral care without this. small damage be thus done to the miasion.(5.) It is further recommended that an On the other hand, there is a danger, and perannnalconference be held at aome convenient haps quite as great in some cases, in leavingtime and place, as just before a meeting of a mission without the watchful, thoughtful,Presbytery, to which well known missionary and affeotioaate care of home control and auworkerashould beinvit^d, and in whioh native periatendenca. Important plaaa may bahelpers should be encouraged to take an ac- hastily adopted, and imperfections whichtive part. We would specially di-sire that might have been avoided by home couasel,Dr. and Mrs. Martiu, with tbeir efficient corps m.ir subsequent work. Long distance aad theof teachers, may be induced to afford the bene- stretch of time required for deliberative comfitof tbeir wide and valuable txperienoe at munioation weaken home control. But delaythese annual meetings.is better than hasty experiments whioh entail(6.) Finally, in this connection we reoom- disappointment and regret. How to securemend that the Commission of Synod be in the judicious home superintendence whichstructed to constitute, immediately upon the strikes the golden mean between the aboveorganization of two or more congregations, extremes ia tlie problem to ba aolved. Andthe Presbytery of Syria and Aaia Minor; and your Coramisaion are of,tha opinion that thisthat the Board of Foreign Missiona cleariy is one of tne most momentous problems thatdefine the limits within whioh the authority of oan oome before tha Board. The solution ofsaid Presbytery shall be exercised.this problem lies in the Une of your own ac-IV. Our last test question asks, " What ia tion whioh haa lad to thia repori. You laidthe character of the ultimate control and su- hold of the key whan you resolved to aend aperintendence of the miasion?" Our compara- Commission. We most freely acknowledge

226 Our Views of Mission Work.that you might have made a better choice ries and their helpers could take the hintsand secured more satisfactory results. But that were applicable in the different circumthemethod of making your control and super- stances of the foreign field.intendence what you so earnestly desire is 3. The Board at home cannot but derive adolearlydemonstrated. Our visit, though not vantage from the personal and immediate obatthe best season of the year, and though servation of their Commission. On multitudeamore hurried than it .should have been, has of points of detail which oould not be embodiednot been without its benefits; Among theae in a repori:, we hold ouraelves ready to give aamay be mentioned: full information aa possible. We confidently1. The assurance wbich ii gave tbe mis- expect the Board to draw from us helpfulsionaries and our native membera of the affec- statements on many points not touched upontionate and responsible interest of the Board in this report.and the whole church in tbeir welfare. It 4. It will serve it ia hoped to quicken the inoertainlyaeema well nigh incredible that onr tereat of the whole Chureh in this momentousohurch has had amission in that land for over partof her work, as .«he seeks to fulfill thethirty years, and yet during all that time that Master's great commission. A report fromshe had never sent any one to inspect and re- outside obaervera will for that reaaon carryport upon the work. Miaaionarlea and con- a weight which a report from the misvertscould hardly be blamed, if tbey con- sionaries themselvea would fail to posaess.eluded from these facts tbat they and their work May it net be hoped that this fruit ofour visitdid not lie aa near the beart of the ohurch as will appear in largely increased contributionsmight be wished. But tbey did not doubt, for Foreign Missions, and in the greater readi-They only waited with glowing hearts to bave ness of devoted young men and women to oftheopportunity to welcome any representa- fer themselvea for the work?tive from the home church. And a right Before cloaing thia extended report we venroyalwelccme all did give ua. And you may ture to add a few recommendations somewhatbe sure that, according to the measure of our outside the line of thought under the previousability, wbicb we wished might be a hundred- heada.fold greater, we made them understand the 1. We auggest that the apecial prayera ofdepth of the love and devotion to them and our people be requeated for Daoud Saade, onetheir noble, aelf-aacrificing work, and to the of the teichera in the Mersine district whomgraciou.*; Lord and Saviour of ns all, wbicb we recommend tor licensure. This teacher,animated the friends and brethren at home. arreated on the flimsypretext of being a Russian2. Another benefit is tbe stimulus given to spy, was imprisoned temporarily while weour workers in their distant fields. We saw were in Syria, and bas sinoe been sentenced tomuch tbat elicited cordial praise. And the a term of two years' confinement. It was inencouragment of well-deserved commendation, the hope of securing hia releaae that Dr. MewiUtell on future work. We aaw room for theny accompanied ua to Constantinople, aasuggestions and recommendatioca wbich were before related. Daoud of the Merzh was reasfrankly and kindly taken as they were given, turned to his home in answer to the prayera ofEven if our conceptiona of tbe work were the Cburoh. Let us all plead for this dearsomewhat sti ongly colored witb home sur- brother who is now suffering for the oause ofroundings, the candid minds of our missiona- Christ.

