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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 t^e 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