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THE  CHURCH 


AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD 


PUBLISHED     MONTHLY 


BY  ORDER  OF 

THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 

IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OP  AMERICA. 


Volume  XV 


PRESBYTERIAN  BOARD  OP  PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH- SCHOOL  WORK, 

No.    1334  Chestnut  Strbkt, 

PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 

1894. 


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INDEX  TO  VOLUME  XV. 


PAQK 

Abstain  for  a  Week  to  Try  Your  Appetite,  67 

Acknowledgement, 151 

Across  the  Border, 420 

Adirondacks,  Presbyterian  Churches  in,    .  317 

Africa,  A  Bantu  Paper,        ....  254 

Africa,  A  Christian's  Influence,          .        .  523 

Africa,  A  Dying  Child,        ....  341 

Africa,  Annual  Report  of  Lovedale,  .        .  477 

Africa,  Bantu  Languages,   ....  255 

Africa,  Basotuland, 522 

Africa,  Belief  of  Wise  Men  of  Morocco,      .  77 

Africa,  Berbers, ,  256 

Africa,  Bulletin  from  Bfulen,     .        .        .  483 

Africa,  Cape  General  Mission,    •        .        .  356 

Africa,  Changes  Effected,    ....  523 

Africa,  Church  Organization,      .        .        .  288 

Africa,  Christian  Girls'  Boarding  School,  .  77 

Africa,  Colonists  and  Natives  in  Natal,      .  342 

Africa,  Congo  Free  State,   ....  433 

Africa,  Council  of  Presbyterians,        .        .  432 

Africa,  Curious  Fragmeut  of  Humanity,    .  33 

Africa,  England's  Mission,          .        .        .  523 

Africa,  Fang  of  West,          ....  482 

Africa,  Fear  of  Death,          ....  343 

Africa,  Fez, 78 

Africa  in  Current  History,                            .  237 

Afri'ca,  Kaffir  Church,         ....  77 

Africa,  Kaffirs  and  Bishop  William  Taylor,  431 

Africa,  Ivanguage  of  Hausa,        .        .        .  341 

Africa,  Languages  of,           ....  254 

Africa,  Letter  from, 213 

Africa,  Liquor  Traffic,  .        .        .     255,  344 

Africa,  Mang'anja  Dictionary,    .        .        .  342 

Africa,  Mashona  and  Ophir,       .                .  254 

Africa,  Metabele, 432 

Africa,  Missionary  Journeying  in  68,  76 

Africa,  Missionary  Life  in,          .        .        .  246 

Africa,  Missions  m, 479 

Africa,  Rev.  Mr.  Sheppard,        .         .        .  293 

Africa,  Rise  of  Our  Eastern  African  Empire,  287 

Africa,  Roman  Catholic  New  Testament,  254 
Africa,  Schools  on  Lake  Nyassa,         .        •341 

Africa,  Settled  in, 342 

Africa,  Suggestive  Hints  for  Study,        429,  520 


Africa,  Training  Missionaries  for, 
Africa,  Value  of  a  Plow,  .  .  .  . 
Africa,  Wesleyan  Converts  in  Kaffraria,  . 
Africa,  We  Would  Sing  if  We  Knew  How, 
Africa,  Woman's  Work,  .... 
Africa,  Work  for  Malays,    .        ,        .        . 


168 
76 
75 
341 
433 
431 


227,  314 


Africa,  Zulu  Characteristics, 

Alaska,  Arctic  Eskimos  of, 

Alaska,  Dr.  Jackson's  Museum, 

Alaska,  Gov.  Sheaklcy's  Testimony, 

Alaska,  Influence  of  Religion, 

Alaska,  Letters  from,  . 

Alaska,  Liquor,  . 

Alaska,  Mourning, 

Alaska,  Power  ofthe  Gospel, 

Alaska,  Safety  of  Property, 

Alaska,  Tradition, 

Albert  Island, 

Alma  College,  Alma,  Mich., 

A.  L.  O.  E., 

American  Presbyterianism, 

Among  the  Buckeyes, 

Appropriations  for  1893-^  (College  Aid) 

Arabia,  Memorial  to  Keith  Falconer, 

Arabia,  Missionary  Workers, 

Asheville,  N.  C,  Industrial  School,   . 

Assam,  Murder  in,      . 

Auburn  Seminary,       .... 

Australia,  Work  for  Kanaka  Laborers, 

Battle  in  the  Beanfield, 

Beautiful  Life, 

Belgian  Missionary  Church, 

Bellevue, 

Bermuda,  Presbyterian  Church  in  Warwick 
Best  Use  of  Money,    .... 

Bible  in  Syria, 

Bible  Translation  in  India, 
Bishop,  Mrs.  Isabella  Bird,  on  Missions, 
Black,  Mr.,  Gone,        .... 
Blind  Jennie's  Sunday-school,    . 
Bocuxl  of  Church  Erection,  Its  History, 
Bohemian  Parish  Work,  New  York,  . 
Bohemians  in  Kansas,         .        .        .     134, 
Book  Notices,      .        .     153,  252,  339,  436,  526 

Boy  Jesus, 164 

Brazil,  Encouragement  at  Sao  Paulo, 
Brazil,  Revival  in  Two  Languages,    . 
Brazil,  Successful  Year  at  Bahia, 
Bristol,  Pa.,  Church  at        .        .        . 
Broken  Bow,  Nebraska 
Brookfield  College,  Brookfield,  Mo., 
Brooks,  J.  Duncan,  Death  of 
Buddhist  Temples  in  United  States, 
Building  a  Nebraska  Church, 
Bulgaria,  Influence  of  Robert  College, 
Bulletin  from  Efulen, 


522 

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308 

3'4 
433 
502 

254 
254 
127 

433 
433 
248 
409 
252 
286 
281 
97 
523 
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126 

524 
238 
525 
426 
126 
156 
231 

75 

38 
457 

22 
106 
286 
313 
273 

38 
217 


196 
152 
466 
276 
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142 

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Burma,  Chan^^  of  Methods  Necessary,      .     522 
Burma,  Gleanmgs  from       ....    433 

California, 94 

California,  Christian  Patriotism,        .        .218 
California,  Letter  from,      .        .        .        .317 

Care  for  the  Poor, 127 

Carmcl,  N.  Y.,  Church  at  ...    278 

Catholic  Law  Suit, 217 

Chautauqua,  Pres.  Missionary  House,        .    465 
Cheeseman_^  President,  of  Liberia,      .        .    321 


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na.  Letters  from 


na.  Making  up  His  Jewels, 

na,  Materia  Medica, 

na,  Medical  Work, 

na.  Medical  Work, 

na.  Missionary  Colleges, 

na.  Mission  Field  of  Peking, 

na,  Mission  Press  at  Shanghai, 

na.  Missions  in,    . 

na.  Mob  at  Yeung  Kong, 

na.  Names,     .... 

na.  Native  Helper's  Philosophy, 

na,  Native  Pastors  in  Central, 


125,  215,  485,  486 


431 


China,  Nine  Miss'y  Societies  in  Canton, 


na.  Offering  of  Peking  School  Boys, 

na.  Opportunities  for  Work, 

na.  Plans  for  Self-support,     • 

na,  Presbj'tery  of  Amoy, 

na.  Progress  in  Forty-five  Years, 

na,  Propitiating  Evil  Spirits, 

na.  Province  of  Hainan, 

na.  Railway,  .... 

na.  Railway  Surveying, 

na,  Reason  for  Sending  Girls  to 

School, 

na,  Record  of  1893  at  one  Station, 
na,  Reference  New  Testament,     . 
Return  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Matcer  to^ 


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306 

106 

432 
166 


ldren*s  Sabbath, 

Idren's  Work  for  Children, 

na,  A  Christian  Baker, 

na,  A  Christian  Family, 

na,  A  Day  with  Confucius,   . 

na,  A  Dilieent  Convert, 

na,  Age  of  Converts, 

na,  A  God  Who  Saves  Women, 

na,  Arabic-speaking  Evangelists, 

na,  Blind  in  ... 

na.  Bound  Feet,    .        .        .        .       75 

na.  Buying  and  Selling  Wives,     .        .    342 

na,  Character  of  Women,      .  .    344 

na.  Christian  Endeavor  in    .        .        .     107 

na.  Col.  Denby  and  Missionaries,         .    434 

na.  Communion  Services,     .        .        .    466 

na.  Culture  of  Poppy,  .        .        .    342 

na.  Death  of  Dr.  Nevins,       .       21,  105,  no 

na,  Denominational  Differences,  .    288 

na,  Emotional  Manifestations,      .        .    525 

na,  Encour^ing  Report  from  Canton,     372 

na,  Enervating  Effects  of  Life  in  .    255 

na.  Epidemics 256 

na.  Faith  of  Native  Christians,      .  76 

na.  Gospel  Boat, 115 

na.  Grave  a  Different  Place,  .        .341 

na.  Habits  of  Manchurians,  .        .    343 

na.  Income  from  Opium  Trade,  .  .  344 
na.  Increase  of  Mission  Force,  .  .198 
na  Inland  Mission,  1893,       .        .        .521 


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434 
524 
115 
106 

115 
115 
113 
467 

342 
248 
120 
466 
167 
343.  372 
435 
76 

105 
433 
114 
522 
168 


251 
114 
122 
196 


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344 
255 
254 
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432 
341 
199 

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343 
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433 
342 
474 
169 
126,  128 
207 
218 
256 

335 
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275 
273 


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China,  Sawmill  in  Shantung, 

China,  School  Work  at  Canton, 

China,  Secrets  of  Success  in  Shantung,     . 

China,  Shantung  Missionary  Conference, 

China,  Shantung  Mission — Its  Progress 

and  Promise,        ..... 
China,  Shantung  Presbytery, 
China,  Sok-tai— The  Courage  of  His  Faith 
China,  Sweet  Revenge,       .... 
China,  Testimony  to  the  Old  Testament, 
China,  The  Great  Missionary  Field,  . 
China,  Tiger's  Bones  as  Medicine, 
China,  Two  Messages  from, 
China,  Viceroy's  Physician, 
China,  Wages  Spent  for  Opium, 
China,  Watchman,  What  of  the  Night? 
China,  Woman's  Hospital  Needed,    . 
China,  Word  for  Christian, 
Chinese  Girl  Slaves,    .... 
Chinese  Goddess, — ^Tai  Shan  Nai  Nai, 
Chinese  Gordon's  Epitaph, 
Chinese  in  Mexico,     .... 
Christian  Activities  of  Japan,     . 
Christian  Endeavor  Gleanings,  . 
Christian  Endeavor  Societies,     . 
Christian  Heroism  in  Mexico,    . 
Christian  Patriotism  in  California, 
Christian  Wealth,        ... 
Christmas  Box,    .... 
Church  Erection  Among  the  Pimas, 
Church  Erection, — Departments  of  Work, 
Church  Erection,  Board  of— Its  History, 
Church  Erection,  Board  of— Present  Situa- 
tion,       

Church  Erection,  Coming  Year, 
Church  Erection,  Response  from  Synods, 
Church  Erection,  Special  Appeals,     . 
Church  Erection,  The  Year's  Work, 
Church  Missionary  Society,  England, 
Church  Statistics, 
Church  Work,      .... 
Church  Work  and  Church  Growth, 

Cities, 

Cities,  Homes  Needed, 
Civilization  and  Christianity^, 
Collections  in  a  Home  Mission  Church, 
College  and  Seminary  Notes, 

53.  240,  330.  413.  505 

College  Board, 93 

College  Men  as  Pioneers,    ....    230 

College  of  Idaho, 96 

College  of  Montana, 95 

Colleges  and  Academies,  .  .  .  .101 
Colleges  and  Academies,  Fifty  Thousand 

Dollars, 230 

Colleges,  Day  of  Prayer  for,  .  .  .  238 
Colorado,  Letters  from,      .     137,  226,  314,  418 

Comforter,  The, 455 

Confucius,  A  Day  with,       .        .        .        .193 
Congregational  Woman's  Societies,  Contri- 
butions,          168 

Convention  of  Sabbath-school  Missionaries,    5 13 

Convert  to  Missions, 79 

Corinne,  Utah,  Church  Building  Destroyed,  395 
Corning  Academy,  Corning,  Iowa,  .  .  97 
Cross  Bearer's  Missionary  Reading  Circle,  79 
Cruel  Tyrant,  ....  165,338,517 
Curious  Fragment  of  African  Humanity,  .  33 
Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges,         .        .        .238 


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Deep  Sea  Fishermen,  Missions  to,  .  .  168 
Denominational  Distinctions   in  Mission 

Fields, 288 

Do  Not  Worry,    • 428 

Drexel,  Anthony  J., 156 

Dr.  Hodge's  Introduction,  .        .51 

Dr.  Poor's  Ffiue well, 51 

East  and  West, 96 

East  Indians  in  Trinidad,    .        .        .        .167 
Educated  Ministry,  a  Fundamental  Char- 
acteristic of  Our  Church,      .        .        .  139 

Education, 50 

Eloquence  and  Liberality,           .        .        .  308 

Enduring  Hardness, 395 

English  the  Universal  Tongue,           .        .  254 
Erromanga,  Baptism  of  Narie  Tangkon,  523 
Evening's  Preaching  at  Lohari  Gate,  La- 
hore,       202 

Ever-During  Word, 67 

Example  in  Giving, 411 

Expert  Testimony, 96 

Expression  of  Thanks  to  an  Enlightened 

and  Friendly  Sovereign,      .        .        .  290 

Extension  of  Christianity,           .        .        .  526 

Faith  and  Reason, 458 

Fang  of  West  Africa,           ....  482 

Features  of  S.  S.  Miss'y  Work  in  Winter,  323 

Few  Words  to  Persons  of  Means,        .        .  62 

Fidda,           .        .  • 69 

Football,  A  Further  Word  About,        .         .  158 

Football  and  Foreign  Missions,          .        .  287 

Foreign  Missionary  History  and  Biography ,  79 
Foreign  Mission  Letters, 

Africa, 213 

China,  .        .  125,  215, 485, 486 

I^aos, 37 

Persia,  ....         36, 37,  215 

Foreign  Missions,  Treasurer's  Statement, 

17.  i95»  371 
Free  Church  of  Scotland,  History,  .  .  75 
Free  Church  ot  Scotland,  Jubilee,       .  17 

Freedmen,  Church  Work,  .        .        .410 

Freedmen,  Samples  from  our  Letter  File, 

235,  319 
Freedmen 's  Board  as  a  Building  and  Loan 

Agency, 54 

Free  Libraries, 149 

French  Canadians, 308 

General  Assembly, 459 

German  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary,  504 
Giving  in  Hard  Tmies,  ....  367 
Gleanings  at  Home  and  Abroad, 

75»  166,253,341,431.521 
Gospel  m  the  Ranches  of  Mexico,  .212 

Gospel  Steamer  *•  John  Williams,"  .     466 

Gospel  Work  in  Western  Africa,  .  .  17,  70 
Grateful  Nestorians,  ....     285 

Great  Agencjr  of  Nineteenth  Century,  .  63 
Greek  Archbishop  of  Zante  at  Bengal,  .  525 
Greeks  in  New  York,  ....      75 

Greeneville  and  Tusculum  College,    .    326,  35S 

Grievous  Fault, 151 

Guatemala,  Missions  in,      .        .        .        .     205 

Halt,  The, 397 

Handsome  Action, 153 

Hard  Times  and  Our  Work,  .  .  .418 
Hard  Times  in  Home  Mission  Churches,  39,  218 
Harvest  Sabbath  in  Laos,  ....  390 
llawaii,  Feather  Robe,        .        .        .        .343 


Heroes  and  Heroines,  ....    397 

Heroes  without  Heroics,    ....      72 

Heroism, 94 

Hindu  in  Search  of  Truth,  .        .        .    476 

Hodge,  Dr.,  Introduction,  .        .        .51 

Hodge,  Rev.  Charles,  .        .        .        .503 

Holland  an  Asylum, 75 

Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  •  .  .  .75 
Home  Call  of  a  Veteran,  ....  469 
Home  Missions  Appointments, 

48.  129,  225,  309,  408,  502 
Home  Mission  Board  in  Arrears,  .  .  129 
Home  Mission  Churches,  Revivals,  307,  308,  395 
Home  Missions,  Financial  Statement,  .  308 
Home  Missions,  Grand  Showing,  .  .  487 
Home  Mission  Letters, 

Alaska,  ....      227,  314, 502 

California, 317 

Colorado,      .        .  137,  226, 314, 408 

Illinois, 500 

Indian  Territor}',  .        .      138,  229, 501 

Iowa, 138,  228 

Kansas, 317, 499 

Kentucky, 499 

Michigan, 135 

Minnesota,    .         .        .      227,  316,  407,  498 

Montana 138,  404 

Nebraska, 47»  48 

New  Hampshire,  ....    406 

New  Mexico,        .        .       136,  225,  314,  405 

New  York, 48,  317 

North  Carolina, 496 

North  Dakota, 48 

Oklahoma  Territory,    .  .        .138 

Oregon, 403 

Pennsylvania, 135 

South  Dakota, 48 

Tennessee, 228, 495 

Utah,     .        .        .        .136,  226, 402, 501 

West  Virginia, 406 

Wisconsin, 137, 405 

Wyoming, 407, 497 

Home  Missions,  Receipts  and  Estimates,  487 
Home  Mission  Treasury,  ....  38 
Home  Mission  Work  in  Michigan,  .  .  44 
Home  Mission  Work  in  Missouri,  .  .  46 
Home  Mission  Work  in  Older  States,  .  395 
Honolulu,  Missionaries  from  San  Fran- 
cisco,      166 

Hopeful    Aspects    of    Mission    Work    in 

Japan, 107,  291 

Hull  House,  Chicago,  .        .        .        .162 

Humbert,  King,  at  Waldensian  Synod,  .  166 
Hungarian  Missions  in  Pennsylvania,        .    511 

Hymnal,  New, 512 

Hyrum,  Utah,  Results  of  School  Work,  .  217 
Icelanders  in  Manitoba,       .        .        .        .166 

Idaho,  College  of, 96 

Illinois,  Letter  from, 500 

Immigration,  Perils  of,  ....  221 
Inconsistencies  of  Christians,  .  .  .  287 
India,  An  Educated  Bengali  Christian,  .  167 
India,  An  Evening's  Preaching  at  Lahore  202 
India,  A  Sweeper's  Daughter,  ...  77 
India,  Attempt  to  Revive  Hinduism,  .     255 

India,  Baptisms  in  Methodist  Missions,     .     432 

India,  Battle  of  Hastings 79 

India,  Beasts,  Birds  and  Reptiles,  .  .  166 
India,  Bible  Translation  in,         .         .         .22 


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ndia,  Borahs,      .... 
ndia,  Brahmin  Convicted  of  Sin, 
ndia,  Calcutta  Bible  Society,     . 
*ia,  Caste  Christians, 

ia.  Caste  Distinctions,   . 

a,  Caste  Waning, 

a,  Change  of  Peeling,  . 

a.  Children  of  Missionaries, 

ia,  Christ  a  Rest-stone, 

ia.  Christian  University, 

a,  Christ  the  King, 

ia.  Conversion  of  Women,    . 

a.  Danger,      .... 

a,  Denominational  lyines,    . 

a.  Drink  Habit,    . 
Education, 

la,  Effect  of  Christ's  Love,    . 

a,  English  Government, 

a.  Gleanings  from, 

la.  Good  Listeners, 
ndia,  Hill  Tribes, 
Hindrances, 

a,  Hindu  in  Search  of  Truth, 

ia,  Immoral  Literature, 

Impressions  of  a  Consul-General , 

a,  Increase  of  Christian  Community 

a.  Its  Want,  .... 

ndia,  Jumna  Girls' School, 
"*     Languages,       .... 

a,  Liberality  of  Foreign  Residents, 

a,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Bengal, 

a,  Maduri  Mission, 

a.  Magic  Lantern  Slides, 

ia,  Mangs, 

a,  Methodists,       .... 

ia.  Missionary  Courage, 

a.  Mission  of  Pres.  Church,  Canada, 

a.  Missions  in,      . 

a,  Mothers  Searching  for  their  Children 

a,  Mr.  P.  C.  Mozoomdar, 
Mr.  Wilder  in  Calcutte,    . 

a,  Native  Pastors, 

ia.  Natives  and  Eurasians,    . 

a.  New  and  Old  Hearers, 

a,  New  Year's  Outlook, 

ia,  No  Word  for  Home, 

a.  Old  Man  and  Scriptures,  . 


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a,  Opponents  of  Christianity, 
a,  Pariahs, 


a.  Prayer  of  a  Woman, 
a.  Prospects  of  Conversion, 
Real  Estate  Investments, 
a.  Reason  or  Instinct, 
a,  Religious  People, 
a,  Religious  Sentiment, 
a,  Remains  of  Human  Sacrifice, 
a,  Sabbath,  .        .        .        . 

a,  Sangli  and  Miraj,     . 
ia,  Scripture  Texts  m  Cars, 
a.  Secret  Faith,     .        .        .        . 
ia,  Shall  Women  Baptize?     . 
ia»  Suggestive  Hints  for  Study,     . 
Ia,  Support  of  Native  Pastors, 
a,  Tell  Us  Slowly, 
a,  Telugu  Mission, 
a.  Temperance  in  British  Army, 


|i;dia,  Testimony  to  Christianity, 


432 
300 
256 
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166 
254 
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341 
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India,  The  Panchayat, 
India,  Transmigration  of  Souls, 
India,  What  Hath  God  Wrought  ?, 
India,  Woman's  Influence, 
India,  Wonderful  Work  of  God, 
India,  Woodstock  School, 
India,  Work  in  the  Punjab, 

Indiana, 

Indiana,  Svnodical  Self-support, 
Indian  Helper,    .... 
Indian  Presbytery 
Indian  Question,  White  Factor, 

Indians, 

Indians  at  Chicago,     . 

Indian  Schools, 

Indians,  Church  of  Girls,    . 

Indian,  Shaking  Hands  with  the  Heart,     . 

Indians,  Liberfdity  of  Christian  Dakotas, 

Indians,  Nez  Perce,  Searching  for  True 

Religion, 318 

Indians  on  Pacific  Coast,    ....    432 

Indians,  Osages, 398 

Indian  Territory,  Lettors  from         138,  229,  501 


127, 


344 
344 
188 

433 
102 
299 
303 
183 
489 
254 
397 
128 

130 
255 
128 
522 
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341 


Indian,  What  Shall  We  Do  ?, 

Indian  Woman's  Prayer,     .... 

International  Missionary  Union, 

Iowa,  Letters  from,     .        .        •        .     137 

Italian  Village  Embracing  Protestantism, 

Japan,  Ainu  Language, 

Japan,  Ambition, 

Japan.  A  Word  for  Love,    . 

Japan,  Bible  for  Ph3r8ician8, 

Japan,  Buddhism, 

Japan,  Buddhist  Missionary  Association, 

Japan,  Care  of  Discharged  Prisoners, 

Japan,  Christian  Activities, 

Japan,  Empress  of      .        .        . 

Japan,  Enrollment  System, 

Japanese  Artists  Interpreting  Scripture, 

Japanese  Trophies, 

Japanese  on  Pacific  Coast, 

Japanese  Politeness,    . 

Japan,  Fujiyama  Text, 

Japan,  Idols  Sent  to  New  Jersey, 

Japan,  Industrial  Home,     . 

Japan,  Influence  of  Buddhism, 

Japan,  Natural  Traits, 

Japan,  New,        .... 

Japan,  Parliament  of  Religions, 

Japan,  Pleasures  of  Being  a  Christian 

Japan,  Schools  of  American  Board, 

Japan,  Single  Women, 

Japan,  Small  Proportion  Reached, 

Japan,  Some  Hopeful  Aspects,    . 

Japan,  The  Problem, 

Java,  Mohammedan  Conspiracy, 

Jerusalem,  Children's  Hospital, 

Jerusalem,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,      . 

Jewish  Mission  to  Hungary, 

Jews  and  the  New  Testament,     . 

Jews,  Canadian  Presbyterian  Mission, 

Jews,  Change  of  Belief, 

Jew,  Confession  of  an  Aged  Rabbi, 

Jews  in  Argentine  Republic, 

Jews  in  Montreal  and  Toronto, 

Jews  in  Palestine, 

Jews  in  United  States, 

Jews,  Societies  for  Conversion  of 

Johnson,  Robert, 


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Johnston,  Rev.  James,  Lectures  by     .        .    287 

Joplin,  Mo.,         .' 126 

Journey  to  Aleppo, 

Jubilee  Response  from  Canton, 

Judson,  Qualifications  for  Work, 

Just  a  Mite,  .... 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  Work  of  Grace, 

Kansas,  Bohemians  in, 

Kansas,  letters  from, 

Kentucky,  .... 

Kentucky,  Letter  from. 

King's  Daughters, 

Koran,  Position  of  Woman, 

Korea,  Father  and  Daughter, 

Korea,  Men  of,    . 

Korean  Outpost,  Life  at,    .        .        .        .    373 

Korea,  Women  on  the  Streets,  .        .     167 

Lahore,  Evening's  Preaching  at,  .    202 

Laos,  Death  of  a  Convert,  .  .    254 

Laos,  Harvest  Sabbath  in,  .        .        .    390 

Laos,  Letter  frt>m, 37 

Laos,  Medical  Work  at  Chieng  Mai,  .    392 

Laos  Mission, 377 

Laos,  Pillar  of  Cloud,  ....     386 

Laos,  Shall  We  Take?  ....  388 
Laos,  Snigical  Instruments  a  Wonder,  .  341 
L' Association  de  la  Bonne  Morte,  .  .  308 
Lepers  in  Gulf  of  Geor^a,  .        .        .    254 

Lewis  Academy,  Wichita,  Kansas,  .  .  507 
Liberia,  President  Cheeseman  of,  .  .321 
Libraries  of  Missionary  Literature,  .  .  287 
Life  at  a  Korean  Outpost,  .        .        .    373 

Little  Girl's  Choice, 489 

Log  Cabin  Church, 277 

Log  College, loi 

London  Missionary  Society  Centenary,  .  468 
Louisville,  Ky.,  Presbyterian  Orphanage,  255 
Macedonia,  Picture  Cards,  .        .        .524 

Madagascar,  Children  Received  into  Church ,  76 
Madagascar,  Efforts  of  France,  .        .     433 

Madagascar,  Home  Missions,  .  .  .  523 
Madagascar,  Missionary  Pictures  from,  .  9 
Madagascar,  Queen  of,  ....  78 
Making  up  His  Jewels  in  China,  .  .  30 
Maoris  and  the  Bible,  ....    432 

Maoris  of  New  Zealand,      .  .        .166 

Mariolatry  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  .        8 

Mary  Allen  Seminary,  Texas,  .  .  .  412 
McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  .  .  328 
Medical  Missionaries,  .        .        *        .      76 

Medical  Missionaries  from  Great  Britain,       373 

Medical  Missions, 342 

Medical  Work  at  Chieng  Mai,  .  .  .  392 
Men's  Missionary  Society,  .        .        .    396 

Message  to  Our  Church  from  Aleppo,  .  24 
Mexico,  A  Faithful  Bible  Reader,      .        .    435 

Mexico,  Chinese  in, 342 

Mexico,  Christian  Heroism  in,  .        .     207 

Mexico,  Gos|)el  in  the  Ranches,  .212 

Mexico,  Missions  in,  .        .        .        .    205 

Mexico,  Story  of  a  Brave  Life,  .        .210 

Mexico,  Visitors  to, 197 

Biichigan, 11 

Michigan,  Home  Mission  Work  in,  •44 

Michigan,  Letter  from,  .        .        .135 

Ministerial  Necrology, 

73.  154,  253,  340,  366,  436,  527 
Ministerial  Relief,  ....  143,  508 
Ministerial  Relief,  Treasury,      ,        .     2ji,  414 


47 


Minnesota,  Currie,  Shetek,  Cottonwood,        395 

Minnesota,  Letters  from,    .      227,  316,  407,  498 

Minnesota,  North  Eastern,  as  a  Home  Mis- 
sion Ground, 279 

Missionary  Calendar,   21,  106,  199,  289,  373,  468 

Missionary  Explorations  in  Lower  Siam,       381 

Missionary  Journeying  in  Africa, 

Missionary  Libraries, 

Missionary  Life  in  Africa, 

Missionary  Literature, 

Missionary  Pictures  from  Madagascar, 

Missionary  Rivalry, 

Missionary  Work,  Reflex  Influence, 

Missouri,  Home  Mission  Work  in, 

Mohammedanism,  Spread  of, 

Mohammedan  Law  and  Thought, 

Montana,  College  of, 

Montana,  Letters  from, 

Morgan  Lecture  Course,  Auburn, 

Mormon  Convert, 

Mormons, 

Mormons  in  Michigan  and  Wisconsin 

Morocco,  Women  of,  . 

Moslem  £vanp;elization, 

Moslems  Afraid  of  Christ, 

Moslem  View  of  Elect  Infants,  . 

Muscular  Christianity, 

National  Arbitration, 

Native  Pastors  in  Central  China, 

Nebraska,    ..... 

Nebraska,  Letters  from, 

Negro  Eloquence, 

Negro,  Hope  of,  ... 

Negro  Melodies, 

Negro  Tax  Payers, 

Nevius,  Rev.  John  L-,  D.D., 

New  Decatur,  Ala., 

New  Hampshire,  Letter  from,    . 

New  Hebrides,  Desolation  of  Futuna, 

New  Hebrides  Missionaries, 

New  Hebrides,  Prof.  Drummond  on. 

New  Mexico,  Letters  from,     136,  225,  314,  405 

New  Presbyterian  Building,        .        .        ,    309 

New  West,  .... 

New  Year  Greeting,    . 

New  Year's  Outlook  in  India, 

New  York,  Letters  from,     . 

New  York  Sy nodical  Aid,  . 

New  York,  Work  of  Sy  nodical  Superin 
tendent,        ..... 

Nez  Perce  Indians  Searching  for  the 
Reli^on,       .... 

Non-Christian  Religions,    . 

North  Carolina,  Letter  from. 

North  Dakota,  Letter  from, 

Not  Collections,  but  Offerings,  . 

Not  Mine,  but  Thine, 

Oklahoma, 

Oklahoma  Territory,  Letter  from. 

Old  Derry  Church,      . 

Older  States,        .... 

Ole  Bull  and  His  Friend,    . 

Oregon,  Letter  from,  . 

Oswego  College  for  Women,  Oswego,  Kansas, 

Our  Dumb  Animals,    . 

Our  Missionaries, 

Our  Indian  Presbytery, 

Over  Sea  and  Land,     . 

Pacific  Islands,     .        , 


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Palestine,  Modem  Improvements,     . 

Paris  Sculptor,  a  Utah  Boy, 

Parliament  of  Religions,    . 

Pastors  at  Large,  .... 

Paton,  Rev.  John  G.,  in  Great  Britain, 

Patterson,  Bishop,  Idea  of  Missionary, 

Pearl  of  Days,     .... 

Pecnliar, 

Peculiar  School, 

Peking,  Mission  Field, 

Pennsylvania,  Letter  from, 

Pennsylvania,  Run,  Ky.,     . 

Perils  of  Immigration, 

Persia,  Bible  Woman, 

Persia,  Effect  of  Anarchy, 

Persia,  Bnglish  Officials,     . 

Persia,  False  Statements,    . 

Persia,  Grateful  Nestorians, 

Persia,  Letters  from, 

Persia,  Missionary  and  Priest,    . 

Persia,  Missionary  Physician  at  the  Palace, 

Persia,  Persecution  of  Converts  from 
Islam, 

Persia,  Testimony  of  a  Traveler, 

Persia,  Thirty-four  Year's  Progress 

Pillar  of  Cloud  in  Laos, 

Plan  for  Children's  Day,    . 

Plea  for  Missions, 

Pleasant  Grove,  Utah,  New  Church, 

Point  Barrow,  Alaska, 

Polygamy  Among  Indians, 

Poor,  Dr.,  Farewell, 

Prague,  Request  frt>m 

Preaching  Without  Notes, 

Presbyteiianism  in  Wisconsin, 

Presb3rterians  in  New  Bngland, 

Presbytery  and  Home  Missions, 

Prospects  of  Conversion  of  India, 

Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work, 
Words  from  Missionaries,    . 

Railroad  Companies  and  Mission  Boards, 

Rallying  Day  and  the  United  Movement, 

Ramona  Indian  School, 

Raton,  New  Mexico, 

Reason  or  Instinct,     . 

Record  of  1893  at  a  Chinese  Station, 

Request  from  Prague, 

Rescue  Missions, 

Result  of  Self-support, 

Revival  in  Two  Languages, 

Rhenish  Missionary  Society, 

Roman  Catholic  Church  as  Seen  by  a 
Pastor,  .... 

Rome,  Epistle  to  the  Romans, 

Russell,  Minn., 

Russia,  Protestantism, 

Sabbath,  Children's,  .        .     249, 

Sabbath-school  Lessons,  Thoughts  on, 

64,  155,  241,  332,  424,  515 

Sabbath-School  Missionaries,  Convention,     513 

Sabbath-School  Miss'v  Work  in  Winter,    .    323 

Sabbath-School  Miss*y  Work,  Scope  of,    .     147 

Sabbath-School  Missions  and  Youug  Peo- 
ple's Societies, 61 

Sailing  Boats  on  Dead  Sea,  .  .253 

Saloons  in  Kansas  and  Oklahoma,     .        .217 

Samaritans, 168 

San  Pablo,  Col., 128 

Santo  Fe, 38 


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Sawmill  in  Shantung,         • 

School  House  and  Church, 

Scotland,  Estoblished  Church, 

Secrets  of  Success  in  Shantung, 

Seeing  is  Believing,     . 

Self-denial  in  Giving, 

Shall  We  Take  Laos? 

Shantung  Mission,  Promise  and  Progress, 

Shantung,  Secrets  oi  Success,     . 

She  Hath  Done  What  She  Could, 

Shellebeare,  Mr.  W.  G., 

Siam  and  Laos,    .... 

Siam  and  Laos  Missions,    . 

Siam  and  Laos,  Testimonial  to  Dr.  Mitchell, 

Siam,  Crown  Prince,  .... 

Siam,  Expression  of  Thanks  to  Sovereign, 

Siam,  Missionary  Explorations  in  Lower, 

Silly  Rodomontode, 


251 
167 
522 
122 
411 
512 
388 
118 
122 
144 

524 
367 
377 
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290 
381 

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Sioux  Indians, 126 


Sok-toi.  The  Courage  of  His  Faith, 

Some  Hopeful  Asp^i^ts  of  Mission  Work  in 

Japan, 107 

South  Dakoto,  Letter  from, 

Spain,  Missionary  Training  College, 

Spiritual  Refreshing, 

Springville,  Utah,  Revival, 

Stotistics  Prepared  by  Dean  Vahl,      . 

Stimulating  Response, 

Stonewall  Jackson  and  Foreign  Missions. 

Story  of  a  Brave  Life, 

Student  Volunteers,    .... 

Swani  Vivekananda  Answered, 

Swift  Memorial  Institute, 

Sy nodical  Home  Mission  Work, 

Synodical  Missionaries, 

Syria,  Across  the  Border, 

Syria,  Bible  in,     .        .        . 

Syria,  Dr.  Mary  P.  Eddy, 

Syria,  Fidda, 

Syria,  Home  Call  of  a  Veteran, 
Syria,  Journey  to  Aleppo, 
Syria,  License  Refused, 
Syria,  Message  to  Our  Church  from  Alcpp 
Syria,  Reports,  1893,  .... 
Syria,  Training  Lay  Evangelists, 
Systematic  Beneficence,  Leaflets. 
Systematic  Giving,      .... 
Tahlequah,  Indian  Territory, 

TalithaKumi, 

Temperance, 

Tennessee,  Letters  from,    . 

Texas,  Rev.  W.  K.  Marshall, 

Text  and  Four  Points, 

Thibeton  Pioneer  Mission, 

Thibet,  Life  of  Christ  in  Pali  Language, 

Thibet.  Miss  Taylor's  Purpose,  . 

Tongan  Church,  .... 

Touching  Letter,         .... 

Training  an  Elder,      .... 

Training  Lay  Evangelists  in  Syria,    . 

Treasurers*  Receipts,  .... 

Trinidad  Contributions, 

Tucson,  Arizona.  Indian  School, 

Turkey,  the  Gospel  God's  Baksheesh, 

Turkey.  Total  Abstinence,  . 

Twelve  Miles*  Walk,   .... 

Twelve  New  Churches  Every  Day, 

Two  Messages  from  China, 

Uruguay,  Civilization, 


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210 

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Utah,  Anecdote, 

Utah,  Fruit  of  Mission  Work, 

Utah,  lyetters  from, 

Versailles,  N.  Y..  New  Church, 

Waldenses  in  North  Carolina, 

Waldensian  Mission  Churches, 

Washington,  Mission  Work  in, 

Washington,  Revivals  in,    . 

Watchman,  What  of  the  Night? 

Welsh  Presbyterianism, 

Western  Theological  Seminary,  Allegheny, 

West  Virginia,  Letter  from, 

What  a  Pastor  Can  Do, 

What  Hath  God  Wrought  in  India  ? 

White,  Death  of  Mrs.  Erskine  N., 

While  We  May,  . 


Wisconsin,  letters  from,  .  •  .  137,  405 
Wisconsin,  Presbyterianism  in,  .  .  42 
Wonderful  Work  of  God  in  India,  .  .  102 
Work  in  the  Punjab,  .  .  .  .  .  303 
World's  Parliament  of  Religions,  .  .  463 
Worship  Without  a  Pastor,  .  .  .  396 
Wyoming,  letters  from,  .  .  .  407,  497 
Young  Christian  and  His  Pastor,  .  .  425 
Young  Christian  at  Home,          .        .  243 

Young  Christian  at  School,  .  .518 
Young  Christian,  How  to  Begin,  .  .  65 
Young  Christian  in  Japan,  .  .  .  333 
Young  Christian,  When  to  Begin,  .  .  156 
Young  People  of  Rural  Congregations,  .  308 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  Helpers,  ....  217 
Zenana  Work, 75 


WRITERS. 


Adams,  Rev.  R.  N.,     . 
Alexander,  Rev.  S.,     . 
Arnold,  Rev.  F.  L.,     . 
Austin,  Rev.  A.  E., 
Barrett,  Rev.  Frank  F., 
Bartow,  Mrs.  G.  W., 
Beattie,  Rev.  Andrew, 
Blackburn,  Rev.  Wm.  M., 
Blohm,  Rev.  F.  W., 
Boyce,  Rev.  Isaac, 
Brashear,  Rev.  P.  G., 
Brookes,  Rev.  James  H., 
Brown,  Rev.  Hubert  W., 
Bruske,  Pres.  August, 
Carter,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Clemenson»  Rev.  N.  E., 
Coltman.  Rev.  Robert.  Jr., 
Cook,  Rev.  Chas.  H., 
Corbett,  Rev.  Hunter, 
Coulter,  Pres.  John  M., 
Cowan,  Rev.  Edward  P., 
Criseman.  Rev.  George, 
Crocker,  J.  N.,     . 
Cutter,  Julia  R., 
Cuyler,  Rev.  T.  L.,    • 
Deems,  Rev.  Charles  F. , 
Dennis,  Rev.  James  S., 
Dodd,  Rev.  W.  C,      . 
Duncan,  Rev.  C.  A., 
Dunham,  Miss  Nellie  A., 
Dunlap,  Rev.  Eugene  P., 
Ellinwood,  Rev.  F.  F., 
Elterich.  Rev.  W.  O., 
Ewing,  Rev.J.  C.  R., 
Fait,  Rev.  S.  V., 
Ferris,  Rev.  G.  H.,     . 
Forbes,  Rev.  Jesse  F., 
Ford,  Rev.  George  A., 
Porman,  Rev.  Henry, 
Fullerton.  Rev.  George  H. 
Fulton,  Rev.  Robert  H., 
Good,  Rev.  A.  C, 
Gould,  Mrs-  R.  R., 
Green,  Elmer  Ewing, 
Green,  Mrs.  M.  M..     . 
Greene.  Rev.J.  Milton, 
Guille,  Rev.  B.  F.,      . 
Gunn,  Rev.  T.  M.,      . 


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.  388 

.  228 

.  402 

.  381 

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422,  486 

•  303 
.  138 
.  338 

132,  489 

24 

202 

.  425 
.  279 
33»  213,  483 
.  315 
.  100 
.  226 
.     207 

•  396 
43»  313 


Gwynne,  Rev.  F.  H., 

403 

H.  A.  N., 

156 

Hayes,  Rev.  W.  M.,             .        .        .        . 

122 

Hays,  Rev.  G.  W., 

317 

Henry,  Rev.  B.  C,      .                 .        .19 

9,467 

Hillis,  Rev.  W.  H 

499 

HiUs,  Rev.  0.  A 

426 

Hodge,  Rev.  Edward  B.,     . 

51 

Houston,  Miss  E.  P., 

225 

Howell,  Rev.  David, 

44 

Hughes,  Rev.J.  I.,      .... 

317 

Hunter,  Rev.  J.  M 

495 

Hyde,  Rev.  G.  D.,       . 

499 

Imbrie,  Rev.  William, 

.    333 

Jackson,  Rev.  Sheldon, 

3 

Jacot,  Rev.  H., 

482 

Jerome,  Rev.  William  S., 

II 

Johnston,  Rev.  James, 

9 

Jones,  Miss  Grace  E.,          .        .        .        . 

501 

Kellogg,  Rev.  S.  H.,           ...       2 

2,375 

Kerr,  M.  Henry,          .... 

68 

Knox,  Rev.  G.  W.,      .        .        .      107,  29 

1,460 

Laughlin,  Rev.  J.  H., 

193 

Lee,  Rev.  Theodore, 

136 

lyogan,  Rev.  S.  C 

511 

Loomis.  Rev.  H., 

474 

Lowes,  Rev.  A.  B.,      . 

406 

Ludlani,  George  P.,     . 

73 

Mackenzie,  Rev.  James  C, 

158 

McAfee,  Rev.  Geo.  F. , 

221 

McDonald,  Rev.  James  S., 

218 

McGilvarv,  Rev.  Daniel,     .        .         . 

386 

McKean.Jas.  W.,M.  D.,     . 

392 

McKee,  Rev.  W.J.,     .... 

120 

McMillan,  Rev.  D.  J., 

397 

McNair,  Rev.  W.  W., 

'     135 

McNary,  Rev.  T.  C. 

228 

Miller,  Rev.  David,     .... 

•      47 

Moflfett.  Rev.  Samuel  A.,     . 

•     373 

Monfort,  Rev.  David  G.,     . 

.    408 

Montgomery,  Miss  Annie, 

.     215 

Moore,  Rev.  Frank  L 

•     407 

Moore,  Rev.  Franklin, 

.     226 

Murrav,  Rev.  John,     .... 

•     125 

Nassau,  Rev.  R.  H..  M.  D., 

.     246 

Nelson,  Rev.  W.  S..     .         ir,  248,  420,  47 

I,  521 

Nichol,  Rev.  Peter  E., 

•     135 

Patterson,  Miss  Ada  C-,       ♦        .        » 

,      48 

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Payne,  Rev.  Henry  N., 

54 

Smith,  Miss  Laura  V., 

.     i,^ 

Penland,  A.  M., 

.    512 

Smith,  Rev.  George,  . 

■     300 

Pentecost,  Rev.  Geo.  F., 

102,  188 

Smith,  Rev.  George  R., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Florence, 

•    507 

Phraner,  Rev.  Wilson, 

.    397 

.    496 

Pike,  Rev.  Granville  R., 

.     230 

Stoekle,  Rev.  F.  C,     . 

.    406 

Pisek,  Rev.  Vincent, 

.    317 

Taylor,  Prof.  Graham, 

.     162 

Pond,  Miss  Carrie  B., 

•    405 

Taylor,  Rev.  Hugh,     . 

•      37 

Poor,  Rev.  D.  W. 

.      51 

Thomas,  Rev.  W.  D., 

42 

Putnam,  Rev.  Douglass  P  , 

.     183 

Thwing,  Rev.  Clarence, 

227 

Ramsey,  Rev.  J.  R.,    . 

.     237 

Thwing,  Mrs.  C, 

502 

Ray,  Rev.  E.  C, 

•      93 

Tietman,  Rev.  Kasper, 

227 

Raymond,  Rev.  E.  N., 

.    316 

Tucker,  Rev.  H.  A.,    . 

229 

Reid,  Rev.  Gilbert.      . 

.     118 

Turner,  Rev.  W.J. ,     . 

137 

Roberts,  Rev.  W.  C,   . 

•     397 

Walker,  Rev.  E.  D.,    . 

46 

Robertson,  Miss  Alice, 

.     229 

Williams,  Rev.  G.  P., 

500 

Robertson,  Rev.  Alexander 

8,  368 

Williamson,  Rev.  John  P., 

397 

Rodgers,  Rev.  James  B., 

.     152 

Winn,  Rev.  Thomas  C, 

31 

Rodriguez,  Rev.  A.  J., 

.    314 

Wishard,J.  G.,M.D., 

37 

Rowland,  Miss  Rebecca, 

.    314 

Worden,  Rev.  James  A., 

62 

Schiller,  William, 

.     134 

Wormeer,  Rev.  A., 

404 

Sexton,  Rev.  Thos.  L., 

.      48 

Wright,  Rev.  A.  W.,   . 

407 

Shawhan,  Rev.  H.  H., 

.     501 

Young,  Rev.  W.  C,    . 

460 

Shepherd,  Rev.  Charles,  M 

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.     226 

Zuver,  Miss  Sue  M.,    . 

136 

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Alaska,  Sketch  Map  of        ....        5 

Aleppo  Castle, 248 

Alma  College, 409,  410 

Auburn  Seminary,  .  .  .  .  238,  239 
Bohemian  Ministers  of  Presbyterian  Churdi,  307 
Black  Eagle  Falls,  Upper  Missouri  River,  404 
Cape  Prince  of  Wales,  •  •  •  •  3 
Carmel,  N.  Y.,  Church  at,  ...    278 

Central  Turkey  College,  Aintab,  .  .421 
Chapel  and  Dispensary,  Lakawn,  .  .  386 
Cheeseman,  J.  James,  .        .        .        .321 

Children's  Hospital,  Miraj,  India,  .  .  18 
Clifton  Springs  Sanitarium,        .        .     419,  420 

College  of  Idaho, 96 

Corning  Academy, 97 

Dr.  Hodge's  Study, 504 

Emperor  of  China 118 

First  Building  Aided  by  Board  of  Church 

Erection, 276 

Fusiyama,  Sacred  Mountain  of  Japcm,  .  500 
Gaboon  and  Corisco,  Map  of,  .  .  .  478 
German  Pres.  Theological  Seminary  .    506 

Greeneville  and  Tusculum  College,  326,  327, 358 
Group  of  Native  Pastors,  Mexico,  .  .  204 
Hodge,  Rev.  Charles,  ....    503 

India,  Map  of, 294 

Indian  Home  and  Mission  Schools,  .  .  496 
Indians  at  Work  in  Indian  Territory,  .  488 
Jumna  Girls*  High  School,  Allahabad,  304 
Jumna  Mission  Church,  Allahabad,  India,  305 
Lewis  Academy,  Wichita,  Kan.,  .  .  507 
Livingstone  Home  for  Missionaries*  Child- 
ren, Wooster,  O.,  .        .        .     284 

Livingstonia, 479 

Log  Cabin  Church,  Juneau,        .        .        .    277 

Log  College, 139 

McCormick,  Cyrus  H.,  .  .  .  .  329 
McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  328,  331,  333 
Medical  Class  of  Women,  Canton,  .  .116 
Minerva  Terrace,  Yellowstone  Park,  .     407 

Missionary  Chnrch,  Sangli,  India,     .        .      30 


Missionary  Residence,  Bangkok,        .        .    383 
Missionary  Residence,  Chieng  Mai,  .    391 

Mission  Church,  Chieng  Mai,    .  .     390 

Mission  Churches  in  Indian  Territory,  .  497 
Mission  Museum,  Sitka,  Alaska,  .  314,  315 
Nassau,  Miss  Isabella,  ....  70 
Native  Preachers  in  Africa, 
Nevius,  Rev.  John  L-,  D.D., 
New  and  Old  D wights,  Indian  Territory j 
New  Derry  Church,  .... 
New  West,  Map  of,  . 
Nvasa  Fleet,  Likoma, 

Old  Derry  Church 

Oswego  College,  .... 

Owasco  Lake, 

Poor,  Rev.  D.  W.. 

Poynette  Academy,     .... 

Presbyterian  Churches  in  Adirondacks, 

Presbytery  of  Shantung,     . 

Returning  from  Annual  Meeting,  Lakawn 

Royal  Palace,  Bangkok,      ... 

Salida  Academy,  .... 

Salida,  Colorado,         .... 

Sawmill  in  Shantung, 

Shantung  Province  and  Mission,  Map  of, 

Siam  and  Malay  Peninsula,  Map  of,  . 

Stockaded  Village,       .... 

Syrian  Threshing  Floor, 

Tai  Shan  Nai  Nai,  A  Chinese  Idol,     . 

Thomson,  Rev.  William  M., 

Training  Class  of  Native  Helpers,  Tripoli 

Translating  the  Bible  in  India,    . 

Tusculum  Academy,  1835, 

University  of  Wooster,  O., 

Wabash  College,  Crawfordsville,  Ind., 

Western  Theological  Seminary  Library, 

412 
Westminster  Home  for  Missionaries' 

Children,  Wooster,  O.,  .        .     283 

Witherspoon, 141 

Woodstock  School  in  India,        .        ,        .    ?9^ 


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THE  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 

JANUARY,    1804.  ' 

CONTENTS. 

The  Arciic  EskiniKM  of  AlBBkA,  Sheldon  Jackson,  D,D., 8 

Mariolatrj  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  J^ev.  Alexander  Robertson 8 

Missionaiy  Pictures  From  Madagascar, /?^./am^5/(9Af»A7/i, 9 

Michigan,  ^«;.  W.S.  Jerome, 11 

Moslem  View  of  Elect  Infants— Moslem  Problem,  W.S.N., 13 

Editorial  Notes. — Peculiar — Svnodical  Missionaries — Presbytery  and  Home  Missions — 
Children's  Work  For  Children— Our  "Benevolent  Fund"— Tracts  on  Systematic 
Beneficence — Subscriptions  for  Church  at  HoiiB  and  Abroad 14-16 

FORBION  niSSlONS. 

Notes. — Financial  Statement— Jubilee  of  Free  Church  of  Scotland — London  Missionary 
Society's  Steamer  For  South  Seas— Dr.  Mary  P.  Kddy's  Diploma  Legalized  in 
Turkey — Persecution  in  Persia— Our  Illustrations — Copies  of  Annual  Report 
Desired  at  Mission  Rooms— Dean  Vahl  on  Missionary  Statistics — Church  Missionary 
Society  of  England— Death  of  Dr.  Nevi us— Baptist  Missionary  Magazine  on  Pres- 
byterian Missions — Missionary  Calendar 17-21 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Calls  For  the  New  Year— Bible  Translation  in  India,  S.  H.  Kellogg, 
D.D. — Message  to  our  Church  From  Aleppo,  Rev.  G.  A.  Ford—T^o  Messages 
From  China — Power  of  the  (Jospel  in  China,  Hunter  Cor  belt,  />.£>.— Japanese 
Trophies,  Rev.  7.  C.  Winn — Curious  Fragment  of  African  Humanicy— ^^z/.  A.  C. 
Good,  PhD 22-86 

Letters. — Persia,  Missionary  Tour  Along  the  Aras,  Rev.  T.  G.  Brashear—L&os,  Death  of 
Ai  Nong,  Rev.  Hugh  7 aylor^Fersih,  Hospital  Work  in  Teheran,  /.  G.  Wishafd, 
M.D., 36-37 

none  nissioNS. 

Notes. — The  Best  Use  of  Money— Aid-receiving  Churches— Rev.  Vincent  Pisek's  Work  in 
New  York — Propriety  of  Presbyterians  Entering  the  New  England  States— Mission 
Work  in  Utah — Oklahoma  as  a  State— Condition  of  Our  Treasury— The  Needs  of 
Santa  Fe — Missionary  Work  at  Point  Barrow,  Alaska — A  Small  Boy's  Misfortune — 
Too  Much  Bell  Ringing,  and  too  Sm  ill  Collections— A  Utah  Boy  Distinguished — 
Effect  of  Hard  Times— Pastors-at-Large — Waldenses  in  North  Carolina,  .        .        38-39 

Concert  of  Prayer.— The  New  West, 40-42 

Presbyterianism  in  Wisconsin,  Rev.  W.  D.  Thomas,  Ph.D., 42 

Home  Mission  Work  in  Washington.  Rev.  T.  M.  Gunn,  D.D.,  S.M.,       ....  43 

Home  Mission  Work  in  Michigan, /?«/. /?az//fl? -^(9ze/^//,  5. -AT., 44 

Home  Mission  Work  in  Mis«>uri.  Rev.  E.  D.  Walker,  S.M., 47 

Letters. — Nebraska,  Rev.  David  Miller,  Rev.  T.  L.  Sexton,  S.M. — South  Dakota,  Miss 
Ada  C.  Patterson — New  York,   Rev.   George  McDonald^Norih  Dakota,  Rev. 

Robert  Bradley, 47-48 

Home  Mission  Appointments,        . 48-49 

EDUCATION.— Dr.  Poor's  Farewell— Dr.  Hodge's  Introduction— College  and  Seminary 

Notes.            50-54 

PREEDMEN.—Freedmen's  Board  as  a  Building  and  Loan  Agency,  H.  N.  Payne,  D.D.,  54^56 

COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES— A  Peculiar  School, 56-58 

CHURCH  ERECTION.— Special  Appeals— Responses  From  Synods— What  a  Pastor  Can 

Do — Church  Erection  Among  the  Pimas, 58-61 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH  SCHOOL  WORK.— S.  S.  Missionsand  Young  People's 
Societies— A  Few  Words  to  Persons  of  Means — Great  Agency  of  the  Nineteenth 

Century, 61-63 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATH-SCHOOL  LESSONS,    .        .       •. 64-65 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR— The  Young  Christian- How  to  Begin, 
James  H.  Brookes,  /?.£>.— Abstain  For  a  Week  to  Try  Your  Appetite— The  Ever- 

during  Word— Missionary^ Journeying  in  Africa,  M.  Henry  Kerr,                  .  65-69 

CHILDREN'S  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD.— Fidda— Our  Dumb  Animals.    .  69 

Gospel  Work  in  Western  Africa.                                   70-73 

Heroes  Without  Heroics,  from  A^.  Y.  Tribune, 72 

Not  CollectionB  But  Offerings,       . 73 

MINISTEIOAL  NECROLOGY 73-74 

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GAPE  PRINCE  OF  WALES,  AMERICAN  SIDE  OF  BERING  STRAITS. 


THE  ARCTIC  ESKIMOS  OF  ALASKA. 

SHELDON  JACKSON,    D.  D., 
U.  S.  GENERAL  AGENT  OF  EDUCATION  IN  ALASKA. 


In  1889  a  special  call  came  for  work  in 
Arctic  Alaska.  The  Presbyterians,  com- 
mencing in  1877  at  Ft.  Wrangel,  had  grown 
and  widened  nntil  thej  had  seven  churches, 
with  680  native  communicants  and  780 
children  under  instruction. 

The  Moravians,  commencing  on  the  Kus-  , 
kokwim  river  in  1885,  had  their  two  churches, 
58  communicants,  and  56  children  in  school. 

The  Episcopalian  Missionary  Society  in 
1886  had  entered  the  great  Yukon  River  val- 
ley, and  established  themselves  the  following 
year  at  Anvik  and  later  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Tanana  River. 

In  1886  the  Jesuit  fathers  had  also  entered 


the  great  valley  of  the  Yukon,  locating  the 
first  year  at  the  mining  settlement  of  Forty 
Mile  Creek,  and  in  1887,  with  the  assistance 
of  the  Sisters  of  St.  Ann,  at  Kozorifski, 
Nulato,  and  Cape  Vancouver. 

In  the  meantime,  the  women  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  Missionary  Society  were 
busy  laying  foundations  at  Unalaska  and  Unga. 

In  1886  Swedish  missionaries  secured  a 
foot-hold  at  Yakutat,  at  the  edge  of  the  gla- 
ciers that  sweep  down  the  sides  of  Mt.  St. 
Elias,  and  at  Unalaklik,  on  the  north-east 
coast  of  Bering  Sea. 

The  women  of  the  American  Baptist  Home 
Missionary   Society   were    also    entrenching 

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themselves  at  the  month  of  Cook's  Inlet,  on 
the  islands  of  Eadiak  and  Afognak. 

The  Quakers  had  quietly  but  effectiTelj 
commenced  work  at  Douglas  Island. 

But  the  great  Arctic  region  remained 
untouched  and  unvisited,  its  thousands  of 
EiSkimos  continuing  to  lire  and  die  without 
GKmI  and  without  hope. 

On  the  Arctic  Coast,  stretching  from  Ber- 
ing Straits  to  Point  Barrow,  the  most  north- 
em  point  on  the  mainland  of  the  continent, 
were  three  large  settlements,  to  wit,  Point 
Barrow,  Cape  Prince  of  Wales,  and  Point 
Hope,  810  and  220  miles  apart,  respeotively. 
As  a  commencement  to  the  work,  it  was 
suggested  that  these  three  places  should  be 
at  once  occupied.  The  proposition  involved 
almost  insurmountable  difficulties.  The  field 
was  inaccessible,  perhaps  as  much  so  as  any 
other  portion  of  the  earth.  Usually,  for  a 
few  days  in  July  or  August,  the  eternal  ice- 
fields break  away  from  the  shore  and  leave 
sufficient  open  water  for  a  few  whalers  and 
the  Government  ship  to  reach  the  more 
northern  station.  But  this  is  not  always 
certain,  as  when  in  1801  the  Government 
vessel  failed  to  reach  Point  Barrow,  on 
account  of  the  ice.  The  region  is  desolate, 
beyond  description— a  bleak,  dreary  and 
frozen  waste.  All  food  supplies,  except 
those  drawn  from  wild  birds  and  animals,  had 
to  be  brought  from  San  Francisco,  4,000  miles 
distant.  These  supplies  usually  reached  the 
station  once  a  year,  but,  not  always.  Some- 
times the  ice  fails  to  leave  the  shore,  and 
then  the  supplies  are  obtained  only  once  in 
two  years.  The  long  Arctic  night,  with  its 
depressing  influence  on  both  mind  and  body, 
so  dreaded  by  Arctic  explorers  who  have  had 
occasion  to  spend  two  or  three  winters  in 
that  region,  is  by  the  missionaries  to  be  faced 
year  after  year.  A  degree  of  cold  that  bums 
like  fire,  that  sometimes  causes  steel  to  fall 
to  pieces  like  clay,  is  to  be  endured.  Again, 
the  missionaries  are  beyond  all  earthly  pro- 
tection. Thousands  of  miles  of  untraveled 
wastes  separate  them  from  the  nearest 
policeman,  court  of  law,  or  soldier.  Owing 
to  these  and  other  difficulties,  the  great  mis- 
sionary organizations  of  the  oountry  were 
reluctant  to  enter  the  work,  as  they  had  been 


in  the  southern  and  eastern  sections  of 
Alaska.  However,  under  the  stimulus  of 
special  contributions,  the  Woman's  Bxecn- 
tive  Committee  of  Home  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  took  up  the  Point  Bar- 
row station,  sending  as  their  first  missionary 
Mr.  Leander  M.  Stevenson,  of  Versailles, 
.  Ohio.  The  Foreign  and  Domestic  Missionary 
Society  of  the  Episcopal  Church  sent  J. 
B.  Driggs,  M.  D.,  as  their  missionary  to 
Point  Hope.  And  the  American  Missionary 
Association  of  the  Congregational  Church 
sent  Mr.  Harrison  R.  Thornton,  of  Hampden- 
Sydney,  Va.,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Lopp,  of 
Valley  City,  Ind.,  as  missionaries  to  Cape 
Prince  of  Wales. 

The  people  to  which  they  were  sent  are 
Eskimos;  and  it  may  not  be  generally  known, 
but  it  is  a  faet,  that  the  largest  body  of 
Eskimos  in  the  world  are  in  Alaska,  number- 
ing about  15,000  souls.  Their  villages  are 
found  stretching  at  long  intervals  around  the 
three  great  ocean  sides  of  Alaska,  to  wit,  the 
Arctic,  Bering  Sea,  and  North  Pacific  Coast, 
and  as  far  to  the  east  as  Mt.  St.  Elias. 

In  the  extreme  north,  at  Point  Barrow,  and 
along  the  coast  of  Bering  sea,  the  people  are 
of  medium  size. 

At  Point  Barrow  the  average  height  of  the 
males  is  five  feet,  three  inches,  and  average 
weight  158  pounds — the  women,  four  feet, 
eleven  inches,  and  weight,  135.  On  the 
Nushagak  river,  the  average  weight  of  the 
men  is  from  150  to  167  pounds.  From  Cape 
Prince  of  Wales  to  Icy  Cape,  and  on^the  great 
inland  rivers,  emptying  into  the  Arctic  ocean, 
they  are  a  large  race,  many  of  them  being 
six  feet  and  over  in  height.  They  are  lighter 
in  color,  and  fairer  than  the  Norl^  American 
Indian,  have  black  and  brown  eyes,  black 
hair  (some  with  a  tinge  of  brown),  high  cheek 
bones,  fieshy  faces,  small  hands  and  feet,  and 
.good  teeth.  The  men  have  thin  beards. 
Along  the  Arctic  coast  the  men  cut  their  hair 
closely  on  the  crown  of  the  head,  giving  them 
the  appearance  of  monks.  They  are  naturally 
intelligent,  ingenious  in  extricating  them- 
selves from  difficulties,  fertile  in  resources  and 
quick  to  adopt  American  ways  and  methods. 
Physically  they  are  very  strong,  with  great 
powers  of  endoranoe.    Th^  are,  as  a  rule, 


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their  indiyidoal  part  towards  the  family  sup- 
port. In  a  general  wfij  they  are  honest. 
They  are  shrewd  traders.  They  are  exceed- 
ingly dirty  in  their  persons  and  clothing. 

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em  Alaska,  the  labret  is  worn  by  the  women 
only.  Among  the  Eskimo  of  North-western 
Alaska  on  the  contrary  it  is  worn  by  the  men 
alone.    The  use  of  it  is  almost  universal. 

The  girls  have  their  ears  and  sometimes 
their  noses  pierced,  wearing  pendant  from 
them  copper,  ivory  and  bone  ornaments,  also 
strings  of  beads. 

Both  sexes  tattoo  their  faces,  hands  and 
arms,  more  or  less  elaborately.  Both  sexes 
wear  bracelets,  amulets  and  sometimes  fancy 
belts. 

In  the  manufacture  of  clothes  the  Eskimo 
use  the  skins  of  birds,  beasts  and  fish  alike.  I 
saw  clothes  made  of  reindeer  skins  prepared  in 
fur,  from  the  skins  of  ducks  and  geese  with  the 
feathers  on,  from  the  skins  of  the  salmon,  and 
from  the  intestines  of  the  walrus.   Sometimes 


several  kinds  of  fur  are  used  in  one  garment. 

The  use  the  reindeer  skin  is,  however,  more 
general  than  all  the  others  combined.  More 
than  any  other  skin  known,  it  has  the  quality 
of  resisting  the  intense  cold  of  the  Arctic. 

The  dress  consists  of  a  large  fur  coat  called 
*' parka.**  This  is  like  a  shirt  to  be  pulled 
over  the  head.  Attached  to  it  is  a  fur  hood 
to  be  used  in  cold  weather.  The  parka  is 
made  whole,  there  being  no  openings  exbept 
for  the  head  and  sleeves.  That  of  the  man  is 
out  square  at  the  bottom,  that  of  the  woman 
with  a  point  or  scallop  front  and  back.  The 
bottom  is  frequently  ornamented  with  a  fringe 
of  different  kind  of  fur,  or  different  colored 
furs,  pieced  together  like  inlaid  work.  To 
the  back  of  the  man*s  parka  is  attached  the 
tail  of  some  animal.  In  the  back  of  the 
woman *s  is  a  fullness  or  enlargement  of  the 
hood  between  the  shoulders  making  a  place 
for  stowing  away  the  baby. 

The  pantaloons  only  reach  a  little  below  the 
knee.  They  are  also  made  of  reindeer  skin 
with  the  fur  on,  as  also  are  the  stockings. 


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For  summer  they  make  water-proof  boots  of 
seal-skin,  with  walras  or  sea-lion  hide  soles. 
For  cold  weather  the  boots  are  made  of  the 
coarse  hairy  skin  ti^en  from  the  reindeer^s 
legs.  The  tops  of  the  boots  reach  the  bottom  of 
the  legs  of  the  pantaloons  abo^e  and  are  secure- 
ly tied  to  them  by  a  string  of  sinews.  In  winter 
two  suits  are  worn,  the  inner  one  with  the 
fur  to  the  flesh  and  the  outer  one  with  the  fur 
to  the  weather.  With  two  thicknesses  of 
reindeer  fur,  and  plenty  of  fat  food,  the 
Eskimo  can  defy  the  coldest  weather  with 
impunity.  With  the  weather  at  40**  below 
zero  the  children  can  be  seen  making  snow 
houses,  snow  images  and  playing  house-keep- 
ing, like  a  group  of  American  children  mak- 
ing play  houses  of  empty  boxes  in  May. 

In  summer  but  one  suit  is  worn  and  even 
this  is  sometimes  discarded  when  in  the 
house.  From  the  intestines  of  the  seal  and 
walrus  and  also  from  salmon-skins  are  made 
the  famous  kamleika,  a  water-proof  garment, 
which  is  worn  over  the  others  in  wet  weather. 
The  kamleika  is  lighter  in  weight  and  a  bet- 
ter water-proof  garment  than  the  rubber  gar- 
ments of  commerce.  The  native  dress  when 
well  made,  new  and  clean,  is  both  becoming 
and  artistic. 

They  live  principally  upon  the  fish,  seal, 
walrus,  whale,  reindeer  and  wild  birds  of 
their  country.  Latterly  they  are  learning 
the  use  of  flour,  which  they  procure  from  the 
Oovemment  revenue  vessels,  or  barter  from 
the  whalers. 

They  have  but  few  household  utensils.  A 
few  have  secured  iron  kettles.  Many  still 
use  grass  woven  baskets  and  bowls  of  wood 
and  stone.  OccasionaUy  is  found  a  jar  of 
burnt  clay. 

Among  the  more  northern  tribes  much  of 
the  food  is  eaten  raw,  and  nothing  is  thrown 
away,  no  matter  how  offensive  it  has  become. 

During  the  summer  large  quantities  of  fish 
are  dried,  and  the  oil  of  the  seal,  walrus  and 
whale  put  up  for  winter  use.  The  oil  is 
kept  in  bags  made  of  the  skin  of  the  seal, 
similar  to  the  water  skins  of  oriental  lands. 
The  oil  is  kept  sweet  by  the  bags  being  bur- 
ied in  the  frozen  earth  until  wanted  for  use. 

The  coast  Eskimo  have  underground,  per- 
manent houses    in   villages  for  winter,  and 


tents,  that  are  frequently  shifted,  for^summer. 

Large  shallow  dishes  of  earthenware,  bone 
or  stone,  filled  with  seal  oil  are  the  combined 
stoves  and  lamps  of  the  family.  Some 
lighted  moss  makes  a  dull  line  of  flame  along 
the  edge  of  the  dish. 

The  Eskimo  of  Arctic  Alaska  are  still  in 
the  stone  age.  The  manufacture  of  arrows 
and  spear  heads  from  flint  is  a  living  indus- 
try. Stone  lamps,  stone  hammers  and 
chisels,  and  to  some  extent,  stone  knives  are 
still  in  ordinary  use  among  them. 

Fish  lines  and  nets  and  bird  snares  are 
still  made  of  whalebone,  sinew  or  raw  hide. 
Arrows,  spears,  nets  and  traps  are  used  in 
hunting,  although  improved  breach-loading 
arms  are  being  introduced  among  them,  and 
will  soon  supercede,  for  the  larger  game, 
their  own  more  primitive  weapons. 

For  transportation  on  land  they  have  the 
snow  shoe,  dog-team  and  sled,  and  on  the 
water,  the  kiak  and  umiak. 

The  kiak  is  a  long,  narrow,  light,  grace- 
ful, skin-covered  canoe,  with  one,  two,  or 
three  holes  accordmg  to  the  number  of  peo- 
ple to  be  carried. 

The  umiak  is  a  long  skin-covered  boat. 
This  is  the  family  boat  or  carryall.  Those 
in  use  around  Bering  Straits  are  about  24 
feet  long  and  5  feet  wide.  They  will  safely 
carry  15  persons  and  500  pounds  of  freight, 
coasting  in  the  sea.  Those  on  Eotzebue 
Sound  in  the  Arctic  Ocean  are  85  feet  long, 
6  feet  wide,  with  a  capacity  of  8,000  pounds 
of  freight  and  a  crew  of  six.  There  are 
exceptionably  large  ones  that  will  carry 
from  50  to  80  people. 

Both  the  kiaks  and  umiaks  are  made  of 
walrus,  sea  lion,  or  whale  hides  stretched 
over  light  frames  of  spruce  wood. 

There  seems  to  be  no  special  ceremony 
among  them  connected  with  marriage.  If 
the  parties  are  young  people,  it  is  largely 
arranged  by  the  parents. 

Among  the  Eskimo,  as  among  all  uncivil- 
ized people,  a  woman's  is  a  hard  lot.  One  of 
the  missionary  ladies  writes,  ^^My  heart 
aches  for  the  girls  of  our  part  of  Alaska. 
They  are  made  perfect  prostitutes  by  their 
parents  from  the  time  they  are  nine,  or  ten 
years  old,  until  the  parent  dies.    And  yet 


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notwithstanding  all  their  disadvantages,  they 
hare  a  voice  in  both  family  and  village 
affairs.  The  hnsband  takes  no  important 
step  withoat  oonsnlting  and  deferring  to  his 
wife.** 

The  drudgery  of  women  is  such  that  they 
sometimes  destroy  their  offspriug.  Particu- 
larly if  the  child  is  a  girl.  A  missionary 
gives  the  following  incident:  ^*Some  one  tied 
a  helpless  little  child  of  about  two  years  down 
at  the  water^s  edge  at  low  tide.  Its  cries  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  a  passer-by,  who 
found  the  water  up  to  its  neck.  The  man 
took  it  to  his  home  and  cared  for  it.  The 
only  surprise  expressed  by  the  people  was 
that  any  (me  should  want  to  drown  or  kill  a 
boy.*^ 

If  a  family  is  very  poor,  they  sometimes 
give  away  to  childless  neighbors  all  their 
children  but  one.  Thus  during  childhood  a 
boy  may  pass  from  one  to  another  to  be 
adopted  by  several  families  in  turn.  Children 
are  sold  by  their  parents,  the  usual  market 
price  being  a  seal  sktn  bag  of  oil  or  a  suit  of 
old  clothes. 

The  prevailing  diseases  among  the  Eskimos 
are  scrofula,  diphtheria,  pneumonia  and  con- 
sumption, and  the  death  rate  is  large.  They 
have  a  superstitious  fear  with  reference  to  a 
death  in  the  house,  so  that  when  the  sick  are 
thought  to  be  nearing  death,  they  are  carried 
out  of  the  home  and  placed  in  an  out-house. 
If  they  do  not  die  as  soon  as  they  expect,  they 
ask  to  be  killed,  which  is  usually  done  by  the 
shaman  stabbing  them  in  the  temple  or  breast. 
The  aged  and  helpless  are  also  sometimes 
killed  at  their  own  request.  A  prominent 
man  in  a  tribe  not  long  since  tried  to  hire 
men  to  kill  his  aunt,  who  was  dependent  on 
him.  Failing  to  have  her  killed  he  deliber- 
ately froze  her  to  death.  The  cruelty  of 
heathenism  is  almost  beyond  belief.  The 
dead  are  wrapped  up  in  reindeer  or  seal  skins 
and  drawn  on  a  sled  back  of  the  village, 
where  they  are  placed  upon  elevated  scaffolds, 
out  of  the  reach  of  animals,  or  upon  the 
ground  and  covered  over  with  driftwood,  or 
as  among  some  of  the  tribes,  left  upon  the 
ground  to  be  soon  torn  to  pieces  and  devoured 
by  the  dogs  of  the  village. 

like  all  other  ignorant  people  they  are  firm 


believers  in  witchcraft  and  spirits  generally. 
They  also  believe  in  the  transmigration  of 
souls.  That  spirits  enter  into  animate  and 
iuanimate  nature,  into  rocks,  winds,  tides, 
and  animals;  that  they  are  good  or  bad 
according  as  the  business  of  the  community 
or  individual  is  successful  or  unsuccessful. 
They  also  believe  that  these  conditions  can 
be  changed  by  sorcery.  By  suitable  incanta- 
tions, they  firmly  believe  that  they  can  con- 
trol the  wind  and  the  elements,  that  they  can 
reward  friends  and  punish  enemies.  The 
foundation  of,  their  whole  religious  system  is 
this  belief  in  spirits  and  the  appeasing  of  evil 
spirits.  This  demon  or  evil  spirit  worship 
colors  their  whole  life  and  all  its  pursuits. 
Every  particular  animal  hunted,  every  phe- 
nomenon of  nature,  every  event  of  life  re- 
quires a  religious  observation  of  its  own.  It 
is  a  heavy  and  burdensome  work  that  darkens 
their  life,  it  leads  to  many  deeds  of  un- 
natural cruelty.  At  the  mouth  of  the  Eusk- 
okwim  river  an  old  woman  was  accused  of 
having  caused  the  death  of  several  children, 
of  being  a  witch.  This  was  so  firmly  believed 
that  her  own  husband  pounded  her  to  death, 
cut  up  her  body  into  small  pieces,  severing 
joint  from  joint  and  then  consumed  it  with  oil 
in  a  fire. 

These  people,  possessing  so  many  good 
qualities,  capable  of  being  civilized  and  be- 
coming a  valuable  portion  of  the  American 
people,  and  the  only  ones  that  will  be  willing 
to  remain  in  and  utilize  that  Arctic  region, 
are  in  their  spiritual  darkness  and  helpless- 
ness pleading  for  some  one  ^ '  in  His  Name  " 
to  have  compassion  on  them  and  bring  them 
and  their  children  the  light  and  joy  of  the 
gospel.  A  devoted  Christian  man  and  his 
wife  will  be  needed  next  spring  for  the  Pres- 
byterian Mission  at  Point  Barrow. 

Another  couple  for  the  Congregational  Mis- 
sion at  Cape  Prince  of  Wales,  and  a  third 
couple  for  St.  Iiawrence  Island. 

Applications  should  be  addressed  to  Sheldon 
Jackson,  Washington,  D.  C. 

As  it  is  so  vital  that  suitable  missionaries 
be  secured  I  request  all  who  may  read  this  to 
join  me  in  special  daily  prayer,  this  winter, 
that  the  right  people  shall  be  led  of  God  to 
offer  themselves  for  these  Arctic  fields. 


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[January^ 


MARIOLATRY  IN  THE  CHURCH  OF  ROME. 

BSY.  ALEXANDKB  BOBERTBON,  VENICE. 


A  thing  that  greatly  surprises  and  shocks 
English  and  American  yisitors  in  Venice,  is 
to  find,  in  so  many  of  its  churches,  statues 
and  images,  as  well  as  pictures,  of  the 
Madonna  and  child.  Tbe  ijnages,  which 
cause  the  deepest  feeling  of  revulsion  and 
even  disgust,  consist  of  the  form  of  a  woman 
dressed  up  in  old  faded  bits  of  silk,  ribbons 
and  laces,  and  having  an  abundance  of  tinsel 
ornaments  about  her,  and  a  glittering  crown 
with  seven  stars  on  her  head,  and  a  mock 
sceptre  in  her  hand ;  whilst  on  her  knee  sits 
her  babe  similarly  gotten  up,  but  generally 
without  the  crown  and  sceptre.  These  '  idols ' 
are  perfectly  hideous,  and  yet  they  are  set  up 
on  thrones  in  prominent  parts  of  the  churches, 
and  oftentimes  on  side  altars,  and  sometimes 
even  on  the  chief  altar  itself.  Generally 
beside  them  is  a  box  into  which  you  are 
invited  to  put  money  to  save  your  soul,  and 
the  souls  of  your  friends,  by  having  prayers 
said  to  the  ''Mother  of  God."  The  whole 
thing  is  repulsive,  not  only  to  one^s  sense  of 
religion,  but  to  one^s  common  intelligence. 

These  images  are  only  a  sign  of  the  wide 
extent  to  which  Mariolatry  has  spread  in  the 
Church  of  Rome,  and  of  the  desire  of  those 
in  authority  to  maintain  it,  and  to  extend 
it  still  further.  I  have  noticed  that  in 
churches  it  is  often  only  the  chapel  of  Mary 
that  has  any  worshippers,  and  it  is  only  her 
image  that  is  kissed  and  adored,  and  it  is  at 
her  altar  that  masses  are  most  frequently 
said.  To  a  large  extent  modern  popery  in 
continental  countries  is  Mariolatry.  This  is 
the  idolatry  that  has  supplanted  the  worship 
of  God  and  of  Jesus.  And  there  is  a  ten- 
dency to  spread  Mariolatry  wherever  Roman- 
ism exists,  and  many  ritualists  in  Protestant 
churches  second  their  efforts.  Dr.  Yaughan 
went  through  the  farce  the  other  day  of  dedi- 
cating England  to  her,  and  many  Roman- 
izing clergymen  have  set  up  her  image  and 
superscription  in  their  churches. 

In  view  of  these  things  it  may  be  worth 
while  to  ask  and  answer  these  two  questions. 
(1)  How  did  Mariolatry  begin?  and  (2)  Who 
is  mainly  responsible  for  its  present  increase? 


These  questions  I  purpose  answering  briefly 
in  this  paper. 

1.  Mariolatry  began,  strange  to  say,  in 
something  that  was  done  in  the  fifth  century 
in  honor  not  of  Mary,  but  of  Christ.  Early 
in  that  century  pictures  of  the  Madonna  and 
child,  such  as  everyone  is  familiar  with  in 
the  present  day,  began  to  be  made.  This 
was  intended  to  show  that  Jesus  Christ  was 
divine  in  his  nature,  and  that  therefore  even 
as  a  babe  he  was  worthy  of  receiving  wor- 
ship. The  device  was  thought  of  in  order  to 
protest  against,  and  controvert,  the  heretical 
opinion  that  Christ  only  differed  from*  other 
men  in  having  received  the  Divine  Spirit  in 
more  abundant  measure.  The  intention  was 
good,  and  the  pictures  may,  for  a  time,  have 
served  the  purpose  of  their  inventors,  but 
by  and  by,  not  only  did  they  fail  in  this,  but 
they  served  the  very  opposite  purpose. 
Worship  began  to  be  transferred  from  the 
babe  to  the  mother,  from  Jesus  to  Mary. 
In  the  eleventh  century  we  find  the  Church 
of  Rome  appointing  a  canonical  service  in 
honor  of  Mary ;  in  the  fourteenth.  Popes  and 
Councils  making  bulls  and  decrees  for  the 
regulation  of  her  worship;  in  the  sixteenth, 
the  Jesuits  came  upon  the  scene,  who  devoted 
themselves  to  the  extension  of  Mariolatry. 

Thus  it  began  and  has  flourished  down  the 
centuries  to  our  own  day,  when  it  has  mon- 
opolized worship  in  the  Roman  Church 
almost  completely.  During  the  last  fifty 
years  the  spread  and  growth  of  this  idolatry, 
has  been  more  marked  than  during  any  pre- 
vious period  in  its  history. 

2.  Pope  Leo  XIII  is  mainly  responsible  for 
this.  The  Pope  not  very  long  ago  issued  an 
Encyclical  Letter  on  Mariolatry,  which  if  one 
had  been  told  only  of  its  existence,  and  had 
not  seen  it,  would  have  seemed  incredible. 
The  letter  is  entitled  ''De  Rosario  Mariali,'' 
'*  concerning  the  Rosary  of  Mary,"  and  it  is 
addressed  to  the  Primates,  Archbishops,  Bi- 
shops and  others  in  connection  with  the  Apos- 
tolic See.  I  give  only  a  part  of  it,  and  follow 
the  translation  that  was  given  in  the  Anglican 
Church  Magazine.     The  letter  begins  : 


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Ab  often  as  the  occasion  permits  me  to  rekindle 
and  augment  the  love  and  devotion  of  Christian 
people  towards  the  great  Mother  of  God  I  am 
penetrated  with  a  wondrous  pleasure  and  Joy  I 
dealing  with  a  subject  which  is  not  only  most 
excellent  in  itself,  and  blessed  to  me  in  many 
ways,  but  is  also  in  tenderest  accord  with 
my  inmost  feelings.  For  indeed,  the  holy  affec- 
tion towards  Mary,  which  I  imbibed  almost  with 
my  mother's  milk,  has  vigorously  increased 
with  growing  years,  and  become  more  deeply 
rooted  in  my  mind.  The  many  and  remarkable 
proofs  of  her  kindness  and  good  wUl  towards 
me,  which  I  recall  with  deepest  thankfulness, 
and  not  without  tears,  kindle  and  inflame  more 
and  more  strongly  my  responsive  affection.  For 
in  the  many  varied  and  terrible  trials  that  have 
befallen  me,  I  have  always  looked  up  to  her  with 
eager  and  imploring  eyes:  all  my  hopes  and 
fears,  my  joys  and  sorrows,  have  been  deposited 
in  her  bosom,  and  it  has  been  my  constant  care 
to  entreat  her  to  show  to  me  a  mother's  kind- 
ness, to  be  always  at  my  side,  and  to  grant 
especially  that  I,  on  my  part,  may  be  enabled 
to  manifest  toward  her  the  proofs  of  the  most 
devoted  love  of  a  son.  When,  then,  it  was 
brought^  about  that  I  should  be  raised  to  this 
Chair  of  the  Blessed  Peter,  to  rule  his  Church, 
I  strove  in  prayer  with  more  ardent  desire  for 
divine  assistance,  trusting  in  the  maternal  love 
of  the  blessed  virgin.  And  this  my  hope  (my 
heart  delights  to  tell  it)  throughout  all  my  life, 
has  never  failed  to  help  and  console  me.  Hence 
under  her  auspice  and  with  her  mediation  I 
am  encouraged  to  hope  for  still  greater  bless- 
ings. It  is,  therefore,  right  and  opportune  to 
urge  all  my  children  to  set  apart  carefully  the 
month  of  October  to  the  celebration  of  our  lady 
and  august  queen  of  the  Rosary,  with  the  more 
lively  exercises  of  piety. 

For  when  we  betake  owrielvee  #n  prayer  to  Mary, 
we  betake  ourselves  to  the  mother  of  mercy, 
well  disposed  toward  us,  that  whatever  trials  we 
may  be  afflicted  with,  she  may  lavish  on  us  the 


treasure  of  that  grace,  which  from  the  begin- 
ning was  given  to  her  in  full  plenty  from  God. 
Thertfars,  let  us  not  approach  Mary  timidly  or 
careUsily,  but  pleading  those  maternal  ties  where- 
with she  is  most  closely  united  with  us  through 
Jesus,  let  us  piously  invoke  her  ready  help,  in  that 
method  of  prayer  which  she  herself  has  toAight  us,  an  d 
accepts. 

I  desire  to  conclude  this  present  exhorta- 
tion, as  I  began  it,  by  again  and  with  greater  in- 
sistence, testifying  the  feelings  which  I  cherish 
toward  the  great  parent  of  €kx),  mindful  of  her 
kindness,  and  full  of  the  most  Joyful  hope.  Our 
hope  in  Mary,  our  mighty  and  kind  Mother, 
grows  wide,  day  by  day,  and  ever  beams  upon 
us  more  brightly.     [The  italics  are  mine.] 

Such  is  the  gist  of  this  encyclical  letter  of 
Pope  Leo  XIII.  He  claims  to  be  the  Vicar 
of  Christ,  but  here  he  avows  himself  to  be  a 
worshipper  of  Mary,  f^id  talks  irrationally 
and  blasphemously  about  her.  And  yet  con- 
sidered neither  a  bad  man,  as  Popes,  go,  nor 
a  man  lacking  in  intelligence.  But  there  is 
such  a  thing  as  a  man  and  a  Church  so 
rejecting  truth  and  propagating  falsehood,  so 
professing  to  be  spiritual  and  living  carnal, 
so  trading  and  trafficking  in  a  lie,  that  God 
gives  them  over  to  strong  delusion,  so  that 
they  believe  a  lie. 

What  a  pity  it  is  that  so  many  Protestants 
talk  with  vated  breath  of  His  Tioliness,  The 
Churcli  of  Rome  needs  the  gospel  as  any 
Pagan  institution  does.  In  Italy  also  this  is 
recognized,  and  Italians  are  accepting  the 
Bible  as  they  did  not  and  could  not  do  form- 
erly, and  having  put  off  a  system  which  was 
external  to  them,  consisting  of  rites  and  cere- 
monies, of  meats  and  drinks,  are  puttting  on 
that  which  enters  into  their  hearts  and  lives, 
and  consists  of  righteousness  and  peace  and 
Joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost. 


MISSIONARY  PICTURES  FROM  MADAGASCAR. 

BT  THC  BSV.  JAMIS  JOHNSTON. 

For  the  purpose  of  estimating  present  day  whole  land  was  densely  heathen 
SQOoee^  and  prospects  concerning  the  Master^s 
Kingdom  on  the  ^^  great  African  island  "it 
will  be  helpfal  to  review  briefly  former 
straggles  and  achievements.  When  the  flrst 
seeds  of  the  Gkwpel  were  sown  in  1818,  the 


The  entire 
population,  some  four  millions  in  number, 
was  destitute  of  a  written  language— worship- 
ping idols,  addicted  to  witchcraft  and  super- 
stition, and,  victimised  by  poison  ordeals. 
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chastity,  nor,  alas,  the  thing  which  the  word 
signified.  Except  on  the  coasts,  where  the 
people  lived  in  wicker  huts,  the  inhabitants 
universally  were  occupants  of  mud  hovels, 
the  walls  and  floors  made  of  mud.  These 
had  one  unglazed  window  and  were  innocent 
of  chimneys.  Pigs,  fowls,  and  other  live 
stock  found  asylum  in  the  same  room.  Such 
was  the  outward  degraded  condition  of  the 
Malagasy,  only  too  typical  of  the  heart  within. 

During  eighteen  years  the  handful  of  mis- 
sionary pioneers,  in  and  around  the  capital, 
continued  to  open  the  furrows  until  persecu- 
tion broke  out,  by  which  the  missionaries 
were  expelled  and  a  reign  of  terror  prevailed 
over  the  island  for  twenty-five  years.  Amid 
this  darkness,  faith  ul  Malagasy  witnesses 
dared  to  stand  forth  on  behalf  of  the  ark  of 
light.  Native  confessors  at  the  stake,  before 
the  spear,  and,  over  the  face  of  yawning 
precipices,  glorified  Christ.  Others  again 
were  placed  in  chains,  were  banished,  or, 
.  suffered  unmentionable  tortures.  Through- 
out this  long  period  persecution,  *^now  raging 
fiercely,  now  lolling,"  never  ceased. 

With  the  advent  of  the  Christian  Queen, 
Banavalona  II,  a  silver  lining  shone  o'er. 

*^The  sunless  days  and  starless  nights." 

At  her  coronation  in  1868,  this  noble 
woman  forbade  the  introduction  of  idols  and, 
a  year  later,  commanded  that  these  objects 
of  royal  worship  should  be  burnt  in  her 
presence.  This  action  of  the  sovereign  was 
followed  by  throngs  of  heathen  flocking  into 
the  chapels  and  begging  to  be  taught  the 
new  faith.  In  a  sense  the  Church  absorbed 
the  nation  and,  down  to  the  present  hour,  a 
congested  order  of  things  has  existed.  The 
messengers  of  grace  were  overwhelmed  by 
the  freshet  of  souls  and,  like  some  fishermen 
of  old,  they  beckoned  to  their  brethren  '^  that 
they  should  come  and  help  them."  Even 
with  the  aid  which  England  and  Norway, 
and  America,  in  part,  have  since  supplied  it 
is  quite  common  to-day  for  a  missionary  to 
have  the  charge  of  70  or  80  semi-heathen 
congregations  scattered  over  a  large  area, 
under  his  care.  In  many  villages  Christianity 
and  heathenism  jostle  each  other,  sometimes 
blend  in  strange  fashion,  yet,  the  dominant 
character  is  Christian,  with  every  promise  of 


holding  the  field  in  the  future.  Difficult 
victories  have  already  been  chronicled  in  the 
brief  span  of  twenty-five  years  which  embrace 
the  nation's  actual  religious  history.  This 
saving  crusade  is  extending  and,  the  spiritual 
life  deepening,  in  a  clime  where  two-thirds 
of  the  inhabitants  are  the  bond- slaves  of 
heathenism. 

In  1891  a  wave  of  heavenly  refreshing 
swept  over  multitudes  of  God's  people  in 
Antananarivo— the  capital,  which  has  a  pop- 
ulation of  over  100,000  souls.  Numbers  of 
young  Christiana  were  quickened  and  the 
churches  graciously  blessed.  The  circum- 
stances of  this  stirring  awakening  are  worthy 
of  record.  For  several  years  the  missionaries 
perceived  that  their  labors  had  exercised  a 
civilizing  influence  in  addition  to  the  direct 
fruits  of  Christian  teaching.  They  had  seen 
buildings  of  burnt  brick  supplanting  wretched 
dwellings,  decent  clothing  taking  the  place 
of  semi-barbarian  dress,  and,  similar  marks 
of  the  dawn  of  civilization.  It  had  been 
their  pleasure,  likewise,  to  note  and  further 
the  erection  of  high  schools  for  boys  and 
girls,  colleges  and  hospitals  where  doctors 
and  nurses  were  trained,  and  valuable  print- 
ing presses  from  which  good  native  literature 
was  poured  out.  On  the  other  hand  they 
desired  to  witness  something  more  than  prog- 
ress in  social  and  educational  matters.  This 
could  be  done  largely  by  the  instrumentality 
of  man,  whereas,  €K>d  only  could  change  the 
heart  and  alter  the  life.  After  full  consider- 
ation the  more  evangelical  missionaries  and 
spiritually  minded  native  Christians  joined 
in  humble  and  united  supplication.  The 
windows  of  heaven  were  soon  remarkably 
opened  and,  in  ever- widening  circles,  the 
blessing  has  rippled  and  travelled  to  districts 
far  away  from  the  capital.  '*A  religion," 
says  one  of  the  leading  Malagasy  missionaries, 
*■  ^  that  makes  thieves  honest,  bad  people  good, 
impure  women  pure,  impenitent  people  peni- 
tent, hard  and  unforgiving  people  willing  to 
forgive  one  another;  that  makes  restitution 
for  wrongs  done,  and  people  pay  debts  that 
they  had  tried  to  get  out  of  paying,"  that  is 
a  real  religion  anywhere  and  must  be  of  God. 
From  ^  *•  nationalism  in  conversion, "  Christian- 
ity, in  Madagascar,  is  rising  into  the  higher 


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stagej^of  ^Mndiyidxialism  in  oonyersion." 
Instead  of  crowds  drawing  near  mechanically, 
individuals,  moved  from  above,  are  entering 
into  that  Kingdom  which  consists  of  right- 
eoosness,  joy,  and  peace,  in  the  H0I7  Ghost. 
Among  young  disciples  in  many  centres  a 
delightful  enthusiasm  for  service  prevails. 
Open-air  services  are  becoming  popular. 
Christian  Endeavor  Societies  are  taking  root 
and  flourishing,  and,  Sunday-schools  increas- 
ing in  number. 

A  great  work  awaits  the  Gospel  plough. 
Vast  tracts  are  spiritually  nnfurrowed.  Nu- 
merous and  populous  tribes  are  still  whoUy 
untouched  by  the  Father's  message  of  love. 


Slavery  exists  in  Christianized  parts  with 
kindred  evils  and  woes.  Throughout  this 
large  island,  twice  the  size  of  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland,  and  over  1,000  miles  long  and 
860  miles  wide,  there  is  not  a  made  road,  a 
railroad,  or  wheeled  vehicle  in  it.  The  day- 
break tarrieth,  and  in  thousands  and  tens  of 
thousands,  the  Malagasy  are  passing  on  un- 
cheered  by  divine  light.  To  the  Christian 
Churches  of  America  and  Europe  a  call  is 
heard:  **Whom  shall  I  send,  and  who  will  go 
for  usr*  and  happy  he  that  answers,  ^*Here 
am  I;  send  me,''  to  add  to  the  jewels  in  the 
diadem  of  the  celestial  King. 

Danren,  Bof  land. 


MICHIGAN. 

mv.  WILLIAM  S.  JIBOME. 


PHYSICAL  FEATURia. 


The  motto  of  the  State  of  Michigan  is:  ''  If 
you  seek  a  beautiful  peninsula,  look  around." 

Like  Wren's  epitaph  in  St.  Paul's  Cathe- 
dral, it  takes  for  granted  that  a  look  around 
is  sufficient,  without  added  eloquence  or 
eulogy. 

And  certainly  the  look  justifies  the  pride 
felt  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  beautiful  penin- 
sula. As  a  matter  of  fact,  they  do  not  claim 
in  their  motto  all  that  thej  might,  for  in 
reality  Michigan  consists  of  two  beautiful 
peninsulas.  The  State  lies  in  the  very  em- 
brace of  three  of  the  Great  Lakes,  and  its 
coast-line  is  the  longest  of  any  of  our  in- 
land states.  The  land  area  of  the  State  is 
57,480  square  miles.  The  length  of  the 
southern  peninsula  is  280  miles,  while  it  is 
886  miles  from  one  end  of  the  northern 
peninsula  to  the  other.  And  all  over  this 
vast  territory  are  scattered  thriving  cities  and 
towns  and  villages,  which  with  the  farms 
and  mines  and  forests  contain  a  population  of 
2,098,889  people.  The  State  ranks  ninth  in 
order,  as  to  population,  its  growth  having 
been  very  rapid.  It  may  almost  be  called  a 
western  New  York,  for  the  Empire  State  has 
contributed  more  than  any  other  to  its 
growth  and  prosperity.  The  soil  of  the 
lower  peninsula  is  generally  fertile,  and  in 
the  southern  portion  the  State  is  thickly  set- 


tled. The  upper  peninsula  is  rougher  in  ex- 
terior and  the  population  is  sparser,  but  the 
copper  and  iron  mines  are  the  sources  of  vaat 
wealth.  Their  rich  stores  were  known  to  the 
race  that  preceded  the  Indians,  and  they 
still  continue  to  enrich  their  owners.  The 
lumber  and  salt  industries  of  Michigan  are 
famous  everywhere.  Through  the  Great 
Lakes  passes  a  traffic  three  times  as  great  as 
that  through  the  Suez  Canal,  and  in  its  vast 
agricultural,  mercantile  and  maritime  in- 
terests Michigan  stands  in  the  first  rank  of 
American  commonwealths.  Like  Palestine, 
it  is  ^*  a  good  land,  a  land  of  brooks  of  water, 
of  fountains  and  depths,  springing  forth  in 
valleys  and  hills  ;  a  land  of  wheat  and  bar- 
ley, and  vines  and  fig  trees  and  pomegranates; 
a  land  of  oil,  olive  and  honey;  a  land  wherein 
thou  shalt  eat  bread  without  scarceness,  thou 
shalt  not  lack  anything  in  it ;  a  land  whose 
stones  are  iron,  and  out  of  whose  hills  thou 
mayest  dig  brass." 

POLITICAL  HlSTOBT. 

Michigan  is  a  very  old  State.  Though  not 
admitted  into  the  Union  till  1887,  its  history 
goes  back  to  the  earliest  times.  Before 
the  Pilgrims  landed  at  Plymouth  the  Jesuit 
missionaries  had  visited  the  shores  of  the 
Great  Lakes.  In  1641  the  first  mission  and 
trading  post  was  established  at  Sault  Ste. 
Marie.    In  1668  Father  Jacques  Marquette 


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fonnded  the  first  permanent  settlement,  at 
St.  Ignace.  Detroit  was  founded  in  1701  by 
Antoine  de  la  Motte  Cadillac.  And  the  names 
of  Marquette  and  Cadillac  indicate  the  race 
and  creed  of  the  first  settlers.  Judge  Coolej 
calls  attention  in  his  history  of  the  State  to 
the  fact  that  the  changes  of  sovereign  as  well 
as  of  subordinate  jurisdiction  haye  been 
greater  in  Michigan  than  in  any  other  part 
of  the  American  Union.  Originally,  of  course, 
it  was  possessed  by  the  Indians,  whose  story 
has  been  so  graphically  told  by  the  historian 
Parkman,  lately  deceased.  Then  the  French 
Jesuits  and  traders  raised  the  lilies  of  France 
oyer  the  posts  and  missions  they  established. 
Next,  Qreat  Britain  substituted  the  cross  of 
St.  (George  for  the  French  lilies,  and  harsh 
and  repressive  government  for  the  mild  sway 
of  the  French.  And  at  last,  on  July  11, 
1796,  the  Stars  and  Stripes  were  raised  for 
the  first  time  over  the  fort  founded  by 
Cadillac,  and  surrendered  by  Great  Britain. 
But  even  then  the  changes  were  not  at  an 
end.  Under  the  United  States  Michigan  was 
successively  a  part  of  the  Northwest  Territory, 
then  of  the  Territory  of  Indiana,  afterward 
organized  as  the  Territory  of  Michigan,  and 
finally,  on  January  26,  1887,  received  as  a 
State,  being  the  18  th  thus  received  into  the 
sisterhood  of  States.  Since  that  day  it  has 
done  its  full  duty  as  a  State  of  the  American 
Union.  It  sent  nearly  100,000  men  into 
the  war  for  the  Union,  and  in  the  affairs  of 
the  national  life  it  has  always  borne  a  promi- 
nent and  honorable  part. 

EDUOATION  AND  BBLI6I0N. 

Michigan  has  always  been  famous  for  its 
educational  system.  The  celebrated  Ordi- 
nauce  of  1787  enacted  that  **  Religion,  mo- 
rality and  knowledge  being  necessary  to  good 
government  and  the  happiness  of  mankind, 
schools  and  the  means  of  education  shall  for- 
ever be  encouraged.''  In  this  spirit  the  State 
has  es^blished  and  fostered  a  public  school 
system  that  ranks  among  the  best  in  the 
land.  The  crowning  feature  is  the  famous 
University  at  Ann  Arbor,  probably  the  larg- 
est and  best  known  of  any  state  educational 
institution.  If  the  Massachusetts  settlers  re- 
ceive credit  for  their  devotion  to  the  cause  of 


education,  certainly  the  founders  of  Michi- 
gan's University  and  public  school  system 
deserve  equal  recognition.  The  name  of  Rev. 
John  Monteith,  a  Presbyterian  missionary, 
will  always  be  honored  as  the  pioneer  of 
education  in  Michigan.  With  a  Roman  Cath- 
olic priest,  Father  Gabriel  Richard,  he  labored 
to  promote  the  cause  of  popular  education, 
and  the  Presbyterian  minister  and  the  Rom- 
ish priest  were  the  first  officers  of  the  school 
which  became  afterward  the  great  University. 
The  public  school  system  was  largely  due  to 
the  labors  of  Rev.  John  D.  Pierce,  a  Congre- 
gational missionary,  and  to-day  the  public 
schools  of  Michigan  contain  more  than  427,- 
000  pupils.  Beside  the  State  University 
most  of  the  religious  denominations  have 
also  founded  colleges,  which  are  doing  good 
work.  The  Methodists  have  a  college  at 
Albion,  the  Congregationalists  at  Olivet,  the 
Baptists  at  Kalamazoo,  and  the  Free  Baptists 
at  Hillsdale.  The  Presbyterian  college  is  at 
Alma.  It  is  the  youngest  of  the  sisterhood, 
having  been  founded  only  six  years  ago.  As 
usual  the  Presbyterians,  *' God's  foolish 
people,"  supported  the  institutions  of  oth- 
ers, until  aroused  to  the  need  for  a  college 
of  their  own,  and  now  President  Bruske  pre- 
sides over  a  flourishing  institution,  which  has 
in  it  the  prophecy  of  great  future  usefulness, 
based  upon  the  established  record  of  past 
success.  We  have  also,  at  Ann  Arbor, 
^'Tappan  Hall"  as  a  centre  for  our  work 
among  the  Presbyterian  students  at  the  Uni- 
versity. A  library  and  reading  room,  a  gym- 
nasium, courses  of  lectures,  etc.,  are  all 
employed  as  agencies  for  the  training  and 
helping  of  the  young  men  and  women  who 
come  from  Presbyterian  homes. 

PBESBTTERIANISM  IN  MIOHIOAM. 

While  the  Presbyterian  Church  was  not 
the  first  to  enter  Michigan,  it  was  not  far 
behind  others.  In  1816  the  Rev.  John 
Monteith  visited  the  Territory  with  a  commis- 
sion from  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the 
General  Assembly  bearing  date  June  6  of 
that  year.  By  the  terms  of  his  commission 
he  was  directed  to  the  eastern  part  of  the 
Territory,  and  very  naturally,  Detroit  became 
the  centre  of  his  operations.     On  August  5, 


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foDowmg  his  arrival,  ke  organized  the  ^^First 
Protestant  Society  of  the  City  of  Detroit." 
This  is  still  the  legal  name  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Chnrch  of  that  city.  It  was  not 
until  September  8,  1828,  that  the  Presbytery 
of  Detroit  was  organized.  This  consisted  at 
first  of  but  five  chnrches,  Detroit,  Pontiac, 
Farmington,  Ann  Arbor  and  Dixborongh. 
Before  the  organization  of  the  Presbytery  the 
Poatiac  ohuroh  was  for  a  time  connected 
with  the  Presbytery  of  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and 
the  Tact  attests  the  closeness  of  the  tie  which 
bound  together  western  New  York  and  the 
new  and  growing  communities  of  the  West. 
The  boundaries  of  the  new  presbytery  were 
those  of  the  entire  lower  peninsula,  and  in- 
cluded all  the  churches  of  our  faith  in  the 
Territory.  In  1884  the  Synod  of  Michigan 
was  organized  at  Ann  Arbor,  Rev.  Phanuel 
W.  Warriner  being  the  first  moderator. 
To-day  the  Synod  of  Michigan  consists  of  the 
Presbyteries  of  Detroit,  Flint,  Grand  Rapids, 
Kalamazoo,  Lake  Superior,  Lansing,  Monroe, 
Petoskey  and  Saginaw.  The  Presbytery  of 
Lake  Superior  covers  the  upper  peninsula, 
and  was  attached  to  the  Synod  of  Wisconsin 


till  two  years  ago.  These  nine  presbyteries 
contain,  according  to  their  last  reports  to  the 
General  Assembly,  218  ministers,  9  licentiates 
and  19  candidates.  The  anmber  of  churches 
is  246,  and  the  number  of  members  26,015. 
There  are  80,276  Sunday-school  scholars, 
and  the  benevolent  offerings  of  the  churches 
for  the  past  year  reached  the  sum  of  $71,- 
978. 

While  we  have  many  strong  churches,  yet 
in  the  wilder  and  sparsely  populated  parts  of 
the  State,  there  is  much  missionary  work  to 
be  done.  We  have  78  missionaries  of  all 
kinds  at  work,  and  Rev.  David  Howell  is 
our  efficient  Synodical  Superintendent.  The 
northern  part  of  the  State  is  largely  a  home 
missionary  field,  and  will  require  the  foster- 
ing care  of  the  Board  for  some  time  in  the 
future.  Michigan  is  not  yet  able,  like  the 
older  Synods,  to  do  all  its  own  missionary 
work.  But  with  its  increasing  population 
and  wealth  we  may  hope  that  the  time  will 
soon  come  when  the  Peninsular  State  need  not 
ask  a  dollar  from  any  one  outside  its  own 
boundary,  to  carry  the  gospel  to  the  scattered 
population  of  its  forests  and  fields. 


Moslem  View  op  Elect  Infants. — Recently 
traveling  in  company  of  two  pilgrims  return- 
ing from  Mecca,  the  conversation  turned  on 
religion  and  their  views  of  Jesus  and  His  rela- 
tion to  Mohammed.  Among  other  things 
they  said,  *^We  believe  that  children  of 
Christians  and  Jews  who  die  before  they 
reach  the  age  of  distinction  between  good  and 
evil,  will  be  saved  by  the  grace  of  Gk)d  through 
Mohammed,"  It  is  not  only  American  Pres- 
byterians who  have  difficulty  in  formulating 
the  doctrine  of  infant  salvation. 

W.  S.  N. 

The  Problem  proposed  in  the  October 
number,  page  294,  by  Bro.  Esselstyn,  could 
not  fail  to  touch  the  heart  and  conscience  of 
every  missionary  who  lives  in  a  Moslem 
country.  It  is  a  constant  burden  on  the  heart 
to  think  of  these  millions  of  believers  in 
Mohammed,  for  whom  almost  nothing  is  being 
accomplished.  This  year  thousands  of  them 
have  lost  their  lives  on  the  annual  pilgrimage 


and  many  more  have  come  home  from  Mecca 
with  shattered  health  but  intensified  bigotry. 
Are  we  doing  all  we  might  to  reach  themi 
What  means  can  be  used?  We  long  for  the 
comparative  freedom  of  speech  which  English 
government  has  secured  in  India  aud  we 
even  hear  of  the  work  in  Persia  with  a  touch 
of  something  akin  to  envy.  What  may  be 
the  reason  I  have  not  learned,  but  it  seems  to 
be  the  fact  that  the  Moslems  of  Persia  are 
more  approachable  and  more  receptive  than 
their  more  ''orthodox"  co-religionists  of 
Turkey. 

I  am  writing  in  Aleppo  where  an  over- 
whelming majority  of  the  population  follow 
the  teachings  of  the  prophet  of  Arabia,  but 
there  seems  no  way  to  get  hold  of  them  by 
missionary  effort. 

I  have  lived  for  five  years  in  the  Moslem 
city  of  Tripoli,  but  have  been  able  to  gain 
only  the  slightest  casual  intercourse  with  a 
few  Moslems  and  have  been  unable  to  think 
of  any  way  to  reach  them  with  systematic 


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Peculiar. 


{January^ 


effort.  I  was  greatly  interested  a  few  days 
since  as  I  passed  along  a  busy  street  to  hear 
the  Toice  of  a  Moslem  reading  aloud  at  a  shop 
door;  and  as  I  drew  near  I  discovered  that 
the  book  he  held  was  a  copy  of  the  New 
Testament.  There  are  occasional  indications 
of  isolated  individual  interest  in  Christianity 
and  it  is  not  always  difficult  to  engage  a  Mos- 
lem in  conversation  on  the  subject  of  religion. 
As  it  seems  to  me,  the  opposition  of  the 
government  is  not  the  only  and  perhaps  not 


the  chief  obstacle.  The  mass  of  the  people 
are  not  only  thoroughly  satis^ed  with  their  • 
present  state,  but  haughtily  proud  of  it. 
What  can  be  done  to  make  them  dissatisfied 
and  uneasy?  It  seems  to  me,  that  is  the 
fundamental  question.  When  the  people 
themselves  become  conscious  of  a  lack  in 
their  present  system  and  wish  for  a  better 
hope,  then  no  opposition  of  government  can 
prevent  the  conversion  of  multitudes. 

W.  S.  N. 


POTNBTTE  ACADEMY,    SEB  PAGE   56. 


PECULIAR. 

Peculiab  is  a  peculiar  word,  and  very  pecu-  of  them 
liar  uses  have  been  made  of  it.  A  letter  was 
once  passing  through  the  United  States  mail, 
of  which  the  superscription  was  so  badly  writ- 
ten that  the  postmasters  and  their  assistants 
could  not  make  out  the  name  of  the  post- 
office  to  which  it  was  addressed.  After  sev- 
eral experts  had  tried  to  decipher  it,  the  last 


gave  it  up,^^  remarking,  as  he 
threw  it  down,  *'  That  is  peculiar, ^^  His 
happening  to  use  that  word  suggested  an  idea 
to  one  of  his  companions,  who  picked  up  the 
letter,  and  soon  found  that  the  writer  had 
tried  to  write  PECULIAR,  which  was  the 
name  of  a  poet-office. 
It  is  said  that  when  the  people  of   that 


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neighborhood  petitioned  for  a  post-office,  thej 
did  not  send  any  name  for  it  to  the  de- 
partment, bat  requested  that  it  might  have 
Bome  peculiar  name  so  that  letters  addressed 
to  it  might  not  be  so  apt  to  be  miscarried  to 
some  other,  of  similar  name.  The  Postmaster 
General  or  his  assistwit  took  them  at  their 
word  and  named  their  post-office  Peculiar. 

Two  meanings  of  the  word  are  well  illus- 
trated by  this  story.  The  clerk  who  said, 
* '  That  is  peculiar y "  as  he  gave  up  the  effort  to 
decipher  the  superscription,  meant  to  describe 
it  as  ^* unusual,  singular,  strange" — now  the 
most  common,  though  a  secondary,  meaning 
of  the  word.  But  the  primary  meaning  of 
the  word  is  oner's  oum^  and  surely  that  name 
was  emphatically  that  particular  post-office's 
cum  name,  and  little  likely  to  be  appropriated 
by  any  other. 

In  this  last  sense,  Christians  are  Christ's 
•'peculiar  people,"  Titus  ii.  14.  They  have 
no  occasion  to  try  to  be  singular  or  strange, 
in  dress  and  manners  or  in  any  other  way. 
They  have  only  to  be  Christ-like  in  spirit,  and 
yet  if  they  be  truly  that,  their  spirit  will 
probably  so  form  their  manners  and  behavior 


that  those  who  observe  them  will  see  or  feel 
that  somehow  they  are  not  altogether  like  the 
world's  people.  They  **take  knowledge  of 
them,  that  they  are  like  Jesus."  It  is  not  a 
bad  thing  to  be  thus  peculiar. 

Do  not  fail  to  read  about  *'A  Peculiar 
School,"  page  56.  Is  it  not  peculiar  in  both 
senses  of  the  word? 

It  is  not  singular.  At  least  it  is  not  the 
only  such  school.  Most  persons  who  read 
that  article  will  be  reminded  of  Park  College; 
some  also  of    Maryville;    some    of    Olivet; 

some well,  there  are  too  many  of  them 

to  be  here  enumerated,  and  we  earnestly 
hope  that  there  will  be  many  more.  We  con- 
gratulate the  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and 
Academies  upon  its  wise  readiness  and  in- 
creasing ability  to  aid  them. 

The  cut  on  page  14  was  intended  to  be 
printed  with  the  article  on  page  56,  but  it 
did  not  arrive  until  the  82  pages  of  which 
that  is  one  were  made  up  and  printed.  We 
therefore  insert  it  in  one  of  these  pages  which 
are  the  last  to  go  to  press,  and  hope  that  it 
will  all  the  more  secure  the  attention  of 
readers  to  that  article. 


Synodioal  Missionaries. — The  usefulness  of 
this  class  of  agents  in  the  work  of  Home  Mis- 
sions is  well  illustrated  in  the  communica- 
tions from  several  of  them  on  pages  42-47 ; 
'•Presbyterianism  in  Wisconsin,"  **Home 
Mission  Work  in  Washington,"  '*  Home  Mis- 
sion Work  in  Michigan." 


The  Presbytery  and  Home  Missions. — In 
the  interesting  communication  of  Rev.  Daniel 
Howell,  (page  44)  is  a  suggestion  worthy  of 
careful  consideration.  It  relates  to  the  desir- 
ableness of  '^an  equitable  plan  for  asking 
aid  from  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  which 
shall  be  uniform  for  all  presbyteries."  When 
the  Ohnn^  was  small  and  its  congregations 


few,  it  was  practicable  for  a  single  Board  or 
Committee  to  deal  directly  with  single  congre- 
gations needing  aid,  and  to  distribute  a  small 
fund  among  them  wisely  and  equitably.  A 
home  mission  work  extended  quite  across  the 
continent  and  employing  between  seventeen 
hundred  and  eighteen  hundred  missionaries, 
**  distributed  over  thirty-nine  states  and  seven 
territories,"  is  quite  another  affair,  and  re- 
quires to  be  conducted  as  differently  as  a 
large  army  from  a  sheriff's  posse  comitatus. 
The  constitutional  organization  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  has  preordained  the  lines 
along  which  its  work  of  home  missions  must 
move.  The  Presbytery  should  realize  its  re- 
sponsibility for  all  congregations  within  its 


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bounds,  and  its  utmost  vigilance  and  wisdom 
should  be  utilized  for  securing  only  a  reason- 
able aggregate  call  for  appropriation  from 
the  Church's  general  treasury,  and  for  the 
wise  and  equitable  distribution  of  that  aggre- 
gate amount  to  its  really  needy  congregations 
and  new  fields  according  to  their  real  need 
and  promise. 

Ohildrens'  Wobk  fob  Childbkn  has  always 
had  a  cordial  welcome  among  our  exchanges, 
and  it  has  been  pleasant  to  look  across  the 
narrow  court  in  the  midst  of  our  building  to 
the  window  of  the  office  where  we  knew  that 
the  editor  of  the  little  people's  magazine 
was  busy  with  her  correspondence  and 
her  manuscripts  and  her  proofs,  preparing 
the  monthly  message  for  the  children  of  the 
Church. 

Now  we  learn  that  with  the  December 
number  the  name  that  eighteen  years  have 
made  familiar  is  to  be  laid  aside,  and  with 
the  first  of  January,  1894,  we  are  to  welcome 

OYEB  SEA  AND  LAND, 

a  missionary  magazine  for  the  young,  pub- 
lished by  the  Woman's  Foreign  Missionary 
organization  and  the  Woman's  Executive 
Committee  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  The  number  of  pages  is  to  be 
increased  to  make  room  for  intelligence  upon 
Home  Missionary  subjects,  and  the  new  mag- 
azine will  have  an  appropriate  illustrated 
cover.  Miss  Mary  R.  Murphy  has  succeeded 
Mrs.  Mary  Lombard  Brodhead  as  editor,  and 
the  editorial  office  will  still  be  at  1884  Chest- 
nut street,  Philadelphia. 

With  many  changes  and  many  plans  for  in- 
creasing the  attractiveness  and  value  of  the 
magazine,  it  has  not  been  found  necessary  to 
increase  the  price,  which  will  remain  as  here- 
tofore, 35  cents  for  single  subscription,  25 
cents  in  clubs  of  five  or  more  mailed  to  one 
address. 


Our  '''•  Benevolent  Fund  "  for  sending  The 
Chubch  at  Home  and  Abroad  to  persons  who 
value  it  and  are  not  able  to  pay  for  it  is  almost 
exhausted. 

More  than  four-score  names  are  on  the  list 
thus  provided  for  during  the  year  just  now 
dosed. 

Some  of  these  may  feel  able  to  make  them- 
selves subscribers  for  1894.  Some  have  prob- 
ably gone  from  their  recent  places  of  abode, 
and  some  gone  from  this  world. 

Those  who  will  still  need  it  are  invited  to 
write  us  very  frankly,  giving  their  post-office 
address.  For,  unless  this  year  shall  be  differ- 
ent from  any  preceding  year,  we  shall  soon 
begin  to  receive  donations  to  this  *^  Benevo- 
lent Fund^"  [from  Chicago  and  Minnesota, 
and  places  nearer  and  not  so  near.  It  seems 
to  us  a  very  sweet  way  of  helping  one  another 
in  the  name  of  Christ.] 


The  Committee  on  Systematic  Beneficence 
issues  leaflets  of  suitable  size  for  ordinary 
letter  envelopes  for  gratuitous  circulation. 
Address  Rev.  Rufus  S.  Green,  D.D.,  Elmira 
College,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

It  is  well  for  those  requesting  copies  to 
enclose  stamps  for  the  postage  on  them. 
From  five  to  ten  copies  can  be  sent  for  each 
cent  of  postage.  They  have  such  titles  as 
Paul's  Diary,  Christian  Stewardship,  The 
Worship  of  (Jod  by  Offerings,  How  it  Paid, 
etc.  They  are  by  such  writers  as  Dr.  Green, 
A.  J.  Wesley,  Edward  Everett  Smith  and 
Rev.  Robert  Adams. 


All  our  readers  are  respectfuUy  invited  to 
read  the  testimonials  on  the  second  page, 
and  on  the  last  two  pages  of  advertisements. 
If  they  hold  similar  opinions,  cannot  they 
call  the  attention  of  some  friend  or  neighbor 
to  them,  and  invite  him  to  become  a  sub- 
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FOREIGN   MISSIONS. 


TBBASUREE'S  STATEMENT  OP  RECEIPTS,  MAY  1  TO  NOV.  80,  1892  AND  1893. 


womif's  b'd8 

8AB.  SCHOOLS. 

T.  P.  8.  0.  ■. 

LKOAOnS. 

MISCKLULNKOUB 

TOTAL. 

1802 

isn 

69.1t6  91 

$68.496  88 
75,974  89 

$9.999  04 
8,790  61 

$501  48 

$8.990  84 
6.786  80 

$49,147  88 
88,996  67 

$34.080  18 

98,818  50 

$989,089  05 
906,494  28 

Gain 
Lew 

$M85  57 

$7.648  06 

$1,866  56 

$96,980  76 

$10,911  68 

$88,664  77 

Total  appropriated  to  December  1,1898 $1,048,665  77 

Beceiyed  from  all  sources  to  December  1 , 1 893 $906, 494  98 

Surplus  of  May  1.1898 1,868  78    906,988  00 

Amount  to  be  reoeived  before  Hay  1, 1894,  to  meet  all  obligations 886,879  77 

ReceiTedlastyear.Decemberl,  1899  to  Hay  1,1898 775,415  88 

Increase  needed  before  the  end  of  the  year 69, 957  46 


Perhaps  the  most  notable  ecclesiastical 
event  of  the  past  year  was  the  Jubilee  of  the 
Free  Church  of  Scotland,  which  was  cele- 
brated in  the  spring.  The  occasion  brought 
together  a  distinguished  gathering  of  the 
leaders  of  the  Free  Church  at  the  Jubilee 
General  Assembly.  A  review  of  the  motives 
and  incidents  of  the  great  Disruption  and  of 
the  noble  history  of  the  Church  during  tbe 
past  fifty  years  was  a  mighty  stimulus  to 
praise,  and  kindled  anew  the  inspiration  and 
courage  of  high  convictions  in  all  hearts. 
The  missionary  record  of  the  Free  Church  is 
not  the  least  of  its  causes  of  thanksgiving  and 
congratulation.  A  sum  total  of  about  $18,- 
000.000  has  been  contributed  for  missions  at 
home  and  abroad,  and  on  the  roll  of  its 
foreign  missionaries  are  such  names  as  Duff, 
Wilson,  Burns,  Douglass,  Stewart,  Miller, 
Laws,  Keith-Falconer,  Inglis,  and  Paton. 


We  mentioned  in  a  recent  number  of  The 
Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  the  project  of 
the  London  Missionary  Society  to  send  a  mis- 
sionary steamer  for  work  in  the  South  Seas. 
The  October  number  of  The  Chronicle  con- 
tains a  beautiful  picture  of  the  proposed 
steamer,  and  now  in  a  recent  number  of 
The  London  Times,  under  the  head  of 
ecclesiastical  intelligence,  is  an  account  of 
the  launching  of  this  missionary  steam- 
ship, in  which  is  given  a  brief  account 
of  previous  ships  that  have  been  used  in 
the  service.  The  young  people  have  been 
asked  to  pay  for  this  steamer  as  a  cen- 
tenary offering,  the  cost  of  which  will  be 
about  $85,000.  It  is  to  be  180  feet  in  length, 
31  feet,  8  inches  in  breadth,  and  16  feet  in 
depth.  It  will  have  cabin  accommodation 
for  twelve  European  missionaries  and  thirty 
native  teachers.     The  usual  voyage  of  a  mis- 


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sionary  vessel  in  the  Soath  Seas  covers  fully 
18,000  miles.  The  steamer  is  fully  rigged 
with  sails  which  can  be  used  when  the  wind 
is  favorable.  She  will  have  her  cabins  on 
deck  on  account  of  the  heat  of  the  tropics, 
and  will  be  lighted  with  electric  light,  and 
will  have  a  steaming  capacity  of  ten  knots. 
She  is  to  be  named  the  '*  John  Williams,"  in 
honor  of  that  grand  South  Sea  Islands  mis- 
sionary, and  is  the  fourth  ship  which  has 
borne  his  name.  May  the  Lord  grant  her 
favoring  seas  and  long  service,  and  may  she 
be  covered  with  the  honors  of  this  holy  war- 
fare in  the  interests  of  the  Priuce  of  Peace. 


The  gratifying  intelligence  has  been  re- 
ceived from  Constantinople  that  Dr.  Mary  P. 
Eddy  has  received  from  the  Turkish  authori- 
ties a  legalization  of  her  medical  diploma, 
authorizing  her  to  practise  medicine  in  Syria. 
This  is  an  interesting  and  significant  instance 
of  Divine  favor  shown  to  mission  work  in  the 
Turkish  Empire  in  the  midst  of  many  and 
formidable  perplexities  and  difficulties.  The 
American  Minister  at  Constantinople  has 
given  careful  attention  to  this  matter,  and  his 
efforis  have  been  crowned  with  success.  Now 
that  the  point  has  been  conceded,  there  is 
reason  to  hope  that  lady  physicians  will  be 


able  to  practise  their  profession  without 
annoyance  or  molestation  throughout  the 
Empire.  Much  prayer  has  been  offered  in 
connection  with  this  matter,  aud  answered. 

Recent  letters  from  Persia  speak  of  con- 
tinued persecution  of  converts  from  Islam. 
In  one  instance  property  valued  at  400  tomans 
was  confiscated,  and  its  owner  had  both  of 
his  ears  cut  off.  He  still  had  a  tongue  left, 
however,  with  which  he  boldly  declares  that 
he  is  convinced  that  "Christ  is  the  only 
Saviour  of  men,  and  Christianity  is  the  true 
religion  "  One  year  ago  this  convert  was 
such  a  fanatical  Moslem  that  he  would  go  to 
the  bath  every  night  to  wash  off  the  pollution 
of  contact  with  Christians  during  the  day. 
There  are  at  present  seven  Moslem  inquirers 
at  one  of  our  mission  stations  who  are  attend- 
ing Christian  meetings,  and  by  so  doing  are 
deliberately  exposing  themselves  to  the  fanati- 
cal perseci^ion  of  former  associates.  Let  us 
offer  special  prayer  for  those  who  are  "perse- 
cuted for  righteousness^  sake  "  in  our  mission 
fields. 

We  present  in  this  number  illustrations  of 
the  mission  church  at  Sangli  and  the  chil- 
dren's hospital  at  Miraj,   both  in  the  Kol- 


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hapnr  Mission,  India.  Sangli  has  a  popa-  missionaries  as  missionaries,  and  reports  only 
lation  of  196,000,  and  is  a  center  for  work  men  and  unmarried  females,  and  he  moreover 
among  243  villages.  The  station  is  a  new  counts  all  local  societies  in  heathen  lands  as 
one,  and  is  already  a  center  of  evangelistic  distinct  foreign  missionary  agencies.  He  also 
and  educational  work.  A  boarding-school  of  takes  no  account  of  missionary  efforts  and 
45  students  has  been  established,  and  an  results  among  nominal  Christians,  confining 
industrial  school  has  just  been  opened.  Thir-  his  investigations  strictly  to  mission  effort^ 
teen  were  added  to  the  Church  during  the  among  non-Christian  peoples.  The  results  as 
past  year,  and  it  has  a  Sabbath-school  of  100  given  relate  only  to  missions  among  the 
pupils.  During  a  recent  Shimga  festival  the  heathen  and  Moslems,  so  that  in%Turkey  and 
fanatical  spirit  of  the  Hindu  populace  was  Egypt,  for  example,  only  work  among  Mo- 
exhibited  by  their  stoning  the  church.  The  hammedans  is  counted.  Then  again,  he  in- 
broken  windows  will  be  noticed  in  the  iUus-  eludes  missions  to  the  North  American  In- 
tration.  dians  and  the  Indian,  Chinese  and  Japanese 
The  children's  hospital  at  l^raj  has  been  residents  in  the  United  States,  Canada  and 
I  recently  completed.  It  is  a  section  of  the  British  Columbia  under  the  head  of  foreign 
large  medical  work,  which  has  been  planned  missions.  Also,  he  counts  the  thirteen  local 
at  Miraj,  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  W.  J.  missions  in  the  British  West  Indies,  report- 
Wanless.  Miraj  is  a  city  of  25,000  inhabi-  ing  158,204  communicants,  as  foreign  mis- 
tants,  and  is  considered  an  interesting  and  sions,  and  the  local  missionary  societies  in 
promising  field  of  work.  The  medical  plant  Asia,  Africa,  and  Australia,  amounting  to  the 
has  been  given  by  John  H.  Converse,  Esq.,  of  surprising  number  of  sixty -nine  distinct 
Philadelphia,  whose  generous  donation  of  societies,  reporting  118,402  communicants, 
$12,000  for  that  purpose  has  enabled  Dr.  are  counted  in  with  his  statistics  as  missions 
Wanless  to  open  a  station  promptly  and  begin  to  the  heathen.  It  will  be  noticed  that  accord - 
his  work  with  every  needed  facility.  A  dis-  ing  to  this  method  an  addition  of  something 
pensary  has  already  been  built,  and  a  general  over  250,000  communicants  is  obtained  in 
hospital  is  to  be  erected  in  addition  to  this  excess  of  the  results  generally  counted  under 
special  one  for  children.  the  head  of  foreign  missionary  converts, 
while  at  the  same   time  the  entire  results 

,^     ^                    -    ,      «       ,        _  among  nominal  Christians  are  omitted.     If 

The  Secretaries  of  the  Board  of  Foroisn  xi.      ^    x          v         •       •  ^                         j 

_ -.    .         ^    .                     .                      V  " »  these  facts  are  borne  m  mind  we  may  regard 

Missions  desire  two  copies  of   the  Annual  xt_             ^^         i_i«  i.  j  i.  uiw      *  t%        xr  i-i 
„        .     *    ,      ^       ,    .*^     ,                        "the  recently  published  tablfes  of  Dean  Vahl 

Report  of  the  Board  for  the  year  1873-4.  ^^^  ^g^^  ^  ^^^  ^^,  ^^^1^^  ^^  ^^^^^^ 

Anypersonwhohasacopywillconferafavor  Nation  of  the  whole  subject  that  has 

by  sending  It  to  Mr.  Robert  E.Speer,  58  Fifth  i^^  gi^en  to  the  world.     They  wm  be  found 

Avenue,  New  York.  ^  English  in  the  Church  Missionary  InteUi- 

gencer  for  September,    1893,    pp.   676-683. 

Dean  Vahl,  President  of  the  Danish  Mis-  The    British,    Continental,    American,    and 

sionary  Society,  is  considered  at  the  present  Colonial  Societies  reported  by  Dean  Vahl  are 

time  to  be  the  great  authority  on  missionary  804  in  number.     The  total  summary  repre- 

statistics.     He  has  made  an  elaborate  and,  as  senting  the  results  of  1800  in  comparison  with 

far  as  possible,  exhaustive  study  of  missionary  those  of  1891  is  as  follows : 

agencies  and  results  throughout  the  world.  1890             isoi 

There  are  several  peculiarities,  however,  about     Income £2,412,988  £2,749,840 

his  method  which  should  be  carefnlly  noted  ^{^I^SilrieMringieikdM         t.ul          I'.Z 

in  connection  with  his  statistical  tables,  and      Native  ministers 3,424  3,730 

which  modifiy   somewhat  their  accuracy  as      Other  niitive  helpers 86,405         40,488 

^.  .    ^  X        /   X        Communicants 966,856     1,168,560 

representing    what    we    are  accustomed    to 

regard  as  foreign  missionary  work.     In  the  It  will  be  noticed  that  the  number  of  adher- 

first  place,  he  does  not  count  the  wives  of  ants  is  not  reported,  but  only  the  communi- 

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cants.  It  is  the  custom  in  some  of  the  Con- 
tinental missions  to  make  slight  distinction 
between  a  communicant  and  an  adherent; 
nevertheless  we  may  safely  say  that  the  num- 
ber of  communicants  given  may  be  multiplied 
by  3 1^  or  4  to  obtain  the  number  of  adherents, 
which  will  give  us  a  Protestant  following  in 
foreign  mission  fields  of  not  less  than  4,000,- 
000,  and  to  this  we  may  also  add  the  Protest- 
ant converts  from  nominal  Christian  sects  in 
South  America,  Mexico,  and  the  Orient, 
which  will  add  over  200,000  more  to  the  total 
of  adherents.  If  we  now  add  to  the  number 
of  communicants  reported  by  Dean  Vahl  the 
Protestant  communicants  from  nominal 
Christian  sects,  we  shall  have  without  any 
exaggeration  a  grand  total  of  1,200,000  com- 
municants and  4,500,000  adherents  as  the 
present  results  of  missionary  work,  by  all 
agencies,  among  those  usually  counted  under 
the  head  of  foreign  mission  converts. 

The  Church  Missionary  Society  of  England 
stands  well  to  the  front,  with  the  London 
Missionary  Society,  as  a  leading  agency  in 
the  cause  of  world-wide  missions.  Its  annual 
report  is  a  voTume  of  over  300  pages,  contain- 
ing a  series  of  beautiful  maps  representing 
the  fields  of  the  society.  Almost  every  sec- 
tion of  the  heathen  world  feels  the  touch  of 
this  great  organization.  Ic  is  almost  literally 
a  tree  whose  leaves  are  '*  for  the  healing  of 
the  nations.'^  It  has  402  stations  and  400 
clerical  and  lay  missionaries,  besides  nearly 
400  lady  workers.  To  this  force  of  workers 
we  must  add  800  native  ordained  clergymen 
and  some  5,000  native  lay  workers.  It  has 
congregations  Dumbermg  190,000  attendants. 
Of  this  number  53,000  are  reckoned  as  com- 
municants, of  whom  3,316  were  received 
daring  the  past  year.  It  has  1,970  schools, 
with  81,000  pupils,  and  its  income  lasi  year 
was  $1,450,000. 


The  recent  sudden  death  of  the  eminent 
missionary  to  China,  Rev.  Dr.  Nevius,  has 
startled  the  whole  Church  as  it  has  appeared 
in  the  daily  and  weekly  papers.  A  suitable 
memorial  of  him  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Ellin- 
wood  may  be  expected  in  our  next  issue. 


The  Baptut  Missionary  Magazine^  repre- 
senting the  American  Baptist  Missionary 
Union,  has  the  following  notice  of  the  honor- 
able rivalry  of  our  Presbyterian  missions 
with  those  of  the  Union : 

The  million  line  is  passed  this  year  for  the  first 
time  by  the  Northern  Presbyterian  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  as  well  as  the  American  Bapti&t 
Missionary  Union.  Our  Presbyterian  friends 
raised  from  all  sources  for  all  purposes  con- 
nected with  their  foreign  missionary  work  $1,- 
014.504.37,  while  the  Missionary  Union  received 
$1,010  341.46,  so  that  they  surpassed  us  by 
$4, 162. 91.  This  close  correspondence  in  receipts 
may  well  provoke  these  two  great  religious 
bodies  to  love  and  good  works  in  keeping  their 
receipts  above  the  million  dollar  line  for  the 
coming  year  and  increasing  them  by  every 
proper  effort. 

MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DEPARTURES. 

From  New  York,  returning  to  Brazil,  No- 
vember 1,  Rev.  J.  B.  Kolb,  wife  and  six 
children. 

From  New  York,  returning  to  Siam  Mis- 
sion, November  2,  Rev.  E.  Wachter,  M.D., 
wife  and  child. 

From  Chicago,  returning  to  Saltillo,  Mex- 
ico, November    ,  Miss  Jennie  Wheeler. 

From  New  York,  to  Bogota,  Colombia,  No- 
vember 8,  Miss  Nellie  Nevegold. 

From  Conway,  Arkansas,  to  Mexico  Mis- 
sion, November  10,  Rev.  C.  C.  Millar. 

From  San  Francisco,  returning  to  Shantung 
Mission,  November  21,  Miss  Fannie  E. 
Wight ;  returning  to  Central  China  Mission, 
Miss  Carrie  Rose;  returning  to  Canton  Mis- 
sion, Rev.  W.  H.  Lingle. 

From  New  York,  returning  to  Chili  Mis- 
sion, November  29,  Rev.  J.  F.  Garvin,  wife 
and  four  children. 

ARRIVALS. 

At  Vancouver,  from  Laos  Mission,  Novem- 
ber 21,  Rev.  W.  C.  Dodd. 

DEATHS. 

At  Orand  Forks,  Dakota,  November  5, 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Lingle,  of  the  Canton  Mission, 
China. 

At  Teheran,  Persia,  November  — ,  the  in- 
fant son  of  Rev.  J.  G.  Wishard. 


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Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  Abroad. 


JANUARY, 
FEBRUARY, 
MARCH,      . 
APRIL,    . 
MAY, 
JUNE,      . 
JULY, 
AUGUST, 
8BPTBMBBR, 
OCTOBBR,     . 
NOVBMBBR, 
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Oeii«nd  Review  of  Missions. 

Missions  in  China. 

Mexico  and  Central  America. 

.  Missions  in  India. 

Missions  in  Siam  and  Laos. 

.  Missions  in  Africa. 

Chinese  and  Japanese  in  America. 

.    Missions  in  Korea. 

Missions  in  Japan. 

Missions  in  Persia. 

Missions  in  South  America. 

Missions  in  Syria. 


**  Awake,  O  north  wind ;  and  come,  thou  sonth ;  blow 
upon  my  s^^rden,  that  the  spices  thereof  may  ilow 
out."  

New  calls  for  the  new  year  I  Happy  tidings 
from  the  old  yearl  Every  field  calling;  yes, 
calling  mightily!  Would  the  Church  have  it 
otherwise?  Would  she  enjoy  silent  mission 
fields?  Does  she  wish  to  be  let  alone  with 
reference  to  this  colossal  business  of  the 
world's  redemption?  It  cannot  be;  the  very 
stones  will  cry  out;  the  very  heavens  will 
speak,  if  burdened  missionaries  and  perishing 
souls  do  not. 

With  the  appeals  for  help  come  also  the 
cheering  tidings  of  success.  Gk>d  is  **  making 
up  His  jewels  '^  in  all  our  mission  fields. 

In  these  Monthly  Ck>ncert  pages  we  have 
placed  tidings  of  the  noble  work  of  translating 
the  Bible  for  100,000,000  of  our  fellow  beings, 
and  specimen  calls  from  Syria  and  from 
China.  We  give  also  examples  of  Christian 
character  building  in  China,  and  Gospel  vic- 
tories in  Japan.  Study  that  illustration  of 
Chinese  Christianity  which  Dr.  Corbett  has  so 
picturesquely  drawn  for  us  from  life.  Bead 
that  story  of  victory  and  peace  which  Mr. 
Winn  has  told  us  fresh  from  his  own  mission- 
ary experience  in  Japan.  A  Church  which 
can  point  to  such  calls  of  duty  as  these,  and 
record  such  triumphs  of  grace  in  heathen 
hearts,  should  thank  Qod  and  press /anoard. 


BIBLE  TRANSLATION  IN  INDIA. 

BEV.  S.  H.  KELLOGO,  D.D. 

After  many  delays,  the  work  of  revising, 
or  rather  translating,  the  Old  Testament  into 
Hindi  is  well  under  way.  Unfortunately,  the 


Baptist  member  of  the  Committee,  having 
resigned,  only  the  Anglican  member,  besides 
the  writer,  is  working  at  present  at  the  new 
version,  to  prepare  which,  at  the  best,  must 
take  some  years.  Naturally,  we  have  our 
native  helpers,  both  of  whom  are  Brahmin 
pundits.  If  learned  Christians  had  been 
available,  there  would  have  been,  no  doubt, 
a  certain  advantage  in  this;  but,  on  the  other 
hand,  since  the  version  is  intended  first  of  all 
for  the  millions  who  are  not  yet  Christians,  it 
is  perhaps  well  to  have  helpers  who  look  at 
everything  from  a  Hindoo  point  of  view. 
Statements  which  to  a  Christian,  familiar 
with  Biblical  conceptions,  might  be  perfectly 
intelligible,  are  by  no  means  always  equally 
so  to  a  Hindoo;  and  it  is  really  m  a  sense, 
very  satisfactory  to  me,  when,  often,  my 
pundit  will  ask  frankly  what  this  or  that 
very  simple  statement  means;  saying  that  to 
a  Hindoo  like  himself,  it  conveys  no  idea,  or 
else  one  utterly  foreign  to  the  context.  A 
good  illustration  was  given  by  the  bright 
young  pundit  whose  face  appears  in  the 
picture,  when  the  other  day  he  was  perplexed 
by  the  promise  which  Gk>d  made  to  Jacob,  Qen. 
xlvi.  4,  when  about  to  go  down  into  Epypt, 
that  Joseph  should  lay  his  hands  upon  his  eyes ; 
i,  e,y  should  close  his  eyes  in  death, — as 
Dehtzsch  and  others  render.  It  appeared 
first,  that  when  among  the  Hindoos  a  man 
dies,  the  eyes  of  the  corpse  are  left  unclosed, 
so  that  the  custom  referred  to,  though  so 
familiar  to  us,  was  unknown  to  the  pundit. 
*'Why  not  leave  the  eyes"  he  said,  **asit 
has  pleased  Ood  to  leave  them?"  Then,  in 
the  second  place,  it  appeared  that  this  phrase, 
**  to  dose  the  eyes  of  a  person,"  in  Hindi  has 
only  the  meaning,  ^^to  kill,"  for  which  it 
appears  to  be  a  kind  of  slang  expression.  So 
it  was  no  wonder  that  the  pundit  was  simply 
bewildered  by  the  words  as  included  in  a 
special  promise  of  blessing  to  the  old  man 
going  down  to  Epypt  1 

In  such  a  case,  of  course  there  was  nothing 
to  do  but  to  try  to  meet  the  difficulty  and 
make  the  intention  of  the  words  intelligible. 

One  cannot  always,  however,  accept  the 
pundit^s  suggestions  for  the  improvement  of 
Moses'  way  of  putting  things.  For  instance, 
when  he  strenuously  insisted  that  Gen.  zxi. 


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16,  should  read  that  Hagar  sat  herself  down 
*^as  it  were  a  pistol  ahof*^  from  Ishmael, 
instead  of  ^*  bow-shot/*  most  will  agree  that  I 
was  right  in  declining  to  make  the  change. 
One  of  the  greatest  difficulties  which  one 
has  to  contend  with  in  such  work  with  native 
scholars,  from  which,  however,  in  the  case  of 
my  own  present  helper,  I  am  happily  quite 
free,  is  their  almost  invincible  preference  for 
lofty  and  high-sounding  Sanskrit  words, 
though  no  one  but  a  few  learned  men  may 
understand  them.  A  former  Brahmin  helper 
of  mine  as  I  was  reading  with  him  something 
that  I  had  written  for  the  people,  suddenly 
interrupted  me  with  an  exclamation  of  admir- 
ation: ^^Wdh!  w&hl  where  did  your  Excel- 
lency get  that  fine  word  f'  Said  I,  ^'Out  of 
the  dictionary!  It  is  a  fine  word,  then  is  it, 
and  means  just  what  I  wish  to  say.''  ^^  Indeed 
it  is  a  fine  word,''  said  he;  **it  is  a  great 
thing  that  you  have  got  it."  "And  every 
one  will  understand  it?"  I  continued.  "Every 


one  understand  it  I"  he  exclaimed  in  astonish- 
ment: Why,  scarcely  any  one  will  understand 
it,  except  now  and  then  may  be  a  learned 
man  like  myself.  It  is  a  splendid  word  I 
every  one  who  reads  what  your  honor  has 
written  when  they  ceme  to  that  will  say: 
*  What  a  very  learned  man  this  P^ri  must 
have  been  I ' "  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the 
"splendid  word"  went  out  of  the  sentence, 
though  not  without  much  entreaty  from  the 
pundit  that  I  would  not  be  so  foolish  as  to 
let  such  a  fine  word  go,  when  once  I  had 
unearthed  it,  and  take  instead  a  common- 
place word,  which  any  old  woman  would  un- 
derstand. All  which  will  help  the  reader  to 
understand  some  of  the  difficulties  and  per- 
plexities which  attend  the  rendering  of  the 
Word  of  God  into  an  unfamiliar  language  in 
a  heathen  land.  May  the  reader  remember 
now  and  then  in  prayer  those  who  are  trying  to 
give  a  version  of  the  Scriptures  which  shall  be 
intelligible  to  100,000,000  of  our  fellow  beings. 


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A  Message  to  our  Ghvrch  from  Aleppo. 


[Janvary^ 


A  MBSSAaE  TO  OUR  CHURCH  FROM 
ALEPPO. 

BKV.  GEORGE  A.  FORD,  STRIA. 

This  city,  one  of  the  foUr  or  five  largest  in 
the  Ottoman  Empire,  the  capital  of  a  state, 
has  no  provision  for  the  spiritual  enlighten- 
ment of  the  -^js  of  its  population  who  use  the 
Arabic  language.  Of  the  more  than  120,000 
inhabitants,  two-thirds  are  Muslims,  and  of 
the  other  one- third,  three-fourths  are  *' Chris- 
tians^' and  one-fourth  Jews.  Yet  the  city 
is  fairly  accessible  to  travel  and  to  mission- 
ary enterprise,  and  it  has  been  calling 
to  the  Christian  Church  for  years  to  send 
it  the  Arabic  Gospel.  It  is  only  95  miles  by 
carriage  road  (such  as  it  is)  from  its  sea  port, 
Alexandretta,  where  the  regular  Mediterra- 
nean Merchant  and  Postal  Steamers  stop 
several  times  a  week.  And  it  is  only  two 
forced,  or  three  ordinary,  days  by  horseback, 
along  a  splendid  road  from  Hamath,  one  of 
our  present  missionary  out-stations,  and  the 
terminus  of  the  omnibus  route  from  Tripoli. 
Carriages  run  even  now  after  a  fashion  from 
Damascus  to  Aleppo.  But  these  two  cities 
are  bound  to  be  connected  at  an  early  day, 
not  only  by  a  good  omnibus  route,  but  by 
the  railroad  that  cannot  be  long  deferred. 
The  vast  plains  south  of  Aleppo  are  of  such 
extent  and  natural  richness  that  the  whole 
region  must  soon  attract  attention  and  enter- 
prise upon  a  large  scale,  and  there  are  no 
engineering  difficulties  to  be  overcome  in  the 
building  of  these  anticipated  roads. 

In  December,  1855,  Rev.  W.  W.  Eddy, 
now  of  BeirClt,  wrote  thus:  **  We  commenced 
learning  the  Arabic  language,  as  that  is  used 
by  all  the  sects  (in  Aleppo)  except  the  Armen- 
ians, and  we  supposed  that  our  labor  would 
be  principally  with  those  who  constitute  by 
far  the  majority  of  the  population.  But  it 
was  not  so.  The  Ureek  and  Catholic  and 
Maronite  Sdcts  were  all  rich  and  proud,  im- 
mersed in  business,  and  fond  of  pleasure, 
and  they  had  no  wants  of  mind  or  soul  to  be 
met  by  the  Gk)spel.  They  were  courteous  to 
us  when  we  met  them,  and  ready  to  converse 
upon  secular  matters,  but  they  would  not 
come  to  hear  the  preaching  of  the  truth,  and 
what  they  listened  to  in  conversation,  made 
no  impression  upon  them.     In  view  of  the 


state  of  things  at  Aleppo  and  also  <^  the  fact 
that  around  that  city,  in  Aintab  and  Marash 
and  Antioch  and  Kessab,  the  work  was  alto- 
gether among  the  Armenians,  and  in  view  of 
the  great  want  of  missionaries  speaking 
Arabic  in  the  southern  part  of  the  Syrian 
field,  it  was  determined  that  Aleppo  should 
be  transferred  to  the  Armenian  Mission, 
henceforth  to  be  supplied  by  persons  speaking 
the  Turkish  language,  and  that  Mr.  Ford 
should  be  transferred  to  Beiriit,  and  we  to 
Eefr  Shima.  Dr.  Anderson  visited  Aleppo, 
and  was  confirmed  in  his  decision.  He  met 
the  native  brethren  twice  and  received  from 
them  a  petition  not  to  be  deprived  of  their 
missionaries.  These  latter  met  the  seven 
members  and  the  congregation;  gave  them 
parting  counsel,  and  formally  transferred 
them  to  the  care  of  Dr.  Pratt  of  Aintab.^' 
At  times,  during  these  intervening  40  years, 
.  some  Arabic  religious  work  has  been  carried 
on,  without  apparent  fruit.  All  the  Arabic- 
speaking  adherents  of  former  years  have  been 
cut  off  by  death  or  removal,  and  there  remains 
as  a  Gospel  witness  in  that  city  the  little 
Armenian  church  with  an  excellent  native 
pastor,  and  ministration  in  the  Turkish  lan- 
guage only.  But  this  little  band  has  been 
for  years  past,  and  with  the  true  Christian 
and  missionary  spirit,  striving  to  secure 
Arabic  ministrations  for  their  city.  They 
have  appealed  repeatedly  to  the  A.  B.  C.  P.  M., 
with  which  they  are  officially  connected, 
and  although  that  Board  still  finds  itself 
unable  to  command  the  means,  and  has  no 
expectation  whatever  of  inaugurating  Arabic 
work  there,  yet  the  missionaries  in  charge  of 
the  Turkish  Mission  there  say  that  for  years, 
at  every  Mission  meeting,  the  urgency  of  this 
appeal  comes  up  and  it  is  a  constant  source  of 
deep  regret  to  them  all  that  they  cannot  grant 
the  request.  Accordingly,  both  the  church  and 
the  missionaries  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  turned 
to  our  own  Syria  Mission  and  Presbyterian 
Board  to  supply  the  need,  and  pursuant  to 
these  requests  we  sent  a  commissioner,  three 
years  ago,  to  investigate  the  field,  but  though 
he  reported  the  case  as  urgent  and  hopeful,  the 
time  did  not  then  seem  ripe  for  action.  Last 
April  it  was  my  privilege  to  revisit,  after  an  ab- 
sence of  nearly  38  years,  that  city  of  my  birth. 


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Two  long  days  of  brisk  horseback  riding, 
with  a  horseman  whom  I  engaged  as  guide 
and  protector,  brought  me  from  Hamath,  one 
of  the  out  stations  of  our  mission,  to  Aleppo. 
Hamath  can  be  reached  in  three  days  from 
Beirflt  by  land  (carriages  nearly  all  the  way) 
or  in  two  days  and  a  night,  by  using  one  of 
the  regular  steamers  from  BeirClt  to  Tripoli. 
We  encountered  formidable  gangs  of  rob- 
bers, both  in  going  and  in  returning,  but  a 
merciful  Providence  held  them  completely  in 
check. 

I  spent  five  days  of  keenest  enjoyment  in 
Aleppo,  preaching  in  Arabic  five  times  to 
audiences  that  steadily  grew  in  numbers  and 
solemnity.  The  last  audience  was  estimated 
at  300.  Many  sects  were  represented  and 
many  listened  for  the  first  time  m  their  life 
to  Gospel  preaching.  Having  neither  books 
nor  singers  in  Arabic,  the  Armenian  brethren 
present  filled  the  gap  by  singing  in  Turkish 
at  all  the  services.  These  good  brethren 
repeatedly  laid  siege  to  their  new  visitor  in 
behalf  of  the  immense  Arabic  population, 
wholly  uncared  for,  until  they  extracted  from 
him  a  promise  that  he  would  spare  no  efforts 
to  secure  the  granting  of  their  petition. 

One  week  after  I  left  them  they  sent  me  the 
following  letter,  in  broken  Eoglish: 

Aleppo,  May  1,  1898. 
Oar  dear  Brother  and  esteemed  FHend,  Mr.  Ford : 

As  well  as  we  were  joyful  by  your  presence 
when  you  visited  us,  so  we  have  been  sorrowful 
on  account  of  your  departure  Especially  our 
grief  in  this  respect  has  been  increased  on  yes- 
terday. Because,  at  the  opening  of  our  Sunday- 
school,  in  its  usual  time,  there  came  a  multitude, 
consisting  more  than  thirty  in  number,  who  were 
asking  us  about  an  Arabic  service.  These  were 
not  among  the  attendants  of  the  last  Sunday,  as 
they  have  been  told  about  your  separation  [de- 
parture]. These  persons  were  a  new  and  differ- 
ent party.  Then  we  all  were  glad,  on  seeing 
them  in  our  chapel,  but  we  were  surprising  and 
not  knowing  what  shall  we  do.  At  last  there 
was  a  young  [youth]  in  our  congregation,  we 
gave  to  him  the  Arabic  Bible,  of  which  he  read 
some  places. 

After  this,  at  noon  time,  some  persons  came 
vicariously  from  their  side,  to  our  house.  They 
were  like  a  committee  who  talked  with  us. 
According  to  the  sayings  of  these  men,  there  are 
four  hundred  persons  ready  to  attend  and  to  be 


added  to  our  congregation,  provided  to  be  an 
Arabic  service  and  a  pastor  who  will  take  care 
of  them  in  their  spiritual  needs;  besides  this 
they  are  ready,  even  their  spiritual  debts  ^\\\- 
i°fi)ly-     [A-u  allusion  to  self-support.] 

When  our  church  members  observed  the  case, 
and  these  anxious  people,  they  determined  to 
write  you  this  letter  so  that  when  you  will  be 
informed,  please  to  send  an  Arabic  preacher  as 
soon  as  you  are  able.  We  are  living  on  hope. 
Seeing  these  emblems,  we  are  expecting  a  good 
harvest.  We  all  send  our  salams  to  you,  and 
remain  prayerful  for  your  health  and  success 
and  returning  to  us.  From  the  Church  of 
Aleppo  in  Syria. 

Pastor  Manooj  G.  Missirian. 

This  letter  was  followed,  a  few  days  later, 
by  another  in  Armenian,  signed  by  the  breth- 
ren and  designed  as  a  more  formil  and  com- 
prehensive appeal.  Here  is  its  substance: 
*'The  Evangelical  church  was  established  in 
Aleppo  in  1852  by  Rev.  J.  E.  Ford,  and  has 
continued  to  the  present  time  with  a  congre- 
gation of  nearly  100  and  a  membership  of 
about  20,  a  small  namber  relatively  to  the 
vast  population  of  the  city.  The  great  obsta- 
cle to  the  growth  of  the  church  is  that  the 
language  of  the  services  is  Turkish,  while  that 
of  the  city  is  Arabic.  Still  we  believe  its  in- 
direct influence  is  great.  We  have  good  rea- 
sons to  think  that  if  means  were  used  we 
should  soon  have  a  self-supporting  church, 
able  also  to  assist  in  the  neighboring  towns. 

Many  of  the  nominal  Christians  are  tired 
of  their  priests  and  of  their  ignorance  and 
supers titiou.  They  would  be  glad  to  take 
refuge  in  a  Protestant  church,  if  the  language 
were  Arabic.  We,  therefore,  the  undersigned, 
bring  the  following  points  before  you  for 
consideration  and  earnestly  invoke  your  aid. 

1 .  We  see  that  the  Christians  of  the  vari- 
ous sects  in  Aleppo  are  quite  ready  to  be 
benefited  by  Gospel  preaching.  We  believe 
that  the  harvest  is  ripe.  There  is  no  need  to 
wait  for  further  proof. 

2.  Considering  the  importance  of  Aleppo, 
we  think  that  it  is  woi  thy  to  be  made  a  strong 
missionary  centre. 

8.  If  this  is  not  possible  at  present,  we 
pray  you  to  send  us  an  Arabic-speaking 
preacher  to  satisfy  the  demands  of  those  who 
seem  to  be  anxious  to  hear  the  Gospel. 


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{Jamiary^ 


4.  We  earnestly  wish  to  continue  our  Turk- 
ish services  as  before,  but  if  we  are  not  able 
to  support  the  expenses  of  both,  for  the  sake 
of  the  spiritual  benefit  of  our  city  and  for  the 
sake  of  the  salvation  of  our  people,  we  would 
prefer  to  give  up  the  Turkish  altogether  and 
apply  all  our  energies  to  the  Arabic. 

In  behalf  of  the  Aleppo  Evangelical 
church,  &c. : 

A  few  days  later,  the  post  brought  me  a 
letter  from  a  member  of  the  Greek  Ortho- 
dox sect  in  that  city,  who  is  a  highly 
respectable  merchant  of  about  50  years  of 
age,  and  whom  I  had  observed  as  an 
attendant  at  all  the  services  I  held  while 
there.  In  giving  his  letter,  I  have  not  omit- 
ted the  tiresome  exaggeration  of  compliment 
and  deference,  simply  because  these  are  so  in- 
variable and  characteristic  a  feature  of  all 
Oriental  correspondence. 

Aleppo  to  Sidon,  may  it  please  God. 

May  12,  1893. 

To  the  honorable  presence  of  the  reverend 
brother  and  learned  philanthropist  of  high  sta- 
tion, George  Ford,  the  highly  respected  minister 
at  Sidon,  may  the  Most  High  preserve  him. 
After  presenting  all  due  and  suitable  reverence 
toward  your  person,  I  beg  to  submit  that  I  had 
the  misfortune  to  miss  seeing  you  to  bid  you 
farewell  on  the  day  of  your  departure.  After 
you  left  us  accompanied  by  peace,  many  of  our 
citizens  began  to  come  to  the  mission  chapel  in 
the  hope  of  profiting  by  your  purely  evangelical 
preaching,  only,  however,  to  be  disappointed. 
I  think  you  should  know  this  fact,  and  you  need 
no  further  comment  upon  it.  I  ask  (jk)d,  through 
the  meditation  of  the  Saviour,  that  I  may  yet 
see  in  my  own- city  a  prosperous  church  and 
a  prosperous  school  also,  that  shall  belong  to 
Christ  alone  (and  nothing  is  hard  for  God  since 
all  things  are  possible  to  His  Divine  Majesty). 
And  I  beg  of  your  eminence  that,  as  your 
preaching  in  Aleppo  was  with  fervor,  your 
efforts  in  behalf  of  an  Arabic  church  and  school 
in  the  same*  city  may  be  likewise  fervent.  I 
have  written  thus,  adding  my  hope  that  you  will 
not  forget  me  in  your  prevailing  prayers.  And 
if  you  should  require  in  Aleppo  any  services, 
however  exacting,  honor  me  by  your  commands, 
for  I  love,  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart,  to 
serve  the  messengers  of  the  Gospel  of  Peace,  as 
does  also  my  whole  family,  for  they  are  indeed 
the  chief  agent  in  the  spread  of  the  Kingdom  of 
our  Lord  and  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ;  and  in  turn- 


ing people  from  the  many  forms  of  sin  and 
deceit.  O,  that  it  were  possible  that  you 
should  live  in  our  city.  Accept  my  profound 
respects  with  those  of  all  who  are  concerned  for 
the  prosperity  of  the  Church.  Fare  thee  well  I 
From  the  seeker  of  your  prayers.  Your  brother 
and  son,  Pkter,  Abraham  New-Moon. 

This  man  had  rendered  me  already  valuable 
services  and  in  a  conspicuously  delicate  and 
cordial  way,  and  this  unexpected  letter  from 
an  ** outsider"  touched  me  deeply.  One 
other  letter  should  also  be  quoted  here.  It 
was  from  Rev.  C.  S.  Sanders,  of  Aintab,  who 
is  in  charge  of  the  Turkish  mission  at  Aleppo, 
and  was  dated  May  28th. 

*^We  will  be  greatly  pleased  to  have  a 
native  Arabic  evangelist  sent  to  Aleppo, 
whether  for  a  shorter  or  a  longer  period.  I 
hope  you  will  certainly  send  such  a  person. 
They  tell  me  that  even  now,  after  more  than 
a  month,  people  come  asking  whether  there 
are  Arabic  services.  I  do  not  know  how 
thoroughly  you  were  able  to  appreciate  the 
situation  at  Aleppo.  There  is  a  strong  tend- 
ency to  practical  infidelity,  especially  among 
the  chief  Christian  sect,  the  Greek  Catholics, 
and  many  of  them,  in  their  utter  disgust  with 
what  they  at  present  have  might  be  won  to 
Christ  now,  but  ten  years  later,  it  will  prob- 
ably be  too  late. 

Formerly,  I  wanted  very  much  to  go  to 
Aleppo,  and  tried  for  it  very  hard,  but  the 
Board  could  not  see  its  way  clearly  to  taking 
up  the  financial  responsibitity.  Since  then 
my  eyes  have  become  so  weakened  that  all 
thought  of  mastering  a  new  language  must 
be  given  up.  But  the  question  remains,  and 
every  time  I  go  to  Aleppo  it  is  a  repeated 
trial  to  see  the  state  of  things  there  and  be 
unable  to  do  anything.  If  your  Board  will 
take  it  up,  we  shall  be  so  glad.  A  single  mis- 
sionary could  do  a  good  deal.  Hoping  you 
vrill  push  this  matter,  and  assuring  you  that 
you  will  always  find  us  very  ready  to  co-oper- 
ate in  every  respect.     Yours,  &c." 

The  Syria  Mission,  at  a  special  meeting  last 
June,  took  into  consideration  the  facts  and 
documents  given  above,  and  voted  urgency  in 
the  matter.  It  was  there  decided  that  evan- 
gelism in  Arabic  should  be  begun  on  a  modest 
scale  without  delay  in  Aleppo,  even  though 


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this  must  involve,  at  present  at  least,  the  sac- 
rificing to  a  certain  extent  of  existing  work 
in  less  important  places. 

Porsoantly  to  that  action  of  the  mission, 
one  of  our  most  efficient  and  trosty  native 
evangelists  has  already  gone  to  Aleppo  and 
begnn  this  work,  pending  such  action  as  the 
Board  at  New  York  may  take  in  the  premises. 

This  preacher  is  one  who  lost  Ms  young 
wife  by  cholera  not  long  ago,  besides  suffer- 
ing a  bad  disfigurement  of  his  face  and  neck 
through  accidental  burning.  His  little  boy, 
an  only  son,  is  many  day's  journey  from  Imn, 
studying  in  the  Sidon  Training  School,  and 
his  only  daughter,  three  or  four  years  of  age, 
is  several  day's  journey  distant,  with  her 
grandmother  at  Hums,  so  that  we  consider 
him  as  having  shown  rare  consecration  and 
fidelity  to  duty  in  his  cheerful  acceptance  of 
this  most  trying  appointment  to  Aleppo,  and 
richly  deserving  commendation  and  earnest 
prayer  in  his  behalf. 

A  letter  just  received  from  Sidon  gives  the 
cheering  news  of  the  arrival  at  the  Training 
School  there,  of  the  first  boy  from  Aleppo,  a 
future  evangelist,  let  us  believe,  to  his  own 
city. 

The  considerations  that  draw  us  to  this  new 
work  at  Aleppo  are: 

1.  The  original  connection  of  that  work 
with  our  mission. 

2.  Homogeneity  of  language. 

3.  Increasing  accessibility. 

4.  Hopelessness  of  supply  by  the  A.  B.  C. 
F.  M. 

5.  The  nobleness  of  the  Armenian  brethren, ' 
as  shown  in  their  memorial. 

6.  The  urgency  of  the  natives,  and  of  fhe 
missionaries  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M. 

7.  The  increasing  ripeness  of  the  field  itself, 
as  attested  by  many  witnesses. 

8.  The  increasing  ability  of  our  mission  to 
deal  with  it,  in  view  of  the  constant  develop- 
ment of  our  native  agency,  and  the  growing 
experience  and  efficiency  of  our  native  pres- 
byteries, and  the  steady  increment  of  mis- 
sionary workers  in  Syria,  of  various  national- 
ities. It  would  be  grand  to  make  a  clear  in- 
crease of  men  and  means  for  this  new  mis- 
sion; btU  if  that  cannot  he^  let  us  at  least  so 
stretch  and  readjust  our  present  agencies,  as 


to  give  to  the  needy  thousands  of  f  Aleppo 
their  due  proportion  of  the  bread  of  life. 

TWO  MESSAGES  FROM  CHINA— A  PROC- 
LAMATION AND  AN  APPEAL. 

THE  PROCLAMATION. 

The  story  of  the  recent  riot  at  Ichowfu  has 
been  published  in  The  Church  at  Hobce  and 
Abroad  for  November,  1898,  pp.  381383. 
We  give  herewith  the  sequel,  which  is  in  the 
form  of  a  proclamation  which  is  to  the  credit 
of  the  Chinese  authorities  of  that  district. 

Translation  of  Proclamation  of  Prefect  of 
Ichowfu  (Shantung)  on  occasion  of  the  riot  at 
Ichowfu,  June  8th,  1898: 

Hsi,— of  Third  Imperial  Brevet  Rank;  holding 
vice-gubernatorial  jurisdiction  in  (the  Province 
of)  Shantung,  invented  with  special  military 
authority,  exalted  and  unique,  expectant  of  pro- 
motion, (diBtinguished  by)  ten  ordinary  and  two 
extraordinary  degrees,  repeatedly  mentioned 
with  honor  in  the  public  records  and  specially 
invested  with  the  office  of  Prefect  of  Ichowfu — 
issues  this  proclamation  to  suppress  (disorder) 
and  instruct  (the  people.) 

Be  it  known,  that  since  the  promulgation  of 
the  Treaty  between  China  and  the  Uotited  States, 
men  of  all  nationalities,  whether  residing  at 
Peking  or  elsewhere  for  the  purpose  of  propa- 
gating their  religion  and  conducting  medical 
charities,  or  locating  at  the  open  ports  for  tbe 
purpose  of  engaging  in  business,  buying  houses 
and  building  residences,  do  so  under  the  articles 
of  (said)  Treaty.  (Our)  superior  officers  con- 
stantly transmit  instructions  to  this  effect. 

Bear  in  mind  that  those  who  enter  the  Christian 
Church  or  sell  property  to  it  may  consult  their 
own  convenience  in  so  doing  and  can  com- 
plete such  transaction  free  from  compulsion. 
This  statement  is  sufficient  to  exhibit  the  far- 
reaching  justice  of  the  Treaty  and  to  show  that 
it  does  not  contain  any  ground  for  apprehension. 

Nevertheless,  our  territory  being  extensive 
and  there  being  ignorant  as  well  as  enlightened 
men,  it  comes  about  that  there  are  many  idlers 
and  busy-bodies  who  are  not  acquainted  with 
the  details  of  the  Treaty  and  hence  it  is  difficult 
to  prevent  the  occasional  spread  of  evil  reports. 

Let  all  citizens  beware  how  they  lend  ear  to 
siicb  rumors  and  thus  groundlessly  multiply 
disturbances.  Only  consider  that  those  in  this 
Empire  who  embrace  the  Christian  religion  are 
likewise  bound  to  cherish  good  intentions  and 


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must  not  be  misled  into  acts  of  retaliation  by 
current  slaDders,  nor  must  they,  haviog  entered 
the  Church,  slight  ordinary  people.  They  are  to 
be  friendly  to  their  neighbors  and  thus,  without 
their  exacting  respect,  others  will  voluntarily 
respect  them.  If  on  account  of  a  single  hostile 
word  or  act  you  are  led  to  mutual  recriminations 
you  may  become  involved  in  a  quarrel  and  your 
avowed  intention  to  find  your  pleasure  in  that 
which  is  good  will  vanish. 

And  let  others  consider  the  fact  that  these 
foreigners,  having  come  thousands  of  miles  (10,- 
000  **li  '*)  to  our  country,  have  uniformly  treated 
our  people  with  justice  and  been  strenuous  in 
seeking  the  common  peace.  The  local  officials 
in  exerting  themselves  to  protect  the  foreigners 
intend  by  this  very  means  best  to  protect  their 
own  people.  ^ 

in  general,  amity  between  China  and  foreign 
countries,  the  mutual  peace  of  Church  and 
people,  and  the  absence  everywhere  of  causes  of 
complaint,  these  are  all  germane  to  the  origi- 
nal intention  of  the  Treaty. 

It  has  happened  that  on  the  evening  of  the 
24th  day  of  April,  at  the  Ancestral  Qrove  of 
the  Hsi  family,  there  arose  a  case  of  dispute  be- 
tween the  people  and  the  Church,  these  alleging 
that  a  child  had  been  abducted,  and  those  that  a 
mob  had  collected  and  persons  had  been  beaten. 
Each  party  took  the  case  to  the  local  magistrate, 
and  accordingly  the  magistrate  of  this  district, 
Lou'Hsien,  has  already  promptly  investigated 
the  case  and  taken  measures  to  secure  peace. 

It  became  your  duty  to  await  quietly  the  ter- 
mination of  his  thorough  investigation.  How 
did  it  happen  then,  that  next  day  some  ignorant 
fellows  proceeded  to  the  residence  of  the  foreign- 
ers and  behaved  themselves  in  a  lawless  manner, 
throwing  bricks  and  stones?  In  thus  adding  a 
side  issue  to  the  original  case  you  have  certainly 
exhibited  readiness  to  provoke  a  disturbance. 

It  becomes  necessary  that  the  magistrate  should 
be  ordered  vigorously  to  prosecute  this  case  as  a 
warning  to  others.  Know  ye,  who  deliberately 
transgress  the  praise-worthy  (Imperial)  Statutes, 
that  these  laws  are  sanctioned  by  fixed  penalties. 
Why  will  you  voluntarily  seek  to  become  crim- 
inals? 

In  addition  to  ordering  the  local  magistrate 
forthwith  to  discover  and  arrest  the  instigators 
of  the  trouble  and  the  perpetrators  of  the  beat- 
ing, it  is  proper  that  I  should  issue  this  stringent 
proclamation.  Having  done  so,  I  expect  all 
soldiers,  citizens,  and  also  Christians,  under  my 
jurisdicti m,  to  understand  that  from  the  date  of 
this  Proclamation  each  one  of  you  ought,  in 


peace,  to  attend  to  his  own  proper  affairs,  and 
not  exhibit  mutual  distrusl  nor  give  currency  to 
slanderous  reports  which  may  lead  to  out-breaks. 

If  cases  occur  which  you  cannot  satisfactorily 
adjust,  in  each  (such)  case  you  should  appeal  to 
the  officials  for  equitable  adjudication.  A  resort 
to  beating  and  mob  violence  will  not  be  toler- 
ated. 

If  you  dare  deliberately  to  disobey  these  re- 
quirements you  will  surely  be  tried  and  punished 
with  severity,  so  as  to  protect  the  interests  of 
this  locality.  But  if  you.  the  people  and  the 
Church,  truly  honor  these  instructions  and  really 
exert  yourselves  to  keep  them,  you  shall  have  at 
once  guaranteed  the  safety  of  your  own  families, 
and,  with  due  humility,  shown  sympathy  with 
His  majesty,  the  Emperor,  whose  indulgent 
grace  is  bestowed  with  an  impartial  view  and  a 
universal  benevolence. 

Beware!  Take  c^re!  Do  not  disobey  this 
special  and  stringent  Proclamation. 

Proclaimed  on  the  11th  day  of  May,  in  the 
19th  year  of  the  Emperor  Kuang  Hsi. 

Let  the  above  instructions  be  generally 
known! 

THE  APPEAL. 

In  The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  for 
February,  1898,  p.  101,  is  an  article  entitled 
**Our  Responsibility  in  Hainan,"  and  in  the 
December  number,  p.  460,  is  an  interesting 
letter  from  Rev.  J.  C.  Melrose,  of  Kiung 
Chow,  giving  some  fresh  and  inspiring  tid- 
ings from  our  new  **  Hainan  Mission."  Now 
comes  a  remarkable  appeal  right  from  the 
almost  unknown  interior  of  that  great  island. 
It  deserves  to  be  placed  side  by  side  with  the 
Laos  Appeal  as  another  special  summons  to 
the  Presbyterian  Church  to  honor  a  providen- 
tial draft  upon  its  enormous  missionary  re- 
sources, and  do  well  its  own  exclusive  work 
in  the  fields  where  God  has  given  it  a  free 
hand  and  a  carte-blandhe  of  unlimited  oppor- 
tunity. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Hainan  Mission  in 
June  last  the  following  minute  accompanying 
the  appeal  appended,  was  adopted  and  for- 
warded to  our  Board. 

**  One  step  in  advance  requires  another.  The 
Hainan  field  was,  on  May  1, 1893,  set  apart  as  an 
independent  mission.  This  field  includes  the 
Island  of  Hainan  and  the  neighboring  peninsula. 
We,  as  its  only  Protestant  missionaries,  feel  the 
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make  the  Gospel  known  to  the  more  than  ih/ree 
miUion  of  heathens  who  are  living  in  this  exten- 
sive field.  The  nine  missionaries  and  five  native 
assistants  now  here  are  a  force  wholly  inade- 
quate to  perform  the  task  that  is  laid  upon  us. 
We  are  now  at  work  in  three  localities,  viz., 
Ktungchow,  Nodoa,  and  Din-Ki ;  but  our  force 
is  not  sufficient  to  meet  the  demands  made  upon 
us  even  in  these  places  where  work  has  been 
opened.  In  addition  to  these  places  we  should 
at  once  provide  for  the  opening  of  two  others, 
one  on  the  east  coast  in  Van-Chew  district  and 
another  at  Ta-Han,  near  the  center  of  the  island. 
To  reach  all  parts  of  the  field  we  believe  that 
five  additional  stations  with  resident  foreign 
missionaries  should  be  opened,  viz.,  at  Eam-Un 
on  the  west;  at  LimKo,  on  the  north;  near 
Ka  Chek,  on  the  northeast ;  and  at  least  two  on 
the  neighboring  mainland,  one  on  the  east  and 
one  on  the  west  of  the  peninsula.  With  stations 
distributed  as  above,  the  field  could  be  worlied 
with  some  degree  of  thoroughness  and  satisfac- 
tion, and  as  each  of  these  places  is,  so  far  as  the 
people  are  concerned,  ripe  for  occupation,  t**e 
demands  of  the  field  require  these  staiiunn.  In 
due  time  we  hope  that  the  Church  will  send  mis- 
sionaries to  enter  each  of  these  open  doors,  but 
now  we  appeal  that  our  present  necessities  may 
be  supplied. 

We  need  a  medical  missionary  in  Kiuogchow 
and  another  in  Nodoa,  and  also  two  young  ladies 
to  work  among  the  women  in  these  two  places. 
Also  a  minister  and  a  physician  to  assist  in 
working  the  broad  field  near  Din-Ki,  where  Mr. 
Jeremiassen  and  his  wife  have  been  preaching 
and  dispensing  medicines  daily  for  several 
months  to  large  and  interested  crowds. 

In  connection  with  the  above,  this  remark- 
able call  which  cannot  be  lightly  set  aside, 
comes  to  the  Church  from  Van-Chew.  During 
one  of  the  sessions  of  the  mission,  a  prominent 
citizen  from  that  region  arrived,  having  come 
a  distance  of  some  IHO  miles  for  the  express 
purpose  of  laying  before  the  missionaries  a 
petition,  of  which  the  following  is  the  trans- 
lation : 

Messrs.  Jeremiassen,  Melrose  and  Tang,  three 
great  men,  we  invite  you,  honorable  gentlemen, 
to  deign  to  examine  our  petition.  To  begin : — 
On  a  previous  occasion  you,  honorable  persons, 
came  and  preached  the  Gk)8pel  in  the  home  of 
Ngou  in  the  village  of  Dang-Toa,  Van  Chew. 
Many  people  gathered  together  to  hear  you  and 
many  believed,     ^veral  gentlemen  counseled 


together  in  reference  to  building  a  chapel  in 
Dang-Toa  village. 

We  now  give  this  as  proof  that  we  have  not 
three  hearts  and  two  wills.  This  chapel  is  like 
leaven,  men's  hearts  like  meal  If  there  is  no 
chapel  how  can  the  Gospel  be  proclaimed?  If 
there  is  no  leaven  how  can  the  meal  be  leavened? 
But  if  there  is  leaven  the  meal  will  gradually 
rise;  if  there  is  a  chapel  and  the  Word  is 
preached,  then  gradually  one  man  will  proclaim 
to  ten,  ten  to  one  hundred,  one  hundred  to  one 
thousand,  a  thousand  to  ten  thousand.  Is  not 
this  like  the  mountain  stream?  One  place  will 
then  be  all  leavened  by  the  Gospel. 

The  three  teachers  morning  and  evening 
prayed  to  Jesus,  the  Saviour  of  the  world,  to 
give  the  Holy  Spirit  to  regenerate  our  hearts  and 
to  help  the  world  to  hear  and  do  Gk)d*s  com- 
mandments, and  to  change  our  former  transgres- 
sions and  all  that  does  not  correspond  to  the  doc- 
trine, to  change  the  bad  to  good.  This  is  ex- 
ceedingly good.     Signed. 

lo  Sang  Ji,  Lim  Sing  Moe, 

Ngou  Lok  Joang,    Ngou  Tin  Hun, 
Ui  Si  Song,  Ngou  Tin  Kbng, 

Ui  Si  Chi,  Dang  8i  Ti, 

Ong  Song  Meng,      Li  Ti  Khui. 

All  agree. 

The  messenger  also  promised  to  give  the 
church  a  suitable  site  of  land  on  which  to 
build  a  chapel.  This  appeal  has  not  been  ex- 
celled in  interest  in  the  last  twenty  years.  It 
puts  in  tangible  form  the  promises  that  were 
made  to  the  missionaries  wh6  visited  them  in 
May.  In  the  district  adjoining  Van-Chew  on 
the  south,  our  assistants  found  a  Hakka  set- 
tlement that  was  anxious  to  receive  the  Gos- 
pel ;  also  in  the  district  north  of  Van-Chew 
are  several  families  that  are  interested.  A 
part  of  the  Loi  country  is  within  easy  reach 
of  this  place.  This  valley  being  low  and  flat 
and  the  main  traveled  road  near  the  sea  being 
sandy,  the  people  suffer  from  malaria  and 
eye  diseases.  We  are  already  making 
arrangements  to  settle  a  native  assistant 
among  these  people.  But  it  is  so  far  from 
both  Kiung-Chow  city  and  Din-Ki  that  the 
field  cannot  be  worked  long  from  these  places 
without  detriment  to  all.  A  minister  and 
phybioian  are  needed  for  this  place. 

Ta-Han  is  a  village  in  the  Loi  country  and 
is  a  very  favorite  location  to  open  a  station  to 
work  among  the  populous  villages  of  the 
aborigines  of  the  Island.     This  place  was  vis- 


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Maldng  up  His  Jewels  in  Chifia. 


[January^ 


ited  several  times  last  year  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jeremiassen,  and  they  found  the  people  very 
friendly  and  open  to  the  reception  of  the 
Gospel.  We  hope  to  locate  a  native  assistant 
there  next  year,  but  a  foreign  missionary  is  a 
necessity  to  fully  develop  the  work  in  that 
region,  which  is  opening  very  promisingly. 

The  substance  of  our  appeal  is  that  the 
Board  should  send  us : 

1.  Two  young  ladies  to  work  among  the 
women. 

2.  Two  physicians  for  the  already  organ- 
ized work,  there  being,  at  present,  no  foreign 
physician  at  Hainan. 

3.  A  minister  and  physician  for  theDin-Ki 
region. 

4.  A  minister  and  physician  for  Van- Chew. 

5.  A  minister  for  Ta-Han. 

In  all, — two  young  ladies,  four  physicians, 
three  ministers. 

With  these  at  work  we  shall  be  in  a  posi- 
tion to  more  nearly  meet  the  demands  of  the 
field.  Having  thus  stated  our  needs,  we 
must  leave  the  responsibility  upon  you  and 
the  Church  at  home  to  see  that  the  Hainan 
Mission  is  properly  manned. 

MAKING  UP  HIS  JEWELS  IN  CHINA. 

REV.  HUNTER  OORBETT,  D.  D. 

In  the  year  1867  Yu  He  Hwoa  entered  the 
street  chapel  at  Chefoo,  China,  and  heard  for 
the  first  time  of  salvation  through  faith  in  Jesus 
Christ.  He  became  much  interested  and 
asked  if  there  was  hope  for  him.  He  said 
that  on  account  of  famine  he  had  sold  his 
property,  250  miles  in  the  interior,  and  was 
now  waiting  for  a  boat  to  take  him  to  Man- 
churia. There  he  expected  to  join  a  friend, 
who  had  charge  of  a  Taoist  temple,  and  be- 
come a  priest.  He  had  lived  a  strange  life  in 
all  the  darkness  and  hopelessness  of  heathen- 
ism. His  wife  offended  him  about  two  years 
after  their  marriage,  and  he  sold  her  and  an 
infant  daughter  for  a  sum  equal  to  $35.00. 
Ho  came  to  the  chapel  day  after  day,  and 
finally  accepted  an  invitation  to  come  and 
stay  at  my  home,  where  he  could  receive 
daily  instruction.  He  was  illiterate,  but  the 
preacher  and  others  read  to  him  until  he 
thoroughly  memorized  a  Christian  catechism 


and  many  portions  of  Scripture.  When  he 
came  fully  to'understand  the  fearful  nature  of 
sin,  he  was  well  nigh  overwhelmed,  and 
prayed  day  and  night,  often  with  strong  cry- 
ing and  tears,  for  mercy  and  help.  He  had 
to  contend  with  a  fearful  temper,  which  iie 
had  never  learned  to  control,  and  also  with 
many  superstitions,  which  dung  to  him  from 
childhood.  He  fully  accepted  of  Christ  as 
his  All-powerful  Saviour,  and  has  since  lived 
a  faithful  and  consistent  life.  He  was  always 
at  church  on  the  Sabbath,  and  the  prayer- 
meetings  were  his  especial  delight.  He  im- 
proved every  opportunity  to  witness  for  Christ, 
and  plead  with  men  to  accept  of  salvation. 

He  supported  himself  by  carrying  chairs, 
pasturing  cattle,  gathering  grass,  etc.,  doing 
whatever  came  to  his  hand.  He  thus  earned 
but  little  money,  but  by  great  economy  al- 
ways managed  to  save  some,  which  he  depos- 
ited from  time  to  time  with  his  pastor.  He 
contributed  liberally  to  the  support  of  the 
Gospel,  giving  at  one  time  $7.00.  He  also 
did  much  to  help  the  poor.  In  cold  and 
stormy  weather  he  took  delight  in  sharing  his 
room  and  food  with  the  destitute.  One  man 
who  had  met  with  misfortune  and  was  re- 
duced to  beggary  was,  in  his  73d  year,  by  the 
kindness  and  faithful  teaching  of  Yu  He 
Hwoa,  led  to  accept  Christ,  and  was  baptized. 
Mr.  Yu  spent  many  an  afternoon  distributing 
tracts  and  pleading  with  men  to  beheve  in 
Jesus.  He  always  carried  a  Bible  and  hymn- 
book,  and  was  often  seen  sitting  by  the  road- 
side or  in  the  ^elds  surrounded  by  a  little 
group  of  men  and  boys  reading  the  books  or 
listening  to  his  story.  Some  years  ago  he  be- 
came greatly  discouraged  because  no  one 
seemed  to  desire  salvation,  and  resolved  to 
have  a  large  wooden  cross  made  and  carry  it 
through  the  streets  in  the  hope  that  the  sight 
might  lead  men  to  inquire  its  meaning  and 
compel  them  to  believe.  He  finally  had  a 
banner  prepared.  On  one  side  he  had  writ- 
ten an  account  of  his  own  life  and  of  what 
the  Gospel  had  done  for  him ;  on  the  other  an 
outline  of  the  plan  of  salvation  and  the  folly 
of  idol  worship.  This  he  carried  with  him 
for  years,  and  constantly  besought  men  to 
read  it.  Many  years  ago  he  purchased  his 
cofl&n  and  burial  clothes,  had  his  grave  dug 


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and  arched  over,  and  bis  tombstone  erected. 
He  prayed  for  a  sadden  death.  On  Sabbath 
morning,  January  1893,  he  came  to  church 
and  seemed  unusaally  well,  but  while  eating 
his  noon  meal  he  was  taken  ill,  soon  lost  con- 
sciousness, and  so  continued  until  his  death 
the  next  day,  at  the  age  of  72.  A  short  time 
before  his  death  he  told  a  friend  that  he  still 
had  a  little  money  (about  $25.00).  He  re- 
quested that  after  his  death  this  be  used  to 
buy  catechisms  and  other  books  for  distribu- 
tion. He  has  left  a  fragrant  memory  and  all 
feel  that  he  has  passed  into  the  ^*  better 
country." 

JAPANESE  TROPHIES. 

REV.  THOMAS  C.  WINN. 

In  the  providence  of  God  we  have  recently 
witnessed  several  deaths  among  His  followers 
in  Japan,  in  connection  with  which  signal 
testimony  has  been  given  to  His  saving  power 
and  grace. 

A  young  girl  who  had  been  a  pupil  in  our 
girl's  school  at  Kanazawa,  died  a  few  months 
ago.  She  had  been  ill  for  a  long  time  and 
her  death  was,  therefore,  not  unexpected. 
During  her  sickness  she  gave  every  evidence 
of  a  heart  touched  by  grace  and  prepared  to 
enter  the  eternal  world.  With  perfect  calm- 
ness and  real  joy  she  spoke  of  her  expected 
departure.  Her  assurance  of  the  salvation 
that  awaited  her  was  undisturbed  as  her  death 
approached,  on  the  contrary  it  was  strength- 
ened. One  beautiful  thing  that  she  said  was 
addressed  to  a  lady  missionary  whom  she 
especially  loved.  Knowing  that  she  would 
probably  reach  heaven  before  her  teacher,  she 
said :  *  ^  If  GK)d  will  let  me,  I  will  come  to  meet 
you  when  it  is  your  time  to  die.'*  Her  faith 
waA  such  an  *'  evidence  of  the  things  not  seen  " 
that  her  heathen  mother's  heart  was  awak- 
ened to  an  interest  in  these  thmgs. 

A  few  weeks  after,  another  young  girl  was 
called  from  this  earthly  life.  A  month  before 
her  death,  at  her  own  request  she  had  been 
baptized.  When  she  was  taken  ill  a  doctor 
was  called  in^  but  she  astonished  him  by  say- 
ing that  she  did  not  wish  his  medicine;  as  she 
had  no  desire  to  live,  but  preferred  to  ge  to 
Heaven.  Her  illness  in  ito  serious  stage  lasted 
perhaps  three  weeks.    During  most  of  that 


time  she  could  not  lie  down  with  any  comfort 
and  most  of  her  nights  were  sleepless.  She 
would  not  let  others  sit  up  with  her,  saying 
that  they  could  do  nothing  for  her.  During 
those  wakeful  hours  she  read  her  Bible  and 
sang  Gospel  songs.  Although  hardly  more 
than  a  child,  (she  was  only  fourteen  years  old) 
yet  to  her  tbose  night  watches  were  hours  of 
communion  with  her  Lord.  She  was  not 
anxious  to  live;  her  whole  soul  seemed  turned 
rather  toward  God  and  Heaven  as  her  hope 
and  desire.  She  assured  us  time  and  again 
that  she  was  clinging  and  would  ever  cling  to 
Jesus  as  her  Saviour.  When  she  became 
suddenly  much  worse  as  her  death  approached, 
and  every  breath  seemed  a  groan  for  release, 
she  often  remarked:  ^^  I  hope  the  angels  will 
come  and  carry  me  home  to-night."  The 
Japanese  have  a  way  of  carrying  children 
upon  their  backs  instead  of  in  their  arms  as 
we  do.  She  seemed  to  be  most  comfortable 
when  carried  in  this  way.  An  attendant  was 
stooping  down  for  her  to  get  upon  his  back : 
she  stood  up,  arranged  her  dress,  and  was  in 
the  act  of  putting  her  arms  around  his  neck 
to  be  borne  oS.  when  a  change  was  seen  to 
come  over  her  face.  Her  mother  caaght  the 
falling  form  of  her  daughter  and  resting  the 
child's  head  upon  her  breast  asked:  ^^Have 
the  angels  come  for  you,  Haru?"  She  could 
only  nod  her  assent,  and  with  one  or  two 
quivering  breaths,  her  spirit  was  gone.  Can 
any  one  doubt  that  she  was  *^  borne,"  like 
another  we  read  of,  **  by  angels  into  Abra- 
ham's bosom?" 

Three  men  haye,  since  this  year  began, 
passed  into  the  world  beyond  and  left  their 
dying  testimony  to  the  truth  of  this  Gospel 
which  we  preached  unto  them.  I  heard 
of  the  sickness  of  one  of  them.  He  was 
a  man  who  ten  or  more  years  ago  burned  up 
the  greater  part  of  his  stock  in  trade  of 
books,  because  he  learned  that  they  were 
such  as  a  Christian  ought  not  to  sell  or 
possess.  I  went  to  see  him.  His  body  was 
greatly  emaciated,  as  the  result  of  his  suffer- 
ing. But  his  face — as  we  talked  of  Jesus  and 
His  love— his  face!  I  can  never  forget  it  I 
It  was,  almost  without  exception,  the  most 
expressive  of  joy  unspeakable  of  all  the  faces 
I  have  seen  among  the  dying.    He  rejoiced  to 


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talk  of  God's  poodDess  and  of  His  mercies — 
more  than  be  could  number.  I  looked  about 
his  room ;  where  were  those  mercies  and  bless- 
ings? His  house  had  nothiug  in  it  but  indi- 
cations of  poverty.  He  was  lying  on  one 
thin  comfortable,  the  mats  were  ragged  and 
dirty.  Surely  these  were  no  signs  of  bless- 
ings— aboundmg  blessings — here.  No,  they 
were  spiritual  things  he  was  talking  of.  He 
said  to  me  before  I  left  him,  **And  now 
before  saying  good-bye,  I  want  to  tell  you, 
Mr.  Winn,  that  I  have  cast  all  my  care  upon 
the  Lord,  and  that  His  wonderful  goodness  to 
me  and  my  overflounng  joy  at  the  thought  of 
soon  seeing  Him  has  taken  a  way 'all  my  anx- 
ious thoughts  about  my  bodily  necessities.'' 
Walking  homeward  I  felt  that  /  had  gotten 
the  greater  blessing  from  that  vihit,  and  the 
glory  which  shone  in  that  poor  man's  face 
seemed  to  be  lighting  up  my  soul.  A  few 
days  after  that,  when  his  wife  was  preparing 
the  humble  breakfast  in  an  adjoining  room, 
he  called  her  in  such  a  way  as  to  bring  her  at 
once  to  his  side.  He  said  then  rapturously ^ 
* '  Jesus  has  come  for  me  now. "  *  *  Has  he  ? " 
**  Yes,  Jesus  has  come  for  me  now,"  and  in 
less  time  almost  than  it  takes  to  tell  qf  it  his 
spirit  had  taken  its  flight.* 

The  second  one  to  die  of  the  three  men  re- 
ferred to  above  was  a  young  man,  to  whom  the 
following  words  seemed  so  truly  applicable 
that  I  took  them  for  the  text  of  my  remarks 
at  his  funeral :  ^^And  Jesus  beholding  him 
loved  him."  When  he  was  taken  sick  we  all 
thought  it  was  nothing  serious,  and  that  he 
would  soon  be  well  again.  For  a  week  he  was 
perfectly  rational,  and  by  many  statements 
and  prayers  showed  that  he  put  his  trust 
wholly  and  unreservedly  In  Jesus  Christ  as  his 
Saviour.  I  was  afterward  called  up  at  mid- 
night to  go  and  see  him.  I  stayed  a  long 
while,  for  he  had  become  a  little  delirious, 
and,  his  father  being  absent,  his  mother  was 
much  alarmed.  In  spite  of  all  that  was  (lone 
for  him  we  were  greatly  saddened  to  see  him 
gradually  decline.  His  mind  was  never 
fully  restored,  only  for  short  intervals  at  a 
time.  It  was  touching  to  see  his  gratitude 
for  what  was  done  for  him.  Every  time  we 
called  he  always  knew  us  and  would  insist 
upon  expressing  his  thanks,  not  only  with  hi 


lips,  but  by  making  as  much  of  a  bow  as  he 
could.  Just  before  he  breathed  his  last,  his 
face  wore  an  expression  of  great  happiness, 
and  his  lips  were  seen  to  be  moving.     These 

were  his  words :    **  Take home this 

wandering sheep  for  

Jesus' sake." 

Recently  an  old  man  was  borne  to  his 
grave  from  our  church.  Last  year  he  had  an 
attack  of  la  grippe,  from  the  effects  of  which 
he  gradually  failed,  till  death  came  to  relieve 
him  from  the  sufferings  of  a  wasted,  weary 
body.  He  had  not  been  a  believer  in  Jesus 
many  years,  and  it  would  not  have  been  sur- 
prising, therefore,  if  early  religious  beliefs 
had  asserted  themselves  as  his  powers  began 
to  fail.  But  it  was  not  so.  He  himself  asked 
to  have  the  communion  celebrated  in  his 
room  that  he  might  partake  of  it  once  more. 
At  that  time  and  on  other  occasions  he  said 
that  being  old  he  could  not  expect  to  live 
much  longer;  that  he  had  no  other  purpose  or 
hope<  than  to  trust  in  Jesus  Christ,  and  be 
saved  by  Him.  The  evening  before  his  death, 
I  called  to  see  him.  As  I  entered  the  house,  I 
was  told  that  he  would  not  probably  recog- 
nize me,  or  understand  anything  I  might  say 
to  him.  But  when  he  heard  my  name,  he 
turned  his  face  toward  me  and  waved  a  feeble 
welcome  to  me  with  his  hand.  Up  to  the 
moment  of  his  death,  during  the  following 
forenoon,  he  was  listening  to  his  daughter  read 
the  15th  chapter  of  1st  Corinthians.  While 
attending  to  the  reading  of  those  words,  in 
which  he  found  pleasure,  he  suddenly  and 
quietly  fell  asleep  to  await  that  glorious 
Resurrection  Day. 

To  us  who  saw  these  persons  during  their 
illness  and  listened  to  their  oft  repeated  and 
unchanging  testimony  as  to  their  faith  in 
'  *  The  Only  Redeemer  of  God's  Elect, "  nothing 
of  doubt  ever  suggested  itself  concerning  the 
eternal  salvation  of  their  souls.  Their  dying 
words  and  experiences  leave  no  place  for  such 
thoughts.  We  cannot  sorrow  for  them  as  for 
those  who  have  no  hope. 

**  Tis  the  promise  of  God,  fuU  salvation  to  give 
Unto  him  who  on  Jesus  his  Son  wili  believe. 

'*  They  are  safe  now  in  glory,  and  this  is  their  song: 
Hallelujah,  'tis  done!  I  believe  on  the  Son; 
I  am  saved  by  the  blood  of  the  omcifled  One.'^ 


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A  CURIOUS  FRA.GMENT  OF  AFRICAN 
HUMANITY. 

RET.  A.  0.  GOOD,  PH.  D. 

My  Iftst  trip  inland  from  Batanga  was 
mariced  by  an  incident  which  interested  me 
▼ery  much.  The  jonmey  was  one  of  the 
most  troublesome  I  have  yet  made.  In  try- 
ing to  find  a  shorter  road  I  found  the  very 
worst  I  could  have  taken.  Besides  being 
very  crooked  it  was  much  obstructed,  so  that 
it  seemed  at  times  as  if  we  would  neyer  get 
to  our  destination.  To  make  matters  worse, 
it  rained  even  more  than  usual,  so  that  when 
we  arrived  I  was  more  thoroughly  used  up 
than  1  have  been  at  any  time  since  beginning 
this  work. 

The  second  day  from  Batanga,  however,  I 
struck  something  that  reconciled  me  to  the 
bad  road.  It  was  a  village  of  the  famous 
Dwarfs.  As  everybody  knows,  it  is  only  by 
a  rare  chance  that  one  ever  gets  a  sight  of 
these  little  people.  Gtoerally  they  are  very 
timid,  but  I  suspect  there  is  usually  a  reason 
for  their  timidity.  These  Dwarfs  are  found 
all  over  this  part  of  Africa,  but  they  have  no 
country  of  their  own.  They  live  much  as  do 
the  Gypsies  with  us,  scattered  among  many 
tribes,  but  belonging  to  none.  All  the  other 
races  of  this  region  live  by  agriculture. 
True  they  are  much  engaged  in  hunting  and 
fishing,  and  depend  mainly  on  the  chase  for 
their  supplies  of  meat,  but  what  they  kill  is 
a  very  small  part  of  their  living.  It  is  on 
their  gardens  of  plantains,  cassava,  yams, 
com,  sweet  potatoes,  ground-nuts,  etc.,  that 
they  mainly  depend  for  a  living. 

But  the  Dwarfs  do  not  live  after  this  man- 
ner. They  subsist  by  the  chase,  and  on  such 
wild  fruits  and  edible  leaves  as  are  to  be 
found  in  the  forest.  However,  they  are  not 
at  all  averse  to  eating  what  others  have 
raised.  They  are  as  fond  of  the  cassava, 
plantains,  etc.,  as  are  other  Africans,  but  for 
some  reason  they  have  never  taken  to  raising 
these  things  for  themselves.  Whether  it  is 
simply  that  they  are  averse  to  agriculture,  or 
for  some  other  reason,  I  would  not  venture  to 
say.  Here,  then,  we  have  a  people  who 
want  vegetable  food,  but  do  not  wish  to  work 
for  it.    How  are  they  to  get  it?    I  am  happy 


to  say  they  are  not  accused  of  stealing  food 
from  their  neighbors*  gardens.  Indeed,  it  is 
admitted  on  all  hands  that  they  are  remarka- 
bly honest. 

HOW  THE  DWARFS  LIVE. 

Here  is  their  mode  of  life.  They  attach 
themselves  to  some  town  of  the  Fang,  Mabea, 
or  any  other  tribe  occupying  the  country  in 
which  they  wish  to  live  and  hunt.  They  are 
very  skillful  hunters,  and  if  there  is  game  to 
be  had  they  will  get  it.  When  they  are 
hungry  for  vegetable  food  they  take  the 
game  they  have  killed  to  the  town  to  which 
they  have  attached  themselves,  and  exchange 
it  for  the  food  they  want.  This  arrangement 
seems  so  satisfactory  to  both  parties,  that 
often  a  family  of  Dwarfs  will  maintain  such 
an  alliance  with  a  town  of  their  stronger 
neighbors  for  generations.  The  Dwarfs  are 
themselves  a  timid  and  harmless  people;  at 
least  this  is  true  of  those  found  in  this  section 
of  Africa.  They  never  pretend  to  fight  for 
their  rights,  so  I  am  assured.  When  the 
people  to  whom  they  have  attached  them- 
selves do  them  a  wrong  which  they  are  dis- 
posed to  resent,  they  simply  move  away  and 
seek  an  alliance  with  some  other  town  where 
they  will  receive  better  treatment.  But  it  is 
considered  an  advantage  to  have  them  as 
neighbors,  so  I  am  assured  they  are  generally 
well  treated.  Their  towns  are  not  perma- 
nent, however,  and  their  dwellings  are  only 
rude  sheds,  covered  with  leaves,  which  they 
occupy  while  the  game  in  the  neighborhood 
lasts.  They  are  so  constantly  moving  from 
place  to  place  that  even  their  friends  hardly 
know  sometimes  where  to  find  them. 

But  if  the  stronger  tribes  do  not  rob  or 
kill  them,  they  certainly  take  advantage  of 
their  ignorance  of  the  world.  They  supply 
them  with  cloth,  guns,  powder,  spears,  etc., 
at  such  prices  as  they  choose  to  ask  fur  them, 
and  they  take  good  care  that  *'  Their  Dwarfs  *' 
come  in  contact  with  no  one  who  will  tell 
them  how  they  are  being  cheated. 

WHT  THEY  ARE  DUTICULT  TO  FIND. 

Here  comes  in  the  difficulty  of  seeing  these 
Dwarfs.  You  go  to  the  people  of  that  tribe 
and  ask  them  to  show  you  the  town  of  the 
Dwarfs.    Usually  they  pretend  to  be  most 


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willing,  but  they  assert  that  the  Dwarfs 
have  never  seen  a  white  man,  and  will  be 
afraid,  so  they  most  go  in  advance  and  pre- 
pare the  Dwarfs  to  see  the  white  man. 
Their  real  object  is  to  see  that  the  Dwarfs 
mn  away,  or  if  the  white  man  succeeds  in 
seeing  them,  they  will  make  his  visit  in  some 
way  strengthen  their  own  inflnence  over  the 
Dwarfs.  If  a  white  man  journeying  by  him- 
self comes  on  a  Dwarf  village  in  the  forest  (a 
most  unlikely  thing),  the  stories  the  Dwarfs 
have  been  told  about  the  dreadful  visitor  will 
send  them  flying  in  all  directions  in  the  forest. 
But  to  come  to  my  story.  Had  I  asked  the 
Mabea  to  show  me  **  Their  Dwarfs,"  I  would 
have  asked  in  vain.  They  would  have  hit 
upon  some  scheme  for  keeping  me  away. 
Bat  I  happened  to  have  a  young  Mabea  as 
guide,  who  was  very  impetuous  and  thought- 
less. About  noon  of  the  second  day,  as  we 
were  trudging  along  through  the  forest,  I 
happened  to  notice  a  newly  beaten  track 
leading  off  from  the  main  path.  At  the 
same  moment  I  heard  the  sound  of  voices  at 
no  great  distance  from  the  path.  I  asked  in 
surprise  who  made  that  path,  for  I  had  sup- 
posed we  had  left  all  the  towns  far  behind. 
Without  taking  time  to  think,  he  replied : — 
* '  There  is  a  town  of  the  Dwarfs  there. "  Then 
I  had  him  fast;  he  was  in  my  employ,  he 
dare  not  directly  disobey,  and,  of  course,  I  at 
once  announced  that  I  would  turn  aside  and 
see  these  people.  As  there  was  nothing  else 
to  be  done,  he  started  with  me  for  the  town. 
When  we  came  near  he  said,  '*I  will  go  on 
and  tell  them  so  they  will  not  be  frightened. 
You  wait  here,  and  when  I  have  prepared 
them  I  will  call  for  you."  Perhaps  his  inten- 
tions were  all  right,  but  I  was  suspicious.  So  I 
followed  close  behind  him,  and  we  entered  the 
strange  village  almost  simultaneously,  so*  that 
there  was  no  chauce  for  plotting  anything  to 
my  disadvantage  if  this  was  contemplated. 
Well,  I  found  the  Dwarfs  at  home  to  the 
number  of  fifty  or  sixty,  and  not  so  badly 
frightened  after  all,  which  fact  I  attribute  to 
the  fact  that  they  had  not  been  ^* prepared" 
for  my  visit. 

THEIR  HOME  IN  THE  SUNLESS  FOREST. 

The  village    was   evidently  newly  built. 
The  paths  were  new,  the  leaves  with  which 


the  houses  were  roofed  were  still  compara- 
tively fresh,  everything  suggested  a  tempo- 
rary encampment  only.  The  spot  they  had 
selected  for  their  village  was  well  chosen; 
the  ground  was  high  and  well  drained,  and  a 
fair  sized  stream  of  beautifully  clear  water 
flowed  close  by.  I  could  have  enjoyed  spend- 
ing a  few  days  in  such  a  camp  myself,  but 
to  spend  one's  life  in  such  an  environment, 
with  no  clearing,  no  open  country,  no  sun- 
light, no  outlook  beyond  the  shadowy  forest 
glades, — ^the  thought  was  enough  for  me. 
But  I  have  only  pictured  the  reality.  How 
can  these  people  ever  see  the  clear  sunlight  9 
They  can,  of  course,  wade  out  into  the  middle 
of  a  stream,  where  they  find  one  wide  enough 
not  to  be  overshadowed  by  the  trees,  or  they 
can  seek  a  place  where  a  large  tree  has  fallen 
and  carried  down  with  it  a  number  of  its 
lesser  neighbors,  thus  letting  the  sunlight 
through  to  the  earth;  but  practically  these 
people  can  only  see  the  sun  as  they  get  dim 
glimpses  of  it  through  the  trees.  Their 
houses  are  as  different  from  the  houses  of  the 
Dwarfs  I  have  seen  pictured  as  they  could 
well  be.  They  are  simply  sheds.  Poles  are 
placed  with  one  end  on  the  ground  and  the 
other  resting  on  a  horizontal  pole  supported 
on  posts  four  or  five  feet  from  the  ground. 
Across  these  poles  small  sticks  are  laid  like 
the  lath  on  the  roof  of  a  house,  and  on  these 
are  laid  with  wonderful  skill  the  large  leaves 
that  serve  as  shingles. 

A  MUTUAL  SURPRISE. 

You  would  imagine  that  such  a  roof  would 
leak,  but  when  well  made  it  is  really  wonder- 
ful how  it  will  turn  water.  Those  houses  are 
ten  to  twelve  feet  from  front  to  back,  and 
anywhere  from  ten  to  twenty-five  feet  long. 
There  are  no  walls,  only  sometimes  the  ends 
are  partly  closed  by  setting  up  branches  of 
trees  against  the  roof.  The  front  of  the  shed 
is  always  open.  They  are  not  built  in  any 
order,  but  are  scattered  about  apparently  at 
random.  In  these  houses,  if  we  can  call  such 
structures  houses,  these  people  live,  eat,  sleep 
on  their  beds  of  poles,  and  die.  When  the 
game  becomes  scarce  in  the  place  where  they 
have  fixed  their  camp,  they  simply  move  to 
a  new  place,  and  in  a  few  days  have  a  new 
village  and  a  new  home.    When  I  came  into 


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their  encampment  I  found  a  number  of  Mabea 
there  from  the  coast,  exchanging  cassava  for 
game.  They  seemed  quite  annoyed  at  seeing 
me  there,  but  the  Dv^arfs  appeared  rather 
pleased,  and  gathered  around  gazing  at  me 
in  speechless  wonder,  but  I  doubt  whether 
their  curiosity  was  greater  than  mine.  Could 
I  talk  to  them?  I  tried  Bul^  on  them.  They 
replied  modestly  that  they  did  not  know 
Bul^,  but  as  they  spoke  in  a  language  very 
like  the  Fang  of  the  Ogowe,  I  felt  at  home  at 
once.  A  big  and  very  consequential  Mabea 
came  up  and  offered  to  interpret  my  Bul^ 
into  Mabea,  but  I  very  promptly  and  empha- 
tically declined  his  services,  as  I  found  that 
most  of  them  understood  the  Fang  quite  well, 
so  that  I  had  no  difficulty  in  making  myself 
understood. 

PRISONERS  IN  THE  AFRICAN  WILDS. 

I  asked  them  some  questions  about  them- 
selves, which  they  answered  without  hesita- 
tion. The  women  and  children  were  a  little 
timid  at  first,  but  no  more  so  than  the  Bul^ 
the  first  time  I  came  among  them.  One  little 
old  man  seemed  especially  intelligent  and 
fearless.  I  put  the  question  to  him  plainly, 
"  Why  do  you  live  here  in  the  bush  like  this, 
and  never  come  to  see  the  white  man  ?  ^*  He 
replied,  with  a  side  wink  toward  the  Mabea 
man,  ^^  These  people  will  not  allow  us  to  see 
the  white  man.*'  I  spent  most  of  my  time 
trying  to  solve  a  question,  the  answer  to 
which  I  have  been  seeking  for  years,  viz., 
Do  the  Dwarfs  have  a  language  of  their  own, 
or  do  they  speak  the  language  of  the  tribe 
with  which  they  associate  themselves  ?  The 
other  tribes  answer  the  question  both  ways. 
I  watched  them  very  carefully  to  see  if  they 
spoke  among  themselves  in  §  language  I  did 
not  know,  but  while  I  was  amoag  them  I 
heard  nothing  but  Mabea  and  Fang. 

THE  LOWEST  STRATA  OF  HUMANITY. 

These  Dwarfs  did  not  fit  any  description  I 
have  ever  read  of  African  pigmies.  They 
were  not  remarkably  small;  some  of  them 
must  have  been  five  feet  or  more  in  height. 
Still  they  were  distinctly  dwarfed  in  stature. 
The  Mabea  are  rarely  above  the  medium 
height,  and  yet  those  standing  by  seemed  very 
large  compared  with  the  Dwarfs.  They  were 
a  distiiictly  lifter  tint  than  the  surrounding 


tribes,  but  I  could  not  see  any  sign  of  the 
yellowish  or  reddish  growth  of  hair  on  the 
body,  of  which  some  travelers  have  spoken. 
Certainly  these  Dwarfs  were  the  lowest  speci- 
mens of  the  human  race  I  have  yet  encoun- 
tered. Their  jaws  were  much  too  large, 
their  foreheads  low  and  retreating,  and  I 
noticed  especially  that  their  foreheads  and 
the  tops  of  their  heads  seemed  irregular  and 
rough,  instead  of  smooth  and  rounded.  The 
lowness  of  their  foreheads  was  emphasized 
by  the  size  of  their  eyes.  The  children 
especially  seemed  to  have  eyes  like  saucers. 
The  eyelwows,  which  were  heavy,  were,  or 
seemed  to  be,  farther  above  the  eye  than  in 
other  races.  Ton  can  perhaps  imagine  the 
result.  The  eyebrows  appeared  to  be  in  the 
middle  of  the  forehead,  and,  worst  of  all,  the 
brows  did  not  in  some  cases  seem  to  be  set  on 
straight,  for  not  only  did  they  appear  to 
slant  inwards  but  the  two  eyebrows  on  the 
same  person  did  not  in  some  cases  seem  to 
have  the  same  slant.  This  must  have  been  a 
mistake  on  my  part,  but  certainly  it  looked  {o 
to  me.  The  upper  part  of  their  bodies  was 
apparently  strong  enough,  but  the  abdominal 
part  was  far  too  large  for  symmetry,  suggest- 
ing gluttony,  and  their  legs  appeared  crooked 
and  weM^. 

On  the  whole,  my  visit  to  the  camp  of  the 
D waifs  left  on  my  mind  a  feeling  of  sadness. 
To  think  that  human  beings  should  live  such 
a  life!  I  tried  to  learn  something  of  their 
religious  ideas,  but  could  not  find  that  they 
differed  from  those  of  the  Mabea. 

SHALL  THESE  CHILDREN  OF  DARKNESS  SEE  A  GREAT 
UQHT? 

Near  the  coast  these  Dwarfs  are  not  numer- 
ous, but  as  we  go  back  they  become  greater 
in  numbers,  until  I  am  told  Uiat  far  back  of 
the  Bul6,  there  is  a  country  occupied  by 
Dwarfs  alone.  Whether  this  is  true  or  not  I 
cannot  tell,  but  certainly  there  are  in  Africa 
a  vast  number  of  these  weak,  harmless  people, 
and  the  Christian  cannot  but  ask,  ^^  How  long 
will  it  take  the  slowly  dawning  light  to  reach 
these  children  of  nature,  skulking  with  the 
beasts  in  the  shades  of  these  mighty  forests?^* 

One  more  curious  fact  I  must  mention.  It 
is  not  only  claimed  by  the  Dwarfs,  but  freely 
admitted  by  the  other  tribes  of  this  region, 


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that  the  sea  was  first  discovered  by  the 
Dwarfs,  while  the  people  now  on  the  coast 
were  still  far  back  in  the  forest,  and  did  not 
as  yet  know  that  there  was  such  a  thing  as 
the  sea.  The  first  paths  in  this  whole  region 
were  opened  by  them,  and,  if  I  am  not  mis- 
taken, many  of  the  names  of  localities  were 
first  given  by  them. 

Let  us  make  it  a  subject  of  earnest  prayer 
that  we  may  be  able  to  carry  the  blessed  Gos- 
pel of  light  to  these  fellow  creatures  who  are 
literally  living  in  darkness. 

Letters. 


PERSIA- 

A  MISSIONARY  TOUR  ALONG  THB  ABAS. 

Rev.  T.  G.  Brashear,  Tabriz :— The  Aras  is 
lined  on  both  sides  with  mountains,  and  it  was 
thought  not  to  be  too  dangerous  to  make  a 
Jouraey  along  the  Persian  side  during  the 
hottest  weeks  of  the  year,  so  we  started  for  that 
historic  region  Uie  12th  of  July.  Our  party  was 
small,  consisting  of  only  one  native  brother,  who 
was  a  colporter  of  the  American  Bible  Society, 
and  myself,  with  a  man  to  look  after  our  horses. 

Tabriz  is  about  three  days'  journey  south  of 
the  Aras  and  six  days  west  of  the  Caspian.  We 
travelled  slowly  toward  the  Caspian,  stopping  at 
nights  in  Moslem  villages  where  we  were  able 
to  have  conversations  and  prayers  with  those 
who  as  usual  gather  around  when  it  is  known 
that  a  ''Frangee"  has  come. 

KINDLY  RECEIVED  AT  AHAR. 

In  three  days  we  reached  Ahar,  a  Turkish 
city.  Here  we  made  a  very  pleasant,  and  I  hope 
profitable,  stay  of  nearly  one  week.  The  people 
received  us  very  kindly  and  took  us  from  the 
old  dusty  tumbleddown  caravansary  to  a  private 
house  where  we  lived  very  comfortably.  Al- 
though only  three  days  from  Tabriz  very  few 
foreigners  have  ever  visited  Ahar,  and  the  people 
thought  it  a  great  privilege  to  entertain  us. 
Calls  were  received  from  the  prince,  principal 
doctor  and  a  khan,  and  returned.  These  and 
some  others  understood  that  I  was  an  American 
subject  and  acknowledged  of  themselves  that 
the  United  States  is  progressing  more  than 
any  other  country.  I  always  tried  to  show  them 
that  it  is  because  of  our  Christian  religion. 

There  were  many  opportunities  of  reading 
from  the  Gospel  and  speaking  with  the  people 
who  came  to  visit  us  at  the  house  where  we 


were  staying.  The  last  two  days  of  the  week 
spent  at  Ahar  were  passed  in  company  with  Miss 
Holliday  and  Dr.  Bradford  who  were  on  their 
way  back  to  Tabriz  from  a  tour  in  the  same 
general  direction  where  we  were  going. 

AlCONO  THE  DARK  MOUNTAINS. 

After  a  very  pleasant  visit  at  Ahar,  which  we 
hope  to  repeat  soon,  we  took  our  journey  toward 
the  Aras,  intending  to  visit  mostly  Armenian 
villages.  Armenian  and  Moslem  villages  are 
numerous  in  this  region,  to  which  the  name 
Kara  Dagh  (Black  Mountains)  is  given.  The 
name  is  very  appropriate  for  in  more  ways  than 
one  can  darkness  be  ascribed  to  this  region.  We 
visited  in  all  about  a  dozen  villages,  two  of  which 
were  Moslem.  At  Has,  a  large  Moslem  town« 
where  we  spent  the  first  night,  there  was  some 
little  difficulty  in  finding  entertainment.  I  must 
have  been  the  first  foreigner  to  visit  the  place 
for  they  were  more  inquisitive  and  superstitious 
here  than  usual.  We  were  continually  asked 
who  we  were,  what  we  were  doing  and  where 
we  were  going. 

Every  person  you  meet,  while  travelling  in 
Persia,  thinks  it  his  privilege,  not  to  say  duty, 
to  ply  you  with  all  sorts  of  questions  Ull  he  is 
satisfied.  I  knew  of  nothing  more  unpleasant 
than  to  have  to  bear  with  them  and  hear  and 
answer  the  same  questions  many  times  every 
day.  But  this  is  a  part  of  our  work  and  gives 
us  a  better  chance  to  talk  with  them  and  present 
to  them  the  truth  of  which  they  are  so  ignorant 
At  this  place  they  were  afraid  we  were  Russians 
who  had  come  to  spy  out  the  land,  which  was  a 
very  natural  suspicion.  The  Russian  infiuence 
seems  to  be  growing  stronger  in  Persia  as  well 
as  in  the  Pamirs.  They  have  gotten  possession 
of  the  railway  at  Teheran  and  are  building  a 
wagon  and  carriage  road  from  the  Caspian  to 
the  capital. 

From  Has  we  journeyed  on  toward  the  Aras 
and  ascended  a  steep  mountain  to  an  Armenian 
village.  Our  tour  from  this  point  was  made 
among  moimtains  and  by  means  of  narrow, 
thorny  trails.  It  is  doubtless  true  that  these 
Armenian  Christians  were  forced  to  retreat  to 
these  mountain  fastnesses  during  the  persecu- 
tions by  bigoted  Moslem  rulers.  For  all  we 
know  they  may  have  been  here  since  the  time  of 
Tamerlane. 

I  will  not  give  the  names  of  the  places  where 
we  stopped  as  they  are  difficult  to  pronounce. 

"LIKE  FBOPLB  LIKE  FRIBST." 

We  were  usually  the  guests  of  the  priests, 
wherever  a  village  contained  one.    We  iJl  have 


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some  idea  of  what  the  priests  are,  but  it  is  nec- 
essary to  see  them  to  know  what  thej  are  like 
and  what  they  do,  or  rather  do  not  do,  for  their 
people.  At  two  villages  I  attended  morning 
prayers;  in  the  first  one  there  were  present  in 
the  chorch  four  women  besides  an  old  man  and 
myself;  in  the  second  village  there  was  not  a 
single  worshipper  besides  the  old  priest  and  my- 
self. I  did  pray  most  earnestly  that  the  truths 
of  the  Bible  which  the  priests  were  singing,  or 
rather  muttering,  in  ancient  Armenian  might  be 
the  power  of  Gk>d  to  lead  them  to  repentance. 
I  could  not  help  feeling  that  although  the  houses 
of  worship  were  so  old  and  dilapidated,  still  they 
were  the  Lord's  houses  and  they  who  sincerely 
call  upon  Him  there  may  expect  to  be  heard  and 
blessed.  I  always  tried  to  impress  upon  these 
priests  the  sacredness  of  their  calling  and  the 
duty  of  feeding  the  flock  under  their  care.  One 
of  them  said  "The  people  are  bad,  they  don't 
come  to  church  nor  keep  the  Sabbath.  The  re- 
ference in  Hosea  4: 9,  *'Likepeoplo  like  priest" 
was  most  suitable  here  and  I  did  not  hesitate  to 
remind  him  of  it. 

A  OHRISTIAinTT  WHICH  ITSBLF  ITBXDB  OOIf  • 
YSBSION. 

We  journeyed  on  toward  the  Caspian  till  we 
came  near  the  Aras  and  then  turned  westward 
keeping  in  sight  of  the  river  for  several  days. 
In  not  one  of  these  villages  did  we^find  a  school, 
although  there  is  now  much  talk  of  establishing 
several  of  theuL 

As  harvest  was  in  progress  the  men  were 
usually  in  the  fields  and  we  did  not  have  such 
good  opportunities  for  speaking  with  them  as 
we  had  hoped.  However,  I  am  more  than  ever 
inclined  to  the  idea  that  individual  conversations 
are  about  as  fruitful  as  public  speaking.  When- 
ever we  could  we  talked  and  read  and  prayed 
with  those  present.  They  thhik  it  very  strange 
when  we  do  not  make  the  sign  of  the  cress  upon 
our  breasts  after  prayers  and  eating. 

The  condition  of  these  people  is  most  pitiful. 
As  to  real  consolation  and  blessings  from  the 
Gospel,  they  are  few  indeed.  They  are  different 
from  their  Moslem  neighbors  only  in  having  the 
name  of  Christ  upon  them,  and  in  receiving 
baptism  and  in  being  married  and  buried  by  the 
priest,  for  all  of  which  they  pay  a  certain  sum 
as  a  kind  of  poll  tax.  It  is  said  that  the  priests 
write  prayers  for  all  manner  of  purposes  and  sell 
them,  and  that  even  the  Moslems  buy  them. 
Bands  of  robbers  infest  the  region,  and  at  one 
place  while  we  were  eating  dinner  a  number 
passed  near  by.  Word  was  soon  brought  from 
another  village  that  they  had  been  robbed.    The 


priest  and  three  or  four  more  (one  of  them  riding 
my  horse)  started  in  pursuit.  Soon  others  fol- 
lowed from  other  places.  After  two  or  three 
hours  they  returned,  having  recovered  the  stolen 
mules.  It  is  for  protection  that  they  always  live 
together  in  villages. 

No  weekly  or  even  monthly  mail  comes  to  this 
region.  They  depend  upon  chance  travelers  to 
carry  their  word  or  letters. 

**  MINT,  AKI8B  AND  CTJMMIN." 

In  one  of  the  last  villages  visited  we  found 
honey  to  eat  The  bees  would  sometimes  fly 
around  us  and  several  people  asked  if  we 
thought  it  a  sin  to  kill  one.  You  see  how  Uiey 
exercise  themselves  still  over  the  **  mint  and  anise 
and  cummin,"  but  I  can  assiu^  you  they  neglect 
as  of  old  the  weightier  matters  of  Judgment  and 
Justice  and  mercy.  I  often  wondered  what 
thoughts  must  occupy  their  minds  and  hearts! 
How  blank,  not  to  say  filled  with  evil  fmd  noth- 
ing but  evil  continually  I  Nothing  but  the  Spirit 
of  Qod  can  awaken  them,  and  let  us  all  unite  in 
this  one  request  that  God  will,  even  this  year 
pour  out  His  Spirit  upon  them  and  convert  them. 
It  is  not  too  much  to  ask. 


Rkv.  Hugh  Taylor,  LakawTi,  Looi,  writes: — 
"We  l&ve  suffered  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of 
Ai  -Nong,  of  famine  relief  fame.  It  was  while 
absent  looking  after  some  distant  members  of 
the  flock  that  he  contracted  a  disease  which 
proved  fatal.  He  was  an  earnest  student  of  the 
Bible,  and  his  one  regret  at  dying  so  early  in  his 
Christian  career  was  that  he  had  had  so  little 
opportunity  to  study  God's  Word.  When  he 
once  learned  that  a  thing  was  wrong  he  stu- 
diously avoided  it;  when  he  once  learned  that  a 
thing  was  right  he  put  forth  every  energy  of  his 
being  in  the  doing  of  it;  and  he  possessed  a 
courage  bom  only  of  real  faith. 


J.  G.  Wishard,  M.  D.,  Teheran,  writes: — 
'*  The  hospital  work  is  moving  quietly  along  and 
we  are  gradually  developing  our  facilities.  We 
have  received  more  than  twenty  patients  and 
have  had  as  many  surgical  operations.  I  pre- 
sume this  will  be,  perhaps,  one  of  the  most  difll- 
cult  years,  since  we  have  few  trained  helpers  and 
everything  is  to  a  certain  extent  experimental. 

The  U.  S.  Minister  called  to-day  and  in- 
formed me  that  he  had  received  from  H.  I.  M., 
The  Shah,  a  very  strong  letter  assuring  him  that 
our  friends  in  Oroomlah  (both  American  and  na- 
tive) should  have  full  protection,  and  that  the 
murderers  of  our  Neatorian  friend  and  brother 


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The.  best  possible  use  of  money  is  to  put  it 
into  character.    That  is  what  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  does  with  it. 


Every  aid-reoeiving  church  that  reaches 
self  support  enables  the  Board  to  Fend  the 
gospel  to  some  destitute  community  that  is 
waiting. 

Rev.  Vincent  Pisek,  pastor  of  the  Bohe- 
mian Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City 
has  married  more  than  seventeen  hundred 
couples  and  received  into  his  church  more 
than  three  hundred  converts  from  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church, — all  within  the  ten  years 
of  his  pastorate. 

To  question  the  propriety  of  Presby  tbrians 
going  into  New  England  is  as  absurd  as  to 
question  the  propriety  of  CongregationalifltB 
entering  New  York  or  the  south. 

Does  any  one  suppose  New  England  so 
thoroughly  evangelized  as  to  need  no  more 
effort,  or  that  one  Church  can  do  the  work 
there  any  more  than  elsewhere  ? 

The  slavish  fear  of  priest-ridden  people 
obscures  much  of  the  fruit  of  our  mission 
work  in  Utah.  But  the  fruit  is  there,  and  it 
makes  itself  manifest  in  the  progress  of 
American  ideas,  in  the  quickening  of  enter- 
prises, in  the  desire  of  youth  for  instruction, 
in  thd  rising  intelligence  of  ihe  people,  as 
well  as  in  the  enrollment  of  oui  schools  and 
the  accessions  to  our  churches. 


Oklahoma  wants  to  become  a  state.  It  was 
bom  in  a  day  with  a  population  of  62,000. 
That  day  was  April  22,  1889.  It  is,  there- 
fore, three  and  a  half  jears  old.  A  year  ago 
there  were  over  22,000  votes  cast,  indicating 
a  large  increase  in  population.  The  set- 
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tlement  of  the  Cherokee  strip  in  October 
has  swelled  the  population  to  175,000,  it  is 
claimed,  and  has  brought  the  taxable  property 
up  to  $50,000,000. 


The  condition  of  our  treasury  is  enough  to 
make  us  cry  out  with  the  diciples  of  old  when 
they  were  about  to  be  shipwrecked :  *  *  Master, 
save  1  we  perish ! "  Yet  that  courage  is  of  lit- 
tle value  which  blusters  when  it  isepauletted 
and  in  the  barracks  but  retreats  before  the 
cannon's  mouth.  That  amiability  which  is 
seen  where  there  is  no  provocation,  is  of  little 
merit,  and  that  faith  which  fades  with  the 
light  will  never  win  a  victory  that  is  of  any 
account,  and  so  we  keep  up  a  cheerful 
courage.  

Santa  Fe,  county  seat  of  K  Co.,  Cherokee 
strip,  has  2,500  inhabitants  although  but  six 
weeks  eld.  They  have  twenty-seven  saloons 
yet  our  missionary  was  greeted  by  a  large 
congregation  in  a  dance  hall  at  night. 
Many  came  who  could  not  find  standing 
room  and  were  compelled  to  go  away. 

There  are  eight  or  ten  towns  along  the 
Santa  Fe  Railway  all  needing  immediate 
attention  as  they  contain  from  500  to  2,000 
inhabitants.  I  found  two  good  men  for 
elders  at  Santa  Fe. 


There  are  two  villages  at  Point  Barrow. 
Many  Esquimos  of  the  inland  regions  visit 
the  Point  and  come  in  contact  with  our  mis- 
sionary and  with  the  .  natives  whom  he 
teaches.  One  firm  employs  constantly  five 
hundred  men  in  shore  whaling  business.  Be- 
sides these  many  hundreds  of  whalers  from 
the  Arctic  ocean  are  compelled  to  winter  at 
Point  Barrow.  The  influence  of  these  men 
upon  the  natives  before  our  mission  was 
established  was  indescribably  bad.  But  now 
they  themselves  come  under  the  influence  of 
the  gospel. 


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A  small  boy  in  one  of  our  Utah  Sabbath- 
schools  indaced  a  neighbor's  son  to  accom- 
pany him  one  Sabbath.  The  new  boy  became 
interested  and  was  evidently  learning  some- 
thing, when  his  father  forbade  him  going 
again.  On  being  asked  why  he  obj»  cted  to 
his  son's  getting  the  benefit  of  instr action  he 
replied :  **  Well,  yes,  the  Bible's  good  enough, 
but  the  folks — they  are  kickin'  so."  The 
father  was,  in  fact,  proud  of  his  son's  prog- 
ress under  Christian  instruction,  but  he  was 
compelled  by  his  ecclesiastical  superiors  to 
withdraw  his  son  from  the  light  and  to  keep 
him  in  the  darkness  of  ignorance. 


missionaries.  One  missionary  writes:  **I 
have  been  compelled  to  sacrifice  my  watch — 
a  fine  one  and  a  keepsake — ^in  order  to  pro- 
vide necessary  things,  because  the  members 
of  my  church  cannot  get  the  money  to  pay 
their  part  of  my  salary.  If  it  were  not  for 
the  Board's  help  we  would  certainly  starve." 
Another  says:  **Our  large  mill  that  em- 
ploys 5,000  men  closes  soon.  Hundreds  are 
already  out  of  employment  and  cannot  meet 
their  pledges.  I  am  much  in  need  of  my 
check,  and  feel  sure  that  you  will  send  it  as 
soon  as  possible." 


A  Home  Missionary  writes : — "  I  have  been 
having  some  good  m^tings.  Will  try  hard 
for  a  collection  from  all  the  fields.  I  have  to 
work  with  them  some  time  to  get  them  in 
frame  of  mind  to  give.  I  find  lots  of  people 
that  are  willing  to  do  the  amening,  shouting 
and  hallelujahing  that  are  as  dead  as  an  oys- 
ter when  you  ask  them  to  give.  How  much 
of  all  work  consists  in  ringing  the  bell  and 
blowing  the  whistle.  This  is  all  very  nice, 
but  it  does  not  move  the  train.  Let  us  pray 
that  the  Lord  will  help  His  dear  people  to 
enthuse  more  in  real  gifts  and  work  and  not 
so  much  tooting  and  bell  ringing  to  clear  the 
track  from  imaginary  obstructions." 

A  Paris  journal,  with  pardonable  pride, 
boastingly  says:  **  Mr.  Charles  E.  Dallin,  a 
Paris  sculptor,  has  been  awarded  a  diploma 
at  the  Chicago  Exposition."  It  may  be  of 
interest  to  the  friends  of  Home  Missions  to 
know  that  Mr.  Dallin  was  a  poor  Utah  boy, 
whose  talent  was  discovered  by  a  teacher 
in  one  of  our  mission  schools.  A  wealthy 
gentile  miner  aided  him  by  sending  him  to 
Boston  to  study  under  a  competent  sculptor. 
Some  years  ago  he  was  the  successful  compet- 
itor for  a  large  prize  which  had  been  offered 
for  the  best  statue  after  an  original  design 
representing  the  **Ride  of  Paul  Revere," 
Mr.  Dallin's  visit  to  Paris  was  recent  and 
brief. 

Two  illustrations  taken  from  the  Board's 
correspondence  give  some  idea  of  the  effect  of 
the  *^hard  times"  on  our  churches  and  the 


The  wisdom  and  economy  of  employing 
pastors-at-large  in  missionary  presbyteries  has 
been  abundantly  proven.  The  most  gratify- 
ing testimony  to  their  usefulness  comes  from 
the  presbyteries  where  they  labor.  The  fol- 
lowing extract  of  a  letter  from  the  Home 
Mission  committee  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Ozark  is  a  fair  sample. 

**  The  Committee  desires  to  give  especial  com- 
mendation to  the  work  of  our  *  Pastorat-Large/ 
Rev.  George  H.  WilliamBon.  He  is  revolution- 
izing the  aspect  of  our  weaker  churches.  He 
has  secured  money  to  build  a  house  of  worship 
at  Monett,  cleared  Fairplay  Church  house  of 
debt  and  is  saving  Lockwood  and  Golden  City 
churches.  He  Is  skillful,  indefatigable — a  host. 
It  will  save  the  Board  immensely  in  the  end  and 
greatly  advance  the  cause." 


A  large  colony  of  Waldenses  have  bought 
10,000  acres  of  land  near  Morgantown,  N.  C, 
and  are  making  permanent  homes  there. 
They  brought  with  them  from  Italy  their 
historic  faith  and  zeal.  Their  pastor  ex- 
plaining this  movement  says:  *^It  is  because 
our  valleys  are  so  narrow  and  our  young  peo- 
ple, flocking  into  France,  chiefly  into  Mar- 
seilles and  Nice,  are  surrounded  by  many 
temptations  endangering  their  faith  and  mor- 
ality. We  do  prefer  to  imitate  the  old  Puri- 
tans and  go  abroad  in  order  to  keep  our  faith 
and  our  old  simplicity." 

They  have  provided  for  the  support  of 
their  pastor  but  need  help  in  the  education 
of  their  children.  Such  immigrants  will 
always  meet  a  cordial  welcome  in  this  coun- 
try.   Against  such  there  is  no  law. 


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The  New  West 


[Januari/yl 


Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  at  Home. 

JANUARY,    .        .  The  New  West. 

PBBRUARY,      ....  The  Indians. 

MARCH The  Older  States. 

APRIL The  Cities. 

MAY,      .....  The  Mormons. 

JUNB, Oar  Missionaries. 

JULY, Results  of  the  Year. 

AUQU8T,  Romanists  and  Foreigners. 

8BPTBMBBR,        ....      The  Outlook. 
OCTOBBR,       ....  The  Treasury. 

NOVBMBBR,  ...  The  Mexicans. 

DBCBMBBR,  ....  The  South. 

THE  NEW  WEST. 
The  aocompanying  map  represents  our 
New^  West,  which  embraces  more  than  two- 
fifths  of  oar  country  exclusive  of  Alaska,  and 
probably  much  more  than  half  the  natural 
wealth  of  our  entire  natioiud  domain. 


The  rapidity  of  its  increase  in  wealth  and 
population  is  without  precedent  in  our  his- 
tory. If  we  receive  the  oflicial  estimates 
of  its  agricultural  possibilities,  founded 
upon  experiment  and  results  and  the  actual 
measurement  of  areas  of  mineral  deposits  and 
their  richness,  which  are  confirmed  by  the 
judgment  of  the  promoters  of  great  enter- 
prises for  material  development  and  trans- 
portation, we  must  expect  and  provide  for  a 
continuance  of  its  rapid  increase  of  population 
and  wealth. 

It  is  not  wise  to  predict,  even  upon  the 
most  reliable  data,  what  the  future  may 
bring  forth,  but  judging  by  the  past  a  fair 
estimate  would  fall  below  what  we  shall 
realize.  The  predictions  of  the  most  sang^ne 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  fell  short  of  the 
realities  of  to-day. 

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oup  New  West  Just  now  more  than  npon  any 
otiier  portion  of  our  country.  This  special 
interest  has  been  awakened  by  the  place 
which  silver  has  held  in  the  finances  of  our 
country, — ^by  the  opening  to  settlement  of 
yast  regions  of  land  from  which  settlers  had 
been  barred, — by  the  attention  given  to  irriga- 
tion which  promises  to  prepare  for  settlement 
many  millions  of  acres  of  our  most  fertile  land 
which  have  hitherto  been  regarded  as  desert 
and  worthless, — and  by  the  resultant  fact  that 
a  new  era  is  about  to  be  ushered  in  by  the 
rapid  development  of  the  marvelous  resources 
of  the  West.  Surely  much  of  our  national 
history,  and  probably  its  most  brilliant  chap- 
ters, are  to  be  made  between  the  Mississippi 
river  and  the  Pacific  ocean.  Thither  a  vast 
multitude  of  the  most  Enterprising  sons  and 
daughters  of  the  older  States  are  flocking. 
There  hosts  of  sturdy  immigrants  from  foreign 
shores  are  seeking  homes,  and  on  that  great 
theatre  of  human  action  millions  will  be  bom 
and  live  and  act. 

If  the  population  of  our  entire  country 
shall  double  in  the  next  thirty  years,  as  it  has 
done  in  the  past  thirty  years,  the  new  West 
win  certainly  receive  more  than  its  propor- 
tion of  the  increase  estimated  upon  either  its 
present  population  or  its  geographical  extent. 

Fun  and  reliable  information  respecting  the 
resouroes,  attractions  and  material  prospects 
of  the  West  may  be  found  in  most  attractive 
form  in  the  Eeview  of  Heviews  for  October 
and  November,  1898,  also  in  The  Great  West, 
a  volume  recently  issued  by  the  Harpers. 

But  the  growth  and  outlook  of  our  Church 
work  is  certainly  of  equally  thrilling  interest. 
In  1870  there  was  not  a  minister  nor  a  church  . 
in  Montana,  Idaho,  Utah,  New  Mexico,  Ari- 
zona, or  Nevada.  In  the  two  Dakotas  there 
were  seven  foreign  missions  among  Indians. 

Now  there  are  in  these  states  and  territories 
5  synods,  15  presbyteries,  enrolling  314  minis- 
ters, 882  churches  with  12,899  church  mem- 
bers. Wyoming  had  in  1870  three  nominal 
churches,  one  of  which  was  at  Cheyenne  and 
had  nine  members  on  its  roll.  The  other  two 
were  at  Laramie  and  Bawlings  and  reported 
six  members  each.  Colorado  had  six  minis- 
ters and  ten  churches  with  an  average  mem- 
hership^of  twelve,  all  belonging  to  a  synod 


in  Iowa  because  there  was  no  synod  between 
Iowa  and  California.  I^ow,  Colorado,  in- 
cluding Wyoming,  has  a  strong  synod  with 
85  ministers  and  98  churches,  enrolling  8,158 
church  members. 

Oregon  had,  in  1870,  but  nine  churches 
with  808  members.  She  now  has  a  synod 
with  70  ministers,  81  churches,  enrolling 
5,271  church  members. 

California  had  but  88  ministers,  as  many 
churches  and  2,000  members.  She  now  has 
244  ministers,  224  churches  and  19,100  mem- 
bers. 

Nebraska's  growth  has  been  as  great.  In 
1870  she  had  a  few  struggling  churches  be- 
longing to  an  Iowa  synod.  She  now  has  a 
synod  with  140  ministers,  and  222  churches 
with  18,890  members,  two  important  colleges 
and  a  rising  theological  seminary. 

In  Kansas  equaUy  great  things  have  been 
accomplished.  She  has  gathered  into  her 
great  synod  208  ministers,  861  churches,  with 
24,668  members. 

Minnesota  might  have  been  included  in  our 
map,  for  she  is  new  enough  to  have  grown 
in  church  life  since  1870  from  44  ministers  to 
172, — ^from  52  churches  to  211  and  from 
2,504  members  to  16.123. 

Indian  Territory  had  then  one  minister 
and  two  churches  with  154  members.  The 
Synod  of  Indian  Territory  now^  has  51  min- 
isters, 96  churches  with  2,601  members. 

Texas  is  not  included  in  our  map — and  not 
properly  in  our  topic — ^but  in  passing  it  is 
weU  to  notice  that  from  a  half-dozen  smaU 
churches  and  as  many  ministers  of  sterling 
quality  she  has  grown  to  a  synod  of  89  minis- 
ters, 64  churches  with  2,539  members.  In 
this  state,  however,  the  southern  branch  of 
our  Church  has  had  an  equal  growth.  Both 
are  there,  because  neither  can  do  the  work 
alone  and  both  faU  far  short  of  the  demands 
of  that  greatest  of  our  states. 

Great  as  this  growth  of  our  Chuch  in  the 
New  West  has  been,  the  increase  of  the  de- 
mand has  been  greater.  We  have  not  kept  in 
sight  of  the  work  to  which  the  country  and 
its  increasing  population  have  invited  us. 
AU  these  states  and  territories  are  caUing  for 
more  men  and  more  churches.  In  many 
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pel)  the  dying  withoat  its  oonfiolationSf  and 
the  dead  are  bnried  in  silence. 

No  one  baying  a  fnll  knowledge  of  the  sit- 
uation will  assert  that  the  country  is  over- 
chnrched,  or  even  adequately  churched. 

If  the  Church  is  to  catch  up  with  the  coun- 
try and  then  double  her  forces,  as  the  country 
doubles  her  population,  we  shall  need  to 
organize  a  church  and  add  a  minister  to  our 
forces  each  working  day  in  the  year  for  thirty 
years. 

Added  to  this  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  New  West  is  the  home  of  the  Indians,  the 
Mexicans  and  the  Mormons — not  to  reckon 
our  far  away  Alaska  land,  where  dwell  a  dis- 
tinct and  interesting  population  of  our  Na- 
tion's wards. 

No  work  of  the  Church  in  any  lands  of  the 
earth  has  been  more  signally  blessed  of  God 
than  that  which  we  have  maintained  among 
our  exceptional  populations.  They  respond 
most  readily  to  the  labors  of  the  missionaries. 
The  results  have  more  than  justified  the  ex- 
penditure of  money  and  efEort  and  time  upon 
them. 

Surely  with  these  vast  and  varied  inter- 
ests our  hearts  will  be  full  of  interest  and 
sympathy  and  prayer  throughout  the  month. 
The  interests  of  our  beloved  land  and  the  sal- 
vation of  millions  of  immortal  souls  are  at 
stake. 

PRESBYTBRIANISM  IN  WISCONSIN. 

REV.  W.  D.  THOMAS,  PH.D. 

Our  progress  in  the  last  few  years  is  due  in 
the  main  to  the  kind  of  pastors  that  have 
labored  in  our  state  more  than  to  anything 
else.  Men  of  cultured  intellects,  robust  man- 
hood, sterling  integrity  and  fiery  hearts  are 
living  the  truths  they  preach, — the  old  GK)spel 
is  just  beginning  to  make  itself  felt,  its  trans 
forming  power  and  regenerating  grace  are 
doing  over  again  what  Paul  did  in  Rome, 
Ephesus,  Phillippi  and  Corinth. 

A  prominent  feature  of  our  growth  is  in 
the  new  structures  erected  for  worship.  Five 
quite  costly,  beautiful  and  churchly  in  appear- 
ance have  been  put  up — Eau  Clair  First; 
Portage;  Madison,  Christ^s  Church;  East 
Superior;  and  Stevens'  Point.  And  twelve 
less  expensive,  yet  attractive  and  most  ser- 


viceable have  been  finished;  they  are  the 
Bethel  Church  of  Ashland  Bice  Lake;  Bethany 
of  Biilwaukee;  First  German,  Milwaukee; 
Shortville;  Greenwood;  Fort  Howard;  West- 
minster Chapel  and  Grace' Chapel,  La  Crosse; 
Eden,  (Bohemian  Church);  Muscoda,  (Bohe- 
mian Church);  and  Mayville.  Also  quite  a 
number  of  new  manses  have  been  added  to 
the  roll.  Two*  Bohemian  churches  and  ten 
English-speaking  have  been  organized, — they 
are  Eden  Bohemian  Church  and  Muscoda 
Bohemian  Church;  Blair;  White  Hall;  Pleas- 
ant Valley;  Montello;  Bethany,  Milwaukee; 
Westminster  and  Grace  Churches,  La  Ciosse; 
Ellsworth;  Hager  City;  and  Colby.  Work 
has  been  maintained  in  seven  important  sta- 
tions— preaching  and  Sabbath-school  every 
Sabbath  during  the  past  Summer — and  most 
of  these  fields  are  now  ripe  for  organization. 
A  number  of  our  churches  have  been  healthily 
revived  and  many  souls  have  been  added  to 
the  Master's  service.  All  our  churches,  with 
the  exception  of  three  small  stations,  were 
supplied  during  the  past  Summer. 

Materialism,  Sabbath  desecration,  ignoring 
of  the  Bible  as  an  inspired  volume,  the  in- 
toxicating cup,  are  the  main  foes  of  the 
Gospel  here.  Crime  is  greatly  on  the  increase ; 
drunkeness  abounds;  and  profanity  is  every- 
where indulged  in.  Men  live  for  this  world 
only,  indifferent  to  the  claims  of  eternity — 
without  God  and  without  hope  in  the  world. 
Not  long  ago  our  Supreme  Court  by  its 
decision  ruled  the  Bible  out  of  the  public 
school — the  Book  that  has  ushered  in  the 
civUization  of  this  nineteenth  century  and 
made  Great  Britain  the  foremost  nation  of 
the  world. 

Wisconsin,  except  Rhode  Island,  has  a 
larger  foreign  population  than  any  state  in 
the  Union — ^it  may  be  roughly  expressed  as 
two  thirds.  Herbert  Spencer  tells  us  that 
heterogeneity  is  the  index  and  symbol  of  civil- 
ization. Ours  must  be  a  very  high  order  of 
civilization,  for  here  we  have  Englishmen, 
Dutchmen,  Frenchmen,  Welshmen,  Irishmen, 
Scandinavians,  Hungarians,  Bohemians,  Ger- 
mans, Italians,  Russians  and  Poles.  If  the 
criterion  of  Mr.  Spencer  is  true,  what  a 
magnificent  chance  for  civilization  I  This 
Babel  of  tongues  is  one  of  our  greatest  ob- 


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stades  in  fhe  maich  6t  the  Gospel.  They 
oome  here  not  only  with  their  foreign 
tongnes,  bat  also  with  their  habits,  supersti- 
tions, filth  and  degrading  yioes. 

There  is  a  splendid  future  before  our  State. 
The  Lake  Superior  region  is  going  to  play  a 
conspicuous  part  in  our  history.  Superior 
itself  is  going  to  be  a  city  of  no  mean  pro- 
portion, and  not  far  distant.  Minerals  will  be 
the  chief  sources  of  our  wealth.  Rich  farms 
will  dot  our  land.  Villages  will  yet  cover 
this  commonwealth.  There  is  quite  a  motley 
throng  here  now;  a  mightier  host  is  yet  to 
come  from  all  lands.  To  civilize  and  evan- 
gelize this  people  is  the  task  €k)d  has  set  be- 
fore us.  From  the  depth  of  their  spiritual 
natures  comes  to  us  the  Macedonian  cry, 
**Oome  over  and  help  us."  Christ's  final 
command  is  ringing  in  our  ears,  *'Go  ye, 
therefore,  and  teach  all  nations."  For  this 
service  and  this  obedience  we  need  profound 
faith,  fervent  zeal  and  more  Christ-like  con- 
secration. 

HOME  MISSION  WORK  IN  WASHINGTON. 

REV.  T.  M.  QUNlf,  D.  D.,  8.  If. 

RiDOKFiBLD,  in  the  State  of  Washington,  on 
the  Columbia  river,  neariy  25  miles  due  north  of 
Portland,  Oregon,  is  an  ideal  country  place,  so 
retired  that  one  could  be  as  isolated  Uiere  as  in 
the  wilds  of  Alaska.  It  is  a  favorite  summer 
retreat  We  spent  a  week  there  in  very  pleasant 
religious  services  amidst  the  busy  hay  harvest 
and  the  usual  exciting  preparations  for  the 
Fourth  of  July.  The  meetings  were  not  In  vain, 
though  we  did  not  receive  the  immediate  result 
that  might  have  been  reasonably  expected  under 
less  distracting  drcumetances.  Our  counsels 
resulted  in  the  opening  of  another  preaching 
station  which  was  explored  by  Rev.  W.  B.  Wil- 
liams, the  Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  Mission- 
ary. The  church  manifested  its  appreciation  of 
the  labors  of  the  week  by  a  very  liberal  collec- 
tion for  the  cause  of  Home  Missions. 

Eettub  Falls  lies  100  miles  north  of  Spokane. 
Here  I  visited  the  whole  field  with  Rev.  John 
McMUlan,  M.  D.,  and  made  the  acquaintance  of 
the  members  of  the  Cully  Memorial  Church  (the 
Columbia),  which  lies  in  the  basin  of  that  beauti- 
ful stream  a  dozen  miles  south  of  Kettle  Falls. 
I  was  very  greatly  surprised  at  the  material  de- 
velopment of  this  i>art  of  the  valley,  which  was 
80  recently  but  a  virgin  desert.    Fruits,  veget- 


ables and  harvests  teemed  on  every  hand.  Ac- 
customed as  I  have  been  to  the  products  of  all 
parts  of  this  exceedingly  fertile  commonwealth, 
my  conceptions  of  the  possibilities  of  further  de- 
velopment were  greatly  expanded,  by  what  I 
saw  and  heard. 

RosLYN,  a  coal-mining  town,  is  kept  by  the 
Companies  on  about  half  work,  not  over  three 
days  in  the  week,  and  the  people  are  merely  able 
to  keep  above  want.  They  must  deny  them- 
selves when  they  contribute  anything  to  the 
minister  or  to  the  charities.  They  have  intro- 
duced systematic  giving  with  the  envelope  sys- 
tem and  with  very  encouraging  results.  The 
minister  is  very  highly  esteemed,  and  we  may 
hope  for  very  encouraging  results  in  spiritual 
matters  there. 

On  Sabbath,  the  28rd,  I  organized  the  Nat- 
chese  Church,  in  the  upper  Natchese  valley  in 
the  Eureka  school  house,  with  seventeen  mem- 
bers, chiefly  heads  of  families.  Mr.  W.  T. 
Stewart,  having  been  an  elder  in  the  West- 
minster church,  Tacoma,  was  chosen  a  ruling 
elder,  and  Mr.  John  McPhee,  a  long  time  resi- 
dent, was  elected,  ordained,  and  both  were  in- 
stalled as  the  ruling  elders  of  this  church.  In 
the  afternoon  we  held  one  of  the  most  afiFecting 
conmiunion  seasons  it  has  ever  been  my  privilege 
to  witness.  The  upper  Natchese  valley  is  now 
thoroughly  irrigated,  and  is  another  of  those 
marvelous  demonstrations  of  what  may  be  done 
by  that  means* 

At  Wbnatchbb  and  Mission.  The  work  un 
der  the  care  of  Rev.  Thos.  McGuire  has  been 
faithfully  served,  but  its  development  has  been 
retarded  by  the  financial  pania  The  church  at 
Mission  has  finished  an  excellent  and  conmiod- 
ious  building,  the  pride  of  the  village,  and  has 
so  far  carried  the  work  byicontributions  of  labor 
as  to  have  it  ready  for  service,  leaving  some 
slight  ornamentation  to  more  prosperous  times. 

At  Water ville  the  new  young  minister.  Rev. 
Lowrie  W.  Sibbett,  who  has  recently  come,  has 
the  ardent  esteem  and  support  of  all  bis  people. 
The  trustees  have  heroically  undertaken  the 
erection  of  their  new  church,  and  the  first  tim- 
bers were  placed  on  the  stone  foundation  while 
I  was  there.  They  express  the  hope  of  having 
it  ready  for  dedication  by  the  first  of  November. 
I  have  found  but  few  places  which  have  endured 
the  hard  times  so  well  as  Waterville.  The  fruit 
crop  and  the  wheat  harvests  are  the  best  and 
most  abundant  ever  known.  The  little  city  has 
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and  the  corporation  does  not  owe  a  dollar. 
Taxes  are  light,  the  people  cheerful  and  enter- 
prising, steadily  erecting  good  and  even  elegant 
homes,  while  other  places  are  quailing  under  the 
effects  of  the  financial  panic. 

September  16th,  I  supplied  the  church  of 
Puyallup  and  assisted  them  in  arranging  for  the 
securing  of  a  permanent  supply.  Rev.  Qreig 
was  an  excellent  expounder  of  the  Word  and  has 
left  this  congregation  much  stronger  than  when 
he  entered  it  a  year  and  a  half  ago.  They  have 
an  elegant  perscmage  as  weU  as  a  good  church 
building,  and  it  is  a  delightful  home  for  any 
good  minister. 

HOME  MISSION  WORK  IN  MICHIGAN, 

KBV.  DAVID  HOWELL,  8.  M, 

Detroit  Pbesbtteby  has  looked  after  the 
Home  Mission  interests  in  its  bounds  without  the 
aid  of  the  Superintendent  The  Presbytery  has, 
in  addition  to  the  committee  on  Home  Missions, 
a  presbyterial  committee,  whose  duty  is  to  Tisit 
and  care  for  the  weak  and  needy  churches. 

MoHBOB  Prbsbttebt  has  its  work  in  most  ex- 
cellent condition.  The  Home  Mission  churches 
which  it  is  possible  to  supply  are  now  supplied. 
The  town  of  Adrian  enjoyed  quite  an  extenslTe 
reviyal  during  the  past  winter.  The  Metho<list 
Episcopal,  the  Methodist  Protestant,  the  Baptist 
and  the  Presbyterian  churches  united  in  a  series 
of  meetings  under  the  leadership  of  Major  J.  H. 
Cole.  Some  400  professed  conversion,  of  which 
about  250  united  with  the  various  churches,  the 
Presbyterian  receiving  over  fifty. 

In  Kalamazoo  Pbesbttert  the  church  at 
Oohstantlne  has  been  dissolved,  the  building 
sold,  and  the  proceeds  returned  to  the  Board  of 
Church  Erection.  One  church  has  been  organ- 
ized at  Benton  Harbor  with  flattering  prospects. 
The  Home  Mission  churches  are  all  supplied  ex- 
cept Hamilton.  Buchanan  has  built  and  dedi- 
cated a  fine  church  building.  Cassopolis  is  now 
engaged  in  building.  The  stated  clerk  of  this 
presbytery  reports  the  outlook  as  decidedly  en- 
couraging. 

Lanseno  Pbesbttebt  has  several  churches 
which  have  become  vacant  during  the  year,  but 
are  again  permanently  supplied.  The  Home 
Mission  committee  has  the  work  fully  in  hand. 

.  Flint  Pbesbtteby  leads  in  the  organization 
of  churches,  having  organized  during  the  year, 
licxington,    Amadore,    WUmot,    Pi|;eon   and 


Popple.  Three  churches,  Elkton,  Popple  and 
Sanilac  Centre  have  built  new  church  buildings. 
The  church  at  Pigeon  has  united  with  the  Bap- 
tists in  erecting  a  union  building.  Five  churches 
in  Ihis  Presbytery  are  unsupplied,  and  three  men 
are  needed  for  the  work.  The  brothers  are  much 
encouraged  over  the  condition  and  progress  of 
the  churches.  At  the  last  meeting  of  the  pres- 
bytery a  request  was  made  to  the  Board  of  Pub- 
lication and  Sunday-school  Work  for  a  presby- 
terial missionary  to  do  Sunday-school  and  Home 
Mission  work. 

In  Saginaw  Pbesbytery  many  of  the 
churches  are  so  located  that  it  is  almost  impossi- 
ble to  supply  them  with  permanent  pastors. 
During  the  summer,  however,  all  the  churches 
have  been  supplied  through  the  aid  of  students 
from  the  seminary  and  the  strenuous  efforts  of 
the  permanent  ministers.  One  church,  Ausable 
and  Oscoda  has  assumed  self-support.  I  believe 
this  is  the  only  case  which  has  occurred  in  the 
Synod  during  the  year.  The  church  at  Hillman 
has  been  fortunate  in  purchasing  the  abandoned 
court  house  and  sheriff's  residence  for  a  very 
small  sum,  and  is  now  equipped  with  both  a 
church  and  parsonage.  The  church  at  Coleman 
is  rejoicing  in  a  new  parsonage.  This  presby- 
tery has  taken  vigorous  hold  of  the  question  of 
disposing  of  such  churches  as  have  no  vitality, 
and  cannot  be  grouped  with  others  already 
established.  They  are  dissolved  and  the  prop- 
erty recovered  to  the  Boards.  The  great  need 
here  is  men  who  can  be  secured  for  small  sala- 
ries, who  are  wiUing  to  endure  privations  and 
hardships  for  the  Master.  A  great  revival 
occurred  in  the  city  of  Saginaw,  and  hundreds 
were  brought  to  Clirist.  The  presbyterial  man* 
agement  is  in  good  and  wise  hands,  but  the 
brothers  cannot  do  all  the  work  demanded. 

Petosksy  Pbbsbytbby  has  had  many  changes 
during  the  year.  Six  of  its  churches  became 
vacant,  and,  from  the  nature  of  the  fields,  it  has 
been  diflScult  to  supply  them.  The  work  of  t^e 
Sunday-school  missionary  in  the  mission 
churcheshasji>een  very  valuable.  Three  students 
were  employed  during  the  summer  with  most 
satisfactory  results.  A  number  of  persons  were 
added  to  the  churches  through  their  ministra- 
tions. An  important  movement  has  been  begun 
between  some  of  the  prominent  ministers  to 
secure  denominational  co-operation  in  extending 
the  preaching  of  the  gospel  to  the  unoccupied 
fields  without  unwisely  multiplying  church  or- 
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sation  of  "Clubs"  to  further  Chrifltian  work. 
The  plan  will  be  tested  by  several  ministers,  and 
the  result  will  be  watched  with  great  interest. 

Lake  Superiob  Presbytery  is  in  a  condition 
such  as  should  appeal  to  our  deepest  sympathy. 
The  financial  stringency,  which  the  country  is 
suffering,  has  fallen  more  heavily  upon  this 
presbytery  than  upon  any  other  part  of  our 
Synod.  The  presbytery  was  never  in  such  a 
financial  condition  and  the  churches  never  so 
depressed.  The  church  at  Newberry  paid  its 
pastor  last  year  a  salary  of  $900  and  the  free 
use  of  a  parsonage,  raising  the  whole  amount  of 
money  on  the  field.  The  closing  of  the  iron 
furnace  and  the  discharge  of  men  engaged  in 
the  lumbering  interests  so  depleted  the  church 
by  removals  that  only  (400  was  pledged  for  the 
coming  year.  The  result  is  the  church  must  fall 
back  on  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  or  be  closed. 
This  is  an  extreme  case,  but  similar  conditions 
exist  in  other  churches  of  the  presbytery.  The 
brothers  are  brave,  however,  and  are  pushing 
the  work  as  rapidly  and  as  successfully  as  possi- 
ble under  the  circumstances. 

Miscellaneous —The  Home  Mission  fields 
have  been  served  during  the  year,  according  to  the 
last  report  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions,  by 
seventy- three  missionaries.  This  number  does 
not  represent  the  permanent  force,  including  as 
it  does  the  under-graduates  and  other  temporary 
workers.  Twenty-five  of  the  number  served 
less  than  a  full  year.  Since  the  report  of  the 
Board,  eleven  under-graduates  have  been  em- 
ployed ;  one  in  Lansing  Presbytery,  one  in  Grand 
Rapids,  three  in  Petoskey,  two  in  Lake  Super- 
ior, three  in  Saginaw  and  one  in  Monroe. 

A  letter  of  inquiry  to  fifty  of  the  mis- 
sionaries reveals  that  their  salaries  range  from 
1400  to  IL150,  the  average  being  $745.  The 
aid  received  from  the  Board  of  Home  Missions 
ranges  from  $100  to  $650  each,  the  average 
being  $305.  Twenty-six  missionaries  pay  an 
average  rent  of  $92  a  year,  sixteen  have  the  free 
use  of  a  parsonage,  and  four  own  the  houses  in 
which  they  live.  Twenty-eight  have  more  than 
one  preaching  place,  and  twenty-six  have  to 
keep  a  horse. 

A  careful  examination  of  the  conditions  sur- 
rounding the  missionaries  and  their  fields  of 
labor,  suggests  that  an  equitable  plan  should  be 
formulated  for  asking  aid  from  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  which  shall  be  uniform  for  all 
presbyteriea  This  scheme  should  consider  the 
location,  nature,  present  condition  and  future 


prospects,  relative  importance,  financial  strength, 
and  labor  required  to  serve  each  particular  field. 
The  personnel  of  the  missionaries  and  their  fami- 
lies also  should  be  fairly  and  justly  considered. 
It  is  impossible  for  the  Board  of  Home  Missions 
to  possess  itself  of  all  the  detail  of  each  individ- 
ual parish,  which  should  be  considered  in  the 
determination  of  its  grants.  It  must  depend 
upon  the  presbyteries.  It  is  possible  for  the 
P^sbyterial  Home  Mission  Committee  to  under- 
stand all  those  things  and,  understanding  them, 
it  is  possible  to  formulate  uniform  conditions  for 
asking  grants,  which  will  lessen  greatly  the  dis- 
parity which  now  exists. 

The  work  in  general  shows  progress,  and 
there  appear  more  encouraging  than  discourag- 
ing features.  The  financial  stringency,  how- 
ever, which  is  upon  the  country,  has  had  a  de- 
pressing effect  on  the  churches,  especially  in  the 
newer  presbyteries.  Such  financial  conditions 
as  exist  in  Lake  Superior  Presbytery,  and  are 
more  or  less  general,  point  clearly  and  directly 
to  the  responsibility  which  rests  upon  the 
Church  at  large  to  redouble  her  efforts  to  raise 
funds  to  meet  the  emergency.  We  cannot  refer 
this  burden  to  the  Board  and  demand  that  it 
help  us  through  this  extremity.  We  must 
remember  that  the  income  of  the  Board  will  be 
affected  by  the  same  causes  which  have  lessened 
the  income  of  the  churches.  Besides,  the 
Board  is  already  generous  to  this  Synod.  For 
the  past  five  years  our  grants  from  the  Board 
have  exceeded  our  cash  contributions  by  $25,- 
615.56.  In  1889  the  excess  in  our  favor  was 
$5,697.08;  in  1890,  $8,854.56;  in  1891,  $8,870- 
61;  in  1892,  $8,842.62;  in  1893,  $4,850.78. 

As  the  receipts  of  the  Board  decrease,  so  must 
our  grants.  Shall  we  clamor  for  more  from  the 
Board  and  not  increase  our  efforts?  Strenuous 
efforts  should  be  made  by  our  Home  Mission 
churches  to  become  self-sustaining.  Many 
churches  have  grown  weaker  and  more  depend- 
ent because  of  long  continued  support  from  the 
Board.  Members  of  churches  have  grown 
wealthy,  but  their  benevolences  have  not  in- 
creased. They  give  the  same  amount  which 
they  gave  years  ago,  expecting  the  Board  to 
make  up  the  sum  needed  to  support  their 
church.  The  facts  clearly  prove  that  the 
churches  most  successful  from  a  financial  point 
of  view  are  those  which  practice  systematic  and 
proportionate  giving,  May  we  not  educate  all 
our  churches  to  foUow  the  plan  so  clearly  defined 
in  the  Word  of  God? 

One  of  the  most  encouraging  conditions  for 
the  prosecution  of  work  in  tiiie  northern  presby- 


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teries  of  our  Synod  lies  in  the  intimate  relation 
and  hearty  co- operation  of  the  Board  of  Home 
MiBsions  and  the  Board  of  Publication  and  Sab- 
bath school  Work.  The  idea  was  suggested  a 
year  ago  that  it  would  be  to  the  advantage  of 
the  Church  if  the  Sunday-school  missionaries 
were  ordained  ministers.  Were  such  the  case 
they  would  be  prepared  to  preach  and  hold 
communion  in  the  vacant  churches  in  the  pres- 
byteries in  which  they  labored.  The  proposi- 
tion was  submitted  to  Dr.  Worden,  during  his 
last  visit  to  the  Synod  at  Hillsdale,  and  met 
with  his  approval.  He  consented  also  at  that 
time  that  the  Sunday-school  missionaries  should 
be  permitted  to  do  work  for  the  Home  Mission 
churches  as  their  duties  would  permit  The 
immediate  result  of  that  conference  was  the  ap- 
pointment of  an  ordained  minister  as  presbyter- 
ial  missionary  for  Petoskey  Presbytery,  and  the 
appointment  of  Rev.  J.  V.  N.  Hartness,  a 
brother  heartily  in  sympathy  with  the  idea,  as 
Synodical  Superintendent  of  Sabbath-school 
Missions.  A  further  advance  was  made  at 
General  Assembly,  by  inducing  the  two  Boards 
to  unite  in  the  employment  and  support  of  a 
presbyterial  missionary  for  Lake  Superior  Pres- 
bytery, who  should  labor  in  the  work  of  both 
Boards  as  the  best  interests  of  the  Church  might 
demand.  The  Rev.  F.  L.  Forbes  was  appointed 
by  the  two  Boards  jointly  and  is  now  engaged 
in  work. 

At  present  there  are  four  Sabbath- school  mis- 
sionaries, including  the  Superintendent,  who 
are  ordained  ministers.  Three  of  these  are 
laboring  in  Qrand  Rapids  and  Lansing,  Petoskey 
and  Lake  Superior  presbyteries.  Flint  Presby- 
tery has  also  asked  that  such  a  missionary  be 
appointed  to  labor  in  her  bounds.  The  benefic- 
ial effects  of  this  policy  are  already  apparent. 
Instead  of  the  Superintendent  of  Missions  being 
the  only  one  in  the  Synod  who  could  visit  and 
preach  in  the  vacant  Home  Mission  churches, 
we  now  have  four,  and  will  sOon  have  a  fifth 
who  will  take  every  opportunity  to  assist  in 
this  important  work.  It  is  my  judgment  that 
•each  presbytery  should  have  a  presbyterial  mis- 
sionary, and  that  the  two  Boards  should  unite 
in  his  employment,  and  that  he  should  be 
selected  because  of  his  fitness  to  do  evangelistic 
work. 

One  of  the  manifest  needs  of  our  Home  Mis- 
sion churches  is  a  special  revival  effort  through- 
out their  bounds.  Is  it  not  possible  that  a  plan 
of  co-operation  between  the  ministers  of  a*  pres- 
bytery be  instituted,  so  that  two  or  three  may 
operate  together  in  such  an  effort?    Cannot  our 


committee  on  denominational  relations  suggest  a 
simple  plan  which  our  ministers  can  submit  to 
the  ministers  of  other  denominations  through 
which  there  may  be  co-operation  among  all 
evangelical  ministers  in  carrying  forward  such 
a  work? 

The  plan  which  seems  to  meet  most  fully  the 
judgment  and  desire  of  the  brothers  of  our  own 
church,  is  that  of  presbyterial  visitation.  It  is 
suggested  that  the  ministers  of  a  presbytery 
arrange  so  that  two  ministers  and  an  elder 
shall  constitute  an  evangelistic  committee.  The 
work  of  these  committees  shall  be  to  visit  such 
churches  or  localities  as  may  be  selected,  and 
endeavor  by  personal  work  and  public  meetings 
to  teach  and  preach  the  gospel  The  idea  seems 
to  be  almost  uniform  with  all  the  brothers  that 
the  need  of  the  hour  is  personal  Christian  work 
in  every  community.  The  plan  suggested  is  at 
least  worthy  of  consideration. 


HOME  MISSION  WORK  IN  MISSOURI. 

REV.  E.  D.  WALKER,  6.  M. 

In  company  with  Mr.  Charles  E.  Oswald,  an 
undergraduate  from  McCormick  Seminary,  I 
boarded  the  train  for  one  of  the  counties  in 
south  east  Missouri.  Our  first  point  of  destina- 
tion was  Marble  Hill,  county  seat  of  Ballinger 
Co.  The  people  were  expecting  us  and  had 
planned  for  extra  services,  indeed,  a  congregation 
assembled  for  service  on  Saturday  night,  and  a 
very  delightful  service  we  had.  The  next  day 
being  Sabbath,  large  congregations  assembled  at 
both  the  morning  and.  evening  services.  Some 
came  in  their  wagons  the  distance  of  eight  miles 
to  hear  the  preaching  at  the  morning  service.  It 
was  a  most  appreciative  congregation.  The  next 
day  we  made  the  journey  of  twenty-three  miles 
over  the  very  roughest  of  Missouri  wagon  roads. 
We  hod  the  advantage  of  plenty  of  shade,  as 
timber,  such  as  it  is,  is  quite  plenty  in  Ballinger 
county.  Well  on  towards  night  we  came  up  to 
Bro.  Abe  Johnson's  farm  gate,  he  having  come 
over  to  Marble  Hill  the  Saturday  before  to  be 
ready  to  take  the  missionaries  out  to  the  White- 
water Church,  His  hospitable  wife  soon  had 
the  evening  meal  ready,  after  which,  with  a 
fresh  team  to  the  wagon,  we  made  our  way  to 
the- old  log  meeting  house  where,  since  its  erec- 
tion in  1842,  the  Whitewater  congregation  have 
assembled  for  worship.  Every  benchi(for  I  can- 
not say  pews)  was  packed  with  people.  The 
majority  were  young  men  and  women.  Several 
familiar  hymns,  some  prayers  and  short  addresses 
by  each  of  the  missionaries,  made  up  the  service 


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of  the  evening.    The  query  still  remains:  where 
did  the  people  come  from? 

The  next  day  we  were  taken  several  miles 
across  the  country  to  Bro.  Conrad's  for  dinner. 
While  the  sun  was  yet  far  from  setting  Bro.  C. 
hitched  his  team  to  the  wagon  and  carried  us  a 
few  miles  further  where  we  were  to  preach  for 
the  Bristol  Church.  They  too,  were  expecting 
us  and  the  strength  of  their  expectation  was 
only  measured  when  we  faced  the  congregation. 
Here  too.  we  had  a  good  time.  The  hospitality 
also  of  Bro.  Emmett  Stevenson  and  wife.  who6e 
rearing  was  near  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  only  seemed 
to  vie  with  the  friends  in  the  other  churches  we 
had  so  recently  visited.  The  next  day  we  had 
sixteen  miles  more  of  wagon  road  to  go  over, 
which  were  angular  in  the  perpendicular,  but 
the  little  unbroken  twayear  old  mule  and 
steadier  bay  horse  of  Bro.  S.  were  the  power  in 
front  of  the  wagon  which  carried  us  safely  to 
the  Cornwall  Church.  Another  most  encourag- 
ing congregation  assembled  for  an  evening  ser- 
vice. While  such  a  jaunt  may  be  considered 
somewhat  wearisome  to  the  flesh  there  was  real 
refreshment  in  standing  face  to  face  with  the 
people  of  these  congregations.  The  experience 
of  the  Saviour  has  been  repeated;  ''My  meat  is 
to  do  the  will  of  my  Father  who  is  in  heaven." 

The  Synodical  Missionary  returned  from  Corn- 
wall on  Thursday  to  his  office  and  left  the 
student  in  charge  of  the  ield  visited.  He  said 
repeatedly,  "  I  am  going  to  enjoy  this  work  this 
summer  immensely,"  and  he  did. 

One  day  last  week,  a  brother  who  is  doing 
some  city  mission  work  here  in  St.  Louis,  ex 
pressed  a  desire  that  I  spend  an  afternoon  and 
evening  with  him  on  his  field  of  labor.  I  found 
him  in  his  humble  place  of  living,  and  we  to- 
gether went  out  calling  upon  the  families  of 
that  section  of  the  city. 

In  the  way  of  churches  it  is  indeed  a  most 
needy  field.  We  called  upon  twenty-three  fami- 
lies, urging  them  to  be  present  at  our  evening 
service  of  that  day.  I  do  not  think  there  was  a 
family  upon  which  we  called  that  failed  to  be 
represented  in  the  service.  We  went  in  the 
front  room  of  a  rather  small  unoccupied  dwell- 
ing and  had  our  preaching  service.  After 
preaching  those  assembled  planned  a  berry  and 
cream  social.  Out  of  this  they  hoped  to  raise 
some  money  to  pay  rent  for  the  room  in  which 
they  meet  as  a  Sunday-school  and  Bible  service. 
It  does  seem  to  me  there  is  an  opening  for  us  to 


build  up  a  mission  church  in  this  Oak  Hill  and 
Tower  Grove  region. 
A  chapel  is  an  immediate  necessity. 


Letters. 


NEBRASKA, 

Rev.  David  Milleb. — The  two  churches  of 
Bennett  and  Palmyra  are  situated  in  an  old  and 
fertile  district  of  the  State.  The  congregation  of 
Bennett  is  of  considerable  age ;  the  congregation 
of  Palmyra  was  founded  in  the  early  days  of  the 
frontier.  An  existence  thus  protracted  has 
brought  to  them  revival  and  decline  in  the  ebb 
and  flow  of  population. 

These  congregations  I  now  conduct.  When  I 
arrived  (August  1,  1898),  they  had  been  for  eight 
months  without  service.  Such  interregnums  are 
common  on  our  frontier,  and  they  are  full  of 
harm.  In  the  want  of  a  leader  all  things  had 
fallen  slack.  The  old  workers  could  no  longer 
be  relied  upon,  the  old  members  were  less  con- 
stant, the  boys  and  girls  had  contracted  the  habit 
of  absence.  But  both  the  sessions  were  com- 
posed of  good  and  noble  men. 

I  visit  the  two  congregations  regularly  in 
their  own  homes.  At  Palmyra  I  give  a  sermon 
every  alternate  Sabbath  morning.  On  Wednes- 
day evening  a  Young  People's  Society  of  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  meets  in  the  church.  I  always 
attend  it.  At  Bennett  I  hold  service  on  the  Sab- 
bath mornings  which  intervene  and  on  every 
Sabbath  evening.  I  conduct  a  prayer  meeting 
at  Bennett  on  Tuesday  night.  In  connection 
with  each  church  there  is  a  Sunday-school  under 
the  care  of  some  member  of  the  session.  The 
homes  from  which  the  children  come  to  vs  are 
often  not  in  contact  with  the  church.  The  chil- 
dren are  found  to  be  a  medium  for  the  carriage 
of  grace  to  such  homes  in  the  community.  In 
another  week  we  intend  to  inaugurate  a  series  of 
Gospel  meetings  in  order  that  we  may  extend  as 
well  as  concentrate  our  work.  In  these  depart- 
ments there  has  been  evidence  of  slow  but  sure 
growth.  We  have  gained  new  members  but  we 
cannot  record  a  large  revival.  We  have  done 
good  work,  but  such  results  as  I  tell  you  of,  are 
the  product  of  the  Christian  qualities  of  many 
women  and  many  men,  united  to  tijie  and 
patience.  Thus,  as  the  Orientals  say,  we  have 
changed  the  mulberry  leaf  to  satin.  We  are 
average  men  and  have  done  average  work, — plain 
work,  done  always,  done  altogether  and  alone 
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South  Dakota — New  York-^  North  Dakota. 


[Janvary^ 


Rev.  Thomas  L.  Sbxtok,  8.M.,  writes:— We 
have  great  reason  to  be  thankful  that  oar 
prayers  have  been  answered  in  regard  to  candi- . 
dates  for  the  ministry.  We  reported  last  April 
twenty-three  who  are  looking  forward  to  this 
work.  Since  that  time  not  less  than  twelve 
others  have  been  taken  imder  the  care  of  the 
several  Presbyteries,  with  a  view  of  preparing 
for  the  ministry.  There  is  promise  of  an  in- 
creasing number  of  candidates.  The  problem 
of  aiding  these  young  men  to  secure  the  needful 
education  remains  unsolved. 

It  is  very  gratifying  to  note  the  growth  In  the 
missionary  spirit  within  the  bounds  of  the 
Synod.  Since  our  last  annual  meeting  the  Rev. 
E.  F.  Knickerbocker,  of  Hastings  Presbytery, 
has  entered  upon  active  work  with  the  China  In- 
land Mission,  accompanied  by  his  wife.  The 
Rev.  Weston  F.  Shields,  of  the  Wood  River 
church,  Dr  J.  S.  Thomas  and  his  wife  of  the 
same  church  are  now  under  appointment  to  sail 
for  the  North  Laos  Mission  early  in  December 
next,  and  Miss  Julia  Hatch,  a  member  of  that 
church,  has  been  accepted  as  a  missionary,  and 
will  sail  at  the  same  time  if  the  funds  are  pro- 
vided for  her  support.  Thus  while  engaged  in 
the  work  of  home  missions,  we  are  at  the  same 
time  raising  up  workers  for  the  foreign  field. 
May  we  not  strive  in  the  future  to  train  up  our 
young  men  to  carry  the  Gospel  to  the  heathen 
world,  where  the  need  is  much  greater  than  at 
home? 

SOUTH  DAKOTA. 

Miss  Ada  C.  Patterson,  OoodwiU  .'—Zvlj  was 
spent  in  the  home  land.  The  change  was  rest- 
ful. Sometimes  feared  the  friends  who  asked 
me  to  speak  so  often  would  tire  of  hearing  about 
the  Indian  people  and  children  who  are  very 
dear  to  our  hearts.  On  my  return  was  happily 
surprised  to  see  the  cottage,  where  Miss  Patten 
and  I  live,  in  a  new  dress  outside  and  inside  too. 
How  comfortable  we  will  be  this  winter  t 

One  incident  in  the  home  life  of  one  of  our 
pupils  gladdened  our  hearts.  The  father  of  one 
of  our  Indian  pupils  was  asked  to  have  worship 
one  evening  before  retiring.  He  gave  no  answer 
to  the  request.  His  daughter,  with  another 
sister,  went  up  stairs  to  their  room,  sung  a 
hymn,  read  a  Psalm  and  offered  prayer.  The 
next  evening  the  father  asked  to  have  prayers 
down  stairs. 

A  Sabbath  in  August  a  number  of  us  attended 
the  funeral  services  of  one  of  our  brightest  girls. 
She  left  evidence  of  a  change  of  heart,  and 
we  believe  she  had  a  saving  knowledge  of  Jesus 


as  her  Saviour.  She  selected  the  fourteenth 
chapter  of  John  to  be  read  at  tiiie  f imeral  service, 
also  suggested  two  hymns. 

Our  school  opened  encouragingly  September 
1.  Will  you  remember  us  often  in  prayer,  that 
this  coming  year  may  be  successful  in  winning 
souls  to  Jesus?     

NEW  YORK. 

Rev.  George  M.  Macdonald,  Preble  .'—Have 
preached  eighteen  times  in  the  Preble  Church, 
and  five  times  in  a  school  house  about  five  miles 
distant  in  the  country.  Every  second  Sabbath, 
when  the  weather  permitted,  went  there  to 
preach  at  the  invitation  of  a  God-fearing  woman 
who,  in  order  to  advance  the  Kingdom  of  Ckni  in 
that  neighborhood,  opened  a  Sabbath-school, 
assisted  by  a  staff  of  consecrated  women.  The 
school  has  an  average  attendance  of  thirty 
scholars.  Total  attendance  at  all  the  preaching 
services,  1,128.  Number  of  prayer  meetings 
held,  10.  Total  attendance,  150.  Presided  at 
three  funerals,  and  preached  sermons.  Held  one 
communion  service  on  the  first  Sabbath  of  July. 
Two  Joined,  one  by  letter,  the  other  by  confes- 
sion of  faith  in  Christ. 

Made  74  pastoral  visits;  baptized  one  child; 
was  absent  on  vacation  three  Sabbaths  in 
August.  There  were  no  services  held  in  the 
church  during  my  absence. 


NORTH  DAKOTA. 
Rev.  Robert  Bradley,  EUendale,  reports : — 

I.  ENCOURAGEMENTS. 

1.  Increase  in  church  attendance  since  his 
arrival.  2.  Interest  taken  in  the  prayer  meet- 
ings. 8.  Increased  interest  of  the  young  people, 
especially  in  church  work.  4.  More  than  all 
else,  the  evident  moving  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

II.  DISCOURAOEMENTS. 

The  business  men  of  the  city  cannot  be  per- 
suaded to  take  the  slightest  interest  in  the 
church.  As  he  passes  up  the  streets  on  Sabbath 
morning,  on  the  way  to  God's  House  he  sees 
people  on  all  sides  who  seem  to  have  no  care  for 
their  souls.  They  will  not  listen  to  a  warning 
voice.  

HOME  MISSION  APPOINTMENTS. 

J.  N.  Crocker,  D.  D.,  STnodloal  Missionary,  N.  T. 

J.  W.  McCaUum,  Carllale, 

S.  Dodd.  Btepheentown,  ** 

B.  G.  McCarthy,  Presbyterial  Missionary, 

H.  Hansmann,  JeffersonTllle,  German,  ** 

J.  M.  Robertson,  White  Lake,  ** 

H.  W.  Shaw,  Weetford  Ist, 

a  B.  Warrender,  Otego  Ist,  ** 

E.  A.  MoMaster,  MuiUus, 

O.  a  Auringer,  Troy  Srd,  " 

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W.  T.  Alan,  Mt.  Pleasant  of  RaymUton, 
R.  R.  Moore,  Georgetown, 
T.  C.  Teakel,  Brunswick. 
H.  KeijBrwin,  PrMbyterial  Mlssionaiy, 
L,  Tarpon  t'     ' 


Pa. 


Md. 
Fla. 


S.  T.  Thompson,  l^u^wn  Springs, 
H.  M .  Qoodell,  Kiasimmee, 
J.  F.  Sundell,  Upeala.  Swedish. 

L,  M.  Htevens,  borrento  and  Heneca,  " 

C  A  Duncan,  ^nodical  Missionary.  Tenn. 

J.  T.  Reagan.  Harlan.  Ky. 

D.  McDonald.  Synodical  MisslODary.  ^* 
B  B.  Van  Nuys  Livingston,  East  Bemstadt  and  Dlz 

River.  " 
G.  D.  Hyden.  Pittsburg, 

O.  K  Hmoyer.  Elmore  and  Genoa,  Ohio. 
O.  E.  Wilson  Clyde  1st. 

J.  C  Mayne.  Republic.  '* 

A.  W.  Cheatham.  Chester  1st,  111. 

£.  B.  HubbeU.  Chicago  Immanuel.  " 

J.  B.  Cherry.  Chicago.  Bethany.  " 
F.  Grilli,  Chicago  1st  Italian. 
T.  8.  Park,  Pri3rie  Bird. 

J.  Q.  Butler,  0«wego,  ** 

C.  Bremicker,  Peoria  Ist  German,  ** 
H  Hanson,  Oquawka,  ** 
W.  H.  Ilsley,  Maoon. 

D.  Howell.  Synodical  ^fisslooary,  Mich. 
A.  Beamer,  Marine  City  1st.  *' 
J.  Swindt,  Milan, 

JL  Jamieson.  Brighton,  '* 

A.  Wilson.  Maiieite  1st,  ** 
T.  W.  Bowen.Cro8well,  '• 
J.  a  Allan.  Otter  Lake. 

L^  J.  Eymer.  Akron  and  Columbia.  ** 

J.  Thump9on.  Grand  Rapids  lomianuel.  ** 

V.  K.  Beshgetoor.  Newberry.  *• 

D .  MacDonald.  Iron  River  and  Stambaugb,  " 
T.  R.  Easterday.  Detour,  *' 
R.  Bramat.  Clayton  and  Dover,  ** 
W .  J.  Rainey.  Harbor  Springs.  " 
M.  C.  Dixon,  McBain. 

E.  F.  Smith,  Alcona.  Caledonia  aod  Black  River.  " 

C.  E  Barnes,  Saginaw,  Washington  Ave.,  " 
W  D.  Thomas,  Ph.  D,.8ynodical  Missionary,  Wis. 
J.  W.  Winder.  Galesville, 

D.  F.  WUliams,  North  Bend  and  Lewis  VaUey, 

J.  F.  Cowling,  Belleville  and  Verona.  ** 

J.  Griffith.  Oreron  and  stations,  " 

J.  E.  Thomas.  Deerfleld,  ** 

S.  H.  Cady.  Cottage  Grove.and  station,  ** 

J.  V.  Hughes,  Shawano,  '* 
J.  8.  Wirson,Oxford, 

E.  N.  Ware.  Florence  1st,  ** 
«.  E.  Very,  Stiles  and  Little  River,  " 
C.  A.  Adams.  Buffalo,  Montello  and  Packwaukee.        *' 
K.  N.  Adams,  D.D.,  Synodical  Missionary,  Minn. 
T.  A.  Ambler.  Two  Harbors.  ** 

C.  B.  Augur,  Fulda  and  Kinbrae.  ** 

D.  £.  Evans.  Minneapolis  House  of  Faith.  ** 
S.  S.  Hilscher,  Delano  and  Maple  Plains,  ** 
W.  T.  McAltloner.  Evansville  and  Ashby,  ** 
8.  W.  La  Grange,  North  «t.  Paul,  *' 
K.  Tietema,  Ebenezer,  Holland.^  ** 
T.  N.  Weaver,  Leroy,  " 

F.  M.  Wood.  Bynodlcal  Missionary,  N.  D. 
L.  £.  Danks.  Larimore.  1st.  ** 

C.  McKibbin.  Bay  Centre  and  Walhalla.  " 
H.  P.  Carson.  D.D.,  Synodical  Missionary.  S.  D. 
J.  Browne.  Wihnot,  Ist,  ** 

B.  Vis,  Palmer.  Ist  Holland. 
M  McKecknie,  Onida. 

T.  B.  Bought  on.  Parker  and  stations,  *' 

A.  C.  McCauley  Bridgewater  and  Canistota.  ** 

T.  S.  Bailey.  D.D..  Hyuodical  Missionary.  Iowa. 

A.  Doremus.  Springville.  *' 

D.  Street.  Anamosa  and  Monticello.  " 
W.  J.  Toung.  Dee  Moines.  6tb,  ** 
W.  E.  Caldwell.  Allerton  and  Uneville,  ** 
M.  E.  Todd.  Dubuque.  Sd.  ** 
F.  G.  Moore,  Farley,  *• 
M.  T.  Rainier.  Lake  Park,  1st.  and  station.  ** 
J.  W.  Evards,  Ramsey.  German,  " 
J.  W.  Stark,  Bloomfleld  and  Shunem,  ** 
H.  R.  Peairs,  Montrose.  *' 
D.  W.  Cassat.  Vail.  *' 
K.  B  Welland,  Sioux  City,  2d  German,  and  sta- 
tions. *' 

J.  M.  Smith,  Greene.  ** 

C.  H.  Gravenstein.  Union  and  Rook  Creek.' German.    *' 
S.  Callen,  Dysart.  "■ 
T.  L.  Sexton.  D  D.,  Synodical  Blisaionary,  Neb. 
J.  W.  Knott.  Holdredge  1st. 

H.  M.  Giitner,  Beaton  and  Thornton,  " 


Mo. 


J.  Roelse.  Stockham  and  Verona,  Neb. 

J.  Warner  St.  Edwards  and  station. 

R.  U.  Fulton.  Talentine.  ** 

H.  G.  Stoetzer.  Ponca,  " 

S  T.  Davis,  Omaha.  Clifton  HiU. 

E.  D.  Walker,  Synodical  Missionary, 

T.  J  May,  Pastor  at  Large. 

J.  F.  Watkins.  Jefferson  City, 

J.  B  Welty,  Pastor  at  Large, 

D.  Brown,  Macon. 
J.  Wilson.  Pastor  at  Large, 
H.  W.  Cowan,  St.  Joseph,  Hope. 
G.  H.  Duty,  Ironton  and  stations, 

E.  P.  Keach,  Windsor  Harbor  and  Sulphdr  Springs. 
S.  B  Fleming  D.  D..  Synodical  Missionary. 

C.  C.  Hoffmelster.  Cottonwood  Falls. 
J.  Patterson,  White  City.  Wilstry  and  Morris,  *' 
S.  Alexander,  May  field  and  Argonia.  ** 
F  J  Barrackman.  Sedan,  ** 
H.  M.  Gilbert.  Sedan  and  Caney,  *  * 

D.  C.  Smith,  BaUeyvlUe.  ,  ** 
D.  M.  Moore,  Valley  Township,  ** 

D.  Eingery.  Canton  and  Ualva.  ** 

E.  L.  Comns.  Pastor  at  Large.  '* 
S  G.  Clark,  Yates  Centre,  *' 

B.  F.  Smith.  Milllken  Memorial,  Kincaid  and  Lone 

Ehn, 

A.  Glendenning,  Downs  and  Rose  Valley.  '* 

O  Utikal.  Cuba.  Bohemian  and  station.  ** 

J.  Dobias,  Wilson,  Bohemian,  '* 
H.  Farwell.  Lowemont,  De  Soto,  Fairmont  and 

stations.  " 

M.  C.  Long,Topeka,  8d,  ** 

J.  F.  Clarkson.  Adrain.  '* 

E.  M.  Halbert,  Idana.  *' 
W.  R.  King,  Synodical  Missionary.  L  T. 
H.  R.  Schermerhom,  Krebs  and  McAlester,  " 
J.  R.  Ramsey.  Pastor  at  Large,  ** 
R.  J.  Lamb,  Park  HiU  and  stations,  " 
D.  Leskov,  Tulsa  and  Red  Fork,  *' 
W.  T.  King,  Presbyterlal  Missionary.  O.  T. 
S.  P.  Meyers,  Perry  and  stations.  '* 
H.  P.  Wilson,  Enid,  Pond  Creek  and  stations,  ** 
S.  V.  Fait,  Anadarko.  " 
R.  C.  Townsend,  Stillwater.  ** 
H.  B.  Little,  D.D..  Synodical  Missionary,  Tex. 
J.  P.  Lyle,  Kerrville  and  station,  *' 
W.  S.  Wright,  Pearsall  and  Cibolo, 

P.  A.  H  Armstrong,  Canadian  and  Mobeetie,  *' 
W.  K.  Marshall,  Waskom,  Elysian  Fields,  Carthage 

and  stations,  " 

8.  W.  Patterson,  Dallas.  Bethany.  •' 
J.  A.  MenauU  Synodical  Missionary.                       N.  Mex. 

H.  M.  Shields.  Las  Cruces,  1st,  ** 

C.  H.  Rage,  Slack  and  Wolf  Creek.  Wyo. 
A.  Hicks,  Littleton.  Colo. 
W.  Mayo.  Rocky  Ford,  ** 
J.  A.  Todd,  La  Veta  and  station.  *' 

F.  W.  Blohm.  Pleasant  Grove.  Utah. 

0.  S.  Wilson.  Nephi. 

G.  W.  Martin.  Manti  and  Ephraim.  ** 
J.  E.  Cummins.  Boise  City.  Idaho. 
J.  I.  Campbell.  Missoula,  Mont. 
G.  Edwards,  Lewlstown  and  Armells,  " 
T.  M.  Gunn,  D  D..  Hynodical  Missionary.  Wash. 

A.  Mackay  Hwaco.  ** 
R.  Cruikshank.  D  D..  Montesano  and  Wjmooche.  '* 
J.  W.  Tait.  Rofedale, 

W.  A.  Sample,  D.D.,  Moscow,  1st.  Idaho. 

F.  G.  Gwynne,  D.D..  Synodical  Missionary,  Oreg. 

B.  F.  Harper,  Cleveland  and  Klickitat,  ** 
W.  P.  Miller,  Portland  Westminster,  •* 
J.  V.  MUliflpan,  Portland,  Mt.  John's.  ** 

C.  F.  Waldecker.  Bethany,  German.  •* 

F.  G.  Strange,  Ashland,  1st,  ** 

G.  H.  Whitman,  Octorara.  Pleasant  Grove,    and 
Marion,  " 

F.  J.  Edmunds,  Woodbum,  1st,  and  Fairfield,  '* 

F.  D.  Seward,  Synodical  MiMionary,  Cal. 

J.  S.  McDonald,  Synodical  Missionary,  '* 

1.  N.  Waterman,  Oovelo.  *♦ 

C.  H.  Emerson,    Pope  Valley,  Howell  Mountain, 
Chiles  Valley,  Copell  Valley  and  vicinity,  " 

R.  W.  Cleland,  Azusa.  «* 

T.  Beaizley,  Anaheim.  " 

W  8.  Lowry,  Los  Angeles.  Bethesda.  ** 

D.  R.  Colmery.  Los  Angeles,  3d.  ** 
D.  Hughes,  Los  Anseles,  Welsh,  »• 
J.  W.  McLennan.  Highland  and  Wrights,  ** 
W.  W.  Morse.  HolHster,  •• 
I.  Balrd.  Templeton.and  stations,  ** 
J.  E.  StuehelL  Gllroy.  " 
J.  U  Woods,  Sanger.  " 


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EDUCATION. 


It  is  without  the  knowledge  of  Dr.  Poor 
that  we  have  procured  the  above  engraviDg 
from  an  excellent  photograph,  in  order  that 
we  might  present  it  to  our  readers  on  his  re- 
tirement from  the  important  office  in  which 
they  have  become  so  familiar  with  his  face, 
his  voice,  and  his  earnest  advocacy  of  the 
cause  of  Ministerial  Education. 

There  are  also  not  a  few  who  will  look  on 

this  portrait  with  tender  and  grateful  memory 

of  the  time  when  they  enjoyed  Dr.  Poor's 

pastoral  instruction  ^nd  Cfg:^  \a  the  foU  yigor 

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of  his  early  manhood.  One  such  who  was  a 
child  when  Dr.  Poor  began  bis  ministry  in 
Newark,  and  was  among  the  first  whom  he 
welcomed  into  full  communion  in  that 
church,  has  written: 

'*  Dr.  Poor  was  then  a  comparatively  young 
man,  but  he  was  sympathetic  with  both  young 
and  old.  A  certain  simplicity  and  genuine- 
ness have  always  been  marked  traits  of  his 
character.  His  ever  ready  humor  did  not  in- 
dicate levity  \)v\t  ^  v^^^  tender  and  weceptiblQ 
nature/* 


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The  same  writer  speaks  of  his  skill  in 
drawing  out  those  nnder  his  ministry  into 
osefnl  Christian  activity.  Some  *^who,  in 
comparatively  humble  circumstances  and 
modest  distrust  of  their  own  abilities,  were 
so  developed,  encouraged  and  brought  for- 
ward that  they  became  pillars  in  the  church." 

^'He  had  a  natural  love  for  literature  and 
enjoyed  teaching,  having  occasionally  a  pri- 
vate pupil.  He  WM  especially  fond  of  G^er- 
man  and  was  much  interested  in  the  German 
people.  He  was  instrumental  in  the  forming 
of  German  evangelical  churches  in  Newark 
and  its  neighborhood.  He  was  very  laborious 
and  untiring  in  his  efforts  in  getting  the 
German  Theological  Seminary  started." 

That  his  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  so 
attracted  a  youth  under  his  ministry  and  in- 
struction, who  in  maturity  and  eminent  posi- 
tion retains  such  affection  and  reverence  for 
him,  is  no  surprise  to  those  who  have  been 
his  yoke-fellows  in  official  labors  for  our 
Church  in  recent  years.  All  who  go  out  and 
in  at  the  Publication  House,  in  all  grades  of 
office  or  employment,  have  felt  the  genial  in- 
fluence of  his  presence;  we  all  hope  that  his 
retirement  from  office  will  not,  for  a  loug 
time,  deprive  us  of  his  frequent  cheery  visits; 
and  we  can  assure  him  that  he  will  never  lose 
his  place  in  the  filial  respect  and  thankful 
love  of  the  many  ministers  of  Christ,  who 
gratefully  acknowledge  that  without  the  aid 
of  that  Board  of  which  Dr.  Poor  has  so  long 
been  the  chief  executive  officer,  they  do  not 
see  how  they  could  ever  have  acquired  the 
necessary  education  for  their  high  and  sacred 
callmg. 

Few,  tender  and  modest  are  the  farewell 
words  which  Dr.  Poor  asks  us  to  place  on 
this  page  for  him.  They  give  a  graceful  in- 
troduction and  welcome  to  his  buccts-.or,  for 
which  we  kngw  tbi^t  l^  Iq  deeply  grateful. 


DR.  POOR'S  FAREWELL. 

**  It  gives  me  pleasure  to  announce  that  at 
the  last  meeting  of  the  3oard  of  Education 
the  Rev.  E.  B.  Hodge,  D.  D.,  signified  his 
acceptance  of  its  appointment  to  the  office  of 
Corresponding  Secretary.  He  comes  to  this 
position  by  legitimate  succession.  His  uncle. 
Professor  Charles  Hodge,  D.  D.,  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  from  1862  until  1869;  his 
father-in-law.  Rev.  C.  VanRenselaer,  D.  D., 
was  its  Corresponding  Secretary  from  1846  to 
1860;  and  he  himself  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Board  since  1878,  punctual  in  his  attend- 
ance and  deeply  interested  in  its  work.  He 
gives,  therefore,  every  promise  of  successful 
service  and  enters  upon  his  duties  on  the  first 
of  December. 

With  this  issue  of  the  Chubch  at  Home 
AND  Abroad  I  therefore  retire  from  the  posi- 
tion of  an  Editorial  Correspondent,  having 
been  in  the  service  of  the  Board  seventeen 
years  and  three  months,  within  which  time 
all  who  were  members  of  the  Board  at  its 
beginning  have  ceased  to  be  eo«  except  Dr. 
Mutchmore  and  Dr.  Gayley.  I  now  gladly 
transfer  this  work  to  one  who  I  hope  will 
prove  more  successful  in  promoting  the  inter- 
ests of  this  holy  cause.'' 

DR.  HODGE'S  INTRODUCTION. 
The  undersigned  has  been  summoned  from 
the  happy  quiet  of  his  pastoral  charge  to 
assume  the  responsibilities  of  the  office  of 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Education.  He  feels  the  honor  and  the 
privilege  of  the  work  proposed  for  him: 
otherwise  he  could  not  think  for  a  moment 
of  undertaking  it.  At  the  same  time  he  is 
exquisitely  sensitive  as  to  the  sacrifice 
required.  He  has  been  compelled  to  sever 
the  ties  which  have  bound  him  for  many 
years  to  a  most  devoted  people :  his  first  and 
only  charge.  He  looks  for  his  compensation 
in  those  pleasant  relations  which  he  hopes  to 
see  established  between  himself  and  all  the 
congregations  of  our  Chuich  in  this  broad 
land :  a  Church  justly  famous  for  its  unfalter- 
ing devotion  to  the  cause  of  ministerial  edu- 
cation. He  hopes  to  find  in  the  affectionate 
regards  of  tU^  eight  or  pi^e  hmidred  candi- 


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dates  for  the  holy  ministry  put  under  his 
oversight  some  amends  for  the  loss  he  sus- 
tains in  retiring  from  that  delightful  pastoral 
work  which  has  been  his  joy  for  almost 
thirty  years. 

The  attempt  to  tread  in  the  footsteps  of  the 
men  who  have  so  worthily  filled  this  position 
in  the  past  will  be  a  constant  stimulus  to 
exertion;  and  the  office  will  always  seem 
more  delightful  from  the  fact  that  it  has  been 
filled  by  a  man  exhibiting  a  character  so 
lovely  and  beautiful  as  that  of  Dr.  Poor. 

A  WORD  ABOUT  THE  WORK  OF  THE  BOARD. 

There  are  pleasing  indications  that  the 
Church  is  awaking  to  the  consciousness  that 
she  lies  under  the  most  solemn  obligation  to 
give  the  message  of  the  Gospel  to  every  indi- 
vidual member  of  the  human  race  at  home 
or  abroad:  that  she  owes  this  message  to  all 
the  individuals  of  each  successive  generation. 
There  are  pleasing  indications  that  she  is 
awaking  to  the  consciousness  that  the  task 
proposed  to  her  is  not  impracticable.  She 
'has  been  taking  account  of  stock.  She  has 
been  considering  her  resources.  She  is  com- 
ing to  the  delightful  conclusion  that  she  has 
men  and  means  enough,  and  that  in  such  an 
undertaking  God  Himself  will  be  with  her. 
She  is  beginning  to  feel  shamed  by  the  com- 
parison which  thoughtful  minds  are  making 
between  what  the  energetic,  driving  men  of 
the  world  are  doing  to  push  their  schemes  to 
a  successful  issue  and  what  the  Church  is 
doing  to  get  Christ's  work  done,  to  the 
accomplishment  of  which  she  professes  to 
have  consecrated  all  her  powers.  The  fastest 
ships  must  be  made  that  a  lavish  outlay  of 
money  can  secure;  railroads  must  be  built 
to  the  centre  of  Africa,  if  necessary,  in  the 
teeth  of  every  obstacle,  if  the  interests  of 
trade  make  the  demand,  and  if  gain  can  be 
had.  That  is  the  manner  of  the  men  pf  this 
world.  The  Church  has  grown  great  in 
numbers  and  resources.  Will  she  show  her- 
self the  equal  of  the  world  in  appreciation  of 
her  opportunities,  and  in  the  energy,  and 
zeal,  and  determination  with  which  she  pur- 
sues the  objects  to  which  her  life  is  consecra- 
ted 1  Will  she  take  up  the  task  committed 
to  her  at  last  with  some  sense  of  its  immense 
extent  and  of  the  outlay  of  juen  and  means 


and  energy  required  for  its  accomplishment? 
There  are  some  hopeful  signs.  The  face  of 
the  Church  is  turned  towards  a  new  era. 
Every  land  under  the  sun  is  making  an  im- 
perative demand  for"  men  who  shall  bring 
them  the  gospel  of  peace:  and  no  land  is 
calling  more  imperatively  than  our  own. 
The  idea  of  meeting  the  exigencies  of  the 
present  epoch  by  calling  out  men  at  the  rate 
at  which  we  have  been  calling  them  out 
hitherto  is  as  preposterous  as  it  was  to  sup- 
pose that  the  recent  war  of  the  Great  Rebel- 
lion could  be  carried  to  a  successful  issue  by 
the  callihg  out  of  those  seventy-five  thousand 
troops  who  responded  to  President  Lincoln's 
first  proclamation.  God  is  calling  for  an 
advance  all  along  the  line,  and  to  answer 
that  call  we  must  get  the  men^  and  we  must 
get  the  men  ready.  We  must  have  numbers; 
but  there  must  be  discipline  and  drill.  Un- 
disciplined and  undrilled  troops  are  but  a 
mob,  on  whom  no  dependence  can  be  placed. 
Into  Christ's  army  we  must  put  men  with 
the  best  possible  preparation ;  and  we  must 
have  them  ready  in  sufficient  numbers,  This 
in  one  word  is  the  task  before  the  Church ; 
and  the  Board  is  the  agency  by  which  she  is 
attempting  to  accomplish  it. 

A  WORD  TO  OUR  5,000  PASTORS. 

The  Secretary  puts  the  question  to  each 
one  of  the  five  thousand :  May  he  count  upon 
your  cordial  cooperation  f  If  he  may,  then 
it  may  be  regarded  as  a  settled  thing  that 
success  is  certain.  If  five  thousand  men  of 
God  out  of  deep  conviction  of  the  gravity  of 
the  present  situation  lead  the  eight  hundred 
thousand  communicants  who  constitute  their 
flocks  in  earnest  prayer  to  the  Lord  of  the 
Harvest  that  He  send  forth  laborers  into  His 
harvest,  can  there  be  any  doubt  that,  in  an- 
swer to  the  prayer  which  He  has  Himself 
commanded.  He  will  provide  the  laborers  ? 
If  each  of  the  five  thousand  will  act  as  an  in- 
telligent and  devoted  agent  of  the  Boatd, 
not  only  seeking  out  men  at  his  post  as  at  a 
recruiting-station,  but  also  giving*hisrpeople 
full  information  and  an  opportunity  to  con- 
tribute something  towards  their  complete 
equipment,  who  can  doubt  that  all  the  funds 
necessary  will  be  provided?  Praying  and 
working'^wUi  accomplish  everything. 


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A  WORD  TO  OUB  EIGHT  HUNDBKD  THOUSAND 
COMMUNICANTS. 

The  Secretary  indulges  the  hope  that  thoFe 
of  this  vast  multitude  who  do  not  read  these 
lines  wiU  get  the  substance  of  what  is  here 
expressed  from  their  pastors.  He  wishes  to 
call  the  attention  of  Christian  parents  to  the 
privilege  and  the  duty  of  giving  to  their 
children  that  kind  of  training  that  will  fit 
them  for  the  service  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
and  commend  to  the  attention  of  their  sons, 
as  the  highest  of  honors  and  the  noblest  of 
callings,  the  ministry  of*the  Qospel  of  the  Son 
of  God .  He  wishes  further  to  suggest  to  those 
thoughtful  men  and  women  of  the  Church, 
who  like  to  have  something  definite  to  which 
to  make  their  contributions  that  they  could 
probably  make  no  better  investment  of  funds 
than  to  put  tTiem  in  living;  men  consecrated 
to  the  work  of  preaching  the  €k)spel.  Are 
there  not  scores  of  churches  and  scores  of  in- 
dividuals who  would  count  it  the  greatest  of 
privileges,  next  to  preaching  the  Gospel  them- 
selves, to  take  up  a  carefully  selected  candi- 
date in  the  college  or  iu  the  seminary,  and 
seeing  him  through  his  course  of  preparation  f 
One  hundred  dollars  a  year  would  accomplish 
.this  object.  The  course  of  study  in  college  is 
four  years  and  in  the  seminary  three.  How 
deep  an  interest  would  be  felt  in  a  man,  thus 
taken  in  care,  during  his  time  of  training 
and  through  his  subsequent  career  1  In 
what  way  could  any  man,  or  any  church, 
hope  to  get  a  more  satisfactory  return  from 
the  investment  of  such  a  sum  of  money  ? 

A  WORD  TO  OUR  CANDIDATES. 

The  Secretary  would  like,  as  far  as  such  a 
thing  may  be  practicable,  to  have  a  personal 
acquaintance  with  them  all.  In  any  event  he 
wishes  to  be  regarded  by  each  one  as  a  warm 
personal  friend.  He  will  always  be  glad  to 
hear  from  them,  and  to  be  any  help  he  can  to 
them  by  affording  sympathy,  counsel,  and 
those  other  wholesome  things — admonition 
and  rebuke,  if  they  seem  to  be  what  the  cir- 
camstances  require;  always  administered  in 
so  gentle  a  manner  as  to  be  like  that  excel- 
lent oil,  sj)oken  of  by  the  Psalmist,  which, 
according  to  the  received  translation,  is  war- 
nukted  not  to  break  the  head,  and,  according 


to  the  new,  is  so  much  appreciated  by  the  can- 
didate for  the  honor  that  he  prays  that  his 
head  may  not  refuse  it. 

Will  all  the  candidates,  being  well  versed 
in  the  Latin  tongue,  please  note  with  care  the 
motto  on  the  seal  of  the  Board: — **Aliis 
inserviendo  consumer."  Will  they  ple«se 
make  it  the  motto  for  the  regulation  of  their 
own  lives.  Absolute  UNSELFISHNESS  ex- 
pressing itself  by  absolute  devoti&n  to  others 
by  reason  of  absolute  self-surrender  to  Christ 
— nothing  less  than  this  should  satisfy  our 
candidates  as  they  seek  preparation  for  their 
sacred  office.  The  Board  lovingly  and  con- 
fidently looks  to  them  for  the  most  splendid 
commendation  and  widespread  advertisement 
of  its  work.  They  are  closely  watched,  and 
inconsistent  or  imprudent  conduct  on  their 
part  may  almost  destroy  the  confidence  of  the 
Church  in  our  plans  and  methods. 

With    the    warm-hearted  co-operation  of 
pastors,  churches  and  candidates,   the  task 
vnll  be  still  toilsome,  but  toil  will  be  cheered 
and  lightened  by  the  promise  of  success, 
Edward  B.  Hodob. 


COLLEGE  AND  SEMINARY  NOTES. 

As  having  an  important  bearing  on  the 
question  as  to  the  value  of  athletic  sports  we 
may  quote  Dr.  Strong's  words: — **  If  the  true 
Christian  aim  is  service,  not  ecstasy,  then 
that  is  the  most  Christian  treatment  of  the 
body  which  fits  it  for  the  most  perfect,  the 
most  abounding,  the  longest  continued  service 
in  upbuilding  the  kingdom  of  God."  *'In 
every  age  men  have  lavished  treasure,  toil, 
and  genius  on  their  temples.  It  is  a  far  no- 
bler ambition,  and  a  more  acceptable  service 
to  strive  for  the  perfecting  of  God's  living 
temple." 

It  is  a  matter  for  thankfulness  that  the 
faculty  and  the  students  of  Princeton  Uni- 
versity have  united  their  efforts  to  save  the 
annual  foot-ball  game  in  New  York  from  the 
bad  reputation  which  it  has  acquired  by  the 
license  to  which  some  of  the  students  aban- 
doned themselves  at  times  at  the  conclusion 
of  the  game. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Theological  Seminary 
at  PRINCETON  are  not  unmindful  of  the 
importance  of  physical  culture,  and  are  plan- 


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Freedm^n^s  Board  as  a  Buildwg  and  Loan  Agenni/.         [Janvari/^ 


ning  for  theerectioa  of  a  model  gjmua^Iuui. 
Friends  of  the  Seminary  who  understand  the 
importance  of  sending  forth  students  strong 
in  body  as  well  as  in  mind  and  heart  have  an 
opportunity  of  bestowing  a  great  benefit  by 
erecting  on  the  Seminary  grounds  such  a 
building  as  is  now  so  badly  needed. 

Auburn  Seminary  has  on  its  roll  ninety 
students.  Workmen  are  completing  Willard 
Memorial  Chapel.  The  Welch  Memorial 
Building  will  soon  be  ready  for  use  with  six 
fine  lecture-rooms.  Dr.  Booth,  the  new  Pres- 
ident of  the  Institution,  has  taken  the  iustruc- 
in  pastoral  theology. 

McCoRMiGK  Seminary  has  more  than  two 
hundred  students  in  attendance.     The  illness 


of  Professor  Herrick  Johnson,  although  seri- 
ous, is  not  considered  dangerous. 

Do  you  take  The  Church  at  Home  and 
Abroad?  TAKE  IT  for  the  sake  of  the 
EDUCATION  pages. 

**  Pew  years,  no  wisdom,  no  renown, 
Only  my  life  can  I  lay  down ; 
Only  my  heart,  Lord,  to  thy  throne 
I  bring  and  pray 

That  child  of  thine  I  may  go  forth 
And  spread  glad  tidings  through  the  earth. 
And  teach  s^  hearts  to  know  thy  worth — 
Lord,  here  am  II" 

Do  you  take  The  Church  at  Home  and 
Abroad?  TAKE  IT  for  the  sake  of  keeping 
yourself  familiar  with  the  work  which  the 
Church  ?ias  in  hand  to  do^  and  for  the  doing 
of  which  you  have  your  share  of  responsibility. 


FREEDMEN. 


THE  FREEDMENS  BOARD  AS  A  BUILD- 
ING AND  LOAN  AGENCY. 

H.  N.  PAYNE,  D.  D. 

Corporations  bearing  the  above  title  or  some 
similar  one  have  long  been  known  to  the  bus- 
iness world.  They  originated  in  England 
early  in  the  present  century.  The  first  in 
America  was  formed  in  Philadelphia  in  1860. 
Since  the  civil  war  their  development  in  this 
country  has  been  remarkable.  They  are  one 
of  the  characteristic  features  of  our  marvelous 
material  progress  during  this  period.  Their 
success  and  popularity  arises  from  their  recog- 
nition of  a  few  simple  but  important  business 
principles. 

These  are,  on  the  one  hand,  that  if  money 
loaned  at  interest  be  paid  back  at  frequent  in- 
tervals and  this  principal  and  interest  be  re- 
loaned  in  the  same  way,  thus  compounding 
the  interest,  the  returns  to  the  owner  of  the 
money  will  be  very  large. 

On  the  other  hand,  a  person  with  a  small 
but  regular  income  can  pay  small  sums 
a£  frequent  intervals,  when  it  would  be  diflB- 
cult  or  impossible  for  him  to  pay  a  large  sum 
at  any  ono  time.  If  he  can  borrow  a  con- 
siderable sum  at  one  time  on  these  terms  he 
can  with  it  do  what  would  otherwise  have 
been  impossible  to  him.     Thus  both  lender 


and  borrower,  are  benefited.  When  well- 
managed  these  institutions  are  very  profitable 
to  their  stockholders,  while,  by  their  aid, 
thousands  of  comfortable  homes  have  been 
built  and  paid  for,  which,  but  for  them,  would 
never  have  had  an  existence. 

Let  us  now  see  how  this  illustrates  the 
character  and  working  of  the  Freedmen^s 
Board  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

On  the  one  hand  is  the  great  Church  with 
its  855,000  members.  Perhaps  no  one  would 
dare  to  attempt  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of 
money  God  has  committed  to  their  keeping, 
but  it  is  certain  that  the  amount  is  very 
large.  Many  of  these  Christians  recognize 
that  they  are  God's  stewards.  They  give 
largely  and  freely  to  God*s  work.  They  desire 
to  place  their  money  where  it  will  bring  the 
largest  returns  in  good  accomplished. 

On  the  other  hand  there  is  the  large  and 
increasing  colored  population  of  this  country, 
now  numbering  over  8, 000, 000.  These  people 
are  mostly  poor,  but  they  do  not  ask  the  aid  of 
the  Church  in  bettering  their  temporal  condi- 
tion. They  are  bravely  fighting  their  own 
battle  along  that  line,  and  are  slowly  winning 
the  victory.  What  they  desire  and  need  is 
Christian  teachers  and  preachers^  that  they 
and  their  children  may  be  made  wiser  and 


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better,  and  that  the  vast  outlying  masses  may 
be  reached  for  Christ.  Their  resonrces  are  so 
yery  slender  that,  alone,  they  cannot  build 
churches  and  schools,  nor  evangelize  the 
masses.  Through  theTreedmen's  Board  they 
make  their  appeal  for  aid  to  the  Church  at 
large,  and  it  is  through  this  authorized  and 
well  approved  agency  that  the  Church 
answers  their  appeal. 

For  more  than  twenty-eight  years  the  Board 
has  been  serving  its  two  constitueucies.  It 
will  be  interesting  to  sum  up  here  some  of  the 
results  of  this  work,  and  see  if  they  are  sat- 
isfactory to  the  two  parties — the  Church  and 
its  colored  members,  the  lender  and  the 
borrower. 

As  to  the  amount  of  the  investment,  it  has 
gone  on  increasing  from  year  to  year  with  the 
progress  of  the  work.  The  first  year  the 
amount  contributed  at  the  North  was  about 
$5,000.  Last  year  it  was  $178,810.  The 
entire  amount  raised  and  expended  by  the 
Board  during  its  existence  is  about  $8,000,- 
000.  Besides  this  there  has  been  the  labor  and 
sacrifice  of  the  large  number  of  earnest,  con- 
secrated white  men  and  women,  who,  in  its 
early  history,  came  into  this  work  from  the 
North. 

Has  this  been  a  paying  investment  f  Have  the 
results  of  this  large  expenditure  of  Christian 
labor  and  money  been  such  as  to  satisfy  the 
Church — such  as  will  warrant  a  continued 
and  enlarging  expenditure  in  the  future? 

It  should  be  said  at  the  outset  that  by  far 
the  best  and  most  satisfactory  results  cannot 
be  stated  in  figures  or  estimated  by  any  sys- 
tem of  arithmetic.  What  words  can  express 
the  value  of  degraded  lives  renewed  and 
ennobled,  of  homes  made  virtuous  and  happy, 
of  communities  made  peaceful  and  industri- 
ous, of  womanhood  redeemed  and  of  souls 
saved!  All  these  things  have  resulted  from 
the  work  sustained  and  directed  by  the 
Freedmen's  Board,  and  to  the  Christian  they 
will  seem  the  most  valuable  and  satisfactory 
results  possible.  But  in  addition  to  these 
precious  fruits,  we  may  mention  two  synods 
and  nine  presbyteries  organized,  that  are 
almost  entirely  made  up  of  colored  ministers 
and  churches;  265  missionary  preachers  and 
teachers;  17,000  church  members  and  20,000 


Sabbath-school  scholars.  We  also  have  86 
parochial  and  boarding  schools,  in  which 
10,500  children  are  receiving  Christian  in- 
struction. The  larger  part  of  the  income  ef 
the  Board  is  expended  in  paying  salaries  on 
the  field,  about  $1,000  per  week  being 
required  for  this  purpose  for  the  ministers,  and 
about  $1,500  per  week  in  addition  for  teachers 
during  the  time  of  schools.  -Tet  the  approxij 
mate  value  of  church  and  school  property 
connected  with  our  work  is  now  $730,000. 

These  organic,  visible,  material  results  of 
our  work  among  the  Freedmen  must  be  grat- 
ifying to  one  who  is  interested  in  the  growth 
and  usefulness  of  the  Church.  But  for  this 
specialized  work  our  denomination  would 
now  have  no  existence  in  a  large  section  of 
the  country  where  its  infiuence  is  specially 
needed. 

This  work  is  permanent.  It  is  almost  im- 
possible to  kill  a  Presbyterian  church  when 
once  thoroughly  established  among  the  col- 
ored people.  They  love  it,  and  cling  to  it, 
and  remain  faithful  to  it  under  the  most  dis- 
couraging circumstances. 

Not  only  so,  the  tvork  has  vitality.  It  is 
growing.  The  way  is  opening  for  its  exten- 
sion faster  than  we  can  obtain  the  men  and 
means  to  carry  it  forward.  Southern  white 
people  of  prominence  now  gratefully  recog- 
nize the  part  our  church  is  taking  in  giving  a 
right  solution  to  the  grave  questions  that  con- 
front them  in  connection  with  this  emanci- 
pated race.  They  observe  that  in  communi- 
ties where  the  influence  of  our  institutions  pre- 
vails among  the  colored  people,  the  relations 
of  the  races  are  peaceful  and  pleasant :  that 
the  children  who  are  taught  in  our  schools, 
and  the,  people  who  are  taught  in  our 
churches,  while  intelligent  and  progressive, 
are  quiet,  orderly,  industrious  and  useful 
citizens.  They  are,  therefore,  giving  our  work 
sympathy,  encouragement  and  material  he4p- 
as  never  before. 

In  these  and  many  other  ways  our  church 
is  receiving  large  returns  for  the  investment 
she  has  made  in  her  southern  work.  Last 
year  she  gave  nearly  $15,000,000  to  maintain 
the  Lord^s  work  in  this  and  other  lands.  It 
is  doubtful  it  any  like  portion  of  this  t^r^at 
sum  will  bring  more  blesbcd  and  more  endur- 


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A  Peculiar  School 


[Janvaryy 


ing  retnms  than  the  $178,000  given  for  the 
education  and  salration  of  these  black  mil- 
lions in  the  South. 

Shan  the  Church  continue  to  invest  tJie 
Lord's  money  in  this  taay  f  Yes,  for  unless 
she  does,  the  work  will  come  to  naught.  This 
is  not  saying  that  what  has  already  been  done 
is  not  of  permanent  value,  but  simply  that 
the  work  is  not  complete.  It  would  be  like 
abandoning  a  house  when  partly  constructed. 
The  valuable  work  done  would  be  lost.  The 
Negroes  are  not  yet  able  to  stand  or  make 
progress  alone.  They  need  the  assistance  and 
encouragement  of  the  other  race. 

SfujUl  the  toork  be  enlarged  f  That  will  de- 
pend on  God's  people.  The  Freed  men's  Board 
never  received  a  more  cordial  endorsement 
from  the  Church  than  at  the  last  General 
Assembly.     We  have  all  the  machinery  for 


doing  a  work  of  twice  the  present  size.  Our 
missionaries  in  both  church  and  school  are 
enthusiastic  over  the  prospect. 

The  colored  people  are  taking  hold  of  it  as 
never  before.  Last  year  they  gave  from  their 
own  slender  means  $51,656  toward  self-sup- 
port. They  are  very  anxious  for  the  exten- 
sion of  our  Church  into  important  regions  as 
yet  untouched  by  us.  If  the  Church,  by  her 
generous  gifts,  says  **Qo  forward,"  the 
Board  will  gladly  obey. 

I  have  called  this  Board  a  Loan  Agency. 
The  Bible  says  '*  He  that  giveth  to  the  poor, 
lendeth  to  the  Lord."  The  colored  people  are 
poor. 

I  have  called  it  a  Building  Agency.  He 
that  gives  to  this  cause  is  helping  build  a 
spiritual  temple  that  shall  stand  through  time 
and  eternity. 


COLLEGES    AND    ACADEMIES. 


A  PECULIAR  SCHOOL. 
When  the  Rev.  W.  L.  Green,  D.  D.,  became 
pastor  of  our  little  church  at  Poynette,  Wis- 
consin, some  years  ago,  he  took  to  the  work 
scholarship,  piety,  a  unique  personality,  the 
weight  of  many  years  and  a  desire  to  found  a 
school  that  should  have  three  characteristics: 
Bible  study,  self-help  for  poor  boys  and 
scholarship.  The  school  came  into  being  nine 
years  ago,  fruit  of  many  sermons  and  prayers, 
developed  in  faith  and  hard  work,  remarkable 
in  many  ways. 

BIBLE  STUDT. 

The  charter  requires  that  **  every  Pirector 
shall  be  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,''  and  that  ''the  Bible  shall  be 
studied  and  recited  every  day  by  every  pupil." 
Pupils  are  led  through  a  graded  course,  the 
Bible  the  only  text  book  for  it,  and  are  grad- 
uated with  a  knowledge,  minute  and  compre- 
hensive, of  the  words  of  the  Holy  Book  and 
of  its  systemized  teachings  as  held  by  our 
Church.  The  results  are  exactly  what  be- 
lievers in  the  divine  origin  and  power  of  the 
Book  would  expect:  the  mighty  Word  regen- 
erates, refines,  energizes,  consecrates  the  mind 


and  heart.  Every  male  graduate  of  the  acad- 
emy is  in  the  ministry  or  on  his  way  toward 
it.  The  young  people  hold  services  every 
week  at  five  different  points,  from  two  to 
seven  miles  from  the  school,  with  blessed  re- 
sults. Girls  leave  the  school  for  missionary 
work  or  the  noble  sphere  of  Christian  teach- 
ing. 

,  SELF-HELP. 

No  boy  or  girl  has  ever  been  turned  from 
its  doers  because  of  poverty.  It  has  now,  be- 
sides twelve  pupils  from  the  town,  thirty-one 
boarding  students,  sixteen  boys  and  fifteen 
girls.  Of  these  nine  are  children  of  home 
missionaries  from  widely  scattered  fields;  nine 
are  studying  for  the  ministry;  and  one-third 
of  all  the  pupils  in  the  history  of  the  school 
have  been  orphans,  often  taken  young  and 
trained  until  ready  for  college.  Of  the  thirty- 
one  boarding  pupils  two  pay  full  tuition  and 
board,  $120  per  annum  each,  three  pay  half 
rates,  $60  each;  and  sixteen  pay  nothing. 
The  school  has  no  endowment,  no  financial 
agent  in  the  field;  how  does  it  live? 

The  farm.  It  has  58  li  acres  of  farming 
land,  partly  cleared;   a  modest  building  in 


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which  recitatioDB  are  had  and  the  boarding 
papils  live;  a  number  of  bams,  sheds  and  the 
like;  a  fair  sapply  of  farming  tools  and 
machinery;  seven  horses,  six  cows  and 
seventy-five  pigs. 

The  day's  work.  All  boarding  pupils 
work;  no  hired  help  is  employed  except  at 
busy  seasons.  Dr.  Green  oversees  the  out- 
door work,  aided  by  a  Captain  of  Work 
elected  from  their  number  by  the  students; 
Miss  Green,  the  Matron,  directs  the  indoor 
work.  Every  morning  three  boys  prepare 
breakfast  while  the  others  care  for  the  stock ; 
and  the  girls  wash  the  breakfast  dishes.  Girls 
get  dinner,  but  boys  wash  the  dishes.  Girls 
both  get  supper  and  clear  away.  At  four 
o'clock  the  boys  put  on  working  clothes,  the 
Captain  takes  orders  from  Dr.  Green;  and 
for  «n  hour  or  two  th^  farm  employments  go 
merrily  on.  The  boys  work  one-half  of  each 
Saturday.  Boys  who  stand  high  in  their 
studies  may  put  in  occasional  day's  works  for 
pay,  using  the  money  for  books,  postage, 
clothing  and  the  like.  Students  who  pay 
nothing  in  money  remain  the  year  around, 
except  one  month's  vacation  for  each,  and 
work  through  the  summer. 

Does  rr  pat?  It  pays  financially  so  well 
that  the  boarding  department,  caring  for  the 
food  and  shelter  of  pupils  and  teachers,  will 
need  only  $800  aid  to  carry  it  through  the 
year.  Food  is  raised  on  the  farm — wheat, 
com,  vegetables,  pork.  Dr.  Green,  who  has  his 
own  way  of  doing  most  things,  has  it  about 
feeding  pigs;  he  has  perfected  a  unique  way 
of  doing  it.  Straw  and  hay,  com  stalks  and 
bean-pods,  are  ground  up  and  cooked,  and 
one-half  the  amount  of  corn  that  would  other- 
wise be  needed  for  the  pigs  is  mixed  in ;  on 
this  they  thrive,  at  about  one-half  the  upual 
cost,  leaving  a  large  profit  from  their  sale. 
When  the  mortgages  on  the  farm  property 
are  paid,  and  interest  charges  saved;  and 
when  a  few  hundred  dollars  can  be  got  to 
clear  off  timber  to  make  more  acres  available 
for  farming,  and  to  buy  more  pigs  and  cows 
aad  machinery,  the  school  can  probably  be 
made  self-supporting;  and  then  with  larger 
buildings  its  work  can  be  very  greatly 
enlarged.  Last  Summer  Dr.  Green,  disabled 
by  illness  from  soliciting  aid,  had  to  sell  75 


pigs  and  many  cows,  disposing  of  capital 
which  should  now  be  bearing  interest ;  these 
must  be  replaced. 

But  does  this  pay  the  pupils?  Can  they 
get  a  good  education  if  they  give  so  much 
time  to  work  ?  They  work  no  harder  on  the 
farm  than  other  boys  do  at  foot-ball  or  base- 
ball or  rowing;  their  faces  are  bright  and 
happy.  The  instructors  are  college  gradu- 
ates; the  pupils  can  enter  any  college  in  the 
West.  Nobody  need  pity  these  boys .  and 
girls,  mostly  from  farms,  happy  to  find  a 
way,  even  if  a  working  way,  to  a  sound  edu- 
cation and  Christian  usefalness. 

But  does  rr  pat  the  Church?  The  ques- 
tion answers  itself.  What  the  Church  wants 
to  do  is  to  secure  this  work  by  getting  its 
small  debt  out  of  the  way,  putting  more 
stock  on  the  farm  and  clearing  ofE  wood-land, 
and  enlarging  the  work  by  giving  another 
building  to  shelter  three  times  the  number  of 
pupils;  they  will  come. 

A  WORK  OF  faith. 

Years  ago  Dr.  Green  was  putting  in  a 
Summer  vacation  preachiog  in  northern 
Wisconsin  lumber  camps,  where  he  called 
aside  a  little  girl  in  one  of  the  camps  and  said 
to  her:  **Mary,  what  are  you  going  to  do 
with  your  immortal  soul  in  this  great  uni- 
verse?'^ She  said  she  did  not  know;  she 
wanted  to  be  educated  and  useful,  but  saw 
no  way  to  it.  He  could — a  way  of  faith ; 
and  found  friends  who  found  other  friends 
who  put  that  girl  through  school.  When 
she  was  graduated  she  visited  Poynette, 
started  in  with  the  school  as  matron  and 
served  it  so  five  years.  One  of  its  professors 
is  a  graduate  of  the  school,  filled  with  its 
spirit,  that  is,  with  faith. 

•When  Dr.  Green's  little  house  became 
crowded  with  pupils,  the  trustees,  with  a 
little  money  in  hand,  put  up  the  frame  for  an 
addition  to  the  school  building,  and  waited 
for  money.  It  did  not  come.  *'We  shall 
go  to  work  the  day  after  commencement " 
Dr.  Green  said  to  the  boys  ;  but  no  money 
came.  At  the  commencement  exercises,  at 
night,  in  Dr.  Green's  mail  came  a  letter 
from  an  old  friend,  saying:  *^I  understand 
you  need  money  for  lumber.  I  enclose  my 
check  for  $250  ;   and  a  neighbor  will  send 


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$250  more/^  So  they  began  work  the  day 
after  commencemept.  Dr.  Green  has  great 
faith  in  that  schooPs  fatnre;  so  have  other 
friends  of  it. 

A,  WORE  FOB  WORKS. 

The  farm  property  carries  purchase  money 
mortgages  of  $1,000,  $614,  and  $2,649.  To 
pay  these,  one  now  due,  there  are  $525  in 
the  Board's  treasury;  a  property  left  by 
bequest  which  it  is  believed  will  pay  the 


$614  mortgage;  and  a  promise  of  $1,000 
conditional  on  the  whole  being  paid.  This 
leaves  to  be  raised  a  balance  of  $2,124 
which,  together  with  something  for  clearing 
land  and  stocking  the  farm  and  carrying  the 
school  threugh  this  year,  ought  to  come  to 
the  treasury  of  the  College  Board  before  very 
long.  It  will  all  be  secured  to  the  Church 
by  a  mortgage  to  the  Board  covering  the 
en  lire  property. 


CHURCH    ERECTION. 


SPECIAL  APPEALS. 

The  following  note  lately  received  is  but 
one  of  many  that  reach  us,  each  containing  a 
circular  for  our  inspection : 

Dear  Sir : — ^The  enclosed  comes  to  me  to- 
day and  I  suppose  is  scattered  broadcast.  Do 
you  know  about  it  and  do  you  think  such 
methods  judicioust    Truly  yours, 


Enclosed  in  the  above  note  was  an  appeal 
for  aid  in  building  from  a  church  of  nearly 
200  members,  the  only  Presbyterian  church 
in  a  prosperous  city  of  nearly  80,000  inhabi- 
tants. With  the  appeal  was  a  card  ingeniously 
arranged  to  receive  a  half-dollar  to  be  re- 
turned as  a  contribution. 


From  another  quarter  a  circular  comes  with 
the  startling  heading: 

**Mkrcy1    Merct!    Mercy! 

Help  I    Help!    Help!" 

This  is  sent  out  broadcast  from  a  young 

church  newly  organized  with  fifty  members 

upon  its  roll  in  a  city  with  a  population  of 

more  than  80,000. 


Still  another  comes,  a  lively  and,  indeed, 
humorous  appeal  to  return  a  '* quarter"  in 
the  accompanying  prepared  card  which  had 
printed  upon  it  the  following  supposititious 
humorous  response  of  the  donor  as  he  mails 
the  '* quarter:" 

'  'Kmd  friend : — Lying  upon  Quarter  deck  on 
lifers  ocean  at  a  Qitarter  b4  4  o'c  in  the  first 


Quarter  of  the  moon  and  the  last  Quarter  of 
tills  century,  I  received  your  modest  request 
for  a  Quarter,  I  thought  at  once,  in  the  lan- 
guage of  the  poet, 

I  surely  orter 
Send  a  Quarter. 

I  moistened  the  mucilage,  the  coin  gently 

pressed,  touched  the  button — you  do  the  rest." 


Another  circular  from  a  town  in  one  of  the 
oldest  states  explains  that  the  church  pro- 
poses to  build  at  an  expense  of  $8,000  and 
has  decided  to  ask  the  assistance  of  the 
churches  throughout  the  state. 


We  refer  to  these  cases  which  are  all  recent 
illustrations  of  appeals  that  are  innumerable 
and  continuous,  kot  because  we  feel  any  lack 
of  sympathy  with  those  who  in  their  desire 
to  complete  a  new  house  of  worship  take  this 
means  of  raising  funds.  Doubtless  in  most 
instances  the  motive  is  a  good  one  and  the 
plan  is  supposed  to  be  eff*»ctive,  but  we  think 
we  can  show  a  more  excellent  way. 

First.  A  word  to  those  who  make  such 
appeals.  Are  those  who  expect  from  them 
substantial  returns  aware  of  the  fact  that  the 
number  of  such  requests  is  very  great — that 
they  no  longer  come  to  a  church  or  an  indi- 
vidual with  the  charm  of  novelty  t  Thus  they 
have  comparatively  little  affect.  Could  those 
who  have  tried  this  plan  of  sending  appeals 
broadcast  relate  their  experience,  it  would 
almost  without  exception  be  a  tale  of  disap- 
pointment.    In  many  instances  not  enough 


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has  been  received  to  pay  for  the  expense  of 
printing  and  postage.  As  a  mle  if  a  congre- 
gation cannot  with  its  own  resources  and  with 
such  contributions  as  near  neighbors  gladly 
add,  obtain  two-thirds  of  the  amount  needed 
to  build,  there  in  little  hope  in  the  appeal  by 
letter  to  strangers  in  other  places.  Every- 
where demands  press  hard  upon  the  supplies, 
and  what  can  be  given  over  and  above  the 
contributions  through  the  organized  agencies 
of  the  church  is  easily  absorbed  at  their  very 
doors.  It  was  precisely  for  this  very  reason 
that  the  Board  of  Church  Erection  was  organ- 
ized. Its  work  is  to  gather  and  to  distribute 
— to  gather  all  that  congregations  can  spare 
from  their  home  work — and  then  to  distribute 
equitably  according  to  the  needs  of  the  weaker 
churches  engaged  in  home  building. 

On  the  other  hand  there  are  obvious  reasons 
why  the  General  Assembly  should  express,  as 
it  often  has,  its  disapproval  of  such  special 
appeals. 

1.  They  are  not  generally  from  the 
churches  that  are  the  most  needy;  but  more 
often  from  those  that  are  building  too  ambi- 
tiously and  suddenly  find  themselves  con- 
fronted with  a  debt  that  a  wise  prudence 
would  have  escaped. 

2.  Such  appeals  seldom  contain  any  accu- 
rate statements  of  the  resources  of  the  con- 
gregation, its  just  needs,  or  the  proposed  ex- 
pense of  its  building. 

3.  There  is  ordinarily  no  accountmg  of  the 
receipts  and  expenditures — and  no  way  in 
which  the  donors  can  know  when  a  sufficiency 
has  bedn  furnished. 

4.  In  case  of  failure,  or  relinquishment  of 
plan,  there  is  no  provision  for  the  return  of 
the  money 

5.  The  money  given  cannot  be  secured  be 
yond  the  possibility  of  alienation  to  the  per- 
manent use  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

For  such  reasons  as  these  this  Board  is 
obliged  to  answer  the  question  asked  in  the 
first  letter  quoted: — *'No,  WB  do  not  think 

SUCH  KKTHODS  JUDICIOUS." 


RESPONSES  FROM  SYNODS. 
We  give  below  extracts  from  the  reports  of 
the  standing  committees  of  several  of  the 


Synods.    The  suggestions  seem  to  us  timely 
and  valuable. 

SYNOD  OF  IOWA. 

Your  Committee  recommend  the  following  res- 
olutions : 

1.  That  the  Synod  make  grateful  recognition 
of  the  good  work  of  the  Board  within  our 
bounds. 

2.  That  we  commend  this  Board  to  the  gen- 
erous liberality  of  all  our  churches,  and  urge 
upon  all  ministers  in  charge  thereof  to  afford  to 
them  at  least  opportunity  to  make  an  annual  con- 
tribution to  it,  and  thereby  fulfill  their  honest 
pledge  to  the  Board. 

We  recommend  that  the  Synodical  Committee 
communicate  with  the  Presbyterial  Committees 
with  a  view  to  increasing  contributions  to  the 
Board;  and  also,  that  they  endeavor  to  obtain 
from  those  churches  which  have  been  aided  by 
the  Board,  the  sum  of,  at  least,  2  or  8  per  cent, 
of  the  aid  received  by  the  Board,  as  a  minimum 
annual  offering. 

SYNOD  OP  OHIO. 

Betolved,  1— That  the  Synod  of  Ohio  specially 
urge  upon  its  Presbyteries  the  adoption  of  some 
measures  to  secure  an  annual  contribution  from 
each  church  under  each  Presbytery  to  this 
board. 

2~That  as  $150,000  is  the  smallest  amount 
necessary  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  Board 
this  year,  the  Synod  of  Ohio  pledges  herself  to 
undertake  faithfully  her  portion. 

8 — That  we  will  urge  upon  our  churches  as 
far  as  practicable,  to  make  loans  from  the  Board 
and  not  grants,  so  that  the  more  destitute  fields 
beyond  may  be  helped :  the  same  to  be  repaid  In 
specified  annual  payments  which  will  be  credited 
to  the  church  as  its  annual  contributions,  as 
recommended  by  the  Board  and  General  Assem- 
bly. 

4 — That  the  churches  making  special  contri- 
butions to  particular  churches  be  earnestly  ad- 
vised to  send  such  contributions  through  the 
Board. 

SYNOD  OF  OREGON. 

Since  the  territory  of  Oregon  was  taken  for 
Christ,  and  the  standard  of  the  Cross  erected  on 
this  coast,  some  68  churches  in  the  Synod  of 
Oregon  have  received  aid  from  this  Board  in 
erecting  houses  of  worship.  The  aggregate 
amount  received  by  these  churches  is  upwards 
of  $40,000,  and  the  amount  of  property  secured 
for  the  church  by  these  donations  is,  in  round 
numbers,  $123,000.  With  these  facts  before  us, 
we  are  thankful  for  the  past  and  hopeful  of  the 
future. 


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Another  fact  which  has  had  a  great  bearing  on 
the  evangelization  of  the  great  west  and  north- 
west is  this: 

When  Congress  passed  the  Homestead  law  in 
1863,  the  Board  of  Church  Erection  had  been  in 
successful  operation  for  several  years.  So  that 
when  families  of  the  Presbyterian  faith,  in  seek- 
ing homes  on  the  public  domain,  congregated  in 
communities  too  great  to  be  neglected  and  too 
small  to  properly  care  for  themselves,  there  was 
a  fund  upon  which  they  could  draw  in  providing 
themselves  with  houses  of  worship. 

This  shows  the  interest  taken  in  His  people  by 
the  great  Head  of  the  Church.  His  eye  is  ever 
upon  them.  He  is  ever  looking  out  for  their 
comfort  and  protection.  Without  this  fund, 
churches  that  are  now  self-supporting  and  others 
that  are  approaching  self-support  could  not  have 
maintained  an  existence.  But  through  the  oper- 
ation of  this  Board  the  work  has  steadily  grown 
year  by  year. 

Every  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
should  recognize  and  discharge  his  duty  at  once 
to  this  arm  of  the  Church.  We,  therefore,  remind 
the  sessions  of  the  various  churches  in  the 
Synod,  of  the  necessity  of  adopting  some  plan 
by  which  every  member  can  be  reached  and  a 
contribution  had  from  every  church. 


treasury  would  be  always  full.   May  the  Lord 
greatly  prosper  the  work  and  bless  you. 

Pastor. 


WHAT  A  PASTOR  CAN  DO. 

If  experience  makes  anything  clear,  it  is 
that  supplies  to  our  Boards  would  be  abund- 
ant, if  each  congregation  had  an  opportunity 
to  give,  and  also  at  the  time  of  giving,  fresh 
information  in  regard  to  the  work  in  hand, 
and  its  needs. 

Such  letters  as  the  following  are  oot  infre- 
quent and  are  eloquent  as  to  what  might  be. 
Will  other  pastors  try  the  experiment? 

Eev,  and  Dear  8ir. — Last  year  the  church 

gave  your  cause  but  t simply  because 

the  work  of  Church  Erection  was  not  pre- 
sented to  the  congregation  in  any  sort  of 
address. 

,  This  year  circulars  were  asked  for.  They 
were  received  and  distributed  in  the  congre- 
gation the  previous  Sabbath,  and  a  good  op- 
portunity was  given  to  the  people  to  get  in- 
telligence as  to  your  work.  Then  they  were 
asked  to  help  and  they  did — ^giving  more  than 
three  times  what  was  sent  last  year.  If  all 
small  churches  would  do  likewise  I  think  your 


CHURCH  ERECTION  AMONG  THE 
PIMAS. 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Cook,  M.  D.,  of  Sacaton, 
Arizona,  writes: 

We  have  on  this  reservation  but  one  church 
organization,  with  two  chapels,  one  at  this 
place,  seating  300  persons,  and  one  twelve  miles 
east  of  here,  seating  when  crowded  150  per- 
sons. Since  organizing  in  April  1889,  we  have 
received  in  all  102  members,  a  few  of  whom 
have  died.  32  members  reside  at  the  Blackwater 
villages  and  8  at  the  Gila  Crossing  villages,  south 
of  the  Gila,  some  85  miles  below  here.  The  re- 
mainder live  in  the  other  villages,  more  or  less 
distant.  In  the  villages  within  twelve  miles  of 
this  place  we  have  frequent  open  air  meetings 
and  we  hope  in  time  to  build  small  chapels  in 
some  of  them. 

At  the  Gila  Crossing  villages,  five  larger  and 
some  smaller  ones,  about  900  Indians  reside,  and 
the  water  privileges  for  irrigation  are  the  best  on 
the  reservation.  Our  members  down  there  have 
exerted  a  good  influence,  otherwise  these  Indians 
are  not  improving  in  morals,  they  are  perishing 
for  lack  of  knowledge. 

The  roads  leading  there  are  dusty  and  sandy, 
and  impassable  when  the  river  is  high  for  a  few 
months  during  the  year.  On  the  south  of  the 
river  most  of  the  land  is  low  and  not  suitable  for 
good  buildings.  We  need  a  chapel  there,  seating 
250  or  more  persons,  and  a  small  parsonage,  in- 
cluding kitchen,  a  room  for  feed  for  horses  and 
a  yard  and  shed  for  horses.  With  suitable  build- 
ings we  may  look  for  large  congregations  during 
winter  evenings  and  on  Sundays  during  summer. 
We  have  no  schools  there.  A  few  of  the  children 
attend  our  Tucson  school,  75  miles  from  here,  a 
few  others  attend  the  government  school  here 
and  some  attend  the  government  school  at 
Phoenix,  Arizona. 

The  proposed  parsonage  is  to  be  located  about 
82  miles  N.  W.  by  W.  from  Sacaton,  or  the  Pima 
Indian  Agency,  on  the  reservation.  About  000 
Indians  reside  in  that  neighborhood,  of  whom  8 
are  church  members. 

So  far  no  other  church  has  done  anything  for 
them.  Four  villages  each  have  a  small  room, 
about  10x10,  with  a  cross  on  top  of  the  rooms. 
Here  at  times  many  Indians  assemble,  when  one 
at  a  time  goes  inside,  kneels  before  a  picture 
and  kisses  it,  and  then  deposits  some  wheat  or 


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money,  part  of  which  the  keeper  of  the  house 
appropriates  to  himself,  and  part  of  it  is  used 
for  a  general  drunk.  This  mode  of  worship  was 
introduced  by  Indians  from  Sonora,  Mexico,  and 
suits  many  of  them.  A  similar  worship  at  the 
Blackwater  villages,  where  we  have  a  chapel, 
has  altogether  disappeared,  and  the  "Saints 
huts  "  are  in  ruins.  Without  a  large  chapel  and 
parsonage  and  a  permanent  work,  we  can  do  but 
little  for  these  Indians.  This  is  indeed  a  very 
needy  field. 

All  our  applications  for  aid  are  made  by  advice 
of  our  Presbytery  or  through  its  committee; 
nearly  always  sudi  matters  are  brought  before 
Presbytery  first.  In  this  matter  both  applica- 
tions were  approved  by  Presbytery. 

After  looking  the  whole  field  over  carefully, 
and  after  consultatipn  with  our  Tucson  carpen- 
ter, we  concluded  that  we  would  need  $1200, 
which  would  not  include  any  pay  for  carpenter 
work,  for  painting,  etc.'  $500  of  this  amount 
is  raised  already  and  available.  The  carpenter 
and  other  free  work  we  estimate  at  $800  or  more, 


and  we  ask  your  Board  to  help  us  $400  on  the 
church  and  $800  on  the  manse.  As  it  is  advisa- 
ble not  to  build  with  adobes  between  December 
1st  and  March  15,  we  would  like  to  commence 
building  about  March  15,  with  the  hope  of  fin- 
ishing all  by  the  middle  of  May  next.  Window 
frames,  door  frames  and  bench  work  we  can  pre- 
pare during  winter.  A  well  has  been  dug 
already,  which  has  good,  sweet  water,  though 
much  of  the  well-water  not  far  off  is  salty  and 
unfit  for  use.  The  ground  has  also  been  pre- 
pared. The  ground  is  nearly  the  highest  in  the 
neighborhood  and  no  danger  from  an  overfiow. 

There  is  ample  work  down  there  for  one  mis- 
sionary and  an  Indian  helper.  Our  aim  at  present 
is  to  give  to  these  Indians  a  chance  to  hear  the 
GkMspel,  and  if  possible  prepare  the  field  so  that 
a  new  man  would  find  the  work  less  difficult. 

I  will  send  you  a  copy  of  a  little  book,  giving 
some  items  about  these.  Indians,  also  plans  for 
church  and  manse.  I  hope  the  Board  will  be 
able  to  give  us  the  needed  help  no  later  than 
March  15,  1894. 


PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK. 


SABBATH-SCHOOL  MISSIONS  AND 
YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETIES. 

The  desirability  and  importance  of  interest- 
ing the  young  people  of  the  Christian  En- 
deavor Societies  of  our  Church  in  its  missions, 
and  of  educating  them  to  a  proper  under- 
standing of  the  particular  and  distinctive 
claims  of  the  various  boards,  is  generally 
felt,  and  with  this  end  in  view  the  first  of  a 
series  of  leaflets  addressed  to  these  societies 
from  the  Sabbath- school  department  has 
recently  been  issued,  and  will,  it  is  hoped, 
find  general  acceptance  among  them,  and  a 
ready  and  liberal  response. 

The  proposition  is  that  the  Presbyterian 
Christian  Endeavor  Societies  of  different 
States  shall  pledge  themselves  to  contribute 
annually  a  definite  amount,  from  five  te  ten 
dollars  each,  so  as  to  make  up  an  annual  sum 
sufficient  for  the  support  of  a  Sabbath-school 
missionary  for  each  State  or  group  of  States; 
in  the  case  of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania 
two  missionaries  from  each  State.  Should 
this  proposition  prevail  to  the  full  extent 
anticipated,  the  Board  would  soon  be  in  a 


position  to  add  ten  or  twelve  missionaries  to 
its  permanent  staff,  and  these  would  be 
designated  Christian  Endeavor  missionaries, 
and  report  to  the  contributing  societies  every 
three  months. 

It  is  greatly  to  be  desired  that  this  move- 
ment should  find  favor  with  our  young 
friends,  for  the  special  reason,  among  others, 
that  the  work  of  Sabbath-school  missions  is 
primarily  directed  to  the  youth  of  our  coun- 
try, and  presents,  therefore,  a  strong  appeal 
to  Christian  Endeavorers.  The  following  are 
some  of  the  points  brought  forward  in  the 
leaflet  referred  to : 

YOUNG  PEOPLE  WORKING  FOR  YOUNG  PEOPLE. 

The  work  is  supported,  to  a  very  large 
extent,  by  the  contributions  of  Sabbath- 
schools.  Thus,  the  more  favored  youth  of 
our  land  extend  brotherly  sympathy  and 
help  to  those  children  and  young  people  who 
are  in  need. 

PARENT  OF  CHRISTLiN  ENDEAVOR  SOCIETIES. 

Following  closely  the  organization  of  Sab- 
bath-schools there  is  a  rapid  multiplication 
of  all  forms  of  religious  effort,  especially  in 


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the  direction  of  yoang  people^s  societies. 
New  territory  is  thus  opened  for  the  progress 
of  the  ChristianJBndeavor  movement,  which 
is  brought  into  direct  relation  to  the  Sabbath- 
school  Mission  work. 

THE  FIELD  OP  WORK. 

The  Christian  Endeavorer  and  Sabbath- 
school  Missionary  may  study  with  profit  the 
following  facts  and  figures : 

There  are  yet  many  millions  of  children 
and  young  people  outside  of  our  Sabbath - 
schools;  we  are  not  keeping  pace — all  Chris- 
tian agencies  combined — with  the  growth  of 
juvenile  population. 

Annual  addition  to  our  juvenile  population 
400,000. 

Annual  addition  to  membership  in  Sabbath- 
schools  200,000. 

In  ten  Southern  States  there  are  2,700,000 
children  unreached  by  Christian  influences. 

Kansas  has  a  school  population  of  510,000 
aod  a  Sabbath  school  membership  of  250,000. 

The  increase  last  year  in  Sabbaih  school 
membership  in  Michigan — a  State  rich  in 
gospel  privileges — was  only  about  50  per  cent 
of  the  increase  in  juvenile  population. 

Colorado  has  about  100,000  children  of 
school  age  and  only  about  40,000  enrolled  in 
Sabbath-schools. 

In  Texas  there  are  one  million  childten 
outside  of  Sabbath  schools. 

Figures  from  other  States  and  territories, 
as  far  as  obtained,  show  similar  or  even  worse 
results. 

THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  AROUSED. 

Our  Church  has  of  late  years  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  this  great  question.  In  the  five 
years  ended  last  April  she  organized,  through 
her  S.  S.  Missionaries,  over  5,000  Sabbath - 
schools  with  an  enrollment  of  more  than 
200,000  children  and  youth.  Many  thriving 
churches  have  grown  out  of  these  schools. 
The  good  results  are  simply  incalculable. 
For  example: 

In  Nebraska  75  schools  were  planted  in 
one  year  in  places  where  there  would  other- 
wise have  been  no  organized  spiritual  work. 

The  Synod  of  Oregon  reports  that  the  work 
of  the  Sabbath  school  and  Missiomur^  Depart- 
ment b^  boeu  signally  blessed. 


Minnesota  organized  98  new  schools  and 
re-organized  64 — total  162. 

In  many  other  parts  of  our  country  similar 
good  work  has  been  done. 

All  the  Missionary  Synods — in  fact  all  the 
Synods — have  emphatically  commended  this 
movement. 

The  Church  cannot  afford  to  recede  from 
this  advanced  position.  She  is  thus  extend- 
ing her  influence  and  power  for  good  over 
the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land. 

VLhJH%  FOR  THE  EXTENSION  OF  OUR  WORK. 

1.  More  missionaries  to  meet  the  growing 
demand  upon  us. 

2.  A  special  fund  for  the  purchase  of  lots 
and  the  building  of  suitable  chapels  for  newly 
organized  schools  in  many  places,  especially 
in  the  South  among  the  colored  population. 

3.  Increased  funds  for  grants  to  new  and 
struggling  Sabbath-schools. 

The  first  response  to  the  foregoing  appeal 
was  from  the  Christian  Endeavor  Society  of 
Pine  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Harris- 
burgh,  S.  Elizabeth  Croft,  president,  and  M. 
W.  Buehler,  secretary,  with  a  pledge  of  five 
dollars  annually.  It  is  hoped  that  this  will 
prove  to  be  the  beginning  of  a  great  move- 
ment in  aid  of  our  missions. 


A  FEW  WORDS  TO  PERSONS  OF 
MEANS. 
The  rapid  growth  within  the  past  five 
years  of  the  Sabbath  school  missionary  work 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  fully  justified  the 
G^eneral  Assembly  at  Washington  in  asking 
the  churches.  Sabbath-schools  and  individual 
members  of  our  communion  to  contribute  the 
sum  of  $200,000  to  carry  on  the  work  for  the 
coming  year.  This  means  practically  doub- 
ling last  yearns  missionary  income  of  the 
Board  of  Publication  and  Sabbath  school 
Work. 

CAN  IT  BE  DONE? 

The  answer  is  that  it  is  clearly  within  the 
bounds  of  possibility,  but  that  in  order  to 
accomplish  it  we  must  have  the  co-operation 
and  the  gifts  of  the  wealthy  and  the  liberal. 

It  takes  about  $1,000  to  pay  the  salary  and 
expenses  of  one  Sal)b^tb-scbool  Missiouarjr 
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EVEBY  MI88I0NAB7  PLANTS  PROM  TEN  TO  PIPTEEN 
AND  MORE  SABBATH-SCHOOLS  A  TEAR 

in  dark,  heathenish  spots  in  our  country, 
brings  from  500  to  1,000  children  under 
Christian  influences,  lays  the  foundation  of 
church  organizations  with  their  manifold  in- 
stitutions of  a  moral  and  civilizing  as  well  as 
a  spiritual  nature,  travels  thou^ands  of  miles, 
distributes  wholesome  literature,  and  returns 
back  to  the  community  in  substantial  good 
done,  greater  results  than  can  be  obtained 
from  any  other  plan  of  Christian  effort. 

In  times  of  ordinary  prosperity  the  middle 
classes  and  even  the  ppor  of  our  churche«, 
receiving  money  freely,  can  be  relied  upon  to 
give  freely  to  the  canse  of  Christian  missions, 
but  in  such  a  crisis  as  this,  when  the  income 
of  the  great  majority  of  people  is  much 
reduced,  the  Church  must  rely  upon  the 
enlarged  donations  of  her  more  favored  mem- 
beis.  Providence  is  calling  upon  the  rich  to 
give  at  this  hour  out  of  their  abundance. 

It  is  the  time  when  the  very  difficulty  of 
finding  profitable  and  secure  investments  for 
money  suggests  thoughts  about  a  heavenly 
treasure,  and  an  investment  in  the  cause  of 
God,  where  dividends  are  large  and  absolutely 
sure. 

The  Standing  Committee  of  the  last  General 
Assembly  in  endorsing  this  Sdbbath- school 
and  missionary  work  calls  attention  to  the 
fact  vouched  for  by  an  accurate  statistician 
that  there  are  7,000,000  lads  and  young  men 
in  the  United  States  who  never  enter  a  place 
of  worship,  and  that  600,000  of  these  are 
annually  in  prisons  and  penal  institutions, 
and  that  there  are  over  18  millions  of  children 
and  youth  in  our  country  outside  of  Sabbath- 
schools. 