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 2272. In this connection we recommend that then appointed him. This unexpected appointaUour schools in Syria be kept in active oper- ment, seriously questioned at firstby the minotthe Turkiah authorities, go forward with mission, larger, if possible, and with more timeation. The American Minister at Constanti- ister himaelf, had on careful and prayerful connople,Mr. Strauss, gives this advice. He has sideration been regarded as the call of thelooked the sohool question in Turkey through Church's Head, and asa reaulta moat effioienttrom beginning to end. His counsel is to com- missionary had taken the field. Ia there notply with the law in regard to the books to be a auggeation in tbis for our own Board ?used and the certificates of teachers to be em- 4. Our closing recommendation ia that, beployed,and then, whatever may be the delaya fore many yeara have gone by, another Com-the work in all tbe schools. The teachers, in at command, be sent to inspect the work, assome cases, fear arrest, as in the instance ot we trust it aball by that time be expanded andDaoud Saade. Mr. Strauss declares in vig- developed. May that visit find all our presentorous phrase " If there is any more such work force in good health, and not a few new workasthat arrest, I shall make a row about It." ers, male and female, from our home reserves3. In our conference with missionariea of together with the band of nineteen nativesrich experience in other churches, we learned whose names have been given, aad theae rethataome of ihe beai of them had been appoint- inforced by many like tbem, all gatheringed by their Boarda without ary consultation their sheaves in that fieldthat ia already whitewith themselves. The Boards had looked over unto the harvest,the miniatry at home, and had decided tbatDavid McAllister.snch a man was the fitone for the work. They Henet O'Neill.Items of llîssiorsary EntelSigence.ABROAD.chUdren born of heathen parents in China aloneThe following "plea for miaaions" is taken every year than there are souls born intothehom a group of facts on Foreign Missions, oh- kingdom of God; and this after a century oftained, as the compiler, Mr. W. I. Wanless tells Protestant Missions.us, from the most reliable sources:In almost every foreign field,notwithstandingWhile we have been making 8,000,000 converts aU that has taeenaccomplished, the laborers areto Christianity, the increase by birth rate into very few in comparison with the harvest to beheathen religions has been 200,000,000. gathered. It is especially the case in Africa,It is blessedly true that the spread of the gos- China, and Japan. On the coast oi the darkpel in heathen lands has thus far surpassed our continent there are many missionaries; but thereexpectations to a marvellous degree. Yet reli- are vast interior regions without a single heraldable authorities tell ns that heathen religions are of the Cross.making converts at a rate hundreds of times Heathen religions are not dead and by nogreater than we are, by absorbtion from the in- means idle. The followers of the false prophetferior races. are yearly making thousands of converts. AAccording to the revenue returns from 1760 Mohammedan University at Cairo, Egypt, fiveto 1848, the present increase in China's popula- hundred years older than Oxford, with a rooftion would be over 2,500,000 annually. This supported by four hundred pUlars, contamsbeing the case there are three times as many 10,000 students; and minor schools with great

228 Items of Missionary InteUigence.influence are scattered throughout many parts of da, but nearly 1,000 miles of fiendish ferocityAfi-ica. between us and them. Looking away to the100,000 Buddhist priests are sent out from north-west we see nothing but 1,"IOO miles of mid-Lhassa in Thibet, i.ito all parts of Asia, in the night darkness; while to the north there areinterest of tbat religion. 10,000 proselytes are crowded villages inhabited by the fiercestcannisaidto be the result of a resent Mohammedan bah; great waUed towns and crowded marketmovement in China. places; all in utter darkness. Away over theIn many heathen countries the Roman Catho- Sahara, with its fierce robber tribes, 2,000 mileslies have more workers, churches and converts to tê Mediterranean, but no ray of Ught.than Protestants, and their missionaries ar-- still North-west again the same, till 2,200 miles awayvigorous. In several lands they are diiecting all we see scattered points oi light from the Norththeir energies to make converts to Roman Catho- African Mission, and between us and the brightlicism of those who are already members of light of the Niger and Cameroons are 500 milesChristians churches.of the fiercest and most degraded cannibal black-Atheists in France, who canuot tolerate the ness. In a word. Central Africa, with an areapriestly orders, ally themselves with the Vatican ten times that of Germany, and three times tbeabroad, so asby Roman Catholic missions to extend size ofthe Mediterranean Sea, with twenty timesthbir ambitions, and thereby win for themselves the population of New York State, and morea colossal empire in Africa.densely populated than any part of America, hasJapan and India are being flooded with infidel only, as yet, been touched on a few of its borders,publicatious, and 600 newspapers in the latter and that largely by pioneers. The great Soncountryare opposed to Christianity, whUst a dan, 2,000 mUes long and 1.000 miles broad,heathen prince is publishing 2,000,000 tracts in with a population of 60,000,000, has scarcely aopposition to the religion of Christ, 1,000,000 of reprf sentative of the King of Glory, and ifwhich have been already circulated. Africa's whole population could be equaUy di-Slavery in Africa is a terrible impediment to vided among the present missionary staff, eachthe progress of the Gospel. Stanley says, in his ordained and lay worker would have a parish ofjourney across tbe Continent he met a company 215,000 souls to care for, and there would onlyof 5,000 fugitives escaping from slave stealers; be oue missionary to each dialectic language.and on another occasion a band of slave stealers India has 21,000,000 wailing widows, andwith 2,300 women and children, for whose capture 40,000,000 persecuted zenana prisoners who canthey had plundered thousands of homes, murder- only be reached by their own sex, and we haveing over 3,000 persons.sent but one woman to every 1,000,000 to pointG. W. Brooke, writing recentiy from Central them to the Lamb of God, and 40,000,000 ohil-Africa, says: "The nearest mission station dren are still waiting to be tanght.south is 100 mUes, established but a few weeks Were the people of Siam equally alloted to theago, A vast sea oi towns and no lamp to show present missionaries, each would have 1,500,000forth the Gospel, till over i,000 miles to the south- souls in his portion of that vineyard.west we come to alittle spot of light. Again the Corea has but one misssonary to everydarkness is broken by scattered points of light in 3,000,000 of her benighted and neglected souls.the lake district, but over 1,000 mUes of utter Two thirds of China's 400,000,000 are yetdarkness are between bere and there. Then without the kuowledge of the Gospel. Therecomes the brilliant spot, the Christians of Hgan- are thousands of cities, towns and villages in

