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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