The  vast  western  regions  of  our  country 
will  be  saved  to  civilization  and  morality,  if 
at  all,  by  the  toils  of  men  who,  like  our 
Sabbath-school  missionaries,  are  sowing  the 
seeds  of  gospel  truth  ^^  beside  all  waters/' 

ONE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS. 

One  missionary — 500  children  and  youth 
under  Christian  instruction — the  sowing  of 
precious  seed  in  virgin  soil — the  planting  of 
schools  and  churches — the  leaven  of  right- 
M^wiess  dilCos^  tbroa([b  many  conuaumUes  I 


WILL  TOU  HELP  US  t 

Will  you  not  take  into  serious  consideration 
the  question  of  undertaking  the  support  of  one 
Sabbath-school  Missionary,  or  of  bearing  one- 
half  or  at  least  one- quarter  of  that  expense) 
If  your  gift,  added  to  the  contribution  of  your 
church,  should  bring  the  amount  up  to 
$1,000,  this  Board  will  assign  to  your  church, 
its  own  missionary,  from  whom  you  will 
receive  monthly  reports.  In  the  same  man- 
ner the  gift  of  one-half  or  one-quarter,  as 
above,  will  entitle  you  to  special  reports. 

A  peculiar  call  is  coming  to  us  from  the 
South  and  from  some  places  in  the  West,  for 
the  Bpard  to  a<:sist  in  the  building  of  inex- 
penaive  and  plain  chapels  for  the  newly 
organized  mission  schools.  These  buildings, 
with  the  lots,  are  not  to  cost  over  $400  apiece. 
This  Boird  is  asked  to  encourage  and  assist 
in  their  erection  to  the  amount  of  $100  each, 
the  people  of  the  community  providing  the 
rest  y^j  their  contributions  of  money,  material 
and  labor.  Any  individual  contributing  $100 
for  this  purpose  will  have  the  privilege  of 
naming  the  building  towards  the  erection  of 
which  his  money  is  donated. 
Yours  faithfully, 

Jakes  A.  Worden, 
Supt.  of  Sab-sch.  and  Missionary  Work. 
E.  R.  Craven,  Secretary, 

The  Great  Agenot  of  the  Nineteenth 
Centurt.— A  leaflet  with  this  title  has  been 
issued  by  this  Board,  and  may  be  obtained 
free  on  application  to  Dr.  Worden,  setting 
forth  some  of  the  peculiar  features  of  the 
Sabbath-school  Mission  Work.  Mr.  Franklin 
L.  Sheppard,  the  writer  of  the  tract,  was 
a  member  of  the  Committee  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  1886  upon  whose  report  the 
reorganization  of  the  Board  of  Publication 
was  effected.  He  is  a  warm  friend  of  Sab- 
bath-schools, and  this  leaflet  states  the  claims 
of  this  work  in  a  very  clear  and  convincing 
manner. 

Grotius,  a  little  before  his  death,  said : — 
**I  would  give  all  my  learning  and  honor 
could  I  change  situations  with  Jean  Urick," 
an  illiterate  neighbor,  Who  spent  much  of  his 
time  in  prayer,  wid  in  the  study  of  the  Scrip- 
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Thoughts  on 
The  Sabbath -school  Lessons. 

January  7. — The^ First  Adam. — Gen.  i:26- 
31;  11:1-3. 

While  we  cannot  fail  to  recognize  the 
superiority  of  man  over  the  lower  animals 
in  both  physical  and  Intellectual  nature,  his 
crowning  glory  or  distinction  is  that  moral 
character — that  power  to  distiu^ish  between 
right  and  wrong,  with  which,  at  his  creation 
he  was  endowed.  Made  in  the  image  of  Ood. 
We  pause  reverently,  awe  struck  by  the 
words,  with  all  the  possibilities  that  they 
suggest.  Capable  of  being  holy  as  God  is 
holy,  responsible  for  that  choice  of  good  in- 
stead of  evil  that  should  keep  that  holy 
nature  pure  and  blameless  in  the  sight  of 
its  Creator.  The  failure  to  stand  the  test, 
the  yielding  to  the  first  temptation  has 
worked  a  sorrowful  change,  and  it  is  only  a 
marred,  distorted  image  of  God  that  we  see 
in  the  world  around  us  and  that  we  are  con- 
scious of  in  our  own  beings.  Though  created 
in  the  image  of  God,  fallen  man  *^must  be 
born  again,''  that  he  may  *^be  conformed  to 
the  image  of  his  son ; ''  and  the  regenerated 
heart  disheartened  by  its  daily  failures  to 
live  up  to  the  standard  of  *^  the  new  man, 
renewed  in  knowledge  after  the  image  of 
him  that  created  him,'' may  find  comfort  in 
the  assurance,  ^*I  shall  be  satisfied,  when  I 
awake,  with  thy  likeness.'* 

January  14. — Adam's  Sin  and  God's  Grace, 
— Gen.  ill:  1-15. 

When  Milton  set  himself  to  the  task  to  sing 

"Of  man's  first  disobedience,  and  the  fruit 
Of  that  forbidden  tree,  whose  mortal  taste 
Brought  death  into  the  world,. and  all  our  woe. 
With  loss  of  Eden," 

he  felt  the  need  of  a  spiritual  uplifting  and 
enlightening. 

"What  in  me  is  dark 

Illumine,  what  is  low  raise  and  support; 

That  to  the  height  of  this  great  argument 

I  may  assert  eternal  Providence 

And  justify  the  ways  of  God  to  men." 

So  the  Sabbath-school  teacher  who  comes  to 
his  class  with  this  lesson  of  sin  and  free  grace 
will  need  much  help  to  make  plain  to  his 
scholars  the  common  need  of  salvation  and 
the  perfect  way  of  escape,  to  make  them 


realize  the  individual  application  of  the  truth 
that  ^^in  Adam  all  die,"  and  then  to  turn 
with  confidence  and  joy  to  the  assurance  that 
in  Christ  each  trusting,  repentant  soul  '*  shall 
be  made  alive." 

January  21. — Cain  and  Ahd, — Gen.  ix:8- 
17. 

Death  reigned  ever  since  Adam  sinned,  but 
we  read  not  of  any  taken  captive  by  him 
until  now;  and  now  the  first  that  dies  is  a 
saint,  one  that  was  accepted  and  beloved  of 
God ;  to  show  that  though  the  promised  Seed 
was  so  far  to  destroy  him  that  had  the  power 
of  death  as  to  save  believers  from  its  sting, 
yet  that  still  they  should  be  exposed  to  his 
stroke.  The  first  that  went  to  the  grave  went 
to  heaven;  God  would  secure  to  himself  the 
first  fruits,  the  first-born  to  the  dead.  The 
first  that  dies  is  a  martyr  and  dies  for  his 
religion ;  and  of  such  it  may  more  truly  be 
said  than  of  soldiers  that  they  die  on  the 
field  of  honor.  Abel's  death  has  not  only  no 
curse  in  it,  but  it  has  a  crown  in  it. 

Matthew  Henry. 

The  early  death  of  Abel  can  be  no  punish- 
ment; he  seemed  in  fact  to  enjoy  the  peculiar 
favor  of  God;  his  offering  was  graciously 
accepted.  We  find,  therefore,  in  this  narra- 
tive, the  great  and  beautiful  thought,  that 
life  is  not  the  highest  boon ;  that  the  pious 
find  a  better  existence  and  a  more  blessed 
reward  in  another  and  a  purer  sphere;  but 
that  crime  and  guilt  are  the  greatest  evils ; 
that  they  are  punished  by  a  long  and  weari- 
some life,  full  of  fear  and  care  and  compunc- 
tion of  conscience. — Kalisch. 

January  28. — Chd's  Covenant  with  Noah. — 
Gen.  ix:  8-17. 

For  the  second  time  in  the  short  history  of 
the  world  a  single  family  stood  alone  looking 
out  into  the  future.  With  unlimited  oppor- 
tunity, with  free  permission  to  take  possession 
of  the  earth  and  its  resources,  with  an  expe- 
rience behind  them  of  the  result  of  disobe- 
dience, they  have  such  a  chance  to  make  a 
fresh  start  as  life  seldom  offers;  and  with  it 
all,  the  sure  covenant  of  a  faithful  God  to  rest 
upon.  What  they  did  with  these  opportuni- 
ties the  history  that  follows  tells  us.  But 
after  many  a  summer  shower,  the  rainbow 
spanning  the  heavens  still  speaks  the  covenant 


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message,  and  the  faith  of  GKxl's  children  is 
strengthened  by  the  reminder  that: 

"  Deep  beneath  the  roaring  ocean. 
Deep  beneath  the  raging  flood, 
All  unstirred  by  their  commotion, 
Lie  the  promises  of  God. 

Firmly  we  are  anchored  to  them, 

Though  In  tatters  hang  our  shrouds; 

Calmly  we  look  up  and  through  them, 
View  the  thunder-riven  clouds. 

We'll  not  ask  thee  what  thou  doest ; 

Whatsoe'er  it  is,  'tis  right. 
Thou  of  friends,  a  Friend  the  truest, 

Thou  wilt  lead  through  storm  and  night. " 


Young  People's  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN. 

HOW  TO  BEGIN. 
BT  RB7.  JAMES  H.  BROOKES,  B.  B. 

UBless  we  know  how  to  begin  a  course  of 
conduct,  it  is  certain  that  we  cannot  know 
how  to  continue.  Hence  the  unspeakable  im- 
]K>rtauce  of  a  right  start  in  the  Christian  life; 
and  this  right  start  is  made  when  there  is  real 
conyersion,  not  a  mere  profession,  but  an 
actual  possession  of  Christ,  a  new  birth,  or 
birth  from  above.  It  is  as  true  now  as  it  was 
when  the  Lord  Jesus  conversed  with  Nicode- 
mus  by  night  that  *' except  a  man  be  bom 
again,  he  cannot  see  the  kingdom  of  God." 
The  rule  is  universal,  and  admits  of  no  ex- 
ception: **  Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  thee,  Ex- 
cept a  man  [Greek,  any  one]  be  born  of  water 
and  the  Spirit,  he  cannot  enter  into  the  king- 
d(Hn  of  Gk)d."    Jno.  iii.  5. 

It  follows,  therefore,  that  reformation  of 
habits,  or  outward  connection  with  the 
church,  or  sincere  efforts  to  "do  the  best  we 
can,"  will  not  avail  to  save  the  soul  and  body. 
"Ye  must  be  bom  again,"  is  the  voice  of  the 
Son  of  God,  that  stUl  sounds  in  all  lands,  and 
in  the  ears  of  every  human  being ;  *  *  For  there 
is  no  difference :  for  all  have  sinned,  and  come 
short  of  the  glory  of  God."  Horn.  iii.  22,  28. 

It  was  not  only  of  the  antediluvians  "  CFod 
saw  that  the  wickedness  of  men  was  great  in 
Uie  earth,  and  that  every  imagination  of  the 
thoQghts  of  his  heart  was  only  evil  contin- 


ually." G^n.  vi.  6.  David  was  making  the 
confession,  not  for  himself  alone  but  for  all 
men,  when  he  wrote,  "Behold,  I  was  shapen 
in  iniquity,  and  in  sin  did  my  mother  conceive 
me, "  Ps.  li.  5 ;  and  it  is  not  merely  of  some 
detestable  criminals,  but  of  the  human  race, 
the  unerring  pen  of  inspiration  records  the 
fact,  "the  heart  is  deceitful  above  all  things, 
and  desperately  wicked."  Jer.  xvii.  9. 

Failure  to  recognize  this  as  trae,  and  true 
of  ourselves,  accounts  for  shallow  experiences, 
and  weak  and  inefficient  lives  among  profess- 
ing Christians.  We  must  accept  it,  because 
God  says  it,  that  we  "  were  dead  in  trespasses 
and  sins;  wherein  in  time  past  ye  walked 
according  to  the  course  of  this  world,  accord- 
ing to  the  prince  of  the  power  of  the  air,  the 
spirit  that  now  worketh  in  the  children  of 
disodedience;  among  whom  also  we  all  had 
our  conversation  in  times  past  in  the  lusts  of 
our  flesh,  fulfilling  the  desires  of  the  flesh 
and  of  the  mind;  and  were  by  nature  the 
children  of  wrath,  even  as  others."  Eph.  ii. 
1-3.  "  By  nature  "  means  that  we  are  bom 
that  way;  and  as  the  apostle  says,  "I  know 
that  in  me,  (that  is,  in  my  flesh,)"  in  the  nature 
with  which  I  was  bom  into  the  world,  there 
"dwelleth  no  good  thing."  Rom.  vii.  18. 
Again,  "the  mind  of  the  flesh  is  enmity 
against  God ;  for  it  is  not  subject  to  the  law 
of  God,  neither  indeed  can  be,"  Bom.  viii. 
7 .    Thus  arises  the  necessity  of  the  new  birth. 

Just  here,  in  our  depravity  and  guilt  and 
misery,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  meets  us  with 
the  blessed  proclamation,  "  God  so  loved  the 
world,  that  He  gave  His  only  begotten  Son, 
that  whosoever  believeth  in  Him  should  not 
perish,  but  have  everlasting  life."  John  iii. 
16.  He  gave  Him  to  take  our  place  under 
the  condemnation  and  righteous  punishment 
of  sin,  "for  He  hath  made  Him,  who  knew 
no  sin,  to  be  sin  for  us;  that  we  might  be 
made  the  righteousness  of  God  in  Him."  II 
Cor.  V.  21.  It  is  the  very  essence  of  the 
Gospel,  as  the  apostle  distinctly  declares, 
"  that  Christ  died  for  our  sins  according  to 
the  Scriptures,"  I  Cor.  xv.  1,  8;  and  it  is  the 
leading  tmth  of  both  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments that  "it  is  the  blood  that  maketh  an 
atonement  for  the  soul,"  Lev.  xvii.  11;  "and 
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Heb.  iz.  22.  GK>d  says,  *'  The  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  His  Son  cleanseth  us  from  all  sin.'* 

Precisely  what  we  are  to  do  in  order  to  be 
saved  is  so  plainly  revealed,  that  ^^the  way- 
faring man,  though  a  fool,  need  not  err 
therein."  Bead  as  if  you  could  hear  the 
Sariour  speaking  directly  to  yourself, "  Verily, 
verily,  I  say  unto  YOU,  He  that  heareth  my 
word,  and  believeth  on  Him  that  sent  me, 
HATH  everlasting  life,  and  shall  not  come 
into  judgment;  but  IS  passed  out  of  death 
into  life."  Jno.  v.  34.  **  This  is  the  woik  of 
Gk)d,  that  ye  believe  on  Him  whom  He  hath 
sent."  Jno.  vi.  29.  **He  that  believeth  on 
Him  is  not  judged;  but  he  that  believeth  not 
is  judged  already,  because  he  hath  not  be- 
lieved in  the  name  of  the  only  begotten  Son 
of  God."  Jno.  iii.  18.  CoDsequently,  since 
the  death  of  Christ  **to  put  away  sin  by  the 
sacrifice  of  Himself,"  Heb.  ix.  26,  it  is  no 
longer  merely  the  sin  question,  but  the  Son 
question.  The  interests  of  eternity  turn  upon 
the  reception  of  Him,  confidence  in  Him, 
faith  in  Him,  trust  in  Him  as  able  and  will- 
ing to  save,  as  we  are,  and  now. 

''By  Him  all  that  believe  ABE  justified 
from  all  things."  Acts  xiii.  89.  There  is  not 
a  speck  nor  stain  left  upon  your  soul  as  large 
as  the  point  of  the  finest  cambric  needle,  for 
''there  is,  therefore,  NOW  no  [not  one]  con- 
demnation to  them  which  are  in  Christ  Jesus.  ^' 
Bom.  viii.  1.  "To  him  that  worketh  not, 
but  believeth  on  Him  that  justifieth  the  un- 
godly, his  faith  is  counted  for  righteousness." 
Bom.  iv.  6.  You  are  not  called  to  lift  your 
hand,  or  to  move  an  eye-lash,  but  to  believe 
that  Jesus  Christ  has  done  all  the  work  GK>d 
saw  was  needful,  in  order  that  He  might  for- 
give poor  sinners,  and  accept  them  to  righteous 
in  His  sight.  "Ye  are  all  the  children  of 
God  by  faith  in  Christ  Jesus."  Gal.  iii.  26. 
"Whosoever  believeth  that  Jesus  is  the  Christ, 
is  bom  of  Gk)d."  I  Jno.  v.  1.  If  you  say 
that  you  believe  Jesus  is  the  Christ,  but  you 
are  not  born  of  God,  stop  and  consider  that 
you  make  God  a  liar;  and  if  you  say  that 
His  testimony  gives  you  no  comfort,  it  is  be- 
cause you  do  not  believe  that  what  he  says 
about  the  person,  so  believing,  is  true. 

All  of  this  shows  the  necessity  of  entire 
dependence  upon  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  of  ab- 


solute confidence  in  the  unerring  Word  of 
€k)d,  if  you  would  know  how  to  begin,  and 
how  to  continue,  in  the  Christian  life.  "  No 
man  can  say  that  Jesus  is  the  Lord,  but  by 
the  Holy  Ghost."  I  Cor.  xii.  8.  '*  Ye  have 
purified  your  souls  in  obeying  the  truth 
through  the  Spirit,"  I  Pet.  i.  22;  or  as  our 
Lord  expresses  it,  "It  is  the  Spirit  that 
quickeneth;  the  flesh  profiteth  nothing;  the 
words  that  I  speak  unto  you,  they  are  spirit, 
and  they  are  life."  Jno.  vi.  68.  It  is  of  the 
word,  energized  by  the  Spirit,  it  is  said, 
"Being  bom  again,  not  of  corraptible  seed, 
but  of  incorraptible,  by  the  Word  of  God, 
which  liveth  and  abideth  forever."  I  Pet.  i. 
23.  Would  you  grow?  "Desire  the  sincere 
milk  of  the  word,  that  ye  may  grow  thereby." 
I  Pet.  ii.  2.  Would  you  be  sanctified?  Listen 
to  our  Lord's  prayer :  "  Sanctify  them  through 
thy  tmth;  thy  word  is  truth."  Jno.  xvii.  17. 
Would  you  successfully  resist  your  foes? 
"Take  the  helmet  of  salvation,  and  the  sword 
of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the  word  of  God." 
Eph.  vi.  17. 

But  the  command  to  take  the  sword  of  the 
Spirit,  which  is  the  Word  of  God,  is  imme- 
diately followed  by  the  direction,  "Praying 
always  with  all  prayer  and  supplication  in  the 
Spirit."  Eph.  vi.  18.  It  is  of  no  use  to  think 
of  beginning  or  continuing  the  Christian  life 
without  constant  prayer,  and  prayer  that  is 
not  the  pleading  of  a  trembling  slave,  but  the 
happy  communion  of  a  beloved  child,  "for 
ye  have  not  received  the  spirit  of  bondage 
again  to  fear;  but  ye  have  received  the  Spirit 
of  adoption,  whereby  we  cry,  Abba,  Father." 
Bom.  viii.  15.  Many  young  Christians,  and 
older  ones  also,  never  approach  the  Father 
except  in  a  spirit  of  bondage  and  fear,  because 
they  do  not  know  they  are  saved,  because  they 
look  for  assurance  in  the  wrong  place.  "These 
things  have  I  written  unto  you  that  believe 
on  the  name  of  the  son  of  Gk>d,  that  ye  may 
know  that  ye  have  etemallife."  I  Jno.  v.  18. 
We  know  by  what  is  written,  not  by  our 
attainments  in  holiness.  We  look  with- 
out, not  within,  for  assurance,  '*  looking  off 
unto  Jesus."  Heb.  xii.  2. 

Thus  the  believer  starts  on  his  journey 
heavenward,  the  cross  between  him  and  judg- 
ment, the  crown  awaiting  him,  if  he  is  faith- 


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fal,  at  the  comiDg  of  the  Lord.  The  Word 
of  God  is  a  lamp  to  his  feet,  and  a  light  to  his 
path.  Ps.  cxix.  105,  130.  The  Spirit  of  God 
is  his  abiding  Comforter  and  Helper.  Jno. 
xiv.  17;  Rom.  viii.  26.  The  glory  .of  God, 
even  in  the  ordinary  details  of  daily  existence, 
is  the  end  before  him.  I  Cor.  x.  31 ;  Col.  iii. 
17.  The  love  of  Christ  is  the  constraining 
principle  of  his  conduct,  so  that  he  can  say, 
and  should  say,  and  must  say,  *^  To  me  to  live 
is  Christ,  and  to  die  is  gain."  II  Cor.  v.  14, 
15;  Phil.  i.  21.  With  a  deep  sense  of  grati- 
tude for  the  sovereign  grace  that  chose  him 
as  **a  brand  plucked  out  of  the  fire,"  with 
warm  personal  affection  for  the  Saviour  who 
has  given  him  a  present,  certain  and  eternal 
salvation,  he  goes  on  his  way,  holding  '*  fast 
the  confidence  and  the  rejoicing  of  the  hope 
firm  unto  the  end."  Heb.  iii.  6. 

One  of  the  most  distinguished  scholars  of 
America,  who  is  also  one  of  the  ablest  defend- 
ers of  the  faith,  said  to  the  writer  not  long 
ago,  ''  I  was  not  living  when  Paul  penned  the 
words,  *  It  is  a  faithful  saying,  and  worthy 
of  all  acceptation,  that  Christ  Jesus  came  into 
the  world  to  save  sinners,  of  whom  I  am 
chief.'  If  I  had  been  on  the  earth  at  that 
time,  he  could  not  have  called  himself  the 
chief  of  sinners;"  and  he  turned  away  his 
head  to  hide  the  tears  of  penitence  and  joy. 
Try  to  understand  at  the  beginning  what  you 
owe  to  the  infinite  love  of  Christ  Jesus,  and 
you  can  sing  from  the  heart  the  familiar 
lines: 

"Here  at  that  cross,  where  flows  the  blood, 
That  bought  my  guilty  soul  for  God, 
Thee,  my  new  Master,  now  I  call, 
And  consecrate  to  thee  my  all." 


ABSTAIN  FOR  A  WEEK  TO  TRY  YOUR 
APPETITE. 

[From  the  leaflet  mentioned  in  the  foot-note  on  page 
4M  of  oar  December  number.] 

A  FACT. 

A  young  man  carelessly  formed  the  habit  of 
taking  a  glass  of  liquor  every  morning  before 
breakfast.  An  older  friend  advised  him  to  quit 
before  the  habit  should  grow  too  strong. 

"  Oh.  there's  no  danger;  it's  a  mere  notion.  I 
can  quit  any  time,"  replied  the  drinker. 

"Suppose  you  try  it  to-morrow  morning," 
ioggested  the  friend 


'*Very  well;  to  please  you  I'll  do  so,  but  I 
assure  you  there's  no  cause  for  alarm." 

A  week  later  the  young  man  met  his  friend 
again. 

'*You  are  not  looking  well,"  observed  the 
latter.     **  Have  you  been  ill?  '* 

**  Hardly,"  replied  the  other  one.  **  But  I  am 
trying  to  escape  a  dreadful  danger,  and  I  fear 
that  I  shall  be,  before  I  shall  have  conquered. 
My  eyes  were  opened  to  an  imminent  peril  when 
I  gave  you  that  promise  a  week  ago.  I  thank 
you  fgr  timely  suggestion." 

**  How  did  it  affect  you?  "  inquired  the  friend. 

**The  first  trial  utterly  deprived  me  of  appe- 
tite for  food.  I  could  eat  no  breakfast,  and  was 
nervous  and  trembling  all  day.  I  was  alarmed 
when  I  realized  how  insidiously  the  habit  had 
fastened  on  me,  and  resolved  to  turn  square 
about  and  never  touch  another  drop.  The 
squaring  off  has  pulled  me  down  severely,  but 
I  am  gaining,  and  I  mean  to  keep  the  upper  hand 
after  this.  Strong  drink  will  never  catch  me  in 
his  net  again." 

THE  EVERDURING  WORD. 
[From  the  Inauiniral  Address  of  President  Booth  at 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary.] 

One  Sabbath  afternoon,  not  long  ago,  I 
attended  a  service  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
The  Abbey  was  crowded,  so  that  I  was  com- 
pelled to  take  a  seat  in  the  transept,  distant 
from  choir  and  pulpit.  As  I  could  not  hear 
the  sermon,  I  gave  myself  up  to  the  impress- 
ive associations  of  that  historic  sanctuary. 
Around  me  were  the  splendid  memorials  of 
England^s  greatness  in  peace  and  war,  those 
magnificent  statues  which  are  a  nation's  trib- 
ute to  wisdom,  valor,  and  patriotism. 

As  I  recalled  the  achievements  which  are 
thus  immortalized,  the  sunset  hour  drew  on, 
and  the  daylight  began  to  fade.  Suddenly 
there  was  heard  the  roll  of  distant  thunder, 
and  a  flash  of  lightning  was  seen.  The 
Abbey  became  very  dark.  The  rain  began 
to  fall  in  torrents.  The  rushing  wind  rattled 
the  casements. 

The  preacher  finished  his  discourse.  A 
few  prayers  were  read.  The  anthem  was 
announced.  By  this  time  the  storm  had 
reached  its  height.  The  thunder  was  echoing 
among  the  arches  of  the  Abbey,  and  the 
lightning  brought  out  into  strong  and  bold 
relief  the  marble  statues.  It  was  a  strange, 
weird  experienoe  there  among  the  living  and 


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the  dead,  with  nature  convolsed.  Even  the 
notes  of  the  great  organ  were  at  times 
inaudible.  No  ear  could  distinguish  the 
words  of  the  anthem,  although  a  full  choir 
was  engaged  in  the  service  of  praise. 

There  was  a  pause,  brief,  but  eloquent,  a 
lull  in  this  contest  between  man  and  the 
elements,  when  a  single  voice  took  up  a 
sentence  and  sang  it  sweetly,  like  a  seraph 
before  the  throne.  Again,  in  higher  key, 
and  still  again  in  key  yet  higher,  and  higher 
still,  that  voice  was  heard  above  the  hissing 
of  the  wind  and  the  beating  of  the  rain  and 
the  tumult  of  the  thunder,  until  it  seemed 
that  no  voice  of  man  could  strike  s,  higher 
note,  announcing  calmly  and  exultantly  that 
one  sentence,  only  one,  *^And  His  truth 
endureth  from  generation  to  generation." 

I  shall  never  forget  that  hour  and  that 
voice.  My  unbelief  was  rebuked.  My  faith 
was  strengthened.  ^^His  truth  endureth." 
His  Word  is  truth.  In  that,  our  Holy  Bible, 
as  we  have  it,  we  place  our  confidence.  Men 
may  question,  may  criticise,  may  deny.  But 
the  Holy  Bible  will  assert  its  power  and 
proclaim  to  all  the  world  that  glorious  salva- 
tion  which  is  God*s  eternal  love  for  man. 
We  need  not  fear.  The  end  is  not  doubtful. 
The  Holy  Bible,  as  the  Word  of  God,  wiU 
yet  be  read  in  every  language,  be  welcome  in 
every  dwelling,  be  influential  in  every  life. 
So  we  believe  and  therefore  speak. 


MISSIONARY  JOURNEYING  IN  AFRICA.* 

M.  HBNRT  KERB. 

It  was  a  fine  sight  to  see  oar  men,  twenty- 
six  in  number,  all  going  single  file  along  the 
beach  for  half  a  mUe,  after  which  we  entered 
the  bush,  which  was  still  wet  with  dew. 
»  About  eleven  o'clock  the  sky  began  to 
cloud  over  and  at  twelve  we  had  a  real  Afri- 
can rain  storm,  not  such  as  we  have  at  home ; 
it  came  down  in  a  flood. 

Of  course  we  did  not  try  to  keep  dry,  it 
was  not  Img  before  we  were  walking  in 
water  up  to  our  knees  and  at  times  when  we 
came  to  what  were  once  little  streams,  but 
were  now  up  to  our  shoulders ;  we  could  not 

*The  writer  of  this  is  not  a  minister,  but  a  carpenter, 
doing  helpful  missionary  work  in  Africa  with  the  ordained 
mitiiirnnriif    Is  not  that  flrst-olaM  Ohriitlan  EndeaTorf 


get  more  wet  than  we  were,  so  we  waded  in. 
At  first  the  sensation  was  not  pleasant,  but 
we  soon  grew  to  think  nothing  of  it. 

One  thing  which  is  strictly  African,  and 
one  that  we  did  not  like,  is  to  have  the  path 
run  along  the  bed  of  a  stream,  so  we  had  to 
walk  in  more  water  than  had  it  been  any- 
where- else.  The  men  in  their  bare  feet  of 
course  did  not  mind  it,  but  we  did. 

After  tramping  about  two  hours  in  the 
water  my  shoes  gave  out,  and  I  had  to  throw 
them  away.  This  left  me  in  a  bad  fix,  as  the 
rain  was  still  coming  down  and  the  water  a 
foot  deep  on  the  path. 

It  was  out  of  the  question  to  try  and  get  to 
our  packs  to  get  out  another  pair.  We  kept 
right  on,  I  walking  in  my  bare  feet  nearly  six 
miles,  over  roots,  stones,  and  I  don^t  know 
what  else;  nevertheless  I  was  t^e  second  one 
into  a  native  town,  Bekomkom. 

At  four  in  the  afternoon  the  chief  gave  us 
a  house  for  the  night.  It  did  not  take  us  long 
to  get  off  our  wet  clothes  and  get  dry  ones  on. 
The  house  was  about  eight  feet  wide,  ten  feet 
long  and  high  enough  to  stand  up  in  the  mid- 
dle, but  not  at  the  sides.  You  will  say  not 
a  large  place  for  three  men  and  twenty-six 
loads.  The  carriers  have  friends  in  every 
town  so  they  soon  find  a  place  to  sleep;  but 
they  must  leave  their  loads  with  us,  or  we 
may  never  see  them  again. 

After  supper  we  held  a  prayer  meeting  in 
the  street.  Dr.  Good  talking  to  the  people  in 
Bule.  After  the  meeting  the  natives  started 
a  sort  of  drum.  It  is  made  out  of  a  log,  two 
feet  in  diameter  hollowed  out,  and  is  beaten 
on  the  outside,  the  sound  changing  from  sharp 
to  dull  as  they  go  from  end  to  middle. 

They  had  not  beaten  the  thing  long  before 
the  women  began  to  dance.  They  formed  a 
circle,  then  going  round  and  round,  twisting 
their  bodies  in  the  most  queer  and  odd 
ways. 

They  kept  up  the  dance  until  midnight, 
but  I  was  too  tired  to  be  kept  awake  by  any- 
thing like  that,  and  so  went  to  bed  and  knew 
no  more  until  morning. 

I  should  like  you  to  see  the  bed  I  slept  on 
that  night.  It  is  made  of  split  bamboos  and 
feels  as  if  you  were  on  a  boards  but  I  slept 
all  right. 


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A  LODGING  TENT. 

We  had  a  large  canvas  sheet,  which  I 
painted  with  tar  to  keep  out  the  rain. 

We  got  the  men  to  cut  two  forked  poles 
about  nine  feet  long.  These  they  stick  in 
the  ground,  put  another  pole  across,  and 
stretch  our  sheet  over  it,  tying  the  comers  to 
trees  or  stakes. 

In  this  way  we  have  a  good  roof  over  us. 
All  three  have  folding  camp  beds,  so  do  fairly 
well.  We  do  not  sit  up  late  after  eleven 
hours*  hard  tramp.  I  slept  well  during  the 
night,  and  am  afraid  should  have  slept  part 
of  the  next  day  had  not  Sep,  our  cook,  had 
breakfast  ready. 

A  PALAVER  HOUSE. 

Nearly  all  the  towns  are  built  in  a  space 
cleared,  and  the  houses  built  in  a  row  down 
each  side.  At  the  end  is  a  large  house  built 
across  so  as  to  face  the  whole  street.  This  is 
what  they  call  the  Palaver  House, 

It  seems  to  be  a  sort  of  public  house; 
everybody  goes  there  to  talk  over  matters  of 
interest. 

When  an  African  speaks  of  any  one  mak- 
ing him  trouble  he  says  ^*  He  makes  me  bad 
palaver." 

When  the  chiefs  come  together  to  settle  a 
State  question  it  is  to  hold  a  ^*  palaver,''  and 
ef  course  all  these  things  take  place  in  the 
Palaver  house. 

Children's  Church  at  Home 
And  Abroad. 

FIDDA. 

Did  you  ever  know  a  girl  by  that  name  ?  I 
never  did,  but  it  is  the  name  of  a  Syrian  girl 
whoin  a  missionary  lady,  with  whom  she  lives, 
calls  "a  very  attractive  neat  little  house  maid"— 
"and  $0  happy  that  the  Lord  has  opened  her 
heart  and  that  she  has  received  Him  into  her 
life.  Her  face  just  shines  when  she  talks 
about  it." 

When  Fidda  was  a  little  child,  she  had  a 
disease  of  the  eyes  which  is  called  ophthalmia, 
because  "ophthalmos"  is  the  word  in  the  Greek 
language  that  means  eye.  That  disease  of  the 
eye  is  very  common  in  Syria.  It  made  Fidda 
ilmoet  blind  for  twelve  years 

"One  day  she  heard  that  there  was  a  clever 
American  doctor  in  Hums.    Ton  can  find  that 


place  on  the  map  in  our  December  number, 
page  448.  She  was  afraid  to  go  to  that  doctor, 
because  she  hated  all  the  Protestants  and  their 
religion.  But  she  wanted  so  much  to  have  her 
eyes  made  able  to  see,  that  she  went  to  Hums, 
determined  to  shut  her  mind  and  heart  against 
the  false  teaching  which  she  feared  that  the 
doctor  would  try  to  give  her." 

Dr.  Harris  treated  her  eyes,  and  she  was 
obliged  to  stay  several  days.  She  went  home 
not  very  much  better  as  to  her  bodily  eyes,  but 
with  the  eyes  of  her  soul  wide  open,  and"  she  has 
been  an  earnest,  consistent  Christian  ever  since. 
The  lady  with  whom  she  lives  says,  i'' It  is  an 
inspiration  to  me  to  have  her  here  so  full  of  the 
one  subject  and  so  happy  in  it.  She  learns  a 
verse  every  day.** 

Will  you  not  all  remember  Fidda,  and  some- 
times pray  for  her  ?  It  may  be  that  there  are 
many  more  girls  in  Syria,  who  if  they  had  some- 
body to  teach  them  so  kindly  as  one  has  taught 
Fidda,  they  also  would  "receive  Christ  into  their 
life."    Would  not  you  love  to  be  such  a  teacher  ? 


OUR  DUMB  ANIMALS. 

Several  pleasant  letters  have  come  from  chil- 
dren in  answer  to  questions  In  our  November 
number.  The  little  writers  have  found  the 
verse,  in  the  book  of  Proverbs,  "Open  thy 
mouth  for  the  dumb;"  also  the  advice  about 
wine  in  the  same  chapter:  *'It  is  not  for  kings 
to  drink  wine;  nor  for  princes  strong  drink." 
Advice  which  King  Lemuel's  wise  mother  gave 
him  my  little  correspondents  seem  to  think  good 
advice  for  American  boys.  We  have  no  use  for 
kings  and  princes  in  this  republic,  but  we  can- 
not have  too  many  brave  boys,  living  as  Daniel 
did  and  growing  up  to  be  such  faithful,  wise, 
heroic  men  as  he.  We  shall  need  many  of  them 
for  judges  and  sheriffs  and  mayors,  a  few  of 
them  for  senators  and  presidents,  and  all  of  them 
for  citizens  living  and  voting  in  the  fear  of  God 
and  the  love  of  righteousness. 

I  shall  send  a  picture  to. each  of  these  young 
friends,  as  they  have  requested,  and  shall  be 
glad  to  hear  from  them  and  other  children  any 
time. 

Several  of  those  who  have  written  have  read 
Black  Bbautt  and  like  the  book  very  much. 
**  Most  certainly,"  says  one,  **  I  think  that  God 
loves  dumb  animals."  Another  says,  I  think 
it  is  true,  what  the  poet  said : 

**  He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best, 
All  thiols  both  great  and  8ma]l, 
For  the  dear  Otxi  who  loveth  us 
Hath  made  and  loveth  alL** 


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GOSPEL  WORK  IN  WESTERN  AFRICA. 
[From  the  Christian  Herald.] 

Miss  Nassau,  whose  portrait  is  here  given, 
has  been  for  twenty-five  years  an  earnest  and 
most  devoted  worker  in  the  Gaboon  and 
Ck>risco  Mission.  She  is  a  sister  of  Dr.  Robert 
H.  Nassau. 

From  the  days  of  her  early  childhood  she 
looked  with  longing  eyes  to  the  work  of  for- 
eign missions  as  the  highest  vocation  to  which 
she  could  aspire.  She  had  the  cordial  sym- 
pathy of  her  father,  Dr.  Charles  H  Nassau, 
who  as  pastor,  professor  and  college  president 


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at  Lafayette,  Pennsylvania,  was  eminently 
qualified  to  aid  her  in  preparing  for  efficient 
service.  For  several  years  after  she  had  defi- 
nitely decided  to  offer  herself  for  the  work 
she  studied  hard,  and  by  teaching  in  the 
seminary  at  Lawrenceville,  Pennsylvania, 
acquired  the  art  of  imparting  knowledge  and 
of  gaining  influence  over  the  minds  of  others. 
She  went  out  to  Africa  in  1868,  and  was  sta- 
tioned first  on  the  island  of  Corisco,  then 
erroneously  supposed  to  be  more  healthy  than 
the  mainland.  After  a  time  she  removed  to 
Bolondo  on  the  Benito  river,  where  her  tal- 
ents as  an  educator  were  successfully  em- 


ployed.   She  had  a  class  of  boys  and  young 
men  whom  she  trained  for  the  work  of  the 
ministry.   It  was  a  work  for  which  by  nature 
and  education  she  was  peculiarly  fitted,  and 
her  success  in  it  was  recognized  by  a  glowing 
tribute  in  the  History  of  the  Corisco  Presby- 
tery^ which  also  states  that  her  services  had 
been  devoted  to  this  arduous  sphere  longer 
than  had  those  of  any  other  person.     When 
the  Board  of  Missions  decided  to  plant  a  sta- 
tion at  Kangwe,  Miss  Nassau  went  thither 
and  took  with  her  several  of  the  young  people 
she  had  educated.     The  work  at  £[angwe  suf- 
fered from  the  harassing  opposition 
of  the  French  government,  in  whose 
"sphere  of  influence"  it  was  situ- 
ated.    The  French  are  enemies  of 
Protestant  missions  wherever  they 
have  power  and  at  Kangwe  they 
made  any  advance   weJl-nigh    im- 
possible.    At  Talaguga  also,  where 
Dr.  Nassau  had  established  a  station, 
the  same  obstacles  were  encountered 
and  it  was  finally  found  necessary  to 
abandon   both   stations;  but   some 
work  is  still  being  done  there  by 
the  French  Society  of  Evangelistic 
Missions.      Miss    Nassau    remained 
for  some  time  at  Kangwe  and  then 
removed  to  her  brother's  station  at 
Talaguga,  where  quietly  and  unos- 
tentatiously she  did  much  valuable 
work  in  teaching.     It  was  her  habit 
to  journey  from  village  to  village, 
taking  with  her  cards  on  which  she 
had  stencilled  some  text  in  the  native 
language.     She  would  stay  a  short 
time  in  a  village,  talking  familiarly  with  the 
people.     She  would  then  depart,  leaving  a 
few  cards  behind  her.     On  her  way  back, 
after  an  interval  of  a  few  weeks,  she  was 
often  surprised  to  find  how  deep  an  intere.t 
had  been  stirred  by  the  silent  teacher  supple- 
menting her  talk  at  her  former  visit.     The 
transfer  of  the  stations  to  the  French  society, 
however,  broke  up  that  work,  and  Miss  Nas- 
sau came  home  for  a  brief  rest  before  entering 
a  new  field.     In  October  of  labt  year  she  was 
back  again  in  Africa  and  settled  at  Batanga 
where  she  has  now  a  flourishing  girPs  school. 
Batanga  lies  at  the  north    of   the    Gaboon 


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and  Corisco  field.  It  forms  an  excellent  base 
of  operations.  On  that  side  the  country  is 
within  the  German  *  *  sphere  of  influence  ^*  and 
is  open  to  missionary  effort.  Happily,  the 
Germans  show  a  different  spirit  from  that  of 
the  French.  They  have  gi^en  a  cordial  wel- 
come to  the  American  missionaries  and  have 
guaranteed  them  protection  from  interference. 
Dr.  A.  C.  Good,  who  is  stationed  at  Batanga, 


has  recently  made  an  exploring  trip  into  the 
territory  thus  opened  and  has  returned  to  the 
mission  full  of  enthusiasm  at  the  prospects. 

Portraits  of  five  of  these  native  Christian 
preachers  appear  on  this  page.  Their  names 
are  Itongolo,  Etiani,  N'taka  Truman,  Frank 
Myongo  and  Ibia  J'lkenze. 

Itongolo  has  been  doing  efficient  work  at 
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of  the  Gkiboon  and  Corisco  field,  where,  for 
several  years,  the  work  was  carried  on  by 
native  preachers  unaided  by  the  white  mis- 
sionary. He  is  now  stationed  at  Ubenje  where 
the  people  have  built  a  house  fer  him  and  also 
a  house  of  worship.  Etiani,  another  of  the 
group,  is  stationed  at  Bata,  where  he  is  gath- 
ering a  thriving  church.  Ibia  J^Ikenze  is  on 
the  island  of  Corisco.  He  conducts  a  boys' 
school  in  addition  to  his  evangelistic  labors. 
Myongo  has  an  excellent  record.  During  the 
time  he  was  pastor  at  the  station  at  Bonga- 
hele  the  people  erected  a  place  of  worship 
capable  of  holding  five  hundred  persons,  and 
at  each  of  the  Sunday  services  it  was  crowded. 
He  is  a  pupil  of  Miss  Nassau,  to  whom  he 
owes  aU  his  training  for  his  ministerial  work. 


HEROES  WITHOUT  HEROICS. 
[Editorial  tn  The  New  York  Tribune.^ 

A  steamship  in  mid  ocean  is  suddenly  turned 
adrift  and  left  at  the  mercy  of  the  waves  in  the 
stormiest  month  of  the  year.  The  machinery 
has  broken  down  at'several  points,  and  can  only 
be  repaired  after  ten  days  of  continuous  ham- 
mering and  readjustment.  During  that  anxious 
interval  the  ship  has  rolled  and  wallowed  in  the 
trough  of  the  sea,  without  steerage-way  and 
absolutely  helpless,  save  as  a  flimsy  trysail  was 
of  some  avail  in  steadying  her.  Every  passing 
steamer  is  storm  tossed  and  cautiously  navigated, 
but  this  good  ship  is  without  resource  while  her 
engines  are  motionless  and  shattered,  and  is  car- 
ried a  long  way  out  of  her  course,  but  mercifully 
outside  the  track  of  the  tempest.  At  last  the 
labors  of  the  engineers  are  rewarded.  The 
machinery  is  patched  and  pieced  until  the  en- 
gines can  work  at  low  pressure.  The  cap- 
tain, who  has  been  on  the  bridge  almost  continu- 
ously for  ten  days,  readjusts  his  course,  and  the 
ship  makes  her  way  slowly  and  laboriously  into 
port. 

Unusual  as  was  this  experience  in  the  mid- 
Atlantic,  Captain  Heely  of  the  England  was  bet- 
ter prepared  for  it  than  he  was  for  his  reception 
when  he  landed.  Everythini?  had  been  a  matter 
of  course,  and  he  was  surprised  that  anybody 
should  have  any  questions  to  ask  or  any  compli- 
ments to  bestow.  **  Story  1"  he  exclaimed. 
*•  Why,  ihere  is  none.  The  engines  broke  down, 
and  had  to  be  repaired.  That's  all.  When  we 
got  her  going  again,  we  brought  her  into  port 
the  best  way  we  could.  There's  nothing  more 
to  telL"    So  the  brave  captain,  who  had  been 


faithful  to  his  trust  and  saved  his  ship,  with  the 
aid  of  his  skilled  engineers,  turned  away  with  a 
flush  of  modesty  on  his  face  at  the  thought  of 
being  faintly  and  remotely  suspected  of  being  a 
hero.  It  was  his  business  to  stand  by  his  ship, 
and  to  take  her  into  port  without  the  costs  of 
salvage  by  any  outside  vessel.  He  had  done 
what  any  faithful  seaman  entrusted  with  re- 
sponsibility for  his  ship  would  have  done  in  his 
place.  There  was  nothing  for  him  to  tell,  be- 
cause the  engineers,  pounding  and  hammering  in 
the  hold  of  the  lurching  ship,  had  the  worst  of 
it.  There  was  no  story  in  it  for  gossiping  land- 
lubbers any  way ! 

But  Captain  Heely  may  not  have  been  alto- 
gether right  about  it.  There  was  a  story  to  tell, 
but  not  a  new  one.  It  was  the  story  of  loyalty 
to  duty,  and  to  the  credit  of  this  prosaic  age  it 
may  be  said  that  it  has  become  conmionplace  and 
familiar  on  land  and  sea*  The  same  newspapers 
which  bear  record  daily  of  the  crimes  of  evil-do- 
ers, the  malign  passions  of  law-breakers,  and  the 
ignoble  and  demoralizing  deeds  done  in  the  name 
of  politics,  are  illuminated  with  acts  of  heroism 
and  self-sacrifice.  Scarcely  a  day  passes  with- 
out gleams  of  what  is  best  in  human  nature 
shining  out  among  the  shadows  of  what  is 
worst.  Sometimes  it  is  the  captain  of  a  sinking 
ship  steadying  the  rope  by  which  his  comrades 
are  transferred  in  safety  to  the  lifeboat,  and  then 
leaping  into  the  sea  without  a  hand  to  guide  or 
succor  him ;  or  is  it  the  railway  engineer  with 
death  and  destruction  confronting  him,  who  re- 
fuses to  leave  his  post  when  the  lives  of  others 
are  dependent  upon  his  constancy  and  despair- 
ing courage ;  or  is  it  the  sturdy  policeman  dying 
in  a  grapple  with  a  desperado,  but  without 
relaxing,  while  his  heart  continues  to  beat,  his 
hold  upon  the  murderer's  throat.  The  condi- 
tions are  always  changing,  but  the  loyal  habit  of 
living  as  though  duty  were  a  sacred  trust  re- 
mains. He  must  be  a  gloomy  pessimist,  indeed, 
who  cannot  find  in  his  morning  newspaper  some- 
thing to  convince  him  that  there  is  good  mingled 
with  the  evil  as  the  merry  world  spins  round. 

Story  there  may  be  none.  Faithful  men  rec- 
ognize their  responsibilities,  and  in  an  emer- 
gency do  their  full  duty  in  a  methodical  way  as 
a  matter  of  business.  They  make  no  system  ot 
heroics  of  it.  They  are  surprised  that  what  they 
do  should  cause  any  stir,  or  that  anybody  should 
want  to  talk  about  it.  The  engines  when  they 
break  down  must  be  repaired,  and  the  ship  be 
carried  into  port  in  the  best  way  possible.  They 
say,  *'That  is  all."  But  there  is  something 
more,  and  it  is  what  makes  life  worth  living. 


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Systematic  Beneficence. 


NOT  COLLECTIONS,  BUT  OFFERINGS. 

GEORGE  P.    LUDLAM. 

I  haye  jost  read  the  article  on  the  Freed- 
men*s  Board  in  the  November  number  of  The 
Church  at  Home  and  Abroad.  It  is  one  of 
the  best  of  the  very  many  excellent  articles 
which  have  appeared  about  this  board.  I 
think  none  can  read  it  without  being  stirred 
by  the  pathetic  appeal  and  prompted  to 
respond  heartily.  I  write  this  because,  at 
the  very  close,  Dr.  Cowan,  I  think  uninten- 
tionally, strikes  at  the  root  of  the  whole  mat- 
ter. He  says :  '*  The  collection  will  now  be 
taken  up."  Is  not  that  just  the  trouble^ 
Are  we  not  all  the  time  **  taking  up  collec- 
tions" when,  in  all  these  matters,  we  should 
understand  that  we  are  engaged  in  a  solemn 
act  of  worship?  I  wish  the  word  **  collec- 
tion" might  be  banished  from  our  churches, 
and  the  word  *' offering"  substituted.  And 
if,  with  the  word,  could  go  the  objection- 
able frame  of  mind  and  the  objectionable  act 
which  grows  out  of  it,  it  would  be  a  matter 
for  great  rejoicing.  Do  we  not  need  educa- 
tion on  this  whole  subject  (1),  ais  to  the 
scope  and  needs  of  our  various  church  boards 
and,  (2),  as  to  the  duty  of  the  individual 
Christian  in  view  of  them?  For  the  educa- 
tional part,  we  must  rely  on  our  pastors. 
The  picture  drawn  by  the  missionary,  in  the 
article  referred  to,  is  a  true  one.  Perhaps, 
there  never  was  a  time  when,  in  view  of  the 
great  volume  of  literature  and  printed  in- 
formation about  our  different  church  benevo- 
lent agencies,  there  was  so  little  excuse  for  a 
lack  of  knowledge,  and  yet  a  great  number 
of  church  members  are  either  ignorant  of 
these  matters  or  indifferent  to  them.  Then 
as  to  the  duty  of  the  individual  Christian  in 
the  matter  of  supporting  these  boards.  Of 
how  many  can  it  be  said  that  they  remember 
the  day  when  the  offerings  are  to  be  made 
and  come  to  church,  on  that  day,  with  due 
preparation  of  heart  and  pocket  f  I  hope  the 
number  is  large.  I  believe  it  is.  But  I  know 
that  the  number  of  those  who  do  not  thus 
come  is  large  also.  I  like  the  custom 
which  prevails  in  some  churches  which  not 


only  regards  the  offering  as  an  essential  part 
of  the  worship,  but  makes  it  so.  I  recall  a 
service  I  have  occasionally  attended.  When 
the  time  for  the  offering  arrives,  the  fact  is 
announced,  and  whatever  is  necessary  is  said 
by  the  minister  from  the  pulpit.  Then  the 
minister  descends  from  the  pulpit  and  takes 
his  place  in  front  of  the  desk  and  delivers  the 
plates  to  the  officers  who,  in  the  meantime, 
have  decorously  advanced  to  receive  them. 
While  the  plates  are  being  passed,  the  organ 
plays  softly  and  the  minister  slowly  and 
reverently  repeats  appropriate  passages  of 
scripture.  As  the  officers  return,  in  the  same 
quiet,  decorous  manner,  the  minister  receives 
the  plates,  holds  them  in  his  hands  and,  with 
a  few  simple  words  of  prayer,  makes  the 
offering  to  the  Lord.  He  then  deposits  the 
plates  in  their  proper  place  and  returns  to  the 
pulpit.  The  whole  constitutes  an  act  of 
worship  which  has  always  impressed  me  more 
deeply  than  any  other  part  of  the  service. 

If  something  of  this  kind  were  done  in  all 
our  churches  would  it  not  lift  the  matter  out 
of  the  sphere  of  *^ collections"  and  place  it 
where  it  properly  belongs  in  our  calendar  of 
worship? 

Ministerial  Necrology. 


^T'We  eaniestlT  request  the  temflSes  of  deoeaeed  mia- 
isten  and  the  stated  clerks  of  their  presbyteries  to  for- 
ward to  us  promptlT  the  facts  eiyen  in  these  notices,  and 
as  nearij  as  poasiDle  in  the  form  exemplified  below. 
These  notices  are  highly  valued  by  writers  of  Presby- 
terian history,  compilers  of  statistics  and  the  intelUfcent 
readers  of  both. 


Calkins,  Jamss  FBSDERiCK.—Boni  in  Coming, 
N.  Y.,  March  27,  1816;  graduated,  Union  Col- 
lege, 1841,  and  Auburn  Theological  Seminary, 
1844;  ordained  and  installed  at  Wellsborough, 
Pa.,  September,  1844;  pastor  at  Wellsborougb, 
1844-1880,  Avon,  N.  Y.,  1880-1890;  chaplain  in 
U.  S.  Army,  superintendent  of  schools,  Tioga 
Co.,  Pa.,  for  five  years;  resident  at  Geneva, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  died  November  7, 1898,  aged  77 
years,  7  months  and  10  days.  Married  Miss 
Maria  Louisa  Hanford,  of  Gcmeva,  N.  Y.,  Octo- 
ber 8,  1844.  She  died  in  1877.  Two  daughters 
survive  him,  Mrs.  Rev.  G^.  D.  Meigs,  and  Mrs. 
F.  R.  Torrance,  of  Geneva, 

Downs,  John  Vincent.— Bom  in  Pleasant  Valley, 
N.  Y.,  October  8,  1807;  united  with  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y.  in  1SS2; 


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graduated  from  Hamilton  Ck>llege  in  1840  and 
from  Auburn  Theological  Seminary  In  1843; 
came  to  Chicago  as  a  home  mlnionary  in  the 
Spring  of  1844.  Ordained  by  the  Preebytery 
of  Ottawa;  pastor  of  the  Church  in  Dundee,  111. 
four  years;  supplied  the  Church  of  Richmond, 
ni.  two  years,  the  Church  of  Virginia  Settle- 
ment four  years;  preached  at  Crystal  Lake  two 
years,  and  at  Thornton  Station  about  two  yeiu^ ; 
preached  in  other  mission  fields  within  the 
bounds  of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago;  supplied 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Elgin,  lU.,  where 
he  finally  made  his  home.  Married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Perkins  of  Barrington,  IlL,  November  3, 
1848,  who  died  at  Elgin  in  1889.  He  removed 
to  Chicago  with  his  yoxmgost  daughter  in  1891 ; 
died,  October  19,  1898.  Six  chUdren  survive 
him,  one,  Miss  Carrie  Downs,  is  a  missionary  in 
India. 

Hbrbsrt,  Chablbs  DiCKiNSON.^Bom  in  Ells- 
worth, Me.,  September  18,  1818;  graduated, 
Bowdoin  College,  1841;  graduated,  Bangor 
Seminary,  1844;  ordained  by  a  Presbytery,  April 
24, 1846;  in  mission  work  in  the  West;  pastor  of 
Congregational  Church,  Mount  Vernon,  N.  H., 
1850;  1857,  pastor  of  Congregational  Church, 
West  Newbury,  Mass.;  studied  medicine  and 
practiced  eight  years;  received  into  Presbytery 
of  Troy  from  Essex  North  Association  of  Con- 
gregational Ministers,  September21, 1886;  stated 
supply.  Church  of  Hebron,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died 
October  18,  1893.  Married  September,  1858, 
Miss  Sarah  A.  Flanders,  only  daughter  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Flanders,  of  Exeter,  N.  -H.,  who  sur- 
vives him. 

Kbndrigk,  William.— Bom  at  McKee,  Ky.,  Sep- 
tember 1,  1834;  studied  at  Oberlin;  gradu- 
ated from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1859; 
ordained  by  Cleveland  Congregational  Con- 
ference in  1857;  supply  at  McKee,  Ky.,  1859; 
evangelist  in  the  South  during  the  war;  pre- 
ached successively  at  Sheron,  111.,  Oaleton 
and  Bethel,  Mo.,  Rock  Creek,  Quenemo, 
Burlington,  Mineral  Point  and  WiUiamsburg, 
Kansas,  organizing  and  performing  other 
pioneer  church  work;  Iowa  State  agent  of 
the  American  Bible  Society,  1873-74;  moved  to 
Indian  Territory  in  1888,  where  for  nearly  three 
years  he  preached  at  Purcell;  health  failing,  re- 
turned to  Wichita,  Ejis.,  where  he  died  June  4, 
1898.  Married  August  4,  1861,  Miss  M.  Eliza- 
beth Martin,  and  in  1888  Miss  M.  H.  Hennigh, 
who  survives  him,  with  four  children. 

MoNeal,  James.— Bom  in  Washington  County, 
Pa.,  Feb.  10, 1821 ;  graduated,  Franklin  College, 
O.,  1850;  Associate  Presbyterian  Seminary, 
Canonsburg,  Pa.,  1853;  licensed  and  ordained, 
1853;  ministered  to  churches  in  Newcastle,  O., 
Brownsville,  O.,  and  Barlow,  O. ;  went  as  a 
missionary  to  Canada;  ministered  at  Harlow, 
Wis.,   Clayton,  lU.;  preached  in   the  U.    P. 


Church,  1867-1870;  home  missionary  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  on  Cumberland  Mountain, 
1879-'87;  died  at  Maryville,  Tenn.,  Nov.  18, 1898. 
Married,  August  12,  1846,  at  Iberia,  O.,  Miss 
Ellen  Reed,  who  became  the  mother  of  his  three 
sons  and  seven  daughters.  Four  daughters  and 
one  son  survive.  His  second  marriage  was 
March  1, 1888,  to  Miss  Jennie  Lynn  of  Mattoon, 
HI.,  who  also  survives  him. 

Mcpherson,  Robebt.— Bom  in  Carlisle,  Pa.,  1819; 
graduated  at  Dickinson  College,  1843,  and  from 
the  Westem  Theological  Seminary,  1846; 
licensed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Carlisle,  1844;  or- 
dained by  the  Presbytery  of  Ohio,  1846;  pastor 
of  the  Church  of  Falrmount,  Presbytery  of 
Ohio,  1846-50;  Temperanceville,  same  Presby- 
tery, 1850-51;  Mt  Pisgah  and  Mansfield,  same 
Presbytery,  1851-69;  Centre  and  Landisburg, 
Presbytery  of  Carlisle,  1869-82;  Stated  Supply, 
Mc.  Carmel  and  North  Branch,  Presbytery  of 
Pittsburgh,  1882-84;  pastor  Falrmount  and 
Pleasant  Hill,  1884-92.  During  the  civil  war  he 
was  chaplain  of  the  139th  Regiment  of  Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers.  Died  in  a  railroad  car  between 
Tjrone  and  Altoona,  of  sudden  illness,  October 
21, 1893.— iVof.  Banner. 

Newell,  Georqb  W.— Bom  in  Montgomery 
County,  Pa.,  November  7,  1813;  graduated  at 
Marion  College,  Mo.,  1841,  Princeton  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  1846;  ordained,  1846;  ministered 
at  Orangeville,  Rohrsburg  and  Briar  Creek,  Pa., 
1847-58;  at  Broadhead,  Belleville  and  Dayton, 
Wis.,  1858-66;  .pastor  at  Central  City,  Neb., 
1872-78;  Salem,  Mo.,  1878-80;  Carthage,  Mo., 
1881-82;  his  health  being  broken  by  a  serious 
exposure  in  crossing  a  stream,  narrowly  escaping 
drowning,  he  retired  from  active  duties  of  the 
ministry,  returning  to  Central  City,  Neb.,  and 
made  pastor  emeritus  of  Central  City  Church, 
1882;  died  August  16,  1893. 

Paynteb,  Henry  Martyn.— Bom  March  17, 1827, 
in  Wllliamsburgh,  Pa. ;  graduated  from  Jeffer- 
son College,  1847;  spent  two  years  at  Westem 
Theological  Seminary,  Allegheny,  and  one  at 
Princeton,  graduating  from  the  latter  institu- 
tion in  1850;  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presby- 
tery of  BlairsvlUe;  spent  one  year  at  Xenia, 
Ohio,  one  at  New  Orleans,  La. ;  called  to  Vicks- 
burg,  Miss.,  where  he  was  ordained,  serving  the 
church  there  about  four  years;  called  to  Boon- 
ville.  Mo.,  where  he  continued  to  labor  until 
troubles  arising  out  of  the  civil  war  led  him  to 
remove;  pastor  in  Springfield,  111.,  about  three 
years;  engaged  in  evangelistic  work  several 
years  in  which  he  was  successful;  published  the 
life  of  Christ  in  eleven  volumes,  leaving  the 
twelfth  unfinished;  died  in  Chicago  April  23, 
1893.  Married  September  23,  1852,  Miss  Alice 
Moncure,  who,  with  three  married  daughters 
and  one  son,  all  residing  in  Chicago,  survives 
him. 


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Gleanings 
At  Home  and  Abroad. 

[Gathered  by  Rkv.  Albert  B.  Robinson.] 

— Retrenchment  for  self,  expansion  for  Christ. 

— Tlie  Wesleyans  nnpiber  20,000  converts  in 
Eaffraria. 

— BMf  ty-six  of  the  one  hundred  medical  mission- 
aries in  China  are  women. 

— Missionary  reports  and  periodicals  have  well 
been  called  a  continuation  of  the  Acts  of  the 
Apostles. 

— The  Presbyterian  church  in  Warwick,  Ber- 
muda, dates  from  the  beginning  of  the  seven- 
teenth century. 

— Said  Dr.  Bethune:  I  would  as  soon  try  to 
cultivate  a  farm  without  rain  as  a  church  with- 
out beneficence. 

— Ministers  should  be  students  of  missions, 
authorities  on  missions,  and  leaders  in  missions. 
—Dr.  A.  T.  Pierson. 

— I  never  knew  how  it  was,  said  Richard  Bax- 
ter, but  I  always  seem  to  have  the  most  come  in 
when  I  give  the  most  away. 

— Reducing  missionary  contributions  is  draw- 
ing missionary  blood,  said  Dr.  Lyman  at  the 
meeting  of  the  American  Board. 

— Said  a  lady  missionary  from  China  :  We 
owe  it  to  our  Saviour  to  serve  Him  to  the  utmost 
of  our  capabilities  and  possibilities. 

— No  man  more  properly  deserves  to  be  called 
the  father  of  education  in  Turkey  than  Dr.  Cyrus 
Hamlin. — British  Qua/rt&rly  Bevieto, 

—Christianity  is  missionary,  progressive, 
world-embracing.  If  it  ceas^  to  be  missionary 
it  would  cease  to  exist. — Max  JHuUer. 

— The  heroism  which  missions  have  produced, 
the  sublime  types  of  Christian  life  they  have  ex- 
emplified, are  the  richest  of  all  their  fruits. 

— Speaking  of  the  popular  Missionary  Tea,  some 
one  gives  this  word  of  caution :  be  careful  not  to 
spell  it  with  a  capital  **T"  and  a  small  **m". 

—The  Tongan  Church,  with  20,000  communi- 
cants in  the  32  islands,  has  been  self-supporting 
since  1870,  said  Dr.  Steele  in  a  missionary  address 
at  Melbourne. 

—If  there  were  nothing  in  foreign  missions 
but  the  Zenana  work,  says  The  Interior,  it  would 
be  worth  to  the  future  of  the  Eastern  millions 
many  fold  what  it  costs. 

—A  native  Japanese  journal  criticises  the  pro- 
pensity of  some  foreigners  in  Japan  to  insult  the 
nation  by  posting  placards  at  the  gates  of  their 
premises  that  no  Japanese  are  allowed  to  'enter. 
—Japan  Mail. 


—The  times  are  hard,  but  heathenism  Is 
harder. 

— "  I  am  so  light-hearted,"  was  the  frequent  re- 
mark of  a  Siamese  after  his  conversion. 

— The  aim  of  the  Ramona  Indian  School,  as 
expressed  by  the  Superintendent,  Professor 
Chase,  is  to  train  the  children  to  be  missionaries 
for  their  parents. 

— Montreal  Presbytery  is  to  undertake  evan- 
gelistic work  among  the  Jews,  of  whom  there 
are  4,000  in  Montreal  and  2,000  in  Toronto.— I^Vm 
Church  Monthly, 

— Men  have  to  get  near  to  God  before  they  are 
willing  to  give  Him  what  is  His.  Increased  lib- 
erality marks  every  increase  of  spiritual  life  — 
Dr.  H.  0,  Morrison, 

— Holland  was  once  an  asylum  for  Scotch  as 
well  as  English  refugees.  The  Scotch  Church 
in  Rotterdam  celebrated,  in  September,  1893, 
its  260th  anniversary. 

— A  writer  in  the  World  Wide  Missions  states 
that  there  are  in  New  York  city  4,000  Greeks. 
A  priest  officiates  in  a  rented  church  until  their 
own  edifice  is  erected. 

—A  Wesleyan  Methodist  journal  designates 
the  history  of  the  Free  Church  of  Scotland  as 
''  the  most  thrilling  chapter  of  ecclesiastical  his- 
tory since  the  Reformation." 

— If  I  were  a  foreign  missionary  in  Canton  my 
first  and  most  importunate  prayer  every  morning 
would  be  for  Home  Missions  in  America  for  the 
sake  of  Canton. — Austin  Phelps. 

— ••  If  our  little  girls  have  boys'  feet,  we  can- 
not possibly  get  them  married,  and  what  a/reyve 
to  do?"  said  a  Chinese  mother  who  was  urged  to 
unbind  her  little  daughter's  feet 

— Said  a  prominent  pastor  in  a  city  beyond  the 
Mississippi :  As  a  Western  pastor,  I  desire  no  min- 
isters to  come  to  our  Home  Mission  fields,  who 
will  not  teach  the  people  to  love  foreign  missions. 
A  gospel  for  se^  will  not  save  us  in  the  West. 

— The  drink  habit  in  India  is  falsely  charged 
upon  Christianity,  says  Rev.  Thomas  Craven. 
Common  people  cannot  afford  imported  wines. 
Long  before  missionaries  went  there  they  had 
their  palm  toddy. 

—Calling  on  the  people  to  sustain  the  *  Con- 
ference honor '  by  '  raising  the  assessment,'  is  a 
very  different  thing  from  developing  their  con- 
sciences as  to  the  duty  they  owe  to  the  Son 
of  God. — Bishop  Hay  good, 

— ^Were  the  English  government  to  withdraw 
or  be  driven  from  India  there  would  be  an  utter 
overthrow  of  order  throughout  Hindustan ;  and 
a  war  of  races  would  begin  such  as  the  world 
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— There  are  55  societies  for  the  oonyersioii  of 
the  Jews,  with  899  missionaries.  The  16  societies 
in  Great  Britain  employ  384  of  the  total  number. 
— Misnonary  Record. 

— Twenty- two  children  of  missionaries  con- 
nected with  the  Marathi  Mission  of  the  American 
Board  have  taken  up  the  work  of  their  parents 
in  that  field  — Miuionary  Herald. 

—Foreign  Missions  have  been  vindicated  by 
history;  they  are  the  embodiment  of  a  divine 
purpose;  they  have  been  endorsed  by  a  divine 
blessing. — Jamei  8.  D&nrUs,  D.D, 

— 850  islands  of  the  Pacific  are  Christianized, 
500,000  people  have  been  brought  into  the 
Church,  and  the  expense  has  been  only  $10, 000,- 
000  in  nearly  100  years.— 2>r.  8UeU. 

—While  in  New  York  there  are  8.000  physi 
cians  to  care  for  1,500,000  people,  850  medical 
missionaries  abroad  are  laboring  among  1,000,- 
000.000  people.— iffdicoZ  MisnomKy  Record, 

— Of  late  many  children  in  Madagascar  have 
given  themselves  to  Christ  Two  of  them  who 
asked  to  be  received  to  the  Church  said :  We 
want  to  be  seen  to  be  Jesus'  little  sisters.— 
Quarterly  Neum, 

— Admiral  Foote,  when  abroad  at  a  foreign 
port  where  there  were  missionaries,  was  accus- 
tomed to  make  his  first  call  in  state,  in  order  to 
show  the  natives  that  his  government  honored 
those  self  denying  men. 

— An  ordinary  contribution  box  has  become 
an  instrument  by  which  the  contributor  as  he 
sits  in  his  pew  can  touch  every  continent,  and 
do  a  work  for  Christ  where  his  own  footsteps 
can  never  tread. — James  8.  Dennis,  D.  D, 

— Jeremiah  Porter's  discourse  in  the  carpen- 
ter's shop  of  Fort  Dearborn,  May,  19,  1888.  from 
the  words,  "Herein  is  my  Father  glorified,  that 
ye  bear  much  fruit,"  was  the  first  sermon  ever 
preached  in  Chicago. — The  Home  Missionary. 

— Says  a  missionary  in  Africa:  Mission  work 
IS  hard,  plodding,  patient  work — that  is  the 
earth- ward  side.  The  heavenward  side  is  all 
bright  and  full  of  hope,  for  the  earth  is  to  be 
full  of  the  knowledge  of  the  glory  of  Gk>d. 

— The  Missionary  Training  College  conducted 
in  Puerto  Santa  Maria,  Spain,  by  the  Irish  Pres- 
byterian Church,  completed  its  tenth  session  in 
August,  1893.  It  has  furnished  seven  men  for 
the  mission  field. 

— The  number  of  languages  spoken  in  British 
India  is  78.  The  Hindi,  which  is  emphatically 
the  Hindu  tongue,  and  comes  nearest  to  the  old 
Aryan  speech,  is  spoken  by  108,000,000.  The 
Bengali  is  used  by  42,000,000.— iL^wkfcn  Pr«6y- 
teriaoi. 


— It  is  said  that  the  same  ship  that  bore 
Ziegenbalg  from  Copenhagen  to  Tranquebar, 
carried  also  secret  instructions  to  the  govern- 
ment to  lay  every  obstacle  in  his  way  and 
surround  him  with  all  practicable  impediments. 

— A  missionary  in  India,  writing  of  a  convert, 
says  that  Christ's  love  not  only  saves  the  soul, 
but  warms  the  heart,  brightens  the  intellect, 
quickens  the  feelings  and  makes  a  new  creature 
of  every  believer. 

— A  sick  man  in  Tabriz  said  the  American 
preacher  brought  Christ's  own  words  and  was 
interested  in  his  physical  condition;  while  the 
Armenian  priest  came  only  to  bless  the  house 
and  exact  money,  ''never  caring  whether  I  was 
alive  or  dead." 

—The  first  plough  introduced  by  William 
Shaw  among  the  Kaffirs  was  pronounced  by  the 
chief  to  be  better  than  ten  wives.  Formerly 
Kaffir  women  were  the  slaves  of  their  husbands, 
and  worked  in  the  fields  with  pick  and  hoe. 

— In  heathen  countries  nothing  is  more  remark- 
able, says  a  writer  in  Wedeyan  Missionary 
Notices,  than  the  change  which  Christianity 
effects  in  the  very  faces  of  those  who  accept  it. 
The  beauty  of  the  Lord  our  Gtod  rests  upon 
them. 

—Among  the  Metabele,  according  to  M.  Lionel 
Decle,  a  vdf e  remains  the  property  of  her  father. 
When  children  are  bom  the  father  has  to  buy 
them  of  his  father  in-law,  or,  failing  this,  they 
revert  to  the  mother's  family. — Knowledge. 

— Feeling  the  deadly  oppression  of  heathenism, 
missionaries  are  often  encouraged,  writes  Mrs. 
Bryson  of  Tientsin,  by  the  faith  and  hope  of  the 
native  Christians, , who  resemble  the  Ephesian 
and  Corinthian  converts — not  perfect,  but  wil- 
ling to  bear  persecution  for  their  faith. 

— There  is  work  to  be  done  by  missionaries, 
said  Livingstone,  which  people  in  Christian 
lands  hardly  dream  of.  They  have  to  create  a 
moral  sense  before  they  can  appeal  to  it,  to 
arouse  the  conscience  before  they  can  look  to  its 
admonitions  to  enforce  their  teachings. 

— A  blind  man  walked  from  Lhassa,  100  miles, 
in  the  hope  that  Dr.  Marx  could  remove  the 
cataract  and  give  him  sight.  Arriving  within  a 
day  or  two  of  Leb,  he  heard  that  the  medical 
missionary  was  dead,  so  he  sorrowfully  turned 
and  travelled  home  again. — Free  Church  Monthly, 

—Dr.  Griffith  John  writes  of  a  Chinese  convert 
named  T'ang,  living  five  miles  from  Hangkow, 
who  attended  the  services  regularly  every  Lord's 
Day  for  16  years,  bringing  with  him  an  ever- 
increasing  number  of  neighbors  whom  he  had 
influenced.    He  afterwards  became  a  preacher. 


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— Because  women  of  the  "  better  "  class  can- 
not, according  to  Chinese  ideas  of  propriety, 
come  for  treatment  to  a  building  in  which  men 
are  received.  Dr.  Lyall  is  making  the  effort  to 
erect  a  separate  women's  hospital  at  Swatow. — 
London  Presbyterian. 

— Of  Mrs.  E.  R.  Young,  who  shared  her  hus- 
band's labors  among  the  Indians,  Mrs.  Cleveland 
said:  ''A  woman  who  for  the  Master's  sake,  and 
for  the  poor  Indian's  isake,  wouldj  go  through 
what  she  has,  ought  to  be  loved  by  every 
Christian  woman  in  the  land." 

— Presbytery  of  A.moy  spring  meeting — 
Chinese  moderator,  Chinese  clerks,  and  a  Chinese 
pastor  as  chief  authority  on  Church  law  I  Pres- 
byterianism  seems  to  have  taken  a  thorough  hold 
of  this  sober,  practical,  orderly,  argumentative 
people. — Free  Church  Monthly. 

—The  Christian  Girls'  Boarding  School  in 
Emgwali,  Eaffraria,  is  an  imposing  structure 
which  cost  £5,500  and  accommodates  75  pupils. 
The  Emgwali  congregation  numbers  800.  The 
16  elders  are  shrewd,  intelligent,  earnest- minded 
men. — Mission  Beeord. 

— Years  ago,  says  Dr.  Pentecost,  a  common 
drunken  sweeper  in  India  died,  leaving  his 
twelve-year-old  daughter  to  the  missionaries. 
She  was  educated,  taking  the  degree  of  A.  M., 
and  is  now  the  accomplished  principal  of  an  edu- 
cational institution  in  India. 

— I  thank  Judson  and  all  his  heroic  co-laborers 
for  giving  the  lie  to  Satan's  vile  slander,  ''  All 
that  a  man  hath  will  he  give  for  his  life."  I 
thank  Qod  there  are  men  who  count  not  their 
lives  dear  that  they  may  win  Christ.— t/;  C.  Hiden 
in  Foreign  Mission  Journal, 

— Deacon  William  Brown  of  New  Hampshire, 
says  the  Emngelist,  distributed  between  1849  and 
1893,  no  less  than  120,000  copies  of  the  Script- 
ures. During  the  two  years  preceding  his  death 
he  canvassed  289  towns  and  visited  over  80,000 
families. 

— In  the  education  of  a  Parsee  girl  the  religious 
and  emotional  side  of  her  nature  is  not  suffi- 
ciently developed.  Women  have  for  long  left 
the  praying  to  the  men.  Some  effort  has  of  late 
been  made  to  bring  back  the  ancient  times,  when 
men  and  women  had  equal  religious  duties. — 
Chrnelia  Sorabji  in  the  Nineteenth  Century. 

—The  90,000  Indian  Parsees  are  devoted  sub- 
jects of  Victoria;  and  we  may  attribute  this  as 
much -to  a  certain  sympathy  with  western  meth- 
ods of  thought,  as  to  the. fact  that  they  would 
rather  be  ruled  by  entire  foreigners  than  by  those 
whom  they  might  themselves  have  conquered, 
had  fortune  favored  MienL—Oometia  doralifi. 


— The  greatest  and  most  constraining  stimulus 
to  labor  and  sacrifice  in  the  cause  of  evangelism 
is  a  loving  loyalty  to  Christ,  a  sensitive  concern 
for  His  honor  and  enthusiasm  for  the  coming  of 
His  Kingdom. — Rev.  James  Gall. 

— The  wise  men  of  the  Kairouin  University 
(founded  in  the  ninth  century)  in  Fez,  Morocco, 
believe  the  earth  to  be  a  disc  surrounded  by  an 
ocean,  which  is  encompassed  in  turn  by  a  wall 
of  precious  Btoues.— Regions  Beyond. 

— **  Have  you  seen  any  of  our  best  American 
paintings?"  asked  Dr.  Cuyler  of  the  famous 
Scotch  artist,  Sh*  (Jeorge  Harvey.  **No,  I  have 
not,"  was  the  reply,  **but  the  grandest  American 
product  I  have  seen  has  been  some  of  your  mis- 
sionaries.   They  were  noble  characters." 

— Missionaries  are  optimists  and  not  pessimists ; 
and  while  they  do  not  fail  to  realize  the  tremen- 
dous power  of  evil,  they  have  confidence  that 
the  still  more  tremendous  power  of  good  will 
conquer,  not  merely  in  some  future  age,  but  in 
the  present. — The  Independent. 

—It  is  a  significant  fact,  says  the  Missionary 
Herald,  that  Hindus,  Mohammedans  and  Parsees 
in  India  so  clearly  recognize  the  value  of  the 
Christian  Sabbath  that  large  numbers  of  non- 
Christian  natives  are  applying  for  membership 
in  the  **  Lord's  Day  Union." 

— "It  is  lamentable,"  wrote  Dr.  Morrison  of 
China,  years  ago,  **to  see  what  a  large  propor- 
tion of  the  bishops,  presbyters,  deacons  and 
people  in  British  churches  put  themselves  quite 
outside  of  the  missionary  concern,  and  think 
that  they  may  innocently  have  nothing  to  do 
with  it." 

— Says  W.  B.  Phillips  of  a  Mohammedan  who, 
after  baptism,  went  back  to  his  old  religion: 
**  Perhaps  he  might  have  been  upheld  if  he  had 
come  to  live  among  Christians.  But  we  must 
look  for  a  robustness  of  faith  that  can  hold  on  to 
Christ  right  amidst  non-Christian  relatives." — 
The  Chronicle, 

— Amid  the  distractions  of  Kaffir  wars,  the 
uprooting  of  mission  settlements,  the  uncertain- 
ties of  political  movements,  the  defiant  nature 
of  Kaffir  character,  and  the  enslaving  power  of 
Kaffir  superstition,  the  upbuilding  of  Christ's 
church  has  steadily  progressed. —  Wesleyan  Mis- 
sionary Notices. 

— A  missionary  in  India  speaks  of  the  differ- 
ence between  those  who  have  formerly  heard, 
and  those  to  whom  the  message  is  a  new  thing. 
The  latter  listen,  but  there  is  no  response  of  the 
heart.  It  is  hard  to  speak  to  minds  which  have 
no  idea  of  God's  holiness  and  man's  sinfulness. — 
QtMrteriy  Neu)s, 


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— Japan,  placed  at  a  maritime  coign  of  vant- 
age upon  the  flank  of  Asia,  exercising  a  power- 
ful influence  over  the  adjoining  continent,  but 
not  necessarily  involved  in  its  responsibilities,  has 
no  higher  ambition  than  to  be  the  Britain  of  the 
far  East.— (?«ar^«i\r.  Curzon, 

—The  artist  Millet,  traveling  in  Bulgaria  at 
the  time  of  the  Russo  Turkish  war.  found  many 
men  who  had  absorbed  American  ideas  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  teachings  of  Robert  College,  and  who 
claimed  that  the  success  of  Bulgaria  and  other 
Balkan  countries  in  securing  national  independ- 
ence was  largely  due  to  the  influence  of  this  in- 
stitution.—TR^rW  Wide  Missions. 

—The  lAterary  World,  noticing  Howard's 
Trans-Siberian  Savages,  a  distinct  contribution 
to  the  knowledge  of  a  people  who  may  be  the 
oldest  of  the  Aryan  tribes,  says:  While  nine- 
tenths  of  the  Ainu  men  on  the  island  of  Yezo  are 
drunkards,  the  Sakhalin  savages,  who  are  of  the 
same  family,  live  under  a  prohibition  law,  since 
Russia  allows  no  liquor  among  the  aborigines. 

— ^The  queen  of  Madagascar  is  breaking  down 
by  her  example  the  old  superstitions.  On  July 
8,  1898,  she  visited  the  Children's  Memorial 
Church,  Faravohitra.  She  had  never  been  there 
before,  since  the  road  leading  from  the  city  to 
that  place  was  fady  or  tabooed  to  the  royal 
family  for  some  cause  connected  with  the  old 
heathenism. — The  Chronicle, 

— Commenting  upon  the  fact  that  in  the  last 
eleven  years  nearly  one  thousand  men  of  color 
have  been  murdered  in  the  Southern  States  by 
organized  mobs  of  whites,  the  Japan  Mail  hopes . 
for  the  rise  of  men  who  will  make  emancipation 
a  reality,  and  remove  from  their  country  this 
stain  upon  nineteenth  century  civilization. 

—There  are  in  India  between  forty  and  fifty 
millions  of  what  are  called  the  ''depressed 
classes."  Trained  men  from  these  classes  make 
the  best  Christian  teachers. 

— A  Santal  never  says,  **I  don't  know,"  but 
**  Who  knows?"  He  always  trys  to  condone  the 
defect  of  his  own  knowledge  by  the  insinuation 
of  uni versa-  ignorance. — ]>r.  Macphail. 

[I  have  met  such  men,  but  did  not  know 
that  '*  Santals  "  was  the  name  for  them. — Ed.] 

— I  am  satisfied,  says  Mr.  Dvorak,  the  Bohe- 
mian composer^  that  the  future  music  of  this 
country  must  be  founded  upon  what  are  called 
the  Negro  melodies.  These  are  the  folk  songs 
of  America.  In  them  I  discover  all  that  is  needed 
for  a  great  and  noble  school  of  music.  They  are 
pathetic,  tender,  passionate,  melancholy,  solemn, 
religious,  merry,  gay,  or  what  you  will. — Herald 
and  Presbyter, 


— The  Church  needs  to-day  the  blessing  of  an 
enlarged  heart,  a  tenderer  consciousness  of  her 
duty  to  the  unenlightened  and  perishing,  a  more 
unselfish  devotion  to  the  Master's  service,  a 
more  winsome  sympathy  with  those  who  suffer, 
and  a  more  self-denying  readiness  to  help  others 
to  a  better  Mte.— James  S.  Dennis,  D.  D. 

— The  plague  of  dysentery,  brought  by  a 
labor- traflSc  ship,  has  swept  away  one- third  of 
the  people  of  Futuna,  New  Hebrides,  mostly 
young  men  and  women.  Dr.  Gunn  thinks  it 
useless  to  go  on  with  his  translation  of  the  Bible 
into  Futunese,  as  in  a  few  years  there  will 
probably  be  no  people  to  read  \\„—Free  Church 
Monthly, 

— Mozoomdar  said  India  wanted  an  **  Oriental 
Christ,"  a  Christ  ** naturalized"  to  the  country. 
The  different  denominational  forms  and  creeds 
had  led  him  to  this  false  conception  of  Christ, 
and  stood  in  the  way  of  his  hearty  acceptance 
of  the  gospel.  His  objection  revealed  a  defect 
in  our  modern  method  of  presenting  the 
Christ —iV:  (7.  Clark,  B  D. 

— Said  Alexander  Duff  in  an  address  in  New 
York  in  1854:  *'  These  men  tell  us  they  are  not 
so  green  as  to  waste  their  money  on  Foreign  Mis^ 
sions.  They  describe  themselves  too  well  ;  for 
greenness  implies  verdure,  and  the  beautiful 
growth  of  rich  herb  and  foliage.  But  not  a  single 
blade  of  generosity  is  visible  overall  the  dry  and 
parched  Sahara  of  their  selfishness. 

— The  cruel  days  of  hate  and  wrong,  of  out- 
rage and  blood,  are  passing  away ;  the  dawn  of 
peace  and  liberty,  of  love  and  righteousness  is  at 
hand ;  and  other  eyes  shall  see  the  coming  of  the 
glory  of  the  Lord,  when  Africa,  disenthralled, 
redeemed,  in  the  beauty  of  the  King,  shall  take 
her  place  among  the  Christian  Powers  of  the 
earth. — Judson  Smith,  D.D. 

— No  male  missionary  would  be  tolerated  in 
Fez,  but  so  low  is  the  estimate  of  woman  that  a 
devoted  band  of  women  found  it  possible  in 
1888  to  begin  gospel  work.  A  Moorish  merchant 
who  here  learned  of  Christ,  and  who  seeks  fresh 
instruction  on  every  visit  to  Fez,  carries  the  good 
tidings  to  little  circles  of  Christians  on  the 
border  of  the  Atlas  Mountains. — Regions  Beyond, 

— No  soldier  who  dted  "  trying  to  do  his  duty" 
has  deserved  better  of  his  country  and  of  man- 
kind than  have  these  brave  men  and  women  of 
the  Madura  Mission,  who  face  daily  the  fever  of 
the  jungle,  and  cholera  which  is  always  present 
in  India,  and  are  with  heroic  self  sacrifice  wear- 
ing out  their  lives  silently  for  the  good  of  others. 
— Charles  Stetoart  Smith  of  the  New  York  Cham- 
ber <tf  Oommeree. 


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— At  Dr.  Macphail's  magic  lantern  meetings 
the  name  of  Jesus  is  repealed  with  almost  every 
picture,  and  becomes  familiar.  The  Santals 
go  away  repeating  to  themselves,  **Jisu  Masi, 
Jisu  Masi,"  (Jesus  Christ,  Jesus  Christ). 

— Thirty  years  ago  a  common  sweeper  would 
fall  on  his  face  before  an  approaching  Brahmin, 
to  prevent  his  shadow  from  defiling  him.  To-day 
the  high  caste  man  is  jostled  and  hustled  in  the 
street  and  soon  there  will  be  no  Brahmins  left 
—Qeorge  F.  Penteeo$t,  D  D. 

— As  England  was  won  to  the  Normans  at 
Bastings,  and  India  to  England  by  the  battles  of 
a  hundred  years  ago,  so  Carey  the  cobbler  came 
to  India,  and  after  twelve  years  gave  it  the  Bible, 
and  when  his  first  convert  was  baptized  the  bat- 
tle of  Hastings  for  India  wasfought— G^ttw^d  F. 
Pmtecost,  D.D, 

— Miss  Celia  J.  Riley,  of  New  Jersey,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  Cross  Bearer's  Missionary  Reading 
Circle,  is  under  appointment  from  the  Presby- 
terian Church  to  a  station  in  South  America. 
She  states  that  her  desire  to  become  a  missionary 
was  greatly  strengthened  by  the  C.  M.  R.  C. 
course.  Rev.  Z.  M.  Williams,  A.M.,  Gallatin 
Mo.,  is  the  Secretary  of  this  Reading  Circle.— 
M,  L.  Gray,  LinevtUe,  loxca. 

— *'  You  needn't  send  me  back,"  said  the  man 
who  saved  the  Telugu  Mission,  '*but  I  shall  go. 
As  I  have  lived,  so  shall  I  die  among  the  Telu- 
gus."  The  Baptist  Board  had  resolved  to  give 
up  the  mission.  Finding  they  could  do  nothing 
with  such  an  obstinate  man,  tbey  sent  another 
back  with  him  to  give  him  a  Christian  burial 
when  he  died.  In  five  years  after  the  two  ar- 
rived they  baptized  5,000  converts.  —  Gyrus 
Hamlin,  D.D, 


— The  cause  of  Foreign  Missions  needs  to 
have  its  story  told  with  real  literary  skill  Most 
missionarv  biographies  and  histories  are  written 
without  perspective,  and  except  for  the  positive 
information  they  convey  would  not  be  read. 
On  the  pages  of  some  future  Macaulay  or 
Froude  missionary  history  will  become  interest- 
ing and  vital.  With  a  few  books  of  that  sort; 
we  shall  see  larger  gifts  for  missions,  and  an  in- 
terest in  the  cause  surpassing  anything  we  are 
now  familiar  with. — The  Watchman, 

—The  real  progress  of  Buddhism  in  Japan^ 
says  a  native  writer,  dates  from  the  time  when  the 
priest  Gy dki  and  the  statesman  Tachibana  Moroye 
originated  the  famous  doctrine  of  the  incarna- 
tion of  Buddha  in  the  national  gods  of  Japan. 
A  hybrid  religion  was  thus  formed  by  a  combi- 
nation of  Buddhist  dogmas  with  the  mythologi- 
cal traditions  of  the  Japanese.  Powerless  to 
conquer  the  superstitions  of  the  people.  Bud- 
dhism accommodated  itself  to  those  supersti- 
tions. — Japan  Mail, 

—I  am  a  convert  to  missions  through  see- 
ing missions  and  the  need  for  them.  Some  years 
ago  I  took  no  interest  whatever  in  the  condition 
of  the  heathen.  I  had  heard  much  ridicule  cast 
upon  Christian  missions,  and  perhaps  had  im- 
bibed some  of  the  unhallowed  spirit;  but  the 
missionaries  by  their  lives  and  character,  and  by 
the  work  they  are  doing  wherever  I  have  seen 
them,  have  produced  in  my  mind  such  a  change, 
and  such  an  enthusiasm  in  favor  of  Christian 
missions,  that  I  cannot  go  anywhere  without 
speaking  of  them  and  trying  to  influence  in 
their  favor  others  who  may  be  as  indifferent  as  I 
was  before  I  went  among  heathen  countries. — 
Isabella  Bird  Bishop, 


RECEIPTS. 

Synods  In  smaij*  oapttals;  Presbyteries  In  italio;  Ghnrcfaes  In  Boman. 


^gS'lX  Is  <A  great  importance  to  the  treasurers  of  all  the  bocuTds  that  when  money  is  sent  to  tbem,  tfat 
of  the  church  from  which  it  comes,  and  of  the  presbytery  to  which  the  church  belongs,  shook!  be 


distinct^ written,  and  that  the  person  sending  should  sign  his'or  lier  name  distinctly,  with  proper  title,  e.  (jr.. 
P^Mtor^  Treasurer,  Miss  or  Mrs,,  as  the  case  may  be.  Careful  attention  to  this  will  save  much  tronble.ml 
pertiaps  prevmt  seirioos  mistakeB. 


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ATLAimo. — South  FloridUtr—'BxMtis  (includiDg  sab-sch, 
1(0.  S4  85.  84  85 

Bjlltdiorb.— Baltimore— Baltimore  Bohemian.  3  50:  — 
Brovn  HemoriaU  91  11;  ElUoott  Citj.  8  50;  Paradise.  10. 
Ntw  C(ut/e -Elkton,  83;  Wilmington  Central,  73  95. 
Wcuhington  Oitv— Washington  aty  North.  11  60    235  57 

OlALiFOBm*— Lot  ilngtfleff— Orange,  7;  Westminster,  6. 


San  .FVanciaco— San  Francisco  Calrary,  46  80.  San  Jos4 
-Santa  Clara.  10  25.    S/ocJt<on- Madera  90.  87  55 

Catawba.— Oop«  .FVar— Fri«»nd8hlp,  75  cts.  Yadkin— 
St.  James,  1  75.  2  50 

Colorado.— BouW«*—Valmont,  24  cts.  Z>entw— Denver 
Capitol  Avenue,  14.  Pu«6Io— Alamosa  (including  sab-sch. 
4  19),  8  84;  Pueblo  Ist,  4  14;  Bocky  Ford,  0  25.  82  97 


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lLLi]iois.—.^Itoti— Salem  German,  6;  Woodburn  Ger- 
maa,  I;  Zion  German,  8.  Btoomintftott^Champaign, 
16  84.  Cairo— Cairo,  4.  C^ico^o— Chicago  Ist,  86  06;  — 
2d,  260;  —  8d,  900;  —  Bethany,  t\  Evanston  Ut,  21  08. 
Ifa^toon— Paris.  6  40.  Peoria -Galeeburgh,  48 18;  Knox- 
▼tlle.  1;  PrinceviUe,17  99.  Rock  ISiver— Aledo,  6;  Dixon, 
96  89.    ^c/iuyZer-Plymouth,  9  68.  6<8  74 

lKDiANA.~Crair/or<f«viZ2«— Eugene  Oaynga,  4;  Hope- 
well, 4;  Lafayette,  9d.  17  64;  RoekriUe  Memorial,  8  64; 
Sugar  Creek,  8.  Fori  VTayne— Lima,  8.  IndianapclU— 
Greenwood.  9.  Lo(7an«port— Bethel,  8.  New  Albany^ 
Lexington  Nabb  Chapel,  (additional),  1;  Pleaiant  Town- 
ship, 8  60;  Seymour,  6  16.  69  88 

Indian  TBRRrroRT. — Choctaw — Bethel  Mission.  9;  Pine 
Ridge,  3;  Wneelock,  8.  Sequoyah— B^JL  Fork,  8  60.  Ok- 
2a\oma-PuroeU.  6.  19  60 

Iowa.— Coming — Clarinda,  18  76;  Sidney,  7.  Fort 
Dodye— Grand  Junction,  6  90  Joira— Keokuk  Westmin- 
ster, 9  60.  Iowa  City— Washington,  1  59  frai«rk>o— 
Conrad,  4;  Salem,  8;  Tranquility.  19;  Williams,  7.     69  84 

Kansas.— .ffmporia— Belle  Plaine,  9  50;  Marion,  19; 
Wichita  Oak  Street,  8  85.  Hi^AlaiMi-Highland,  7  90; 
Washington,  6  06.  Lamed— Lamed.  8  45;  Ninnescah, 
5.  Solomon— Hope,  9;  8alina,  19;  Union,  8.  Topeka— 
CUnton.  5;  Kansas  City  1st.  19  50;  Sharon,  4  60.        09  66 

KsNTUOKT.-TVanMioanta— Harmony,  9.  9  00 

Michigan. — Deirotit— Ann  Arbor,  19  69:  Brighton,  7. 
Flint- Lapeer,  91.  Grand  Aapidx-Grand  Haven,  11  90; 
Grand  Rapids  Ist,  16.  2x»n«ino— Concord,  5  77.  aagiriaw 
-Ithaca,  11  74.  86  00 

MiNNBSOTA.— i?«d  i?iver» Angus,  8  95.  St,  Plaui-St. 
Paul  Central,  17  41 ;  —  Westminster,  6.  96  66 

Missouri.— Qsarik— Buffalo,  1.    Pisimyra— Louisiana,  9. 

8  00 

Montana.— H0i«na^Helena  1st,  8  50.  8  60 

NsBaASKA.— Ha«iin(7«— Ong,  1  80.  JTeamey— Kearney 
Ist.  6  16:  Lexington,  6  67.  18  18 

New  jBRBKY.—^iiza^eiA— Elizabeth  SUoam  sabsch, 
4  97;  Lamington,  10;  Perth  Amboy  sab-sch,  4  81;  Boeelle, 
8  66.  Jersey  City- Arlington  19  91.  Morris  and  Orange— 
Madison,  104  64;  New  Vernon,  8  79.  iVeioarfc— Newark 
2d,  14  79;  —  High  Street,  88  50.  New  Bruntwick-Daj' 
ton,  8  68;  Flerelngton,  69  86;  New  Brunswick  1st,  88  99. 
JtTewion— Newton,    86.       West  Jertey— Camden  9d.  9. 

876  68 

New  ToRK.—ili6any— Albany  West  End,  16;  Menands 
Bethany,  18  60.  Bingfcamtoti— Binghamton  1st,  98  97; 
Deposit.  7  92;  Ninereh,  10  90.  .Boaton- Roxbury,  10  01. 
^ooJI^iyn— Brooklyn  Cumberland  St.,  10;  Utapleton  let 
Edgewater,  18  84:  West  New  Brighton  Calvary,  4. 
.euj'ai'*— Buffalo  Bethlehem,  9  99;  —  Central  96  90;  — 
Westminster,  18  88  Coium6ia— Hudson  sabsch,  96. 
Otnetee—Jforth  Bergen.  8  58.  C«neva— Gorham,  16; 
Seneca  Castle,  4  57.  Hud«oi»— Ridgebury,  88  cts.  Ly- 
on*—Junius,  9;  Newark,  90  60.  Aomou— Roslyn,  8  68; 
Kmithtown  14  06.  Niagara— Albion.  19;  Lockport  Ist.  80; 


WlUiamsport  1st,  90.  P^iiodeip^ia— Philadelphia  Beth- 
lehem, 98;  —  North  Broad  Street,  60;  Olivet,  lb  11.  Phil- 
adelphia J<rori\— Chestnut  Hill  Trinity,  19  66;  German- 
town  Ist,  199  69;  —  9d,  196  16;  —  Market  Square,  65;  Ne- 
shaminy  of  Warminster,  10  50.  iYii«6ttra^— Bethany,  7  70| 
Edgewood,  18  85;  Homestead,  19;  Miller*s  Run,  8;  Pitts- 
burgh East  Uberty  (sab-sch,  18  45),  87  81 ;  West  Elizabeth, 
6.  jKed«ion«— Mount  Vernon.  4.  i^enain^o— New  Castle 
9d,  5  95.  VTot^ini^ion— Frankfort,  5  50;  Lower  Buffalo. 
4;  Washington  1st,  96  50.  Weatminater^Hevr  HarmoDv, 
6;  York  Ciavary,  96  07.  1,667  91 

TKXAfl.—ulu«i»n— Austin  1st,  91  «S.  North  reara*-8t. 
Jo,  7  06.  98  80 

Washinoton.— Pu^ei  SBound— Sumner.  8  95.  8  95 

Wisconsin.— CAi|M>«iMr— Baldwin,  6.  JlddiMmr^Iiberty, 
1.  ifiiuTauJtce- Cedar  Grove,  16.  irinn«6a(K>— Stevens 
Point,  16.  88  00 

Total  from  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools. $8,608  51 

OTHER  CONTRIBUTIONS. 

A  minister's  tithe,  Athens  Presbytery,  9  68; 
A  minister's  tithe,  Fargo  Presbytery.  9  68; 
A  miaister's  tithe,  Parkersburg  Presbytery, 
9  6d;  Mrs.  J.  S.  Atkinson,  Hill  City,  Kans., 
9  00;  Rev.  E.  F.  Mundy,  Metuchen,  N.  J., 
6  00;  C.  Penna.,  4  00;  ''R.,"  9  00 90  88 

$3,694  80 

KISCELLANBODS. 

Interest  on  investments,  9,466  50;  Partial  losses 
recovered  from  Insurance  Company,  661  88: 
Total  loss  recovered  from  Insurance  Com- 
pany, 900  00;  Payment  on  Church  Mortg^age, 
884  80;  Plans,  7  50;  Premiums  of  Insurance, 
863  64;  Sales  of  Book  of  Designs,  No.  5,  60 
cents;  Bales  of  Church  Property,  1,170  96. . .    $5,944  99 

LBGACT. 

EsUte  of  Joseph  W.  Edwards,  1,687  60 1,687  50 

SPECIAL  DONATIONS. 

Illinois.- Cfcicai^o— Chicago  8th,  90.  Rock 
River— Dixon^  10 * 

Iowa.— Comtno— Clarinda,  57.  Council  Bluffs 
—Atlantic  90.  Dei  Afottiea— Allerton.  9  60; 
LinevlUe,  10  60.  Ft.  Dodge— Coon  Rapids, 
9  80.  Joira  City- Sugar  Creek,  4;  West 
Branch,  91  TTatertoo— Salem,  10;  —  Tran- 
quility, 10 

New  Jersey.— F/isa!>«tA— Liberty  Comer,  6  60. 
Plainfleld  Crescent  Avenue  sab-sch,  100 

OHio.-Httrow— Bloomfleld  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  8  56.         991  86 

$10.847  97 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions 
April-October,  1893 94,648  98 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions 
Aprtl-October,  1899 97,964  11 

MANSE  FUND. 

New  Jersey.- Jforri«  and  Oran^^c— Madison,  1. 
PENN8YLVANiA.-.4M«aAeny~AUegheny  Central, 
9  95 3  8* 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Installments  on  Loans 918  90 

Interest 7  08 

Pr^niumsof  Insurance 86  87        969  10 

SPECIAL  DONATIONS. 

New  YoBK.—New  Forfc- New  York  Harlem 
sab-sch,  10 

Pennsyltanla. — Carlisle — Harrisburgh  Mar- 
ket Square,  10.  P^ilodeip^ia -Philadelphia 
North  Broad  Street,  46  40 66  40 

$1,081  75 

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If  acknowledgement  of  any  remittance  is  not  found  in 
these  reports,  or  if  they  are  inaccurate  in  any  item, 
prompt  advice  should  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Boaro,  giving  the  numbsr  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 
absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date,  amount  and  form  of  re- 
mittance. Adax  Campbell,  2V6a«urer. 
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Baltimore.— J?altimore— Annapolis  1st,  7  80:  Baltimore 
9d,  7  80.  New  Ca«ti«-Buckingham,  4  86;  Elkton,  98: 
WUmingtOQ  Cratral  (sabHwh,  6  4^,  68  06.    WatMngUm 


City— Washington  City  MetrepoUtan,  10.  116  46 

Caliiobnla.— Lo«  Angeles-m  CaJon,95;  Tustln,  9  40. 

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QAXAMB^^Cape  Fear— Louisbuiv,  1  85.  1  95 

OQLOBADO.~BottMer— Yalmoiit,  18  ots.  Piceblo— Pueblo 

let,  8  10.  8  88 

Illdiois.— <%iea{K>  ^  Ckicaso  let,  86  06;  —  8d,  800;  — 

« Bethany,  1;  Branston  lat,  17  56;  Itaska,  5;  Lake  Forest, 

144  15.      MatUxm  -  Efflnfirham   let,   8  10;     Paris,   4  80. 

Peorid— FSarminrton,  9  85.    Bock  River— Aledo^  8. 

598  91 
IiniiANA.—OatrAm2«tytI2e— Lafayette  8d,  9  80;    Rock- 

▼ille  Memorial,  8  78.    Fort  IFayne— Elkhart,  10.  Indian- 

opoli*— Bainbridge,  1.    Iftmcte— Union  City,  5.        88  58 
IXDiAKTKRBiTORT.—CAoctato— Grant,  1.  100 

Iowa.— Cedar  i2apid»-Garrison,  4.    loioa  City— Wash- 

faurton,  1  90.  5  80 

Kahsas.— Xomed  —  Sterling    Ist,  8.     Topeka  —  Riley 

Centre.  8.  4  00 

KnrruGKT.—TVatuyloania— Harmony,  8.  9  00 

MiGUOAX.—Detroti— Brighton,  8.    Zannny— Concord, 

MnnmoTA.— Ditittt^— Dnluth  1st,  94  88  84  88 

Mmsonai.—OsarJb— Buffalo,  1.  Ptatte— Union,  1  9  00 
Nkw  JmaBMY.— Elizabeth  —  Elizabeth  8d,  40  75;  —  8d, 
15  75:  —  Westminster.  67  70:  Roselle,9  67.  Monmouthr- 
Cranboiy  8d,  4;  Lakewood.  94  10;  South  Amboy,  1. 
Morrieand  Oranoe— East  Orange,  1st.  81  10;  Madison, 
6  85.  AeuwA— Newark  9d,  6  45;  —  Park.  88  74;  —  South 
Park,  10.  New  Brunswick— DtkjXoiL,  8  76;  New  Bruns- 
wick 1st,  87  88;  Trenton  8d,  47  88.  JVetoton^Bloomsburg 
lat.  14.  888  98 

Nkw  Mkxioo.— J2io  CraiMf«— Socorro  Spanish,  6.  5  00 
Nkw  York.  —  Binghamton  —  Binghamton  1st,  96  97. 
Bu^oio— Buffak)  Bethlehem,  8  88;  —  Westminster.  6  98. 
J?u<iMm— Nyack  Ist,  80  68:  Rldgebury,  1.  New  York- 
Sew  York  Christ.  8;  —  Unhrerslty  Place,  91  67.  Niagara 
— AlUon,  15.  fir(«t<!>e»— Addison,  17  06;  Arkport,  1  14. 
3Vov— Salem  1st,  8  40;  Troy  Second  Street,  84  68.  Utica 
—Dion  and  sab^ch,  8.  808  58 

NoBTH  Dakota.— PismMna—Neche,  8.  8  00 

Ohio.— Cleoetond— dereland  Euclid  Avenue,  45;  — 
Madison  ATenne,  4  08— sab-sch,  7  80.  Columbw  —  Col- 
umbus Broad  Street,  1.  Daytofv— Dayton  Park,  8  60; 
GreenTille  Ist,  19;  Springfield  8d,  19  84.     Hunm-San- 


dusky  1st,  70  cts.  Lima— Conroy,  8  76;  Harrison,  1  60; 
MIddlepoint.  4  85.  IfoAoniny-Canton  1st,  11  89;  Coits- 
yille,8.  Ifaumee— Tontogany,  8.  Zanegvilte  Chandlers- 
Tille,  1  70;  Coshocton.  10.  180  17 

Pbnmstlyakia.— ^ttei^Aeny— Olenshaw,  10  77— sab-sch, 
1  66;  Sewickly,  88.  StairfviUe-Fairfleld,  18  69.  Butler 
—North  Butler,  4;  Scrub  Grass,  11.  Corlirfe— Waynes- 
boro, 4  69.  CAetter- Media,  88  91.  C2aH(m-Oil  City  9d, 
4.  2Me— Girard,  8  40;  Kerr's  Hill,  1  85;-sab-sch,  84 cts. ; 
Miles  Grove  Branch,  8  48.  fluntin^donp-Clearfleld,  19  87; 
Houtzdale,  8  40;  Lower  Spruce  Creek,  7.  Kittanning— 
Cherry  Tree,  8;  Glade  Run,  6  60;  Indiana  1st  sab-sch  85; 
Jacksonville,  8;  Leechburgh,  11.  Lactoioanno— Susque- 
hanna 1st,  5.  Pfcitode^^-Philadelphia  Olivet.  98  60. 
Pitttburgh-Oakmont  Ist.  8;  Pittsburgh  8d.  109  8S  — 
East  Liberty  19  86-sab4ch,  18  45.  i^adttone—Uttle  Bed- 
stone, 8  95;  Mt.  Pleasant  Reunion,  7  84.  Shenango— 
Sharpsville,  8  95.     Waehington-'Oowe,  9;  Washin^n 

TBNNxaBBa— JTingif  fon— HuntsviUe,  8.  9  00 

Utah.— ilontona— Boulder,  8.  8  00 

Total  received  from  Churches  and  Sabbath- 
schools $  1.966  16 

PBBSOMAL. 

Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  ,  Kirkwood  church,  Ulinois,  1  50; 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  K.,  FuUerton  Church,  Nebraaka, 
9  50;  "C.  Penna.,"  8 


700 


North  Chicago  City  Railway  Company  4U  per 
cent,  bonds,  585;  **  Martha  Adams  Fund/'  196.       780  00 

Total  receipts  for  October $9,758  16 

Previously  reported 16,996  68 

Total  receipts  to  November  1st,  1898 $19,049  84 

C.  M.  Chabklbt,  Treaeurer, 

Box  994,  Chicago,  m. 


BBCKIPTS  FOB  BDUOATION,  OOTOBBB,  1898. 


Baltimobk.  —  Baltimore  —  Baltimore  8d.  4;  Enunitts- 
burgfa,  90  87.  New  Cku/fe— Dover,  94;  Elkton,  81  45; 
Harrington,  8  60 ;  New  Castle  1st,  (sab-sch,  7  80),  108  14. 
Waehington  C«r— Washington  City  6th,  81;  —  Metro- 
politan, 80.  ^     —,      ,        3J2  j^j 

Califobhxa.— Lo«  ^nyele*— Alhambra.  4;  ElCaJon,  85; 
Hneneme,  10;  Pasadena  Calvary,  8;  Santa  Ana,  17  10. 
fitoclp<on— Stockton  1st,  10.  69  10 

Colorado.— Boulder— Yalmont,  15  cts.  Ounniwn— 
Grand  Junction,  6.    PueMo— Huerfano  Cafion,  1  06;  Pue- 


^£niTucKT.—JE&«n«ser— Paris  Ist,  6. 
Harmony,  8. 


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uo-46 

Trane^lvania— 


MioHiaAN.-I>e^H>»7— Brighton,  S.  i77<n<— Marlette  8d, 
5.  iTatomasoo- Edwardsburgh,  1;  Nlles,  15  84.  Lansing 
—Concord,  8  86;  Lansing  Franklin  Street,  6  84.  Monroe 
—Monroe  1st.  8  fioi^naio— Bay  City  Ist,  10;  West  Bay 
City  Covenant,!.  48^ 

MunnesoTA.— Dttltt^V-Duluth  1st,  99  98:  West  Duluth, 
Westniinster.  1  08.  JfanJbato— Redwood  Falls,  4.  Mm- 
neapoli«— Minneapolis  Bethlehem  (sab-sch,  4  86),  17;  — 
Westmhister,  118  86.   St.  Pistil— St.  Paul  Westminster.  6. 

169  66 

Miss< ^ ^'^"    ""-" — -"^  ** — ' *-«--»,_., 

den  1st 
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Winnel  \ 

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90  591 

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88  85; 
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burgh  1st,  17  17.  Columbia— Hudson  ^sab-sch.  85;  Wind- 
ham Centra,  19.  G'entftwi— Geneva  North,  60;  Heneca 
Castle.  8.  ffudsonp-Amity,  7;  Chester  (sab-sch,  8),  88  19; 
Cochecton,  4;  Hamptonbiuvh,  19;  Ridgebury,  85  cts.  Ly- 
ons—^aeie,  6  17.  iVioMau— Huntington  1st,  80  99;  Roalyn. 
6  97.  New  Forib— New  York  Allen  Street,  1;—  Weat, 
146  79.  Niagara  —  Albion,  11:  Youngstown,  8.  North 
Bivsr— Marlborough,  96  65;  Milton,  9;  Pleasant  Plains, 


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[January^ 


—Northern  Libertiect  Ist,  IS  64;  —  Northminster,  119  51; 
—Patterson  Memorial,  9;  —  Tipga,  M.  Philadelphia 
iVbrtA— Briitol.6;  CarversviHe.!  86;  Conshohocken,  2  80; 
Doylestown,  46  92;  Frankfora,  18  80:  Germantown  let 
8ab>8ch,  67  02;  —  Market  Square,  76  18;  Jenkintown 
Grace,  11;  Roxborough,  6.  FUtMburgh—CtainonBbuTgh 
l8t,  16  60;  Centre,  9  26;  Fairriew,  4:  Forest  Grove  (sab- 
sch,  8),  9;  McKee's  Rocks,  6;  Miller's  Run,  8:  Montonrs, 
6;  Mount  Olive,  8  60:  PitUburgh  4th  sab-sch,  84  86:  — 
East  Liberty  (sab-sch,  18  46),  87  81;  —  Lawrenoeville, 
19  21;  Sheridan  Ist,  8  68.  i?e(i«ton«- Brownsville  11; 
Dunbar  (sab>8ch,  4),  26;  MoKeesport  1st,  84;  Mount  Ver- 
non, 8;  Scottdale  (sab-sch,  2), -^4  76;  Smithlleld,  1  62. 
8h«nan(K>— Hopewell,  4  26.  Wtuhington—Vfvshiogtoa 
1st,  26  60;  Wheelini:  2d,  18  67.  IFertnUfw^er-M&dle 
Octorara,  6.  1,670  49 

South  Dakoti..— Central  DoJ^fo— Woonsocket  let., 
7  60.  7  to 

Tknioebskb.— fibbton  — Reedj  Creek,  1  80.  UnUmr- 
Hopewell,  1  76;  New  Market  1st,  10;  New  Providence, 
18  47;  Westminster,  1  60.  28  62 

Utah.— ilbntono— Boulder,  8.  C;^/a\— American  Fork, 
8.  11  00 

WisooMSur.— C^m>«tMi  —  Oak  Grove,  2,  Madison— 
Baraboo,  6  22;  Platfeville  German,  7  65;  Pulaski  German, 
4.  19  87 

Receipts  from  Churches  in  October 6,256  60 

Receipts  from  Sabbath-schools  in  October. 178  68 

LBOACT. 

Estate  of  Mrs.  Jane  Page,  Philadelphia,  (net), 
286 .Vrr. 286  00 

RMJfUMDJED. 

Rev.  U.  L.  Lvle,  7  60;  Rev.  Jacob  Schaedel,  26; 
L.C.  Amldon,126 168  50 

ORATXTUDK  FUMD. 

5 6  00 

INOOm  AOOOUMT. 

Roger  Sherman  Fund,  90 90  00 

mSCELLANXODS. 

A.  L.  Berry,  10;  Rev.  Joseph  Stephens,  D.  D.,  5; 
aPenna,2 17  00 

Total  receipts  in  October,  1898 $6,090  68 

— *,-«.-.w,  ,  ««,  v^«....««i««.,„«,  *  ««,  *^.^,-  ,v.  *^«..-      Total  receipts  from  April  20, 1898 81,077  70 

burgh,  85  62;  MlfflinburK.  4;  New  BerUn,  6;  NewColum-  t^^„  wwr-/^-   tv^^.*.^ 

bia,  2  50;   Northumberland,  7;   Washlngtonyllle,  2  60;  J^"*^  Wilson,  Treaaurer, 

Watsontown,  8  87.     PAi(ac(«Ip^ia— Philadelphia  9th,  60;  1284  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia. 

BBGBIPTS  FOB  FOBXIGM  MISSIONS  FOB  OCTOBEB,  1898. 


Baltimobb.— BoZftmore^AnnapoIis  West  End  Mission 
sab-sch,  2  94;  —  Boundary  Avenue,  60;  —  Covenant  Y.  P. 
a  C.  E.,  8;  —  Westminster  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  12;  Paradise,  6. 
New  CoMfie— Smyrna,  8.  Washington  Cify— Washington 
City  MetropoUtan,  60;  —  North  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2  62;  — 
Westminster  sab-sch  Missionary  Society,  80.  179  66 

California.— 5«nicia—Healdsburgh,  4  95;  San  Rafael 
Missionary  Society,  20.  OaJtlami-Oakland  1st,  190  25. 
San  Fran  ci«co— San  Francisco  Mizpah  Mission  Boys* 
Brigade,  75  cts.  San  Jbs^-Milpitas,  8.  /Stockton— Cle- 
ments, 8.  206  96 

Catawba.— Sotttfc^m  F3iri7in»a— Henry,  1.  1  00 

Colorado  -^ouZder—Longmont  Central  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
16  72;  VaJmoDt,  99  cts.  Pu«6to— Huerfano  CaSon,  1  66; 
Monte  Vista  1st,  57  25;  Pueblo  1st.  17  06.  98  67 

Illinois.— ^Iton— Lebanon.  2  50;  Salem  German,  9; 
Woodbum  German.  9;  Zion  German,  6.  Bloomitigton— 
Bement  sab-sch,  1  5S;  Mackinaw.  8;  Pontiac  Y.  P.  B.  C. 
E.,  15.  Cairo^Du  Quoin  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8;  Golconda,  5; 
Odin,  4  08;  Sumner,  2  25;  Union.  2  25.  CTiica^o— Brook- 
line,  for  Africa,  10;  Chicago  Ut,  75  47;  —  2d.  20;  — 
Bethany,  5:  Du  Page.  47;  Evanston  1st,  87  82;  Hyde  Park, 
146  64;  Itaska,  8;  Will,  8  80.  i^e«porf-Rockford  1st  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  19  58.  Ifafeoon— Paris,  26  40;  WestOkaw 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  21  80.  Peorta— Prospect,  17  62.  Rock 
River— A\edo.  19  60,  sab-sch,  16  78;  Dixon  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
16.  Scfctiyfer-EIvaston  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  19  85;  Kirkwood 
sab-sch,  8  50,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8;  Perry.  5:  Quincy  1st,  10, 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  12  50.  ^prtno/teW- Jacksonville  United 
Portuguese  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2  60;  Springfield  1st  Y.  M.  M. 
8.  forMexico  School,  87.  695  17 

Indiana.— Crato/ordsvtZitf— Lafayette  2d,  26  68;  Rock- 
▼ille  Memorial,  15  08.     Fort  Wayne— Fort  Wayne  1st  Y. 


P.  8.  C.  E.,  15;  -  8d,  78  81;  Uma,  8:  Osslan  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  10.  JndianapotM- Greenwood,  18  15;  Hopewell  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  B^  6  26.  iVew^I6any-Monroe  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6; 
Mount  Vernon,  2;  New  Albany  8d  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  76: 
Utica,  6.  181  68 

Indian  Trrritobt.— CA«roJke«  2Vafio?i— Park  Hill,  16. 
Ofelo^ma— Ardmore  W.  M.  8.,  5.  20  00 

Iowa.— Cedar  £apid«— Cedar  Rapids  1st,  8  74;  —  2d  for 
Papal  lands,  66;  Clarence.  18.  Coming— Coming ^  20; 
Prairie  Chapel  T.  P.  8.  C.  Bm8  46.  Des  Moines— TSewton 
sab-sch,  8  W;  Winterset  sab-sch,  6  65.  Dubuque— Uop' 
kinton.40:  Lansing  1st,  21.  fouja— Keokuk  Westminster, 
89  67;  Mount  Pleasant  1st,  88  25:  Oakland,  8  51 ;  Ottum- 
wa  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  8  60.  lotoa  Ctty— Washington, 
6  57.  Sioux  Cify— Meriden  sab-sch,  8  04.  Waterloo— 
Ackley,  6;  Clarksville,  80;  Toledo,  1  46,  Thank  offering 
for  recovered  health,  2  60;  Union  German,  5.  800  24 

Kansas — jffmporia— Emporia  Arundel  Avenue  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.,  8  60.  Iramed-Lamed  Band  of  Workers,  4  76, 
Lamed  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10.  Solomon— Fountain,  6  11 ;  Lin- 
coln Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  7.  7\n>eto— Edgerton,  7  15;  Junction 
Citv  Ist  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.f  6.  42  61 

KiENTUCKT.-TVaTwylvania— Harmony,  4.  4  00 

Michigan. — Detroit — Brighton,  6.  JTalamacoo— Ed- 
wardsburgh  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  6  72.  I«an«iny— Concord, 
20  58;  Lansing  Franklin  Street,  18  86.  Sai^naio— Emer- 
son, 60;  Mount  Pleasant,  5.  116  10 

MiNNS90TA.—ifanlM»to— Redwood  Falls,  5.  6  00 

Missouri  —0«arfc— Buffalo,  2  60.  Platte  —  Union,  4. 
St.  LouU-Brivtol  2;  Kirkwood,  94,  sab-sch,  16  11;  St. 
Louis  Cote  Brilliante  Y.  P.  S.  0.  E..  12  21;  —  Lafayette 
Park  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  25.  154  82 


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Nmaiig A  .—.gafWiHyy— Beaver  Oity,  0;  NelBon  T.  P.  8. 
a  EL,  10.  £eam«y-Fiillertoii  T.  P.  8.  0.  B.,  »  60.  Nio- 
6rara— Peoder,  11  80.  OmoAa— Lyons,  4  60:  Omah* 
Kdox,  6  61 ;  —  Lowe  ATenue,  11  08;  FlTmouth  Y.  P.  Q.  C. 
E..  S  80.  66  18 

Kbw  jBS8BT.~£3ira5et\— Elizabeth  1st  Murray  Mis- 
sioiuuy  Association,  M  68;  Maurers  German,  8;  Plainfleld 
Creeoent  Avenue  for  Papal  Lands  in  America.  410  8d; 
Plockamln  Washington  VaUer  Union  sab-sch,  8  16;  Ro- 
seUe,  14  60.  Jeney  Ci^y— Arlington,  6  09;  ^iglewood, 
609  04;  Jersey  City  Westminster  sab-sch,  11  80;  Paterson 
Bedeemer  sab-sch,  60. .  Aronmou/V-Bamegat,  6;  Farm- 
ingdale,  8  60:  Manasqufth.  80.  Morrig  and  Omn^e— Boon- 
ton,  44  06,  salM»h,  80  67,  Infant  Class,  18  11;  East  Orange 
BetheL  44  06;  Madison,  66  46;  Mendham  1st,  7;  New  Vei^ 
non  sab-sch,  9;  Orange  Oentral  400;  Schooley's  Mountain, 
88;  Ht.  Cloud  sab-sch,  19  60.  ^eioarle— Bloomfield  1st, 
880  64,  sab-sch,  )00;  Caldwell,  89C;  Montclair  Trinity,  100: 
Newark  Sd,  78  81;  —6th  Avenue.  66;  —  Park,  88  4u;  — 
•  Woodside,  18  68.  New  Bruntwick— Bound  Brook.  86; 
Dayum,  16  18;  New  Brunswick  1st,  68  60;  Trenton  8d  T. 
P.  8.  C.  E.,  86;  —  Prospect  8treett  186.  Newton— Oxford 
•d  sab«^  9  89.  fVeet  Jertey—Bridgeton  80,  SS  00,  sab- 
sch.  88  00,  Y.P.S.C.£.,05  86;  —  West,100.  8,880  88 

Nkw  Mxzico.—Sania  Fe^J.  A.  Qutierrez,  10.  10  00 

Nkw  York.  —  i/tny^mton— Binghamton  Ist,  868  46. 
Boston— Antrim.  16;  Lawrence,  86;  South  Ryegate.aM). 
Brooklyn— BrooKlyn  1st,  186;  —  Lafayette  Avenue  Mon. 
Con.,  86  69.  Y.  P.  AssociaUon,  9;  —  South  8d  Street,  86  66. 
Buifafo-Bultalo  Bethlehem,  11  84;  —  North,  28  77,  A.  D. 
A.  Miller,  100;  —  Westminster,  60  88;  Clean,  48  06;  Silver 
Creek,  8  M;  Springvllle  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E^  16.  Columbior- 
Ancram  Lead  Mines  Y.  P.  8.  C.  £.,  4:  Durham  Ist  Y.  P. 
15.  C.  E.,  7  88;  Hudson,  sab-sch,  60.  &«neiNi^lCancheeter 
Y.  P.  8.  a  B.,  20;  »eneca  Falls  1st,  68  18:  Waterloo  sab- 
sch,  10.  fitutton— Amity,  18;  Congers  1st,  86;  Qoehen 
sab^ch,  60;  Mkldletown  1st,  Miss  H.  M.  VaU,  6:  Palisades, 
85  49;  fiidgebury,  8  68.  Long  iUond— Bellport,  40; 
Bridgehampton,  18  90:  Qreenport.  76:  South  Haven,  16. 
iV<issa«— Hempstead  Christ  Church  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  44; 
Huntingdon  1st,  806  99;  —8d  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  88  60;  Roelyn, 
10  06;  Smlthtown,  14  65.— JVew  Fori;— Montreal  Ameri- 
can, 616;  New  York  1st,  a  friend,  60;  —  1st  Union,  88  60; 

—  14th  Street  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  17;  -  Calvaiy  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
R,  10;-Can»l  Street,  S  48;-  Christ  Y.  P.  8.  a  E ,  10;- 
Westmhiscer  West  88d  Street,  70 12.  JITto^aro-Albion,  66. 
North  /»twr— Newburgh  Calvaiy,  14  60;  Bondout,  68  88, 
sab-sch,  16  41;  Wappinger's  Falls  sab-sch,  6.  Oteego— 
Oooperatown,  98  97.  iiocAetter— Rochester  Westminster, 
60.  St,  La«orenc«— Gouvemeur,  50;  Waddlngton,  18  86; 
Watertown  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  100.  Steuben  —  Arkport, 
6  89.  ^racuM— Canastota,  69  18;  Oswego  Grace,  100. 
IVoy— Cambridge,  16  86;  Oreen  Island,  10;  Lansingburgh 
OUvet,  6.  IT^ica-Ilion,  10  16,  sab-sch,  10  16;  Oneida, 
71  84;  Bome,  84  60;  Vernon  Centre,  8  78.  Weetcheeter— 
New  Bochelie  8d,  107;  Peekskill  1st  Mon.  Con.,  18  59; 
South  Salem,  15  88.  8,544  68 

NoBTH  DAXOTA.—PSeinMn<i— Crystal,  6.  5  00 

Ohio.— BeUi(/of»toine— Belief ontaine  Ist,  80  99;  Urbana 
sab-sch,  8  05.  OJncimiati— Cincinnati  Fairmount  Ger- 
man, 6;  Glendale  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  84.  CZevetotui— Cleve- 
land  1st  Student  Vol.  Sec,  support  F.  L.  Jackson,  187  60; 

—  EacUd  Avenue,  847  60:  —  woodland  Avenue,  sal.  D.  L. 
Qifford,  850,  sab-sch,  44  80.  Cotum5iu— Columbus  Broad 
St.,  8  00.  />B]fto»— Camden,  8  70;  Monroe  sab-sch,  60  cts.; 
Springfield  8d  sab-sch,  80.  JSuron— Sandusky,  1.  Mahon- 
<tM--AlUance  1st,  8  50;  Canton,  Y.  P.  M.  8.718;  Ellsworth 
YV  P.  B.  C.  E.,  86.  ilorion— Marion  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18. 
PvrtsmoMM— Portsmouth  8d  sab-sch.  Spec.  Laos  Fund,  85. 
St-CkUnvOle  OtiU  Water,  8  68.  8<eiibenvil2e-Corinth. 
10;  New  Hagerstown  sab-sdi,  7  79;  New  Harrisburgh,  14; 
New  Phila^phia,  12;  Toronto.  26.  fToocter- Jackson 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  77Jton««r<Me— ChandlersviUe,  4  40;  Gran- 
ville sab-sch,  4  80.  994  71 

OBBOON.-Portland— Portland  Calvary,  84  60.  84  60 
PBN]iBYiiVANiA.—^IIagA«ny— Cross  Roads,  7.  BlairtvUle 
—Kerr,  88;  Plum  Creek,  68  60:  Poke  Run  sab-sch,  81; 
Unity  sab-sch,. 0  87.  Btttfer-CentreviUe,  88;  Concord, 
12  68;  Mo*mt  Nebo,  5  80:  North  Butler,  8;  North  Liberty, 
16  72:  Plain  Grove,  16;  Portersville,  88.  Oarlisle^ 
Pttupliin  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10  40;  Great  Conewago  L  M.  8., 
18;  Harrii^mrgh  Market  Square,  118  00,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  76; 

—  Westminster,  8;  Middletown  1st,  16;  Shippensbnrgh 
■ab-sch,  20;  Waynesboro,  85  41.  CAwtor— Bethany,  18; 
Ftegg*sMaDor. 50;  Wayne,  86  78.  CtoWoit-Betbesda,  7; 
Oil  City  2d,  6.  JCrie— Belle  Valley,  8;  Sugar  Grove,  8. 
Am/iiMcfon^Houtzdale,  18  80;  Ane  Grove  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
B^  8.  Kittanning—Oheny  Tnse,  4;  Middle  Creek,  5; 
TunneltoB,  8  60.  Zxudbomanna— Ararat,  8:  Gibson,  8; 
Wilkes  Barre  Memorial,  50;  WyomiBg,  14.  Lehigh^ 
AUen  Township  sab-sch  work  in  Kingpo,  7,  McKee  Band 
work  in  Ningpo,  80;  Eaaton  1st  Home  School  work  in 
Mlngpo,  OOTHiudatoii,  180  It;  Middle  Smithfleld  High- 


land  Grove  sab^ch  for  Ningpo,  2;  Pen  Aigyle  sabsch 
for  Nhigpo.  18  50;  Pottsville  1st  sab-sch  for  Nbgpo,  17  91 ; 
Shenandoah  sab-sch,  5:  South  Easton  sab-sch  for  Ningpo, 
10:  Tamaqua  sab-sch  for  Ningpo,  10;  U1>per  Lehigh  sab- 
sch  for  Ningpo,  25;  Upper  Mount  Bethel  sab-sch  for 
Ningpo,  5;  White  Haven,  14  26.  Y.  P.  8  C.  E..  16,  Jr.  Y, 
a  C.  E.,  8;  Cash  for  Ningpo,  8  88.  ParkeraburgK-Kinft- 
wood,  11  86.  i^itode^Aio— Philadelphia  Bethany  49  26, 
sab-sch,  51  52;  —  Cohockslnk  sab-sch,  9  70;  —  Gaston 
sabsch«  20  26;  —  Peace  German.  6;  —  West  Hope,  90  18; 
—  West  Spruce  Street,  158,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  85.  PfctIad«^ 
phia  iVor&— Doylestown  Y,  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18;  Frankford, 
88  29,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  X  10;  Norristown  Ist,  250;  Torresdale 
Macalester  Memorial,  8  25;  Wissinoming.  5.  Pittsburgh 
—Forest  Grove  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  15:  Middletown,  17;  Pitts- 
burgh Centra],  100;  —  East  Liberty,  06  84,  sab-sch,  98  27: 
Raccoon,  64  78,  sab-sch,  6  80.  Redetone^lMOteX  Hill, 
41  19;  Round  Hill,  21.  aft€nanyo— Rich  HiU  sab-sch, 
2  75.  ITosfcinaton— Washington  1st,  58;  -  8d  Y.  P.  8. 
g.E.,6.  2,217  98 

South  Dakota.— ^&erd«ef»— Aberdeen,  22.  22  00 

Tkknbsskb.— Hobton  —  Chuckey  Vale,  1;  Lamar,  1. 
CTntow-South  Knoxville  Y.  P.  8.  0.  B.,  40  cts.  2  40 

TBXA&—.4u«<<n- Austin  1st  Mrs.  H.  H.  McLane.  10; 
Fort  Davis,  8  70,  sab-sch,  2  80,  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  1.  Trinity— 
Albany,  9 15;  Mary  Allen  Seminary  Missionary  Society, 

UTAH.-^Boi»e-Boise  City  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5.         5  00 
WASHiKGTON.—Oiym.pia— Woodland,  5.  5  00 

Wisconsin.— 2>»  Cross*  —  Greenwood,  8,  sab-sch,  2. 
Jlddifon^Highland  German,  8  88;  Pulaski  German,  4. 
MUwaukee  —  Beaver  Dam  1st  sab-sch,  25;  MUwaukee 
Westminster  sab-sch.  2  09.  "  Birthday,*'  1  76.  Winnebago 
-Shawano  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  5.  61  17 

WOMKN'S  BOABDS. 

Women's  Board  of  Philadelphia.  1,862  79; 
Women's  Board  of  New  York,  8,887  50;  Wo- 
men's Board  of  South  West,  700;  Women's 
Occidental  Board,  1,178  87 $7,079  16 

LSOAOnS. 

Estate  of  John  8.  Davison,  deceased,  1,225  66; 
esUte  of  Moses  Boggs,  deceased,  400;  estate  ^ 

of  Joseph  H.  Edwan&,  deceased,  2.486  78....  $4,11^  ^8 

ia80KLLANB0U& 

Walter  Carter,  100;  a  believer  in  missions,  Pitts- 
burgh, for  salary  of  G.  A.  Godduhn,  200;  T. 
A.  Bigelow,  12  50;  for  Ruth,  100:  H.  L  J.,  100; 
Cash,  64  cts.;  part  of  the  Tenth,  8  00;  Miss 
Prentiss,  Special  Laos  Fund,  6;  Frank  L. 
Marshall,  10^  D.  B.  Gamble,  200;  F.  8.  P.,  50; 
J.,  20;  Mrs.  Pembrook,  for  boat  "WllUe,"  450; 
Prof.  R.  O.  WUder,  5;  Mrs.  Helen  C.  Swift, 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  support  of  John  Jolly,  80;  C. 
H.  Chapin,  Crete,  Neb.,  5;  Belfast.  Me.,  Con- 
gregational C.  E.,  5;  Mrs.  Albert  B.  King,  N. 
Y.,  80;  John  Inglis,  Clayville,  Penn.,  26;  Mrs. 
Thyrxa  Gray  and  daughter.  Special  Laos 
Fund,  2;  8.  A.  Rankin,  N.  Y..  5;  Mrs.  Helen  D. 
Mills,  86;  Geo.  T.  Crissman,  D.  D.,  and  family. 
South  Denver,  Col.,  60;  Ellessdie,  N.  Y.,  sab- 
sch,  2;  two  sisters.  Special  Laos  Fund.  16;  H. 
F.  Walker,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  100;  Cananaaigu&f 
150;  Friends  in  Ness  and  Hodgeman  Counties. 
Kansas,  per  W.  H.  Howell,  2;  Friend 
of  Laos,  Special  Laos  Fund,  100;  E. 
A.  K.  Hackett.  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  260;  in 
memoriam  '*A,'^  Special  Laos  Fund,  5|  R.  E. 
Porter,  5;  J.  B.  Davidson,  20:  Collection  at  a 
popular  meeting  of  the  Synod  of  New  Jersey, 
64  00;  F.  C.  8..  M;  M.  J.  Butler,  10;  a  friend  in 
Chicago,  5;  Rev.  £.  M.  Atwood,  1;  G.  W.  Rus- 
sell, 50  cts. :  Henry  J.  Petram,  15;  Mrs.  J.  K. 
Allen,  Special  Laos  Fund,  8;  a  steward.  5;  C« 
Penna,  22;  J.  H.  Conant,  Chester,  111.,  10;  Rev. 
T.  C.  Winn,  Kanacawa,  Japan,  Special  Laos 
Fund,  26;  W.  J.  McKee,  Cnina,  Special  Laos 
Fund,  10;  a  friend,  20  25 $2,862  79 

Total  received  during  October,  1808 $26,852  89 

Total  received  from  May  1, 1898  to  October  81, 

1898 156,965  86 

Total  received  from  Bfay  1, 1892  to  October,  81, 

1898 181,618  48 

Decrease $84,668  57 

WnxiAM  DuLLBs,  Jr.,  2Vea«urer, 
58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  Ywk  City. 


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BBOBIFTS  FOB  nUBBDMBN,  OOTOBEB,  ISM. 


Atlantio.— l^ir;teld— LadflOD  CtuipeL  S.    Knox— Rioe- 

boro  And  Good  WiU  Mission,  4.  0  00 

Baltimokb.— Baltimore -AnuApoUa  1st,  7  80;  Baltimore 

8d,  8;  —  Boandaiy  Avenue,    M  85;   Frederick  City,  4. 

Wathington  City-Washincrton  Oitj  Metropolitan,  16. 

71  06 
Califormia.'-Lo*  Angelet—KX  Oajon,  SO  65 ;  Los  Angeles 
1st,  60  85;  MonroTia,  1  40;  Bedlands.  18  10.    San  Joti- 
Cayuoos,  6.  109  60 

Catawba.— Fo^Un'ti—Freedom  salHKh,  4  10;  Logan  sab- 
schandch.,  1  60  6  60 

Colorado.— Boickrer—Valmont,  16  cts.  Pu«Mo— Pneblo 
1st.  8  68.  8  78 

lLLiMOi8.—^{ton— Salem  Gkrman,  8;  Woodbmn  Ger- 
man, 8;  Zion  German,  1  69.  C^icayo -Chicago  1st,  60  10; 
—  Bethanj,  8;  —  Scotch  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6;  Evanston 
Ist,  81  08.  iiVeepart-Elizabeth,  1  70.  i/dt<oo»— Ash- 
more,  6;  Mowreaqua,  4;  Paris,  4;  Pleasant  Prairie,  7  60. 
Ptoria  —  Eureka,  10  06.  Rock  River  —  Aledo,  (sab- 
sch.  16  71),  14  81;  MiJlersburgh.  8  40;  Princeton  Y.  P.  8. 
a  E.,  16.    &r/iuy/er-Ru8hyilie,  4  86.  168  99 

lNDLANA.—Crau)/(t>rd«inZie— Lafayette  8d,  49  87;  Rock- 
viUe  Memorial,  8  88;  Spring  Grove,  88  76.  Fort  Wayne— 
Salem  Centre,  8  40  indtaTiapolt*— Greenwood .  sab-sch, 
7;  Indianapolis  let,  61  11.  Lo^fuport— Union,  4  66.  Vin- 
cennei-Oiive  Hill.  8.  161  96 

Indian  Tbrrttort.— CAouTtato  —  Choctaw  Nation,  Per 
E.  G.  Haymaker,  108  60;  Per  Miss  Lucy  Howard,  14  85. 

117  86 
Iowa.— Cedar  i2ap»d«-Shellsbuiigh,  8  40.  De«  Moine*— 
Des  Moines  Westminster,  1  86.  /oioa— Birmingham, 
8  80 ;  Keokuk  Westminster,  6 ;  Libertyyille,  8  68; 
Mount  Pleasant,  German,  10:  Ottiunwa  East  End,  6.  Iowa 
City— Washington,  1 ;  Wast  Branch,  4  88.  85  81 

Kansas.— iVeo«Ao— Humboldt,  4  60.  2\>peJba— Lawrence, 
16  80;  RUey  Centre  German,  8.  81  80 

KsNTuoKT.—176en«ser— Covington  Ist,  110  82.  2Vat»- 
«V<«anta— Harmony.  8.  118  88 

MioHiOAN.—Dstroit— Brighton,  8;  Ypsilanti,  8  60.  Lafi- 
<ini7— Concord,  8  61;  Tekonaha,  8  16.  Petotkey-FeUM- 
key.  8.  18  86 

Minnesota.— lfi»n«apo2M— Minneapolis  Stewart  Mem- 
orial, 14  88.  PTtnono^Lanesboro.  1.  16  88 
Missouri.— JTanMM  City— Bedalia  Broadway  sab^ch, 
4  85.  OaMirfc -Buffalo,  1  00.  Platte— Union,  1.  8t.  Louis 
—Bethel,  6;  Bristol,  8;  Kirkwoed,  87  50.  41  85 
New  Jersey.— .eiiza^et^— Elizabeth  Westminster  sab- 
sch.  88  78;  Liberty  Comer,  4;  Pluckamin,  4;  RoseUe, 
8  88.  Monmouth  —  Cranbury  8d,  4;  South  Amboy,  1. 
Morris  and  Oranye- Madison,  6  80;  Morristown  South 
Street,  78  06;  Orange  Ist,  50;  —  Central,  800;  Whippany, 
11  66.  JVeiiwrfc-Newark  8(L  88  04;  -  High  Street,  80  60. 
New  Brutwioidb— Dayton,  8  80;  Dutch  Neck,  40;  Trenton 
Ist,  100  60;  —  Prospect  Street,  84.  West  Jersey— Camden 
M.IO.  *^  ^  ^617  47 
New  York.— ^{&any— Maria viUe,  6.  Binghamton— 
Binghamton  1st.  66  65.  Buffalo— BmSaIo  Bethlehem, 
1  86;  —  Westminster,  9  6&  Cblumdio— Hudson  sab-sch, 
85.  G0n««e« -Warsaw,  85.  Ceneua— Romulus,  88  68. 
iVoMau-Etoslyn.  4  88.  New  For*— New  York  Allen 
Street,  8;  —  Atadison  Square,  80;  —  Ninth,  80.  Niagara 
—Albion,  13.  North  Rtvtr-AmenlA  South,  16  48;  New- 
burgh  Calvary,  18  86.  Aoc^e«t«r— Livonia,  6.  St.  Laaor- 
ence -Oswegatchie  8d,  4  20.  5^eu6en-Arkport,  96  cents; 
Cuba,  9  08.  CTttca-New  Hartford,  16  65;  Vernon  Centre, 
8  17.  878  81 
Ohio.— ^e^efu— AmesYille,  8  86;  New  England,  1  76. 
BetUtfontaine—BeWetontaine   1st,    8  17.     Cincinnati— 


Ckidnnati  7th  sab-sch,  86.  Cleveland— Cleveland  8d,  10; 
—  Euclid  Avenue,  87  60;  —  Madison  Avenue,  CMb-ach, 
6  07),  9  48.  Ooiumlmt-Oohimbus  Broad  Street,  8  60. 
i)«syton— Blue  BalL  6;  Dayton  Memorial,  11.  Marion 
—Jerome,  8  80.  Jfaumee- Tontogony,  4.  8L  ClairaviUe 
— Freeport,  1.  SteubenvUle—'aBnem,  6;  Urichsville,  6. 
ZonMviZie-Chandlersville,  8  80;  Dresden,  8  88;  Zanes- 
TiUe8d,16  67.  149  80 


WASHnfOTON.^PMyet  Sound— Sumner,  8.  8  OQ 

Wisconsin.  —  MUwaukee  —  Milwaukee  Calvary,  19;  — 

Immanuel,  100.  119  00 


Woman's  Executive  Committee,  8,811  48.  Fusan 
Koka,  8;  Mr.  H.  B.  SlUiman,  Cohoes.  N.  Y., 
100;  Mrs.  Caleb  S.  Green,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  100;  A 
Friend  of  Missions,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  60;  Prof. 
R.  E.  WlUet,  Greenfield,  HI,  6;  Mrs.  Helen 
— . ..-.u — ^  p^^  g.  p  Q  g^  philadel- 

Woodward,  Wells,  Minn., 
il.,  3;  Board  of  Education, 
86:  California.  East  Los 
L.  Mclntyre,  Philadelphia, 
I's  Presbyterial  Society, 
ynodioal    Home    Mission 

N.  Y.,16;  "C  Penna,"8; 

J.,  60 $4,080  48 

Total  receipts  from  Churches. 8,149  88 

Total  receipts  for  October. 7,889  80 

Previously  reported. 08,881  16 

Total  receipts  to  date 99,560  96 

Receipts  during  corresponding  period  of  last 
year 47,696  88 

Increase. $61,864  18 

John  J.  Bbaoom  ,  TVeofurer, 
616  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 


BBCnaFTS  FOB  HOMB  USSIONS,  OOTOBBB,  1S98. 


Atlantio.— Soutfc  JTlorido— Upsala  Swedish  Csab-sch. 
40  cts.),  8.  8 

BAL>Ti]fORB.—Ba{timore— Baltimore  8d,  80;  —  Covenant 
Y.  P.  8. 0.  E.,  8:  Highland.  8;  Paradise,  6.  New  Castle- 
Bead  of  Christiana,  8;  Wilmiegton  Rodney  Street,  60. 
ITot^inoton  City-Hyattsville,  86;  Washington  City 
Metropolitan,  86;  —  Western  sab-sch  Missionary  Society, 
80;  Rev.  W.  H.  Edwards.  10.  805 

California.- Benicia- Belvidere  Station,  2  66;  Cres- 
cent Citv,  18  05;  Freestone,  16  56;  Fulton,  9;  Napa,  846  60; 
Pope  valley,  10.  Lo$  Angeles— Oucaiaonga,  6;  Pine 
Grove.  8;  San  Bernardino,  60;  Ban  Pedro,  8  40;  Westmins- 
ter, 10;  Wilmington,  8  10.  Sacramento— Dunsmuir,  8  40; 
Elk  Grove,  6  56:  Hornbrook  Station,  1  70;  lone,  4  86;  TlBa, 
1  70.    San  Jom— Ben  Lomond,  1  76;  Felton,  66  cts. ;  Santa 


Clara,  10;  Shandon,  85.    

Colorado.— Boukier—Holyoke  Station 


^ftoeJMon^rayson,  10.      689  86 

^  ion,  80;  Vahnont, 

90  cts.    Denwer— South  Denver  1st,  85;  valverde,  8  86. 


Rocky  Ford,  6;  Bouse,  10: 
86  86 


Pue6{o— Pueblo  Ut.  16  61; 
Trinidad  8d,  6. 

Illinois.— ^Uon— Salem  German,  9;  Upper  Alton,  6; 
Woodbum  German,  9;  Zion  German,  6.  Bloominaton^ 
Bement  sab-sch,  168.  Cairo -Carmi.  40;  Equally,  6. 
CAica^o— Brookline,  6;  Chicago  1st,  198  87;  —  Hope 
Mission,  80  88;  —  Scotch  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  8;  Evanston  1st, 
87  88;  Itaska.  8;  Lake  Forest,  578  14.  .FVeeport— Cedar- 
viUe  **tithe7^  5;  Bfarengo  sab-sch,  16  94;  Rldott,  7  60, 
Rock  Run'*  tithe,'*  6;  Winnebago,  61.  ildttoon— Paris, 
84  80.  Peoria— Galesburgh,  16  06;  Yates  City  1st.  18. 
Rock  i^iver-AIedo  (sab-sdi,  87  68),  64  68;  Kewanee  1st, 
4;  Morrlsoo  sab^ch,  8  08;  Norwood,  41  16.   Sehuyler^ 


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rarkwood Cttb«2h, 8  60)  (T.P-8.C.E.,  1  60), 6;  Penr. 
6.  1,8S8  70 

IimiAKA.— Cratot/orcbviU«--RockTille  Memorial,  88  37. 
Fort  vr<Mn«—Elkliart,  14.  JndianapoUt— Hopewell  T. 
P.  a  C.  E..  6  25.  47  68 

Indiah  TsBanoBT.— SeguoyoA— Park  Hill,  85;  Rer.  A. 
D.  Jack,  Tithe,  15.  Choctaw— Bethel,  8  60 ;  Pine  Ridge, 
1  50;8anBoi8,  8.  47 

Iowa.— Coming— Ajadenon,  4;  Brooks,  8;  Ck>Dwa7  and 
StaUon,  8  88;  Nodawar,  8;  Prairie  Chapel,  4  68.  I>e«  . 
Ifotnet— Allerton,  10;  ues  Moines  Westmiiuiter,  a  balance 
70  eta. ;  Holland  sab-Mh,  8  50;  Newton  sab-soh,  8  94. 
I>MM«5m«— Lime  Sprincr,  5  85;  Manchester.  5;  Ro^lej, 
0  S8.;  Walker,  6  IS.  Forth  Dodge— Coon  Rapids.  85  ;  Ded- 
ham,  8  50;  Fonda  (sab  sch  1),  10.  Jotro— Keokuk  West- 
minster. 87  86.  Iowa  Citv  —  Hermon,  8  60;  Red  Oak 
QroTe,  6;  Union,  4  10;  Washington,  5  07.  Siotuc  City— 
Meriden  sab  -  sch,  8  68;  Bioux  Ck>.  8d  Oerman,  4  10. 
VTatorloo-Morrison,  6  50 ;  Williams,  4  58.  186  88 

Ejk]fBA8.—£^poria— Emporia  Arundel  Avenue  sab-sch, 
1;  Hamilton.  1  60;  Potwin.  8;  Reece.S  55.  Lamed—Bur' 
ton,  J.  M.  Pugh,  5;  Lamed,  Band  of  Workers,  4  76;  Mar- 
quefctA,  8  15rRozbur7.5  84;  Bylvla,  1  16;  VaUej  Town- 
ship, Ladies*  Aid  Society,  10.  iVaot^— Scammon,  15. 
Sofomof^— Goncordia,  47  80;  Lincoln  Y.  P.  S.  O.  E.,  7; 
Scandia.  1  65:  Scotch  Plains,  1  85;  Rer.  R.  Arthur 
'Tithel*^  6.  Topeilm^Oak  HUl,  5;  Topeka  Westminster 
rsab-acb,  8  88);  (The  Gleaners,  8),  4  88;  Wamego  (Rer. 
H.  M.  Shookley,  2  50),  6.  154  46 

Kas'wuai.—ig&eneser— Dayton,  5.  LouimHUe'  ■  Louis- 
viUe  Warren  Memorial,  85.    IVatMyZvania— Harmony,  4 

MicHiOAir.—Z)«<ro<t— Brighton.  10 :  Detroit  Bethany 
sab^cb,  7 15;  East  Nankin,  10:  UnadUU  1st,  7  87:  Tpeii- 
anti  (T.  P.  M.  Society,  6\  41  06.  Flint— Ayoca,  8:  Port 
Hope,  5.  Orand  RMide—Qnnd  Ra^ds  1st,  sab-sch, 
10  06.  rolanuMoo-mchlaod,  87  45;  *-H.  R.,**  10.  Lan- 
Hng— Concord,  18  85;  Oneido  T.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  80  80:  Wind- 
sor sab-sch,  5.  Petoakev—Barhor  Springs,  18;  Mackinaw 
City,  5.    8€»ginaw— West  Bay  Citv,  Covenant,  8.      108  61 

MunmoTA.— Dulutfc— McNair  Memorial,  4.  Mmnkato— 
Kfnbrae,  1;  St.  James  Westminster  (Mission  Band,  5).  11 ; 
Through  Rev.  Hugh  Alexander,  5  40.  Minneapolie— 
Crystal  Bay,  8;  Long  Lake,  8;  Minneapolis  Stewart 
Memorial,  85.  Red  JRiverSahin,  8;  Scotland.  8.  St.  Paul 
—Hamline,  4;  Stillwater,  10:  Warrendale,  8;  Mliite  Bear 
Mounds  view  Station,  8  81.  ITinono— Oronoco,  8  50; 
Owatonna,  7  15;  Preston,  8  86.  105  58 

Missouri.— £dn«a«  CVty— Kansas  City  8d,  5;  —  Linwood, 
8  06.  QsarJb— Buffalo.  8:  Conws/.  8;  Jqplin  Ist.  11  88;  — 
2d,  1;  Lone  Elm,  1.  PkiZmyra— Lingo,  8;  Salem,  1;  Sulli- 
van, 4  80.  PIa»«-King  C»ty,  11;  Rockport,  17;  Uaiou.  2. 
St.  Louie— Bristol,  8:  Elrkwood  (sab-sch,  60  64),  115  47; 
RolU,  86;  St.  Louis  Cote  Brilliante  T.  P.  &  C.  E.,  0  15;  - 
North,  86;  Washington.  17  40.  868  10 

M-OnrrAVA.— Helena— Vonj,  6  80.  Oreat  .FViZZ«— Armells, 
18:  Lewistown,  8;  Neihart,  1  60;  White  Sulphur  Bprings, 
406.  SSS 

Nebraska.— fiiMMnyc—Lysinger,  8  75.  JTeamey— North 
Platte.  10  78;  St.  Paul,  14.  N^aeka  CTifv— Alexandria. 
11.  /TKofrroro— Emerson.  6;  Pender.  11  w;  Winnebago 
Indian,  5.  Onui^a— Omaha  Blackbird  Hills,  6  60;  Tekama, 

Nkw  Jxrbkt.— Srnodical,  54  00.  Elizabeth— ElizAheth 
1st  (Murray  Misdonarr  Association,  86  TO),  874  00;  — 
SikNun  sab-sch,  6  41;  Plainfleld  1st,  45;  Roselle,  18  80. 
l#o»inoii<fc— Cranbury  Sd,  88  04;  Freehold  1st,  88  65; 
Mount  HoUy  (Mrs.  A.  0.  Bullock.  100),  815.  MorrU  and 
Orange— Boonton  (sab-sch,  80  88),  (Infant  Class,  18  11), 
41  76:  Madison,  88  84;  Mendham  Ist,  7;  Morristown  South 
Street   additional.  150;  Orange  Central.  400;  Schooley's 


E.  4),  8  40;  Austeriits,  1  48;  Cairo,  5;  Durham  1st  (sab- 
sch,  8  18)  C7.P.8.aE..  5  88),  8  46;  —  8d,  3;  Hudson  sab-sch, 
186;  Spenoertown,  4  18.  Hudson- Amity,  18;  Jeffersonville 
German,  5;  Nyack,  86;  Ridgebury,  4  17.  Long  Idand— 
Sag  Harbor  Ist,  88.  Lyotw— Sodus  Centre,  5.  Ifaseau— 
Islip,  70;  Jamaica.  65  88:  Oyster  Bay,  28;  Roslyn.  4  08. 
New  Fwfc-New  York  Canal  Street,  81;  —  Riverdale, 
167  66;  —  West  End  sab-sch.  17  04:  —  Zion  German  sab- 
sch,  5.  J<riaaara— Albion,  60;  Lockport  1st  (sab-sch.  60) 
(Boys  Traimng  Club,  1),  55;  Tuscarora  Mission,  4  78. 
North  River-Co\d  Spring.  55;   Highland   Falls,   4  85; 


1st  sab-sch,  70  10.  Rochester— Chili,  88;  Pittsford,  88  80. 
8t,  Lairrence— Gouverneur  Ist,  50;  Potsdam,  180 
Sackett's  Harbor.  6  54.  Steuben^Axkport,  5  78;  Canase; 
raga,  5.  ^^ocuM— Marcellus.  15;  Oswero  Grace,  100- 
TVoy— Argyle,  7;  Cohoes.  60  49;  Hoosick  Falls  (sab-sch, 
8  84),  44  14;  Schaghticoke,  18  Utica-JMon  sab-sch,  10; 
Lyons  Falls.  7;  Oneida.  68  10;  Utica  Bethany,  69  11; 
Vernon  Centre,  2  08.  Weetcheeter—VrwlngXon,  584  05; 
Mt.  Vernon  1st  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8  01)  (Jr.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.. 
80).  250  88;  Rye,  184  08.  5,100  oi 


Street.  84.  iVeioton— Bloomsbury,  1068;  Branchville  (jUkb- 
sch.  7);  80,  Weet  Jertey— Bridgeton  8d  sab-sch,  88:  — 
West,  100.  1,688  11 

Nkw  Mkxico.— ^rteono— Sacaton  1st  Indian,  SO.  Rio 
Cfrande— Socorro  Spanish,  6.  Santa  Fi—Z.  A.  Gutierrez, 
10;  F.  Maes,  1.  86 

Nkw  YoRK.—.^ibany— Albany  6th,  15;  Ballston  Centre, 
15;  Broadalbin,  1  50;  Mayfleld  Central.  8  80;  Menands 
Bethany,  75  74.  BinghamUm—BlnghemUm  1st.  858  46; 
Preble,  5.  ^os^on— Antrim,  10  50;  Lawrence  German, 
86;  Newport,  80.  .^rooJUyn-Brooklyn  1st.  add'l,  50:  -  8d, 
Mrs.  A.  L  Bulkley,  88  60«  —  Cumberland  St.,  18;  -  Lafay- 
ette Avenue,  1,186;  —  Throop  Avenue,  68;  —  Westminster 
in  part,  680  56 ;  West  New  Brighton  Calvarr,  16.  Buffalo— 
Buffalo  Bethlehem,  8  14;  —  Central,  7  85:  —  Westmin- 
ster, 58  10;  Lancaster  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10;  Old  Town,  8  68; 
Shemaan,  85;  Tonawanda  Mission,  1.  Chemung— BIk 
Flats,  96  80;  Havana,  88;  Newfleld  (sab  sch,  8).  11 ;  Fine 
QrPT^  80,    Wi4m«<i-An^rnm  l^eacl  M|nep  (J.  ?.  B,  g, 


xKIf^K88SE. — /lowKTTi — v^uucKej    V oio,    1  ou  ;    Liamar 
1  50.    (7nw7»-UnJtl»,  8;  |VeT,  J.  M.  Hunter  •*Titho"  6. 

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TEZi8.—^iMMn— Alpine  10;  Austin  1ft,  Mrt.  H.  H.  Mo- 

lAne,  10;  abolo  Additional,  4;  Fort  Davis,  80;  lUrfa, 

10;    Peanall,  2  GO.     THnity  -  Pecan  VaUej,  9;  Sipe 

Springs,  6:  Windbam,  8.  TV  00 

Utah.— I7to^-Nephi,  2;  Offden  1st,  Friends,  It  05. 

14  05 

Washimoton.— Oiympta— Bncklej,  50  ctB.t  Puyallup, 

8.    Puget  iSound— Mount  Pisgah,  I  06.    Walla  WaUa^ 

Palouse,  4  50;  Starbuck,  9.  19  65 

WiaoovBUt.—Chippewa^BiK  River,  12  La  Orosse—  • 
North  Bend,  6.  IfodiMm— Columbus,  C;  Highland  Oer- 
man,  8;  Madison  8t.  Paul's  Oerman,  0;  Mldoleton,  Ger- 
man, 8  50;  North  Freedom.  5;  PulasU  German.  4.  MU- 
toaukee  —  Horicon.  18  10;  Mayville,  5  06:  Milwaukee 
Westminster  sab-sch,  109;  Minnesota  Junction  Station, 
8  85;  Racine  Bohemian,  5.  fTmne^aoo— Little  River,  10; 
Neeaah  (sab-sch,  82  09),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  25,)  159  89;  Ox- 
ford, 8  61;  Stiles.  2  26  247  41 
Woman's  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mis- 
sions  S  22,456  66 

$87,811  06 


Total  received  from  Churches.*.. 

UBOAOIBS. 


jogMsy  ol 
Pa.,  10;  Irwin  M.  Wallace,  dec'd,  late  of  Erie, 
Pa  ,  10;  Moses  Boggs,  decM,  late  of  Ht.  Clairs- 
viUe,  O.,  400;  John  S.  Davison,  dec'd,  late  of 
Cranbury,  N.  J.,  12'<t556;  Jesse Ebersole, dec'd, 
late  of  Penna,  221  67 S  1,867  22 


MIBOKLLANSOUS. 


Chester,  DL,  10;  Meeker  Trust  Fund,  80;  In* 
terest  on  John  C.  Green  Fund,  40;  Interest  on 
Permanent  Fund,  260 S  2,891  46 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  October,  1898,142,16976 
Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  from  April  1, 

1898 $227,879  86 

Amount  received  during  same  period  last  year,$822,991  80 


Box  L,  Station  D. 


O.  D.  Baton,  Treasurer^ 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOR  NEW  YORK  SYNODICAL  AID  FUND, 
OCTOBER,  1898. 

ii26any-Chariton,  15  25;  Broadalbin,  4  04;  Mayfield, 
8  77.  BlnoAomtoii  —  Binghamton  First,  70  69;  Preble, 
4  70.  BrooMyn— Brooklyn  Throop  Avenue,  97:  West  New 
Brighton  Calvary.  1.  Buy^alo— Buffalo  Westminster,  8  80. 
CTiamptoin— Peru,  4.  Columbia— West  Durham,  2;  Dur- 
ham 1st,  6;  Hudson  sab-sch,  25;  Cairo,  8;  Spenoertown, 
7  64:  Austerlitz,  1  10.  Oenetee— Bergen  1st  Congrega- 
tional, 8  09.  Geneva-  Geneva  1st,  27  95;  —  North,  226  89. 
Hwi«on— Jeff ersonville  German,  4;  Greenbush.  6;  Hope- 
^  well,  21.  Lyone-^oj.  8.  iViiMaau— Oyster  Bay,  25;  Smith- 
town.  14  78;  Huntington  1st,  46.  i^io^rc^-Lockport  1st, 
25;  Albion,  12.  Rochester— BocheKter  Westminster,  14. 
St.  Lat0r«nce— Potsdam,  12.  Steuben— Caanpheli,  10;  Ark- 
port,  19  cts.:  Andover.  10;  C^naseraga,  o.    Syracuse- 


Cazenovia  1st,  19  88;  Syracuse  East  Genesee,  9  17.  Troy 
— Argyle,  10.  Westcfi€ster—B.ugeaot  Memorial,  17;  Bed- 
ford. 3  58. 


Total    received  for  New  York  Synodical  Aid 

Fund.  October,1898 771  28 

Total  received  for  New  York  Synodical  Aid 

Fund  from  AprU  1, 1898 8,848  U 


Box  L,  Station  D. 


O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer, 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOR  SU8TENTATION,  OCTOBER,  1898. 

Cauformia.— 2x>«  ^na«Ie*— Redlands  1st,  18  15 

Catawba.— Southern  Firotnfo— Refuge,  1  00 

Colorado  — BoWder— Valmont,  8  cts.    PueUo— Pueblo 

Mesa,  5;  —  1st.  52  cte.  6  56 

Illikois.— .<lZf on— Zion,  1;  Salem, '2;  Woodbum,  2  16. 

Rock  fttver— Aledo.  50  cts.  6  06 

Indlaka.— OratoA>rd«vi/20— RockviUe  Memorial,  46  cts. 
Iowa,— Iowa  CVty— Washington,  20  cts 

Kansas.— Lamed— Hutchinson,  16  12 

KKNTucKT.—£&eneser— Dayton,  2  60 

Total  received  for  Sustentation,  October,  1898. . .        43  62 
Total  received  for  Sustentation,  from  April  1, 
1898 10.646  10 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer^ 
Box  L.,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RBOKIFTS  FOB  MIKI8T1&BIA1.  BELUEF,  OCTOBER,  1898. 


BALTiMOBB.—Ba{Mmore— Baltimore  2d,  6;  —  Central, 
26  87;  Bel  Air,  5  69;  FrankUnville,  6.  New  Castle-Dover, 
82;  Elkton,  40;  Pitt's  Creek.  16;  Port  Penn,  2  60.  Wash- 
ington City— Washington  City  4th,  102  81;  —  6th,  48:  — 
Metropolitan,  60.  844  90 

California.— Fentcici—Lakeport,  6  10;  Two  Rocks,  10. 
Los  Angeles-El  Cajon,  45  85;  Glendale,  2  50;  Hueneme, 
10;  Santa  Ana,  16  80.  90  26 

Catawba-— SoutAem  Firointo— Refuge,  1.  1  00 

Colorado.— FouZder—Yalmont  27  cts.  Denver— Den- 
ver Central.  09  18:  —  North  (sab-sch,  2  25),  6  40.  Puel>lo 
—Mesa  25;  Pueblo  1st,  4  66;  Rocky  Ford,  7  26.  142  75 

lLLiNOi8.—ilIton— Salem  German,  8;  Steelville,  1  50; 
Woodbum  German,  8;  Zion  German,  2.  Bloomington— 
Champaign,  29  78:  Fairbury,  8;  Rossville,  4.  Catro— 
Anna,  10;  Cairo,  8  90.  Chicago— Chictmo  1st,  00  10;  —  8d, 
200;  —  Bethany,  2;  —  Fullerton  Avenue,  40  06;  Evanston 
1st,  21  OS;  Itaska,  6:  Lake  Forest,  815.    ^«epor<-Free- 

Port  2d,  11.  .tfa^toon-Ashmore.  6;  Assumption,  8  25; 
arls,  7  20;  Taylorville.  18.  Oftoira— Aurora,  10  50. 
Pk?orui— Peoria  Ist,  81  72;  Prospect.  4.  Rock  River— 
Aledo  Csab-sch,  5  80),  11  30;  Coal  Valley.  2  50;  Dixon. 
21  92;  Geneseo.  6  55;  Newton.  5  80:  Pleasant  Ridge,  1  50; 
Rock  Island  Broadway,  22  80.  Schuyler— ElvastoUy  6; 
Kirkwood  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.),  1  50;  Wythe,  4.  884  91 

Indiana.— Craicr/ordnn'Ke-Laf ay ette  2d.  28  66;  Rock- 
ville  Memorial,  4  10.  /nd<anapoM«— Bethany,  8  50:  In- 
dianapolis 1st.  84  88.    Lo^aTwport— Crown  rpint,  6  16; 


La  Porte,  48  68.  Ifuncie— Union  City,  6.  New  Albany— 
Hanover,  21  62;  Seymour,  6;  Sharon  Hill,  8.  Vincennes 
— OUve  Hill,  2.    White  Water-Hew  Castle,  14  85. 

219  88 

Indian  Tkrritort.— Cherofeee  Nation— Tsitk  Hill,  9. 
Choctaw— Qsai  Bois.  2.  ifiMco^e— Wewoka,  8.  Okla- 
homa—Ch\c\uaih&,  6.  19  00 

Iowa.— Cominp— Sidney,  8.  CouncU  Bluffs  — Adair, 
2  50;  Council  Bluffs,  1st,  14  50.  Des  Moines— Derbj,  2  25; 
Des  Moines  Westminster,  1;  Humeston,  1:  Leon,  6  16; 
Newton,  18  66.  Dufrugue— Hopklnton,  4  68:  Lansing  Ist, 
4  75.  /owa  — Bonaparte,  4;  Chequest,  2  10:  Keokuk 
Westminster,  10  80;  Kossuth  1st,  8  40;  Mount  Zion,  8; 
Primrose,  1 ;  Sharon,  2.  Iowa  City— Brooklyn,  8;  Colum- 
bus Central,  4  08;  Scott,  6;  Washington,  27  60:  West 
Branch,  5  86:  Williamsburgh,  6.  Sioux  City— O^Brien  Co. 
Scotch,  8.  fTaferloo— Greene,  6;  Grundy  Centre  (sab- 
sch,  1  68).  11:  Salem.  9;  Tranquility,  8.  186  76 

Kansas.— J^mporto—Geuda  Springs,  5;  Mount  Vernon, 
4;  New  Salem,  6:  Oxford,  6;  Peabo<&,  11;  Wahiut  Valley, 
8;  Wichita  Lincoln  Street,  2  85;  —  West  Side,  8  86;  Win- 
fleld.  18.  Highland  —  Frankfort,  4;  Hiawatha.  10  50; 
Highland,  7  05.  Lamed-Hutchinson,  18;  Sterling.  5. 
.Yeot^o— Osage  1st,  7.  Os&ome- Hays  City,  6  61;  Phil- 
llpsburg,  2.  Solomon— Cheever,  8.  Tqpefca— Lawrence, 
8  98;  Sharon,  1  86.  180  26 

Kkntugkt.— JE?6eneser  —  Paris  1st,  6.  Transylvania— 
HanDon7, 9.  7  00 


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MicHiOAir.— l>efroti-Brighton,2.  JTa/amasoo-Edwards- 
burgh,  2.  Loire  Svpertor— Menominee,  88  10.  LcmHng— 
CoDCord,  5  %i\  Tekonsha,  8  15.    Jtfonroe-JoiieBviUe,  7  28. 

47  71 

MiNNBSOTA.— Du2tt^\— West  Doluth  WestnaiBBter,  5  81. 
Ifinneapoiu—Minneapolis  Bethlehem,  (sab-sch,  4  01), 
10  60:  —  Franklin  Avenue  andsab-sch,  7:  —  Westminster, 
180  01.  at.  PlQitt^-Oneka,  1  80;  8t.  Paul  9th,  5;  —  West- 
minster, 6;  White  Bear,  1  50.  816  bS 

Missouri.— JTanMu City— But Irr.  9;  Nevada  Washington 
Street,  8;  Sharon,  8  11.  Otark-h9\\  Grove,  10;  Buffalo,  1; 
Ebenezer,6.  Ptofte— Lathrop,  5  bd:  Savannah,  7  41.  8t, 
Louis  —  Emmanuel,  15;  Kirkwood  sab-ich,  6  18;  St. 
Charles,  80;  St.  Louis  Westminster,  1  96;  Webster  Grove 
(sab-scb,  8  75),  96  50;  Zoar,  10.  809  96 

MoMTAVA.— Helena— Helena  Ist,  80  58;.  80  50 

Nebraska.— ^e6ra«/ka  City— Adams  4;  Sterling,  0.  Ni- 
o6rara— Winnebago  Indian,  5.  OmaAa— Fremont,  6  50: 
Omaha  Knox,  8.  87  50 

Nbw  Jbrskt.— £2isa^et^— Cranford  (sab-sch,  15),  84; 
Perth  Amboy  (sab-sch,  5  60),  89  85;  Roselie,  4  01.  Jwuy 
City-Jerwoj  City  8d,  84  77.  Ifonmout^-Beverly,  46  86; 
Cranbory  HA,  4;  Jacksonville.  8  58;  Providence,  1  47. 
MorrUand  Oranpe— Boonton,8048;  EastOrangelBt,16588; 
Madison,  9  58:  Mendham  8d,  9;  Orange  HUl^de,  186  88. 
AVunrie-CaldweU,  85  50;  Montclair  Grace,  85;  Newark 
1st,  87;  —  8d,  84  65;  —  High  Stnset.  87  60;  —  South  Park, 
8i  18.  New  Brunnoick- Amyiell  2d.  4  50;  Davton,  4  14; 
Dutch  Neck,  40;  LambertviUe,  41;  Stockton,  6;  Trenton 
Sd.88  78;— 4th.ao.  iVetofoft-Stillwater,  6.  West  Jersey 
— Bridgeton  West,  100;  Oedarville  Osbom  Memorial,  8: 

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North  Dakota.— Pern Wno— Crystal,  6  66.  6  65 

Ohio.— ^t^evM— AmesvUle,  4  60.    Bettefon faivM— Belle- 

fontaine  Ist,  5  78;  Forest,  5;  Kenton,  20  11:  Marseilles, 

1  70:   North  Washington,  1;   Patterson,  1;  Upj^r  San- 


585  84 

South 
18  68 


ORSQOH.—Pior/kind— Portland    Calvary,  18  96; 
Portland  4th,  14  78. 

Pbnnstlvania.  —  Allegheny  —  AlleghenT  Ist.  88  86; 
Avalon,  7;  Concord,  8;  Freedom,  8;  Hllaiid,  U  90;  Pino 


Creek  1st,  8;  Sewickly,  55  68.  Btoir^WOs -Greensburgh 
Westminster,  80  10;  Harrison  City,  5  66;  New  Salem, 
15  66.  Sutter— Buffalo,  2;  Muddy  Creek,  8  57;  UnionvlUe, 
8  46.  CaWitfe— Dickinson,  5;  Duncannon.  19;  Harrisburgh 
Market  Square,  102  09;  Lebanon,  4th  Street  44  09:  Me- 
chanicsburgh,  6  69;  Monaghan,  18;  Shippensburgh.  17  10; 
Waynesboro,  6  98.  Chester— Brrn'  Mawr,  84  89;  Cnester 
1st  sab-sch,  18;  Harple,  9.  C/arion— Academia,  8  45; 
Brookwayvllle,  7  05;  Clarion,  20  80;  Du  Bois.  16  88; 
GreenvUle,  5  48;  Oil  City  8d,4;  Richland,  1  94;  Tionesta, 

7  86.  i?rte— Bradford,  66  78:  EIrie  Park,  86;  Jamestown, 
4  89:  Mercer  2d.  80;  Salem.  8.  Hunftnydon —Altoona  1st, 
88  50  Clearfield,  86  97;  Houtzdale.  8  6U;  Logan's  Valley, 
10:  Lost  Creek,  9  £0;  Mifflintown  Westminster,  81  68; 
Miiesburgh,  6;  Moshannon  and  Snow  Shoe,  8;  Pine  Grove, 

8  78;  Sinking  Valley,  7.  Kittanning— Cherry  Tree,  8; 
Freeport,  11  l6;  Jacksonville,  10;  Worthington,  6.  Lack- 
atoanno— Great  Bend,  8;  Bcranton  German,  18  84;  Stella, 
18  60;  Sylvania,  8;  Tunkhannock,  66.  Lehigh—Easton 
Brainerd  Union.  170  88:  South  Bethlehem  1st,  8.  North- 
um6er/and— Bald  Eagle  and  Nittany.  9;  Berwick,  7; 
Chillisquaque,  1  85;  Dernr,  8  50:  Lewisburgh,  48;  Mahon- 
ing (sab-sch,  7  98),  104:  New  Columbia,  4;  Washington- 
viDe,4;  WiUiam8port8d.58.  P^tiodetM^a-PhUadelphia 
1st  additional.  8;  —  2d,  91  49;  -  Bethesda.  87  87;  —  Cov- 
enant, 10;  —  Gaston,  20  86;  —  Mariner's,  4;  —  Memorial, 
60  64;  —  OUvet,  84  80:  —  South,  10:  —  Tabernacle  (sab- 
sch,  86  98),  445  18;  —  Tioga,  86;  —  Westminster.  7  85;  — 
Woodland,  847  58.  Philadelphia  North  -  Hermon,  40; 
Mount  Airy.  7  85;  Newtown,  58  10:  Thompson  Memorial, 
8t  Torresdale  Macalester  Memorial,  8  86.  FittMtntrgh— 
Cannonsburgh  1st,  11;  Edgewood,  10  88;  Fairview,  6;  He- 
bron, 11  76;  Homestead,  81  56;  McDonald  1st,  86  10;  Mc- 
Kees'  Bocks,  7:  Mansfield,  19  64;  Mount  OUvet,  8  88;  Pitts- 

'  burg  East  Liberty  (sab-sch,  86  91),  69  19;  Raccoon  (sab- 
sch,  5  45).  40  58;  Swissvale,  48  66;  West  Elizabeth,  5  50. 
12ed«<on«— Dunbar  (sab-sch,  6  50),  88  50;  Mount  Vernon, 
8.  SAenanyo-Hopewell,  5;  Moravia,  8  06;  Rich  Hill,  8; 
Wampum,  4  10.  fra«^tnp<on— Washington  Ist,  86  50; 
Wheeling  1st,  87  89.  Westminster— Centre  (sab-ech,  7), 
88:  York  1st,  281  81.  8,115  78 

South  Dakota  —Central  DaArota— Madison,  7  40.     7  40 
TxHMBssKB.— Ho2«fon— Jonesboro,  18.    Union— Baker's 
Creek,  8  50;  Cloyd's  Creek,  1  50;  Hebron,  8;  New  Market. 
10.  29  00 

TBXA8.'—iiti«ffn— Austin  1st  (a  member),  10.    Trinity- 
Terrell  10  40.  20  40 
Washington.— Slpofcane—Watorville,  8  80.  8  80 
Wisconsin.— C^ippeu'a-Baldwin,  7.    HtZwav/eee— Mil- 
waukee CJalvary.  10  SO;  —  Immanuel,  79  12.    Winnebago 
—Oconto.  15;  Shawano,  8.                   ,                         128  48 

From  the  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools $  9,177  48 

FROM  INDIYIDDALS. 

Mrs.  M.  C.  Allen.  Bast  Orange,  N.  J.,  10;  *' J.,'' 
Dayton,  O..  10;  "Two  Sisters," Katonah.N.Y., 
60;  Prof.  R.  E.  Wilder,  Greenfield,  lU.,  5: 
**  Friends,  "Oneida,  IlL,  5:  "From  a  Friend,'* 
Lancaster.  O.,  7;  Mrs.  Helen  D.  Mills,  Tunk- 
hannock, Pa.,  86;  Rev.  W.  C.  Cattell.  D.D., 
Philadelphia.  Pa  .60;  S.  J.  Bamett,  Delta,  Pa., 
5;  Mrs.  Ferdinand  Johnson,  New  London,  Pa.. 
5;  "T.."  Delaware,  85;  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Rice, 
Honolulu,  HawaU,  50;  •*N.  M.  C,"  Iowa,  6; 
Rev.  J.  S.  Lord,  Laingsburg.  Mich.,  1;  "  E.  G. 
C,"  Phila.,  Pa.,  100;  Rev.  J.  M.  Hunter,  Madi- 
sonville,  Tenn.,  6;  Gen,  Geo.  H.  Shields,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  60;  Mrs.  H.  C  Scovel,  Wooster, 
O..  80;  *•  Titne  of  Appropriation,"  Del  Norte, 
Colo.,  5;  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Welles,  Minneapolis, 
Minn..  5;  "C.  E.  S.,"  N.  J.,  800;  *'C.  Penna.  " 
6;  Rev.  Eara  F.  Mundy,  Metuchen,  N.  J.,  6; 
Rev.  L.  D.  Potter,  D.  D.,  Glendale,  C.  6 f764  00 

Interest  from  Permanent  Fund,  including  $90 
from  R.  Sherman  Fund 4,890  66 

From  the  Latta  Fund,  (Synod  of  Ohio) 41  67 

For  the  Current  Fund $14,278  66 

PBRMANBNT  FUND. 

(.Interest  only  used.") 

Legacy  of  John  McLaren,  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  $1,976  18 
From  Estate  of  JaneB.  Gamoge,  Milford,  Pa.,        861  50 

$8,887  68 

Total  for  October,  1898 16,611  28 

Total  for  the  Current  Fund  since  April  1, 1898. . .  68,645  64 
Total  during  the  same  period  last  year 76,606  61 

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RBOBIPT8  VOB  SABBATH-SOHOOI.  WORK,  OCTOBEBt  ISM. 


Atlaktio.— ZfUMP— AUen  Memorial  sab-fch,  2  82;  Osl^- 
thorpe  lab-toh,  4  06.  0  90 

BALTiMORB.—Balt<mar0— Baltimore  9d.  4  00.  New  Cc^- 
<2e— Lewes  lab-sclu  S.  W<uiMngUm  Cfty— Washinfrton 
CitT  Qorley  Memorial,  8  20.  9  26 

CfAuroBNiA.— Lo«  ^noelM-Montecito   sabfch,    8  21. 

8  21 

Catawba.— Ccs/ai06a— Concord,  2  21.  FodMn-Free- 
dom  sab-Bch,  4  10;  Logan  sab-ech,  8;  Ht.  Airy  sab-sch. 
1 ;  New  Centre  sab-sch,  S.  12  81 

Colorado. — Boiclder— Valmont,  9  cents.  Pueblo— 
Huerfano  Cafion,  1  05;  Mesa,  18;  Pueblo  Ist,  1  65.     18  69 

iLLiirois.— v4l(on^Bethel  sab-sch,  5  60:  Salem  Oerman, 
2  06;  Woodbum  German  sab-sch.  8  25;  Zion  German 
sab-ech,  1  00.  Bloomington—'Ei  Paso,  6  05.  Chicago— 
Chicago  Ist,  24  08:  —  8th.  78  92:  —  Bethany,  2;  —  Cen- 
tral Park,  4:  -~  Endeavor,  2  78;  Bvanston  1st.  7  04.  ^ee- 
porf— Rockford  Westminster.  60  cents,  ifatfoon— Paris. 
2  40.    /todk  i2<v0r- Aledo.  2  50.  146  22 

Indiana.— OtiirA>ncf«viUe— Lafayette  2d,  2;  Rockville, 
1  87.  IndiafMpolU—TnaikWn  sab-sch,  8  60;  Greenwood 
sab-sch,  8.  2x)oafMporf— Bourbon  sab-sch,  8;  Union, 
1  06.  Ifuncia— Anderson  sab-sch.  16  86;  Hartford  Citj, 
6.  New  ^UMsny— Lexington,  2;  Seymour,  4  50.  Vincen- 
n«f— Petersburg,  4.    White  TTa^er— Union,  7.  58  88 

Indian  TsBRrroRT.— >OIUciAoma— Rush  Springs  sab-sch, 
240.  240 

Iowa.— Council  BtfciTt— Shelby  sab-sch,  8.  /ova— Bir- 
mingham sabHioh,  9  90;  Keokuk  Westminster,  9  70.  Iowa 
City— Red  Oak  Grore  sab-sch.  5  10;  Washington,  00  cts. ; 
What  Cheer  sab-sch,  8.  ITatorloo -Conrad  sab-sch,  4: 
Grundy  Centre,  7.  42  80 

Kansas  —Hia^krnd— Clifton  sab-sch,  18  47;  Norton- 
▼ille,  8.  Lamed— Hutchinson,  11  01.  Oibome— Hajs  City, 
8  91.  Sotomon— Bashan  sab-sch.  74  cts.;  Scotch  Plains, 
1  6^    TbpsJbo— KauMw  City  1st,  12  60.  61  18 

KniTUGKT.—£&«neser— Covington  1st,  16:  Flemings- 
burgh  ch.  and  sab-sch,  8  80:  Paris  1st  ch.  and  sab-sch.  16. 
Lotti«tffJe— Kuttawa  sab  sch,  12  44.  7Van«t^<oania— Har- 
mony, 2.  62  74 

Michigan —Defroif— Brighton.  2;  Detroit  Bethany  sab- 
sch.  7  15.  Fl/«t— Avoca  sab-sch,  8.  Orand  Rapids— 
Grand  Rapids  Ist  sab-sch,  9.  Lafwin^- Concord,  1  41; 
Homer  sab-sch,  8  00.  Pe^osibey— Cross  Villlage  sab-sch, 
8 10.  Sovinavn— Hillman  sab-sch,  1  50;  Mount  Pleasant. 
9;  West  Bay  City  Covenant,  1.  40  82 

MiNNS80TA.—Af^n«ieaDoiif— Minneapolis  Bethlehem  sab- 
sch,  0  58:  -  Shiloh  10  99;  Winsted  sab-sch,  8.  Red  River 
— Evansville  sab-6cl|,  1  65.  22  05 

Missouri.— Oxarle— Buffalo,  1 :  Lehigh,  2  50:  West  Plains 
sab-sch,  8  70.  Platte— Oak  Grove  sab-sch,  1  26:  St. 
Joseph  8d  Street  sab-sch.  5:  Union.  2.  St.  Louis— Hock 
Hill,  sab-sch.  0  20;  St.  Louis  1st  German  sabsch.  5;  — 
Clifton  Heights  sab-sch,  14  06.  White  iZioer- Harris 
Chapel.  60  eU.  40  20 

NiBaASKA.— fi<M<<fK7«— Wflsonville  sab-sch,  5.  JTeam^ 
—Lexington,  1  77:  Litchfield.  7  00.  Nebr€uha  C/ty— Hum 
boldt  sab-sch,  88  cts.    Niobrara-O'VeUl  sab-sch,  7  85. 

28  00 


Beech  Spring  (sab-sch,  12),  17.     ZaneavUle-^enej  sab- 
sch.  2  60.  1<»4  02 

ORTCON.—iriZIam«tte— Albany,  7  70.  7  70 

Pknnstlvania.— .^UeyAeny— Sewickly.  22  02.  Blaire- 
vate— Braddock,  12.  BuOer— Harrisville  sab-sch,  2; 
North  Butler,  4.  Carli«le— Harrisburgh  Market  Square, 
50  105  Waynesboro,  2  81.  Cft««fer-Coate6vi]le.  16  29; 
Malvern  sab-sch,  8  07.  Erie-'Exie  Park,  82  42;  Fairfield, 
2.  flicntin^on-Houtsdale.  1  20.  Jrittann<fi{r— Jack- 
sonville, 8.  JLacibatoanna— Wilkes  Barre  Grant  Street, 
4  60.  Le^ip^— AJlentown,  20  60.  Northumberland— 
Chillisquaque,  1  25;  Williamsport  8d  sabsch,  10  08. 
i\irl;ers5itro\— Parkersburgh  Ist,  18  69.  FhHadelphia— 
PhiladelphU  9th  sab-sch,  111  88;  —  Beacon,  6:  —  Bethle- 
hem, 18:  —  Northminlster  sab-sch,  91  82.  Philadelphia 
JVort^i— Frankford.  18  80.  Pittaburgh-EAgemood,  7  10; 
Pittsburgh  East  Liberty  (sab-nch.  15  88),  25  07.  Red»tor>e 
—Mount  Vernon,  8;  Rehoboth,  10.  fTa^Mn^om— Wash- 
ington 1st,  16  90.  We«em<ti«ter— Pine  Grove  sab-pch.  rO 
cts. ;  York  1st  sab-sch,  80  97.  000  88 

South  Dakota.— CSmh^a  Doiketa— Artesian  sab-sch,  5. 

6  00 

Tknvxssbb.- IThtOfw-South  Knozville  sab-sch,  2  80. 

2  80 

UTAH.-rendatt-Paris,  4.  4  00 

Wisconsin.  —  Chippewa  —  Baldwin,  4.  Winnehago— 
Florence,  4  47.  8  47 

Total  receipts  from  Churches,  October,  1898 — $  1,286  M> 
Total  receipts  from  Sabbath-schools,  October, 

1898 936  02 


Total  receipts  from  Churches  and  Sabbath- 
schools,  October,  1808 $2,220  82 

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viUe  sab-Bch.  W.  Va,  1 :  a  friend  in  Princeton, 


1 

Gillespie  Enloe,  Fla.,  5;  Millport  sab-sch,  Ind., 
50  cts.;  Hancock  sab-sch.  Wis.,  1  60;  G.  V. 
Albertson,  Ok.  Ty.,  85  cts.;  W.  A.  Bears, 
Minn.,  2  90. 1840  71 

Total  receipts,  October,  1898 $2,601  6H 

Amount  previously  acknowledged. 70,114  40 

Total  receipts  since  AprU  Ist,  1898 $72,876  28 

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1884  Chestnut  Street,  Phfladelphia,  Pa. 


NoTK.— $00  41  credited  to  Calvary  Church,  Presbytery 
of  Los  Angeles,  Synod  of  California,  in  June,  should  hav^ 
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THE  CLERK5. 

stated  Clerk  and  Treasurer— Bjer,  William  H. 

Roberts,  D.  D.,1197  80.  48th  Street,  Wert  Fhila- 

delptua. 
Permanent  Clerk— Rev.  William  E.  Moore,  D.  D., 

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THE  TRUSTEES. 

President — (George  JuDkin,  Esq. 

Treasurer— Frank  K.  Hippie,  1840  Chestnut  Street. 

Recording  Secretary — Jacob  Wilson. 

Officb— Publication    House,   No.     1884    Chestnul 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


THE  BOARDS. 

I.    HOME  niSSlONS,  SUSTENTATION. 

Corresponding  Secretaries— Rev,  William  C.  Roberts,  D.  D.,  and  Rer.  Duncan  J.  McMillan,  D.  D. 
IVeflWurcr— Oliver  D.  Eaton. 
Recording  Secretary— Oscar  E.  Boyd. 

OrsiCB— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  missionary  appointments  and  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

Letters  relating  to  the  financial  affairs  of  the  Board,  containing  remittances  of  money  or 
requests  for  reduced  railroad  rates,  should  be  addresMd  to  Mr.  O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Applications  for  aid  from  churches  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  £.  Boyd,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

Applications  of  Teachers,  and  letters  relating  to  the  School  Department,  should  be  addressed 
to  Rev.  G.  F.  McAfes,  buperlntendent. 

a.    FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

Secretary  Emeritus— Rav,  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretaries— Ray.  Frank  F.  EUinwood,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D. ;  and  Mr. 

Robert  E.  Speer.  Baaording  Saoretary^Rav,  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D. 
7Ve<wtirer— William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq. 

field  Secretary— Rav.  Thomas  Marshall,  D.  D.,  48  McCormick  Block,  Chicago,  111. 
Officb— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N,  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  the  missions  or  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries.  Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing  remittances  of 
money,  should  be  sent  to  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq.,  Treasurer. 

Certificates  of  honorary  membership  are  given  on  receipt  of  $80,  and  of  honorary  directorship 
on  receipt  of  $100. 

Persons  sending  packages  for  shipment  to  missionaries  should  state  the  contentsand  value.  There 
are  no  specified  days  for  shipping  goods.  Send  packages  to  the  Mission  Houpc  as  soon  ox  they  are 
ready.  Address  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue.  New 
York,  N.  Y. 

The  postage  on  letters  to  all  our  mission  stations,  except  those  in  Mexico,  is  5  cents  per  each  half 
ounce  or  fraction  thereof.    Mexico,  2  cents  per  half  ounce. 

3.  EDUCATION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rav,  Edward  B.  Hodge,  D.  D. 
Treasurer— Jacob  Wilson. 

Office— Publication  House,  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

4.  PUBLICATION  AND  5ABBATH-SCH00L  WORK. 

Secretary— Rar.  Elijah  R.  Craven,  D.  D. 

Superintendent  of  Sahbath-school  and  Missionary  Work— Rev  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D. 

Editorial  Superintendent— Rav,  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Business  Superintendent— John  H.  Scribner. 

Ifanu/actttrer— John  A.  Black. 

Treasurer— Ray.  C.  T  McMullin. 

Publication  House-  No.  1834  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Letters  relative  to  the  general  interests  of  the  Board,  also  all  manuscripts  offered  for  publication 
and  communications  relative  thereto,  excepting  those  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books  and  the 
periodicals,  should  be  addressed  to  the  Rev.E.  H.  Craven,  D.  D.,  Secretary, 

Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  reports,  letters  relating  to  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  work,  to 
grants  of  the  Board^s  publications,  to  the  appointment  of  Sabbath-school  missionaries,  and  reports, 
orders  and  other  communications  of  these  missionaries,  to  the  Rev.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D.,  Super' 
intendent  of  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  Work. 

All  manuscripts  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books,  also  all  matter  offered  for  the  Westminster 
Teacher  and  the  other  periodicals,  and  all  letters  concerning  the  same,  to  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Miller, 
D.  D.,  Editorial  Superintendent. 

Business  correspondence  and  orders  for  books  and  periodicals,  except  from  Sabbath-school  mi» 
sionaries,  to  John  H.  Scribner,  Business  Supey  intendent. 

Remittances  of  money  and  contributions  to  the  Rev.  C.  T.  McMullin  Treasurer, 

%.  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Ray,  Erskine  N.  White,  D.  D. 
IVfoiurer— Adam  Campbell, 

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Corregponding  Secvtary-^Bjey,  William  C.  CatteU,  D.  D. 
Recording  Secretary  and  Trectturer—Rey.  William  W.  Heberton. 

Office— Publication  House,  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Fa. 

7.  FREEDMEN. 

President— n&Y.  Henry  T.  McClelland.  D.  D. 
Vice-President— Rer.  David  8.  Kenneay. 
Recording  Secretary— Rev,  Samuel  J.  Fisher,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretary— "Bay.  Edward  P.  Cowan,  D.  D 
Treasurer— Rev.  J.  J.  Beacom,D.  D. 

Office-516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Field  Secretary— Rty,  Henry  N.  Payne,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  Oa. 

8.  AID  FOR  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEHIES. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rev,  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.  D, 
Treasurer— ChaT\e»  M.  Chamley,  P.  O.  Box  294,  Chicago,  HI. 

Officie— Room  28,  Montauk  Block,  No  115  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  HL 


PERMANENT  COMMITTEES, 

COMMITTEE  ON  SYSTEHATIC  BENEFICENCE. 

Chairman— Rey.  Rufns  S.  Green,  D.  D.^lmira  College,  Blmira,  N.  Y, 
Secretary— KiUaen  Van  Rensselaer,  56  Wall  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

COMfAITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

Chairman— Rey.  John  J.  Beaoom,  Allegheny,  Pa. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  John  P.  Hill,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Recording  Secretary— Rev.  Joseph  B.  Turner,  Glenshaw,  Pa. 
Treasurer— Rey.  James  Allison,  D.  D.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

President— Rev.  W.  C.  CatteU,  D.  D.,  Philadelphia. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  W.  L.  Led  with. 
Treasurer— DeB.  K.  Ludwig,  8800  Locust  Street,  Philadelphia. 
Library  and  Museu7n—I22d  Race  Street,  Philadelphia, 


TREASURERS  OP  SYNODICAL  HOflE  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTENTATION. 

New  Jersey— Elmer  Ewing  Green,  P.  O.  Box  133,  Trenton,  N.  J. 
New  Yorh-0.  D.  Eaton,  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Pennsylvania -Fmik  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Baltimore— D.  C.  Ammidon,  31  South  Frederick  Street,  Baltimorei  Md. 


BEQUESTS  OR  DEVISES. 

In  the  preparation  of  Willi  care  should  be  taken  to  insert  the  Corporate  Name,  as  known  and  recog- 
nised in  the  Courts  of  Law.    Requests  or  Devises  for  the 

0«neral  Assemblv  should  be  made  to  **  The  Trustees  of  the  Gtoeral  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Home  Missions,— to  **  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  incorporated  April  19, 1872,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Foreign  nisslons,— to  **  The  Board  of  Foreign  MiaBions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  tha 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Church  Erection,-  to  '*  The  Board  of  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Licorporated  March  27, 1871,  by  the  Legi^ture  of 
the  State  of  New  York." 

Board  of  Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work,  to  '*  The  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publi- 
cation and  Sabbath-school  Work." 

Board  of  Education,— to  **  The  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States 
of  America." 

Board  of  4(elief ,— to  ''  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Ministers  and  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  Deceased  Ministers." 

Board  for  Preedmen,— to  ^*The  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen  of  ibe  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Aids  for  Colleges,— to  **'  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Academies." 

Sustentation  is  not  incorporated.  Bequests  or  Devises  intended  for  this  object  should  be  made  to  "  The 
Board  of  Uooie  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  incorporated  April 
19, 1872,  by  Act  of  the  legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York,  for  SustefUation,^ 

N.  D.-Real  Estate  devised  by  will  should  be  carefully  described. 

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THE  CHDRCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 

FEBRUARY,    1804. 

CONTENTS. 

The  College  Board,  E.  C.  Ray,  D,D,, 93 

The  Pearl  of  Days, 98 

Synodical  Home  Mission  Work, 100 

Editorial  Notes 101 

Wonderful  Work  of  God  in  India,  George  F.  Pentecost,  D,D,, 102 

FOREIGN  niSSIONS. 

Notes.— Financial  Statement— Dr  Nevius— Dr.  Talmadge— Mrs.  Isabella  Bird  Bishop— 
Dr.  Paton — Dr.  and  Mrs.  Mateer — Missionary  Colleges  in  China — Arabic  speaking 
Evangelists  Wanted  in  China— Missionary  Calendar — Report  of  the  Christian 
Endeavor  Movement  in  China — How  to  Obtain  Lantern  Slides,  ....    105-107 

Some  Hopeful  Aspects  of  Mission  Work  in  Japnn,  George  IViUiam  Knox,  D,D.,    ,        .  107 

Rev.  John  L.  Nevius,  D.D.,  F.  F  Ellinwood,  D.D., 110 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Missions  in  China— Mission  Field   of  Peking,  Rev.  J.   Walter 
Z^M^rt^— \I«^dicil  Clas^  of  Women.  Canton  Seminary— Shantung  Mission,  its  Pro- 
gress and  Promise,  Rev,  Gilbert  Reid—Nsit\ve  Pnstors  in  Central  China,  Rev,  W, 
/.  ^^A^u^— Secrets  of  Success  in  Shantung,  Rev,  W,  M,  Hayes,       ....    118-124 
Letters — China,  Fields  White  to  the  Harvest,  125 

HOilB  niSSIONS. 

Notes. — Joplin,  Mo — Beautiful  Life-*-ChriRtian  Endeavor  Societies— Season  of  Spiritual 
Refreshing — Report  of  Rev.  J.  P.  Williamson  at  Annual  Mec'ting  of  Sioux  Indian 
Presbyteries  and  Congregational  Churches— Girls  in  Asheville  Industrial  School — 
Uniting  with  Church — Effort  to  Suppress  Polygamy  Among  Indians— Power  of 
Gospel  Among  Natives  of  Alaska— Dr.  Dorchester  on  Indian  School  Service — 
Christianitv's  Care  for  the  Poor— Blessing  on  Work  at  San  Pablo— Y.  P.  S  C.  E.  In 
Ohio— White  Factor  in  Indian  Problem— Attitude  of  Government  Toward  Indian 
Question— Only   Two   Months   of    Fiscal   Year   Left— Arrears— Home   Mission 

Appointments 126-129 

Concert  of  Prayer.— The  Indians— Roman  Catholic  Church  as  Seen  by  a  City  Pastor,     .    180-134 

Bohemians  in  Kansas,  William  Schiller, 184 

Letters. — Pennsylvania,  Rev,  W.  M,  ^(rA^atV— Michigan,  Rev.  JF,  E,  Nichol—'^^w 
Mexico,  Miss  Sue  M,  Zuver—VtAh7  Rev,  N,  E,  Clemenson  Rev,  Theodore  Lee — 
Wisconsin,  Rev,  W,  J,  7«rfi^r— Colorado,  Rev,  George  Crmwafi— Montana,  Rev, 
£.  J,  Lindsey— low ti.  Rev,  S.  Alexander^Oklnhomtk,  Rev.  S,  V,  -Fai/— Indian 
Territory,  Miss  Laura  V.  Smith, 185-188 


EDUCATION.— "  Log  College  "—An  Educated  Ministry,  a  Characteristic  of  Our  Church- 
College  and  Seminary  Notes-Death  of  Mr.  Brooks,  189-143 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF.— Extracts  from  the  Secretary's  Article  in  the  January  Issue  of 

the  Christian  Steward, 148-144 

FREBDMEN.— Swift  Memorial  Institute,    .        .        - 145-147 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH  SCHOOL  WORK— Scope  of  8.  S.  Mission  Work— 

RallyingDay  and  the  United  Movement— Free  Libraries, 147-149 

CHURCH  ERECTION.— Twelve  New  Churches  Every  Day— Request  from  Prague— A 

Grievous  Fault— Broken  Bow,  Nebraska— Acknowledgement  ....    150-151 

A  Revivalin  Two  Languages, 152 

A  Handsome  Action 158 

BOOK  NOTICES  AND  MINISTERIAL  NECROLOGY 158-154 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATH  SCHOOL  LESSONS 155-156 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR— The   Young   Christian— When   to 
Begin— Muscular  Christianity— A  Further  Word  About  Foot-ball— Sok  Tai,  the 

Courage  of  his  Faith— Hull  House,  Chicago 156-168 

CHILDRBN^S   CHURCH  AT   HOME   AND    ABROAD.— The   Boy   Jesus-A  Cruel 

Tyrant, 164-165 

GLEANINGS  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 166-169 


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The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad, 

TWELVE  5UCH  NUMBERS  A5  THI5. 

ONE  EVERY  MONTH, 

EACH    NUMBER    A    LITTLE    BETTER  THAN    THE   PRECEDINQ.  IF  WE   CAN    MAKE    IT  SO 


THE  WHOLE  TWELVE  FOR 


Prom  South  Dakota  a  minister  writes :  '*  I  am  very  glad  to  see  that  yon  are  making  the 
magazine  more  interesting — that  you  are  using  so  many  maps  and  pictures.  I  hope  you  will  even 
use  more,  if  possible.    You  know  we  learn  so  much  through  the  eye.*' 


i^SEE  SECOND  AND  THIRD  PAGES  OF  ADVERTISEMENTS. 

The   Most  Successful 

Hyr\n  *  and  s.^av^-ss'; 

TUNE  BOOKS  SiVscirr '"" 

I.  THE  NEW  LAUDES  DOMINI.     The  freshest  and 

best  book  for  both  choir  and  congregation.  Hundreds  of 
churches  already  using  it  with  enthusiasm. 

II.  LAUDES     DOMINI     FOR    THE     PRAYER 

MEETING.  Contains  579  Hymns  and  330  Tunes — ^the 
cream  of  all  the  books.  Bound  in  full  cloth — a  handsome 
book  for  50  cents.  The  Rev.  H.  T.  McEwen,  of  Christian 
Endeavor  fame,  says  it  is  **  The  best  book  for  the  purpose 
published.*' 

III.  LAUDES     DOMINI     FOR     THE    SUNDAY 

SCHOOL  is  selling  more  than  ever.  It  is  a  full,  rich, 
handsome,  cloth-bound  book,  and  costs  only  $35  per  hundred. 

Correspondence  invited  with  those  looking  for  the  best  Hymn    | 
Books,  or  for  Responsive  Readings.  B 

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AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD, 


FEBRUARY,  1894. 


SALIDA,  COLORADO. 


THE  BOARD  OF  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES. 


B.  G.  RAT,  D.  D. 

THE  COLLEGE  BOARD. 

The  last  General  Assembly  said  regardiDg 
the  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Acade- 
mies: 

* '  Resolved,  That  we  recommend  to  the  church 
— for  the  work  of  this  board — to  adopt  as 
far  as  convenient  the  month  of  February  for 
taking  offerings  of  churches  and  Sabbath- 
schools.'* 

Hence  the  opening  pages  of  this  February 
number  of  our  magazine  are  kindly  given  to 
the  College  Board. 

THE   BOARD. 

It  has  headquarters  in  Chicago,  its  twenty- 
four  members  being  residents  of  the  North- 
west. Professor  Hemck  Johnson,  D.D.,  LL. 
D.  of  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  has 
been  its  President  since  its  organization  in 
1883,  and  Mr.  Charles  M  Chamley  has  been 
its  Treasurer  for  the  same 
D.  D.,  is  the  Secretary. 


SECRETARY. 


ITS  WORK. 


It  gives  counsel  in  locating  and  opening 
Presbyterian  colleges  and  academies  in  the 
West;  gives  aid  in  paying  current  expenses  to 
such  as  commend  themselves  to  its  approval 
and  comply  with  its  requirements;  and  assists 


SAUDA  ACADEMY. 


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them  to  pay  off  past  indebtedness  and  to  as  follows:      The  president,   $1,200;  other 

secare    buildings  and  endowment.    Corres-  instructors,   one  $500,  one  f450,   fiye  each 

pondence  with  institutions,  their  ecclesiastical  $850,  and  one  $200;  $4,100  in  all. 

supervising  bodies  and  their  friends,  exami-  Financial  stringency  in  the  region  of  the 

nation  of  their  accounts  and  work,  and  visiting  college  so    seriously    curtails    the    gifts    of 

them,  occupy  part  of  the  Secretary's  time.  churches  and  friends  near  it;  the  same  cause 

To  secure  means  for  aiding  institutions,  and  the  expenditure  of  money  by  people  in 

correspondence,  preparation  of  literary  mat-  visiting  the  World's  Fair  prevent  so  many 

ter,  and  travel  to  meet  individuals  and  to  who  would  like  to  attend  the  college  from 

address  General  Assemblies,  Synods,  Presby-  doing  so,  lessening  expected  receipts  from 

teries  and  churches,  are  duties  of  the  Secre-  tuition  and  board ;  and  the  Ollege  Board  so 

tary.     A  report  to  the  General  Assembly  is  strictly  requires  that  current  expense  shall 

published  annually,  more  than  a  million  pages  be  kept  within  current  income  and  no  debt 

of  printed  information  are  circulated  in  the  incurred ;  that  the  trustees,  seeing  no  other 

churches,  and  articles  (like  this,  for  instance,)  way,  announced  to  the  instructors  that  only 

are  published.  half  the  salaries  promised  could  be  paid. 

ITS  FINANCES.  A  city  church  asked  the  president  to  be- 

The  Board  handled  last  year:  come  its  pastor  at  a  salary  one-half  larger 

For  its  General  Fund, $43,530  86  than  that  at  first  promised  him  by  the  college, 

Fo?iSpe?SSL»T^;tPund.;     i^'.Si?  .w  th««  times  what  the  college  now  offers;  the 

For  Special  Kunda, 140  00  instructors  are  nearly  all  college  graduates, 

For  Transmission 156_50  gome  fitted  by  post-graduate  studies  in  Europe 

Total  Funds  handled  by  the  Treas,    *75,290  99  to  do  superior  work;  but  all,   president  and 

Church  Ck>Uege  Board  offerings  and  ,        ^        ,                    ,-.                  .^^ 

Individual  Gifts  sent  direct  to  professors,  when  assured  of  the  necessity  of 

Institutions, $e3,m  61  t^^  g^^p  accepted  the  reduction  of  salaries. 

Total  ffiven  for  this  cause  through  preferring  not  to  risk,  by  leaving,  the  noble 

^^^^^' $188,92160  missionary  work  Of  the  college. 

The  present  financial  stringency  will  cripple  Such  self-sacrifice  cannot  be  repaid  in 
many  institutions  and  imperil  some  unless  money;  but  the  College  Board  would  like  to 
the  churches  loyally  assist  the  Board  this  see  these,  and  others  like  them,  at  least  par- 
year.  The  Lord's  stewards  are  asked  to  con-  tially  compensated ;  but  it  has  not  the  means, 
sider  the  claims  of  this  work  for  larger  The  churches  can  give  them  a  grateful  place 
church  offerings,   individual  gifts  at  once,  in  their  prayers. 

and  a  good  place  in  their  testamentary  pro  

visions.    These  claims  rest  upon  the  fact  that  CALIFORNIA. 

thU  work  is  essential  to— 1:  Securing  the  ^^  Los  Angeles,  in  the  region  of  perpetual 

Church  a  ministry.     2;  Making  Home  Mis-  Summer,  is  Occidental  College,   only  three 

sion  work  permanent.     8 :  Winning  the  New  years  old,   organized    because    the    College 

West  for  the  Kingdom.  Board    promised    aid.    The   collapse   of    a 

Information    regarding     the     principles,  »» boom"  left  it  stranded  upon  its  fine  large 

methods,  history,  accomplUhed  results  and  property.  The  College  Board,  offering  to  pay 

needs  of  the  Board  may  be  had  by  addressing  ^^out  one-fifth  of  the  debt,  has  saved  a  prop- 

the  Secretary,  E.  C.  Ray,  D.  D.,  80  Montauk  ^rty  certain  to  become  very  valuable.    The 

Block,  Chicago,  IllinoU.    The  articles  follow-  memory  of  the  man  who  gave  to  the  CoUege 

ing  this  give  interesting  points.  ^oard,  unasked,  the  Board's  proportion  of  the 

debt-payment,  though  he  refuses  to  let  his 

wirnniQTir  name  be  known,  will  be  forever  fragrant  and 

his  works  will  long  and  blessedly  follow  him. 
The  trustees  of  one  of  our  Western  colleges  He  heard  a  sermon  on  the  work  of  the  Col- 
engaged  the  instructors  for  this  year  in  June  lege  Board  and  sent  his  check  for  $5,000  for 
last,  promising  them  salaries,  besides  board,  this  use.    It  pays. 

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OSWEGO  COLLEGE. 


OSWEGO  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN, 
OSWEGO,  KANSAS. 

This  cut  illustrates  an  institution  founded 
under  the  Board,  aided  by  it  every  year,  free 
of  debt  by  the  Board  ^s  stimulation  (excepting 
$5,000  which  the  Board  has  promised  to 
secure  for  it  as  soon  as  possible),  and  doing  a 
noble  work  for  young  women  of  South-eastern 
Kansas,  home  missionaries'  daughters  in  the 
Indian  Territory,  and  Indian  and  Mormon 
girls. 

THE  COLLEGE  OP  MONTANA. 

This  college,  at  Deer  Lodge,  Montana,  has 
ja«t  received  $10,000  from  the  College  Board, 
for  which  it  gives  the  Board  a  first  mortgage 
on  all  its  property  valued  at  $109,400.  This 
money  was  offered  the  college  some  years 
ago  on  condition  that  its  local  friends  should 
wipe  out  the  rest  of  its  large  indebtedness, 
and  they  have  done  it.  The  following  article 
is  by  its  President. 


A  TEXT  AND  FOUR  POINTS. 

REV.  WILUAM  M.  BLACKBURN,  D.  D. 

Prasfdent  of  Pierre  University,  North  DakotiL 

THE  TEXT. 

Three  boys,  who  entered  several  weeks 
ago  to  take  a  ^*  practical  **  course,  came  to  me 
the  other  day,  saying  ^^  we  want  to  drop  an 
easy  study  and  begin  Latin,  if  we  can  pull 
up  by  studying  hard,  and  strike  for  a  broader 
course."    1  agreed. 

THE   POINTS. 

1.  Few  young  people  in  a  new  country 
naturally  propose  to  take  a  college  course  of 
study.  Their  schools  do  not  waken  ambition 
for  it. 

2.  Get  them  into  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment of  a  college  and  they  receive  a  new 
spirit.  The  world  grows  larger  and  they 
want  to  know  more  about  it. 

8.  Education  in  a  college  is  likely  to  incite 
higher  ideas  and  aims,  even  if  the  student 
has  not  funds  to  carry  him  through  to  a 
diploma. 


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4.  The  preparatorj  department  of  a  Christ- 
ian college  is  the  most  likely  door  to  study 
for  the  GKispel  ministry.  (See  reports  of  the 
Board  of  Edacation.) 


condition  that  its  local  friends  raise  the  rest. 
This  was  done,  and  this  noble  institution  is 
ours  forever. 


THE  COLLEGE  OF  IDAHO. 
This  building  was  partly  eaten  up  by  pil- 
grims to  the  Portland  Oeneral  Assembly;  for 
the  churches  of  Caldwell,  Idaho,  fed  the 
special  trainsful  at  that  point,  the  profits 
helping  to  build  this  first  and  only  college  in 
the  state  of  Idaho.  It  begins  humbly  in 
appearance,  but  royally  in  deed,  having  two 
college  graduates  in  its  faculty,  doing  thus 
far  only  the  work  of  a  collegiate  institute, 
but  doing  that  well.  It  ought  to  have  $10,- 
000  for  a  building  at  once. 


COLLEGE  OF  IDAHO. 


NEBRASKA. 

Bellevue  College  of  the  University  of 
Omaha  came  into  being,  and  its  splendid 
property  valued  at  $120,000  came  into  the 
possession  of  our  Church,  because  the  College 
Board  promised  to  aid  it.  It  has  received 
from  the  Board  in  ten  years  only  $8,857  and 
part  of  the  College  Board  offerings  of 
Nebraska  churches.  It  is  not  such  property 
cheap  at  the  price!  The  college  has  far  out- 
grown its  present  buildings;  by  offering 
$5,000  the  College  Board  has  stimulated  local 
friends  of  the  institution  to  undertake  to  raise 
at  least  $10,000  more  for  an  additional  struc- 
ture. 

A  property  valued  at  $123,000,  and  a  debt 
of  $84,000,  was  the  situation  at  Hastings 
when  the  *^  boom  "  died  and  the  whole  plant 
was  about  to  be  lost  to  the  Church.  The  Col- 
lege Board  secured  $15,000  for  the  college  on 


EAST  AND  WEST. 

BEV.  JAMES  BEID, 
President  of  the  CoUege  of  Montana. 

Are  these  denominational  colleges  which 
have  been  planted  throughout  the  West 
needed  t 

The  best  answer  to  the  question  would  be 
given  by  asking  another :  Were  or  are  Chris- 
tian colleges  needed  in  the  East  t 

Christian  colleges  are  doing  a  work  which 
state  institutions  cannot  do.  It  would  be  as 
absurd  and  foolish  to  let  these  small  Western 
colleges  die  for  lack  of  support,  as  it  would 
have  been  to  let  Princeton  and  Wooster  and 
Wabash  and  Oberlin  die.  They  were  once 
small  and  poorly  equipped. 

We  cannot  make  a  ^* comer*'  on  higher 
education,  and  compel  students  from  all 
parts  of  our  country  to  attend  the  great 
Eastern  schools  and  colleges. 


EXPERT  TESTIMONY. 

A  young  man  who  studied  and  then  taught 
in  our  College  of  Emporia,  Kansas,  who  is 
novf  in  a  large  Eastern  Presbyterian  institu- 
tion, and  to  whom  the  CoUege  of  Emporia 
owed  some  money,  recently  sent  this  letter  to 
the  Vice-President  of  Emporia  College. 

Dear  Sir : — ''I  have  been  considering  the  ques- 
tion for  some  time  and  have  come  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  I  can  help  the  college  a  little.  My 
bill  against  it  is  $99.25.  If  you  will  sead  me  a 
blank  I  will  give  you  a  note  for  $100  and  send 
you  75  cents. 

My  experience  in  the  East  has  been  of  value 
to  me.  Take  a  young  fellow  in  a  small  college, 
as  I  was,  and  he  is  apt  to  think  that  the  profes- 
sors in  large  institutions  must  be  different  from 
other  men.  But  from  what  I  have  seen  of  the 
college  professors  and  the  college  boys,  I  am 
quite  certain  that  the  instruction  given  here 
is  no  better  than  that  which  I  received,  and 
there  is  certainly  not  a  more  brainy  set  of  stud- 
ents than  at  Emporia.     I  am  taking  a  course  in 

philosophy  under  Prof. ,  which  is  very  fine; 

but  the  more  I  see  and  listen  to  big  men,  the 
more  profound  respect  I  have  for  Prof.  E.  I 
am  well  satisfied  that  I  have  an  A.  B.  fiom 
Emporia.  Very  sincerely  yours, ." 


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CX)RNING  ACADEMY,  CORNING,  IOWA. 
Compare  the  picture  of  Salida  Academy  on 
the  first  page,  with  Coming  Academy.  Salida, 
a  beantifol  town  in  a  valley  7,000  feet  above 
the  sea  level,  has  its  modest  academy  prop- 
erty freed  from  debt  by  the  Board's  giving 
one-third  of  the  amount,  conditioned  upon 
local  friends  securing  the  remainder;  a  good 
start  toward  future  great  things.  Corning 
has  its  fine  property  freed  from  debt  by  the 


years  ago  it  belonged  to  private  individuals, 
but  was  secured  for  our  church  by  the  pay- 
ment of  $8,634  which  the  Board  of  Aid  for 
Colleges  and  Academies  raised  for  it.  A 
mortgage  to  the  Board  holds  it  forever  in 
connection  with  the  Presbyterian  Church.  A 
flourishing  school,  vitalizing  its  region,  mak- 
ing Christians  and  ministers  for  us,  about  to 
enlarge  its  plant  and  its  clientage,  it  shows 
what  the  College  Board  can  do  in  a  score  [of 


CORNING  ACADEMY. 


Board's  aid,  and  is  now  seeking  endowment 
which  its  work  proves  it  worthy  of;  an  illus- 
tration of  what  Salida  and  other  new  begin- 
ners may  come  to  under  the  Church's  guidance 
and  gifts  through  the  College  Board. 


BROOKFIELD  COLLEGE,   BROOKFIELD, 

MISSOURI. 

Although  having  a  college    charter    this 

institution  does  only  academic  work.     It  has 

a  beautiful  property  worth  $20,000.     A  few 


places  when  the  means  for  such  work  shall 
come  to  its  treasury. 


APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  1893-94. 
The  College  Board  has  voted  the  following 
appropriations  from  its  General  Fund  for  the 
current  expenses  of  institutions  during  this 
school  year.  Italicised  names  of  synods  and 
presbyteries  indicate  that  the  institutions 
have  no  money  appropriation,  but  have  the 
privilege    of    soliciting    and    receiving    the 


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(College  Board  offerings  of  churches  in  the 
regions  designated.  The  German  Theological 
Seminary  at  Dubaqne  has  the  privilege  of 
SQch  solicitation  in  all  G^erman  churches. 
Some  colleges  are  aided  as  academies,  either 
because  they  do  only  academic  work,  or  for 
other  reasons  not  prejudicial  to  the  institu- 
tions, but  peculiar  to  their  synods. 
OOLLEGES,  17. 

Albany  Coll^^,  Albany,  Oregon,  ....  $1,500 
Albert  Lea  College  for  Women,  Albert  Lea, 

Minnesota, 500 

Alma  College,  Alma,  Michigan,  .  .  .  Michigan 
Bellevue  College,  BelleTue,  Nebraska,  .  .  1,250 
Coatee  College  for   Women,   Terre  Haute, 

Indiana 1.000 

College  of  Emporia,  Emporia,  Kansas,  .  .  1,000 
College  of  Montana,  Deer  Lodge,  Montana,  1,500 
Gale  College,  Galesville,  Wisconsin,  ...  750 
German    Theological    Seminary,    Dubuque, 

Iowa, 850 

Greenville,  and  Tusculum  College,  Tusculum, 

Tennessee, 500 

Hastings  College,  Hastings,  Nebraska,  .  .  1,250 
Occidental  College,  Loe  Angeles,  California,  1,000 
Oiwego  College  for  Women,  Oswego,  Kansas,  800 
Pierre  University,  Pierre,  South  Dakota,  .  1,000 
Presbyterian  College  of  the  Southwest,  Del 

Norte,  Colorado, 800 

Washington   College,    Washington   College, 

Tennessee, 500 


Whitworth  College,  Sumner,  Washington,  1,^ 

ACADEMIES,  21. 

Brookfleld  College,  Brookfleld,  Missouri,     .  750 

Buena  Vista  College,  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,    .  800 

Butler  Academy,  Butler,  Missouri,     ...  500 
Carthage    Collegiate    Institute,    Carthage, 

Missouri, 750 

CoUege  of  Idaho,  CaldweU,  Idaho,    ...  500 
Coming  Academy,  Coming,  Iowa,     .    .    .  900 
Gtoneeeo   Collegiate  Institute,  Geneseo,  Illi- 
nois,   «)0 

Glen  Rose  Collegiate  Institute,  Glen  Rose, 

Texas, 800 

Grassy  Cove  Academy,   Grassy  Cove,  Ten- 
nessee,       200 

Huntsville  Academy,  Huntsville,  Tennessee,  250 
Lenox  College,  Hopkinton,  Iowa,  Dufrugiie,  Waterloo 
Lewis  Academy,  Wichita,  Kansas,  .  .  .  2,000 
Longmont  Academy,  Longmont,  Colorado,  800 
New  Market  Academy,  New  Market,  Ten- 
nessee,       800 

Pendleton  Academy,  Pendleton,  Oregon,    .  500 

Poynette  Academy,  Poynette,  Wisconsin,  000 
Princeton    Collegiate    Institute,    Princeton, 

Kentucky, 050 

Salida  Academy,  Salida,  Colorado,     ...  700 
Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute,  Salt  Lake  City, 

Utah,       1,800 

Scotland  Academy,  Scotland,  South  Dakota,  1,000 

Union  Academy,  Anna,  Illinois,     ....  700 


Total, $30,250 


THE  PEARL  OF  DAYS. 


In  our  December  number  we  spoke  of  an 
essay  with  the  above  title  as  having  been 
written  by  an  English  laborer — we  were  not 
sure  whether  a  man  or  a  woman — who  won  the 
prize  which  had  been  offered  for  the  best 
essay  on  the  advantages  of  the  Sabbath  to 
the  working  classes. 

That  editorial  note  brought  the  editor  to 
pleasant  acquaintance  with  a  lady,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  whose  father  knew  the  writer  of 
that  essay,  and  has  kindly  lent  us  a  copy  of 
the  little  book.  She  does  not  know  where 
she  could  find  another  copy.  The  writer  of 
it  was  *  *  a  laborer's  daughter, "  and  we  were  in 
error,  when  we  stated  that  she  won  the 
prize.  The  offer  of  prizes — £25,  £15  and 
£10 — for  the  three  best  essays,  had  limited 


the  competitioD,  perhaps  inadvertently,  to 
'*  laboring  m«n,"  and  the  offer  produced, 
within  three  months,  *^the  astonishiug  num- 
ber of  more  than  950  compositions,  manifest- 
ing by  the  single  fact,  without  reference  to 
the  merits  of  these  productions,  the  wide- 
spread interest  and  deeply-rooted  principles 
with  which  the  holy  day  of  God  is  rever- 
enced, loved  and  honored  by  the  laboring 
people." 

The  **  Laborer^s  Daughter ''  in  sending  her 
essay,  **  T?ie  Pearl  of  DaySy "  wrote : 

Sir: — I  have  thought  it  uuuecessary  to  in- 
quire whether  a  female  might  be  permitted  to 
enter  among  the  competitors  for  the  prizes 
offered  iu  your  advertisement  The  subject  of 
the  essay  Is  of  equal  interest  to  woman  as  to 


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mao;  and  this  being  the  case,  I  have  looked  up- 
on your  restriction  as  merely  confining  this 
effort  to  the  laboring  classes.  Whether  I  j  udged 
rightly  or  not,  matters  but  little ;  the  effort  I 

haye  made will  at  least  be  of  use 

to  myself;  and  should  you  consider  these  sheets 
as  containing  any  thoughts  of  yalue  they  are  at 
your  disposal 

The  adjudicators  in  view  of  the  terms  of 
the  offer,  felt  constrained,  *Mn  faithfulness 
to  the  other  competitors"  to  exclude  this 
essay  from  competition  for  the  prizes,  but 
they  commended  it  as  of  extraordinary 
merit,  and  desired  its  publication.  It  was 
published  in  1848,  with  a  most  graceful  dedi- 
cation to  the  Queen  by  **  the  proposer  of  the 


We  joyfully  believe  that  the  interest  with 
which  *^the  holy  day  of  Gk>d  "  is  regarded 
by  the  laboring  people  of  this  land,  has  been 
signally  shown  in  the  past  year,  and  that  the 
present  is  a  favorable  time  to  set  forth  its 
profitableness  for  this  life  and  for  the  life  to 
come.  We  suggest  the  publication  of  a  new 
edition  of  Thi  Pearl  of  Days  to  any  enter- 
prising publisher  who  *^can  discern  the  signs 
of  the  times."  Meanwhile  we  give  our  read- 
ers a  taste  of  it  in  the  following  extract: 

Were  it  possible  to  view  man  as  only 
formed  for  this  world— as  a  mere  link  in  the 
chain  of  existence— doing  his  little  part,  enjoy- 
ing his  brief  existence,  and  then  reduced  again 
to  his  original  elements,  passing  away  alike  for- 
getting and  forgotten ;  and  were  we  to  regard 
the  Sabbath  as  merely  a  civil  institution,  the 
appointment  of  human  government;  even  thus 
separated  from  all  its  religious  relations,  it 
would,  were  it  possible  for  man  destitute  of  the 
knowledge  of  Qod  to  improve  the  opportunities 
afforded  by  it,  confer  benefits  upon  working 
men  which  they  could  not  otherwise  obtain. 
The  Sabbath  limits,  to  some  extent,  the  power 
of  employers,  whom  selfishness  and  avarice,  in 
not  a  few  instances,  have  rendered  alike  regard- 
less of  the  comfort  and  health  of  their  servants; 


and  secures  to  those  whose  dally  avocations 
require  their  absence  from  the  family  circle  the 
pleasures  and  comforts  of  home,  the  softening 
and  refining  infiuence  of  family  relations  and 
domestic  intercourse.  Its  rest  refreshes  and  in- 
vigorates the  physical  constitution,  and  affords 
time  to  applj  the  mind  to  the  attainment  of  use- 
ful knowledge:  it  ought  therefore  to  command 
the  respect  of  all  who  are  desirous  of  promoting 
the  improvement  of  the  working  population. 

But  it  is  impossible  thus  to  regard  man.  * 
Man  has  a  spiritual,  never  dying,  as  surely  as 
he  has  an  animal  and  mortal  nature,  which  act 
and  re-act  upon  each  other,  so  that  the  well- 
being  of  one  is  essential  to  the  well-being  of  the 
other.  He,  therefore,  who  would  confine  man's 
views  to  this  world,  and  limit  his  endeavors 
after  happiness  to  the  present  life  snatches  from 
him,  along  with  the  hopes  of  the  future,  the 
riches  of  the  present.  Debarred  from  his 
Pather*s  house  and  his  Father's  table,  he  will 
soon  be  wallowing  in  the  mire  of  ignorance  and 
vice,  and  feeding  on  the  husks  of  sensual  indul- 
gence. He  who  chains  man  to  continuous  and 
unremitting  exertion  of  his  physical  system, 
unfits  his  mind  for  activity,  and  degrades  him 
to  a  condition  little  above  that  of  a  beast  of 
burden.  The  Sabbath  must  be  viewed  in  its 
relation  to  every  part  of  man's  nature,  in  its  in- 
fiuence upon  him  as  a  whole,  before  we  can 
fully  appreciate  even  the  merely  temporal  bene- 
fits it  is  calculated  to  confer  upon  the  human 
family. 

Whatever  helps  the  people  of  this  world  to 
prepare  for  a  residence  in  heaven,  fails  not  to 
bring  down  something  of  the  blessedness  of 
heaven  into  this  world.  He  who  lay  down  to 
sleep  where,  in  his  dream,  he  saw  a  ladder  set 
upon  the  earth,  the  top  of  which  reached  unto 
heaven,  had  the  angels  for  visitors,  and  from 
above  the  ladder  the  voice  of  Qod  came  down  to 
him  promising  the  most  abundant  blessings  to 
him  and  to  his  seed.  So  always  they  enjoy  the 
best  blessings  which  can  be  possessed  in  this 
world,  who  dwell  nearest  to  the  sacred  path- 
ways which  lead  up  to  heaven. 


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SYNODICAL  HOME  MISSION  WORK. 

Rev.  J.  Garland  Hamner,  Jr.,  Ohainnan  Dou  Syrwdieal  Hotne  M%9iion$  DecreoM  Interut  in 

of  the  Committee  on  Synodical  Home  Mis-  J^  ^^\  f^''*  V»  ^^  ^^'^    ,      ,^      ^^, 

The  knowledge  of  great  needs  in  old  settle- 

sions  in  New  Jersey,  sends  ns  specimens  of  a  ^^^^  emphasizes  ihe  need  in  the  new. 

card,  ''*•  thinking  that  it  might  help  some  of  New  Jersey  gave  last  year  in  cash  $6,000  more 

the  brethren  in  other  synods."    We  think  so  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^«^  ^^^  P^*^  started. 

,   ,,                     .        rr.L            ^    .  The  Synod  of  Indiana,  before  adopting  the 

too,   and    ghMily    co-operate.     The    card  is  ^^^^^^  ^  ^  ^    ^^^^  $2,000.00  a  year  more 

accompanied  by  an  envelope,  very  strikingly  than  she  paid  the  Board.   Now  she  supports  her 

printed  and  decorated,  in  which  contribntions  own  work  and  gives  $2,500.00  for  the  West. 

•     *i          *      -fcx     XT  The   Synods   of   New    York,   Pennsylvania, 

are  conveniently  sent.     Mr.  Hamner  says:  ^^^^   and  Baltimore   are    all   following   New 

Samples  are  sent  out  to  the  pastor  of  every  jersey  and  Indiana 

church  in  the  State  requesting  them  to  send  for  ^^f^^^  ^  ^  j^  j)^^^  ,-^  j^^  j^^y  f 

as  many  as  they  can  use.    We  feel  that  our  sue-  Ei^ghty  one   churches   and    missions  already 

cess  in  the  work  of  home  missions  in  New  Jersey  started  must  be  cared  for. 

is  due  to  the  practical  and  direct  way  we  go  ^  ^ew  Jersey  has  a  foreign  population  of  1 10  - 

.        ,  822    Germans;    12,989    Italians;    8,569    Dutch; 

*^"'^'-  8,467  Swedes.   Danes  and    Norwegians;   5,320 

We  are  sure  that  our    readers  in  other  Russians,  4,714  French;  3,417  Hungarians,  and 

synods  will  be  interested  in  seeing  how  they  8,615  Poles,  demanding  immediate  and  special 

do  it  in  New  Jersey,  attention,  as  they  crowd  the  city  and  colonize 

^ '  the  country. 

""  W/iat  WiU  T/iis  Work  Cohtf 

A  SHORTER  CATEcmsM.  $16,000.00  is  the  lowest  estimate  for  the  old 

[For  Churches  in  New  Jerwy.l  work.     According  as  you  give  the  new   work 

What  is  Home  Mimom  f  vv  iU  go  forward. 

It  is  preaching  Jesus  Christ  wherever  in  our  Synod  asks  Presbyteries  to  contribute  tlie  fol- 

own  land  He  is  unknown;  organizing  those  who  lowing  minimum  amounts: 

love  Christ  into  churches  for  worship  and  work  Kliwbeih (W cts.  p..rmember) $^.652  40 

and  Dayinir  part  of  the  pastor's  salary  until  tne  Jersey  city  (26  cu.  perioember) i,«»«  5o 

1       1     u        u                   «*  .•     *.,ii  Monmouth  C<0  cm.  per  member) I,i98  00 

local  church  can  pay  it  m  full.  Morri«  and  Onxx^  (5>0  ct«.  per  membt- r).. .      2  741  W 

rtrt.   A'    a       j-     i  rr         i/-    •     -  •  Newafk  (27  ctH.  per  member) 2,ib9  »7 

What  W  Synodteai  Home  Mustons  f  New  Brunnwick  (27  cU.  per  member) 8,3JO»  85 

Synod  doing  its  own  Home  Mission    work.  ^::,7eS!?y%^.'S^m^b;rC              \^l^o 

Each  CHURCH  in  this  State  (the  Synod)  contrib-  TT:;:?!:; 

utes  to  a  fund  at  Trenton     Each   presbytery  jj^  ^^j^  Q^gj^^  j^y  church  to  Oite? 

plans  and  controls  the  work  in  its  own  bounds,  g^  ^^^^  ^^j^  ^^jy^.  knough. 

and  draws  on  Synod's  Treasurer  according  to  its  Salaries  of  pastors  in  Home  Mission  churclies 

T^^^^'  in    Monmouth    and  West  Jersey  Presbyteriea 

What  is  the  Advantage  of  the  Plan  f  average  but  $600.00. 

The  responsibility  for  the  support  of  old  and  The  Italians  are  hungry  for  the  Gospel !   Give 

beginning  new  work  is  thrown  on  the  churches  and  **  provoke  other  churches  to  good  works." 

nearest  at  hand.    The  work  is  more  effectively  ^^  jf^^  Q^gj^^  j^  g^^f 

done;  sympaUiy  more  easily  aroused.  ^^^  ^^^^k  has  God  given  you?    What  is  the 

Does  This  Plan  Increase  the  Cost  of  AdnUnistra-  need?    How  great  is  your  love  for  Christ,  your 

tion  f  fellow,  your  country? 

No.    There  are  no  salaries  for  secretaries— no  When  Shall  I  Give  t 

rents  for  offices.     $15,177  00  was  collected  and  Give  quickly  1    All  payments  are  made  quar- 

expended  last  year  at  a  cost  of  $188.00.    A  com-  terly.    When  there  is  no  money  the  Treasurer 

mittee  pf  ministers  and  elders  in  each  Presbytery  niust  borrow    and    pay   interest.     All  church 

plan  the  work  for  the  Presbytery.    The  chair-  collections  and  individual  subscriptions  are  to 

men  of  these  committees  form  the  State  Com-  be  sent  to 

mittee  where  the  amounte  to  be  paid  into  or  Elmer  Ewing  Green, 

drawn  from  Synod's  fund  are  amicably  adjusted.  Treasurer  S.  H.  M.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 


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101 


GoLLEQBS  AND  ACADEMIES. — ^We  have  gladly 
given  to  the  Board  to  which  our  Oharch 
has  committed  the  care  of  this  important 
interest,  the  first  six  pages  in  this  num- 
ber, as  we  did  to  the  Board  of  Publica- 
tion and  Sabbath-school  Work  in  our  Novem- 
ber number  of  1893.  That  this  Benjamin^s 
portion  falls  this  month  to  the  youngest 
member  of  our  Churches  fair  sisterhood  of 
Boards  is  in  accordance  with  the  recommend- 
ation of  the  General  Assembly,  which  is  in 
the  opening  paragraph  of  Dr.  Ray's  interest- 
ing communication.  Our  readers  will  surely 
rejoice  in  his  clear  presentation  and  vivid 
illustration  of  what  that  Board  has  accom- 
plished in  its  first  ten  years  of  life,  and  the 
bright  promise  which  shines  into  the  future 
from  such  vigorous  beginnings. 

Log  College,  on  page  189,  is  in  striking 
contrast  with  the  pictures  on  Dr.  Ray's  pages. 
Yet  we  cannot  say  that  it  is  less  picturesque. 
A  snug  log  cabin  in  the  woods  has  a  beauty 
of  its  own,  which  those  who  lived  in  the  first 
years  of  their  wedded  happiness  are  apt  to 
look  back  upon  with  regretful  pensiveness 
from  the  statelier  mansion  which  they  occupy 
in  their  later  years,  and  which  represents  the 
accumulations  of  their  many  years  of  thrifty 
industry.  But  this  is  only  as  the  sight  of 
their  stalwart  sons  and  womanly  daughters 
makes  them  sigh  a  little  in  remembrance  of 
the  days  when  they  held  them  on  their  laps. 
After  all,  they  do  not  wish  to  put  their 
children  back  into  their  cradles,  nor  to  live 
again  in  log  cabins.  Push  on.  Dr.  Ray,  but 
keep  the  pictures  which  illustrate  the  begin- 
nings of  our  enterprise  which  is  going  to 
plant  academies  and  colleges  all  over  our 
land.  Dr.  Hodge  will  be  pushing  on  after  you 
helping  to  fill  them  with  bright  youth,  among 
whom  be  will  help  the  Church  to  find  her 
ministers,  and  her  missionaries  of  both  sexes. 


And  still  it  is  of  an  educational  institution. 
Swift  Memorial  Institute,  that  Dr.  Cowan 
writes  in  the  Freedmen's  pages — 146-147. 
So  full  of  Education  is  the  air  of  February, 
and  the  mind  of  the  Church,  in  the  middle  of 
the  school-season  of  the  year.  God  bless  the 
boys  and  girls,  in  gracious  answer  to  the 
affectionate  prayers  that  go  up  to  Him  from 
their  homes.  God  bless  their  parents,  and 
help  the  dear  youth  to  make  their  parents 
glad  by  getting  that  wisdom  which  begins  in 
the  fear  of  the  Lord. 

Silly  Rodomontade. — In  our  Church  Erec- 
tion pages  (page  150),  attention  is  called  to 
an  extravagant  utterance,  lately  made  in 
Boston,  **by  a  well-known  preacher,^' alleg- 
ing great  waste  of  money  in  building  unnec- 
essary churches.  He  puts  the  figure  at  $80,  - 
000,000.  Our  courteous  and  accomplished 
editorial  correspondent,  who  has  occasion  to 
know  something  of  Church  Erection  in  our 
denomination,  gives  a  very  clear  exposure  of 
this  ^*  extravagant  statement,'*  and  shows  it 
to  be  a  statement  wholly  unfit  to  be  made. 

The  Independent,  in  its  issue  of  January  4, 
page  15,  publishes  an  exposure  of  this  same 
slander,  made  by  eminent  Congregational 
ministers.  The  Independent  says  of  that 
extravagant  statement,  **As  in  the  very 
nature  of  the  case,  it  cannot  possibly  be  true, 
it  is  a  gross  libel,  a  moral  offense  approach- 
ing a  crime  in  its  magnitude.'' 

Placing  this  beside  a  similar  specimen  of 
rodomontade — **a  minister  solemnly  declar- 
ing from  the  pulpit  that  there  are  more  young 
men  in  prison  than  in  the  Church" — the 
Iftdependent  charitM  J  com-menis:  **  Doubt- 
less his  object  in  making  such  a  statement 
was  to  arouse  people  to  the  importance  of  a 
more  careful  training  of  the  young  in  the 
habit  of  church-going.  But  the  end,  excel- 
lent as  it  is,   certainly  did    not  justify  a 


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grievons  falsificstioQ."  We  agree  with  the 
Ind^endent,  bnt  we  do  Dot  see  the  need  of 
such  a  long  word  as  the  last  one  in  the  pas- 
sage we  have  qnoted.  We  should  sp4»ll  it 
with  three  letters,  two  of  which  are  vowels. 


Our  Next  Issue  may  be  expected  to  con- 
tain a  second  article  from  the  pen  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Pentecost  of  London,  continuing  his 
account  of  **The  Wonderful  Work  of  God  in 
India." 

The  young   people   will  find  some  good 


reading  under  the  general  title  Young 
People's  Christian  Endeavor  in  this  issue, 
but  they  will  make  a  great  mistake  if  they 
limit  their  reading  to  those  pages.  They 
may  expect  an  article  in  our  next  number  on 
**The  Young  Christian  at  Home,"  by  Mrs. 
Thomas  Carter,  of  Boonton,  N.  J. 

In  a  recent  visit  to  our  editorial  room.  Rev. 
Thomas  Marshall,  D.  D.  delighted  us  with  his 
account  of  the  strong  rising  tide  of  enthusiasm 
for  missions  in  the  Northwest,  especially 
among  the  young. 


THE  WONDERFUL  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  INDIA. 

GEORGE  F.   PBNTEOOST,    D.  D. 


Christianity  is  making  such  rapid  progress 
in  India  that  it  taxes  the  faith  of  our  friends 
at  home  to  credit  the  story  of  its  triumphs 
in  this  far  away  land  of  a  wonderful 
people,  about  whose  faith  and  general 
history  there  has  always  rested  a  mist  of 
romance.  The  mists  are  rolling  away ; 
the  romance  is  being  reduced  to  plain 
matter  of  fact;  their  faith  is  being  under- 
stood ;  their  boasted  impregnability  and  in- 
accessibility to  the  Gospel  are  being  pierced; 
and  the  Hindus  and  Mohammedans  are  being 
reached.  The  vaunted  immutability  of  the 
Hindu  system  is  yielding  every  day  to  the 
impact  of  the  truth  of  the  Gospel,  and  Hin- 
duism, where  it  is  not  giving  way  to  Christi- 
anity entirely,  is  being  riven,  seamed,  eroded 
and  modified  almost  out  of  recognition  as 
compared  with  what  it  was  a  hundred  years 
ago.  At  the  request  of  the  editor  of  The 
Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  I  am  to  give 
to  its,  readers  a  bird^s-eye  view  of  the  situ- 
ation in  India  at  present. 

India  is  a  vast  peninsula  cut  off  from  the 
rest  of  Asia  by  the  Himalayan  range  of 
mountains  on  the  north,  and  the  great  oceans 
bounding  the  other  two  sides  of  this  trian- 
gular continent — the  Indian  ocean  on  the 
west  and  the  bay  of  Bengal  on  the  east.  It 
is  accessible  from  the  north  practically  by 
only  three  passes,  one  on  the  northeast  and 
two  on  the  northwest,  and  from  every  other 
point  only  by  the  sea.      Its  superficial  area  is 


just  about  one-half  that  of  the  United  States, 
while  its  population  is  nearly  five  times  as 
great.  That  is,  if  the  United  States  had  a 
population  as  dense  as  that  of  India  there 
would  be  within  our  borders  six  hundred 
millions  of  people.  India  is  not  a  homogen- 
eous nation,  but  rather  a  congeries  of  tribes. 
The  dominating  people  indeed  are  the  Hindu 
Aryans;  the  south  of  India  still  holds  vast 
numbers  of  the  old  Dravidian  people  conquered 
by  the  Aryans  three  thousand  years  ago. 
Then  there  is  still  an  aboriginal  people  back 
of  the  Dravidian  people.  In  the  west  of  India 
there  are  not  a  few  Persians,  the  Parsees. 
Besides,  there  are  several  millions  of  half-caste 
people,  the  Eurasians,  and  the  French,  Portu- 
guese and  Dutch  descendants  of  native 
mothers.  The  vast  Mohammedan  contingent 
of  seventy  millions  is  an  enormous  and  diffi- 
cult factor  in  the  count,  but  even  their  solid 
ranks  are  being  pierced  by  the  gospel. 

In  my  judgment  India  is  the  key  to  the 
missionary  situation.  Africa  and  China  are 
vast,  with  two  hundred  and  fifty  millions  of 
people  in  the  Dark  Continent  and  four  hund- 
red millions  in  the  Celestial  Empire.  Still 
India  is  the  citadel  of  paganism,  and  that 
stronghold  carried,  the  rest  of  the  heathen 
world  will  be  gathered  in  as  a  detail. 

I.    DISCOURAGEMENTS. 

The  discouragements  from  one  point  of 
view  are  very  great.  I  should  rather  say  the 
difficulties  are  very  great;  for  to  my  mind 


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there  are  no  discouragements,  though  we 
often  times  confound  the  one  with  the  other. 
Ck)n8ider  first  the  yast  multitudes  of  people — 
the  three  hundred  millions  already  spoken 
of — with  a  natural  increase  of  population  far 
in  excess  of  the  present  measure  of  conquests 
by  the  gospel.  For  instance,  during  the 
hundred  years  since  Carey  went  to  India,  the 
population  has  increased  under  the  fostering 
care  of  the  British  government  one  hundred 
tniUions,  while  the  increase  in  the  Christian 
community  has  scarcely  been  more  than  half 
a  million.  This,  standing  by  itself,  looks  to 
the  superficial  mind  like  a  demonstration  of 
the  impossible,  so  far  as  the  success  of 
Christian  missions  is  concerned.  This,  how- 
ever, is  a  fallacious  conclusion,  as  I  shall  hope 
to  show  presently.  Then  when  we  consider 
the  comparative  weakness  of  our  missionary 
force,  the  task  assigned  them  seems  well 
nigh  hopeless.  There  are  in  all  India,  say, 
not  mere  missionaries  than  there  are  ordained 
Christian  ministers  in  New  York.  In  other 
words  we  are  devoting  to  two  millions  of 
people  at  home  already  Christian,  in  sur- 
roundings and  by  tradition  and  education,  as 
much,  nay,  even  more  in  men  and  money, 
than  we  are  devoting  to  the  three  hundred 
millions  in  India.  This  looks  discouraging. 
If  we  were  to  treat  New  York  as  we  are 
treating  India  in  respect  to  the  force  of 
laborers  we  send  out  there,  there  would  be  in 
New  York  just  about  seven  Christian  minis- 
ters to  look  after  the  spiritual  interests  of 
that  city.  And  yet  every  now  and  again  we 
get  up  great  conferences  to  consider  the 
question  of  **how  to  reach  the  masses,**  in 
our  American  and  English  cities.  The  fact 
that  almost  all  our  work  has  to  be  done  in 
the  vernacular  of  the  people,  and  that  it 
requires  years  of  study  and  experience  to 
acquire  a  red  facility  in  the  idiomatic  speech 
of  the  people,  is  another  great  difficulty. 
Then  the  nature  of  the  systems  of  religion 
and  superstition  which  confronts  us  is  an- 
other dificulty. 

The  great  Hindu  system  of  faith  and 
worship  is  not  a  mere  superstition,  but  the 
most  perfectly  organized  religious  system  in 
the  world.  Every  Hindu,  from  the  highest 
caste  Brahmin  down  to  the  lowest  caste  man, 


the  shoemaker  and  the  sweeper  or  scavenger, 
is  from  his  very  birth  made  the  subject  of 
religious  rite  and  instruction.  Every  act,  from 
the  moment  he  awakes  in  the  morning  until 
he  closes  his  eyes  in  sleep,  every  day,  is 
accompanied  with  some  religious  rite — ^a 
prayer,  an  invocation  or  some  act  of  worship 
or  recognition  of  the  gods.  Every  man, 
woman  and  child  is  kept  under  the  watch  and 
spiritual  ward  of  a  religious  guru  or  pastor, 
who  enters  every  house,  catechises  every  soul, 
and  inquires  into  the  measure  of  faithfulness 
of  each  member  of  the  family.  This  guru 
holds  a  despotic  power  over  every  soul  in  his 
charge,  which  he  exercises  without  stint,  to 
keep  his  people  faithful,  and  all  the  more 
since  the  gospel  of  Christ  has  come  to  the 
land.  He  is  not  always,  by  any  means,  a  bad 
man.  Often  times  he  is  gentle,  good,  and 
truly  and  deeply  interested  in  the  spiritual 
welfare  of  his  charge.  He  is  always  a 
Brahmin.  The  temple  services  are  vast  and 
many.  Temples  abound  in  the  land.  The 
priests  (always  Brahmins)  are  exacting  and 
rigorous.  The  system  of  caste  is  what  the 
great  Dr.  Duff  called  the  '*  masterpiece  of 
hell."  It  binds  and  holds  men  and  tyrannizes 
over  them  to  that  degree,  that  seven  out  of 
ten  Hindus  would  prefer  death  to  the  penal- 
ties of  breaking  caste. 

To  become  a  Christian  is  the  most  flagrant 
breach  of  caste  that  a  Hindu  can  be  guilty  of. 
The  women  of  India  are  straitly  shut  up  in 
their  zenanas,  and  so  inaccessible  to  the 
teaching  of  the  gospel — except  lately,  since 
Christian  women  have  penetrated  these 
domestic  prison  houses.  The  women  are  the 
most  uncompromising  enemies  of  the  gospel, 
for  though  they  have  no  gods  but  their 
husbands,  whom  they  worship  and  whom  they 
serve  as  slaves  in  the  house,  they  are  the  cus- 
todians of  the  household  gods,  the  persistent 
teachers  of  the  tenets  of  their  faith  and  the 
most  faithful  allies  of  the  gurus.  Many  a 
Hindu  man  who  has  become  almost  persuaded 
away  from  his  home,  only  returns  to  it  to  be 
whipped  into  the  traces  of  Hindu  faith  and 
worship  by  his  wife,  and  especially  by  his 
mother,  his  grandmother  and  his  mother-in- 
law.  For  though  the  women  hold  a  degraded 
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there,  as  they  are  everywhere.  Added  to 
these  natural  difScnlties  in  the  land  the  mis- 
sionaries have  the  constant  handicap  of  being 
insufficient  both  in  nmnbers  and  means  for 
their  work.  With  enlarging  fields,  constantly 
opening  doors  of  entrance,  their  number  is 
hardly  increased  from  year  to  year,  their 
small  salaries  barely  enough  for  support  even 
in  that  land  and  are  often  cut  down  because 
of  the  failure  of  the  churches  at  home  to 
respond  to  the  appeals  from  the  societies, 
until  the  heart  in'ows  sick  and  faint.  Not- 
withstanding I  have  never  yet  met  a  really 
discouraged  missionary,  or  at  least  one  who 
wanted  to  throw  up  his  work  and  return 
home.  There  may  be  such  in  India,  but  I 
have  not  met  with  them.  And  here  I  may  be 
permitted  to  mention  the  fact,  that,  taken  as 
a  whole,  the  missionaries  in  India,  both  men 
and  women,  are  as  noble  and  consecrated  a 
lot  of  servants  of  Jesus  Christ  as  I  have  ever 
met  with  anywhere.  As  for  ability  they  are, 
taken  together,  well  up  to  the  average,  and 
their  work  brings  out  all  that  is  best  in  them. 
Among  them  there  are  apostolic  men  and 
women,  men  of  great  ability,  heroic  courage 
and  heaven-bom  energy  and  enthusiasm. 

Another  difficulty  is  the  general  attitude  of 
the  British  or  rather  the  Indian  government 
officials.  Though  the  attitude  of  the  gov- 
ernment (officially)  is  that  of  neutrality  be- 
tween the  various  faiths,  Hindu,  Mohamme- 
dan and  Christian,  it  is  in  reality  negatively 
hostile  to  Christianity  out  of  desire  to  placate 
the  favor  of  the  great  religious  leaders  of  the 
dominant  faiths.  The  moral  and  spiritual 
influence  of  the  Anglo-Indian  official  and 
commercial  classes  in  India  is  thrown  against 
Christianity  as  represented  by  the  missionary 
workers.  This  is  true  of  the  Anglo-Indian 
press.  This  must  not  be  taken  to  exclude 
the  fact  that  there  are  noble  exceptions 
among  the  English  and  other  European  people 
in  the  land.  The  Hindu  does  not  discrimi- 
nate between  a  Christian  and  a  man  from  a 
Christian  country.  So  that  the  Sabbath- 
breaking,  profanity,  drinking,  and  generally 
irreligious  conduct  of  the  thousands  of  Euro- 
peans in  high  places  is  such  a  contradiction 
to  the  teaching  of  the  missionary  that  the 
ordinary  Hindu  and  Mohammedan  mind  can* 


not  understand  it.  As  a  rule  the  mission- 
aries in  India  have  to  bear  the  *^  reproach  of 
Christ "  from  their  European  fellow  country- 
men and  nominal  co-religionists,  as  nowhere 
else  in  the  world. 

Another  difficulty  or  possible  source  of  dis- 
couragement is  in  what  seems  to  the  average 
missionary  the  comparative  fruitlessness  of 
his  labor.  The  fewness  of  his  converts  and 
the  difficulty  with  which  he  wins  each  one 
away  from  his  old  environment  seems  to  him 
to  be  a  very  inadequate  return  for  all  his 
pains  and  labor.  This,  however,  as  will  be 
seen  in  the  sequel,  is  more  an  apparent  than  a 
real  discouragement.  Added  to  all  this  there 
is  a  sense  of  loneliness  and  isolation  in  that 
vast  land  and  among  those  vast  millions 
which  it  is  almost  impossible  for  one  who 
has  never  been  there  to  understand.  There 
is  that  in  heathenism  which  is  awfully  op- 
pressive. There  is  a  moral  atmosphere 
which  stifles  and  appals  and  makes  all  things 
at  times  look  black  and  hopeless.  The  hor- 
rid scenes  at  and  about  the  temples;  the 
deep  degradation  of  the  people  of  the  lower 
castes;  the  midnight  darkness  in  respect  of 
things  really  spiritual;  the  dense  supersti- 
tions; the  fetid  immorality;  the  absence  of 
what  to  us  who  have  been  reared  in  Chris- 
tian surroundings  is  the  central  factor  in  the 
religious  nature,  the  conscience,  in  the  aver- 
age native,  makes  the  work  of  preaching  the 
Gospel  most  difficult;  for  there  is  little  or  no 
sense  of  sin  among  the  people.  That  is,  sin 
in  the  moral  sense  of  it.  To  them  sin  is 
only  some  violation  or  neglect  of  ceremony. 
With  their  almost  universal  pantheism,  they 
can  have  little  sense  of  the  individual  respon- 
sibility for  moral  actions.  Though  it  is  a 
mistake  to  suppose  that  the  average  Hindu  is 
an  astute  philosopher,  as  some  of  our  people 
seem  to  believe,  they  are  all  permeated  with 
the  practical  conclusions  of  a  pantheistic 
philosophy  which  has  percolated  all  castes 
and  classes  from  the  cloisters  of  the  old 
Indian  monasteries  where  their  monks  and 
pundits  live  and  discourse  to  their  pupils. 

So  much  for  the  darker  side  of  the  problem. 
It  will  but  serve  to  bring  out  the  bright  and 
glorious  picture  which  I  shall  hope  to  set 
before  you  in  another  communication. 


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TREASURER'S  STATEMENT  OP  RECEIPTS,  MAT  1  TO  DEC.  81,  1898  AND  1898. 


OHURCHBEU 

WOMKN'S  B*D8. 

8AB.80H00IA 

T.  p.  8.  0.  B. 

LBQAOIKS. 

mSOKLLANKOUB 

TOTAL. 

189S 
1W8 

$96,067  88 
8t.414  29 

$85,895  18 
8'a,15S  08 

$12,901  59 
11.887  47 

$5,041  M 
7,046  46 

$102,788  81 
27,117  82 

$88,98128 
81,047  78 

$889.496  25 
241,164  79 

Ottln 

$ia.«78  54 

$8,248  10 

$814  18 

$2,008  80 

$75,070  99 

$7,988  51 

$98  88146 

Total  i^ypropriated  to  January  1,1894 $1,045,496  10 

B«ceiTed  from  all  sonrcee  to  January  1, 1894 $241,164  79 

Surplus  of  May  1,1898 1,858  72     848,028  51 

Amount  to  be  receiTed  before  May  1, 1894,  to  meet  all  obligations 80;S,472  59 

Received  last  year,  January  1, 1898  to  May  1, 1895J 675,008  12 

Increase  needed  before  the  end  of  tbeyear 127,464  47 

The  above  statement  sngi^ests  the  unwelcome  probability  of  a  large  deficit  at  the  end  of  the  current!!year.  It  is 
gratif]ring,  however,  to  notice  that  the  loss  reported  this  year  is  in  large  part  due  to  a  failure  in  legacies.  Living 
givers  are  responsible  for  only  about  two-fifths  of  the  decline  in  receipts  up  to  December  81 .  A  strong  rally  on  the 
part  of  f riendd  who  still  live  to  pray  and  give  for  missions  will  surel v  give  the  needed  relief  before  the  dose  of  the 
year,  except  the  deficiency  which  may  stiU  be  inevitable  through  failure  of  legacies. 


NOTES. 

Dr.  Nevius,  just  before  his  death,  con- 
dacted  momiDg  prayers  in  his  home.  He 
read  from  the  Chinese  Scriptures  the  2d 
chapter  of  1st  Thessalonians,  making  brief 
comments  as  he  read.  The  chapter  was  an 
nnconscions  tribute  to  the  life  which  was 
abont  to  close.  Some  of  the  verses  had  an 
almost  autobiographical  application  to  the 
reader.  He  could  have  said  truly  of  himself, 
in  the  very  words  of  Paul,  **  For  yourselves, 
brethren,  know  our  entrance  in  unto  you, 

that  it  was  not  in  vain But  we 

were  gentle  among  you,   even  as  a  nurse 

cberisheth    her    children For    ye 

remember,  brethren,  our  labor  and  travail. 

Ye   are  witnesses,   and  God  also, 

how  holily  and  justly  and  unblamably  we 
behaved  ourselves  among  you  that  believe : 
as  ye  know  how  we  exhorted  and  comforted 
and  charged  every  one  of  you,  as  a  father 

doth  his  children For  what  is  our 

hope  or  joy  or  crown  of  rejoicing?  Are  not 
even  ye  in  the  presence  of  our  Lord  Jesus 


Christ  at  His  coming?    For  ye  are  our  glory 
and  joy." 

The  hymns  sung  at  his  funeral  were  spec- 
ial favorites  of  Dr.  Nevius,  and  seemed  beau- 
tifully appropriate  to  the  occasion. 

"Now  the  laborer's  task  is  o'er; 
Now  the  battle  day  is  past; 
Now  upon  the  farther  shore 
Lands  the  voyager  at  last. 
Father,  in  Thy  gracious  keepiog 
Leave  we  now  Thy  servant  sleeping." 

"Earth  to  earth  and  dust  to  dust, 
Calmly  now  the  words  we  say, 
Leaviog  him  to  sleep  in  trust 
Till  the  Resurrection -day. 
Father,  in  Thy  gracious  keeping 
Leave  we  now  Thy  servant  sleeping." 

When  Dr.  Talmadge,  whose  recent  death 
has  been  such  a  loss  to  missions  in  China,  first 
landed  in  Amoy  there  were  but  six  native 
Christians  in  China.  When  he  died,  in  1892, 
forty -five  years  later,  there  were  60,000  com- 
municants connected  with  the  widely  extended 
missionary  work  throughout  China,  which  may 
be  regarded  as  representing  not  less  than  150,- 
000  professed  adherents  to  Christianity. 

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Mrs.  Isabella  Bird  Bishop,  after  extensive 
travels  around  the  world  among  missionaries 
in  all  lands,  taking  careful  observations  of 
their  work,  has  become  an  enthusiastic  advo- 
cate of  foreigTQ  missions.  Much  of  her  jour- 
neying has  been  in  lands  difficult  of  access  to 
the  ordinary  traveler,  and  which  are  as  yet 
but  partially  and  feebly  occupied  by  the  mis- 
sions of  the  Christian  Church.  She  has  been 
deeply  and  painfully  impressed  by  the  appal- 
ling needs  of  the  heathen  world,  and  is  using 
her  gifts  of  speech  in  addressing  large  and 
interested  audiences  in  Great  Britain,  present- 
ing eloquent  and  pathetic  appeals  to  Christian 
people  to  study  this  tremendous  theme,  and 
arouse  themselves  to  more  vigorous  action 
and  more  enlarged  missionary  plans  for  the 
needy  world.  A  recent  address  by  her  upon 
^^  Heathen  Claims  and  Christian  Duty''  was 
delivered  at  the  ** Gleaners'  Union"  Anniver- 
sary, in  Exeter  Hall,  November  1,  1898,  and 
may  be  found  in  The  Church  Missionary  Intel- 
ligencer for  December,  1898.  It  is  a  powerful 
appeal,  full  of  hard  facts  and  womanly  ten- 
derness. 


That  noble  Nestor  of  South  Sea  Missions, 
the  *'01d  Man  Eloquent,"  Dr.  Paton,  of  the 
New  Hebrides,  has  reached  Great  Britain  on 
his  way  back  to  Australia.  He  is  accorded  an 
enthusiastic  welcome  there,  as  everywhere, 
and,  as  he  often  did  in  America,  he  seems  to 
be  still  in  Great  Britain  running  from  one 
audience  to  another,  trying  to  overtake  his 
many  engagements  to  make  missionary  ad- 
dresses. He  is  to  fill  out  a  long  and  continu- 
ous programme  of  addresses  in  England, 
Scotland,  and  Ireland,  and  will  then  take  his 
departure  for  Australia.  May  he  have  strength 
for  these  many  labors,  and  God's  abundant 
blessing  upon  his  heart  and  service. 


We  find  in  T?u  Chinese  Recorder  of  Novem- 
ber, 1893,  the  following  appreciative  words 
referring  to  the  return  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Mateer  after  their  recent  furlough  in  the 
United  States.  The  testimony  is  a  kind  and 
generous  tribute  not  simply  to  our  honored 
missionaries,  but  to  the  high  character  of  the 
service    they   have    rendered   to    Christian 


education  in  China.    In   announcing  their 
arrival  it  is  said : 

They  will  be  heartily  welcomed  back  by  all 
the  friends  of  Christian  education  in  China,  in 
which  they  have  both  done  such  faithful  and 
distinguished  service.  The  college  at  Tung- 
chow,  of  which  they  have  had  charge,  has  done 
much  to  mould  the  general  character  of  all  the 
higher  Christian  schools  throughout  the  Empire, 
and  has  supplied  the  majority  of  these  schools 
with  their  first  teachers  of  Western  branches. 


There  are  several  fine  missionary  colleges 
in  China.  Prominent  among  them  may  be 
mentioned  the  Methodist  Episcopal  colleges 
in  Peking,  Soochow,  Kiukiang,  and  Foochow, 
the  Presbyterian  colleges  at  Tungcho  and 
Canton,  St.  John's  College  at  Shanghai,  the 
American  Board  college  at  Tungcho,  near 
Peking,  and  one  under  the  care  of  Dr.  Allen 
at  Shanghai. 

Dr.  Post,  on  his  return  to  Syria,  received  a 
letter  from  Northwest  China  requesting  two 
Arabic-speaking  evangelists,  familiar  with 
the  Koran  and  Mohammedan  literature,  and 
filled  with  the  spirit  of  Christ,  to  labor  among 
the  thirty  million  Moslems  of  China.  ^  *  What 
a  Macedonian  call,"  says  the  Doctor, — **  How 
I  wish  we  could  at  once  answer  it!  " 

MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DBPABTURBS. 

November  21. — From  San  Francisco,  Miss 
Carrie  H.  Rose,  formerly  of  Tokyo,  to  join 
Miss  S.  C.  Smith  at  Sapporo,  Japan. 

December  9. — ^From  San  Francisco  to  join 
the  Laos  Mission,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  F. 
Shields,  J.  S.  Thomas,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
and  Miss  Julia  A.  Hatch. 

ARRIVALS. 

November  29. — From  Ichowfu,  China,  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  W.  P.  Chalfant. 

December  17. — From  Seoul,  Korea,  Rev. 
Graham  Lee. 

DEATHS. 

September  5. — At  Oroomiah,  Persia,  Fran- 
ces, infant  daughter  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Mechlin,  of  Salmas. 

October  19. — ^At  Chefoo,  China,  Rev.  John 
L.  Nevius,  D,  D. 


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In  a  recent  report  of  the  Christian 
Endeavor  Movement  in  China,  Rev.  A.  A. 
Falton  states  that  there  are  at  present  in 
China  18  societies,  containing  586  active 
members  and  95  associate  members.  These 
societies  are  connected  with  the  Presbyterian, 
Congregatiooal,  Baptist,  Methodist,  and  Re- 
formed Chnrches  in  Canton,  Shanghai,  Amoy, 
Ningpo,  and  Fooohow,  and  some  other  local- 
ities. Several  are  connected  with  educational 
institntions,  others  with  chnrches. 


Magic  lantern  slides  of  special  value  in  illus- 
trating life  and  scenes  in  India  may  be  ob- 
tained at  the  nominal  rent  of  two  dollars  and 
express  expenses.  The  pictures  alone,  not 
the  lantern,  are  furnished.  Seventy  slides 
are  accompanied  with  a  descriptive  lecture, 
which  may  be  used  in  presenting  them.  Sim- 
ilar sets  of  slides  illustrating  Persia  and  China 
will  be  ready  shortly.  Address  for  further 
information,  Mr.  W.  Henry  Grant,  53  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York. 


SOME  HOPEFUL  ASPECTS  OF  MISSION 
WORK  IN  JAPAN. 

REV.  GEORGE  WILUAM  KNOX,  D.  D. 
I.   THE  INTELLECTUAL  STIMULUS. 

A  series  of  articles  upon  the  Hopeful 
Aspects  of  Mission  Work  in  Japan  will  natur- 
ally be  one-sided  and,  perhaps,  too  bright 
colored.  One  might  write  as  readily  upon 
the  Depressing  Aspects  of  Mission  Work,  and 
find  material  little  less  abundant.  But  the 
editorial  invitation  which  has  determined  the 
title  of  the  series  and  the  topic  of  each  article 
is  wise,  since  it  is  the  hopeful  aspect  of  things 
that  excites  to  effort,  and  that  sustains  us  in 
the  presence  of  those  other  aspects  which 
reality  too  readily  assumes.  For  the  rest, 
the  title  of  the  series  gives  warning  that  a 
full  view  of  the  situation  is  not  attempted. 

THE  MISSIONARY  FACING  HIS  TASK. 

The  day  is  past,  if  it  were  ever  existent, 
when  the  work  of  foreign  missions  can  be 
thought  adapted  to  the  intellectually  feeble 
and  infirm.  In  certain  quarters,  it  is  true, 
the  opinion  still  prevails  that  the  missionary's 
work  as  the  preacher  of  the  Gospel  is  the 
repetition  of  ^ome  ^^form  of  sound  words," 
and  we  are  told  with  a  good  deal  of  reitera- 
tion that  the  Church  is  at  fault  because  some 
more  or  less  elaborate  formula  is  not  uttered 
in  the  ears  of  all  men  within  some  specified 
time.  Knowing  the  world's  population,  the 
number  of  Christians,  and  the  time  necessary 
to  repeat  the  message,  it  requires  only  a 
meagre  knowledge  of  arithmetic  to  enable 
one  to  state  with  considerable  accuracy  the 
daty  of  the  Church  to  preach  the  Grospel  to 
a  I  nations  before  the  end  of  the  century, 


Oa  this  view,  the  intellectual  stimulus  in 
mission  work  in  Japan,  or  elsewhere,  must 
be  slight  indeed,  equal  that  gained  by  those 
devoted  missionaries  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  who  give  their  lives  to  baptijsing 
unconscious  and  dying  men. 

But  to  preach  the  Gospel  really,  so  to  utter 
the  message  that  has  brought  light  and  life  to 
one's  own  soul,  that  it  may  win  its  way  to  the 
hearts  and  minds  of  men  of  another  race, 
what  adaptation,  what  wisdom,  what  intel- 
lectual activity  are  needed  I  To  make  the 
strange  language  the  moderately  clear  medium 
of  thought  is  only  the  beginning  of  a  life-long 
task.  The  missionary  must  imagine  him^^elf 
m  the  situation  of  those  whom  he  would 
reach,  that  he  may  think  their  thoughts  and 
see  with  their  eyes.  Nothing  could  be  more 
stimulating  than  this  purposed  translation 
into  a  new  intellectual  environment  and 
atmosphere. 

The  effect,  for  a  time,  is  bewildering.  We 
cannot  get  the  perspective.  Humanity  seems 
as  distorted  as  art,  and  we  half  think  some 
lord  of  misrule  has  introdueed  his  following 
of  beings  fantastic,  bizarre,  even  irrational. 
One  is  inclined  to  say,  the  longer  one  lives  in 
the  land  the  less  he  knows  of  the  true  charac- 
ter of  its  people,  and  it  is  quite  possible  to 
sound  a  halt  at  this  point,  and  to  abide  in  a 
self-superior  and  critical  attitude. 

But  if  the  student  resolutely  holds  on  his 
way,  he  comes,  by- and  by,  to  understand 
the  hidden  motives,  the  ethical  standards 
and  the  philosophical  ideas  which  imderlie 
the  civilization  he  studies.  The  bizarre 
appearance  disappears,  and  is  replaced  by 
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is  found  at  last,  and  the  missionary  feels  him- 
self at  home  in  the  place  which  had  seemed 
so  pecoliarlj  far  away.  A  new  world  has 
been  discovered;  a  new  sense  has  been  at- 
tained; new  eyes  look  ont  npon  a  new 
universe. 

BE  MUST  BE  AN  INTELLECTUAL  LEADER. 

To  an  unusual  extent  this  is  the  experience 
of  the  missionary  in  Japan,  for  therq  he  meets 
the  intellectual  leaders  of  the  people,  and  deals 
with  a  class  of  men  who  force  him  to  attempt 
an  intellectual  mastery  of  the  situation. 
These  men  are  **  intellectually  detached." 
Their  ancestors  long  ago  gave  up  Buddhism 
for  a  philosophical  Confucianism,  and  now 
they  have  given  up  the  system  of  the 
**  Sages  "  for  the  science  and  the  philosophy 
of  the  West.  Socially,  politically,  intellect- 
ually they  are  the  men  to  whom  the  people 
turn  for  guidance.  Many  of  these  men 
have  studied  the  message  of  our  Saviour,  and 
the  Gk>spel  can  be  preached  effectively  to 
them  as  their  own  preconceptions  and  mental 
and  moral  attitude  are  understood. 

In  Japan,  as  elsewhere,  it  is  true,  of  course, 
that  the  fervent,  believing  life  of  the 
righteous  man  availeth  much,  and  that  the 
personal  infiaence  of  the  missionary  has 
brought  many  into  the  Church.  But  it  is 
also  true  that  the  appeal  to  reason  in 
philosophical  and  theological  discussion  has 
been  constant,  and  that  many  count  their 
conversion  from  the  time  when  their  reason 
was  convinced.  Not  fine  doctrinal  distinc- 
tions, but  fundamental  truths  have  been  in 
debate,  the  existence  of  a  self-conscious 
God,  the  Deity  of  Christ,  the  immortality  of 
the  soul,  the  possibility  and  reality  of  a 
verbal  revelation. 

To  give  a  reason  for  our  faith,  a  reason  that 
will  endure  our  own  criticism  and  scrutiny, 
and  that  shall  appeal  to  keen-witted  men  of  a 
race,  civilization  and  education  so  different 
from  our  own,  is  intellectually  as  stimulating 
an  exercise  as  can  be  found,  an  exercise  that 
may  be  omitted  at  home,  but  can  be  passed 
by  in  no  wise  profitably  in  Japan. 

TBINGS  NEW  AND  OLD  AND  TBAT  WISELY. 

It  is  not  a  mere  discussion  of  the  schoolf , 
and  victory  is  not  won  without  strenuous 


effort.  Buddhism  has  not  made  strong 
defen&e,  but  Confucianism  is  obstructive  by 
its  very  cast  of  mind.  To  the  philosophic 
Japanese  the  ordinary  preaching  of  the  cross 
is  *  ^foolishness."  He  respects  and  soon  accepts 
theism,  but  does  not  suppose  that  the  mis- 
sionary himself  believes  the  greater  part  of 
the  creed.  That  intelligent  foreigners  preach 
such  doctrines  is  explicable,  since  Buddhist 
priests  for  popular  effect  preach  in  public 
fables  which  they  readily  deny  in  private 
talk.  And  as  our  educated  Japanese  comes 
to  read  foreign  books,  and  to  meet  with 
foreign  men,  his  antecedent  expectation 
seems  justified.  Western  literature,  science, 
and  professors,  app»  ar  anti  Christian,  non- 
Christian,  or  if  Christian  still,  in  a  sense 
other  than  that  gathered  from  the  Gospel 
message  of  the  missionary.  The  Church,  too, 
at  first  glance,  seems  hostile  to  science  — 
to  oppose  evolution  (which  is  as  his  native  air 
to  the  educated  Japanese)  as  an  older  genera- 
tion opposed  geology,  and  a  still  older  one 
astronomy ;  and  to  our  Japanese  the  conflict 
between  science  and  religion  must  be  settled 
in  favor  of  the  former,  and  that  it  has  been 
settled,  so  he  is  assured  by  many  reputable 
representatives  of  Western  philosophy  and 
thought.  Moreover,  he  finds  a  mission  of 
highly  educated  and  spiritually-minded  men, 
which  assures  him,  in  the  name  of  the  most 
advanced  university  culture,  that  all  belief  in 
the  miraculous  is  to  be  given  up,  and  that 
Protestant  and  evangelical  Christianity  is 
represented  most  truly  by  the  school  of 
Pfleiderer. 

To  face  such  a  situation  is  stimulating  in 
the  highest  degree.  It  must  ever  be  stimu- 
lating to  face  the  facts,  to  cease  to  hide  in 
intellectual  isolation  or  in  theological  preoc- 
cupation, and  in  Japan  the  facts  thrust  them- 
selves upon  us  whether  we  will  or  no.  And 
to  face  the  facts  involves  a  good  deal, — we 
must  know  the  people  that  we  may  not  offend 
needlessly,  but  may  adapt  our  message  to  the 
need;  we  must  separate  the  essential  truib 
of  Christianity,  that  the  Japanese  be  not 
repelled  by  non-essential  accretions;  we  must 
be  able  to  present  the  truth  not  as  sustained 
by  a  fashionable,  influential,  and  everywhere 
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and  tradition,  bnt  against  the  forces  of  a  social 
ns^age,  and  intellectoal  tradition;  we  must 
state  the  Christian  argument,  not  as  formu- 
lated in  the  last  century  against  the  Deists, 
not  as  men  who  haye  the  **  presumption  in 
their  favor,''  and  can  fly  to  that  fortress  in 
extremity,  but  against  living  assailants  who 
are  assured  that  the  *'  presumption  "  is  all  on 
the  other  side,  and  who  do  not  prove  as  open 
to  our  attacks  as  did  their  paper  representa- 
tives in  the  theological  school  class-room. 

A  CHURCH  UNDEB  FIRI. 

To  face  the  situation  stimulates  the  Church. 
It  becomes  intellectually  militant,  and  seeks 
to  win  the  intellect  of  the  nation  to  Christ. 
Even  if  the  missionary  should  elect  to  remain 
apart  from  the  strife,  the  Church  must  give 
a  reason  for  its  faith;  it  must  compel  men  to 
come  in.  Indeed,  our  faith  is  of  such  high 
and  exclusive  claims  that  the  convert  must 
search  out  the  deep  things  of  God,  and,  if  he 
thinks  at  all,  seek  to  understand  all  truth. 
Perfunctory  answers  and  teaching  will  least 
of  all  satisfy  intelligent  hearers  to  whom  the 
word  comes  as  *•  *  news. ''  The  Church's  motto 
is  **  Only  Christ  Jesus  and  Him  crucified, "  but 
the  motto  needs  for  its  interpretation  all  the 
philosophy  of  Romans,  Colossians,  Philip- 
pians,  and  the  sermon  on  Mars  Hill. 

WHO  IS  SUFFIGIBNT? 

Whatever  one*s  self-esteem,  the  missionary 
will  not  suppose  himself  able  to  meet  the 
needs  of  the  situation.  At  times  his  hope 
may  grow  dim  and  his  faith  waver,  but  as  he 
pushes  on,  confident  that  truth  is  better  than 
falsehood,  and  that  the  GK>d  of  Truth  guides 
him  who  asks  in  faith,  at  last  the  highest  sat- 
isfaction is  found,  as  it  is  clearly  seen,  afar 
off  or  near  at  hand,  that  essential  and  funda- 
mental Christian  truth  prevails.  The  form 
may  change,  but  the  GKwpel,  which  is  the 
^' power  of  God  unto  salvation,"  is  renewed 
and  revivified.  Though  ^'our  little  systems 
have  their  day  "  and  ^^  cease  to  be,''  yet  it  is 
ever  clearer  that  ^'  They  are  but  broken  lights 
of  Thee,  and  Thou,  Oh  Lord,  art  more  than 
they." 

THK  FUTUBB  LEADS  TO  LIGHT. 

So,  too,  does  intellectual  hope  come  as  the 
mianpnary  sees  the  Ohmoh  goon  intoinQr^as^ 


ing  light,  finding  its  own  way  into  truth, 
fighting  its  own  battles,  solving  its  own 
problems,  and  formulating  its  own  faith.  It 
is  the  repetition  of  the  history  of  the  Church 
in  the  early  centuries,  as  it  fought  its  way 
phrase  by  phrase  into  the  full  possession  of 
the  theological  domain  which  is  our  Christian 
heritage.  Polity,  discipline,  theological 
formulae,  wrought  out  under  the  guidance  of 
the  Spirit,  and  in  the  course  of  the  provi- 
dential development  of  the  Church,  not 
accepted  as  traditions,  not  studied  as  class- 
room exercises,  but  worked  at  as  problems 
whose  solution  has  immediate  and  vital 
connection  with  the  well  being  of  the 
cause  of  Christ,  what  could  supply  a 
greater  stimulus  to  the  strongest  effort  of 
thoughtful  men?  And  if  the  Christian 
Japanese  have  seemed  somewhat  unmindful 
of  the  extent  and  glory  of  our  historic  heri- 
tage, we  may  remember  that  Israel  enjoyed 
the  houses  snd  vineyards  which  were  the 
results  of  others'  toil  only  as  he  won  Canaan 
for  himself,  and  at  the  cost  of  his  own  blood. 

The  intellectual  stimulus  inseparable  from 
work  in  Japan  may  be  seen  in  the  high  place 
the  Christians  have  taken  among  the  very 
leading  men  of  the  land.  In  the  Diet,  in  tLe 
University,  on  the  press,  among  the  most 
influential  literary  men,  in  every  prominent 
walk  of  life,  the  Christians  more  than  hold 
their  own.  The  intellectual  influence  of  our 
religion  extends  beyond  its  formal  bounds, 
and  is  strongly  felt  even  by  its  avowed  foes. 

IntellectuaUy  the  victory  is  not  complete, 
bnt  enough  high  walls  have  fallen  to  give 
confidence  to  the  host  that  the  God  of  Truth 
still  helps  the  Church,  and  that  His  Spirit 
guides  into  all  the  riches  of  His  wisdom  and 
knowledge. 

In  some  institutions  where  there  is  not  a  suffi- 
cient number  of  volunteers  to  form  a  Volunteer 
Baud,  a  class  for  the  study  of  missions  has  been 
started,  composed  of  all  who  are  enough  inter- 
ested in  the  study  of  missions  to  agree  to  attend 
regularly  a  weekly  meeting  for  systematic  study. 
The  plan  of  conducting  these  meetings  has  been 
much  the  same  as  that  adopted  by  regular  Vol- 
unteer Bands,  some  definite  course  of  study  on 
missions  being  tak«n  up.— TAtf  S^mf^  Voi- 
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REV.  JOHN  L.  NEVIUS,  D.  D. 

BBV.  F.  F.  KLLINWOOD,  D.  D. 

Dr.  Nevins  was  bom  in  Ovid,  New  York, 
March  4th,  1829.  He  was  graduated  from 
Union  College  and  from  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary.  In  1853  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Helen  Coan,  also  of  Ovid,  New  York,  and 
with  her  he  sailed  in  the  same  year  from 
Boston  for  China  as  a  missionary  of  the  Pres- 
byteriaa  Board.  His  first  years  of  labor  were 
spent  in  the  Central  China  Mission  and  at  the 
Ningpo  and  Hangchow  stations.  In  1861  he 
visited  Chefoo  on  a  tour  of  inspection,  and  he 
must  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Shantung  Mission. 

My  (Hsquw^twoe  witfc  John  L.  Neyius  be- 


gan in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton. 
He  had  already  resolved  upon  the  missionary 
work,  but  he  put  on  no  airs  of  martyrdom  in 
consequence  of  his  purpose.  There  was  no 
brighter  or  mere  sunny  spirit  in  the  halls  or 
on  the  oampus;  there  was  no  more  consistent 
and  earnest  Christian  in  our  whole  circle. 
He  was  full  of  life  and  vigor,  physically, 
socially,  intellectually  and  spiritually.  The 
same  communicable  magnetism  extended  over 
everything  that  he  attempted,  whether  in 
athletics  and  the  hilarity  of  our  recreations, 
in  the  hard,  close  work  of  the  recitation 
room,  or  in  the  earnest  prayer  and  spiritual 
quickening  of  the  religious  conference.  The 
prophecy  of  an  earnest  and  successful  mission- 
ary life  was  clearly  stamped  upon  bis  joyous 


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and  breezy,  yet  thoroughly  consistent,  stadent 
life  in  the  seminary. 

When  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Nevins  sailed  for 
China,  ocean  voyaging  was  no  holiday  affair. 
They  went  on  board  a  sailing  sbip  at 
Boston  and  for  weary  months,  with  poor 
accommodations  and  poor  fare  they  were 
tossed  upon  the  pathless  sea.  But  they  were 
well  mated  in  their  heroic  spirit  as  well  as 
in  oneness  of  soul  and  of  consecrated  purpose. 
Both  had  decidedly  intellectual  taste  and 
ability;  both  have  made  valuable  contribu- 
tions to  the  permanent  literature  of  missions, 
and  yet  there  has  never  been  any  shrinking 
from  the  plodding,  hard  work  of  the  mission- 
ary life. 

There  are  several  salient  points  of  interest 
and  of  high  example  in  the  life  of  Dr.  Kevins. 
Among  them  may  be  mentioned  his  thorough 
and  abiding  consecration  to  the  work  of  his 
Divine  Master.  I  knew  him  in  his  youth,  and 
had  also  frequent  and  protracted  interviews 
daring  his  last  visit  homeward  in  1891-1892, 
and  I  could  discover  no  abatement  in  the  thor- 
oughness of  his  great  purpose  or  in  the  spiritual 
tone  of  his  life.  Another  element  which  he 
exemplified  in  high  degree  was  the  manliness 
which  all  Christian  service,  and  especially 
that  of  the  missionary,  demands.  He  was  a 
prince  among  men.  Of  only  medium  stature, 
but  solid  and  substantial  in  appearance,  with 
a  face  at  once  strong,  and  yet  full  of  benevo- 
lence and  of  joyousness,  he  inspired  respect 
with  all  classes.  He  left  no  criticism  on  the 
lips  of  officers  or  fellow  passengers  on  his 
ocean  voyages,  but  always  left  the  steamer 
with  the  warm  friendship  of  every  class,  even 
the  sailors.  He  had  that  rare  tact  which 
captivated  everybody,  and  thus  he  alwajs 
scored  a  victory  for  the  truth  and  tbe  cause 
which  he  represented.  Dr.  Kevins  possessed 
that  generosity  of  spirit  which  won  the  affection 
of  all  fellow  missionaries.  This  was  shown 
in  the  great  Missionary  Conference  in  Shang- 
hai in  1890,  at  which,  out  of  about  four  hun- 
dred, representing  all  missions  in  the  ChiDese 
Empire,  he  was  chosen  as  one  of  two  co-ordi- 
nate Presidents  to  conduct  the  sessions,  ex- 
tending through  many  days.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Kevins  owned  their  own  home  in  Chefoo, 
where  their  doors  of  hospitality  were  always 


opened,  and  the  fact  that  missionaiies  of 
many  societies  availed  themselves  of  that 
hospitality  was  an  index  of  the  warm  esteem 
in  which  their  host  and  hostess  were  held. 

Dr.  Kevins  presented  a  high  example  to  all 
other  missionaries  in  the  assiduity  and  suc- 
cess with  which  he  conquered  the  native  lan- 
guage. Ko  mere  smattering  could  satisfy 
his  purpose.  I  well  remember  a  triumph 
which  was  given  to  him  at  Chefoo,  in  the 
autumn  of  1874,  when  I  happened  to  be  on  a 
visit  to  the  Shantung  Mission.  An  English 
Court  was  in  session  for  the  trial  of  an  Eng- 
lishman who  had  murdered  a  Chinaman. 
The  one-sided  and  unjust  management  of 
similar  cases  by  the  English  courts,  always 
discriminating  against  the  native  in  the  favor 
of  their  own  race,  had  created  a  wide-spread 
indignation  among  natives  of  Chefoo  and  the 
surrounding  country,  and  it  was  necessary 
to  secure  the  most  accurate  interpretation 
of  testimony  from  Chinese  sources.  The 
Court  had  its  experts  and  the  Custom  Ser- 
vice also  proffered  its  best  interpreters.  But 
at  last  these  were  set  aside,  and  the  Court 
requested  Dr.  Kevins  to  act.  He  gave  the 
blunt  and  fearless  testimony  of  some  of  the 
large  and  stalwart  Chinese  peasants,  with  a 
literalness  that  made  the  English  judges 
wince.  It  required  no  little  moral  courage 
in  the  presence  of  the  stately  wigs  and 
ermine,  and  the  gathering  of  the  proud- 
spirited Englishmen  to  give  literally  the 
testimony  which  showed  the  intense  Chinese 
indignation  toward  the  arrogance  and  in- 
justice of  an  alien  British  Court;  but  this 
was  done,  and  with  an  accuracy  which  none 
dared  to  question.  As  a  vindication  of  the 
thorough  scholarship  of  some  of  our  ablest 
missionaries  the  whole  scene  was  one  of 
triumph. 

Dr.  Kevins  always  manifested  a  deep  sym- 
pathy for  the  people  among  whom  he  labored. 
Ko  man  ever  won  the  hearts  of  the  natives  of 
all  grades  more  fully  than  he.  His  whole  life 
was  a  rebuke  to  those  who  never  quite  suc- 
ceed in  coming  down  from  the  stilts  of  a 
higher  cultus  into  a  heartfelt  and  assuring 
sympathy  with  the  inferior  race  among  whom 
they  labor.  He  had  a  warm  place  in  the 
hearts  not   only  of  all    native   Christians, 


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but  he  also  had  the  respect  of  the  heathen 
wherever  he  was  known. 

A  dozen  years  ago  a  famine  swept  over 
portions  of  the  Shantung  Province,  carrying 
off  two  or  three  millions  of  people.  (Generous 
amounts  were  contributed  for  the  relief  of 
the  thousands  of  sufferers  by  Christians 
and  philanthropists  in  this  country,  also  by 
foreign  and  native  merchants  in  the  Chinese 
ports.  But  the  men  who  were  to  actuaUy 
venture  into  the  desolated  districts  where 
famine  and  pestilence  went  hand  in  hand,  and 
where  life  was  endangered  by  the  uncontroll- 
able hunger  and  misery  of  the  starving,  were 
found  only  among  the  missionaries,  and  in 
this  work  Dr.  Nevius  had  a  large  part.  Tak- 
ing with  him  a  large  amount  of  money,  in 
Chinese  cash,  altogether  amounting  to  one  or 
two  wagon  loads,  he  rented  a  small  house  in 
the  very  midst  of  the  worst  suffering  and 
danger.  Protected  only  by  the  care  of  his 
Heavenly  Father  and  the  respect  of  the 
people,  he  spent  some  weeks  in  such  moderate 
and  yet  adequate  distribution  as  preserved 
some  thousands  of  people  from  perishing, 
until  a  new  crop  of  grain  could  be  gathered. 
His  work  was  thoroughly  systematized,  and 
such  was  the  respect  accorded  him  that  no 
act  of  violence  or  of  theft  was  committed. 
A  grand  object-lesson  setting  forth  the  benev- 
olence of  the  Christian  faith  was  presented 
to  the  people,  and  after  the  famine  was  over 
Dr.  Nevius  followed  up  the  good  impressions 
with  evangelistic  labors,  and  the  result  was 
seen  in  some  three  or  four  hundred  converts 
gathered  to  the  fold  of  Christ. 

He  took  a  large  part  in  what  is  known  as 
the  itinerating  work  of  the  Shantung  mission. 
He  would  have  had  better  reason  than  most 
men  for  remaining  at  home,  owing  to  the 
delicacy  and  repeated  illnesses  of  his  wife,  but 
it  was  the  joint  wish  of  the  two  that  his 
work  should  not  be  restricted  on  that  account. 
Again  and  again  with  a  large  wheel-barrow  of 
his  own  invention,  packed  and  balanced  with 
his  needed  supply  of  books  and  personal  com- 
forts, and  propelled  by  a  mule  ahead  and  a 
trusty  Chinaman  behind,  he  traversed  wide 
districts  of  the  Shantung  Province,  visiting, 
like  Paul,  the  churches  which  he  had  planted, 
comforting  the  saints,  and  inviting  all  men  to 


the  blessed  Way  of  Life.  All  over  the 
Province  he  was  known  and  loved. 

Dr.  Nevius  had  a  deep  sympathy  for  the  pov- 
erty of  the  people.  He  never  lost  sight  of  the 
fact  that  the  mission  work  is  a  spiritual  and 
not  a  humanitarian  enterprise,  and  yet  with 
admirable  poise  of  judgment  he  showed, as  did 
his  Divine  Master,  an  interest  in  the  wants  and 
woes  of  the  people.  Many  portions  of  wants 
and  Shantung  are  more  or  less  barren ;  the  lines 
of  agriculture  are  exceedingly  restricted.  He 
had  learned  that  most  of  the  fruits  that  are  pro- 
duced in  the  United  States,  but  of  which  there 
were  comparatively  few  in  China,  might  be 
successfully  raised  in  the  Shantung  Province, 
to  the  infinite  relief  of  the  poor  people.  He 
therefore  had  planted  in  his  own  grounds  im- 
proved fruit  trees,  from  which  scions  could  be 
taken  for  engrafting  the  poor  specimens  of 
pears  and  apples  known  in  Shantung.  And 
he  sent  out  through  the  surrounding  region  an 
offer  to  supply  these  scions  gratis  to  any  who 
would  pledge  themselves  to  extend  the  same 
privilege  to  others.  This,  together  with  his 
encouragement  in  the  planting  of  seeds  for 
the  production  of  thousands  of  trees,  has 
raised  up  a  promising  industry  in  Shantung. 

But  the  time  had  come  for  the  Master  to 
call  this  noble  and  devoted  missionary  to  his 
rest  He  had  reached  the  age  of  sixty-four. 
The  robust  health  which  he  had  enjoyed  for 
most  of  his  life  had  begun  to  flag.  Even 
before  his  return  last  year  from  his  visit  to 
America  he  showed  signs  of  failure.  Still 
he  kept  up  his  work.  On  the  19th  of  October, 
while  he  was  engaged  in  completing  his 
arrangements  for  attendance  on  the  mission 
meeting  at  Wei  Hien,  two  hundred  miles  dis- 
tant, he  suddenly  fell  to  the  floor  and  expired, 
without  a  struggle  and  apparently  without  a 
pang.  So  sudden  was  his  translation  to  the 
rest  above,  that  his  friends  who  quickly 
gathered  about  him  could  only  say  that 
*'He  was  not,  for  God  took  him."  He 
has  left  a  stricken  wife  to  whom  he  was  all 
that  a  husband  could  be,  and  he  has  been 
called  away  from  a  mission  of  which  he  had 
been  a  pioneer  and  a  counsellor  for  more  than 
thirty  years.  The  Presbyterian  Board  and 
the  whole  Church  to  which  he  belonged  have 
met  an  irreparable  lo^. 


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JANUARY, 
PBBRUARY, 
MARCH,      . 
APRIL,    . 
MAY, 
JUNB,      . 
JULY. 
AUGUST, 
8BPTBMBER, 
OCTOBBR,     . 
NOVBMBBR, 
DBCBMBBR, 


General  Review  of  Missions. 

Missions  in  China. 

Mexico  and  Central  America. 

.  Missions  in  India. 

Missions  in  Siam  and  Laos. 

.  Missions  in  Africa. 

Chinese  and  Japanese  in  America. 

.    Missions  in  Korea. 

Missions  in  Japan. 

Missions  in  Persia. 

Missions  in  South  America. 

Missions  in  Sjrria. 


MISSIONS  IN  CHINA. 

CANTON  MISSION. 

Canton:  on  the  Pearl  River,  90  miles  from  Hoog 
Kong;  occupied,  1845;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
UeBsn.  H.  V.  Noyes,  B.  C.  Henry,  D.  D.,  A.  A. 
Fulton,  O.  F.  Wisner,  and  their  wives;  John  G. 
Kerr,  M.  D.,  J.  M.  Swan,  M.D.,  and  their  wives; 
Miss  M.  H.  Fulton,  M.  D.,  Miss  E.  M.  Butler,  Miss 
M.  W.  NUee,  M.  D.,  Miss  Hattie  Noyes,  Miss  Hattie 
Lewis  and  Mi»  Ruth  C.  Bliss,  M.  D. ;  2  ordained 
natives,  28  unordained  evangelists,  19  native  assis- 
tants, 44  teachers,  and  15  Bible- women. 

LiBNCHOW:  200  miles  northwest  of  Canton  by 
water;  occupied,  1890;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
W.  H.  Lingle,  E.  C.  Machle,  M.  D.,  and  wife,  and 
Miss  Louise  Johnson. 

Kano  Hau:  100  miles  northwest  of  Canton;  occu- 
pied, 1892;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  E.  W.  Thwing 
and  wife.  Rev.  C.  W.  Swan,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Swan,  M.  D., 
and  Miss  Gertrude  Thwing. 

Tkuno  Kono:  150  miles  southwest  of  Canton; 
occupied,  1892;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  J.  C. 
Thomson,  M.D.,  and  wife,  Rev  Andrew  Beattie 
and  wife,  and  David  A.  Beattie,  M.  D.,  and  wife. 

In  this  country:  John  G.  Kerr,  M.  D.,  and  wife. 
Rev.  O.  F.  Wisner  and  wife.  Rev.  J.  C.  Thomson, 
M.  D.,  and  wife. 

HAINAN  MISSION. 

Hainan:  an  island  on  the  southeast  coast;  occu- 
pied 1885;  established  as  a  mission,  1893. 

KiUNOCHOW:  missionary  laborers— Rev.  J.  C. 
Melroee,  H.  M.  McCandliss,  M.  D.,  Charles  S. 
Terrill,  M,  D.,  and  Rev.  P.  W.  McClintock,  and 
their  wives. 

Nodoa:  missionary  laborers— Mr.  C.  C.  Jeremias- 
sen  and  wife.  Rev.  F.  P.  Gilman  and  wife,  and 
Rev.  Alfred  E.  Street. 

In  this  country:  H.  M.  McCandliss,  M. D.,  and 
wife. 

CENTRAL  CHINA  MISSION. 

NiNGPO:  on  the  Ningpo  River,  12  miles  from  the 
sea;  occupied  1844;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Messrs.  W.  J.  McKee,  V.  F.  Partch,  and  their  wives; 
Hiai  Annie  R.  Morton,  and  Miss  Edwina  Cunning- 


ham; 9  ordained  natives,  6  licentiates,  7  teachers,  16 
Bible-women. 

Shanghai:  on  the  Woosung  River,  14  miles  from 
the  sea;  occupied  1850;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Messrs.  J.  M.  W.  Famham,  D.D.,  J.  N  B.  Smith, 
D.  D.,  George  F.  Fitch,  John  A.  Sibby,  Mr.  Gilbert 
Mcintosh,  and  their  wives;  Miss  Mary  Posey,  and 
Miss  Mary  E.  Cogdal;  4  ordained  natives,  2  licenti- 
ates, 2  Bible- women,  and  22  teachers. 

Hanochow:  the  provincial  capital  of  Chekiang 
province,  156  miles  northwest  of  Ningpo;  occupied 
1859;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  J.  H.  Jud- 
son,  J.  C.  Garritt,  E.  L.  Mattox,  and  their  wives; 
2  ordained  natives,  4  licentiates,  2  Bible- women, 
and  5  teachers. 

SucHOW:  70  miles  from  Shanghai;  occupied  1871; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs,  J.  N.  Hayes,  D. 
N.  Lyon,  Joseph  Bailie,  and  their  wives,  and  Rev. 
W.  N.  Crozier ;  2  l.tentiates,  2  Bible-women,  and  5 
teachers. 

Nanking:  on  the  Yang-tse-Kiang  River,  90  miles 
from  its  mouth ;  occupied  1876 ;  missionary  laborers— 
Rev.  Messrs.  Charles  Leaman,  W.  J.  Drummond,  T 
W.  Houston,  and  their  wives;  Miss  Mary  Lattimore, 
and  Mrs.  R.  E.  Abbey;  1  Bible- woman,  and  8 
teachers. 

In  this  country :  Rev.  Messrs.  V.  F.  Partch,  W. 
J.  McKee,  and  their  wives. 

SHANTUNG  MISSION. 

TuNGCHOW:  on  the  coast,  55  miles  northwest  of 
Chefoo;  occupied  1861;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Messrs.  C.  W.  Mateer,  D.  D.,  C.  R.  Mills,  D.  D.,  W. 
M.  Hayes,  S.  B.  Groves,  and  their  wives;  W.  F. 
Seymour,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  E.  G.  I^itchle,  and  Miss  M.  A. 
Snodgrass;  2  ordained  natives,  1  licentiate,  and  15 
teachers. 

Chefoo:  the  chief  foreign  port  of  Shantung; 
occupied  1862;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs. 
Hunter  Corbett,  D.  D.,  George  S.  Hays,  George 
Cornwall,  and  their  wives;  Rev.  F.  W.  Jackson, 
Jr.,  and  Mrs.  John  L.  Nevius;  27  licentiates,  44 
helpers,  and  5  Bible- women. 

Chinanfu:  capital  of  the  Shantung  Province, 
800  miles  south  of  Peking;  occupied  It^;  mission- 
ary laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  John  Murray,  W.  B. 
Hamilton,  L.  J.  Davles,  and  their  wives;  Rev. 
Gilbert  Reid,  and  J.  B.  Neal,  M.  D.,  and  wife;  Miss 
S.  A.  Poindezter,  M.  D. ;  8  helpers,  and  1  Bible- 
woman. 

Wei  Hibn:  150  miles  southwest  from  Tungchow; 
occupied  1882;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  J. 
A.  Leyenberger,  R.  M.  Mateer,  F.  H.  Chalfant,  J. 
A.  Fitch,  and  their  wives;  W.  R.  Faries,  M.  D.,  and 
wife;  Miss  Emma  F.  Boughton,  Miss  Mary  Brown, 
M.  D.,  Miss  Fanny  E.  Wight,  Mrs.  M.  M.  Crosette, 
and  Miss  Rebecca  T.  Miller;  4  ordained  natives, 
1  licentiate,  51  teachers,  and  3  Bible  women. 

ICHOWFU :  150  miles  southwest  from  Chefoo;  occu- 
pied 1891;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  W.  P. 
Chalfant,  C.  A.  Killie,  W.  O.  Elterich,  and  their 


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wiyes;  C.  F.  Johnaon,  M.  D.,  and  wife,  and  Mia  A. 
M.  JuaneD,  M.  D;  5  natiye  aadstante. 

CBiiaNOCHOW:  150  milM  south  wait  from  Chinan- 
f a ;  oocapiad  1893 ;  miasioiiary  laborers— Rer.  Mesars. 
J.  H.  Laughlin,  William  Lane,  and  their  wires;  J. 
L.  Van  Scboiok,  M.  D.,  and  wife;  Rev.  R.  H.  Bent; 
Miss  Bmma  Anderson,  and  Miss  H.  B.  Donaldson, 
M.  D. 

In  thU  country:  Rer.  C.  R.  Mills,  D.  D.,  and 
wife;  Rer.  Oilbert  Reid,  Rev.  Messrs.  J.  A.  Leyen- 
berger,  W.  P.  Chalfant  and  W.  M.  Hayes  and  their 
wives. 

PBKUrO  MISSION. 

PxKnro:  the  capital  of  the ooantr7;oooapied  1888; 
missionarj  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  John  Wherry, 
D.  D.,  A.  M.  Cunningham,  and  their  wives;  B.  C. 
Atterbnry,  M.  D.,  Robert  Coltman,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  and 
thf ir  wives;  Rev.  J.  W.  Lowrie,  G.  Y.  Taylor,  M.  D. ; 
Mrs.  Reuben  Lowrie;  Rev.  Messrs.  F.  £.  Sincox,  C. 
H.  Fenn,  J.  A.  Miller,  and  their  wives;  Miss  Grace 
Newton,  Miss  Mari<m  E.  Sinclair,  M.  D.,  Miss  M. 
B.  Ritchie,  and  Miss  Jennie  McKilUoan. 

Paotinofu:  occupied  1898;  missionary  laborers- 
Rev.  J.  L.  Whiting  and  wife. 

In  thU  country:  Mrs.  J.  L.  Whiting,  Mrs.  Reuben 
Lowrie,  Rev.  J.  W.  Lowrie,  and  Mrs.  John  Wherry. 


There  were  received  last  year  upon  confession  of 
faith  in  the  Canton  Minion  (including  Hainan),  187; 
in  the  Central  China  Mission,  121;  in  the  Shantung 
Mission,  515;  in  the  Peking  Mission,  89;  making  a 
total  of  862  additions  to  the  Church  in  all  our 
missions. 

The  total  statistics  of  our  Presbyterian  Missions 
in  China  for  the  past  year  are  as  follows:  Ordained 
American  missionaries,  53;  total  of  American  mis- 
sionary laborers,  157;  ordained  natives,  48;  total 
native  agents,  898;  churches,  64;  communicants, 
6,081;  number  added  on  confession  of  faith,  862; 
number  of  schools,  208;  total  of  pupils,  4,078;  pupils 
in  Sabbath-schools,  2,910. 


In  Thb  Chubch  at  Home  and  Abroad  for  Janu- 
ary, 1894,  will  be  found  interesting  articles  referring 
to  the  work  in  China.  The  appeal  from  native 
converts  in  Hainan  for  religious  privileges  is 
pathetic  and  irresistible.  It  will  be  found  on  page 
29,  duly  signed  by  ten  unpronounceable  names,  with 
the  assurance  that  **ali  agree"  emphatically  re- 
peated at  the  end.  Another  article  in  the  same 
number  (page  80)  teUs  a  marvelous  story  of  the 
power  of  the  Gospel  in  a  Chinese  heart.  Other  arti- 
cles bearing  upon  our  Chinese  work  will  be  found  in 
the  number  of  the  magazine  for  February,  1893. 
The  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  for  1893,  pp.  29-69, 
gives  many  exceedingly  interesting  and  stimulating 
facts  with  reference  to  our  broad  and  varied  work 
in  China.  The  Report  on  China  is  separately 
printed,  and  copies  may  be  procured  by  addressing 
Rev.  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D.,  53  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 


The  new  Hainan  Mission  is  stirring  the  Board  and 
the  Church  with  earnest  appeals  for  enlarged  facili- 
ties. Our  Church  has  **  fresh  fields  and  pastures 
new  ^  in  this  virgin  soil  of  Hainan.  That  great  is- 
land off  the  southern  coast  of  China,  if  we  mistake 
not,  is  to  become  a  glorious  trophy  of  our  Presby- 
terian Missions.  For  information  oonceming  it  oon- 
ialt  Thi  Chuboh  at  Homb  and  Abroad  for  Febru- 
ary 1803,  page  101,  for  December  1803,  page  460,  and 
January  1894,  page  28. 


The  work  among  the  Hakkas  has  been  developed 
during  the  past  year  by  the  establishment  of  a  sta- 
ti<m  at  EZang  Hau,  about  200  miles  northwest  of 
C-inton,  in  a  region  where  this  class  of  people 
abouod.  Rev.  £.  W.  Thwlng  aod  wife,  and  Miss 
Gertrude  Thwing  are  at  present  located  at  this  sta- 
tion. The  Hakkas  woiild  be  an  interesting  subject 
for  someone  to  take  up  at  a  Monthly  Ckmcert.  In- 
formation may  be  found  in  The  Church  at  Hon 
AND  Abroad  for  February  1892,  page  126.  Mission 
property  has  been  secured  there,  and  a  house  built. 
The  people  are  friendly,  and  we  shall  hope  for  a  har- 
vest from  among  these  Chinese  Highlanders. 

The  Province  of  Huoan  is  one  of  the  most  fanati- 
cal in  China.  The  station  at  Lienchow,  in  the  ex- 
treme northwesterly  section  of  the  Canton  Mission, 
is  on  the  borders  of  Hunan,  and  our  work  is  pushing 
northward  into  that  Province.  It  is  a  work  at- 
tended with  much  difficulty,  and  is  liable  to  serious 
and  unexpected  opposition,  as  the  folio  wiog  incident 
will  show.  At  Lam  Mo,  where  work  has  been 
opened,  our  religious  service  was  invaded  one  Sab- 
bath morning  by  a  mob  of  twenty  men,  led  by  the 
son  of  the  official  of  the  town.  Our  native  helper 
was  seized  and  beaten,  and  taken  off  to  be  impris- 
oned. He  effected  his  escape,  however,  while  on  his 
way  to  prison.  The  Christians  re-assembled,  and  a 
native  brother  re- opened  the  service.  They  were 
again  attacked,  and  their  leader  beaten  and  taken 
to  prison,  where  he  received  two  hundred  blows 
with  the  bamboo,  but  was  immovable  in  his  loyalty 
to  the  Christian  faith,  and  flatly  refused  to  worship 
the  idols  into  whose  presence  he  was  brought.  A 
subsequent  appeal  to  the  authorities  secured  promise 
of  protection,  whereupon  seven  persons  requested 
baptism,  and,  after  examination,  five  of  them  were 
received.  The  celebration  of  the  Lord^s  Supper 
which  followed  was  attended  by  a  large  audience, 
who  would  not  under  ordinary  circumstances  have 
been  present.  

Flourishing  boarding-schools  for  both  boys  and 
girls  are  established  at  Canton,  the  former  with  100 
pupils,  aod  the  latter  with  190.  In  both  schools 
adult  pupils  are  received,  with  a  view  to  religious 
instruction  and  training,  in  the  girls*  seminary 
these  training  classes  of  adults  are  for  the  education 
of  teachers  and  Bible-readers,  and  there  is  also  a 
medical  class  under  the  instruction  of  Miss  Mary 
W.  Niles,  M.  D.  The  facilities  for  practical  instruc- 
tion in  connection  with  the  hospital  are  very  val- 


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uabla.  A  thoroughlj  competent  Dative  woman, 
who  has  been  educated  medically,  aesiste  Dr.  Niles 
in  this  department.  Tiie  daas  numbered  eight  dur- 
ing the  past  year.  We  are  sore  that  our  readers  will 
be  interested  in  a  picture  of  one  of  these  medical 
olssBoo  which  is  given  on  another  page.  These 
women  have  a  thorough  preparation,  both  religious 
and  medical,  and  there  is  every  prospect  that  a 
future  of  great  usefulness  is  before  them. 

Tliere  is  also  a  medical  class  connected  with  the 
hospital  work,  of  sixteen  men,  under  the  care  of  Dr. 
J.  IL  Swan.  

Let  us  run  over  the  remarkable  work  which  has 
been  done  during  the  past  year  by  our  medical 
missionaries  at  Canton.  Do  we  realise  what  it  all 
w*^^»M»^  and  what  a  wonder  is  this  record  which 
comes  to  us  from  year  to  year  in  a  mere  paragraph 
of  statistics  in  the  Canton  report  f  The  hospital  at 
Canton  is  the  property  of  the  Medical  Missionary 
Socie^  in  China,  and  the  current  annual  expenses 
are  met  by  local  subscriptions  from  the  foreign  com- 
munity of  Canton  and  the  Cliinese  officials,  while 
Doctors  Swan  and  Niles,  and  since  her  return  Dr. 
Mary  H.  Fulton,  of  our  Ifission,  have  free  scope  for 
evangelistic,  medical,  and  surgical  service  at  the 
hospitaL  Picture  the  significance  of  such  figures  as 
these:  Out-patients  at  the  hospital  last  year,  17,346 
males  and  6,825  females;  making  a  total  of  23,671. 
In-patirnts,  1,074  males  and  453  females;  making  a 
total  of  1,527;  surgical  operations,  1,697  performed 
upon  men,  and  811  upon  women;  making  a  total  of 
2,506;  qpecial  medical  visits  outside  of  hospital  by 
Dr.  Swan,  100,  and  by  Dr.  NUes,  279;  surgical 
operations  at  home  by  Dr.  Niles,  116;  visits  in  homes 
by  Dr.  Niles^  assistants,  94.  The  above  represents 
ttie  strictly  medical  and  surgical  service  of  the  past 
jmo".  To  this  must  be  added  the  religious  and 
evangelistic  ministry  among  the  patients.  Morning 
and  evening  prayers  are  held,  and  special  religious 
instruction  is  given  by  native  evangelists  who  visit 
the  bedsides  of  the  patients.  There  were  twenty 
applicants  for  baptism  during  the  year.  Of  theee 
sixteen  were  accepted,  eleven  of  whom  were  women. 
Many  have  listened  with  interested  hearts,  and 
have  gone  out  to  their  homes  with  the  seeds  of  truth 
planted  in  their  souls.  Care  has  been  taken  to  give 
information  of  these  patients  to  the  missionary  in 
whose  district  their  homes  are  situated,  so  that 
impressions  may  be  followed  up  and  permanent 
resnlts  secured.       

The  blessing  of  those  that  **  sow  beside  all  waters  *^ 
has  been  realised  in  a  unique  way,  and  by  a  modem 
method,  in  our  Canton  Mission  during  the  past  year, 
by  means  of  a  Oospel  boat  manned  by  medical  mis- 
sionaries, which  has  been  plying  up  and  down  the 
rivers  in  its  ministry  of  love  and  healing.  It  has 
been  under  the  direction  of  Rev.'  A.  A.  Fulton,  with 
a  native  physician  in  attendance.  It  is  supported 
by  four  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  in  the 
United  States,  and  7,940  patients  were  reached  by  it 
In  the  past  year,  and  6,600  tracts  distributed.    Con- 


sult The  Church  at  Home   and   Abroad  for 
October,  1893,  page  271. 


The  mission  press  at  Shanghai  printed  last  year 
42,418,457  pages.  Of  this  number  27,879,600  were 
pages  of  Scripture.  The  total  number  of  books  and 
tracts  issued  during  the  year  was  995,496.  The 
printed  page  is  a  power  in  China.  It  accompanies 
the  missionary  wherever  he  goes,  and  where  he  is  as 
yet  unable  to  go,  as  the  Press  Report  significantiy 
says,—'*  these  tireless,  fearless,  faithful  messengers 
still  advance  to  the  regions  beyond.^* 


The  Medical  work  at  Peking  is  another  magnifi- 
cent feature  of  our  Chinese  missions.  It  is  under 
the  charge  of  Doctors  B.  C.  Atterbury,  Robert  Colt- 
man,  G.  T.  Taylor,  and  Mies  Marion  £.  Sinclair,  M. 
D.,  aided  by  Miss  Jennie  McKillican.  It  is  con- 
ducted at  the  An  Ting  Hospital,  the  Woman's  Hos- 
pital, the  Pipe  Street  Dispensary,  and  also  through 
medical  tours.  The  total,  so  far  as  cold  statistics 
can  represent  the  work,  is  as  follows:— Out-patients, 
29,990;  in-patients,  247;  surgical  operations,  889; 
visits  at  homes,  530;  in  all,  31,656  cases. 

The  Shantung  Presbytery  stands  high  upon  the 
roll  of  our  Church.  There  were  admitted  to  the 
churches  within  its  bounds,  in  1891,  760  communi- 
cants; a  record  which  was  surpassed  by  only  nine 
presbyteries  in  this  country  during  that  year.  We 
give  upon  page  123  a  photograph  of  its  mem- 
bers. The  lamented  Dr.  Nevius  stands  in  the  centre 
in  the  second  row,  and  immediately  on  his  right, 
towards  the  left  hand  as  we  look  at  the  picture, 
stands  the  Chinese  Moderator  for  that  year. 


The  story  of  the  attack  upon  our  missionaries  at 
Ichowfu  is  told  in  The  Cbttrch  at  Home  and 
Abroad  for  November,  1893,  page  381,  and  the 
sequel  is  recorded  in  the  January  number  of  this 
year,  page  27.  

A  full  sketch  of  the  City  of  Peking,  China,  accom- 
panied by  a  valuable  map  showing  the  different 
sections  of  the  city,  will  be  found  in  Harpera'  Week- 
ly for  August  27, 1892. 


THE  MISSION  FIELD  OF  PEKING. 

RE7.  J.   WALTER  LOWBIB. 

The  city  of  Peking  is  in  some  respects  the 
most  interesting  mission  field  in  the  world, 
though  it  must  be  acknowledged  to  be  one 
of.  the  most  difficult. 

A  Cmr  OF  MANDATES. 

It  is  the  real  heart  of  that  wonderful 
political  system  which  rules  either  directly 
or  indirectiy  four  hundred  millions  of  peo- 
ple, and  which  has  remained  practically 
unchanged  for  at  least  two  thousand  years. 


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This  system,  for  simplicity,  despatcli  and 
economy,  challenges  a  comparison  with  any 
other,  past  or  present,  on  the  face  of  the 
earth.  If  it  coald  be  pervaded  more  thor- 
oughly by  the  leaven  of  common  honesty,  ^it 
woold  seem  as  likely  to  stand  forever  as  any 
yet  devised  by  man.  Its  agents,  however, 
from  the  petty  police  justice  to  the  mighty 
viceroy,  are,  with  some  exceptions,  flagrant 
bribe-takers,  although  the  system  under 
which  they  work  is  so  admirable. 

The  monarchy,  so  far  as  there  is  absolute 
monarchy  in  a  country  so  largely  demo- 
cratic, resides  within  the  lofty  walls  of  the 
inner  or  ^'Forbidden  City"  of  Peking.  The 
mandates  from  that  prison-like  enclosure 
inspire  with  awe  both  potentates  and  people, 
from  the  confines  of  Turkestan  to  the  shores 
of  Korea. 

What  affects  Peking  affects  immediately 
Eastern  and  Central  Asia.  Little,  however, 
can  really  affect  her  which  is  not  brought 
into  actual  contact  with  her,  represented 
before  her  very  eyes,  and  uttered  in  her 
very  ears. 

The  power  that  rules  China  does  not 
travel  nor  does  it  consult  the  daily  news- 
paper. It  still  hugs  the  delusion  that  Peking 
is  the  providentially  located  hub  of  the  world, 
and  that  the  more  remote  the  people  of  the 
earth  are  from  her  the  more  untutored  they 
must  be,  and  the  more  deplorable  their  con- 
dition. 

It  is  therefore  a  great  field  for  the  Chris- 
tian activity  of  such  men  as  have  not 
received  the  "spirit  of  fear,  but  of  power 
and  of  love,  and  of  a  sound  mind." 

It  is  suggestive  of  the  possibilities  attend- 
ing their  work  that,  when  His  Majesty,  the 
Emperor,  recently  began  the  study  of  Eng- 
lish, and  his  lords  were  seeking  for  him  a 
suitable  text  book,  they  should  obtain  a 
bright,  new  primer  from  little  Frances  Taf t, 
daughter  of  a  missionary  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  the  city. 

A  CENTER  OP  INTELLECTUAL  ACTIVITT. 

The  ambitious  native  student  can  win  a 
national  reputation  only  by  a  visit  to  Peking 
and  a  successful  competitive  examina- 
tion there  in  the  niceties  of  Chinese  prose- 
writing    and    rhyme-making.      It    is    the 


location  of  a  veritable  Chinese  Sorbonne, 
with  its  doctors  committed  to  the  propaga- 
tion of  a  system  of  learning  as  strange, 
proud,  contracted,  felter<>d,  and,  withal,  labor- 
ious as  the  world  has  seen.  These  are  men 
who  rate  fair  handwriting  far  above  a  knowl- 
edge of  geography,  and  skillful  rhyming 
above  mathematical  attainment.  Some  of 
them  still  assert  that  the  earth  is  flat, 
and  believe  that  the  sun  is  eclipsed  by 
being  swallowed  by  a  dog  in  the  sky ;  also 
that  dried  scorpions  are  a  potent  medicine, 
and  that  a  needle  thrust  four  inches  into 
the  abdomen  is  the  standard  remedy  for 
Asiatic  cholera. 

Yet  for  common  sense  and  practical  utility 
their  work  is  more  admirable  than  was  that 
of  the  mediaeval  school-men.  There  is  more 
hope  also  than  there  seemed  to  be  in  the  case 
of  those  unfortunate  scholars  that  their  crude 
methods  and  mind  starving  themes  will  be 
exchanged  for  those  which  a  people's  Bible 
and  inductive  science  have  made  possible  in 
the  Christian  lands  of  to  day. 

But  the  mind  of  China  (and  not  even  in 
Oermany  are  there  men  more  willing  to 
study)  will  never  be  truly  liberated  until  the 
proclamation  issues  from  Peking,  prescribing 
new  methods  of  study,  new  ideals  of  educa- 
tion, and  opening  other  fields  of  effort  than 
merely  a  political  career  in  which  an  educa- 
tion may  be  a  practical  boon.  There  must 
come  a  Reformation  in  China.  Confucianism, 
like  Rome,  will  sooner  or  later  have  had  its 
day,  being  ^'weighed  in  the  balances  and 
found  wanting."  Unnumbered  influences  are 
at  work,  many  of  them  almost  unnoticed 
throughout  the  land,  and  none  play  a  more 
effective  part  in  breaking  down  the  present 
system  of  education  in  China  than  those 
found  in  her  capital. 

THE  HOME  OF  THE  BUUNG  DYNASTY. 

Peking  is  the  present  home,  not  only  of 
royalty,  but  of  the  ruhng,  though  alien,  race 
of  Manchus,  whose  chief  families  occupy 
princely  residences  within  her  walls.  These 
Manchus  have  proved  themselves  one  of  the 
most  sagacious  and  liberal-minded  conquering 
peoples  that  history  records.  They  are  less 
idolatrous  than  the  Chinese,  less  enslaved  to 
the  past,  more  magnanimous  to  their  women, 


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and  more  open  to  Western  fellowship.  They 
lack  that  silent  doggedness,  characteristic  of 
the  Chinaman,  which,  like  the  law  of  gravi- 
tation, may  be  forcibly  resisted,  but  is  never 
suspended.  As  far  as  these  people  dare  man- 
ifest friendship  for  foreigners,  they  do  so. 
Three  from  among  them  are  elders  in  the 
Presbyterian  churches  of  the  city,  and  others 
are  prominent  workers  in  other  Christian 
societies. 

If  the  destinies  of  China  are  to  remain  in 
their  control  for  a  generation  or  more  to 
come,  it  is  most  important  that  Christian 
truth  and  institutions  should  be  presented  to 
them  in  all  their  beauty  and  power,  and 
nowhere  can  this  be  done  so  effectively  as  in 
the  capital. 


BMPKROR  OF  CHINA.* 

A  SCENE  OF  ROYAL  WORSHIP. 

Peking  is  the  seat  of  that  heathen  worship 
which,  perhaps,  approaches  more  nearly  than 
all  others  to  the  worship  of  Jehovah.  I  refer 
to  the  worship  rendered  by  the  Emperor  at 
the  Temple  of  Heaven  on  behalf  of  his  sub- 
jects at  the  time  of  the  winter  solstice.  It 
overshadows  all  the  inane  ceremonies  and 
vain  repetitions  of  the  Buddhists;  it  puts  the 
imperial  veto  upon  the  agnosticism  of  the 
savants;  it  voices  the  most  general  and  funda- 
mental religious  sentiment  of  the  Chinese 
people,  who,  while  they  dare  not  worship 
Heaven  before  that  chaste  and  august  altar, 
do  cherish  as  their  most  ineradicable  belief 
the  reverent  conviction  that  Heaven  ordains 
the  earthly  lot  of  the  humblest  Chinaman.  It 
would  seem  but  a  step  from  such  a  conviction 
to  the  worship  of  *'  Our  Father"  who  is  in 

*  By  permimioD,  from  the  Quarterly  RegUter^  Detroit. 
Mich. 


Heaven,  a  step  which  sooner  or  later  China 
will  take,  and  one  of  the  potent  influences 
towards  that  glorious  end  is  the  object  lesson 
in  devout  invocation  of  the  living  Gtod,  re- 
peated Sabbath  by  Sabbath  from  Christian 
pulpits  within  easy  reach  of  that  venerable 
altar  of  Heaven. 

A  PLAGE  OF  TRIBUTE. 

Finally,  Peking  is  the  rendezvous  of  repre- 
sentative men,  tribute  bearers  and  commis- 
sioners from  the  adjacent  countries,  which 
own  China's  protectorate,  if  not  her  sover- 
eignty— ^Thibetans,  Mongolians,  Koreans  and 
others.  These  do  not  often,  indeed,  meet 
the  missionary  preacher,  but  there  are  some 
signal  instances  of  the  missionary  physician 
relieving  their  bodily  ills  and  acquiring  an 
Influence  over  them. 

A  FIELD  FOR  MEN  OF  OOD. 

A  field  like  this  cries  aloud  for  chosen  men, 
men  of  affairs,  men  who  can  command  the 
attention  of  the  thoughtful  and  the  busy, 
men  who,  having  found  a  Timothy,  or  Titus, 
are  able  to  train  him,  men  who,  equipped 
with  the  best  that  Western  culture  can  afford, 
count  it  ^^but  loss  for  the  excellency  of  the 
knowledge  of  Christ  Jesus  "  their  Lord,  men 
who  can  impart  some  spiritual  gift,  and, 
withal,  men  who  have  a  good  measure  of  the 
''patience  of  Christ,"  and  who,  having  the 
care  of  all  the  churches,  will  not  faint  under 
it,  who  are  willing  to  work  by  the  calendar  of 
eternity,  whereon  ''a  thousand  years"  are 
but  ''as  one  day,"  who,  not  having  witnessed 
the  conversion  of  China,  but  seeing  it  afar  off, 
are  persuaded  of  it,  and  will  die,  if  need  be, 
in  calm,  steady,  unflinching  confidence  that 
God  will  bring  it  to  pass. 


THE  SHANTUNG  MISSION— ITS  PRO- 
GRESS AND  PROMISE. 

REV.   GILBERT  REID,    CHINANFU. 

In  reckoning  the  progress  of  missionary 
effort,  it  will  be  seen  first  as  overcoming  op- 
position, and  then  in  secunng  adherents. 
One  sows  and  another  reaps,  but  all  rejoice 
together.  From  1807,  when  Robert  Morri- 
son entered  China  as  the  lone  representative 
of  Protestant  Christianity,  down  to  1842, 
Canton  and    Macao  were   the  only   places 


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where  foreigners  conld  reside  in  that 
oonntry.  The  limitations  defined  were  re- 
strictive and  there  was  practically  as  yet 
no  entrance  to  China.  From  1843  to  1860 
there  were  five  places  where  foreign- 
ers conld  reside;  and  so  the  entrance 
to  China,  with  its  1800  cities,  was  so 
restricted,  that  missionary  effort  conld  only 
be  tested  by  the  first  indication,  that  of  over- 
coming opposition.  From  1860  down  to  the 
present  time  has  been  the  new  era  of  open 
China,  bat  in  every  place  outside  of  the 
recognized  treaty-ports,  now  numbering 
twenty-two,  there  has  been  at  first  the  same 
preliminary  steps  to  be  taken — securing  the 
right  of  residence  with  freedom  to  travel,  the 
removal  of  suspicion  and  prejudice,  and,  in 
brief,  the  simple  establishment  of  the  mis- 
sionary organization. 

After  all  this  can  come  the  second  stage  of 
progress,  that  of  securing  followers.  These 
DOW  number  in  China  over  50,000  communi- 
cants and  150,000  adherents.  Statistics  indi- 
cate the  second  stage,  but  not  the  first;  and  as 
already  historically  defined,  the  second  stage 
has  been  necessarily  short.  What  the 
churches  need  are  facts,  but  facts  are  not 
statistics. 

THE  OPENING  OF  SHANTUNG. 

When  China  began  to  be  opened  up  more 
fully  in  1860,  attention  was  drawn  to  the 
province  of  Shantung,  with  its  population  of 
27,000,000,  and  the  home  of  China's  cele- 
brated sages,  Confucius  and  Mencius,  with 
their  leading  disciples.  The  progress  has 
been  great,  both  as  seen  in  the  preliminary 
stages,  and  in  the  subsequent  and  more  en- 
couraging period.  Remember  the  decades, 
'63,  '73,  '83,  '93,  and  these  are  the  dates 
for  the  mission  stations,  first  Chefoo, 
second  CMnanfu,  then  Wei-Hien,  and  finally 
Chiningchow.  Then  take  off  one  from  the 
first  date  and  the  last,  '61  and  '91,  and  you 
have  the  dates  for  the  opening  of  the  earliest 
station  of  all,  Tungchow,  and  the  sixth 
station.  Ichowfu. 

We  have  in  round  numbers  sixty  Presby- 
terian missionaries  in  Shantung  Province, 
including  men  and  women,  the  communi- 
cants number  over  4,000,  and  the  adherents 
OTer  10,000.    In  the  province  there  9j^ 


altogether  nine  different  societies  represented, 
with  sixteen  stations,  over  180  missionaries, 
over  9,000  communicants,  and  35,000  adher- 
ents. As  the  work  of  these  different  soci- 
eties is  practically  carried  on,  each  in  its  own 
section  of  the  country,  so  as  to  maintain  the 
comity  of  missions,  and  secure  the  economy 
of  forces  and  a  speedy  occupation  of  the  whole 
territory  by  organized  work  from  central  sta- 
tions, the  outlook  is  even  more  cheering  than 
the  simple  enumeration  of  laborers  would  in- 
dicate. From  a  strategic  point  of  view,  the 
field  is  now  ready  for  action,  and  the  forces 
can  be  marshalled  with  promptness  and 
unanimity  for  the  greater  conflicts  of  coming 
days. 

In  conversation  with  a  successful  mission- 
ary of  another  denomination,  and  from 
another  part  of  the  Chinese  Empire,  these 
words  struck  our  attention.  He  said:  ^*I 
make  my  best  talks  on  the  work  of  your 
Shantung  mission.  You  have  &uch  a  fine 
system  of  country  itineration,  which  the 
societies  in  our  part  of  China  have  not  as 
fully  developed."  This  certainly  represents 
one  of  the  main  features  of  the  Shantung 
work,  the  extension  of  out-stations  among 
the  villages,  and  very  largely  through  unpaid 
native  agency,  but  under  the  direction  and 
supervision  of  paid  workers,  either  the  for- 
eigpi  missionary,  the  native  pastor,  or  the 
unordained  but  useful  helpers,  preachers  and 
evangelists. 

CENTRAL  STATIONS  ESTABLISHED. 

Along  with  the  steady  growth  of  this 
outlying  work,  already  well  known  to  the 
home  constituency,  there  has  been  a 
decided  improvement  in  the  vigor  and  activ- 
ity of  the  work  at  the  centres,  from  which 
the  other  work  should  naturally  radiate. 
These  centres  are  the  stations  where  the  mis- 
sionary families  reside.  Here  all  the  phases 
of  missionary  organization  and  Christian  ser- 
vice ought  to  be  systematically  and  compre- 
hensively illustrated,  showing  forth  not 
merely  the  ministerial  element  at  home  but 
the  full  Church  life.  Hence  schools  of  dif- 
ferent grades,  dispensaries,  hospitals,  the 
preparation  of  a  literature,  preaching  halls, 
lectures,  and  charitable  undertakings,  are  all 
in  place  at  these  ceutral  headquarters,    Thus 


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Native  Pastors  in  Central  China. 


[Fdmuxry^ 


organized,  larger  Btreams  of  Gk)spel  power, 
beneficence  and  piety,  will  flow  forth  to  all 
the  regions  aroand.  We  rejoice,  therefore, 
that  during  the  year  three  lady  physicians 
have  gone  out  to  the  Shantung  mission  for 
the  stations  respectively  of  Ichowfa,  Chi- 
nanfu  and  Chiningchow,  that  a  male  physi- 
cian has  reinforced  the  oldest  station  of 
Tangchow,  and  that  for  the  same  station  a 
lady  has  come  to  take  charge  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible, of  the  girls'  school,  which  thus  far  has 
stood  at  the  head  of  that  branch  of  edncation 
in  the  province.  Seeing  that  recruits  have 
been  asked,  not  on  the  basis  of  the  foreigner 
himself,  preaching  to  all  the  unevangelized, 
but  on  the  economical  basis  of  supplying  the 
demands  of  the  organized  work  at  the  central 
stations,  and  without  conflict  or  even  compe- 
tition with  other  denominations  at  the  same 
places  or  in  the  same  work,  the  aid  rendered 
by  the  Board  at  this  opportune  time  is  a  part 
of  the  cheering  news  from  Shantung. 

PROGBBSS  ALONa  ALL  UNES. 

The  growth  at  these  central  stations  is 
especially  cheering  because  of  the  right  which 
is  now  so  peaceably  granted  by  the  Chinese 
authorities  to  really  establish  these  stations 
with  all  their  diversified  elements  of  benefi- 
cent activity.  Ichowfu,  the  leading  city  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  province,  reported 
during  the  year  a  sudden  ebullition  of  Chinese 
hostility  in  the  attack  on  Rev.  Mr.  Killie, 
but  it  also  reported,  and  that,  too,  very 
promptly,  the  hearty  protection  and  open 
favor  of  the  Chinese  authorities.  Chinanfu, 
which  for  years,  as  the  capital  of  the  province, 
resisted  efforts  to  secure  property  and  so  to 
establish  the  work,  at  last  yielded  in  1891, 
and  then  followed  in  1892  the  building  of  a 
part  of  the  Mcllvaine  Memorial  Hospital. 
The  year  1898  witnessed  also  the  building  of 
the  Memorial  School  for  Boys.  The  officials 
have  shown  repeated  signs  of  friendliness 
with  a  determination  to  prevent  all  further 
disturbances.  Chiningchow,  which  saw  the 
missionaries  driven  out  in  1890,  the  settle- 
ment of  the  difficulties  in  1891,  and  the  re- 
establishment  of  the  station  in  1892,  now  has  a 
force  of  10  men  and  women,  with  a  constant 
display  of  friendliness  from  both  officials  and 
people.    All  theae  things  show  bow  finnly 


the  stations  at  these  important  cities  are  now 
rooted,  not  only  in  the  peculiar  political 
environment,  but  in  the  respect  of  the  people. 
All  is  ready.  Let  us  now  forth  to  the  con- 
flict, with  the  ever-present  support  and  sus- 
taining prayers  of  the  Church  and  the  bless- 
ing of  divine  grace  which  knows  no  limits! 

THE  INFLUENCE  OF  GOVERNMENT  LEGISLATION. 

The  treatment  shewn  the  Chinese  Govern- 
ment, or  the  Chinese  already  in  the  United 
States,  by  our  own  (Government,  will  certainly 
have  some  effect  on  missionary  work  in  China. 
The  present  condition  of  the  legislation  is 
as  follows:  at  the  extra  session  of  Congress 
a  bill,  known  as  the  McCreary  Bill,  and  receiv- 
ing the  endorsement  of  the  Administration, 
was  passed,  and  has  become  a  law.  It  allows 
six  months  more  time  for  Chinese  laborers  to 
register,  and  withdraws  proceedings  against 
those  already  arrested.  Two  months  have 
already  passed,  an«l  no  one  knows  whether 
the  registration  will  be  observed  or  not. 
The  new  bill  so  defines  *^ merchant^'  that 
some  of  them  will  also  come  under  the  head 
of  *^  laborer  **  by  failing  to  show  the  necessary 
qualifications  for  a  merchant.  It  also  requires 
a  photograph  as  means  of  identification. 
The  bill  is  far  from  satisfactory  to  the  Chinese 
Government.  In  aU  probability  a  new  case 
on  the  new  law  will  be  carried  to  the  Supreme 
Court.  The  Secretary  of  State  is  also  trying 
his  hand  at  a  treaty,  which  is  what  is  needed. 


NATIVE  PASTORS  IN  CENTRAL 
CHINA. 

BEV.   W.   J.   MCKEE,    NINGPO. 

While  the  foreign  missionary  is  regarded 
with  interest  by  the  Church,  the  native 
worker  should  not  be  overlooked.  He  does 
a  service  which  the  missionary  can  never 
do,  and  the  work  of  the  missionary  becomes 
more  effective  when  done  in  company  with 
and  through  his  native  colleague.  Our  na- 
tive pastors  in  Central  China  are  interesting 
men  and  their  life  and  service  are  worthy  of 
attention.  There  are  several  aspects  of  a 
native  pastor's  life  which  may  be  mentioned. 

I.   HIS  TRAINING  AND  QUALIFIGATIONS. 

As  a  general  rule  he  is  a  graduate  of  the 
mission  boarding-school,  where  be  has  atqd* 


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ied  the  Scriptares,  catechisms,  evidences  of 
Christianity,  arithmetic,  geography,  astron- 
omy, natoral  philosophy,  and  the  Chinese 
classics. 

Then  he  serves  a  couple  of  years  in  teach- 
ing a  day  school  in  which  most  of  the  pupils 
have  been  gathered  from  heathen  families, 
and  he  is  expected  to  exert  a  Christian  influ- 
ence over  his  pupils  and  their  parents,  whom 
he  visits.  If  so  far  satisfactory  as  to  gifts  and 
piety,  he  is  received  under  the  care  of  the 
Presbytery  and  enters  the  training  class 
conducted  by  the  foreign  missionaries,  where 
for  two  or  three  years  he  studies  Scripture 
interpretation,  theology.  Church  history  and 
the  art  of  preaching,  part  of  each  year  being 
given  to  evangelistic  work.  After  being 
licensed  by  Presbytery  he  may  be  assigned 
to  a  preaching  station  with  a  parish  number- 
ing thousands  upon  thousands  of  people,  or 
he  may  be  sent  on  long  preaching  tours  to 
'*  the  regions  beyond." 

In  his  probationary  career  he  is  also  quite 
likely  to  have  acted  as  stated  supply  of  a 
church,  and  served  as  an  elder  in  a  church 
session.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  our  candi- 
date, though  ignorant  of  Hebrew  and  Greek, 
Latin  and  English,  has  had  such  a  training 
as  few  of  our  pastors  at  home  have  received. 

n.   BIS  WORK. 

His  work  is  preaching  to  the  heathen, 
preaching  to  Christians,  and  otherwise  car- 
ing for  the  spiritual  and  temporal  interests  of 
his  flock.  The  pastor  still  finds  preaching  to 
the  heathen  a  large  part  of  his  work.  They 
are  all  about  him.  They  come  to  the  chapel. 
He  finds  them  in  shops  and  streets,  and  the 
members  of  his  parish  live  among  heathen 
neighbors.  He  is  often  appalled  as  he  looks 
upon  the  multitudes  of  his  countrymen  with- 
out a  Saviour.  I  have  heard  from  him  such 
pointed  and  powerful  appeals  as  seemed  irre- 
sistible— the  story  of  the  prodigal  son,  for 
example,  told  so  vividly  and  applied  so  prac- 
tically as  to  hold  the  hearers  spell-bound. 

In  preaching  to  Christians  the  pastor  must 
be  wide  awake  if  he  would  keep  his  hearers 
so,  for  most  of  them  are  farmers,  artisans 
and  tradesmen  not  accustomed  to  following 
a  connected  discourse  unless  it  pertains  to 
OGUih  or  some  other  material  thing. 


The  sermons  of  the  average  pastor  are  us- 
ually thoroughly  prepared  and  well  arranged, 
and  are  edifying  even  to  advanced  Christians. 
Thorough  preparation  in  his  case  does  not  nec- 
essarily imply  that  he  gives  much  time  to  it; 
for  the  proverbially  wonderful  memory  of  his 
race  enables  him  to  retain  the  results  of  reading 
and  thinking,  and  have  his  material  always 
at  hand  ready  for  use.  He  is  well  grounded 
in  Scripture  truth,  and  by  the  aid  of  his  Ori- 
ental imagination  he  is  enabled  to  mould  the 
truth  in  such  fresh  expressions  and  vivid 
illustrations  as  make  it  striking  and  interest- 
ing. 

In  cariDg  for  the  spiritual  interests  of  his 
flock,  the  pastor  must,  of  course,  reprove,  re- 
buke, and  exhort,  and  sometimes  Church  dis- 
cipline is  necessary.  He  must  baptize  infants, 
perform  marriage  ceremonies  (generally  with- 
out other  fee  than  a  good  dinner),  must  bury 
the  dead,  comfort  the  afflicted,  and  visit  the 
sick.  In  cases  of  persecution  or  of  quarrels, 
the  pastor  must  bear  the  larger  share  of  the 
burden  in  settling  the  matter.  If  the  pastor 
does  not  magnify  his  own  office,  his  members 
magnify  it  for  him.  Does  a  member  want  a 
wife  for  his  son  or  a  husband  for  his  daughter, 
it  is  not  uncommon  to  ask  the  pastor's  assist- 
ance. He  is  also  expected  to  use  every  effort 
to  secure  employment  for  the  unemployed. 
If  one  wishes  to  borrow  money  he  is  quite 
likely  to  apply  to  his  pastor  to  assist  him  in 
getting  it.  Nor  is  the  flock  of  the  Chinese 
pastor  confined  to  one  city  or  town.  There 
are  groups  of  Christians  ten  to  twenty  miles 
away  who  are  members  of  his  church,  and 
for  these  he  must  provide  Sunday  services 
and  administer  the  ordinances  at  stated 
times. 

III.    HIS  TRIALS  AND  JOTS. 

His  office  is  far  from  a  sinecure,  and,  like 
pastors  in  every  land,  he  has  his  trials. 
There  are  the  coldness  and  unfaithfulness  of 
some  of  his  church  members,  the  ingratitude 
and  dissatisfaction  of  some,  the  failure  of 
some  to  pay  what  they  have  promised  toward 
the  pastor's  salary,  church  quarrels,  and  often 
he  mourns  over  the  apparent  unfruitfulness 
of  his  labors. 

Yet  he  is  not  left  without  comforts  and 
joys.    In  nearly  every  church  there  are  shin- 


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ing  lights,  tme  helpers  of  the  pastors  and 
zealous  workers  for  (xod.  When  death  strikes 
one  of  these  '^  shining  marks  *^  it  is  a  grief  to 
the  pastor  thus  to  give  up  one  whom  he  feels 
he  cannot  spare,  yet  the  triumphant,  peaceful 
death  in  so  many  cases,  is  great  compensa- 
tion. Just  such  a  case  recently  occurred  in 
Ningpo.  An  intelligent  farmer,  who  had 
been  a  Christian  but  two  or  three  years,  had 
grown  rapidly  in  grace.  The  members  of 
his  famUy  had  one  by  one  followed  him  into 
the  Kingdom.  On  the  morning  of  his  death 
he  was  singing  praises  when  suddenly,  as 
was  supposed,  he  passed  away  from  earth. 
But  after  a  time  he  revived,  and  related  to  his 
friends  how  he  had  tasted  the  bliss  and  seen 
the  beauties  and  glories  of  Heaven.  After  a 
few  moments,  he  exclaimed,  "My  Father  is 
calling  again  and  I  must  go,'*  and  he  went  to 
be  with  his  Saviour  forever. 

Nor  is  the  faithful  pastor  left  entirely 
without  results  from  his  labors.  There  are 
nearly  always  some  enquirers,  and  some  of 
these  give  good  evidence  of  being  "good 
ground  '*  hearers  and  true  believers.  Some- 
times a  special  interest  breaks  out  in  a  neigh- 
borhood, and  quite  a  goodly  number  of 
enquirers  come  forward  to  rejoice  the  hearts 
of  pastor  and  people.  Then  there  are  the 
children  and  other  unsaved  members  of 
Christian  families  who  from  time  to  time 
come  out  on  the  Lord's  side. 

IV.     HIS  RELATIONS  TO  THE  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY. 

Believing  as  we  do  in  the  parity  of  the 
ministry,  the  missionary  is  not  supposed  to 
exercise  authority  over  the  native  pastor. 
The  relation  is  properly  that  of  mutual  sym- 
pathy and  helpfulness,  the  missionary  mani- 
festing in  every  possible  way  his  sympathy 
with  both  pastor  and  members,  giving 
counsel  if  need  be,  encouraging  the  pastor  in 
his  work  and  the  people  in  their  faith.  Often 
the  missionary  and  pastor  consult  together  as 
to  plans  for  carrying  on  the  work.  Together 
they  go  out,  encouraging  the  flock  and  seeking 
the  lost.  Together  in  prayer  they  bring 
themselves,  their  work  and  their  trials  to  the 
throne  of  grace.  The  missionary  should  be 
able  to  say  to  all  the  native  workers,  in  the 
words  of  the  apostle,  "Ourselves  your 
servants  for  Jesus'  sake."  The  oatl^e  worker 


must  increase,  while  the  foreign  missionary 
must  decrease.  China  is  to  be  evangelized 
by  the  Chinese.  Let  greater  honor,  then,  be 
paid  to  this  noble  army  of  workers  and  let 
more  prayer  ascend  for  them.  It  is  yet  a 
very  small  army,  and  when  we  pray  the  Lord 
to  thrust  forth  laborers  into  His  harvest,  let 
us  be  sure  also  to  include  native  laborers. 

Tet  while  we  thus  magnify  the  importance 
of  native  pastors  and  evangelists,  let  us  not 
stop  our  ears  to  the  loud,  continued  cry  for 
more  foreign  missionaries.  The  Chinese 
workers  will  still  need  the  help  of  the  foreign 
missionaries  for  many  years  in  doing  evan- 
gelistic work,  and  especiaUy  for  training  such 
workers  as  I  have  described.  In  our  Central 
China  mission  there  are  by  no  means  suffi- 
cient foreign  missionaries  to  carry  on  these 
two  forms  of  work.  Young  men  who  wish 
to  study  for  the  ministry,  have  been  kept 
back  on  this  account,  and  the  evangelistic 
work  is  greatly  limited,  to  the  grief  of  both 
native  and  foreign  workers. 


SECRETS  OF  SUCCESS  IN  SHANTUNG. 

REV.  W.  M.  HATES,  TDNGCBOW. 

Mission  progress  in  Shantung  has  hitherto 
been  a  grand  exemplification  of  the  evangel- 
istic record:  "The  common  people  heard 
him  gladly."  There  are  now  over  eight 
thousand  Christians  in  the  province,  but 
among  them  "not  many  wise  after  the  flesh, 
not  many  mighty,  not  many  noble"  are  in- 
cluded. The  Christians  as  a  body  consist  of 
neither  the  higher  nor  lower  classes,  but  are 
of  "  the  common  people." 

THE  WISDOM  OF  THE  PIONEERS. 

The  progress  of  the  Gospel  among  them  is 
due  partly  to  their  superior  character.  Shan- 
tung is  the  home  of  the  sages,  and  its  inhabi- 
tants retain  many  of  their  virtues.  While 
far  below  the  Christian  standard,  it  is  safe  to 
affirm  that  the  average  heathen  population  of 
North  China  is  the  best  that  the  pagan  world 
affords.  The  success  of  the  Presbyterian 
Mission  is  also  due  in  great  part  to  the  good 
sense  of  the  leading  veterans,  one  of  whom. 
Dr.  Nevius,  has  only  lately  been  called  to  his 
reward.  Content  to  follow  the  leading  of 
th^  Spirit,  they  did  not  attempt  to  fQrpe  the 


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work,  and  when  results  were  not  apparent  in 
the  districts  adjacent  to  their  homes,  thej 
passed  on  to  the  regions  beyond,  and  there 
reaped  an  abundant  harvest.  Those  long  jour- 
neys, when  there  were  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  heathen  near  by,  probably  did  not  at  the 
time  seem  good  economy  to  all,  but  now  in  sta- 
tions and  Christians  scattered  far  and  wide  we 
can  see  its  wisdom  and  purpose.  The  plan  of 
Paul,  or  rather  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  was  the 
best.  Christianity,  instead  of  being  limited 
to  a  small  part,  is  permeating  the  whole 
province. 


this  article  must  be  limited,  is  also  the  first  in 
the  order  of  time.  The  methods  employed 
in  it  vary  with  the  missionary  and  the  people 
whom  he  addresses,  the  one  thing  essential 
being  to  secure  an  attentive  audience  and 
impress  the  truth  upon  the  minds  of  the 
hearers.  It  matters  not  whether  they  be  the 
rabble  on  the  street,  some  men  by  the  wayside, 
or  the  curious  callers  at  the  inn.  Sometimes, 
when  other  methods  fail,  taking  out  one^s 
watch,  winding  it  and  very  patiently  ascer- 
taining the  time,  will  gather  an  audience,  who 
having  first  been  entertained  by  the  wonders 


THE  PRBSBTTEBY  OF  SHANTUNG. 


The  foundations  of  the  Church  in  Shan- 
tung were  laid  in  the  evangelistic  work,  and 
to  this  some  theorists  would  yet  limit  mis- 
sion effort,  but  just  as  in  the  early  Church 
there  were  **  sent  some  evangelists,  and  some 
pastors  and  teachers,^'  while  to  others  were 
given  **  gifts  of  healing,'*  so  now  on  the  mis- 
sion field  we  have  four  distinct  departments 
of  work,  the  evangelistic,  the  pastoral,  the 
educational,  and  the  medical. 

PBEACHINO  THE  TBUTH  WITH  POINT  AND  PARABLE. 

The  first  of  these,  and  the  one  to  which 


of  the  watch,  are  then  willing  to  listen  to  the 
wonders  of  the  Gospel  message.  A  small 
magnifying  glass  has  also  served  the  same 
good  purpose.  Imitating  the  great  apostle  to 
the  Gentiles,  it  is  sometimes  necessary  for 
the  missionary  to  employ  craft  and  catch 
them  with  guile. 

As  our  Saviour  often  drew  His  illustrations 
from  His  immediate  surroundings,  so  the 
missionary  often  finds  that  nothing  so  inter- 
ests his  audience  and  fixes  their  attention  as 
illustraiions   from   objects   close   at   hand* 


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Ck>ming  to  the  villages  where  strawbraid  is 
the  chief  export,  a  short  conversation  on  the 
importance  of  adhering  closely  to  the  pattern, 
in  order  to  produce  an  acceptable  article,  leads 
readily  to  the  necessity  of  following  a  fault- 
less pattern  ourselves  if  we  would  be  accept- 
able to  the  Heaveuly  Father. 

Often  the  idols  themselves  are  made  the 
introduction.  Entering  a  country  hamlet, 
the  writer  once  stopped  to  look  inside  a  small 
shrine  just  outside  the  village,  and  was  sur- 
prised to  find  it  empty.  Enquiring  of  several 
old  women  who  came  out  to  see  the  stranger, 
he  was  told  that  the  villagers  had  lately 
clubbed  together  and  bought  a  good  soap- 
stone  idol,  but  neglecting  to  lock  the  shrine 
door  it  had  been  stolen.  Proceeding  on  the 
assumption  that  a  god  who  couldn^t  protect 
himself  was  not  likely  to  prove  of  any  great 
protection  to  others,  a  proposition  to  which 
they  readily  assented,  they  were  pointed  to 
Him,  who  was  their  only  true  protector, 
though  they  knew  Him  not. 

Among  scholars  a  quotation  from  the  Clas- 
sics often  serves  to  clinch  an  argument, 
although  sometimes  it  does  more  harm  than 
good;  for  example,  when  finishing  his  dis- 
course, a  missionary  introduced  a  quotation 
from  the  Analects,  when  two  scholars  standing 
at  the  edge  of  the  crowd  at  once  turned  away 
saying,  '*  Humph  1  after  all  his  talk,  he 
finally  has  to  come  back  to  Ck>nfucius.'* 

LINE  T7P0N  LINB. 

The  great  object  in  all  these  itinerant 
addresses  is  to  leave  some  truth  in  the  mind 
which  will  not  soon  be  forgotten,  and  in 
doing  so,  strive  not  to  give  needless  offence. 
It  is  much  easier  to  leave  an  impression  on 
their  minds  than  to  leave  one  that  will  win 
men  to  Christ.  Itinerant  work  now  extends 
over  the  greater  part  of  the  province,  though 
many  places  receive  but  scant  attention. 
Much  of  it  is  done  by  native  assistants, 
their  salaries  varying  from  $1.75  to  $4.00 
per  month.  It  is,  of  course,  impossible 
always  to  avoid  employing  men  who  engage 
in  the  work  from  pecuniary  motives,  but 
even  when  that  element  is  present,  it  is 
hardly  fair  to  say  that  Christ  is  preached 
only  in  pretense. 


GOOD  GROUND  FOB  THE  SOWER. 

Some  of  these  men  are  skillful  laborers, 
and  not  content  with  merely  sowing  the  seed, 
they  come  again  and  again  to  watch  its 
growth  and  water  it  with  their  prayers. 
Like  the  Seventy,  their  plan  is  to  go  forth 
two  by  two,  and  experience  will  here  again 
testify  to  the  wisdom  of  this  method.  Carry- 
ing their  bedding  on  their  shoulders,  or 
sleeping  at  night  with  only  their  clothing 
for  a  covering,  these  heralds  of  the  cross  go 
from  village  to  village  spreading  the  know- 
ledge of  Christ.  While  much  of  the  seed 
falls  on  stony  ground,  and  still  more  by  the 
wayside,  yet  the  roll  of  converts  shows  that 
some  has  fallen  on  the  good  ground.  The 
judicious  use  of  these  men  is  the  most  rapid 
means  of  spreading  a  knowledge  of  the  truth 
throughout  the  Empire. 

Each  church  moreover  is  an  evangelistic 
center  for  its  own  neighborhood,  and  the 
members,  if  not  suffered  to  grow  lukewarm, 
demonstrate  the  truth  that  oftentimes  the 
best  way  of  leavening  the  whole  lump  is  to 
keep  the  leaven  already  there  warm  and  in 
working  order. 

W0MAN*S  WORK  FOR  WOMAN. 

It  is  fitting  that  special  mention  should  be 
made  of  the  very  efficient  evangelistic  efforts 
of  some  of  the  ladies  whose  freedom  from 
home  cares  allows  them  to  engage  in  this 
service,  and  who  are  not  afraid  to  endure 
hardship.  The  homes  of  the  native  Chris- 
tians afford  them  a  place  to  meet  their 
heathen  sisters,  and  thus  many  of  the  younger 
women,  who  are  debarred  by  Chinese  etiquette 
from  listening  on  the  street  to  the  missionary 
himself  or  the  native  assistant,  can  hear  of 
Christ  without  molestation. 

Of  such  ladies,  strong  and  fearless,  there 
is  great  need  in  the  mission  field. 


We  cannot  yet  say  that  we  have  here  the 
fulfillment  of  that  scripture,  so  beautifully 
rendered  in  the  Revised  Version : 

The  LORD  giveth  the  word— 

The  women  that  publish  the  tidings  are  a 
great  host; 
But  is  it  not  legitimate  now,  to  pray  for  that 
very  fulfillment? 


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CHINA. 

FIELDS  WUlTJfi  TO  THE  HARYEST. 

Rev.  John  Mubray,  (]%t'7uifi/^.*— Immediately 
after  my  winter  class  in  Genesis  was  dismissed, 
I  took  a  short  trip  with  Dr.  Van  Schoick  to 
Chiningchow.  He  went  on  business,  and  I 
went  for  a  change  and  to  see  the  place  and  work 
In  that  station. 

The  last  part  of  March,  all  of  April,  May  and 
until  June  10,  with  the  exception  of  a  very  few 
days  in  the  city,  I  have  been  out  in  the  country 
engaged  in  Itineration  work. 

I  have  received  into  Church  fellowship  20, 
and  all  but  one  by  baptism ;  inquirers,  new  and 
old,  enrolled,  and  applicants  for  baptism,  65.  I 
have  also  had  the  care  of  several  country 
schools. 

The  20  persons  received  live  in  12  different 
villages.  The  inquirers  are  from  21  different 
villages.  This  shows  how  much  travel  is  needed 
and  how  the  work  is  spreading.  Some  of  these 
villages  are  fifty  miles  apart.  It  is  the  result  of 
former  work  that  for  years  seemed  to  bear  little 
fruit. 

There  is  little  opposition  and  a  much  better 
reception  among  outsiders  than  in  former  years; 
yet  the  people  seem  hardly  touched.  I  refer  to 
that  part  of  the  field  in  which  I  am  engaged. 

FRUITS  OF  GRACE. 

One  old  man  who  passed  a  most  satisfactory 
examination,  lives  in  the  sandy  district  north  of 
the  city,  where  there  is  no  church  nor  any 
Christian  influence  for  many  miles.  He  heard 
of  the  Qospel  thirteen  years  ago,  before  the 
Yellow  River  floods  devastated  his  section  of 
the  country.  Two  years  ago,  I  stopped  in  his 
village,  trying  to  hire  a  donkey  to  pull  my 
barrow,  and  while  waiting  I  spoke  to  the  people 
who  crowded  around.  I  noticed  an  old  man 
unusually  interested,  and  gave  him  a  sheet  upon 
which  was  printed  a  prayer,  also  a  €k>spel  and  a 
tract.  Two  months  afterwards,  he  voluntarily 
came  to  my  class  and  stayed  a  few  days.  He 
appeared  hungry  and  athirst  for  the  truth.  Last 
year  he  studied  in  my  class  for  a  month,  and 
now  he  seems  full  of  Christian  enthusiasm,  and 
not  ashamed  to  bear  witness  to  the  truth  wher- 
ever he  may  be. 

Another,  a  boy  of  fifteen  years,  surprised  us 
with  his  answers  on  the  subject  of  prayer.  His 
father  stated  that  the  first  time  he  knew  of  his 
son's  real  interest  in  the  Christian  doctrine  was 
when  he  heard  him  telling  his  old  grandmother 


of  the  Saviour  and  heard  him  frequently  praying 
with  her.  She  had  never  been  to  a  Christian 
service,  and  now  through  this  boy  she  has  been 
led  to  ask  for  baptism. 

Another  man  who  used  to  sell  among  other 
things  in  his  little  shop  the  paper  and  false 
money  used  in  idolatrous  worship,  does  not 
believe  in  those  things  now.  He  asked  if  it  was 
right  to  sell  them,  because  his  business  depended 
on  it.  He  then  promised  to  sell  out  his  present 
stock  and  not  buy  any  more. 