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 229China where the name of Jesus has never beeu where missionaries thus far have never entered.heard. MongoUa, Eastern Turkestan and Thibet In heathendom a number equal to half thehave a combined population of about 15,000,000 combined population of the United States andand no one to tell them oi the world's Saviour. Canada die every year.The province of Si-chuen has an estimated popu- Twice the population of Canada departs thelation of 50,000,000 and onlya score of witnesses Land of Sinim annually without the knowledgefor Christ. V. Kwang-si with 5,000,000 more and ofthe Gospel.not a herald of the Cross. Hu nan has 15,000,- Souls, valued by Christ to the extent of His000 souls within its dusky borders and not a life, die every minute in China without knowingfoUower of Jesns. Kiang si has another 15,000,. of His power to save.000 with but four missionariea. Ilo-nan has a More than 700 of Africa's and 800 of India'spopulation of 18,000,000 and only ihree mission- benighted inhabitants perish hourly because theyaries. In northern Ho-nan an area of 10,000 know not the Christ.square miles contains ninety cities and a large A number, equal to the population of Torontonumber of towns and villages, and not a witness and its suburbs, is passing into eternity in heathenfor the risen Christ, and there are stUl in China darkness every forty-eight hours.over 1,000 counties wherein the Gospel has never Every tick of your watch sounds tbe deathbeen preached. It China's population could be knell of a heathen soul, but,equally apportioned, to the 1,000 missionaries What are you doing to give them the gospel feach would have a parish of 400,000 souls. If The Scripture saith, "The wicked shaU beeach heathen, man, woman and chUd, in China, turned into heU and all the nations that forgetcould stand for every letter of our EngUsh Bible God.'' " AU idolators shall have their part init would take over one hundred Bibles to repre- the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone "sent them; while the Christians could be repre- Do we beUeve this ? And allow these countsented,in ihe same way, by Paul's Fpistleto the jess miUions to perish without offering them theRomans. The Chinese holding hands, would gospel?reach four times round the world atthe Equator, Christ sa,id, "If ye love me keep my comwhilethe Christian population of China would mandments." Are we obedient to the last andstretch bnt fifteen miles. One in every four of greatest when we listen with so littie concern tothe world's population isa Chinese; and one- the death wail of these teeming millious and dothhd of the heathen worid belongs to China. so littie to tell them of redemption's •••tory?Annam's 20,000,000 are yet without a ray of ^^ HOMEGospel Ught.The first missionaries have onlv landed on the Rev. J MiUigan WyUe has sent us the folislandof Hainan. loî^S items relating to our Home MissionTwo-thirds of a thousand millions of heathen work :have notyet heard the Gospel message.Many seem to think thatthe workof the GenIfthe present population of the heathen worid eral Secretary includes the establishment of thecould be equally apportioned to our present force lndi«n Mission, That mission has only reefworkers, lay and ordained, each would have ceived my atteution as tne Board gave meover 165 000 souls ^Pecial instructions When the nature of the'I here'are StiU over 10,000,000 square miles workof General Secretary is fully understood, Iof unoccupied districts in various heathen lands, think it wiU be clearly seen that I could not

230 Items of Blissionary Intelligence.abandon it when only [fairly begun and turn the country there are several hundred inhabitantsaside to a distinct work withont doing injustice without a minister of any denomination.to both the Chnrch and myself.I have heard in the last few days of a newMy present duties require me to learn the lo settlement at Sydney, Nebraska, I have notyetcation of isolated members, correspond with learned from them directly what are their prosthem,direct them as far as possible to congrega- pects.tions aud organize new mission stations. In Northeastern Colorado we have severalThis work is necessarily complicated and slow, families. I have preached once there.I have learned of over a hundred members iso- Kansas City is still holding on in hopes of alated from any congregation. better future. They do not expect to makeSome of these have already been organized much progress with only the half time of a labintocongregations and are now supplied with orer. Mr. Teaz, however, is making great perpreaching.sonal effort to have the people supplied withI have the names oi a few families who are de preaching every Sabbath.sirous of uniting in a colony to be located in By invitation of some of the pastors in IowaCalifornia. If there are any other such in the Presbytery we came that way from Minoeapohschnrch I would like they would communicate to Kansas City and were no little strengthenedwith me that all may be settled in one place, by the encouraging words of the brethren.We have a few people scattered through the If the Church in the East could only see whatgreat Northwest^ but there are not enough in an influence a strong Covenanter congregationone place to justify the appointment of a minister, in the West exerts over the surrounding neigh-At Synod I was informed that the names of borhood, we would have larger contributions tosixty Psalm singers had been obtained in St. Home Mission schemes, as church erection, sus-Paul and Minneapolis, and with the advice of tentation, etc. If we are to send forth missiontheBoard I visited those cities.aries to the foreign field the supplies must comeI found five in actual membership and a few from the home field.others who might become members if an or- The future of missions will ba largely influganization were formed.enced by the character of the Hnited States, andThe Northwest is a wonderful country. The no thinking man will deny that in the formationinhabitants are enterprising and thrifty. The of our national character the church has an imclimateis invigorating. It is remarkable that portant part to perform. Chnrles Sumner oncethere are few Psalm-singing organizations in that wrote of the time when our "national examplefair part of our land. The Board, however, con- will be more puissant than army or navy for thecurred in the suggestion that with the amount of conquest of the world."means at their disposal it would not be judicious What shall that national exnmple be ?just now to place a man in that field. 'I'he answer rests with the church. And inFarther South there are new colonies spring- the work of National Reformation the Coveingup. At Hastings, Nebraska, there are nanter Church has its part.about a dozen members. This is a city of fifteen This work cannot be more effectively donethousand inhabitants and one of the foremost in than by planting congregationa iu centera of in-Nebraska. fluence, and by this means souls can be savedIn northern Nebraska, on the North Loup and a testimony lifted iu behalf of national reliriver,a settlement is forming. In that part of gion.

