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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