Another  man,  sixty  years  old,  was  beaten  and 
even  bitten  by  some  of  his  neighbors  out  of 
hatred  for  the  cause  he  was  interested  in.  This 
was  only  four  days  before  his  baptism.  His  son, 
although  not  interested  in  the  truth,  was  very 
angry  and  wanted  to  go  to  court  about  it  The 
old  man  refused  to  do  this,  submitted  to  the  per- 
secution as  being  unavoidable,  and  walked  eight 
li  to  be  examined  and  baptized.  This  was  the 
beginning  of  a  little  work  springing  in  that 
village,  and  ten  or  more  persons  are  now  attend- 
ing worship.  They  are  all  members  of  a  very 
flourishing  sect,  and  that  is  the  reason  of  the 
opposition  which  was  raised  against  the  first 
baptism. 

CONVENIENCE  M.  CONSCIENCE. 

Another,  a  young  man  who  had  been  treated 
•for  a  bone  trouble  that  would  have  caused  his 
death  but  for  Dr.  Van  Schoick's  medical  skill, 
and  who  was  well  advanced  in  his  elementary 
stu^y  of  the  doctrine  and  had  even  led  in  public 
prayer,  when  asked  about  being  baptized, 
excused  himself  on  the  ground  that,  since  his 
leg  was  better,  arrangements  were  being  made 
for  his  future  marriage,  and  as  the  family  of  the 
bride  were  opposed  to  Christianity,  he  thought 
it  would  be  better  to  defer  his  baptism  till  after 
the  marriage.  Both  the  helper  and  I  reminded 
him  of  the  Parable  of  the  Supper.  He  had  never 
thought  of  the  matter  in  that  light,  and  asked 
the  helper  if  it  would  do  to  propose  baptism 
now,  but  the  helper  thought  I  would  be  unwill- 
ing, since  the  young  man  had  preferred  to  attend 
to  his  affairs  first  and  the  command  of  the  Lord 
afterwards.  The  young  man  felt  extremely 
mortified  and  downcast  when  the  others  were 
received  to  the  communion. 


The  godless  Englishman  or  Scotchman,  is  a 
powerful  anti-missionary  force.  He  is  a  Christ- 
ian in  the  eyes  of  the  heathen.  If  he  drinks  and 
swears  and  lies,  and  lives  the  life  of  an  uncon- 
verted, nominal  Christian,  his  course  is  looked 
upon  as  the  natural  outcome  of  the  faith  in 
which  he  has  been  reared.— 2^  Independent, 


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NOTES. 
Three  years  ago  we  had  in  Joplin,  Mo., 
one  little  Home  Mission  church.  Now  we 
hare  three  churches.  The  first  has  165  mem- 
bers, is  strong  and  growing  stronger,  the 
second  has  completed  a  new  bnilding,  the 
finest  church  building  in  the  city,  and  has  a 
flourishing  mission  in  the  south  part  of  the 
city, — the  third  has  about  85  members,  a 
large  Sabbath -school  and  an  active  Christian 
Endeavor  society.  There  is  also  a  mission  at 
Tuckahoe  in  the  suburbs. 


A  beautiful  life  that  drew  to  a  close  out 
West  is  thus  described  by  a  surviving  friend : 

His  early  Sunday  morning  song 
Kept  singing  Mondav  all  day  long, 
And  TueBdav,  with  his  morning  prayer, 
His  song  still  floated  on  the  air; 
And  Wednesday  reading  of  the  word. 
He  sang  the  song  of  Christ,  the  Lord ; 
Thursday  the  echoes  of  the  strain 
Of  love  and  duty  would  remain; 
Friday  and  Saturday  each  day 
He  sung,  and  read,  and  knelt  to  pray. 
And  so  from  week  to  week  was  given 
His  praises  to  the  Lord  in  Heaven. 
It  was  not  one  week  set  apart, 
But  daily  it  was  in  his  heart; 
When  at  the  end  of  each  refrain 
He  prayed  for  strength  to  so  remain. 


in  Miss  Ashley's  department  are  now  church 
members,  six  having  made  profession  of 
faith  a  few  days  ago.  In  Alaska  one  boy 
under  conviction,  woke  and  prayed  at  mid- 
night. The  next  morning  he  told  his  teacher 
that  he  was  ^^  the  sinnerest  hay  in  school.^^ 
He  made  profession  with  several  others. 


The  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  are  quick- 
ening the  life  and  improving  the  methods  of 
work  in  the  Church  of  to-day;  but  they  are 
doing  more,  they  are  training  for  the  Church 
of  the  future,  members  who  will  be  able  to 
work  as  well  as  worship;  Sabbath-school 
teachers  who  will  have  something  to  teach ; 
elders  who  will  be  able  to  conduct  prayer- 
meeting  and  to  help  the  pastor,  and  deacons 
who  will  know  how  to  pray  and  when  to 
stop. 

This  is  a  season  of  spiritual  refreshing. 
Conversions  are  reported  from  all  parts  of  the 
country.  Even  the  exceptional  populations 
share  the  blessing.  At  Wheelock,  Indian 
Territory,  all  but  one  of  the  twenty-six  girls 
ld6 


The  report  of  Rev.  John  P.  Williamson, 
D.  D.,  made  at  the  annual  mission  meeting 
of  the  Sioux  Indian  Presbyterian  and  Con- 
gregational Churches,  September  28,  1898, 
shows  that  these  churches  raised  during  the 
past  year  for  work  among  the  unevangelized 
Sioux  Indians  $1,811.10. 

These  offerings  are  given  to  be  disbursed 
by  the  ** Native  Missionary  Society"  which 
supports  several  evangelists  (generally  or- 
dained native  preachers)  in  the  needj  r^ons. 
The  Society  had  a  balance  in  their  treasury, 
September  1892,  of  $818.04,  so  they  had 
available  funds  this  year  $2,624.14.  Of  this 
amount  the  Yankton  Agency  Church,  with  a 
membership  of  one  hundred  and  eighty,  gave 
$225.71.  They  spent  $1,558.85,  leaving  a 
present  balance  of  $1,070.29.  If  our  own 
churches  gave  as  these  really  poor  Indians 
give  for  missions,  our  treasuries  would  not 
be  in  distress.     

Eight  of  the  girls  in  the  Home  Industrial 
School  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  have  recently 
united  with  the  church.  These  girls  are 
active  in  the  students^  prayer-meeting  and 
the  burden  of  their  prayer  is  that  they  may 
be  useful. 

The  shorter  catechism  is  the  most  popular 
study  in  the  school,  and  Miss  Stephenson 
says:  **  We  have  none  that  gives  better  men- 
tal training."  Not  more  than  five  minutes  a 
day  is  given  to  this  study,  and  yet  ten  of  the 
girls  have  recited  the  entire  catechism  per- 
fectly during  the  present  quarter. 


Captain  Bay,  the  U.  S.  Indian  agent  on  the 
Shoshone  reservation,  has  been  trying  to  sup- 


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press  the  practice  of  polygamy  among  his 
Indians.  Bat  his  authority  is  scarcely  equal 
to  the  influence  of  the  Mormon  priests  that 
have  been  among  them.  Plenty-Bear,  chief 
of  the  Arapahoes,  said  that  he  would  die 
before  he  would  give  up  his  wiyes.  The  Indian 
police  refused  to  obey  Captain  Ray^s  orders 
for  his  arrest.  The  Shoshone  chief,  Washakie, 
is  guarded  by  the  warriors  of  his  tnbe,  who 
are  determined  that  he  shall  not  be  disturbed 
in  his  marital  miscellaneousness.  These 
chiefs  are  probably  bishops  in  the  Mormon 
church  as  many  other  Indian  chiefs  are. 


Key.  L.  F.  Jones  of  Alaska,  bears  positiye 
testimony  to  the  power  of  the  GkMspel  among 
the  natiyes  of  that  land.  He  says: — ^'I 
affirm  that  true  religion  does  take  hold  of  the 
Lidian  and  improye  his  morals  and  manners." 
He  teUs  of  seyeral  Alaskans  who  *  ^  were  giyen 
to  drunkenness,  rioting  and  sensuality," 
being  transformed  by  the  power  of  the  GkMspel 
into  sober,  orderly  and  pure  minded  Christ- 
ians, obserying  the  Sabbath  and  enjoying  the 
means  of  grace. 

One  woman  who  had  been  addicted  to 
drink  became  so  thoroughly  regenerated  that 
she  passed  safely  through  a  double  ordeal. 
She  found,  near  her  house,  two  bottles  of 
whiskey  that  had  been  concealed  by  some  one 
for  use  at  a  more  conyenient  season.  She  not 
only  resisted  the  temptation  to  drink  their 
contents  but  declined  an  offer  of  four  dollars 
apiece  for  them,  but  brought  them  to  the 
missionary  that  they  might  be  destroyed. 
The  bottles  were  broken  and  the  whiskey 
poured  upon  the  ground  to  her  manifest 
delight. 

**One  thing,"  says  Dr.  Dorchester,  »*is 
becoming  too  conspicuous  in  the  Indian 
school  seryice— disgraceful  scrambles  for 
pupils,  a  species  of  piracy.  The  Goyemment 
schools  are  protected  by  stringent  regulations 
against  the  encroachments  of  the  contract 
schools  in  respect  to  gathering  pupils;  but 
the  contract  schools  are  left  entirely  at  the 
mercy  of  the  goyemment  schools.  Superin- 
tendent Rich  at  Phoenix,  during  last  sum- 
mer's yacation,  gathered  into  his  school 
iklmoQt  all  of  Superintendent  BiUman'9  more 


adyanced  pupils.  Out  of  one  adyanced  class 
of  sixteen,  fourteen  failed  to  return,  nearly 
all  going  to  Phoenix,  others  to  Sacaton.  Mr. 
Billman  was  obliged  to  fill  their  places  by 
fresh  children  from  the  tepees." 


Our  Indian  school  at  Tucson,  Arizona,  is 
in  eyery  way  a  model.  An  intelligent  yisi- 
torsaysof  it:  **The  school  is  yery  attrac- 
tiye  and  its  attraction  is  chiefly  in  the  spirit 
of  the  superintendent  and  the  teachers,  a 
kindly  wholesome  atmosphere.  Some  schools 
haye  more  spectacular  exercises,  but  this 
school  attracts  by  its  genuine  Christian,  in- 
tdligent  and  kindly  influence.  Eyen  discip- 
line is  administered  in  such  a  way  as  to 
strengthen  the  hold  on  the  pupils.  The  In- 
dians haye  unbounded  faith  in  Superintend- 
ent Billman.  He  is  a  wise  and  careful  man 
— always  particular  to  fulfill  his  promises. 
He  giyes  the  Indians  good  counsel  and  helps 
them  in  many  practical  ways." 


Eyery  loyal  Christian  will  applaud  the  fol- 
lowing statement  of  Rabbi  Silyerman  of 
Temple  Emanuel,  New  York.  He  said: 
*'As  far  as  Jews  are  concerned  I  emphati- 
cally declare  that  we  firmly  oppose  any 
measure  tending  in  the  least  degree  to  giye 
the  state  the  right  officially  to  recognize  and 
to  subsidize  a  particular  religion." 


Our  little  church  at  Pennsylyania  Bun, 
Ky.,  has  had  a  glorious  awakening.  Twen- 
ty-four haye  been  receiyed,  nearly  doubling 
the  membership.  Similar  reports  come  from 
many  parts  of  the  country. 


The  Rey.  J.  F.  Carson,  pastor  of  the  Cen- 
tral Church,  Brooklyn,  says :  ^^An  essential 
characteristic  of  Christianity  is  its  care  for  the 
poor.  Heathenism  did  not  care  for  its  poor. 
Athens  had  an  altar  to  pity,  and  that  was  the 
nearest  approach  to  philanthropy  in  relig- 
ion." 

Gentle  reader,  we  do  not  ask  you  to  pity 
the  poor  missionaries.  A  heathen  might  do 
that  much.  We  ask  you,  if  you  are  a  Chris* 
tiau,  to  care /or  ihen^. 


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Oar  Mexican  Mifisionarj,  Rey.  Chtbino 
Rendon,  has  been  greatly  blessed  in  his 
work  at  San  Pablo,  Colorado.  A  cbarch  has 
recently  been  organized  by  a  committee  con- 
sisting of  Rev.  T.  C.  Kirkwood,  D.  D.,  Kev. 
F.  M.  Gilchrist,  Mr.  Rendon,  the  pastor,  and 
elder  Goillermo  Garcia.  Twelye  persons 
were  reoeiyed  on  profession  and  six  by 
letter.  The  congregation  is  growing  and 
many  are  taming  from  the  darkness  of 
saperstition  to  the  light  of  the  Gospel. 


A  pastor  in  Ohio  bears  this  testimony  to 
the  yalne  of  the  Y.  P.  S.  0.  £.  in  his 
choroh:  ^^It  has  worked  little  wonders 
throagh  God's  grace  in  drawing  oat  diffident 
yoong  people  to  speak  and  pray.  A  higher 
degree  of  spiritoality  and  a  warmer  life 
peryade  the  chnrch." 

Another  pastor  says:  "it  woald  haye 
been  impossible  for  the  chorch  to  haye  met 
its  financial  obligations  without  the  T.  P. 
S.  C.  E."  

'*  Any  attempt  to  solve  the  Indian  question 
without  considering  the  White  factor  which 
enters  so  largely  into  it  is  a  mistake,  ^*  says  Mr. 
Fait  of  Anadarko,  I.  T.  This  view  is  held 
by  many  others  who  are  watching  with 
alarm  the  intermingling  of  low,  ignorant 
Whites  among  the  Indians.  The  tendency 
of  race  amalgamation  is  at  present  to  degrade 
rather  than  to  elevate.  The  only  hope  for 
both  is  in  the  mission  school  and  church. 


Many  are  inquiring  as  to  the  present  atti- 
tude of  the  Government  toward  Indian  edu- 
cation, now  that  it  is  proposed  gradually  to 
discontinue  the  contract  schools.  The  best 
statement  of  the  present  aim  is  found  in  the 
following  action  taken  at  a  joint  Conference 
of  the  Board  of  Indian  Commissioners,  and 
the  representatives  of  religious  and  benevo- 
lent societies  engaged  in  educational  and  mis- 
sionary work  among  the  Indians,  held  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  a  year  ago. 

The  progress  made  during  the  past  four  years 
in  the  education  of  the  Indians  into  citizenship, 
makes  the  present  administration  memorable  in 
Indian  history.  During  these  years  a  definite 
policy,  intelligently  pursued,  has  already  re- 
sulted in  carrying  nearly  twenty  thousand  In- 


dians out  of  tribal  relations  into  those  of  the 
responsible  citizen.  The  burden  of  this  work, 
with  the  development  of  a  school  system  for 
Indian  youth,  has  rested  on  the  intelligence  and 
the  tireless  persistence  of  Conmiissioner  Morgan, 
and  his  adherence  to  civil  service  principles. 
To  him  we  are  glad  to  give  the  fullest  ciedit, 
supported,  as  he  has  been,  by  the  good  will 
of  the  President. 

The  following  subjects  now  give  the  friends 
of  the  Indian  special! concern,  and  call  for  faith- 
ful attention,  and  we  commend  them  earnestly 
to  the  incoming  Administration: 

1.  If  it  be  impossible  to  extend  civil  service 
rules  to  Presidential  appointments  in  the  Indian 
service,  yet  the  selection  and  retention  of  agents 
and  inspectors,  and  also  of  special  Indian  agents 
and  allotting  agents,  ought  to  be  left  free  from 
partisan  dictation,  and  only  those  persons  ap- 
pointed who  are  creditable  examples  of  white 
civilization,  and  whose  character  is  itself  a 
pledge  that  they  will  use  their  office  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  Indians  among  whom  they 
labor. 

2.  The  Government  is  now  committed  to  the 
education  of  all  Indian  youth,  and  this  education 
should  be  obligatory.  It  is  humiliating  that 
ignorant  or  bad  men  should  be  allowed  to  thwart 
the  purpose  of  the  Government.  While  persua- 
sion will  usually  be  sufficient  to  fill  the  schools, 
an  exercise  of  force  should  not  be  withheld 
whenever  it  may  become  necessary,  in  order 
to  prevent  interference  with  the  execution  of  the 
law  on  the  subject  of  obligatory  education. 

8.  In  the  transition  incident  to  the  devel- 
opment of  a  public  school  system  by  the  Govern- 
ment, religious  and  benevolent  societies,  so  far 
from  withdrawing  their  interest  in  the  Indians, 
should  increase  their  efforts,  remembering  that 
it  is  their  special  function  to  develop  character, 
as  well  as  intelligence;  to  give  higher  education 
and  moral  fibre  to  those  who  shall  be  the  leaders 
of  these  people,  and  by  intimate  contact  in  the 
home  and  the  church  to  mould  the  children  who 
come  out  of  the  schools  into  Christian  citizens. 

4.  Indians  should  be  brought  to  self-support  as 
rapidly  as  possible,  and  to  that  end,  not  only 
should  the  issue  of  rations  soon  be  discontinued, 
but  meantime,  where  practicable,  funds  due 
Indians  should  be  paid  them  in  cash,  rather  than 
in  supplies. 

5.  The  full  success  of  the  Indian  service  re- 
quires greater  unity  of  management  and  concen- 
tration of  responsibilities.  The  appointment, 
or  nomination  of  all  employes,  from  the  agent  to 
the  lowest  official,  should  be  committed  to  the 


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Bureau,  which  is  responsible  for  the  admin- 
istration.' 

6.  The  adjudication  of  an  enormous  amount 
of  depredation  claims  brought  against  the  In- 
dians, before  a  court  in  which  thej  have  no 
standing  and  where  they  cannot  be  heard,  is  un- 
just to  the  Indians,  and  should  not  be  made 
a  lien  on  trust  funds  in  the  hands  of  the  United 
States  Goyemment,  created  and  held  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Indians. 

Be^oived:  That  a  committee  be  appointed  by 
the  Chair  to  convey  to  the  President-elect  a  copy 
of  this  action,  and  to  present  to  him  personally 
an  expression  of  our  earnest  'desire  that  he  will 
appoint  such  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs 
as  will  carry  on  the  Indian  Office  in  the  spirit 
and  along  the  lines  herein  suggested,  so  that 
even  greater  progress  may  be  made  during  his 
term  of  office       

Let  it  be  remembered  that  there  remain 
bat  two  months  of  the  fiscal  year  and  that 
the  Board  is  far  in  arrears.  Brethren  let  us 
not  allow  the  work  to  get  ahead  of  us.  It  is 
easier  to  make  a  special  effort  to  close  the 
year  with  all  accounts  square  than  it  is  to 
carry  a  debt  over  into  another  year. 

Don't  wait  for  the  legacies  that  you  have 
read  about.  They  have  not  come  to  hand 
and  will  not  for  some  time.  Some  of  them 
are  in  litigation.  Meanwhile  what  are  the 
poor  missionaries  to  do? 

Don't  leave  these  living  men  to  die  while 
you  are  waiting  for  the  legacies  of  dead  men 
to  pay  their  salaries. 

*'For  the  scripture  saith,  thou  shalt  not 
muzzle  the  ox  when  he  treadeth  out  the  com. 
And,  the  laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire." 


HOME  MISSION  APPOINTMENTS. 


G.  Le  FevTO,  Ancram  Lead  Miii«e, 

F.  A  Valentine.  West  Fayette, 
W.  Saofirree.  Fairrille, 

C.  Doeoch,  New  York  City,  9d  (German, 

R.  P.  Faust,  New  York  City,  Hebrew  Mission, 

H.  W.  H.  Watkins.  Hornby, 

J.  J.  Crane,  HeuTelton, 

R.  A.  Hunter,  Kennett  Square, 

a  a  Walker,  Glen  Riddle, 

H.  G  Williams,  MiUedge^e, 

J.  MitohelL,  Duiyea  and  Taylor, 

O.  G.  Smith.  Newton,  Bethel  and  station, 

J.  A.  Marshall, 

J.  E.  Franklin,  Wilmineton,  East  Lake  Mission, 

T.  C.  Potter,  Orescent  City, 

W.  A.  Errin,  Wartburg  and  Kismet, 

J.  N.  Errin,  Dayton.  1st, 

E.  M.  Paice.  Waverly, 

W.  V.  Chapin,  Solon, 

J.  A.  Gaillard.  Streetsboro, 

G.  R.  Berry,  Maumee,  1st, 

H.  B.  Miller,  Doylestown  and  MarsballTiUe, 
H.  M.  Crissman,  Moreland, 


N.  Y. 


Pa. 


Pel. 

Fla. 

Tenn. 


DU^'. 


Dls. 


D.  Vols,  Chicago.  1st  German,  His. 

C.  Slack,  Arlington, 

T.  Stephenson.  Kelthsburg,  '* 

W.  B.  McKee,  Pleasant  ROge, 

W.  M.  WUson,  Chandler,  1st  and  station,  Mich. 

W.  P.  Gibson,  Evart,  ** 

J.  H.  Fleming,  Erie  and  La  SaUe,  ** 

J.  P.  Mills,  Eft  Rapids,  1st  and  Yuba,  «* 

J.  R.  Bennett,  Port  Hope  and  iSand  Beach,  ** 

T.  Mlddlemis,  Alpena, 

B  Hunter,  Taymouth,  *' 

P.  E .  NlchoU  Bay  City  Memorial,  ** 

J.  Kohout.  Cobb  Bohemian,  Wis. 

A.  Ebersole,  Middleton, 

D.  Anderson,  Monroe,  ** 
H.  A.  Winter,  Madison  and  Middleton  German,  " 
J.  Blauw,  Duluth,  1st  Norwegian  and  stations,  Minn. 
J.  R  Jones,  Lanesboro  and  Richland  Prairie,  ** 

D.  H.  Hood,  Island  Lake. 

L.  P.  Paulson,  Minneapolis,  1st  Norwegian,  *' 

M.  R.  Meyers,  Royalton  and  station,  ** 

L.  V.  Nash,  Utica,  " 

O.  D.  Darling,  St.  Paul  Park  and  South  Bt.  Paul,  ** 

J .  H.  F.  Blue,  BufTalo  and  Tower  dty,  N.  D. 

J .  S.  Boyd,  Hlllsboro  and  Kelso,  ** 

W.  C.  Whlsnand,  Colgate,  ** 

J.  Laing,  Towner  and  Rugby,  ** 

R.  J.  CreswelU  Edinburgh  and  stations,  ** 

8.  Millett,  Andorer  and  Plerpont,  S.  D. 

W.  H.  Jennings.  La^eme,  Bethel  and  Elk  Creek,  ** 

E.  L.  Dresser,  Flandreau,  Sd,  " 
M.  Bowman,  St.  Lawrence  and  Benlah,  ** 
G.  A.  White,  Artesian  and  Forestburg,  ** 
E.  S.  Entns  Parkston  and  Union  Centre,  *' 
L.T.  lobe,  Kimball, 

J.  G.  Aikman,  Mt.  Ayr,  Iowa. 

R.  Beer,  Garden  Grove  and  Le  Roy,  ** 

R.  L.  Adams,  Jacksonville  and  Medora,  " 
J.  M.  Wiggins,  Derby, 

P.  Gorton,  Wilson  Grove  and  Dayton,  ** 

J.  C.  Bantly.  Unity,  " 
R.  Edgar,  Atallssa. 

L.  Mclntyre.  Mt.  Pleasant,  ** 
J.  Liesveid,  Campbell,  Hanover  and  Mt.  Pleasant, 

German,  Neb. 

B.  F.  Bharp.  Gresham,  ** 

C.  H.  ChurehiU,  Stuart,  1st,  and  stations,  ** 
G.  P.  Beard,  Blair  and  station,  '  * 
E.  SmJts.  Craig  and  station,  ** 

C.  K.  Elliott,  Washington  and  Pacific,  Mo. 
W.  J.  Lee,  D.D.,  St.  Louis,  McCaualand  Avenue,  ** 
L.  Abels,  St.  Louis,  Sd  German,  " 

E.  J.  Brown,  Conway  Springs  and  Peotone,  Kan. 
W.  Schiller,  Cleburne.  Bohemian,  '* 
H.  B.  .Tohnson,  Emerson,  MacksviUe  and  St.  John,       *' 
A.  H.  Parks,  Pastor  at  Lance,  ** 
L.  L  Drake,  D.D.,  Humboldt.  " 

D.  R.   Hindman,  Bow  Creek,   Long  Island   and 

J.  M.  £txfhelder,  OsbonM».  ** 

J.  W.  Bailey,  D,D.,  RossviUe  and  Pleasant  Ridge,  " 

E.  Hamilton,  Chickasha,  Rush  Springs,   and  sta- 

tions. I.  T. 
D.  Smallwood,  Girty  Springs  and  Station,  (Cate- 

chist)  " 

a  ManuA,  Catechist  and  Interpreter,  ** 

C.  S.  Vincent,  Wotonga  and  Stations,  O.  T. 

V.  Pazdral,  General  Missionary  to  Bohemians,  Tex. 

F.  McAfee,  Lampasas  and  Stephenville,  ** 

C.  S.  Newhall,  Balrd,  1st,  " 
P.  Q.  Gonzales,  Florence  and  vicinity  (Spanish),  Arts. 
J.  Y.  Perea,  Pajarito  and  stations,  N.  M. 

G.  Stroh,  Del  Norte.  Cot 

D.  E.  Duenlnck,  Manhattan,  1st  and  8d  Holland,  Mont. 
R.  H.  Parker,  Cosmopolis,  Wash. 
M.  G.  Mann,    Nisqually,  Chehalis,  Mud  Bay  and 

vicinity,  " 

J.  M.  Pamment,  Puyallup,  Indian,  " 

J.  H.  Cornwall.  Enterprise  and  Joseph,  Greg. 

J.  A.  Townsend.  Independence  Calvary,  ** 
O.  C.  Weller,  Goldendale,  Klickitat,  1st,  and  Centre- 

ville 

A.  G.  Boyd,  Newberg,  " 
J.  R.  N.  Bell.  Baker  City. 

R  Ennis,  Jacksonville  and  PhoBnlx,  " 

A.  M.  Merwin.  Superintendent  of  Spanish  work,  CaL 
J.  N.  Elliott.  El  Monte, 

A.  J.  Compton,  Inglewood,  " 
H.  J.  Fumeaux,  Pacific  Beach,  1st,  and  Pt.  Loma, 

J.  HemphUl,  Santo  Maria,  " 

F.  S.  Thomas.  Oakland.  Prospect  Hill,  " 
F.  S  Witter,  Elko,  Wells,  Starr  Valley,  Carlin  and 

vicinity,  Nev. 


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[Februaryy 


Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  at  Home, 

JANUARY,    ....  The  New  West. 

FEBRUARY,      ....  The  Indians. 

MARCH,        ....        The  Older  BUtee. 

APRIL, TheCiUee. 

MAY, The  Mormon*. 

JUNE, Oar  Missionaries. 

JULY Results  ef  the  Year. 

AUGUST,  Romanists  and  Foreigners. 

SEPTEMBER,        ....      The  OaUook. 
OCTOBER,       ....  The  Treasury. 

NOVEMBER,  The  Mexicans. 

DECEMBER,  ....  The  South. 

THE  INDIANS. 
Elias  Boudinot,  in  **  A  Star  in  the  West," 
published  in  1816,  famishes  the  names  of 
nearly  three  hnndred  tribes  of  Indians  then 
known  in  this  countrj.  He  gives  it  as  his 
judgment  that  in  addition  to  these  there  must 
have  been  several  hundreds  of  tribes  of  which 
the  whites  had  no  knowledge.  He  estimates 
the  number  of  warriors  at  600,000  and  the 
Indian  population  at  from  2,000,000  to  5,000,- 
000.  Whether  his  data  justified  his  conclu- 
sions or  whether  his  information  was  reliable 
it  is  not  easy,  if  indeed  possible,  now  to 
determine.  But  it  is  a  well  known  fact  that 
the  Indians,  by  oppression,  by  wars,  by  dis- 
eases, by  the  use  of  ardent  spirits,  by  the 
vices  of  idleness  enforced  by  ejection  from 
their  hunting  grounds,  and  by  all  the  misfor- 
tunes which  have  attended  the  constant 
encroachments  of  the  whites,  have  been 
greatly  reduced  in  numbers  and  have  degen- 
erated in  their  moral  character  and  lost  their 
courage  as  warriors  and  skill  as  hunters.  In 
1850  the  number  was  reported  as  400,000. 
It  is  certain,  according  to  the  census  of  1890 
which  is  more  reliable,  that  their  aggregate 
number  was  at  that  time  but  about  256,000. 
President  Cleveland  in  his  recent  message  to 
Congress  puts  the  present  number  at  248,000. 
Taking  the  lowest  number  which  Mr.  Boudi- 
not  allows,  2,000,000,  and  then  making  every 
reasonable  abatement  on  account  of  possible 
and  probable  inaccuracy  in  his  estimate,  still 
the  reduction  in  numbers  has  been  most 
appalling.  Most  of  the  present  num- 
ber reported  as  Indians  are,  in  fact,  whites 
A9d  persons  o(  mi^ed  blood.    Their  entire 


population  now,  including  100,000  in  the 
British  possessions,  is  but  little  more  than 
half  the  estimated  number  of  warriors  alone 
a  century  ago.  The  destructive  processes  of 
the  present  have  evidently  prevailed  ever 
since  the  white  man,  gained  the  ascendency 
over  the  Indians.  The  statements  of  a  mag- 
azine writer  a  century  ago  aptly  present  the 
facts  of  to-day,  showing  that  there  has  been 
at  least  ^'  a  century  of  dUhonor.^^  He  said: 
*'  The  rights  of  the  savage  have  seldom  been 
deeply  appreciated  by  the  white  man.  In 
peace  he  is  the  dupe  of  mercenary  rapacity; 
in  war  he  is  regarded  as  a  ferocious  animal, 
whose  death  is  a  question  of  mere  precaution 
and  convenience.  Man  is  cruelly  wasteful  of 
life  when  his  own  safety  is  endangered  and 
he  is  sheltered  by  impunity,  and  little  mercy 
is  to  be  expected  from  him  who  feels  the  sting 
of  the  reptile  and  is  conscious  of  the  power 
to  destroy." 

DOUBLY  WRONGED. 

*^  It  has  been  the  lot  of  the  unfortunate 
aborigines  of  this  country  to  be  doubly 
wronged  by  the  white  man.  First,  driven 
from  their  native  soil  by  the  sword  of  the  in- 
vader, and  then  darkly  slandered  by  the  pen 
of  the  historian.  The  former  has  treated 
them  like  beasts  of  the  forest;  the  latter  has 
written  volumes  to  justify  him  in  his  outrages. 
The  former  found  it  easier  to  exterminate 
than  to  civilize,  the  latter  to  abuse  than  to 
discriminate.  The  hideous  appellations  of 
'  savage '  and  *  pagan  ^  were  sufficient  to  sanc- 
tion the  deadly  hostilities  of  both;  and  the 
poor  wanderers  of  the  forest  were  persecuted 
and  dishenored,  not  because  they  were  guilty, 
but  because  they  were  ignorant." 

The  same  prejudices  seem  to  exist,  in  com- 
mon circulation,  at  the  present  day.  We 
form  our  opinions  of  the  Indian  character 
from  the  miserable  hordes  that  infest  our 
frontiers.  These,  however,  are  degenerate 
beings  enfeebled  by  the  vices  of  society  with- 
out being  benefited  by  its  arts  of  living. 
Society  has  advanced  upon  them  like  a 
many-headed  monster,  breathing  every  va- 
riety of  misery.  Before  it  went  pestilence, 
famine  and  the  sword,  and  in  its  train  came 
the  slow  but  exterminating  curse  of  the 
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away,  the  latter  has  gradually  blighted.  It 
has  increased  their  wants  without  increas- 
ing  their  means  of  gratification.  It  has 
enervated  their  strength,  multiplied  their 
diseases,  blasted  the  powers  of  their  minds 
and  superinduoed  on  their  original  barbarity 
the  low  Tioes  of  civilization.  Their  spirits 
are  debased  by  conscious  inferiority,  and 
their  native  courage  completely  daunted  by 
the  superior  knowledge  of  their  enlightened 
neighbors.  They  loiter  like  vagrants  through 
the  settlements  amcmg  habitations  supplied 
with  artificial  comforts  which  only  render 
them  sensible  of  the  comparative  wretched- 
ness of  their  own  condition.  The  forest 
which  once  furnished  them  with  ample  means 
of  subsistence  has  been  leveled  to  the  ground, 
and  waving  fields  of  grain  have  sprung  up  in 
its  place;  the  whole  wilderness  blossoms  like 
a  garden,  but  they  feel  like  the  reptiles  that 
infest  it. 

TUIEIK  PBDnnVE  STATE. 

How  different  was  their  case  while  yet  the 
undisputed  lords  of  the  land.  Their  wants 
were  few,  and  the  means  of  gratifying  them 
were  within  their  reach.  They  saw  every 
one  around  them  sharing  the  same  lot, 
enduring  the  same  hardships,  which  were 
therefore  not  hardships,  living  in  the  same 
or  like  cabins,  feeding  on  the  same  food, 
clothed  in  the  same  rude  garments. 

Such  were  the  Indians  in  their  primitive 
simplicity.  They  resemble  those  wild  plants 
that  thrive  best  in  the  shades  of  the  forest, 
but  shrivel  in  the  hand  of  civilization  and 
perish  beneath  the  influence  of  the  sun.  .  But 
their  native  forest  has  fallen  and  they  cannot 
return  to  it.  They  must  perish  or  become 
acclimatized  to  civilization.  The  experiment 
has  been  tried,  and  they  have  constantly 
perished  under  the  influence  of  a  grasping 
coveteousness. 

WHAT  THET  NEED. 

They  must  have  the  gentler  power  of  a 
nourishing  gospel.  This  experiment  has  also 
been  tried  and  the  most  assuring  results  have 
followed.  The  process  must,  of  necessity,  be 
slow,  for  they  have  no  hereditary  intelligence 
to  be  reawakened.  If  there  ever  was  a  state 
of  civilizati(Hi  in  their  ancestry  it  is  too 
remote  to  reappear  eye^   uud^r  \\k^  most 


favorable  conditions.  In  this  respect  they 
duffer  materially  from  the  Mexicans,  the 
Mormons  and  the  mountain  whites.  Among 
these  classes  the  work  is  that  of  restoring  to 
a  state  from  which  they  or  their  fathers  have 
fallen,  but  with  the  Indians  it  is  to  be  a  work 
of  race  regeneration,  and  there  is  no  help  in 
heredity.  They  must  be  educated  away  from 
ancestry  rather  than  back  to  ancestry.  It  is 
the  slow  process  of  planting  the  seed  and 
nourishing  the  germ  of  an  entirely  new  life. 
It  is  not  the  breaking  up  of  *'  fallow  ground,** 
it  is  rather  the  reduction  of  virgin  soil. 

HELPFUL  TRAITS. 

But  there  are  traits  in  the  Indian  character 
that  are  peculiarly  helpful.  No  being  acts 
more  rigidly  from  rule  than  the  Indian.  His 
whole  conduct  is  regulated  according  to  some 
general  maxims  early  implanted  in  his  mind. 
The  moral  laws  that  govern  him  are  but  few, 
but  then  he  conforms  to  them  all.  The 
white  man  has  his  laws  of  morals,  religion 
and  manners,  but  generally  violate  them  all. 

The  Indian  is  accused  of  faithlessness  in 
his  friendships,  treachery  in  his  dealing  with 
the  white  man  and  susceptibility  to  sudden 
provocation.  But  we  must  remember  that 
the  friendship  of  the  whites  to  the  poor 
Indians  has  generally  been  cold,  distrustful, 
oppressive  and  insulting.  In  their  inter- 
course with  the  whites  they  are  seldom 
treated  with  confidence,  and  are  generally 
subject  to  injury  and  fraudulent  dealing. 
Thus  instructed  by  the  example  of  a  superior 
race  and  thus  disciplined  into  retaliation,  they 
but  exhibit  the  passions  common  to  all  races. 

BRIGHT  GLEAMS. 

Notwithstanding  the  obloquy  with  which 
popular  prejudice  has  shadowed  their  reputa- 
tion, there  are  bright  gleams  which  occa- 
sionally break  through,  showing  elements  of 
sturdy  character.  Their  unbending  pride, 
their  scorn  of  danger  and  their  loftiness  of 
spirit  reveal  in  them  the  possibilities  of  a 
noble  manhood.  The  achievements  of  many 
of  them,  who  are  but  partially  trained  in  the 
vocations  of  civilized  life,  promise  greater 
results  in  the  future  and  afford  abundant 
warrant  for  sustained  au4  iucreased  effort  in 
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THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIO  CHURCH  AS 
SEEN  BY  A  CITY  PASTOR. 

REY.  JESSE  F.  FORBES,  NEW  TORK. 

Nearly  opposite  my  residence  is  an  immense 
charoh  edifice,  the  home  of  the  largest  Roman 
Catholic  Communion  in  America.  Seven 
times  every  Sabbath  mass  is  celebrated,  be- 
ginning at  five  o^clock  in  the  morning.  At 
each  of  these  services  the  large  auditorinm  is 
well  filled,  and  at  the  more  elaborate  ritual  of 
eleven  o'clock  it  is  crowded.  As  one  sees  these 
andiences,  he  can  believe  the  statement  that 
this  church  has  more  than  twenty  thousand 
communicants.  A  careful  canvass,  recently 
made,  found  nineteen  hundred  and  seventy- 
two  families  in  a  section  containing  forty 
acres.  Thirteen  hundred  and  sixty-nine  of 
these  families  belong  to  the  Roman  Catholic 
Communion.  Amidst  such  a  population  I 
have  labored  for  the  past  eight  years.  I  have 
seen  something  of  the  spirit  and  know  the 
temper  of  this  church,  where  its  numerical 
preponderance  is  so  great  as  to  enable  it 
to  work  along  its  chosen  lines  without  the 
restraining  force  of  a  public  opinion  opposing 
its  methods.  The  government  of  New  York 
City  is  dominated  by  the  Romanists,  and 
they  are  favored  in  every  possible  way.  Do 
their  methods  threaten  American  liberty? 
Did  Lafayette  speak  the  truth  when  he  said 
**  If  the  liberties  of  the  American  people  are 
ever  destroyed  they  will  fall  by  the  hands  of 
the  Romish  clergy  ? ''  In  what  ways  do 
Romanists  menace  the  Protestant  Church  and 
the  fundamental  institutions  of  the  United 
States  of  America  9 

1.  They  menace  our  Public  Schools,  This 
opposition  is  general  and  well  known,  but  it 
is  especially  virulent  and  active  at  the  present 
time.  We  doubt  not  there  are  some — we  hope 
that  there  are  many — intelligent,  freedom- 
loving,  patriotic  Roman  Catholic  citizens, 
some  of  whom  are  priests,  who  rightly  appre- 
ciate and  truly  love  the  American  system  of 
public  education.  But  what  can  they,  as 
subjects  of  the  pope,  do  to  sustain  this  system 
in  view  of  the  forty-seventh  papal  Encyclical. 

'^  Public  schools  open  to  all  children  for  the 
education  of  the  young  should  be  under  the 
control  of  the  Church,  and  should  not  be  sub- 


jected to  the  civil  power,  nor  made  to  con- 
form to  the  opinions  of  the  age.''  Rome  has 
set  herself  to  the  task  of  ''shivering  our 
school  system  to  pieces.''  The  Spellissey 
School  bill,  prepared  for  the  New  York  As- 
sembly, and  similar  measures  introduced  in 
Maryland  and  New  Jersey,  look  toward  this 
end.  They  ask  an  apportionment  of  the 
school  funds,  and  a  certain  sum  for  every 
child  educated  in  a  parochial  school.  Were 
this  granted  it  would  prove  a  death  blow  to 
our  public  schools.  If  the  Catholics  have 
their  share  of  money  raised  by  taxation  for 
education,  why  not  tiie  Jews,  the  Unitarians, 
the  Episcopalians  f  Every  denomination 
could  claim  an  equal  right,  and  the  present 
method  of  education  would  end.  The  Rom- 
ish Church  desires  this.  The  utterances  of 
Father  Satolli  assert  parochial  education  to  be 
the  coming  policy  of  his  church.  One  of  the 
leading  Roman  Catholic  papers  says: 

The  enemies  of  Catholic  Education  who  per- 
mitted themselves  to  be  deceived  and  deluded  by 
the  utterly  baseless  hope  that  the  great  Ecclesi- 
astic who  represents,  in  the  United  States,  the 
august  and  beloved  Head  of  the  Universal 
Church,  could  possibly  be  in  favor  of  any  other 
educational  system,  will  be  most  grievously  dis- 
appointed and  chagrined  on  reading  his  magnifi- 
cent address  to  the  faculty  and  students  of  Gon- 
zaga  College.  His  noble  utterances  on  Thanks- 
giving day  in  the  Capital  City  of  the  Union 
will  give  a  new  impetus  to  the  cause  of  Catholic 
Education,  aud  encourage  the  faithful  to  still 
greater  efforts  for  the  extension  and  promotion 
of  the  Parochial  School  system  all  over  the 
republic,  in  city  and  country. 

The  issue  is  sharply  joined.  Free  schools 
are  one  of  the  comer  stones  of  American 
liberty.  They  amalgamate  the  people.  They 
prevent  class  distinctions  and  racial  differ- 
ences. Educate  the  children  side  by  side  and 
they  will  grow  together  to  love  one  fiag,  to 
obey  a  common  law,  to  reverence  religious 
liberty.  It  is  almost  our  only  hope  of 
Americanizing  the  millions  of  foreigners 
whom  eve^  decade  brings  to  our  shores. 
The  children,  taught  the  spirit  of  American 
institutions  in  school,  become  missionaries  in 
their  homes.  Parents  cannot  help  their  in- 
fluence. It  is  the  leaven  that  permeates 
many  a  foreign  household,  and  in  our  great 


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cities  it  is  the  sole  point  of  contact  with  onr 
American  life.  A  Roman  Catholic  proverb 
declares  '^Ignorance  to  be  the  mother  of 
devotion/'  Many  of  the  jonng  people, 
educated  in  our  common  schools,  leave  the 
Romish  communion,  because  enlightenment 
reveals  the  errors  of  Papal  teaching.  The 
far-sighted  Papal  ecclesiastics  see  their  danger 
from  this  source  and  are  seeking  to  overthrow 
onr  school  system,  or  at  least  to  educate  their 
children  in  institutions  under  their  control. 
The  issue  of  the  contest  will  be  life  or  death 
to  the  Romish  church  in  America. 

2.  The  Eomanist  menaces  American  liberty 
in  that  he  voluntarily  submits  himself  to 
foreign  domination.  The  United  States  em- 
phasizes the  freedom  of  the  individual. 
Under  our  laws  every  citizen  is  free  to  do  as 
he  pleases,  provided  his  liberty  does  not  in- 
fringe upon  the  rights  of  others.  Romanism 
is  absolutism.  It  denies  liberty  of  conscience 
and  the  right  of  private  judgment.  Loyola 
extinguished  individual  will  in  his  Society  of 
Jesus.  With  the  Jesuit,  the  organization  is 
supreme,  the  individual  nothing.  This  spirit 
pervades  the  Roman  Catholic  communion. 
Every  good  Catholic  is  bound  to  obey  the 
supreme  Pontiff  in  matters  civil  as  well  as 
ecclesiastical.  A  Papal  encyclical  says, 
*'The  Pope  and  the  priests  ought  to  have 
dominion  over  the  temporal  affairs.  The 
Romish  church  and  her  ecclesiastics  have  a 
right  to  immunity  from  civil  law.  In  case 
of  conflict  between  the  ecclesiastical  and  civil 
powers,  the  ecclesiastical  powers  ought  to 
prevail.''  Such  teaching  is  subversive  of 
American  liberty.  Ours  is  a  government 
*'for  the  people  and  by  the  people."  The 
people  rule  themselves.  Self-government  is 
possible  only  as  each  citizen  is  at  liberty  to 
act  as  he  may  decide  is  for  the  best  good  of 
all.  To  surrender  conscience  into  another's 
keeping,  to  promise  primary  allegiance  to  a 
foreign  potentate  is  wholly  at  variance  with 
republican  institutions.  Were  this  the  choice 
of  a  majority,  American  institutions  would 
be  doomed.  I  do  not  anticipate  this. 
America  will  never  go  to  Canossa,  but  it  is 
well  to  be  on  our  guard  and  to  see  clearly  the 
danger  of  foreign  domination.    Many  Roman 


Catholics  claim  to  be,  and  are,  loyal  citizens. 
In  so  far,  however,  as  they  subordinate  their 
religion  to  their  patriotism  they  are  depart- 
ing from  the  teachings  of  their  church. 
Would  that  every  loyal  citizen  of  this  country 
might  ponder  the  following  sentences  in 
which  Cardinal  Manning  represents  the  Pope 
as  asserting  his  claim  to  obedience:  **I 
acknowledge  no  civil  power;  I  am  the  subject 
of  no  prince;  and  I  claim  more  than  this.  I 
claim  to  be  the  supreme  judge  and  director 
of  the  consciences  of  men,  of  the  peasant  that 
tills  the  fields  and  of  the  prince  that  sits  upon 
the  throne;  of  the  household  that  lives  in  the 
shade  of  privacy  and  the  legislator  that  makes 
laws  for  kingdoms.  I  am  the  sole,  last, 
supreme  judge  of  what  is  right  and  wrong." 
Does  any  thoughtful  man  need  argument  to 
convince  him  that  wherever  these  principles 
are  believed  by  the  great  mass  of  the  citizens 
government  by  the  people  has  come  to  an 
end;  or  that  the  holding  of  them  by  several 
millions  is  a  menace  to  the  free  institutions 
of  any  country  where  they  live  ? 

8.  Bomeperils  the  United  States  in  toiih- 
Tiolding  the  Bible  from  her  Communion,  A 
recent  Papal  Encyclical  exhorts  the  priests 
to  study  the  Bible,  but  says  nothing  of  the 
common  people.  It  is  a  gain  to  humanity 
for  Rome  to  allow  even  her  priests  to  study 
the  Bible  for  the  **  entrance  of  God's  Word 
giveth  light."  I  know  the  Bible  is  not 
found  in  many  Roman  Catholic  families  in 
this  neighborhood  and  where  there  is  a 
copy  in  the  house  it  is  seldom  read,  be- 
cause forbidden  by  the  priest.  It  has  been 
my  privilege  to  welcome  to  the  membership 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  several  Roman 
Catholics  and  they  contribute  their  conver- 
sion to  a  knowledge  of  the  Bible  which  had 
previously  been  a  sealed  book.  One  young 
lady,  a  member  of  our  Church  was  subjected 
to  severe  persecution  from  her  Roman 
Catholic  friends,  especially  her  own  mother. 
At  last  she  was  driven  from  home  and  for- 
bidden to  visit  the  family.  In  a  few  months 
her  mother  became  sick  and  the  daughter 
was  recalled  to  nurse  the  invalid.  When  the 
mother  recovered  as  the  result  of  months  of 
patient  nursing  she  again  drove  her  long-suf- 


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f ering  child  from  her  home.  The  question  was 
not  her  attendance  upon  Protestant  services, 
but  reading  her  Bible  quietly  in  her  own 
room.  This  the  mother  would  not  permit,  as 
forbidden  by  the  priest  under  whose  direc- 
tion and  upon  whose  insistence  she  was  act- 
ing. An  open  Bible  is  the  palladium  of  civil 
liberty.  Queen  Victoria  calls  it  **  the  secret 
of  her  country ^s  greatness."  Far  more  is 
this  true  of  the  United  States.  **  Terras 
irradient"  might  well  be  chosen  as  the 
motto  for  this  land.  The  rays  of  Divine 
truth  enlighten  the  world.  Presbyterianism, 
born  at  Oeneya,  was  the  pioneer  in  civil  lib- 
erty. Those  whom  Christ  has  made  free  are 
not  in  bondage  to  any  man.  Close  the  Bible 
to  the  common  people,  teach  them  to  look  to 
the  priests  for  salvation  !  This  would  blot 
out  the  light  from  the  heaven  of  civil  as  well 
as  religions  liberty.  It  would  make  the 
United  States  like  Spain  and  other  countries 
dominated  for  centuries  by  Papal  power.  It 
should  not,  it  must  not  be  true  in  the  United 
States. 

W?iat  is  the  remedy  f  Violent  and  bitter 
assaults  upon  this  church  are  unwise.  They 
simply  strengthen  by  uniting  the  Catholics 
against  the  common  enemy.  To  antagonize 
error  alone  is  to  repel  the  straying  one.  You 
banish  darkness  by  admitting  light.  To  do 
this  we  must  maintain  our  common  school 
system  and  so  improve  the  standard  as  to 
make  the  instruction  superior  to  that  afforded 
in  the  parochial  school.  Most  thoughtful 
Roman  Catholic  parents  admit  this  as  true  of 
the  public  schools  to-day.  Let  us  increase 
their  efficiency  in  every  possible  way.  Pat 
the  school  fund  out  of  danger  by  an  amend- 
ment to  our  constitution  prohibiting  any 
expenditure  of  public  money  for  sectarian 
purposes.  More  than  all  let  us  seek  to  bring 
before  them  the  Gx)spel  plan  of  salvation 
through  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  alone.  The 
common  people  always  hear  of  Jesus  gladly. 
Dogmatic  discussions  do  not  convert  souls. 
The  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus  is  a  power.  Mission 
stations  like  the  McAll  mission  in  France  do 
great  good  in  the  midst  of  crowded  Roman 
Catholic  populations.  A  goodly  number  of 
C<itbolic9  ^TQ  rej^oliMr  i^tte^dants  upon  the  ser- 


vices of  a  Gk)spel  mission  located  only  a  single 
block  from  the  church  referred  to  at  the  com- 
mencement of  this  article.  They  are  willing 
to  listen  to  and  also  sing  the  ^^  Old,  old  story 
of  Jesus  and  His  love."  An  upright  Christ- 
ian life  has  rare  attractive  power.  If  the 
Protestants  let  their  light  shine,  the  Catholics 
will  take  knowledge  that  they  have  been  with 
Jesus.  The  light  is  breaking  among  them. 
Many  Catholics  love  our  common  schools, 
are  loyal  to  American  institutions,  and  are 
becoming  more  and  more  anxious  to  know 
the  Scriptures.  May  God  hasten  the  day 
when  this  great  Church  shall  shake  off  its 
ecclesiastial  hierarchy,  forsake  its  errors  and 
taking  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,  stand 
shoulder  to  shoulder  with  the  Christians  of  all 
denominations  in  extending  the  knowledge  of 
Christ  throQghout  the  whole  earth. 


BOHEMIANS  IN  KANSAS. 

WILLUM   SCHILLER. 

It  was  my  desire  to  work  this  summer  on 
an  original  field.  Such  a  field  I  found  in  the 
Bohemian  settlement  in  Riley  and  Marshall 
Counties,  Kansas,  about  nine  miles  south  of 
Blue  Rapids.  The  oldest  Bohemian  settlers 
came  there  more  than  25  years  ago,  the  rest 
soon  followed.  There  are  now  in  the  settle- 
ment about  60  Bohemian  families.  About 
one-half  of  them  belonged  to  the  Reformed 
Church  in  Bohemia  and  Moravia;  but  from 
the  time  they  set  foot  on  the  soil  of  America, 
they  did  not  hear  the  Word  of  Gtod  preached 
in  their  own  tongue,  and  the  older  ones  of 
them  cannot  even  now  understand  English. 
It  can  easily  be  imagined  what  infiuence  this 
forsaken  condition  had  on  them .  Many  years 
ago,  they  tell  me,  that  they  used  to  gather 
together  for  prayer,  reading  of  the  Word  of 
God  and  printed  sermons,  and  for  the  singing 
of  religious  hymns.  That  was  when  they 
used  to  **sit  and  weep  remembering  Zion," 
Ps.  cxxxvii,  1.  But  they  soon  forgot  the 
heavenly,  and  devoted  more  care  to  the 
earthly  things.  Some  became  unbelievers, 
others  inclined  to  rationalism  and  like  ideas, 
while  the  greater  part  became  indifferent,  so 
that  only  in  a  very  few  families  the  know- 
l^ge^of  tUe  GKwpel  did  ^ot  entirely  di^  QUt, 


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Aa  soon  as  I  came  to  the  field  I  understood 
the  sad  condition  of  the  Lord's  vineyard,  bat 
trosting  in  €k)d,  I  fearlessly  set  to  work  and 
to-day  I  thank  the  Lord  for  what  has  been 
aocomplished  with  His  help.  The  first  San- 
day  about  40  persons  assembled  in  the  school- 
hooae.  The  next  Sabbath  more  than  doable 
the  namber  came.  My  average  attendance 
during  the  summer  was  80  persons,  and 
sometimes  it  grew  to  100.  With  joy  I  no- 
ticed that  the  interest  was  growing  and  the 
Heavenly  Father  was  opening  the  way  to  the 
hearts  of  many.  Our  services  were  also 
attended  by  Catholics  and  people  of  various 
ideas.  The  children  who  were  sadly  neg- 
lected, and  in  many  cases  absolutely  ignorant 
of  religious  things,  I  gathered  regularly  every 
Sabbath  afternoon  into  the  Sabbath-school. 

It  was  an  inspiring  occasion  for  all,  when 
Rev.  V.  Pisek,  of  New  York,  visited  us.  A 
large  multitude  gathered  into  the  school- 
house.  Twelve  mature  children,  which  twice 
a  week  I  taught  in  the  fundamental  Christian 
truth,  confessed  their  faith  and  were  received 
into  the  church.  Some  children  were  bap- 
tized and  the  Lord's  Supper  was  celebrated 
by  about  60  communicants.  Also  three 
Catholic  women  left  their  church  and  joined 
themselves  to  and  rejoiced  with  us. 

More  than  twenty  families  are  connected 
with  the  church,  the  total  membership  being 
about  fifty  or  sixty. 


Letters. 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

HOPEFUL  WOEK  FOR  ITALIANS. 

Rev.  W.  W.  McNair,  Aud&nried  .—While  we 
were  anxiously  waiting  for  a  minister  from  the 
Free  Church  of  Italy,  Mr.  Maugeri,  of  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary,  was  with  us.  Early 
in  August  Rev.  David  Acquarone  came  from 
Milan,  Italy,  highly  recommeaded  by  Dr.  Mc- 
Dougel,  of  Florence,  and  others,  a  young  man 
about  80  years  of  age,  and  of  several  successful 
years*  experience  as  an  evaagelist.  He  promises 
well.  He  was  received  on  probation  after  a  very 
satisfactory  examination  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Lehigh. 

The  work  is  becoming  well  established 
at  Hazleton  under  Mr.  Acquarone's  care.    He 


has  two  services  every  Sunday  and  a  Sunday- 
school  Sunday  afternoons  and  a  prayer  meeting 
every  Saturday  evening,  when  several  Italians 
lead  in  prayer  and  speak  for  Christ.  The  regu- 
lar audiences  are  not  large  but  are  increasing, 
and  we  have  a  devoted  band  of  about  20  consis- 
tent Christians,  whose  influence  is  being  felt 
more  and  more  widely.  We  are  able  to  sustain 
all  these  services  in  our  church  at  Hazleton,  be- 
cause our  ''Mission  Day  and  Night  School" 
teacher,  Mr.  Angelo  Peruzzi,  spends  his  Satur- 
day afternoons  and  Sundays  here  at  Honey 
Brook  (near  Audenreid)  and  at  Latimer,  dividing 
each  Sunday  between  the  two  places,  visiting 
from  house  to  house  and  holding  religious  ser- 
vices. 

Mr.  Acquarone  now  has  charge  of  the  whole 
work,  and  sometimes  takes  charge  of  these  out- 
side services,  while  Mr.  Peruzzi  takes  his  place 
in  Hazleton.  An  association  of  ladies  at  Hazle- 
ton is  taking  charge  of  Mr.  Peruzzi's  support. 
One  of  the  fruits  of  our  work  here  is  Mr.  Vin- 
cent Seraphini,  a  member  of  my  church,  who 
was  received  under  the  care  of  Presbytery  in 
September  as  a  candidate  for  the  ministry  and 
who  is  doing  well  at  Bloomfield  Theological 
Seminary,  and  who  lately  has  won  to  Christ  sev- 
eral of  his  countrymen  at  Bloomfield.  We  have 
atK>ut  thirty  in  our  Day  and  Night  Mission 
School  at  Hazleton,  and  these  children  and  men 
are  thus  brought  under  most  favorable  influ- 
ences, and  some  of  the  boys  and  girls  give  good 
proof  of  being  Christians,  even  leading  in 
prayer,  etc.  We  are  reaching  littl§  by  little  the 
surrounding  towns.  We  wish  to  do  all  we  can 
to  strengthen  our  work  at  Hazleton,  as  the  cen- 
tre of  this  ••  Middle  Coal  Field"  of  the  State. 
Our  Italian  adherents  are  learning  to  give  out  of 
their  small  earnings,  the  collections  each  Sunday, 
averaging  about  |1.25.  One  important  result  of 
our  Evangelical  Italian  Mission  work  is  its  bene- 
ficial influence  upon  the  Italian  Roman  Catholic 
population.  Another  is  its  influence  in  evangel- 
izing Italy,  many  having  returned  to  Italy  who 
have  here  in  our  missions  received  the  Gospel 
and  who  will  help  to  spread  the  light  in  their 
native  land.  

MICHIGAN. 
Rbv.  Petbr  E.  Nichol,  Bay  City ;— We  have 
completed  our  church  building,  and  was  dedi- 
cated on  October  1,  with  a  day  of  blessing  and 
services  that  were  full  of  the  Spirit  of  God.  In 
the  morning  we  had  an  indebtedness  on  the 
whole  property  of  |2,700,  in  the  evening  there 
was  only  about  |500  which  was  not  provided 


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for,  which  is  not  due  for  Beven  jears.  The  sab- 
scriptions  aie  to  be  paid  in  two  years  in  semi- 
annual installments.  This  means  self  denial  on 
the  part  of  some  of  our  people,  but  I  believe 
in  every  case  the  money  was  pledged  judiciously 
as  well  as  generously,  and  I  don't  think  there 
will  be  much  shrinkage.  The  property  now  is 
worth  at  least  |5,000.  The  church  is  very 
attractive  and  comfortable.  The  attendance  is 
increasing.  In  the  evening  the  church  is  full, 
sometimes  crowded,  that  is  the  main  audience 
room.  We  can  open  the  lecture  room  at  any 
time,  which  will  seat  about  150  more.  The 
prayer  meetings  are  increasing  in  numbers  and 
power.  There  have  been  several  conversions 
during  the  last  quarter.  Ten  united  at  the  last 
communion,  September  10,  seven  on  profession. 
We  expect  from  ten  to  fifteen  more  in  two 
weeks.  The  Christian  Endeavor  Society  num- 
bers fifty,  most  of  whom  are  active  members. 
We  have  received  during  the  year  twenty  six 
new  members.  I  have  administered  the  sacra- 
ment of  baptism  to  fourteen  children  and  two 
adults,  and  ordained  two  elders.  The  total 
membership  of  the  congregation  is  now  eighty. 
The  church  was  organized  two  years  ago  with 
twenty-one  members. 


NEW  MEXICO. 


Miss  Sub  M.  Zuveb,  Pena9Co:—We  have  Just 
been  passing  through  a  series  of  feasts  for  the 
**  Saints,"  which  has  made  my  average  attend- 
ance much  smaller.  But  I  am  glad  to  write  you 
that  the  **  Saints'  Feasts"  are  nearly  all  over, 
and  we  can  ha^e  rest  a  short  time.  December  9 
was  the  feast  day  for  Saint  Antonio  (Penasco*s 
Saint).  I  attended  mass  in  the  morning.  The 
church  was  packed  full,  mostly  women,  while 
the  men  and  boys  were  outside  visiting  and 
firing  off  shot  gims,  which  was  a  part  of  the 
service.  After  mass  the  day  was  spent  in  feast- 
ing, drinking  and  horse-racing.  The  principal 
object  of  the  horse-racing  was  to  discover  who 
could  be  the  most  successful  in  tearing  a  limb 
from  a  live  chicken,  which  is  a  game  very  much 
indulged  in  on  the  Sabbath  and  feast  days  here. 


UTAH. 
Rev.  N.  E.  Clbmenson,  Eichfield:^ln  the 
midst  of  adversity  we  have  never  had  greater 
cause  for  thanksgiving  and  hope.  Of  course 
the  financial  stress  and  distress  of  the  past  sum- 
mer and  fall  reached  us  and  is  still  upon  us, 
making  everything  in  a  business  way  very  dull, 
and  depriving  the  people  of  the  ordinary  mar- 
kets and  prices  for  their  produce.    But  not- 


withstanding this  unprecedented  financial  strin- 
gency and  bushiess  depression  our  people  are 
cheerful  and  hopef uL  I  have  their  promise  that 
our  contributions  to  the  Boards  shall  not  be  less 
than  last  year,  the  best  year  in  our  history,  but 
on  the  contrary  we  propose  to  make  a  little 
advance  if  possible.  I  am  at  present  authorized 
to  send  you  |10,  with  the  promise  that  by 
the  end  of  March  next  |10  more  will  be  sent 
you. 

Our  school  is  in  fine  condition  and  in  the 
hands  of  able  and  consecrated  teachers.  The 
school  has  become  popular  this  year.  It  is  vis- 
ited by  the  teachers  of  our  district  and  academy 
schools,  and  by  many  others  who  come  from 
the  adjacent  towns  to  "see  how  the  thing  is 
done,"  and  who  go  away  singing  the  praises  of 
the  Presbyterians  I  This  is  a  new  thing  under 
the  sun. 

Our  Sabbath-school  is  also  in  good  condition. 
It  was  never  so  large  and  interestmg  as  at  pres- 
ent And  tills  is  true  of  the  mid-week  prayer- 
meeting.  The  meetings  were  never  so  well 
attended,  especially  by  young  people,  as  during 
the  past  two  months.  .And  I  think  at  the  Sab- 
bath services  the  Qospel  has  never  received  so 
candid  and  thoughtful  a  hearing  as  it  is  receiv- 
ing now.  The  people  who  attend  the  meetings 
come  to  hear,  and  to  profit  by  what  they  hear. 


Rev.  Thbodobb  Leb,  Spanish  Fork: — ^We 
were  in  quarantine  three  weeks,  measured  by  the 
calendar,  but  years  when  measured  by  our 
experience.  Within  that  short  time  five  of  our 
household  were  in  the  grip  of  that  terrible  dis- 
ease. Within  one  week  three  were  buried 
from  our  little  home.  Two  of  these  were  our 
own  children  and  one  a  little  girl  staying  with 
us.  One  was  my  little  boy,  nearly  four  years  of 
age,  the  pride  and  joy  of  our  home.  The  other 
was  twin  sister  to  our  Theodore  whom  we  bur- 
ied a  year  ago.  She  was  a  beautiful  child  and 
so  dear  to  our  hearts.  You  may  imagine  how 
hard  it  was  for  me  to  take  up  the  work  again,  to 
prepare  my  sermons  in  the  room  where  our  two 
little  ones  died  in  my  arms,  and  to  preach  before 
their  empty  places  in  the  chapel.  The  mission 
work  moves  slowly  this  year,  but  I  am  glad  to 
say  it  moves.  The  diphtheria  scare,  the  fall 
work  which  has  been  unusual  this  year  and  the 
election  just  passed,  have  all  tended  to  keep  the 
children  from  the  school  and  all  from  Sab- 
bath school  and  church.  Still  there  are  hopeful 
signs  and  it  would  not  surprise  me  if  this  should 
prove  one  of  the  most  fruitful  years  of  mission- 
ary  work  in  Spanish  Fork. 


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WISCONSIN. 
Rev.  W.  J.  TuBNBB,  Ebriean: — At  our  recent 
communion  ten  adults  were  added  to  the  Horicon 
Church  on  profession.  The  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  and 
the  Sabbath-school  have  grown  steadily  in  inter- 
est and  numbers,  and  the  Catechism  is  taught 
once  a  week  to  a  class  of  twenty  at  Mayville. 
We  are  reaching  the  Germans  through  their 
children  and  many  infidel  homes  are  opened  to 
the  pastor  and  his  wife.  I  feel  that  this  very 
important  field  must  be  kept  strong  and  sure  for 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  The  congregations  at 
Minnesota  Junction  and  Burnett  have  been  large 
all  the  quarter.  Six  Yrom  Minnesota  Junction 
have  united  with  the  Horicon  Church.  When  I 
began  preaching  at  Burnett  there  was  no  minis- 
ter on  the  field,  but  the  Free  Baptists  are  now  at 
work  with  a  pastor,  and  also  the  Methodists. 
I  believe  that  Qod  wants  us  to  have  a  church 
there,  but  I  will  not  fight  other  churches  to 
establish  ours.  Prayer  meetings  have  been  sus- 
tained at  all  four  points  during  the  week  and 
will  be  until  the  roads  are  impassable. 


COLORADO. 
Rev.  Gborqb  Crissmak,  SotUh  Denwr:— The 
morning  attendance  has  increased  75  per  cent. 
The  evening  attendance  100  per  cent.  The  Sab- 
bath-school shows  a  growth  of  60  per  cent,  and 
an  awakened  interest  and  some  increase  of  mem- 
bers in  the  Young  People's  Society  of  Christian 
Endeavor.  The  prayer  meetings  are  held  in  the 
homes  of  the  people  for  lack  of  a  church  home. 
The  hall  is  available  for  Sabbath  service  alone, 
general  use  being  made  of  it  through  the  week. 
The  prayer  meetings  have  exhibited  a  growth  of 
200  per  cent.,  and  a  deeper  interest  than  any 
other  branch  of  the  work.  Hopeful  indications 
are  growing  out  of  this  prayer  centre,  promis- 
ing good  spiritual  results  for  the  church.  The 
membership  shows  an  advance  of  40  per  cent. 
House  to  house  visitation  is  vigorously  kept  up, 
averaging  from  60  to  70  a  month,  resulting  In 
the  attendance  of  those  who  have  been  non- 
chcrch-goers  for  years.  The  general  lack  of 
employment  has  caused  great  discouragement 
among  many  families  who  are  much  exercised 
about  obtaining  food  and  clothing  as  the  winter 
comes  on,  and  as  yet  no  visible  silver  lining  to  the 
dark  cloud  overshadowing,  but  there  is  a  feeling 
of  trust  in  God  which  is  hopeful. 


ance  at  our  meetings,  as  more  than  half  of  the 
whites  have  moved  away,  also  the  Indian  com- 
pany. During  the  winter  we  have  "Day 
Schooh  "  at  each  station.  In  them  we  teach  all 
who  come  to  read  their  language,  and  give 
religious  instruction.  I  have  a  school  two  miles 
from  the  agency,  and  have  been  teaching  there 
for  two  months.  Have  meetings  there  on  Tues- 
day, Friday  and  Sabbath  of  each  week.  Not  a 
few  have  learned  to  read  Dakota  some.  I  have  a 
class  of  young  men  reading  the  Gk)spel  accord- 
ing to  Matthew.  Singing  is  a  prominent  feature 
in  our  school.  They  love  to  sing  our  Dakota 
hymns.  The  leaven  of  the  Kingdom  is  work- 
ing, and  in  due  season  ''we  shall  reap  if  we 
faint  not." 

My  native  helper  is  on  the  field  at  Deer  Tail, 
and  at  his  work.  With  my  permission  he  took 
a  vacation,  and  went  across  the  Missouri  to  hunt 
venison.  He  has  returned  refreshed,  has  been 
preparing  the  log  buildings  for  winter  and  will 
commence  his  day  school  next  Monday.  The 
interest  is  growing  on  his  field. 

Wolf  Point  station  is  now  occupied  by  Rich- 
ard King  and  wife.  Mr.  King  is  a  licentiate  of 
Dakota  Presbytery.  Mrs.  King,  formerly  Miss 
Rockwell  of  Sisseton  Mission  school,  needs  no 
introduction  to  you  from  me.  They  are  enter- 
ing energetically  on  their  labors  in  that  import- 
ant field.  Richard  King  is  supported  by  the 
"  Native  Missionary  Society  "  among  the  Dako- 
tas.  Mrs.  King  may  apply  to  the  Home  Board 
for  additional  support  as  a  Bible  woman,  which 
support  she  deserves. 

To-morrow  is  our  quarterly  communion  Sab- 
bath. In  the  morning  I  shall  administer  the 
sacrament  at  Deer  Tail,  ten  miles  away,  in  the 
evening  here  at  Poplar,  and  on  Monday  evening 
at  Wolf  Point,  twenty-two  miles  away.  The 
members  of  our  little  church  are  scattered,  and 
as  some  understand  one  language  and  some 
another,  I  go  to  them  and  speak  to  them  in 
a  language  which  they  can  understand.  From 
the  table  of  our  blened  Lord  we  shall  enter 
upon  the  winter's  work,  and  we  look  for  not 
only  the  financial  support  but  also  for  the 
pray&not  God's  dear  children. 


MONTANA. 
Rev.  E.  J.  LiHDSKT,  P<g!p{ar;— Since  my  last 
report  the  "Post,"  known  as  "Camp  Poplar," 
has  been  abandoned.    This  lessens  the  attend- 


lOWA. 
Rbv.  S.  Alexander,  OouneU  Bluff»:^Ln  old 
gentleman,  87  years  old,  whom  we  received  into 
the  church  nearly  a  year  ago,  had  had  no  identi- 
fication with  any  church  for  nearly  fifty  years, 
the  period  of  his  living  in  this  country  after 
he  came  from  England.  He  seldom,  if  ever, 
went  to  church,  but  by  my  being   called  to 


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officiate  at  a  funeral  in  the  family  I  obtained 
access  to  him,  and  he  thereby  to  Christ  and  into 
the  church.  He  is  a  free  contributor  to  our 
church's  needs  and  has  a  good  influence. 

On  a  certain  Sabbath  last  summer  I  received 
his  daughter  and  her  daughter  by  letter  into  our 
church,  and  baptized  the  grand  daughter's 
children  at  the  same  service,  thus  the  fmir 
gen&ratiom  being  present  and  identified  with 
God*B  house. 


OKLAHOMA  TERRITORY. 

Rev.  8.  V.  Fait,  Anadarko:—!  am  sure  any 
one  well  acquainted  with  this  reservation, 
realizes  that  the  "  Indian  Question  "  is  a  small 
one  as  compared  with  the  question,  what  shall 
be  done  with  the  poor  whites  of  this  Indian 
country?  The  Indian  question  in  time  will 
solve  itself.  The  Indian  is  doomed.  He  will  be 
absorbed.  He  is  passing  away.  In  a  little 
while  he  will  not  be  an  Indian.  Many  of  the 
Indian  children  now  are  half-breeds.  Within 
the  next  ten  years  half  the  Indian  children  on 
this  reservation  will,  in  all  probability,  have 
white  blood  in  their  veins. 

The  white  people  drifting  in  and  intermarry- 
ing among  the  Indians,  are  of  the  most  desper- 
ately wicked  and  shiftless  sort.  But  one  thing 
the  Church  must  understand,  these  people  are 
here  to  stay.  The  government  cannot  drive 
them  out,  even  if  it  so  desired.  The  govern- 
ment may  issue  orders  from  time  to  time,  as  it 
has  done  in  the  past  That  will  scare  a  few, 
but  the  effects  of  such  orders  can  only  be 
temporary. 

During  the  quarter  I  visited  the  Cheyenne 
country,  near  Cloud  Chief,  in  County  H.  Re- 
ligiously, this  beautiful  country  has  been  sadly 
neglected.  In  Cloud  Chief,  which  is  but  a  small 
village,  there  is  some  preaching,  but  in  the  sur- 
rounding country  there  are  hundreds  of  homes 
that  never  see  a  minister,  except  a  few  roving 
men  of  questionable  character  who  come  once 
and  are  gone,  and  perhaps  when  heard  of  again 
are  something  else.  A  minister  who  would  be 
willing  to  itinerate  could  do  good  work;  or  a 
well-qualified  Sabbath-school  missionary,  with 
books  and  tracts  could  reach  the  people;  but  the 
people  are  scattered  over  too  much  territory  to 
have  a  settled  ministry  yet. 

There  are  plenty  of  young  people,  but  they 
are  the  most  helpless  I  ever  saw.  They  live  in 
dug  outs,  log  huts,  and  everything  except  a 
house.  What  this  country  needs  is  industrial 
schools.     These  people  must  be  taught  to  work 


and  to  know  how  to  work.  I  mean  the  white 
people.  If  our  men  are  not  watched,  they  go 
about  their  work  like  little  children. 

Four  of  our  children  have  professed  their 
faith  in  Christ  and  their  love  for  Him.  This,  in 
my  case,  would  give  me  great  joy,  but  I  am 
especially  grateful  for  the  privilege  of  reporting 
so  soon  the  conversion  of  the  three  little  white 
girls  about  whom  I  wrote  you  so  frequently  last 
Spring.  Their  exposure  out  in  the  woods  where 
I  found  them  was  very  great  and  was  fast  break- 
ing the  health,  especially  of  the  oldest  For 
eight  years  they  had  not  lived  in  a  house,  and 
most  of  the  time  simply  in  a  wagon. 


INDIAN  TERRITORY. 

Miss  Laura  V.  Smith,  Anadarko : —One  of 
the  greatest  pleasures  we  have  is  day  by  day 
seeing  the  great  improvement  in  each  child 
physically,  morally  and,  we  are  grateful  to  be 
able  to  say,  spiritually.  They  all  seem  fully  to 
appreciate  the  refining,  Christian  home  they 
have  here.  We  earnestly  desire  and  pray  that 
in  each  child  we  may  be  able  to  see  the  fruits  of 
our  work.  We  have  two  children  (a  boy  and  a 
girl)  under  five  years  of  age.  The  little  girl  we 
have  trained  to  be  a  perfect  little  lady.  She  is 
an  Indian  and  very  smart.  We  all  pet  her  very 
much,  but  she  is  such  a  sweet  child  no  one 
could  resist  her.  She  is  very  affectionate  and 
always  like  a  sunbeam.  She  has  a  sweet  clear 
voice  and  sings  like  a  little  bird.  I  teach  music 
in  the  class  room  and  she  can  sing  every  note 
correctly.  One  of  my  little  Indian  boys,  when 
he  discovered  he  had  learned  the  word  my,  was 
so  perfectly  delighted,  he  jumped  up  and  said 
in  a  very  loud  tone,  '*Miss  Smith,  may  be  so 
pretty  soon  we  learn  heap."  Each  new  word  is 
a  perfect  delight  to  him.  He  is  learning  rapidly. 
He  has  the  greatest  love  for  the  Bible  and 
Ootpel  songs.  I  open  and  close  school  with 
prayer.  One  day  he  was  so  impatient  for  the 
prayer,  he  came  to  me  before  school  closed  and 
said,  "Miss  Smith,  can't  we  pray  to  the  Lord 
now?"  He  had  not  been  out  of  camp  two 
months.  I  think  this  enough  to  encourage  the 
faintest  heart  Half  of  the  children  are  under 
ten  years  of  age.  They  are  so  interested  in 
school.  They  play  school  and  teach  each  other. 
I  find  everything  I  teach  them  they  can  bring 
out  in  their  play.  It  is  beautiful  to  see  their 
devotion  to  each  other.  We  never  hear  a  cross 
word.  We  teach  them  to  love  each  other  as 
sisters  and  brothers. 


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'LOG  COLLEGE. 


EDUCATION. 


AN  EDUCATED  MINISTRY,  A  FUNDA- 
MENTAL CHARACTERISTIC  OF 
OUR  CHURCH. 
We  present  in  the  present  number,  accord- 
ing to  our  promise,  a  picture  of  the  famous 
''Log  College,"  which  was  founded  by  the 
Rey.  William  Tennent  in  1727,  at  a  spot 
about  eighteen  miles  noith  of  Philadelphia, 
on  the  old  *'York  Road,"  the  highway 
between  the  two  great  cities  of  this  section  of 
our  land.  It  marks  the  beginning  of  our 
work  in  the  way  of  providing  a  well-educated 
ministry  for  the  Church.  It  is  the  token  and 
evidence  of  the  deep-seated  feeling  in  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  the  wise  men  of  that 
day  that  those  who  undertake  to  be  the  lead- 
ers of  the  people  and  the  ambassadors  of  the 
Most  High  have  need  of  the  most  careful 
preparation  possible  for  their  responsible 
undertaking.     It  was  a  rude  structure  which 


the  College  had  for  its  home,  and  the  means 
of  instniction  were  not  as  ample  as  later 
times  furnished;  but  it  was  the  best  that 
could  be  done  at  the  beginning.  Its  char- 
acteristics of  sound  '*  oithodoxy,  and  evangel- 
ical spirit,  glowing  zeal,  and  abundant  labor," 
have  impressed  themselves  upon  its  distin- 
guished pupils,  and  upon  those  noble  institu- 
tions which  may  be  fairly  regaided  as  its 
children. 

Our  candidates  for  the  ministry  ought  to  be 
familiar  with  the  names  and  character  of  such 
men  as  Gilbert  Tennent,  co-laborer  with 
Whitefield,  and  first  pastor  of  the  Second 
Church  of  Philadelphia;  Sabcuel  Blair, 
famous  for  the  extraordinary  revivals  attend- 
ing his  ministry  at  Fagg's  Manor,  Pa.,  and 
for  the  school  which  he  founded  in  that  place, 
in  which  was  educated  Samuel  Da  vies,  who 
became  President  of    the    College  of   New 

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Jersey;  Samuel  Finlet,  the  foander  of  Not- 
tingham Academy  in  Maryland,  and  later 
President  of  the  same  college  in  which  Davies 
labored  with  such  promise  of  asef  alness  but 
for  so  short  a  time.  These  men,  and  a  nam- 
ber  of  others  almost  as  distinguished  as  they, 
were  the  sons  of  the  old  ^^  Log  College.'' 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Murphy,  D.D.,  the  hon- 
ored pastor  of  the  Frankford  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia,  has  rendered  an  import- 
ant service  in  the  preparing  and  publishing  of 
his  *' Presbytery  of  the  Log  College."  The 
book  is  adorned  with  a  picture  of  the  college 
as  its  frontispiece.  This  picture  is  of  pecu- 
liar interest.  It  enables  us  to  see  the  look  of 
the  old  cradle  of  Presbyterian  learning  and 
mother  of  colleges;  and  it  rises  out  of  the 
mists  of  the  past  as  a  glad  surprise,  for  it  was 
not  thought  that  any  representation  of  the 
historic  building  was  in  existence.  How  it 
was  discovered  may  be  briefly  stated  by  quot- 
ing from  Dr.  Murphy's  book  a  few  lines  writ- 
ten by  the  discoverer.  Dr.  W.  S.  Steen,  a 
member  of  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. : 

I  do  hereby  certify  that  the  accompanying  en- 
graving is  an  exact  reproduction  of  '*a  picture 
of  the  first  college  building  in  this  country  for 
the  education  of  young  men  for  the  ministry  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Eastern  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  which  was  constructed  of  logs,"  which 
I  very  frequently  saw  in  the  Bible  of  a  pious 
miner  of  the  Yuba  mines  of  California,  and 
which  he  had  received  as  an  heirloom  from  a 
grandfather  whose  ancestral  home  was  in  that 
region  of  the  State. 

W.  S.  Steen,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

William  Tennent  died  in  1746.  The  Col- 
lege of  New  Jersey  was  opened  that  same 
year  for  the  reception  of  pupils.  The  '*  Log 
College"  had  done  its  pioneer  work;  and  it 
disappears  from  view  as  the  newer  and  better 
equipped  institution  on  the  heights  of  Prince- 
ton rises  to  take  its  place,  the  heir  of  its 
principles,  the  forwarder  of  its  plans,  the 
realization  of  its  brightest  hopee.  Some  of 
the  most  famous  sons  of  the  old  college  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  the 
new;  and  learning  in  happy  fellowship  with 
religion,  and  the  training  of  young  men  for 
the    Holy   Ministry,    became   characteristic 


features  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  at  its 
very  beginning. 

A  QUESTION  FOB  GOLLIQE-BBED  MEN  TO  SETTLE. 

A  great  responsibility  rests  upon  the  young 
men  who  have  had  the  special  advantages 
which  have  been  prepared  for  them  with  so 
much  thought  and  toil  and  expense  and 
prayer.  Men  who  have  the  true  Christian 
spirit  will  readily  recognize  this.  They 
know  that  they  are  to  give  account  to  Gk)d 
for  all  that  His  providence  has  put  into  their 
hands:  not  only  for  the  money  they  may 
handle,  but  for  such  gifts  as  a  college  educa- 
tion, far  more  precious  than  thousands  of 
silver  and  gold.  As  the  primary  thought  in 
the  work  of  the  **Log  College"  was  the 
training  of  men  for  the  Holy  Ministry,  and 
as  the  same  thought  inspired  those  who  set 
up  the  walls  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
and  of  many  other  colleges  of  our  land,  it  is 
natural  that  the  first  question  which  a 
thoughtful  student  will  ask  himself,  as  he 
draws  near  the  end  of  his  course,  should  be : 
Ought  I  not  to  use  talent  and  education  in 
the  work  of  preaching  the  Gospel?  Many 
men  have  suffered  much  distress  of  mind  in 
the  effort  to  answer  this  question.  There  is 
one  thing  however  which  every  man  can  do, 
and  ought  to  do.  He  can  offer  his  services. 
God  is  calling  for  volunteers.  He  is  calling 
now.  Let  all  our  young  men  volunteer  I  It 
is  not  too  much  to  say  that  every  high-spirited 
Christian  man  in  our  colleges,  who  at  all 
understands  the  situation,  wUl  volunteer. 
All  will  not  be  accepted.  God  will  make  a 
selection.  He  has  other  work  for  some  of 
His  servants  to  do.  But  when  6k)d  calls 
aloud,  as  He  is  calling  now:  <^  Whom  shall  I 
send,  and  who  will  go  for  us?"  let  every 
man  whose  heart  beats  in  love  and  loyalty 
to  Jesus  Christ  answer  promptly  and  cheerily : 
'*  Here  am  I,  send  me  I  " 

"Send  me.  Lord,  where  thou  wilt  send  me; 
Only  do  thou  guide  my  way. 
Let  thy  grace  through  life  attend  me ; 
Gladly  then  will  I  obey. 
Let  me  do  thy  will  or  bear  it: 
I  would  know  no  will  but  thine. 
Sbouldst  thou  take  my  life,  or  spare  it, 
I  that  life  to  thee  resign." 


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OUR  PIOTURB  OF  JOHN  WTTHSBSPOON,  D.D.,  LL.  D. 

The  statue  of  this  illustrious  scholar, 
patriot,  statesman,  dlTine,  stands  in  Fair- 
mount  Park,  Philadelphia,  and  is  under  the 
care  of  the  Preshyterian  Historical  Society. 
It  is  to  the  honored  President  of  that  Society, 
the  Rer.  Wm.  C.  Cattell,  D.  D.,  L.L.  D., 
that  we  are  indebted  for  the  uee  of  this 
picture,  taken  from  a  photograph  made  for 
the  Society.  Witherspoon  was  sixth  in  the 
honored  line  of  Presidents  of  the  College  of 
New  Jersey.  His  name  is  affixed  to  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence;  and  his  stirring 
words,  when  that  document  was  spread  be- 
fore Ck>ngre88,  and  there  was  wavering,  hesi- 
tation and  debate,  are  said  to  have  been 
largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  adoption 
and  signing  of  the  ever-memorable  paper. 
He  spent  six  years  in  Congress  as  the  lepre- 
sentative  of  New  Jersey,  and  many  of  the 
important  state-papers  of  that  period  were 
written  by  his  facile  pen.  The  Theological 
Seminary  was  not  yet  established;  and  Dr. 
Witherspoon,  while  presiding  over  the  Col- 
lege, found  time  to  fill  the  chair  of  Professor 
of  Divinity  in  that  institution.  He  was  also 
pastor  of  the  village  church. 

A  GREETING  TO  THE  ELDERSHIP. 

One  of  the  highly  esteemed  and  hard-work- 
ing elders  of  our  Church  gently  chides  the 
Corresponding  Secretary  because  he  did  not 
expressly  name  the  eldership  in  the  *'New 
Year's  Gieeting,"  which  he  recently  sent  out. 
The  Secretary  would  be  the  last  man  in  the 
world  to  slight  the  eldership.  He  has  mag- 
nified their  office  through  all  of  his  ministry. 
He  intends  to  magnify  it  to  the  very  end. 
He  knows  that  the  elders  are  the  leaders  of 
the  people  in  every  good  work,  and  be  has 
diligently  soaght  out  the  names  of  many  to 
whom  he  might  mail  his  **  Greeting. ^^  He 
now  sends  a  special  message  in  this  paragraph 
to  every  one  of  them.  This  noble  body  of 
men  can  be  of  unspeakable  service  in  the 
way  of  recruiting  for  the  army  of  Christ. 
They  know  the  young  men  of  promise  in  the 
churches,  and  have  opportunities  to  set  before 
their  minds  the  call  for  volunteers.  And, 
when  it  comes  to  the  matter  of  caring  for  the 
recruits,  and  securing  the  necessary  funds  for 


their  training  and  equipment  for  service,  we 
turn  as  naturally  to  the  eldership  as  we  turn, 
when  we  want  instruction  in  morals  and 
religion,  to  the  clergy.  The  Secretary  does 
not  need  to  ask  whether  he  may  depend  upon 
their  co-operation.  He  is  assured  of  it  al- 
ready. 


A  WORD  ABOUT  EDUCATION  COMMITTEES. 

What  a  treasure  a  faithful  chairman  of 
such  a  committee  is,  the  men  in  the  Rooms  in 
Philadelphia  know  full  well.  The  students 
under  our  care  know  it  too.  What  are  his 
characteristics  ?  He  takes  a  personal  interest 
in  the  candidates  under  the  care  of  the  Pres- 
bytery. He  gets  their  application  for  a 
scholarship  before  the  Board  at  one  of  the 


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very  first  meetings  in  the  fall.  He  uses  the 
Forms  provided  by  the  Board  for  that  pur- 
pose. 

He  sees  to  it  that  every  question  is  fully 
answered.  If  he  has  not  the  necessary  infor- 
mation he  takes  prompt  measures  to  get  it. 
He  makes  himself  acquainted  with  the  rules 
of  the  Board,  and  takes  the  greatest  care  not 
to  encourage  a  young  man  to  leave  home  and 
give  up  his  business  on  the  mere  supposition 
that  the  Board  will  be  able  to  furnish  aid.  If 
the  case  is  an  exceptional  one  he  takes  care  in 
the  very  first  letter  to  furnish  full  information 
in  order  that  the  Board  may  be  able  to  form 
an  intelligent  judgment.  He  knows  that  im- 
perfect information  will  make  farther  corres- 
pondence necessary,  and  that  may  mean 
serious  delay,  and  perhaps  suffering  for  the 
candidate.  He  is  not  so  unreasonable  as  to 
find  fault  if  the  Board  cannot  see  its  way 
clear  to  comply  with  the  request  made.  He 
gives  the  worthy  gentlemen  composing  that 
body,  who  give  so  many  precious  hours, 
snatched  from  important  business  and  profes- 
sional cares,  gratuitously  and  lovingly  to  the 
consideration  of  these  cases,  credit  for  intel- 
ligence, tender  sympathy,  and  conscientious- 
ness. If  he  thinks  that  they  have  made  a 
mistake  (and  they  often  do  make  mistakes)  he 
tries  to  induce  them  to  reconsider  the  matter; 
and,  if  his  cause  is  just,  he  probably  succeeds, 
and  gets  what  he  wants.  We  have  just  6uch 
men  now  acting  as  Chairmen  of  Education 
Committees,  and  it  is  a  great  pleasure  to  deal 
with  them.  If  there  are  any  of  the  other 
kind  we  are  not  intending  to  say  anything 
about  it  at  present.  We  will  say,  however, 
that  there  are  some  first-rate  men  at  this  work 
who  have  most  UDintentionally  caused  much 
embarrassment  to  the  candidates,  simply 
because  they  are  new  to  the  task,  and  have 
not  learned  precisely  what  was  necessary  to 
secure  prompt  attention  to  the  men  under 
their  care.  The  men  at  the  office  are  very 
partial  to  veterans  \  and  they  venture  to  ask 
that  the  Presbyteries  will  not  adopt  the  plan 
of  *^  rotation  in  office  ^*  in  the  case  of  Educa- 
tion Committees.  Brethren,  when  you  have  a 
good  man  at  a  work  like  this,  on  which  so 
largely  the  comfort  and  happy  progress  of  your 
candidates  depend,  and  so  largely  our  comfort 


and  peace  at  the  office,  pray  do  not  make  a 
change  unnecessarily.  Entrust  your  candi- 
dates to  men  experienced  in  the  work  of  ten- 
derly and  promptly  caring  for  them,  and 
keep  these  experienced  men  at  their  posts  as 
long  as  possible. 

G0LLE61S  AND  SEMINABT  NOTES. 

The  German  Theological  School  of  New- 
ark, N.  J.,  announces  a  new  departure.  It 
proposes  to  add  a  fourth  year  to  the  course 
of  instruction.  This  is  to  be  known  as 
the  "Pastoral  Year."  The  instruction  is 
to  be  of  a  thoroughly  practical  character, 
and  to  include  actual  work  in  New  York 
City  auxiliary  to  that  of  the  German  Presby- 
terian pastors  of  the  metropolis. 

It  is  stated  that  the  Trustees  of  Wabash 
College  have  added  a  new  course  of  study 
to  the  curriculum.  It  is  to  be  called  the 
**  Literary -Philosophical."  The  degrees  to 
be  had  by  pursuing  this  course  will  be: — 
Bachelor  of  Philosophy,  Master  of  Philo- 
sophy, and  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  There 
is  also  to  be  a  Summer  School;  and  the 
standard  of  admission  to  the  Freshman  Class 
is  to  be  raised. 

It  is  delightful  to  get  good  tidings  of 
the  increasing  numbers  that  are  attending 
the  Theological  Seminaries  of  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  Church.  Union  Seminary,  at 
Hampden  Sidney,  Ya.,  has  seventy  students; 
Columbia  has  between  forty  and  fifty;  at 
Louisville  there  are  twenty-six ;  and  at  the 
Divinity  School  at  Clarksville,  Tbnn,  there 
are  thirty-three. 

Yale  College  is  rejoicing  in  an  increase 
of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  its  en- 
dowment. Five  thousand  dollars  of  this 
amount  goes  to  the  Divinity  School. 


The  Board  has  met  with  a  serious  loss 
by  the  death  of  J.  Duncan  Brooks,  the 
courteous  clerk,  whose  efficient  work  at  the 
office  for  a  number  of  years  has  made  him 
a  prime  favorite  with  all  who  have  had 
dealings  with  him.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev. 
P.  H.  Brooks,  and  himself  a  true  Christian 
gentleman.  It  ¥rill  be  no  easy  task  to  fill 
his  place. 


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The  foUowiDg  extracts  are  from  the  arti- 
cle written  by  the  secretary  of  the  Board  for 
the  special  edition  of  the  Christian  Stetoardy 
the  January  number  of  which  was  exclu- 
sively devoted  to  a  presentation  of  the  work 
of  all  the  Boards  of  the  Church. 

THE  WARDS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

**  It  lies  deservedly  near  the  heart  cf  the 
Church^^^  says  the  report  of  the  last  General 
Assembly's  Standing  Committee  upon  Minis- 
terial Relief  in  Washington,  in  speaking  of 
this  Board.  The  statement  cannot  be 
doubted.  The  aim  of  the  Board  is  to  keep 
from  want  and  suffering  the  missionaries  and 
pastors  of  our  Church  who  have  not  been 
able,  out  of  their  small  stipends,  to  make 
adequate  provision  for  their  support  in  sick- 
ness and  old  age.  It  also  aims  to  make  some 
provision  for  the  minister's  widow  left  de- 
pendent, and  for  his  helpless  orphans.  It 
lies  therefore  **  near  the  heart  of  the  Church.^^ 
Not  only  are  the  claims  of  the  worn-out  min- 
isters never  disputed,  but  when  the  tender 
and  sacred  work  of  this  Board,  in  caring  for 
them  and  their  dependent  families,  is  pro- 
perly brought  before  the  people  they  respond 
with  their  gifts — promptly,  gladly  and  gen- 
erously. 

*'  Three  thousand  five  hundred  and  eighty- 
one  churches  made  no  contribution  to  this 
Board  during  the  last  year^^""  says  the  report 
of  the  same  Standing  Committee  to  the 
assembly  in  Washington  last  May.  But  the 
Committee  are  constrained  to  add :  '*  Surely  it 
cannot  be  that  more  than  one-half  of  our 
churches  have  no  interest  in  a  cause  whose 
appeal  to  us  is  emphasized  by  the  most 
sacred  and  tender  consideration  that  can 
gather  about  any  case  of  beneficence.''  No. 
Ask  the  pastor  of  any  one  of  these  8581 
churches  which  last  year  took  up  no  collec- 
tion for  the  Board  of  Relief,  and  he  will  has- 
ten to  give  some  other  explanation  than  '*  a 
want  of  interest"  in  this  work.     Too  well 


does  he  know  of  the  homes  of  his  suffering 
brethren  where,  to  sickness  or  to  the  burden 
of  helpless  old  age,  there  would  have  been 
added  hard  and  bitter  want  had  it  not  been 
for  the  remittance  from  this  Board  1  Possi- 
bly his  reason  for  not  presenting  the  cause 
to  his  people  may  be  the  one  suggested  by 
the  Assembly's  committee — '*We  suspect 
that  many  of  our  churches  have  allowed  this 
cause  to  pass  by  without  consideration,  be- 
cause they  believed  it  would  be  cared  for  by 
large  contributions  and  that  the  small  gifts 
of  feeble  churches  would  not  be  missed." 
This  is  not  a  very  creditable  reason  for  the 
omission  to  take  up  the  collection,  as  the  pas- 
tor will  himself  probably  admit,  for  he 
knows,  and  the  elders  in  his  session  know 
(to  quote  once  more  from  the  report  of  the 
Assembly's  Committee) — **  that  every  church 
owes  it  to  itself  to  remember  the  Board  of 
Relief." 

A  GENERAL  EXPLANATION. 

But  many  of  these  delinquent  churches — 
was  yours  one  of  them  f — are  without  a  pas- 
tor. To  be  sure,  the  session  of  every  vacant 
church  should  see  to  it  that  the  claims  of  the 
disabled  minister  be  not  overlooked;  but 
alas  I  the  worn-out  minister  is  easily  lost 
sight  of  in  this  age  of  strenuous  activities  in 
the  Church  as  well  as  in  secular  life.  The 
people  know  about  the  work  of  the  great 
mission  boards,  for  the  glorious  advance  upon 
ever-widening  fields  at  home  and  abroad 
is  constantly  before  their  eyes.  They  know 
also  about  the  other  boards  in  which  the 
beneficent  activities  of  the  Church  are  cen- 
tred for  the  pressing,  urgent  work  of  the  liv- 
ing present.  But  the  pastor  or  missionary, 
laid  aside  from  his  sacred  work  by  sickness 
in  the  years  of  his  strength  and  usefulness, 
has  fallen  out  of  sight.  The  half  century  of 
consecrated  toil  and  self-denial  in  the  minis- 
try is  a  thing  of  the  past.  The  patriarch  has 
ended  his  life's  work.     The  ambassadors  for 

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Christ  in  their  sickness  or  old  age,  have 
disappeared  from  the  view  of  the  Church — 
too  often  with  little  or  no  means  of  support 
in  their  bare  and  comfortless  homes. 

The  practical  question  therefore  is,  and  it 
is  one  of  the  utmost  importance : — How  can 
the  agency  established  by  the  Church  for  the 
care  of  the  worn  out  ministers  be  kept  before 
the  people  so  that  it  may  receive  a  proportion- 
ate share  of  their  contributions  to  the  benevo- 
lent agencies  of  the  Church? 

The  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief  has  no 
field  secretary  or  paid  agents  to  visit  the 
churches  and  keep  its  tender  and  sacred 
work  before  the  people.  Nor  has  it  such 
auxiliary  help  as  the  ** women's  boards" 
which,  in  the  great  mission  work  of  the 
Church,  keep  the  people  informed  as  to  the 
work  and  the  workmen,  and  by  a  thorough 
canvass  of  the  congregation  afford  every 
one  an  opportunity  of  contributing  to  their 
support.  The  Board  of  Relief  must  there- 
fore depend  upon  the  pastors  and  elders, 
not  only  to  **take  up  a  collection,"  but  to 
adopt  such  measures  to  inform  their  people 
as  to  the  aims  of  the  Board  and  the  needs 
of  its  Treasury,  as  will  be  sure  to  make  the 
collection  fairly  represent  the  willingness 
and  ability  of  the  congregation  to  give. 
This  involves  much  more  than  preaching 
upon  the  subject,  as  the  Assembly  has  fre- 
quently enjomed  upon  every  pastor  to  do. 
The  ** Circulars  of  Information"  issued  by 
the  Board  ought  to  be  placed  in  every 
household  throughout  our  Church,  not  once 

only,  but  year  after  year. 

*        *        * 

THE  ANNUAL  CIRCULAR  OF  THE  BOARD. 

The  Board  issues  annually,  for  general  use 
among  the  churches,  a  brief  circular  which 
they  will  gladly  supply  to  all  who  may  be 
willing  to  aid  in  its  distribution.  It  does  not 
attempt  to  cover  the  ground  of  the  Adminis- 
tration of  the  Board,  nor  to  present  the  statis- 
tics which  are  to  be  found  in  its  annual  re- 
ports to  the  General  Assembly.  Giving  only 
a  few  of  the  most  important  figures  in  relation 
to  its  work,  it  aims  to  answer  in  the  fewest 
possible  words,  the  question : — Why  do  pas- 
tors and  missionaries  in  protracted  sickness 
or  old  age  so  often  need  the  help  which  those 


in  the  money-making  occupations  or  profes- 
sions manage  to  do  without?  And  the  answer 
to  this  question  shows  why  the  Church  is 
bound  in  justice  and  equity  to  extend  aid  to 
such  ministers;  and  therefore  why  the  appro- 
priations from  this  Board  are  not  to  be 
regarded  as  charity  or  alms,  but  as  the  pay- 
ment of  a  just  debt  which  the  Church  owes 
its  worn  out  servants.  If  this  brief  circular 
were  placed  in  the  hands  of  every  member  of 
the  congregation,  or  even  if,  on  the  day 
appointed  for  the  Ministerial  Relief  Collection, 
its  brief  statements  were  read  by  the  pastor 
or  an  elder  to  the  congregation,  (this  vrill  not 
take  more  than  three  minutes)  can  it  be 
doubted  that  the  response  would  be  such  as 
to  enable  the  Board  to  do  something  like 
justice  to  the  worn-out  servants  of  the  Church 
and  their  dependent  families? 

The  Circular  for  the  present  year,  April 
1808-04,  states  that  there  were  last  year 
upon  the  roll  of  the  Board  722  families 
(embracing  over  2,000  persons)  all  of  them 
recommended  for  aid  by  the  Presbytery 
to  which  they  belong.  Yet  it  states  that 
for  the  support  of  these  722  families 
recommended  by  the  brethren  upon  the 
ground  and  familiar  with  all  the  facts — ^both 
of  their  need  and  of  their  service  to  the- 
Church — **the  entire  contributions  from 
churches.  Sabbath-schools  and  individuals  " 
last  year  did  not  amount  to  $100,0001 

Does  not  this  statement  emphasize  the 
question  with  which  the  circular  concludes : 
— ''Can  you  not,  during  the  present  year, 
increase  the  contribution  from  your  church?" 
It  certainly  has  a  startling  emphasis  for  those 
who  gave  nothing! 


*'  SHE  HATH  DONE  WHAT  SHE  COULD." 
Sarah  Hosmer,  a  factory  worker  in  Lowell, 
Mass.,  sent  fifty  dollars  of  her  earnings  to 
Persia  to  educate  a  young  man  for  missionary 
work.  The  delight  of  doing  good  led  her  to 
repeat  the  sacrifice  and  gift  until  she  had 
educated  five  young  men.  When  more  than 
sixty  years  of  age,  and  living  in  an  attic,  she 
took  in  sewing  until  she  had  saved  enough  to 
educate  the  sixth  missionary. — The  Goiden 
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SWIFT  MEMORIAL  INSTITUTE. 

'* Swift  Memorial  Institute"  is  the  name 
given  to  one  of  the  educational  institutions 
under  the  care  of  the  Board  of  Missions  for 
Freedmen,  which  is  located  at  Bogersville, 
Tenn.  As  a  new  and  commodious  brick 
building  is  now  in  process  of  erection  for  the 
future  use  of  the  school,  and  much  of  the 
money  to  be  spent  at  this  point  is  being  con- 
tributed bj  ladies*  societies,  churches  and 
individuals,  and  more  will  be  needed  to  put 
the  new  building  in  good  running  order  than 
is  now  in  sight,  it  may  be  well  for  the  bene- 
fit of  those  who  have  given,  as  well  as  those 
who  will  yet  give,  to  set  plainly  before  our 
readers  its  past  history,  present  condition 
and  future  prospects.  This  school  is  a  rising 
claimant  for  the  benefactions  of  the  friends  of 
Colored  education  in  the  South.  Its  location 
at  Bogersville,  Tenn.,  is  a  good  one.  The 
region  round  about  has  been  strongly  Presby- 
terian for  many  years,  so  that  many  of  the 
Negroes  have  had  an  introduction  to  Presby- 
terian forms  of  worship  and  methods  of  work 
that  is  favorable  to  the  growth  of  the  work 
in  that  region.  The  work  is  under  the  care 
of  a  good  man,  Bev.  W.  H.  Franklin,  a 
colored  minister  who  took  his  collegiate 
course  at  Maryville  College,  and  his  theo- 
logical course  at  Lane  Seminary.  Mr. 
Franklin  is  himself  a  Tennesseean,  and  has 
given  ten  years  of  good  hard  work  to  the 
education  and  evangelization  of  his  own 
I>eople  in  that  State.  He  has  won  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  both  black  and  white. 

When  I  arrived  at  Bogersville  I  was  some- 
what surprised  to  note  the  prominence  of  our 
building  in  a  little  town  of  1500  inhabitants. 
It  is  without  doubt  the  most  prominent 
building  in  the  place;  and  residents  inform 
me  that  when  it  is  completed  it  will  be  the 
best  building  in  the  town.  It  stands  on  an 
eminence  facing  south,  and  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  town  stands  the  Southern  Presby- 
terian Female  Seminary,  for  whites,  facing 


north.  This  latter  building  is  larger  than 
our  building  will  be;  but,  the  Swift  Memorial, 
I  am  told,  is  superior  in  its  construction. 
Indeed,  our  building,  which  is  116  feet  long, 
42  feet  wide  and  8  stories  high,  seemed  at 
first  glance  almost  obtrusive  in  its  promi- 
nence; but,  the  selection  of  the  site  was  not 
made  designedly  for  the  purpose  of  thrustmg 
our  work  on  the  attention  of  the  quiet  and 
peaceable  inhabitants  of  the  town.  It  was 
almost,  I  may  say,  by  accident;  or  at  least 
without  premeditated  thought  as  to  its  promi- 
nence that  this  site  was  first  obtained.  Ten 
years  ago,  Mr.  Franklin  took  charge  of  the 
work  of  preaching  and  teaching  in  Bogers- 
ville. At  that  time  there  was  a  small  build- 
ing on  the  north  side  of  the  town  that 
belonged  originally  to  the  old  Freedmen*s 
Bureau  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Mr.  Franklin 
obtained  possession  of  this  building  and 
started  his  school.  People  of  his  own  race,  I 
am  told,  who  did  not  care  to  have  a  Presby- 
terian school  just  there,  secured  an  injunction 
against  his  occupying  the  building,  and  he 
was  compelled  to  vacate  for  a  few  weeks. 
Later  on  a  decision  was  given  in  his  favor 
and  he  returned  to  that  place,  only  to  find 
one  morning,  after  he  had  successfully  re- 
sumed his  work,  that  the  building  had  acci- 
dentally or  otherwise  taken  fire  in  the  night 
and  disappeared  in  smoke.  This  compelled 
Mr.  Franklin  to  £eek  other  quarters,  as  he 
was  determined  to  pursue  His  work  in  the 
face  of  all  obstacles.  He  found  some  small 
buildings  available,  not  far  from  the  scene  of 
his  former  labors,  which  he  could  secure  at  a 
reasonable  price;  and,  in  connection  with  aid 
from  the  Board,  and  some  assistance  from 
friends  in  the  town,  he  secured  the  lot  and 
the  buildings,  which  were  originally  dwel- 
lings, but  which  he  put  in  shape  for  school 
purposes.  These  humble  buildings  Mr. 
Franklin  occupied  for  a  number  of  years. 

In  1887,  when  Bev.  Dr.  Swift,  who  had 
been  for  so  many  years  President  of   the 

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Board  of  Missions  for  Freedom,  died,  a  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  select  sorae  school  to 
be  named  after  him  in  recognition  of  his 
interest  in,  and  yaluable  services  contributed 
to  our  work  among  the  freedmen.  Mr. 
Franklin^s  school  was  then  a  prosperous  and 
growing  parochial  school,  and  the  Board 
decided  to  give  it  the  name  of  '*  Swift 
Memorial  Institute."  SeverHl  years  elapsed 
before  the  Board  felt  justified  in  enlarging 
Mr.  Franklin's  work ;  bat,  recently  in  view  of 
encouragement  received  from  Ladies^  Societies, 
and  other  sources,  they  determined  to  build 
an  institution  that  would  be  worthy  of  our 
church,  and  a  suitable  memorial  to  the  name 
of  this  honored  man  of  Grod.  The  site  on 
which  these  old  buildings  stood  naturally  be- 
come the  site  for  the  new  building,  and  when 
at  last  it  took  the  place  of  these  humble 
structures,  it  stood  forth,  as  I  have  said,  as 
probably  the  most  prominent  building  in  the 
town. 

The  people  of  Rogersville,  many  of  them 
no  doubt  were  greatly  surprised  to  see  this 
building  make  its  appearance;  and,  some 
criticisms  were  offered  as  might  be  natural 
under  the  circumi^tances,  concerning  its  pro- 
nounced conspicuousness.  All  comment, 
however,  on  this  point  has  about  subsided, 
and  many  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  visit 
the  building  now  in  process  of  construction, 
admire  its  substantialness,  and  congratulate 
the  colored  people  on  their  prospective  pos- 
session of  so  fine  an  edifice  for  their  school. 
The  building  is  plain  in  its  structure,  and  no 
extra  money  has  been  expended  in  mere  orna- 
mentation. When  finished  it  will  accommo- 
date about  fifty  or  sixty  boarders;  and  these 
are  to  be  exclusively,  females.  The  school  is 
a  mixed  school,  and  since  the  new  building 
has  been  commenced  the  Public  School  Com- 
missioners have  voluntarily  granted  to  Mr. 
Franklin  the  Public  School  Fund  that  had 
previously  been  granted  to  other  colored 
teachers  in  the  town.  This  they  did,  first 
because  these  other  teachers  had  not  done 
good  work,  and  secondly,  because  they  saw 
that  Mr.  Franklin^s  school  could  and  would 
undoubtedly  do  better  work,  under  better 
appointments,  for  the  colored  people.  This 
arrangement  gives  Mr.  Franklin  one  additional 


teacher  whose  salary  the  Board  is  not  required 
to  pay;  and  leaves  Mr.  Franklin  the  privilege 
of  naming  the  teacher  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Board.  Under  this  present  arrange- 
ment, of  course,  boys  and  girls  will  both 
attend  the  school;  but  there  is  no  provision 
for  the  boarding  of  boys.  Such  as  come  to 
the  town  for  educational  advantages  will 
board  elsewhere;  and  under  present  arrange- 
ments at  quite  a  distance  from  the  main 
building.  The  whole  town  is  naturally 
unusually  interested  in  watching  the  progress 
of  Mr.  Franklin's  work.  They  have  been 
surprised  at  his  success,  and  as  far  as  I  heard 
expression  they  are  gratified  to  know  that  he 
is  being  so  generously  supported  by  his 
friends  in  the  North.  Even  the  colored  people 
of  other  denominations,  who  usually  fight 
our  schools  when  they  are  small,  and  patron- 
ize them  after  they  find,  later  on,  that  they 
have  come  to  stay,  are  now  all  enthusiastic 
over  Mr.  Franklin^s  work.  What  we  have 
done  and  are  now  doing  for  colored  education 
in  Rogersville  has  led  some  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  place  to  entertain  exaggerated  notions 
of  what  we  are  going  to  do;  and  I  found  the 
impression  on  some  minds  was  that  the 
present  build  log  was  but  half  of  what  is  yet 
to  be  done  at  that  point.  One  man,  who  had 
furnished  material  for  the  present  building, 
asked  me  when  we  expected  to  begin  the  boys' 
building,  and  seemed  somewhat  surprised, 
and  possibly  disappointed,  to  hear  that  we 
had  no  plans  at  present  for  any  such  addition. 
If  this  ever  comes  it  will  be  some  years  hence. 
At  present  we  will  do  well  if  we  can,  without 
financial  embarrassment,  put  Swift  Memorial 
Institute  in  good  running  order.  It  is  the 
only  important  extension  work  that  we  were 
not  obliged  to  stop  when  the  panic  of  last 
summer  made  money  so  scarce.  We  were 
enabled,  with  difficulty,  but  successfully,  to 
meet  the  payment  that  came  due  exactly 
when  the  panic  made  its  appearance.  Since 
then  things  have  been  easier  and  the  work 
has  progressed  without  interruption. 

We  are  spending  about  $16,000  on  the 
building;  but  that  does  not  take  into  account 
the  furnishing  of  the  rooms;  or  the  appa- 
ratus necessary  for  heating;  or  other  expen- 
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experience  in  establishing  an  educational  in- 
stitution of  this  kind  is  that  before  Mr.  Frank- 
lin is  thoroughly  equipped  for  his  work  in 
Bogersyille,  on  the  scale  on  which  it  has  been 
projected,  the  amount  expended  will  not  fall 
far  short  of  $20,000.  If  generous  friends, 
interested  in  our  work  among  the  colored 
people,  are  looking  for  a  place  where  their 
money  will  be  likely  to  do  the  most  good,  I 
do  not  hesitate  to  suggest  to  them  the  '  *■  Swift 
Memorial  Institute  "  at  Rogersville,  Tenn.,  as 
one  of  the  places.  Contributions  to  furnish 
rooms  or  toward  scholarships  for  girls,  which 
cost  about  $45.00  per  year,  are  greatly  needed 
at  that  place.  The  school  will  be  ''As  a 
City  that  is  set  upon  a  hill,*'  and  I  trust, 
in  years  to  come,  will  be  as  prominent  a 
factor  in  the  important  work  of  elevating 
the  Negroes  as  it  is  now  a  prominent  srtucture 
in  the  quiet  town  in  which  it  stands. 

The  arrangement  of  the  building  is  simple 


and  practical.  The  lower  story  is  for  kitchen, 
dining-room,  laundry,  etc.  The  second  story 
is  devoted  to  class-rooms,  offices,  chapel,  etc., 
and  the  third  story  is  set  apart  for  dormi- 
tories,— containing  fourteen  rooms,  each  of 
which  is  expected  to  accommodate  four  stu- 
dents, as  a  rule.  The  rooms  are  all  light 
and  airy;  and  the  whole  building  will  be 
a  credit  to  the  friends  of  the  work  who  have 
contributed  to  its  construction,  to  the  honor  of 
the  Board  and  the  church  that  inspired  its 
erection ;  and  at  the  same  time  it  will  stand 
as  evidence  of  the  faithful  and  indefatigable 
labors  of  Mr.  Franklin— who  by  his  past 
services  drew  attention  to  this  point  as  a 
suitable  place  in  which  to  rear  an  institution 
that  would  honor  the  name  and  perpetuate 
the  memory  of  the  services  of  Rev.  Eliot  E. 
Swift,  D.  D.,  in  the  cause  of  Negro  Edu- 
cation. Edward  P.  Cowan, 

Corresponding  Secretary. 


PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK. 


SCOPE  OF  SABBATHSCHOOL  MISSION 
WORK. 
The  range  of  work  included  within  the 
benevolent  operations  of  this  Board  is  far 
greater  than  is  likely  at  first  sight  to  strike 
the  casual  reader.  The  primary  aim  is  to 
establish  Sabbath- schools  in  places  destitute 
of  the  means  of  grace,  and  in  connecbion 
with  this  to  visit  and  strengthen  weak 
schools.  In  following  up  this  practical  pur- 
pose the  work  divides  and  subdivides  into  a 
number  and  variety  of  subsidiary  aims  calling 
for  a  judicious  adjustment  of  means  to  ends, 
a  constant  study  of  the  drift  and  character  of 
our  ever-changing  population,  a  wise  selection 
of  agents  and  methods  of  work,  and  thorough 
and  systematic  oversight  of  everything  relat- 
ing to  the  movement.  To  establish  a  Sab- 
bath-school means  first,  the  discovery  or 
selection  of  a  locality  and  a  careful  and  con- 
scientious house-to-house  visitation.  The 
missionary  must  have  the  spirit  of  an  explorer 
and  a  body  able  to  bear  the  fatigue  of  long 
tramps  on  foot  often  in  wild  and  uninviting 


places.  He  distributes  Bibles  and  good  liter- 
ature, selling  and  giving  away  at  discretion. 
Here  are  three  distinct  aims,  and  as  yet  the 
Sabbath-school  in  a  given  locality  is  not  a 
reality  and  may  never  become  such. 

The  field  chosen,  then  comes  a  demand  for 
a  new  order  of  faculties  and  new  methods  of 
work.  The  explorer,  evangelist  and  col- 
porteur becomes  a  promoter  and  organizer. 
People  of  differing  prejudices  have  to  be 
brought  together  and  enthused  in  a  common 
cause.  Not  only  must  there  be  created 
a  machinery  of  motion,  but  power  must  be 
put  into  it.  Public  meetings  must  be  ad- 
dressed, public  spirit  aroused,  and  workers 
enlisted. 

The  conditions  of  the  work  vary  in  differ- 
CHt  States.  In  the  vast  prairie,  mountain, 
and  mining  regions  of  the  West  and  North- 
west, people  of  different  nationalities  are 
found.  Sometimes  it  becomes  necessary  to 
approach  them  with  special  agencies.  One 
of  the  largest  Bohemian  churches  in  the 
country  is  a  direct  outcome  of  Sabbath-school 


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mission  work.  The  work  among  the  colored 
population  in  the  South  is  carried  on  by 
educated  men  of  color.  The  mountain  white 
population  of  the  South  forms  a  peculiar  and 
most  interesting  field. 

In  one  sense  the  work  done  through  the 
agency  of  this  Board  is  thoroughly  denomina- 
tional, inasmuch  as  it  is  entirely  under  the 
control  of  the  several  Presbyterips.  In  each 
Presbytery  there  is  a  standing  committee  on 
publication  and  Sabbath-school  work,  to 
which  is  committed  the  duty  of  correspond- 
ing with  the  Sabbath-school  missionaries 
employed  within  its  bounds  and  no  mission- 
ary is  employed  without  the  consent  of  the 
Presbytery.  There  are  synodical  Sabbath- 
school  missionaries  with  the  oversight  of  the 
work  within  the  bounds  of  the  synods.  The 
general  superintendence  of  the  entire  work  is 
under  the  direct  control  of  the  €h>neral 
Assembly.  But  experience  has  shown  the 
wisdom  of  allowing  the  missionaries  to  exer- 
cise their  own  judgment  to  a  great  extent  in 
deciding  whether  any  particular  school  shall 
be  organized  as  a  Presbyterian  school  or 
otherwise.  There  are  very  many  cases  in 
which  the  attempt  to  make  a  school  avowedly 
Presbyterian  from  the  start  would  be  to  de- 
feat the  movement.  On  the  other  hand  the 
willingness  of  our  missionaries  to  place  de- 
nominational preferences  in  the  background 
when  the  people  for  any  reasons  object  to 
the  denominational  mark  is  doing  much  to 
bring  our  church  into  favor  where  it  has 
heretofore  been  scarcely  known. 

In  addition  to  the  missionaries  permanently 
employed,  now  69  in  number,  the  Board 
commissions  about  an  equal  number  of  stu- 
dent missionaries  during  the  four  vacation 
months  of  the  year  to  labor  in  different  fields 
under  the  general  direction  of  the  permanent 
missionaries.  Here  and  there  some  criticisms 
have  been  offered  in  regard  to  this  particular 
policy  on  the  ground  that  the  student  work 
lacks  stability,  that  many  little  schools  have 
organized  which  soon  disappear  from  view. 
Due  consideration  has  been  given  to  these 
criticisms,  but  the  overwhelming  testimony 
is  in  favor  of  the  policy  in  question,  after 
making  all  allowances  for  drawbacks  and 
discouragements  incidental  thereto. 


The  superintendence  of  this  work  involves 
not  only  a  wise  choice  of  missionary  agents, 
but  a  constant  supervision  and  direction  both 
of  the  men  and  their  work.  The  monthly 
reports  of  each  missionary  cover  every  detail 
of  daily  occupation,  and  are  carefully  scru- 
tinized by  the  chairman  of  his  Presbyterial 
Ck>mmittee  and  by  his  synodical  superintend  • 
ent  before  transmission  to  the  department. 
The  correspondence  of  the  superintendent 
with  the  missionaries  is  of  growing  import- 
ance and  interest. 

The  statistics  of  the  work  are  furnished  by 
the  missionaries  to  the  department  on  blank 
forms  prepared  with  great  care  and  are 
methodically  arranged  and  tabulated.  The<^e 
statistics  cover  every  important  feature  of  the 
work,  and  include  a  thorough  census  taken 
every  year  of  the  schools  organized  the  year 
preceding,  showing  their  condition,  if  alive, 
their  denominational  standing,  and  other  facts 
of  interest.  A  record  is  also  kept  of  churches 
growing  out  of  Sabbath-schools  organized  by 
our  missionaries. 

To  all  the  foregoing  features  of  this  work 
must  be  added  that  of  grants  of  Sabbath- 
school  literature  and  supplies  and  correspond- 
ence relating  thereto. 

To  keep  this  machinery  going  a  steady  sup- 
ply of  money  is  needed.  Two-thirds  of  the 
net  profits  of  the  Board  of  Publication  are 
annually  passed  over  to  the  department  of 
Sabbath-school  work.  Last  year  this  source 
produce  1  about  $25,700.  The  expenditures 
of  the  department  aggregated  about  $120,- 
000,  and  were  substantialiy  covered  by  the 
receipts,  about  $02,000  coming  in  from 
churches.  Sabbath-schools  and  individual  con- 
tribations,  and  the  rest  from  interest  on  invest- 
ments. In  view  of  the  new  work  constantly 
opening  before  the  Board  the  Oeneral  Assem- 
bly of  last  year  recommended  the  churches 
to  raise  $200,000  for  the  current  year.  It  is 
certain  that  this  higher  sum  will  not  be 
reached  this  year,  but  it  is  not  too  much  to 
ask  for  or  to  expect  in  the  near  future. 

To  keep  the  Sabbath-school  work  of  the 
Board  fairly  before  the  churches,  Sabbath- 
schools,  Endeavor  societies  and  individnals 
is  a  service  which  demands  no  little  thought 
and  labor.     It  is  not  merely  the  raising  of 


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money  that  is  to  be  considered,  but  the  duty 
of  informing  and  educating  our  people  as  well 
as  the  public  at  large  in  the  aims  and  advan- 
tages of  the  work.  Our  respective  Church 
newspapers  have  earned  the  thanks  of  the 
Board  by  the  freeness  with  which  they  have 
opened  their  columns  to  its  communications, 
some  having  on  two  occasions  last  year  given 
an  entire  page  to  articles  bearing  on  our 
work.  In  addition  to  a  liberal  use  of  the 
printed  page  the  department  carries  on  a 
large  correspondence.  It  prepares  special 
exercises  for  Children*s  Day  and  programmes 
and  suggestions  for  Rallying  Day  and  a  united 
movement  in  October  for  gathering  neglected 
children  into  our  schools.  It  also  circulates 
among  contributing  Sabbath-schools  special 
quarterly  missionary  letters  from  all  sections 
of  the  field. 

In  this  brief  survey  we  have  not  taken 
into  account  what  may  be  termed  the  educa- 
tiona]  features  of  our  Sabbath  school  work, 
the  improvement  of  Sabbath- schools,  the 
preparation  of  graded  lessons,  the  mitiation 
and  fostering  of  special  departments  of  enter- 
prise, such  as  the  Home  Department  and  Book 
Institutes  and  Normal  classes  and  Convention 
Work.  All  these  matters  receive  careful 
attention,  but  a  further  consideration  of  them 
in  these  pages  must  be  postponed  till  a  future 
number. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  range  of  Sab- 
bath-school mission  work  is  wide  and  com- 
prehensive and  that  it  demands  and  deserves 
the  employment  of  no  mean  measures.  It  is, 
as  now  organized,  the  youngest  child  of  the 
Church,  and  up  to  the  present  time  its  work 
may  have  been  regarded  as  somewhat 
experimental.  That  stage  is  now  passed. 
It  is  no  longer  an  experimental  work.  As  an 
arm  of  Christian  warfare  it  has  fairly  estab- 
lished its  claim  to  recognition.  It  has  won 
the  generous  and  thorough  endorsement  of 
our  Board  of  Home  Missions  with  its  entire 
staff  of  administrative  and  executive  officers 
in  the  office  or  on  the  field.  It  is  the  advanced 
skirmishing  line  and  light  brigade  of  the 
church  militant,  and  not  only  in  this  land  but 
in  other  nations  and  on  every  foreign  mission 
field  it  is  felt  to  be  indispensable  to  the  progress 
of  evangelization  and  the  planting  of  churches. 


RALLYING  DAY  AND  THE  UNITED 
MOVEMENT. 

Acting  under  the  recommendation  of  the 
General  Assembly  the  Sabbath-school  and  the 
Missionary  Department  in  September  issued 
circulars  to  superintendents  throughout  our 
Church  asking  them  to  observe  Sabbath, 
September  24th,  as  a  ** rallying  day"  for 
teachers  and  scholars,  and  as  the  beginning 
of  a  united  movement  during  October  for  the 
canvassing  of  districts  adjacent  to  schools,  and 
the  ingathering  of  children.  Leaflets  explan- 
atory of  the  movement,  visitors^  books  and 
cards  of  welcome  were  also  prepared  and 
widely  circulated.  A  number  of  original 
articles  bearing  on  the  subject  were  collected 
and  published  in  our  Church  newspapers, 
together  with  a  finely  executed  engraving 
serving  as  a  general  title  for  the  collection. 
As  the  result  of  these  efforts  there  is  reason 
to  believe  that  rallying  day  was  very  gen- 
erally observed  throughout  our  Church, 
followed  by  special  visitation  for  the  increase 
of  the  Sabbath-school  membership,  and  that 
the  movement  has  been  greatly  blessed. 


FREE  LIBRARIES. 
The    following  letter,  acknowledging  the 
reception  of  one  of  our  Free  Libraries,  was 
recently  received  from  Missouri : 

'*  The  library  so  kindly  given  by  the  Board  of 
Publication  to  the  Latlirop  Presbyterian  Sab- 
bath-school, arrived  in  good  shape,  and  the 
scholars,  teachers,  and  officers,  are  alike  de- 
lighted with  it. 

"In  accordance  with  the  unanimous  vote  of 
the  school,  I  hereby  teuder  to  the  Board  our  sin- 
cere thanks.  Already  the  gift  has  resulted  in  a 
considerable  increase  in  attendance — a  Sunday- 
school  library  being  an  innovation  in  this  portion 
of  the  country— and  I  trust  that  much  perma- 
nent good  may,  through  the  providence  of  God, 
finally  result  from  this  donation.  May  God 
bless  you,  and  the  Board  which  you  represent. 


The  half  hearted  measuie  in  which  we 
evangelize  the  age  deserves  and  brings  failure. 
Steam  and  electricity  in  religion  will  win: 
old-fashioned,  easy-going  methods  mean  de- 
feat. We  have  not  heretofore  won  the  age ; 
let  us  not  put  all  the  blame  upon  the  age. — 
Archbishop  Ireland, 


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CHURCH    ERECTION. 


TWELVE  NEW  CHURCHES  EVERY  DAY. 

A  few  days  ago  a  note  of  enqnirj  was  sent 
to  our  office,  in  which  it  was  said  that  it  had 
been  recently  stated  in  Boston  by  a  well- 
known  preacher,  himself  independent  of  all 
denominational  connections,  that  $80,000,000 
were  spent  in  the  West  each  year  building  un- 
necessary churches. 

This  statement  set  us  upon  the  examina- 
tion of  such  facts  and  statistics  within  our 
reach  as  bore  upon  the  question,  with  the  fol- 
lowing results : 

1.  There  were  in  1891  6,861  church  edi- 
fices in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the 
present  number  may  be  estimated  at  7,000. 

2.  Their  value  ascertained  in  1891  was  $68, - 
801,894,  and  may  be  estimated  at  the  present 
time  as  $70,000,000. 

8.  Of  these  about  one-third  in  number  and 
about  one-seventh  in  value  are  west  of  the 
Mississippi. 

4.  The    average    value    of   Presbyterian 
church   edifices  throughout  the  country  is 
about  $10,000,  and  of  those  west  of  the  Mis 
sissippi  about  $4,000. 

5.  In  the  year  ending  April  1,  1898,  this 
Board  aided  in  building  154  church  edifices, 
of  which  about  two-thirds — say  100 — were 
west  of  the  Mississippi,  and  of  these  latter 
the  average  cost  was  about  $2,500. 

6.  Of  churches  built  without  the  aid  of  the 
Board  we  have  no  statistics,  but  as  an  aver- 
age of  two  hundred  new  churches  are  organ- 
ized every  year  in  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  many  old  churches  (certainly  as  many  as 
one  in  every  thirty)  are  rebuilding,  it  may 
be  safely  estimated  that  in  the  Presbyterian 
Chuich  alone  four  hundred  church  edifices 
are  built  each  year,  about  one-half  of  which 
are  west  of  the  Mississippi. 

7.  Estimating  the  average  value  of  these 
edifices  at  $10,000,  and  of  those  west  of  the 
Mississippi  at  $5,000,  there  is  expended  an- 
nually in  the  Presbyterian  Church  alone  $4,- 
000,000  for  church  edifices,  of  which  one- 

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quarter,  or  $1,000,000  is  used  west  of  the 
Mississippi. 

But  the  Presbyterian  Church  is  only  one  of 
the  several  branches  of  Christ's  Church  in 
this  country,  and  its  work  does  not  constitute 
more  than  one-twelfth  of  the  work  accom- 
plished by  the  combined  forces  of  the  Protes- 
tant Christian  host  in  this  land.  Therefore, 
it  may  be  safely  said  that  not  less  than  four 
thousand  and  eight  hundred  church  edifices 
for  Protestant  Christians  are  erected  each 
year,  and  of  these  about  one-half,  or  two 
thousand  and  four  hundred,  west  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi. The  money  expended  annually  in 
this  work  is  doubtless  between  forty  and  fifty 
millions  of  dollars,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
every  day  in  the  year  more  than  ttodve  new 
churches  are  completed  in  this  country  and 
dedicated  to  the  worship  of  the  Triune  God. 

SEVERAL  CONOLUSIONS  ABE  EVIDENT. 

1 .  The  figures  and  estimates  give  no  ground 
for  the  extravagant  statement  above  quoted 
that  $80,000,000  are  annually  spent  unneces- 
sarily in  building  churches  at  the  West.  On 
the  contrary,  accepting  the  most  enthusiastic 
notions  in  regard  to  the  sweeping  away  of  all 
denominational  lines  and  consolidating  the 
congregations  in  every  village,  not  even  the 
most  Utopian  or  even  millennial  view  could 
dispense  with  more  than  one- quarter  of  the 
churches  now  organized.  Upon  the  whole 
we  are  inclined  to  think  that  the  speaker,  if 
he  made  any  statement  at  all,  was  misquoted 
and  that  his  figures  were  $8,000,000. 

2.  Such  facts  as  we  have  cited  are  a  most 
eloquent  answer  to  the  not  infrequent  cry  of 
skeptics  and  assailants  of  our  faith  that  the 
Christian  religion  is  losing  its  hold  upon  the 
modem  mind.  An  influence  that  is  constantly 
widening  and  growing  and  every  year  calling 
for  a  larger  expenditure  than  the  year  before, 
and  finding  moreover  a  cheerful  response  to 
its  call,  is  not  losing  its  hold  upon  the  minds 


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of  even  the  men  of  the  closing  decade  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  Notwithstanding  the 
attacks  from  without  and  the  imperfect  faith 
and  the  too  languid  service  of  those  within, 
the  Church  of  Christ  in  this  country  is  still 
to-day,  as  Dr.  Carroll  in  his  hook  '''The 
ReligumB  Forces  of  the  United  States^ "  asserts, 
*  *  the  mightiest^  most  pervasive,  most  persistent 
and  most  beneficent  force  in  our  civilization.^^ 


A  REQUEST  FROM  PRAGUE. 

We  think  the  following  letter  may  interest 
our  readers,  both  as  giving  a  hint  in  regard 
to  the  progress  of  evangelical  religion  in  a 
great  foreign  city  and  also  as  a  suggestion  of 
the  way  in  which  lines  of  help  and  influence 
may  reach  far  beyond  their  expected  limits. 

194  ViNOHRADT,  Prague,  Dec.  7,  1898 
Rev.  Erbkine  N.  White,  New  York. 

Dear  Doctor: — From  the  appended  extract  of 
report  you  will  kindly  notice  what  kind  of  work 
we  are  engaged  in  in  this  great  and  historical 
city  of  Prague.  One  of  our  greatest  needs  is  a 
proper  church  building.  This  will  require  a 
great  cost  and  at  the  same  time  it  is  sure  to  pre- 
sent very  serious  difficulties  of  a  technical  and 
artistic  nature,  the  secured  lot  being  closely  sur- 
rounded by  big  private  dwellings  of  a  very  pro- 
saic character,  somewhat  similar  to  your  tene- 
ment buildings  in  New  York. 

Having  seen  book  No.  5  of  your  designs  for 
churches,  etc.,  I  think  that  the  complete  series 
of  thai  excellent  publication  would  prove  very 
suggestive  and  helpful,  and,  therefore,  I  now 
take  the  liberty  of  asking,  whether  you  could 
forward  me  a  copy  of  those  designs  (».  e.  book 
1-5)  and  how  much  money,  in  that  case,  I  should 
send  you. 

Of  course,  I  know  quite  well,  that  I  have  no 
right  whatever  to  ask  such  a  favor  and  to  cause 
you  any  trouble ;  but,  perhaps,  you  might  still 
be  able  to  grant  it  to  a  fellow-worker,  though  a 
complete  stranger  to  you. 

Very  truly  yours,  L.  B.  Kaspar. 

A  GRIEVOUS  FAULT. 
Why  is  it  a  Christian  man  will  make  a  sub- 
scription to  the  Church,  or  to  some  benevolent 
cause,  and  then  be  utterly  indifferent  as  to  the 
time  of  payment,  or,  indeed,  as  to  whether  he 
pays  it  at  all?  Here  is  a  case:  A  church  was 
dedicated,  at  which  time  a  subscription  was 
taken  to  pay  the  debt  It  was  distinctly  stated 
that  the  money   should    be   paid   within   six 


months.  On  this  condition  the  subscriptions 
were  made.  At  the  end  of  the  six  months  not 
half  the  money  had  been  paid.  There  was  no 
special  reason  for  the  failure,  no  financial  disas- 
ter, hard  times  or  prevailing  sickness.  There 
were  few  persons  in  the  whole  number  whose 
circumstances  had  so  changed  that  they  could 
not  meet  their  obligations.  But  they  had  not 
done  so.  They  had  made  no  real  effort  to  pay, 
and  were  indifferent  about  it.  They  did  not 
seem  to  regard  the  obligation  as  at  all  binding. 
It  was  a  promise  to  the  Church,  and  they  could 
keep  it  or  not  as  might  seem  convenient.  And 
this  was  the  only  reason  why  the  subscriptions 
were  not  paid. 

There  Is  need  of  a  sweeping  revival  in  this 
line.  An  evangelist  in  this  field  would  be  a 
great  blessing— one  who  could  secure  the  result. 
The  support  of  the  Church  is  one  of  the  first 
and  most  important  duties  of  the  Christian.  A 
subscription  to  the  Church,  or  to  any  benevo- 
lent cause,  should  be  as  sacred  as  a  bond  Just 
as  much  effort  should  be  made  to  meet  an  obli- 
gation of  this  kind  &s  to  meet  a  note  in  the 
bank.  This  is  the  very  essence  of  religion— of 
godliness.  A  revival  in  downright  righteous- 
ness, of  the  Decalogue  type,  would  be  the  best 
kind  for  the  world.  The  Church  would  have 
greatly  increased  power  after  its  effects  had 
b«come  fully  established.  The  millennium 
would  be  greatly  hastened  thereby,— JVW«6ttr^ 
Advocate.  

BROKEN  BOW,  NEBRASKA. 

I  am  requested  by  our  Board  of  Trustees  to 
tender  to  you,  and  the  Board  of  Church  Erection, 
our  most  earnest  thanks  for  the  generous  grant 
of  $500  and  the  further  loan  of  $500  in  aid  of 
our  new  church. 

We  are  pleased  to  say  that  the  entire  building 
is  paid  for,  so  that  now  we  have  a  handsome 
church  free  from  debt.  This  will  be  an  immense 
advantage  in  our  work  for  the  Master. 

Again  expressing  our  deep  gratitude,  I  remain 
on  behalf  of  the  Trustees.  


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 

In  accordance  with  an  accompanying  request 
this  Board  acknowledges  gratefully  a  contribu- 
tion of  $2.00  from  F  and  F. 

Kind  friends  of  our  work  frequently  wish  to 
give  without  publication  of  their  names.  We 
would  be  glad  however  if  they  would  give  us 
name  and  address  so  that  their  contributions  can 
be  promptly  acknowledeged.  The  names  so 
given  will  never  be  published. 


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A  REVIVAL  IN  TWO  LANGUAGES. 

BEY.  JAMES  B.  B0DGKB8. 

It  was  an  experience  entirely  new  to  some 
of  those  who  were  revived,  though  it  has 
doubtless  had  many  equals  since  the  day  of 
that  many-tongaed  revival  in  Jerusalem  when 
Peter  and  his  companions  were  the  preachers. 

The  Rev.  George  Grubb  and  his  three  com- 
panions make  up  an  English  mission  party 
which  has  visited  Ceylon,  Australia,  Tasma- 
nia and  New  Zealand,  and  has  been  wonder- 
fully honored  of  6K)d  to  the  conversion  of 
many  souls. 

They  were  led  to  make  a  visit  to  the 
English  colonies  at  the  river  Platte.  On  their 
way  south  a  number  of  our  missionaries 
persuaded  them  to  stop  for  a  time  on  the  re- 
turn trip  to  England  and  hold  meetings  for 
the  English-speaking  people  of  Rio  de 
Janeiro. 

Mr.  Grubb  is  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of 
England  and  his  party  in  a  sense  make  Kes- 
wick (the  English  Northfield)  their  head- 
quarters. 

Knowing  that  the  Lord  gives  good  and 
overflowing  measure  at  such  meetings,  we, 
whose  work  and  sympathies  bind  us  more 
closely  to  the  Brazilian  churches,  resolved  to 
secure  a  portion  of  the  blessing.  Under  the 
leadership  of  Mr.  Maxwell  Wright,  an  Eng- 
lish evangelist  who  has  worked  much  in 
Brazil,  the  Brazilian  churches  organized  pre- 
paratory meetings  for  prayer.  The  Brazilian 
Christians  united  in  earnest  prayer  for  the 
salvation  of  the  English  and  American 
strangers  within  their  gates. 

Union  prayer  meetings  were  held  in  the 
three  largest  churches,  once  a  week  for  three 
weeks,  and  our  churches  and  hearts  were 
bound  together  very  closely  as  we  prayed  for 
the  blessing  of  G^  upon  the  mission  for 
foreigners  in  our  city. 

Then  for  the  ten  days  that  the  party  were 
in  Rio  both  Portuguese  and  English  meetings 
were  held.  Mr.  Grubb  preached  to  the  Bra- 
zilian congregation  at  7  o'clock  each  evening 
and  after  the  sermon  left  the  meeting  with 
one  of  his  companions  or  with  Mr.  Wright 
and  hurried  off  to  the  English  8  o'clock  meet- 
ing in  another  part  of  ,the  city.  It  was  mar- 
velous how  Mr.  Grubb's  earnestness  and  fire 


was  translated  through  interpreters  to  the 
people.  The  sermon  was  broken  into  short 
sentences.  Each  sentence  was  translated  to 
the  audience  before  the  next  one  was  uttered. 
The  entire  audience  of  tve  to  six  hundred 
people  could  see  the  gestures,  hear  the  words 
and  feel  the  earnestness  of  the  preacher  with- 
out understanding  a  word  of  the  sermon  until 
the  interpreter  had  spoken.  Tet  the  blessing 
received  was  great. 

One  evening  a  group  of  Syrians,  some  ten 
or  twelve  in  number,  were  present.  They  had 
been  induced  to  come  byafellow-countiyman 
of  theirs,  who  was  a  member  of  the  church 
in  Tripoli,  Syria,  and  who  knew  Mr.  March 
and  Mr.  Nelson,  our  missionaries. 

The  attendance  at  the  English  meetings 
was  small  but  they  were  excellent  in  their 
spirit  and  power.  The  Portuguese  meetings 
were  well  attended  and  were  greatly  blessed. 

On  Sunday,  August  6,  meetmgs  were  held 
for  young  men  only  and  for  children,  which 
were  well  attended. 

On  Monday  a  union  meeting  of  all  the 
churches,  both  English  and  Portuguese,  was 
held  in  the  Methodist  church.  Though  the 
church  is  a  mile  or  more  from  the  centre  of 
the  city  it  was  crowded  to  the  doors  with 
people.  Mr.  Grubb  preached  in  English  and 
his  words  were  interpreted  by  Mr.  Wright. 
Once  or  twice,  when  he  recounted  some  amus- 
ing incident,  it  was  curious  to  note  the  double 
smile  of  appreciation  as  the  point  was  grasped 
by  those  who  understood  English  and  after- 
wards by  the  Brazilians.  The  interest  was 
intense  all  through  and  the  closing  prayers 
were  truly  from  the  hearts  of  the  whole  con- 
gregation. The  hymns  were  sung  in  the  two 
languages,  which  added  to  their  earnestness  if 
not  to  their  intelligibility.  It  was  confusing 
to  those  who  understood  both  languages  and 
one  would  unconsciously  sing  "  Dia  feliz,  Dia 
feliz  (Happy  day)  when  Jesus  washed  my 
sins  away,**  and  then  ^*  God  be  with  you  till 
we  meet  again,*'  meant  just  as  much  when  it 
closed  with  the  words  ati  nos  encontrarmes. 

Mr.  Grubb  then  asked  each  one  who  had 
been  blessed  in  any  way  by  the  mission  to 
thank  God.  Forty  voices  responded  at  once, 
**  En  te  don  gracas.  Oh  Dens,"  **I  thank  thee, 
O  God,"  and  then  hundreds  spoke  all  together. 


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In  their  flight  heavenward  both  praise  and 
thanksgiving  were  translated  into  the  lan- 
guage of  heaven  and  were  understood  before 
God*s  throne.  The  meeting  closed  with  the 
long  meter  doxology  in  two  tongues. 

It  was  a  blessed  experience  for  us  all,  for 
one's  vision  of  spiritual  things  dulls  easily  in 
this  country.  Compelled  to  hurry  away 
shortly  after  these  meetings  closed  I  have  been 
unable  to  note  the  individual  results,  but  am 
sure  that  many  can  say  with  the  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  formerly  a  priest  of  the 
Church  of  Borne,  ^^  If  the  blessing  my  soul 
has  received  were  the  only  result  of  their 
coming,  it  would  have  paid.'* 


A  HANDSOME  ACTION. 

BY  THE  PRESBYTERY  OF  AUSTIN  [NORTH]. 

[Denominational  comity  has  a  happy  ex- 
emplification in  a  recent  ecclesiastical  trans- 
fer, which  is  pleasantly  acknowledged  in  the 
following  from  the  Christian  Observer,  Louis- 
viile,  Ky.] 

From  Texas  we  have  news  of  a  happy  action 
on  the  part  of  the  Presbytery  of  Austin  of  the 
Northern  General  Assembly.  In  that  town 
there  have  been  two  Presbyterian  churches;  one 
ia  connection  with  the  Northern  Ckneral  Assem- 
bly, now  reporting  ten  members;  the  other,  in 
connection  with  our  Assembly,  and  reporting 
ninety- six  members.  The  Presbytery  of  Austin 
(Northern)  has  ordered  the  transfer  of  the  church 
property  at  (Georgetown  to  the  church  in  our 
connection,  of  which  Rev.  M.  C.  Button  is  pas- 
tor.    Mr.  Button's  account  of  it  is  as  follows: 

'*The  Georgetown  church  is  rejoicing  that  it 
will  soon  be  in  possession  of  the  church  prop- 
erty belonging  to  the  Northern  branch  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  Judge  T.  P.  Bughes  and 
Dr.  W.  P.  Fleming,  ruling  elders  of  our  church, 
went  to  Austin,  in  company  with  Mr.  0.  A.  D. 
Clamp,  the  only  remaining  elder  in  the  Northern 
branch  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  here,  to  at- 
tend a  meeting  of  the  Presbytery  of  Austin 
(North).  All  the  members,  including  Mr.  Clamp, 
having  agreed  to  the  transfer  of  the  property  to 
us,  the  Presbytery  unanimously  and  heartily 
ordered  the  Trustees  to  convey  the  property  to 
our  church  as  soon  as  we  shall  have  paid  a  $1 ,000 
mortgage,  loaned  from  the  Church  Erection 
Fund,  together  with  an  honor  debt  of  $500  bor- 
rowed from  the  same  fund. 

We  desire  publicly  to  acknowledge  the  kind- 


ness of  our  brethren  for  this.  The  property  in. 
eludes  a  half  block  of  land  near  the  Public 
Square,  on  which  is  erected  a  stone  church 
building,  and  a  neat  little  parsonage.  Altogether 
it  is  worth  from  three  to  four  thousand  dollars.'' 
In  this  we  all  rejoice.  The  continued  mainte- 
nance of  little  churches,  side  by  side,  in  small 
places  where  there  is  room  for  but  one  Pres- 
byterian church,  is  a  source  of  injury  to  the 
work.  The  action  of  this  Presbytery  of  Austin, 
in  turning  over  the  property  and  the  work  in 
Georgetown,  to  the  care  of  the  stronger  organi- 
zation, and  thus  securing  unity  of  effort  there, 
will  be  appreciated  through  our  entire  Church. 


Book  Notices. 


Among  ths  Pimas  is  a  small  yolume  of  186  pages, 
neatly  bound  in  cloth,  printed  for  the  Ladies*  Union 
Mission  School  AssooUtioo,  Albany,  N.  T.,  1893. 
It  g^vet  an  interesting  account  of  the  Pima  and 
Maricopa  Indians  and  the  mission  among  them,  in 
six  chapters:  Mr.  Ckx>k^s  narrative  of  his  journey  to 
Arizona,  with  a  sitetch  of  his  life;  Biographical 
Slcetch  of  Mrs.  Anna  M.  Cook;  Visit  of  Rev.  Shel- 
don Jackson,  D.  D.,  at  the  Pima  Agency,  and  Mr. 
Cook^s  commission  as  a  missionary  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church;  The  Pima  Indians,  their  manners 
and  customs,  by  Rev.  I.  T.  Whittemore;  The 
Ladies*  Union  Mission  School  Association  and  its 
connection  with  the  mission  to  the  Pimas;  The  Gila 
R^ver  Reservation,  climate,  soil,  productions  and 
ancient  ruins.  "An  old  missionary  story"— the 
story  of  Spaulding  and  Whitman  in  Oregon— closes 
the  volume.  The  scenes,  incidents  and  experiences 
depicted  in  this  book  are  aside  from  the  beaten 
paths  of  even  missionary  experience,  and  acquaint 
the  reader  with  a  very  interesting  people.  Rev. 
Isaac  T.  Whittemore,  of  Florence,  Arizona,  informs 
us  that  the  book  has  been  written  at  the  request  of 
Mrs.  E.  T.  T.  Martin,  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  and  its 
publication  provided  for  by  her  generosity.  Those 
wishing  copies  can  have  them— at  50  cents  a  copy- 
by  addressing  Mr.  Whittemore,  or  Rev.  Chas.  H. 
Cook,  Sacaton,  Arizona.  The  money  thus  sent  will 
be  devoted  to  aiding  Mr.  Cook  in  his  werlc. 

Ak  All- Abound  Boy,— The  Life  and  Letters  ot 
Ralph  Robinson  Green  by  his  father.  Most  of  our 
readers  know  that  the  only  son  of  Rev.  Rufus  S. 
Green,  D.  D.,  now  President  of  Elmira  College,  was 
drownod  in  a  swollen  stream  in  Canada  over  which, 
with  another  youth,  he  was  attempting  to  row 
in  the  summer  of  1893. 

What  his  father  means  by  the  titie  of  his  book  is 
thus  explained  in  its  opening  chapters:  **A  boy 
who  was  as  fond  of  sports  and  games  as  any ;  a  boy 
who  studied  as  enthusiastically  as  he  played ;  a  hoy 
who  loved  the  truth  and  followed  the  right— not 
perfect— nevertheless  a  true  boy,  whom  you  would 
have  liked  had  you  known  him." 


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[February^ 


Those  who  knew  him  best  testify  that  Ralph  was 
such  a  boy. 

Published  by  Anson  D.  P.  Randolph  &  Co.»  182 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York;  b<»Autifully  printed  and 
bound,  with  a  good  portrait  and  other  illustrations. 

Fifty  Ysars  on  the  Skirmish  Link  is  the  ap- 
propriate title  of  a  volume  just  issued  from  the 
press  of  Fleming  H.  Revell  Company,  Chicago  and 
New  York.  It  is  the  autobiography  of  Rev.  Elisha 
B.  Sherwood,  D.  D.  It  narrates  a  long  course  of 
rich  experience  and  happy  ministry,  chiefly  in 
frontier  fields,  in  New  York,  in  Michigan  and  in 
Missouri,  in  which  latter  State  he  still  ''  flourishes 
like  a  palm  tree,''  and  '*  brings  forth  fruit  in  old 
age."  He  has  had  much  to  do  with  Park  College,  in 
all  its  history,  and  is  still  President  of  its  Board  of 
Trustees.    Price  $1.50. 

Mart.— A  nursery  story  for  very  little  children 
by  Mrs.  Molesworth.  Published  by  Macmillan  &  Co. 
New  York.  A  simple  story  of  nursery  life  in  Eng- 
land, which  little  children  will  hear  with  interest 
and  which  very  young  readers  will  easily  read  for 
themselves.    Price,  $1.00. 

Ths  Bot  Jesus  and  Other  Sermons,  by  William 
M.  Taylor,  D.  D.,  L.L.  D.,  Pastor  Emeritus  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle,  New  York  City. 

This  handsome  volume  of  301  pages,  octavo,  con- 
tains 23  sermons,  of  which  the  flrst  gives  its  title  to 
the  book.  They  have  been  selected  and  prepared 
for  publication  by  their  author,  since  he  has  been 
"  laid  aside  from  the  .ministry  of  the  pulpit,*'  con- 
tinuing thus  *'the  ministry  of  the  press."  This 
book  cannot  fail  of  a  hearty  welcome  from  the 
lovers  of  faithful  evangelical  preaching. 

A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Son,  Publishers,  New  York. 


Ministerial  Necrology* 


^r*We  esraesttar  request  the  famiUee  of  deoeased  mia- 
Isters  and  the  stated  clerks  of  their  presbyteries  to  for- 
ward to  us  promptlv  the  facts  gtven  in  these  notices,  and 
as  nearly  as  possible  in  the  form  exemplified  below. 
These  notices  are  highly  valued  by  writers  of  Presby- 
terian history,  oompltors  of  statisttcs  and  the  intelligent 
readers  of  both. 


Lambert,  Amos  Bordman,  D.  D.,  H.  R.— Bom  at 
South  Reading,  Mass.,  June  6, 1810;  graduated 
at  University  of  New  York,  1834;  studied  one 
year  in  Princeton,  and  graduated  at  Union 
Seminary  in  1837;  ordained  by  Presbytery  of 
Troy,  November  2,  1837;  pastor  Presbyterian 
church  of  Salem,  N.  Y.,  1887-1865;  pastor 
Hoosick  Falls,  1866-1868;  stated  supply  at  South 
Hartford,  N.  Y.,  1868-1873,  and  Rupert,  Vt, 


1873-1884;  died  of  cerebral  paralysis  November 
29,  1893,  at  Salem,  N.  Y.  Married  in  1836 
Sarah  B.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Alexander  Ounn, 
pastor  of  the  Bloomingdale  Reformed  church; 
and  in  1867  Helen  E.,  daughter  of  Hon.  David 
Russell  of  Salem,  N.  Y.,  who  survives  him;  also 
four  children. 

Meter,  Samchel  S.— Bom  in  Union  county.  Pa., 
November  9,  1856:  graduated  from  Wittenburg 
Theological  Seminary,  O.,  1884;  began  his  min- 
istry in  the  German  Reformed  Church;  pastor 
of  the  Duncannon  charge,  Carlisle  Classis; 
April  1889,  received  an  appointment  from  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  to  labor  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  took 
bis  letter  from  the  Classis  to  the  Presbytery  of 
Olympia;  supplied  vacant  churches  in  Oregon, 
and  then  removed  to  ESastem  Washington; 
stated  supply  of  churches  at  Cleveland,  Dot, 
La  Camas  and  Fourth  Plain,  1889-lbd3.  Died  of 
typhoid  fever,  October  2,  1893,  on  a  visit  in 
Marysville,  Pa. 

liarried  January  24,  1888,  Margaret  Kauff- 
man,  who  with  one  daughter  and  one  son  sur- 
vives him. 

Newton,  John.— Bom  in  Western  Pennsylvania, 
April  22,  1814;  graduated  from  Amherst  Col- 
let; spent  some  years  in  teaching;  ordained  to 
the  ministry,  1863,  at  Allegheny,  Pa. ;  went  to 
Florida  in  1866;  in  California,  1861-1858:  in  Mis- 
souri, 1858,  preaching  at  Hannibal  and  Birdseye; 
returned  to  Florida  in  1809;  taught  and  preached 
(1871-1874),  at  May  Esther,  a  small  place  on  the 
Oulf  of  Mexico,  20  to  SO  miles  from  Pensacola. 
Being  feeble  and  his  hearing  impaired,  he  re- 
signed his  charge  1884,  and  in  1889  removed  to 
Pensacola,  where  his  last  days  were  spent.  He 
died  at  the  home  of  his  daughter  November  25, 
1893.  Mr.  Newton  was  twice  married.  His  last 
wife  has  been  dead  some  twenty  years.  Two 
daughters  and  one  son  survive  him. 

Wood,  John  W.— Bom  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  May  12, 
1813;  graduated  from  Hamilton  College  and 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary;  married  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  Miss  Maroia  Alderman, 
ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Rochester, 
August  1840;  preached  to  the  churches  of  Hope- 
well, Barry,  Bergen,  Wyoming,  and  Honeoye 
Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  to  the  churches  of  Lewistown 
and  Biacomb  in  Illinois;  retiring  from  the 
active  work  of  the  pastorate,  between  1860  and 
1865.  Three  sons  and  one  daughter  survive  him, 
his  wife  having  entered  into  rest  ten  years 
ago. 


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Thoughts  on 
The  Sabbath -school  Lessons. 

February  4. — Beginning  of  the  Mebrew 
J9ation. — Gten.  xii:  1-9. 

It  is  always  interestiDg  to  trace  history 
back  to  its  beginnings.  From  the  day  when 
Abram  and  his  household  turned  their  faces 
toward  the  land  of  Canaan,  with  the  promise, 
*'  I  will  make  of  thee  a  great  nation ''  to  rest 
upon,  it  was  a  long  look  forward  to  the  glory 
and  honor  of  the  days  of  David  and  Solomon. 
But  the  promise,  **  thou  shalt  be  a  blessing,'' 
was  a  greater  one  than  '*  I  will  make  of  thee 
a  great  nation.''  It  was  a  great  day  for  the 
Hebrew  nation  when  kings  and  queens  came 
from  afar  to  do  honor  to  their  ruler,  and  to 
wonder  at  the  prosperity  of  his  realm;  but  it 
was  a  greater  day  when  the  infant  Jesus  lay 
in  the  manger  at  Bethlehem  and  that  king- 
dom had  begun  into  which  shall  be  gathered 
''all  nations  and  kindred  and  people  and 
tongues." 

February  11. — God^s  Covenant  withAhram, 
— Gen.  xvii:l-9. 

Thus  ran  the  wonderful  words:  **I  will 
establish  My  covenant  between  Me  and  thee 
and  thy  seed  after  thee  in  their  generations, 
for  an  everlasting  covenant,  to  be  a  GK)d  unto 
thee,  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee."  Here  lay 
the  heart  and  kernel  of  the  whole.  It  is  the 
heart  of  all  the  deepest  experiences  of  the 
saints,  from  that  day  to  this.  It  is  the 
''blessing  "  which  wraps  up  within  it  every 
other  divine  benefit,  and  makes  our  earthly 
homes  to  be  blessings  indeed.  That  God  did 
bind  Himself  to  act  as  God — their  God — 
toward  this  man  and  his  posterity;  to  bless 
them;  to  make  them  channels  of  blessing  for 
mankind;  to  be  all  and  do  all  for  their  ad- 
vantage that  a  friendly,  propitious  God  can 
do  or  be  for  His  fallen  human  children;  here 
was  the  magnificent  and  quite  inexhaustible 
treasure  of  this  amazing  treaty.        Dykes. 

The  promise  to  be  a  6K>d  to  him  and  his 
seed  could  not  have  meant  simply  a  covenant 
for  his  personal  salvation;  for  this  had  been 
assured  to  him  before,  when  "he  believed 
God,  and  it  was  accounted  to  him  for  right- 


eousness. "  Nor  can  it  mean  to  be  a  covenant 
of  natural  blessings  to  his  natural  descendants, 
for  in  the  covenant  are  included  the  house- 
hold, embracing  servants  and  all;  while,  on 
the  other  hand,  many  of  his  descendants,  as 
the  families  of  Ishmael  and  Esau,  had  no 
birthright  in  the  covenant.  The  apostle 
Paul  expresses  it  fully  by  declaring  that  in 
this  covenant  Abraham  was  "  the  heir  of  the 
world,"  and  the  representative  of  all  who  in 
all  ages  after  should  exercise  the  faith  of 
Abraham.  If  so,  then  the  covenant  to  be 
their  God  and  to  make  them  a  blessing  indi- 
cates a  purpose  especially  to  dwell  among, 
and  manifest  himself  to  this  peculiar  body, 
and  through  it  to  manifest  his  grace  to  the 
nations.  In  short,  here  are  all  the  elements 
of  a  definition  of  the  visible  church;  and  this 
is  the  beginning  of  that  peculiar  society  as  a 
separate  visible  body  on  earth.  Nor  is  this 
charter  ever  to  be  annulled.  It  is  "an  ever- 
lasting covenant."  And  though  the  term 
everlasting  may,  at  times,  be  used  in  a 
limited  sense,  such  cannot  be  the  case  here; 
for  its  blessings  are  to  reach  to  all  genera- 
tions of  him  who  is  the  representative  father 
of  the  faithful.         Stuart  Robinson,  D.  D. 

February  18. — QoiTa  Judgment  on  /SMom — 
Gen.  xviii:  22-88. 

The  responsibility  and  the  privilege  of  in- 
tercessory prayer,  the  responsibility  of  a 
godly  life,  are  two  thoughts  that  are  suggested 
by  the  lesson  of  to-day.  What  would  have 
been  the  result  for  Sodom  if  Abraham  had 
urged  his  petition  still  farther  we  can  never 
know ;  but  G^'s  willingness  to  listen  to  the 
voice  of  His  servant  pleading  for  the  doomed 
city  is  an  encouragement  to  all  his  children, 
burdened  with  anxiety  for  those  who  are 
walking  the  ways  of  sin,  to  come  with  the 
burden  to  Him  who  showed  to  Abraham  that 
"  His  ear  is  not  heavy  that  it  cannot  hear.'* 
What  might  have  been  the  result  for  Sodom 
if  a  stronger  influence  for  righteousness  had 
gone  forth  from  the  household  of  that  one 
who  had  "pitched  his  tent  toward  Sodom," 
we  can  never  know,  but  there  are  possibilities 
within  the  reach  of  those  who  find  themselves 
providentially  in  the  midst  of  ungodly  com- 
munities that  make  the  responsibility  of 
such  influence  a  heavy  and  solemn  one. 


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[FAruary^ 


February  35. — Trial  of  Abraham's  Faith.^ 
Gen.  xxii:  1-18. 

It  was  not  only  a  father's  love  that  was 
put  to  the  test  when  the  command  came, 
''Take  now  thy  son,  thine  only  son  Isaac, 
whom  thou  lovest  and  get  thee  into  the  land 
of  Moriah,  and  offer  him  there  for  a  burnt 
offering.''  There  were  hopes  centered  in 
that  son  of  Abraham's  old  age  that  reached 
out  mto  the  ages  and  to  the  remotest  quarters 
of  the  earth.  How  was  the  covenant  to  be 
fulfilled  which  was  established  ''with  him  for 
an  everlasting  covenant,  and  with  his  seed 
after  him?"  What  was  to  become  of  the 
promises  "  In  Isaac  shall  thy  seed  be  called  " 
and  "I  will  make  of  thee  a  great  nation" 
and  "in  thee  shall  all  families  of  the  earth 
be  blessed  ? "  But  in  the  face  of  the  command 
and  of  all  that  it  involved,  Abraham's  faith 
and  his  obedience  faltered  not.  "He  that 
had  received  the  promises  offered  up  his  only 
begotten  son."  The  sacrifice  was  just  as 
really  made  in  spirit,  as  if ,  a  little  later,  the 
raised  hand  had  not  been  stayed.  Only  once 
in  the  world's  history  has  €k>d  called  for  just 
such  a  test  of  a  parent's  faith.  But  are  not 
some  parents  to-day  called  to  just  as  complete 
renunciation  of  plans  and  hopes  for  their 
children,  as  the  opportunity  offers  for  sacri- 
fice, not  upon  the  altar  of  burnt-offering,  but 
upon  the  altar  of  Christian  service  ?  Such 
sacrifices  made  in  loving  faith  and  obedience, 
have  had  their  seal  of  acceptance,  not  in  the 
giving  back  of  the  child,  but  in  the  salvation 
of  souls  and  the  advancement  of  Christ's 
kingdom  on  earth. 


—The  Belgian  Missionary  Church  is  composed 
of  converts  from  Romanism.  Though  most  of 
them  are  poor  miners  they  have  contributed 
during  the  year  an  average  of  more  than  ten 
francs  for  each  adult  to  meet  the  expenses  of  the 
church.— Qt^r^Zy  Register. 

— Said  the  New  York  Tribune^  commenting  on 
the  death  of  Anthony  J.  Drexel:  Death  has 
stripped  many  rich  men  of  all  their  acquisitions. 
Throughout  his  life  Mr.  Drexel  saved  great 
sums  of  money  by  giving  them  away.  He  has 
carried  priceless  possessions  into  the  other 
world. 

"Lay  not  up  for  yourselves  treasures  upon 
earth  where  moth  and  rust  doth  corrupt" 


Young  People^s  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN— WHEN  TO 
BEGIN. 

H.   A.   N. 

In  our  last  number,  Rev.  Dr.  Brookes  gave 
clear  and  scriptural  answer  to  the  question: 
Roto  to  Begin.  He  showed  that  one  cannot 
begin  to  be  a  Christian,  by  leaving  off  his 
bad  habits,  nor  by  joining  the  church,  nor  by 
sincere  efforts  to  ** do  the  best  he  can,"  but 
that  our  Lord's  word  to  Nicodemus  is  true 
for  us  all :  Ye  mtut  be  bom  again. 

He  showed  that,  in  all  our  guilt  and  help- 
lessness, needing  the  gracious  power  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  to  give  us  new  birth — that  is,  to 
start  a  new  life  within  us — we  are  not  left  in 
hopelessness;  but  that  ^^just  (here,  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  meets  us  with  the  blessed  proc- 
lamation," which  Dr.  Brookes  recUes  in  the 
very  words  of  the  Bible.  Please  get  his 
article  now,  and  read  it  again  carefully,  and 
turn  in  your  Bible  to  the  passages  he  cites, 
and  mark  them, . 

Have  you  done  so? Then  I  am 

sure  you  will  acknowledge  what  he  says,  that 
^*  what  we  are  to  do,  in  order  to  be  saved,  is 
so  plainly  revealed  that  'Hhe  wayfaring  man, 
though  a  fool,  need  not  err  therein."  Who- 
ever does  confess  himself  a  guilty  and  con- 
demned sinner,  and  does  accept  Jesus  Christ 
with  sincere  and  simple  *' trust  in  Him  as 
able  and  willing  to  save,  as  we  are,  and 

now"  in  that  soul  the  new  life  does 

immediately  begin,  and  from  that  instant 
that  person  does  begin  to  live  the  new  life. 
Truly  Dr.  Brookes  says:  *'Thus  the  believer 
starts  on  his  journey  heavenward,  the  cross 
between  him  and  judgment,  the  crown  await- 
ing him,  if  he  is  faithful,  at  the  coming  of 
the  Lord." 

Has  this  new  life  thus  begun  in  you  ? 
Have  you  begun  thus  to  **  walk  in  newness 
of  life?"  I  presume  that  many  of  my 
readers — ^perhaps  most  of  them — ^have  thus 
begun.    But  not  all.    To  those  who  have 

not,  Dr.  Brookes  would  say .    Does  not 

the  Lord  Jesus  say  ?" **Now  is  your 


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time  to  begin.''     '<  Behold  I  stand  at  the 
door  and  knock.'' 

What  if  yon  saw  Jesus  standing  bodily  just 
oatside  of  your  door,  or  without  seeing  him 
heard  him  knock,  and  knew  it  was  He  that 
knocked  — .  Would  you  open  the  door  and 
ask  him  to  come  in  ?  And  would  you  mean 
to  have  him  understand  you  as  thankfully 
accepting  his  offered  grace,  and  taking  him 
as  your  Lord  and  Master  ?  Would  you,  this 
very  minute,  love  to  do  jiist  that  f  Then  He 
knows  it,  and  is  satisfied.  You  are  His,  and 
He  is  yours,  and  the  new  life  is  begun  in  you. 
*^For  as  many  as  receive  Him  to  them  He 
gives  the  right  to  become  children  of  Gk)d," 
Jno.  i,  12. 

The  new  birth  means  the  beginning  of  a 
new  life.  It  is  not  a  perfect  life.  It  is  not  a 
faultless  life.  It  is  not  free  from  sinful  de- 
fects, and  failures  and  short- comings.  But  it 
is  a  life  in  which  steady  growth  and  improve- 
ment are  to  be  looked  for  and  striven  for 
with  faithful,  watchful,  prayerful,  constant 
endeavor.  This  new  life  may  begin  very 
early.  I  do  not  know  how  early.  It  is  not 
certain  that  it  has  not  begun  in  you  because 
you  are  only  twelve  years  old,  nor  if  you  are 
only  seven,  or  five,  or  three  years  old,  nor 
because  you  cannot  remember  when  it  began, 
any  more  than  yon  can  remember  when  you 
began  to  love  your  mother  and  to  be  obedient 
to  her  and  to  your  father. 

The  question  is  not  how  young  you  are, 
bat  whether  the  kingdom  of  God  is  coming 
within  you — the  kingdom  of  *' righteousness 
and  peace,  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost." 

If  you  have  begun  to  live  the  life  of  God 
yoQ  are  growing  unselfish,  growing  more 
fond  of  doing  good,  more  careful  not  to 
do  wrong,  more  truthful  and  obedient. 

Ton  will  not  be  all  nor  any  of  these  by 
simply  resolving  to  be  and  trying  to  be.  The 
kingdom  of  God  must  come  within  you. 
That  kingdom  or  reign  is  not  a  great  way  off. 
It  is  at  hand — right  here.  You  have  only  to 
submit  to  it — to  yield  yourself  to  it — to  open 
the  door  to  its  king,  who  stands  **  knocking, 
knocking,  still  there." 

"Yes,  the  pierced  hand  still  knocketh, 
And  beneath  the  crowned  hair 
Beam  the  patient  eyes,  so  tender, 
Of  thy  baviour,  waiting  then." 


"MUSCULAR  CHRISTIANITY." 

As  we  have  seen  the  above  phrase,  in  occa- 
sional use.  it  seems  to  be  intended  to  indicate 
the  application  of  Christian  principle  to  the 
cultivation,  training  and  use  of  muscular 
energy.  It  is  opposed  to  the  morbid  view  of 
Christianity  once  more  or  less  prevalent 
which  sought  increase  of  piety  by  despising, 
neglecting  and  enfeebling  the  body.  What 
we  understand  to  be  intended  by  mtiscular 
Christianity,  we  r^;ard  as  healthy  Christian- 
ity. If  our  bodies  are  **  temples  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,"  if  we  are  to  present  them  as  ''living 
sacrifices,  holy  and  acceptable  to  God,"  we 
ought  to  make  them  as  fair,  as  healthy,  as 
thoroughly  and  powerfully  alive  as  we  can. 

As  reasonable  means  to  this  end,  we  hail  all 
study  and  instruction  in  physiology,  and  all 
reasonable  practice  in  athletic  exercises,  and 
rejoice  in  the  increase  of  both  these  in  schools 
and  colleges,  in  homes,  and  in  the  plans  and 
structures  of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tions. 

Among  athletic  exercises  those  best 
acquainted  with  them  ascribe  a  high  degree 
of  excellence  to  ball  playing,  with  the  hands 
and  with  the  feet^— base-ball  and  foot- ball. 

Of  foot-ball  President  Patton  is  reported  to 
have  said  on  a  recent  conspicuous  occasion : 

''  It  is  a  brainy  game,  and  they  tell  me  that 
the  reason  vre  have  not  gained  more  victories 
in  the  past  is  because  we  did  not  put  enough 
brains  in  our  playing. 

I  think  the  time  has  come  when  college 
faculties  and  foot-ball  men  will  have  to  con- 
sider this  thing  as  a  great  problem  in  college 
statesmanship.  They  must  deal  with  it,  re- 
form its  abuses,  cast  aside  its  weaknesses  and 
make  a  greater  game  than  it  is  because, 
under  proper  conditions,  and  I  say  this  in  all 
seriousness,  it  is  one  of  the  moral  agents  in 
our  colleges  which  we  can  not  overestimate 
in  importance." 

That  this  favorite  play  has  unhappily  be- 
come connected  with  excesses  and  with  dis- 
orderly and  even  immoral  behavior,  in  recent 
years,  is  now  painfuUy  evident.  The  most 
thoughtful  educators,  the  most  considerate 
parents  and  the  most  sober-minded  young 
men  are  seriously  inquiring  whether  it  can  be 
80  restored  from  the  ezoesaes  into  which  it 


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has  ran,  so  detached  from  the  vicious  prac- 
tices that  have  become  associated  with  it,  that 
it  can  be  safely  and  msefoUy  continued — 
whether  it  can  be  made  truly  healthy 
and  helpful  to  physical,  intellectual  and 
moral  culture — in  short,  whether  it  can 
be  **  mended"  or  must  be  ^*  ended'' 
among  Christian  young  men.  We  desire 
to  encourage  our  young  men  and  their 
advisers  to  pursue  this  inquiry  seriously,  can- 
didly and  good-humoredly;  and  we  think 
that  all  our  friends  should  wait  patiently  for 
the  result  of  such  inquiry.  Yet  we  would 
emphasize  the  words  of  Dr.  Patton,  *^the 
sooner  the  problem  is  met  and  conquered  the 
better  for  all  concerned — the  college,  the  play- 
ers and  the  public." 

We  find  what  seems  to  us  a  wholesome 
contribution  to  this  truly  Christian  endeavor, 
in  the  following  article  in  a  recent  issue  of 
TJie  Independent,  and  we  gladly  present  it 
to  our  readers. 

A  Further  Word  About  Football. 

REV.  JAMES  G.  MACKENZIE,  PH.  D., 
Head  Master  of  the  LawrenoeTiUe  SchooL 

Harm  was  uninteDtionally  done  by  sincere 
friends  of  athletics  and  scholarship  when,  ten 
years  ago  in  England,  the  great  schools  testi- 
fied that  athletics  did  not  appear  to  injure 
scholarship.  The  schoolmasters  were  glad 
to  speak  with  enthusiasm  of  the  wholesome 
interest  field  sports  and  boating  were  exert- 
ing upon  the  moral  and  physical  life  of  boys 
and  young  men.  But  more  was  inferred 
from  this  encouragement  than  was  intended ; 
and  a  recent  canvass  of  these  same  schools 
elicits  the  almost  unanimous  opinion  that 
**the  spirit  of  athleticism  needs  controlling.^' 
Dr.  Hornby,  of  Eton,  says  that  some  years 
ago  it  was  quite  possible  for  a  boy  to  attain 
the  highest  excellence  in  both  athletics  and 
scholarship,  but  gravely  doubts  whether  it  is 
so  now: 

**  Athletics  have  become  so  developed  and 
brought  into  a  system,  and  I  may  almost  say 
professional,  that  the  time  required  for  a 
very  high  excellence  in  them  is  a  serious 
obstacle  to  a  reading  man  or  a  studious  boy 


engaging  in  them  with  a  view  to  athletic 
distinotion." 

And  the  Head  Master  of  Rugby,  Dr.  Perci- 
val,  voices  the  conclusion  of  many  American 
schoolmen  when  he  says  that  '*the  great 
publicity  given  to  athletics  tends  to  give  them 
an  undue  prominence  in  the  minds  of  both 
boys  and  men."  This  "undue  prominence  " 
of  the  *' hippodrome  athletics"  compels  par- 
ents, colleges  and  the  public  to  call  a  halt  in 
the  recent  developments  of  football.  No 
young  man  can  train  and  look  forward  to  a 
game  in  New  York  City  in  the  presence  of 
40,000  spectators,  and  be  honest  or  faithful 
in  his  college  work.  Many  of  our  "star" 
players  play  both  football  and  baseball,  so 
that  the  tension  of  the  Thanksgiving  game 
must  be  continued  for  the  baseball  season. 
How  can  a  junior  or  a  senior  in  one  of  our 
leading  universities  train,  practice  and  play 
ball  in  this  way,  and  have  time,  strength 
or  thought  for  the  work  for  which  his  parents 
send  him  to  college  ?  Legitimate,  temperate 
athletics,  manly  struggles  for  the  glory  of 
his  college  under  the  auspices  of  his  college, 
and  under  the  approving  gaze  of  the  college 
world  of  students,  professors  and  friends — 
this  is  unquestionably  wholesome.  If  such 
supreme  struggles  as  those  of  the  Thanksgiv- 
ing game  are  to  take  place,  let  them  be 
between  graduate  students  or  professionals. 

But  the  most  serious  objection  to  these 
hippodrome  athletics  is  the  unfair  position  to 
which  scholarship  is  assigned  as  a  result.  A 
prominent  professor  in  a  leading  college  re- 
marked after  the  last  Thanksgiving  game 
that  if  one  of  his  students  had  discovered 
the  law  of  gravitation,  the  performance  in 
this  day  of  athletics  would  be  but  lightly 
esteemed.  The  Stinnecke  Prizemen,  the 
Lynde  Debaters,  the  De  Forest  Medalists, 
the  Latin  Salutatorians,  the  Valedictorians — 
when  has  any  publication  within  or  without 
the  college  walls  thought  it  becoming  to 
award  a  hundredth  of  the  recognition  to 
these  real  heroes  so  effusively  given  to 
a  member  of  a  victorious  team  ?  And  so  it 
is  coming  to  pass  that  the  "  plain  people  "  of 
Abraham  Lincoln's  concern  are  being  alien- 
ated from  the  colleges;  they  can  see  neither 
sense  nor  reward  in  the  modem  college  hero- 


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isms,  and  the  most  valuable  element  of  the 
colleges  of  the  older  time — the  middle  class 
of  boys — are  found  in  fewer  numbers  in  our 
largest  colleges,  and  the  colleges  themselves 
are  deploring  the  absence  of  earnestness,  the 
lowering  of  the  intellectual  tone,  and  the 
steady  decrease — certainly  in  our  foremost 
universities — of  the  number  of  young  men 
who  care  to  enter  the  ministry.  These 
things,  let  us  insist,  are  not  due  to  football, 
or  baseball,  or  boating,  but  to  the  virtual 
surrender  of  these  noble  sports  to  inflaences 
that  care  nothing  for  culture,  and  little  for 
character.  Some  of  the  stanchest  defenders 
of  football  to-day  are  men  who,  when  in  col- 
lege, played  only  on  academic  grounds,  and 
in  the  presence  only  of  the  real  coUege  world. 

AN  ANOHALY. 

The  anomalous  thing,  a  game  on  Thanks- 
giving Day  (note  the  proclamations  by  Presi- 
dent and  Gk>vemorsI)  in  the  blare  of  a  crowd, 
half  rabble  and  half  genteel,  whose  apparent 
legitimate  receipts  are  $40,000,  and  whose 
illegitimate  receipts  are  $60,000  (and  no  one 
computes  the  gains  and  losses  in  the 
^' straight'^  gambling),  such  a  game  was  un- 
known to  the  men  who  admired  or  played 
football  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  decade, 
and  who,  since  graduation,  have  been  inno- 
cently advocating  athletics  as  they  are. 
There  are  a  good  many  of  us — fathers,  teach- 
ers, and  lovers  of  boys — who  mourn  the 
decadence  of  family  reunions  on  Thanksgiv- 
ing Day,  those  calm  and  helpful  ingatherings 
of  the  absent  ones  under  the  roof  of  the  dear 
old  home.  All  this  must  now  give  place  to 
the  great  show  which  ^^  our  college ''  team  is 
to  give  in  some  large  city.  The  father  may 
doubt  the  propriety  of  substituting  the  game 
for  the  family  re-union;  but  just  now  he 
wishes  to  make  his  boy  happy,  and  there  is 
no  room  to  doubt  what  will  make  his  boy 
most  happy.  But  not  all  boys  attend  the 
game,  or  spend  the  time  before  and  after  the 
game  in  the  city,  with  their  fathers.  And 
these  boys  have  really  been  forgotten  by  the 
public  press  that  has  so  earnestly  debated 
modem  athletics  during  the  past  three 
months.  Few  of  us  pause  to  reflect  upon 
the  very  large  number  of  American  boys 
that  attend  boarding  schools  in  preparation 


for  college.  There  are  not  less  than  20,000 
boys  under  eighteen  years  of  age  in  boarding 
schools  within  a  half  day's  travel  of  New 
York  City.  It  is  the  almost  universal  custom 
of  the  parents  of  these  boys,  in  ignorance  of 
the  temptations  to  which  they  will  be  ex- 
posed, to  grant  them  permission  to  spend  the 
Thanksgiving  recess  of  from  three  to  five 
days  in  or  near  New  York  City,  the  chief  if 
not  the  only  purpose  of  the  boys  being  to 
witness  the  great  game.  In  their  youth  and 
inexperience  they  are  filched  by  speculators 
in  seats,  they  are  exposed  to  the  evils  of  city 
hotels,  they  witness  the  gambling,  drinkiDg, 
rowdyism  and  worse  sins  of  their  elders,  and 
return  to  their  schools  physically  and  morally 
injured.  The  current  of  these  evils  is  strong 
enough  to  bear  along  even  good  boys.  It  is 
to  no  purpose  that  the  school  remonstrates 
with  parents,  who  insist  that  they  can  *  *  trust " 
their  sons,  for  persistent  opposition  by  the 
school  leads  in  due  time  to  the  selection  of  a 
school  not  so  "suspicious"  of  boys.  These 
schools  are  an  integral  part  of  the  edaca- 
tional  system  of  our  country  and  have  a  fair 
claim  upon  the  colleges  for  such  influences  as 
shall  at  least  not  harm  the  schools.  These 
great  games  in  the  metropolis  are  perverting 
the  ambition  of  our  schoolboys,  and  in  the 
end  bring  to  the  colleges  freshmen  whose 
contribution  to  the  college  world  hastens  the 
further  decline  of  its  moral  and  scholarly 
character. 

APPEAL  TO  FACULTIES. 

The  time  is  ripe  to  appeal  to  the  faculties 
and  trustees  of  Yale  and  Princeton  to  abolish 
all  games  in  our  large  cities,  and  on  religious 
holidays.  The  public  press  and  parents 
should  bear  in  mind  that  agreements  are 
made  for  these  great  games  during  .the  winter 
months,  and  that  all  proper  influences  should 
be  exerted  now  to  prevent  the  continuance  of 
such  Christianized  heathenism  as  the  Thanks- 
giving game.  We  have  to  do  primarily  with 
two  of  our  noblest  colleges — ^Yale  and  Prince- 
ton— whose  patrons,  professors  and  trustees 
are  Christian  people,  and  will  not  ignore 
proper  appeals  with  regard  to  a  matter  which 
threatens  the  best  interests  of  those  young 
men  who  are  to  exert  in  the  near  future  a 
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SOK-TAI— THE  COURAGE  OP  HIS 

FAITH. 
The  Chinese  military  officer  whose  conver- 
sion was  related  in  oar  December  namber 
had  his  faith  and  courage  seyerely  tested,  as 
will  be  seen  from  a  farther  extract  from 
**  Christ  or  Canfucitu,  WhichV 

On  one  occasion,  at  a  anited  prayer-meet- 
iDg  of  Christians  and  missionaries,  this  officer 
was  asked  to  eagage  in  prayer.  There  was 
a  large  crowd  of  heathen  present  as  specta- 
tors, and  amongst  them  some  of  the  soldiers 
ander  his  own  command.  These  opened 
their  eyes  wide  with  astonishment  when  they 
saw  one  of  their  own  officers  taking  a  pablic 
part  in  this  religions  ceremony  of  the  for- 
eigners. On  their  return  to  the  camp,  they 
at  once  reported  the  matter  to  one  of  their 
officers,  who  made  a  formal  complaint  to  the 
colonel.  On  the  next  day  he  sent  an 
orderly  to  the  officer,  commanding  him  to 
appear  at  his  quarters.  When  he  entered 
his  room,  the  commander,  after  addressing 
him  in  a  very  kind  and  polite  manner,  said: 
*^  I  hear  that  you  have  become  a  member  of 
the  sect  of  the  barbarians.  Is  that  so?'' 
The  officer  replied  that  he  had  been  misin- 
formed, for  that  such  was  not  the  case. 
*< The  fact  of  the  matter  is,"  he  continued, 
**  I  have  become  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus.''  *^  But  how  is  it  that  such  a  promis- 
ing officer  as  you  are  should  have  been  so 
deluded  as  to  give  up  your  own  belief,  and 
adopt  those  of  the  men  who  are  the  enemies 
of  China? "  The  officer  then  explained  how 
he  had  been  wounded  in  his  engagement 
with  the  pirates;  what  agony  he  had  en- 
dured, and  how  he  had  been  treated  by  the 
foreign  doctors.  He  also  told  him  how  he 
had  been  instructed  in  the  knowledge  of 
God,  the  very  same  God  that  their  fathers  in 
ancient  times  had  worshipped;  how  as  the 
character  of  God  was  revealed  to  him,  his 
own  sinfulness  was  impressed  upon  him,  and 
how  he  had  found  in  Jesus,  the  Saviour  of 
the  world,  the  true  remedy  for  his  distress  of 
mind. 

His  superior  officer  listened  to  him  very 
attentively,  and  then  said:  *'if  you  want  to 


be  good  and  serve  Ghxl,  why  not  do  so  in 
your  own  home,  or  in  your  quarters  here? 
There  is  no  reason  why  you  should  be  con- 
stantly associating  with  the  foreigners,  and 
thus  bringing  disgrace  upon  yourself  and 
your  r^ment.  Do  you  really  believe  that 
the  Chinese  don't  know  how  to  be  good,  and 
that  you  have  to  get  this  knowledge  from 
these  strangers? " 

The  officer  replied  that  he  was  very  sorry 
that  he  must  appear  insensible  to  the  kind- 
ness of  his  superior,  but  he  could  not  prom- 
ise to  do  as  he  had  advised  him.  ^^Very 
well,  then,"  he  said,  **be  sure  that  you  are 
prompt  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  your 
duties,  for  on  the  very  first  occasion  on 
which  you  fail  in  any  of  them,  I  shall  report 
you  to  the  general,  and  have  you  dismissed 
from  the  army." 

This  man's  faith  was  not  a  common  one. 
He  must  have  had  a  profound  conviction  of  the 
truth  of  Christianity  to  have  thus  disr^arded 
the  almost  direct  commands  of  his  colonel. 
He  had  no  influential  friends  to  back  him, 
for  he  was  a  poor  man,  and  had  come  from  a 
poor  family.  At  present  he  was  a  rising 
man,  and  there  was  no  reason  why  he  should 
not  attain  to  high  position  in  the  army, 
which  in  China  invariably  brings  with  it 
wealth  and  honor.  Long  years  afterwards, 
indeed,  one  of  his  fellow  officers,  whose 
prospects  were  far  less  bright  than  his  own, 
gradually  rose  in  the  army,  and  actually  ob- 
tained the  command  of  all  the  troops  in  the 
Amoy  district.  All  these  prospects  he  de- 
liberately risked,  rather  than  do  anything 
that  would  interfere  with  his  open  profession 
of  Christianity. 

His  faith  was  soon  to  be  rewarded  by  a 
most  signal  deliverance  from  a  great  peril. 
He  was  ordered  out  with  an  expedition  in 
search  of  pirates,  that  had  been  committing 

depredations  on  the  coast They 

had  not  bf>en  out  to  sea  long,  before  the 
pirate  junks  were  discovered  in  the  distance. 
Chase  was  at  once  made,  and  as  the  wind 
was  fair,  and  the  gunboats  were  fast  sailers, 
they  soon  began  to  overhaul  them.  The  one 
that  Sok-tai  commanded  was  well  in  advance 
of  the  rest,  and  the  breeze  was  so  strong  that 
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the  largest  of  the  pirates.  The  commanding 
officer  now  determined  to  put  into  execution 
his  plan  for  Sok-tai^s  destruction.  He  ac- 
cordingly allowed  his  junk  to  get  well  ahead, 
until  a  considerable  distance  intervened  be- 
tween him  and  the  rest  of  the  squadron.  As 
his  yessel  drew  nearer  the  pirate,  he  dis- 
covered that  she  was  too  large  for  him  to 
attack  with  any  hope  of  success.  Her  decks 
were  crowded  with  a  crew  of  savage  ruffians, 
who  had  forgotten  what  the  word  mercy 
meant,  and  who  would  fight  to  the  bitter 
end  rather  than  be  captured.  She  was,  in- 
deed, already  beginning  to  show  fight,  and 
the  shot  from  her  guns  were  whistling  un- 
pleasantly around.  Sok-tai  looked  anxiously 
about  for  help  from  his  consorts,  but  to  his 
dismay  he  found  that  they  were  being  pur- 
posely kept  back.  Whilst  he  was  debating 
with  himself  what  he  should  do,  he  saw  the 
red  flag  hoisted  on  board  the  commanding 
officer's  ship.  This  was  an  order  for  him  to 
come  to  close  quarters  with  the  pirate  and 
board  her.  He  dared  not  disobey,  for  to  do 
so  would  end  in  ruin  to  himself,  whilst  to 
carry  out  the  command  and  attack  such  a 
crew  of  monsters,  who  were  fighting  for 
dear  life,  was  attended  with  the  greatest  pos- 
sible peril.  He  felt  that  there  was  none  that 
could  save  him  but  Otod,  and  to  Him  he  must 
appeal.  Descending  to  his  cabin,  he  knelt 
down,  and  cried:  '*  O  God,  I  am  very  weak. 
The  enemy  is  in  front  of  me,  and  the  enemy 
is  behind  me.  My  only  hope  is  in  Thee.  I 
know  not  what  to  do  of  myself.  Deliver 
me,  for  the  sake  of  Jesus  Christ."  Return- 
ing quickly  to  the  deck,  with  his  own  hand 
he  trained  one  of  the  largest  of  his  guns 
against  the  pirate,  when  the  shot  carried 
away  her  tiller,  and  killed  the  helmsman. 
Immediately  there  was  the  greatest  confusion 
on  board.  All  control  over  the  junk  was 
lost,  for  there  was  nothing  to  steer  her  with, 
whilst  the  shot  from  the  gunboat  was  making 
havoc  amongst  the  pirates.  A  panic  ensued, 
daring  which  Sok-tai  laid  his  junk  along-side 
and  boarded  her.  Some  of  the  crew  threw 
themselves  into  the  sea,  and  were  drowned ; 
a  large  number  were  killed,  and  thirty-eight 
were  taken  alive,  *  and  subsequently  be- 
headed. 


REPORT  TO  COMMANDER. 

After  the  action  was  over,  Sok-tai  went  to 
make  his  report  to  the  commander.  When 
he  appeared  before  him  with  the  list  of  his 
prisoners,  he  found  him  standing  on  deck 
surrounded  by  his  officers.  As  he  drew  near 
to  him,  he  cried  out,  half  in  earnest,  half  in 
banter:  "Your  GKxL  certainly  is  the  true 
God:  to  day  you  owe  your  safety  to  Him.'' 
Sok-tai's  heart  was  too  full  to  reply.  The 
thought  of  the  great  peril  through  which  he 
had  just  passed,  and  the  wonderful  deliver- 
ance that  God  had  given  him,  filled  his  mind, 
so  he  merely  bowed  and  then  retired. 

TURNING  POINT. 

The  answer  to  his  prayer  that  day  was  one 
of  the  turning  points  in  his  life.  It  was  not 
simply  that  he  had  been  delivered  from  the 
pirates.  He  had  had  a  vision  of  the  Unseen, 
which  was  to  qualify  him  for  the  great  life- 
work  to  which  God  was  calling  him.  Eigh- 
teen years  ago  he  and  I  went  together  to 
commence  work  in  a  new  region,  where  men 
had  never  heard  of  God.  The  people  were 
notoriously  bad.  Opium  smoking,  and  gam- 
bling, and  other  vices  that  follow  in  their 
train  were  rampant.  The  Gospel  was 
preached  there,  and  its  divine  power  touched 
the  hearts  of  opium  smokers  and  gsmblers, 
and  in  time,  a  church  grew  and  multiplied 
under  his  teaching.  What  was  the  one  great 
truth  he  was  able  to  impress  upon  that 
church?  It  was  the  reality  of  God,  and  of 
the  unseen  world.  There  are  some  things 
that  no  language  can  tell.     They  have  to  be 

taught  by  a  life Sok-tai  had  to 

preach  truths  which  it  takes  even  Christians 
long  to  fully  believe.  He  had  to  tell  of  God, 
mingling  in  human  life,  planning  for  men, 
very  human  in  His  affections,  listening  to 
every  cry  of  the  heart  to  Him,  and  full  of 
the  intensest  sympathy  for  all.  How  shall 
he  get  opium  smokers  and  gamblers,  who 
require  to  have  the  very  word  God  explained 
to  them,  to  understand  this?  His  own  life 
shall  tell  what  human  language  cannot;  and 
the  unseen  world,  which  opened  its  mysteri- 
ous gates  to  him  through  the  flash  of  the  can- 
non and  the  tumult  of  deadly  conflict,  shall, 
through  his  profound  faith  in  it,  become  a 
reality  in  their  life. 


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HULL  H0U8B,  CHICAGO. 

PKOP.   GBAHAH  TATLOB.* 

Just  four  years  ago  two  Christian  young 
women  were  led  to  devote  themselves  to  the 
social  and  spiritual  elevation  of  one  of  the  needi- 
est^and  most  cosmopolitan  districts  of  the  thick- 
ly-populated parts  of  the  west  side  of  Chicago. 
Fifty-seven  Uiousand  people  constitute  their 
adopted  ward.  To  the  east  of  the  centre  which 
they  chose  for  their  place  of  residence  ten  thous- 
and Italians  crowd  the  space  to  the  river.  To 
the  south  the  Germans  occupy  the  main  thor- 
oughfares, the  Polish  and  Russian  Jews  fill  the 
side  streets,  and  a  mile  southward  forty  thous- 
and Bohemians  constitute  the  third  largest  Bo- 
hemian city  in  the  world.  North  and  west  are 
blocks  of  French-Canadian.  Irish-American, 
Scotch  and  English  population.  In  the  midst 
of  this  heterogeneous,  disorganized,  neglected, 
and  self- neglectful  mass  of  people  these  two 
cultivated  young  college  graduates  confronted 
their  great  work,  with  only  their  culture,  their 
Christian  purpose,  and  themselves.  Over 
against  them  they  discovered  inexpressibly  diity 
streeto,  inadequate  school  accommodations,  bad 
street  lighting,  miserable  paving,  unpaved 
alleys,  hundreds  of  frame  tenement  houses  dis- 
connected with  the  street  sewers  and  many 
without  water  supply,  unenforced  factory  legis- 
lation giving  place  to  the  worst  forms  of  the 
**  sweating  system,"  which  held  undisputed  pos- 
session of  the  health  and  lives  of  an  army  of 
women  and  hosts  of  little  children  under  the  le- 
gal working  age,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty 
saloons,  or  one  to  every  twenty- eight  voters. 
To  offset  these  allied  forces  of  evil,  seven 
churches,  two  missions,  and  several  Jewish 
"chevras,"  all  of  them  small,  except  one  large 
Roman  Catholic  church,  feebly  struggled  for 
little  more  than  their  own  existence.  The  pub- 
lic schools,  supplemented  by  the  Hebrew  Man- 
ual Training  School,  were  the  only  other  uplift- 
ing agencies  and  centres  of  unity. 

But  very  soon  the  humble  home  of  Christian 
culture,  refinement,  simplicity,  and  good-will 
became  a  new  social  centre  in  the  community. 
As  lUllan,  Jewish,  Protestant,  and  Catholic 
neighbors  responded  to  the  neighborly  ameni- 
ties advanced  by  the  strangers,  they  found  real 
friends,  who  not  only  gave  but  received  friend- 
ship on  equal  terms.  The  better  people  of  the 
neighborhood  began  to  rally  about  these  new- 


•  Part  of  an  article  In  The  Hartford  Seminary  Record, 
entitled  "The  Social  SetUementand  Its  SuggetUons  to 
the  Churches.'* 


found  friends,  and  became  allied  to  each  other. 
The  women  united  in  the  Women's  Club,  the 
Working-Mothers'  Day  Nursery  and  Kinder- 
garten, the  Working  Girls*  "Jane  Club,"  in 
which  nearly  fifty  of  them  live  as  one  family, 
instead  of  occupying  the  dreary  single  rooms  or 
the  desolate  bcMirding -houses  whence  most  of 
them  were  gathered.  The  men  were  organized 
into  the  Men's  Club,  and  around  them  grew  the 
walls  of  a  fine  gymnasium  and  bathing -rooms, 
public  hall,  snd  game  rooms.  Men  and  women 
joined  their  efforts  to  secure  home  rule,  cleaner 
streets,  better  lighting,  more  of  their  municipal 
rights,  and  better  sanitary  service.  And  the 
** Nineteenth  Ward  Improvement  Club"  has 
already  earned  its  title.  Together  with  the 
Men's  Club  and  with  the  help  of  the  whole  con- 
stituency, they  have  triumphantly  achieved 
their  first  political  success  in  the  election  of  one 
of  their  own  members  as  the  reform  alderman  of 
the  ward. 

In  the  progress  of  these  movements  the  home 
and  work  of  these  settlers  became  the  centre 
about  which  a  rare  and  delightful  interchange 
of  personal  intercourse  and  service  has  taken 
place.  The  settlement  was  obliged  to  enlarge 
its  borders  by  the  occupancy  of  the  entire  house 
known  as  the  Hull  House,  from  the  name  of  its 
former  owner  and  occupant,  who  was  known 
only  as  the  largest  real  estate  holder  in  the  dis- 
trict. Its  ample  accommodations  now  provide  a 
more  or  less  permanent  residence  for  fourteen 
ladies.  The  men's  settlement  near  by  numbers 
at  present  seven  residents.  There  is  thus  a 
working  force  of  twenty-one  self  supporting 
residents  more  or  less  continuously  at  work  on 
the  field.  They  are  supplemented  by  many 
friends  who  volunteer  for  evening  work.  More 
than  forty  educational  classes  are  held  each 
week  in  literature,  language,  art,  science,  phys- 
ical culture,  and  the  common  branches,  A 
branch  of  the  public  library  has  been  established 
in  the  adjoining  building  erected  for  these  edu- 
cational uses.  A  choral  society  of  two  hun- 
dred voices  is  led  by  Mr.  Tomlins,  the  best  con- 
ductor in  the  city.  Space  forbids  even  the  nam- 
ing of  the  philanthropic  enterprises  successfully 
conducted  from  this  busy  hive  of  social  indus- 
try. The  play-ground  for  the  children  of  the 
neighborhood  should  be  mentioned  as  having 
taken  the  place  of  half  a  block  of  untenantable 
tenements.  The  Coffee  House  not  only  furnishes 
an  attractive  substitute  for  the  saloon,  but  sup- 
plies at  very  moderate  prices  wholesome,  weU- 
cooked  food,  which  is  also  served  at  the  noon 
hour  in  some  of  the  large  factories  in  the  neigh- 


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borhood.  The  co-operative  fuel  supply  saTes 
the  poor  much  expense  and  suffering. 

As  a  social  centre,  however,  the  movement  is 
most  remarkable.  Not  only  do  individual  rep- 
resentatives of  different  nationalities,  religions, 
social  theories  and  classes  meet  and  work  to- 
gether, but  bodies  of  associated  people  affiliate 
there,  as  nowhere  else.  The  labor  unions  not 
only  seek  the  intelligent  sympathy  and  fearlessly 
just  counsel  of  these  true  and  tried  friends,  but 
they  have  rendered  the  movement  invaluable 
co-operation  without  which  its  rapid  growth 
and  success  could  not  have  been.  Two  social 
science  dubs  each  week  gather  people  of  the 
most  diverse  views  for  the  free  discussion  of 
social  economics.  Before  these  bodies  some  of 
the  most  distinguished  men  of  the  city  and  the 
nation  appear,  and  visitors  from  abroad  are  be- 
ginning to  make  the  Hull  House  one  of  the 
shrines  of  their  American  pilgrimage.  With  the 
City  Missionary  church  near  by  the  most  cor- 
dial relations  are  maintained.  Miss  Addams, 
the  head  and  founder  of  the  Settlement,  is  an 
active  and  beloved  member  of  that  church. 
Other  residents  are  attendants  and  participants 
in  its  work.  Whatever  distinctively  religious 
work  can  be  done  in  a  community  so  predomi- 
nantly Jewish  and  Roman  Catholic,  may  best 
be  undertaken  in  connection  with  the  neighbor- 
ing church.  To  have  attempted  a  Protestant 
propaganda  or  rescue  mission  at  the  Settlement, 
would  have  been  to  frustrate  the  purpose  to 
make  a  common  social  centre  for  the  entire 
community.  There  Christianity  could  be  lived 
out,  as  it  could  not  be  preached,  and  far  more 
nearly  to  all  tke  people  tium  in  any  other  way. 
But  now  that  the  Settlement  has  won  the  confi- 
dence and  cooperation  of  the  people  of  all 
creeds,  the  church  will  gain  the  larger  hearing 
and  constituency  through  the  workers  who  are 
identified  with  both. 

If  the  settlement  movement,  in  its  present 
form,  proves  to  be  only  temporary  and  transi- 
tional, it  will  be  of  the  most  inestimably  perma- 
nent value  to  society  and  the  church  in  two  par- 
ticulars. It  will  emphasize  the  practicability 
and  efficiency  of  a  type  of  service  imperatively 
demanded  by  the  conditions  of  modern  city 
life,  and  it  will  incite  the  churches  both  to 
establish  this  type  of  social  ministry  where  it 
has  not  been  attempted  and  to  reinfcnrce  its 
development  where  it  has  obtained  a  stru:nrgiiiig 
but  successful  hold  upon  the  church  and  com- 
munity. Christian  families,  groups  of  workers 
in  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and 
Brotherhood  work  will  yet  be   moved    more 


largely  to  settle  the  citycenters  for  Christ's 
sake.  The  churches  will  become,  as  some  of 
them  already  are,  social  settlements  themselves, 
doing  week-day  service  for  humanity,  sanctify- 
ing the  seculiarlties  of  life,  being  of,  by,  and  for 
the  people.  When  they  do,  the  city  problem 
will  be  solved. 

While  it  may  not  be  possible,  under  present 
conditions,  for  the  church  itself  to  become  the 
social  and  civic  centre  of  such  heterogeneous 
communities  as  that  which  the  Hull  House  is 
succeeding  in  unifying,  it  may  create  such  cen- 
tres even  in  such  districts.  It  is  clearly  practi- 
cable, however,  in  neighborhoods  where  alien 
faiths  do  not  so  overwhelmingly  preponderate, 
for  the  local  church  within  its  own  edifice  and 
by  its  own  efforts  to  unite  many  more  of  the 
people  in  practical  social  co  operation  with  each 
other  and  with  it,  than  can  be  enlisted  in  exclu- 
sively evangelistic  work.  All  such  co  operation 
for  the  betterment  of  the  locality  and  its  social 
conditions  would  not  only  create  a  larger  constit- 
uency for  the  church,  but  would  give  it  a  van- 
tage ground  whence  to  apply  the  Qospel  to 
individual  life  and  agencies  through  which  to 
reach  out  after  non- church -going  people  that 
would  be  very  effectively  tributary  to  the  most 
distinctively  spb-itual  efforts. 

The  establishment  of  such  centres  as  alone  are 
adequate  to  gain  and  hold  the  city  centres  is 
conditioned  upon  Christian  occupation  and  co- 
operation. To  possess  the  promised  land  here, 
as  elsewhere,  we  must  occupy  it  personally. 
An  old  neighbor  of  the  Hull  Home  in  express- 
ing his  grateful  wonder  at  the  self  sacrifice  of 
its  minietering  women,  also  struck  the  key  to 
the  open  secret  of  their  success  in  exclaiming. 
"They  live  here  with  us."  The  church  has 
only  t^us  taken  real  possession  of  all  its  fields. 
Foreign  missionary  consecration  is  essential  to 
city  evangelization.  Until  we  think  as  much  of 
the  people  of  our  home  cities  whom  we  would 
save,  and  show  it  by  being  willing  to  live 
among  them,  the  church  cannot  possess  what 
she  is  unwilling  to  occupy.  A  people  willing 
for  Christ's  sake  to  live  where  He  needs  them,  is 
the  ultimate  solution  of  the  problem  of  "  saving 
the  masses." 


''HaveJ;his  mind  in  you,  which  was  also  in 
Christ  Jesus;  who,  being  in  the  form  of  Ood, 
counted  it  not  a  prize  to  be  on  an  equality  with 
God,  but  emptied  himself,  taking  the  form  of  a 
servant."    Phil.  2:5,  R.  V. 

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The  Boy  Jesus. 


[Febnuiry, 


Children's  Church  at  Home 
And  Abroad. 

THE  BOY  JESUS. 

In  Luke's  short  aocount  of  the  childhood 
of  Jesus  we  read  that  he  **  waxed  strong 
in  spirit." 

I  like  that  old  English  word  toaoj,  which 
now  we  scarcely  ever  use  in  that  sense,  ex- 
cept when  applying  it  to  the  moon  growing 
larger  and  brighter  from  the  slender  crescent 
to  the  full  round  orb. 

There  was  in  Jesus  a  proper  growth  of 
healthy  childhood,  advancing  toward  healthy 
and  strong  manhood.  How  do  you  think 
of  the  boy  of  whom  Luke  thus  speaks  ?  Was 
there  in  Nazareth,  think  you,  or  in  Galilee,  a 
more  resolute  boy,  a  braver  boy,  than  the 
carpenter's  son  ?  Do  you  believe  that  there 
ever  had  been  a  braver  or  more  resolute  boy 
in  Rome,  er  in  Sparta  ?  He  grew  and  waxed 
strong  in  spirit.  There  was  the  natural  con- 
nection between  healthy  bodily  growth  and 
healthy  mental  growth,  between  the  increase 
of  bodily  strength  and  increasing  strength  of 
spirit.  He  climbed  the  hills  about  Nazareth 
in  boyish  play,  and  plied  the  tools  in  Joseph's 
shop  with  patient,  obedient  industry.  He 
fed  temperately  and  heartily  at  Mary's  frugal 
and  wholesome  table.  He  slept  soundly 
under  the  roof  of  a  home  which  we  rightly 
think  of  as  lowly,  but  never  as  squalid  or 
untidy.  He  grew,  and  as  his  frame  increased 
in  size,  and  his  limbs  in  vigor,  his  spirit 
waxed  stronger  and  stronger  day  by  day. 
It  increased  in  energy,  in  courage,  in  for- 
titude. We  cannot  imagine  him  a  boisterous, 
turbulent  boy,  ready  to  quarrel  with  other 
boys,  or  to  make  any  offensive  or  tyrannical 
display  of  strength  or  prowess.  He  was 
gentlemanly.  But  it  is  just  as  impossible  to 
conceive  of  his  behaving  in  a  weak  and  cow- 
ardly way.  He  was  manly.  Can  you  imag- 
ine him  intimidated  by  any  rough  boy's 
threats,  or  any  proud  girl's  sneers,  so  as 
to  swerve  from  his  own  duty  to  human  par- 
ents, to  human  neighbors,  or  to  his  divine 
Father  ? 

In  the  next  scene  in  the  life  of  Jesus  to 
which  Luke  admits  us,  at  the  temple  **  in  the 


midst  of  the  doctors,  hearing  them  and  ask- 
ing them  questions,*'  the  strength  of  his 
spirit  is  as  dearly  shown  as  his  gentleness, 
his  manliness  as  much  ashisgentlemanliness. 
If  his  troubled  mother's  ehiding  could  not 
rufie  his  temper  unto  one  unfilial  word,  so 
neither  could  his  tender  respect  for  that 
mother's  natural  solicitude  shake  or  enfeeble 
his  purpose  to  be  *'  about  his  Father's  busi- 
ness." 

He  knew  that  his  own  Father  was  not 
Joseph,  but  GOD.  Joseph  and  Mary  both 
knew  this  too,  but  they  had  not  yet  fully 
learned  how  to  adjust  their  own  minds  to 
that  wonderful  truth.  Luke  says:  **They 
understood  not  the  saying  which  he  spake  to 
them,"  Luke  ii.  20. 

*'  In  the  green  fields  of  Palestine, 
By  ito  fountains  and  its  rills. 
And  by  the  sacred  Jordan's  stream, 
And  o*er  the  vine-clad  hills, 

Once  lived  and  roved  the  fairest  child 

That  ever  blessed  the  earth, 
The  happiest,  the  holiest 

That  e  er  had  human  birth. 

How  beautiful  his  childhood  was, 

Harmless  and  undefiled ! 
O,  dear  to  that  young  mother's  heart 

Was  her  pure,  sinless  child. 

Kindly  in  all  his  deeds  and  words. 

And  gentle  as  a  dove. 
Obedient,  affectionate. 

His  very  soul  was  love. 

O,  is  it  not  a  blessed  thought, 

Children  of  human  birth, 
That  once  the  Saviour  was  a  child, 

And  lived  upon  the  earth  ?  " 

To  be  like  Jesus,  you  must  not  only  be  gentle 
and  sweet-tempered,  hnt  strong  in  spirit^  ready 
to  undertake  bravely  any  most  difficult  duty, 
ready  to  undergo  any  self-denial  for  the  sake 
of  doing  good,  resolute  to  resist  all  manner 
of  persuasions  to  do  wrong,  for  fun  or  for 
revenge  or  for  any  purpose  whatever. 

How  can  you  become  so  f 

1.  Give  yourself  to  Jesus  and  trust  yourself 
to  him  fiUly, 

2.  Then  constantly  try  to  become  like  him, 
always  praying  the  Holy  Spirit  to  make  you 
so  by  means  of  your  constant  trying. 


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He  can  make  you  gentle,  obedient,  trathfnl 
and  fearless  in  right-doing.  Ton  will  be 
none  the  lees  gentle  and  lovely  by  being 
strong  in  spirit. 


A  CRUEL  TYRANT. 

One  of  the  children  who  have  written  to 
me  lately  answering  some  of  the  Bible  ques- 
tions which  we  have  printed  in  The  Children's 
Church  at  Home  and  Abroad,  asked  me  to 
tell  something  in  these  pages  of  what  hap- 
pened when  I  was  as  young  as  he  is  now — 
"  about  twelve  years."  I  wonder  if  he  could 
guess  how  long  ago  that  was.  Perhaps  he 
does  not  care  about  that.  I  was  expecting 
to  be  a  minister  of  the  Gospel  then,  just  as 
much  as  when  I  was  twenty  years  old.  I 
have  a  friend  about  my  age  who  says  that  he 
does  not  remember  when  he  did  not  expect 
to  be  a  minister.  He  has  three  sons  who  are 
ministers  now. 

When  I  was  twelve  years  old,  my  pastor 
was  a  man  whom  I  looked  up  to  with  as 
much  reverence  and  admiration  as  I  ever 
felt  for  any  man.  He  was  very  tall.  He 
had  a  very  musical  voice,  and  wonderful 
black  eyes  that  seemed  to  dazzle  mine,  when 
he  looked  into  them,  almost  like  a  flash  of 
sunlight.  He  was  an  uncommonly  eloquent 
man.  I  should  not  be  sure  of  this  now 
merely  because  he  seemed  so  to  me  when  I 
was  so  young,  if  I  did  not  know  that  my 
father  thought  him  so,  and  other  mature  and 
wise  men.  After  all,  I  am  not  so  very  sure 
now  that  a  speaker  who  can  send  his  words 
into  the  ears  and  eyes  and  heart  of  a  boy, 
and  make  every  nerve  in  him  thrill  and 
quiver,  is  not  as  great  an  orator  as  one  who 
makes  grown  people  *^weep  and  melt  and 
tremble." 

I  learned  some  of  those  eloquent  words 
of  my  pastor,  by  heart,  when  they  had  been 
printed,  and  spoke  them  at  school,  and  have 
recited  them  to  myself  hundreds  of  times. 
The  following  were  his  words : 

How  dreadful,  alas!  how  omnipotent  is  the 
tyrant's  sway  over  his  miserable  victims!  Does 
he  bid  tbem  scatter  their  property  to  the  winds 
of  heaven?  It  is  Joyfully  done.  Houses,  lands 
and  goods  are  resigned  one  by  one  to  his  merci- 
less grasp.    Does  he  demand  the  ruin  of  char- 


acter—character of  which  all  are  so  jealous— 
which  is  more  precious  than  houses,  lands  or 
goods?  It  is  thrown  at  the  tyrant's  feet,  and 
the  desolate,  plundered  group  will  sing  his 
praises  as  he  tramples  It  In  the  dust  Does  he 
bid  them  do  violence  to  every  tie  of  natural 
affection,  and  break  the  hearts  that  love  them 
with  the  strongest  feelings  of  earth?  They  can 
obey  him  even  In  this.  The  profligate  son  can 
drink  the  cup  that  is  flUed  with  the  heart's 
blood  of  his  parents;  the  abandoned  parent  can 
wash  his  steps  to  the  drunkard's  dismal  grave  in 
the  tears  of  his  blushing  children. 

In  another  part  of  the  same  sermon,  he 
drew  this  terrible  word-picture  of  the  tyrant's 
doings : 

As  we  look  into  the  mad-houses,  the  monster 
cries:  "One  third  of  these  are  mine! "  As  we 
survey  the  inmates  of  our  prisons,  he  cries: 
•*  Two  thirds  of  these  are  mine."  As  we  look 
at  the  paupers  sustained  by  public  charity,  he 
cries:  "These,  almost  all,  are  mine."  And 
when  we  gaze  in  horror  at  the  thirty  thousand 
corpses  with  which  his  dungeon  is  annually 
replenished,  he  shouts  exaltlngly:  "Mine! 
mine!  M  these  are  mine!"  When  we  trem- 
blingly ask:  "What  have  you  done  with  their 
souls?— he  sneeringly  answers:  "  Tou*U  know  at 
the  judgment" 

I  am  sure  that  my  twelve-year-old  readers 
and  those  still  younger  understand  all  this  as 
well  as  those  who  are  oldest.  You  all  know 
the  name  of  that  tyrant.  When  I  used  to  lis- 
ten to  that  eloquent  preacher  and  others,  in 
my  boyhood,  I  thought  that  the  flght  against 
that  monster  would  be  flnished,  and  he  would 
be  driven  out  of  the  world  before  I  would  be 
old  enough  to  become  a  preacher.  I  think  I 
felt  about  it  much  as  boys  of  that  age  did,  a 
good  many  years  later,  when  their  big  broth- 
ers and  uncles  and  fathers  were  going  into 
the  national  armies  to  defend  the  flag  of  the 
Union,  and  they  were  not  old  enough  to  be 
soldiers. 

But  here  I  am  writing  to  boys  who  were 
not  born  at  that  time,  nor  for  many  years 
afterwards — and  is  that  tyrant  driven  out  yet? 
Is  he  any  less  cruel  now  than  he  was  then? 

What  shall  we  do  about  it?  I  will  be  glad 
to  have  any  of  you  write  to  me — ^boys  or 
girls — and  tell  me  what  you  mean  to  do 
about  it.  H.  A.  N. 


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Gleanings 
At  Home  and  Abroad. 

[Gathered  and  Ck>Ddensed  bj  Key.  Albert  B.  Robdison.] 


—In  a  large  sense,  says  Dr.  W.  E.  Griffls,  New 
Japan  is  the  creation  of  missionary  Christianity. 

—A  member  of  the  Australian  Church  pays 
the  salary  of  the  Free  Church  missionary  at 
Tiberias. 

— To  know  the  facts  of  modem  missions  is  the 
necessary  condition  of  intelligent  interest. — 
A,  T.  PUraan,  D.  D, 

—The  Bridgman  School  for  girls  in  Peking 
will  no  longer  receive  girls  with  bound  feet.— 
MistionaTy  Herald. 

— The  University  of  Chicago  conferred  its 
first  degree  of  doctor  of  philosophy  upon  a  Jap- 
anese. — Golden  Rule. 

— Eleven  hundred  Japanese  young  men  have 
been  converted  in  the  last  year  on  the  Pacific 
coast  ^Bishop  ChodseU 

— Our  gift  to  missions  is  too  often  hush  money 
given  to  conscience,  said  a  speaker  at  the  Iowa 
Christian  Endeavor  Convention. 

—This  is  the  Fuji  Yama  text  of  the  Bible, 
exclaimed  a  Japanese  preacher  as  he  read  John 
iii.  J6,  *•  God  so  loved  the  world,"  etc. 

—The  time  has  come  for  tlje  full  mobilization 
of  the  army  of  the  cross.  An  army  in  camp  is 
good  for  nothing.— 2>.  J,  Burrell,  D.  2>. 

— *  *  Something  from  everybody,"  and  **  a  little 
each  week,"  were  mottoes  for  the  churches 
suggested  at  the  Reformed  Missionary  Confer- 
ence. 

—The  Borahs,  a  sect  of  Mohammedans  of 
Hindo  origin,  are  said  to  have  nine-tenths  of  the 
petty  trade  of  Bombay  in  their  hands.— /n^itan 
Witness. 

— They  are  a  noble  race,  vastly  superior  to 
anything  you  can  imagine  of  a  savage  nation, 
said  Samuel  Marsden  of  the  Maoris  in  New 
Zealand. 

— The  four  hundred  members  of  the  M.  E. 
Church  in  San  Francisco  maintain  two  of  their 
number  as  missionaries  to  their  own  people  in 
Honolulu. 

— The  Rhenish  Missionary  Society  reported 
8,000  converts  from  heathenism  and  Mohammed- 
anism in  Sumatra  for  1892— more  than  In  any 
previous  year. 

— The  chief  end  for  which  the  Church  ought 
to  exist,  for  which  individual  church  members 
ought  to  live,  said  Alexander  Duff,  is  the  evan- 
gelization of  the  world. 


— Systematic  giving  is  a  means  of  grace  to  the 
individual  Christian  in  that  it  resists  his  self- 
love,  strengthens  his  faith  and  enlarges  his 
heart — Dr.  E.  P,  Johnson, 

—The  Crown  Prince  of  Slam  has  written  sev- 
eral stories  for  English  children's  magazines, 
and  can  write  fiuently  In  three  European  langu- 
ages.— CarMda  Presbyterian. 

—Said  a  woman  in  Benares  who  was  trying  to 
grasp  the  idea  of  One  who  could  save  from  sin : 
"Oh,  tell  us  again  who  He  was,  and  tell  us 
slowly,  for  we  forget  so  soon." 

—Said  a  Hindu  priest,  of  the  circulation  of 
Christian  literature  in  India:  These  books  are 
entering  our  homes,  saturating  our  minds,  and 
sapping  our  faith. — The  Zenana. 

— The  religious  sentiment  is  exceptionally 
strong  among  the  women  of  India.  It  has  been 
said  that  they  eat  religiously,  bathe  religiously, 
and  sin  religiously.— TA^  Zenana. 

— The  rise,  progress,  present  condition  and 
promise  of  Christian  missions  are  among  the 
most  stupendous  facts  of  modem  times. — Ex- 
Judge  Strong  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

—There  are  8,000  or  10,000  Icelanders  in 
Manitoba,  says  the  Carutda  Presbyterian^  and 
more  are  coming.  They  are  industrious  and 
moral,  and  will  make  good  citizens. 

— In  spite  of  the  dense  human  population  of 
India,  an  unsubdued  army  of  beasts,  birds  and 
reptiles  successfully  contends  with  man  for  the 
fruits  of  the  earth.— //M?t<5fn  Witness. 

— The  Census  Commissioner  of  India  believes 
that  the  majority  of  the  94,372  native  Christians 
who  returned  themselves  as  "  Caste  Christians" 
were  Roman  Catholics.— /n<f»an  Witness. 

— Theodosius  wrote  the  Gospel  in  words  of 
gold— the  women  of  to  day  in  their  missionary 
societies  are  doing  a  nobler  work— writing  it  in 
letters  of  light  upon  darkened  hearts  —Belle  P. 
Drury. 

—King  Humbert  visited  the  Waldensian  Synod 
in  session  recently  at  Torre  Pellice,  Italy.  It  is 
believed  to  be  the  first  time  the  King  of  Italy 
ever  entered  an  evangelical  church  in  that 
country. 

—A  consignment  of  idols  from  Japan  has  been 
received  at  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  They 
are  offered  for  sale  in  order  to  raise  money  to 
build  a  chapel  for  Christian  worship.- (7An>«ia» 
Intelligencer. 

— There  can  be  but  one  ultimate  result  of  the 
Parliament  of  Religions,  says  Dr.  W.  E.  Griffis 
— the  manifestation  of  the  truth  that  in  Jesus 
Christ  "  are  hid  all  the  treasures  of  wisdom  and 
knowledge." 


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— Among  the  Manga,  a  low  caste  people  of 
Indore,  Central  India,  fifty  beads  of  families 
have  recently  been  baptized,  representing  an 
addition  of  200  to  the  Christian  community. — 
Prefbyterian  Becord. 

—There  are  80,000  East  Indians  in  Trinidad ; 
and  in  that  and  neighboring  islands  and  Demar- 
ara  there  are  about  800.000,  to  which  about  10, 

000  immigrants  are  added  every  year. — Bev.  F, 
J.  Coffin  of  Trinidad, 

— One  whose  gifts  dwindled  as  her  fortune 
grew,  was  thus  rebuked  by  a  friend:  When 
you  had  a  penny  pocket-book  you  had  a  guinea 
heart;  but  with  the  guinea  pocket-book  you 
have  only  a  penny  heart. 

— An  evangelistic  or  missionary  church,  said 
Alexander  Duff,  is  a  spiritually  flourishing 
church.  A  church  which  drops  the  evangelistic 
or  missionary  character  speedily  lapses  into 
superanuation  and  decay. 

— The  most  potent  truth  of  the  €k)spel  for  the 
transformation  of  character,  said  Mr.  Hay  at 
Keswick,  is  the  very  aspect  of  it  to  which  the 
natural  man  is  most  hostile — the  vicarious 
atonement  of  Jesus  Christ. 

—Says  Dr.  F.  E.  Clark:  Wisely  have  the 
American  Board  Missionaries,  like  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  everywhere  planted  the  school  house 
side  by  side  with  the  church.  In  these  twin 
buildings  lies  the  hope  of  India. 

— The  conversion  of  India's  women  would 
mean  India  for  Christ.  The  family  must  be  the 
rallying  point  in  missionary  work;  it  will  then 
become  a  radiating  centre  which  will  flood  the 
land  with  gospel  light. — The  Zenana, 

— A  Bible  woman  in  Oroomiah  recently 
refused  to  seek  redress  from  the  law  for  flagrant 
injustice  and  cruelty,  because,  as  she  said,  "  I 
know  it  will  injure  my  work  among  the  Moslems. 

1  commit  my  cause  to  Gk)d.    He  will  judge  for 
me. 

— The  days  for  sentiment  are  passed  Stu- 
dents in  our  seminaries  must  consider  the  ques- 
tion in  a  practical  way.  They  cannot  afford  to 
occupy  the  position  '  Jones '  did  when  he  said, 
"Here  am  I,  Lord,  send  'Smith.'"— L.  D.  Win 
hard, 

— The  Parsees  in  Bombay,  *'the  Jews  of 
India,"  are  influential,  public  spirited  and  pro- 
gressive, says  a  writer  in  World  Wide  Mimonn. 
They  number  50,000— more  than  half  the  whole 
number  of  Parsees  in  India,  and  are  descendants 
of  the  Persian  exiles  who  twelve  hundred  years 
ago  were  allowed  to  settle  in  Qujerat  on  agree- 
ing to  adopt  some  features  of  the  Hindu 
religion. 


—Had  the  Jewish  mission  to  Hungary  reaped 
no  other  fruit  than  the  conversion  of  Adolph 
Saphir,  the  expenditure  of  time,  talent  and 
money  would  have  been  fully  justified  and 
amply  rewarded.  —  Knox  College  (Canada) 
Monthly. 

— The  more  a  man  possesses  the  Christian 
spirit,  and  is  governed  by  Christian  principle, 
the  more  anxious  will  he  be  to  do  justice  to 
every  other  system  of  religion,  and  to  hold  his 
own  without  taint  or  fetter  of  bigotry,— i>r. 
James  Legge, 

— Thirteen  of  the  seventeen  missionaries  now 
in  the  New  Hebrides  group  belong  to  Australia 
and  New  Zealand.  The  Synod  of  the  Maritime 
Provinces  has  opened  a  correspondence  looking 
to  the  transfer  of  its  share  of  the  work  to  the 
Australian  Church. 

—Says  Dr.  Matthews  in  the  Quarterly  Register: 
The  Waldensian  Mission  churches  outside  the 
valleys  are  now  more  than  thrice  as  numerous 
as  those  within  them.  This  is  a  fact  full  of 
significance  as  to  the  future  of  the  Church ;  its 
center  is  changing. 

—The  Church  needs  in  prosecuting  her  mis- 
sionary work,  says  Dr.  J.  W.  Scudder,  the  con- 
viction that  the  work  ought  to  be  done  and  done 
now;  the  conviction  that  it  can  be  done  and 
done  now;  the  determination  that  it  shaU  be 
done  and  done  now. 

— In  Seoul  men  are  forbidden  to  be  on  the  streets 
later  than  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening.  When 
the  curfew  sounds  the  city  gates  are  closed,  men 
must  withdraw  from  sight,  and  women  are  free 
to  roam  at  large  until  one  o*clock  in  the  morn- 
ing.— A,  B,  Leonard. 

— The  boys  in  a  mission  school  in  Peking 
received  their  board— two  meals  per  day  and 
two  small  cakes  at  noon.  They  subscribed  these 
noon-day  cakes,  some  for  one  week,  others  for 
three  weeks,  that  they  might  have  money  for 
the  missionary  offering. 

—The  Presbyterian  Church  in  Canada  has  a 
mission  among  the  Chamars  of  Neemuch,  Cen- 
tral India.  They  are  a  low  caste  people,  living 
at  the  entrance  to  the  town,  their  houses  built 
round  a  court-yard,  in  which  are  wells  and  fine 
trees. — Presbyterian  Beeord. 

—Mr.  E  C.  Banerjee  of  Calcutta  is  mentioned 
by  the  Indian  Witness  as  a  good  illustration  of 
what  an  educated  Bengali  Christian  should  be. 
Though  a  busy  lawyer,  he  finds  time  to  do  a 
large  amount  of  Christian  work;  and  in  all 
general  duties  pertaining  to  the  interests  of 
Christianity  he  if  an  experienced  and  trusted 
leader. 


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GHeaninga  at  Home  and  Abroad. 


[February^ 


—The  Woman's  Societies  of  the  Oongrega- 
tional  tthurches,  recalliag  the  fact  that  of  the 
$488,000  received  last  year  bj  contribution  to 
the  American  Board,  $205,000  came  through 
their  efforts,  asked  to  be  represented  hereafter 
in  the  management  of  that  Board. 

—The  Mission  to  Deep  Sea  Fishermen,  organ- 
ized to  minister  to  the  20,000  British  fishermen 
on  the  North  Sea,  has  become  to  many  of  these 
"toilers  of  the  sea"  the  school  of  a  better  life, 
and  has  built  up  the  "Church  on  the  Sea."— 
1200.  JofMS  Johmtan  in  Sunday -School  Timei. 

—In  Korea  a  young  man  is  regarded  as  a  mere 
child  until  he  takes  a  wife.  He  parts  his  hair 
in  the  middle,  allows  it  to  hang  in  a  braid  down 
his  back,  and  goes  bareheaded.  Just  before 
marriage  the  hair  is  put  up  in  a  topknot,  and  he 
"  takes  the  hat."— it  B.  Leonard  in  World  Wide 
Miseiom. 

— A  mission  established  three  years  ago  in 
Central  India  for  the  evangelization  of  the  de- 
graded tribes  in  the  hill  regions  is  beginning  to 
reap  its  first  fruits.  Hidden  away  in  the  dense 
jungle  there  are  100,000  of  the  Eurkas  alone 
who  have  never  until  now  heard  of  Christ— 
Missionary  Link. 

— Rev.  W.  Hughes,  a  missionary  for  some 
years  in  Africa,  is  principal  of  a  college  in 
Colwyn  Bay,  Wales,  in  which  Africans  are 
trained  for  work  in  Africa.  The  pupils,  selected 
from  schools  in  Africa,  are  taught  carpentering, 
house-building,  printing,  as  well  as  to  make 
clothes  and  to  cure  disease. 

— Whoever  wishes  to  see  Palestine  in  the  garb 
it  has  worn  for  unnumbered  centuries,  writes  a 
traveller,  must  visit  it  soon.  The  people  are 
adopting  European  dress  and  ways.  Our  inven- 
tions are  coming.  The  telegraph  is  domiciled ; 
and  soon  the  crooked  stick  will  give  way  to  the 
plough,  the  camel  stand  aside  or  run  bellowing 
to  the  field,  as  I  have  seen  him  do,  while  the 
engine  rushes  on,  and  the  Palestine  of  Bible  days 
will  be  no  more. 

— A  Japanese  writer  admits  that  Buddhism 
brought  civilization  from  the  continent  of 
Asia,  and  has  been  instrumental  in  subduing 
the  warlike  and  savage -"nature  of  the  Japanese. 
But  the  evil  it  has  done  outweighs  the  benefits 
conferred.  During  several  centuries  it  threat- 
ened the  peace  of  the  country ;  it  lost  its  spirit- 
ual character,  and  the  temples  became  hot-beds 
of  intrigue  and  agitation.  Its  pessimistic  doc- 
trines injured  the  healthy  and  natural  growth 
of  the  nation's  character,  making  the  majority 
of  the  people  abnormally  submissive  and 
timid. 


—The  interesto  of  the  whole  race  are  one,  says 
President  Merrill  £.  Gates.  The  man  in  greatest 
poverty  and  of  humblest  station  is  indissolubly 
linked  in  all  his  interests  with  the  strongest  and 
richest  of  his  fellowmen.  No  member  of  the 
race  can  suffer  without  involving  suffering  for 
the  whole  race.  The  first  and  highest  duty  of 
the  strong  is  to  use  their  strength  for  the  benefit 
of  the  whole,  for  the  uplifting  and  strengthening 
of  the  ignorant  and  weak. 

—That  plea,  "There  are  heathen  enough  at 
home;  let  us  convert  them  before  we  go  to 
China,"  sounds  more  cheap  and  shameful  every 
year.  It  makes  the  imperfection  of  our  Christ- 
ianity at  home  an  excuse  for  not  doing  our  work 
abroad.  It  is  a  plea  for  exemption  and  indulg- 
ence on  the  ground  of  our  own  neglect  and  sin . 
It  is  like  the  murderer  of  his  father  asking  the 
judge  to  have  pity  on  his  orphanhood.  Even 
those  who  make  such  a  plea  must  feel  how  unhe- 
roic  it  is.— PAiOtpf  Brooks. 

—The  Samaritan  renmant,  140  in  number,  live 
at  Kablous,  the  ancient  Sychar.  They  are  a  tall, 
fair-haired  race,  writes  a  missionary,  and  interest- 
ing in  their  antiquity.  They  observe  the  law 
of  Moses  scrupulously,  and  recognize  the  Penta- 
teuch only  as  the  Word  of  Ood.  When  I  asked 
the  high  priest  if  the  yearly  Passover  sacrifice 
took  away  sin,  he  replied:  No;  that  sacrifice  is 
merely  commemorative.  We  expect  to  purge  our 
sin  by  prayer,  to  enter  heaven  by  prayer  and  by 
the  intercession  of  Moses.— i^M  Ohureh  Monthly. 

—The  engineers  who  were  surveying  for  a 
railway  from  Kirin  to  Newchwang  proposed  to 
make  a  junction  for  Moukden.  The  Tartar 
general  of  that  city  consulted  the  geomancers, 
who  reported  that  the  vertebrsB  of  the  dragon 
which  encircles  the  holy  city  of  Moukden  would 
be  broken  by  driving  the  long  nails  of  the  rail- 
way sleepers  into  them.  A  different  route  was 
subsequently  selected,  which  the  geomancers 
declared  would  not  affect  the  dragon's  pulse, 
and  the  work  was  allowed  to  proceed.— Sd&ntifle 
American. 

—Frederick  Douglas  spoke  so  well  at  an  anti- 
slavery  meeting  that  Police  Captain  Rynders, 
who  was  present  to  keep  the  meeting  within 
bounds,  said  to  him:  "Douglas,  it  was  the 
white  blood  in  you  that  made  that  speech." 
"  Then  let  me  show  you  what  a  black  man  can 
do,"  he  replied ;  and  one  of  the  blackest  of  black 
men,  whom  he  called  to  the  front,  spoke  so 
eloquently  that  a  Carolinian  planter  remarked : 
"  I  did  not  believe  that  all  the  brains  of  Africa 
ccmdensed  in  one  skull  could  produce  such  t 
spaedi  as  that"— i>r.  R  &  St^m, 


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GLEANINGS  FOR  CHRISTIAN 
ENDEAVOR. 

— Christian  Endeavor  means  consecrate  every- 
thing. 

— Christian  Endeavor  has  been  called  the 
romance  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

—A  Christian  Endeavor  Society  has  been 
formed  in  the  Connecticut  State  prison. 

—The  Presbyterian  Endeavor  Society  in 
Orilla,  Ont,  supports  a  native  missionary  in 
India. 

—A  testimony  should  be  based  on  a  heart 
experience,  said  a  speaker  at  the  Syracuse  con- 
vention. 

—The  societies  in  the  Reformed  Church  in  the 
UDited  States  are  about  to  send  a  Christian 
Endeavor  Missionary  to  Japan. 

— All  the  members  of  the  societies  recently 
organized  in  South  India  go  out  every  week  to 
preach  the  Gospel,  and  they  do  it  with  enthu- 
siasm. 

—The  Delaware  State  Convention  has  adopted 
as  State  colors  red  and  white,  suggested  by 
Isaiah  L  18;  and  this  verse  is  chosen  as  the  State 
motto. 

—Our  efforts  are  in  vain,  says  the  Secretary  of 
the  South  Dakota  Union,  unless,  while  we  help 
people  with  one  hand,  we  take  hold  of  God  with 
the  ether. 

—The  societies  in  the  Christian  Endeavor 
Missionary  League  of  the  Reformed  Church  in 
America  have  pledged  an  average  of  $86  a  year 
each  to  missions. 

— €k)od  citizenship,  proportionate  and  syste- 
matic giving,  inter-denominational  fellowship — 
these  are  the  three  enlargements  proposed  by 
President  Clark  for  this  year. 

— "  This  is  the  best  port  I  was  ever  in,"  said 
one  of  the  fifteen  sailors  of  a  British  ship  in  the 
port  of  San  Diego,  at  a  reception  given  to  the 
crew  by  the  Christian  Endeavor  Societies. 

—The  pastor's  aim  should  be,  not  bow  much  he 
can  get  out  of  the  young  people,  but  how  much 
he  can  make  out  of  them,  was  a  thought  ex- 
pressed at  the  South  Dakota  Convention. 

—A  "  Sunshine  Committee  "  in  an  Australian 
Endeavor  Society  bought  an  invalid's  chair, 
which  it  loans  to  the  sick.  It  was  first  used  by 
an  old  gentleman  who  had  not  been  out  for  six 
years. 

—Cold  does  not  chill  Christian  Endeavor,  but 
only  hardens  it  for  greater  endurance.  Heat 
does  not  melt  this  great  enterprise,  but  only  ex- 
pands it  for  more  useful  service.  Rain  does  not 
carry  it  away,  but  only  spreads  it  where  it  is 
most  needed.— iy^iff  York  Tribune, 


—The  Christian  Endeavor  Society  in  Union, 
S.  C,  puts  one  of  the  elders  as  ex-offleio  member 
on  each  committee,  thus  bringing  the  Society 
under  the  direct  supervision  of  the  session. 

— "Take  my  hands  and  let  them  move  at  the 
impulse  of  Thy  love."  The  Endeavor  Society 
in  Dr.  Stalker's  church,  Glasgow,  has  taken 
these  words  from  Miss  Havergal's  consecration 
hynm,  as  its  motto. 

—A  friend  once  wrote  Secretary  Baer:  Cash 
is  one  of  the  needful  C's  in  Christian  Endea- 
vor, and  deserves  to  be  classed  with 

Confession— Rom  x:  10; 
Consecration — Rom.  xii :  1 ; 
Concentration— Phil,  iii:  18,  14; 
Courage— Rom.  viii:81; 
Consistency — Matt,  v:  16; 
Charity— I  Cor.  18; 
Cash— I  Cor.  xvi:2; 
Christian  Endeavor— I  Cor.  x:  81 


GLEANINGS  PROM  INDIA. 

Missionaries  in  India,  in  their  last  decennial 
conference  said: 

— Scores  of  missionaries  should  be  set  apart  to 
promote  the  production  of  chrietian  Itteratvre 
in  the  languages  of  the  people. 

— India  has  fifty  millions  of  Mohammedarte — a 
larger  number  than  are  found  in  the  Turkish 
Empire,  and  far  more  free  to  embrace  Christ- 
ianity.    Who  will  come  to  work  for  them? 

— Sunday  scIiooU,  into  which  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  India's  children  can  readily  be 
brought  and  moulded  for  Christ,  furnish  one  of 
India's  greatest  opportunities  for  yet  more 
workers. 

— Medical  miseionaries  of  both  sexes  are 
urgently  required.  We  hold  up  before  medical 
students  and  young  doctors  the  splendid  oppor- 
tunity here  offered  of  reaching  the  souls  of  men 
through  their  bodies. 

— Industrial  iehools  are  urgently  needed  to  help 
in  developing  a  robust  character  in  Christian 
youths  and  to  open  new  avenues  for  honest  work 
for  them.  These  call  for  capable  Christian  work- 
ers of  special  qualifications. 

— ^The  foomen  of  India  must  be  evangelized  by 
women.  Ten  times  the  present  number  of  such 
workers  could  not  overtake  the  task.  Missionary 
ladies  now  working  are  so  taxed  by  the  care  of 
converts  and  enquirers  already  gained  that  often 
no  strength  is  left  for  entering  thousands  of  un- 
entered but  open  doors. 


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RECEIPTS. 

Qynodt  in  shall  capitals;  PMbyteriM  in  UaUe;  CfanrolieB  in  Eooisn. 


£9*lt  If  of  great  importaiioe  to  12ie  tressoren  of  all  12ie  boards  tliat  when  monqr  is  sent  to 
uame  of  the  church  from  which  it  comes,  and  of  the  presbytery  to  wliich  the  chordi  *»^'^»'p», 
distinctly  written,  and  that  the  person  sending  should  sign  his  or  her  name  distinctly,  with  proper 
Autor,  TVeosursr,  IftM  or  Ifrs.,  as  the  case  may  be.  Garefol  attention  to  this  will  save  smdi  I 
pertiaps  prevent  serioas  mistBlmfc 


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REOKIPTS  FOR  THB  BOABO  OF  OUUKUB   BRBCTIOlf,  NOVBMBKR,   189S. 


Westminster,  5  82.    St.  PatU^St,  Paul  House  of  Hope 
(Incl.  sab-Bch,  6  liS),  129  66.  160  81 

Missouri.— JTanMu  Ci<y— Creifrhton,  1;  Bunny  Side, 
9  60.  Ptufto-Fairfaz,  8:  FarkTiUe,6  M.  St  LouiM— 
St.  Louis  Carondelet.  6  46.    White  i^iver— HopewelL  9  45. 

•I  « 

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North  Dakota.— PsmMito— Bathgate,  6;  Olasston,  2; 
St.  Thomas,  4  85;  Tjner.  11.  22  86 

Ohio.— ^tA«fM— New  England*  S  56.  BtXUfontainB— 
HuntsTllle,  9  80:  Urbans,  2l  95.  CftOiicoMa -Balnbridge, 
4  16;  BJoomlngbuixh,  6:  Chillioothe  Mamorialf  1;  Oreen- 
land,  1;  New  Market,  8  65;  North  Fork.  4;  Union.  1. 
OJncinnafi- Cincinnati  Poplar  Street,  6;  Delhi,  6  M; 
Loreland,     8  67.     Cleveland- Clerelaad    South,    2  10. 

•  Under  Minute  of  Assembly,  1888. 

170 


South  Dakota.— dott<A«m  I>alrota— Qermantown.  6; 
Parker.  19.  17  00 

TBNifKSSBB.—ir<n9ff on— Rockirood,  9  25.  C7n/on— 
ShUoh,  9.  4  96 

W ASHiNOTON.— Olynipto- St.  John's,  8.  Piiget  Soundr— 
Anacortes  Westminster,  2.  S^lrane— Hpokane  Centen- 
ary. 6.  11  00 

wiBCONSiif.— CAippeico— Trim  Belle,  5  Jfadi«on— 
Lancaster    German,    1.     If iiiMMileee— Racine    lst»  90. 

96  Ct 

Total  from  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools. . .  .$  9,869  99 

OTHER  COMTRIBUnOHS. 

Mrs.  John  B.  Atkinson,  Hill  City,  Kansas,  8: 
''Cash,''  6;  Rev.  Dr.  O.  T.  Crissman  and 
wife,  Athens  Colo..  10;  Rev.  M.  C.  Hambly, 
Hamden.  N.  T.«  4:  a  Penna,  4;  Rev.  W.  L 
Tarbet  and  wif e,  80  cts 96  80 

8  2,889  79 

msCSLLANBOUS. 

Interest  on  Investments,  687  60;  Payment  on 
Church  Mortgage,  60:  Premiums  of  In- 
surance. 8)6  84;  gales  of  Book  of  Designs  No. 
6.56CU 1,078  69 

SPKOIAL  DONATIONS. 

Illinois.— S^ng/Ie/d—Plessant  Plains,  8. 
New  Jerskt.— £h'sa^tA-Perth  Amboy  1st 

sab-Bch,  95  10. 
New  York.— IVoy— Cohoes  1st.  1060. 
Pennsylvania.— I^tg^—Easton  Ist,  100 1 ,178  10 

$  6,141  48 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions, 
April-November,  1898. $97,588  07 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions, 
April-November,  1882 $  80,601  46 

MANSE  FUND. 

Iowa.— Com  tn^— Lenox 1  00  1  00 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Installments  oo  Loans 988  00 

Interest. 14  89 

Premiums  of  Insurance 18  60     $  961  89 

njader  Minutes  of  Assembly,  1889.  "^ 


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Collies  and  Academies — Pordgn  Missions. 


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BPrnOLLL  DONATIONS. 


New  Yoek,— Brooklyn— Brooklyn  Ist 10  00 


10  00 


$     97S8S 


If  acknowledgement  of  any  remittance  Is  not  found  in 


these  reports,  or  if  thej  are  inaccurate  in  anj  item, 
prompt  advice  should  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board,  g:iTing  the  number  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 
absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date^  amount  and  form  of  re- 
mittance. 

Adam  Campbell,  Trea^ur&r, 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


BBOBIPTS  FOR  0OLIAOB8  AND  A0AJ>BMIE8,  MOVBUBER,  1898. 


ATLAxno.— South  .FloWda— Tarpon  Springs  1st,  9  60, 

TitusviUe,  4.  6  60 

Baltimobk. 'Boifimore— Baltimore  Boundary  Ave.,  10. 

New  CoMtle— Wilmington  1st,  8  16.    WaafUngton  City— 

Washington  City  1st,  8  62.  91  78 

Galiforn  ia.— /San  Jo»i  -Mllpitas,  9.  9  00 

Oatawea.— Southern  Virginia— Kow^  1.  1  00 

Illinois.— Bloomino/on—Winooa,  6.    Chicago— Chlci^ 

f60th  St.,  t;  Lake  Forest.  90  96.  Ifaftoon-VandaUa. 
Peoria  — Sparland,  9.  ^cAuyl^r— Monmouth.  12  44; 
Prairie  City,  6.  £[prinyy(«2d— Qreenview  1st,  8  00;  Pisgah. 
9  01.  68  80 

laniAXA.— Fort  FTayfM— Huntington  Ist,  8.  Logana- 
port— Union,  9  01.  Jfunoie— Wabash,  11  82.  Vincennea— 
Oakland  aty.l.  17  98 

Indian  TxRBiTORT.—CAoctoto-Oak  Hill,  1 .  1  00 

IowA.~De«  Moinee—DeB  Moines  Central,  10;  Qrinies,  6. 

16  00 

Kansas.— ^sotfco—Eincaid,  9  07;  Lower  Elm,  l;'Milikcn 
Memorial,  9  18.  6  26 

MicMiOAN.— i^t'nt— Cass  City  sab-sch,  44  cts.  Lant- 
ina-Oneida,  1  89.  1  76 

Mi88onRi.~£iaiucu  C^<y~Creighton.  1  60.  Ozark-' 
Webb  City  1st  sab-sch,  10.  11  60 

New  Jersey.— £2ua6e<^— Elizabeth  Ist,  0  06;  Pluck- 
anim,  6;  Upringfleld,  18  If onmou^A— New  Gretna,  1. 
Atfioarlp-Bloomfleld  Ist,  60  56;  Newark  Park.  12  25.  New 
/TnmnotcAp— Frenchtown,  7.  iVincton— Belvidere  1st,  10; 
Hackettstown,  96.  West  J«r«ev— Atlantic  City  German 
(sab-sch,  1  60).  4.  142  86 

New  Tore.— Cciyui/a— Meridian,  8  60.  Geneva— ^i&necA 
Falls  1st,  90.  fltklAon-Florida,  4  60.  North  River^ 
Cornwall  on  Hudson,  8  81;  Little  Britain,  8  60;  Pough- 
keepsie  1st,  SI  70.  O^po— New  Berlin.  8.  Roeheeter— 
Rochester  8d,  7  69.  St.  Latm-ence— Plessis,  1 ;  Backett's 
Harbor,  6;  Theresa  1st,  8  00;  Waddington  Scotch,  40. 
5yrac««e— Syracuse  Park.  25  67.  TVoy- Eagle  Mill  1st, 
4  45;  Lansingburgh  1st,  0  06.  ITefteAMter— Bedford, 
4  66.  170  41 


Ohio.— CZ«tieZand— Cleveland  South,  2  10.  Dayton^ 
Dayton  Park,  1;  Franklin,  1.  Ifoumee— Toledo  West- 
minster, 10  97.    Zdnetvi/te— Putnam,  8  76.  98  19 

PENNBTLVANiA.—^UepA«ny— Allegheny  Central,  28  22. 
CarJitte- Harrisburgh  Pine  St.,  88  %.  CAe«ier— Notting- 
ham, 2  48.  .ffrie- Cambridge,  6.  Northumberland— 
Rush,  1.  Philadelphia— WeBl  Green  St..  42  21:  Wylie 
Memorial.  7  80.  Philadelphia  North— Ijower  Providence, 
26.  PtftMmryA-Pittsburgh  7th.  6  70:  East  Liberty.  85  90; 
Lawrence viUe,  10:  Shady  Side.  20.  TFcu^in^/f on— Wheel- 
ing 8d,  6  50.  Fr6U«6oro-WeUsboro,  0  86.  Weetmine- 
t«r-Union,  95.  81160 

WiscoNsiN.-JfodiMm-Madison  Christ,  99  66.  MiU 
iggiifces— Racine  1st,  16.  87  65 

Total  received  from  churches  and  Sabbath- 
schools $    897  66 

PERSONAL. 

T.  P.  S.  C.  E.  Chicago  1st  Scotch  Church,  7:  T. 
P.  S.  C.  E.  Jermain  Memorial  Church,  West 
Troy,  N.  T.,  16;  Mary  H.  McLean.  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  5;  L  L  McClelland,  St.  Louis.  Mo..  5;  Mrs. 
John  8.  Atkinson,  Hill  City,  Kas  ,  In  ^*  Memo- 
riam  **  Rev.  John  8.  Atkinson,  1 ;  Rev.  W.  L. 
Tarbet  and  wife.  80  cts.;  '^C.  Penna.."  8;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  D.  B.  Gamble,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  600; 
Mrs.  L.  H.  Blakemore,  CindDnati.  Ohio.  96; 
Thomas  M.  Dougall,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  100....$    661  80 


Roger  Sherman's  Fund,  481;  Marthy  Adams' 
Fund,  14 $     406  00 

Total  for  November,  1808 ..$  1,084  86 

Amount  previously  reported 10,040  84 

Total  to  December  1st.  1808 $21.084  20 

C.  M.  Oharnlet,  Trecuurer. 
P.  O.  Box  904,  Chicago,  His. 


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Atlantio.— Sotttfcl  .Florida— Eustls  T.  P.  8.  C.  E., 


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Baltimore.— BaUimoTtf— Baltimore  2d,  48  08;  —Bound- 
avenue,  116;  —  Broadway,  8;  —  Brown  Memorial, 
70.    New  Castle— Wemt  Nottingham,  16  16.     Waah- 
ington  Cify-Washington  Citj  Ist,  46  06^b-8ch  100,  C. 


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E.,  6;  —  4th,   Mon.   Con.,  89  66; 


estem.   78  17. 
682  46 


Kansas.— fl^porio— Council  Grove.  48;  Emporia  Arun- 
del Avenue  sab-bch,  1  10;  Wichita  IstT.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  14. 
^eoa^o-Humboldt,  19  07;  Sugar  Valley  T.  P.  S.  C.  E., 

97  cts.  S<>Iofnon— Belleville,  8;  Harmony  Surprise  sab- 
sch,  1.  TbpeibO'— Gardner  sab-sch.  Infant  Class,  I;  Law- 
rence 1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10;  Riley  Centre,  7;  SUnley.  4  66. 

97  79 
MiCHiOAN.—i>etroit— Plymouth,    7  78;    South    Lyon, 

98  66.  Fiini-Cass  City,  11  16.  JTalamozoo -Plain well, 
4;  Three  Rivers.  8  10.  Lansing— Beiitle  Creek  K.  D. 
Society,  15;  Oneida,  7  96.  Ifonroe— Monroe,  40  60;  Pal- 
myra, 7  68;  Raisin,  6.    Saginaw— Baj  City  1st,  16  53. 

146  66 
Minnesota.— DuItttA—McNair  Memorial.  4.  Mankato— 

Wells,  7  60.    IftnneapolM-Eden  Prairie  T.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6. 

St  CUmd-Kwkhoven,  4.    St.  PtoiiZ-Hastings  Y.  P.  8.  C. 

E..  8  68;  St.  Paul  House  of  Hope.  916  48.  Bible  Class,  80; 

sab-sch  for  African  Bible  Reader,  16;  sab-sch  for  Kana- 

sawa  School,  16.  801  66 

Missouri.- ITanMU  CV<sf— Creighton,  1;  Kansas  City 

Linwood.  18  94.    Palmvra -Hannibal,  100;  Sullivan.  9  401. 

St.  Louit-St.  Louis  West.  149  96.  968  00 

Montana.— ITetena— Helena  1st,  5  cts.  a  week,  98  60 

98  60 
Nebraska.— iVebrflwiba  City—C.  K.  PowelU  9  60.    NiO' 

5rara- Wakefield.  6  46.  Omo^— Omaha  1st.  100.  sab- 
sch,  sal.  Dr.  Bannerman,  100,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  IS;  —  Lowe 
Avenue  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  81  cts.;  Plymouth,  6.  9«6  77 

New  Jersey.— .SIi£a6et^— Elizabeth  9d,  896  00;  Lam- 
ington,  167;  Pluckamin,  96;  Woodbridge  Y.  P.  S.  C.  B., 
19.  Jersey  C^ty— Kingsland  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  7  80;  Paterson 
sabsch,  10  86;  Rutherford.  94  98.  Ifonmouf^— Burling^ 
ton.  76  87:  Cranbury  1st,  01;  Farmingdale,  10  66;  ForkM 
River,  6;  Freehold.  17  46;  Lakewoed,  96  94,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 
for  Laos,  90,  Girls  Mission  Band  for  Laos,  10:  New 
Gretna,  14.  Morris  and  Orange— ^sMt  Orange  Arlington 
Avenue,  67;  —Brick  sab-sch,  thank  offering,  19  87;  Han- 
over Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  7  60;  Morristown  South  Street  sab- 
sch  Miss.  Soo.,  sal.  F.  G.  Coan,  119  60;  Orange  Central 


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T.  P.  Assoa,  Ti;  Ruocasunna,  95  16;  Summit  Oentral, 
&9S  07.  iV0ioar4e -Newark  Fewsmlth  Memorial,  sal.  Dr. 
Nasaau.  800;  -  Park  Y.  F.  ».  O.  E..  «;  -  RoMTlUe, 
25U  07:.  New  Bruntwick-Dutch  Neck,  14  05,  sab-ach,  7, 
Craabury  sab-sch,  10  :M);  —  Parsoaage  sab-«ch,  IS  15; 
Hoilaod.  18  76;  Milford,  iO  60;  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.  7;  PeDiiin«r- 
toQ  Harbourtoa  sab-sch,  8  M;  Trentoii  4th  sab-flch,  80;  — 
Prospect  ^>treet,  87.  ^etoton—Btairstown,  Mrs.  C.  B. 
Vatl,  special  Laos  fund,  2%,  Oxford  1st.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
8  OU;  PhilUpsburgli  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E ,  8  84;  HUllwater  Y. 
P.  8.  0.  E.,2  45.  (fe«<  JtfrMy-Hammonton  Y.  P.  8.  0. 
S.,  0.  8.450  48 

New  yimxioo.— Santa  .FV— Santa  Fe  Y.  P.  &  C.  E.,  1. 

1  00 

New  York.— ^Iftany—Albanj  0th  sab  ich,  10;  Corinth, 
2|  ICspara  ice.  45;  Qalway,  20  3i.  Binghamtan—BiugtuLai- 
ton  Floral  ave  W.  E.,  14  74;  Whitnej's  eoint,  7.  Boston— 
Antrim,  10:  Koxbury  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  90.  Brooklfnr- 
Brookljn  Claason  avenue  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  0;  —  Mouth  8d 
Street,  «8  4i:  —  Throop  Arenue.  70:  Woodharen  1st,  11. 
Bu/Tolo-Buffalo  North.  71  10,  A.  D.  A.  MUler,  100;  — 
Went  Arenue  Y  P.  8.  C.  E..  15.  Cayuflra— Auburn  Ist 
sab-suh  student  In  Saharanpur,  86*.  —  1st  sab-sch  Rer. 
Boon  Itt's  outfit,  7;<;  Owasco,  0  07.  CAamptota-Ohacy, 
17  01.  C^emuay  BunJett,  6  70.  Columbia— Hunter,  88. 
(Tertesee— Lerov  sab-sch,  25.  (Tenevo— Geneva  1st  sab- 
sch  27  12;  -  North,  l.uuu;  Naples  Y.  P  S.  O.  E.  Thanks- 
KlvinK.  4;  Penn  Yan  sab-sch,  27  12;  Waterloo,  90.  Hud- 
•on^Dentoa,  ti;  Florida,  24  75;  Hamptonburgh.  Mrs. 
Chas.  Yuun«r.  8U;  .Middletown  1st  Y.  P.  H.  a  E.,  90; 
Kainapo,  sal.  George  A.  Ford,  Oil  75;  Unionvilie,  8. 
Lo.H/  /itiafui—AmaKansette  sab-sch.  4  70.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
5:  Speonk,  12,  sab-sch,  4.  Lyoas^Palmyra,  21 27; 
Wlllliunson,  7.  JVoMau-islip  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18  14:  A 
Pasior.  5.  New  F/rib— New  York  1st,  1,745  07;  —  Beth- 
lehem Chapel  Y.  P.  a  C.  E .  10;  —  Central,  S  000;  — 
WeAt  End  sab-sch.  9)  25:  —  West  Olst  Street  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
.E  ,5;  —  ZIon  German  sab-sch,  6.  ytoyara— Lewiston, 
10;  .Medina,  19  2U:  North  loaawanda  Y.  P.  8.  C  E  ,  15. 
North  iStoer— Amenta  .'^uth  Waasaic  Y.  P.  S.  U.  E.,  18; 
Llojd,  Y  P  .S.  U  E  .  0  4i ;  ^lllTton,  15:  Newburgh  Cal- 
vary. lU  80;  Poughkeepeie,  18)  87;  sab-sch  sal.  Dr. 
Vaaneman.  175;  Wappiog^r  s  Creek.  12  00,  Y.  P.  8.  O. 
E..  41  45;  —  Y,  I'  ^.  C.  E.,  8.  Ofiie^o-Hobart, 
81  01.  /{.icAe«fer— Caledonia,  25  H8;  Rochester  Central 
sabsch,  40:  —  North  i2u;  —  St.  Peters.  O**  JiS:  sab-sch, 
0  70.  Y.  P  8.  C.  E.,  1  06;  Webster,  14  00.  sab  sch,  9. 
Ste'ibe'i— Addison,  6^  79.  %racu«e— Syracuse  £>wt 
Genesee.  40.  Troy -Troy  WeKtmioster,  41  11:  White- 
hall. 18  S}.  C7<<cfi— Choton,  21  77;  Little  FaUs,  40; 
Sauqu'iit,  18;  Whitesboio  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  16.  WestcheBter 
—Bedford,  40;  Peekskdl  1st.  88  48.  7,487  68 

North  Dakota.— PemMna— Crystal,  5;  Park  Eiver, 
11.  1* 

OHio.~^eUe/onfaine— Kenton,  40  08;  Upper  San- 
dusk\.  12.  Cmcmnati— West  wood  German,  7.  Clevf 
land-- Akron  1st.  6;  —  Y.  P  8.  C.  E.,  7:  ClerelaDd 
1st.  Mrs.  Mather,  1  OX):  —  Tase  Avenue,  87  87;  —  Eu- 
clid Avenue  Y.  P.  H.  C.  E..  86;  —  South,  8  76:  —  Wood- 
land Avenue,  King's  Daughters  and  Sons,  12.  Dayton- 
Dayton  RIverdale.  6  50;  Jacksonburg,  1  70.  Lima— 
D<-lphos  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E ,  10;  Fiudiay  Ist  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 

81  2>;  —  2d  Y.  P.  H.  C.  E.,  8  7%;  Lima  Market  St.  Y.  P.  8. 
a  E  ,  26;  OtUwa  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  ,  10;  Turtle  Creek  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.,  12  50;  Van  Wert,  24  25,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  18  76; 
Wapakoneta  Y.  P  &  C.  E.,  7  60.  ifaAont'na- Alliance 
1st  sab  sch,  15.  Ifarum- Marion,  60.  ilaumee— Toledo 
1st,  60cts.  i\>rt«mou(\— Eckmansrille.  18  60;  sab-sch, 
6.    5t.C<affnnl/e-Concord  sab-sch,  82  60:   Nottingham, 

82  85.  StubenviUe—UlAnd  Creek,  15;  Monroevllle.  9; 
Pleasant  Hill,  5  00;  Yellow  Creek,  8  60.  Wootttr-  Nash- 
Title,  20.  1.502  95 

Obbqok.— Pbrfland—Portland  Ist,  140  80;  —  Chinese.  4; 

144  80 

Penicstltania.— ilU^ffAeny— Bakerstown  Y.  P.  S..  26. 
.B/airtrO/e-Beulab  sab-sch.  96;  Braddock  sab-sch,  19  47; 
Parnassus  Y.  P.  h.c.  E.,  4  09;  Poke  Run  Y.  P.  H.  C  E , 
81.  C^rZisle-GreatConewago,  6;  Harrisburgh  Calvary 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  25;  —  Pine  street,  888  20;  Lower  Marsh 
Creek,  84  60.  Cheater- Bryn  Mawr  Miss.  Hoc,  667  60; 
Media.  187  48;  New  London,  80;  Nottingham,  9  90.  Erie— 
Erie  Park,  62  74;  Waterloo,  8.     Huntmydon— Altoona 


South  Dakota.— Southern  Dalcoto— Germantown  Ger- 
man, 5.  6  00 

TBifKKS8Bs.—Bbbfon— Crowley  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10  6ft. 
Oiaton— Caled<mia,  10;  New  Salem,  6;  Spring  Place,  10. 

Texas.— ilMsfim-Austin  Ist,  198  46.  198  46 

UTAH.-r7<a^-Manti,  1,  sab-sch,  4.  6  00 

WASHiMOToir.— Pu^t  SoiituI— Seattle  Ist  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E., 

11  46  11  « 

WisooHsnr.— Cftfonetoo—Bayfleld,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  6  00; 

Hudson  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  6  60.    Jfad<«<m-Laocaster,  8; 

Madison  St  Paul's  German,  1  40;  Waunake^  8  10.    MU- 

imiu40ee— Milwaukee  Immanuel,  95.   Winnebago— ^exaBXi 

Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  42  60.  84  00 

womkn's  boards. 
Women*s  Board  of  the  North  West,  8.177  06; 
Women's  Beard  of  New  York,  2.000;  Women's 
Board  of  Philadelphia.  0,852  72;  Women's 
Board  of  the  South  West,  660;  Occidental 
Board,  54  20, -for  Chinese  Home.  9,608  80.... $90,708  88 


Estate  of  James  Woods,  di'oeased,  86;  estate  of 
Betsy  J.  Hope,  deceased,  118  08;  estate  of 
Jesse  Ebersole,  deceased,  821  07;  estate  of 
Sarah  T.  Oowden,  deceased,  260 $070  86 

maCBLLANKOtTS. 

James  W.  Rmith,  90:  J.  M.  McElroy,  special 
Laos  Fund.  6:  Mrs.  8.  J.  M  Eaton,  80;  'Cash" 
Nov.  special  Laos  Fund.  10;  Henry  J.  Petram, 
00;  Mrs.  Helen  C.  Swift,  YpsilantC  Mieh.,  sup- 
port of  John  Jolly.  00;  Susan  French,  7  60; 
Rev.  W.  W.  A.,  100;  Mrs.  S.  P.  Souder,  10; 
Mary  and  Lucy.  8;  Miss  Annie  L.  Merriam, 
Peking  Hospital.  40:  E.  A  K.  Hackett,  860; 
Samuel  W.  lirown,  800;  William  Sangree.  8; 
Mrs.  L.  J.  Bushnell,  10;  J.  a  MoCullough,  6; 
A  friend,  86;  Substitute  for  native  helper  in 
Wei  HIen.  80;  Marthi  Rohrbacher,  80;  Mrs. 
Eliza  ^ratt,  10;  Congregational  Church,  of 
Peru,  N.  Y..  1:  Oley  Whitted  2;  Faculty  and 
students  of  McCormick  Seminary,  salary  of 
T.  G.  Brashear.  28;  Mrs.  John  B.  Davidson. 
Chicago.  20;  In  memory  of  John  T.  Atkinson, 
deceased,  10;  Mrs.  J.  Livingston  Taylor,  sup- 

Srt  of  Mr.  Moore  and  Mr.  E.  A.  Ford,  600: 
ah,  90;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  2  fH);  C. 
Penna.,  9S;  Rev.  A.  G.  Taylor,  40;  Rev.  T.  T. 
Alexander,  special  Laos  Fund,  10:  George  H. 
Winn  and  famUy,  118;  Robert  S.  Winn,  14  40; 
Dr.  Schauffler,6;  Prof.  J  C.  Ballagh.  special 
Laos  Fund.  25:  J.  S.  Lynde,  Haddonfleld,  N. 
J  ,  100;  Mrs.  DeHeer,  in  memory  of  Rev  C.  De- 
Heer,  16;  Rev.  J.  M.  Leonard,  00;  Shanghai  9d 
Church,  4  91;  Copiapo,  ChlU,  Church,  M  60...  $9,002  11 
William  Ditllks,  Jr..  TVecwurer. 
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BALTiicoRa.—BaIt/more— Baltimore,  Fulton  Avenue,  2; 
Deer  Creek  Harmony,  8  07.  New  Ccufte— Wilmington 
1st,  1  60.    Wa^ington  City- Washington  City  1st,  8  08. 

20  90 

Catawba.— Cape  ^ar— Haymount,  1  05  1  05 

Illinois.— ^/ton- Chester,  5.    B/oomin^fon- Minonk, 

7  70,    Cstro— Equality,  9.    C^'co^o—Cabery,  0  81;  Chi- 


cago Christ  Chapel,  9  85;  —  Emerald  Avenue,  0;  — 
Englewood  8:  Oak  Park.  90  02.  ifatfoon-Beokwith 
Prairie,  2:  Effingham  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  10:  Moweaqua,  4  96. 
Pfeorta- Peoria  Ist,  40  42;  -  9d.  188  54:  Sparland,  8. 
Rock  fttt>er-Keith8burff.8:  Penlel,  4;  Kterling  1st,  08  80. 
Sc/iuy/er— Augusta.  9:  Monmouth,  10  40;  Prairie  Oity,0: 
Wythe,  4.    £J!pr<tia/ie/d-Pi8gah,  8  08.  804  00 


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iKDUMA.—OawAM'vC'villtf— Eugene  dkyugat  >•  ^'ort 
Wapia  -HopeweU,  8;  Huntington  let,  9.  Jfimcie— Hart* 
ford  Cltj,  6;  Wabaah,  0  48.  New  Albany  —  SeTmour. 
1115.  »  ^   j^^ 

Ikdiam  Tbrrito&t.— Choctaw— Oak  Hill,  6;  Fir  Miss 
Lucj  Howard,  20  10.  X  10 

lowA.'^Cedar  iSopid*— Pleasant  Hill,  2.  Council  Bluf$ 
-Woodbine,  9.  D—  ifoinet-Howell,  4  85;  Ridgedalek 
8  54.  Z>u6u9we— mibuque  8d,  8.  Fort  Dodge— Spirit 
Lake.  ft.  Iowa  Ci<y— WiUiamiburgh,  0.  Waterloo— 
TMna,8;Toledo,7  11.  50  00 

Kansas.— £^nportdp-Geuda  Springs,  5;  Mount  Vernon, 
5:  Oxford,  11.    Aeo«^~McOune,  S;  Osage  Ist,  0.      88  00 

MiGHioAN.  —  Z>etrot<  —  South  Lyon,  15  Itf;  TpsUanti, 
II 4L  Flint —BrockwAy,  2;  Cass  Citj,  184.  Lake 
Superior— UmpaUe  Ist,  81  47.  Laneing—Bomer,  10  74; 
Oneida,  1  10.    Saginaw— QagiJMW  Immanuel,  6.        77  10 

MiNNBBOTA  —St,  Paul—Ht.  Paul  House  of  Hope  (sab- 
■ch,  6  85),  40  08.  ITtnona— Claremont,  6;  Leroj,  5;  Pres- 
ton, 0  10,  70  08 

MissouBi.— JTatMM  Ctfy— Creighton,  8;  Kansas  City 
Ist,  80  15.  PoZmyro— UnionTiUe,  8  50.  P<a»e-ChiUi- 
ootbe,  Sl  8t.  Louie— JoneahorOt  8;  St.  Louis  Carondelet, 
•  80.  89  95 

NsBRASKA.— g(Mt<ng<— Stockham,  1.  OmcUia  —  Ply- 
mouth, 1.  8  00 

Nkw  Jbbskt  — jESI<«ae>et^-Elizabeth  1st,  49  96; -Mar- 
shall  Street,  89  85.  Jertey  Citif-Jener  City  Westmin- 
ster, 4.  ilonmou<\— Burlington,  87  90.  Morrie  and 
OraYH^— South  Orange  Trinity,  78  55.  iVeioarIp— Newark 
8d,  889  88;  —Park,  85  87.  Aeu^ton-Harmony,  5  48;  PhU- 
Upsburgh  Westminster  4.  488  98 

Nkw  YoiaL.—Jfo«f on— Londonderry,  6  85;  Newburyport 
1st,  87  00.  BrooMvn— Brooklyn  Memorial  Y.  P.  U.  0.  E  , 
5;  Stopleton  1st  Edgewater,  11.  Cayu^fa— Genoa  1st,  84. 
Columbia  —  Hunter.  9  60.  Oeneeee  —  Wyoming,  5  90. 
Oeneoa— Genera  Ist,  88  79.  fludton  —  Florida,  8  75; 
Unlonville,  7.  Long  AZatuI— Setauket,  10.  Lyofw— Falr- 
▼ille»5;  Falmyra,5  44.  Neueau—Far  Rockaway  1st,  17; 
Freeport.  18  8U.  New  Forfc— New  York  University  Place, 
848  07.  North  River— Utile  Britain,  18  50;  Lloyd.  5  75; 
Marlborough,  85  08;  Poughkeepsie  Ist,  80  58.  Otsego— 
Hamden  1st,  7.    12ocAe«ter^Rochester  8d,  51  47;  Sparta 


South  Dakota.— C«n^aZ  Dofcoto— Woonsocket;  5_^80. 

6  80 
UTAH.-Boi«e-Boise  City,  2.  _.     *  ^ 

Wisconsin.- C^tppeuxi^AshlaBd  1st.  8  88;  Chippewa 
FaUs  1st,  5  La  Croxse- Bangor,  8;  Neillsville,  8  78;  West 
Salem,  6.  Jfcufiton-Pleasant  HiU  sab-sch.  1.  Milwau- 
kee  -Beaver  Dam  1st,  18  50;  MUwaukee  Calvary,  80  48; 
Racine  1st,  18.  84  58 


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.$   8.110  60 


Penna.,"» 4   «,W4  08 

DIRX0T8  FOR  OOTOBKR,  1898. 

Biddle  University- 
Mrs.  A.  C.  Brown,  N.  Y.,  100;  J.  D  Lynd,  Had- 
donfleld,  N.  J..  25:    8.  B.  Turner,   Quincy, 
UL,  85. 
Immanuel  School— 
Ladies'  Miss.  Soc.  1st  Church.  Woodbrldee.  N. 
J.,  25;  Mrs.  Henry  R.  Winthrop,  New  York, 
50;  Willing  Workers,  Renova,  Pa ,  10. 
Mary  Holmes  Seminary— 
Mrs.  Sarah  Marshall.  Barton,  N.  Y..  10;  Miss  D. 
J.  Barber,  Jackson.  Miss.,  10;  Miss  Isabella 
M.  Snelling.  Jackson,  Miss,  15:  Miss  K.  Boyd, 
Chicago,  Dl,  6;  Rev.  H.  F   Means,  Phillips- 
burg,  Pa.,  10;  Miss  Jessie  Scott,  Jackson, 
Miss.,  18;  Phillipsburg  Pres.  Church.  12  05; 
Rev.  A.  B.  Marsnall,  East  Liverpool,  O.,  5. 
Ingleslde  Seminary- 
Mrs.  Anna  S.  Butler,  Indianapolis,  60 $      855  06 

DIBKOTS  FOR  NOYCMBBR,  1898. 

«I.  Y.,  10;  H. 
Jing'e  Child- 
's Pres.  Soo. 
on  sab-sch, 
iss  1st  Pres 
Mr.  Geo.  E. 
.  Arlington. 
0.  W.  Bill, 
$       191  00 

Total  receipts  for  November,  1898 $    6,970  67 

Previously  reported 99,560  95 

Total  receipts  to  date $105,881  68 

Receipts  during  corresponding  period  of  last 
year 68,588  89 

Increase $7m08  28 

John  J.  Beaoom,  Treasurer, 
510  Market  street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


BBOMIFTS  FOB  HOMB  MISSIONS,  NOVBMBEB,  1898. 


80:  New  Castle  1st  (sab-sch  6),  217  87:  Port  Penn,  7  85; 
Wibningt^n  East  Lake  Park,  8  84.  Wa$hington  City— 
Kails  Church,  18;  Washington  City  1st,  56  80;  —  Assem- 
bly (Hab-sch  Missionary  society,  20),  90;  —  North.  6. 

564  07 

California.— Benicia— Big  Valley,  Thos.  Smith,  75. 

Lo$  Angelee—Colton,  18;  Los  Angeles  Bethany,  10;  — 

Boyle  Heights,  12.    Sacratn«nto— Roseville,  17  85;  Rev. 

W.  B.  Oammlngs,  7  65.  San  JoM-Highlands,  5;  Wrights, 


8;   Rev.  S.  S.  CaldweU,    18  50.     ^tocikfon-Columbia.  4: 
Sanger,  15.  184  60 

Catawba.— 5oufA«m  Ftrpinia— Henry,  1;  Hope,  1.     8 
Colorado.— Z>envet— Georgetown,    6  70.     Ounnieon— 
Gunnison  Y.  P.  S.  U.  E.,  8.    FueMo— Alamosa  (sab-sch, 
8  88),  9  52;    Hastings,  8;  Trinidad  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  £  .  5. 

28  22 
Illinois  — ^IZ/on— Ebeneser,  4:  HtUsboro,  88  85:  Jersev- 
Tille,57.  ff/oomtngton— Clinton  sab-sch,  10.  Oatro— Nash- 
ville, 10;  Shawneetown,84  85.  CAica^o- Chicago  1st,  51  68; 

—  1st  German,  5;  —  8d,  557  70; — 4th.  8,000;  -  Avondale,  7; 

—  Bethany,  1;  —  Christ  Oha|iel,  17  80;  —  Endeavor,  4  05; 


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Elwood,6;  Harvey,  8;  Hyde  Park  sab-sch,  4;  Kenwood 
SvaogeUcal,  081  17;  ICanteno,  64  25;  Oak  Park  Ut  sab- 
8ch,  8J  92.— Freeport— Scales  Mound  Qerman,  10;  Wood- 
stock, JaredKnapp,  10;  Zion  Qerman,  15.  Mattoon^ 
ABhmore,  10;  Moweagua.  4  10;  Vandalia,  88.  Ottawa— 
Aurora  Ist,  80  88;  waltbam,  88.  Pleorio— Deer  Creek, 
8  60;  Blmira.  41  87;  Peoria  Ist  Qerman  (sab-sch,  8  07), 
4  07;  PrinceviUesab  Bch,  18  10;  8parland,6.  Bock  Biver 
—Centre,  12:  Coal  VaUey  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  1  68;  Qarden 
Plain.  16  88;  Keithsburg,  7;  Norwood,  80;  Bock  Island 
Central,  40.  fifc^MvIer— Brooklyn,  7;  Camp  Point,  85; 
I>oddsylUe,  7;  Kirkwood,  80;  Monmouth.  64  66;  Prairie 
City,  a  5i>Hnfl/leM— QreenTiew,9  8t;  JaoksonTille.  10; 
—  State  Street,  69  60;  Maoon.  10:  Pisgah.  6  04;  Spriz 
field  1st,   191^:   Rev.  W.  L  Tarbet  and  wife,    8' 

4.836  88 
Indiana.— Looofuport— Rensselaer  sab-sch.  8  76.  Mun- 
cfo-Wabash  Y,  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10.    WMte  FTater-Qreens- 
burffh,  Henry  Thomson,  15;  LAwrenceburgh  Y.  P.  H.  C. 
E..  o.  88  75 

Indian  TEBBITORY.—5c9Uoya^— Clear  Creek,  1  90;  Eu- 
reka, 1  65:  Pleasant  VaUey  Qiab  sch,  55  cts ,)  (W.  M.  8., 
10),  11  70.  CAoctoio-MoAiester,  6.  Oklahoma—EA- 
mond,  9  60.  80  75 

lowA.— Cedar  i^opid*— Clarence  1st,  7;  Mount  Vernon, 
87.  Comina-Conway,  8  80;  Sidney,  14.  CouncU  Blvff$ 
— Qreenfleld  Ist,  7;  Logan,  6.  X>e«  IToine*— Adel,  16  75; 
Chariton,  40.  I>tt!»u9u«— Hopkinton  Ist.  19  IS;  LAnstng 
1st,  11.  Fort  Dodg&-~DBJiA.  8  85;  Qrand  Junction,  9  86. 
Joioa— Birmingham,  7;  Chequeet,  1  40;  Keokuk  West- 
minster (sab-sch,  15  67),  69  19;  Ubertyville,  6  58;  Mar- 
tinsburg,  80.  Sioux  Ci^y— Alta,  18;  Uberty.  IS;  M«ri- 
den,  9  W;  Mt.  Pleasant  Missionary  Society,  10;  O'Brien 
Co.,  Scotch,  19;  Woodbury  Co.  Westminster,  18.  Water- 
loo—Qrundy  Centre  (sab-sch,  4  10),  28;  La  Porte  City 
(Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  5),  45;  Rock  Creek  Qerman,  8.  485  00 

Kansas.— Jl^mporia— El  Paso,  7  64;  Wichita  Harmonyt 
6;  —  West  Side,  6  81.  H^^AZand— Hiawatha,  18  60, 
Lorned— Roxbury,  8  70;  Salem  Qerman,  18.  Neoaho— 
CoffeyriUe,  18;  Humboldt,  18  09.  0«6ome— Long  Island, 
10  70;  Osborne,  7.  So<omo«i— Belleville,  5;  Clyde,  88  57. 
TbpsApa— Idana,  6;  Manhattan,  81;  Mulberry  Creek,  Qer- 
man,   8  70;    RUey  Centre  Qerman,  7;   Stanley,   4  46. 

197  67 
Knntdokt.— Zx>ui«i;<Ue— Pewee  Valley,  88  50.      Tran- 
•|f<oon to-East  Bemstadt,  6;  Harlan,  2.  40  50 

MiCEiOAN.— Detroit— Ann  Arbor  1st,  91 ;  Mount  Clem- 
ens, 18;  South  Lyon  1st,  87  65;  Springfield  sab-sch,  2  15; 
UnadiUa sab-sch.  18;  White  Lake  sabsch,  7  85;  Ypsl- 
lanti,  18  49.  jrUnt-Caseville  Hayes  Sta.,  4;  C^ass  City, 
6  10;  Croswell,86;  Flint,  75.  JTaiamaxoo— Plainwell,  7. 
Lake  Aiperior —Ishpeming  sab-sch,  10;  Menominee,  60  62; 
Nea9eyiueBtotlon.8  50.  ixitMinir— Battle  Creek  King's 
Daughters,  16;  Homer,  48  89;  Oneida,  6  60.  Jfonroe— 
Palmyra,  18  48;  Raisin,  6.  Saginaw— "Baj  City  Memor- 
ial. 14;  Qladwin  8d.  4:  Saginaw  Immanuel,  8.  466  68 
MiNNKSOTA.— Z>»(ttt/i— (flen  Avon,  5  41 ;  McNair  Me- 
morial additional.  8.  ifanileato— Balaton.  7  76;  Morgan, 
4;  Winnebago  City,  44  50.  MifnneapoZit— Minneapolis 
Norwegian,  6;  Oak  Qrove,  6.  St.  Cloud— Hawick,  1  85; 
Kerkhoven,  6  80;  Royalton,  6.  St.  Aiul— Hastings,  9; 
Macalester,  6  40;  Oneka,  1;  St.  Paul  9th,  10  85;  —  Dano- 
Norwegian,  8  75;  —  House  of  Hope,  886  17;  White  Bear, 
9  76.  Trinono— Alden,  8  66;  Fremont,  9  87.  874  46 
^MiS80Du.—fan«CMC^'j[y— Butler,   86j^  Holden,^  ^JL^^* 


Westminster,  1,046  86:  Lyon's  Farms,  60  71 ;  Newark  Ist, 
950;  —  6th,  80;  —  Park.  87  07;  —  Woodside.  80  86.  New 
Bruntwick—AxDMtXL  8d,  18  60;  Dutch  Neck,  80;  Hamil- 
ton Square,  9;  New  Brunswick  1st,  116  80;  Pennington, 
59  68;  Trenton  1st,  861  67;  —  4th  sab-sch,  85;  —  Prospect 
Street,  48.  iVetoton— Blairstown  (sab-sch,  14  86),  800; 
Newton,  804  84;  Phillipeburgh  Westminster,  15  65.  Wt$t 
Jersey-Bridgeton  8d,  88  89.  8,285  46 

Nnw  Mnxioo.— Aio  Grande— Jemes,  80;  Las  Ouoeslst, 
6  80.    SanU  Fb— La  Luz,  1  10;  Las  Vegas,  Hpanish,  10; 


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Rev.  J.  M.  WhiUock,  7.  48  90 

Nnw  York.— ^I6aay— Ballston  Centre,  4  78:  Ciharlton 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  .  6  40),  65  40;  Esperance  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
»  10;  Jermaln  Memorial  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  10:  MariavlUe,  7; 
Schenectady  East  Avenue,  1858.  fftn^Aamion— Whit- 
ney's PointT  7;  Windsor,  80  85.  ifo«ton— Boston  Ist  sab- 
sch.  80;  —  ScotchulO;  —  8t.  Andrews,  80;  East  Boston, 
61  76;  Fall  River  Westminster,  10;  Lonsdale,  11;  Man- 
chester Westminster,  10;  Roxbury,  86  10:  Somerville 
^_.__« ^.r--,.^.-    .. -^     „ — ^•-- -Brook- 

Due  (M. 

61;  SU- 
h.5  06), 
ron,  10. 
I  Point, 
-Canaan 
Hunter, 
sab-sch. 
1;   Penn 

Water- 
Chester, 

Long  /«- 
.  C.  E., 
Lyon9— 
Nasaau 
J..  8  81), 
1  street 
(Tson  V. 

Y.  P'.  8.*  d*krib;^'Hope  cffiSpeT  Y.  pTs.' a  e!I  8  6^;  — 
Philips,  80  97;  -  Riverdale  additional,  10;  —  Scotch, 
887  87;  New  York  friend  of  frontier  pastor,  5  10. 
^iaoaro— Loekport  1st  (sab-sch,  60),  (Boys'  Train- 
ing Club.  No.  2.  5),  188  76;  Medina.  80;  North  Tona- 
wanda  North,  6a  North  Atver— Pleasant  Plains,  8; 
Poughkeepeie  1st.  188  58.  0e«e9O-Colchester  Y.  P.  S.  a 
E.,  T.  ISoc^ftef^Brockport,  118  85;  Qeneseo  Ist.  20; 
Qeneseo  Village  (sab-sch,  60),  890;  Mount  Morris,  66  40; 
Ossian.  5;  Parma  Centre,  7;  Rochester  1st,  860;  —  St. 
Peter's  (sab-sch,  10  80)  (Missionary  Band,  1  80).  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E.,  6),  58  61 ;  SparU  Ist.  68;  —  8d,  14  66;  Sweden,  89. 
St.  Latorence— Qouvemeur  Ist,  178  40;  Theresa,  10  85; 
Watertown  let,  888  85.  ^eu^en^Jasper,  8  10;  Wood- 
hull,  8  15.  SyrociMe— East  Syracuse  (Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E , 
6  85),  80.    TVoy-Oambridge,  81 ;  Lanshigburgh  1st,  187  40; 

—  Olivet,  7  96;  Salem,  60  60;  Troy  Oak  wood  Avenue,  48; 

—  Woodside,  186  78;  Waterford,  686  10;  WhitehaU,  15  50. 
Utica— Camden  Y.  P.  &aE.,2;  ClintoUtOl;  Holland 
Patent,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10;  Rome,  80  45.  Westcheeter— 
Bridgeport  1st,  180;  Patterson,  88  18;  Rye  sab  sch,  70; 
South  East  C^entre,  17;  Yonkers  1st  (sab-sch,  88  67), 
155  78.  10,589  86 

North  Dakota.— £<«fmsrcfc—Qlencoe,  8  60.  Fargo— 
Broadlawn  W.  M.  8.,  10;  Hunter,  8.  PSmbitia^-C^yprus, 
4;  Qilby,  8;  Qrand  Forks,  40;  Hannah,  6;  Johnstown  Sta- 
tion, 8.  7660 

Omo.— jitAefw  —  New  Plymouth,  6.  BeU^ontaine— 
Buck  Oeek,  17:  Bucyrus,  88;  Upper  Sandus^,  18  85. 
CAiUieotAe— Belfast,  8;  Bethel,  8H^Mllicothe  Memorial, 
8:  Qreenland.  2;  North  Fork,  10:  Union,  1.  Cincinnati— 
(Cincinnati  Mount  Auburn,  20;  Lebanon,  86.  dev^Land— 
Akron  1st.  5j01eveland  South  (Boy's  Brigade.  1),  0  75. 
Oolumbue  —  Westerville.  18  85.  Dayton  —  Oxford,  46. 
Huron— Monroeville,  8  68.  Limo^Bianchard,  80;  Celina, 
8  78;  McComb,  28;  Van  Wert,  88.  JfoAonitii^— Brodkfield. 
2;  Vienna,  4  75.  Jforion -Liberty,  10;  Marion,  46; 
Marysvllle,  81  41.  Jfaiimee— Bowling  Qreen,  80  87;  West 
Unity,  10.  i\>refmout^— Red  Oak,  80.  St.  ClaireviUe— 
Cambridge,  87  77;  Ck>ncor<i  sab-sch,  88  60;  Farmington, 
8  56;  Lore  City,  11  50;  Rock  HUl,  86  56;  Scotch  Ridge, 
1  88;  Washington,  16  60;  WheeUng  Valley  (sab-sch,  6  45), 
11.  SteubenviUe—East  Springfield,  8  60;  Linton,  8  85: 
Long's  Run,  5  17;  Minerva  YT  P.  S.  C  £..  8;  Nebo.  4  10; 
New  Cumbertand,  8  40;  Pleasant  HiU,  4  II):  Two  Ridges, 
7  46:  Wellsville.  Ill  15;  YeUow  Creek,  9.  Wooeter— 
Apple  Creek  sab-sch,  22  89;  Belleville  (Potato  money,  80 
cU.),  4  80:  LoudonviUe  (sab-sch,  8  87),  17;  OrrviUe  8; 
Shelby,  16  78.  ZanMintte— Brownsville  (sab-sch,  0  20), 
88;  Hanover,  8  17;  Kirkersville,  5;  West  CSarliale,  6  71: 
Zanesville  1st,  77  57.  868  88 

OaaooN.— Am(  Oragwrn— Enterprise,  8;  Joseph,  1  8I« 


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IbrtlaiMf— Portland  Wefltminster  T.  P.  S.  O.  E.,  18. 
9outKem  Or^rcm— AshUtnd,  7  60.  ITittame/t*— Albany, 
9;  Oonrallis.  SO;  Mehania,  7;  Newberg,  4;  Oak  Ridg«.  4. 


lOBCKLLAlfBOTTS. 

Rev.  J.  H.  DuUee,  Princeton,  N.  J.,  80;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eli  Johnston,  Mt.  Vernon,  la.,  SO; 
"  P,"  100;  Rev.  E.  M.  Landls,  Chicago,  111.,  6; 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Wallace,  Alpena,  Mich.,  25;  Rev. 
Nehemtah  Cobb.  D.  D.,  Washington,  D.  C,  6; 
"a  steward,'*  10;  Mrs.  8.  J.  M.  Eaton,  in 
memoriam,  80;  Mrs.  Ira  O.  Thompson,  Lima, 
N.  Y.,  5;  Mrs.  Caleb  8.  Green,  Trenton.  N.  J., 
800:  "Rev.  W.  W.A.,"  100:  Susan  French, 
Goldfleld,  la.,  7  SO;  Rev.  W.  M.  Langdon,  6; 
W.  A.  Baker,  WiUouehby,  M;  Isabella  B. 
Hatterthwaite.  N.  Y..  100;  Miss  a  Q.  B.,  20; 
H.  M.,  106:  Alexander  Maitland.  N.  Y..  S50; 
'*  Cash.''  150;  a  friend  of  Home  Missions,  5; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  L.  Schaub.  Parsons.  Kans., 
8;  a  believer  in  Missions,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  600: 
Mary  B.  Cratty,  Bellaire,  O.,  10;  Mrs.  A.  M., 
Flory,  Kans ,  10:  *'0.  Penna.,"  14;  "Cash." 
20;  "Cash,"  6;  U.  P.  Nicholas,  Mt.  Pleasant, 
Iowa,  10:  E  Sterling  Ely,  Buffalo.  N.  Y., 
88  76:  "M.  E.  P.."  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  2;  Mrs. 
J.  B.  Davidson.  Chicago.  HI.,  10;  Rev.  A.  Y. 
Taylor,  111.,  26;  Interest  on  Permanent  Fund, 
801  50;  Interest  on  Chas.  R.  Otis'  Missionary 
Fund,  16  67;  Interest  on  Fisher  Memorial 
Fund,  6;  Interest  on  John  C.  Green  Fund, 
885 $    8,078  42 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  November, 
1898 ft  45.688  08 

Total  receipts  for  Home  Missions  from  April 
1st,  189S.... 278,008  84 

Amount  received  during  same  period  Isst  year  898,664  58 

O.  D.  Eaton,  TVeowurer, 
Box  L,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  N.  Y. 


burgh.  18;  Wheeling  1st  Ca  friend,  25).  77 18.  WtJUtxyro— 
Farmington  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  58  cts.;  Tioga,  10  62:  Wells- 
boro,  8o  48.    TFevtmitufer-Union  sab-sch,  25  25. 

9.006  47 

South  DAKOTA.~-^&erd«en— Palmer  1st  Holland.  10. 
Black  ^<li«— Whitewood  (sab-sch,  5),  (L.  A.  Society,  6), 
16;  Rev.  E.  J.  Nugent,  10  60.  Central  />afcota— Beulab, 
2;  Huron.  51  68;  Okobojjo,  2;  Wentworth,  a  balance,  66 
cents.  Dakota-Qood  Will,  5;  Poplar  Creek  Agency, 
12  06.    Southern  DaJboto-Germantown,  20.  129  94 

TsNifBSsxs.— HoMoTt— Jonesboro.  10:  Mount  Bethel, 
18  75.  Kingtton— Ft.  Cheatham  Chapel,  8  94.  Union- 
Hebron^  8;  Knozville  8d,  10;  Mt  ZIon,  6;  New  Provi- 
dence, 86  18;  Shani^ondale,  16  58.  99  84 

Utah.— Uto^— Manti  1st  (sab-sch,  6),  7;  Salt  Lake  City 
8d,  8  95;  Spanish  Fork  and  sab-sch.  6.  15  86 

WASHiifOTON.— Olympia-Olympla,  4.  Pufjet  Sound— 
BallArd.  6;  EUensburgh.  10;  Lake  Union.  70  cents;  North 
Yakima.  16;  Seattle  Calvary  sab-sch,  8  43:  White  River, 
17.  fT/yofeane— Davenport,  8.  WaUa  TFo^Za— Kamiah  8d. 
*•-,  ,     ^  M  18 

Wisooirsnr.— La  Cro«0e~New  Amsterdam  (sab-sch.  8), 
12.  IfodiMm— Lancaster  German,  8.  ilifirauftee- Mil- 
waukee Calvary.  86  66;  Racine  1st,  in  part,  100;  Wau- 
kesha, 25  88.    IfYnnebaffo— Winneconne,  6  80.  171  84 


Woman's  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mi»- 

Bions $10,460  40 


Total  from  Churches,  November,  1898 $48, 106  1 

LKOAOnS. 

LMiaoy  of  EUsa  A.  Hart,  late  of  Mass.,  100; 
Betsey  J.  Hope,  late  of  Pa.,  118  68;  Sarah  F. 
Oowden,  dec'd,  late  of  Columbia,  Pa.,  860; 
Jamee  Woods,  dec'd.  late  of  Camp  Point, 

ni.,85 :. $ 


RECEIPTS  FOR  SU8TENTATI0N,  NOVEMBER,  1808. 

Illinois.— fiocA;    River— Rock    Island    Central.   1  08 
A>rJnflt/f«W-Pisgah,  1  01;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wifei 

Ikdiaka.— Ff.  TTayne— Ligonier,  g  75 

Kansas.— fifoZomon— Belleville,  1  00 

Michigan.— iTatomajeoo—Plainwell,  69  cts.    Lantina— 
Oneida,  22  cts.    ilonro«- Raisin,  2  2  91 

North  Dakota.— Ptfm&tna— Crystal.  5  OO 

Wisconsin.— CAfppeioa- Chippewa  Falls  1st.  8  50 


Total  received  for  Sustentation,  November, 
1898 f       24  Q] 

Total  received  for  Sustentation  from  April, 
18W 10,670  71 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Tretuurer, 
58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


Box  L,  Station  D. 


RECEIPTS  FOR  N.  Y.  8YNODICAL  AH)  FUND, 
NOVEMBER,  1898. 


Albany-^Band  Lake,  12.  finoAam/on^ Windsor.  11 
SrooA;/^— Brooklyn  South  8d  Street,  56  84.  Cavuaa-^ 
Weedsport,  28  89.  C^wptofn- Cha^,  6  21;  Bouses 
Point,*;  Peru  IstCong'l.,  4.  Genets-Geneva  North^ 
?'«  i?*  "U"..  Bud9onr^^7Bcik  Ist,  28  60:  Cochecton, 
8;  Florida.  26  75.  Lyon«- Palmyra,  108.  AoMau— Far 
Rockaway  1st.  17.  New  For*- New  York  4th,  28  06 
JJiaoara-LyndonyUle  1st.  4  76.  North  River-Fwedom 
Plains,  806;  Poughkeepsle,  411.  i?ocAe«/er- Rochester 
Rt.  Peter's,^  26  ft;  East  KendaU,  4.  We$tche»tS^ 
Poundridge,  8. 
Total  received  for  New  York    Synodieal  Aid 

Fund,  November,  1898 $     841  flfi 

Total  received  for  New  York    Synodieal  Aid 

Fund  from  April  1, 1893 4^185  ^2 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treaturer, 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


548  68       Box  L.,  Station  D. 


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BBOKIPTS  FOB  MIHISTKBIAKi  BKLIKT,  NOTBMBER*  189S. 

BALTnfOBB.—Ba2t<mor»— Baltimore  Bonodarr  Avenue,  North  Fork,  8.     Cincinnatti—Cierm^  0;  Glendale,  80. 

68  05;  —  Broadway.  11;  —Brown  Memorial,  184  71;  Elli-  CteMtond-CIeyeland  Soath  Hide,  8  50.    Colvmbut—lMi* 

cott  City.  12  06;  lUltton,  %.    New  Castle— Fort  Depodt,  caster.  21.    2>aytot»— Bath,  8  50;  Dayton  Riverdale,  1  60; 

18  18;    WUminoton  Rodney  Street.  W  40.    Washington  Franklin.  4;  IConroe,  8  60;  Osbom.  4;  Seven  Mile,  <  00. 

Ctfey— Clifton,  8;  Falls  Church  additional,  8:  Hermon,  1;  Huron— Chicago,  8;  Norwalk,  28  49.    Ltma-Rockport, 

Washington  aty  Ist,  11  40;  —  4th  additional,  6  8).  8  60;  Hidney  Csab-sch,  6,  and  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  6),  25  41 ;  Van 

278  80  Wert,  6  71.    JfoAoaina-Brookfleld,  8.    Ifarion— Brown, 

Oalifobnia.— Bentfcia— Big  Valley,  16;   Healdsburgh,  8  76;  Marion,  18.    ifaumM— Toledo  Westminster,  86  18. 

4  80.    Lot  Angelee-hoB  Angeles  Grand  View,  8  50.  POrtomout^— Mount  Leigh,  6;  Portsmouth  8d.  88  04.    8t, 

17  80  Cloirtwlto-Morristown,  8:  New  Athens,  8;  Washington, 

Catawba.— Southern  Virginia— Ropt,  1;  Henry,  1.  6.    5e«i45mvai«— Bakersiille,  8  87;  Pleasant  Hill,  1  60; 

2  00  Scio,  4:  Steubenvllle  8d,  6;  Yellow  Creek,  8.    Wooeter— 

OoLOBiDo  —Paeftto— Alamosa  and  sab-soh,  8;  Colorado  Fredericksburgh,  18.    Zaneeville—Vnitj,  6  06.         874  88 

Springs  Ist,  8  90.                                                           18  90  Pknnstltania  —^Ue^Aeny— Beaver,    16;  Brldgewater, 

iLLUCoiB.—^l^m—Hillsboro  additional,  4  60.  Bloom-  80;  Glasgow.  1  70;  New  Salem,  6.  B/a<r«viUe— Irwin  sab- 
ington -Bement,  17  76;  Bloomington  «d,  100;  Champaign,  tch.  4;  llvermore,  8.  fiii<2«r— Concord,  5  OX;  Harrisville, 
6;  t^hnton,  16:  Philo,  7.  Oxtro-Tamaroa,  11  86.  Chicago  4  81;  Mount  Nebo,  8;  New  Hope.  8;  Pleasant  Valley,  8  88. 
—Chicago  4th,  640  89;—  Christ  Chapel,  19  68;  River  CaWi«te-Carli8le8d,  88  88;  Chambersburg  Central,  14  68; 
Forest,!.  ^eMK>r<— Scales  Mound  German.  4;  ZtonOer-  Dau^in,  1;  Gettysburgh,  68;  Great  Oonewago,  8  86; 
man  CSchapville),  6.  Ottatoa— Oswego,  7  86.  Ptoria—  Lower  Marsh  Creek,  8  60.  C/^tttfr— Christiana,  4;  Not- 
Delavan.  10;  Sparlaad.  8.  /docile  i^^iwr— Ashton,  6;  Centre,  tingham,  4  08;  Ridley  Park,  10  86.  ClaHon  —  Beedi 
6  85;  Franklin  Grove,  8;  Princeton,  11  96.  Schuyler—  Wouds,  40  70.  JSTrM— Cochranton,  8;  Falrvlew,  8;  Green- 
Carthage,  18  25;  Doddsville,  8;  Monmouth,  18  77;  Prairie  ville.  88;  Sugar  Creek,  8;  —  Memorial,  8;  Utlca,  4.  Hunt' 
City,  1?:  Warsaw,  8  68.  Sfpring/le/d -Jacksonville.  10;  im^rfon— Alexandria.  19;  Bedford,  11  50.  Huntingdon, 
Plsgah,  1  01.                                                                886  07  82  81;  Orbisonia  (sab-sch.  68  cts.),  2  97;  Shirley sburgh, 

IMDIAXA.— Crawfordtvato—Beulah.  8;  Newtown,  12;  Ox-  8  76.    X^i<tonnin(;— Kittanning  1st,  48;  Srader's  Grove, 

ford,  8.    Fort  TFay?»e-Fort  Wayne  1st.  88  76;  Hunting-  2  60.    Laci^iMSAiia— Carbondckle,  71  68;   Langcliffe,  17; 

ton,  6.    Jndianapoii*— Indianapolis  8th,  10  46.    Logane-  Moosic.  88;  Sayre,  2  70:  Wilkes  Barre  Ist,  191  68.    Lehigh 

ri— Loganspert  Broadway,  s^  60;  Rensselaer  (Y.  P.  8.  —  Mountain,  9.     Northumberland  —  Beech  Creek,  4; 

B.,  8).  19  80.    Muticie— Wabash.  18  79;   Winchester,  Bloomsburgh,25  19:  Elysburgh,  4;  Great  Island.60;  MU- 

18  85.    r<nc«nne«-Bvansville  Walnut  Street  (sab-sch,  ton,  100;   Montoursville,  2  80;  Mountain,  1 ;  Sunbury,  88. 

10),  60:  Viocennes,  18.    VHtite  ITator— College  Comer,  1;  pMlod^p^to— Philadelphia    Calvary.  247  88:  —  Oxford, 

OonnersvUle  1st, 80.                                                      886  Oft  98  07|— Wylie    Memorial.    60.      Philadelphia    North— 

Iowa.— Cedar  itopidtf— MechaaicsviUe,  8:  Mount  Ver-  Abington,  61  08;    Frankford,    18  80;  Germantown    1st, 

non,  81.    Coriiiay -Bedford,  17  48.     Dee  Moinee  —  Des  571  88;   Leverington.  18  86;   Mount  Airy  additional,  6. 

Moines,  Central,  80  87:  Grimes,  6.    Fort  Dodge— Ooon  Pl'et<6uro^-Highland.  10;  PitUburgh  7th,  8  70;  —  East 

Rapkls,  4  89:  Dana,  8  I6.  /010a— Troy,  8  86.    loufa  City—  Uberty,  69  88:— Shady  Side.  56;  Riverdale,  86.    Washing- 

Summit,  4  08.                                                                98  68  ton— Frankfort,  6  80;    Moundsville,    11:    Wheeling  2d, 

KAii8A8.-J17iiftporto— Conway  Springs.  2  60.    Highland  23  go.  TF«U«5oro— Wellsboro,  10  88.   Westminster^Oedar 

Axtel,  8:  Baileyville  (sab  sch,  8),  8.    Xamed -Canton.  8;  Qrove,6;    Chestnut   Level,  18  16;    New  Harmony,   8; 

Galva,  2;   Lamed,  4  27.     iV«o«fce— Kincaid,  8  10;   Lone  York  Calvary,  86  66.                                                 2,381  77 

Elm,  2  60;  Miliken  Memorial,  6  8V     Osborne  —  Smith  South  Dakota.— Soutft«m  DolKita— Parker,  10.      10  00 

Centre,  8  26.     So/omon— Minneapolis,  24  88;   Union,   2.  Utah.— fioiie— Boise  City,  2.                                      8  00 

7V>p6fca-Aubura,  4  60;  Idana,  8;  Kansas  aty  1st,  24  26;  WASHiNaioN.— Otympia— Taooma  Calvary,  8.          8  00 

Rifey  Centre  German,  2.                                             94  00  Wisooksin.— Jtfadi«on  —  Kilboume    City,  6  20.     Mil- 

hLiomoAH.— Detroit  —  Pontlao  (sab-sch,   4  80),  28  IS.  taatiJ^e^- Racine  1st,  23.    fKinnebooo— Marshfleld,  11  64. 

Flint-CSM  City,  1  88;  Flint  additional,  14  19.    LanHng  ^^"^    ~*^'  "    "^                 ^^^^^^*v^                    ^  ^^ 

— Lansing.Frankiin  Street,  9  76;  Oneida,  1  98.  Monroe^  — 

Blissfleld,  11.  _^  ^  ^  ^     .    «    t*  *1      From  the  churches  and  Sabbath-schools $7,888  87 

MINNSSOTA.— MdiOeato— Windom,  6.  St.  Paul— St,  Paul 

House  of  Hope  (sab-sch,  8  26),  112  48.    TFYnona— Albert  niOM  indiyiduals. 

MissouM.-Kansot  CVfy-Crelghton,  1;  Kansas  Qty  2d,  Mrs.  J.  M.  W.  Hunter,  New  York  City,  10;  Mrs. 

178  62,    0»arfc-Springileld  Calvary,  24  25.     Palmyra-  H.  R.  WcMlchael,  PitUburgh,  P*.^ »;»£▼•  J- 

Moberly  (sab-sch,  1  6«),  6  94;  Unionville,  6  16.    Platte-  H.  Blackford,  West  Fayette,  O,  2  73:  Elixa- 

Craig.8;  Falrfax,8;  FarkvUle,12  47.    St,  Louis-Jonem-  both  A.  Cummins.  Bellalre.  O.,  20;  Throurfi 

boror8{  illdge  Stition,  2.                                            284  88  W.  8.  Wilson,  Phlla.,  Pa.,  26cts.:   Anna  8. 

NmrasxaT-OhwAo- Blair,  108;    Marietta.   6;    Ply-  Cratty,  Bellaire,  O.,  6:  •* A  Friend^' SidiMjr. 

mouth,  1.                                                                        8  96  N.Y.,  6:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  O.  Jenk In. Wyandot^ 

New  JEBSET.-JWteodeeA-Lamington,  22  60;  Plainfleld  Ohio,  8;  Miss  Mary  E.  Work,  Erie,  Kas.,  60 

1st.  dtf  48:  Piuckamln,  7.    Monmouth -Baraegat,  8;  Bur-  cts. ;  "  H.  M.."  Newark.  N.  J.,  100;  £«▼.  J-  D- 

lington,  48  08;  Freehold,  22  88;  South  Amboy,  2.    iforrt*  Jenkins,  Danville,  IlL,  6;  Rev  V.  M.  King  and 

onSOranotf-Mendhamlst,  28  60:  South  Orange  Trinity,  wife,  Emporia,  Kas.,  2;  Mrs.  John   Noblit, 

40.    !^«ioar*  —  Newark  Park,  62  08.    New  Brunswick-  PhUa..  Pa.,  10:  Ronald   M.  Bat<»,  St.  Louis, 

Ewing,  10  87;  Trenton  2d,  8  62.  ^tfi^fon-Keatyestown,  8;  Mo.,  5:  A.  G.  Taylor,  Toscalo,  III.,  16;  Mrs.  J. 

Hackettstown,  60;  Harmony,  6  87;  Mansfield  2d,  4.  8.  Atkinson,  Hill  City,  Kas.,  '*  In  memoriimi,'* 

'.                   »v.         .                   ^886  60  l;L.  Burghardt,  W^ashlngton.  D  C.,6;Rev. 

Naw  Yoiut.- i4I6tt»y-Ballston  Centre,  4  68;  Jefferson,  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife.  Pisgah,  III..  40 cte-; 

12:    Sand    Lake,   6.     Binghamton  —  Cortland,    41  98;  "C.  Penna,''6;  Mrs.  Rev.  J.  B.  Hall,  Grand 

Waverly,  16.    Bo«to»— Boston    Ist.   80  82.     Brooklyn-  Lodge,    Michigan.  180:    M.   R^  Alexander, 

Brooklyn  Lafayette  Avenue.  828  78;  —  Throop  Avenue,  Chambersbunr,  Pa.,  6;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Davidson, 

144.     f^ulToto— Buffalo   Westminster,  800:    Jamestown,  Chicago,  UL.  8. fzSS 

1 18  98.    Cayuga— Ithaca  additional,  81 ;   Port  Bryon,  7.       Interest  from  the  Permanent  Fund 7,868  87 

(7%«munir— Dundee,  6.    Colutn&io— Hudson  (the  Misses      Interest  on  Bank  Deposits. <»'  p° 

Robinson),  20;  Hunter.  7  61;  Jewett,  22  80.    Geneva—  •,koa4^9 

Seneca,  10.    Htid^on- Florida,  6  76:  Unionville.  6.    Lona       For  the  Current  Fund f  16,804  47 

Island  -Setauket.  16  50.    Lyon«— Marlon.  6  88;  Newark 

Park  26;  Palinyra,  6  42.    Nassau— Q\en  Cove,  4;  Oyster  psrmanbmt  fund. 

Bay,  5.    New  Forfc -New  York  University  Place,  709  14.  rr^*^*^*  /i«j«  «u«d  'i 

JVtiiara-Niagara  FaUs  (sab-sch,  6  58),  24  62.     North  (Interest  only  usedO 

«<v«r— Poughkeepsie,  87  06.  ifocAesfer-Dansville,  12  22;  Legacy  (balance)  of  James  Woods,   late  of 

Fowlerville,  1  25.    St.  Lawrence- flanmiond,  9;  Ox  Bow,  Ckinv  Point,  III.,  86;  From  Newtown  CShurch,             _ 

8  85;  Theresa,  8  10;  Waddington  Scotch,  83  28.    Steuben      CrawfordsviUe  Presbytery,  1 88  00 

— Canisteo,  28.    Syracuse— Onondaga  Valley,  6:  Syracuse  '      "                                   

Memorial,  18;  - /»?.  ^8  JJ6.    Troy-Ooho«M  1st.  88  14.       Total  for  November,  1898 $16,890  47 

Crtico— New  Hartford,  18;  Sanquoit,  8  78.    Westchester—  -.^— 

Peekskill  1st,  68  97.                                                   8.808  00  ^otal  Currwit  Fund  receipts  since  April  1. 1898  $88,960  11 

North  Dakota.— PiM»e»»na-01asston,  8 16;  StThonoas.       fj.o^ni  current  Fund  receipts  for  same  period 

466.  780  iMtyear T. $98,776  99 

Ohio.— B«H«/otttaine-Spring  Hills,  4  68.    ChiUicothe  "»*/«»•                                                     ,„_^^..^ 

-ChiUicotho  8d,  8  88;  —  Memorial,  1;  HiUsboro,  68  60;  Williaji  W.  Hbbertoh,  TVeaswrer, 


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BBGSIPT8  TOB  BABBATH^OHOOI.  WORB:,  NOVEMBER,  1898. 

Baiahcobb.— Weio  Ccw<fo— WUmfnittoii  Ist   10  M;  ~  ton  RiterdAle.  50  ctt ;  Piqua.266a    Huron- rhfcsfro.  2. 

Oeotral  sab-aoh,    86.      Wcuhingion    C<ty- Washington  ifaumce— Toledo    West  minster,    12 19.      SteubenHtU— 

GIty  Ist,  0  00;  —  4th  sab^ch,  0  01 ;  —  16th  Street sab-soh,  Aujrusta  sab-sch,  24  08;  Madison.  0;  Bdo,  4;  Bteubenvf lie 

17.                                                                                     74  41  8d.  20.                                             .    .        -.                   ^^.^ 

OAijroBifiA.«Z>>t    .<4ni^{M —Ooronado    Graham    Me-  Pennstlyanta.— iiU^plieny— Alle^h^nj  North  sab- soh, 

mortal,  11  60:  G1enda1esab-sch.4  80;  Pasadena  1st, 90  84;  84  65;  —  Providenoe  sab-sch,  16:  Beaver  12:  Emswonh, 

Tustin,  6  10.    Sacramento— lone^  9  90.    8tocktan-Clem'  1850.    Buttot^Butler.  14  68.    OarI/«le— Dauphin,  1;  Fay- 

entssab-sch,19.                                                            66  84  etteville,  1  65;    Ht.  Thomas,  8.     CAett^r-Nottinicham, 

CATAWBA.--aitoio6a— Miranda,  4  60.                         4  60  10  61 ;  Ridley  Park,  8  46.    .^^e— Utica.  4.    Huntinglon" 

OoLoiiADO.~Pi*e6{o— Colorado  Springs  1st,  2  77;  Hast-  Altoona2d.  89.    Kittanning-  Glade  Run,  11 26;  Wathinr- 

ings  sab-sch,  8  70.                                                           6  47  ton,  10.     I^oc^tonna— Mount    Pleasant  sab-sch.  5  fa 

lLLnioi8.~^Zto»— Hillsboro,    6  16.      Blo<nningt<m—E\  Northumberland— BaAd  Eagle  and  Nittany  sab-sch,  5; 

Paso  sab-sch.  6  96;  Piper  City,  7  80:  Waynesville  sab  sch,  Elysburgh,  1 :  Rush  Creek    1  80.     Philadtlphw-VhVti- 

4  19.      CSdiro—Anna,  6;  Ava  sab-ech.   8  60.     Chieago—  delphla  1st  sab-sch,  85:  — Bethesda,  16  ifO;  ~C*ohocksink 

Chicago  Christ  Chapel,  84  85;  —  JeflTerson  Park.  91  78;  sab-sch,  0  06:  —  Wylie  Memorial.  8  90      PhUadefphia 

RlTer  Forest,  95  cents    Peoria—Sparland.  8.  Rock  River  iVdrtfc— Carmel  sab-sch,  88:  Norri^town  Central  sab-sch, 

—Centre.  5.    SicAuvier— Doddsrllla,  2;  Monmouth,  6  26.  85  25;    Thompson  Memorial  sab-sch    8.     Pittfturgh-- 

SpHngfield—Viagnh,  1  61.                                           106  44  Crafton.  17  UK  Middletovn.  7  50:  Mingo  sab-sch,  l{b7; 

IiiDiA]iA.—CWn0/ordsvme— State    Line   sab  sch,    6  75.  Pittsburgh  7th,  6  80;  —   East   Liberty,    17  05;  —  Law 

Fort   TTou^ie— Columbia    Olty.  28  42;    Huntington,  1.  renceTille,  651.     Redstone— Sewlrkley.  6.     Sh^nango-^ 

Jtfimcfe— Wabash,  5  66.    Neto  Albany— ^ount  Yemen.  4;  New  Castle  1st  sab  sch,  80.     TF(e/i«6oro— Covington,  6; 

Utica  sab-soh,  5.    White  TFd^er— RushviUe  ch.  and  sab-  Tiosra.  1  08;  Wellsboro.  1  60.                                        4Bi  05 

sch,  12                                                                           57  88  Wasbinoton.— Olympia—Olympia,  5  00.                  5  00 

iKDiAir  TBBBiTOBT.—lfit«eo(^— Muscogee,  5  80.    Okla-  WisooKSQf.—Jftitcattibse— Racine  1st,  0                      0  00 

Aomo— Winnview  sab-sch.  1.  6  80  — 

Iowa— Cedar  AapMt— Blairstown  sab-sch.  6 15.    Com-      Total  from  Churches.  Norember,  1898 $  1  206  52 

ina— Essex  sab-sch.  8;  Randolph  sab-sch.  2  50.    Councfl  Total  from  Sabbath-schools,  November,  1808...       8i5  50 

Blufte—A.TOCA,  2  80.    Dea  Moines— DeB  Moioes  Central,  — - 

26  10.    Fort  Dodge— Boont  sab  sch,  5;  Manning  sab-sch.  Total  from  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools,  No- 

4.  49  56  vember,i898 2,028  11 

y*NHA8.— HtoAlond— Baileyville  sab-sch.  4.    JVeos^o— 

Humboldt,  8  27;  Union,  1.    tfoZomon— Hope.  2  10.     10  87  iosokllahioits. 

Michigan.— Detrott— Holly  sab-sch.  8.     Flint  — Cass 

City,  aOcts.;  Flint.  6  26;  Flushhig  4  81.    Omnd  Rapidt  Samuel  W.  Brown.  Manurunk,  Pa..  800:  Fr<HL 

—Grand  Haven,  sab-sch.  27  98.    Lake  Superior-  Ishpem-  H.  Watkins  Auburn,  N  Y..  8  90:  Hab-sch  No. 

Ing  sab-Boh,  10.    Lansino— Homer.  5  88;  Oneida.  66  cts.  7.  Mac  Intosh  Ga..  1  Olden  sab  sch  Mo  ,  l  stf; 

ifonroe— Quincy    sab-sch.  1  50;  Raisin.  8      Petoskey—  Olivet  Mi«Hion  sabfch.  Minxoula,  Montana.  8; 

Alanson  sab-sch.  60  cts. ;  Conway  sab-sch,  40  cts        CB  88  Slack  sab-ech.  Wyoming  5  75:    Island  i.ake 

MiifNB8orrA.—Dtt2M<\— Lake  Side.  8  27.    AfanJtafo— Cot-  sab-sch    North  Dakota.  2  65:  Mi<«s  Ann  «  on- 

tonwood  sab  sch,  9  76;  Jasper,  2  90;  Pipestone  sab-sch,  stey.  Phtla..Pa,  '^00;   Miss  Kat**  0.  Wt'nts, 

6  80.    8t.   Pisul— Macalester,  1  86;  St.  Paul  House   of  Phfla..  Pa..  2i  0;  rii*  tonville  sabsch.  Wiscon- 

Hope,  181  18.                                                                  141  55  sin,  1  50;  Mfss  Georgina  Willard.  Auburn.  N. 

Missouri.— Zansos  C/(y  —  Creighton,  1.     Palmyra^  Y..  600:   A.  W.  Rirong.    Guion.  Ind.,  1^7; 

Brookfleld  sab-sch.  6  65.    Pto^e-Craig.  8.    White  River  Hpring  filll  sab-^ch.  Wyoming.  V:  Na»»b  sab- 

—Harris  Chapel.  50  cts.                                                10  IS  sch.  Ind..  5:    H.  B.  Wilson.  Georgia,  4^  cts; 

Nebraska.— HostJnjjrs—Minden  Church  and  sab-sch  12.  Lindsay  Union  sab-^ch.  Cal.,  1:  8an  Jr*aquin 

OmoAa— Omaha  Clifton  Hill,  1  44;  —  Westminster,  14  61.  sab-»>ch.  Cal..  <:  J.  G.  Harris.  Ga..  4;  Gipson 

98  06  sab-sch,  Kouth  Dahota.  2:  Brushy  sab-K;h.  Mo., 

Nrw  Jkrsct.- Slisofr^f^— Pluokamin.  8.    Jersey  City—  97  cts  :  W.  H.  Long.  N.  C.  I  K.^;  (i.  Q.  Msthe- 

Passaic  sab-sch,  8  69;  Weehawken  Mlwion  sab-sch.  4  76.  son.  Minn..  I  80:   G  T.  Dillard.  K  O.,  51  cis  ; 

JfoanumO^— Burlington  (sab-sch,  19  IR),  60  44.     Mnrrie  E.  M.  Ellis,  Montana,  A  5i):   rx>p»T  sab-9ch, 

and  Orange-OrtLnge  Central.  100.    ^euwrik— Newark  8d,  Mich..  8  50:  Bluffs  sab-sch.  Mich  .  8  04;  North 

110  60;  —  6th,  10;  —  Park,  6  98.    New  Brunatoick—Vew  sab-sch,  Mich  ,  1  40:  G<»orge    Perry,   South 

Brunswick  1st  sab-sch.  48  60;  Trenton  2d  (sab-sch,  56  28),  Dakota.  4  50:  r.  K.  Powell.  Neh..  9:  i  Urk  A. 

67  54.     iVeiotcm-Belvidere  1st,  25;  Hackettstown,    15.  Mack.  Wis..  6;  John  Redp^th.  Mich.  5  02:  (7, 

4.H  69  McKee.  Cantrall.  Neb.,  K  'SI :  E  S  Ely,  Kan- 

New  Torx.— ill6any-Galway,  7  79;  Gloversville Kings-  sas,  1  75:  F.  L  Forb«-s,  Michlfiran.  5  22:  L.  P. 

boro  Avenue,  8  75;  Priocetown.   6  25.     Binohamton—  Berry  N.  C.  54  cts  :  Richard  Mavers.  8.  C, 

Whitney^s   Point,  6.     Bos/oa— Boston  Scotch  sab-sch,  9  98;  East  Side  sab-sch  Rusnell.  Minn  .OScts., 

5;     Londonderry,     4  60.     BrooXr/yn- Brooklyn    Atnslie  Rev.  G.  T.  Crissman,  D.I ».. and  wife.  Athens, 

Street  sab-sch,  22  28.     Oayu^o— Auburn   Westminster  Colo  .  5;  Mrs  J.  K  Atkinson.  Hill  City.  Kas  1; 

sab^ch,  6:  Oato.  8  85.   Cr>Iuri»6fa-Catskill  sab-sch.  97  18.  *«  C.  Penna.''  1:  Rev.  W.  L.  Tsrbet  and  wife. 

HiMiso9»— Florida,  9  26.  Long  foton<f— Water  Mill  sab-sch.  Ills .  60  cts.:  Rpicer  sab  sch  Minn.  &'  cts.:  Fox 

80.    iVosfOU— Glen  Wood  sab-sch.  2.    .ATi/rra^Kx— Albion  Creek  sab-sch.  Neb,  6  59;  Hope  Institute  sab- 

sab-sch.  88;  Lewiston,  5;  North  Tonawanda  North  sab-  sch.  Md.,  12  02 81.430  67 

sch,    1186.     North    fi^ver— Poughkeepsie.    12  85.     St.  

laiorence— Hammond  sab-sch,  17;  Watertown  1st  sab-      Total  receipts,  November.  1898 8,4^2  78 

sch,  14  60.    Spracuse  -  East  Syracuse,  1 5 :  Syracuse  Park      Amount  previously  acknowledged 72,675  98 

Central,  84  19.    TVoy-Lansingburgh  1st  sab-sch,  88  50:  

Troy8d.8866.    I7^ca-Waterville.  8  60.  898  78      Total  contributions  since  April  1. 1898 76.128  71 

North  Dakota.— Pfem^fno— Knox  sab-sch.  18.         18  00  #-«»*%*/«- 

Oeio  —BeUefontaine-Vpp'^T  Sandusky,  8  60;  Urbana,  ^*  T-  MoMulliw.  Treasurer, 

1882.    Cleveland— Cleveland  South,  1 40.    Dayton- Day-  1884  Chestnut  Street,  I  hllsdelphia.  Pa. 


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ATLAwno,  — South  .Florida— Eustis,  0  47;  Tarpon 
Springs  lat,  2  60;  TitusviUe.  8  68.  16  60 

BAi;;TmoB«.—B<iltimor»— Frederick  City.  7:  Taney- 
town.  16  87.  New  Oosfle— Wilmington  Central.  78  41. 
Wmehlngtpn  City—Ciitton,  2;  Falls  Church,  7  60;  Her- 
moo.  1;  waahins^n  City  1st,  10  40.  116  68 

0Ai.iFORinA.—Henicia— Big  Valley,  15;  Lakeport  8  *25. 
Loe  .^n^elss— Olendale,  2  26;  Pomona.  8  75;  Riverside 
Arlinftom  86  47.  Sacramento^Sacramento  Westmin- 
ster, 8.    SOA 


8em  Jose— Santa  Cruz.  5  SO. 


T8  99 


OoLomADO.—Boi»Wer— Brush.  2.  Dimrer— Denver  Cap- 
itol Avenue,  14.  Pu«6{o— Alamosa,  4  W:  Colorado 
Springs  Ist,  6  59;  Del  Norte.  11  40;  Monte  Vista,  19  55. 

49  68 


Illinois.— .4 l^on— Chester,  4;  CoUinsviUe,  28  50. 
B/oom<np/on— (hsmpaign.  92:  (  llnton,  2>.  Cairo — 
Cobden,  8  96  CArroffo-Chicairo  4ih.  1.2  9  77;  —  Christ 
Chapel,  17  90;  —  Englewood.  8;  River  Forest,  8;  IK  11- 
mington.  7  50.  FV^«»;;or*-Belvldere.  10;  Elissbeih,  1  70; 
Fre^port  2d,  9:  Galena  Ist.  28  70;  Hcales  Mound  German, 
5:  Zion  German  Hchapvllle  8.  Otfntra— Grand  Ridge, 
18.  Peorin— Peoria  1st.  27  48;  Spsrland.  8;  \*  afhlngton, 
4.  Rock  fflrer— Centre,  6  25:  Edgington.  8:  Geneseo, 
5  85:  Peniel.  4:  Princeton.  10  20:  Hock  Island  Broadwsv, 
10  65.  Schuyl^—Fouti\tk\n  Grren.  2  54>:  Monmouth, 
10  46:  Prslrie  City.  6:  Quincy  1st.  6:  RushvIUe,  9  H6 
S^nff/Te/d-Grfenview.  4  1*7:  Plsgah.  1  6^.  1,581  11 

IMOIAN A.— For<  TFayne— Fort  Wayne  1st,  87  60;  Hunt* 


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InrjtoD,  8;  La  Onmfe,  5  80.  liuiianapoZit— Frmnkltn,  86; 
iDdiaiiapolis  8th,  9  80;  —  18th,  4  SO.  Loganjport— Lo- 
gaosport  Broadway,  8.  ir-uncitf— Wabash*  9  48.  New 
^{6any->HaooTer,  18  77;  Mitchell  5;  Sharon  Hill,  4.  Vin- 
cenn««— ETantrille  Walnut  Street  (aab-«ch,  10),  60;  Terre 
Haute  Central,  48  90.  White  TTator^Aurora,  4  85;  New 
Castle,  11  46.  889  80 

lNDL4if  TEBurroaT.'OlrfaAoma  —  Chiokasha  (sab-ech, 
1  60).  7.  7  00 

Iowa.— Cadar  i2ap^— Cedar  Rapids  9d,  87.  Coming— 
Bedford,  18.  Council  f  fu/fs-Adair,  8  60;  Atlantic,  10; 
Council  Bluffs  Ist.  90.  Des  ifoines— Grand  River,  8; 
HopoTilie,  8;  Jacksonyille,  8;  Lucas,  8;  Paoora,  5  16; 
Promise  City.  2;  Seymour,  8.  Du^v^ne— Lime  Spring. 
8  60;  Waukon  German,  fiO.  Fort  Dod^e— Boone,  14.  Iowa 
—Kossuth  1st,  7  28:  MediapoUs,  18  18;  Mount  Zion.  8; 
Ottumwa  1st.  6;  WapeUa,  4  80.  Iowa  Ci'^y— Columbus 
Central  sab-sch,  2  07;  Davenport  Sd,  6;  Marengo,  4  81. 


5toii«  City— O'Brien  Co.  Scotch,  6.  ITattfr/oo— Apllns 
ton,  8  61 ;  darksville,  10;  Greene,  7;  Grundy  Centre  (sat 
sch,  1  67),  9;  Janesvilleu^S:  Waterloo,  18.  268  88 


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KAiraAS.— .Kmporio— CaldwelU  4;  Cottonwood  Falls,  6; 
Council  Grove.  88;  New  Salem,  8:  Walnut  Vailey,  8. 
Lam«d— Hutchinson,  16  87.  i^eosfto— Humboldt,  5  84. 
Otbome  -Rose  Valley,  8  17;  Wakeeny,  6.  Solomon -Abi- 
line,  8  50:  Minneapolis.  18  46;  Mt.  Pleasant,  6  10;  Union 
1.     Topellra— Riley  Centre  German,  8.  97  84 

KncTacKT  —fbeneser— Frankfort,  86  68.  Traneytvo' 
nto-Richland.  10.  46  68 

MioHiOAK.—i)eht><t— Brighton,  4:  Pontiac  (sab-sch, 
8  86)  89  84.  ^tnl— Brockway*  >  oO;  Cass  City,  1  86; 
Fremont.  9  60.  Orand  itopid«— Ionia,  10.  Lake  Superior 
—Menominee,  40  04.  Lansinir—Homer,  11  08;  Oneida, 
1  10.    Jfonroe— Tecumseh,  86.    Aiginoio— Ithaca,  6  10. 

148  98 

MnmssoTA.  —  Minneapolis  —  Minneapolis  Franklin 
Avenue.  8  60:  —  Highland  Park.  11  90.  Rt.  Plaid— Oneka. 
1:  St.  Paul  House  of  Hope  (sab-sch,  6  95),  86  78;  White 
Bear.  1.    PFtnoiui— La  Crescent.  3.  76  88 

Missouri. -J&>n«cM  City- Butler.  18;  Creighton,  1  86. 
Ocarib- Ebeneser.  6;  Lehigh.  1.  Ptai^e- Craig.  8;  Fair- 
fax. 8;  Lathrop.  8  60;   Marysville  1st.  19  17;  ParkvUle, 

10  16:  Savannah,  7  08.  8t  Louif— Jonesboro,  6;  St. 
Charles.  6.  76  10 

MoMTAKA.- Butfe— Deer  Dodge,  18  86;  Missoula,  12. 

Nebraska  — Hott/n^s— Holdrege,  6.  Kearney-  Fuller- 
ton,  4  48.  Ofms^o— Bellevue.  18;  Blair,  8  17;  Plymouth. 
8  27  69 

New  jER8KT.-£:iiea!>«<A— Elizabeth  ?d,  16  23;  Phicka- 
min  4.  Jersey  C/<y— Passaic  sa^»-»ch,  4  04.  Monmovth 
— Bamegat,  8:  Beveriv,  61;  Burlington,  85:  Jacksonville, 

8  80:  Jameeburgh.  5:  N«*w  Gretna,  6  40;  Provtdence,  1  70; 
South  Amboy.  8.  Aforrii  on d  Oroiio«-Mt.  Olive,  14  10; 
Orang*-  Central,  50;  Summit  Centraiaddltional,  10  A^tc- 
arib— Newark  Park.  11  S7.  Heti*  Bruneu-ick—kmweM 
United  1st.  8  79;  Frenchtown.  14  89;  Htockton.  4:  Tren- 
ton ^  12  19.     Aeirton— B«*lvfd<*re  1st.  86:   Bloomsbury, 

9  7^:  Hackettstown,  50;  Mansfield  2d.  6;  Yellow  Frame. 
1  60.  881  87 

New  York.— Jl6any— Galwav,  4  67.  Binghamton— 
Bainbridge.  1140  ^oa^^n- Newburyport  Ist.  18  88. 
Hrooklyn-  Brooklyn  Cumberland  St.,  lU.  Buffalo- Buf- 
falo Westminster,  800.    Chemung-  Dundee,  8;  Monterey, 

8  <9;  Sugar  Hill,  6  50:  Watkins  (sab  sch.  8  18).  t\  84. 
Columbia.- Durham  1st,  6  ti.    ^ene«ee— North  Bergen, 

9  40.  (Tenevo— Manchester.  8;  Penn  Yan,  82  08;  Seneca 
FalK  20.  Hudson—Florida,  8  75;  Otisville.  18.  Long  Island 
— Middletown  10;  Port  Jeffer8on,785.  Lvons— Marion.820. 
Aowjtau— Huntington  8d.  17  50;  Oceanbide.  1;  Oyster  Bay, 
6.  New  York—THew  York 4th, 80  08;  —Christ,  10:  —  Har- 
lem sab-sch,  10  01 ;  —  Phillips.  18  44;  —  Rutgers  Riverside, 
180  26;  —  Washington  Heignts,  2  05.  ^ioyaro— Lewiston, 
6.  North  ftjver— Little  Britain,  7 ;  Pleasant  VaUey :  8  40 ; 
Poughkeepsie.  20  58.  O^oo— Gilbert  sviUe,  17.  Roches- 
ter-FowlerviUe,  8:  Piffard.  1;  Rochester  8d,  7  69;  — 
Brick.  85:  ^parta  2d.  8  60.  St.  Latirrence— Hammond.  9; 
Morristown,  8  48;  Oswegatchle  8d,  8;  Sackett's  Harbor, 
6:  Theresa,  6  26;  Waddington  Scotch,  61.  Steuben— 
Almond,  4  60;  Campbell,  10;  Canisteo,  18.  Syracuse— 
Syracuse  Park  Central.  27  28.  3Voy— Lanslngnurgh  Ist 
add  L  8  98;  —  Olivet,  8  70.    IFes<cA««<er— Gilead.  10  50 

9fS68 

Ohio.— .4(fcen»— Bariow,  4.     BeOe/onfaine— De  Graff, 

4  84;  Spring  Hills,  6  11.    CAiUicotAe- Chillicothe  8d,  6; 

—  Memorial,  2:   Greenland,  1;   North  Fork,  4;  Salem, 

11  50;  Union,  1.  Cincinna «—Cleves,  8.  Clereland— 
Cleveland  South.  8  50.  Columbus-  Bethel,  1  50;  Bremen, 
1  50;  Cohimbus  Westminster,  9;  Rush  Creek,  4.    Daylon 

—  Dajton  Riverdale,  84  cts.:  Monroe,  2:  Seven  Mile, 
8  82:  Troy.  18  06.  L/ma— Delphos.  2;  Van  Wert,  8  06. 
ifafconitip— Brookfleld,  1;  Poland.  11  £0.  Marion— 
Ashley,  2  86;  Marion,  8;  West  Berlin,  8.    Maumee— 


North  Baltimore,  6:  Toledo  Westminster,  28  80;  West 
Bethesda,  6.  POrismoiif^— Portsmouth  8d,  80  56.  St. 
dairsviUe—Cnb  Apple,  6  88:  Morristown,  8;  Washing- 
ton, 5  50.  SteubenviOe-Bsikenyrme,  1  80;  East  Liver- 
pool 2d,  1:  Long's  Run,  8  80;  Yellow  Creek,  6.  Wooster 
—Ashland,  7  05;  Creeton,  8  60;  Savannah.  6  68;  Wayne, 
6  14;  West  Salem.  1;  Wooster  1st  (sab-sch,  6  89).  41  06. 
ZdneM^ille— Dresden,  8  88;  Utica,  14;  Zanesville  1st, 
27  76  809  96 

ORBGOK.-Ploraaiid-Portland  4th,  11  45.  WiUamette— 
Lebanon,  1  66.  18  10 

PE]fi«STLTAinA.—.^Ue0Aenif— Allegheny  Bethel,  1;  As- 
pinwall,  1  68;  Beaver,  6|  Bridgewater  west,  8;  Freedom, 
6;  Leetsdale,  74  48;  Pine  Creek  8d,  5.  Blairsvilie— 
Greensburgh  Westminster,  15  18:  Harrison  City,  6;  Lat- 
robe.  88;  Ligonier,  18  68;  Livermore,  8  70;  Manor,  8; 
Salem,  19  25.  JBuOer-HarrisviUe,  8  79;  Muddy  Creek. 
6  80:  New  Hope,  8;  Unlonville.  8.  OirlMe— Carlisle  2d, 
68  IS;  Chambersburgh  Central,  8  48;  Dauphin,  1;  Dun- 
cannon,  18;  Lebanon  4th  Street,  28  67;  Monaghan,  12  50. 
Chester— Bryn  Mawr,  78  14;  Downingtown  Central,  6  58; 
Nottingham,  4  47;  Penningtonville,  10;  Ridley  Park,  6  71. 
CtoWon— Academla,  4  90:  Clarion,  14  48.  .ffrie— Ooch- 
ranton,  2  50;  Fairview,  4:  Garland,  6  76;  Jamestown, 
4  85;  Meadville  1st,  11 ;  —  Central,  16:  MUledgeville,  2:  Hill 
Village,  1  57;  Pittsfleld,  4  86;  Tideoute,  17:  Warren,  67  16. 
Hunfinodon— Alexandria,  9;  Bedford,  4  80;  Belief onte, 
46;  DuncansvUle,  10;  Juniata,  9  81;  Mileaburgh.  5  86; 
Moshannon  and  Snow  Shoe,  2;  Orbisonia  (sab-sch,  62 eta.), 
2  62;  Pine  Grove,  805;  Shirleysburgh,  8,*  Kittanning— 
Elder's  Ridge,  11  89;  Marion,  10  45;  Srader's  Grove,  8  64; 
Washington,  18;  Worthlngton,  7.  Ladrairanna— Canton, 
14;  Carbondale  (sab-sch,  4  66),  41  58;  Great  Bend.  8; 
Honesdale.  26  91;  Sayre,  98  cts. ;  Towanda,49  86;  Wilkes 
Barre  Westminster,  11.  Lehigh— mdAle  Smithfleld,  7  94; 
Pottorille  let,  24  90;  Reading  1st.  84.  Northumberland^ 
Beech  Creek,  8;  Bloomsburgh,  26  48;  Great  Island,  40; 
Mountain.  1;  Washington.  18.  PAilodefp^io— Philadel- 
phia 1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  £.,  25;  —  Hebron  Memorial,  7  18; 

—  Memorial,  56  49;  -  Oxford,  84  79;  —  Princeton,  188  10; 

—  South.  10: — West  Green  St.,  42  21  • — Woodland,148  58;  — 
Wylie  Memorial,  6  50.  Philadelphia  NortK-Hfewtown, 
82  26;  Port  Kennedy,  2;  Torresdale  Macalester  Memorial, 
8 12.  P*<WmroA— CUnnonsburgh  Central.  8  75;  Charierol, 
6:  Finley  ville,  6;  Pittsburgh  Sd  (per  Miss  Shaw,  50),  88  66; 

—  7tli,  6  14;  -  Bist  Liberty.  85  90;  —  McCandless  Avenue, 
6;  —  Shady  Side.  72  50.  fiedsf one- Laurel  Hill,  18:  Mount 
Pleasant.  9  60  Sewickley,  5:  Uniontown.  88  17.  Shenan- 
oo-New  Castle  2d.  6.  Washington-'CrosB  Creek,  28. 
Prel/#feoro- Allegany.  1 :  Wellsboro,  5  71.  Westminster- 
Ceils^  Grove,  6;  Strasburgh,  4  25;  Union,  85;  York  1st. 
72  68.  2,086  48 

South     Dakota.— Central    i>aibofa— Madison,     8  90. 

Southern  /)aAM)fo— Parker,  6.  9  90 

Tennessee.— Ho2«ton— Mount  Bethel,  8  85  8  86 

Utah —Bo^s- Boise  aty,  4.     CTtoA— Manti  1st  (aab- 

sch,  1).  8.  7 

Washington.— OZympio—Tscoma  Calvary.  8.  8 

Wisconsin  —C%/pp«ica— Chippewa  Falls,  19  28.    Jfodi- 

son— Madison    Christ,    92  65.      iff Ziooulree— Milwaukee 

Calvary*  26  55;  Racine  Ist,  18;  Somers,  7  50.    Winnebago 

-Shawano,  4.  92  98 

Receipts  from  Churches  in  November  1898 6,666  88 

Receipts  from  Sabbath-schools  in  November, 
1898 60  10 

6,626  63 

EBFI7NDED. 

Rev.  N.  N.  Skinner,  100;  Student,  88;  Rev.  G.  L 
McWlUiams,  100;  Rev.  W.  H.  Hannum, 
Bombey,  India,  96  98 829  98 

GRATITUDE  FUND. 

6 6  00 

MISOELLANBOUS. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Blackford.  10;  C.  C,  6;  Miss  M.  E. 
Work,  Erie,  Kan.,  50  cts. ;  R.  M.  Bates,  Esq., 
6;  A.  G.  Taylor.  Tuscola,  111.,  15;  Mrs.  Jno.  h. 
Atkinson,  1;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  60 
cts.:  8.  J.  Bamett,  Delta.  Pa.,  5;  C.  Penna., 
2;  Mr.  J.  B.  Davidson,  Chicago,  III.,  8 46  10 

INCOME  ACCOUNT. 

102 108  00 

Total  receipts  in  October.  1898 7.109  66 

Total  receipts  from  April  90, 1898 88,187  85 

Jacob  Wilson,  Tretuwer, 
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THE  CLERKS. 

SUxted  Clerk  and  Treasurer— Bat.  William  H. 

Roberts,  D.  D.,lld7  So.  48tti  Street,  West  Phlla- 

delptua. 
Permanent  Clerh—ReY,  William  E.  Moore,  D.  D., 

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THE  TRUSTEES. 

President — G^eorge  JuokiDf  Esq. 

Treasurer— Fnuk  K.  Hippie,  1340  ChestDut  Street 

Recording  Secretary— Jacob  Wilson. 

Officb— Publication    House,   Na     1834    Chestnut 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


THE  BOARDS. 

I.    HOME  niSSIONS,  SUSTENTATION. 

Corresponding  Secretaries— Rer.  William  C.  Roberts,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  Duncan  J.  McMillan,  D.  D. 
Treasurer— Ohyer  D.  Eaton. 
Recording  Secretary— Oscar  E.  Boyd. 

Officb— Presbyterian  House,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  missionary  appointments  and  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

Letters  relating  to  the  financial  affairs  of  the  Board,  containing  remittances  of  money  or 
requests  for  reduced  railroad  rates,  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Applications  for  aid  from  churches  bhould  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  £.  Boyd,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

Applications  of  Teachers,  and  letters  relating  to  the  School  Department,  should  be  addressed 
to  Rey.  G.  F.  MoAfxb,  buperintendent. 

3.    FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

Secretary  Emerittis—Rev,  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretaries— Rer.  Frank  F.  Ellinwood,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D. ;  and  Mr. 

Robert  E   Speer.  Recording  Stforetary^Reiv.  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D. 
2Ve4m4rcr— William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq. 

Field  Secretary— Rar.  Thomas  Marshall,  D.  D.,  48  McCormick  Block,  Chicago,  111. 
OFFiOE—Presbyterian  House,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  the  missions  or  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries.  Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing  remittances  of 
money,  should  be  sent  to  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq.,  Treasurer, 

Certificates  of  honorary  membership  are  given  on  receipt  of  $30,  and  of  honorary  directorship 
on  receipt  of  $100. 

Per&ons  sending  packages  for  shipment  to  missionaries  should  state  tbe  contentsand  valve.  There 
are  no  specified  days  for  shipping  goods.  Send  packages  to  the  Mission  Houce  as  soon  cut  they  are 
ready.  Address  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 

The  postage  on  letters  to  all  our  mission  stations,  except  those  in  Mexico,  is  5  cents  per  each  half 
ounce  or  fraction  thereof.    Mexico,  3  cents  per  half  ounce. 

3.  EDUCATION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— RaY.  Edward  B.  Hodge,  D.  D. 
IVecwurer— Jacob  Wilson. 

Omcs— Publication  House,  No.  1834  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  PiL 

4.  PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH -SCHOOL  WORK. 

Secretary— Bar.  Elijah  R.  Craven,  D.  D. 

Superintendent  of  Sabbath^school  and  Missionary  Work— RaY.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D. 

Editorial  Superintendent— Rav,  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Business  Superintendent— John.  H.  Scribner. 

Manufacturer— John  A.  Black. 

Treasurer— Rar.  C.  T  McMullin. 

Publication  House-  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Letters  relative  to  the  p^eneral  interests  of  the  Board,  also  all  manuscripts  offered  for  publication 
and  communications  relative  thereto,  excepting  those  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books  and  the 
periodicals,  should  be  addressed  to  the  Rev.  £.  R.  Cravbn,  D.  D.,  Secretary, 

Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  reports,  letters  relating  to  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  work,  to 
grants  of  the  Board's  publications,  to  the  apiwintment  of  Sabbath-school  missiocaries.  and  reports, 
orders  and  other  communications  of  these  missionaries,  to  the  Rev.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D.,  Super- 
intendent  of  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  Work. 

All  manuscripts  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books,  also  all  matter  offered  for  the  Westminster 
Teacher  and  the  other  periodicals,  and  all  letters  concerning  the  same,  to  the  Rev.  J.  K.  laiLLER, 
D.  D.,  Editorial  Superintendent. 

Business  correspondence  and  orders  for  books  and  periodicals,  except  from  Sabbath-sChool  mis- 
sionaries, to  John  H.  Scribner.  Business  Superintendent. 

Remittances  of  money  and  contributions  to  the  Rev.  C.  T.  McMullin  Treasurer. 

$.  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Ray.  Erskine  N.  White,  D.  D. 
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Trexisurer— Adam  Campb 

Office— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  Tork,  N.  T. 


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Corresponding  Serretary^'Rev.  WUUam  C  CatttH^  D.  D. 
Recording  Secretary  and  Tretuurtr^Btrw.  William  W.  Hebertno. 

Officb— Publioition  fiooae,  1834  Chestnut  Street,  PhiUdelphia,  Pit. 

y.  FReeDMEN. 

President— Rer.  Henry  T.  McClelland,  D.  D. 
Vic^ President— Rev.  David  8.  Kenuedr. 
Recording  Secretary — Rev.  SamuelJ.  Fi»her.  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretary —ReY,  Edward  P.  Cowan,  D.  D 
Treasurer— Rer.  J.  J .  Beacom,!).  D. 

Oppick-516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Field  Secretary— Rkv.  Uenry  N.  Payne,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  Oa* 

8.  AID  FOR  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEillES. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.  D. 
TrecMurer— Charles  M.  Chamley,  P.  O.  Box  294,  Chicago,  111. 

Offick— Room  23,  Montauk  Block,  No  115  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  m. 


PERMANENT  COMMITTEES. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SYSTEHATJC  BENEFICENCE. 

Chairman— Rev.  Rufua  S.  Oreen,  D.  D.,  Eimira  College,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Secretary— KHieuen  Van  Rensselaer,  66  Wall  Street,  New  York,  K.  Y. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

Chairman — Rev.  John  J.  Beacom,  Allegheny,  Pa. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  John  P.  Hill,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Reoording  Sttoretary—Rev.  Joseph  B.  Tvrner,  Glenshaw,  Pa. 
Treasurer— Rev.  James  Allison,  D  D.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

President-Rev.  W.  C.  Cattell,  D.  D.,  Philadelphia. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  W.  L.  Led  with. 
Treasurer— Deh.  K.  Ludwig,  8800  Locust  ftJtreet,  Philadelphia. 
Library  and  Museum — 1229  Race  Street,  Philadelphia. 


TREASURERS  OF  SYNODICAL  HOflE  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTENTATION. 

New  Jersey— Elmer  Ewing  Green,  P.  O.  Box  183.  Trenton,  N.  J. 
New  York—0.  D.  Eaton,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N  Y. 
Pennsylvania -Frank  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Baltimore— D,  C.  Ammidon,  31  South  Frederick  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 


BEQUESTS  OR  DEVISES. 

In  the  preparation  of  Wills  care  should  be  taken  to  insert  the  Corporate  Name,  sm  known  and  reoog 
nised  in  the  Courts  of  Law.    Requests  or  Devises  for  the 

Oeneral  Assembly  should  be  made  to  **  The  Trustees  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  PrssbytariaB 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America.** 

Board  of  Home  Missions,— to  <*  The  Board  of  Home  Mlmions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  incorporated  April  19, 1873,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Porelflm  Jlisslons,— to  **  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  tba 
United  States  of  America.** 

Board  of  Church  Erection,-  to  **The  Board  of  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Incorporated  Msrcii  27, 1871,  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work,  to  **The  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publi- 
cation and  Sabbath-schuol  Work.** 

Board  of  Bducatioo,— to  **  The  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  Statei 
of  America.** 

Board  of  Relief.— to  **  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Ministers  and  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  Deceased  Ministers.** 

Board  for  Preedmen,— to  **  The  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  In  tfaa 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Aids  for  Colleges,— to  **  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Academies." 

Sustentatlon  is  not  incorporated.  Bequests  or  Devises  intended  for  this  object  should  be  made  to  '*  Hie 
Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  incorporated  Aprfl 
19, 1872,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York,  for  Sustentatian,'^ 

N.  B.— Real  Estate  devised  by  will  should  be  carefully  described. 

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MARCH,    1894. 


CONTENTS. 

IndUinti,  Douglas  P,  Putnam,  D  D.y 188 

Whtt  Hath  God  Wrought  in  India?  George  F.  Pentecost,  D,D., 188 

A  Day  With  Confuciug,  Rev,  /.  H,  Laughlin, 193 

FORBIQN  niSSIONS. 

Nate5.--Edwin  Lord  Weeks  in  Harper's  U^eekfy—Tht  N,  Y.  World  B^ndi  Dr.  Karib— Rev. 
F.  J  Perkins,  of  Sao  Paulo,  Eocouraged— Sensible  Advice  from  Rev.  R.  V.  Hunter 
—Shantung  Missionary  Ck)nference — ** Children's  Hymns  and  Tunes"  For  Sale — 
Rev.  W.  R  Richards.  D.D  ,  and  Secretary  Speer  in  Mexico— Letter  From  Dr  Shedd 
of  Oroomiah— Mission  Press  at  Shantung— Siam  and  Laos  and  Dr.  Mitchell — Mis- 
sionary Calendar 195-199 

Watchman,  What  of  the  Night?  Rev,  B.  C  Henry,  D.D., 199 

An  Evening's  Preaching  at  the  Lahorl  Gate,  Lahore,  Rev.  Henry  Forman,        .  202 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Missions  in  Mexico— Missions  in  Guatemala— Christian  Heroism  in 
Mexico,  y.  Milton  Greene,  D  Z?.— Storv  of  a  Brave  Life,  Rev,  Isaac  Boyce—The 
Gospel  in  Ranches  of  Mexico,  Rev.  Hubert  W,  Brown,  205-213 

Letters.— Africa,  Rev  A  C  Good,  Ph.D.^ChinsL,  Rev.  R.  Coltman,/r.,M.D.—PeTHi&, 

Miss  Annie  Montgomery,  21S-215 

fforiB  russioNs. 

Notes. — ^Presbyterian  Churches  in  the  Adirondacks — Divers  Interesting  Short  Notes — 

Pressure  of  Hard  Times— Revivals  in  Utah  and  Elsewhere 217-218 

Christian  Patriotism  in  California.  i?<w./ 5  iVi:Z?^«a/</, 218 

N.Y.  Synodical  Aid  Fund. -^«/./  A^  Cr^^y^^r, 220 

Perils  of  Immigration,  Rev.  George  F  McAfee, 221 

Concertof  Prayer.— The  Older  States, 228 

Letters. — New  Mexico,  Miss  E  P.  Houston— Colnratlo,  Rev  F  Moore— Vi&h,  Mrs  M. 
M.  Green.  Rev  F  L  Arnold,  Rev  C.  M.  Shef>herd—y^\nlitA^^i«^  Rev  K  Tietma 
— Alaska.  Rev,  C  Thwing—Tennet^we.  Rev.  C  A.  Duncan — Towh,  Rev.  T.  C  Mc- 
iVary— Indian  Territory,  Rev.  H.  A,  Tucker,  Miss  Alice  M.  Robertson,  ,    225-229 


COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES.— Fifty  Thousand  Dollars,  Deserved— Devised— Doing 

Good— College  Men  as  Pioneers,  Rev.  G.  R.  /^*>fe^— Bellevue, 280-231 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF.— The  Treasury  Report  to  Synod  of  Pennsylvania,  .        .  281-233 

PUBLICATION    AND    SABBATH  SCHOOL    WORK.— Words    from     Missionaries; 

Gkorcia,  Washington,  Iowa,  Michigan, 283-285 

FREEDMEN —Samples  from  Letter  File,  235-237 

EDUCATION  —Auburn  Seminary— Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges— Who  Covets  a  Great 

Privilege?— College  and  Seminary  Notes ...  288-240 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATH  SCHOOL  LESSONS 241-242 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR.— The  Young  Christian  at  Home— A 

Plea  for  Missions— A  Touching  Letter— Missionary  Life  in  Africa— Aleppo,  .  243-248 

CHILDRBN'S  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD.— Dr.  Cuyler's  Letter-Children's 

Sabbath— Sawmill  in  Shantung— A.  L.  0.  E., 249-252 

BOOK  NOTICES  AND  MINISTERIAL  NECROLOGY 252-253 

GLEANINGS  AT  HOME  AIO)  ABROAD, 253-256 


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LONGFELLOW'S  POETICAL  WORKS 

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INDIANA. 


DOUGLAS  P. 

The  topography  of  the  State  of  Indiana 
differs  greatly  from  that  of  the  regions  from 
which  most  of  its  early  settlers  came.    There 
is  not  a  mountain  and  scarcely  a  good  sized  hill 
in  the  State.    Probably  the  highest  elevations 
are  not  more  than  six  hundred  feet  above  the 
general  level.    For  the  most  part  the  face  of 
the  country  is  a  succession  of  exceedingly 
fertile  valleys,  flat  plains,  swamp  lands  and 
earth  undulations,  with  something  that  might 
be  called  hills  along  our  southern  and  portions 
of  our  western  borders.    The  swamp  lands  are 
confined  to  the  north-western  portion  of  the 
State,  reacMng  back  from  the  shores  of  Lake 
Michigan  where  the  earth  had  to  be  spread 
oat  to  make  room  for  Chicago,  some  of  whose 
suburbs  have  already  spilled  over  into  our 
State.     Much  of  these  swamp  lands  has  been 
reclaimed  by  drainage  and  forms  the  finest  of 
pasture  and  meadow  lands.    The  rest  of  the 
State  for  the  most  part  was  originally  heavily 
wooded  with  the  finest  of   timber,  walnut, 
oak,  sugar-maple,  beech,  sycamore  and  hick- 
ory abounding  everjrwhere. 

The  mineral  resources  of  the  State  consist 
largely  of  coal,  building  stone  and  natural 
gas.  The  famous  **  block  coal  *^  (so  named 
because  of  the  form  in  which  it  comes  from 
the  mines)  to  be  found  in  such  great  abun- 
dance in  the  westerly  middle  portions  of  the 
State,  is  said  to  be  superior  even  to  charcoal 
for  smelting  purposes.  A  very  fine  quality  of 
lime  and  brown  sand  stone  for  building  pur- 
poses is  to  be  found  in  quarries  of  almost 
limitless  capacity. 

The  development  of  the  natural  gas  dnrUig- 
the  past  ten  years  has  worked  wonde;;^  iQ^OUr' 


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manufacturing  interests  and  in  numerous 
instances  has  changed  the  centres  of  popula- 
tion and  the  channels  of  trade.  Millions  of 
dollars  have  been  invested  in  gas  enterprises, 
and  notwithstanding  numerous  legal  battles 
to  prevent  it,  pipe  lines  have  been  laid  to 
Chicago  to  supply  the  people  of  that  great 
city  with  the  finest  fuel  on  earth.  The  gas 
field  of  this  State  includes  the  whole  of  ten 
counties  and  portions  of  ten  other  counties, 
all  lying  in  an  irregular  crescent  shape,  some 
distance  in  an  easterly  and  north-easterly 
direction  from  Indianapolis,  and  is  possibly 
equal  in  extent  to  a  fifth  of  the  whole  area  of 
the  State.  While  the  gas  supply  in  some 
portions  of  this  field  seems  to  be  temporarily 
exhausted,  yet  in  other  portions  wells  are 
being  constantly  opened.  This  gas  is  usually 
found  at  a  depth  of  about  four  to  nine  hun- 
dred feet  and  shows  a  pressure  of  from  three 
to  six  hundred  pounds  to  the  square  inch.  A 
gas  well  on  fire,  under  full  pressure,  forms 
one  of  the  greatest  shows  on  earth.  The 
roar,  the  smell,  and  the  heat  are  fearful. 

The  population  centre  of  the  United 
States  has  been  within  our  borders  for  some 
years  and  is  now  not  far  from  Columbus. 
Our  more  than  two  million  people  are  like 
the  rest  of  the  nation — reasonably  homo- 
geneous. We  are  from  everywhere,  though 
we  have  no  especially  large  foreign  popula- 
tion. The  first  settlement  was  made  by  the 
French  traders  at  Vincennes  and  Corydon  as 
early  as  1702.  These  points,  however,  were 
not  continuously  occupied.  The  first  perma- 
-neBt^ttlements  came  at  the  points  named 
aild  at  ot&i^cj)laces  along  the  Ohio  River,  as 

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MadiflOD,  LawreDcebnrgb,  Jeffersonville,  and 
like  places,  where  immigrants  began  to  make 
their  homes  in  goodly  numbers  between  1790 
and  1800.  Most  of  these  came  from  Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky  and  North  Carolina,  with  a 
few  from  Pennsylvania,  but  almost  none 
from  New  England  till  a  full  third  of  a 
century  later. 