Items of Missionary Intelligence. 231—At the regular meeting of New York Pres- tember to secure accommodations where the serbytery,held in Newburgh, Tuesday, Oct. 30th, vices could be conducted without exposure to thegreat interest was manifested in evangeUstic elements. Accordingly a store was rented onwork. The following admirable report wiU give the corner of 91st Street and Oth Avenne, where,the churches a fair idea of what is being done in since the 30th of September, a session of thethe city to reach with the gospel of eternal life Sunday Schoil haa been held on each Sabbath atthose who have not yet felt its uplifting pow;er : 2.30 p. m., and a gospi 1 service at 1.30. TheYour Committee on evangelistic work respect- average attendance at the gospel services hasfuHy submit the following report of the labor been 85, some of whom are professors of reUgionperformed under tbeir direction since your last who have no church homes, while many havemeeting. The Rev. J. M. McElhinney, whose made no profession.services were continued, labored within the While your committee feel encouraged by thebounds of tht* First Congregation until Jnly. measure of success already achieved, it is difficultAt the meeting of your committee in the month oi to predict with any degree of certainty what mayMay, no further apphcations having been received be the results. This section of the city on acforsuch services from any oi the churches, your count of recent improvements, as weU as the rapidCommittee, at the suggestion of Mr. McElhinney, growth and character of its population, opens up adecided after due consideration to enter upon promising fieldfor Christian work. If we sow thea new field. seed in faith and seek the aid of the Holy SpiritIn the westerly portion of the city, north of in impressing the gospel of our Lord and Sav-72nd St., a large number of dweUings with iour Jesus Christ upon the hearts of those whoapartments suitable for the accommodation of hear, we may go forward relying upon the promthemiddle classes have recently been erected, ise thatin due time we shaU reap if we faint not,and are being speedUy occupied ; giving prom-S. K, MoGhire, Chairman.ise of being in the near future one of the mostRobebt McAfee, Secretary.populous portions of the city. The location is —The churches will read with interest the twoalso so distant from any of our established reports that follow:churches as to make attendance on the regular The " Mission Band of Hope " of the Thirdservices inconvenient. Por these reasons your Ref. Pres. Church, New York City, was organcommitteeconsidered the field promising and ac- ized in March, 1888. Membership is limited tocordingly took steps to enter on the work. The girls from six to sixteen years of age. We haveprivUege of holding day services in the pavUion eighteen members enrolled. All moneys areof Eden Park at 91st Street and 9th Avenue raised by " mite-barrels " and are free-wiU offerwasobtained ; and on the 15th day of Jnly a ings. The firstopening of the barrels took placeSabbathSohool was started with flve pupils. Oct. 13, and the amount received was $25, whichThe sessions of the school were held at 9 a. m.; was devoted to the Giris' Boarding School atand on each succeeding Sabbath the attendance Latakiyeh. The meetings have been weU atwasincreased until the number of pupUs enrolled tended and a good degree of interest manifested.reached 90 with an attendance of 11. Gospel It has required no littie sacrifice for the giris toservices were also held at the same place at 2 k. give up this pleasure and deny themselves thatM., at which there was an average attendance of luxury so they might give the more to send then On account of the inclemency of the weather, " good news and glad tidings " to their littleit was found necessary in the latter part of Sep- heathen sisters in far-off Syria. " Thy Father

232 Items of Missionary Intelligence.which seeth in secret Himself shall reward theeopenly."Mrs F. M. Foster, President.Sadie L. Lundy, Secretary.—The second year of Coldenham L M.S. hasgone with its record before the Judge of all ; theall-seeing eye of God bas been noticing, and wehope guiding, our work all thrnugh the year.From the experience of the past we desire tolearn wisdom for the future.Onr society at present numbers twenty, an increaseof one during the year.We would record with thankfulness that noone of our members has at any time been removedby death.We have had ten regular meetings and onecalled meeting ; and the spirit of unity has everOur debt has been so far reduced as to bemanageable. We wUl stiU have all we can doto keep our finances square. We are settingout this year to make contributions to all theprevailed. The attendance has been very goodschemes of the ehurch. We scarcely hope toconsidering the distance the ladies have to come.reach our full quota at once, bnt we wiU try toEach member of the Society has been supplieddo something for all aud increase from year towith the name of a person in the community, " notyear.a member of any chnrch," to talk with, handOur sky stOI has its clouds but they are thetracts to, and have for a special subject of prayer,"in regard to uniting with the church" duringthe quarter, at the end of whichclouds that follow the storm. We hope for thesheis expected to hand in a report stating what hasbeen accompUshed by her.treasurer's report.Proceeds of lecture," Illustrated "Donations, .Dues,Expenses,Cash on hand, .For mission," Tracts,Missiotiary Herald,Disbursements.$5 2531.005.002100$68 2563.01$5.18$12 00.51.50Lecturer's expenses, . . . . 20 00Sent Presbyterial Convention of N. Y , 30.00$63 01Miss Sarah Cochrane, Treasurer.Miss Belle Angus, Secretary.—The following note explains itself :St. John, N B , Oct. 11, 1888.Dear Brother: Enclosed please find a ticketof admission to our proposed " Symposium onMissions."It will no doubt interest the many sympathizingand generous friends whom I met last year,to hear occasionally of our welfare in St. John.bright sunshine ere long.WiU you do the ladies of our W. M. S. thefavor to give their programme a place in theHerald op Mission News along with this noteand so very greatly oblige them and yours verysincerely,A. J. McFakland.SYMPOSIUM ON MISSIONS.I. Nov. 13.—"The Principle of Missions."Rev. L. G. MacNeal.II. Nov. 20.—-"The Christian ReligionAdapted to the Needs of the World."Rev. A. J. McFariand.HI. Nov. 21.—"The Hand of God in Missions."Rev. W. J. Stewart,IV. Dee. 4.--" The Opportunity of the Ages."Rev. J. B. Saer.V. Dec 11, -" Woman's Work for Missions."Miss Fannie Pahner.

