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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