The  ordinance  passed  by  Congress  in  1787 
establishing  the  Government  of  the  great 
"North-west  Territory"  provided  that  not 
more  than  five  States  should  ever  be  formed 
out  of  the  territory  which  under  this  title 
had  been  ceded  from  the  British  Dominion  to 
the  United  States,  and  which  may  also  be 
said  to  have  been  quit  claimed  to  the  Gen- 
eral Government  by  the  State  of  Virginia, 
whose  right  of  title  by  conquest  was  thus 
recognized.  Eventually  this  territory  be- 
came the  five  States  of  Ohio,  Indiana,  Michi- 
gan, Illinois  and  Wisconsin,  named  in  the 
order  in  which  they  were  admitted  to  the 
Union.  This  ordinance  of  1787  was  re- 
'markable  in  more  respects  than  one.  It 
declared,  among  other  things,  that  '^relig- 
ion, morality  and  knowledge  being  necessary 
to  good  government  and  the  happiness  of 
mankind,  schools  and  the  means  of  educa- 
tion shall  forever  be  encouraged."  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  the  character  thus 
early  sought  to  be  placed  upon  the  institu- 
tions of  this  region  has  not  been  forgotten. 
'^Religion,  morality  and  knowledge,"  may 
be  said  to  lie  as  the  very  foundation  of  the 
happiness  and  good  order  of  these  five  States. 

The  class  which  graduated  at  Dartmouth 
College  in  1826,  during  its  course,  had  five 
members  who  were  destined  to  have  large 
influence  in  shaping  the  affairs  of  the  Central 
West,  especially  in  Ohio  and  Indiana.  Their 
names  were  D.  Howe  Allen,  Salmon  P. 
Chase,  Edmund  O.  Hovey,  Henry  Little,  and 
Caleb  Mills — a  quintette  who  in  later  years 
in  theology,  in  statesmanship,  in  education 
and  in  evangelization  did  great  things  for 
this  region.  Dr.  Allen  and  Governor  Chase 
made  Ohio  their  home  and  need  not  here  be 
further  referred  to.  Of  the  three  who  came 
to  Indiana  and  for  nearly  half  a  century 
wrought  side  by  side  in  behalf  of  their  fel- 
iQwmen,  each  supplemented  the  others  to  a 


remarkable  degree.  A  proper  history  of  the 
State  must  make  prominent  mention  of  their 
personal  lives.  From  1883  to  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1882,  Dr.  Henry  Little  was 
identified  with  revivals  and  home  missionary 
operations  all  over  the  State.  After  his  al- 
most completed  half  century  of  labor  he  was 
mourned  everywhere  as  **the  Patriarch  of 
two  Synods, "  He  has  four  sons  and  a  grand- 
son in  the  Presbyterian  ministiy,  with  an- 
other grandson  already  making  fame  as  an 
educator  in  one  of  the  prominent  universi- 
ties of  the  nation  and  a  third  grandson  in 
theological  training  for  the  ministry,  while 
numerous  lads  and  youths  of  this  godly  par- 
entage have  yet  to  have  the  path  of  life 
marked  out  for  them. 

The  second  of  these  three  men  who  came 
to  Indiana  from  New  England,  Prof.  E.  O. 
Hovey,  was  possibly  more  scholastic  and  less 
of  the  people  than  either  of  his  classmates. 
Nevertheless  he  had  large  influence  upon  the 
student  character  of  Wabash  College  for  more 
than  a  generation  as  well  as  upon  many 
minds  throughout  the  State. 

Of  the  three,  however,  Prof.  Caleb  Mills 
undoubtedly  left  the  most  direct  impress  upon 
the  affairs  of  the  State.  In  Bamard^s 
'*  American  Journal  of  Education,  Interna- 
tional Series  1881,"  is  a  paper  on  **  Caleb 
Mills  and  Indiana  Common  Schools  "  which 
is  full  of  interesting  reminiscences.  After 
his  graduation  at  Dartmouth  and  pending  his 
half  completed  theological  course  at  Andover, 
Mr.  Mills  spent  two  years  in  traveling  through 
Indiana  and  parts  of  Kentucky,  *'on  an 
agency  for  Sabbath-schools."  This  gave  him 
a  large  insight  into  the  needs  of  the  region, 
and  letters  written  during  his  last  year  at 
Andover  indicate  that  he  had  already  planned 
what  was  afterwards  termed  his  *^  common 
school  campaign  in  Indiana."  He  left  New 
England  in  September,  1838,  and  after  a 
tedious  journey  of  six  weeks — the  same 
journey  can  now  be  made  in  thirty-six 
hours — reached  Crawfordsville  with  his  bride 
November  8,  and  on  December  8,  1888, 
organized  the  first  classes  of  Wabash  College 
with  twelve  young  men.  The  condition  of 
the  public  schools  of  the  State  at  this  time 
was     characterized     as     *^  shameful"    and 


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** alarming."  It  was  said:  "Only  about  one 
child  in  eight,  between  five  and  fifteen,  is 
able  to  read!"  *' The  common  schools  and 
competent  teachers  are  few." 

Such  facts  as  these  were  working  in  the 
mind  of  the  young  Wabash  professor,  so 
recently  from  New  England,  and  upon  the 
meeting  of  the  Liegislature  in  1846,  on 
December  7,  there  was  laid  upon  the  desk  of 
each  member  the  first  of  a  series  of  six 
annual  messages  on  the  subject  of  Free 
Schools,  addressed  to  the  Legislators  and 
signed  **  One  of  the  People."  This  was  after- 
wards described  as  **  a  noble  message,  packed 
with  startling  facts,  spiced  with  humor,  and 
everywhere  grand  with  common  sense." 
This  **One  of  the  People"  was  Prof.  Caleb 
Mills,  and  such  was  the  effect  of  this  first 
message  that  eight  days  after  its  appearance 
(Jov.  Whitcomb  made  good  the  defect  of  his 
own  annual  message  which  had  been  pointed 
out  by  sending  a  special  message  to  the  Leg- 
islature on  the  subject  referred  to. 

These  annual  messages  from  "  One  of  the 
People  "  came  to  be  looked  for,  and  possibly 
were  as  influential  on  the  subject  treated  of 
as  the  official  messages  of  the  {governor.  Of 
the  last  of  these,  which  appeared  in  1852, 
5,000  copies  were  printed  by  order  of  the  Leg- 
islature for  free  distribution,  and  these  mes- 
sages ceased  to  appear  only  when  the  State 
had  adopted  a  new  Constitution  and  a  School 
law  had  been  framed  and  put  into  operation 
resulting  in  one  of  the  very  best  public  school 
systems  to  be  found  in  the  nation.  The 
report  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  for  the  year  1893  shows  that  13,- 
557  public  school  teachers  were  employed  last 
year  in  this  State,  a  little  more  than  half  of 
whom  were  women.  This  report  shows  that 
we  have  "9,787  school  houses  in  the  State, 
88  of  which  are  built  of  stone,  4,076  of  brick, 
5,564  of  frame  and  9  of  logs."  The  "  total 
of  interest-bearing  school  fund  of  the  State 
is  $10,086,009.33."  This  is  the  first  time 
that  the  amount  of  interest  bearing  funds  has 
exceeded  ten  million.  The  total  amount  of 
money  expended  upon  the  public  schools  of 
the  State  for  all  purposes  last  year  was  $4,- 
556,205.66.  Surely  the  Hoosier  School-mas- 
ter has  become  a  wisely  extravagant  fellow. 


Reference  has  been  made  to  the  founding 
of  Wabash  College.    This  was  determined 
upon  '^at  a  three  days^  meeting  of  several 
almost  penniless  home  missionaries  with  a 
few  elders  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Crawfordsville "   on     November    12,    1882. 
These  ministers  were  the  two  brothers,  James 
and  John  S.  Thomson,  Edmund  O.  Hovey, 
James  A.  Camahan,  and  John  M.  Ellis.    On 
the  last  day  of  their  meeting  these  five  m<»n 
^^  proceeded  in  a  body  to  the  intended  loca- 
tion, in  the  primeval  forest,  and  there  kneel- 
ing in  the  snow,  dedicated  the  grounds  to  the 
Father,  the  Son  and  the  Holy  Ghost  for  a 
Christian  college."    It  would  be  a  peculiar 
pleasure,  did  space  permit,  to  refer  in  detail 
to  the  lives  of  the  three  godly  men  who  have 
done  such  noble  work  as  the  Presidents  of 
Wabash  College.    The  first  was  Rev.  Elihu 
W.   Baldwin,   D.D.,   and  the    seoond    Rev. 
Charles  White,  D.D.,  whose  combined  terms 
of   office  covered  twenty-six  years.    These 
both  died  while  at  the  head  of  this  institu- 
tion,   honored    and    beloved  by  all.     Rev. 
Joseph  P.    Tuttle,    D.D.,    LL.D.,   my  own 
revered    instructor,    came    next,  and    after 
thirty  full  years  of  a  most  successful  admin- 
istration, he  gave  up  the  Presidency  two  years 
ago  and  now  in  the  brightness  of  his  seventy- 
fifth  year  he  enjoys  the  friendship  of  all, 
dwelling  still  in  his  own  hospitable  home 
under  the  shadow  of  the  old  college  campus, 
whose  trees  and  walks  he  loves  so  well.     The 
present  President,  Dr.  G^rge  S.  Burroughs, 
is  ably  taking  up  the  work  of  his  predeces- 
sors. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  the  land  on  which 
Wabash  was  first  located  was  given  to  the 
College  by  the  same  Presbyterian  Elder,  Wil- 
liamson Dann,  who  some  years  before  had 
given  the  first  land  for  a  similar  purpose  at 
Hanover.  Indiana,  for  the  founding  of  ''Han- 
over Academy,"  which  afterwards  through 
several  legal  transmutations  became  and  is 
now  Hanover  College.  The  first  beginnings 
of  Hanover  College  can  be  traced  back  to 
January  1,  1827,  when  Rev.  John  Finley 
Crowe  was  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  church 
in  the  midst  of  a  strong  Scotch-Irish  neigh- 
borhood which  had  settled  among  the  beauti- 
fully wooded  hills  on  the  banks  of  the  Ohio 


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river.  On  this  date  Mr.  Crowe  opened  a 
school  for  the  **  higher  instruction  "  of  young 
men  in  the  building  of  his  church  with  six 
students.  Two  years  later  on  January  6, 
1829,  **  The  Hanover  Academy  "  was  incor- 
porated by  act  of  the  State  Legislature,  with 
the  following  named  trustees:  John  Finley 
Crowe,  James  H.  Johnson,  Williamson  Dunn, 
(George  Logan,  John  M.  Dickey,  Samuel  G. 
Lowry,  Samuel  Smock,  William  Reed, 
Samuel  Gregg  and  Jeremiah  Sullivan.  The 
same  year  a  '^  Theological  Department  ^^  was 
established  by  the  Academy  trustees  under 
resolution  of  the  Synod,  and  Rev.  John 
Matthews,  D.D.,  of  Shepherdstown,  Va.,  was 
called  to  ^Hhe  chair  of  theology.^*  This 
arrangement  was  continued  until  1840,  when 
the  ^^Theological  Department  was  removed 
to  New  Albany  and  afterwards  was  trans- 
ported to  Chicago,  where  its  splendid  histori- 
cal and  legal  successor,  now  flourishes  as 
'*  McCormick  Theological  Seminary." 

Hanover  College  proper  dates  its  history 
from  January  1,  1838,  when  an  act  of  the 
Legislature  changed  its  charter  from  that  of 
an  Academy  to  that  of  a  College.  Some  ten 
years  afterwards,  (A.  D.  1844),  through  the 
great  influence  of  Rev.  Dr.  McMaster,  this 
was  again  changed  by  legal  enactment  to  a 
*'  University  "  to  be  located  at  Madison.  All 
parties  were  not  satisfied  with  this  change  of 
base,  and  the  University  at  Madison  not 
proving  a  success,  Hanover  College  was  back 
again  at  home  on  its  own  hills  before  the  end 
of  the  year,  and  there  its  life  and  usefulness 
has  been  uninterrupted  ever  since. 

Rev.  Daniel  W.  Fisher,  D.  D.,  its  tenth 
President  has  held  that  office  since  1880  with 
usefulness  and  honor.  No  man  stands  higher 
than  he  for  personal  character  and  real 
worth. 

Besides  these  two  institutions  the  Presby- 
terian Church  now  has  under  its  care  an  insti- 
tution for  the  higher  education  of  women  at 
Terre  Haute.  **  Coates  College  "  was  estab- 
lished only  a  few  years  ago  by  the  bequest  of 
the  Christian  woman  whose  name  it  bears. 
The  citizens  of  Terre  Haute  have  taken  great 
interest  in  this  **  College  for  Women."  It  is 
recommended  by  the  Synod  and  has  been 
assisted  by  the  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges. 


The  aim  is  to  develop  there  an  institution  for 
women  which  shall  be  equal  to  any  in  the 
East. 

The  present  outlook  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Indiana  is  more  hopeful  and 
expectant  than  for  some  years,  simply 
because  of  the  increased  activity  of  the  min- 
isters and  the  greater  liberality  of  the  people. 
We  are  now  in  the  fourth  year  of  our  synod- 
ical plan  of  self  sustentation  for  home 
missions.  When  this  scheme  was  set  on  foot 
some  four  years  ago  our  mission  churches 
were  drawing  annually  from  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  in  New  York  over  six  thou- 
sand dollars,  and  our  churches  were  contrib- 
uting to  the  same  Board  less  than  four  thou- 
sand. We  aimed  at  once  at  self-support  and 
to  this  end  determined  to  raise  at  least 
twenty-five  cents  per  member  through  the 
whole  State.  The  effort  was  a  success  from 
the  start,  largely  through  the  increased 
activity  and  direct  control  of  the  Presbyterial 
committees  co-operating  with  the  Synodical 
committee.  In  the  fall  of  1898  it  was  found 
that  over  eleven  thousand  dollars  had  been 
raised  in  the  State  for  home  mission  purposes 
during  the  synodical  year,  so  that  we  had 
cared  for  our  own  churches  better  than  ever 
before  and  had  also  contributed  something  to 
the  treasury  of  the  Board  in  New  York. 

A  still  further  new  departure  was  inaugu- 
rated this  year  by  the  employment  of  a 
Synodical  Superintendent  and  a  number  of 
evangelists. 

The  other  religious  denominations  are  well 
represented  in  the  State.  The  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  with  its  more  than  fifteen 
hundred  churckes,  leads  all  the  rest  as  to  the 
number  of  churches  and  church  members, 
having  more  than  twice  as  many  of  each  as 
any  other  denomination,  while  the  Christian 
(or  Disciple)  Church  has  the  largest  number  of 
ministers  and  stands  second  in  churches  and 
church  members.  Next  come  the  Baptist  and 
the  Lutherans,  while  the  United  Brethren 
compete  with  us  Presbyterians  for  the  fifth 
position  as  to  number  of  churches  and  church 
members.  The  Roman  Catholics  with  their 
266  churches  fall  below  any  one  of  the  above 
six  denominations  in  the  niimber  of  their 
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GEO.  F.  PENTB006T,  D.  D. 


In  my  last  paper  I  mentioned  some  of  the 
difficulties,  (not  discouragements),  apparent 
and  recil,  in  connection  with  mission  work  in 
India.  lu  this  I  propose  to  mention  some  of 
the  encouragements,  and  recount  some  of  the 
triumphs  of  the  gospel  in  that  wonderland  of 
the  East. 

INOOORAGEMKNTS. 

1.  The  very  first  encouragement  we  have 
in  connection  with  our  mission  work  in  India 
and  in  all  other  lands  is  had  from  the  Word 
of  God  itself.  I  mention  this  because  there 
is  a  tendency  in  some  quarters  to  discuss  the 
question  of  missionary  success  or  failure  from 
statistics  only  and  from  what  we  can  see  with 
our  eyes  and  hear  with  our  ears  on  the  field. 
One  of  the  mo^t  inspiring  passages  of  Scrip- 
ture to  me,  while  in  India,  was  the  second 
psalm.  '^  Why  do  the  heathen  rage  and  the 
people  imagine  a  vain  thing  ?  *'  Why  do  all 
sorts  and  conditions  of  people  and  powers 
take  counsel  together  against  Christ  and  his 
cause  t  Why  do  they  form  plans  and  combi- 
nations for  resisting  the  ^*  cords  of  love  and 
the  bands  of  a  man,"  with  which  God  is 
seeking  to  draw  them  to  himself,  and  propose 
to  break  them  asunder  and  cast  them  from 
them  ?  How  vain  and  foolish  such  imagina- 
tions, combinations  and  plans  are  I  ''He 
that  sitteth  in  the  heavens  shall  laugh."  In 
spite  of  all  God  has  set  his  King  on  his  holy 
hill;  he  has  published  his  decree^  and  given 
to  Christ  the  heathen  for  his  inheritance  and 
the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth  for  his  pos- 
session. It  is  true  that  this  psalm  has  its  fir&t 
meaning  and  fulfillment  in  the  coming  of 
Christ.  He  came,  and  in  spite  of  the  rage  of 
men  and  the  counsels  of  rulers  and  kings; 
yea,  in  spite  of  the  death  which  they  doomed 
him  to  and  with  wicked  hands  brought  about, 
God  laughed  at  them  and  raised  up  Christ 
and  set  him  on  high.  In  spite  of  the  fact 
that  the  same  rage  of  men  and  combination 
of  world  forces  were  invoked  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  the  gospel  in  the  first  age  of  Christ- 
ianity, the  ''decree  of  God"  concerning  the 
heathen  was  so  far  accomplished.  Though 
men  and  devils  sought  to  destroy  the  early 


Church  by  sowing  tares  and  disseminating  all 
kinds  oT  evil  leaven,  until  heathenism  invaded 
the  Church  and  smothered  it  in  an  almost 
death-like  sleep,  God  raised  up  men  with  the 
spirit  of  Christ  in  them,  and  delivered  his 
Church  from  the  power  of  the  darkness  of 
the  middle  ages  and  sent  her  on  her  way 
rejoicing.  Though  centuries  passed  before 
the  Church  really  awakened  to  the  fact  that 
her  commission  was  to  "all  nations,"  the 
trumpet  call  was  at  last  blown  by  tht>  "  con- 
secrated cobbler"  and  away  went  the  gospel 
at  a  bound  to  India.  Thoujrh  he  found  no 
place  for  the  sole  of  his  foot  in  Bengal,  and 
was  banished  by  the  representatives  of  the 
British  government,  whose  king  was  "  by  the 
grace  of  God  the  defender  of  the  faith  "  (save 
the  mark),  he  was  taken  in  at  the  inn  pre- 
pared afore  for  his  reception  by  the  Danish 
colony  in  India.  So  have  I  read  and  reread 
that  blessed  psalm  in  the  light  of  God*s  inter- 
pretation of  it  in  connection  with  the  advent 
and  resurrection  of  Christ,  the  early  triumph 
of  the  apostles,  the  work  of  the  reformers  of 
the  fifteenth  century,  and  the  beginning  of 
the  modem  missionary  movement  as  apostled 
by  Carey.  Is  there  any  room  for  discourage- 
ment while  that  psalm  remains  to  us  ? 

GOD'S  SURE  WORD. 

Again  I  read:  "  My  word  shall  not  return 
unto  me  void,  but  shall  accomplish  that  which 
I  please  and  prosper  in  the  thing  whereto  I 
sent  it."  Did  not  Jesus  say  to  his  disciples: 
"This  gospel  of  the  kingdom  shall  be 
preached  In  all  the  world  for  a  witness  unto 
all  nations  ? "  Has  the  word  returned  void 
in  this  respect  t  Lo;  after  nineteen  centuries 
the  witnesses  have  gone  abroad,  crossing  seas 
and  mountains,  penetrating  jungles  and  vast 
tracts  of  deadly  country,  with  the  light  of 
God's  word  in  their  hands.  The  nations  have 
heard  the  word.  And  that  word  shall  draw 
out  a  people  for  the  Lord  from  among  all  the 
people  whereto  he  has  sent  it.  How  God  does 
fulfill  his  word  I  Did  not  Jesus  bid  us  "go 
into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  gospel," 
and  did  he  not  promise  to  be  with  us  "  to  the 
end  of  the  age  ?  "    Has  he  failed  in  giving 


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power  to  fulfill  this  his  last  •command  ? 
Sorely  no  missionary  who  goes  forth,  no 
church  which  sends  the  missionary  forth,  can 
be  discouraged  in  the  face  of  whatever  diffi- 
culties may  arise  with  this  and  hundred  other 
promises  like  them,  burning  in  his  heart.  I 
used  to  read  these  words  to  the  English 
speaking  native  gentlemen  of  India  and  i^how 
them  how  through  the  ages  God  had  fulfilled 
them  in  spite  of  the  raging  of  the  heathen, 
the  vffin  imagining  of  the  people,  and  the 
counsels  of  rulers  and  kings  of  the  earth ;  and 
then  say  to  them  quietly:  "Gentlemen,  you 
might  as  well  surrender  to  the  blessed  Son ; 
for  surrender  or  be  broken  to  pieces  you  cer- 
tainly will.  How  can  you  fight  againt  God  ? 
Why  will  you  strive  against  the  love  which 
brought  salvation  to  us  and  who  now  brings 
it  to  you  ?  Why  will  you  voluntarily  become 
the  laughing  stock  of  God  t  *' 

THEIR  R'ICSPONSE. 

Again  and  again  they  have  come  to  me 
to  see  these  and  other  words  written  in 
God's  book,  and  to  be  told  how  they  had 
been  fulfilled  in  other  countries;  and  then 
have  heard  them  say  :  '•^  It  must  be  «o/*  An 
old  Hindu  gentleman  said  to  me  one  day  after 
having  'been  to  hear  me  preach :  "I  am  not  a 
Christian  but  a  Hindu.  I  shall  never  be  a 
Christian  but  shall  die  a  Hindu;  but  I  have 
no  doubt  my  grandchildren  will  all  become 
Qhristians.  We  see  that  Christianity  has 
come  to  our  land  and  that  it  is  certain  to 
triumph  over  all  our  people.  Come  to  my 
country  and  explain  all  these  things  to  us  for 
we  ought  to  be  intelligent  about  the  religion 
of  Christ  which  is  sure  to  prevail.  I  will 
gather  all  the  chief  men  of  my  country  and 
you  shall  explain  all  things  to  us.  So  has 
God*s  word  impressed  hundreds  and  thou- 
sands who  wiU  not  themselves  abandon  the 
religion  of  their  fathers.   . 

2.  T?ie  past  successes  of  the  gospel.  We  are 
apt  to  forget  that  the  triumphs  of  Christianity 
have  been  alw^ays  amongst  the  heathen. 
Who  are  we  who  are  now  sending  the  gospel 
back  to  the  East,  whence  it  came  to  us  ?  We 
forget  that  we  are  only  the  great  grandchil- 
dren of   heathen   parents.     Our  forefathers 


from  Greece  to  Great  Britain  were  the 
worshipers  of  idols,  the  practicers  of  all  the 
debasing  rites  of  heathenism.  The  gospel 
which  some  tell  us  can  never  subdue  the 
remaining  heathen  nations  has  met  the  most 
powerful,  the  most  learned,  the  most  culti- 
vated as  well  as  the  rudest,  the  most  savage 
and  most  superstitiously  debased  people  of  all 
the  western  world,  and  brought  them  all 
under  its  gentle  and  life  giving  sway.  Where 
are  the  temples  of  Greece  and  Rome,  and 
where  their  **  gods  many  and  lords  many  ?  " 
Where  are  Woden  and  Thor  of  the  wild  Ger- 
manic people,  and  those  of  the  British  isles  ? 
They  are  but  historical  memories,  and  we 
their  children  and  grandchildren  are  now 
missionaries  to  otheir  lands.  How  shall  we 
read  history,  especially  the  history  of  Christ- 
ianity in  its  conflict  with  heathenism,  and 
then  be  discouraged  in  respect  of  the  nations 
yet  unevangelized  f  ■ 

8.  The  present  successes  of  tTie  gospel  in 
heathen  lands.  We  cannot  refrain  from  tears 
of  joy  and  gladness  and  shouts  of  victory 
when  we  survey  the  present  condition  of  our 
missionary  enterprise.  Close  upon  three  mil- 
lions in  ladia  to-day;  nearing  the  hundred 
thousand  in  China;  multitudes  coming  in 
from  among  the  Japanese;  hundreds  of 
Christian  churches  in  Burmah  where  there 
was  not  one  Christian  when  Judson  went 
there  within  the  memory  of  men,  among 
whom  a  whole  nation  (the  Elarens)  are  them- 
selves become  a  self-supporting  Christian 
people  and  vigorously  at  work  pressing  an 
aggressive  evangelism  among  the  surrounding 
people.  Even  dark  Africa  is  beginning  to 
show  her  wilderness  rejoicing  and  blossoming 
as  the  rose — the  effect  of  the  gospel.  The 
cannibal  isles  of  the  sea  are  bowing  to  Christ 
as  the  Scriptures  have  foretold.  Into  more 
than  three  hundred  languages  and  dialects 
has  the  Gospel  been  translated  and  the  people 
are  eagerly  reading  the  word  of  God  in  their 
own  tongue.  The  miracle  of  Pentecost  is 
being  perpetuated  and  extended  among  all 
nations  and  tongues.  Why!  take  India  alone, 
and  we  find  more  converts  to  Christianity 
there  in  this  first  century  of  our  missionary 
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gathered  during  the  first  century  of  the 
Christian  era.  The  power  that  was  with  them 
is  with  us,  and  not  minished  one  iota.  Can 
we  be  discouraged  with  such  present  results 
as  these  before  us  f  Is  it  not  sinful  and  unbe- 
lieving wickedness  for  us  to  allow  so  much  as 
the  word  discouragement  to  be  named 
amongst  us.  I  have  talked  with  the  early 
Presbyterian  missionaries,  who  before  the 
mutiny  encamped  on  the  borders  of  the 
Punjab  waiting  for  an  opening  that  they 
might  go  in  with  the  word  of  life.  Forty 
years  ago  when  Newton  and  Forman  entered 
the  Punjab  from  Amritsa  there  was  not  a 
native  Christian — certainly  not  a  native 
Christian  congregation  in  all  the  land.  Now 
there  are  many  thousands  of  communicants, 
and  in  Lahore  one  of  the  finest  Christian  col- 
leges in  all  the  land,  and  the  whole  people, 
high  and  low  eager  to  hear  the  gospel.  For 
weeks  together  I  have  stood  amidst  near  a 
thousand  of  the  flower  of  the  land  and 
preached  the  word  of  God  to  the  Punjabis  in 
the  English  tongue,  and  seen  them  bowed  even 
to  tears,  as  they  have  listened;  and  have  had 
them  courteously  entreat  me  to  come  again  to 
them.  What  the  Presbyterians  have  done  in 
the  Punjab,  the  English  Church  and  the  Meth- 
odist have  duplicated;  and  this  is  practically 
true  of  every  district  in  India — in  Bengal; 
in  Madras;  in  the  North-west  Provinces;  in 
Bombay  presidency;  and  in  Central  and 
Southern  India.  We  are  accustomed  to  think 
of  India  as  being  wholly  under  the  political 
dominion  of  Great  Britain;  indeed,  it  is  her 
chief  and  most  valued  dependency ;  but  Eng- 
land is  not  80  surely  empired  in  India  as  is 
the  Kingdom  of  God.  Indeed,  the  strength 
of  the  British  Empire  is  not  in  her  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  soldiers  constantly 
under  arms,  but  in  the  gospel  rooted  in  the 
hearts  of  half  a  million  communicants  in 
Protestant  Christian  churches,  and  five  times 
that  many  men  and  women  who  have  been 
won  away  from  Hinduism  and  Mohammedism 
and  who  form  the  Christian  community  in 
India — the  triumphant  minority  which  is  sure 
to  determine  the  destiny  of  that  land  of  three 
hundred  millions  of  souls.  This  is  but  a 
bird*s  eye  glance  of  the  present  success  of  the 
gospel  in  India. 


I  have  told  the  story  several  times  in  print 
and  in  public  speech.  It  is,  however,  good 
enough  to  tell  again,  and  so  I  tell  it  now 
to  the  readers  of  the  Chuboh  at  Home  and 
Abroad.  I  was  on  one  occasion  the  guest  of 
the  noble  Viceroy  of  India,  who  showed  me 
every  courtesy  and  kindness,  and  made  my 
way  open  to  reach  all  classes  of  people  in 
India,  himself  being  on  several  occasions, 
with  a  part  of  his  household,  among  my 
audience.  In  the  course  of  conversation  he 
said  to  me,  for  substance : 

'^Is  not  the  missionary  undertaking  in 
India  a  rather  discouraging  one?  Yon  can 
scarcely  expect  ever  to  get  possession  of  this 
vast  empire  of  Hindus  and  Mohommedans, 
especially  with  the  very  small  force  at  your 
command.'^ 

To  which  I  replied,  in  substance:  '*My 
Lord,  do  you  really  ever  expect  to  get  pos- 
session of  this  vast  Indian  Peninsula  with  its 
three  hundred  millions  of  people,  for  your 
Queen  and  your  country? " 

"  Why,  sir,  I  do  not  quite  understand  you. 
We  are  already  in  possession  of  it  and  have 
been  practically  so  for  a  hundred  years,  and 
actaally  so  since  the  government  of  Her 
Majesty  took  over  the  land  from  the  East 
India  Company.** 

**But,  my  Lord,  are  you  able  to  hold  it, 
now  that  you  are  in  possession;  and  do  you 
ever  expect  to  persuade  these  Indian  people 
to  come  to  love  British  rule  and  as  a  master 
of  choice  accept  their  present  subjection  to 
the  Empress  of  India?** 

'*As  to  that,'*  said  his  Lordship,  ^*  we 
have  no  doubt  We  are  in  possession  of  the 
land.  The  vast  public  works  which  we  have 
accomplished  and  which  are  in  progress,  are 
hostages  for  the  future.  Besides  we  have  a 
military  power  in  India  consisting  of  60,000 
British  troops,  with  a  native  auxiliary  con- 
tingent of  260,000  more,  all  officered  by  Brit- 
ish soldiers.  With  these  we  could  hold 
India  even  if  the  country  was  hostile  to  us, 
which  it  is  not.  The  Indian  people  know 
very  well  that  the  British  government  is  a 
beneficent  one;  that  British  rule  has  vast- 
ly benefited  their  country;  that  it  has 
given  them  peace  and  prosperity  and  that 
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their  own  intemeciae  wars;  and  that  alto- 
gether they  have  prospered  as  a  people  more 
during  oar  role  than  in  all  their  previous 
history." 

"Still,"  I  repUed,  **  I  have  heard  it  said 
that  you  are  not  more  than  a  hundred  thous- 
and Englishmen  all  told  in  India,  and  that  if 
the  native  population  could  surround  you 
and  then  each  one  of  them  stoop  down  and 
gather  a  handful  of  earth  and  cast  it  with 
one  movement  upon  you  they  would  bury 
the  lot  of  you  ten  feet  under  ground." 

At  which  his  Lordship  laughed,  and  said : 
'*  We  are  not  afraid.  We  have  got  posses- 
sion of  the  land  and  we  intend  to  keep  it. 
Not  alone  for  our  own  sake  but  for  theirs; 
for  we  esteem  it  that  Providence  has  given 
us  this  land  to  rule  it  for  the  benefit  of  the 
people.  But  what  has  all  this  to  do  with  the 
question  of  your  success  as  Christian  mission- 
aries in  India?" 

"Well,  my  Lord,"  I  made  answer,  "lonly 
wanted  you  to  furnish  me  with  an  illustra- 
tion. You  have  asked  me  if  I  did  not  con- 
sider the  conquest  of  India  for  Christ  a  hope- 
less, or  at  least  a  discouraging  enterprise. 
My  answer  to  that  is:  We  have  already  con- 
quered India,  A  hundred  years  ago  William 
Carey  with  two  companions  came  to  this  land. 
The  Old  Company  banished  them  from 
Bengal.  The  Danes  took  them  in  and  gave 
them  protection  at  Sarampoor.  After  about 
twelve  years  Carey  baptized  his  first  convert, 
Chrisna  Pall,  a  Brahmin  pundit.  There  and 
then  India  was  won  for  Christ.  As  surely  as 
William  the  Norman  Conqueror  won  England 
at  Hastings,  so  did  William  the  Missionary 
Conqueror  win  India  when  he  baptized  the 
Brahmin  pundit  at  Sarampoor.  The  Nor- 
man, so  it  is  said,  built  a  castle  at  Hastings 
and  from  thence  proceeded  to  march  into  the 
interior.  Wherever  he  fought  and  won  a 
battle  he  built  a  castle  and  left  a  garrison  to 
hold  the  land.  He  was  years  in  subduing 
England  but  his  conquest  was  assured  from 
the  time  he  beat  Harold  yonder  by  the  sea. 
So  it  is  with  us.  We  fought  our  battle  of 
Hastings  at  Sarampoor.  We  built  there  a 
missionary  fortress.  Since  that  time  we  have 
been  marching  inland.  In  these  hundred 
years  near  a  million  converts  have  been  bap- 


tized. Missionary  bungalows  (our  missionary 
castles)  have  sprung  up  all  over  the  land. 
From  the  Himalayas  to  the  Cape  and  from 
Bengal  to  Bombay,  and  from  Madras  to  the 
Punjab,  the  armies  of  Christ  have  marched, 
and  conquered  as  they  have  marched.  You 
hold  India  for  your  queen  by  60,000  British 
soldiers  with  a  contingent  of  250,000  native 
troops  officered  by  Englishmen.  You  have 
added  to  your  strength  by  your  vast  public 
works,  and  you  point  me  to  your  splendid 
government  buildings  at  Calcutta,  at  Madras, 
at  Bombay,  at  Allahabad,  at  Lahore  and  at 
Simla,  and  you  say  these  are  our  hostages  for 
the  future.  I  point  you  to  500,000  Christian 
communicants  gathered  into  Christian  congre- 
gations; to  thousands  of  church  buildings;  to 
splendid  schools  and  colleges  without  which 
even  yon  could  not  carry  on  your  educational 
work;  to  a  contingent  Christian  population 
of  more  than  two  millions  more;  to  the 
beneficent  and  benevolent  missionary  and 
philanthropic  work  of  the  Church  of  Christ; 
to  the  favor  which  the  missionary  has  with 
the  common  people  everywhere,  and  I  say 
these  are  <mr  hostages  for  the  future.  We 
are  in  possession  of  India;  we  have  already 
conquered  the  land,  though  we  have  not  yet 
subdued  it,  but  we  are  doing  that  very  fast. 
The  British  rule  may  come  to  an  end  in  India, 
either  by  the  overpowering  force  of  Russia 
or  of  China  some  day,  or  by  an  uprising  of 
the  native  people  demanding  independence 
and  the  right  of  ruliog  their  own  country.  I 
do  not  know,  and  I  trust  the  day  may  be  far 
distant  when  any  other  power  than  England 
shall  rule  in  India.  But  of  this  I  am  certain, 
whether  England  loses  her  empire  or  holds  it, 
the  Kingdom  of  Christ  will  never  be  over- 
thrown in  India.  It  came  to  India  and  estab- 
lished itself  without  the  help,  nay,  in  spite  of 
the  opposition  of  the  British  rulers;  it  will 
continue  to  hold  spiritual  sway  here  without 
political  help  and  in  spite  of  all  possible 
political  opposition.  Your  Lordship  looks  to 
your  soldiers  and  your  good  political  work  to 
make  you  secure  in  India.  I  venture  to  sug- 
gest that  your  strongest  ally  is  Christianity. 
I  do  not  believe  that  you  could  import  bayo- 
nets enough  into  India  to  hold  the  country  if 
it  were  not  for  the  silent  and,  by  your  states- 


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men,  unreoogDized  power  of  the  goepel.  The 
missionaries  in  India  led  the  waj  in  edncation 
which  you  have  felt  it  necessary  to  follow. 
The  missionaries  have  led  the  way  in  great 
philanthropic  enterprises  which  in  a  way  yon 
have  followed.  The  missionaries  have  created 
a  moral  atmosphere  in  India  which  makes  it 
possihle  for  Englishmen  to  live  in  the  land 
without  becoming  wholly  Brahmanised  and 
heathenized.  Ton  have  only  to  compare  the 
moral  condition  of  the  English  community  in 
India  to-day  with  what  it  was  in  the  days  of 
the  Company's  rule  to  note  what  a  power 
Christianity  exerts  even  when  it  is  not  recog- 
nized. I  think  it  is  plain  to  all  students  of 
history  that  India  was  saved  to  England  by 
the  wise  and  heroic  policy  of  the  rulers  of  the 
Punjab.  All  the  world  knows  that  it  was 
the  inspiration  of  Christianity  which  guided 
the  Lawrences,  the  Edwardses  and  their  con- 
freres. It  was  the  Christian  policy  of  Can- 
ning which  saved  the  British  forces  from 
becoming  as  bloodthirsty  as  cruel  and  devilish 
as  their  heathen  enemies.  In  a  word  it  was 
the  hand  of  God  and  not  the  political  wisdom 
or  power  of  England  ,which  has  given  you 
this  land." 

I  have  reason  to  believe  that  my  statements 
were  all  true  and  that  they  impressed,  not  a 
little,  the  wide  and  fair-minded  man  who 
rules  India  today. 

What  are  we  to  conclude  from  this  bird's 
eye  view  of  the  situation  ?  Simply  that  from 
the  day  Carey  entered  the  land  the  progress  of 
Christianity  has  been  unchecked.  In  the  last 
fifty  years  its  march  has  been  victorious  all 
along  the  line.  Here  and  there  certain  mis- 
sion stations  have  seemed  to  be  less  successful 
than  others ;  but  little  or  no  ground  once  pos- 
sessed has  been  abandoned.  Many  districts 
which  for  years  seemed  not  to  be  fruitful  in 
results  have  in  these  last  years  returned  a 
larger  harvest  than  some  of  the  more  pros- 
perous ones  at  the  beginning.  This  is  notably 
true  of  the  American  Baptist  missions  in  the 
south  of  India,  where  whole  populations  have 
been  almost  entirely  brought  under  the  power 
of  the  gospel  and  thousands  upon  thousands 
have  been  actually  converted  and  baptized. 
In  places  the  seed  seems  to  have  sprung  up 
quickly,  while  in  other  parts  of  the  field  it 


has  lain  long  in  the  ground;  but  when  it  did 
germinate  the  harvest  has  been  mighty. 

The  habit  of  studying  particular  reports 
apart  from  a  whole  survey  of  the  field  has  led 
some  of  our  friends  to  believe  that  there  has 
been  little  or  no  progress  made.  Whereas  a 
full  survey  of  the  land  shows  an  enormous 
return  for  the  labor  expended.  In  the  last 
census  of  the  United  States  there  were  some 
cities  and  even  whole  states  where  the 
increase  in  population  was  nil ;  some  where  it 
was  scarcely  perceptible;  and  in  some  ihere 
had  even  been  a  loss.  If  we  should  judge  of 
the  population  of  our  country  by  these  par- 
ticular centres,  we  should  be  compelled  to 
believe  that  we  are  making  no  progress  at  all, 
or  none  worth  mentioning.  On  the  other 
hand  the  grand  total  from  the  whole  country 
shows  enormous  strides  in  population.  We 
must  80  study  the  mission  fields  in  India  and 
other  countries. 

It  is  a  matter  of  some  patriotic  pride  that  our 
own  American  missions  and  missionaries  are 
among  the  very  best  and  most  successful. 
The  Presbyterians  m  the  Punjab,  the  Metho- 
dists all  over  the  land,  the  Congregationalists 
in  Bombay,  the  Baptists  in  Madras  and  the 
South,  not  to  speak  of 'their  splendid  missions 
in  Burma;  the  Dutch  Reformed  missions  in 
Madras,  and  other  smaller  missions  of  our 
countrymen,  are  all  aggressive  and  success- 
ful; some  indeed  in  a  more  marked  degree 
than  others;  but  all  are  doing  noble  and 
encouraging  work.  I  am  perfectly  sure  that 
all  things  considered  the  missions  in  India 
are  more  successful  in  the  mere  fact  of  mak- 
ing converts  than  are  the  ministers  of  the 
gospel  and  the  churches  at  home.  That  is, 
taking  the  preparedness  of  the  soil,  the  number 
and  strength  of  the  forces  employed,  the 
results  in  conversion  are  larger  among  the 
Hindus  and  Mohammedans  than  among  our 
own  people.  There  are  many  churches  in 
New  England  and  in  other  States  which  do 
not  report  an  average  of  more  than  three  and 
four  conversions  during  the  year.  Yet  there 
is  scarce  a  mission  station  in  all  India  that 
does  not  show  better  and  larger  results,  and 
yet  our  missionaries  are  far  weaker  handed, 
and  their  resources  are  far  lees  than  on  the 
home  fields. 


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A  DAY  WITH  CONFUCIUS. 

REV.   J.   H.   LAUGHLIN,   T8I-NING-CH0W,  CHINA. 
[TYme— October  28, 1898.    Pfac«— KQ-fu,  a  city  of  Shantung  Province,  480  miles  southwest  of  the  port  of  Chefoo.] 


Preparation  for  the  day  was  made  by  a  call 
the  evening  previous  upon  the  representative 
oi  the  present  head  of  the  Confucian  family. 
The  head  himself  is  far  too  high  in  the  air  to 
receive  the  calls  of  ordinary  mortals.  He  is 
the  only  example  of  an  hereditary  aristocracy 
in  China;  for  since  the  tardy  honors  began 
to  be  paid  to  his  illustrious  ancestor  the  eldest 
son  of  each  successive  generation  has  been 
handsomely  supported  by  royal  beneficence 
and  honored  by  the  nation  next  to  the  em- 
peror himself.  Seventy-six  generations  have 
come  into  the  world  sioce  Confucius  went 
out,  and  still  these  emoluments  and  honors 
continue. 

The  present  recipient  is  only  twenty-one 
years  of  age;  his  relative,  who  represents  him 
to  the  world,  and  who  wears  a  button  of  the 
third  rank,  sixty.  A  relative  of  the  latter, 
Mr.  Tsai,  over  seventy  years  of  age,  was  of 
our  party,  fortunately,  and  through  him  we 
secured  one  of  the  great  man^s  servants  to 
conduct  us  through  the  temple  and  cemetery 
next  day.  This  was  the  preparation  referred 
to  above.  It  saved  us  from  the  wrangling 
and  rapacity  of  the  various  gatekeepers,  and 
made  our  entire  bill  fifty  cents  instead  of 
some  two  or  three  dollars  which  without  him 
would  have  been  exacted. 

On  the  date  mentioned,  after  a  breakfast  of 
chou  and  mo  mo — the  former  a  mixture  of 
beans,  bean-curd  and  onions,  the  latter  a  kind 
of  steamed  bread — we  started  for  the  temple. 

Ten,  or  more,  acres  of  ground  surrounded 
by  a  high  wall,  the  latter  broken  by  several 
immense  gateways;  within,  hundreds  of 
cedars,  of  all  ages,  set  in  exact  rows,  but 
leaning  in  every  variety  of  angle;  cross- walls 
making  several  enclosures;  well-laid  bricks 
paving  the  entire  grounds;  a  series  of  halls, 
some  larger,  some  smaller — all  together  make 
up  the  temple  of  Confucius. 

Into  the  most  sacred  enclosure  of  all  we 
are  admitted  by  a  gateway  of  imposing  di- 
mensions. A  beautiful  court  it  is  with  its 
flanking  on  both  sides  of  four  hundred  feet  of 
buildings  containing  nothing  but  the  tablets 


of  the  sage*s  illustrious  disciples,  even  down 
to  the  present  dynasty;  with  its  pavilions 
scattered  here  and  there  protecting  some 
monumental  stone,  or  bronze  bell,  or  other 
valued  memorial;  with  its  great  halls  of  rich 
carving  and  painting,  contrasting  strikingly 
with  the  somber  green  of  the  cedars.  Twelve 
stone  steps  lead  up  to  a  platform,  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  feet  (perhaps)  square,  sur- 
rounded by  a  handsomely  carved  stone  fence. 
On  this  platform  stands  the  main  hall,  or 
temple.  Great  stone  pillars,  dragon-carved, 
deeply  and  delicately,  line  the  narrow  porch. 
Above,  though  entirely  according  to  Chinese 
ideas  of  architecture,  the  great  building, 
brilliant  in  gilt,  vermilion,  and  occasionally 
other  cheerful  tints,  rears  itself  ^ith  fine 
effect.  A  broad  strip  of  netting  runs  around 
the  deep  cornices  to  protect  from  the  roosting 
and  nesting  of  birds.  Inside  we  find  the 
lofty  roof  supported  by  some  twenty  pillars, 
each  the  uncarved  trank  of  a  single  tree,  so 
thick  that  the  hands  of  two  men  cannot  be 
clasped  while  the  arms  to  which  they  belong 
embrace  it,  and  each  shining  from  base  to 
chapiter  in  bright  vermilir  n. 

Just  opposite  the  spacious  door  sits  Con- 
fucius— a  colossal  figure  in  official  cap  and 
gown.  The  likeness  is  supposed  to  be  accu- 
rate. If  so,  it  cannot  be  for  his  good  looks 
that  he  is  honored.  For,  say  the  Chinese, 
while  most  people  are  faulty  in  one  or  more 
of  the  principal  features,  Confucius  is  so  in 
the  entire  seven.  That  is  to  say,  his  mouth 
is  disfigured  by  two  projecting  lower  teeth, 
his  two  nostrils  are  too  conspicuous,  his  two 
eyes  show  too  much  white,  and  his  two  ears 
are  of  bad  shape.  At  a  little  distance  on 
either  side  sit,  in  the  order  of  their  celebrity, 
figures  of  his  chief  disciples. 

Other  halls,  not  so  large,  contain  a  figure 
of  his  father,  tablets  of  his  wife  and  mother, 
the  principal  events  of  his  life  engraved  upon 
one  hundred  and  twenty  tables  of  stone,  and 
a  collection  of  the  musical  instraments  used 
in  his  age.  From  these  and  other  sources  of 
information  we  infer  that  in  the  musical  art 


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A  Day  With  Confucius. 


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the  ancient  Chinese  were  more  cnltored  than 
the  modern,  which,  by  the  way,  is  not  say- 
ing mneh. 

Standing  here  the  thought  occurs  to  ns, 
well,  that  four  hundred  years  that  our  fel- 
low-countrymen at  home  are  making  such  a 
fuss  over  is  but  a  paltry  piece  of  time  after 
all.  This  temple,  though  renewed  often, 
was  built  one  thousand  years  ago;  here  is 
the  well  from  which  the  sage  drank  two 
thousand,  five  hundred  years  ago,  beside  it  a 
stone  preserring  in  well-carred  characters 
the  record  of  it,  and  of  his  profound  poverty 
at  that  time  when  his  elbow  was  his  only 
pillow. 

Here,  too,  within  a  foot  or  two  of  one 
another,  are  three  generations  of  trees.  The 
grandfather  lies  prone  on  the  ground,  tras 
lying  there,  knotty  and  gnarled,  sixty  years 
ago  when  Mr.  Tsai  made  his  first  visit  to 
the  spot.  The  father  stands  upright,  a  ro- 
bust, stately  tree.  The  grandson — a  youth 
of  perliaps  ten  summers — stands  close  beside. 
Here,  too,  still  abides  the  gnarled  root  of  a 
tree  planted  by  Confucius^  own  hand.  From 
it  a  flourishing  tree  has  sprung.  And  here, 
too,  most  impressive  of  all,  are  carved  mem- 
orial stones  which  have  come  down  from  the 
dynasty  of  Han,  contemporaneous  with  our 
Lord. 

Time  has  laid  his  destroying  hand  heav- 
ily upon  them,  yet  many  of  the  characters 
still  stand  out  distinctly. 

In  the  afternoon  we  visited  the  Ck)nfucian 
cemetery.  It  lies  a  half  mile  to  the  north  of 
the  city.  Two  rows  of  aged  cedars,  said  to 
be  a  thousand  in  a  row,  border  the  broad 
avenue  which  leads  thereto.  The  great 
teacher's  descendants  now  number  six  thou- 
sand or  seven  thousand  families,  all  of 
whom  have  a  right  to  burial  in  the  sacred 
graveyard.  Consequently  it  is  large — larger 
than  the  city  itself.  But  the  most  sacred 
court  is  walled  off  from  the  rest.  In  it 
sleep  only  three  bodies — ^grandson,  son, 
Confucius  himself. 

The  graves  are  alike,  large  mounds — almost 
hills — covered  with  untrained  shrubbery, 
grasses,  flowers,  and  even  large  trees;  while 
before  each  is  a  plain  stone  containing  only 
enough  characters  to  indicate  who  lies  there. 


One  standing  by  these  sUent  mounds,  under 
the  autumn-tinted  trees,  cannot  escape  the 
impression  that  here  lies  one  of  earth's  great- 
est. His  honors  came  tardily,  but  how  great 
at  the  last!  Reared  in  poverty,  rejected  and 
persecuted  through  life,  he  has  reaped  post- 
humous honors  such  as  no  other  mortal  that 
ever  lived.  He  receives  veneration  from 
every  Chinaman  living.  The  people  will 
laugh  with  you  at  the  folly  of  worshipping 
images  of  earth,  wood,  and  stone,  but  a  dis- 
paraging reference  to  Confucius  seta  them 
bristling  at  once.  Every  school  boy  in  the 
empire  pays  him  worship,  the  literary  class 
are  his  devoted  slaves,  the  anniversary  of  his 
death  is  kept  sacred,  in  every  city  is  a  temple 
to  his  honor  alone.  Emperors  vie  with  one 
another  in  paying  him  homage.  The  enor- 
mous expense  of  supporting  the  hereditary 
family,  and  of  keeping  temple  and  cemetery 
in  good  repair,  is  borne  by  successive  emper- 
01  s.  For  a  thousand  years  they  have  been 
electing  to  him  memorial  stones  of  cos'Jy 
magnificence.  Several  have  come  in  person 
— in  the  dim  past  when  the  ^*  sons  of  heaven '' 
had  strength  and  courage  enough  to  stir  out 
of  their  palace — to  prostrate  themselves 
before  that  sacred  image  and  this  more  sacred 
grave.  Even  the  birds,  said  the  guide,  ofi^er 
their  tribute.  For  when  the  temple  was  last 
repaired  the  cranes  and  crows  flew  away  and 
waited  for  the  sacrificial  offerings  to  be  past 
before  they  returned.  Such  testimony  is  not 
needed.  Confucius  was  not  a  god,  but  he 
was  a  man.  And  he  exercised  a  greater 
influence  upon  more  people  than  any  other 
mere  man  that  ever  lived. 


Our  Young  Christian  Endeavorers  will  be 
sure  to  be  deeply  interested  in  Mrs.  Carter's 
^' Young  Christian  at  Home"  on  page  248. 
They  may  expect  one  in  the  April  number, 
on  **  The  Young  Christian  in  Japan." 

We  have  also  for  that  number  a  most  read- 
able and  interesting  article  on  **North-East- 
em  Minnesota  as  a  Home  Mission  Ground," 
and  another  article  from  our  friend.  Rev. 
Alexander  Robertson,  of  Venice,  giving  a 
thrilling  account  of  a  whole  Italian  village 
turning  from  popery  to  protestantism. 


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FOREIGN   MISSIONS. 


TREASURER'S  STATEMENT  OP  RECEIPTS,  MAY  1  TO  JAN.  81,  1898  AND  1894. 


WOMKN'S  B*DB 

8AB.  80HOOLB. 

T.  P.  8.  C.  ■. 

LSOACIB8. 

1U80KLLANBOU8 

TOTAL. 

1808 
1894 

$164,178  60 
188,681  11 

$118,716  88 
106,966  81 

$19,079  50 

17.987  97 

$6,786  86 
8.884  67 

$118,488  66 
88,180  68 

$58,410  87 

48,608  64 

$458,609  68 
840,468  18 

Qatn 

LOM 

$81,607  49 

$6.780  98 

$1,161  58 

$1,496  41 

$80,858  18 

$9,90188 

$118,141  49 

Total  appropriated  to  February  1.1894 $1,060,487  98 

ReceiTed  from  aUBouroes  to  February  1,1804 $840,468  18 

Surplus  of  May  1,1808 1,868  78     848,886  86 

Amount  to  be  received  before  May  1, 1894,  to  meet  all  obUgatloiis 706,111  06 

Baoeired  last  year,  February  1,1898  to  May  1,1808 556,804  75 

Increasa  needed  before  the  eod  of  the  year 


158,816  88 


COMPARATIVE  STATEMENT  OF  RECEIPTS 
FOR  MONTH  OF  JANUARY,  1894. 

COMPARATIVE  STATEMENT  OF  RECEIPTS 
MAY  1, 1898,  TO  JANUARY  31. 1894. 

This  Tear 

Last  Year 

In- 
crease 

Decrease 

This  Year 

$188,681  11 
106.966  81 
17,987  97 
8,884  67 
88.180  58 
48.506  54 

Last  Year 

Increase 

Decrease 

Ohurobes.*    ••••  •••••• 

$50,169  8i 

88,888  88 

6,587  50 

1.889  81 

6.068  71 

18,460  88 

$59,090  77 

87.8*1  10 

6,877  91 

1.744  60 

9.649  85 

14,4»  14 

$8,980  95 

8,487  88 

840  41 

605  89 

4,687  14 

1.963  82 

$154,178  60 

118,716  88 

19.079  50 

6,786  86 

118.438  66 

68,410  87 

$81,697  49 

WnmAn^a  Ro&nls 

6,780  98 
1.151  58 

sbiiss  18 

Sabbath-schools 

Y.P.S.C.  E 

Letraeles 

$r,496*4i 

M  iwMll&nMnis. 

9,901  88 

Total 

$09.808  84 

$119,118  87 

$19  810  09 

$340,418  18 

$468  609  621 

$118,141  49 

The  abore  statement  is  a  mute  appeal  which  requires  neither  note  nor  comment.  Would  that  it  might  be  trans- 
formed into  a  bugle  call  to  rally  the  ciiurch  to  the  rescue.  The  Christian  Endeavorers  are  still  on  the  upper  line 
which  indicates  an  advance.    Shall  we  not  all  follow  their  lead  and  reverse  the  waning  fortunes  of  the  year. 


NOTES. 

Mr.  Edwin  Lord  Weeks,  in  Harper's  Mag- 
azine for  January,  1894,  continues  his  inter- 
esting series  of  articles  on  travel  in  the  East, 
and  gives  the  following  kind  and  cordial  tes- 
timony to  the  value  of  our  missionary  work 
in  Persia.  It  is  but  another  of  those  frank 
and  spontaneous  expressions  which  many 
generous  and  candid  minds  have  felt  con- 
strained to  give  to  the  value  of  foreign  mis- 
sions, when  a  sufficient  opportunity  has  been 
given  for  personal  observation.  The  Church 
at  large  needs  nothing  but  an  intelligent  con- 
tact with  the  results  of  foreign  missions  to 
insure  the  cordial  support  and  co-operation 
of  every  lover  of  Christ  and  humanity.  Mr. 
Weeks  writes  as  follows : 

Whatever  arguments  may  be  brought  for- 
ward, Justly  or  unjustly,  against  the  utility  of 
foreign  missions  in  general,   there  can  be  no 


shadow  of  doubt  as  to  the  beneficent  results  of 
their  work  in  Persia.  During  the  recent  epi- 
demic at  Tabreez,  the  medical  department  of  the 
American  mission,  then  under  the  direction  of 
Miss  Bradford,  did  noble  work;  and  it  was  to 
her  constant  care  and  untiring  energy,  as  well 
as  to  the  devotion  of  our  Armenian  friend,  that 
two  of  our  party  owed  their  recovery  from  Asi- 
atic cholera.  And  after  hearing  so  many  sensa- 
tional histories  of  Kurdish  atrocities  from  Euro- 
peans along  our  route,  a  new  light  was  thrown 
on  that  subject  when  we  met  at  least  two  Amer- 
ican ladies  connected  with  the  mission  who  had 
traveled  about  among  Kurdish  villages,  regard- 
less of  exposure,  healing  their  sick,  and  striving 
to  better  the  condition  of  their  women.  What- 
ever sect  they  may  belong  to,  the  men  and 
women  who  have  devoted  their  lives  to  this 
cause  have  shown  themselves  to  be  absolutely 
fearless  in  the  discharge  of  duty ;  their  record  is 
one  of  self-sacrifice  and  pluck,  and  they  repre- 
sent most  worthily  the  Church-militant. 

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Mr.  Rabino,  the  active  head  of  the  Imperial 
Bank  of  Persia,  sajs  in  a  letter  from  Teheran: 
*'  I  enclose  you  various  letters  and  reports  from 
the  American  Presbyterian  missionaries,  for 
whose  courageous  and  devoted  labors  I,  an 
Englishman  and  a  Catholic,  can  find  no  words 
to  express  my  admiration.  Their  hospital  was 
positively  the  only  organization  for  the  help  of 
this  terribly  visited  city." 


Tlie  New  York  World  recently  published 
an  article  based  upon  statements  made  by  a 
Persian  physician  by  the  name  of  Karib, 
residing  in  New  York,  in  whicb  our  Presby- 
terian missionaries  in  Persia  were  charged 
with  extravagance,  luxury,  idleness,  misuse 
of  funds,  a  proud  and  unsympathetic  attitude 
towards  the  people,  little  sincere  interest  in 
their  work,  and  a  general  worthlesaness  of 
character  and  service.  Dr.  Karib,  however, 
kindly  disclaimed  any  intention  to  insinuate 
that  they  were  either  ^*  dissipated  or  im- 
moral.** He  remarked  that  ^*  so  far  as  the 
proprieties  and  moralities  are  concerned, 
their  lives  are  admirably  clean."  Our  mis- 
sionaries will  no  doubt  appreciate  the  kindly 
consideration  which  led  Dr.  Karib  to  concede 
this  important  point.  As  regards  his  state  • 
meats,  the  only  possible  verdict  concerning 
them  is  that  they  are  colossal  misrepreseilta- 
tions.  The  extent  to  which  the  facts  have 
been  distorted,  and  the  spirit  of  unfairness 
and  injustice,  to  use  no  stronger  terms, 
which  characterize  the  article,  will  be  read- 
ily seen  by  those  who  have  the  opportunity 
to  read  the  reply  prepared  by  Dr.  F.  F. 
EUinwood  of  the  Foreign  Board.  The  reply 
was  sent  to  the  Worlds  but  only  a  brief  par- 
agraph concerning  it  was  published  in  a 
Sunday  edition  which  contained  forty  pages. 
Dr.  Karib  was  formerly  a  student  in  the 
medical  class  of  Dr.  Cochran,  one  of  our 
missionaries  in  Persia.  He  was  dismissed 
from  that  class  for  good  reasons.  He  is  not 
the  only  Oriental  with  a  grievance,  who  has 
made  mis-statements  about  missionaries. 
The  reply  of  Dr.  EUinwood  will  no  doubt 
appear  in  some  of  our  religious  papers.  A 
copy  of  it  may  be  obtained  by  anyone  who  is 
interested  to  read  it,  if  a  postal  giving  ad- 
dress is  sent  to  Rev.  Benjamin  Labaree, 
D.D.,  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


Rev.  F.  J.  Perkins,  of  Sao  Paulo,  writes  of 
a  very  encouraging  growth  in  tbe  attendance 
upon  a  new  preaching  service  which  he  has 
recently  established  at  that  place.  He  has 
been  obliged  to  secure  a  more  spacious  room 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  audience,  and 
has  obtained  one  twice  as  large  as  that 
previously  occupied.  The  larger  room  is 
already  filled  with  an  attentive  audience. 


Rev.  R.  V.  Hunter,  of  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  writes  some  sound  and  sensible 
words  as  to  the  necessity  of  some  more  sys- 
tematic and  reliable  methods  for  securing  the 
needed  funds  for  our  foreign  missionary  work. 
He  says:  *^The  day  is  fast  passing  away 
when  the  cause  of  missions  is  to  be  sustained 
by  the  hap-hazard  method  of  passing  a  basket 
once  a  year.  I  believe  we  fehould  begin  at 
the  foundation  and  educate  the  Church, 
beginning  with  the  young  people,  to  give  not 
only  systematically,  but  proportionately.  If 
this  thought  were  pushed  by  the  Boards  and 
the  Assembly  with  greater  force,  not  only 
upon  the  platform,  but  by  means  of  a  gen- 
erous literature,  the  synods  and  presbyteries 
would  take  it  up  in  a  more  emphatic  way  than 
they  have  ever  yet  done.  The  principle  is 
getting  a  hold  upon  the  churches  more  and 
more.  A  few  men  in  each  synod  thoroughly 
impressed  with  this  idea  can  have  a  tremen- 
dous influence  with  the  rank  and  file.  When 
the  money  is  forthcoming,  then  the  Church 
needs  to  turn  its  attention  more  largely  to 
the  dedication  and  education  of  its  sons  and 
daughters  to  the  cause  of  missions. 

It  has  been  my  observation  that  where  the 
pastor  of  the  church  has  been  properly  fired 
with  the  subject  of  missions,  he  has  no 
trouble  either  in  getting  missionaries  or 
money,  to  the  extent  of  the  ability  of  the 
church.  But,  as  a  rule,  our  churches  have 
never  been  worked  in  either  of  these  lines.*' 


Rev.  F.  H.  Chalfant,  of  Wei  Hien,  sends  a 
report  of  the  first  Shantung  Missionary  Con- 
ference, which  convened  in  the  city  of  Ching- 
chowfu  November  11,  and  continued  four 
days.  Eight  mission  organizations  were  rep- 
resented by  volunteer  delegates.  The  accom- 
panying map  indicates  the  directions  from 


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SHANTUNG   PROVINCE  AND  ITS  MISSIONS. 


whicb  they  came.  The  dotted  lines  centering 
on  Ching^howfu,  designate  the  mission  sta- 
tions actually  represented.  The  conference 
was  not  held  in  the  interest  of  organic  union, 
bat  rather  for  the  discassion  of  methods  of 
work,  and  to  determine  what  could  be  done 
in  the  direction  of  greater  practical  efficiency 
in  missionary  operations.  It  was  attended  by 
forty- one  missionaries,  men  and  women,  rep- 
resenting the  following  religions  organiza- 
tions, arranged  in  the  order  of  numerical 
representation:  The  American  Presbyterian 
(North),  English  Baptist,  English  Methodist, 
Congregationalist  (A.  B.  C.  F.  M.),  China 
Inland  Mission,  American  Baptist  (South), 
Canadian  Presbyterian,  and  Swedish  Baptist. 
The  topics  discussed  were  timely,  and  had 
a  direct  practical  bearing  upon  the  work. 
Among  them  may  be  named :  ^^  The  Poverty 
of  Shantung :  its  Causes  and  Remedy ;  '^ 
"The  Attitude  of  the  Native  Church  towards 
the  Government; "  **  The  Training  of  Native 
Evangelical  Students;"  *'The  Education  of 
Chinese  Girls; "  *'  How  May  a  Native  Church 
Become  Self-supporting?";  *^ Education  of 
Native  Medical  Evangelists";  and   ^^Evan- 


gelical Work :  how  best  Conducted  ?  "    The 
meetings  were  full  of  good  fellowship,  and 
there  was  an  earnest  effort  to  obtain  divine 
wisdom,  and  to  know  God*s  way  of  further 
ing  the  interests  of  His  Kingdom. 


Rev.  P.  y.  Jenness,  of  Flushing,  Michigan, 
writes  that  his  church  has  seventy-five  copies 
of  *' Children's  Hymns,  with  Tunes,"  by 
Caryl  Florio,  in  excellent  condition.  They 
desire  to  sell  them  to  some  church  already 
using  that  book,  and  to  give  the  proceeds  to 
foreign  missions,  the  music  being  too  difficult 
for  a  small  school.  They  are  worth  $20,00, 
but  will  be  sold  for  $15.00.  Anyone  desiring 
them  will  please  address  Mr.  Jenness,  as 
above. 


Rev.  W.  R.  Richards,  D.  D.,  of  the  Foreign 
Board,  and  Secretary  Robert  E.  Speer,  have 
recently  made  a  visit  to  the  Mexico  Mission 
to  inspect  the  field  and  its  work,  and  help  the 
missionaries  with  some  of  their  difficult  prob- 
lems. We  trust  we  shall  be  able  in  a  future 
number  to  give  some  report  of  their  visit. 


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Foreign  Mission  Notes. 


[JKiflrcA, 


A  recent  letter  from  Dr.  Shedd,  of  Oroo- 
miah,  was  dated  November  11,  1898,  the  an- 
niversary of  his  arrival,  with  Mrs.  Shedd,  at 
Oroomiah,  thirty-four  years  ago,  to  enter 
upon  their  life  work  in  that  distant  field. 
The  Doctor  speaks  of  God's  unfailing  good- 
ness, and  the  steady  progress  of  mission  work 
during  all  those  years.  He  reports  encourag- 
ing facts  indicating  the  spiritual  growth 
of  the  churches  in  Persia  during  the  past 
year.  In  1892,  there  were  reported  in  connec- 
tion with  the  churches  of  the  Western  Persia 
Mission,  175  additions.  In  1898,  up  to  the 
date  of  his  writing,  there  had  been  250  new 
members  received.  The  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  Knooshya,  or  Synod,  of  the  mission 
churches  had  just  been  held.  Perplexing 
problems  and  details  connected  with  the  eccle- 
siastical affairs  of  the  churches  were  earnestly 
discussed,  and  much  prayer  and  thought  were 
g^ven  to  plans  for  the  spiritual  welfare  of 
Christ's  Kingdom  in  Persia.  Dr.  Shedd  re- 
ports that  the  spiritual  tone  of  the  gathering 
was  helpful  and  inspiring,  that  the  devotional 
meetings,  and  papers  presented  on  practical 
subjects  were  strengthening  to  faith  and  gave 
promise  of  a  fruitful  winter  of  work.  The 
situation  in  Persia  is  not  free  from  grave 
anxieties.  The  past  year  has  witnessed  the 
martyrdom  of  two  church  members.  One 
died  in  prison,  and  the  other  was  foully  mur- 
dered. Both  were  **  persecuted  for  righteous- 
ness' sake."  The  spirit  of  the  Government 
and  of  the  fanatical  Moslem  populace  of  Per- 
sia is  very  threatening.  A  single  spark  seems 
sufficient  to  kindle  a  flame  of  fanaticism.  The 
Government  is  apparently  powerless  to  mete 
out  justice  to  Moslems  who  murder  Christians, 
as  it  would  only  excite  a  dangerous  spirit  of 
revenge.  The  Government  is  weak,  and 
there  are  indications  which  point  to  a  possible 
collapse  of  the  ruling  power.  Under  present 
conditions  the  Government  must  be  prudent, 
both  for  its  own  sake  as  well  as  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  helpless  Christian  population. 
The  double  shadow  of  martyrdom,  the 
strained  relations  between  Moslems  and  Chris- 
tians, and  the  ever  increasing  burdens  of  tax- 
ation make  the  outlook  dark.  To  quote  from 
Dr.  Shedd's  letter: 

The    veil  of    uncertainty   and  apprehension 


hangs  over  us,  and  it  is  ours  in  a  special  sense  to 
**  walk  by  faith  and  not  by  sight."  The  state  of 
the  country  excites  us  to  pray  for  the  king  and 
all  in  authority,  and  to  read  the  Psalms  and 
promises  of  God,  and  to  ''work  while  it  is  day, 
for  the  night  cometh."  Jesus  says:  *'  It  is  I,  be 
not  afraid."  

The  Presbyterian  Mission  Press  at  Shang- 
hai is  accustomed  to  issue  from  time  to  time 
a  complete  list  of  missionaries  in  China,  and 
has  recently  published   one  containing  the 
additions   for  the  two   years,    from    April, 
1891,  to  April,   1898.    The  last  two  years 
show  an   increase  of  494  missionaries.    In 
May,   1890,  the  Shanghai  Conference  issued 
an  appeal  for  1,000  new  missionaries  within 
five  years  of  that  date.     During  two  years 
nearly  half  of  the  entire  number  requested 
have  entered  upon  their  work  in  China.    It 
seems  beyond  a  doubt  that  May,  1895,  will 
find  the  missionary  force  of  China  increased 
by  more  than  a  thousand  additions  since  the 
Shanghai    Conference.      How    quietly   and 
marvelously  God  answers  our  appeals,  and 
what  a  mighty  impulse  He  is  giving  to  His 
great  purpose  through  the  almost  impercepti- 
ble workings  of  His  Spirit  and  Providence! 
We  may  be  assured  that  He  has  large  and 
liberal  plans  for  the  great  Empire  of  China. 
He  is  preparing  for  a  missionary  invasion  of 
a  vast  continent,  and  when  his  purposes  are 
ripe  for  execution,  we  will  find  that  China 
will  have  a  noble  part  to  play  in  the  mis- 
sionary conquest  of  Asia. 


The  missionaries  in  Siam  and  Laos  have 
sent  to  the  Board  expressions  of  their  grate- 
ful appreciation  of  our  lamented  Secretary, 
Dr.  Mitchell,  and  his  enthusiastic  interest  in 
their  missions.  The  tributes  sent  from  each 
mission  are  full  of  generous  and  loving  words 
expressing  their  sorrow  and  sense  of  loss  in 
his  death.  In  the  communication  from  the 
Siam  Mission  the  effects  of  Dr.  Mitchell*s 
recent  visit  there  are  referred  to  as  follows: 

In  recent  years  there  has  been  a  marked  change 
in  the  policy  of  this  mission,  and  that  change 
was  largely  due  to  the  influence  of  his  visit. 
He  urged  us  to  exalt  the  functions  and  acts  of 
the  mission,  as  distinguished  from  individual 
preferences  and  the  claims  of  particular  depart* 


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ments  of  work.  We  have  followed  hifl  advice, 
and  the  result  is  a  more  compact  organization, 
and  a  greater  sense  of  responsibility  on  the  part 
of  each  member  for  the  work  done  in  all  depart- 
ments. This  is  one  example  of  the  value  of  his 
prudent  counsels  and  the  weight  of  his  personal 
influence. 

We  wish  also  to  express  our  appreciation  of 
his  warm  afifection  for  those  whom  he  usually 
called  "the  brethren  on  the  field."  Whilo  he 
lived  and  labored,  we  felt  that  the  interests  of 
the  work  in  Slam,  dearer  to  us  than  life  itself, 
would  be  furthered  by  every  means  in  his  power. 
Wliatever  was  lacking  to  the  full  accomplish- 
ment of  our  expectation  in  any  respect,  we  felt 
sure  that  it  was  not  on  account  of  any  lack, 
either  of  knowledge  or  of  effort,  on  his  part. 

In  the  memorial  sent  on  behalf  of  the  Laos 
Mission  is  the  following  paragraph : 

We  speak  later  only  because  farther  away. 
Most,  if  not  all,  of  us  have  seen  his  face  and 
heard  his  voice.  To  see  and  to  hear  him  was  to 
know  that  his  heart  beat  in  true  sympathy  with 
the  work  of  God,  and  with  each  and  all  of  the 
workers.  And,  in  our  distant  separation  the 
one  from  the  other,  his  every  letter  was  proof  be- 
yond doubt  of  his  presence  with  us  in  spirit. 


MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DEPARTURKS. 

January  6 — From  New  York,  to  join  the 
Lodiana  Mission,  Miss  Margaret  C.  Davis. 

January  IT— From  New  York,  to  join  the 
Colombia  Mission,  Miss  Celia  J.  Riley. 

ARRIVALS. 

December  20 — From  Kangwe,  Africa,  Rev. 
Herman  Jacot  and  family.  Address,  208 
Broadway,  New  York. 

December  25 — ^From  Tripoli,  Syria,  Ira 
Harris,  M.  D.  Address  in  this  country, 
Fayetteville,  New  York. 

January,  1894 — From  Wei  Hien,  China, 
Mrs  R.  M.  Mateer.  Address  in  this  country 
Chambersburg,  Pa. 

DEATHS. 

December  4,  1898— At  Ealing,  Middlesex, 
England,  Eliza,  widow  of  the  late  Rev.  John 
Newton,  D.D.,  of  the  American  Presbyterian 
Mission,  Lahore,  India,  in  the  seventieth  year 
of  her  age. 


WATCHMAN,  WHAT  OF  THE  NIGHT  ?— 

A  JUBILEE  RESPONSE  FROM 

CANTON. 

REV.  B.  0.  HENRY,  D.  D. 

This  year  is  the  Jubilee  of  the  Presbyterian 
Mission  in  Canton.  Half  a  century  has 
passed  since  our  Mission  was  established  in 
this  great  emporium  of  South  China.  It  has 
encountered  many  vicissitudes  in  these  years, 
and  has  had  its  full  share  of  discouragement, 
but  has  made  solid  progress  in  every  depart- 
ment and  now  addresses  itself  to  the  future 
with  a  chastened  enthusiasm  which  bodes 
well  for  the  issue. 

EARLY  STRUGGLES. 

The  initial  stages  of  the  work  in  Canton 
have  been  frequently  dwelt  upon,  and  all 
honor  is  due  to  the  noble  pioneers  who 
struggled  with  difficulties  which  a  later 
generation  can  hardly  appreciate  in  their  full 
force.  For  the  first  thirty  years  the  work  of 
our  mission  was  almost  exclusively  confined 
to  the  city  of  Canton,  broken  up  at  times  by 
war  and  local  disturbances;  the  vast  regions 
of  the  interior  receiving  only  the  attention  of 
an  occasional  tour  of  itineration. 

SOWING  THE  SEED. 

From  1860  to  1880  were  the  palmy  days 
of  street  and  chapel  preaching  in  Canton. 
Day  after  day  the  preaching  halls  were 
thronged  with  people,  not  only  from  the  city, 
but  from  all  parts  of  the  interior.  The  pres- 
ence of  large  audiences  (I  have  counted  900 
persons  in  the  course  of  two  hours  in  one  of 
our  chapels)  was  an  inspiration  to  the 
preacher,  and  gave  peculiar  zest  and  enthusi- 
asm to  this  form  of  work. 

The  day  was  soon  to  come  when  a  portion 
of  the  time  and  enthusiasm  bestowed  upon 
Canton  was  to  be  given  to  the  teeming  dis- 
tricts of  the  interior. 

PLACING  THE  GOLDEN  CANDLESTICKS. 

Twenty  years  ago  there  was  but  one  fully 
established  outstation  in  connection  with  our 
mission  in  Canton .  To-day, besides  thiee  well- 
equipped  stations  with  missionaries  resident, 
at  points  varying  from  200  to  800  miles  in- 
land, we  have  forty- seven  outstationSy  where 
systematic  work  is  carried  on,  and  numerous 
other  places  where  Christians,  in  larger  or 


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smaller  numbers,  meet  for  worship.  (This 
does  not  include  Hainan,  which  is  now  a 
separate  mission).  These  fifty  candlesticks 
supplied  with  holy  oil,  some  of  them  with 
wide  branching  candelabra,  have  been  set  up 
and  are  shedding  their  light  in  the  dark 
places  of  the  interior,  and  the  whole  broad 
territory  allotted  to  our  care  is  gradually  be- 
ing brought  within  the  circle  of  Gospel  light 
and  influence. 

A  NOBLE  EDUCATIONAL  PLANT. 

In  the  work  of  education  great  advance 
has  been  made.  Twenty  years  ago  we  had 
one  boarding  school  for  girls,  with  an  attend- 
ance of  thirty  pupils,  and  five  day  schools 
for  girls,  with  an  aggregate  of  one-hundred 
pupils.  We  had  one  boarding  school  for 
young  men,  with  twenty  pupils,  and  four 
day  schools  for  boys,  with  an  aggregate 
of  ninety  pupils.  To  day  the  Canton  Fe- 
male Seminary  shows  an  enrollment  of 
nearly  two  hundred,  and  the  number  could 
easily  be  doubled  if  the  accommodations 
were  increased.  The  number  of  girls'  day 
schools  has  increased  to  more  than  twenty, 
with  an  attendance  of  from  700  to  800.  Each 
of  these  schools  is  the  center  of  systematic 
and  effective  evangelistic  work  for  the  wo- 
men, a  work  whose  importance  cannot  be 
overestimated. 

The  number  of  day  schools  for  boys  has 
increased  to  twenty-five,  all  but  one  of  these 
being  in  the  interior,  the  aggregate  attend- 
ance reaching  about  700.  The  Christian 
school  is  often  the  entering  wedge  for  direct 
and  permanent  religious  work.  The  board- 
ing school  for  young  men  has  grown  into  an 
efficient  high  school  and  training  institution, 
with  an  attendance  of  nearly  100  students, 
and  its  incorporation  into  the  Christian  Col- 
lege, soon  to  be  effected,  will  place  our  edu- 
cational work  in  Canton  upon  a  most  promis- 
ing and  satisfactory  basis.  Already  a  fine 
body  of  well-trained,  earnest  and  energetic 
young  men  have  been  graduated  from  the 
mission  institution,  and  there  is  every  reason 
to  hope  that  efficiency  in  this  line  will  grow 
with  the  increased  facilities  soon  to  be  pro- 
vided. 

A  GRAND  MEDICAL  WOBK. 

Within  the  last  ten  years  medical  missions 


have  advanced  with  rapid  strides  in  Canton, 
giving  a  freeh  impetus  to  the  general  work 
wherever  it  touches.  Ten  years  ago  our  med- 
ical work  centered  almost  entirely  in  the 
great  hospital  at  Canton,  now  in  its  fifty-ninth 
year.  This  parent  institution  under  the  sup- 
port and  control  of  the  first  Medical  Mission- 
ary Society  ever  organized  in  the  world,  has 
greatly  increased  its  range  of  operations. 
Branch  dispensaries  for  women  have  been 
opened  in  Canton,  where  tens  of  thousands  of 
patients  are  treated  annually,  all  coming 
under  direct  religious  instruction  in  some 
form.  There  are  the  hospitals  and  dispensa- 
ries at  Yeung  Kong,  Lienchow,  and  Hom 
Kwong  and  the  **  Floating  Bethel  and  Dis- 
pensary "  in  the  south-west  districts,  which 
add  their  quota  of  tens  of  thousands,  to  swell 
the  number  brought  under  Christian  influence 
every  year. 

AN  EFHCIENT  NATIVE  AGENCY. 

Our  staff  of  native  helpers,  preachers, 
Bible  women,  and  teachers,  is  large  and  effi- 
cient. Many  of  them  are  most  earnest,  self- 
denying  and  successful  in  their  work.  The 
number  of  our  native  Christians  has  grown 
from  150,  twenty  years  ago,  to  about  1200  at 
the  present  time.  Their  activity  is  shown  in 
many  ways.  They  are  very  far  from  being 
perfect,  and  are  only  partially  alive  to  their 
own  privileges  and  responsibilities,  but  the 
presence  of  the  Holy  Spirit  is  manifest  among 
them  in  many  ways.  An  intimate  connection 
between  the  Chinese  Christians  in  America 
and  those  in  Canton  is  maintained,  and  within 
the  past  few  years  sums  amounting  in  the 
aggregate  to  seven  or  eight  thousand  dollars 
have  been  sent  for  Christian  work  in  Canton, 
to  be  placed  under  the  management  of  the 
native  church 

NATIVE  CONSECRATION  AND  ENTHUSIASM. 

The  matter  of  self-support  and  the  import- 
ance of  giving  as  a  part  of  worship  is  con- 
stantly urged  upon  them.  The  instruction  in 
this  line  is  beginning  to  take  hold  of  them, 
and  evidence  is  seen  of  an  increasing  desire 
to  maintain  their  own  pastors  and  churches, 
and  to  do  more  toward  reaching  the  masses 
yet  untouched  by  the  GK)spel.  We  are  greatly 
encouraged  by  instances  of  individual  conse- 
cration and  enthusiasm.     One  of  the  mobt 


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cheering  is  the  case  of  Tain  Shun  Yau  and 
his  wife,  of  the  Lienchow  church,  who,  after 
severe  persecution  and  loss  of  property,  have 
given  themselves  personally,  without  support 
from  the  mission  or  church,  to  evangelistic 
work  in  their  native  place,  in  the  southern 
district  of  Hunan,  that  most  bitterly  anti- 
foreign  and  anti  Christian  province.  They 
have  been  greatly  blessed  in  their  work,  gath- 
ering large  numbers  in  their  house  on  the 
Sabbath,  and  instructing  them  in  the  most 
important  principles  of  Christianity,  namely, 
to  give  up  all  heathen  worship  and  customs, 
to  honor  and  serve  the  true  God,  and  love 
their  fellowmen,  and  to  keep  the  Sabbath 
holy.  As  the  result  of  their  efforts,  seven 
have  been  converted  and  baptized  this  year. 
There  are  now  more  than  a  score  of  appli- 
cants for  baptism,  and  from  forty  to  fifty 
hopeful  inquirers. 

A  CHRIST-LIKE  SPIRIT  UNDER  PERSECUTION. 

The  Christ-like  spirit  shown  by  some  of  our 
Christians  under  persecution  is  peculiarly 
gratifying.  A  recent  experience  of  this 
kind  occurred  at  one  of  our  Hakka  out- 
stations.  There  were  three  brothers  who 
attended  a  night  school  in  the  chapel  and  be- 
came deeply  interested  in  the  truth.  They 
were  plain,  hard-working  farmer  boys,  and 
their  mother  was  a  widow.  The  eldest  was 
baptized  last  year,  and  for  a  time  the  mother 
was  friendly,  but  afterwards,  incited  by  evil- 
minded  people,  she  forbade  his  attendance  at 
religious  services,  and,  on  the  occasion  of  one 
of  my  visits,  she  broke  into  the  chapel,  with  a 
bunch  of  rods  in  her  hand,  and  with  the 
utmost  violence  and  vituperation  beat  her  son 
in  my  presence,  and  drove  him  out  of  the 
chapel.  He  exhibited  the  greatest  patience 
and  kindness  toward  his  mother,  showing  no 
resentment  or  reproach  in  word  or  deed,  and 
even  refused  an  offer  of  employment  in  Can- 
ton, that  he  might  remain  with,  and  if  possible 
win  over,  his  mother.  After  a  time  the  second 
son  applied  for  baptism  and  while  he  was 
being  examined  by  the  session  of  the  Church, 
his  uncle  burst  into  the  room,  seized  him  by 
the  neck,  beat  him  with  his  fist,  and  thrust 
him  out.  Shocked  and  grieved  at  this  treat- 
ment, we  feared  his  faith  might  fail  him.  An 
hour  later  he  returned  and  rejoiced  our  hearts 


by  his  decisioit  to  profPss  Christ  that  day, 
notwithstanding  the  persecution  he  had 
endured,  and  was  received  into  the  Church. 
The  mother,  again  influenced  by  evil  counsel- 
ors, called  a  meeting  of  the  clan,  in  which  it 
was  decided  to  hold  a  feast  and  demand  of 
these  young  men  that  they  give  up  their 
Christianity  or  be  handed  over  to  the  local 
magistrate  for  punishment,  the  last  resort  of 
parents  in  the  case  of  incorrigible  children. 
Before  this  design  could  be  carried  out,  the 
mother  fell  ill  and  was  most  tenderly  cared 
for  by  her  sons.  When  she  recovered,  how- 
ever, the  evil  counselors  again  prevailed,  and 
preparations  were  made  to  carry  out  their 
schemes.  The  sons,  fearing  the  consequences, 
fled  to  a  neighboring  town,  where  they  found 
employment  and  sent  money  home  for  their 
mother's  support.  Several  months  passed, 
when  one  of  the  neighbors,  not  a  Christian, 
remonstrated  with  the  mother,  condemned 
her  treatment  of  the  boys  and  expressed  the 
wish  that  he  had  such  sons,  saying  that  if 
Christian  teaching  led  to  such  filial  devotion, 
all  the  people  in  the  whole  country  side 
should  send  their  sons  to  the  chapel  for 
instruction.  The  mother  was  prevailed  upon 
to  send  for  her  sons.  The  eldest  expressed 
his  joy  to  the  native  preacher,  saying  that 
the  gift  of  a  hundred  dollars  could  not  have 
made  him  so  happy  as  this  message  from  his 
mother.  They  all  returned  home,  and  soon 
after  the  third  son  was  baptized.  Their  one 
desire  and  prayer  now  is  that  their  old 
mother  may  be  brought  to  Christ. 

'*THE  MORNING  COMETH." 

Many  other  similar  instances  might  be 
given,  showing  that  the  Holy  Spirit  is  at 
work  in  the  hearts  of  individuals  and  among 
the  people  in  general.  Everywhere  the  way 
is  fully  open  for  evangelistic  work,  especially 
among  the  villages  m  the  interior,  and  we 
are  made  to  feel  with  increasing  power  the 
.importance  of  direct  spiritual  work  for  the 
conversion  of  souls.  We  have  fullest  access 
to  the  people.  The  facilities  for  reaching 
them  are  all  that  we  could  demand.  •  The 
Lord  has  given  us  the  Word,  and  the  Hc»ly 
Spirit  waits  to  apply  it  to  the  hearts  and  con- 
sciences of  the  multitudes  who  hear.  May 
we  be  found  faithful  to  our  charge! 


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AN  EVENING^S  PREACHING  AT  THE 
LOHARI  GATE,  LAHORE. 

EEV.  HENBT  FORMAN,  8AHARANPUB. 

I  want  to  give  a  somewhat  detailed  account 
of  a  single  evening^s  preaching,  hoping  thus  to 
give  a  clearer  conception  of  the  work.  This 
particular  evening  was  not  a  fair  representa- 
tive of  the  ordinary  work,  I  am  glad  to  say, 
yet  it  does  show  the  more  trying  times, 
the  days  when  angry  opposition  has  to  be 
met,  and  as  such  I  want  to  give  an  account 
of  it. 

When  my  father  and  I  arrived  we  found  a 
crowd  already  about  the  door,  and  the  native 
preacher  who  was  there  was  engaged  m  a 
discussion  with  a  blind  man  who  has  re- 
cently apostatized  from  Christianity  to  Mo- 
hammedanism. As  such  discussions  are 
worse  than  useless,  I  began  to  speak  to  the 
crowd  on  a  theme  that  I  hoped  would  con- 
ciliate and  quiet  them.  But  the  blind  man 
was  determined  to  hinder  the  preaching,  so 
he  persisted  in  a  constant  stream  of  talk, 
regardless  of  the  subject  under  discussion, 
solely  for  the  sake  of  preventing  our  preach- 
ing. As  this  was  making  our  speaking 
useless,  my  father  tried  to  quiet  him,  going 
up  and  speaking  to  him.  When  this  failed, 
and  the  confusion  was  becoming  worse, 
we  went  into  the  chapel  and  invited  the 
people  to  follow  us.  This  most  of  them 
would  have  done,  but  that  some  shouted  to 
the  others  to  keep  out,  an4  even  took  their 
stands  at  the  two  doors,  with  their  sticks, 
and  pushed  back  those  about  to  come  in. 
When  we  found  our  efforts  to  get  the  people 
in  were  vain,  we  again  went  out  to  them, 
my  father  saying  he  would  talk  to  the  blind 
apostate  at  one  side,  and  so  occupy  him, 
while  I  preached  from  the  platform. 

This  plan  succeeded  capitally  for  a  time. 
Yet  I  had  no  sooner  begun  than  a  well-fed 
and  self-important  maulvie,  who  often  speaks 
at  a  neighboring  comer,  interrupted  me  with 
some  question.  It  must  be  remembered  that 
these  are  stock  questions,  and  are  brought  up 
only  to  hinder  our  work,  and  to  prevent  our 
impressing  any  Christian  truth  on  the  peo- 
ple. When  I  declined  to  answer,  saying 
that  he  was  familiar  with  our  preaching,  and 
that  if  he  had  anything  to  say  to  the  people 


be  should  say  it  at  his  own  preaching  place,  he 
replied  that  Christ  orders  us  in  the  Gospel  to 
give  an  answer  when  a  question  is  asked. 
This,  of  course,  I  denied,  and  challenged  him 
to  point  out  the  place — thinking  meanwhile 
that  he  might  possibly  have  in  mind  PauPs 
words,  **  Be  ready  to  give  an  answer  for  the 
faith  that  is  in  you.^^  But  he  opened  a  New 
Testament  and  read  from  the  Gospel  just 
what  he  had  stated.  At  my  request  he  twice 
repeated  the  reading,  the  people  meanwhile 
showing  their  pleasure.  I  then  stretched  out 
my  hand  and  asked  him  to  hand  me  the  book 
that  I  might  read  it.  This  he  did  without 
hesitation,  but  shut  it  as  he  handed  it  to  me. 

The  deceit  was  so  manifest  that  all  perceived 
it  at  once.  I  saw  my  opportunity  to  bring 
discredit  on  his  claims  as  a  religious  teacher, 
and  turning  on  him  I  said,  ^*  Ob,  you  hypo- 
crite! you  pose  as  a  religious  teacher.  It  is 
thus  that  the  whole  lot  of  you  always  carry 
on  your  work,  by  lying  and  deceit  and 
hypocrisy.  You  deceive  the  people  in  every 
way  jou  can.  These  are  the  religious 
teachers  of  Mohammedanism ! "  He  tried  to 
answer,  but  utterly  failed,  and  as  soon  as  I 
went  on  to  speak,  and  attention  was  tamed 
away  from  him,  he  slipped  away  quietly. 

But  the  excitement  and  hatred  has  been 
increasing  much  of  late  among  the  Moham- 
medans here.  I  had  spoken  only  a  little  while 
when  there  were  a  number  of  other  interrup- 
tions. In  the  midst  of  this  the  blind  apostate 
came  over.  A  way  was  made  for  him  at 
once,  and  a  position  given  him  directly  in 
front  of  me,  and  the  people  crowding  around 
clamored  for  a  **fair"  discussion.  Seeing 
that  preaching  was  impossible,  and  not  being 
willing  to  give  up  the  evening's  work  I  de- 
termined to  keep  him  from  their  favorite 
blasphemous  and  ignorant,  yet  always  blat- 
ant, attack  on  the  doctrines  of  the  Incarnation 
and  the  Trinity,  by  putting  the  burden  of 
answering  questions  on  him.  So  I  said  to 
him :  **  You  have  turned  from  Christianity  to 
Mohammedanism.  Will  you  tell  me  what 
beauty  or  good  you  found  in  Mohammed  to 
lead  to  this?"  **Yes,"  he  answered,  and 
immediately  proceeded  to  speak  against  the 
Christian  doctrine  of  the  Trinity!  But  I 
stopped  him  quickly  and  insisted  on  his  stick- 


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ing  to  the  text.  He  had  little  or  nothiBg  to 
say  on  this  subject,  bat  resorted  to  the  com- 
mon-place statement  that  it  was  because  of 
Mohammed's  being  the  true  prophet  that  he 
had  gone  over  to  Mohammedanism.  I  then 
said,  **If  you  can  tell  me  a  single  teaching 
of  Mohammed's  that  is  new  and  yet  true  I 
will  give  you  a  reward  of  an  hundred  rupees." 
He  floundered  a  moment,  and  then,  as  I  had 
expected,  said  that  the  doctrine  of  one  God 
was  such.  I  ridiculed  this,  for  it  showed  the 
insincerity  of  the  man,  for  he  has  been  a 
Christian  preacher  and  knows  of  Abraham 
and  the  prophets,  to  say  nothing  of  Christ. 
Bat  when  I  spoke  of  all  these  for  long  centu- 
ries believing  in  the  one  God,  while  the  an- 
cestors of  Mohammed  were  yet  idolaters,  and 
that  Mohammed  himself  learned  of  the  one 
God  from  Jews  and  Christians,  one  shouted, 
*'  Don't  speak  of  Jews!  "  A  young  Pathdn, 
and  there  is  perhaps  no  race  among  the 
Mohammedans  more  bigoted  and  fierce  than 
the  Pathdns,  had  been  hindering  us  again  and 
again  during  the  evening.  He  now  got  up 
so  close  and  talked  so  angrily  that  I  put  my 
hand  on  his  arm,  telling  him  to  be  quiet. 
He  fairly  gnashed  his  teeth  at  me,  and  with 
his  face  full  of  the  most  diabolical  hatred, 
was  about  to  raise  his  stick  to  strike  me  when 
others  caught  hold  of  him  and  told  him  to  be 
still.  Just  as  he  made  this  .move  a  half  a 
dozen  stretched  out  their  hands  towards  me. 
I  saw  then  that  the  position  was  more  grave 
than  I  had  thought,  and  that  in  their  excited 
state  an  unguarded  expression  might  lead  to 
an  attack.  Turning  to  the  blind  man  I  asked 
if  there  were  any  point  in  Mohammed's  teach- 
ing that  he  could  think  of  that  was  both 
new  and  true.  The  crowd  became  quiet 
to  hear  his  answer,  but  several  times  after- 
wards as  I  caught  the  eye  of  the  young 
Pathdo  he  looked  at  me  with  an  expression 
of  Satanic  hatred. 

The  blind  man  took  up  my  question  and 
answered  that  Mohammed  was  the  first  to 
tell  of  the  Houries  in  Heaven.  I  very  will- 
ingly confessed  that  this  was  indeed  new 
teaching,  but  declined  to  accept  as  true  a 
teaching  so  sensual  and  base,  yet  so  dear  to 
the  hearts  of  adulterous,  woman-despising 
Mohammedans. 


As  we  were  about  to  go  into  the  chapel 
again  to  preach  there,  the  apostle,  who  had 
been  opposing,  said  he  would  like  to  discuss 
further,  and  asked  for  a  convenient  time  and 
place,  and  also  asked  my  name.  When  ke 
heard  it  he  asked  if  I  lived  in  Saharanpur. 
I  had  been  all  along  trying  to  think  where  I 
had  seen  him  before.  As  he  asked  this  my 
impressions  cleared  a  little,  and  answering  in 
the  afSrmative,  I  added,  *' Where  have  I  seen 
you?  Did  you  come  to  my  house  as  a  beg- 
gar?" At  this  the  Mohammedans  muttered 
angrily ;  but  I  told  them  to  be  quiet,  as  I  was 
not  trying  to  make  fun  of  the  man,  but  really 
wanted  to  know.  When  he  confessed  that 
he  had  so  come  to  me,  they  looked  rather 
crestfallen.  But  they  rallied  on  hearing  his 
shallow  retort  that  when  a  Christian  he  had 
to  become  a  beggar,  for  the  missionaries  like 
to  keep  the  native  Christians  down  thus! 

After  we  went  into  the  chapel  we  had  a 
most  quiet  and  attentive  audience,  as  most  of 
the  worse  characters  had  remained  outside. 
My  father  spoke  to  them  of  the  wickedness 
of  their  opposition,  because  they  oppose  that 
which  they  know  is  good ;  ^nd  of  its  folly, 
for  God's  kingdom  will  surely  prevail  whether 
they  help  or  hinder.  He  then  spoke  of  the 
secret  of  their  anger  in  that  they  constantly 
failed  in  showing  that  their  religion  offers 
any  hope  of  salvation,  and  their  recognition 
of  Christianity's  immeasurable  superiority. 

I  then  followed,  justifying  at  first  our 
refusal  to  answer  questions  by  pointing  to  the 
utterly  worthless  characters  that  were  put 
forward  to  ask  the  questions,  instancing  those 
of  this  evening,  especially  the  apostate  beg- 
gar. I  then  spoke  of  the  high  test  of  Christ's 
claim  in  that  our  hearts  and  consciences 
respond  to  His  words.  From  this  I  went  on 
to  show  how  wonderfully  His  absolute  claims 
of  divinity  were  sustained  in  His  life. 

For  almost  an  hour  they  listened  quietly, 
and  then  we  dismissed  them.  A  few  of  the 
worst  characters  came  about  us,  and  asked 
most  politely  that  we  answer  some  questions 
that  rose  in  their  minds.  When  we  answered 
that  we  could  not  do  so  on  the  street  and  at 
such  a  time,  as  we  drove  away  they  threw 
off  the  mask  and  spat — first  the  leader,  then 
all — ^an  expression  of  contempt  and  hatred. 


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Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  Abroad. 

JANUARY,        .  .      QenenU  Review  of  Missions. 

PBBRUARY,  Missions  in  China. 

MARCH,      .  ~  Mexico  and  Central  America. 

APRIL, Missions  in  India. 

MAY,  Missions  in  Siam  and  Laos. 

JUNB, Missions  in  AfHca. 

JULY,  Chinese  and  Japanese  in  America. 

AUQUBT,        ....    Missions  in  Korea. 
8BPTBMBER,    .  Missions  in  Japan. 

OCTOBBR,     ....     Missions  in  Persia. 
NOVBMBBR,     .  .     Missions  in  South  America. 

DBCBMBBR.  Missions  in  Syria. 

MISSIONS  IN  MEXICO. 

SOUTHERN   MEXICO. 

City  of  Mexico:  occupied  in  1872;  missionary 
laborera— Rev.  and  Mrs.  Hubert  W.  Brown,  Rev. 
and  Mn».  J.  G.  Woods,  and  Rev.  C.  C.  Miliar;  Miss 
A.  M.  Bartlett  and  Miss  Ella  De  Baun. 

Tlalpam  :  twelve  miles  from  Mexico  City,  Rev. 
William  Wallace. 

Native  ministerp,  Mexico  City,  Rev.  Arcadio 
Morales,  Rev.  Abraham  Franco;  Taluca.  Rev. 
Luis  Arias;  Jalapa  (Tabasco),  Rev.  Evaristo  Hur- 
tado;  Ozumba,  Rev.  Jose  P.  Navarez;  Zimapan, 
Rev.  Felipe  Pastrana;  Jacala,  Rev,  Vincente  Oo- 
tnez;  Zitacuaro,  Revn.  Daniel  Rodriguez  and  Pedro 
Ballastro;  Tuxpan  (Mich.),  i?crs.  Maximiano  Palo- 
mino and  Enrique  Biaiichi;  Vera  Cruz,  Rev.  Flu- 
tar  CO  Arellano;  Oalera  de  Coapilla,  Rev.  Hipolito 
Quesada;  Paraiso,  Rev.  Miguel  Arias;  San  Juan 
Bautista,  Rev.  Leopoldo  Diaz;  Comalcalco,  Rev. 
Eligio  N.  Oranados\  Cardenas,  Rev.  Procopia  C. 
Diaz;  Tixtla,  Rev.  Prisciliano  Zavaleta;  Frontera, 
Rev.  Salomon  R.  Diaz;  Reforma,  Rev.  Severiano 
Oallegos;  licentiates,  6;  native  teachers  and  help- 
ers, 42. 

NORTHERN  MEXICO. 

ZA.CATKCA8:  occupied  1873;  missionary  laborers — 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Thos.  F.  Wallace,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  W. 
C.  Dodds;  Rev.  Jesxis  Martinez^  and  Rev.  Luis 
Amayo;  licentiates,  10;  native  ministers,  6. 

San  Luis  PoTOSi :  occupied  in  1873;  missionary 
laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  C.  S.  Williams;  Rev.  Hesi- 
quio  Forcado;  licentiates,  2;  Bible  women,  2. 

Saltillo:  occupied  in  1884;  missionary  laborers — 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Boyce ;  Miss  Jennie  Wheeler 
and  Miss  Edna  Johnson;  licentiates,  7;  teachers,  7. 

San  Miguel  del  Mezquital:  occupied  in  1876; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  and  Mrs.  David  J.  Stew- 
art; teachers,  2. 

Zitacuaro:  occupied  in  1893;  missionary  labor- 
ers—Rev. and  Mrs.  C.  D.  Campbell. 

In  this  country :  Mrs.  T.  F.  Wallace. 


MISSIONS  IN  GUATEMALA. 

Guatemala  City:  60  miles  from  the  seaport  of 
San  Jose;  occupied  in  1882;  missionary  laborers- 
Rev,  and  Mrs.  E.  M.  Haymaker,  and  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
W.  F.  Gates;  one  teacher. 


The  most  recent  statistics  of  our  mission  in  Mex- 
ico are  as  follows: 

Ordained  missionaries,  10;  married  lady  missiona- 
ries, 8;  unmarried  lady  missionaries,  4;  total  Amer- 
ican missionaries,  22;  ordained  natives,  25;  licen- 
tiates, 25;  other  native  helpers,  54;  total  of  native 
laborers,  104;  students  for  the  ministry,  14; 
churches,  93;  communicants,  4,462;  added  during 
the  year,  374:  boys  in  boarding  school,  84;  girls  in 
boarding-school,  120;  day-schools  for  boys,  3;  pupils 
in  the  same,  520;  day-schools  for  girls,  5;  pupils  in 
the  same,  547;  total  number  of  pupils,  1,221; 
scholars  in  Sabbath-schools,  1.769;  contributions, 
$2,715.  

The  statistics  of  our  mission  in  Guatemala  are  as 
follows: 

Ordained  missionaries,  2;  married  lady  missiona- 
ries, 2;  native  teachers,  1;  churches,  1;  communi- 
cants, 86;  added  during  the  year,  6;  day- school,  1; 
pupils  in  the  same,  58;  pupils  in  Sabbath-school,  60; 
students  for  the  ministry,  2. 


There  are  11  evangelical  socif  ties  engaged  in  mis- 
sion work  in  Mexico.  The  total  number  of  foreign 
missionary  laborers  is  177,  and  of  native  assistants, 
512.  There  are  469  congregations,  385  of  which  are 
organized  churches,  and  118  church  buildings. 
There  are  16,250  communicants,  and  about  60,000 
adherents.  There  are  seven  training  and  theologi- 
cal schools,  with  88  students.  The  number  of  board- 
ing-schools and  orphanages  is  23,  with  715  pupils. 
There  are  164  day  schools,  with  6,533  pupils.  There 
are  nearly  10,000  pupils  in  Sabbath- schools.  There 
are  11  evangelical  i>apers  published.  There  is  an 
unwritten  chapter  of  heroism  connected  with  this 
record  of  progress,  the  purport  of  which  is  indi- 
cated by  the  significant  fact  that  there  have  been  58 
martyrs  within  21  years,  all  but  one  of  whom  have 
been  natives. 

Recent  articles  of  value  upon  the  political  history 
of  Mexico  may  be  found  in  The  Review  of  Reviews 
for  January,  1893,  entitled,  **  President  Diaz  and  the 
Mexico  of  To-day,"  and  in  The  Church  at  Home 
AND  Abroad  for  March,  1893,  page  195,  by  Rev.  P. 
F.  Leavens,  D.  D.  The  most  valuable  book  on  the 
modem  history  of  the  country  is  entitled,  **  Mexico 
in  Transition,"  by  Rev.  William  Butler,  D.D., 
Hunt  &  Eaton,  New  York,  1892. 


A  general  sketch  of  recent  missionary  progress  in 
Mexico  will  be  found  in  The  Church  at  Home  and 
Abroad  for  March,  1893,  page  185.  Consult  also 
''Historical  Sketch  of  Our  Mission  in  Mexico,''  by 


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Missions  in  Mexico  and  Guatemala. 


[March, 


Rev.  M.  W.  stacker,  D.D.,  published  by  the 
Woman's  Foreigo  Missionary  Society  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  1334  Chestnut  Street,  Pl^Uulelphia, 
Pa.;  price  ten  cents.  A  summary  of  work  in 
Mexico  City  will  be  found  in  Thb  Church  at 
Home  and  Abroad  for  March,  1893,  page  188,  and 
of  the  training-school  and  theological  seminary  at 
Tlalpam,  in  the  same  magazine,  for  October,  1898, 
page  302.  A  historical  sketch  of  the  northern  field 
will  be  found  in  the  July  number  for  1893,  page  23. 
A  valuable  article  on  •*  The  Martyrs  of  Mexico," 
was  published  March,  1892,  page  225. 


A  sketch  of  our  Guatemala  Mission  work  will  be 
found  in  The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  for 
March,  1893,  page  191.  Consult  also  the  Historical 
Sketch,  by  Rev.  W.  Brenton  Green,  Jr.,  D.  D.,  pub- 
lished by  the  Woman's  Board,  1334  Chestnut  Street 
Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  price  ten  cents. 


Five  societies  are  conducting  missionary  opera- 
tions in  the  City  of  Mexico,  making  it  the  most  im- 
portant station  in  tho  country.  Our  own  Presby- 
terian work  is  perhaps  the  most  extensive.  We 
have  seven  congregations  in  different  parts  of  the 
city,  all  under  the  charge  of  native  preachers. 

Rev.  Arcadio  Morales,  an  eflicient  and  untiring 
native  missionary  in  our  connection  in  Mexico  City, 
has  had  the  personal  supervision  of  six  of  these  con- 
gregations. In  addition,  he  has  visited  regularly 
three  hospitals  and  four  jails,  one  of  which  is  a 
military  prison,  and  has  conversed  with  the  prison- 
ers and  distributed  tracts  and  portions  of  Scripture. 
He  reports  a  number  of  hopeful  conversions.  A 
Sabbath-school  has  been  started  in  one  of  the  jails, 
and  is  attended  by  forty  scholars. 


Mr.  Morales  reports  some  interesting  incidents 
regarding  his  work  among  the  blind.  A  poor  man, 
who  has  been  five  years  a  paralytic,  and  is  an  in- 
mate of  the  poorhouse,  has  a  friend  come  to  him 
and  read  the  Bible.  He  has  been  hopefully  con- 
verted, and  declares  that  his  faith  in  Christ  has 
saved  him  from  the  temptation  to  commit  suicide. 


There  are  four  day-schools  and  seven  Sabbath- 
schools  in  the  city.  Special  religious  instruction  is 
given  in  the  day-schools,  and  many  children  of 
Roman  Catholic  parentage  are  thus  taught  the 
Gospel.  Over  $700  has  been  raised  by  the  people 
themselves  during  the  year,  a  portion  of  which  has 
been  appropriated  to  support  a  young  Mexican 
missionary  in  Tenanguillo,  in  the  State  of  Guerrero, 
who  has  been  very  successful  in  his  Ubors,  and  has 
distributed  some  40,000  tracts  and  newspapers. 

The  Church  of  Divine  Salvador,  in  Mexico  City, 
(one  of  the  seven  referred  to  above)  has  received 
thirty-six  additions  during  the  past  year.    Twelve 


of  these  were  from  Protestant  families,  and  were 
baptized  in  infancy,  showing  that  a  Protestant  gen- 
eration is  coming  into  the  Church.  One  of  them  is 
a  cadet  from  the  Military  Academy  of  Chapultepec, 
who  is  an  example  of  Christian  fidelity  and  confidst- 
ency  amidst  surroundings  which  are  full  of  tempta- 
tion and  irreligious  influence. 

A  prominent  resident  of  Mexico  is  reported 
recently  to  have  stated  that  **  Roman  Catholic  influ- 
ence is  less  in  Mexico  to-day  than  in  the  United 
States,  where  there  is  hardly  a  statesman  who  dares 
open  his  lips  against  the  Pope.^*  A  writer  in  The 
Christian,  who  is  evidently  from  Mexico,  comments 
upon  this  statement  as  follows:  **  There  (in  the 
United  States)  the  Protestant  masses  are  ignorant  of 
popish  wiles,  and  believe  what  is  said  to  them. 
Here  (in  Mexico)  the  masses  have  tasted  and  know. 
The  lives  and  families  of  the  priests  have  taught 
them  what  a  celibate  clergy  means;  the  still  remem- 
bered tortures  of  the  Inquisition  and  the  relics  of  its 
martyrs  brought  to  light  in  recent  years,  have 
taught  them  what  it  means  to  offer  power  to  Rome. 
Half  a  century  ago  eighty  per  cent,  of  the  property 
belonged  to  the  Church,  whose  power  was  propor- 
tionately great;  this  has  all  been  secularized  and 
shorn  of  its  glories.  Romanism  flourishes,  but  on 
the  superstitious  native  ignorance,  which  is  being 
steadily  dispelled  by  spreading  education,  which  is, 
after  tiie  Gospel,  its  greatest  foe." 


A  pleasing  testimony  to  the  sincerity  and  devotion 
of  our  missionaries  in  Guatemala  has  been  recently 
given  in  a  letter  from  Mr.  H.  H.  Morehouse,  an 
American  electrician,  who  has  charge  of  the  light- 
ing establishment  In  Quezaltenango,  the  second  city 
of  the  Republic  of  Guatemala. 

He  says:  "In  Guatemala  City,  the  capital, 
there  Is  quite  a  large  and  prosperous  mission  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  pi'esided  over  by  Mr.  Hay- 
maker, one  of  the  most  kind,  loving,  and  energetic 
Christian  characters  that  I  have  ever  met.  From 
my  first  arrival  I  have  kept  myself  in  communica- 
tion with  them,  and  have  thus  obtained  supplies  of 
Spanish  Bibles,  tracts,  pamphlets  and  decent  litera- 
ture, of  which  there  is  a  great  scarcity  here.*' 

In  other  parts  of  Central  America  there  are  signs 
of  progress.  The  Republics  of  Nicaragua  and  Costa 
Rica  seem  to  be  opening  to  the  Gospel.  In  San 
Salvador  full  liberty  of  worship  has  been  conceded. 


At  the  beginning  of  our  Concert  of  Prayer  section 
wiU  be  found  a  list  of  missionaries  which  includes 
the  names  of  many  excellent  native  ministers.  The 
illustration  on  another  page  introduces  us  to  an 
interesting  group  of  these  brethren.  Their  earnest 
faces  and  dignified  bearing  suggest  a  fresh  reason  to 
cherish  hope  and  expectation  concerning  our  work 
in  Mexico.  We  present  also  an  interior  view  of  the 
church  at  Toluca,  one  of  the  stations  under  the  care 
of  an  ordained  Mexican. 


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CHRISTIAN  HEROISM  IN  MEXICO. 

EBV.  J.  MILTON  GREENE,  D.  D. 

One  of  the  questions  most  frequently  asked 
of  the  missionary  from  Mexico  is  this: 
^'What  kind  of  Christians  do  the  Mexicans 
make  ?  '*  Then  follow  other  inquiries  which 
clearly  indicate  the  adverse  sentiments  enter- 
tained by  the  questioner  relative  to  the  intel- 
ligence, sincerity  and  constancy  of  the  Mexican 
people:  *^Are  they  not  false  and  fickle, 
superficial  and  treacherous,  cowardly,  venal 
and  cruel,  indolent,  thriftless,  degraded  and 
depraved  beyond  all  hope  of  improvement  ? " 
Many  who  thus  inteirogate  us  have  received 
their  unfavorable  impressions  from  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  ^^ greasers  ^^  to  be  found  on  this 
side  of  the  Rio  Grande,  and  whose  misfortune 
it  has  been  to  know  and  imitate  the  worst 
rather  than  the  best  of  their  northern  neigh- 
bors; to  acquire  their  vices  and  engraft  these 
on  their  own  undisciplined,  or  rather  miscul- 
tured,  natures. 

THE  STRUGGLE  WITH  ENVIRONMENT. 

I  do  not  know  how  missionaries  from  other 


lands  feel  when  thus  questioned,  but  in  my 
own  heart  there  always  arises  a  longing  to 
photograph  on  the  mind  of  the  inquirer  the 
moral  inheritance  to  which  our  Mexicans 
have  succeeded,  the  moral  surroundings  in 
which  they  have  passed  their  lives,  and  the 
varied  and  colossal  obstacles  to  high  moral 
attainments  which  form  a  part  of  their  intel- 
lectual, industrial,  civil,  social  and  spiritual 
environment.  I  am  accustomed  to  say  to 
mothers  who  ask  me  concerning  Mexico  as  a 
residence  for  their  sons:  ^^ Remember  that 
they  will  go  to  a  semi-tropical  climate  which 
in  itself  invites  to  a  dreamy,  self-indulgent 
life,  physical  and  moral;  where  sin  presents 
itself  in  its  most  alluring  forms  and  is  divided 
into  two  classes,  venial  and  mortal,  the 
natural  result  of  which  is  that  every  sin 
which  a  man  wishes  to  commit  is  made  to 
appear  venial ;  where  there  is  no  Sabbath,  no 
moral  law,  no  enlightened  Christian  senti- 
ment, no  godly  ministry  and  no  social  safe- 
guards; where  no  correct  distinction  is  made 
between  truth  and  falsehood,  honesty  and 
dishonesty,  sobriety  and  drunkenness,  chas- 


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tity  and  anchastity,  principle  and  inclination, 
self-control  and  license."  A  good  Hungarian 
friend  of  mine  in  Mexico,  after  thirty  years 
of  experience  and  observation  in  that  land, 
used  to  insist  that  *Hbe  tropics  are  the  graves 
of  the  nations."  The  sum  total  of  the 
physical  and  moral  influences  which  surround 
one  seem  to  tend  powerfully  to  dim  the  moral 
perceptions,  confuse  the  moral  judgment, 
indurate  the  conscience  and  thus  relax 
the  moral  grasp.  The  ethical  nature  no 
less  than  the  physical,  feels  the  appeal 
which  is  made  to  it  by  a  perpetual  summer 
with  its  never-ceasing  regalement  of  azure 
skies,  ozonic  air,  unfading  verdure,  tempting 
fruits  and  bewildering  flowers.  The  very 
stars  that  shine,  the  birds  that  sing,  the 
leaves  that  rustle,  the  blossoms  that  exhale 
their  perfume,  and  even  the  people  who  move 
languidly  about  you,  all  seem  to  chant  a 
lullaby  and  discourage  effort  in  any  direction. 
To  be  an  active,  earnest,  self-resisting,  con- 
sistent Christian  in  such  a  climatic  environ- 
ment, is  far  more  difficult  than  it  is  amidst 
more  favorable  surroundings. 

THE  BATTLE  WITH  ROMANISM. 

But  this  is  the  least  of  the  untoward  in- 
fluences which  exist.  Think  what  the  money 
power,  social  prestige  and  industrial  influence 
of  Romanism  have  come  to  be  after  three  and 
a  half  centuries  of  uninterrupted  sway,  how 
it  has  moulded  social  customs,  entrenched 
itself  in  family  traditions,  identified  itself 
with  domestic  joys  and  sorrows,  furnished 
maxims  for  life  from  childhood,  given  birth 
even  to  the  superstitions  of  the  people,  sancti- 
fied the  cemeteries,  baptized  the  government, 
set  its  seal  upon  the  very  names  of  the  towns 
and  cities  and  streets  and  holidays  and  estates 
and  ranches,  as  well  as  upon  the  children  bom 
in  the  homes,  claimed  to  dispense  prosperity 
in  this  life,  suffering  in  an  intermediate  state, 
and  joy  or  pain  unending  in  the  eternity  to 
come.  Just  try  to  construct  in  your  mind 
what  kind  of  a  social  condition  must  have 
resulted  from  such  a  domination  of  ignorance 
and  idolatry  and  priestcraft  subsidizing  all 
the  legislation  and  politics  of  the  country  to 
their  own  purposes,  so  that  patriotism  and 
Romanism  have  been  associated  and  identified 


in  the  nursery,  the  school,  the  confessional, 
the  pulpit,  the  courts,  the  halls  of  legislation, 
and  even  in  the  highest  seat  of  government, 
and  you  can  begin  to  conceive  perhaps  what 
it  costs  in  Mexico  to  follow  Jesus  and  antago- 
nize Papal  errors  and  abuses.  As  in  Moslem 
lands,  so  in  Roman  Catholic  countries,  re- 
move the  terrible,  repressive  iron  band  of 
social  ostracism  and  industrial  boycotting 
and  personal  violence,  and  let  the  question  be 
simply  one  of  appeal  to  the  rational  and 
moral  sense,  and  the  multitudes  would  flock 
to  the  Oospel  standard  even  as  ^*  doves  to 
their  windows." 

THE  CONFLICT  WITH  SLANDER. 

It  is  simply  a  fact  that  the  case  supposed  to 
be  exceptionally  hard  of  a  Jew  who  should 
become  a  follower  of  Christ,  as  indicated  by 
the  Master  Himself,  corresponds  precisely  to 
what  actually  transpires  day  by  day  in 
Mexico:  ^^ There  is  no  man  that  hath  left 
house,  or  brethren,  or  sisters,  or  father,  or 
mother,  or  wife,  or  children,  or  lands,  for 
my  sake  and  the  GospeP-s. "  This  is  re-enacted 
very  frequently  among  our  native  brethren. 
Mere  attendance  upon  evangelical  worship 
will  suffice  to  brand  a  man  as  vendidOy  that 
is,  '* sold,"  a  term  akin  to  our  **  traitor  "  and 
expressive  of  the  very  general  sentiment 
among  the  people  which  identifies  patriotism 
with  Romanism,  and  considers  a  Protestant 
as  an  enemy  of  his  country.  Among  a  people 
so  eminently  patriotic  as  are  the  Mexicans, 
this  term  of  reproach  is  felt  most  keenly,  and 
no  little^moral  courage  is  required  to  consent 
to  be  thus  characterized  and  take  the  con- 
sequences. Closely  allied  with  this  epithet  is 
ayankado^  which  means  **yankeeized,"and 
comprehends  a  deal  of  history.  The  Romish 
priesthood  have  taken  good  care  that  the  war 
of  1847  should  be  kept  alive  in  the  hearts  of 
the  Mexican  people  and  held  up  to  them  as 
an  example  of  American  greed  and  injustice. 

THE  FIGHT  WITH  PREJUDICES  AND 
MISREPRESENTATIONS. 

From  the  pulpit  and  the  press  as  well  as  in 
the  confessional,  the  masses  are  taught  to 
look  upon  their  northern  neighbors  as  their 
natural  enemies  who,  under  whatever  pretext 
and  by  all  sorts  of  devices,   are  at  work 


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shrewdly  and  sleeplessly  to  secure  the  annexa- 
tion of  Mexican  territory  to  the  United  States. 
Hence  the  people  are  warned  against  Ameri 
can    enterprises,   inventions   and   manufac- 
tures, and   commercial    intercourse   is   en- 
couraged rather  with  European  nations.     Of 
coarse  this  is  to  a  great  extent  futile,   as 
natural  laws  and  our  own  enterprise  give  to 
us  a  great  advantage,  and  year  hy  year  the 
relative  proportion  of  our  trade  with  Mexico 
grows  apace.     But,  nevertheless,  this  preju- 
dice against  Americans  is  most  deeply  rooted 
in  the  Romish  masses  and  they  consent  to 
the  mcoming  of  American  capital  and  labor 
and  institutions  only  under  protest.     There 
are  few  issues  of  Romish  papers  which  do  not 
contain  abusive  articles  against  the  Americans. 
Every  disgraceful  occurrence  among  us,  such 
as  prize-fights,  lynchings,  robberies  and  mur- 
ders, is  rendered  into  Spanish  and  scattered 
among  the  Mexicans    as  indicative  of  our 
civilization  and  a  warning  against  our  designs. 
And  in  all  this  the  missionaries  do  not 
escape.    The  people  are  taught  systematically 
that,  under  cover  of  Gospel  preaching,  our  real 
mission  to  the  country  is  a  political  one,  and 
our  ulterior  design  the  preparation  of  Mexico 
for  annexation  to  our  own  land.     It  would  not 
be  easy  to  exaggerate  the  influence  of  this 
appeal  to  the  patriotic  instincts  of  the  people. 
Thousands  of  them  fought  for  long  years  and 
in  many  revolutions  to  secure  their  auton- 
omy and  cement  their  liberties,   and  are  es- 
pecially susceptible  to  any  suggestion  of  pos- 
sible designs  against  the  nation.     Hundreds 
of  these  are  to-day  bitterly  opposed  to  us  and 
our  work,  simply  because  they  believe  us  to 
be  politically  aggressive.     The  best  native 
preacher  in  any  of  our  missions  to-day,  and  a 
man  whom  all  his  brethren  delight  to  honor, 
has  never  yet  been  more  than  half  convinced 
that  our  missionary  work  is  purely  spiritual 
and  does  not  involve  a  menace  to  Mexican 
integrity,  and  hence  he  treats  the  mission- 
aries with  a  certain  degree  of  reserve.     A 
terrible  blow  was  dealt  us  in  early  days  when 
Bishop  Riley  joined  in  this  protest  and  ex- 
plicitly charged  that  all  missions  but  his  own 
were  agencies  of  American  annexation.     I 
am  doubtless  correct  when  I  say  that  nothing 
constitutes  a  mightier  hindrance  to  our  evan- 


gelical work,  or  calls  for  more  courage  and 
self-renunciJation  on  the  part  of  the  natives 
who  would  espouse  it,  than  this  same  annexa- 
tion calumny. 

THE  IRON  HAND  OF  PERSECUTION. 

Closely  connected  with  this  are  the  other 
forms  of  persecution  which  await  our  evan- 
gelical converts.  They  are  made  to  feel  the 
iron  heel  of  Romish  intolerance  through  loss 
of  employment,  personal  insults,  injury  to 
property,  social  ostracism  and  domestic  alien- 
ation. If  they  have  aught  to  sell  they  must 
take  less  for  it  than  their  neighbors,  if  they 
wish  to  buy  they  must  pay  more.  They  are 
discriminated  against  in  the  courts,  and  few 
can  be  found  with  enough  of  principle  and 
courage  to  testify  in  their  behalf.  Very 
often  it  happens  that  the  mere  adoption  of 
Protestant  faith  writes  a  man  down  as  an 
outlaw  and  an  exile  from  his  family  and  his 
neighbors.  He  has  no  rights  which  they  feel . 
bound  to  respect.  The  priest,  the  judge  and 
the  other  civil  authorities  combine  against 
him,  and  he  must  go  forth  scathed  and  des- 
pised as  if  the  brand  of  Cain  were  on  his 
brow. 

THE  TRIUBiPHS  OF  FAITH  AND  HEROISM. 

Is  it  strange  then  that  there  should  be 
many  Nicodemuses  in  Mexico?  And  have 
we  not  cause  for  gratitude  in  the  fact 
that  very  few  of  our  native  brethren  have 
ever  apostatized  in  the  face  of  this  tribu- 
lation and  persecution?  And  ought  we  not  to 
understand  once  for  all  that  declared  conver- 
sions and  avowed  disci  pleship  in  Papal 
lands  mean  essentially  the  same  as  under 
Mohammedan  rule?  It  would  be  a  great 
mistake  in  either  case  to  measure  the  real 
progress  of  Gospel  truth  and  the  spread  of 
evangelical  influences  by  the  additions  to  our 
church  registers.  We  understand  this  in 
thinking  of  Syria  and  Persia.  Let  us  also 
remember  it  in  giving  and  praying  for 
Mexico.  By  the  faithful  example  and  labors 
of  our  devoted  missionaries,  by  the  purified 
and  ennobled  lives  of  our  patiently  suffering 
brethren,  by  the  pure  scriptural  teachings  of 
our  pulpits  and  press,  by  the  instruction  and 
discipline  of  our  schools,  and  by  the  contrast 
presented  between  a   selfish,   ignorant  and 


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dAbaaohed  priesthood  and  a  self-denying,  in- 
telligent and  godly  ministry,  the  walls  of 
prejadice  are  being  undermined,  public  senti- 
ment is  undergoing  a  transformation,  and 
glorious  triumphs  are  assured. 


THE  STORY  OF  A  BRAVE  LIFE. 

REV.  ISAAC  BOTCE,  8ALTILL0. 

The  personal  religious  history  of  individual 
converts  in  our  mission  fields  is  often  in  a 
high  degree  interesting.  There  are  many 
men  and  women  in  Mexico,  occupying 
humble  places  in  life,  whose  history  and 
Christian  experience,  were  it  written,  would 
not  only  be  of  present  interest,  but  would 
justly  be  regarded  as  of  permanent  and  posi- 
tive value  to  our  Church  literature.  The  life 
of  one  man  has  so  profoundly  impressed  me 
that  I  am  sure  that  the  narrative  cannot  but 
be  interesting  to  our  great  missionary  Church. 

EARLY  TEARS. 

The  name  of  the  man  is  Antonio  G^azza 
ViUanal.  He  was  born  about  the  year  1826 
in  Mesquital,  a  hacienda  near  Monterey. 
His  father  was  a  farmer  and  shepherd  on  a 
small  scale,  and  the  son  followed  the  occupa- 
tion of  a  shepherd  from  his  fifth  until  his 
twentieth  year,  when  he  married  a  young 
lady  who  was  a  native  of  the  same  village. 
After  his  marriage  he  abandoned  the  wander- 
ing, toilsome,  dangerous  life  of  a  shepherd,  and 
became  a  dealer  in  milk.  This  was  just  be- 
fore the  American  invasion,  and  Don  Antonio 
was  one  of  the  few  Mexicans  who  BUHHigecf 
to  get  along  well  witk  the  American  soldiers 
and  offieers.  He  made  a  contract  to  supply  a 
considerable  number  of  the  officers  with  milk. 
On  account  of  his  isterling  honesty  he  was 
greatly  favored  by  them,  and  during  the 
encampment  in  Monterey  and  its  vicinity  he 
established  himself  in  a  good  business.  He 
began  to  purchase  land,  and  also  some  water 
rights,  and  soon  took  up  farming  in  addition 
to  his  other  business. 

PROVIDENTIAL  LEADINGS. 

During  all  these  years  he  had  been  a  very 
strict  and  conscientious  Catholic,  yet  withal 
a  fair-minded  man.  In  spare  moments  he 
had  managed  to  learn  to  read  and  write,  and 
had  become  by  hard  work  prosperous  in  his 


business.  He  had  seven  children,  six  boys 
and  a  girl,  who  was  the  youngest  and  his 
idol.  All  have  now  married  and  settled  near 
him.  The  year  1866  found  him  a  man  in 
middle  life,  contented  and  happy,  as  he 
believed.  At  that  time  Miss  Rankin  opened 
her  historic  girls'  school  in  Monterey. 
Antonio  was  alive  to  what  was  passing,  and 
hated  the  ^^  Protestantes  malditos,''  as  he 
honestly  considered  them,  yet,  strange  as  it 
may  seem,  from  the  first,  the  despised  name 
seemed  to  have  a  strange  power  of  attraction 
for  him.  As  he  has  told  the  writer,  he  was 
possessed  with  a  consuming  desire  to  learn 
something  of  the  new  religion,  yet  feared  to 
attend  the  public  services  on  account  of  his 
family  and  friends,  as  affiliation  with  the 
Protestants  meant  social  ostracism. 

AN  AWAKENING  MIND. 

The  way  was  providentially  opened  for  him 
to  attend  one  of  our  services.  He  had  moved 
to  Monterey,  but  on  one  of  the  church  festi- 
vals he  took  his  family  out  to  Mesquital  to 
visit  relatives  and  friends.  It  happened  that 
on  this  same  day  a  gospel  service  was  to  be 
held  in  Santa  Rosa,  two  leagues  from  the  first 
named  place.  Excitement  ran  at  fever  heat 
in  all  the  surrounding  country  over  the 
threatened  invasion  on  the  part  of  the  Prot- 
estants. The  news  had  reached  Mesquital. 
Angry  threats  were  heard  on  all  sides  and 
there  was  apparently  no  doubt  as  to  what  the 
ianA  would  be. 

Antonio  was  deeply  interested  in  the  dis- 
cussion. He  had  in  Mesquital  a  bosom  friend 
and  companion,  Anesceto  Garza.  The  two 
talked  the  matter  over,  and  resolved  to  give 
the  new  sect  a  fair  hearing,  before  finally  con- 
demning  it.  They  went  over  to  Santa  Rosa, 
seemingly  on  business,  but  really  to  attend 
the  Protestant  service.  Although  they  had 
moved  very  quietly  in  the  matter,  yet 
the  news  spread  rapidly  that  Antonio  and  his 
friend  were  already  Protestants.  Our  friend's 
wife  was  a  woman  of  great  natural  force  of 
character,  and  he  no  doubt  wished  that  she 
might  have  been  less  highly  endowed  in  that 
particular  before  the  end  of  the  stormy  inter- 
view which  followed  his  first  attendance  on 
evangelical  worship.    He  was  not  influenced, 


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however,  to  turn  back.  The  faseination 
which  the  new  sect  at  first  possessed  for  him, 
had  crystalized  into  a  firm  resolve  to  know 
more  of  the  Grospel. 

DOMESTIC  DIFFICULTIES. 

With  this  end  in  view  the  two  friends 
resolved  to  invite  Juan  Trevinio,  one  of  Miss 
Rankin's  converts  to  preach  in  Mesquital  in 
the  house  of  Anesceto.  The  time  was  ap- 
pointed, and  Antonio  again  took  his  family  to 
the  hacienda  for  the  day.  The  desire  to  hear 
the  Gospel  possessed  him,  yet  he  could  not 
banish  from  his  mind  the  scene  followiog  his 
former  attendance  at  service.  He  made  up 
his  mind  to  disarm  his  wife  by  having  her 
also  to  attend  the  service  with  him.  By  a 
clever  stratagem  he  succeeded  in  getting  her 
into  the  place  of  worship  before  she  knew 
aught  of  the  character  of  the  gathering. 
Once  in,  she  could  only  remain  till  the  close. 
He  still  held  his  furnished  house  in  Mesquital, 
a  friend  living  in  it.  He  went  home  with 
his  wife  from  service,  but  when  he  reached 
the  door  he  told  her  he  would  go  out  to  see 
his  corn  field  before  entering,  thinking  thus 
to  avoid  the  storm  of  reproach  and  abuse 
which  he  fully  expected  for  having  taken  her 
to  a  Protestant  service. 

THE  BREAK  WITH  IDOLATRY. 

One  hour  later  he  returned  from  the  corn- 
field, still  fearful  as  to  his  reception.  As  he 
neared  the  door  a  sight  which  filled  his  soul 
with  horror  met  his  gaze.  In  the  middle  of 
the  room  lay  a  confused  heap  of  images  and 
pictures  of  saints  of  all  sizes  which  had  for- 
merly covered  the  walls.  A  cry  of  horror 
escaped  his  lips,  and  he  rushed  into  the  house 
to  see  his  wife  standing  on  a  table  frantically 
tearing  down  the  remaining  saints  and  dash- 
ing them  to  the  ground ;  and  to  his  excited 
inquiry  as  to  what  she  was  doing,  she  coolly 
answered  '•'•  You  took  me  to  a  Protestant  ser- 
vice, and  I  am  following  out  their  teaching." 

THE  ONSLAUGHT  OF  PERSECUTION. 

From  that  day  they  were  both  stigmatized 
a<t  Protestants,  but  God  had  chosen  them  as 
witnesses  of  his  truth,  and  they  were  faithful 
to  their  high  caUing.  Persecutions  long  and 
bitter  followed,  but  they  were  cheerfully 
borne  for  Christ's  sake.     His  old-time  friend 


also  gladly  received  the  truth,  and  the  two 
became  brethren  in  Christ.  It  would  be  tedi- 
ous to  give  in  detail  the  history  of  these  two 
men  during  the  years  from  1868,  when  they 
made  a  public  confession  of  faith  in  Christ, 
down  to  the  present  time.  The  writer  be- 
came acquainted  with  them  in  the  spring  of 
1885,  visiting  them  in  the  hacienda  in  March  of 
that  year.  The  persecution  was  at  that  time 
extremely  bitter,  and  their  most  uncompris- 
ing  enemies  were  their  own  brothers.  Their 
simple,  childlike,  yet  withal,  courageous  and 
intrepid  faith  was  peculiarly  impressive  to 
me.  Little  did  I  imagine  how  soon  serious 
events  were  to  happen,  and  one  of  them  was 
to  be  called  from  labor  to  reward,  and 
crowned  with  the  martyr's  crown.  On  the 
evening  of  June  28th,  1885,  a  public  meeting 
was  called  in  the  school  house  in  the  public 
square.  These  brethren  knew  that  if  they 
were  not  present  measures  would  be  decided 
upon  to  do  them  injury,  and  with  fear  and 
trembling  they  attended.  The  meeting  was 
adjourned,  and  as  the  two  friends  came  out  of 
the  building  a  fanatical  Catholic  rushed  up 
and,  with  curses  on  the  Protestants,  opened 
fire  on  them .  Don  Antonio  sprang  around  the 
corner  of  the  building  and  escaped  the  fire. 
Not  so  his  friend;  a  ball  struck  him  in  the 
groin,  and  he  fell,  and  in  half  an  hour  he  was 
a  corpse. 

FIRM  IN  THE  DAY  OF  TRIAL. 

We  feared  the  effect  of  this  blow  on 
Antonio,  but  he  rallied  bravely  from  it. 
There  was  work  yet  to  be  done  for  Christ.  His 
children  had  married,  and  now  some  of  their 
children  were  of  school  age.  As  most  of 
them  were  girls,  no  facilities  were  offered  for 
educating  them  in  the  town.  He  came  to  the 
writer  and  laid  the  case  before  him,  offering  to 
provide  board  for  the  teacher  and  pay  nine 
dollars  per  month  of  her  salary  if  our  mission 
would  pay  six,  in  order  that  we  might  open  a 
school.  It  was  at  once  arranged,  and  a  girl 
from  our  normal  school  took  charge.  The 
opposition  was  intense  and  long  continued. 
This  was  over  six  years  ago.  For  four  long 
years  a  Catholic  school  was  kept  open  just 
across  the  street  from  the  mission  school.  On 
one  side  could  be  heard  a  constant  mumbling 
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rosary;  on  the  other,  the  notes  of  our  precious 
inheritance  of  Christian  sung,  and  the  words 
of  Holy  Scripture. 

THE  VICTORY  AT  LAST. 

Many  times  the  writer  was  almost  tempted 
to  abandon  the  school  as  it  seemed  only  to  in- 
tensify opposition.  Not  so  Don  Antonio. 
**The  truth  must  conquer  at  last  *'  was  his 
answer,  and  it  did  conquer.  Even  though 
hated  by  the  Catholics  he  had  always  com- 
manded, their  respect,  and  tardily  they  gave 
their  testimony  to  his  worth  and  constancy. 
They  have  closed  the  Catholic  school,  and  for 
more  than  a  year  past  have  sent  their  daughters 
to  the  mission  school.  All  save  one  of  Anto- 
nio*s  family  are  members  of  our  church,  as 
are  also  his  daughters-in-law  and  son-inlaw. 
All  but  two  of  them  have  moved  to  Monterey. 
The  aged  couple  are  ripening  for  Heaven,  yet 
they  are  happy  in  the  Lord's  service.  Twelve 
of  their  grandchildren  live  vrith  them  in 
order  to  attend  our  mission  school.  Two  of 
their  granddaughters  will  enter  our  normal 
school  for  girls  this  present  year,  and  are 
better  prepared  for  entrance  than  any  other 
girls  who  have  thus  far  applied.  I  love  to 
visit  the  old  man  in  his  home,  and  talk  with 
him  and  listen  to  his  simple  prayers.  Surely 
he  is  a  Prince  in  God's  Israel;  yea  a  Prince 
having  **  power  with  God  and  with  men." 


THE  GOSPEL  IN  THE  RANCHES  OP 
MEXICO. 

BY  EEV.  HUBERT  W.  BROWN,  MEXICO  CITY. 

Not  many  wise  or  mighty  have  as  yet  been 
called  in  Mexico,  but  the  poor  and  the  igno- 
rant hear  the  Gospel  gladly,  and  especially 
those  who  are  out  on  the  ranches,  away  from 
the  peculiar  temptations  of  the  city,  and 
where  the  visits  of  the  priests  are  less  fre- 
quent. As  they  say  in  Misantla,  proud  of 
their  superior  **  culture," — **  This  Protestant- 
ism is  for  the  rancheroSy  we  know  better 
than  to  accept  it." 

THE  GOSPEL  A  WELCOME  MESSAGE. 

A  recent  visit  to  a  number  of  ranches  in 
the  State  of  Vera  Cruz  has  impressed  upon 
me  anew  the  fact  that  this  class  gives  ready 
heed  to  the  Gospel  message.     It  is  a  long 


ride  and  a  hard  one  from  Jalapa  down  to 
Misantla,  and  as  the  sturdy  mustang  toils 
laboriously  down  the  almost  precipitous  face 
of  the  mountain,  the  rider  notes  more  than 
once  that  a  single  misstep  would  hurl  them 
both  to  certain  death  on  the  rocks  below. 
There  is  a  treacherous  river  to  be  forded 
five  times,  and  long  muddy  stretches  to  be 
plodded  through,  but  all  this  is  forgotten 
as  soon  as  we  begin  to  visit  one  after  another 
the  ranches  of  the  hotlands,  which  nestle 
picturesquely  in  the  broad  valleys  of  that 
great  coffee  region.  Everywhere  we  receive 
a  cordial  welcome  from  the  ranchmen,  for 
our  indefatigable  native  minister  Don  Manuel 
Monjaras  has  tramped  and  ridden  all  over 
this  region  and  won  the  good  will  of  every- 
body. Now  we  are  in  the  home  of  a  man 
but  recently  won  to  the  Gospel,  and  answer- 
ing his  shrewd  and  eager  questions  about  our 
beliefs.  We  gather  with  the  family  to  the 
rude  meal,  and  then,  after  nightfall,  hold  ser- 
vice with  them  and  their  friends,  who  have 
come  in  to  see  the  missionary  and  hear  what 
he  has  to  say  of  this  new  faith.  It  is  a 
rough,  unlettered  life  they  lead;  no  privacy, 
no  comforts,  no  home,  as  we  understand  it. 
Activity,  such  as  we  are  a^ustomed  to,  is 
unknown,  because  nature  is  too  indulgent  and 
too  bountiful,  and  the  continuous  heat  too 
enervating.  Few  can  read ;  whole  families, 
father,  mother,  and  children,  have  never  had 
a  book  or  paper  in  their  hands.  Their  whole 
knowledge  of  the  outside  world  is  based  on 
hearsay,  and  that  of  the  most  indefinite 
description.  Yet  as  soon  as  they  see  the 
Bible  and  learn  to  love  the  Saviour,  they 
beg  for  instruction  and  for  schools. 

GENEROUS  HEARTS  IN  HUMBLE  PLACES. 

In  all  directions  from  Misantla  are  ranches 
where  we  can  hold  services,  and  from  many 
of  them  the  ranchmen  and  their  families 
come  into  Misaotla  to  attend  our  Sunday 
meetings,  often  travelling  long  weary  leagues, 
in  many  cases  on  foot,  and  carrying  their 
little  ones.  In  Puente  de  Dios  nearly  all  are 
Protestants,  and  one  man,  out  of  eighty  dol- 
lars received  for  the  sale  of  his  vanilla,  gave 
me  sixteen  toward  an  organ  for  the  church, 
and  five  on  the  rent  of  the  house  of  worship. 


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A  TRIP  TO  THE  SOUTH. 

Another  group  of  ranches,  which  I  have 
also  jast  visited  for  the  first  time,  lies  south  of 
Vera  Craz,  and  can  be  reached  only  on 
horseback  over  level  savannahs  dotted  with 
clumps  of  palms  and  other  tropical  trees, 
and  covered  with  vast  herds  of  cattle.  It  is 
a  region  impassable  in  the  rainy  season  on 
account  of  the  deep  mud  and  swollen  rivers, 
and  alive  with  noxious  insects  of  every  kind. 
Last  summer,  for  example,  Mr.  Quesada  had 
to  wait  for  three  weeks  till  the  water  sub- 
sided in  two  apparently  insignificant  streams 
between  which  he  had  been  overtaken  by  a 
heavy  rain  storm.  There  are  innumerable 
ranches  all  over  this  district,  and  in  many  of 
them  we  have  already  gained  a  foothold. 
Life  is  still  ruder  than  in  and  around  Misantla, 
the  people  rougher  and  more  uncultured,  and 
densely  ignorant  in  matters  of  religion.  Pigs 
and  chickens  have  free  access  to  the  house,  the 
floors  are  of  mud,  the  staple  diet  is  black 
beans  and  tortillas^  or  corncakes,  the  sugar  is 
black  molasses,  the  coffee,  toasted  corn,  and 
milk  and  bread  are  unknown  luxuries,  to  say 
nothing  of  butter  and  beef. 

WHAT  FAITHFUL  LAYMEN  CAN  DO. 

Our  work  which  centers  in  Pantano,  Tierra 
Blanca  and  Galera  de  Coapilla  owes  its  exis- 
tence mainly  to  the  efforts  of  two  devoted 
men,  Don  Francisco  Mendez  and  Don  Pedro 
Garcia.  Both  keep  country  stores  on  the 
ranches,  in  which  they  live  and  have  quite 
an  extensive  trade  among  the  neighboring 
ranches  as  well.  While  selling  their  goods, 
they  have  not  forgotten  to  distribute  *' with- 
out money  and  without  price  "  the  Word  of 
Life.  Each  in  his  own  way  has  done  a  noble 
work.  Don  Francisco  was  drawn  to  the  Gos- 
pel by  the  consistent  Christian  life  of  a  hum- 
ble muleteer  with  whom  he  travelled  on  one 
of  his  trips.  He  noticed  that  the  man  never 
swore  nor  beat  his  mules,  and  finally  asked 
him  the  reason.  His  interest  was  aroused  by 
the  conversation  that  followed,  and  he  after- 
wards attended  the  services  of  our  church  in 
Vera  Cruz  whenever  he  was  in  the  city,  and 
finally  made  profession  of  faith  and  was 
received  as  a  member.  He  and  others  have 
built  a  chapel  and  school-house  in  Pantano, 


and  Don  Pedro  has  given  to  the  mission 
houses  of  worship  in  Tierra  Blanca  and 
Galera,  paying  one  hundred  dollars  for  the 
latter  building,  which  is  made  of  planks. 
The  other  buildings,  like  the  houses  of  the 
peOj)le,  are  simple  structures  with  reed  walls 
and  palm  thatched  roofs.  The  school  teacher 
in  Pantano  receives  from  the  mission  only 
six  dollars  a  month  and  the  people  give  four 
more,  and  his  board  from  house  to  house. 

CHILDREN  RESCUED  FROM  IGNORANCE. 

What  pleasure  to  listen  to  the  recitations 
of  the  ranch  children  whose  parents  in  many 
cases  can  neither  read  nor  write.  They  at 
least  will  be  able  to  read  God's  Word  and 
explain  it  to  their  fathers  and  mothers  who 
have  never  enjoyed  like  advantages.  Good 
Don  Hipolito  Quesada,  one  of  our  veteran 
workers,  for  seventeen  years  pastor  of  our 
Vera  Cruz  church,  and  now  sixty- eight  years 
of  age,  lives  in  Pantano  and  visits  on  horseback 
the  outlying  ranches,  accepting  cheerfully  all 
the  hardship3;  nay,  counting  it  all  joy  to 
thus  work  for  the  Master. 

These  are  but  two  examples.  I  might  cite 
many  others  taken  from  my  own  experience 
in  other  parts  of  Mexico,  in  some  cases  in 
regions  where  until  my  visit  no  minister  or 
missionary  had  ever  entered,  to  confirm  my 
statement  that  the  rancheros  and  small  farm- 
ers of  Mexico,  as  a  class,  hear  the  Gospel 
gladly.  Every  such  trip  affords  me  new  en- 
couragement and  new  assurance  that  Mexico 
as  a  nation  will  yet  be  won  to  the  truth  as  it 
is  in  Jesus  Christ. 


Letters. 


AFRICA. 

NEWS  FROlf  THE  NEW  STATION. 

Rev.  a.  C.  Good,  Ph.  D.,  Batanga : —The 
question  of  a  name  for  our  new  station  has  been 
rather  troublesome.  I  had  at  first  thought  of 
**  Mvok,"  which  I  supposed  was  the  name  of  the 
whole  region  about  the  station.  I  did  not  like 
Nkongemekak,  which  is  the  name  of  the  nearest 
town,  but  not  the  place  where  the  station  is 
located.  One  day  on  the  road  from  the  coast, 
with  two  Bule  guides,  I  heard  one  of  them 
remark  that  we  were  going  to  **Mvok."  I  at 
once  caught  at  the  word,  and  asked  what  it 


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meant.  They  explained  that  that  was  where  we 
were  going,  so  I  thought  we  had  a  name,  but  I 
found  out  afterwards  that  the  word  simply  sig- 
nified IwfM^  and  was  not  a  proper  name. 
Although  the  name  Nkongemekak  (I  wonder 
how  it  is  being  pronounced  at  home)  may  answer 
for  the  official  title  of  the  station,  yet  it  will  not 
do  for  local  use.  It  is  only  one  of  seTeral  towns 
in  the  neighborhood,  and  they  are  veiy  jealous 
of  each  other.  If  we  were  to  adopt  the  name  of 
one  of  these  towns,  we  would  be  looked  upon  as 
belonging  to  the  chief  of  that  town.  The 
natiyes  have  suggested  a  name  for  our  station, 
which,  if  not  yery  euphonious,  at  least  pleases 
them,  and  has  a  meaning  which  I  like.  They 
call  the  station  "Efulen,"  which  means  ''A 
Mingling. "  The  full  expression  at  first  suggest- 
ed was  ''Efulen  e  B6t/'  meaning  "A  Mingling 
of  the  Peoples."  The  name  seems  to  have 
suggested  itself  because  we  came  to  settle  all 
palavers  and  bring  people  together.  It  seems 
Tery  suitable,  and  we  shall  adopt  it  for  local  use. 

I  am  only  lately  beginning  to  realize  how  far- 
reaching  is  to  be  the  influence  of  the  work  done 
at  this  first  station.  Hardly  a  week  passes  that 
we  are  not  yisited  by  people  from  the  far  in- 
terior, sometimes  by  large  parties.  When  I 
visited  these  same  people  last  year,  they  would 
not  believe  what  I  told  them  of  our  plans  and 
aims,  but  now  they  see  them  being  carried  out 
before  their  eyes.  They  hear  not  only  from  us, 
but  also  from  the  Bule  they  have  come  to  visit, 
something  of  the  message  we  have  come  to 
bring.  As  they  go  back  to  their  homes  they 
will  carry  far  and  wide,  all  over  the  interior  of 
the  Bule  country,  some  idea  at  least  of  the  €k>s- 
pel  we  have  come  to  proclaim.  When  we  make 
known  the  truth  at  Nkongemekak,  we  are  really 
preaching  to  the  whole  region  lying  to  the  east 
and  northeast  for  a  hundred  miles. 

I  have  been  visited  by  people  from  many  of 
the  towns  I  passed  through  last  year.  Some  of 
them  did  not  treat  me  very  cordially  then,  but 
now  they  assure  me  if  I  will  only  come  back, 
they  will  receive  me  in  a  different  fashion.  I 
believe  that  I  could  now  go  over  all  the  country 
I  travelled  through  last  year,  even  where  I  was 
then  regarded  with  suspicion,  and  everywhere 
meet  with  a  most  cordial  reception. 

I  am  also  much  pleased  with  the  attention 
paid  to  the  Gospel  by  those  who  live  near  the 
station  and  have  heard  it  most  frequently.  I 
had  feared  that  after  their  curiosity  had  been 
somewhat  sated,  and  they  began  to  realize  what 
the  claims  and  demands  of  the  Gospel  really 
were,  that  there  would  arise  some  opposition, 


and  many  would  perhaps  openly  scoff  at  us  and 
our  message.  But  I  have  lately  been  greatly 
encouraged  by  the  attention  the  people  give  to 
the  Gospel.  They  listen  like  those  who  are 
really  impressed  by  what  they  hear. 

But  we  have  only  begun  the  work.  There 
are  so  many  towns  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
mission  that  I  have  not  yet  had  time  to  preach 
even  once  in  some  of  them.  When  I  go  back 
now  I  hope  to  spend  three  or  four  weeks  travel- 
ling through  the  towns  lying  between  Nkonge- 
mekak and  the  proposed  site  of  the  second 
station. 

I  am  almost  ashamed  to  confess  that  I  have 
not  yet  found  time  to  revisit  the  old  chief, 
Ndum,  by  whom  I  was  so  cordially  received  last 
year.  Early  this  year  he  sent  a  message  to  me 
reminding  me  of  my  promise  to  visit  him,  but  I 
have  not  yet  found  an  opportunity  to  do  so.  I 
hope  to  see  him,  however,  in  a  few  weeks.  The 
news  from  home  encourages  me  to  hope  that 
this  work  is  to  be  pushed,  but,  if  so,  it  is  high 
time  that  the  region  in  which  the  second  station 
is  to  be  situated,  should  be  revisited,  and  the 
people  prepared  for  our  coming.  The  whole 
country  is  open  before  us,  and  it  is  only  a  ques- 
tion of  strength  and  resources  how  widely  the 
Gospel  is  to  be  proclaimed. 

All  the  most  serious  difficulties  that  last  year 
troubled  me  seem  to  have  vanished.  Food  was 
then  very  scarce ;  now  it  seems  to  be  abundant 
enough  everywhere.  I  did  not  then  see  clearly 
how  we  were  to  get  the  carriers  necessary  for 
the  work;  now  I  could  easily  get  enough  of 
them  to  supply  half  a  dozen  stations.  I  repeat 
what  I  think  I  wrote  you  in  my  last,— the  field 
is  open  and  waiting  for  us.  I  see  nothing  to 
hinder  the  opening  of  four  or  five  stations  in 
this  new  field  within  two  years,  if  the  men  and 
money  can  only  be  found.  May  the  Board,  the 
Church,  and  our  Mission  be  enabled  to  see  and 
do  their  duty  in  this  the  day  of  their  oppor- 
tunity. 

Dr.  Good  writes  from  the  new  station  at 
a  later  date,  as  follows:  Mr.  Eerr  is  stiU 
busy  on  our  house,  in  which  we  are  already 
living,  and  which  is  nearlng  completion.  I 
am  working  as  best  I  can  on  the  language, 
and  hope  by  the  end  of  the  year  to  have  an  out- 
line of  the  grammar  and  a  fairly  complete  lexicon 
of  the  language  in  MS.  I  have  a  few  hymns  we 
are  beginning  to  use,  and  this  morning  I  read  to 
quite  a  good  congregation  a  portion  of  the 
Sermon  on  the  Mount,  which  I  have  translated, 
and  which  they  seemed  to  understand.  I  wish 
you  could  have  witnessed  our  service  this  mom- 


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iDg.  We  had  sixty  or  seyenty  persons  present, — 
Batanga  people,  Mabea,  and  perhaps  forty  Bule, 
many  more  than  have  attended  any  Sabbath 
before.  Of  course  we  haTe  often  had  more  than 
this  in  the  towns,  but  heretofore  not  so  many 
have  come  to  a  Sabbath  service  at  the  station. 
Bat  the  number  who  came  was  not  the  only 
gratifying  feature.  The  attention  was  very 
close,  and  the  order  excellent.  Usually  they 
have  laughed  and  talked  during  prayer,  but 
to  day  they  listened  quite  reverently.  Indeed, 
I  am  very  much  encouraged  by  the  interest  they 
take  in  the  Gospel  message. 


CHINA. 


Rev.  Robert  Coltman,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  Peking:— 
I  am  glad  to  state  that  this  year  the  record 
of  attendance  at  our  hospital  and  dispensary 
will  be  larger  than  ever  before  and  the  readiness 
with  which  the  Chinese  are  coming  to  submit  to 
operations  is  remarkable.  Considerable  interest 
has  been  manifested  by  the  in-patients  in  the 
prayer  meetings  held  morning  and  evening,  and 
I  believe  the  influence  will  be  seen  in  many 
changed  lives.  The  faces  of  the  poor  fellows 
actually  do  grow  more  kindly  and  more  intelli- 
gent, as  they  receive  nothing  but  kindness  from 
the  steward,  the  cook  and  the  assistants,  and 
often  they  volunteer  to  do  little  offices  for  each 
other  that  they  would  have  despised  to  do  when 
they  first  entered  the  hospital.  Surely  the  good 
fellowship  and  pity  which  they  show,  which  is 
10  foreign  to  ordinary  Chinese  behaviour,  is  the 
fruit  of  kind  treatment,  and  the  inculcation  of 
the  spirit  of  Christ,  as  recorded  in  His  €k)spel, 
which  they  daily  hear. 


PERSIA. 


INTERESTING  CASES  OP  CONVERSION. 

Miss  Annie  Montgomery,  Ramadan :  — The 
great  event  of  the  year  in  Hamadan  was  the 
coining  of  Dr.  Holmes  and  his  family,  long 
looked  for,  eagerly  expected,  and  gladly  wel- 
comed at  last  by  missionaries  and  people.  We 
think  ourselves  specially  favored  in  Hamadan, 
in  having  a  physician  with  the  wisdom  and 
experience  of  Dr.  Holmes  granted  us.  His 
services  were  soon  in  requisition— almost  his 
first  case  was  a  num  found  in  the  street  with  his 
throat  cut,  and  the  people  said  Dr.  Holmes  raised 
him  from  the  dead,  though  he  was  only  the 
means  of  prolonging  his  life  for  several  days. 
It  was  long  enough  for  him  to  have  the  message 
of  Obrist*s  mercy  and  love  told  him  again  and 
again. 


It  is  a  great  joy  to  us  to  see  the  number  of 
Moslems  constantly  present  at  our  Sabbath 
morning  service  in  the  church.  We  had  the 
communion  service  yesterday  and  another  Jew 
was  received.  His  story  is  encouraging  as  well 
as  interesting.  He  was  one  of  the  first  boarders 
in  the  Boys'  School,  when  it  was  in  Kasha  Shi- 
moons*  house,  and  he  remained  in  this  school  a 
long  time.  Then  he  left,  and  soon  fell  under  the 
influence  of  the  Babis,  accepted  and  propagated 
their  doctrines,  and  seemed  a  most  unpromising 
case.  He  was  prayed  for  specially  by  a  younger 
brother,  and  subsequently  heard  a  sermon  by 
Mr.  Hawkes  which  so  aroused  his  conscience  that 
he  had  no  peace  till  he  found  it  in  Christ  The 
other  new  member  received  was  a  young  woman 
who  was  in  the  Faith  Hubbard  School  a  very 
short  time  before  her  marriage,  and  I  had  no 
idea  that  any  lasting  impression  was  made  on 
her  mind,  until  she  told  me  on  Saturday  her 
hope  in  Christ  dated  from  that  time.  As  these 
two  candidates  confessed  their  faith  yesterday, 
it  was  a  fresh  reminder  of  the  biblical  injunction 
to  U8  laborers,  ''In  the  morning  sow  thy  seed 
and  in  the  evening  withhold  not  thine  hand,  for 
thou  knowest  not  which  shall  prosper,  whether 
this  or  that,  or  whether  they  shall  both  be  alike 
good." 

The  prayer  meeting  for  Jewish  women  has  an 
increasingly  large  attendance ;  and  the  work  in 
Sheverine  goes  quietly  on.  My  sister  now  goes 
with  one  of  the  gentlemen  to  the  Sabbath  ser- 
vice, which  is  held  in  the  afternoon,  the  teacher 
taking  a  morning  service  himself.  There  are 
twenty -six  pupils  in  the  school. 

A  SUMMONS  BY  TELEGRAPH. 

On  Friday  Dr.  Holmes  was  telegraphed  for 
by  the  Ameeri-Nizam,  €k)vernor  of  Kurdistan, 
formerly  (Governor  of  Tabriz,  asking  that  the 
Doctor  visit  him  professionally  and  he  would 
provide  all  that  was  necessary  for  his  journey. 
He  left  Hamadan  Saturday  afternoon,  expecting 
to  be  gone  two  weeks,  and  we  hope  this  visit 
may  be  the  means  of  opening  another  door  for 
the  entrance  of  the  Gospel.  Already  we  see 
what  a  blessing  it  is  for  us  that  Mrs.  Holmes  is  a 
physician  as  well  as  her  husband;  and  we  are 
thankful  for  all  the  goodness  the  Father  has  be- 
stowed upon  us.  May  he  make  us  worthy  of  it 
all. 


Magic  Lantern  Lectures  upon  India,  China 
and  Persia  are  now  ready. 

Address,  Vf.  H.  Grant, 

68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


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Presbyterian  Churches  in  the  Adiron- 
DACKs.  The  cut  on  opposite  page,  **  specially 
drawn  for  T?ie  Eoangelist^^^  preBeuta,  ** artist- 
ically grouped,"  several  churches  and  one 
manse,  all  representing  a  home  missionary 
work,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Presbyteries 
of  Champlain  and  Utica,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Synod  of  New  York,  and  of  the  Board 
of  Home  Missions.  This  work  is  supervised 
bj  Rev.  R.  G.  McCarthy,  Presbyterial  Mis- 
sionary. 

In  the  94  miles  from  Arkansas  City,  Kan- 
sas, to  Guthrie,  Oklahoma,  along  the  A.  T.  & 
S.  F.  R.  R.  there  are  more  than  200  saloons 
and  not  a  single  church. 


One  of  our  consecrated  missionaries  in  the 
^West  who  has  reached  his  three  score  years, 
^walks  twelve  miles  and  preaches  three  times 
every  Sabbath.  He  says  that  he  doesn't 
know  anything  about  the  hardships  that 
some  people  talk  about. 


A  precious  work  of  grace  has  been  in  pro- 
gress in  the  North  Church,  Kalamazoo,  Mich., 
of  which  Rev.  J.  Emory  Fisher  is  pastor. 
About  thirty  converts  are  reported.  Out  in 
a  country  charge  thirty- five  made  profession. 
These  are  small  home  mission  churches. 


If  our  country  is  to  be  saved  it  must  be 
accomplished  by  gospel  agencies  of  our  own 
land.  No  other  country  will  help  us.  We 
must  do  this  and  more.  We  must  help  all 
other  countries  on  the  face  of  the  earth  by 
evangelizing  the  multitudes  they  send  to  us. 


The  mission  school  at  Hyrum,  Utah,  has 
one  promising  boy  in  college,  another  in  the 
New  Jersey  Academy  at  Logan  preparing  for 
college,  and  three  off  teaching  school.  In 
addition  to  these  and  other  good  results  the 
church  of  Hyrum  is  the  outgrowth  of  that 
school. 


125  railroads,  comprising  one-third  of  the 
mileage  of  the  country,  are  in  the  hands  of 
receivers.  It  is  not  hard  to  understand  why 
the  Boards  of  Missions,  with  all  their  care- 
ful economy  and  wise  forethought  are  in 
arrears.  The  capital  of  the  country  has 
retired  and  is  resting. 


A  colony  of  Bohemians  out  in  Kansas, 
comprising  about  sixty  families,  had  not 
heard  the  gospel  in  their  own  language  for 
more  than  twenty  years  until  recently.  The 
older  ones  do  not  understand  the  English 
language.  They  now  enjoy  the  ministry  of 
Rev.  William  Schiller. 


An  old  Catholic  priest  recently  died  at 
Bernalillo,  N.  Mexico,  leaving  sixty  barrels 
of  wine  over  which  his  successor  and  some  of 
the  Sisters  are  having  a  law  suit.  There 
may  be  nothing  remarkable  about  this,  but 
there  would  be  if  the  parties  had  been  Pres- 
byterian ministers  and  missionary  teachers. 


A  home  missionary  in  Central  New  York 
has  this  to  say  about  the  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. : 
*^Our  society  continues  to  be  the  main  stay 
of  the  church,  the  means  of  spiritual  growth 
of  our  individual  members.  Our  people  are 
drilled  through  this  institution  to  take  active 
part  in  the  prayer  meeting." 

A  missionary  in  Kansas  says:  ^^  These 
young  people  raise  about  half  the  salary  of 
the  pastor." 

At  Pleasant  Grove  a  church  of  14  mem- 
bers has  been  organized  with  three  faithful 
elders.  The  village  has  about  2000  inhab- 
itants and  this  is  its  first  and  only  church. 
It  was  a  great  day  when  the  church  was  or- 
ganized. Revivals  of  great  power  are  re- 
ported from  many  parts  of  Utah.  Thus  it  is 
that  our  thirty  odd  mission  schools  are 
fountains  sending  forth  lefreshing  streams 
through  that  dry  and  thirsty  land. 


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If  the  times  have  been  hard  in  the  East 
they  have  been  doubly  so  in  the  West.  A 
missionary  whose  church  was  unable  to  meet 
its  part  of  the  salary  says:  ^*  My  wife  has 
been  teaching  school  for  money  to  pay  my 
salary." 

Another  mis^onary  writes :  **My  church 
will  not  be  able  to  meet  more  than  half  their 
pledges  this  year  if  they  do  that  much.  If  I 
had  not  a  little  means  of  my  own  I  could  not 
continue  my  work." 

From  all  parts  of  the  country  come  mingled 
murmurings  and  rejoicings.  The  ''hard 
times  "  are  not  an  unmitigated  evil.  Almost 
every  letter  that  brings  complaint  of  priva- 
tion and  hardship  ends  with  joyful  tidings  of 
souls  converted.  Times  of  serious  financial 
depression  are  always  followed  bj  revivals  of 
religion.  Everybody  knows  that,  and  the 
reason  for  it  is  evident.  When  men  fail  in 
their  efforts  to  build  treasure  cities  on  this 
side  of  Jordan,  they  are  sure  to  turn  their 
thoughts  to  the  other  side.  And  when  pros- 
perity doesn't  prove  a  blessing  to  men,  GKxl 
tries  adversity  on  them,  always  with  positive 
results  one  way  or  the  other.  He  is  deter- 
mined to  bless,  if  He  can. 


Many  of  our  mission  churches  are  so  situ- 
ated as  to  feel  severely  the  sti  ingency  of  the 
times  and  are  unable  to  meet  their  pledges  for 
the  minister's  salary.  The  condition  of  the 
Board's  treasury  makes  it  impossible  at 
present  to  increase  appropriations  even  to 
exceptional  cases.  Here  is  a  representative 
case:  ''  It  is  with  the  utmost  reluctance  that 
I  write  this  letter.  For  our  cause  here  was 
never  in  as  hopeful  condition  as  now.  Attend- 
ance on  all  services  is  increasing.  But  the 
obverse  side  of  the  picture  is  this:  Owing  to 
many  removals  from  our  midst  and  the  very 
hard  times  my  income  is  so  small  that  I  can- 
not supply  bread  and  clothing  for  my  little 
children.  Were  it  not  for  the  money  sent  by 
your  Board  for  the  last  half  year  there  would 
be  no  fuel  in  the  manse  to-day  to  keep  my 
family  from  freezing,  (and  the  thermometer 
now  registers  thirty  below  zero),  and  were  it 

not  for  the  kindness  of  the  ladies  of  B 

Church  in  sending  a   ''  missionary  box "  I 


would  have  to  preach  in  a  patched  coat  and 
be  without  overcoat,  shoes  or  stockings.  I 
do  not  pen  these  lines  in  a  spirit  of  grumb- 
ling, for  I  can  better  my  condition  by  return- 
ing to  the  field  I  left,   or  by  accepting  a 

call  to  H ,  but  I  believe  the  Master  has  a 

work  for  me  here,  yea  more,  I  begin  to  see 
the  dawn  of  a  better  day  for  this  church. 
But  with  an  income  of  about  a  doUar  a  day  I 
can  not  long  sustain  a  family  of  six." 


The  revival  at  Springville,  Utah,  referred 
to  in  Mr.  Shepherd's  letter  on  another  page, 
is  progressing  with  great  power.  A  later 
communication  informs  us  that  crowds  hear 
the  Word  with  intense  interest.  There  are 
many  converts.  Ten  are  reported  from 
Spanish  Fork,  twenty-five  from  Payson  and 
seventy  from  Springville.  These  little  cities 
are  in  Utah  valley,  sixty  miles  south  of  Salt 
Lake  City  and  not  far  apart.  Our  corres- 
pondent goes  on  to  say :  ''  There  have  been 
scenes  more  like  Pentecost  than  any  I  ever 
saw  before.  All  ages  come,  the  gray-haired 
and  the  little  children.  Yesterday  was  mid- 
week Sabbath  with  these  anxious  ones.  Our 
church  will  not  hold  the  people.  The  com- 
munity has  been  evangelized  as  never  before. 
We  look  for  conversions  all  winter." 


CHRISTIAN  PATRIOTISM  IN 
CALIFORNIA.* 

BEV.  JAMES  8.  MoDONALD. 

Clear  and  appealing  comes  the  call  of  the 
great  Redeemer  and  Head  of  the  Church  to 
us  now  to  give  the  Gospel,  with  all  its  reme- 
dial agencies  for  the  relief  of  sinful  and 
suffering  men,  to  this  State  and  this  ever 
on-going  country. 

Patriotism  has  inspired  the  State  to  unfurl 
the  nation's  banner  over  every  school-house. 
Thus  would  the  State  enkindle  and  increase 
the  love  of  liberty  and  country  in  the  hearts 
of  the  children. 

Religion  must  arouse  the  Church  to  a  holy 
and  quenchless  enthusiasm  to  place  the  ban- 
ner of  the  cross  over  every  home.  It  must 
strive  to  awaken  and  make  ardent  in  the 
hearts  of  parents  and  children  love  for  God, 

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for  parity  and  for  mankind.  When  men 
love  God  and  one  another  there  will  be  no 
oppression  and  strife;  no  such  unsolved  social 
and  economic  problems  as  now  baffle  all  re- 
formers. The  nation*s  peace  and  prosperity 
can  only  be  secured  through  the  influence, 
prevalence  and  potency  of  religion.  It  is 
righteousness  that  exalteth  a  nation. 

In  no  States  in  the  Union  do  we  so  much 
need  the  uplifting,  sustaining,  energizing, 
conquering  influence  of  godliness  as  im  Cali- 
fornia and  Nevada.  Worldliness,  skepticism, 
Sabbath-desecration  test  the  patience  and 
long-suffering  of  God,  and  warn  us  of  danger 
and  disaster. 

Great  has  been  the  goodness  of  God  to  us, 
as  it  was  to  His  people  Israel.  We  should 
learn  lessons  of  wisdom  from  their  history. 

Writers,  fanailiar  with  the  holy  land  of  the 
Orient  and  this  highly  favored  land  of  the 
Occident,  have  noted  many  things  that  they 
have  in  common. 

To  the  chosen  people  it  was  said : 

For  the  Lord  thy  God  bringeth  thee  into  a  good 
land,  a  land  of  brooks  of  water,  of  fountains,  and 
depths  that  spring  out  of  vaUeys  and  hills;  a  land 
of  wheat  and  barley,  and  vines,  and  fig  trees,  and 
pomeg^ranates;  a  land  of  oil,  olives  and  honey;  a 
land  wherein  thou  sbalt  eat  bread  without  soarce- 
ziess;  then  sbalt  not  lack  anything  in  it;  a  land 
whose  stones  are  iron,  and  out  of  whose  hills  thoa 
mayest  dig  brass.    Deut.  viii  :  7-9. 

And  to  them  was  given  the  solemn  ad- 
monition : 

But  thou  Shalt  remember  the  Lord  thy  Gk>d ;  for  it 
is  He  that  giveth  thee  power  to  get  wealth,  that 
He  may  establish  His  covenant  which  he  sware  unto 
thy  fathers,  as  it  is  this  day.  And  it  shall  be  if 
thoa  do  at  aU  forget  the  Lord  thy  Gkxl,  and  walk 
after  other  Gods,  and  serve  them,  and  worship  them, 
I  testify  against  you  this  day  that  ye  shall  surely 
perish.    Vs.  18,19. 

They  did  forget;  did  walk  after  other  gods; 
and  in  consequence  their  fruitful  and  beauti- 
ful country  is  to  this  day  desolate. 

It  is  an  object  lesson  to  the  nations,  that 
they  will  do  well  to  study. 

Nothing  beneath  Syrian  skies  ever  sur- 
passed this  land  bathed  in  the  glory  of  this 
genial  sunlight,  mild  of  climate,  alluring  the 
lovers  of  the  beautiful  by  the  unsurpassed 
variety  and  grandeur  of  its  scenery. 

What  was  Palestine's  Mediterranean  com- 
pared with  California's  Pacific?     What  its 


commerce  and  ships  of  Tarshish  in  compari- 
son with  all  that  passes  through  the  €k>lden 
Gate,  and  comes  through  other  channels  by 
sea  and  land  f  What  the  valley  of  the 
Jordan  and  the  plain  of  Esdraelon  to  the 
valleys  of  Eel  River,  the  Sacramento,  San 
Joaquin,  Santa  Clara,  San  Gabriel  and  El 
Cajou  f  What  the  cedars  of  Lebanon  and 
the  oaks  of  Ephraim  by  the  side  of  the  pines 
of  the  Sierras  and  the  redwoods  that  stand  in 
majesty  above  Santa  Cruz  and,  noblest  forest 
on  the  continent,  reach  just  across  the  Oregon 
line  %  What  the  olive  groves,  vineyards,  fig 
trees  and  wheat  fields  of  the  East  compared 
with  what  is  actual  and  possible  in  the  yet 
partially  developed  foot-hiUs,  mountain  val- 
leys and  great  plains  of  this  Gk>lden  West  f 

But  what  profit  is  there  in  it  all;  what  will 
it  avail,  if  we  follow  in  the  footsteps  of 
apostate  Israel  f 

As  plainly  as  he  warned  them  the  Lord  our 
God  is  speaking  unto  us : 

For  mine  eyes  are  upon  all  their  ways;  they  are 
not  hid  from  my  face,  neither  is  their  iniquity  bid 
from  mine  eyes.  And  first,  I  will  recompense  their 
iniquity  and  their  sin  double,  because  they  have 
defiled  my  land,  they  have  filled  mine  inheritance 
with  the  carcasses  of  their  detestable  and  abomina- 
ble things.    Jer.  xvi:  17, 18. 

Iniquity  clothes  itself  among  us  in  robes  of 
many  dyes.  One  sin  is  very  common,  very 
grievous  in  God's  sight;  one  that  brought 
disaster  upon  his  ancient  people. 

The  Sabbath  is  a  day  of  business  and 
pleasure-seeking.  In  nearly  all  the  smaller 
towns  and  villages  stores  are  epen  for  trade; 
everywhere  saloons  are  thronged,  and  very 
many  must  toil  seven  days  in  the  week  or 
give  up  their  places.  Even  when  the  state 
had  a  Sunday  law  public  sentiment  would 
not  demand  its  enforcement. 

God^s  warnings  are  as  impressive  and  sig- 
nificant now  as  they  were  when  the  eloquent 
and  thrilling  words  of  Jeremiah  fell  upon  the 
heedless  traflickers  and  pleasure-seekers  of 
Jerusalem  and  Judea  and  the  distant  prov- 
inces that  sent  their  caravans  to  its  gates. 
The  solemn  command  of  Jehovah  was : 

Go  and  stand  in  the  gates  of  the  Children  of  the 
People  .  .  .  and  say  unto  them  .  .  .  Take  heed  to 
yourselves  and  bear  no  burdens  on  the  Sabbath 
day,  nor  bring  it  in  by  the  gates  of  Jerusalem. 
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he  Sabbath  day,  Deither  do  any  work,  but  hallow 
the  Sabbath  as  I  commanded  yoa.  But  they  obeyed 
Dot,  neither  inclined  their  ear,  but  made  their  neck 
sti£F  that  they  might  not  hear  nor  receive  instruction. 

And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  if  ye  diligently  hearken 
unto  me,  saith  the  Lord,  to  bring  no  burden  through 
the  gates  of  this  city  on  the  Sabbath  day,  but  hal- 
low the  Sabbath  day  to  do  no  work  therein,  then 
shall  there  enter  into  the  gates  of  this  city  kings 
and  princes  sitting  upon  the  throne  of  David,  riding 
in  chariots  and  on  horses,  they,  and  their  princes, 
the  men  of  Judah,  and  the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem, 
and  this  city  shall  remain  forever.  And  they  shall 
come  from  the  cities  of  Judah,  and  from  the  places 
about  Jerusalem,  and  from  the  land  of  Benjamin, 
and  from  the  plain,  and  from  the  mountains,  and 
from  the  south,  bringing  burnt  offerings  and  peace 
offerings,  and  sacrifices,  and  meat  offerings,  and 
incense,  and  bringing  sacrifice  of  praise  unto  the 
house  of  the  Lord. 

But  if  ye  will  not  hearken  unto  me  to  hallow  the 
Sabbath  day,  and  not  to  bear  a  burden,  even  enter- 
ing in  at  the  gates  of  Jerusalem  on  the  Sabbath  day, 
then  will  I  kindle  a  fire  in  the  gates  thereof  and  it 
shall  devour  the  palaces  of  Jerusalem,  and  it  shall 
not  be  quenched.— Jer.  xvii:  19-27. 

Here  €k)d  hangs  before  us  these  two  pic- 
tures; one,  what  might  have  been  beautiful, 
glorious  forever;  a  land  flowing  with  milk 
and  honey;  a  city  beautiful  for  situation,  the 
joy  of  the  whole  earth ;  royalty  thronging  its 
streets;  a  happy  people  crowding  its  holy 
temple,  singing  joyfully  the  praises  of  Jeho- 
vah; a  land  of  peace  and  plenty;  a  city  ever 
admired  and  entered  with  gladness.  The 
other,  the  one  that  was  fulfilled,  one  of  utter 
desolation;  the  city  in  ruins,  the  temple 
destroyed;  the  land  laid  waste;  the  unhappy 
people  scattered  and  pining  in  exile. 

The  Lord  loved  the  gates  of  Zion,  and  the 
land  given  to  His  chosen  people  as  tenderly 
as  he  loves  our  own  cities  and  country,  and 
it  is  supreme  folly  for  us  to  provoke  his 
righteous  indignation  by  disregarding  his 
commands.  Solemnly  to  remind  us  of  our 
peril,  he  gives  us  these  object  lessons;  the 
one  inspiring  us  with  hope  and  joy;  the 
other  sad  enough,  prophetic  enough,  to  fill 
the  heart  with  despair. 

To  His  Church  God  says  to-day :  Make  this 
a  holy  land,  law-abiding,  reverent,  devout; 
andfit  shall  be  fruitful,  peaceful,  glorious  for- 
ever. 

AndVith  zeal,  consecration,  energy,  devo- 
tion, the  redeemed  Church  of  Christ,  the 
hope  of  the  nation  and  the  world,  and  this 


Synod  of  California  should  enter  anew  on 
this  great  and  blessed  work. 


NEW  YORK  SYNODICAL  AID. 

HOW  IT  CAME  TO  BE. 

It  was  at  the  suggestion  of  the  now  lament- 
ed, and  ever  to  be  honored.  Dr.  Kendall, 
through  the  General  Assembly  of  1883,  and 
enacted  by  the  Synod  in  1886. 

OBJECTS  TO  BE  GAINED. 

Relief  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  from 
the  support  of  the  weak  churches  in  New 
York  State;  more  efllcient  care  of  the  weak 
churches  by  restoration  of  constitutional  epis- 
copal authority  and  sympathy  of  the  Presby- 
teries toward  the  churches;  revival  of  de- 
pressed churches;  immediate  expression  of 
the  ^^ fellowship*^  of  the  stronger  members  of 
the  ^^ one  body*'  to  the  weaker;  to  maintain 
the  rural  churches,  that  suffer  by  removals, 
as  training  schools  in  which  to  raise  up  Chris- 
tians for  workers  elsewhere;  to  strengthen 
such  churches  that  they  may  win  and  absorb 
the  foreign  elements  that  come  in,  and  so 
accept  the  responsibility  of  Foreign  Missions 
brought  to  our  very  doors  by  a  commanding 
Providence;  and  for  the  better  promotion  of 
the  work  that  the  Master  assigns  to  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  our  bounds. 

THE  PLAN.    * 

The  Synod  to  raise  sufficient  funds  to  sus- 
tain its  own  dependent  churches  by  appor- 
tioning the  amount  among  the  Presbyteries, 
and  the  Presbyteries  equitably  among  their 
churches,  considering  their  financial  ability, 
to  secure  a  contribution  from  every  church; 
a  permanent  committee  of  Synod,  and  a  com- 
mittee on  Synodical  Aid  in  each  Presbytery 
to  see  to  it  that  the  cause  is  presented  to  the 
pastors  and  sessions ;  and  the  appointment  of 
a  Superintendent  charged  with  aiding  the 
prosecution  of  the  whole  work. 

This  plan  was  adopted  in  1886,  and  has 
been  commended  by  every  Synod  since  and 
the  cause  urged  upon  the  attention  of  Pres- 
byteries and  churches. 

APPEALS  OF  SYNOD. 

Appeals  have  been  made  to  Women's  So- 
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women  in  the  strong  churches  aid  their  sis- 
ters in  the  **  one  body  "  who  are  heroically 
bearing  heavy  burdens  ? 

Appeals  have  been  made  to  Sabbath-schools 
and  Young  People's  Societies.  What  more 
becoming  than  the  young  giving  arm  of  sup- 
port and  heart  to  the  aged  and  infirm  ?  Why 
shoald  not  the  heart  of  the  Christian  Endeav- 
orer  turn  back  to  the  old  altar  of  blessing 
with  gifts  of  gratitude  % 

WORK  OF  THK  SUPERINTENDENT. 

To  visit  vacant  fields  and  places  where 
may  be  need  of  new  organization ;  to  preach ; 
to  hold  evangelistic  meetings  in  unsupplied 
churches;  to  visit  families  where  there  is  no 
pastor;  to  administer  the  ordinances;  coq- 
fer  with  congregations;  encourage  Sabbath- 
school8 ;  to  aid  in  securing  funds;  to  introduce 
suitable  candidates;  to  act  as  a  bureau  of  in- 
formation between  ministers  and  churches, 
and  work  for  the  **  general  fostering  and  de- 
velopment of  Presbyterianism  "  in  the  Synod. 

DIRECTIONS. 

The  fiscal  year  of  Synod  is  from  October 
to  October. 

Contributions  should  be  sent  to  Mr.  O.  D. 
E:aton,  No.  53  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.  Y., 
marked  ''For  New  York  Sy nodical  Aid 
Fund."  J.  N.  CROCKER, 

Synodical  Superintendent. 
133  Circular  St.,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 


PERILS  OF  IMMIGRATION. 

BY  REV.  GEO.  F.  McAFEE. 

A  State  of  affairs  exists  in  our  land  to-day, 
the  like  of  which  has  not  been  seen  since  the 
world  began  to  make  history.  The  neare&t  ap  - 
proach  to  it  was  at  the  time  of  the  crucifixion 
of  Christ  and  the  day  immediately  following. 
When  Peter  preached  on  the  day  of  Pente- 
cost he  had  in  his  audience  men  from  over 
the  then  known  world,  and  speaking  every 
language.  But  the  known  world,  at  that 
time,  did  not  equal  in  diversity  of  tongue  the 
world  of  to-day.  Here,  in  the  United  States, 
we  have  a  repetition  of  those  conditions,  only 
enlarged  and  intensified. 

It  has  been  said  that  one  might  take  his 
stand  on  a  street  corner  in  any  thoroughfare 


of  any  of  our  great  cities  and  preach  in  any 
known  language,  and  within  five  minutes  he 
would  have  an  intelligent  listener.  They  are 
all  here,  and  more  of  the  same  kind  coming. 
How  did  it  happen?  What  is  the  import, 
and  what  is  to  be  the  outcome  of  it  all? 
These  are  questions  which  agitate  both  Church 
and  nation.  The  presence  of  these  peoples, 
saturated  with  old-world  notions  and  clinging 
to  them  with  desperate  tenacity,  is  fraught 
with  danger  to  both  Church  and  state.  Some- 
thing must  be  done,  and  done  quickly,  to 
stay  the  tide  of  gigantic  evils  which  is  rolling 
in  upon  us  like  a  flood. 

The  people  of  this  land  are  in  no  small 
degree  responsible  for  this  rush  of  foreigners 
to  our  shores.  We  have  united  our  voices  in 
proclaiming  to  the  world  our  greatness.  He 
who  could  cry  the  loudest  and  longest  has 
always  been  considered  the  greatest  patriot. 
The  salubrity  of  her  climate,  the  fertility  of 
her  soil,  the  variety  of  her  products,  the 
richness  of  her  mines,  the  wealth  of  her 
resources,  the  facility  and  ease  with  which 
her  people  secure  homes,  and  the  sense  of 
liberty  which  men  breathe  in  with  the  very 
air,  is  the  song  which  has  been  sung  to  the 
whole  earth. 

This  glad  news  has  gone  through  the  old 
world  on  the  wings  of  the  wind.  The  result 
is  that  it  has  brought  to  us  men  of  means 
and  energy.  They  have  helped  to  open  our 
mines,  operate  our  mills,  build  our  railroads, 
and  develop  our  commerce.  It  has  brought 
also  an  army  from  among  the  middle  classes. 
Men  of  brain  and  brawn,  schooled  to  industry 
and  economy.  These  have  come  into  our 
cities  and  are  doing  the  hard  work  in  all 
departments  of  industry  and  business.  They 
have  settled  on  the  broad  prairies  of  the 
great  west,  and  are  causing  them  to  yield  up 
their  treasures  of  wheat  and  other  sources  of 
wealth .  The& e  peoples  are  rapid ly  becomin g, 
in  all  essential  qualities,  American ;  and  are 
proving  a  source  of  strength  and  blessing  to 
Church  and  state. 

But,  alas,  this  same  good  news  which 
induced  the  immigration  of  most  worthy  and 
desirable  elements,  has  also  been  heard  by 
the  shiftless,  criminal  classes,  and  they  are 
coming,  too.     Of  late  they  have  pouied  in 


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upon  us  like  a  flood.  They  have  brought 
with  them  the  iniquitous  principles  and  prac- 
tices of  the  meet  despicable  populations  of 
foreign  lands.  They  infest  our  cities  like 
vermin;  and  not  content  with  being  tolerated, 
they  aspire  to  rule,  and  in  many  places  rule 
they  will. 

But  while  we  as  American  citizens,  proud 
of  our  country,  and  rejoicing  in  her  great- 
ness, have  had  a  hand  in  bringing  about  this 
state  of  affairs,  God  also  has  had  a  part  in  it. 
He  has  been  preparing  the  nation  and  the 
Church  for  just  such  a  state  of  affairs.  And, 
as  God  does  not  act  without  a  purpose,  He 
has  a  purpose  in  this.  It  is  not  for  us  to 
question  the  wisdom,  but  to  ascertain  the 
purpose  of  God  in  it  all. 

God  has  stirred  up  the  eagles'  nests  in  this 
process  of  preparation.  Churches  in  the 
East  and  middle  West  have  been  obliged  to 
give  up,  willingly  or  otherwise,  some  of  their 
brightest  and  best  sons  and  daughters.  The 
complaint  has  been  made  for  years,  that  the 
cities  are  absorbing  the  best  business  talent 
and  the  most  promising  Christian  youth  of 
the  country  churches.  So  the  great  West  has 
taken  to  herself  another  company  of  these 
energetic,  aggressive  young  men,  and  the 
churches  mourn  and  often  languish. 

To  look  at  this  matter  in  a  superficial  man- 
ner, one  would  doubtless  find  in  the  present 
situation  sufficient  reason  for  profound  con- 
cern. It  is  no  wonder  men  lift  up  their 
voices  in  excited  alarm,  and  appeal  to  the 
Christian  Church  to  do  something  in  self- 
defense.  But  can  we  not  discern  the  hand  of 
God  in  all  this?  Who  but  God,  who  has  a 
great  purpose  to  conserve,  has  so  wisely  and 
well  distributed  these  energetie  Christian 
forces?  Into  the  great  centres  of  population 
where  congregate  and  segregate  such  vast 
hoards  of  these  unevangelized,  God  has  sent 
these  earnest  active  men  and  women.  Out 
on  the  frontier  where  are  colonies  of  these 
unsaved  foreigners,  God  has  planted  indi- 
viduals and  groups  of  His  chosen  ones.  And 
the  remainder  of  these  peoples  He  has  directed 
into  the  very  midst  of  the  churches  so 
recently  depleted  by  the  going  away  of  their 
sons  and  daughters.  What  means  it  all;  save 
that  God  is  preparing  for  a  mighty  manifesta- 


tion of  Himself  and  a  glorious  demonstration 
of  His  power  unto  salvation? 

There  is  another  very  important  fact,  for 
fact  it  is,  to  be  taken  into  consideration  in 
our  attempt  to  discover  God^s  purpose  in  all 
this,  although  we  know  that  in  the  old  world 
many  churches  are  doing  heroic  work  in  the 
attempt  to  bring  the  Gospel  to  the  great  mass 
of  the  unevangelized  in  their  midst.     Yet  we 
cannot  close  our  eyes  to  the  fact,  that  in 
many  places  the  Church  has  not  done  her 
duty  by  these  peoples.    We  have  in  this 
country  what  is  unknown  in  any  other  coun- 
try in  the  world,  save  possibly  the  British 
Isles,  a  concerted  and  organized  movement 
to  reach  every  inhabitant  of  the  land  with 
the  Gospel.     The  Bible  is  being  placed  in 
every  family,  and  the  Christian  Church  is 
endeavoring  honestly  and  earnestly  to  plant 
a  Sabbath- school,  mission  school  or  a  church 
within  easy  reach  of  every  individual.    In 
cities,  towns,  villages   and    throughout  the 
whole  land  this  effort  is  being  made.     So 
earnestly  and  enthusiastically  is  this  being 
undertaken  by  the  Christian  people,  that  it 
has  called  out  the  criticism  of  the  world;  and, 
strange  to  say,  even  some  Christian  people 
complain  that  one  denomination  is  crowding 
upon  another,  and  money  is  being  wasted  in 
building  houses  of  worship  and  maintaining 
the  Gospel  in  the  mountains  and  valleys  and 
out-of-the-way  places  of  our  land.     But  is 
not  God  well  pleased  with  this?    Surely,  for 
we  are  commanded  to  preach  the  Gospel  to 
every  creature.     God  seeing  His  Church  in 
America  so  deeply  interested  in  this  work, 
and  so  enthusiastic  over  it,  is  sending  these 
unevangelized  people  to  us,  and  scattering 
them  amongst  us  that  they  may  receive  the 
Gosiiel. 

Instead,  therefore,  of  looking  upon  the  pres- 
ent state  of  affairs  with  alarm,  the  Christian 
Church  should  accept  it  with  thankfulness. 

The  Christian  forces  are  well  and  wisely 
distributed.  We  do  not  have  to  search  out 
these  unsaved  people,  but  they  are  brought 
right  into  our  midst,  under  the  very  eaves  <rf 
our  churches,  and  we  have  simply  to  gather 
them  in.  Never  a  land  better  prepared. 
Never  a  Church  better  equipped.  Never 
promise  so  potent.    Since  the  Church  has  had 


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a  history,  in  no  country  at  no  time  has  she 
had  such  a  grand  opportunity  to  do  great 
things  for  GUxl.  The  opportunity  of  the 
ages  is  ours.  Let  the  Church  not  falter.  Let 
her  arise,  and  girding  herself  with  strength, 
conquer  this  land  for  Christ,  and  with  it 
hasten  the  saving  of  the  nations.  Our  own 
heloved  Church  is  doing  much  in  furthering 
this  great  cause.  But  we  have  not,  and  are 
not  doing  all  we  can  or  should  do.  With 
financial  ability  equal  to  any,  and  talent  sur- 
passed by  none,  it  is  ours  to  lead  in  this  great 
work  of  bringing  these  multitudes  to  Christ. 


Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  at  Home. 


JANUARY,    ....  The  New  West. 

FEBRUARY,      ....  The  Indimas. 

MARCH,        ....         The  Older  Btatea. 

APRIL, Tlie  Cities. 

MAY,       .....  The  Monnoas. 

jUNB, Our  Missionariea. 

JULY, Rssulte  of  the  Year. 

AUGUST,  Romaaiste  aad  Poreigaert. 

SBPTBMBBR,        ....      The  Outlook. 
OCTOBBR,       ....  The  Treasury. 

NOVBMBBR,  The  Mexicaas. 

DBCBMBBR,  ....  The  South. 


THE  OLDER  STATES. 

All  that  region  lying  north  of  Virginia, 
Kentucky  and  Missouri,  and  between  the 
Atlantic  coast  and  the  western  boundaries  of 
Wisconsin  and  Iowa  we  call  the  ^' older 
States,^'*  It  comprises  less  tTian  one-seventh  of 
the  area  of  the  United  States — not  counting 
Alaska — but  contains  more  than  one-hdlf  of 
our  erUire  population  and  three-fourths  of  the 
membership  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
These  States  have  always  been  the  main  stay 
and  support  of  the  government  and  the 
Church.  Their  happy  homes,  their  splendid 
churches,  their  great  colleges  and  seminaries 
of  leamiDg,  their  growing  cities  and  gCDeral 
prosperity  are  the  outcome  and  issue  of  home 
missionary  effort  in  their  earlier  years. 

This  region  was  settled,  not  by  the  subjects 
of  some  mighty  conquering  monarch,  but  by 
liberty-loving.  God-fearing  men  and  women 
voluntarily  seeking  permanent  homes.  Its 
cities  are  not  monuments  of^ proud  sovereigns. 


They  are  the  homes  and  business  centres  of 
enterprising  freemen.  The  forces  that  have 
given  character  to  these  communities,  shaped 
their  institutions,  nourished  and  propelled 
their  benevolences*and  formulated  their  laws 
have  been  gospel  ideas  working  down  into 
society  and  insensibly  moulding  and  shaping 
it.  For  the  sacredness  of  our  homes  and  the 
safe  guards  of  society  we  are  indebted  pri- 
marily to  the  Bible. 

But  while  all  this  is  assuring  to  our  sense 
of  security,  and  cheering  to  our  hopes  for  the 
future  it  is  well  for  us  to  remember  that  it  is 
only  by  a  constant  supply  of  the  originating 
and  sustaining  force  that  these  blessings  are 
to  be  perpetuated.  No  community  could  long 
maintain  its  Christian  character,  however 
pious  its  citizens  might  be,  if  its  ordinary 
means  of  grace  were  suspended.  If  in  an 
ideal  community  where  every  individual  were 
a  consistent  Christian,  the  churches  should  be 
closed,  prayer  meetings  discontinued,  and 
Sabbath-schools  abandoned,  it  would  be  but  a 
short  time  before  its  street  comers  would  be 
occupied  by  saloons,  its  parks  become  beer 
gardens  and  its  boulevards,  race  courses. 
Every  pastor  understands  so  well  the  ten- 
dency of  even  sanctified  humanity  that  he 
will  not  peril  the  spiritual  interests  of  his 
church  by  omitting  a  single  Sabbath's  service 
if  he  can  possibly  avoid  it.  The  higher 
society  rises  in  intelligence,  the  richer  it  be- 
comes in  material  wealth  and  the  more  enter- 
prising and  active  in  the  business  of  life,  the 
more  vigorous  and  multiplied  must  be  the 
means  of  grace.  Our  oldest  and  best 
churched  communities  cannot,  therefore, 
cease  to  require  sustained  and  vigorous  gospel 
work. 

Another  reason  for  the  maintenance  of 
mission  work  in  the  older  States  is  the  fact 
that  they  are  receiving  a  large  part  of  the 
immigration  that  is  pouring  into  our  country. 
The  number  of  foreigners  now  residing  in 
these  older  States  is  twenty-five  per  cent 
greater  than  the  entire  population  of  the 
United  States  in  1790.  Here  is  an  enormous 
power  for  good  or  ill — a  power  greater  than 
that  which  successfully  resisted  the  armies  of 
Great  Britain  and  established  our  govern- 
ment.    The  character  of  their  influence  must 


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be  determined  by  the  place  which  the  Gospel 
has  among  them.  Daring  the  decade  from 
1880  to  1890  Pennsylvania  received  an  in- 
crease of  965,680  population.  New  York 
received  899,063  in  the  same  period.  These 
two  States  alone  would  therefore  call  for 
2,000  additional  ministers  and  churches  in 
the  ten  years.  The  eighteen  States  during 
that  period  increased  in  population  5,718,016. 
Counting  one  church  and  minister  for  each 
1,000  it  would  require  5,718  additional  in 
order  to  maintain  the  proportion  existing  in 
1880  which  was  sadly  inadequate. 

In  our  great  and  growing  republic  the  pop- 
ulation is  continually  shifting.  They  not 
only  rush  from  the  older  to  the  newer  States, 
but  they  move  like  an  incoming  tide  from 
the  rural  districts  to  the  cities.  They  are 
drawn  by  the  many  attractions  which  the 
cities  afford,  some  by  the  intellectual  life 
and  literary  advantages,  others  by  the  busi- 
ness opportunities,  some  by  the  social  life. 
Multitudes  come  in  search  of  employment 
among  the  many  industries  which  centre  in 
the  cities.  They  are  deprived  of  employment 
in  their  country  homes  by  the  improved  form 
of  machinery,  which  now  does  the  work 
which  they  formerly  depended  upon  for  a 
living.  And  as  the  population  of  the  rural 
districts  decreases  the  social  life  declines, 
schools  retrograde,  and  homes  become  iso- 
lated, the  pleasant  places  become  desolate, 
and  churches  languish.  In  many  cases 
strangers  and  foreigners  take  the  places  once 
filled  by  Christian  families.  This  movement 
is  general  and  the  problems  which  it  presents 
are  serious.  In  1840  less  than  nine  out  of 
every  hundred  of  our  population  lived  in  the 
cities.  Now  thirty  out  of  every  hundred  are 
residents  of  cities  of  8,000  population  or 
over.  Dr.  Josiah  Strong  in  his  book  *'Tbe 
New  Era "  says:  **  While  the  cities  of  Maine, 
Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  New 
York,  Maryland  and  Illinois  gained  2,509,000 
inhabitants,  the  rural  districts  of  these  States 
suffered  an  actual  loss  of  200,000."  All  over 
the  older  States  the  county  seats  are  growing 
at  the  expense  of  the  farming  communities 
and  rural  villages.  Renters  are  taking  tht9 
places  of  the  old  families.  Congregations 
decreasing,  ministers  leaving  for  lack  of  sup- 


port, churches  closing  and  Sabbath- schools 
dying  out.  Dr.  Strong  further  says:  **  At  an 
interdenominational  meeting  held  in  Water- 
ville,  Maine,  in  November  1891,  a  Methodist 
clergyman  of  that  State,  Rev.  C.  8.  Cum- 
minfl^  made  the  following  statements,  which 
were  not  questioned  by  any  speaker:  *■  There 
are  at  least  seventy  towns  in  Maine  in  which 
no  religious  service  is  held.  At  the  same 
time  there  are  scores  of  towns  in  which  two 
or  more  little  churches  are  struggling  for 
existence,  calling  for  missionary  help  and 
expending  most  of  their  energies  in  raising 
money  to  pay  current  expenses.  Moreover 
55,000  families  in  Maine  do  not  attend  church 
services.  In  Oxford  county  but  88  per  cent, 
of  the  people  go  to  church.  In  Waldo  county 
only  81  per  cent,  attend.  The  Maine  Bible 
Society  reports  19,013  families  visited  one 
year,  56  per  cent,  of  whom  were  nonchurch- 
goiog.  Of  children  of  school  age  45,000  do 
not  attend  Sabbath-school.^  The  speaker  pro- 
ceeded to  show  that  vice  and  immorality 
were  rapidly  growing,  and  said  that  society 
was  *  honeycombed  with  gambling  and  lottery 
schemes.'" 

In  the  Andaver  Eeview,  November,  1890, 
the  Rev.  A.  E.  Dunning,  D.D.  says:  "There 
are  ninety-five  towns  and  plantations  in 
Maine  where  no  religious  services  of  any  sort 
are  held,  and  more  villages  in  Illinois  without 
the  Gospel  than  in  any  other  State  in  the 
Union.  These  statements  are  made  on  the 
authority  of  superintendents  and  secretaries 
of  missions  in  the  fields  named." 

These  facts  become  the  more  alarming 
when  we  remember  that  these  rural  regions 
must  be  depended  upon  to  contribute  to 
the  supply  of  pastors,  missionaries  and 
teachers  in  numbers  all  out  of  propor- 
tion to  their  population.  Indeed,  they  are 
the  chief  source  of  supply.  The  Church's 
only  human  hope  of  self  perpetuation  is  in 
the  maintenance  of  the  Gospel  as  an  educat- 
ing force  in  the  rural  regions. 

Another  fact  should  be  borne  in  mind  as 
we  are  thinking  about  and  praying  about  the 
older  States.  At  the  present  and  for  some 
years  to  come  these  older  States  must  supply 
mainly  the  money  for  the  Church's  benevo- 
lences and  missionary  operations  at  home 


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and  abroad.  It  may  be  true  that  the  newer 
States  and  Territories  contain  the  chief  treas- 
ure vaults  of  the  nation^s  natural  wealth,  but 
it  must  be  remembered  that  the  product  of 
the  mines,  of  the  railroads,  of  the  herds,  of 
the  forests,  and  even  of  the  soil  of  the  New 
West,  flows  back  into  the  hands  of  Eastern 
capitalists  whose  investments  are  developing 
the  West.  This  fact  has  been  made  very 
apparent  during  the  fearful  financial  storm 
that  has  been  sweeping  over  our  country 
during  the  past  year.  Industries  have  been 
suspended  and  money  in  unprecedentedly 
large  amounts  has  been  accumulating  in  the 
hands  of  its  owners  and  in  the  banks  of  the 
older  States.  This  fact  has  its  bearing  upon 
the  question  as  to  the  means  for  the  work 
which  needs  to  be  done  and  for  the  lack  of 
which  the  whole  country  is  suffering  sadly  in 
its  spiritual  interests. 

This  topic  is  earnestly  commended  to  the 
prayerful  consideration  of  our  Church  during 
the  month.  It  suggests  so  much  for  which 
the  scriptures  warrant  us  in  praying,  the 
white  harvest,  the  needed  laborers,  the  means, 
the  poor  and  neglected,  the  rich  and  worldly, 
the  solitary,  those  that  go  with  the  multitude, 
the  Tyres,  the  Sidons,  the  Chorazins,  and  the 
Bethsaidas. 


HOME  MISSION  APPOINTMENTS. 

F.  C.  Stoekle.  Manchester  lit,  Qerman, 

H.  A.  Lewis,  Saranac  Lake.  Ist, 

Y.  Plsek,  New  York  City.  BohemiaD. 

B.  B.  Seelye.  Constable  and  Westville, 

C.  C.  Cook,  HiUsdale, 

O.  Strasenburg,  East  Kendall,  1st, 

D.  M.  Countermine.  Piffard. 

E.  A.  McMastc^  Collamer  and  stations, 
W.  C.  Brown,  West  Chester.  2d, 
a  O.  Faris,  Starke,  1st,  and  Lakeside, 
a.  E.  Jones,  Lakeland, 
J.  G.  Lane.  Sheffleki,  Ist. 
J.  P.  McMlUan,  D.  D.,  Park  Place  of  Chattanooga 

and  Shenaan  Heights, 
E.  P.  Searle,  Dayton,  1st,  and  Sale  Creek, 

A.  J.  Coile,  KnoxYille,  Bell  Avenue, 
L.  R.  Teager.  Huntsville. 
L.  C.  McBride,  Nevada,  1st,  and  Marseilles, 
C  £.  Long,  MorrisoDville, 
L.  N.  Wlinianis,  Moawequa  and  Bethel, 

E.  A.  Bray.  Wyandotte,  Ist, 

F.  O.  WestphAl,  Qaines  and  Mundy  Centre, 
J.  Halliday,  CasevUle, 

E.  H.  Vail,  Elmira  and  stations. 
H.  Wilson,  Macinaw  City. 

B.  J.  Baxter,  Lake  City,  Ist, 

O.  W.  Borden.  Gladwin  and  station, 

W.  Lytteit  Fosters  and  stations, 

T.  C.  Hill,  Neillsville  and  staUons, 

J.  D.  Bailey,  Maiden  Rock, 

K.  Knudson,  Old  Whitehall,  Pleasant  Valley  and 

Blair. 
I  Fredrlkson,  Viroqua,  Avalanche  and  vicinity, 

Scandinavian, 
B.  Hamilton,  Cambridge  and  Oakland, 
D.  N.  Mordn,  BrmiiMri  and  Long  Lake, 


N  H. 
N.Y. 


Pa. 

Fla. 
«* 

Ala. 
Tenn. 

«i 
Ohio. 

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Mich. 


Wis. 


G.  A.  Brandt,  Bamum.  Mahtowa  and  Moose  Lake,   Minn. 
A.  Wadensten,   Emmanuel,  bwedish,   of  Minne- 
apolis, ** 
W.  H.  Hunter.  Mendenhall  Memorial, 
W.  F.  Finch,  Bethel  and  Brown's  VaUey,  " 
W.  J.  Fraser.  Raymond,                                               &  D. 
G.  E.  Gilchrist,  Manchester  and  Bancroft, 
A.  Kegel,  Ebenezer,  German  of  Lennox,                        ** 
G.  A.  Hutchison.  Dell  Rapids, 

P.  Reed,  Bonaparte.  Iowa. 

W.  M.  Robinson.  In  wood,  " 

W.  temple,  Union  Township,  " 

A.  C.  Stark,  Hastings,  Ist  German,  and  stations.        Neb. 

B.  H.  Hunt,  Burr  Oak,  Mt.  Olivet  and  stations,  ** 
J.  H.  Montgomery,  Bameston,  " 
V.  F.  Partch,  Elg^n  and  Oahdale,  *' 
G.  M.  Lodge,  Osmond  and  Raymond,  ** 
B.  F.  Pearson,  Wakefield  and  statiops.  ** 
D.  W.  Rosenkrans,  Apple  Creek,  Blackbird  and 

Scottville,  •* 

W.  M.  Newton,  Westfleld  and  Lowry  City, 

A.  B.  Byram.  Mound  City, 
W.  Porteus,  St.  Louis,  westmhister, 
N.  A  Rankin.  Cheever  and  Manchester. 

B.  H.  Fields.  Edmond.  Deer  Creek  and  Waterloo, 
J.  H.  Aughey.  Mulhall  and  stations, 
S.  G.  Fisher,  Purcell, 

D.  N.  Allen,  Vinita,  Pheasant  Hill  ond  Catale. 
J.  A.  Irvine.  Sweden,  Voca  and  stations, 
H.  8  Davidson,  Bowie  and  stations. 

E.  M.  Fen  ton,  Jemes,  Nacimiento  and  Capulin 
rSpaniah).  N.  M. 

8.  w.  Curtis,  Las  Vegas  and  vicinity,  '* 

W.  WiUiams,  Hanta  Fe.  Mexican,  and  vicinity,  " 

A.  G.  Evans,  Poncha  Springs  and  Salida,  Col. 

Q.  C.  Huntington,  Bessemer,  Westminster,  *' 

D.  G.  Monfort,  Antonlto  and  vicinity,  ** 

W.  W.  Dowd,  La  Junta,  1st, 

P.  Bohback,  Hyrum  and  MiUviUe,  Utah. 

G.  Lamb.  Montpelier.  1st.  Idaho. 

T.  J.  Hedges,  Idaho  Falls, 

D.  D.  Alien,  Kendrick  and  Juliaetta,  ** 

A.  K.  Baird,  D  D  ,  Synodical  Missionary,  Mont. 

M.  H.  Riddle  Hoqutam  and  Aberdeen,  Wash. 

H  A.  Mullen.  Huyallup  1st, 

J.  P.  Black,  Johnson  and  Colton,  ** 

C.  T.  Whittlesey,  Pendleton.  1st,  Orog. 
A  I.  Goodf  riend,  Klamath  Falls. 

M.  A.  WUliams,  Eagle  Point,  and  stations,  " 

A.  Robinson,  McCoy  and  Spring  Valley,  ** 

G.  Gillespie,  Dallas.  1st. 

C.  Cox,  Gervais  and  Aurora,  ** 
A.  Fraser.  San  Pedro  and  Wilmington,                         Cal. 
H  Hill,  Monrovia. 

G.  W.  Maxson,  D.D.,  Rivera.  1st,  and  Clearwater,  ** 

H.  B.  McBride.  Golden  Gate,  ** 

D.  M.  Gillies  Holly  Park  of  San  Francisco,  ** 
D.  8.  Banks.  Santa  Cruz,  ** 


Mo. 


Kans. 
O.  T. 


I.  T. 
Tex. 


Letters. 


NEW  MEXICO. 

Miss  E.  P.  Houston,  OwAdro ; —The  families 
of  the  school  children  and  all  the  Pueblo  people 
are  more  or  less  in  contact  with  us  daily.  We 
think  in  time  the  association  will  be  of  use  to 
them. 

The  work,  as  in  all  frontier  life,  must  neces- 
saiily  be  slow.  If  our  missionary  friends  were 
to  come  and  visit  the  Indians  in  their  homes 
they  would  see  them  dressed  in  tanned  deer 
skins.  Their  principal  food  is  corn  roasted  in 
the  ear  im  the  husks  over  night  in  an  oven. 
This  is  the  breakfast  for  the  entire  family  either 
sick  or  well.  My  business  called  me  one  day  to 
the  house  of  one  of  the  Pueblo  officers.  In  the 
comer  on  the  floor  lay  a  pile  of  this  roasted  com. 
The  officer  asked  me  to  partake  by  pointing  to 


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my  mouth  and  the  com.  I  said,  "No,  thank 
you,  I  haye  just  had  my  dinner/' 

We  encourage  the  people  to  take  part  in  the 
exercises.  Such  as  reading  the  Scriptures  and 
song.  This  they  enjoy  very  much.  And  you 
would  be  surprised  how  appropriate  the  hymns 
they  select  are  in  connection  with  the  service. 
Their  attention  is  so  earnest  that  we  cannot 
doubt  their  sincerity. 

It  is  said  the  Laguna  Indians  are  much 
superior  to  most  other  tribes.  It  is  true  they 
are  worshippers  of  Montezuma,  but  I  think  they 
will  be  more  easily  won  over  to  Christianity 
than  if  they  were  under  the  power  of  the 
Romanists. 


COLORADO. 


Rev.  Franklin  Moore,  Timnath: — At  the 
request  of  a  Christian  family,  I  went  up  to  a 
mountain  place  called  Virginia  Dale.  It  is 
about  forty  miles  from  here.  I  visited  fifteen 
families  there,  reading  and  praying  with  them 
and  inviting  them  to  a  service  which  I  was  to 
hold  on  the  Sabbath.  Sabbath  morning  over 
forty  persons  assembled  in  the  little  church  in 
which  there  had  been  no  service  for  three  years. 
The  people  seemed  hungry  for  the  Gospel  and 
thanked  me  again  and  again  for  coming  up 
there.  A  Roman  Catholic  came  to  me  and  said, 
'•  I  thank  you  for  this  service."  We  organized 
a  Sabbath- school  of  some  thirty  members,  and 
they  promised  to  try  and  sustain  a  prayer  meet- 
ing after  Sabbath- school  each  Sabbath.  I  told 
them  I  would  come  back  again  in  a  month,  for 
which  promise  they  seemed  so  thankful. 


UTAH. 


Mrs.  M.  M.  Grbbn,  Chinnison  : — Mr.  Bohback, 
a  member  of  our  Presbytery,  came  to  us  by  my 
earnest  solicitation  and  staid  a  week,  visiting  the 
people  and  preaching  in  his  native  language 
evenings.  The  meetings  were  well  attended,  and 
the  result  was  four  received  into  the  church 
besides  the  baptism  of  children.  As  we  have 
no  church  organization,  Mr.  Martin  with  an 
elder  came  and  received  them  to  his  church  in 
Manti.  The  interest  seems  to  continue  and  we 
always  have  Swedes  at  our  services  even  if  they 
do  not  understand  English.  We  have  six  new 
pupils  from  Mormon  families  in  our  school. 


Rev.  F.  L.  Arnold,  Salt  Lake  City: — One  of 
the  Sabbath-school  teachers  asked  his  class: 
**Will  you  not  all  try  and  bring  (me  to  the 
meeting  to-morrow  night?"    And  a  little  girl 


said,  "I  think  I  can  bring  one."  And  so  on 
Monday  night  she  came  very  happy  with  her 
papa.  That  evening  I  preached  from  Isaiah  55, 
J.  **  Ho,  every  one  that  thirstcth,"  etc.  After 
the  sermon  opportunity  was  given  to  any  who 
wished  to  become  Christians  and  desired  the 
prayers  of  God's  people  to  rise  up.  It  was  a 
beautiful  sight  to  see  this  father  and  child  stand 
up,  and  with  tears  ask  our  prayers.  Last  night 
the  father  stood  up  before  the  congregation  and 
said  he  had  accepted  of  Jesus  as  his  Saviour. 
The  father  is  a  watchman  at  the  meeting  of  the 
different  railroads  here  and  has  to  stay  at  his 
post  till  after  seven  in  the  evening.  Every 
night  the  little  girl  takes  his  beit  suit  to  him  and 
he  goes  into  the  little  ''Storm  house"  and 
changes,  and  together  they  come  to  the  church. 


Rev.  Chas.  M.  Shepherd,  Springville  :—Fot 
three  weeks  a  great  revival  has  been  going  on 
in  Utah  Valley.  It  began  in  Spanish  Fork,  the 
hardest  of  our  fields.  For  two  years  I  have 
been  persuaded  that  the  Lord's  time  was  at  hand 
here  and  have  been  trying  to  get  Brother  Ran- 
kin of  Colorado  to  take  hold.  Some  of  the 
Presbytery  have  thought  that  the  movement 
was  premature.  The  very  workers  lacked  faith 
to  believe  that  God  could  bring  in  the  Mormons 
directly  by  evangelistic  work  with  the  educa- 
tional medium.  At  length  it  was  arranged  to 
have  a  three  weeks  series  of  meetings,  begin- 
ning in  Spanish  Fork  and  ending  in  Sprin^ville, 
to  be  followed  up  by  others.  The  results  have 
been  surprising  from  the  start.  Crowds  have 
attended,  Mormon  and  Gentile  alike.  Converts 
appear  by  the  score,  some  right  out  of  polyga- 
mous families.  The  work  at  Payson  has  been 
extraordinary.  The  entire  audience  remains  to 
inquiry  meeting.  Whole  families  are  converted 
together.  Some  one  has  remarked  that  two  or 
three  weeks  of  that  sort  of  thing  will  turn  the 
town  upside  down. 

Rankin  began  here  night  before  last.  Our 
church  is  crowded  to  overflowing,  even  the 
pulpit  steps  and  rostrum  being  filled  with  peo- 
ple. To-night  we  shall  open  the  gallery  and 
Sunday  night  the  church  will  not  begin  to  hold 
the  people.  The  utmost  solemnity  prevails.  A 
large  portion  of  the  crowd  remain  for  inquiry 
meeting.  There  are  a  number  of  converts  al- 
ready. The  afternoon  meetings  are  largely 
attended.  Bros.  Martin  and  Clemenson  are 
helping.  I  have  been  in  great  straits  for  seats. 
At  length  I  sent  our  wagons  and  gathered  up 
chairs,  borrowing  all  over  town.  Yesterday  I 
came  to  the  end  of  that  supply  and  had  to  pur- 


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chase  a  lot,  without  any  idea  how  we  shall  pay 
for  them.  After  this  our  regular  congregation 
will  occupy  double  our  old  number  of  seats  and 
as  we  must  return  the  borrowed  lot  we  must  be 
in  some  way  supplied. 


MINNESOTA. 

Rev.  Easper  Tietma,  OreenUafton  .—During 
summer  and  fall  everybody  is  busy  in  a  rural 
district  like  this.  The  father  with  his  larger 
boys  and  often  times  the  daughters,  and  not 
seldom  the  mother  also,  are  doing  farm  work  in 
the  fields.  Especially  in  harvest  time  all  powers 
are  set  to  work. 

This  makes  pastoral  work  *'from  house  to 
house  "  very  difficult.  Visiting  the  families  very 
often  turns  out  in  visiting  the  houses.  Not  sel- 
dom a  little  girl  or  boy  tells  the  ''dominie  "  on 
the  question  where  the  folks  are:  Papa  and 
mamma  are  in  the  field,  mowing,  shocking, 
shucking  or  digging  potatoes.  How  good  would 
it  be  if  the  pastor  on  such  occasions,  when  it  is 
impossible  to  speak  a  good  word,  always  could 
leave  some  well  written  tract  or  other  small 
paper  that  would  be  read  at  the  table  or  in  the 
hours  of  rest.  In  this  case  I  should  want  read- 
ing matter  in  the  Holland  language  for  the  par- 
ents, most  of  them  cannot  read  English.  But  to 
get  tracts  in  Dutch  is  very  hard,  as  they  ought 
to  be  ordered  from  the  old  country.  Our  ques- 
tion schools  are  empty  in  summer  time,  except 
those  for  the  little  ones  living  near  the  church. 

During  the  summer  the  church  attendance 
was  encouraging,  and  the  Sabbath-school  was 
very  well  attended  also.  Till  the  last  part  of 
October  we  have  had  an  unorganized  Sabbath - 
school.  The  young  people  wanted  and  desired 
some  training  before  organizing,  and  so  the  pas- 
tor was  the  only  teacher,  and  at  the  same  time 
secretary  and  treasurer. 

Now  we  have  organized  and  one  teacher  is 
chosen  from  the  scholars  and  another  from  the 
church  members.  We  have  chosen  also  from 
the  scholars  a  secretary  and  a  treasurer.  Re- 
markable events  did  not  occur.  During  their 
summer  vacation  two  students  of  Macalester 
College,  St.  Paul,  addressed  the  people  at  some 
occasions.  Church  services  were  held  every  Sab- 
bath both  at  10  o*clock  a.  m.  and  at  2  and  7 
o'clock  p.  M.  Each  other  Sabbath  a  service  was 
held  at  the  '' Red  School  house, "some  five  miles 
west  from  the  church,  to  accommodate  the 
people  living  in  that  region. 

Trusting  the  Lord  will  bless  us  in  the  future, 
we  are  thankful  for  His  grace  in  the  past. 


ALASKA. 

Rev.  Clarence Thwino,  Ft,  Wrangel  /—This 
week  has  been  observed  as  our  Week  of  Prayer, 
as  we  did  not  receive  any  word  from  the  east, 
before  the  new  year  began,  whether  this  week 
or  the  next  was  to  be  observed,  and  the  natives 
have  come  to  understand  that  the  first  week  of 
the  new  year  is  to  be  observed  as  a  Sabbath 
week.  It  is  a  very  considerable  concession  on 
their  part  to  omit  their  native  dances  and  pot- 
latch  feasts  for  this  whole  week,  which  comes  in 
the  very  midst  of  the  few  weeks  spent  at  their 
winter  camp  here.  There  have  been  thirteen 
adults  and  eight  young  children  admitted  to 
baptism,  only  as  many  as  in  the  previous  two 
months,  the  first  of  my  residence  here.  I  am  in- 
clined to  delay  administering  the  ordinance,  in 
order  to  satisfy  myself  as  to  the  candidates*  sin- 
cerity and  understanding  of  the  rite.  One  of 
those  recently  baptized  is  Mary,  wife  of  Shakes, 
the  principal  chief  of  this  village.  I  have  been 
not  a  little  encouraged  lately  by  the  steady 
habits  and  friendly  attitude  of  both  Shakes  and 
Kadishan,  the  two  most  influential  of  our  head 
men  here.  Both  have  taken  part  in  our  prayer 
meetings  and  have  shown  a  co-operative  spirit  in 
conference  with  me.  During  the  last  week  of 
the  year  our  annual  election  of  church  ofllcers 
took  place,  and  elders  were  chosen  for  the  first 
time  as  well  as  deacons.  Joseph  Eoonk  and 
Matthew  Shakats  (or  Towayat),  two  of  the  older 
church  members,  were  chosen  elders,  and  set 
apart  to  their  office  on  Sabbath,  December  81st, 
with  Andrew  (a  native  policeman)  and  Lewis 
Kellogg  (one  of  Mr.  Young's  old  home  boys)  as 
deacons. 

They  are  all  as  good  men  for  the  places  as  any 
to  be  found  here.  They  will  be  useful  in  con- 
ducting some  of  the  church  services  in  my  ab- 
sence this  summer.  Our  church  offerings  the 
past  year  have  aggregated  $57.20  for  benevolent 
and  missionary  purposes.  Of  this  about  $28  has 
been  divided ;  the  Home  Mission  Board,  $14,  the 
Foreign  Mission  Board,  $9  and  the  American 
Bible  Society,  $5,  and  the  remainder  apportioned 
for  local  needs  (e.  g.  care  of  the  poor  and  pur- 
chase of  Bibles,  hymn  books,  etc.).  Besides  this, 
over  $106.10  have  been  paid  on  subscription,  or 
by  collection  for  the  regular  congregational 
current  expenses.  To  be  fair,  I  must  say  that  of 
this  $106  only  about  $40  has  been  received  from 
the  native  church  members;  the  rest  has  come 
from  a  half  dozen  white  Christians.  By  a  little 
self  support  we  may  relieve  our  Mission  Board 
of  so  much  expense  here. 


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TENNESSEE. 

Rev.  C.  a.  Duncan,  Knoxville  .—October  8 
and  10,  I  held  communioa  services  at  New  Deca- 
tur and  Sheffield,  Ala.,  admitted  three  persons 
to  the  New  Decatur  Church  on  profession  of 
faith,  and  collected  from  both  churches  $15.15 
for  Home  Missions.  Rev.  James  P.  McMillan, 
D.  D.,  of  Chattanooga,  spent  November  12  at 
Sheffield  and  admitted  seven  members  to  the 
church  there.  Beginning  with  January  1894  we 
arrange  for  regular  preachings  at  Sheffield  with 
little  cost  to  the  Board  by  the  Rev.  J.  G.  Lane, 
pastor  of  the  Southern  Church  at  the  neighbor- 
ing town  of  Tuscumbia.  Mr.  Lane  is  a  good 
man,  much  beloved  by  the  people. 

October  15  I  held  communion  services  at  the 
Thomas  and  Ensley  churches,  Ala.,  and  at 
Ensley  admitted  seven  members,  installed  four 
Elders  and  collected  $5  00  for  Home  Missions. 
Encouraging  reports  come  from  Mr.  William 
McClung  in  charge  of  these  churches. 

I  preached  at  Dayton,  Tenn.,  and  succeeded 
in  removing  an  old  debt  of  $100,  that  for  some 
time  had  harrassed  the  church  there.  The  result 
of  a  visit  to  the  St.  Paul's  Church,  Hamblen  Co., 
Tenn .,  will  be  a  parsonage  at  th^t  place  in  the 
near  future.  Largely  owing  to  recent  afflictive 
providences  In  the  congregation  there  the  hearts 
of  the  people  were  very  tender  and  ready  to 
receive  the  truth.  The  church  not  having  a 
pastor,  a  Rev.  Mr.  Lockwood,  a  consecrated  and 
able  minister  of  the  Protestant  Methodist 
Church,  was  invited  to  conduct  a  series  of  meet- 
ings. The  services  began  on  Thanksgiving  Day 
and  continued  three  weeks.  The  Lord  blessed 
the  word  to  the  reviving  of  the  church  and  to 
the  conversion  of  more  than  a  score  of  souls, 
eight  of  whom  Joined  our  church.  A  C.  E. 
Society  of  twenty  members  was  organized. 

The  Rev.  Harlan  P.  Cory  recently  conducted 
a  meeting  at  the  old  Timber  Ridge  Church, 
Greene  Co.,  Tenn.,  with  most  blessed  results, 
thirty-three  persons  joining  the  church  on  pro- 
fession of  faith  and  a  C.  E.  S6ciety  and  a  weekly 
prayer  meeting,  organizations  unknown  in  this 
community  hitherto,  coming  into  being. 

The  Lewisburg  Female  Institute,  under  the 
principalship  of  Rev.  R.  L.  Telford,  is  con- 
trolled by  the  Greenbrier  Presbytery  of  the 
Southern  Church.  This  institution  is  doing  a 
grand  work  for  the  girls  and  young  ladies  of  that 
picturesque  mountain  region,  and  no  better 
centre  for  such  work  can  be  found  than  the  old, 
intelligent,  strongly  Presbyterian  community  in 
and  around  Lewisburg. 

December  8,  I  preached  in  two  of  the  new 


churches  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  the  South  Knox- 
ville  and  the  Bell  Avenue.  The  Rev.  William 
R.  Dawson,  pastor  of  the  South  Knoxville 
Church,  has  a  field  that  requfa'es  hard  and  patient 
work,  just  the  kind  of  work  that  is  being 
expended  there  and  that  is  being  blessed  to  the 
gradual  and  steady  upbuilding  of  the  churcb. 
On  last  Sabbath,  the  24th  of  December,  Mr. 
Dawson  admitted  three  iofluential  members  and 
others  are  to  follow  soon.  The  Banner  C.  K. 
Society  of  Union  Presbytery  is  that  of  The  Bell 
Avenue  Church,  of  which  the  Rev  A.  J.  Coile  is 
the  beloved  pastor.  The  pastor,  assisted  by  his 
brother.  Rev.  S.  A.  Coile,  of  Greenville,  con- 
ducted a  series  of  special  services  in  October 
which  resulted  in  the  addition  to  the  church  of 
eighteen  members.  This  church  is  promptly 
redeeming  its  financial  pledges.  The  small  debt 
left  on  the  building  is  being  paid  oft  by  the 
ladies,  and  when  they  get  the  debt  paid  they 
don't  propose  to  give  up  the  habit  they  have 
formed  of  raising  money  for  worthy  causes. 

I  spent  December  10  and  17  at  Harriman 
and  Johnson  City,  Tenn  The  foundation  of  the 
church  building  at  Harriman  is  being  laid.  The 
good  women  of  Johnson  City  are  trying  to  raise 
money  for  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  and  the 
little  flock  there  fondly  hope  to  secure  a  church 
edifice  of  their  own  in  the  course  of  the  year 
1894  Let  me  earnestly  commend  these  two 
worthy,  homeless  congregations  to  the  liberality 
of  the  Lord's  stewards. 

On  the  18th  I  visited  Elizabethton,  the  site  of 
our  Davies  Academy,  where  Prof.  C.  T.  Rankin 
is  doing  exceptionally  good  work.  The  great 
need  of  that  school  is  a  building.  Rev.  O.  G. 
Jones,  Stated  Supply  of  the  church  at  Elizabeth- 
ton,  has  recently  admitted  fifteen  members. 


IOWA. 


Rbv.  T.  C.  McNary,  Birmingham: — Last 
Sabbath  closed  a  very  successful  revival  service 
with  us  Between  60  and  70  conversions,  over 
40  of  which  gave  preference  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  We  received  81  into  our  membership 
last  Sabbath,  28  on  confession ;  16  were  baptized. 

We  had  the  Foote  Bros.,  evangelists,  to  con- 
duct the  meetings.  All  the  churches  united  and 
a  sweet  union  spirit  supported  the  meetings 
throughout,  which  was  a  triumph  over  the  high 
and  strict  denominational  lines  that  had  always 
been  a  reproach  to  the  town.  The  building  up 
and  quickening  of  the  spiritual  life  of  the  old 
Christians  is  no  little  result  in  the  general  ac- 
count of  a  revival. 


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INDIAN  TERRITORY. 

Rev.  H.  a.  Tucker,  Caddo,  L  T.;— What  the 
shining  sun  is  to  an  opening  flower,  the  gospel 
is  to  the  development  of  the  Choctaws. 

Seventy-five  years  ago,  when  the  first  mission- 
arj  came  to  them  he  found  only  one  man  who 
could  read,  one  who  would  not  take  strong 
drink,  and  only  one  praying  man.  The  latter 
was  a  negro  slave  from  Africa.  Rev.  Mr.  Eings- 
berry  speaking  of  him  says,  "  He  prayed  Choc- 
taw missions  into  existence." 

I  asked  a  mission  teacher  who  had  been  woik- 
ing  six  years  among  the  Indians,  to  name  one  of 
tlie  greatest  evils  she  had  to  contend  with  in  her 
work.    She  answered,  "  Lack  of  home  training." 

In  our  efforts  to  possess  this  land  for  Christ,  I 
think  one  of  the  greatest  evils  we  have  to  com- 
bat is  strong  drink.  In  a  gospel  temperance 
service  for  Indians,  I  drew  a  contrast  between 
"fire  water"  and  the  river  of  water  of  life. 
At  the  close  of  the  service  I  heard  an  old  Indian 
say  to  a  white  man,  ''  White  man  mean,  white 
man  bring  in  whiskey."  The  white  man 
answered,  "Yes,  but  you  Indians  drink  all  you 
can  get."  Then  the  Indian  said,  "White  man 
mean,  white  man  make  whiskey;  Choctaws  no 
make  it."  We  are  praying  to  the  Lord  to  save 
the  Indians  from  the  white  man's  whiskey.  We 
have  had  "showers  of  blessing"  during  the 
past  quarter.  Nine  adult  Indians  were  added  to 
the  church  by  examination  and  eighteen  young 
X>eople.  Six  of  these  were  at  Spencer  Academy,- 
six  at  Wheelock  and  six  at  Oak  Hill.  The  adults 
were  added  to  the  churches  ministered  to  by 
Rev.  J.  Dyer  and  Rev.  L.  G.  Battiest. 


Miss  Alice  M.  Robertson,  Mu$cogee  .-—Up  to 
the  date  of  this  report  my  enrollment  has 
reached  fifty- nine.  These  children  range  in  age 
from  six  to  fourteen  years,  the  majority  being 
under  ten  years.  This  has  made  the  work  of 
teaching  very  difficult.  To  maintain  order  and 
teach  at  the  same  time  has  been  very  hard  and 
has  taxed  strength  and  patience  to  the  utmost 
limit.  The  work  has  been  a  very  happy  one, 
however,  for  I  have  been  happy  in  winning  the 
affection  of  my  little  ones  and  the  approbation 
of  their  parents  from  whom  many  kind  and 
encouraging  words  have  come  to  me  from  time 
to  time. 

Very  few  of  them  come  from  Christian  fami- 
lies and  the  brightest  spot  in  the  school  day  has 
been  the  Bible  lesson.  I  do  not  think  in  all  the 
days  that  I  have  spoken  before  audiences  I  have 
ever  been  more  in  earnest  or  felt  as  great  joy  in 


holding  my  hearers  as  in  keeping  the  attention  of 
these  restless  little  boys  and  girls  as  we  have 
talked  over  the  sweet  gospel  story.  Yesterday 
they  all  wrote  me  little  notes  telling  me  why 
they  liked  the  Bible  lesson  best  of  all  their  les- 
sons. Very  quaint  are  some  of  the  reasons. 
''Just  because  I  like  it."  "Because  it  tells  us 
about  Jesus  and  He  is  so  good  to  everybody." 
"It  learns  you  how  to  be  good  and  to  be  Chris- 
tians and  obey  your  parents  and  be  kind  to 
brothers  and  sisters,  love  Jesus  and  be  true." 
"  It  is  the  best  book  to  read,  it  tells  you  what  to 
do. "  "It  teaches  us  something  about  Jesus  and 
Gk)d  every  day."  "Because  it  leads  us  the  good 
way  to  Heaven."  "Because  it  tells  us  about 
old  times."  "  It  learns  us  to  be  good  and  kind 
and  makes  us  study."  "Because  there  are  so 
many  good  verses  in  the  Bible."  Most  of  the 
answers  are  that  they  love  the  Bible  lessons 
because  it  tells  about  Jesus,  but  one  idle  little 
fellow  who  has  most  certainly  no  seeming  incli- 
nation toward  early  piety,  very  honestly  con- 
fesses that  he  likes  the  Bible  lesson  best  because 
he  does  not  have  to  study  it  so  hard  as  his  other 
lessons. 

We  had  a  very  interesting  lesson  one  day  on 
forgiveness  which  was  afterwards  very  helpful 
to  me  in  settling  the  childish  difficulties  of  the 
playground,  but  in  that  connection  asking  the 
children  whom  we  owed  most  to,  one  tiny  Cher- 
okee girl  in  whose  home  there  has  been  much 
sickness,  answered  promptly  "the  doctor." 
Another  little  one  was  very  certain  that 
Matthew*s  occupation  before  he  became  a  dis- 
ciple was  that  of  a  "republican."  It  was  very 
comforting  to  me  one  day  to  have  one  of  my 
little  ones  who  is  hardest  to  control  come  and 
say  "  The  things  you  teach  us  in  the  Bible  lessons 
help  me  so  much  at  home,  they  keep  me  from 
doing  naughty  things." 

My  first  grade  is  made  up  of  Creek,  Cherokee 
and  white  children  and  the  tribal  and  race  rivalry 
shown  by  these  little  people  is  a  very  interesting 
study  to  me. 

I  hope  that  in  the  quarter  just  closed  much 
has  been  gained  in  the  way  of  discipline  and  of 
foundation  laying  and  that  in  the  months  to 
come  work  may  be  done  that  shall  be  telling  in 
its  effects. 

For  myself  I  rejoice  in  the  love  of  the  little 
ones  that  has  come  to  me  and  in  the  hope  that 
at  this  most  impressionable  time  in  their  lives 
some  enduring  impression  has  been  made. 

The  six  children  from  our  congregation  who 
had  been  sent  to  the  convent  school  have  all 
been  taken  out  and  placed  in  my  department. 


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FIFTY  THOUSAND  DOLLARS. 

DESERTED — DEVISED — DOING  GOOD. 

Deserved. — Three  hundred  feet  above  the 
valleys  it  overlooks,  four  hundred  feet  above 
Cairo  (thirty -six  miles  south),  about  one-half 
mile  from  the  business  quarters  of  the  towns 
of  Anna  and  Jonesboro  (between  which  it 
lies),  surveying  the  green  fields  and  orchards 
of  the  fruit  region  of  Southern  Illinois, 
Union  Academy  has  struggled  during  the 
ten  years  of  its  existence  for  sound  scholastic 
work,  Christian  influence  and  recognition. 
It  was  organized  under  our  College  Board  and 
has  every  year  received  some  small  aid  to- 
ward meeting  its  current  expenses,  $5,842  in 
the  ten  years.  Its  property,  valued  at  about 
$10,000,  has  been  given  by  the  people  of  the 
two  towns  and  their  vicinity.  Its  principals 
and  teachers  have  lived  on  meagre  and  insuf- 
ficient salaries  rather  than  see  the  work  fail. 
It  has  educated  scores  of  boys  and  girls. 
More  than  a  hundred  of  its  pupils  have  con- 
fessed Christ  in  the  course  of  their  studies. 
It  has  kept  out  of  debt.  It  has  merited 
recognition.  It  needed  and  prayed  and 
worked  for  an  endowment  of  $60,000. 

Devised. — Across  the  street  from  the  Acad- 
emy grounds  lived  Mr.  Charles  M.  Willard, 
banker  in  Anna,  in  a  large  house  surrounded 
by  handsome  grounds.  He  has  been  long  a 
member  and  liberal  supporter  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Anna,  has  held  many  offices 
of  trust  and  influence  in  the  town,  and  once 
gave  $550  toward  one  of  the  Academy  build- 
ings. He  died  December  80,  1803,  leaving 
by  will  his  homestead,  his  library  and  other 
properties,  valued  in  all  at  $60,000,  to  Union 
Academy,  for  endowment  purposes. 

Doing  Qood. — The  Academy  will  now  en- 
large its  curriculum  and  do  better  work.  It 
will  doubtless  secure  from  its  resident  friends 
money  for  another  needed  building.  It  will 
not  after  this  year  require  aid  from  the  Col- 
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lege  Board.  Look  forward:  Every  year  a 
band  of  young  men  and  women.  Christian 
and  consecrated,  will  leave  its  walls  for  col- 
lege or  for  active  life,  prepared  to  serve  our 
Lord*s  Kingdom,  attached  to  our  own  Church, 
a  notable  return  on  the  money  invested  in 
this  plant. 

A  score  of  academies  and  a  score  of  colleges 
under  the  care  of  the  College  Board  need  just 
such  endowment.  Money  left  by  will  to 
'^  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges 
and  Academies  ^*  will  be  wisely  used  a&d  will 
work  untenable  good  to  this  and  coming  gen- 
erations. 

COLLEGE  MEN  AS  PIONEERS. 

REV.  GRANVILLE  R.  PIKE. 

[The  writer  of  this  strikiDg  article  was  lately 
pastor  at  Fargo,  North  Dakota,  and  knows  that  of 
which  he  speaks.  The  reader  will  say,  at  the  con- 
clusion of  his  article:  "  Then  we  must  see  to  it  that 
as  many  as  possible  of  these  pioneer  college  men  are 
Christians  and  Presbyterians."] 

It  is  the  misfortune  of  foundation  work 
that  it  lies  mainly  under  ground.  Certain 
aspects  of  the  influence  of  college  men  upon 
our  national  life  and  institutions  are  too 
obvious  to  need  mention.  It  is  easy,  how- 
ever, to  overlook,  and  unless  we  direct  our 
attention  specifically  to  it,  we  shall  overlook 
the  fundamental  and  wide-reaching  character 
of  the  part  they  have  played  in  the  vanguard 
of  civilization. 

The  awakening  of  dormant  faculties,  the 
stimulus  to  individual  activity,  the  impatience 
of  narrowing  restraints,  which  college  train- 
ing imparts  have  ever  tended  to  make  the 
educated  man  a  herald  of  progress  and  the 
apostle  of  liberty. 

The  very  corner-stone  of  our  political  exist- 
ence was  shaped  by  this  fact.  See  John  Win- 
throp,  obedient  to  this  impulse,  coming  forth 
from  the  halls  of  old  Cambridge  and  mar- 
shalling his  army  of  Pilgrims,  more  than 
half  of  whom  were  graduates  of  the  English 
universities,  to  fashion  in  wisdom  and  right- 


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eonsness  the  pillars  of  this  Commonwealth 
essentially  as  they  stand  to-day  I 

It  is  remarkable  how  persistently  onr  conn- 
try's  history  has  unfolded  in  accordance  with 
this  earliest  type.  While  the  ciyilization  that 
should  cover  this  fair  land  as  with  a  garment 
has  been  weaving  continuously  through  the 
web  of  circumstance,  the  flying  shuttles  of 
time  have  thrown  the  activities  and  influence 
of  college  men  to  form  the  pattern  which  it 
now  bears. 

There  are  other  pioneers,  it  is  true,  but  as 
a  rule  those  who  press  farthest  upon  the 
frontiers  are  impelled  by  motives  of  greed 
or  of  personal  advantage  in  some  of  its  more 
sordid  forms.  As  a  class  they  are  segregative, 
self-seeking,  absorbed  in  the  present.  Into 
this  inert  and  unformed  mass,  the  college 
man,  by  virtue  of  his  mental  discipline,  his 
balanced  judgment,  his  broadened  onUook, 
his  high  ideals,  his  conscious  debt  to  pos- 
terity, comes  as  a  constructive  and  formative 
power.  With  him  comes  law,  comes  regard 
of  personal  rights,  comes  social  order,  comes 
the  school- house,  comes  the  church,  comes, 
in  short,  tJie  state.  Others  may  hew  the  tim- 
ber, these  build  the  edifice.  Others  may  in 
themselves  furnish  the  crude  materials  of 
society,  these  assemble  such  dUJecta  membra 
and  animate  them  with  purposeful  and  intel- 
ligent life. 

Whatever  remissness  may  justly  be  charged 
against  the  educated  portion  of  our  older 
communities  with  reference  to  their  political 
duties,  the  charge  does  not  lie  against  the  col- 
lege man  on  the  outpost.  Nothing  short  of 
personal  observation  can  give  adequate  con- 


ception of  the  amount,  the  quality,  and  the 
strategic  value  of  the  materials  that  college 
men  are  to-day,  as  they  have  been  from  the 
beg^ning,  building  into  our  social  fabric. 
There  is  no  speech  sufficient  to  set  forth  how 
vigilantly  they  guard  the  fountains  of  influ- 
ence in  the  formative  period  of  our  newer 
communities.  It  is  in  the  college  man  that 
the  demagogue  finds  his  opponent;  the  politi- 
cal shyster,  the  exposer  of  his  tricks.  The 
knavery  and  danger  of  corrupt  legislation, 
the  deathly  stream  of  public  immorality,  the 
multiform  defects  in  the  body  politic  due  to 
low  grades  of  public  intelligence  and  moral- 
ity, all  these  are  opposed,  and  remedied,  or 
removed  by  the  educated  man  from  the  col- 
lege. 

Finally,  as  the  culmination  of  his  benefi- 
cence, to  defend  and  maintain  the  past  and 
guard  the  approaches  to  the  future,  he  founds 
and  endows  another  college  in  each  of  these 
new  communities.  This  again  becomes  the 
seed-plot  from  which  shall  constantly  go  forth 
many  others  to  continue  for  other  places  and 
other  generations  this  same  good  work. 


BELLEVUE. 
A  circular  from  the  (State)  University  of 
Nebraska  names  fifty-five  "Accredited 
Schools''  which  are  visited,  examined  and 
ranked  by  the  faculty  of  the  State  University . 
Only  two  of  them  stand  at  the  highest  possi- 
ble point  indicated  by  the  University  system 
of  ranking,  and  the  first  of  these  is  Bellevue 
Academy,  connected  with  our  own  Bellevue 
College.  This  is  a  testimony  to  its  scholastic 
work  unimpeachable  and  strong. 


MINISTERIAL    RELIEF. 


THE  TREASURY. 
The  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief,  following 
the  example  of  other  Boards  of  the  Church,  is 
constrained  to  make  known  the  alarming 
condition  of  its  treasury.  The  falling  off  in 
contributions  for  current  expenditure  is  be- 
yond anything  known  in  its  history  for 
many  years.    The  unexampled  stringency  of 


the  times  which  has  affected  the  receipts  of 
all  the  Boards,  has  diminished  ours  to  an  ex- 
tent that  threatens  an  added  sorrow  to  the 
already  darkened  homes  of  many  honored 
but  dependent  ministers,  worn-out  in  the 
service  of  the  Church. 

It  is  due  te  the  churches  that  they  should 
know  this;   and  also  that  if  the  Board  ad- 


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heres  to  the  policy  so  often  approved  and  en- 
dorsed by  the  General  Assembly,  '^  to  distri- 
bute only  what  is  placed  in  its  bands,"  and 
if  there  be  not  prompt  and  geDerons  aid  sent 
to  onr  treasury,  even  the  present  meagre 
appropriations  to  the  worn  out  servants  of 
the  Church  cannot  be  paid.  But  can  it  be 
possible  that  the  people  of  God  will  allow  the 
Church  to  fail  in  its  promises  made  through 
the  Board  to  these  wards  of  the  Church, 
upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Presbyter- 
ies) 

Will  you  not  kindly  read  the  report  of  the 
Ministerial  Belief  Committee  to  the  Synod  of 
Pennsylvania  at  its  last  meetmg,  which  fol- 
lows this  paragraph,  and  ask  yourself  whether 
it  is  not  true  that  **  the  Church  owes  them 
the  debt  and  would  honorably  discharge  it?  '* 

RIPORT  OF  THE  STANDING   COMMITTEE  UPON 

MINISTERIAL  REUEF  TO  THE  SYNOD 

OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Standing  Committee 
upon  Ministerial  Relief,  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Synod  of  Pennsylvania  held  at  Easton  last 
October,  was  a  brother  held  in  high  and  de- 
served honor  throughout  the  entire  Synod, 
Rev.  J.  H.  Mason  Knox,  D.D.,  LL.D.  His 
report  is  here  reprinted. 

Anything  from  his  scholarly  pen  is  well 
worth  a  careful  and  thoughtful  perusal.  But 
there  is  probably  no  one  in  the  Church  better 
fitted  than  Dr.  Knox  to  speak  of  the  tender 
and  sacred  work  of  this  Board.  He  has  an 
unique  position  in  its  history,  for  it  was 
through  his  hands  that  the  first  church  con- 
tribution came  to  its  treasury!  This  was 
shortly  after  the  Ministerial  Relief  Fund  was 
established  by  the  Assembly  in  1849,  when 
he  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  German  Val- 
ley, N.  J.  The  Board  was  established  by 
the  Assembly  of  1876,  taking  the  place  of 
the  Committee  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  to  whom  the  work  had  been 
previously  committed  and  Dr.  Knox  was 
appointed  one  of  its  corporate  members. 
During  all  these  intervening  years  he  has 
been  thoroughly  conversant  with  its  aims  and 
plans,  has  been  in  the  heartiest  sympathy 
with  its  spirit  and  has  given  to  the  work 
itself  a  most  unwearied  and  effective  support. 


The  report  drawn  up  by  him  and  unani- 
mously adopted  by  the  Synod,  should  not 
only  be  read  to  the  people  from  every  pulpit 
within  its  bounds,  but  it  should  be  thought- 
fully read  by  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
great  and  sacred  work  which  the  Presby- 
terian Church  has  intrusted  to  this  Board. 

REPORT. 

The  Committee  on  Ministerial  Relief  would 
respectfully  report  to  Synod  that  reports  of 
eighteen  Presbyteries  have  been  placed  in  their 
hands.  There  have  been  no  reports  from  the 
Presbyteries  of  Butler,  Carlisle  and  Erie,  and 
none  from  the  Missionary  Presbyteries  of  the 
City  of  Mexico,  West  Africa  and  Zacatecas. 

The  Committee  regret  to  be  obliged  to  say  to 
Synod  that  the  reports  received  are  not  of  a 
very  encouraging  character.  In  sixteen  Pres- 
byteries 140  churches  have  made  no  contribu- 
tion whatever  to  the  funds  of  the  Board.  Many 
of  these  churches  are  small  and  weak,  and  have 
not  yet  learned  the  lesson  that  the  surest  way  to 
become  larger  and  stronger  is  to  give  according 
to  ability,  be  this  little  or  great.  Other  of  the 
non-giving  churches  are  of  considerable  size 
and  possessed  of  no  little  pecuniary  ability,  but 
are  in  danger  of  becoming  less  in  both  of  these 
respects. 

Nine  of  the  Presbyteries  reporting  mention  a 
falling  off  in  contributions  to  this  sacred  cause; 
two  others  say  there  has  been  no  advance  in 
their  gifts;  and  in  these  eleven  indifference  and 
apathy  in  regard  to  this  interest  seem  to  prevail. 
In  the  remaining  seven  Presbyteries  more  or  less 
decided  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Board  has 
been  shown,  and  there  has  been  an  increase  of 
of  contributions.  It  is  to  be  specially  remarked 
that  in  the  majority  of  these  Presbyteries  in 
which  advance  has  been  made,  credit  for  it  is 
given  to  the  fact  that  in  many,  if  not  in  all  the 
churches,  an  elder  was  appointed,  whose  duty 
it  was  to  take  charge  of  this  cause  in  his  con- 
gregation and  to  keep  the  people  informed  of 
its  needs  and  stimulate  them  to  liberal  giving  to 
its  funds. 

In  view  of  these  facts,  the  Committee  make 
the  following  statement:  That  the  needs  of  the 
Board  are  great,  greater  now  than  ever  before; 
that  notwithstanding  its  very  considerable  per- 
manent fund,  the  applications*  for  aid  so  exceed 
the  increase  of  income  from'^thls  isource,  that> 
without  the  continued  liberal  and  enlarging 
contiibutions  from  the  churches,  the  Beard  will 
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tions  or  to  reduce  the  paltry  amounts  (maximum 
$800)  it  is  now  giving  to  those  upon  its  rolls  of 
honor.  The  Church  can  afford  to  do  neither  of 
these  things.  To  do  either  of  them,  all  will 
agree>  would  be  her  shame ;  yet  as  things  are, 
there  is  danger  of  this  necessity  being  forced 
upon  the  Board.  If  it  is,  it  is  to  be  feared  the 
Synod  of  Pennsylvania  will  have  a  large  share 
in  the  responsibility  of  such  action. 

The  Committee  know  of  a  certainty  that  the 
falling  off  of  contributions  to  this  cause,  which 
appeals  so  loudly  and  so  tenderly  to  every 
Christian  heart,  is  not  the  fault  of  the  people. 
!No  one  of  the  beneficent  agencies  of  the  Church 
lies  nearer  to  their  hearts.  They  are  in  advance 
of  the  ministers  and  pastors  in  their  interest  in 
it;  more  willing  to  give  to  it  than  those  who  are 
over  them  in  the  Lord  are  to  ask  them  to  do  so. 
It  is  not  to  be  believed  that  there  is  a  church  in 
this  Synod,  however  small,  which  would  fail  of 
an  annual  contribution  to  this  cause,  though  it 
gave  to  no  other,  if  there  was  made  an  intelli- 
gent and  faithful  presentation  of  its  claims  and 
an  opportunity  afforded  to  give  even  out  of 
great  poverty. 

Experience  has  shown  the  excellence  of  the 
plan  recommended  by  the  General  Assembly  of 
devolving  upon  an  elder  in  each  church  the 
gracious  work  of  representing  this  Board  to  his 
own  people,  and  securing  for  them  the  privilege 


of  making  their  gifts  to  its  treasury.  This  has 
been  effective  wherever  it  has  been  tried.  It 
was  so  within  the  bounds  of  this  Synod  in  the 
last  year,  and  it  will  be  always.  But  what  hin- 
ders the  pastor  or  supply  from  urging  this  mat- 
ter from  a  full  heart  for  his  brethren's  sake,  for 
the  honor  of  the  Church,  for  the  glory  of  God  ? 
It  needs  only  that  this  shall  be  done  to  reach 
great  results.  The  Presbyterian  people  are  not 
willing  that  the  veterans  in  the  work  of  the 
Lord,  or  those  who  have  been  weakened  in  their 
way,  or  the  families  left  in  poverty  by  those 
who  have  gone  to  their  reward  of  righteousness, 
shall  suffer  for  the  want  of  the  necessaries  or 
comforts  of  life,  and  this  not  because  they  are 
objects  of  charity,  but  because  the  Church  owes 
them  the  debt  and  would  honorably  discharge  it. 

The  Committee  have  but  a  single  resolution  to 
offer,  to  wit : 

Resolved,  That  the  Synod  commends  most 
heartily  the  Board  of  Relief  to  the  increased  lib- 
erality of  the  churches,  and  earnestly  adjures 
the  Presbyteries  to  take  such  action  for  the  pre- 
sentation of  its  claims  that  no  church  within 
their  bounds  shall  fail  to  have  the  opportunity 
to  show  its  appreciation  of  its  blessed  work  by  a 
contribution  to  its  funds  after  such  presentation 
has  been  made  in  ltd  hearing. 

In  behalf  of  the  Committee, 

Jas.  H.  Mason  Knox,  Chairman, 


PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK. 


WORDS  FROM  MISSIONARIES. 
We  give    the    following    gleanings    from 
letters  received  from  missionaries  laboring  in 
different  portions  of  our  extended  field. 

GEORGIA. 

I  JUST  CAME  OUT  TO  THANK  YOU. 


We  spent  last  week  at  the 


Mission 


Sabbath-school  (colored),  near  Savannah,  Ga. 
The  work  there  is  assuming  larger  propor- 
tions, and  growing  in  favor  with  the  people  of 
that  cx)mmunity.  The  village  lies  partly  outside 
of  the  corporation  limits  of  Savannah.  The 
people  generally  are  non  church-goers.  The 
children  and  youth,  prior  to  our  organization, 
were  not  taught  to  "remember  the  Sabbath  Day 
to  keep  it  holy,''  They  thought  at  first  that  we 
had  gone  out  there  to  torment  them.  Many  of 
them  are  now  in  our  Sabbath-school.   The  sdiool 


is  under  the  care  of  the  Ezra  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  which  the  Rev.  Luther  Hubbard  is  pastor. 
Last  Sabbath,  just  before  we  closed,  an  old 
woman  rose  up  and  asked  permission  to  say  a 
word.  She  said:  I  am  a  widow  woman;  that 
young  man  over  there  (pointing  to  a  youth  in  the 
Bible  class)  is  my  son .  Before  you  started  up 
your  Sunday  class  he  used  to  be  ringleader  of 
them  boys  out  yonder  on  the  common.  He  done 
served  out  one  sentence  in  the  chain  gang  for 
bad  doings.  Today  my  boy  is  here  reading  the 
Bible.  Praise  God!  Glory  to  God  I  I  just  came 
out  to  thank  you  for  what  good  you  did  me. 
God  bless  you  all.  The  young  man  wept  aloud, 
while  his  gray-haired  mother  wept  and  talked. 
The  scene  was  touching  in  the  extreme. 

In  the  hall  where  our  school  is  held  Rev.  Mr. 
Hubbard  has  orgaoized  a  day  school.  He  hopes 
to  organize  a  church  here  by  Spring.     I  saw  in 


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the  school  last  Sabbath  many  bare-footed  and 
poorly  clad  children.  This  has  been  a  Tery  hard 
year  in  Georgia,  and  there  is  greater  destitution 
among  us  than  ever  before  in  my  experience. 
The  scholars  in  all  our  Sabbath  schools  need  help 
in  the  way  of  clothing. 

WASHINGTON. 

NO  PRBACHINO  BY  ANY  DENOMINATION. 

The  early  part  of  this  quarter  I  made  a  trip 
to  the  eastern  part  of  Lewis  Co.,  State  of  Wash- 
ington, forty  miles  from  railroad,  amoDg  the 
Cascade  mountains.  A  good  deal  of  the  way  I 
had  to  follow  a  trail  through  the  woods  and 
climb  over  the  steep  sides  of  high  mountains 
and  across  deep  cafions.  It  seems  strange  that 
people  should  want  to  push  through  such  places 
far  beyond  civilization,  to  find  a  home,  but  that 
is  the  way  the  country  is  being  settled.  On  Sab- 
bath morning  I  had  the  privilege  of  preaching 
to  a  good  congregation  who  had  assembled  in  a 
rude  building  made  of  split  boards,  without  a 
window,  the  cracks  in  the  walls  and  roof  and  an 
open  door  being  the  only  avenues  through  which 
the  light  could  come  in.  A  Sabbath-school  num- 
bering thirty  meets  here.    At 1  found  an 

older  and  better  settled  community,  but  no  Sab- 
bathschool.     I  had  the  pleasure  of  starting  one. 

So  also  at .    These  communities  are  not 

supplied  with  preaching  by  any  denomioation. 

You  will  readily  perceive  that  in  this  work 
the  Sabbath' school  missionary  is  a  John  the 
Baptist  preparing  the  way  for  the  home  mission- 
ary. I  have  found  several  communities  where  a 
home  missionary  is  very  much  needed. 


IOWA. 
The  great  need  for  the  Sabbath-school  mis- 
sionary is  illustrated  by  the  following  in- 
cidents. 

NEVERTHELESS,    WE  ORGANIZED  A  GOOD  SCHOOL. 

In  the  month  of  July  I  visited  a  neighborhood 

seven  miles  from ,  Iowa.    At  the  second 

house  I  called  at  the  lady  told  me  that  they 
would  like  to  have  a  Sabbath-school  but  did  not 
think  it  possible  to  organize  one  as  she  had 
called  with  another  lady  on  all  the  families  in 
the  neighborhood  and  found  so  little  interest 
that  they  had  given  up  the  idea  in  despair. 
This  statement  was  corroborated  by  her  friends ; 
nevertheless,  we  had  a  meeting  that  same  even- 
ing and  organized  a  good  school. 

One  would  suppose  that  in  Iowa  there  would 
be  little  need  of  a  Sabbath  school  missionary, 


but  the  reverse  is  true,  for  where  the  country  is 
thickly  settled  we  find  the  most  promising  fields. 
It  is  not  uncommon  to  find  districts  as  large  as 
an  average  township  without  a  Sabbath -school 
Wealthy  farmers  send  their  boys  and  girls  to  the 
cities  to  school. 

Often  it  is  impossible  to  find  a  superintendent 
in  the  neighborhood.  I  organized  one  school 
where  the  superintendent — ^a  school  teacher- 
travels  fourteen  miles  every  Sabbath  to  take 
charge  of  the  school. 

MANY  HEARTS  HATE  BEEN  LIGHTENED. 

The  last  three  months  has  been  a  time  with 
us  when  many  hearts  have  been  lightened  and 
many  homes  made  happy  through  the  blessings 
flowing  from  our  tent  work.  This  community 
had  the  reputation  of  being  a  hard  place. 
Christians  had  become  very  careless,  and  the 
Sabbath-school  was  almost  dead.  But  during 
these  services  the  Spirit  of  God  awakened  Chris- 
tians not  only  to  pray  but  work.  More  than 
twenty  souls  were  born  into  the  kingdom,  the 
family  altar  was  restored  in  many  homes,  the 
Sabbath-school  increased,  and  a  cottage  prayer- 
meeting  was  held  every  week. 

At  another  point  a  family  consisting  of  father, 
mother,  daughter  and  a  little  lame  boy  became 
Interested.  The  little  fellow  would  walk  over 
a  mile  on  crutches  in  order  to  attend  the  chil- 
dren's meetings.  In  this  vicinity,  two  Sabbath - 
schools  were  greatly  blessed  and  one  of  them 
kept  from  disbanding. 

The  special  work  that  can  be  done  for  our 
boys  and  girls  at  a  time  like  this  is  inestimable 
in  training  and  educating  them  in  God's  Word. 

MICHIGAN. 

I  HAVE  TRFED  TO  KEEP  TRACK  OF  THOSE  BOYS, 

Some  seventeen  years  ago  I  organized  a  Sab- 
bath-school at .     It  was  a  new  section  of 

country  and  we  made  a  thorough  canvass  of  each 
family  and  had  the  children  and  most  of  the 
parents  out  the  first  Sabbath.  At  the  close  of 
the  session  after  organizing  the  school  the  adult 
members  agreed  that  they  would  try  to  educate 
as  many  of  the  boys  for  the  ministry  as  they 
could  from  year  to  year.  Three  are  now  in  the 
ministry  and  another  is  preparing  himself  for  it. 
Two  others  are  thinking  of  it.  There  have  been 
many  deaths  in  that  vicinity  during  these  seven- 
teen years,  but  not  one  has  been  taken  who  was 
not  trusting  in  Jesus,  with  the  exception  of  three 
or  four  young  children  whom  the  blessed 
Saviour  has  taken  in  His  loving  arms.    There 


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are  ^dIj  four  persons  in  the  district  who  have 
not  given  their  hearts  to  Christ. 

"  BtUl  another  field  comes  to  my  mind.  The 
Sabbath  we  met  to  organize  was  so  stormy  that 
only  eight  boys  and  one  lady  were  present.  The 
lady  consented  to  superintend  the  school.  It  was 
a  log  school  house  and  all  the  seats  were  made 


of  slabs.  I  have  tried  to  keep  track  of  those 
eight  boys.  Three  are  ministers  of  the  €k>spel, 
one  a  doctor,  and,  like  St.  Luke,  '*  a  beloved  phy- 
sician." Two  of  the  others  are  8abbath-school 
superintendents.  Dear  teachers  and  superin- 
tendents, be  not  disheartened  nor  discouraged. 
Let  no  obstacle  turn  you  from  your  work." 


FREEDMEN. 


SAMPLES  FROM  OUR  LETTER  FILE. 

There  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  general 
interest  in  the  work  of  any  of  our  Boards 
^woold  be  gpreatly  increased  if  in  some  way 
the  many  letters  that  are  received  from  the 
vrorkers  in  the  field  could  be  brought  dis- 
tinctly before  the  minds  of  the  many  earnest 
friends  who  have  a  general  knowledge  of 
^what  is  being  done,  but  fail  to  be  touched 
by  that  peculiar  influence  that  arises  from 
definite  knowledge  connected  with  specific 
cases.  One  of  the  hard  duties  of  those  who 
read  these  letters  is  that  of  being  compelled 
often  to  say  no  under  the  conviction  that 
there  is  certainly  some  one  in  the  great 
Church  at  large  who  would  supply  the  needed 
aid  were  the  facts  only  clearly  known,  and 
the  pressing  wants  of  this  or  that  case  dis- 
tinctly apprehended.  Perhaps  it  might  serve 
to  awaken  and  increase  a  general  interest  in 
our  work,  to  give  short  extracts  from  various 
sources — ^not  so  much  for  the  purpose  of  mak- 
ing special  appeals,  for  special  cases,  as  to 
present,  here  and  there,  such  side-lights  as 
will  enable  all  who  read  these  extracts  to  form 
a  more  intelligent  and  comprehensive  con- 
ception of  the  great  and  growing  need  of 
more  money,  for  the  general  fund,  out  of 
which  the  Board,  in  its  wisdom,  may  dis- 
tribute on  the  line  of  proportion  and  relative 
importance. 

1.  **  I  am  truly  glad  to  say  my  church  build- 
ing is  finished,  and  I  do  humbly  accept  the  con- 
gratulations of  the  Board,  and  am  glad  of  the 

pleasant  letters  you  wrote  to and . 

They  have  been  my  friends  from  the  first  day  I 
landed  here,  and  have  helped  me  faithfully  in 
my  church  building.  My  work  is  winning  now. 
We  have,  it  is  said,  the  prettiest  church  in  the 


city,  and  I  have  good  congregations  to  bear  me 
preach.  1  have  worked  hard  and  think  I  have 
made  good  friends  for  myself  and  my  work  since 
1  have  been  here.  I  have  yet  much  to  do  before 
my  church  is  finished.  My  seats  have  to  be  paid 
for,  and  the  reflectors,  and  we  are  absolutely 
compelled  to  have  a  bell.  The  Sabbath-school 
is  splendid,  and  the  day  school  the  same.  I  am 
almost,  it  seems,  broken  down.  Please  call  on 
us  this  winter  if  you  can." 

2.  **  Your  more  than  welcome  letter  was  re- 
ceived this  morning.  I  am  so  thankful  for  the 
good  news  that  my  heart  is  overflowing  with  Joy 
and  gratitude  to  you  and  the  donors  of  the  gar- 
den seed.  My  prayer  goes  up  to  the  Triune  God 
that  he  will  bless,  sustain  and  encourage  you 
by  directing  and  commanding  those  who  know 
Him,  as  well  as  those  who  do  not  regard  Him,  to 
give  of  their  substance  that  you  may  be  able  to 
meet  the  increased  claims,  obligations,  demands 
and  duties  in  this  great  aid  service  to  those  whom 
He  hath  chastened,  smitten  and  humbled.  I 
shall  carry  out  your  instructions  and  suggestions 
to  the  best  of  my  ability,  and  in  the  fear  of  Qod 
to  whom  we  must  give  an  account.'' 

[The  seed  referred  to  was  sent  by  Messrs. 
Landreth  &  Sons,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and 
Messrs.  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich., 
in  generous  response  to  letters  written  from 
our  office.] 

3.  "Our  school  is  in  excellent  condition  and 
doing  a  good  work.  The  teachers  are  all  at 
their  posts.  Our  church  work  has  been  greatly 
injured  by  the  cyclone.  The  vegetables  under 
the  ground  were  destroyed  by  the  salt  water. 
Our  people  feel  this  loss  much,  as  these  are  their 
main  support,  especially  at  this  season  of  the 
year,  but  are  not  wholly  discouraged.  They 
claim  better  times  are  coming.  The  Lord  will 
provide." 

4.  "  Our  report  does  not  report  so  well,  this 
month,  as  the  grip  required  part  of  the  time  of 


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one  of  the  teachers  which  necessitated  [closing 
the  school  sooner  than  we  meant — also,  very  in- 
clement weather  helped  matters  along.  We  are 
sorry  it  is  so — since  our  term  is  short  without  the 
Joss  of  a  day.  Our  little  orphanage  has  been 
much  afSicted  within  the  last  two  weeks;  but, 
we  hope  for  better  days  and  a  Happy  New 
Year." 

6.  '*  Our  building  is  not  finished  inside,  but 
we  hope  by  another  winter  to  have  it  done. 
Many  thanks  to  the  Board.  Do  pray  for  us  that 
God  may  bless  us  In  our  work.  This  is  a  hard 
year  with  us  and  the  people  to  whom  we  are 
preaching.  The  people  have  not  the  money  to 
pay.  I  have  been  receiving  from  them  for  pay 
on  salary  anything  they  could  let  me  have,  that 
I  could  use,  in  order  to  teach  them  how  to  give. 
You  know  I  told  you  that  if  they  paid  $100  they 
would  do  well.  They  have  paid  more  on  build- 
ing than  on  salary.  My  other  church  has  it  on 
their  heart  to  build.  We  started  to  raise  the 
money  on  Thanksgiving  day  and  raised  $14. 
Since  then  we  have  raised  $50.  When  we  get 
better  buildings  people  will  attend  church  more 
in  the  Winter." 

6.  '' This  is  a  very  promising  point;  and,  if 
rightly  managed  a  grand  work  will  grow  up 
here.  We  are  gaining  ground.  Several,  during 
the  last  quarter,  have  united  with  our  church. 
As  soon  as  we  can  get  a  house  to  worship  in,  and 
teach  the  people  what  the  Presbyterian  Church 
really  is,  we  will  have  but  little  trouble.  Some 
look  upon  the  Presbyterian  Church  as  a  great 
curiosity.  They  come  to  our  Sunday-school  to 
see  how  we  teach  the  Bible.  We  pack  the 
shorter  Catechism  into  them  every  time  they 
come.  In  order  that  the  work  may  grow,  and 
the  people  be  kept  together,  we  give  most  of 
our  time  here.  The  school  which  was  organized 
the  Ist  of  the  month  keeps  us  here.  We  have 
too  many  points  to  do  well  at  all  of  them  and 
work  up  the  school  at  the  same  time.  I  hope 
God  will  bless  the  Board  and  that  the  officers  of 
the  Board  will  be  able  to  do  all  that  is  in  their 
mind  and  heart  to  do." 

7.  ''The  sad  news  of  the  loss  of  our  church 
and  school  building  has,  no  doubt,  reached  you. 
Only  a  few  desks  were  saved.  The  week  of 
prayer  had  been  observed  by  the  students  and 
was  continued  this  week.  There  were  three 
conversions.  Some  eight  persons  expressed  a 
desire  to  unite  with  the  church.  Some  interest 
was  taken  in  the  meeting  and  it  was  prolonged 
until  9.30  p.  m.     About  midnight  the  fire  broke 

out.     Miss was  just  going  to  bed  and  gave 

the  alarm.    The  flames  were  in  the  belfry.    Soon 


the  whole  town  was  awak^ed  and  black  and 
white  worked  with  a  will  to  stay  the  fire  and 
save  the  dormitory.  The  women  prayed  for  its 
safety,  and  one  little  girl  fell  on  her  knees  and 
prayed  "Lord  have  mercy  and  save  the  dormi- 
tory. Save  it.  Lord,  save  it  for  Christ's  sake." 
She  declares,  now,  that  the  Lord  saved  it  because 
she  prayed.  Only  hard  work,  with  prayer, 
saved  it;  but  a  number  of  the  windows  were 
broken,  the  spouting  injured,  furniture  and 
some  dishes  broken.  One  girl  was  hurt.  A 
trunk  fell  on  her." 

8.  Another  fire.  "  You  have  received  ere  this 
my  telegram  announcing  the  total  destruction  of 
the  Boys'  Dormitory.  It  caught  from  a  defec- 
tive flue  while  we  were  at  Sunday-school.  The 
wind  was  very  high — blowing  almost  a  blizzard. 
In  twenty  minutes  after  the  discovery  it  was  in 
a  sheet  of  flames.  The  young  men  had  labored 
very  hard  to  make  their  rooms  comfortable  and 
had  just  finished,  Saturday  night,  putting  on 
paper  upstairs.  Tliree  slept  up  stairs  and  six 
down  stairs.  The  ones  that  slept  up  stairs  lost 
everything  except  what  was  on  their  backs,  and 
their  Bibles  and  catechisms.  The  others  lost 
part  of  their  things.  Only  a  few  pieces  of  fur- 
niture were  saved.  In  the  moment  we  knew  not 
what  to  do — whether  to  send  them  home  or  try 
to  keep  them ;  but,  after  seeking  guidance  from 
the  Lord,  decided  to  keep  them,  believing  that 
"  He  will  provide."  Of  the  nine  boys  eight  of 
them  are  self  supporting  and  are  among  our  best 
students.  I  have  succeeded  in  renting  a  small 
house,  just  below  the  church,  waiting  to  hear 
from  you." 

9.  "Neither  one  of   these  churches  have  a 

suitable  place  of  worship.     At there  is  an 

old,  open,  rotten  log  house  into  which  the  rain 

and  wind  pours.     At there  is  a  new  open 

log  house  through  which  the  wind  whistles. 
We  have  no  stove.  They  have  to  make  a  fire 
outside  and  warm  well  before  they  go  in,  and 
the  congregation  has  to  run  out  at  the  time 
of  service  to  get  warm." 

10.  "  It  is  with  pleasure  that  I  write  you.  We 
have  just  closed  a  series  of  meetings.  The  work 
has  been  wonderfully  blessed.  The  church  has 
been  greatly  revived  and  many  new  ones  have 
been  added  to  the  church.  We  had  29  profes- 
sions. Our  work  this  year  is  very  hopeful  and 
encouraging.  We  have  a  school  work  connected 
with  this  church  which  begins  every  year  after 
Christmas.    It  is  very  important  and  beneficial. 

We  have  started  a  work  in .    The  work 

there  has  a  bright  future  and  is  filled  with  grand 
possibilities.    I  have  been  preaching  there  ever 


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sioce  September.  The  work  is  being  built  up. 
The  young  people  are  anxious  to  have  Presby- 
terian work  there.  The  people  do  not  have  any 
preaching  of  any  note;  therefore,  there  is  the 
greatest  need  of  the  plain,  simple  truth.  We 
are  unable  to  teach  all  the  week  and  keep  up 
both  these  fields— in  fact  will  have  to  give  up 

the  work  at ,  or  my  school.     I  know  the 

Board  is  pushed  to  the  utmost.  I  appreciate 
the  urgent  demands  continually  coming  to  you 
for  help,  and  the  limited  amount  you  have ;  but, 
is  it  possible  for  you  to  give  us  something  in 
the  way  of  supporting  a  teacher  so  that  I  can 
continue  to  preach  to  these  people  who  are 
suffering  for  want  of  the  simple,  plain  Gospel  of 
Jesus  Christ?  Can  you  help  us?  If  you  can  do 
anything,  please  do  it." 

11.  A  letter  from  an  Elder  in  the  white  church 
at  Columbus,   Ga.   (Southern),   concerning  the 


death  of  one  of  our  faithful  colored  ministers- 
Rev.  J.  H.  Bergen: 

"I  received  your  favor  in  reply  to  my  teleg- 
ram announcing  Mr.  Bergen's  death.  I  came 
out  of  a  sick  room  to  attend  the  funeral  Took 
our  pastor.  Rev.  Dr.  Carter  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  had  services  at  Bergen's 
church.  I  was  obliged  to  go  back  to  my  room 
where  I  have  since  been  engaged  in  fighting  the 
grippe;  and  am  but  just  out,  hence  the  delay  in 
writing  to  you.  Bergen  was  one  of  the  best 
men  I  ever  knew ;  simple,  single-hearted  and  sin- 
cere. His  sole  aim  was  to  serve  his  Master,  and 
I  doubt  not  he  has  entered  into  rest,  I  buried 
him  properly,  and  the  total  expense  does  not 
much  exceed  $35.  I  think  he  owes  only  small 
amounts,  and  if  you  see  fit  to  send  me  a  check 
for  what  is  due  him,  I  will  disburse  it  and  make 
due  report  to  you  "  E.  P.  C. 


Rev.  J.  R.  Ramsey  writes  to  us  of  Robert 
Johnson,  lately  deceased : 

His  life  was  intimately  connected  with  the 
missionary  work  among  the  Creek  and  Seminole 
Indians.  At  first  a  slave,  his  time  was  hired  by 
the  missionaries  to  aid  them  as  interpreter. 
His  knowledge  of  the  language  and  manners  of 
the  Indians  qualified  him  in  a  remarkable  degree 
for  that  important  work.  He  was  a  zealous 
Christian,  and  was  willing  to  do  anything,  even 
to  risking  his  own  life,  in  helping  to  preach  the 
€k)spel  and  In  conducting  the  Indian  schools. 
He  once  put  himself  between  me  and  a  drunken 
Indian  who  was  threatening  my  life,  as  we  were 
returning  from  a  preaching  appointment.  The 
Civil  War,  In  which  he  served  as  a  useful 
Union  soldier,  made  him  a  freedman,  and  by 
improving  his  consequent  advantages  he  after- 
wards became  well-conditioned  in  life.  After  that 
strife  was  ended  and  the  Indians  settled  in 
peace  in  their  homes,  he  stood  beside  me  amid 
the  falling  snow  one  February  Sabbath,  to  in- 
terpret for  me  while  preaching  to  the  Seminole 
congregation  that  was  too  large  to  be  contained 
in  any  house  in  their  country  at  that  time,  and 
to  assist  in  organizing  the  Seminole  Presbyter- 
ian Church  and  in  administering  the  ordinances, 
when  twenty.fi ve  new  members  were  baptized. 
His  skin  was  very  black,  but  there  was  no  man 
more  respected  and  loved  by  the  good  of  all 
colors  than  he. 

What  has  the  color  of  a  man*s  skin  to  do 
with  his  respectability,  anyway,  unless  it  is 
colored  by  rum? 


AFRICA  IN  CURRENT  HISTORY. 

For  several  years  past  and  probably  for  sev- 
eral years  to  come  the  news  which  will  tell  most 
in  the  world's  future  history  is  that  which 
comes  from  Africa. 

A  French  military  force  has  lately  entered 
Timbuctoo  in  the  very  interior  and  most  in- 
accessible part  of  the  South  Sahara  neighbor- 
hood. France  proposes  to  control  the  whole  of 
this  territory,  and  she  reaches  Timbuctoo  from 
the  north  by  way  of  Algeria  and  from  the  west 
by  way  of  Senegal. 

Timbuctoo  has  been  an  almost  unknown 
city,  visited  very  rarely,  and  generally  by 
Europeans  only  in  disguise.  The  information 
is  too  meager  as  yet  for  us  to  understand 
the  full  meaning  of  this  occupation.  So  far 
as  we  know  the  force  is  a  small  one,  and  a 
small  force  could  have  no  chance  in  case  of 
opposition. 

We  have  no  question  that  France  intends 
to  make  Timbuctoo  a  great  centre  for  its 
influence  and  power,  nor  that  Northwest  Africa 
will  be  finally  under  French  control.  It  is 
often  said,  and  truly  said,  that  France  has 
shown  no  great  aptitude  for  colonial  enterprises 
owing  to  a  lack  of  surplus  population.  But  she 
has  put  Algeria  under  civilized  conditions,  and 
Frenchmen  may  multiply  more  rapidly  in  the 
colonies  than  they  do  in  their  own  country. 
The  partition  of  Africa  will  afford  a  great  out 
let  for  European  population  and  enterprise  and 
will  have  a  great  influence  on  the  world. — TTie 
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AUBURN  SEMfNARY. 
We  are  enabled  this  month,  through  the 
courtesy  of  President  Booth,  to  present  to  our 
readers  several  views  of  Auburn  Seminary. 
The  above  view  represents  Willard  Chapel, 
erected  by  the  daughters  of  the  late  Sylvester 
Willard,  M.  D.,  as  a  memorial  of  their  father, 
an  old  and  inestimable  friend  of  the  Seminary. 
It  is  built  of  gray  limestone  with  trimmings 
of  red  sandstone.  It  will  seat  about  800 
persons.  The  Welch  Memorial  Building  is 
of  the  same  material  as  the  chapel.  It  is 
connected  with  it  by  a  corridor.  Class-rooms 
with  all  the  latest  conveniences  are  to  be 
found  in  this  beautiful  building.  The  means 
for  its  erection  came  from  the  generous 
bequest  of  Dr.  Welch  combined  with  a  large 
gift  of  Mr.  Henry  A.  Morgan  of  Aurora. 

The  second  view  is  a  picture  of  the  interior 
of  a  student's  room  in  Morgan  Hall,  which 
was  built  for  the  Seminary  at  a  cost  of 
$100,000,  the  gift  of  Col.  Edwin  B.  Morgan 
of  Aurora.  It  will  accommodate  seventy-six 
students,  each  with  a  study  and  a  bed -room. 
The  neat  and  substantial  furniture  can  be 
partly  seen  in  the  picture.  The  rooms  have 
steam-heat  and  gas,  and  the  halls  have  city 
water.  There  are  besides  bath  rooms,  read- 
ing rooms,  reception  rooms,  and  reference 
library. 


The  third  view  is  a  picture  of  the  interior 
of  the  library.  This  building  was  erected  in 
1872  by  Mr.  W.  E.  Dodge,  of  New  York,  and 
Col.  Edwin  B.  Morgan,  of  Aurora.  It  con- 
tains 21,226  volumes  and  5,285  pamphlets. 

The  Seminary,  while  recognizing  the  neces- 
sity for  high  scholarship  and  endeavoring  by 
all  legitimate  means  to  foster  it,  has  an  in- 
tensely practical  aim,  and  seeks  to  send  forth 
ministers  ready  to  cope  successfully  with  all 
the  great  problems  of  the  present  age. 


THE  DAY  OF  PRAYER  FOR  COLLEGES. 
In  many  schools,  colleges  and  churches 
earnest  prayer  was  offered  to  God  on  Thurs- 
day, January  25  th,  for  the  young  men  now 
under  training  in  our  institutions  of  learn- 
ing. The  Church  ought  to  be  watching 
eagerly  for  the  answer  to  these  prayers.  The 
probabilities  are  all  in  favor  of  permanence 
of  sentiment  as  to  religion  on  the  part  of 
young  men  going  forth  from  our  colleges  at 
their  graduation.  In  the  case  of  a  large 
proportion  of  them  it  is  now  or  never.  Sta- 
tistics gathered  by  the  Intercollegiate  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  show  that  there  are  in  the  colleges  of 
Canada  and  the  United  States  70,419  young 
men.  Of  these  38,827  are  professed  Chris- 
tians and  82,092  are  not.  Let  the  Church 
keep  on  praying   that   these   men  may  be 


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promptly  led  to  Christ,  and  that  they  may 
consecrate  the  training  and  the  learning 
which  they  are  receiving  to  Jesus  Christ  to 
vrhom  the  devoted  allegiance  of  their  lives  is 
due.  Let  the  Church  keep  on  praying  that 
from  the  ranks  of  these  trained  men  great 
numbers  of  recruits  may  be  gotten  for  the 
holy  ministry.  There  was  a  revival  of  relig- 
ion in  Yale  College  in  the  days  of  Pres. 
Timothy  D wight.  A  number  of  men  brought 
to  Christ  at  that  time  in  the  College  gave 
themselves  to  the  work  of  the  ministry.  It 
has  been  found  that  50,000  persons  were  con- 
verted under  the  labors  of  these  men  from 
Yale  College  in  one  generation.  What  may 
we  not  hope  for  if  the  Church  is  prayerful 
and  in  earnest  now  ? 


WHO  COVETS  A  GREAT  PRIVILEGE? 

There  are  a  number  of  very  promising  men 
who  have  not  yet  reached  that  stage  of  their 
study  when  the  Board  can  take  them  under 
its  care  and  aid  them.  One  of  these  men 
has  the  best  record  for  scholarship  in  the 
institution  where  he  is  pursuing  his  studies 
that  can  be  shown  for  21  years.  He  is  not 
only  one  of  the  brightest  but  one  of  the  best 
men  that  the  college  has  had.  He  is  an 
orphan.  The  Church  should  care  for  him  as 
her  beloved  child.  One  year's  help,  to  the 
amount  of  $80,  will  bring  him  to  tkat  stage 
when  the  Board  can  take  him  up  and  carry 
him  along.  The  same  may  be  said  of  several 
other  choice  and  well-tried  young  men.  It 
would  be  very  cheering  if  some  of  our  friends 


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would  send  in  to  our  treasurer  special  contri- 
butions for  these  cases. 

COLLEGE  AND  SEMINARY  NOTES. 

Cornell  Uniybrsitt  is  said  to  have  a  student- 
tribunal  correspondiDg  in  general  character  to 
the  * '  College-Senate  "  of  Amherst.  It  has  taken 
in  hand  the  frauds  practised  in  the  examination 
rooms.  One  student  has  been  convicted  and  sus- 
pended from  the  university  for  a  year. 

At  Lincoln  University  the  Rev.  Robert  L. 
Stewart  was  inaugurated  as  professor  of  Pastoral 
Theology,  Evidences  of  Christianity  and  Bibli- 
cal Archaeology  on  the  28d  of  January.  The 
charge  was  given  by  the  Rev.  William  A.  Holli- 
day,  D.D.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day 
the  Rev.  J.  Aspinwall  Hodge,  D.D.,  was  inau- 
gurated as  professor  of  Instruction  in  the 
English  Version  of  the  Bible.  The  charge  was 
given  by  the  Rev.  George  T.  Purves,  D.D. 

Our  Germain  Theological  School  at  Du- 
buque has  an  endowment  which  yields  only 
(800  per  annum.  It  seems  to  some  observers  a 
crying  shame  that  an  institution  doing  a  work  so 
unspeakably  important  should  not  be  better  pro- 
vided for ;  and  that  so  much  suffering  should  be 
exacted  of  professors  and  of  students. 

President  Warfield  of  Lafayette  College 
pleads  in  the  Fbrum  for  the  reform  of  foot  ball 
games,  and  not  their  overthrow . 

The  governors  of  McGill  University  have 
offered  the  position  of  principal,  made  vacant 
by  the  resignation  of  Sir  William  Dawson,  to 
Prof.  Henry  Drummond. 

Drury  College,  at  Springfield,  Mo.,  after 
paying  off  a  debt  of  $46,000,  has  raised  $75,000 
more  to  add  to  $25,000,  offered  conditionally  by 


Dr.  Pearsons  of  Chicago.  Another  gift  of  $26,- 
000  is  now  offered  from  the  same  source  on  the 
same  condition.  Mr.  M.  L.  Gray,  of  St.  Louis, 
gives  $25,000  to  endow  a  professorship  in  his 
wife's  name. 

The  University  of  Chicago  has  received  the 
gift  of  the  *'  Kent  Chemical  Labaratory  "  build- 
ing from  Mr.  Sidney  A.  Kent  of  that  city.  The 
cost  was  $235,000.  Mr.  Rockefeller  has  given  to 
the  same  institution  $60,000  to  be  expended  on 
books. 

Park  College  has  received  a  free  scholarship 
in  the  "Schultze  School  of  Music"  in  Kansas 
City  for  the  benefit  of  some  student  who  shows 
aptitude  and  willingness  in  the  study  of  music. 

At   CUMBERLAITD  UNIVERSITY  it  is    propOSWl 

to  make  the  Seminary  Course  to  consist  of  three 
years  instead  of  two,  as  heretofore.  Our  Cum- 
berland brethren  are  finding  a  short-cut  into  the 
ministry  unwise. 

The  Ohio  College  Association,  in  session 
at  Columbus.  O.,  from  December  26th  to  Decem- 
ber 28th,  discussed  foot  ball  games  and  the 
gymnasium.  The  feeling  was  strong  against 
football  as  at  present  conducted.  Reform  was 
considered  essential.  The  gynmasium,  with  its 
related  field-day  and  out-door  sports,  and  possi- 
bly military  drill,  was  commended  as  the  thing 
best  adapted  for  athletic  culture. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania  has  now  a 
collection  of  ancient  cuneiform  inscriptions  and 
other  fruits  of  Assyrian  exploration  surpassed 
only  by  those  in  the  Louvre  and  in  the  British 
Museum. 

Harvard  University  had  last  year  a  deficit 
of  $25,000.  Six  of  the  instructors  have  been 
dismissed  as  a  measure  of  economy. 


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March  A.Selling  the  Birthright, --Qen, 
xxvi:  27-34. 

A  mess  of  pottage  weighed  against  the 
privileges  and  honor  and  blessings  of  the  first 
bom  son;  present  gratification  against  hopes 
that  reached  away  on  into  the  future  and 
even  to  later  generations.  Esau  was  not  the 
last  man  who  made  that  mistake.  The  com- 
forts and  pleasures  of  this  world  have  proved 
too  strong  a  temptation  for  many  a  soul  upon 
whom  a  noble  choice  would  have  conferred 
the  privileges  of  an  heir  of  God ;  who  have 
preferred  temporal  things  to  ^*an  inheritance 
incorruptible  and  undefiled.'' 

The  Interpreter  has  them  into  a  room  where 
was  a  man  that  could  look  no  way  but  down- 
wards, with  a  muck-rake  in  his  hand.  There 
stood  also  one  over  his  head,  with  a  celestial 
crown  in  his  hand,  and  proffered  him  that 
crown  for  his  muck-rake;  but  the  man  did 
neither  look  up,  nor  regard,  but  raked  to  him- 
self the  straws,  the  small  sticks,  and  dust  of 
the  floor. 

Then  said  Christiana,  I  persuade  myself 
that  I  know  somewhat  the  meaning  of  this ; 
for  this  is  a  figure  of  a  man  of  this  world,  is 
it  not,  good  Sir) 

Thou  hast  said  right,  said  Interpreter,  and 
his  muck-rake  doth  show  his  carnal  mind. 
And  whereas  thou  seest  him  rather  give  heed 
to  rake  up  straws  and  sticks,  and  the  dust  of 
the  floor,  than  to  what  he  says  that  calls  to 
him  from  above  with  the  celestial  crown  in 
his  hand,  it  is  to  show  that  heaven  is  but  a 
fable  to  some,  and  that  things  here  are  counted 
the  only  things  substantial.  Now,  whereas, 
it  was  also  showed  thee,  that  the  man  could 
look  no  way  but  downwards,  it  is  to  let  thee 
know  that  earthly  things,  when  they  are  with 
power  upon  men^s  minds,  quite  carry  their 
hearts  away  from  God.  John  Bunyan. 

March  11. — Jacob  at  Bethel, — (Jen.  zxviii: 
10-22. 

Our  Heavenly  Father  often  surprises  His 
children,  as  he  did  Jacob,  with  a  message 
when  it  is  least  expected.    It  is  not  always  a 


vision  of  angels ;  sometimes  it  comes  through 
the  sweet  words  or  caresses  of  a  little  child, 
sometimes  through  the  written  word  or  coun- 
sel of  a  trusted  friend,  sometimes  through 
the  printed  message  of  God^s  own  word, 
sometimes  the  still  small  voice  of  the  Holy 
Spirit;  but  it  always  means  comfort  or  cheer 
or  strength,  just  what  the  anxious  or  weary 
soul  needs.  It  always  brings  with  it  the 
assurance,  **Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway."  So, 
whatever  the  difficulties  or  perplexities,  how- 
ever darkly  the  mists  and  shadows  may 
gather  around,  the  trusting  child  of  God  may 
say  with  confidence,  ^^  Surely  the  Lord  is  in 
this  place.'* 

March  18. — Wine  a  Mocker. — Prov.  xx: 
1-17.     (A  Temperance  Lesson.) 

One  of  the  phenomena  which  sorely  puzzled 
early  Arctic  explorers  was  that  under  the 
power  of  grog  they  were  less  sensible  of  cold, 
but  more  quickly  succumbed  to  its  effects. 
The  studies  of  the  physician  soon  made  it 
plain  that  the  nerves  of  sensation  being  par- 
tially benumbed,  men  could  not  realize  the 
cold;  while  the  nerves  of  automatic  play, 
being  also  affected,  the  blood  was  thrown  to 
the  surface  to  lose  its  animal  heat  by  rapid 
radiation,  and  death  was  the  result.  Another 
of  the  deceits  of  strong  drink  is  in  the  coun- 
terfeit of  strength  which  it  presents  in  its 
victim.  Nothing  is  more  common  than  great 
mental  excitement  existing  side  by  side  with 
decreased  physical  power;  and  the  most  com- 
mon of  all  results,  in  such  a  crisis  is  the  final 
prostration  and  complete  collapse  of  the  one 
thus  affected.  Nervous  excitement  is  a  close 
counterfeit  of  muscular  power,  but  is,  in 
truth,  its  very  antipodes.  The  experiments 
of  the  physiologists  with  innumerable  living 
creatures  show  most  conclusively  that  the 
body  is  weakened  by  alcohol  just  as  surely  as 
the  brain  is  unnaturally  excited.     Interior. 

A  Blessing  to  all  Nations. — Gen.  xviii,  17- 
21.     (A  Missionary  Lesson). 

If  the  condition  of  our  fallen  world  was 
such  as  to  call  for  the  sacrifice  of  Christ,  then 
the  condition  of  heathenism  in  our  day  would 
require  the  sacrifice  of  Christ  at  the  present 
hour,  had  it  never  been  made  before.  If  this 
is  true,  then  this  grand  fact  comes  to  the 
front,  that  after  eighteen  hundred  yeais  of 


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delay,  the  Church  of  Christ,  with  a  finished 
atonement,  a  printed  Bible,  the  oo- operation 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  an  unparalleled  array 
of  magnificent  material  resources,  has  the 
privilege  of  accomplishing  triumphantly  a 
service  which  is  worth  the  sacrifice  of  the 
Son  of  God.  If  Christ  had  never  given  Him- 
self, He  would  be  ready  to  do  it  now  for  the 
heathen  world  of  our  present  day,  and  what 
He  would  be  willing  to  lay  down  His  life  for 
the  sake  of  accomplishing,  He  calls  upon  His 
Church  to  do  in  His  name,  with  the  surpas- 
sing promise  of  His  own  presence  and  leader- 
ship, and  the  assurance  of  success.  ^*The 
brother  for  whom  Christ  died, '^  says  Paul; 
**the  brother  for  whom  Christ  would  die^^^ 
says  the  Spirit  and  Providence  of  God  to  a 
Church  holding  in  her  hand  the  sacred  trust 
of  the  Gospel,  and  possessing  the  material  fa- 
cilities, the  spiritual  resources,  and  the  readily 
accessible  power  to  bring  this  world  into  sub- 
jection to  Christ  before  another  century  of 
modern  missionary  history  shall  close. 

James  S.  Dennis,  D.  D. 

March  25. — Review, 

We  have  been  studying  about  beginnings 
during  the  past  quarter;  the  beginning  of  a 
race,  the  beginning  of  a  nation,  the  beginning 
of  sin,  the  beginning  of  salvation.  And  from 
it  all,  what  have  we  learned? 

What  have  we  learned  about  man  f 

We  have  learned  that  the  natural  man  is 
weak  and  easily  led  astray ;  that  it  is  only 
the  man  of  faith  who  looks  beyond  himself 
and  lays  hold  upon  divine  strength,  who  can 
ful61  the  purpose  of  his  being  and  be  justified 
in  the  sight  of  God. 

What  have  we  learned  about  Qod  f 

The  same  lesson  that  Moses  learned  in  that 
wonderful  moment  when  *'the  Lord  passed 
by  before  him,  and  proclaimed,  the  Lord,  the 
Lord  God,  merciful  and  gracious,  longsuffer- 
ing,  and  abundant  in  goodness  and  truth, 
keeping  mercy  for  thousands,  forgiving  in- 
iquity and  transgression  and  sin,  and  that 
will  by  no  means  clear  the  guilty." 

The  same  lesson  that  Moses  taught  again 
after  forty  years'  experience  of  Qod^a  dealings, 
''  He  is  the  Rock,  His  way  is  perfect;  for  all 
His  ways  are  judgment;  a  God  of  truth  and 
without  iniquity,  just  and  right  is  He." 


The  first  glimmerings  of  that  most  precious 
of  all  lessons  that  was  not  perfectly  revealed 
until  the  fulness  of  time  had  oome;  *'  God  so 
loved  the  world  that  He  gave  His  only  begot- 
ten Son,  that  whosoever  believeth  on  Him 
should  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life. 

The  Resurrection  of  Christ. — ^Mark  xvi,  1- 
8.     (Easter  Lesson.) 

The  open,  empty  grave  is  as  true  a  symbol  of 
the  Gk)8pel  as  is  the  cross.  Many  persons  seem 
not  to  understand  this.  They  realize  the  im- 
portance of  the  death  of  Christ  on  the  Cross  by 
which  He  made  atonement  for  us.  But  they  do 
not  understand  that  the  truth  of  the  resurrection 
of  Christ  occupies  such  a  vital  place  in  the  Gos- 
pel. It  is  one  of  the  great  pillars  on  which  the 
arch  of  Christian  doctrine  rests.  ...  A 
Christ  that  did  not  rise  again  cannot  do  anything 
for  us.  His  death  availed  not  for  the  taking 
away  of  our  sins.  He  can  do  nothing  for  us  as 
Friend  and  Helper  and  Saviour,  if  he  is  yet  in 
the  grave.  A  Christ  that  is  not  strong  enough 
to  overcome  death  for  himself  cannot  overcome 
sin  and  death  for  his  people.  .  .  .  What 
comfort  for  you  would  there  be,  if  you  lay  a 
captive  in  a  great  fortress,  and  one  came  to 
deliver  you  and  fought  and  died  on  the  walls, 
yet  not  accomplishing  your  rescue  I  What  com- 
fort would  it  be  to  penitent  souls  to  learn  that 
the  Son  of  God  loved  them  in  their  sins  and 
came  to  deliver  and  save  them,  but  died  in  the 
undertaking !  Our  preaching  would  indeed  be 
,vain  if  it  could  tell  only  of  the  dying  of  Christ 
and  not  of  His  rising  again. 

J.  R  Miller,  D.  D. 


How  calm  and  beautiful  the  morn, 
That  gilds  the  sacred  tomb, 

Where  (Jhrist  the  crucified  was  borne, 
And  vailed  in  midnight  gloom ! 

Oh,  weep  no  more  the  Saviour  slain. 

The  Lord  Is  risen,  He  lives  again. 


Ye  mourning  saints,  dry  every  tear 

For  your  departed  Lord, 
'Behold  the  place,  He  is  not  here!" 

The  tomb  is  all  unbarred  : 
The  ^ates  of  death  were  closed  in  vain. 
The  Lord  is  risen.  He  lives  again. 


Now  cheerful  to  the  house  of  prayer 

Your  early  foot-steps  bend ; 
The  Savior  will  himself  be  there, 

Your  advocate  and  friend : 
Once  by  the  law  your  hopes  were  slain, 
But  now  in  Christ,  ye  live  again. 


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Young  People's  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN  AT  HOME. 

MRS.  THOMAS  CARTER. 

''  I  know  just  about  what  that  sort  of 
article  is  without  reading  it  I  You  strike  it 
every  time  in  the  *^Home  Department"  of 
something  or  other.  It  says  to  split  the 
kindlings,  and  draw  your  little  sister  on  your 
sled,— or, — if  you  are  a  girl, — to  wash  the 
dishes  on  Saturday,  instead  of  going  chest- 
nutting  with  the  rest  of  the  girls, — and  most 
^nerally  to  amuse  the  baby,  because  mother 
bas  a  headache  I  I've  read  it  forty  times,  if 
I  have  once  I "  That's  the  juvenile  view  of 
the  title,  and  not  far  wrong  either.  The 
child  has  wit  enough  to  perceive  that  Chris- 
tianity at  home  finds  expression  in  very  prac- 
tical, homely  ways, — and  that,  however, 
much  change  and  variety  there  may  be  in  the 
duties  required  outside  the  home,  those  inside 
the  home  have  no  new  motives,  or  improved 
methods  of  expression,  but  rest  on  the  same 
old  and  time-honored  foundation  of  *  Moving 
one  another,"  a  foundation  just  as  secure  to- 
day as  if  it  hadn't  been  in  use  for  hundreds 
of  years, — and  written  about,  thousands  of 
times,  tool  So,  though  the  dishes  and  the 
kindlings  may  not  happen  to  lie  in  our  path, 
and  the  maternal  headaches  may  be  lacking 
as  an  incentive  to  gentleness, — are  we.  not 
honestly  glad  that  the  principles  of  action 
are  just  the  same  to-day  as  when  Jesus  gave 
them  to  his  disciples — his  learners — cen- 
turies ago, — that  every  act  built  upon  this 
old  foundation  is  the  kind  of  character*  build- 
ing that  counts  most  for  time  and  eternity  % 
Our  teacher  knows  that  we  are  more  teacha- 
ble when  we  are  young, — and  the  fact  that  he 
bas  adopted  us  when  young  lays  upon  us  the 
responsibility  of  learning  more  than  those 
who  come  to  Christ  later  in  life.  He  says 
in  an  especial  sense  to  his  young  disciples 
"  Learn  of  Me." 

The  old  Thirteenth  of  Corinthians  cannot 
be  improved  upon  as  a  sermon  for  the  young 
Christian  at  home.  Text  and  heads  and 
application  are  all  there.  It  will  not  let  you 
stop  at  the  family  affection,  which  is  ready  to 


nurse  each  other  in  illness,  to  stand  up  for 
each  other  when  calumniated, — to  talk  kindly 
of  each  other.  That  we  all  have,  of  course, 
— but  it  goes  on  down  to  the  steady  thought- 
fulness  for  each  other  that  ^'w^per  faileth," — 
and  the  unselfish  sympathy  with  each  other 
that  never  ^^seeketh  its  own." 

In  these  days  when  Christian  Endeavor 
work  utilizes  some  of  our  energies,  and  there 
is  such  large  scope  for  our  various  gifts  in 
church  and  mission  channels — there  is  spec- 
ial need  of  emphasizing  home  duties  to  keep 
the  balance  even.  There  is  need  of  perpet- 
ual **  lookout"  work  in  the  home.  We  do 
not  want  to  be  one-sided  Christians.  Prob- 
ably you  and  I  both  know  the  energetic 
member  of  a  committee,  or  the  church- 
worker— (no  Mrs.  Jellyby,  but  the  genuine, 
practical,  successful  kind,)  whose  enthusiasm 
is  the  real  thing  and  we  love  her  for  it.  Yet 
you  and  I  both  know  that  she  demands  a  lit- 
tle more  than  her  fair  share  of  sympathy  at 
home,  and  puts  a  little  strain  on  the  patience 
of  the  rest  of  the  family,  and  sometimes  you 
think  laughingly  of  what  was  said  of  Jac- 
queline Pascal  and  her  plain  sister,  Gilberte. 
'^  One  saint  or  one  genius  in  a  family  gener- 
ally gives  the  other  members  of  it  plenty  to 
do ;  and  when  genius  soars,  there  is  need  of 
someone  to  clear  up  after  it  I  "  We  forgive 
Jacqueline  Pascal,  who  was  both  a  saint  and 
a  genius,  for  making  life  rather  uncomforta- 
ble and  unsatisfactory  to  the  tireless  and  ad- 
miring sister  who  **  picked  up  after  her; " 
but  those  of  us  who  are  neither  saints  nor 
geniuses  need  to  pull  ourselves  up  sharply 
once  in  a  while,  and  see  to  it  that  we  are 
taking  our  fair  share  both  of  the  work  and 
responsibility  of  the  home  making,  or,  at 
least,  giving  due  credit  to  those  who  do  the 
larger  share. 

The  home  is  a  joint  stock  concern.  If  you 
don't  put  much  in,  you  must  not  expect  to 
get  much  out.  If  you  are  so  absorbed  in 
your  own  study  in  the  evening  as  to  be  im- 
patient with  Johnny  who  is  in  despair 
because  ^^  poteram  "  isn't  in  the  dictionary; 
if  you  are  interested  in  the  news  of  the  day 
but  think  it  a  bore  to  answer  the  questions 
of  those  of  the  family  who  have  no  time  to 
read  the  papers;    if,   in  general,  you  have 


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small  interest  in  their  pursuits,  it  is  hardly 
fair  to  expect  them  to  have  an  eager  delight 
in  yours.  If  you  join  in  a  game  with  the 
youngsters  in  a  martyr  spirit,  (because,  for- 
sooth, you  might  be  doing  something  so 
much  more  improving  to  yourself)  you  must 
not  expect  them  to  be  wildly  enthusiastic 
over  your  sisterly  devotion  I  '*  Charity  seek- 
eth  not  her  own." 

I  have  in  mind  two  young  friends  who  go 
to  the  city  for  work  and  study  each  day. 
When  No.  1  comes  home  at  night,  he  brings 
a  fresh,  breezy  atmosphere  with  him.  He 
has  met  some  friend,  he  has  heard  a  good 
story,  and  he  tells  what  interests  both  the 
children  and  the  old  folks,  until  they  all  feel 
that  they  have  had  the  fun  of  going  to  the 
city,  without  the  work.  No.  2  comes  home 
feeling  that  he  has  worked  very  hard,  and 
the  family  really  ought  to  recognize  it 
more  than  they  do.  It  ^* makes  him  tired*' 
to  hear  Johnny  forever  talking  about  stamps. 
Only  one  thing  irritates  him  more  than  to  be 
questioned  about  the  day's  doings,  and  that 
is — to  be  let  alone!  Then  he  is  sure  he  is 
neglected.  He  doesn't  see  why  his  folks 
can't  make  it  as  pleasant  for  a  fellow,  even- 
ings, as  Will's  folks  do.  Why,  there's  a 
perfect  rush  to  entertain  Will  when  he  comes 
home.  Perhaps  when  he  is  a  grown  man  he 
will  say  that  he  ^^  might  have  been  a  differ- 
ent fellow,  if  he  had  only  had  more  encourage- 
ment at  home!"  Selfishness  so  distorts  his 
eyesight  that  he  cannot  see  that  he  has  over- 
drawn his  account  even  when  he  reads 
** charity  envieth  not: — is  not  easily  pro- 
voked." 

But  you  are  not  necessarily  hypocritical  in 
being  more  considerate  of  outsiders  than  of 
your  own  family.  It  is  often  pure  laziness. 
It  is  easier  to  show  kindness  in  spots,  than  to 
'*  be  courteous  "  throughout. 

We  can  all  make  our  own  personal  applica- 
tions of  Paul's  sermon,  to  suit  our  circum- 
stances. In  one  home,  love  expresses  itself  in 
cheerful  attentions  to  the  old — in  another, 
through  countless  tiresome,  scrappy  sacri- 
fices which  don't  win  gratitude  from  anybody 
in  particular.  You  may  need  to  curb  your 
ambition  in  study,  in  order  to  share  the 
family  burdens  too  heavy  for  the  rest,  while 


your  next  door  neighbor  needs  to  express  her 
love  for  her  parents  by  more  faithful  and  per- 
severing study.  **To  every  man  his  work;" 
but  the  same  wise  teacher,  and  the  same  text 
for  all — unselfish  love. 

The  only  thing  in  which  charity  and  sel- 
fishness come  near  each  other,  is  that  charity 
ought  to  begin  at  home,  and  selfishness  gen- 
erally does.  Give  a  little  time  to  honest  self- 
examination,  and  don't  relegate  it  all  to  New 
Year's  day,  or  birthdays,  either.  I  know,  as 
'*  King's  Daughters,"  you  have  a  good  motto 
about  looking  *^  forward,  not  backward,"  and 
retrospection  is  not  good  as  a  steady  diet,  but 
it  will  be  as  wholesome  a  tonic  as  a  drink  of 
boneset-tea,  occasionally;  and  you  won't  be 
apt  to  take  so  large  a  dose  as  to  make  you 
morbid.  It  has  a  magic  power  sometimes, 
and  it  may  *Hhe  gifiie  gie  us,  to  see  oursel's 
as  ithers  see  us."  We  may  find,  to  our  sur- 
prise, that  we  are  dishonest  partners  in  the 
Joint  Stock  Co.  of  Home,  and  have  for  years 
been  drawing  out  an  interest  sadly  dispro- 
portioned  to  the  capital  we  put  in. 

But  if  we  examine  ourselves  by  the  succes- 
sive verses  of  that  thirteenth  chapter,  it  will 
draw  us  into  deeper  waters.  True  love 
desires  the  best  things  for  its  beloved.  '*It 
is  harder  to  speak  about  Christ  to  your  broth- 
ers and  sisters  than  to  any  one  else  ? "  Yes, 
I  know  it  is.  *'  You  are  so  conscious  of  your 
inconsistencies  in  Christian  living  when  you 
speak  to  them  ? "  Exactly.  It's  being  hard 
is  no  reason  why  you  young  Christians  should 
shirk  it.  **I  write  unto  you  young  men 
because  ye  are  strong."  As  for  your  incon- 
sistencies you  don't  want  to  lose  sight  of 
them.  If  praying  and  working  for  your 
brother  or  sister  keeps  the  enemy  in  sight, 
and  gives  you  an  added  motive,  for  fighting 
him,  so  much  the  worse  for  the  enemy  and  so 
much  the  better  for  your  Christian  life.  You 
help  yourself  in  helping  your  brother. 

Two  young  fellows  were  away  at  school. 
The  younger,  Tom,  was  not  a  Christian. 
When  home  for  vacation,  a  fellow  endeavorer 
asked  the  older  brother:  **Are  you  on  the 
lookout  for  any  one  especially,  at  school  f " 
**  Tom,  every  time,"  answered  the  boy,  '*  and 
Tom  knows  it  /  " 

O  boys  and  girls  in  the  Home,  you  are 


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^^yoar  brothers^  keepers^'  in  a  sense  deeper 
and  tmer  and  tenderer  than  yon  know — and 
only  the  Master  Himself  can  teach  yon  how 
to  be  tme  to  your  responsibility. 

A  PLEA  FOR  MISSIONS. 

JULIA  R.  CUTTER. 

Dear  Lord,  and  can  it  be,  that  we  must  plead 
For  thee,  and  that,  too,  with  thy  very  own. 
Who  owe  to  thee,  not  only  life  and  strength 
And  all  that  they  hold  dear  of  earthly  good, 
But  even  more,  their  hopes  of  happiness 
And  Heaven?  But,  yet,  dear  Blessed  One,  'tis 

true. 
Too  often  mid  the  daily  cares  and  strifes 
Of  this  vain  world  our  thoughts  with  other 

things 
Are  filled,  and  we  forget  thy  dying  love 
For  us,  how  thou  did'st  leave  thy  home  of  light. 
Thy  throne  aboTe,  and  come  to  this  dark  world — 
Become  a  babe,  and  then  through  all  the  years 
To  manhood,  toil  for  daily  bread,— forget 
Thy  weariness  and  pain,  how  thou  dids't  heal 
The  sick,  comfort  the  sorrowing,  and  bless 
Thine  enemies — e'en  those,  whose  cruel  scorn 
Did  mock  thy  woes— and  nail  thee  to  the  cross. 
*Twas  sorrow  borne  for  us— that  we  might  live. 
Sorrow  too  deep  for  human  heart  to  know 
That  through  it  all,  accepted  we  might  be, 
The  sinful  for  the  sinless,  evermore. 
And,  yet,  dear  Lord,  our  hearts  are  cold, 
We  know  thou  givest  all  we  have  and  are, 
And  still,  we  hoard  our  gains  and  call  them 

our9, 

While  souls  are  perishing  for  whom  Christ  died. 
Because  we  care  not,  give  not  of  our  store. 
To  send  the  €k)epel  to  those  distant  climes. 
Forbid  it  Lord,  that  we  should  careless  be. 
That  we  should  turn  a  deafened  ear,  to  calls 
For  help  to  send  abroad  the  joyful  news 
Of  Jesus'  love— of  sins  forgiven — of  Heaven  1 
O,  may  it  rather  be  our  hope  and  aim, 
Each  day,  to  love  aud  serve  thee  more  and  more, 
All  that  we  have  and  are  to  own  is  thine 
Li  time,  and  through  a  blest  eternity. 


A  TOUCHING  LETTER. 

The  following  letter  was  addressed  to  the 
editor  by  one  whom  he  has  only  known  as 
a  correspondent,  a  diligent  and  grateful 
reader  of  The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad, 
and  a  fervent  lover  of  Him  whose  work  it 
represents  and  advocates. 

It  is  very  evident  that  she  did  not  intend 


it  for  publication.  But  surely  she  will  not 
blame  us  for  giving  it  to  our  readers  with  no 
hint  of  her  name  or  place  of  abode. 

Dear  Sir: — For  several  years  you  have  sent 
me  the  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad;  am 
very  much  Interested  In  all  Church  work ;  think 
It  a  valuable  work.  Let  me  tbank  you  for  send- 
ing it.  Failure  of  crops  by  the  great  drought 
for  the  past  two  years,  the  low  price  of  grain 
has  made  money  very  scarce.  Our  church  doors 
are  closed  for  the  present.  The  death  of  Elder 
B.  was  a  great  blow  to  the  Church.  Our  mem- 
bers were  few— no  young  folks  In  the  Church. 
They  marry,  then  go  West  or  South.  Mr.  M. 
had  charge  for  over  a  year.  He  Is  now  Synodl- 
cal  Missionary.  In  May  my  youngest  daughter 
was  married  by  my  bedside,  as  I  was  stricken 
down  with  paralysis.  The  doctor  thought  I  had 
but  a  few  hours  to  live.  My  work  was  not 
done.  I  feel  thankful  my  eyes  were  not  affected ; 
it  is  such  a  pleasure  to  read  the  precious  prom- 
ises. The  Bible  Is  my  constant  study.  I  have 
plenty  of  time  to  prepare  for  the  other  world. 
Sometimes  the  thought  comes:  "How  do  I 
know  that  I  am  a  Christian?"  Is  It  Satan 
tempting  me?  Some  have  been  cured  of  paraly- 
sis more  by  prayer  than  medicine.  We  had  a 
good  Sunday-school.  I  had  charge  of  the  Infant 
class  for  seventeen  years.  I  did  love  the  work 
—hope  some  good  seed  was  sown.  My  daugh- 
ter has  united  with  the  Presbyterian  Church 
where  she  lives.  If  my  life  Is  spared  hope  to 
send  $1.00  this  Spring.  I  may  recover,  if  it  Is 
the  Lord's  will.  Pray  for  me,  I  cannot  get  out 
of  my  chair  without  help .  I  wish  that  I  could 
kneel  in  prayer.  The  Lord  hears  If  only  In  a 
whisper  and  while  we  are  lying  on  our  bed.  Am 
I  not  correct? 

It  Is  hard  for  me  to  write. 

Your  Sister  hi  Christ 

Many  of  our  readers  will  be  glad  to  unite 
in  the  prayer  that  goes  up  from  that  bed  of 
helplessness,  never  doubting  that  **  the  Lord 
hears  if  only  a  whisper,'^  or  even  a  hearths 
desire  of  one  too  weak  to  whisper.  Neither 
need  she  be  troubled  because  she  is  unable 
to  get  out  of  her  bed  and  kneel.  **The 
Lord  looketh  on  the  heart. ^*  Her  soiU  kneels 
to  Him. 

Of  course,  we  shall  send  our  magazine  to 
her — dollar  or  no  dollar.    The  generous  do* 


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nors  to  our  Benevolent  Fund,  will  not  wish 
her  ever  to  send  that  dollar,  if  it  would 
deprive  her  of  a  single  comfort. 

Yes,  the  Lord  is  able  to  cure  paralysis 
with  or  without  medicine.  He  is  able  also  to 
keep  a  paralytic  able  to  think,  and  pray,  and 


read  and  write,  so  as  to  be  a  co-worker  with 
the  strongest  and  busiest  of  us.  We  welcome 
this  sister  to  the  goodly  fellowship  of  *'  shut- 
ins,"  to  the  happy  company  of  those  who 
**  hare  done  what  they  could,  *^  and  especially 
to  all  the  loving  family  of  readers  of  Ths 
Ohubch  at  Home  and  Abroad. 


MISSIONARY  LIFE  IN  AFRICA 

BSV.  B    H.  NASSAU,  M.  D. 


[A  letter  from  Dr.  Naawa  to  the  Christiaii 
Endeavor  Society  of  the  First  Preebyterian  Church 
of  Cbeetnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  has  been  handed  to 
us  with  bis  kind  permission  to  make  use  of  it  in  the 
Chubch  at  Home  and  Abboad.  We  gladly  give 
some  vivid  and  delightful  picturing  of  African 
scenery  and  missionary  experience  to  our  readers.] 

Dear  Friends  .'—I  promised  you  a  year  ago  in 
acceptiag  your  handsome  gift  of  funds,  for  the 
purchase  of  my  traveler's  tent,  that  I  would 
write  you  a  "tent  letter."  That  wits  my  hope 
when  (as  at  that  time)  I  expected  to  resume,  what 
has  been  my  role  of  labor  here,  •*.  e.,  that  of  a 
pioneer.  But  subsequent  events  seemed  to  shut 
me  off  from  that  form  of  life  which,  however 
difficult  it  may  be,  I  seemed  fitted  for,  had 
become  used  to,  and  really  prefer. 

The  exigencies  of  mission  requirements  led  the 
majority  of  the  members  of  the  mission  to  locate 
me  at  Gaboon,  in  the  beginning  of  this  year,  in 
charge  of  the  vacant  Gaboon  church.  Of  this 
their  action  I  was  informed  before  I  left  America. 
Physically  the  position  is  a  very  easy  and  com- 
paratively comfortable  one— the  most  comforta- 
ble in  the  mission.  The  station  and  church  are 
the  oldest,  having  been  commenced  fifty  years 
ago. 

Gaboon  is  at  the  sea  side,  with  conveniences  of 
stores,  a  harbor  with  occasional  shipping,  and 
three  mail  steamers  monthly.  One  can  take  an 
afternoon  stroll  on  the  beach  and  meet  some 
white  gentlemen  dressed  as  ia  Philadelphia. 
But  I  would  rather  be  back  among  the  new  pop- 
ulations, not  building  on  other  men's  founda- 
tions. 

My  situation  at  Gkkboon  Station  is  different  from 
anything  I  have  experienced  in  all  my  mission- 
ary life.  Hitherto  I  have  always  had  entire 
charge  of  a  station— its  finances,  school,  church, 
etc  ,  and  have  always  had  a  table  and  a  home  of 
my  own. 

At  present  the  missionary  force  at  Gaboon 
Station  is  arranged  as  follows:  Mr.  C.  A.  Ford, 
(lay  missionary),  in  charge  of  the   station,  its 


finances,  and  its  secular  employees;  Mr.  Presset, 
(French  teacher),  in  charge  of  the  school;  Mrs. 
P.  C.  Ogden  in  charge  of  the  household  and 
woman's  work.  I  have  entire  charge  of  the 
church,  its  prayer-meetings  and  pastoral  work. 
We  three  board  with  Mrs.  Ogden.  I  have  my 
own  room.  I  am  with  the  other  three  members 
of  the  household  during  the  day  and  at  the  table. 
But  I  prefer  to  find  most  of  my  social  life  among 
the  natives  in  the  evening.  It  was  my  custom 
for  the  last  twenty  five  years.  In  my  own  home 
I  gathered  the  natives  about  me  in  the  evening. 

Now,  I  often  go  out  and  spend  the  best  part  of 
the  evening  in  the  villages,  with  some  Negro 
young  gentlemen  and  ladies,  or  with  the  entire 
heathen,  for  entire  heathen  are  still  there,  after 
fifty  years.  A  constant  flow  of  new  population 
is  every  year  emerging  from  the  wilds  of  the 
forest. 

I  arrived  at  Gaboon  on  Friday,  September  22. 
My  first  work,  before  preaching  the  next  Sab- 
bath, was  to  bury  an  English  trader  who  had 
died  on  the  Saturday.  I  left  my  boxes  and 
trunks  impacked,  and  made  no  effort  to  place 
myself  "at  home"  till  I  should  revisit  my  loved 
Ogowe— loved  for  its  toil,  for  its  trial,  for  its 
success. 

On  Monday,  October  9,  by  French  mail 
steamer,  I  came  the  seventy-five  miles  to  this 
Cape.  On  Thursday,  October  12,  a  little  forty- 
ton  river  steamer  trading  launch  gave  me  pas- 
sage up  the  two  hundred  miles  to  Talaguga  by 
Tuesday  a.  m.,  October  17.  It  did  not  travel  at 
night.  One  night  anchored  in  a  lower  part  of 
the  river,  where  there  are  few  people  and  long 
reaches  of  papyrus,  it  seemed  very  lonely. 

Even  the  forest  sounds,  and  wild  voices  seem 
to  increase  the  sense  of  desolation.  There  is  the 
occasional  bellow  of  a  hippopotamus,  the  bark 
of  a  crocodile,  the  whistle  of  plovers,  the  heron's 
discordant  note  or  the  cry  of  a  startled  forest 
'  bird. 


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In  the  adjacent  papyrus  marsh  frogs  were 
busy  at  their  concert. 

In  the  darkness,  lighted  by  a  few  stars,  I  could 
see  against  the  dark  mass  of  green,  the  white 
flowers,  large  as  moon  flowers,  of  a  trailing  Tine, 
from  which  the  night  wind  was  bringing  sweet 
scents  to  my  nostrils. 

I  was  lying  on  the  deck  under  my  mosquito 
netting,  unable  to  sleep,  for  thronging  memories. 

There  was  a  Babel  of  voices  forward  on  the 
little  vessers  deck,  proceeding  from  the  crew 
and  some  native  passengers.  I  recognized  the 
various  dialects.  A  little  English,  some  Eroo 
(which  I  cannot  understand),  some  Fang,  mostly 
Mpongwe;  a  little  French.  They  gradually 
ceased,  one  by  one,  as  apparently  they  prepared 


for  sleep.  Suddenly,  a  voice  broke  gently  on 
the  air,  swelling  wiUi  confidence  as  it  proceeded 
in  its  solo  in  the  Benga  dialect— the  dialect  with 
which  I  am  most  familiar.  I  listened,  charmed 
with  the  familiar  melody,  the  well  known  words, 
the  dialect  (unusual  in  the  Ogowe)  and  the  mem- 
ories it  brought  up.  It  was  Mrs.  Mary  Latta 
Nassau's  Benga  translation  of  **  There  is  rest  for 
the  weary."  More  than  twenty  years  after  her 
death,  and  far,  far  away  from  Oorisco,  where 
she  had  written  it,  in  the  Ogowe,  where  very 
few  Benga  come,  I  was  being  rested  by  the 
voice  of  some  Benga  employe  of  the  steamer, 
who  probably  had  not  been  born  when  she  died. 
Verily,  they  do  rest  from  their  labors,  and 
their  works  and  their  words  do  follow  them. 


A  JOURNEY  TO  ALEPPO. 


Our  readers  will  remember  the  '^  Message 
T6  Our  Church  From  Aleppo "  so  earnestly 
and  forcibly  presented  in  our  January  num- 
ber, (page  24)  by  the  pen  of  Rev.  Oeorge  E. 
Ford,  of  Bidon.  His  closing  sentence  was: 
*'*'  It  would  be  grand  to  make  a  clear  increase 
of  men  and  means  for  this  new  mission ;  but 
if  that  cannot  be,  let  us  at  least  so  stretch 
and  readjust  our  present  agencies  as, to  give 
to  the  needy  thousands  of  Aleppo  their  due 
proportion  of  the  bread  of  life.'* 

This  stretching  and  readjustment  had 
already  been  earnestly  begun  by  the  Syria 
mission  sending  '^one  of  its  most  efficient 
and  trusty  evengelists  "  to  begin  the  work  in 
Aleppo.  The  mission  took  this  action  at  a 
special  meeting  in  June  last. 

In  November  a  visit  from  one  of  the 
ordained  missionaries  was  thought  desirable, 
and  the  duty  of  making  such  a  visit  was 
assigned  to  Rev.  W.  S.  Nelson  of  Tripoli. 
From  letters  giving  account  of  his  journey 
and  visits,  we  find  room  for  some  extracts 
which  afford  glimpses  of  the  scenery,  the 
people,  and  the  work  now  undertaken. 


He  went  up  by  steamer  to  Alexandretta, 
(another  name  for  which  is  Iscanderoon),  and 
thence  proceeded  on  horseback  through  a  wild 
region  not  wholly  free  from  perils  of  robbers. 
He  writes  of  this  interesting  journey  as  fol- 
lows: 

The  first  day  I  crossed  the  coast  range,  hav- 
ing magnificent  views  in  all  directions,  and 
came  down  towards  the  plain  of  Antioch  north 
of  the  great  swamp  which  borders  the  lake 
itself.  The  lake  seems  to  be  nearly  equal  to 
Tiberias. 

The  next  day  we  rode  from  sunrise  to  sunset 
with  a  rest  afternoon,  and  spent  the  night  sleep- 
ing on  a  village  threshing  fioor  under  the  bright 
starry  sky.  At  2  a.  m.  I  was  up  rousing  my 
man  and  getting  ready  for  the  march.  About 
three  o'clock  we  filed  out  of  the  village  with 
two  armed  men  who  were  to  be  our  guard  and 
guides  until  daylight.  We  were  twelve  hours 
from  Aleppo,  and,  resting  two  hours  on  the 
way,  it  was  not  more  than  an  hour  before  sunset 
when  we  entered  that  city. 

Aleppo  lies  low,  so  that  it  did  not  appear  until 
we  were  close  upon  it,  in  this  respect  being  like 
Hamath.    However,  the  appearance  of  the  city 


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ALIPPO  CASTLE. 


is  far  finer  than  any  other  thoroughly  oriental 
city  I  know.  The  castle  is  in  fair  preservation 
on  its  hill  which  rises  well  above  the  city.  The 
minarets  are  like  those  of  Constantinople.  The 
mosque  domes  are  lead-roofed.  The  houses  and 
public  buildings  are  large  and  high  and  built  of 
Tery  white  lime-stone  which  gives  the  city  a 
dazzling  appearance  in  the  sun. 

The  people  are  very  cordial.  I  should  think 
there  were  100  present  at  my  first  service.  M. 
Yuakim  (our  evangelist)  is  doing  well  and  has 
regular  audiences  of  forty  or  more  on  Sunday 
and  Wednesday  night,  and  feels  much  encour- 
aged.   The  people  want  a  foreign  missionary 


and  schools  for  both  boys  and  girls.  I  do  not 
feel  sure  yet  what  is  best  nor  what  we  should 
recommend  to  the  Board  and  ask  for.  But  this 
great  city  should  not  be  left  with  no  work  except 
the  Turkish  service  for  the  little  handful  of 
strangers  who  have  settled  here  from  Aintab 
and  elsewhere.  The  city,  as  a  whole,  is  hardly 
less  Arabic  than  Beirut. 

We  learn  later,  that  the  Board  now  recog- 
nizes Aleppo  as  belonging  to  the  Tripoli 
Field,  but  does  not  see  the  way  clear  to  sta- 
tion an  ordained  missionary  there.  The 
natiye  evangelist  ought  to  have  our  prayerful 
sympathy. 


The  smallest  nation  on  earth  is  on  the 
Albert  Island,  a  small  speck  of  land  that  rises 
out  of  the  southern  seas  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
Marquesas  group.  The  island  is  only  about 
five  miles  by  three  in  size,  and  has  a  popula- 
tion of  just  ninety-six  persons.  The  govern- 
ment is  paternal  in  form.  Mr.  Richard 
Wright  is  the  offieial  patriarch. 


A  Christian  lawyer  has  rented  valuable  pro- 
perty in  Pretoria,  the  capital  of  the  Transvaal, 
to  the  Cape  General  Mission,  at  five  shillings 
per  year,  and  has  built  a  church,  night  school 
and  missionaries*  quarters.  Through  this  city 
tens  of  thousands  of  natives  pass  on  their  way 
to  the  gold  and  diamond  mines. 


Mr.  Chao,  a  native  helper  of  Rev.  F.  H. 
Chalfant,  met  a  man  named  Wang,  who  proved 
to  be  somewhat  of  a  philosophical  turn  of  mind. 
When  Mr.  Chao  intimated  that  idolatry  was  a 
foolish  institution,  Mr.  Wang  observed  "Yes, 
there  is  no  mistake  about  it!  A  man  may  bum 
a  thousand  cash  worth  of  incense,  and  never  get 
the  least  benefit." 

Further  along  in  this  interesting  comparison 
of  religious  feelings,  Mr.  Chao,  the  helper,  made 
the  following  observation.  "  You  see,  it  is  just 
this  way,  a  man  will  feed  a  chicken  just  so  long 
as  it  lays  eggs,  but  when  it  ceases  to  lay,  he  kills 
it.  Now  it  is  not  so  with  God.  He  nourishes 
mankind  even  when  he  gets  no  egg$  in  retiuu" 
This  surely  was  an  original  and  forcible  meta- 
phor to  set  forth  the  patience  and  mercy  of  our 
Heavenly  Father. 


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Children's  Church  at  Home 
And  Abroad. 


Our  little  Presbyterians  probably  know  who 
Theodore  L.  Cuyler  is.  If  any  of  them  do  not, 
no  doubt,  their  mothers  do,  and  have  heard  him 
preach  or  have  read  some  of  his  instructive  books 
and  delightful  newspaper  articles.  He  is  known 
everywhere  as  a  faithful  and  able  minister  and  a 
very  strong  temperance  man — "a  right  up  and 
down  teetotaler.''  lam  very  glad  that  he  has 
written  the  following  letter  to  the  young  read- 
ers of  the  Church  at  Hohb  and  Abroad.  It  will 
show  them  that  he  was  a  temperance  boy  and 
so  grew  up  naturally  and  healthily  into  the 
temperance  man  that  all  the  world  knows  him 
to  be. 

Perhaps  it  will  make  you  laugh  to  learn  how 
his  good  mother  helped  him  to  become  a  tem- 
perance boy.  I  hope  that  none  of  you  have 
needed  just  that  help  from  your  mothers,  but, 
if  you  have  needed  it,  I  hope  you  got  it. 

I  should  like  to  have  any  of  you  write  back 
to  Dr.  Cuyler  in  these  pages,  and  tell  him  and 
us  all  what  you  think  about  what  he  writes  to 
you— and  what  you  think  the  Bible  teaches 
about  it — and  what  you  mean  to  do  about  it. 
Whatever  you  write  with  the  approval  of  your 
mothers,  I  mean  to  print,  unless  there  should  be 
so  many  such  letters  that  I  cannot  find  room  for 
them. 

Dear  Children:—!  read  with  great  interest 
what  "H.  A.  N.*'  said  in  the  last  number  of 
this  paper  about  **  A  Cruel  Tyrant."  I  used  to 
hear  sometimes  his  eloquent  pastor  whose  voice 
thundered  against  all  use  of  intoxicating  drinks 
by  old  or  young  people.  My  pastor  also 
preached  (as  all  ministers  ought  to  preach) 
against  drinking  what  the  Bible  says  "bites 
like  a  serpent,  and  stings  like  an  adder."  My 
good  old  mother  whipped  me  once  when  I  was 
a  little  boy  because  I  had  drank  some  "cherry- 
bounce,"  an  intoxicating  drink  which  I  had 
found  standing  on  my  grandfather's  sideboard. 
Soon  after  that,  the  "Temperance  Reform" 
started  and  my  grandfather  put  all  kinds  of 
alcoholic  liquors  out  of  our  doors;  but  I  never 


forgot  that  flogging ;  it  made  me  bounce,  and  I 
hated  the  sight  of  liquor  from  that  time. 

When  I  was  ten  years  old  I  signed  a  pledge 
never  to  touch  any  intoxicating  drink  and  I  have 
kept  it  ever  since.  On  the  wall  of  one  of  my 
rooms  hangs  a  family  temperance  pledge  which 
I  and  my  wife  and  children  have  signed.  I 
wish  there  was  just  such  a  pledge  in  every  fam- 
ily, for  the  best  way  to  get  rid  of  that  Gruel 
Tyrant  is  to  lock  him  out  of  every  house.  The 
right  time  to  stop  drinking  liquor  is  btfore  you 
begin.  Nothing  in  this  world  produces  more 
misery,  disease,  poverty,  crime  and  destruction 
of  souls  than  intoxicating  drinks!  I  do  hope 
that  every  boy  and  girl  that  reads  this  vdll  make 
a  solemn  pledge  that  they  will  never  touch  a 
drop  of  anything  that  makes  people  drunk. 
Then  try  to  get  other  children  to  do  the  same 
thing.  Don't  play  with  the  snake,  and  you 
will  never  get  stung. 

Yours  lovingly, 
Theodore  L.  Cuyler. 


THE  CHILDREN'S  SABBATH. 

"And  call  the  Sabbath  a  delight,  the  holy  of 
the  Lord." 

How  to  secure  that  the  Sabbath  shall  be  just 
that  to  the  children  in  her  home,  a  day  to  look 
forward  to  with  eager  anticipation  all  through 
the  happy  week- day  life — a  day  to  look  back 
upon  with  loving  memories  through  long  years 
of  mature  life,  and  at  the  .same  time  a  day  kept 
holy  to  the  Lord,  is  one  of  the  problems  over 
which  many  a  mother's  heart  is  studying  and 
puzzling  and  praying. 

Church  for  those  who  are  old  enough,  Sab- 
bath-school with  its  varied  exercises,  and  per- 
haps a  Junior  Christian  Endeavor  Society  meet- 
ing may  fill  up  part  of  the  day,  but  there  come 
hours  when  the  Sabbath-school  book  is  finished, 
the  mother's  voice  is  weary  with  reading  aloud, 
and  restless  little  people,  really  trying  not  to 
think  longingly  of  the  doll  baby  that  was  put 
lovingly  to  bed  on  Saturday  night  or  of  the  new 
skates  that  cannot  be  tried  until  Monday  morn- 
ing, come  with  the  question,  "  What  can  we  do 
that  is  good  for  Sunday?"  How  shall  we 
answer? 

Several  of  our  religious  papers  have  given 
helpful  and  suggestive  articles  on  this  subject  at 
various  times,  and  from  such  sources  and  from 
personal  experience  we  have  collected  some  prac- 
tical hints  to  pass  on  to  the  readers  of  our  mag- 
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[March^ 


BIBLE  PIGTURB  BOOKP. 

Our  bookseller  will  offer  us  a  fine  asBortment 
of  these  from  which  to  make  our  selection.  But 
the  home-made  Bible  scrap-book,  for  which  the 
children  themselves  collect  and  paste  the 
pictures,  serves  a  double  purpose  in  the  makiu^ 
and  the  subsequent  use.  With  some  one  to  tell 
the  story  about  each  picture,  the  charms  of  those 
pages  will  not  soon  be  exhausted  and  the  little 
ones  vdll  delight  to  repeat  the  stories  to  each 
other.  To  vary  the  interest,  let  them  take  turns 
in  opening  the  book  at  random  to  find  a  picture 
to  talk  about;  or  one  may  find  a  picture  and 
describe  it  to  the  others,  letting  them  guess  what 
story  it  illustrntes. 

A  Mimonary  Bara/p  Book  will  serve  some  of 
the  same  purposes,  with  the  additional  one  of 
giving  valuable  help  at  the  jaission  band  meeting. 

BIBLE  CHABACTBRS. 

The  old  game  of  Twenty  Questions  may  be 
adapted  to  Sabbath  use  with  inttrest  and  real 
profit.  *'I  have  a  character,"  announces  the 
selection  in  thought  of  some  Bible  person  whose 
name  is  to  be  guessed  by  the  others,  who  are  at 
liberty  to  ask  questions.  There  will  perhaps  be 
some  monotony  in  the  frequent  choice  of  Moses 
and  Joseph  and  Peter  by  the  younger  members 
of  the  circle,  and  some  wild  guesSi  s  that  it  must 
be  Moses,  when  told  that  the  "character"  was 
good^  although  previous  questions  had  brought 
out  the  information  that  it  was  a  wnnan.  But 
Bible  knowledge  will  be  increased  by  the 
exercise  and  wide  awake  minds  will  lay  hold 
upon  new  characters  from  the  Sabbath-school 
lesson  or  the  reading  at  family  worship  to  use  in 
this  Sabbath  game. 

8CRIPTURB    ACROSTICS. 

For  those  who  are  old  enough  to  write  and  to 
look  up  texts  or  subjects,  acrostics  may  be  pre- 
pared, a  series  of  questions,  the  first  letters  of 
the  answers  to  which  will  spell  some  Bible  name 
or  text. 

For  example: 

Who  was  sold  by  his  brethren  ?    Joseph. 

Who  hid  fifty  prophets  in  a  cave  ?   Obadiah. 

Who  prayed  to  God  for  a  son  ?    Hannah. 

What  great  general  was  cured  of  leprosy? 
Naaman. 

These  may  easily  be  made  more  difficult  for 
the  older  children,  or  they  may  be  given  refer- 
ences or  set  to  select  texts  from  the  large  Bible, 
whose  initial  letters  shall  spell  their  own  or  some 
other  name. 

SCRIPTURE  ENIGMA& 

gelectin^    a    Scripture    text,    for   example, 


"  Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart,**  prepare  such  a 
study  as  the  following. 

I  am  composed  of  24  letters. 

My  4,  8,  15,  2  was  the  first  king  of  Israel. 
Saul. 

My  21,  2,  18  was  a  priest.    Eli. 

My  7,  22,  19,  18, 17,  2  was  cast  into  a  den  of 
lions.    Daniel. 

My  28,  8,  20,  22, 1  hid  the  spies.     Rabab. 
And  so  on  until  all  the  letters  are  used. 

8CRIFTURB  CLOCK. 

Draw  on  the  slate  or  cut  from  paper  a  circle. 
Divide  it  by  lines  into  twelve  parts,  numbering 
them  I,  II,  III,  lY,  etc.,  like  the  face  of  a  clock. 
Then  let  the  child  select  and  write  as  neatly  as 
possible  a  text  in  each  section,  each  one  contain- 
ing the  number  of  words  indicated  by  the 
numeral. 

ALPHABETS  OF  TEXTS  OR  NAMES. 

Scripture  texts  beginning  with  the  successive 
letters  of  the  alphabet  may  be  recited  in  the 
twilight  hour,  or  as  many  names  as  possible 
beginning  with  each  letter;  and  if  the  reciting 
of  a  verse  or  the  mention  of  a  name  calls  out  a 
Bible  story  or  a  little  talk  from  father  or  mother, 
about  the  truth  suggested,  so  much  the  better. 

CAPPING  VERSES. 

Instead  of  taking  the  letters  of  the  alphabet 
in  order.  No.  1  may  recite  a  text.  No.  2  follow 
with  one  beginning  with  the  first  letter  of  the 
last  word  and  so  on.  Stanzas  of  hymns  may  he 
used  in  the  same  way. 

BIBLE  SPSLLINO. 

From  a  box  of  letters  select  those  that  will 
spell  a  Scripture  name.  Mix  the  letters  and  let 
the  child  try  to  arrange  them  correctly.  Each 
child  should  be  expected  to  tell  something  about 
the  person  whose  name  he  has  spelled. 

Our  list  of  hints  could  easily  be  lengthened, 
and  to  make  it  as  helpful  as  possible  the  editor 
asks  the  mothers  and  sisters  and  teachers  who 
have  anything  to  add  from  their  own  experience, 
to  send  it  to  him.  He  would  also  li^^e  the  names 
of  those  books  that  you  have  found  most  useful 
for  Sabbath  reading  vrith  your  children,  with 
the  names  of  authors  and  publishers,  and  the 
names  and  publishers  of  good  Scripture  garni  s. 
blocks,  dissected  pictures  and  map?. 

Can  we  not  help  one  another  in  this  way  ? 
And  will  it  not  be  one  way  in  which  we  can 
'*bear  one  another's  burdens  and  so  fulfill  the 
law  of  Christ  V 


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A  SAWMILL  IN  SHANTUNG. 

BEY.    W.   M.    HATES. 

Simple,  isn^t  it?  Only  a  log  usually  about 
seven  or  eight  feet  long,  stood  up  on  end,  and 
tied  by  a  rope  to  a  stake  driven  in  the 
ground.  The  rope  is  twisted  up  tight,  and 
then  a  heavy  stone  hung  to  one  end  of  the 
stick  to  keep  the  rope  taut. 

Sometimes  the  top  of  the  log  is  too  high 
for  the  men  to  start  the  saw,  then  they  lean 
two  pieces  of  plank,  one  against  each  side, 
and  stand  on  this  inclined  plane,  until  they 
have  sawed  down  far  enough  to  let  them 
stand  on  the  ground.  If  the  log  is  too  long 
for  that,  they  let  it  lie  on  the  ground,  and 
saw  it  lengthwise,  from  end  to  end.  It  would 
take  a  long  time  to  saw  out  enough  boards 
for  a  house,  wouldn't  it?  but  then  the 
Chinaman*s  house  has  no  floors,  except  the 
ground,  no  facing  around  the  doors  and 
windows.  No  lath  to  plaster  on,  or  sheathing 
for  the  roof,  so  he  only  needs  boards  enough 
to  make  three  or  four  doors  and  a  few  slats 


for  two  or  three  windows.  The  rafters  and 
beams  are  made  of  poles  and  pieces  of  wood 
too  small  or  too  crooked  to  be  sawed. 

Boards  are  mostly  used  to  make  tables, 
bureaus  and  such  things,  but  most  of  all  for 
coffins,  and  logs  can  usually  be  had  only  in 
coffin  lengths,  or  in  pieces  twice  that  length. 

When  the  missionary  in  North  Shantung 
builds  a  house,  it  is  different,  and  as  there 
are  no  forests,  the  first  thing  is  to  go  to 
the  port  and  buy  the  logs,  which  come 
across  the  sea  from  Manchuria,  then  men 
are  hired  to  carry  them  where  the  house  is 
to  be. 

All  the  lumber  he  uses,  lath,  window  sash 
and  all,  has  to  be  sawed  out  of  these  logs  by 
hand,  and  so  are  the  boards  out  of  which  our 
bedsteads,  tables,  chairs  and  other  furniture 
are  made,  so  that  while  the  workmen  only 
receive  from  ten  to  twelve  cents  a  day,  yet 
the  furniture  will  cost  almost  as  much  as  it 
does  here. 

Other  sawmills?    Oh,  no.    The  only  mill  I 


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[Marchy 


ever  saw  ran  by  water  power  was  one  used 
in  grinding  up  little  pieces  of  wood  to  make 
incense  for  burning  in  worsbip  to  their  gods 
and  dead  ancestors. 


A.  L.  O.  E. 


Those  letters  would  make  a  real  word  if  they 
were  written  close  together,  but  those  little  dots 
spoil  them  for  any  good  spelling  and  show  that 
each  letter  stands  for  a  separate  word.  I  have 
heard  two  ezplanatioDs  of  the  letters—that  they 
might  mean  A  Lover  of  Everybody  or  A  Lady  of 
England.  I  believe  that  the  second  explanation 
is  the  right  one,  but  either  of  them  would 
describe  the  good  woman  who  always  used  those 
letters  as  her  signature,  and  who  died  in  India 
on  the  second  day  of  last  December.  Her  real 
name  was  Miss  Charlotte  Tucker  and  she  was  a 
Lady  of  England,  having  everything  that  money 
could  buy  to  make  her  home  and  her  life  com- 
fortable and  happy.  But  she  was  so  truly  a 
Lover  of  Everybody  that  she  was  always  anxious 
to  help  every  one  whom  she  could  reach  to  be 
good  and. happy. 

Among  the  people  whom  she  loved  and 
worked  for  were  the  boys  and  girls  of  England 
and  America  and  she  wrote  a  great  many  books 
to  interest  and  help  them.  Perhaps  you  will 
find  some  of  them  In  your  Sabbath-school  library, 
and  if  they  seem  to  you  a  little  dull  and  old- 
fashioned,  beside  the  many  newer  and  fresher 
books  that  are  written  in  these  days,  I  am  sure 
that  you  will  believe  that  the  kind  woman  who 
wrote  them  had  a  heart  very  full  of  love  for  her 
young  readers ;  and  I  do  not  doubt  that  many  of 
them  were  helped  by  her  books  to  overcome 
faults  that  have  not  gone  out  of  fashion  yet. 

But  when  Miss  Tucker  was  fifty-four  years 
old,  so  old  that  most  of  us  would  have  thought 
that  we  could  not  undertake  a  new  life  and  a 
new  work,  she  decided  that  she  could  not  stay 
in  England,  where  there  were  so  many  good 
earnest  people  to  do  the  work,  but  that  she  would 
go  as  a  missionary  to  India,  where  she  had  lived 
for  a  few  years  when  she  was  a  child,  and  do 
what  she  could  to  help  the  people  of  that  heathen 
land  to  understand  about  Christ  and  to  love  Him ' 
For  eighteen  years  she  has  been  doing  such 
work,  living  a  simple,  quiet,  godly  life,  using 
her  money  and  her  strength  for  the  people 
among  whom  she  lived. 

She  learned  two  languages  and  wrote  more 
than  one  hundred  books  and  tracts  for  the  peo- 
ple of  India ;  she  visited  the  Hindu  and  Moham- 
medan women  in  their  homes  telling  them  of  the 


love  of  Jesus  and  of  the  home  in  heaven  that  he 
has  prepared  for  them;  in  the  Boys' Boarding 
School  at  Batdli  she  knew  every  boy  and  was 
always  ready  with  her  advice  and  sympathy. 
Some  one  said  of  her,  "  I  never  saw  her  for  even 
a  short  time,  without  getting  some  good  and 
helpful  thought  to  carry  away  with  me." 

But  at  last  the  strength  that  had  been  used  so 
industriously  and  so  unselfishly  gave  way  and 
the  beautiful  life  ended.  There  were  many 
hearts  to  feel  sad  as  the  quiet  form  was  carried 
to  the  grave,  and  it  was  not  only  the  boys  who 
had  been  her  pupils,  and  the  missionaries  and 
Christian  friends  who  had  worked  with  her,  but 
Hindus  and  Mohammedans  who  showed  their 
respect  and  love  by  joining  the  funeral  proces- 
sion. 

A  Lady  of  England,  giving  up  her  home  and 
spending  eighteen  long  years  in  work  for  the 
people  of  India;  a  Lover  of  Everybody,  reaching 
out  a  helping  hand  and  speaking  and  writing 
helpful  words  to  make  other  lives  happier  and 
holier.  Was  it  not  a  beautiful  life  that  ended 
on  that  December  day? 

''  Even  as  the  son  of  man  came  not  to  be  ndn- 
istered  unto,  but  to  minister."  F. 


Book  Notices. 


From  Island  to  Island  in  the  South  Skas,  or 
The  Work  of  a  Missionary  Ship,  by  G«orge 
Cousins.    London  Missionary  Society. 

This  little  book  reteUs  in  condensed  and  graphic 
form  the  story  of  missionary  work  in  the  South  Sea 
Islands,  in  order  to  illustrate  the  pressing  need  of 
more  adequate  means  of  communication  for  the 
furtherance  of  the  Gospel.  Almost  a  century  has 
passed  since  the  London  Missionary  Society  bought 
its  first  missionary  ship,  "  The  Duff,"  which  carried 
the  pioneer  missionary  bound  to  Tahiti,  and  almost 
half  a  century  has  gone  since  the  first  "Jolm 
Williams  "  was  bought  with  the  gifts  of  the  children 
and  youth  of  the  British  Isles,  a  memorial  of  the 
martyr  of  Erromanga.  Three  ships  liave  succes- 
sively borne  this  honored  name,  the  third  having 
been  in  service  a  quarter  of  a  century.  It  is  now 
about  to  be  supplanted  by  a  fourth,  a  steamer  this 
time,  the  better  to  secure  safety,  speed  and  effi- 
ciency. The  Society  is  relying  confidently  again 
for  the  funds— over  eighty-three  thousand  doUajns— 
upon  "  the  zeal  and  liberality"  of  its  "  young  help- 
ers." This  story  of  the  missionaiy  ships  cannot  fail 
to  kindle  afresh  the  fire  in  these  young  hearts  and 
stimulate  to  renewed  and  adequate  effort. 

Pentecostal  Hymns.— Abridged  edition  of  64 
advance  i)age8.  10  cents  per  copy;  $10  per  100. 
Postage  $1  per  100.  Hope  Publishing  Cknnpany,  56 
Fifth  Avenue,  Chicago. 


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^^We  earnestlT  request  the  families  of  deoeased  mia- 
istera  and  the  stated  clerks  of  their  presbyteries  to  for- 
ward to  us  promptlT  the  facts  friven  in  these  notices,  and 
as  nearly  as  poasible  in  the  form  exemplified  below. 
These  notices  are  highly  valued  by  writers  of  Presby- 
terian history,  compilers  of  statistics  and  the  intelligent 
readers  of  both. 


Blackwood,  William,  D.D.,  LL.D.— Born  in  the 
parish  of  Dromara,  Ckninty  Down,  Ireland,  Jans 
1,  1804;  graduated  from  the  Royal  Ck)llege  of 
Belfast;  licensed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Dromore 
August,  1834;  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Belfast  February  17, 18a5;  pastor  of  the  Church 
of  Holy  wood,  near  Belfast;  pastor  of  church  in 
New  Castle-on-Tyne;  called  to  the  Ninth  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1850;  re- 
ceived to  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  as  a 
Foreign  Minister  on  Probation,  April  15, 1850; 
preached  his  first  sermon  in  the  Ninth  Church 
April  14,  1850,  from  Jno.  1,  12;  continued  to 
supply  that  church  during  his  year  of  probation ; 
received  to  full  membership  by  the  Presbytery 
of  PhUadelphia,  April  10,  1851;  and  installed 
pastor  of  the  Ninth  Church  September  17,  1851; 
released  from  pastoral  charge  with  the  title  of 
Pastor  Emeritus,  November  S,  1890;  died  in  the 
city  of  Baltimore,  November  18, 1803. 

Nbvius,  John  Livingston,  D.D.— Born,  Ovid,  N. 
Y.,  March  4,  1829;  graduated,  Union  CoUege, 
1848 ;  Princeton  Theological  Seminary ;  ordained, 
Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick,  1858;  mission- 
ary, Ningpo,  China,  1854;  pastor,  1856-60; 
Japan,  1861;  Tung  Chow,  China,  1861-64; 
United  States,  1865-71;  Chefow,  China,  1871-93. 
Died,  October  19,  1893.  Married,  1853,  Miss 
Helen  Coan,  of  Ovid,  N.  Y.,  who  survives  him. 

PoRTBB,  Alexander. ~Bom,  1806,  in  County 
Derry,  Ulster,  Ireland;  came  to  America,  1820; 
graduated  from  Princeton  College,  1833,  and 
Princeton  Seminary,  1836;  licensed  by  Presby- 
tery of  Wilmington,  Del.,  Oct.  15,  1836,  and 
ordained  by  same  Presbytery  the  following 
spring.  First  seven  years  of  his  ministry  were 
spent  in  Mifflin  Co.,  Pa.,  Cumberland  Co.,  N. 
J.,  and  West  Nantmeal,  Pa.  In  1843  be  was  in- 
stalled over  a  group  of  churches  in  and  near  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Pa.,  serving  them  nine  years.  Pastor 
of  church,  Portsmouth,  Va.,  three  years.  In 
1855  moved  to  Girard,  Pa.,  remaining  nine 
years,  and  thence  to  Edwardsburg,  Mich.,  two 
years,  and  in  1868  to  West  Liberty,  Iowa, 
remaining  nine  years.  From  1877  to  his  decease 
he  lived  in  Iowa  City,  imable  to  undertake  the 
labors  of  a  pastor.  Died  Dec.  5, 1893.  Married 
to  Miss  Harriet  Newell  Moon,  Philadelphia, 
Oct.  8,  1844.  She  with  two  or  more  children 
survives  him. 

Simpson,  Anthony.— Bom  in  Wellington,  England, 
1882;  educated  at  Ackworth  Quaker  School 
in    Yorkshire;    c^me    to  this  country,    18^ 


married,  1854,  Helen  C.  Campbell,  who  be- 
came the  mother  of  his  four  children;  served 
as  chaplain  in  the  Union  army;  his  first  pastoral 
charge  in  Toronto,  Canada;  stated  supply  of 
church  in  Olympia,  Washington,  1867;  in 
Comwallis,  Oregon,  1868-70;  Presbyterial  Home 
Bfissionary  of  Presbytery  of  Oregon,  1871— 
again  at  Comwallis,  1878-80;  Independence, 
Oregon,  1881-83;  returned  east,  preached  occa- 
sionally, but  held  no  regular  charge.  Married, 
1882,  Mrs.  E.  S.  M.  Gross,  who  and  his  four 
children,  by  the  first  marriage  survive  him. 
Died  in  PhUadelphia,  Jan.  17, 1894. 


Gleanings 
At  Home  and  Abroad. 

[Qathered  and  Coodensed  by  Rsv.  Albkrt  B.  Robdcson.] 

— The  recent  census  reveals  the  fact  that  there 
are  forty-seven  Buddhist  temples  in  this  coun- 
try. 

— Talitha  Kumi  is  the  appropriate  name  of  a 
Girls*  Home  in  Jerusalem,  in  charge  of  Gkrman 
missionaries. 

— The  Anglo-Saxon  race  is  forever  organizing 
societies  to  help  some  one,  says  Dr.  Strong  in 
The  New  Era. 

— Two  sailing  boats,  conveyed  from  Jaffa  to 
Jerusalem  by  rail,  have  recently  been  placed  on 
the  Dead  Sea. 

— *'  He  is  the  king  of  this  age,"  said  a  Hindu 
as  he  bought  a  Gospel,  and  expressed  a  desire  to 
learn  more  of  Christ. 

— A  work  that  requires  no  sacrifice,  said  Gen. 
S.  C.  Armstrong,  does  not  count  for  much  in 
fulfilling  God's  plan. 

—The  natives  of  Orissa,  India,  are  good  listen- 
ers. They  repeat  the  last  word  of  a  sentence  to 
show  that  they  understand. 

— The  native  ordained  pastors  of  India  have 
increased  by  ninety  per  cent  within  nine  years, 
says  the  Missionary  Bevieto. 

— ** Health-leave"  is  the  more  hopeful  term 
used  by  one  missionary  society  to  designate  what 
is  usually  called  ** sick-leave." 

— I  will  place  no  value  on  anything  I  have  or 
may  possess,  except  in  relation  to  the  kingdom 
of  Christ. — David  Livingstone, 

—He  who  talks  of  missions  as  a  failure  uses 
the  language  of  ignorant  error  as  an  excuse  for 
unchristian  vXoih,— Canon  Farrar. 

— A  miserly  man  who  insisted  that  he  was  a 
proportionate  girer,  explained  that  he  gave  in 
proportion  to  the  amount  of  religion  he  pos- 
sessed. 


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[March^ 


—All  the  languages  spoken  in  Africa  south  of 
the  equator,  except  those  of  the  Hottentots  and 
Bushmen,  are  of  the  Bantu  family. 

—Says  the  Indian  Witneu:  Sutti  and  some 
forms  of  infanticide  still  remain  in  proof  of  the 
former  prevalence  of  human  sacrifices  in  India. 
—Rev.  Mr.  Batchelor  labored  among  the 
Ainus  three  years  before  one  convert  was  bap- 
tized. In  1891  there  were  only  nine  converts. 
—The  Turkish  Qovernment  has  granted  the 
London  Society  permission  to  build  in  Jerusalem 
the  hospital  for  which  they  have  so  long  been 
agitating. 

—Said  Mrs.  H.  R.  Thornton,  whose  husband 
was  murdered  at  Cape  Prince  of  Wales:  We  did 
not  fear  the  people  when  they  were  sober,  but 
we  feared  from  the  whiskey. 

—The  Young  Woman's  Christian  Association 
in  Jerusalem,  with  about  80  members,  has  an 
average  attendance  at  the  weekly  class  of  25  to 
80. — ChrUtian  InteUigencer, 

—China  is  to  be  the  great  missionary  field 
of  the  next  half  century.  In  possibility  and 
prophecy  it  is  the  grandest  missionary  field  on 
this  planet,  says  a  missionary. 

— In  Sitka,  says  the  Indian  Adweate,  when 
an  Indian  wife  has  lost  her  husband  by  death 
she  goes  into  mourning  by  painting  the  upper 
part  of  her  face  a  deep  black. 

— ''In  deference  to  the  scruples  of  Jewish  and 
Christian  residents  "  the  governor  of  Syria  de- 
clines to  grant  a  native  of  Damascus  a  license  to 
establish  a  brewery  in  Jerusalem. 

—••Send  a  full  blooded  Christian  after  him," 
said  a  Quaker  in  a  convention  of  Christian 
Workers,  in  reply  to  the  question,  •'What  shall 
we  do  with  the  full-blooded  Indian  ?" 

— It  is  estimated  that  during  this  "  century  of 
missions,"  for  every  Christian  won  from  the 
heathen  by  spiritud  birth,  seventy  have  been 
added  to  the  heathen  by  natural  birth. 

— The  fact  that  seventy  missionary  societies 
in  non- Christian  lands  use  the  English  tongue  is 
mentioned  by  Dr.  J.  B.  Helwig  as  an  indication 
that  English  is  to  be  the  universal  language. 

— Young  men  connected  with  a  society  formed 
to  oppose  Christianity  now  come  to  the  dispen- 
sary at  Manippay,  Ceylon,  as  patients,  and  hear 
every  day  in  song  and  story  of  Him  who  came 
to  save. 