Mission Monographs. 233VI. Dec. 18.—" Mission Work Among the Rev. G. 0. GatesHeathen." IX. Jan. 29.—" Qualifications of MissionMrs. John March.aries."VII. Jan. 15.—" Hindrances to Missions."E,ey_ j_ DeSoyres.Rev. W. Lawson. X. Feb. 5.—" Mission Statistics and TheirVIII. Jan. 22.—" Reciprocal Influence of Mis-Lessons."sioj^s-"Rev. Dr. Wilson.Address of Eev. Jas. S.Stewart at fareweU meetm-r held Ms coru; he merits and must receivethe cmrsesWITHHOLDING CORN.* neighbor desecrates the Sabbath, whether hisIn order to the world's npUfting and the com- sons are tempted by the saloon, whether he hasing of Christ's kingdom according to the prayer more wives than one. If I refuse to employ myand the prophecy, "Thy kingdom come," there resources for the removal of moral evils, to secureis a part for each one of us to perform, a reapon- the just execution of law and the right settlementsibility to meet. For this good work we are of moral questions, I am verily guilty in the sightresponsible up to the full measure of our capacity of God and men.and opportunity; according to the Scriptures, But passing to a higher interest I remark thatProv. 11:26, "He that withholdeth corn, the we are bound to labor for the improvement ofpeople shall curse him; but blessings shaU be the spiritual condition of our fellow men.upon the head of him that selleth it." Here sei "Man shaU not live by bread alone, butfishness is emphatically condemned, unselfishness by every word that proceeded out of the1. e., a hearty generousness, is commended. The mouth of God." The gospel of the Son ofnatural and proper relation of the human kind to God is absolutely necessary to spiritual life; buteach other is that of mutual helpfulness.there is great dearth in many quarters, and a sel-The duty is enforced by a law of God's provi- hsh tendency in many others to hoard. Millionsdence, having for its penalty the curse of God are perishing of spiritual hunger, thousands anandmen, and for its reward their blessing. Our swer their despairing cry by saying, " We have"corn" means our resources for doing good. If all we can do to take care of ourselves. If youwe refuse to employ them, the people who are cannot get the bread of life from some otherwronged shaU curse us, and with God's approval; source you must perish."the voice of the people being the voice of God: If any one of us is withholding his influenceif we cheerfully use our resources the blessing of from mission work he is guilty of hoarding corn.God and men shaU crown our Uves. We are If any one is restraining prayer before God, forbound to make'use of our resources for the ma- the sending forth of laborers, the health andterial improvement of our feUow men. We have safety of missionaries, the success of the gospel,no right to grow rich by taking selfish advantage he is guilty of hoarding corn. If any one is rooftheir necessities. In time of famine we must fusing to give of his means, thustdistributing thenot refuse to seU our corn, or even break bread bounty of which God has made him the steward,to the hungry. [Heb.J In the same way we are he is guilty of hoarding corn. If auy one is reconcernedin the worn? welfare of our fellow men. iasing to lay himself on God's altar, when heIt does makea difference to me whether my calls for a living sacrifice, he is guUty of hoardingia New Tork on the ere of lis departure for Syria.

234 Mission Monographs.oi his dying neighbors. On the other hand, this drink causing a fight in which fifty werethose who cheerfuUy and faithfuUy use their re- kiUed. Judas sold his Lord for seventeen dolsources;praying, giving, laboring, forsaking, if lars, but America hurries fiftysouls to the bar ofneed be, houses, brethren and lands for Christ's God for ninety cents. " Shall I not visit themsake and the gospel's, shall receive a hundred for these things ? saith the Lord; shall not myfold in this present Ufe, and in the world to come soul be avenged upon'' such a nation as this Vlife everlasting. For, " They that be wise shall (Jeremiah ix, 9.)shine as the brightness of the firmament; and "As drunk as a Christian," is, we are told, athey that turn many to righteousness, as the common proverb throughout heathendom. Astars for ever and ever.''missionary says: A heathen gentieman once saidReaUzing our responsibility and desiring to tome: " Look at those drunken sailors; thosemeet it, we have turned our steps toward distant are your Christians; that is the religion youSyria, praying, hoping, trusting that we may be would teach os?" " No," was the reply, " thatpermitted to preach to some the unsearchable is not religion, but the want of it. Onr Bibleriches of Christ. forbids drinking." " WeU," said he, " the KoranMISSIONARIES AND RUM. forbids drinking, and the Mohammedana do notdrink; the Vedaa forbid it, and the Hindooa doA few years ago, in a lonely hut in Central ^^^ (jj.iQ]j V7hat ia the good of your reUgion ifAfrica, a worn out man died upon hia kneea, j^ g^j^^gt gjjfoj.gg j^g q^h j^^g V—Margaret E.praying in the fervor of a consecrated, loyal soul Stewart in Herald and Presbyter." Oh, let Thy kingdom come!" He had openedhe thought, the great dark continent to the on- A REVOLUTION IN BIBLE CIRCULAwardmarch of Christian civUization and the UghtHON.of God's truth. Christendom shouted for joy The circulation of the Bible in Italy is a matandthe procession started across the sea. ter that engages the practical attention of manyWatch it. One missionary, 10 000 gaUons of Christians, and has a deep interest for all. Torum; one missionary, 10,000 gallons more of further this Bible societies have depots in therum; another missionary, another 10,000 gaUons; larger cities, colporteurs labour inthe smallerand so on, and on it goes, rum and missionaries, towns and vUlages, and native pastors and evanmissionaries and rum. Thus we touch the great gelists do all in their power; while scores of Eng-Congo State. Watch again. One convert to Ush, Scotch and American tourists, as they travelChrist, a hundred drunkards; one more, a hun- about from place to place, distribute, as theydred more. The missionary's heart grows sick; have opportunity, the gospels and other portionsit cries out, " Oh, Christians at home, for the of Scripture. We have no desire to undervaluelove of Christ, stop the rum." But as the cli- the result of all this effort, yet we know thatmate does its exhaustive work, and one by one those who are making it are the firstto admitthe brave workera sink beneath the burning sun, that it is small. Comparatively few Italians arehearts at home are discouraged, and the next in possession of the Word of God, and of thatship goes only with rum—without the missionary, number tbose who have received it gratuitouslyUnder the madness of intoxicating liquors sent rarely either value or read it. Without goingfrom Massachusetts, two hundred of those people into the question of what hinders the wider cir-(of Congo) slaughtered each other in a single culation of the Bible, we may mention those obday.Again we are told of a single gallon of stacles which are apparent to all. It comes to

