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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