—Though  the  temptation  to  smuggle  liquor 
into  Alaska  is  great,  yet  the  Collector  of  Cus- 
toms, upon  whom  is  laid  the  duty  of  preventing 
it,  has  been  furnished  with  only  a  single  row 
boat  with  which  to  patrol  and  guard  3,000  miles 
of  coast  line. 


—Lizzie  Hansel,  a  young  woman  of  Van- 
couver, lately  rescued  by  the  Salvation  Army 
from  a  degraded  life,  has  volunteered  to  care  for 
the  Chinese  lepers  on  an  island  in  the  Gulf  of 
Georgia. 

— It  is  not  improbable  that  Mashona  was 
Ophir,  since  the  quantity  of  gold  then  used  was 
enormous,  and  no  old-world  country  except 
Mashona  was  capable  of  supplying  the  demand. 
^The  Interior, 

—At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Calcutta  Monthly 
Missionary  Conference  the  majority  were  in 
favor  of  granting  to  women- missionaries  the 
privilege  of  baptizing  converts  in  the  Zenanas. 
— Ifimanary  Link. 

—"To  show  people  that  the  Indian  is  the 
same  as  the  rest  of  us,  if  given  the  same  advan- 
tage in  life,  "is  the  purpose  of  The  Indian  Beiper, 
edited  and  printed  by  the  pupils  in  Carlisle 
Indian  Industrial  School. 

—A  missionary  in  Turkey,  attempting  to  make 
a  sick  old  woman  understand  the  freeness  of  the 
Gospel,  at  last  said:  '•It  is  God's  backshish," 
and  the  poor  creature  joyfully  grasped  the  truth. 
Recently  170  have  been  baptized. 

—Native  Opinion,  a  weekly  journal  published 
in  King  William's  Town,  South  Africa,  in  the 
Xosa,  the  oldest  of  the  Bantu  family  of  lan- 
guages, is  the  direct  outcome  of  missionary 
labor.  The  Xosa  is  spoken  by  200,000  people.— 
Missionary  Link. 

— "Marienstift"  (Mary's  Foundation)  is  a  chil- 
dren's hospital  in  Jerusalem,  established  in  1872 
through  the  generosity  of  Mary,  Grand  Duchess 
of  Mecklenburg-Schwerin.  The  800  children 
here  sheltered  and  cared  for  every  year  enjoy 
the  blessing  of  a  genuine  Christian  home  life. 

— Of  Ai  Nong,  a  Laos  convert  who  died  recent- 
ly, a  missionary  testifies :  When  he  once  learned  a 
thing  was  wrong  he  studiously  avoided  it; 
when  he  learned  that  a  thing  was  right  he  put 
forth  every  energy  of  his  being  in  the  doing  of 
it;  and  he  possessed  a  courage  bom  of  faith. 

— The  pariabs  of  Southern  India  endure  out- 
rageous oppression  because  2,000  years  of  slav- 
ery have  made  them  cowards,  and  because  they 
half  believe  the  dogma  of  their  csste  neighbors, 
that  their  suffering  is  just  retribution  for  tbe 
sins  of  their  previous  lives.— Z^mton  Bpectator. 
—After  much  hesitation,  writes  Bishop  Hirth, 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  Mission  in  Uganda,  I 
have  concluded  that  it  is  necessary  for  us  also  to 
print  the  New  Testament,  which  the  Protestants 
are  spreading  everywhere.  The  chief  reason  is 
that  we  cannot  prevent  our  people  from  read* 
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— ^In  the  Bantu  family  of  languages,  writes 
Mr.  P.  H.  Kruger,  the  singular  and  plural  are 
distinguished  by  prefixes.  In  Tabele  the  singu- 
lar for  **  the  "  is  on,  the  plural  ma.  Therefore 
ma  Tabele  means  men  of  the  tribe  of  Tabele. 
If  you  say  the  ma  Tabele  you  double  the  article. 

—On  Chicago  Day  over  700,000  people  were 
at  the  great  Fair,  and  the  centre  of  attraction 
was  two  Indians.  One  had  signed  the  deed  for 
the  territory  on  which  the  city  stands,  and  the 
other  was  the  son  of  the  man  who  gave  the 
place  its  name,  Chicago.— J2b».  8eth  Low,  LL.  D. 

— The  Presbyterian  churches  in  Louisville, 
Ky.,  support  an  orphanage  twelve  miles  from 
the  city.  It  is  the  annual  custom,  says  a  writer 
in  The  Evangelist,  to  bring  the  orphans  to  the 
city  to  attend  a  Union  Thanksgiving  service, 
after  which  the  members  take  the  children  home 
to  dinner. 

—The  late  L.  W.  Pilcher,  D.D.,  President  of 
Peking  University,  said  of  his  first  return  visit 
to  this  country,  that  he  came  home  to  reinforce 
himself  by  Christian  associations  for  the  awful 
struggle  of  maintaining  a  Christian  faith  amidst 
the  sin  of  myriads  who  surrounded  and  pressed 
upon  him. 

—A  literary  graduate,  after  carefully  reading 
a  copy  of  the.  Old  Testament  which  he  had  bor- 
rowed of  the  late  Dr.  Nevius,  gave  his  estimate 
of  its  teachings  in  a  statement  chosen  from  the 
Chinese  classics:  ''A  religion  that  keeps  the 
heart,  cares  for  the  body,  harmonizes  the  family, 
and  gives  peace  to  the  empire. " 

—Said  Keshub  Chunder  Sen :  "  Our  hearts  are 
touched,  conquered,  overcome  by  a  higher 
power;  and  this  power  is  Christ.  Christ,  not 
the  British  Government,  rules  India."  Mr. 
Mozoomdar,  his  successor  in  the  Brabmo  Somaj, 
declares  that  "Christianity  has  made  no  scratch 
on  the  surface  of  Hindu  society. " 

—For  its  own  sake  the  United  States  should 
pass  a  law  forbidding  Americans  to  engage  in 
selling  or  sending  spirits  to  Africa.  Commerce 
requires  such  action,  for  rum  is  rotting  out  the 
rich  heart  of  Africa,  and  the  Congo  natives  are 
ceasing  to  be  cusComers  for  the  manufactures  of 
America  and  £urope. — IJu  Interior. 

— In  China  tiger's  bones  are  given  to  the  weak 
and  debilitated  as  a  strengthening  medicine; 
and  those  who  cannot  afford  such  an  expensive 
luxury  may  yet  obtain  some  of  the  strength  and 
courage  of  that  ferocious  beast  by  swallowing  a 
decoction  of  the  hairs  of  his  moustache,  which 
are  retailed  at  the  low  price  of  a  hundred  cash 
(S^  cenU)  a  hair.- ^.  W.  Douthwaite,  M.  J).,  in 
Methodist  Beview  of  Missions. 


—Miss  Annie  R  Taylor,  who  made  a  remark- 
able journey  over  *'  the  roof  of  the  world,*  and 
has  now  organized  a  mission  for  Thibet,  believes 
we  have  received  no  orders  from  our  Lord  that 
are  impossible  te  be  carried  out,  and  that  when 
He  said  "preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature." 
He  knew  all  about  Thibetan  exclusiveness. 

— The  recent  attempt  to  revive  Hinduism, 
writes  Rev.  J.  H.  Wyckoff,  is  generally  acknowl- 
edged by  the  educated  classes  to  be  a  failure ;  and 
the  efforts  of  the  Hindu  Tract  Society  are  becom- 
ing less  and  less  active.  Nothing  else  could  be 
expected  of  a  movement  that  has  its  root  in 
national  pride  and  not  in  religious  conviction. 

—The  year  1900  will  probably  find  a  million 
Methodists  in  India.  The  proportion  of  home 
funds  now  used  in  this  work  cannot  be  kept  up. 
The  entire  missionary  collection  of  the  M.  £. 
Church  will  not  be  enough  for  India  in  1000. 
Resources  must  be  tapped  and  developed  in 
India.    Bev.  C.  B.  Ward  in  Qospel  in  All  Lands. 

— ^A  Brahmin  who  had  come  to  a  hospital  in 
Ceylon  for  treatment,  at  first  refused  to  listen  to 
the  reading  of  the  Bible,  and  declared  that  he 
was  not  a  sinner.  But  when  the  first  chapter  of 
Romans  was  read  and  explained  he  confessed 
that  in  his  heart  he  was  sinful.  He  accepted  a 
copy  of  the  New  Testament,  and  read  it  with 
interest. 

— Rev.  Naomi  Tamura,  believing  a  pure  home 
to  be  the  foundation  of  a  civilized  nation,  invites 
to  his  Industrial  Home  bright  young  men  too 
poor  to  obtain  an  education  without  help.  They 
enjoy  Christian  influences,  support  themselves 
by  their  own  industry,  and  prepare  for  training 
in  the  higher  institutions  of  learning. — Japan 
Evangelist 

— Pleading  for  a  Christian  University  in  India, 
the  Rev.  Ernest  A.  Bell  calls  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  five  Government  universities  are  pledged 
to  religious  neutrality,  have  no  care  over  the 
morals  of  their  students,  and  have  not  the  faculty 
of  theology.  That  university  lacks  too  much 
which  can  never  confess  the  only  wise  God,  and 
can  never  build  men  into  Him  in  whom  are  hid 
all  the  treasures  of  wisdom  and  knowledge. 

—After  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  when 
the  wires  were  down  and  the  people  in  a  fever  of 
anxiety  for  news,  a  letter  addressed  in  Stonewall 
Jackson's  hand-writing  reached  the  post-office  at 
Lexington,  his  home.  Many  were  eager  to  know 
how  the  battle  had  gone,  and  the  letter  was 
hastily  opened.  It  read  as  follows:  "Dear 
Pastor,  I  remember  this  is  the  day  for  the  collec- 
tion for  foreign  missions.  Enclosed  find  my 
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[March^ 


—When  the  life  of  a  father  in  Korea  is  in 
danji^er,  and  other  remedies  have  failed,  writes 
Harriet  G.  Gale  in  Mimonary  Link,  a  broth  is 
made  for  him  of  his  daughter*s  hand,  No  duti- 
ful daughter  would  think  of  refusing  to  lose  her 
hand  for  this  purpose,  and  one  who  has  thus 
saved  her  father*s  life  is  almost  worshipped  by 
the  family. 

—Mr.  Ishii  in  Okayama  has  undertaken  the 
work  of  caring  for  discharged  prisoners,  who 
find  society  turned  against  them  By  a  strik- 
ing providence  he  was  enabled  to  save  two  of 
this  class  who  were  on  the  point  of  self-destruc- 
tion; and  he  has  now  opened  a  straw -matting 
manufactory  to  give  such  men  employment. — 
Missionary  Herald, 

— Mohammedan  law  is  based  on  the  theory 
that  right  and  wrong  depend  on  legal  enactment, 
and  Mohammedan  thought  follows  the  same 
direction.  God  may  abrogate  or  change  the 
laws,  so  that  what  was  wrong  may  become  right. 
Moral  acts  have  no  inherent  moral  character. 
God  is  not  thought  of  as  a  moral  being.— 
George  Washburn^  D.  D. 

— Whatever  gives  a  new  Interest  widens  and 
enriches  life.  The  Missionary  Society  has  dis- 
pelled ignorance,  enlightened  the  members  con- 
cerning foreign  countries,  awakened  thought  in 
regard  to  the  practical  working  of  heathen 
errors,  given  enlarged  ideas  as  regards  the  man- 
ners and  customs  of  the  nations  of  the  world, 
and  shown  the  beneficent  effect  of  the  influence 
of  Christian  enlightment. — Bdle  P.  Drury  in 
Sunday  School  Times. 

— When  visited  by  cholera  and  other  epidem- 
ics, says  a  writer  in  Methodist  Review  of  Missions, 
the  people  of  China  are  cut  off  by  hundreds 
every  day»  and  their  only  resource  is  to  propiti- 
ate the  evil  spirits  supposed  to  cause  the  disease. 
Every  Spring  they  organize  gaudy,  idolatrous 
processions,  hoping  thereby  to  escape  the  an- 
nual visitation  of  the  pestilence,  the  germs  of 
which  are  breeding  in  the  gutters  of  the  streets 
through  which  they  parade. 

— The  Berbers,  inhabiting  the  four  Barbary 
States,  are  not  barbarians,  but  are  the  greatest 
and  most  interesting  nation  of  North  Africa. 
Though  considered  uncivilized  they  are  far  from 
savages.  Their  stalwart  frames  and  sturdy  inde- 
pendence fit  them  for  anything.  Lack  of 
homogeneity,  their  weak  point,  has  split  them 
into  independent  states  and  tribes.  Far  more 
open  to  Gospel  effort  than  the  Arabs  and  mixed 
races  at  their  side,  only  one  or  two  missionaries 
have  yet  labored  among  them.—/.  E.  Biu^gett 
Meakin  in  Tlie  Independent. 


—While  the  position  of  women,  as  determined 
by  the  Koran,  is  one  of  inferiority  and  subjec- 
tion, there  is  no  truth  whatever  in  the  current 
idea  that,  according  to  the  Koran,  they  have  no 
souls,  no  hope  of  immortality,  and  no  rights. — 
Oeorge  Washburn,  D.  D,  in  Contemporary  Beview. 
— There  are  in  Turkey  many  Mohammedans 
who  are  total  abstainers.  Yet  the  Mohammedans 
■  of  Turkey  as  a  whole  are  no  more  total  abstainers 
than  any  European  people  taken  as  a  whole. 
The  censors  at  the  custom  house  have  confiscated 
the  Union  Signal  because  it  is  not  to  the  interest 
of  the  government  to  have  the  people  taught  not 
to  drink  liquor.— Dockin  in  The  Interior. 

—Mr.  Ward  continues:  Providential  indica- 
tions have  led  Bishop  Thobum  to  Uke  up  valu- 
able tracts  of  real  estate  in  India,  Burma  and 
the  Straits.  Now  let  some  noble  man  of  wealth 
give  a  million  dollars  to  invest  in  productive 
landed  property,  where  native  Christians  may, 
under  wise  management,  develop  no  small  part 
of  the  money  needed  in  the  near  future. 

—There  is  no  more  pitiful  story,  writes  8.  J, 
Humphrey,  D.  D.,  than  that  of  the  Hindu 
mother  who  has  lost  her  child,  walking  in  the 
fields  and  peering  wistfully  into  the  eyes  of 
dumb  beasts,  of  loathsome  reptiles,  and  of  odious 
creeping  things,  in  the  dim  hope  that  through 
the  windows  of  their  eyes  she  may  catch  some 
glimpse  of  the  soul  of  her  lost  babe. 

—One  of  the  perils  of  the  Church,  deadening 
her  spirituality  and  threatening  her  very  life,  is 
her  wealth,  which  is  largely  held  as  personal 
without  just  ideas  of  stewardship  or  accounta- 
bility. The  pouring  abroad  of  this  superfluous 
wealth  would  bless  the  givers  no  less  than  the 
receivers.  The  blessing  is  of  infinite  worth  com- 
pared with  the  sacrifice  necessary  to  secure  it.— 
K  N.  Bamum,  D.D.,  in  The  Ind^^pendent. 

—The  first  missionaries  of  the  Cape  General 
Mission  reached  Cape  Town  in  September, 
1889.  The  consolidated  mining  companies  in 
Kimberley,  feeling  the  destructive  influence  of 
liquor  upon  the  natives  employed,  adopted  the 
compound  system.  The  entrance  to  every  mine 
in  inclosed  by  high  walls,  within  which  every 
thing  is  provided  for  the  welfare  of  the  natives, 
who  sign  a  contract  making  them  willing  pris- 
oners within  the  compound  for  six,  nine, 
or  twelve  months.  Liquor  is  excluded,  and  a 
native  may  return  to  his  tribe  with  a  good  sum 
saved.  Within  the  compounds  the  Cape  Gen- 
eral Mission  carries  on  night  schools.  Conver- 
sions have  taken  place,  and  natives  returning  to 
their  kraals  will  be  witnesses  for  Christ.— JVev 
Tork  Observer, 


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^Srit  to  ot  great  importanoe  to  the  treasuren  of  all  the  boards  that  when  mooey  is  sent  to  them.  Hit 
jame  of  the  church  from  which  it  comes,  and  of  the  presbytery  to  which  the  church  belongs,  dioald  be 
distinctW'  written,  and  tiiat  the  person  sending  should  sign  his  or  her  name  distinctly,  with  proper  title,  a.  g,, 
Aueor«2VeaJmrer,  lfiMorifr«.,a8theca8eniaybe.  Carafid  attention  to  this  will  sa^eBUidi  trouble  aii^ 
perhaps  provctit  serious  Tnistakes. 


BBCBIPT8  FOR  THE  BOARD  OF  OHUROH  RRBOTION,  DECEMBER,  i89S. 


Atlantic— Fa<r/leW~Mt.  Tabor,  1;  Olivet,  1.         3  00 
Baltimobs  ^Baltimore— Annapolis.   7  84;     Baltimore 
Boundary  Avenue  sab-sch  Miss'y  Soc'y,  1  68     New  Caa- 
tU—Qreen  HiU,  4;  Port  Deposit,  8  87;  Wilmington  Rod- 
ney Street,  10  88.  88  00 
CAijax>RNiA.— Ben/cia— San  Bafael,    SO.     Stockton- 
Bethel,  6.                                                                      85  00 
Catawba.— Ca/atol>a—B«thphage,  1;  Poplar  Tent,  1. 

8  00 
Colorado  -  Bou2d«r— Cheyenne.  4  10:  Saratoga,  4  60; 
Valm  mt,  84  cts.  Puedio— Colorado  Springs,  6  90.  16  74 
lLLWois.—i4Zfo»— Sparta,  11  89.  Chicago  —  Austin, 
8  M;  Chicago  4th,  877  64;  Higbland  Park,  80  85.  Mat- 
toon— Neirton,  1  50;  Shelbyvifle.  14;  Vandalia.  6;  West 
Okaw,  «  50.  Peorta— KnoxTille,  7  82.  Rock  River- 
Fulton,    9.     Schuyler  —  Elvaston,   14;     KIrkwood.    4. 

»:0  i6 
iNDiAKA.—CTrau/ordtvi/ltf— Oxford,  8;  RockviUe  Mem- 
orial, 1  10.     Fori  n^ayne— LIgonier.  7.    Uew  Albany— 
Jefferson ville,   15  98;    New    Albany   8d,   7  10.      White 
mitoT^-College  Comer,  8;  Knightstown,  6  60.  48  68 

IxDLAif  TKRRiTORT.—C^ocfai<^— Beaver  Dam,  1.        1  00 
Iowa.— Dm  J/bine*— Chariton,   10  88.     Siotue  City^ 
Lyon  Co.  Qerman,  10.    TTatertoo— East  Friesland,  18. 

82  83 
KA]csA8.—.Bmporia— Mount    Vernon,    8;     Oxford,    6. 
Neo9ho—QeuevtL,  1  85;  Glendale,  8;  Yates  Centre,  9  04. 
Ot6om«— Bow  Creek,  1 85.     5oZomon— Mankato,  4  84: 
Bylran  Qrove,  6  60  81  48 

AiOBiaAS.— Grand  Rapids-^Qnnd  Rapids  Westmin- 
ster, 10  76.  Lake  Superior— Newberry,  8  94;  Ht.  Ignaoe, 
6;  ifonroe— Tecumsen,  85.    Saotnaio-Tay mouth,  10. 

68  69 
MniH«80TA.—Tr<nona— Fremont,  4  57;  Rushford    Ist, 
884.  18  41 

MissouBi.— QsarXr— Ash  Grove,  8;  White  Oak,  8.  Pla/- 
myra— Newark.  1  65;  New  Providence  (including  sab-sch. 
6),  8.  Pto^to— Bethel,  8;  Chilllcothe,  4;  Grant  City,  5  86; 
Mound  aty,  16;  Tarkio,  J8.    St  Loiii»- Kirk  wood,  17  60. 

78  41 

Nkbraska.— fla«Mni7«— Oak  Creek  German,  6.  Kearney 

—Central    City,    6.     Nelfraska     City— Behron,    17 18. 

OmoAo— Omaha  Ist  German,  6.  88  18 

Nsw  JsRSKT.— iforrit  and  Orange— Ea»t  Orange  Brick, 

176  80:  Madison,  9  88;  Morrlstown  1st,  76  08.    Newatk- 

Newark  WickUffe,  7  84.    New  Brunmcick—Bomid  Brook, 

80;  Lawrenc*,  16  60;  Trenton  Prospect  Street,  87.    Aeio- 

Ion— Oxford  2d,  9  98.  858  08 

Nsw  York.— ^26any— Albany  8d,  86;  Northampton.  8. 

£of<on— Boston  Scotch,  6 ;  Londonderry,  8  80.     tirook- 

Iifii— Brooklyn  Ciasson  Avenue,    58.     Bu^oto-Buffalo 

Covenant,  S.    CoiusiMo— Ashland,  8  06.    j7iicf«on- Good 

WiU.  8  64;  Stony  Point,  18  86.     Long  Aland-Greenport, 

8;  Moriches,   8  88;    West    Hampton,   14  98.     Nc^sau— 

Brentwood.  18  58;  Springfield,  6.    New  Forfc- New  York 

Madison  Square  (Estate  James  R.  Hills),  100.   Niagara— 

HoU4v,  r  ®.    JVorf^  iJiver— Pleasant  Valley,  8.  Otsego- 

Richfleld  Springs.  9  89.  i7oc^sfer— Rochester  Emmanuel, 

66  cts.    at  Lator«nce— Oswegatchie  8d,  8  16.    Stexiben— 

OorDing,6  50;  Hammond8port,7.   £ryrocu«e— Canastota, 

18;  Skaneateles,  8  18.    TVow-Green  Island.  5;  Troy  9th, 

80.     ITHco-Rome,  16  87;  yerona,6.    Weetcheeter-Vew 

Haven  Ist,  14.  895  16 

Ohio.— ^Men#— Beverly,  8;  New  Matamoras.  5.    Belle' 

/on<ain«-Bellefontaine.  1  99;  Nevada.  1  98.    ChilUcothe 

—White  Oak,  7  88.    (Wncinna^i-Cindnnati  Clifton,  6  67. 

Cleoetoml-Cleveland  Beckwith.  10:  East  Cleveland.  9  50. 

lima- Convoy,  8;  Harrison,  8;  Middlepolnt.  8      Mahon' 

fiHr-Ola^soii.  S  60.     Jfa«mee— Delta,  6;  Mount  Balem, 

\vl*   at,  Clo^wiUe-Baffalo,  6  89;  Washington,  8  90. 


Zane*r<U«— New  Lexington,  1  40;  Roseviile,  6  74;  Union- 
town,  8  70.  80  66 
ORSOON.—Trillam«efe— Salem.  6.  6  00 
PsNNSYLVAiOA  — -^tttfafcenw-Bakerstown,  8  78;  Roches- 
ter. 1  49;  Sharpsburgh,  15  21 ;  Springdale,  6.  Blaireville 
— Braddock,  18  75;  MurrysvlUe,  8;  Union,  8  68.  Butler— 
Martinsburgh.  5  CaWt</e- Burnt  Cabins.  1;  Carlisle  8d, 
8  85;  Gettysburgh.  8  80;  Lower  Path  Valley,  4;  Millers - 
town,  7.  Cheater— VAThy  Borough,  20;  Dllworthtown.  1 ; 
Ridley  Park.  9  80.  CtoWon-Johnsonburg,  41  cts.:  Mill 
Creek,  8  85;  Mount  Tabor.  5  17;  Wilcox,  66  cts.  EHe— 
Erie  Park.  88  15;  Fairfield.  8:  Salem,  1.  Huntingdon— 
Duncansville,  6  JiTtf tanntn(7— Smicksburgh,  1  60.  Lack- 
awanna —  Nanticoke,  4;  Scranton  8d,  100  48;  —  Wash- 
bum  Street,  30  50.  Lehigh-ToiUyiWe  2d,  9.  Northum- 
berlarui  —  Northumberland,  8:  Willlamsport  8d.  6  80. 
PhUadelphia  —  Philadelphia  Memorial,  08  07.  Phila- 
delphia North  —  Norristown  Central,  15;  Pottstown 
(including  sab-sch.  8  50),  18  es  P)ffe«emr0A^Chariler8, 
4;  Finley ville,  8  55;  Moimt  Carm9l.2;  Pittsburgh  Belle- 
field,  80:  —  East  Liberty,  18  98;  —  Mt.  Washington,  8  98; 
—  Park  Avenue,  82  60.  Washington  —  Three  Springs,  2; 
Unity.  S.  FTMtmtfMter— Marietta,  14.  601  21 
South  Dakota.— ^derdeen—l'almer  1st  Holland,  6  40. 
Southern  Dakota-Bioux  Falls,  8.  14  40 
Washikoton.- TFaHa  TFd/2a— Eendrick,  5.  6  00 
Wisconsin.-  Chippetoa  —  Hudson,  4  60.  Madiion— 
Belolt  1st.  8  88.  Milioaukee-OoBthuTg,  2;  Waukesha, 
16  80.  W^<nn«6ooo- Oconto.  10.  89  98 
Total  from  churches  and  Sabbath-schools. . . .    $8,154  20 

otrbb  contributions. 

F.andF.,  8;  Neri  Ogden.  Oakaloosa,  la.,  8| 
C.  Penna.,  4;  Rev.  H.  T.  Scholl,  Big  Flats, 
N.  Y..  1  ;Qeo.W.Sweazey,  Rising  Sun.  Ind  ,10; 
Rev.  W.  Jj.  Tar  bet  and  wife,  80  cts. ;  Rev.  D.  A. 
Wallace,  Pontlac,  Dl.,  80  cts.;  Rev.  J.  B. 
Woodward,  Covington,  Pa.,  8 $        88  60 


MISOSLLAMEOUS. 

Interest  on  Investments,  268  60:  Premiums 
of  Insurance,  887  78;  Sales  of  Book  of 
Designs,  No.  5,  8  80 


Boggs  Estate,  through  Presbytery  of  Zanes- 


18,177  80 


Ue,400. 


SPECIAL  DONATIONS. 


Illinois.— CA<cai;o>  Chicago  Normal  Park,  85. 

Iowa.— /oiiJO— Burlington  Ist,  40  80. 

Nbw  Jbrsky.— fh'sodetA— Roselle  1st  sab-sch, 

50. 
Nsw  York.- IVoy — Waterf ord  1  st,  8  01 


602  58 


400  00 


128  81 


8,804  14 


Church  collections  and  other  contributions, 
April— December,  1898 $  29.n5  87 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions. 
April-December,  1892 $  88,906  97 

LOAN  FUND. 

Installment  on  loan 810  00 

Interest  on  loan 158  »      $478  M 

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MANSE  FUND. 

MnnrKsoTA.—  Winona  —  Ruahford    1st,   2  60; 
Nkw  York.— 3|^ractue— Canastota  lit,    4  1& 

MISOBLLAMSOUB. 

iDstallments  on  loaoi 810  70 

Interert 1  85 

Premiuma  of  InBurance 27  75 

SPKCIAL  DONATIONS. 

Pbnnstlyanxa.—  Philadelphia  —  Philadelphia 


Tabor,  47  U., 


47  15 


t68 


840  80 


$894  18 


If  aoknowledgement  of  any  romittaDoe  is  not  found  in 
these  reporta.  or  If  they  are  inaccurate  in  anj  item, 
promDt  adrioe  ahoukl  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board,  giving  the  number  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 
absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date,  amount  and  form  of  re- 
mittance. Adam  Campbell,  Treaaurer, 

58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RBCBIPT8  FOR  OOIXBOBS  AMD  AOADBMIS8,  DBCEMBEB,  1808. 


BALTiuoEM.—Waehington  (7<ty— Washington  Oity  let, 
7.  7 

Colorado. — Bouldey^- Valmont,  1 8  cte.  .  18 

Illinois.— CA^cago— Chicago  41st  Street,  78  85;  Fuller- 
ton  Avenue,  20  87 :  Feotone  lst»  60  cts.  i^6fpor<— Rock- 
ford  1st,  17  50;  Willow  Creek,  18  98.  Schuyler-Kir^- 
wood,  8;  Wythe,  2.  187  05 

Indiana.— Crau/ord«viKe— Dayton,  4;  Ladoga,  8; 
Rockviile  Memorial,  88  cU. ;  Spring  Grove,  12  25.  Fort 
Wayne— Linuk,  8.  /ndianapo<t«— CarpentersviUe,  1. 
New  ^26any —Jeffersonville  1st,  9  58;  Seymour,  10. 
White  fTater-Clarksburgh,  8  70;  Kingston,  11  80;  Lib- 
erty, 5.  68  76 

Kansas  —Topelea— Leavenworth  1st,  80.  80 

KBNTUCKT.—LouifoiUe  — Louisville  College  Street. 
24  10.  24  10 

Michigan.— FZin<—Croswell  Ist,  8.  8 

Missouri— St.    Loui«— St.    Louis    Carondelet,  9  50. 

950 

Nebraska.— ATeamey— Lexington,  4  20.  Nebratika  City 
— Pahnyra,  5  80.  9  fiO 

New  jEBSBT.—£ZtMi6e<A— Elizabeth  Marshall  Street, 
24.  Morris  and  Orange— East  Orange  Brick,  182  60; 
Madison,  6  06;  Orange  Central.  200.  iVeioaril;— Newark 
Calvary,  8  65;  Park,  5  84:  WicklifTe.  8  67.  NewBrune- 
wick— Dutch  Neck,  15;  Kirkpatrick  Memorial,  8.  New- 
ton—Oxlord  2d,  7  44.  401  66 

New   Mexico.— 22io  (Trande— Albuquerque  1st,   15  16. 

16  16 

New  Yorx  — -4l^ny— Princetown,  6;  Sand  Lake,  8. 
fio««on— Newburyport  1st,  14  58.  Broolc^v^— Brooklyn 
Classon  Avenue,  20.  Buffalo— Buttalo  Covenant.  8; 
North,  49  29.  CoIumMo— Hunter,  8;  Windham  Centre, 
17,  (?«neva— Gorham,  8  25;  Romulus,  8.  HudsonF— 
Good  Will,  1  96.  Lonp  Afand— Greenport,  8;  Moriches, 
6  24;  Port  Jefferson,  5  89;  West  Hampton,  7  44.  Nae- 
»au— Islip,  9;  Jamaica  1st,  87  28.  New  Forib— New  York 
1st  Union,  10.  JViiayara— Niagara  Falls  1st,  10  07,  sab- 
sch,  6.  jBoc/i««fer— Dansville,  6  68;  Rochester  Emman- 
uel, 88  cts.  Steuben— Campbell  1st,  10  50:  Coming  1st, 
4  87.  STtfrocuM— Mexico  1st.  15.  TVoy— Waterford  1st, 
8  01.    UYtca— Lyons  Falls  Forest,  6  85;   Verona,  6  21. 

275  42 


Ohio  —^tAetM— Beverly,  1.  .0eU«/ontoine— Crestline, 
166.  C<nc<nfia<i-CiQcinnati  Poplar  Street,  5  85.  Cleve- 
latui— Cleveland  Beck  with,  7  50.  /)airton— Dayton  River- 
dale.  1.  JfaHon-Mount  Salem,  1  57.  SteubenvUle— 
Corinth,  8;  New  Harrisburgh,  5.  81  08 

Oregon. -Pbrtland— Smith  Memorial,  1.  1  00 

Pennstlyania.— .^UegAeny— Bakerstown,  9  86:  Qlen- 
fleld,6  56.  Sto<r«mi/e-Latrobe,  24;  Murrysvllle,  8.  J9u^ 
2€r— Butler,  9.  C^«t«r— Downingtown  Central,  8  91; 
Lansdowne  Ist.  25  42;  Ridley  Park,  7  08.  Clarion— 
Johnsonburg,  81  cts.;  Wiloox,  50  cts.  J^^— Franklin, 
81  80.  HunTtfH^fon— Sinking  Valley.  6.  Laekawannor^ 
Honesdale  1st  sab-sch,  5  86;  Scranton  2d,  156  88;  Wash- 
bum  St,,  16  55.  LeA<0r^-PottsviUe  2d.  4  50.  Northum- 
6«riand— WiUiamsport  2d,  1.  Pfci/odelpAio-Philadel- 
phia  Bethlehem,  28.  PfttoburoA— Chartiers,  8;  Mount 
Carmel,  2;  PitUburgh  Bellefleld,  80;  East  Liberty,  18  92; 
Park  Ave.,  15.  iZe£i<one— Pleasant  Unity.  2  26.  Shen* 
anoo— Unity,  7.  TFcuAingron— Frankfort,  7  89;  Mounds- 
ville,  9;  Three  Springs,  2;  Waynesburgh,  4.  460  24 

Texas.- ^u«e/ri-Austin  1st,  22.  22  00 

Wisconsin.— JfiluxifiJlMe—Oostburg,  6.  6  06 

Total  received  from  Churches  and  Sabbath- 
schools 9  1,485  65 

personal. 

Rev.  W.  P.  Nicholas,  Mt.  Pleasant,  la.,  7;  Neri 
Ogden,  Oskaloosa,  la.,  1  60;  F.  &  F..  1;  **0. 
Penna.,''  8;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  80 
cU.;  Rev.  H.  T.  Schall.  Big  FlaU.  N.  T.,  1; 
Rev.  D.  A.  Wallace,  Pontiac,  His.,  60  cts.;  A. 
G.  PetUbone,  Chicago,  50 64  90 

INTBBE8T. 

Roger  Sherman  Fund 105  00 

Total  for  December.  1898 |  1,665  55 

Previously  reported 21,084  20 

Total  to  January  1st,  1894 .$i2.689  76 

C.  M.  Charnlet,  Treck9urer, 
P.  O.  Box  294,  Chicago,  His. 


BBCKCPTS  FOB  EDUCATION,  DEOBMBKB,  1808. 


Co.  German,  5;  Vail,  11.  TTaterloo- Ackley,  82;  Tama, 
96  cts. ;  Toledo,  4  04.  104  76 

Kansas.— fmporta— Eldorado,  7;  Peotone,  2;  Wichita 
Lincoln  Street,  2.  Highland— WaoitilDgiOB,  64  cts.  Neoeho 
—Geneva,  4.  Solomon— Cheever,  8;  Sallna,  80.  Topeka 
—Kansas  City  Grand  View  Park,  4.  52  64 

Kbntdckt.— J!:6enee^-Covington  1st  additional.  41  68; 
Ludlow.  8  90.  Louititijto-Louisville  College  Street,  18  45. 
Tivin«y{tMinia— Lancaster,  6.  70  OS 

Michigan.  —  Orand  Btmide  —  Evart  and  sab-s«h,  6; 
Grand  Rapids  1st,  10.    Lake   iSuperior  —  Newberry,  2. 

17  60 

Minnesota.— Z>u2«<^— Lake  Side,  8.  ifdnl:afo— Winne- 
bago City,  6.    TFtnona— Claremont,  4.  17  06 

Missouri.- iTanMM  Ctty— Kansas  City  5th,  12  50.  Pal- 
mvra— Moberly,  2  46;  New  Providence.  8.  P/atf e-Gal- 
latin,  4;  Mound  City,  7.  8t.  Loui«— Nazareth  German,  4; 
Zion  German,  2.  84  95 

Nebraska.— £«amey— Central  City.  6;  Lezinffton,  4  20; 
Salem  German,  8.  Nebrcuka  City- Hebron,  8  CI;  Pal- 
myra. 5;  Table  Rock,  4  68.  80  N 

New  JER8EY.-^//za6«<^— CUnton,  7  10;  Elizabeth  Ist, 
80  04;  Elisabeth  Marshall  Street,  28  20.  Monmouth— 
Long  Branch,  7  2^.  Morris  and  Orange— East  Orange 
Brick,  118;  Madison,  5  80;  Myersville  German,  5.  Newark 
—Newark  2d  German,  6:  —  Calvary,  90  cts  ;  —Park, 4  48; 
—  Roseville,  60;  -  Wiokliffe,  7  84.  New  Bruntwick-An- 
well  1st.  8;  Kirkpatrick  Memorial,  6.  West  Jersey— 
Haddonfleld,  15  2£  848  84 


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NiwMxxioa— Santo.FVh^LMVesMl*t,8  92.  8  98 
Nnr  ToBK.— ^UNmy-AlbftDT  td,  48  86;  Prinoetown, 
10.  Binghamton'-DewMAt.lO^X.  foston^Antrim.  11; 
Lpodonderry,  5  75.  BrooWyn— Brooklyn  Irt,  87  22;  — 
CUttson  ATwue,  50;  —  Duryea.  16.  BvffaXo^Bunslo 
(pTanant,  4.  Cayti^a^ Aurora,  14 19.  (?«ne«ee->Bergeii, 
1«  68.      Genetro-Seneca,   16  88.      H\id$<m-QooA  WUI, 

I  66|  Stony  Point,  15  71.  Loim  Jiland-Greenport.  J; 
Monches,  5  SO;  Southampton,  42  5S:    West  Hampton, 

II  6».  LtfoiM— Woloott  l8t,  5  80.  AVM«au— Sprinefleld, 
5.  Nw>  Ywk^T^ew  York  1st  Union.  10;  —  West  Farms, 
5.  North  lM«er-Rondout,  8  88.  0^s«ao— Stamford,  81. 
fiocJk<«<er— Rochester  Emmanuel.  88  cts.;  Victor,  7  76. 
8t.  Lovrenca -Qouvemeur,  8  65;  Ox  Bow,  8  48;  Pots- 
dam, 7.  Stouten— Coming,  4  06.  5|^ractae— Onondaga 
VaUey,  6 50.  IVoif— Troy  9th.  45;  Waterford,  8  01.  Utica— 
Augusta,  968;  Rome,  16  10;  Verona,  4  21 ;  Walcott  Mem- 
orial. iO  62.    We9tche9ter-^Qw  Haven  1st,  10.        548  69 

Ohio  -^eAeTM-Ameevllle,  4;  Beech  Grove,  2  50;  Bev- 
erly. 2;  New  England.  1  60.  Stfl/«/on toine-Bellef on- 
taine,!  24;  Upper  Sandusky,  8  25;  Urbana,  29.  Cincin- 
iwM-Cincinnatiith.6  60;  —  Mount  Auburn. 28;  Glendale, 
21  08;  Monroe,  4;  Montgomery,  9  80;  New  Richmond,  8. 
(^eoefami— Cleveland  Beckwith,  6  25;  East  Cleveland, 
18  ».  i)airfon-Xenla,  15.  J/orion— Mount  Gllead,  7  15; 
Rlchwood,  5;  York,  8.  ifaumee— Fayette,  1  80;  Mount 
Salem,  1  67.  Pbrtomoutli-Ironton,  4.  8U  ClatravUle— 
Bannock,  4;  Buffalo,  7  86;  Martin's  Ferry,  19  18.  Steu- 
6«««i/te-Steubenvillel8t.  18  45.  Zdn^n^fle-Uniontown, 
1  M.  220  19 

Orbgoii.— wmamette—PleaaKDt  Grove,  5.  5  00 

PimtSTLVAinA.— .^lUeffAeny— Bakerstown,  8  86;  Belle- 
▼ue,  11  27;  Evans  City,  8;  Pine  Creek  2d,  6;  Plains.  2; 
Rochester,  8;  Sharpsburgh,  7  20;  Springdale,  8.  Blaiv 
vOte-Qreensburgh,  56;  Irwin,  7  80:  Murrysville,  8; 
Union,  2  7a  B«</er— Amity,  8;  Buffalo.  2:  Martins- 
burgh,  6;  North  Uberty,  8  08;  North  Washington,  5; 
Pleasant  Valley,  2  01.  OorlWe-MiUerstown,  7.  Chester 
-Great  Valley,  8;  Oxford  1st,  68  91.  C/arion— Bet  beeda, 
4;  BrockwayviUe,  8  75;  Johnsonburg.  26  cts.:  Wilcox, 
4 1  cts.  JSHe  -  Georgetown,  1;  Greenville  sab  sch  7  27; 
TftusviUe,  26  56.  Huntingdon-Ijoet  Creek,  7  10 ;  Mlf- 
mntown  Westminster,  14  48;  State  College  Lemont.  7. 
Xactotoanna— Mount  Pleasant,  8;  Bcranton  Green  Ridge 
Avenue.  85;  —  Washburn  Street,  21  51.  LMi^A— Moun- 
tain, 4;  Pottsville  2d,  4  50;  South  Bethlehem  1st.  2. 
27or<^«ifa»er{and- Berwick,  8:  Williamsport  2d.  48  40. 
PlM2ad«(pAto-Philade]pbia  Olivet  csab-sch,  4  86),  64  05; 
—  Trinity,  14 ;  —  Westminster,  25  86;  —  West  Spruce 


Street,  198  51.  PhUadelphia  ^North-CalytLry  Wyncote, 
5;  Mount  Airy,  6  18;  Norrlstown  Central,  10  19;  Potts- 
town  (sab-sch,  8  12),  15  84;  Tacony  Disston  Memorial. 
20.  P«tt«6ur0^— Chartiers,  2  50:  Forest  Grove  Ladies^ 
Society,  6  25;  Hebron,  9;  Homestead,  19  79;  Mansfield, 
15  50;  Mingo,  5;  Mount  Carmel,  2;  Mount  Pisgah,  10; 
Oakdale,  21;  Pittsburgh  East  Liberty,  18  92;  —  Mt. 
Washington,  5 :  ~  Park  Avenue,  22  50;  West  Elizabeth, 
8  26;  Wilkinsburgh,  69  06.  ^Aenan^o-Rich  Hill,  1. 
VTcw&ini^ton^Moundsville,  10.  TFe«tm<n«<er— Marietta, 
14;  Pequa,  25;  WrighUville,  7.  1,041  48 

South  Dakota.— Central  Dofcoto— Brookings.  5  82. 
Southern  Dakot<k— Sioux  Falls,  5.  10  82 

TBNNB8SKB.—iriii^«fon— Bethel,  2.  2  00 

Wisconsin.—  Madison  —  Beloit  1st,  7  88;  EJlboume 
City.  8  64:  Pulaski  German  (sab-sch,  1  85),  6  85.  liil- 
toa««ea— Beaver  Dam  1st,  5  65;  Oostburg,  5.  Winne- 
bago—Florence,  8  28;  Fort  Howard,  5.  42  25 

Receipts  from  Churches  in  December,  1898. . .  .9    8,062  86 
Receipts  from  Sabbath-schools  in  December, 
1898 22  94 

GRATITUDK  FITND. 

2;  20 2200 

LKGACISS. 

Estate  Rev.  Ross  Stevenson,  Washington,  Pa., 
(net),  475 475  00 

MISCELLANBOUS. 

Tithe,  8:5;  Neri  Ogden,  Esq..  Oskaloosa,  Iowa. 
1  85;  Cash,  2;  Rev.  L.  R.  Fox,  25:  Mrs.  Maiy 
8.  Fox,  25:  Rev.  W.  J.  Hazlett.  10;  "  F.  and 
F.,"  1;  Thank  Offering,  5:  C.  Penn'a,  2|  Rev. 
W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  60  cts.:  Rev.  H.  T. 
Scholl,  N.  Y.,  1;  Rev.  S.  A.  Wallace,  lU., 
50cU 81  45 

INOOMS  ACCOUNT. 

269  50;  61  50;  90;  16;  888  50 1,270  50 

Total  receipts  in  December,  1898 4,934  76 

Total  receipts  from  April  20, 1893 98,122  10 

Jacob  Wilson,  Treasurer, 

1381  Chestnut  St.,  Phila. 


BBOBIPTB  FOB  FOBKIGN  MlSSIOlfS  FOR  DKCBM BER,  1898. 


ATLAJcna—Ziioa;— Augusta  Haines  sab-sch,!  68.  168 
_BALTiifuRB.—Bai<imore— Annapolis,  10.  Newcastle—. 
Federalsbararh.  1  60:  Forest.  26  68;  Frankfordsab  sch%  2; 
Makemie  Memorial  sab-sch*,  8  75;  New  Castle.  110. 
Washington  C<^- Washington  City  Ist,  42  45.        196  88 

GALiFoitNLA.—^en<cia— Fulton,  5.  Los  Angeles- CoU 
ton.  16  50;  Coronado  Graham  Memorial,  11  25;  Fillmore 
and  Los  Passos,  10:  Montecito,  15  87;  OUve  C.  E  ,  9  50; 
^n  Bernardino,  47;  Ventura,  44  46.  San  Josd—Bouider 
Creek.  6.         .  165  07 

Catawba.— Cope  Fear— Panthersford,  1  28.  Southern 
Virginia-  Grace  Chapel.  2.  8  28 

CoLOBADO.— BouMer— Longmont  Central,  SI  66;  Val- 
mont.  99  cts.    Puedio— Colorado  Springs  1st.  21  50.    44  14 

Illinois.— ^<ton— Chester  sab-sch*.  4  80.  Blooming' 
<oa— Bloomington  1st,  25;  Champaign  sab-sch*.  26  54; 
DaovUle,  103  86.  CA^^-AustUi-25  99;  Chicago  8d, 
222  99;  —  Belden  Avenue.  20;  —  Covenant  sab-sch.  68  71 ; 

—  Endeavor,  4  77:  —  Lakeview.  44  22;  Lake  Forest, 
49  28,  sab-sch.  25:  New  Hope  sab-sch*.  16  80.  Mattoon— 
Aroola,  5;  Newton.  1  98;  Pleasant  Prairie,  12  25;  West 
Okaw.  18  27.  Peorto-PrinceviUe  sab-sch.  11  48.  Rock 
ftioer— Aledo  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  25;  Edgington,  39.  Schuy 
2er -Appanoose,  15:  Augusta  Y.  P.  S.  C.  £.,  18  50;  Elling- 
ton Memorial,  5;  Kirkwood.  17,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  7:  Ma- 
comb Y.  P.  8.  0.  B.,  50:  RushviUe  sab-sch,  48  18.     890  61 

Indiana.  —  Craw/ordsviUe  —  RockvUle.  24  86.  Fort 
Wayne  -Lima  sab-sch  ♦.  5 ;  Warsaw,  25  Indianapolis— 
PrankUn  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  17;  Hopewell  Thanksgiving 
Offering,  5  52.  Lo^n^tport- Plymouth  Y.P.S.C.E.,  10. 
IfMncie-Liberty,  21 14.     New  ^UKiny-Lexington.  18; 

—  Noble  Chapter,  4;  Mount  Lebanon,  8;  New  Philadel- 
phia Beech  Grove  *,  86  cts.;  Oak  Grove.  2;  Otisco,  6. 
Kinc«nne«— Evansville  Walnut  street  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  15; 
Princeton.  12.  White  TFafer— Connersville  German,  5; 
New  Castle  Y.  P.  S.  C,  E..  20.  188  87 

Indian  Tkbbitort.— OActoAoma—Tecumseh,  8  25;  Te- 
cnmseh  Rev.  and  Mrs  Wm.  Meyer,  5.  18  95 

Iowa.— CoTTiifHr—Afton,  12.  Des  Moines^Deu  Moines 
Westminster,  8;  Hnmeston  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  9;  Leon,  *  4 


Du{m^u€— Lansing  German,  5;  Oelwefn,  8  75.  lotoa— 
Keokuk  Westminster  sab-sch,  15  67:  Middletown,  5. 
Iowa  City-West  Liberty  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10.  Sioux  City 
—Highland,  8  75;  Lyon  Co.  German,  85.  Waterloo— 
Holland  German  A  Member,  10;  Williams,  9.  130  17 

Kansas.— Emporia— May  field  Miss.  Soc'y,  10;  Peabody 
sab-sch,  7  65,  Jr.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E,  15:  Peotone,  5;  Wichita 
Oak  8treet  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  9.  J»0r^lan<i-Horton  sab- 
sch,  5,  Y.  P.  8.  C  E.,  6:  —  Rev.  W.  L  Doole,  5.  Neosho 
--Chanute  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18:  Fort  8cott  1st,  5;  Glendale, 
2;  Mound  Valley,  5;  Scammon,  4.  Sofonum— Cheever, 
8  50;  Lincoln,  11  00,  sab-sch,  2:  Mankato,  5  88.  Topeka 
—Leavenworth  1st,  800;  Topeka  Westminster  sab-sch, 
2  18.  414  66 

Kbntdoct.- TVatwyZvanio— Burkesville  Y.  L.  F.  M.  8., 
10.  10  00 

Michigan.— Detrof <— Ann  Arbor,  63  01;  Detroit  Jeffer- 
son Avenue.  105;  —  Westminster,  two  members,  lOU;  Mil- 
ford  United  sab-sch.  15.  Grand  Aapitto— Evart  sab-sch,* 
4;  Grand  Rapids  Westminster,  18  42,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  12  50; 
Spring  Lake,  20.  jLolamaxoo— Niles,  71  04.  Lake  Super' 
ior— Newberry,  10.  Ira»w<n{7— Battle  Creek,  50.  Monroe 
—Adrian.  88  75:  Bllssfleld,  16;  Clayton.  7  50;  Dover.  8; 
Tecumsen  Meeker  Trust  Fund,  25.  Pefo«fcey— Cadillac, 
44  25;  Petoskey.  89  80.  692  77 

Minnesota.— JIanfcato— Delhi,  4  75,  sab-sch.  2  45,  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E.,  10  15.  Minneapolis  —  Minneapolis  Stewart 
Memorial.  41  78;  —  Westminster  sab-sch  Birthday  Box, 
17  83.  Red  Uiwr— Western  L.  M.  S.,  6  06.  St.  Paul-- 
Hastings  Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  6  25;  St.  Paul  Central, 20  35. 

108  67 

Missouri.- JTanso*  City— Drexel*  sab-sch,  2;  Holden 
Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  2:  Raymore  nab-sch,*  4  50.  Ozark— 
Ebenezer sab-sch,*  10;  Mount  Vernon  sab-sch,* 4:  Ozark 
Prairie  sab  sch,*  2.  Platte— Bethel,  2;  King  City  sab- 
sch,  4;  Parkville  Lakeside  sab-sch.  8  88.  St.  Louis- 
Bethel  German.  18.  sab-sch,  18;  Jonesboro  sab-sch.*  i;  St. 
Louis  aifton  HeliihU  sab-sch.*  9  58;  —  Cote  Brilliante 
Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  2  41;  — Glasgow  Avenue  sab-sch,  26:  — 
West  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  17.  120  76 


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MoifTAMA.—H«2a»a— Hamilton  Bast,  9  80;  Hetooa  lit, 
86  95;  Spring  HiU,  8  80.  -«         •  ^^  ^ 

Nbbraska.— flcuKn^^—Oxford  sab-sch^  6  65.  Kearney 
—Buffalo  Orove  German  L.  M.  8.,  15;  Lexington,  8  tf . 
Nebraeka  City—Hehron,  18  90;  Unooln  «d  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
18  60.  i^u>6rara— Emerson,  7;  Union  Star,  6.  Omaha— 
Marietta,  25;  Omaha  let  German,  14;  —  Lowe  Avenue 
Y.P.8.0.E.,76ct8.;  Osceola  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E..  6.        Ill  96 

New  JBR8BT.-jeiisa6ee^~ClInton,  90  06;  EUsabeth  8d 
sab-8ch,884  40:  — 8d,00,  sab-sch,  24  86;  Plainfleld  Cres- 
oent  Avenue.  90;  Pluckamin  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  9.  Jereey 
CXty-Oarfleld  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  8;  Jersey  Oltr  1st,  59  88, 
Missionary  Association.  26:  —  8d,  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E..  20  87; 

—  Ciaremont.  6:  —  Westminster  sab  sch,  11  74,  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E..  2i;  Tenaflj  24  00,  sab-sch,  28.  i/onino«ct^— Atlan- 
tic Highlands  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.  Thanksgiving,  6;  Farmhig- 
dale,  9  88;  Freehold,  16  10.  MorrUand  Orange ^Che&ter 
sab-sch*  11  82:  East  Orange  Arlington  Avenue,  2;  — 
Brick,  742  02:  Madison,  04  10;  Mendham  1st,  19  72;  - 
Union  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E..  6;  Morristown  1st,  188  91 :  —  South 
Street,  1,080  92.  ^0tMIrib-L7on's  Farms  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E., 
9;  Montclalr  1st,  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  12  60;  Newark  8d.  296  79; 

—  6th  Avenue  sab  sch,  16;  -  Park.  60  00;  —  South  Park. 
6  17;-  Wickiiffe,  61  41 ;  —  Woodside.  17  46.  New  ftrune- 
loicAi— Alexandria,  10;  Cedar  Grove  Union  sab-sch,  16 ; 
New  Brunswick  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C  E,  2  70;  Trenton  Prospect 
Street,  84;  Presbytery  gatherings  from  churches  in  New 
Brunswick  Presbytery.  61  60.  Newton— ABburr,  100; 
Brancbville,  22;  Oxford  2d.  44  18.  West  Jersey— Bridge- 
Urn  4th.  18;  Haddonfleld,  80;  Haounonton,  24  60;  Osbom 
Memorial.  20.  8,794  62 

New  YoBK.—^Z&any -Albany  2d,  281  80;  —  Madison 
Avenue  sab-sch,  72  48;  —  State  Street,  salary  W.  H.  Han- 
num,  200;  —  West  End,  80.  Siny^mfon— Binghamton 
Ist  Immanuel  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  6.  ^o«trin -Houlton,  85. 
Broofc/vn- Brooklyn  Ist.  20;  —  Lafayette  Avenue  Mon. 
Con..  29  82.  sab-sch.  Missionary  Association.  60;  —  salary 
R.  P.  Wilder,  850;  -  South  8d  Street,  29  18.  Buffalo 
— Alden,  12;  —  Central,  41  90;  —  Covenant,  7;  ffllver 
Creek,  60  cts.  CayKoa— Seonett,  9  26.  Champlain— 
Belmont,  24;  Burke,  16.  C^muni^— Elmira  Ist.  8;  — 
Lake  Street  sab-sch,*  10  65 ;  Havana,  40.  Columbia— 
Ashland,  8  62;  Durham  1st,  4  68;  Hunter  sab-sch,*  7  66; 
Mitchell  HoUow,  8.  Oeneva-BeWontk  sab-sch.  work  in 
Persia,  8.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  16:  Naples,  29  27,  sab-sch.  6; 
Seneca  Falls  Y.  P.  8.  C  E..  12  50.  Htidso»-Good  Will, 
10  89;  Greenbush  sab>8ch,  6;  Hamptonburgh,  24;  JefTer- 
sonville  German.  6;  Scotchtown,  50;  Washington ville 
1st.  60.  Long  island  -Bridgehampton.  26  25:  Cutchogue, 
14  05 ;  East  Hampton  Freetown  sab  sch  Mission  Society.* 
2;  Mattituck.  11 ;  Moriches,  84  38;  Port  Jefferson,  6  01, 
sab-sch,  17  76,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  10;  West  Hampton.  61  80. 
Lyons— Marion,  28  26;  Woloott  1st.  8.  JVoMau— Hemp- 
stead Christ  Church  sab-sch  Missionary  Society,  26; 
Roslyn  Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E ,  6:  Springfield  25;  A  pastor,  6. 
New  Forfc— Montreal  American  Cross  Mission  sab-sch,  10; 
New  York  Ist,  1.080:  —  7th  Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2  26 ; 

—  4th  Avenue,  48  67 1  —  18th  Street  sab-ach  Missionary 
Society,  76;  —  Alexander  Chapel  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  9;  — 

—  Central  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  .  107;  —  Chinese  Mission  sab-sch, 
180;  —  Covenant,  898  85;  —  Grace  Chapel  sab  sch,*  ftO; 

—  Phillips,  117  12;  —  Romeyn  Chapel  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E , 
10  60;  —  Scotch  sab-sch  support  native  teacher,  75  86. 
JVioyara-HoUey,  9  92;  Lyndon  ville,  7  58.  North  River 
—Cold  Spring  sab-sch.*  16;  Newburgh  Ist,  150;  —  Cal- 
vary, 14  49;  Smithfleld  "Cash,"  50;  Wappinger's  Creek. 
10.  Otsego -Delhi  2d,  78  64:  Springfield.  18;  Stamford 
sab-sch,*  24.  Rochester— Brockport  sab-sch.*  4  92 ; 
Parma  Centre,  7;  Rochester  8d,  289  44;  —  EmanueL 
2  20;  SparU  1st  sab-sch,*  7  20:  —  2d,  24  16.  8t.  Lau>- 
renctf— Canton,  11 ;  Chaumont,  16;  Hope  Chapel.  6;  Water- 
town  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  100.  i9feu6en -Coming.  88  66. 
^yrocicse-Baldwinsville  Girls'  Mission  Band.  12  50;  — 
Davi  Ison  League,  12  60:  Canastota  W.  M.  8.  Thanksgiv- 
ing, 28  87;  Otisco  Congregational  Church,  6  50:  Skan- 
eatelee,  18  06.  TVoi^-Brunswick,  8;  Waterford,  82  06. 
C7ttca -Sauquoit.  17  72;  Verona,  25  27.  Westchester— 
PeekskiU  1st  sab  sch.  100;  Thompsonville,  164  25;  Yonk- 
ers  1st  R.  E.  P.,  76;  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  of  Westchester  Presby- 
tery, 7  27.  6,180  78 

Ohio.— i4t^«n«— Beverly,  10.  Bellefontaine—BeUetoU' 
taine.  8  20;  Nevada,  1  98;  West  Liberty  sab-sch*.  4  64. 
Cincinnati— Bethel  sab-sch.  8  50.  Cleveland—i.  leveland 
Beckwith,  41  25;  —  Madison  Ave.,  10  80,  sab-sch.  18  89; 
East  Cleveland,  18  70.  Co<um6u«— Central  College  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E..  23  81;  Columbus  2d.  140  78,  sab-sch.  12  04;  — 
5th  Avenue,  15  51  Diyfon— Bethel.  15;  SomerviUe.  2  56; 
Springfield  2d,  166  47.  ffuron-Norwalk  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
10.  Lima— Blanchard  sab-sch*  9;  Enon  Valley,  8  64; 
Mount  Jefferson,  19;  Van  Buren,  7,  sab-sch*,  9  79.  Ma- 
honing-Salem Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10;  Warren  sab-sch,  25. 
Jfoumee— Delta,  7.  Pbrttmout^— Georgetown  sab-sch*. 
176;Huntingtonsab-sch,8606.    ^.  Ctoirsviae-Bamiook 


sab-sch.  6  74;  Cambridge  sab-sch*,  9  27;  Crab  Apple  sab- 
sch,  66  80;  Pleasant  VaUey  sab-sch*,  7  10;  Washington, 
12;  Wheeling  Valley,  4.  ateubenviUe^-OoTinth  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.  Cheung  Mai  School,  6;  New  Harrisburgh*.  7  65; 
Wellsville  West  End  sab-sch*.  8  29.  Wooster-Rove- 
weU,  12  46;  Shreve  sab-sch,  4.  Zanswiilc-Duncan's 
Falls,  4  68;  Madison,  86  10;  Newark  Salem  German  sab- 
sch.  8:  Zanesville  2d,  82  11.  829  09 
OBxaov.— Willamette— BTOwnsvnie,  7.  7  00 
PsNHSTLVANiA.—^UftiAeny— Allegheny  North  sab-sch, 
100;  Concord,  4 ;  Se^  Ickly  Mrs.  8.  W.  Semple.  24;  Sharpa- 
burgh  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  86.  Btoirsi;i/Je— Ligonler  sab-sch,* 
4  88  BttWer— Harrisville,  16  95t  Martinsburgh,  6;  New 
Hope.  8.  Cter{i«ie— Burnt  Cabins.  8:  Harrisburgh  Pine 
Street  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  ,  5;  Lower  Path  VaUey,  18;  Meroers- 
burgh  Y.  P.  H.  C.  E  ,  2  16.  Chester— Aihmun,  60;  Cal- 
vary. 82  67;  Dilworthtown,2;  Media  sab-sch,  18;  Ridley 
Park,  86  65.  C/orion— Johnsonburg.  1  69;  MiU  Creek. 
1  48;  Mount  Pleasant,  2;  Wilcox,  2  72.  iffrie— Bradford 
sab-sch.  *  84  28;  Erie  Park  sab  sch,  50;  Harmonsburg,  6; 
Waterford  sab-sch  Miss.  Soc'y,  20.  IJunWn^on— Bed- 
ford sab-sch,  *  12  80:  Birmingham  Warriors  Mark  sab- 
sch,  *  7  47;  aearfleld  Sup.  F.  E  Himcox  and  wife,  400; 
East  KishaooquiUas,  66;  Lower  Tuscarora.  20;  WUIiams- 
burgb,  sab-sch,  6  47,  Ktttcmning— Bethel  sab-sch.  • 
8  77;  Kittanning  1st,  250.  Lacibawanna -Carbondale 
sal.  J.  A.  Fitch,  190  26:  Elmhurst  sab-sch.  •  8  90;  Her- 
rick.  12;  Kingston  sab  sch,  *  26  66;  Scranton  Id  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E  ,  250;  —  Washburn  Htreet,  77,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  65; 
Stella  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  10;  Wilkes  Bane  1st,  17  60;  Rev. 
H.  H.  WeUee,  50.  LeAigA— PottsviUe  2d,  9;  Shenandoah, 
11.  Northumberland-Jenej  Shore,  68;  Lycoming  Cen- 
tre Battle  Run,  12;  Mahoning  sab-sch.  •  16  29;  Muncy  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E  ,  *  4  52;  Williamsport  2d,  17  10.  Philadehthia 
-Philadelphia  Arch  Street  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  64  50;  —  Beth- 
lehem. 80;  —  Cohocksink  sab-sch.  6  90;  —  Hebron  Mem- 
orial Y.  P.  8.  C.  E ,  10;  —  Tabor  41  25  sab-sch,  41  25;  — 
Walnut  Street  sab-sch.  68  56:  —  West  Arch  Street  sab- 
sch,  70  72,  sab-sch,  *  50:  -  West  Green  Htreet.  141  06; 
—  Woodland  sab  sch,  *  16  75.  Philadelphia  North— 
Doylestown.  80  80;  Frankford  Y.  P.  8.  C  E.,  8  50:  Ger- 
mantown  Redeemer,  160.  sab  sch,  6  51;  Manavunk,  60; 
Norristown  Central.  110  88.  Pi/fsimrofc- Charleroi  sab- 
sch,  *  5;  Chartiers,  16  50-  Edgewood  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6; 
Oakdale  Y  P  8.  C.  E.,  20:  Pittsburgh  6th  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
15;  .  Bellefleld,  160;  —  East  Liberty,  94  60:  —  Frank- 
lin Street  Mission.  *  10  60;  —  Park  Avenue,  90:  —  Point 
Breeze,  500.  Redstone— Lanrel  Hill,  18  40.  Shenango— 
Leesburgh.  16  88;  f^harpsville.  8  91.  Washington— 
Claysville  Y  P.  a  C.  E  .  84  50:  Frankfort  sab-sch,  26  86; 
Mill  Creek  82;  Three  Springs.  10;  Washington  2d  sab- 
sch,  *  29  68.  Westminster-ChestDut  Level,  45  06;  York 
Westminster  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  16.  8,966  99 
South  Dakota.— iiberdeen—Britton.  10  85.  Southern 
Daikota— Bridgewater,  80;  Canlstota,  6;  Turner  Co.  1st 
German.  10.  66  26 
TsNNKSSBs.-Birmin^^m— Thomas  1st.  8.  Bolston— 
HendersonviUe Memorial  sab-sch* 4.  CTinion— Knoxville 
BeUe  Avenue  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E .  9;  MaryviUe  2d  sab-sch,  1  76. 

16  75 

Texas.— iVbri^  rMTos— Seymour,  8  50.  8  60 

WASHDfOTON.— TTo/to  TTo/la— Keudrick.  8.  8  00 

WisooNBiN.— i/odison— Janesville,  GO;  Plattevflle  Ladies 

Society,  10.    JfiluHiuilree— Cedar  Grove  W.  M.  8.,  10:  Hori- 

con,  8  08;  Racine  Ist.  75:  Somers  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10; 

Waukesha,  24  28,  a  student  for  China,  1.  188  81 

WOMBH^S  BOARDS. 

Women's  Board  of  New  York,  095;  Women's 
Board  of  Philadelphia.  42988  64;  Women's 
Occidental  Board,  178  60;  Women's  Board  of 
the  Northwest,  25 9    6,177  14 


Bequest  of  ^neas  M.  Dudgeon,  2.000;  Bequest 
of  D.  C.  Dewey,  200;  Bequest  of  Mrs.  Laura 
C.  Mace,  476  25;  Bequest  of  Rev.  Ross  Stev- 
enson, 476;  Bequest  of  Mrs.  Isabella  0. 
Faries,  for  Girls^School  Wei  Hien,  1,040 4.191  25 

MISOKLLAKKOITS. 

Rev.  and  Mrs  J.  W.  HiU,  12  50;  B.  E.  Richard- 
son,  18  80;  John  J.  Moffltt,  17  50;  Miss  Maria 
Clegg.  20  cts.;  Mrs  A.  C.  Miller,  for  press 
work  in  Siam,  5:  Thank  Oflering  from  L>oro- 
thy  Dulles,  25;  H.  J.  Beardmore,  26  cts  ;  Re- 
turned Missionary*,  26:  H.  C.  Ward.  Thank 
OfTeriDg,  10:  *  H"  Phila.  10;  Reformed 
Church  of  Glen.  N.  Y.,  12  68;  P.  C.  Kuhn, 
Pittsburgh.  Penn^  76:  E.  F.  Biddle,  6;  Mrs. 
Helen  C.  Swift.  Ypsilantl.  Mich.,  support  of 
John  JoUy,  60;  Mr.  WUllam  Boms,  100;  Mn, 


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E.  V.  Schriver,  1 ;  Mrs.  Emeline  t^arker,  60:  E. 
A.  Hackett,  «•;  M.  P.  Q.,  2  60;  *' Missions/' 
1;  A  Believer  in  Missions,  Pittsbunrh,  for 
Bangkok  Mission  Station.  400;  E.  M  •,  5;  Rev. 
Henry  Morrell,  6;  Young  Man  in  Newark,  N. 
J.,  support  of  Jadin  Bakksh«  6;  E.  R.  For- 
srth.  Grennsburgh  Ind.,  salary  J.  M.  Irwln, 
100:  Missionary  Society  of  western  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  salary  A.  Ewing,  100;  T. 
M  and  T.  W.  C-  A.  of  Parsons  Oolite,  salanr 
W.  G.  McClure,  87  50;  Chrisinias,6;  *'E  O. 
R,"  Allegheny,  50;  H  Keigwin,  Orlando, 
Fla.lO:  &)▼.  T.  R.Quayle,8  68;  Rev.  P.  G. 
ai^d  Mrs.  C.  C.  Cook.  10;  Mrs.  J.  B  Lord, 
sup.  W.  L.  Swalkn,  12  60;  Isabella  B.  Skin- 
ner, N.  7.,  tO;  G.  B.  Carver,  for  Girls' 
School,  Osaka,  5;  Rev.  R.  Craighead,  D.  D  , 
75;  A  Friend,  in  the  name  of  P.  M.  Ozanne*, 
25;  A.  F.  Wilson.  Grimes,  lovra,  10;  **For 
Korea,''  1,000:  Edwin  A  Ely,  N.  Y..  10;  C.  G. 
WiUiamsoo.  Phlla  .  6:  Mr.  G.  L.  Gong,  sup- 
port Dang  Hong,  48;  Mrs.  M.  H.  Clark,  8:  J. 
M.  Ganss.  Ht  Louis,  Mo.,  16;  Mrs  W.  D.  Mc- 
Nair,  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  8  50;  Students  of 
McOormick  Theological  Seminary,  salary  T. 
G.   Brashear,  70i  A  Christmas  Offering*,  15; 

F.  and  F.,  10  Miss  Elizabeth  Vickers,  Christ- 
mas Offering  5;  A  Lady  in  Roseland  111.,  for 
Syria.  5;  WUliamJ  Schieffelin,  for  Mission- 
aries  in  Korea,  100;  L.  H.^  5;  Rev.  and  Mrs. 


8  80  George  W.  HoIm<w,  M.  D.  *2o:  In  Memo- 
riam  from  a  friend,  l.OOOr  Members  of  Korea 
Mission,  141  66;  Presbyterian  Churches,  111., 
9 7,S»8S 

Total  received  during  December,  1F9* 9  84,740  61 

Total  rect'ived  from  May  1,  IttM  to  December 

81.  Ih98 841,164  79 

Total  received  from  May  1,  189i  to  December 

81,  le93{ 889,496  85 

Decrease $  96,881  46 

William  Dullss,  Jr..  TVecuurer, 
58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

*For  special  Laos  Fund. 


RBOBIFTS  FOB  FRESDMISN,  DBCBMBEB,  1898. 


Atlantio.  Fa<r>leld— Bethlehem  1st,  1;  Carmel,  1; 
Gheraw,  60  cts  ;  Good  Will.  8;  Howell  Salem.  1  95;  Lan- 
caster Sd,  50  cts. ;  New  OUvet,  67  cts.   £noa>-Christ,  8  76. 

10  87 

BAi;nMORB.—BaZ<imore— Baltimore  Boundary  Avenue 
sab-sch  Missionary  Society,  1  88;  ~  Broadway,  6:  Bethel, 
5:  Emmittsburgh  (sab  sch.  80  88),  45  66;  FrankUnvllle,  8; 
Highland,  8  50.  New  Castle- Dover,  16;  Lower  Brandy- 
wine,  8  78;  New  Castle  118  16;  PitU  Creek,  8:  Port 
Deposit,  8  76;  Port  Penn,  1  77.  Wcuhington  Ctty-Falls 
Church.  6  94;  Washington  City  1st.  7.  888  88 

Caufornia.— Lo«  ^noelee— Montedto,  6.  Siicram^nto 
—  Sacramento  Westminster,  5  60.  Stockton  —  Bethel 
Woodbridge,  6.  16  60 

OATAWBA.~Cape  Fear— Mt.  Pleasant  and  White  Hall, 
4  06;  St.  Paul,  8  60.  Catoioba— Bethlehem, 35  cts.;  Poplar 
Tent,  It  Wadesboro.  1  60.  SovXkem  rirf^nio— Ebenezer, 
2;  Russel  Grove,  4.  16  80 

OOLOOADO.— BotJder  ~  Brush,  8  10;  Vahnont,  16  cts. 
Z)ei»«er— Denver  Capitol  Avenue,  8  06.  (?unni«on— Grand 
Junction  1st.  6.  Pue6{o— Alamosa  (sab-sch,  1  49),  4  86; 
Colorado  Springs  1st,  6  58;  Pueblo  Mexican  (5th),  16. 

40  17 

Illinois.— ^  {ton— Jersey ville,  7;  Steelville.  1.  Blooni' 
ingtof»— Bement,  18  86;  Clinton,  10:  Cooksvllle,  18  40;  El 
Paso,  5  60.  Cairo— Anna,  7;  Fairfield,  8  80;  Murphys- 
boro  l8t.  6;  Tamaroa.  7  18.  Chicago— Chicago  Endeavor, 
8  09;  —  Normal  Park  Y.  P.  &  C.  E.,  6;  Evanston  1st, 
89  54;  Hyde  Park.  84  94;  Maywood,  8;  New  Hope,  80; 
Oak  Park,  17  50;  Peotone  Ist,  49  10;  River  Forest,  8  76. 
Fr€epcTt  —  Freeport  Sd,  7  50:  Galena  1st.  100;  Middle 
Creek,  16  85;  Rockford  Ist,  88  60;  —  Westminster,  6  68; 
Warreo  sabsch  10.  Of toioa  —  Aurora,  6.  Peoria  — 
Delavan,  8  05;  Elmira,  18  86;  Prospect,  18  80.  Rock  River 
— Alexifi,  18;  Centre,  4  87;  Edgington,  10;  Garden  Plain, 
10  2i;  Geneseo,  8  40;  Morrison,  114  18;  Newton,  7  98. 
Schuj/ler—Camjp  Creek,  6;  Kirkwood,  8  60;  Perry,  6. 

697  98 

Indiana.— Oafff/ordnrtUe— Bethany,  6;  Darlington,  7; 
Ladoga,  4;  Lafavette  Ist.  10  61;  Lebanon,  6  47-  Rock- 
viUe  Memorial,  69 cts.;  Waveland,  10  40.  Fort  Wayne— 
LIgonier,  10.  Jndianapolie—Beth&Bj,  8;  Edinburgh.  8  76; 
Franklin  Ist,  80;  Hopewell,  14  80;  Indianapolis  18th,  4. 
New  Albanv--V9w  Albany  8d,  SO.  Finoennee— Washing- 
ton, 7  60.  White  TTotef^-Greensburgh,  86  86;  Providence 
lab-sch.  1  40;  Union,  6.  158  88 

InoianTkbritort.— C%octoi0~Wheelock,86  90.     85  90 

IowA.~Cedar  J2aptd«— Anamosa— 8;  Monticello,  8. 
Coming— Afton,  8;  Sidney,  6.  Dee  Moines— "Dea  Moines 
Highland  Park,  10;  Grimes,  6;  Leon,  6.  Du^uove— Hop- 
kinton.7  OS;  Jesup,  8  84;  Lansing  3st,  6  80.  Fort  Dodge 
—Dana,  1  68;  Glidden,  4  45;  Grand  Junction,  6  97.  lotoa 
— Martlnsburg.  17  19;  MediapoUs,  14  86;  Ottumwa  Ist, 
6  47.  Iowa  Oify— Iowa  City,  40;  Union,  8  40.  Sioux 
OUv—Lyotk  Co.  German,  6  60.  TTaferZoo— East  Fries- 
lana  German,  IS  64;  Holland  German,  18;  Janesville  1st, 
8.  179  l4 

Kansas.— £!mpoHa— Derby.  2;  New  Salem,  8:  Walnut 
YaUsy.SOO.   iK^AIoiMi-OUfton,  9.    ^eofAe-Oolumbus 


sab-sch,  8  47;  Geneva,  8;  Princeton.  6;  Richmond,  4. 
Oe&ome— Bow  Creek,  1 ;  Osborne,  8  60.  Solomon— 
Abiline,  6  10;  Clyde,  8;  MinneapoUs,  41  80;  Halina,  9. 
Topeito-Baldwln,  8  58;  Blaok  Jack,  4  50;  Kansas  City 
Grand  View  Park,  4  85;  —  Western  Highlands,  7  76; 
Manhattan  Ist.  18;  Topeka  Westminster.  4  i7.     188  68 

KfCNPacKY  -fffteoewr— Clemlngsburgh,  10  90.  Loit<e- 
tr»l<e— Louisville  College  Street,  87  07.  Transylvania— 
Concord,  6.  48  97 

Michigan.— Defroif— Detroit  Jefferson  Avenue,  60. 
F/inf -Flint,  81  88.  LcUee  Superior— Menominee  Ist, 
19  08;  St.  Ignace,  S.  ifonroe— Raisin,  8;  Reading,  18  75. 
Pefosfcev— Petoskey,  16  88.  Saginaw— Baj  City  Ist. 
18  71 ;  Midland.  10;  Mount  Pleasant,  4.  170  10 

MiNNBSOTA— IfmneapoUs— Oak  Grove,  8.  S 

MissotTRi— JTatwoe  Ctfv— Butler  1st,  11 ;  Holden. 7  10; 
Sharon,  8  69.  OsarJI^— Neosho,  7 :  Springfield  Calvary, 
14  57.  Plafte-Gallatin.  1 ;  King  City.  4;  ParkviUe,  9  06; 
Tarkio,  8  80.  St.  Louit—Nazareih  German,  8;  Zion 
Gtorman.  8.  71  68 

Montana.— Buffe— Deer  Lodge,  9  45.  9  45 

NBBRA8KA.—ireamey— Buffalo  Grove  German,  8.  Ne- 
braska City— Blue  Spnngs,  5;  Hopewell.  8  60.  OnuUia— 
Creston,  8;  Omaha  1st  German,  8;—  Westmin«iter. 
81  76.  87  S6 

New  Jbrskt.— £{fxa5e/A— Cranford,  16  88  (sab-bch, 
11  18),  87;  Pluckamin  sab-sch,  8.  Jersey  Ctfy— Passaic, 
80  96.  JfonmoKt/^Beverly,  81  86;  Lakewood,  44  89; 
Mount  Holly,  85:  Oceanic,  14.  Morris  and  Orange— 
Chatham,  89  90;  East  Orange  Brick,  128 ;  Madison,  81  80. 
i^etMxril;— Montclair  Grace,  18;  Newark  1st,  44  76;  —  2d. 
86  81;  —  Calvary,  10  56;  —  Park,  4  96;  —  RosevUle, 
118  88:  —  South  Park,  55  64;  —  Wickliffe.  11  08;  Parish 
sab-sch,  18.  New  Brunswick— Am^eW  Ist.  7;  —  2d,  6; 
Kirkpatrick  Memorial,  8;  New  Brunswick  Ist,  67  18; 
Trenton  4th.  85  05  A^etoton— Oxford  1st,  8:  —  2d,  6  68. 
West  Jeraey-Bridgeten  Sd,  84  76;  Cedarville  Ist.  «  60: 
Woodbuiy,  18  69.  681  89 

New  York.— ^15any— Albany  8d.  86  80:  Chariion, 
16  60;  Jefferson,  14  60;  Bchenectady  East  Avenue,  7; 
Waverly.  88.  S<nyAamton— Bainbridge,  18  78;  —  Ross 
Memorial.  6;  Deposit,  8  18;  Nichols,  6  50;  Nlneveh,'17  89. 
Sosf on— Houlton.  10;  Roxbury,  11  89;  Windham.  7  89. 
J9rooil(<yn— Brooklyn  Classen  Avenue,  80.  Bu^Tato— Buffalo 
Covenant,  8;  Jamestown  1st,  86  10.  Cayui;a~  Auburn  2d, 
14 10 ;  Ithaca,  845  14 ;  Port  Byron,  8.  C^emufi^— Burdett, 
1  80;  Havana.  16.  GoJumMo— Ancram  Lead  Mines.  8  10. 
(Tenesee— Leroy  1st,  58.  Geneva— Bellona,  5;  Canoga, 
1  60;  Geneva  1st.  16  82;  Gorham.  8 16.  Hudson— Chester 
sab-sch.  8;  Good  Will,  1  66;  Goshen,  19  60.  Long  Island 
— Greenport,  8;  Middletown,  7  84;  Moriches,  6  80;  West 
Hampton,  17  84.  Lyons— Junius.  1 ;  Marion.  8  80;  New- 
ark Park.  41  (sab-sch,  87  88).  78  88;  Wolcott  1st,  4  84. 
JITosMu— Jamaica.  86  64;  Smlthtowo,  9  48;  Springfield, 
6.  iVeio  For*- New  York  4th  Avenue,  100;  —  Grace 
Chapel  4th  Avenue.  86;  —  Mizpah  sab-sch,  80;  —  Rut- 
gers Riverside.  128  57;  —  West  Farms.  4.  Niagara— 
Lockport  1st,  84  88.  North  i^iver— Newburgh  1st.  80  17; 
Rondout,8  88.    Ofse^-GUbertsviUe,  16;  UnadUia,  4  Oi, 


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Jtoc^'S'^T^WKdcport,  ^St^;  ^DaiwviUe,  8  ^7;  l^wlw- 


m«<e«— CrawfordsTllle,  1  6u;  Salem,  18.  19  00 

l^KHvsYusAniA.^AUeghenv^AUeghe^j  2d,  10  89:  — 
McClure  Ave,  138  64;  Asplnwall,  1  15;  Bakenrtown,  6  75; 
Bellevue,  11  80;  Qlenfield,  5  88;  Pine  Creek  2d,  6.  Blairt- 
vft/l«— Braddock  vd,  8;  Conemaugh,  8:  Oreensburgh  1st, 
7tf  45;  —  Weetminster,  M 15;  Harrison  City,  4  45;  Irwin,  500; 
LigoDier,  4  75 ;  Manor,  8 ;  Unitv.  14.  Butier^ Allegheny,  5 ; 
Buffalo  8;  Harlansburgh,  5 ;  New  Salem,  5;  Plain  Grove,  6. 
CaWicie -Burnt  Cabins,  9;  Harrisburgh  Olivet,  8  85;  Leb- 
anon 4th  Street,  26  01;  Lower  Biarsh  Creek,  10  85;  Lower 
Path  Valley,  18;  Shippensburgh,  19  85;  Silver  Spring,  5. 
CAMf^r— Great  Valley,  5;  Marple.  6  10;  Nottingham, 
1  10.  Clarion— Bethesda,  4;  Du  Bois,  88  8<;  Johnson- 
burg.  86  cts.;  Wilcox,  41  cts.  i^«— Belle  Valley,  8; 
Cochranton,  8  50;  Erie  Central,  88;  —  Chestnut  Street, 
18  50;  Georgetown,  1 :  Girard,  7  86,  CMiles  Grove  Branch, 
8  96),  10  88;  MiUedgeviUe,  8;  Mount  Pleasant.  8  06;  Oil 
City  1st,  88  80;  Salem,  8;  Springfleld,  1  80.  Huntingdon 
—Altoona  Ist.  29  80:  Bedford.  6  55;  Clearfield,  88  14; 
OrbiBonia,  8  80;  Shirleysburgh,  8;  Spruce  Creek,  44; 
Tyrone  Ist,  89  15:  Williamsburgh,  28  16.  Kittanning^ 
Indiana.  30;  Marion,  6;  Rural  Valley,  8;  Smicksbureh, 
1  50;  Worthington,  8.  ZxicikaiMinna— Athens,  0  81 ; 
Honesdale  sab-flch,  6  08;  Kingston,  9:  Rii9hvi]le,4;  Scran- 
ton  Sumner  Avenue,  1;  StevensviUe,  4;  Susquehanna, 
11;  Troy,  81  88.  Lehigh -BeiMehem  1st,  6  11;  Pottsville 
8d,  4  50:  Reading  Ist,  45  84;  South  Bethlehem  1st,  90. 
J^ortAumber/and-DaBville.  80  86,  Csab-sch,  8  40),  ^  66  ; 
Derry,  8  60;  Great  Island.  80:  Miffiinburg.  8;  New  Colum- 
bia, 8  60;  Northumberland,  8;  Washington,  19;  Washing- 
tonville4;  Watsontown  8;  WiUiamsport  1st,  8  05.  Park- 
er«/>uryfc -French  Creek.  5 ;  Terra  Alta,  16.  Philadelphia 
—Philadelphia  North  Broad  Street,  88;  —  Prhioeton, 
866  14;  —  South,  10;  —  Trinity,  10;  —  Woodland.  1,064  75. 
Philadelphia  iVbWfc— Ashbourne,  9;  Bridesburg.  10; 
Bristol.  8  11;  Carversvllle,  1  05;  Chestnut  Hill  Trinity, 
41  09;  Doylestown.  89  25:  Germantown  Market  Square, 
44  17;  Norristown  1st,  14;  Port  Kennedy,  1  60.  Pittt- 
{mro^— Cannonsburgh  1st.  18;  —  Central,  7  75,  (Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.,  1).  8  75;  Centre.  18  87;  Chartiers,  8  50;  Crafton, 
81  75;  Duquesne,  10;  Forest  Grove.  87.  (sab-sch,  11), 
(Ladies'  Societv,  16  85).  (Christian  Endeavor,  18).  66  85; 
Ingram,  14;  Miller's  Run,  4  85;  Mingo,  4j  Montours,  8; 
Mount  Carmel,  8;  Mount  Pisgah,  18;  Pittsburgh  Ist, 
478  48.  (sab-sch,  48  98).  515  41 ;  -  8d,  866  48 ;  —  4th,  88  55; 
—  Bellefleld,  30;  —  East  Liberty,  47  80 ;  —  Lawrenceville, 
86  08;  ->  McCandles  Avenue.  4;  —  Park  Avenue,  80:  — 
Point  Breeze  sab-sch  J.  G.  Stevenson's  Class,  75;  Bberi* 


danville,  1  85;  Wilkinsburgh,  106  78.  Badsione -Dunbar, 
18  60,  (sab-sch,  8  60),  88:  McKeesport  Ist,  98;  Mount 
Pleasant  Reunion,  9  10;  Rehoboth«  10:  Scottdale.  15  61, 
(sab-sch,  8  89),  18.  Sfcenan^o— ClarksviUe,  88;  Hopewell, 
16;  Sharon  1st,  11  H;  SharpsviUe,  8  47.  WaahiiMtan^ 
Cove,  8 1  Cross  Creek.  51;  East  Buffalo,  15  45;  Hooks- 
town,  6  85:  Three  Springs.  8;  Upper  Buffalo,  85  87;  West 
Union,  5  50.  (r«U«Ooro— Beecher  Island,  8;  Elkland  and 
Osceola,  8.  VTer^tiM^er— Lancaster  1st,  6  75 ;  Leacock, 
8  66.  (sab-sch,  1  98),  10  58;  WrightsviUe,  8.  4,8^7  68 

South  Dakota.— OiUroi  />aJtoto— Brookings,  5  85; 
Poplar  Creek,  8  80.  aouthem  DoIbo^o— Bridgewater,  8; 
Parkeston.  4.  15  45 

TxmrsssKB.— Hbltf on— Jonesboro,  7  50.  CTnion— Erin. 
5;  Hopewell,  1 :  New  Providence,  8.  81  50 

TaxAS.— ^u««i»— Fort  Davis,  6.  5  00 

Utah.— Montami— Granite,  8  85:  PhiUipsburg,  4  85. 
Utah-^aM  Lake  City  8d,  8  85;  Spanish  Fork,  1  75.    11  60 

Washington.— i9poJkan«— Spokane  Centenary  W.  M. 
Soc.,  6  85,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6  85.  18  60 

WisooNSiif.—ClitppeiMi— Hudson  1st,  8.  Jfddiaon— KU- 
bourne  City,  4  75:  Muscoda  German,  11;  PUtteville  Ger- 
man, 7;  Prairie  du  Sac  sab-sch,  8.  MiZt4»iii:ee— Wauke- 
sha 1st,  11  76.     IFtf»ne6a^— Marshfleld,  6.  50  51 


Total  from  Churches 9  9,918  14 

MISCKLLAiaeODS. 

Woman's  Executive  (^mmittee.  N.  T.,  8,765- 
78;  S.  D.  Dean  Legacy,  Ostrander,  Ohio. 
858  97;  8.  J.  Barnett,  Delta,  Pa.,  6;  Wm. 
Dulles,  Jr.,  New  York,  N.  Y.,  17  84;  *»K.." 
*•  Pa.,"  800:  Rev.  R.  Taylor,  D.  D.,  Beverly, 
N.  J.,  85;  Rev.  J.  R.  Lord,  LainsbuKh,  Mich. 
1;  **G,  W.  M.,"  Dayton,  Pa.,  5;  .lames  M. 
Smith.  Boston.  Mass.,  100:  Caddo  House 
Rent.  5;  Miss  Emeline  Anna  Cowan,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  86;  Mrs  A.  P.  Fulton.  Bast 
Downington,  Pa.,85;  The  Misses  Ferguson. 
Oneida.  N.  Y.,  16;  Rev.  J.  B.  Woodward; 
Covington,  Pa.,  8;  Mead  Legacy.  McOomb, 
O.,  185  55;  Rev.  Mead  C.  Williams.  D.  D., 
Bt.  Louis,  Mo.,  10:  Mrs.  H.  E.  and  E.  C. 
Decker,  Turin,  N.  Y.,7:  Neri  Ogden,  Oska- 
loosa,  Iowa,  1  85:  Rev.  P.  G.  and  Mrs.  C.  C. 
Cook,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  6;  W.  H.  M.  Soc'y, 
Lake  Forest,  1  10:  Rev.  Ross  Stevenson, 
D.  D.  Legacy.  885;  Miss  E.  M.  E.,  Albanv.  N. 
Y.,  10;  (}ash,  Brooklyn,  Iowa,  5:  Emily  Dins- 
more,  Fern  wood,  O.,  50  cts. ;  W.  B.  Jacobs, 
Chicago,  Ill.i85;  A.  W.,  Ohio. 8;  F.  and  F., 
8;  Rev.  H.  H.  Welles  and  family,  Lacka- 
wanna, Pa.,  85;  Exile,  Pleasantville,  Pa.,  8; 
Rev.  A.  G.  Davis,  Raleigh,  N.  C.  1  85;  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  Wm.  Meyer,  Tecumseh,  Ok.  Ter., 
6;  Jonathan  Tucker,  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y., 
1;  Rev.  and  Mrs.  John  Kelly,  Chandlersville, 
O.,  1;  P.,  Chicago,  111.,  100:  John  E.  Krafft 
&  0> ,  Sault  Ste  Marie.  Mich,  5:  W.  M.  Find- 
ley,  M.  D.,  Altoona,  Pa.,  80:  C,  Peon'a,  8; 
Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  Springfield, 
ni.,  1  80:  Rev.  H.  T.  ScboU.  Big  Flats, 
N.  Y.,  1;  Rev.  D.  A.  Wallace,  PonUac,  Dl., 
60  cU.  4,168  88 

DiBKCTs  roB  April,  NoyniBKR,  Ain>  Dkcembxb,  1898. 

SOOTIA  BSmVART. 

Mrs.  Maigt  Mission,  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  80; 
Mrs.  A.  T.  Hutchinson's  Class,  Oxford  Street 
sab-sch,  Phila..  50;  Y.  P.  Soc'y,  Westminster 
Church.  Detroit,  15;  Mrs  M.  H.  Turner, 
Deerfleld.  N.  J..  80:  Mrs.  M.  W.  Lyon,  N.  Y., 
80;  The  Misses  Willard,  Auburn.  N.  Y..  160( 
H.  M.  S.  Catawba  Pres.,  8  51:  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jas.  Hobart.  Worcester,  Vt..  800;  Alex. 
Gray,  M.  D..  Oxford,  O  ,  50:  Mission  Band, 
Neganner,  Mich.,  15 ;  Mrs.  C.  H.,  8 ^. . . . 

COTTON  PLANT. 

Y.  p.  S.  C.  E.,  White  Lake,  Mich.,  15;  A.  G. 
Caskey,  Fort  Street  Church,  Detroll,  60; 
S.  G.  Caskey,  Detroit,  50 

MABT  HOLMES  8IMINART. 

Jas.  H.  Morgan,  Phillipsburg,  Pa.,  50;  Miss 
Jessie  Scott.  5;  Mrs.  A.  E.  Williams,  15; 
Mist  M.  A.  Butts,  5;  H.  C.  Warfel,  " 


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burg,  Pa.,  25;  De  Lamater  Iron  Co.,  86  60; 
Mr.  andMn.  E.  F.  Johnston,  M  60... 

9       004  51 

Total  receipto  for  December,  1803 $    14.075  OS 

PreTtouBly  reported 9105,881  68 

Total  receipts  to  date 9lS0,806  66 


Receipts  during  corresponding  period  of  last 
year 9  70,964  68 


Increase : 9  40,841  07 

John  J.  Beacom,  TVecwurer, 
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RBCBIFTB  FOB  HOMS  ]IISSIOMS»  DBOEMBEB,  1808* 


ATLAxnc—EoMt  FZorida— Hawthorne,  88;  Weinidale, 
».  i'Vi^/IeM— Good  Will,  8.  South  FloHda-AubJim- 
dale.  91 ;  Crjstal  River,  19  80;  Paola,  8  45.  05  75 

BALTiMOBX.—^aieimar0— Baltimore  Boundary  ATenue 
lab-flch  MissionarT  Society,  5  89;  —  Brown  Memorial, 
170  80;  Deer  Creek  Harmony,  66  85;  Tanejtown,  85  W. 
New  Cattle— Buckingham,  6;  Dover  additional,  1 ;  Feder- 
alsbargh.  1  60;  Qreen  Hill  (sab-sch,  15).  88  75;  Lower 
Brandywlne,  0  57;  Newark,  18;  Pitt's  Creek  (sab^ch,  10), 
86;  Port  Deposit,  7  76 ;  WUmfngton  Central,  08  84.  WomK- 
ingUm  Cify— Washington  City  1st,  45  88;  —  4th,  44. 

564  70 

California.— Beniciflk-Blue  Lake,  8  80;  Santa  Rosa, 
88;  HhUoh,  5.  Lot  ^nyele*— Coronado  Qraham  Memorial, 
•11 85;  El  Monte,  8  50;  Los  Angeles  Boyle  Heights  sab-sch, 
4  60;  Orange,  15  15;  Pomona  1st,  46  58;  Ban  Bernardino, 
47.  OaJklond— Valona  (sab-sch,  8  40),  6  40.  San  FYan- 
eiioo— San  Francisco  Westminster,  64  15.  San  Jo9^— 
Los  Qatos  Alma  Congregation,  5  88;  TSmpleton,  8. 

Colorado.— BottZder-<k>llhis,  1  60;  Fort  Collins  sab- 
■eh,  4;  Fort  Moivan,  8;  Longmont  Central  T.  P.  S.  C.  B., 
10;  Valmont,  90  cts.  Z>enver— Denver  Central,  188  55; 
Littleton,  10  85.  Puebio-Monte  Vista  T.  P.  S.  a  E . 
8  90.  160  70 

Illinois.— iiZtoTi— Alton  1st  (sab-sch,  8  88),  118  60.  Cairo 
—Fairfield,  5  60;  Flora.  18  48;  Qalum,  7;  Golconda,  5; 
Tamaroa,  18.  C^icoyo— Austin,  15  90;  Cabery,  18  61; 
Ohicago Sd.  1000;  —  8<C 470  50;  —  4th  sabsch, 75;  —  Cen- 
trsl  Park  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5;  —  Covenant  sab-sch,  68  71;  — 
OrusB  Park  Endeavor  sab-sch,  0  60;  —  Lake  view  1st, 
«  S5;  _  West  Division  Mission,  8  89;  Highland  Park, 
61  75;  Hinsdale,  8  84;  Hyde  Park,  186  bU;  Oak  Park  in 
part,  78  94;  Peotone  let,  ^6  85;  WUmington  T.  P.  H.  C. 
E .  7  66.  ITVeeport-Oalena  Ist,  81 75;  Middle  Creek  (sab- 
Kh,  16  70),  77  70;  Polo  Independent,  9  84;  Rockford  let, 
45  80.    Jla(foati— Areola,  5;  Charleston,  69  86;  Oakland, 

6  60.  Oftatoa— Aurora  additional,  8  60.  Peoria— Eureka, 
88  80;  Oalesburgh,  81  05:  KnoxvUle,  50  15.  Rock  River— 
AHhton,  18;  Franklin  Qrove,  10;  Millersburgh,  8  85;  Morri- 
•OD sab-sch,  8  88;  Newton,  14  84;  Peniel,  18;  Princeton, 
6i  65;  Viola,  4  00.  8e^uy2ef^— Appanoose,  7:  Augusta  sab- 
Bch,  10;  Camp  Creek  (sab-sch,  10),  81 ;  Carthage  Ist,  15  86; 
Kirkwood,  8;  Mount  Sterling  1st,  58  80;  Rusfarrttle  (sab-sch, 
84  78),  78  08.  Spring/IM- Bales,  7  75:  Jacksonville 
Westminster.  81;  Lincoln  let,  16  80;  Springfield  8d,  17; 
Winchester,  500;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and^wife,  8  40. 

8,470  15 
I5DL4NA.— Crati7A>rd«viI2e— Alamo,  7  OS;  Attica,  14  80; 
Beoton,  56;  Bethany,  158  96;  Bethel,  17;  Bethlehem.  5  50; 
Beolah,  18;  Clinton,  7  87;  Colfax,  5  41 ;  Covington,  10; 
OrawfordsviUe  1st,  60;  —  Centre.  78  OS;  Dana,  18  60;  Dar^ 
lington,  18;  Dayton, 40  76;  Delphi,  117  77:  Dover,  4  50; 
Klizavllle,  0  60;  Eugene,  15;  Fowler,  48:  Frankfort.  104; 
Hsxelrlgg,  6  86;  Hopewell,  7  06:  Judson,  10  28;  Kirklin, 
18  90;  Ladoga,  88;  Lafayette  1st,  68  70;  —  8d,  114  95; 
I^banon,  65;  Lexington,  44;  MarshflHd,  18;  Montezuma, 

7  66;  Newtown,  86;  Oxford,  88;  Pleasant  Hill,  7;  Prairie 
Centre,  18  60;  Rock  CJreek,  5;  Rockfleld,  8  60:  Rockville, 
88  60;  Romney,  86  76;  RossviUe,  18:  Russellville,  8  80; 
Spring  Grore,  87  75;  State  Line,  10  50;  Sugar  Creek, 
18  46;  Terhune,  5;  Thomtown,  67  84;  Toronto,  1  50; 
Union,  88;  Veedersburgh,  6  75;  Waveland,  88  58;  West 
Lebanon,  7  60;  West  Point,  4  68;  Williamsport,  18  40; 
McL,  161.  Fort  fTayne— Albion,  18;  Auburn,  16  01; 
Bhiirton,  61 :  Columbia  City,  18  85;  Decatur,  28;  Elhanan, 
8;  Eikart,  70;  Fort  Wayne  1st,  888  86;  -  8d.  81  64;  Goshen, 


180;  Highland,  17;  Hopewell,  18  50;  Huntington,  48  58; 
KendallviUe,  88;  Kingsland.  967;  La  Granse.  44  48;  Ligo- 
aier,  80  40;    Lima,   Wi  Ossian,    47  88;  Pierceton.  87  60; 


Salem  Centre,  6  75;  Troy.  81  80;  Warsaw.  40.  Indian- 
amolig- Acton,  84  50;  BiUnbridge,  7  Bethany.  88  41; 
Bloomington,  87  75;  Brownsburgh.  1;  Carpentersville, 
17;  Clermont,  4;  Columbus,  4815;  Edinburgh,  11;  Eliza- 
bethtown,  7  75;  Franklin,  150  58:  Georgetown,  8  86; 
Greencastle,  64  65:  Greenfield,  88;  Greenwood,  29  80; 
Hopewell,  79  98:  Indianapolis  1st,  851 17;  —  8d,  57081:  — 
4th,  45  80: -6th.  44  81; -7th,  895  90;  —  0th,  8;  —  12th, 
8160;  —  East  Washington  Street,  45  90;  —  Memorial, 
•85;  —  OUve  Street,  1%:  —  Tabernacle,  181;  NashvlUe, 
486;  New  Pisgah,  18  60;  PotnamvUle,  4  26;  Boachdale,  10; 


zoar,  7.  iu,»ra  4S 

Iowa  i 

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16  81;  <  ; 

Pleasa 
Robert 

10).  84  I 

Bluffs-  i 

let,  13 
Dee  Mt 
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buque- 
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6  96;    : 

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14  86; 

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ant.  14 

SaoClt 

Cedarf 

sabscl] 

9  86. 

Kansas.- iTmporia— Burlingame,  18  67;  Mulvane,  18; 
Peabody  sab-msh,  8;  Peotone,  6;  Waverly  let,  11  56; 
Welcome,  10  50;  Wichita  Oak  Street,  15.  HtghUxnd— 
Axtel  ■ab-Bch,  6;  Horton  (Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  7)  (Jr.  0. 


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Parle,  2;  —  Lee  ATenue  lab-M^  7  0^:  —  West  (T.  P.  8. 
0.  E.,  17).  87  80;  Zion  German  (Bab-sch,  1  60),  8.       448  84 

Montana.— B«cM«-Butte  8d,  8  60;  (TorraUls.  6;  HamU- 
toa,  5;  Missoula,  18.  Heieno— Hamilton  East,  4;  Spring 
Hill.  4.  ^  •  K& 

Nbbraska.— fla«f<7i£«— Holdrege.  90;  Oak  Creek  Ger- 
man, 6:  Oxford  8.  ^som^y— Buffalo  Grove  German  L, 
M.  Sm  16:  Central  City,  80;  Fullerton,  6  08;  Genoa.  8  68. 
Nebraska  C»ty— DlUer,  «  06;  Hebron  Ist,  6  88;  Hopewell, 
8 ;  Table  Bock,  17.  i^to6rara— Union  Star,  8  67;  Wayne 
rsab  sch,  6  87),  81  87.     OmoAa-Omaha  Blackbird  HUls, 

8  90;  —  Knox,  14  06;  ~  Westminster,  67  86;  Omaha 
Aeency  Bethlehem.  1  88.  888  91 

New  Jkeiset  -~£/t£a6etfc~Plainfleld  Crescent  Avenue, 
868  U;  ttpringfleld.  85.  Jersey  C<ty— Jersey  City  1st  Mis- 
sionanr  Association,  86;  —  Claremont,  8;  Tenafly  sab-sch, 
88.  AfoyifftotttA— Cream  Ridge  additional,  9;  lianasquan 
1st,  21 ;  Oceanic,  45;  Plumstead,  8  80.  Morris  and  Orange 
>-Boonton  1st,  188  51;  Chatham,  188;  East  Orange  1st, 
807  76:  -  Brick.  607  60;  Madison,  85  94;  Mt.  OUve  16  40; 
New  Vernon  1st,  45  89.  iVeimirlc-Montclair  1st  (Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,  13  60),  (Aid,  40),  52  60;  ~  Trinity,  110;  Newark 
6th  Ave.,  86;  —  8d  Qer.,  6;  —  Park  additional,  60;  —  Rose- 
ville  sab^sch,  60;  —  South  Park  (sab-sch,  Sr.  Department, 
80  84),  806  08;  —  Wickliffe, 44  07.  NitoBtunstnck-AXeoL' 
andria  Ist,  8;  Ewlng,  17  88;  Flemington,  884  18;  French- 
town,  86  16;  Princeton  1st,  190  70;  Stockton,  14;  Trenton 
1st  additional.  80;  —  4th,  116  68.  iVeiofon-Oxfordi  8d, 
44  69.  West  Jer«ey— Camden  8d,  48;  Salem  1st,  64  11: 
Woodbury,  44  77.  8,631  M 

New  Mbxico.— Rio  Grande  —  Albuquerque  1st,  85  06. 
aanta  Fi-Laa  Vegas  1st,  65  60.  90  65 

New  York.— ^{oany— Albany  8d,  154  80:  Esperance, 
89  60:  Northampton  (Y.  P.  S.  0.  E.,  8),  6;  Northville,  8. 
BtnaAamton— Bainbridge,  40;  Binghamton  Immanuel 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6.  Boston— Barre^  80;  Houlton,  80;  Man- 
chester German.  6;  New  Bedford.  6  98;  Providence  Ist, 
18;  QuincT,  15;  Tauntoa,  6.  Brooklyn—Brooklyn  Beth- 
any Jr.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10;  —  Cumberland  Htreet,  18;  — 
Duryea,  117;  Lafayette  Avenue  Benevolent  Society,  10; — 
Throop  Avenue  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  85),  165.  .Bu^aZo— Sil- 
ver Creek,  1.  Cayuga— Aurora,  40  56:  Fair  Baven,  6; 
Genoa  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  £.,  1;  Ithaca  1st  BaL.  86;  Sennett, 

9  85.  Complain— Belmont,  88;  Burke,  86;  Mooers,  16  67; 
Plattsburgh  1st  (sab-sch,  86),  146  66.  C7i«m«n(r— Elmira 
1st.  100;  Moreland,  4;  Watkins,  65  17;  Rev.  F.  8.  Howe,  6. 
CdZumMo— Durham  1st,  8  87;  Mitchell  Hollow  SUtion, 
8.  Geneva— BAllona,  88;  Canoga,  1  85;  Geneva  North 
•ab-ioh,  80;  Naples  Y.  P.  &  a  £,  6;  Ovid,  67  06;  Seneca 


Falls  Ist.  71  74.  Hucbon-Chester  (sab-sch,  8),  47;  Good 
Will, 9  90;  Greenbiieh sabsch,  6;  Sootchtown,  60;  Stony 
Point,  17  79;  WashingtonviUe  1st,  60.  Long  Island- 
Bridgehampton  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6).  89;  Ootchogue,  16  94; 
Mortehes,  &  85;  West  Hampton,  40  70.  ^dMa«— Free- 
port,  15;  Henopstead  Christ  Church  sab-sch  Missionary 
Society,  86;  Huntington  8d,  88  85;  Jamaica,  75;  Ocean 
Side,  6;  Ravenswood  (Y.  P.  Missionary  Society,  8  58),  8; 
Springfield,  85.    ^ete  Fori;— New  York  4th  Avenue,  48  60; 

—  5th  Avenue  (Romeyn  Chapel  Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  10  60), 
10.886  10;  —  18th  Street  sab-sch  Missionary  Society,  76; 

—  14th  Street,  189  60;  —  Bohemian,  80;  —  Brick  Addi- 
tional, 810;  -  Central  CY  P.  H.  C.  E.,  68  6^,  86  50;  - 
Emmanuel  Chapel,  80  06 ;  —  Harlem  sab-sch,  10  48 :  —  Lud- 
low St.  sab-sch  Missionary  Society,  16;  —  West  End  (Y.  P. 
Asso..  5  48),  859  48.  J^ioi^ara-LyndonviUe,  10.  North  River 
— Millerton.  6  28;  Wappinger's  Creek,  88  68:  Westminster 
Y.P.&C.E.,8  88.  Oreego-Cherry  Valley,  64  97;  Ouilford 
Centre  (sab-sch,  8),  19  80;  Oneonta  (sabsch.  80),  90; 
Unadilla,  86  08;  Worcester.  4  16.  Aoc^eeter^DaiisvlUe, 
10:  FowlerviUe  (sab-sch,  88ots),  (Y.  P.  S  C  E.,  8  86), 
8  18;  Gates,  10  80;  Moscow,  4;  Rochester  Emmanuel, 
8  80;  Victor  1st,  88;  Wheatland,  14.  8t.  Lawrence-Can- 
ton 69;  Carthage  1st,  9  86;  Chaumont,  15;  Gouvemeur 
additlonal,5;  Ox  Bow,  87;  Watertown  1st  sab-sch,  81  60. 
Steii6en-Coming,  81  88:  HomeUsvUle  1st,  8  85;  Painted 
Post,  85.  ^^ocuee— BaldwinsviUe  1st,  87;  Canaatota  W. 
M.  S..  88  87;  Mexico  (sab-sch  Primary  Class,  6  54).  88  88: 
Otisco  and  Pastor.  10  85;  Hkaneateles.  10  89;  "  E.  W.  T^"^ 
6.  TVoy— Lansingburgh  Olivet,  8  56;  Mechaaioavllle  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  6;  Melrose  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18;  Halem  sab-sch, 

6  88;  Troy  8d  (sab-sch,  89),  157  08;  -  9th,  160;  —  Liberty 
8treet,  5;  —  Memorial  Y.  P  8.  a  E.,  5;  —  Second  Street, 
871  88;  —  Woodside  additional,  14  60;  Warrensbuigh, 
88  56;  Waterford,  16  06.  Utica-Uttie  Falls,  60:  Rome, 
18  10;  Sauquoit,  17  87;  Turin  sab-sch,  1  88;  Verona,  86  71. 
Westchester— QWesA.  18;  Hugenot  Memorial,  818;  Kato- 
nah  sab  scb,  48  07;  Peekskifi  1st  (sab  s<^  100^.  888  47; 
Yonkers  Ist  R  E.  P.,  75;  —  Westminster  Y.  P.  Becdeties, 

7  86;  Yorktown,  86.  16.466  09 
North  Dakota.— Bwmardfe—Mandan,  6  85.     Fargo^ 

Blanchard,  6;  Hillsboro  (sabsch,  8),  8;  Kelso  Three  Bojs. 
1.  19  85 

Ohio. —^^AeiM— Beverly,  9 ;  Logan.  40.  BelU\fontaine— 
Bellefontalne  Ist,  7  45:  Bucyrus,  8.  ChUHeothe—Ooo' 
cord,  6;  Salem  (sab-sch,  11  75),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5),  111; 
Washington.  11  14.  Cineinnati-Beitel  sab-sch,  1  96; 
Bond  Hill.  8;  Cincinnati  7th,  167  76;  —  Avondale,  78;  — 
Clifton,  11  66;  —  Poplar  Street,  80;  Loveland,  84  86; 
Pleasant  Ridge,  86  60f  Silverton,  4 ;  Springdale,  18.  Cleve- 
land— Cleveland  Beckwith,  88  76;  —  East  aeveland  1st, 
88  89.  Columtms  -Central  College,  7  50 ;  Columbus  Broad 
Street,  a  member.  15:  —  Westminster  (sab-sch,  8),  87  57. 
Dayton— Eaton,  12;  Hamilton  Westminister,  80.  Huron-- 
Chicago,  10;  Norwalk  Ist,  40.  Lima— Ada,  60;  Enon  Val- 
ley. 16^46;  Mount  Jefferson,  11;  Turtle  Creek  (sab  sch,  1), 
6;  Van  Buren,  10.  JfoAoning— Ellsworth  (sab*«ch,  16). 
1«;  Massillon8d,45  86;  Warren  sab-sch,  25.  MaHonr- 
Trenton,  10.  Jfaumee— I>eflance  1st,  24  56;  Delta.  8;  Rev. 
G.  Miller  "  Uthe,''  5.*  Portemout^-Ironton,  19;  RufseU- 
vine.  5  87.  St.  eia<revi/2e-Buffalo,  87  80;  Oab  Apple, 
88  68;  Martin's  Ferry  1st,  87  58;  OUve,  4.  Steubenvme- 
Buchanan  Chapel,  18;  Deersville,  5;  East  Liverpool  1st, 
158  68;  Island  Creek.  84;  Madison  (sab-sch,  5  70),  18  80; 
New  Cumberland  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  1;  Steubenville  1st, 
40  95;  Two  Ridges  Y.  P.  8,  C.  E..  10;  WellsviUe  West  End 
sab-sch.  1 8 18.  TTooeter-aear  Fork.  8;  Perrysville,  1  66; 
Savannah,  86  69;  Shreve  sab-sch,  8.  ZaneeviUe— Coshoc- 
ton. 89  51:  Dresden,  8;  Duncan's  Falls,  4  86;  Martins- 
burgh,  5;  Mt.  Pleasant,  8;  Newark  Salem  German.  1  66; 
Utica,  19  85.  1,616  99 

Oregon.— TTtUafnetto— Pleasant  Grove,  8  60.  8  60 

PKMM8TLVANiA.—^{leyAeny— Allegheny  McClure  Ave- 
nue (sab-sch,  16),  877  77;  Asphiwall  1st,  1  88:  Bakers- 
town,  10;  Beaver.  88;  Bellevue.  15  45;  Evans  City,  8; 
Glenfleld  5  67;  Glenshaw,  80;  Hiland,80;  Natrona  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,  5;  Plains,  4:  Rochester,  10;  Sharpsburgh.  61. 
BlairemUe.— Greensburgh,  90  48;  ~  Westminster.  48  87; 
Irwhi  sab-sch,  8  60;  Latrobe  (sab-sch.  15  55),  (Y.  P.  S.  a 
E..  4  80),  184;  Murrysville,  9;  Plum  Creek,  47  16;  Union, 
4  47.  Bu<ier-Martinsburgh  (sabsch,  6).  11.  Carlisle- 
Big  Spring,  71  81 ;  Gettysburgh,  95  85;  Harrisburgh  Olivet, 

8  15;  Monaghan,  86  50.  Chester  —  Ashmun.  86:  Birn 
Mawr sabsch, 58  86;  CTharlestown  sab-sch,  860;  Chester 
1st  sab-sch,  14;  Dilworihtown,  8;  Lansdowne  Ist,  88  88; 
Media  sab-sch,  18:  Oxford  1st,  187  56;  Wayne,  818  18; 
West  Chester  1  st,  45  90.  Clarion-  Beech  Woods  Pine  Grove 
Mission.  4;  Betheeda,  5;  Brockwayville,  10  60;  C9arion, 
85  16;  Johnsonburgh.  1  69;  Mill  Creek.  1  48;  Shfloh,  1  60; 
Wilcox,  8  56.  .ffrie-Bradford  (sab-sch,  26  80),  89  88;  Csm- 
bridge  sab-sch,  5:  Concord.  8  80;  Cool  Spring,  7;  TsU' 
field,  18;  FrankUn,  88  18:  Garland,  10;  Greenville  sab-sch, 
6  68;  MeadvUle  1st,  80;  Kill  Village,  8  80;  Mount  PlsMSBti 


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6  66;  PitUfleld,  9  10;  PleasaatYUle,  M;  Tideoute,  86; 
Titnsyflle  1st  89S  08.  £i«n«n0don— DuDcaBevUle,  11  60; 
LogansFiUe  Valley  (lab-sch,  7  86),  82;  Mifflintown  West- 
minster, 61  80;  Mount  Union  (sab-sch.  9  ^8),  40  78;  New- 
ton Hamilton  Y.  P.  S.  O.  E.,  4;  Petersburgh  (sab-scb,  6), 
12  08;  Sinking  Creek.  8;  WilUamsburgh  48  04.  Kittan- 
f»inj7— Freeport,  44  05;  Kittanning  Ist,  a  member,  260. 
Laciieoieanna— Brooklyn,  80;  Great  Bend.  7;  Honeedale 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  10;  Kingston  sab-sch,  20;  Langclifle.  80; 
Moosio,  14;  Nanticoke,  4;  Nicholson  (sab-sch,  2),  7; 
8cranton8d,267  4l;  Wilkes  Barre  1st  (sab-sch,  106  m, 
506  76;  —  Westminster  (Knights  of  Malta,  6),  21;  Rev.  H. 
H.  Wells,  D.D.,  26.  Lefttyfc  —  Easton  1st  Special,  60; 
Weatherly  sab-sch  C.  Day,  10.  NorthumherUi'nd—Tyerrj^ 
8  26;  Qreat  Island,  76;  Hartleton.  4;  Lycoming  Centre,  8; 
New  Columbia,  7;  WashingtonviUe,  6;  Williamsport  2d, 
188  06;  —  Bethany  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  2).  18.  Parherthurgh 
-Elizabeth,  1  42;  Hughes  River,  7  88.  PMiadelphia— 
Philadelphia  4th,  86  W:  ~  Calvary,  1,056,  86;  -  Cohock- 
sink  (Hecond  Street  Mission,  8  16),  (sab-sch,  9  06),  11  21 ; 
—  Gaston,  27;  —  Hebron  Memorial,  8  60;  —  McDowell 
Memorial,  24  66;  ~  OUvet,  187  78;  —  Oxford.  120  72;  — 
Tioga,  66;  —  Walnut  Street  sab-sch,  72  87;  —  West  Arch 
Street,  62  67;  -  WyUe  Memorial  additional,  6  25;  —  Zion, 
11  40.  Philadelphia  J\rorf A—Calvary,  10;  Manayunk  1st, 
50;  Mount  Airy,  81:  Neshamlny  of  Warminster,  10;  — 
Warwick,  86:  Newtown,  26  41;  Norristown  Central,  66  26. 
Pitt«6uraA— Bethany,  81;  Cliartiers,  16  60:  Crafton,  20  51; 
Forest  Qrove  (sab-sch.  4),  24;  tiebron,  84  46;  McKee's 
Rocks.  9;  Mansfield  1st,  80  61;  Mount  Carmel,  6;  Oak- 
dale,  67  SO:  Pittsburgh  1st.  1446;  —  4th  (sab-sch,  9  60). 
64  66;  —  6th,  162  12;  —  Bellefleld,  150;  -  East  Liberty, 
68  07:  —  McCandless  Avenue,  10;  — Mt.  Washington,  8  22; 
—Park  Avenue,  60:  —  Point  Breeze,  700;  Raccoon  (sab- 
seh,  ^1  84).  77  62;  West  Elizabeth,  6  60.  RetUtone-Con- 
nellsviUe,  128  70;  Laurel  Hill,  61  40;  McEeesport  Ist,  129; 
Old  Franae,  8;  Rehoboth  additional,  70  cts. :  Round  Hill, 
20,  Sftenanoo- Clarksrille  sab-sch.  14  61:  Little  Beaver 
sab-sch,  11;  New  Brighton  1st  (sab-sch,  26),  96  71;  New 
Castle  Ist.  28  92;  Westfleld,  162.  Waahington-Cl^yvsiiXe 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  24  60;  Forks  of  Wheeling.  110;  Hookstown, 
29;  Mount  Olivet,  4  65;  Wheeling  1st.  a  friend,  25;  —  8d. 
8.  We9tmin9ter—lje2ucoQ)L  Williamstown  sab-sch,  6  26; 
Middle  Octorara,  16.  9,872  76 

rtouTH  Dakota.— .<16er(i«eii—Britton  (sab-sch  Children 
Day,  81  08),  41  88;  Melette,  8  76;  Rondell,  2  60;  South 
Oafar,  1  §0.  Black  Hilis-Bethel,  6  60;  Elk  Creek,  8; 
Laveme,  4  60.  Central  Dakota- Bancroft,  2  67;  Man- 
chester, 8  81;  Woonsocket,  7.  Swtihem  Dakota— l>e\\ 
Rapids  (sab-sch,  6),  10:  Harmony,  6  67:  Scotland,  15; 
Sioux  Falls  (sab-sch,  8  52),  18  81;  Turner  Co.  1st  German, 
25.  146  44 

TBinaB88BB.—£ro2«f  on— College  Hill,  16;  Mount  Bethel, 
2;  »needville  Station,  1 ;  Timber  Ridge,  2.  Kingiton— 
Chattanooga  Park  Place,  5;  Huntsviile,  2;  Kismet,  2; 
Rockwood,  2;  Hpring  City.  4  66;  Wartburg.  8;  Welsh 
Union,  1 .  CTnion— Hopewell,  8;  KnoxviUe  Belle  Avenue 
(sab-sch,  1  60),  6  60.  60  16 

TKXA8.—.4iMfi«— Eagle  Pass,  6;  San  Antonio  Madison 
Square,  00  Nwrth  r^aros- Leonard,  20  26;  Seymour,  6. 
TWnity— Terrell,  60.  141  25 

Utah.— Boise— Bellevue,  8.  XJtahr-Box  Elder,  4  86; 
Oorlnne,  8  86.  16  70 

WASHiNOTON.—^Zasfea— Juneau  1st.  6.  02vmpta— Ta- 
coma  Calvary  Csab-sch  1  50).  18;  Rev.  M.  G  Mann,  2  50. 
Puoef  Sdund— Everett  1st,  12.  Spokane— Coeva^  d'Alene, 
6  56;  Rathdnim,  IS.  WaUa  TFoZJo-Johnson,  2;  Kend- 
rlck,  5.  67  06 

Wi8ooNsnf.—CA(ppe«u— Ashland  1st.  28  98.  La  Croese 
— NeUlsvllle,  8  88;  North  Bend,  16.  Ifaditon- JanesvUle, 
100;  Lodl  1st,  81  10;  Muscoda,  6.  Miltcaukee—miwAukee 
Calvary.  26  80.  TTinn^bapo— Buffalo,  20  06;  Crandon, 
6  82;  Florence  (sab-sch,  9  62),  17  29;  Fort  Howard.  6  76; 
Packwaukee,  lO  80;  Stevens  Point,  87  88;  Westfleld,  6; 
Winneoonne,  2  60.  818  90 

Woman  s  Executive  Conunittee  of  Home  Mis- 

■tona $24  868  08 

Total  received  from  Churches 9  76,017  20 


I^acy  of  Rev.  Ross  Stevenson,  late  of  Wash- 
ington Co.,  Pa..  476;  legacy  of  Alanson  Sheley, 
deo*d,lateof  Detroit, Mich., 2000 2,475  00 

lOSCELLAllKOUS. 

^'J^'Jin^^^  Haddonfleld,  N.  J.,  60;  Rev.  Meade 
0.  WUliams,  D.  D.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  25;  Louis 
5;  Fox,  600;  Mary  8.  Fox,  600:  Rev.  J.  P. 
imte  uid  wife,  10;  Mrs.  Medowl,  86  cts.; 
"H,"  Philadelphia,  10;  B.  F.  Felt,  Galena, 
lu.,  100;  Normal  and  Collegiate  Institute, 


A8hevme,N.C,14;  Edwin  A.  Ely.  N.  Y.,  10; 
A  Friend,  La  Porte,  Ind .  10;  "Unknown 
Friend,"  26;  John  M  Robe,  Ind.  Ter.,  20;  **  M. 
P.  G.,^'  2  60:  Mrs.  Emeline  Barker,  Homer, 
Mich.,  60;  Rev.  Henry  Morell,  Neuchatel, 
Kans.,  5;  Mrs.  C.  B.  Moore.  6;  Brooklyn 
Tompkins  Ave.  Congregational  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
6;  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Woodward,  10;  Jr.  Y. 
P.  8.  0.  E.  of  Burr  Oak,  Kans,  1  25;  M.  Man- 
waring,  N.  Y.  City,  2;  "On.  Friend,"  20; 
Thanksgiving  Gift  from  School  at  Hot 
Springs.  N.  C.,  10;  A  Thank  Offering  from 
St.  Louis,  50;  **  Christmas,''  6:  Rev.  H.  Kejg- 
win,  Orlando,  Fla..  10;  Mrs.  A.  Willett.  W. 
Granville,  N.  Y.,  20;  Rev.  R  Craighead,  D.D., 
Meadville,  Pa.,  100;  Miss  Tenbrook,  Phlla., 
6;  A  Friend,  26  cts. ;  A  Friend,  1 ;  A  Friend,  26 
cts;  A  Friend,  6  10;  An  Invalid's  Christmas 
Offering,  10;  A.  F.  Wilson,  Grimes,  Iowa.  10; 
Ex-HIgh  Private  U.  S.  A..  1  26;  Rev.  E.  D. 
Morris. D.D.,  Cincinnati. O.,  10;  "Edwin,"  16; 
**C.  Penna,"  14;  Mrs.  C.  A.  Taylor,  Ogden, 
111.,  10;  Neri  Ogden,  Oskaloosa,  la..  8  60:  Jas. 
Leishman,  N.  Y.,  1;  "Cash,"  10;  Rev.  H.  T. 
SchoU,  Big  Flats.  N.  Y.,  2;  Rev.  D.  A.  Wal- 
lace.Pontiac,  Dl.,  8  10;  Wm.  C.  Martin  Print- 
ing House,  76;  Rev.  Samuel  Ward,  Emporia, 
Kans.,  2;  James  Leishman,  N.  Y.,  2:  ** Itha- 
ca," 826;  Wm.  Bums.  Lansingburg,  N.  Y.. 
125;  F.  and  F.,  6;  Rev.  D.  E.  FIdIch  Christmas 
Offering,  26;  "Jennie's  School."  N.  Y.,  6; 
Rev.  John  Kelly  and  wife,  2;  John  8.  Lyle, 
N.  Y..  2.500;  "H.  M."  Newark,  N.  J^  add'l, 
100;  Rev.  E.  P.  Willard.  Cayuga,  N.  Y.,  7  60; 
Miss  Rebecca  Rowland.  Taos,  N.  M  ,  6; 
Robert  Walker,  Clinton,  HI.,  10;  Miss  J.  E. 
Hoge,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  6;  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Find- 
ley,  Altoona,  Pa.,  80;  Sale  of  Leaflets.  6; 
For  the  Work  of  Home  Missions.  12;  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Hill,  Rochester,  N.  Y.. 
11  50;  Rev.  P.  G.  and  Mrs.  C.  E  Cook, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  10;  Mrs.  W.  D.  McNair,  Dans- 
viUe,  N.  Y.,  2  60;  "K.  Pa,"  100;  Interest  on 
Permanent  Fund  (Specialt  226).  8l2  60;  Inter- 
est on  John  C.  Green  Fund,  2Q6;  Interest  on 
Carson  W.  Adams  Fund,  161  26;  Interest  on 
Lyon  Trust,  250 .*. 6,422  60 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  December 
1893. 9  84,916  00 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions  from  April  1, 
1898 857,928  84 

Amount  received  during  same  period  past  year  614,964  60 

DSOREASB  OF  RkOBIPTS  FOB  NiME  MONTHS 167,041   16 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer, 
Box  L.,  Station  D.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOR  NEW  YORK  SYNODICAL  AID  FUND, 
DECEMBER,  1898. 

Brooklyn— Brookljn  Prospect  Heights,  20;  ~  Duryea, 
15.  BMj(fo/o— Buffalo  Covenant,  4.  Cayvoct— Aurora, 
14  19:  Fairhaven,  8.  CoZumbta- Durham,  2  27.  Qene- 
«ee- Bergen  Ist  CongU,  8  09.  Hudton-Qood  Will,  88 
cts. ;  WaAingtonvlUe  1st,  20.  New  ForJfc— N.  Y.  Brick,  228. 
j^ioyam— Youngstown,  2  60;  HoUey  1st,  9  44.  North 
iJt'vcr— Cold  Spring.  20.  0^«epo- Westford.  8.  Rochea- 
fer— Rochester  Emmanuel,  66  cts.  St.  Laiorence— 
Chaumont,  10.  ^tetiden^Hammondsport,  6:  Coming 
1st,  81  cts.  Troy- Troy  2d,  64  b7;  Troy  Liberty  Street, 
6:  Waterford  1st,  8  01  CTttco— Holland  Patent.  16.  Weat- 
chetttr—HtBmtoTd  1st,  88  14;  Hugenot  Memorial.  9; 
Mahepac  Falls.  8  26;  Rye,  50. 
Total  fromchim;hes 666  66 


MISOELLANKOUS 

Mrs.  Anna  Sanderson,  Potsdam,  N.  Y. 


600 


Total  received  for  New  York  Synodical  Aid 
Fund,  December,  1898 660  66 

Total  received  for  New  York  Synodical  Aid 
Fund  from  April  1, 1898 4,716  78 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treaeurer, 
Box  L,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


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Susientation — Ministerial  Belief. 


{Marchj 


RECEIPTS  F0BSU8TENTATI0N,  DECEMBER,  ISM. 

CoLOBADo.— Pottlder— Valmont,  8  cU.    Pu«Mo— Monte 

VItta,8a&.  8S8 

lLLiN0i8.->C%ica90— Lake  View  l>t,  96  76.    Frtepori— 

WioDebaf^>,  8.     ^orinafMd—'Rev,  w.   L.  Tarbet  and 

wife,40ct8.  88  16 

Kansab.— J^eoffto— YatAs  Centre,  IS  10.  19  10 

MioBieAN.— J#onro«— Tecumieh,  11.  11  00 

Missouri.— JTanMM  CV<y— Kansas  City  1st.  96.        86  00 

Nkbbaska.— £eam«y-<>ntral  City,  o.    Ifebraika  City 


—Hebron  1st,  7  68.  19  66 

OBMaon,^wmainette—QBlem  1st,  7;  Pleasant  GrnTe, 

1.  8  00 


Total  receiTod  for  Sustentation,  December, 
1808 U809 

Total  received  for  Susteotation  from  April  1, 

1888 10,68880 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Tretuurer, 

Box  L,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


BXOMlfTS  FOB  MIMIIITBSIAK.  KKLIKF,  DBCEaiBER,  ISM. 


ATLAMTia— ^<r>leld— Mt.   OUvet,   1;    Mt.   Tabor,  1. 

BALTiMoiui.—SaltJinore— Annapolis,  7  84:  Baltimore 
Boundary  Avenue  sab-sch  Miss.  8oc>,  1  68;  Highland,  8. 
New  Ckutle-Qnen  Hill,  6  60;  St.  George's,  4  88;  Wil- 
mington Olivet,  6;  Wcuhinuton  City-Le^insviUe,  6; 
Vienna,  6;  Washington  City  1st,  8  85;  —  4th  add'l.  It  — 
Metropolitan,  60.  07  00 

CALiroRNiA.— Lot  ^nyetos— Alliambra,  10;  Carpen- 
teria,  16  95;  Los  Angeles  1st,  66;  Pasadena  Calvary,  6. 
StocJb<on-Bethel,  4.  01  96 

Catawba.— Catav&a— Poplar  Tent,  1.  1 

Colorado.— Soulder— Cheyenne,  6;  Valmont,  97  cts. 

6  97 

Illinois.— iU^oii'— Chester.  7;  Jersey ville,  8;  Sparta, 

7  88.  BIoom<7Krton-Bloomington  1st,  95  85;  Uoopeston, 
6  50;  Normal  5  40.  Cairo— Flora,  8  50.  Chtcago— 
Austin,  6  60;  Chicago  6th,  60  97;  -  8th,  107  11:  —  Cen- 
tral Park,  16:  —  Jefferson  Park,  87  50;  Oak  Park,  11. 
Fre'^port—OMetkA  South.  64  05.  l#a<foon— Pleasant 
Prairie,  7  80;  Shelbyville,  lo;  Vandalia,  8.  Peoria— 
Eureka,  19;  Knoxviile,  7  67.  Bock  i?tfrer— Fulton,  10. 
ScA«yI«r— Appanoose,  5;  Chili,  1  46;  Elrkwood,  4  50; 
Plymouth,  9  05.  449  70 

IiiDiANA.—CWiio/or(i«otZ{e— Dayton,  15;  Rock  ville  Me- 
morial, 1  94.  Fort  W^ayne— Warsaw.  0.  Loaansport— 
Ooodlaod.  8  45.  New  ^I/>any— Jeffersonvllle,  96  70. 
White  VTater —Connersville  German,  8  69  80 

iMDiAif  Territory.— OfciaAomo—Purcell,  10.  10  00 

Iowa.— Cedor  Bapid»—IAnn  Grove,  5;  Wyoming,  5. 
Comtni;— Clarinda,  91  85.  Des  i/omtf«— Ridgedale,  7. 
Du6u9u«— Lansing  German,  9.  /oica— Morning  Sun, 
18  85.  Sioux  City— Lyon  Co.  German,  15.  Waterloo— 
Waterloo  (sab-sch,  5  04),  (Y.  P.  &  C.  £.,  91  cts),  98  81. 

09  61 

Kansas.— l^norio— Marion,  90;  Peotone,  9.  Bightand 
—Washington,  1  60.  JVeo«^— Geneva,  9.  Ibpefco- Wa- 
ksrusa.  8.  98  60 

KaNTUOKT.—.S&en€«er— Covington  1st,  80;  Lexington 
9d,  180;  Ludlow,  8  90.  Lau»«vt7/«— Louisville  College 
Street,  14  08.    !7Van«y<vant'a— Lancaster,  10  40.       907  88 

BIicraoAH.-Defmff— Detroit  1st,  07  48.  F/mf— Gaines, 
9.  ifonroe— Adrian,  97  80.  ^Sayinau^— Saginaw  Imman- 
uel.  7.  184  98 

MtNNBSOTA.—Jfanfeaio— Winnebago  City.  A.  6  00 

Missouri.— ITtftucw  C*i^- Kansas  City  5th,  96.  PfU- 
mvra— New  Providence,  4  95.  Pla<e«— Mound  City,  18. 
St.  Z>uiJt— Kirkwood.  88  70;  St.  Louis  9d,  980;  —  Caron- 
delet.  9  95;  —  Clifton  Heights.  8:  —  Memorial  Taber^ 
nacle,  5;  —  West,  40  45;  White  Water.  1  50.  490  16 

NBBRASKA.—ITearney— Buffalo  Grove  German,  5;  Cen- 
tral City,  6;  Salem  G«*rman,  8.  Nebraska  Ct/y— Table 
Rock.  6  94.    OmoAo— Omaha  let  German,  5.  94  94 

New  Jbrbby  — JfbnmoutA— Lakewood.  07  10.  Morris 
and  Orange -KAst  Orange  Brick  (88  96  from  sab-sch. 
for  Ministers  House  at  Perth  Amboy),  949  66:  Madison, 
10  44;  MorriMtown  1st,  76  45;  Orange  let,  84K):  South 
Orange  Trinity  additional,  5.  ^'etrarfc— Bloomfleld  Ist, 
129  58;  Newark  5th  Avenue,  96;  —  Park,  8  06;  —  Wick- 
lifTe,  18  87.  New  ^rwnttotcfc-Flcmlngton,  84  78:  Prince- 
ton 1st.  98  51.  iVtffo/cm— Braochville,  91;  Oxford  2d,  11 16. 
Weai  J«^«ci^— Haddonfleld.  16.  1,146  SO 

Nbw  Mmucc-jBto  <?rand«- Albuquerque  Ist.  91.    91  00 

Nbw  York —^i^nw- Albany  2cl,  110  20;  Eraerance, 
96.  ^twyfcamfon— Babbridge.  5.  IfrooAiyn- Brooklyn 
Classon  Avenue,  60  88;  —  Duryea.  91 ;  —  Trinity,  8.  Buf- 
falo—Buttalo  Covenant,  4;  —  North.  60  16.  Cayuga— 
Auburn  2d,  11  77;  Aurora.  14  19.     Columbia— Ashland, 

8  08.  (?€n»iee- Bergen,  28  88;  Warsaw,  18.  Hvdaon— 
Good  Will,  9  07:  Stony  Point.  15  15;  White  Lak*  Bethel. 
6  60.  Long  Jjtond— Amagansett.  6  86;  Greenport.  8; 
Moriches,  9  87;  West  Hampton,  80  9-.  Lyon<— New- 
ark sab-sch,  46  68;  Wolcott  Ist,  5  46.  Nu«fau— 
Springfield,  4.  New  York — New  York  4th,  98'J  66 ; 
—  Madison  Avenue,  05  45;  —  West  Farms.  5.  Niag- 
ara—Uol\ey,  18  16.  North  iWrer— Canterbury,  19  91; 
Cornwall  on  Hudson,  7  81.  Ofaepo -Unadilla.  7  9«.  Bo- 
c/iester- Rochester  8d,  87  79;    —  Emmanuel,   88  cts.; 


Sparta  1st,  89.  8t.  Lawrence— Tote/dun,  16.  Steuben— 
Addison.  16"  71 :  Coming,  7  81 ;  HanunondJaport,  8.  Syra- 
eiwe— Cazenovia,  84  07;  Skaneateles,  10  97.  Troy-  Glens 
Falls,  119  95;  Lansingburgh  1st,  65  54;  Troy  Otb,  40; 
Waterford  Ist  8  01.  C7tica— Clinton,  15;  Rome.  98  71; 
Verona,  6  89.  Vre«tcAe«<«r-Peekskill9d,  11  11;  Yonkers. 
1st.  78  60.  1,874  86 

Omo  —Athene— AihmB^  19  66;  Beverly,  8:  Pomeroy.  9. 
BeUe/onfoine-BeUefontaine,  9  94:  Gallon,  8  50;  Urbsna, 

94  56.  ChilUcothe — Bloomlngburgh.  5.  Ctncinnttti— 
Bethel  sab-sch,  1  77;  HartweD.  5;  Monroe,  9;  Montgom- 
ery. 14  60;  New  Richmond.  4:  Silverton,  5  Cleveland— 
Cleveland  9d,  10;  —  Beckwith,  11  95;  East  Cleveland, 
11  09.  Hvron— Melmore,  1  80.  JfaAonino— C14rkson, 
4  80.  ifawmee -Bowling  Green,  19  58.  Porimnovth— 
Eckmaasville,  6  80;  Ironton,  18.  St.  Clair«t^/fe— Buffalo. 
18;  Nottingham,  19  60.  Steubenville-OoTixxth.  8;  Island 
Creek,  5.  ITootter— Congress,  2  86:  Creeton,  5  68; 
Wiurne,  4  75;  West  Salem,  9;  Wooeter  1st  (sab-sch,  5  OP), 
48  90  2:dne«vi/2e— Duncan's  Falls,  60  cto.;  Newark  Sar 
lem  German,  9  71 ;  New  Lexington,  1  40;  Roseville,  5  90: 
Unlontowa,  9  98.  278  66 

OKsaov.— Southern  Orepof^— Medford,  6.  WiUametie 
—Salem.  8.  18  00 

Pkhmsylvania.— ^l/epAenif— Bakerstown,  6  85:  Cross 
Roads,  4;  Emsworth.  18  87:  Evans  City.  8;  Rochester. 
9  96;  Shairpsburgh  (Mrs.  C  E.  Turner.  10),  91  66:  Spring- 
dale,  6.  .&to<r«vi7fo-Greensburgh  Ist,  55  86;  Kerr,  I; 
MunysviUe,  8;  Union.  8  60.  Bu^<er- Centreville,  5:  Mar^ 
tinsburgh.  5:  North  Liberty,  9  16.    Carli»le—B\%  Spring, 

95  59:  Harrisburgh  Pine  Street,  441  70;  Meroersburgh,  4. 
CA««^er— Bethany,  8;  Dilworthtown,  1:  Great  Valley.  10; 
Lansdowne  1st,  88  89;  Oxford  1st,  50  86;  Pennlngtonville, 
10:  West  Chester  1st,  45  17.  Clarum- Brookvifie,  -15  06; 
Edenburgh.  18:  Johnsonburg  46  cts.:  Shiloh.  9:  Wilcox, 
74  cU.  EHe-'E.T\e  Park,  80;  GreenviUe  sab-sch,  7  76; 
Sugar  Creek.  8;  Titusville  Ist,  49  88  fiufif  J9i(^lon— HoIIi- 
daysburgh  (sab-sch.  4  88),  80  68;  Tyrone.  59  80;  Williams- 
burgh,  94  69.  Kitianning  —  Apollo.  18;  Boiling  Spring.  9; 
Hmicksburg.  9.  Lackawanna— Athens,  98;  Honesdale 
sab-sch,  6;  Monroeton,  6;  Scranton  9d.  114  18:  —  Wash- 
bum  Street,  81  87:  Susquehanna,  9.  Le^t'oA— Bethlehem 
1st,  19  10;  Pottsville  2d,  0.  Aor/Atim^erfotttf— Buffalo.  5: 
Williamsport  9d,  8.  i%ito</^ZpAto— Philadelphia  (^vary 
additional.  50;  —  EvangeL  18.  Philadelphia  North-He- 
shatniny  of  Warwick.  9t  04;  Norristown  Central,  r9  76; 
Pottstown  1st  (sab-sch,  8  49),  19  84.  PitMmroft- Beth- 
any, 19  5^;  Bethel,  80;  Chartiers,  4  50;  Oafton,  5  41; 
Forest  Grove  (Ladies  Association),  4  50:  Mount  Carmel. 
8;  Oakmont  1st,  10;  Pittsburg  Bellefleld.  54;  -  East 
Liberty,  81  58:  —  Mt.  Washington.  4  80:  —  Park  Avenue, 
99  50.  Aedf^one— Pleasant  Unity,  8.  S^enancfo- Lit  tie 
Beaver,  9  86;  Mount  Pleasant,  10;  New  Castle  Ist,  99  88: 
Sharpevllle.  4.  Washingtovr-Three  Springs,  2.  We*t- 
m<nsfer— Chestnut  Level  additional,  10;  Marietta.  17. 

1,607  44 

South   Dakota.— Cen^rot    I>aA  of  a— Brookings,  6  OP. 

DaXeota— Poplar  Creek,  8  87.  0  46 

TknKxssbb.— C7nton— Caledonia,  8;    New    Salem,  1: 

Spring  Place,  9.  5 

TBXA8.—!ZWnt7y— Albany,    11  75;     Dallas    9d,    4  45. 

16  90 
Washikoton.— OJ^mpto— Olympia.  8.  8 

WisooNsiK  — J#a/i<«on— Baraboo,  14  69:  Beloit  1st.  866; 
Prairie  du  Hac  sab-sch,  1  50.  i#aiMitiJkee- Cambridge 
and  Oakland  Ladies*  Miss.  Soc'y.  5:  Oostburg.  6;  Wau- 
kesha, 14  68.    Trtnn«6a0O— Florence,  8  80.  68  11 


From  the  churches  and  Sabbath-  schools $   6,814  47 

FROM  INDIVIDUALS. 

"Thank  offering,"  Washington,  Pa.,  10;  Rev. 
C.  C.  Carr,  Horseheads,  N.  Y.,  6:  Mrs.  M.  A. 
CUirgen,  (Cambridge.  Wis.  5;  Mrs.  Jennie 
Keefer,  Phila.,  5;  ^*  For  some  of  Gtod's  needy 
ones.''  Phila.,  80;  "Katie's.  Allen's  and  their 
mother's  gift,"  6j  R.  M.  Olyphant,  N,  Y.,  50; 


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Ik,  6;  Rer.  J. 
tithe,  8;  Joe- 
.  N.  Y.,  60; 
E^  2  50;  Rev. 
o,  N.  Y..  6; 
:tOD,  D.  P..  5; 
A  H.  Soofleld, 
k  McPheraon, 
.  BairiDgton, 
F{.  Oill.  Lock, 
bandlenville, 
L  Matthews, 
H.  FlemlDir, 
[*a.,'*2  65;**a 
>et  and  wife, 

.  xa.  r.  Scholl,  Big 

Flats,  N.  Ym  1 ;  Rev.  D.  A.  Wallace,  Pontiac, 
UL,  OOcts.;  AnoDymous,  Phila.,  &;  Mrs.  R. 


I    -tV  VMS.  , 


8.  Marsh,  West  Carlisle,  Mich.,  5;  **£.,  Pa.,'' 

«00;  "Newton,  N.  J.."  80.... 9      M4  45 

Interest  from  the  Permanent  Fund 4,406  04 

For  the  Current  Fund 9  11,856  96 

PBRMANBMT  FUND. 

iInier€Bi  only  tiiied.) 

Legacy    of  James  H.   Kellogg,    Rochester, 
N.  Y. 9    1,00000 

Total  for  December,  1803 912,856  00 

Total  for  the  current  fund  since  April  1, 1808.  .$  05,^07  07 
i«    ..    tame  period  last  year 9105,870  87 

W,  W.  Hebbbton.  Trtiuwrer. 


BECmPTS  FOR  SABBATH-SCHOaL  WOBK,  DEOSMBEB,  1808. 

BAvnu.oKm.—Wcukington  CVty— Washington  City  1st, 

5  60.  *  '^W 
CALiroBHiA.— £enicia~Port  Kenjon  sab-sch,  4 10.  San 

Jb«<$— 8anta  Cruz,  4.    Stocik/OA— Bethel,  4.  18  10 

CATAWBA.->Catot0ba— Matthew's  Chapel  sab-sch.  8. 
FduUrin— Winston,  5.  8  00 

Colorado.— fiouider—Valmont,  0  cts.  .00 

Illinois.— SJoominyton— Oilman  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  6. 
Ca<ro— Carbondale,  7  78;  CartenriUe  sab-sch,  S  10;  Cent 
raUa  sab-sch,  10;  Metropolis.  8  11;  Odin,  ]0.  Chicaa<y— 
Brookline  Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  5;  Chicago  8d  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  10; 
—  7th,  8:  Oak  Park,  87.    irottoo»-8helbvville  sab-sch, 

6  06.  Ottatoa-kxx  Sable  Qrove,  7  80.  PeoWa— Knox- 
viUe,  4  40.  5cA«yI«r— Kirk  wood,  1  50;  Macomb  C.  E  B.. 
10.    Sprtn^yi^U- Pleasant  Plains,  4.  1S5  SO 

lNDLiNA.~Craii7/or(i«vtU0— Ladoga,  8;  Lafayette  1st, 
5  40;  Rockville,  41  cts.  7n/f»anapo{i«— CarpencersviUe,  1. 
iVeio  u4<^ny— JefTersonville,  11  58;  Lexington  sab-ech,  1. 

Indian  TxRRrroRT.—CAoctoio— Atoka  sab-sch,  6.  Okla^ 
AonMi— McKinley  ssb-sch,  9.  7  00 

Iowa.— C«rfar  ffapM«— Olarence,  4.  Corning— Ham- 
burg sab-sch,  1  87;  Sidney  rsab-sch.  5).  10.  Council 
^2u#«— Oriswold,  4  61.  De9  J#o<ne«— Grimes  8  65;  Rus- 
sell sab  sch,  %  07.  Dudu^u^- Lansing  Ist.  5  80.  Iowa 
City-We^t  Branch.  «  11.  ,8ioux  City- Ida  Qrove,  7. 
ITafertoo— Janesville,  6  20.  51  71 

Kansas —ffmporia— Emporia  2d  sab-sch.  8;  Mulvane 
sab-sch,  11  82.  Lam«d- Lyons  sab-sch,  10  20.  Neoifio-^ 
Independence  sab  sch,  10  05.     iSfotomon— Bcantia,  2  26. 

88  81 

Kkntuokt. — L<mi«v<Ue— LouisviUe  College  Street,  1 6  76 ; 
South  CarroUton  sab-sch,  1  07.  17  88 

Michigan.— Z>etroif  -  Detroit  Jefferson  Avenue,  80; 
Milan  sab-sch,  2  50;  Mount  Clemens  sab-sch,  1 10.  Orand 
/Zapid«— Grand  Baven  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6.  Kalamazoo— 
Richland  sab-sch,  6  10.  Lake  Superior—Ford  River  sab- 
sch.  1  18.    4/onroe— Tecumseh,  21.  67  07 

MiNNKfiOTA.— Z>u{ii/A— Duluih  Ist,  21  80.  St.  Cloud— 
8t.  Cloud  sab-sch,  10  11.    TFinona— Woodbury  sab-pch, 

1  78.  88  28 
Missouri— £dn«a«  Ct7y— Malta   Bend   sab-sch,  5  00. 

Palmyra— Vew  Providence  sab-sch.  7  80.  Piaffe -Mound 
City  (sab  sch,  6  50).  10  00.  St.  Louis-Ht.  Louis  Ist, 
82  28:  —  Clifton  Heights  2  A5.  67  88 

Nebraska.— JTeamej/'— Buffalo  Grove  German,  8  00; 
Central  City  8  00:  Shelton  sab-nch,  1  50.  7  60 

Nrw  JmMKY.—EUtiibeth-EliTAbethlnt,  88  40:  Plain- 
field  1st.  2i  20.  Monmou f/i—Belmar,  6.  Morris  and 
Orange— East  Orange  Brick,  78  80:  Madison,  8  4R.  New^ 
orik— Newark  Calvarv.  00  c  s.;  —  Park.  2  72:  —  Roseville 
sab-sch  50:  —  \%  ickllffe,7  84.  New  Brunwimrk—'Prinoeton 
1st,  16  00;  Trenton  4th.  82  85.  A>frfnn- Oxford  Kd,  8  72. 
Weet  Jersev-Cedarville  Osbom  Memorial  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.. 

7  50;  Glassboro  sab-sch,  1 ;  Woodbury.  17  18.  280  08 
New    Ifxxioo.— i?^o    (7rande>  Albuquerque    1st,    20. 

20 
New  YoRX.—./426any— Albany  2d,  88.  Boston— Antrim, 
11;  Windham  s&bsch,  6.  BrooMyn— Brooklyn  Classen 
Av«>nue  20;  —  Lafayette  Avenue  sab-i«ch.  50.  Buffalo— 
Buffalo  Covenant.  8;  Sherman  sab  i>ch,  4  10.  Cayuga— 
Auburn  Central,  11  15:    Aurora,  10  14;    Scipio  sabsch, 

2  R7.  Httd«on— Good  Will.  00  cts.;  Middletown  8d  sab- 
sch  SO  18.  Long  Tiiland-Greenport.  2:  Mattituck. 
21  20:  Moriches,  8  12:  Routhampton.  20  67.  yassau— 
Springfield.  5.  JVew  Forfc- New  York  18th  street.  100:  — 
west  Farms  sab-sch.  20.  North  i^iver— Marlborough, 
24  80.  OtM0o— Richfield  Springs,  25  80.  •  Rochester— 
Clarkson  sab-sch,  1  47:  Rochester  Emmanuel,  88  cts. 
St.  IiatArence -Osweiratchie  2d,.  8  68.  Sf«u6en— Com- 
ing, 2  4i;   Hammondsport,  6.    5j/racii««— Syracuse  4tb 


Wisconsin.— CA^ppeioa- Bad  win  sabsch,  4  S8.  La 
CrocM— Galesville  church  and  sabsoh,  0  22.  liilvau- 
ikee— Ooetburg,  4.  17  45 

Total  from  Churches.  December.  1808 9  1,856  50 

Total  from  Sabbath-schools,  December,  1803..        864  86 

Total   from    Churches   and    Sabbath-schools, 
De<5ember,  1808 9  2.S»1  45 

miscellaneous. 

Gillespie  Enloe,  Fla.,  10;  E.  M.  EUis,  Montana, 
2  40:  D.  N.  Good,  Iowa,  1  01 ;  E.  H.  Grant, 
South  Dakota.  8  50:  W.  U.  Long.  N.  C,  2  08: 
George  Perry,  S.  D..  4;  W.  A  Yancey.  Vlr- 
ginla,  2:  Houth  Omaha  Bohemian  siib-sch. 
Neb,  2  20;  M.  A  SUme  Ills.,  1;  J.  F.  Rt^ord. 
Minn.,  2  60;  C.  K.  Powell,  Neb.,  4  U5:  Johnson 
Union  sab-sch.  Minn.,  1  86;  H.  B.  Wilson,  Ga , 
1  52;  J.  G.  Harris,  Va .  S:  WsU  Lake  sab-sch, 
Iowa  ,  2  81 ;  Frankfort  Centre  sab-sch  Iowa, 
1  25;  C.  H.  Colehaugh,  Hamburg.  Iowa.  A; 
John  Redpath,  Mich..  2:  Richard  Mayers, 
South  Carolina.  0  61;  Hopewell  sab-sch,  In- 
diana, 2  40;  Berwyn  sab  sen.  Neb  ,  2  68:  Inter- 
est on  bank  balances.  448  80:  Hayts'  Corners, 
N.  Y.,  8  50;  James  Mc  3ormick,  Harrisburg, 
Pa.,  100:  "A  Friend,**  1;  "A  Friend."  ft;  "A 
Friend.**  100:  Mrs.  H.  Blankeomeyer  and 
Class,  ft;  O.  M.  Brownson,  Evart.  Mien.,  1;  In- 
terest from  Trustees  1.484:  N.  Ogden  Oska- 
loosa,  Iowa,  80  cts. ;  J.  W.  Hollenback,  Wilkes- 
barre.  Pa.,  100:  Samuel  W.  Brown.  Manayunk,  • 
Phlla  .  800:  "F.  &  F  .**  1:  J.  H.  Winters  Day- 
ton,  Ohio,  50:  Oxford  sab-sch,  N.  C.  2;  »-usan 
P.  Brown,  Princeton,  N.  J.,  20;  Peck  sab-ttcb, 


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Miob.,  S:  W.  Scott,  Kearner,  Neb.,  S;  Han- 
over College  SeoJor  Claae,  HanoTer,  Indiana, 
8  07:  James  Begfr,  Rochester,  Wash.,  4;  T. 
W.  Synnott,  Qlassboro,  N.  J.,  600;  Ooffeyvilte, 
sab*sch.  KaB8.,S6cts.:  *'C.  Penoa./M:  Rev. 
W.  L.  Tarb^t  and  wife,  Sprinirfleld.  IlL,  60 
cU.;  Rev.  H.  I.  Scholl.  Big  Flats,  N.  T.,  1; 
Rev.  D.  A.  Wallace,  Pontiac,  111.,  80  cts.: 
Summit  fab-sch,  Mq.,  8 9  8,S<7  19 


Total  amount  of  receipts,  December,  1808 9  S«4i6  64 

Amount  prerioaslT  acknowledged 76,188  71 

Amount  recelTed  since  Aprfl  1, 1898. 981(697  85 

0.  T.  McMuLUN,  TVeosttrcr, 
1884  Chestnut  St..  Phila.,  Pa. 


OONTBIBUTIONS  FOR  STNODIOAI.  HOBfE  1IIS8IONB  WITHIN  THE  tfTNOD   OF 
FROM  OCTOBER  1»  1893,  TO  JANUARY  1.  1894. 


HEW  JERSEY 


JRisodetA— Basking  Ridge,  66;  Metuchen,  47  80;  Phick- 
emin,  85;  Springfield,  27.  166  80 

Jeney  Ciiy—Jenej  Cltr  1st,  61  90:  Jersey  City  West* 
minster.  10  28;  Pateraon  1st,  94  06;  West  MUford,  80. 

195  18 

ifonmou/A'Asbury  Park  Westminster,  85.  85  00 

Morri9  and   Orange-Boonion.   41  10:    East    Orange 
Brick,  115;  Mendham  1st,  60;  Scbooley's  Mountain,  90. 


^(Stmirl;— Bioomfleld  Westminster,  100:  Moatclair  1st, 
44:  Newark  1st,  880;  —  Calvary,  18  15;  —  South  Park, 
148  05.  579  80 


New  BrunMoicXc— Bound  Brook,  85;  Princeton  1st,  18  84; 
Trenton  1st,  26  69.  80  58 

i^TetotoH— Danville,  8  70;  Hardyston,  North,  at  Ham- 
burg, 15.  18  70 

WeMt  Jer»«y- Atlantic  Citv  1st,  18:  Bridgeton  West,  60; 
Hammonton.  71  cents;  Jericho,  8  80;  Salem,  50;  Wood- 
bury, 86  68;  Woodstown,  10.  158  14 


886  10      Received  in  three  months 91*448  65 


Elior  Ewiho  Qrbbn,  TVeosttrer, 
P.  O.  Box  188.  Trenton.  N.  J. 


STATEMENT  OF  RECEIPTS  TO  BTNODIOAL  SUSTENTATION  FUND  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  PENN- 
STLYANIA  FROM  OCTOBER  1,  1808,  TO  DECEMBER  31,  1808. 


^U«0Aeiiy-> Allegheny  8d,  6  81;  Avakm,  8;  Emsworth, 
80  «8;  Qlenshaw,  11  75;Sewickly,  80  75;  Tarentum,  17  89; 
Olenshaw  sab-scfa,  1  48. 

Blair gviUe-'BtvUiah  sab*sch,  9;  Conemaugh,  4:  Irwin, 
11  41:  Kerr,  5  10;  Livermore.  8  60;  McGinnls,  5;  Poke 
Run.  60. 

Sii/I^r— Harlansburg,  5:  PortersviHe.  7. 

0^W£«2e— Buffalo  84;  Carlisle  8d.  8  85:  Dauphin  1st,  8; 
Dickinson.  5;  Landishurg .  89;  Landisburg  Centre,  88; 
Lebanon  4th  Rtreet  65  56:  Monsghan.  7. 

C^««f^r— Avondale.4  19:  Asbmun,  10:  Lansdowne  1st, 
17  06:  Middletown.  15:  Nottingham,  7  85;  Rutledge  Cal- 
vary, 14  96;  West  Grove.  40  cts. 

CZnrum— Academia.  7  70?  Brook ville,  88  84:  Clarion, 
90  50:  DuBoIs  X6  75:  Edeoburgh.  45;  Green  ville.  10  14; 
Licking.  81:  Mill  Creek.  8  74;  Mt  Pleasant.  8:  Maysville, 
8  19:  N«>w  Rehoboth.  8  09:  Oak  Grove.  11:  Rockland  6; 
Sligo.  11:  Rhilob.  7:  Emlenton.  18  07;  PenflHd,  6. 

i^/e>Cambridre.  10;  Erie  Park,  84  50;  Mt.  Pleasant, 
*4  91 :  Greenville  fwb-sch  7  88. 

JT'tfanw/na- Cherry  Tr«»e  7:  Elder's  Ridge.  18  46; 
Brader*s  Grove.  50  cts.;  Smicksburg,  8  18;  Tunnelton,  8; 
Washington.  9. 

LorXrvTfrofm a— Ashley,  81  18:  Ararat  5;  Atb«>ns.  10; 
Dunmnre.  7  10;  Gibson.  8;  Greenwood,  7;  Honesdale  Ist, 
61  01:  Hawley  1st.  1i;  Mt.  PlCAsant  5:  Monro«ton.  10; 
Nicholson.  4:  Pittston  Ist.  81  80:  Troy,  14  W:  Wilkes- 
barre  Westminster,  18:  Wilkesbarre  Memorial.  85; 
Brooklyn  4:  Rwyre  1st.  1  77:  Pittston  1st  sab-sch.  16  76; 
St  Alia,  4  68;  Pcranton,  German  of  Petersburg,  10;  Nanti- 
ooke.  8 

L^A/(7A-Allentown  1st  85  81 ;  Easton  Bralnerd,  175; 
Hokendauqua  1st.  7  60:  Hasleton  Ist.  })9:  Mahanoy  City, 
10  06:  Pitttsville  ^d.  45:  Resding  Waohington  Street,  10; 
Honth  Easton  1st.  85:  South  Bethlehem  let,  80;  Hoken- 
dauqua sab-sch.  5  74;  —  Y.  P.  a  C.  E  .  1  la 


iVdr<Aitiia>eWaiui— Berwick.  80;  Buifslo,  8  45;  Elys- 
burg,  11;  MUton.  10  48;  Montoursville,  10  88;  Mountain, 
8;  Renovo.  9:  Rush,  10:  Sunbury  1st.  88;  Trout  Run,  5. 

Pkiladelphifi—AMctJi  1st,  5;  Bethlehem,  10:  Gaston. 
89  45;  Philadelphia  8d,  156  11;  -  4th,  17  68:  ~  South.  10. 

Philadelphia  iVort^- Bridesburg.  10:  Chestnut  Hill 
Trinity,  4r<  15;  Falls  of  BchuylkiU.  18;  Germantown 
Market  Square,  95  15:  —  Redeemer,  85:  Hermon,  100; 
Nethamiay  of  Warminster.  6  68;  Norristown  Central, 
84  09;  Pottstown  1st,  19;  Wisslnoming.  10;  Overbook, 
40  05:  Lower  Providence,  80;  Pottstown  Ist  sab-Krh.  4. 

Fitt9b%irgh- Om\.momU  10:  Pittsburgh  ;th  6  56:  — 
Park  Avenue.  7  50:  -  East  Liberty.  86  55:  —  Bellefleld, 
18:  —  Hhady  Side,  80;  Sharon,  84  87;  Oakdale  Church 
McJunkin  Miss  Band.  10. 

i?ed«fone— Little  Redstone,  6  66;  Sewickley,  6;  Union- 
town.  48  70. 

SA enanpo- Moravia.  8  80:  Mt.  Plesssnt,  5;  New 
Brighton  1st.  88  54;  Neshantiock,  18;  bharpevUle,  8  47; 
Wampum.  7. 

iro«A<tig/on~Washirgfcn  1st,  15  90;  Wheeling  1st, 
100;  Wsynesburgb,  5:  West  Union,  5. 

ire»fmtn«/er— Chestnut  Level,  88  78;  Hopewell,  16; 
MarietU.  17;  Mt  Nebo,  8  80:  Stras*  urg.  4  76. 

PiarJIrersbiirg— ManniBgton  sab-sch,  8  80;  SlstersviUe, 
10. 

SintDBIIS. 

J.  B.  Davidson,  10;  F.  and  F.,  8. 

•   BKOKIPTS  FOR  THE  MONTHS  AS  FOLLOWS! 

October.  1898. |       817  68 

November.  1893 1,4«  68 

December,  1898 986  80 

Frank  K.  Hipplk.  Tttaturtr^ 

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THE  CLERKS. 

Sto)ed  Clerk  and  2V«tt*urer— Her.  William  H. 

Roberts.  D.  D,,im  Bo.  48th  Street,  Wert  Phlla- 

dalpbia. 
Permanent  CTerfc— Rev.  William  E.  Moore,  D.  D., 

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THE  TRU5TEE5. 

President— Qeorge  Juokin,  Esq. 

Treasurer— Frank  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street 

Recording  Secretary — Jacob  WHaon. 

OFFiCB^Publication    House,   No.     1334    CheetDui 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


THE  BOARDS. 

1.  HOME  niSSIONS.  SUSTENTATION. 

Corresponding  Secretaries— Rtv,  William  C.  Roberts,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  Duncan  J.  McMillan,  D.  D. 
Treasurer— Oliyer  D.  Eaton. 
Recording  Secretary— Oscar  B.  Boyd. 

Officb— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  missionary  appointments  and  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

Letters  relatme  to  the  financial  affairs  of  the  Board,  containing  remittances  of  money  or 
requests  for  reduced  railroad  rates,  should  be  addressed  to  M.r.  O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Applications  for  aid  from  churches  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  £.  Botd,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

Applications  of  Teachers,  and  letters  relating  to  the  School  Department,  should  be  addressed 
to  Rev.  6.  F.  MoAfbb,  buperintendent. 

Correspondence  of  Young  People's  Societies,  and  Sabbath-schools  should  be  addressed  to  Rev. 
Thornton  B.  Penfleld. 

2.  FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

Secretary  Etneritv^—'Rav.  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D, 
Corresponding  Secretaries— Rev.  Frank  F.  EUinwood.  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D. ;  and  Mr 

Robert  E   Speer.  Recording  Sneretary—Reiw.  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D. 
jTVeo^urer— William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq. 

Field  Secretary— Rev,  Thomas  Marshall,  D.  D.,  48  McCormlck  Block,  Chicago,  IlL 
OmcB— Presbyterian  House,  No.  63  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  the  missions  or  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries.  Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing  remittances  of 
money,  should  be  sent  to  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq.,  JVeasurer, 

Certificates  of  honorary  membership  are  given  on  receipt  of  |30,  and  of  honorary  directorship 
<m  receipt  of  $  1 00. 

Penons  sendmg  packages  for  shipment  to  missionaries  should  state  the  contentsand  value.  There 
are  no-qpecifled  days  for  shipping  goods.  Send  packages  to  tbe  Mission  House  as  soon  as  they  are 
ready.  Address  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 

The  postage  on  letters  to  all  our  mission  stations,  excf  pt  those  in  Mexico,  is  5  cents  per  each  half 
ounce  or  fraction  thereof.    Mexico,  2  cents  per  half  ounce. 

J.  EDUCATION. 

espondin^ 

surer — Jf.^^^  ...»».«. 
Office— Publication  House,  No.  1834  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pia. 

4.  PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH -SCHOOL  WORK. 

iS^cretory— Rev.  Elijah  R.  Craven,  D.  D. 

Superintendent  of  ttabbath-nchool  and  Missionary  Worh—Rey  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D. 

Editotial  Superintendent— Re>T.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Businens  Suprrintendent— John  H.  Scribner. 

Jfanu/octurer— John  A.  Black. 

Treasurer— Rev.  C.  T  McMullin. 

Publication  House-  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Letters  relative  to  the  general  interests  of  the  Board,  also  all  manuFcripts  offered  for  publication 
and  communications  relttive  thereto,  excepting  those  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books  and  the 
periodicals,  should  be  addressed  to  the  Rev.  E.  R.  Craven,  D.  D.,  Secretary. 

Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  reports,  letters  relating  to  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  work,  to 
grants  of  the  Board's  pijblicalions.  to  the  appointnent  of  Sabbath-school  missioi  aries.  and  reports, 
orders  and  other  communications  of  these  mi»ionaries,  to  the  Rev.  JaIies  A.  Worden,  D.  D.,  Super- 
intendent  of  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  Work. 

All  manuscripts  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books,  also  aU  matter  offered  for  the  Westminster 
Teacher  and  the  other  periodicals,  and  all  letters  concerning  the  same,  to  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Miller, 
D.  D.,  Editorial  Superintendent. 

Business  correspondence  and  orders  for  books  and  periodicals,  except  from  Sabbath-school  mis> 
sionaries,  to  John  H.  Scribner,  Busivess  Superintendent. 

Remittances  of  money  and  contributions  to  the  Rev.  C.  T.  McMullin  Treasurer, 

i.  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  Erskine  N.  White,  D.  D. 
Treusurer—Adam  Campbell. 

Offiob— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  T. 

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Cojresponding  Secretary^Ktv,  William  C.  Cattell,  D.  D. 
Recording  Secretary  and  Treamrer^Rev,  William  W.  Heberton. 

Officb— Publicatioii  Houae,  ISdi  Cheetnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Fa. 

7*  FREEDMEN. 

President— Bj&t.  Henry  T.  McClelland.  D.  D. 
Vice-President^Rev.  David  8.  KenDedy. 
Recording  Setretary—RbY,  Samuel  J.  Fisher.  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretary—  Rev.  Edward  P,  CowaD,  D.  D 
Treasurer— Bav.  John  J.  Beaoom,  D.  D. 

Office -516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Field  Secretary— RtY.  Henry  N.  Payne,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  Gkk 

8.  AID  FOR  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEillES. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.  D. 
Treo^rer— Charlee  M.  Chamley,  P.  O.  Box  2D4,  Chicago,  HL 

OFFiou^Room  28,  Montauk  Block,  No  115  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  HL 


PERMANENT  COMMITTEES. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SYSTEnATIC  BENEFICENCE. 

Chairman— Rev,  Rufos  S.  Green,  D.  D.,  Elmira  College,  Elmlra,  N.  Y. 
S^re^ary— Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer,  56  Wall  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

Chairman— Rev,  John  J.  Beacom,  516  Market  Sireet,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Corresponding  Secretary-Rev.  John  P.  H«I1,  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 
Recording  SMcretarif—Rev.  Joseph  B.  Turner,  Glenshaw,  Pa. 
rrecwurer— Rev.  James  Allison,  D  D.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

President— Rev.  W.  C.  Cattell.  D.  D.,  Philadelphia. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  W.  L.  Led  with. 
Treasurer— Deh.  K.  Ludwig,  8800  Locust  Street,  Philadelphia. 
Library  and  Museum— 1229  Race  Street,  Philadelphia. 


TREASURERS  OP  SYNODICAL  HOflE  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTENTATION. 

New  Jersey— ^Imer  Ewing  Oreen,  P.  O.  Box  133.  Trenton,  N.  J. 
New  York—O.  D.  Eaton,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N  Y. 
PennHyivania-Fr&nk  K.  Hippie,  1340 Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Baltimore— J).  C.  Ammidon.  31  South  Frederick  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 


BEQUESTS  OR  DEVISES. 

In  the  preparation  of  Wills  care  should  be  taken  to  insert  the  Corporate  Name,  as  known  and  reooi^ 
nized  in  the  Courts  of  Law.    Requests  or  Devises  for  the 

General  Assembly  should  be  made  to  **  The  Trustees  of  the  (General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  Uuited  States  of  America.*' 

Board  of  Home  Missions,— to  *'  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  incorporated  April  19, 1878,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Foreign  Hisslons,— to  **  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  In  the 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Church  Erection,-  to  *  *  The  Board  of  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the  Oeneral  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Incorporated  March  27, 1871,  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  State  of  New  York." 

Board  of  Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work,  to  '*  The  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  TMhOr 
cation  and  Sabbuth-schuoi  Work." 

Board  of  Education,— to  '*  The  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States 
of  America." 

Board  of  Relief.— to  *'  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Ministers  and  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  ol!  Deceased  Ministers.  ** 

Board  for  Freedmen,— to  **  The  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  In  the 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Aids  for  Colleges,— to  **  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Academies." 

Sustentation  is  not  incorporated.  Bequests  or  Devises  intended  for  this  object  should  be  made  to  "  The 
Board  of  Hume  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  incorporated  April 
19,  1872,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York, /or  Sustentation,"* 

n.  B.— Real  Estate  devised  by  will  should  be  carefully  described. 


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APRIL,    1804. 


CONTENTS. 

The  Board  of  Church  Erection, 278 

North-Eastem  Minnesota  as  a  Home  Mission  Ground,  R.  H.  FuHon,  D,D,,      ,  270 

Among  the  Buckeyes.    Editorial, 281 

Grateful  Nestorians.    Editorial, 285 

Editorial  Notes, 286 

PORBIQN  niSSIONS. 

Notes.— Reality  Versus  Romance— Foot-ball  Literature^Captain  Lugard  on  E.  Africa— 
Yale  Library  of  Modem  Missions— Dr.  EUinwood  on  "  Inconsistencies  "—Reference 
New  Testament  in  Mandarin— Denominational  Distinctions  in  Missions— Extent 

and  Value  of  Missionary  Literature— Missionary  Calendar, 287-289 

Thanks  to  the  King  of  Siam 2^10 

Hopeful  Aspects  of  Mission  Work  in  Japan,  G,  IV,  Knox,  D,D., 291-293 

Concert  of  Prayer. — Missions  in  India-^Notes  on  India— Prospects  of  Conversion  of 

India,  George  Smith,  LL.  D.—Work  in  Punjab,  /.  C  Ewing,  D,D.,    .        .        .    295-806 

Hone  nissioNS. 

Notes.— Reliffious  Revivals —Minutes  of  General  Assembly  Wanted— Future  Population 
of  Our  Country — Alaska  Museum — Church  Organized  at  Russell,  Minnesota— Rural 
Pastor  and  his  Toung  People— "  L' Association  de  la  Bonne  Mort — ^French  Cana- 
dians in  New  England  and  New  York— Y.  P.  8  C.  E.  Training  Elders— Revivals- 
Financial  Statement,  807-809 

Home  Mission  Appointments, 809 

New  Presbyterian  Building, 809-810 

Concert  of  Prayer. -Cities 811-«12 

Revivals  in  Washington,  Rev,  7.  M,  Gunn,  D,D,,  818-814 

Lettera. — Colorado,  Rev,  A.  J,  Rodrigi*ez—l^eyr  Mexico,  Miss  Rebecca  Row/and^ 
Alaska.  Rev,  A,  E,  Austin,  Mrs,  K,  R,  ^c>«/tf— Minnesota.  Rev.  E,  N.  Raymond 
— Kansas,  Rev,/,  S,  Hughes^Ntw  York,  Rev,  Vincent  /V5^^— California,  Rev,  G, 
IV.Hays, 814-817 

Nez  Perce  Indians  Searching  for  the  True  Religion,  Miss  Kate  C,  McBeth,       ...  818 


FREEDMEN.—Extracto  from  Letter  File,  819-820 

President  Cheeseman  of  Liberia,  821-822 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF.— The  Eing*s  Daughters  and  King's  Veterans,  .        .       .  822-824 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH  SCHOOL  WORK  —Features  of  Sabbathschool  Mis- 

sionary  Work  in  Winter, 823-825 

COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES 826-827 

EDUCATION.— McCormick  Theological  Seminary, 828-881 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATH  SCHOOL  LESSONS 882-888 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOP^- Young  Christian  in  Japan,  William 

Imbrie,  Z7.Z7.— Christmas  Box— Suggestive  Hinte  for  Study  of  India,    .               .  884-888 
CHILDREN'S   CHURCH  AT    HOME  AND  ABROAD.— That  Same   Old   Tyrant- 
Reason  or  Instinct,       888-889 

BOOK  NOTICES  AND  MINI8T15RIAL  NECROLOGY 889-841 

GLEANINGS  AT  HOMI  4NP  ABROAD, 841-844 


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AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 


APRIL,   1894. 


THE  BOARD  OF  CHURCH  ERECTION. 


ITS  HISTORY. 

The  present  Board  of  the  Charch  Erection 
Fand  is  the  ^accessor  of  the  two  similar 
Boards,  that  before  the  reunion  were  in 
charge  of  like  interests  in  the  Old  School  and 
New  School  division  of  onr  Charch.  These 
were  respectively,  the  Board  of  Church  Ex- 
tension, and  the  Board  of  Church  Erection. 

The  first  of  these  had  its  inception  in  the 
General  Assembly  of  1848,  in  the  introduc- 
tion and  passage  of  the  following  resolution: 

**  Whereas,  the  most  obvious  duty  of  every 
church  is  to  make  ample  provision  for  the  re- 
ligious instruction  and  spiritual  edification  of 
the  people  placed  by  Providence  in  the  im- 
mediate proximity  therewith ;  and,  whereas,  it  is 
the  duty  of  the  General  Assembly  to  sj  _ 
pastoral  fidelity  the  best  method  t^doii 
work  assigned  to  the  Churc Vw^^  ^c "  adofable 


Head;  and,  whereas,  our  country  is  filling  up 
with  unparalleled  rapidity,  so  that  there  is  good 
ground  of  apprehension  that  extension  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  is  far  more  slow  than  is 
consistent  with  the  solemn  responsibilities  under 
which  we,  as  a  Church,  act;  therefore, 

Resolved,  that  a  committee  of  nine  members  be 
appointed  to  take  into  consideration  the  great 
subject,  and  report  to  this  Assembly,  such  facts 
and  suggestions  as  may  in  their  judgment  be  of 
importance  in  guiding  the  action  of  all  our 
people  to  such  results  as  may  gladden  the  hearts 
of  all  good  men  in  our  communion." 

The  committee  was  appointed,  with  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Eliphalet  Nott,  President  of  Union  College, 
as  Chairman.  If  the  usual  parliamentary  law 
prevailed,  it  is  probable  that  Dr.  Nott  was  also 
the  mover  of  the  resolution. 

the  report  of  this  committee  to  the 
As6<i^^ly  of  1844,  a  committee  upon  Church 

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The  Work  AcevmpUahed. 


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Extension  was  appointed  in  connecticm  with 
the  Board  of  Missions  and  the  work  of  aid- 
ing feeble  churches  in  the  erection  of  hoases 
of  worship  was  inaugurated. 

In  1855  the  work  was  transferred  to  a 
committee  upon  Church  Extension  directly 
responsible  to  the  Assembly  itself,  and  in 
I860  this  committee  was  constituted,  *^The 
Board  of  Church  Extension. 

In  the  meantime,  the  same  important  sub- 
ject had  occupied  the  attention  of  successive 
Assemblies  of  the  New  School  General  As- 
sembly. 

From  1850  to  1854  the  plan  was  under  dis- 
cussion, and  in  the  latter  year  the  committee 
reported  that  good  progress  had  been  made 
in  raising  a  fund  of  $100,000  and  recom- 
mended the  organization  of  a  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Church  Erection  Fund. 

In  1870,  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  Assembly 
of  the  re-united  Church,  the  proper  action  was 
taken  to  consolidate  the  Board  of  Church  Exten- 
tion  and  of  Church  Erection. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  latter  Board  was 
a  corporation  chartered  under  the  laws  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  while  the  former  was  con- 
strained by  no  such  legal  conditions,  it  was 
determiaed  "That  the  operations  of  the  united 


Church  be  carried  on  under  the  charter  of  '  The 
Trustees  of  the  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of 
America,'  and  that  its  location  be  continued  in 
the  City  of  New  York." 

By  reference  to  the  corresponding  work  of 
other  branches  of  the  Christian  Church  in 
this  country  it  would  appear  that  to  the 
Presbyterian  Church  belongs  the  honor  of 
being  the  first  to  inaugurate  such  organized 
effort  to  provide  houses  of  worship  for  feeble 
congregations. 

THE  WORK  AOOOMPLISHBD. 

Daring  the  half-century  in  which  under 
different  names  the  work  has  been  in  progress, 
this  agency  has  aided  in  building  more  than 

5,000  CHURCH  EDIFICES, 

and  for  this  purpose  has  paid  out  more  than 

$8,000,000 
and  by  such  help  has  secured  to  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  property  valued  at  about 

$10,500,000. 
The  first  year  42  churches  were  aided  in 
twelve  different  states:   last  year  246^were 
aided  in  86  states  and  territories. 

THE  MANSE  WORK, 

first  suggested  by  Christian  women,  has  been 
in  progress  during  the  last  eight  years. 


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DEPARTMENTS  OP  ITS  WORK. 

The  work  of  the  Board  is  divided  among 
the  following  departments : 

1.  The  General  Fund. — This  fand  consists 
of  the  annual  contribations  of  the  churches 
together  with  the  amounts  received  from  leg- 
acies, from  repayments  by  the  churches  of 
former  grants,  from  the  sale  of  unused  build- 
ings, and  such  individual  gifts  as  may  be 
received.  From  it  grants  are  made  upon 
formal  applications  endorsed  by  the  presby- 
tery having  oversight  of  the  church  needing 
aid.  Under  the  explicit  rules  of  the  Assem- 
bly no  grant  can  exceed  one-third  of  the  value 
of  the  church  and  lot  for  which  aid  is  given, 
and  in  no  ordinary  case  may  the  grant  exceed 
$t,000.  As  a  matter  of  fact  such  grants 
average  about  $500.  Whenever  practicable 
the  grant  is  made  as  a  loan  to  be  returned 
without  interest  in  installments  running 
through  a  series  of  years,  which  installments 
may  be  accounted  also  as  contributions  from 
the  church  to  the  treasury  of  the  Board. 

Before  a  grant  can  be  paid,  the  church 


must  execute  a  mortgage  to  the  Board  for  the 
amount  received  and  certify  that  with  the 
sum  granted,  the  building  will  be  entirely 
completed  and  paid  for  and  the  congregation 
left  without  debt. 

2.  The  Manse  Fund. — This  fund  was  inau- 
gurated in  1885,  by  the  gift  of  $25,000  from 
the  late  Mrs.  Stuart.  It  is  a  permanent  fund 
and  is  increased  only  by  special  gifts 
designated  for  the  purpose.  It  has  received 
from  time  to  time  additions  and  has  lately 
been  increased  by  a  portion  of  the  legacy 
from  the  Stuart  estate  so  that  the  whole 
amount  available  somewhat  exceeds  $50,000. 
Its  disbursementd  in  all  ordinary  cases  are 
in  the  form  of  loans  to  be  repaid  in  annual 
iostallments  usually  running  through  three 
years.  This  department  of  the  work  has 
been  peculiarly  beneficient  in  its  results,  and 
by  the  wise  plan  of  loaning  the  money,  the 
comparatively  small  fund  is  used  again  and 
again,  returning  and  again  going  out  upon  its 
helpful  mission  every  successive  three  years. 
Thus  with  a  fund  at  command  of  only  about 


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FIBST  BUILDING  AIDED  BT  THE  BOARD. 

$80,000,  loans  daring  the  last  eight  years 
have  been  made  to  800  churches  and  have 
aggregated  $112,000. 

8.  The  Loan  Fund.— This  fund  was  in- 
augurated by  the  Assembly,  1801,  which  di- 
rected the  Board  to  perfect  a  plan  for  the 
administration  of  the  new  work  thus  pro- 
posed. The  object  of  this  department  was 
not  to  interfere  with  the  present  system  of 
absolute  grants  or  of  loans  without  interest 
from  the  (General  Fund  contributed  annually 
by  the  churches,  but  to  supplement  this  by 
providing  a  fund  from  which  loans  might  be 
made  upon  a  business  basis  to  congregations 
that  needed  only  the  accommodation  of  time 
to  be  able  to  complete  their  own  buildings 
without  aid  from  the  purely  benevolent  funds 
of  the  Church  at  large. 

To  such  applicants  loans  may  be  made  to 
be  repaid  within  a  longer  or  a  shorter  period 
with  a  low  rate  of  interest.  The  advantage 
to  the  church  is  in  permitting  payment  in 
annual  installments  and  the  reduction  from 
the  excessive  rates  of  interest  ordinarily 
charged  in  our  younger  States. 


A  COLONIAL  CHURCH. 
The  cut  on  page  278  represents 
St.  Peter's  Church,  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  '^Romancoke^'  and 
*' White  House,"  Virginia,  the 
estate  which  came  into  the  posses- 
sion of  Washington  by  his  mar- 
riage with  Mrs.  Martha  Custis. 
The  tradition  of  the  neighborhood 
is  that  the  marriage  ceremony 
occurred  at  this  church.  The 
following  description  of  the  build- 
ing is  taken  from  Harper's  Maga- 
zine^ March  1888,  from  which  also 
the  picture  is  copied : 

St  Peter's  Church  was  erected  in 
1708,  at  a  cost  of  146,000.weight  of 
tobacco— currency  of  the  locality; 
its  steeple  was  put  up  twelve  years 
afterward     Both  on  account  of  its 
record  and  its  simple,  pleasing  old 
English  architecture,  it  is  the  most 
attractive  colonial  church  still  stand- 
ing in  Virginia.    It  is  built  in  the 
form  of  a  parallelogram,  with  tower 
and  surmounting  steeple  connecting  at  one  end 
with  the  body  of  the  edifice,  all  the  proportions 
finely  harmonizing.    The  walla  of  red  brick  are 
three  feet  thick,  the  windows  are  small,  with 
rounded  tops ;  the  tower  is  quite  large,  with  four 
^|^s^Ikg  projections  capped  with  spheres,  and  is 
surmounted  by  a  low  steeple,  holding  on  its 
extremity    the   cross-keys  of   St.    Peter  as  a 
weather  vane.       

OLD  DERRY  CHURCH. 
Upon  page  274  is  an  illustration  of  the  im- 
pressive simplicity  of  the  buildings  in  which 
our  forefathers  worshipped.  The  church  of 
Deny,  Pa.,  is  one  of  the  oldest  Presbyterian 
organizations  in  the  country,  and  the  building 
there  represented  was  erected  in  1 720 .  It  is  in 
very  marked  contrast  to  the  new  church 
which  succeeds  it,  and  which  appears  upon 
page  275,  which  was  erected  in  1884. 


CHURCH  AT  BRISTOL,  PA. 
The  illustration  on  this  page  represents  the 
first  building  aided  by  the  Board — one  of  the 
three  churches  to  which  grants  were  made  at 
the  first  meeting  of  the  original  Church 
Extension    Committee,    October     7,    1844. 


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It  is  a  substantial  brick  edifice,  now 
nearly  fifty  years  old,  but  still  com- 
modious, comfortable  and  homelike. 
The  edifice  was  enlarged  and  improved 
20  years  ago.  It  is  interesting  to  the 
Board  and  we  think  it  will  be  to  our 
readers  to  know  that  the  Board,  after 
haying  been  privileged  to  aid  more  than 
5,000  churches,  can  still  point  to  the 
building  to  which  its  first  contributions 
were  sent,  and  see  it  in  constant  use  as 
the  home  of  an  active,  fruitful  church. 
In  that  sacred  building  have  been 
gathered,  first  and  last,  more  than  600 
members,  of  whom  nearly  200  remain 
to-day. 

THE  PRESENT  SITUATION. 

Last  May  in  Washington  the  General  As- 
sembly speaking  in  behalf  of  the  Church  said 
that  $150,000  at  least  ought  to  be  expended 
this  year  in  supplementing  the  efforts  of  our 
young  congregations  to  supply  themselves 
with  church  homes.  Now  what  is  the  situ- 
ation Fob.  Ist?  The  Board  began  this  year 
with  a  score  of  waiting  applications  amount- 
ing to  a  demand  of  more  than  $18,000,  and  to 
meet  them  it  had  no  sources. 

During  the  first  nine  months  of  the  year 
the  Board  has  received  more  than  200  appli- 
cations for  grants  and  loans,  amount  log  in 
the  aggregate  to  nearly  $155,000,  of  which 
$184,000  is  for  church  edifices  and  $21,000 
for  manses. 

The  financial  stringency  has  not  only 
driven  to  the  Board  churches  that  in  ordin- 
ary times  would  have  been  able  to  provide 
for  themselves,  but  it  has  also  diminished 
the  receipts  of  the  Board  to  meet  these  calls. 
It  is  therefore,  February  1st,  $80,000  behind 
the  demands  made  upon  its  General  Fund, 
and  to  avoid  responsibility  that  it  cannot 
meet  it  will  be  obliged  to  decline  making 
further  grants  from  its  General  Funds  dur- 
ing the  present  fiscal  year. 


LOG  CABIN  CHURCH,  JUNEAU. 

who  made  the  tiip  to  Alaska.  So  unique  and 
picturesque  is  this  building  that  it  was 
thought  appropriate  to  exhibit  a  model  of  it 
at  the  Columbian  Fair  in  Chicago  when  it 
appeared  in  the  United  States  Govemmeat 
Exhibit  for  Alaska. 


LOG  CABIN  CHURCH. 

The  above  cut  is  a  representation  of  the 

log  cabin  church  at  Juneau,  Alaska,  which 

attracted  a  good  deal  of  attention  fnm  the 

members  of  the  Portland  Assembly  in  1892 


A  STIMULATING  RESPONSE. 

FROM  BLUE  RAPIDS,  KANSAS. 

Enclosed  I  hand  you  drafts  for  eighty  eight 
dollars  and  forty-five  cents,  amount  of  final  pay- 
ment due  the  Board  of  Church  Erection  by  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Blue  Rapids  for  aid  in 
buildiog  their  manse. 

In  completlug  our  correspondence  with  you  in 
this  matter.  I  cannot  refrain  from  expressing 
my  own  gratitude,  and  that  of  our  congregation 
to  the  Board  for  their  ample  and  necessary  aid 
in  securing  a  very  pleasant  and  comfortable 
house  for  myself  and  my  successors  in  the 
pastorate  of  this  church.  I  only  wish,  that  your 
worthy  president  of  the  Board  and  his  kind 
associates  could  see  both  the  church  and  the 
manse,  for  which  we  are  so  essentially  indebted 
to  their  generous  assistance  in  the  erection  of 
both. 

The  location  of  our  buildings  is  delightful,  in 
a  small  and  beautiful  village  of  our  noble  State. 
And  I  rejoice  to  know  that  our  Board  is  doing 
a  similar  good  work  for  the  cause  of  Christ 
within  its  borders.  And  this  repayment  of  your 
loan,  for  which  in  the  name  of  my  people  I 
heartily  thank  them,  is  accompanied  by  the 
pleasant  thought  that  its  amount  pusses  through 
your  hands  io  repeat  the  same  kindness  to  other 
poor  and  needy  congregations. 


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Presbyterian  Church  at  Curmel^  N.  K 


{Apri/j 


In  the  new  building  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  represented  in  the 
above  cut,  we  have  a  good  illastration  of  the 
modem  country  church  building — tasteful, 
convenient,  homelike  and  inexpensive. 

It  is  of  frame  covered  on  the  exterior  with 
stained  shingles  and  freely  treated  in  a  style 
that  has  some  suggestions  of  Gk>thic.  The 
tower  rises  on  the  northwest  comer,  and 
through  it  is  the  principal  entrance,  with  a 
carriage  porch  and  steps  leading  from  two 
directions.  The  tower  vestibule  opens  into 
the  auditorium  and  the  Sabbath-school  room. 
The  auditorium  is  88  feet  by  40ifeet.  The 
pulpit  platform  is  in  a  recess  under  a  high 
moulded  plaster  arch,  and  there  is  a  traceried 
window  at  the  back  high  up  over  the  panelled 
wainscotting.  The  roof  is  open  to  the  ridge 
and  is  carried  by  Georgia  hard  pine  trusses 
framed  up  with  curved  brace  and  octogould 
tie-beams.  The  ceiling  is  of  narrow  North 
Carolina  pine  finished  without  stain.  The 
organ  is  to  stand  in  a  space  at  one  side  of  the 
platform  opening  into  the  auditorium  with 
plaster  arch.  The  seats  for  the  choir  are  on 
a  low  platform  near  the  organ,  and  there  is  a 
small  entrance  just  behind  them.  The 
windows  are  to  be  glazed  with  leaded  glass  in 
shades  of  amber. 

The  Sabbath-school  room,  which  is  20  feet 
by  27i  feet,  opens  into  the  auditorium  with 


large  sliding  doors  with  the  upper  panels 
filled  with  leaded  glass. 

A  side  entrance  to  the  building  opens  into 
a  hall  which  has  a  staircase  to  the  cellar  and 
doors  to  the  Sabbath-school  room  and  minis- 
ter's study.  The  study  is  12  feet  by  14  feet, 
and  has  a  dcor  direct  to  the  platform.  In  the 
cellar,  besides  the  heating  apparatus,  there  is 
space  under  the  Sabbath  school  room,  for 
rooms  to  be  fitted  up  later  as  a  kitchen  and 
dining  room. 

The  whole  building  is  wainscotted  four  feet 
high.  The  pews  and  platform  furniture, 
made  from  special  designs,  are  of  oak.  The 
lighting  is  by  lamps  in  specially  designed 
wrought-iron  fixtures. 

The  building  is  heated  by  one  large  hot  air 
furnace,  and  has  a  simple  but  effective  system 
of  gravity  ventilation. 

The  architects  are  Messrs.  Stephenson  & 
Greene,  of  New  York  City,  and  Messrs.  A. 
W.  Hadden  &  Son,  of  Mahopac  Falls,  N.  Y., 
are  the  builders. 

The  cost  of  the  building,  including  fur- 
nishing, was  $9,870. 


Lord  of  the  worlds  above. 
How  pleasant  and  how  fair 

The  dwellings  of  thy  love, 
Thine  earthly  temples  arel 


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NORTH-EASTERN  MINNESOTA  AS  A  HOME  MISSION  GROUND. 

ROBERT  H.  FULTON,  D.D. 


I  went  by  steamer  last  summer  from  Chi- 
cago to  Dolath,  preached  three  Sundays  in  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city,  spent 
the  week-days  at  Deer  Wood,  a  snug  hamlet 
a  hundred  miles  out  on  the  Northern  Pacific 
Road,  was  greatly  interested  in  the  people 
and  in  all  that  I  heard  and  saw,  and  would 
like  to  talk  to  the  readers  of  the  Church  at 
Home  and  Abroad  about  that  region  as  a  field 
for  home  missionary  enterprise. 

Duluth  as  viewed  from  shipboard  is  as 
picturesque  a  town  as  one  might  wish  to  see. 
Back  of  the  narrow  water  bench  starts  a 
grim  bluff  of  trap  rock,  slowly  receding,  and 
from  six  to  eight  hundred  feet  high.  But 
the  people,  nothing  daunted,  have  hewn  out 
broad  streets  parallel  with  the  lake,  and 
lined  them  with  business  houses  and  homes 
comely  for  looks  as  they  are  strong  of 
foundation.  A  stranger  cannot  bat  admire 
the  prodigal  enterprise  on  every  side  mani- 
fest. The  man  or  the  men  who  chose  this 
site  for  a  city,  must  have  been  of  the  sort 
Tupper  had  in  mind  when  he  sang: 

'*  No  hindering  dull  material 
Shall  conquer  or  control 
My  enereies  etherial, 
My  gladiator  souL" 

It  was  tonic  to  look  at  what  had  already 
been  accomplished. 

A  NATURAL  QUESTION. 

The  question  started  why  did  they  under- 
take to  build  a  city  where  the  initial  difficul- 
ties were  so  great?  Hercules  (brawn)  never 
labored  unless  Eurystheus  (brain)  set  the 
task ;  Ewasind,  the  Indian  strong  man  only 
went  down  into  the  rivers  and  pulled  out 
snags  at  the  suggestion  of  thoughtful  Hiawa- 
tha ;  and  I  argued  that  wide  awake  Americans 
would  never  have  spent  time,  strength, 
money,  and  burnt  tons  of  giant  powder,  just 
to  humble  chat  lofty  front  of  nature  and  build 
for  themselves  homes  amid  those  munitions 
of  rocks.  But  the  motive  was  not  sufficiently 
apparent,  so  I  asked  an  eminent  citizen 
whom  it  was  my  privilege  to  meet,  how  they 
came  to  build  Duluth  on  a  spot  where  every 
long  street  had  to  be  a  terrace  and  every  cel- 
lar a  stone  quarry? 


A  CHARACTERISTIC  ANSWER. 

With  that  Western  confidence  so  impres- 
sive to  a  novice  he  said : 

It  was  predetermined  that  a  great  city  should 
be  built  here,  and  all  this  rock  was  heaped  to- 
gether against  the  time  when  a  generation 
should  arrive  with  insight  to  discern  and  energy 
to  carry  out  the  plan.  Look  at  Superior  to  our 
front,  black  with  steamers  and  white  with  sails, 
connecting  with  Huron,  MichigaD,  St.  Clair  and 
Erie.  That  means  the  grandest  waterway  on 
the  Continent  and  the  cheapest  of  freights  to 
and  from  Milwaukee,  Chicago,  Detroit,  Cleve- 
land and  Buffalo  during  navigation  season,  for 
everything  they  want  from  us  and  everything 
we  want  from  them.  Then  view  the  country 
we  command,  and  you  will  discover  that  Duluth 
is  mistress  of  the  forest,  has  the  first  call  on  the 
grain  fields,  receives  the  output  of  illimitable 
iroQ  mines  of  surpassing  richness,  and  distrib- 
utes Pennsylvania  hard  coal  at  a  price  low 
enough  for  the  cities  and  towns  we  communi- 
cate with,  to  purchase  and  keep  themselves 
warm. 

Everybody  I  met  shared  this  opinion. 
They  all  had  an  exalted  air,  walked  large,  so 
to  speak,  as  in  the  presence  of  the  half  million 
population  the  ear  of  hope  already  heard 
knocking  at  their  doors. 

A  WELL-BUILT  CITT. 

The  hotels  and  street  cars  in  Duluth  are  as 
good  as  the  best.  They  have  the  finest  High 
School  building,  with  one  exception,  in  the 
land.  Of  this  the  people  are  immensely 
proud,  and  every  jeweller  has  the  model  of  it 
graven  in  the  bowl  of  his  souvenir  spoons. 
The  First  Presbyterian  Church,  First  M.  E. 
Church,  and  First  Congregational  Church, 
each  has  an  edifice  that  would  compare  well 
with  those  of  any  Eastern  city  for  comfort, 
convenience  and  tasteful  architecture. 

Tower  and  Ely,  to  the  north,  are  gateways 
to  rich  ore  beds,  a  thousand  gem  lakes,  and 
forests  of  unfelled  beauty  where  moose,  deer, 
wolf,  lynx  and  bear  are  yet  free  to  pick  up  a 
living  after  the  instinctive  fashion  they  all 
follow  outside  of  menageries.  I  clutched  my 
rod  case  ecstatically  when  I  heard  how  the 
^ig  bass  bite  up  in  those  lakes,  but  when  the 


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map  of  Deer  Wood  was  spread  before  my 
eyes,  with  Reno,  Serpent,  Portage,  Black, 
and  a  dozen  other  fat  lakes  within  easy  reach, 
and  the  cosiest  of  cosy  inns  for  a  stopping 
place  with  society  select  as  Wordsworth^s 
**fit  audience  thoagh  few,"  to  Deer  Wood  we 
resolved  to  go  and  made  no  mistake  in  so 
determining. 

The  soil  along  the  Northern  Pacific  Road 
after  yon  escape  that  mass  of  ledge  rock 
which  mns  back  from  Dolnth  some  miles 
into  the  country,  begins  to  show  black  and 
mellow,  like  aerated  swamp  muck.  It  is  very 
fertile;  and  with  their  hot  Summer  suns  and 
sufficient  moisture  the  farmers  hare  little 
trouble  to  grow  a  bam  full  of  stuff  for  winter 
use,  and  something  over  for  the  merchant. 
The  land  about  Deer  Wood  is  as  fine  as  I  have 
seen  anywhere.  It  is  an  ideal  place  for  gar- 
dening. Berries  the  most  luscious,  squashes, 
tomatoes,  onions,  potatoes,  peas,  beans,  beets 
and  sugar  com  multiply  and  replenish  as  if  the 
seed  had  just  come  vital  from  Noah*s  ark, 
and  the  warm  breath  of  GK)d's  blessing  still 
nourished  the  ground. 

As  for  fiowers,  the  cultivated  varieties 
were  abundant  and  exquisitely  beautiful,  but 
I  liked  best  the  wild  blooms  that  lined  the 
roadways,  dotted  the  pasture  lots,  and  luxu- 
riated in  the  woods,  clothed  in  that  simple 
grace  which  caught  the  Saviour*s  eye  when 
He  said  '*  Consider  the  lilies, '*  one  Gk)spel 
day  on  a  mountain  slepe  overlooking  Ctone- 
saret. 

But  what  has  this  to  do  with  home  mis- 
sionary work  I  Much,  every  way.  Cannot 
you  see  that  I  am  laying  a  good  foundation 
against  the  time  to  come  ?  As  yet  this  coun- 
try is  comparatively  empty,  but  has  the 
power  to  attract  a  teeming  population,  can 
furnish  work  to  keep  them  busy,  food  to 
feed  them,  and  air  tingling  with  ozone  for 
grateful  lungs  and  vivacious  brains. 

The  people  already  there,  not  to  speak  of 
invalids  who  have  gone  with  the  forlorn  hope 
of  being  made  over,  are  hardy  culls  from  the 
Eastern  States,  Canada,  and  the  north  of 
Europe.  In  the  towns  the  American  takes 
the  lead,  and  in  the  rural  districts  he  is  wont 
to  be  the  capitalist  and  middle  man.  Scandi- 
navians are  the  principal  homesteaders.    I 


asked  many  questions  about  the  Scandina- 
vians, and  the  answer  was  mostly  a  qualified 
ttyes"  and  **no.'*  For  plodding,  small 
thrift,  and  contentment  they  were  awarded 
the  palm;  but  to  offset  these  were  said 
to  be  unprogressive,  clanish,  disposed  to  set 
up  a  little  Scandinavia  wherever  they  make 
their  homes.  This  applied  specially  to  the 
grown  folks.  The  children,  many  of  them, 
were  admitted  to  be  capable  of  great  things. 

PIONEER  PLUCK. 

I  became  interested  in  a  sturdy  old  farmer 
who  had  his  home  on  the  banks  of  Serpent 
lake,  and  was  the  fond  possessor  of  a  bloom- 
ing wife  and  a  brood  of  rosy-cheeked  children. 
The  first  time  I  saw  him  he  was  gallantly  as- 
sisting his  wife  with  the  week^s  wash.  Tet 
that  mild  mannered  man  could  upon  occasion 
be  bold  as  a  lion.  In  the  days  of  his  courtship 
(he  had  been  an  old  bachelor)  he  was  coming 
home  late  one  autumn  night  through  the  woods 
when  he  heard  a  great  stir  in  a  big  tree  not 
far  off.  It  was  bright  moon  light,  and,  as  he 
had  his  Winchester  rifie  along  for  company, 
he  thought  he  would  go  and  see  what  the 
fuss  was  about.  Butlol  when  he  got  to  the 
place,  he  found  five  black  bears  up  that  tree 
having  a  jolly  nutting  party.  Many  a  mMi 
would  have  run,  but  our  hero  stood  firm  as 
Fitz- James.  He  promptly  opened  fire,  killed 
three  of  the  bears  then  and  there,  wounded  a 
fourth  which  he  captured  next  day  and  step- 
ped into  fame  as  the  bravest  Kimrod  in  all 
that  neighborhood. 

The  Church  that  can  gather  parents  and  chil- 
dren of  such  fiber  into  her  communion  would 
seem  te  have  a  first  lien  on  the  future. 
Can  the  Presbyterian  Church  gather  them? 
This  is  a  question  we  should  like  very  much 
to  hear  answered  in  the  affirmative. 

The  churches  of  our  order  in  and  about 
Duluth,  so  far  as  I  could  leara,  are  well 
placed,  well  manned  and  full  of  enthusiasm. 
The  First  Church  in  particular  has  an  oppor- 
tunity seldom  offered  to  any  people. 

There  is  an  interesting  and  infiuential  con- 
tingent of  Scotch  Presbyterians  in  Duluth. 
One  of  these.  Elder  John  Wilson,  a  genial  gen- 
tleman, well  up  in  theology  and  of  fine  popular 
gifts,   has  received  license  as  an  evangdist 


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aod  goes  about  strengthening  the  weak  sta- 
tions, just  as  the  Apostle  Panl  used  to  do, 
from  pure  love  of  the  cause. 

The  business  lull  hampers  enterprise  out 
there  now,  as  it  does  elsewhere,  but  the  fol- 
lowing from  a  recent  missionary  report  to 
the  Presbytery  shows  that  they  have  no 
thought  of  letting  go : 

As  members  of  the  Committee  we  were 
brought  up  on  hard  times,  and  do  not  regard 
them  as  the  sorest  evil  that  can  befall  a  people. 

From  Duluth  we  went  down  to  St.  Paul 
and  Minneapolis  and  spent  a  week  with 
friends  driving  through  those  beautiful  cities. 
But  everybody  is  familiar  with  the  lay  of  the 
land    there.      North-eastern    Minnesota    is 


fresher  territory.  All  are  not  aware  of  the 
possibilities  of  that  region.  Yet  the  time  is 
ripe  for  a  dense  population  to  gather  there, 
for  Duluth  to  attain  her  fond  ambition  of 
becoming  a  metropolis.  Now  or  never  must 
we  seize  the  strategic  points.  Men  of  the 
pioneer  stamp  are  already  in  the  field,  but 
they  need  money  and  reinforcements.  We 
should  not  rest  with  gathering  those  who  are 
Presbyterians  by  inheritance.  Let  us  try 
something  more  aggressive.  Why  not  reach 
out  vigorously  after  the  foreigners  and  their 
hopeful  offspring?  Is  it  not  possible  to  graft 
them  into  our  good  olive  tree,  that  they  and 
we  may  rejoice  together  in  the  fatness 
thereof? 


AMONG  THE  BUCKEYES. 


With  the  kind  co-operation  of  considerate 
editorial  correspondents  and  obliging  print- 
ers and  other  assistants,  and  with  the  con- 
stant availableness  of  the  mail  and  the  tele- 
graph, I  am  able  to  take  a  brief  sojourn  in 
Ohio  without   losing  my  hold  upon  these 


I  am  writing  now  in  Boom  No.  8  of  Lane 
Seminary,  which  for  a  few  days  may,  if  the 
readers  please,  be  regarded  as  the  editorial 
headquarters  of  the  Church  at  Home  and 
Abroai).  This  room  is  on  the  first  floor  of 
the  new  building  for  which  the  Seminary  is 
indebted,  in  large  part,  to  the  munificence 
of  the  late  Preserved  Smith.  Its  windows 
look  out  upon  the  beautiful  campus  dimin- 
ished from  its  former  expanse  by  the  space 
occupied  by  this  building,  two  professors' 
dwellings,  and  several  houses,  the  cost  of 
which  is  a  part  of  the  Seminary's  endowment, 
and  the  rent  of  which  is  some  part  of  the 
Seminary's  income. 

The  most  interesting  tree  on  the  campus 
is  a  vigorous  elm  which  we  planted  in  No- 
vember 1860,  in  honor  of  the  fortieth  anni- 
versary of  the  opening  of  Lane  Seminary  and 


also  in  commemoration  of  the  reunion  of  our 
Presbyterian  Church  which  had  just  then 
been  happily  consummated.  This  tree,  then 
a  sapling,  was  said  to  be  as  *^  straight  as  the 
Confession  of  Faith."  It  has  lost  nothing  of 
its  erectness  in  this  quarter  of  a  century,  and 
the  circumference  of  its  trunk,  which  then 
was  not  greater  than  that  of  my  arm,  exceeds 
the  length  of  a  string  which  girdles  my  waist 
outside  of  my  thick  overcoat. 

«« Long  may  it  wave,"  and  stand  and  grow, 
and  continue  to  be  truly  emblematic  of  a 
living,  united,  growing  Church. 

Under  the  arrangement  whereby  the  proper 
work  of  this  institution  is  continued  dur- 
ing this  trying  year,  it  is  my  privilege  to  be 
one  of  a  considerable  number  of  men,  each 
of  whom  undertakes  to  aid  the  students  by  a 
few  days  of  instruction  in  the  form  of  lec- 
tures or  otherwise.  My  own  attempt  is  to 
give  them,  as  Dr.  Morris  requested,  five  fa- 
miliar addresses  on  as  many  days  of  this 
week,  on  the  work  of  cur  Church,  The  whole 
number  of  students  is  twenty,  and  no  speaker 
need  desire  a  more  intelligently  and  earnestly 
attentive  audience  than  they  constitute. 


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THE  UNIVSBSITT  OV  W006TBB,   W006TER,   O. 


Seyeral  of  them  are  gradaates  of  Park 
Ck)llege,  and  from  no  institation  does  this  or 
any  other  theological  eeminarj  receive  stu- 
dents with  better  intellectual  and  spiritual 
preparation.  One  tells  me  that  he  is  taking 
this  year  here  having  had  the  last  year  in 
another  seminary,  not  because  of  any  lack  of 
satisfaction  with  the  other  institution,  but 
led  by  providential  orderings  to  this,  with 
which  he  is  well  satisfied,  and  in  which  he  is 
doing  well. 

More  than  one  of  these  students  has  made 
known  to  me  his  desire  to  become  a  foreign 
missionary,  and  I  see  pleasant  reason  to 
believe  that  most  of  them  are  committing 
their  way  unto  the  Lord  with  supreme  desire 
to  learn,  in  his  own  time  and  way,  where  he 
would  have  them  go  and  what  he  would  have 
them  do. 


In  a  letter  from  an  intelligent  member  of 

the  Board  of  Trustees  he  says: 

'*  I  am  sure  that  every  member  of  the  Board 
feeli,  as  I  do,  that  the  Seminary  has  prospered 
beyond  its  expectations,  and  that  the  situation  is 
very  favorable  for  old  Lane's  recovering  the 
ground  which  has  been  lost"  He  continues: 
''I  am  a  believer  in  non-resident  lecturers  if 
they  are  men  of  large  experience  in  the  pastorate 
and  men  who  have  been  in  close  touch  with  men 
and  the  work  of  the  Church.  Their  addresses 
are  sure  to  be  practical,  suggestive  and  helpful 
to  students,  and  are  almost  certain  to  give  tiiem 
a  truer  and  Juster  view  of  the  equipment  which 
they  must  have  for  their  work  in  the  Christian 
ministry." 

The  writer  of  that  letter  is  the  honored 
President  of  a  college,  and  his  opinion  thus 
soberly  expressed  is  concurred  in,  as  I  learn, 
by  other  men  of  good  judgment  who  are 
acquainted  with  the  situation. 

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semSnaiy  should  long'{  zeinain  with  only  one 
professor  and  one  resident  instmctor,  depend- 
ing for  all  other  instmction  upon  non-resident 
lecturers.  But  the  remarkable  snccess  of 
this  experiment,  in  so  difficult  conditions, 
confirms  a  number  of  as  judicious  men  as  I 
know  in  the  opinion  that  a  much  smaller 
number  of  professors  than  some  hare  thought 
desirable,  with  the  assistance  of  three  or  four 
experienced  men  coming  fresh  from  the 
churches  and  familiar  with  their  needs,  their 
work  and  their  life,  will  furnish  the  best  pos- 
sible training  of  candidates  for  the  ministry. 
«« The  idea  has  come  to  stay,"  says  one  com- 
petent observer,  ^' whatever  modification  or 
development  may  be  found  necessary  to  its 
complete  fulfillment."  In  these  views  I 
heartily  concur,  and  believe  that  the  recent 
difficulties  of  Lane  Seminary  and  the  calm 
steadiness  with  which,  **in  media  via  tutis- 
sima,''  she  is  advancing  through  them  is  giv- 
ing the  Church  the  best  assurance  of  her 


healthy  vigor  and  the  beet  promise  of  her 
healthy  fruitfulness. 

Leaving  Walnut  Hills  at  6.80  a.  m.,  Febru- 
ary 17,  enjoying  that  peerless  ride  over  Eden 
Park,  in  an  electric  railway  car,  and  that 
startling  descent  down  the  steep  ^  Undine ''  to 
the  ^^  old  reliable  Little  Miami ''  depot,  now 
representing  the  great  *^  Pennsylvania,"  I 
was  ready  to  start  northward  at  7  a.  m.  At 
7  p.  M.  I  was  in  the  hospitable  home  of  Bev. 
Dr.  O.  A.  Hills  at  Wooster.  On  Sabbath 
morning,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  listening  to 
Dr.  Hills  (exchanging  pulpits  with  Pastor-* 
Professor  Work,  one  of  Lane*s  alumni  and 
trustees),  and  thus  addressing  the  congregation 
of  Westminster  Church,  of  which  the  faculty 
and  students  of  the  University  are  a  large 
part,  in  the  University  chapel.  In  the  even- 
ing the  greater  part  of  that  congregation 
united  with  Dr.  Hills*  people,  to  fill  the  audi- 
torium of  their  First  Presbyterian  Church. 


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Barelj  have  I  more  thoroughly  enjoyed 
preaching  to  any  audience.  Never  have  I 
addressed  a  more  attentive  one. 

WoosTKB  Univirsity,  fouudod  a  quarter- 
century  since,  under  Presbyterian  auspices, 
has  continued  prosperously  under  generous, 
not  sectarian,  Presbyterian  control  ever  since. 
On  a  site  sufficiently  elevated  to  be  airy  and 
wholesome,  yet  not  difficult  of  approach,  its 
stately  edifice-Hsee  cut  on  page  282 — com- 


the  sentiments  and  the  rhythmic  verse  of 
that  Latin  poet,  but  into  more  vivid  appre- 
hension and  just  appreciation  of  Tennyson 
and  Coleridge  and  of  the  mental  and  spiritual 
forces  which  vivify  all  real  poetry.  A  more 
quickening  recitation  I  have  rarely  witnessed. 

The  safe  and  good  opportunity  to  educate 
their  children,  without  extravagant  expense, 
and  in  a  wholesome  social  and  spiritual  at- 
mosphere, has  made  Wooster  a  favorite  resort 


THE  LIVINGSTONE  HOME  FOR  MISSIONARIES*  CHILDREN,  WOOSTER,  O. 


mands  a  wide  and  beautiful  view.  Its 
grounds  are  ample.  Its  gymnasium  is  well 
appointed  and  used,  under  a  competent 
teacher  of  gymnastics.  Its  laboratories  are 
convenient  and  well-furnished  for  the  study 
of  natural  sciences.  A  recitation  in  Horace 
which  I  attended  showed  that  classical 
study  is  not  relegated  to  the  realm  of  old 
fogydom.  That  lesson  in  Horace  led  the 
young  men  and  women  of  the  class,  under 
the  intelligent  and  sympathetic  guidance  of 
their  teacher,  not  merely  to  a  knowledge  of 


for  temporary  residence  of  missionaries  on 
their  furlough,  and  permanently  >  of  some 
whom  advanced  age  has  retired  from  service. 
Quite  naturally  and  happily  this  has  led  to 
the  establishment  of  Homes  for  Missionaries' 
children,  by  the  beneficence  of  a  number  of 
considerate  women  and  men,  under  the  ul- 
timate control  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions.  Westminster  Home — see 
cut  on  page  288 — the  former  dwelling  of 
President  A.  A.  E.  Taylor,  D.  D.,  consider- 
ably enlarged  and  altered  into  convenient 


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adaptation  to  its  present  use,  is  the  home 
for  missionaries'  daughters  and  for  their 
little  sons,  while  Livingston  Home — see  cut 
on  page  284 — ^is  for  the  larger  boys  and 
young  men.  This  was  the  home  of  the  late 
honored  and  loyed  Professor  Stoddard. 
A  great  advantage  in  this  location  of  these 


homes,  is  the  generous  welcome  of  the  trus-' 
tees  of  the  university  to  all  their  inmates  to 
enjoy  all  the  privileges  and  benefits  of  the 
university  in  all  its  courses  of  instruction. 
This  exemplary  generosity  ought  to  be  grate- 
fully appreciated  by  our  entire  Church  and 
by  all  friends  of  missions. 


GRATEFUL 
On  a  Sabbath  in  November,  1884,  being  the 
guest  of  Dr.  Shedd,  of  Oroomiah,  I  gladly 
accepted  his  invitation  to  attend  the  public 
services  of  that  day,  in  Qeog  Tapa,  a  village 
near  Oroomiah  in  which  the' work  of  the  mis- 
sion has  been  greatly  blessed  for  half  a  cen- 
tury. I  remember  no  Sabbath  of  my  life 
more  pleasantly  filled  with  suitable  Sabbath 
services.  At  noon  we  were  invited  to  dine  at 
the  house  of  Malek  Tonan,  a  prominent  man 
of  the  village,  and  an  intelligent  minister  of 
the  Reformed  Nestorian  Church.  He  had 
invited  the  friendly  priest  of  the  old  Nes- 
torian Church  and  several  of  his  Protestant 
neighbors  to  dine  with  us,  and  ihe  conversa- 
tion was  largely  directed  to  an  effort  to  illus- 
trate to  me  the  great  and  marvelous  changes 
whicth  had  been  wrought  in  their  community 
by  God's  blessing  on  the  labors  of  my  coun- 
trymen, whose  mission  was  then  in  its  fiftieth 
year.  The  gratitude  of  those  honest  men  to 
those  who  had  thus  given  them  the  Gospel 
was  exceedingly  impressive.  Looking  upon 
me  as  a  representative  of  the  American 
Church  from  which  their  missionaries  had 
come,  they  evidently  desired  me  to  be  as  fully 
qualified  as  possible  to  bring  home  their  grate- 
ful testimony. 

Malek  Tonan  now  has  a  son  in  the  Presby- 
terian Theological  Seminary  at  Louisville, 
Ey.,  to  whom  he  has  recently  sent  a  letter  to 
me,  which  that  son  has  translated  and  for- 
warded to  me. 


NESTORLAJ^S. 

FBOM  KALEK  TONAK'S  LETTER. 

Nine  years  ago  you  were  in  my  house  and 
under  my  roof.  I  cannot  forget  your  visit  to 
our  Mission  church.  Your  visit  left  us  many 
blessiugs  of  God. 

While  you  were  in  my  house  I  would  not 
think  that  you  would  meet  or  hear  [my  son] 
Isaac  in  America.  It  is  the  Bible  that  teaches 
**  Cast  tby  bread  upon  the  waters,  for  thou  shalt 
flud  it  after  mauy  years." 

For  not  less  than  fifty  years  I  have  [been]  a 
helper  in  the  Gk>spel  work.  But  I  have  been 
stricken  with  old  age.  My  eyes  are  very  weak 
so  that  I  cannot  preach  and  work  as  before,  but 
my  expectation  is  that  two  of  my  sons,  both  in 
America^oue  as  a  preacher  and  the  other  as 
physician  —  will  do  the  very  work  for  the 
Lord  and  immortal  souls  of  my  country. 

I  cannot  repay  the  debt  I  owe  to  the  mission- 
aries. Those  that  are  rested  from  their  labor, 
and  these  that  are  laboring  now. 

My  prayers  and  supplications  are  that  God 
may  bless  the  country  of  America  that  has  been 
the  means  of  preachiug  the  Gospel  in  all  the 
world.  God  bless  you  in  all  your  Christian 
work.  May  we  meet  again  in  our  Father's  home 
in  heaven,  when  we  will  separate  no  more. 

ISAAC  M.  TONAN's  LBTTER. 

Rev.  H.  a.  Nelson,  D.  D. 

Dear  iWr;— This  momiug  I  got  my  mail  from 
home  in  Persia,  containing  the  enclosed  note 
from  my  father  to  you.  He  asked  me  to  trans- 
late it  to  you.  I  have  translated  it  literally, 
word  by  word,  hope  youj  will  understand  it 
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The  affairs  Id  Persia  are  getting  better;  the 
Mohammedans  are  a  little  quiet  from  their  per- 
secutions. 

I  do  hope  the  glorious  day  of  religious  free- 
dow  in  my  country  is  near.  I  hasten  that  the 
time  may  come  soon  when  I  can  go  back  and  do 
the  very  work  that  I  am  anxious  to  do. 

I  am  very  asliamed  of  some  of  our  Nestorian 
young  men  in  this  country,  that  have  no  sympa^ 
thy  with  missions.  I  refer  to  Dr.  R  Karib, 
who  wrote  in  all  secular  papers  of  New  York 
against  missionaries.  Believe  me,  I  beg  you, 
sir,  that  such  young  men  are  not  converted  thor- 
oughly, and  have  no  love  for  Christ  and  his 
work  in  their  hearts.  Do  not  think  that  all  the 
Nestorians  arc  like  them.  These  are  poor  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Nestorians.  Qod  will  punish 
them  all  who  speak  against  those  holy  men  that 
with  all  self-sacrifice  are  preaching  among  the 
Nestoriana 

I  do  pray  for  them,  and  for  all  my  country, 
and  would  ask  you  too  to  pray  for  our  mission- 
aries and  all  connected  with  their  work. 

OvEB  Sea  and  IjAND,  already  noticed, 
comes  to  us  as  promised,  a  missionary  maga- 
zine for  the  youth  of  our  Church.  It  has  all 
the  attractiveDess  of  its  predecessor,  ChU- 
dren's  Work  for  Children,  with  the  addition 
of  information  concerning  the  missionary 
work  which  is  being  carried  on  among  the 
Mexicans,  Mormons,  Indians  and  Freedmen 
in  our  own  land.  As  a  Home  and  Foreign 
missionary  magazine  it  gives  its  young  read- 
ers a  broad  outlook  over  the  whole  wide  world 
and  invites  them  to  become  ^'workers 
together  with  God  "  in  winning  our  country 
and  the  whole  world  for  Christ. 

In  Sabbath-schools,  in  homes,  in  mission 
bands  and  Junior  Endeavor  Societies  this  lit- 
tle magazine  will  be  a  constant  and  necessary 
help.  Single  copies  85  cents  per  year;  in 
clubs  of  five  or  more  to  one  address,  25  cents 
each.  Address,  Over  Sea  and  Land,  1884 
Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia. 


Mb.  Black  Gone.— Coming  home  from 
Ohio,  after  a  fortnight^s  absence,  all  seems 
unchanged  in  our  Publication  House,  with 
one  great  and  solemn  exception :  Mr.  Black 
has  disappeared  from  it  forever,  after  a 
longer  connection  with  the  church  business 
which  it  represents  than  has  been  held  by 
any  other  person.  Boy  and  man,  he  held 
that  connection  fifty-two  years. 

Seven  years  of  intercourse  with  him  gave 
me  a  high  personal  regard  for  him.  He  was 
honest,  reliable,  true.  None  deny  him  those 
sterling  qualities,  however  some  may  deny 
that  he  was  graceful  or  gracious.  No  doubt 
there  was  more  of  the  soldier  than  of  the 
courtier  in  him.  But  when  you  want  a  great 
treasure  guarded,  a  mastiff  is  better  than  a 
greyhound. 

I  here  record  the  conviction  that  no  one 
really  knows  Mr.  Black,  who  has  not  come  into 
persona]  communing  with  him  concerning  the 
aacred  things  of  personal  Christian  experience. 


Amebican  Pbesbytebianism.— By  my  ab- 
sence in  Ohio  I  missed  the  first  three  of  a 
remarkable  course  of  six  lectures  on  the  his- 
tory of  Presbyterianism  in  America  by  Bev. 
John  S.  Macintosh,  D.  D.,  delivered  in  the 
Assembly  room  of  our  Publication  House  on 
the  invitation  of  Presbyterian  women. 
Those  which  I  have  heard  show  careful  and 
thorough  and  broad  research,  and  they  are 
Tivid  with  the  true  spirit  of  American  Pres- 
byterianism as  distinct  from  all  that  is  insular, 
provincial  or  sectional  on  the  one  hand,  and 
all  that  is  loose  and  lawless  on  the  other.  I 
wish  that  the  women  of  many  another  city 
would  give  themselves  and  their  men  an 
opportunity  to  hear  them. 


The  excellent  article  of  Bev.  Alexander 
Robertson,  of  Venice,  is  necessarily  post- 
poned, for  want  of  room.  Our  readers  may 
expect  it  in  the  May  number. 


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Dr.  James  Johnston,  the  author  of  ^  ^  Reality 
Versus  Romance  in  Central  Africa,"  (Revell 
Company),  has  delivered  interesting  and 
instractive  lectures  in  Brooklyn  and  New 
York,  illustrated  by  stereopticon  views  of 
great  beauty  and  vividness.  They  were 
taken  by  his  own  camera,  and  developed  on 
the  spot.  If  any  of  our  readers  should  have 
an  opportunity  to  hear  these  lectures  of  Dr. 
Johnston^s,  in  any  part  of  our  country,  they 
would  be  sure  of  a  rare  treat. 


Dr.  Ellinwood  writes:— *' The  football  lit- 
erature of  1898  published  by  the  secular 
press,  and  read  by  millions  of  people,  would 
probably  exceed  in  volume  all  that  has  been 
published  by  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  re- 
gard to  its  foreign  missions  since  their  com- 
mencement sixty  years  ago.  Tet  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  practically  decided  when  it 
suspended  T?ie  Foreign  Missionary  some 
years  ago  that  it  could  not  afford  a  monthly 
magazine  for  foreign  missions,  and  even  a 
consolidated  monthly  issue,  embracing  all 
the  work  of  the  Church  in  our  own  and  other 
lands,  can  secure  only  a  very  moderate  sup- 
port. 

A  book  of  great  value  and  timeliness,  upon 
East  Africa,  has  been  written  by  Captain  F. 
D.  Lugard.  It  is  entitled,  ''  The  Rise  of  our 
East  African  Empire,"  and  is  published  by 
William  Blackwood  &  Sons,  London.  It  is  a 
work  of  two  volumes,  the  first  of  which  deals 
largely  with  Nyassa-land,  otherwise  known 
as  Livingstonia,  while  the  second  treats  of 
Uganda  and  the  recent  history  of  events  in 
that  part  of  Africa,  in  which  Captain  Lugard 
himself  has  been  such  a  prominent  actor. 
Captain  Lugard  testifies  to  the  heroism  of 
the  native  Christians  who  bravely  met  their 
martyrdom  at  the  hands  of  the  cruel  and 
bloodthirsty  Mwanga.  He  says:  ^*0n  one 
occasion  as  many  as  82  were  burned  on  one 
pyre,  but,  in  spite  of  martyrdom  by  torture 
mud  burning,  the  religion  grew,  and  converts 


came  to  be  baptized,  though  they  knew  that 
the  profession  of  the  Christian  faith  might 
cost  them  their  lives  on  the  morrow." 


The  effort  is  being  made  in  connection 
with  the  Divinity  School  of  Tale  University, 
under  the  personal  supervision  of  Professor 
(George  E.  Day,  D.D.,  to  establish  a  complete 
historical  library  of  modem  missions.  It  is 
estimated  that  this  library  when  complete 
would  contain  about  5,000  volumes.  Of  this 
number  8,175  are  already  on  the  shelves,  and 
two  successive  catalogues  have  been  issued. 
Dr.  Day  deserves  the  thanks  of  all  interested 
in  mission  work,  and  there  is  every  prospect 
that  the  foreign  mission  library  of  the  Divin- 
ity School  of  Yale  University  will  soon  be 
the  most  complete  and  valuable  collection  in 
the  special  department  of  foreign  missions  to 
be  found  in  the  world. 

The  Newberry  Library,  of  Chicago,  has 
also  undertaken  to  carry  out  this  same  idea, 
and  a  good  beginning  has  been  made. 


Dr.  Ellinwood  writes  as  follows  about  some 
inconsistencies  which,  perhaps  unconsciously, 
appear  in  the  attitude  of  Christians  towards 
foreign  missions.  He  says:  *^The  most  in- 
consistent Christian  in  the  world  is  he  who 
stoutly  defends  a  strong  Calvinistic  creed 
with  all  that  it  implies  concerning  the 
heathen,  and  has  much  to  say  in  criticism  of 
those  who  cherish  a  'larger  hope,'  and  yet 
'don't  believe  much'  in  foreign  missions. 
Next  in  inconsistency  are  those  who  claim 
that  the  life  of  a  foreign  missionary  is  far  too 
easy  and  luxurious,  and  yet  would  neverthe- 
less about  as  soon  bury  their  sons  and 
daughters  as  to  sacrifice  them  to  so  distant 
and  lonely  and  forlorn  a  life.  One  more  in- 
consistent Christian  is  the  tourist,  who  spends 
perhaps  an  amount  equal  to  the  salary  of  a 
missionary  for  several  years,  in  Oriental  curios 
and  bric-a-brac,  and  then  comes  home  to  fiud 
fault  with  '  missionary  extravagance.' " 

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A  Referenjce  New  lestamerU  in  Mandarin. 


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A  Reference  New  Testament  in  Mandarin 
has  recently  been  printed  in  China.  No  Man- 
darin Testament  with  references  has  ever 
been  published  before.  The  version  which 
was  used  was  that  of  Dr.  Griffith  John,  and 
the  references  were  arranged  bj  Rev.  C.  G. 
Sparham,  of  Hankow,  and  are  about  20,000 
in  number. 

Pending  the  completed  Bible  in  Korea,  a 
plan  has  been  adopted  of  publishing  in  the 
form  of  a  tract  a  selection  of  verses  from  the 
Bible,  embodying  the  fundamental  facts  and 
doctrines  of  Christianity.  It  will  be  a  sum- 
mary of  the  life  of  Christ  and  his  essential 
teachings,  in  the  very  words  of  the  Bible. 
An  English  missionary  in  Korea  writes  con- 
cerning this  publication:  '*It  will  not  only 
give  the  key-note  of  our  teaching,  which  is 
*•  Jesus  Christ  and  him  crucified  *,  but  in  better 
words  than  we  can  ever  hope  to  find  will  pro- 
vide Koreans  with  our  credentials,  and  furn- 
ish a  short  answer  to  the  questions  they  will 
always  be  asking:  ^  By  what  authority  do  you 
preach  these  things  M ;  ^  Who  gave  you  this 
authority?'  I  feel  that  if  all  this  can  be 
done  in  the  words  of  Holy  Scripture  we  shall 
be  beginning  our  work  on  very  secure  ground. 
There  will  be  no  danger  of  our  trumpet  giv- 
ing an  uncertain  sound."  The  tract  is  to  be 
published  immediately. 


Church  organization  in  connection  with  the 
Batanga  station  in  our  West  Africa  Mission 
is  just  at  present  a  prominent  feature  of  mis- 
sionary progress.  It  is  only  a  little  while 
since  a  church  was  established  at  Uben  je,  in 
addition  to  those  at  Bata  and  Evune.  Now 
another  has  just  been  organized  at  Myuma, 
and  still  another  is  in  prospect  at  Liobe.  The 
Ubenje  church  was  started  with  the  transfer- 
ence of  thirty  members  from  other  churches, 
and  the  reception  of  twenty-two  upon  con- 
fession of  faith.  Rev.  W.  C.  Gault,  writes 
an  interesting  account  of  the  new  church 
organization  at  Myuma,  a  town  on  the  sea- 
coast,  about  twelve  miles  north  of  Evune, 
and  about  thirty  miles  south  of  Batanga.  It 
was  accomplished  by  receiving  thirty-two 
members  from  the  Evune  church,  and  subse- 
quently thirty-four  others  were  transferred 


from  the  same  church,  and  seventeen  new 
members  were  admitted  upon  confession  of 
faith,  so  that  the  new  church  has  upon  its  roll 
seventy-seven  members  at  the  outset,  and 
there  are  some  seventy-five  or  eighty  mem- 
bers of  a  catechumen  class  in  that  district 
who  will  be  candidates  for  admission  at  an 
early  date.  Mr.  Gault  reports  an  addition  of 
twelve  to  the  Evune  church,  received  during 
his  visit  to  that  region.  Mr.  Godduhn  also 
writes  of  the  baptism  of  twenty  adults  at 
Kribi,  near  Batanga. 


The  existence  of  denominational  distinc- 
tions in  mission  fields  throughout  the  world 
is  not  of  course  an  ideal  situation.  Would 
that  Christianity,  as  such,  could  present  one 
front,  and  that  all  our  mission  work  might 
be  done  in  the  name  of  Christ  and  His  GK)8pel, 
with  as  little  reference  as  possible  to  the  ex- 
istence of  denominational  divisions.  Far  too 
much,  however,  is  made  by  the  critics  of 
Christian  missions  of  the  differences  and  jeal- 
ousies which  are  supposed  to  exist  between 
the  various  denominations  in  their  mission 
work.  There  is  no  place  in  the  world  where 
denominational  differences  are  so  studiously 
and  generously  ignored  as  in  our  foreign  mis- 
sion fields.  This  is  especially  true  of  China, 
and  we  fully  agree  with  the  following  para- 
graph taken  from  the  editorial  columns  of 
T?ie  Chinese  Recorder  for  September: 

We  venture  to  affirm  that  there  is  no  country 
In  the  world  where  deDominatioDal  differences 
are  made  so  little  of,  and  have  so  little  effect,  as 
on  missionary  ground.  As  a  rule,  there  is  no 
more  friction  between  the  different  denomina- 
tions Id  China  than  there  is  between  the  different 
members  of  the  same  denomiDStlon.  Any  one 
who  was  present  at  the  MissioDary  ConfereDce  in 
1800,  or  who  has  visited  the  missionaries  in  their 
fields  of  work,  would  be  assured  of  this  fact 
There  is  no  crowding,  no  treading  upon  one 
another's  toes,  no  concentrating  of  a  dozen  mis- 
sionaries upon  one  heathen— as  we  have  seen  it 
somewhere  stated.  If  our  brethren  at  home 
who  simply  theorize  upon  these  matters,  would 
only  come  and  see,  or  listen  to  those  who  know, 
they  would  be  surprised  at  the  interdenomina- 
tioDal  harmony  which  nearly  everywhere  exists, 
and  certainly  to  a  far  greater  extent  than  exists 
at  home. 


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AN  ILLUSTBATION. 

A  pleasant  incident  illustrating  and  con- 
finning  the  above  is  found  in  the  December 
number  of  I%e  Chronicle  in  its  correspond- 
ence from  China.  Some  missionary  of  the 
London  Missionary  Society  writes  of  baptisms 
at  Hong  Kong  as  follows : 

We  are  thankful  to  record  several  baptisms 
this  month.  The  first  was  a  blind  girl  who  was 
for  a  long  time  a  patient  in  the  Alice  Memorial 
Hospital,  was  taught  there  by  Miss  Field,  and 
there  became  a  Christian.  Miss  Field  after- 
wards placed  her  in  a  school  for  blind  girls  under 
the  direction  of  the  American  Presbyterian  Mis- 
sion in  Canton,  where  she  is  learning  to  read  and 
write  Chinese  by  means  of  the  Braille  system, 
and  hopes  to  fit  herself  ultimately  for  the  work 
of  a  Bible  woman.  The  extent  of  her  Bible 
knowledge  is  quite  surprising. 

A  RBSOUBD  WOMAN. 

Another  case  is  that  of  a  young  woman  who 
was  a  patient  in  the  Canton  Hospital  She  had 
been  decoyed  from  home  and  sold  into  an  evil 
life,  but  in  the  hospital  at  Canton  (and  after- 
wards  in  Hong  Eong)  she  learned  of  Jesus  and 
accepted  Him  as  her  Saviour.  She  was  helped 
by  the  American  missionaries  to  escape  from  her 
wicked  mistress  to  Hong  Kong,  and  commended 
to  the  care  of  Mrs.  Stevens.  She  was  at  once 
placed  under  the  protection  of  the  Qovemment, 
who  gave  her  back  to  the  care  of  Mrs.  Stevens, 
who  is  responsible  to  them  for  the  woman.  A 
Wong  received  the  truth  into  a  very  wUling 
heart,  and  her  bright,  hgnest  face  testifies  to  her 
joy,  and  to  the  fact  that  the  evil  into  which  she 
was  sold  never  in  any  way  took  possession  of 
her.  Two  other  women  and  two  girls,  the  fruits 
of  Miss  Field's  teaching,  were  baptized  the 
same  day,  and  others  are  to  be  baptized  shortly. 
Another  baptized  was  an  old  woman  of  sixty- 
five,  who  has  been  taught  by  my  Bible- woman, 
A-Tam-Pak-Mo.  A  younger  woman,  whom  A- 
Tam-Pak-Mo  has  also  brought  in,  was  detained 
too  late  by  the  storm,  but  is  to  be  received  next 
Sabbath.  The  previous  Sabbath  eight  infants 
were  brought  by  their  parents,  and  publicly 
dedicated  to  Qod.  Yet  another  member  was 
received  by  transfer  from  the  American  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Canton. 


are  constantly  appearing,  bearing  directly  or 
indirectly  upon  the  world-wide  advances  of 
Christ's  kingdom.  The  literature  upon  mis- 
sions is  increasing  in  volume  and  attractive- 
ness. Many  of  the  magazines  published  by 
foreign  missionary  societies  are  admirably 
conducted,  and  are  brightened  by  attractive 
illustrations.  The  religious  newspapers  have, 
almost  without  exception,  a  special  depart- 
ment on  missions,  which  receives  the  careful 
attention  of  some  one  upon  the  editorial  staff, 
and  much  pains  are  taken,  and  in  some  cases 
considerable  expense,  to  secure  fresh  and 
timely  contributions  from  both  home  and 
foreign  sources.  The  foreign  missionary 
periodicals  of  Great  Britain  are  as  yet  super- 
ior in  many  respects  to  those  issued  in 
America,  although  there  are  one  or  two  upon 
this  side  of  the  Atlantic  which  are  unsur- 
passed in  the  world.  Would  that  our  mission- 
ary literature  were  more  highly  appreciated 
throughout  our  Presbyterian  Church.  There 
is  much  to  interest  and  attract  in  our  Presby- 
terian foreign  missions.  If  they  could  only 
obtain  a  hearing,  we  are  sure  that  many  hearts 
in  the  Church  that  now  feel  no  special  interest 
in  the  subject  would  be  both  delighted  and 
aroused  by  the  world-wide  chronicles  of  our 
great  work.  The  subscription  prioe  of  The 
Chuboh  at  Home  and  Abboad  is  certainly 
low  when  we  consider  the  size  of  the  maga- 
zine and  the  breadth  and  variety  of  its  con- 
tents. Our  Saviour  once  said  to  his  disci- 
ples: **  Could  ye  not  watch  with  me  one 
hourf  "  If  he  ^ould  pass  judgment  in  this 
matter  of  Presbyterian  missionary  literature, 
are  we  sure  he  would  not  be  inelmed  to  say 
to  many  in  our  Church:  ^*  Could  ye  not  pay 
for  the  tidings  of  the  work  of  my  Church  at 
home  and  abroad  at  least  one  dcilarf  *' 


The  extent  and  value  of  current  mission- 
ary.literature  is  hardly  appreciated  by  the 
Christian  public.    Boc^  of    great  interest 


MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DXPABTUBicS. 

February  27. — From  San  Francisco,  to 
join  West  Japan  Mission,  Miss  Martha  E. 
Kelley,  Miss  Emma  L.  Settlemeyer;  return- 
ing, Miss  Sarah  Gardner. 

February  28.— From  New  York,  return- 
ing to  Lodiana  Missioui  Miss  Mary  E. 
PraU. 


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AN  EXPRESSION  OP  THANKS  TO  AN 
ENLIGHTENED  AND  FRIENDLY 

SOVEREIGN. 
The  following  letter  is  almost  unique  of  its 
kind,  and  has  an  onusoal  interest  as  a  tribute 
of  Christian  gratitude  for  royal  favors.  It  is 
an  act  of  courtesy  which  is  due  to  the  ruler 
of  a  kingdom  where  our  missions  have  been 
welcome,  and  where  they  have  been  con- 
ducted with  remarkable  success.  The  friendly 
policy  adopted  by  His  Majesty,  the  King  of 
Slam  has  brought  a  blessing  to  his  realm  in 
the  opportunity  which  has  been  afforded  for 
the  instruction  andenlightmentof  his  people, 
and  the  alleviation  of  suflfering  through  the 
labors  of  our  medical  missionaries.  A  king 
who  rightly  values  every  agency,  of  what- 
ever kind,  which  works  to  the  advantage  of 
his  subjects  and  to  the  highest  welfare  of  his 
realm  is  a  blessing  to  any  country,  and  we 
are  sure  the  Christian  people  of  America 
will  unite  with  our  Board  of  Missions  in  this 
expression  of  cordial  thanks  and  best  wishes 
to  the  King  of  Siam,  and  express  the  hope 
that  he  may  long  live  to  reign  in  peace  and 
prosperity.  The  following  is  the  text  of  the 
letter,  which  has  been  forwarded  through  the 
Department  of  State  at  Washington. 

New  Yobk,  January  16,  1894. 
To  His  Majesty, 

SOHDETCH  PhRA  PaRAMINDB  MaHA  ChUL- 
ALONKOBN    PhRA     ChULA     ChOM    EIlOW, 

King  of  Siam. 
The  officers  and  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
Board  of  Christian  Missions,  whose  missiODaries 
have  for  many  years  enjoyed  the  kind  and  gen- 
erous protection  of  your  Majesty,  desire  to  com- 
municate to  you  through  their  own  Department 
of  State  at  Washington  their  hearty  congratula- 
tions upon  your  having  been  spared  in  life  and 
health  to  celebrate  the  twenty- fifth  anniversary 
of  your  reign .  The  fact  of  our  having  been  so 
long  represented  by  our  missionaries  in  Siam 
and  in  its  northern  dependency,  Laos,  has  led  us 
to  take  a  deep  interest  in  the  history  of  your 
realm,  and  particularly  of  the  dynasty  of  which 
you  are  the  present  exalted  representative.  It 
is  a  matter  of  great  satisfaction  to  us  to  recall 
the  many  evidences  of  your  enlightened  reign, 
as  seen  not  only  in  the  friendly  spirit  of  your 
foreign  policy,  but  in  many  lines  of  improve- 
ment tending  toward  the  welfare  and  happiness 
of  your  subjects.    And  we  are  especially  desir- 


ous to  tender  to  your  Majesty  our  sincere  thanks 
for  the  generous  favor  and  substantial  helpful- 
ness which  you  have  been  pleased  to  exercise 
toward  our  mission  schools.  We  have  noted 
with  much  pleasure  the  fact  that  although 
wrongs  may  sometimes  have  been  suffered  at 
the  hands  of  unscrupulous  foreign  residents, 
you  have  nevertheless  recognized  the  loyalty, 
the  disinterestedness  and  the  earnest  effort  of 
our  missionaries.  Tou  have  shown  your  confi- 
dence in  them  especially  in  the  matter  of  higher 
education,  placing  some  ef  their  number  in 
positions  of  trust  and  responsibility ;  and  also  in 
the  management  of  hospitals  and  general  medi- 
cal work.  We  render  thanks  also  for  the  broad 
and  generous  spirit  with  which  your  €k>vem- 
ment  has  enabled  our  missionaries  to  secure  the 
necessary  property  in  land  and  buildings  for  the 
prosecution  of  their  work.  We  remember  with 
special  interest  also  the  direct  assurances  that 
have  been  given  from  time  to  time  by  your 
Majesty's  representatives,  of  the  generous  spirit 
cherished  toward  our  missionaries  and  their  work, 
and  particularly  those  given  by  your  special 
Commissioners  who  visited  this  country  during 
the  administration  of  the  late  President  Arthur. 
Will  you  permit  us  to  assure  your  Majesty 
that,  as  in  the  past,  so  also  in  the  present  and  in 
the  future,  it  will  be  the  aim  of  our  missionaries 
to  show  their  appreciation  of  the  generous  pol- 
icy which  your  Qovemment  has  pursued  toward 
them,  and  to  prove  worthy  of  your  Majesty's 
confidence  in  the  prosecution  of  a  work  which 
is  wholly  disinterested  and  which  seeks  only  the 
lasting  good  of  your  subjects. 

In  all  diplomatic  questions  which  relate  to 
your  Majesty's  realm  it  is  our  sincere  desire  and 
hope  that  Siam  with  all  its  outlying  territories 
may  be  preserved  intact,  and  that  the  whole 
country  may  continue  to  enjoy  that  peace  and 
that  exemption  from  distracting  changes  and 
commotions,  which   are   so   important   to  its 
growing  prosperity.    We  take  great  pleasure  in 
assuring  your  Majesty  of  our  earnest  hope  and 
our  sincere  prayer  to  Almighty  €k)d,  the  Maker 
and  Father  of  us  all,  that  your  own  life  and 
health  may  long  be  preserved,  and  that  your 
dominion  may  abide  in  peace. 
Witness  the  seal  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  attested .  by  its  President 
and  Recording  Secretary  at  New  York,  this 
tenth  day  of   February  Anno   Domini   one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-four. 

(Signed)  John  D.  Wells,  President. 
BsNJ.  TjAbahrr,  Becording  SecreUsry. 


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SOME  HOPEFUL  ASPECTS  OF  MISSION 
WORK  IN  JAPAN. 

RBT.  GEORGE  WILLIAM  KNOX,  D.D. 
n.      THE  ETHICAL  TRANSFORMATION. 

Christianity  comes  te  Japan  as  a  revoln- 
tionary  force.  Conservatives  fear  it,  and 
with  reason.  It  seems  to  many  of  the  best 
of  the  people  that  the  foundations  of  the 
family,  the  state  and  the  social  order  are 
threatened,  and  they  oppose  Christianity  in 
the  cause  of  good  morals. 

We  so  identify  Christianity  with  morals 
that  we  with  difficulty  understand  how  men 
can  oppose  it,  unless  it  be  in  the  interests  of 
immorality  or  of  intellectual  doubt.  We  do 
not  enter  readily  into  a  state  of  mind  that 
identifies  Christianity  with  license,  and  even 
with  something  dangerously  like  individual- 
istic anarchy. 

THE  OLD  CLASSICAL  IDEALS. 

When  Christianity  was  young,  it  was  the 
best  of  the  Roman  emperors  who  persecuted 
it  most  severely,  and  for  the  reason  that  it 
seemed  to  threaten  the  Empire.  In  the  minds 
of  the  Romans  it,  of  all  religions,  best 
deserved  to  be  held  as  hateful,  for  it  alone 
struck  at  the  basis  of  morals.  A  Roman 
Stoic  would  have  found  himself  wholly  in 
sympathy  with  the  modem  followers  of  Con- 
fucius in  China  and  Japan,  and  if  we  would 
understand  this  mood  we  must  transplant 
ourselves  into  the  environment  of  classic 
lands  and  times. 

Now  the  essential  principle  of  the  ethics  of 
China  and  Japan,  like  that  of  Greece  and 
Rome,  is  this:  The  family,  the  state,  the 
social  order  are  the  chief  ends,  and  the  indi- 
vidual is  only  a  means.  That  was  made  per- 
fectly clear  by  Socrates,  Plato  and  Aristotle, 
and  it  explains  ethically  the  features  of  Plato's 
Republic  which  are  so  repulsive, — ^the  com- 
munity of  wives,  the  public  education  of  chil- 
dren, the  killing  of  weak  and  unpromising 
offspring,  and  the  approbation  of  slavery. 

JAPANESE  ETHICS  ESSENTIALLT  STOICAL. 

The  same  principle  is  made  equally  clear 
by  the  Chinese  and  Japanese  writers,  and 
explains,  ethically,  much  in  the  social  struc- 
ture of  the  far  East  that  is  most  abhorrent 
to  us.    The  individual  is  relatively  of  no  im- 


p>rtance,— asa  boa  he  continues  the  family 
line;  as  a  man-at-arms  he  renders  obedience 
to  his  lord ;  as  a  statesman  he  gives  himself  to 
the  state;  as  emperor  he  stands  between  the 
people  and  Heaven,  and  serves  both.  The 
station  is  the  chief  thing,  and  if  the  man 
does  not  fulfill  its  duties  he  is  not  a  man  and 
has  no  reason  for  his  being.  In  the  perform- 
ance of  this  duty  he  is  to  disregard  all  else, 
is  to  hate  wife  and  child,  to  give  up  home 
and  property,  and  should  not  count  his  life 
dear  to  him.  The  man  who  thus  makes  duty 
his  chief  function  in  family,  society  and  state, 
is  righteous. 

Precisely  as  with  the  Stoics  this  conception 
has  been  wrought  out  into  a  moral  system 
which  governs  the  individual,  the  courts  of 
law  and  the  state.  It  has  become  a  philoso- 
phy, and  with  many  a  beautiful,  though  cold, 
religion.  It  has  produced  a  high  type  of 
virtue,  and  heroes  innumerable.  Its  thoughts 
have  moulded  the  literature,  poetry  and  his- 
tory of  both  China  and  Japan.  We  must 
admit  that  it  is  worthy  of  admiration  and 
that  it  contains  much  fundamental  truth. 

THE  HIGHER  TEACHINGS  OF  CHRI8TLA.NITY. 

Christianity  as  expressed  and  exemplified 
in  our  day,  stands  on  another  basis.  Europe 
long  ago  parted  company  with  the  Stoic 
philosophy,  and  accepted  as  a  fundamental 
idea  that  the  chief  thing  in  life  is  the  relation 
of  the  soul  to  Ood.  With  the  Christian  con- 
ception of  immortality,  and  of  man  as  the 
child  of  God,  the  soul  becomes  something  far 
more  precious  than  any  abstraction  like  the 
family,  the  state,  or  the  social  order.  There 
is  a  ^'higher  law*'  than  any  enacted  by  the 
state.  There  is  a  heavenly  Father  of  whose 
love  the  love  of  earthly  parents  is  but  the 
dim  reflection.  There  is  an  inner  sanctuary 
of  the  soul  which  can  be  opened  at  no  earthly 
command,  but  is  sacred  and  inviolate,  con- 
secrated to  God  only. 

TURNING  THE  WORLD  UPSIDE  DOWN. 

It  would  take  an  essay  to  develop  these 
contrasts  between  far-eastern  and  Christian 
ethics,  and  I  only  call  attention  to  them  now 
to  emphasize  the  fact  that,  on  account  of  the 
above-mentioned  characteristics,  Christianity 
is  charged  with  moral  anarchy,  as  teaching 


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the  wife  that  there  is  an  authority  higher 
than  hosband  or  mother-in-law,  and  the 
daughter  that  she  maj  say  **no"  to  her 
father  when  he  bids  her  marry  some  non- 
Christian  of  his  choice,  or  commands  her  not 
to  profess  Christ,  and  the  patriot  that  there  is 
a  '^higher  law  "  which  he  may  not  transgress 
even  to  serre  the  state,  and  the  husband  that 
he  must  have  but  one  in  the  position  of  wife 
eyen  though  the  family  line  become  extinct. 
It  is  certainly  unnecessary  in  this  magazine 
to  argue  the  superiority  of  Christian  ethics, 
even  though  it  be  necessary  to  set  forth  thus 
briefly,  the  other  side.  It  is  scarcely  neces- 
sary to  argue  the  superiority  of  Christian 
ethics  even  in  Japan,  not  because  it  is  always 
self-evident,  but  because  with  free  thought 
and  free  intercourse  with  the  West  the  old 
system  is  doomed. 

OHBISTIANnr  SOOBINO  FTS  YIOTORIBS. 

Already  Christianity  has  won  signal  tri- 
umphs far  beyond  the  narrow  boundaries  of 
the  Church.  The  long  agitation  for  a  con- 
stitution, for  a  parliament,  for  the  enfran- 
chisement of  the  lower  classes,  comes  from 
the  recognition  that  '*a  man^s  a  man  for  a* 
that,''  a  recognition  neyer  given  save  where 
Christ  has  taught  that  all  are  the  children  of 
one  Father.  So  too,  though  still  more  indi- 
rectly, we  may  trace  to  the  same  source  the 
great  efforts  made  by  the  government  for  the 
elevation  of  the  ^*  masses,'' — ^the  system  of 
common  schools,  the  reformation  of  the 
courts  and  forms  of  justice,  and  the  general 
recognition  that  the  lower  classes  have  rights 
which  even  the  government  is  bound  to  re- 
spect and  which  wise  statesmen  will  seek  to 
extend.  Through  the  action  of  the  state 
itself,  political  and  legal  theories  have  been 
transformed  already,  and  it  is  too  late  to 
discuss  the  abstract  question,  which  is  bet- 
ter, the  new  or  old. 

A  STIMULUS  TO    PHILANTHBOPHT. 

In  other  directions  the  influence  of  Chris- 
tian sentiment  is  very  marked.  Old  men 
who  remember  the  great  earthquakes  of  forty 
and  fifty  years  ago,  speak  of  the  great  con- 
trast between  the  relief  work  whieh  followed 
the  shook  that  wrought  such  damage  in  cen- 


tral Japan  two  years  ago,  and  the  apathy  of 
former  years.  In  the  past  the  sufferers  were 
left  to  care  for  themselves  as  best  they 
might,  but  in  1891  there  was  a  great  out- 
burst of  popular  sympathy.  Committees  of 
aid  were  established,  volunteer  nurses  and 
physicians  hastened  to  the  distressed  pro- 
vinces, and  every  effort  was  made  to  relieve 
the  multitudes  who  were  suffering  fhim 
wounds  or  from  the  loss  of  all  their  goods. 
This  great  effort  for  the  distressed  was  not 
only  an  indirect  result  of  Christianity,  but 
was  of  direct  practical  benefit.  Christians, 
Japanese  and  foreign,  were  first  on  the  field 
and  most  earnest  in  their  efforts.  In  propor- 
tion to  its  numbers,  the  foreign  community 
far  outdid  the  Japanese,  and  it  is  worthy  of 
note  that  the  Buddhists  were  moved  to  tardy 
action  only  by  the  example  of  Christian  ben- 
evolence. 

But  Christianity  makes  its  influence  felt 
not  merely  on  occasions  of  exceptional  suffer- 
ing, but  in  the  constant,  well-directed  effort 
to  alleviate  every  form  of  distress.  It  was 
from  Christian  lands  that  the  government 
took  its  examples  when  it  established  hospi- 
tals and  dispensaries,  and  the  immediate  in- 
fluence of  medical  missionaries  and  of  Chris- 
tian physicians  not  in  mission  employment, 
also  aided  in  bringing  about  this  result. 
Christian  missionaries  set  the  example  of  the 
gratuitous  treatment  of  the  poor,  and  first 
sought  to  bring  medical  aid  to  the  afflicted 
*  ^without  money  and  without  price. "  There  is 
yet  much  opportunity  for  private  beneficence. 
Without  attempting  to  name  all  the  results 
of  Christianity,  there  may  be  mentioned  the 
efforts  in  behalf  of  lepers,  the  schools  and 
asylums  for  deserted  and  orphaned  children, 
the  industrial  schools,  training  schools,  and 
hospitals,  which  are  maintained  by  mission 
funds,  and  by  the  private  gifts  of  Japan- 
ese and  foreign  Christians.  The  Japanese 
Church  more  and  more  recognizes  its  duty  to 
all  who  are  in  want,  and  seeks,  though  afar 
off,  toimitateHim  whowentaboutdoinggood. 
In  nothing  else  does  the  Church  show  more 
clearly  the  genuine  quality  of  its  faith  than  in 
its  activity  for  the  widest  good  of  humanity. 
In  some  small  measure  it  has  learned  to  love 
others  as  itself. 


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A  TEACHEB  OF  RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

In  many  other  ways  Christianity  shows  its 
moral  power.  Chastity  is  a  virtue  of  late 
growth,  and  limited  area.  One  does  not 
wish  to  condemn  beyond  measure,  but  cer- 
tainly in  the  past  Japanese  ways,  words  and 
notions  were  not  as  onrs.  The  older  mission- 
aries who  saw  Japan  as  it  emerged  from  its 
seclusion  of  centuries  give  testimony  that 
may  not  be  repeated  in  these  pages.  And 
even  now  enough  remains  to  render  the  ac- 
counts of  earlier  days  credible.  But  on  the 
surface  at  least  there  has  been  a  great  reform- 
ation, and  one  would  be  reluctant  to  believe 
that  it  is  only  on  the  surface.  It  is  some- 
thing at  least  that  the  social  ideal  has  been 
raised,  and  that  public  sentiment  now  con- 
demns what  once  it  approved. 

The  Japanese  Christians  are  aggressive, 
and  on  questions  of  public  morals  make 
themselves  felt.  Already  they  have  carried 
important  questions  into  the  provincial  as- 
semblies and  even  into  the  Imperial  Diet. 

A  PURIFIER  OF  PERSONAL  CHARACTER. 

In  the  Christian  community  the  standard 
of  morality  is  like  our  own.  The  Sabbath  is 
in  a  measure  observed,  the  Christian  ideal  of 
marriage  is  accepted,  and  minor  matters  are 
conformed  to  the  higher  law  much  as  with 
ourselves.  Indeed  the  moral  standard  of  the 
Church  is  one  of  the  obstacles  to  its  extension. 
It  is  true  that  there  are  unworthy  members, 
and  doubtless  the  Church  has  much  to  learn 
and  much  to  do,  but  there  is  cause  for  gratitude 
that  such  substantial  progress  has  been  made. 

Among  individuals  there  have  been  remark- 
able reformations.  Drunkards  have  become 
sober,  the  profligate  have  reformed,  gamblers 
have  turned  to  honest  industry,  and  men  who 
were  the  terror  of  their  neighborhoods,  have 
become  respectable  members  of  society.  Al- 
most every  congregation  can  show  some  such 
triumph  of  the  GospePs  power.  We  have 
yet  to  learn  of  any  other  agency  so  efficient 
for  the  reclamation  of  the  lost  and  vicious. 
It  is,  in  our  age  as  in  Paul's,  the  **  Power  of 
Gh)d  unto  salvation.^' 

FORWARD  TO  CHRIST. 

The  change  from  the  old  ethics  to  the  new 
is  inevitable.  Even  a  cursory  review  of  what 
has  been  accomplished  will  convince  us  that 


the  change  is  beneficent.  The  transition  is 
attended  by  difficulties  and  dangers,  and 
there  is  often  a  real  loss  of  moral  power. 
Many  who  are  freed  from  the  restrictions  of 
the  old  do  not  feel  the  power  of  the  new. 
There  is  danger  of  a  moral  interregnum,  even 
of  moral  anarchy.  But  the  remedy  is  not  to 
be  found  by  going  back  to  Confucius^  but 
only  by  gom%  forward  to  Christ. 


The  Rev.  Mr.  Wilder  has  been  working 
among  the  students  in  Calcutta.  He  has  held 
many  personal  interviews  with  individual 
students,  and  had  on  an  average  four  inter- 
views a  day  with  students  during  the  three 
months  of  his  stay  in  Calcutta.  Personal 
religion  was  the  theme  of  conversation,  and 
it  is  hoped  that  much  good  has  been  done 
among  that  interesting  class  of  inquirers. 


Rev.  Mr.  Sheppard  is  a  Virginian  Negro, 
twenty-seven  years  old,  and  a  missionary  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  South  in  the  Kongo 
state.  He  is  the  intellectual  and  spiritual  re- 
sult of  Hampton  Institute  and  Tuscaloosa 
Seminary.  He  awakened  Southern  Presby- 
terianism  to  the  privilege  of  service  of  Africa, 
and  offered  himself.  He,  the  son  of  slaves, 
locked  hands  with  the  son  of  a  white  slave- 
master,  and  the  two  men  worked  together  in 
perfect  Christian  brotherhood  till  death  ended 
their  fellowship.  Honor  to  them  I  Let  a 
tear  fall  for  Christ's  sake  on  Lapsley's  bier. 
The  comradeship  is  doubly  significant  and 
worthy  of  reverence  because  it  reveals  the 
path  which  leads  good  men  of  differing  views 
and  races  into  comity  and  understanding. 
That  is  the  path  of  oneness  in  service  to 
Christ.  Lapsley  and  Sheppard  founded  the 
Kongo  Mission  of  the  Southern  Presbyterians 
in  1890-91  at  Luebo  on  the  Kasai,  700  miles 
due  east  of  Kongo-mouth.  Lapsley  entered 
into  rest  two  years  ago.  Sheppard  was  not 
disobedient  to  the  heavenly  vision,  but  went 
forward.  By  the  aid  of  Providence,  with 
sanctified  sense  he  penetrated  a  district  250 
or  800  miles  northeast,  the  Kuba  country, 
which  the  chief  had  not  allowed  white  men 
to  enter.  Sheppard  returns  this  month,  with 
a  wife,  and  expects  to  take  two  Negro  mis- 
sionaries from  Tuscaloosa. — The  Interior. 


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JANUARY, 
PBBRUARY, 
MARCH,      . 
APRIL,    . 
MAY, 
JUNE,      . 
JULY. 
AUGUST, 
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Qeneral  Reriew  of  Missions. 

Missions  in  China. 

Mexico  and  Csntral  America. 

.  Missions  in  India. 

Missions  in  8iam  and  Laos. 

.  Missions  in  Africa. 

Chinese  and  Japanese  in  America. 

.    Missions  in  Korea. 

Missions  in  Japan. 

Missions  in  Persia. 

Missions  in  South  America. 

Missions  in  Sjrria. 


MISSIONS  IN  INDIA. 

LODIANA  MISSION. 

Lahorx:  the  political  capital  of  the  Punjab,  1,225 
milee  northwest  of  Calcutta;  minion  station  com- 
menced 1849;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Charles  W. 
Forman,  D.D.,  and  Bfrs.  Forman,  Rev.  J.  C.  Rhea 
Ewing,  D.D.,  and  Mrs.  Ewing,  Rev.  J.  Harris  Orbi- 
8on,  M.  D.,  and  Bfrs.  Orbison,  Rev.  Henry  C.  Velte, 
and  Mrs.  Velte,  Rev.  U.  S.  G.  Jonee,  and  Birs. 
Jones,  Prof.  J.  Q.  Qilbertson,  and  Mrs.  Gilbertson, 
Rev.  J.  M.  McComb,  and  Mrs.  McComb,  and  Rev. 
E.  D.  Martin ;  Rev.  Ista  Charan^  Rev,  Dharm  Das^ 
one  licentiate,  two  native  doctors,  and  ten  native 
assistants,  of  whom  four  are  women.  Outstation 
at  Waga,  Miss  Clara  Thiede,  and  one  native  teacher. 

Fbrozbporb:  50  miles  southwest  of  Lodiana;  oc- 
cupied as  a  station  1882;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
F  J.  Newton,  M.  D.,  and  Bfrs.  Newton,  Bfiss  Helen 
R.  Newton,  M.  D.,  Rev.  Howard  Fisher,  and  Rev. 
J.  N.  Hyde;  one  native  minister,  and  one  licentiate. 

Hoshtarporb:  45  miles  north  of  Lodiana;  mis- 
sion station  commenced  1867;  missionary  laborers— 
Rev,  K,  C,  Chatterjeey  and  Mrs,  ChatUrjee^  and 
Rev.  Muhammed  Sfuih;  licentiates,  two,  native 
helpers,  seven. 

JuLLUNDUB:  120  miles  east  of  Lahore,  30  milee 
west  of  Lodiana;  mission  station  commenced  1846; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  C.  B.  Newton,  D.D.,  and 
Birs.  Newton,  Miss  Caroline  C.  Downs,  and  Miss 
Bfargaret  C.  Given;  Rev,  Abdullah;  three  licen- 
tiates, four  native  helpers,  of  whom  two  are  women. 

Lodiana:  near  the  river  Sutlej,  1,100  miles  north- 
west of  Calcutta;  mission  station  commenced  1884; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  Edward  P.  Newton,  and 
Mrs.  Newton,  Rev.  Arthur  H.  Ewing,  and  Bfrs. 
Ewing,  Rev.  Walter  J.  Clark,  and  Bfrs.  Clarlc,  Miss 
Sarah  M.  Wherry,  Miss  Emma  Morris,  and  Miss 
Emily  Forman;  Rev.  John  B,  Dales;  native  assist- 
ants, fourteen.  Outstation  at  Jagraon,  Rev.  Ah- 
mad S?iahf  and  four  native  assistants;  at  Khanna, 
Rev,  JaimaX  Singh,  and  one  native  assistant. 

Ambala:  55  milee  southeast  of  Lodiana;  mission 
station  oonmienced  1848;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Benjamin  D.  Wyckoff,  and  Bfrs.  WyckofiP,  Bfrs. 


Wm.  Calderwood,  Bfias  J.  R.  Carleton,  M.  D.,  and 
Bfiss  Emily  Bfarston,  Bf.  D. ;  one  lady  assistant;  Rev. 
Sandar  Led,  Rev.  Henry  Oolok  Nath,  Rev.  P.  C, 
Uppal,  and  Rev.  Matthias:  five  licentiates,  sixteen 
native  assistants.  At  a  station  in  the  plains,  in  the 
cold  season,  and  at  Ani,  in  the  hills,  in  the  hot 
season,  Rev.  Bfarcus  M.  Carleton,  and  Bfrs.  Carlis- 
ton  (Poet-office  Ambala  Cantonments);  one  licen- 
tiate, and  one  helper.  OvUUUions  at  Jagadri,  Ru- 
par,  and  Morinda. 

Sabathu:  in  the  lower  Himalaya  Mountains,  110 
miles  east  of  Lodiana;  mission  station  commenced 
1836;  missionary  laborers— M.  B.  Carleton,  Bf.  D., 
and  Bfrs.  Carleton;  Rev.  T.  W.  J,  Wylie;  one  native 
teacher,  and  one  Bible-reader. 

Dbhba:  47  milee  east  of  Saharanpur;  mission  sta- 
tion commenced  1858;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Reeee  Thackwell,  and  Bfrs.  Thackwell,  Rev.  W.  J. 
P.  Morrison,  and  Mrs.  Morrison,  Rev.  J.  F.  XJllman, 
Miss  Harriet  A.  Savage,  MissElma  Donaldson,  Mrs. 
B.  H.  Braddock,  and  Bfrs.  Abbie  M.  Stebbins;  two 
native  ministers;  three  lady  assistants  in  teaching 
and  zenana  work;  thirteen  native  teachers,  etc.,  of 
whom  six  are  Bible-women. 

Woodstock:  in  Landour,  15  miles  eastward  from 
Dehra;  school  begun  1874;  missionary  laborers— 
Bfiss  Clara  C.  Giddings,  Bfiss  Bfary  E.  BaUey,  Bfiss 
Susan  A.  Hutchison,  Bfiss  Clara  E.  Hutchison,  and 
Miss  Bfargaret  C.  Davis. 

Saharanpub*.  130  milee  southeast  of  Lodiana; 
mission  station  conmienced  1886;  missionary  laborers 
—Rev.  Alexander  P.  Kelso,  and  Mrs.  Kelso,  Rev. 
R.  Morrison,  and  Bfrs.  Morrison,  Rev.  C.  W.  For- 
man, and  Mrs.  Forman,  Bfiss  Jessie  Dunlap,  and  Bfiss 
Agnes  L.  Orbison;  Rev.  John  A,  lAddle;  three 
licentiates,  and  twelve  native  assistants,  of  whom 
six  are  women. 

In  this  country:  Rev.  R.  Thackwell,  and  Mrs. 
Thackwell,  Rev.  H.  C.  Velte,  and  Bfrs.  Velte,  Rev. 
Howard  Fisher,  and  Bfiss  S.  A.  Hutchison. 

FARRUKHABAD  MISSION. 

Fatbhoarh-Farrukhabad:  the  former  the  civil 
station,  and  the  latter  the  native  city,  788  miles 
northwest  of  Calcutta;  mission  begun  1844;  mission- 
ary laborers— Rev.  C.  A.  Rodney  Janvier,  and  Bfrs. 
Janvier,  Rev.  John  N.  Forman,  and  Bfrs.  Forman, 
Rev.  Henry  Forman,  and  Bfrs.  Forman,  Miss  Bfary 
P.  Forman,  and  Rev.  C.  C.  Meek;  Rev.  Mohan  Lai; 
twenty-three  native  assistants,  of  whom  nine  are 
women. 

Fatbhpur:  70  miles  northwest  of  Allahabad;  sta- 
tion begun  185S;  missionary  laborers— one  native 
licentiate  and  two  native  helpers. 

Mtio^urib;  40  milee  west  of  Fatehgarh;  mission 
station  commenced  1848;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
Thomas  Tracy,  and  Bfrs.  Tracy,  Rev.  H.  M.  And- 
rews, and  Bfrs.  Andrews;  one  lady  teacher;  twenty- 
three  native  helpers,  of  whom  ten  are  women. 

In  thb  District  of  Btah:  three  native  Christian 
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Etawah:  on  the  Jumna,  50  mttes  sonthweet  of 
Mynpurie;  misBion  station  commenced  1868;  mission- 
ary laborer*— Rev.  John  8.  Woodside,  and  Mrs. 
Woodfiide;  one  native  licentiate,  and  nine  native 
assistants.  Miss  Christine  Belz,  teacher  and  xenana 
visitor. 

OwALiOR:  capital  of  a  native  state;  mission  sta* 
tion  commenced  1874;  missionary  laborers  -  M  rt). 
Joseph  Warren;  Rec.  Sxtkh  Pal. 

Jhausi:  250  miles  west  of  Allahabad;  population, 
52,000;  occupied  as  a  mission  station  1886;  mission- 
ary laborers— Rev.  James  F.  Holcomb,  and  Mrs. 
Holcomb,  Rev.  Hervey  D.  Griswold,  and  Mrs.  Oris- 
wold;  two  lady  assistants;  Rev.  Nabi  Baksh;  one 
licentiate;  five  native  assistants,  of  whom  four  are 
women. 

Allahabad:  at  the  junction  of  the  Oanges  and 
the  Junma,  506  miles  northwest  of  Calcutta;  mission 
station  commenced  1830;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
J.  J.  Lucas,  D.D.,  and  Mrs.  Lucas,  Rev.  S.  H.  Kel- 
logg, D.D.,  and  Mrs.  Kellogg,  Rev.  James  M.  Alex- 
ander, ana  Mrs.  Alexander,  Rev.  W.  F.  Johnson, 
D.D.,  Miss  Bfary  B.  Johnson,  Mrs.  John  Newton,  Jr., 
Miss  Mary  L.  Symes,  Miss  Jennie  L.  Colman,  Miss 
Margaret  J.  Morrow,  and  Miss  Bmma  Templin, 
M.  D.;  one  Christian  female  teacher  and  zenana 
visitor;  Rev.  John  S.  Caleb,  and  Rev.  Isaac  Field- 
brave;  three  native  licentiates,  thirteen  native 
assistants,  of  whom  six  are  women. 

In  thU  country:  Mrs.  John  Newton,  Jr. 

WESTBRN  INDLA  MISSION. 

KOLHAPUR :  200  miles  southeast  of  Bombay ;  45,000 
inhabitants;  mission  station  commenced  1853;  taken 
under  care  of  the  Board  1870;  missionary  laborers- 
Rev.  James  M.  Goheen,  and  Mrs.  Goheen,  Rev.  J. 
M.  Lrwin,  Mrs.  R.  G.  WUder,  Miss  Grace  E.  Wilder, 
Miss  Esther  Patton,  and  Miss  Rachel  Irwin. 

Panhala:  14  miles  north  of  Kolhapur;  mission 
station  commenced  1877;  missionary  laborers— Rev. 
George  H.  Ferris,  and  Mrs.  Ferris. 

Saholi:  SO  miles  east  of  Kolhapur;  mission  sta- 
tion begun  1884;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  J.  P. 
Graham,  and  Mrs.  Graham,  Miss  Jennie  Sherman, 
and  Miss  A.  A.  Brown. 

Ratnaoiri  :  70  miles  northwest  of  Kolhapur ;  mis- 
sion station  commenced  1873;  missionary  laborers- 
Rev.  L.  B.  Tedford,  and  Birs.  Tedford,  Rev.  W.  H. 
Hannum,  and  Mrs.  Hannum,  Miss  E.  T.  Minor,  4ind 
Miss  Amanda  Jefferson. 

MiRAJ:  the  center  of  the  medical  work;  mission- 
ary laborers— W.  J.  Wanless,  M.  D.,  and  Mrs.  Wan- 
less,  Miss  S.  A.  Winter,  M.  D.,  and  Rev.  G.  H. 
Simonson. 

Rev.  R.  P.  Wilder  and  Birs.  Wilder:  Mr.  Wilder 
is  for  the  present  engaged  in  evangelistic  work 
among  the  colleges  of  Western  India. 

In  this  country:  Rev.  Galen  W.  Seller,  and  Mrs. 
Seller,  Mrs.  L.  B.  Tedford,  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Graham. 


The  latest  published  statistics  of  our  India  Mis- 
sions are  for  the  year  1892,  and  are  as  follows: 
Received  that  year  upon  confession  of  faith,  in  the 
Lodiana  Mission,  263,  in  the  Farrukbabad  Mission, 
65,  in  the  Western  India  (formerly  Kolhapur)  Mis- 
sion, 40,  making  a  total  of  368  additions  to  the 
Church  in  all  our  India  Missions. 


The  total  statistics  of  our  three  India  Missions,  for 
1892,  are  as  follows:  Ordained  American  missiona- 
ries, 40;  lady  missionaries,  68;  lay  missionaries,  4; 
total  of  foreign  laborers,  112;  ordained  native  min- 
isters, 26;  native  licentiates,  82;  other  native  teach- 
ers and  helpers,  206;  total  of  native  assistants,  264; 
number  of  churches,  25;  ccnnmunicants,  1,672;  added 
during  the  year,  368;  number  of  schools,  160;  total 
of  pupils,  7,763;  pupils  in  Sabbath-schools,  4,871; 
students  for  the  ministry,  20;  zenana  pupils,  456; 
contributions,  $2,307. 


The  published  statistics  of  the  recent  Bombay 
Conference  in  1893;  covering  the  entire  evangelical 
mission  work  of  all  societies  in  India  in  the  year 
1890,  are  as  follows:  Foreign  and  Eurasian  ordained 
missionaries,  857;  foreign  and  Eurasian  lay  preach-, 
ers,  118 ;  foreign  and  Eurasian  teachers,  75 ;  lady  mi«- 
sionariee,  711 ;  total  of  foreign  and  Eurasian  agents, 
1,761;  ordained  native  preachers,  797;  native  lay 
preachers,  3,491;  native  female  evangelists,  8,278; 
total  of  native  agents,  7,566;  total  of  foreign  and 
native  missionary  laborers,  9,827;  congregations, 
4,863;  communicants,  182,722;  evangelical  native 
Christians,  559,661;  zenanas  visited,  40,513;  senana 
pupils,  82,659;  theological  and  training  schools,  81; 
pupils  in  the  same,  1,584;  mission  schools  of  all 
societies,  6,787;  pupils  in  the  same,  238,171;  foreign 
medical  missionaries,  97;  native  medical  missiona- 
ries, 168;  hospitals  and  dispensaries,  166. 


Valuable  articles,  by  Dr.  George  F.  Pentecost,  of 
London,  on  **  The  Success  of  Missions  in  India,"  will 
be  found  in  the  February  and  March  issues  of  Tbm 
Church  at  Hon  and  Abroad  for  the  current 
year.  

The  educational  work  In  our  India  missions  is  ex- 
tensive and  important.  We  have  a  college  at 
Lahore,  with  244  pupils,  a  theological  seminary  at 
Saharanpur,  with  22  students,  and  high  schools  both 
for  boys  and  girls  at  many  of  our  stations,  promi- 
nent among  which  may  be  named:  The  Christian 
boys*  high-school  at  Lodiana,  with  86  pupils,  the 
high-school  for  boys  at  Ambala,  with  413  pupils,  the 
high-school  for  boys  at  Saharanpur,  with  170  pupils, 
and  at  Dehra  of  350  pupils,  the  Christian  girls* 
school  at  Dehra,  with  70  pupils,  the  high-school  for 
boys  at  Mynpurie,  with  106  pupils,  the  Jumna 
high-school  for  boys  at  Allahabad,  with  260  pupils, 
and  the  Jumna  girls'  high-school  also  at  Allahabad, 
with  60  pupils.  In  these  schools  the  aim  is  to  impart 
Christian  instruction  as  well  as  to  give  a  thoroagh 


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educatioD.  The  work  has  been  fruitful  in  spiritual 
results,  as  many  of  the  pupils  in  these  schools  have 
professed  their  faith  in  Christ.  In  some  of  them 
Christian  Endeavor  Societies  have  been  organiz^. 
The  new  building  for  the  Industrial  School  at 
Sangli  has  been  completed,  and  the  school  is  now 


Zenana  work  has  been  conducted  at  Jullundur 
station  by  Miss  Given  and  Miss  Downs,  who  have 
had  under  their  care  during  the  year  48  zenanas,  in 
86  of  which  they  have  made  frequent  visits  to  56 
regular  pupils.  This  work  is  also  carried  on  at 
Saharanpur  station  by  Miss  Orbison  and  Miss  Dun- 
lap,  who  have  given  instruction  in  73  senanas,  and 
at  Dehra  station  under  the  care  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  P* 
Morrison,  where  176  pupils  have  been  instructed, 
and  at  Fatehgarh  station  under  the  care  of  Miss 
Blunt,  who  has  had  SO  scholars,  and  also  at  Etawah 
station,  where  native  assistants  have  been  laboring, 
under  the  direction  of  Miss  Belz,  with  260  pupils. 
In  Jhansi  station  Miss  Peel  has  had  54  pupils,  and  in 
Allahabad  station  Mrs.  Alexander  reports  that  61 
lenanas  were  regularly  visited.  The  same  work  has 
been  carried  on  in  Kolhapur  by  native  Bible  readers, 
under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  Gk>heen.  It  will  be  seen 
from  the  above  that  our  missionary  ladies  in  India 
are  giving  careful  attention  to  this  new  and  hopeful 
phase  of  Christian  labor. 


Medical  work  has  been  conducted  at  Lahore  under 
the  charge  of  Dr.  Isa  Das  and  Dr.  Phoebe  Isa  Das, 
two  efficient  natives  having  charge  respectively  of  a 
dispensary  for  men  and  women.  The  attendance  of 
patients  at  the  dispensary  for  men  was  22,250,  and 
at  the  dispensary  for  women,  19,209.  A  small  mis- 
sion hospital  and  dispensary  is  also  located  at  Feroz- 
epore,  under  the  care  of  Dr.  F.  J.  Newton.  The 
patients  treated  were  5,S66,  coming  from  184  villages 
in  the  surrounding  district.  At  Ambala  station, 
under  the  care  of  Dr.  Jessica  B.  Ceu*leton  and  Dr. 
Emily  G.  Marston,  14,500  patients  have  been  treated 
at  the  dispensary.  Under  the  care  of  Dr.  Carleton 
is  a  leper  asylum.  At  Sabathu  station  Dr.  M.  B. 
Carleton  is  located,  and  has  charge  of  a  leper  asjlum, 
with  108  inmates.  At  Allahabad  there  is  also  a  dis- 
pensary which  has  been  under  the  care  of  Dr. 
Emma  Templin,  assisted  by  Miss  M.  L.  Symes,  where 
11,804  patients  have  been  treated.  At  Miraj,  in  the 
Western  India  Mission,  a  new  and  promising  work 
imder  Dr.  Wanless  has  been  carried  on.  A  children's 
hospital  has  been  completed,  a  picture  of  which  will 
be  found  in  the  January  number  for  1894,  page  18. 
The  dispensary  is  also  in  use,  and  the  main  hospital 
is  approaching  completion.  This  hospital  plant  has 
been  the  gift  of  John  H.  Converse,  Esq.,  of  Phila- 
delphia, who  generously  contributed  $12,000  for  the 
medical  work  at  Miraj.  Miss  S.  A.  Winter,  M.  D., 
has  recently  joined  the  workers  at  Miraj.  Dr.  Wan- 
lees  reports  7,127  patients  in  attendance  at  his  dis- 
pensary during  the  year.  It  will  be  seen  from 
the    above  figures  that  a  large  medical  work  is 


going  on  in  our  India  Missions.  The  total  of 
patients  reported  amounts  to  69,864.  In  these 
hospitals  and  dispensaries  religious  instruction  is 
given,  and  it  is  the  aim  of  this  department  of  mis- 
sionary labor  to  reach  the  soul  with  spiritual  healing, 
as  well  as  to  minister  to  the  suffering  body. 


The  work  of  Bible  translation  has  been  carried  on 
by  Rev.  S.  H.  Kellogg,  D.D.,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
revision  of  the  Old  Testament  in  Hindi.  Some 
account  of  his  work  will  be  found  in  The  Church 
▲T  HOMB  AND  Abroad  for  January  1894,  page  22. 
Rev.  Edward  P.  Newton,  at  Lodiana,  has  also  been 
eng^ed  in  the  revision  of  the  New  Testament  in 
Punjabi.  Rev!  W.  F.  Johnson,  D.  D. ,  of  Allahabad, 
has  also  devoted  considerable  time  to  literary  work 
in  the  translation  of  Bible  stories,  and  the  prepara- 
tion of  tracts  and  books.  He  has  also,  in  connection 
with  Mr.  Fieldbrave,  edited  a  religious  paper  in 
Hindi.  

A  new  movement  has  been  organized  under  the 
leadership  of  Miss  Annie  R.  Taylor,  whose  recent 
journey  of  exploration  into  Thibet  has  marked  her 
as  a  brave  and  intrepid  character.  It  is  to  be  called 
the  (Thibetan  Pioneer  Mission,  and  its  way  of 
approach  is  to  be  from  India.  Miss  Taylor,  with 
whom  are  associated  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ewan  Mackenzie, 
has  organized  a  mission  composed  of  ten  men.  It  is 
the  plan  to  do  some  of  the  rougher  pioneer  work 
before  women  are  invited  to  participate.  The  head- 
quarters will  be  at  Darjeeling,  in  the  Himalayas, 
near  the  frontier  of  Thibet,  and  not  many  days' 
journey  from  the  sacred  capital  L'hassa.  The  plans 
of  the  mission  are  strictly  evangelistic.  The  mission 
is  to  be  supported  by  free-will  offerings.  A  farewell 
meeting  to  a  band  of  pioneers,  numbering  in  all 
twelve,  was  held  February  16  in  Exeter  Hall,  Lon- 
don. The  work  is  to  be  modeled  after  the  China  In- 
land Mission,  which  has  been  so  successful  in  China. 
An  advanced  guard  of  Christian  workers  from  the 
Moravians  have  been  hovering  upon  the  borders  of 
Thibet  for  some  years,  and  will  now  be  joined  by 
Miss  Taylor's  contingent.  That  Gk)spel  which  has 
been  sent  for  the  pulling  down  of  strongholds  will 
soon  find  its  way  into  what  has  been  named  **  The 
Sullen  Land." 


Mr.  P.  C.  Mozoomdar,  of  India,  who  recently  par- 
ticipated in  the  Parliament  of  Religions  as  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Brahmo  Somaj,  is  to  be  supported 
by  some  enthusiastic  admirers  in  this  country  as  a 
missionary  in  India.  The  spirit  of  the  mission  is  to 
be  theistic  rather  than  evangelical.  Mr.  Mozoom- 
dar has  much  to  say  in  admiration  of  Christ,  but  has 
no  sympathy  with  the  evangelical  doctrines  concern- 
ing his  incarnation  and  atonement.  The  Brahmo 
Somaj  is  but  a  poor  and  colorless  substitute  for 
Christianity.  Mr.  Mozoomdar  has  had  to  invent  an 
Oriental  Christ  of  his  own,  in  spite  of  himself,  but 
rails  bitterly  at  evangelical  doctrine  and  what  he 
consideri  the  illiberal  teachings  of  our  missionaries. 


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He  himself,  and  thoosaiids  of  his  fellow  country- 
men have  reaped  the  benefits  of  Christian  missionSf 
but  he  makes  the  most  amazing  statements  as  to  the 
insignificant  results  of  these  missions  in  India.  We 
are  sorry  for  these  proud  Hindus  who  use  their  cul- 
ture in  a  hopeless  struggle  to  hinder  the  progress  of 
the  Gk)8pel  in  India.  The  best  advice  we  can  give 
them  is  to  bow  down  in  humble  adoration  before  the 
Saviour,  and  become  the  followers  of  our  incarnate 
Lord. 

The  Opium  Commission  appointed  by  the  British 
Parliament  for  investigating  the  state  of  the  trafQc 
in  India,  is  pursuing  its  investigations.  It  is  doubt- 
ful, however,  whether  the  truth  will  be  fully 
brought  out.  The  evidence  will  be  largely  drawn 
from  official  sources.  It  is  almost  the  unanimous 
opinion  of  all  missionaries  in  India  that  the  opium 
trade  is  a  moral  curse.  It  is,  on  the  other  hand,  the 
almost  unanimous  opinion  in  government  circles 
that  the  moral  injury  produced  by  the  drug  is 
greatly  exaggerated.  The  question  as  to  whether 
the  moral  and  spiritual  eif  ects  are  sufficiently  evil  to 
justify  its  suppression  is  one  upon  which  a  Parlia- 
mentary Commission  could  hardly  be  expected  to 
pronounce  a  judgment  in  favor  of  monds  rather 
than  trade.  

High  up  among  the  Himalayas,  7,000  feet  above 
the  sea  level,  is  Woodstock  School,  an  illustration  of 
which  is  given  upon  opposite  page.  It  was  estab- 
lished in  1874,  primarily  as  a  school  for  the  educa- 
tion of  the  children  of  missionaries.  Its  scope,  how- 
ever, has  been  expanded  until  it  is  now  a  high-class 
educational  institution,  not  alone  for  the  children  of 
missionaries,  but  for  European,  Eurasian,  and  some 
native  Christian  girls.  The  Eurasians  (a  name  in 
India  for  the  children  of  mixed  European  and  Indian 
parentage)  form  the  largest  body  of  pupils.  The 
school  has  prospered  wonderfully,  and  has  proved 
itself  a  most  useful  agency  for  the  classes  named. 
It  has  been  conducted  by  earnest  and  accomplished 
ladies,  and  its  religious  impression  has  been  marked. 
It  is  a  blessing  to-day  to  many  homes  in  India  where 
its  graduates  are  scattered.  The  school  was  for 
fifteen  years  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  J.  L.  Scott, 
whose  death  in  1892  was  a  great  loss  to  Christian 
education  in  India.  The  school  is  referred  to  in  the 
Annual  Retorts  of  our  Board,  and  in  Waman'a  Work 
far  Woman,  April,  1892,  will  be  found  an  interesting 
account  of  his  visit  to  Woodstock  by  Dr.  Gillespie. 
The  school,  according  to  the  latest  report,  had  106 
pupils  in  attendance,  89  of  whom  were  boarders.  It 
is  imder  the  care  of  the  Lodiana  Mission  and  is 
supervised  by  a  Board  of  Directors  appointed 
by  the  Mission.  The  beautiful  building  pre- 
sented to  our  India  Mission  by  Christian  ladles 
in  America,  is  grandly  located  in  the  midst  of  the 
splendid  scenery  of  the  Himalayas.  The  climate  is 
healthful  and  salubrious,  and  Woodstock  School 
may  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  interesting  and 
striking  features  of  Christian  missionary  effort  in 
India. 


Another  illustration  in  the  present  number  rep- 
resents the  pupils  of  the  Jumna  Christian  Girls' 
High  School  at  Allahabad.  The  pupils  in  this  school 
are  all  the  daughters  of  Christian  parents,  so  they 
may  be  looked  upon  as  the  second  or  third  genera- 
tion in  the  growth  of  our  work.  The  school  is 
situated  on  the  banks  of  the  Jumna  river  at  Allaha- 
bad, in  a  large  open  compound,  with  every  advant- 
age of  healthfulness  and  seclusion.  Every  girl  in 
the  picture  is  the  daughter  of  a  native  Christian. 
There  were  60  pupils  in  attendance  during  the  last 
year.  The  Principal,  Mrs.  John  Newton,  Jr.,  has 
recently  returned  to  the  United  States  for  a  season 
of  rest  in  this  country.  During  her  absence  Miss  M. 
J.  Morrow  and  Miss  J.  L.  Colman  have  charge  of 
the  institution.  It  is  one  of  the  most  useful  schools 
in  India. 


The  church  building,  an  illustration  of  which 
appears  upon  another  page,  is  the  Jmnna  Church  at 
Allahabad.  It  has  been  ministered  to  during  the 
year  by  Dr.  M.  F.  Johnson  and  Rev.  Mr.  Field- 
brave. 


[This  unoccupied  space  appears  unexpectedly  in 
our  final  revision  of  the  page-proofs,  showing  that 
we  measured  inaccurately  in  our  make-up  for  the 
printer.  We  give  it  to  the  following  beautiful  story 
which  we  find  in  the  ChrUtian  AUianoe  and 
Missionary  Weekly,  copied  from  **  one  of  the  recent 
monthlies.''— Bd.] 

The  greatest  of  modern  violinists  had  an  old 
school -days'  friend  named  Ericsson,  the  famous 
inventor.  He  tried  again  and  again  to  get  him 
to  one  of  his  concerts,  but  the  practical  man 
told  him  he  had  no  time  for  such  rubbish.  At 
last,  one  day  he  came  to  his  shop  with  his 
broken  violin  to  get  it  mended.  This  was  all 
right,  and  the  foolish  fiddle  was  duly  repaired. 
The  violinist  asked  permission  to  test  it.  The 
strings  were  attached  and  he  began.  Soon  all 
the  workmen  were  standing  and  listening,  then 
the  hard  business  man  began  to  soften  as  those 
unearthly  melodies  fell  on  his  ear ;  the  tears  fell 
fast,  and  a  light  that  had  not  been  seen  before 
was  in  his  countenance.  At  length  the  player 
bowed  and  apologized  for  forgetting  that  he 
detested  music,  and  the  answer  came  quickly 
from  his  lips,  *'No,  Bull,  go  on  all  day.  I 
never  knew  what  was  lacking  in  my  life 
before." 

So  the  picture  of  Jesus  awakens  all  our  sense 
of  need,  and  to  the  hungry  heart  it  needs  no 
introduction  and  evidence.  As  water  satisfies 
the  thirsty,  so  the  heart  cries  of  Him:  "Lo, 
this  is  our  Qod ;  we  have  waited  for  Him,  and 
He  wiU  save  us." 


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THE  PROSPECTS  OF  THE  CONVERSION 
OF  INDIA.* 

BT  GEORGE  SMITH,  LL.  D. 

The  prospects  of  the  conversion  of  India 
are  brighter  than  the  faith  and  the  obedience 
of  the  Church.  Men  who  landed  in  India,  as 
the  writer  did,  forty  years  ago,  and  have 
watched  the  divine  drama  unroll  its  scenes, 
till  the  present  hour;  men  like  the  great  pio- 
neers  of  the  century,  of  whom  Caldwell  was 
the  last,  may  record  this  as  their  least  hopeful 
testimony:  ^^To  be  almost  a  convert  is  the 
highest  point  many  well-disposed  Hindus  have 
reached  at  present.  They  are  timidly  waiting 
for  a  general  movement  which  they  will  be  able 
to  join  without  personal  risk;  but  the  time 
may  come  any  day  when  masses  of  them 
will  become  not  only  almost,  but  altogether 
followers  of  Christ."  Yet,  looking  up  and 
abroad  from  the  circumstances  of  the  hour  to 
the  wide  contrasts  of  a  period  of  forty  years, 
we  have  authoritatively  stated  results  which 
make  this  seem  rather  the  testimony  of  pe8si- 
mism.  We  who  began  our  Indian  career  in 
1858,  who  witnessed  the  Mutiny  of  1857, 
took  part  in  the  reorganization  of  the  admin- 
istration in  1858-1861,  and  rejoiced  in  the 
increase  at  that  time  of  missionary  efforts, 
would  have  pronounced  it  incredible  that,  ten 
years  before  the  end  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury, there  would  be  more  Christians  than 
Sikhs  in  India,  and  that  the  increase  of 
native  Christians  in  the  martial  races  of  the 
Punjab,  Mohammedan  and  Hindu,  would  be 
three  hundred  per  cent,  every  decade. 

We  can  better  record  some  signs  of  the 
present  transitions  of  the  peoples  of  India 
from  the  power  of  darkness  into  the  kingdom 
of  the  Son  of  Ood's  love,  through  repentance 
and  the  forgiveness  of  sins. 

The  aboriginal  or  pre- Aryan  peoples  of 
India  entered  in  the  census  of  1891  as  ^^  Ani- 

^he  GmTM  Lectures  upon  MiasiODS.  at  the  Tbeologft> 
cal  Seminasj  of  the  Reformed  (Dutch)  Church  at  New 
Brunswick,  N.  J.,  were  dellTered  this  year  early  in  Octo- 
ber, by  Dr.  George  Bmith,  Secretary  of  the  Free  Church 
of  Scotland's  Committee  on  Foreisn  Missions,  and  author 
of  the  admirable  Missionary  Biof^ttphies  of  Carey. 
Martyn.  Duff,  and  Wilson.  The  Lectures  were  able  and 
oomprehensiTS,  and  present  a  Taluable  and  concise  com- 
pen<uum  of  the  history  of  missions  in  India,  with  special 
reference  to  the  progress  made  in  recent  years.  They 
will  soon  be  pubUshad  by  The  Fleming  H.  Revell  Com- 
pany, and  we  are  permitted  to  make  some  extracts  from 
advanced  sheets.  We  have  compiled  the  accompanTing 
article  on  **The  Prospects  of  the  CooTersioo  oi  India,^* 
from  tha  last  lecture  of  the  oourBe. 


mistic,''  and  numbering  nine  and  a  quarter 
millions,  were  returned  by  a  more  oorreot 
classification  twenty  years  before  as  seven- 
teen and  a  half  millions,  exclusive  of  those 
in  Madras  and  the  Feudatory  States.  Allow- 
ing for  these,  and  adding  the  casteless  tribes 
and  those  semi-Hinduised,  one-fifth  of  the 
whole  population,  or  fifty  millions,  from  the 
Ghooras  of  North  Punjab  to  the  Pariahs  of 
South  India,  are  in  the  same  position  for 
rapidly  receiving  Christianity  as  the  Kafirs 
and  Negroes  of  Africa  and  the  islands.  It  is 
among  these  chiefiy  that  Christianity  has,  all 
along,  won  its  numerical  successes.  Till 
Carey  and  Duft  began  the  slow  sapping  and 
mining  processes  among  the  now  two  hundred 
millions  of  the  Brahminical  and  Mussulman 
cults,  these  only  were  evangelized.  In  the 
last  forty  years  they  have  been  instructed, 
organised,  and  consolidated  with  a  care 
unknown  in  the  parishes  of  Christendom. 
The  result  is  seen  in  South  India,  in  the 
Telugu  country,  in  Chota  Nagpore,  in  San- 
talia,  and  in  the  more  recent  labors  of  the 
Established  Church  of  Scotland  and  the 
Church  Missionary  Society  in  the  Punjab  dis- 
tricts of  Siaikot  and  Goojrat.  This  is  a  mar- 
vellous ^table  of  the  results  of  evangelical 
Christianity  in  forty  years,  not  to  be  equalled 
by  any  period  of  Church  history: 

fORTT  TIABS'  PROGRESS  OV  EVJLNGEUGAL  GHRIBT- 
lANITTIN  INDIA. 

1861     1861      1871      1881       1890 
Foreign  Ordained  Agt*s.  880        479        488        686        867 

2*^*T*        ^™      ^'\     ^^    !^        ^        ^1        797 

Foreign  and  Eorasian  Lay  Preachers, 7t        118 

NaUTS  Lay  Preachers,  408  1,066  1,986  0,488  8,401 
Native  Christians,  01,090  188,781  004,088  417,870  660,661 
Native  Oommimicant8,14,661  04,076   60,816  118,806  180,700 

Where  the  missionary  is  weak  in  his 
enthusiasm  and  toil,  or  where,  in  yielding 
to  the  pressure  of  his  Church,  he  snatches 
at  wholesale  baptisms,  falling  into  the  snaie 
of  the  Jesuits  without  their  sacramentarian 
excuse,  he  then  suffers  from  inability  to  in- 
struct the  baptized,  and  schism  and  apostasy 
are  the  consequence.  But  all  over  India  the 
aboriginal  and  the  casteless,  the  down-trodden 
and  the  famine-stricken,  the  serf  and  the 
poor,  are  pressing  into  the  Church  by  families 
and  villages,  till  the  Church  faUs  to  do  its 
duty  to  the  inquirers  on  the  one  hand  and  to 
the   new  disciples  on   the   other.    If  the 


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methods  of  the  Reformed  were  those  of  the 
Sacramentarian,  or  if  the  Reformed  Charoh 
doubled  its  missionary  staff  at  once,  the  next 
decennial  report  would  show  a  four-fold 
increase. 

The  hundred  and  fifty  millions  of  caste 
Hindus  still  present  to  Christendom  an  un- 
broken front,  or  very  little  broken  appar- 
ently. But  that  it  is  disintegrating  under 
the  combined  influence  of  Western  ciyilization 
and  Christian  truth  its  own  leaders  allow, 
and  their  methods  of  meeting  the  assault  con- 
fess. Eclectic,  elastic,  willing  to  absorb 
every  belief  and  cult  that  will  tolerate  its 
social  system,  Brahmanism  presents  a  greater 
difllculty  than  classical  Paganism,  if  only 
because  of  caste.  But  the  caste  principle 
itself  is  so  weakened,  that  an  educated 
Hindu  may  now  be  anything,  do  anything, 
believe  anything,  and  go  anywhere,  if 
only  he  remains  nominally  within  the  fold. 
Formerly  Brahmans  could  not  so  far  resist 
the  inflaence  of  the  Spirit  of  God,  under 
Christian  teaching,  as  to  remain  in  Hinduism, 
because  the  system  rejected  them  with  indig- 
nation; now  it  tempts  them  by  concessions. 

The  deistical  Brahmo  Somaj,  which  has 
passed  through  many  stages  of  development 
since  the  writer's  friend,  Keshub  Chunder 
Sen,  reached  his  nearest  point  to  Christ,  in 
1868,  and  is  now  represented  by  the  thought- 
ful Protap  Chunder  Mozoomdar,  consists  of 
only  three  thousand  four  hundred  members. 
But  it  has  kept,  and  it  keeps  far  more  back 
from  the  profession  of  faith  in  Christ  than  it 
helps  out  of  idolatry.  The  later  Arya 
Somaj,  which  admits  all  castes  to  the  new 
caste  created  by  its  Brahman  founder,  Daya- 
nand  Saraswati,  as  Sikhism  did,  takes  its 
forty  thousand  members  back  to  the  Vedas. 
Dr.  John  Robson,  whose  book  is  the  wisest 
brief  exposition  of  Hinduism  and  Us  Eela- 
tians  to  Christianityy  on  going  back  to  Raj- 
pootana  after  an  absence  of  twenty  years, 
pronounces  the  Arya  Somaj  ene  of  the  most 
redoubtable  antagonists  of  Christianity,  but 
^*  it  is  one  of  the  most  powerful  disintegra- 
tions of  old  Hinduism,  and  may  thus  do  a 
work  in  clearing  the  way  for  Christianity." 

Under  the  pressure  and  example  of  ver- 
nacular-preaching    missionaries     Hinduism 


seems  to  have  entered  on  new  methods  of 
self  defence.  A  universal  Hindu  conference 
— Bharat  Dharma  Mahamandal — was  lately 
held  at  Benares,  including  many  Hindu  ladies 
of  high  family.  A  select  committee  of  pun- 
dits brought  up  a  report  on  *'the  deteriora- 
tion of  the  Hindu  religion."  To  an  immense 
crowd  at  each  of  the  four  comers  of  a  great 
pavilion  four  pundits  read  a  copy  of  the 
report,  after  which  a  salute  of  one  hundred 
sankha,  or  blasts  from  the  conch  shell,  were 
given.  The  practical  conclusions  of  the 
report  were  that  the  pundits  appointed 
a  day  of  united  prayer,  and  recommended 
the  employment  of  evangelists,  the  cir- 
culation of  their  religious  tracts  and  scrip- 
tures, and  the  establishment  of  Hindu  mis- 
sion schools.  So  the  Brahmanical  revival 
goes  on  after  a  half-hearted  fashion,  for 
while  caste  has  a  side  hostile  to  all  reform 
from  without,  it  disintegrates  from  within, 
and  prevents  the  formation  of  a  united 
front  against  the  enlightened  assailant. 

The  ablest  and  most  eloquent  of  all  the 
Brahman  converts  of  the  Free  Church  of  Scot- 
land is  a  distinguished  pleader.  Kali  Chum 
Banerji,  LL.B.  His  own  opinion  and  his  re- 
port of  the  prevailing  Hindu  view  of  the 
advance  of  Christianity  were  recently  stated 
in  the  following  address  to  the  Calcutta  Mis- 
sionary Conference : 

ORGANIZED  OPPOSITION  TO  CHRISTIANITY 
IN    INDU. 

The  opposers  of  Christianity  no  longer  attack 
Christianity,  but  set  themselves  to  show  that 
Christians  are  not  worthy  the  confidence  of  the 
Hindu  people.  The  enemy  are  attempting  to 
spread  abroad  the  following  ideas:  1.  With 
the  exception  of  the  zenana  workers,  the  mis- 
sionaries are  exercising  no  influence  in  the  coun- 
try, and  are  not  worth  noticing.  2.  Mission- 
aries are  not  the  opponents  of  the  national  faith, 
but  the  opponents  of  national  institutions,  ene- 
mies to  Indian  patriotism.  8.  The  general  in- 
fluence of  missions  upon  the  life  and  customs  of 
the  people  are  not  helpful,  but  injurious  to  the 
country.  Besides  this,  numbers  of  the  Hindus 
systematically  attempt  to  co  ordinate  Hinduism 
with  Christianity,  and  do  all  they  can  to  entice 
missionaries  and  Christians  to  admit  by  word  or 
deed  that  Christianity  and  Hinduism  are  each 
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lence.  This  is  done  by  oopylDg  the  methods  of 
the  Christian  propaganda,  preaching,  publish- 
ing tracts,  etc.,  etc.  These  forms  of  opposition 
to  Christianity,  so  far  as  they  go,  are  very  en- 
couraging to  Christians,  and  indicate  that  they 
have  the  whole  matter  in  their  own  hands.  And 
if  the  non-Christians  have  nothing  more  serious 
to  present  in  opposition,  all  that  is  needed  is  for 
the  missionaries  to  be  true  to  their  colors  and 
India  will  be  theirs. 

If  there  is  a  New  Hinduism  there  is  also 
the  beginning  of  a  New  Islam  under  the  in- 
fluence of  the  Christian  propaganda  and 
Western  rule.  In  British  India  alone  Mo- 
hammedans, now  fifty-eight  millions  in  num- 
ber, are  constrained  to  learn  toleration. 
Under  the  **  neutral ''  rule  of  Great  Britain, 
as  they  term  it,  the  later  generation  of  Islam 
are  becoming  rationalists,  like  the  Mutazala 
sect  of  freethinkers,  that  thus  they  may 
justify  reforms  such  as  will  bring  their  chil- 
dren abreast  of  the  progress  which  is  chang- 
ing all  around  them.  They  hold  that  the 
Shariat  Law  of  Islam  is  common  law  which 
must  advance  with  new  conditions.  They 
teach  that  the  Koran  has  only  a  temporary 
authority  on  moral  questions.  On  the  one 
hand,  the  more  thoughtful  of  the  old  school 
are  represented  by  Nawab  Mushin-ul-Mulk, 
of  Haidarabad,  who  exclaims,  ^'To  me  it 
seems  that  as  a  nation  and  a  religion  we  are 
dying  out Unless  a  miracle  of  re- 
form occurs  we  Mohammedans  are  doomed 
to  extinction,  and  we  shall  have  deserved  our 
fate.  For  God's  sake,  let  the  reform  take 
place  before  it  is  too  late.''  On  the  other, 
Syed  Amir  Ali  Sahib,  a  judge  of  the  High 
Court  in  Calcutta,  who  represents  the  young 
men  influenced  by  English  culture,  but  hos- 
tile to  Christian  influence,  wrote  his  book 
T7i€  Spirit  of  Islam  to  easiat  *Hhe  Moslems 
of  India  to  achieve  intellectual  and  moral  re- 
generation under  the  auspices  of  the  great 
European  Power  that  now  holds  their  des- 
tinies in  its  hands."  That  apologist  for  the 
Mohammedanism  of  the  Koran,  who  tries  to 
explain  away  its  sanctions  of  polygamy  and 
concubinage,  the  ^^  disgusting  ordeal "  of  the 
temporary  husband  (Sura  II.  280),  and  slav- 
ery, and  only  substitutes  an  imaginary  Islam 
of  his  own,  congratulates  his  co-reformers 
^'that   the   movement  set  on  foot  is  <x>n- 


ducted  under  a  neutral  government."  Chris- 
tians must  wish  them  wdl. 

Meanwhile  Christianity  has  won  greater 
triumphs  from  Islam  in  India  than  even  ex- 
perts had  believed.  The  Rev.  Maulvi  Imad- 
ud  din,  D.D.,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the 
famous  Mohammedan  saint,  Qutub  Jamal, 
who  again  is  a  descendant  of  the  ancient  royal 
house  of  Persia,  was  invited  to  attend  the 
'*  World's  Parliament  of  Religions"  at  Chi- 
cago, and  to  read  a  paper.  He  declined  the 
invitation  to  attend,  but  sent  a  paper,  written 
by  himself  in  Urdu,  and  translated  into 
English  by  Dr.  Henry  Martyn  Clark.  His 
subject  is,  ^*  Christian  Efforts  amongst  Indian 
Mohammedans;  being  an  Account  of  the 
Effects  of  the  Teaching  of  the  Bible  amongst 
the  Mohammedans  of  India,  together  with  a 
Consideration  of  the  Question  how  many  of 
them  have  become  Christians,  and  why." 
The  writer  and  the  paper  are  alike  remarka- 
ble. He  mentions  the  principal  converts  from 
Islam  since  Abdul  Masih,  who  copied  Henry 
Martyn's  Persian  New  Testament  in  1810, 
and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Heber.  He 
gives  the  names,  with  brief  biographies,  of  no 
fewer  than  117  men  of  position  and  influence, 
of  whom  62  became  clergy  and  leading  men 
in  several  of  the  India  missions,  and  57  are 
gentlemen  occupying  various  positions,  offi- 
cial and  professional. 

The  supernatural  power  of  Christianity, 
and  the  secondary  influence  of  Western  science 
and  literature,  have  thus  been  allowed,  for 
the  flrst  time  in  the  history  of  Asia,  fairly  to 
take  their  place  side  by  side  with  all  the 
agencies  of  the  Hindu,  the  Mohammedan, 
and  the  aboriginal  religious  and  social  systems. 

The  result  is  a  revolution,  silent,  subtle, 
and  far-reaching,  which  works  in  each  suc- 
cessive generation  with  increasing  force. 
Gradually  the  Hindus  themselves,  and  stUl 
more  a  few  of  their  leaders,  are  becoming 
oonscious  of  a  force  and  a  pressure  which  is 
transforming  their  society,  if  not  themselves, 
and  which  they  can  only  blindly  resist.  Now 
it  is  the  physical  signs  or  instruments  of  the 
revolution  which  the  mob  attack;  now  it  is 
the  spiritual  force  behind  the  whole  British 
influence  which  their  leaders  recognise  with 
H  sort  of  despair.    The  first  of  these  forms  of 


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discontent  was  lately  seen  in  a  riot  of  pro- 
found significance  which  attracted  no  atten- 
tion in  this  country.  Into  the  filthiest  and 
most  superstitious  city  of  India,  Benares, 
water- works  were  being  introdaced.  The 
Brahmans  had  long  boasted  that  the  sacred 
Ghtnges  would  never  suffer  the  indignity  of 
being  bridged,  and  yet  two  bridges  far  above 
the  city  had  been  thrown  across  it.  At  last 
the  great  Benares  bridge  itself  spanned  the 
mighty  river,  the  Dufferin  bridge,  and  then 
came  the  water-works.  The  Hindu  mob 
rushed  at  water-pipes,  steam  engines,  tele- 
graph wires,  and  railway  stations,  and  would 
have  attempted  to  destroy  even  the  bridge 
but  for  the  interference  of  the  troops.  They 
attacked  the  house  of  the  most  enlightened 
of  their  own  religion,  the  Raja  Shiva  Prosad, 
C.  I.  E.,  considering  him  a  traitor  to  his 
faith  and  city. 

A  SILENT  REVOLUTION. 

The  working  of  this  silent  revolution  may 
be  traced  in  the  position  of  the  native  Chris- 
tians. The  increase  of  the  native  Christians 
in  numbers,  and  the  positions  which  they  are 
fast  winning  for  themselves  in  every  walk  of 
life,  and  especially  in  Government  service,  are 
alarming  the  Brahmans. 

In  South  India  alone  there  were  44,225 
native  Christians  at  school  and  college,  or  61 
per  cent,  of  boys  and  28  per  cent,  of  girls  of 
a  school-going  age,  while  the  percentage  of 
the  Presidency  as  a  whole  is  twenty-three  of 
boys  and  three  of  girls.  The  native  Chris- 
tians are  only  a  fortieth  of  the  population  as 
yet,  but  more  than  8  per  cent,  of  the  students 
attending  college  and  of  the  graduates  of  the 
university  are  native  Christians.  The  politi- 
cal bearing  of  this,  from  the  Government's 
point  of  view,  is  evident.  Christians  are 
loyal,  and  not  passively  but  actively  so. 
The  next  generation  of  ruling  men  in  India 
will  have  a  supply  of  highly  loyal  and  trained 
native  Christians  from  which  to  draw  for  the 
ordinary  ranks  of  the  local  services,  as  well 
as  for  help  in  any  crisis  which  may  come 
upon  the  Empire.  Even  The  Hindu  news- 
paper acknowledges  that  this  community  *^  in 
politics,  industry,  and  the  domestic  and  civil 
virtues,  has  special  advantages  enabling  it  to 
set  an  example  to  the  Hindus.'' 


WORK  IN  THE  PUNJAB. 

REV«  J.  C.  R.  EWINO,  D.D.,  LAHORE. 

That  our  beloved  Church  should  be  doing 
more  than  it  is  doing  for  Christ  in  India  is 
the  definite  conviction  of  her  representatives 
here.  The  magnitude  of  the  task  under- 
taken is  fairly  appalling,  and  we  are  con- 
strained to  the  opinion  that  with  all  our 
effort  we  are  only,  as  it  were,  touching  here 
and  there  the  surface  of  things, — not  ade- 
quately conveying  to  the  millions  about  us 
the  message  of  salvation  through  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.  And  yet  there  is  a  bright  and 
encouraging  side.  Tokens  of  divine  approval 
are  seen  everywhere.  Men  and  women  have 
been  added  to  the  Church  in  greater  numbers 
during  the  past  twelve  months  than  ever  be- 
fore. Effort  along  all  the  usual  lines  of  mis- 
sionary endeavor  has  been  put  forth  during 
the  past  year  with  vigor  and  hopefulness. 
Within  the  territory  occupied  by  the  Lodi- 
ana  Mission  our  Church  has  a  work  of  a  most 
varied  character,  and  one  out  of  which  we 
confidently  expect  great  and  permanent 
results  to  arise;  indeed  these  results  are  by 
no  means  all  in  the  future,  for  we  have  many 
of  them  now  before  us.  There  are  many 
ways  by  which  the  evangelization  of  a  people 
may  be  accomplished.  The  great  end  of  all 
missionary  effort  is  to  be  attained  through  a 
variety  of  agencies  and  means.  In  a  popula- 
tion like  that  of  the  Panjab,  with  its  three 
prominent  non-Christian  religions,  and  the 
exceeding  diversity  of  social,  intellectual  and 
moral  attainment  which  characterizes  its 
population,  it  is  essential  that  in  all  attempts 
to  bring  the  Gt)spel  to  bear  upon  the  people,  as 
a  whole,  there  should  be  great  variety  in  our 
methods  of  approaching  them.  All  such 
methods  are,  however,  but  a  variety  of  ways 
of  doing  one  thing,  that  is,  preaching  the 
Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God  to  the  people. 

I.   PREAOHINO    IN   THE   GOUNTRT   VILLAGES   AND 
IN  THE  MARKET  PLACES  OV  THE  OfriES. 

This  form  of  work  occupies  a  very  large  por- 
tion of  the  time  of  many  of  our  missionaries; 
indeed  some  are  devoting  their  entire  strength 
to  it.  The  preacher  in  his  visit  to  the  village 
or  bazaar  finds  his  audience  composed  of 
Hindus,   Mussulmans,   Sikhs   and  Chuhras; 


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JUMNA  GIRLS'  HIGH  SCHOOL,  ALLAHABAD,  INDIA. 


the  last  mentioned  element  being  in  these 
days  the  one  most  ready  to  accept  as  true  the 
message  the  speaker  brings.  These  Chuhras 
are  the  very  lowly  ones  of  the  land, — out- 
casts, the  scavengers  and  the  virtual  slaves 
of  the  better  born.  The  movement  among 
this  class  is  wide-spread,  extending  all  over 
India,  and  the  great  number  of  baptisms 
from  amongst  them  is  the  most  noteworthy 
feature  of  the  work  in  this  country  during 
the  past  five  years.  In  the  Lahore,  Lodiana, 
Hoshyarpur  and  Ambala  districts  an  exten- 
sive work  is  in  progress  amongst  them  and 
several  hundred  have  recently  been  baptized. 
Hundreds  more  might  have  been  baptized, 
and  the  dear  people  at  home  who  contribute 
to  and  pray  for  this  work  would  have  been 
filled  with  joy  and  thankfulness  greater  than 
that  which  they  now  experience,  but  our 
policy  which  aims  at  securing  only  substan- 
tial results,  insists  upon  reasonable  evidence 
of  genuine  conversion  as  preliminary  to  bap- 
tism.   We  are  perfectly  convinced  that  our 


Presbyterian  Church  would  not  have  us  in 
the  slightest  degree  yield  to  the  demand  for 
visible  *^ fruit"  by  admitting  to  the  Church 
men  and  women  destitute  of  all  knowledge 
of  themselves  as  sinners  or  of  Christ  as  holy, 
upon  the  mere  hope  of  '' getting  them  con- 
verted afterward.'^  All  missionaries  do  not 
so  strenuously  insist  upon  a  state  of  reason- 
able preparedness  for  baptism.  Will  our 
friends  at  home  bear  in  mind  the  existence  of 
this  very  marked  difference  in  practice,  when 
they  are  tempted  to  criticize  comparative  re- 
turns? Beyond  all  doubt  the  Church  has,  in 
this  direction,  a  sphere  full  of  the  brightest 
promise,  and  the  brethren  here  are  carefully 
planning  and  zealously  working  for  the  in- 
gathering of  a  genuine  harvest. 

n.   PREACHING    IN    CONNIEOTION    WTTH    HEALING. 

In  Saharanpur,  Amballa,  Ferozepore,  Sab- 
athu  and  Lahore,  medical  work  is  opening 
the  way  to  the  hearts  of  the  people.  Thous- 
ands of  men,  women  and  children,  while  ob- 
taining relief  from  physical  pain,  are  hearing 


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of  Christ,  the  healer  of  souls.  Our  doctors 
regard  their  medical  and  surgical  skill  but  as 
a  means  to  the  great  end  of  presenting  the 
truth  to  those  whose  hearts  have  been  soft- 
ened and  made  ready  through  relief  given 
from  physical  suffering. 

in.   PBEACHINO    IN  CONNECTION    WITH    SECULAR 
TEACHING. 

Schools  into  which  are  gathered  non-Chris- 
tian boys  and  girls  are  conducted  in  all,  save 
two,  of  our  districts.  In  Lahore  there  is  the 
College  where  by  far  the  greater  number  of 
students  are  Hindus,  Mohammedans  and 
Sikhs;  though  the  proportion  of  Christian 
students  has  increased  with  most  encourag- 
ing rapidity  within  the  past  three  years. 

The  girls,  boys  and  men  in  these  institu- 
tions have  the  Gospel  preached  unto  them 
every  day.  Some  of  the  brightest  evidences 
of  God's  power  to  work  upon  the  heart, 
which  we  have  ever  known,  have  been  wit- 
nessed in  connection  with  this'  form  of  work. 


IV.    PREACHING  IN  CHRISTIAN  CHURCHES  AND   IN 

SCHOOLS  ESTABLISHED  FOR  THE  TRAINING  OF 

CHRISTIAN    CHILDREN    AND    YOUTH. 

Of  regularly  organized  churches,  within 
the  bounds  of  the  Lodiana  Mission  there  are 
thirteen,  and  steps  for  the  organization  of 
two  or  three  more  within  the  Lahore  Presby- 
tery are  being  taken.  In  some  of  these 
churches  the  pastoral  work  is  in  the  hands  of 
Indian  brethren,  while  in  others,  foreign 
missionaries  take  part  in  the  work  and  re- 
sponsibility connected  with  the  care  of  the 
people.  Schools  are  maintained  for  the 
training  of  Christian  children  and  youth; 
and  in  this  direction  the  most  earnest  effort 
is  being  made  for  the  upbuilding  of  Christian 
character  and  the  equipment  of  those  who 
shall,  we  trust,  be  called  forth  as  mission- 
aries to  their  countrymen. 

The  Theological  Seminary  at  Saharanpur 
is  training  a  native  ministry  and  helping  to 
supply  the  great  need  for  more  preachers  to 
carry  the  Gospel  to  the  outlying  districts. 


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y.     PREA0HIN6  BT  MIAN8  OF  THK  PRINTED  PAGE. 

Many  thousands  of  copies  of  Scripture  por- 
tions, tracts  and  books  in  the  vemacnlar  are 
sold  each  jear  and  are  entering  the  homes  of 
the  people.  Large  monthly  editions  of  yer- 
nacolar  tracts  are  distributed  free  of  charge. 
During  the  past  year  six  eight-page  tracts 
specially  written  for  educated  non-Christians 
have  gone  forth  from  Lahore.  So  great  was 
the  demand  for  these  that  editions  of  ten 
thousand  of  each  were  exhausted. 

The  outlook  is,  upon  the  whole,  cheering. 
In  spite  of  certain  adverse  influences  the  con- 
ditions under  which  we  labor  are  manifestly 
becoming  more  and  more  favorable  to  the 
spread  of  Christian  truth.  A  certain  spirit 
of  antagonism  toward  all  that  is  Western  is 
undoubtedly  growing  amongst  certain  classes, 
and  this  operates  as  a  hindrance  to  the  accept- 
ance of  what  is  regarded  as  a  Western  Bible. 
Anti-Christian  literature  is  widely  read,  and 
many  are  made  to  believe  that  England  and 
America  are  beginning  to  find  Christianity  an 
unsatisfying  faith.  Modem  societies,  such  as 
the  Brahmo,  Arya  and  Deva  Dharm  Somajes 
have  made  their  own  very  much  of  the  moral 
teaching  of  the  Bible.  Some  have  in  fact 
adopted  practically  all  of  it  except  the  recog- 
nition of  Jesus  Christ  as  GK)d*s  Son  and  man^s 
only  Saviour.  Some  of  these  people  are 
quite  unaware  that  that  which  attracts  them 
in  these  modem  faiths  is  almost  exclusively 
that  which  the  Bible  has  given ;  others  know 


perfectly  well  whence  it  comes,  but  are  not 
honest  enough  to  make  the  (to  them)  humili- 
ating acknowledgement.  This  element  of 
truth  which  these  reformed  phases  of  Hindu- 
ism are  seen  to  possess  acts  for  the  present  as 
a  distinct  deterrent  force  to  Christianity, 
affording  as  it  does  a  temporary  resting  place 
to  many  in  the  general  advance  toward  the 
full  light  of  the  gospel  of  Christ. 

The  irreligious  lives  of  many  Europeans  is 
another  very  serious  obstacle.  The  smbject  is 
a  somewhat  delicate  one,  but  one  that  calls 
for  plainness  of  speech.  There  are  many 
noble  exceptions,  and  the  missionaries  thank 
Gk>d  for  the  sympathy  and  help  of  those 
Europeans  whose  influence  is  given,  as  far  as 
may  be,  to  the  promotion  of  Christian  work 
in  India;  yet  the  fact  remains  that  the  most 
oommon  objection  urged  in  our  hearing 
against  Christianity  is  the  lives  of  those  who 
are  supposed  by  the  masses  to  be  the  follow- 
ers of  its  Founder. 

That  the  Word  prevails  at  all  in  the  larger 
cities  is  a  conspicuous  evidence  of  its  power. 
In  a  great  street  frequented  by  the  worst  class 
of  people  from  the  west,  the  preacher  stands 
to  give  forth  the  message  of  the  purifying 
power  of  Christ.  This  is  hard  and  very 
depressing,  and  yet,  notwithstanding  all,  he 
must  be  a  blind  man  who  fails  to  recognize 
on  every  hand  in  India  the  first  fruits  and 
infallible  signs  of  the  harvest  which  has 
begun. 


The  question  whether  success  in  missionary 
work  can  only  be  expected  where  beginnings 
are  made  with  the  young,  has  some  light 
thrown  upon  it  by  the  following  passage  from 
a  letter  from  the  Rev.  J.  A.  Leyenberger,  in 
which  the  ages  of  the  different  converts 
whom  he  has  baptized  during  his  missionary 
work  in  North  China  are  given.  This  cer- 
tainly affords  great  hope  for  those  who  put 
forth  effort  on  behalf  of  adults  and  even  of 
the  aged.  It  ought  to  be  said  that  this  letter 
was  written  only  in  answer  to  certain  ques- 
tions which  had  been  put  to  him  along 
certain  lines,  and  that  he  had  no  idea  that  he 
was  writing  for  the  public.  His  modesty 
would  doubtless  have  withheld  the  statement; 
yet  it  seems  that  so  valuable  a  piece  of  in- 


formation should  be  given  for  the  encourage- 
ment of  missionaries  in  all  fields : 

Many  of  those  who  are  received  into  the 
Church  are  well  advanced  in  years.  Since  my 
first  arrival  in  China  I  have  baptized  940  persons. 
Of  460  of  these  persons  I  have  a  complete  record, 
including  their  ages,  when  baptized ;  46  of  them 
were  between  the  ages  of  50  and  60;  88  between 
the  ages  of  60  and  70;  25  between  the  ages  of  70 
and  80;  and  2  were  over  80  years  old.  Thus 
there  were  111  persons  over  50  years  of  age. 
About  the  same  proportion  would  exist  among 
those  received  by  other  missionaries.  These 
persons,  who  are  thus  advanced  in  years,  must 
in  the  natural  course  of  events,  soon  pass  over 
to  the  other  side.  I  would  emphasize  this  as 
one  of  the  reasons  why  our  Church  roll  9ecm9  to 
increase  so  slowly.^ 


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BOHEMIAN  MINISTERS  OF  THE  PRESBTTERIAN  CHURCH 

IN  005FBBEH0B  AT  RACINS,  WIS.,  SKPTBMBKa,  1888. 


Religions  revivals  have  been  reported  from 
all  parts  of  the  country.  We  have  not  noted 
the  results  reported  from  all  our  fields  but  the 
few  which  follow  are  indicative  of  the  depth 
and  extent  of  the  Spirit's  work  among  our 
Home  Mission  churches.  The  numbers 
reported  have  been  received  in  the  com- 
munion of  our  churches.  In  every  case  the 
number  of  converts  is  greater. 

Medicine  Lodge,  Kansas,  11;  Light  Street 
Church,  Baltimore,  Md.,  27;  Bohemian,  Cedar 
Rapids,  14;  Fort  Bragg,  Cal,  8;  Oneida,  S. 
D.,  40;  Newbergand  Monarga,  W.  Va.,  15; 
West  Bend,  Iowa,  27;  Redman,  4;  Grassy 
Cove,  Tenn.,  15;  Redding,  Cal.,  10;  Cotton- 
wood, Minn.,  82;  Grindstone,  Mich.,  50; 
Puyallup,  Wash.,  18;  Richland  Centre,  Wis., 
10;  Hoquiam,  Wash.,  80;  Sale  Creek,  Tenn., 
18;  Sixth,  Des  Moines,  46;  Bellevue,  Idaho,  4. 


The   remarkable   revival  reported  in  our 
March  number  as  in  progress  in  Springville, 


Spanish  Fork  and  Payson,  Utah,  has  contin- 
ued with  unabated  power.  Old  and  young 
have  yielded  to  the  Spirit's  influence.  At- 
tendance upon  all  services  has  not  dimin- 
ished. 

The  Memorial  Church,  Bay  City,  Mich., 
recently  received  114  new  members,  110  of 
whom  were  on  profession.  A  little  later  9 
more  were  received,  making  a  total  of  128. 

At  Bancroft,  S.  D.,  15  were  received. 


The  Board  of  Home  Missions  is  very  desir- 
ous of  obtaining  the  minutes  of  the  General 
Assemblies  previous  to  1808, — also  of  1804, 
1805,  1806,  1807,  1811,  1814  and  1817,  in 
order  to  complete  its  files  and  records.  Any 
information  as  to  where  these  may  be  ob- 
tained would  be  gratefully  received  by  the 
Board.  

No  man  is  wise  enough  to  assign  a  limit 
to  the  number  of  people  who  may  live  and 

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thrive  in  our  country.  Besides  the  vast  and 
varied  resoorces  already  to  some  extent 
known,  or  approximately  estimated,  new  en- 
terprises of  great  magnitude  are  continually 
bewildering  us.  It  is  but  a  tame  prediction 
to  say  that  irrigation,  which  is  now  in  crude 
infancy,  will,  at  an  early  day,  double  the 
agricultural  resources  of  our  country.     * 


There  are  more  than  half  a  million  French 
Canadians  in  New  England  and  New  York 
and  it  is  among  these  people  that  this  asso- 
ciation proposes  to  work. 


Dr.  Sheldon  Jackson  with  his  character- 
istic wisdom  and  foresight  began  early 
to  gather  articles  of  historic  interest  in 
Alaska  until  his  collection  forms  a  museum 
of  great  value.  Many  things  are  found  there 
which  could  not  be  duplicated.  Views  of 
the  museum,  both  external  and  internal,  are 
given  on  another  page. 

At  Russell,  Minn.,  there  was  no  church 
organization.  It  seemed  useless  to  do  any- 
thing. There  were  but  two  persons  who  had 
ever  been  members  of  a  church.  These  two 
with  a  few  children  formed  the  first  audi- 
ence. But  a  faithful  effort  was  blessed,  and 
on  January  21,  a  church  was  organized  with 
50  members — only  one  of  whom  came  by 
letter. 

A  rural  pastor  says: — "Our  more  active 
Christian  young  people,  now  away  in  school 
and  college,  will  soon  be  among  us  for  their 
summer  vacation.  But  their  stay  is  short. 
There  is  no  business  to  hold  them,  and  soon 
even  their  visUs  will  end.  I  could  wish  the 
larger  churches  appreciated  the  contributions 
to  t?ieir  strength  which  so  impoverish  us  in 
the  lonely  missionary  fields.  Our  struggle 
here  is  for  bare  existence^  with  no  prospect  of 
ever  being  strong  ourselves." 


An  association  designed  to  promote  the 
grossest  superstition  has  been  introduced  into 
New  England.  It  is  called  ^^  V Association  de 
la  Bonne  Mort,^^  and  its  purpose  is  to  secure 
"a  good  death  "  to  its  members,  that  is,  "a 
death  in  a  state  of  grace^  so  as  to  avoid  the 
flames  of  purgatory."  This  blessing,  accord- 
ing to  their  teaching,  is  to  be  secured  "by 
earning  indulgences  through  repeating 
prayers  and  paying  fi/ty  cents  a  year, " 


"Bro.  Bylinsis  eloquent  in  prayer,"  said 
one  member  of  the  congregation  to  another, 
"  but  I  don't  think  he  is  very  liberal  when 
the  contribution  box  passes. "  "  No ;  his  offer- 
ings to  the  Lord  are  confined  almost  entirely 
to  suggestions." 

A  home  missionary  in  California  in  his 
report  say: — "The  Endeavor  Society  has 
already  trained  one  man — lihe  only  male 
member  of  our  church — for  the  office  of 
Elder.  This  brother  is  over  fifty  years  of 
age,  and  could  not  take  part  until  recently  in 
any  public  service." 


Reports  of  revivals  and  accessions  to 
churches  are  daily  received  at  the  office.  The 
church  at  Cabery,  III.,  reports  20  accessions; 
Washington,  Mo.,  18;  Immanuel  of  Chicago, 
22;  Hanson,  Neb.,  14;  Cardington,  O.,  37; 
Spring  Place,  Tenn.,  22;  Piney  Falls,  Tenn., 
15;  Eureka  Springs,  Ark.,  40;  Somers,  Wis., 
29;  Lee  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  8;  Monet, 
Mo.,  14;  Black  River,  Mich.,  6;  Killisnoo, 
Alaska,  7;  Kelso,  Washington,  83. 


FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  OF  THE  BOARD 

OF  HOME  MISSIONS  OF  THE  PRESBY- 

TERIAN  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S.  A. 

Mabch  1,  1894. 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Receipts.— April  1,   1892.  to  March  1,   1898. 

From  f Jhurches. f428,«W  S7 

•*      Lesfacles 171,816  88 

**      MiBcellaneous 69,489  tl 

Total  11  mo8. 1891-^98. $869.047  86 

Receipts.— April  1,   1898,  to  March  1,   1894. 

From  ChurcheB ^'112  !1 

**      Legacies 61,868  60 

**      Miscellaneous 47,496  14 

Total  11  mos.  189S-'94. $506,777  48 

Loss  in  Churches  this  year ♦  S?!I  25 

•♦     •»   Legacies    "      **    119.462  «8 

*'     **   Miscellaneous  this  year 11,987  07 

Total  loss  to  date $168,869  88 

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1894.]  Home  Mission  Appointments — New  Presbyterian  Building. 


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HOME  MISSION  APPOINTMENTS. 

B.  Soofleld^  Taunton,  Masi. 

A.  Dntcasa,  Corinth,  N.  T. 

B.  A.  Finlayson.  Brownrille,  " 
T.  &.  Day  Camillus,  Ist,  *• 
R.  Abbott,  fiay  Boad,  French  Mountain  and  Weet 

Mountain,  ** 

W.  H.  Bancroft,  Bethany  of  South  Cheater,  Pa. 

W.  B.  Faulkner,  Mountain  Top  and  Susar  Notch,  '* 

a  E.  Hoyt,  Mansfield,  •• 

A.  H.  Barr,  AuburndaJe,  lit,  and  stationa,  Fla. 

J.  2^  Haney,  Altoona  and  Tracey,  ** 

E.  C.  Maaon,  Bethel  of  Kingston,  Tenn. 
U.  P.  Cory.  Mt.  Bethel  and  Timber  Ridge, 

W.  D.  McParland,  Morgan  Park.  IlL 

R.  J.  L.  Matthews,  Lum  and  Hebron,  ** 

D.  Creighton,  Bridgehampton,  1st,  and  Sanilac 
Centre,  1st,  Mich. 

T.  A.  8cott,  Port  Huron,  1st.  " 

8.  L.  ClarlL  Detour.  1st,  •• 

A  V.  Brashear.  Boyne  City  and  Boyne  Falls,  ** 

E.  F.  Tanner.  Omena  cladian),  *• 
M.  B.  Townsend,  Coleman.  1st,  ** 

D.  L.  Parsons,  La  Crosse,  Qrace  and  Westminster 

Chapels.  Wis. 

W.  J.  Turner,  Horicon  and  Mayrille,  *• 

A.  Siilars,  Winneconne.  ** 

B.  N.  Raymond.  Virginia.  Biwabik  and  stations,      Minn. 
J.  A.  Paige.  McNair  Memorial  and  Thomson.  ** 
A.  W.  Wright  Pastor  at  Large, 

J.  8.  Pinner.  Balaton  and  station.  ** 

E.  R.  D.  Holiensted.  Lake  Crystal  and  Watonwon,       '* 

E.  C.  Dayton.  Minneapolis,  St.  Louis.  Park  and 

Lyndale  Missions,  *• 

W.  A.  Hutchinson,  D.D.,  St.  Paul.  Westminster,  '* 

M.  N.  Audreasen,  tit.  Paul,  Dano  Norwegian,  ** 

J.  B.  Freeman,  Ht.  Paul.  Arlington  Hills,  *' 

J.  D.  Qibb,  Austin  and  Oaklan<C  *« 

A.  Durrle,  Bismarck,  Ist,  N.  D. 
J.  B.  Hobart,  Edgeley,  Monango,  Fullerton  and 

station,  *• 

J.  C.  Linton,  Oaks  and  Hudson,  " 

8.  Andrews,  Mapleton  and  Durbin,  ** 

D.  J.  Hykes,  Hanbom  and  station,  ** 
T.  E.  Douglas.  Hendrum.  1st,  and  Ehn  RiTer,  ** 
A.  C.  Mauson,  Elkmont  and  inkster,  '* 
W.  E.  Morgan.  Castlewood  and  stations,  S.  D. 
M.  E.  Chapin,  Knox  and  Rondell,  1st, 

J.  Y.  Ewart,  Madison,  1st.  •• 

F.  W.  Stump,  Wentworth,  Colman  and  BetheL  *' 

A.  R.  Crawford,  Good  Will,  •» 
J.  B.  Renville,  Ascension,  *• 
P.  Witte.  Emmanuel  and  Bon  Homme  Co.,  1st 

German,  •• 

W.  B.  Hall.  Anderson,  Westminster.  Iowa. 

E.  A.  Walker.  Pastor  at  large, 

O.  De  Haai,  HoweU  and  WUte  Breast,  ** 

C.  Dunlap.  Minbum,  ** 
J.  C.  Wiggins,  Rowley,  1st,  aud  Walker,  Ist, 

H.  HosteUer,  Sioux  City,  2nd,  ". 

W.  M.  ETans,  8ioux  City,  8rd,  ** 

H.  B.  Dye,  Sioux  aty,  4th,  *• 

C.  H.  Foland.  Axtell,  1st,  Neb. 

T.  A  Hamilton,  Bloomingtoa  and  OllTet,  *' 

J.  H.  McJunkin,  Oak  ancTRuskin,  ** 

C.  H.  Mitchelmore,  Genoa,  1st,  ** 
W.  J  Oliver.  Beatrice,  «nd,  " 
J.  D.  Kerr,  Bellevue.  1st,  ** 

B.  a  Brownlee.  Appleton  aty,  1st,  Schell  City,  1st, 

and  station.  Mo. 

P.  Heiligman.  Kansas  City,  8rd.  ** 

J.  B.  Welty,  Kansas  City,  4th,  •• 

T.  J.  8tev«nson.  Ferguson.  ** 
J.  A.  Gallaher,  St.  Louis,  Clifton  Heights, 
J.  Lafferty,  Bristol,   Cornwall,  Marble  HiU  and 

White  Water.  " 

M.  Williams.  Emporia,  3d,  Kan. 

W.H.  Parker,  Garwood  and  Horace,  " 

J.  D.  Todd.  Altamont,  •• 

M.  D.  Smith,  Neodesha,  Toroato  and  sta..  •• 

D.  Moore,  Plainville  and  Shiloh,  ** 
O.  H.  Miller,  El  Reno.  O.  T. 
J.  8.  Phillips,  Kingfisher,  1st,  and  staUon, 

8.  E.  Henry,  Norman  and  Noble,  ** 

B.  Ijman,  Eagle  Pass,  1st,  and  sUtion,  Tex. 

J.  J.  Gilchrist,  Mora.  N.  M. 

F.  Moore,  Fossil  Creek  and  station,  Colo. 
J.  N.  Grace.  Idaho  Springs,  1st,  •• 
J.  Lower,  Delta,  1st,  " 
B.  F.  Powelson.  Grand  Junction,  1st,  •* 
L  N.  Roberts,  Butte,  ^  Mont. 

G.  M.  Fisher,  Kali^>el],  1st,  •• 


8.  O.  Head.  Wenatchee,  Ist,  and  Mission,  Wash. 

F.  V.  D.  Garretson.  Buokl^  and  Bnumolaw,  Cal- 
vary, «• 
J.  A.  SUyt,  Natchese  and  sUtion,                               ** 
T.  O.  Armstrong,  Spokane  Centananr,                         ** 
W.  T.  Scott,  Smith  Memorial  of  FaiWiew  and  sta* 

tions,  Greg. 

A.  8.  Foster,  Medford,  •* 

W.  C.  Scott,  BandoD,  1st,  Coquille  City,  1st,  Port 

Oxford  and  stations,  '* 

L  G.  Knotts,  Florenca,  Point  Terrace  and  Lake 

Creek,  " 

W.  Gay,  Lafayetta.  1st,  and  Whiteson,  " 

W.  L.  Johnston,  Fillmore,  1st,  Pleasant  Tall^,  Ist, 

and  stations,  OaL 

H.  P.  Wilber,  NewhaU  and  San  Fernando, 
D.  McCunn.  Banning,  1st,  and  San  Gorgonla,  ** 

a  Thwing,  Fort  Wrangle,  Alaska. 


THE  NEW  PRE8  BTTERIAN  BUILDING. 

It  is  announced  that  the  Boards  of  Home  md. 
Foreign  Missions  are  about  to  erect  on  the  pro- 
perty purchased  last  Spring  on  the  comer  of 
Twentieth  street  and  Fifth  avenue,  a  large 
building  for  their  own  needs,  with  additional 
office  accommodations  which  will  be,  rented  to 
suitable  tenants. 

This  project  presents  the  results  of  careful 
business  consideration  of  the  whole  problem  of 
office  accommodation,  and  while  on  a  large 
scale,  has  been  considered  in  every  detail,  with 
a  view  to  practical  economy. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  entered  upon 
its  work  in  this  city  in  the  year  1884,  using  as 
an  office  part  of  a  room  in  the  Brick  Church 
Chapel.  This  soon  proved  too  small,  and  two 
rooms  were  taken  on  the  third  floor  of  a  build- 
ing comer  Broadway  and  Murray  streets.  Later, 
part  of  a  house  was  rented  in  City  Hall  place; 
but  subsequently,  through  the  liberality  of  some 
private  members  of  the  church,  an  entire  build- 
ing, at  the  time  adequate  for  the  work,  was 
procured  at  the  comer  of  Centre  and  Reade 
streets,  long  known  as  28  Centre  street,  and 
given  to  the  Foreign  Board. 

For  many  years  this  was  the  headquarters  of 
all  the  Boards  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
located  in  New  York,  until  by  the  growth  of 
the  work  and  the  need  of  more  room,  the  Board 
of  Home  Missions  was  obliged  to  seek  quarters 
for  itself  elsewhere,  and  rented  rooms  in  the 
Stewart  Building,  comer  Broadway  and  Cham- 
bers streets. 

In  1887  the  Boards  moved  to  the  present 
building  at  Twelfth  street  and  Fifth  avenue, 
known  as  58  Fifth  avenue,  the  late  home  of  Mr. 
James  Lenox  and  his  two  sisters,  whose  large 
gifts  to  the  Boards  for  many  years  are  still 
remembered.  The  heirs  of  Miss  Lenox  gener- 
ously sold  this  property  to  the  Boards  for  $350,- 
000  dollars,  a  price  less  than  its  actual  value. 
The  property  was  paid  for  by  a  gift  of  $50,000 


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from  Mr.  Robert  Lenox  EeoHedj,  Hits  Lenox's 
legacy  of  $60,000  to  the  Home  Board,  $70,000, 
proceeds  of  the  sale  of  Centre  street  property  by 
the  Foreign  Board,  and  the  Balance,  $80,(  00, 
from  the  permanent  funds  of  the  two  Boards. 
It  was  hoped  that  this  would  provide  commo- 
dious quarters  for  the  Boards  for  many  years 
to  come,  but  the  growth  of  the  work  has  been 
so  great  and  so  rapid  that  a  change  has  become 
imperative  for  the  following  reasons: 

FntST:  The  need  of  more  room  for  the  ever- 
growing work  of  the  Boards  of  the  Church  and 
the  two  great  departments  of  Woman's  work, 
occupying  the  present  building;  also  for  the 
various  Missionary  gatherings  which  center 
there.  The  house  having  been  built  as  a  private 
dwelling,  is  ill-adapted  for  office  use.  In  many 
rooms  there  is  positive  discomfort,  with  a  nec- 
essary lack  of  highest  efficiency.  The  question 
of  alteration  has  risen  from  time  to  time,  but 
the  present  building  is  so  constructed  as  not  to 
admit  of  change  on  any  wise  and  comprehensive 
plan.  Meanwhile,  the  unoccupied  ground:  is 
entirely  unremunerative.  and  the  plot  as  a 
whole,  can  only  be  economically  utilized  by  the 
removal  of  the  present  structure  and  the  erection 
of  entirely  new  buildings. 

Second  :  This  step  is  in  the  interests  of  econ- 
omy. In  a  city  where  property  commands  the 
high  prices  which  rule  in  New  York,  it  is  a 
waste  to  occupy  so  much  lund  as  these  Boards 
own  without  utilizing  its  possibilities  for  a  large 
income  from  rentals.  The  Bible  and  Tract 
Societies  and  the  Methodist  Church  have  for 
years  acted  upon  this  principle.  The  Episcopal 
Church  has  recently  erected  a  building  with  the 
same  design.  The  Tract  Society  is  about  to 
utilize  its  valuable  property  with  a  new  office 
building.  In  the  present  quarters,  with  so  much 
unavailable  space  inside  and  outside  the  build- 
ing, and  taking  into  view  the  value  of  land  in 
this  part  of  the  city,  the  Boards  are  living  at  an 
extravagant  rental  which  cannot  ht  justified  on 
sound  business  principles.  True  economy 
demands  a  change.  Alterations  in  the  present 
property  would  merely  increase  present  expenses 
with  no  adequate  return  compared  with  the 
amount  expended. 

Thibd  :  When  this  question  was  pending,  the 
death  of  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Stuart  brought  to  the 
Boards  legacies  of  over  $500,000.  It  was  defi- 
nitely known  that  Mrs.  Stuart  would  have 
approved  the  use  of  her  gifts  in  providing  suita- 
ble accoinmodaiions  for  the  work  of  the  two 
Boards,  and  desired  a  large  portion  to  be  retained 
in  a  permanent  investment.    Of  these  legacies, 


the  Boards  used  $135,000  in  current  work,  and 
the  remainder  has  been  availed  of  in  part  pay- 
ment for  the  property  comer  Twentieth  street 
and  Fifth  avenue. 

In  selecting  this  location  rather  than  rebuild- 
ing on  the  present  site,  the  Boards  acted  through 
special  committees,  and  after  consultation  with 
the  best  real  estate  experts  in  the  city,  who  pro- 
nounced the  property  at  Twentieth  street  and 
Fifth  avenue  of  exceptional  value  for  rental  pur- 
poses, and  likely  to  produce  larger  revenue  for 
many  years  than  the  property  comer  of  Twelfth 
street.  A  special  committee  of  both  Boards, 
with  Mr.  John  S.  Kennedy  as  Chairman,  has  in 
charge  the  development  of  the  details,  but  as 
yet  no  definite  plans  have  been  adopted. 

The  Boards  desire  it  to  be  distinctly  understood 
that  not  one  penny  of  the  moneys  contributed 
for  the  missionary  work  of  the  Boards  will  be 
diverted  for  use  in  connection  with  this  project. 
The  necessary  funds  will  be  provided  from  the 
legacies  of  Mrs.  Stuart,  from  endowment  funds 
of  the  Boards  which  must  be  permanently 
invested,  and  from  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of 
the  present  property  at  Twelfth  street  and  Fifth 
avenue;  any  balance  above  these  amounts  which 
may  be  needed  will  be  secured  by  a  mortgage  on 
the  property  upon  which  the  building  is  to  be 
erected.  The  rentals  will  provide  the  necessary 
interest  and  a  sinking  fund  to  extinguish  the 
principal  of  the  mortgage,  and  in  time  return  a 
revenue  which  will  help  to  meet  the  expenses 
of  administration. 

The  proposed  new  home  of  the  Boards,  pro- 
viding ample  facilities  for  efficient  and  economi- 
cal work,  will  hereafter  be  associated  with  the 
names  of  Lenox  and  Stuart.  The  generous  gifts 
to  the  Boards  from  members  of  these  two  fami- 
lies have,  in  a  great  measure,  made  possible  this 
new  enterprise,  and  in  some  proper  way  their 
names  should  be  associated  permanently  with 
the  proposed  building. 

Board  of  Home  MisHoM. 

W.  C.    Roberts,  J^  corresponding 
D.  J.  McMillan,  )       Beeretarioe. 

O.  E.  BoTD,  Recording  Secretary. 

0.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Board  of  Foreign  M%snon$, 

F.  F.  Ellinwood,  )  ^ 
John  Gillespie,    P'SSStSS. 
R.  E.  Speer,  ) 

Benjamin  Labaebb,  Rec.  Sec'y. 
William  Dulles  Jr.,  Treasurer, 
53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


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JANUARY,    ....  The  New  West. 

PBBRUARY,      ....  The  Indians. 

MARCH,         ....         The  Older  SUtes. 

APRIL, The  Cities. 

MAY, The  Mormons. 

JUNE, Our  Missionaries. 

JULY Results  of  the  Year. 

AUGUST,  Romanists  and  Foreigners. 

8BPTBMBBR,        ....      The  Outiook. 
OCTOBER,       ....  The  Treasury. 

NOVEMBER,  The  Mexicans. 

DECEMBER,  ....  The  South. 


CITIES. 

One  third  of  the  popalation  of  our  coantry 
dwells  in  cities.  Fifty  years  ago  the  propor- 
tion was  only  one  twelfth.  Oar  cities  are 
growing  at  an  increasing  ratio.  Daring  the 
decade  from  1880  to  1890,  Omaha,  Minnea- 
polis, Lincoln  (Nebraska),  Los  Angelos,  more 
than  quadrupled  their  population.  Duluth 
grew  from  8,488  to  88,115;  Tacoma  from 
825  to  85,858;  Seattle  from  8,558  to  43,914; 
Sioux  City  from  7,000  to  87,862,  while  Den- 
ver, St.  Paul,  Portland  and  many  others 
tripled  their  population  during  that  decade, 
and  have  been  growing  still  faster  since  1890. 

The  same  tendency  toward  the  cities  is 
shown  among  the  aliens  who  come  to  our 
shores.  One- half  of  our  9.249,547  foreign 
born  population  live  in  125  of  our  principal 
cities,  and  a  very  large  per  cent,  of  the  other 
half  are  found  in  cities  of  the  second  class. 

There  are  several  reasons  for  the  move- 
ment of  population  from  the  rural  districts 
into  the  cities.  In  the  first  place,  rural  occu- 
pations offer  little  opportunity  for  the  rapid 
acquisition  of  wealth.  In  the  second  place, 
the  cities  present  superior  social  and  intel- 
lectual attractions.  In  the  third  place,  the 
improved  machinery  now  used  on  the  farms 
enables  one  man  to  do  the  work  which  form- 
erly gave  employment  to  ten  men.  Nine  are 
therefore  thrown  out  of  employment  and 
must  seek  other  occupations.  In  the  fourth 
place,  the  application  of  steam  and  electricity 
to  the  business  of  life,  and  the  rapid  incrpase 
of  manufacturing,  open  to  them  innumerable 
attractive  places  in  the  cities. 


These  causes  show  the  movement  to  be 
permanent.  There  can  be  no  reaction.  Then 
the  pauper  and  mendicant  classes  seek  the 
cities,  the  centres  of  wealth,  as  most  suitable 
to  their  conditions.  Certain  lawless  and  vic- 
ious classes  can  ply  their  vocations  only  in 
the  massed  populations  of  cities.  These 
causes  operate  in  the  farming  states  of  the 
middle  west  as  well  as  in  the  manufacturing 
states  of  the  East  and  the  mining  states  of 
the  West.  Take  Illinois  as  an  example. 
Leaving  out  of  the  account  the  largest  city  or 
town  in  each  county  of  the  state  there  was 
no  increase  of  population  during  the  last 
decade,  although  the  increase  of  population 
of  the  state  was  748,480. 

The  aggregate  population  of  New  York 
City  and  Brooklyn  equals  the  entire  white 
population  of  our  country  at  the  time  of  the 
Revolutionary  War.  A  power,  therefore, 
lies  in  these  two  cities  alone,  equal  to  that 
which  conquered  the  armies  of  Great  Britain, 
and  erected  our  national  government. 

Where  there  is  human  or  physical  power 
there  is  peril.  There  are  always  great  perils 
in  massed  populations.  Anarchism,  riots, 
lawlessness,  in  all  its  manifestations  are 
almost  peculiar  to  cities — for  the  liquor  power 
and  the  boss  must  have  masses  to  work  upon 
and  with. 

The  cities  dominate  the  nation.  They  are 
the  centres  of  thought,  the  sources  of  enter- 
prise and  the  originators  of  great  popular 
movements  for  good  or  evil.  They  largely 
control  in  formulating  party  principles,  and 
governmental  policy,  and  they  control  the 
wealth  of  the  country.  What  the  cities  are  ' 
the  country  will  be  in  all  the  phases  of 
national  life. 

In  New  York  City  fifty  years  ago  there  was 
a  Protestant  charch  for  every  2,000  inhabi- 
tants. Now  there  is  only  one  for  every  4,000. 
The  proportion  is  approximately  the  same  in 
each  of  our  large  cities.  But  it  must  in  fair- 
ness be  admitted  that  the  average  seating 
capacity  of  the  churches  of  the  present  day 
is  somewhat  greater  than  that  of  the  churches 
of  fifty  years  ago.  Still  a  grave  responsibility 
rests  upon  the  church  for  the  evangelization 
of  the  neglected  districts  of  our  cities. 

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masses  of  the  dtiest  It  will  not  do  to  leave 
them  to  the  yolnntary  care  of  individnal  city 
churches.  The  harden  proves  too  great  and 
the  provision  too  precarioas.  There  should 
be  some  denominational  provision  and  con- 
stituted oversight.  In  the  nation*s  metropolis 
where  this  work  has  been  left  to  the  churches 
of  the  city,  great  as  has  been  their  work  and 
liberal  as  has  been  their  provision,  the  fact 
remains  that  large  masses  of  the  population 
are  not  reached.  The  churches  are  driven 
uptown  while  the  masses  concentrate  down- 
town. During  the  last  decade  the  population 
below  Fourteenth  Street  increased  140,000, 
while  the  number  of  churches — never  enough 
— decreased  by  twenty-one.  The  reason  is 
obvious.  Churches  wisely  **  begin  at  Jerusa- 
lem,^' evangelizing  the  regions  most  accessible 
and  most  easily  worked,  leaving  the  more  re- 
mote to  suffer.  In  other  cities  the  unevan- 
gelized  masses  are  out  of  all  proportion  to  the 
strength  and  ability  of  the  churches  of  the 
community. 

But  where  the  constituted  power — ^the  Pres- 
bytery— has  undertaken  the  city  work  and 
called  upon  its  ally  the  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions for  aid,  as  in  most  of  the  western  cities, 
the  results  have  been  very  gratifying.  The 
work  in  the  cities  is  relatively  more  econom- 
ical than  in  the  rural  regions.  Greater  num- 
bers are  reached  and  earlier  results  are  ac- 
complished; more  speedy  attainment  to  self- 
support,  and  earlier  return  of  the  invested 
money  to  the  Board's  treasury.  The  first 
church  of  Portland,  Ore.,  was  aided  by  the 
Board  four  years,  at  an  aggregate  expense  of 
$1,100.  Already  that  church  has  paid  back 
to  the  Board  about  $100,000,  besides  making 
large  contributions  to  the  other  causes  of  the 
Church.  But  that  is  not  all.  There  are  now 
twelve  other  churches  in  the  city  of  Portland. 
In  Kansas  City  great  wisdom  and  untiring 
energy  have  been  displayed  in  capturing  a 
dozen  strategic  points  for  the  Master.  The 
strongest  church  in  the  city — the  second — 
was  nursed  in  its  infancy  by  the  Board.  It 
has  returned  many  fold  in  increasing  annual 
contributions,  besides  nursing  others  into 
strength  and  ability  to  give.  In  Omaha  an 
average  of  one  church  a  year  has  been  organ- 
ized for  fourteen  years.    The  fifteenth  church 


is  ready  for  organization  at  the  beginning  of 
the  fifteenth  year.  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis, 
Duluth,  Denver,  Los  Angeles,  Tacoma,  Seat- 
tle, have  made  similar  records.  And  now 
there  are  growing  with  unprecedented  rapid- 
ity young  cities  that  promise  as  fair  if  now 
taken  care  of. 

Those  who  have  the  leisure  and  the  inclina- 
tion to  study  the  subject  of  city  missions  will 
find  helpful  data  in  The  New  Era,  by  Dr. 
Strong;  Modern  CmBs  and  their  Reugioub 
Problems,  by  Samuel  Lane  Loomis;  both 
published  by  Baker  and  Taylor,  New  York; 
Reugious  Forges  in  the  United  States,  bj 
Dr.  Carroll,  published  by  the  Christian  Liter- 
ature Co.,  New  York;  and  in  Rev.  W.  T. 
Elsing^s  article  entitled  The  Christless  Toil- 
ers OP  theCfty,  and  the  Duty  ofthe  Chubch, 
in  the  Missionary  Beview  cf  the  Worlds  for 
March.  Dr.  Chas.  L.  Thompson  furnishes 
an  able  and  eloquent  discussion  of  the  way  to 
give  the  gospel  to  the  masses,  in  a  sermon 
entitled  Two  Years  in  a  Free  Church,  pub- 
lished by  A.  D.  F.  Randolph. 