Mission Monographs. 235Italy as a foreign book, and as an heretical book, for the culture oi every class, and ought to beand it is sold or given away by those who are found in every house." The statement continues,either foreigners themselves, or in the service and —"But an elegant edition, with illustrations,pay of foreigners. Up till now it has been a and having the text explained by notes, is mostproblem how to put into the hands of the people costly, and for the firsttime such an addition isof Italy the Word of God.being issued at a cheap rate by Edoardo Sonzog-That problem has, however, at last been most no, editor of the Secolo. The work is dividedunexpectedly, most effectively, and most happily into 210 parts of eight pages each, and it consolved.There is a daily newspaper published in tains 900 fine engravings, and it wiU be sold atMilan called II Secolo. It commends a large the price of one soldo (one halfpenny) per numcirculation,chiefly in the north, but also in aU ber, or ten francs (eight shiUings) ior the wholeother parts of the kingdom. It is not by any work. In the first two parts there are 14 enmeansa religious paper. On the contrary it is gravings, some of which are reproductions of oldif anything, irreUgious. At any rate, it has pictures, others representations of BibUcal scenesswung away from the church of Rome, and and of old monuments, and pictures of animals,swung so iar as to be against all churches. But plants, and flowers. A competent mind presidesit is a strictly moral, patriotic, and phUanthropic over the iUustration department. The text andnewspaper. Advocating liberal principles, it the notes are those of Martini, and accuracy enalsolets slip no opportunity of caUing public at- hances the value of the work. This artistic, usetentionto any distress or disaster that may have ful, and popular edition, the firstof its kind infallen upon any part of Italy, and of opening its Italy, is destined to have an extraordinary succolumnsto its relief. It is thus a paper that cess, only equalled by the marvel of its cheapness."finds many readers amongst the intelligent, push- From the above statement it will be seen thating, moral youth of the country, who, like itself, Edward Sonzogno believes the Bible to be aabhor clericaUsm and churchism in every shape good book, and that he is publishing it in theand form, and who are striving by education, and ordinary course of business as a commercialculture, and good, unselfish living to save them- speculation. Business and patriotism which exselvesand Italy.plain the existence of the Secolo account for theIn the Secolo for Monday, the 18th June, oc- enterprise. But may we not see the finger ofcurs this strange and striking announcement, God in all this ? Is it not wonderful that theunder the head " Artistic Literary Life : " Bible, a book forbidden to the people of Italy," There is a book that gathers up the poetry and should be issued by an Italian pubUsher at aU ?the science of humanity. That book is the Bible, And is it not wonderful that it should be issuedwith which no work in any literature can be in parts and at a price to bring it within thecompared. During a certain epoch the lUad reach of aU ? We know how many firma inwas for Greece its code of reUgious and poUtical England and in Scotland can testify to the facttradition, but the Bible contains the history of that the sale of a work is mightUy increased ifthe thought of ages. Believers and unbelievers that work be issued in parts at a low price.alike have read and have studied it. It was the Many can and are willing to subscribe a pennybook Newton read more frequently than any a week for a work, who could not or would notother. CromweU, when he went to battie, tied pay a few shillings for it at once. Then weit to his saddle-bow. Even Voltaire kept it al- know a book received in small instalments atways on his study table. It is a book necessary regular intervals is read, which in a big thick

236volume would be laid asidenot wonderful that the man who should havebeen led to undertake the publication of thisBible should be one identified in thought andaspiration with the rising youth of Italy, andwho, more than any man, or any pubhshinghouse in Italy, can command a tremendous circulationfor it ? On every bookstall and kiosque,and at every railway station in the kingdom, youfind the Secolo, and side by side with that popularcolumns, and very full notes below, and a pronewspaper Edward Sonzogno can place the fusion of illustrations. It is, indeed, a " marBible.vel of cheapness."He has already done this. The first two parts It ia true tbat the edition is that of Martini,of his Bible are out, and I find them wherever and that the notes are his too. As such, boththere is a newspaper shop in this city oi Venice? text and notes contain Romish errors, whichwhere I now am, and I see he says on the cover we could wish effaced. Still, these are notthat it can be got anywhere in Italy, and he has such as to hide from the mind and heart of thealso made arrangements to send it to subscribers reader Him of whom all Scripture testifies,in any part of the world. On the cover he our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And theprints another recommendation of his work, only distribution of this work will familiarize tbeone or two sentences of which I translate. He Italians with the nature of the Bible, and dosays, ' The Bible is denominated 1 he Book per away with the prejudice so assiduously promotedexcellenza, and also The Book of Books. Noby the priesthood, wbich says that it isother book wns ever considered of such importancean heretical book of the " Protestanti," andin the history of Uterature, nor has given thus it will prepare the way for the circulationsuch an impulse to thought and intelligence in in due time of other and better versions. Maygeneral ; no other book so merits to be an objectthe Word of God in Italy have free courseof profound study.'It is too soon to speak of the success of thisand be glorified, and before it may that sysenterprise. Bnt, as aU the shops in this city atwhich I have made inquiry have sold a largenumber of copies, some of tbem as many as ahundred and fifty, we may safely say that theproblem of the circulation of the Bible in Italyhas been solved.One other thing worthy ot being noted isMission Monographs.Once more, is it against the sale of the Bible some months ago,it dare not now exercise.I think it only right to say, in closing, thatthe get up of the work is all that its publishersays it is. It is printed on good paper of foliosize, and the type is large and clear. In appearanceit is not unlike those large familyBibles in uae among ourselves, having a fewverses of text at tbe top of each page in twotem of error and ignorance, and superstitionand idolatry, that has so long held the peoplein darkneaa and slavery, be speedily and irrevocablydestroyed.P. 8.—The avidity with which the peopleof Italy are purchasing thia Bible is a marvel,only equalled to its strange publication.Already 50,000 copies of the firstparts havebeen printed, and almost all disposed of.this, the timeliness of this publication. Itcomes immediately after the adoption of the Surely there is a blessed " hunger for thenew Penal Code by the House of Deputies, of Word of God.",—Missionary Becord of ihewhioh I have already written. The pressure United Presbyterian Ghurch, Scotland.that the Church would have brought to bear