The  InUrior  is  authority  for  the  statement 
that  Chicago  has  682  churches,  distributed 
among  the  various  denominations  thus: 

Methodist 105 

Catholic. 101 

Congregational 84 

Baptist 72 

Lutheran «  64 

Presbyterian 56 

Episcopal 45 

Union  Evani?elic&l 17 

Evangelical  Swedish 16 

Reformed  Episcopal 13 

Evangelical  Association 12 

German  Reformed 11 

Christian 8 

Universalist 7 

Free  Methodist 6 

Unitarian 5 

Independent 4 

United  Presbyterian 8 

Evangelical  Reformed 2 

Dutch  Reformed 1 

That  is  only  one  church  to  every  2600  in- 
habitants, which  is  not  enough  even  if  they 
were  all  of  the  right  kind,  and  then  the  seat- 
ing capacity  of  all  the  churches  combined 
would  accommodate  only  about  two-fifths  of 
the  people,  leaving  three-fifths — about  a  mil- 
lion— absolutely    unchurched.     They   could 


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not  get  into  the  chorches  if  they  wanted  to. 
The  figures  are  relatively  the  same  in  most  of 
our  laige  cities.  The  combined  effort  of  all 
denominations  is  not  keeping  np  with  the 
growth  of  our  country. 


»*BuND  Jennie's"  Sunday-school. — Blind 
Jennie  is  a  young  woman  living  in  an  East 
Side  street,  New  York,  who  has  gathered 
about  her  a  number  of  children  collected  from 
neighboring  alleys  and  tenements,  and  she 
teaches  them  in  her  own  humble  home  every 
Saturday  and  Sunday,  many  of  them  beiug 
Hebrew  children.  She  has  been  blind  for 
many  years,  and  suffers  from  an  incurable 
disease,  but  never  did  a  church  have  a  more 
faithful  member  or  a  more  zealous  missionary 
than  Hope  Chapel  in  East  Fourth  St.,  has  in 
Blind  Jennie.  Some  fifty  or  more  children 
received  gifts  and  candy  at  the  church  Christ- 
mas night,  while  recitations  and  songs  end  an 
address  by  the  pastor,  the  Rev.  John  B. 
Devins,  helped  to  fill  up  a  pleasant  evening 
for  all.  Jennie  handed  the  pastor  a  dollar, 
nearly  all  in  pennies,  given  by  her  children 
to  help  build  a  Presbyterian  church  in  Pratt, 
Minn. 


REVIVALS  IN  WASHINGTON. 

RBV.  T.  M.  QUNN,  D.  D. 

In  the  midst  of  the  most  depressing  of  bard 
times  let  me  say  a  word  as  to  the  tide  of  battle. 

Prom  every  part  of  the  Synod  comes  first  the 
appeal  for  assistance  in  continued  religious  meet- 
ings. Of  course  I  can  respond  to  but  few.  The 
meetings,  however,  go  on  and  the  harvest  is  be- 
ing richly  gathered. 

I.  Waterville  has  just  completed  their  new 
church,  and  it  was  dedicated  on  the  first  Sabbath 
of  the  New  Year  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  L.  W. 
Sibbett,  free  of  debt.  The  dedication  was  to  be 
followed  by  a  series  of  meetings  with  every  indi- 
cation of  a  general  interest. 

II.  Calvary  Church,  Seattle,  has  had  a  most 
gratifying  enlargement  of  its  membership  dur- 
ing the  year,  especially  of  late.  The  whole 
number  added  is  sixty- seven,  and  another  most 
encouraging  item  is  that  the  debt  of  the  church 
has  been  cancelled  through  the  aid  of  some  of 
Rev.  Sinclair's  friends.  The  future  of  that  field 
is  very  bright. 

HI.  Rev.  B.  P.   Miller  and  wife,  who  settled 


at  Roslyn,  Wash.,  in  September,  have  been  do- 
ing a  most  faithful  and  earnest  work  in  every 
department  of  their  charge.  The  Sabbath-school 
has  so  largely  increased  as  to  have  to  be  held  in 
sections  for  want  of  room  in  the  church-build- 
ing, which  is  small.  It  has  been  crowded  at  the 
Sabbath- school  exercises  and  the  regular  times 
of  worship.  A  series  of  revival  services  is  still 
in  progress,  in  which  twenty -five  have  united 
with  the  church.  Some  eight  or  ten  had  joined 
previously.  Pifteen  of  the  pupils  in  the  Sab- 
bath-school made  profession  of  their  acceptance 
of  Christ  as  their  Saviour.  Two  little  boys, 
aged  respectively  11  and  18.  wished  to  unite 
but  were  forbidden  by  their  father,  who  thought 
they  were  too  little  to  understand  what  a  profes- 
sion implied.  The  Board  of  Church  Erection 
has  encouraged  this  church  to  expect  aid  suffi- 
cient to  enable  them  to  enlarge  the  capacity  of 
the  church,  so  as  to  accommodate  their  large 
and  growing  audiences.  This  is  a  rich  reward 
for  this  dear  brother,  who  was  only  licensed  and 
ordained  this  year.  God  has  set  his  seal  to  his 
and  his  earnest  wife's  faithfulness,  and  the  work 
promises  to  go  on  indefinitely. 

IV.  At  Rockford,  Rev.  Wheelis's  work  is  in  a 
most  encouraging  condition.  By  the  removal  of 
the  church-building  during  the  past  summer  to 
a  very  central  position,  it  has  become  the  favor- 
ite place  of  worship  and  is  largely  attended  in 
all  the  services.  A  series  of  meetings  has  been 
in  progress  there  also  for  several  weeks,  in 
which  the  pastor  has  been  assisted  by  Rev.  Nor- 
man McLeod,  and  with  encouraging  success. 

V.  At  Prescott,  Rev.  Wm.  Riding  has  had  a 
most  cheering  series  of  meetings,  in  which  it 
has  been  my  privilege  to  be  present  a  day  or 
two,  and  he,  too,  is  rejoicing  at  the  results  which 
include  not  only  his  church  but  the  Methodist 
people  of  the  place  also. 

VI.  A  very  evident  work  of  grace  is  in  prog- 
ress also  at  N.  Yakima  under  the  labors  of  Rev. 
Monroe  Drew.  In  assisting  him  for  four  days  I 
was  deeply  impressed  with  the  deeply  spiritual 
nature  of  his  work  and  the  very  perceptible 
earnestness  of  his  membership.  Some  most  im- 
portant steps  forward  have  been  taken  in  the 
work  there*  and  rapid  advancement  is  hoped  for 
in  every  department  of  their  work.  A  new  par- 
sonage is  nearing  completion,  and  self  support  is 
the  next  order  of  the  day  there. 

VH.  On  the  first  Sabbath  of  the  year  the  new 
pastor  at  Puyallup,  Rev.  H.  A.  Mullen,  had  the 
delight  to  welcome  to  the  communion  eighteen 
new  members,  and  he  writes  that  the  work  has 
but  just  begun. 


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Vni,  A  reviyal  is  in  progress  in  Walla  Walla, 
including  all  the  Evangelical  churches,  and  it 
grows  in  power  and  depth  with  every  meeting. 
Next  Sabbath  the  Evangelists,  Reed  and  Webb, 
well  known  in  this  region,  come  to  assist,  and 
great  results  are  looked  for. 


MlS8iUJS  MU5KUM,  blT&A,  ALASKA. 

Governor  Sheakley  of  Alaska,  in  his  recent 
report  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  has 
this  to  say  of  our  missions  in  that  far  away 
land: 

Nothing  has  contributed  to  ameliorate  the 
hard  condition  of  the  Indians  in  Alaska  so  much 
as  the  work  of  the  missionary  and  the  govern- 
ment schools.  For  a  practical  demonstration  of 
this  I  invite  your  attention  to  the  Indian  Train- 
ing school  at  Sitka,  which  has  been  in  successful 
operation  for  many  years  under  the  very  able 
supervision  of  the  Rev.  A.  E.  Austin,  in  which 
many  native  young  men  aid  women  have  been 
civilized,  educated,  and  qualified  for  all  the  avo- 
cations of  life  and  good  citizenship. 

Previous  to  the  establishment  of  these  schools 
the  native's  leading  occupation  was  war,  and 
revenge  his  only  law.  The  Alaskan  Indian  is 
is  entirely  self-supporting,  is  industrious  and 
thrifty,  receives  nothing  from  the  government, 
asks  for  nothing,  wants  nothing,  and  it  is  to  be 
regarded  as  a  blessing  that  he  has  not  been 
demoralized  and  pauperized  by  government  aid. 

The  government  is  put  to  no  expense  for  the 
support  of  Indian  agencies  or  the  maintainance 
of  forts  or  regiments  of  armed  men  on  account 


of  the  Indians  of  Alaska.  Kindness  is  better 
than  force.  Schools  and  missions  are  the  great 
conservators  of  peace  in  this  Terrritory. 

Letters. 

COLORADO. 
Rbv.  a.  J.  Rodriguez,  Tgnacio,  CWo;— Dur- 
ing the  days  between  the  20th  of  November  and 
the  20th  of  December  a  large  reunion  of  the 
Indians  was  gathered  at  Ygoacio,  Colo.,  to 
receive  their  pay  which  the  Government  allorws 
them  every  year.  There  came  about  800  grown 
persons,  men  and  women  Utes,  and  there  were 
also  about  200  Navajoes,  who  came  with  the 
purpose  of  trading  with  them  and  especially  to 
play  cards,  all  kinds  of  gambling.  There  came 
also  about  100  Mexicans,  who  came  with  the 
same  purpose.  During  this  time  I  had  the  best 
of  opportunities  to  see  different  faces  and  have 
several  talks  with  different  men  as  I  have  said 
above.  Many  of  the  Indians  when  I  spoke 
to  them  about  religion  talked  to  me  about 
gambling  with  them.  The  condition  of  the  In- 
dians is  too  sad  on  account  of  their  ignorance 
and  the  many  vices  that  they  have. 


NEW  MEXICO. 

Miss  Rebecca  Rowland,  TtKn: — One  Sab- 
bath evening  Rev.  Whitlock  could  not  be  here, 
and  as  I  was  very  tired  I  thought  I  would  not 
open  the  chapel,  but  have  a  rest.  However,  at 
half  past  six  a  number  came  and  insisted  upon 
my  having  a  song  service.  I  opened  the  house, 
one  made  the  fire,  another  lighted  the  lamps, 
while  I  collected  my  thoughts  for  the  service. 
Four  strong  Catholics  stood  by  me  at  the  organ 
and  led  the  singing.  It  is  not  often  Rev.  Whit- 
lock has  to  be  away.  One  of  my  big  boys  was 
invited  Friday  to  go  some  distance  out  in  the 
country.  He  said  he  would  go  if  they  would 
bring  him  home  in  time  for  Sabbath  service. 

One  month  ago  I  called  a  meeting  of  the  ladies 
and  we  organized  a  Home  Missionary  Society. 
We  have  15  members. 


ALASKA 
Rev.  a.  E.  Austin,  Sitka:— yf^  have  been 
filling  up  our  school  with  a  fine  class  of  chil- 
dren who  come  to  us  from  villages  along  the 
coast,  all  the  way  from  Cape  Fox  on  the  south 
to  Unalaska  on  the  west,  a  distance  of  nearly 
2,000  miles.  Among  the  new  arrivals  we  have 
three  beautiful  girls  from  the  former  place.  The 


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INTERIOR  OF  MISSION  MUSEUM,  SITKA,  ALASKA. 


natives  there  make  hoochinoo  and  bnj  whiskey 
from  the  white  men  who  smuggle  it  into  the 
territory  from  British  Columbia,  and  the  winter 
season  is  turned  into  a  Bacchanalian  reyel. 
These  girls  could  not  speak  a  word  of  English, 
but  I  have  one  of  the  scholars  interpret  the 
Scriptures,  etc.  at  our  evening  services.  They 
seem  to  have  been  led  by  the  Holy  Spirit  from 
the  very  first,  and  I  believe  they  are  the  Lord's 
dear  children  to-day.  They  get  up  in  the 
prayermeetJng  and  talk  and  pray  in  Thlinket. 
They  are  so  artless  and  withal  so  serious  and  so 
earnest  in  their  exhortations,  it  would  do  your 
soul  good  to  see  and  hear  them.  They  manifest 
great  anxiety  for  the  salvation  of  their  people 
when  they  write  to  them  and  are  especially  ear- 
nest in  urging  them  to  give  up  drinking  hoo- 
chinoo, etc.  (Some  of  the  home  girls  write  at 
their  dictation.)  The  oldest  one  said  in  the 
prayer  meeting  the  other  night,  "  That  the  peo- 
ple there  (Cape  Fox)  very  often  got  drunk,  all  of 
them,  and  that  she  did  too." 

I  am  distressed  at  the  terrible  fact,  that  there 
are  many  like  them  in  Alaska,  who  know  noth- 
ing of  the  God  who  made  them,  or  of  His  Son 


who  died  on  a  cross  to  redeem  them.  Christ 
gave  his  life  to  save  them,  and  yet  they  must 
die  without  ever  hearing  of  it,  because  there  is 
no  money  in  the  Lord's  treasury  to  send  them  a 
missionary.  I  should  not  like  to  die  leaving 
much  money,  and  go  to  the  judgment  to  render 
the  account  of  my  stewardship  after  knowing 
these  facts.  Next  Sabbath  I  will  read  your 
kind  letter  to  the  Sabbath-school,  thanking  them 
for  their  contribution  of  $15  for  a  special  object. 
I  will  also  enclose  a  money  order  of  $40,  a  con- 
tribution of  our  native  Christians  to  Home  Mis- 
sions. They  give  this  out  of  their  poverty,  not 
of  their  abundance.  They  were  blanket  Indians 
twelve  years  ago.  Many  of  the  native  parents 
give  money  to  their  little  babes  to  drop  into  the 
basket  as  it  passes  by,  to  teach  them  to  give 
unto  the  Lord.    The  right  time  to  begin. 

Governor  Sheakly  was  present  at  our  Christ- 
mas Entertainment  and  made  an  address,  speak- 
ing in  most  complimentary  terms  on  the  appear- 
ance and  progress  of  the  school,  and  of  the 
natives  also.  It  was  replete  with  good  counsel 
to  children  and  parents.  Tou  will  notice  in  his 
Annual  Report  that  he  gives  the  missions  credit 


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for  doing  good  work  among  the  natives.  Judge 
Peckinpaugh  followed  the  (Governor  in  his  usual 
happy  style  to  the  delight  of  the  children.  He 
has  been  a  true  and  sturdy  friend  of  the  missions 
here,  and  of  the  mission  cause  in  general. 


Mbs.  R  R  Qould,  Jackson : — One  of  the  sad 
events  of  the  third  quarter  was  the  death  of  our 
good  chief  Skult-kah.  He  had  been  from  the 
first  unwavering  in  his  friendship  for  the  mis- 
sion, having  given  up  his  house  for  all  church 
and  school  purposes  for  three  years,  or  until  we 
could  get  other  buildings.  He  was  among  the 
first  to  be  baptized,  had  been  our  faithful  mail- 
carrier  and  only  policeman.  In  the  last  days  of 
his  lingering  illness  from  consumption,  he 
showed  real  Christian  patience,  his  only  regret 
being  that  could  not  live  till  Mr.  Gk)uld*B  return. 
With  tears  in  his  eyes  he  said  if  he  might  only 
look  into  his  face  once  more  and  take  his  hand, 
he  was  ready  to  die.  He  kept  his  Bible  open 
beside  his  bed,  being  comforted  by  having  it 
read  to  him  and  joining  in  the  singing  of  the 
sweet  €k>spel  hymns.  He  had  no  fear  of  death, 
and  pointing  upward  said  he  was  going  to  where 
his  only  child  and  the  minister's  child  (our  dear 
Testa)  had  gone.  I  think  no  missionary  or  min- 
ister anywhere  ever  had  in  his  church  a  more 
faithful  friend,  according  to  his  knowledge. 


MINNESOTA. 


Rev.  E.  N.  Raymond,  Virginia: — It  has  been 
a  year  of  great  trial  to  us.  But  it  has  also  been 
a  year  of  some  success  in  church  work.  Burnt 
out  of  our  place  of  worship  and  furniture,  for 
two  months  we  did  not  know  where  we  could 
hold  our  Sunday  services.  There  was  no  room 
to  be  found  anywhere.  I  had  built  a  shanty, 
and  there  we  re-opened  our  Sabbath- school 
which  grew  so  large,  and  the  people  anxiously 
inquiring  when  we  would  resume  our  public 
service,  that  the  erection  of  a  temporary  hall  or 
chapel  became  imperative.  So  did  we.  Our 
saw-mill  donated  lumber,  other  parties  fell  in 
with  the  idea,  and  so  we  raised  a  rough  struct- 
ure, 20  X  80,  on  the  spot  where  the  new  church 
is  to  be  erected. 

On  the  first  Sunday  we  occupied  our  new 
building,  it  was  crowded  both  morning  and 
evening.  Seemed  to  be  happily  at  home. 
There  were  English,  Swedes,  Irish  and  Fins, 
most  of  whom  understood  the  vernacular  of  the 
country.  Since  then  our  services  have  not  been 
quite  so  full  because  different  ministers  visited 
our  town  from  once  to  twice  a  month.    The 


majority  of  our  people  are  foreigners.  We  have 
nearly  400  Romanists  who  are  now  building  a 
church.  It  leaves  a  small  minority  of  English 
speaking  people. 

Our  Sabbath-school  has  been  steadily  increas- 
ing. We  have  now  on  our  roll  over  100  schol- 
ars, with  only  four  teachers!  We  should  have 
more  members  of  our  church,  but  they  do  not 
feel  themselves  capable  of  teaching  they  think. 
Were  it  not  for  this  unwillingness  to  teach  the 
word  of  Ood  to  the  young,  we  would  have 
many  more  pupils.  I  know  not  what  to  do  in 
this  case.  Nevertheless,  our  Sabbath-school  is 
quite  interesting,  composed  chiefly  of  Swedes 
who  desire  to  learn  the  English.  I  have  a  class 
of  fifteen  young  men  and  young  women,  most 
of  whom  are  foreigners  who  come  to  learn  to 
read  English,  which  induces  them  to  attend 
also  our  morning  or  evening  service. 

There  are  a  few  who  propose  to  unite  with  us 
at  our  next  communion,  hoping  that  more  will 
follow  in  the  near  future. 

Permit  me,  dear  brethren,  to  say  something 
now  about  ourselves.  I  informed  you  soon  after 
our  disastrous  fire  of  my  building  a  shanty  to 
live  in.  In  the  Summer  it  was  cool  and  quite 
pleasant,  but  we  found  that  there  was  as  much 
danger  to  be  sick  and  die  from  too  much  pure 
air  as  from  too  much  impure  air.  We  lingered 
too  long  in  our  open  shell,  until  the  second 
week  of  this  month.  My  wife  took  seriously 
ill  from  so  great  exposure.  I  had  to  build  me  a 
home  and  unfinished,  she  was  moved  into  it  by 
two  men,  myself  too  feeble  from  the  infiuenza 
to  help.  I  was  two  Sundays  without  preaching. 
We  are  now  better  sheltered,  but  where  the 
money  is  coming  from  to  pay  for  this  house  I 
know  not,  which  to  me  is  another  world  of  con- 
stant worry.  And  this  had  to  be  done  or  leave 
the  field,  which  I  do  not  propose  to  do  just  yet. 
For  some  reason  God  seems  to  lead  in  all  these 
matters.  He  has  helped  us  considerable  since 
the  fire,  but  all  from  abroad,  the  people  here 
willing  enough  to  render  assistance  but  too  poor 
to  do  much  of  anything  There  is  now  real  dull- 
ness in  business,  and  sometimes  hunger.  We 
have  never  seen  as  hard  times  on  the  Vermillion 
Range.  Some  mines  are  opened  and  men  work, 
but  no  pay.  The  men  are  six  months  or  a  year 
without  their  wages.  But  we  all  live  in  hope  of 
seeing  better  times  in  the  Spring. 

Biwabik  is  in  no  better  circumstances,  worse 
if  anything,  and  nearly  all  the  Rnglish  speaking 
people  have  left.  Hence  congregations  are  very 
small.  For  this  reason  I  have  confined  my  work 
mostly  to  Virginia. 


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So  great  has  been  the  generosity  of  our  dear 
Home  Board  that  I  am  ashamed  to  say  that  we 
cannot  this  year  come  up  with  our  contribution 
in  its  behalf  to  what  we  ought  Yes,  I  am  truly 
sorry,  but  the  reasons  are  given  you  above. 


KANSAS. 

Rev.  J.  I.  HuoHBS,  MeCfune  .--^The  last  two 
Sabbaths  I  have  taken  up  annual  collections  for 
the  Board  of  Home  Missions  at  both  churches 
under  my  care,  Osage  First  and  McCune. 

I  was  afraid  that  the  collection  would  be 
small  on  account  of  the  panic.  I  did  my  very 
best,  delivered  a  sermon  on  home  missions,  the 
work  of  the  Board  and  the  Church  during  last 
year.  I  was  well  pleased  at  the  collection  at 
Osage  First.  It  amounted  to  $88.  I  was  more 
afraid  of  McCune  as  the  people  are  poorer  than 
at  the  other  point.  They  never  take  the  collec- 
tion by  canvassing  the  congregation,  so  after 
preaching  the  sermon  I  called  the  three  elders 
and  one  of  the  deacons  and  gave  each  a  leaf  and 
pencil  and  explained  the  plan  to  the  congrega- 
tion ;  they  went  to  work .  I  told  the  people  that 
I  make  a  special  effort  and  make  an  offering  of 
$5  00  every  year  to  Home  Missions;  that  I  have 
been  used  to  sending  this  amount  personally  to 
the  Board  but  this  year  would  change  my  plan 
and  put  my  name  for  $5.00  on  the  subscription 
paper  as  I  was  anxious  to  swell  the  church  col- 
lection. When  the  work  was  done  I  must  say  I 
was  astonished  when  I  learned  that  the  collection 
amounted  $20.00  in  cash  and  $8.80  in  promises, 
and  the  elders  were  astonished.  I  think  the 
amount  will  not  be  under  $26.00  from  McCune 
as  some  were  not  present  and  I  will  call  on  them 
this  week. 


NEW  YORK 


Rev.  Vincent  Pisek,  Nbw  York  Oity: — Ac- 
cording to  your  approval  and  instruction,  I  left 
my  work  in  the  city  in  good  hands  and  labored 
for  three  months  out  West. 

I  visited  the  coal  regions  of  Pennsylvania 
in  view  of  possible  mission  work  among  the  100,- 
000  Slavonic  Hungarians,  and  found  that  we 
could  establish  a  flourishing  Presbyterian  church 
among  the  70,000  Bohemians  in  Chicago  with 
proper  means,  in  less  than  a  year's  time. 
Preached  in  various  places  old  and  mostly  new 
in  Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  Nebraska,  Kansas, 
Iowa  and  even  Colorado,  and  ended  by  success- 
fully assembling  almost  all  our  Presbyterian 
Bohemian  missionaries  to  a  meeting  and  confer- 
ence in  Racine,  Wisconsin. 


I  can  assure  the  Board  that  those  Bohemian 
missionaries  are  true  men  of  €k)d,  splendidly 
educated,  possessed  of  common  sense,  manly, 
eloquent,  full  of  zeal  and  self  denial, — ^in  one 
word,  right  men  in  the  right  place. 

Such  harmony  of  thought  and  plans  of  work, 
such  brotherly  love,  warm  greetings,  most 
earnest  prayers  and  words  of  power  and  encour- 
agement, are  seldom  heard  and  seen  now-a-days 
in  Christian  assemblies.  God  was  with  us  there. 
My  trips  in  many  instances  were  experimental. 
I  wished  to  thoroughly  acquaint  myself  with 
the  needs  and  possibilities  of  missionary  work 
among  my  own  peculiar  people. 


^*  Behold  I  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is 
for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in  unity." 


CALIFORNIA. 

Rev.  G.  W.  Hays,  Petaluma:—**  Hard  times, 
hard  times,"  is  about  the  only  cry  we  have  now 
from  all  classes  of  people.  Many,  to  meet  the 
emergency,  begin  the  curtail  with  the  Church. 
They  can  afford  many  things  they  could  do  just 
as  well  without,  but  they  cannot  afford  the  Gos- 
pel. I  am  sorry  to  say  that  this  is  true  of  some 
in  the  churches.  They  are  slow  to  learn  that 
the  surest  road  to  all  temporal  blessings  is 
through  gifts  to  the  Lord.  I  do  not  know  that 
any  of  my  people  are  so  trying  to  economize.  I 
know  of  one  who,  having  the  need  presented, 
came  to  me  saying  that  he  intended  giving  his 
summer's  work  to  the  Lord.  He  had  been 
superintending  the  work  on  a  small  bank  build- 
ing at  my  Big  Valley  appointment.  He  said  it 
would  be  about  $100,  but  when  he  came  to  settle 
it  was  $180.  He  divided  it  to  suit  himself  and 
handed  me  the  money  to  send  for  him.  The 
Home  Mission  Board  gets  $75.  I  was  very  glad, 
for  it  returned  almost  one-half  of  what  I  get. 
Taking  all  the  gifts  it  was  more  than  half,  and 
this  with  what  will  come  from  the  whole  field 
will  be  a  return  of  all  we  receive.  It  affords  me 
great  pleasure  to  have  it  so  and  I  wish  it  could 
be  the  way  all  the  time. 

We  are  making  haste  slowly.  It  is  a  source 
of  great  concern  to  have  one  of  our  little  towns. 
Valley  Ford,  filling  so  rapidly  with  foreign  ele- 
ment and  bringing  in  with  it  so  many  demoraliz- 
ing associations.  It  is  a  pity  that  American 
fathers  with  sons  growing  up  rather  favor  than 
oppose.  But  such  is  the  haste  for  riches  that 
the  future  greater  interest  is  ignored  until  the 
injury  is  all  beyond  recall. 


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NEZ  PERCE  INDIANS  SEARCHING  FOR 
THE  TRUE  RELIGION. 

MISS  KATE  0.   MoBETH. 

Lewip,  Clark  and  company  were  the  first 
white  men  the  Nez  Perces  ever  saw.    Soon 
after  the  visits  of  these  explorers,   an  Iri- 
qaois  Indian  whom  they  met  over   in  the 
buffalo  country  (Montana)  told  them  some- 
thing about  God  and  the  book  the  white  man 
had  from  him.     About  this  time   they  met 
some  Catholic  priests  at  the  great  camping 
place  on  the  upper  Columbia,  who  gave  them 
some  directions  as  to  how  to  worship  God. 
The  Hudson^s  Bay  Company  established  a 
trading  post  in  what  is  now  called  the  Ka- 
miah  Valley.     Whether  in  sport  or  earnest 
they,  too,  gave  the  Nez  Perces  directions  about 
worship,  but  what  a  mixture  of  heathenism 
and  other  religions  in  their  many  religious 
ceremonies,  with  only  glimpses  of  the  truth  I 
As    time  rolled  on  they  became  more  and 
more  dissatisfied  with  their  way  of  worship- 
ing.    Their  doubts  grew  stronger  the  more 
they  discussed  this  matter  around  the  great 
council  fires  in  their  annual  meetings  for  the 
hunt.    These  councils  were  almost  always 
closed  with  the  unanimous  expression.     **  If 
we  could  only  find  the  path  of  Lewis  and 
Clark,  we  could  follow  that  and   find    the 
truth   or  the  light.''    So  their  perplexities 
grew  until  about  twenty-eight  years  after 
Lewis  and  Clark  had  been  among  them,  it 
was  decided  fully  to  search  for  the  path  and 
the  truth.     Three  brave  men  started  from 
the  £:amiah  Valley  taking  the  usual  trail  for 
the  buffalo  country,  which  trail  led  through 
the  Flathead  land.     A  Flathead  Chief  {haif 
Nez  Perce)  wished  to  accompany  them.     An 
old  full  Flathead  started  with  them  but  was 
persuaded  to  turn  back.    He  was  teo  old  and 
not  fit  for  the  journey.     The  four  {three 
full  Nez  Perce  and  one  half  Flathead)  reached 
St.  Louis,  there  causing  much  discussion  as 
to  who  these  strange  silent  men  were,  and 
from  whence  they  came.    They  settled  the 
matter  as  to  who  the  Flathead  was  by  the 
shape  of  his  head,  but  the  three  others  could 
not  be  placed  until  one  day  a  strange  man  was 
brought  into  the  Fur  Companies*  warehouse, 
who  looked  at  them  sitting  on  the  fioor,  and 
exclaimed,  **  They  are  the  Nez  Perce  (pierced 


noses)  of  the  lower  Columbia,"  A  misnomer 
which  has  clung  to  them;  they  never  pierced 
their  noses,  nor  were  they  from  lower  Co- 
lumbia.  They  were  disappointed  in  not  find- 
ing the  truth  about  God  and  how  to  worship 
him.     Two  of  the  four  (the  older  men)  who 
reached    St.   Louis  died  and  were    buried 
there.     Before  the  two  younger  men  started 
back  the  promise  was  made  that  a  man  with 
the  book  should  be  sent  to  them  to  teach 
them  how  to  worship  God.     The  saddened 
two  younger  men  came  on  their  homeward 
journey,  but  when  somewhere  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  (now)  Yellowstone  Park,  one  of  them 
died  there.     This  last  lonely  one  buried  his 
friend  with  his  fine  blankets  and  presents  in 
a  sunken  spot  and  piled  the  stones  over  him 
as  was    their  custom.     The  surviving  one 
found  the  camp  of  the  Nez  Perces  upon  the 
buffalo  country.     There  he  sat  and  told  his 
friends  all  that  had  befallen  them  since  they 
left  them,  and  the  promise  which  had  been 
made  that  a  '*  sent  one  "  should  come  among 
them.    This  last  one  of  the  delegation  seemed 
to  like  the  ways  of  the  whites  and  is  supposed 
to  have  gone  away  with  some  one  of  about  one 
hundred  white  men  who  appeared  upon  the 
buffalo  country  that  year.     At  all  events  he 
never  returned  te  Nez  Perce  land,  nor  have 
any  of  the  Nez  Perces  ever  found  any  trace 
of  him  or  where  he  went.     They  did  not  for- 
get the  promise  made.    Year  by  year  they 
went  out  to  meet  the  sent  one.    Four  years 
after  this  company  of  four  reached  St.  Louis 
the  Nez  Perces  went  as  far  eastward  to  meet 
the  messenger  as  Fort  Hall.     There  they  met 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spaulding  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Whitman. 

A  poor  Indian  woman  had  a  garden  which 
was  her  all;  one  day  the  locusts  came;  she  went 
out  and  knelt  down  in  the  garden  and  prayed ; 
then  she  took  her  broom  and  fought  locusts,  for 
she  believed  in  work  as  well  as  prayer;  then  she 
would  pray  again:  "Oh,  Lord  Jesus,  thou 
knowest  how  much  I  love  thee;  I  am  a  poor 
widow  woman  and  have  nothing  to  live  on  but 
this  garden;  do,  do  drive  off  these  dwiCe  lice!'' 
All  other  fields  were  destroyed,  but  hers  was 
saved.  There  is  no  failure  in  Christian  work ; 
the  only  failure  is  in  not  doing  it.— Bishop 
WmPFUB,  at  Mohonk  Conference. 


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the  originals  where  particular  interest  is 
excited  in  particular  cases;  but  the  object  in 
furnishing  these  extracts  is  to  stimulate  a 
general  and  healthy  interest  in  the  entire 
work.  The  voluntary  endorsement  of  our 
work,  by  one  of  the  Home  Missionary  Synod - 
ical  Superintendents  recently  traveling  in  the 
South  for  his  health,  will  serve  as  an  intro- 
duction to  this  month^s  series: 

1?.  In  the  providence  of  Qod  I  am  thrown 
down  here  at  Aiken,  8.  C,  to  recuperate  my 
health.  Am  greatly  improving;  am  delighted 
with  the  climate.  I  have  been  making  quite  a 
study  of  the  work  among  the  colored  people  in 
the  South.  I  cannot  quiet  my  conscience  with- 
out telling  you  how  much  joy  I  have  in  the 
work  you  represent.  I  have  always  been  a 
warm  friend  to  the  work ;  but  seeing  it,  in  all  its 
needs,  and  all  its  prospects,  has  wonderfully 
deepened  my  interest.  I  am  especially  impressed 
with  the  work  being  done  by  our  friend  Rev. 
Mr.  C,  at  this  point.  Without  saying  anything 
to  him  I  do  want  to  assure  you  that  be  seems, 
in  an  eminent  degree,  fitted  for  the  work  he  has 
in  hand.  I  visited  one  of  the  schools  taught  by 
one  of  his  students,  in  the  country,  about  nine 
miles  from  here.  It  was  creditable  in  the  ex- 
treme. The  teacher  and  students  all  did  them- 
selves credit.  I  know  there  are  marvelous  diffi- 
culties to  overcome ;  but  by  God's  grace  all  will 
be  conquered.  I  wish  I  had  a  fortune  to  bestow 
on  such  work.  This  I  have  not;  but,  I  thought 
you  would  be  pleased  to  know  that  an  impres- 
sion for  good  has  been  made  upon  a  Northern 
visitor  of  this  school.  May  the  Lord  bless  and 
prosper  this  good  work.  T.  8.  B. 

18.  Here  is  a  letter  from  a  busy  colored 
missionary  in  Arkansas  who  both  teaches 
and  preaches  and  seems  on  the  whole,  to 
have  his  hands  full: 

I  began  teaching  the  last  of  June.  The 
reason  that  I  did  not  report  those  months  is, 


that  I  lost  considerable  time  in  going  to  the 
meetings  of  Presbytery  and  Synod.  I  have  ex- 
pended all  the  tuition  in  purchasing  material, 
and  for  work  on  our  house.  In  fact,  one  of  the 
reasons  for  my  teaching  was  that  I  might,  with 
the  tuition,  pay  our  debts  and  get  our  building 
in  better  shape.  I  have  also  spent  all  my  own 
money,  all  above  what  were  my  expenses,  that 
we  might  get  our  house  in  a  comfortable  condi- 
tion. I  purchased  $20  worth  of  lumber  for  ceil- 
ing and  flooring;  and  I  ceiled  and  floored  it 
mypelf,  alone,  working  mornings  before,  and 
eveniogs  after  school  hours,  and  by  the  holidays 
I  had  succeeded  in  getting  it  up.  My  members 
are  engaged  in  such  work  that  they  cannot  assist 
me  in  manual  labor,  and  little  with  money. 
All  we  lack  now  is  good  windows  and  doors, 
and  our  room  will  be  comfortable.  My  school 
work  is  very  taxing.  In  fact  I  teach  both  night 
and  day.  The  people  here  think  that  one  who 
has  been  to  college,  or  had  a  special  training, 
can  never  be  exhausted.  I  give  lessons  in  the 
family  I  am  boarding  with  at  night.  Also,  I 
have  afternoon  scholars  whom  I  cannot  classify ; 
and  because  they  can  only  come  in  the  afternoon 
I  feel  that  I  should  take  special  pains  to  help 
them,  and  in  addition  to  this  my  ministerial 
duties  are  to  be  attended  to,  so  that  I  am  almost 
burdened.  I  hope,  if  it  is  in  the  wise  providence 
of  God,  a  teacher  may  be  granted  the  work  here 
next  year;  so,  while  I  would  still  give  time  to 
the  school,  I  would  have  more  time  for  my  other 
work.  All  my  studies  have  been  sadly  neglect- 
ed. I  have  not  been  able  to  purchase  a  new 
book  which  I  need  so  much.  I  have  been  urged 
to  teach  a  night  school;  but  I  just  told  them  I 
could  not,  for  it  would  break  me  down  com- 
pletely. There  are  no  legal  claims  on  our  build- 
ing and  lot,  nor  have  we  received  any  outside 

assistance  except  $10  which  Rev.  Mr.  

was  instrumental  in  securing  for  us  from  a  lady 
in  Ohio.  There  is  indebtedness  on  the  church, 
but  it  is  only  money  that  I  have  advanced.  I 
could  not  have  done  it  had  not  the  Board  adopted 
the  system  of  paying  monthly.  In  all,  there 
have  been  about  forty-flve  children  who  have 
come  to  my  school.  I  hope  from  this  report  you 
may  get  some  idea  of  my  work  and  its  limita- 
tions. I  am  unable  to  do  both  my  church  and 
school  work  as  I  know  it  ought  to  be  done. <, 

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14.  The  followiog  letter  shows  the  com- 
mendable fapirit  with  which  the  Board's  no- 
tice of  necessary  retrenchme£t  has  been  re- 
ceived by  many  of  the  heads  of  oar  educa- 
tional institutions. 

Yours  of  recent  date,  informing  me  of  the 
action  of  the  Board  arising  from  its  financial 
condition,  has  been  received  and  well  considered. 
I  fully  realize  the  fact  that  there  must  be  re- 
trenchment, in  some  line  or  other,  and  I  am  wil- 
ling to  co-operate  with  the  Board  to  that  end.  I 
know  the  salaries  for  our  teachers  here  will 
amount  to  more  than  any  previous  year—if  kept 
up  to  the  close  of  the  term, — but  heretofore  (and 
even  now)  we  have  never  had  a  sufficient  num- 
ber of  teachers,  and  at  the  end  of  the  year  have 
felt  that  some  scholars  had  been  neglected  be- 
cause we  had  not  tiiachers  enough  In  the  fall 
we  are  far  from  being  full,  'tis  true,  but  how 
with  us  nowt  We  have  on  roll  240,  the  largest 
number  in  the  history  of  the  school,  and  Uiey 
are  still  coming  in.  Our  attendance  is  about  98 
per  cent.  I  have  never  seen  them  attend  so 
regularly — and  we  are  crowded — just  packed. 
We  have  no  place  large  enough  to  hold  them 
during  the  devotional  exercises.  We  need  all 
the  help  we  can  get — and  we  have  to  use  two  of 
the  seniors,  every  day,  in  order  to  get  through. 
Ere  the  subject  was  discussed  by  the  teachers, 

Mrs. most   generously  said  that   not  a 

teacher  could  be  given  up ;  that  we  needed  more 
than  we  had;  but,  said  she,  'Til  give  up  my 
salary  but  not  my  classes."  It  would  be  useless 
for  us  to  attempt  to  instruct  with  a  less  number 
of  teachers  than  we  have  now,  including  the 
matron ;— so  at  the  end  of  this  month  erase  Mrs. 

's  name  from  the  salary  list — but  teach  she 

will.  We  pray  that  the  Lord  may  see  fit  to  lift 
the  burden  from  off  the  Board,  that  his  work 
may  go  on ;  and,  I  believe  be  will.  With  such 
a  thirsting  and  begging  for  water— for  the  bread 
of  life,  as  these  people  have,  with  the  opportu- 
nities toat  are  opening  in  this  state  for  the  work 
of  the  Master,  through  Presbyterian  efforts,  I 
know  he  will  not  let  the  work  suffer. 

16.  The  following  letter  comes  from  South 
Carolina  (Beaufort),  showing  ^' times  of  re- 
freshing." 

I  do  not  think  I  have  written  you  about  our 
recent  spiritual  baptisuL  We  have  been  visited 
by  a  refreshing  from  the  presence  of  the  Lord. 
It  was  my  privilege,  yesterday,  to  receive  in 
my  church,  in  this  place,  twelve  new  members 
Our  hearts  are  rejoicing  in  the  Lord ;  our  work 
is  beginning  to  t^e  deep  root  in  this  place. 


We  have  had  a  happy  revival  in  connection  with 
our  Christian  Endeavor  Society ;  there  has  been 
quite  an  awakening.  Souls  were  hopefully  con- 
verted ;  believers  greatly  revived  and  strength- 
ened. Our  young  men  in  the  Boarding  Hall 
have  been  especially  active  in  pressing  the 
claims  of  Christ  upon  their  fellow  students. 
We  have  only  two  left  of  our  number  that  have 
not  professed  faith  in  Christ.  Our  church, 
Sunday-school  and  day-school  are  in  a  flouriah- 
ing  condition.  The  spirit  of  revival  continues 
with  us  constantly.  In  spite  of  all  oppositioB 
brought  to  bear  against  us,  through  denomina- 
tional jealousy,  the  Lord  is  greatly  blessing  our 
feeble  and  unworthy  efforts.  We  have  con- 
stantly enjoyed  the  sunshine  of  his  countenance. 
Pray  for  us,  that  his  loving  kindness  may  con- 
tinue; and  that  through  the  instrumentality  of 
his  servants,  in  this  place,  there  may  be  daily 
added  to  the  church,   ''such  as  shall  be  saved." 

Id.  This  from  Mary  Holmes  Seminary, 
Jackson,  Miss: 

We  are  in  the  midst  of  a  great  spiritual  awak- 
ening in  the  school.  More  than  fifty  pupils  have 
asked  for  prayers,  indeed  nearly  every  uncon- 
verted member  of  the  school,  and  there  are  nine 
or  ten  who  show  good  evidence  of  conversion. 
Some  of  the  most  indifferent  are  now  deeply 

convicted Again,    later  on:     The 

deep  spiritual  interest  among  our  pupils  con- 
tinues. Among  our  boarders  there  are  twenty- 
nine  who  have  professed  conversion.  There  are 
twenty-one  who  are  not  yet  Christians — every 
one  of  whom  is  showing  deep  concern.  Moat 
of  them  have  arisen  in  the  meetings  for  prayer. 
There  are  also  two  professed  conversions  among 
the  day  pupils,  leaving  but  one  day -scholar  not 

a  Christian Again,  a  visitor  from 

the  north  to  this  school,  at  the  time  above  re- 
ferred to,  writes  as  follows:  The  Lord  is  doing 
a  great  work  here,  every  room  a  Bocbim,  great 
solemnity,  great  power.  Some  think  their  sins 
too  great  to  be  forgiven^one  case,  especially, 
most  distressing,  such  sense  of  sin  and  condem- 
nation. About  thirty  have  returned  to  the  Lord, 
and  others  are  almost  persuaded.  Oh,  that  such 
a  tidal  wave  of  divine  influence  might  visit  all 
our  schools  and  sweep  over  the  land.  '•  Not  by 
might  nor  by  power  but  by  my  Spirit  saith  the 
Lord."  We  linger  here  a  day  or  two,  then  turn 
north. 

A  letter  from  Mary  Allen  Seminary  is 
postponed,  for  want  of  rooni  in  the  present 
number,  but  may  be  expected  to  appear  Iq 
oar  May  number. 


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PRESIDENT  CHEESEMAN  OP  LIBERIA. 
Joseph  James  Cheeseman,  the  PresideDt  of 
Liberia,  was  born  in  Edina,  Grand  Bassa  county, 
March  7,  1848,  when  Liberia  was  still  a  colony. 
His  parents  were  sent  out  to  Liberia  by  the 
American  Colonization  Society  and  were  among 
its  early  founden.    His  father  died  when  he 


was  sixteen  years  of  age,  leaving  to  him  the 
care  and  support  of  a  mother  and  large  family, 
a  duty  which  he  faithfully  discharged.  He 
acquired  all  his  education  in  the  schools  and 
college  of  Liberia,  in  which  he  made  the  most 
of  his  limited  opportunities. 
On  Jaau^ry  8, 1805,  he  married  Miss  M.  A. 


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Crusoe,  a  Liberian,  who  had  qualities  admirably 
fitting  her  to  share  in  his  hard  struggles  as  well 
as  to  gracefully  fill  the  prominent  station  to 
which  she  has  been  elevated. 

Mr.  Cheeseman  has  been  a  merchant,  and  his 
high  character,  intelligence,  and  energy  have 
raised  him  from  small  beginnings  to  a  prominent 
place  among  the  merchants  of  the  West  Coast  of 
Africa,  and  brought  him  competence. 

During  his  life  he  has  most  efficiently  and 
creditably  filled  many  offices  in  church  and 
state.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist Church  in  Edina  in  1868,  and  filled  the 
position  until  he  was  elected  President  of  the 
Republic;  he  has  been  president  of  the  Liberian 
Baptist  Association,  superintendent  of  missions 
under  an  appointment  of  the  Southern  Baptist 
Missionary  Convention  of  the  United  States, 
and  President  of  the  Liberia  Baptist  Missionary 
Convention. 

When  a  young  man  he  served  in  the  militia  of 
the  Republic,  and  held  the  position  of  adjutant 
of  the  Second  Regiment;  he  was  clerk  of  the 
county  court,  collector  of  customs  of  the  port 


of  Grand  Bassa,  mayor  of  Edina,  member  of  the 
Liberian  House  of  Representatives,  and  judge 
of  the  superior  court  of  Grand  Bassa  county ; 
the  duties  of  all  of  which  offices  were  discharged 
in  a  most  efficient  and  satisfactory  manner.  On 
May  5,  1691,  he  was  elected  President  of  the 
Republic  for  a  term  of  two  years,  as  provided 
by  the  constitution  of  Liberia,  and  during  the 
present  year  has  been  re-elected  for  a  second  term. 
He  is  said  to  be  a  many-sided  man,  who  has 
taken  for  his  motto  ''  Whatsoever  thy  hand  find- 
eth  to  do,  do  it  with  all  thy  might."  By  his 
ability  and  integrity  he  has  fairly  won  his  pres- 
ent position,  in  which  it  is  believed  he  will 
retain  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  his  fellow- 
citizens. 

The  portrait  of  President  Cheeseman  which 
we  give  to  our  readers  is  copied  by  permission 
together  with  the  foregoing  sketch  of  his  life, 
from  LIBERIA,  the  Bulletin  of  the  American 
Colonization  Society — Bulletin  No.  8,  Novem- 
ber, 1898. 


MINISTERIAL    RELIEF. 


THE  KING'S  DAUGHTERS. 

The  following  circular  by  Rev.  Dr.  Hamil- 
ton, the  eloquent  advocate  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  of  the  claims  of  its  ^^aged 
and  broken  down  clergy  and  their  widows 
and  orphans,"  has  appeared  in  a  number  of 
our  religious  papers;  and  we  gladly  give  it  a 
place  in  these  columns.  The  Doctor,  in  this 
stirring  appeal  to  the  King's  Daughters  for 
help,  has  in  view — as  will  be  seen  by  his 
closing  words — the  worn  out  ministers  of 
other  denominations  as  well  as  those  of  his 
own  Church.  What  he  so  forcibly  urges  and 
what  is  so  well  said  by  Mrs.  Bottome,  the 
President  of  the  Order,  is  well  worthy  of 
thoughtful  perusal  by  the  readers  of  this 
magazine.  Dr.  Hamilton  is  right  in  saying 
that  the  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief  will  wel- 
come the  aid  of  the  King's  Daughters  in  our 
own  Church. 

In  the  first  address  which  the  Secretary 
of  the  Board  made  to  the  G^eneral  Assembly 
(1885)  in  presenting  i3m  Amiufkl  Report,  be 


emphasized  the  importance  of  interesting  the 
young  in  the  tender  and  sacred  work  of  the 
Board.  This  will  not  only  train  them  up  in 
Christ-like  sympathy  with  the  sick  and  help- 
less poor,  but  it  will  do  much  to  bring  back 
that  respect  for  the  ministerial  office  which 
is  not  in  the  present  generation,  so  promi- 
nently characteristic  of  both  old  and  young 
as  it  was  in  the  past.  And  if  the  circles  of 
the  King's  Daughters  in  our  Church  will,  as 
Dr.  Hamilton  suggests,  make  **the  care  of 
the  yeteran  ministers  their  special  mission," 
not  only  will  their  gifts  bring  gladness  and 
joy  to  many  homes  of  the  honored  but  de- 
pendent servants  of  the  Church,  but  a  gener- 
ation will  be  trained  up  in  its  duty  to  the 
ministry  and  will  place  the  Board  of  Relief 
above  the  plane  of  mere  general  benevolence 
or  even  of  Christian  charity,  and  give  to  it 
its  true  position  as  the  agency  by  which  the 
Church  pays  a  just  and  righteous  debt  to  its 
ministers  in  their  sickness  and  helpless  old 
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THE  KING'S  DAUGHTERS  AND  THE 
KING'S  VETERANS. 

JAT  BENSON  HAMILTON,  D.D. 

The  King's  Daughters  constitate  a  mighty 
army.  Bat  one  thing  is  needed  to  make  this 
organization  one  of  the  mightiest  religions 
agencies  of  the  modem  Church.  It  should 
have  a  great  and  special  mission  as  an  inspir- 
ation. It  is  shut  out  from  the  fields  which 
are  occupied  hy  special  organizations.  Nearly 
every  form  of  beneficence  has  a  strong  and 
aggressive  society  which  devotes  to  it  special 
effort.  There  remains  but  little  for  the 
King*s  Daughters  to  do  but  miscellaneous 
ministry  to  the  poor  and  distressed  who  in 
many  instances  are  already  the  recipients  of 
the  bounty  of  other  societies.  There  is  one 
field  vast  enough  to  occupy  the  energy  of  the 
most  aggressive;  new  enough  to  be  fascinat- 
ing to  the  lover  of  novelty ;  tender  enough  to 
stir  the  emotions  of  the  most  sluggish;  holy 
enough  to  be  worthy  the  effort  of  angels.  It 
is  to  become  Veterans'  Helpers.  In  every 
Protestant  denomination  the  neglect  of  the 
aged  and  broken-down  clergy  and  their 
widows  and  orphans  is  as  shameful  as  the 
suffering  it  causes  is  pitiful.  A  movement  is 
now  being  projected  to  induce  the  King's 
Daughters  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
to  make  the  care  of  the  veteran  ministers 
their  special  mission.  Mrs.  Bottome  the 
President  of  the  order  has  written  a  letter  of 
hearty  approval.    She  says: 

Certainly  nothing  can  appeal  to  our  sympa- 
thies more  intimately  or  deeply  than  the  work 
which  proposes  the  relief  of  our  aged,  worn-out 
ministers  and  their  families.  Among  the  many 
cases  of  neglect  and  want  that  during  my  experi- 
ence as  a  minister's  wife  have  come  to  my 
knowledge,  none  have  touched  me  more  than  the 
cruel  privations  under  which  many  a  family  was 
suffering  whose  earlier  days  were  devoted  to  the 


earnest  activities  of  the  Church,  and  which  now 
from  the  ill  health  and  advanced  years  of  father 
and  husband  were  thrown  upon  the  cold  chari- 
ties of  the  world,  except  Yor  the  little  pittance 
doled  out  from  the  Stewards'  Fund  at  the  annual 
conference.  How  my  heart  has  ached  many  a 
time  for  the  uncomplaining  pinchings  and  real 
want — none  the  less  real  because  uncomplained 
of— of  these  aged  saints  of  God.  I  know  of  no 
work  that  will  so  soon  commend  itself  to  the 
consideration  of  the  King's^  Daughters.  It  is 
not  necessary  that  any  circles  should  disturb  their 
present  arrangements  or  interfere  with  any  other 
object  for  which  they  are  laboring.  In  most 
cases  this  is  a  work  which  they  can  carry  on 
additionally  to  such  as  already  occupies  them. 
And  if  circles  in  any  church  are  fully  occupied 
it  will  not  interfere  with  that  should  one  or  two 
of  their  number  form  other  circles  to  take  up 
this  work  specially. 

If  this  organization  will  consent  to  make 
this  work  their  special  mission  what  blessing 
and  comfort  they  can  bring  instantly  to  the 
neglected  and  forgotten  servants  of  God. 
What  an  inspiration  it  will  be  to  the  order 
itself  I  If  the  little  silver  cross  can  be  recog- 
nized wherever  seen  as  the  badge  of  a  Vet- 
erans' Helper  what  a  bond  of  unity  it  would 
be  to  this  great  sisterhood !  They  would  pos- 
sess one  great  mission  in  common,  which 
while  fully  denominational,  by  its  oneness  of 
purpose  and  likeness  of  ministry,  would 
make  the  strongest  possible  inter-denomina- 
tional bond.  Each  circle  can  become  auxil- 
iary to  the  movement  in  its  own  Church.  Dr. 
Cattell  will  welcome  the  Presbyterians;  Dr. 
Whittlesy  will  rejoice  to  have  the  aid  of  the 
Congregationalists;  the  writer  will  be  grate- 
ful for  the  co-operation  of  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Circles.  Each  denominational  Board  of 
Relief  will  gladly  accept  this  service. 
Daughters  of  the  King,  you  may  minister  to 
the  King  himself  by  relieving  His  Veterans 
in  His  name. 


PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK. 


FEATURES  OF  SABBATH- SCHOOL  MIS- 
SIONARY WORK  IN  WINTER. 
With  the  advent  of  spring  the  great  work 
of  Sabbath-school  missions  takes  on  new  life 
and  energy.    A  great  deal  of  the  direct  work 


of  the  missionary  at  least  in  the  western 
and  northern  states,  has  to  be  suspended 
during  the  winter  months,  owing  to  severity 
of  climate.  Not  that  the  missionaries  are 
unemployed.    By  no  means  1    Travel  in  the 


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remoter  settlements  is  often  impossible  while 
stern  Boreas  is  king,  but  the  special  attention 
of  oar  workers  is  then  tamed  to  the  mission 
centers  and  railroad  towns,  where  many  Sab- 
bath-schools are  visited  and  looked  after  and 
a  great  deal  of  faithful  evangelistic  work  is 
performed.  The  winter  season  is  also  the 
best  time  in  many  places  for  holding  Sabbath- 
school  institutes  and  conventions,  which  have 
a  healthy  educational  influence  upon  commu- 
nities, and  do  our  missionaries  much  good  by 
bringing  them  face  to  face  with  other  friends 
and  workers  in  the  cause.  Some  of  the 
brethren  also  visit  the  larger  cities  and  do 
valuable  service  in  addressing  public  meet- 
ings and  prayer  meetings  in  the  interests  of 
the  work.  Mr.  Joseph  Brown,  synodical  mis- 
sionary for  Wisconsin,  and  Mr.  J.  F.  Sulzer, 
synodical  missionary  for  Mlnnesote,  spent  a 
part  of  January  and  February  in  Chicago, 
Philadelphia,  New  York  and  other  cities  and 
by  their  effective  addresses  contributed  not  a 
little  te  the  information  of  the  churches  as  to 
the  peculiar  features  of  their  work.  No 
doubt  they  in  their  turn,  and  other  mission- 
ary brethren,  would  be  glad  to  receive  visite 
during  the  summer  from  eastern  pastors  and 
laymen  in  their  fields  of  labor,  and  to  give 
them  some  insight  into  the  details  of  their 
daily  lives.  Both  of  these  brethren  have 
been  very  successful.  Both  are  men  of  fervid 
zeal,  thoroughly  in  love  with  their  calling, 
and  full  of  faith  in  the  possibilities  of  good 
growing  out  of  the  same.  Their  temporary 
absence  from  the  field  is  more  than  counter- 
balanced by  the  direct  and  indirect  gain  to 
the  cause  from  their  personal  contact  with  the 
constituencies  of  the  Board. 

Special  attention  has  been  given  of  late  by 
the  department  of  Sabbath-school  and  Mis- 
sionary Work  to  the  important  matters  re- 
ferred to  in  the  January  number  of  this  mag- 
azine relating  to  the  general  supervision  and 
directing  of  missionary  work,  and  the 
encouragement  and  strengthening  of  the  mis- 
sionaries. The  field,  or  rather  the  many 
fields  now  occupied  present  widely  different 
conditions  and  demand  men  of  diversified 
gifts,  but  all  alike  call  for  men  of  an  intensely 
earnest  and  consecrated  spirit.  The  mission- 
aries are  expected  to  report  faithfully  and 


fully  to  the  department,  and  are  assisted  in 
doing  so  by  carefully  prepared  forms  embody- 
ing every  importont  detail  of  their  labors, 
and  also  by  instructions  and  suggestions 
growing  out  of  the  accumulated  stock  of  ex- 
perience from  all  parts  of  the  field.  Their 
reports  are  carefully  examined  and  endorsed 
by  the  chairmen  of  the  appropriate  presby- 
terial  and  synodical  committees,  and  present 
from  month  to  month  an  array  of  facto  and 
figures  in  this  most  interesting  branch  of 
church  work  which  is  calculated  to  stir  the 
hearto  of  Christians  to  joy  and  gratitude.  It 
is  a  matter  of  rejoicing  that  one  particular 
branch  of  the  Church  universal  should  be 
permitted  to  equip  and  support  an  effective 
pioneer  band  of  Sabbath-school  missionaries 
in  the  newer  and  remoter  parte  of  our  vast 
territory.  The  work  these  men  are  doing  so 
quietly  and  unostentatiously,  brings  in  rich 
returns  to  the  cause  of  Christ  in  general  and 
also  to  our  Church  in  particular.  There  is  no 
branch  of  Christian  service  which  yields 
quicker  and  more  abundant  resulte  in  propor- 
tion to  the  money  expended  as  this  work  of 
Sabbath-school  missions. 

SABBATH-SGHOOLS  «9.  SALOONS. 

From  a  Minnesota  field  a  brother  writes: 

When  the  Sabbath  school  was  first  organized 
the  saloons  were  the  best  patronized  business 
places  In  the  village.  Today  It  Is  a  common 
remark  that  they  are  doing  next  to  no  business 
at  all.  A  year  ago  most  of  the  young  men  I  saw 
were  under  the  Influence  of  liquor.  I  have 
to-day  met  nearly  all  the  young  men  In  the  vll* 
lage  but  I  do  not  think  one  of  them  had  been 
drinking.  One  of  our  mission  churches  has  re- 
ceived fifteen  members,  thirteen  on  profession  of 
faith,  from  a  Sabbath-school  I  organized  in 
March,  1898. 

DRIFTING  SNOWS  NO  0B8TACLI. 

From  Wisconsin  a  missionary  writes: 

Last  Saturday  after  dark  the  conductor  of  the 
train  kindly  let  me  off  on  a  cross  road,  leading  to 
a  neighborhood  where  appointments  had  been 
announced  for  me,  two  miles  from  where  I  left 
the  train.  Through  drifting  snows  and  bad 
roads  I  reached  place  of  destination  and  at  the 
various  services  was  delighted  to  see  such  atten- 
tive hearers.  On  parting  pressing  Invitations 
were  given  to  come  again,  and  warm  thanks  for 
the  gospel  message  I  had  brought   to  them. 


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To-day  I  am  suffering  from  cold  contracted  by 
exposure,  damp  bed,  heated  school  houses,  and 
long  rides  in  night  air,  but  I  expect  to  be  able 
in  a  day  or  two  to  resume  work. 

GRATEFUL  FOB  JLID  IN  CLOTHING. 

There  has  been  much  destitution  during 
the  past  winter  in  many  parts  of  our  land, 
and  a  large  number  of  barrels  and  boxes  of 
clothing  have  been  distributed  by  our  mis- 
sionaries, aggregating  in  value  several  thou- 
sand of  dollars.  From  Oklahoma  the  follow- 
ing reaches  us : 

During  the  autumn  and  early  winter  there 
was  a  great  deal  of  sickness  and  several  deaths 
in  the  communities  I  have  served.  I  was  able 
to  send  clothing  to  thirteen  or  fourteen  families, 
and  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  parents  and 
children  at  the  services  who  could  not  have  got 
there  with  any  comfort  but  for  this  assistance 
rendered  by  the  kind  friends  east.  They  appre- 
ciated the  help  very  much.  ...  I  received 
five  barrels  and  a  box  of  clothing.  All  of  it  was 
very  good,  and  I  found  little  difficulty  in  finding 
places  for  it. 

VISFTATION  OF  80H00LB  A  NECESSITT. 

From  North  Carolina,  where  a  good  work 
is  carried  on  by  our  colored  missionaries,  one 
writes: 

The  Sabbath-schools  visited  by  me  during  the 
last  quarter  are  all  doing  well.  I  found  some  of 
them,  however,  weak  and  ready  to  die,  but  by 
visiting  from  house  to  house,  working  day  and 
night,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  the  work  has 
in  every  case,  by  God*s  grace,  been  revived.  I 
find  that  the  missionary  is  to  a  sick  Sabbath- 
school  what  a  doctor  is  to  a  sick  patient.  Many 
of  our  schools  would  die  but  for  the  timely  visit 
of  the  Sabbath  school  missionary. 

ASK  BCY  MA  TO  WASH  MB. 

A  faithful  brother  in  Iowa  sends  this  story : 
Visited  a  mission  Sabbath- school  in  a  very 
destitute  community.  The  sermons  are  held  in 
open  air.  One  bright  but  very  dirty  little  girl 
came  to  her  teacher  and  said,  'Wont  you  let 
your  little  boy  go  home  with  me  and  ask  my  ma 
to  wash  me  and  clean  me  up  so  I  can  come  to 
Sabbath-school  like  other  little  girls?' 

This  little  incident  is  one  of  thousands  of 
illustrations  of  the  civilizing  effects  of  mission 
work.  Patriotism  and  philanthropy  com- 
mend it  as  one  of  the  greatest  of  agencies  for 
elevating  a  people. 

MINISTEBS    NEEDED. 

The  inability  of  the  Home  Board  to  occupy 


the  fields  opened  up  by  our  Sabbath  school 
missionaries  is  much  to  be  regretted.  A 
brother  from  Missouri  writes  that  the  good 
work  is  much  hindered  on  account  of  the 
lack  of  ministers  and  the  number  of  vacant 
churches.  For  this  reason  many  a  promising 
field  has  to  be  given  up.  He  rightly  adds: 
**  There  is  no  use,  however,  in  lamenting; 
the  only  thing  to  do  is  to  push  ahead  and 
save  all  we  can." 

INTERESTING  TESTIMONY  FROM  A  PASTOR. 

A  pastor  in  Iowa  writes  to  the  superin- 
tendent in  Philadelphia  in  very  appreciative 
terms  of  the  labors  of  one  of  our  missionary 
brethren,  who  consulted  him  as  to  the  needy 
parts  of  the  district.     He  says : 

Through  his  consecrated  effort  three  whole 
families  united  with  our  church  and  are  now 
earnest  Christians.  The  number  we  received 
last  Sabbath  into  our  church  was  nineteen. 
Next  Sabbath  I  go  there  to  organize  a  Presby- 
terian Sabbath-school.  .  .  I  am  writhig  this 
because  it  is  an  item  of  very  encouraging 
character  in  the  work  of  the  Sabbath-school 

missionary  department.    Mr.  has  a  way 

of  reaching  out  for  individual  souls  and  leading 
men  to  Christ— a  wonderful  gift  in  this  direc- 
tion,— and  he  manifests  great  wisdom  in  seeing 
that  his  work  becomes  permanent  in  its  results. 

A  MACEDONIAN  CRY. 

Another  missionary  in  Wisconsin  writes : 
A  brief  synopsis  of  the  quarter's  work  shows 
16  schools  addressed.  18  schools  visited.  49 
addresses  delivered,  1,515  miles  traveled,  6,637 
pages  of  tracts  and  papers  given  away,  and  816 
family  visits  m^e.  One  Sabbath- school  organ- 
ized where  the  Gospel  never  before  was  preached 
is  now  statedly  supplied.  Another  visited  where 
I  organized  last  spring  is  doing  good  work 
with  occasional  services,  the  first  e 3 joyed  for 
seven  years.  Still  another,  outside  of  all  church 
aid,  is  hopeful  in  this  its  flr^t  effort  for  many 
years  to  maintain  a  Sabbuth-Bchool.  A  good 
brother  writes:  The  school  you  opened  up  here 
has  just  closed  to  reopen  in  tbe  spring;  it  has 
been  a  blessing  to  the  whole  community.  We 
want  you  to  assist  us  in  securing  a  school  tbe 
coming  spring,  for  we  are  living  like  heathen, 
bringing  up  our  children  destitute  of  any  public 
means  of  grace.  We  ought  to  have  a  school 
here,  but  no  one  professes  Christianity  or  will 
take  the  lead ;  if  you  can  secure  a  superintendent 
we  will  all  come  out,  says  a  party  called  upon. 


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TUSCDLUM  ACADEMY,  1836. 

GREENEVILLE  AND  TUSCULUM  COL- 
LEGE,  TUSCULUM,  TENN. 

BY  PRESIDENT  JERE    MOORE,   D.D. 

It  18  jast  ooe  hundred  years  since  the  Rev. 
Hezekiah  Balch,  D.D.,  a  graduate  of  Prince- 
ton College,  obtained  a  charter  for  Greeneville 
College.  Bev.  Samuel  Doak,  D.D.,  the  great 
pioneer  educator  of  the  south-west,  began 
teaching  at  Tusculum,  near  Greeneville,  Ten- 
nessee, in  1818.  He  first  taught  in  a  one- 
story  log  house.  A  cut  of  the  second,  third, 
and  fourth  college  building  at  Tusculum  is 
here  given.  In  1868  the  two  schools  were 
united  under  a  new  charter.  The  college  is 
seventy-nine  miles  east  of  Knoxville,  in  the 
valley  of  East  Tennessee  and  in 
full  view  of  the  Allegheny  moun- 
tains, which  rise  to  a  height  of 
5,600  feet. 

NEW  LIFE. 

This  begins  with  the  origin  of 
the  College  Board.  The  great 
West  is  not  the  only  p^ace  where 
men  took  courage  from  the  action 
of  the  Assembly  of  1883.  Scotch- 
Irish  Presbyterians  around 
Greeneville  and  Tusculum  felt 
the  throb.  Through  the  timely 
aid  of  Mrs.  Nettie  F.  McCormick 
and  the  College  Board  $22,000 
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have  been  added  to  the  property  of 
the  institution .  Nearly  |8, 000  have 
been  given  by  local  friends,  most  of 
whom  are  persons  of  small  means. 

THE  WORK. 

In  the  preparatory  and  collegiate 
departments  there  have  been  enrolled 
this  session  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
one  young  men  and  women.  They 
come  from  seven  of  the  Southern 
States. 

There  is  also  a  primary  department 
doing  good  work,  which  is  supported 
in  part  by  the  Executive  Committee 
of  Home  Missions.  Thorough  scholarship 
and  Christian  training  are  the  aims.  A  strong 
effort  is  made  to  bring  every  student  under 
the  saving  power  of  the  gospel. 

THE  FUTURE 

With  true  gratitude  to  God  we  read  the 
history  of  this  college  in  its  long  record  of 
faithful  work  and  loyalty  to  Christ. 

All  honor  to  the  Balches,  Cofilns,  and 
Doaks,  who  wrought  so  well  with  small 
means !  But  in  this  day  no  one  can  be  ex- 
pected to  do  the  work  which  is  demanded  in 
the  new  circumstances  without  increased 
facilities. 

The  library  must  be  enlarged;  apparatus 
and  some  more  buildings  aie  needed. 


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The  time' has  come  when  some  endowment 
is  a  pressing  necessity. 

The  Alamni  are  taking  steps  to  start  an 
endowment  fand. 


It  may  be  some  friends  of  education  who 
read  these  lines  would  like  to  help  thiscoUege 
in  the  south  land.  If  so  the  College  Board 
will  be  glad  to  pass  their  gifts  along. 


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Mccormick  theological  seminary. 

We  offer  to  onr  readers  this  moDth  some 
interesting  ilIastratioDS  of  McCormick  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  together  with  what  will 
probably  be  generally  recognized  as  an  excel- 
lent likeness  of  the  late  Cyrus  H.  McCormick 
to  whom  the  Seminary  is  under  so  much  obli- 
gation and  whose  memory  it  so  gratefully 
cherishes.  The  plate  has  been  kindly  pre- 
pared for  our  use  by  the  son  who  bears  the 
same  name  with  his  honored  father.  We  are 
indebted  for  information  concerning  the  insti- 
tution to  the  Rev.  John  DeWitt,  D.D.,  who 
in  his  present  position  as  professor  of  Church 
History  at  Princeton  Seminary  evidently 
cherishes  still  an  affectionate  regard  for  the 
Seminary  at  Chicago  to  which  he  gave  some 
years  of  earnest  and  fruitful  labor.  The 
former  name  of  the  seminary  was  '*  The 
Theological  Seminary  of  the  Northwest."  Its 
location  was  New  Albany,  Ind.     It  was  in 


1869  that  the  determination  was  reached  to 
remove  the  institution  to  Chicago;  that  being 
the  condition  upon  which  Mr.  McCormick 
proposed  to  provide  it  with  an  endowment. 
The  first  instructions  were  given  in  the 
lecture-room  of  the  North  Church  of  Chicago, 
of  which  the  Rev.  Nathan  L.  R  ce,  D.D., 
was  the  pastor.  Dr.  Rice  was  also  one  of  the 
professors  together  with  Dr.  L.  J.  Halsey, 
Dr.  William  B.  Scott,  and  Dr.  Willis  Lord. 
Those  early  days  were  not  days  of  unclouded 
prosperity.  Circumstances  diminished  for  a 
time  the  interest  felt  by  Mr.  McCormick  in 
the  institution.  Three  sites  were  offered  to 
the  Seminary;  one  on  the  south  side,  one  on 
the  west,  and  one  on  the  north  side.  Thiis 
last  was  the  one  accepted,  and  time  has  justi- 
fied the  wisdom  of  the  selection.  It  was  for- 
feited for  a  time,  however,  because  the  con- 
ditions could  not  be  complied  with.  The 
owners  were  induced  by  the  Rev.  Fielding  N. 


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EwiDg  to  re- convey  the  property  to  the  Sem- 
inary on  the  condition  that  the    proposed 
buildings  should  be  erected  within  a  specified 
time.     The  memory  of  Mr.  Fielding's  timely 
and  efficient  help  is  preserved  in  ^^  Fielding 
HaU,  *'  the  name  of  the  old  dormitory.     The 
valuable  property  thus  happily  secured  for 
the  cause  of  sacred  learning  consists  of  a 
block  of  twenty  acres,  about  half  a  mile  west 
of  the  lake  shore  and  about  three  and  a  half 
miles  north  of   the  business  section  of   the 
city.     Five  of  these  acres  are  set  apart  for 
the  buildings  and  the  campus.     The  remain- 
ing fifteen  are  laid  out  in  building  lots,  and 
already  there  are  eighty  or  ninety  buildings 
on  these  lots  owned  by  the  Seminary.     Mr. 
McCormick's  loss  of  interest  was  but  tempo- 
rary.    After  the  year  1880  not  a  year  passed 
in  which  he  did  not  make  a  large  gift  to  the 
institution.     His  gifts  included  $100,000  for 
the  endowment- fund,  three  professors'  houses, 
and   the  dormitory  which  has  been  named 
after  him,  '*McCormick  Hall."    His  death 
occurred  soon  after  the  gift  of  **McCormick 
Hall;"  but  his  heirs,  particularly  ^^his  widow 
and  his  eldest  son,   continue  to  show  the 
greatest    interest   in    the    Seminary.      The 
trustees  of    the  estate  of    Mr.    McCormick 
have,  in  accordance  with  a  provision  in  his 
will,   added   probably  $200,000  to  the 
endowment,  and  are  about  to  build  and 
endow  a  library.     Mrs.  McCormick  has 
added  greatly  to  the  resources  of   the 
institution  by  the  erection  of  the  domi- 
tory  which  has  received  the  name  of 
*' Fowler    Hall."      The    gifts    of    the 
McCormick  family  amount  altogether 
to  between  $800,000  and  $1,000,000. 
It  is  not  surprising,  therefore,  that  the 
name  now  borne  by  the  Seminary  should 
be  **  The  McCormick  Theological  Semin- 
ary."   It  stands  a  splendid  monument 
of  a  man  who  knew  how  to  invest  his 
money  in  a  way  to  honor  God  and  to 
bring  the  largest  returns  for  the  benefit 
of  his  fellow-men. 

It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  Mr. 
McCormick  came  from  the  same  county 
in  Virginia  from  whence  came  that 
famous  Princeton  divine,  Dr.  Archibald 
Alexander;  and  further  that  the  same 


county  was  the  home  of  the  Rev.  John 
Craig,  ancestor  of  Prof.  Willis  G.  Craig, 
now  of  McCormick  Seminary.  Pres.  Patton, 
of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  taught  theology 
for  ten  years  in  the  Chicago  Seminary,  and 
was  succeeded  by  that  most  interesting  per- 
sonality, the  Rev.  Thos.  H.  Skinner,  D.D., 
who  must  be  gratefully  remembered  with 
the  others  as  a  benefactor  of  the  institution. 

THE  board's  new  CIRCJULAR. 

Some  interesting  and  important  facts  are 
to  be  found  in  this  little  document  which  can 
be  read  through  in  less  than  two  minutes. 

It  is  pleasant  to  learn  that  in  answer  to 
many  earnest  prayers  there  has  been  an  in- 
crease in  the  number  of  candidates  for  the 
enlarging  work  of  the  church  at  home  and 
abroad.  There  are  more  than  900  men 
under  the  care  of  the  Board  this  year,  an  in- 
crease of  42  over  last  year.  It  is  pleasant  to 
learn  that  no  debt  has  been  incurred.  But 
the  April  payment  will  require  a  large  amount 
of  money,  and  thus  far  the  churches  and 
Sabbath-schools  have  given  $4,200  less  than 
up  to  Xhe  same  time  last  year.  The  treasurer 
estimates  that  he  will  need  to  receive  $88,000 
in  order  that  he  may  close  his  accounts  for 
the  General  Assembly  in  proper  shape.  At- 
tention is  called  to  the  great  care  exercised  to 


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secure  only  worthy  men,  and  to  the  strictness 
with  which  payments  are  stopped  when  satis- 
factory reports  are  not  received  from  pro- 
fessors as  to  the  character,  scholarship,  punc- 
tuality and  economy  of  the  students. 

It  has  been  found  by  careful  investigation 
that  97  per  cent  of  the  men  aided  by  the 
Board  have  actually  entered  the  ministry, 
and  many  of  those  who  have  turned  aside 
from  the  purpose  to  preach  the  gospel  have 
paid  back  into  the  treasury  the  money  which 
they  had  received. 

Dr.  Charles  Hodge  had  good  ground  for 
his  assertion  that  probably  no  agency  had 
ever  accomplished  so  much  good  with  so  few 
failures  and  at  so  small  an  outlay  of  money. 

INTERESTING  CASES. 

We  are  still  hoping  that  special  money  will 
be  sent  to  our  treasurer  to  enable  us  to  aid 
several  promising  men  who  are  struggling 
against  great  odds  to  get  their  education,  but 
who  fear  that  they  must  pack  up  and  go 


home  to  avoid  running  into  debt.  One  of 
these  men  is  to  start  for  home  in  April,  unless 
relief  comes.  His  leaving  school  at  this  time 
will  cause  serious  delay  in  his  preparation  for 
his  work  and  ought  to  be  avoided.  The  out- 
lay of  eighty  dollars  would  bring  this  excel- 
lent young  man  into  college,  at  which  stage 
of  his  career  he  can  be  taken  under  the  care 
of  the  Board.  We  repeat  the  question  of  our 
issue  of  last  month:  *^Who  covets  a  great 
privilege?"  When  we  put  a  man  into  the 
ministry  it  is  the  next  thing  to  the  privilege 
of  entering  it  ourselves. 

COLLEGE  AND  SEMINART  NOTES. 

Whitworth  College,  now  at  Sumner, 
Wash.,  has  an  offer  of  200  acres  of  land  at 
Seattle,  an  ideal  situation  for  the  college. 
The  condition  is  that  $50,000  be  raised  for 
the  erection  of  suitable  buildings  within  this 
year.  It  has  100  students,  nine  of  whom  are 
candidates  for  the  ministry. 

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received  from  Mr.  W.  R  Thompson,  of  Pitts- 
burgh, the  models  made  for  the  World's  Pair  by 
Auzoux  in  Paris  illustrative  of  botanical  and 
zoological  forms.  They  are  scientifically  accu- 
rate, and  include  the  model  of  man  in  2,000 
separable  parta,  with  models  of  the  eye,  ear  and 
brain,  greatly  enlarged,  besides  40  models  to 
illustrate  comparative  anatomy,  showing  in 
detail  the  digestive,  circulatory,  nervous  and 
respiratory  system  in  the  principal  genera  of  the 
animal  kingdom. 

Euphrates  College  at  Harpoot,  Turkey,  has 
five  American  and  twenty  six  native  professors, 
and  six  hundred  students  in  all  departoients. 

BiDDLE  University  is  preparing  to  celebrate 
the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  its  founding. 
Friends  of  the  higher  education  of  colored 
men  will  be  asked  to  help  celebrate  the  event 
by  gifts  for  the  increase  of  the  permanent 
endowment  of  the  institution. 

Richard  Allen  Institute  at  Pine  Bluff, 
Ark,  was  burned  on  the  night  of  January 
14.    The  dormitory  built  last  year,  the  gift 


of  Mrs.  Bell  of  Allegheny,  was  not  injured. 

SoOTLL  Seminart  for  colored  girls  has  280 
boarders  this  term.  All  but  about  twenty  are 
professing  Christians.  Fifty  dollars  supports 
a  scholar  during  one  term  of  eight  months. 
The  tenth  anniversary  of  the  organization  of 
the  AlumnsB  Association  is  to  be  celebrated 
next  June. 

Lincoln  University  for  colored  men  has 
207  students,  of  whom  195  are  professors  of 
religion.  It  has  thirty-seven  preparing  for 
the  ministry. 

Pare  College  has  818  students,  of  whom 
805  are  professors  of  religion.  Seventy  per 
cent,  of  its  graduates  have  entered  the  min- 
istry. 

Wellesley  College  mourns  the  death  of 
its  gifted  president.  Miss  Helen  A.  Shafer, 
LL.  D.  She  was  the  daughter  of  a  minister. 
Newark  was  her  native  city,  and  she  was 
educated  at  Oberlin,  Ohio. 


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April  1. — Jacob's  Pretxiiling  Prayer, — Gen. 
xxxil:9-12,  24-80. 

On  the  one  hand,  Jacob  seems  the  father 
of  Jewish  guile,  fear,  unscrapalousness  and 
thrift.  On  the  other,  he  appears  not  only  as 
the  deeply  faithfal  lover  in  his  yoath  and  the 
most  tender  father,  but  as  an  elevated,  ma- 
jestic man  of  faith,  who  believed  in  high 
things,  who  valued  them,  and  who  left  on 
record  such  words  of  lowliness  and  penitence 
for  his  faults,  in  such  genuine  tones,  that  the 
purest,  most  lepentant  hearts  take  them  up 
from  age  to  age  and  repeat  them  as  their 
own:  ^^I  am  not  worthy  of  the  least  of  all 
the  mercies."  A.  G.  Mercer,  D.D. 

This  mysterious  wrestler  has  wrestled  from 
him,  by  one  touch,  all  his  might,  and  he  can 
no  longer  stand  alone.  Without  any  support 
whatever  from  himself,  he  hangs  upon  the 
conqueror,  and  in  that  condition  learns  by 
experience  the  practice  of  sole  reliance  on 
one  mightier  than  himself.  This  is  the  turn- 
ing point  in  this  strange  drama.  Despairing 
now  of  his  own  strength,  he  is  Jacob  still ;  he 
declares  his  determination  to  cling  on  until 
his  conqueror  bless  him.  He  now  knows  he 
is  in  the  hand  of  a  higher  power,  who  can 
disable  and  again  enable,  who  can  curse  and 
also  bless.  He  knows  himself  also  to  be  now 
utterly  helpless  without  the  healing,  quicken- 
ing, protecting  power  of  his  victor,  and, 
though  he  die  in  the  effort,  he  will  not  let 
him  go  without  receiving  this  blessing.  Ja- 
cobus sense  of  his  total  debility  and  utter 
defeat  is  now  the  secret  of  his  power  with  his 
friendly  vanquisher.  He  can  overthrow  all 
the  prowess  of  the  self-reliant;  but  he  cannot 
resist  the  earnest  entreaty  of  the  helpless. 
Jas.  G.  Murphy,  D.D. 

April  8. — Discord  in  Jacob's  Family, — Gten. 
xxxvii:l-ll. 

^*  Behold,  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is 
for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in  unity." 
And  there  are  few  sadder  sights  than  a  home 
where  brothers  and  sisters  cannot  or  do  ^ot 


*' dwell  together  in  unity.**  There  w  no 
room  for  jealousy  or  rivalry  in  the  true  home, 
but  abundant  space  for  that  charity  that 
^^  seeketh  not  her  own,  is  not  easily  provoked, 
thinketh  no  evil."  ''The  little  foxes  that 
spoil  the  vines  "  must  be  diligently  kept  out, 
but  the  *'  tico  bears,  Bear  and  Forbear,"  con- 
stantly cherished. 

April  15. — Joseph  sold  into  Egypt, — GJen. 
xxxvii:  23-86. 

The  stepping  stones  of  Joseph^s  career, 
though  they  brought  him  almost  to  a  throne, 
were  not  just  those  that  an  ambitious  youth 
would  have  chosen  for  himself.  The  way 
led  through  captivity  and  imprisonment,  but 
it  was  marked  all  the  way  by  perfect  fidelity 
to  duty  that  won  the  confidence  of  master 
and  overseer.  Whatever  faults  of  arrogance 
the  favorite  son  may  have  shown  in  the 
home,  that  excited  the  jealousy  and  ill-will 
of  his  brethren,  he  has  left  a  ^rand  example 
of  an  unspotted  life  and  of  faithfulness  in  the 
midst  of  unfavorable  surrroundings  that  is 
worth  the  study  of  every  youth. 

On  the  plain  tomb  that  marks  the  resting 
place  of  William  H.  Seward  in  the  beautiful 
Fort  Hill  cemetery  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  are  the 
simple  words,  **  He  was  faithful."  The  brief 
epitaph  that  the  great  statesman  had  chosen, 
as  expressing  all  that  he  desired  that  his 
friends  should  say  of  them,  would  well  de- 
scribe the  life  of  this  statesman  of  Egypt; 
and  we  can  think  of  no  higher  commendation 
that  can  be  accorded  to  anyone  in  any  sphere 
of  Ufe. 

April  22. — Joseph  Ruler  in  Egypt, — Gen. 
xli:  38-48. 

^^  Seest  thou  a  man  diligent  in  his  business? 
he  shall  stand  before  kings;  he  shall  not  stand 
before  mean  men." 

Such  a  man  did  the  world  see  in  Joseph's 
day,  and  such  a  reward  was  accorded  to  his 
faithful,  diligent  performance  of  the  duties 
that  the  changing  experiences  of  life  brought. 
The  world  does  recognize  and  often  crown 
with  earthly  honor  such  diligence  and  fidelity, 
but  its  reward  is  not  always  very  satisfying. 
For  the  Christian  heart  there  is  greater  satis- 
faction in  a  long  look  forward  to  the  ^*  Well 
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been  faithfal  over  a  few  thinf^s,  I  will  make 
thee  mler  oyer  many  things;  enter  thou  into 
the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

April  29. — Joseph  Forgiving  His  Brethren, 
Gen.  xlv:  1-15. 

It  is  sometimes  easier  to  forgive  when  the 
power  of  revenge  is  within  our  reach  than 
when  we  feel  ourselves  helpless  in  the  hands 
of  those  who  have  done  us  wrong.  Possibly 
there  were  times  in  Joseph^s  life  when  it 
wonld  not  have  been  so  easy  to  lay  aside  all 
feeliDgs  of  anger  against  the  brothers  who 
had  ^'thought  evil  against  him,"  as  now 
when  he  stood  before  them  with  all  the 
wealth  and  power  of  Egypt  at  his  disposal 
and  **  they  were  troubled  at  his  presence." 

But  the  gospel  rule  of  forgiveness  has  no 
limitations  and  we  must  not  wait  until  the 
working  out  of  God's  providence  convinces 
ns  that  what  the  enemy  planned  for  evil, 
**  God  meant  for  good, "  before  we  **  forgive, 
as  we  hope  to  be  forgiven." 

Perhaps  the  slight  was  nnintentional;  per- 
haps the  unkind  word  that  gossip  reports 
was  never  spoken  or  was  misinterpreted; 
perhaps  the  apparent  want  of  cordialty  was 
caused  by  absorption  in  business  cares  or 
weariness  or  pain.  It  is  not  worth  while  to 
make  sorrow  for  onrselves  by  imagining  evil. 
But  when  the  injury  is  real,  it  pales  so  be- 
side our  own  debt  of  sin  and  unworthinees 
that  there  can  be  no  question  of  the  Chris- 
tian's duty.  *^Be  ye  kind  one  to  another, 
tender  hearted,  forgiving  one  another,  even 
as  Ood/or  Chri^Vs  sake  hath  forgiven  you^ 

WHILB  WB  MAY. 

The  hands  are  such  dear  hands; 

They  are  so  full ;  they  turn  at  our  demands 

So  often ;  they  reach  out 

With  trifles  scarcely  thought  about, 
So  many  times;  they  do 
So  many  things  for  me,  for  you — 

If  their  fond  wills  mistake, 

We  may  well  bend,  not  break. 

Tbey  are  such  fond  frail  lips 

That  speak  to  us.    Pray  if  love  strips 

Them  of  discretion  many  times. 

Or  if  they  speak  too  slow  or  quick,  such  crimes 
We  may  pass  bv ;  for  we  may  see 
Days  not  far  off  when  these  small  words  may  be 

Held  not  as  slow,  or  quick,  or  out  of  place, 
but  dear. 

Because  the  lips  are  no  more  here. 


They  are  such  dear  amiliar  feet  that  go 
Along  the  path  with  ours— feet  fast  or  slow, 
And  trying  to  keep  pace — if  they  mistake 
Or  tread  upon  some  flowers  that  we  would 
take 
Upon  our  breast,  or  bruise  some  reed 
Or  crush  poor  hope  until  it  bleed. 

We  may  be  mute. 
Not  turning  quickly  to  impute 
Grave  fault ;  tor  they  and  we 
Have  such  a  little  way  to  go— can  be 
Together  such  a  little  time  along  the  way, 
We  will  be  patient  while  we  may. 

So  many  little  faults  we  find ! 

We  see  them,  for  not  blind 
Is  love.     We  see  them,  but  if  you  and  I 
Perhaps  remember  them  some  by  and  by 

They  will  not  be 
Faults  thea— grave  faults— to  you  and  me. 
But  just  odd  ways — mistakes— or  even  less — 

Remembrances  to  bless. 
Days  change  so  many  things — ^yes,  hours. 
We  see  so  differently  in  suns  and  showers. 

Mistaken  words  to  night 

May  be  so  cherished  by  to-morrow's  light. 
We  may  be  patient ;  for  we  know 
There's  such  a  little  way  to  go. 

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Young  People's  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN  IN  JAPAN. 

WILUAM  IMBRIl,  D.D. 

A  very  large  number  of  the  young  Christ- 
ians in  America  were  bom  within  the  Church. 
They  are,  and  they  always  have  been,  mem- 
bers of  Christian  families.  Their  coming  to 
the  Lord's  table  was  not  the  beginning  of 
their  Christian  life.  It  was  only  the  exercise 
of  a  privilege  long  theirs.  They  can  not  re- 
member the  day  when  they  first  accepted 
Christ.  Others  there  are,  indeed,  who  do 
remember  that  day.  It  was  a  day  never  to 
be  forgotten.  A  day  of  decision ;  a  day  when 
they  turned  into  a  new  path;  a  day  when 
they  heard  and  obeyed  the  voice  of  Christ 
saying  unto  them,  ^^  Follow  thou  me.**  But 
of  all  alike  it  is  true  that  they  have  always 
lived  in  a  Christian  atmosphere.  The  teach- 
ings of  Christ  have  always  been  familiar;  the 
only  quf  stion  has  been  that  of  obedience  to 
him.  This  has  been  the  case  with  some  of  the 
young  Christians  in  Japan  also;  already  there 
is  there  a  second  generation  of  Christians. 
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BUDDHIST  OB  OONTUOIAN  HOMES. 

The  majority  of  yoang  Christians  in  Japan 
were  bom  and  reared  in  Buddhist  or  Confu- 
cian homes.  They  knew  of  Christianity  as 
the  religion  of  the  west,  and  that  in  recent 
years  it  has  come  to  Japan  hoping  to  win  the 
people  to  itself;  but  all  their  thoughts  of 
religion  were  associated  with  the  temples 
everywhere  visible,  and  with  the  Chinese 
classics  which  they  learned  to  read  at  school. 
For  the  most  part  they  had  not  that  prejudice 
against  Christianity  which  many  Asiatics 
have.  They  were  willing  to  give  it  a  fair 
hearing.  But  it  came  as  something  new  to 
them,  and  quite  without  the  authority 
accorded  it  in  Christian  lands. 

HOW  THKT  BEGIN. 

When  a  young  Christian  in  Japan  applies 
for  baptism,  and  is  asked  regarding  his  ex- 
perience, his  reply  is  usually  something  like 
this.  In  some  apparently  commonplace  way 
he  was  brought  under  Christian  influence. 
It  may  be  that  a  public  meeting  was  held  in 
the  town  where  he  lived ;  and  at  that  meet- 
ing something  was  said  that  awakened  inter- 
est and  led  to  inquiry.  Perhaps  he  was  a 
pupU  in  a  Christian  school.  Some  one  may 
have  put  into  his  hand  a  Christian  book  or  a 
part  of  the  Scriptures.  Perhaps  he  had  a 
Christian  friend  who  commended  the  new 
religion  to  him  by  word  and  example.  Be- 
fore applying  for  baptism  he  had  come  under 
the  care  of  a  Christian  pastor.  In  some  cases, 
his  knowledge  of  the  essential  truths  of 
Christianity  is  surprisingly  full  and  clear;  in 
some  cases  it  is  extremely  defective.  He  ac- 
knowledges himself  a  sinner;  but  it  is  plain 
that  he  has  no  deep  sense  of  the  sinfulness  of 
sin.  He  confesses  that  he  needs  forgiveness, 
and  that  he  can  be  forgiven  only  for  the  sake 
of  Christ;  but  it  is  phdn  too  that  he  has  had 
no  real  vision  of  the  cross.  He  is  quite 
ready  to  say  that  it  is  only  by  the  grace  of 
the  Spirit  that  he  can  begin  the  new  life; 
but  the  pastor  can  not  conceal  it  from  him- 
self that  he  has  but  little  appreciation  of  the 
depth  of  Christ's  words,  **  Ye  must  be  bom 
again."  Still  he  declares  that  he  looks  to 
Christ  as  his  Saviour;  that  he  desires  to  take 
him  as  his  Master;  and  that  he  is  ready  to 
confess  him  before  men.    There  is  no  good 


reason  to  doubt  his  sincerity.  He  is  bap- 
tized, and  casts  in  his  lot  with  the  Church  of 
Christ. 

COMMON  TRIALS  AND  DUfFiOUl/riES. 

The  young  Christian  in  Japan  encounters 
the  same  trials  and  difficulties  that  beset  the 
young  Christian  everywhere;  and  he  has  the 
same  need  of  faith,  and  strength,  and  pa- 
tience, and  love.  But  apart  from  those  com- 
mon everywhere,  he  has  trials  and  difficulties 
peculiar  to  his  own  surroundings.  He  can 
not  take  part  in  the  religious  life  of  the  fam- 
ily. The  rites  observed  may  seem  little 
things,  like  the  old  casting  of  a  few  grains  of 
incense  upon  the  Roman  altar;  but  they  are 
things  involving  the  foundation  principle  of 
loyalty  to  Christ.  Nor  is  it  only  the  dis- 
tinctively religious  element  in  the  family  life 
that  brings  him  mto  a  place  of  criticism  and 
petty  annoyance.  The  family  life  in  many 
other  ways  brings  him  into  contact  with  tra- 
ditions, customs,  ideals,  which  are  not  ac- 
cording to  Christ.  The  young  Christian  in 
America,  fighting  the  good  fight  alone  m  the 
midst  of  a  home  where  Christ  has  never  be- 
fore entered,  will  understand  something  of 
what  such  a  one  meets  if  he  endures  as  a 
good  soldier.  Then  there  is  the  past  life — 
old  thoughts,  old  associations,  old  habits. 
Some  of  them  once  thought  nothing  of,  but 
fatal  to  the  life  of  one  who  is  a  temple  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  It  is  no  wonder  then  that  so 
many  of  the  Japanese  who  confess  Christ  in 
America  soon  weary  in  well  doing  when  they 
return  home.  What  seemed  easy  in  Amer- 
ica, when  surrounded  and  encouraged  by 
Christian  friends,  is  not  easy  to  persevere  in 
when  once  more  in  the  midst  of  the  old  life 
in  Japan.  And  if  the  difficulties  of  the 
Christian  boy  or  young  man  are  great,  in 
some  respects  those  of  the  Christian  girl  are 
still  greater.  For  her  independence,  even 
though  it  be  Christian  independence,  is  a 
thing  to  be  ashamed  of.  Sometmies  it 
is  almost  an  impossibility  to  exercise  it. 
What  therefore  the  young  Christian  in 
Japan  needs  is  what  the  Christian  the 
world  over,  whether  young  or  old  needs: 
communion  with  Christ;  a  deeper  and  deeper 
knowledge  of  the  ideals  and  possibilities  re- 
vealed  in   the   Scriptures;    companionship 


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with  fellow  Christians;   and  Christian  work 
of  some  kind  or  other. 

ACTIVE  WORK. 

The  active  work  of  young  Christians  in 
Japan  is  in  many  respects  what  one  woald 
naturally  expect.  They  meet  together  for 
prayer.  They  teach  in  the  Sunday-schools. 
Some,  esiiecially  those  who  are  students  in 
the  higher  mission  schools,  maintain  what 
are  called  preaching  places  :i,e.^  places  where 
meetings  are  held  for  the  purpose  of  gather- 
ing those  without  into  the  Church.  Within 
the  past  year  or  two  a  considerable  number 
of  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  have  been 
organized.  During  the  summer,  it  is  custom- 
ary to  hold  a  summer  school. 

CHRISTIAN  CONVERSATION. 

In  one  respect  the  active  work  of  the 
young  Christian  is  easier  in  Japan  than  in 
America.  In  America  probably  most  Chris- 
tians, whether  young  or  old,  shrink  some- 
what from  introdacing  the  subject  of  Chris- 
tianity in  conversation.  There  is  a  feeling 
that  the  subject  is  one  that  is  intensely 
personal.  Along  with  this  is  often  the  know- 
ledge that  the  person  addressed  already 
knows  all  that  the  speaker  can  say.  The 
speaker  also  keenly  appreciates  the  fact  that 
to  speak  with  authority,  or  even  with  per- 
suasiveness, he  must  speak  from  experience. 
In  Japan  it  is  different.  There  Christianity 
is  still  something  comparatively  new.  It  is 
a  part  of  the  new  order  of  things.  It  is  like 
representative  government.  Not  to  be  ac- 
quainted with  it  implies  no  peculiar  ignor- 
ance. One  may  speak  of  it  to  another  with- 
out suggesting  to  the  hearer  a  failure  in  duty 
or  a  lack  of  spiritual  perception.  To  speak 
of  it  does  not  so  certainly  raise  the  fear  in  the 
mind  of  the  speaker,  *'A11  that  I  can  say  will 
be  of  little  avail,  because  I  myself  am  so  far 
from  what  I  ought  to  be."  In  this  respect, 
therefore,  the  work  of  the  young  Christian  in 
Japan  is  easier  than  that  of  his  brother  in 
America.    This  suggests  another  thing. 

PRATER  IN  PUBUO. 

There  are  in  America  many  young  Christ- 
ians— and  old  ones  too— to  whom  prayer  in 
public  is  very  difficult.  To  some  it  is  hardly 
too  much  to  say  that  it  is  impossible.  It  is 
not  that  there  is  a  lurking  disloyalty  to  Christ. 


The  explanation  is  not  at  all  an  unwillingness 
to  confess  him  before  men.  Nor  is  the  secret 
to  be  found  in  the  fact  of  a  prayerless  life. 
There  are  many  who  pray  much  in  private 
who  can  only  with  difficulty  utter  a  word  in 
the  presence  of  others.  The  difficulty  is  one 
of  temperament.  The  mind  is  so  much  agi- 
tated that  it  cannot  collect  its  thoughts  and 
express  them.  From  this  difficulty  the 
Japanese  are  singpilarly  free.  It  is  rare  to 
find  a  Japanese,  young  or  old,  to  whom  pub- 
lic prayer,  or  public  speech  of  any  kind,  is  a 
serious  embarrassment.  He  may  not  speak 
well;  but  he  can  speak. 

In  speaking  of  the  young  Christian  in 
Japan,  one^s  mind  can  hardly  faU  to  recall 
two  particular  groups.  They  are  no  longer 
young  Christians;  they  are  now  men  in  the 
prime  of  life.  But  they  were  once  young; 
in  their  youth  they  devoted  themselves 
to  Christ;  and  their  work  in  the  establish- 
ment of  his  Church  in  Japan  has  been  of 
priceless  value. 

A  CHRISTMAS  BOX. 

PARTI. 

It  all  began  in  the  loving  thought  of  one  of 
our  Sabbath-school  teachers  who  knows  a  great 
deal  about  the  Home  Mission  schools,  and  is 
always  glad  to  help  them  and  to  show  others  how 
to  do  80.  After  talking  it  over  with  the  other 
teachers,  she  furnished  each  class  with  a  list  of 
articles  that  would  be  suitable  for  a  Christmas 
box,  and  plans  were  made  for  work  before  the 
summer  came  on,  and  teachers  and  scholars  were 
scattered  for  their  vacation  trips  and  visits. 

PARTn. 

A  Sabbath-school  sociable  early  in  the  fall, 
when  all  the  gifts  were  brought  together  and  ar- 
ranged tastefully  upon  a  long  table.  The  dolls 
whose  dainty  garments,  all  to  ''take  off  and  put 
on/'  had  given  some  fiDgers  pleasant  employment 
through  the  summer,  occupied  the  place  of 
honor  in  the  center,  and  pretty  work  bags, 
books,  games,  knives  and  toys  were  displayed  to 
advantage,  giving  a  very  Christmas-like  effect. 
Every  one  had  time  to  examine  and  admire,  and 
then  while  the  committee  stowed  the  articles 
carefully  in  a  large  box,  the  sociable  became  a 
missionary  meeting  for  a  little  while.  A  map 
on  the  wall  showed  just  where  the  box  was  to 
go,  and  some  one  told  all  about  the  school  where 
it  is  set  as  a  lighthouse  to  help  desolate,  ignorant 


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hearts  to  find  the  way  to  true  happiness.  The 
tender  words  of  the  pastor  reminded  the  children 
that  the  work  which  they  had  been  so  happy  in 
doing  was  work  for  Christ,  because,  he  said, 
"  In  as  much  as  ye  have  done  it  unto  one  of  the 
least  of  these  my  brethren,  ye  have  done  it  unto 
me;"  and  before  the  large  boys  nailed  down  the 
coTer  and  marked  it  for  shipping,  a  blessing  was 
asked  upon  the  gifts  that  were  to  be  sent  to 
some  of  Christ's  little  ones. 

PABTin. 

A.  letter  from  the  missionary  teacher  completes 
the  story,  and  gives  a  picture  of  mission  work 
in  our  own  land  that  others  will  be  glad  to  share. 

"  Our  Christmas  exercises  were  held  at  three 
o'clock  on  the  25th.  The  young  people  always 
wish  us  to  have  these  entertainments  in  the 
evening,  but  for  more  than  one  reason  we  have 
found  it  better  to  have  them  in  the  day  time. 
For  one  thing,  the  mothers  and  babies  can  come 
then,  when  they  would  not  venture  out  over  the 
bad  roads  at  night.  Then  there  is  always  much 
drinking  at  the  holiday  time,  and  there  is  danger 
of  a  disturbance  at  any  night  meeting. 

A  white  pine  is  the  best  we  can  do  here  by 
way  of  a  tree  and  it  is  an  awkward  thing  to 
dress.  We  were  afraid  the  pitch  would  get  on 
the  doll's  pretty  dresses,  so  we  arranged  them  on 
a  table  at  one  side,  making  them  stand  or  sit  in 
pretty  groups.  We  had  enough  to  give  to  each 
little  girl  and  to  a  few  who  are  too  young  to 
come.  Such  pretty,  daintily  dressed  little  people 
had  never  been  owned  by  our  girls  before,  and  it 
will  do  them  good  to  see  and  handle  them. 

There  must  have  been  over  three  hundred 
people  present.  They  came  in  groups,  on  foot, 
on  horseback,  and  in  wagons  from  all  the  coun- 
try around.  There  were  some  there,  men  and 
women,  who  had  not  been  to  church  for  ten 
years.  As  many  come  on  such  occasions  whom 
we  have  no  chance  to  reach  at  other  times,  it  is 
an  opportunity  to  give  them  the  gospel. 

We  began  the  exercises  by  singing  ''Joy  to 
the  world,"  and  then  read  selected  passages 
from  Isaiah  and  Revelation,  followed  by  prayer. 
Then  came  songs  by  the  children  and  recitations 
from  Luke  II.  Some  of  our  pupils  have  been 
learning  twenty-five  selected  verses  from  the 
Bible.  They  were  promised  each  a  Bible  if  they 
would  do  this,  and  fourteen  had  recited  the  verses 
perfectly  to  me  and  a  little  exercise  had  been 
arranged  for  the  school  from  these  verses.  I 
would  ask  a  question  and  they  would  give  in 
concert  the  verse  answering  it.  For  instance, 
"What  is  the  law  of  God?"  Thou  shalt  love 
the  Lord  thy  €k>d,  etc.    This  brought  out  the 


meaning  of  the  verses  and  was  really  impressive 
as  the  holy  words  of  encouragement  or  warning 
came  so  clearly  from  the  many  voices. 

We  were  able  to  give  some  little  thing,  not 
only  to  the  scholars  but  to  each  grown  person  in 
the  community,  and  there  have  been  many  ex- 
pressions of  pleasure  from  the  older  people  at 
being  remembered. 

We  have  found  that  games,  such  as  authors, 
dissected  pictures,  etc.,  give  little  pleasure  to 
these  children,  because  they  are  not  understood. 
So  we  did  not  give  those  away,  but  are  using 
them  in  another  way.  We  wish  to  get  a  better 
hold  upon  boys  and  young  men.  They  want 
fun,  like  all  young  people,  and  have  few  inno- 
cent ways  of  amusing  themselves.  So  we  invite 
them  to  come  to  the  school  house  once  a  week  in 
the  evening  and  after  a  little  talk  about  some- 
thing, such  as  a  foreign  country,  the  sea,  etc., 
we  have  a  good  time  with  the  games.  They 
enjoy  it;  though  they  do  not  suspect  it,  their 
brains  are  being  developed  at  the  same  time.  .  ." 
Woodland. 

SUGGESTIVE  HINTS  FOR  THE  STUDY 

OF  INDIA. 

[Thef>e  hints  are  intended  as  an  experiment.  Will  th^f 
not  help  Chrintian  Endeavorers  and  Mission  Bands  in 
their  «^dy  of  the  topic  for  the  month,  presented  under 
the  head  of  Concert  of  Prayer  for  Church  Worli  Abroad? 
We  shall  be  fried  to  hear  from  anv  who  make  use  of 
them— whether  they  find  them  helpful,  and  how  such 
hints  can  be  made  more  helpful  ] 

HISTORY. 

I.  Early  Period  (1600  B.  C.-IOOO  A,  D.)— 
ComiDg  of  sn  Aryan  race,  called  Hindhus,  from 
the  river  Indus,  about  1500  B.  C.  Invasion  of 
Daritis,  518  B.  0.  Invasion  of  Alexander  the 
Great,  827  B.  C. 

II.  Mohammedan  Period  (A.  D.  1000-1526)— 
The  Arabs  had  conquered  Scinde,  715;  but  were 
expelled.  750.  1.  House  of  Ghuzni,  1001, 
founded  by  the  Afghan  Sultan  Mabmoud.  2. 
House  of  Ghuri,  1186.  Throne  transf tarred  to 
Delhi,  and  power  extended.  8.  House  of  Ebiiji, 
1228.  4.  House  of  Toghlak,  1821.  6.  House  of 
Seyd,  1412,  founded  by  an  officer  appointed  by 
Tamerlane.  6.  House  of  Lodi,  1450;  over- 
thrown by  Baber  at  the  battle  of  Fanipat,  April 
29,  1526. 

III.  Mogul  Period  (1526-1788)— State  interest- 
ing  facts  in  the  career  of  each  ruler — Baber, 
Humayun,  Jehangire,  Shah  Jeban,  Arungzebe. 
For  the  architecture  of  this  period  consult 
IMke'i  Hiitory  of  Art.  Invasion  of  Nadir  Shah, 
1738. 

IV.  European  Period  (1757-1894)— Early  set- 
tlements of  the  Portuguese  and  Dutch.    Charter 


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of  East  India  Oompanj,  1600.    Victory  of  Olive 
at  the  battle  of  Plaesy,  June  28,  1767. 

PEOPLE,  LANGUAGE  AND  LITERATURE. 

"India  is  a  continent,  not  a  country;  its  in- 
habitants are  not  a  nation,  but  a  congeries  of 
nations  and  distinct  races."  The  languages  are 
divided  into  two  general  classes.  1.  Dramdiany 
used  by  the  aborginal  races,  e.  g,  Tamil,  Telugu, 
Canarese.  2.  Sanacritie,  e.  g.  Hindi,  Marathi, 
Bengali,  Fanjabi.  A  mixed  language  called 
Hindustani  or  Urdu,  is  the  colloquial  tongue. 

Learn  something  of  the  date  of  composition 
and  characteristics  of  each  of  the  following: 
The  Yedic  hymns,  the  Ramayan,  the  Mahabha- 
rata,  the  Code  of  Manu,  the  Upanishads.  the 
Puranas.    See  Mi$8umary  Review,  March,  1894. 

RELIGIONS. 

Trace  the  origin  or  introduction  of  Brahman- 
ism,  Buddhism,  Sikhism,  Mohammedanism,  Par- 
seeism,  giving  characteristic  features,  methods 
of  worship  and  number  of  adherents. 

The  Parsees,  **the  Jews  of  India,"  number 
about  90,000,  of  whom  a  large  proportion  are  in 
Bombay.  They  are  descendents  of  the  ancient  fire- 
worshippers  who  left  Persia  in  the  eighth  cen- 
tury because  of  Mohammedan  persecution.  Con- 
sult articles  in  Nineteenth  Century,  October, 
1893,  and  Missionary  Herald,  October,  1898. 

The  monks  in  the  monasteries  of  Pooree,  says  a 
missionary,  send  out  annually  7,000  missionaries 
to  proclaim  throughout  India  the  name  and  glory 
of  Jaganath.  As  a  result  100,000  pilgrims  come 
from  all  parts  of  the  land  to  see  the  '*  lord  of  the 
world." 

THE  ENGLISH  IN  INDIA. 

East  India  Company  chartered  by  Queen 
Elizabeth,  December  81,  1600.  Bombay  con- 
veyed to  Charles  II,  as  the  dowry  of  Catharine 
of  Portugal,  1669.  The  British  began  to  make 
territorial  conquest  in  1750.  Battle  of  Plassey, 
June  28,  1757,  established  the  power  of  England 
in  India.  In  1888  Parliament  restricted  the 
powers  of  the  East  India  Company.  June  20, 
1856,  "The Black  Hole  of  Calcutta."  1867-58, 
The  Sepoy  Rebellion.  August  2,  1858,  Act  of 
Parliament  for  the  better  government  of  India, 
by  which  territory  was  vested  in  the  British 
Queen  and  powers  exercised  in  her  name.  No- 
vember 1,  1858,  Lord  Canning's  proclamation 
transferring  sovereignty  from  the  East  India 
Company  to  the  Queen.  January  1, 1877,  Queen 
Victoria  proclaimed  Empress  of  India. 

Name  the  Governors  (Jeneral  since  Lord  Can- 
ning. Who  has  recently  arrived  in  India  to 
assume  the  duties  of  that  office  ?    What  are  the 


advantages  to  India  of  English  Rule  t  Read  the 
volumes  in  Rulers  of  India  series,  Macmillan  & 
Co.,  60  cents  each. 

The  English  never  tried  to  conquer  India,  says 
Bishop  Tbobum,  but  they  found  warring  nations 
and  tribes,  discordant  elements  of  every  kind, 
all  India  tossing  like  a  troubled  and  stormy  sea. 
They  laid  the  hand  of  authority  on  one  hostile 
power  after  another,  until  at  last  all  India  rests 
in  peace. 

THE  WOMEN  OP  INDIA. 

Prisoners  in  their  zenanas,  they  wield  a  great 
influence  over  husbands  and  brothers.  Very  few 
are  able  to  read,  many  believing  that  learning  to 
read  would  cause  the  death  of  their  husbands. 
The  education  of  women  was  introduced  by  mis- 
sionaries. 

There  are  25,000,000  widows,  of  whom  77,000 
are  little  girls  under  ten  years  of  age.  See  the 
attempt  of  the  Maharajah  of  Mysore  to  prevent 
infant  marriage. 

The  cremation  of  widows,  suppressed  by  Lord 
William  Bentinck,  arose  out  of  a  misinterpreta- 
tion of  a  single  word  in  the  Rig  Veda.  ''Let  all 
your  missionaries  be  women,  and  give  them  a 
medical  education,"  said  William  H.  Seward 
after  he  learned  of  the  work  of  his  niece  at  Alla- 
habad. 

"Tell  our  Queen  what  we  women  in  the 
zenanas  suffer  when  we  are  sick,"  said  the  Rani 
of  Punnah  to  a  missionary  in  Lucknow.  The 
message  was  placed  in  a  locket,  and  sent  to 
Windsor  Castle.  By  the  advice  of  the  Queen, 
Lady  Dufferin  organized  the  ''National  Associa- 
tion for  supplying  female  medical  aid  to  the 
women  of  India." 

Says  a  writer  in  Missionary  Review,  February, 
1894,  after  speaking  of  the  degradation,  seclusion 
and  ignorance  of  Hindu  women :  A  whole  race 
of  women  have  lived  for  generations  under  these 
conditions  and  remain  intelligent  and  loveable, 
with  a  native  refinement  marvellous  to  see;  and 
no  women  in  the  world  exercise  greater  power. 
They  hold  the  destiny  of  their  country  more 
completely  in  their  hands  than  the  women  of  any 
other  land. 

OPIUM. 

"England's  greatest  contribution  to  the  world's 
wretchedness."— PmA(>P  Hurst.  "The  greatest 
of  all  modern  abominations." — Earl  of  Sheets- 
bury. 

The  Government  controls  the  opium  industry 
of  India.  The  small  farmers  buy  their  licenses 
at  auction,  and  sell  the  crop  at  a  low  price  to 
the   Government,  which  makes  an  enormous 


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profit.  According  to  statements  made  at  P<iiDa 
before  the  Opium  Commission,  says  the  Bombay 
Chiardian,  the  poppy  is  commonly  grown  at  a 
loss  to  the  ryots  of  20  per  cent  or  more ;  and 
such  is  the  tyranny  exercised  orer  the  poor  cul- 
tivators that  other  crops  are  sometimes  rooted 
up  in  order  to  force  them  to  grow  poppy  for  the 
manufacture  of  opium  by  the  Government. 
About  5000  tons  of  opium  are  exported  every 
year  to  China. 

DATES  m  MISSIONABT  HISTORT. 

July  9.  1706,  Ziegenbalg  lands  at  Tranquebar. 

July  80,  1750,  arrival  of  Schwartz. 

November  1,  1783,  Dr.  John  Thomas,  a  medi- 
cal officer  on  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  landing  at  Cal- 
cutta, advertised  in  the  Iiidia  Oassette  for  a 
Christian. 

November  10,  1798,  Arrival  of  William  Carey. 

December  10,  1800,  Baptism  of  Krishna  Pal. 

February  11,  1818,  arrival  at  Bombay  of  Hall 
and  Nott. 

January  25,  1822,  Opening  of  first  girls'  school 
in  Calcutta,  by  Miss  Cooke. 

May  27,  1830,  Alexander  Duflf  arrives  at  Cal- 
cutta. 

In  October,  1838,  Rev.  J.  C.  Lowrie  and  Rev. 
William  Reed,  the  first  missionaries  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  reached  Calcutta;  they  began 
their  work  at  Lahore. 

MISSIONARIES  IN  INDIA. 

Of  what  missionary  did  an  Indian  ruler  say: 
"Send  me  the  Christian;  he  will  not  deceive 
me?" 

Name  one  whose  career  in  India  is  described 
as  "  one  track  of  light— the  admiration  of  Brit- 
ain and  India." 

One  who  when  asked,  "What  are  the  dis- 
couragements of  the  work?"  replied:  "I  do 
not  know  the  word :  I  long  ago  erased  it  from 
my  vocabulary." 

One  whom  the  natives  called  "the  j^ood 
father." 

One  whose  missionary  zeal  was  kindled  by 
hearing,  while  a  student,  this  remark  from  his 
professor:  "If  we  succeed  in  leading  a  single 
soul  among  the  heathen  unto  God,  it  is  as  much 
as  if  we  had  won  a  hundred  in  Europe." 

One  who  has  been  described  as  "an  incarna- 
tion of  the  spirit  of  missions." 

The  missionary  who  declared  that  "if  after 
many  years  of  labor  he  might  be  instrumental  in 
the  conversion  of  only  one  soul,  it  would  be 
worth  the  work  of  a  whole  life." 

One  who  sailed  for  India  when  only  13  shil- 
lings had  been  pledged  for  his  support 


Children's  Church  at  Home 
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THAT  SAME  OLD  TYRANT. 
In  that  sermon,  which  my  pastor  preached, 
^*when  I  was  about  twelve  years  old,''  and 
from  which  I  gave  you  some  sentences  in  onr 
February  number,  he  drew  this  picture: 

Could  all  the  blood  which  this  monster  has 
shed  flow  in  one  stream,  who  would  wish  to 
swell  the  torrent?  Could  all  the  intoxicating 
liquor  that  has  debased  and  maddened  his  vic- 
tims flow  in  one  place,  who  that  should  see  its 
burning  waves  would  vote  this  day  to  dig 
another  lake  that  should  roll  and  sparkle  like  it? 
Could  all  the  millions  that  have  been  beggared 
by  him  be  gathered  into  one  shivering  group 
who  would  willingly  augment  their  number? 
Could  all  the  bodies  of  those  whom  the  tyrant 
has  slain  be  heaped  in  one  pile,  who  would  wish 
to  increase  the  loathsome  mountain  ?  Could  all 
the  groans  that  have  been  extorted  by  his  con- 
quests be  uttered  in  one  shriek,  who  would  ever 
wish  to  have  his  heart  rent  by  another's  ? 

Yet,  should  the  monster  march  on  unresisted 
in  his  career,  mountain  will  be  piled  upon  moun- 
tain ;  that  flood  will  swell  like  the  Amazon;  lake 
after  lake  will  be  stretched  along  like  our  north- 
ern sisterhood  of  waters;  and  shriek  after  shriek 
will  thrill  through  an  agonizing  world,  longer, 
wilder  and  louder. 

The  monster  has  not  ^'marched  on  unre- 
sisted,** all  these  years.  Much  brave  resist- 
ance has  been  made  by  men  and  women  and 
children — by  men  and  women  who  have 
grown  up  from  infancy  since  those  eloquent 
words  were  spoken  and  printed.  But  in 
spite  of  all  this  resistance,  he  has  marched 
on.  We  have  checked  him  some.  We  have 
hindered  him  some.  We  have  saved  some 
from  becoming  his  victims,  and  have  snatched 
some  from  his  very  jaws.  But  can  we  not 
find  some  way  to  stop  him? — ^to  finish 
him? 

What  do  you  boys  say? — and  you  girls? 
— Let  us  hear  from  you,  and  from  your 
mothers,  and  from  other  such  men  as  Theo- 
dore Cuyler,  with  all  a  boy's  zeal  and  all  a 
sage's  wisdom.  What  shall  we  do  about 
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BEY.  a.  H.  FBBBI& 

[From  Indian  Notes,  »  Uvelj  little  periodical  sheet 
kindly  sent  us  from  the  PresbTterian  Mission.] 

A  few  days  ago,  Mr.  G.  and  I  were  out  for  a 
run  on  our  bicycles  and  when  about  four  miles 
from  the  bungalow,  Mr.  G.  called  out,  "There 
goes  a  snake,"  and  I  turned  Just  in  time  to  see 
it  disappearing  on  one  side  of  the  road.  Said  I, 
*'  Why  did  you  not  run  over  it  ? "  ** I  have  too 
much  regard  for  my  wife  and  family "  was  the 
reply. 

We  then  jumped  off  our  wheels  and  ran  back 
to  where  we  saw  the  snake  go  off  the  road,  and 
soon  finding  it  we  picked  up  stones  with  which 
to  kill  it,  as  it  was  a  very  large  cobra.  We 
were  not  very  skillful  in  our  use  of  stones,  for 
though  we  hit  it  once  or  twice,  we  apparently 
did  very  little  damage.  Then,  too,  we  had  to 
be  careful,  for  once  or  twice  the  cobra  tried  to 
turn  the  tables  on  us  and  make  us  run.  At  last, 
as  it  was  hard  pressed,  it  made  for  a  white  ant 
bill  near  by,  and  apparently  striking  with  its 
head  along  the  surface  of  the  hill,  as  though 
sounding  to  find  one  of  the  long  chambers  of 
which  the  hill  is  full,  it  made  a  sort  of  digging 
motion  with  its  head  and  then  began  to  disap- 
pear in  the  ground.  I  rapidly  ran  up  and  put- 
ting my  foot  on  its  tail  prevented  it  from  going 
entirely  into  the  hole,  calling  to  Mr.  G.  to  bring 
a  stone  with  which  to  make  an  end  of  it.  Pick- 
ing up  a  good  sized  stone  and  hurrying  to  me, 
Mr.  G. — thinking  more  of  the  snake  than  of  my 
foot — let  fly,  the  stone  fortunately  missing  my 
foot,  but  unfortunately  grazing  my  knee.  I 
then  with  a  stone  soon  made  two  pieces  of  the 
cobra.  Although  I  was  unable  to  bruise  its 
head,  I  took  off  a  foot  and  a  half  of  its  tail  with- 
out which  it  will  find  its  usefulness  at  an  end. 

Now  the  question  in  my  mind  is  this:  Did  the 
cobra  know  that  the  white  ant  hill  was  full  of 
holes,  and  that  by  tapping  on  it  with  its  head  it 
would  be  able  to  discover  where  one  came  near 
enough  to  the  surface  for  it  to  break  the  outside 
crust  and  thus  find  a  way  of  escape  froji  its 
foes;  or  was  it  simply  instinct?  On  examining 
the  hole  which  the  cobra  entered  it  was  evidently 
one  that  had  been  covered  over  with  a  crust  of 
dried  mud,  for  the  crust  was  lying  near  the 
mouth  of  the  hole,  as  if  thrown  there  by  the 
head  of  the  cobra. 

These  hills  raised  all  over  India  by  the  white 
ants,  or  termites,  are  a  favorite  resort  for  snakes, 
either  on  account  of  the  ants  which  possibly 
they  use  as  food,  or  because  of  the  excellent 
Uding  places  afforded  by  their  numerous  cham- 


bers. You  will  frequently  find  these  hills  where 
some  of  the  chambers  are  open  from  above  as  if 
made  use  of  by  rats  and  snakes,  but  more  fre- 
quently you  will  find  them  covered  over  as  left 
by  the  ants.  So  if  you  go  up  to  one  of  these 
mounds,  and  knock  off  the  tops  of  the  little  cone 
like  elevations  all  over  the  hill  you  will  make 
entrances  to  the  long  chambers  below  which  are 
large  enough  for  almost  any  of  the  snakes  of 
this  part  of  India  to  enter. 

Book  Notices. 

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inations. Its  secretary  is  Rev.  William  C.  Stitt,  D.D. , 
of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York.  The  price  of  the 
magazine  is  one  dollar  per  year. 

At  The  Lord's  Table.— Thoughts  on  Com- 
mmiion  and  Fellowship,  by  Howard  Crosby. — "  A 
contribution  to  fiealthy  theology,''  were  the  emphatic 
words  with  which  Dr.  Crosby  once  conmiended  cer- 
tain essays  in  the  Evangelist^  on  **  The  Salvation  of 
Infants."  Most  heartily  do  we  apply  his  own  words 
to  this  little  volume,  which  his  friend  A.  D.  F.  Ran- 
dolph, has  just  issued.  It  consists  of  Dr.  Crosby's 
brief  **  utterances  at  the  Communion  Table,  taken 
down  at  the  time  and  now  published."  They  are  of 
course  **  on  themes  suitable  for  meditation  during 
the  service,"  and  therefore  quite  suitable  and  profit- 
able for  meditation  in  the  reader's  home. 

Dr.  Crosby  was  widely  known  as  a  heroic  cham- 
pion of  civic  ilghteousness,  and  a  fearless  leader  in 
efforts  for  the  suppression  of  vice.  These  medita- 
tions reveal  him  as  a  fervent  lover  of  Jesus,  and  a 
tender  shepherd  of  his  fiock.  They  recall  the  beau- 
tiful and  just  acrostic  of  Dr.  Qanse  in  our  April 
number,  1893;  especially  its  last  line. 

HOWABD  CBOSBY. 

How  should  a  man  be  made— 

Of  what  choice  parts  compounded? 

With  skill  of  schools  how  well  arrayed, 

And  with  what  graces  rounded? 

Reveal  some  princely  nature  strong  and  lust, 

Divinely  ripened  for  the  poor  to  trust. 

Courage,  that  fears  not  man  nor  devil. 
Revolts  at  all  enthroned  evil, 
Outright  resolve,  that  wont  be  routed. 
Sincerity  that  can't  be  doubted. 
Back  all  this  strength  with  love  divine  and  human. 
Yet  keep  your  Great  Heart  tender  as  a  womanT^ 
Published  by  Anson  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.,  182 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York.    Price  60  cents. 

The  Fibst  Communion.— Before— At— After.— 
Henry  M.  Booth.— This  is  another  manual,  prepared 
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Theologfioal  Seminary.  It  is  in  the  form  of  conyer^ 
sations  principaUy  between  **  Donald  Stewart,**  a 
thoughtful  and  conscientious  man,  and  "Dr.  Angus,** 
his  pastor,  on  the  question,  **  Why  should  I  not  go 
to  the  Communion f  '*  Donald  is  led,  in  a  reasonable 
and  scriptural  way,  to  see  that  to  be  his  privilege  and 
duty,  and  his  mind  is  cleared  of  some  difficulties, 
from  which  other  such  minds  may  probably  be 
relieyed  by  the  reading  of  this  book.  We  are  of  the 
opinion  that  such  persons  will  be  helped  even  more 
by  Donald's  conversation  with  *^  an  aged  Christian 
woman  who  had  been  his  friend  ever  since  he  had 
been  in  the  city,**  than  with  the  more  learned  expo- 
sitions of  his  pastor  on  the  subtle  distinctions  be- 
tween the  views  of  Zwingli,  Calvin  and  Luther. 
We  do  not  count  these  useless,  but  think  that 
Donald,  sitting  with  a  Mary-like  woman  at  the  feet 
of  Jesus,  would  get  more  experimental  benefit  than 
sitting  among  these  doctors  and  asking  them  ques- 
tions. 

Ministerial  Necrology. 


^^We  earoestbr  request  the  families  of  deeeased  mia- 
liters  and  the  stated  clerks  of  their  presbyteries  to  for- 
ward to  us  promptly  the  facts  given  in  these  notices,  and 
as  nearly  as  possible  in  Uie  form  ezemplifled  below. 
These  notices  are  hifchly  valued  by  writers  of  Presby- 
terian history,  compilers  of  statistics  and  the  inteUigent 
readers  of  both. 


Fleming,  David  Bbainsrd.— Born  at  Dallas,  Mar- 
shall Co.,  W.  Va. ;  three  years  a  soldier;  gradu- 
ated at  Washington  and  Jefferson  College,  1868, 
and  at  Western  Theological  Seminary,  1871; 
ordained  the  same  year ;  preached  to  the  churches 
of  Salem,  Brunswick  and  Deer  Creek,  Peoria 
Presbytery,  1872;  Fairmount  and  York,  Ne- 
braska City  Presbytery,  1872-74;  Andover, 
Newton  and  Spring  Valley,  Rock  River  Pres- 
bytery, 1874-84;  Unity  Church,  Iowa  City  Pres- 
bytery, 1884-89;  Martinsburgh,  Iowa  Presby- 
tery, Carson,  Sharon  and  Malvern,  Council 
Bluff  Presbytery.  1889-93;  Randolph,  Coming 
Presbytery,  a  few  months  till  laid  aside  by 
disease,  September,  1898.  Died  at  Tabor,  Iowa, 
January  27, 1894. 

Married  Miss  Helen  V.  Noble  of  Nebraska, 
December  18, 1872,  who  with  one  son  and  three 
daughters  survives  him. 

Jacks,  Andrbw  Donksll.— Bom,  Kingston,  Ind., 
July  19,  1829,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  D. 
Jacks;  graduated,  Wabash  College,  1854,  Lane 
Seminary,  1857;  missionary  to  Gaboon,  Africa, 
1857-1859;  evangelist  in  Indiana,  1867;  pastor, 
Edwardsville,  IlL,  until  1872;  home  missionary 
in  Kansas  and  Indian  Territory.  Died,  Clarence, 
Indian  Territory,  February,  1894. 

Lanb,  Rbv.  J.  Jay. — Bom  March  21, 1818,  in  Lower 
Chanceford,  York  Co.,  Pa.;  graduated  from 
Jefferson  College,  1844,  and  from  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary,  1848;  licensed  and  or- 
dained by  the  Pre«b7t6r7  of  St.  ClairpylUe, 


Ohio;  pastor  of  FWrview  and  Stmwater 
churches,  in  Guernsey  Co.,  Ohio.,  184&-5S;  {prior 
to  this  professor  of  Latin  in  Franklin  College 
for  a  short  time);  pastor  at  Wrightsville,  P*., 
1853-^;  during  that  time  pastor  also  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  New  Harmony,  Pa.,  for 
four  years,  and  of  Donegal,  Pa.,  for  eleven 
years;  returned  to  Ohio  in  1809:  pastor  of  the 
churches  at  Rock  Hill,  Ohio,  and  Coal  Brook, 
Ohio,  organized  from  the  former, for  ten  years; 
returned  to  the  place  of  his  birth  in  1879  and  ocm- 
tinned  to  supply  the  New  Harmony  Church 
until  1889;  then  retired  from  the  active  minis- 
try; died  December  26,  1898. 

Married,  1853,  Miss  Lucy  Grimes,  sister  of 
William  M  Grimes,  D.D.,  deceased,  and  Joseph 
S.  Grimes,  D.D.,  of  Mahoningtown,  Pa.  She 
died  more  than  twenty-flve  years  ago.  Two 
daughters  and  one  son,  Rev.  A.  G.  Lane,  pastor 
of  Presbyterian  Church,  Fremont,  O.,  survive. 

MuNDT,  WiLUAM  M.,  M.  D.— Bom  in  Jefferson 
County,  Tenn,  1845;  graduated,  Maryville  Col- 
lege, 1875,  Danville  Theological  Seminary,  1878; 
supplied  churches  in  TennesMe;  preached  and 
did  colporteur  work,  under  the  conmiisBion  of 
the  American  Tract  Society,  in  Dodge  County, 
Ga.;  health  failed;  graduated  from  Medical 
CoUege,  Atlanta,  but  had  not  physical  strength 
for  much  professional  work.  He  loved  the  min- 
istry and  did  not  wish  to  demit  it.  Died,  Sep- 
tember 20, 1898.  A  widow  and  two  daughters 
survive  him. 

PiNORY,  JoHir  Fraitcis,  Ph.D.— Bom  at  Newbury- 
port,  Mass.,  September  26, 1818;  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  College,  1886;  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  in  FishkiU,  N.  Y.,  1842-1847; 
teacher  in  Fishkill,  1847-1853;  pastor  of  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Roeeville,  Newark,  N.  J.,  1853- 
1860;  during  the  same  period  also  taught  a 
private  school.  After  his  resignation  as  pastor 
in  1860,  he  continued  his  school  until  1861,  when 
he  removed  to  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  where  he  taught 
school  until  1892.  Married,  1842,  Caroline  G. 
Oakley.  Married,  1858,  Elizabeth  Van  Wagenen. 
Married,  1892,  Susan  H.  Higgins,  who  with  three 
sons  by  his  first  wife,  survives  him.  Died  at 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  on  Febmary  16, 1894. 

Waldo,  Rev.  E.  F.— Bom  at  Prattsbxirgh,  N.  Y., 
June  21, 1811 ;  graduated  from  Amherst  College, 
1836,  and  from  Union  Seminary,  1889;  preached 
at  Huron,  N.  Y.,  four  years;  preached  directly 
after  that  at  Allegan,  Way  land,  Diwagiac,  and 
Rochester,  Mich;  from  Rochester  went  to  Pal- 
myra, Wisconsin,  preaching  there  and  at  Jefter- 
son  and  Pardeeville,  of  the  same  state;  return- 
ing to  Michigan,  preached  at  Lynden  and 
Byron,  also  at  Tawas  City  and  East  Tawas;  re- 
called to  the  church  of  his  first  labors  at 
Huron,  N.  Y.,  where  he  labored  the  last  four 
years  of  his  ministry  of  more  than  forty  years. 
Died  at  Harbor  Springs,  Michigan,  January  16, 
1893.    His  wife  and  three  sons  survive  him. 


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YouHO,  Abraham  T.— Born  in  Carlisle,  N.  Y., 
1806;  Graduated  from  Union  College,  18S9, 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  1842;  served 
as  pastor  in  several  churches  in  Western,  Cen- 
tral and  Northern  New  York,  184^-1876;  after- 
wards preached  as  occasional  supply.  Died  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  November  24, 1898. 

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Gathered  and  Condensed  by  Rkv.  Albert  B.  RoBixsoir.] 

— A  man  is  good  for  nothing  but  to  be  used 
up,  said  Dr.  Arthur  Mitchell. 

— "The  last  great  man  of  Africa,"  is  Dr. 
Field's  designation  of  Augustine. 

— Opportunities  to  the  Christian  mean  solemn 
responsibilities. — David  Livingstone. 

—Christian  Dakotas  raised  nearly  $2,000  last 
year  to  Christianize  their  pagan  Sioux  brethren. 

— Know  and  you  will  feel ;  know  and  you  will 
pray ;  know  and  you  will  help. — Dean  of  lAan- 
dnff. 

— Max  Muller  believes  the  Hindus  are  riper  for 
Christianity  than  any  nation  that  ever  accepted 
the  Gospel. 

— One  of  the  Chinese  medical  students  in  the 
University  of  Michigan  is  said  to  be  a  direct  de- 
scendent  of  Confucius. 

— The  Christian  community  In  North  India  is 
increasing  at  the  rate  of  20.000  a  year,  writes 
Mr.  R.  Hoskins  of  Cawnpore. 

•—The  only  thing  He  left  us  to  do  is  to  tell  of 
Him  to  all  the  people  on  the  earth,  said  a  mis- 
sionary, of  Christ's  final  commission. 

— Mr.  Hudson  Taylor  names  as  the  ten  best 
missionary  books,  the  Four  Gospels,  the  Acts  of 
the  Apostles  and  five  of  the  Pauline  Epistles. 

—The  size  of  your  offering,  says  the  Ram'e 
Horn^doea  not  depend  upon  what  you  take  out 
of  your  pocket,  but  upon  what  you  leave  in  it. 

— I  fear  for  my  countrymen,  said  Eeshub 
Chunder  Sen,  that  they  will  sink  from  the  hell 
of  heathenism  into  the  deeper  hell  of  infidelity. 

— ^The  grave  has  become  a  different  place 
since  Jesus  came  to  this  village,  said  a  converted 
Chinese  woman  whose  little  daughter  had  Just 
died. 

— National  reverence  for  historic  truth, 
national  appreciation  of  order  in  things  religious 
as  well  as  secular,  and  a  national  patriotism  will- 
ing to  learn  but  too  proud  to  resign  itself  per- 
manently to  foreign  influence  or  authority,  are 
the  traits  which  Bishop  Bickersteth  finds  in  the 
Japanese. 


— ^Mrs.  Isabella  Bird  Bishop  suggests  that  we 
should  readjust,  by  our  increased  knowledge, 
personal  needs  and  Christ's  needs,  at  the  foot  of 
the  cross. 

— Several  Nanking  families  determined  last 
year  to  send  their  daughters  to  our  mission 
school,  because  *'  the  girls  of  that  school  can  get 
husbands." 

— From  the  schools  supported  by  the  American 
Board  in  Japan,  during  the  seven  years,  1884- 
1890,  there  were  received  to  church  membership 
849  pupils. 

—Men  of  the  artisan  class  in  Shansi,  China, 
who  receive  about  7  pence  per  day,  spend  from 
a  quarter  to  one-half  of  their  earnings  in  moder- 
ate opium  eating. 

— The  London  Committee  of  the  Cape  Qen- 
eral  Mission  transact  business  and  correspond- 
ence at  their  homes,  thus  saving  the  expense 
of  a  general  office. 

— On  the  banks  of  Lake  Nyassa,  a  few  years 
ago  the  habitation  of  cruelty,  there  are  now 
Christian  schools  with  150  teachers  and  7,000 
scholars  —Dr.  Latos. 

— All  the  incomes  of  all  the  missionary  soci- 
eties together,  says  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, amount  to  about  one-half  the  cost  of  the 
London  School  Board. 

— An  old  man  In  Lakawn  asked  if  the  wonder- 
ful surgical  instruments  used  by  Dr.  Peoples 
came  from  heaven ;  he  never  saw  anything  that 
could  do  what  they  did. 

— Once  at  midnight  a  weeping  woman  knocked 
at  Mr.  Lapsley's  door.  Come,  said  she,  my 
child  is  dying;  take  it  in  your  arms,  and  tell 
your  God  about  my  child. 

— Dr.  Mackay  of  Formosa  believes  there  is 
danger  of  pressiag  the  principle  of  self-support 
too  far,  before  native  Christians  and  churches 
are  sufficiently  established. 

— Mission  schools  are  not  places  for  mere  intel- 
lectual development,  says  the  Mimonary  Herald. 
Only  as  evangelical  forces  are  they  properly 
supported  by  mission  funds. 

— We  would  sing  to  Him  if  we  only  knew 
how,  was  the  remark  of  a  Bakete  woman  at 
Luebo,  when  Mr.  Lapsley  gave  them  their  first 
knowledge  of  a  God  of  love. 

—Dr.  Robert  Oust  believes  that  the  great 
language  of  the  Hausa,  spoken  by  tens  of  mil- 
lions, is  destined  to  be  a  most  important  element 
in  the  civilization  of  the  negro. 

— Enamelled  plates  bearing  the  texts,  John  8: 
16,  Matt.  11:  28  and  Acts  16:  80,  have  recently 
been  placed  in  advertising  spaces  in  twelve  cars 
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—Since  the  Trinidad  Mission  was  started  25 
years  ago,  says  the  Prstbyterian  Becord,  almost 
as  much  has  been  contributed  on  the  Island  for 
its  support  as  has  been  sent  from  Canada. 

— ^A  true  missionary  never  knows  defeat,  said 
Rey.  A.  A.  Fulton.  He  may  be  driren  from 
place  to  place,  haye  his  property  stolen  and 
destroyed,  yet  he  will  find  light  and  encourage- 
ment. 

— There  exists  no  word  in  any  Indian  language, 
says  Sir  Monier  Williams,  exactly  equivalent  to 
the  Saxon  monosyllable  home,  that  little  word 
which  is  the  key  to  our  national  greatness  and 
prosperity. 

— ^Medical  missions,  said  Dr.  Pennell,  are  the 
picture  language  of  the  Church  militant.  The 
rudest  and  roughest,  the  simplest  and  most  un- 
educated, can  understand  the  language  of  Chris- 
tian love,  kindness  and  charity. 

—Speaking  of  the  broken-heartedness  which 
Christ  showed  for  the  lost  in  his  day,  Mrs.  Isa- 
bella Bird  Bishop  fears  that  we  do  not  realize 
the  destitution  of  the  world  with  more  than  a 
thousand  million  Christless  souls. 

—Of  Rev.  D.  C.  Scott's  Mang'anja  Dictionary 
Cmtral  Africa  says  it  reveals  the  sufficiency  of 
the  language  to  give  expression  to  native  thought 
and  bring  home  to  them  new  truths  without  the 
importation  of  words  from  foreign  sources. 

— It  is  said  that  the  Chinese  and  Mexican 
Commercial  Company,  composed  of  wealthy 
Chinese  has  bought  a  tract  of  820,000  acres  in 
the  State  of  Mexico.  Five  thousand  Chinese  are 
to  be  allotted  64  acres  each,  with  time  to  pay 
for  it 

—Parts  of  the  Dark  Continent  that  fifty  years 
ago  would  have  been  looked  upon  as  utterly 
unfit  for  permanent  occupation  by  human  beings, 
have  been  conquered  to  their  uses  by  hardy  and 
nergetic  settlers.— i)r.  Carl  Peters  in  The 
FoTvm, 

— Many  of  the  colonists  in  Natal  look  down 
with  contempt  on  the  Zulas  and  all  the  natives, 
much  as  many  Southerners  used  to  feel  towards 
the  slaves.  The  Government  does  not  help  as 
it  ought  to  educate  the  natives.— ^00.  thas, 
Baneame. 

—The  people  of  India  are  exceedingly  relig- 
ious, writes  a  missionary  in  the  Baptiet  Jfiseionr 
ary  Maganne.  The  Hindus  always  first  build 
a  temple,  and  around  this  their  houses  cluster ; 
the  Mohammedans  have  their  beautiful  mosques 
and  their  clean,  inviting  places  of  prayer, 
always  facing  Mecca.  Ought  not  the  Chris- 
tians too  to  have  clean,  comfortable  places  of 
worship? 


—The  deepest  impression  made  upon  General 
Merrill,  during  three  years  as  Consul-General  in 
Calcutta,  was  the  sight  of  those  who  had  left 
homes  on  the  other  side  of  the  world  to  enter  the 
hovels  of  the  outcast  and  point  to  the  celestial 
mansions. 

—Not  until  rich  men  come  to  understand  that 
they  do  not  (non  their  wealth,  but  o%oe  it,  will 
the  curse  be  taken  off  riches,  and  wealth  in  the 
hands  of  the  individual  be  made  a  blessing  to 
the  world,  and  not  an  instrument  of  oppression. 
— iVo/.  Everett, 

— A  missionary  now  in  India  reports  that  her 
going  was  largely  the  result  of  joining  a  prayer 
union  to  intercede  for  more  laborers  to  be  sent 
out.  As  she  prayed  it  seemed  "so  mean  to 
ask  for  others  to  go,  and  not  face  the  question. 
Can  I  go  myself?" 

—While  the  practice  of  buying  and  selling 
women  for  wives  in  China  is  revolting,  writes 
Rev.  J.  E.  Walker  in  7he  Advance,  yet  in  the 
present  state  of  society  it  is  a  check  on  what 
might  be  worse.  The  wife's  money  value  is  a 
protection  to  her  person. 

—The  late  Miss  Charlotte  Tucker,  whose 
nephew,  of  the  Salvation  Army,  was  accustomed 
to  send  her  literature  containing  frequent  men- 
tion of  **  Knee  Drill,"  wrote  urging  the  import- 
ance of  "Sword  Drill,"  i.  e.  practice  in  the  use 
of  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit. 

—It  is  the  worst  possible  economy,  says  Dr. 
James  Johnston,  to  encourage  or  even  permit 
the  missionary  to  diminish  his  already  scanty 
leisure  for  the  real  work  which  took  him  to 
Africa,  by  frittering  it  away  in  manual  labor 
that  he  may  have  food  to  eat. 

—So  rapidly  is  the  cultivation  of  the  poppy  in- 
creasing in  China,  writes  Thomas  Bramfit  in 
WesUyan  Missionary  Notices,  that  soon  the  import 
of  Indian  and  Persian  opium  will  be  a  thing  of 
the  past.  If  the  import  were  to  cease  at  once 
the  consumption  would  still  increase. 

— A  successful  pastor  reports  that  it  has  been 
the  custom  in  his  family  for  several  years  to 
read  at  tea  time  the  letters  from  missionaries  as 
they  appear  in  the  magazines,  and  then  at 
family  worship  remember  the  writers  and  the 
special  needs  brought  out  in  the  letters. 

—There  is  sound  philosophy,  says  Rev.  John 
McDougall  in  the  Presbyterian  Becord,  in  the 
Chinese  custom  which  places  the  surname  first 
and  the  personal  name  after  it.  Precedence  is 
thus  given  to  what  has  gone  before,  to  the  trunk 
of  the  tree- the  individual  is  treated  as  an 
attachment  to  tl^e  family,  the  latest  l)ranch  of 
the  tree, 


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— Says  Ahmed  Bey:  The  aoarchy  reigning  in 
the  collective  life  of  the  Persians  has  destroyed 
the  moral  and  physical  forces  of  the  individual, 
and  exhausted  the  resources  of  society;  and  the 
Persian,  seeing  no  prospect  of  improvement  in 
his  country,  either  revolts  or  emigrates. 

— **  Christ  is  all  my  hope,  Christ  is  my  rest- 
stone,"  said  a  native  Christian  of  India,  where 
all  burdens  are  carried  on  men's  heads  or  backs, 
and  resting-places,  called  rest-stones,  are  pro- 
vided at  intervals  along  the  roads  where  a  trav- 
eler may  lay  down  his  load  when  weary. 

— A  well-  known  missionary  among  the  Jews 
believes  many  of  them  are  as  ignorant  of  Christ 
as  the  tribes  in  Central  Africa.  In  different 
parts  of  the  world  Jews  on  receiving  the  New 
Testament  have  congratulated  him,  thinking  he 
was  the  author  of  the  volume. — Ooldsn  Rule. 

—The  passage,  Matt.  ix.  88,  says  The  MUHon- 
(vry,  is  misinterpreted  by  sincere  Christians  at 
home  who  content  themselves  by  say ing  they  can 
pray  the  Lord  of  the  harvest  to  send  forth  labor- 
ers, overlooking  the  fact  that  the  injunction  is 
to  the  missionaries,  the  disciples  whom  Christ 
was  sending  forth. 

— ^There  is  not  a  spot  in  the  world,  says  Pro- 
fessor Henry  Drummond,  where  pure  missionary 
work  has  had  a  fairer  trial  or  has  made  more 
progress  than  in  the  New  Hebrides.  I  never 
met  with  any  one  in  the  East  or  South  who  had 
a  single  adverse  criticism  on  these  missions,  the 
result  was  so  palpable. 

•—Moslems  are  growing  afraid  of  Christ ;  their 
chiefs  are  learning  the  signs  of  the  times.  A 
leading  literary  Mohammedan  likens  Islam  to  an 
old,  prostrated  tree- trunk,  and  Christianity  to  a 
little  fire  against  one  side  of  it;  he  dreads  the 
little  fire,  and  says  it  will  certainly  destroy 
Islam.— /Stor  in  the  East 

—To  a  missionary  in  Swatow,  China,  it  seems 
strange  that  young  men  from  our  theological 
seminaries  can  be  content  to  share  a  village  of 
8,000  people  with  half  a  dozen  pastors  of  other 
denominations,  when  they  might  go  to  China 
and  take  the  oversight  of  a  field  containing  two 
or  three  hundred  villages. 

—The  Chinese  girl  slaves  believe  that  if  they 
are  freed  in  any  way  except  by  purchase  they 
will  be  obliged  to  pay  some  kind  of  a  redemption 
price  in  the  next  world :  therefore  they  will  not 
take  their  liberty  even  if  it  is  offered  to  them  by 
law.  When  they  learn  that  there  is  no  slavery 
in  the  next  life,  that  all  may  be  free  in  Christ 
Jesus,  they  will  be  ready  to  accept  the  freedom 
which  the  law  offers  them  in  this  life.— ^p^w* 
Minionary  Magazine. 


—This  was  Bishop  Patteson's  ideal  of  a  mis- 
sionary: An  earnest,  bright,  cheerful  fellow, 
with  plenty  of  enterprise  and  some  enthusiasm, 
who  makes  the  best  of  everything,  and,  above 
all,  does  not  think  himself  better  than  other 
people  because  he  is  engaged  in  mission  work. 
That  is  the  fellow  we  want. 

—Japanese  artists  are  beginning  to  preach 
Christ  by  means  of  the  pallette  and  brush.  God 
is  calling  them  to  interpret  Bible  symbols  in  the 
art  language  of  their  own  people.  When  the 
Japanese  brush  and  pencil  are  consecrated  to 
Christ,  the  world  will  enjoy  a  new  morning  of 
beauty.— F:  E,  GhnffU,  D.D, 

—The  habits  of  the  people  in  Manchuria  have 
helped  in  gospel  work.  Instead  of  living  in 
their  own  villages  all  their  lives  there  is  a  con- 
stant coming  and  going;  so  that,  in  a  land  where 
neither  railways  nor  newspapers  exist,  tidings  of 
the  new  doctrine  are  conveyed  to  remote  dis- 
tricts.— Bev,  Duncan  McLaren. 

—The  Pahouins,  a  tribe  in  the  French  Congo, 
fear  death,  thinking  of  it  constantly ;  it  is  their 
great  quarrel  with  God.  They  say:  We  wish 
to  love  €rod,  but  we  have  one  thing  against  him ; 
why  does  he  make  men  die  ?  They  think  of  God 
merely  as  a  powerful  chief  with  whom  it  would 
be  well  to  make  a  treaty  of  friendship. 

—The  feelings  of  the  people  in  Cawnpore, 
India,  concerning  Christianity,  have  changed, 
writes  Mr,  R  Hoskins  in  the  Sunday-school 
Times.  Fifteen  years  ago  it  was  difficult  to 
collect  50  boys  In  a  Sunday-school:  to- day  8,000 
children  are  enrolled,  and  there  might  be  10,000 
more  if  there  were  funds  to  rent  the  rooms. 

— The  native  in  India  surpasses  the  Eurasian 
in  determination  to  educate  his  children  and  in 
willingness  to  make  the  necessary  sacrifice. 
Eurasians  have  lost  30  years  of  valuable  time  in 
fitting  themselves  to  meet  their  competitors.  If 
in  the  first  decade  after  the  mutiny  Eurasian 
parents  had  resolutely  insisted  on  giving  their 
children  the  best  possible  education,  the  average 
incomes  of  Eurasians  would  have  been  much 
better  to-day. — Indian  Witness. 

—A  little  bird,  now  extinct,  called  the 
"Mamo,"  furnishes  the  feathers  for  the  royal 
cloak  in  Hawaii;  and  as  each  bird  had  but  two 
feathers  of  the  yellow  required,  one  beneath 
each  wing,  it  took  an  immense  number  to  supply 
enough  material  for  a  royal  robe.  Nine  genera- 
tions of  men  plucked  countless  little  mamos  to 
make  the  royal  Mamo  of  Kamehameha  I,  and  it 
is  estimated  at  as  great  a  value  as  that  of  many 
of  the  crown  jewels  of  Europe. — Lieutenant  4., 
G,  McMeachan. 


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—The  slave-raiding  of  the  Arabs  in  Africa, 
and  the  rum  trade  of  nominal  Christians,  are 
ghastl J  evils  imported  by  foreign  intruders,  and 
they  can  be  reduced  or  suppressed  by  Govern- 
ments; but  polygamy,  domestic  slavery  and 
witchcraft  are  immeasurably  more  baneful,  and 
will  yield  only  to  the  power  of  true  religion. — 
Belt  Chatelain, 

— An  old  man  in  North-west  India  learned  by 
heart  the  first  chapter  of  John,  and  every  year 
after  the  harvest  went  from  village  to  village 
repeating  what  he  had  learned  and  teaching  the 
people.  His  knowledge  of  the  Gospel  now 
extends  beyond  the  first  chapter,  and  he  has  be- 
come in  character  like  the  beloved  disciple  He 
has  led  400  of  his  countrymen  to  accept  Christ. 

—China,  incapable  of  military  advance,  and 
innocent  of  forcible  annexation,  is  wreaking  a 
sweet  revenge  for  the  suzeranity  which  she  has 
lost,  by  a  stealthy  reconquest  of  industry  and 
trade,  filching,  by  means  of  her  indefatigable 
colonists,  from  the  kingdoms  that  have  defied  or 
shaken  off  her  control,  the  proceeds  of  their 
natural  riches  and  their  commerce. —.S^.  George 
y.  Oureon, 

— No  matter  where  we  glean  among  the  faiths 
of  man,  these  sheaves  make  obeisance  to  the 
sheaf  of  Christianity  as  it  arises  and  stands  up- 
right. It  makes  little  odds  how  glorious  the 
light  of  Asia,  how  luminous  the  crescent  of  Islam 
and  the  other  stars  of  the  religious  firmament, 
all  bow  to  his  star  in  the  East,  and  are  lost  in 
the  spiritual  splendors  of  the  Sun  of  Righteous- 
ness.— The  Interior. 

— The  failure  of  an  enterprise  is  no  proof  that 
the  enterprise  was  wrong,  no  proof  that  it  was 
even  mistaken.  Such  a  failure  for  the  time  may 
be  an  essential  part  of  God's  plan.  The  Church 
Missionary  Tntelligeneer,  speaking  thus  of  the 
apparent  failure  of  Erapf's  Mission,  organized 
in  1861,  adds  Krapf 's  own  words :  Our  sanguine 
expectations  may  be  laid  in  the  grave  like 
Lazarus,  yet  they  shall  have  a  resurrection,  and 
.  our  eyes  shall  see  the  glory  of  God. 

— The  Hindu  belief  that  a  departed  soul  passes 
into  the  body  of  some  living  creature  is  one 
reason  why  the  houses  in  India  are  infested  with 
vermin.  They  will  not  allow  one  of  these 
creatures  to  be  killed  lest  the  soul  of  some  dear 
friend  should  be  in  it.  As  a  missionary  was 
visiting  a  high-caste  woman  who  mourned  the 
recent  loss  of  a  dear  child,  a  hideous  cock-roach 
crawled  towards  her.  As  she  brushed  it  away 
the  mother  cried:  Oh  don't,  I  beg  you  not  to 
harm  it.  My  little  baby's  soul  is  in  that  cock- 
roach. 


—The  panchayat,  though  not  an  authorized 
tribunal,  is  yet  upheld  by  custom  and  the  power 
of  public  opinion.  It  is  a  council  of  five  elders, 
leaders  of  tiie  people  in  a  Hindu  village,  which 
investigates  cases  of  misdemeanor  and  inflicts  a 
penalty.  The  writer  from  Guntur  who  states 
these  facts  adds:  We  take  the  panchayat  as  we 
find  it  and  convert  it  into  a  church  council  with- 
out even  changing  its  name. 

— Said  a  recent  graduate  of  the  mission  school 
in  Erzroom,  who  had  served  as  teacher  in  a  vil- 
lage school  where  the  people  were  too  poor  to 
give  him  even  his  bread:  I  did  not  know  for 
wliat  I  was  being  prepared  while  I  was  in 
school.  This  is  hard  and  trying  work,  but  the 
experience  has  given  me  a  little  idea  of  what  a 
grand  thing  it  is  to  assist  others  toward  a  higher 
and  better  life. — Missionary  Herald, 

— One  of  the  pleasures  of  being  a  Christian, 
said  a  Japanese,  is  the  freedom  of  Christian 
fellowship  and  the  full  confidence  in  the  breth- 
ren. We  Japanese  are  naturally  suspicious, 
and  cautious  of  how  we  speak  out  our  real 
thoughts.  But  now  when  I  meet  a  man  with  a 
Bible  in  his  hand  we  are  acquainted  at  once,  and 
are  soon  talking  like  old  friends  and  exchanging 
the  most  secret  experiences  of  our  hearts. 

— If  American  society  was  as  corrupt  as 
Chinese  society,  American  women  would  soon 
be  '* smoked"  out  of  every  desirable  position 
they  have  secured,  and  cooped  up  in  Zenanas ; 
and  very  shame  would  compel  their  best  friends 
to  insist  on  it.  The  seclusion  of  women,  bad 
enough  in  itself,  is  the  less  of  two  evils,  like  the 
preference  of  despotism  to  anarchy  in  civil 
affairs.— i209.  /.  E.  WaUcer  in  The  Admnce. 

— China,  entering  the  race  of  progress,  finds 
that  the  introduction  of  railways  and  manufac- 
tures requires  an  immense  amount  of  money. 
If  the  opium  trade  were  abolished,  the  Govern- 
ment would  have  to  look  about  for  some  other 
source  of  revenue,  and  would  find  it  difficult  to 
devise  any  new  tax  which  would  be  patiently 
endured  by  its  poverty-stricken  subjects. — 
Thomas  Bramfit  in  Weiieyan  Missionary  Notices, 

— Every  Japanese  is  enrolled  at  birth  at  the 
local  temple,  writes  Rev.  B.  C.  Ha  worth  in  The 
Independent,  So  long  as  he  remains  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  the  family  temple,  it  is  almost  impos- 
sible to  get  him  to  break  the  temple  tie  and  join 
a  Christian  Church.  The  membership  of  Christ- 
ian churches  is  made  up  almost  entirely  of 
people  who  have  come  from  other  localities. 
In  Osaka,  for  instance,  it  is  a  very  rare  thing 
to  find  a  native  of  Osaka  in  any  one  of  thQ 
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fapit  If  at  great  importaaoe  to  the  treasnrerB  of  all  the  boards  that  when  mcfoey  is  sent  to  them,  tht 
aame  of  the  church  from  which  it  oomee,  and  of  the  presbytery  to  which  the  church  belongs,  dioold  be 
distincthr  written,  and  that  the  person  sending  should  sign  his  or  her  name  distinctly,  with  proper  title,  e.  g,. 
Pioutor^  Treasurer.  Miss  or  Mrs.^  as  the  case  may  be.  Careful  attention  to  this  -wm  saTe  modi  tronble.aniy 
perbape  preyent  sulous  mlstakwi. 


BBCEIPTS  FOB  THB  BOABD  OF  CHUBCH  BBECTION,  JANUABT,  1894. 


ATLAifnc— 2fVi<rrt«W-Oood  Wfll,  8  11.  2  11 

BALTiifoiiB.—£ammar0-^  Baltimore  1st  sabsch,  6;  — 
Boundary  Avenue  sab-flch  Missionary  Society,  8  86;  Hifrh- 
land,  6.  Wathingion  Ct^—Washiorton  City  Westmin- 
ster, 80.  88  8S 

OALi>t>iufiA.  —  B^neda  —  Valleio  sab-sch,  8  50.  Lot 
^noetec— RiTerside  Calvary.  10.  OnJUand—Berkeley  1st, 
8:  Glolden  Gate,  4.  Sacramento— Vacavttle^  6.  San  Pran- 
cw«o— San  Francisco  We  tmlnster  (including  sab-sch, 
•  85).  84  80.  San  Jba^-WatsonviUe,  5  15.  Stockton— 
Grayson.  6;  Stockton,  16  85.  81  60 

Catawba,— Cape  i^^r— Wilmington  Chestnut  St.,  1. 

1  00 

Colorado.— BouUer  —  Timnath.  8.  Denver  —  Denver 
Central,  78  26;  Otis  8.  Pu«6/o— Cafion  City  (locludlng: 
sab-sch,  5),  88;  Cucharas  Mexican,  55  cts.;  Huerfano 
Cafion,  00  cts.;  La  Junta  8;  Pueblo  1st.  6  66.  119  87 

Iluhois.— ^(oomttH^/fi— Chenoa  16  60;  Gibson  City, 
16  87.  CMro— GolcoDda.  8;  Nashrllle.  18.  Chicago-ChU 
cage  Ist,  87;  —  4th  additional,  17;  Evanston  Ist,  80  54. 
^eepori -Freeport  Ist.  85;  Galena  German,  6.  Mat  toon 
—Tower  Hill,  6.  Rock  River -CfmA  Vallev,  1  40;  Kewan^ 
8;  Millersburgh.  8  00.  Schuyler— Qood  Hope,  60  cts; 
Oquawka,  5;  Quincy  1st,  7  50.  fifprtno/IeM-PiSRah, 
1  18.   -  197  08 

Indiana.— Craio/ord«vi/2e— Bethany,  5;  Delphi,  14  06. 
^\frt  ITowne— Fort  Wayne  M,  8  «1 ;  Osslan,  6  64.  Indian- 
opoZa— Bloominffton  walnut  Street,  18  87.  Logawmort 
— Brookston,  8  85;  Valparaiso,  6.  New  i4/6any— Madison 
1st,  8  51.  rincenn««— Brazil,  10;  Mount  Vernon,  8  70, 
WhUe  ITa^er-RushvUle,  6.  84  66 

Indian  TsRBrroRT.—OArlaAoma— Guthrie.  18  57.       18  57 

Iowa.— Cedar  /{apid«-lIarion,  16  04.  Com<n(^Brooks, 
1 ;  Nodaway,  8;  Prairie  ChapeL  8  85.  Du&«^/e— Inde- 
pendence 1st,  80  07.  Fort  Dodge  —  Dedbam,  1  97. 
Joioo^K^okuk  Westminster.  18  78.  /010a  C^^y— Daven- 
port Ist,  40  71 ;  Tipton,  8.  TFotertoo— Toledo  sab-sch,  8; 
Williams,  7.  110  7< 

Kansas.— ffmporio—Peabody,  14.  Neoeho—'EXk  City, 
1  60;  Girard,  5;  lola,  7.  0«6ome-Hoxie,  8;  Russell,  5. 
dolonum— Beloit.  15.    Tbpelco— Oak  Hill,  5.  55  50 

KENTUOS.Y.— Loutovii/e— HopkinsviHe  1st,  5;  Louisville 
Central,  40  05;  —  College  Street.  14  87.  59  48 

MiomoAN.— Deh-ot<— Mllford  (United  Presbyterian  and 
Consregational  sab-sch),  6.  Flint-'QsM  City,  48  cts. ;  Elk, 
8;  Flynn,  8.  S^naio— Coleman,  1  85;  West  Bay  City 
Covenant.  1.  18  ^ 

MiNNSSOTA.— DuZut^— WiUow  River,  5.  Minneapolie— 
Minneapolis  1st,  19;  —  Stewart  Memorial,  11  1*^  Red 
J^iver— Hendrum,  4.  89  17 

Missouri.— fanMu  CV^— Drexel,  2.  OsarJt— Walden- 
slan.  8.  Ptote««— Lincoln,  8.  St.  Louie— %t.  Louis  1st, 
10  40;  Zion  German,  8.  White  i?iver— Camden  8d,  50  cts. ; 
Fordyce,  50 cts.;  Westminster,  10.  8140 

Montana.— w&uUe— Missoula,  9.  Great  .PViUf— Lewis- 
town.  5.  14  00 

Nbbraska.- JSreamey— Clontibret,  8;  Kearney  Ist,  8  61; 
North  Platte,  7  63.  Nebraeka  Ci^— Plattsmouth  German 
aadsabsch.  8.    iViobraro— Winnebago  Indian,  1.      8119 

Nkw  JBB8CT.—E2<«a6et^— Basking  Ridge,  60 :  Clinton, 
10  88;  Elizabeth  Ist,  78  65;  Plainfleld  1st,  88  76;  Roselle, 
6  96.  Jereev  City—Jenej  City  Claremont,  8:  Paterson 
Redeemer,  88  08.  Morrte  and  Orange— East  Orange 
Bethel,  14  04;  —  Brick  sab-sch,  41  80;  Orange  Hillside 
180  96;  Pleasant  Valley  German,  6.  JVetoarJI;- Newark 
9d,  81  48;  —  8d.  115  70;  —  Park,  18  88.  New  Brunewick- 
Dayton,  5  81 ;  Trenton,  5th  (including  sab-sch,  8  69),  18. 
West  Jer«ev— Atlantic  City  German  (including  sab^ch, 
1  70).  S.10;  Haddonfleld,  18  47;  May's  Landing,  5.    640  84 


Nkw  Msxioo.— .irixona-Sacatou  pima,  8. 


800 


New  York.- i426any-Albany  Stote  Street,  47  78;  Beth- 
lehem, 8;  Hamilton  Union,  5;  Northviile.  8  10;  Saratoga 
Springs  1st  sab-sch.  4.  B/tia^mfon- Preble,  8;  Smith- 
ville  Flats,  8;  Whitney's  Point.  8.  BrooMyn— Brooklyn 
Bethanv,  8.  Buffalo— Buttslo  Lafayette  St..  17  99  — 
Westminster,  86  b6.  Cayuoa— Auburn  8d,  14  18;  Aurora, 
20  28.  OoJumMa-Catskill,  41  55;  Hudson,  40;  Hunter, 
7.  (Teneva  — Ovid,  88  11;  Seneca  Falls.  45  50;  West 
Fayette,  8.  Hudson  —  Hopewell,  8  50;  Nyack,  18; 
West  Town,  6.  Lyon«— Lyons,  21.  iVdMati— Far  Rock- 
away,  17;  Huntington  Ist,  86  54.  New  York— "Sew 
York  Ist,  884  89:  —  Adams  Memorial.  5;  —  Bohe- 
mian. 5;  —  Brick,  455  40:  -  PhiUipe,  188  51.  Niaga- 
ra—BolXey,  68  cts.     North  TWrer— Newburgh  Calvary, 

15  88.  0<«eoo— Unadilla,  6  47.  i?ocAe«ter-Ogden,  8  47; 
Rochester  Westminster.  16.  St.  Lairrence— Hope  Chap- 
el, 8;  Watertown  Stone  Street,  18.  ^eu2>en— Arkpoit, 
1  08;  Oanasteo.  96.  5j/rac«ue— Maroellus,  7.  Uttcor- 
Alder  Creek  and  Forestport,  5;  Camden,  8.  Westcheeter 
— Peekskill  8d,  15  89.  1.510  88 

North  Dakota.— i^ryo— Elm  River,  4.  Pembina-  Gil- 
by.  8.  6  00 

Ohio.— Be{/^ontaine— Bellefontaine,  4  58.  Cincinnati 
—Bond  HiU,  8:  Cincinnati  8d.  5:  —7th.  84  48;  Williams- 
burgh,  8  75.  CJet-e/and— Cleveland  1st.  68  84;  —  Bolton 
Avenue  Cbap**l,  80:  — North  sab-sch,  10;  Northfleld.  4; 
North  Springfield,  1.  Co<«m6u#— Columbus  1st,  80.  Day- 
ton —  Piqua.  SO  05.  Mahoning  —  Youngstown.  84  98. 
ifarton— Delaware.  88.  JIaumee— Tontogony,  4  75.  St. 
ClairsviUe—Coai  Brook,  8  80.  ^fei<2>^ntnUe— Amsterdam, 
10;  New  Narrisburgh.  4;  Steubenville  8d,  18  08;  SUU  Fork, 
5.  ZanesvUle—iiU  Vernon,  16  70;  New  Concord,  8;  Nor- 
wich, 8.  871  86 

ORKQOV.—East  Oregon— Umatilla.  8.  PloWZand— Mount 
Tabor,  5.    R^Oiameffe— Brownsville.  8.  10  00 

Pbnnstlvania.— il2/eyAeny— Millvale.  4  51.  BlairsvUle 
—Johnstown,  19  98.  Buffer— All^heny,  1 ;  New  Salem, 
8;  North  Washington.  8:  Portersville,  H;  West  Sunbury, 
5  M).  Carlinle  —  Cbambersburgh  Falling  Spring,  80; 
Robert  Kennedy  Memorial,  1  88.  Chester— Onester  8d, 
80  86;  Clifton  Heights.  1  06:  Coatesville.  19  84:  Forks  of 
Brandy  wine.  18;  Oxford  8d,  50  cts  CZorion— Du  Bois, 
19  60;  Leatherwood.  5  68;  New  Bethlehem,  6  88.  J^rte— 
Belle  Valley.  8;  Sunville,  8:  Waterford  Park.  4;  Watts- 
burgh,  8:  Westminster,  4.  EFuntinodon- Shellsburgh,  8; 
Spring  Creek  7:  West  KlshacoqulDas.  8  Kittanning— 
HalUburgh,  87  80.  Lehigh— Allen  Township,  5;  Bethle- 
hem 1st,  6  11;  Mauch  Chunk.  28  81.  P^iOodeZpAto- Phil- 
adelphia 8d.  83  88;  —  Kensington  Ist.  86:  —  Northminster, 
40;  —  ZIon  German,  8.  Philadelphia  iVbr/A— Ashbourne, 
12;  Fox  Chase  Memorial,  9  80;  Roxberough,  5.  Pitte- 
5uro^— Bethany  sab-Pch,  8  11;  Pittsburgh  1st  sab-sch, 

16  15;  —  East  Liberty  (including  sab-sch,  88  58).  45  99;  — 
Homewood  Avenue.  6  ^9;  —  Shady  Side  (including  sab 
sch,  88),  108  50  i?ed«f one— Round  Hill,  5.  Shenango— 
Hopewell,  8  50.  IVVM^inpton— Cross  Roads.  5.  WeUaboro 
Wellsboro,  8  80.  ire«/min«fer— Leacock  (including  sab- 
sch,  78  cts),  17  72;  LitUe  Britain,  6;  SUteville,  7  08. 

687  98 

South  Dakota.— Cen^til  DaJto^a- Artesian,  5;  Brook- 
ings, 7  85;  Forestburgh,  2.  Southern  Z)afcofa— Brule  Co.. 
1st  Bohemian,  1:  Marion  Emmanuel  German  5.        20  85 

Tbnnbssbb.— (7ni<m— Eusebia,  2  18;  Madlsonville,  84 
cts.  8  08 

Texas.— ^brtfc  Tex<M— Jacksboro,  8;  Throckmorton, 
8  50.    TVini^— Dallas  Exposition  Park,  8;  Terrell,  5. 

18  60 

Utah.— femiaU— Idaho  Falls,  2  85.  CT^oA— American 
Fork,  8.  4  86 

WASHiNaTON.— TToUa  TToUa— Kamiah  1st,  8.  2  00 


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WisooHSDV.— La  CroMa— Greenwood  (sab-sch.  1),  8. 
JfodiMm-Beloit  Oennan  (sab-Bcb,  1),  8  86.  Milvaukee 
— Ottawa*  C9  cts.  TT^nnedaoo— Florence.  18  19;  Oxford, 
1  87.  88  00 

Total  from  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools $  4.109  S8 

OTHBR  OONTRIBUTIONS. 

•A  Friend,"  5;  **Ca8h/'  600;  "G.  F.  A.,"  88  80; 
E.  P.  Goodrich,  Ypeilanti,  Mich.,  8;  K.  a 
Huey.  Prinoerille,  lUs ,  26  cts.:  Mrs.  A.  J. 
NewelL  Central  City,  Neb.,  10;  C.  Penna.,  4; 
a  E.  Spilman,  Flora,  Ills.,  1;  Rer.  W.  L.  Tar- 
bet  and  wife.  80  cts.;  **W.  B.  J.,'*  176 748  66 

14,868  56 

mSOSLLANBOITS. 

Interest  on  Investments,  8,661  61;  Bills  Re- 
ceiTable,  86;  Plans,  15;  Premiums  of  Insur- 
ance. 868  87;  Sales  of  Book  of  Designs  No. 
6.  185 8,966  78 

LXOAOIBS. 

EsUte  of  John  G.  Beading,  1.900;  Estate  of 
Janel  Turner.  475:  Estate  of  Samuel  Wilson, 
50;Estateof  Mrs.  Mary  Woods,  658  14 8,077  14 

SPBOIAL  DONATIONS. 

lowA.— Dm  M<Hnea—h6  Boy,  6  65.  Fort  Dodge 
Rolfe  «d,  85;  —  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10;  Fonda,  10; 
Livermore  Bethel  sab-sch,  6  40.  Sioux  City— 
Sioux  City  1st  Y.  P.  ».  C.  E..  89  80;  —  Jr.  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  8  50.    Tra<«r/oo~Toledo8ab-bch,  1. 

Kansas.— Zximed— Hutchinson  Infant  Class,  10. 

Nbw  York.— iVew  Fork- New  York  West  End, 
18  69.    Boc^M^er— Bochester  Brick,  150. 


Oma— JfoAonina— Yoongstown  ssb-sch.  86. 
Miss  Jane  Elliott,  Prairie  City,  la.,  10;  Mrs. 
Laura  Mann,  Marion,  N.  Y.,1 


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Church  collections  and  other  contributions, 
April,  1898-Jahuary.  1894 884,689  14 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions, 
April,  1899-Januai7,  1898 87,960  80 

LOAN  FUND. 

Installment  on  Loan 105  00 

Interest. 587  50      648  58 


MANSE  FUND. 

Colorado.— Pu«6Ia— Canon  City  1st,  5. 
New  York.  — North  iJiver— Newburgh  Calva- 
ry.  8 8  00 

maCELLANKOUS. 

Installments  on  Loans 1,880  17 

Interest 89  80 

Premiums 84  50    1,888  87 

$1,891  87 

If  acknowledgement  of  any  remittance  is  not  found  in 
these  reports,  or  if  they  are  inaccurate  in  any  item, 
prompt  advice  should  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  giving  the  number  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 
absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date,  amount  and  form  of  re- 
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ATLAjmo.South  Florida— KiBBimmee,  5  80.  6  80 

BALTnioRS.—BaZ/tim>r«— Baltimore  Ist  sab-sch.  5;  — 

Boundary  Avenue  sab^ch  Missionary  Society,  8  88;  Elli- 

oott  City,  9  88.    New  Cattle— MiUord,  86  66;  Bed  Clay 

Creek,  7.    Waehington  Ct^— Washington  City  Ist,  8  68; 

—  Covenant,  10;  —  Westminster,  85.  94  88 
California.— Benicia—Vallejo  sab-sch,  8.   Loe  Angeles 

— Biverside  Calvary,  10.  San  Josi-Htm  Josd  2d,  10; 
Watsonville,  8  88.     Stockton— Woodbridge  Bethel,  7. 

83  88 

Catawba.— Cope  .F^eor- Wilmington  Chestnut  St.,  1. 

1  00 

Colorado.— BouZ(f«r—Timnath,  2.  Pu«Mo— Cafion  City 
(sab-sch,  8).  80;  Cucharas  Mexican,  89  cts.;  La  Luz,  8; 
Puebk)  1st,  8  47  ^  76 

Illinois.- /^toominyton— Bloomington  Sd,  75;  Chenoa, 
6  98;  Gibson  City.  15  82;  Piper  City,  11.  Oxiro— Flora,  5; 
Golconda,  8;  Nashville,  8.    C^ico^o- Chicago  1st.  84  66; 

—  4th  add*l,7;  Evanston  Ist,  82  95;  Hinsdale,  5  80;  New 
Hope,  18  60;  Wheeling  Zton,  4  76.  ifV««porf— Freeport 
1st,  85;  Galena  German,  5.  Peoria— Oneida,  8:  Prince- 
ville,  84  cts.  Schuyler— AnguMttL,  80;  Oquawka,  3;  Salem, 
German.  8;  Warsaw,  1  88.  SpWno/IeW— Bates,  8  51 ;  New 
BerUn,8  96;Pisgah,85cts.  ^69  84 

Indiana  —  Oaw/brdnn/to— CrawfordsviUe  1st,  18  90;  — 
Centre^S  87;  Delphi,  8  80;  Hazelrigg,  8;  Montezuma,  4. 
Fort  Wayne— Fort  Wayne  8d,  4  08.  Indianapolie  — 
Bloomington  Walnut  Street,  5  62.  Lqganeport— Brook- 
ston,  6;  South  Bend  1st,  25.  ifuncie— Hariford  City,  5. 
New  Albany— Bedtord,  7  06;  Madison  Ist,  7.  Vincennee 
—Brazil,  10;  Mount  Vernon,  8  75.  White  (rat«r— College 
Comer,  8.  147  01 

Indian  TKRRiTORT.—OArtoAoma— Beaver,  1.  1  00 

IowA.—Com<np— Brooks,  1;  Clarlnda,  15;  Nodaway,  1; 
Prairie  Chapel,  8.  Council  Bluffs—Qriswoid,  7  75.  Dee 
JVoinef— Indlanola,  4  17.  Dubuque  —  Dubuque  1st,  14. 
/otoo— Keokuk  Westminster,  8  57;  Lebanon,  1.  Iou>a  City 
Unity,  6.  60  49 

Kansas.- j^mporia— Big  Creek,  1;  Burlington,  5;  Em- 
poria 1st.  88  66;  Mount  Vernon,  5:  Oxford,  5;  Peabody, 
17;  WichiU  Oak  Street,  8.  Highland— AxteU  4  86; 
Bailey ville,  4;  Holton,  12  46;  Horton  1st,  0.  Ntotho— 
lola.  6;  Ottawa,  9  78.  0«&ome— Hays  City,  4  88.  Solo- 
mon-Beloit,  10.    Topeiba— Oak  Hill,  8.  185  26 

KBNTUOKT.—LottiffviZ/e— Louisville  4th,  4;  —  Central. 
88  80.  42  Sd 

Michigan.— F/int— Cass  City,  68  cts.;  Fenton,  6.  Mon- 
roe— Raisin,  2.  8  68 

IftiNNBSOTA.— i>uii«^/i— McNair  Memorial,  8.    Uankato 


Pipestone,  7;  Bedwood  Falls  add'l,  4.  Minneavolie— 
Minneapolis  1st,  15  08.  88  08 

Missouri. -JTanjoM  Of*y— Sharon,  4  82.  Pfatt«— Came- 
ron, 12;  Chillioothe,  8;  Mound  City  sab-sch,  2  45.  St, 
LouM— Emmanuel,  10;  St.  Louis  1st  (sab-sch,  18  80), 
60  84;  —  Memorial  Tabernacle,  8;  Zoar,  10.  White  River 
—Westminster,  8.  118  01 

NsBRASKA.—HcM^fHTs— Hastings  German,  8.  Kearney 
—Kearney  1st,  1;  Shelton,  6.  Nebraska  City— Hickman 
German,  1 1  50.    i^io6rara-Winnebago  Indian,  8.       89  50 

New  JmBSKY.—Elisabeth-CliDton/7  60:  Perth  Amboy, 
16  80;  Bahway  1st  German,  8;  Roselle,  4  86.  Jersey  City 
—3oTWiy  City  Claremont,  8.  ifonmottt^— Burlington,  16; 
Freehold,  80  15.  MorrU  and  Orange— East  Orange 
Bethel.  14  05;  Bockaway,  18  08.  ^eioarJb— Newark  8d, 
18  70;  —  Park,  5  87;  —  Boseville,  118  41.  New  Brunswick— 
Dayton,  8  85;  Trenton  6th  (sab-sch,  7 18),  17 11.  Newton^ 
Newton,  60;  Phillipsburgh  Westminster,  6;  Stanhope,  4. 
West  Jersey— CsMe  Island.  9  04;  May's  liandlng.  6.    SSI  87 

New  YoRE.— .dltony-Albany  8d,  7  91;  -  State  Street, 
89  88;  Bethlehem,  2;  Broadalbin,  1  06;  HamUton  Union, 
8;  Mayfleld  Central,  4  50;  Northampton,  8  29;  Saratoga 
Springs  1st  sab-sch,  2  50;  Tribe's  Hill,  4.  Binghamton— 
McGrawvUle,  5  87;  Preble,  8;  Smith viUe  Flats,  8;  Whit- 
ney's Point.  8.  Bo«ton-Newburyport  2d  Ladies'  Miss. 
Soc'y,  5.  BrooWyn— Brooklyn  Bethany,  8:  —  I>m7^ 
additional.  4.  BuifaJo— Buffalo  Lafayette  Street,  17  99; 
—  Westminster.  18  80.  Cayuga  -Auburn  1st  sab-sch.  60; 
Genoa  2d,  2;  Meridian,  4.  CAampiain— Blalone,  80  88. 
ColumWa— CatskiU,  16  65;  Hudson,  20.  G'enew-Canan- 
daigtia,  9  9H;  Geneva  1st.  25.  Hudaon—Haverstraw  Cen- 
tral, 81;  Middletown  2d,  88  06;  Bidgebury,  60  cts.;  West 
Town,  8.  Long  fttond-BridgeSwnpton,  84  84;  Sag 
Harbor,  8  25.  Lvon* -Junius,  2.  ^Tattau— Islip,  18. 
New  rorfc— New  York  5th  Avenue  additional.  5;  —  Har- 
lem, 87  87.  Mtepora-Albion,  10;  HoUey,  8  19.  North 
River-Highland  Falls  8  12;  Pine  Plains,  10.  Otsegp- 
Ceoperstown,  88  88;  Bichfleld  Springs,  8  68;  Unadilla. 
4  04.  Rochester-Uma,  9;  Ogden,  8  17;  Parma  Centre, 
8;  Bochester  Brick.  50.  St.  Lau>r«nce— Watertown  Stone 
Ptreet.  10.  Stcuben-Arkport,  64  cts.  Syrocu«e-Bald- 
winsvUle.  8  86;  MarceUus,  8.  TVoy- Caldwell.  5;  Troy8d 
(sab-sch,  6  18),  48  15;  -  Memorial,  8  81.  £*»co--Cam- 
den,  8;  Vernon  Centre,  1  48.  Westchester-Feekakm  2d, 
9  80.  Oil  ^ 

North  Dakota.— Foroo- GaJesburg.  8.  8  00 

Ohio  —A  t^«n/i— Deerfleld.  4 ;  McConnellsville,  8  BeUe- 
/oniame-BellefoDtaine,  2  66;  Urban  sab  sch,  8  45.  Cin- 
cinnati—Cincinnati  Walnut  Hills,  68.    Ciewtowl— aev^ 


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Jand  l8t,  39  65;  —  North  eab-sch,  10;  Northfleld.  5;  North  SourH  Dakota —Black  ffiZte-Whltewood,  2.   Central 

Sprinsfleld.  1.    ColumbuM- Columbus  Ist,  SO;  Scioto,  4.  Daikota -Fisadre&u  )id,  8  65.                                          6  65 

Dayton— Clifton,  18  S2:  Springfield  Ist,  68.    i^uron— San-  Tknnbssbb.— IZnton-Eusebia,  8;  Hebron,  6;  Madlson- 

dusky,  60  cts.    Irima— Flndlay  l»t,  86:  Mount  Jefferson,  ville,  68  cts.                                                                      7  68 

6.    ifoAoniTii/— Toungstown,  48  88.     Iforton— Delaware,  Tejlab.— North  Texaa—St,  Jo,  9  80.    Trinity— Albany t 

91;  Iberia,  S;  Kingston,  8  65.     Porttmouth-Eckmana-  6  96.    Dallas  Exposition  Park,  2.                                 18  85 

▼ille,  0  05.    St.  CkiTravUle—Coal  Brook,  4  80;  New  Athens,  VTAm—Utah-Byrum  Emmanuel,  8;  Nephi  Hunting- 

7;  Nottingham,  11  60;  Wheeling  VaUey,  8  17.    Steuben^  ton,  8.                                                                              6  W 

ville— Amsterdam,  80;  Hopedale,  4;  Island  Creek,  6  80;  Washington.— Puoet  Sound— Seattle  Ist,  88.          88  00 

New  Philadelphia,  10;  Steubenvilie  8d,  18  66;  Still  Fork,  6.  Wi8CX>nsin.— La   C<roM«— Greenwood   (sab  sch,   1).    4. 

Zdn«9o<i{«-BrownsTille,   8  24;   GranviUe  sab  sch,  4  86;  Ifadwon— Reedsburgh,  8.    Miltoauhee-OtU^wa,  48  cts. 

Mt.  Vernon,  10  45;  New  Concord,  8;  Norwich,  8.       464  88  irinn«6ayo-Oxfonr,  1  17.                                            7  60 

Oreoov.— East  Oreyon— Umatilla,  8.    Pbrttand— Port-  

Und  St.  John's,  1  10.    iratome^^e-Salem,  18.  17  10      Receipts  from  Churches  in  January $    8,080  68 

PsNNSTLVANiA.—^Ue{7Aeny— Allegheny  McClure  Avenue      Receipts  from  Sabbath-schools 880  87 

sab-sch.  7  85;  Glasgow.  1  85;  MlUvale,  4  68;  Sharpsburgh, 

8.    Bto<r«tnUe-Pamassus,15  81.  Btt<ter-Portersvilie,6.  lkoacy. 

grrS{SiM^S?o'f'k^g!!r^8^&?'#ir?Boftt;:  Et.Uof  Mr..M«7Wood.deo'd(N.t.).«l»M.        6B8  14 

wine,  14.     CtorKm  — Beech    Woods,  87  48;   Greenville,  refunded. 

10  17;  Penfleld,  5;  8cotchHill,l;Tyler8burgh,  1.    JS?rte—      Rev  W  H  HAnnum  68  68  00 

Cambridge.  8;  North  East,  8  66;  Suiville,  S.  Huntingdon      *^^'  ^'  H.Hannum,B8 oo  uu 

— West  Kiahacoquiilas,  6.  iTtttanntny-Saltsburgh,  10  68.  miscellaneous. 

Iioctotramna— Camptown,  8.     Le^ifl^— Bethlehem    Ist,  ,        »  tw  -xv  m  •!  i     m  ^    »«  — «ii  -mi-    k. 

6  11:  Easton  Tst,  82;  Mauch  Chunk,  11  48.    Northumber^  J»5«  ?  JJjrth,  Tallula.  Ill,  1 ;  Merrill,  Wis.,  6; 

lanJ-Bald  Eagle  a^d  Nittany,  8  67.    Philadelphia-Thil'  S**fc^'^l.^'X-  ^J'J'^'^?}^'J^'  ^^'i.^'  fe* 

adelphia    18^^50;  -  Bethesda,    88  80:  -  Gaston,    16  70.  Tarbet  and  wife,  60  cts.;  C.  Penna.,  2;  E.  P. 

Philadelphia  JVbrt^  -  Chestnut    Hill,    65;   Fox  Chase  Goodrich.  Mich.,  6 888  50 

Memorial,  6  80;  Manayimk,  85;  Overbrook,  41  66.    Pitta-  income  account. 

imrgJi— Bethel  SO;  Mount  OUve,  4;   Pittsburgh  1st  sab-  _.         _  .   .       ,  ...        _  .  .  .     ._,, .   ,-..  «;. 

sch,  88  86;  -  East  Liberty  (sab-sch,  88  52),  46  W;-  Home-  ^^  S"i?*®.c£'.?^"-  ^^«^^  ^^^^  ^•'  ^!         -ni  a9 

wood  Avenue, 4 70;  -  KnoxviUe,  6;  — Shady  Side  (sab-  860;.1862;  189  10 Wl  68 

sch,  47  60),  186  62;   Riverdale,  10.     ira«Ainpton— Cross  „  ^  ,         ,  ^   .    ,                                                     .  ^^  ,- 

Roads,  6;  Hooksto^,8  67;  West  Liberty,  5:  Wheeling      S^i*4^P?iP  J*°?*13:«n-VokV J'SS  2 

8d,  6,    fTc/faftoro-Elkland  and  Osceola,  1;  Knoxville.  8;      Total  receipts  from  April  20,  1888 88,808  46 

Wellsboro,  5  19.    WeMtminater—iiovait  Joy  (sab-sch,  1),  Jacob  Wilson,  Treaaurert 

88  68.                                                                             758  81  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia. 

RECEIPTS  FOB  COIiliEGES  AMD  ACADEMIES.  JAMUABT,  1804* 

Baltimore.— Baltimore— Baltimore  1st  sab-sch,  5;  — 
Boundary  Avenue  sab-sch  Miss.  Soc'y,  8  90;  —  Broad- 
way, 7;  —  Brown  Memorial  (sab-sch,  18  88),  144  88;  — 
Bethel,  6;  —  Plney  Creek,  6  48,  Waahington  City— 
Washhigton  aty  1st,  7  18;  —  6th,  21;  —  Westminster,  10. 

Sit  84 

California.— Sdn  FrancMco— Lebanon,  8  60  8  50 

Colorado.— BotiZder—Timnath,  8;  Pu«6{o— Pueblo  1st, 
4  17.  6  17 

Illinois.— Btoomtngton—BloomingtonSd,  185;  — Ch3- 
noa,  7  10;  Gibson  City  Ist,  14  87:  Minonk,  6.  Cairo— 
Goloondo,  8;  Murphysboro,  5:  Nashville,  2  80.    Chicago 

—Chicago  1st.  87;  —4th,  16;  —  Jefferson  Park,  86  96;       

Evanston  1st,  32  95.    i^ccpor^— Freeport  1st,  75.  Ottawa  PENN8YLVANLA.—Bia<r«v<W€— Johnstown,  10  61:  Pamas- 

— Grand  Ridge  1st,  7  80:  Oswego.  4  82.    Peorta— Prince-  sua,  16  80.    ^u^ter— Allegheny,  2;  Prospect,  8.    Cheater— 

▼ille,  17  19;  Prospect,  83;  Yates  City  1st,  5.    Rock  River  Bethany,  8;  Chest<>r  8d,  20  84:  Forks  of  Brandywine,  10; 

— Kewanee.  8.     S^c^uyZer— Oquawka,  1;  Warsaw,  190.  Honey  Brook,  5.    Ciarion— Leatherwood,  4  84;  New  Beth- 

iS^in9/I«i<i-PlBgab,  1  14.                                            422  68  lehem,  7  40;  Shiloh,  1.    i?rt«— Waterford  Park,  2;  West- 

lNDiANA.—Oaw/ord»in/te— Delphi,  10  76.    Fort  Wayne  minster,  6.    £'i<tonntno-Middle  Creek,  8;  Saltsbnrgh, 

—Ossian,  4  98;  Salem  Centre.  1.    /ndianapolit- Hope-  88  21.    Lacfcatoanno— Rushville.  4;  Ktevensville.  4;  Tunk- 

well,  12  29.    Looan«por£— Bethlehem,  8:  Concord,  2  70;  hannock,  12 10.  LeAigA— Bangor.  8 16;  Bethlehem  1st.  6 11; 

Lucerne,  8  40.    rincenne«-Brazil,  10;  Mt.  Vernon  1st,  Mauch  Chunk  Ist,  18  86.      PWtade/pfcwi— PhUadelphia 

8  40;  Petersburg,  4  20                                                   64  73  Calvary,  1;»  80.    Philadelphia  North-FoT  Chase  MemU, 

Indian  Territory.— C^ctow—Wheelock,  1.            1  00  6  20;  Germantown  Market  Square.  86  80.    Pittaburgh— 

lowA,—Dea  Moinea-ChAriton,  S  60;  Indianolo  1st,  4  20.  Duqueene,  6;  Edgewood.  14  11;  Pittsburgh  Ist  sab-sch,- 

7  70  15  81;  East  Liberty  (sab-sch,  83  52),  45  99;  Shady  Side 

Kansas— .BTmporia  — El  Paso,  8.      ^eo«^o— lola,   6.  (sab-sch.  19),  64  25;  Raccoon  (sab-sch.  4  47),  85  47.    Shen- 

Solomon— Beloit,  10.                                                     18  00  anfro— Little  Beaver.  1  67.    TFa«A»n9<on— Cross  Roads,  4; 

Kentuckt.— Loui«tnUe— Hopkinsville  1st,  2.             8  00  Mill  CJreek,  8;  Mount  Prospect,  11  50.    WeUaboro-IAk' 

HicBiQAV.—Petoakey—Petoekey.     18  68.      Saginato—  land  and  Osceola,  1;  Wellsboro,  6  28.     Weatminater— 

West  Bay  City  Covenant,  1.                                         14  68  Slateville.  6  74.                                                            685  98 

Missouri.— Oror/c-Mt.   Vernon,     1.      8t.    LouiaSt,  South  Dakota.— BIooA;  fli7l»— Whltewood,  8.            8  00 

Louis  1st,  88  75.    White  i2tver- Westminster,  6.        80  76  Tennessee.— CJnion— Madison vllle.  68  cts.;  New  Salem, 

Nebraska.— HitMfino«— Hastings  German,  1.  Nebraaka  1 ;  Spring  Place,  8.                                                          4  68 

0<l^— Blue  Springs.  6.                                                    6  00  Texas.— i^orf^  rea»x«— Gainesville  1st,  10.               10  00 

New  Jersey.— J&Jt«ai>€^^—Ro8elle,  6  S8.    Jersey  City—  Wisconsin.— J/adi«on—Reedsburgh,   8.     Miltoauhee— 

Jersey  Citv  Claremont,  2;  Passaic  1st  sab-sch,  4  77;  Pat-  Ottawa,  68  cts.    TFinne&o^o- Oxford,  1  40.                8  98 

erson  Redeemer,  68  89.     If onmout A— Forked  River,  1.  

.yeioarfc— Newark  8d,  10  07;  Park,  6  10.    New  Brunawick  Total  received  from  Churches  and  Sabbath- 

—Alexandria  1st,  7;  Dayton,  8  91;   HoUand,  6  66;   Mil-         schools $8,088  68 

ford,  17  86.    T^Teu^fon— Blairstown  (sab-sch,  9  61),  64  56;  personal. 

Oxford  1st,  6  10;  SUnhqpo,  8.                                    189  68  W.  R.  J.,  118  76;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife. 

New  Mexico.— Sanfe  J^— Las  Vegas  1st,  6  54.         5  64  Springfield,  Ills.,  80  cts.;  Rev.  H.  T.  Scholl, 

New  York.— .4/6anw-Albany  State  St.,  86  79;   HamU-  Big  FUts,  N.  Y.,  6;  E.  P.  Goodrich  YpsUanti, 

ton  Union,  8;  Menands  Bethany,  19  65:   New  Bethlehem,  Mich.,  6;  C  Penna.,  8;  Cash,  600;  A.  G.  PetU- 

8;  Saratoga  Springs  1st  sab-sch,  8.     B%nghamton—yih\t-         bone,  Chicago,  60 688  66 

ney*s  Point.  8.    Boston- Newburyport  Ist,  10.    Buffalo  

—Buffalo  Lafayette  St.,  18  50;  —  Westminster,  18  43;      Total  receipts  for  January,  1894 $8,778  17 

Silver  Creek,  4  40.    Cayugro— Auburn  2d,  6  11:   Aurora,       Previously  reported 88.689  76 

10  14.    CAamptain— Malone  1st,  80  88.    Colttmbto— CJats-  -^_- 

kill,  16  66;  Hudson,  80.    C7«netx»— Ovid,  11  68.    Hudaon—  Total  reoelpU  from  April  1st,  1898  to  February 

Monroe,  18  60;  West  Town,  8.    Lon^  J«lami— Sag  Har-  1st,  1894 $26,46198 

bor.   8  85.     Lyon*— Lyons,  85.    iVoMat*— Glen  Cove,  8;  C.  M.  Charnlet,  Treaaurer. 

WUtestono,  4.   JVewForii^New  York  Adams  Memorial,  P.  O.  Box  894,  Chicago,  His, 


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greo*  JW-KaltepeU,  5.  sab-Bch,  8  60;  PhlUIpsburg.  5  56: 
Helena  Centra]  Rab-sch,*  ».  74  5<{ 

.^^^•-^f^tings-kxiTOTB,,  R.  J.  HaU and  wife.  6; 
Axtei,  7  00;  Hastings  1st  sab  sch  Truth  HaU  Peking,  10: 
—  Oerman,  6.  JK>am«y-Big  Springs  sab-sch,*  15  «6; 
Broken  Bow  sab^sch,*  6  41;  Clontlbret,  8:  Iffii.  A.  J. 
Newell,  10  Nebraska  City -Blue  Springs.  67  86;  Goshen 
sab-sch,*  8;  Hickman  German.  80;  Lincoln  1st  Dr.  Links 
Class  native  teacher  in  China.  9;  Little  Salt,  8;  Palmvra 
?^^^'.  .^»  PUttsmouth  German.  6,  sab-sch.  6;  Utlca, 
4  40.  ^lodrara— Niobrara.  1 ;  Winnebago  Indian,  7.  Oma- 
Ao— Believne.  20,  sab-sch,*  5  60;  Tekamah  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
l*'i_       _  2S1  48 


16;  South  Orange  1st,  60;  Succasunna  sab-sch  for  Tehe- 
ran school.  60;  Wyoming.  4,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  for  temple  at 
Nain  Tsun.  10;  Vailsburgh  sab-sch,*  20.  Netoark—  Cald- 
well support  of  Mr  Lane,  150;  Lyon's  Farms.  60  82; 
Montclair  Int  "aid."  160;  —  Trinity,  100,  salary  of  A.  a 


New    Mexico.— ^Wz«na-8acaton     Pima,     10.     Rio 
&randeSocorro  Spanish  sab  »ch.*  6  06.  16  05 

New  York.— ^<6any— Albany  6th,  18,  sab-sch  Truth 
Hall  Peking.  15;  —  State  Stre«'t.  190  54.  sab  sch.  213  57; 
Ballston  8pa,  86  86:  Broadalbin,  2  25;  JefTerson,  CI  72; 
Mariaville,  11 ;  Mayfleld  Central,  9  84;  Menands  Bethany. 
62  67;  Rockwell  Falls.  Tib;  Saratoga  Springs  Ist  sab-sch, 
10  60;  8t#»phPntown,  4  50;  Tribe's  Hfll,  8;  VoorheesvUie 
sab-sch,  *  '4  16.  BMpAam ton— Binghamton  1st  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  F.  Edgerton,  18;—  1st  Immaouel  sab  sch,*  10;  Conk- 
lin,  10:  Nichols,  «0  71;  Pr«*ble.  2:  Waverly.  «l  01;  Whit- 
ney's Point,  6.  Bo«f on- Boston  St  Andrews.  11.— ^roofc- 
Iwn— Brooklyn  1st.  1,122;  —  Arlington  AvenuA  sab-sch,* 
25  87;  -  Bethany,  8  87;  —  Classon  Avenue  Y.  P  8  C.  E., 
8  60;  —  Friedenskirche.  19  29;  —  Lafayette  Avenue.  51ft; 
—  South  Sd  Street,  28  25-  —  Throop  Avenue.  168.  Buf" 
/aZo -Buffalo  Lafayette  Street,  184  24;—  Westminster, 
118  15;  Clarence,  5  10;  Sherman,  18;  Springville.*  7  64. 
Cayuga- Auburn  Ist,  848  07;  Aurora,  40  56;  Meridian.  22; 
Port  Byron,  18;  Scipiovilie  sab-sch,*  1  60.  Champlain 
— Malone  1st  Congregation,  80  84:  Port  Henry,  41  88. 
C/iemun(7— Big  Flats  sab-sch.*  15:  Elmira  1st,  5;  —  Lake 
Street,  50:  Monterey,  10;  Sugar  Hill.  16  85.  Columbia— 
Ashland.  5  18;  Catskill.  8  00,  sab-sch,*  24  80;  Durham 
lstsab-sch,*14  60;  Hillsdale,  14;  Hudson,  180;  Jewett 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  North,  50,  sab-sch.*  1  50.  Oen«see— North 
Bergen  sab-sch,  4  17;  Warsaw  68  78.  (?en«va— Pellona 
sab-flch  *  18;  Branchport  sab-sch,*  1  85;  Canandalgua, 
14  89,  sab-sch,  t5  66;  Geneva  Ist,  82  81:  Ovid  Y  P.  S  C. 
E  ,  28:  Penn  Yan.  67  01,  sab-sch,  14  89,  sab-sch,*  22  60; 
Romulus,  6H  25.  Hudion— Chester,  45  86;  Circleville,  K 
sab-sch,  7:  Goshen,  198  22;  Haverstraw  Central.  65.  sab- 
sch.  50;  Hopewell  Rev.  J.  S.  E.  Erskines,  10;  Livingston 
Manor,  6;  Middletown  2d,  69  89;  Mount  Hope.  7  10,  sab- 


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town.  9;  New  Philadelphia  sab  sch.*  6;  Oak  Ridge.  19; 
SteubenviUe  Ist,  86  97 ;  —  8d  sab-ich  *  10;  StUl  Fork,  7  50. 
Bab-sch,  Ui  60;  Toronto sabsch. 6  C7,  *24  19;  UrichsTiUe, 
21.  VFbo«ter- Ashland,  10  88;  Belleville,  4  61:  Freder- 
icksburffh,  62;  Hopewell,  26;  LoudonviUe  12  00;  Mans- 
field Bab  sch  for  Chefoo  Boy§  School.  100;  Orrvllle,  2. 
Zdne«vi/2e— Browniville,  18,  sab-ech,  88;  Clark,  16;  Han- 
over, 2  05;  Keene  Bab-sch,  10 ;  Mt.  Vernon,  09  07;  Mt. 
Zion  gab  sch.*  4  70;  New  CJoncord,  14;  Norwich,  18; 
UnitT  sab^h,*  2  80;  West  Carlisle,  4;  Zanesville  1st, 
114  78.  8.849  lO 


log,  16;  Mount  Pleasant.  82,  sabsch,*  10  81;  Newcastle 
«d  18  81;  Petersburgh,  6;  Bharon,  16  40;  SharpsviUe.  4  60; 
Weetfleld.  278,  Y.  P.  a  0.  E..  60.  Wa9Kington^-OoT6 
sab-sch.  22  20;  Cross  Roads,  25,  sab-sch,  22;  Fairvlew,  12; 
McMechen,  1 ;  Moundsville^7,  sab  sch,  11,  T.  P.  8.  C.  B.. 
10;  Washington  8d.  61  06;  West  Alexander,  104,  sab-sch,* 
10  22;  Wheeling  1st,  168  40,  A  Friend,  25,  sab-sch,  25;  — 
2d,  18  98.  fr«fl»6aro-KnoxvlUe,  1,  sab^h,  1.  Academy 
Comer  sab-sch,  I;  Mount  Jewett,  6:  Tioga.  18  88;  Wellsbo- 
PO,  84  24,  sab-sch,  48  88.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18  28.  WettminMter 
—Cedar  Grove,  17;  Chestnut  Level  sab-sch,  10  27;  Hope- 
well sab-sch,*  0;  Leacock,  5;  Little  BriUio.  15;  Slatevllle, 
20  83;  Strasburgh,  4  60,  sabsch,  15;  York  Ist  Y.  P. 8.  C. 
E.,5.  10.801  44 

South  Dakota.— Oah-oZ  i>aJtota-Brookings  sab-sch,* 
4  72;  Hitchcock,  6;  Huron,  42  44;  Woonsocket.  4  01. 
Dalwfa-Poplar  Creek  sab-sch.  1  77.  aouthem  Dakota— 
Brule  Co.  1st  Bohemian,  2;  Marion  Emmanuel  German,  8; 
Parkston,  18.  ,.  M  54 

T«iwES8E«.-flo«»fon-CollegeHlU*15;  Mount  Bethel 
sab-sch,*  11  40,  Y.  P  8.  C.  E..  0  47;  Mount  Olivet,  1  80; 
Tabernacle  sab-sch,*  5.  King$ton  —  Rockwood,  2  85. 
CTfiioa-Bethel  sab-sch,*  1  04;  Eusebia,  2  60;  Hebron,  12; 
MadisonviUe,  8  40;  Unitia,  2.  „  S?  ^ 

Texas.— ^t««n-8an  Antonia  Madison  Square  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.,  10  16.  North  r«ro#-Seymour.  1  60;  St.  Jo..  5  6t. 
Trinity-J>9X\BA  2d,  8  05,  sab-sch,  5  78;  Mary  Allen  Semi- 
nary sab-sch  *  20.  40  68 

Utah.— t/fofc-Amerlcan  Fork,*  4,  sab-sch,*  8;  Ephraim 
sab-sch,  8;  Hyrum  Emmanuel  sab-sch,  8;  Nephi,  6;  Smith- 
field  Central  8  80.  28  80 

Washington.— -<lto«Jlea— Fort  Wrangell,  0  25.  Otvmpia 
—Woodland.  8.  Puget  Sound— Mount  Pisgah,  8  10;  Seat- 
tle 1st,  IC.  Spo]tan«— Cortland  sab-sch,*  4;  Rathdrum,  6. 
WcMa  TTaUo-Kamiah  1st,  4.  85  85 

Wisconsin— CAippetoa- Ashland  1st,  20  60;  Bayfield 
sab-sch.*  6;  Hudson,  20  60.  La  Cro««e- Greenwood.  6; 
La  Crosse  1st,  15  SO.  sab-sch,  1  54;  Mauston  German  sab- 
sch,*  1  85;  New  Amsterdam,  12;  North  Bend.  18.  MadUon 
—Beloit  German,  4  0?,  sab-sch,  1;  Janesville,  20  88:  KU- 
boume  City,  10;  Lodi,  8  76.  sab-sch,*  8  90;  Madison  Christ. 
187  42:  Oregon,  8  tO;  Reedsburgh  sab  sch,  4  60.  Mil- 
foauitee-Beaver  Dam  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,*  8  50;  Milwaukee 
German  sab  sch,  7  62;  —  Holland.  18,  sab-sch,  6;  —  Im- 
manuel.  190  98.  for  a  student  in  Tokyo.  26;  —  Westminster 
sab  sch,  9  00,  Birthday,  1  85;  Ottawa,  2  87;  Waukesha 
sab-sch,  22  20,  *20.  FF^nn^bayo— Amberg,  4;  Badger.  76 
cts  ;  Merrill.  7  87;  Oconto  25,  sab-sch, 88  68;  Oxford,  7  71; 
Rural  27;  Sheridan.  1;  Stevens  Point  sab-sch,*  16  16.  Y. 
P.  8.  a  E.,  8  18;  Wausau  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  7  60.  745  M 

woman's  boasd. 

Woman's  Board  of  North  West.  8.900;  Woman's 
Board  of  New  York,  0,000;  Woman's  Board 
of  North  Pacific,  817  22;  Woman's  Board  of 
Northern  New  York,  2,000;  Woman's  Board 
of  Philadelphia,  5.490  48;  Woman's  Occi- 
dental Board,  1,125  58 $28,888 


Bethlehem.  40,  sab-sch,*  7  50;  Stroudsburg  sab-sch  for 
Ningpo.  12  62.  Northumherland-BemicV.  sabsch*  14; 
Bloomsburgh.  168  62;  Mahoning.  08  84.  sab-sch,  18  89; 
Muncy.  20.  sab-sch.  5;  New  Berlin.  23,  sab-sch.  7;  Renovo 
1st  sabsch.  21;  Sunbiiry.  40.  Parkersburgh- Tr^mch 
Creek.  10;  Hughes  River.  5  80;  Mannington  sab-sch,*  5  50. 
PAOadeZp/iio— Philadelphia  Ist.  1.904  91;  —  2d,  215  78;  — 
9th,  91 ;  —  Calvanr,  1.000;  —  Kensington  1st,  170;  —  Mc- 
Dowell Memorial,  24  75;  -  Tabernacle,  647  04;  —  West 
Hope,  15  58:  West  Spruce  Street  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  26;  — 
Woodland,  1.179  68:  —  Zion,  5.  Fhiladtlphia  North— 
Carversville,  1  18;  Conshohocken.  1  91.  sab-sch.  8  46,  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E..  4  88;  Doylestown.  47  42:  Fox  Chase  MemoriiU, 
24  46;  Frankford  Y.  P.  8  C.  E  .  8  80;  Germantown  1st, 
1.862  06;  Jenkintown  Grace.  17;  Lower  Providence.  41; 
Manavuak  sab-sch.*  78  58;  Neshamlny  of  Warwick  sab- 
sch, 6;  New  Hope,  16  91:  Norristown  1st  sab-sch,  215  28; 
Pottstown,  24  40,  sab-sch,  9  04;  Roxborough,  5.  Pitt»- 
frurpA— Bethany.  20;  Cannonsburgh  1st,  52  60,  salary  of 
native  worker,  60;  —  Central.  12  84;  Charleroi,  7;  Fair- 
view,  10;  FinleyviUe.  16  26;  Hebron  sab-sch.*  6;  Miller's 
Run,  18  60;  Mingo,  8;  Mount  Carmel,  5:  Mount  Pisgah 
sab-sch,*  9;  Oakmont  1st,  55;  Pittsburgh  1st,  1,000;  — 
8d,  811  40;  —  East  Liberty,  112  85,  sab-sch,  117  58.  Class 
No.  10. 10;  -  Shady  Side, 21 1  50.  sab  sch.  1 14.  Redttone— 
Dunbar,  29,  sab-sch.  11  50;  Dunlap's  Creek.  Mr.  Jeremiah 
Baird.  25;  Little  Redstone.  6  18;  McKeesport  Ist  sab-sch, 
68  79.*  6  01,  Htuart  Plan  sab-sch.  20  19:  Mount  Pleasant 
Reunion,  19  16;  Soottdale  sab-sch,*  20;  Smithfield,  2. 
fi^enan^o— Hermon  sab-sch,  9  80;  Leesburgh,  5;  Mahon- 


Bequest  of  J.  W.  Smiley,  deceased,  960;  Be- 
quest of  Mrs.  Christian  Phillips,  deceased, 
100;  Bequest  of  8.  D.  Dean,  deceased,  258  97; 
B«*quest  of  Eliza  J.  Bradley,  deceased,  24  72; 
Interest  on  bequest  of  Charles  Wright,  de- 
ceased, 76;  Bequest  of  Msjy  Woods,  deceased, 
290;  Bequest  of  Dani«*l  Cnapman,  deceased, 
466  88:  Bequest  of  Virgil  W.  Dunning,  de- 
ceased, 100;  Bequest  of  Mary  Woods,  de- 
ceased, 862  14;  Bequest  of  Patience  V.  New- 
comb,  deceased,  999;  Bequest  of  Robert 
Dickey,  deceased,  9  60;  Estate  of  MitchdU 
Annuity,  600; $6,062  71 

MISGXLLANBOTTS. 

G.  G.  Williams,  N.  Y.,  100;  "A  believer  in  Mis- 
sions," Pittsburgh,  salary,  G.  A.  Godduhn, 
200;  M.  W.  Laird  for  temple  at  Nain  Tsun,  2; 
Robert  Walker,  10;  Ellie  T.  Morris,  salary 
native  preacher.  40;  A.  G.  Agnew  for  temple 
at  Nain  Tsun,  26:  Cash.  N.  Y.,  6;From^*a 
friend,"  Maryland.  400:  Tithe  ofTering  from 
three  children,  1;  J.  J.  Janewav.  New  Bruns- 
wick, salary.  H.  M.  Lane.  1.500;  George  A. 
Strong,  N.  Y.,  50;  Andrew  Byers.  40  cts.; 
James  Rattray.  Reading  Centre,  N.  Y.,  5; 
**  Bell "  for  temple  at  Nain  Tsun,  20;  Rev.  J. 
W.  Boal  and  wife,  Centre  Hall,  Pa..  6;  K. 
Penna.,  100;  East  Bloomfield  Congregational 
Church  and  Soaety .  82  94 ;  "  One  who  wants 
to  help"  for  temple  at  Nain  Tsung,  100; 
A.  M.  Aahoraft,  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  support 


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of  Budhewa  Lingfa..  10;  Miss  Catharine  M. 
Eraser,  Fowler^ille,  N.  T.,  9;  Cash,  600;  W. 
U.  J.,  900;  Sam'l  W.  Brown,  Manavunk,  Pa., 
800;  John  H.  Oonyerse  for  hospital  at  Miraj« 
900:  *0a8h,  ^\  Missionary  Society,  Wooster 
University,  salary,  Henry  Forman,  60;  Mis- 
sions, 1;  Rev.  and  Mrs.  T.  N.  Palmer,  native 
Breacher  in  China,  S6;  Mrs.  Caroline  L.  S. 
tickson,  dec'd,  8  68;  Mrs.  J.  Livingston 
Taylor,  Cleveland,  O.,  1,000;  R.  T.  Smith, 
Cleveland,  O.,  100;  J.  L.  Rhea,  Knoxville, 
Tenn.,  for  Persia.  10 ;  W.  J.  McKnight,  Wash- 
ington, D.  a.  10;  Mrs.  Caleb  S.  Green,  Tren- 
ton, N.  J.,  800;  James  Frazer,  Baldwlnsville, 
N.  T.,  10;  Friends  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  N. 
Wright,  for  chapel  at  Salmas,  155  86;  Lucy 
Ouchton,  Hawl^,  Pa.,  temple  at  Nain  Tsun, 
6;  Mrs.  Ifary  E.  Schiveiy,  Phila.,  thank  ofTer- 
ing,  S5;  Miss  Ella  Mcllvary,  1;  Miss  M.  8. 
Rice  for  Persia,  1  60;  F.  H.  Andrews,  N.  Y., 
salary  of  Missionary.  20;  Miss  Addie  L. 
Foote,  Boulder,  Col.,  16;  A.  B.  Weaver,  Clear- 
field, Pa.,  760;  Ray  Cornell  for  temple  at 
Nain  Tsun,  1;  Family  Missionary  Jug  for 
1898.  itinerating  work  in  Siam,  15;  Wm. 
Adrianoe,  Poughkeepeie,  N.  T.,  10;  W.  F. 
Matthews,  Kansas  City,  Kans,  10;  Two 
friends  in  Iowa  for  work  in  China,  3  S6; 
Christmas  offering  to  Missions  from  a  friend. 


—IS,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  60; 
,  In  ■  "  ~ 


ind.,*6;  An  offer- 
i.."  26;  "  A  friend," 
"  Endeavorer,"  26; 
:?a8h.  200;  Marr  E. 
S.  Simonton,  Wash- 
lonton,  Washington, 
ter,  temple  at  Nain 
.,"  10;  *^M.  L.  R.," 
[.  L,  R.,"  for  Miss 
I.  Blackford.  80;  For 

scholarship  in  Huie  Kin's  school,  121;  **B. 

D.,"  1.000;  "Edwin,"  26;  Y.  M.  and  Y.  W.  C. 

A.  of   Parson's  College,    86;    Miss   Carrie 


Pierson,  for  R.  M.  Mateer's  Work,  12;  Rev.  J. 
V.  Shurts.*  10 :  Harah  C.  Shurts,*  16;  Geo.  8. 
WiU,  Jr.,  1  50;  Jno.  R.  Jones,  Terra  Alta,  W. 
Va.,  60;  Cornelia  U.  Halsey,  Newark,  N.  J., 
100;  Mrs.  H.  J.  Biddle,  100;  Isabella  and  D.  H. 

Wallace,    Pitts^ — "     "-^     "" 

Friends.*'  100;  ( 
friend,"  60;  Mi 
10;  »'8.  D.  H.," 
ton,  D.  C,  6;  J 
Rev.  Jno.  Bran 
India,  6 16;  "I 
Rev.  Wendell  Pi 
Ira  G.  Lane,  N. 
ville,IIls.,26cte 

40  61;  A.  D.  Be 
and  wife,  2  80 ; 
mington,  C,  10: 
N.  Y.,  2;  »'C. 
Utica,Pa.,  10:C 
"A  steward,"  2 

Geo.  F.  Bprague, « . 

son  and  wife.  2  60;  *'In  His  name."  60;  **  A 
friend,"  15;  L.  M.  Jones  and  wife,  Hanover, 
Mich.,  2  60;  E.  P.  Goodrich,  Ypsilanti,  Mich., 
88;  "X.  Y.  Z.,  20;  Mrs.  Luke  Borland,  Hot 
Springs,  N.  C,  10;  Pupils  in  Beirut  Semi- 
nary,* 8  76;  Mrs.  W.  E.  Dodge  and  D.  Stuart 
Dodge.*  227  26;  Rev.  George  8.  Hays,  Chsfoo, 
China,  24  28 $12,888  47 

Total  amount  received  during  January  1894. . . .    99,808  84 
Total  amount  received  from  May,  1892,  to  Jan- 
uary 81.  1898 468,609  62 

Total  amount  received  from  May  1898  to  Jan- 
uary 81,  1894 840,468  18 

William  Dullks.  Jr.,  IVeoMirer, 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  City. 

*  The  Mitchell  Memorial  Laos  Fund. 


RECEIPTS  FOR  FREEDM EN,  JANUARY,  1894. 


ATLAMTia—J^ir/IeZd— Ebeneser,  2  26;  Ladson  Chapel, 
2;  Sumpter  2d,  1.  iTnoa^Christ,  2.  McCleUand^hnr 
manuel,  2.  South  i^torido— Eustis,  15  67;  Kissimmee, 
8  60.  28  8S 

BALTiMOBB.—Ba{^imor«— Baltimore  Ist  sab-sch,  6;  — 
Boundary  Avenue  sab-sch,  2  82;  Fallston.  2.  Highland, 
1  60;  Taneytown.  16  94.  New  Coa/te —Manokin,  6;  New 
Castle  1st  sab-sch,  6  88.  Washington  C/fy— Washington 
City  1st,  7  18;  —  6th,  21 ;  —  Assembly,  18;  —  Westminster, 
10.  95  72 

Califobnia.— B«nicia— San  Rafael  (sab-sch.  2  76),  14  05; 
Two  Rocks,  9.  Los  i4n9«2e«— Glendale,  4  26;  Passadena 
1st,  28  40;  San  Bernardino  Ist,  8  60.  Oaikland— Berkeley 
1st,  6;  Livermore,  8.  San  FranciscoSAU  Francisco  Leb- 
anon, 2  60.    San  Jot^—lAX  Gates,  Y.  P.  H.  C.  E.,  5 

79  70 

Catawba.— Cape  J^or—Lilllngton,  1;  Simpson  Mission, 
2;  St.  Matthew,  2;  Wilmington  Chestnut  Street,  2  26; 
Williams  Chapel,  1.  Southern  Ftrgmto— Grace  C^pel, 
2.    FadMn-Mocksville  2d.  1.  1126 

Colorado.— fiou2d«r—Timnath,  2.  Z>«nver— Littleton, 
10.  Puefclo-Caflon  City  Ist  (sabsch,  8).  17;  Del  Norte. 
10  10;  Pueblo  Ist.  8  47.  42  67 

Illinois.— Bloomin{7^on—Bloomington  2d,  100;  Chenoa^ 
5  92;  Clinton,  11;  Fairbury,  8;  Piper  City  Ist,  13;  Waynes- 
viUe,  4.  Cairo— Nashville,  2;  Shawneetown,  6  67.  Chi- 
cago-ChlctLgo  1st.  61  65:  —  4th,  86;  -  6th,  104  97;  Wheol- 
ing  Zion,  2.  i^Veepor^— Freeport  1st,  25;  Galena  German. 
8  ifattooti— Chrisman,  2;  Edgar,  4;  Oakland,  2;  Tower 
Hill,  6;  Tuscola,  11  78;  Vandaila,  4.  Ottatoa—Au  Sable 
Grove,  10;  Grand  Ridge,  6  40;  Troy  Grove,  8  60.  Peoria 
— Altona,  2  60;  French  Grove,  1;  John  Knox,  8  20;  Lew- 
istown  sabsch.  80  67;  Oneida,  8;  Princevllle,  82  12;  Wash- 
ington, 6.  Bock  Atver— Ashton,  10;  Coal  Valley,  1  26; 
Franklin  Grove,  6;  Kewanee.  2;  Pleasant  Ridge.  40  cts. 
Schuyler—CarthSLge^  18  60;  Elvaston.  10;  Mount  Sterling 
1st,  21  46;  RushviUe,  9  21 ;  Salem  Gtorman,  1.  Springfield 
—Lincoln,  6  60 ;  Pisgah,  1  69.  58B  89 

Indiana.— Crau/ordtfviZIe—Crawfordsville  1st.  6  86;  Del- 
1^  8  80:  Frankfort  1st.  80;  Glen  Hall,  1 ;  Ronmey,  8  17. 
iFkfrt  ITayne— Elkhart,  10;  Fort  Wayne  1st,  62  71;  Osslan, 
4  16.  Jndianapolif— Southport,  7  88.  Loganeport— 
Michigan  Oitr,  12  80;  South  Bend  1st,  20;  Valparaiso,  4. 
Jfttncis— Anderson  1st,  10.  New  ilU>any— Bedford,  4  82; 
Hanover.  12  68;  Madison  Ist,  6  90;  Sharon  HilL  2.  Vin- 
csfinsf— Braill,  10;  Mount  vemon  Ist,  8  26;  Vtaioennes, 


11  riab-sch,  2  82),  18  82;  Worthington,  6.     White  Water 
—College  Comer,  2;  New  Castle,  9;  Shelbyville  1st,  18  66. 

26129 

Indian  TisRRiTORT.—C^ctau^— Beaver  Dam,  1;  Whee- 
lock  Freedmen  sab-sch,  1  40;  Choctaw  Presbytery  per 
Pittsburgh  Mission.  191  48.  iS^guoyo^— Nuyaka,  6.  Oklar 
Aomo— Oilckasha,  2.  201  88 

Iowa.— Cedar  i?apu2«— Cedar  Rapids  1st,  88  25.  Com- 
ing—Clarinda.  26.  Council  £/uif«— Atlantic.  6;  Council 
Bluffs  let.  14.  Dee  ifometf— Albia  1st,  7;  Chariton,  7  89; 
Derby.  2  40;  Humeston,  1  60;  Lucas,  2;  Panora,  8;  Prom- 
ise City.  2;  Seymour.  2.  Dudvoue— Dubuque  1st.  7. 
Fort  i)od(7e— Carroll.  6  60.  Jowa— Keokuk  Westminster, 
11  67;  Kossuth  1st.  4  56;  Wapella.  6  75.  lowi  City^ 
Columbus  Central.  2  22;  west  Branch,  4  87.  Sioux  Oity 
—Ida  Grove.  20.  TTa^ertoo— Ackley,  85:  Greene,  6  20; 
Salem,  7;  Tranquillity,  9 ;  Waterloo  1st,  22.  246  81 

Kansas.— £^poria— Eldorado  1st,  7;  Mulvane,  2;  Win- 
field,  10.  27to/iland— Axtel.  4  26;  Balleyville.  4;  Frank- 
fort, 4.  iVeoAAo- Lone  Elm.  1 ;  Miliken  Memorial,  8;  Otta- 
wa, 4  67;  Yates  Centre.  1st.  6  10.  0*&ome— Hays  City, 
4  67;  Long  Island.  8  51;  Rose  Valley.  2  40.  SoUmxm— 
Beloit.  10;  Union  1st,  2.  Topeka-OtiiL  Hill,  2;  Perry, 
8  69.  74  19 

KiBNTOCKY.—Jffbcneser— Paris  Ist.  6.  LouiwiUe—Bop- 
kinsville  Ist,  1  70;  Louisville  4th.  4;- Central,  21  60.    88  20 

MiCHioAN.—Detrott— Detroit  2d  Avenue  sab-sch,  80. 
177<n<-Brookfleld,  1  43;  Cass  City.  61  cts.;  Fraser.  1  68; 
Linden  1st,  8  60;  Mundy.  2  50;  Popple.  1  88.  Lake  Supo' 
Hot- Marquette  1st.  17  66.  Laneing  —  Marshall.  6  24. 
Saginaw— IthacA  Ist.  8  28;  West  Bay  City  Covenant,  2. 

74  68 

MiNNBSOTA.-ifanfcato -Redwood  Falls,  9;  Wells,  26. 
lfinn«apoIt«— Minneapolis  1st, 4  84:  —Bethlehem  (sab- 
sch, 4  88).  12;  —  Highland  Park.  12  84.  St.  PaiU-Oneka, 
60  cts  ;  St.  Paul  Dayton  Avenue,  25;  —  Westminster,  6  10; 
White  Bear,  1  60.  fTtnoTio— Chatfleld,  18  06;  LaCres- 
cent.  2  60;  Richland  Prairie,  1  40.  118  88 

Missouri.— ITaiMOtf  Ctty— Sedalia  Central,  8  66.  Ozark 
— Ebeneaser,  8;  Mount  vemon,  6;  Ozark  Prairie,  4  00. 
Palmyra  —  Moberly  1st,  8  48.  Platte  —  Avalon,  8  25; 
Marysville  1st,  12;  Savannah,  8  66.  St.  Louis- Emmanuel, 
10;  St.  Charles,  21:  St.  Louis  1st  (sab-sch,  12  80),  46  66; 
Webster  Grove  csab-sch,  6),  26.  White  River^ILot 
Springs,  6;  Westminster,  16.  166  80 

NsBiusKA.—HicMtings— Hastings  German,  8  00;  HoU 


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lentoD,  6  81;  Leatherwood,  8;  New  Bethlehem.  7  68; 
Punxsutawnej  Ist,  6  48;  Rockland,  %  25;  Scotch  HUl  1; 
Shlloh,  1:  Tylenborgh,  1.  £H»-Bradford  Ut.  1648;  Erie 
Park,  8;  Falrfleld,  S;  Fairriew,  4;  Jamestown,  Ist,  8  14: 
Mereer  M.  S6  TSrTideoute,  16;  TitusTiUe  1st,  61 55.  Hunt 
<ti0<i(m— Logan's  Vallej  (sab  sch.  4),  18;  Pine  Grore,  8 10: 
West  Kishaooquillas,  6.  Ktitanning^mAdi^  Creek,  8; 
Saltsburgh,  16  90;  Brader's  OroTe,  1;  West  Glsde  Ron, 
9  M.  Loclcaioanfui— Canton,  16;  Honesdale  Ist,  80  M; 
Monroeton.  6|  Wilkes  Barre  1st,  180  M;  —  Westminster, 
14.  L«M^^— Bangor,  6;  Easton  1st,  64;  Mauch  Chunk, 
16  79;  Bouth  Bethlebem  1st,  8.  Narthumberlamd-^^lil 
Eagle  and  Nittaqy,  4  87;  Hartleton,  7;  Mnncr,  8;  New 
Berlin,  11.  i%aadelf>Aia-Pbiladelphia  1st,  8b  58;  —  Co- 
hocksink  sab-sch,  8  80;  —  Hebron  Memorial,  5  10;  — 
Kensington  1st,  86;  —  Patterson  Memorial,  18;  —  Tabor. 
60  60;  —  Tioga.  80  60;  —  Zion  German,  S;  ~  West  Green 
Street.  41  64.  PlMIodelpAia  ^<>rf^- Fox  Chase  Memorial. 
6  90;  Germantown  8d,  189  46;  Jenkintown  Grace.  8;  Mount 
Aiiy,  4  46;  Newtown,  47;  Pottstown  (sab-sch.  8  4aQ.  14  60; 
Rozborough,  5;  Torresdale  Macalester  Memorial  8.  PiiU- 
frur^A— CannoBsburgh  1st,  5;  Edgewood,  1676;  McDonald 
1st.  89  86;  McKee's  Rocks,  10;  Manitfleld.  18  67;  Pittsburgh 
8d,  850;  —  East  Uberty  (sab-sch,  58  79).  114  96;  -  Shadjr 
Side  (sab-sch,  47  60).  185  68;  Sharon.  90;  Swissnde.  48  02; 
Valley.  8  58;  West  Elizabeth.  4  8%  Aed<(on«- Browns- 
yiUe,  8;  Union  Mission  Band  of  Wheeler,  15;  Laurel  Hill, 
85  85; Pleasant  Unity.  8.  Shenango  -Enon,  6;  Moravia,  8  75; 
New  Castle  8d,  8;  Unity,  16;  wampum,  8  45;  Westfleld 
(sab-sch.  98),  144.  H^iuiUnaton-Burgettstown  (sab  sch, 
18  70).  88  70:  Ooes  Roads,  5;  Wheeling  Sd,  5.  WeUabmo 
—Wellsboro,  5  19.  Wftmingter- Ceatn  (sab-sch.  8  GO), 
16  50.  8,506  78 

Txir]rB88EB.—£roIt<oi»— Mount  BetheL  8  10.  Unions— 
Hebron,  1 ;  Madisonyille,  58  eta.  New  Market  1st,  6 ;  New 
Providence,  1  50;  Shiloh,  5.  17  18 

TKLkB.^North  TedTCM— Seymour,  8  50.  8  50 

Utah.— CTtoA— American  Fork,  1  50:  Richfield,  5.     6  50 
WisHnroTON.— (Xympia— Tacoma  Calvary,  8.     Pu^et 
ftmnd— Seattle  1st.  10.  18  00 

Wi8cx>M8iN.—(^<ppetra— Baldwin,  5;  West  Superior,  5. 
La  Oosse— La  Crosse  1st,  8  68  (sab-sch,  1  50).  5  18. 
IfadMon— Lodi  1st,  9  90;  Reedsburgh,  8:  Verona.  4. 
JVUioaidbee— Beaver  Dam  Assembly.  8;  Ottawa  Ist,  48 
cts.    ir<nne6a^— Florence,  10  78;  Oxford,  1  17.       51  41 

Receipts  from  Churches  January,  1894 $   7,868  46 


Woman's  Executive  Committee.  4,489  74;  Wil- 
son Legacy,  Streator.  Dl..  50;  Cash,  Port- 
land, Oregon,  8;  T.  and  M.,  Chicago,  Dl..  9; 
Rev.  John  L.  Godfrey,  Pulaski.  Pa..  10:  Anna 
8.  CrattT,  Bellaire,  O.,  5;  *'  Friends  In  AiU- 
waukee/*  Wis.,  lit  "From  a  friend  "Beth* 
lefaem.  Pa.,  90;  Elizabeth  A.  (Cummins,  Bel- 
laire, O.,  80;  '»Cash,"  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.,  500; 
••Pisgah,"  8;  Rev.  a  W.  Wycoff.  Upper  St. 
Clair.  Pa.,  10;  Miss  Caroline  Van  Voorihas, 
CMskill,  N.  T.,  8  90;  Mrs  C.  C.  Cook,  Buffa- 
lo, N.  Y.,  5:  •'  M.  0.  O.,"  Frazeyabure.  O..  SO; 
Elam  Mead  Legacy,  McComb.  O.,  100;  S.  P. 
Harbison,  Allegheny,  Pa.,  MO;  M.  B.  Huey, 
PrincevUle,Ill  ,86  cts.{  Individual  at  Flat  Rock, 
lU..  4  10;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife.  Springs 
field,  ni..  1  90;  "a  Penna.,"  8:  Rev-lHiT. 
Bcholl,  Big  Flats,  N.  Y..  4;  A  Friend,  5;  B.  F. 
Felt.  Galena,  UK,  100;  E.  P.  Goodrich,  Ypsi- 
lanti,  Mich..  5;  A  friend  of  Galway  (^unoh, 
N.  Y.,  90;  Miss  M.  Campbell,  Mansfield,  O..  4; 
Prof.  R.  E.  WUder,  Greenfield.  lU.,  5;  Mrs. 
Isabella  Brown,  Cincinnati,  O.,  100 $   6,666  20 

DIRXOTS,  DBOKMBBR,  1898. 

Brainerd— 
Gtolden  Link  Band,  Charleroi,  Pa.,  10;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  S.  Marquis,  Jr.,  16 86  00 

Albion- 
Dr.  Burrell's  Church,  Brooklyn,  95;  Rev.  Prich- 
ard's,  Brooklyn,  95;  Rev.  R.  J.  Creeswell,  8. .  58  00 

OakHiU— 

Eldorado,8  50. 8  50 

Scotia  Seminary— 
Lagrange,  Ind ,  10;  J.  T.  Turner,  Iowa  City,  96; 
Second  Church  sab-sch.  Lafayette,  Ind.,  40; 
Miss  Anna  Anthony,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  5; 
Miss  Lizzie  Parr,  85;  Mrs.  M.  Misner,  Cedar 
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ScotU  Seminary- 


Cotton  Plant— 
Lockport,  N.  Y.,  1;  Sabbath-school,  Chester, 
Pa.,  SO;  Miscellaneous,  IS 48  00 

i      541  80 

Total  receipts  for  January,  1894 $  14,001  46 

ProTiously  reported 190,800  06 

Total  receipts  to  date $184,808  11 

John  J.  Bbaoom,  3Ve<Mwrer, 
297  80  616  Market  Street,  Pittobursr,  Pa. 


BE0EIPT9  FOB  HOME  MISSIONS,  JANUARY,  1894. 


Vallejo  (sabsch,  10),  40;  Rev.  O.  W.  Havs,  6.  Lo$ 
^iHrete*— Oarpenteria,  17  S6:  Cucamonga,  6:  Los  Angeles 
8d,  «5:  —  Grand  View,  8;  —  Welsh,  16-NewhaU,  6;  North 
Ontario,  16;  San  Diego,  89  06;  San  Fernando,  10;  San 
Gorgonia,  9.  OaJkianJ-Berkley  1st,  17  50;  DanviUe  T.  P. 
&  a  E.,  8  58;  Gtolden  Oate,  6 ;  Oakland  1st  add'l,  60 ;  — 
8d,  10.  San  Francisco— Qaa  Francisco  Franklin  Street, 
6.  Stockton— Bethel,  8 ;  Grayson,  6 ;  Tracy,  6.  806  48 
Oatawbi..— Catawba— Wadesboro,  50  cts.  0  50 

Colorado.— Moulder— Berthoud,  88 ;  Brush,  10;  Collins, 
1;  Ft.  Hteele,  4;  Holyoke,  80;  Rawlins,  86  01;  Saratoga. 
6  06;  Ttnmath,  8.  Dent^er— Akron  sab-sch.  8;  Black 
Hawk,  8;  Golden,  85.  &unni«on— Grand  Junction  (sab- 
sch,  4  96),  16.  Puedlo— Antonito,  8  40;  Bowen,  0;  Cafion 
City  (sab  soh,  4).  80:  Colorado  Springs  1st,  181  88;  Cucba- 
ras  Mexican,  1  ll;  El  Moro,  4;  Engle,  8 ;  Huerfano  Cafion, 

1  80;  La  Lux,  0;  Pueblo  1st,  80  84;  Rocky  Ford  sab-sch, 
8  60;  Trinidad  1st,  81  88.  461  91 

Illinois.— Alton— Carlyle,  6;  East  St.  Louis,  18  50; 
Whitehall  T.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  8.  Bfoomin^on— Chenoa, 
88  16;  Wenona,  17.  Cairo— Cairo,  7  76;  Metropolis,  8  06; 
Nashyille,  0;  Rev.  B.  C.  Swan,  5;  Mrs.  Clara  S.  Swan,  6; 
Miss  Augusta  D.  Swan,  6.  CAicaoo— Braidwood  T.  P.  8. 
a  E..  15|  Chicago  Ist,  91  57;  —  4th  additional,  481  68;  — 
8th,  181  48;  —  CampbeU  Park  T.  P.  S.  C.  E^  80;  —  Jef- 
ferson Park,  100;  ETanston  1st,  104  75;  Herscher,  10; 
Lake  Forest,  90:  Morgan  Park,  18  80;  Wheeling  Zion,  8. 
.FVeeport— Bemdere  Cuh-sch,  18)|  78;  Freeport  1st,  875; 
—  8d,  IS;  Galena  German  (sab-sch,  1^.  80;  Galena  South, 
97  87;  Hanover,  7  00;  Rockford  Westminster,  16  86. 
JTattootv— Efflngham  (T.  P.  &  C*  E.,  8),  5;  Kansas,  16; 
Marvin.  1  50;  Oakland  Mission  Band,0;  Pana,  80:  Pleas- 
ant Prairie,  18  60;  TaylorvUle^  10  80;  Tower  Hill,  80; 
Wahiut  Prairie,  1  50.  OMatMi— Earlville,  16:  MendoU 
and  sab-sch.  70;  Ottawa  1st,  00;  Paw  Paw  (Jr.T.P.S.C.E., 
an,  19;  Waltham  sab-sch,  4.  Psorio— Canton  Y.  P.  S.  O. 
E.,  6  87;  Crow  Meadow,  8  60;  Eureka  additional,  7;  John 
Knox,  8  00|  Low  Point,  10;  Peoria  1st,  08  88;  PrincevUle, 
77  88.  Rock  River— ButtaXo  Prairie,  8;  Edgington,  07; 
Morrison  (T.P.  S.  C.  E.,  11  88),  849  06;   Newton  sab-sch. 

2  76;  Princeton  T.  P.  S.  C.  E..  7  50;  Rock  Island  Broad- 
way, 77  80.  Schuyler— Augusta^  89;  Camp  Creek  sab- 
sch,  18;  Gk>od  Hope,  1;  fialem  German,  18.  Springfield— 
Petersbnrgh  sab-sch,  89  60;  Plsgah,  8  89;  Rev.  w.  L. 
Tarbet  and  wife,  8  40.  8,787  14 

Indiana.— Oraw/ordfvfZte— Frankfort  1st  sah«ch,  40. 
New  AI6any— Coiydon,  6  06.  Fifncenne*- EiVansville 
Wahiut  Street  Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  15.  00  06 

Indian  TxaBiTORT.—CA.octoio—Apeli,0;  Beaver  Dam, 
Ix  Lenox,  4;  Wheelock,  8.  OJUo^nui— Ardmore,  7  60; 
ruroeU,  6.  Se^uoyoA— Elm  Spring,  80;  Ni^aka,  10; 
Park  HiU,  80;  Rabbit  Trap,  6;  Red  Fork,  11  TT;  Tulsa 
8  66;  Wewoka.  1;  Rev.  A  D.  Jack  **  tithe.  *'  10.       181  88 

Iowa.— Cedar  /2apid«— Cedar  Rapids  8d  sab-sch,  16  07; 
Marion,  16  88;  Mount  Vernon  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5.  Cominff—' 
Anderson,  8;  Coming  Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  6:  Lenox  (Young 
People,  8),  85  97;  FlaUe  Centre.  8;  Prairie  Star,  7:  She- 
nandoah sab-sch,  6  88.  Oouncil  BZi^t— Adair  (sao-sch, 
6;  OoaiioilBliilb8d(sab-«)h, 6),  19;  Griswold,  9  ^ 


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148  M; ^ ItalUn, MtWlBdflor HlEui>or, 7|  Zion Qerman L. 
M.  8.,  8;  Zoar,  10.    WhiU  l^^twr— Westminster.  6.    867  91 

MoNTAKA.— Bt»«fe— DlUon,  8  75.  Hetena— Helena  Ist. 
40  U.  44  41 

Nbbbaska.— flflwMngt— Ohampion,  1  88;  Hastings  Qer- 
man,  5;  Lebanon,  6;  Wilson,  4.  feam«y— Ashton,  4; 
Burr  Oak,  4:  Clonttbret,  8;  OouA,  8;  Kearnej  Ist,  11  88; 
Mt.  OUvet«  1:  Wood  River.  11  89;  Mrs.  A.  J.  Newell,  10. 
Nebrcuka  Olfhf— Beatrioe  Ist,  7  15;  Barchard,  6;  Fair- 
biuy,  6  87;  Fairmont  (sab-sch  birthday  offering,  5  86), 
17;  Hickman  German.  80:  Lincoln  8d  Mr.  C.  B.  Schulse, 
1;  —  8d  (sab-sch,  8  87),  85;  Plattsmouth  Qerman  and 
Bsb-soh,  6;  Sawyer  (sab-sofa,  8),  5;  SterUng,  85;  Tecum- 
seh,  61.  i^todrora-OoIeridge,  6;  HartinKton,  10  60; 
Niobrara,  9;  Ponoa,  10  88;  St.  Jatnes.  8.  Omo^o— BeUe- 
▼ue,  80;  Fremont  1st,  (Mb-sch,  9  87),  88  47;  Omaha 
Southwest,  18;  —  Weetnilnster,  16;  PapiUion,  8  80. 

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P.  S.  0.  B..  5.  North  i2<«er— Amenia  South,  88  41 ;  Llord 
sab  sch.  10:  Marlborough  (J,  P.  S.  a  E..  5  75),  85  81; 
Pleasant  Valley.  8.  Of^e^o— Buel,  6;  OilbertsvUle  1st  sab- 
sch,  87;  Richfield  Springs  (sab-sc^  6  10).  88  04.  Boche*- 
for— ATon  Central,  18  46;  Fowlervllle  additional  8;  Hon- 
eoye  Falls  sab-sch,  11  68;  Mount  Morris  (sab-sch,  16),  19; 
Nunda,  49  50;  Ogden,  18  08;  Piffard,  1  60;  Rochester 
Brick,  198  60;  — Central,  880  66;  Webster,?.  St.  Law- 
rence— De  Kalb  Junction,  6;  Morrlstown,  11;  Saokett's 
Harbor  sab-sch,  8  81;  Waddington,  14;  Watertown  Stone 
Street,  84.     fitsuften— Addison  sab-sch,  9  77;  Angelica, 


New  MBxico.—ilrt«ona— Florence  (sab-sch,  8),  8;  Sac- 
aton  Pima,  80:  Winston,  7;  Rev.  I.  T.  Whittemore,  8. 
Rio  Grande— LordMhurg,  8  60;  Pi^Jarito,  8.  Santa  J^— 
Raton  Ist,  8;  SanU  F6  Ist,  16  46.  76  98 

Nkw  York.— ^tt>any-Albany  1st,  84  88.  —  8d,  68  98:  — 
8th,  88;  -  State  Street,  178  95;  -  West  End  (sab-sch,  10). 
45;  Esperanoe  8ab-sch„4:  Johnstown  Y.  P.  S  C.  E.,  8  80; 
Pine  Qrove,  6  40;  Saratoga  Springs  Ist  sab-sch,  16;  Tribe's 
H  ill,  8;  Two  Friends,  50.  Blnghamton^Bingh&mion  1st, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frankim  Bdgerton,  18;  — Ress  Memorial, 
15;  Conklin,  10;  Cortland.  116  88;  Nichols,  41,:  Waveriy, 
88;  Whitney's  Point,  6.  Bo«ton-Boeton  Ist,  78  89;  Fali 
River  Westminster,  10;  Windham  and  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
10  85.  BrooJayn  —  Brooklyn  Bethany,  4  50;  —  Classon 
Avenue  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  8  60;  —  Lafayette  Avenue  addi- 
tional, 48  88;  —  Throop  Avenue  (sab-sch  missionary 
Society,  50),  (Special,  100),  860;- West  minster  addU.  10  76. 
Buffalo  ^BuaBlo  Lafayette  Street,  1«)  87;  —  Westmin- 
ster, 118  78;  EUicottviUe,  10;  Sherman,  80.  Cayuga^ 
Auburn  1st  (sab^Bch,  150),  888  91 ;  —  8d,  87  45;  —  (jalvary 
Y.  P.  S.  0.  E  ,  10;  —  Central,  60  50:  —  Westminster  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E.,86  cts. ;  Aurora  sab  sch,  40  70;  (3enoa  8d,  7:  Port 
Bvron  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Sclpio,  4;  ScipioviUe,  5.  Cham- 
ptam— Brandon,  6  11;  Port  Henry  Ist,  40  88.  Chemung— 
Elmlra  1st,  10;  —  Lake  Street,  50;  Pine  Grove.  4;  Rock 


10 ;  Mt.  Vernon,  04  80 :  New  Concord,  10;  New  Leximirton 
4;  Norwich  18;  RoseviUe,  7  85;  Uniontown,  8  60;  Unity 
(Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  4  88),  18  68;  ZanesviUe  1st.  10.       8,986  01 

Orboon.— JEiut  Or«(7on— Monkland,  4  70;  Moro,  7:  Uma- 
tilla Indian,  10.  P)t>rt2and— Portland  8d,  80;  Sellwood 
(sab-sch,  2),  6.  Southern  Oregon— Medford,  10;  Rose- 
burg  1st  sab-sch,  8  45.  TTiUametee— Independence  Cal- 
vary, 85;  Yaquinna  Bay,  11  85.  07  60 

PManxsTLYAHUL.— Allegheny— AXie^henj  1st,  749  81 ; 
Beaver  M.  G.  M.,  10 ;  Freedom,  7;  Leetsdale  (sab-sch.  10), 
108  11;  MiUvale,  6  47;  Pine  Creek  1st,  7;  Sewickly  Sp., 
85;  Springdale.  9.  ^lairaviUe— Greensburgh  1st  ad- 
ditional, 80 ;  Johnstown,  45  71 ;  livermore,  4  41.  Butler 
—Butler  sab-sch,  91  88 ;  North  Butler,  6;  Plain  Grove, 
18;  Scrub  Grass  sab-sch,  18  65.  CaW<«te-Oarlisle  8d,  81; 
Uarrisburgh  Pine  Street  sab-sch  Senior  Department,  860. 
C^esfe/^-Cheeter  8d,  70  56 ;  CoatesviUe,  88  08;  Fagg's 
Manor  in  part,  60;  Fairview,  9:  Forks  of  Brandsrwine,  96. 
Media,  50.  Ciariora— Brookville,  89  98;  (Marion  additional 
1:  Punzsutawney.  85  10.  J^rie— Greenville,  87;  Pleasant- 
ville,  6;  Sunville.  8:  Westminster,  6.  Hiintinodon— Alex- 
andria, 54;  BeUefonte,  188  08:  Huntingdon,  148  10; 
JuniaU  sab-sch,  5  77;  Lost  Creek,  16  78:  West  Eishaco- 

Suillas,  58  85.  iTittann^ny- Kittanning  i  st,  146 ;  Srader's 
frove,  8  28.  LocJbatoanna— Mountain  Top.  6;  Pittston 
1st  (sab-sch,  16  18),  89  46 ;  Scranton  Washburn  Street, 
46 ;  Sugar  Notch,  6;  Towanda  1st  sab-sch,  160.  Lehigh— 
Allen  Township,  10;  Bethlehem  1st,  86  84;  Easton  1st,  70; 
Mauch  Chunk  1st,  77  11.  JVbrth«m5«rk>rul— Blooms- 
burgh  1st,  41  88 ;  Mahoning,  86  88;  Williamsport  8d  addi- 
tional, 80.  Parkereburgh  —  BetheA  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2; 
Parkersburgh  sab-sch,  8  05.  P!l^aadeij»^ia— Philadelphia 
1st,  1,870  76;-(}eatnaT.P.S.0.B.,  86;-Oohockdnk8d8t. 


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76  87 
TKXA8.-ilia»n-AustiB  iBt,  M;    El  Paso.  6.     North 

Temu.— Jacksboro,  10;  WichlU  Falls  Ist,  18  85.    THnity 

— Albanr,  18  81;  Dallas  Exposition  Park,  6;  TerreU  addi- 

tional.  50.  180  16 

Utah.— BoiM— NamiM,  5  45.    JTcndoU— Montpelier,  5; 

Paris,  10.    UfoA^Bphraim  sab-soh.  8;  Hjmim  Emman- 
uel, 8;  Richfield,  10;  Richmond,  1  60;  Smithfield  Central, 

8  85.  46  86 

Washington.— Olympio—Ilwaco,  5;  Stella,  10;  Tacoma 

Edison,   10.    P%Lg€i  ^ounci— EUensbiuvh,  7  86;  Seattle 

1st,  10;  Snohomish,  5;  Sumner,  7:  White  River  T.  P.  S. 

a  E.,  4.    9pokane-OaA\j  Memorial,  1  75;  Kettle  Falls, 

5  75:  Spokane  Westminster,  10.    WaUa  TTaUo— Kamiah 

Ist.  4.  70  86 

WisooNBDi.— C^ippetro— Bajfleld  10:  Chippewa  Falls 

1st,  16  06;   Rice  Lase,  10.     La  OrosM— Greenwood,  5; 

La  Crosse  1st  (sab-sch,  8  87),  28  68;  Kauston  Oerman 

(sab-sch.  %  50),  7  60.    Ifadifon— Beloit  1st,  80  08;  Mon- 
roe. 11 ;  Reedsburgh,  8.    MUwavkee^ AXto  Calvary,  10  08; 

Beaver  Dam  Assemblr,  6:  Milwaukee  Holland,  17  18;  — 

Westminster  sab-sch,  8  06;  Ottawa  1st.  8  61;  Waukesha 

sab-sch,  88  80.     Win'Mbago—Omro,   7  15;    Oxford,  7; 

Shawano  (sab-tfch,  5),  18;  Stevens  Point  1st  sab-sch,  5  80. 

80180 

Women*s  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mis- 
sion*  J5,0WIM  (  iB,C05  87 

Total  recM  from  Churches 70.848  66      Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  January, 

"^^^'^^  Total  received*  for  Home*MIwi<m8  from  Aprif  **'^**  ^ 

Legacy  of  Mrs.  Christian  PhUMps,  deed,  late  1st.  1808...........^ 468,088  88 

of  8alina,Kans..  100:  Elisa  J.  Bradley,  dec'd.  Amount  received  during  same  period  last  year.  500,481  88 

lateof  Syracuse. N.Y.,  84  78;  Samn  P. Dean,  ^  j.  Fa^i»  tv^^.*^ 

dec'd,  late  of  6strander.  O.,  858  07;  Mrs.  ^  ^     ,  ^'  ^'  *^~'''  IVewursr, 

Mary  J.  Woods,  dec'd,  late  of  Wheeling,  Box  L.,  Stotion  D.  58Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 

W.  va.,  890;  Caroline  L.  S.  Dickson,  dec'd, 

late  of  Scranton.  Pa.,  8  68;  Daniel  W.  Chap- ^_  _    _      

man,  decM,  late  of   Lansingburg,   N.   Y.,  RECEn»TS  FOR  N.  Y.  8YN0DICAL  AH)  FUND, 

466  88;  Hon.  Wm.  A.  Wheeler,  dec'd,  late  of  JANUARY.  1894. 

Malone,  N.  Y.,  additional,  18  54;  Dr.  D.  C.  u         ,   o«. 

Dewey,  dec'd,  late  of  Turin,  N.  Y.,  800;  Vir-  i 

SU  W.  DunniDg,  dec'd,  late  of  Wawayanda,  i 

.  Y.,  100;  An  Unknown  Friend,  New  York 
City,  ^  each,  Alaska  Indians  and  poor 
Whites,  69;  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Woods,  dec'd,  late 
of  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  868  14;  Jarsel  Turner, 
dec'd,  Ute  of  Morris  Co.,  N.  J.,  950;  Miss 
Rachel  Buck,  dec'd,  late  of  Ohio,  85;  Robert 
Dickey,  dec'd,  late  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa..  950; 
John  C.  Tucker,  dec*d,  late  of  New  York, 
8000;  Melancthon  Abbott,  dec'd,  late  of  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  898  09;  John  O.  Reading,  dec'd, 
late  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1,900;  Uhas. 
Wright,  deo*d,  interest,  19 9,114  87 

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iJprii, 


3Voy— Hoosiok  Falls,  18  07:  Tror  Oakland  ATenne,  10. 
Utica^Houih  Trenton,  8;  BedfleM,  8;  R«t.  J.  Burkhardt 
and  wife,  6. 
Total  raoeiTed  from  ohurchea $      866  81 

MUOSLLANBOUS. 

Rev.  Qeo.  Alexander.  D.D.,  Special 100  00 

Total  receiyed  for  New  Tone  Syoodical  Aid 

Fund,  January.  19H 766  88 

Total  received  for  New  York  Synodical  Aid 

Fund,  from  April  1, 1898 6,47160 

O.  D.  Eaton,  Treaturer^ 
Box  L,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOB  SUSTENTATION,  JANUARY,  18M 

OALiFORNiA.~^ocl;fon— Woodbridge  Bethel,  8.  8  00 

OoLORADO.—Puedfo— Pueblo  Ist,  60 

lLUXoiB,^Springfield—Fiagtth,  67  cts.;    Rev.  W.  L. 

Tarbet  and  wife,  40  oU.  07 


IRDIAHA.— ^ew  AXbam^f—^t.  Teraon,  t  86 

Iowa.— CSom<na— Prairie  Ghapal,  1  00 

Kaksas.— H^Mond— Hortonlst,  tOO 
UioaiaAX.—Saginaw^Wmt  Baj  Cltj  Oovonaat,   t  00 

UiaaovfRL—St.  LouU^Zoas^  1  08 

Tbvnbssbk.— Union— MadiBonrlUe,  11 

TxxA8.—^tMHn— Austin  1st,  10  00 

Wisconsin.— ifilicottibae— Ottawa  1st,  9  cts,;  WiiuM- 

6000— Oxford,  88  cts.  88 


Total  from  churches. . 


84  74 


mSCBLLAMKOnS, 


E.  p.  Goodrich.  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  1 ;  Interest  on 

Permanent  Fund,  88  76 88  75 

Total  for  Sustentation.  Januaij,  1894 04  tf 

Total  for  Sustentation  from  April,  1898 10,748  89 

O.  D.  Eaton,  TVecuursr, 
Box  L.,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOB  MINISTKKIAJL  BBUBF*  JANUARY,  1894. 


BALTiMOBB.—BoUimora— Baltimore  Ist  sab-sch,  86;  — 
Boundary  Avenue  S.  S.  Misslonarv  Society,  8  8d:  — 
Faith,  11  89;  Bel  Air,  11  86.  New  Ca$tle^n&d  CUy 
Creek,  9;  Wilmington  Central,  74  64.  Wa$Mngton  City 
— V7ashington  City  1st,  9  68;  —  Gunton  Temple  Mem% 
10* -.  Westminster,  26.  178  d 

OALuroRMiA.— £«n<cia— St.  Helena,  90;  Vallejo  sab-sch, 
8  9o.  Lot  AngeUs—OoroTULdo  Graham  Memorial,  18  90; 
Rivi*ra,  5  60;  Riverside  Calvary.  11 :  San  Diefro,  81  80. 
OoJUand— Berkeley  1st,  11  70;  North  Temeecal  King's 
Daughters,  6.    8an  Jo«^— W«tsonville,  7  68.  107  88 

Catawba.— Cope  .FWir— Wilmington  Chestnut  St.,  1. 

1  00 

Colorado.— Bouid«r—Tlmnatb,  8.  Af«Mo— Cafion  City 
(sab-sch.  8).  87;  Hastings,  4;  Pueblo  Ut,  6  86;  Trinidad 
1st,  10  91.  60  16 

Illinois.— ilZton— Greenville,  10.  Bloomington-^^e- 
noa,  10  66-  Piper  City.  8.  Cairo— Golconda,  8;  Nashville, 
4.  Shawneetown.  85  80.  O^icaoo- Chicago  Ist.  61  66;  — 
4th.  17;  EvaDsroH  1st,  89  64;  HighlaDd  Park,  28  68;  Wheel- 
ing Zion.  8.  i^re«poH— Freeport  Ist.  86;  Galena  German 
4.  Afaefoon— Kansas,  5;  Tower  Hill,  6.  Of  faioa— Grand 
Ridge,  6  40.  Pisorio— Oneida,  8  60;  Princeville.  86  cts. 
Rock  iSiner— Kewanee,  8.  ScAuy^er- Oquawlia  (sab-sch, 
4).  8i;  Quincy  1st,  7  85;  Salem  Gennan,  6.  apringneld— 
Pisgah;57cts.  ^886  74 

Indiana  —CratofardaviVe-'Deiphi,  16  14.  Fort  Wayne 
— Ossian.7  47;  Salem  Centre,  1.  Looan«porf— Lucerne, 
a  30.  Neto  Alhany—Bedtord,  0  85;  Mount  Vernon,  8  60. 
F^ncennM— Brasil,  10.  47  86 

Indian  TBRBrroBT.— CAoctow— Wheelock,  8.  Oklahoma 
—Beaver,  1.  8  00 


Wett  JerveyOape  Island, »  40: 
68b  79 


Iowa.— Cedar  iSapid*— Cedar  Rapids  8d,  88  64;  Rich- 
emd  Centre,  10;  Bpnngville,  4.  Cominy— Prairie  Chapel, 
8.    jDet  Afoin«« -Cmancon.  5  60.    2>u6ttoi«e— Dubuque  1st, 


10.  /mca— Keokuk  Westminster.  15  44;  Lebanon,  8;  Mount 
Pleasant  German,  9.  loioa  C^fy— Davenport  1st,  61  10; 
Union,  8  60.    Sioux  City^&tLC  aty,  5.  146  SS 

Kansas.  —  ITmooHa  —  Big  Creek,  1;  Burllogton,  6. 
Zxtrned— Spearville,  8  70.  iVeo«Ao— Ottawa,  6  88.  Osborne 
—Downs,  2.    Sdtomoii— Beloit,  10  88  68 

Kbhtdokt.  —  LouitviUe  —  Louisville  Central,  189  88; 
Owensboro  1st,  87  60.  817  88 

MiOBiOAN.—/)e<roi^— Detroit  Jefferson  Avenue,  815; 
Ifilford  sab-sch,  6.  Flint— Caa9  City,  94  cts.;  Lapeer, 
19  78.  Grand  Rapidt—Qrand  Rapids  1st,  17  80.  Saginaw 
—West  Bay  City  Covenant^.  860  08 

KiNNBSOTA.— JtfanJkato—WortbiDgton  'Westminster,  9. 
jrMneapoZi«— Minneapolis  1st,  86  64.  St.  Paul—Bt.  Paul 
ArUogton  Hills,  2;  —  Central,  18  79.  ITinono— Chat- 
field,  4  46.  65  89 

Mi880URi.—PiIaete— Bethel,  8;  ChUUcothe,  8;  Marys- 
ville  1st,  15.  St.  Loiiit— Nazareth  German,  5;  St.  Liouls 
Ist,  105  68;  Webster  Grove,  5;  Zion  German,  8.  White 
iStver— Westminster,  8.  146  68 

Nbbiiaska  —Hituttrio*— Hastings  German.  8.  Kearney 
—Kearney  1st,  8  40;  wood  River,  8  10.  Nebraska  Ctty— 
Hickman  German,  10.    JViodrara— Niobrara,  1.  89  50 

Nkw  jBR8CT.-iR<sa6«^A-Elizabeth  let.  174  90;  Rah- 
way  ist  German.  8;  Roeelle,  7  85  Jersey  Ct'tv— Jersey 
City  Claremont,  8;  Paa5»»c  4  78:  Rutherford  fst  88  18. 
Morris  and  Orange— Kabi  Orange  Bt^tbel.  28  62;  Orange 
1st  additional  100;  —  German,  10.  iVeuxirilr- Newark  )fd, 
60  24;  —  Park,  8  96.  New  Brunswick— DsLyton,  6  86; 
Trenton  6th  (sab-sch,  8  06;,  14;  —  Proq)ect  Street,  86. 


JVtfiofon— Stanhope,  4. 
May's  Landing,  lo. 
New  MBZioo.-Santo  Fi-UM  Veeas  Ist,  8  88.  8  82 
Nsw  ToRK.-i4I6any-Albany  8d,l0  61;  -  State  Street, 
68  68;  Bethlehem,  4;  Corinth,  1;  Hamilton  Union,  7; 
Mariaville,  7;  Saratoga  Springs  1st  (sab  sch,  4  60),  (R 
Day  Box,  7  46),  11  06;  Tribes  HilU  4.  BinghamUmr- 
Nineveh,  14  64;  Smithville  Flats,  8;  Whitney's  Point,  8. 
Brooiklyn— Brooklyn  Bethany,  8;  —  Duryea  additional, 
6;  —  South  8d  Street,  4.  Bt^ak>— Buffalo  Lafayette 
Street,  88  49;  —  Westminster,  84  91.  CMumMa-^Hud- 
son,  70.  <?eneix»-Canandaigua.  6  74;  Ovid.  84  08.  Hud- 
son—Haverstraw  Central,  80;  Ridgebury,  1;  West  Town, 
6.  Long  /stond— Sag  Harbor,  18  40.  Lyon*— Lyons.  88; 
Palmyra,  8  18.  iVoMau-Far  Rockaway,  18.  New  York 
—New  York  5th  Avenue,  50;  —  Adams  Memorial,  6;  — 
Harlem,  67  84;  —  Mount  Washington,  100.  Niagara^ 
Albion,  10;  Holley,  78  ets.:  Lewiston,  6.  North  River— 
Pleasant  VaUey,  8  68.  Otsego— Oneonta,  87:  Richfield 
Springs,  86  80.  Rochester— Ogden  8  91;  Sparta  8d, 
18  77.  St.  Laiorence— Wat  ertown  Stone  Street.  18.  Stett- 
ben— Arkport,  1  15;  Pultney,  8.  TVoy— Troy  Memorial, 
8.  CZMco— Camden,  8.  Weetchester—Yonkern  1st  sab- 
sch,  80  95.  740  09 
North  Dakota.— .FVif^o—Galesburg,  8  85.  8  85 
Ohio— £0(;e/ontaine-Bellefontaine,5  17.  ChiUieothe 
— (^ilUcethe  8d.  6  PO.  Cincinnati-Cincinnati  8d,  10;  — 
Central,  81  81;  -  Walnut  HUls.  41;  Milford.  8:  Wyoming 
sab-sch,  85.  Claoetond— Cleveland  1st  (Bolton  Avenue 
Chapal,  80),  89  77;  —  North  sab-sch,  10;  Northfleld.  4; 
North  Springfield,  8.  CoZumbiM— Columbus  1st,  50;  — 
8d,  10  60;  dcfoto,  8  60.  I>av<on -Clifton,  18  67;  Eaton, 
10  SO;  Springfl-%ld  1st,  60.  Huron— Sandusl^  1st,  86  cts. 
Lima  —  Findlay  8d,  8  50.  Mahoning  —  Toungstown, 
119  57.  Marion— Delaware,  86.  Jfaufnee— Tontogomy, 
8  76.  St.  CZair«viite— Coal  Brook,  4  74;  St.  ClairsviUe, 
15.  9tou6enviUe— Amsterdam,  10;  Hopedale,  8;  New 
Harrisburgh,  6;  Steubenville  8d.  15  88;  SUU  Fork,  6. 
iroo«t«r— Hopewell,  15.  ZanennUe— Brownsville,  11  68: 
Mt  Vernon,  18  80:  New  Concord,  8;  Norwich.  4.  841  69 
OaEOOV.—East  Oreaon— Umatilla,  5.  6  00 
PBNN8TLVANrA.—.<lUe9fceny— Allegheny  CentraL  8)  79; 
Fairmount,  8  80;  MiUvale,  8  08.  Blairnvilto-Blairsville, 
48:  Johnstown.  61  66.  Butler  -  AUegheny.  8  IS;  New 
Salem,  8;  North  Washington.  8.  Corritle— Harrisburgh 
Market  Square  (Macedonian  Band),  60:  Upper  Path  Val- 
ley, 4.  CA««ter-Chester  8d,  85  10;  CUfton  Heights,  8  45; 
Coatesville,  84  48;  Doe  Run,  9;  Fagg's  Blanor.  60;  Fortes 
of  Brandy  wine,  14.  Clarum  —  Leatherwood,  10:  New 
Bethlehem.  9  46  £rie-Belle  Valley.  8:  Kerr's  Hill  (sab. 
sch,  1),  5  97;  SunviUe,  8;  Waterford  Park,  8.  Huntingdon 
— Belief ont.  95;  West  Kishacoquillas.  6.  Kittanning 
— Saltsburgh,  16  97.  Locfeatoanno— Camptown,  8:  Har- 
mony, 16;  Mount  Pleasant,  8;  PitUton  Ist  (sab-sch.  14  68), 
20  90.  Lehigh-KBMon  1st,  59;  Hazleton,  81  74;  Reading 
Olivet,  80.  ATortfcttmAertond— Northumberland,  7.  Park- 
ersburgh— Terra,  Alta,  17.  Philadelphia— Vhi\tAet}pbia. 
lat,  878  89;  —  9th,  56;  —  Kenshigton  1st,  50;  —  Northern 
Liberties  1st.  15  50;  —  Patterson  Memorial,  4;  —  Taber- 
nacle additional  from  Ladies  Society.  80:  —  Tabor,  87. 
Philadelphia  North—CheaUiut  Hill  1st,  98;  Fox  Chase 
Memorial  9  80;  Germantown  8d.  891  88:  Manayunk,  86. 
Pittsburgh-Moimt  Olive,  8;  Pittsburgh  East  Liberty 
(sab  sch,  47  04),  84  49:  —  Homewood  Avenue,  4  89:  — 
Shady  Side  (sab-sch,  88),  106  60.    BscMons-Brownsville, 


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IS;    Dnnlap's  Greek,  7;   Behoboth,  7  60.     Shmango-  Brookhm,  N.  Y.,  1:  "A  Friend,"  BrooklTn, 

Volant,  S.     WaOUngUm-Ottm  Roads,  6.    WeOtboro—  N.  T.Vft;  ** Tithe/'  Centralia,  lU.,  16;  Bfaiy  F. 

WelUboro,  9  84.    ITMfmifw^cr-IitUeBritain,  7;  Moimt  Post,  Newburgh,  N.  T.,  10;   *«M.  P.  W.," 

Jot  (sab-sch,  1  60),  82  90:  BUtevlUe,  16.                 1,9H  84  PbUa.,  8;  John  D.  Thompson,  Los  Angeles. 

TBNNnsn.-Unfon— Madisonyllle,  Mcts.                  .04  OaL,  8,000;  Mrs.  SaUie  B.  Welsh,  Sayannah, 

Tms^B.-North  Texa»-8t.  Jo,  6.                               6  00  O.,  1;  Prof.  R.  E.  Wilder,  Oreenfleld,  UL,  6: 

Utah.— I7to^— Hyrum  Emmanuel,  8.                        8  00  **  Cash,*'  Chicago,  160;  Rer.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and 

WisooMBix.— La  ero«M— La  Crosse  Ist  (sab-sch,  1  60),  wife,  Pisgah,  nL  40  cts. ;  '*  C.  Penna. ,''  6;  **  A 

9  ai.    JfodiMm-Beloit  German  (sab-sch  1),  8  84;  Reeds-  Friend,''  10;  E.  P.  Goodrich,  Tpsilanti,  Mich., 

burgh,  8.     Milwaukee— Beai,ver  Dam  Assembly,  7;   Ot-  9 8,896  40 

tawa,  78  cts.    T^inne^a90— Oxford,  8  10.                  94  68  Interest  from  the  Permanent  Fund,  Including 

$800  from  the  Roger  Sherman  Fund 9,644  44 

From  the  ohurches  and  Sabbath-schools. $   1,498  60  Interest  from  the  Latta  Fund  (Synod  of  Ohio).          41  07 

FROM  iKDiviDUALs.  For  the  Current  Fuud $  18,876  80 

Rev.  J.  L.  Hawkins,  Fort  Scott,  Eas.,  15;  Mrs.  pkrmaskmt  Finro 

Jane  B.  WortA.  Tallula.  lU.,  1;  Anonymous,  ,/!^f  ^  ^^  n 

Merrill,  Wis..  6;  Charies  e!  Spilman.  Floral  (JnUreet  only  taed.) 

ni..  1;  *'J.  T.  H.,"  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  80;  Legacy  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Pratt,  ElmJra,N.  Y.....        900  00 

»'W.  R.  J..'»  11860;  "Cash,"  Brooklyn.  N.  Y..  

600;  "  Our  dear  Ured  workers,"  Washington,  Total  for  January,  1891 $  18.676  80 

D.  C,  1;  »»T.  &  M.."  Chicago,  W  60:  Mrs.  

Mary  D.  Riddle.  Phila.,  100;  Rer.  and  Mrs.  L.  Total  for  the  Current  Fund  since  April  1, 1808.  .$118,678  87 

F.  Brickels,  Aubumdale,  Wis.,  8;  Per  Walter  Total  for  the  Current  Fund  during  the  same 

M.  AIkman.NewYorkCity,  800;  Mrs.  A.  J.  period  last  year 181,810  44 

Newell.  Central  City,  Neb.,  lo;  feer.  W.  C.  -----,  tt^«,^„  tv.-^-,^^ 

Cattell,  D.D.,  60;  Mrs.  M.  ll  Roberts,  BrooK-  W-  ^-  Hkbbbton,  IVeoaursr, 

lyn,  N.  Y.,  60;  Miss  Marion  L.  Roberts,  1884  Chestnut  St.,  Phila.,  Pa. 

Rl&CEIPTS  FOR  SABBATH-SOHOOIi  WORK,  JANUARY,  18M* 

ATi.Aiina— JfcCleBan^f— Immanuel  sab-sck,  1.         1  00 

Baltimorx  —So/timore— Baltimore  1st.  1  60;  —  Boun- 
dary Avenue  sab-sch,  89  98:  —  Brown  Memorial  sab-sch, 
tH.  Waahington  Ctfly— Washington  City  1st,  6  70:  — 
4th  sab-sch,  6  90;  —  Westminster,  10.  79  06 

CAxaFosNiA.— ZxM  ^fHK^— Puadena  CalTarr  sab-sch, 
8  Oolpiaitd— LiTermore,  8.  San  ^Vancisco— tian  Fran- 
cisco Westminster,  80  46.    fiVodkfOM- Graysop,  8.      88  46 

Catawba.— (^ape  Fear— Wilmington  Chestnut  Street 
sab  sch.  8.  8  00 

Colorado.— Boii2<i«r—Timnath, 8.  Pue62o— CafionCity, 
8:  Cucharas  Mexican.  80  cts. ;  El  More.  8;  Engle,  17  88; 
La  Lus.  8  14;  Monte  Vista,  7  76:  Pueblo  1st,  8  06.       48  48 

Illuvois  — fiZoomingtoTt— Chraoa.  4  65;  Gibson  City, 
11  86.  C'airo-Frienddville  sab  sch.  1  66:  Nashville.  1  80; 
Wabash  sab-sch.  8  60.  CAtccmo  -  Chicago  Ist.  84  66;  — 
4ch.  9;  Evanscon  lat,  18  18:  Hinsdale.  8  41;  Lake  Forest, 
105  8S;  Libercyyille  sab-sch,  8  60;  Maywood.  16.  FV«e- 
port- Galena  German.  4  84.  M(ittooitr~To\9do  sab-sch, 
ft;  Tower  Hill.  7.  O^taioa-Oswego.  4.  Rock  River— 
Spring  Valley.  8  72;  Steriing.  41  66.  ^^ui^/er-Oquawka. 
3.    ^prtny/Ieid-Pisgah,  tSb  cts.  878  86 

Indiana.— Cra«;/orit«v<Ue— Dayton.  7  40:  Delphi.  6  68. 
Port  Wayrf—lFort  Wayne 8d,  6  86:  Osslan.  8  49.  Logan*- 
pori-Lake  Prairie  sab-sch,  7  81;  Michigan  City,  10. 
JTuncie— Liberty  sab-sch.  18.  JV«i«  ^/6any- Bethlehem 
sab-sch,  8;  Madi>ion  let  sab-sch,  81.  Ftncennea- Brazil 
sab-sch,  10:  Mount  Vernon,  8  80.  86  79 

Indian  TBRarroRT—CAoctaw- Bethel  Mission,  8  60; 
Pine  Ridge,  8;  San  Bois.  8  60:  WheeJock,  1.  8  00 

Iowa  —Comi/u/— Brooks.  I ;  Nodaway.  1 ;  Villisca  Jr. 
a  B.,  5.  CouncU  fiiii#t~Sharon  sab-sch,  90  cts. ;  Wood- 
bine sab  sch.  4  68.  Dee  Moinet— Chariton  sab  sch,  4  88. 
Fort  Dodge-OofOTk  Rapids,  8  60:  Dedham,  8;  RIppey  sab- 
sch  8.    /ouxK- K«H>kuk  Westminster.  6  14.  81  00 

Kansas  —iVeo«Ao -Paola,  80  01.  Solomon— Beloit,  18. 
TopeJra-Oak  flill.  1;  RUey  Centre  German,  8  70.       46  71 

KsNTDGKT. — Ebenezer—  Ashland  sab-  sch,  81  70.  Louia- 
vtUe-Hopklnsville  1st.  1  85.  88  96 

MicmoAN.  —  Detroit  —  Brighton,  8;  Stony  Creek,  7. 
Flint— Cass  City,  40  cts.;  Otter  Lake  sab-sch.  66  cts. 
Lake  Superior^Hewheny  sab-sch,  8  40.  Landing— Jack- 
son T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10.  88  85 

MiNNKsoTA  — Duiwe^— Bralnerd  C  E.  S.,  6.  Mankato— 
Redwood  Falls.  8;  Worthington  Westminster  sab-sch, 
6  06.  VinneapoZin— Minneapolis  1st.  8  04.  TFMona— 
Chatfleld,  6  71;  Washington,  7;  Winona  1st  sab-sch.  10  57. 

68  87 

Missouri.— fanstu  CVfy— Drezel  sab-sch,  6.  Ozark— 
Waldensian,  8  Platte— Vew  Point  sab  sch.  18.  8t.  Louie 
—Nazareth  German,  8;  St.  Louts  1st,  80  78;  Zion  German. 
8.     WKiU  l^iuer- Westminster.  6  60.  68  88 

Montana.— Helena— Helena  Central  sab-sch,  17  86. 

17  86 

Nebraska.— OmoAo— Fremont  sab-sch.  84  07.         84  07 

Nkw  JsRssT.— £Z/«a6et^— Rahway  1st  German,  1;  Ro- 
selle.8  61.  Jereey  City-Jeney  City  Claremont.  8:  Pat- 
erson  Redeemer,  67  07.  JfonmouM— Moorestown  sab-sch, 
6  61.  Morrie  and  Oranye— Hanover  C.  E.  S..  6;  Rucca- 
sunna  C.  E.,  10.  iVisiiNirAp— Moatclalr  Grace,  10;  Newark 
8d,  10  08;  -  Park,  8  65.    New  Brunewick-bijtou,  1  96;  6  80 


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Ttxnmsam.—Birminghmmr-'Pntt  City  Bab-sch,  8  87. 
Union-MadiwoTllle,  81  cts.  4  It 

TmxAB.^Narth  3V»a«— Jacksboro,  2;  SeTmour,  5. 

7  00 

Utah.— C7taA— American  Fork,  1  66;  Ephralm  Bab-soh, 
8.  4  66 

WASHiicoTON.^Oiympto— Chehalis  sab-ech,  2.  Spo- 
kane—Qnod  Ooaiee,  I  20.  8  90 

Wisconsin.— La  CroMe— Qraenwood  Csab-sch,  1),  8; 
La Croue  Ist  Csabsch,  90  02),  27  65.  Madi*on-ReedB- 
buTfch,  2.  IfUiraulcM— Ottawa,  26  eta.  Winn^tago— 
Oshkoah,  1 ;  Oxford,  70  eta.  84  61 

Total  from  Churches,  Januarr,  18M $  1.724  00 

Total  from  Sabbath-schools,  January,  1804 1,088  88 

Total  from  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools,  Jan- 
uar7,1894 $  2,812  88 

MISOSLLAinBOUS. 

~  —     -  111.,  1:  George  Bhuman, 

>rt  sao-sch,  lowa,  &  68; 
>uis,Mo,  2;  Riverside 
r.  J.  L.  Campbell.  New 
)ouglas,  Orange,  N.  J., 
Br,0.,  60cU.;^»Ca8h." 
loeoph  Dixon.  Bnirns- 
Ibution,''  1;  OoodJand 
thlehem  Chapel  C.  E., 
Emma  C.  Shepperson, 
[.  Ingersoll,  Hamburg, 


N.  T.,  10;  Anonymous,  1:  SolarvUle  sab-seh, 
Ohio,  1;  Scack  sab-sch,  Wyoming,  2;  Darrow 
sab^sch.  Wis.,  4  04;  Wm  Davis.  Ok.  Ty.,  1;  J. 
W.JEUwsen.  Mo..  1  10;  H.  B.  W.|l8on.  Ga..  60 
cts. ;  John  Roes,  Ind.  TV.,  1  60;  New  Kamilchie 
sab^sch.  Wash.,  1  80;  Callow  Dist.  sab-sch. 
Wash.,  2  15;  M.  A.  Stone,  UL.  25 cts.;  J.  G. 
Harris,  Va.,  2  13:  L.  J.  AUen.  W.  Va..  6;  C  K. 
PoweU.  Neb..  2  90;  R.  Mayers,  So.  Carolina. 

7  67;  J.  V.  N.  Hartness.  Mich..  1 ;  Halls  River 
sab-sch,  Fla.,  5;  F.  L.  Forbes,  Mich.,  2  28;  W. 
H.  Long.  N.  C.  1  98;  R.  F.  Sulser.  Minn., 

8  88;  Smith's  Ferry  sab-sch.  Pa..  1;  WUliam 
Sisson,  Brookfleld,  Mo..  1;  Rev.  J.  H.  At- 
kinson, WilsonvUle,  Pa.,  1;  Robt.  F.  Mo- 
Clean,  Muncy,  Pa.,  8:  Whitehall  sab-sch.  Va., 
6;  Manchester  sab-sch.  Pa..  2  28;  Clarks  sab- 
sch,  Pa .  1  66;  Banister  HUl  sab-sch,  1  40; 
Htony  Nut  sab-sch.  Pa..  70  cts.;  '*C.  Penna.,'^ 
U  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  60  cts.;  A 
Friend,  6:  E.  P.  Goodrich,  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  8; 
Jos.  C.  PUtt,  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  26 


662  00 


Total  receipts  for  January,  1894 $  8.476  82 

Amount  previously  acknowledged 81.607  86 

Total  contributions  since  April  1st,  1898. $86^078  17 

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0BA16  HALL,  GREENEYHJJ:  AND  TUSCULUM  COLLEGE. 

We  are  glad  to  find  room  here  for  this  picture,  for  which  there  was  not  room  on  pages 
826-7;  and  also  for  the  following  note  from  President  Moore,  which  was  reoeived  after  those 
pages  had  been  filled  and  prepared  to  go  to  press. 

In  February,  Rev.  E.  A.  Elmore,  D.D.,  of  Knoxville,  was  with  us  in  a  precious  meeting  of 
twelve  days.  Many  of  the  studenU  were  led  to  take  a  stand  for  Christ  All  the  youn^  women 
in  school^and  about  three  fourths  of  the  young  men  aro^on  the  Lord's  side. 


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THE  CLERKS. 

8ta)ed  Clerk  and  2Veo««rer— Rer.  William  H, 
Roberts,  D.  D.,1187  Bo.  48th  Street,  Wert  Phila- 
delphia. 

Permanent  Clerk— Roy,  William  E.  Moore,  D.  D., 
Columbus,  O. 


THE  TRUSTEES. 

President — George  Junkia,  Esq. 
Treasurer—Frank  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street. 
Recording  Secretary— Jacob  Wilson. 

Office— Publication    House,  Na     1834    Chestnut 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


THE  BOARDS. 


a. 


HOME  niSSIONS,  SUSTENTATION. 

Corresponding  Secretaries— "Rer,  William  C.  Roberts,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  Duncan  J.  McMillan,  D.  D. 
2V«<wurer— Oliver  D.  Eaton. 
Recording  Secretary— Oscea^  E.  Boyd. 

Officb— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  missionary  appointments  and  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

Letters  relatins^  to  the  financial  affairs  of  the  Board,  containing  remittances  of  money  or 
requests  for  reduced  railroad  rates,  should  be  addressed  to  mr.  O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Applications  for  aid  from  churches  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  £.  Boyd,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

Applications  of  Teachers,  and  letters  relating  to  the  School  Depcirtment,  should  be  addressed 
to  Rev.  G.  F.  MoAfbk,  buperbtendent. 

Correspondence  of  Young  People^s  Societies  and  Sabbath-schools  should  be  addressed  to  Rev. 
Thornton  B.  Penfield. 
FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

Secretary  EmeritiLs—'ReY,  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D, 
Corremonding  Secretaries— RtY,  Frank  F.  Ellinwood,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D.;  and  Mr, 

Robert  B.  Speer.  Reeording  Snoretary—Bar.  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D. 
Treasurer — William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq* 

Field  Secretary— B;ev,  Thomas  Marshall,  D.  D.,  48  McCormick  Block,  Chicago,  IlL 
OFFiCB^Presbyterian  House,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  the  missions  or  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries.  Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing  remittances  of 
money,  should  be  sent  to  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq.,  Treasurer, 

dertificates  of  honorary  membership  are  given  on  receipt  of  $30,  and  of  honorary  directorship 
on  receipt  of  $100. 

Persons  sending  packages  for  shipment  to  missionaries  should  state  the  contents  and  value.  There 
are  no  specified  days  for  shipping  g^oods.  Send  packages  to  the  Mission  House  as  soon  as  they  are 
ready.  Address  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue.  New 
York,N.Y. 

The  postage  on  letters  to  all  our  mission  stations,  except  those  in  Mexico,  is  5  cents  per  each  half 
ounce  or  fraction  thereof.    Mexico,  2  cents  per  half  ounce. 

EDUCATION. 

Corresponding  Seeretary^'ReY.  Edward  B.  Hodge,  D.  D. 
2Vea«urer— Jacob  Wilson. 

Office— Publication  House,  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH -SCHOOL  WORK. 

Secretary— ReY,  Elijah  R.  Craven,  D.  D. 

Superintendent  of  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  Work—BsY.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D. 

Editorial  SupeHntendent^ReY.  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Business  Superintendent— John  H.  Scribner. 

ifanu/octurer— John  A.  Black. 

IV«a*urc»^Rev.  C.  T  McMuUin. 

Publication  Housb-  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Letters  relative  to  the  general  interests  of  the  Board,  also  all  manuscripts  offered  for  publication 
and  communications  relative  thereto,  excepting  those  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books  and  the 
periodicals,  should  be  addressed  to  the  Rev.  E.  R.  Craven,  D.  D.,  Secretary. 

Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  reports,  letters  relating  to  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  work,  to 
grants  of  the  Board*s  publications,  to  the  appointment  of  Sabbath-school  missionaries,  and  reports, 
orders  and  other  communications  of  these  missionaries,  to  the  Rev.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D.,  Super- 
intendent  of  Sabbath-School  and  Missionary  Work.  ^ 

All  manuscripts  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books,  also  all  matter  offered  for  the  Westminster 
Teacher  and  the  other  periodicals,  and  all  letters  concerning  the  same,  to  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Miller, 
D.  D.,  Editorial  Superintendent. 

Business  correspondence  and  orders  for  books  and  periodicals,  except  from  Sabbath-school  mia 
donaries.  to  John  H.  Scribner,  Business  Superintendent. 

Remittances  of  money  and  contributions  to  the  Rev.  C.  T.  MoMullin  Treasurer, 

.  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— ReY.  Erskine  N.  White,  D.  D. 
JVfasurer— Adam  Campbell. 

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Corresponding  Seeretary^TLeiy.  WnUun  O.  Cattell,  D.  D. 
Reooraing  Secretary  and  Trecuurer—Bev.  WiUiam  W.  Heberton. 

Offios— Pablication  House,  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Fik 

y.  FREEDMEN. 

President^IieY,  Henry  T.  McClelland,  D.  D. 
Vice-Prendent— Bat,  David  8.  Kennedy. 
Recording  Secretary— Rev,  Samuel  J.  Fisber,  D.  D, 
Corresponding  Secretary—'ReY,  Edward  P.  Cowan,  D,  D 
Treasurer— Bj&y.  John  J.  Beaoom,  D.  D. 

Office-516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Field  Secretary— BkY,  Henry  N.  Payne,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  GNl 

8.  AID  FOR  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEHIES. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Bmy.  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.  D. 
2Vea<urer— Charles  M.  Chamley,  P.  O.  Box  294,  Chicago,  HI. 

Orncis— Boom  28,  Montauk  Block,  No  115  Monroe  Street,  Chicago^  HL 


PERMANENT  COMMITTEES. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SYSTETIATIC  BENEFICENCE. 

CAatrmaji— Rev.  Rufus  S.  Oreen,  D.  D.j^lmira  College,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
iS^eretary— Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer,  fi6  Wall  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

C^irmati— Rer.  John  J.  Beacom,  516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Corresponding  Secretary-Key,  John  F.  Hill,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Recording  Secretary— Bey.  Joseph  B.  Turner,  Glenshaw,  Pa. 
Treasurer— Bey.  James  Allison,  D  D.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

President— Bey.  W.  C.  Cattell,  D.  D.,  Philadelphia. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Bey.  W.  L.  Led  with. 
Treasurer— VeB.  K.  Ludwig,  8800  Locust  Street,  Philadelphia. 
Library  and  Museum— I22d  Race  Street,  Philadelphia. 


TREASURERS  OP  SYNODICAL  HOflE  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTENTATION. 

New  Jersey— Elmer  Ewing  Green,  P.  O.  Box  183.  Trenton,  N,  J. 
New  York—0.  D.  Eaton,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Pennsylvania-Frank  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  PiL 
Baltimore— D.  C.  Ammidon,  81  South  Frederick  Street,  Baltimore,  lid. 


BEQUESTS  OR  DEVISES. 

In  the  preparation  of  Wills  care  should  be  taken  to  insert  the  Corporate  Name,  at  known  and  reoof^ 
nixed  in  the  Courts  of  Law.    Requests  or  Devises  for  the 

General  Astemblv  should  be  made  to  '*  The  Trustees  of  the  General  Assemblj  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  Uuited  States  of  America.** 

Board  of  Home  Missions,— to  **  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  incorporated  April  19, 1872,  by  Act  of  the  IiOgislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Foreign  flisslons,— to  '*  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  In  the 
United  SUtes  of  America.*' 

Board  of  Church  Erection,-  to** The  Board  of  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Incorporated  March  27, 1871,  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  SUte  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Pabllcatlon  and  Sabbath-school  Work,  to  **The  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Pabli^ 
cation  and  Sabbath-school  Work.** 

Board  of  Educatlon.—to  **  The  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States 
of  America.** 

Board  of  Relief.— to  *'The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Ministers  and  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  Deceased  Ministers.** 

Board  for  Preedmen.^to  **  The  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States  of  America.** 

Board  of  Aids  for  Colleges,~to  **  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Academies.** 

Sustentatlon  is  not  incorporated.  Bequests  or  Deyises  intended  for  this  object  should  be  made  to  *'  The 
Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  tbe  United  Stateu  of  America,  incorporated  Apffl 
19,  1872,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York, /or  Sustentation.'^ 

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MAY,    1894. 


CONTENTS. 

Church  Work  and  Church  Growth.     Editorial, 883 

Editorial  Notes, 867 

Italian  Village  Embracing  Protestantism. — *'A  Peaceful  Revolution,"  ^^'. -r^/^.rfl«(/^r 

Robertson,  Venice, 368 

PORBION  niSSIONS. 

Notes,— Student  Volunteer  International  Convention — Dr.  Lyman's  Sermon  Before  A.  B. 
O.  F.  M. — Morgan  Lectures  by  Dr.  Ellinwood— Annual  Report  of  Canton  Mission — 
Dr.  Machle's  Tour  in  Interior  of  China — Mission  Library  of  Yale  University— Brit- 
ish Medical  Missionaries— Missionary  Calendar 371-878 

Life  at  a  Korean  Outpost,  Rev.  S.  A,  Moffett, 873 

New  Year's  Outlook  in  India,  5. //'.AV/^^,/?./? 375 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Siam  and  Laos  Missions— Notes— Missionary  Exploration  in  Lower 
Siam,  Eugene  P.  Dunlap,  D,  Z>.— Pillar  of  Cloud  in  Laos,  A  Story  of  Providential 
Interpositions,  Daniel  McGilvary,  ZP.Z>.— Shall  We  Take  Laos?^^.  W,  C.  Dodd— 
Harvest  in  Laos,/.  IV.  McKean,  i^./?.— Medical  Work  at  Chieng-Mai, /.  W,  Mc- 
Kean,  M.D,, 377-394 

tforiE  nissiONs. 

Note5.— Church  at  Corinne,  Utah,  Demolished  by  Storm— Giris  in  Tahlequah  School  All 
Christians,  Except  One— Romanist  Family  United  With  Our  Church  at  Raton, 
N.  M. — Old  Gkrman  Woman  on  Extemporaneous  Preaching — Large  Accessions  to 
Group  of  Churches — Stretching  Few  Men  Over  Much  Ground — Enduring  Hardness 
as  True  Soldiers— Home  Mission  Leaflets— Hard  Times  Financially,  Blessed  Times 
Spiritually — Men's  Missionary  Society — Why  Not?— Northern  Church  and  Southern 
United  in  One  Charge — Vacant  Congregations  Worshiping— Social  Affinity  Broad- 
ened by  Christian  Love— The  Halt, 895-397 

Our  Indian  Presbytery,  /.  P.  Williamson,  D,D 897 

Concerto!  Prayer.— The  Mormons,  399-402 

Letters.— Utah,  Miss  Nellie  A,  Dunham,  Rev.  F.  W.  Blohm,  Rev.  R.  F.  Clemenson— 
Oregon,  Rev.  F.  H.  Givynne,  Supt.^'Hew  Mexico.  Miss  Carrie  B.  Pond — Wyom- 
ing, Rev.  F.  L.  iT/<3{7r^— Wisconsin.  Rev.  F.  L.  ^arr^//— Minnesota.  Rev.  A.  W. 
Wrig/it^West  Virginia,  Rev.  A.  B.  Lowes,  Pres.  Missionary— Ifew  Hampshire, 

Rev.  F.  C.  5/(7^^/^— Montana,  Rev.  A.  IVormser, 402-408 

Home  Mission  Appointments, 408 

COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES,  Alma  College,  Alma,  Mich 409-410 

FREEDMEN.— Church  Work— Seeing  Is  Believing— An  Example  in  Giving— From  Mary 

Allen  Seminary,  Texas 410-412 

EDUCATION.— Western  Theological  Seminary— Park  College, 412-414 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF.— The  Treasury— Mr.  Frederick  S.  Kimball,      ....  414-416 
PUBLICATION   AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK.— Children's  Day  and  Sabbath- 
school  Work— Hard  Times  and  Sabbath-school  Work— Plan  for  Children's  Day,     .  417-418 

International  Missionary  Union,            419 

Across  the  Border,  Rev.  W.  S.  Nelson, 420 

Chinese  Goddess,  Tal  Shan  Nal  Nal,  Rev.  IV.  O.  Elterich 422 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATH-SCHOOL  LESSONS 425 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR— The  Young  ChriRtian  and  His  Pastor, 
George  H,   Fullerton,  Z>.Z>. -Battle  In   Beanfield.  O.  A.  Hills,  ZP.Z?.— Editorial 

Notes— Do  Not  Worry,  C.  F.  Deems,  Z?.Z>.— Suggestive  Hints  for  Study  of  Africa,  426-430 

CHILDREN'S   CHURCH  AT    HOME  AND    ABROAD.— ChUdren's  Sabbath  Again,  431 

GLEANINGS  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD 431-434 

BOOK  N0TICE8JANP  MINISTERIAL  NECROLOGY.           485-436 


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SPBCIflli  CONTfiieUTOfiS  FOfi  1894 

Rev.  Sheldon  Jackson,  D.D.,  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Education  for  Alaska, 
Rkv.  James  H.  Brookes,  D.D.,  St  Louis,  Mo., 
Rev.  W.  S.  Jerome,  Pontiac,  Michigan, 

Rev.  President  Young,  D.D.,  Centre  College,  Kentucky, 

Rev.  President  Booth,  D.D.,  Auburn  Theological  Seminary, 
Rev.  George  William  Knox,  D.D.,  of  Japan, 
Rev.  Wm.  Imbrie,  D.D.,  of  Japan, 

Rev.  D.  p.  Putnam,  D.D.,  Logansport,  Ind., 
Rev.  James  G.  Bolton,  PhSadelphia, 

Rev.  James  Johnston,  Lancashire,  England, 
Rev.  Oscar  A.  Hills,  D.D.,  Wooster,  Ohio, 
Rev.  George  F.  Pentecost,  D.D.,  London, 
Rev.  George  A.  Ford,  of  Syria, 

Rev.  F.  E.  Clark,  President  United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor, 
Rev.  Teunis  S.  Hamlin,  D.D.,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Rev.  S.  E.  Wishard,  D.D.,  of  Utah, 
John  M.  Coulter,  Ph.  D.,  President  of  Lake  Forest  University, 
Rev.  R.  H.  Fulton,  D.D.,  Philadelphia, 

Rev.  John  S.  Macintosh,  D.D.,  Philadelphia, 
Rev.  F.  F.  Ellin  wood,  D.D.,  New  York, 
Rev.  Alexander  Robertson,  Venice,  Italy, 
Mr.  R.  S.  Murphy,  Philadelphia, 

Miss  Grace  H.  Dodge,  New  York  City. 


An  eminent  minister  in  Western  New  York  writes: 
**  I  have  just  finished  my  reading  of  the  April  number  of  the  Chdrch  at  Home  and  Abroad^ 
and  I  wish  to  say  to  you  that  I  have  been  delighted  with  it.    It  is  the  best  number  that  I  have  read 
and  is,  in  every  way,  excellent.    The  subjects  are  well  chosen,  and  are  treated  in  a  lively  and  enter- 
taining manner,  and  the  illustrations  are  a  great  feature.*' 

From  Northern  New  York  a  lady  writes : 
**  You  will  find  one  dollar  enclosed— my  subscription  for  the  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad 
for  the  year  1894.  I  took  it  last  year,  and  thought  I  could  not  do  without  it  as  I  find  it  such  a  help 
in  preparing  articles  to  be  read  at  our  Missionary  Society.  Money  has  been  so  scarce  that  I  conld 
not  renew  my  subscription  until  now.  I  have  received  the  Magazine,  however,  for  which  I  am  very 
thankful.  Reading  it  gives  one  a  far  greater  interest  in  missions,  I  find.  It  deserves  a  large  cir- 
culation . '  *  

From  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  a  minister  writes  : 
**  Owing  to  the  hard  times,  it  being  so  very  difficult  to  make  the  ends  meet,  I  made  up  my 
mind  to  do  without  the  Church  at  Homb  and  Abroad  this  year.  We  are  a  mission  church  ;  our 
members  all  are  working  men,  and  can  do  but  little  for  our  support.  So  we  felt  we  could  not  pay 
for  it.  But  it  is  no  use  trying ;  we  must  do  without  other  things.  So,  please  find  one  dollar  to 
pay  from  the  first  of  April. 

God  has  graciously  visited  us  with  the  converting  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit     At  our  Ifist  com- 
munion twenty  united  with  us,  and  five  more  have  appeared  before  the  session.** 

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AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD 


MAY,  1894. 


CHURCH  WORK  AND  CHURCH  GROWTH. 


There  are  a  few  instances  in  which  a  par- 
ticular church  is  the  only  one  existing  in  a 
considerable  district — say,  a  township.  By  a 
higher  commission  than  any  conference  or 
council  or  presbytery  can  give — ^by  a  commis- 
sion which  those  ecclesiastical  bodies  can 
merely  authenticate — the  minister  of  a  church 
thus  situated  is  the  pastor  of  every  soul  liv- 
ing within  the  limits  of  that  district.  He  is 
bound  not  only  to  have  open  doors  at  his 
place  of  preaching,  welcoming  all  who  come, 
and  then  and  there  faithfully  declaring  the 
counsel  of  GK)d  to  them;  but  with  all  the 
assistance  he  can  get  and  all  the  tact  he  can 
acquire,  to  induce  that  entire  population  to 
accept  and  profit  by  his  pastoral  care,  to  be- 
come, not  only  virtually  but  consciously  and 
thankfully  members  of  his  flock — i.  e,  of  the 
flock  of  Christ  which  Christ  has  sent  him  to 
tend  and  feed. 

It  may  indeed  be,  in  such  a  case,  that  some 
devout  Christians,  living  on  his  field,  may 
accept  his  ministration  thankfully,  support  it 
loyally  and  improve  it  with  docility  and  fidel- 
ity, as  the  best  and,  for  the  time  being,  the 
only  ministry  available  to  them,  who,  if  a 
minister  of  some  other  denomination  were 
within  their  reach,  would  prefer  his  ministry. 

It  may  even  be  that  a  minister  bearing 
alone  the  whole  pastoral  responsibility^rf-^c^  [  0^9^ 
a  field  and  trying  to  minister  faitjrft^y'io.aU — c 

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its  people,  will  find  some  of  them  whose  ante- 
cedents have  been  such  elsewhere,  or  who 
have  such  opinions  or  temperaments  or  preju- 
dices, that  he  will  have  greater  difficulty  in 
winning  them  to  church-attendance  than  a 
minister  of  some  other  denomination  would 
probably  have. 

We  can  imagine  a  Presbyterian  minister,  in 
such  circumstances,  wishing  with  all  his  heart 
that  there  was  a  Methodist  or  a  Baptist,  or  a 
Congregational,  or  an  Episcopal  church  across 
the  village  green  from  his  own ;  and  vice  versa. 

But  most  frequently  there  is  a  church  of 
another  denomination — if  not  just  across  the 
green,  at  least,  in  a  neighboring  street. 

Let  us  suppose  a  village  in  which  there  are 
three  churches,  of  three  different  denomina- 
tions. The  village  is  small,  containing  not 
more  people  than  could  be  comfortably  seated 

—every  man  and  woman  and  child  of  them 

in  one  of  those  churches.  But  it  is  at  the 
centre  of  a  township  six  miles  square.  The 
people  all  come  to  that  village  to  buy  their 
groceries— to  get  their  letters— to  market  their 
grain  and  eggs  and  potatoes— and  to  have 
their  horses  shod.  Why  should  they  not  all 
come  there  to  worship  God  and  to  hear  his 
Gospel? 

Their  three  houses  of  worship  have  not 

so  near  together  for  any  purpose 

rivalry,  but  because  each  is  to 


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acoommodate  people  scattered  all  through  the 
township.  Each  congregation  has  good  rea- 
sons for  locating  its  house  of  worship  near 
the  centre  of  its  field;  and  locally  they  all 
have  the  same  field. 

The  pastors  of  these  three  churches  are 
Bey.  Stephen  Faithful,  Rev.  John  Thought- 
ful, and  Rev.  James  Earnest.  They  love 
each  other,  and  each  of  them  is  humble 
enough  to  think  the  others  better  than  him- 
self. They  meet  regularly  once  a  week,  in 
the  study  of  one  of  them,  for  brotherly  con- 
sultation and  united  prayer. 

Stephen  is  always  helped  to  feed  his  flock 
with  sincere  milk  of  the  word  or  strong  meat 
of  sound  doctrine,  by  the  clear  and  cogent 
papers  which  John  is  apt  to  prepare  and  read 
to  his  brothers.  John  nerer  lies  down  at 
night  without  thanking  God  for  Stephen's 
constant  fidelity  to  truth  aud  duty.  These 
two,  by  themselves,  might  perhaps  be  in 
some  danger  of  being  so  much  engrossed  in 
contemplation  of  the  Gospel,  and  improving 
their  methods  of  stating  and  explaining  its 
truths  to  their  attentive  hearers  as  to  forget 
that  there  are  some  hundreds  of  people  with- 
in hearing  of  their  church  bells  who  never 
hear  the  Gospel  more  articulately  uttered 
than  those  bells  utter  it.  But  James  stirs 
up  their  pure  minds  with  frequent  reminders 
of  this.  He  sometimes  fails  to  measure  his 
words,  and  some  of  his  sentences  are  explo- 
sive. His  elocution  has  more  energy  than 
melody,  and  a  stranger  might  think  him 
wanting  in  charity  and  courtesy.  But  John 
and  Stephen  knew  him  too  well  to  mistake 
his  zeal  for  anger,  and,  consciously  or  uncon- 
sciously, they  both  are  quickened  by  it.  They 
go  back  to  their  books,  but  they  look  between 
the  lines,  as  through  lattice-work,  and  seem 
to  catch  glimpses,  now  and  then,  of  numbers 
of  faces  that  they  never  see  from  their  pul- 
pits.   James  does  ^  good  deal  of  his  thinking 


on  foot  or  on  a  saddle.  One  of  his  frequent 
thoughts  is  that  he  and  his  two  brethren  in 
the  ministry  ought  to  preach  the  Gospel  to 
everybody  in  that  township — that  all  the 
people  in  that  township  ought  to  come 
habitually  to  those  three  churches — that  in- 
deed that  some  practical,  straightforward, 
business-like  way  ought  to  be  devised  for 
securing  this,  if  human  persuasion,  wisely 
directed  and  persistently  applied,  with  prayer 
for  divine  guidance  and  help,  can  secure  it. 

He  brings  up  this  matter  frequently  at 
their  meetings,  and  they  consult  fraternally 
about  it.  All  agree  as  to  the  desirableness 
of  what  James  urges.  Many  different  plans 
are  talked  over.  John  reads  an  able  paper 
on  Reaching  tJie  Masses^  but  it  strikes  Stephen 
that  their  rural  population  is  not  much 
massed. 

In  one  of  James*  horseback  rides,  he  recol- 
lects hearing  Dr.  Kendall  say  once— ^' The 
best  way  to  do  a  thing  is  to  do  i^  ''—or  was 
it  Horace  Greely  who  said  that?  No  matter 
which.  It  strikes  James  as  true.  His  next 
thought  is  tnat  the  best  machinery  with 
which  to  do  most  things  is  the  least  machin- 
ery. He  suspects  that  the  very  best  work 
is  done  by  hand. 

He  says  to  himself :  *  *  See  here — my  church 
is  on  the  comer  of  Academy  street  and  the 
main  road.  I  go  right  out  that  road  to  visit 
my  families — a  half-dozen  of  them— out  four 
miles.  There  are  one,  two,  three  cross  roads 
turning  off  to  the  right  and  left  and  running 
through  to  the  Farmington  road  or,  the  other 
way,  to  the  river.  Probably  there  are  some 
houses  on  all  of  them.  Yes,  I've  seen  old 
Tom  Bumham  turn  down  one  of  them,  car- 
rying a  jug  in  his  hand.  I've  never  gone  to 
his  house;  but  I  will  before  next  Sunday. 
But  then  there  must  be  a  good  many  people 
living  along  on  all  those  roads,  who  come  to 
our  village   to  trade,  but  never   come   to 


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church.  I  know,  they  do  not  come  to  mine. 
I  hope  some  of  them  go  to  the  others,  but  I 
do  not  know.  Ought  I  not  to  know?  How 
can  I  find  oat  how  many  of  them  do  not  go 
to  any  chorch,  and  invite  them  to  come  to 
mine,  or  else  to  one  of  the  others? 

Is  not  this  the  very  work  in  which  some  of 
my  people  can  help  me? — some  of  these  dear 
young  people?  What  does  Christian  En- 
deavor mean?  " 

Such  thoughts  as  these  soon  lead  Pastor 
James  to  get  together  some  of  his  most  capa- 
ble and  reliable  Christian  Endeavorers — I  am 
using  the  word  in  its  primary  and  large 
meaning — and  to  propose  that  each  one  of 
them,  or  better  each  pair,  going  two  and 
two,  shall  take  one  road,  its  full  length,  until 
they  are  more  than  half-way  to  the  church 
in  the  next  village,  and  visit  every  house. 
Where  they  find  a  family  who  attend  one  of 
the  other  churches  or  their  own,  they  make  a 
friendly  call,  have  a  Christian  interview  in  a 
prayerful  spirit,  whether  with  or  without 
formal  prayer;  make  known  their  present 
effort  to  find  and  win  all  neglecters  of  the 
Sanctuary  on  that  road ;  and  ask  their  prayer- 
ful sympathy  and  help  in  it.  At  every  house 
where  the  family  do  not  go  to  any  church, 
they  are  to  use  their  utmost  tact  and  affec- 
tionate earnestness  to  persuade  them  to  do 
so.  Naturally  and  properly  they  will  invite 
them  to  their  own  church,  to  hear  their  min- 
ister, to  enjoy  his  pastoral  care,  and  to  come 
into  the  fellowship  (which  they  have  found 
pleasant  and  profitable)  of  that  congregation. 
If  they  find  that  there  has  been  elsewhere  a 
connection  with  one  of  the  other  denomina- 
tions, or  that  there  are  views,  or  tastes,  or 
prejudices,  or  social  connections,  which  rend- 
er it  probable  that  they  can  more  easily,  or 
more  profitably  to  themselves,  be  won  to  one 
of  the  other  churches,  let  them  be  so  reported 
to  the  pastor  of  that  church,  and  let  him  and 


his  Christian  endeavorers  beware  how  they 
neglect  or  forget  the  intimatibn.  If  they  do, 
then  let  those  who  first  discovered  them  infer 
that  the  providence  of  God  and  the  impro- 
vidence of  their  neighbors  give  these  families 
to  them,  that  the  Lord  sends  them  to  get 
those  sheep  and  lambs  into  their  fold. 

Beginning  thus  at  their  own  church  as 
their  center,  and  exploring  every  regularly 
or  irregularly  radiating  road  and  all  their 
connecting  cross-roads,  any  one  church,  even 
working  alone,  can  in  time  make  it  certain 
that  no  family  lives  on  that  whole  area,  who 
are  not  members  of  their  own  or  of  some 
other  congregation,  or  else  are  themselves 
distinctly  responsible  for  persistent  neglect  of 
such  privileges  in  despite  of  kind,  faithful, 
prayerful,  affectionate  and  reiterated  invita- 
tion. How  much  more  certainly  and  quickly 
will  this  be  attained,  if  all  those  pastors  and 
their  people,  unite  in  this  Christian  endeavor 
in  this  Christian  spirit,  and  puisue  it  on  their 
proper  and  natural  lines,  according  to  a  con- 
certed plan !  They  are  not  rivals  in  selfish 
competition ;  they  are  partners  in  one  busi- 
ness, true  yoke-fellows  in  the  service  of  one 
Lord.  They  enjoy  each  other's  confidence; 
they  accord  full  Christian  liberty  to  each 
other;  they  avail  themselves  severally  of  their 
various  gifts,  facilities,  opportunities,  afllni- 
ties,  for  the  common  work  of  evangelizing 
and  Christianizing  an  entire  population. 

Such  faithful,  industrious,  generous  church 
work  will  surely  give  healthy  and  vigorous 
church  growth.  Such  growth  in  each  church 
does  not  dwarf  nor  enfeeble  adjacent  churches. 
They  are  only  dwarfed  and  enfeebled  by  neg- 
lecting, if  they  do  neglect,  to  be  in  fellowship 
and  partnership  of  the  common  work.  If  all 
are  thus  in  fellowship  of  work,  it  will  make 
them  all  flourish  together  and  will  enable 
them  to  accomplish  jointly,  for  souls  and  for 
Christ,  what  neither  of  them  could  so  fully 


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accomplish  alone,  nor  all  of  them  in  selfish 
and  suspicious  separation. 

In  yonder  park  there  are  maple  trees,  and 
chestnuts,  and  poplars,  and  elms.  The  park 
has  not  been  fenced  off  into  so  many  sections, 
each  demoted  to  the  growth  of  one  kind  of 
trees.  The  different  kinds  are  mingled ;  they 
all  draw  their  nutrition  from  the  common 
ground;  but  each,  according  to  the  specific 
law  of  its  life,  draws  from  the  common  soil 
the  elements  that  are  suited  to  its  nature  and 
so  capable  of  contributing  to  its  growth. 
The  maple  may  not  draw  a  line  beyond  which 
the  elm  shall  not  spread  its  roots.  Bight 
across  each  other  their  roots  go,  each  to  find 
the  elements  congenial  to  it,  and  which  its 
specific  vigor  can  assimilate  into  its  charac- 
teristic fibre.  They  do  not  resist  nor  enyy 
each  other,  but  wind  past  each  other  in  cour- 
teous gracefulness,  bending  into  facile  forms 
and  intertwining  in  friendly  embraces;  to  His 


eye  who  sees  beneath  as  above  the  surface  is 
there  not  as  great  beauty  in  the  cunning  ram- 
ification and  cunous  net- work  of  the  spread- 
ing roots  as  to  our  eyes  in  the  various  uplift- 
ing and  expansion  of  the  leafy  trees!  If  the 
poplars  shoot  their  spires  higher  or  the  elms 
spread  their  branches  more  widely  than  some 
other  trees,  is  it  not  because  they  strike  their 
roots  deeper  or  spread  them  farther,  or  more 
diligently  seek  through  more  busy  rootlets  for 
all  earthy  matter  which  they  can  possibly 
reach,  that  is  capable  of  being  utilized  and 
glorified  by  being  lifted  into  their  living  struc- 
ture t  The  trees  do  not  envy  one  another; 
they  have  not  suffered  by  the  growth  of  one 
another.  Each,  according  to  its  nature  and 
law  of  growth,  has  utilized  matter  which 
others  could  not;  and  together  they  constitute 
a  more  beautiful  scene  and  furnish  a  more 
grateful  shade  than  either  species  could  pro- 
duce alene. 


Thb  Pearl  op  Days.— In  our  February 
number  (page  99)  we  suggested  the  desira- 
bleness of  the  republication  of  this  admirable 
essay  on  the  Sabbath,  written  by  ^^a  labor- 
er's daughter,''  and  published  in  England 
many  years  ago.  We  were  not  then  aware 
that  our  own  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publica- 
tion and  Sabbath-school  Work  has  a  hand- 
some volume  containing  this  and  two  other 
**  Prize  Essays."  The  other  two  are  entitled 
"Heaven's  Antidote"  and  "The  Torch  of 
Time."  The  three  constitute  a  handsome 
and  readable  volume  of  72  pages. 

We  should  count  it  a  happy  thing,  if  the 
circulation  of  this  volume  should  get  a  large 
increase  from  the  recent  awakening  of  the 
American  public  mind  to  the  value  of  the 
Sabbath  as  a  day  of  rest  and  of  opportunity 
for  mental,  social  and  spiritual  improvement 
to  those  who  industriously  obey  the  first  part 
of  GKxl's  Fourth  Commandment:  ^^Sia  days 


sTiaU  thou  labor. ^^    The  price  of  this  volume 
of  Prize  Essays  on  the  Sabbath,  is  80  cents. 


MiNiSTKBiAL  Neoboloot. — The  notice  of 
**  Rev.  Andrew  Donnell  Jacks,"  in  our  April 
number,  was  evidently  both  incorrect  and  in- 
adequate. The  name  should  have  been 
*  *  Jacke, "  as  it  is  correctly  given  in  the  proper 
place  in  this  number  with  additional  particu- 
lars. 

The  notice  of  Rev  A.  T.  Young  in  the 
April  number  was  also  incomplete.  We  there- 
fore repeat  it  complete  in  this  number. 


With  much  pleasure,  we  add  the  name  of 
Miss  Grace  H.  Dodge  to  our  roll  of  Special 
(}0NTBiBnT0R8  engaged  for  the  current  year. 
She  promises  us  an  article  in  our  series  The 
Young  Christian.  Her  subject  will  be  T?ie 
Young  Christian  Working  Qirl.  It  is  to  be  in 
the  October  number. 


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Oar  esteemed  Editorial  Correspondent, 
Rev.  E.  N.  White,  D.  D.,  has  lately  been 
watching  beside  the  death-bed  of  his  loved 
and  honored  wife,  in  the  home  of  their  son, 
Rev.  Stanley  White,  at  Orange,  N.  J.  In  that 
valley  of  the  shadow  of  death  the  divine 
Shepherd  was  with  him,  and  now  graciously 
comforts  him.     See  ii  Cor.  2 : 4. 


bined,   unanimous    effort    to    replenish   the 
Lford^s  treasury  in  all  its  sub-treasuries? 


Siam  and  Laos  are  the  lands  to  which  our 
thoughts  and  prayers  are  specially  invited  this 
month.  What  GK)d  has  done  for  them, 
through  our  missions — ^what  great  opportuni- 
ties are  offered  us — what  wide  doors  and 
effectual  are  opened  before  us — may  be  clearly 
seen  in  our  pages  881  and  the  following. 
We  are  not  inclined  to  make  urgent  appeals 
— so  urgent  as  to  seem  frantic,  and  so  frequent 
as  to  cease  to  be  special.  Neither  is  it  our 
prerogative  to  censure  God's  people,  as  if  we 
were  commissioned  to  dictate  the  amount  or 
the  direction  of  their  gifts.  Our  business 
is  to  obtain  and  communicate  information, 
which  may  be  both  the  available  guide  and 
the  healthy  stimulus  to  duty. 

Chubch  Statistics. — ^The  sessions  have  just 
now  made  up  these  for  the  ending  ecclesias- 
tical year.  Very  generally  they  show  more 
than  ordinary  enlargement  of  rolls  of  com- 
municants, and  these  are  accompanied  with 
reports  of  increased  spirituality  and  better 
attendance  upon  the  means  of  grace.  It  is 
thankfully  believed  to  be  a  healthy  growth. 
Would  it  comport  with  this  to  find  a  general 
shrinkage  in  gifts  to  the  Lord's  treasury,  and 
a  consequent  necessity  to  halt  the  agencies 
for  the  Church's  work  at  home  and  abroad? 

How  about  thank-offerings?  Can  churches, 
Sabbath-schools,  households,  in  which  CKkI's 
converting  grace  has  been  enjoyed  the  past 
year  in  unusual  measure,  express  their  grati- 
tude more  happily  to  themselves  or  more 
acceptably  to  God  than  by  enlarged,  com- 


Thb  Treasurers'  Receipts,  reported  in  the 
closing  pages  of  this,  as  of  every  number,  are 
carefully  studied  by  some  of  the  most  thought- 
ful and  intelligent  readers.  It  is  a  proper 
and  it  may  be  a  profitable  study;  not,  indeed, 
for  the  purpose  of  ^*  commending  ourselves, 
or  measuring  ourselves  by  ourselves,  and 
comparing  ourselves  among  ourselves" — this, 
the  Apostle  says,  is  '*  not  wise," — but  for  the 
better  purpose  of  ascertaining  whether  the 
gifts  that  are  brought  into  the  Lord's  treasury 
are  sufficient  for  the  Lord's  work,  and  then 
prayerfully  enquiring  whether  it  is  within 
our  power,  by  increase  of  our  own  offerings 
or  by  fraternal  consultation  and  co-operation 
with  others,  to  secure  more  ample  provision. 


The  following  brief  communication  from  a 
thoughtful,  busy,  prosperous  man,  an  elder 
in  the  West,  contains  a  number  of  interesting 
questions  to  which  we  invite  answers : 

The  year  1898  was  a  severe  year  for  every 
one  financially,  but  wife  and  I  gave  for  bene- 
volences one-half  more  than  in  1893.  We 
had  to  borrow  to  do  this  and  have  not  yet 
paid  $1,000  thus  borrowed.  Already  we 
have  decided  to  give  in  1894  as  much  as  we 
did  in  1898.  Is  it  reckless?  '^  Trust  in  the 
Lord  and  do  good — so  shalt  thou  dwell  in  the 
land  and  verily  thou  shalt  be  fed." — So  says 
the  Book,  and  I  believe  it  and  rest  upon  it. 
What  shall  Christians  do  for  the  Boards  of 
our  Church  in  these  times  when  the  debts  of 
nearly  all  the  Boards  are  increasing?  Does 
not  God  call  upon  us  to  increase  rather  than 
lessen  our  gifts?  Cannot  every  one  lessen 
somehow  the  expense  of  living  rather  than 
lessen  the  benevolences? 

These  are  testing  times,  and  in  proportion 
as  we  stand  the  tests  and  show  ourselves 
worthy  stewards  of  what  Gt>d  has  entrusted 
to  us, — in  just  that  proportion  may  we  expect 
Him  to  honor  us  with  increased  responsibility 
and  larger  ability  to  give  and  do. 


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AN  ITALIAN  VILLAGE  EMBRACING  PROTESTANTISM—' 

REVOLUTION." 

REV.  ALEXANDER  ROBERTSON,  VENICE. 


A  PEACEFUL 


There  are  few  villages  in  Italy  that  have 
not  gone  half  way  towards  embracing  Prot- 
estantism, that  is  to  say,  there  are  few  that 
have  not  cast  off  the  papacy.  Bat  as  the 
recoil  from  the  superstition  and  deception  of 
Romanism  often  produces  indifference,  if 
not  infidelity,  there  are  as  yet  not  many  vil- 
lages that  have  gone  the  second  half  of  the 
way,  and  embraced  reform.  However,  sev- 
eral have,  and  I  wish  in  this  paper  to  tell  of 
one  that  has  jast  done  so,  about  which  I  can 
speak  from  personal  knowledge. 

This  village  is  called  Papigno.  It  is  situa- 
ted in  the  province  of  Umbria,  in  the  valley 
of  the  Nera.  It  is  picturesquely  perched  on 
the  shoulder  of  a  hill  on  the  left  bank  of  that 
river,  half  way  between  the  large  manufac- 
turing town  of  Terni,  the  reputed  birthplace 
of  the  historian  Tacitus,  and  the  far-famed 
Falls  of  Marmore,  which  so  many  tourists  go 
to  see. 

Although  Papigno  is  but  a  small  country 
village  of  some  700  or  800  inhabitants,  these 
are  not  solely  peasants.  The  Jesuits,  who 
are  ever  looking  about  for  safe  and  profitable 
investments  for  their  enormous  wealth,  have 
opened,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Terni,  a 
large  steel  manufactory,  the  working  of 
the  machinery  of  which  costs  them  nothing, 
as  the  power  developed  at  the  Falls  of 
Marmore  is  utilized  for  this  purpose. 
The  Italian  government,  in  order  also  to 
turn  the  natural  resources  of  the  district  also 
to  account,  and,  it  is  said,  to  check  an 
unpatriotic  design  on  the  part  of  the  Jesuits, 
have  opened  opposite  the  steel  foundry  one 
for  the  manufactory  of  swords  and  guns.  A 
number  of  the  artisans  employed  in  these 
works  have  chosen  the  village  of  Papigno  as 
their  home.  Being  young  men,  full  of  life 
and  energy,  they  soon  made  their  influence 
felt  in  that  *' sleepy  hollow,"  and  now  they 
represent  the  public  opinion  of  the  place. 

A  few  weeks  ago  several  of  these  workmen 
made  a  pleasure  excursion  one  Sunday  morn- 
ing to  Arrone,  a  village  situated  some  half- 
dozen  miles  higher  up  the  valley  of  the  Nera, 


well  known  as  the  home  of  Count  Enrico  di 
Campello,  ex-canon  of  St.  Peter^s,  and  Presi- 
dent   of   the    Reformed    Catholic   National 
Italian  Church.     In    this    village,    by    the 
woodside,  close  to  the  entrance  to  the  little 
Piazza,   Count  Campello    has  been  able  to 
erect  by  means  of  help  received  from  England, 
a  beautiful  little  church.     When  these  young 
men  from  Papigno  arrived  at  Arrone  service 
was  going  on  in  this  building.     Curiosity  in 
God's  providence  led  them  to  enter  in.    Never 
before  had  they  been  present  at  a  service  con- 
ducted in  Italian.     For  the  first  time  they 
heard  the  Scriptures  read  and  explained,  and 
the  glad  tidings  of  salvation  preached.     For 
the  first  time  they  saw  the  preacher  stand 
behind  the  table,  and  administer  the  Lord's 
Supper,  adopting  language  they  could  under- 
stand, instead  of  the  mumbled  mystery  of  the 
mass.      The  truth  took  hold  of  them,  and 
the  beauty  and  order  of  the  service  captivated 
them.     They  said  among  themFclves,  **This 
is  what  we  want.     Our  Roman  service  has 
never  done  us  any  good.     It  is  conducted  in 
a  language  we  do  not  understand.     Besides 
which  our  priests  are  ignorant,  and,  what  is 
worre,  many  of  them  are  immoral,  and  they 
cannot  instruct  and  guide  us."    When  they 
returned  to  Papigno  at  their  first  meeting  as 
a  Workmen's  Society,  they  discussed  their 
Sunday's  experience,  with  the  result  that  a 
request  was  sent  by  the  Society  to  Count 
Campello,  asking  him  to  send  someone  (to  use 
the  words  of  the  secretary,  Signor  Tocci), 
**to  explain  to  them  more  fully  what  they 
had  heard  last  Sunday."    The  Rev.  A.  Luzzi, 
Count  Campello's  assistant  at  Arrone,  went  to 
Papigno  in  answer  to  this  call,  and  he  ex- 
plained to  them  privately  and  in  public  con- 
ference **The  way  of  God  more  fully."    He 
also  gave    them    Bibles,    prayer-books  and 
pamphlets,    explaining    the    doctrines    and 
government  of  the  Reformed  Catholic  Church, 
which  were  eagerly  read  and  studied,  and 
passed  from  hand  to  hand  and  from  house  to 
house;  and  the  result  was  that  the  young  men 
were  confirmed  in  the  faith  and  '^  God  added 


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to  their  number  daily."  Very  soon  a  second 
invitation  to  visit  the  village  reached  Signer 
Lnzzi,  who  at  once  went  and  held  a  second 
public  conference. 

But  now  the  young  men  were  to  find  that 
**  they  who  would  live  godly  in  this  world, 
must  suffer  persecution."  The  public  relig- 
ious conferences  had  been  held  in  a  house 
belonging  to  the  priest  of  a  neighboring  vil- 
lage. This  priest  came  in  a  fury  to  Papigno, 
and  threatened  to  turn  out  his  tenant,  who 
was  his  own  brother,  if  he  ever  permitted 
such  a  meeting  to  take  place  in  his  house 
again.  The  priest  next  went  to  the  Syndic 
to  remonstrate  with  him  for  allowing  the 
peace  of  the  village  to  be  disturbed  by  these 
*  Protestants,'  but  the  Syndic  turned  him 
about  his  business,  reminding  him  that  the 
days  of  priestly  tyranny  were  passed  in  Italy. 
Next  the  parish  priest  went  to  the  proprietor 
of  the  house  of  the  Workmen's  Societies' 
Secretary,  Signer  Tocci,  who  is  the  leader  of 
the  movement,  and  begged  him  to  turn  Sig- 
ner Tocci  out  of  his  dwelling.  The  proprie- 
tor told  the  priest  to  return  next  day,  and  he 
would  give  an  answer.  Meantime  he  sent 
for  Signer  Tocci  to  ask  him  about  the  Reform 
movement.  Signer  Tocci  took  with  him  his 
Bible  and  prayer  book,  and  read  to  him  out 
of  them  both.  The  two  held  earnest  conver- 
sation together  from  sun  set  to  mid- night. 
The  good  result  was  that  the  proprietor,  toe, 
espoused  the  cause,  ** being  persuaded"  as 
Signer  Tocci  expressed  it,  **of  the  truth  of 
our  Gospel ;  "  and  his  boy  who  was  present 
during  the  long  and  earnest  discussion  said 
'*  Father,  during  all  the  time  that  thou  hast 
frequented  the  Church  of  the  Pope  thou  hast 
never  understood  anything  of  what  the  priest 
said.  Instead  of  which,  if  thou  hadst  under- 
stood always  this  Gospel,  thou  too  wouldst 
have  been  a  priest."  Next  day  when  the 
priest  called  for  his  answer  the  proprietor 
said,  *^If  you  give  me  250  francs  ($50)  an 
hour  I  will  turn  him  out  I  " 

Whilst  my  wife  and  I  were  the  guests  of 
Count  Campelle  at  Arrone,  Signer  Tocci  came 
to  talk  ever  matters  with  the  Count.  We 
were  glad  of  the  opportunity  this  afforded  us 
of  seeing  him,  and  of  learning  from  his  own 
lips  his  views.     We  found  him  a  man  full  of 


intelligence,  energy,  determination  and  zeal. 
The  directors  of  the  steel  foundry  in  which 
he  works  are  beginning  to  leek  askance  at 
him  and  at  his  companions,  but  he  has  no 
fear  of  them.  He  delights  in  reading  the 
Bible.  To  him  as  to  the  majority  of  Italians 
brought  up  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  the  words 
of  Scripture  come  home  with  all  the  novelty 
and  freshness  with  which  they  strike  the  mind 
of  a  heathen.  He  read  'with  great  interest 
parts  of  our  Saviour's  sermon  en  the  Mount, 
and  we  helped  him  to  understand  the  sense, 
and  the  application  of  the  words  to  his  own 
present  circumstances,  as  a  Christian  in 
Papigno.  He  begged  for  books  for  himself 
and  his  companions.  In  the  Church  of  Rome 
he  was  told  that  faith  raised  a  barrier  between 
him  and  all  investigation,  all  thinking  for 
himself  about  the  things  of  religion ;  new  the 
faith  he  had  got  held  of.  Christian  faith, 
instead  of  Papal  obedience,  urged  him  to  do 
these  very  things.  **  Understandest  thou 
what  thou  readest?" — **  Search  the  Scrip- 
tures " — such  words  of  Scripture  appealed  to 
him.  Christianity  was  bearing  intellectual 
fruit.  The  stone  which  the  Church  of  Rome 
places  en  the  mouth  of  the  well  of  knowledge 
had  been  rolled  away.  His  faith  was  also 
bearing  moral  fruit.  The  Church  of  Rome 
never  told  him  of  religion  having  anything  to 
do  with  the  state  of  his  heart  and  life  before 
God.  It  never  told  him  that  **  except  a  man 
be  bom  again  he  cannot  see  the  kingdom  of 
CKkI."  What  it  told  him  was  that  his  salva- 
tion depended  on  having  certain  offices  said 
for  him  at  the  altar  by  its  priests.  Therefore, 
like  his  companions,  he  was  not  careful  of  his 
speech.  Wrong  words  often  escaped  his  lips. 
New  all  that  is  changed.  He  told  us  that 
now  he  no  longer  swears,  and  when  he  hears 
people  use  bad  language  he  feels  pained. 
Several  of  his  companions  were  one  with  him 
in  this  matter.  Faith  that  proves  itself  by 
good  works  was  shewing  itself.  The  moral 
fruit  of  Christianity  was  appearing.  For  him 
and  for  his  companions  the  Apostle  Paul's 
words  were  being  verified,  '^If  any  man  be 
in  Christ  he  is  a  new  creature;  old  things 
pass  away  and  all  things  become  new." 

Before  Signer  Tocci  left  the  Count's  house 
he  besought  us  all  to  come  to  Papigno,  and 


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hold  a  large  public  religions  meeting,  for  the 
village  was  ripe  for  that.  We  readOy 
acceeded  to  his  request,  arranging  to  go  to 
Papigno  on  Sunday,  Noyember  28. 

The  day  was  propitious.  After  a  week  of 
continuous  rain  the  sun  shone  forth  brilli- 
antly, making  all  nature  glad.  The  only 
rain  we  had  was  in  driving  past  the  Falls  of 
Marmore,  whose  swollen  waters  tumbling  in 
a  wild  roaring  mass  from  the  height  of  over 
000  feet,  and  foaming  amongst  the  rocks 
beneath,  raised  clouds  of  vapour  into  the  air 
which  fell  in  drenching  showers  across  our 
path.  We  rejoiced  in  the  grand  cataract, 
and  in  the  bright  sunshine,  but  as  we  neared 
Papigno  a  still  more  gladdening  sight  awaited 
us.  We  heard  the  sound  of  music.  What 
was  our  surprise  to  find  that  half  the  village, 
preceded  by  their  village  band,  had  come  out 
to  meet  us,  and  to  bid  us  welcome  to  Papigno. 
The  other  half  of  the  villagers  were  not 
hostile,  nor  even  indifferent.  They  lined  the 
streets  and  filled  doorways  and  windows,  and 
their  ready  smiles  and  hearty  words  showed 
that  they  too  were  friendly  to  the  cause  of 
truth  and  Catholic  Reform, — ^to  the  cause  of 
Christ  and  his  true  church. 

For  this  meeting  an  unused  caffS  had  been 
secured.  The  rooms  were  small,  but  each 
communicated  with  the  other,  and  soon  all 
wore  packed  by  an  eager,  expectant  crowd. 
We  were  accommodated  behind  a  small  table 
at  an  angle  of  one  of  the  central  rooms,  so 
that  although  we  could  be  seen  by  but  few, 
we  could  be  heard  by  all.  Count  Campello 
described  what  was  taking  place,  as  una 
RemluzUme  Paciflca — "a  peaceful  revolu- 
tion,'' and  one  that  marked  a  return  from 
paganism  to  Christianity,  and  from  the 
Church  of  the  Pope  to  the  Church  of  Christ. 
Signer  Lozzi  spoke  specially  to  the  women 
present,  who  were  apt  to  be  more  under  the 
influence  of  the  priests.  He  said  they  had 
been  told  by  the  priests  that  they  were  proU 
estanti.  **  Yes,''  said  Signer  Luzzi,  *'  we  are 
protestants,  as  the  papists  themselves  are 
protestants,  with  this  difference,  that  we  pro- 
test against  error,  whilst  they  protest  against 
the  truth."  Afterwards  I  said  a  few  words 
urging  them  to  read  and  study  the  Bible,  and 


to  persevere  in  the  **  peaceful  revolution," 
which  it  was  worth  while  coming  from  Eng- 
land to  see,  and  promising  them  a  supply  of 
Bibles  that  it  might  grow  and  spread,  and 
that  soon  a  Reformed  Christian  Church 
might  be  established  in  their  midst.  Nothing 
could  be  more  encouraging  than  the  enthusi- 
asm displayed  by  those  present,  and  which 
broke  out  in  frequent  applause  and  cries  of 
bm  detUh—''  weU  said,"  h  twt>— "it  is truel  " 

We  had  brought  with  us  a  few  portions 
of  Scripture,  and  these  my  wife  distributed 
at  the  dose  of  the  meeting,  first  in  the  rooms 
of  the  caf6,  and  then  in  the  street.  The 
eagerness  displayed  by  all  to  obtain  a  book 
was  very  remarkable.  My  wife  was  sur- 
rounded by  a  crowd  of  beseeching  faces,  and 
a  forest  of  outstretched  arms  and  bands. 
Soon  our  limited  supply  was  exhausted,  and 
we  had  to  satisfy  the  majority  by  taking 
down  a  few  names,  and  promising  in  that 
way  to  send  them  books  by  post  at  a  future 
time. 

As  we  prepared  to  go  the  band  of  the 
village  was  again  in  readiness,  and  amid 
music  and  cheers,  and  the  farewells,  and 
kind  wishes  of  these  good  people  we  reluct- 
antly drove  off,  thankful  to  have  seen  a 
village  thus  turning  to  God  and  to  righteous- 
ness. Truly  in  Italy  "  the  darkness  is  pass- 
ing and  the  true  light  now  shineth."  The 
Italians  are  ready  to  receive  the  Gkispel,  and 
whilst  they  have  forsaken  the  Church  of 
Rome,  to  attend  any  church  that  instructs 
their  minds  and  purifies  their  hearts,  and 
especially  such  a  church  as  the  Vraiz  ex- 
canon  of  St.  Peter's  is  establishing  in  their 
midst.  Whilst  no  right-minded  man  lives, 
who  does  not  pray  that  anarohial  revolu- 
tions, accompanied  by  crime  and  bloodshed, 
may  cease,  every  right-minded  man  must 
give  his  sympathies  to  peaceful  revolutions, 
such  as  that  of  Papigno,  and  pray  that  €k)d 
himself  may  multiply  them  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  Italy,  that  the  kingdom 
of  darkness  may  be  overthrown,  and  that 
"kingdom  which  is  righteousness  and 
peace  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost,"  may  be 
established  in  every  heart  and  in  every 
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TREASURER'S  STATEMENT  OF  RECEIPTS,  MAT  1  TO  MARCH  81,  1898  AND  1894. 


CHUROHBS. 

womkn'b  b'ds. 

SAB.  SCHOOLS. 

Y.  P.  S.  0.  B. 

LBGAOIBS. 

TOTAL. 

1893 
1894 

$278,251  84 
289,898  65 

$186,878  23 
169,295  20 

$80.184  86 
29.821  01 

$12,710  06 
13,646  81 

$129,553  01 
62,017  56 

$88,788  06 
61,812  07 

$718,811  08 
675,484  80 

Gain 

L088 

$38.858  19 

$17,068  08 

$863  85 

$985  85 

$60.685  45 

$21,92101 

$188,826  28 

Total  appropriated  to  April  1.1894 $1,061.080  00 

Leas  reduction  account  of  price  of  sUver,  (see  Note) 50,000  00 

Total  appropriated $1,011,080  00 

Received  from  all  sources  to  April  1, 1894 $576,484  80 

Surplus  of  May  1,1898 1,868  72     677,848  52 

Amount  to  be  received  before  April  80, 1894,  to  meet  all  obligations 488,686  48 

Received  last  year,  April  1, 1898  to  April  30,1898 800,698  29 

Increase  needed  before  the  end  of  the  year 183,998  19 

NoTB.— The  low  price  of  silver  has  enabled  the  Board  to  meet  its  obligations  in  countries  using  silver  currency 
with  less  than  the  amount  of  gold  estimated  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.  $50,000  has  been  withdrawn  from  the 
appropriations  on  this  accovnt. 


The  Student  Volunteer  International  Con- 
vention, held  at  Detroit  February  28  to  March 
4,  was  a  notable  gathering  in  the  interests  of 
foreign  missions.  The  spirit  of  the  meetings 
was  quickeniog  and  full  of  enthusiasm.  One 
of  the  largest  churches  in  Detroit  failed  to 
accommodate  the  throngs  anxious  to  attend, 
the  student  body  itself  almost  filling  the 
building.  One,  and  sometimes  two,  overflow 
meetings  were  held,  which  were  also  well 
attended.  Several  interesting  and  striking 
personalities,  well  known  in  the  missionary 
world,  were  present,  and  the  programme  was 
carefully  arranged  with  a  view  to  practical 
usefulness  as  well  as  the  stimulus  of  enthu- 
siasm. The  attendance  of  students  alone  was 
1,200,  from  294  colleges,  representing  80 
states  and  every  province  of  Canada  east  of 
British  Columbia.  The  Spirit  of  God  was 
given  with  power,  and  a  mighty  impulse  was 
felt  in  many  hearts.  No  doubt  the  missionary 
future  of  many  lives  was  shaped  during  the 
Convention.  The  presence  of  Dr.  J.  Hudson 
Taylor  and  Miss  Gteraldine  Guinness,  of  the 
China  Inland  Mission,  gave  special  promi- 
nence to  the  claims  of  China,  and  a  deep 
interest  was  elicited  in  that  wonderful  land. 


The  leaders  of  the  Student  Volunteer  Move 
ment  have  to  do  with  a  remarkable  wave  of 
enthusiasm  in  the  interests  of  foreign  mis- 
sions among  the  students  of  the  country, 
which  needs  guidance  and  careful  supervision 
for  the  attainment  of  the  best  permanent  re- 
sults. Their  opportunity  is  exceptional  and  the 
responsibility  great.  The  organization  of  the 
movement  has  now  become  very  compact 
and  eflScient,  and  the  co-operation  of  mission- 
ary boards  and  societies  is  of  the  highest 
value. 

The  motto  which  has  been  chosen  by  the 
movement — '*The  Evangelization  of  the 
World  in  this  Generation  " — ^is  no  doubt  dear 
to  many  hearts,  but  we  think  it  would  com- 
mand a  much  larger,  stronger  and  heartier 
endorsement  on  the  part  of  the  Christian 
Church  if  it  could  be  changed  in  one  or  two 
of  its  expressions.  If,  for  example,  a  watch- 
word such  as  **  The  Redemption  of  the  World 
Without  Delay"  could  be  substituted,  it 
would  convey  to  many  minds  a  larger  signifi- 
cance and  a  more  inspiring  ambition.  The 
Report  of  the  Convention,  which  is  soon  to  be 
issued  in  a  volume,  will  be  a  valuable  contri- 
bation  to  missionary  literature. 

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There  is  a  constant  issue  on  the  part  of 
boards  and  societies  interested  in  foreign  mis- 
sions of  pamphlets,  leaflets  and  appeals, 
which  are  not  only  timely  but  often  contain 
most  valuable  material.  Among  recent  issues 
of  yalue  we  might  name  the  inspiring  and 
powerful  sermon  of  Dr.  A.  J.  Lyman  at  the 
last  meeting  of  the  American  Board,  the 
Report  of  the  Second  Ck>nfereDce  of  the  Offi- 
cers and  Representatives  of  the  Foreign  Mis- 
sion Boards  and  Societies  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada,  and  alio  the  **  Joint  Appeal  to  all 
Evangelical  Christians  ^*  on  behalf  of  a  more 
earnest  movement  in  the  great  work  of  the 
world^s  conversion,  by  a  Committee  appointed 
by  the  above  Conference.  Also,  **  A  History 
of  Woman's  Organized  Missionary  Work  as 
Promoted  by  American  Women,"  by  Miss 
Ellen  C.  Parsons,  the  Editor  of  Woman's 
Work  for  Women^  and  **  Woman  Under  the 
Ethnic  Religions,"  by  Mrs.  Moses  Smith. 
The  sermon  may  be  obtained  from  the  Ameri- 
can Board,  Boston,  and  the  Report  and  Ap- 
peal referred  to  above  may  be  had  gratui- 
tously from  Mr.  W.  Henry  Grant,  58  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York  City,  and  the  two  leaflets 
by  Miss  Parsons  and  Mrs.  Moses  Smith  can  be 
procured  from  the  Woman's  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  Room 
48  McCormick  Block,  Chicago,  111.,  and  also 
from  the  Women's  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions, 63  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  the  first 
at  25  cents  per  dozen,  or  three  cents  a  copy, 
and  the  second  at  20  cents  per  dozen,  or  two 
cents  a  copy. 

Dr.  Ellinwood  is  the  Morgan  Lecturer  at 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary  this  year,  and 
delivered  an  admirable  course  of  six  lectures 
on  timely  foreign  missionary  topics.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  the  lectures  will  soon  be  issued  in  a 
volume. 


The  Annual  Report  of  the  Canton  Mission 
of  our  Church,  just  received,  is  full  of  en- 
couragement. Rev.  A.  A.  Fulton,  of  Canton, 
writes  concerning  it :  '*  Never  before  have  we 
closed  a  year  with  so  many  inquirers  and 
candidates  for  baptism.  I  know  you  will  be 
glad  to  see  how  we  are  pushing  the  village 
work.      The    medical    boat    and    assistants 


under  my  charge  reached  950  villages.  We 
expect  to  reach  1,000  this  coming  year.  We 
completed  the  White  Memorial  Chapel  at 
Yan  Peng,  with  the  approval  of  the  magis- 
trate. I  saw  the  magistrate  at  San  Ning 
a  few  weeks  ago,  and  he  promised  protection 
when  we  begin  our  new  church  there,  to  be 
built  by  the  native  Christians  at  a  cost  of 
$8,000.  Our  contributions  equal  those  of 
last  year,  which  included  Hainan.  The  num- 
ber of  patients  is  greater  than  that  of  last 
year.  .  So  it  should  be  every  year.  It  is 
thirteen  years  since  I  came  to  China,  and  I 
have  never  had  a  sick  day.  I  would  rather 
be  here  on  rice  and  salt  fish  than  be  the 
pastor  of  the  largest  church  in  America." 


Our  missionaries  in  China  who  are  located 
at  interior  stations  on  the  borders  of  regions 
as  yet  untouched  by  missions  are  ever  on  the 
alert  for  opportunities  to  extend  our  work. 
Dr.  E.  C.  Machle,  of  the  Lienchow  Station, 
situated  in  the  interior,  northwest  of  Canton, 
on  the  borders  of  Hunan  towards  the  north, 
and  Kwangsi  towards  the  west,  has  just 
undertaken  a  tour  into  the  Province  of 
Kwangsi.  His  destination  was  Wai  Tsap, 
which  could  be  reached  only  by  a  four  days' 
journey  on  foot.  The  journey  was  under- 
taken by  invitation  of  a  couple  of  patients 
who  had  been  in  the  hospital  for  treatment, 
and  when  they  left  extended  an  invitation  to 
the  Doctor  to  visit  the  large  city  of  Wai  Tsap 
in  Kwangsi  Province,  whence  they  came. 
The  Doctor  decided  to  go  in  the  hope  that  the 
way  might  be  thus  opened  for  the  entrance  of 
mission  work  into  that  hostile  province.  His 
journey  would  take  him  over  a  route  not 
traveled  by  foreigners  before.  It  is  doubtful, 
in  fact,  whether  a  foreigner  has  ever  been  in 
Wai  Tsap.  Our  Lienchow  missionaries  have 
already  entered  Hunan  by  the  back  door,  and 
they  are  now  planning  to  enter  Kwangsi  by 
the  side  door.  We  shall  await  with  interest 
the  report  of  Dr.  Machle's  journey. 


We  are  reminded  by  a  respected  correspond- 
ent that  Prof.  Day's  Mission  Library  of  the 
Divinity  School  of  Yale  University,  to  which 
reference  was  made  in  our  Apnl  number,  is 
intended  only  to  include  foreign    missions 


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under  Protestant  auspices,  and  that  the  New- 
berry Library  of  Chicago  had  moyed  in  this 
matter  upon  entirely  independent  lines, 
with  the  more  comprehensiye  idea  of  in- 
cluding ancient,  medieval,  and  modem  mis- 
sions, whether  Greek,  Papal  or  Protestant, 
Domestic  or  Foreign.  Both  ideas  are  worthy 
of  an  earnest  effort  for  their  accomplishment, 
and  we  regret  to  learn  that  after  Mr.  Frederic 
Perry  Noble,  with  whom  the  latter  idea 
originated,  left  the  Newberry  Library  the 
plan  for  such  a  comprehensive  missionary 
collection  was  allowed  to  lapse. 


The  most  recently  published  medical  mis- 
sionary list  of  those  holding  British  degrees 
or  diplomas  shows  that  there  are  185  medical 
missionaries  from  Great  Britain,  which  is  an 
addition  of  20  since  the  previous  year.  These 
185  medical  missionaries  are  distributed  as 
follows:  China,  61;  India,  57;  Africa,  88; 
Palestine,  13;  Madagascar,  the  South  Sea 
Islands,  and  Constantinople,  8  each,-  and 
Korea,  2.  The  remaining  are  scattered  widely 
throughout  the  world.  Of  the  lady  physicians, 
18  are  in  India,  5  in  China,  one  m  Ceylon,  and 
one  in  Korea.  The  representation  by  churches 
gives  70  to  the  Presbyterians,  50  to  the 
Church  of  England,  20  each  to  Congregation- 
alists  and  Baptists,  8  to  the  Methodists,  5  to 
the  Brethren  and  2  to  the  Friends.  The  re- 
mainder are  scattered. 


MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DEATHS. 

February  15. — ^At  Mosul,  Ruth,  daughter 
of  Rev.  and  Mrs  E.  W.  McDowell. 

April  8.— At  Denver,  Col.,  Rev.  W.  M. 
Thomson,  D.D.,  in  the  89th  year  of  his  age. 
Dr.  Thomson  was  for  40  years  a  missionary 
in  Syria. 

At  Panhala,  India,  March  ,  1894,  Rev. 
G^rge  H.  Ferris.  Mr.  Ferris  was  bom  at 
Hillsdale,  Michigan,  December  26,  1853.  He 
was  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  the 
class  of  1874  and  from  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary  in  1878,  and  sailed  for  India  the 
same  year.  Mr.  Ferris  leaves  a  wife  and 
three  sons.  He  was  a  faithful  and  devoted 
missionary. 


LIFE  AT  A  KOREAN  OUTPOST. 

BEV.  SAMUBL  A.  MOFFBTT,  PTENG  YANG. 

Having  been  released  by  the  Mission  from 
my  duties  in  Seoul  that  I  might  give  my 
entire  attention  to  the  opening  of  this  new 
northern  outpost,  I  came  here  in  November  as 
a  missionary  nomad,  until  the  way  opens  for 
me  to  secure  a  permanent  residence.  My 
present  quarters  are  a  single  room  in  the 
house  purchased  by  our  helper,  and  I  am. 
busy  all  day  long  in  gaining  friends,  following 
up  impressions  made  by  former  visits,  and 
preaching  the  Gospel  as  I  have  opportunity. 

BESEBGEB  IN  A  8ABANG. 

My  room  answers  the  purpose  of  reception- 
room,  study,  dining-room,  and  bedroom,  and 
is  what  the  Koreans  call  a  '^sarang,''  which 
means  that  it  is  a  place  open  to  any  one  and 
every  one  at  all  times  of  day  or  night.  Pri- 
vacy is  impossible,  and  there  has  been  such  a 
run  of  visitors  from  early  morning  until  mid- 
night that  I  could  hardly  find  time  to  rest  or 
eat.  I  do  break  away,  however,  at  times  in 
order  to  get  some  fresh  air  and  exercise,  and 
on  these  walks  I  have  been  able  to  talk  to 
many  and  to  distribute  some  tracts,  and  so 
make  my  presence  more  widely  known. 

GROUPS  OF  INQUmSBS. 

I  have  been  invited  to  several  houses  for 
conversation  with  groups  of  inquirers,  and 
have  been  to  some  of  the  surrounding  viUages 
for  the  same  purpose.  Our  tracts  are  being 
widely  read  throughout  all  this  region,  and 
many  are  discussing  the  Gospel  story.  Many, 
no  doubt,  are  hindered  from  accepting  the 
truth  by  fear  of  persecution  and  ridicule. 
They  look,  however,  upon  the  entrance  of 
the  Gospel  as  a  promise  of  better  times,  and 
in  their  hearts  wish  us  all  success.  I  hear  of 
many  who  are  secretly  praying  to  the  true 
God.  The  mass  of  the  people,  however,  are 
suspicious  and  even  bitter. 

THE  PSBID3  OF  OHUBGH  GOING. 

Our  helper,  Mr.  Hau,  established  a  Sunday 
service  in  the  spring  of  1893,  which  resulted 
in  a  class  of  catechumens  gathered  in  the  fall, 
and,  as  the  winter  goes  on,  the  number  of 
attendants  is  increasing.  Those  who  venture 
to  attend  our  services  have  to  bear  much  con- 


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temptaons  treatment,  and  are  exposed  to 
much  annoyance  in  the  waj  of  petty  persecn- 
tion.  They  are  roundly  abased  for  being 
onfilial,  since  it  is  known  that  Christians  give 
up  ancestral  worship,  and  they  are  warned 
that  they  are  likely  to  lose  their  heads,  as  was 
the  case  with  the  Romanists  some  thirty 
years  ago.  Most  of  them,  however,  have 
stood  firm. 

A  HEROIC  OONFLICT  WITH  TEMPTATION. 

One  man,  with  whom  I  have  the  deepest 
sympathy,  is  having  a  hard  struggle.  He  is 
an  innkeeper  and  also  a  merchant,  but  has 
been  a  great  drunkard  and  gambler.  He  is 
well  known  throughout  the  entire  region, 
and  has  a  respectable  position  among  the 
Koreans.  He  accepted  Christianity  boldly, 
and  thus  became  a  marked  man.  He  was 
the  victim  of  practical  jokes,  ridicule  and 
abuse.  He  took  this  all  good  naturedly  and 
held  on,  but  has  had  a  hard  battle  with  his 
temptations  to  drink.  His  former  friends 
conspire  to  secure  his  fall,  and  beset  him  con- 
tinually with  temptation,  insisting  that  he 
must  drink  with  them,  according  to  Korean 
custom,  and  accusing  him  of  being  false  to 
his  friends  in  refusing.  He  has  often  fled  to 
my  room  to  escape  from  yielding  to  their 
importunities,  and  has  sought  strength  here 
in  prayer.  He  has  sometimes  fallen,  much  to 
his  own  sorrow  and  my  grief,  but  the  Lord  is 
helping  him,  and  victory  is  sure.  The  change 
in  him  is  so  great  that  his  wife  and  brother, 
although  they  call  him  *' crazy, "and  ridicule 
him  for  becoming  a  Christian,  yet  rejoice  in 
his  reformation,  and  look  upon  us  as  having 
done  them  the  greatest  favor  in  leading  him 
to  forsake  his  evil  ways.  His  conversion  has 
been  talked  about  far  and  near,  so  that  the 
Gospel  has  been  brought  to  the  attention  of 
many  who  would  otherwise  have  been  indif- 
ferent. 

THE  FIRST  SHEAVES  OF  THE  HARVEST. 

On  Sunday,  January  7,  we  had  a  joyful 
communion  service.  Eight  men  from  our 
class  of  catechumens,  having  given  good  evi- 
dence of  conversion,  were  publicly  baptized 
and  partook  of  the  Lord's  Supper.  It  was  a 
happy  day  to  my  native  helper  and  myself, 
for  we  have  been  longing  and  praying  for 
conversions,  and  for  some  signs  of  the  Spirit's 


work  in  the  hearts  of  Koreans.  Our  Sabbath 
services  are  regularly  attended  by  a  little 
group  of  over  a  dozen,  and  so  a  b^inning 
has  been  made  in  this  city,  which  is  said  to  be 
the  most  wicked  in  Korea.  Two  of  these 
communicants  are  about  forty  years  of  age. 
The  others  are  young  men  under  thirty. 
They  are  a  praying  band,  and  are  earnest 
students  of  God's  Word. 

'*  FOR  I  HAVE  MUCH  PEOPLE  IN  THIS  CITY." 

I  feel  more  than  ever  encouraged,  and  am 
longing  for  the  time  when  Mr.  Lee  and  Dr. 
Irvin  can  join  me.      I  fear  that  it  is  not  yet 
advisable  for  them  to  attempt  a  permanent 
residence  here,  as  the  coming  of  so  many 
mi  ght  arouse  open  opposition .   My  own  course 
is  clear,  and  I  am  free  to  give  all  my  time  to 
this  province,  alternating  between  this  city 
and  our  northern  outstation,  Eui  Ju.     I  shall 
remain  here  as  long  as  my  passport  allows 
and  my  health  holds  out.     I  may  be  driven 
elsewhere  for  rest  and  recuperation,  as  sum- 
mer comes  on,  as  my  cramped  quarters  in  a 
malarious  district,  with  poor  fare,  may  prove 
too  much  of  a  tax  upon  my  strength.     I  have 
long  wished,  however,  for  this  direct  contact 
with  the  people,  living  among  them,  meeting 
them  every  day  and  all  day,  entering  into 
their    lives,    and    having   them    enter    into 
mine,  although,  I  confess,   that  sometimes 
this  is  not  easy  to  endure.     My  opportunities 
for  personal  work  are  abundant,  and  I  am 
sowing  the  seed  for  a  harvest  of  souls  which 
is    sure  to  come,   and  of    which  we  have 
already  the  first  fruits.      I  shall  visit  Eui  Ju 
in  February.      I  hope  the  death  of  our  evan- 
gelist Paik  has  not  demoralized  that  little 
band.     As  soon  as  Dr.  Irvin  can  establish 
himself  here  we  shall  expect  to  have  a  hos- 
pital of  some  kind,  even  if  it  is  only  a  single 
room  at  first.      If  we  can  secure  Government 
permission  to  establish  a  hospital,  this  will 
give  us  indirectly  the  right  of    residence. 
Will  not  the  Board  and  our  Church  stand  by 
us  in  these  plans  for  pushing  our  work? 

The  little  daughter  of  one  of  our  missionaries 
having  heard  so  many  prayers  about  making 
people  Christians,  put  this  petition  in  one  of  her 
prayers:  ''Please  make  papa  and  mama  Chris- 
tians." She  also  once  prayed,  "Take  us  all  to 
heaven  and  our  trunks  with  us," 


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THE  NEW  YEAR'S  OUTLOOK  IN  INDIA. 

BEY.  8.  H.  KELLOGG,  D.D.,  LANDOUB. 

The  year  opens  fnll  ef  omens  of  gieat 
approadiing  changes  in  India.  PoUUcallj, 
the  most  important  fact,  as  for  some  time 
past,  is  the  threatening  attitude  of  Russia 
on  our  northwest.  While  so  late  as  1880,  the 
Russian  lines  were  but  a  few  miles  east  of  the 
Caspian,  they  are  now  looking  on  the  Hindu 
Rush  near  the  Indian  frontier.  This  more  of 
the  Russian  army  toward  India,  which  began 
shortly  after  the  check  of  her  advance  on 
Constantinople  in  the  lastRusso-Turkish  war, 
is  regarded  in  India  as  but  a  part  of  a  vast  pro- 
ject, the  plans  of  which  cover  not  years,  but 
generations,  and  have  now  come  to  affect 
▼ery  gravely  a  large  part  of  the  habitable 
world.  In  the  development  of  these  plans, 
great  wars,  like  the  Crimean  or  the  Russo- 
Turkish,  are  but  as  it  were  only  single  cam- 
paigns. 

THE  RUSSIAN  MENAGE. 

Russia  menaces  India;  but  her  real  object- 
ive is  not  Calcutta,  or  Bombay,  but  Constant- 
inople and  the  Holy  Land.  Twice  in  the 
present  generation,  during  the  Crimean  and 
the  Russo-Turkish  War,  the  efforts  of  Russia 
to  possess  these  strategic  points  have  been 
thwarted  by  British  diplomacy  and  British 
arms,  but  she  has  not  relaxed  her  purpose, 
and  she  does  not  intend  that  England  shall 
again  be  able  to  prevent  her  from  attaining 
the  goal  of  centuries.  Hence,  though  since 
her  last  defeat  she  has  been  quiet  in  Europe, 
she  has  been  steadily  making  immense  prepa- 
rations for  her  next  supreme  effort. 

And  when  she  shidl  judge  the  moment 
opportune  for  another  m<we  against  Turkey, 
Russia  will  be  able  to  say  to  England  that  if 
again  she  should  interfere  with  the  imperial 
plans  in  the  eastern  Mediterranean,  she  must 
do  so  at  the  risk  of  losing  her  Indian  Empire. 