A private letter from Dr. Metheny, dated We have been assured that our government17th September, furnishes the following ex- will protect us in our rights. But above andtracts:infinitely better we have the promise of JesusFour persons were added to the ohurch at Himself. I had scarcely finishedpreparing aour last communion in Kuzneh, Sabbath 9th sermon from the words I Kings xix, 7, "RiseSeptember. One of them was an elderly An- and eat for the journey is too great for thee,"sairiyeh -sfoman whom I baptized. It was a (Great in length—great in incidents. Wejoyful occasion to see a Pagan woman leave need strength from on high which we can onlyher gods and come to Christ. She had been obtain through, in and by the ordinances)under instruction for just one year and was led when I got Brother Miller's August 24th, saytoOhrist, first by His providence in the fam- ing,"BrotherSommerville has received anoteine causing her to seek relief at the Adana irom Bev. Smith saying he has decided not tosohool where she fonnd the true bread that go to Oilicia."cometh down from heaven. For a long time Here we had one of our firststunnins: incitecome you will be hearing of the far reach- dents since we had eaten to prepare us for ouring influence of that famine relief. It was a journey to Horeb the mount of God. I wasblessed providence to many. We have rented riding in the cars to Adana when I read thethe same house again and are preparing for letter. I had been searching for a house foranother year's work. What will it be 1 You our brother and was sbout to seek a specialare fully aware of my harp-string, schools, teacher for him, and we all had been joyfullyschools, schools. One grain of seed sown can making plans to suit the new scale of ouronly produce in proportion to the one seed work so as to early avail ourselves of everysown. I do not expect more. But I do ex- factor we oould possibly use to hurry forwardpect large crops from extensive sowing. I do the work, when I was overwhelmed by thosenot expect a multitude to be converted where few words—" decided not to go to CUicia."only a few have been taught Our principle Long accustomed and well inured to disapthenis sow just as extensively as we possibly pointments we endeavor to be prepared before •can—place the Word of life before just as hand for them. But this was a great one, amany minds as oan be possibly reached by great, great one. But still we have preparedevery evangelical method used by Christen to go forward juat as if he had come and fallendom all the world over.at our side as so many dear ones have beforeNow I conclude that when the churoh seea'^ him 1 But what a gap;! Who wUI fill it ?as I hope she surely will, the results of last Will he yet come forward? I fear not. Stillyear's efforts—the proportion of money spent, we prav the Lord of the harvest to send bythe number of missionaries and laborers em- whom He will send. We would not have itployed, she will double her efforts. Notwith- otherwise. We have frequently asked Himstanding the opposition ofthe government,'the not to allow anyone to come who has not beenefforts and expenditures of the ohurch have "singled out"—" separated by the Holybeen more highly blessed than any year in all Spirit." What is next in store for us 1 Histhe history of the mission. The moral of it will be done.aU is, try it again on the same lines as far as Please thank Brother Hugh O'NeiU for hispossible ^'""^ liberality. Can you not just throw out

238 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.some kind little hint to him and others who vicinity. We took five of the more advancedlike him have the "wherewithal" of ihe great into our boys' boarding school in Latakia inneed there is in tbis fieldfor buildings. You the plaoe of some who graduated last summer.are aware that our coming here meant leaving The othera had to be rejected ; tbe weepingour summer house and our city home in Lata- and wailing tbat followed this rejection waskia both ol which I built at my own expense, enough to move a heart of stone, and I amWe left tbere willingly. But our coming here sure, if the holders of the funds of our Masternecessitated a like expense here and we were could only realize the faots of the case, theaecompelled to pay it or live in miserable houses, tears would soon be diied and ihe children beThe best offered for rent are miserable. I back in achool, and we hope and pray ihat thiahave, I ihink, done my ahare and run risks in will be the state of the case before the newthis uncivilized land whioh should not fall on year begins.a single individual. We did it cheerfully but, I spent Sabbath September 30tb, in Suadealarge as our buildings are, tbey are inadequate, and opened tbe achool Monday morning, andOur work has grown faster and larger than then rode to Kessab.we contemplated. We wish to do all that can On Tuesday, Mrs. Easson, Mizzie and selfbe done, and do it iu connection with our left Kessab for Inkzik, stopping about threebrethren at home, sharing witb them every hours in Ourdi to arrange for theôpening of arisk, honor and reward—risk did I say ? There school, the people seeming very earnest, and Iis CO risk, only a considerable sum will be neo, trust we will soon have a good school there.essary. I would put it ali down if I bad it. We spent Tuesday night and Wednesday atUnder date October 11, Rev. Henry Easaon Inkzik. The leaven is working some here,writes from Latakia: but the fear of the bishop holds them. WeYour welcome letter of 4th ult. was received pray that they may be given that perfect lovealittle over a week ago. I had just returned whi.3h casteth out fear.to Kessab from Sundea where I bad been to On Thursday we oame to Gunnimia wherere-open the schools. Not having received the we stayed till Monday holding communionexpected words about help for Suadea, I did services. We preached seven times duringnot dare to open as la,st year, but concluded the days of communion and examined and adtotake in only the boys from the Suadea val- milted 14 persons, 7 males and 7 females toley. We had ten laat year, but when we counted churoh feUowship. We had a very pleasanttne new applicants we found we could not and profitable season.take them a'l. We admitted for the present We have now 30 members here and 13 ohUfifteenboys. They clothe themselves and dren under 10 years of age making a Protesfurniahtheir own beds and do their own wash- tant community of 43 peraona.ing, thua making it leas expensive. The I notice what you say about some peopleteachers and servant being on the ground we not wishing to give to tbe mountain schools,thought we could do tbis with the £100 prom- because they are " so often interrupted," andised by Misa Oxley, the produce ofthe gardens in reply I will only give you a little historyand donations, etc. The day sohool will be of the village of Gunnimia.larger this year than ever before, if preaent ap- It ia true that our schools bave often beenpearances do not prove falae. 'This left us closed, but tlie work atill went on. In ordersixteen boys on our hands from Latakia and to underatand how this could be we must re-

Notes and Eemews. 239member what the work is. It is not school governor of the district, after hearing the oaseteaching but the conversion oi sinners whether andthe governor gave him permission to returnolder young, andit/je fenwîiwôf them to Jesus and reside in the village acd promised himthe Ohrist. School teaohing is only one of the protection. He also gave him a written ordermeans by whioh thia is done. House to house to the Armenian chief requiring him to seeteaching is also employed, and when the that no one molested him, but at the sameschool is closed the teacher has more time for time the governor forbade him to open histhis work; again the word is preached offl- sohool for tbe present. Now what is the reciallyand unofiSoially. Our teachers you see suit of all this teaohing and preaohing, alarenot like sohool teachers whose work is though with many interruptions. A Protesdonewhen their schools are closed. Our tant commuuity oi 43 persons of whom 30 areteachers are all good Bible students and oom- communioants in the church; so you see Godbine sohool teaching with evangelistio work. can make even interruptions work out the endFor example—the sohool ai Gunnimia was he has in view.opened about ten years ago; it has not been open Of course for the good of the ohurch of theone-third of the time. The first teacher re- future the children ought to be educated, andmained about six months, the second about in some plaees we could do very little withouttwoyearsandthepresentteaoherhas been there a school; hence when we see the teacher isabout one year and three montha, but has not doing no apparent good where he is we removebeen able to have his sohool open more than him to another village, and thus the work goesthree or four months of this time. About two on.months ago, the Armenian chief of the vUlage The school at Larnaca has been re-openedcame to him, cursed him and his religion, and with larger and better apartments. We willtold him that if he did not leave the village a need for this year about £100 for the Larnacacharge would be made against him to the gov- school. We are going to try and take a fewernment. He would report to the govern- pay pupOs and if we succeed this will be rementthat he had cursed the religion of Mo- duced a little. I will keep the account ofhammedj etc. The Protestant at whose houae funds and expenditures for Cyprus separate, ashe was staying got frightened and advised him I do that of Suadea; so when Mr. Miller sendsto leave the place. He oame to Latakia and money meant for Cyprus please have bim statereported the oase to Miss Wylie; a number of the fact.the brethren met at mission house for a season We were very sorry to hear of Mr. Smith'sof prayer. At last, after thinking the matter change of mind, for Dr. Metheny is in greatover and consulting together, we felt sure the need of help, and he is in need of it now. Letgovernor would protect him in his right to live us pray the Lord to supply his plaoe. He alonein the village, ao we sent him to M. Iaa one of oan do it.the overseers oi our mouatain schools, wh i ia We are longing to aee Mr. Stewart and hopequite a diplomat. He went with him to the he will reach us \i\ safety and in health.The note accompanying the Foreign Mis- the 10,970 communicants in the Reformedsion Circular ic a previous issue oi the Her- Presbyterian Church represent at least 2,150ALD OF Mission News, contains a ridiculous families, it should be an easy matter for themmistake. The firstsentenoe should read: " If to give all the money oalled for in the fore

240 Notes and Beviews.going circular." Then correct the table estimatingthe amount that each family wouldhave to contilbute to raise the Synodical appropriationof $15,000.Families. Contributions.50 X 50 = $2500100 X 25 = 250050 X 20 = 1000100 X 15 = 1500250 X 10 = 2500500 X 5 = 25001000 X 2.50= 2500-$15000We shall not regret this blunder, it it onlyserves to draw speoial attention to the circularand so lead our readers to consider morecarefully than they would otherwise havedone the pressing claims of the Foreign Mission.There is no reason why the congregationsshould not pay the appropriation in full.The whole amount might be in tbe Treasurybefore the close of the year without any onedenying bimself or his family a single luxuryat the holiday season.—Churches and individuals are again remindedthat all the money called for and requiredto furniaSla home for the Boys' Sohoolin Latakia, has not been received. Whilesome, whose mnans are limited, have contributedwith great liberality, many who havelarge resources on which to draw, have madeand resolving to do more than ever to supportand extend their work.—In this, the closing number of our littlemonthly for 1888, we wish to express ourthanks to all who have sustained us in this enterprise.Some brethren, who would not careto have us give their names, have ordered forgratuitous circulation extra copies containingsome article of special interest to them, whUeothers have sent the magazine regularly tofriends. In this way they have widened thecirculation and helped us to meet necessaryexpenses. But we are especially indebted tohundreds of subscribers who renew promptly,and not seldom send with their monev, assur-

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