Even  if  things  continue  as  now,  Russia 
will  be  prepared  to  reply  to  the  next  British 
interposition  to  thwart  the  Czar's  ambition  in 
Constantinople  or  Syria,  by  a  flank  movement 
on  British  India,  in  which  doubtless  she  hopes 
to  be  seconded  by  an  uprising  of  millions  in 
India,  ready  to  welcome  any  ally  for  the  time 
who  will  help  turn  out  the  bated  English. 


In  this,  too,  is  to  be  found  the  meaning  of  the 
establishment  in  late  years  of  the  great  naval 
depot  at  Vladivostock  on  the  North  Pacific, 
soon  to  be  connected  by  the  Trans-Siberian 
Railroad  with  St.  Petersburg.  Vladivostock 
and  the  Siberian  Railroad  are  in  fact,  Russia's 
strategic  answer  to  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
road, as  a  possible  alternative  route  for  troops 
to  India.  From  this  point,  when  the  crisis 
comes,  she  will  be  able  to  menace  India,  not 
only  from  the  northwest  by  land,  but  from 
the  sea  at  such  points  as  Calcutta  and  Bom- 
bay, and  intercept  army  reinforcements  com- 
ing via  Canada,  no  less  than  those  sent  via  the 
Suez  Canal.  ^ 

This  too  is  generally  recogniaed  to  be  the 
ominous  significance  of  the  recent  appearance, 
in  defiance  of  treaties,  of  the  Russian  navy 
in  the  Mediterranean,  and  the  ill-boding  alli- 
ance with  France,  by  which  Russia  secures 
Toulon  as  a  naval  station  on  French  soU,  in 
case  of  need. 

In  all  of  these  movements,  India  is  vitally 
concerned,  for  the  highest  naval  authorities 
question  whether  even  now,  in  event  of  need, 
England  would  be  able  to  reinforce  the  Indian 
army  via  the  Suez  Canal,  if  France,  who 
wants  Egypt,  and  Russia,  who  wants  Con- 
stantinople, chose  to  oppose  her. 

A  DISTURBED  EMPIRE. 

All  this  is  well  understood  here,  where 
one  therefore  regards  with  concern  the  evi- 
dently increasing  restlessness  of  the  people, 
signalized  by  various  bloody  riots  here  and 
there  during  the  past  year,  and  the  rancorous 
anti-English  tone  of  a  large  part  of  the 
native  press. 

And,  most  unfortunatelj,  just  at  this  time, 
when  it  were  desirable  at  all  hazards  to  con- 
ciliate the  people  by  lessened  taxation,  it  be- 
comes imperative  to  spend  enormous  sums  in 
placing  the  whole  north-west  frontier  of 
India  in  the  highest  state  of  military  prepa- 
ration for  the  shock  of  the  expected  Russian 
assault.  This  alone  means  heavy  additional 
taxation ;  but  within  the  past  year  the  phe- 
nomenal depreciation  of  silver  has  made  the 
situation  far  worse.  A  very  large  part  of 
the  expense  of  the  Indian  administration  has 
to  be  met  in  London  in  gold  payments,  and 


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[Moi,, 


now  that  exchange,  of  which  the  old  par 
was  about  two  shillings  to  the  rupee,  has 
fallen  to  Is.  2^.,  all  this  enormoos  loss  of 
nearlj  40  per  cent,  on  expenditure  must 
apparently  be  met  by  still  additional  taxation. 
It  is  not  strange  that,  with  business  paralyzed, 
my  last  daily  paper  described  the  state  of 
feeling  in  Calcutta  and  Bombay  as  one  of 
^^  intense  anxiety.^' 

It  is  no  wonder  that  the  educated  classes, 
especially,  are  restless.  They  say,  and  truly, 
that  they  could  administer  the  goyemment 
on  much  smaller  salaries  than  their  English 
rulers,  and  regard  themselves  as  wronged,  so 
long  as  the  highest  places  are  not  open  to 
them  all  without  restriction.  They  forget 
what  the  recent  repeated  bloody'conflicts  be- 
tween Hindus  and  Mohammedans  signally 
demonstrated,  that  in  the  present  feverish 
state  of  public  feeling  and  bitter  religious  ani- 
mosity, only  a  power  believed  by  both  sides  to 
be  absolutely  neutral  and  impartial,  can  be 
trusted  by  both  to  preserve  the  public  peace. 

THE  BKLIGIOUS  UNREST. 

As  under  antilogous  political  conditions 
elsewhere,  with  many  of  the  people,  religious 
feeling  deepens,  and  fanaticism  is  fife.  All 
feel  that  the  times  are  pregnant  with  ap- 
proaching change,  and  each  hopes  that  it 
shall  be  to  the  advantage  of  his  own  particular 
cult.  Among  the  Hindus  many  say  that  the 
Eal  Yug  is  about  ending,  and  that  the  ex- 
pected tenth  Incarnation  of  Deity  is  at  hand, 
coming  on  a  white  cloud  with  a  two-edged 
sword  to  execute  vengeance  on  the  wicked. 
Many  Mohammedans  look  for  the  speedy  ap- 
pearing of  the  last  of  the  Imams,  the  rise  of 
the  ^^Dajjal"  or  Antichrist,  and  thereafter 
the  second  advent  of  ^^  Hazrat  Isa  "  to  destroy 
him  and  save  all  those  good  Mussulmans,  of 
whom  in  that  day  the  prophet  shall  say 
ITmwkjrfi/ (** My  people").  Among  Hindus 
and  Mohammedans  sect  rises  on  sect,  all  aim- 
ing at  social,  political,  or  religious  reform,  or 
all  of  these  together.  Many  of  these  reforms 
are  evidently  due  in  part  to  Christian  influ- 
ence, even  though  bitterly  opposing  the  Gos- 
pel. Others,  again,  as  in  the  mischievous 
** Cow-Protection"  societies,  seek  to  revive 
the  grossest  forms  of   Hindu  superstition. 


Only  this  week  there  has  appeared  here  in 
Dehra  a  Maulavi,  who  comes,  claiming  to  be 
one  of  twelve  apostles  sent  out  by  one  Mirza 
Gulam  Ahmad  Qadir  Fani,  a  Mohammedan 
reformer  in  the  Punjab,  who  asserts  himself 
to  be  the  fulfillment  of  the  Gospel  prediction 
of  the  second  advent  of  Christ.  By  this,  as 
the  Dehra  apostle  explained  before  me  the 
other  evening,  he  does  not  mean  that  he  is 
himself  Jesus  Christ,  but  that,  just  as  John 
the  Baptist  came  *^  in  the  spirit  and  power  of 
Elias,"  so  this  man  appears  ^^in  the  spirit 
and  power  "  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  preach  €K>d*8 
truth  as  revealed  in  the  Law,  GK)speI,  and 
Quran. 

BEADINBSS  TO  HBAB  THE  GOSPEL. 

As  the  result  of  the  whole  situation,  politi* 
cal,  social  and  religious,  we  see  in  many 
places  a  spirit  of  unusual  readiness  to  listen 
to  any  one  who  may  profess  to  set  forth  a 
solution  of  the  mysteries  and  remedy  for  the 
crying  evils  of  the  time.  Only  two  or  three 
evenings  ago,  taking  advantage  of  the  pres- 
ence of  this  Mohammedan  ^^ apostle''  in  the 
city,  we  announced  a  meeting  in  our  High 
School  to  consider  the  questions  raised  by  this 
man  in  regard  to  the  asserted  death,  resur- 
rection and  second  advent  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
and  our  room,  holding  between  two  and  three 
hundred,  was  filled,  as  also  all  the  doors  and 
passage  ways,  with  a  crowd  of  Mohamme- 
dans, largely  of  the  better  class,  who  listened 
for  a  full  hour  to  the  Gospel,  with  a  civility 
and  decorum  which  could  not  have  been 
exceeded  in  America;  a  refreshing  contrast  to 
the  contentien  and  ribaldry  one  often  has  to 
meet  in  bazaar  preaching. 

Surely  these  are  times  in  India,  when  the 
words  of  Zechariah  may  be  fitly  applied: 
*^  Ask  ye  of  the  Lord  rain  in  the  time  of  the 
latter  rain,  even  of  the  Lord  that  maketh 
lightnings;  and  He  shall  give  to  every  one 
showers  of  rain,  to  every  one  grass  in  the 
field."  (R.  v.).  Will  not  all  our  readeis 
in  their  meetings  for  prayer  for  missions 
especially  remember  India,  that  threatened 
calamities  may  be  averted,  the  counsels  of  the 
wicked  brought  to  nought,  and  the  Holy 
Ghost  move  on  this  troubled  deep  with  life- 
^ving  power! 


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Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  Abroad. 


JANUARY, 
PBBRUARY, 
MARCH,      . 
APRIL,    . 
MAY, 
JUNB,      . 
JULY, 
AUGUST, 
8BPTBMBBR, 
OCTOBBR,     . 
HOVBMBBR, 
DBCBMBBR, 


QenenU  Review  of  Missions. 

Missions  in  China. 

Mexico  and  Central  America. 

.  Missions  in  IndU. 

Missions  In  Siam  and  Laos. 

.  Missions  in  AfHca. 

Chinese  and  Japanese  in  America. 

.    Missions  in  Korea. 

Missions  in  Japan. 

Missions  in  Persia. 

Missions  in  South  America. 

Missions  in  Sjrria. 


SIAM  AND  LAOS  MISSIONS. 
SIAM  lassioif. 
Bangkok:  On  the  river  Meinam,  25  miles  from 
itB  mouth;  occupied  as  a  missioD  station,  1840  to 
1844,  and  from  1847  to  the  present  time;  missionary 
laborers,— Rev.  E.  P.  Dunlap,  D.D.,  and  Mrs.  Dun- 
lap,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  A.  W.  Cooper,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J. 

A.  Bakin,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Dunlap,  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
P.  L.  Snyder,  W.  B.  Toy,  M.  D.,  and  Mrs.  Toy,  Rev. 

B.  T.  Boon  Itt,  Miss  Edna  S.  Cole,  Miss  Larissa  J. 
Cooper,  and  Miss  Elsie  J.  Bates;  one  native  licen- 
tiate preacher,  and  eight  native  Christian  teachers. 

Pbtchaburxs:  On  the  western  side  of  the  Gulf 
of  Siam,  eighty-five  miles  southwest  of  Bangkok; 
occupied  as  a  mission  station  in  1861;  missionary 
laborers— Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  McClure,  Rev  and 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Eckles,  J.  B.  Thompson,  M.D.,  and  Mrs. 
Thompson,  Miss  Annabel  Gait,  Miss  Emma  Hitch- 
cock, and  Miss  Annie  M.  Ricketts;  seven  native 
teachers. 

Ratbubee:  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in  1889; 
missionary  laborers— James  B.  Thompson,  M.  D., 
and  Mrs.  Thompson,  and  Rev.  E.  Wachter,  M.  D., 
and  Mrs.  Wachter;  one  licentiate,  and  one  native 
teacher. 

In  this  country  :  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Thompson. 

LAOS  MISSION. 

Chieng-Mai:  on  the  Maah-Ping  River,  500  miles 
north  of  Bangkok;  occupied  as  a  mission  station, 
1876;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Daniel  McGilvary, 
D.D.,and  Mrs.  McGilvary,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  D.  G. 
Collins,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Stanley  K.  Phraner,  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  Evander  B.  McGilvary,  James  W.  Mo- 
Kean,  M.D.,  and  Mrs.  McKean,  Miss  Isabella  Grif- 
fin, and  Misses  Cornelia  H.  and  Margaret  A.  McGil- 
vary; Rev.  Nan  Tah^  and  27  native  helpers.  18 
outstations. 

Lakawn:  on  the  Maah-Wung  river,  75  miles 
southeast  of  Chieng-Mai ;  occupied  as  a  mission 
station,  1885;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Jonathan 
Wilson,  Rev.  S.  C.  Peoples,  M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Peoples, 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  Taylor,  Rer.  J.  S.  Thomas, 


M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Thomas,  Miss  Kate  N.  Fleeeon,  Miss 
Margaret  Wilson,  and  Miss  Julia  A.  Hatch;  8 
native  helpers;  1  outstation. 

Lampoon:  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in  1891; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  C.  Dodd, 
and  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Irwin;. 4  native  assist- 
ants. 

Pra:  southeast  from  Lakawn;  occupied  as  a  mis- 
sion station,  1898;  missionary  laborers— W.  A. 
Briggs,  M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Briggs,  and  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
W.  F.  Shields. 

In  this  country:  Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  C.  Dodd,  and 
Rev.  Daniel  McGilvary,  D.D.,  and  Mrs.  McGilvary. 


The  statistics  of  the  Siam  Mission  for  1898  are  as 
follows: 

Ordained  missionaries,  8;  medical  missionaries, 
3;  wives  of  missionaries,  10;  single  lady  mission- 
aries, 5;  native  licentiate  preachers,  2;  native  teach- 
ers and  helpers,  21 ;  number  of  churches,  7 ; 
communicants,  817;  added  during  the  year,  12; 
boys  in  boarding  schools,  158;  girls  in  boarding 
schools,  74;  boys  in  day  schools,  52;  girls  in  day 
schools,  23;  total  number  of  pupils,  307;  number 
of  schools,  10;  pupils  in  Sabbath-schools,  551. 


The  statistics  of  the  Laos  Mission  for  1893  are  as 
follows: 

Ordained  missionaries,  10;  missionary  physicians, 
8;  wives  of  missionaries,  9;  single  lady  mission- 
aries, 5;  ordained  native  evangelists,  1;  native 
helpers,  50;  churches,  9;  communicants,  1590; 
added  during  the  year,  289;  boys  in  boarding 
schools,  170;  girls  in  boarding  schools,  100:  men  in 
training  class,  40;  children  in  day  schools,  60;  total 
number  of  pupils,  870;  total  number  of  schools, 
6;  pupils  in  Sabbath-schools,  475. 


Six  years  ago  there  were  four  churches,  ten  elders, 
and  241  members  in  the  Laos  Mission.  Now  there 
are  nine  churches,  thirty  elders,  and  1,590  members. 
In  the  first  year  of  the  past  seven  there  were  110 
additions  to  the  church;  in  the  second  year,  129;  in 
the  third,  180;  in  the  fourth,  190;  in  the  fifth,  241; 
in  the  sixth,  299;  in  the  seventh,  289.  The  Presby- 
tery of  North  Laos  stands  in  the  very  front  rank  as 
a  fruitful  field  which  the  Lord  has  blessed  with 
abounding  and  continuous  harvests. 


Another  appeal  similar  to  the  one  sent  last  year 
has  come  from  Laos.  It  is  the  outcome  of  the 
Annual  Meeting  held  in  December,  and  reviews  the 
wonderful  record  of  the  Mission  for  1893.  It  urges 
once  more  upon  the  Board  and  the  Church  the 
abounding  and  magnificent  opportunities  of  our 
Laos  field.  Go  forward  seems  to  be  both  a  Divine 
command  and  at  the  same  time  the  enthusiastic  pur- 
pose of  our  missionaries.  The  only  discouraging 
feature  of  the  work  there  seems  to  be  the  outlook 


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towards  America,  Almost  the  only  anxiety  <mr 
miaioiiaries  have  is  with  referenoe  to  the  needed 
tnpport  and  reinforcements  from  the  home 
chnrchee. 

Among  the  stirring  sentences  of  this  appeal  are 
the  following: 

'*  Reports  from  all  departments  and  from  all  parts 
of  the  field  are  encouraging.  Regular  church  work, 
eyangelistic,  medical  and  school  work,  translating 
and  printing,  pioneer  touring  and  the  opening  of 
new  stations,  all  show  progress.  Record  of  defeat  is 
not  heard.    It  is  victory  in  every  quarter." 

"Never  has  so  much  direct  evangelistic  work 
been  possible.  Never  has  so  much  territory  been 
covered,  and  never  has  the  wide  extent  of  the  Laos- 
speaking  people  been  so  fully  known." 

•*  Very  early  in  the  year  Dr.  McGilvary,  accom- 
panied by  Mr.  Irwin,  began  a  five  months*  tour  to 
the  distant  North.  This  tour  revealed  to  us  a  hith- 
erto untouched  territory  for  the  redemption  of 
which  our  Church  is  alone  responsible.  The  wel- 
come which  was  given  the  missionaries  leaves  no 
doubt  that  the  GK)spel  will  find  as  ready  acceptance 
there  as  in  the  old  established  stations.  Surely  we 
must  enter  this  open  door." 

"  Other  tours  were  made  by  Dr.  Peoples,  from 
Lakawn,  by  Mr.  Dodd,  from  Lampoon,  and  by  other 
misdonaries.  All  found  ears  and  hearts  open  every- 
where. Native  evangelists  have  been  active  in 
many  directions,  and  report  ready  listeners  and  a 
most  encouraging  outlook." 

"  The  theological  school  at  Lampoon  graduated 
five  students,  one  of  whom  was  ordained  to  the 
Gospel  ministry,  and  the  other  four  licensed  as 
preachers.  Much  progress  has  been  made  in  the 
translation  of  the  Bible  into  the  Laos  language. 
Two  thousand  copies  of  the  Gospel  of  Matthew, 
already  printed,  have  been  sold.  One  colporteur 
reports  that  so  eager  are  the  people  to  hear  him 
read  to  them  from  our  Christian  books  that  he  is 
often  able  to  visit  but  two  or  three  houses  in  the 
course  of  a  day." 

**The  medical  work  in  all  stations  has  prospered 
beyond  any  previous  year,  and  a  fairly  large  num- 
ber of  conversions  are  directly  traceable  to  its 
influencs." 

"  So  complete  and  joyful  have  been  the  successes 
along  all  lines  that  at  our  Annual  Meeting  scarcely 
a  word  was  heard  of  the  discouragements.  In  truth 
our  chief,  almost  our  only,  discouragement  is  the 
limited  force  of  workers  to  grapple  with  the  con- 
stantly increasing  work.  At  the  beginning  of  1880, 
the  total  adult  church  membership  was  585.  At  the 
close  of  1898,  it  was  1,590.  God  has  set  his  seal  upon 
this  work.  He  is  constantly  opening  new  doors 
before  us.  He  has  given  this  land  into  the  hands  of 
our  Church.  He  has  set  before  us  a  mighty  and  yet 
a  glorious  task." 

"  In  the  name  of  the  Lord  of  the  Harvest  we 
appeal  to  the  Church  for  a  large  and  speedy  increase 
in  the  equipment  of  this  mission.  Our  appeal  of  last 
year  was  not  in  vain.    The  opening  of  Pra  Station, 


and  the  sending  of  five  new  misdonaries  is  a  long 
step  already  made,  and  the  action  of  the  General 
Asrombly  authorizing  the  establishment  of  the 
Mitchell  Memorial  Laos  Fund  is  the  promise  of  still 
further  advance.  We  thank  God  and  take  courage." 


From  this  point  the  appeal  continues,  urging  in 
detail  specific  requests,  which  it  finally  summarises 
as  follows: 

"We  are  applying  then  for  a  minister  and  a 
physician  for  Chieng-Hai  Station,  a  physician  for 
Lampoon  Station,  a  minister  and  a  physician  for 
Raheng  Station,  a  minister  for  new  work,  a  physi- 
cian for  Chieng-Mai  Station,  two  young  ladies  for 
Lalcawn  Station,  and  one  young  lady  for  Chieng-Mai. 
To  summarize — we  ask  for  three  ministers,  four 
physicians,  their  wives,  and  three  young  ladies  in 
all  seventeen  persons.  We  ask  for  the  opening  d 
two  new  stations,  and  the  building  of  five  mission 
houses." 

"  The  Lord  has  blessed  the  faith  and  the  gifto  <tf 
the  people  in  the  past.  This  broad,  open  field  is  a 
challenge  to  the  faith  of  our  Church.  The  Gospel 
may  be  as  freely  preached  as  in  any  part  of  the 
home  land.  Every  city,  every  village,  every  tem- 
ple, every  highway  and  bjpath,  every  home  and 
almost  every  heart  is  open  for  the  proclamation  of 
the  truth.  Will  not  the  Church  send  us  help,  and 
send  it  now !"         

Rev.  Hugh  Taylor,  of  Lakawn,  writes  of  a  touch- 
ing Christmas  offering  for  the  Mitchell  Memorial 
Fund,  from  the  native  Christians  at  that  station, 
amounting  in  all  to  $6.86.  He  speaks  of  the  genuine 
pleasure  of  the  natives  in  making  their  humble  con- 
tribution, and  reminds  us  that  it  was  given  by  these 
whose  incomes  hardly  exceeded  in  any  case  $8.00  per 
month.  Shall  not  this  example  hasten  the  comple- 
tion of  this  memorial  offering  on  the  part  of  our 
American  churches  I 


The  First  Church  of  Chieng-Mai  has  recdved  184 
additions  upon  confession  of  faith,  the  laigest  num- 
ber of  any  year  in  its  history.  Sixty-five  have  been 
dismissed  to  other  churdies.  The  Chieng-Mai 
Church  is  the  mother  church  of  this  Laos  land.  At 
Lakawn  and  Lampoon  and  at  six  other  localities 
under  the  care  of  the  Chieng-Mai  Station,  churches 
have  been  organised  by  a  nucleus  sent  from  this 
fruitful  mother  church.  It  has  now  a  total  adult 
membership  of  719. 

The  Maa  Dawk  Dang  Church,  connected  with  the 
Chieng-Mai  Station,  has  received  41  on  confession, 
making  a  total  of  228  on  the  rolL  They  have  out- 
grown their  church  building,  and  either  it  must  be 
enlarged  or  a  new  one  erected. 

The  Chieng-Dow  Church,  connected  with  the 
Chieng-Mai  Station,  has  been  organised  during  the 
year  with  47  communicants  and  88  non-communing 
members,  all  dismissed  from  this  First  Church  of 
Chieng-Mai.  At  the  first  communion  six  were 
received  on  confession  of  faith* 


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Theboys^  Rchool  at  Chleng^Mai  under  the''care*'of 
Mr,  Collins  and  Miss  McGilvary,  has  had  a  total  of 
140  pupils  enrolled,  an  increase  of  35  over  last  year. 
The  appeal  made  last  year  for  the  enlargement  of 
the  school  building  was  granted,  and  accommoda- 
tions are  now  provided  for  150  boys.  Twelve  of  the 
scholars  united  with  the  church  during  the  year. 

The  girls'  school,  under  the  care  of  Miss  Oriflan 
and  Miss  Alice  McGilvary,  has  had  66  scholars  in 
attendance,  over  50  of  whom  were  boarders.  Thirteen 
of  the  pupils  have  united  with  the  church  during 
the  year. 

The  theological  training-school  at  Lampoon  has 
been  attended  by  25  students,  five  of  whom  were 
graduated. 

Medical  work  has  been  conducted  at  Chieng-Mai, 
Lakawn,  Lampoon,  and  Pra,  as  well  as  in  many 
other  localities,  by  means  of  extensive  tours.  Early 
in  the  year  the  Gh>vemor  of  Chieng-Mai  requested 
Dr.  McKean  to  take  charge  of  vaccination  in  this 
province.  Over  8,000  persons  have  already  been 
vaccinated.  The  patients  treated  by  Dr.  McKean 
numbered  5,000,  exclusive  of  vaccination.  The  re- 
ceipts have  been  sufl9cient  to  pay  all  expenses  of 
medicines,  instruments,  and  salary  of  assistants. 
Evening  prayers  were  held  on  the  medical  com- 
pound, and  none  leave  the  hospital  without  having 
had  the  Gospel  presented  to  them.  Dr.  Briggs,  for- 
merely  of  Lakawn  Station,  has  removed  to  Pra, 
where  a  medical  work  of  much  promise  has  been 
opened.  

The  Book  of  Acts  and  the  first  half  of  the  Gospel 
of  John  have  been  translated  by  Rev  E.  B.  McGil- 
vary.  The  Book  of  Acts  is  already  in  press  and  an 
edition  of  3,000  is  about  to  be  issued,  while  460,000 
pages  of  the  Scriptures  and  436,500  pages  of  religious 
tracts  have  been  printed  the  past  year.  The  Gk)6pel 
of  Matthew  is  already  in  circulation,  an  edition  of 
8,000  having  been  printed  during  the  year.  Mr.  Col- 
lins, the  manager,  reports  that  a  new  press  is  much 
needed.  

The  opening  of  Pra  is  one  of  the  important  events 
of  the  year  in  Laos.  The  welcome  cablegram, 
**  Granted,"  opened  the  way  for  this  forward  step. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Briggs  have  taken  up  their  residence 
at  Pra,  They  were  given  a  warm  welcome  by  all 
the  authorities.  The  welcome  from  the  people  began 
at  a  point  fifteen  miles  from  the  city,  and  extended 
to  the  mission  compound,  where  a  large  crowd  had 
gathered.  Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  F.  Shields  will  also 
join  the  new  station. 

Our  mission  in  Siam  has  felt  somewhat  during  the 
past  year,  the  disturbing  infiuences  of  the  political 
difflcultieB  with  France.  Educational  work  has  been 
in  a  measure  interfered  with,  and  the  minds  of  people 
have  been  preoccupied  and  excited  by  the  threaten- 
ing possibilities  of  war.  The  work  in  all  its  depart- 
ments has,  however,  been  pushed  with  energy,  and 
it  has  been  emphatically  a  busy,  crowded  year  with 
all  our  miflsionaries. 


Evangelistic  work  at  Bangkok  has  been  conducted 
by  means  of  nine  Sabbath  services,  six  Sabbath- 
schools,  three  daUy  public  services,  and  six  addi- 
tional weekday  appointments.  Special  evangelistic 
visits  have  been  frequently  made  to  the  temples  and 
bazaars,  and  to  the  floating  houses  and  boats  on  the 
river.  The  work  of  the  ladies,  both  married  and 
single,  of  the  Bangkok  Station,  is  especially  noticed 
in  the  report,  as  they  have  assisted  largely  in^the 
schools  "and  Sabbath-schools,  and  in  missionary 
tours,  and  have  conducted  two  Sabbath  services 
especially  for  women,  throughout  the  year. 

Educational  work,  from  the  kindergarten  to 
theological  instruction,  seems  to  be  represented  at 
Bangkok  Station.  At  the  date  of  the  report  Mrs. 
Eakin  was  about  to  open  a  kindergarten  at  Sumray. 
A  beginning  in  theological  instruction  had  also  been 
made  in  the  training  of  the  senior  native  teacher  at 
the  Sumray  Christian  High-school  with  a  view  to 
his  entering  the  ministry.  The  Mission  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Presbytery  of  Siam  will  soon  establish 
a  Theological  Seminary  at  Sumray  under  the  care 
of  Rev.  J.  A.  Eakin  and  Rev.  A.  W.  Cooper.  Mrs. 
A.  W.  Cooper  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Dunlap  have  each  con- 
ducted primary  schools,  which  they  have  not  only 
served  personally,  but  also  supported.  The  Christian 
High-school  at  Sumray,  with  an  average  attend- 
ance of  78,  and  the  Wang  Lang  school,  with  56,  and 
the  Bon  Mai  school,  with  40,  have  bjBen  conducted  as 
usual. 

The  Mission  Press,  under  the  superintendence  of 
Rev.  J.  B.  Dunlap,  has  done  more  and  better  work 
than  ever  before.  The  Daybreak^  a  monthly  Journal 
in  Siamese,  edited  by  Rev.  J.  A.  Eakin,  has  been 
regularly  published.  Bound  volumes  of  the  peri- 
odical are  in  demand  for  use  as  reading  books 
in  the  government  schools.  Thirty-five  separate 
books  and  tracts  are  now  published.  More  have 
been  sold  than  in  any  previous  year.  The 
entire  Bible  is  now  ready  in  Siamese.  The  total 
of  pages  printed  last  year  was  4,588,200.  Nearly 
half  of  this  number  were  pages  of  Scripture  printed 
for  the  American  Bible  Society,  whose  agent,  Rev. 
Mr.  Carrington,  has  been  engaged  in  a  careful  re- 
vision of  the  Siamese  Scriptures.  Over  10,000  tracts 
have  been  sold,  and  several  thousand  gratuitously 
distributed  throughout  Siam. 

A  notable  feature  of  the  work  of  our  missionaries 
at  Bangkok  this  past  year  has  been  the  number  and 
extent  of  the  tours.  Mr.  Snyder  has  made  five.  Dr. 
E.  P.  Dunlap,  three,  Mr.  Eakin,  Mr.  Cooper,  and 
Miss  Eakin  have  each  made  two.  Miss  Cole  and  Miss 
Bates  one,  and  several  others  have  been  made  by 
native  helpers.  These  tours  have  extended  up  the 
rivers  and  along  the  coasts,  far  into  Lower  Siam,  to 
provinces  which  have  never  been  visited  before  by  a 
missionary.  Miss  Cole  and  Miss  Bates,  accon  i  panied 
by  the  wife  of  a  native  helper,  made  a  fifteen  days 
river  tour  to  the  eastward  into  a  dark  comer  of 
Siam.  They  were  most  kindly  received,  and  had 
every  opportunity*  for  personal  miMJooary  work. 


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The  trip  was  not  without  its  adYenturee,  not  the 
least  of  which  was  a  night  spent  in  nursing  a  boat- 
man who  had  been  attacked  by  cholera.  Reports 
of  two  of  these  trips  to  Lower  Siam  are  accessible  to 
our  readers.  One  will  be  found  in  Thb  Chuboh  at 
UoMB  AiTD  Abroad  for  August,  1898,  pc^^  91,  and 
another  referring  to  a  tour  of  remarkable  interest 
and  extent  is  given  in  this  issue.  Both  are  trcm  the 
pen  of  Rev.  Dr.  B.  P.  Dunlap.  Dr.  Dunlap  in  these 
two  tours  traveled  nearly  5,000  miles,  and  was  absent 
from  home  nearly  four  months.  He  was  accom- 
panied on  the  first  tour  by  Rev.  Mr.  Eakin,  and  on 


the  second  by  Rev.  Mr.  Garrington,  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bible  Society.  We  are  sure  that  a  f asdnating 
interest  could  be  given  to  a  Monthly  Concert  by  a 
brief  sketch  on  the  part  of  the  past(»:,  or  some  one 
appointed  to  this  service,  of  these  two  ndssionary 
tours  into  *'the  regions  beyond.**  Special  pains 
should  be  taken  by  means  of  a  map  to  indicate  the 
geographical  extent  and  relations  of  the  provinces 
visited. 

Our  Presbyterian  missionaries  in  Siam  make  cor- 
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other  mlMioiiajries  at  Bangkok,  who,  while  working 
independently,  are  in  most  happy  fraternal  relations 
with  the  niembers  of  our  Mission.  Special  mention 
has  been  made  of  Mrs.  S.  B.  Bradley,  who  died  last 
year,  leaving  a  precious  and  fragrant  memory  with 
all  who  knew  her.  She  went  to  Siam  in  1850,  and 
for  forty-three  years  continued  at  her  poet,  never 
seeing  her  native  land  again.  Her  husband.  Rev. 
D.  B.  Bradley,  M.  D.,  of  the  American  Board,  died 
in  1878.  For  the  past  twenty  years  this  devoted 
widow  has  supported  herself  and  family  by  the 
printing  press,  while  preaching  Christ  in  any  and 
every  possible  way.  Two  of  her  daughters  became 
the  wives  of  missionaries  to  the  Laos,  and  she  her- 
self was  truly  a  mother  in  Israel.  She  was  meet 
hospitable  and  cordial  to  all  missionaries.  Her  intel- 
lectual g^ts  fitted  her  for  literary  work  in  the 
Siamese  language,  into  which  she  rendered  the  Book 
of  Psalms  in  a  translation  which  is  worthy  of  admi- 
ration for  its  elegance  and  power.  She  was  known 
and  respected  by  the  King  and  high  officials,  and 
was  diligent  in  mission  work  among  the  lowly. 

Another  ally  in  the  good  work  is  the  agent  of  the 
American  Bible  Society,  Rev.  John  Carrington, 
who  accompanied  Dr.  Dunlap  in  his  recent  mission 
tour  to  Lower  Siam.  He  was  formerly  one  of  our 
missionaries,  and  is  still  in  hearty  sympathy  with 
us,  while  pushing  earnestly  his  own  special  work  of 
Bible  distribution.  He  is  truly  **in  labors  more 
abundant,**  and  **  in  joumeyings  often,**  and  is  a 
tower  of  strength  to  our  cause  in  Siam. 

Reference  is  made  also  to  the  co-operation  of  Rev. 
H.  Adamsen,  M.  D.,  a  self-supporting  Baptist  native 
of  Siam,  educated  in  America.  He  combines  with 
his  medical  work  evangelistic  services  in  Siamese, 
sharing  with  our  missionaries  in  the  care  of  a 
weekly  meeting  held  in  a  crowded  part  of  Bangkok. 

The  hearty  alliance  of  these  friends  is  a  cause  for 
gratitude,  and  their  services  to  the  cause  of  Christ 
in  Siam  are  worthy  of  cordial  recognition 

In  connection  with  Siam  our  readers  will  not 
forget  the  interesting  letter  of  the  Board  of  Mis- 
sions to  the  King  of  Siam,  published  in  the  April 
number,  page  290.  An  excellent  historical  sketch  of 
Missions  in  Laos,  by  Rev.  Chalmers  Martin,  will  be 
found  in  the  number  for  May,  1892,  page  426.  An 
account  of  neighboring  missions  in  Indo-China  will 
be  found  in  the  same  number,  page  428. 

Evangelistic,  educational,  and  medical  work, 
interspersed  with  tours,  have  been  faithfully  con- 
ducted at  the  Petchaburee  and  Ratburee  Stations  of 
the  Siam  Mission. 

Our  illustrations  present  the  royal  palace  at  Bang- 
kok, and  the  residence  of  one  of  our  missionaries. 
The  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Laos  Biission  has  been 
photographed,  as  it  were,  en  route^  the  photograph 
having  been  taken  just  as  the  visitors  had  mounted 
their  elephants,  to  take  their  departure  from 
Lakawn  after  the  close  of  the  annual  meeting.  The 
land  of  the  White  Elephant,  is  also,  in  these  modem 
days,  the  land  of  the  missionary  elephant. 


MISSIONARY  EXPLORATION  IN  LOWER 
..,„.,,.;^  SIAM. 

'J,    BEY.  EUOENB  P.  DUNLAP,  D.D.,  BANGKOK. 

We  have  jast  retomed  from  a  two  months' 
tour  throagb  the  seyen  provinces  of  lower 
Siam  that  face  to  the  west  on  the  Bay  of 
Bengal,  extending  up  and  down  the  Malay 
Peninsula  between  seven  and  ten  degrees 
north  latitude.  To  reach  these  provinces  we 
made  a  detour  by  steamer  from  Bangkok  to 
Singapore,  where  we  were  privileged  to  spend 
three  days.  England  has  made  this  city 
a  striking  object  lesson  to  all  Malaysia 
and  the  surrounding  nations.  The  misery 
and  filth  which  we  see  at  Bangkok  in  a  single 
day  we  would  not  behold  in  Singapore  during 
an  entire  year.  We  found  the  Church  of 
England,  the  Presbyterians,  the  American 
Methodists,  and  the  Plymouth  Brethren  all 
engaged  in  missionary  work  in  the  city.  The 
Methodists  are  laboring  vigorously  in  all 
branches  of  missionary  work,  and  are 
especially  strong  in  their  educational  depart- 
ment. The  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society 
has  also  an  agency  in  Singapore,  and  is  car- 
rying God's  Word  to  the  people  of  the  Malay 
Peninsula  and  the  Archipelago,  sending  its 
colporteurs  into  Sumatra,  Java,  Borneo,  Cel- 
ebes, and  the  Phillippine  Islands.  We  were 
informed  by  the  agent  that  he  sells  the  Bible 
in  his  depository  in  forty-five  languages,  and 
that  two  hundred  languages  are  spoken  in  the 
city. 

UP  THE  STRAIT  OF  MALAOOA. 

From  Singapore  we  proceeded  up  the 
Strait  of  Malacca  about  380  miles  to  Penang, 
called  also  Prince  of  Wales  Island.  It  is 
under  English  control,  as  part  of  what  is 
known  as  tbe  Straits  Settlements.  England 
has  given  to  this  charming  island  many  of  the 
benefits  of  Christianity  and  civilization,  such 
as  churches,  free  schools,  hospitals,  impartial 
administration  of  justice,  beautiful  clean 
streets,  good  sanitary  regulations,  the  prohi- 
bition of  gambling,  including  betting  at 
races,  and  restrictions  upon  the  lading  and 
unlading  of  ships  upon  the  Sabbath.  Three 
Protestant  societies  are  here  represented  in 
missionary  work,  but  no  one  is  working  for 
the  Siamese  of  the  island.  We  were,  there- 
fore, glad  to  devote  three  days  to  proclaiming 


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ROYAL  PALACE,    BANGKOK. 


the  Gospel  among  them.  We  sold  them 
copies  of  the  Bible  and  Christian  books,  and 
visited  three  Buddhist  temples,  occupied  by 
thirty  Buddhist  priests,  and  preached  to 
good  audiences  in  each  temple.  The  priests 
rr*ceiyed  us  kindly,  and  listened  closely  to  the 
preaching,  and  all  seemed  rejoiced  to  meet 
foreigners  who  could  speak  to  them  in  their 
own  language.  We  also  preached  in  English, 
and  addressed  an  audience  of  English-speak- 
ing people  on  The  Mission  Work  in  Siam. 

A  STRATEGIC  STATION  FOR  PRESBYTERIAN 
MISSIONS. 

From  Penang  we  took  a  coast  steamer  for 
the  Island  of  Salang  (called  also  Junk-Ceylon, 
or  Pooket),  about  180  miles  in  a  north-west- 
erly direction  from  Penang.  We  visited  the 
town  of  Pooket,  on  the  seacoast,  and  were 
received  very  kindly  there  by  Siamese  oflS- 
cials,  who  permitted  us  to  lodge  in  a  comfort- 
able cottage  in  a  cocoanut  grove  by  the  sea- 
side. On  the  following  morning  we  began 
work  among  the  islanders,  and  during  the 
day  sold  859  portions  of  the  Scriptures  and 


some  tracts  and  Christian  books,  and  preached 
in  market-places  and  in  a  large  Buddhist 
temple,  experiencing  a  hard  but  joyful  day^s 
work.  The  next  day  we  disposed  of  more 
than  two  hundred  books,  and  preached  the 
Gospel  to  large  audiences.  We  were  glad  to 
meet  three  English  missionaries  who  are 
laboring  for  the  Chinese  of  the  island,  and 
were  refreshed  by  joining  them  in  the  worship 
of  our  Lord.  They  have  gathered  some  dis- 
ciples and  are  hopefully  at  work.  But  there 
are  no  missionaries  to  the  Siamese  of  that 
island.  The  climate  is  healthful,  and  the 
island  has  charming  bays  and  beautiful 
mountain  scenery.  The  Presbyterian  Church 
should  occupy  and  use  it  as  a  central  station 
for  publishing  the  Gospel  to  the  Siamese 
provinces  along  the  coast.  The  Siamese 
Government  reaps  a  large  revenue  from  the 
extensive  tin  mines  of  the  province,  which 
are  the  most  productive  of  the  large  number 
of  the  same  kind  along  the  coast.  There  are 
40,000  people  on  the  island,  twenty  Buddhist 
temples,  and  about  one  hundred  priests. 


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MISSIONARY  BE8IDENCE,    BANGKOK. 


ON  THE  BORDEBS  OP  BURMA. 

We  left  Pocket  on  an  English  steamer  and 
went  along  the  coast  180  miles  north  to  the 
Ranong  province.  The  river  Pak-Chan, 
about  three  miles  wide  at  its  mouth,  separates 
this  province  from  southern  Burma.  Ranong 
City  is  situated  in  one  of  the  most  beautiful  val- 
leys I  have  ever  seen.  There  we  spent  several 
delightful  days  in  preaching  the  Gospel.  The 
GK)vemor  gave  us  a  comfortable  cottage  on 
the  mountain  side,  and  some  of  the  officials 
showed  us  no  little  kindness.  Some  extensive 
tin  mines  enrich  the  province,  but  we  had 
not  time  to  visit  them.  We  saw  each  day  a 
herd  of  elephants  carrying  the  ore  to  the  fur- 
naces in  the  city.  We  went  in  various  direc- 
tions, visiting  the  people  from  house  to  house, 
and  sold  about  500  copies  of  our  books.  We 
had  perfect  freedom  in  condactiDg  our  work, 
and  preached  in  the  prison,  the  market-place, 
police-court,  court-house,  and  in  several  Bud- 
dhist temples. 

INTERESTED  HEARERS  IN  A  REMOTE  PROVINCE. 

At  one  of   the  temples  the  head   priest 


seemed  deeply  impressed.  On  the  night  of 
our  first  visit  to  the  temple  he  read  the  Bible 
until  midnight,  and  early  the  next  day,  which 
was  the  Sabbath,  he  sent  a  priest  inviting  us 
to  come  and  preach  again,  saying,  *^I  want 
to  know  more  of  the  teaching,  but  how  can  I 
learn  without  a  teacher  ?"  We  went  gladly, 
and  I  have  rarely  seen  closer  attention  to 
preaching.  There  was  also  much  inquiry  by 
other  priests.  The  head  priest  and  one  of  the 
others  declared  their  willingness  to  accept  the 
GKxspel,  urging  us  to  remain  and  teach  them 
the  true  way.  A  carpenter  who  was  working 
at  the  temple,  also  expressed^deep  interest  in 
our  teaching,  followed  us  to  our  lodging-place 
for  books  and  further  instraction,  and  said 
that  he  would  trust  Jesus.  He  informed  us 
that  two  of  his  brothers  had  been  converted 
m  Burma.  Such  experiences  lighten  the 
burdens  of  itinerating  and  cause  us  to  forget 
our  cares.  We  found  the  mountain  air  of  the 
province  very  bracing,  and  feel  sure  that  it  is 
an  enticing  field  for  the  itinerating  mission- 
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CANOEING  UP  THE  PAK-GHAN. 

We  left  Ranong  in  a  canoe,  in  which  we 
trayelled  and  lived  for  six  days,  going  np  the 
Pak-Chan  river.  We  labored  in  a  number  of 
villages,  and  found  the  people  all  ignorant  of 
the  Gospel,  never  having  Tieard  cfthe  Saviour, 
We  reached  little  villages  in  charming  valleys 
along  the  mountain  streams,  away  in  the  in- 
terior. What  a  joy  it  was  to  carry  to  them 
God's  own  Word,  and  trust  Him  to  use  it  for 
their  salvation.  We  then  crossed  over  into 
Burma  to  a  village  of  the  Maliwun  Province, 
having  been  informed  that  many  Siamese 
were  living  there.  As  we  neared  the  village 
several  soldiers  of  the  English  army,  natives 
of  India,  loaded  their  guns  to  give  us  a  hot 
salutation.  But  when  we  approached  them 
vnth  Bibles  and  tracts  in  hand,  and  assured 
them  that  we  were  messengers  of  peace,  they 
soon  put  away  their  guns  and  extended  to  us 
the  liberty  of  the  village,  and  in  it  we  had  a 
delightful  day^s  work.  The  Siamese  listened 
attentively  to  our  preaching,  and  purchased 
many  of  our  books. 

A  LONE  ENGLISHMAN  MfNUS  HIS  ALMANAC. 

In  the  village  we  met  a  lone  Englishman, 
who  is  laboring  to  develop  the  tin  mines  of 
the  province.  He  gave  us  a  warm  welcome, 
and  urged  us  to  remain  and  teach,  offering  us 
his  home.  We  had  a  dispute  with  him 
regarding  the  day  of  the  week.  He  con- 
tended that  it  was  Friday,  and  we  that  it  was 
Thursday.  After  getting  out  of  the  jungles 
we  found  that  we  were  right,  but  I  presume 
that  the  Englishman  will  go  on  keeping  Mon- 
day for  Sunday  until  some  person  sends  him 
an  almanac.  On  our  way  down  the  river  we 
labored  in  several  villages,  and  then  boarded 
a  coast  steamer  and  took  passage  for  return 
to  Pooket,  via  Ta  Eooa  Pa  Province.  This 
we  found  to  be  second  on  the  coast  in  respect 
to  its  tin  mines,  exporting  from  60,000  to 
60,000  slabs  a  year,  each  slab  weighing  sixty- 
five  pounds.  We  proceeded  twenty- two  miles 
in  a  canoe  up  the  river  from  the  anchorage  to 
the  city  of  Ta  Kooa  Pa,  the  capital  of  the 
province.  Our  canoemen  entertained  us  with 
fearful  stories  of  the  crocodiles  of  the  river, 
remarking  that  they  were  very  fond  of  China- 
men and  devoured  from  four  to  five  a  year, 


and  might  be  equally  as  fond  of  foreigners. 
We  noticed  along  the  bank  nu?nerous  shrines 
devoted  to  the  gods  that  are  supposed  to 
control  the  crocodiles.  Tigers  are  also  numer- 
ous in  the  province,  but  I  had  no  hairbreadth 
escape  to  relate. 

A  PROVINCE  WITHOUT  A  CHRISTIAN  TEACHER. 

We  reached  the  city  safely.  It  is  a  place 
of  2,000  inhabitants,  the  capital  of  a  province 
of  25,000.  The  people  seemed  anxious  for 
our  books,  for  in  four  hours  we  sold  877 
copies.  How  sad  that  in  all  this  province 
there  is  not  a  witness  for  Christ.  On  the  fol- 
lowing day  we  reached  Pooket,  and  were 
welcomed  by  friends  made  during  our  former 
visit.  We  held  but  one  preaching  service,  at 
which  we  (a  ^  a  number  of  Government  offi- 
cials, who  questioned  us  very  closely  as  to 
the  doctrines. 

A  MODERN  SEROIUS  PAULUS. 

The  next  day  we  went  in  a  small  steamer, 
at  the  mvitation  of  the  governor  of  an 
adjoining  province,  to  labor  in  his  domain, 
which  is  forty  miles  by  sea  from  Pooket.  The 
Governor  had  never  heard  the  Gospel,  so  as 
soon  as  we  were  comfortably  fixed  in  tbe 
steamer  he  begged  us  to  preach  to  him  and 
his  followers.  We  gladly  spent  the  time  tell- 
ing the  attractive  stories  of  Jesus  and  His 
power  to  save.  The  Governor  seemed  deeply 
moved  by  the  two  doctrines  of  the  *'  forgive- 
ness of  sins^^  and  ^^  life  eternal.'*  We  gave 
him  a  copy  of  the  New  Testament  and  a  full  set 
of  our  Christian  books,  which  he  promised  to 
read.  On  our  arrival  in  his  province  he 
treated  us  very  kindly,  permitting  us  to  lodge 
in  a  well-furnished  brick  house.  We  found  a 
demand  for  our  books,  and  disposed  of  about 
500  copies,  and  preached  in  several  places  in 
the  capital  without  hindrance. 

THROUGH  MAJESTIC  SCENERY. 

When  we  took  leave  of  the  (Governor  he 
presented  us  with  a  good  stock  of  provisions, 
and  insisted  on  sending  us  to  the  next  pro- 
vince in  his  canoe,  manned  by  five  of  his 
men.  We  went  through  rivers,  canals,  and 
beautiful  mountain  streams,  while  the  scen- 
ery was  grand  beyond  description.  At  one 
place  the  stream  on  which  we  were  traveling 


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passed  through  a  natural  tunnel  under  a 
large  mountain.  The  entrance  to  the  tunnel 
was  charmingly  decorated  with  stalactites 
hanging  like  great  icicles.  We  passed 
through  and  found  it  about  800  feet  long 
and  50  feet  wide,  the  water  in  it  being 
delightfully  cool  and  80  feet  deep.  Through- 
out the  tunnel  beautifully  colored  stalactites 
were  hanging  from  the  ceiling.  In  the  Uni- 
ted States  such  a  place  would  attract  tour- 
ists from  afar.  After  a  journey  of  thirty 
mUes  in  a  canoe  we  reached  the  Panga  Pro- 
vince, and  lodged  in  a  shed  on  the  river 
bank  for  seven  days.  The  Panga  valley  is 
the  gem  of  the  coast,  surrounded  by  walls  of 
magnificent  rocky  mountains  clad  in  green. 
We  visited  almost  every  home  in  the  valley, 
and  taught  and  preached  in  numerous  places. 
The  people  received  us  as  friends,  and  we 
disposed  of  over  500  books.  The  seed  thus 
sown  will,  in  God^s  time,  bring  a  harvest. 

SEVEN  YEARS  OF  PRAYER  FOR  A  MISSIONARY. 

At  Panga  we  took  a  small  coast  steamer, 
commanded  by  a  Malay,  for  the  Trang  Pro- 
vince, about  100  miles  south.  We  were  very 
sorry  to  have  to  pass  by  one  Siamese  Prov- 
ince. On  our  arrival  at  Trang  we  began 
work  at  the  capital,  and  then  took  a  canoe  up 
the  river,  working  in  towns  by  the  way, 
until  we  reached  the  main  market  town  of 
the  province,  where  wa  spent  some  delight- 
ful days  in  publishing  the  truth.  The  second 
Governor  of  the  Province  gave  us  free  lodg- 
ing in  a  Chinese  hotel.  The  people  received 
us  very  kindly.  In  this  town  we  were  glad 
to  find  an  earnest  Christian  merchant,  a 
Chinaman  who  was  converted  in  Hong  Kong. 
He  was  joyful  because  of  our  visit,  and  ac- 
companied us  in  our  work,  giving  up  his 
business  for  the  time  that  he  might  enjoy 
the  preaching.  He  told  us  that  he  had  been 
praying  for  seven  years  that  Christian  mis- 
sionaries might  be  sent  to  the  province,  and 
now  realized  that  his  prayers  had  been 
answered.  He  begged  us  to  remain,  offering 
to  contribute  for  our  support  in  the  work, 
but  we  could  only  assure  him  that  we  would 
try  to  return  next  year.  It  gave  us  sorrow 
to  leave  him,  and  he  was  so  sorry  to  have 
OS  go  that  he  accompanied   us  twenty  miles 


down  the  river,  still  entreating  us  to  remain, 
and  the  following  day  walked  twelve  miles 
to  bid  us  good  bye,  bringing  with  him  a  lot 
of  provisions  to  help  us  on  our  way.  Pray 
for  this  one  lone  Christian  on  the  coast.  In 
the  Trang  Province  we  disposed  of  the  re- 
mainder of  our  books,  and  could  have  sold 
hundreds  more.  The  province  is  noted  for 
its  pepper  culture,  and  also  produces  some 
tin.  It  is  the  largest  province  reached  dur- 
ing our  tour,  having  a  population  of  80,000. 
There  are  thirty-eight  Buddhist  temples,  and 
230  priests,  but  no  missionary  to  give  the 
Gospel  to  the  people. 

FOUNDATIONS  FOR  OTHERS  TO  BUILD  ON. 

Ours  was  the  first  missionary  visit  to  the 
province.  In  fact,  so  far  as  Siamese-speak- 
ing missionaries  are  concerned,  this  is  the 
pioneer  tour  for  all  this  coast.  Time  after 
time  we  preached  to  crowds  who  had  never 
before  heard  the  Saviour's  name.  If  Gtod 
spares  me,  I  hope  to  go  over  the  same  route 
next  year,  and  feel  confident  that  I  shall  find 
some  believers.  My  fellow-laborer  was  Rev. 
John  Carrington,  Superintendent  of  the  work 
of  the  American  Bible  Society  for  all  Siam, 
who  is  laboring  earnestly  and  faithfully  to 
place  the  Bible  in  the  homes  of  Siam,  and 
deserves  the  prayers  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  A  native  evangelist  also  accom- 
panied us,  who  was  faithful  in  helping  to 
bear  the  burdens  and  bold  in  his  testimony 
for  the  Master.  With  the  exception  of  two 
days'  sickness,  we  were  kept  in  perfect 
health.  We  traveled  about  8,000  miles, 
labored  in  seven  provinces,  preached  in  tem- 
ples, market-places,  on  the  decks  of  steamers, 
in  prisons,  at  the  fisheries,  and  in  the  homes 
of  the  people.  We  sold  2,687  portions  of 
God's  Word,  in  the  Chinese,  Malay,  and 
Siamese  languages,  but  chiefly  in  the  Siamese, 
and  1,185  Christian  books  and  tracts,  and 
gave  away  about  300  copies,  making  a  total 
of  4,852  copies.  We  had  some  ^^  roughing 
it,"  but  the  service  was  delightful.  It  is  our 
hope  to  tour  through  these  provinces  at  least 
once  a  year,  until  such  time  as  the  Church 
may  enable  us  to  plant  a  central  station  on 
the  coast,  from  which  the  Gospel  may  be 
proclaimed  throughout  all  this  region.  Who 
will  help  to  hasten  that  time? 


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The  Pillar  of  Gtaud  in  Laos. 


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GUaP£L  and  D18PEN8ART,  LAKAWN. 

THE  PILLAR  OF  CLOUD   IN  LAOS:    A 
STORY  OF   PROVIDENTIAL  IN- 
TERPOSITIONS. 

REV.  DANIEL  McGILVARY,  D.D.,  CHIENG-MAI. 

The  pillar  of  cloud  has  led  the  North  Laos 
Mission  from  the  beginniDg.  God's  provi- 
dential care  antedates  its  establishment,  and 
prepared  for  it.  Its  very  geographical  posi- 
tion, by  which  the  country  is  separated  by  a 
long  river  with  rapids,  and  by  mountain 
ranges,  from  the  vices  of  the  great  commer- 
cial emporium  was  not  an  unimportant  factor. 
The  Gospel  had  been  preached  in  Siam  for 
over  three  decades.  Its  civilizing  and  edu- 
cating influences  had  been  accepted,  but  the 
nation  had  been  quite  satisfied  with  these. 
The  fact  that  the  nation  was  benefitted  may 
be  pointed  to  with  gratitude  and  pride  as  one 
of  the  best  illustrations  of  the  incidental 
advantages  flowing  from  mission  work.  But 
it  was  reserved  for  the  Laos  people  to  show 
the  direct  influence  of  the  power  of  the  Gos- 
pel in  Siam. 

EARLY  IMPRESSIONS. 

Our  first  direct  acquaintance  with  the  Laos 
race  was  through  captives  located  in  Petcha- 
buree,  where  they  formed  an  important  por- 
tion of  our  parish.  Dr.  Bradley  was  the  first 
to  be  interested  in  the  more  distinct  Northern 
Laos  in  their  triennial  visits  to  Bangkok. 
This  was  also  their  first  acquaintance  with 
the  mission  work.  The  printing  press  and 
the  medical  work  excited  their  admiration 
and    wonder.     The  Viceroy,   or    Chief,    of 


Chieng-Mai,  whose  consent  was 
essential,  had  expressed  a  will- 
ingness to  have  a  mission  in 
his  country.  Previous  to  this 
date  the  Laos  provinces  had 
been  semi-independent,  serv- 
ing mom  as  buffer  states 
between  Siam  and  Burma, 
while  even  in  Siam  proper 
foreigners  had  not  been  per- 
mitted to  settle  out  of  the 
capital.  The  late  Regent  used 
to  remark  with  pride  that  while 
other  eastern  nations  had  been 
opened  to  commerce  and  civili- 
zation by  foreign  gunboats, 
Siam  had  been  opened  by  the 
missionaries.  It  was  reserved  to  them  also 
to  open  the  interior  by  the  same  peacef  ol  and 
beneficent  agency. 

THE  ROTAL  PERMISSION. 

The  King  then  expressed  his  willingness  to 
grant  permission  for  a  mission  in  Chieng-Mai, 
but  only  with  the  consent  of  the  Chief.  A 
time  was  therefore  selected  when  Chow 
Elawilarot,  the  Chief,  was  in  Bangkok.  At 
the  suggestion  of  the  King,  an  audience  was 
held  with  him  by  the  missionaries,  at  which 
his  Secretary  and  the  United  States  Consul 
were  present.  That  audience  was  held  in  the 
Sala  of  Wat  Chaang,  the  great  Buddhist  tem- 
ple of  Bangkok,  almost  under  the  shadow  of 
its  towering  pagoda.  It  was  a  singular 
spectacle.  The  Chief  sat  on  a  high  stool 
used  by  the  steersmen  in  Laos  boats,  some  of 
the  foreign  auditors  sitting  on  side  seats,  and 
others  standing,  while  the  natives  crouched 
before  him.  The  Consul  stated  our  object, 
Dr.  Bradley  acting  as  interpreter.  The 
Chief  ^s  consent  was  readily  obtained,  as  he  no 
doubt  thought  that  no  Laos  subject  would 
dare  to  embrace  a  new  religion  while  he 
remained  a  Buddhist.  The  Secretary  reported 
his  consent  to  the  King  in  writing.  On  that 
basis  the  royal  sanction  was  given,  and  the 
passports  issued  through  the  Consul.  This 
gave  our  mission  a  legal  standing  with  the 
Siamese  and  Laos  authorities  and  our  own 
ofiGlcial  representative,  and  probably  after- 
wards proved  to  be  the  providential  means  of 
saving  the  mission. 


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EARLY  MARTyRDOMS. 

Another  wonderfal  intprposition  was  the 
subs«»quent  death  of  the  Viceroy,  just  as  the 
dentb  of  a  former  king  of  Siam  had  proved  to 
be  to  the  Siamese  Mission.     The  crowds  that 
came  to  the  mission  in  Laos  at  its  very  incep- 
tion, and  the  boldness  of  the  first  converts  in 
embracing  the  Gospel,  showed  a  secret  power 
that  the  Viceroy  could  not  understand,  and 
suggested  to  him  the  plan  of  stopping  it  in  its 
early  stages.     His  religious  zeal,  combined 
possibly  with  political  motives  urged  upon 
him  by  enemies,   were  the  probable  causes 
which  led  him  to  make  martyrs  of  some  of 
the  converts.     Martyrdom,   however,  never 
stopped  the  progress  of  the  Grospel.     It  was 
his  design  to  compel  us  to  leave,  but  people 
who  were  willing  to  die  for  the  Gospel  were 
not  the  ones  to  be  deserted.      They  were 
worthy  of  sacrifice  and  suffering  on  our  part 
to  make  the   truth   known  to  them.      The 
next  three  months  brought  great  anxiety  to 
the  mission  and  its  friends,  and  to  the  rem- 
nant of  the  scattered  flock,  as  no  one  knew 
to  what  extent  a  ruler  who  had  gone  so  far 
might  go.     When  the  news  reached  Bangkok 
an  officer  was  sent   up  with  Rev.   Messrs. 
McDonald  and  G^eorge,  with  a  royal   letter. 
The  next   day  an   audience  was  held  with 
the  Chief  before  the  whole  Laos  court.     The 
letter  was  read.     It  made  no  allosion  to  the 
martyrdom.     The  Siamese  government  was 
anxious  for  the  missionaries,  but  not  for  the 
continuance  of  the  mission.     When  the  mar- 
tyrdom was  alluded  to  by  one  of  our  party 
the  rage  of   the  Viceroy  knew   no  bounds. 
The  lion  had  been  bearded  in  his  den.    *  *  Yes, 
he  had  killed  the  Christians, 
and  would  execute  any  of  his 
people  who  became  Christians. 
The  missionaries  might  stay  to 
doctor  the   people,   or    make 
merit  in  any  other  way,  but 
rebellion  against  his  god  would 
be  treated  as  rebellion  against 
himself.^'    All  the  court  was 
alarmed    at    his    rage.      The 
audience  closed.    Nothing  was 
accomplished.   Apparently  the 
mission  must  be  relinquished. 


for  our  own  safety.  But  how  could  it  be 
the  will  of  Providence  that  such  an  opening 
should  be  closed  I  Bahang  was  spoken  of 
as  a  place  to  which  we  might  retire.  But 
we  had  seen  more  deeply  than  the  Viceroy 
could  see,  the  disposition  of  the  people 
towards  Christianity,  ^lext  day  the  writer 
of  this  article  called  alone  upon  the  Chief, 
and  had  a  private  interview.  He  was 
evidently  a  little  anxious  lest  he  had  gene 
too  far,  and  readily  consented,  and  even  ad- 
vised us  to  remain  till  his  return  from 
Bangkok,  for  which  trip  his  preparations  were 
nearly  complete.  That  gave  what  we  wanted, 
— time  to  wait  the  development  of  Providence. 

**THE  WRATH  OF  MAN  SHALL  PRAISE  HIM." 

In  Bangkok  he  had  an  apoplectic  attack. 
His  friends  were  anxious  that  he  should  die  in 
his  own  capital,  but  only  his  remains  reached 
it.  Through  a  Laos  superstition,  not  even  a 
royal  corpse  is  allowed  to  enter  the  city. 
His  remains  lay  in  state  outside  the  city  wall 
till  the  grand  cremation  ceremonies  were 
performed  months  afterwards.  What  a  com- 
mentary on  the  second  Psalm!  *'He  that 
sitteth  in  the  Heavens  shall  laugh.  The 
Lord  shall  have  them  in  derison."  The  mis- 
sion was  saved,  and  now  there  is  a  fine 
church,  with  719  members,  just  outside  of 
the  city  that  no  Christian  was  to  be  allowed 
to  enter  1  We  had  permission  to  remain  till 
his  return.  So  we  are  still  there,  even  to  the 
present  hour,  by  the  consent  and  advice  of 
one  who  martyred  Nai  Sunyah  and  Nan  Chai. 

A  NEW  ENEMY. 

The  son-in-law.  Chow  Intanon,  the  present 
Viceroy,    succeeded.     Of    his    kindness    we 


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cannot  say  too  much.  Before  and  since  his 
accession  he  has  been  oar  true  friend.  Bat 
the  line  that  distinguishes  between  personal 
hostility  in  a  mler,  and  a  weakness  that  can- 
not prevent  the  hostility  of  others,  is,  as  far 
as  results  are  concerned,  very  slight.  His 
brother,  Chow  Bachawong,  was  the  virtaal 
head  of  the  government.  Strong,  hostile, 
and  unprincipled,  he  had  the  spirit,  without 
some  of  the  noble  qualities,  of  the  old  Chief. 
For  a  time  he  was  satisfied  with  secret  oppo- 
sition. But  the  growth  and  influence  of  the 
Church,  though  still  retarded  by  his  influence, 
rendered  more  energetic  measures  necessary. 
He  threatened  the  Christians  with  expatria- 
tion and  slavery.  The  latter  he  began  to 
carry  into  effect.  Forbearance  ceased  to  be 
a  virtue,  and  we  had  to  fall  back  on  the  legal 
rights  granted  by  the  Siamese  Government, 
and  applied  to  the  present  young  King,  who 
has  always  been  a  friend  to  the  missionary 
cause. 

0HBI8TIAN  LIBERTY    BY    ROYAL    PROCLAMATION. 

A  combination  of  circumstances  favored 
the  appeal.  Probably  at  no  time  before  or 
since  could  the  same  result  have  been  ob- 
tained. The  Siamese  commissioner,  Phya 
Tape,  favored  us.  Our  appeal  was  sent 
down  with  other  dispatches  in  the  commis- 
sioner's swift  boat.  In  two  months  the  royal 
seal  was  sent  up  with  an  order  to  the  com- 
missioner to  make  a  Royal  Proclamation  se- 
curing liberty  to  the  Laos  to  worship  accord- 
ing to  the  dictates  of  their  own  consciences. 
When  it  arrived  we  were  **like  them  that 
dream,  ^'  and  could  hardly  believe  that  the 
answer  to  our  prayers  had  come.  What  our 
ancestors  had  fought  for  ages  to  attain  was 
secured  to  the  Laos  Christians  by  a  single 
edict.  The  second  Viceroy  and  his  hostile 
party  were  astounded.  The  royal  letter  that 
secured  liberty  to  Laos  Christians  censured 
the  opposition  to  Christianity,  ^^  a  religion 
that  taught  the  people  to  be  good."  A  des- 
perate effort  was  still  made  with  the  commis- 
sioner to  suppress  the  edict,  but  they  were 
quietly  told  the  matter  was  settled.  The 
first  draft  was  sent  us  for  suggestions.  A 
few  were  made,  and  the  next  day  it  was 
posted  on  the  courthouse,  and  sent  to  Lam- 
poon and  Lakawn.    But  even  after  the  Boyal 


Proclamation  the  second  Viceroy  could  and 
would  have  been  a  strong  opposing  power. 
His  death  soon  after  was  another  of  the 
providential  interpositions  in  behalf  of  the 
mission.  **  Surely  by  terrible  things  in 
righteousness  Thou  hast  answered  us,  O  God 
of  our  salvation.'* 

*'  WORKERS  TOOITHCR  WIFH  GOD." 

I  leave  to  younger  brethren  to  report  the 
work  of  later  years  of  greater  visible  results 
which  they  have  witnessed,  and  towards 
which  they  have  largely  contributed.  Among 
the  special  providences  for  the  mission,  I 
would  not  forget  the  sending  of  earnest,  con- 
genial workers,  and,  above  all,  the  constant 
outpouring  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  '*  adding  unto 
the  Church  almost  daily  of  the  saved,"  for 
which  the  incidents  mentioned  in  the  early 
history  of  the  mission  were  the  providential 
preparation.        

SHALL  WE  TAKB  LAOS  f 

RIV.  W.  0.  DODD,  LAMPOON. 

Last  year  an  appeal  came  from  the  Laos 
Mission  for  eighteen  new  workers.  The  feel- 
ing on  the  field  was  unanimous,  both  among 
the  missionaries  and  the  native  Christians, 
that  the  time  had  come  for  a  movement  look- 
ing to  the  immediate  occupation  of  sudi 
points  as  would  command  the  whole  territory 
occupied  by  the  Laos  people.  This  year  the 
appeal  is  renewed.  Why  should  we  answer 
it  in  the  affirmative  f  Why  should  we  seri- 
ously undertake  to  capture  the  Laos  people  at 
once  and  completely  f 

rriS  FEASIBLE. 

There  are  no  closed  doors,  unless  the  French 
close  them  in  the  future  in  some  of  their 
recently  acquired  territory  inhabited  by  the 
Laos  people.  At  present  there  is  a  cordial 
reception  given  to  missionaries  by  the  com- 
mon people  everywhere  among  all  the  Laos. 
To  whatever  village  they  go  they  are  not 
only  welcomed,  but  are  urged  to  stay  longer 
than  the  time  which  they  have  at  their  dis- 
posal. There  is  no  danger  of  mobs  or  even 
of  disrespectful  treatment.  In  all  the  fonr 
stations  already  established  by  tho  Mission, 
ground  has  been  given  by  the  Government. 
In  Lakawn  two  thousand  rupees  in  eash  were 


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contributed  by  the  King  of  Siam  for  the 
medical  work,  and  in  Chieng-Hai,  where  the 
Mission  is  hoping  to  open  its  next  station, 
the  GK>yernor  gave  ground  several  years  ago 
for  the  station  yet  to  be  established.      These 
and  other  details  which  might  be  given,  show 
that  in  Laos  there  is  a  genuine  Macedonian  cry. 
The  feasibility  of  the  attempt  to  occupy 
the  whole  field  is  shown  again  in  the  cheap- 
ness with  which  it  can  be  done.    It  is  easily 
within  the  limits  of  our  purse.     Our  Mission 
has  already  begun  the  training  of  native 
assistants.      This  year's  report  shows  that 
about  fifty  men  have  been  actively  engaged  in 
some  form  of   missionary  service  the  past 
year  at  a  small  rate  of  compensation  for  the 
time  actually  so  employed.      But  these  same 
men  do  a  great  deal  of  work  for  which  they 
receive  no  compensation,  and  there  are  still 
more  men  who  are  in  effect  teachers  and 
superintendents  of  schools,  not  only  on  the 
Sabbath,  but  daily,  who  lead  the  Sabbath  devo- 
tional^services,  are  responsible  for  the  work  in 
out-vUlages,  and  who  do  not  ask  nor  receive 
any  Mission  money  for  it.    Five  dollars  a 
year  will  support  a  student  in  our  Mission 
Training  School  during  the  time  that  he  is  in 
attendance  upon  the  school,   and  the  most 
experienced  Christian  evangelists,  with  the 
single  exception  of  Rev.  Nan  Tah  (whose 
house  is  practically  a  hotel)  do  not  receive 
above  five  dollars  a  month  when  in  the  most 
exacting  itinerating  work.    The  Mission  is 
striving  to  educate  the  nine  native  churches 
and  the  nearly  three  thousand  Christians,  old 
and  young,  to  self-support.      Our  policy  has 
for  years  been  directed  toward  raising  up  and 
training  consecrated  native  workers  for  the 
evangelization  of  the  country.    A  compara- 
tively few  stations,  then,  placed  at  strategic 
points,  and  superintending  the  native  agencies 
from  these  centers,  will  do  the  work  effec- 
tively.   We  shall  thus  not  only  develop  the 
power  of  the  converts  and  endue  them  with 
the  self-perpetuating  spirit  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions among  their  own  yet  unsaved  country- 
men, but  this  plan  will  involve  a  compara- 
tively small  expenditure  of  men  and  means 
brought  from  America. 

AN  IlfPSBATIVB  OBLIGATION. 

Not  only  is  it  feasible  for  us  to  take  Laos, 


but  a  peculiar  responsibility  rests  upon  us  to 
do  so.  In  the  apportionment  of  foreign  fields, 
according  to  interdenominational  comity, 
Siam,  Hainan  and  Laos,  in  Eastern  Asia, 
have  been  given  to  our  Church.  In  these 
three  missions  we  have  the  whole  field,  and 
consequently  the  sole  responsibility.  If  we 
neglect  some  portions  of  the  vast  empires  of 
China  or  India  we  shall  suffer  for  it,  but 
some  other  Church  will  be  inspired  to  do  the 
more  and  to  fill  up  that  which  is  lacking  on 
our  part.  But  unless  we  evangelize  the  Laos 
they  will  not  be  evangelized.  We  have  ac- 
cepted the  call  to  Laos.  We  have  some  mis- 
sionaries on  the  field.  We  have  a  printing 
press  and  a  font  of  type.  We  are  translating 
and  beginning  to  disseminate  the  Word  of 
€K)d  and  the  elements  of  a  Christian  literature. 
We  have  schools  for  boys  and  girls  and  a 
school  for  the  training  of  Christian  workers. 
We  have  introduced  medicine  and  have  a  few 
physicians  on  the  field  doing  a  work  second  to 
no  other  foreign  missionary  agency.  We  are 
committed  to  the  Laos  field,  and  it  is  too  late 
now  even  to  ask  the  question  which  stands  as 
the  caption  of  this  article.  In  the  Providence 
of  God,  Christ's  '*  Go  ye  into  all  the  world  " 
means  to  the  Presbyterian  Church — ^*Go 
everywhere,  but  be  sure  you  go  to  Laos.'' 

AN  DfMEDUTE  DUTT. 

Not  only  is  this  true  on  general  principles, 
but  there  are  special  reasons  for  immediate 
response  on  the  part  of  the  Church.  The 
cession  by  Siam  recently  of  a  large  part  of 
her  territory  to  France,  including  some  of  the 
territory  inhabited  by  the  Laos  people,  serves 
to  accentuate  the  fact  that  our  Laos  people 
will  eventually  be  under  the  control  of  powers 
whose  attitude  towards  us  might  be  very  dif- 
ferent from  that  of  Siam.  The  work  of  appor- 
tionment has  begun.  Our  homogeneous  Laos 
people  are  already  divided  among  the  King- 
dom of  Siam,  the  Republic  of  France,  the 
Empire  of  China,  or  under  the  beneficent 
rule  of  the  Empress  of  India  and  Burma. 
The  rustic  simplicity  of  the  people  will  be 
lost.  They  will  become  commercial,  merce- 
nary, and  vicious.  Romanism  is  already 
strongly  entrenched  at  Luang  Prabang  among 
the  Eastern  Laos.  One  missionary  now  will 
be  worth  ten  a  few  years  later.    He  can 


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MISSION  CBUBCH,  CHIBNQ-MAI. 

do  more  now  in  the  virgin  soil  than  tern  men 
can  do  after  Bomanism  has  ploughed,  sown, 
and  then  left  the  field  to  run  to  atheistic 
weeds. 

These  are  some  of  the  reasons  which  are 
back  of  the  unanimous  appeal  which  comes 
from  the  missionaries  who  are  closest  in 
touch  with  the  facts,  from  the  unanimous 
judgment  also  of  the  Board,  who  last  year 
passed  it  on  to  the  General  Assembly,  and  from 
the  action  of  the  (General  Assembly,  which  in 
answer  sent  down  to  the  churches  the  rec- 
ommendation that  twenty-five  thousand  dol- 
lars be  raised  apart  from  the  regular  contri- 
butions of  the  Church,  which  are  all  needed 
for  work  already  established.  It  was  also 
recommended  that  this  special  fund  be  devoted 
to  enlargement  of  the  work  in  Laos,  and  that 
it  be  known  as  the  Mitchell  Memorial  Fund. 

THE  VOICE  OP  OUR  LORD. 

Can  we  doubt  that  in  this  action  of  the 
Assembly  the  Presbyterian  Church  voices  the 
will  of  the  dear  Saviour  himself?  He  has 
spoken  by  His  Word,  '*  Go  ye."  By  its  feasi- 
bility, by  our  sole  responsibility,  and  by  the 
immediate  urgency,  as  voiced  so  unanimously 
to  the  Church,  His  providence  has  made  this 
command  very  specific.  By  His  spirit  He  has 
spoken  in  special  call  to  two  of  the  mission- 
aries already  upon  the  field,  calling  them  to 
leave  work  already  established,  and  press  on 
to  give  the  light  to  those  who  are  *'  sitting  in 
darkness  and  the  shadow  of  death." 


Who  can  resist  the  voice  of 
Jesus  speaking  in  His  Word, 
His  Providence,  and  by  His 
Spirit?  Only  a  few  thousand 
dollars  yet  remain  to  be  raised 
as  a  special  fund.  In  the  hand 
of  what  steward  of  the  Lord  are 
they  now  ?  Only  a  few  physi- 
cians are  yet  to  be  found  and 
sent;  men  of  faith  and  of 
habits  of  daily  Bible  study 
and  prayer ;  men  anxious,  not 
merely  to  rise  in  their  pro- 
fession or  to  carry  out  on 
heathen  soil  pet  schemes  of 
medical  practice,  but  to  save 
souls  and  to  please  Christ. 
Where  are  they  ? 


A  HARVEST  SABBATH  IN  LAOS. 

JAMES  W.  MoKEAN,  M.D.,  OHIENG-MAI. 

About  two  months  ago  a  Christian  man, 
the  head  of  the  only  Christian  family  in  his 
village,  came  saying  that  two  families  of  his 
neighbors  had  recently  become  believers  and 
desired  further  instruction. 

Welcome  news,  always,  and  the  instances 
are  now  by  no  means  rare,  where  people 
come  asking  for  Christian  teaching.  Two 
elders  from  Bethlehem  Church  were  sent  at 
once  to  visit  them.  These  men  have  been 
students  in  the  theological  school  at  Lam- 
poon and  are  among  our  very  best  evange- 
lists. 

SOWING  IN  GOOD  GROUND. 

From  time  to  time  they  reported  that  the 
interest  in  the  village  was  growing,  other 
households  signifying  their  desire  to  accept 
the  true  religion.  So  great  became  the  inter- 
est that  it  awakened  the  hatred  of  their 
heathen  neighbors.  Very  threatening  letters 
were  sent  to  the  new  believers  and  native 
ridicule  was  heaped  upon  them — but  all  in 
vain.  The  evangelists  remained  at  their  post 
and  were  faithful  in  their  missionary  efforts, 
and  the  people  did  not  forsake  them.  A  few 
days  ago  they  reported  that  six  families  had 
become  believers,  that  they  had  been  diligent 
in  study,  and  that  they  now  desire  baptism. 

GATHERING   IN  THE  FIRST  FRUITS. 

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their  reception.  A  hor8et>aek  ride  of  less 
than  an  hour  brought  as  to  a  tjpical  Laos 
▼illage  on  the  banks  of  the  river  some  four  or 
five  miles  below  Chieng-Mai.  Christian  peo- 
ple from  the  citj  as  well  as  from  the  sur- 
roanding  villages  were  present  in  force.  A 
temporary  addition  had  been  made  to  the 
house  in  order  to  accommodate  all  the  people. 
It  was  estimated  that  two  hundred  people 
were  present,  one  hundred  of  whom  were 
Christians.  Rev.  Nan  Tah,  the  only  ordained 
minister  present,  conducted  the  services. 

The  adult  candidates  for  baptism  numbered 
twenty  persons.  Their  examination  was 
very  satisfactory  indeed.  In  so  large  a  num- 
ber of  persons  it  is  usual  to  find  one  or  more 
whose  examination  is  not  good.  But  it  was 
not  so  here,  this  fact  speaking  well  for  the 
faithfulness  of  the  evangelists  as  well  as  for 
the  intelligence  of  the  people. 

That  morning  service  will  no  doubt  long 
be  remembered  by  the  heathen  people  pres- 
ent. Those  twenty  adults  and  two  children 
standing  up  to  receive  publicly  the  ordinance 
of  baptism  was  a  novel  sight  to  them. 

OTHER  HARVEST  FIELDS. 

In  the  afternoon  a  second  service  was  held 
in  a  village  on  the  opposite  bank  of  the  river, 
at  the  house  of  a  new  believer  who  is  an  in- 
vahd.  Many  of  those  present  at  the  morn- 
ing service  came  also  in  the  afternoon. 

Here  four  adults  and  one  child  received 
baptism,  making  the  total  number  for  the 
day  twenty-four  adults  and  three  children, 
an  auspicious  beginning  for 
the  new  year.  It  was  a  glad 
day.  It  cheered  many  a  Chris- 
tian heart  and  made  a  strong 
impression  on  the  heathen 
neighborhood.  On  the  follow- 
ing day  three  women  came  to 
say  that  they  had  attended 
both  the  services  and  were 
much  stirred  by  what  they 
heard,  and  had  almost  con- 
cluded that  there  was  no  salva- 
tion outside  of  Christianity. 
It  is  believed  that  others  whose 
interest  was  cooled  by  the 
threatening  letters  will  yet 
come  in. 


THE  BLADE,  THE  EAR,  THE  FULL  CORN. 

The  results  of  this  day  probably  had  their 
beginning  some  six  years  ago  when  Dr.  Cary 
was  missionary  physician  in  Chieng-Mai.  At 
that  time  the  man  to  whom  reference  was 
made  in  the  beginning  of  this  article, 
together  with  his  wife,  had  sought  healing  in 
the  mission  hospital.  Both  were  healed  of 
their  diseases,  and  the  wife  became  a  Christian. 
Some  three  years  later  the  father  and  eldest 
son  were  baptized.  This  one  Christian  home 
in  the  darkness  of  that  heathen  village  has, 
by  the  divine  blessing,  been  the  center  from 
which  the  leaven  has  spread,  permeating  and 
giving  life  to  a  large  portion  of  the  village, 
and  the  end  is  not  yet.  Thus  seed  sown  years 
ago  is  to-day  bearing  fruit.  What  may  we 
not  expect  to  reap  from  the  seed  so  constantly 
sown  in  all  the  years  past.  Surely  God  has 
great  things  in  store  for  his  Church  in  this 
land. 

A  LESSON  IN  MISSIONARY  POUCr. 

The  work  in  this  village  also  illustrates  the 
exceeding  value  of  the  native  evangelist.  He 
is  far  belter  able  to  approach  successfully  his 
own  countrymen  with  the  Gospel  than  the 
missionary  with  his  foreignisms  and  strange 
modes  of  speech  and  thought  will  ever  be 
able  to  do.  The  missionary  can  reach  the 
few,  the  native  the  many.  The  missionary 
must  be  the  teacher  of  teachers  and  may 
thereby  multiply  his  influence  a  hundred  fold. 
Important  as  is  each  and  every  branch  of  our 
mission  work,  none  is  more  important  than 


MISSIONARY  RESIDENCE,  CHIENG-MAI. 


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that  of  training  these  evangelists  to  do  the 
effeofcive  work,  the  results  of  which  have 
appeared  in  this  village.  There  are  many 
other  communities  where  the  opening  is  just 
as  favorable  as  in  the  place  just  cited,  bat 
there  is  a  great  lack  of  suitable  men  for 
teachers.  Out  of  an  adult  church  member- 
ship of  less  than  sixteen  hundred  persons, 
some  fifty  or  more  men  are  employed  as 
evangelists — a  large  proportion,  if  we  take 
home  churches  as  a  standard. 

HO,  REAPERS  FOR  THE  HARVEST. 

Our  immediate,  our  imperative  need  is  for 
more  foreign  missionaries  to  gather  in  the 
harvest  already  ripened  to  our  hands,  for  it  is 
from  this  gathered  fruit  that  our  increased 
force  of  ministers,  evangelists  and  teachers 
must  come.  The  large  and  unfailing  returns 
hitherto  had  from  seed  sown  render  most 
urgent  the  demand  upon  our  Church  to  do 
large  things  for  this  mission  and  to  do  them 
now. 

THE  MEDICAL  WORK  AT  CHIENG-MAI. 

JAMES  W.  MoKEAN,  M.  D. 

We  are  thankful  to  record  another  appar- 
ently successful  year  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that,  owing  to  the  habits  and  customs  of  the 
people,  the  accurate  and  scientific  practice  of 
medicine  is  impossible.  The  vast  superiority 
of  Western  medicine  over  the  ignorant,  em- 
pirical and  superstitious  treatment  of  disease 
by  the  native  doctors  makes  even  partial  suc- 
cess a  boon  to  the  people. 

During  the  past  year  there  has  been  the 
usual  yearly  average  of  about  five  thousand 
attendances  at  the  hospital  and  dispensary, 
while  from  all  parts  of  the  city  and  from  sur- 
rounding villages  there  has  been  a  constant 
call  for  the  visits  of  the  physician.  Aside 
from  the  patients  treated  in  and  about  the 
city,  a  large  number  of  persons  are  every  year 
aided  vnth  medicines  on  the  tours  made  by 
the  missionaries  to  adjacent  villages  or  to 
distant  provinces. 

BLESSED  INNOVATIONS. 

Although  this  people  are  slow  to  accept  any 
innovation,  yet  they  are  beginning  to  appre- 
ciate the  value  of  foreign  medicine.  The 
most  prominent  among  the  remedies  which 


they  have  heartily  accepted  are  quinine  for 
the  cure  of  malarial  fever,  iodine  and  iodides 
for  the  cure  of  goitre  and  constitutional  mal- 
adies, and  vaccination  for  the  prevention  of 
smallpox.  Whereas  the  first  missionaries 
were  sometimes  obliged  to  hire  people  to  take 
quinine  in  order  to  convince  them  of  its  value, 
there  !s  now  a  constantly  increasing  demand 
for  it,  hundreds  of  ounces  being  sold  in 
Chieng-Mai  each  year. 

A  very  common  illness  is  goitre  or  big 
neck,  which  while  it  does  not  often  destroy 
life,  produces  marked  deformity  and  gives 
much  discomfort  to  the  patient.  This  disease 
is  so  prevalent  in  some  sections  that  whole 
villages  are  affected,  not  a  single  adult  person 
being  exempt.  Native  treatment  wholly  fails 
to  cure,  and,  it  being  known  that  foreign 
medicine  will  cure  it,  there  is  a  constant  de- 
mand for  it. 

Vaccination,  which  was  introduced  by  Dr. 
McGilvary  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  wa^ 
again  brought  prominently  before  the  people 
by  the  wide  spread  epidemic  of  smallpox  two 
years  ago.  Wherever  it  has  been  practiced 
it  has  convinced  the  people  of  its  value  as  a 
protection  from  that  dreadful  scourge  that  is 
so  common  in  all  parts  of  the  land. 

UNPRINCIPLED  OHARLATANISM. 

Indeed  so  popular  had  it  become  that  un- 
principled men  went  about  the  countiy  vac- 
cinating with  some  compound  of  their  own, 
falsely  giving  out  that  they  had  obtained  vac- 
cine virus  from  the  foreigner  in  Chieng-Mai, 
thus  deceiving  the  people,  securing  their 
money,  and  in  return  failing  to  give  them 
protection  from  the  plague.  In  order  to  put  a 
stop  to  this  deception  and  to  prevent  the 
fraudulent  use  of  the  reputation  which  vacci- 
nation had  honestly  won,  it  was  thought 
advisable  to  ask  from  the  government  the 
control  of  all  vaccinating.  The  medical  work 
having  from  the  first  enjoyed  the  favor  of 
those  in  authority,  this  request  was  readily 
granted,  and  the  Grovemor  of  Chieng-Mai 
issued  a  proclamation  giving  the  whole  mat- 
ter of  vaccination  in  all  his  provinces  into  the 
hands  of  the  missionary  physician,  forbidding 
all  others  to  engage  in  that  work.  During 
the  year  more  than  8,000  persons  have  been 
vaccinated. 


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A  Story  of  Suffering. 


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There  is  a  growing  belief  througbout  the 
land  that  the  foreign  medicine  is  better  than 
the  natiye.  Patients  are  often  brought  from 
long  distances,  and  many  hopeless  cases  are 
bronght  to  the  hospital,  apparently  in  the 
belief  that  once  inside  the  doctor^s  gate  relief 
and  core  are  assnred.  And  herein  is  one  of 
the  most  discouraging  features  of  the  medical 
work,  namely,  that  a  curable  disease  is  treated 
by  native  remedies  or  native  neglect  until  all 
hope  of  recovery  is  past,  and  then  the  patient 
is  taken  to  the  foreign  physician,  who  is 
powerless  to  do  more  than  to  try  to  make  him 
comfortable  until  death  brings  relief. 

A  STOBY  OF  SUFFERING. 

As  illustrating  the  distance  from  which 
patients  sometimes  come  to  seek  aid,  the  case 
of  a  noble  man  from  Muuog  Sing  may  be 
cited.  This  man  was  a  person  of  some 
wealth  and  influence  in  the  province  where 
he  resided,  being  one  of  the  Govemor^s  chief 
men. 

Shortly  after  having  built  a  large  dwelling 
house,  he  was  taken  with  a  very  painful  dis- 
ease. Fearing  that  he  had  in  some  way  of- 
fended the  spirits  in  the  building  of  the 
house,  he  made  frequent  and  valuable  offer- 
ings to  them,  but  all  to  no  purpose.  His  dis- 
ease growing  more  painful,  he  tore  down  his 
fine  house,  hoping  thereby  to  placate  the 
spirits,  but  this  also  failed.  He  then  tried 
merit-making.  Although  he  had  once  been 
a  priest  and  had  the  reputation  of  being  a 
very  learned  man,  he  concluded  to  re-enter 
the  priesthood,  hoping  thereby  to  derive  suf- 
ficient merit  to  cure  him  of  his  malady.  In 
order  to  do  this  he  must  leave  his  home  and 
family.  As  all  priests'  heads  are  closely 
shaven  he  must  also  forfeit  his  hair,  which  was 
more  than  five  feet  and  a  half  in  length  and 
of  which  he  was  very  proud.  But  the  man 
was  in  earnest.  So  cutting  off  his  hair  and 
presenting  it  to  the  governor  he  entered  the 
priesthood  where  he  remained  for  many 
months.  But  even  this  failed  to  cure  him. 
Native  medicine  gave  no  relief  and  the  man 
was  in  despair. 

SEEKING  HELP  FROM  AFAR. 

After  he  had  suffered  four  years  he  met  a 
man  who  formerly  had  been  afflicted  with 


the  same  disease,  and  who  had  been  cured  by 
an  operation  in  the  mission  hospital  in 
Chieng-Mai.  To  Chieng-Mai  he  resolved  to 
go.  But  he  met  many  obstacles.  Chieng- 
Mai  was  very  far  away.  He  was  so  ill  that 
travel  was  almost  impossible.  There  lay  be- 
fore him  a  long  journey  over  mountains, 
through  forest  and  jungle  and  across  many 
rivers,  the  great  Cambodia  being  one  of 
them.  Besides,  in  his  province  very  little 
was  known  of  the  distant  city  of  Chieng- 
Mai,  and  much  less  of  the  foreign  physicians. 
His  friends  tried  to  dissuade  him,  saying  that 
his  hopes  were  in  vain,  that  probably  there 
was  no  foreign  physician  in  Chieng  Mai  and 
that  if  there  were  he  would  not  look  at  a 
poor  sufferer  like  him.  The  princess  tried  to 
prevent  his  going,  and  even  the  governor  re- 
fused his  consent. 

A  PERILOUS  AND  PAINFUL  JOURNEY. 

But  he  was  resolved.  As  he  said  he  ^*  set  his 
heart ''  to  go.  So  .selling  much  of  his  property 
and  getting  together  seven  hundred  rupees,  a 
large  amount  of  ready  money  for  a  man  in 
his  province,  he  set  out  for  Chieng-Mai.  He 
was  too  ill  to  walk,  so  must  hire  men  to  carry 
him  on  a  litter.  Several  days  after  leaving 
home  he  learned  that  the  men  who  carried 
him  were  opium  eaters.  A  few  days  later, 
under  threat  of  being  deserted  in  the  forest, 
he  was  compelled  to  yield  seventy  rupees  of 
his  precious  seven  hundred  for  the  purchase 
of  opium  for  his  men.  One  night  while  sit- 
ting by  his  camp-fire  unable  to  sleep  on 
account  of  pain,  his  carriers  and  servants 
having  retired,  robbers  sprang  into  camp, 
and,  putting  out  the  lights,  plundered  him  of 
his  guns  and  other  valuables. 

RELIEF  AT  LAST. 

On  account  of  his  severe  illness  he  was 
compelled  to  make  long  and  frequent  stops 
on  the  way,  so  that  when  at  last  he  entered 
the  Mission  hospital  in  Chieng-Mai  he  had 
been  a  whole  year  on  the  road  and  his  seven 
hundred  rupees  were  entirely  gone.  He  was 
welcomed  to  the  hospital  as  befitted  his  office 
and  his  need,  as  well  as  his  faith  and  persist- 
ence in  seeking  the  only  hope  of  relief.  After 
preliminary  treatment,  he  was  submitted  to 
an  operation,  with  the  very  gratifying  result 


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of  a  complete  care.  He  had  been  a  great 
sufferer.  He  told  me  that  for  five  years  he 
had  not  been  able  to  sleep  with  any  degree  of 
comfort,  bat  that  every  single  night  he  had  sat 
on  his  bed  racked  with  pain,  nntil  exhausted 
nature  claimed  a  few  short  hours  of  disturbed 
and  unrefreshing  sleep.  It  was  a  great  joy 
to  us  as  well  as  to  him  that  he  was  so  entirely 
relieved  from  all  suffering.  Daring  his  stay 
of  several  months  he  was  daily  instructed  in 
the  Christian  religion.  Learned  in  the  Bud- 
dhist faith  he  readily  comprehended  the  su- 
periority of  Christianity  and  seemed  to  receive 
it  gladly.  When  he  left  for  his  distant  home 
he  professed  to  be  a  believer  in  Christ. 

HKALING  FOB  THE  MIND. 

Other  cases  of  interest  might  be  mentioned. 
One  in  particular  is  that  of  a  man  who  had 
long  suffered  from  mental  disease.  All  dis- 
turbances of  mental  functions  are  here  attrib- 
uted to  spirits.  This  man  surely  seemed  to 
be  possessed  of  the  devil.  So  violent  had  he 
become  that  his  friends  had  removed  him 
from  his  house  and  had  bound  him  with  two 
chains  to  the  posts  of  the  rice  granary.  His 
brother  who  was  a  noted  spirit  doctor  had 
tried  all  his  charms  and  incantations  for  the 
poor  man's  relief,  but  without  avail.  It  hap- 
pened (aye,  did  not  He  who  orders  all  things 
cause  it  to  happen?)  that  two  of  our  native 
evangelists  were  teaching  in  this  village. 
Indeed,  relatives  of  the  sick  man,  including 
the  spirit  doctor,  were  receiving  instruction 
in  the  Christian  religion.  These  evangelists 
taking  pity  on  the  poor  maniac,  applied  for 
medicine  for  his  relief.  It  must  be  confessed 
that  it  was  with  little  hope  of  cure  that  medi- 
cine was  given.  A  few  days  later,  however, 
the  evangelists  reported  that  after  taking  the 
medicine  for  two  days  he  was  so  much  im- 
proved that  his  chains  were  removed.  After 
continuing  the  treatment  for  several  weeks 
the  man  was  apparently  cured.  A  few 
months  later  we  had  the  joy  of  seeing  this 
man,  clothed  and  in  his  right  mind,  received 
into  the  visible  Church,  together  with  his 
whole  family,  including  his  brother,  the  spirit 
doctor.     Almost  a  whole  year  has  elapsed. 


The  man  is  well,  and  to  all  appearances  is  a 
devout  and  consistent  disciple  of  the  Liord. 
A  few  days  ago  at  a  Sabbath  service  at  which 
this  man  was  present  the  native  Christians 
were  remarkiog  upon  his  cure  and  agreed  in 
saying  that  the  divine  power  manifestly  exer- 
cised therein  closely  resembled  that  exercised 
in  apostolic  times  when  Satan  was  cast  out 
of  men's  hearts  and  bodies  to  make  place  for 
the  Spirit  of  Truth. 

AN  IDEAL  SERVICE  FOR  GOOD  PHTSICIAI^. 

This  whole  land  is  full  of  both  physical 
and  spiritual  sickness  and  death.  A  very 
broad  field  for  the  exercise  of  the  healing 
art,  combined  with  the  widest  possible  oppor- 
tunity for  the  proclamation  of  the  GtMpel,  lies 
before  any  Christian  physician  who  is  willing 
to  give  himself  to  such  a  work.  This  mission 
is  calling  for  four  physicians  to  supply  a  most 
pressing  need  in  four  Laos  cities.  Physicians 
of  the  highest  ability,  learned  in  every  branch 
of  their  art,  and  skilled  in  every  department 
of  surgery,  men  with  brains  and  hands 
trained  to  do  effective  work,  but  above  all 
men  of  deep  piety  and  abounding  common 
sense  are  needed.  Such  men,  if  sent  now, 
can  make  their  lives  of  untold  benefit  to  this 
people,  both  in  the  relief  of  suffering  and 
in  the  bringing  to  them  the  light  of  the 
Gospel. 

The  ranks  of  the  medical  profession  in  all 
Christian  lands  are  already  crowded.  Not  so 
in  heathen  countries  where  there  is  a  loud 
call  for  and  a  most  urgent  need  of  medical 
men.  All  the  sick  in  America  are  in  reach  of 
skilled  physicians,  while  thousands  upon 
thousands  of  this  people  are  in  daily  need  of 
that  treatment  which  as  yet  the  foreign 
physician  alone  can  give. 

Would  that  all  Christian  physicians  might 
be  impressed  with  the  crying  need  of  medical 
work  in  heathen  lands,  with  a  knowledge  of 
the  richness  of  the  rewards  it  brings  and  with 
a  due  sense  of  its  vast  importance  as  an 
agency  in  hastening  the  day  when  all  nations 
and  people  and  tongues  shall  have  sought 
and  received  healing  at  the  hands  of  the 
Great  Physician. 


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Our  cliiirch  bnilding  at  Corinne,  Utah,  a 
Ctontile  village  on  the  Central  Pacific  road, 
was  demolished  by  a  stonn  on  March  9. 


All  the  girls  in  our  school  at  Tahlequah, 
Indian  Territory,  are  now  professing  Chris- 
tians except  one,  and  she  is  bat  11  years  of 
age.  

At  Raton,  New  Mexico,  a  family  of  fire 
persons  came  ont  from  the  Romanists  and 
united  with  our  Church  at  the  last  Com- 
munion. Two  scholars  of  our  Mission  schools 
were  also  received  at  the  same  time. 


An  old  German  woman  in  Minn,  who  hun- 
gered for  church  privileges  and  was  impor- 
tunate in  her  request  that  a  minister  be  sent 
to  her  town  said:  *^But  don't  shend  any  o' 
dose  fellers  dot  reat  dose  papers,  but  shend 
von  dat  can  sthand  upe  vitout  any  notes  und 
shust  geef  it  to  um." 


The  group  of  churches  consisting  of  Cur- 
rie,  Shetek  and  Cottonwood  in  Minnesota, 
ministered  to  by  the  venerable  Rev.  Ransom 
Wait,  have  received  large  accessions.  At 
Russell  there  were  89  conversions,  and  a 
church  of  42  members  was  organized  where 
no  church  previously  existed. 


The  Board  is  stretching  its  men  over  as 
much  ground  as  they  can  profitably  work. 
Pastors-at-large  are  doing  great  things  for 
the  vacant  churches  in  some  of  the  Presby- 
teries. But  there  is  a  limit  beyond  which  it 
is  not  wise  economy  to  go.  Rev.  J.  B. 
Welty,  pastor-at-large  for  Palmyra  Presby- 
tery writes:  *' Where  there  are  twelve  or 
fourteen  vacant  churches  a  pastor-at  large 
can't  get  around  often  enough  to  keep  things 
warm,  active  and  going.  One  works  hard, 
and  all  the  time,  and  yet  can't  see  that  he 
accomplishes  much  of  the  great  amount  to 
do." 


Our  missionaries  endure  hardness  as  true 
soldiers  of  the  cross.  Many  of  them  are 
doing  all  in  their  power  to  relieve  the  Board 
in  its  financial  distress. 

One  in  California  proposes  a  reduction  of 
his  own  salary  on  condition  that  his  church 
meet  him  half  way  and  become  self  sustain- 
ing. 

Others  have  taken  subscription  papers  in 
hand  and  canvassed  their  communities  from 
house  to  house  and  thus  raised  money  for  the 
Board — not  for  themselves.  The  results  do 
not  add  a  dollar  to  their  own  salaries. 


A  great  many  people  are  interested  in 
studying  mission  work  in  the  older  states. 
To  meet  the  demand  the  Board  has  issued, 
in  leaflet  form,  the  concert  article  on  ^^  The 
Older  /States  ^^  which  was  published  in  the 
March  number.  It  can  be  obtained  in  quan- 
tities by  addressing  the  office  of  the  Board. 

In  the  same  line  of  study  great  help  may 
be  derived  from  Dr.  Sherwood's  book,  **  Fifty 
Years  on  the  Skirmish  Line,"  recently  pub- 
lished by  Fleming  H.  Revell.  The  half  cen- 
tury of  Dr.  Sherwood's  ministry  is  inter- 
woven with  the  Church's  progress  and 
growth  from  New  York  to  the  Missouri 
River.  Father  Sherwood  has  been  a  typical 
home  missionary  and  his  book  shows  how 
foundations  were  laid  in  these  older  states. 


WhUe  the  material  prosperity  of  our  coun- 
try has  been  to  some  degree  interrupted 
surely  the  Holy  Spirit  has  not  been  withheld. 
He  has  not  shaken  the  country  as  with  a 
tornado— but  by  a  deep  and  quiet  work  of 
grace  He  has  been  turning  the  hearts  of  mul- 
titudes in  all  parts  of  the  United  States  to 
the  Lamb  of  €K)d  that  taketh  away  the  sins 
of  the  world.  The  mission  church  at  Pay- 
son,  Utah,  has  enjoyed  a  Pentecostal  blessing. 
84  have  been  received  into  the  little  church 
and  21  more  have  asked  to  be  numbered  with 
them  and  are  to  be  received  at  next  com- 

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muQioQ.  Killisnoo,  Alaska,  has  received  16. 
FultoD,  a  new  suburb  of  Portland,  Oregon, 
which  onr  Board  declined  to  help  because  it 
was  **new  work,"  has  received  20  converts. 
Westminster  of  Portland,  21 ;'  Oneida  Lake, 
N.  Y.,  24;  Dwaco,  Wash.,  17;  Ridge  Sta- 
tion, Ark.,  18;  Bellevue,  Neb.,  15;  Cove- 
nant, St.  Louis,  Mo.,  24;  Earleville,  111,  10; 
Roxbnry,  Boston,  21;  Altan,  N.  C,  18;  Erin, 
Tenn,  80;  Axtell,  Neb.,  16;  Union,  Oregon, 
12;  Kelso,  Wash.,  88;  Littleton,  Gal.,  13; 
Andover,  S.  D.  10;  Flandreau,  S.  D.,  8;  Liv- 
ingston, Ey.,  8;  The  Taos  Missions,  New 
Mexico,  9;  Otsego,  N.  Y.,  14;  Coeur, 
d^Alene,  Idaho,  18;  Immanuel,  Saginaw, 
Mich,  14;  Logan,  Utah,  9;  Barre,  Vermont, 
6;  and  others  innumerable.  These  are  taken 
as  showing  the  wide  range  of  the  Spirit's 
work  in  our  H.  M.  churches. 


It  has  come  at  last.  It  has  been  expected 
and  prayed  for  for  a  long  time.  It  is  a  Men's 
Missionary  Society^  and  was  recently  organ- 
issed  in  the  Lowe  Avenue  Church,  Omaha,  of 
which  the  Rev.  Dr.  C.  G.  Sterling  is  pastor. 
Dr.  Sterling  is  one  of  our  wisest  and  most 
successful  missionaries.  He  doesn't  under- 
stand why  women  and  children  should  mon- 
opolize the  missionary  society  business,  nor 
why  men  in  organizing  clubs  and  societies 
and  fraternities  for  every  other  conceivable 
cause  should  draw  the  line  at  this  most  im- 
portant of  all  busineds  interests. 


A  group  of  churches  in  Texas,  one  Northern 
and  the  other  Southern,  are  enjoying  the 
services  of  the  beloved  patriarch.  Rev.  Dr. 
W.  E.  Marshall.  Father  Marshall  is  in  the 
Southern  connection,  but  if  all  the  ministers 
of  both  branches  of  the  Church  were  like  him 
we  would  soon  know  **  no  North,  no  South," 
and  be  a  little  mixed  on  East  and  West.  His 
heart  yearns  for  the  conquest  of  his  great 
State  for  Christ.  He  writes:  *'Much  of 
Texas  is  still  a  very  destitute  country,  and 
county  after  county  has  no  Presbyterian 
preaching.  Surely  there  is  work  enough  for 
all  the  Presbyterians,  North  and  South." 


Ijord's  Day  for  the  purpose  of  prayer,  singing 
praises  and  reading  the  Holy  Scriptures,  to- 
gether with  the  works  of  such  approved 
divines  as  the  Presbytery  within  whose  bounds 
they  are,  may  recommend,  and  they  may  be 
able  to  procure;  and  that  the  elders  and 
deacons  be  the  persons  who  shall  preside  and 
select  the  portions  of  Scripture;  and  of  the 
other  books  to  be  read ;  and  to  see  that  the 
whole  be  conducted  in  a  becoming  and 
orderly  manner." 

There  are  some  hundreds  of  vacant  congre- 
gations throughout  our  country  who  might 
follow  that  advice  with  great  pleasure  and 
profit.  No  doubt  many  do.  And  there  are 
hundreds  of  communities  where  the  people  of 
God  though  not  organized  regularly,  might 
do  likewise.  There  are  books  prepared  for 
just  such  service.  One  of  the  best  of  them 
is  published  by  George  Ferguson  &  Co., 
Philadelphia.  It  is  entitled,  ^^  An  Order  cf 
Worship^  with  Forms  of  Prayer  for  Divine 
Service, "  and  was  compiled  from  service  books 
in  use  in  the  Church  of  Scotland,  the  Church 
of  England,  the  Huguenot^s  Church  of  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  and  other  proper  sources.  The 
prayers  are  simple,  scriptural  amd  sufficiently 
varied  and  comprehensive.  The  book  pro- 
vides for  twenty -six  regular  and  nine  special 
services.  No  sermons  or  hymns  are  provided, 
but  places  are  indicated  in  each  service  for 
both.  The  book  has  the  merit  of  being  dura- 
ble and  inexpensive,  being  bound  in  strong 
manilla  paper. 

In  these  times  of  financial  distress  when 
the  Board  of  Home  Missions  is  compelled  to 
suspend  all  new  work  why  might  not  the 
advice  to  vacant  congregations  be  very  gene- 
rally followed  on  the  mission  field? 


Our  Form  of  €k)vemment  recommends  that 
^^Tacant  congregations  meet  together  on  the 


Rev.  B.  F.  Guille,  of  New  Decatur,  Ala., 
says:  *'  There  are  no  peculiarities  in  my  fitfld. 
Sin  is  as  diversified  and  enterprising  as  usual. 
Good  people  are  growing  better  and  bad  ones 
worse. 

Social  selection  is  the  chief  church  differ- 
entiation here  as  well  as  everywhere.  Chris- 
tian love  is  induced  by  the  social  aflSnity.  I 
am  trying  to  broaden  social  afiinity  by  Chris- 
tian love." 


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The  JSaUI—Our  Indian  Bresbytery. 


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Dr.  Phraner,  who  is  spending  the  winter  on 
the  Pacific  coast — not  resting,  but  one  of  the 
busiest  men  in  the  country,  engaging  in 
every  good  word  and  work  and  doing  grand 
service  for  the  Boards — writes:  ''I  find  the 
brethren  leading  their  people  in  this  matter 
and  urging  them,  even  at  their  own  loss, 
to  cut  loose  from  the  Board.  I  tell  you  the 
days  of  heroes  and  heroines  are  not  past. 
There  are  many  of  them  found  to- day  among 
Home  Missionaries  and  their  noble  wives, 
who  are  hving  on  their  small  salaries  and 
spending  their  little  patrimonies  for  the  privi- 
lege of  preaching  the  gospel." 


THE  HALT! 
The  late  resolution  of  the  Home  Board  to 
halt  in  its  march  to  possess  our  land  for  Chriat 
has  called  out  strong  expressions  of  regret  and 
liberality.  **  Though  unavoidable  under  the 
circumstances,"  says  one  of  our  members, 
**such  an  act  is  a  shame  to  the  Church,  and 
demoralizing  to  her  forces.  To  convince  you 
of  the  sincerity  of  my  convictions  on  this 
subject,  please  put  to  the  credit  of  '  one  who 
believes  in  going  forward'  $1,000."  **To 
halt,"  says  another,  **is  wretched  policy, 
ruinous  to  the  most  important  work  in  the 
country,  and  a  disgrace  to  the  rich  Church  to 
which  we  belong.  Towards  changing  the 
policy  I  condemn,  my  wife  and  I  send  you 
$5.00  each  out  of  our  need,  if  not  out  of 
downright  poverty."  *'  To  halt,"  writes  one 
well  versed  in  missionary  matters,  *' means 
greater  hardships  to  the  self-denying  men 
sent  into  the  field,  if  not  a  speedy  retreat,  for 
God  will  not  bless  a  Church  that  is  willing  to 
inscribe  ^  halt '  on  her  bedraggled  banner. 
My  congregation  is  one  of  the  smallest  among 
the  hosts  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  yet  it  is 
willing  to  bear  her  part  of  self-denial  for  the 
sake  of  saving  our  land.  Credit  us  with 
$29.00."  ''A  dear  woman  in  Cleveland  sends 
from  a  sick  bed  $1,000  through  me,"  writes  a 
merchant,  **in  th.e  hope  that  the  halt  will 
soon  end."  **I  have  been  wrestling  with 
Qod  for  our  dear  Home  Board,"  says  one  of 
our  ruling  elders,  **that  it  may  be  safely 
carried  over  the  present  crisis  without  per- 
manent injury.  To  show  the  sincerity  of  my 
prayers  I  send  you  $10.00,  and  wish  it  were 


$10,000."  **  The  church  to  which  I  belong," 
writes  an  employee  in  one  of  our  western  in- 
stitutions, ^^does  not  give  anything;  it  has 
but  four  members  and  no  pastor;  I  trust  that 
my  mite,  even  if  it  be  only  $1.00,  will  help 
you  in  this  emergency."  These  show  the 
feelings  of  our  people  everywhere.  If  we 
could  secure  at  an  early  day  generous  pecuni- 
ary responses  from  all  of  them,  the  clogs  on 
our  wheels  would  be  removed,  the  shame 
referred  to  in  the  quotations  would  be  wiped 
away,  and  the  threatened  crippling  of  the 
Home  Board  would  be  averted.  Halting  at 
the  very  time  when  we  hold  the  entry  to 
nearly  every  stronghold  of  the  enemy  is 
equivalent  to  a  masterly  retreat,  which  will 
soon  cause  Satan's  army  to  utter  its  shouts  of 
victory.     God  forbid  it! 

Wm.  C.  Roberts, 
D.  J.  McMillan, 

/Secretaries. 

OUR  INDIAN  PRESBYTERY. 

BT  REV.  JOHN  P.  WILLIAMSON,  D.  D. 

Dakota  Presbytery  is  the  only  Presbytery 
in  the  United  States  composed  entirely  of 
Indian  churches  and  the  ministers  laboring 
among  them.  Dakota  Presbytery  was  organ- 
ized in  Minnesota  in  1844  when  the  nearest 
white  churches  were  hundreds  of  miles  dis- 
tant, thus  necessitating  organic  separation. 
In  the  course  of  time  when  white  Presby- 
terian churches  were  oiiganized  in  the  same 
region,  they  were  received  into  Dakota  Pres- 
bytery with  the  Indian  churches.  But  in 
1862  the  removal  of  the  Indians  hundreds 
of  miles  away  into  Dakota  necessitated  a 
readjustment  of  Presbyterial  relations,  and 
the  General  Assembly  gave  the  Dakota 
Indians  a  Presbytery  to  themselves,  without 
bounds.  This  Presbytery  is  now  composed 
of  17  ministers,  of  whom  13  are  Indians,  and 
18  churches  with  1222  members. 

Sixty  years  ago  when  it  was  determined  to 
give  the  gospel  to  the  Dakotas  it  was  consid- 
ered Foreign  Mission  work,  and  the  mission- 
aries received  their  appointment  from  the  For- 
eign Board.  The  decades  brought  the  Indians 
and  Whites  nearer  together  both  as  to  locality 
and  life,  and  this  was  evidenced  by  the  trans- 
fer in   1882  of    six  of   the  Dakota  Indian 


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churches  to  the  care  of  the  Home  Board. 
One  and  another  followed,  and  in  May  1898 
all  the  remaining  part  of  the  Dakota  Mission, 
including  seven  churches,  three  white  mis- 
sionaries, and  all  the  property  of  the  Foreign 
Board  among  the  Dakota  Indians  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Home  Board. 

The  laborers  in  the  Dakota  Mission,  outside 
of  GKx)d  Will  mission  school,  of  which  it  is 
not  mj  province  to  speak,  are : 

First,  the  white  missionaries,  of  whom 
there  are  three  in  active  service.  Rev.  E.  J. 
Lindsey,  Rev.  A.  F.  Johnson  and  Rev.  John 
P.  Williamson.  These  are  supported  entirely 
by  the  Board,  and  are  expected  to  do  and  to 
secure  the  doing  of  any  kind  of  work  that  is 
needed  for  the  furtherance  of  the  gospel. 

Second,  the  native  ministers,  of  whom 
there  are  thirteen  ordained  and  two  licenti- 
ates, all  doing  regular  service.  Ten  are  pas- 
tors and  the  rest  Stated  Supplies. 

Third,  native  helpers  or  lay  preachers. 
These  are  generally  elders  from  the  older 
churches,  and  work  under  the  direct  super- 
vision of  one  of  the  white  missionaries.  At 
this  time  there  are  three  or  four  so  employed. 
The  work  may  be  divided  into  the  old  and 
the  new. 

The  old  work  is  the  care  of  the  churches 
now  firmly  planted.  This  work  is  chiefly 
done  by  the  native  pastors.  In  many  respects 
this  work  is  very  similar  to  our  Home  Mission 
work  among  the  Whites.  Here  is  a  little 
community  of  Indians  gathered  into  a  little 
church  of  say  100  members.  They  can  do  a 
little  for  their  pastor  and  apply  to  the  Board 
for  a  little  more.  The  average  salary  of  these 
pastors  is  about  $800.  A  great  effort  is  to 
build  the  church  up  in  Christian  life. 

The  new  work  is  the  conversion  of  the 
heathen.  The  majority  of  the  Dakota  In- 
dians are  still  heathen.  They  do  not  live 
within  the  bounds  of  our  old  church  parishes, 
but  most  of  them  hundreds  of  miles  away. 
It  is  not  the  business  of  the  missionary  to 
locate  Indians,  else  he  might  bring  them  to 
where  the  light  of  the  gospel  is  shimng.  So 
he  must  needs  carry  the  light  to  them.  Our 
missionaries,  Lindsey  and  Johnson,  are  doing 
this  work  at  Poplar,  Mont.,  and  Pine  Ridge, 
^.  p.     The^  now  go  weeping  as  they  see  the 


deadness  of  the  wandering  souls.  They  will 
doubtless  come  again  with  rejoicing,  bearing 
the  sheaves  with  them.  Each  of  them  has 
several  native  helpers  to  assist.  This  new 
work  is  entirely  supported  by  the  Board. 

There  is  a  natural  desire  on  the  part  of  the 
supporters    of   missions   to   see   the   work 
advance  to  self-support.     The  missionaries 
have  the  same  desire.      We  find  that  the 
Indian  churches  do  not  make  as  rapid  prog- 
ress in  this  line  as  the  white  churches,  and 
the  same  might  be  said  of  other  spiritual 
graces.    When  we  consider  the  case  fairly  we 
should  not  expect  it.    Among  the  whites  a 
mission  church  is  organized  in  some  new  setr 
tlement.    Most  of  the  members  are  professing 
ChristiaDS  from  some  old  church  in  the  east. 
They  have  all  been  brought  up  in  a  Christian 
land,  descended  from  a  Christian  ancestry 
with  many  Christian  habits  and  a  fair  knowl- 
edge of  Christian  doctrines.    The  members  of 
our  Indian  churches  were  brought  up  in  the 
darkness  of  heathenism,  bom  of  sensual  idd 
worshippers,  whose  sins  are  visited  upon  their 
children  of  the  third  and  fourth  generation, 
and  their  own  minds  not  yet  cleared  of  igno- 
rance, sloth  and  superstition.    When  they 
are  born  into  the  kingdom  they  are  indeed 
new  creatures,  but  their  growth  will  not  nat- 
urally equal  that  of  those  who  have  been  bom 
with  superior  advantages.    It  is  cause  enough 
for  rejoicing  now  that  our  Church  has  brought 
so  many  hundreds  of  the  Indians  to  accept  of 
our  common  Saviour,   and  that  they  have 
been  organized  into  churches  with  pastors 
chosen  from  among  themselves,  and  are  work- 
ing up  along  the  same  lines  of  organization 
and  growth  which  have  developed  our  own 
Presbyterian  Church  of  America.     Let  us  in 
our  manhood  not  grow  weary  of   lending 
a  helping  hand  to  the  little  tottering  one  who 
we  think  has  not   the  life   and  energy  it 
should  have.  

The  Osages  are  said  to  be  the  wealthiest 
nation  per  caput  on  earth.  The  Roman  Cath- 
olics have  been  among  them  fifty  years,  and 
still  the  Indians  are  all  in  their  blankets. 
The  Government  pays  their  interest  monthly, 
and  as  a  result  indolence,  drunkenness  and 
poor  whites  abound. 


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Concert  of  Prayer 
For  Church  Work  at  Home. 

JANUARY,    ....  The  New  West. 

PBBRUARY,      ....  The  Indiane. 

MARCH,         ....         The  Older  States. 

APRIL The  Cities. 

MAY,      .....  The  Mormons. 

JUNB, Our  Missionaries. 

JULY, Results  of  the  Year. 

AUGUST,  •  RomanisU  and  Poreiirners. 

8BPTBMBBR,        ....      The  Outlook. 
OCTOBBR,       ....  The  Treasury. 

NOVBMBBR,  ...  The  Mexicans. 

DBCBMBBR,  ....  The  South. 

THE  MORMONS. 

The  management  of  the  World^s  ParHa- 
ment  of  Religions  was  right  in  refusing  to 
recognize  Mormonism  as  one  of  the  world's 
religions,  for  Mormonism  is  not  essentially  a 
religion.  It  is  a  political  institution  in  its 
outward  form — and  in  its  inner  life  it  is  a 
secret  order  with  exceedingly  worldly  ends  in 
view. 

Religion  is  only  a  means  to  an  end— -hence 
its  theology  must  conform  by  frequent  adjust- 
ments to  those  ends.  Its  government  is 
stable;  its  doctrines  variable.  Its  organiza- 
tion is  as  nearly  perfect  perhaps  as  anything 
human  can  be.  From  the  *' Prophet,  Seer 
and  Revelator^'  on  the  throne,  all  the  way 
down  to  the  humblest  devotee  the  system  is 
complete  and  admirable  for  its  purpose,  but 
the  doctrines,  having  come  into  form,  each  to 
meet  some  exigence,  at  different  times  and 
under  different  conditions,  are  so  much  at 
variance  with  one  another  as  to  defy  any 
attempt  to  include  them  all  in  any  system. 
At  the  first  their  teachings  were  simple,  vague 
and  apparently  unexceptionable.  On  their 
way  westward  they  halted  in  Ohio  long 
enough  to  absorb  Sydney  Rigdon's  peculiar 
church  at  Mentor,  establish  a  bank,  issue 
and  freely  circulate  irredeemable  currency, 
build  a  temple,  and  do  many  strange  things 
which  called  for  certain  new  doctrines  for 
their  justification.  In  like  manner  their  con- 
duct at  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  made  the  doctrine  of 
'*  celestial  marriage  "  necessary.  An  oppor- 
tune *^ revelation"  met  the  demands  of  the 
case — although,  a  dozen  years  before,  their 
^od  had  said:    ^* there  shall  not  any  man 


among  you  have  save  it  be  one  wife."  Book 
of  Mormon,  page  182.  But  their  *^god  is 
progressive^^^  they  say,  "and  able  to  meet 
emergencies  as  they  rise."  A  new  emergency 
has  recently  arisen  under  the  Edmunds  law 
making  it  expedient  for  them  to  annul  the 
marriage  revelation,  or  at  least  to  suspend  it, 
or  in  some  way,  (nobody  seems  to  know  just 
how),  to  render  it  inoperative  **for  the 
present." 

Polygamy  has  served  them  several  very 
important  purposes.  In  the  first  place,  it 
secured  the  loyalty  to  Mormonism  of  those 
bom  under  the  system  upon  the  theory  that 
a  person  would  be  compelled  to  uphold  it  or 
accept  the  awful  alternative  of  confessing  his 
illegitimacy.  In  the  second  place,  it  secured 
to  the  Mormon  people  the  desired  seclusion 
from  Christian  civilization  for  a  time,  upon 
the  theory  that  all  decent  people  would  keep 
far  from  such  a  community. 

But  it  was  soon  discovered  that  there  were 
many  decent  and  worthy  people  among  them 
who  were  inclined  to  abandon  the  community. 
They  also  discovered  that  the  climate  and 
natural  resources  of  Utah  had  begun  to 
attract  many  persons  not  of  their  faith  and 
not  in  sympathy  with  their  system.  Against 
these  perils  it  became  necessary  to  devise  a 
new  kind  of  protection.  That  master  of  men 
— Bngham  Young — proved  equal  to  the  task. 
The  fearful  doctrine  of  "blood  atonement" 
was  invented  and  enforced.  It  fastened  upon 
the  faithful  Mormons — with  all  the  strength 
of  a  divine  commandment — the  duty  of  shed- 
ding the  blood  of  all  such  offenders  as  were 
incorrigible. 

Brigham  Young,  commenting  on  this  doe- 
trine  said:  "I  have  known  a  great  many 
men  who  have  left  this  church,  for  whom 
there  is  no  chance  whatever  for  exaltation — 
but  if  their  blood  had  been  spilled  it  would 
have  been  better  for  them." 

"The  wicTcedneas  and  ignorance  of  the 
nations  forbid  this  principle  being  in  full 
force,  but  the  time  will  come  when  the  law  of 
Qod  will  he  in  full  force.  This  is  loving  our 
neighbor  as  ourselves;  if  he  needs  help,  help 
him\  if  he  wants  salvation  and  it  is  necessary 
to  spill  his  blood  on  the  earth  in  order  that  he 
may  be  s^ved,  ^ill  it,^''     "  That  is  the  way 


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to  love  mankiBd,  ligkt  and  darkness  cannot 
dwell  together,  and  so  it  is  with  the  kingdom 
of  Gk)d.  All  mankind  love  themselves,  and 
let  these  principles  be  known  by  an  individnal 
and  he  would  be  glad  to  have  his  blood  shed. 
This  wonld  be  loving  ourselves  even  unto 
an  eternal  exaltation.  Will  you  love  your 
brotJiers  or  sisters  likewise  when  they  have  a 
sin  that  cannot  be  atoned  for  wiUiout  the 
shedding  of  their  blood?  Will  you  love  that 
man  or  that  woman  well  enough  to  shed  their 
bloodf  That  is  lohat  Jesus  Christ  meant.  ''I 
could  refer  you  to  plenty  of  instances  where 
men  have  been  righteously  slain  in  order  to 
atone  for  their  sins.'* — Discourse  in  Tab.,  Feb. 
8,  1857.  Journal  of  Discourses,  Vol.  IV,  pp. 
219,  220. 

Seven  months  after  this,  129  emigrants  were 
*^  blood -atoned*'  at  Mt.  Meadows  by  a  force 
under  command  of  Mormon  priests. 

Other  fearful  consequences  of  this  teaching 
need  not  be  here  recited. 

The  Adam-deity  doctrine  was  first  preached 
by  the  '*  Prophet,  Seer  and  Revelator''  in 
April,  1852.  This  is  his  language:  **Now 
hear  it,  O  inhabitants  of  the  earth,  Jew  and 
Gentile,  saint  and  sinner.  When  our  Father 
Adam  came  into  the  garden  of  Eden  he  came 
into  it  with  a  celestial  body,  and  brought  Eve, 
one  of  his  wives,  with  him.  He  helped  to 
make  and  organize  this  world.  He  is  Michael 
the  Archangel,  the  Ancient  of  days,  about 
whom  holy  men  have  written  and  spoken. 
He  is  our  Father  and  our  God,  and  the  only 
God  with  whom  we  have  to  do.  Every  man 
upon  the  earth,  professing  Christians  or  non- 
professing,  must  hear  it  and  will  know  it 
sooner  or  later." 

This  doctrine  holds  out  to  the  faithful  the 
•  hope  of  becoming  gods,  as  the  following 
rhyme  by  one  of  their  poets  shows : 

"     ...    'tis  no  phantom  that  we  trace 
Man's  ultimatum  in  life's  race ; 
This  royal  path  has  long  been  trod 
By  righteous  men  who  now  are  gods, 
As  Abram,  Isaac,  Jacob  too, 
First  babes,  then  men  to  gods  they  grew. 
As  man  now  is,  our  Ckxi  once  was; 
As  now  He  is,  so  man  may  be. 
Which  facts  unfold  man's  destiny. 
So  John  asserts:  *  When  Christ  we  see 
Then  we  like  Him  will  truly  be.' 
Ah,  well,  that  taught  by  you,  dear  Paul, 
Though  much  amazed  we  see  it  all ; 


Our  Father,  Qod,  has  ope'd  our  eyes, 
We  cannot  see  it  otherwise. 
You're  right,  St.  John,  supremely  right, 
Whoe*er  essays  to  climb  this  height 
Will  cleanse  himself  of  sin  entire, 
Or  else  'twere  useless  to  aspire." 

The  Mormons  worship  a  deified  man  instead 
of  an  incarnate  Gk)d.  They  set  the  liying 
priest  before  the  crucified  Christ,  and  tithes 
and  offerings  over  against  regeneration.  They 
teach  that  the  faithful  must  ''gather'*  into 
seclusion,  in  opposition  to  the  command  of 
Jesus  to  ''go  into  all  the  earth."  But  then 
their  motives  are  different  and  opposite. 

The  Mormons  seem  to  have  a  peculiar 
faculty  for  seeing  things  in  reverse  position. 
Brigham  Young  once  said  that  "the  Presby- 
terian God  is  the  Mormon's  devil,  and  vice 
versa.''  He  recognized  his  reverse  attitude 
toward  Christianity.  Unless  the  Lord  "will 
wipe  (their)  Jerusalem  as  a  man  wipeth  a 
dish — wiping  it  and  turning  it  upside  down" — 
there  is  no  hope  of  their  coming  into  harmony 
with  our  Christian  republicanism. 

Mormonism  can  hardly  be  called  a  union 
of  Church  and  State.  If  that  were  all,  there 
might  be  a  dissolution  of  that  union  so  as  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  our  constitution, 
but  with  them  the  Church  is  the  State,  or 
the  State  is  the  Church,  as  you  please.  There 
is  an  identity  of  Church  and  State  which  is 
an  essential  feature  of  Mormonism  and  which 
cannot  disappear  until  they  abandon  the 
whole  business  in  good  faith. 

It  is  a  theocracy  recognizing  no  right  of 
the  governed  to  participate  in  the  affairs  of 
the  government  either  by  personal  vote  or 
representation,  and  claiming  for  its  leader 
divine  prerogatives  and  entire  exemption 
from  the  duties  and  obligations  of  citizenship 
under  any  earthly  government.  He  is  sup- 
posed to  be  God's  vicegerent,  and  as  such  is 
superior  to  all  constitutions  and  laws  of  this 
or  any  other  nation.  He  "holds  the  keys  of 
revelation  of  the  Oracles  of  God  to  men  upon 
the  earth,  the  power  and  right  to  give  laws 
and  commandments  to  individuals,  churches, 
rulers,  nations  and  the  world;  to  appoint, 
ordain  and  establish  constitutions  and  king- 
doms; to  appoint  kings,  presidents,  governors 
or  judges,  and  to  ordain  or  anoint  them  to 
their  several  holy  calling,  also  to  instruct, 


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warn  or  reprove  them  by  the  word  of  the 
Lord."  (Key  to  Theology,  page  78.)  Of 
coarse  it  is  impossible  for  a  man  who 
clalHis  such  powers  to  be  loyally  subordinate 
to  the  constituted  authorities  of  our  country 
or  to  be  wiUingly  subject  to  our  laws  or  to 
conscientiously  teach  his  people  so  to  be. 

And  the  men  under  such  a  leader,  ordained 
by  him  to  '*  the  priesthood  and  apostleship 
after  the  order  of  the  Sons  of  God  are  his 
representatives  or  embassadors  to  mankind. 
To  receive  them,  to  obey  their  instructions, 
to  feed,  clothe  or  aid  them,  is  counted  the 
same,  in  the  final  judgment,  as  if  all  had 
been  done  to  the  Son  of  God  in  person.  On 
the  other  hand  to  reject  them  or  their  testi- 
mony or  message  or  the  word  of  God  through 
them,  in  any  matter,  is  counted  the  same  as 
if  done  to  Jesus  Christ  in  his  own  person. 
Indeed  such  embassadors  will  be  the  final 
judges  of  the  persons,  rulers,  cities,  or  nations 
to  whom  they  are  sent.  And  all  merely 
human  religions  or  political  institutions,  all 
republics,  states,  kingdoms,  empires  must  be 
dissolved,  etc."    (Key  to  Theology,  page  78.) 

From  this  very  significant  language  taken, 
not  from  a  platform  address,  but  from  one  of 
their  standard  books  which  is  now,  and  has 
been  for  more  than  forty  years,  published  for 
the  instruction  and  comfort  of  the  Mormon 
people,  it  must  appear  very  clearly  what  is 
the  mission  of  the  Mormon  church  and  its 
priesthood.  Such  a  pretentious  system, 
boldly  asserting  its  powers  and  prerogatives 
and  publishing  far  and  wide  its  purposes 
concerning  the  institutions  under  which  it  is 
tolerated  would  have  been  stamped  out  of 
existence  by  any  monarchy,  if  not  upon  the 
first  publication  of  its  programme,  certainly 
upon  the  first  effort  to  enter  actively  and 
aggressively  upon  it. 

This  was  apparently  their  own  conviction ; 
hence  the  statement  on  page  78  of  the  same 
book,  of  the  reason  for  their  choice  of  the 
United  States  of  America  as  safest  and  most 
promising  for  the  beginnings  of  their  mission. 
The  statement  is  as  follows: 

''The  United  States  of  America  was  the 
favored  nation,  raised  up  with  iastitutio&s 
adapted  to  the  protection  and  free  develop- 
ment of  the  necessary  truths  and  their  prac- 


tical results.  And  that  great  Prophet,  Apos- 
tle and  Martyr — Joseph  Smith — was  the 
Elias,  the  Restorer,  the  presiding  Messenger, 
holding  the  keys  of  the  Dispensation  of  the 
fullness  of  times.*' 

It  is  evident  that  they  banked  with  unlim- 
ited impudence  upon  the  guarantees  of  relig- 
ious liberty  afforded  by  our  Constitution. 
Under  such  protection  they  have  gathered  a 
multitude  and  taught  them  in  accordanee 
with  the  principles  quoted  above  to  hate  the 
government  under  which  they  live,  and  pray 
and  work  for  its  final  overthrow. 

The  people  of  the  United  States  have  given 
little  heed  to  the  hostile  attitude  of  Mormon- 
ism,  and  have  been  slow  to  believe  and 
disinclined  to  resent  their  insults  to  the  flag. 
It  is  bat  ten  years  since  they  hauled  down  the 
flag  which  had  been  unfurled  by  loyal  citizens 
on  the  4th  of  July  in  Salt  Lake  city.  Had  it 
not  been  for  the  military  force  and  the  large 
number  of  non-Mormons  in  the  city,  the  in- 
sult to  our  national  emblem  would  have  been 
carried  to  the  last  extremity.  About  the 
same  time  they  hauled  down  the  stars  and 
stripes  from  a  mission  house  and  trailed  it  in 
the  dust,  and  in  its  stead  ran  up  a  filthy  frag- 
ment of  a  rag  carpet.  In  another  of  the 
smaller  cities  of  Utah  the  Mormon  city 
authorities  refused  to  allow  the  flag — the 
property  of  the  city — to  be  run  up  on  the 
pole  that  stood  in  the  public  square,  or  to  be 
used  in  any  way  whatever  on  the  4th  of  July 
— but  on  the  24th — the  anniversary  of  their 
entrance  into  the  Salt  Lake  valley — they  un- 
furled it  to  the  breezes  and  marched  in  grand 
procession  to  the  bower  where  their  orators 
predicted  the  ultimate  conquest  of  **  the  king- 
dom "  over  the  government  of  the  United 
States,  and  rejoiced  in  the  hope  that  the  4th 
would  then  be  forgotten  and  the  24th  take  its 
place  as  a  national  holiday. 

To  those  who  were  familiar  with  the  teach- 
ing and  spirit  of  Mormonism  these  demon- 
strations were  no  surprise.  It  was  never 
their  custom  to  regard  Independence  Day  as 
worthy  of  notice.  The  birthday  of  these 
great  facts  in  national  life:  freedom  of 
religious  opinion,  liberty  of  thought  and 
speech  and  worship,  and  a  government  *'of 
the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people  '* 


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stirs  BO  emotion  of  pleasure  in  a  Mormon 
heart. 

Their  prophet  on  July  22,  1875,  said  while 
addressing  a  large  mass  meeting  of  Mormons: 
**The  government  of  the  United  States  has 
no  right  to  a  foot  of  land  in  Utah.  God  gave 
these  valleys  to  me  and  told  me  to  give  them 
to  whom  I  pleased.  Anyone  who  goes  to  a 
government  land  office  for  his  title  is  a  traitor 
to  the  kingdom  of  God  and  will  be  treated  as 
such.**  To  this  remarkable  utterance  the 
audience,  led  by  the  eight  apostles  who  were 
present,  responded  **Amen.'* 

When  one  of  the  stake  presidents  said  to  a 
missionary  in  Utah:  *' You  are  a  citizen  of 
the  United  States  and  not  of  this  kingdom, 
and  therefore  have  no  rights  to  the  privileges 
of  citizenship  here,**  he  was  but  expressing, 
the  alien  character  of  Mormonism  and  the 
impossibility  of  a  man*8  being  a  loyal  citizen 
and  a  Mormon  at  the  same  time.  The  prin- 
ciples and  purposes  of  the  **  Latter  Day 
Saints  **  are  so  hostile  to  our  American  iusti- 
tutions  that  it  is  impossible  to  hold  to  the  one 
without  despising  the  other.  They  cannot 
dwell  in  peace  together. 

If  Utah  is  admitted  to  the  union  of  states 
the  hostile  elements  will  necessarily  be  arrayed 
against  each  other,  and  we  shall  witness  a 
test  of  strength  between  the  Mormon  theoc- 
racy and  American  republicanism,  such  as 
has  not  been  seen  since  the  conflict  which  be- 
gan between  the  same  elements  in  Jackson 
county,  Missouri,  in  1888,  and  was  inter- 
rupted by  the  abandonment  of  Nauvoo  by 
the  Mormons  and  their  departure  from  the 
United  States  in  1846.  The  conflict  will  be 
irrepressible  until  the  one  or  the  other  party 
is  subdued  or  expelled. 

The  Mormon  priests  are  cheering  the  saints 
who  dwell  in  the  populous  outlying  valleys 
with  the  assurance  that  ^^  soon  Utah  will  be 
admitted,  and  then  the  Lord  will  restore  to 
the  saints  the  power  to  cast  out  devils  as  in 
the  good  old  days  when  brother  Brigham  was 
living.** 

It  would  be  a  pleasant,  a  grateful  privilege 
to  be  able  to  believe  that  the  Mormons  have 
abandoned  their  fundamental  principles,  dis- 
carded the  whole  theory  of  Mormonism  and 
become  something  else.    They  have  a  consti- 


tutional right  to  their  faith  and  worship, — 
but  they  have  no  such  right  to  maintain 
an  alien  and  hostile  government,  to  perpetuate 
practices  which  are  at  variance  wiUi  the  laws 
and  customs  of  our  country,  to  abridge  the 
common  rights  of  citizenship,  to  inculcate 
principles  which  are  destructive  of  domestic 
peace  and  social  purity,  or  to  deny  to  any 
law  abiding  citizen  the  privileges  and  immu- 
nities guaranteed  to  every  such  citizen  by  the 
Constitution. 

They  need  a  more  extended  pupilage  under 
the  wholesome  and  generous  authority  of  the 
government,  the  educating  influences  of  the 
churches,  the  schools  and  the  contact  with 
intelligent  and  enterprising  Gentiles  in  social 
and  business  relations  which  have  already 
accomplished,  by  God*s  blessing,  so  much  for 
Utah. 


Letters. 


UTAH. 

Miss  Nellie  A.  Dunham,  Paywn : — The  Lord 
has  poured  us  out  a  great  blessing  and  we  hope 
there  is  yet  "more  to  follow."  The  spirit  of 
inquiry  is  abroad  and  light  will  come  when  the 
Bibles  are  searched.  But  no  doubt  Dr.  Todd  has 
written  of  our  fruitful  meetings.  They  have 
increased  our  faith  and  made  us  stronger  In  the 
truth. 

We  have  had  several  new  pupils  this  quarter. 
They  come  from  gome  of  the  strongest  Mormon 
families  In  town.  One  of  the  boys  is  a  deacon 
in  the  Mormon  church.  We  were  told  that  his 
father  needed  much  persuasion  from  him  before 
he  would  consent  to  send  him.  Even  to  the 
"  laying  on  of  hands  "  However,  the  boy  is  very 
studious  and  has  developed  no  more  traits  of  a 
pugilist.  The  father  goes  to  England  on  a 
**  Mission  "this  Spring. 

Another  kept  playing  truant  at  the  public 
school.  In  desperation  his  mother  consented  to 
let  him  come  to  us.  He  has  been  in  constant 
attendance  since.  The  parents  seemed  pleased 
with  the  progress  of  their  children.  Many  of 
those  who  sent  their  children  under  protest,  now 
greet  us  In  a  most  cordial  manner. 

Our  Christian  Endeavor  Society  Is  such  a  help 
to  the  young  people.  I  wish  you  might  catch  a 
glimpse  of  the  wonderful  mountains.  One  is 
filled  with  Intense  admiration,  yet  there  U 
a  certain  awful  grandeur  that  causes  one  to 


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turn  away  in  a  shiver,  and  sometimes  one  longs 
to  see  over  their  white  tops  into  the  busy  world 
beyond. 

Rev.  F.  W.  Blohic,  Plscuant  Ortm  :--One  of 
our  Elders  is  the  Superintendent,  he  is  a  Danish 
man  with  a  family  (wife  and  four  children).  He 
and  his  wife  united  with  us  upon  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  church  here  October  last  on  the  pro- 
fession of  their  faith  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
and  their  four  children  received  Christian  bap- 
tism. He  was  at  once  elected  and  ordained  a 
ruling  elder,  and  has  thus  far  proved  himself  to 
be  most  worthy.  God  is  with  him  and  his 
family  and  they  are  all  growing  in  grace  and 
usefulness  and  in  favor  with  both  God  and  man. 
These,  our  friends,  came  to  us  out  from  the 
Mormon  Church.  He  was  once  a  Mormon  Elder 
and  missionary  in  the  old  country.  This  family 
constitutes  a  living  proof  that  "the  Gospel  of 
Christ  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  to 
every  one  that  believeth." 


Rbv.  N.  E.  Clbmbnson,  ^SWitw;— Day  after 
day  letters  poured  in  upon  us  from  SpringviUe, 
Spanish  Fork  and  Payson,  urging  and  praying 
us  to  come  in  and  assist  in  the  work  begun  and 
in  progress  there  by  Mr.  Rankin  of  Colorado. 
It  seemed  that  we  must  go  and  hence  we  closed 
the  work  at  Evanston,  somewhat  against  our 
own  judgment,  and  yielded  to  the  wish  and 
entreaty  of  our  brethren  in  Utah  County.  The 
plan  was  for  Dr.  Wishard  to  go  to  Payson  and 
relieve  Mr.  Rankin,  who  would  then  come  to 
SpringviUe  and  open  the  work  there  where  I 
would  be  ready  to  take  hold  where  he  would 
leave  off,  and  carry  the  work  forward.  I  was 
two  weeks  there. 

But  who  can  tell  the  power  of  that  work?  It 
was  simply  marvelous.  The  power  of  God 
seemed  to  descend  upon  the  people  with  the 
very  first  service.  There  were  five  inquirers  the 
first  night  and  each  day  increased  the  number 
until  sixty-flve  men  and  toam&n  and  young  people 
had  professed  conversion,  and  many  others  had 
risen  for  prayer  or  in  other  ways  expressed 
interest.  The  whole  town  was  shaken  from 
center  to  circumference  as  the  movement  ex- 
tended. Evening  after  evening  the  chapel  was 
taxed  to  its  utmost  capacity  and  multitudes 
were  compelled  to  retire  for  want  of  room.  Ah, 
it  was  grand. 

It  was  glorious  to  see  and  realize  the  power  of 
our  Lord  and  His  blessed  gospel.  It  was  won- 
derful to  see  men  and  women  who  had  been 
bom  and  reared  in  Mormon  homes  and  environ- 


ment rising  and  speaking  for  Christ  and  taking 
their  stand  on  his  side,  renouncing  the  "world, 
the  flesh  and  the  devil."  But  there  are  others 
who  will  and  can  tell  you  of  this  work  better 
than  I  can.  I  speak  of  it  only  because  I  was 
permitted  to  have  part  in  it  and  feel  its  power. 
It  is  what  I  have  longed  and  looked  and  prayed 
for  all  these  years. 

Utah's  hope  and  future  glory  and  prosperity 
lie  in  the  Christianization  of  her  people,  in  €k)d's 
redeeming  power  and  not  in  the  intrigue,  selfish- 
ness and  folly  of  the  politician.  Give  us  first 
the  territory  for  Christ  and  then  we  shall  be 
ready  thankfully,  because  safely,  to  receive 
Statehood.  But  until  then,  until  Christ  has 
taken  the  place  in  the  love  and  devotion  of  the 
people  that  Joseph  Smith  now  holds,  and  a 
Christian  civilization  has  taken  the  place  of  the 
semi-barbarism  of  Mormonism,  kindly  leave  us 
under  the  fostering  care  and  kindly  protection 
of  the  national  government. 


OREGON. 
Rev.  F.  H.  GwYNNB,  D.D.,  Supt.:— 
Pendleton. — The  new  arrangement  of  unit- 
ing the  Presbyterian  and  Congregational 
Churches  of  this  town  under  one  pastor  works, 
so  far,  satisfactorily.  The  Lord  has  shown  his 
approval.  At  a  recent  communion  fourteen 
members  were  received.  Eleven  into  the  Pres- 
byterian and  three  into  the  Congregational 
Church. 

Oregon  City.— As  the  result  of  our  united 
effort  fifteen  persons  were  publicly  received 
into  the  church  at  the  last  communion  service. 
This  five  year  old  church  (composed  of  members 
who  are  poor)  so  soon  becoming  self -sustaining, 
giving  a  liberal  salary,  is  a  pattern  to  the 
churches  of  the  Synod. 

Sprinqwater.— The  pastor  is  laboring  under 
many  disadvantages.  He  lives  in  a  building 
formerly  used  as  a  store.  It  has  two  stories, 
the  upper  one  having  been  used  as  a  dancing 
room.  The  lower  floor  has  been  partitioned' 
into  two  apartments  but  there  is  no  division  in 
the  upper  one.  I  slept  in  the ''upper  room" 
where  there  were  three  beds.  The  snow  was 
coming  in  through  the  wide  chinks  in  the  sides, 
and  I  could  view  the  stars  through  the  roof,  as 
there  were  only  warped  shingles  and  rafters 
between  me  and  the  sky.  This  good  pastor  and 
his  refined  and  delicate  wife  stand  it  bravely  for 
the  Master's  sake.  They  must  live  in  that 
locality  in  order  to  serve  the  three  places  in- 
cluded in   the  field;    there  is  no  other  house 


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BLACK  EAGLE  FALLS,    UPPER  MISSOURI  RIVER. 

NCJlB  ORXAT  falls,  MONTANA. 


available  in  the  neighborhood.  The  church  has 
agreed  to  buy  a  piece  of  land  convenient  for  a 
manse,  but  they  cannot  build,  as  they  are  too 
poor.  I  wish  some  kind  friend  would  give 
money  enough  to  build  for  this  faithful  pastor, 
his  wife  and  five  children,  a  **  shanty,"  so  that 
they  can  have  shelter.  It  would  only  cost 
about  |500.  I  was  met  by  the  good  brother 
at  Oregon  City.  We  had  to  travel  eighteen 
miles  over  the  worst  road  in  the  district.  As  a 
consequence  of  the  trip  I  fear  the  brother  will 
lose  a  good  horse. 

Gervais. — I  held  a  series  of  revival  meetings 
with  good  success.  Our  church  is  doing  brave- 
ly in  this  Roman  Catholic  community.  The 
pastor  was  cheered  by  several  accessions  to  the 
church  as  the  result  of  the  meetings. 

Our  churches  at  Yaquina  Bay  and  Newport 
have  not  been  regularly  supplied  since  Mr. 
Cleland  left  in  December,  but  I  have  a  promis- 
ing young  man  now  ready  to  take  up  the 
work. 

I  consider  the  Synod  as  a  whole  to  be  in  a 
very  hopeful  state.  In  spite  of  "hard  times" 
we  are  progressing.  My  aim  has  been  to  estab- 
lish and  strengthen  rather  than  extend.    There 


are  many  promising  openings  presenting,  which 
we  at  present  dare  not  touch.  I  still  feel  that 
the  services  of  a  *'  pastor  at  large  "  would  tend 
to  economy  and  efficiency,  and  would  save  to 
us  some  of  the  fields  which  we  cannot  at  present 
occupy  permanently.  We  praise  the  Lord  for 
the  measure  of  success  vouchsafed,  and  trust, 
work  and  wait  for  greater  blessings 


MONTANA. 


Rev.  a.  Wormser,  Missoula: — All  along  the 
Montana  Central  I  find  that  opportunities  exist 
for  organizing  churches,  and  we  will  have  them 
soon  at  Glasgow,  Chinook,  Sand  Coulee,  Cho- 
teau,  Augusta,  Cascade,  Craig,  Wolf  Cnek, 
Marysviile  and  Silver  City.  On  the  Northrm 
Pacific  in  the  same  way  there  are  very  favorable 
localities,  as  at  Mingusville  Ferry,  Glendie,  Rose 
bud,  Forsyth,  Custer,  and  Big  Timber.  In  the 
country  adjoining  in  the  direction  of  Shields 
River  there  will  be  a  fine  opportunity.  Three 
miles  from  Billings  to  the  north  there  is  a 
goodly  number  of  farmers  who  want  a  church, 
preferring  the  Presbyterian.  Most  of  these 
places  have  been  visited  by  me.  1  h<  re  are  signs 
of  returning  activity  in  mining  operations. 


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NEW  MEXICO. 
MissCarrib  B.  Pond.  ZantV— Indian  children 
are  much  like  Chinese  in  that  suceestful  teaching 
must  be  largely  inditddval.  To  give  each  of 
forty-six  children  a  faithful,  thorough  drill  in 
Eagliah  reading,  counting  and  conversation,  in 
the  hours  of  an  ordinary  school  session  is.  I  con- 
fess, more  than  I  can  do.  Daily  I  have  to 
decide  whom  it  is  safe  to  neglect.  An  English- 
speaking  school  which  can  be  handled  in  large 
grades  is  a  different  matter;  I  could  manage 
sixty  under  such  conditions,  but  here,  doing  my 
utmost,  I  come  out  of  the  classroom  at  night 
without  one  scrap  of  nervous  energy,  patience 
or  wits  left,  yet  bitterly  conscious  that  the 
children  are  not  having  the  training  they  should, 
because  there  are  too  many  for  one  teacher.  In 
every  line  pursued  there  is  the  same  pressure. 
There  should  be  some  one  to  take  charge  of  the 
washing,  ironing  and  sewing  that  Miss  De  Sette 
might  be  free  to  do  more  visiting,  to  attend  to 
the  correspondence  at  some  other  time  than  mid- 
night, to  fill  the  hundred  gaps,  emergencies  and 
calls  which  are  incessantly  arriving.  We  are 
doing  all  we  can;  but  some  things  are  badly 
done  and  some  cannot  be  done  at  all  although 
the  lack  is  continually  crippling  our  influence 
here.  The  wedge  is  in  as  far  as  it  will  go  with 
the  present  hammer.  To  advance  there  must  be 
a  heavier  hammer  driven  with  more  force,  i.  e., 
more  room  and  more  workers. 

One  of  the  pleasant  and  encouraging  events  of 
the  quarter  was  the  children's  Thanksgiving 
offerings  of  which  you  have  heard  from  Miss  De 
Sette.  They  brought  onions,  corn,  eggs  and 
silver  to  the  value  of  $1.79.  Two  of  the  child- 
ren brought  the  ornaments  from  their  ear  rings, 
the  older  girl  saying  as  she  put  them  into  my 
hand:  "Will  you  take  these?  I  have  nothing 
else  to  give?  "  They  voted  unanimously  to  have 
their  money  sent  to  the  poor  white  children, 
after  they  had  been  told  of  the  needs  of  the 
Indians,  negroes  and  whites.  It  was  a  revela- 
tion to  them  to  know  that  any  were  more  needy 
than  themselves.  They  are  gradually  growing 
in  intelligence  and  morals.  Comparatively  few 
speak  much  English  yet,  but  a  number  of  them 
understand  nearly  all  that  is  said  to  them  and 
will  before  long  emerge  from  the  ** soaking" 
period  and  begin  to  speak. 

Every  day  that  I  live  here  and  see  the  schoors 
influence  increasing  I  am  more  inclined  to  believe 
firmly  in  the  ''perseverance  of  the  saints." 
This  may  sound  egotistic,  but  it  isn't.  I  have 
•no  "title  clear"  to  sainthood  yet,  nor  do  I 
possess  any  degree  of  perseverance.    It  is  the 


other  Zuni  teacher  who  has  this  quality  especial- 
ly, and  it  is  to  her  that  any  credit  is  due.  But 
during  each  quarter  the  school's  influence  surely 
widens.  Each  quarter's  work  is  a  little  better 
than  that  of  the  preceding  one.  We  hope  by 
the  exercise  of  perseverance  and  prayer,  and  by 
Qod*s  blessing  that  this  may  always  be  true  of 
the  Zuni  school. 


WISCONSIN. 

Rev.  Frank  F.  Barrett,  Prairie  du  Sac : — 
The  spiritual  life  of  the  whole  church  has  been 
quickened  and  the  religious  interest  of  the  entire 
community  reinvigorated.  We  shall  have  from 
fifteen  to  twenty  accessions;  ten  heads  of  fami- 
lies. Six  are  men  of  standing  and  influence  in 
the  town,  professional  and  business  men,  The 
church  has  been  greatly  strengthened  numeri- 
ically,  financially  and  in  its  working  force.  This 
is  the  first  work  of  grace  in  the  town  for  twenty- 
five  years.  Congregations  are  much  increased 
and  the  prayer  meetings  have  been  revitalized. 

A  great  deal  of  personal  work  has  been  done 
and  the  Endeavor  Society  was  and  continues  to 
be  a  strong  right  arm  to  the  pastor. 

These  meetings  have  brought  into  clearer  light 
two  distinctive  and  most  practical  factors  in  the 
work  of  this  church.  First,  as  it  is  the  only 
English-speaking  church  left  in  the  town,  and 
as  its  congregations  are  largely  made  up  of  the 
communicants  of  disbanded  or  rather  abandoned 
Baptist,  Methodist  and  Universal ist  Societies,  it 
has  a  pastoral  mission  to  these  otherwise  un- 
churched people.  Some  of  the  most  influential 
among  them,  hitherto  reluctant,  are  offering 
themselves  for  membership  with  us.  More,  and 
I  believe  not  a  few,  in  the  long  run,  are  likely  to 
follow.  Some  of  our  brightest  converts  are  the 
children  of  Universalist  and  free-thinking  house- 
holds, which  witnesses  to  the  sound  and  faithful 
work  of  our  Sabbath-school.  Certain  it  is,  that 
out  of  twenty  or  thirty  converts  or  accessions 
running  over  the  past  three  months.  Baptists, 
Methodists  and  Lutherans  have  been  in  the 
majority. 

Second,  this  town  and  its  region  are  becoming 
steadily,  if  not  rapidly,  populated  with  German 
families.  They  are  mainly  good  stuff  and  are 
here  to  stay.  Usually,  where  they  come  in  an 
American  family  goes  out  and  the  change  isn't 
always  for  the  worse  by  any  means.  As  an 
evangelist,  I  should  about  as  soon  have  within 
reach  of  my  nets  a  "  Dutchman  "  with  some  of 
the  future  in  him  as  a  played  out  "Yankee." 
These  sober  folk  don't  locate  speculatively  nor 
go  in  for  second  plastering  the  face  of  this  coub- 


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try  with  mortgages.  The  time  is  surely  coming 
when  the  thrift  of  this  people  and  their  staying 
qualities  will  give  them  this  state.  But  there 
is  this  significant  thing  about  it  all:  ''  German- 
American"  does  not  apply  to  any  of  the  race 
under  forty.  They  are  distinctly  American. 
Within  a  week  I  have  listened  to  as  fervently 
patriotic  an  American  address  from  a  young  Ger- 
man school  master  (with  a  pronounced  old  coun- 
try accent)  as  I  ever  heard.  I  have  known  a 
bright  girl  of  German  family  choose,  as  the  sub- 
ject of  her  graduating  essay,  "The  American 
GirL"  And  this  is  typical  All  about  us  are 
German  societies  of  various  types,  Lutheran 
Reformed,  Evangelical,  and  yet  all  of  the  Ger- 
man children  in  our  village  are  in  our  Sabbath- 
school.  Many  of  them  have  graduated  into 
membership  with  us.  Some  are  teachers  in  our 
Sabbath-school.  Young  business  men,  members 
of  the  German  churches,  are  increasing  in  our 
congregations.  They  value  American  thinking 
in  religion  as  well  as  in  civil  matters,  and  they 
eagerly  improve  public  opportunity  to  listen  to 
the  English  speech  in  carefully  prepared  forms. 
All  this  emphasizes  one  thing,  viz ;  that  this 
and  other  like  communities  have  abundant 
promise  of  a  vigorous  Presbyterian  perpetuity 
after  every  American  family  has  fled  the  field,  if 
such  communities  will  only  have  sense,  zeal  and 
grace  to  buckle  down  to  their  plain  opportunity. 


WEST  VIRGINIA. 

Rev.  a.  B.  Lowes,  Pretbyterial  Mtmana/ry : — 
Protracted  services  have  been  held  at  Hughs 
River,  Wyoma,  Long  Reach,  Buckhannon  and 
Bethels.  The  sacraments  have  been  administered 
in  each  of  these  churches.  Twenty-two  persons 
have  been  received  on  confession  and  two  on 
certificate. 

On  December  81  the  new  church  at  Wyoma 
was  dedicated  to  the  service  of  Jehovah.  It  was 
a  season  of  unusual  interest  to  the  church  and 
community.  The  new  building  is  of  wood,  plain 
and  substantial,  but  neat  and  comfortable,  cost- 
ing 1848.79,  and  was  dedicated  entirely  free  from 
debt.  Of  the  cost  |800  was  obtained  from  the 
Board  of  Church  Erection.  It  will  seat  200  per- 
sons and  was  well  filled  at  all  the  services  which 
were  continued  for  one  week  after  the  dedica- 
tion. The  work  here  has  been  remarkable. 
Three  years  since  a  Sabbath  school  was  organ- 
ized at  this  point  by  one  of  our  faithful  Sabbath- 
school  missionaries,  Mr.  R.  H.  Rogers.  Under 
his  fostering  care,  by  direction  of  the  Sabbath- 
school  Committee,  it  has  grown  into  an  organ- 
ized church  of  sixty  members  with  a  flourishing 


Sabbath-school  and  an  active  Y.  P.  S.  0.  R.  It 
is  now  one  of  our  most  promising  country 
churches.  Six  miles  south  of  Wyoma,  at  Mill- 
stone school  house,  a  Sabbath-school  was  organ- 
ized two  summers  ago  by  Mr  Rogers  and  a  like 
work  is  being  accomplished  there.  Already  a 
petition,  signed  by  at  least  twenty  persons,  is 
prepared  to  be  presented  to  Presbytery  at  its 
spring  meeting,  asking  for  an  organization  at 
Millstone.  This  will  doubtless  be  granted  and 
next  summer  will  see  a  building  completed  there 
and  a  church  fully  equipped  for  work.  At  a 
third  point  where  a  Sablmth-school  was  organ- 
ized last  summer,  a  similar  work  can  be  accom- 
plished. 

Here  is  a  most  promising  field  which  must  now 
pass  to  the  care  of  Home  Missions.  We  must 
place  a  good  man  in  charge  of  it  at  once  to 
relieve  Brother  Rogers  and  let  him  enter  upon 
advanced  Sabbath- school  work.  The  people  are 
poor  but  will  give  what  they  can  for  the  sup- 
port of  a  minister.  When  Brother  Rogers  went 
into  this  community  they  knew  nothing  of  Pres- 
byterianism  or  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Now 
they  are  devoted  to  it. 

The  beautiful  new  church  at  Clarksburg  is 
nearing  completion  and  will  be  dedicated  next 
month.  It  is  of  brick  and  will  cost  about 
(7,000. 

On  the  whole,  I  am  sure  that  the  outlook  for 
our  Church  in  West  Virginia  was  never  more 
promising.  Never  before  would  money  expended 
in  its  interests  secure  greater  nor  more  immediate 
results.  

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

Rev.  P.  C.  Stoeklb,  Jfanehester:— Although 
the  factories  of  our  city  have  been  closed  and 
earthly  business  has  become  dull  and  alarming 
and  thousands  of  working  men  have  been  idle, 
the  churches  have  been  open  and  the  word  of 
€k>d  has  been  preached  with  the  same  power  as 
before.  The  poor  who  have  to  deny  themselves 
many  earthly  luxuries  and  even  those  who 
sometimes  do  not  know  where  to  get  bread  for 
themselves  are  welcome  always  and  everywhere 
to  partake  of  the  bread  of  life. 

Our  services  during  the  past  three  months 
have  been  abundantly  blessed,  not  exactly  in  a 
monetary  way  but  in  a  spiritual  way.  It  is  in- 
deed true  what  the  great  Dr.  M.  Luther  said: 
**  Trouble  is  the  shepherd's  dog  of  our  Lord  that 
gathers  the  lost  sheep." 

The  first  Sunday  in  November  the  congrega- 
tion celebrated  with  the  pastor  the  fifth  anniver- 
sary of  the  pastor's  work  in  Manchester,  and 


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with  gratitude  we  lifted  up  our  hearts  and 
hands  to  our  great  fountain  of  all  blessings 
which  we  have  receiyed. 

The  second  Sunday  of  the  same  month  we 
celebrated  according  to  our  custom  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  (German  Reformation  and  from  many 
lips  sounded  solemnly  that  genuine  Protestant 
hymn,  **  A  mighty  fortress  is  our  Lord." 

There  is  now  a  very  welcome  and  strong 
temperance  movement  in  our  city.  The  Chief 
of  Police  and  his  men  do  not  allow  any  more 
illegal  business,  and  one  saloon  after  the  other  is 
raided;  this,  I  am  sure,  will  help  God's  king- 
dom and  I  hope  and  pray  that  this  work  may 
not  stop  until  all  the  hell  holes  are  covered  up 
and  especially  our  German -American  citizens 
will  realize  that  their  salvation  is  not  in  a  glass 
of  beer,  the  favorite  drink  of  the  '*fatherland- 
ers  "—only  in  the  blood  of  Christ,  the  Son  of 
God. 


MINNESOTA. 


Rev.  A.  W.  Wmght,  Minneapolis:— The 
months  covered  by  the  last  quarter  have  been 
the  most  trying  of  all  our  experience  in  mission- 
ary work.  In  some  instances  it  has  been  diffi- 
cult to  encourage  the  churches  to  keep  up  their 
regular  work,  while  in  others  by  heroic  effort 
and  great  sacrifices,  they  continue  cheerfully. 
I  have  never  felt  while  taking  offerings,  or  urg- 
ing the  people  to  stand  by  the  work,  that  it  was 
asking  them  to  make  such  sacrifices  as  I  know 
it  is  now. 

At  one  place  where  they  have  had  services  on 
alternate  Sabbaths,  I  was  told  that  a  number 
of  the  friends  and  some  of  the  members  of  the 
church  had  quit  coming  to  the  church  because 
they  could  not  pay  the  minister  what  they  had 
subscribed,  and  were  ashamed  to  be  seen  in  the 
congregation  while  so  destitute.  At  this  point 
there  will  be  a  loss  to  the  minister  of  nearly 
$100  or  about  half  they  had  contracted  to  pay 
hint  At  another  point  on  the  same  field  there 
will  be  a  loss  to  him  of  fully  two- thirds  the 
amount  promised,  and  with  his  getting  only  two 
thirds  the  amount  applied  for  to  the  Board,  the 
amount  on  which  he  has  to  keep  his  family  of 
eleven  persons  is  very  small  indeed,  especially 
after  having  to  pay  house  rent  |150  per  year 
and  fuel  bill  at  $5  per  cord  of  wood,  or  |9  per 
ton  of  coal. 

The  Session  of  another  church  writes,  "At 
our  Congregational  meeting  it  was  decided  that 
under  present  circumstances  it  would  be  better 
to  dispense  with  our  stated  supply,  because 
there  is  no  money  among  the  farmers  in  these 


parts.  In  trying  to  collect  what  was  due  our 
minister  for  past  services  we  found  they  had 
nothing  to  give,  so  it  fell  upon  a  very  few  to 
make  up  the  required  amount."  The  writer 
further  says  that,  **  During  my  long  experience 
in  this  part  of  Minnesota,  I  never  saw  the  farm- 
ing community  in  the  same  condition." 

The  minister  on  the  field  here  is  much  beloved 
by  the  entire  congregation,  and  they  feel  sad 
for  the  loss  they  must  incur  from  their  inability 
to  keep  him.  This  is  one  of  the  great  sacrifices 
they  are  compelled  to  make. 

Another  field  says  we  will  not  ask  the  Board 
to  help  us  this  year  because  of  the  terrible  con- 
dition of  its  treasury.  We  will  do  with  such 
supplies  as  we  can  get  for  what  amoimt  of 
money  we  can  gather  among  ourselves."  These 
are  only  a  few  of  the  many  instances  of  sacri- 
fices in  the  Northwest. 


WYOMING, 


Rev.  Frank  L.  Moorb,  Shell:— Mj  last  ap- 
pointment I  missed  on  account  of  severe  cold 
weather.  I  had  a  very  bad  time  in  crossing  the 
Big  Horn  River  on  my  last  trip  on  account  of 
the  ice,  but  my  pony  carried  me  safely  over. 

Otho  is  the  least  encouraging  of  any  of  our 
points  at  present  as  so  many  Mormons  are 
among  the  new  comers.  However,  as  settlers 
come  we  may  improve  the  place.  The  Sabbath- 
school  has  been  carried  on  and  the  children 
seem  to  be  headed  in  the  right  direction. 

Bonanza  is  a  place  between  Warren  and 
Hyattville.    Until    lately  not    enough    people 


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have  been  there  to  gather  a  congregation,  but 
on  my  last  trip  I  made  an  appointment  and  we 
had  about  seventeen  people  at  the  serrice.  I 
preached  in  a  store  with  a  card  and  billiard  table 
in  front  of  me.     It  is  a  hard  place. 

Hyattville  continues  to  be  the  headquarters  of 
gamblers  for  this  section  of  the  Basin.  At  on« 
service  I  had  only  one  lady  and  a  little  girl.  I 
left  them  in  charge  of  the  school  house  and 
went  to  the  store  and  saloon  and  asked  the 
young  men  to  come  over  to  our  service.  One 
fellow  asked  me  to  have  something  before  I 
went,  but  I  declined  and  told  him  I  had  no 
need  of  that  kind  of  "spirit."  The  result  of 
the  invitation  was  that  we  had  nine  instead  of 
two.  I  gave  them  a  sermon  on  gambling  and 
drinking,  drew  up  a  pledge  and  got  four  sign- 
ers at  that  meeting. 

At  one  service  at  Shell  I  asked  if  any  were 
ready  to  decide  the  great  question  and  two  held 
up  their  hands  Interest  is  thus  growing.  We 
lost  one  of  our  members  by  death  here  to-day. 
The  funeral  will  be  to-morrow  and  will  be  the 
first  funeral  service  held  in  this  place.  I  have 
preached  here  six  times  during  this  quarter 
with  an  average  attendance  of  twenty-four. 
We  have  organized  a  Sabbath  school  with  my 
wife  as  superintendent  and  from  ten  to  fifteen 
have  attended.  The  whole  country  here  must 
be  looked  after  in  the  Spring  as  many  points 
need  to  be  occupied  soon.  Qod  is  powerful 
even  in  this  wild  place  we  know,  and  we  pray 
for  showers  of  blessing. 


The  heterogeneous  character  of  the  popula- 
tions among  which  many  of  our  missionaries 
are  laboring  is  well  described  by  the  follow- 
ing letter: 

Rev.  David  Q.  Monport,  of  Antonito,  Colo. 
This  is  thought  to  be  a  pretty  hard  corner  of 
Qod'a  country.  We  have  in  and  around  An- 
tonito, Jews.  Mormons,  Catholics,  Infidels.  The 
curse  of  this  country  is  godkssn^MS.  Even  those 
who  have  come  from  Christian  homes  when  once 
here  are  in  danger  of  drifting  away  from  Qod ; 
they  begin  by  neglecting  His  Book  and  then  dis- 
regarding His  Day,  and  while  not  outbreaking 
sinners  they  seem  to  have  no  care  for  Gk)d. 
There  are,  however,  good  Christian  people  here, 
wives  anxious  about  husbands  and  sisters  about 
brothers.  The  attendance  on  the  services  is 
encouraging.  We  seldom  have  a  service  without 
having  present  one  or  more  of  the  different 
religions  spoken  of  above ;  often  we  have  all  of 
them  represented.  .  They  listen  attentively,  keep 
good  order  and  come  often. 


A  miner  said  to  one  of  our  missionaries  in  Mor- 
tana :  **  We  never  had  to  work  on  Sunday  till  the 
Christians  came  into  this  country  with  their  in- 
vestments and  big  enterprises.  They  sit  in  their 
comfortable  churches  in  New  York,  Chicago  and 
St.  Louis  and  make  us  work  out  here  on  Sunday. 
We  have  to  work  or  lose  our  jobs.  Is  It  any 
wonder  that  some  of  us  don't  take  any  stock  in 
churches?" 

But  there  are  Christian  men  at  the  head  of 
many  of  these  great  mining  enterprises  who 
have  solved  the  problem  and  are  showing  the 
world  how  to  keep  the  Sabbath  day  holy  in 
flourishing  mining  camps  without  injury  to 
furnaces,  machinery,  or  dear  profits. 


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O.  O.  Barnes.  Beekmantown, 

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Fond  du  Lac  and  Spirit  Lake,  Minn. 

S.  A.  JamiesoB,  Pastor  at  Large,  ** 

iM,8mltl,Mor,gj;j^^  " 


N.D. 
&D. 


Mo. 


H.  Alexandria,      , 

W.  C.  McCormack.  Moorhead, 

A.  A.  Zabriskie,  La  Moure,  1st,  and  yidnity, 

F.  P.  Baker,  Hot  Springs, 

W.  J.  Hill,  Hitchcock  1st,  and  Wolsey,  1st, 

J.  W.  Lynd,  Mayasan  Indian, 

W.  A.  Pollock,  WilsonTiUe.  Lebanon,  and  station, 

C.  E.  Rice,  Union  Star,  and  stations, 

J.  PipaL  Omaha,  Bohemian,  and  station, 

A.  w.  McGlothlan,  Lathrop, 

N,  D.  Bristol,  Conway  andBuffalo, 

W.  C.  Templeton,  Chanute,  Kan. 

J.  W.  Talbot,  Hope  and  Union, 

W.  A.  McMinn,  Paul's  Valley  and  Wynne  Wood,       I.  T. 

R.  M.  Carson,  Seymour  and  Throckmorton,  Tez. 

W.  B.  Tomkins,  Las  Cruoes,  1st,  N.  M. 

A.  McIntTPs.  Raton,  1st, 

J.  N.  Hick.  New  Castle,  1st,  Colo. 

J.  Ferguson.  Highland  Park, 

C.  Fueller,  Lake  City,  1st,  ** 
J.  Gaston,  Walsenburg.  and  stations,  '* 
A.  C.  Todd,  Pa/son,  and  station,                             Utah. 

F.  L.  Hayden,  Logan,  ^,  "  ^ 
W.  Clyde,  Anaconda,  1st,  Moot 
T.  W.  Bowen,  Nampa,  Idaho. 
W.  H.  Comettj  Taooma,  Tmmannel,  Wash. 
A.  R.  Crawford.  Ellensburgh,  ** 

D.  M'DaTenport,  Sumner,  1st,  and  Stuck  Valley,  *' 
R.  Liddell.  Bverett.  Ist, 

W.  Cobleigh,  Rathdrum,  Ist,  " . 

W.  P.  Haworth.  Long  Beach,  1st,  CaL 

G.  R.  Bird,  Gridley  and  station.  " 
M.  T.  A.  White,  Oakdale,  1st,  and  Hiokmaa,  *' 
&.  Jadmon,  D.  D.,  Presbyterial  Missionaiy, 


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COLLEGES   AND    ACADEMIES. 


ALMA  COLLEGE,  ALMA,  MICHIGAN. 

PRESIDENT  AUGUST  BRUSKE,  D  D. 

In  the  afternoon  of  October  14,  1886, 
the  Synod  of  Michigan  adopted  this  resolu- 
tion :  * '  That  in  view  of  all  the  facts  brought 
before  us  we  will,  with  the  help  of  God, 
establish  and  endow  a  college  within  our 
bounds.*'  Some  of  the  '*  facts  "  may  be  re- 
called. One  was  the  location  of  institutions 
of  learning  then  existing.  They  were  all  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  State.  In  the  cen- 
tral and  northern  parts,  upon  more  than  two- 
thirds  of  our  territory,  where  dwelt  a  million 
of  people,  no  college  was  to  be  found.  Into 
this  region  we  were  bidden  to  enter  by  that 
Providence  of  God  which  put  into  our  hands 
a  fund  of  |50,000  from  Alexander  Folsom, 
Esq.,  of  Bay  City;  grounds,  buildings  and 
apparatus  to  the  value  of  $40,000  from  A.  W. 
Wright,  Esq.,  of  Alma,  and  promises  of 
further  gifts  from  other  gentlemen,  most 
prominent  among  whom  were  Thomas  Mer- 
rill, Charles  Wells,  F.  C.  Stone,  Charles 
Davis,  of  Saginaw,  and  Hon.  J.  M.  Longyear, 
of  Marquette.  Here  were  both  the  need  and 
the  opportunity.  It  was  also  shown  that  by 
refusing  to  enter  upon  this  work  we  were  im- 
poverishing ourselves  in  the  work  of  home 
and  foreign  missions;  and  in  the  great  race 


of  the  denominations  we  were  deciding  to  be 
left  behind.  Other  Churches  were  strong  be- 
cause of  their  colleges ;  we  were  weak  because 
we  had  none. 

In  giving  our  children  to  State  institutions, 
or  to  those  of  other  Churches,  we  were  in 
danger  of  losing  them.  How  could  we  hope 
to  have  young  men  for  the  ministry,  except 
as  we  educated  themY  The  logic  of  expe- 
rience and  of  a  special  Providence  compelled 
action.  The  result  of  the  discussion  was  the 
heartiest  unanimity.  Nor  has  there  been  any 
diminution  of  interest  since  then. 

The  college  opened  its  doors  to  students  in 
September,  1887.  Thirty-five  of  them  reg- 
istered the  first  day.  There  were  then  two 
buildings.  The  larger  was  well  adapted  for 
recitation  purposes;  the  other,  a  dormitory, 
for  the  accommodation  of  young  ladies. 
Other  structures  were  soon  added.  To  have 
boilers  in  the  basement  of  a  building  where 
forty  or  fifty  people  spent  their  days  and 
nights,  whose  lives  might  be  sacrificed  by  an 
explosion,  was  risking  too  much.  The  trus- 
tees, therefore,  determined  upon  a  separate 
furnace  building.  It,  together  with  the 
Library,  was  erected  about  the  eame  time. 
All  are  of  brick  and  very  well  adapted  to 
meet  their  requirements.    Our  Library  is  our 

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joy  and  pride.  The  bnilding  is  fire  proof.  It 
is  believed  to  contain  the  best  selection  of 
books  to  be  found  in  any  college  in  Michigan. 
The  ^eat  benefactor  in  this  enterprise  has 
been  Mr.  A.  W.  Wright,  by  whose  gifts  the 
college  has  been  able  to  parchase  the  most 
recent  and  best  books  in  science,  philosophy, 
and  belles  lettres.  The  library  now  contains 
over  28,000  Yolnmes  and  pamphlets.  The 
increase  is  more  than  1,000  a  year.  In  a  part 
of  the  bnilding  is  a  large  reading  room,  pro- 
vided with  the  best  of  periodical  publications 
from  this  country  and  Eurepe. 


The  college  has  fifteen  professors  and  teach- 
ers who  give  instruction  in  courses  of  study 
or  preside  over  departments  as  follows:  The 
classical,  scientific,  philosophical  and  literary 
courses,  corresponding  to  those  of  the  best 
colleges  and  universities;  the  training  depart- 
ment for  kindergarten  teachers;  the  commer- 
cial department  for  those  wishing  a  business 
education;  the  college  preparatory,  musical 
and  art  departments;  and  the  academic  for 
those  desiring  a  short  course  of  two  or  three 
years.  All  the  students  are  required  to  recite 
in  Bible  study,  so  that  they  have  the  privilege 
of  contemplating  the   words  and  works  of 


God  side  by  side.  The  results  of  this  have 
been  most  gratifying.  No  student  has  gprad- 
uated  from  Alma  College  who  was  not  a  pro- 
fessing Christian.  All  now  in  any  of  the 
collegiate  courses  are  active  Christians.  There 
are  seventeen  young  men  with  us  studying 
with  the  Presbyterian  ministry  in  view  as 
their  life  calling.  A  department  has  recently 
been  added  for  the  training  of  local  evangel- 
ists according  to  the  plan  adopted  by  the  last 
General  Assembly.  It  is  believed  that  the 
college  has  advantages  for  this  purpose  over 
private  instruction  or  even  over  that  of  the 
Theological  Seminary. 

But  these  large  plans  imply  great  wants. 
We  very  much  need  a  wing  to  the  main  build- 
ing in  which  there  should  be  a  gymnasium,  a 
museum,  and  society  rooms.  We  are  per- 
suaded that  the  sum  of  (5,000  would  pnt  us 
in  possession  of  this  structure.  The  college 
will  not  be  upon  permanent  foundations  until 
the  endowment  fund  is  increased  by  the  addi- 
tion of  (200,000.  We  are  not  without  hope 
that  even  this  will  be  accomplished.  The 
trustees  are  now  engaged  in  that  endeavor. 
A  splendid  beginning  has  been  made  by  our 
unfailing  friend,  Mr.  A.  W.  Wright,  who  has 
promised  (50,000  on  condition  that  the  (200,- 
000  is  secured.  In  the  meantime  we  are 
under  bonds  to  the  *^  College  Board ''  and  to 
the  Synod  of  Michigan  to  live  upon  the  in- 
come from  (81,000  endowment,  from  tuition 
and  from  gifts  of  individuals  and  churches  of 
Michigan  and  to  ^'  owe  no  man  anything." 
We  trust  that  the  character  of  our  work  will 
commend  us  to  the  confidence  and  beneficence 
of  the  people  of  God. 


FREEDMEN. 


CHURCH  WORK. 
Our  work  among  the  Freedmen  may  be  di- 
vided into  two  departments — properly  desig- 
nated as  "Church  Work"  and  "School 
Work."  The  two  go  hand  in  hand,  and  it  is 
all  important  that  neither  one  should  outrun 
the  other.  Year  after  year  we  have  been 
adding  tQ  our  number   of   academies,  and 


seminaries,  and  other  institutions  of  learn- 
ing. Each  of  these  centers  of  educational 
influence,  after  it  is  completed,  entails  on  the 
Board  an  annual  additional  outlay  of  funds, 
in  the  way  of  teachers*  salaries,  scholarships 
and  general  running  expenses. 

The  other  arm  of  the  work  must  be  main- 
tained by  a  fair  and  just  expenditure  of  ita 


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share  of  the  general  fund.  Oar  ohurohes 
need  the  schools;  but,  our  school  work,  too, 
must  be  followed  up  by  a  proper  cultivation 
of  all  that  conserving  and  strengthening  in- 
fluence that  is  inseparable  from  the  living 
and  growing  church,  and  the  earnest,  self-de- 
nying pastor.  Many  of  our  straggling 
churches  are  suffering  for  the  want  of  suita- 
ble buildings.  The  Board  of  Church  Erec- 
tion stands  ever  ready  to  help  to  the  extent 
of  its  ability.  It  seldom  promises,  as  a  last 
payment,  over  one-third  of  the  proposed  cost 
of  the  building;  but,  from  whence  can  these 
poor  people  get  the  other  two  thirds?  Our 
Board  often  promises  one  of  these  thirds,  and 
even  af tw  that  the  remaining  third  is  beyond 
the  ability  of  the  little  flock  already  taxed  to 
its  utmost  to  meet  its  promises  in  connection 
with  the  support  of  the  pastor.  Friends  of 
the  Freedmen,  in  making  contributions, 
would  do  well  to  consider  this  phase  of  the 
work,  and,  in  making  their  generous  contri- 
butions, remember  that  many  a  feeble  flock 
would  be  greatly  comforted  and  blessed  by 
the  gift  of  a  neat  and  comfortable  house  in 
which  to  worship  God.  In  many  cases  |500 
would  secure  the  desired  end.         E.  P.  G. 


SEEING  IS  BELIEVING. 
The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter 
from  a  prominent  member  of  a  committee 
appointed  by  the  General  Assembly,  a  few 
years  ago,  to  investigate  the  work  of  the 
Freedmen*s  Board,  who  has,  this  winter,  been 
traveling  in  the  South  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health: 

I  have  had  in  mind,  for  some  time,  to  write 
you.  I  intended  to  do  so  at  Savannah,  but  did 
not  seem  to  get  time.  I  am  here  (at  Atlanta) 
with  a  little  time  to  spare,  and  so  improve  the 
opportunity.  For  several  weeks  I  have  been 
largely  occupied  by  getting  an  iasight,  by  actual 
observation,  into  the  work  of  your  Board  among 
the  colored  people.  I  have  been  at  Scotia,  Bid- 
die,  Bralnerd,  Wallingford  and  Beaufort.  I  have 
attended  services  in  a  number  of  our  churches, 
and  have  bad  many  interviews  with  ministers, 
teachers,  elders  and  members  of  our  churches. 
I  turned  aside,  from  my  intended  route,  to  be  at 
the  meeting  of  the  Presbytery  of  Atlantic,  and 
see  what  I  could  of  your  work — our  work— at 
Beaufort    I  have  always  had  a  real  internet  in 


this  work,  particularly  since  the  investigation 
of  the  Assembly's  Ck)mmittee,  of  which  I  was  a 
member.  I  have  perfect  confidence  in  your 
Board's  administration  of  this  most  important 
charge.  I  had  confidence  in  the  Board  before 
that  time ;  but,  that  most  thorough  investigation 
confirmed  and  strengthened  it.  This  opportunity 
to  see  the  work,  and  its  results,  has  made  me  an 
enthusiast  in  all  that  concerns  it . 


AN  EXAMPLE  IN  GIVING. 

The  public  statement  of  the  needs  of  our 
Board,  sent  out  through  all  of  our  religious 
impers,  came  to  the  notice  of  most  of  our 
self-denying  ministers,  and  weak  churches  in 
the  South,  and  the  efforts  made  by  many  of 
them  to  relieve  our  Treasury  with  their  not 
large,  but  exceedingly  generous  contributions, 
is  very  gratifying  evidence  that  they  are  not 
in  the  work  for  mere  personal  gain,  but  are 
ready,  at  times,  to  deny  themselves  even  the 
necessaries  of  life  to  help  on  the  good  cause 
which  has  for  its  object,  and  end,  the  estab- 
lishment of  our  Redeemer's  Kingdom.  The 
following  case  will  serve  as  an  example. 

Please  find  a  small  sum,  herewith,  transmit- 
ted to  the  Board,  the  third  contribution  from 
my  field,  Mt.  Pleasant  Church,  Franklinton,  N. 
C.  Our  prayers,  our  interest  and  our  love  go 
with  this  money.  We  have  no  wealthy  members 
in  our  church  or  school.  We  are  a  poor  people. 
This  sum  was  made  up  by  collecting  five  cents, 
and  ten  cents,  here,  and  everywhere.  A  poor 
afflicted  widow  brought  me  ten  cents  for  the 
Board— all  she  had— and  said,  • '  I  give  this  freely ; 
and  may  God  bless  our  Board."  We  know  you 
are  struggling  hard  to  carry  on  the  work  of 
evangelizing  our  people,  and  we  appreciate  it. 
The  Session  of  our  church,  after  reading  your 
appeal,  and  thinking  and  praying  over  it,  de- 
cided to  lift  this  last  collection  for  the  Board. 
We  should  send  an  Elder  to  the  next  meeting  of 
Presbytery;  but,  our  Elders  said,  "the  Board  is 
in  debt,  we  will  write  a  letter  to  the  Presbytery, 
including  our  report,  and  instead  of  collecting 
$10.00  to  defray  our  Elder's  way  to  the  Presby- 
tery we  will  send  the  money  to  the  Board,  this 
time."  Please  accept  this  money  from  your 
sincere,  self-sacrificing  colored  friends.  This 
sum  means  so  much  less  common  necessaries  of 
life,  for  my  people,  for  a  season  at  least  This 
is  bread  and  meat  money.  Qod  blees  you  uud 
the  Board,    Pray  for  us. 


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From  Mary  Allen  Seminary,  Texas: 
Enclosed  find  our  monthly  report  for  January. 
In  some  ways  it  is  the  best  we  have  ever  been 
able  to  make,  especially  in  regard  to  religious 
matters.  The  spirit  has  been  manifestly  present 
with  us,  and  there  have  been  many  conversions; 
of  these  twenty-six  have  united  with  our  church. 
The  work  has  been,  as  always  heretofore,  a  quiet 
one,  and  we  look  for  its  continuance  and  yet 


greater  results.  I  was  greatly  gratified  by  the 
Board's  complimentary  notice  of  my  financial 
report.  The  credit  is  due  in  no  small  degn'ee  to 
those  who  so  faithfully  co-operate  with  me  in 
the  work  here.  We  were  all  therefore  encour- 
aged by  the  Board's  kindly  notice.  We  shall 
most  heartily  work  with  the  Board  in  any  pro- 
posed retrenchment.  Enclosed  find  a  list  of 
directs,  not  hitherto  acknowledged. 


EDUCATION. 


We  give  to  our  readers  this  week  several 
pictures  of  the  buildings  of  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary  at  Allegheny,  Penna. 
They  were  specially  prepared  for  this 
magazine. 

The  General  Assembly,  of  1825,  passed  the 
following  resolution : 

^*  It  is  expedient  forthwith  to  establish  a 
^*  Theological  Seminary  in  the  West,  to  be 
**  styled  *  The  Western  Theological  Seminary 
*'of  the  Presbyterian  Church '  of  the  United 
"States." 

At  that  time  "Allegheny  town,"  opposite 
Pittsburgh,  was  an  unincorporated  village. 
Eighteen  acres  of  common  land  was  released 
for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  in  order  to 
furnish  an  inducement  for  its  location  at  that 
point.     The  first  building  was  erected  on 


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SEMINARY  HALL. 


what  is  known  as  Monument  Hill.     It  was 
opened  for  use  in  the  spring  of  1831,  but  was 
unfortunately  destroyed  by  fire  on  the  28d  of 
January,  1854.    The  date  of  the  formal  open- 
ing of  the  institution  for  instruction,  how- 
ever,   was  November  16,    1837.     The  first 
instructors  were  the  Rev.  Jos.  Stockton  and 
the  Rev.  Elisha  P.  Swift,  D.  D.    The  present 
seminary  building    was    dedicated  January 
10,  1856.     It  is  situated  on  Ridge  Avenue, 
and  has  West  Park  in  front,  and  Monument 
Hill  in  the  rear.     The  building  known  as 
Seminary  Hall  contains  the  chapel,  lecture 
rooms,  and  dormitories.     Memorial  Hall  con- 
tains some  further  rooms  for  students'  accom- 
modation, and  also  a  gymnasium.     There  is 
also  Library  Hall,  which  is  a  fire-proof  build- 
ing,  besides  five  professors'  houses,   all  of 
which  belong  to  the  institution. 
We  give  a  cut  of  one  of  these 
houses  on  the  next  page.    The 
principles  which  govern  the  in- 
stitution  are  expressed    in    the 
pi  in    as    follows:      '^Learning, 
**  without  religion,  in  ministers 
'*of  the  Gospel,  will  prove  in- 
*'jurious    to    the  Church;    and 
*^  religion  without  learning,  will 
''leave  the  ministry  exposed  to 
''the    imposition    of    designing 
"  men,  and  insufficient,  in  a  high 
"degree,  for  the  great  purposes 
"of  the  Gospel  ministry." 

Provision  has  been  made  for  a 
post-graduate  course  for  those 
who  can  afford  the  time  andjhave 
the  necessary  means  for  pursuing 


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their  studies  longer  than  is  provided 
for  in  the  regular  curriculum. 

Among  the  names  most  cherished 
at  the  Western  Seminary  is  that  of 
Chas.  C.  Beatty,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  whose 
love  tor  the  cause  of  sacred  learning, 
and  for  this  particular  Seminary,  led 
him  to  consecrate  to  its  use  more 
than  1200,000.  The  Seminary  has 
always  heen  famous  for  its  interest 
in  foreign  missions.  Its  location  is 
closely  associated  with  the  early 
history  of  organized  efforts  to  carry 
the  Gospel  to  the  heathen.  Many 
of  the  alumni  of  the  Seminary  have 
dedicated  themselves  to  this  work; 
and  among  those  devoted  to  foreign 
missions  may  be  mentioned  two 
members  of  its  faculty,  the  late  Rev. 
Archibald  Alexander  Hodge,  D.D., 
LL.D.,  and  the  Eev.  Samuel  H.  Kel- 
logg, D.D.,  who  has  recently,  for  the  second 
time,  gone  out  to  India.  Each  of  these 
gentlemen  occupied  the  chair  of  Systematic 
Theology  at  the  Seminary.  An  effort  has 
been  made  to  raise  a  contingent  fund  of 
$75,000.  Only  $5,000  of  the  $75,000  is 
now  lacking,  or  was  at  the  last  report;  and 
it  is  earnestly  hoped  that  the  fund  may  be 
completed  before  the  next  commencement. 

COLLEQE  AND  SEMINARY  NOTES. 

The  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education 


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MEMORIAL  HALL. 

counts  it  among  his  pleasant  privileges  that 
he  is  allowed  the  opportunity,  at  intervals, 
of  visiting  the  institutions  in  which  our  can- 
didates are  receiving  their  education.    A  re- 
cent visit  to  Charlotte,  N.  C,  enabled  the 
secretary  to  make  something  of  an  inspection 
of  the  working  of  Biddle  University.     The 
situation  of  the  institution  is  most  delight- 
ful,  commanding  a  wide  view  of  the  sur- 
rounding country.     It  is  sufficiently  far  from 
town  for  the  purposes  of  academic  seclusion, 
and  yet  near  enough  for  all  pur- 
poses of   convenience.     President 
I      Sanders  presides  over  the  institu- 
tion with   ability,   prudence    and 
skill  to  a  degree  that  commends 
him  to  the  favorable  comment  of 
such  intelligent  observers   as  the 
pastors  of  the  Presbyterian  churches 
in  Charlotte.     It  is  very  gratifying 
to  find  with  what  interest  they  are 
regarding    our  work    among    the 
colored  people.     One  of  them  has 
recently  personally  visited  Biddle 
University  and  made  a  most  ac- 
ceptable address  to  the  students. 
Another  is  about  to  pay  a  similar 
visit,  and  has  promised  to  deliver 
an    address    in    the   near  future. 
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room  for  the  students.  The  number  is  far 
larger  than  can  be  properly  accommodated. 
It  is  delightful  to  find  what  an  eagerness  for 
learning  the  students  display,  and  in  many 
cases,  a  very  decided  aptitude.  The  order 
and  discipline  of  the  uniyeraity  is  excellent. 
This  was  particularly  manifested  during  a 
recent  brief  disturbance,  arising  from  a  difi- 


culty  between  the  superintendent  of  the 
boarding  department  and  one  of  the  students. 
Some  sympathy  was  expressed  by  a  number 
of  his  fellow  students  with  the  one  who  had 
the  fray,  but  the  whole  matter  was  managed 
with  such  good  judgment  that  the  regular 
course  of  instruction  was  not  interrupted,  and 
good  order  and  respect  for  authority  prevailed. 

PARK  COLLEGE. 

At  Park  College,  as  well  as  at 
Biddle,  the  students  are  taught  to 
work  at  trades.  They  are  looking 
forward  to  the  erection  of  a  new 
building,  to  be  made  of  stone,  as 
the  headquarters  of  the  manual 
•^  labor  dei)artment,  and  the  business 
management  of  what  is  known  at 
the  college  as  **  the  Family."  The 
walls  from  top  to  bottom,  we  are 
toldf  will  be  of  native  stone,  laid 
by  student-masons,  in  mortar  made 
of  native  lime  and  sand.  Native 
lumber,  as  far  as  practicable,  will 
be  used  in  the  interior,  so  that  the 
expense  will  be  remarkably  small 
in  view  of  the  size  and  serviceable- 
ness  of  the  building. 

[A  number  of  InterestiDg  notes  touch- 
ing other  iDstitutions  are  neceflearily 
postponed.— Ed.] 


WESTERN  SEMINARY  UBRART. 


MINISTERIAL    RELIEF. 


THE  TREASURY. 
In  our  Church  papers  last  February  and 
also  in  this  magazine  for  March,  the  an- 
nouncement was  made  that  during  the  year 
there  had  been  an  unprecedented  falling  off  in 
contributions  from  all  sources — from  church 
and  Sabbath- school  collections  and  from  in- 
dividual donations.  The  stringency  of  the 
times,  which  caused  this  diminution  of  our 
receipts,  naturally  increased  the  demands 
made  by  the  Presbyteries  upon  our  Treasury 
on  behalf  of  our  suffering  brethren  and  their 
families.  The  financial  condition  of  the 
Poard  was  therefore  alarming,  and  a  special 


appeal  was  made  for  help.  It  was  evident 
that  unless  prompt  and  generous  aid  was  sent 
to  our  Treasury  we  could  not  pay  in  full 
even  the  sums,  small  as  they  are,  which  had 
been  pledged  by  the  Board  to  these  Wards  of 
the  Church  upon  the  recommendations  of  the 
Presbyteries  to  which  they  belong. 

The  Board  have  now,  with  deep  gratitude, 
to  report  that  this  generous  response  has  been 
made  and  that  all  the  appropriations  asked 
for  by  the  Presbyteries  (coming  within  the 
rules  of  the  Assembly  for  our  administration) 
have  been  paid  in  full — even  the  advances 
asked  in  the  case  of  a  number  of  famihes 


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who  had  hitherto  supplemented  their  small 
appropriations  by  work  which  they  were  no 
longer  able  to  obtain. 

Bat  in  order  to  do  this  we  were  obliged  to 
use  up  nearly  the  whole  of  the  large  balance 
which  we  have  reported  to  the  Assembly 
since  1887— our  entire  receipts  during  the 
year  having  been  nearly  twenty  thousand 
dollars  below  our  expenditures!  The  full 
statistics  will  be  given  in  our  report  to  the 
coming  Assembly  and  a  summary  of  them  in 
the  next  number  of  this  magazine. 

We  entreat  pastors  to  explain  the  situation 
clearly  to  their  people.  We  have  no  longer 
this  ^* balance'*  to  fall  back  upon.  There 
must  be  a  large  increase  therefore  in  contribu- 
tions during  the  coming  year  or  it  will  be 
impossible  for  the  Board  to  continue  the  pay- 
ment in  full  of  the  appropriations  recom- 
mended by  the  Presbyteries.  We  are  sure 
that  the  people,  if  informed  as  to  the  facts, 
will  not  allow  this  sorrow  to  fall  upon  the 
worn-out  servants  of  the  Church. 


MR.  FREDERICK  S.  KIMBALL. 

The  Board  of  Ministerial  Belief  has  met 
with  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of  Mr.  F.  S. 
Kimball,  one  of  its  members,  which  occurred 
at  his  residence  in  Germantown,  on  the  35th 
of  last  February. 

Mr.  Elimball  was  appointed  to  a  seat  in  the 
Board  by  the  General  Assembly  of  1889,  and 
brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties  not 
only  a  heart  filled  with  the  deepest  interest  in 
the  tender  and  sacred  work  of  the  Board,  but 
also  rare  qualifications  for  the  discharge  of 
the  important  and  responsible  duties  of  his 
new  position.  He  was  not  only  a  man  of 
great  consecration,  painstaking  and  faithful 
in  the  performance  of  whatever  he  under- 
took, but  from  his  business  training  and 
abilities  he  was  able  to  render  an  invaluable 
service  in  the  direction  of  the  financial  affairs 
of  the  Board.  He  was  not  only  punctual  in 
his  attendance  upon  the  monthly  meetings 
for  general  business,  but  cheerfully  gave  his 
time  and  labor  to  the  details  of  some  of  its 
most  important  committees.  As  a  member 
of  the  Finance  Committee,  having  the  re- 
sponsibility of  the  investments  of  our  large 
pennanent  fund,  his  business  abilities  and  his 


safe  conservative  views  were  of  conspicuous 
value.  He  was  also  one  of  the  Committee 
upon  Applications,  whose  responsible  duty  it 
is  to  carefully  examine  all  the  cases  which 
are  recommended  by  the  Presbyteries  for  aid, 
and  to  present  all  the  facts  to  the  Board  for 
its  action.  Here  it  was  that  his  warm,  loving, 
generous  heart  specially  showed  itself;  and 
while  there  was  no  member  of  the  Board 
more  loyal  to  the  Assembly  in  carefully  keep- 
ing the  administration  of  our  trust  within  the 
lines  marked  out  for  it  by  the  Assembly,  no 
one  rejoiced  more  than  he  when  the  Presby- 
terial  recommendations  on  behalf  of  our 
suffering  brethren  could  be  favorably  re- 
sponded to  by  the  Board  and  the  much  needed 
help  sent  to  the  servants  of  the  Church. 

The  Board  has  of  course  placed  upon  its 
records  a  suitable  Minute  with  reference  to 
Mr.  KimbalFs  character  and  his  great  ser- 
vices in  our  work.  Other  Church  agencies 
with  which  he  was  connected,  have  done  the 
same^such  as  the  Presbyterian  Historical 
Society,  of  whose  Executive  Council  he  was 
for  many  years  a  member  and  the  Chairman 
of  its  standing  Committee  on  Finance.  But 
his  most  intimate  relations  were  of  course 
with  the  pastor  and  people  of  The  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Ctormantown,  of 
whose  Session  he  was  for  many  years  a  mem- 
ber. They  were  his  neighbors  and  friends, 
in  constant  touch  with  him.  Their  knowl- 
edge of  him  was  therefore  not  confined  to 
Board  meetings  or  Committee  work.  He 
was  a  part  of  their  daily  life.  They  knew 
him  on  many  sides  of  his  character,  at  his 
home,  in  the  community  and  the  Church,  and 
in  his  business  and  public  life.  What  the 
Session  of  the  church  say  of  him  in  the  Minute 
adopted  by  them  is  therefore  said  by  those 
who  knew  him  best.  This  Minute  is  here  re- 
printed, for  the  memory  of  such  men  is  a 
blessed  heritage  to  the  Church. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Board,  in  his  per- 
sonal relations  with  Mr.  Kimball  for  more 
than  twenty  years  has  learned  to  know  him 
well  and  claims  the  privilege  of  joining  in  this 
tribute  to  his  rare  and  beautiful  character. 

MINUTB  OF  THE  SB88ION  OF  THE  SECOND  PRESBY- 
TERIAN CHURCH,  GERMANTOWN,  PA. 

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bath  eyenlDg,  February  25th,  called  from  our 
earthly  presence,  Frederick  8.  Kimball,  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Church  since  1659,  a  ruling  elder 
since  March  2d,  1873,  and  for  many  years  the 
Session's  Treasurer,  we  place  upon  record  our 
great  grief  at  his  separation  from  us,  the  deep- 
felt  loss  this  Church  has  sustained,  and  the  pro- 
found sympathy  we  bear  to  his  family  and  kin- 
dred in  their  bereavement. 

In  this  last  tribute  to  our  brother  and  fellow 
member,  our  grief  that  mourns  is  tempered  by 
grateful  Joy  in  remembering  all  that  he  was  and 
did.  We  are  thankful  that  he  has  been  permit- 
ted to  live,  and  to  live  out  a  well  rounded  life 
through  nearly  fourscore  years;  that  it  has 
been  our  privilege  to  be  associated  with  him, 
and  that  having  been  called  hence,  his  cheerful 
faith  and  perfect  trust  remain  to  comfort  us,  and 
mitigate  our  sorrow.  We  bless  Qod  that  he 
leaves  behind  memories  most  precious  and  reflec- 
tions most  instructive,  together  with  a  record  of 
usefulness  which  witnesses  to  the  ceaseless, 
unconscious  influence  of  a  consecrated  life.  We 
do  not  make  mention  of  any  single  deed  or 
habit,  quality  or  power,  so  much  as  that  spirit  of 
consecration  which  prompted  all  his  deeds  and 
sanctified  every  power, — which  made  him  more 
gracious  and  winning  than  any  of  his  manifes- 
tations, beautiful  as  they  were. 

Favored  with  a  progressively  successful  busi- 
ness career,  he  was  yet  so  guarded  by  a  sensitive 
conscience,  and  refined  by  Christian  courtesy, 
that  he  never  permitted  it  to  encroach  with  its 
cares  on  the  calm  life  of  his>pirit,  which  kept 
its  untroubled  upward  way. 

Our  brother-elder  was  at  once  a  believer  and  a 
worker.  He  believed  in  Qod  withiimplicit  faith, 
and  in  everything  that  was  true  and  beautiful 
and  in  every  good  work.  The  work  of  the 
Church  in  all  its  branches  was  dear  to  him,  and 
he  made  it  a  labor  of  love.  All  of  this  Church- 
family  and  congregation  will  readily  testify  that 
he  was  heartily  kind  and  affectionate  in  his  bear- 
ing, humble  and  unselfish  in  spirit,  ever  thought- 
ful for  others'  good,  generous  and  unostenta- 
tious in  his  charity,  and  uniformly  courteous 
and  tender  in  all  his  ministrations.  It  was  a 
pleasure  and  a  help  to  meet  him  anywhere, 
at  home,  on  the  street,  or  in  the  church.  Of 
pure  thought  and  noble  purpose,  of  quick  per- 
ception and  clear  judgment,  a  lover  of  order 
and  regularity  in  all  things,  a  promoter  of  peace 
and  harmony,  averse  to  contention  of  every 
kind,  ever  encouraging  and  shielding  others, 
with  no  word  of  disparagement  for  any,— his 
life  was  an  open  book  of  rare  worth,  uplifting 


and  cheering  to  all  who  came  within  the  circle  of 
its  influence.  It  was  the  Christ  deep-hid  within 
him  that  underlay  all  these  ministrations,  and 
made  him  the  thorough-going  Christian  gentle- 
man he  was, — ' '  not  slothful  in  business,  fervent 
in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord,  rejoicing  in  hope, 
patient  in  tribulation,  continuing  instant  in 
prayer." 

Not  alone  from  his  home  and  from  his  large 
circle  of  friends  will  he  be  missed;  but  sorely 
will  his  loss  be  felt  in  the  fellowship  of  this 
Church  and  Session.  From  the  weekly  prayer 
service,  from  the  church  worship  morning  and 
evening,  from  beside  the  table  of  our  Commu- 
nion, from  the  Sunday-school  and  from  every 
gathering  of  old  or  young  in  which  his  interest 
was  constantly  manifested,  we  shall  lament  his 
absence;  while  strangely  we  shall  feel  to  be 
without  his  wise  counsel  and  his  business-readi- 
ness in  every  church  enterprise,  mingled  with 
the  quiet  beauty  of  his  smile  and  the  unfailing 
kindness  of  his  greeting. 

Such  a  life,  evincing  what  a  Christian  man 
may  be  and  do,  cannot  be  without  its  exhor- 
tation and  inspiration,  not  only  to  us  of  this 
Session  but  to  all  of  this  household  of  faith. 
While  memory  keeps  in  mind  his  image,  he,  be- 
ing dead,  shall  yet  speak,  maintaining  with  us 
his  continued  ministry. 

That  ministry  it  is  ours  to  prolong  as  far  as  in 
us  lies.  It  is  ours  to  perpetuate  his  gracious  in- 
fluence in  this  community,  and  especially  in  our 
church  and  Sunday-school  to  make  his  abiding 
presence  felt. 

While  he  ascends  from  amongst  us  to  enter 
upon  higher  joys  and  larger  opportunities,  our 
prayer  is  that  his  mantle  may  fall  upon  us  with 
his  blessing.  So  shall  we  receive  the  benediction 
of  our  sorrow,  and  make  true  to  our  hearts  that 

**  Gkxl  calls  our  loved  ones;  but  we  lose  not  wholly 

What  He  has  g^ven: 

They  live  on  earth  in  thought  and  deed,  as  truly 

As  in  His  Heaven.^' 

With  this  more  formal  expression  of  our  loss 
as  a  Session  and  a  Church,  we  tender  our  heart- 
offerings  of  love  and  sympathy  to  his  family 
circle  which  for  fifty- four  years  has  remained 
unbroken,  and  which  to  keep  bright  and  joyous 
was  his  uppermost  desire.  In  behalf  of  the 
widowed  wife,  the  daughters  and  sons,  the 
grandchildren  and  the  distant  sisters,  we  send 
up  our  messages  in  the  Master's  name,  that  His 
sustaining  grace  may  be  theirs  in  fullest  meas- 
ure, and  that  through  the  cloud  of  their  sorrow 
they  may  discern  the  heavenly  blue  of  God's 
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** CHILDREN'S  DAY"  AND  SABBATH- 
SCHOOL  WORK. 

The  observance  of  ''ChUdren's  Day"  on 
some  Sabbath  in  early  Summer  has  become 
so  general,  not  only  in  our  own  Church  but 
also  among  the  Congregationalists,  Baptists, 
Methodists,  and  other  communions,  that  it 
may  now  be  regarded  as  an  established  insti- 
tution, accepted  as  such  by  the  judgment  of 
the  vast  majority  of  our  own  membership 
and  of  the  membership  of  other  Protestant 
evangelical  churches.  Whatever  objection 
may  be  made  to  ^  saint^s  days  ^  and  to  statedly 
recurring  "festivals"  and  ** fasts"  in  the 
Christian  year,  protestantism  does  not  revolt 
against  a  simple  anniversary,  designed  and 
calculated  to  bring  great  principles  into 
prominence,  or  to  itir  up  the  churches  to 
activity  and  zeal  in  the  spread  of  the  Gospel. 
ESspecially  free  from  objection  is  an  anniver- 
sary intended  to  interest  and  benefit  the  chil- 
dren of  the  Church  and  to  impress  upon  their 
young  hearts  the  great  lesson  of  Christian 
service. 

The  "Sabbath-School  Work"  of  our 
Church  has  providentially  become  identified 
with  Childrens*  Day  to  this  extent,  that  not 
only  is  the  missionary  part  of  this  work  us- 
ually brought  to  the  attention  of  children  and 
adults  on  that  day,  but  also,  by  an  impres- 
sive and  very  beautiful  harmony  of  proced- 
ure, the  children  of  our  Church  and  their 
adult  friends  then  bring  in  their  offerings  to 
the  cause;  and  so  important  has  this  custom 
grown  that  the  Department  of  Sabbath-school 
and  Missionary  Work  now  looks  to  Oiildren^s 
Day  to  supply  it,  year  by  year,  with  at  least 
one-half  of  its  entire  income.  This  great 
practical  outcome  of  beneficence  gives  a  spec- 
ial interest  and,  we  might  be  excused  for 
saying,  even  sanctity  to  the  anniversary,  in 
the  eyes  of  all  who  feel  the  vastness  and 
grandeur  of  missionary  Sabbath  school  work, 
and  the  importance  of  having  our  young  peo- 
ple thoroughly  in  love  and  sympathy  with  it. 


It  is  no  wonder  that  our  General  Assembly, 
year  after  year,  well  informed  as  it  is  in  ref- 
erence to  the  "mighty  works"  done  through- 
out our  land  in  the  name  of  Christ  through 
the  means  provided  by  these  Children's  Day 
offerings,  should  stamp  the  Children's  Day 
movement  with  a  seal  of  approval  and  com- 
mendation. It  would  be  a  wonder  were  it 
otherwise.  To  tell  the  story  of  the  blessings 
and  wonders  wrought  during  any  one  year 
by  the  agencies  which  depend  on  these  offer- 
ings for  their  life  would  be  to  fill  volumes. 
We  try  to  give  some  faint  idea  of  the  work 
month  after  month  in  these  pages,  and  im- 
perfectly as  we  tell  the  story,  we  know  that 
it  has  stirred  many  hearts  to  enthusiasm  by 
its  simple  truthfulness. 


CHILDREN'S  DAY,  1894. 

The  date  appointed  for  this  interesting 
celebration  this  year  is  the  second  Sabbath 
in  June — June  10th — although  some  of  our 
churches  for  local  reasons  have  chosen  an- 
other day.  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  for 
instance,  will  observe  the  third  Sabbath  in 
May — May  20 — which  will  bring  them  into 
correlation  with  the  famous  Brooklyn  Anni- 
versary. In  the  South  and  South-west  May 
is  also  regarded  as  preferable  to  June.  But 
the  great  majority  of  our  churches  will  ob- 
serve June  10th.  Whatever  be  the  day 
selected,  may  the  Holy  Spirit  quicken  the 
understanding  of  all  who  are  permitted  to 
enjoy  it,  so  that  they  may  realize  the  signifi- 
cance of  the  multitude  of  offerings  brought 
in  by  youthful  hands  in  the  pyramid  miie 
chests  and  consecrated  to  this  service. 

Should  there  be  a  falling  off  in  these  offer- 
ings it  will  mean  so  mueh  less  done  by  Sab- 
bath-schools for  Sabbath-schools — so  much 
less  done  towards  bringing  the  children  and 
youth  of  our  land  under  Christian  influence; 
for  the  work  we  fail  to  do  as  a  Church  is  not 
taken  up  and  performed  by  other  agencies. 
The  field  is  so  large  that  every  worker  now  in 


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it  is  needed,  and  still  the  demand  is  for  more. 
Pastors  and  superintendents  who  serioosly 
think  of  passing  by  the  day  without  notice 
will,  we  think,  take  this  point  kindly  into 
consideration,  and  bring  their  influence  to 
bear  upon  the  swelling  of  the  contribntions. 

HARD  TIMES  AND  OUR  WORK. 

By  the  closest  watching  for  opportunities 
and  the  most  diligent  effort,  this  Board 
has  been  enabled  not  only  to  maintain 
its  missionary  force  of  last  year  upon  the 
field,  but  also  to  increase  the  number  of  its 
permanent  missionaries.  The  funds  in  hand, 
however,  have  been  for  some  time  past 
steadily  diminishing.  Happily  the  Board  is 
not  in  debt,  and  it  hopes  to  avoid  debt.  With 
its  comparatively  small  income,  amounting 
last  year  from  contribntions  to  less  than 
$100,000,  debt  is  an  alternative  to  be  dreaded. 
With  a  stated  expenditure  for  permanent 
work  of  about  $9,000  per  month,  and  an 
annual  income  from  contributions  of  less  than 
$100,000  it  is  greatly  to  be  feared  that  the 
student  work,  which  has  been  for  years  so 
interesting  a  feature,  will  have  to  be  pruned 
down  and  perhaps  cut  off  entirely.  Twenty- 
five  additional  permanent  missionaries  could 
be  at  once  advantageously  commissioned; 
calls  are  urgent.  The  difference  of  even  one 
cent  more  or  less  in  every  pyramid  mite  chest 
would  pay  the  expenses  for  a  whole  year  of 
half  a  dozen  permanent  missionaries,  or  of 
four  times  the  number  of  student  missiona- 
ries for  the  summer.  It  is  therefore  to  the 
zeal  of  the  children  and  the  kindly  concur- 
rence of  the  adults  in  the  Church  that  the 
Board  looks  for  the  ability  to  go  forward. 

The  last  General  Assembly  specially  com- 
mended this  work  and  bespoke  for  it  an  in- 
come of  $200,000  from  the  churches  and  Sab- 
bath-schools. 

PLAN  FOR  CHILDREN'S  DAY. 
The  Board  has  done  its  best  to  make  the 
gathering  in  of  funds  on  Children's  Day  an 
easy  and  pleasant  task.  Two  programmes  of 
exercises  have  been  prepared,  one  for  the 
main  school  and  one  for  the  primary  classes. 
Those  programmes  will  commend  themselves 
to  all.    The  leading  idea  running  through 


them  is  **dyke  building,"  or  spiritually,  the 
importance  of  building  wisely  and  well  for 
the  salvation  of  our  own  souls  and  the  souls 
of  others.  The  selections  of  songs  and  music 
and  of  responsive  Scripture  readings  have 
been  made  with  care  and  judgment.  It  is 
intended  to  send  a  supply  of  these  pro- 
grammes free  to  every  Sabbath-sohool  in  our 
Church,  and  there  will  go  with  them  a 
quantity  of  pyramid  money  chests  for  the 
collection  of  contributions  by  the  children 
and  adult  members  of  the  school  before  Chil- 
dren's Day.  Hints  and  suggestions  to  super- 
intendents will  accompany  each  package;  so 
also  we  trust  will  the  blessing  of  heaven  I 

The  preparation  and  distribution  of  this 
material  and  the  correspondence  growing 
out  of  the  scheme  has  made  necessary  a  great 
deal  of  extra  work  and  expenditure;  but  the 
latter  has  been  in  part  supplied  by  special 
contributions.  One  gentleman  sent  a  check 
for  $1000  to  ensure  a  sufficient  supply  of 
pyramid  chests  to  every  Sabbath-school.  No 
plan  of  gathering  in  money  from  every  cor- 
ner of  the  land  can  be  devised  which  does 
not  in  itself  call  for  a  preliminary  outlay. 
May  the  enthusiasm  of  our  Sabbath-schools 
justify  the  step,  and  produce  a  rich  harvest 
from  this  faithful  seed-sowing. 

Last  year  the  Sabbath-school  and  MissicHi- 
ary  Department  sent  out  samples  to  schools 
and  waited  for  orders  for  supplies.  This 
plan  did  not  work  as  satisfactorily  as  was 
desired.  Many  schools  did  not  send  in  their 
orders  until  late  in  the  season,  and  at  the 
last  moment  it  was  necessary  to  order  a 
fresh  supply,  a  large  portion  of  which  re- 
mained over.  This  year  a  supply  of  pro- 
grammes and  mite  chests  will  be  sent  to 
every  school  of  whose  address  we  can  obtain 
record.  It  is  hoped  that  no  school  proposing 
to  keep  Children's  Day  will  be  without  a 
sufficient  supply.  U  any  one  reading  this 
article  and  knowing  of  a  school  which  has 
not  received  such  supply  before  May  1st,  will 
kindly  send  the  name  and  post  office  address 
of  such  school  to  Dr.  Worden,  1884  Chestnut 
Street,  Philadelphia,  and  give  as  nearly  as 
possible  the  membership  of  the  schoc^,  a  sup- 
ply will  be  sent  should  there  be  any  stock  on 
hand  at  the  time. 


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CLIFTON-SPRINGS  SANITARIUM. 


INTERNATIONAL  MISSIONARY  UNION. 

The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  will  be 
held  at  Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y.,  June  13-20, 
1894;  opening  session,  7.80  p.  M. 

The  International  Missionary  Union  was 
organized  at  Niagara  Falls,  Canada,  in  1884. 
It  met  again  at  that  place  in  1885,  and  in 
1886  and  1887  at  Thousand-Island  Park,  N. 
Y.  In  1888  its  session  was  held  in  Bridge- 
ton,  N.  J.,  and  in  1889  at  BiDghamton,  N. 
Y.  Since  that  date,  it  has  held  its  Annual 
Sessions  at  Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y,,  in  response 
to  the  inyitation  of  Dr.  Henry  Foster, 
fonnder  of  the  Clifton-Springs  Sanitarium. 

The  purposes  of  the  Union  are,  the  mutual 
acquaintance  and  conference  of  missionaries, 
and  the  promotion  of  the  work  of  foreign 
missions  in  Christian  hearts  at  home  and 
on  the  wide  field  abroad. 

All  persons,  men  or  women,  who  are  or 
have  been  foreign  missionaries  of  any  evan- 
gelical  denomination,  are  as  such  recognized 
without  further  inyitation  or  introduction  as 
members  of  the  Union  (membership-fee, 
half  a  dollar). 

Arrangements  are  made  by  the  hospitality 
of  Dr.  Foster  and  other  residents  of  Clifton 
Springs  for  the  entertainment  of  the  Union. 
There  are  always  many  missionaries  stopping 


at  Clifton  Springs  for  therapeutic  tieatment. 
Other  missionaries  coming  to  attend  the 
Annual  Meeting  will  be  provided  with  enter- 
tainment without  cost  to  themselves.  Mis- 
sionary candidates  under  actual  appointment 
to  their  fields  will  also,  as  far  as  practicable, 
be  entertained.  There  are  no  special  arrange- 
ments for  children  of  missionaries.  On 
arrival,  please  report  at  the  room  adjoining 
the  office  of  the  Sanitarium,  where  places  of 
entertainment  will  be  assigned.  Moderate 
rates  for  board  in  private  houses  can  be 
obtained  by  other  persons  attending  the  meet- 
ing. 

There  are  three  sessions  daily,  cordially 
open  to  the  public;  the  rights  of  discussion 
and  voting  being  reserved  for  the  members. 
Owing  to  contingencies  of  travel  and  health, 
the  Union  cannot  now  announce  any  detailed 
programme  beyond  the  following  routine. 

On  the  first  evening  (Wednesday),  after  the 
addresses  of  welcome,  the  fraternal  **  Recog- 
nition '*  session  establishes  a  general  acquaint- 
ance between  all  the  missionaries  present; 
each  gives  his  or  her  name,  society,  field  and 
years  of  service. 

Woman's  work  occupies  one  session.  In 
other  sessions  there  are  prepared  papers  on 
technical  missionary  themes,  or  addresses  on 


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PEIRGE  PAVILION. 


field  and  work  by  iDdividnal  missionaries,  or 
by  a  number  of  missionaries  representing 
different  churches,  or  societies,  in  the  same 
field.  One  session  will  be  given  to  methods 
of  promoting  the  foreign  missionary  spirit  in 
the  home  churches,  under  the  varied  condi- 
tions of  different  denominations  and  regions. 

Saturday  afternoon,  2  o'clock,  there  is  a 
Children's  meeting,  illustrated  with  curiosi- 
ties. At  4  o'clock  the  President's  reception 
occurs.  The  evening  can  be  devoted  to  one 
composite  lecture  (a  stereopticon  is  available 
at  the  place  of  meeting)  by  such  missionaries 
as  bring  slides.  Correspondence  with  the  Sec- 
retary is  necessary  for  arrangements  for  this 
lecture. 

All  missionaries  present  who  may  be  ex- 
pecting to  go  out  to  their  fields  during  the 
coming  year,  gather  on  the  platform  on  Tues- 
day evening  for  brief  statements  by  them, 
and  a   ** farewell"  from  one  of  the  oldest 


missionaries  present,  on  behalf  of  the  Union. 

All  mifisionaries  are  urgently  requested  to 
send  the  Secretary,  before  the  meeting,  their 
names,  societies,  fields,  years  of  appointment, 
and  (if  not  now  connected  with  the  work 
abroad)  date  of  retirement.  The  Union  is  con- 
stanlty  seeking  out  all  foreign  missionaries  who 
may  be  living  (as  well  as  thoee  only  visiting)  in 
the  United  States  and  Canada.  The  Secretary 
earnestly  invites  correspondence  with  any 
such  persons* 

Missionaries  are  requested  to  mention  any 
subjects  which  they  desire  discussed  in  the 
meeting,  or  upon  which  they  are  prepared  to 
speak  or  read  papers,  or  to  suggest  suitable 
speakers  or  essayists.  Any  inquiries  will  be 
answered  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Union. 
J.  T.  Oraoet,  D.  D.,  President^ 
Rochester,  New  York. 
W.  H.  Belden,  Secretary, 

Clifton  Springs,  New  York. 


ACROSS  THE  BORDER. 

REV.   W.  8.  NELSON. 

There  will  be  no  accusation  of  improper 
motives  if  the  readers  of  the  Church  at 
Home  and  Abroad  and  the  friends  of  the 
Syria  Mission  should  take  a  peep  over  the  line 
into  the  territory  of  our  Congregational 
brethren,  missionaries  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M. 


In  Aleppo  the  American  Board  own  a  gronp 
of  buildings  around  a  small  court.  On  one 
side  of  this  court  is  the  church  in  which 
Turkish  services  have  been  held  for  many 
years  and  in  which  now  the  GKwpel  is 
preached  three  times  each  week  in  Arabic, 
the  prevalent  language  of  the  city.  This  is  a 
good  sized  square  room,  the  roof  supported 


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OENTRAL  TUBKST  OOLLEGE,    AINTAB. 


by  large  colomns.  The  benches  would 
accommodate  a  hundred  and  fifty  or  more 
and  there  is  good  reason  to  hope  they  will 
soon  be  regularly  crowded  by  the  people  who 
wish  to  hear  the  simple  Gt>spel.  On  another 
side  of  the  court  is  a  two  story  building  with 
various  store  rooms,  kitchen  and  the  like  on 
the  ground  floor  and  the  apartments  of  the 
Turkish  pastor  above.  He  is  always  ready  to 
give  a  hearty  welcome  in  broken  English  to 
any  of  the  readers  of  this  article  who  will 
honor  him  with  a  visit.  Opposite  to  these  is 
another  set  of  apartments,  one  of  which  is 
used  for  the  Turkish  school  and  the  remain- 
der for  the  residence  of  the  Arabic  preacher 
(of  our  Syria  mission)  who  now  shares  the 
premises  and  the  work  with  the  Turkish  pas- 
tor who  has  been  there  much  longer  than  he. 
Much  interest  centers  in  the  plans  for  Aleppo 
and  the  readers  of  the  Chubgh  at  Home  and 
Abboab  may  expect  to  hear  of  the  northern 
city  of  Syria  from  time  to  time  and  the 
reports  will  doubtless  be  bright  or  otherwise 
^^  according  to  your  faith  ''  and  in  proportion 
to  the  earnestness  of  your  prayers. 

This  city  is  now  on  the  border  line,  but  we 
will  not  stop  here,  for  there  is  much  of  inter- 
est on  the  other  side  and  our  Congregational 
neighbors  give  us  hospitable  welcome  as  rela- 
tives and  friends.  The  most  attractive  build- 
ings and  the  most  useful  ones  in  the  old  city 
of  Aintab  are  those  belonging  to  the  Ameri- 
can Board^s  mission.    When  an  American 


missionary  first  sought  a  residence  in  this 
city,  a  prominent  Armenian  decided  that  he 
did  not  wish  to  have  a  foreigner  and  a  Prot- 
estant preacher  living  in  his  city  and  he  suc- 
ceeded in  making  so  much  trouble  that  the 
missionary  was  compelled  to  withdraw.  Sub- 
sequently another  missionary  came  and  rented 
a  house.  That  same  man  was  exceedingly 
angry  at  this  ignoring  of  his  prohibition,  and 
sent  an  order  to  the  new  missionary  that  he 
should  come  to  the  house  of  the  Armenian 
and  make  an  explanation  of  his  conduct. 
The  American  answered,  in  perfect  courtesy, 
that  it  was  customary  for  the  residents  of  the 
place  to  call  upon  strangers  and  hence  he 
should  await  the  visit  at  his  own  house. 
Enraged  at  the  boldness  of  this  answer,  the 
man  made  all  haste  to  visit  the  stranger  and 
settle  his  business  for  him  as  he  had  done 
with  his  predecessor.  When  he  had  ex- 
pressed the  usual  formal  salutations,  he  in- 
formed the  stranger  that  it  could  not  be  per- 
mitted that  a  foreigner  should  take  up  his 
residence  in  Am  tab.  In  reply  the  missionary 
quietly  drew  from  his  pocket  an  imperial 
firman  granting  him  the  right  to  reside  in  any 
part  of  the  Empire  he  might  choose.  Utterly 
amazed,  the  man  had  no  answer  to  give  and 
subsided  into  chagrined  silence.  The  peace- 
ful residence  of  the  missionaries  and  the  suc- 
cess of  their  work  in  Aintab  is  not,  however, 
the  result  of  that  imperial  firman,  but  of  an 
order  and  promise  from  a  higher  court  and 


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nobler  monarch,   recorded  in  Matt,  zxyiii, 
19,  20. 

On  a  hill  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the 
city  and  surrounding  country  is  the  old  house 
which  has  been  the  home  of  so  many  mis- 
sionary families  and  the  center  of  many  trials 
and  triumphs.  On  a  lower  level,  but  still 
at  quite  a  little  eleyation  above  the  plain, 
are  the  College  buildings.  The  beautiful 
dormitory  and  recitation  building  has  arisen 
in  increased  beauty  from  the  ashes  of  the  fire 
which  destroyed  its  predecessor,  and  it  is 
certainly  a  structure  which  would  attract 
attention  anywhere.  Its  white  stone  is  neatly 
trimmed  with  a  darker  brown,  while  the  neat 
round  tower  sets  off  the  front  most  attrac- 
tively. When  the  round  window  near  the 
top  of  the  tower  is  filled  with  the  face  of  the 
clock,  which  they  desire  for  it,  it  will  be  no 
longer  simply  an  ornament  but  a  most  useful 
adjunct  to  the  corps  of  instructors.  Neat 
inscriptions  in  Armenian  and  Turkish  inform 
all  beholders  that  the  Central  Turkey  College 
is  not  merely  a  building  but  a  spiritual  light 
house.  Three  residences  on  the  broad  cam- 
pus afford  delightful  homes  for  instructors. 
The  pleasantest  externally  is  that  of  the 
President,  which  was  built  and  first  occupied 
by  the  first  President,  Dr.  Trowbridge,  and  is 
now  occupied  by  his  successor.  Rev.  Dr. 
A.  Fuller.  From  happy  experience  I  can 
guarantee  a  thoroughly  American  reception 
and  welcome  from  these  missionaries  to  any 
one,  whether  Presbyterian  or  Congregational- 
ist,  who  is  a  servant  of  our  common  Lord. 
If  any  of  the  readers  of  this  article  are  con- 
templating a  visit  to  the  Syria  mission,  let 
me  advise  them  to  go  just  a  little  farther 
north  and  see  what  is  just  across  the  border. 

The  Syrian  preacher  mentioned  above  wrote 
to  the  missionary  m  Tripoli  in  January : 

Christmas  day  I  opened  the  church  for  prayer 
and  preached  in  the  Arabic.  The  coDgregation 
was  larger  than  usual,  and  all  showed  deep 
interest  and  went  out  much  moved  by  the  ser- 
mon on  Christ's  humble  birth  for  our  sake. 
Also  last  Sabbath,  the  close  of  the  year,  was  the 
day  for  communioii.  The  congregation  was 
larger  than  I  have  yet  seen,  so  that  the  church 
was  crowded.  I  preached  in  Arabic  (though  the 
sacraiAei^t  vyas  to  be  administered  by  the^Turk« 


ith  pastor)  and  the  people  were  deeply  moved 
with  desire  to  celebrate  the  Saviour's  resurrec- 
tion from  the  dead.  One  youth  was  received  to 
the  church,  and  among  the  participants  in  the 
sacrament  were  four  German  residents  of  the 
city.  I  also  opened  the  church  on  New  Tear's 
day,  and  there  was  no  small  gathering  to  listen 
to  the  word  of  €k>d  and  hymns,  together  with 
an  Arabio  address  on  the  duties  of  the  season. 
Some  of  the  children  also  repeated  passagei 
from  the  Scriptures,  and  then  all  dispersed  to 
the  ordinary  celebration  of  the  day. 


A  CHINESE  GODDESS.— TAI  SHAN  NAI 
NAI  OR  THE  MOTHER  OF  MT.  TAI. 

BEV.   W.  O.  KLTKRICH. 

Near  the  central  part  of  the  province  of 
Shantung,  China,  there  stands  a  mountain 
which  is  not  only  the  highest  peak  in  the 
province  but  is  also  the  most  noted  and  sacred 
among  the  five  sacred  peaks  of  China.  From 
ancient  times  it  has  been  the  object  of  vener- 
ation. Its  sacredness  may  be  seen  from  the 
fact  that  the  Chinese  regard  simply  a  brick  or 
stone  from  this  mountain  when  set  up  at  the 
end  of  a  street  as  sufilcient  to  drive  away  all 
evil  spirits  who  would  desire  to  use  the  street 
as  a  pathway.  Quite  frequently  one  can  see 
in  the  wall  opposite  the  end  of  the  street,  in- 
stead of  the  customary  shrine,  a  brick  or 
stone  with  the  inscription,  **Mt.  Tai  can 
withstand  you.'*  It  was  on  this  mounUun 
that  the  Chinese  emperors  Tao  and  Swfiin, 
famous  in  Chinese  history  sacrificed.  They 
lived  in  the  time  of  Abraham  and  to  this  day 
its  temples  and  shrines  are  crowded  with 
devoted  pilgrims,  some  of  whom  come  hun- 
dreds of  miles  in  order  that  they  might 
worship  here. 

During  the  first  four  months  of  the  Chinese 
year  the  ^^  Mother  of  Mt.  Tai,'*  no  less  than 
the  other  gods  to  whom  temples  have  been 
erected  on  this  mountain,  is  the  object  of 
devoted  worship. 

The  origin  of  the  worship  of  this  goddess 
is  clothed  in  obscurity.  There  is  a  tradition 
that  a  woman  many  years  ago  dwelt  in  a  cave 
in  this  mountain  living  an  ascetic  life,  and 
after  her  death,  was  deified  and  worshipped 
as  a  goddess  under  the  title  of  Tai  Shan  Nai 
Nai,  t.  e.  Mother  of  Mt.  Tai. 

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may  be  traced  to  this  source — nothing  more 
than  deified  men  and  women  who  had  lived 
▼irtnoos  liyes. 

Tliis  living  an  ascetic  life  is  a  favorite 
method  with  Chinese  women  for  satisfying 
their  troubled  consciences  and  for  obtaining 
merit  for  the  life  to  come.  It  is  among  such 
women  also  that  the  gospel  finds  a  more 
ready  entrance  because  of  the  religious  sense 
they  possess. 

There  are  three  principal  ways  in  which 
they  seek  to  obtain  merit,  probably  all  of 
Buddhist  origin — by  abstaining  from  meat, 
by  not  killing  animals,  on  account  of  the  the- 
ory of  transmigration  of  souls,  by  giving  alms. 


then  they  will  have  no  one  to  worship  them 
when  they  are  dead.  Hence  it  is  that  many 
a  Chinese  woman  who  is  childless  goes  to  the 
temple  like  Hannah  of  old  and  prays  that  the 
Mother  of  Mt.  Tai  may  have  compassion  on 
her  state  and  grant  her  children. 

But  the  main  object  for  which  this  goddess 
is  worshipped  is  because  she  hears  the  prayers 
made  in  behalf  of  those  who  are  sick.  And 
strange  to  say  there  enters  into  this  worship 
the  idea  of  substitution  which  we  find  so 
minutely  unfolded  in  the  law  of  Moses.  A 
relative  goes  to  the  temple  and  presents  an 
image  made  of  clay  to  the  goddess,  praying 
that  she  may  accept  this  instead  of  the  life 


TAI  SHAN   NAI  NAI,    A  CHINESE  IDOL. 


This  goddess  had  lived  such  a  life  aod  ob- 
tained great  merit;  and  when  some  sought 
and  found  relief  from  sickness  after  worship- 
ping her,  her  fame  spread.  It  was  increased 
by  the  circumstance  of  the  Emperor  Kien 
Lung  stopping  on  his  way  from  Peking  to 
Nanking  in  order  to  pay  his  devotions  to  her. 

The  temples  of  this  goddess  are  every- 
where. She  is  worshipped  principally  be- 
cause (as  they  believe)  she  grants  sons  to 
women  and  heals  those  who  are  afflicted  with 
troublesome  diseases.  This  latter  is  in  fact 
her  principal  office. 

The  Chinese  are  very  fond  of  children  and 
dread  not  to  hare  any,  especially  sons,  for 


of  the  sick  one.  The  temples  are  usually 
full  of  such  images. 

Thus  one  can  see  how  the  Chinese  possess- 
ing this  idea  of  substitution  can  readily  un- 
derstand when  we  tell  them  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  who  bore  our  diseases,  and  whom  God 
accepted  as  a  sacrifice  in  our  stead,  that  we 
might  not  perish  but  have  everlasting  life. 

The  Gospel  is  finding  an  entrance  into  the 
hearts  of  these  people  and  we  are  hoping  and 
praying  that  the  blessed  Master  may  continue 
to  bless  this  work  and  countless  numbers  be- 
come the  followers  of  him  who  became  our 
sacrifice  in  order  that  we  might  find  ppacQ 
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Ihaugkts  on  the  Sabbaihschool  Lesions. 


{May, 


Thoughts  on 
The  5abbath-5chool  Lessons. 

May  ^."-Jos^h'i  Last  Days. — Gen.  1: 
14-26. 

*-^ By  faith  Joseph,  when  he  died,  made 
mention  of  the  departing  of  the  children  of 
Israel,  and  gave  commandment  concerning 
his  bones.  ^' 

This  num,  surrounded  by  an  ancient  civ- 
ilization, and  dwelling  among  granite  tem- 
ples and  solid  pyramids,  and  firm-based 
sphinxes,  the  very  emblems  of  eternity,  con- 
fessed that  here  he  had  no  continuing  city, 
but  sought  one  to  come.  As  truly  as  his  an- 
cestors who  dwelt  in  tabernacles;  like  Abra- 
ham journeying  with  his  camels  and  herds, 
and  pitching  his  tents  outside  the  walls  of 
Hebron;  like  Isaac  in  the  grassy  plains  of 
the  South  country;  like  Jacob  keeping  him- 
self apart  from  the  families  of  the  land,  their 
descendant,  an  heir  with  them  of  the  same 
promise,  showed  that  he  too  regarded  him- 
self as  a  ^*  stranger  and  a  sojourner."  Djring, 
he  said,  "Carry  my  bones  up  from  hence." 
Therefore  we  may  be  sure  that,  living,  the 
hope  of  the  inheritance  must  have  burned  in 
his  heart  as  a  hidden  light,  and  made  him 
an  alien  everywhere  but  on  its  blessed  soil. 
And  faith  will  always  produce  just  such 
effects.  In  exact  proportion  to  its  strength, 
that  living  trust  in  God  will  direct  our 
thoughts  and  desires  to  the  **King  in  his 
beauty,  and  the  land  that  is  very  far  off." 
Alexander  Maclaren,  D.D. 

May  18. — Israel  in  Egypt, — Exodus  i: 
1-14. 

It  is  no  wonder  that  more  than  one  of  the 
quaint  plantation  songs  of  the  South  find  the 
theme  for  their  pathos  in  the  experiences 
'*  When  Israel  was  in  Egypt's  land."  It  is 
not  the  weariness  of  labor,  excessive  as  that 
may  be,  that  is  the  greatest  hardship  of  a 
life  of  bondage.  Love  or  patriotism  or  am- 
bition will  inspire  to  as  rigorous  toil  as  the 
most  cruel  task  master  can  require  of  his 
slave.  But  labor  that  brings  no  return,  dis- 
cipline that  makes  no  allowance  for  circum- 
stances, tyranny  that  makes  fidelity  only  a 
basis  for  more  exorbitant  ^demands,  mastery 


without  sympathy, — these  are  the  elements 
that  make  such  a  life  unbearable,  and  drive 
its  victim  to  desperation.  And  it  was  to 
such  a  life  that  the  Israelites,  forgetting  the 
repeated  and  wonderful  deliverances  that  the 
hand  of  the  Lord  had  wrought,  looked  long- 
ingly back.  **  We  remember  the  fish,  which 
we  did  eat  in  Egypt  freely;  the  cucumber, 
and  the  melons,  and  the  leeks,  and  the 
onions,  and  the  garlic."  Truly  they  were  a 
people  of  uncertain  memories  and  of  weak 
faith. 

May  20.— 27i€  Childhood  qf  Moses,— ^Ei^^vA 
ii:l-10. 

The  world  and  the  Church  have  known  no 
greater  hero  than  the  one  whose  life  story 
began  among  such  troublous  times  for  the 
Hebrew  nation,  but  the  heroism  began  farther 
back  than  in  the  little  life  that  was  cradled 
among  the  bulrushes  of  the  Nile,  and  it  was 
a  heroism  that  was  born  of  a  pure  and  simple 
faith.  *•''  By  faith  Moses,  when  he  was  bom, 
was  hid  three  months  of  his  parents,  because 
they  saw  that  he  was  a  proper  child;  and 
they  were  not  afraid  of  the  king's  command- 
ment." As  has  been  said  of  Moses'  mother, 
^^  She  could  not  have  laid  the  ark  so  cour- 
ageously upon  the  Nile,  if  she  had  not  first 
devoutly  laid  it  upon  the  care  and  love  of 
God."  (Joseph  Parker,  D.  D.)  And  the 
mother's  heroism  was  shared  by  the  young 
sister  who  was  set  afar  off  to  watch  the 
precious  treasure  and  who  had  courage  to 
face  royalty  itself  in  her  sisterly  eagerness  to 
secure  suitable  care  for  her  little  brother. 

The  whole  story  gives  us  such  a  picture  of 
home  life  and  family  affection  as  brings  the 
Hebrew  family  of  long  ago  very  near  to  our 
hearts. 

May  27. — Moses  Sent  as  a  Deliverer, — 
Exodus  iii:  10-20. 

Forty  years  amid  the  splendors  of  the  Egyp- 
tian court  with  its  opportunities  of  culture 
and  education;  forty  years  in  *»the  back- 
side of  the  desert"  with  a  lonely  shepherd's 
opportunities  for  meditation  and  communion, 
and  now  our  hero's  great  life  work  was  to 
begin.  And  it  began  with  such  a  revealing 
of  God's  power  and  purpose  as  marked  in  a 
wonderful  way  the  forty  years  that  were  to 
follow.     ^^  God  made  known  his  ways  onto 


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Moses,  his  acts  unto  the  children  of  Israel.^' 
There  were  many  precious  secrets  between 
Moees  and  his  Lord,  and  among  the  most 
precious  of  them  was  that  with  which  his 
doubting  heart  was  strengthened  in  this  re- 
markable interview,  "Certainly,  I  will  be 
with  thee;*'  a  secret  in  which  all  of  God's 
children  may  claim  a  share  when  they  go 
forth  to  do  his  bidding.  "Lo,  I  am  with 
you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world." 


Young  People's  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN  AND  HIS 
PASTOR. 

OEOBOK  H.  FULLERTON,  D.D. 

The  object  of  the  editor  of  our  good  maga- 
zine in  giving  me  this  theme  is,  as  I  under- 
stand it,  to  get  a  young  Christian  and  a  pas- 
tor together,  as  it  were,  for  a  friendly  talk. 

I  shall  have  to  hold  up  both  sides  of  the 
conversation  indeed;  but  as  I  am  a  pastor 
and  as  it  seems  but  yesterday  that  I  was  a 
young  Christian,  I  think  I  can  fairly  repre- 
sent the  two  parties. 

And  let  me  start  out  by  saying,  that  every 
young  Christian  and  his  pastor  should  have 
talks  together.  The  pastor  is  a  shepherd,  and 
the  young  disciple  is  a  member  of  his  flock, — 
what  would  be  thought  of  a  shepherd  who 
was  too  busy  to  come  near  his  sheep  f  or  of  a 
sheep  that  never  cared  to  go  near  its  shep- 
herd f  The  pastor  is  a  species  of  doctor; 
what  would  be  thought  of  a  doctor  who  never 
loeked  at  his  patient's  tongue,  or  felt  his 
pulse  f  and  what  would  be  thought  of  a 
patient  who  would  never  tell  his  doctor  how 
he  felt  f  I  know  the  young  Christian  often 
feels  that  his  pastor  is  so  busy  with  books  and 
sermons  and  visits,  and  has  got  so  far  beyond 
him  in  the  Christian  life  that  it  is  useless  to 
try  to  have  a  conversation  with  him ;  and  I 
know  that  we  pastors  are  often  to  blame  for 
seeming  inapproachable  and  overwise.  We 
fail  to  realize  that  the  babes  in  Christ  need 
the  ^*  sincere  milk  of  the  word,''  and  those 
who  are  older  need  to  be  led  on  to  the  *  ^  strong 
meat,"  and  we  allow  them  therefore  to  look 


out  for  themselves.  But  I  know,  too,  that  our 
hearts  often  long  to  get  nearer  to  the  young 
disciples  of  our  chai^  so  as  to  advise  with 
them  about  their  trials  and  learn  of  their 
progress  and  hindrances  in  the  divine  life.  If 
one  of  them  should  come  to  us  with  a  request 
for  a  talk  about  religion  it  would  be  like  open- 
ing a  shutter  in  our  study  window.  It  would 
not  only  brighten  us  up,  but  would  warm  our 
hearts  and  our  sermons  too.  I  wish  that  all 
young  Christians  who  read  this  article  would 
try  their  pastors  in  this  way,  and  see  how  the 
effort  would  turn  out.  Tou  could  help  us  to 
keep  young  and  cheery  and  interesting,  I 
am  sure,  if  you  would  employ  such  methods. 
But  this  leads  me  to  say,  that  our  young 
people  ought  not  to  expect  us  to  make  a  busi- 
ness of  entertaining  them  in  our  preaching 
and  other  work.  I  think  they  sometimes 
make  mistakes  here  and  that  we  pastors  make 
mistakes  by  yielding  to  their  wishes  too  far. 
While  a  church  should  always  be  a  cheeriul, 
homelike  place,  it  should  never  be  a  kinder- 
garten or  a  playhouse.  It  is  a  place  for  in- 
struction in  God's  Word,  in  order  to  worship 
and  love  and  service,  a  place  to  **grow  in 
grace  and  in  the  knowledge  of  our  Lord  and 
Saviour  Jesus  Christ,"  to  use  the  Apostle 
Peter's  language.  Now  mere  entertainment 
in  church  and  Sabbath-school;  **  having  a 
good  time,"  as  we  often  express  it,  is  a  poor 
way  to  help  our  growth  in  grace  and  knowl- 
edge. A  young  Christian  should  be  taught 
to  think  and  reflect  by  his  pastor,  as  well  as 
by  his  school  teacher,  and  should  be  led  thus 
into  deeper  experience  of  God's  Word  and 
will;  but  amusement  will  not  accomplish  this 
end.  The  **good  times"  for  which  pastor 
and  flock  should  labor  and  pray  are  ^'  times 
of  refreshing  from  the  presence  of  the  Lord  " 
of  which  we  read  in  the  story  of  Pentecost  in 
the  Book  of  Acts.  Of  course  I  do  not  mean 
that  there  should  not  be  a  cheery  social  life 
in  the  church.  The  Pentecost  disciples  we 
learn  engaged  in  ^^  breaking  bread  from  house 
to  house  "  and  attended  their  church  socials 
''  with  gladness  and  singleness  of  heart,"  but 
all  this  was  incidental  to  the  preaching  and 
baptizing,  and  to  the  joy  of  the  Spirit's  work 
in  the  hearts  of  saints  and  sinners.  I  do  wish 
that  our  young  Christians  would  help  their 


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pastors  to  hold  the  Church  to  this  spiritual 
work  as  pilots  hold  their  vessels  on  their 
coarse.    A  church's  or  a  soul's  growth  that 
comes  from  getting  up  all  sorts  of  noyelties 
in  preaching  and  music  and  social  gathering 
— that  is  fostered  bj  a  species  of  show  busi- 
ness— will  be  like  that  of  the  seed,  in  the  par- 
able of    the  sower,    which  fell  into    stony 
places  where  there  was  no  depth  of  earth.    It 
is  a  great  comfort  to  pastors  in  these  days 
that  our  societies  of  jouug  people  are  usually 
so  helpful  in  the  best  things.  I  have  heard  of 
organizations  among  them  that  tried  to  *^  run 
the  church ''  and  looked  down  upon  pastors 
and  elders  and  other  officers  as  if  they  were 
hardly  to  be  tolerated  in  church  affairs,  but  I 
have  had  no  experience  with  societies  of  that 
kind.    Some  of  the  best  tonics  I  get  in  my 
work  are  given  me  by  my  young  people  of 
the  Sabbath-school  and  of  the  Christian  En- 
deavor   Society.     It    stimulates  me  in    my 
preaching,  to  hear  their  songs  acd  prayers 
before  the  hour  for  sanctuary  service.     This 
is  in  fact  the  only  kind  of  stimulant  I  take 
before  preaching.    And  when  they  flock  into 
the  pews,  and  join  in  the  worship,  and  turn 
up  to  me  their  kind,  loyal  faces  for  my  gospel 
message,   it  makes  me  wish  that  I    could 
preach   like  Paul  or  Apollos  or  Luther  or 
Wesley  or  Edwards,  and  you  know  that  the 
way  to  begin  to  be  like  great  and  good  men 
is  to  wish  to  be  like  them.    Of  course  the 
young  Christian  and  his  pastor  should  pray 
for  each  other  and  sympathize  in  each  other's 
joys  and  sorrows;  and  let  me  as  I  close  (for  a 
good  talk  must  not  be  too  long)  give  you  an 
example  of  such  mutual  help,  in  the  associa- 
tion of  the  Apostle  Paul  and  the  young  man 
Timothy.    Do  you  remember  how  this  pastor 
and   this  young  disciple    of    Jesus    leaned 
against  each  other,  so  to  speak  ?  Paul  brings 
out  this  fact  most  affectingly  in  his  second 
epistle  to  Timothy.    The  aged  pastor  was  in 
prison  at  Rome,  and,  bound  with  a  chain  to 
his  guard,  was  expecting  to  be  led  out  to  exe- 
cution at  any  time,  at  the  behest  of  the  cruel 
Emperor  Nero.     And  while  sitting  there  in 
his  loneliness  he  thiuks  about  his  **  sou  Tim- 
othy" as  he  calls  him,  who  was  now  preach- 
ing, probably  at  distant  Ephesus.     He  re- 
members his  conversion  as  a  lad  at  Lystra 


in    the    home  of    his  mother  Eunice,  and 
grandmother  Lois,  and  his  companionship  in 
his  missionary  journeys  as  a  young  disciple 
and  evangelist.     He  is  mindful  even  of  bis 
tears,  as  he  tells  Timothy;  his  tears  of  re- 
pentance, perhaps,  and  of  sympathy  in  his 
toils  and  successes.    And  while  the  old  man 
thus  sits  recalling  the  past,  he  concludes  to 
write  this  second  letter  to  his  son  in  the  faith. 
I  presume  that  he  wrote  it  with  the  hand  that 
had  the  manacle  on  it  that  bound  him  to  the 
Roman  soldier;  and  if  any  of  you  want  to 
see  how  much  a  young  Christian  can  help  a 
pastor,  while  that  pastor  in  turn  helps  him 
with  instruction  and  exhortation,  I  wish  yon 
would  read  caref  ally  again  this  touching  let- 
ter.    Heart  answers  to  heart  in  it;  Rome  to 
Ephesus;  and  both  the  young  soldier,  and  the 
old  soldier  and  prisoner  of  Jesus  Christ,  are 
encouraged  to  live  and  to  die  for  their  faith. 
The  first  person  that  the  young   Saul  of 
Tarsus  saw  after  he  had  seen  Jesus  at  the  time 
of    his    conversion,    was    the    good    pastor 
Ananias  of   Damascus;   and  about  the  last 
person  he  thought  of  before  he  went  upward 
to  see  Jesus  in  his  glory  was  this  young  dis- 
ciple at  Ephesus,  and  he  thus  linked  together 
in  his  own  precious  and  deepest  experience 
both  at  the  beginning  and  closing  of  his  life, 
^<  The  young  Christian  and  his  pastor." 


THE  BATTLE  IN  THE  BEANFIELD. 

O.  A.  HILLS,  D.D. 

Upon  some  slope  of  Judah's  hills  a  parcel 
of  ground  was  devoted  to  the  cultivation  of 
lentils.  The  lentil  of  the  Scriptures  is  a 
leguminous  plant  like  our  pea  or  bean.  Upon 
a  slender  but  self  supporting  stalk  the  pods 
are  formed,  each  having  three  or  four  small 
beans.  These  in  cooking  dissolve  in  the 
water  and  form  a  thick  porridge  of  a  brown- 
ish-yellow color,  and  of  a  nourishing  and  ap- 
petizing quality.  It  was  and  probably  is  a 
chief  article  of  diet  among  the  poor. 

It  was  in  a  field  of  this  lowly  plant  that 
Shammah,  the  third  of  David's  ^*  Three 
Mighty  Ones,"  gained  his  single  handed  vic- 
tory. The  Philistines  were  invading  the 
country.  A  foraging  party  was  bent  on  get- 
ting the  lentils.    As  is  often  the  case  in  a 


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campaign,  the  little  skirmish  brought  on  a 
general  engagement.  The  Hebrew  army  was 
defeated,  and  the  people  fled.  But  Shammah 
stood  his  ground;  and  single-handed  and 
alone  snatched  a  glorious  yictory  from  the 
jaws  of  defeat;  and  gave  the  glory  of  it  to 
Jehovah.  It  was  the  Lord  who  wrought  a 
great  victory  that  day  for  Israel. 

Why  did  the  pen  of  inspiration  give  us 
such  a  passing  glance  (II  Sam.  xxiii:  11-12) 
at  this  ancient  battle  in  the  beanfield?  We 
may  not  certainly  know.  But  if  we  read  be- 
tween the  lines,  we  shall  not  find  it  difficult 
to  discover  some  of  the  characteristics  of 

THE  TRUE  HERO. 

Hero-worship  is  not  an  uncommon  form  of 
idolatry.  Young  people  especially  are  easily 
fired  with  the  story  of  brave  deeds.  Nor  is 
this  undesirable.  It  is  of  vast  moment  for 
all  young  folks  to  set  before  their  eyes  the 
loftiest  ideals.  Every  body  ought  to  have  a 
hero.  Only  let  us  be  sure  that  our  hero  is  an 
ideal, — noble  in  character,  pure  in  life  and 
valorous  in  deed.  Such  a  hero  was  this  war- 
rior of  the  lentil  field ; — as  we  shall  see  if  we 
study  this  episode  in  his  life  a  little. 

1.  He  toas  faithful  in  littles.  The  bean 
patch,  we  should  say,  was  not  an  affair  to 
fight  about.  Had  it  been  the  great  harvest 
field  of  Esdraelon,  the  obstinate  bravery  of 
Shammah,  and  of  the  entire  army  of  Israel 
as  well,  would  not  have  been  surprising. 
But  it  was  a  soldier^s  duty  to  defend  a  poor 
man's  beanfield  as  earnestly  as  his  rich  neigh- 
bor's golden  wheat  field.  And  our  hero  was 
not  wanting  in  fidelity  to  the  trifle.  By  this 
alone,  as  it  would  seem,  his  right  to  a  place 
among  the  king's  heroes  is  attested.  It  was 
a  small  thing  to  stand  for  Israel's  independ- 
ence among  the  bean  stalks.  But  David's 
mighty  man  had  learned  the  power  and  per- 
fectness  of  little  things.  Modem  heroes,  of 
the  Bible  sort,  are  not  unlike  him  here. 
They  are  **  faithful  in  that  which  is  least." 

We  ought  to  be  heroes  after  the  Shammah 
pattern.  Disastrous  failure  may  come  from 
unfaithfulness  in  the  littles.  So  pervasive  is 
the  nature  of  some  of  the  aniline  dyes  that  a 
single  atom  will  give  its  color  to  a  volume  of 
water  many  million  times  greater  than  itself. 


Just  as  truly  one  little  stain  in  the  character 
of  a  person  may  blot  the  life  and  blight  one's 
brightest  hopes,  so  pervasive  is  the  trifle  in 
the  domain  of  evil.  A  thin  and  almost  im- 
perceptible red  line  led  Canova  to  reject  the 
block  of  costly  Parian  marble  intended  for 
his  statue  of  the  great  Napoleon.  The  master 
sculptor  knew  that  every  stroke  of  his  chisel 
in  perfecting  the  image  would  but  reveal 
more  clearly  the  inherent  and  at  first  seem- 
ingly trifling  deformity. 

Power  and  perfectness  reside  in  little 
things.  And  he  who  can  be  tempted  to  neg- 
lect the  trifle,  can  never  be  a  hero  in  His 
world,  who  does  his  mightiest  works  by 
smallest  instrumentalities.  There  is  no  poet- 
ry in  a  bean  field,  nor  is  there  in  Samson's 
jawbone  of  an  ass;  but  in  the  one  and  with 
the  other,  God  chooses  to  give  strength  for 
glorious  victories.  And  this  suggests  another 
notable  thing  about  our  hero. 

2.  He  gained  the  victory  in  comnum  things. 
Who  would  have  thought  that  Jehovah  was 
going  to  give  his  people  such  a  triumph  in  a 
bean  patch?  But  He  did  I  And  all  through 
the  valor  and  fidelity  of  one  man !  And  he 
was  a  hero!  His  name  is  immortal  I  His 
fame  shall  endure  when  the  stars  die! 

And  still  we  do  not  look  for  triumphs  in 
trifles.  We  expect  them  on  more  pretentious 
fields;  and  we  are  only  waiting  for  an  oppor- 
tunity to  distinguish  ourselves  on  some  grand 
occasion !  Such  victories  are  easy !  But  we 
do  not  get  many  chances  to  win  them.  Most 
of  the  effective  fighting  in  our  every-day 
world  has  to  be  done  among  the  bean  stalks; 
and  there,  if  anywhere,  we  must  gain  our 
victories. 

How  few  great  days  we  have !  Even  birth- 
days get  monotonous  after  yon  have  had  fifty 
of  them !  How  few  memorable  occasions  you 
can  recall! — the  day  you  graduated  from 
school,  the  hour  your  lover  proposed,  the  day 
of  your  wedding!  And  none  of  these  were 
good  days  for  fighting!  ^*  And  thus,"  as  Dr. 
Bushnell  says,  '•*•  with  the  exception  of  some 
few  striking  passages,  or  great  and  critical 
occasions,  perhaps  not  more  than  five  or  six 
in  all  your  life,  that  life  is  made  up  of  com- 
mon, and,  as  men  are  wont  to  judge,  unim- 
portant things." 


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But  in  thefie  uneyentful  days  and  hnm- 
dmin  duties  we  may  win  most  glorious  vic- 
tories for  our  Savionr-Eing.  They  still  may 
seem,  to  other  eyes,  to  be  only  lentil  fields ; 
but  in  onr  memories  they  shall  be  glorified 
with  Ebenezers — stones  of  memorial — ^re- 
calling the  yalorous  combats  in  which  Jeho- 
vah helped  ns,  and  wrought  us  mighty  vic- 
tories. Every  soul  of  Christian  hero  has  its 
GMtysburg, — a  sleepy  old  Dutch  village  in 
itself,  it  may  be;  but  by  reason  of  the 
mighty  triumph  there  achieved,  immortal 
evermore.  The  field  where  Shammah  won 
renown  was  only  a  patch  of  vetches;  but 
three  thousand  years  adown  the  centuries  we 
read  of  his  valor,  and  learn  of  him  to  stand 
amidst  the  fleeing  hosts,  yet  faithful  in  a 
humble  lot,  and  conquer  victory  in  the  com- 
monest things. 

8.  He  valued  the  lowly  channels  of  bleseing. 
Many  would  have  said  to  David^s  Mighty 
Man, — Better  let  the  bean  patch  go,  and 
make  a  stand  for  the  vast  grain  fields  of  the 
plains.  But  Shammah  did  not  reason  in 
this  way.  His  thought  seemed  rather 
to  be  this, — ^The  lentil  may  be  only  the 
food  for  the  poor,  but  nevertheless  there 
is  a  blessing  in  it;  and  we  will  stand 
for  victory  here,  and  retain  even  the  hum- 
blest channel  of  Jehovah^s  mercies. 

He  was  wise;  and  we,  too,  may  wisely  fol- 
low his  example.  A  large  number  of  people 
live  in  a  state  of  perpetual  wretchedness,  be- 
cause they  do  not  realize  the  power  and 
adaptation  of  common  things  to  bring  them 
Joy.  And  yet  nothing  is  more  sure  than  that 
lowly  things  are  the  chief  sources  of  all  our 
earthly  happiness.  The  silent  hour  of  com- 
munion with  God;  how  many  turn  from  it 
as  a  barren  place  I  Yet  who  has  tried  it  and 
failed  to  find  it  a  source  of  daily  benediction 
growing  in  sweetness  and  helpfulness  *^as 
the  days  are  going  by."  The  chapter  of 
Holy  Scripture;  how  jejune  and  meaning- 
less to  him  whose  eyes  are  ever  looking 
for  some  great  things!  And  yet  is  it  not 
true  that  to  the  humble  and  believing  soul 
that  simple  page  does  often  burn  and  glow 
with  a  celestial  fire ;  and  the  voice  of 
€K)d,  leaping  from  plain  words,  penetrates 
fhe  soul's  profoondeet  needs,  and  brings  in- 


effable peace  and  rest  to  the  weary  and 
heavy  laden.  The  richest  joy  marks  the  im- 
promptu feast,  while  disappointment  nearly 
always  waits  on  sought-for  opportunities  and 
elaborate  pleasures. 

The  lentil  field  is  worth  a  fight.  In  the 
surrender  of  lowly  instrumentalities  of  bless- 
ing we  often  miss  the  blessing  itself.  There 
is  bliss  sometimes  in  beans.  In  the  glare 
and  publicity  of  the  life  so  many  of  us  live, 
it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  we  strive 
daily  after  simple-hearted  pleasures,  and  find 
our  purest  and  sweetest  joys  in  humble 
things.  **  Seekest  thou  great  things  for  thy- 
self? Seek  them  not."  Stand  for  combat 
and  triumph  in  the  beanfield. 


If  you  young  folks  want  to  find  some  lively 
and  interesting  reading,  you  can  find  it  in 
the  Home  Mission  Letters. 

If  you  want  to  find  examples  of  unselfish 
devotion  to  Christ  and  diligent  seeking  for 
lost  souls,  look  through  those  letters. 

If  you  want  to  find  touching  examples  of 
earnest  souls  in  dark  places,  seeking  for  the 
light,  look  for  them  in  those  letters,  espec- 
ially those  from  Utah. 

Do  you  want  any  better  Americans  than 
those  (Germans  in  that  Wisconsin  letter? 

Will  not  some  of  you  girls  write  to  that 
tried  and  tired  yet  persevering  woman  in 
New  Mexico. 

You  will  find  much  to  interest  you  in  all 
parts  of  this  number.  You  cannot  afford  to 
fail  of  looking  through  them  all. 


DO  NOT  WORRY. 

CHARLES  F.  DEEMS,  D.D. 

[From  CbristUn  Thought.] 

The  world  is  wide 
In  time  and  tide 
And — Chd  U  guide  ; 

Then  do  not  hurry. 

That  man  is  blest 
Who  does  his  best 
And— i0a«M  the  rest , 

Then  do  not  worry. 


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SUGGESTIVE  HINTS  FOR  THE  STUDY 

OF  AFRICA. 

[  These  hints  are  intended  as  an  experiment.  Will  they 
not  help  Ohristian  Endeavorers  and  Mission  Bands  in 
their  atudy  of  the  topic  for  the  month,  presented  under 
the  head  of  Concert  of  Prayer  for  Church  Work  Abroad  ? 
We  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  any  who  make  use  of 
them— whether  they  find  them  helpful,  and  how  such 
hints  can  be  made  more  helpful.] 

Dean  Swift,  describing  the  map-making  of  his 

day  wrote: 

"  Ge^^phers  in  Afrio's  maps 

With  sayage  pictures  fill  their  gape; 
And  o'er  uninhabitable  downs 
Place  elephants  in  want  of  towns.^ 

Since  the  lines  were  written  the  Dark  Con- 
tinent has  yielded  up  many  of  its  secrets.  The 
map  grows.  ''In  the  next  century  Europe  (and 
America)  will  have  made  a  world  of  Africa." 

Society  formed  in  London,  1788,  for  explora- 
tion of  Africa.  Name  the  great  explorers  since 
Houghton  and  Mungo  Parke? 

Three  times  the  area  of  Europe,  bounded  by 
two  oceans  and  two  seas.  Its  great  rivers, 
Congo,  Nile,  Niger,  Zambezi,  Limpopo,  Orange. 
Its  great  lakes,  Victoria  Nyanza,  larger  in  area 
than  the  Stete  of  New  York;  Tanganyika,  413 
miles  in  length;  Nyasa,  9,000  square  miles; 
Tchad,  10,000,  and  when  swollen  by  rains, 
40,000  square  miles.  Two  vast  deserts,  Sahara 
and  Ealihara;  12,000,000  acres  of  the  former 
have  been  made  productive  by  artesian  wells. 

"In  former  years,"  says  Dr.  Oust  in  Africa 
Bediviva,  "Europeans  used  to  steal  Africans 
from  Africa;  now  they  are  trying  to  steal  Africa 
from  the  Africans."  For  a  summary  of  the  his- 
tory of  the  Partition  of  Africa,  see  Lamed's 
History  for  Ready  Befermee. 

On  the  climate,  scenery  and  productiveness  of 
the  higher  plateaus  of  the  interior,  read  Captain 
Lugard's  Eise  of  our  East  African  Empire,  and 
Dr  Peters'  article  in  Forum,  October,  1893. 

THB  BARBART  STATES. 

Population,  15,000,000.  Mohammedan,  except 
850,000  Jews.  Consult  Field's  The  Ba/rbary 
Coast;  "Barbarians  not  Barbarous,"  The  Inde- 
pendent, January  4,  1894;  "The Gospel  in  North 
Africa,"  Missionary  Bevieuf,  June,  1898;  "Mo- 
hammedanism in  Africa,"  Homiletie  Review,  Ap- 
ril, 1894.  The  North  African  Mission  began 
in  1881. 

Morocco.  "The  China  of  the  West."  The 
Sultan;  the  kaids;  two  chief  cities;  Kairouin 
University,  founded  9th  century;  Melilla  and 
the  RifiOans.  Shall  Morocco  be  opened  to 
Europe?   Sir  Enan  Smith's  unsuccessful  mission. 

Algeria.  Twice  declared  war  on  the  United 
States.  England's  victory  in  1816.  France, 
July^  4,  1880.    Vernet's  famous  painting  at  Ver- 


sailles portrays  the  subjection  of  the  Eabylia. 
Present  prosperity  due  to  French  rule.  Mission- 
aries ordered  to  leave  the  country. 

Tunis,  The  Bey,  Mohamed  Sadock.  Mame- 
lukes hold  most  of  the  high  official  positions. 
Read,  in  Hesse- Wartegg's  Tunis,  the  Land  and 
the  People,  chapter  on  Eirwan  and  the  High 
School  of  Africa.  Since  the  French  occupation, 
1881,  farmers  and  mechanics  have  immigrated 
from  France,  Switzerland  and  Germany.  The 
Reformed  Church  of  France  has  two  parishes, 
in  Tunis  and  in  Sfaz. 

Tripoli,  A  province  of  the  Turkish  Empire. 
Population  1,000,000,  The  Bey  is  selected  by 
the  Sultan.  City  of  Tripoli,  the  capital,  a  typical 
Moorish  city  of  20,000. 

EGYPT. 

Literature  abundant.  An  English  publisher 
divides  the  literary  world  into  two  classes — 
those  who  have  written  books  on  Egypt,  and 
those  who  have  not.  What  does  modem  Egypt 
owe  to  England  for  her  present  prosperity?  'The 
new  Elhedive  and  his  relations  to  the  English 
government.  The  revolution  in  the  Coptic 
Church.  The  work  of  Miss  Whateley,  who  died 
1889.    Mission  of  United  Presbyterian  Church. 

ABYSSINIA. 

"The  Switzerland  of  Africa,"  a  plateau  7,000 
feet  above  the  sea.  The  inhabitants,  of  Semitic 
origin,  probably  came  from  Arabia  about  begin- 
ning of  Christian  era.  Abyssinian,  meaning 
"Mongrel,"  and  applied  by  the  Arabs,  they  re- 
ject as  a  term  of  reproach,  and  call  themselves 
"  Glees,"  i.  e.  Freedmen.  Received  Christianity 
from  the  Greeks  in  4th  century.  Ignorant  of 
the  true  spirit  of  the  GospeL  The  work  of  Dr. 
Stem  and  J.  M.  Flad  among  the  200,000  Fa- 
lashas,  or  black  Jews.  See  Church  at  Home 
AND  Abroad,  18:  69,  896.  January  and  May, 
1898. 

The  Abyssinian  Archbishop  Is  selected  and  or- 
dained by  the  Coptic  Patriarch  of  Alexandria. 
Russia  has  taken  a  special  interest  in  Abyssinia 
on  account  of  an  affinity  between  the  forms  of 
worship  in  the  two  countries — both  being  off- 
shoots of  the  old  Alexandrian  Church.  An  Ital- 
ian protectorate  established  1889.  The  Abys- 
sinians  have  now  appealed  to  Russia  to  protect 
the  Church  and  the  independence  of  the  Mon- 
archy,   ^t  Missionary  Ref3iew,0ci,,l%^Z. 

UOANDA. 

"A  land  of  sunshine  and  plenty,"  north  of 
Victoria  Nyanza.  **Tell  the  White  people," 
said  King  Mtesa  to  Mr.  Stanley,  *'I  am  like  a 
man  sitting  in  darkness  or  bom  blind ;  a^d  th%t 


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all  I  ask  is  that  I  maj  be  taught  to  see."  In 
response  to  Stanley's  appeal  the  Church  Mis- 
sionary Society  opened  a  mission  on  Victoria 
Nyanza,  in  spite  of  Sir  Samael  Baker's  declara- 
tion that  any  society  would  be  crazy  to  think  of 
sending  missionaries  to  Uganda.  In  1876,  no 
written  language:  now  10,000  of  the  population 
can  read.  First  converts  baptized  March  18, 
1882.  Read  Madcay  of  Uganda,  **  A  score  of  us 
could  not  make  a  Mackay/'  said  Grant  the  ex- 
plorer. Read  also  the  story  of  Bishop  Hanning- 
ton's  life.  Abolishing  slavery,  Chtjbch  at 
HoifB  AND  Abroad,  14:  446,  500,  December, 
1894.  Eager  for  the  Scriptures,  Church  at 
HoifB  AND  Abroad,  14:  09,  190,  241»  August 
and  September,  1894. 

THB  UNIYBRSITIBS  MISSION. 

At  Zanzibar,  and  on  eastern  shore  of  Lake 
Nyasa.  Livingstone,  returning  for  a  period  of 
rest,  delivered  a  lecture  in  Cambridge,  Dec.  4, 
1857,  closing  with  the  words:  "I  go  back  to 
Africa  to  try  to  open  a  path  for  commerce  and 
Christianity.  Do  you  carry  out  the  work  I  have 
begun.  I  leave  it  with  you."  Oxford,  Durham 
and  Dublin  accepted  the  trust  and  organized  the 
Universities'  Miralon,  which  has  been  under  the 
leadership  successively  of  Bishops  Mackenzie, 
Fozer,  Steere  and  Smythies.  On  the  site  of  the 
old  slave  market  in  the  city  of  Zanzibar,  where 
80,000  human  beings  were  annually  sold,  stands 
a  Christian  church,  built  by  Bishop  Steere, 
Sultan  Burgosh,  who  had  been  persuaded  to  for- 
bid the  traffic,  presented  a  clock  for  its  tower. 
Bishop  Smythies'  methods,  Chxtrgh  at  Homb 
AND  Abroad,  18,  148,  February,  1898. 

TBK  SHIRB  highlands. 

Half -way  between  Lake  Nyasa  and  the  Zam- 
bezi. Occupied  by  the  mission  of  the  Estab- 
lished Church  of  Scotland,  with  Blantyre  as  a 
centre. 

HASHONALAND. 

Was  it  the  Ophir  of  the  Bible?  A  powerful 
people  once  held  armed  occupation  to  mine  for 
gold.  See  Bent's  Ruined  Citiei  of  Mashonaland. 
Mr.  Robert  M.  W.  Swan  has  made  further  dis- 
coveries. The  natives  say  of  the  ruins,  ''the 
gods  built  them."  Natives  make  their  houses  in 
the  rocks.  See  picture  of  native  village  in  Mis- 
nonary  Herald^  September,  1898.  A  telegraph 
line  from  Cape  Town  to  Fort  Salisbury  opened 
February,  1892.  Wesleyan  and  S.  P.  G.  Mis- 
sions. First  Christian  Church,  Church  at  Home 
AND  Abroad,  14,  241,  September,  1893. 

SEARCH  questions. 

1.  Name  the  missionary  whom  the  natives  re- 
membered as  *'  a  mmi  of  a  sweet  heart  ?  " 


2.  What  missionary  from  the  United  States 
said,  "  If  I  get  to  heaven,  I  must  go  there  by 
way  of  Africa?" 

8.  One  who  was  "in  some  sense  the  father, 
and  in  every  sense  the  hero,  of  Presbyterian 
Missions  in  Africa  7" 

4.  The  missionary  who  said,  *' If  I  had  a 
thousand  lives  to  live,  Africa  should  have  them 
all?" 

5.  One  whom  Henry  M.  Stanley  thought  "the 
best  missionary  since  Livingstone ; "  and  of  whom 
LordRosebery  has  spoken  as,  "  that  Christian 
Bayard,  whose  reputation  will  always  be  dear  ?" 

6.  Of  what  missionary  did  the  natives  speak 
as  "a  white  man  whose  words  were  always 
gentle,  and  whose  manners  were  always  kind; 
whom  as  a  leader  it  was  a  privelege  to  foUow, 
and  who  knew  the  way  to  the  hearts  of  all  men?  " 

7.  Who  was  it  who  was  once  a  slare-boy  in 
Western  Africa,  and  was  afterwards  consecrated, 
in  Canterbury  Cathedral,  Missionary  Bishop  of 
the  Niger? 

ANSWERS  TO  QUESTIONS  IN  APRIL  NTTMBER. 

1.  Frederic  SchwarU.  He  was  the  mediator 
between  the  English  government  and  the  terri- 
ble Hyder  AH  of  Mysore.  Hyder  All  had  been 
deceived  and  enraged  by  the  English,  but  he 
had  perfect  confidence  in  Schwartz. 

2.  Bishop  Reginald  Beber.  He  became  Bishop 
of  CalcutU  in  1828,  and  died  in  1820.  When  a 
young  man  he  went  to  Wrexham,  North  Wales, 
to  hear  his  father-in  hiw,  the  Dean  of  St.  Asaph, 
preach  a  missionary  sermon.  When  the  parish 
clerk  reported  that  there  was  no  hymn  in  the 
collection  suitable  for  the  occasion,  the  Dean 
said  to  Heber :  "You  are  a  bit  of  a  poet,  I  wish 
you  would  write  a  hymn."  In  an  hour  and  a 
half  the  young  man  produced  "From  Green- 
land's Icy  Mountains." 

8.  John  Scudder,  M.D.,  who  went  to  India  in 
1819  as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board. 
Five  of  his  sons,  and  a  daughter  became  mis- 
sionaries in  India.  The  sons  were  married,  so 
that  at  one  time  thirteen  of  the  family  were  en- 
gaged in  mission  work.  They  founded  the 
Arcot  Mission,  a  mission  of  the  Reformed 
Church  in  America. 

4.  Frederic  Schwartz.    See  No.  1. 

5.  Bartholomew  Ziegenhalg,  The  remark  was 
made  by  his  Instructor  at  the  University  of 
Halle,  August  Herman  Franke,  who  co-operated 
with  Frederick  IV.  in  establishing  the  Danish 
Mission  in  India. 

6.  Alexander  Duff, 

7.  William  Carey, 

8.  William  Carey. 


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And  Abroad. 

THE  CHILDREN'S  SABBATH  AGAIN. 

It  is  jnst  as  trae  on  the  Sabbath  as  on  any 

other  day  that 

"  Satan  finds  some  mischief  still, 
For  idle  bands  to  do; " 

and  one  of   the  mother's  pnzzles  is  to  find 
sonaething  for  the  restless  little  fingers  to  do 
that  is  not  mischief  and  that  will  keep  the 
thoughts  away  from  week-day  occupations. 
Some  one  suggests 

SAND  MAPS  OF  BIBLE  LANDS. 

A  tray  of  dampened  sand,  bits  of  silver 
paper  for  lakes  and  oceans,  worsted  threads 
for  rivers,  buttons  for  towns ;  and  with  some 
help  from  an  older  person  the  children  will 
find  much  pleasure  in  making  the  maps  and 
in  tracing  the  travels  of  Abraham  and  Jacob, 
of  our  Saviour  and  of  the  Apostle  Paul. 
Tiny  paper  tents  may  be  used  to  mark  the 
resting  places  of  the  Israelites  in  their  journey 
from  Egypt  to  Canaan,  and  stones  for  the 
altar  erected  by  Abraham  and  Jacob.  Mis- 
sion lands  may  be  studied  in  the  same  way 
and  it  will  be  a  question  whether  the  children 
or  their  older  helpers  will  gain  the  greater 
benefit. 

BIBLE  SEWINQ  GAKDS. 

For  those  who  do  not  object  to  putting  a 
needle  into  the  child^s  hand  on  the  Sabbath, 
Milton  Bradley  Co.,  Springfield,  Mass.,  o^ers 
two  sets  of  outline  cards  to  be  perforated  and 
worked  with  colored  threads.  The  designs 
all  represent  articles  mentioned  in  the  Bible, 
the  larger  one  containing  two  maps,  the  table 
of  shewbread,  a  shepherd,  the  temple,  etc. 
If  it  is  thought  better  the  work  may  be  done 
during  the  week  and  the  cards  used  on  the 
Sabbath  day  to  illustrate  the  Bible  lesson  for 
the  little  ones. 

Price  set  C,  85  cents;  postage,  8  cents;  set 
D,  26  cents. 

SAWYER  SUNDAY  BLOCKS  AND  CARDS. 

Now  that  the  story  of  Joseph  is  fresh  in 
the  minds  of  the  Sabbath-school  scholars, 
these  cards  and  blocks  will  have  a  new  charm. 
The  forty-eight  illustrations  of  this  favorite 


story  are  accompanied  by  a  rendering  of  the 
story  in  rhyme  which  is  easily  memorized 
and  the  children  will  enjoy  arranging  the 
pictures  in  their  order.  They  may  be 
obtained  from  Mrs.  H.  A.  Sawyer,  5818  Von 
Versen  Ave.,  St.  Louis  Mo.,  and  are  offered 
to  our  readers  at  greatly  reduced  rates. 
Blocks,  (1.00;  Cards,  20  cents. 

WHO  KNOWS  ? 

A  set  of  one  hundred  Scripture  questions 
and  answers,  covering  a  wide  range  of  sub- 
jects and  history.  This  is  also  published  by 
Milton  Bradley  Co.,  Springfield,  Mass.  Price, 
25  cents. 

TEMPLE  OF  KNOWLEDGE. 

A  dissected  picture  of  eighty- eight  pieces. 
The  ten  commandments  compose  the  steps; 
each  block  of  the  building  represents  a  book 
of  the  Bible.  On  the  reverse  side  is  a  map 
of  Palestine.  A  set  of  questions  and  answers 
accompanies  it. 

Published  by  Alice  I.  Chamberlain  &  Co., 
Galesburg,  111.     Price,  (1.00. 

DISSECTED  MAPS  AND  PICTURES. 

Bible  maps  and  pictures  may  be  mounted 
on  pasteboard  and  then  cut  into  squares  or 
irregular  shaped  pieces  for  the  children  to  re- 
arrange. They  are  more  interesting  if 
brightly  colored. 


Gleanings 
At  Home  and  Abroad. 

[Gathered  and  Ck>nden8ed  by  Rxy.  Albert  B.  Robimsov.] 

— Two  English  women  are  laboring  in  behalf 
of  the  17,000  Malays  in  Cape  Town,  Africa. 

— In  the  sixty-one  hospitals  and  forty-four  dis- 
pensaries in  China,  850,000  patients  are  treated 
annually. 

— The  word  for  Christian  generally  used  by 
the  Chinese,  Jesus  Ch^an,  is  literally,  *'  believe 
Jesus  man." 

— Among  the  10,000,000  people  of  Arabia  seven 
Europeans  and  four  natives  are  engaged  in 
Christian  labor. 

— The  EaflQra  were  accustomed  to  speak  of 
Bishop  William  Taylor  as  ''Isiqunisllvuta  Yo," 
the  flaming  torch. 

— The  problem  of  rural  Christianity  is  the  prob- 
lem of  national  Christianity  stated  a  few  gener- 
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^"I  shake  hands  with  yoa  with  mj  heart," 
wrote  a  Christian  Indian  at  the  Cheyenne  Mis- 
don,  South  Dakota,  to  a  friend. 

— I  fear  for  my  countrymen,  that  they  will 
sink  from  the  hell  of  heathenism  into  the  deeper 
hell  of  infidelity.— iT^Mi/d  Chunder  S&n, 

—The  Buddhists  of  Japan,  ii  is  said,  hare 
formed  a  Hawaiian  Mission  Association,  to  look 
after  the  thousands  of  Japanese  in  Hawaii. 

—The  Chinese  Viceroy,  Chang,  has  invited 
Dr.  Mackay,  a  physician  of  the  London  Mission* 
ary  Society,  to  attend  him  personally  when  sick. 

—No  religion  at  the  World's  Parliament  ex- 
cepting Christianity,  says  Dr.  Barrows,  put 
forth  any  strong  and  serious  claim  to  universal- 
ity. 

—The  Canadian  Presbyterian  Church  has 
established  its  mission  to  the  Jews  in  Palestine 
at  Haifa,  on  the  northern  slope  of  Mount  Car- 
mel. 

—The  Society  of  Friends  in  England  has 
experienced  in  recent  years  a  deepening  of 
spiritual  life,  especially  among  the  younger 
members. 

—The  effect  of  the  spread  of  temperance 
among  the  British  soldiers  in  India  is  estimated 
as  equal  to  the  addition  of  three  batallions  to 
the  army. 

—I  am  growing  happier  in  my  work  as  the 
years  go  by,  and  age  comes  slowly  on,  and 
responsibilities  heighten,  writes  a  missionary  in 
New  Mexico. 

— To  make  missions  a  reality,  let  the  women 
teach  the  children  to  know  the  mission  fields,  the 
missionaries,  and  the  results  of  missions.—/.  A. 
Broadus,  D.D, 

—The  dowry  of  Bishop  Taylor's  Southern 
wife  was  counted  in  slaves.  With  her  approval 
he  sent  them  to  the  then  new  colony  of  Liberia. 
— Jftiean  Netoi. 

—The  father  of  Bishop  Patteson,  who  was  a 
distinguished  Judge,  said  he  felt  he  had  in  some 
sort  made  a  present  of  his  son  to  the  work  of 
the  Lord  Jesus. 

—The  sad  condition  of  the  blind  in  China, 
who  number  fully  500,000,  is  expressed  in  the 
Chinese  proverb:  ''To have  eyes  is  heaven;  to 
be  without  is  hell  *' 

— ^Thou  that  prayest  for  more  missionaries,  art 
thou  willing  to  become  a  missionary  thyself  ? 
If  not,  thy  prayer  cannot  be  of  much  avail. — 
B&9.  J,  B.  Ward  of  Madras. 

—In  1805  Japan  is  to  have  a  Parliament  of 
Religions  in  Kyoto,  in  connection  with  the 
1100th  anniversary  of  the  establishment  of  that 
city  as  the  capital  of  the  empire. 


—A  recent  council  held  at  Port  Elizabeth, 
Cape  Colony,  representing  the  Presbyteries  and 
Presbyterian  churches  in  South  Africa,  recom 
mended  the  formation  of  a  Synod. 

—Of  the  12,000  Canadian  Indians  on  the 
Pacific  Coast,  8.000  have  been  baptized  or  attend 
Christian  worship.  The  Gospels  have  been 
printed  for  them  in  four  languages. 

—Mrs.  Wellington  White  recently  gave  touch 
ing  incidents  of  the  incredulity  with  which  the 
poor,  down- trodden  women  of  China  hear  the 
good  news  of  a  Qod  who  saves  women. 

— In  my  opinion,  said  the  Lieutenant  Qov- 
emor  of  Bengal,  Christian  missionaries  have 
done  more  real  and  lasting  good  to  the  people  of 
India  than  all  of  the  other  agencies  combined. 

— "O  Ood,  let  no  more  women  be  bom  in 
India,"  was  the  prayer  of  an  intelligent  Hindu 
woman  who  reaUzed  the  n^ry  and  degradation 
of  her  sisters,  and  the  terrible  wrongs  they  suf- 
fer. 

—Prof.  Flint,  in  Wb  BUtarieal  Pkihiophp,  men- 
tions Ibn  Ehaldun,  a  Mohammedan  philosopher 
of  the  fourteenth  century,  as  the  first  writer  to 
treat  history  as  the  proper  object  of  a  special 
science. 

— During  the  year  1898  there  were  in  the 
North  India  Conference  (Methodist)  8,000  bap- 
tisms, and  in  the  North  West  Conference,  10,000 
—a  total  of  18,000,  or  nearly  50  a  day  for  the 
whole  year. 

—The  Metabele,  according  to  their  moral 
standard,  which  is  low  and  selfish  in  the  extreme, 
says  Rev.  D.  Carnegie,  believe  in  right  and 
wrong,  in  a  future  state,  and  in  rewards  and 
punishment 

—Twenty-seven  members  of  a  parish  in  Eng- 
land, all  with  a  single  exception  from  the  work- 
ing class,  simultaneously  and  spontaneously 
offered  themselves  recently  for  the  foreign  field. 
— 1%«  Miaionary. 

— One  evidence  of  the  earnestness  with  which 
the  Maoris  of  New  Zealand  study  the  Scriptures 
is  the  demand  for  a  students'  edition  of  the  New 
Testament,  with  references,  which  has  Just 
issued  from  the  press. 

—The  principle  which  Mr.  Stead  develops  in 
his  new  work,  that  "a  living  faith  in  Christ 
would  lead  directly  to  the  civil  and  social  regen- 
eration of  Chicago,"  applies  with  equal  force  to 
every  city  in  our  land. 

—One  missionary  writes  that  the  loss  of  Sun- 
day services  and  Christian  helps,  so  common  in 
this  country,  almost  makes  her  feel  that  in  try- 
ing to  save  the  souls  of  others  she  is  in  danger 
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—The  Empress  of  Japan  is  described  as  a 
womanly  woman,  devoted  to  the  interests  of  her 
subjects,  contributing  freely  to  charities,  and 
delighting  in  the  warm  place  she  holds  in  the 
affections  of  the  people. 

—Said  a  missionary  in  China  recently :  During 
this  Tery  month  more  money  will  be  spent  in 
propitiating  evil  spirits  that  hare  no  existence, 
than  all  the  churches  in  the  United  States  giye 
in  one  year  for  foreign  missions. 

— ^The  first  result  of  Christian  teaching  in 
Senite,  Burma,  says  The  MisHonary  Link,  is  the 
wiUingness  of  the  women  to  giye  up  the  weary 
load  of  thirty  and  often  forty  pounds  of  brass 
wire  which  they  wear  as  ornaments. 

— ^The  Mikado  of  Japan  has  recently  issued  a 
decree  allowing  a  Japanese  woman  to  lead,  if  she 
chooses,  a  single  life.  Hitherto,  if  found  un- 
married after  a  certain  age,  a  husband  was 
selected  for  her  by  law. — 2he  Missionary. 

— An  im watched  camp  or  an  unlocked  house 
is  sacredly  respected  in  Alaska,  and  the  most 
valuable  property  cached  in  the  woods,  as  is  the 
Indian  custom,  is  as  safe  from  the  other  Indians 
as  if  guarded  by  night  and  day. — Census  Eeport. 

— Samuel  Marsden,  who  went  out  believing 
that  civilization  must  prepare  for  conversion, 
after  twenty  years  of  hard  trial,  inverted  his 
doctrine,  and  wrote:  "It  will  always  be  found 
that  civilization  follows  Christianity  rather  than 
conversely." 

— It  is  related  that  the  king  of  Burma  once 
liberally  offered  to  build  a  church  at  Mandalay 
and  to  place  his  children  under  Christian  instruc- 
tion; his  only  requirement  in  return  was  that  the 
missionary  should  translate  the  Encyclopedia 
Britanniea  into  Burmese. 

— ^Those  best  acquainted  with  the  Indian  mind 
are  persuaded  that  the  leaven  of  Christianity  is 
working  secretly  in  unsuspected  qunrters,  and 
that,  in  the  words  of  an  experienced  missionary, 
many  Christians  will  arise  from  Mohanmiedan 
graves. — Qtiarterly  Review, 

— A  box  containing  one  hundred  mock  dollars, 
made  of  cardboard  covered  with  a  very  thin 
coating  of  tin,  and  stamped,  is  sold  for  three  and 
a  half  cents.  This  mock  money  is  offered  to  the 
spirits,  who  are  supposed  to  be  cheated  into 
believing  it  is  good  money. 

— A  Hindu,  intellectually  convinced,  usually 
gives  one  of  the  following  reasons  for  not 
accepting  Christ:  ''  I  cannot  break  my  poor  old 
mother's  heart."  "I  am  afraid  of  my  mother's 
curse."  "I  cannot  give  up  my  wife  and  chil- 
dren. "    It  is  a  woman's  inQuenqe  that  holds  him 


— Judaism,  says  Miss  Josephine  Lazarus,  has 
undergone  more  modification  during  the  last 
century  than  during  the  previous  one  thousand 
years.  She  calls  upon  the  Jew  to  change  his 
attitude  before  the  world,  and  come  into  fellow- 
ship with  those  around  him. 

—The  missioDaries  in  Africa  count  the  work 
of  one  woman  worth  that  of  twelve  men,  since 
women  can  go  anywhere,  even  among  the  fiercest 
tribes.  Their  motives  are  never  questioned,  and 
they  are  listened  to  with  greatest  respect. — Mrs, 
H,  W,  Qleasan  in  North  and  West, 

— Chinese  Gordon's  epitaph  in  St.  Paul's,  Lon- 
don, is  a  worthy  tribute  to  a  noble  man:  '*To 
Major- General  Charles  George  €k>rdon,  who  at 
all  times  and  everywhere  gave  his  strength  to 
the  weak,  his  substance  to  the  poor,  his  sympa- 
thy to  the  suffering,  and  his  heart  to  God." 

— In  the  Congo  State,  where  twenty-three  years 
ago  there  was  but  one  white  man,  there  are  now 
more  than  1,000  officials  administering  the  laws 
of  civilization,  says  Henry  M.  Stanley.  Many 
missionary  stations  have  been  established,  that 
precept  and  example  may  not  be  wanting  in  the 
regeneration  of  Africa. 

— In  the  Bassein  Karen  Mission  in  Burma, 
writes  Secretary  W.  S.  Duncan,  each  of  the 
ninety- one  churches  is  self-supporting.  The 
missionary  who  laid  the  foundations  urged  the 
development  of  lay  workers  in  the  church,  and 
brought  about  the  unique  custom  of  church  dis- 
cipline for  covetousness. 

— Of  the  efforts  of  France  to  gain  control  of 
Madagascar,  the  Indian  Witness  says:  '*The 
strange  thing  about  it  is  that  an  enlightened 
European  nation  represents  military  power,  and 
the  inhabitants  of  an  African  island  are  oppos- 
ing it  with  the  moral  forces  of  national  senti- 
ment and  pure  Christianity. 

— The  census  report  on  Alaska  mentions  those 
whom  religion  is  doing  more  to  keep  within 
peaceful  pursuits  than  all  the  combined  forces  of 
military  and  civil  government;  and  adds  that  too 
much  cannot  be  said  of  the  men  and  women  who 
are  laboring  to  bring  these  people  to  a  higher 
plane  of  civilization. — Home  Mission  Monthly. 

—A  tradition  of  the  crucifixion  of  Christ  is 
held  by  a  tribe  dwelling  within  a  few  hundred 
miles  of  the  North  Pole.  A  native  near  Point 
Barrow,  Alaska,  told  Professor  Stevenson  that  a 
man  who  lived  a  long  time  ago  was  killed  and 
put  into  the  ground,  and  a  few  days  after  rose 
again.  He  said  he  had  it  from  his  father,  and 
his  father  from  his  grandfather,  and  he  did  not 
know  how  many  generations  it  had  been  in  th^ 
family. — Home  Mission  Monthly, 


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—Col.  Charles  Dcnby,  U.  8.  Minister  to  China, 
finding  that  a  considerable  portion  of  those  who 
might  look  to  him  for  protection  were  missiona- 
ries, determined  to  become  acquainted  with  them 
and  their  work.  Having  possessed  himself  of 
the  facts,  he  wrote:  "Belieye  nobody  when  he 
sneers  at  missionaries.  The  man  is  simply  not 
posted." 

— ^The  history  of  the  Maduri  mission  exempli- 
fies several  stages  of  mission  progress.  Native 
pastors  of  the  oldest  period  bear  the  names  of 
prominent  American  divines;  those  of  the  mid- 
dle period  for  the  most  part  have  Bible  names; 
and  now  the  national  feeling  is  asserting  itself, 
and  most  of  the  young  men  have  Tamil  names. 
— Indian  Witness. 

— If  St.  Paul  had  written  that  epistle  to  us 
nineteenth  century  Christians,  instead  of  to  those 
at  Rome,  in  which  occur  the  words,  "How  shall 
they  hear  without  a  preacher,  and  how  shall  they 
preach  except  they  be  sent  7"  I  think  he  would 
have  added:  How  shall  they  be  sent  except 
somebody  sends  them  and  pays  the  expenses  ? — 
Mr.  Thomcu  Kane. 

— The  conception  of  mission  work  which  con- 
fines it  to  evangelism  pure  and  simple,  is  very 
meagre.  It  includes  rather  the  laying  of  the 
foundations  and  the  erection  of  the  superstruct 
ure  of  the  whole  kingdom  of  God.  It  means 
not  only  the  saving  of  souls  from  destruction, 
but  their  development  into  the  image  of  Christ. 
— Nmo  York  Observer. 

— It  is  now  proposed,  says  Medical  Missions 
at  Home  and  Abroad,  that  the  medical  men  of 
England  and  America  place  a  copy  of  the  Bible 
in  Japanese  in  the  hands  of  each  of  the  40,000 
native  physicians  in  Japan,  with  a  letter  stating 
their  belief  in  it  as  an  infallible  guide,  and  their 
desire  that  their  Japanese  friends  should  give  it 
a  careful  consideration 

— There  are  many  in  India,  writes  Dr.  Wash- 
bum  of  Madras,  who  hold  on  to  Hinduism,  but 
are  appreciative  of  Christianity;  who  give  to 
Hindu  charities  and  are  liberal  toward  the  work 
of  missionaries ;  who  would  now  profess  thejQ- 
selves  outwardly  Christians  did  not  that  mighty 
power,  the  Hindu  family  system,  octopus  like, 
hold  them  in  its  tentacles. 

— Home  missions  are  the  centre  of  the  great 
army  of  Methodism,  foreign  missions  are  on 
either  flank;  all  the  commissary  stores  are 
behind  the  center;  all  the  support  of  the  right 
wing,  the  foreign  department  of  the  parent 
society,  and  all  the  support  of  the  left  wing,  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  come  from 
the  center  of  the  army.— J5?.  W.  Caswell,  J).  D. 


— **  We  believe  education,  property  and  practi- 
cal religion  will  eventually  give  us  every  right 
and  privilege  enjoyed  by  other  citizens,  and 
therefore  that  our  interests  can  best  be  served  by 
bending  all  our  energies  to  securing  them, 
rather  than  by  dwelling  on  the  past  or  by  fault- 
finding and  complaining."  This  is  from  the 
platform  put  forth  by  the  Tuskegee  Negro  Con- 
ference. 

—Jesus  Christ  belongs  to  no  people  He  is  of 
no  nation.  He  is  infinite.  It  Is  folly  to  talk  of 
an  *'  Oriental  Christ "  as  of  a  special  Being.  He 
is  Oriental,  but  only  because  He  is  Occidental 
Eastern,  western,  northern,  southern,  preached 
and  believed  on  In  Greenland  and  in  India,  in 
Australia  and  Alaska,  the  same  Christy  yester- 
day, to-day  and  forever. — Beo.  Dr.  Hugh  Mitter 
Thompson. 

— Our  Anglo-Saxon  tongue  was  in  a  state  of 
flux  until  King  James  ordered  his  version,  and 
that  moulded  our  tongue  into  its  classic  phase. 
The  Bible  of  Luther*s  translation  crystalized  the 
German  language.  The  Chinese  cannot  tell 
which  of  their  dialects  is  the  real  national  lan- 
guage. The  Bible  has  gone  to  China  to  settle 
that  matter  for  them,  and  it  will  do  it. — Christian 
Commonwealth. 

—Monier- Williams  denounces  the  "jelly-fish 
toleration  "  which  refuses  to  acknowledge  the 
decided  superiority  of  Christianity.  Let  it  be 
absolutely  clear,  says  he,  that  Christianity  can- 
not be  watered  down  to  suit  the  palate  of  Hindu, 
Parsee,  Confucian,  Buddhist,  Mohammedan. 
Whoso  wishes  to  pass  from  the  false  to  the  true 
religion,  can  never  hope  to  do  so  by  the  rickety 
planks  of  compromise. — The  Interior. 

—Prof  Max  MUller,  when  asked  for  his  reasons 
for  omitting  so  much  from  his  edition  of  the 
Sacred  Books  of  the  East,  replied  that  if  he  had 
translated  the  portions  left  out,  as  they  exist  in 
the  originals,  he  would  have  been  prosecuted  for 
publishing  obscene  literature.  The  highest  legal 
authority  in  Bombay  has  declared  it  a  criminal 
offence  to  translate  the  Tagur  Veda  into  any  liv- 
ing language  in  India.- i^^«  Church  Monthly, 

—The  Chinese  believe  that  portions  of  the 
human  body  have  valuable  therapeutic  proper- 
ties. Thirty-seven  forms  of  remedies  are  com- 
pounded with  such  Ingredients  and  published  in 
their  Materia  Med  lea.  In  consumption  human 
muscles  are  considered  especially  efl3cacious. 
Even  the  Peking  Gazette,  the  official  organ  of 
the  Emperor,  often  gives  special  commendation 
to  those  who  have  mutilated  their  own  bodies  in 
order  to  provide  remedies  for  sick  relatives.— i? 
]V.  Lambuth,  M.D  ,  in  The  Missionary, 


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— Rabbi  Lichtenstein  in  his  fifth  pamphlet, 
recently  issued,  uses  this  language.  I,  a  rabbi 
grown  old  in  office,  an  aged  Jew  faithful  to  the 
law,  confess  now  aloud,  Jesus  is  Israel's  prom- 
ised Messiah.  He,  Christ,  and  no  other,  is  the 
angel  of  the  OoTenant,  whose  coming  our  people 
have  ever  expected.  Be  hoB  come.  That  is  my 
triumphant  proclamation,  to  which  my  mouth, 
my  pen,  and  my  further  life  shall  be  dedicated. 

— Dona  Celestina  de  la  Rosa,  for  more  than 
five  years  an  unwearied  Bible  worker  in  the 
Zaatecas,  Mexico,  congregation,  though  nearly 
sixty  years  of  age,  is  very  active.  The  larger 
part  of  the  congregation  is  poor,  living  in 
retired  and  humble  parts  of  this  city  of  45,000 
inhabitants.  She  goes  daily  through  ill- paved 
streets  and  filthy  alleys,  often  traversing  great 
distances  in  her  rounds  among  the  sick  and 
needy,  and  is  an  invaluable  helper. 

— Any  one  sent  to  do  Gkxl's  errands  is  a  mis- 
sionary. Whether  the  service  be  great  or  small, 
in  the  home,  in  the  church,  or  in  the  uttermost 
parts  of  the  earth,  if  it  is  work  for  God  it  is  a 
mission,  and  whoever  performs  it  is  a  missionary. 
We  solemnly  set  apart  those  going  out  to  a 
foreign  field.  We  may  be  just  as  truly  set  apart 
to  our  work  here. ,  A  successful  missionary 
society  must  have  missionaries  at  both  ends  of 
the  line. — M,  P.  E,  in  Mimonary  Link, 

— The  word  used  for  love  in  the  Japanese 
Bible  did  not  have  that  meaning  until  Christians 
agreed  to  use  it  as  the  term  for  love  to  God  and 
man.  It  is  rarely  used  in  this  sense  except  by 
Christians,  for  according  to  the  old  ideas  Japan- 
ese children  were  not  taught  to  love  their  par- 
ents, but  to  reverence  them.  The  writer  who 
makes  this  statement  gives  instances  of  Chris- 
tian Japanese  teachers  who,  feeling  that  love  is 
a  base  and  low  thing,  teach  that  one  should  not 
really  love  God,  but  only  reverence  Him. 

— An  interesting  and  critical  movement 
occurred  this  year  in  Shaogbai,  writes  Rev. 
George  Com  well  in  the  Christian  at  Work,  when 
the  native  church  in  a  body  proposed  and  enthu- 
siastically urged  as  a  plan  for  attainiog  self -sup- 
port, the  purchase  of  tracts  of  land  to  be  owned 
and  worked  or  let  by  the  church.  It  was  hard 
turning  them  from  this  scheme,  through  the 
perils  of  such  a  plan,  as  seen  in  the  churches  of 
Rome  and  of  England  were  pointed  out.  As  a 
compromise  they  have  been  encouraged  to  buy 
land  and  build  parsonages. 

— The  effect  of  the  singing  of  the  Hallelujah 
chorus  by  an  immense  choir  on  the  last  evening 
of  the  Parliament  of  Religions  is  utterly  beyond 


the  power  of  words  to  describe,  writes  Dr.  Bar- 
rows. To  all  Christians  present  it  appeared  as 
if  the  Kingdom  of  God  was  descending  visibly 
before  their  eyes,  and  many  thought  of  the 
Redeemer's  promise:  *'  Aod  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up, 
will  draw  all  men  unto  me."  Thousands  felt 
that  this  was  the  great  moment  of  their  lives, 
and  will  never  be  unmindful  of  the  heavenly 
vision  granted  them  in  that  hour. 

— Professor  de  Harlez  in  the  DvUin  Bmew 
accounts  thus  for  the  spread  of  Mohammedan- 
ism. Its  moral  system  completely  satisfies  the 
strongest  demands  of  the  human  passions;  and 
it  offers  a  paradise  with  the  hopes  of  a  future 
life,  wherein  all  the  passions  will  be  satisfied  and 
all  pleasures  reach  their  highest  point.  This  is 
well  suited  to  please  coarse  and  corrupt  peoples. 
To  be  a  Christian,  one  must  obtain  the  victory 
over  one's  mind  and  heart;  to  be  a  Mussulman  it 
is  sufficient  to  follow  the  inclinations  of  our  cor- 
rupt nature,  and  to  wallow  in  the  mire. 

— Christian  civilization  is  neither  a  synonym 
for  Christianity  nor  yet  its  only  exponent.  It  is 
unfair  to  the  Indian  Christian  to  require  him  to 
adopt  western  civilization,  and  then  measure 
his  progress  in  Christianity  by  his  readiness  to 
pick  up  our  forms  of  life.  An  Indian  villager, 
wearing  only  a  dhotiy  living  in  a  thatched  hut, 
eating  with  his  fingers  from  a  plaintain  leaf, 
knowing  almost  nothing  beyond  the  fields  in 
in  which  he  works,  can  be  an  intelligent  Chris- 
tian, with  a  practical  Christian  experience  and  a 
heart  and  mind  filled  with  thoughts  of  God  and 
love  and  loyalty  to  him. — Indian  Witness. 

— It  was  a  heathen  man  who  said:  ''There  is 
nothing  human  which  Kb  foreign  to  me. "  That  is 
the  force  of  his  alienum — there  is  nothing  human 
which  can  be  foreign.  Must  you  and  I  learn 
from  an  unbaptized  Roman  the  right  use  of  lan- 
guage about  missions  ?  Our  Lord  does  not  use 
the  words  foreign  nor  domestic  in  the  marching 
orders  He  issued  to  the  church.  He  taught  that 
all  men  are  neighbors,  that  there  is  one  father, 
even  Ckxl,  and  that  all  men  are  brothers.  He 
came  to  humanity.  He  taught  no  special  race. 
He  lived  and  died  to  redeem  men— savage,  civil- 
ized, white,  black,  European,  Asiatic,  and  in  the 
islands  of  the  sea.  There  is  not  one  foreign  to 
him  among  the  children  of  his  father  whom  he 
came  to  save.  "  The  field  is  the  world."  In  the 
truest  sense  there  are  no  foreign  and  domestic 
missions.  The  words  are  worn  out— antiquated. 
They  belong  to  a  state  of  thinking  fast  passing 
away. — Rev,  Dr,  Hugh  Miller  Thompson  in  Spirit 
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Fba  Paolo  Sarpi.—Bj  Rev,  Alexander  Robert- 
9on;  SampeoD}  Low,  MantOD  &  CompaDy,  Ixmdon, 
Publishers. 

A  copy  of  this  book  has  been  sent  us  by  its  author, 
who  is  ons  of  our  frequent  contributors,  and  it 
seems  to  us  to  justify  its  designation  of  its  subject 
as  "  Fra  Paolo  Sarpi,  The  Last  and  Greatest  of  the 
Great  Venetians." 

Tliis  superlatiye  praise  does  not  seem  eztrayagant 
of  one  whom  Galileo  is  quoted  as  calling  **my 
father  and  my  miister;^^  of  whom  Lord  Macanlay 
wrote:  "  Fra  Paolo  is  my  favorite  modem  historian. 
His  subject  did  not  admit  of  Yivid  painting;  but 
what  he  did  he  did  better  than  anybody  ;^^  whom 
Gibbon  called  "  the  incomparable  historian  of  the 
Council  of  Trent;"  whom  Professor  Teza  calls  "tiie 
king  of  Venetian  writers; "  who  in  anatomy,  astron- 
omy, animal  and  vegetable  physiology,  geology  and 
mineralogy  ranked  among  the  most  eminent  scien- 
tists of  his  time;  and  who  as  chief  councellor  for 
many  years  of  the  Doge  and  Senate  of  Venice,  won 
by  his  surpassing  wisdom  and  inoorruptable  and  in« 
domitable  patriotism,  the  hatred  of  popes  and  the 
enduring  gratitude  of  his  countrymen. 

The  seven  chapters  of  this  interesting  book  are 
entitled:  **The  Scholar;  The  Professor;  The  Pro- 
vincial and  Procurator;  The  Scientist  and  Philoso- 
pher; The  Theological  Counsellor;  the  Martyr;  The 
Statesman  Author;  In  Tomb  and  on  Pedestal." 

The  title.  The  Martyr,  is  justified  by  Oie  stabs  of 
assassins  acting  for  the  pope,  inflicting  wounds  from 
which  he  almost  miraculously  recovered  to  serve  his 
country  for  fifteen  years  more,  until  he  died  in  his 
7l8t  year. 

In  the  last  chapter  our  author  g^ves  graphic 
description  of  the  joyful  scene  at  the  unveiling  of 
tiie  statue  decreed  by  the  Senate  immediately  after 
Fra  Paolo's  death,  but  erected  in  theee  happier  times 
of  Italy— not  two  years  ago.  At  the  unveiling  of 
this  statue,  September  20,  1892,  the  Syndic  of 
Venice  said:  **  Half  a  century  has  not  passed  since 
a  pope  marked  in  history  by  his  blind  aversion  to 
every  idea  of  progress,  maligning  one  day,  in  the 
presence  of  Venetians,  the  name  of  Sarpi,  wished 
that  his  memory  might  perish  forever."  Then 
pointing  to  the  statue  the  eloquent  patriot  added: 
**  To  that  evil  augury  we  answer  with  this  monu- 
ment." 

At  a  banquet  given  by  the  Syndic  in  the  evening 
of  that  day,  he  said:  **  To  the  systematic  opponents 
of  all  progress  we  answer  to-day  by  placing  in  lumi- 
nous contrast  to  the  Rome  of  the  pontificate,  as 
Fra  Paolo  saw  and  condemned  it,  the  Rome  of  the 

Italian  people  and  of  Humbert  of  Savoy 

The  Rome  of  Paul  V  holds  within  its  walls  the 
sepulchre  of  the  monarch  who  reconstituted  the 
country — obedient  to  the  Church  as  a  Christian, 
but  rebellious  as  a  patriot  and  a  king,  whose  son, 
surrounded  and  sustained  by  the  love  of  his  Italy, 
personi^es  ip  Rome  that  lay  power  which,  as  far 


back  as  Dante's  time,  he,  a  Catholic,  yearned  for,  to 
curb  ambitions  and  cupidities  which  ill-beflttingly 
call  themselves  by  the  name  of  Christ." 

An  American  can  hardly  read  this  book  and  close 
it  without  exclaiming:  Qod  save  and  guide  King 
Humbert ;  Ood  save  and  bless  Italy. 

MuRDBRBD  Millions  is  the  title  of  a  booklet  of 
some  eighty  pages  by  George  D.  Dowkontt,  M.  D., 
published  at  the  office  of  the  Medical  Missionary 
Record,  188  East  45th  Street,  New  York  City, 
reprinted  from  the  Medical  Missionary  Record, 
with  an  introduction  by  Rev,  Theodore  L.  Cuyler, 
D.D,,  in  which  he  says:  **  I  earnestly  bespeak  for 
this  important  treatise  a  hearty  welcome  and  an 
attentive  reading.  It  carries  its  own  vindicaticms 
on  every  page." 

OvKB  Sba  and  Ljlnd  as  it  comes  from  month  to 
month  has  interesting  and  instructive  informatioD 
on  the  Home  and  Foreign  Missionary  subjects,  with 
stories,  exercises  and  suggestions  for  work  that  will 
be  welcome  helps  to  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
missionary  education  of  children  and  youth.  In  the 
April  number  we  notice  illustrated  articles  on  India 
and  Persia  and  bright  anecdotes  from  the  home 
field.  Published,  ISSiChestnut  Street,  Philadelphia. 
Price,  35  cents  per  year.  In  clubs  of  five  or  more 
to  one  address,  25  cents  each. 

Thokas  Bibch  Fbibman.— The  biography  of  this 
devoted  servant  of  Christ,  missionary  of  Uie  Wes- 
leyan  Missionary  Society  to  Ashanti,  Dah<Nney  and 
Bgba,  is  published  by  Fleming  H.  Revell  Com- 
pany. It  contains  an  interesting  account  of  his 
abundant  labors  and  triumphant  death. 


Ministerial  Necrology. 


Calhoun,  Hbnby.— Bom  February  24,  1818,  at 
Washington,  Litchfield  Co.,  Conn.  Fitted  for 
college  at  an  Academy  in  the  **01d  Mission 
School  House,"  in  Cornwall,  Conn.  Graduated 
at  Kenyon  College,  O.,  1841 ;  received  the  degree 
of  M.  A.,  in  1844.  Taught  a  classical  school 
two  years,  in  Zanesville,  O.,  and  studied  theol- 
ogy under  Rev.  Addison  Kingsbury,  D.D.,  of 
that  city;  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery 
of  Tuscarawas,  Sept.,  1844,  and  ordained  by 
the  same  Presbytery.  April,  1846. 

Stated  supply  at  Canal  Dover,  0.,  Nov.,  1845- 
1847;  stated  supply,  Coshocton,  0.,  1847-67; 
stated  supply,  CirdeviUe,  0.,  1857-66;  pastor, 
Troy,  O.,  1866-70;  pastor  elect,  Ironton,  O., 
1871-85;  stated  supply,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal., 
1846,  four  months;  resided  at  Mansfield,  O., 
1886-94,  having  been  constrained  by  ill  health 
to  retire  from  pastoral.work,  after  a  ministry  of 
40  years. 

His  fields  of  labor  were  successively  in  the 
Synods  of  Ohio,  N.  S.,  Cincinnati,  T^.  8.,  and  of 


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the  reuDited  Synod  of  Cincinnati,  of  each  of 
which  he  was  elected  moderator. 

Died  at  the  home  of  his  niece  in  Minneapolis, 
March  2, 1894,  at  the  age  of  76  years.  Married 
at  ZanesviUe,  O.,  June  33, 1847,  Jane  Metcalfe, 
who  sorviTes  him. 

Fbrris,  George  Henry.— Bom  in  Hillsdale,  Mich., 
Dec.  26, 1853;  united  with  the  Church  in  Hills- 
dale, Nov.  1870;  graduated  from  Princeton  Col- 
lege, 1874;  tutor  in  Princeton,  1875-76;  gradua- 
from  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  1878; 
ordained  at  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  by  Presbytery  of 
Geneva,  April  17, 1878;  missionary  at  Kolhapur, 
India,  till  his  death.  Married  Miss  Lucy  Hall, 
of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  July  2, 1878.  Died  at  Kolha- 
pur, India,  March  — ,  1894,  aged  40  years.  His 
wife  and  three  sons  survive  him. 

Jacks,  Andrew  Donnbll.— Bom  near  Kingston, 
Decatur  Co.,  Ind.,  July  19,  1829;  united  with 
Shiloh  Presbyterian  Church,  Ind.,  March  12, 
1848;  graduated,  Wabash  College,  July,  1854, 
and  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  May,  1867; 
licensed  to  preach  June  2, 1856;  ordained,  July, 
1867;  delivered  Master^s  oration  and  took  degree 
of  A.  M.,  at  Wabash  College,  July,  1857;  mar- 
ried August  20,  1857,  Miss  Mercy  E.  Tidball; 
sailed  from  New  York  as  a  missionary  to  Africa, 
Oct.  6,  1857;  reached  Gaboon  Mission  early  in 
Jan.,  1858;  labored  thereabout  two  years  when, 
on  account  of  the  failure  of  his  wife's  health, 
they  were  obliged  to  return  to  America. 

For  many  years  he  hoped  to  retum  to  Africa, 
but  was  never  permitted  to  do  so.  He  took 
charge  of  Concord  and  Pisgah  churchee,  Ind., 
1860,  Troy,  1862,  Shiloh  and  Gilead,  1864, 
Edwardsville,  Troy  and  Marine,  111.,  1867-1872; 
pastor  at  Eureka,  Kansas,  1873-1877 ;  Preached  at 
Williamsburgh,  Mineral  Point,  Richmond  and 
Princeton,  Kas.,  1878;  Mt.  Pleasant,  Ashton, 
and  Roeebank,  1881-1884;  Stanley,  Hebron,  and 
De  Soto,  1886-1886;  missionary  in  the  Cherokee 
Nation,  1886-1894,  located  for  six  years  at  Clare- 
more,  I.  T. ;  organized  several  churches  in  the 
Cherokee  Nation;  preached  his  last  sermon, 
Feb.  4.  Died,  Feb.  19, 1894.  His  wife  survives 
him,  with  one  daughter,  the  wife  of  Rev.  R.  C. 
Townsend. 

Nassau,  Joseph  Eastburn,  D.  D.— Bom,  Norris- 
town.  Pa,,  March  12, 1827;  graduated,  Lafayette 
CoUege,  1846;  tutor  in  that  coUege  two  years; 
classical  professor,  high  school  and  female  semi- 
nary, one  year;  graduated,  Princeton  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  1852;  principal  of  fenude 
seminary,  Wilkeebarre,  Pa.,  1853-1856;  ordained, 
October  24, 1865;  pastor,  Presbyterian  Church, 
Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  1865-1894;  died  at  Warsaw,  N. 
Y.,  February  21, 1894. 

Married,  October  16, 1856,  Elizabeth  Wallace 
Frank,  of  Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  who,  with  two 
dagohtors,  rairlYef  him. 


Patterson,  Robert  Wilson,  D.D.— Bora  near 
Maryrille,  Tenn.,  January  21, 1814;  removed, 
with  his  parents  to  Illinois,  1821;  graduated, 
Dlinois  Collie,  1887,  Lane  Seminary,  1840; 
preached  as  a  licentiate  in  Chicago  and  in 
Monroe,  Mich. ;  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Ottawa,  1842;  pastor  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  Chicago,  1842-1874;  professor  of 
Christian  Evidences  and  Ethics,  McCormick 
Theological  Seminary,  1873-1881;  President, 
Lake  Forest  University,  1876-1878;  lecturer  for 
three  years  in  Lane  Seminary;  moderator  of 
General  Assembly,  Wilmington,  Del.,  1869; 
member  of  the  joint  committee  for  Presbyterian 
reunion,  1866-1869;  died,  Evanston,  Dlinois, 
February  28,  1894. 

Married,  1848,  Julia  A.  Quigley,  of  Alton, 
Illinois,  who,  with  six  of  their  e^ht  children, 
survives  him. 

Ross,  Oeorqe.— Bom  near  Montrose,  Scotland, 
January  6, 1826;  graduated  from  Marischal  Col- 
lege, Aberdeen,  1862;  attended  the  Free  Church 
Divinity  Hall,  Aberdeen ;  licensed  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Aberdeen,  April  28, 1857;  supplied  the 
Free  Church  of  Newbyth,  Aberdeensnire,  for 
fifteen  years.  Came  to  Oregon  in  1871 ;  supplied 
the  church  of  Tualatin  Plains  from  that  time 
until  his  death.  Was  ordained  by  the  Presby- 
tery of  Oregon  November  8,  1874.  Died,  Jan- 
uary 11, 1894. 

Married,  1858,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Morrison,  who  with  five  of  their  seven  children 
survives  him. 

Wood,  Axanson  Thorp.— Bom  in  Jimius,  N.  Y., 
October  25, 1816;  united  with  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Allen,  N.  Y.,  1834;  graduated  from 
Mission  Institute,  Quincy,  HI.,  1844;  from 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  1848;  ordained 
and  installed  at  West  Unity,  O.,  by  Maumee 
Presbytery,  1860;  West  Unity,  to  1855;  Bryan 
and  Farmer;  Cohocton,  N.  Y.,  1857;  Branch- 
port,  1858-59;  Winslow,  HI.,  1860-^;  Kendall, 
1865-66;  Olivet,  Iowa;  Tecumseh,  Falls  City, 
Helena,  Neb. ;  Beloit  Elas. ;  resident  in  Helena, 
and  Auburn,  Neb. 

Married  to  Miss  Caroline  Susan  Judson,  of 
Prattsburgh,  N.  Y.,  1849;  married  to  Mrs. 
Harriet  Plumb  Hunter,  of  Nevinville,  Iowa. 
Died  of  heart  disease  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  March 
11, 1894. 

Young,  Abraham  T.— Bom  in  Carlisle,  N.  Y., 
1806;  graduated  from  Union  College,  1899, 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  1842;  served 
as  pastor  in  several  churches  in  Western,  Cen- 
tral and  Northem  New  York,  1842-1876;  after- 
wards preached  as  occasional  supply.  Died  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  November  24, 1898. 

Married,  July  17, 1844,  Miss  Ann  Hogarth,  of 
Geneva,  N.  Y.,  who,  with  one  of  four  sons,  tur- 
TiTSfhim. 


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MFTt^ot  gnat  Importaxioe  to  the  treasoren  of  all  the  boards  tiiat  when  mooi^  ii  sent  to  ttMOLlhi 
aame  of  the  church  from  which  it  comes,  and  of  the  presbytery  to  whftdi  the  chnroh  beloogs,  aboold  be 
distinct^  written,  and  that  the  person  sending  should  sign  his  or  her  name  diatinctlT.  with  pit)iwr  tiUa,  e.  g.. 
i\Meor«7Waimrer,  JfiM  or  Jfrs.,  as  the  case  maybe.  Garcfidattentkn  to  this  will  sa^aBniohtnMiliiB.aiitf 
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RBOBIPT8  FOR  THE  BOARD  OF  OH€ROH  RRBOTION,  FBBBI7ABT,  1894. 


ATLAxmc—BaMi  F/orida— Candler,  4.  4  00 

Baltimorb.— Baltimore— Baltimore  Boundary  Avenue, 
44  «5:—  Faith,  8  19.  New  CcMt/e-Pencader,  8:  Perry- 
▼ille,  S  40;  Wilmington  Hanoyer  Street,  0  78.  Wa$hina- 
ton  Ci^tf— Washington  Eastern  sab-sch,  S;  —  Hetropou- 
ton,  10.  84  71 

OALiroRiaA.~Ben<cia— Point  Arena.  6;  Shiloh,  5 ;  St. 
Helena.  11.  Lo$  AtufeleM—Axaam,  8;  Ooronado  Qraham 
Memorial,  11  60;  El  Honteeito,  6;  Oiai,  0;  Pomona,  0  10. 
San  Francitco—StM  Francisco  Welsh,  1  60.  66  90 

Catawba.— FodJpJn— Free  lom  East,  1.  1  00 

Colorado.— Bou2d«r—Valmont,  84  cts.  Pue6{o— Clni- 
oero,  8;  tMeea,  60;  Ran  Rafael,  8.  66  84 

Illinois.— Btoomtngton— Rankin,  8  48.  Cfticooo— Chi- 
cago 7th  8;  —  Covenant.  86  08;  —  Jefferson  Park,  84  68. 
Afaffoon— Areola,  6;  Assumption,  11  b6j  Chrisman,  1; 
Edgar,  8.  O^toims-Orand  Ridge,  5  40;  Ro^elle,  18  61. 
Rock  ftiotfr— Arlington,  8;  Munson,  0.  ^Auyfor— Bush- 
sell,  8;  Perry.  8.    ^ni{/I«2d-PiBflrah,  1  60.  178  40 

lKDiANA.~Oratr/ordsvfU«— Frankfort,  80.  Loganaport 
— Walkerton,  8.  ATuncie— Jonesboro.  4;  Wabash,  6  00. 
New  ^I6any— Bedford,  6  04;  Corydon,  8  86.  Vincennee 
— Evansville  Grace,  16;  Worthington,  6.  64  88 

Indian  Tbrrttort.— OJktoAomo—Ardraore  Ladies*  Aid 
Society,  46  cts.  0  46 

Iowa.— Cottncrt  AIif^«— Hardin  Township,  6  18.  Dee 
Jfo<n««— Indianola.  7;  Jacksonville,  6;  Plymouth,  8  66. 
Iowa  City— Summit,  4  50.    Sioux  City- Ida  Qrove,  16. 

41  88 

S:ANSA8.—.&npoWa— Howard.  8;  I^ndon,  7  80.  Neotho 
—Fort  Scott  2d,  1;  Fulton,  1  SOtScammon,  6  86.  Oebome 
—Long  Island,  6  88.  Solomon— Bennington.  4  86.  Topeka 
—Lawrence,  8;  Mulberry  Creek  German,  6  80.  40  96 

Kkntuckt.— J^b«n€2«r— Sbarpsburg,  8  60.  LouieviUe— 
Kuttawa  Hawthorne  Chapel,  6 ;  Pewee  Valley,  6  60. 

14  00 

MiOHiOAN.—£iii/an»asoo— Richland.  6.  Jfonroe— Erie, 
6  60;  La  Salle,  8.    ^^naio— Mount  Pleasant.  8  60.    17  00 

MiNNSSOTA.— DuZufA— Ely,  8;  McNalr  Memorial,  8; 
Tower  St.  James,  4  40.  IfaiOea to— Beaver  Creelc,  6  80: 
Madelia,  0:  Rushmore,  8  80.  St.  Plsiil— Macalester,  1  60; 
North  St  Paul,  8.  89  70 

Missouri.— JTaruo*  Otty— Kansas  City  Ist,  46  71 ;  Salt 
Springs,  6.  Qsari:— Mount  Vernon,  16;  Osark  Prairie.  8. 
i^amyra— New  Cambria,  8  60.  St.  Lou<«— Bethel,  4(  De 
Soto,  8.  90  81 

Montana.— Bu^e— Deer  Lodge,  16  80.  Helena— Boul- 
der Valley.  10  80.  85  60 

NBBRASKA.—i\r<o&rara— Emerson,  6;  Wakefield,  6  67. 
OirtoAa— Webster.  2.  14  67 

Nbw  Jbrsbt.- Cori«co—  Bata,  1 ;  Benlta,  8.  EUzabeth^ 
Elizabeth  8d,  18  70;  Lamington,  9;  Plainfleld  Crescent 
Avenue  Hope  Chapel,  8.  Jeney  0<fy— Hackensack,  7; 
Paterson  Redeemer,  6.  J/^onmoufA— Cranbury  Ist,  80; 
English  town,  2;  Sayreville  German,  8.  Morrie  and  Or- 
ani^— Parsippany,  10;  Schooley^s  Mountain,  0.  New 
Prunttctefc— Trenton  Prospect  Street,  81.  Weet  Jersey— 
Janvier,  1;  Williamstown,  10.  140  70 

Nbw  Mbxioo.— ftio  (Grande— Socorro  Spanish,  6.  Santa 
J^-Las  Vegas  1st.  9  66.  14  66 

Nbw  York.— ilZftany— Corinth,  1.  Po«<09i— Holroke, 
10.  8roollE{ya— Brooklyn  Ross  Street,  20  88.  Buffalo^ 
Buffalo  Bethany,  18  40.  C^ampZa/n— Malone,  87  77. 
ColumMo— Hudson  sab-sch,  86.  Geneva— Geneva  North, 
66  81.  Hudaon-Good  Will,  8  08;  Rideebury,  67  cU. 
Long  J»lan<l— Yaphank,  8.  Lyofu— FaTrville,  8.  New 
ybrfe— New  York  Brick  additional.  80:  —  North,  46  84. 
J^Ttoyara-Niagara  Falls  (including  sab-sch,  6  69),  86  88. 

t  Under  Minute  of  Aswmbly  of  1888. 

488 


Oteeyo— Cherry  Valley,  6  48.  BocAestet^-Geneseo  Vil- 
lage Y.  P.  S.  0.  S.,  8  68;  Rodisster  St.  Petards,  88  86; 
SparU  1st,  88  88;  —  8d,  11  66.  SL  Lawrenee—Ocnr^ 
neur,  84  40;  Heuvelton,  I.  ^eu6e»— Coming,  4  90.  Utiea 
—New  Hartford,  6  85.     IFettdUfto^Yonkera  1st,  44  86. 

484  68 

North  Dakota.— Ptia6<na— Canton,  8;  Hamilt.oti,  1  70. 

8  70 

Ohio.— iltA«tu— Pomeroy,  10.  BeOe/imto^na— Galioo, 
4  60.  CMWco^As- Marshall,  8.  OdIuirMm -Columbos 
Broad  Street,  60  cts.  Lima— Oelina,  1;  Bnon  Val^y.S, 
Findlay  1st,  46:  Van  Buren,  8.  Jfo^onino— Oaatoo,  16  66. 
jroriaa— Berlin,  168.  Steubenvitte—Biebmoad,  8  0S. 
fToosfer-Hopewell,  18  60;  Mansfield,  85.  188  60 

ORBooN.-^rttond- Portland  1st,  8166;  —  8d.  6. 
Southern  Oregon— Ashland  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8.  90  66 

PBNNSTLYAiriA.— BlairtviUe— Poke  Run,  14.  Bailer- 
Jefferson  Centre,  1.  0%«*ter— Bryn  Mawr,  56  81.  CiarUm 
Oil  City  8d.  6.  i^rie -Atlantic,  4  90;  New  Lebanon,  8; 
Sutrar  Creek,  8;  Titusville,  44  01.  Huntinodon-~Wi\rajt 
6  69;  PhiUipsbnrgh,  10  74;  Spruce  Creek,  16  94.  Kittan- 
n^n^— Centre.  1 ;  Currie's  Run,  4;  Leechbureh,  12.  Laeko' 
uwmna— Brooklyn.  6;  Plttston  (incl.  sab-B<»i.  18  86>.  9076; 
Sugar  Notch,  6.  LeAiofc— Hasslton,  87  97;  Hokendaaqna 
anc  sab-Bch.  4  68),  (Jr.  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  Jt5  eta.),  10  78; 
Mahanoy  City,  7  60;  Shenandoah,  6.  NorthumberUind— 
Shamokinlst,868.  Pfciladslp^to-Philadelphia  1st.  9  77; 
—  Tabernacle.  166  06.  Phiiadelphia  North— Tnnktord, 
8  87;  LanRhome,  6;  Lower  Providence,  97;  Springflekl,  8. 
PittsburgK-OekmoBt  1st.  7:  Pittsburgh  8d,  100;  —6th, 
10;  -  East  Liberty,  86  81 ;  -  Shady  Side,  88.  Shenango- 
Beaver  Falls,  10;  Neshannock,  9  60.  TFos^iticrton— 
Waynesburgh,  4  80;  West  Alexander,  88  90:  West  liberty, 
4.    Weetmineter—Monmi  Joy  (InoL  sab-sch,  1  60),  20  08. 

786  86 

South  Dakota.— Central  2>alwto— Blimt.  4.  Dahotor- 
Poplar  Creek,  8  86.  Southern  Dofeofo-Sootland,  4.  11  86 

Texas.— Ji««Mn— Lampasas,  6;  Sweden,  8;  Voca,  1. 

900 

nTAH.-C7to^-Richfleld,  8.  8  00 

WisooNSDf.— Cfcippewo- Big  River,  6;  Chippewa  FaDs, 
18  48;  West  Superior,  18.  JfadiMm-Reedsborgh,  8. 
Trinne6aoo— Fort  Howsrd,  8;  Neenah,  96  08;  Wanssn, 
49  89?^  108  90 

Total  from  churches  and  Sabbath-schools $9,887  89 

OTHBB  OOMTBIBUTIOIIS. 

Rev.  Dr.  W.  Bannard,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  6; 
MIm  Mollie  Clements,  Antonito,  Colo.,  6  49; 
**H.  L.  J.,''  80;  Minister's  Tithe,  Athens 
Presbytery,  1  68;  Minister's  Tithe.  Fargo 
Presbytery,  1  68;  Minister's  Tithe,  Parkers- 
burg  Presbytery,  1  68 ;  •'  C.  Penna.."  4;  Rev. 
W.LTarbet  and  wife,  1  60 $4168 

$9,488  97 


Interest  on  Investments.  8,016  84;  Payment  on 
Church  Mortgage,  85;  Premiums  of  Insur- 
ance, 417  88;  Sales  of  Book  of  Designs,  No. 
6,1;  Total  loss  collected,  800 $8.780  18 

SPXOIAL  DONATIOHS. 

Illinois.— SMno/lelci—JsoksonviUe  Westmin- 
ster, 60. 
lowA.SiowB  OUu-GUmx  Oit79d,  10  40. 


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Colleges  and  Academies. 


489 


N*w  Mxxioo.~5anto  F6—IjBA  Vegas  1st  Y.  P. 

8.  a  £.,  10. 
Nsw  YoKK,— North  i^iver— Poughkeepsle,  15  88; 
PBNNSTLYAifu..  —  PhUadeHphia—  Philadelphia 

North  Board  Street,  26. 

Mrs.  0.  O.  Sinclair,  Philadelphia,  Pa,  60 

Special  for  work  in  New  Mexico,  100.  263  88 

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Church  oollectioDs  and  other  contributions, 

April,  1898-Februarj.  1894 $87,088  11 

Church  collections  and  other  contributions 

April,  1898- February,  1898 41,899  44 

LOAN  FUND. 

Installments  on  loans $S00  00 

Interest 190  60        89060 


MANSE  FUND. 

Nbw  York.  -  WMteAeater— Yonkers  Ist,  9  84. . .  9  84 

MISOSLLAMBOUS. 

Installments  on  loans 888  00 

Interest 181  98 

Premiums  of  Insurance •••     9  00        588  98 


$588  77 


If  acknowledsrement  of  any  remittance  is  not  found  in 
these  reports,  or  if  they  are  inaccurate  in  any  item, 
prompt  advice  should  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  giving  the  numbw  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 
absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date,  amount  and  form  ot  re- 
mittance. Adam  Campbell,  Tretuurer^ 

58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RBOJSiPTS  FOR  COI.I.EOBS  AMD  ACADEMIES,  FEBBUART,  1894. 


Baltimobb. —Bolh'more— Baltimore  Boundary  Ave.,  18; 

—  Central,  15*.  —  Faith,  7  76;  Deer  Creek  Harmony,  7  47. 
New  a<ut<e— Dover,  18;  Newark  Ist.  8;  New  Castle  1st, 
107  69;  Pencader,  8.  WcMhington  City— Falls  Church, 
8  07;  Washington  City  1st,  6  84;  Eastern  sab-sch,  8. 

80188 

OALiroRifiA.—OafcIofMl— Danville,  2.  8  00 

Catawba.— FadJbin— Bowers  Chapel,  1.  100 

Colorado.— Bouldsr—Valmont,   18  cts.     Ounnison— 

Graad  Junction,  5.  5  18 

lLLncoi8.—ilMon— Chester,  5;  Hillsboro,  7  50.    Bloom- 

ingUm-'EX  Paso,  7  96;  Hoopeston,  5;  Normal,  5  10;  Wat- 

seka.  10.    C^icoyo -Brookline,  8  68;  Chicago  4th,  459  08; 

—  8t^  48  70;  —  Belden  Ave.,  9;  —  Covenant,  838  64;  — 
New  Hope.  8;  —  River  Forest,  8  85.  Fr«eport— Freeport 
8d,  6;  Rockford  Westminster,  4  87.  JTaf toon— Areola,  6; 
Chrisman,  1;  Edgar,  8;  Oakland,  8.  O^totcok-Aurora,  6; 
BarlviUe,  4  85;  RocheUe,  10  88.  Peoria -Oneida,  5; 
Peoria  8d,  18  65;  PrincevDle,  16  cts.  Rock  River— MoT' 
rison.  70  88;  Peaiel,  8.  8chuyler~-Ca,mp  Creek,  6;  Mount 
Sterling,  19  40.  apringfteld-^Bruah  Creek,  4;  PisRah. 
1  61.  965  70 

Indiana.— CVato/ordtviUtf— Bethany,  7r  Darlington,  5; 
Romney,8  61;  Waveland,  8  70.  JndtanapoIt«— Franklin, 
18;  Southport,  2  80.  J/unc^«— Janesboro,  8;  Wabash, 
4  67.    rinc«n}»e«— Vincennes  sab-sch,  8  54.  44  78 

lowA.— Odar  Rapids— lime  Grove,  5.  Oominy— Sid- 
ney, 7.  Council  BluiTt— Marne,  8.  Fort  Dodge— Coon 
Rapids,  5  80.  Jouki— Martinsburg,  8  06.  Iowa  City— 
Columbus  Central,  1 ;  Marengo,  4  88.  Waterloo— Qruudy 
Centre  (sab-sch,  1  87),  9  04;  Jamesville,  8.  40  78 

KAN8A8.—i?mpor{a— Belle  Plaine,  8  50.  Neoeho—Qleu' 
dale,  1  00.  £k>tomom— Clyde,  6.  3V>pefca— Topeka  West- 
minster, 4.  18  50 

MicmoAH.—Sai^vtaio— Emerson,  8  75;  Lafayette  8d, 
8  76.  6  64 

MiNNBSOTA.— MonX^ato— Fulda,  8  18.  Minneapolie— 
BloomlQgton  Oak  Grove,  1  75.  St.  P)aiil— Macalester, 
8  85;  StTPaul  Merriam  Park,  5.  18  82 

MissouRL— £an«M  CVtv- Kansas  City  1st,  18  36:  — 
8d,  45.  OMrfc-Springfleld  Calvary,  10;  Platte  Hodge.  4. 
St.  2xmi«— Bethel  German,  5;  De  Soto,  4;  Emmanuel,  5; 
Zoar.  R.  96  86 


80  67;  Oz  Bow,  8  50;  Potsdam,  5.  Steuben— Ooningt 
8  15;  Jasper,  8  80;  Painted  Post,  1.  ^rociMa- Canas- 
tota,  7;  Syracuse  Park  Central,  17  24.    2Voy— Cohoes 


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[ifey. 


WiscoN8iN.~C%fop«t0a— West  Superior  ]gt,  10.  Modi- 
«oi»— Baraboo,  9;  Belleville,  1;  JanesviUe,  15  88:  Prairie 
Du  Sac  lab-sch,  1  02;  Verona,  1.  Winnebago— muioaUe 
Pioneer,  7  84.  —ir-  ^ 


Total  reodred  from  C!hiiTchee  and  Sabbath- 
schools. $  6,867  97 


Y.  P.  S.  O.  K.  Cannonsburg  Ontral,  Pa,,  1  8«; 
Mr.  H.  B.  Crafi^in.  Chicago,  «5;  Y.  P.  S.  0.  E. 
Mercersburg.  Pa,.  2  67;  *»  Aid,"  10;  Miss  Lilla 
C.  Wheeler,  PartviUe,  N.  Y.,  80;  Wm.  M.  Find- 
ley,  Altoona,  Pa.,  5;  H.  L.  J.,  10;  •*a  Penna," 
8;  Rer.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  Springfield, 


Ills.,  1  60;  Lsdles*  Aid  Sodetr,  Ardmore, 
Indian  Ter.,  84  cts.;  Miss  MoUie  Clements. 
Antonita.  CoIOm.4  87;  Miss  Hattie  S.  Suesey, 
AmityTlUe.  N.  Y.,  60 cts.;  J.  P.  Hollidaj, New- 
bum,  la.,  1«  cU.;  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B..  Shawnee,  Pa.,  ^  ^ 
1  80. »  « 

Total  receipU  for  February,  1804 $6,044  it 

PreTiously  reported f&^inl  9» 

Total  receipts  from  April  Ist,  1898  to  Mardilst, 
1894 $81,405  16 

a  ML  Cbarmlet,  Treaaurer, 
P.  O.  Box  894,  Chicago,  His. 


REOEIPTS  VOB  KDUOATION,  FEBAI7ABT,  1894. 


Baltqiorb.— Baltimore— Baltimore  Broadway,  6;  — 
Central.  16;  —  Faith.  8  80.  New  C<uf2e— Buckingham, 
4  60;  Lower  Brandywine,  6;  Newark,  8;  Pencader,  6;  West 
Nottingham,  25;  Wllminfl^n  Central  addU.  15  48;  — 
Hanover  Street,  80  51.  Waehington  City— Washington 
City  Ist,  8  70;  —  Eastern  sab-soh,  1;  —  Metropolitan,  60. 

189  44 

California.— Lo#  iln^elef—Asusa,  8.  San  Francieeo^ 
San  Francisco  Welsh,  8.  6  00 

CATAWBi —  Tadkinr-Mt,  Airy  9d,  1.  1  00 

Colorado.— Sounder— Valmont,  15  cts.  Puefcio— Clnl- 
cero,  8;  San  Rafael  Mexican,  8.  6  16 

iLLiifois.—Btoomtnirton— Rankin,  2  08.  Cairo— Anna, 
10.  Chicago— Ghlctkgo  Covenant.  85  40.  JTattoon— Van- 
dalia,4  75.  Ot^auxx -RooheUe,  10  68.  Rock  River^VLvak- 
son,  8.  ^Auy2«r— Hersman,  8.  fitorino/leid— Jackson- 
Tille  2d  Portuguese,  9;  Pisgah,  1  21.  182  12 

Indiana.  —  Cratofordsville  —  Frankfort,  80  98.  Fort 
TTayne— Elkhart.  85;  Fort  Wayne  Ist,  89  28.  Muncie- 
Jonesboro,  It  Wabash,  8  80.  New  ^Uxiny— New  Phila- 
delphia, 1.    rinc«nne«- EvansviUe  Grace,  16.  106  96 

Indian  TBRRiroRT.—Oibla^oma— Ardmore  Ladies^  So- 
ciety, 29  cents.  0.99 

Iowa.— Cedar  Rapid*— Cedar  Rapids  1st,  49  80.  Com- 
ing—Sidney, 7.  Council  BluJT*— Hardin  Township,  6  17; 
Marae,  8.  Dei  lfoin««— Newton,  8  76.  Fort  Dodge-Coon 
Rapids,  4  26;  Emmanuel  German.  8.  Jotc»a— St.  Peter's 
Evangelical.  7.  Sioux  City— Sioux  City  2d,  2  60.  Water- 
loo—west  Friesland  German.  6.  92  47 

Kansas.— iVeo«Ao—Glendale,  1 ;  McOune,  2  60;  Osage 
1st,  10.  ^o/omon— Bennington,  4;  Glasco,  1  66.  Tqpeka 
—Clinton,  8  25;  Idana,  2;  Kansas  City  Western  High- 
lands, 7  07.  8r87 

Kkntdckt.— Louitvitte— Kuttawa  Hawthorn  Chapel.  1; 
Pewee  Valley,  4.  6  00 

Michigan.— Detroit— Ann  Arbor,  28  06;  Brighton,  2; 
Detroit  Fort  Street,  140  78;  Ypsilanti,  16  26.  Saginaw— 
Mount  Pleasant,  6.  192  10 

MiNNKSOTA— J/anJbato-Delhi,  6  25:  Madelia,  11.  St. 
jPaui— St.  Paul  House  of  Hope.  79  27.  TTinono— Fre- 
mont, 4  45;  Preston,  4  50;  Rushford,  2  28.  107  70 

Missouri.— JTafMM  City— Blansas  City  1st.  80  86.  OcarJk 
—Mount  Vernon,  8;  Ozark  Prairie,  1 ;  Springfield  Calvary, 

8  80.  Platte-Union,  1  78.  St.  Ixmif-Windsor  Harbor. 
7.  51  68 

NBBRA8KA.—0maAa— Columbus,  1 ;  Creston,  1;  Webster, 
S.  6  00 

New  Jbrsst.— Corifco— Bata,  1 ;  Benita,  2.  Elizdbethr- 
Dunellen,  1  98;  Plainfleld  Crescent  Avenue  Hope  Chapel, 
2.  Jereey  City— Hackensack,  8.  lfonlrKmt^— English- 
town,  4:  Lakewood,  49  70.  Morrie  and  Oranye— East 
Orange  Bethel,  18  24;  Parslppany,  8;  Schooley's  Mount- 
ain, 6.  New  Brunswick— Amweii  2d,  5  25;  Trenton  Pros- 
pect Street,  80.  Newton— Phlllipsburgh  1st,  9  44;  Want- 
age 1st.  6.  Weit  Jer«ey— Greenwich,  8;  Janvier,  1 ;  Mer- 
chantville,  2;  Williamstown,  7.  168  61 

New  York.— Boiton—Holyoke,  6  Buffalo— AldeOt  6; 
Buffalo  Bethany,  11  60.  Complain— Peru,  1.  Chemung— 
Havana,  8.  Co/umbia— Hudson  sab-sch,  26;  Hunter,  8  89. 
G^n««ee— East  Pembroke,  5  80.  Ceneva— Geneva  Ist,  26; 
Gorham,  6.  Hudson— Good  Will,  1  80;  Hopewell,  17. 
Long  Atand— Yaphank,  2.  JfaMau— Newtown,  50.  New 
ForJt— New  York  5th  Avenue,  654  40;  —  Adams  Memorial, 
7.    North  Biwr—Newburgh  Calvary,  8  22;  Poughkeepsie, 

9  89.  ftocAMter— Rochester  Westminster,  16.  Steuben— 
Coming,  2  68.  SyraciMe— Canastota,  18.  TVoy— Cohoes, 
21  42.  Crttca— Clinton,  12;  South  Trenton,  8;  Westem- 
Tllle,  9.    Weatchester-South  Salem,  6  82.  982  87 

North  Dakota.— Pem&iTia— Canton,  2.  2  00 

OHio.—.^tAen«— Athens,   18  40;   Stockport,   1.     Bette- 

/ontaine— Kenton,  22  88.     CoIiimbiM— Columbus  Broad 

Street,  66  cts.    Dayton^Bath,  8;  Dayton  Park,  2  81; 


GreenviUe.  21;  Osbom,  8.  Lima— Celina,  1 ;  Baon  Val- 
ley,  2;  Turtle  Creek,  2  60;  Van  Buren,  2.  irar<o»— Ber- 
lin, 2  79;  MarysviUe,  14  27.  iVrtsmout^-Hanfldng  Bode, 
4;  Mount  Leigh.  8;  Rome,  2.  Steu^envilta— Richmond, 
2  18.     IFboster-Mansfleld,  20.    ZdnMviZta-Homer,  S  80. 

125  18 


Receipts  from  Churches  in  February,  1894 $   8,660  16 

Reo^pts  from  Sabbath-schools,  in  Febrvaiy, 

refuxded. 
Rev.  G.  N.  Luccock,  100 100  00 

oratitudb  fuhd. 
10;  6 16  » 

mSOBLLAmoUB. 

Rev.  Jos.  D.  Smith,  6;  Rev.  G.  L.  Hamilton,  100; 
Rev.  J.D.  R.,  6;  Rev.  H.  L.  Janeway,  16; 
Rev.  Wm.  Bannard,  D  D.,  6;  Miss  Hattie 
Swemy.  60  eta  ;  Mr.  J.  P.  HoUiday,  10  cts. ;  a 
Penna.,2;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  1  20; 

Miss  Mollie  aements,  Antonito,  Colorado,^ 

Tithe,4  06 $      IW  86 

IN OOMB  AOOODET. 

100;  49;  61;  8;  76;  62  60 a90  01 

Total  receipts  in  February,  1804 ^  ^>%  5 

Total  rwseipto  from  April  20, 1898 102,487  27 

Jacob  Wiuoh,  ZVeantrer, 
1884  Chflstmit  St.,  nUiL 


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RKOBIPTS  VOR  FOREIGN  BUSSiONS,  FEBRUARY,  1894. 

ATLAxma,—Ea8t  Florida— CtMdler  lab-ach,  S;  Green 
Oove  Sprinm,  10:  Jacksonville  lat, »  11;  Welrsdale,  5  17. 
aouth  Florida— Somnto,  S6.  71  28 

BALnMOBC—BaZMmore— Annapolis  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  8; 
BalUmore  2d  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E  ,  49  07;  -  Aisquith  Street  sab- 
aoh,  i5;  ~  Boundarj  Avenue  sab-sch  Ulsglonarv  Sodety, 

7  04;  —  Brown  Memorial  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  47;  —  Central,  20; 
—  Faith,  10  86;  Bel  Air.  4  72;  Deer  Creek  Harmony.  14  47; 
Emmittsbnrgh.  65  88;  Lonaooning,  12  50;  Tanevtown,  80. 
New  Gtutte^Manokin,  15;  New  Castle  for  Hainan,  5; 
Pittas  Creek,  82.  sab-sch,  10,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  17;  Port  Penn, 
6  80;  Wilmington  Central,  850  18;  —  Oliret,  0  85.  Wash- 
if%aton  CV<y— Clifton,  4;  Hermon,  2;  Lewinsrille.  7  60; 
Vienna.  6  60,  sab-sch,  1;  Washiniirton  City  Ist,  41  65;  — 
4th,  21  20;  —  Assembly,  105;  —  OoTenant.  496  16;  -  Etst- 
ero  sab-sch.  8;  —  Garden  Memorial  Y.  P.  8.  a  E..  8  28;  — 
Takoma  Park  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  2;  -  Western  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
76  80.  1,629  66 

Oaliporni^— eenicia— Napa,  841  40.  Loi  Angeles— 
ArUngton,  74  25;  Burbank,  U  15,  Union  sab-sch*  2  76; 
Glendale,  26  60;  Los  OUvos  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  for  Hainan,  2; 
Ojai  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  8  85;  Pomona.  67  84;  8anto  Ana  Y.  P. 
8.  a  E.  for  Temple  at  Nain  Tsun,  8  60.  Oakland— 
Nalona,  4  60,  sab-sch,  2  66.  Sacramento— 8acramento 
Westminster,  12.  San  Francitco—Qan  Francisco  Cal- 
rary.  128  46;  ~  Japanese,  6;  —  Welsh,  6.  S<m  Joa4— 
Santa  Clara,  20.    fitodbton— Modesto.  12  20.  706  44 

Catawba,— Cape  Fear—St.  Paul,  2  16.  Southern  Vir* 
ginia—}(Lt.  Calvary  sab-seh,*  1  20.  8  44 

Colorado.— Boulder— Berthoud,  18  86;  Valmont,  00 
cts.  Denver— Brighton,  7  66;  Denver  Ist  Avenue,  22  86; 
Denver  Capitol  Avenue  sab-sch,  4;  —  Central  Endeavor 
Miss.  School,*  7  76;  —  Westminster,  0  80;  Idaho  Springs, 
58.    Ptfefrto-Cinicero,  8:  Del  Norte,  27  20,  Y.  P.  8.  C  E., 

8  90,  Jr.&C.E.,00 cts.;  EastonvUle,  6;  Hastings. 4;  Mesa, 
86;  Pueblo  Westminster  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6;  San  Rafael,  2. 

260  80 

Illinois.— ^Zfon— Brighton,  4;  Greenville  sab-sch,  6  16; 

Hillsboro  sab-sch,  60;  Jersey ville.  72;  Upper  Alton,  8; 

Whitehall,  1,  Y.  P.  8.  C  E.  for  Hainan,  8  10.    Blooming* 

(on— Bement,  20  68;  Champaign.  78  01;  Colfax  sab-sch.* 

6  60:  CooksviUe  sab-sch,  6  46;  Gibson  City  Y.  P.  8.  C  E., 
15  60{  Gilman,  27  60,  sab-sch,  11  66;  Minonk.  82  80;  Mon- 
tioeUo.  2;  Paxton,  6;  Philo  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  7;  Rankin,  8  67; 
Rossville  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  4  10;  Watseka,  20;  Waynesville 
Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  2.  Cairo-Anna,  16;  Cairo,  10,  y!  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  6  60,  Jr.  a  E.,  10:  Centralia,  87  88,  sab-sch.  0  12; 
Galom,  6  25;  Metropolis,  6  85;  Tamaroa,  27.  Chtcago— 
Chicago  Ist,  82  10;  -  2d,  760:  —  8d,  226  00;  —  8th, 
128  60;  -  10th,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B..  7  fe;  -  Avondale,  6  26;  - 
Central  Park  sab-sch,  16  67;  —  Covenant.  271  07,  Y.  P. 
F.  M.  8.,  76;  —  Jefferson  Park,  82  48;  -  Woodlawn  Park, 
40;  Highland  Park  sab-sch,  15;  Lake  Forest,  110  62; 
Manteno.  67;  Moreland,  8  82;  New  Hope,  24  68;  Peotone, 
140  26;  Blver  Forset,  2  60:  South  Chicago,  10.  Freeport 
—Elizabeth,  2;  Freeport  2d,  10;  Galenalst,  60  86;  Galena 
South  sab-sch,  16  08;  Haoover,  20;  Harvard.  676;  Middle 
Creek,  68,  sab-sch,  16  70.  ITaftoon-Bethel,  6;  Chris- 
man,  4;  Edgar,  6:  Grandview,  8;  Mattoon.  10  28;  Mor- 
risonviUe.  4  61:  Oakland.  4;  Pana,  8  60,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
0  70;  TaylorviUe,  14.  O^toimi— EarlvUle,  18,  sabsch.  2; 
Troy  Grove,  6.  Peoria— Altona.  8;  Canton  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  5  87;  Elmira,  100;  Eureka,  60  60;  Farminrton,  61  85; 
Frsnch  Grove  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  7;  Galesburgh,  Ja  28;  Lew- 
istown  sab-sch,  64  01:  Peoria  1st,  8090:  Princeville,  80  21. 
Bock  River— Aledo,  64  26,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  26;  Ashton, 

15  40,  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  24  60;  Garden  Plain,  88;  Geneseo, 
88;  Kewanee,  18  25;  Newton,  10  74;  Peniel,  6;  Princeton, 
74  68,  sab-sch,  26;  Bock  Island  Broadway,  70;  Viola,  6. 
A^iiyler-Carthage.  25,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  26;  Ebenezer,  87; 
Hersman  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  40  56;  Kirkwood  sab-sch,  8  75; 
Macomb,  146;  Mount  Sterling  Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8;  Nau- 
▼oo  1st  Helping  Hand  Society,  6;  Plymouth.  8  87; 
Quince  let  sab-sch,  1280,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  12  50;  Rushville, 
89  16.  5f|^ni7>leki— JacksonviUe  Stote  Street,  92;  Macon 
Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  2  40;  Manchester,  2  88,  sab-sch,  2  50; 
Mawm  aty,  24  01 ;  Pisgah,  6  64.  4,190  88 

I]n>iA]iA.—Cyato/tmi«viZ<e— Bethany,  45;  Dayton,  68  08, 
T.  P.  8.  C.  E.  for  Hainan,  8  62;   Lebanon,  12;   Romney, 

16  4a  Fori  TFoyne— Auburn  sab-sch,*  6  20;  Fort  Wayne 
8d  Y.  P.  8. 0.  E  for  Hainan.  6  08;  Ossian,  11  78.  Indi- 
onopolit- Bethany,  20;  Hopewell,  61  08;  Roachdale,  2; 
Southport,  6  87,  sab-sch.  6  48.     Loganeport— Bourbon, 

7  66;  Meadow  Lake,  4;  Michigan  City,  82  60;  Remington, 
•;  Walkerton.  2  75;  Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  2  26.  Jfuncie-Jones* 
boro,  2;  Wabash,  25  11.  ^eto  ^I6any— Bedford,  12  66; 
Ltvonla,  7;  Vevay,  6  70.  Fincenne*— EvansvUle  Grace, 
42;  Vhioennes,  28;  Washington,  78.  White  Water-Ool- 
lege  Comer,  6;  Oonnersville  Ist,  46;  Greensburgh,  78  87. 

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16  70;  Unton  Star  lab-fch,  1.  Omcifta— Cotambus,  6; 
Craig.  SS;  Omaha  Knox,  3  90;  Westminster;  49  78;  Osceola 
T.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  ft;  Webster,  10.  412  68 

Nbw  Jbbsbt.— CoriMO-Bata,  t;  Benlta,  80.  EUwabeth 
—Elizabeth  1st  Morraj  MissionarT  Society,  81  90,  Uarj 
Morrison  Mission  Band,*  95;  —  9d  T.  P.  8.  0,  E.,  10;  — 
Marshall  Street,  44  61;  —  Westminster,  749  07.  Hope 
Mission,  10  80;  Laviington.  10,  Syrian  Guild,  66,  sab-soh,* 
98;  Metuchen,  94:  PliOnfleld  Ist.  101;  —  Hope  ChapelTi; 
Pluckamin  sab-scn,*  11 ;  Rahway  9d,  76;  Woodbridge,  16. 
Jer$ev  (»ty- Arlington  T.  P.  S.  a  E.,  6:  Jersey  Cltr  8d, 
6;  Paterson  1st,  800.  JTonmout^— Atlantic  Highlands 
Ladies'  Aid  Society,  8;  Cream  Ridge,  19  99;  Englishtown, 
6;  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  6;  Farmingdale,  7  29;  Freehold,  17  06; 
Jamesburgh  T.  P.  8.  C.  E..  14,  Jr.  T.  P.  8.  C.  E^ 6;  Lake- 
wood,  948  88;  Manasquan,  6  76:  Moorestown  T.  P.  8.  0. 
E..  16;  Mount  HoUy.  16666,  T.  P.  S.  C.  E..  48  86;  8ayny 
Tille  Gtorman,  8.  Morris  and  Oranoe— Boonton,  996  61; 
Esst  Orange  1st,  167  77;  Madison,  498  68,  sab  sch,  990  §5: 
Morristown  South  Street,  196,  sab-ich  Mlssionanr  Society.* 
78  89,  sab-sch  Missionary  Society  for  salary  F.  O.  Coan, 
119  60;  Mt.  Olive,  14  89;  New  Providence,  6,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B., 

9  60;  New  Vernon  sab-sch,  10  68;  Parsippany,  44,  sab-sch, 
96,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  6;  8chooley*s  Mountain  sab-sch,  6  80. 
JVet0arib>CaldweU,  47;  Montclair  1st,  976,  Y.  P.  8.  C  E., 
12  60;  Newark  1st,  176;  —  Park,  46  98.  New  BrunMUfiek— 
Amwell  1st,  94;  Frenchtown,  87:  Lawrencevllle  sab-sch, 
96  18;  Princeton  1st,  15,  sab-sch,  106  46;  Stockton,  16; 
Trenton  Prospect  Street,  89.  Newton— B]atntown,  858 19; 
sab-sch,  11  77,*  86  11 :  North  Hardiston,  81  40;  Oxford  Ist, 
89  06;  ~  2d  Primary  Class,  native  helper  in  India,  80;  PhU- 
Upsburgh,  86  98;  Stanhope,  8;  Wantage  8d  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E., 
6.  West  Jertey-Atlantic  City  1st.  86;  —  German,  8  76, 
sab-sch.  9,  Y.  P.  Society,  9;  Camden  9d.  19,  sab-sch,  10; 
CedarvUle  Osborn  Memorial,  15;  Greenwich,  8;  Hammon- 
ton  sab-sch.  60;  Salem,  109  02.  6|157  06 

New  Mexico.— ^W«ona— Tombstone,  8.  Santa  F^— 
Las  Vegas  ist  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  6;  Santo  F^  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  10. 

18  00 

Nkw  YoRX.—.4Z6any— Albany  8d,  47  48;  Esperance  Y. 
P.  8.  O.  E.  6  77;  Gioversviile  Kingsboro  Avenue,  86;  Jer- 
man  Memorial  Helping  Twelve  King's  Daughters,  95; 
Northampton  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  for  Hainan,  9;  Sand  Lake, 

10  86;  Saratoga  Sprhig8  8d  sab-sch,*  8  86.  Bingfiamton— 
Binghamton  Boss  MemoriaL  90;  Cortland,  140  M,  sab-sch, 
inn.  ^r  x>  a  n  V    «  17.  tp— ♦  v.in^    o  m.  McGrawville, 

East  Boston, 
:.,  11  44;  Rox- 
99.  Brooiatm 
85;  —  Arling- 
Avenue  Y.  P. 
:h,  Missionary 
!.  E.,  98  88;  — 
f  Association 
8.  C.  E.,  6  18; 
;  —  Westmin- 
.,  9  65;   Alle- 
Westminster, 
N).    Cayuga — 
^r,  6;  Ithaca, 
I.  E.,  16;  Wat- 
rham  Isl,  19; 
1  sab-sch,  60; 
25  69,  sab-sch, 
Bergen,  19  84. 
ib-6ch.  61  71; 
Vest  Favette, 
,  8  58:  Haver- 
,  9  89.    Long 
Irfami— Amagansett,  19;  Middletown,  99  77:  Southamp- 
ton, 76  84;  Yaphank,  18.    Lyovw— Fairville,  8  15;  Lyons, 
76;  Wolcott  Ist.  6  70.     JVcMtau—Fresh  Pond  sab-sch,  6; 
Huntington  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18  79:  —  9d.  96  89;  IsUp  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E.,  7  50;  Northport,  11;  Whiteetone,  7.  New  York 
—New  York  Ist  Earnest  Workers  for  China,  600;  —  4th 
Avenue,  988:  —  5th  Avenue,  107.  63d  Street  Mission  sab- 
sch,  50;  —  18th  Street  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  46  14:  —  14th  Street, 

81  79;  —  Adams  Memorial  for  Africa.  18;  —  Calvary  sab- 
sch,*  98  44;— De  Witt  Memorial  Chinese  sab-sch,  96;  — 
Harlem,  216  65;  —  Mount  Washington,  200,  sab-sch.*  4  88; 
—  North  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6  60j_--  University  Place,  2.559  99; 
West  End  sab-sch.  90  65;  —  Westminster  West  98d  Street, 

82  60.  JVito^ara— Holley,  8  95;  Lockport  1st  sab-sch  sal. 
Miss  Murray,  45.  North  fiiver— Amenia  South  Wassaic 
Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  18;  Cold  Spring,  48  56,  sab-sch,  6  44,  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E.,  6;  Marlborough,  8;  Newburgh  Calvary,  80  88;  — 
Union, 60; Poughkeepsie, 65  99, sabsch,  99  86;  Wapping- 
er's  Creek,  6  95.  0^(70— GilbertsviUe  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
6  25;  New  Berlin,  9  50;  UnadiUa.  18  66.  Rochester  — 
Avon  Central  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5;  Brighton,  90;  Dans- 
vllle,  97  86;  East  KendaU,  8;  Fowlerville,  90;  Gen- 
eseo  1st  sab-sch.  6  16;  Geneseo  Village.  860.  sab-sch, 
60,  Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  9  96;  Mendon,  11  96;  Piffard,  1  10; 


Rochester  Central  sab-sch,  69  66;  —  St.  Peters.  71; 
Sparto  Ist  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  16  10;  —  Sd,  Y.  P.  & 
0.  E.,  14  09;  Tuscarora.  8.  St,  LatiTrence— Morristown  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E.,  99  67:  Potsdani,  107;  Backetfs  Harbor,  8  74; 
Watertown  Ist  Y.  P.  S.  cTe.,  60;  —  Hope  Chapel,  17  89. 
Steuben— AAdimon  sab-sch,  0  77;  Campbell  sab-s<dL,  10; 
Coming.  18  94:  Homellsville  1st,  18  91 :  Howard  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E  ,  4  #0;  Painted  Post,  10;  Pultney,  8;  Woodhull,  6  9§. 
^^rocustf— Amboy,  86;  Baldwinsville,  99  67;  Chittenango 
Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  17  83;  Mexico,  80;  Syracuse  Park  Central 
saL  Dr.  Laffin,  501  01.  2Voy  —  Cambridge,  10  60;  Fort 
Edward  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  6  07;  Hoosick  Falls,  86  58;  Lan- 
singburgh  1st,  157  67;  Mechanicsville  Y.  P.  8.  C  E.  17  88; 
Middle  Granville  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2;  Sslam,  87  60;  Trpy  9d, 
174  45,  sab-sch,  45  94;  —  Oakwood  Avenue,  89  93/7.  P.  8. 
O.  E..  6  70:  —  Second  Street  Y.  P.  &  C.  E.,  80:  Warrens- 
bmrgh  Y.  P.  a  a  E.,  1  60;  Waterford,  707  69,  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E..  7.  £7<tca-CUnton,  90;  Turin  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  4  60; 
Westemville,  84.  Westcheeter-Qi^etA,  21  40;  Mahopac 
Falls  sab-sch.  11  79;  Mt.  Vernon  1st,  916  10;  PeekskiU  1st. 
106  48;  Poundridge  sabsch.*  16:  Rye  sab-sch,  160;  Soath 
Salem.  84  90;  Stamford  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  16  80;  Yonkers 
1st  sabsch,  89.  14,670  68 

North  Dakota.— Far(K>—Edgeley  Little  Helpers,  10, 
Dorcas  Aid  Society,  1  76:  HiUsboro,  6;  Jamestown,  19; 
Monango,  5;  A  Minister's  Tithe,  1  68.  iViMMno— Canton, 
9;  Glasston.  8:  Graffton  sab-sch,*  6  60.  69  78 

Ohio.— .^tfteiw-Athens,  58;  Bashan,  1  S8t  Berea,  6; 
Bristol,  10;  Marietto  yTP.  8.  C.  E.,  86;  Stockport,  6;  A 
Minister's  Tithe,  1  68.  BeUe/ontaine-Crestllne,  6  87; 
De  Graff.  90  98;  Forest,  0  88,  sab-sch.  6;  North  Washing- 
ton, 1  19;  Patterson,  1  05;  Spring  Hills,  81  17;  Urbana, 
44  69;  Rev.  John  Tenney,  Forest,  O.,  10.  ChaUeoths— 
Belfast,  8:  Greenfield  Ist  Washington  Mains,  100;  HiUs- 
boro, 176  60:  New  Market,  9  95;  Salem,  119  98,  sab-sch, 
89  19,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10.  C^nciniMti— andnnati  8d,  110; 
—  7th  ssb-sch,  93;  —  Avondale,  110 ;  —  Clifton,  16  77;  - 
Poplar  Street,  19;  —  Walnut  Hills,  779  67:  Lebanon,  18. 
sab-sch,  10;  Montgomery  sab-sch,  19  76;  Pleasant  Ridge, 
94;  Sharonville,  8;  SUverton,  4;  Springdale,  10;  Venice, 
10;  WiUiamsburgh,  7.  Cleveland— Akron  Central,  7  86; 
Cleveland  1st  sabsch  Old  Stone  Church,  60;  —  9d  sab-sch, 
18  84;  —  Woodland  Avenue  Y.  M.  Fraternity,  100:  Parma 
sab-sch.*  9  60,  mite  box  of  Alice  Cogswell,  dec'd,*  1 10; 
Rome,  4.  Coiumfrus— Columbus  Broad  Street,  56;  Scioto, 
6;  Worthington,  8.  Z>ayton-Dayton  Ist,  954  76;  — 
Memorial,  10;  Eaton,  10;  Monroe,  7  90.  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  8  00; 
New  Carlisle,  99;  New  Jersey,  7  60;  Oxford.  48  40;  Ttqj, 
47  41;  West  Carrolton,  4  15;  Xenia,  88.  fluron- Huron 
1st  sab-sch,  7  06:  Milan  sab-sch,  4  70;  Olena,  10;  Pern, 

7  65;  Sandusky,  84  45.  I^tma— Ada  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  salair. 
E.  A.  Lowe,  8  SO;  Blanchard.  80.  Y.  P.  8.  a  E..  salary.  E. 
A.  Lowe,  11  95;  Ceiina,  4  56.  The  Gleaners,  1  68;  Delphos 
Y.  P  8.  C.  E..  9  10  salary,  E.  A.  Lowe.  10;  Findlay  M  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E.,  salary,  E.  A.  Lowe,  8  76;  Lima  1st  Y.  P.  &  C. 
E.,  salary,  E.  A.  Lowe,  95;  —  Main  Street  Y.  P.  8.  a 
E..  salaiT.  E.  A.  Lowe,  11  50;  McComb,  48.  Y.  P.  &  a  E., 
salary,  E.  A.  Lowe,  12  60;  Ottowa  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  salary, 
E.  A.  Lowe,  10;  Rockport,  19  65;  St.  Mary's,  89  90,  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E..  salary.  E.  A.  Lowe,  15;  Turtle  Creek  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E.,  salary.  E.  A.  Lowe,  6  96;  Van  Wert  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E  ,  salary,  E.  A.  Lowe,  18  75;  Wapakoneta,  16  10.  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E.,  salary.  E.  A.  Lowe.  7  60.  jraAoi»»ny~EIls- 
worth  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  85;  MassiUon  9d,  81  66;  pfessant 
VaUey.  8  85;  Poland.  80;  Vienna,  5  60.     JTarion^BerUB, 

8  75;  Brown,  9  86;  Chesterville.  18  80;  Delawaro,  198; 
Jerome,  9  50,  sab-sch,  1;  Milford  Centre,  4;  Mount 
GUead,  16  54.  sab-sch,  6;  Ostrander,  9  50.  sabsch.  8| 
Pisgah  Y.  P.  8.  C  E  ,  11  80;  Providence.  1;  West  Berlin, 
8.  J/^aumM— Bowling  Green,  99  65.  PortemonUK-'BsJiK' 
ingRock,7;  RusseUvUle,5.  St.  Clair sviUe-BtaaiwA.h 
Martin's  Ferry,  94  41 :  Morristown,  9;  New  Athens,  19; 
Rock  Hill,  17  65,  sab-sch,  6.  5feu6ent7i/fe— Bakersville,  8; 
Bethesda  sab-sch,*  18;  Brilliant,  8  76;  Buchanan  Cbspel, 
10  07;  East  Uverpool  1st,  101  84,  sab-sch,  108  60;  Hsrlem 
Springs,  15,  sab-sch.  14;  Hopedale.  9;  Linton,  5;  Loog's 
Run.  6.  sab-sch,  5;  Pleasant  Hill  Miss  Carr,  6;  Steuben- 
viUe  1st,  19  95;  Two  Ridges,  4  72;  Unionport,  4:  YeUow 
Creek,  15  70.  TTootftfr— Apple  Creek,  48,  sab-sch,  91  11; 
Ashland  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10;  5oylestown,  9  60:  Fredericks- 
burgh.  40;  HomesviUe,  11  76;  Mansfield,  60;  Marriiall- 
Tille.  1;  Perrysville,  8  80;  Savannah,  89  89;  Shelby.  17  66: 
Shreve.  8  50,  saV-ob,  9,  L.  F.  M.  S.,  17  76;  Woocter  West- 
minster. 99  99.  Zan««inUe— Dresden.  6  98;  Mt.  Zion  sab- 
sch, 70  cts. ;  Utica.  90.  4.868  88 

OMOON.-POrftond— Bethany.  10.  10  00 

PxKNBYLVANiA.— ^U^^Aeny— AUegheny  2d  Y.  P.  8.  C 
E.,  11  47;  —  Central.  129  05:  —  McOlure  Avenue,  941  20; 
Beaver,  68,  sab-sch,  100;  Bellevue,  18  66;  GlenfleM,  1784, 
for  work  in  Syria,  10  80;  Hiland.  96  66;  Leetsdale,  106  07; 
Pine  Creek  1st,  6:  —  2d,  8;  Vanport,  9.  BUUrwOU- 
Beulah,  81  97;  Fairfield,  66  99;  Greensburgh  Westmin- 
ster. 61  66;    Harrison  dty,  7  96;    Johnitown,  117  81; 


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Laird,  7;  LIgonier,  18  71;  Manor,  9  96:  New  Salem  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  £.,  ao;  PlMm  Creek,  28;  Unity,  9  6U.  BuUer— But- 
ler. 842  51:  Centre  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B..  1  86;  North  Washing- 
ton aab-ach.  6;  Summit,  7  45;  West  tiunbury,  2SL  Car^ 
/tote-Carilsle  Ist,  88,  Y.  P.  B.  C.  E..  16  49;  Gettjsburgh, 
65;  Harrisburgh  Olivet,  4:  —  Pine  Street  8ab-s<A.»  82  68; 
Mechanicsburgh.  18»  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5;  Monaghan,  87; 
Newport,  90;  Robert  Kennedy  Memorial,  6  wTy.  P.  S.  O. 
£..  5;  Shippensburgh,  68  20(  SilTer  Spring,  12  60,  sab- 
sch,  5.  CA««ter-Chester  let  sab-sch,  18  60;  —  9d.  10; 
Doe  Run  sab-sch,*  4;  Downington  Central,  14  78,  sab<«ch,* 
8;  Kennett  Square,  10;  Wallingford,  64  76;  Wayne, 
187  87;  Westminster  Goshenrille  Y.  P.  8  O.  E.  for 
Hainan.  2  95.  Ctorum— Emlenton,  11  84:  Oil  City  9d,  7; 
ReynoldsTiUe,  17;  Rockland,  6;  Sugar  HUl,  14  98.  Erie— 
Atlantic.  5  95;  Bradford.  59  96,  sab-sch,  95  80;  Cochran- 
ton  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.  for  Hainan,  7  81;  East  Qreene,  5; 
Erie  Park,  79  91;  Franklin.  141  80;  Qirard,  16  84,  Miles 
Orore  Branch,  8  96;  Greenfield,  89;  MeadTille  1st,  45  90, 
sab-Bch,  6  65;  8alem,  8;  Stoneboro,  4:  Sugar  Qrove,  10; 
Warren,  168  11.  fiunfinodoit— Bellefonte,  60:  Binning, 
ham  Warrior's  Mark,  187;  Coalport  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  «; 
HoUldaysbuigh  sab-sch,*  94  65;  Efuntiogdon  sab-sch  for 
Sangli  idchool,  60;  Lewistown  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  15;  Logan's 
Valley,  20  85,  sab-sch,  6  65;  Lost  Creek,  24  45;  Miles- 
burgh,  6;  Moshannon  and  Snow  Shoe,  9;  Petersburgh,  10; 
Sinking  Creek,  18  10;  Sinking  VaUey,  18,  sab-sch,  19; 
Tyrone,  87  78.  JTiftonntny— Centre,  8;  Currie's  Run,  18; 
Marion,  18  60;  SUte  Lick,  17  09;  Srader's  Qrore,  19  56, 
sab-sch,  11  64;  West  Qlade  Run,  19;  Worthington,  12. 
Locileatoanna— Brooklyn  Y.  P.  8.  C.  £..  4;  Carbondale, 
1  16,  sup.  J.  A.  Fitch,  80  69;  —  sab-sch  sup.  J.  A.  Fitch, 
6  04;  Great  Bend,  7;  Hawley  Y  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8  86,  salary 
Mr.  Drummond,  4  56:  Langcllffe,  50  45;  Montrose,  100; 
Mooaic.96,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18;  Pittston,  87;  Plains  sab- 
sch,*  8;  Sayre,  5;  Scranton  1st.  400;  —  Sd  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
11 ;  SteUa,  14  06;  Sugar  Notch,  2,  sab-sch.*  2;  Susque- 
hanna, 17,  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5;  Towanda,  241  79:  Tunkhan- 
nock,  48  99;  WUkes  Barre  1st.  468  97;  —  Westminster,  15. 
Z^eA^^— Allentown,  90;  Audenried  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  19  44; 
Middle  Smithfleld,  5  65;  PottsriUe  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B., 
80  78;  Reading  Ist,  118,  sab-sch,  50;  South  Easton,  10,  Y. 
P.  8.  O.  E.,  10.  ^orf^um6ertond- Bald  Eagle  and  Nit- 
tany,  10  05,  sab  sch,  5;  Beech  Creek,  7;  Berwick,  40; 
Great  Island.  68;  Hartleton.  10;  Ljcomlog,  64  60;  Mifflin- 
burg,  18;  Montoursyille,  4  60;  Northumberland,  16;  Sha- 
mokin  1st,  89  66;  Watsontown,  81;  Williamsport  8d,  86  61. 
ParJkertftnr^^— Buckhannon,  7  60;  A  minister's  tithe, 
1  58.  P/iiiade2pAia~Phlladelphia  8d,  92  89;  —  African 
1st,  5;  —  Calvary,  8  75;  —  Cohocksink  sab-sch,  6;  —  Cot- 
enant  sab-sch.  60;  —  Gaston  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  IS  95;  —  Heb- 
ron Memorial,  7  87;  —  Memorial,  81  89;  —  Oxford,  961  89; 
—  Princeton,  1,  911 14;  >-  Tabernacle  sab-sch,  84 18;  — 
Tioga.  58;  —  Trinity,  98;  —  West  Spruce  Street,  1,988  99; 
— Zion  German  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  self-denial,  11.    Philadel- 

Shia  North-BriBtoh  25;  Chestout  Hill.  100;  Falls  of 
chuylkiU  sab-sch,  58;  Frankferd.  80 16,  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  8; 
Oermantown  Wakefield,  76 14,  sab-sch,  90;  Hermon,  176, 
A  friend,  25;  Langhome,  6;  New  Hope  sab-sch,  17  79; 
Norristown  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  K,  1  60;  —  9d.  11;  Port  Ken- 
nedy, 9  96;  Springfield.  18;  Tacony  Diss  ton  Memorial, 
29  86.  Pittstmrgh—CrtiltoD,  81  60;  Edgewood,  49;  Forest 
Grove,  95,  sab-sch,  17;  Highland  sab-sch  Miss  Arm- 
strong's Class,  10;  McDonald  Ist  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10;  Mo- 
Kee's  Rocks.  18,  sab-sch,  8;  Montours,  9;  Mount  Oliye,  4; 
Pittsburgh  Ist,  726  01;  -  8d,  140;  —  4th,  46  97,  sab-sch. 
9  61;—  6th,  198 19;  —  7th.  10  89;  —  East  Liberty,  184  08, 
8.  L.  FuUwood,  sup.  Zia  ZingTong,  I860;  —  Co.  Workers 
Band,  95;  —  Class  No.  20  for  Hira  Zall,  19  50;  —  Home- 
wood  Avenue,  8  07;  —  McCandless  Avenue  Momlngside 
Mission,  6;  —  Point  Breeze,  975;  —  Shady  Side.  66,  Y.  P. 
8.  O.  E.,  8:  Sheridanville,  9;  West  Elizabeth,  7  61 ;  Wilkins- 
burgh,  180  87.  Reditone—lAurel  Hill  sab-sch.  86  86;  Mc- 
Keesport  1st,  819:  New  Providence,  11 ;  Scottdale,  86  87, 
sab-flch,  6  66 ;  Sewickley,  5 :  Uniontown,  989  75.  Shenango 
—Mahoning  sab-sch,  15;  New  Castle  1st.  84  85;  Pulaski, 
2  80:  Slippery  Rock,  16;  Transfer,  9  84;  Unity,  80.  Wa$h- 
ini^ecm— Burgettstown,  180 85^sab-sch,  46 94;  Cove,  11 50; 
East  Buffalo,  80  21;  Forks  of  Wheeling,  118;  Hookstown, 
29;  sab-sch,  21  79:  Mount  Prospect  sab-sch,  IS;  Y.  P.  Soa. 
6;  Washington  8d,  79  66;  Wheeling  1st,  150.  Miss  Ott 
Thank  Offering.  5.  TFe2<«&oro— All^^any,  1 ;  Farmington 
T.  P.  8  C.  E.,  1  95.  We$tmin$ter—Oentn,  60,  sab-sch,* 
16  84;  Middle  Octorara.  14;  Mount  Joy,  4184,  sab-sch. 
6  87;  WrighUviUe,  19;  York  1st,  960  80.  18,074  01 

South  Dakota.— Bladl(lfiZI«—Whitewood,  4,  sab-sch.  4 
Onfraii)aJkofa— Brookings,  17  29.  DoJboto— Poplar,  9  75. 
Southern  I>(aM>fa— Dell  Rapids,  1,  Mission  Baod.  6;  Mit- 
cheU  sab-sch,*  6  70;  Scotland,  9  95;  Union  Centre,  9. 

59  99 

TKNNBssm.—  Hob^on— Mount  Bethel,  15  70;  Timber 
Bidge,  9.  £^fn9«ton— Chattanooga  Park  Plaoe,  8  46; 
HontsWUe,  9  »;  Sherman  Heights,  6,  LmUss*  Sod«ty, 


2  40.    Union— Hopewell,  8 ;  New  ProTidence,  119  95 ;  8han- 
nondale,  15;  Spring  Place,  8;  Westminster,  15.  198  08 

TBZAS.—^u«f<n— Sweden,  8;  Voca,  9.  North  Texae— 
Denison,  59  65;  GaiaesviUe  sab  sch,«  10.  74  65 

Utah.— Boi«e— Boise  City.  9  60,  sab-sch.  6,  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  7  60.  Utfl^-Boz  Elder,  5;  Central  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  9  60; 
Mount  Pleasant  sab-sch,  9  50;  Richfield,  10;  Salt  Lake 
City  let  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  85  86;  —  8d,  9  50,  sab-sch,  8  54. 

90  89 

WAsmnaToir.— Olympio^Tacoma  CalTary,  5.  Puget 
/Sound- Seattle  1st,  45;  Sunuer,  6  95;  White  River,  7. 
^{poibane— CcBur  d'Alene,  6  95.  68  50 

Wisconsin.- CA<pp«i0a— Big  River,  5.  La  CroMe^La 
Creese  1st,  18  57.  if adwon— Marion  German,  5,  sab-sch, 
1;  Platteville  German.  18  95;  Pleasant  Hill  sab-sch,  9  26; 
Poynette  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.  for  Hainan,  5;  Reedsburgh,  5. 
Jftltoauitee— Cedar  Grove,  10:  Milwaukee  Calvary,  81  87; 
—  Perseverance  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  8  50.  Winneb<»go— 
Marinette,  90  15;  Shawano,  10:  Wausaukee,  9;  Winoe- 
conne,  6,sab-sch,8,  Y.  P.  8.  C.E..1.  147  09 

women's  boards. 

Women's  Board  of  the  South  West,  1,860; 
Women's  Board  of  Philadelphia,  16;998  60; 
Women's  Board  of  New  York,  6,000;  Women's 
Board  of  the  North  West,  4,798  69;  Women's 
Occidental  Board,  50  06;  Women's  Board  of 
the  North  Pacific,  657  19 $99,518  86 


Estate  of  John  G.  Reading,  deceased, ,  1,900; 
Estate  of  George  Sidney  Camp,  deceased, 
2,588;  Estate  of  William  Monroe,  deceased, 
6  85;  Estate  of  William  Flanigen,  deceased, 
400;  Estate  of  Hannah  Ireland,  deceased, 
1.87098 $    6,760  78 

misobllanious. 

Jane  B.  Worth,  Tallola,  HI.,  1 ;  Persis  B.  Foote, 
Lewistown,  lU.,  8;  "  Field,"  900;  N.  Currie, 
Bahnoral,  Wis..  9;  **  J.  C.  H.,"  9;  Mrs.  8.  A. 
Yale  for  Laos,  80:  Mrs.  8.  A.  Yale  for  Gaboon, 
80;  A  Friend,  5;  Prof.  R.  C.  Wild,  Greenfield, 
111.,  5;  Barah  M.  Dickson.  Phila.,  for  salary 
of  Mr.  Eakin,  95:  L.  H.  Johnson,  Newark,  N. 
J.,  10;  Thomas  L.  Sexton,  Seward,  Neb.,  10; 
Rev.  Chalmers  Martin,  Princeton,  N.  J., 
special  Laos  Fund,  95;  Martha  J.  Smith, 
Delta,  Pa..  10;  Joseph  D.  Smith,  Delta.  Pa., 
5;  Miss  M.  Campbell,  Mansfield.  O.,  8;  '^  J.  E. 
8.,"  5;  1st  Cong,  sab-sch.  Malone,  N.  Y.,  for 
Mrs.  Mateer*s  work,  96;  Mrs.  John  L.  Mann, 
N.  Y.,1;  Miss  8.  Paul,  N.  Y..  17;  From  two 
Chinese    men,    for  scholarship  in  Chinese 


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i;  haTO  been  Cincinnati  Presbytery. 

BBOBIPTS  VOB  VBBEDMKN,  FEBRUABT,  1894. 


City,  !•  «if  t^  uMXfj  vrvoK.,  V  w.     xTOiv  ^yv^9^^9 — x'euuaMcor,  u* 

Wa$hington  Ci^y- Washinsion  City  1st,  7  10;  —  Cove* 
nant,  10;  —  Eastern  sab-sch,  1;  —  MetropoUton,  95:  — 
Western,  90.  84  87 

Caufobnia.— Panida^HealdsbufKh.  8  65;  KelsoyTiUe, 
4  95;  Lakeport,  5  96.  Lo§  AngeloB—AxoMt^  8.  San 
Francifco— San  Francisco  Welsh,  1  50.  San  JicM^— San 
Jose  9d,  96.  49  66 

Catawba.— Cape  Fbot— Ht  Pleasant  C.  E.,  8.  Yadkin 
—Freedom  East,  1:  Ht  Airy  9d,l.  6  00 

Colobaoo.— ^ottkfor— Fort  Collins  T.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  11; 
Valmont,  16.  11  16 

Illinois.— Stoomington—BossriUe,  8  66.  Cairo— Cob- 
den,  4  89;  Odin,  8.  C^ico^— Chicago  7th,  9;  —  8th, 
69  18:  —  CoTenant,  86  98;  —  Fullerton  Avenue,  89  86: 
Moreiand,  1  14.  i^eport—Foreston  Grove  Qerman,  15; 
Bock  Bun,  8  95.  JTaftoon— Areola,  5.  OttoiMi— Earl- 
TiUe,  2  86;  Oswego,  5;  Paw  Paw  1st  (Jr.  C.  E.,  4),  6  50; 
Bochelle,  18  40;  Waltham,  8.  Rode  lUver— Fulton,  5; 
Morrison  C.  E.,  10;  Munson,  9;  Princeton,  18  80.  Schuyler 
— Bushnell,  8;  Plymouth,  848;  Quincy  IstCaab-sch,  6  40), 
10  16.    5pHn0[/leld-Oreenview  1st,  6  90;  Pisgah,  9  41. 

967  60 

Indiana.— Crato/ord»vitt«— Beulah,  1 ;  Newtown,  7.  Fort 
IVTiirvM— Warsaw,  4.  Logannwrt—lA  Porte,  180  5»t  Lo- 
gansport  Broadway.  15  16;  Rensselaer  (C.  E..  8),  17  11; 
Union.  9  00.  Jfuficfo-^onesboro,  1 ;  Wabash,  8  80.  New 
Albany— Gory  don,  5.  FiMc«nHe«— Bvansville  Grace,  14 15. 
White  TTater— Knightstown,  0;  Bichmond  1st,  15  75. 

996  46 

Indian  Tbbbttobt.— ClkeroJIwe  2Vd<ion— Pleasant  Valley, 
40  cts.  Cfcoctoi0— Choctaw  Nation,  per  B.  L.  Ahrons,  84  95. 
OJk^aAomo— Ardmore  L.  A.  Society,  98  cts.  84  08 

Iowa.— Cedar  fiopidt— Cedar  Rapids  8d,  7  50;  Linn 
Grove,  7.  Dee  JToinM— Newton,  8  90.  Fort  Dodge— Em- 
manuel  German,  8.  Iowa— Keokuk  Westminster,  14  71 ; 
MountZion,  6.  Jouxx  C^fy— Davenport  1st,  94  70.  Sioux 
City-Sioux  City  9d.  4.  74  1 1 

KANSAS.— ITmporia— Caldwell,  11;  Councfl  Grove,  10; 
Peabody,  90;  Wichita  Lincoln  Street,  9.  Highland- 
Washington,  4  18.  iVeosAo— Glendale,  1.  0<2K>m«— Wa- 
keeny,  6.    Topefea— Clinton,  2;  Idana,  9;  Topeka  1st,  51  60. 

100  78 

Kbntucil  y  .—Ebenezer—Tranktort  1st,  97  95;  Ludlow, 
7  95.    LottMviUe— Kuttawa,  1;  Pewee  Valley,  5  50. 

41  00 

MioHioAN.— Detroit  —  Ann  Harbor,  99  81;  Plymouth, 
6  55.  F»nt  -  Flushing,  7  59;  Lapeer,  10  91.  Grand 
Rapide—QrKod  Rapids  Westminster,  6.  Kalanuizoo— 
Edwardsburgh,  8  90;  Niles  Ist  sab-sch.  19.  Lake  Siiperior 
—Newberry  (Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  1 95),  7.  Jfonrotf— Monroe. 
18  90.  08  80 

MiNNBSOTA.— JfaiOmto- Fulda  C.  E.,  1;  Madelia,  0; 
Mankato  1st,  11  80.  Ari»neapoIi«— Minneapolis  Franklin 
Avenue,  8  10;  —  Westminster,  108  67.  St.  PaiulSt.  Paul 
Da/ton  Avenue  C.  K,  10.  148  16 

MissouBL— Qsarfe— Sprlngfleld  Calvary,  6.  Platte— 
Bodge,!  8  00 


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4;  Mount  Pleasant,  2  40;  PHtston,  10  68.  Lehigh^Eaaton 
Brainerd  Union.  145  18;  PottSTille  lit,  88  86.  Nerthum- 
berlandr-Berwick,  10;  MUton,  86:  Bhamokin  lat,  8  87. 
ParkerBburghr-Matmingtxm,  1.  PMIodeto^ick-Philadel- 
phia  Betheada.  88  92;  -  Bethlehem,  18;  —  Mariner's,  6;  — 
Memorial,  60  85;  —  OUvet.  79  62.  PittBtmrgh-^Concord, 
6;  Fdrest  OroYe  Y.  P.  S.  0.  E.,  6;  Hebron,  28  66:  Home- 
stead (sab-sch,  2).  80  60;  Lebanon  0.  E.,  11  86:  Oakdale, 
85  25;  Pittsburgh  6th,  80  48;  —  7th,  5  87;  —  Bellefield  sab- 
sch,  50:  —  East  Liberty,  67  04;  —  Point  Breeze,  250;  — 
Shady  Side,  27  60:  West  Elizabeth,  2.  i2ed«tone— Con- 
nellsviUe  1st.  86  86:  Smithfield.  2.  Sfcenan^o— Beaver 
Falls.  22:  Rich  HilL  2.  ITasAtnyton^Lower  Buffalo,  8  25; 
Moundsyille.  8  50;  Mount  Olivet,  5;  Waynesburg^,  8  20. 
Wettmin9ter—VnU}n,  17;  York  Calvary,  88  56;  1,480  80 
South  Dakota.— Central  Daleota— Flandreau  2d,  5  71. 
Southern  DaJtota -Scotland.  8  40.  8  11 

TBNKsssBS.—£in0«ton— Pleasant  Union,  2.  Union— 
Westminster,  2.  4  00 

Texas.— jiiM»m— Austin  1st,  20.  20  00 

Utah.— C7tofc— Nephi  Huntington,  4  40..  4  40 

Washihgtov.— ^Ia«&a— Olympia,  2  45.  ^toolMine— Spo- 
kane 1st  a  B.,  12  50,  sab-sch,  12  60, 25;  —Westminster, 
a  E.,  12  50.  89  96 

Wisconsin.— IfiltMMOwe— Cedar  Grove,  5;  Somers,  4. 
Winnebago— Vort  Howard,  8;  Marinette  Pioneer,  6: 
Ooonto,  18;  Stevens  Point,  16.  50  00 

From  Churches,  February,  1894 $  8,890  41 

MISOBLLANXOUS. 

Woman's  Executive  Committee,  N.  Y.,  965  42; 
8.  M.  Baird,  Centre,  Pa.,  60  cts.;  Rev.  J.  M. 
Hunter,  MadisonviUe.  Tenn.,  5;  E.  B..  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  1 ;  Rev.  Geo.  8.  Leeper,  Cataw- 
ba. Cat.,  1;  James  Snyder,  Morrison,  UL, 
100;  Mrs.  Spears,  Tahlequah,  L  T.,  1;  Rer. 
A.  S.  Billingsley,  BtatesviUe,  N.  C,  5:  Mrs. 
Sarah  C.  Adams,  Sterensvllle,  Pa.,  6;  **B. 
D."  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  500;  A.  B.  Speer,  Mo- 
Kees  Rock,  Pa.,  25;  Miss  M.  A.  Buchanan, 
Honey  Brook,  Pa.,  15;  Mrs.  C.  E.  Whittle- 
sey, Madison.  N.  J.,  100;  "More  to  follow,'' 
Newark.  N.  J.,  1;  Geo.  D.  Dayton.  Worthing^ 
ton,  Minn.,  50;  Rev.  W.  W.  Atterbuiy.  D.  D., 
New  York.  N.  Y.,  10;  Mrs.  C.  R.  Watt,  Mon- 
roe, Utah,  5;  One  in,  Plattsburgh,  N.  Y.,  8; 
Rer.  Geo.  B.  McComb.  Silver  Creek,  Neb.,  1; 
"E.  B."  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  2;  Walter  Butler, 
Esq.,  Chicago.  ID.,  20;  A  a  McCutchen, 
MurrysTillclPa..  6;  H.  L.  J..  Williamstown, 
N.  J.,  20;  Miss  Hattie  S.  Luezey,  AmityviUe, 
N.  Y.,  50  cte. :  J.  P.  Holliday,  Newbum,  Iowa, 
10  cts.:  North  West,  Allegheny,  Pa.,  6;  Rev. 
Wm.  Bannard,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  5|  *'C. 
Penna.,''  8;  Miss  Mollie  Clements,  Antonito, 
Colo.,  4  05:  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife,  _ 

Springflekl,  2  40;  A  friend,  Gray,  N.  Y.,  8. . .     $1,866  97 


Dirbcts  Fbb&vabt,  1894. 

MA&T  AliLKN  SBIONABT. 

Stryker  Sem.  Miss.  Soc'y,  St.  Anthony  Falls, 
45;  Miss  Mabel  Pepper,  Aledo,  111.,  80;  Bible 
Class,  Evanston,  nf.,  per  Mrs.  W.  E.  Stock- 
ton, 51 ;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  Pres.  Ch^  Superior, 
Wis.,  24;  Ladies'  Home  Miss.  Soc'y.  East 
Liberty.  Pa.,  14;  Second  Pres.  Ch.,  Dallas, 
Tex.,  8  10;  Miss  Belle  Johnson,  M.  A.  Sem., 
11  25;  Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  Union  City,  Ind.,  15l 
Miss  Alice  Miller,  M.  A.  Sem.,  16;  Rev  and 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Smith,  M.  A.  Sem.,  45;  Mrs.  Helen 
A.  Stanley,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  45 


Miss  Kate  Rising,  Jackson,  Miss.,  10;  Miss  Jes- 
sie Scott,  Jackson,  Miss.,  5;  Pres.  Church, 
Fremont,  Neb.,  20  86 


Associate  Reformed  Pres.  Ch.,  Chester,  S.  C. 
6 


868  85 


85  £6 


500 


891  00 

INOLSSIDS. 

Mrs.  a  E.  Oakley,  Buffalo,  Minn..  15;  O.  J.  V. 
Aschenback,  Sec.  C.  E.  Soc'y,  Chatham, 
N.  J.,  15 80  00 

ootton  plant. 

Ladies'  Missionary  Soc'y,  Lowville,  N.  Y., 
84  40 84  40 

Total  Directs $784  61 

Total  receipts  for  February,  16N S6,548  99 

Previously  reported 184,868  11 

Total  receipts  to  date $141,418lo 

John  J.  Bbaoom,  Tre<uurert 
516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


BECBIPTS  FOB  HOMB  MISSIONS,  FBBBUABT,  1894. 

Minonk  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  10;  Philo  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E,.  8.  Cairo 
— Carbondale  Ist,  27  10.  CKicaoo— Braidwooa  (sab-sch, 
7  50),  15  25;  Chicago  Ist,  787  58;  -  8d,  184;  -  4th,  5,075  50; 
—  7th,  5;  —  Bethany  (sab-sch,  65  cts.),  5  80:  —  Covenant. 


ft.  586  00 

CoLOBADo.—BoKlder— Boulder  1st  (sab-sch,  4),  26; 
liongmont  Central,  18  25;  Valmont,  90  cts.  Denver- 
Denver  1st  Avenue.  27  85;  —  Capitol  Avenue,  16;  —West- 
minster, 8  45;  Laird,  1:  Wray.  6.  flfunniton-Poncha 
Springs.  6;  Salida.  25.    Pueblo  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6. 

188  95 

Illinois —^/to»-GreenvlIle  sab-sch,  6  16;  HlUsboro 
9ab-8ch,  m  04.     Bloomington  —  Qilman  sab-s^,  U  88; 


7,498  89 
Indian  Tkbrttobt.- CAocfaio— Oak  Hill,  19  50.  Okla- 
\oma— Ardmore  L.  A.  Society,  1  71:  Norman,  25;  Rev.  R. 
C.  Townsend  and  wife,  5.  Sequoyah—BToken  Arrow.  50 
cts.f  Limestone,  80  cts. :  Pleasant  Valley,  4  30;  Red  Fork 
sab  sch,  1  70;  Rev.  T.  W.  Ferryman,  5.  M  01 

Iowa.— Cedar  l?ap<d«— Blairvtown  nsb-Fch,  5  18;  Cedar 
Rapids  8d.  86  70;  —  Bohemian  Y.  P.  S.  O.  E,,  2;  Central 
(sab-sch,  1  09),  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  1  41),  2  50;  Ontre  Junc- 
tion sab-sch,  5  45;  Claren<?e  (sab-sch,  5  20),  (Y.  P.  B.  C, 


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"     '  —    *  ^ "^         y-msh.  I  80;    Scotch 

Iford,  S7;  Oominflr 
«ch,  1  88).  (Y.  P.  8. 
Irie  Chapel  salnich, 
»#•— Hardin  Town- 
>M  Moines  Hifhland 
;.  E.,  5),  7;  Newton 
mque  let  in  part,  85; 
>endenoe1tt,  117  98. 
Emmanuel,  8;  Ma- 
tt; Wheatland  Qer- 
inon,  8;  Mediapolis 
aU  IS;  West  Point 
itsab-flchand  T.  P. 
C.  E.,  6  96).  11  17; 
Houx  City— Auburn 
8  85;  Highland,  8; 
(erfoo— Ckmrad  aab- 
sab-Boh,  7t  Salem, 
884  81 
J  (sab-ach.  8  90). 
Waverly  sab-ach, 
68  67.  Highland'- 
Q  Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  0,  E., 
whington  Ist,  8  60. 
^  mTh.,  10;  Lamed. 
;.,  8;  First  District 
M>n— Abiiine  1st.  10; 
ina,  89.  Topeka— 
and,  4  50;  Willow 
40495 
Warren  Memorial 
600 
Detroit  Ist,  Mrs. 
venue,  96:  ~  Fort 
,  100;  NorthYille  1st 
)  77;  Caseville  sab- 
lac  Centre  1st,  8  45. 
^b-sch,  89  67.  Kola- 
Niles  Ist  Csab-Bch, 
River.  8;  Newberry 
tirist,  8.  Lan»ing— 
nroe— Adrian  Jr.  Y. 
Pistoslwy— East  Jor- 
lass.  1  (r7.5  96).  (Y. 
CitTl8t,14;  Ithaca 
b4ch,  9.  1.854  41 
unes  Y.  P.  S.  C  E., 
>ottonwood,  4 ;  Cur- 
inneapolU    Crystal 

— ^ — ,  ^,  — iig  Lake sabsch and 

Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  4.  Bed  River— Aahby,  8;  Evansville.  5; 
Mendenhall  Memorial,  10.  St.  Cioitd— Brown's  Valley  Y. 
P.  8.  C.  E..  9  10;  StTcloud  sab  sch,  9  87.  St,  Faul-St. 
Paul  Dayton  Avenue  Y.  P.  8.  C  E  ,  16 ;  —  House  of  Hope. 
894  9a  ITin^na— Albert  Lea.  47  71 :  Claremont,  90; 
Lanesboro.  1  96;  Le  Roy  1st  CLadies'  Mite  Society.  8),  91 ; 
Oronoco  sab-sch,  1;  Preston  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  8).  (sab-sch, 
9  48),  5  48;  Richland  Prairie,  9  90;  Utica  sab-sch.  3  86. 

895  09 
Missoiriu  — ZdnsoM  C^fy— Butler  sab-sch.  8  50;  Kansas 
City  1st,  98  07;  -  9d  sab-sch,  90;  -  Linwood.  6;  Rich 
Hill  1st  sab-sch.  19.  QccirJe-Ebenezer  sab-«ch  and  Y.  P. 
S.  C.  E .  9  50;  Fairplay  sab-sch.  4  58;  Mount  Vernon.  90; 
Ozark  Prairie,  19;  Sprinfffleld  Calvary.  51  49;  Westmin- 
ster. 8.  Platte— Hodge  sab-sch,  8;  Oregon,  80  45;  Union, 
5:  Union  Star.  9  88.  St.  Lotti«-Cuba.  8;  De  Soto.  7  60; 
Kirkwood  sab-sch.  46;  RoUa.  6;  Salem  Qerman,  7  60;  St. 
Louis  Cote  Brilliante  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  1  80;  —  North  (sab- 
sch  Primary  Department.  8  55),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  19  57). 
91  19;  —  Washington  and  Compton  Avenue,  950;  Windsor 
Harbor.  8.  899  96 

Montana.— Aut^6— Dillon  sab-sch.  8.  Hielena— Helena 
1st  sab-sch,  88  78;  Pony,  10  96.  Great  ii^aU<-Kalisjpell. 
10.  ft  99 

Nebraska.— fi<uting«—A3rr,  9;  Campbell  German.  8; 
Hanover  Qerman,  5;  Hastings  1st.  89  67.  ff«am«y— Lex- 
ington. 8  68.  J^io&raro— Atkinson,  15.  OfitoAa— Omaha 
Ut.  59  56.  156  89 

New  Jbbsct.— CoTMCo— Bata.  1;  Benita,  5.  Elizabetk 
— Dunellen,  9  09;  Lamington.  SO;  Plainfleld  1st  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E  .  5;  —  Crescent  Avenue  Hope  Chapel.  6;  Rahway  9d, 
75;  Woodbridge,  15.  Jersey  C«y— Arlington  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  95;  Jersey  City  Ist.  900.  IfonmoutA— Atlantic  High- 
lands L.  A.  Society.  8;  Englishtown,  4;  Hightstown  (sab- 
sch,  97  70),  110;  Sayreville.  4.  MwrU  and  Oranye— Dover 
sab-sch.  90  54;  East  Orange  Ist  sab-sch.  8  04;  —  Bethel 
sab-sch.  87  12;  Mt.  Freedom,  8;  Mt.  Olive  additional,  5; 
Myersville  Qerman,  9;  New  Providence  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  2  50; 
South  Orange  Trinity,  121.  JVeioarfc— Bloomfleld  1st  56  90; 
Montclair  1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  19  50;  Newark  9d.  986  19;  — 
Calvary  sab-sch,  95:  —  Fewsmith  Memorial  sab-sch.  11 10; 
—  High  Street,  150;  —  Park,  18  48,   New   Bruv,tunck-- 


New  Brunswick  1st,  86  89:  Tiwnton  8d  C^.  P.  8.  a  E. 
84  99),  (sab-sch,  9  14)*  IM  88;  —  Prospect  Street,  8& 
JVeureon-Andover  (Y,  P.  a  a  E.,  8),  10  60;  Asbury,  68; 
Belvidere  9d  (sab-scX  18  09),  89  91;  Oxford  2d,  9  98;  Phfl- 
Upsburgh  1st,  8  28.  Weet  Jeraey— Cedarvilie  Osborne 
Memorutl,  98:  Qreenwich,  14  60;  Hammonton  sab-sch,  60; 
PittHrove  Y.  P.  &  C.  E.,  5  60;  Williamstown  (sab-sch, 
in,  Vl,  1,786,11 

New  Mexico.— l^io  G'rande— Laguna,  8  60;  Socorro 
Spanish,  10.  Santa  J7V<-Buena  Vista,  4  05;  Mora,  1  96; 
Santa  F6  ist  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10  80),  (sab-sch,  6  90),  16  10. 

85  60 

New  YoaK.-^l6any-Albany  4th,  600;  Ballston  Centre 
Y.  P.  a  a  E.,  10;  Charlton  sab-sch  Thank  Offeri^,  81; 
Corinth.  9;  Clovers ville  Kingsboro  Avenue,  34  60;  Eens- 
selaerviUe,  99  80;  RockweUFalls,  95;  Sand  Lake  sab-sch, 
80;  Schenectady  East  Avenue,  49  88;  VorheesvlUe  sab-sch, 
8  16.  BingKamton  —  Binghamtoa  West  sab-sch,  18  61: 
Cortland  sab-sch,  100.  \0o«ton-Holyoke,  16;  Litchfield 
and  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  17;  Portland,  29  60.  BrooMvi»-Brook- 
lyn  Classen  Avenue  Y.  P.  a  C.  E.,  8;  —  Cumberland  Street 
sab-sch  Missionary  League,  15;  —  Qreene  Avenue  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E.,  19  66;  —  Memorial  Y  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6  18-  —  EUms  St, 
90  14;  —  Throop  Avenue,  69.  Bti^alo  —  Allegheny  sab- 
sch,  1;  Buffalo  Bethany,  184  14;  -  Bethlehem,  8  16;- 
Oentral,  88  66;  —  Lafayette  Street  Y.  P.  a  a  E.,  6  95;  - 
Walden  Avenue,  9;  —  Westminster,  500:  East  Hamburgh, 
15;  Portville,  145;  Silver  Creek  (sab-sch,  10  60),  (Y.  P.  B. 
C.  E.,  9  75),  18  95.  Cayuga— Auburn  Central  additiooaL 
1 ;  Weedsport  (sab-sch,  10),  115  88.  C\ampto<Y»— Keese- 
vllle  Cong*l  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,^  8.     Cftemuny— Elmira  let 


'iroy—aoT^  i!;awara  x.  r.  r*.  %j.  iii..  o  w;  uiens  fvub.  ««» 
Lansingburgh  1st  sab-sch.  15  08;  Troy  Seoond  Street  addi- 
tional, 50;  —  Woodside  Y.  P  8.  C.  E.,  10  01.  Utiea- 
Augusta.  5;  Clinton.  00;  Little  Falls  sab-sch,  6  79;  Ix)w- 
ville.  87;  Turin  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  4  60.  H>«te*e#f«r-8outh 
Salem,,  15:  Stamford  1st,  889  60.  9.874  58 

North  Dakota.— i^ryo  —  Casselton,  11  46:  Edgsl^. 
8  IS;  FuUerton,  9  87;  Monaogo,  1 ;  Tower  City  1st  sa&scb. 
Missionary  Society,  9  03;  "A  Minister's  Tithe,''  151 
P^in6ina~Canton.  15;Qlasston,  1  55;  Rolla,  7.         50  66 

Ohio.— ^e^tftM-Berea,  6;  *'A  Minister's  Tithe."  1  58. 
C^iUicot^- Bloomingburgh  (sab-sch.  6  01),  97  04;  Mount 
Pleasant  (sab-sch,  11  88),  (Y  P  8.  C.  E..  5).  2999:  Wsah- 
ingtoQ  1st,  8  88.  (Tincmoafi- Cincinnati  Central.  68  87; 
Hartwell,  10; Montgomery  (sabsch,  19  75),  85  75; Bprine- 
dale,  19;  Westwood,  10  S8.  CJcvefond-Ouilford.  17  u; 
CoZumfruf— Columbus  Broad  Street,  6  85.  Dojfio^ 
Dayton  Park,  98  07.  Ltma— Enon  Valley.  9;  Rndlsj 
1st,  68;  Sidney,  7  06.  lfaAontti0- Alliance  1st,  8^ 
Canton  1st  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  5  (»),  89;  Leetonis  1ft 
sab-sch,  6  88:  New  Lisbon,  19  85.  Afarton- Berlin.  5  40; 
Brown,  8;  Marysville  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  9  89:  Mcont 
aOead  sab4Qh,  6;  Ostriwder   <sab-sgh,  1),  6.    U^ 


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Lonoy  of  Geo.  SidneT  Camp,  deceased,  late  of 
Elmira,  N.  T..  2,6fll:  Mrs.  S.  J.  Craighead, 
deceased,  100;  Hannah  Ireland,  deceased,  late 
of  N.  Y.,  1.870  98t  Sarah  W.  McOord,  deo'd, 
late  of  Pa..  800;  wm.  Flanigan,  deceased,  late 
ofO8trander,O.,40a $   6,15»W 


Utah.— CTtoA— Payson,  6.  6  00 

WASHiiroTON.—^Icuika— Sitka  Native  Christians,  40. 

OZympia-Castle  Rock,  8  75;  Freeport,  2  SO;  Kelso,  6  25; 

South  Union,  2  75;  Tacoma  Immanuel,  12  60;  Tenino,  1 15. 

68  00 
Wisconsin.— C^ipp«toa— Ashland  1st  sab-sch  and  Y.  P. 
aC.E.,  10;  Big  River,  8;  Superior,  88.  Jtfaditon— Janesville, 
28  96;  Madison  Christ  Y.  P.  S.  C  B.,  10;  Marion  (sab-sch. 
n,  4.  Milwaukee-C&mhridge  (L.  M.  8  .  10),  (Y.  P.  S.  C. 
£.,  5),  15;  Cedar  Grove,  16;  Milwaukee  Immanuel  sab-sch, 
6  62.  Winnebago— Fort  Howard,  11;  Marinette  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E.,  21;  Shawano  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  5.  172  47 
Woman's  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mis- 
sions  $  14,878  80 


>88  amount  transferred  to  Foreign  Missions, 
Union  Presbytery,  Rev.  J.  M.  Hunter**  tithe," 
6;  and  amount  refunded  to  Boston  Presby- 
tery, Fall  River,  Westminster  ch.,  10 


mSOKLLANXOUS. 


$18,210  79 


15  00 


Shia,  t*a.,  5;  J.  E.  Hastings,  Ashbumham, 
[ass.,  10;  Miss  S.  M.  Faunce.  Wabash.  Ind., 
1 ;  Miss  Hattfe  S.  Swezey,  Amityvllle,  N.  Y., 
8  10;  J.  P.  Halliday,  Newbum,  la,  62  cts.; 
M.  R.  Alexander,  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  6;  In- 
terest on  Permanent  Fund,  IKl  60;  Interest 
on  ChaM.  R.  Otis'  Missionary  Fund,  80;  Inter- 
est on  John  C.  Green  Fund.  875 $  4,446  68 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions,  February 
1894 62,796  26 

Total  received  for  Home  Missions  from  April 
1,1898 606,777  48 

Amount  received  during  same  period  last  year  •69,047  86 
O.  D.  Eaton,  Tre<uurer, 
Box  L,  Station  D.  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


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FEBRUARY,  1884. 


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Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  S  86.    UHea-TJikM  Weetmluter,  160t 

V«rona  T.  P.  8.  a  E.,  1  87;  Dion  Y.  P.  &  C.  E.,  6  71; 

MArtinsborg  Y.  P.  a  a  E.,  8.    WmtchetUr-Uabopmo 

FtUte,M. 

Total  reoeiT6d  from  chorcbM 500  41 

«*Oiie  in  PUtUburgh,**  S;  Susan  0.  Dickinson, 
Dunkirk,  N.Y.,  7  60 0  60 

Total  for  Now  York  Synodical  Aid  Fund,  Feb- 
nuuy.lOM 600  91 

Total  for  Now  York  STUodical  Aid  Fund  from 
AprUl8t,1808 6,061  61 

O.  D.  Eaton,  3V«<Mur«r, 
BosUStaUonD.  58  Fifth  Atobuo,  New  York. 


REOEIPTS  FOB  8U8TENTATION,  FEBRUARY,  1804. 

OALuroBiriA.— Lot  jin^elM— Asusa,  S.    San  Jom— San 

Jose  Sd,  10.  18  00 

Colorado.— Bowidtfr^-Valmont,  8  cU.  .08 

Ilumow.  — Chicoyo— Lake  Forest,   108  16.     Feoria— 

YatesCit7,4;OneUk4.    iSocJb  i»v«r-Fulton,  1.    Schuu- 


l«r— Oqnawka,  1.   A»r<YH0l«l(i— Pisgah,  88  ots.;  Ber.  W. 

L-TaiietandwiferSocts.  118  77 

IXDiAjf  TutaiTOST.— OMoAomo— Ardmors  Lb  A.  8oc>, 

Octs.  .08 

Iowa.— Gtmncil  Blttlfi— Mame,   1.     Dm  Moine9-Dm 

Moines  Central,  49  06 -Independence  let,  19  84;  Leon.  1. 

04  19 
Kaxbas.— JVeotAo— Olendale,  1.  1  00 

MioHioAN.— i>e<roit— D.  Fort  St.,  88  60.  Lake  Superior 

—Newberry  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  1.  04  09 

MiNNUOTA.-lfanJbato-Madelia,  7.  7  00 

MiaeouRi.— Onrlr— Mt.  Vernon,  1.  1  00 

Nbw  Jbbsxt.— Oor^Mo— Bata,  1 ;  Beoita,  1.    Jforrit  and 

Orange— Ornnge  Ist,  100.  108  00 

TnAB.— ii«ii<f»-8an  Antonio  Madisoo  8q.,  7.         7  00 

Total  fhim  diurohes. $    878  04 

msoELLAinocs. 

Hiss  MoUSe  dements,  Antonito,  Colo.,  titlie,  81 
ots. .SI 

Total reoelTed for Sustentation, February,  1804$    878  4ft 
-          "               from  April  I, 
1808 11,111  74 

O.  D.  Eatok,  Treaeurer, 
Box  L,  BtaUon  D.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


RECEIPTS  FOB  MHOSTEBIAIi  BELIKT,  FBBBUABT,  18M. 


Baltimobb.— BaUimore— Bel  Air  lY.  P.  S.  C.  E.,)6. 
New  Ccutitf— Forest,  80  60;  Pencader,  8;  Wilmington 
Central  additional,  11  80;  —  Hanover  Street,  80  99  Wa$K- 
inqtan  Oify— Washington  City  Ist,  9  80;  —  Eastern  sab- 

CAUPOBiriA.- Lot  ^i»oe{e«— Azusa,  8;  Los  Angeles  Im- 
mannel,  96  44.  San  i^ranciaco— San  Francisco  Welsh, 
160.  90  94 

Colorado.— Boulder— Valmont,  87  eta.  .97 

Illwois.  —  Bloomington  —  Alfln,  9;  Clarenoe,  8  70; 
CooksTille,  8t  DanviUe,  41  06;  Onarga.  91.  Oiiro— Cob- 
den,  4:  MurphjTsboro,  6.  C^icooo— Chicago  Covenant, 
88  98;  Bvanston  South,  84  16;  Wflmiogton,  11  96.  Free- 
myri— Bock  Run,  8  96.  IfcUtoon— Areola,  6;  Chrisman,  2; 
TCdgar.  4;  Efllngham,  9  60.  Ottawa  —  Roohelle,  98  86. 
Bock  River— Unoaoa^  9.  flEc^uyler— Bushnell,  3  48;  Hers- 
man,16.    flfpHnftMd-PlBgah,  89  eta.  989  81 

bfDiA]rA.—CratiT/ordtt;iKe  — Frankfort,  99;  Lafayetta 
1st,  9  07.  Indtonapoli*— Bloomington  Walnut  St .  19  84. 
Lo^n«por#~Bourbon,  9  60.  Ifwficie— Hartford  City,  4; 
Jonesboro,  1 :  Wabash,  0  85.  Vincennes  —  Evaasville 
Grace,  18.    White  TTofer— Aurora,  9;  Richmond,  18. 

91  90 

Indian  Tbuutobt.— QfcloAonui— Ardmore  Lb  A.  Society, 
61  eta  .51 

Iowa.— CMar  iSapidt— Cedar  Rapids  8d,  7  40.  Oom- 
<ny-Platte  Centre.  9  96;  Prairie  Star,  9  96.  CouncU 
Bl^f9—'Ra.r^in  Township,  2  18.  /oioa— Montrose,  6;  St. 
Peter's  Evangelical,  6.  Iowa  C^fy- Davenport  9d,  11; 
Summit,  6.    Waterloo  -West  Friesland  German,  0.   40  08 

Kansas.— £^nporia— Council  Grove,  16.  Hi^Mand— At- 
chison 1st,  90;  HoltoQ.  10.  JVcox^— Glendale,  1.  Solomon 
— Cawker  City,  9.    Topdba-Clinton,  6;  Gardner,  9  41. 

08  41 

Kkntuokt.— £b«ne««r~FlemlDg8burgh,  10  26.  Louie- 
viUe-Kuttawa  (Hawthorn  Chapel),  0;  Pewee  Valley, 
096.  9660 

Miohioan— Detroit— Detroit  Fort  Street,  988  09.  Lane- 
<no— Brooklyn,  6.    Say^naM-Ithaca  Ist.  10.  948  69 

MiNNKSorA.- aranikato-MadeUa,  18;  Mankato  let,  10  81. 
mnneapoia-Minneapolis  Highland  Park,  16  96.  St, 
Pksul— Macalester,  8 15.    ^tnono^Winona  Ist,  19.    67  41 

IfissouRi.  —Kaneas  City— Kansas  City  Hill  Memorial,  1. 
Qzarib— Mount  Vernon,  6;  Neosho.  6;  Ozark  Prairie,  8. 
Platt«— Union,  9.  St.  Louie— &t.  Louis  Washington  and 
Compton  Ave..  900.  917  00 

Montana.— Helena— Boulder  Valley,  10  80;  Helena  Ist, 
64  16.  04  46 

Nebraska.- iVe&ra«fca  C<(y— Hubbell,  4;  Lincoln  9nd, 
11  98;  Plattamouth  1st,  10.  OmoAa— Columbus,  1;  Omaha 
1st,  89  91;  Webstar,  2.  61  89 

Nbw  Jbbsbt.— Oori«co— Bata.  1 ;  Benita,  6.  Elizabeth— 
Plainfleld  Crescent  Avenue  (Hope  Chapel),  9;  Wood- 
bridge,  la  Jersev  City— Jeremy  Cltv  Westminster,  6  09. 
Ifonmout^— CranDury  1st,  80:  Englishtown,  6;  Manasqu* 
an  Ist,  95:  Mount  Holly,  100;  SavrevUle  German,  8.  Mor* 
rie  and  Oranoe—M orristown  South  Street  (10  from  W. 
M.  Society),  9»  68;  Orange  Central  (a  member),  16;  Par- 
sippany,  8;  Schooley*s  Mountain,  91.  iVetoarle— Newark 
fifkt  14  40.    New  Bruneioick Pennington,  97  06.   Nevh 


ton— Wantace  1st,  la  Weei  Jereejf  QreenwIA,  8;  Ham> 
monton,  6;  Janvier,  1;  MerohantviUe,  9;  Pittsgrove,  18: 
WiUiamstown,  10.  oa  » 

Nbw  YoBK.-^l6any-Albany  West  End.  10.  Botloi»— 
Bostan  Scotch.  6;  Londonderry,  4  60.  BtooUya— Brook- 
lyn Prospect  Heighta  sab-sch.  10;  —  Ross  Street,  99  64. 
B^iTafo-Buffalo  jBethany,  90  70;  ElUeottvllle,  6,  CSay- 
iioa— Auburn  Central  (sab-sch,  4  86),  19.  Champlalm— 
Malone,  18  88.  (Tcneoo— Gotham,  6;  Trumansbufgfa  1st, 
18  56.  Hud«on-Good  Will,  9  84;  Haverstraw  1st,  4;  MU- 
ford,  15;  Nyack  Ist,  10  07.  Long  i«limd-Yaphank,  0. 
Lyofu— WiUiamson,  6  07.  iVoMau— Huntington  let  (a 
member),  60.  New  Yorh—Tifew  York  Centnu,  998  94;  — 
Puritans,  60.  North  iNoer— Newburgh  Union,  80;  Poukh- 
keepsie,  17  81.  Rocheeter-Qemeuto Tst, 6;  RochesterSt. 
Petards  40.  St,  Lawrence— UeureHtoiU  1.  Steuben— An- 
dover,  4  25;  Coming  1st,  4  78.  3Voy— Oohoes  (add*l  B.  L. 
S.).  10;  Salem,  4  90.    C7(toa-South  Trniton,  8;       1,890  49 

NoBTH  Dakota.— PimiMna— Canton,  9;  Hamilton,  9. 

4  00 

Ohio.— Otncinnali— Cincinnati  9d,  976  78.  Oohtmbue 
Columbus  Broad  Street.  8  00.  2>ay ton— Blue  Ball,  6; 
Dayton  Park,  97  99.  Limo-Celina,  1:  Enon  Valley.  9; 
Lima  let.  98:  Van  Buren,  8.  Ifarton— Berlin,  9  90:  Ghee- 
tarville,  4  09.  StexibenviUe—Bi<AimoBd,  1  71.  Wooettr 
—Canal  Fulton,  8;  Mansfleld  1st,  40.  ZaneevUle^Zenem' 
ville2d,16.  419  07 

PBNN8TLyANiA.—i4UeoAeny— Allegheny  9d,  7  60;  Van- 

ort,  9.  Btoir^vi/ic-Beulah,  19;  Braddock,  18  60;  Pine 
__un,  8.  BiiMer— Jefferson  Centre,  1.  CSoiWiste- Burnt 
Cabins,  2;  Chambersburgh  Falling  Spring,  70;  Lebanon 


rj 


Christ,  169  84:  Lower  Path  Valley,  18.  Creator- Bethany 
additional,  1 ;  Upper  Octorora,  49.  Ctorton— Bethesda,  4 ; 
OU  Cityld,  6:  Sugar  Hill,  9  76.    iMe-Erle  1st,  79  80. 


fiun/inodon -Duncansville,  4;  Lewistown  1st  sab-sdi,  50; 
Spring  Creek,  6.  i^<ttonn<1u^--0entre,  9;  Cnrrie's  Run,  0. 
LoclKivKinna— Dunmore,  4;  Montrose,  80;  Wyahislng  1st, 
R.  LeAtyA— Allentown,  81  89:  Allen  Township,  10.  North' 
vmberland-Shamokin  1st.  4  84.  PhUadelphia-VhVte^ 
delphia  Bethlehem,  18;  —  North  Broad  Street,  179  00;  — 
Trinity,  10:  —  Wahiut  Street,  800  90;  —  West  Spruce 
Street,  078  70.  Philadelphia  A'oHA-Chestnnt  HiU  let 
sab-sch,  25;  Frankford,  19  49;  Germantown  Redeemer, 
69  92;  JenUntown  Grace,  8;  Langhome,  6:  New  Hope, 
6  88.  Pittsburgh— mn%o,  4;  Pittaburgh  BeUefleld  sab- 
sch,  90;  —  East  Liberty,  44  69:  —  Hkady  Side.  99.  Bed- 
stone—'^miQ}L\e7n^  ITaMiaff^on— Wheeling  8d,  5.  Weei- 
min«i«r-Union,  17.  2,049  04 

South  Dakota.— Sdutfcem  i>alM><a— Scotland,  4  00 

400 
TBNNB88BB.—ir<np«fon— Pleasant  Union,  L     Union — 
Knozville2d,60  08.  0108 

Tklas.— North  T^exM— Seymour,  8  60.  8  60 

UTAH.-CTto^— Richfield,  8.  8  00 

Wisconsin— CAippeira— West  Superior  1st,  8.  Jfil- 
waukee- CoAnr  Grove,  1§.  (TtnnelMi^o— Marinetta  Pio- 
neer, 20.  48  00 


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FBOM  INDIYIDUAUB. 

•J.  0.,''5;  "K.  R,0.,»'fi;  "B.,"8;  "Oneln 
PlattabuTfirh,  N.  Y.."  10;  Rev.  A.  G.  Taylor, 
Phenix,  Mo.,  5;  Mn.  J.  M.  Roberts,  Anaheim, 
Cal.,  8;  "M.  0.  B.."  90;  "X.  Y.  Z.,"  20; 
Amanda  L.  Gerard,  Ashbourne,  Pa.,  6;  Mrs. 
Joseph  R.  Mann,  New  York  City,  6;  J.  G. 
Francis,  Bridrehampton,  N.  Y.,  5;  Mrs  Mary 
Cooper  Smith,  New  Castle,  Del ,  10;  Miss 
Hettie  Smith.  New  Castle,  Del..  10;  Rev.  Wm. 
H.  Hannum.  Ratnagiri,  India,  10 11;  Miss  J.  B. 
MoCartee,  Newborg,  N.  Y.,  1;  Dr.  Ira  Barton. 
Sanborn,  North  Dakota,  2;  F.  S.  Giddings, 
Madison,  Wis.,  10;  Rev.  F.  L.  King,  New 
York,  10;  Rev.  A.  B.  King,  New  York.  10;  "J, 
D.  R.," 6;  " L.  P.  S.,"800:  W.  S.  BIssell,  Alle- 
gheny, Pa.,  6;  Mrs.  Harriet  L.  Taylor,  Mon- 
roe, Mich.,  5;  Rev.  J.  L.  Hawkins,  Fort  Soott, 
Kas.  6;  Ella  Young,  Knozville,  Tenn.,  6; 
Miss  Anne  R.  Spotswood,  New  Castle.  Del., 
S5;  Miss  M.  S  Ott,  Phila.,  6;  Mrs.  E.  T.  Ed- 
wards, Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  10;  Paul  Graff, 
Phila.,  15;  "A  Friend,"  Sidney,  N.  Y.,  0;  Geo. 
D.  Drayton,  Worthington,  Minn.,  10;  Geo.  W. 
Farr,  PhiU ,  50;  "  H.X.  J.,"  96;  John  A.  Mo- 
Almon,  Clifton,  Kas.,  8  40;  Mrs.  Geo.  Ainslie, 
Rochester,  Minn..  5;  Mary  E.  Sill.  Geneva,  N. 
Y.,  5;  Mre.  A.  J.  NeweU,  Central  City,  Neb.,  10; 
Rev.  William  Bannard,  D.D.,  Camden,  N.  J» 


6;  Rev.  W.  O.  CatteU.  D.D.,  Phila.,  60;  Gn 
dale  church,  Liberia.  Africa,  8  50;  E.  D. 
Bniffen,  Chicago.  25;  Miss  Hattie  S.  Swezey, 
Amity vlUe.  N.  Y,  90  cts.;  J.  P.  HoUiday, 
Newbum,  Iowa,  18  cU.;  "C.  Penna ,"  6;  Rev. 
W.  L.  Tarbet  and  wife.  80  cts.;  Miss  MoDie 
Clements,  Antonito.  Col..  Tithe.  7  80;  From 
the  Ute  Mrs.  S.  P.  WUiiams,  lima,  Indiana, 
100;   "A  Friend,"  Gray.  N.  Y.,  8;   '*H.  M." 

100 • *         IWT  IV 

Interest  from  the  Permanent  Fund,  (including 
$0  from  Roger  Sherman  Fund) 8»o8*  00 

Forthe  Current  Fund $   9,888  •« 

PKBlfANKirT  FDKD. 

CInUrtMt  only  lued.) 

Legacy  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  G.  Ellingwood,  New 
^ork  City,  800;  Legacy  of  Mrs.  Elisabeth      ^  ^  ^, 
Bechtel,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  2;W)8  08 .$   9,508  08 

ToUl  for  February,  1894 $  11»M1  00 

Total  for  Current  Fund  since  April  1. 1898 $12,010  98 

•(     **        **  •*     same  period  last  year..  188,901  01 

W.  W.  Hbbkrton,  Treasurer. 
1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


RBOEIPTS  FOB  SABBATH-SOHOOL  WOBK,  FEBBUABT*  1804. 


ATLAMnc—Ecut  Florida— Candler  sab-sch,  2;  Haw- 
thorne sab-sch,  6.  7  00 

Baltimobk.— AoZtimore—Baltimore  Brown  Memorial, 
140  80;  -  Faith,  9  27.  New  Caatle-VncaAw,  6 ;  Wil- 
mington  Rodney  Street,  10  58.  Waehingtim  City-Wash- 
ington City  1st,  5  46;  —  Eastern  sab-sch,  1;  —  Metropoli- 
tan, 10.     "^       *        '  ift^Ol 

California.— Lo«  jlnoeles— Glendale  C.  E.  8.,  2  75. 

2  76 


— Columbia  sab^sch,  11  40;  Des  Moines  Central,  45  17;  - 
Clifton  Heights,  8.  Z>i4M<9iie— Independence  Ist,  10  25. 
Fori  Dodi^tf— Bnmianuel  Gtorman,  8:  Wheatland  German, 
2.  /otoo— Birmingham  sab-sch,  8;  Mount  Pleasant  Ist,  6; 
Spring  Creek.  2.  Sioux  CtYy— Sac  aty  sab-sch.  12  80. 
ITaiertoo— ClarksvUle,  7;  Conrad,  11;  West  Frieeland 
German,  2.  180  18 

Kansas.— .Anporto—Indianola.  (sab-sch,  2)  8.  High' 
land— Marysville  sab-sch  5.  iVeocAo— Louuburg  sab- 
sch,  2  60.  10  60 
.    KunucKT.— Loui«viU«— Kuttawa.  1.  1  00 

Michigan.— Z>eirott— Detroit  Fort  Street,  48  98.  Sagi- 
naio-Saghiaw  (C.  E.  8),  6.  58  98 

MiNNKSOTA.— ManAmto  —  Madella.  6.  lfti»n«apo{<» — 
Rockford  a  B  8.,  5.    St.  Pkitii-StUlwater.  1  67.       12  67 

Missotnu.— JTanMw  Ct'iy-Kansas  City  1st,  44  55.  Ozark 
—Mount  Vernon,  1.  St.  Louis—Bt.  Louis  Memorial  Ta- 
bernacle, 8,  White  River^VLt.  Lebanon  sab-sch,  8.    61  55 

Montana.— Buf^e-Missoula  C.  E.  8.,  10.  10  00 

Nbbbaska.— £«arn€y  — Gandy  sab-sch,  2.  Omaha- 
Omaha  1st  German,  6.  7  00 

Naw  Jbbssy.— Coriaco— Rata,  1;  Benita.  2.  Elixabeih 
— Plainfleld  Hope  Chapel,  2.  Jersey  Oilv— Peterson 
Memorial  Ch  ,  4.  Jtfonmout^— Bnglishtown,  4;  Freehold, 
20  78;  Moorestown,  2.  Morris  and  Orange— Esuet  Orange 
Bethel,  18  24;  Myersville  German,  1:  Parsippany,  6; 
Schooley's  Mountain,  5.  JVew  AruyMtcicile— Princeton  1st 
sab-sch,  57  72;  Trenton  Prospect  Street.  81.  Newton— 
Newton  sab-sch,  26.  West  Jersey— Ca,w  Island  C.  B.  8., 
6;  Greenwich,  6  50;  Janvier,  1.  190  24 

Nbw  Mkxico.— R»o  Grande— Socorro  Spanish.  6.     5  00 

New  York.— jl(6antf— Menands  Bethany,  18  28;  Prince- 
town  C.  E.  8..  tO:  South  Schenectady  sab-sch,  80  88. 
Bin^fcamion- Cortland  sab-sch,  75.  BuiTato— Allega- 
ny sab-sch,  1 ;  BqfTalo  Qetban^,  6  90.   Ch^mplain—K^e^^ 


It  28.   "vrinnedaao- ShawanoT  Mission' sa\>-Bch, 
Wausau  sab-sch,  &  66;  Westfleld,  2  85. 

ACKNOWLXDOIUBNT  OP  GLOTBINO. 

Sab-sch,  Springfield.  L.  L.  N.  Y.,  80:  sab-sch  1st 
Ch.,  SUmfom  Conn.,  54:  Women's  Soc'y,  Blue 
Rapids,  Kan.,  54  70;  Woman's  Home  Miss. 
Soc*y  (Hunshine  Miss.  Band,  14  20;;  Plum 
Creek  Ch.,New  Texas,  Pa..  78  15;  Ashbourne, 
Pa.,  sab-sch,  10;  Springfield,  N.  J.  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  50;  Unionville.  Pa.  Ch.,  75;  sab-sch,  Turin, 
N.  Y.,  24;  Miss.  Soc.,  New  Salem,  85  10;  Ladies' 
AidSoc'v,  Uniontown  Ch.,  FultoDham,  C,  10; 
Milford,  N.  J.  Ch.,  112;  East  Brady.  Pa.  Ladies' 
Miss.   Soc'y,  25;    Ladles'  Mls».    Soc'y.   West 


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Memorial  Ch.,  Baltimore.  M4.,  S14;  Sab-Mb, 
White  Oak.  O.,  48  80:  Oh.  and  aab-aoh.  Unity, 
O.,  80;  Woman's  Miss.  800*7,  Homewood  Are. 
Oh.,  E^ittsburgh.  Pa^  105:  Ladies  MiM.  8oc>, 
Lore  Oltj,  O..  S5:  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  Lore  dty.  O.. 
86  16;  Ladies'  Home  Miss.  8ocV«  Olarksrille, 
Iowa,  86;  Ladies'  Oh.  Aid  8oc>,  Emerson, 
Neb.,  85;  Ladies'  Soc'jr.  Mt.  Sterling,  m.,  84  66; 
Sab-sch,  Whitney's  Point,  N.  T.,  15;  Ladies' 
Miss.  Soc'y,  Greenville,  Pa.,  88. 
The  above  list  includes  all  donations  of  clothing  whose 

Mhinment  and  money  value  has  been  reported  vp  to 

March  8th,  18M. 

Total  from  Ohurches,  February.  1804 4    ^t^^  H 

Total  from  Sabbath-schools,  February,  1804. . .         685  7S 

Total  from  Ohurches  and    Sabbath- schools, 
February,  1804 $    i,OBl  88 

MISOKLLANBOUS. 


bet  and  wife,  1  SO;  Miss  MolUe   OlemenU. 
Antonito,  Colorado,  (Uthe),  8  48 $      176  01 

Total  receipts,  Februarr,  1894 2,888  74 

Deduct    contribution    from     Savannah     ch., 

Wooster  Pby..   Ohio  in  January  receipts; 

should  have  been  for  Foreign  Missions 80  00 

$    8,806  74 
Amount  Previously  acknowledged 86,078  17 

Total  contributions  sinoe  April  1 ,  1808 $  87,881  01 

0.  T.  MoMuLUK,  IVsosiirer, 
1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

OOMTBIBUTIONS  TO  STNODICAL  SUSTENTATION  OF  PENNSTLTANIA  FROM  JANUABT  1,  18»4, 

TO  MABOH  31,  1894,  INCLUSITB. 

jlU«a^ny— Springdale,  8;  Cross  Roads,  8  60;  Bellevue,  Mechanicsburg.  11  65;  Carlisle  Ist,  86  60;  Duncannon.  4; 

8  86;  Cross  Roads,  10;  Central  (Allegheny),  00  80;  Bull  —  sab-sch,  11;  Qreencastle,  86  85;  Middletown,  18. 

Creek.  16;  McCluw  Avenue  Mbsch  (Allegheny),  9  16;  Cfcwtsr-Ohristiana,  0;   Honeybrook.   10  60;  Keonett 

Fairmount,  4  64;  A^leghenv  MoClure  Ave..  44  75:  Pine  SawS^Tuppw  OcSrai^,  100:  barby  Borough,  86;  Not- 

?iri^:  ^l^S^^'kiSi'^^^^^^^^  5SSSi:>;'^B«X^     Lknsdowne  ?st.  SlS;  Chester 

AuJhIny  North  S)  60       ^^^^  ^  *  Westminster,  5;  ^'^  ^J  DilwortfitoWn,  8;  PhcenixviUe  Ist,  6. 

JWairtt;tH«— MurrysviUe,  8;   Beulah,   1116;   Fairfield,  „.^S'*»^'^Tyler8burg,  8;  Srotch  Hfll,  8^^ 

7  08;  Johnstown,  88  46;  Latrobe,  61 ;  Turtle  Creek.  28  85;  ?fe?^<^_, «  ?,;  New  Be^ehem  88  <»L  Lea^J^^J^l* 
Ligonler,  80;  Salem,  18;  Gallitaln.8;  Unity,21;  Llvermore.  8  08;  Marienvllle  l^t,  10;  Pumutawney  Irt.  8  00,  W«t 
4  80' Manor  8.                              »  »         ^f     »                 -»  Millvllle,  6;  WUcox,  10;  BleRun  Ist,  8;  Bahmel,  1;  Eey- 

^ttor-Butler,  88  68;  North  Butler,  8;  North  Liberty,       noldsville,  84;  Brockwayville,  14;  Tionesta,  14. 

8  88;  Jefferson  Centre,  1;  Buffalo,  8;  Middlesex,  80;  Mt.  ^i«-Wattsburgh  Ist,  1  66:  Salem,  8;  North-East, 
Nebo,  8  80.                                                                                  16  18;  Venango.  8;  Garland.  9  08;  Pittsfleld,  6  61;  Warren 

Car{itZ«— Harrisburg  Market  Sq..  145  78;  Duncannon,  ist,  78  84;  Fairfield,  8;  Waterford.  10;  Sugar  Grove,  8; 
80;  —  Y.  P.  H  0.  E  ,  10;  Upper  Path  Valley,  5;  Derry.  1;  Bradford  Ist,  44  07;  OU  City  1st.  89  08;  New  Lebanon, 
Harrisburg  Pine  Ht.,  89  41;  Landisburg  Upper.  88  85;  Big  6  97;  Erie  Chestnut  Street,  16  68;  Cochranton,  4;  Mead- 
Spring,  86  86:    Chambersburg    Central.   18  84;    Olivet  vllle  Central,  10. 

'*•  b.),  8  85;  Silver  Spring.  18;  Shippensburg,  80;  Robt.  JiCi«an»<no-Apollo  1st,  86;  BoIliBg  SjMlngs,  8;  Glade 

Memorial,  11;  Harrisburg  Market  S<).,  161  07;  Run,  18;  Baltsburg,  68;  Currie's  RaDTI;  Omtre,  8;  l^lder- 


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ton,  4;  Indiana  lit,  M:  Aiwood,  1;  Washinrton,  11:  In- 
diana Ist.  5;  Bethel.  1;  SUte  Llck»  8  60.^ 

ixidbaiMmna— Scranton  Ist,  206;  Bjlvania,  0  82; 
Franklin,  1;  —  T.  P.  B.  O.  E^  1;  Monroeton,  8:  West 
Plttston  Ist,  61 ;  Bennett,  8;  Ck>mpton,  4;  Wyalusing  1st, 
•:  Ulster  Village,  8:  Bethany,  8  66:  Scraaton  2d,  m  80; 
Tunkhannock,  18  89;  Bcranton  Washburn.  48  25;  To- 
wanda,  Itt,  80;  Qreat  Bend,  6;  Franklin,  1;  Kingston,  16; 
Nicholson,  2;  —  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2;  Montrose  1st,  60;  — 
sab-sch,  10;  Oarbondale  Ist,  67  10;  Scranton  Provi- 
dence, 20  11;  Ulster,  2;  Scranton  Summer  Avenue,  4; 
Honesdale  1st,  62  87. 

LeAi^^— White  Haven,  18;  Pen  Argvl,  15;  Mauch 
Chunk  Ist,  21  82;  Allen  Township,  15;  Easton  Ist,  69; 
Bangor,  16;  Reading  1st  sab-ech, )»;  Catasauqua  1st,  16; 
Mountain,  2  25;  Hazleton  1st,  49  86;  White  Haven.  7; 
lUMton  1st,  81;  Beading  1st,  56;  —  Women's  Home  Miss. 
Soo'y,  12  85;  —  In  Memoriam,  6;  Lock  Ridge,  12;  Ma- 
honej  Citj  sab-sch  1st,  18  75. 

JVart^iim6erlatul— Buffalo,  8;  Jersey  Shore,  19;  Sha- 
mokin  1st,  6  59;  Briar  Creek,  6;  Mt.  Carmel  1st,  11  61; 
WilliamspoH  1st.  100;  Beech  Creek,  4;  Great  Island,  88; 
Berwick,  18;  Williamsport  2d,  200  44:  New  Berlin,  7; 
MifOinsburg  1st,  8;  Washingtonville,  8;  New  Columbia,  8; 
Derry.  1  50;  Qrove,  26. 

iVsribersfrttri^-Grafton,  15;  Parkersburg  1st,  72  28;  — 
T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  4;  Mannington.  2  50;  —  sab-sch,  1  20; 
Morgantown,  7;  Sugar  Qrove,  8;  Woodland  Union  sab- 

PfcitodefpAio— Evangel,  18;  Philadelphia  South,  4;  — 
--  sab-sch,  5  26;  —  Kensington  Ist,  65;  —  Zion  German, 
8;  -  1st,  50:  —  8d,  20  49;  Calvary,  64  48;  North  (Phila- 
delphia), 8  16;  Temple,  28;  North  Broad  Street,  56  Oi; 
West  Arch,  42  89;  Trinity.  10;  Bethesda,  22;  Memorial, 
46  10:  Carmel  (German),  2;  Philadelphia  Central,  42  81; 
—  Cohockslnk,  88. 

Phaadelphia  iVbrtA— Oak  Lane.  6  50;  MacAlister  Me- 
morial.  10;  Thompson  Memorial,  9;  Doyleetown  sab-sch, 
25  18;  New  Hope,  10,  Doylestown,  42  85;  Fox  Chase  Me- 
morial, 21  52;  Lower  Providence,  10;  Norristown  1st, 
114  65;  Qermantown  Wakefield  sab-sch,  20 ;  Chestnut 
Hill  1st  sab-sch,  25;  Centennial,  8:  Lawndale,  10;  Thomp- 
son Memorial,  .12;  Norristown  2a.  10;  Wissinoming,  10; 
Wakefield  (Qermantown),  74  68;  Qermantown  1st  180  84; 


Forestville,  7;  Bristol,  17  75;  Huntins^on  Valley,  4;  — 
sab-sch,  28;  Koxboroogh,  9  85;  —  sab-sch,  5  65;  Lanr- 
home,  5;  Neehaminy  of  Warwick,  10;  Narberth,  8  w; 
Carversville,  12;  Qermantown  2d,  150  88;  Manayunk,  25; 
Leverington,  35;  Disston  Memorial.  18  21. 

PitM>urg^— PitUburgh  Shady  Side,  60;  —  6th,  5;  Mon- 
tour, 4;  EUverdale.  10;  McDonald  1st,  19  06:  PitUburgh 
Shady  Side  sab-sch,  20;  —  East  Liberty,  52  64;  —  Knox- 
ville,  10;  Lawrenceville,  12  52;  Pittsburgh  1st,  211  58; 
Fairview,  4;  Mingo,  4;  Millers'  Run,  8  50;  Pittsburgh 
Bellefleld  sab-sch,  50;  Cannonsburg  Central,  10  80;  — 
1st,  17  76;  FinleyviUe.  6  15;  Hiland,  10;  West  Elizabeth, 
8  85;  Coal  Bluff  and  Courtney,  2;  MeKees  Rocks,  5; 
Charleroi  Ist,  4;  South  Side  (Pittsburgh),  4;  Lebanon, 
5:  Grace  Memorial,  1;  Bellefield,  85  17;  Middletown,  9; 
Pittsburgh  Park  Avenue,  10. 

Redstone  —Little  Redston,  4  28;  Suterville,  10;  Rehoboth, 
7  50:  Somerset,  2:  Dimbar,  24;  —  sab-sch,  7  50;  McClel- 
lanelton,  2;  Mt.  Pleasant  Reimion,  9  94;  Smithfleld,  2; 
McKeesport  1st,  41 ;  Belle  Vernon,  4;  Scottdale  sab-sch, 
8;  —  Church,  80  40. 

S^enanyo -Little  Beaver,  2  92;  Rich  Hill.  8;  Enon,  4  68; 
Sharon  1st,  6  82;  Slippery  Rock,  8:  Transfer,  2  11;  West- 
field,  19  80;  Hermon.  4;  Pulaski,  6  88. 

Wellaboro—Ut.  Jewett,  5;  Farmington,  2;  Ellsland  and 
Osceola,  10. 

WeMtminster— York  C!alvary,  81  40;  Cedar  Grove,  17; 
Slate  Ridge,  10;  Pine  Qrove  sab-sch,  2;  Donegal,  7:  Straa- 
burg,  lO-York  1st.  97  97;  Lancaster  Ist,  22;  (>>lumbia,  88. 

FToii/iini/fon—Holliday's  Cove  sab-sch.  14;  C!roes  Roads, 
4;  Mill  Creek,  8;  Mt.  Prospect,  18:  Burgettstown,  18  06; 
East  Buffalo.  18  07;  Moundville,  W.  Va.,  14  50;  Washing- 
ton  2d,  21 :  Rev.  J.  8.  Pomeroy,  1 ;  Wheeling  8d,  1;  Upper 
Ten  Mile,  80;  Cameron,  W.  Va.,  6. 


Contributions  for  the  month  of  January,  1894..  .$1,457  00 
"  •*  •*  *»  February,  1894..  999  99 
"     "       "        ••   March,  1894 4,04167 

$6,498  66 
Frank  K.  Hipplb,  Treasurer 

1840  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia. 


OONTBIBUTIONS  FOB  STNODIOAL  HOME  HUSSIONS  WITHIN  THB  SYNOD   OF   NBW  JEBSET 
FBOM  JANUABT  1,  1894»  TO  APRIL  1,  1894. 

Elizabeth— Btkjonnt  C!ity  1st,  20:  Bethlehem,  6;  Clin-  Princeton  1st  additional,  50  17:  Trenton  1st  Chapel,  10; 
ton,  79  60;  Conn.  Fanas,  42;  Dunellen,  25;  Elizabeth  Ist,  Trenton  8d.  92  58,  sabsch,  28  80;  Trenton  Prosp^  St, 
118  98;  Elizabeth  2d  sab-sch,  176:  Elizabeth  Ist  German,  44,  BrookviUe  Mission  sab-sch,  1  49.                          658  75 
10;  I>amington,  62;  Pluckemin  additional,  25;  Rahway  Ist  iV^eu^on— Asbury,  25:  Bloomsbury,  10  65;  Danville  addi- 
German,  8;  Woodbridge  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  20.      576  48  tional,  16  80;  Greenwich,  10;  Hackettstown,  75;  Phillips- 
Jersey  (7<^y— Claremont,  5;  Englewood.  25;  Passaic  1st,  burgh  Westminster,  8.                                                 144  95 
28  51, sabsch, 28  78;  Paterson Church  or  the  Redeemer.  West  Jersey— Bridgeton  2d,  64;  Bridgeton  West  addi- 
141 :  Rutherford,  88  87.  sab-sch,  100;  Tenafly,  18  61 ;  West  tional,  81  60,  Y.  P.  S.  C  E.,  7  60;  Cape  Island  (Cape  May 
Hot)oken,50.                                                                  425  17  City),  21,  sab-sch,  14  62;   Deerfield,  43;  Elmer  sab-sch, 
Jtfonmou^A— Bamegat,  4;  Burlington,  52  26;  Cranbury  9  88;  Greenwich,  6  50;  Janvier,  8;  May's  Landing,  85,  sab- 
Ist,  84;  Forked  River,  8;  Oceanic,  85;  Shamong,  1;  Whit-  sch.  5;  Salem  sab-sch.  22  02.  Woman's  Home  MissioBary 
ing,  1.                                                                              180  25  Society,  15;  Tuckahoe.  10;  Wenonah,  22  25;  Williamstown, 
Morris  and  Oranye —CAieeter.  10;  Dover  1st,   108  80;  22;  Woodstown  additional,  12,  sab-sch,  5.                  849  87 

Dover  Welsh,  4;  Mendham  1st  additional,  11 :  Morristown  

1st,  250;  Morristown  South  Street,  90  28;  New  Vernon,       Contributions  as  above %  8,887  22 

6  78;  Orange  1st,  250;  South  Orange  1st,  21  05;  Summit  A  friend  for  the  credit  of  the  Presbytery  of  New 

Central,  120  59.                                                            871  00  Brunswick,  200;  *' J.,"  of  the  Presbytery  of 

Neioarl9— Bloomfleld  1st,  180;  Newark  8d,  280;  Newark  West  Jersey.  15:  A  friend  for  the  credit  of  the 

6th,  17;  Newark  1st  German,  26  75;  Newark  Bethany,  5;  Presbytery  of  West  Jersey,  5 220  00 

Newark  Calvary  additional,  29  75;   Newark    Fewsaiith  __ 

Memorial  80 ;  Newark  High  Street,  62  50;  Newark  Park,       Received  in  three  months $  4,057  22 

59,   Benevolent  Association  of  sab-sch,  4180;   Newark      Previously  acknowledged $1,448  65 

Woodside,  50.  781  80  

New  BrunsuHck-Amyren  1st  at  ReavUle,  25;    Dutch  $  5,505  87 

Neck,  40:  Flemington,  126  86;  Kingston.  15,  sab  sch,  6,  Y.  Elusr  Ewinq  Qrbbn,  Treasurer, 

P.  S.  C.  E.,  8;  Lambertville,  60;  New  Brunswick  1st,  57  86;  P.  O.  Box  188,  Trenton,  N.  J. 


Workers  in  Chinese  Sunday-schools  say  that  they  really  have  to  remonstrate  with  the  scholars  upon 
their  liberality.  And  it  is  told  of  a  Chinese  convert  that  she  confessed  to  the  missionaries  that  it  was  hard 
to  get  rid  of  some  of  the  habits  of  the  old  false  worship.  For  instance,  she  said,  she  could  scarcely  oyer- 
come  her  impulse  to  **  lay  out  a  piece  of  money  whenever  she  made  a  prayer  1 "  Surely  there  might  be 
worse  things  done,  as  it  seems  to  me.  If  every  member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ,  as  he  or  she  prays* 
"  Thy  kingdom  oome,^*  should  lay  down  a  piece  of  money,  might  not  the  answer  to  the  prayer  be  nearer  at 
hand  f  And  when,  in  this  hard  year,  we  pray  that  it  **  may  please  God  to  succor,  help  and  comfort  all  who 
are  in  danger,  necessity  and  tribulation,**  if  we  put  our  money  along  with  our  prayers  would  it  be  an 
offence  to  him  who  is  plenteous  in  mercy  ?  If  this  be  paganism,  let  vlb  make  the  most  of  it.— Sally  Camp- 
IfeU  in  The  Presbyterian, 


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THE  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 


From  Nebraska  a  subscriber  writes : 

'*  I  regret  that  the  remittance  has  been  delayed  lor  a  single  day ;  cannot  give  excuse  in  detail 
but  will  simply  say,  this  is  the  first  dollar  that  has  come  to  hand  since  last  November. 

I  had  my  left  arm  broken  last  September ;  am  sixty  years  of  age  ;  have  very  poor  health,  and 
am  poor.  Yet  how  much  more  fortunate  my  lot  than  [that  of]  the  sister  who  wrote  the '  Touching 
Letter '  in  the  March  number,  page  245  1    My  heart's  sympathy  and  prayers  are  with  and  for  her. 

'  Though  sundered  fisu*,  by  faith  we  meet 
Around  one  common  mercy-seat.' 

*  So  we  who  arc  many  are  one  body  in  Christ,  and  severally  members  one  of  another.'  ** 


One  writes  from  Indiana: 

"  Your  April  Magazine  is  decidedly  the  best,  finest,  richest,  fullest,  most  complete  of  all  your 
numbers.  It  is  indeed  an  ideal  monthly  edition.  A  few  more  such  outputs  from  your  office  must 
surely  greatly  increase  its  circulation,  as  it  would  most  truly  deserve." 


From  Nebraska  a  lady,  sending  her  dollar,  writes  : 

I  could  not  think  of  keeping  posted  on  Prbsbytkrian  Work  without  our  valuable  magazine. 
I  cannot  understand  how  any  Presbyterian  family  can  do  without  it,  especially  the  M^s  in  our 
churches.  

A  Minneapolis  minister  writes : 
'*  We  make  constant  use  in  all  our  missionary  meetings  of  the  admirable  issues  of  the  Church 
AT  HOMB  AND  Abroad.  ' '  

A  minister  in  Western  New  York  writes : 
**  Glad  to  see  improvement  in  every  number." 


Our  Benbvolbnt  Fund. — ^We  have  before  spoken  of  this  fund  entrusted  to  as,  for 
sending  the  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  to  persons  unable  to  pay  for  it.  A  few  friends 
have  been  so  thoughtiul,  for  seven  years,  that  we  have  never  quite  reached  the  bottom  of 
this  fund.  It  does  seem  a  good  deal  like  the  Sarepta  widow's  barrel,  never  quite,  though 
sometimes  almost  empty. 

One  good  lady  in  Kansas,  who  has  fed  for  a  while  on  **  a  handful  of  flour*'  from  this 
**  barrel,"  has  lately  sent  to  Mr.  Scribner  the  name  of  one  of  her  neighbors  as  a  new  sub- 
scriber, with  one  dollar.     She  writes  : 

I  am  so  glad  I  can  send  you  the  name  of  one  new  subscriber ;  wish  I  could  send  a  latge  num- 
ber. I  have  tried,  but  times  are  hard  ....  I  have  never  seen  a  time  when  money  was  so  scarce. 
....  I  do  not  go  much  from  home  except  to  church,  and  to  our  missionary  meetings,  and  I  take 
great  delight  in  reading  the  religious  papc  rs  and  missionary  magazines.  I  do  appreciate  the  Church 
AT  Home  and  Abroad.  It  seems  to  me  that  every  number  grows  more  interesting,  and  I  do  thank 
the  lyord  for  putting  it  into  the  heart  of  some  of  his  stewards  to  furnish  a  fund  so  as  to  supply  those 
not  able  to  pay  for  the  magazine.  I  hope  soon  to  be  able  to  pay  for  mine,  and  would  like  to  help 
with  that  fund.  I  often  think  it  is  one  of  the  best  ways  of  helping  others  to  become  interested  in 
the  good  work.  I  lend  mine  out  so  that  sometimes  it  is  rather  inconvenient  when  I  want  some 
information  on  some  particular  subject,  or  mission  field,  for  our  monthly  meetings ;  but  I  trust 
they  are  doing  good  scattered  over  the  neighborhood. 

We  have  a  Country  Sabbath-school  and  a  Christian  Endeavor  Society ,  and  preaching  by  difierent 
denominations  almost  every  Sabbath  afternoon,  but  we  belong  to  the  Presbyterian  church  of  W* — 
four-and-a-half  miles  distant. 


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THE  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 

JUNE,    1894. 

CONTENTS 

The  Comforter, 455 

National  Arbitration, 456 

The  Bible  in  Syria,  457 

Faith  and  Reason, 458 

The  Qeneral  Assembly, 460 

Kentucky,  JV,  C.  Young,  D  D 460 

The  World's  Parliament  of  Religions,  George  William  Knox,  D.D,,        ....  465 

PORBIQN  niSSlONS. 
Notes.— Nine  Missionary  Societies  at  Work  in  Canton—Successful  Year  in  Brazil— Chris- 
tian Family  Near  Samkong— Applicants  for  Baptism  at  Nanking — Gk)spel  Steamer, 
"John   Williams"— New   Communicants  at   Chefoo—Year  1898  in   Syria— Dr. 
Wishard  Useful  to  the  Shah — Mob  at  Yeung  Eong— Swami  Yivekananda— London 

Missionary  Society's  Centenary,  1895 — Missionary  Calendar, 466-468 

Home  Call  of  a  Veteran,  Rev,  James  S.  Dennis,  D.D,, 469-471 

Training  Lay  Evangelists  in  Syria,  Rev,  W,  S  Nelson, 471-478 

Record  of  1898  at  a  Chinese  Station,  Hunter  Corbeit,  D.D , 478-474 

Christian  Actiyities  of  Japan,  Rev.  H.  Loomis, 474-476 

A  Hindu  in  Search  of  the  Truth 476-477 

Annual  Report  of  Lovedale  Institute, 477 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Missions  in  Africa— Notes  on  African  Missions— The  Fang  of  West 

Africa,  Rev.  H,  /fl^:^/— Bulletin  from  Efulen,  Rev  A,  C.  Good,  Ph  Z>.,  .    478-485 

Letters.— China,  Rev.  Andrew  Beattie,  Rev.  W.  EUerich 485-486 

HOilE  niS510NS. 
Notes.— A  Grand  Showing— Close  of  Fiscal  Year— Jews  in  the  World— L:idian  Church  at 
Versailles,  N.  Y. — Child's  Discriminating  View  of  Universalism- Conversion  of 
Mormons — Utah  Recruiting  from  other  States— Synod  of  Indiana  Doing  its  Own 
Home  Mission  Work— Rev.  Dr.  J.  N.  Crocker's  Work  as  Synodical  Superintendent,    487-489 

Rescue  Missions,  Rev.  J.  S  Forbes 489-492 

Concert  of  Prayer.— Our  Missionaries, 498-4{^3 

Letters. — ^Tennessee,  Rev.  /.  M.  Hunter — North  Carolina,  Miss  Florence  Stevenson— 
Wyoming?,  Rev.  Robert  Cb//fMa»— Minnesota,  R.  N.  Adams,  D.D,,  Rev,  John  M, 
5wjM— Kentucky.  Rev,  G.  D.  ^^^?— Kansas,  Rev.  W.  H.  Hillis—UUnoia,  Rev, 
G,  P.  Williams— Indifin  Territory,  Rev,  H,  H,  Shawhan—VtAh,  Miss  Grace  E, 

/(7«<?j -Alaska.  Mrs.  C.  Thwing, 495-502 

Home  Mission  Appointments, ^ 502 

EDUCATION.— Dr.  Charies  Hodge— German  Tlioological  School  of  the  North-west— 

College  and  Seminary  Notes, 508-506 

COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES,  Lewis  Academy,  Wichita,  Kansas,        ....  507-508 

MINISTERIAL  RELIEF.— Report  to  General  Assembly,           508-509 

CHURCH  ERECTION.— Year's  Work— Coming  Year— Hungarian  Missions  in  Pennsyl- 
vania—Offer of  a  Chandelier— Self-denial  in  Giving, 509-512 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK.— New  Hymnal— Children's  Day- 
Convention  of  Sabbath-school  Missionaries, 512-514 

THOUGHTS  ON  SABBATHSCHOOL  LESSONS, 515-516 

CHILDREN'S  CHURCH  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD.— That  Old  Tyrant— Boys'  Letters 

—Children's  Sabbath, 517-518 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR— Young  Christian  at  School— Sugges- 
tive Hints  for  Study  of  Africa— Not  Mine,  But  Thine,  W.  S.  N.,    ,        ,                ,  519-521 

GLEANINGS  AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD, 521-526 

BOOK  NOTICE 526 

MINISTERIAL  NECROLOGY, 527 


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THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY'S  GOHHinEE. 


JOHN  s.  Macintosh,  d.  d.,  chairman. 

202 1  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
CHARLES  A.  DICKEY,  D.  D.,     '  STEALY  B.  ROSSITER,  D.  D., 

ANSON  D.  F.  RANDOLPH,  Esq  ,  Rev.  HENRY  T.  McEWEN, 

WARNER  VAN  NORDEN,  Esq  .  STEPHEN  W.  DANA,  D.  D., 

Hon.  ROBERT  N.  WILLSON,  CHARLES  L.  THOMPSON,  D.D., 

JOHN  H.  DEY,  Esq  ,  F.  F.  ELLINWOOD,  D.  D., 

WILLIAM  C.  ROBERTS,  D.  D. 


SPBCIAIi  CONTl^IBDTOHS  POH  1894 

Rev.  Sheldon  Jackson,  D.D.,  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Education  for  Alaska, 
Rev.  James  H.  Brookes,  D.D.,  St  Louis,  Mo., 
Rev.  W.  S.  Jerome,  Pontiac,  Michigan, 

Rev.  President  Young,  D.D.,  Centre  College,  Kentucky, 
Rev.  President  Booth,  D.D.,  Auburn  Theological  Seminary, 
Rev.  George  William  Knox,  D.D.,  of  Japan, 
Rev.  Wm.  Imbrie,  D.D.,  of  Japan, 
Rev.  D.  p.  Putnam,  D.D.,  Logansport,  Ind., 
Rev.  James  G.  Bolton,  Philadelphia, 
Rev.  James  Johnston,  Lancashire,  England, 
Rev.  Oscar  A.  Hills,  D.D.,  Wooster,  Ohio, 
Rev.  George  F.  Pentecost,  D.D.,  London, 
Rev.  George  A.  Ford,  of  Syria, 

Rev.  F.  E.  Clark,  President  United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor, 
Rev.  Teunis  S.  Hamlin,  D.D.,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Rev.  S.  E.  Wishard,  D.D.,  of  Utah, 
John  M.  Coulter,  Ph.  D.,  President  of  Lake  Forest  University, 
Rev.  R.  H.  Fulton,  D.D.,  Philadelphia, 
Rev.  John  S.  Macintosh,  D.D.,  Philadelphia, 
Rev.  F.  F.  Ellinwood,  D.D.,  New  York, 
Rev.  Alexander  Robertson,  Venice,  Italy, 
Mr.  R.  S.  Murphy,  Philadelphia, 

Miss  Grace  H.  Dodge,  New  York  City. 


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AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD. 


JUNE,    1894. 


THE  CJOMFORTER. 


The  moBtJprominent  element  in  the  word 
oomfort^  according  to  its  etymology,  is 
strength.  In  onr  nse  or  habit  of  speech,  we 
have  let  it  settle  down  to  a  lower  meaning, 
wherein  its  saggestion  of  ecwe  is  more  promi- 
nent. Ability  to  carry  burdens  and  to  bear 
pain  is  nobler  comfort  than  being  released 
from  liability  to  them.  Strength  is  nobler 
than  ease.  Power  to  work  is  better  than 
having  no  work  to  do.  The  comfort  which 
good  food  gives  is  better  than  the  comfort 
which  opiates  give. 

When  we  think  of  Christ's  promise  to  send 
the  CoMFOBTiR  from  the  Fathib,  we  should 
fall  far  below  the  meaning  of  the  promise,  if 
we  should  let  it  suggest  to  us  only  relief 
from  what  otherwise  we  would  have  to  suffer. 
The  Comforter  comes,  not  so  much  to  give 
HS  ease  as  to  give  us  strength. 

This  view  of  that  promise  makes  it  fit  in 
with  other  and  more  specific  promises.  **  As 
thy  days,  so  shall  thy  strength  be.''  Deut. 
xzxiii:25.  It  will  not  do  to  put  this  the 
other  way:  **  As  thy  strength,  so  shall  thy 
days  be."  We  may  be  inclined  to  ask  for 
this.  We  may  wish  to  have  the  burden 
removed ;  and  he  may  see  it  to  be  better  for 
us  to  give  us  strength  to  bear  the  burden. 

*^  He  tempers  the  wind  to  the  shorn  lamb  " 
is  not  a  Bible  assertion,  though  some  have 
hunted  for  it  in  the  Bible.    No  doubt,  God 


sometimes  does  just  that,  although  he  ha9 
not  promised  to  do  it.  It  is  not  wrong  to- 
pray  him  to  order  our  circumstances  gently 
and  pleasantly,  and  he  may  see  fit  to  do  it. 
But  that  phase  of  his  providence  is  not  so 
prominent  in  the  Bible  nor  in  experience  as 
the  other.  He  is  more  apt  to  strengthen  the 
weak  to  bear  their  burdens  than  he  is  to  put 
only  light  burdens  upon  the  weak.  There  is 
much  more  in  the  Bible  to  encourage  expecta- 
tion of  the  former  than  of  the  latter.  '*He 
giveth  power  to  the  faint;  and  to  him  that 
hath  no  might  he  increaseth  strength."  Isa. 
xl:39.  Paul's  prayer  for  the  removal  of  the 
thing  that  was  worrying  him  was  answered,, 
not  by  its  removal,  but  by  the  assurance  of 
sufficient  grace.  David's  importunate  prayer 
to  be  spared  the  pangs  of  bereavement  was- 
answered  with  the  impartation  of  strength  to 
rise  from  the  ground,  to  which  grief  had 
prostrated  him,  and  gird  himself  up  to  his 
kingly  duties.  Both  from  the  Bible  ai^ 
from  experience  we  get  more  encouragement 
to  expect  from  God  strength  to  bear  what  i» 
painful  and  to  do  what  is  difficult  than  ta 
expect  exemption  from  painful  experiences 
and  difficult  duties. 

Either  of  these  is  comfort^  and  it  is  not 
well  to  appreciate  only  the  less  heroic  sort  of 
comfort.  Let  us  beware,  lest  in  our  thoughts 
and  in  our  prayers  to  the  divine  CoMFORTEn 

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we  degrade  his  work  for  ns  into  a  mere  ease- 
giving,  soothing,  Inllaby  office. 

Do  yon  want  exemption  from  work,  or 
strength  to  do  your  workf  Wonld  you  rather 
be  kept  always  in  a  warm  room,  or  made 
vigorous  to  face  cold  and  storms — ^made  vig- 
orous by  facing  themf 

We  need  spiritual  strength  more  than  we 
need  spiritual  ease.  Spiritual  tonics  are  better 
for  us  than  spiritual  opiates. 

"  Father,  hear  the  prayer  we  offer; 
Not  for  ease  that  prayer  shall  be, 
But  for  strength,  that  we  may  ever 
Live  our  lives  courageously." 

It  is  also  to  be  noticed  that  the  name  Gom- 
FOBTEB  is  not  so  applied  in  scripture  as  to  sep- 
arate the  Spirit,  whom  Christ  promised  to 
send,  from  him  who  would  send  him,  as  if  the 
name  were  not  equally  applicable  to  both. 
His  promise  was  not,  **I  will  send  you  the 
Ck>mforter,'*  but  **I  will  send  you  another 
Ck>mforter.**  Then  he  goes  on  varying  the 
forms  of  his  assurance  to  show  his  disciples 
that  they  will  not  have  lost  him  when  he 
shall  have  ascended.  In  the  abiding  presence 
and  indwelling  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  they  will 


even  have  Jesus  himself  with  them  still; 
yes,  and  the  Father  al£o. 

Is  not  this  the  Bweet'-st  and  wholeeomest 
revelation  of  the  divine  Trinity — a  revelation 
to  the  believer's  heart  of  what  is  such  a  baf- 
fling mystery  to  the  thinker^s  understanding  f 

**  As  one  whom  his  mother  comforteth  "  is 
an  Old  Testament  phrase  (Isa.  06: 13),  which 
beautifully  reveals  the  considerate  tender- 
ness of  God.  But  in  the  human  parental 
relation,  in  which  the  divine  is  thus  mirrored 
to  us,  its  brooding,  care-taking,  comforting 
love  has  not  its  highest  fulfillment  unless,  in 
the  marvelous  conjugal  unity,  the  masculine 
strength  and  the  feminine  tenderness  are  so 
blended  that  the  mother's  caresses  will  have 
in  them  the  fatherly  strength,  and  the  f ather^s 
provision  and  direction  will  be  suffused  with 
the  motherly  tenderness. 

Reverently  we  suggest  that  the  believing 
heart  finds  something  analogous  to  this  in 
the  plural  personality  of  God.  Each  office  of 
divine  love,  performed  by  whichever  divine 
person,  has  in  it  the  loving  energy,  not  of 
that  person  in  exclusion  of  the  others,  but  of 
the  undivided  Godhead. 


NATIONAL  ARBITRATION. 


A  beautiful  volume  has  been  sent  to  us, 
containing  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
Memorial  for  International  Arbitration,   as 
follows: 
To  the  GovemmentB  of  the  World: 

The  undersigned,  citizens  of  many  countries, 
gathered  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
at  Chicago,  in  the  United  States  of  America, 
recognizing  the  advantages  accruing  to  those 
nations  which  have  adopted  the  policy  of  arbi- 
trating international  disputes,  and  desiring  that 
the  like  benefits  may  in  the  future  be  enjoyed 
by  all  Nations,  and  deeming  this  a  fitting  oppor- 
tunity, do  hereby  join  in  this  memorial  to  all 
our  various  Governments,  praying  that  they  will 


imitedly  agree,  by  mutual  treaties,  to  submit  for 
settlement  by  arbitration  all  such  international 
questions  and  differences  as  shall  fail  of  satis- 
factory solution  by  the  ordinary  peaceful  nego- 
tiations. And  for  this  the  petitioners  will  ever 
pray. 

This  memorial  is  followed  by  about  eighty 
pages,  of  beautiful  white  paper,  about  twice 
the  size  of  our  pages,  filled  with  fac-simile 
signatures  of  eminent  men  and  women  of  the 
many  nations  represented  at  the  great  Expo- 
sition, including  especially  the  officials  of  the 
Exposition  and  of  the  Congresses.  Provision 
is  officially  made  for  the  presentation  of  this 
memorial  to    all    the    Governments  of  the 


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world.  To  secure  this,  the  Columbian  Com- 
mission appointed  Mr.  Wm.  E.  Blackstone, 
**  under  the  direction  of  Hon.  Thomas  W. 
Palmer,  President  of  the  National  Commis- 
sion/' 

The  volume  also  contains,  upon  one  of  its 
beautiful  pages,  the  following  statement : 

The  World's  Congresses  of  1898  were  all 
planned  to  constitute,  In  the  aggregate,  a  grand 
movement  for  the  promotion  of  the  peace  and 
prosperity  of  the  world.  In  the  heart  of  these 
Congresses  was  held,  with  marked  success,  a 
speciic  Congress  on  Arbitration  and  Peace,  in 
the  Department  of  Qovemment,  for  the  presen- 
tation of  all  aspects  of  the  subject,  from  the  set- 
tlement of  private  disputes,  by  Courts  of  Con- 
ciliation, to  the  determination  of  international 
controversies  by  Tribunals  of  Arbitration,  or 
better  still,  by  the  Judgments  of  an  International 
Court  of  Justice.  In  perfect  harmony  with  these 
ideas,  is  'The  World's  Columbian  Ezpoeition 
Memorial  for  International  Arbitration,"  pre- 
pared and  presented  by  Mr.  William  E.  Black- 
stone,  and  the  same  is  therefore  hereby  most 
cordially  approved,  and  recommended  to  the 
chief  officers  of  the  various  Congresses  held  im- 
der  the  auspices  of  the  World's  Congress  Auxil- 


iary, for  their  signatures  and  other  appropriate 
aid. 

Charles  E.  Bonitet, 
President  World's  Congress,  1893. 

The  appendix  contains  14  printed  pages, 
of  the  same  large  size,  containing  action  of 
the  American  B<ir  Association  in  favor  of  an 
International  Court  of  Justice,  acts  of  our  own 
Gk>vemment  in  the  same  direction,  and  dec  - 
larations,  official  or  unofficial,  in  favor  of  the 
principles  of  the  memorial,  from  many  emi- 
nent persons,  including  Gladstone,  Coleridge 
and  Rosebery  of  England,  and  Harrison  and 
Cleveland  of  the  United  States. 

Whatever  diversity  of  opinion  there  may 
have  been,  or  may  still  be  among  our  readers 
concerning  the  utility  of  the  Parliament  of 
Religions,  they  will,  we  believe,  be  unani- 
mous in  approval  of  the  nnion  of  men  and 
women  of  many  nations  in  this  effort  to  ful- 
fill the  Holy  Scripture  prophecy,  which  is 
conspicuously  inscribed  upon  this  unique  and 
beautiful  volume: 

Nation  ahaU  not  lift  up  stoord  against  nation, 
Neiilier  shall  they  learn  w<vr  any  mors,    Isa.  ii:4. 


THE  BIBLE 
The  Bible  Society  Record  (April,  1894), 
contains  a  communication  from  Rev.  W.  W. 
Eddy,  D.D.  in  behalf  of  the  Syria  Mission. 
Its  graphic  picturing  of  Bible  work  in  that 
Bible  land,  and  of  the  blessed  partnership  of 
the  Mission  with  the  Bible  Society  and  the 
prayerful  supporters  of  both  will  surely  cheer 
and  strengthen  the  hearts  of  our  readers. 
Dr.  Eddy  says: 

It  is  right  that  the  partners  in  the  same  enter- 
prise should  hear  at  times  from  each  other.  You 
are  the  silent  partners  in  the  great  work  of  giv- 
ing the  Bible  to  the  Arabic-speaking  races  of 
Syria:  we  are  the  active  partners  who  distribute 
your  gifts.    Your  share  in  the  work  involves 


IN  SYRIA. 

the  self-denial  and  effort  of  raising  funds  for 
carrying  it  on  and  the  planning  for  its  expendi- 
ture, and  as  regards  this  land  and  other  foreign 
lands  it  is  largely  a  work  of  faith. 

We  see  the  cylinders  of  the  presses  rolling, 
and  the  printed  sheets  of  the  Bible  spread  out; 
we  see  the  bound  volumes  in  the  hands  of  the 
colporteurs  for  distribution  or  placed  in  boxes 
for  transportation  to  distant  regions,  and  we  are 
permitted  to  witness  the  blessed  effects  of  Bible 
work  in  the  Joy  with  which  the  word  is  received 
and  the  changes  it  creates.  Would  that  we 
could  cause  you  to  share  with  us  the  sight  of 
the  eyes,  that  your  faith  might  be  rewarded  I 

We  are  imwilling  that  you  should  think  that 
we  regard  your  share  in  the  labor  as  a  matter  of 


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course,  eotitled  to  no  recognition  and  eliciting 
no  gratitude ;  but  when  we  take  pen  and  paper 
to  tell  you  all  this  we  find  our  words  fall  far 
short  of  what  our  hearts  would  express. 

It  were  easy  to  point  to  the  figures  which  your 
honored  representative  here  has  no  doubt  com- 
municated to  you  of  the  millions  of  pages  of 
Arabic  Scripture  printed  in  1898,  and  the  thou- 
sands of  volumes  issued ;  but  this  would  do  little 
toward  showing  the  good  accomplished  through 
Bible  work  compared  with  taking  you  over 
mountain  and  plain,  through  the  length  and 
breadth  of  the  land,  and  showing  you  the  effect  of 
the  Bible— as  taught  in  the  schools,  read  in  the 
homes,  and  preached  in  the  churches—in  the 
changed  hearts  and  lives  of  men,  in  uplifting 
humanity  to  a  higher  plane  of  living  and  opening 
to  it  the  doors  of  an  endless  life.  Ck>uld  we  only 
cause  you  to  see,  as  we  have  seen,  how  it  has 
proved  a  light  to  guide  living  Christians  on  their 
way  and  a  lamp  to  dispel  the  gloom  to  those 
entering  the  dark  valley,  you  would  feel  that 


your  labor  has  not  been  in  vain  in  the  Lord.  We 
can  only  assure  you  of  our  appreciation  of  your 
labors  and  of  our  sincere  gratitude  for  your 
efficient  co  operation. 

We  express  our  confidence  that  behind  the 
screen  which  boimds  our  vision  the  Bible  is 
working  blessed  results  in  the  hearts  and  homes 
of  the  people  of  Syria  which  only  God  and  good 
angels  see.  We  believe  that  at  present,  and  per- 
haps for  years  to  come,  almost  the  sole  agency 
by  which  the  Gospel  can  reach  Moslem  hearts  is 
by  the  silent  teaching  of  the  printed  page. 

Owing  to  the  fear  of  the  government  of  the 
effect  of  the  spread  of  Christianity  among  its 
Mohammedan  subjects,  there  is  little  hope  of 
reaching  their  darkened  minds  by  pulpit  instruc- 
tion or  in  connection  with  social  intercourse. 
But  the  Spirit  can  enter  with  the  printed  vol- 
ume the  doors  of  the  doubly -closed  harem  and 
make  its  truths  vocal  to  the. conscience  and  life> 
giving  to  the  heart ;  and  we  have  repeated  testi- 
mony that  thus  he  is  doing. 


FAITH  AND  REASON. 


Faith  and  reason  are  sometimes  set  in 
contrast,  as  if  one  excluded  the  other.  This 
is  a  mistake. 

Faith  is  not  a  suspension  of  reason,  it  is  a 
proper  and  normal  exercise  of  reason.  Reason 
decides  that  it  is  safe  and  wise  to  trust  (i.  e. 
to  have  faith  in)  a  physician,  a  pilot,^  an 
engineer,  a  statesman.  No  exercise  of  the 
power  of  reason  is  more  legitimate  or  more 
reguiar.  Reason  must  apprehend  the  ground 
of  faith,  or  else  the  faith  is  not  reasonable. 
It  is  credulity  then. 

Reason  apprehends  God  as  a  real  being, 
and  his  character  as  tTv^-ioorthy,  Your 
knowledge  of  him  justifies  your  faith  in 
him.  Imagine  him  to  be  other  than  what 
yon  know  him  to  be.  Suppose  that  you 
knew  him  to  be  untruthful  or  unrighteous — 
it  would  then  be  neither  reasonable  nor  right 


to  trust  him ;  we  now  reasonably  trust  him, 
because  we  do  know  him. 

Faith  is  an  exercise  of  finite  reason.  In- 
finite reason  has  no  occasion  nor  opportunity 
for  faith;  finite  reason,  if  sound  and  healthy, 
recognizes  its  own  limitation;  recognizes  also 
the  rights  and  powers  of  higher  reason,  and 
its  own  privilege  to  avail  itself  of  the  help 
and  guidance  of  the  higher  reason.  The 
reason  of  the  child  is  exercising  itself  worthi- 
ly in  deferring  to  the  reason  of  the  mature 
man  or  woman;  the  reason  of  the  peasant,  to 
that  of  the  philosopher;  the  finite  reason  of 
any  creature  to  the  infinite  reason  of  Gk)d. 
Each  may  know  whom  he  believes,  or  has 
faith  in.  Only  thus  is  the  faith  reasonable. 
But  to  withhold  or  refuse  faith,  where  it  is 
thus  justified,  is  as  unreasonable  as  to  give 
faith  where  there  is  no  such  justification. 


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Faith  is  the  only  practicahle  exercise  of 
reason  with  reference  to  trath  which  lies 
beyond  the  sphere  of  oar  own  knowledge, 
and  within  that  of  another  whom  we  know 
to  be  wiser  than  we,  and  who  gives  ns  his 
testimony.  Astronomers  know,  when  eclipses 
are  coming.  It  is  reasonable  for  the  people, 
who  have  not  made  the  astronomical  calcula- 
tions, and  could  not  make  them,  to  believe 
the  astronomers.  All  reasonable  people  de- 
mand first  to  know  an  astronomer—to  know 
that  he  really  is  an  astronomer — and  then 
they  believe  him,  and  expect  the  eclipse  which 
he  foretells. 

Nicodemus  would  not  have  been  ready  to 
believe  a  teacher  concerning  the  secret  things 
of  God,  unless  he  first  knew  that  he  was  **a 
teacher  come  from  GK>d."    We  believe  all 


that  Jesus  told  us  concerning  the  house  of 
his  Father,  with  its  many  mansions,  because 
we  know  Jesus.  Has  any  man  lived  in  all 
the  ages  whom  we  know  better,  or  know  to 
be  more  reliable  for  all  that  he  undertakes  f 
Is  it  reason  that  refuses  to  trust  him  ?  Nay, 
it  is  utmost  unreason. 

There  is  an  old  true  saying:  **  Reason  is 
never  more  reasonable  than  when  she  refuses 
to  reason  about  things  that  are  above  reason." 
When  reason  has  found  Him  who  is  infinitely 
worthy  of  trust,  she  then  reasons  no  further. 
She  then  reasonably  trusts.  Faith  should 
never  be  set  in  antithesis  to  reason.  Faith 
in  the  Supreme  is  the  supreme  exerdse  of 
reason.  Reason  completes  and  consummates 
her  reasoning,  when  she  finds  a  worthy  object 
of  faith. 


The  General  Assbmblt  of  1894  will  be  in 
session  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  when  this  number 
of  The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  is  to  be 
issued.  Before  our  next  issue  the  daily  and 
weekly  press  will  have  spread  all  over  our 
country,  and  much  farther,  the  reports  to  the 
Assembly  of  its  boards  and  other  agencies 
and  its  action  upon  them,  together  with  its 
deliberations  and  decisions  on  all  matters, 
which  shall  have  come  before  it. 

The  reports  on  the  various  departments  of 
our  Churches  work,  and  the  action  of  the 
Assembly  thereon  will  interest  all  our  readers. 
Most  of  them  will  not  be  dependent  upon  us 
for  their  earliest  information  concerning  these ; 
but  they  will  expect  these  to  have  important 
and  decisive  influence  upon  the  work  of  the 
Church  for  tiie  coming  year,  determining  the 
lines  and  methods  on  which  that  work  shall 
be  prosecuted  and  affecting  greatly  the  spirit 
which  shall  energize  it.  God  grant  that  it 
may  be  *  ^  not  the  spirit  of  fear,  but  of  power 
and  of  love  and  of  a  sound  mind." 


There  is,  evidently,  abundant  reason  why 
the  commissioners  should  come  up  together, 
from  all  parts  of  the  land  with  thankful  joy. 
In  what  part  of  it  has  there  not  been  gracious 
work  of  the  Holy  Spirit  reviving  the  churches 
and  adding  to  them  many  saved  ?  From  all 
mission  fields  at  home  and  abroad  similar 
animating  reports  are  coming.  Need  we 
doubt  that  the  same  divine  Spirit  whose  pres- 
ence and  gracious  operation  have  so  revived 
and  blessed  the  congregations  and  been  so 
devoutly  and  thankfully  acknowledged  by 
the  Presbyteries,  will  be  present  with  their 
representatives  in  the  Assembly  which  they 
are  to  constitute  ?  Let  us  not  doubt  that  His 
gracious  presence  and  power  will  banish  all 
spirit  of  unbrotherly  strife  and  contention 
and  make  the  place  of  assembling  fragrant 
and  cool  with  the  holy  oil  of  brotherly  love 
and  the  sacred  dew  that  descends  from  the 
mountains  of  Zion.  **For  there  the  Lord 
commanded  his  blessing,  even  life  forever- 
more." 


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Kentucky. 


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KENTUCKY. 

W.  0.  YOUNG,   D.  D. 


A  virgin  soil  completely  corered  with  cane 
and  heavy  timber,  filled  with  wild  beasts  and 
visited  constantly  with  wilder  savages, — ^this 
was  the  condition  which  confronted  the  early 
settlers  of  Kentucky.  The  work  of  settle- 
ment and  civilization  had  to  begin  at  the 
very  bottom.  No  aid  could  be  expected  from 
without,  as  a  toilsome  and  dangeronfi  journey 
of  months  separated  the  infant  colony  from 
the  older  States.  Bat  GK)d  who  directed  the 
enterprise  provided  the  men  to  execute  it. 
A  more  sturdy,  heroic,  noble  class  of  pioneers 
was  never  seen.  Largely  of  Scotch- Irish  ex- 
traction, they  brought  with  them  to  their 
new  home  their  ancestral  respect  for  law, 
education  and  religion.  As  I  look  out  of  my 
study  window  over  our  college  campus  my 
eyes  rest  on  two  granite  shafts  which  in  our 
little  city  park  commemorate  the  virtues  and 
gifts  of  two  of  these  pioneers.  One  of  these 
was  erected  by  the  two  synods  of  Kentucky 
in  grateful  memory  and  honor  of  Rev.  David 
Rice,  who  in  a  block-house  near  Danville 
preached  in  1784  the  first  Presbyterian  ser- 
mon ever  heard  in  Kentucky.  In  power,  in 
labors,  in  consecration  his  was  indeed  a 
Pauline  ministry.  The  second,  built  by  the 
National  Medical  Association  and  dedicated 
by  the  celebrated  Dr.  Gross  of  Philadelphia, 
bears  mute  but  eloquent  testimony  to  the 
world-wide  fame  of  that  skilful  Christian 
physician.  Dr.  Ephraim  McDowell,  the  pio- 
neer in  a  field  of  surgery  which  has  added 
literally  thousands  of  years  to  women's  lives. 

Such  were  some  of  Kentucky's  first  citizens, 
and  there  were  others,  many  others  of  a  like 
character,  as  Shelby,  Clark,  Breckinridge, 
Logan,  Brown  and  Marshall,  who  reclaimed 
this  lonely  land  from  its  savage-wilderness 
state  and  dedicated  it  to  civilization  and  God. 

"The  waters  murmur  of  their  name, 

The  hills  are  peopled  with  their  fame, 
The  silent  pillar  lone  and  gray 
Claims  kindred  with  their  sacred  clay." 

As  were  these  foundation  layers,  so  the 
religious  and  political  history  of  our  country 
shows  were  many  who  built  upon  this  founda- 
tion. Nelson,  Rice,  the  three  Breckinridges, 


Young,  Green  and  Robinson  in  the  pulpit, 
Lincoln,  Taylor,  Johnson,  Clay,  Crittenden, 
Guthrie  and  Prebton  in  the  State,  are  among 
the  priceless  contributions  made  by  Kentucky 
to  religion  and  the  country.  Two  of  her 
citizens  have  been  Presidents,  three  Vice- 
Presidents  of  the  Republic.  The  high  office 
of  Speaker  of  Congress,  the  second  office  as 
to  power  in  the  government,  has  been  held 
by  her  sons  for  a  far  longer  period  than  by 
the  citizens  of  any  other  State. 

Let  me  now  call  attention  to  the  State  as  a 
field  for  the  work  of  our  Church  as  repre- 
sented in  this  magazine. 

HOME  MISSIONS. 

No  part  of  our  country  offers  a  more  needy 
and  promising  field  for  Home  Mission  work. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  our  great  civil  war 
the  synod  of  Kentucky  was  rent  by  division. 
About  two-thirds  of  the  ministers  and  church 
members  united  with  the  Southern  Presby- 
terian Church.  The  Synod  adhering  to  our 
General  Assembly  found  that  as  the  result  of 
so  large  a  secession  it  had  upon  its  roU  a  con- 
siderable number  of  feeble  churches.  The 
sacrifices,  self-denial,  and  fidelity  of  these 
weakened  little  bands  in  steadfastly  adhering 
to  the  Church  of  their  fathers  were  most  not- 
able. They  had  a  strong,  juat  claim  upon 
the  sympathy  and  material  help  of  the  whole 
Presbyterian  Church. 

To  encourage,  strengthen  and  supply  with 
a  stated  ministry  these  small  fiocks  was 
clearly  the  first  duty  of  the  Synod,  and 
in  this  work  it  has  been  prayerfully  and  per- 
sistently engaged  for  more  than  thirty  years. 
It  called  to  its  aid  the  Home  Board,  and 
times  without  number  the  members  and  sec- 
retaries of  that  grand  organization  have  liber- 
ally responded  to  the  call.  I  cannot  refrain 
from  expressing  for  myself  and  all  my 
brethren  our  grateful  appreciation  of  the 
abounding  Christian  sympathy  and  aid  which 
have  been  thus  extended  to  us.  For  the  pur- 
pose of  utilizing  all  its  resources  and  giving 
increased  vigor  and  enlargement  to  its  work 
the  Synod  of  Kentucky  some  years  ago 
decided  to  ask  from  its  churches  a  special 


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annual  collection  to  be  nsed  both  for  susten- 
tation  and  for  the  planting  and  support  of 
new  churches.  From  three  thousand  to  fire 
thousand  dollars  have  thus  been  raised  and 
expended  annually  during  the  past  eight 
years. 

This,  supplemented  generously  by  the  Home 
Board,  has  produced  the  most  blessed  results. 
Our  small  churches,  provided  with  regular 
preaching,  have  been  encouraged  and  en- 
larged; the  mountain  region,  for  generations 
almost  entirely  neglected,  has  been  reached; 
new  churches  have  been  organized,  school- 
houses  have  been  erected  and  manned;  and 
to-day  the  outlook  is  far  brighter  than  ever 
before  for  the  education  and  Christianization 
of  that  large  portion  of  our  people — brave, 
generous,  hospitable,  but  most  ignorant  and 
godless — known  as  'Hhe  mountain  whites." 

At  times  our  Church  in  the  State  may  have 
seemed  to  be  standing  still,  but  in  these 
thirty  years  marked  progress  has  been  made. 
A  spirit  of  zeal  and  hopefulness  pervades  the 
Synod.  A  point  has  been  reached  where 
large  and  blessed  results  may  reasonably  be 
expected.  Our  feeble  churches  in  the  central 
part  of  the  State  are  advancing  toward  self- 
support  and  the  mountain  work  is  steadily 
deepening  and  enlarging.  If  the  Board  con- 
tinues its  generous  aid  and  the  women  still 
give  material  help  to  our  mountain  schools, 
the  Synod  of  Kentucky,  with  the  blessing  of 
God  upon  its  work,  will  push  that  work  on 
and  on  until  highlands  and  lowlands,  moun- 
tains and  plains  of  this  lovely  land,  once 
known  as  **the  dark  and  bloody  ground," 
shall  become  lustrous  with  the  light  and 
blessed  with  the  peace  of  the  gospel  of  our 
divine  Lord. 

SABBATH  SCHOOL  WORK. 

Closely  connected  with  evangelization  and 
the  planting  of  churches  in  destitute  regions, 
stands  the  work  of  the  Sabbath- school  mis- 
sionary. He  is  the  pioneer  in  the  advance 
movements  of  the  Church.  All,  and  more 
than  all,  done  by  Boone  and  Kenton  and  their 
illustrious  comrades  for  the  early  settlement 
of  Kentucky,  the  Sabbath- school  missionaries 
do  for  the  Kingdom  of  Christ.  The  organi- 
zation of  this  department  of  work  by  our 
Church  marks  a  long  step  in  advance. 


A  more  thoroughly  equipped  and  efficient 
administrator  could  not  be  desired  than  Dr. 
Worden.  To  him,  I  feel,  is  largely  due  the 
hold  which  it  has  taken  on  the  heart  of  the 
Church,  and  the  marked  success  which  has 
attended  its  proclamation. 

The  field  furnished  for  its  operations  in  our 
mountain  counties  is  an  ideal  one. 

The  oversight  and  direction  of  the  work 
done  there  during  the  past  three  years  hav- 
ing been  locally,  in  good  measure,  under  my 
supervision,  I  speak  from  personal  knowl- 
edge. A  great  number  of  godless  families 
visited,  talked  to  and  prayed  with;  a  large 
amount  of  good  Christian  literature  circu- 
lated; thousands  of  ignorant  children  in- 
structed in  saving  truth;  scores  of  Sabbath- 
schools  established,  out  of  which,  in  many 
cases,  have  grown  active  Presbyterian 
churches — these  are  among  the  blessed  fruits 
already  gathered.  With  larger  experimental 
knowledge,  by  the  director  and  laborers,  we 
confidently  expect  larger  and  richer  results  in 
the  future. 

EDUCATION. 

With  r^ard  to  the  work  of  Christian  edu- 
cation, second  only  to  that  of  preaching  the 
Gospel,  the  Presbyterians  have  a  record  of 
which  they  are  justly  proud.  The  Synod  and 
its  Presbyteries  own  no  less  than  eight  educa- 
tional institutions  organized  and  equipped 
upon  an  ascending  scale  from  the  recently 
established  mountain  academy  up  to  Centre 
College.  Once  more  thoroughly  equipped 
and  manned,  the  Danville  Theological  Semi- 
nary has  entered  upon  an  era  of  enlarged  use- 
fulness. It  does  seem  as  though  even  the 
golden  ante- war  period  of  prosperity  of  this 
school  of  the  prophets,  when  its  faculty  waa 
composed  of  such  men  as  Robert  Breckinridge, 
Edward  Humphrey,  Stuart  Robinson,  Stephen 
Yerkes  and  Joseph  Smith,  would  ere  long  be 
surpassed. 

Centre  College,  however,  has  been  regarded 
for  more  than  seventy  years  with  pride  aa 
the  citadel  of  the  Synod *s  strength.  The 
acorn  out  of  which  this  educational  oak  grew 
was  planted  by  the  Legislature  of  Virginia  in 
DanvUle  in  the  form  of  a  classical  academy 
as  far  back  as  1784.  This  academy  was 
opened  in  the  log  house  of  the  Rev.  David 


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Rioe,  of  whose  monoment  I  have  already 
spoken. 

From  this  little  back-woods  school,  after 
several  removals  and  transformations,  de- 
veloped Centre  Ck)Uege.  Dating  from  its 
germinal  academic  state  this  is  the  oldest 
institution  of  higher  Christian  learning  west 
of  the  Allegheny  Mountains.  It  was  char- 
tered under  its  present  institutional  name 
and  located  here  in  Danville  in  1819.  From 
that  day  till  now  the  history  of  its  work  and 
of  its  alumni  has  been,  in  large  measure,  the 
history  of  this  whole  region  of  our  country. 
No  institution  of  anything  like  its  size  has 
done  more,  very  few  have  done  so  much,  for 
the  betterment  of  humanity  and  the  glory  of 
Gk)d.  Its  presidency  has  been  filled  by  such 
men  as  Gideon  Blackburn,  John  C.  Young, 
Lewis  Green,  William  Breckinridge  and  Or- 
mond  Beatty. 

It  has  educated  about  800  ministers  of  the 
Gospel,  two  Vice-Presidents  of  the  United 
States,  a  large  number  of  United  States 
Senators  and  Congressmen  and  many  Govern- 
ors of  States.  There  have  been  times  when 
there  were  in  Congress  more  of  its  old 
students  than  of  any  other  college  in  all  the 
land. 

Through  the  great  civil  war  and  all  the 
period  of  strife  and  division  which  followed 
that  conflict  Centre  College  stood  loyal  to  the 
Nation  and  the  old  Church.  Weakened  as 
were  all  our  interests  by  the  division  of  the 
Church  in  the  country  and  this  State,  the 
college  has  more  than  regained  its  old-time 
prosperity  and  is  now  closing  the  very  best 
year  in  its  whole  history. 

In  addition  to  and  designed  to  be  tributary 
to  the  college  the  synod  has  four  classical 
academies  and  is  about  acquiring  a  fifth. 
They  represent  property  worth  about  $75,000, 
but  are  wholly  without  endowments.  The 
sacrifices  and  fidelity  exhibited  in  erecting 
and  conducting  them  have  been  very  great. 
With  a  small  annual  gift  to  each  of  these 
institutions  their  usefulness  could  be  greatly 
enlarged.  They  are  choice  objects  for  the 
nurture  and  help  of  our  Board  of  Aid  for 
Colleges  and  Academies.  One  of  them  has 
been  adopted  and  generously  aided  by  this 
Board,  the  other  four  are  no  less  needy,  and 


will  soon  make  application  to  be  taken  under 
its  sheltering  wings.  What  a  grand  work 
that  Board  has  accomplished  during  its  brief 
existence!  How  signally  and  blessedly  has 
God  wrought  by  it!  I  was  a  member  of  that 
Assembly  in  Saoratoga— it  seems  only  yester- 
day when  it  met — before  which  Dr.  Johnson 
preached  his  grand  sermon,  and  by  which 
this  Board  was  created.  What  numerooa 
educational  fountains  during  these  few  years 
has  it  opened  and  enlarged,  from  which  have 
flowed  forth  countless  streams  of  Christian 
influence,  making  glad  the  city  of  our  God  I 
Here  again,  the  great  Head  of  the  Church 
who  directed  the  creation  of  this  beneficial 
agency  has  graciously  given  us  the  very  men 
for  its  most  e£Elcient  administration.  The 
mantle  of  the  Elijah  who  so  wisely  and  faith- 
fully shaped  its  early  course  has  fallen  upon 
a  worthy  Elisha.  If  this  Board  is  supported, 
as  it  should  be,  by  the  prayers  and  gifts  of 
the  people  of  God,  no  imagination  can  out- 
run the  measure  of  blessing  which  it  will 
bring  to  our  land  and  to  the  Church  which 
we  love. 

I  have  not  space  to  speak  as  I  intended  of 
the  field  presented  by  this  State  for  the  work 
of  the  Freedmen's  Board.  That  work  will 
doubtless  be  fully  discussed  in  connection 
with  the  report  of  the  Birmingham  Confer- 
ence at  the  approaching  Assembly,  and  I 
may  have  opportunity  there  of  expressing 
my  views. 

Before  closing  let  me  say,  as  bearing  direct- 
ly upon  all  the  phases  of  Church  life  and 
work  of  which  I  have  spoken,  as  opening 
through  all  this  region  widest  doors  of  use- 
fulness for  us  living  in  this  and  adjacent 
states,  reunion  is  pre-eminently  a  practical 
matter — a  matter  to  be  prayed  for  and  sought 
by  all  righteous  means.  We  would  do  noth- 
ing prematurely  to  hasten  it.  We  do  not 
wish  it  to  be  consummated  until  all  our 
brethren  are  ready  for  it  upon  the  basis  of 
our  common  standards.  But  when  our  now 
divided  forces  shall  be  once  more  thoroughly 
united,  the  Synod  of  Kentucky  will  be  found 
marching  side  by  side  with  the  foremost  divis- 
ions of  our  great  Presbyterian  host,  for  the 
conquest  of  this  whole  land  and  the  whole 
world  for  Christ. 


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THE  WORLD'S  PARLIAMENT  OF  RELIGIONS.* 

0S0R6E  WILLIAM  KNOX,  D.  D. 


Yolames  of  ** Proceedings"  coldly  shadow 
forth  the  enthusiasm  of  great  conventions 
and  seem  unexpectedly  commonplace.  The 
discussions  are  fragmentary  and  heterogene- 
ous; the  best  speakers  repeat  what  they  haye 
given  us  before  and  the  others  add  nothing 
to  the  result. 

So  is  it  with  these  volumes,  '*  The  World's 
Parliament  of  Religions,"  in  spite  of  the 
careful  editing  of  Dr.  Barrows.  If  seventeen 
days  were  not  too  much  for  the  Parliament 
sixteen  hundred  pages  are  far  too  many  for 
the  reader.  Only  a  sense  of  duty  will  carry 
him  to  the  end,  and  at  the  end  he  feels  that 
a  thousand  of  the  pages  might  have  been 
omitted  with  profit. 

A  CHRISTIAN  PARLIAMENT. 

But  the  reading  leaves  distinct  impressions 
on  the  mind  and  permits  one  who  was  not 
present  to  form  a  fair  opinion  of  the  Parlia- 
ment. 

It  was  a  great  Christian  demonstration  with 
a  non-Chnstian  section  which  added  color 
and  picturesque  effect.  Some  visitors,  it  is 
true,  were  so  attracted  by  the  strangeness  of 
this  portion  that  they  magnified  it  into  the 
chief  part,  as  the  Midway  Plaisance  proved 
the  chief  attraction  of  the  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion to  a  certain  fraction  of  the  public.  But 
the  Parliament  was  distinctively  Christian,  in 
its  conception,  spirit,  prayers,  doxologies, 
benedictions,  in  its  prevailing  language,  argu- 
menis  and  faith.  Only  Christianity  pro- 
claimed itself  the  missionary  and  absolute 
religion  with  the  world  for  its  field.  No 
Christian  struck  his  colors  or  allowed  himself 
to  be  compromised  by  the  presence  of  men 
of  other  faiths.  This  was  abundantly  mani- 
fest and  was  reiterated  wearisomely. 

AN  ECUMENIOAL  COUNCIL. 

All  were  represented,  except  the  Mormon, 
and  one  does  not  quite  understand  why  he 
was  omitted  and  his  Asiatic  brethren  admit- 
ted.    The  most  exclusive  of  churches  was  at 


*  '■  The  World's  Parliament  of  Religions/'  an  illustrated 
and  popular  storr  of  the  world's  first  parliament  of 
religions,  held  in  Chicago  in  connection  with  The  Colum- 
bian Exposition  of  ISiKS.  Edited  by  Rev.  John  Henry 
Barrows,  D.D.;  in  two  Tolumes.  Chicago:  The  Parlia- 
ment Publishing  Co.,  1898. 


the  front,  the  Pope  sending  his  blessing  and 
his  bishops  and  priests  careful  to  set  forth 
their  belief.  The  representatives  of  Evan- 
gelical religion  were  as  fully  heard.  Cook, 
Pentecost,  MiUs,  Pierson  and  Dennis  with 
many  others,  speaking  as  if  they  stood  in 
Presbyterian  pulpits.  And  the  others  were 
there,  in  all  their  variety  and  diversity. 
Nothing  has  declared  more  unmistakably  that 
religion  is  of  the  essential  life  of  man; 
nothing  has  shown  more  clearly  how  readily 
religious  emotions  and  religious  forms  may 
lead  fatally  astray. 

FUNDAMENTAL  RELIGIOUS  TRUTH. 

With  such  a  representation  of  Christianity 
on  the  same  platform  with  believers  in  the 
^^  ethnic  faiths  "  one  would  look  for  a  persua- 
sive utterance  of  fundamental  religious  truth. 
With  the  representatives  of  Asia  as  with  the 
representatives  of  modern  European  anti- 
Christian  science  and  philosophy  there  is 
only  one  question  worth  discussing — the 
personality  of  God.  The  old  arguments, 
ontological,  cosmological,  teleogical,  do  not 
avail  against  men  who  admit  an  underlying 
unity,  a  cosmic  causality  and  an  all- pervading 
order;  not  merely  admit  but  insist  on  these 
ideas  with  an  earnestness  which  shames  the 
apologist  while  still  denying  our  conclusion. 
A  Christian  dialectic  which  does  not  prove 
this  has  its  labor  for  its  pains.  But  the 
speakers  at  the  Parliament  contented  them- 
selves with  rethreshing  the  old  straw  and 
not  only  failed  to  add  anything  of  value  to 
the  great  debate,  but  neglected  to  use  sources 
readily  within  reach. 

THE  NON- CHRISTIAN  FAITHS. 

The  papers  and  speeches  gave  us  nothing 
new  as  to  the  ethnic  faiths.  In  fact,  one- 
half  questions  whether,  after  all,  the  Asiatics 
have  studied  their  own  beliefs  with  the 
thoroughness  of  European  scholars.  But  at 
least  the  Parliament  gave  abundant  opportu- 
nity for  Buddhist,  Hindu,  Confucianist  and 
Moslem  to  declare  their  convictions  and  utter 
their  living  faith.  What  then  is  their  trust 
in  life  and  death  ?  Does  it  supersede  our 
Christian  faith  by  giving  us  a  profounder 


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truth  and  a  more  lively  hope  ?  Does  it  ^^  cut 
the  nerve  of  missions  "  by  showing  us  that 
the  ^^  heathen  '*  do  not  need  our  Lord  ? 

ASIATIC  THEOLOGY. 

Asiatic  Theology  is  pantheistic  philosophy. 
Its  God  is  ''The  All."  ''This  universal  in- 
telligence is  the  soul  of  nature;  it  is  the 
aggregate  of  all  that  is.  In  fact  it  is  the  All." 
It  is  "known  by  several  names;"  but  by 
whatever  name  known  ' '  the  common  religion 
of  all  the  sects  of  India  "  is  one. 

All  deny  a  Creator,  and  if  gods  are  admitted 
they  are  spirits  of  heaven  and  earth,  or 
spirits  not  essentially  higher  than  man,  or 
merely  the  marvelous  in  nature.  So  there  is 
no  true  prayer,  and  "salvation  by  grace  is  out 
of  the  question."  Religious  practices  and 
rites  form  "  that  preliminary  training  of  the 
heart  and  intellect  which  prepares  for  a 
proper  understanding  of  the  truth." 

Salvation  is  this  knowledge,  fer  in  it, 
"acquired  by  the  free  spiritual  nature  of 
man,  lies  the  way  to  self-realization."  And 
this  "self-realization"  is  attained  when  we 
can  say,  "  Aham  Brahama,"  i.  e.  "  I  am  the 
Universal  It." 

But  not  every  one  philosophizes.  The  sub- 
tleties are  "certainly  too  hard  for  ordinary 
minds  and  some  popular  exposition  of  the 
basic  ideas  of  philosophy  and  religion  was  in- 
deed very  urgently  required No 

idea  more  happy  could  have  been  conceived 
at  this  stage  than  that  of  devising  certain 
tales  and  fables, "and  hence  arose  polytheism, 
idolatry  and  myths. 

Dennis  and  Hume,  with  others,  made  clear 
the  difference  between  this  and  the  Christian 
teaching  of  the  all-loving  Father  from  whom 
every  earthly  fatherhood  is  named  and  of  the 
Divine  Saviour  by  whose  atonement  and 
grace  we  are  reborn  into  his  true  likeness. 

THE  CRITIGISM  OF  MISSIONABT  METHODS. 

Pung  Ewang  Yu  thinks  it  "  a  pity  that  the 
Christian  Scriptures  have  been  translated  into 
Chinese  thus  far  only  by  men  deficient  in 
doctrinal  knowledge  as  well  as  in  lingual  re- 
quirements. There  is  no  Chinese  scholar, 
after  reading  a  few  lines  of  it,  but  lays  it 
aside."  To  us  that  seems  too  severe  a  judg- 
ment of  the  "best  version,"  but  it  calls  re- 


newed attention  to  the  need  for  the  beet 
scholarship  and  talents  in  the  foreign  field. 
Again,  "  missionaries  often  contend  that  the 
Christian  nations  owe  their  material  well 
being  and  political  ascendency  to  their 
religion.  It  is  difficult  to  see  upon  what  this 
argument  is  based."  Christ  "certainly  did 
not  hold  up  the  foreign  masters  that  were 
exercising  supreme  political  control  over  his 
country  at  the  time  as  an  example  worthy  of 
imitation."  "In  the  west  you  work  inces- 
santly, and  your  work  is  your  worship.  In 
the  east  we  meditate  and  worship  for  long 
hours,  and  worship  is  our  work."  To  such 
men  we  seem  materialists,  and  it  is  not  suffi- 
cient to  say  '*  Chicago  is  our  answer  to  the 
Parliament  of  Religions  " 

Certainly  Chicago  in  its  public  streets,  its 
newspapers  and  its  staring  wickedness  did 
not  correct  the  impression  made  by  foreign 
conquest  and  by  the  evil  conduct  of  many 
"  Christians  "  in  the  east. 

That  missionaries  are  charged  with  "  com- 
ing in  contact  only  with  the  lowest  elements 
of  Chinese  society  "  and  with  being  protect- 
ors of  criminals  and  are  exhorted  to  inquire 
carefully  into  the  moral  character  of  their 
converts  "  is  perhaps  only  the  old  misunder- 
standing which  furnished  a  weapon  to  the 
enemies  of  the  faith  in  the  first  centuries  of 
our  era. 

THE  TESTIMONY  TO  MISSIONS. 

These  apostles  of  other  faiths  gave  indirect 
testimony  to  the  power  of  missions.  Only 
where  Christianity  has  penetrated  have  the 
other  religions  started  upon  the  way  of  re- 
formation. So  is  it  in  India,  and  in  Japan, 
and  in  Chins.  From  these  volumes  we  might 
prove  that  the  community  which  shuts  itself 
out  from  the  power  of  Christ  shuts  itself  out 
from  progress  and  from  hope.  We  may  not 
identify  His  power  with  our  western  civiliza- 
tion or  morals,  we  may  have  need  to  wonder 
that  His  power  still  works  notwithstanding 
our  civilization  and  morals,  but  the  fact 
remains  that  the  €K)spel  and  the  Gospel  only 
is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation. 

Reason  enough  we  have  to  confess  our  sins 
and  to  mourn  that  we  who  confess  His  name 
hide  His  light  and  hinder  the  working  of  His 
power,  but  in  that  power  and  light  is  our  one 


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proof  that  He  is  Saviour,  not  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  only,  but  of  the  world. 

THE  WOBK  IS  ONE. 

A  rapid  review  of  the  religious  condition 
of  the  world  such  as  we  gain  from  the  Parlia- 
ment deepens  our  conviction  that  the  work  is 
one.  It  is  one  in  its  intellectual  aspects.  The 
truth  the  east  needs  is  the  same  truth  the 
west  must  have.  The  ethics  that  shall  be  the 
law  of  society  in  the  kingdom  of  God  meet 
the  same  obstacles  in  every  land ;  and  the  sal- 


vation which  Christ  brings  and  which  fills 
our  souls  with  purity,  joy  and  peace,  is  the 
same  salvation  for  which  the  whole  world 
waits. 

Western  science  aud  philosophy  cannot 
suffice,  and  by  the  ample  testimony  of  its 
chosen  representatives  the  east  has  nothing 
to  offer  in  His  place.  The  Parliament  makes 
that  plain,  and  instead  of  proving  a  hindrance 
to  foreign  missions  it  should  incite  us  anew 
to  earnest  obedience  to  His  last  command. 


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Chautauqua  Assembly  Grounds  are  located 
on  a  beautiful  lake  of  that  name,  in  Western 
New  York,  south  of  Buffalo,  and  north  of 
Jamestown. 

Chautauqua  offers  an  invigorating  climate, 
the  best  of  recreations,  a  fine  literary  and 
musical  program,  a  summer  school,  and  a 
series  of  Christian  work  conferences  fur  two 
months  of  each  summer,  extending  through 
July  and  August,  and  grants  free  admission 
to  all  missionaries  in  regular  standing.  There 
are  eight  weeks  of  classes  to  suit  every  grade 
of  student;  with  the  regular  College  classes, 
the  teachers'  Normal  department,  the  School 
of  Languages,  the  Music  School,  with  its  free 
chorus  and  sight-reading  classes,  the  School 
of  Gjrmnastics  for  old  and  young,  including 
the  Delsarte  system,  the  Art  School,  and 
Kindergarten  Normal. 

Then  there  are  the  Bible  School,  the  Sun- 
day School  Normal  clas8«»,  the  Christian 
Workers  conferences,  on  Missions,  Temper- 
ance, Sabbath  Schools,  Social  Science,  and  on 
all  topics  that  concern  the  Christian  Church. 
On  the  lecture  platform  are  presented  each 
summer  some  of  the  ablest  orators,  authors, 
and  scholars  of  this  and  other  nations. 

The  Woman's  Club  each  morning  discusses 
the  most  vital  subjects  of  home,  church  and 
society.  The  very  air  is  full  of  culture,  en- 
thusiasm, and  spiritual  uplift. 

The  Chautauqua  Missionary  Institute  meets 
annually  for  four  days,  beginning  with  the 
last  Saturday  in  July.  These  conferences 
are  attended  by  large  numbers  of  Christian 
workers,  and  are  most  profitable. 


A  Presbyterian  Missionary  House  has  been 
provided  by  the  thoughtfulness  of  Presbyteri- 
ans who  are  visitors  at  Chautauqua,  and  are 
anxious  that  their  missionaries  may  enjoy  the 
advantages  of  this  delightful  summer  resort. 

All  Presbyterian  Home  or  Foreign  Mission- 
aries in  active  service,  temporarily  absent 
from  their  fields  of  labor,  or  permanently 
disabled,  will  be  welcomed  to  the  hospitality 
of  the  house.  Also,  after  their  accommoda- 
tion, shall  there  be  room,  any  Presbyterian 
minister  and  wife,  or  widow  of  any  Presby- 
terian minister  under  the  care  of  any  of  the 
boards  of  our  Church  will  be  provided  for  as 
guests.  This  bouse  will  be  open  to  guests 
during  July  and  August  of  each  year. 

A  special  committee  appointed  by  the  aux- 
iliary society,  has  charge  of  the  correspond- 
ence, admission  and  entertainment  of  guests. 
All  missionaries  desiring  to  avail  themselves 
of  the  free  use  of  these  rooms,  will  learn  par- 
ticulars by  corresponding  with  the  chairman 
of  the  committee,  Mrs.  D.  A.  Cunningham, 
108  Fourteenth  St.,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 

Also,  donations  for  current  expenses  may 
be  sent  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Auxiliary 
Society,  Mrs.  Mary  U.  Pratt,  Oxford,  Ohio, 
by  any  who  desire  to  share  in  ministering  to 
the  comfort  of  these  servants  of  Christ. 

The  Missionary  House  contains  ten  rooms, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  they  will  be  well  filled 
with  an  equal  number  of  Foreign  and  Home 
Missionaries,  coming  at  different  dates  during 
July  and  August  of  1894. 

Mrs.  G.  W.  Barlow, 

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FOREIGN   MISSIONS. 


There  are  nine  misdonary  societies  at  work 
in  Canton.  Two  of  them,  the  United  Breth- 
ren and  the  Christian  Alliance,  are  yet  in  the 
introductory  stage,  and  hare  no  report  of 
converts  to  make.  The  aggregate  nnmher  of 
conrerts  received  into  the  Communion  of  the 
Church  by  the  other  seven  societies  is  421, 
and  their  present  number  of  communicant 
members  is  3,853.  Of  the  new  converts  re- 
ceived, 161  were  in  connection  with  the 
Presbyterian  Mission,  which  has  now  1,167 
communicant  members. 


Rev.  George  W.  Cliamberlain,  of  Bahia, 
Brazil,  writes  of  a  successful  year  of  mission 
work  in  the  churches  under  his  pastoral 
care.  The  total  addition  upon  confession 
was  25.  Ten  of  this  number  had  been 
secret  readers  of  the  Bible  for  years,  but 
had  never  seen  or  heard  a  preacher  of 
the  GkMpel  until  within  a  few  months.  Mr. 
Chamberlain  has  made  frequent  and  pro- 
longed journeys  to  distant  parts  of  his  parish, 
and  has  been  received  with  cordiality  by  the 
authorities  and  leading  citizens  of  places  he 
has  visited.  In  every  city  visited  by  him 
during  the  year  the  authorities  have  offered 
for  his  use  the  largest  audience  room  which 
their  town  hall  contained. 


Near  the  outstation  of  Samkong,  sixty 
miles  east  of  Canton,  is  a  Christian  family 
named  Lau.  The  mother  died  in  the  faith 
last  year.  Her  three  sons  are  earnest  Chris- 
tian men.  As  a  memorial  to  their  mother 
they  have  agreed  to  set  apart  a  house  left 
them  by  her  to  be  used  as  a  Christian  chapel. 
This  house  is  in  their  native  village,  where 
there  are  many  women  who  are  anxious  to 
receive  Christian  instruction.  It  will  be 
a  convenient  meeting  place  for  them.  A 
Bible  reader  will  be  sent  to  instruct  them, 
and  we  may  hope  for  cheering  results  in  that 
village.  One  of  the  sous  is  a  native  preacher 
in  Canton,  and  one  of  the  grandsons  is  study- 
ing medicine  in  the  Canton  Hospital. 
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Rev.  T.  W.  Houston,  of  Nanking,  writes  of 
a  recent  communion  service  where  there  were 
twenty-five  applicants  for  baptism.  Five 
were  received  into  church  membership.  Of 
these  one  was  an  old  man  who  had  been  an 
inquirer  for  years,  and  had  finally  boldly 
taken  his  stand  for  Christ.  The  remaining 
twenty  will  be  kept  under  instruction  until 
another  communion  season.  An  old  elder 
who  assisted  in  the  examination  of  these  can- 
didates remarked  at  its  close:  *^  My  heart  is 
so  full  of  rejoicing  that  I  cannot  keep  still. 
Formerly  when  we  preached  there  was  no  one 
to  listen,  nothing  but  reviling  and  hatred; 
now,  see  how  many  come.  Surely  the  Lord 
is  moving  in  this  city." 


The  new  Gospel  Steamer,  "John  Wil- 
liams," for  work  in  the  South  Sea  Islands  by 
the  London  Missionary  Society,  is  now  com- 
pleted. A  special  dedicatory  service  was  to 
be  held  March  10,  on  board  the  ship.  She  is 
to  sail  for  the  South  Seas  about  May  1,  after 
visiting  various  ports  in  England  where 
friends  who  have  taken  stock  in  her  will  have 
an  opportunity  for  inspection.  She  is  attract- 
ing much  attention,  and  receiving  favors  at 
the  hands  of  those  who  wish  her  well.  The 
ports  of  Glasgow  and  Southampton  release 
her  from  all  port  charges.  The  coal  for  her 
voyage  is  sold  at  cost  price.  A  Sabbath- 
school  is  furnishing  the  chart-room  with  the 
books  and  charts  needed.  The  ladies  of  Man- 
chester are  providing  a  flag  for  the  masthead. 
The  Bible  Society  furnishes  Bibles  both  in 
English  and  in  the  languages  of  the  South 
Sea  Islands.  Other  friends  are  providing  for 
other  needs.  **  The  Gospel  by  Steam  "  is  a 
significant  motto  for  our  day. 


Dr.  Hunter  Corbett,  of  Chefoo,  China, 
writes  in  a  private  letter  that  upon  the  pre- 
vious Sabbath  nine  were  received  to  the 
Communion  of  the  Chefoo  church,  five  of 
them  being  girls,   from  fifteen  to  nineteen 


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years  of  age,  from  the  girls'  school.  Among 
them  were  two  soldiers  who  were  brothers, 
and  were  baptized.  At  the  prayer  meeting 
held  the  evening  previous  to  the  date  of 
writing,  one  of  these  brothers  arose  and 
asked  for  special  prayer,  as  he  felt  deeply 
conscions  of  his  sinfolness  and  onworthiness. 
All  knelt,  and  he  was  prayed  for  by  two 
of  the  brethren,  and  also  for  the  large  class 
which  he  represents.  There  seems  to  be  a 
growing  conviction  at  Chefoo  that  great 
blessings  are  in  store  for  China  in  the  near 
future.  The  spirit  of  inquiry  and  the  respect 
manifested  towards  the  Church  are  in  strik- 
ing contrast  with  the  experiences  of  early 
years.  It  will  be  a  grand  day  in  the  history 
of  the  earth  when  the  mighty  Chinese  nation 
turns  unto  the  Lord. 


The  reports  of  the  year  1898  from  Syria 
announce  138  additions  to  the  church  on  pro- 
fession, making  the  total  number  of  church- 
members  1,972,  The  Beirut  College  reports 
241  students.  The  pupils  in  American  mis- 
sion schools  number  8,296.  Total  of  pages 
printed  at  the  American  Mission  Press, 
Beirut,  22,962,546,  of  whichever  14,000,000 
were  pages  of  Scripture.  There  are  507  pub- 
lications on  the  Press  Catalogue  for  the  year, 
and  224,000  copies  of  publications  of  all 
kinds  were  issued  during  1898.  430  indoor 
patients  were  treated  in  the  hospital,  and  10,- 
278  outdoor  patients  in  the  clinic. 

The  Sultan  of  Turkey  has  decided  to  utilize 
the  Dead  Sea  for  business.  It  is  crown  prop- 
erty, and  he  proposes  to  establish  a  passenger 
and  freight  service  which  can  be  used  by 
tourists,  and  also  for  developing  the  mineral 
resources  around  the  Sea.  It  is  a  hot  and 
sulphurous  region,  and  tourists  will  no  doubt 
appreciate  the  opportunity  to  sail  around  its 
gloomy  and  mysterious  shores.  The  ships 
have  been  conveyed  in  pieces  by  rail  from 
Jaffa  to  Jerusalem,  and  thence  down  the 
steep  and  difficult  road  to  the  shores  of  the 
Sea. 


been  highly  appreciated.  Upon  several  occa- 
sions the  King  has  been  very  cordial,  and  is 
evidently  regarding  with  favor  the  medical 
work  of  our  mission.  On  January  17  Dr. 
Wishard  was  called  to  the  palace,  and  after 
seeing  some  patients  there,  he  was  told  that 
the  Shah  desired  to  see  him  in  the  Dewan 
Khanna^  or  Hall  of  Audience.  He  was  ush- 
ered into  the  large  reception  room,  and  in  a 
few  minutes  the  Prime  Minister,  with  others 
of  the  ministry,  entered,  soon  followed  by 
the  King  himself.  The  Shah  upon  entering 
the  room  said  to  the  Doctor  in  the  presence  of 
his  ministry:  **I  desired  to  see  you  that 
I  might  thank  you  for  the  trouble  you  have 
taken  in  caring  for  the  sick,  and  especially 
for  your  services  in  coming  so  often  to  see  the 
Khannum  (referring  to  one  of  his  wives), 
and  I  desire  you  to  come  twice  each  week  to 
the  Anderoon.^'^  The  last  request  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  the  King  desires  to 
place  the  ladies  of  the  palace  under  the  pro- 
fessional care  of  Dr.  Wishard. 


Dr.  J.  G.  Wishard,  of  our  mission  at 
Teheran,  Persia,  has  been  able  recently  to 
render  professional  service  at  the  palace  of 
H.  I.  M.,  the  Shah,  which  seems  to  have 


Rev.  B.  C.  Henry  writes  from  Canton, 
China,  that  **0n  Sunday,  February-  18,  a 
mob  of  lawless  people  assaulted  the  premises 
of  our  mission  at  Yeung  Kong.  The  house 
occupied  by  the  missionaries  was  broken  into, 
its  contents  destroyed  or  stolen,  its  inmates 
treated  with  violence  and  insult.  Their  home 
has  been  completely  wrecked,  and  they  have 
been  driven  to  seek  refuge  in  the  yamen  of 
the  chief  Mandarin  of  the  place.  The  mis- 
sionaries who  have  suffered  in  this  way  are 
the  Rev.  Andrew  Beattie,  wife  and  child, 
and  Dr.  D.  A.  Beattie,  wife  and  child. 
Their  first  intention  was  to  send  the  ladies 
and  children  to  Canton  at  once,  and  remain 
until  the  trouble  was  settled  and  their  house 
restored  to  them.  On  second  thought  they 
have  all  bravely  decided  to  remain  at  Yeung 
Kong  and  endure  the  discomfort  of  their 
present  position  until  the  magistrate  can 
have  their  house  repaired  and  reinstate  them 
in  it,  with  guarantee  of  full  protection.  The 
American  and  British  Consuls  (the  Beattie 
brothers  are  British  subjects)  have  sent  em- 
phatic and  unequivocal  despatches  to  the 
Viceroy,  demanding  immediate  attention  to 
the  matter,  reparation  of  all  damage  done  to 


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the  house,  full  restitution  of  all  property 
destroyed  or  Etolen,  the  reinstatement  of  the 
missionaries  in  their  houses,  and  fuU  protec- 
tion from  such  attack  in  the  future." 


Swami  Vivekananda,  the  Hindu  monk  who 
was  prominent  at  the  Parliament  of  Religions, 
and  has  since  been  delivering  lectures  at 
various  points,  especially  at  Detroit,  has  met 
with  a  severe  set-back  in  his  wholesale  de- 
nunciation of  Christianity  and  railing  mis- 
representations of  Christian  missions  in  India. 
Rev.  Robert  A.  Hume,  himself  a  missionary, 
bom  in  India  of  missionary  parents,  addressed 
an  open  letter  to  him,  which  was  published 
in  the  Detroit  Free  Press  of  April  8.  Mr. 
Hume^s  letter  is  both  courteous  and  crushing, 
and  reveals  clearly  the  extent  of  the  mis- 
representations which  Yivekananda  so  flip- 
pantly makes.  Although  a  resident  of  India, 
it  is  evident  that  he  knows  little  or  nothing 
about  missions,  in  his  own  country.  The 
only  alternative  is  that  he  deliberately  states 
what  he  knows  to  be  untrue.  No  one  at  all 
familiar  with  the  facts  will  be  disturbed  by 
his  statements.  Yivekananda  has  now  come 
to  New  York,  and  almost  at  the  same  time, 
within  a  few  blocks  of  each  other,  he  and 
Bishop  Thobuin,  just  returned  from  India, 
were  giving  their  testimony  as  to  the  stand- 
ing and  progress  of  Christianity  in  that  land. 
Yivekananda  sneered  and  scoffed.  Bishop 
Thoburn  stated  that  in  his  own  mission  there 
had  been  an  average  of  fifty  conversions  a 
day  for  three  years,  and  that  when  he  left 
India  a  month  before,  the  number  of  converts 
in  his  diocese  was  72,000,  and  he  had  no 
doubt  that  at  the  time  of  his  speaking  it 
would  be  not  far  from  1,500  more.  An  intel- 
ligent Christian  public  will  have  little  diffi- 
culty in  deciding  promptly  which  witness  to 
believe. 


The  Missionary  Herald  calls  attention  in 
the  following  searching  paragraph  to  a  need 
which  is  just  as  manifest  in  America  as  in 
England.  It  is  right  that  the  centenary  anni- 
versary of  the  noble  and  beneficent  work  of 
the  London  Missionary  Society  should  be 
made  the  occasion  of  every  possible  impulse 
to  the  cause  of  missions.     How  slowly  the 


Church  of  Christ  awakens  to  the  grandeur  of 
her  opportunity,  and  to  the  supreme  import 
and  urgency  of  her  missionary  duty. 

The  London  Missionary  Society  reaches  its 
Centenary  in  1895.  The  year  1894  is  to  be  used 
as  a  year  of  preparation,  Bp>ecial  efforts  beiog 
made  to  bring  the  great  missionary  theme  before 
all  the  churches  A  committee  has  been 
appointed  In  London  to  arrange  for  "systemati- 
cally visiting  every  church  and  school,  etc.,  in 
order  to  deepen  interest  in  the  extension  of 
Christ's  kingdom  abroad,  and  especially  to  aim 
at  pointedly  requesting  every  minister  to  care- 
fully explain  to  his  people  the  position  and 
needs  of  the  missionary  work."  It  might  seem 
as  if  it  would  be  unnecessary  to  send  a  deputa- 
tion to  the  minutere  upon  this  subject,  since 
from  the  very  nature  of  their  calling  they  ought 
to  be  the  leaders  of  the  Lord's  hosts  in  mission- 
ary work.  Tet  as  a  matter  of  fact  our  English 
brethren  find  that  there  Is  special  need  of  an 
appeal  to  the  ministers.  Is  there  not  a  like  need 
in  the  United  States  ?  The  zeal  and  earnestness 
of  many  pastors  In  this  department  of  Christian 
work  is  most  gratefully  recognized,  but  it  must 
be  said  sorrowfully  that  there  are  large  numbers 
who  seem  to  have  no  adequate  comprehension  of 
their  obligations  to  cheer  and  guide  the  Lord's 
people  in  the  work  of  giving  the  Gk)6pel  to  all 
men.  How  shall  this  apathy  be  removed?  How 
shall  the  hosts  of  the  Lord  spring  forth  to  the 
conquest  of  the  world  except  as  their  captains 
are  filled  with  enthusiasm  for  work  ? 


MISSIONARY  CALENDAR. 

DEPARTURES. 

April  10 — From  San  Francisco,  for  Korea, 
Rev.  Graham  Lee  and  Mrs.  Lee. 

April  28 — From  Vancouver,  returning  to 
the  Canton  Mission,  John  G.  Eerr,  M.D., 
and  Mrs.  Eerr. 

ARRIVALS. 

April  15 — From  Saharanpur,  India,  Rev. 
Robert  Morrison,  Mrs.  Morrison  and  five 
children. 

April  21 — From  Ambala,  India,  Miss  Jes- 
sica R.  Carleton,  M.D.  Miss  Carleton^s  ad- 
dress in  this  country  is  No.  80  Oxford  street, 
Cambridge,  Mass. 

April  21— From  Allahabad,  India,  Miss 
Emma  L.  Templin,  M.D. 

April  22 — From  Hainan,  China,  Rev.  F. 
P.  Oilman,  Mrs.  Oilman  and  two  children. 


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THE  HOME  CALL  OF  A  VETERAN. 

RIY.  JAMES  8.  DENNIS. 

The  Rev.  William  M.   Thomson,  D.  D., 
whose  death  occurred  April  8  at  Denver, 
Ck)lorado,  in  the  89th  year  of  bis  age,  was 
born  at  Springdale,  Ohio,  December  81, 1806. 
He  was  graduated  from  Miami  University  in 
1826,  and  entered  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  1889  but  left  in  1881  before  grad- 
uation,  and   went  to  Syria   as  a  mission- 
ary of  the  American  Board  in  1882,  arriving 
at  Beirut  February  24,  1888.    He  was  active- 
ly connected  with  mission  work  in  Syria  for 
a  period   of  forty- 
three    years,    until 
1876,  when  he  left 
Syria  and   after  a 
sojourn  in  Scotland 
returned     to      the 
United  States.  UntU 
1870  he  was   con- 
nected    with     the 
American      Board. 
At  that  time,  how- 
ever, the  Syria  Mis- 
sion was  transferred 
to  the  care  of  the 
Presbyterian  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions, 
and  since  that  date 
Dr.  Thomson's  offi- 
cial connection  has 
been  with  the  latter 
Board,  until  his  final 
retirement  in  1876. 
Since  his  return  he 
published,  in   1880 
-86,   the  enlarged    edition  of    **The  Land 
and  the  Book,''  a  work  which  has  been  of 
great  value  and  service  to  all  lovers  of  the 
Bible,  and  with  which  his  name  will  always 
be  identified.    Dr.  Thomson  received  from 
Wabash  College,  in  1858,  the  honorary  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  was  also  a  fellow 
of  the  Royal  Asiatic  Society,  and  of  the  Royal 
Geological  Society. 

His  father,  Rev.  John  Thomson,  and  also 
his  mother,  were  of  Scotch  Irish  descent, 
and  removed  to  Ohio  from  Kentucky  when 
Cincinnati  was  only  a  fort.  Both  his  parents 
were  strong  characters,  and  had  clear  convio- 


trom  lluriwr'i  \Ve«kly. 


tions  upon  all  religious  as  well  as  moral  and 
political  questions.     This  may  be  inferred 
from  the  fact  that  even  at  that  early  date  they 
left  their  Kentucky  home  and  settled  in  Ohio 
on  account  of  .their  strong  an ti- slavery  feeling. 
Dr.  Thomson  married  Miss  Eliza  Nelson 
Hanna,  of  New  York,  before  his  departure 
for  Syria.     Mrs.  Thomson  died  in  1884.     He 
subsequently  married  Mrs.  Abbott,  the  widow 
of  a  former  English  Consul  in  Syria,  who 
also  died  a  few  years  before  Dr.  Thomson 
finally  left  Syria.    The  circumstaaces  of  the 
death  of  his  first  wife  were  tragical.     It  hap- 
pened that  soon  after 
his  arrival  in  Beirut 
he  went,  in  1884,  to 
Jerusalem.    It  was 
at  the  time  of  the 
disturbances     inci- 
dent to  a  rebellion 
against  the  iron  rule 
of  Mohammed  Ali. 
Dr.    Thomson    had 
occasion    to    leave 
Jerusalem     for     a 
short  journey.  Dur- 
ing his  absence  he 
was    arrested    and 
imprisoned  by  Ibra- 
him    Pasha,     who 
could  not  be  made 
to    understand   the 
function  of  a  mis 
sionary,    but    took 
him    for     a     spy. 
While    Dr.    Thom- 

>pyrlKht,  1894,  by  Hnrper  A  Brolhcn.  , ,  j    .     . 

son  was  thus  detain 
ed,  Ibrahim  Pasha  marched  upon  Jerusalem* 
and,  taking  advantage  of  an  earthquake, 
assaulted  the  city  and  captured  it.  Mrs. 
Thomson,  with  her  infant  in  her  arms  (now 
the  well-known  Dr.  William  H.  Thomson,  of 
New  York),  took  refuge  in  a  vault.  A  fall- 
ing stone  nearly  crushed  the  babe.  Mrs. 
Thomson,  who  was  writing  a  letter  to  her 
husband  at  the  time,  in  her  agitation  over- 
turned the  inkstand  and  deluged  her  paper 
with  ink.  She  soon  after  became  delirious, 
and  was  found  in  this  state  by  Dr.  Thomson 
on  his  return  to  Jerusalem.  She  died  while 
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Dr.  Thomson  returned  to  Beirut,  where  he 
resided  doring  most  of  his  missionary  life  in 
Syria.      He  participated    in  many  stirring 
scenes  during  the  civil  wars  of  1841,  1845 
and  1860.     In  the  war  of  1845,  through  his 
personal  influence  and  courage,  the  village  of 
Abeih,  filled  with  refugees,  was  saved  from  a 
massacre.     Dr.  Thomson  was  himself  shot  at 
while  carrying  a  flag  of  truce.    In  the  dis- 
turbances of  1860  he  co-operated  with  Lord 
Dufferin,  representing  the  Allied  Powers,  in 
adjusting  the  difficulties  of  that  delicate  situ- 
ation.   He  acted  as  Chairman  of  the  Relief 
Ck>mmittee  organized  to  meet  the  emergency. 
He  was  a  tower  of  strength  to  the  Mission 
amidst  the  many  diflftculties  and  perils  of  the 
early  heroic  period  of  missionary  effort  in 
Syria.     He  was  a  man  of  large  and  states- 
manlike views,  calm  judgment,  undaunted 
courage,  great  practical  wisdom,  and  an  effi- 
cient organizer.     He  held  a  position  of  com- 
manding  influence    among   natives   of   all 
classes.    His  opinion  was  sought  by  those  in 
authority,  and  many  times  he  was  secretly 
consulted  by  the  leading  men  of  various  sects 
with  entire  confidence  in  his  honor  and  wis- 
dom.   One  of  the  leading  peculiarities  of  bis 
missionary  life  was  his  kindly  spirit  towards 
the  natives,  and  his  success  in  adapting  him- 
self to  the  life  of  the  country,  and  in  winning 
the  affection  and  confidence  of  the  people. 
Syria  is  a  field  in  which  pioneer  work  has 
always  been  attended  with  peculiar  difficul- 
ties.   Dr.   Thomson  has  at  different  times 
opened  and  established  stations  at  new  points 
with  remarkable  success.    His  counsels  in 
the  Mission  were  of  great  value,  and  car- 
ried with  them  the  weight  of  his  strong  per- 
sonality. 

In  his  private  life  he  was  a  man  of  genial 
and  lovely  qualities.  His  missionary  aims 
were  large  and  comprehensive,  his  devotion 
to  duty  untiring,  and  his  religious  views 
were  characterized  by  strength  of  conviction, 
liberality,  and  the  best  of  common-sense. 
For  many  years  he  preached  continuously  at 
Beirut  both  in  Arabic  and  English.  He  was 
the  contemporary  and  intimate  associate  of 
that  noble  band  of  early  Syrian  missionaries, 
including  such  men  as  Bird,  Whiting, 
De  Forest,   Ford,   Mi   Smith,   Simeon  Cal- 


houn, and  Cornelius  Van  Dyck.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  In  organiiing  the  great 
educational  work  of  Syria,  as  represented 
chiefly  at  the  present  time  by  the  Syrian 
Protestant  College  and  the  flue  institutions 
for  the  education  of  girls. 

He  is  known,  however,  in  this  country, 
and  even  throughout  the  world,  as  an  author 
rather  than  as  a  missionary.    His  monumen- 
tal work,  ''The  Land  and  the  Book,*' was 
flrst  published  by  Harper  &    Brothers  in 
1858.    At  that  time  there  was  no  interna- 
tional copyright.    The  book  was  republished 
in  England,  and  had  there,  as  here,  a  |^e- 
nomenal  sale.    It  was  stated  before  the  Com- 
mission of  the  British  Parliament  on  inter- 
national copyright   that   its   circulation  in 
Great  Britain  had  been  larger  than  any  other 
American  publication,  **  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  " 
alone  excepted.    It  has  reappeared  in  numer- 
ous editions  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic. 
The  large  thoroughly   revised  and  rewrit- 
ten edition  in  three  volumes  was  published 
here,  and  in   England,  1880-80,  under  the 
provisions   of    an   mtemational   copyright. 
It  is  characterized  by  a  peculiar  charm  of 
style,  and  a  freshness  and  vividness  which 
gives   it    special   value   as   a   commentary 
upon  the  Scriptures.    The  reader  feels  as  if 
he  were  coming  into  living  contact  with  the 
scenes  and  incidents  of  the  Bible  presented 
with  a  fldelity  and  insight  which  were  realis- 
tic.    His  later  edition  of  the  book  was  writ- 
ten with  care,  in  the  light  of  modem  discov- 
eries, and  illustrated  by  photographs  repro- 
duced under  the  personal  supervision  of  the 
author.    Dr.  Thomson  was  also  a  contributor 
to  many  periodicals  in  the  same  line  of  vivid 
and  luminous  illustration  of  the  Bible.    A 
series  of   articles,   entitled   *^The  Physical 
Basis  of  our  Spiritual  Language,'*  published 
in  the  ''  Bibliotheca  Sacra,  *'  reveals  the  pecu- 
liar genius  of  the  author  in  photographing 
not  only  the  physical  background,  but  the 
spiritual  signiflcanoe  of  Scripture  language. 
Such  a  life  has  been  of  inestimable  value 
not  only  to  missions,   but  to  the  cause  of 
popular  biblical  instruction.    It  is  a  worthy 
example  of  the  varied  and  unique  service 
often  rendered  by  missionaries,  the  true  sig- 
nificance and  power  of  whidi  are  not  always 


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recognized.  They  must  often  do  their  work 
in  an  obscure  or  unfamiliar  environment,  so 
distant  and  intangible  as  to  be  out-side  the 
range  of  personal  contact  to  the  vast  majority 
of  Christian  people,  yet  the  Church  of  Christ 
has  no  more  loyal  and  faithful  servants  than 
her  missionaries.  As  a  life  like  Dr.  Thom- 
son's passes  in  review  befoie  her  she  may 
well  point  to  it  as  a  sufficient  refutation  of 
the  flippant  criticisms  so  current  just  now  in 
some  quarters. 

Dr.    Thomson  suffered  from  a  paralytic 
trouble  during  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  but 
his  mental  condition  was  natural  and  clear. 
The  end  came  suddenly,  and  he  passed  peace- 
fully and  tranquilly  away.     The  funeral  ser- 
vices were  peculiar- 
ly impressive.    His 
pall  -  bearers     were 
brother     ministers. 
His  life  work  was 
referred  to  in  fitting 
terms;  his  personal 
character    was    de- 
lineated with  sym- 
pathetic touches ;  he 
was  laid  to  rest  as 
one  of   the   Lord's 
veterans    who   had 
served    long     and 
well,  and  to  whom 
death    was    but   a 
promotion  to  higher 
service. 


tasy.  Loss  of  employment,  excommunica- 
tion by  the  bishop,  and  neglect  by  former 
friends  were  accounted  as  less  than  nothing 
in  comparison  with  the  spiritual  treasure 
found  in  simple  faith  in  Christ.  It  was  no 
short  struggle  with  him,  for  every  effort  had 
been  made  by  diligent  search  and  faithful  use 
of  all  the  means  furnished  by  the  old  church. 
Peace  of  conscience  was  not  attained  until 
the  simple  teaching  of  Christ  was  taken  as 
the  only  reliance  for  sinful  man.  Something 
of  this  life  story  has  been  given  in  the  leaflet 
**  New  Light  in  Old  Places,"  and  it  is  our 
earnest  prayer  and  hope  that  Yusuf  will  be 
a  useful  agent  in  carrying  the  light  to  his 
own  people. 


TRAINING  LAY  EVANGELISTS  IN 
SYRIA. 

RKV.  W.  S.  NELSON,    TRIPOLI. 

With  the  close  of  February  we  said  fare- 
well to  our  special  class  of  young  men  who 
had  been  gathered  in  Tripoli  since  the  first  of 
December.  These  six  young  men  came  from 
as  many  different  places,  and  each  possessed 
a  marked  individuality  and  had  been  shaped 
by  peculiar  conditions. 

One  of  the  six  was  a  convert  from  the 
Syrlac  church,  having  been  a  school  teachtir 
in  the  employ  of  that  sect.  He  became  en- 
lightened by  the  Gospel,  and  his  former  em- 
ployers cast  him  out,  pronouncing  a  curse  on 
all  who  should  countenance  him  in  his  apos- 


SYRIAN  THRESHING  FLOOR. 

Another  of  the  class,  a  mason  by  trade, 
has  shown  his  zeal  for  the  Lord^s  service  in 
many  ways.  He  accounted  it  a  mere  trifle 
to  walk  to  a  village  12  hours  distant  from  his 
home  to  give  counsel  and  help  to  a  Protest- 
ant in  trouble.  When  asking  to  be  admitted 
to  our  class  he  said  that  he  wanted  it  dis- 
tinctly understood  that  he  was  not  seeking 
employment  by  this  means;  his  only  object 
was  to  gain  greater  acquaintance  with  God's 
word  and  greater  ability  to  talk  with  people 
as  he  had  opportunity,  and  that  he  wished  to 
return  to  his  home  and  trade  after  the  close 
of  the  session.  These  two,  in  order  to  save 
expense,  cheerfully  walked  nearly  seventy 
miles  to  Tripoli  in  order  to  enter  the  class. 


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TRAINING  GLASS  OF  NATIVE  HELPERS,  TRIPOLI. 


They  arriyed  foot-sore  and  weary,  but  com- 
mended themselves  as  soldiers  ready  to  en- 
dure hardship  for  the  sake  of  spiritual  profit. 

A  third  vras  a  shoemaker  by  trade.  He 
came  from  a  proud  old  family  in  which  it 
was  esteemed  far  from  honorable  to  labor 
with  the  hands  and  among  whom  the  Prot- 
estants, although  honest  and  upright,  were 
despised.  This  one,  however,  was  led  by  cer- 
tain circumstances  to  study  the  truths  of  the 
Gospel  and  was  convinced.  He  avowed  his 
faith  and  turned  to  his  humble  trade  for  an 
honest  living.  His  family  cast  him  off,  took 
from  him  his  wife  and  deprived  him  of  his 
just  share  in  the  family  estate.  All  this  was 
ineffectual.  He  rejoiced  in  adversity  for 
Ohrist^s  sake.  When  he  was  at  first  ap- 
proached on  the  subject  of  entering  our  class 
he  said,  ''No,  do  not  take  away  from  me  my 
ground  of  boasting,  and  let  people  say  I  am 
a  Protestant  for  the  sake  of  a  salary! ''  But 
when  he  learned  that  he  might  return  to  his 
trade  at  the  close  of  the  session  and  that  our 
purpose  was  merely  to  give  him  a  wider 
knowledge  of  God's  Word,  he  gladly  accepted 
the  plan  and  joined  the  class. 

A  fourth  is  the  son  of  a  priest  who  works 
as  a  sailor  and  has  a  family  dependent  upon 
him.  He  had  become  interested  in  Protest- 
antism and  was  anxious  to  have  a  better 


opportunity  for  study.  He 
gladly  embraced  the  offer 
and  made  provision  for  his 
family  during  his  absence. 
He  has  been  a  faithful  and 
attentive  member  of  the 
class. 

The  fifth  and  youngest 
is  from  a  village  in  which 
there  has  never  been  any 
Protestant  school.  His 
father  is  a  staunch  adherent 
of  the  Greek  church,  and 
he  was  himself  a  teacher  of 
the  Greek  school  employed 
by  the  head  of  the  famous 
monastery  of  St.  Geoige. 
He  learned  of  Protestan- 
tism, and  was  soon  con- 
vinced of  its  fuller  accord 
with  God's  written  revela- 
tion.  It  was  not  long  ere  his  conscience 
led  him  to  resign  his  position  as  teacher, 
and  he  was  eager  for  the  opportunity  to 
learn  more  of  divine  truth  and  hence  joined 
the  class.  He  will  probably  become  a  teacher 
in  one  of  our  schools,  and  he  gives  fair 
promise  of  useful  service.  He  remains  after 
his  comrades  for  special  study  of  grammar 
and  arithmetic  in  the  Tripoli  Boys*  School. 

The  remaining  member  of  the  class  is  a 
zealous  member  of  the  Church,  who  left  his 
shoemaker's  bench  a  year  ago  to  fill  a  tempo- 
rary vacancy,  and  showed  such  valuable  quali- 
ties as  a  leader  of  men,  and  such  earnest  sesl 
for  the  preaching  of  the  Word  that  we  wished 
him  to  have  fuller  training.  He  has  been  a 
leader  in  the  work  of  the  class,  and  goes 
forth  now  to  open  a  school  in  an  important 
village  whose  people  have  the  reputation  of 
being  hopelessly  bigoted. 

Our  three  months'  association  with  these 
simple-minded,  earnest  men  has  drawn  us  to 
them  in  a  deep  personal  attachment,  and  we 
trust  that  they  have  gained  an  equipment 
that  will  enable  them  to  do  good  service 
whether  in  the  ranks  of  paid  or  volunteer 
agents.  To  all  appearance  the  experiment 
upon  which  we  entered  with  some  doubts  has 
proved  a  complete  success.  We  hope  in  this 
way  to  gain  w  entr^qe  to  new  places,  ani 


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shall  begin  at  once  to  look  for  candidates  for 
a  similar  class  next  winter.  The  expense  is 
▼ery  slight,  the  added  labor  to  the  mis- 
sionaries is  most  cheerfully  accepted  and  we 
trust  the  fruitage  may  be  abundant  to  the 
honor  of  the  Master. 


THE  RE(X)RD  OF  1898  AT  A  CHINESE 
STATION. 

RIV.  HUNTER  CORBBTT,  D.D.,  GHEFOO. 

The  sudden  and  unexpected  death  of  Dr.  J. 
L.  Nevius,  October  19th,  brought  deep  sorrow 
not  only  to  all  the  missionaries  and  native 
Christians  of  our  own  Church,  but  also  of 
other  denominations  throughout  China.  For- 
ty years  of  untiring  and  successful  missionary 
work,  added  to  a  broad  and  well  cultivated 
mind  and  a  genial  manner,  made  him  an 
acknowledged  power,  and  his  influence  widely 
felt.  He  still  lives  in  the  hearts  of  the  many 
converts  he  baptized.  Through  the  preachers 
and  helpers  he  trained,  Christian  books  writ- 
ten by  him,  Bible  translation,  and  other 
work,  his  influence  will  be  perpetuated,  and 
the  hearts  of  many  made  glad.  The  deepest 
sympathy  is  felt  for  Mrs.  Nevius.  Daily 
prayers  are  offered  that  her  health  may  soon 
be  restored,  and  that  she  may  long  be  spared 
to  work  in  China.  All  the  other  members  of 
our  Chefoo  Station  have  been  blest  with 
health,  and  have  been  fully  occupied  with  a 
variety  of  work,  such  as  the  study  of  the 
language,  itinerating  journeys,  chapel  and 
street  preaching,  teaching  helpers  and  in- 
quirers, superintending  the  work  of  native 
preachers.  Christian  schools,  industrial  and 
other  work,  together  with  the  newly  organized 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Christian  Endeavor  efforts, 
from  which  we  hope  great  results.  During 
the  year  systematic  work  has  been  carried  on 
in  eleven  counties.  Forty  native  preachers 
have  given  either  the  whole  or  a  portion  of 
their  time  to  daily  preaching  and  distributing 
books  and  tracts  to  the  multitudes  who  attend 
the  markets.  Street  preaching  has  been 
carried  on  in  hundreds  of  towns  and  villages, 
speaking  to  people  by  the  way,  at  the  inns, 
and  wherever  men  are  found. 

Six  Bible  women  have  visited  in  many 
homes,   and  had  favorable  opportunities  to 


tell  women  and  children  of  a  Saviour^s  love 
and  power  to  save.  At  eight  different  centers 
during  the  cold  weather,  nearly  two  hundred, 
who  have  either  recently  been  baptized,  or 
have  asked  for  baptism,  have  assembled  and 
spent  from  one  to  two  months  in  the  daily 
study  of  God's  Word,  under  the  direction  of 
trained  helpers.  At  the  present  stage  of  our 
work  experience  has  shown  this  to  be  an  effi- 
cient method  of  teaching  them  to  ^'Observe 
all  things  whatsoever  I  have  commanded 
you."  Many  whose  hearts  God  opens  to  re- 
ceive the  truth  are  illiterate,  and  not  a  few 
live  in  heathen  villages  far  remote  from 
churches  or  Christians.  Such  require  to  be 
carefully  instructed,  nourished,  and  taught  to 
pray  hourly  for  strength  and  wisdom  to  with- 
stand the  manifold  temptations  and  trials 
which  beset  them,  and  also  that  they  may  be 
able  to  tell  their  families  and  friends  and 
neighbors  the  way  of  salvation. 

Help  to  the  extent  of  less  than  five  cents 
per  day  is  all  that  is  needed  to  enable  many 
to  attend  these  Bible  and  Inquiry  classes 
which  for  thirty  years  have  been  a  prominent 
feature  of  our  work,  and  proved  a  blessing  to 
many  in  this  province. 

Two  days  ago  a  letter  was  received  from 
one  of  the  preachers  at  an  inland  station 
telling  of  results  following  the  efforts  of  the 
nine  Christian  men  of  the  station.  For  some 
time  after  each  Sabbath  morning  service 
they  have  gone  to  the  surrounding  villages  to 
preach  Christ.  Each  Sabbath  some  have  re- 
turned ¥nth  them  to  the  church  to  hear  more. 

At  the  village  of  Ying  Ewo,  one  of  those 
visited,  there  are  now  nine  men,  who  seem 
to  be  sincere  inquirers,  and  twelve  promising 
boys  pleading  to  have  a  Christian  school 
opened  in  their  village.  Whenever  the 
writer  of  the  letter  visits  the  village,  a  room 
is  crowded  with  men  anxious  to  hear  the 
Gospel.  The  same  letter  mentions  the  peace- 
ful and  triumphant  death  of  two  aged  Chris- 
tian women.  In  the  early  summer  another 
member,  a  widow  of  75  years  of  age,  died. 
Her  last  words  were  spoken  to  her  blind  son. 
She  said  to  him,  *'Do  not  be  troubled,  but 
rejoice  and  be  glad  that  my  sorrows  are  ended, 
and  I  am  going  to  be  with  Jesus.  Follow 
Him,  and  then  we  shaU  meet  in  heaven. 


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Thanks  to  my  Heavenly  Father  I  nov  see 
my  Saviour/'  She  fell  asleep  and  passed 
away  without  a  struggle. 

Our  schools  have  prospered  and  yielded  much 
fruit.  There  have  been  about  five  hundred 
under  instruction.  Not  a  few  of  this  num- 
ber have  openly  professed  faith  in  Jesus  and 
received  baptism.  Four  men  of  much  prom- 
ise have  completed  the  three  years  special 
course  of  study  in  the  Normal  School.  Dur- 
ing the  holiday  vacation  one  of  them  will 
teach  a  select  school  for  young  men  and  the 
other  three  will  be  associated  with  men  of 
experience  and  go  to  all  the  towns  and  vil- 
lages in  the  districts  assigned  them,  preaching 
salvation  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ. 

During  the  year  one  hundred  and  fifteen 
(115)  have  been  received  as  members  of  the 
Church,  and  forty-one  children  baptized. 

At  the  vUlage  of  Tai  Tsz  Chwang  a  man 
named  Kin,  88  years  of  age,  stood,  in  the 
presence  of  more  than  100  of  his  neighbors, 
professed  faith  in  Jesus  as  the  only  Saviour, 
and  knelt  for  baptism.  Nearly  two  years 
ago  a  profligate  son  so  bitterly  opposed  this 
man's  baptism  that  it  had  to  be  postponed. 
The  persistent  entreaties  of  the  father  and 
some  of  the  Christians  have  induced  the  son 
to  permit  his  father  to  take  this  step.  At 
the  same  place  another  man,  aged  78,  was  also 
baptized.  Both  of  these  men  had  been  care- 
fully instructed  by  Mr.  Wang  Poa  Kwei, 
who  for  many  years  has  been  a  faithful  and 
successful  preacher.  At  another  station  a 
widow  aged  79  years  was  baptized.  She  had 
been  taught  chiefly  by  a  grandson,  a  pupil  in 
one  of  our  schools.  At  another  station  a 
man  brought  his  father,  aged  75,  on  a  wheel- 
barrow a  distance  of  flve  miles  to  apply  for 
baptism.  When  the  old  man  came  before 
the  session  he  said  in  substance  **  My  mem- 
ory has  so  failed  and  I  am  so  stupid  and 
ignorant  that  I  cannot  answer  any  questions. 
All  I  know  is  that  I  am  a  helpless  sinner  and 
that  I  love  Jesus  and  trust  him  for  salva- 
tion . ''  The  son,  who  has  been  a  bright  Chris- 
tian for  a  year  or  more,  took  vows  upon  him 
to  daily  read  and  explain  the  Bible  and  do  all 
he  could  to  help  his  father  live  near  to  Jesus. 
During  the  early  Spring  some  portions  of  our 
field  suffered  partial  famine.    It  was  sad  in- 


deed to  see  families,  as  in  the  days  of  Abra- 
him,  fleeing  «Uewhere  in  search  of  food. 
We  were  able  to  af^t  the  Christians  so  that 
most  were  able  to  remain  at  home  until  new 
crops  were  gathered.  Several  chief  oflldi^ 
of  counties  have  shown  us  favor,  and  the 
people  as  a  class  are  friendly.  Pray  much 
for  China. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  ACTIVITIES  OF 
JAPAN. 

RBV.  H.  L00MI8,  YOKOHAMA. 

It  was  just  twenty- one  years  last  month 
since  the  edicts  against  Christianity  were 
removed  from  the  public  places,  and^  though 
not  officially  revoked,  they  have  now  cea£ed 
to  be  regarded  as  the  law  of  the  land.  Up  to 
that  date  opposition  and  persecution  were 
not  only  legal  but  really  expressed  the  atti- 
tude of  the  public  mind  toward  a  religion 
whose  past  history  had  been  of  such  a  charac- 
ter as  to  render  its  introduction  a  matter  of 
serious  apprehension  and  even  dread  on  the 
part  of  those  who  were  not  acquainted  with 
its  true  purpose  and  spirit. 

There  are  some  features  of  the  work  just 
at  present  that  give  anxiety  to  the  laborers 
now  in  the  field,  but  when  we  gather  up  the 
various  facts  that  indicate  what  marvelous 
changes  have  taken  place  in  the  attitude  <^ 
the  government  and  the  public  mind  we  can 
but  feel  that  God^s  hand  has  not  only  wrou^t 
wondrously  in  the  past,  but  is  still  a  mighty 
factor  in  the  history  of  this  interesting  and 
progressive  people. 

According  to  the  statistics  of  1898  there 
are  now  648  missionaries  (including  wives) 
connected  with  the  work  in  Japan,  877 
churches,  of  which  78  are  self -supporting, 
and  87,400  church  members,  of  whom  8,686 
were  added  during  the  year.  There  are  also 
7,393  pupils  in  Christian  schools  and  27,000 
Sunday-school  scholars.  There  are  286 
native  ministers,  867  theological  students, 
and  665  unordained  preachers  and  helpers. 
The  sum  contributed  by  the  native  Christians 
is  given  as  62,400  Yen,  or  about  $40,000 
United  States  currency. 

Besides  the  regular  church  organizations 
and  missi(m  work,  there  is  now  a  resident 


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Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation from  the  United  States,  who  has 
heen  sncoessfnUy  at  work  in  developing  and 
organizing  the  Christian  young  men  into 
aocietieB  for  their  mutual  benefit  and  also  for 
aggressive  religious  work.  He  reports  that 
**  In  1898  the  Associations  of  Japan  formed 
themselves  into  a  National  Union,  having 
its  headquarters  and  Executive  Committee 
located  at  Tokyo.  The  Union  now  includes 
83  Associations  (of  which  number  18  are  Col- 
lege Assodations),  with  a  total  membership 
of  1,055.  Twenty- five  other  Associations, 
not  yet  in  the  Union,  are  known  to  be  in 
existence.  Their  membership  is  estimated 
at  600." 

The  Tokyo  Association  has  for  its  officers 
men  who  are  nearly  all  of  national  promi- 
nence, and  it  is  proposed  to  build  up  in  this 
p<^tical  and  educational  center  a  model  insti- 
tution that  will  make  its  influence  felt 
throughout  the  whole  land. 

About  ten  years  ago  a  Scripture  Union  was 
started  in  Japan,  and  it  now  reports  a  mem- 
bership of  upwards  of  18,000.  It  has  a 
Travelling  Secretary,  and  in  some  parts  of 
the  country  the  local  organizations  cover  the 
entire  field. 

But  numerical  strength  alone  is  not  a  suffi- 
cient index  of  the  growth  and  power  of 
Christianity  in  this  land.  A  recent  article  in 
the  Japan  Mail  asserts  that  there  could  be  no 
greater  mistake  than  the  assertion  sometimes 
made  that  Christianity  has  gained  acceptance 
only  among  the  ignorant  and  lowly.  In  the 
country  at  large  nearly  forty  per  cent,  of  the 
Christians  belong  to  the  '*  Shizoku,'*  or  intel- 
lectual class  of  Japan.  In  the  city  of  Tokyo 
nearly  seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  members 
are  ^^Shizoku."  In  a  single  church  con- 
nected with  the  Congregational  body  there 
are  to  be  found  two  members  holding  office 
directly  from  the  Emperor,  and  not  less  than 
twelve  who  hold  appointments  from  the 
Council  of  State  with  the  sanction  of  the 
Emperor,  and  it  is  asserted  that  this  church 
is  not  superior  to  many  others  associated  with 
the  same  or  other  missions. 

It  was  only  a  testimony  to  the  character 
and  popularity  of  the  Christian  element  that 
in  the  first  Diet  twelve  members  and  the 


speaker  were  Christians.  In  Tokyo  and 
Kyoto  some  of  the  most  influential  members 
of  the  city  and  prefecturial  assemblies  are 
believers,  while  m  Gumma  Ken  out  of  a  total 
of  sixty  members  in  the  Assembly  eight  are 
Christians. 

There  is  a  **  Christian  Physicians*  Society 
of  Japan  ^'  which  numbers  over  seventy 
members.  Their  object  is  the  free  distribu- 
tion of  the  Bible  among  the  physicians  of 
the  country. 

The  strongest  political  organization  in 
Japan  is  called  the  '^Jiyuto,'*  or  Radical 
Party,  and  it  is  likely  soon  to  have  a  control- 
ing  influence  in  the  affairs  of  the  government. 
Its  Vice  President  is  an  Elder  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Kochi  and  one  of  the  most 
active  and  consistent  members. 

There  are  now  Christian  moral  instructors 
in  several  of  the  government  prisons,  and 
their  labors  have  been  attended  with  most 
beneficial  results.  Many  have  been  con- 
verted, and  it  is  reported  that  there  have 
been  applications  for  450  Reading  Lists  of 
the  Scripture  Union  from  the  prisoners  located 
in  the  Hokkaido  alone. 

Until  recently  the  Bible  was  prohibited  in 
the  Higher  Normal  School  in  Tokjo.  There 
is  now  no  restriction  in  regard  to  its  posses- 
sion and  use. 

During  the  year  1898  there  were  sold  at 
the  Bible  House  in  Yokohama  4806  Bibles, 
16,265  Testaments,  and  16,584  portions  of 
the  Scriptures,  and  more  than  a  million  cop- 
ies of  the  same  had  been  circulated  hereto- 
fore. 

The  report  of  the  United  Tract  Societies 
for  1898  gives  the  total  sales  as  follows: 
Books,  8,114;  Tracts,  161,816;  or  a  total  of 
164,980  copies  of  Christian  literature.  There 
were  also  118,404  copies  donated,  so  that  the 
aggregate  circulation  was  278,477.  With  so 
much  scattering  of  the  seed  of  divine  truth 
there  must  be  important  and  lasting  results. 

And  the  blessing  of  God  is  resting  upon 
work  in  all  parts  of  the  land.  A  letter  from 
the  Hokkaido  reports  that  the  missionary  on 
his  journey  ^^was  never  treated  with  more 
kindness  or  consideration  by  the  people. 
This  was  not  only  delightful  but  a  profound 
matter  of  gratitude  to  God.*'    He  adds  that 


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he  never  got  so  dose  to  the  Japanese  heart 
before,  and  many  heard  the  word  gladly, 
while  not  a  few  were  deeply  impressed  with 
the  beauty,  power,  and  blessedness  of  the 
Christian  religion.  ^*My  heart  oyerflowed 
with  joy  at  the  sight  of  responsive  hearts, 
faces  lighted  np  with  joy,  and  feet  treading 
in  the  pathway  of  peace  and  righteousness.'' 
The  membership  of  the  church  is  increasing, 
souls  are  being  awakened  and  converted,  and 
the  preachers  and  members  are  uniting  and 
co-operating  as  never  before." 

One  of  the  missionaries  at  Nagoya  writes 
that  during  the  Week  of  Prayer  the  interest 
was  so  great  that  it  was  decided  to  continue 
in  supplication  for  the  outpouring  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  And  so  with  one  accord  they 
met  in  one  place  to  pray  and  wait  for  the 
desired  blessing.  The  volume  of  prayer 
flowed  on  for  two  hours  at  a  time,  and  noth- 
ing but  the  intervention  of  the  leader,  or  the 
singing  of  a  hymn  seemed  to  check  it. 
Buddlust  priests  came  in,  listened  quietly, 
and  withdrew  in  silence. 

As  the  result  of  these  prayers  there  has 
been  such  an  awakening  as  was  never  known 
in  that  part  of  Japan  before,  and  all  are  filled 
with  a  desire  to  lead  others  to  Christ.  Plans 
were  matured  for  aggressive  work  among  un- 
believers, and  evangelistic  services  were  to  be 
held  in  different  parts  of  the  city  every  night. 
Already  reports  have  been  received  of  a  good 
number  turning  to  the  Lord. 

Ten  young  men  connected  with  the  Pres- 
byterian body  in  Tokyo  have  recently  formed 
themselves  into  an  Association  for  the  special 
object  of  carrying  the  pure  Gospel  of  salva- 
tion to  the  great  masses  that  are  without 
Christ  and  many  of  them  ignorant  of  even 
the  very  first  truths  of  the  Gospel.  These 
young  men  are  preachers  or  teachers,  and  al- 
ready an  interest  has  been  awakened  that 
gives  promise  of  most  blessed  results.  It  is 
possible  that  in  just  this  way  God  is  going 
to  turn  the  minds  of  the  people  from  all 
fruitless  discussions  and  divisions,  and  lead 
them  to  the  special  and  important  work  of 
saving  precious  and  immortal  souls. 

And  so  with  these  evidences  of  the  Lord's 
presence  and  blessing  ^*we  thank  God  and 
take  courage." 


A  HINDU  JN  SEARCH  OP  THE  TRUTH. 

How  little  we  know  of  the  spiritual  con- 
flicts and  heart-rending  struggles  of  many  of 
our  native  converts  in  mission  lands!  The 
following  letter  takes  us  into  the  confidence 
of  an  educated  young  man  in  India  who  had 
been  in  one  of  our  schools.  He  writes  it  to  a 
missionary  who  was  seeking  to  lead  him  to 
Christ.  He  was  not  far  from  the  kingdom, 
and  the  loving  spirit  who  was  striving  with 
him  has  ere  this,  let  us  hope,  led  him  to  trust 
fully  in  Christ  who  alone  can  give  us  peace. 

Please  accept  my  heartfelt  thanks  for  your 
kind  letter  of  the  15th  inst. 

Now,  a  word  about  the  serious  question  you 
have  asked  of  me.  One  always  shrinks  from 
giving  a  definite  answer  to  a  question  of  this 
nature,  which,  however,  is  the  height  of  foolish- 
ness. Besides,  your  question  is  very  probing, 
for,  to  tell  you  the  truth,  my  heart  tells  me  that 
I  do  need  a  Saviour.  I  believe,  however,  that 
your  question  is  like  a  surgeon's  knife,  the 
deeper  it  probes  the  better  for  the  patient  So  I 
must  reveal  to  you  the  present  state  of  my  mind, 
and  ask  your  help,  which  Providence  has  put 
within  my  reach,  in  removing  many  a  doubt  that 
troubles  me  not  a  little. 

I  consider  Hinduism  to  be  a  bundle  of  lies, 
superatitioDB,  and  abominations.  I  would  sooner 
chop  off  my  head  or  cut  off  my  knees  than  bow 
the  one  or  bend  the  other  to  a  senseless  block  of 
stone,  and  prefer  to  be  cast  into  hell  to  accepting 
the  cowherd  of  Bindraband  as  my  saviour.  It  is 
only  the  men  who  can  be  persuaded  to  believe 
that  the  moon  is  made  of  green  cheese  that  have 
any  faith  in  the  blasphemous  dogmas  of  Hindu- 
ism. As  for  myself,  I  do  not  observe  many — I 
may  say  any— of  the  rules  laid  down  by  it  I 
bade  farewell  to  our  c^^t  and  sacred  thread  long, 
long  ago.  I  do  not  believe  that  the  touch  of  a 
Christian  or  a  Mohammedan  can  foul  my  food  or 
drink,  and  have  no  objection  to  eating  in  the 
house  of  either  of  them.  As  for  embracing 
Mohammedanism — that  diabolical   irreligion — I 

would  rather  be  flayed  alive,  as  I  told 

only  the  other  day.  The  Arya  Samaj  is  said  to 
be  a  religious  society,  but  I  cannot  for  the  life  of 
me,  discover  any  religious  element  in  it  More- 
over, it  has  no  humility  or  forgiveness,  and 
despises  sinners,  as  if  all  its  members  were  bom 
saints  and  above  sinning. 

So  I  see  that  any  of  these  religions — one  must 
call  them  religions — would  not  suit  me.  On  the 
other  hand,  how  sublime  and  beautiful  is  the 


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religion  that  the  humble  and  forgiving  Christ 
has  preached!  It  is  balm  to  one's  wounded 
heart  to  think  that  though  other  religions  may 
despise  and  hate  one's  sinful  self,  there  is  a 
religion  which  not  only  will,  but  ffeam$  to  wel- 
come baclL  the  prodigal  son.  The  simple  and 
homely  words  in  which  Christ  has  preaehed 
humility  and  forgiveness  go  straight  home  to 
cue's  heart,  and  find  an  echo  there.  Besides,  he 
came  ''to  save  sinners."  I  believe  that  Christ- 
ianity has  done  more  to  humanize  man,  and 
make  him  worthier  of  the  name  he  has  the  proud 
dignity  to  bear,  than  all  the  religions  of  this 
world  put  together.  Had  to  embrace  Christian- 
ity been  the  only  thing  to  ensure  salvation,  I 
would  long  ago  have  done  so,  and  been  happy 
to  work  at  one  of  your  **  under-manned  '  sta- 
tions. But  the  question  to  be  solved  is:  Is 
Christ,  in  addition  to  His  being  the  founder  of 
Christianity,  also  the  Divine  Saviour  of  the 
Christians?  (I  hope  you  will  not  take  offense  at 
the  doubts  of  a  man  who  honestly  seeks  to  learn 
the  truth.  On  the  other  hand,  I  expect  you  to 
help  and  guide  me  in  solving  this  difficult  prob- 
lem.) 

In  the  Summer  of  1890,  before  the  closing  of 
our  college  for  two  months  and  a  half,  the  Rev. 

Mr. exhorted  us  in  his  address  to  study 

the  Bible  along  with  our  text  books.  This  ex- 
hortation awakened  a  strange  feeling  within  me. 
In  the  same  year  a  copy  of  **The  Founder  of 
Christianity,"  and  another  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment, had  been  presented  to  each  of  theisuccess- 
ful  candidates  in  the  Intermediate  Examination. 

I  took  these  copies  with  me  to ,  and  the 

first  thing  that  I  did  there  was  to  read  Mr.  Mur- 
doch's "Founder  of  Christianity."  After  I  had 
finished  this  book  I  commenced  the  New  Testa- 
ment. I  studied  also  some  of  the  pamphlets 
published  by  the  Christian  Tract  Society  of 
Madras.  On  the  reopening  of  our  college  I  read 
"The  Wide  Wide  World."  which  wrung  many  a 
tear  from  my  eyes.  Oh,  how  condemning  to 
think  that  I  have  never  tried  to  find  out  the 
truth  as  that  little  girl  Ellen,  its  heroine,  tried 
to  dot  I  read  the  "Old  Helmet,"  and  came 
across  the  following  lines,  which  caught  hold  of 
meat  once: 

"There  is  bahn  in  Gilead 

To  make  the  wounded  whole; 
There's  power  enough  in  Jeeus 
To  save  the  sin-sick  soul." 

I  do  not  know  how  many  times  I  have  repeat- 
ed over  these  lines  to  myself;  and  I  would  give 
anything  to  find  out  that  they  are  true. 

Now,  from  all  that  I  have  heard  and  read 
about  Christianity  I  have  come  to  this  conclu- 


sion :  either  Christ  was  really  what  He  declared 
himself  to  be,  and  what  the  Christians  believe 
him  to  be,  or  (pardon  the  word)  an  impostor.  A 
shiver  runs  through  my  frame  as  the  latter  idea 
enters  my  mind,  and  I  feel  as  if  I  had  been 
guilty  of  profanation.  But  this  will  show  you 
that  as  yet  I  have  some  doubts  of  Jesus  Christ's 
being  our  Divine  Saviour.  On  the  other  hand. 
His  humility.  His  kindness.  His  lofty  ideal  of 
morality.  His  immaculate  character,  His  noble- 
ness. His  fervor.  His  zeal.  His  fearlessness  (a 
quality  very  seldom  found  in  an  impostor),  and 
above  all,  the  sufferings  and  persecutions  he 
had  to  undergo,  make  one  hesitate  not  a  little  in 
pronouncing  this  noblest  of  beings  an  impostor. 
"  Whosoever  therefore  shall  confess  me  before 
men,  him  will  I  confess  also  before  my  Father 
which  is  in  heaven,  but  whosoever  shall  deny 
me  before  men,  him  will  I  also  deny  before  my 
Father  which  is  in  heaven."  "  Come  unto  me, 
all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will 
give  you  rest."  These  words  puzzle  me  very 
much.  Were  they  uttered  by  an  impostor,  or 
really  by  one  who  came  into  this  world  to  expi- 
ate for  our  sins?  Can  you  recommend  some 
book  which  would  solve  this  question  for  me, 
and  set  my  heart  at  rest  forever,  as  you  say  in 
your  letter?  I  hope  my  candid  confession  will 
not  offend  you.  I  shall  wait  for  your  reply 
most  anxiously. 

The  Annual  Report  of  Lovedale  Institute, 
South  Africa,  for  1898  has  just  been  pub- 
lished. There  was  a  total  of  782  pupils  in 
attendance.  The  institution  is  a  little  world 
in  itself,  and  has  its  church  with  151  commu- 
nicants, 26  of  whom  were  admitted  last  year. 
There  are  classes  of  candidates  for  admission 
numbering  in  all  129  applicants.  There  are 
Sabbath-school  classes  and  a  missionary  asso- 
ciation which  engages  in  evangelistic  work  on 
the  Sabbath.  Special  religious  services  were 
held  at  times  during  the  year.  Hard  work 
was  done  in  the  regular  school  curriculum,  an 
important  feature  of  which  is  industrial  train- 
ing. There  is  a  theological  department  also. 
The  workshops  of  Lovedale  present  a  busy 
scene.  The  printers  have  now  learned  to 
stereotype.  Among  other  items  referred  to 
in  the  Report  are  the  Book  Shop,  the  Libfary, 
the  Literary  Society,  the  Training  Society, 
the  Tract  Society,  the  Scripture  Union,  the 
Total  Abstinence  Society,  the  White  Cross 
Society,  the  Choir,  and  the  Band. 


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Concert  of  Prayer 
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MARCH,       . 
APRIL,    . 
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JUNB.      . 
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Qenerml  Review  of  Mieeione. 

Miuione  in  China. 

Mexico  and  Central  America. 

.  Mieaiona  in  India. 

Miaeione  in  Siam  and  Laoa. 

.  Miaaione  in  Africa. 

Chineae  and  Japaneae  in  America. 

•    Mieaiona  in  Korea. 

Miaaione  in  Japan. 

Miaaione  in  Peraia. 

Miaeione  in  South  America. 

Mleeione  in  Sjrria. 


MISSIONS  IN  AFRICA. 

GABOON  AND  CORI8CO  MISSION. 

Baraea:  on  the  Gkibooii  riyer,  near  the  equator, 
10  miles  from  the  sea;  occupied  as  a  station,  1842; 
transferred  from  American  Board,  1870;  missionary 
laborers— Rey.  Robert  H.  Nassau,  M.  D.,  and  Mrs. 
T.  Spencer  Ogden;  French  assistant,  Mons.  B. 
Presset.  Outbtation,  Corisco:  55  miles  north  of 
the  equator,  and  from  15  to  20  miles  from  the  main- 
land; occupied  as  a  station,  1850. 


Godduhn  and  Mrs.  Godduhn,  Rev.  W.  C.  Gault  and 
Mrs.  Gault,  C.  J.  LafDn,  M.  D.,  and  Mrs.  LafDn, 
Mr.  E.  A.  Ford,  Miss  Isabella  A.  Nassau,  and  Miss 
Louise  A.  Babe. 

Efulbn:  about  70  miles  southeast  of  Bataaga, 
behind  the  coast  belt;  occupied  as  a  station  1898; 
missionary  laborers— Rey.  A.  C.  Gk>od,  Ph.  D.,  and 
Mrs.  Good,  Rey.  R.  H.  MUligan,  and  Mr.  M.  H. 
Kerr. 

In  this  country:  Mrs.  A.  C.  Good. 

In  England:  Mrs.  A.  W.  Marling. 

missions  in  LIBERIA. 

Monrovia:  Rev.  Frank  B.  Perry. 
Brbwerville:  Rev.  J.  W.  N.  Hilton. 
Schieffelin:  Wm.  H.  Blaine. 
Carbysburo:  Rev.  R.  A.  M.  Deputie. 
Grassdale:  John  M.  Deputie. 
Clay- Ashland:  A.  B.  King. 
Greenville,  Sinoe:  Rev.  D.  W.  Frazier. 
QUEH,  in  Upper  Virginia:  Samuel  J.  George. 
DOH:  Rev.  G^rge  A.  Peabody. 
Warney:  J.  E.  Jones. 
Mt.  Tabor:  Mrs.  S.  E.  Nurse. 
Granger:  G.  E.  Payne. 
White  Plains:  Rev.  Z.  R.  Kennedy. 


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LIVINGSTONIA. 


Angom:  above  Nengenenge,  on  the  Como  river; 
occupied  as  a  station,  1881;  missionary  laborers- 
Rev.  Arthur  W.  Marling  and  Mrs.  Marling,  and 
Rev.  W.  S.  Bannerman  and  Mrs.  Bannerman. 

Benito:  92  miles  north  of  Gaboon;  occupied  as  a 
station,  18d8;  missionary  laborers — Mrs.  Louise 
Reutlinger,  Mrs.  C.  De  Heer,  Miss  Uulda  Christian- 
sen, Captain  Menkel,  and  Rev,  Frank  Myongo, 

Batanga:  170 miles  north  of  Gaboon;  occupied 
as  a  station,  1875;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  G.  A. 


The  statistics  of  the  Gaboon  and  Corisco  Mission 
for  1808  are  as  follows: 

Ordained  missionaries,  7;  married  lady  mission- 
aries, 6;  unmarried  lady  missionaries,  6;  medical 
missionaries,  1 ;  lay  missionaries,  2;  ordained  natives, 
4;  native  licentiates,  8;  native  teachers  and  helpers, 
24;  number  of  churches,  9;  communicants,  1,218; 
added  during  the  year,  228;  number  of  boarding 
schools,  5;  boys  in  boarding  schools,  01;  girls  in 
boarding  schools,  28;  number  of  day  schools,  5;  boys 


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in  day  lohools,  65;  girls  in  day  schools,  160;  total 
number  of  papils,  899;  pupils  in  Sabbath-schools, 
1,960;  students  for  the  ministry,  4;  number  of 
patients  treated  (six  months),  1,060. 

Some  of  the  aboye  figures  show  a  marked  falling 
off  as  compared  with  those  of  last  year.  The  reason 
for  this  is  the  transfer  of  the  work  on  the  Ogowe  to 
the  French  Society,  which  included  four  churches 
and  a  large  membership. 

The  statistics  of  the  Mission  in.  Liberia  for  the 
year  1808  are  as  follows: 

Churohss:  Monrovia,  68  members;  Clay- Ash- 
land, 60;  Brewenrille,  20;  Careysburg,  18;  Beadle 
Memorial,  at  Orassdale,  20;  Greenrille,  Since,  86; 
Schieffelin,  87 ;  Granger,  27 ;  total  communicants,  845. 

Schools:  Clay-Ashlsnd,  40  pupils;  Orassdale,  13; 
Mt.  Tabor,  8;  Schieffelin,  40;  Careysburg,  25; 
Wamey,  20;  Granger,  40;  Queh,  15;  BreweryiUe, 
80;  Doh,  10;  total  of  pupils,  249. 

We  haye  occasion  for  devout  thanksgiving  in  the 
continued  prosperity  of  our  African  Missions.  The 
church  at  Batanga  received  upon  confession  07  mem- 
bers in  1808.  In  1892  Uiere  were  81  received.  The 
total  of  its  membership  at  present  is  440.  Four 
churches,  located  at  Ubenje,  Bata,  Bvune,  and 
Myuma,  have  recently  been  organised  in  connection 
with  the  same  station,  and  others  are  in  prospect  at 
Lobe  and  Kribi.  The  Batanga  church  was  the 
twenty-fourth  on  the  Preebjterian  roll  of  over 
7,000  churches  in  1892,  if  ranked  in  accordance  with 
the  number  received  on  confession.  We  are  sure 
that  it  will  occupy  an  honored  place  in  the  list  of 
1888.  Light  is  surely  breaking  where  Christian 
missions  have  entered  the  Dark  Continent. 


The  total  of  additicms  to  the  Church  in  our  Gaboon 
and  Corisoo  Mission  for  1898  was  228,  as  follows: 
Batanga,  97,  Bvune,  29,  Myuma,  27,  Ubenje,  24, 
Benito,  86,  Baraka,  9,  and  Corisoo,  5.  There  has 
been  a  constant  harvest  for  the  past  six  years  in  the 
Gaboon  Mission,  as  may  be  seen  by  the  following 
record  of  additions : 

18S8 868 

1889 168 

18P0 108 

18»! Jt92 

18W 248 

1898 2«8 

Total lj» 

Is  there  another  little  presbytery  in  our  church 
which  can  show  a  record  like  this  ?  Let  us  recognize 
with  thanksgiving  the  favor  of  God  and  the  mani- 
fest power  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

The  recent  push  into  the  interior  from  Batanga 
has  been  followed  up  with  energy,  sacrifice  and 
laborious  toils  en  the  part  of  our  pioneer  band. 
The  new  station  has  been  named  Efulen  instead  of 
Nkonemekak,  which  is  the  name  of  a  town  near  by. 
The  name  was  given  by  the  natives,  and  means  liter- 
ally "a meeting  plaoe.^'  The  climate  of  the  new 
station  is  favwable.    It  is  1,600  feet  above  the  level 


of  the  sea,  and  is  situated  upon  a  hill  250  feet  above  a 
small  river  that  winds  around  its  base.  It  is  a  sightly 
location,  with  a  magnificent  view.  Tne  heat  is 
tempered  by  breexes,  and  there  is  good  water  acces- 
sible. Dr.  Good,  with  Rev.  Mr.  Milllgan  and  Mr. 
Kerr,  started  for  the  station  July  17,  to  formally 
open  it  and  make  it  habitable.  Dr.  LafDn  will  no 
doubt  join  them  later.  Mrs.  Good  on  account  of  ill 
health  has  been  obliged  to  return  to  America.  The 
enterprise  was  for  a  time  shadowed  by  the  critical 
illness  of  Mr.  Milligan  soon  after  their  arrival  at 
the  station.  In  the  good  Providence  of  God  be 
recovered.  This  new  station  is  pioneer  work  indeed, 
and  the  first  thing  to  be  done  was  to  secure  a  house 
to  live  in.  It  was  soon  built,  and  is  16  by  28  feet  in 
siae,  and  divided  into  three  small  bedrooms  and  a 
large  living  room.  The  timber  had  to  be  cut,  the 
planks  made,  and  the  rude  structure  put  together, 
with  outside  walls  of  bark  and  a  roof  of  bamboo 
mats.  The  arrangement  for  a  fire  is  a  box-like 
frame  set  into  the  fioor  and  filled  with  day.  Here 
is  the  bill  of  expenses : 


Material  (mats,  bark,  bamboo,  etc) $15  00 

Wages  paid  workmen— 180  days  at  16c 88  80 

Wages  paid  for  cnttiog  plank,  60  days  at  18o (00 

Total  for  house $68  80 

KITCHXH. 

Material 4  00 

Wages  paid,  16  days  at  160 .840 

Total  for  kitchen $6  40 

Grand  Total iftTxO 

Our  Presbyterian  headquarters  in  the  interior  of 
the  Dark  Continent  will  hardly  provoke  criticism  on 
the  score  of  expense  or  elegance.  Let  us  hope  that 
they  may  become  a  center  of  spiritual  light  and 
Gospel  benediction  in  that  dark  and  needy  environ- 
ment.   

The  outlook  from  the  new  station  is  not  only  ex- 
tensive and  beautiful  in  its  material  aspects,  bat 
encouraging  in  spiritual  promise.  The  missionaries 
while  erecting  their  home  were  at  the  same  time 
mastering  the  language.  Dr.  Good  made  a  tour  of 
four  or  five  days  through  a  populous  district  situ- 
ated about  a  day^s  journey  north  of  Efulen.  He 
received  a  cordial  welcome,  and  was  listened  to  with 
great  respect.  He  writes :  '*  The  Bole  have,  on  the 
whole,  received  us  better  than  I  had  expected. 
Especially  the  interest  and  attention  with  which 
they  have  listened  to  the  Gospel  have  been  most 
gratifying-  While  we  have  not  been  able  to  make 
many  preaching  tours  to  distant  points,  frequent 
meetings  have  been  held  in  the  towns  about  the 
station,  and  latterly  the  Sabbath  service  has  been 
quite  well  attended.*' 

Dr.  Laifin  gives  the  results  of  his  observaticns 
during  a  reoent  visit  to  the  station,  as  follows :  **  I 
was  rejoiced  to  find  that  the  spiritual  work  had  not 
been  allowed  to  suffer.  Nearly  every  town  for 
miles  around  had  heard  the  GhMpeL  Li  several  of 
them  I  heard  the  children  singing  in  their  own 
tongue  *  Jesus  Loves  Me,'  and  'Beautiful  Words. 


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On  eyery  hand  one  can  plainly  aee  the  effect  of  the 
dawning  light.     I  fully  believe  that  in  a  few  years 
we  shall  see  a  glorious  change  in  these  people.     In- 
deed the  change  is  already  great,  but  it  cannot  be 
tabulated  in  statistics.    Everywhere,  even  where 
they  have  but  once  heard  the  Gospel,  they  recognize 
that  this  is  the  power  which  has  raised  the  coast 
people,  though  no  doubt  few,  if  any,  of  them  rea- 
lise what  it  will  cost  them  to  be  Christians.    One 
chief  said  to  me,  *  I  want  to  be  a  Christian,  but 
I  cannot  part  with  my  wives,  for  I  have 
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page  441.  Our  work  on  the  Ogowe  brought  us 
in  contact  largely  with  the  Fang  tribe.  We  are 
still,  however,  doing  work  among  them  at  Angom, 
and  as  they  are  now  known  to  extend  far  to  the 
northward  we  meet  branches  of  them  again  in  the 
Bule  in  the  vicinity  of  Efulen. 


Dr.  Nassau,  whose  recent  visit  to  America  will  be 
remembered  with  interest,  has  returned  to  the 
mission,  and  is  now  located  at  Baraka.     The  recent 


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It  will  be  remembered  by  our  readers  that  the 
transfer  of  Talaguga,  and  now  also  of  the  Kangwe 
station,  to  the  French  Evangelical  Society  of  Paris 
delivered  over  the  mission  work  on  the  Ogowe  River 
to  other  hands  (See  Church  at  Homs  and  Abroad, 
June,  1892,  page  518).  Rev.  Mr.  Jacot,  formerly  of 
our  mission,  has  entered  the  service  of  the  French 
Society.  Kangwe  station  was  the  center  of  a  suc- 
cessful and  varied  work.  The  little  church  of  35 
members,  in  1885,  had  developed  into  four  prosper- 
ous churches  with  a  membership  of  nearly  400,  and 
classes  of  inquirers  numbering  350  are  under  instruc- 
tion as  candidates  for  church  membership.  As 
noted  above,  the  transfer  of  Kangwe  and  Talaguga 
has  diminished  materially  the  sum  total  of  our 
Church  roll  in  Africa.  We  have  assumed,  how- 
ever, large  and  promising  reeponsibilitiee  in  opening 
up  the  new  interior  station  of  Efulen,  which  will  no 
doubt  call  for  generous  efforts  as  time  goes  on.  All 
who  are  interested  in  tracing  the  growth  of  this 
new  enterprise  will  find  a  sketch  of  it  in  The 
Church  at  Home  and  Abroad  for  June,  1893,  pp. 
441-444,  with  references  to  the  previous  preliminary 
exploraticms  of  Dr.  GKx)d  in  a  note  at  the  bottom  of 


transfer  of  Mr.  Ford  to  Batanga  leaves  Dr.  Nassau 
the  only  male  missionary  at  Baraka,  and  gives 
emphasis  to  the  earnest  plea  of  the  mission  for 
another  ordained  missionary  to  help  in  the  evan- 
gelistic work  at  that  point.  Mrs.  Ogden  has  con- 
ducted a  special  work  among  the  women  of  Baraka, 
with  the  assistance  of  several  Bible  readers.  Meet- 
ings have  been  held  weekly  in  various  towns  up  and 
down  the  river.  There  is  much  need  of  a  lady 
physician  to  be  associated  with  her. 


Angom  station,  on  tho  Como  river,  some  distance 
towards  the  interior  from  Baraka,  is  a  lonely  and 
isolated  outpost.  Rev.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bannerman 
have  been  transferred  to  this  station  from  Kangwe. 
The  previous  illness  and  temporary  withdrawal  of 
Mr.  Marling  had  left  the  station  for  a  time  without 
a  missionary.  Morning  and  evening  services  are 
held  in  the  prayer-room,  and  the  old  ban^boo 
church  is  crowded  on  the  Sabbath  with  attentive 
listeners.  The  unhealthfulness  of  the  station  and 
its  increasing  isolation  have  suggested  a  push  into 
the  interior  from  this  point,  so  that  possibly  we  may 
have  another  interior  station  before  long.    Mr. 


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BannermAii  writes  as  follows  oonceming  the  sitaA- 
tioo:  **  The  work  among  the  Fang  of  Angom  is  far 
in  adyance  of  that  among  the  Faag  about  Eangwe 
and  Talagnga,  both  in  general  advancement  and 
enlightenment  of  the  people  in  things  religious  and 
secular,  and  especially  in  the  religious  traming  and 
education  of  the  young.  Centralization  is  one  ex- 
planation of  this,  and  that  work-center,  the  mission 
prayer-room.  In  the  adjoining  palaver  houses, 
only  a  few  feet  distant,  are  the  leading  men  and 
young  men  of  the  village,  most  of  whom  have  a 
pride  in  the  mission,  and  who  are  in  the  missionary's 
absence  the  general  guardians  of  the  premises. 
Here  we  have  our  Christians  and  many  others  who 
are  in  some  measure  trying  to  conform  their  lives  to 
the  Gospel  plan.  The  light  grows  dim  in  the 
geometrical  ratio  of  the  distance  from  the  prayer- 
room,  so  that  800  yards  distant  heathenish  rites  are 
performed  with  little  shame  or  attempt  of  conceal- 
ment. Forty  minutes  distant  the  missionary  is  still 
the  *  White  SpiHt*  who  kills  by  his  look,  and  from 
whom  the  women  and  children,  and  at  times  eren 
men,  flee  and  conceal  themselves  behind  barricaded 
doors.  There  is  an  immense  population  within  easy 
reach.  Forty-three  villages  can  easily  be  reached 
by  land  in  a  few  hours.^ 


Dr.  Laffln  has  opened  his  medical  work,  and 
reports  six  months  of  service  in  that  department. 
He  has  made  260  calls,  treated  1,060  cases  in  the  dis- 
pensary, performed  7  capital,  150  major,  and  460 
minor  surgical  operations.  He  has  given  earnest 
attention  to  the  spiritual  side  of  his  work,  and 
reports  that  in  this  sphere  he  found  opportunities 
limited  only  by  the  time  and  strength  he  could  give. 
He  writes:  **Some  of  the  most  soul- refreshing 
times  I  ever  spent  have  been  while  kneeling  beside 
my  patients  in  our  tiny  dispensary,  or  in  their 
homes.  There  is  a  broad  field  of  work  here,  which 
is  open  to  a  physician  as  to  no  other  person.  The 
gratitude  of  the  people  has  surprised  me  time  and 
again.  Even  more  remarkable  than  their  gratitude 
was  the  amount  of  confidence  I  found  most  of  them 
ready  to  place  in  the  Mission  Doctor  from  the  day 
of  my  arrivaL  When  a  person  who  has  seen  prac- 
tically nothing  of  the  power  of  medicine,  will,  with- 
out a  moment's  hesitation,  submit  to  a  capital  opera- 
tion by  a  physician  who  is  an  absolute  stranger  to 
him,  and  whose  sole  recommendation  is  that  he  is 
the  Doctor  of  the  Mission,  does  it  not  show  as 
nothing  else  can,  the  faithfulness  of  the  brethren 
who  have  labored  in  this  field  ?" 


Flourishing  schools  have  been  conducted  at  Bara- 
ka,  Benito,  and  Batanga.  Miss  Nassau  has  con- 
ducted a  day-school  for  girls  at  Batanga,  where  160 
names  were  enrolled  during  the  year,  although  the 
average  daily  attendance  was  not  over  60.  The 
school  at  Baraka,  under  the  charge  of  Mr.  Presset, 
had  50  pupils,  32  of  whom  were  boarders.  Two 
hours  daily  of  manual  labor  were  required  of  each 
pupil.    At  Benito  there  are  boarding-sdiools  for 


both  boys  and  girls,  with  80  pupils  in  the  former, 
and  22  in  the  latter.  At  Batanga  there  is  a  board- 
ing-school for  boys,  with  23  in  attendance.  The 
necessity  of  facilities  for  the  instruction  ci  native 
helpers  demands  attention  at  the  Batanga  station, 
and  the  coming  theological  seminary  of  the  Mission 
will,  no  doubt,  be  located  at  that  station.  In  the 
meanwhile  Mr.  Qault  and  Mr.  Godduhn  are  giving 
instruction  as  opportunity  ofTers,  to  all  availaUe 
candidates.  

The  center  for  the  literary  work  of  the  mission 
seems  to  be  at  Benito,  where  Mrs.  De  Heer  has  been 
giving  special  attention  to  this  department  during 
the  past  year.  The  Epistles  In  Benga  were  revised 
and  prepared  for  the  press.  Through  the  kiDdness 
of  Rev.  H.  Jacot,  now  in  the  French  liiasion,  the 
manuscript  was  carefully  compared  with  the  original 
Greek.  The  volume  has  been  printed  through  the 
liberality  of  the  American  Bible  Society,  and  a 
large  invoice  has  been  shipped  to  Africa.  The 
Benga  Primer  and  a  hand-book  for  native  ministers 
have  also  been  issued.  Volume  I.  of  a  new  edition 
of  Bible  History  is  now  in  the  press. 


THE  FANG  OF  WEST  AFRICA. 

BIV.  H.  JAOOT. 

The  Fang  (also  written  Fad)  are  one  of  the 
important  tribes  of  West  Africa,  both  with 
respect  to  numbers  and  characteristics.  Mr. 
DeBrazza,  the  noted  French  explorer,  esti- 
mates their  number  at  about  4, 000, 000.  They 
are  settled,  or  are  settling,  in  the  territory 
extending  from  the  Ogowe  river  on  the 
south  far  into  the  Cameroon  colony  on  the 
north,  where  they  are  known  under  the 
name  of  Bules  (Boolies),  and  from  the  coast 
for  an  indefinite  distance  towards  the  interior. 
Their  dialects,  although  not  identical,  are 
very  nearly  related,  and  may  be  considered  al- 
most as  one  language.  They  seem  to  come 
from  the  interior  of  the  Continent,  and  by  a 
process  of  slow  emigration  are  gradually 
approaching  the  coast.  Here  they  come  in 
contact  with  the  coast  tribes,  which,  inferior 
to  the  Fang  in  natural  vigor,  are  probably 
destined  sooner  or  later  to  give  way  before 
them. 

Physically  the  Fang  are  a  strong  rigorous 
race.  They  are  the  ^'  bush  "  or  forest  people, 
fond  of  the  chase,  of  war,  and  of  all  exciting 
pursuits.  They  are  easily  excited  to  anger, 
and  then  their  rage  knows  no  bounds,  but 
they  are  as  easily  calmed,  and  then  are  veri- 
table children,  laughing  under  the  slightest 
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STOCKADED   VILLAGE. 


Their  food  consists  chiefly  of  plantains  (a 
coarse  species  of  banana),  the  manioc  root, 
com,  sweet  potatoes  and  yams,  which  the 
women  cultivate  in  large  plantations  cleared 
in  the  forest.  Their  meat  diet  is  composed 
of  fish,  and  of  the  products  of  the  chase,  in 
which  latter  pursuit  the  Fang  excel.  When 
other  meat  is  wanting  they  are  not  averse  to 
human  flesh,  and  the  usual  fate  of  prisoners 
taken  in  war  is  to  supply  a  feast  for  their 
oaptors.  Through  contact  with  the  coast 
races  and  the  whites,  however,  they  are  be- 
ginning to  be  ashamed  of  this  custom,  and 
when  done  it  is  practiced  in  secret. 

Their  religious  notions  are  similar  to  that 
of  all  tribes  on  the  coast.  They  know  God 
(Anyam),  but  fear  him  without  paying  him 
any  worship.  Their  cult  is  fetichism  or  the 
worship  of  spirits.  The  witch  doctor  serves 
as  medium  between  the  real  and  the  spirit 
world.  Like  other  races  they  practice  poly- 
gamy, their  only  limit  to  the  number  of 
wives  that  a  man  can  possess  being  his  ability 
to  pay  the  exorbitant  sums  usually  demanded 
by  the  father  of  the  girl. 

They  hold  no  slaves,  the  more  menial  tasks 
of  agriculture  and  cooking  being  the  share 
of  the  women.  The  men  hunt,  carry  on 
war,  build  their  huts,  and  spend  a  large 
part  of  their  time  in  the  ^* palaver  houses,*' 


where  the  off-recurring  disputes  are  usually 
settled. 

Nor  are  they  addicted  to  the  use  of  rum, 
as  this  vice  of  the  whites  and  of  the  coast 
tnbes  has  not  yet  taken  root  among  them. 

Although  constantly  at  war  among  them- 
selves, a  white  man  is  usually  safe  among 
them.  The  European  enjoys  considerable 
prestige  even  in  the  interior  whither  his  fame 
has  preceded  him.  Wherever  we  go  as  mis- 
sionaries we  are  sure  of  having  a  large  audi- 
ence, and  of  being  closely  listened  to.  All 
that  we  have  to  say  to  the  Fang  being  so  new 
to  them,  they  would  frequently  be  willing  to 
stay  up  all  night  to  hear  the  words  of  Qod. 

In  a  word,  the  whole  country  is  open  to  us 
with  its  hundreds  of  thousands  of  natives. 
They  are  now  well  disposed,  and  it  is  a  most 
favorable  time  to  give  them  the  GK>si>el  before 
so-called  civilization  has  done  its  marring 
work. 

A  BULLETIN  FROM  EFULEN. 

REV.  A.  0.  GOOD,   PH.  D. 

Mission  meeting  kept  us  all  at  Batanga  un- 
til January  24,  when  we  started  for  our  new 
home  in  the  interior,  where  we  arrived  Jan- 
uary 27.  The  people  welcomed  us  very 
warmly.  The  idea  had  taken  possession  of 
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latter  p«rt  of  last  year,  as  I  had  intended,  I 
was  not  coming  back  to  them  at  aU. 

**0N  lABTH  PIAOB,   GOOD  WILL  TOWARD  MBN.'' 

The  day  after  onr  return  we  had  a  large 
number  at  oar  Sabbath  service,  although  this 
is  the  busy  season  of  the  year  for  the  Bule, 
when  most  of  them  are  away  from  home. 
Every  Sabbath  since  we  have  had  also  a  fair 
attendance,  and  what  is  more  important, 
there  is,  it  seems  to  me,  a  growing  interest 
in  the  message  we  bring  to  them.  I  feared  that 
after  the  first  months,  when  their  curiosity 
had  been  sated,  they  would  cease  to  come  to 
hear,  or  even  become  unwilling  to  listen  to 
us  during  our  visits  to  the  towns,  but  instead 
of  this,  in  every  case,  those  to  whom  I  have 
preached  most  frequently  are  my  most  atten- 
tive hearers.  We  have  no  converts  as  yet, 
nor  are  there  any  to  whom  I  can  point  and 
say  that  I  have  hopes  of  their  coming  to 
Christ  soon.  But  we  have  certainly  exerted 
a  very  great  influence  already.  To^ay,  as 
two  of  us  were  walking  through  a  town,  we 
stopped  where  some  people  were  having  a 
palaver.  I  asked  in  jest  if  the  palavers  were 
not  all  finished  yet.  ^*  Can  palavers  ever  fin- 
ishf  one  of  tiiem  replied;  but  he  added: 
*'  Were  we  ever  before  so  long  without  kill- 
ing people,  as  since  you  camet  *' 

TBI  FIRST  STA61  OF  AFRICAN  CONVERSION. 

And,  thinking  over  the  matter,  it  is  true. 
In  the  towns  about  the  mission  there  has 
been  no  bloodshed,  or  attempt  at  bloodshed 
since  I  came  here  to  open  this  station. 
Again  and  again  women  have  eloped  with 
other  men,  or  been  carried  off  under  circum- 
stances that  would  almost  certainly  have  led 
to  bloodshed  in  the  old  days,  but  in  every 
case  so  far  they  have  avoided  bloodshed  out 
of  deference,  so  they  say,  to  our  teachings. 
And  yesterday  a  man  from  the  Ntum  tribe, 
who  live  along  the  Campo  river,  three  days 
south  from  here,  told  me  that  the  **  Word  '* 
we  had  preached  had  gone  all  through  the 
Ntum  country,  and  people  were  settling  their 
palavers.  Peace  among  men^  seems  to  be 
about  the  only  part  of  our  message  these  peo- 
ple have  grasped  thus  far,  and  they  certainly 
need  that  truth;  but  while  we  may  rejoice 
that  this  much  has  been  accomplished,  we 


must  remember  that,  while  they  are  not  bom 
again,  they  cannot  enter  the  Kingdom  of 
Heaven.  Certainly  there  is  reason  to  hope 
that  in  a  very  few  years,  violence  and  blood- 
shed will  become  comparatively  rare  over  a 
wide  area;  but,  as  regards  the  great  change 
that  must  be  wrought  in  every  heart  before 
salvation  is  possible,  the  last  state  of  these 
people  may  be  worse  than  the  first.  Already 
many  have  said  to  me,  **We  are  all  right 
now,  we  have  stopped  kiUing  people."  Or  a 
man  whose  character  has  undergone  no 
change,  will  say  to  me,  *'  I  am  going  to  be  a 
Christian;  I  believe  all  you  have  said,"  etc. 
I  say  to  him,  '^come  and  see  me  and  I  will 
instruct  you  more  fully  as  to  what  it  is  to  be 
a  Christian."  He  promises,  but  does  not 
come,  and  when  I  see  him  again  he  has  for- 
gotten all  about  the  matter.  I  write  all  this 
that  you  may  realise  how  blind  these  people 
are  to  all  spiritual  truth,  and  that  you  may 
help  us  with  your  prayers  that  the  Holy 
Spirit  may  work  with  us  on  this  field,  that 
our  work  may  not  be  in  vain.  What  we 
have  accomplished  among  this  people  already 
is  a  necessary  step  toward  conversion,  but  is 
not  conversion,  and  might,  by  making  them 
better  satisfied  with  themselves,  serve  only 
to  harden  their  hearts. 

FROM  VILLAGl  TO  VILLAGE. 

A  week  ago  I  returned  from  a^  preaching 
tour  of  twelve  days  up  country,  going  as 
far  as  Zingi,  the  region  in  which  we  hope 
to  locate  our  second  station.  The  trip  was  a 
very  uneventful  one.  I  turned  off  at  only  a 
few  points  from  the  roads  I  had  traveled 
over  before;  so  I  saw  but  little  that  was 
new;  and  you  will  readily  understand  that 
tramping  and  preaching  in  from  five  to  eight 
towns  each  day,  while  it  may  be  very  useful, 
is  very  uninteresting  work. 

PREAGHINQ  UNDER  DIFFICULTISB. 

I  may  say,  however,  that  I  was  enthusias- 
tically welcomed  everywhere,  and  usually 
the  people  came  together  gladly  to  hear  what 
I  had  to  say.  But  it  was  hard  work  preach- 
ing to  them.  Some  of  them,  sometimes  the 
whole  company,  would  hear  me  through,  and 
apparently  were  deeply  impressed ;  but  this 
was  unusual.    Frequently  the  chief,  after  I 


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had  spoken  a  few  minutes,  would  break  in 
with  what  purported  to  be  an  explanation  of 
what  I  had  said,  but  usually  turned  into  an 
impassioned  tirade  against  the  sins  of  every- 
body in  the  town,  except  himself.  He  would 
appeal  to  them  to  hear  what  GKxl's  white  man 
had  come  to  tell  them,  and  yet,  if  allowed  to 
do  so,  would  take  up  all  my  time  and  make 
it  impossible  for  me  to  finish  what  I  wished 
to  say.  Of  course,  the  object  of  all  this  was 
to  impress  the  white  man  with  somebody's 
importance.  When  I  had  succeeded  in  si- 
lencing the  chief,  there  were  usually  two  or 
three  young  feUows  who  would  keep  up  run- 
ning comments  on  what  I  was  saying,  ap- 
proving it  all  and  not  intending  to  be  disre- 
spectful, but  frequently  giving  my  remarks  a 
ludicrous  turn,  or  at  least  calling  the  people's 
attention  away  from  what  I  was  trying  to 
impress  upon  them.  Perhaps  somebody  else 
would  then  notice  something  about  my  cloth- 
ing or  person  that  struck  him  as  odd  and 
would  nudge  his  neighbor  and  in  a  low  voice 
call  his  attention  to  it.  Soon  others  would 
note  the  direction  in  which  they  were  look- 
ing, till  suddenly  I  would  realize  that  my 
whole  audience,  who  a  moment  before,  were 
listening  intently,  were  gazing  at  my  hair,  or 
shoes,  utterly  oblivious  to  what  I  was  say- 
ing. 

THE  WHIMS  OF  AN  AFRICAN  AUDIINCl. 

The  women  were  especially  troublesome. 
It  would  usually  happen  that  twe  or  three 
times  during  each  meeting  some  woman 
would  notice  her  baby  toddling  about  and 
either  call  to  it  or  go  and  bring  it.  The 
ostensible  purpose  was  to  pet  and  fondle  it; 
but  the  real  object  was  to  see  whether  it 
would  be  afraid  of  the  white  man.  Of  course 
it  was  and  would  scream,  and  then  the  whole 
audience  with  one  voice,  and  that  a  loud  and 
angry  one,  would  begin  to  scold,  some  at  the 
baby  and  some  at  its  mother  for  disturbing 
the  meeting.  They  seemed  inclined  to  laugh 
at  everything.  I  never  tried  them  with  a 
joke,  but  it  seemed  to  me  that  every  really 
solemn  truth  I  uttered  was  greeted  with  a 
peal  of  laughter.  Especially  when  the  eter- 
nal punishment  of  the  wicked  was  mentioned, 
no  matter  how  carefully  and  seriously  I  led 
up  to  it,  the  result  nearly  always  was  a  laugh, 


followed  by  a  babel  of  voices  reminding  each 
other  that  that  was  for  them.  Or,  if  I  men- 
tioned immorality  or  stealing,  the  side  glances 
at  each  other  and  the  ringing  laugh  that  fol- 
lowed, not  only  played  havoc  with  the  thread 
of  my  discourse,  but  indicated,  all  too  clearly, 
how  prevalent  such  sins  are. 

I  found  it  impossible,  as  a  rule,  to  hold 
their  attention,  even  in  the  poor  way  indi- 
cated above,  for  more  than  ten  minutes. 
Then  I  must  stop  and  let  them  talk  a  whUe, 
when,  if  I  wished,  I  could  begin  again. 
There  were,  however,  most  encouraging  ex- 
ceptions. In  some  towns  I  could  talk  with- 
out interruption  for  half  an  hour,  and  the 
attention  never  seem  to  flag.  Why  this 
difference  t 

SIGNS  OF  PROGRBSS  AT  EFULEN. 

Returning  to  Efulen  after  two  weeks  of 
such  work,  and  preaching  to  our,  compara- 
tively^ quiet  and  attentive  audience  here,  I, 
for  the  first  time,  realized  how  much  progress 
we  have  already  made.  Of  course,  there  is 
in  'all  this  nothing  to  discourage  us.  Only, 
we  must  sow  before  we  can  reap.  This  ex- 
cessive curiosity  must  wear  off  before  the 
people  can  listen;  and  such  a  people  as  the 
Bule  cannot  at  one  hearing  grasp  enough  of 
the  truth  to  be  sobered  by  it.  But,  if  I  had 
time,  I  could  easily  bring  evidence  to  show 
that  the  truth  is  working  in  many  hearts. 

Do  not  forget  to  pray  for  us.  All  our 
efforts  to  redeem  this  moral  wilderness  for 
Christ,  depends  on  the  presence  and  help  of 
the  Spirit. 


Letters. 


CHINA. 
Rbv.  Andrew  Beattie,  Teung  Kong,  Canton 
Misnion : — A  review  of  the  work  in  the  Yeung 
Eong  Station  for  the  past  year  shows  us  that  we 
have  cause  for  deep  gratitude  to  Qod  for  His 
goodness,  and  encourages  us  to  enter  upon  the 
new  year  with  hopeful  hearts.  The  number  of 
persons  who  have  confessed  Christ  is  not  large 
(nine  have  been  recei?ed),  but  work  has  been 
done  which  will  enable  us  to  labor  more  effectu- 
ally in  the  future. « 

PROGRESS  AT  TETJNO  KONG. 

When  the  year  began  we  were  negotiating  for 


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the  purchaae  of  a  house  for  a  residence.  When 
the  year  closed  the  house  was  bought,  repaired, 
and  two  families  quietly  occupying  it.  -In  addi- 
tion to  this,  two  preaching  stations  have  been 
opened  and  one  school,  and  regular  systematic 
work  has  been  begun  among  the  women  of 
Teung  Kong.  As  is  usually  the  case,  the  efforts 
to  secure  a  residence  absorbed  the  attention  of 
the  people,  and  undoubtedly  roused  the  sus- 
picions and  distrust  of  some,  and  the  eyangel- 
istic  work  in  Yeung  Kong  has  suffered.  But 
the  doctor  and  the  preacher  on  the  field  directly 
superintending  all  departments  of  the  work 
will,  we  hope,  soon  more  than  compensate  for 
any  temporary  interruption.  And  it  is  with  no 
small  degree  of  pleasure  and  thankfulness  that 
we  are  able  to  say  that  the  women  of  Teung 
Eong  have  now  really  for  the  first  time  an 
opportunity  which  they  can  with  propriety  arail 
themseWes  of  for  hearing  the  Gospel,  and  the 
eagerness  with  which  they  avail  themselves  of 
the  privilege  is  very  encouraging  to  those  who 
bring  to  them  the  message  of  life. 

The  medical  work  under  the  direct  supervision 
of  the  foreign  doctor  is  much  more  satisfactorily 
carried  on,  and  gives  increased  facilities  for 
evangelistic  work.  Over  15, 000  persons  received 
treatment  during  the  year. 

Two  men  were  baptized  in  April,  and  there 
are  several  inquirers. 

KEW  WORK  AT  MUI  LUK. 

At  Mui  Luk  the  work  has  been  more  encour- 
aging than  ever  before.  A  school  was  opened 
early  in  the  year,  and  the  attendance  has  been 
large  throughout  the  year.  We  have  had  to 
contend  against  opposition,  evil  reports,  and 
threatening  placards,  but  the  work  has  not  been 
interrupted.  The  chapel  preaching  has  been 
well  attended,  and  several  inquirers  have  met 
regularly  every  evening  for  the  study  of  the 
Bible,  and  it  is  with  gratitude  that  we  report  six 
baptisms  during  the  year. 


Rev.  W.  O.  Elterich,  IcTunofu,  Shantung:— 
Our  station  is  entering  upon  a  year  more  full  of 
promise  than  any  since  its  founding  four  years 
ago.  Almost  immediately  after  the  riot  of 
last  summer  the  number  of  people  in  at- 
tendance on  the  chapel  service  began  to  in- 
crease so  that  before  long  a  new  building  had  to 
be  fitted  up  to  accommodate  the  crowds  that 
came,  especially  of  women.  This  may  be  re- 
garded as  a  most  promising  feature,  since  our 
native  Christians  say,  and  we  also  know  from 
experience,  that,  if  the  women  become  interested 


in  the  gospel,  ready  entrance  will  be  found  to 
the  remaining  mfflnbers  of  the  hous^old.  Hun- 
dreds of  men  are  deterred  from  entering  the 
church  because  of  the  opposition  of  their  wives 
or  mothers. 

The  prospects  of  our  work  here  and  through- 
out this  region  have  never  been  more  hopefuL 
There  is  a  class  of  16  women  under  instruction 
several  days  in  the  week,  and  a  flourishing  day- 
school  of  more  than  dO  pupils.  Some  really 
earnest  inquirers  are  sent  to  us  by  our  coun- 
try evangelists  for  several  weeks  of  study. 
They  are  furnished  with  shelter,  light,  and 
food  at  a  very  small  expense.  They  are 
divided  into  classes  according  to  their  ability  to 
read  and  their  knowledge  of  the  doctrine.  The 
more  advanced  are  taken  over  some  book  or 
books  of  the  New  Testament;  those  less  ad- 
vanced are  carefully  instructed  in  the  catechism, 
and  all  are  required  to  commit  daily  a  portion  of 
the  Scriptures.  Thus  they  are  carefully  in- 
structed. They  are  thus  taken  away  for  a  time 
from  heathen  surroundings  and  subjected  to 
religious  influences,  which  cannot  but  deepen 
their  idea  of  spiritual  truth  and  help  them  in  the 
beginning  of  their  Christian  life.  The  mission- 
ary and  evangelist,  when  they  go  out  to  preach 
the  gospel  in  the  spring  and  fall,  cannot  do 
much  more  than  scatter  the  seed ;  it  is  in  these 
inquirers'  classes  that  this  seed  is  nurtured,  their 
knowledge  of  the  truth  increased,  their  faith  in 
their  newly  found  Saviour  deepened,  and  a 
helpful  start  given  them  in  their  Christian  walk 
and  conduct. 

The  class  at  our  station  this  year  numbered  40, 
who  received  careful  instruction  in  the  catechism 
by  a  well  trained  native  evangelist,  while  the 
more  advanced  were  instructed  in  the  Epistle  of 
James  by  Mr.  C.  A.  Eillie,  and  by  the  writer  in 
the  Book  of  Acts.  At  the  close  of  its  sessions 
18  applied  and  were  enrolled  as  candidates  for 
baptism,  some  of  them  making  a  quite  remarka- 
ble profession  of  faith. 

Our  medical  work  is  also  steadily  growinx^. 
There  was  an  attendance  of  over  4,000  patients 
last  year,  an  increase  of  1,700  over  the  previous 
year.  A  still  greater  increase  may  be  expected 
this  year,  as  our  lady  physician.  Dr.  Anna 
Larson,  who  came  to  us  a  year  ago,  has  entered 
upon  her  duties. 

Our  hearts  are  cheered  at  the  bright  prospects 
of  our  work,  and  we  are  filled  with  gratitude  to 
Him  who  has  so  wonderfully  blessed  us.  We 
desire  the  prayers  of  God's  people  at  home  that 
we  may  be  enabled  to  live  up  to  these  grand 
opportunities. 


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A  GRAND  SHOWING. 
It  is  with  great  pleasure  that  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  reviews  some  phases  of  the 
work  of  the  past  year.  Thongh  one  of  the 
hardest  years  financially  which  the  oldest  citi- 
zens can  recallf  yet  the  churches,  the  Sabbath- 
schools  aAd  C.  E.  Societies  together  contrib- 
uted nearly  as  much  as  during  the  preceding 
year — the  most  prosperous  year  perhaps  in 
our  national  history.  This  has  been  brought 
about  in  ways  which  ought  to  be  known  to  all 
who  love  our  country  and  the  conversion  of  the 
world.  Over  three  hundred  more  churches 
took  up  a  collection  for  us  last  year  than  dur- 
ing any  preceding  one.  The  pastors  and 
the  Sessions  did  more  by  sermons,  addresses 
and  the  distribution  of  leaflets  to  furnish  the 
people  with  correct  knowledge  of  the  needs, 
the  value  and  the  prospects  of  the  work. 
More  self-denial  was  practised  in  order  to 
keep  up  to  the  average  giving  of  more 
prosperous  times.  The  exigency  of  the  case 
secured  a  long  pull  and  a  pull  together  in 
every  part  of  the  land.  The  Board  of  Home 
Missions,  therefore,  takes  great  pleasure  in 
thanking  the  churches,  the  Sabbath-schools, 
the  C.  E.  Societies,  and  the  friends  of  the 
caase  for  their  unprecedented  and  invaluable 
co-operation.  But,  as  the  Board  began  the 
year  with  a  debt  of  |66,407.75;  as  the 
last  General  Assembly  transferred  to  it  |20,- 
000  worth  of  Indian  work;  as  the  legacies 
fell  off  more  than  $100,000,  and  as  the  nat- 
ural and  necessary  growth  of  the  work,  with- 
out undertaking  much  that  was  new,  has 
called  for  $88,945.75  additional,  a  large  debt 
had  to  be  reported  to  the  General  Assembly. 
There  will  consequently  be  a  serious  difficulty 
in  borrowing  money  over  and  above  the  pres- 
ent debt  to  meet  our  obligations  during  the 
dry  months  of  summer.  We  are  not,  how- 
ever, without  substantial  and  encouraging 
assets  which  may  be  realized  in  the  near 
future,  but  they  cannot  be  depended  upon  at 
once  to  pay  our  indebtedness.  Instead,  there- 


fore, of  finding  fault  with  the  Church  or  its 
Great  Head  for  the  deficit  in  legacies,  the 
Board  would  emphatically  say  to  the  living, 
*^Wel]  done,  good  and  faithful  servants.'' 
Let  one  and  all  gather  additional  courage 
for  a  pull  which  will,  this  year,  wipe  out 
all  arrearages,  break  up  the  hateful  ^*Halt,'' 
and  enable  us  to  march  forward  to  the  com- 
plete subjagation  of  our  land  to  Christ. 


The  Board  closed  the  fiscal  year  April  1, 
with  a  debt  of  $58,645,55.  Of  this  amount 
$157,047,26  are  on  account  of  Home  Missions 
and  $101,598,29  are  on  account  of  teachers 
and  chapels.  The  Presbyteries  have  sent  to 
the  Board  estimates  of  the  amounts  needed 
within  their  bounds  daring  the  year  just 
opened  which  aggregate  $624, 588.  Estimates 
for  the  mission  schools  sum  up  $864,538,60. 
The  amonnt  required  to  do  the  work  and  pay 
the  debt  this  year  is  $1,288,841,40  besides 
the  interest  and  expense  of  administration. 
The  Church  must  advance  in  its  gifts  or  else 
the  Board  must  retreat. 


The  number  of  Jews  in  the  world  is  esti- 
mated to  be  9,000,000.  Of  these  about  600,- 
000  are  in  our  country.  These  are  divided 
into  two  classes  or  sects,  viz:  the  Orthodox 
Jews,  who  maintain  the  ancient  worship,  and 
the  rationalistic,  who  scarcely  recognize  the 
divine  origin  of  the  Scriptures. 

But  between  these  two  classes  are  many 
most  excellent  people  who  are  approachable 
and  interesting  subjects  of  evangelistic  effort, 
all  these  people  are  subjects  of  promise  and 
prophecy.  The  Presbytery  of  New  York 
leads  out  in  a  well  directed  effort  to  reach 
these  people,  and  comes  to  the  Board  for 
help.  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  having 
been  appealed  to  by  the  Presbytery  for  aid  in 
the  support  of  Dr.  Faust, 

Resolved^  That  in  view  of  the  present 
financial  condition  of  the  Board  and  its  com- 
mitments to  missionaries  already  on  the  field^ 

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whose  salaries  are  still  in  arrears,  the  Board 
has  not  the  power  to  make  an  appropriation 
to  the  salary  of  the  Rev.  H.  P.  Fanst,  bat 
will  assume  that  responsibility  for  a  year, 
profMed  the  Presbytery  will  see  that  the 
chnrohes  onder  its  control  are  urgently 
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and  an  oppressor.  Their  migration  to  this  coun- 
try and  contact  with  our  institutions  have  modi- 
fled  their  prejudices,  and  induced  an  earnest 
spirit  of  enquiry.  Thousands  of  them  are  now 
hearing  from  week  to  week  the  story  of  a  Messiih 
already  come,  and  are  searching  the  Scriptures 
to  see  whether  these  things  are  so.  Never  since 
the  days  of  the  Apos- 

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sued  the  following  statement  and  appeal  to 
the  churches  under  its  care. 

WORK  AMONG  THB  HEBREWS  IN  CONNECTION 
WITH  THE  PRBSBTTERT  OF  NEW  TORE. 

The  attention  of  the  churches  connected  with 
the  Presbytery  of  New  York  is  invited  to  the 
fact,  that  two  or  three  hundred  thousand  of  the 
Children  of  Israel  are  now  residents  of  the  city 
of  New  York,  and  are  exercising  a  profound  in- 
fluence upon  its  corporate  life.  Many  of  them 
have  recently  come  from  lands  where  Christianity 
has  api>eared  to  them  in  the  light  of  an  enemy 


Since  October,  1893,  a  Voluntary  Conunittee 
has  been  maintaining  serrices  for  the  Jews  in 
the  basement  of  the  Allen  Street  church,  con- 
ducted by  Dr.  Herman  P.  Faust,  formerly  a 
Rabbi,  but  now  a  candidate  for  the  ministry 
under  the  care  of  this  Presbytery.  That  Com- 
mittee has  expended  upon  the  enterprise  between 
fourteen  and  flf teen  hundred  dollars,  mostly  con- 
tributed by  individuals  specially  interested  in 
work  among  the  Jews.  The  services  have  been 
attended  with  great  interest.  Hundreds  of  Jews 
have  been  hearing  the  Qospel  each  week,  and 
quite  a  number  have  professed  oonversknu 


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The  significance  of  this  movement  cannot  fail 
to  impress  those  who  believe  that  Prophecy  and 
Providence  have  inseparably  linked  the  future  of 
the  Jews  with  the  future  of  the  Elingdom  of 
God. 

The  Board  of  Home  Missions,  realizing  the 
obligation  which  such  an  opportunity  imposes, 
has  undertaken  to  prosecute  a  work  among  this 
people,  and  appeals  for  special  gifts  to  maintain 
it. 

Contributions  should  be  sent  to  0.  D.  Eaton, 
Treasurer,  58  Fifth  Avenue. 

The  Presbytery  hereby  gives  its  endorsement 
to'.this  appeal. 

HowabdDuffibld,  Moderator, 


The  little  Indian  church  at  Versailles,  New 
York,  has  just  finished  a  neat,  attractive 
building,  costing  $1,000,  without  help  from 
any  white  man. 

A  aiz-yearold  daughter  of  a  Universalist 
attended  both  Universalist  and  Presbyterian 
Sabbath-schools.  She  expressed  a  preference 
for  the  Presbyterian  Sabbath-school;  and 
when  asked  the  reason  for  her  preference 
replied,  ^^ because  they  hdievemorey 


During  the  recent  revival  at  Payson  a  boy, 
twelve  years  of  age,  the  son  of  Mormon 
parents,  was  converted.  His  parents  followed 
him  into  our  church.  And  now  the  family 
altar  is  erected  in  their  home.  In  the  absence 
of  the  father  the  boy  conducts  the  worship. 


A  Missionary  in  Michigan  writes: 
I  have  found  an  open  door  at  Pendyville, 
where  the  Mormons  have  hitherto  held  posses- 
sion.   I  believe  the  Mormon  domination  is  per- 
manently broken. 

A  similar  statement  comes  from  Wisconsin : 

The  Utah  establishment  has  recruiting  offices 
in  many  of  the  states  of  the  union. 


The  Synod  of  Indiana  entered  upon  a 
scheme  of  self  support  three  years  ago  and 
has  met  with  remarkable  success  in  all  its 
plans.  The  year  before  the  work  in  that 
State  had  required  $2,000  more  than  the 
churches  of  the  synod  raised  for  Home  Mis- 
sions. Under  their  present  scheme  they  have 
9pent  piore  mone^  ap4  b^ve  not  onljr  raifse^ 


all  they  spent,  but  sent  to  the  Board  a  surplus 
of  $750.  One  secret  of  the  success  lies  in 
their  wise  choice  of  a  superintendent.  Rev. 
S.  0.  Dickey  has  been  in  charge  but  five 
months  assisted  by  three  evangelists.  The 
spirit  of  missions  has  been  revived,  and 
churches  have  been  quickened  and  blessed 
with  large  accessions.  Feeble  churches  have 
been  lifted  into  self  support,  and  vacant  fields 
have  been  provided  with  ministers. 


The  Rev.  J.  N.  Crocker,  D.  D.,  synodical 
superintendent  for  New  York  State,  in  his 
annual  report  gives  very  interesting  and 
suggestive  statements  about  his  work  for  the 
year.  Though  his  field  of  labor  was  not  on 
the  frontier,  but  in  the  great  State  of  New 
York,  he  preached  267  sermons — an  average 
of  more  than  5  for  every  week  in  the  year, 
summer  and  winter.  He  baptized  25  persons 
and  received  the  same  number  into  the 
church  on  examination.  Besides  all  this  he 
attended  27  Presbyterial  meetings,  helped  to 
organize  churches,  ordain  elders  and  minis- 
ters, presided  over  a  dozen  congregational 
meetings,  attended  funerals,  administered  the 
Lord's  Supper  14  times,  and  did  a  great  deal 
of  service  of  all  kinds  which  there  was  no- 
body else  to  do.  He  traveled  28,882  miles 
and  more  than  paid  his  expenses  out  of  money 
received  which  would  not  have  found  its  way 
into  any  church  treasury.  The  synodical 
missionaries  are  busy  men. 


RESCUE  MISSIONS. 

REV.  JESSI  F.  F0BBB8,  NEW  TOBK  OrFT. 

Rescue  missions  are  life-saving  stations, 
manned  by  Gospel  patrols,  alert  to  save  per- 
ishing souls.  They  abide  ^*  where  Satan 
dwelleth.''  The  life  line  is  thrown  among 
the  breakers.  They  are  located  midst  saloons 
and  moral  pest-houses.  Most  of  their  work 
is  among  those  who  seldom  or  never  enter  a 
church,  who  do  not  feel  at  home  and  cannot 
be  induced  to  attend  ordinary  religions  ser- 
vices. The  writer  believes  in  them,  and 
longs  to  see  such  stations  multiplied  in  every 
city  and  large  town.  It  may  promote  this 
to  describe  their  methods  and  results. 

1.  The  piac«.— This  is  usually  a  store  or 
small  \i^  opening  directly  off.  ttie  street. 


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The  location  should  be  on  some  main  avenue 
where  people  congregate.  After  the  mission 
has  been  established  and  is  well  known,  it 
may  answer  to  have  more  sumptuous  quar- 
ters. St.  Bartholomew's  Rescue  Mission  in 
this  city  has  a  magnificent  building,  equipped 
with  every  convenience,  but  it  started  in  a 
small  store  just  west  of  Third  Avenue  in 
Forty-second  street.  There  should  be  noth- 
ing to  suggest  a  church  and  the  entrance 
should  be  as  easy  as  that  to  any  saloon.  The 
meeting  place  should  be  made  attractive  by 
being  clean,  well  lighted  and  neatly  fur- 
nished. Chairs  are  better  than  benches  and 
there  should  be  a  good  piano  or  organ  on  the 
low  platform  at  the  further  end  of  the  room. 


most  successful  superintendents  have  been 
rescued  from  drunkenness  and  sin.  Such  men 
are  living  testimonies  of  God's  saving  and 
keeping  power.  They  point  to  their  own  ex- 
perience. They  tell  what  Jesus  has  done  for 
them.  They  know  the  pit  from  which  they 
were  raised  and  have  great  skill  and  tact  in 
approaching  others.  If  the  mission  reaches 
out  to  save  women  and  children,  it  should 
employ  some  earnest.  Godly  woman  whose 
whole  heart  is  in  the  work.  Certain  women, 
like  Mrs.  Ballon  of  the  Cremome  Mission, 
have  wonderful  power  with  fallen  men,  and 
even  if  it  is  not  easy  for  the  lady  assistant  to 
address  a  public  meeting,  she  can  be  of  great 
service  in  visiting  the  homes,  looking  after 
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and  with  as  earnest  a  consecration  as  any 
foreign  missionary. 

Neither  should  they  be  left  to  labor  alone, 
bnt  should  be  upheld  by  a  corps  of  earnest 
Christian  workers,  some  of  whom  ought  to 
be  present  at  every  meeting.  Rescue  work 
is  hand-to-hand  work.  Souls  must  be  saved 
one  by  one.  Each  convert  needs  counsel  and 
encouragement.  His  will  is  weak,  his  love 
for  Christ  may  be  feeble,  the  gate  to  life  is 
not  only  straight  and  narrow  but  the  way  at 
first  is  rough  and  hard.  Many  go  back  who 
might  have  been  saved  by  timely  encourage- 
ment and  help.  As  far  as  possible,  the  mis- 
sion should  be  connected  with  some  church 
to  which  it  can  look  for  financial  support  and 
which  is  willing  also  to  receive  into  its  mem- 
bership those  who  give  assurance  of  a  well 
grounded  hope.  A  mission  is  not  a  church 
and  can  never  take  its  place.  life-saving 
stations  are  not  homes.  When  men  are  res- 
cued they  need  a  church  home  where  they 
can  receive  the  ordinances,  and  can  be  helped 
to  grow  into  strong,  stalwart  Christians.  It 
is  this  lack  which  has  prevented  many  a  mis- 
sion from  securing  the  best  permanent  re- 
sults. 

8.  The  services, — These  should  be  held 
every  night  with  occasional  afternoon  meet- 
ings for  women  and  children.  They  usually 
open  with  a  praite  service  of  seme  thirty 
minutes.  Simple  stirring  music  has  attractive 
power.  Certain  saloons  have  concerts  and 
obtain  patrons  thereby.  Hearty  Gospel  sing- 
ing draws.  The  door  is  open  and  the  music 
is  heard  in  the  street.  A  crowd  gathers  and 
it  is  easy  to  invite  them  to  enter.  I  have 
knowDuft  room  nearly  vacant  at  first  to  be- 
come well  filled  within  the  half  hour  by  those 
who  came  in  to  listen  to  the  singing.  Give 
every  one  a  hymn  book,  and  invite  all  to  join 
in  praising  God.  An  occasional  solo  or  duet 
is  of  great  help.  Christ  has  been  sung  into 
hearts  which  preaching  could  not  soften.  A 
young  man  entered  the  Madison  Square 
Church  Mission  and  heaid  a  Christian  lady 
sing,  **  Where  Is  My  Wandering  Boy  To- 
Night?  ^'  At  the  close  of  the  song  he  went 
out.  As  soon  as  possible  he  took  the  train  for 
Baltimore  to  throw  himself  into  the  arms  of 
his  mother  and  promise  her  he  would  lead  a 


Christian  life.  For  years  this  mother  had 
prayed  for  her  dissipated  son  and  that  was  a 
joyous  home-coming. 

The  audience  having  gathered,  after  an 
earnest  prayer  the  leader  gives  the  Bible  les- 
son. The  preaching  is  simple,  practical, 
abounding  in  illustration.  There  should  be 
no  striving  for  eloquence,  but  a  plain,  straight 
forward  delivery  of  the  Gospel  message. 
Different  speakers  should  be  secured  from 
time  to  time  for  this  part  of  the  service.  The 
superintendent  cannot  do  it  all.  Care  must 
be  taken,  however,  in  the  selection,  for  the 
first  address  ofttimes  gives  the  tone  to  the 
whole  meeting.  It  is  not  easy,  even  for 
noted  men,  to  attact  and  hold  the  audiences 
which  gather  in  the  rescue  missions.  They 
will,  however,  listen  respectfully  to  plain, 
earnest  words  if  they  believe  the  speaker  to 
be  sympathetic  and  sincere. 

The  Bible  lesson  being  finished  the  meet- 
ing is  open  for  testimony.  Exhortations  or 
long  speeches  are  not  permitted.  ^^  Tell  us, 
brother,  what  Christ  has  done  for  your 
soul."  Ofttimes  twenty  or  thirty  will  testify 
in  as  many  minutes.  The  following  are 
average  testimonies.  *'  Praise  God  for  sav- 
ing me,  a  poor,  miserable  sinner,  a  little  over 
four  months  ago.'*  *^  Three  months  and  two 
weeks  ago  the  Lord  saved  me  and  has  kept 
me."  *'I  want  to  thank  God  that  about 
three  years  ago  in  the  old  mission,  I  heard 
about  the  Saviour.  Without  hope  or  home, 
I  intended  to  destroy  my  life,  but  I  heard 
about  that  friend  and  knelt  down  and  asked 
him  to  save  me.  To-night  I  am  on  my  way 
to  heaven."  '^Jesas  has  kept  me  and  I 
thank  God  for  such  a  place  as  this  which 
saves  poor  drunkards  like  me."  This  wit- 
ness-bearing has  great  power  among  the  out- 
cast and  abandoned.  They  see  those  who  a 
short  time  before  were  held  captive  by  Satan 
sitting  clothed  and  in  their  right  minds  at 
the  feet  of  Jesus.  Hope  is  awakened.  ^^  If 
€K>d  saved  him  he  can  save  me." 

After  the  testimonies,  an  appeal  is  made 
to  the  unsaved  to  come  to  Christ.  Those 
who  desire  to  lead  a  new  life  are  asked  to 
raise  their  hands.  I  have  attended  hundreds 
of  these  services  and  the  instances  are  very 
few  when  some  did  not  so  res|K>nd.    They 


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are  inyited,  with  others  who  desire,  to  remain 
for  an  inqtiiry  meeting,  where  thej  are 
pointed  to  Jesns,  their  names  and  addresses 
taken,  and  with  earnest  words  are  bidden 
good  night,  haying  promised  to  come  again 
the  next  evening. 

This  line  of  work  thns  outlined  maj  seem 
simple.  It  contains  nothing  novel  or  start- 
ling, bnt  it  is  daily  being  blessed  to  the  salva- 
tion of  many  sonls. 

There  are  thirty  of  these  rescne  missions 
in  New  York  City.  Eternity  alone  will  re- 
veal what  they  are  accomplishing  in  reclaim- 
ing the  falling,  rescuing  the  dninken  and  puri- 
fying the  life,  uniting  households,  establishing 
family  altars,  and  blessing  the  children. 

During  the  day,  the  workers  are  busy, 
visiting  the  homes,  the  stores,  the  workshops, 
urging  men  and  women  to  come  to  the  meet- 
ings, relieving  cases  of  destitution,  bringing 
the  glad  tidings  into  homes  long  ignorant  of 
the  Gk)spel.  It  is  not  easy,  but  it  is  blessed 
work.  I  know  of  no  form  of  Christian  ac- 
tivity so  fruitful  in  immediate  results.  ^  ^  The 
fields  are  white.''  There  are  thousands  in 
our  great  cities  who  say,  *^No  man  cares  for 
my  soul."  Pastors  have  not  time  and 
strength  to  look  after  the  thousands  who 
never  come  to  God's  house.  Rescue  missions 
do  reach  out  and  save  them. 

Country  churches  have  a  vital  interest  in 
this  work.  Many  young  men  leave  the  farms 
and  seek  fortune  in  the  city.  Some  relieved 
of  parental  restraint,  succumb  to  temptation. 
*^  Satan  desires  to  have  them."  Wounded, 
they  fall  by  the  wayside.  The  churches 
seem  to  i>ass  them  by.  It  is  then  that  the 
rescue  mission  becomes  the  good  Samaritan. 
It  welcomes  them,  points  them  to  Jesus, 
takes  care  of  them,  until  they  care  for  them- 
selves. One  incident  illustrates  many.  A 
ragged,  penniless  young  man  entered  a  mis- 
sion to  rest  an  hour,  before  he  resumed  his 
all  night  wandering.  His  attention  was  ar- 
rested by  the  Gospel  message.  He  remained 
to  the  after  service,  and  found  Jesus.  A 
new  life  commenced  from  that  time.  The 
struggle  was  hard,  but  God  gave  strength. 
He  found  friends,  employment,  and  little  by 
little  regained  his  manhood.  One  thing  trou- 
^le4  him .  Th^t  was  the  thought  of  his  boy  hood 


home  on  a  New  England  liillside.  Yean 
had  passed  since  he  ran  away.  Were  father 
and  mother  livingf  Would  they  welcome 
him  if  he  returned?  Months  went  by  ere  he 
decided  what  to  do,  but  one  Christmas  he 
said,  ^'  I  will  go  home."  The  evening  found 
him  knocking  at  the  familiar  door.  What  a 
home-coming  I  How  father  rejoiced  and 
mother  wept  tears  of  joy  as  he  told  them  of 
his  love  for  the  Saviour.  After  family  pray- 
ers, the  mother  led  him  to  his  boyhood 
chamber.  He  looked  around  the  room  ex- 
claiming, *^  Mother,  everything  is  as  I  left  it 
years  ago.  My  books,  my  toys  are  all  herel" 
Laying  her  hand  on  his  shoulder,  she  replied, 
'  *  My  son,  for  thirteen  years  and  nine  months, 
your  father  and  I  have  prayed  night  and 
morning  that  you  might  return  a  saved  man. 
Every  night  this  room  has  been  ready,  for  I 
believed  €K>d  would  answer  our  prayers  and 
I  should  live  to  see  you  home  again.*'  Think 
you,  dear  reader,  that  this  mother  is  not  in- 
terested in  Gospel  missionst  Can  she  ever 
hear  of  them  without  gratitude?  As  I  have 
said  there  are  thirty  of  these  life  saving  sta- 
tions in  New  York  City  alone.  Who  has 
not  read  of  the  Water  Street  liission,  where 
Jerry  McAuley  prayed  and  labored  for  many 
years?  Who  can  visit  that  magnificent 
building  in  East  Forty-second  street,  known 
as  St.  Bartholomew's  Mission  and  not  thank 
€K>d  for  the  work  done  there,  where  hun- 
dreds gather  every  night  to  hear  of  Jesus? 
More  than  thirty-two  thousand  attended  last 
year  the  meetings  of  the  Madison  Square  Mis- 
sion supported  by  the  Presbyterian  Church 
of  that  name,  where  Dr.  Parkhurst  is  pastor. 
During  the  last  seven  years,  nearly  one  hun- 
dred souls  have  joined  the  Adams  Memorial 
Presb3rterian  Church  from  that  mission,  and 
I  can  bear  witness  of  their  faithfulness 
and  fidelity  for  Christ.  Neither  have  these 
missions  been  blessed  in  New  York  City  alone. 
Superintendent  Cowdre  of  Utica  Rescue  Mis- 
sion reports  an  annual  attendance  of  more 
than  forty-five  thousand,  and  says  that  eight 
hundred  and  ninety-four  came  forward  for 
prayer.  The  Market  Street  Mission  of  Mor* 
ristown,  N.  J.,  reports  a  yearly  attendance 
of  thirty-one  thousand  with  one  hundred  and 
forty  hopefi^l  cpnversions  in  the  last  year. 


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JANUARY,    ....  TheN«wW««t 

PBBRUART Thelndiaas 

MARCH,        ....        The  01d«>  States. 

APRIL, TheCitiM. 

>iAY,      .....  The  llontione. 

JUMB Our  llleeionariee. 

JULY, Reeolte  ef  the  Year. 

AUGUST,  RomaaisU  and  Poreifnera. 

BBPTBlflBBR The  Outlook. 

OCTOBBR,       ....  TheTreaanry. 

NOVBHBBR,  ...  The  llexicana. 

DBCBlflBBR,  ....  The  South. 


OUR  MISSIONARIES. 
The  success  of  any  enterprise,  secular  or 
religious,  largely  depends  on  the  character 
and  ability  of  the  men  selected  to  carry  it 
forward.  The  directors  of  our  gr«at  rail- 
roads spare  no  pains  to  secure  trustworthy 
and  competent  heads  of  departments,  and 
these  heads  of  departments  again  do  all  in 
their  power  to  select  as  their  assistants  men 
of  skill  and  industry.  The  Board  of  Home 
Missions  deems  it  of  the  greatest  importance 
to  have  for  its  departments  men  thoroughly 
equipped  for  their  work.  The  responsibility, 
however,  of  selecting  Synodical  and  Home 
Missionaries  does  not  devolve  to  any  extent 
upon  the  Board. 

The  twenty-two  Synodical  Missionaries  are 
selected  by  the  Synods  and  recommended  to 
the  Board  for  appointment.  Whilst  the  lat- 
ter reserves  the  right  to  reject  any  one  thus 
recommended,  if  known  to  be  unfitted  for 
that  special  work,  it  has,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
rarely,  if  ever,  been  called  upon  to  perform 
this  unpleasant  task.  To  the  credit  of  the 
Synods  it  must  be  said  that  they  generally 
exercise  care  and  discrimination  in  the  selec- 
tion of  the  men  recommended  to  the  Board 
for  Synodical  Missionaries.  The  Church  has 
never  had  an  abler  nor  a  truer  body  of  men 
to  occupy  this  position  than  those  who  do  so 
at  the  present  time. 

Without  intending  to  institute  an  invidious 
comparison,  we  affirm  that  their  scholarship, 
their  preaching  powers,  their  devotion  to  the 
cause  of  the  Master  and  their  administrative 
ability  are  as  high,  if  not  higher,  than  those 
gt  the  Episcopal  Bishops. 


They  are  men  not  only  of  high  character, 
but   of    untiring  devotion    to   their  work. 
Next  to  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of 
souls,  they  study  the  interests  of  the  Synods 
which  have  selected  and  the  Board  which 
has  commissioned  them.      The  innuendoes 
sometimes  thrown  out  that  they  are  the  spies 
of  the  Board,  supplying  it  with  information 
not  to  be  acquired  in  any  other  way,  are 
absolutely  unfounded  and  should  be  frowned 
upon  as  soon  as  they  get  abroad.    The  Board 
has  never  asked  them  to  perform  such  a 
duty,  and  they  have  never  volunteer«d  to  do 
it.      The  allegation    that   they  have   their 
favorites  for  whom  they  secure  everything 
they  desire  and  their  proscribed  ones  who 
can  hardly  expect  from  them  common  justice 
is  untrue.     Like  other  men  the  Synodical 
Missionaries  are  doubtless  drawn  more  closely 
to  some  than  they  are  to  others,  but  they  do 
not  allow  their  personal  attachment  to  inter- 
fere with  the  honest  performance  of  their 
duty  towards  any  one.    They  are  above  such 
things.      This  is  like  the  charge  that  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  has  its  black  list, 
and  that  no  missionary  whose  name  is  on 
that  list  need  look  for  a  fair,  much  less  kind, 
treatment.    If  this  were   well  founded  the 
members  and  officers  of  the  Board  should  be 
instantly  dismissed.    But  there  is  no  truth  in 
it.      It  is  difficult  to  see  how  such  a  charge 
could  gain  credence    anywhere.      We  can 
understand  how  a  man  who  has  been  denied 
what  he  has  asked  because  the  Board  decided 
that  it  would  be  a  violation  of  trust  and  a 
perversion  of  sacred  funds  to  grant  it  might 
entertain  hard  feelings  towards  its  members, 
but  we  cannot  see  how  any  one  would  circu- 
late as  true  that  which  has  not  the  slightest 
foundation  in  fact. 

The  duties  performed  by  these  men  are 
varied  and  arduous.  The  first,  if  not  the 
most  important,  is  to  watch  the  starting  of 
new  settlements,  the  planting  of  towns,  and 
the  growth  of  population  here  and  there, 
with  the  view  of  supplying  them  with  the 
gospel.  In  addition  to  this,  they  supply 
vacant  churches  and  hold  religious  services 
among  people  who  do  not  enjoy  the  means  of 
grace.  They  are  sometimes  sent  by  the 
presbyteries  to  adjust  difficulties  which  |^^ 


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not  siiffioienUy  serious  to  demand  any  formal 
action.  They  make  it  their  daty  to  meet  on 
their  arrival  ministers  from  other  fields  who 
come  to  labor  within  the  bonnds  of  their 
Synods;  and  to  introduce  them  to  their  new 
congregations.  They  are  expected  to  stir  up 
pastors  and  people  on  the  subject  of  Chris- 
tian benoTolence,  and  to  do  what  they  can  to 
secure  a  contribution  for  Home  Missions  from 
CTcry  church. 

In  a  number  of  our  Presbyteries  and  Synods 
there  are  men  who  go  under  the  designation 
of  pastors-at-large.  These  are  not  pro- 
spectors in  the  sense  in  which  the  Synodical 
Missionaries  are.  Consequently  adminstra- 
tiTe  ability,  though  desirable,  is  not  in  their 
case  one  of  the  indispensable  qualifications. 
They  must  be  men  of  good,  acceptable,  if  not 
great  preaching  powers.  They  are  put  in 
charge  of  a  number  of  churches  to  all  of 
which  they  are  expected  to  minister  as  often 
as  practicable.  They  are  required  to  divide 
their  time  in  the  way  best  suited  to  meet  the 
wants  and  to  derelop  the  energies  of  the 
congregations.  By  this  means  many  congre- 
gations have  been  lifted  to  self-support,  and 
precious  souls  brought  to  Christ.  As  yet,  this 
is  but  an  expedient  by  which  our  weak 
churches  that  cannot  have  pastors  or  stated 
supplies  of  their  own,  may  be  supplied  with 
the  means  of  grace.  The  office  has  not  been 
yet  clearly  defined,  nor'  is  it  certain  that  it 
will  become  permanent. 

Our  Home  Missionaries  proper  are  the 
pastors  and  stated  supplies  of  weak  churches 
who  draw  a  part  or  the  whole  of  their  salaries 
from  the  Treasury  of  the  Board.  Not  a  few 
of  these  are  young  men  who  are  willing  to  de- 
vote at  least  the  earlier  years  of  their  ministry 
to  missionary  work.  Taken  as  a  body,  our 
Home  Missionaries  are  men  of  whom  the 
world  is  not  worthy.  They  conscientiousiy 
devote  all  they  are  and  all  they  have  to  the 
preaching  of  the  gospel  in  new  and  difficult 
fields.  Their  churches  are  expected  to  raise 
what  they  can  towards  their  salaries,  and 
when  that  is  not  sufficient  to  support  them, 
they  apply  to  the  Board  for  such  an  appropri- 
ation as  the  Presbytery  may  deem  necessary 
for  that  purpose.  The  portion  of  the  salary 
paid  by  the  Board  to  each  one  averages  a 


little  lees  than  $800  a  year,  and  the  whole 
sum  paid  by  the  Board  ranges  from  $100  to 
$1000,  according  to  the  ability  of  the  congre- 
gation and  the  expense  of  living  in  the  pUoe 
in  which  he  is  settled.  The  average  salary 
received  by  our  Home  Missionaries  from  both 
the  church  and  the  Board  is  about  $800. 
The  number  of  these  men  at  the  present  time 
is  1821 .  With  a  few  exceptions  they  are  dis- 
tributed over  every  State  and  Territory  of 
the  United  States.  Thus,  by  the  cooperation 
of  the  Church  at  large  and  the  contributicms 
of  the  individual  congregations,  nearly  aU 
places  in  our  land  are  moderately  well  sup- 
plied with  the  gospel. 

The  character  and  qualifications  of  our 
Home  Missionaries  are  of  the  highest  kind. 
Among  so  many  it  is  to  be  expected  that  a 
few  will  be  found  who  reflect  no  credit  upon 
their  sacred  calling.  Hence  the  Preebyteries 
should  exercise  more  caution  than  they  have 
in  the  past  in  introducing  men  into  the  Pres- 
byterian ministry,  by  licensure  and  ordina- 
tion, as  well  as  by  letters  from  other  bodies. 
A  number  of  those  admitted  within  a  few 
years  have  done  us  untold  harm.  Whilst 
these  few  ought  not  to  be  in  the  ministry, 
the  rest  of  our  missionaries  are  men  of 
whom  the  world  is  not  worthy.  Among 
them  are  found  some  of  our  ripest  scholars, 
most  eloquent  preachers,  noblest  pastors  and 
best  Presbyters.  An  Elder  in  one  of  the 
largest  of  our  New  York  churches  told  the 
writer  that  he  had  found  in  one  of  the  vaUeys 
of  Utah  a  man  fitted,  in  his  judgment,  to 
succeed  his  gifted  pastor,  if  he  should  be 
taken  away  by  death  or  be  transferred  to 
another  field.  There  are  many  like  this  ore 
settled  in  home  fields.  East  and  West,  among 
the  mountains  and  in  the  plains. 

The  views  held  by  the  Board  of  the  quali- 
fications necessary  for  our  Home  Missionaries 
may  be  gathered  from  the  following  tests 
applied  by  the  Secretaries  to  the  Seminary 
students  whom  they  endeavor  to  persuade  to 
go  West. 

1.  They  aim  at  securing  the  best  scholars 
in  the  class  to  do  so.  None  but  such  can 
meet  the  demands  of  a  number  of  our  home 
fields.  On  the  great  ranches  of  Montana  and 
New  Mexico,  and  in  the  mining  districts  of 


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Colorado  and  California  are  found  graduates 
of  our  best  colleges  who  expect  the  minister 
to  be  able  to  discuss  with  intelligence  the 
profoundest  principles  of  philosophy  and 
science.  They  must  have  a  fair  familiarity 
with  such  works  as  those  of  Mill,  Spencer 
and  others  in  order  to  gain  their  attention. 
Though  our  missionaries  are  not  sent  to  dis- 
cuss metaphysics  or  politics,  but  to  preach 
the  gospel,  yet  they  can  hardly  secure  the 
attention  of  many  of  these  cultured  men,  un- 
less their  scholarship  is  high  enough  to  com- 
mand their  respect. 

2.  They  select,  as  far  as  possible,  only 
those  of  practical  judgment  and  good  com- 
mon sense.  Nowhere  is  the  latter  gift  more 
needed  than  in  our  Home  Mission  fields. 
Here  the  pastors  and  stated  supplies  are  fre- 
quently so  located  that  they  are  not  able  to 
consult  their  brethren  even  in  the  same  Pres- 
bytery regarding  the  most  important  matters. 
Consequently  they  are  thrown  wholly  upon 
their  own  resources,  in  fact,  they  are  com- 
pelled to  decide  some  of  the  gravest  questions 
without  any  outside  aid.  The  people  of  their 
congregations  have  in  many  cases  come  to- 
gether from  different  parts  of  the  country, 
and  sometimes  of  the  world.  It  requires 
wisdom  as  well  as  patience  to  reduce  such 
heterogeneous  elements  into  a  moderate  state 
of  homogeneity  and  to  keep  from  among 
them  the  elements  of  dissension. 

8.  They  seek  frequently  men  of  true  hero- 
ism. Formerly  the  Foreign  Board  was  the 
only  body  which  had  need  of  this  qualifica- 
tion in  a  missionary,  but  that  has  changed. 
A  number  of  our  Home  Missionaries  require 
more  courage  to-day  than  those  of  the  For- 
eign Board.  They  have  to  fight  with  as  in- 
hospitable climes  as  any  of  them.  The  heat 
in  the  deep  valleys  of  Arizona  and  New  Mex- 
ico is  as  intense  and  debilitating  as  that  of 
India,  and  the  cold  at  Point  Barrow,  inside 
the  Arctic  Circle  is  as  intense  as  that  from 
which  any  of  our  Foreign  Missionaries  suffer. 
The  deprivation  and  pain  arising  from  not 
receiviDg  letters  from  home  oftener  than 
onee  a  year,  and  from  inability  to  find  means 
of  subsistence  fit  for  white  men  are  beyond 
description.  In  addition  to  this  the  good 
wife  is  in  many  cases  compelled  to  do  with 


her  own  hands  the  work  done  for  the  Foreign 
Missionary  by  a  menial  obtained  for  low 
wages. 

4.  They  seek  only  men  of  thorough  devo- 
tion to  the  cause  of  Christ.  The  temptations 
to  enter  into  real  estate  speculations  and  to 
turn  aside  from  the  ministry,  to  become  heads 
of  public  schools  or  members  of  the  State  or 
even  of  the  National  legislature  are  naturally 
very  great.  Some  of  our  men  have  fallen 
victims  to  these.  But  the  great  body  of 
them  have  turned  a  deaf  ear  to  the  loudest 
call  that  would  draw  them  aside  from  the 
work  of  saving  souls. 

It  may  be  safely  affirmed  that  the  majority 
of  our  Home  Missionaries  would  stand  the 
tests  just  referred  to  as  laid  down  for  theo- 
logical students.  Cases  might  be  cited  of 
Home  Missionaries  who  have  been  offered  a 
seat  in  Congress  and  even  in  the  Senate  of 
the  United  States,  but  they  had  grace  enough 
given  them  to  decline  it.  In  most  instances 
the  question  of  turning  aside  from  the  minis- 
try for  a  more  lucrative  calling  has  been  sub- 
mitted to  the  good  wives,  and  they  have  in- 
variably decided  against  it.  Let  it  be  re- 
membered that  these  noble  women  are  as 
heroic  as  their  self-denying  husbands,  if  not 
more  so.  They  deserve  the  sympathy  and 
prayers  of  the  whole  Church.  Both  should 
find  a  warm  place  in  our  hearts  and  a  cordial 
welcome  into  our  homes. 

Letters. 

TENNESSEE. 
Rkv.  J.  M.  Hunter,  MaduonviUe : —I  was 
away  from  home,  holding  a  meeting  at  one  of 
my  churches.  Cloyd's  Creek.  I  had  the  assist- 
ance of  the  uneducated  "Blacksmith  Evan- 
gelist," J.  T.  Sexton,  who  has  bad  such  wonder- 
ful success  among  the  uneducated  in  this  part 
of  the  country,  and  even  in  Maryville,  under  the 
shadow  of  the  college  there.  He  holds  undenom- 
inational meetings  altogether,  hence  the  people 
of  all  churches  united  with  us  in  the  meeting. 
We  held  12  days,  during  which  time  there  were 
60  professions ;  out  of  this  number  we  will  get 
at  least  80  members,  the  remainder  going  to 
other  churches  in  the  country  around.  I  re- 
ceived 19  into  the  church  at  the  close,  and 
expect  10  or  15  more  at  my  next  appointaent 
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NORTH  CAROLINA. 
M188  FiiORBNCB  Btsybnson.    A  communion 
Beryice  was  held  at  the  School  Church  the  second 
Sabbath  of  this  month.    Eight  of  our  girls  con- 
fessed Christ.    It  was  most  gratifying  to  have 
each  of  these  young  people  come  to  see  me  indi- 
yidually,  almost  as  soon  as  the  announcement 
had  been  made,  and  express  their  desire  to  unite 
with  the  church.    No  special  meeting  had  been 
held.    It  was  indeed  a  blessed  privilege  to  be  in 
a  little  meeting  with  tb^sc  alone  a  few  days  be- 
fore thev  onenlv  Ann. 
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Miss  Maria  S.  Brainebd,  AihenUei^Yon 
have  already  been  told  how  our  hearts  have  been 
gladdened  by  the  religious  interest  which  has 
been  manifested  and  is  still  apparent  among  our 
pupils,  and  it  is  not  necessary  that  I  repeat  what 
you  know  of  it. 

I  thought  my  report  was  finished,  but  I  cannot 
send  it  off  without  an  accoimt  of  a  most  charm- 
ing evening  we  have  Just  spent  with  our  dear 
friends  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pease  in  their  lovely  new 
home.     '*  Intervale  *'  they  call  it,  as  indicative  of 

thA    niAAA  xirh«re   they 

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AN  INDIAN  HOME  AND  MISSION  SCHOOLS,  INDIAN  TEBRITORT. 


and  to  make  them  always  be  as  lights  in  the 
world. 

Since  the  beginning  of  this  quarter  ten  of  our 
girls  have  recited  perfectly  the  Shorter  Catechism 
to  Rev.  Mr.  Fox  and  have  received  Bibles  given 
by  the  Publication  Society.  Others  will  recite 
to  him  soon.  I  am  surprised  to  find  that  the 
most  popular  study  in  our  school  is  the  Cate- 
chism, and  I  am  sure  we  have  none  that  give 
better  mental  training.  Not  more  than  five 
minutes  a  day  is  given  tg  this  study  in  each  of 
^e  three  class  room^. 


and  the  two  who  assist  Miss  Qoodrlch  at  Dula 
Springs,  so  that  there  were  representatives  from 
four  schools.  We  had  a  little  music  and  plenty  of 
conversation.  Mr.  Pease's  library  was  converted 
into  a  temporary  dining-room,  the  guests  being 
seated  in  groups  at  small  tables,  when  the  dainti- 
est of  repasts  was  served,  bringing  into  requisi- 
tion the  pretty  china  and  silver  of  which  you 
know  something. 

After  supper  there  was  a  symposium,  the  sub- 
ject being  the  "Waldenses."  Dr.  Lawrence 
Void  us  briefly  of  their  origin  and  subsequ^t 


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history,  and  was  followed  by  the  Misses  Dwight 
and  Stephenson  who  gave  us  a  description  of 
what  they  saw  during  a  recent  visit  to  a  colony 
of  these  people  who  are  settled  near  Morganton 
in  this  State. 

The  hours  named  in  our  inyitation  were  from 
7  to  9,  but  the  evening  passed  so  delightfully 
that  before  we  were  aware  of  it  half  past  ten 
had  arrived. 

With  a  brief  prayer  by  Dr.  Lawrence,  the 
Dozology  by  the  assembled  company  and  the 
benediction  by  Mr.  Pease,  we  separated,  with 
hearts  full  of  love  to  our  dear  host  and  hostess, 
feeling   there    could 
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An  extract  from  a  letter  just  received  will  tell 
the  story  in  reference  to  Slack  and  Wolf  Creek. 
These  churches  are  respectively  14  and  40  miles 
north  west  of  Sheridan  and  are  reached  by  buck- 
board  or  horseback.  Says  he,  *'We  have  the 
first  Christmas  tree  ever  seen  in  this  neighbor- 
hood. The  school  house  will  not  begin  to  hold 
the  people  to  night.  I  write  particularly  to 
know  how  soon  you  can  make  us  a  visit.  It 
will  do  lots  of  good.  There  will  be  from  six  to 
ten  to  unite  with  the  church,  possibly  more. 
The  leaven  is  working.  The  Holy  Spirit  will 
honor  Christ  in  new  lives  In  this  community. 
Come  as  soon  as  you 
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WYOMING. 
Rev.  Robbbt  Coltman,  Zaraww  .-—Holyoke, 
Wolf  Creek  and  Slack  are  all  new  churches 
which  have  been  organized  since  my  appoint- 
ment as  Pastor-at-Large.  They  are  all  in  pros- 
perous condition.  I  held  Sacramental  services 
at  Holyoke  last  Sabbath,  when  four  new  mem- 
bers were  received.  Two  of  these,  both  adults, 
were  received  on  profession  of  their  faith.  One 
of  these  rode  22  miles  through  the  cold  in  an 
open  farm  wagon  to  unite  with  Gk>d's  people 
in  Church  Covenant.  The  other  came  six  miles 
In  a  similar  vehicle. 


the  U.  P.  R.  R.  the  proprietor  of  the  saloon 
locked  his  door  and  with  14  others  who  were 
there,  came  to  our  services,  listened  attentively 
to  my  sermon  from  Mark  10:50  and  contributed 
to  the  Board's  treasury.  We  had  a  large  attend- 
ance and  were  urgently  invited  to  come  soon 
again. 

New  Castle  and  Rawlins  are  both  vacant. 

The  Big  Horn  Basin  is  attracting  great  atten- 
tion because  of  its  fertility,  mineral  wealth  and 
adaptability  for  ranching  as  well  as  for  cattle 
and  sheep.  I  purpose  a  thorough  exploration 
of  this  section  by  buckboard  and  pack-horse  as 


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soon  as  the  snow  disappears  from  the  moantain 
ranges  which  fence  in  the  "Basin."  Mormon- 
ism  is  already  there  and  we  must  check  its  ad- 
yanoe  hj  the  €k>speL 


MINNESOTA. 

Rev.  R  N.  Ad\ms,  D.D.,  Minruapolis:^The 
condition  of  the  Lord's  work  in  this  Synod  does 
not  widely  differ  from  that  in  other  sections  of 
the  great  north-west,  yet  our  field  has  some 
peculiarities.that  are  worthy  of  note. 

The  southern  part  of  the  State  is  haying  what 
may  be  properly  called  its  second  growth.  It 
was  settled  at  the  close  of  the  war  with  a  boom. 
Many  towns  and  villages  sprang  into  existence 
as  by  magic.  Presbyterian  missionaries,  with 
those  of  almost  every  other  denomination  were 
abreast  of  the  movement,  and  churches,  many 
more  than  were  required,  were  organized.  Un- 
der the  leadership  of  Dr.  Sheldon  Jackson, 
whose  push  and  piety  were  second  to  none, 
Presbyterian  churches  were  planted  and  houses 
of  worship  erected  in  almost  every  town  and 
even  in  rural  communities  where  a  sufficient 
number  of  people  could  be  found.  It  was  a 
period  of  great  expectations,  many  of  which 
were  never  realized  and  the  work,  of  course  for 
the  time,  was  somewhat  overdone.  By  and  by 
the  grass-hoppers  came  and  for  three  or  four 
years  in  succession  devoured  the  substance  of 
the  people.  Great  numbers  of  the  early  settlers 
were  driven  away  and  the  remainder  reduced  to 
poverty  and  distress.  But  when  the  plague 
vanished  new  settlers  came  in  and  with  the  help 
of  more  money  and  better  farming  the  country 
gradually  developed,  so  that  to  day  no  part  of 
our  western  domain  furnishes  anything  better 
than  southern  Minnesota.  In  that  region  our 
churches,  with  scarcely  an  exception,  are  surely, 
if  not  rapidly,  advancing,  and  at  the  present  rate 
will  soon  be  self-supporting.  With  five  addi- 
tional men,  all  our  churches  in  the  southern 
half  of  the  State  would  be  supplied.  There  are, 
however,  in  this  rich,  healthful  region  many  new 
points  now  calling  for  our  Church,  which  will 
be  taken  up  when  the  condition  of  our  treasury 
will  permit. 

THE  TWIK  CITIES. 

The  work  in  the  twin  cities  is  less  prosperous 
than  in  the  rural  districts  and  it  will  require 
some  time  for  our  churches  to  recover  from  the 
effect  of  the  **  hard  times  "  This  depression  in 
business  caught  four  of  our  largest  churches 
under  the  burden  of  heavy  debt,  and  two  of 
them  it  seems  are  hopelessly  involved.    They 


may,  however,  all  pull  through,  but  I  fear  it 
will  sadly  tell  on  our  gifts  to  the  Board.  It  will 
require  the  united  effort  of  the  city  churches, 
especially  in  Minneapolis,  to  rescue  those  in 
peril.  Then  by  reason  of  the  closing  of  factor- 
ies, mills  and  railroad  shops,  our  smaller  churches 
in  Duluth  and  the  Twin  Cities  have  suffered 
financially.  But  everything  has  its  compensa- 
tion. The  "hard  times"  have  served  to  resus- 
citate the  almost  obsolete  order  of  the  diaconate. 
Our  deacons  in  Minneapolis  organized  themselves 
into  a  "Presbyterian  Employment  Bureau  and 
Relief  Committee  "  and  thereby  have  done  a  no- 
ble work  for  the  Church  and  for  the  poor  and 
unemployed.  This  divinely  instituted  order  of 
service  which  belongs  essentially  to  our  polity 
should  be  brought  to  the  front. 

Then  we  have  not  done  as  much  among  our 
immigrant  population  in  the  Twin  Cities  as  we 
hoped.  St.  Paul  is  under  the  paralyzing  power 
of  Rome  and  its  strategy  and  tactics  in  politics 
are  manifest  in  the  usual  way.  I  am  glad  to 
report,  however,  that  the  fiank  movement  upon 
our  public  school  system,  known  as  the  "  Fari- 
bault and  Stillwater  plan "  has  ended  in  smoke 
and  a  little  unenviable  notoriety  for  Bishop 
Ireland.  In  both  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  the 
Scandinavian  element  Is  very  strong  and  the 
Lutheran  Church,  which  lamentably  fails  to  meet 
the  wants  of  the  people,  holds  them  in  the  grip 
of  its  deadly  formalism.  Nevertheless  we  have 
made  some  advance  along  this  line.  Our  Nor- 
wegian and  Danish  Church  in  St  Paul  is  grow- 
ing nicely.  We  have  also  one  Norwegian  and 
two  Swede  churches  in  Minneapolis  and  two  in 
the  Presbytery  of  Duluth,  all  of  which  are  doing 
reasonably  well.  As  our  body  is  unknown  to 
these  people  it  requires  time  to  get  there  confi- 
dence. But  we  are  having  daily  evidences  that 
the  Gospel  has  not  lost  its  power.  Despite  the 
"hard  times "  and  the  degenerating  forces  that 
seem  to  be  more  than  usually  active  and  potent, 
there  has  been  and  still  is  a  revival  spirit  in 
many  of  our  churches.  Many  of  the  unem- 
ployed have  not  only  suffered  but  they  have 
also  had  time  to  think  of  better  things,  and  these 
enforced  opportunities  have  resulted  in  blessing 
to  many  hearts  and  homes.  As  a  sample  of  this 
widespread  religious  interest,  I  wish  to  report 
that  after  two  weeks  of  continuous  services  at 
Russell,  a  new  point  in  Mankato  Presbytery,  I 
organized  on  January  21st  a  church  with  forty- 
two  members.  All  but  three  of  the  number 
came  in  on  profession  and  a  very  large  propor- 
tion of  them  are  men.  After  the  organization  I 
administered  the  sacrament  of  baptism  to  24 


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adults  and  three  infants,  and  then  the  Lord's 
Sapper  to  the  newlj  organized  church.  As  this 
is  the  only  church  in  Russell  it  gives  us  a  wide 
opening  and  promising  field.  Russell  will  be 
worked  in  connection  with  Island  Lake  and 
steps  haye  already  been  taken  to  build  a  church 
at  the  former  named  place. 

At  no  time  in  the  history  of  our  Synod  has  the 
Week  of  Prayer  and  the  efforts  that  followed  re- 
sulted in  such  interest  and  ingathering.  I  wish 
to  note  too  that  while  we  were  the  banner  Synod 
in  the  year  now  closed  in  the  number  of  churches 
organized,  yet  to  give  you  some  idea  of  the  land 
still  to  be  possessed  I  would  say  that  there  are 
yet  twenty -nine  counties  in  our  State  without  a 
Presbyterian  Church.  These  twenty-nine  coun- 
ties haye  an  aggregate  population  of  227,260 
people,  and  in  twenty -two  counties  where  we 
have  planted  the  Presbytery  banner,  we  have  an 
average  roll  of  only  one  hundred  communicants. 
Had  the  Board  the  means  we  would  ask  for 
twenty-nine  men  to  enter  these  racant  counties 
where  multitudes  of  needy  souls  would  wel- 
come the  Presbyterian  missionary.  I  have  yet 
to  find  a  needy  field  where  the  Presbyterian 
Church  did  not  meet  a  cordial  welcome.  We 
have  not  explored  these  counties  named  to  any 
extent  because  we  have  not  the  needed  men 
and  means. 

OOLLEGBS. 

Our  two  Synodical  colleges,  Macalester  and 
Albert  Lea,  are  doing  better  this  year,  so  far 
as  patronage  is  concerned,  than  ever  before. 
These  institutions,  I  need  not  say,  exert  an  influ- 
ence upon  our  Home  Mission  work  that  cannot 
be  estimated.  From  them  have  come  some  of 
our  best  missionaries  and  teachers.  Whether  we 
hold  and  develop  our  work  for  Christ  and  our 
beloved  Church,  depends  upon  the  maintainance 
of  our  institutions  for  higher  education.  What 
these  institutions  now  most  need  is  endow- 
ment. Who  will  come  to  their  relief  ?  Money 
invested  in  Christian  colleges  pays  500  per 
cent.  In  looking  over  our  roll  of  churches  I 
find  that  only  three  churches  in  the  Synod  are 
not  indebted  to  the  Home  Mission  Board  for 
aid.  We  feel  very  thankful  to  Gk>d  and  the 
Board  for  the  generous  help  and  loving  care,  but 
we  hope  ere  long  to  pay  it  all  back  with  interest. 
We  have  a  rich  State  aad  much  of  it  unde 
veloped.  Our  iron  ranges  are  immense  and  it 
may  be  interestini;  for  you  to  know  that  our 
State  last  year  was  the  third  in  the  production  of 
iron  ore.  It  will  soon  be  the  first  The  same  is 
true  of  lumber.  The  northeastern  part  of  our 
State  is  still  a  forest.     In  these  forests  are  hun- 


dreds of  timber  camps  and  thousands  of  immortal 
souls  without  the  (Gospel.  We  could  now  use 
five  men  to  great  advantage  in  these  destitute 
fields.  Sorry  we  cannot  have  our  students  for 
the  vacation  as  usual.  Our  work  has  always 
been  greatly  blessed  by  the  help  of  our  student 
force.  But  I  must  close.  My  exp^ises  for  the 
quarter  were  $75.00.  I  will  send  an  itemized 
account  to  the  treasurer. 


Rbv.  John  Milnb  Smith,  Morgan ;— We  have 
just  closed  a  two  weeks'  special  effort  to  reach 
the  people,  and  the  Lord  has  blessed  our  labors 
beyond  our  expectations.  Last  Sabbath  morning 
we  had  the  unspeakable  pleasure  of  welcoming 
into  the  church  nineteen  persons  on  profession  of 
their  faith  in  Christ  and  one  by  certificate, 
twenty  altogether.  Of  these  eight  were  bap- 
tized, and  also  four  children  were  thus  dedicated 
to  the  Lord  by  their  parents.  When  I  began  to 
labor  here  a  year  ago  the  church  had  only  seven- 
teen members.  We  have  now  a  membership  of 
forty-three.  It  has  thus  more  than  doubled 
during  the  year.   

KENTUCKY. 

Rbt.  G.  D.  Htdb,  D^mvOIs;— Dr.  Helmand 
I  held  a  meeting  last  Spring,  and  had  one 
hundred  and  seventy-three  conversions.  But, 
of  course,  they  did  not  all  Join  our  Church. 
Eighty-six  of  them  Joined  our  Church.  We 
have  about  one  hundred  and  thirty  members  at 
present,  and  our  church  is  doing  very  well,  con- 
sidering all  the  circumstances.  We  have  a 
mission  Sunday-school  which  numbers  about 
two  hundred  at  the  best,  and  never  much  below 
one  hundred  and  fifty.  There  are  about  twelve 
hundred  inhabitants,  mostly  miners  by  trade, 
and  owing  to  uncontrolable  circumstances  un- 
usually poor. 

I  am  rather  a  plain,  old-fashioned  preacher, 
but  by  €K)d*8  grace  I  have  good  sized  congrega- 
tions. The  second  Sunday  night  of  this  week, 
my  time  will  be  half  over,  and  I  must  say  to 
you  that  I  am  very  needy,  and  I  will  be  glad  if 
you  will  please  send  to  my  address,  Danville, 
Ky.,  all  the  money  you  possibly  can,  as  much 
as  half  of  it  at  least 


KANSAS. 
Rbv.  W.  H.  Hillis,  Qreat  B&nd:^l  am  be- 
ginning the  fourth  year  of  my  work  in  this  field. 
The  first  year,  with  a  small  membership  and  a 
large  debt;  the  church  received  aid  from  the 
Board.  Being  blessed  with  an  extensive  revival 
we  had  a  Itfrge  ingathering  and  have  been  self* 


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supporting  until  this  Fall  when  we  were  com- 
pelled to  ask  for  aid  which  we  hope  will  be 
needed  for  one  year  only.  The  necessity  arises 
from  two  causes.  First,  many  have  removed, 
some  to  the  recently  opened  **  Strip  "  and  others 
to  yarious  localities,  greatly  reducing  our  mem- 
bers. Second,  the  crops  were  very  poor  in 
this  region.  The  wheat,  which  is  the  chief  de- 
pendence of  this  county,  being  almost  an  entire 
failure. 

The  country  being  newly  settled,  a  crop  fail- 
ure is  much  more  disastrous  than  in  the  older 
settled  regions.  Our  church  still  carries  a  debt 
which  in  the  present  condition  of  the  times,  is  a 
burden.    The  people,  however,  are  hopefully 


your  faces  as  you  read  the  reports  that  go  la 
from  the  Home  Mission  fields.  These  times  of 
financial  depression  must  add  yery  much  to  the 
burdens  you  were  already  carrying.  I  wish  for 
your  sake  as  well  as  for  the  cause  I  could  tell 
you  a  different  story.  But  through  the  daily 
papers  you  will  haye  learned  of  the  multitudes 
who  are  out  of  employment  in  this  city.  The 
membership  of  my  church  is  made  up  of  a  class 
of  people  that  is  especially  affected  by  these 
conditions.  Many  are  out  of  work,  many  hare 
had  their  salaries  reduced  from  12^  per  cent  to 
8H  per  cent.  In  addition  to  this  there  are  many 
calls  for  charitable  work  that  must  be  heeded, 
This,  in  many  instances,  means  a  diyision  and 


FUSITAM A — SACRED   MOUNTAIN  OF  JAPAN. 


waiting  the  return  of  better  times  and  there  is 
some  indication  of  increased  spirituality  in  our 
church.  I  find  a  field  that  is  attractiye  by  its 
very  destitution  in  the  country  round  about  and 
hold  seryices  in  different  school  houses  often  on 
Sabbath  afternoons.  There  is  no  more  church- 
less  and  I  may  say  irreligious  class  than  a  large 
portion  of  the  rural  population  of  this  region. 
Notwithstanding  our  depletion  by  remoyals  our 
attendance  morning  and  eyening  is  encouraging 
and  the  outlook  is  hopeful. 


ILLINOIS. 
Rsy.  Q.  P.  Williams,  Chicago  ;^I  imaghie  I 
can  see  the  look  of  weariness  that  must  be  on 


sharing  of  an  already  scanty  store.  I  am  chair- 
man of  the  Relief  Committee  in  this  district  of 
the  city.  In  this  way  I  am  brought  kouHj/  in 
touch  with  much  misery  and  want  Of  course 
this  all  effects  the  church  work  in  many  ways. 
The  one  thought  uppermost  in  the  minds  of  all 
is  "food  and  fuel."  But  I  belieye,  and  hare 
good  reason  for  belieying,  this  is  Qod's  opportu- 
nity which  He  will  use  in  bringing  souls  lo 
a  proper  sense  of  their  own  need.  The  religions 
life  of  the  church  is  far  better  than  during  the 
summer.  The  Sabbath-school,  one  of  our  strong 
holds,  is  doing  good  work.  The  ayerage  attend- 
ance at  the  home  school  is  now  about  two 
hundred  and  eighty,  with  sixty  in  the  missioa 
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INDIAN  TERMTORY. 

Rby.  H.  H.  Shawhan,  Ardmcir$:-~BeBu\tB 
are  appearing,  and  even  with  missionaries,  who 
are  supposed  to  labor  with  equal  zeal  with  or 
without  visible  results,  there  is  something  invi- 
gorating in  the  assurance  that  all  efforts  have 
not  been  futile.  The  growth  has  been  steady 
and  healthy  enabling  us  to  wal^  into  the  New 
Year  with  brighter  prospecta 

Financial.  For  the  first  time  in  its  history, 
the  church  is  out  of  debt.  The  building  is 
practically  complete,  furnished  with  pulpit 
stand,  organ,  opera  chairs  and  ezcellcDt  lights; 
and  after  ceaseless  toil  and  willing  sacrifice,  has 
been  freed  from  debt  The  dedication  took 
place  on  November  19th  when  much  seriousness 
was  manifested  in  the  act  of  transferring  the 
title  to  iu  rightful  owner. 

How  to  secure  the  amount  pledged  to  the 
salary  fund  has  loDg  since  ceased  to  be  a  prob- 
lem. At  the  end  of  each  month,  this  obligation 
is  discharged  just  as  any  other  business  obliga- 
UoD.  A  committee  waits  upon  all  who  have 
promised  to  support  the  work,  and  each  month 
collects  the  amount  due.  People,  if  left  to  them- 
selves, are  apt  to  forget  this  item  of  indebtedness, 
so  this  committee  has  proved  an  efficient  dis- 
courager of  neglect.  Nor  does  such  an  arrange- 
ment interfere  with  the  beDeficenoe  of  the 
Church,  but  rather  increases  it. 

Beneficence.  During  the  past  quarter  both 
the  Foreign  and  Home  Mission  Boards  have  been 
remembered,  and  a  system  established  by  which 
a  monthly  collection  will  be  taken  to  be  dis- 
tributed in  accordance  with  the  Assembly's 
schedule. 

A  work  has  been  set  on  foot  to  supply  the 
needs  of  the  poor  in  the  immediate  vicinity  A 
committee  has  been  appointed  to  act  with  com- 
mittees from  other  churches  in  seeking  out  those 
in  distress,  and  in  receiving  and  disbursing  such 
monies,  clothing  and  provisions  as  shall  be 
placed  in  their  hands.  Special  collections  are  to 
be  made  from  time  to  time  for  this  purpose. 
The  children  are  not  forgotten  in  the  movement, 
and  their  Christmas  joy  was  doubtless  increased 
by  the  consciousness  of  having  done  something 
to  cheer  the  hearts  of  the  less  fortunate,  for 
instead  of  having  a  tree  laden  with  presents,  a 
ship  was  built  and  Santa  Claus  came  to  take 
away  with  him  money,  books,  toys,  clothing 
and  such  other  articles  of  usefulness  and  comfort 
as  each  child  had  brought.  So  with  glad  hearts 
they  sang  their  songs,  spoke  their  pieces  and 
remembered  their  own  blessings. 

Social.    In  newly  settled  countries,  such  as 


this,  new  faces  are  seen  every  day.  Strangers 
are  coming  from  all  directions  and  need  to  be 
made  to  feel  that  they  are  welcome.  Some  of 
them  leave  pleasant  church  connections  and  miss 
the  attention  they  are  accustomed  Id  receive, 
frequently  growing  cold  and  indifferent,  when  a 
little  attention  shown  them  will  break  the  form- 
ing ice  and  introduce  them  to  the  work. 

Spiritual  A  Japanese  proverb  says,  "A 
hundred  paths  lead  up  the  sides  of  Fusiyama, 
but  they  all  unite  at  the  top."  So  with  us, 
these  various  departments,  some  of  which  are 
apparently  secular,  are  paths  leading  up  to  the 
real  work  of  implanting  and  sustaining  life. 
The  noting  of  the  increasing  machinery  and  the 
smoothness  with  which  it  runs  would  be  robbed 
of  its  pleasure  if  we  could  see  no  growth  in  the 
spiritual  life  of  the  Church.  The  prayer  meet- 
ing shows  an  improved  condition  of  health. 
The  attendance  on  Wednesday  night  has  in- 
creased from  an  occasional  six  to  about  twenty- 
five.  Besides  the  Sunday-school  and  the  Boys' 
Brigade  we  have  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  which 
is  a  source  of  great  comfort.  There  is  not  a 
department  in  which  it  does  not  figure.  Its 
missionary  work  is  a  comparatively  new  de- 
parture, and  a  promising  one.  Besides  appropri- 
ating a  portion  of  the  dues  to  missionary  pur- 
poses, the  Society  has  consented  to  occupy  one 
Sunday  evening  each  month  with  a  popular 
presentation  of  some  phase  of  missionary  work. 

Four  members  have  been  added  to  the  roU 
during  the  quarter,  and  some  ten  or  fifteen 
others  have  signified  their  intention  to  come 
before  the  Session  at  the  next  opportunity. 


UTAH. 


Miss  Grace  E.  Jones,  Am&rioan  Fork ;— The 
coming  of  our  new  pastor,  Mr.  J.  A.  L.  Smith, 
seemed  to  put  new  life  into  everything.  Both 
services  are  well  attended,  but  the  Sunday  even- 
ing service  is  very,  very  well  attended.  There 
are  some  young  men  from  strong  Mormon  fami- 
lies who  have  never  before  been  in  our  church, 
now  attending  regularly,  not  only  the  evening 
service  but  the  Sunday-school  also.  I  have  in 
my  class  six  pupils  who  have  come  directly 
from  the  Mormon  Sunday-school,  and  there  are 
many  more  in  the  Day  School  who  wish  to  come, 
but  their  parents  will  not  allow  it. 

One  Mormon  father,  whose  son  would  not  go 
to  the  public  school,  said  to  him,  "Well,  you 
can  go  to  the  Presbyterians,  but  you  musn't  pay 
any  attention^ to. the  Bible  teaching."  Even  in 
my^room  there  are  children  who  say  to  me    'I 


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don't  want  to  know  what's  in  the  Bible."  I 
don't  Bay  anything  to  them  at  first  and  I  notice 
that  they  soon  listen  as  attentively  and  ask  ques- 
tions as  eagerly  as  do  the  others.  The  attend- 
ance in  the  Day  School  since  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber has  been  unusually  good.  It  has  been  large 
and  veiy  regular. 

ALASKA. 

Mrs.  C.  Thwing,  Ft,  Wrangel: — We  have  had 
a  very  pleasant  Christmas,  Ft.  Wrangel  seeming 
to  abound  on  every  hand  with  peace,  good  will 
to  men. 

Christmas  evening  the  church  was  crowded, 
and  after  our  musical  and  literary  exercises  old 
Santa  brought  forth  his  canoe  full  of  presents 
and  each  child  and  church  member  received 
some  gift.  Some  of  the  old  people  were  de- 
lighted with  their  chopping  bowls,  egg  beaters, 
wash  boards,  etc.    I  enjoyed  showing  them  how 


the  different  articles  were  to  be  used.  Every 
one  seemed  to  have  a  good  time,  and  Dr.  Thwing 
and  I  came  home  tired  but  happy  in  the  feeling 
that  we  were  the  chosen  ones  to  be  His  ministers 
here  and  to  give  so  much  pleasure  on  His  birth- 
day. We  have  had  quite  a  number  sick  on  the 
ranch  this  winter,  and  altogether  have  been  very 
busy.  It  seems  as  if  my  hands  have  been  full 
with  outside  work,  not  to  speak  of  the  home  at 
all.  Yesterday  almost  the  whole  day  was  spent 
uniting  a  couple  who  were  about  to  separate. 
With  Qod*s  help  the  Doctor  and  I  succeeded, 
and  they  are  still  together.  Wednesday  was 
devoted  to  another  couple  in  trying  to  keep 
them  separate.  The  girl's  parents  want  to  force 
her  to  marry  an  old  man  against  her  wilL  Dr. 
Thwing  will  not  unite  them.  She  is  the  girl 
who  stayed  four  months  here  in  the  home  last 
sununer.  Now  she  wants  to  enter  again  for 
protection. 


HOME  MISSION  APPOINTMENTS. 


A.  B.  FeoneU.  Cato.  N.  T. 

N.MoLeod.MlneTiUe, 

R.  B.  Periiie,  OeatreTille, 

8.  R.  Queen,  Otlsrille  Ist, 

E.  B.  French,  Bellmere, 

J.  0.  BaU,  Pompey  Oentre, 

J.  H.  ElUotttTiogA,  P*. 

J.  O.  KeUy,  winter  HaTen,  Fla. 

O.  Smith,  Brighton,  111. 

J.  H.  Steyenson,  D.D.,  Mt.  Carmel  1ft, 

N.  O.  Qreen,  Summer,  Union  and  Oilead,  '* 

H.  N.  OroM,  Metropolis  Ist  and  America,  " 

0.  H.  Curreos,  Ohicafro  Hope  Mission,  '■ 

N.  B.  W.  OaUwey,  Chicago  Olivet, 

W.  DiekhofT.  Freeport  8d  German,  *• 

J.  a.  Russell.  Toledo  and  Qreenup,  ** 

H.  D.  Qlidden,  Oneida  1st,  Mich. 

8.  Todd,  Munger  1st,  ** 

0.  D.  Ellis,  Saginaw  Immanuel,  ** 

J.  A.  McQreaham.  St.  Louis  1st,  ** 

W.  B.  Greenshielos,  Hazlewood  Park  and  Highland 

of  Duhith.  Minn. 
N.  H.  BeU.  Pastor-at  Large, 
H.  O.  Cheadle.  Lakefleld, 

W.  Lattimore,  Slavton,  ** 

R.  Wait,  Currie,  Cottonwood  and  Shetek,  *■ 

H.  M.  Preesley,  Marshall  Ist,  ** 

W.  Campbell,  Long  Lake  and  Crystal  Bay,  ** 

A.  C.  Pettitt,  Maine  and  Maplewood,  " 

R.  H.  Myers.  St.  Paul  Bast,  " 

G.  A.  Hutchison,  Casselton,  N.  D. 
D.  A.  Hamilton,  Bathgate  Ist  and  Bethel  (Tyner),      *' 

D.  Campbell.  Park  River,  ** 

A.  C.  Manson,  Inkster  Ist  and  Elkmont,  " 

C.  8.  Harrison,  Volga,  8.  D. 

J.  N.  Hutchison,  Sioux  Falls  Ist,  ** 

G.  Alnslie,  Rolf  e  8d  and  station,  Iowa. 

A.  W.  McOonnell,  West  Bend  and  station,  " 

J.  W.  Myers,  Paton  Ist  and  Rippey  1st,  " 

W.  L.  Baker,  Pomeroy  1st,  *• 

R.  8.  Weinland,  Lohrville  1st  and  station,  " 

Z.  F.  Blakeley,  Boesville  Ist,  " 

A.  F.  Ashley,  Fairmont  and  Sawyer,  Neb. 
0.  M.  Junkln.  Hubbell, 

F.  W.  Witte,  Plattsmouth  Germaa,  ^ 
H.  S.  Lowrie,  l4ambert,  Inman,  South  Fork  and 

Bethany,  •• 


A.  A.  B07d,  Knobooster  and  Salem,  Mo. 

W.  Siokels,  Drexel  and  Sharon,  ** 
J.  W.  Van  Eman,  Eldorado  Springs  Ist  and  Moot- 
rose  1st. 

W.  C.  Coleman,  Greenwood,  *■ 

W.  M.  Newton,  Westfleld  and  Lowry  CHy,  " 

G.  B.  Sproule,  Deepwater  1st,  ** 
U.  G.  Schell.  UnlonTille, 

C.  P.  Blaney.  Milan  and  SulliTaa,  ** 
H.  F.  Williams,  St.  Louis  Lee  Avenue, 

A.  M.  Mann,  Osawatomie  1st,  _ 
J.   M.  Crawford,   Baxter  [firings  1st  and   Blue 

Mound.  - 

E.  N.  B.  MlUard.  Morgan  Ist  and  station,  " 
C.  W.  Backus,  Kansas  City  Grandvlew  Park, 

E.  8.  Farrand,  Topeka  Westminster,  ** 
H.  A.  Tucker.  Presbyterial  Mlssionaiy,  L  T. 
J.  Edwards,  Wheelock.  ** 
L.  G.  Battiest,  Oka,  Achukma,  Philadelphia  and 

station,  » 

8.  R.  Keam,  Bethel  San  Bois  and  Pine  Ridge,  '* 

C.  S.  NewhalU  McAlester  Ist. 

J.  H.  Peters,  MenardviUe  and  Paint  Rock,  Tex. 

W.  B.  Bloys.  Fort  Davis,  Alpine  and  stations,  •• 

H.  A.  Howard,  Jacksboro,  •* 

G.  G.  Smith,  Santa  Fe  1st,  N.  H. 

T.  C.  Kirkwood.  D.D.,  Hynodlcal  Missionary,  Cokx 

G.  T.  Crlssman,  D.  D.,  Denver  So.  Broadway,  »* 

A.  Soott,  Central  City  and  Black  Hawk,  «* 

F.  A.  Walter,  Yalverde  and  station,  ** 

G.  W.  Clark,  Pueblo  Fountain,  ** 
E.  P.  Baker,  Del  Norte  1st,  •« 
G.  Stroh,  Pueblo  Westminster,  ** 
H.  H.  Davis,  Slack,  Wolfe  Creek  and  stattoa.  Wyo. 
T.  Lee,  Spanish  Fork,                                           .    Utah. 
T.  McGuire,  Pastor-at-Large,  Wash. 

D.  Ross,  WooUey  House  of  Hope,  •* 
R.  Boyd,  Port  Townsend  Ist,  «* 
J.  M.C  Warren.  San  Juan  and  Lopes  Oalvaiy,  ** 
R.  B.  Dilworth,  Roseburg  1st.  Greg. 
J.  M.  Sstiith,  Griszlv  Bluff  and  station.  OsL 
G.  W.  Hays,  Two  Rock.  Big  Yall^  and  Shiloh,  ** 
W.  Baesler,  Blue  Lake  1st,  *• 
H.  W.  Chapman,  Lakeport,  Kelaeyville  and  sta- 
tions. " 

J.  W.  Ellis,  D.D.,  Wafaiut  Ore^  •« 

W.  8.  Whiteside,  lone  Ist,  •* 

C.  B.  Rogers,  Elk  Grove,  •• 

W.  B.  Cumming,  RoseviUe,  " 

N.  B.  Kllnk,  Clements  Ist  and  stattons.  ** 


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EDUCATION. 


Those  who  have  read  the  ''Life  of  Charles 
Hodge,"  by  his  son,  A.  A.  Hodge,  will  recognize 
the  portrait  of  Dr.  Hodge  and  the  picture  of  his 
study,  which  we  are  permitted  to  use  in  this 
number  of  our  magazine,  as  the  same  with  the 
pictures  which  they  have  seen  and  enjoyed  in 
that  delightful  work.  The  publishers,  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons,  have  very  courteously  placed 
them  at  the  disposal  of  the  Education  Depart- 
ment of  the  Church  at  Homb  and  Abroad  in 
order  that  its  readers  might  have  the  privilege  of 
owning  a  good  likeness  of  the  distinguished 
teacher  of  theology,  who  was  so  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  cause  of  Education  for  the  ministry, 
and  served  the  Board  of  Education  as  its  Presi- 
dent from  1862  to  1869;  and  that  they  might 
have  a  peep  into  that  study  where  the  Commen- 
tary on  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans  was  written, 
the  Commentary  on  the  Epistle  to  the  Ephesians, 
and  the  Commentary  on  the  two  Epistles  to  the 
Corinthians,  where  the  great  reviewer  and  con- 
troversialist penned  the  articles  in  the  Biblical 


Repertory  ank  Princeton  Review,  which  made  him 
famous;  and  where  the  ** Systematic  Theology" 
was  made  ready  for  the  press.  In  that  study  for 
a  number  of  years  his  students  were  in  the  habit 
of  meeting  their  professor,  who  taught  and 
wrote  reclining  on  a  couch  at  full  length  on 
account  of  a  protracted  lameness,  caused  by  a 
painful  inflammation  of  the  thigh  joint,  as  the 
doctors  believed.  There  are  many  of  Dr. 
Hodge's  pupils  and  personal  friends  still  surviv- 
ing who  will  recognize  in  the  picture  with  deep 
interest  the  chair  given  to  him  by  his  brother  in 
November,  1889,  which  he  used,  to  the  exclusion 
of  all  others,  almost  to  the  day  of  his  death, 
June  19,  1878.  The  portrait  was  painted  by  A. 
H.  Ritchie,  and  the  original  painting,  which  is 
esteemed  an  excellent  likeness,  is  a  cherished 
possession  of  the  family  at  Princeton.  The 
engraving  was  made  by  the  same  distinguished 
artist,  and  may  be  trusted  as  an  admirable  repro- 
duction of  the  larger  picture  in  oil. 
The  portrait  of  Dr.  Hodge  in  connection  with 

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one  of  the  Boards  of  the  Church  will  recall  to 
many  minds  the  great  debate  in  the  General 
Assembly  of  1860  on  the  question  whether  the 
Boards  as  then  organized  were  consistent  with 
the  principles  of  New  Testament  Presbyterian- 
ism.  It  was  the  last  Assembly  in  which  the 
Church  North  and  the  Church  South  sat 
together.  Dr.  Thomwell  of  South  Carolina  was 
prominent  among  those  who  took  the  negative 
in  the  debate,  and  Dr.  Hodge  was  prominent 
among  those  who  were  upon  the  affirmative. 
The  greatest  interest  was  t^en  in  the  discussion, 
partly  from  the  eminent  scholarship  and  ability 
of  the  prominent  debaters.  Dr.  Hodge,  warmly 
defended  the  constitutional  character  of  the 
Boards,  and  characterized  the  position  taken  by 
his  opponent  as  "  hyper,  hyper,  htpbr  Presby- 
terianfsm."  The  decision  was  in  his  favor  by  a 
vote  of  284  to  56. 


We  have  the  pleasure  of  presenting  to  our 
readers  this  month,  through  the  courtesy  of  our 
friends  in  Dubuque,  a  beautiful  picture  of  the 
"German  Presbyterian  Theological  School  of 
the  Northwest."  We  have  asked  permission  to 
use  this  picture  in  the  hope  that  we  may  be  in- 
strumental in  exciting  a  wider  interest  in  the 


all-important  work  which  this  institution  is  do- 
ing for  the  Church  and  for  the  country.  There 
are  many  most  devoted  and  liberal  men  and 
women  in  our  beloved  Church,  and  they  may  be 
depended  upon  to  provide  for  the  necessities  of 
the  various  departments  of  the  work  of  the  Lord 
whom  they  love;  but  they  are  too  intelligent  to 
invest  their  money  in  doubtful  enterprises,  or  to 
make  contributions  without  a  clear  understand- 
ing of  the  work  in  which  they  are  asked  to  have 
a  part  This  picture  will  let  them  see  the  site 
of  the  school  for  which  we  make  an  earnest 
plea.  The  present  value  of  the  building  is  said 
to  be  $80,000,  but  it  was  bought  for  the  school 
for  (10,000,  and  has  proved  to  be  convenient 
and  comfortable,  affording  abundant  accommo- 
dation for  all  present  wants.  An  apparatus  for 
heating  the  building  has  been  put  in  which  has 
been  the  means  of  health  and  comfort  to  profes- 
sors and  to  students.  A  beautiful  centre-light 
has  been  presented  for  the  chapel  by  the  T.  P. 
S.  C.  E.  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Wood- 
stock, III.  A  considerable  number  of  contribn- 
tions  have  been  made  towards  the  endowment, 
which  should  be  at  least  (50,000,  as  recom- 
mended by  the  General  Assembly  of  1893. 
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of  this  inBtitutioD,  and  of  the  similar  one  at 
Bloooifield,  N.  J.,  will  lead  thoughtful  Christian 
people  to  gire  all  the  money  that  is  needed  in 
each  to  complete  the  asked-for  endowment.  It 
is  something  quite  astonishing  that  a  Church  of 
the  size,  the  piety,  the  zeal,  the  intelligence,  and 
the  wealth  of  ours  should  be  so  slow  to  awake 
to  the  greatness  and  the  import-ance  of  the  task 
before  it  in  the  matter  of  eyangelizing  and 
Americanizing  the  immense  numbers  of  foreign- 
ers that  every  year  are  coming  to  this  country. 
We  have  not  stopped  to  notice  that  a  largely  in- 
creasing number  of  these  foreigners  cannot  speak 
our  language.  In  1882  85  percent  of  the  788,992 
immigrants  to  our  shores  spoke  the  English 
language.  In  1892  only  18  per  cent  could  read 
our  newspapers  and  come  in  touch  with  the 
sentiments  national,  moral  and  religious  of  our 
people.  There  is  said  to  be  at  the  present  time 
a  German  population  in  the  United  States  of 
eight  millions,  including  immigrants  and  their 
children  bom  in  this  country.  One  hundred 
thousand  are  coming  to  us  every  year;  not  so 
much  the  deeply  religious  element  of  the  German 
nations,  coming  as  refugees  from  religious  per- 
secution, as  was  the  case  many  years  ago,  but 
rather  the  rationalistic,  unbelieving  element, 
much  of  which  is  a  constant  menace  to  the  stab- 
ility of  the  republic.  Our  Church  has  let  this 
state  of  things  become  more  and  more  aggravated, 
with  scarcely  an  effort  to  counteract  it,  and  is 
to-day  hardly  more  than  half -converted  to  the 
necessity  of  giving  to  German-speaking  people 
a  specially  trained  Gterman  and  English-speaking 
ministry,  capable  of  understanding  and  sympa- 
thizing with  them,  and  capable  of  living  in  the 
simple  manner  made  necessary  by  the  meagre 
salaries  of  $400,  or  $500,  on  which,  for  the 
present,  they  must  subsist.  Now,  however, 
that  the  lapse  of  40  or  50  years  has  demonstrated 
the  wisdom  and  the  success  of  the  methods  pur- 
sued at  Bloomfield  and  at  Dubuque,  another 
year  ought  not  to  pass  without  the  giving  to 
both  of  these  schools  an  all-sufficient  endowment, 
and  the  enlargement  and  improvement  of  the 
literature  provided  by  our  Church  for  the  Ger- 
man-speaking people  of  our  land. 

One  feels  ashamed  to  confess  that  the  endow- 
ment hitherto  provided  for  Dubuque  is  so 
meagre  as  to  yield  only  $800  per  annum,  and 
that  it  is  necessary  to  cut  down  other  expenses 
to  the  sum  of  $4000,  a  large  part  of  which 
is  contributed  by  the  German  churches  of  the 
North- West.  There  are  now  one  hundred 
churches  which  have  been  established  through 
the   influence   of  this   school,    besides    many 


preaching  stations,  the  germs  of  churches  to  be 
organized  in  due  time.  The  number  trained  for 
the  holy  ministry  in  its  halls  is  eighty-five.  It 
has  been  a  great  satisfaction  to  the  Board  of 
Education  to  furnish  year  by  year  a  measure  of 
aid  to  the  self-denying,  economical,  hard-work- 
ing students  who  are  there,  amidst  no  little 
hardship,  seeking  to  fit  themselves  to  labor 
among  their  countrymen.  It  is  perhaps  natural 
that,  in  making  their  gifts  to  institutions  of 
learning,  men  of  wealth  should  proceed  on  the 
familiar  principle  suggested  by  the  proverb: 
"  He  that  hath  to  him  shall  be  given ;  *'  but  per- 
haps somebody  will  be  sensible  and  far-seeing 
enough  to  give  in  this  case  to  the  indigent 
The  example  will  be  contagious.  The  school 
will  henceforth  rank  with  "them  that  have," 
and  the  result  will  soon  be  that  it  "will  have 
more  abundantly."  "  Whoever  contributes  that 
fifty  thousand  dollars,"  says  Rev.  H.  D.  Jenkins, 
D.  D.,  "will  do  more  to  Americanize  the  700,000 
Germans  of  Iowa  and  the  states  that  touch  it 
than  all  the  English-speaking  ministers  in  the 
whole  Presbyterian  Church." 

Do  you  think  that  you  can  keep  yourtdf  thor- 
oughly informed  about  the  work  of  the  Church  you 
lofoe  mtJunU  taking  the  Chubch  at  Home  Ain> 
Abroad  7  Do  you  think  that  you  can  afford  to 
pay  two  cente  a  day  for  a  daily  paper;  and  i»  ttoo 
cents  a  week  more  than  you  can  afford  for  the 
Church* e  ilkutrated  rruigazinet 

OOLLIGB  AND  SIMINABT  NOTES. 

Princeton  SEsaNARY  has  282  students,  its 
largest  record. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania  has  se- 
cured the  Liberia  Exhibit  of  the  World*s 
Fair,  besides  nine  cases  of  forestry  exhibits 
and  sixteen  carloads  of  educational  and  other 
exhibits.  A  Students'  Hall,  to  cost  $100,000, 
is  to  be  built  on  or  near  the  campus,  intended 
to  be  the  centre  of  the  social  life  of  the  Uni- 
versity. It  will  be  under  the  charge  of  the 
University  branch  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Be- 
tween $60,000  and  $70,000  of  the  necessary 
amount  are  already  in  the  treasury. 

Dartmouth  College  has  840  students,  of 
whom  188  are  members  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
'*  Bartlett  Hall "  is  the  name  of  the  Associa- 
tion's new  building.  New  life  has  been  in- 
fused into  the  members.  The  students  of 
the  Medical  Department  are  now  recognized 
as  a  part  of  the  Association,  and  for  the  first 
time  have  held  weekly  prayer-meetings. 


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Professor  Ttndall  is  said  to  have  giren         Collbgi-mkn  onght  not  to  smoke  cigarettes 
(13,000,  the  net  result  of  his  American  tour,      if  the  statement  of  a  San  Francisco  physician 
to  three  American  Universities  for  the  par-     is  correct.     It  is  said  that  analysis  proves 
pose  of  assisting  students,  who  devote  them-     that  the  man  who  smokes  twenty-five  cigar- 
selves  to  scientific  pursuits.  ettes  a  day  takes  thirty  grains  of  opium  be- 
sides the  nicotine.     A  loss 
of  precious  money  and  of 
precious  health,   and  the 
acquisition  of  the  opium- 
habit  make  up  a  result  not 
to  be  desired. 

Omaha  Thkolooioal 
Skminart  will  gradu- 
ate its  first  class  this 
g  spring.  It  consists  of  six 
g  students,  two  of  whom 
H  hope  to  go  out  as  foreign 
o  missionaries.  This  Semi- 
H  nary,  on  the  edge  of  the 
H  great  mission-ground  of 
g  the  farther  West,  and  at 
g  the  centre  of  the  conti- 
g  nent,  is  fuUy  justifying 
00  the  wisdom  of  establishing 
:j  it.  Its  appeal  for  funds 
g  may  therefore  well  be 
g  heeded.  It  can  probably 
g  double  its  work  next  season 
if  help  is  promptly  given. 
Hamilton  College  on 
its  noble  site,  and  with 
its  intensely  interesting 
history,  is  doing  a  splendid 
work  under  its  new  presi- 
dent, the  Bev.  M.  W. 
Stryker,  D.  D.  It  is  most 
^  pleasing  to  find  the  deter- 
mination at  this  institu- 
tion to  do  work  that  shall 
be  thorough,  and  under 
the  most  holy  and  helpful 
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A  HELPFUL  INVISTMKMT. 

Solomon  L.  Gillett,  of 
Elmira,  New  York,  whose 
President  Thwing  has  found  out  that  a  recent  death  has  caused  sorrow  to  many 
college-bred  man's  prospects  of  attaining  a  friends,  took  great  interest  in  the  work  of 
fair  degree  of  eminence  are  250  times  greater  educating  young  men  for  the  ministry.  He 
than  those  of  men  without  the  advantage  of  endowed  twelve  scholarships,  of  (1,000  each, 
a  college  training.  in  Park  College. 


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LEWIS  ACADEMY. 


LEWIS  ACADEMY,  WICHITA,  KANSAS. 

REV.  GEO.  B.  SMITH. 

Wichita,  the  commercial  centre  of  South- 
western Kansas,  with  its  twenty-five  thous- 
and inhabitants,  takes  pnde  in  its  Lewis 
Academy,  named  in  honor  of  Mr.  Hiram  W. 
Lewis,  its  most  liberal  contributor.  Under 
the  care  of  Emporia  Presbytery,  opening  in 
September  1887  with  one  hundred  students, 
its  enrollment  steadily  increased  until  three 
hundred  names  were  found  on  the  roll  in 
1893.  The  imposing  and  spacious  building 
located  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  having  all 
modem  conveniences  and  appliances,  thor- 
oughly heated,  lighted  and  ventilated,  could 
accommodate  five  hundred  students. 

The  work  of  the  Academy  is  comprehen- 
sively planned,  there  being  nine  competent 
and  thoroughly  qualified  instructors  under 
the  direction  of  its  efficient  and  successful 
principal.  Dr.  J.  M.  Naylor,  who  has  had 
charge  of  the  institution  from  the  beginning. 
There  are  three  courses  of  study — Classical, 
Scientific  and  Normal;  and  also  Art,  Music 


and  Kindergarten  departments.  Special  ad- 
vantages are  offered  for  the  study  of  chem- 
istry. A  high  standard  of  scholarship  is  re- 
quired in  all  departments. 

The  Academy  is  pre-eminently  a  Christian 
institution  and  its  paramount  object  the  de- 
velopment of  Christian  character,  well  sym- 
bolized or  expressed  by  the  motto  which  is 
carved  in  stone  and  placed  upon  the  front  of 
the  building — viz:  *^  Stat  crux  dum  volvitur 
orbis.^^ — The  cross  stands  while  the  earth 
revolves.  The  study  of  the  Bible  is  made  a 
prominent  feature  of  school  work,  as  the  main 
object  is  to  honor  Christ  through  a  sancti- 
fied education.  The  faculty  and  students 
attend  a  Bible  class  exercise  every  morning 
and  the  Bible  is  a  text-book  in  each  depart- 
ment, its  weekly  study  being  obligatory  upon 
every  student.  Of  the  68  graduates,  in  the 
seven  classes,  59  were  Christian  at  the  time 
of  graduating.  The  Christian  influence  may 
be  shown  by  the  fact  that  already  there  have 
been  19  candidates  for  the  ministry  and  12 
others  preparing  for  missionary  work.   Yale, 

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Ministerial  Relief. 


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Princeton,  Chicago  and  Emporia  hare  some 
of  Lewis  Academy's  students,  honoring  their 
Alma  Mater. 

An  institation  strong  in  numbers,  in  its 
faculty,  in  its  plan  of  work,  in  its  scholarship 
and  Christian  character  of  its  students  comes 
to  the  great  Presbyterian  Church  and  asks  to 
have  its  pressing  financial  needs  supplied.  It 
emerged  from  the  ^*  Great  Real  Estate  Boom 
of  1887  "  with  property  valued  at  $100,000 
and  a  debt  incurred  in  buying  grounds  and 
erecting  and  equipping  its  splendid  building, 
of  $85,000.  Fifteen  thousand  dollars  of  this 
has  since  been  paid.  The  remainder,  secured 
by  mortgage,   is  past  due.    A  payment  of 


$5,000  will  secure  an  extension  of  the  balance 
three  years  at  four  per  cent.  A  failure  to 
raise  $5,000  promptly,  seems  to  threaten  its 
yery  existence.  Trusted  friends  here  have 
struggled  hard  to  save  this  institution,  bat 
have  reached  the  limit  of  their  financial 
ability.    The  crisis  is  here. 

Where  are  the  generous  Christian  men  and 
women,  to  whom  the  Lord  has  entiusted 
wealth,  who  will  come  to  the  rescue  of  this 
Academy)  What  Phillips  Academy  of  An- 
dover  has  been  to  New  England,  Lewis  Acad- 
emy will  be  to  Kansas  and  the  great  South- 
west. 

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MINISTERIAL   RELIEF. 


The  Report  of  the  Board  to  the  General 
Assembly  in  Saratoga  contains  in  full  the 
*^ statistics**  for  the  year  ending  April  1st, 
1894.  Many  readers  of  this  magazine  may 
not  see  the  report  and  therefore  some  of  the 
figures  are  here  given. 

The  number  on  the  Roll  of  the  Board  to 
whom,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
Presbyteries,  remittances  have  been  sent  dur- 
ing the  year  from  April  1st,  1898  to  April 
Ist,  1894  is  781:  that  is,  ministers  294; 
widows  of  ministers,  406;  orphan  families, 
26 ;  four  women  who  have  given  themselves 
to  missionary  work  under  the  caie  of  the 
Foreign  or  Home  Board  ^^for  a  period  of 
not  less  than  five  jears  *'  (see  printed  minutes 
of  the  General  As&embly,  1888,  page  88)  and 
one  widow  of  a  Medical  Missionary  (see 
printed  minutes,  1889,  page  82).  The  num- 
ber provided  for  at  the  Ministers*  House  at 
Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  in  lieu  of  receiving  a  re- 
mittance in  money,  is  28,  making  upon  the 
Roll  of  the  Board  during  the  past  year  a  total 
of  754  names — an  increase  of  82  over  last 
year.  The  Presbyterial  recommendations  in 
their  behalf  came  from  178  Pj  esby teries. 

Upon  the  recommendations  of  the  Presby- 
teries there  were  placed  on  the  Roll  during 
the  past  year  105  new  names — 61  ministers. 


40  widows,  two  orphan   families   and   two 
women  missionaries. 

Forty-four  names  have  been  removed  from 
the  Roll  by  death~33  ministers  and  11 
widows.  The  withdrawal  from  our  roll  of 
other  names  (owing  to  a  change  in  pecuniazy 
circumstances  or  restored  health  rendering 
further  aid  no  longer  necessary),  and  the 
failure  of  some  "renewals"  by  the  Presby- 
teries to  reach  the  Board  before  the  close  of 
the  year,  make  the  number  of  persons  actual- 
ly upon  the  Roll,  recommended  by  the  Pres- 
byteries and  receiving  a  remittance  in  money, 
or  in  lieu  thereof  a  residence  at  Perth  Am- 
boy, as  given  above,  seven  hundred  and 
fifty- four.  This  is  an  increase  over  the  pre- 
vious year  of  thirty -two  families. 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  in  the  great 
majority  of  cases  the  name  upon  the  Roll 
of  the  Board  represents  more  than  one  per- 
son. The  ''  family  "  to  whom  the  remittance 
is  sent  is  sometimes  composed  of  an  aged 
couple;  or  of  a  minister  laid  aside  in  the 
midst  of  his  usefulness  by  protracted  sick- 
ness, with  a  wife  and  children  to  support;  or 
of  a  widow  of  a  minister  needing  help  for 
her  dependent  children  as  well  as  for  herself. 
There  are  therefore  very  many  more  than  754 
persons  who  share  in  these  appropriations. 


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Of  the  ministers  npon  the  Roll  of  the 
Board  79  have  applied  for  aid  tinder  the  New 
Bole  of  the  Assembly,  which  provides  that 
*' Every  honorably  retired  minister  over  70 
years  of  age,  who  is  in  need  and  who  has 
served  oar  Chnrch  as  a  missionary  of  the 
Home  or  Foreign  Board  or  as  a  pastor  or 
stated  supply  for  a  period  in  the  aggregate  of 
not  less  than  80  years,  shall  be  entitled  by 
SQch  service  to  draw  from  the  Board  of  Min- 
isterial Belief  an  annual  sum  for  his  support, 
without  the  necessity  of  being  annually  rec- 
ommended therefor  by  the  Presbytery." 

The  maximum  sum  to  be  paid  by  the 
Board  upon  such  application  duly  certified  by 
the  Stated  Clerk  of  Presbytery,  was  fixed 
by  the  Assembly  of  1889  at  (800;  and  sixty- 
one  out  of  these  seventy- nine  venerable  men 
have  certified  to  the  Presbytery  that  they  are 
in  need  of  this  sum  annually  for  their  sup- 
port. The  remaining  eighteen  applied  for 
sums  ranging  from  one  hundred  to  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars.  The  entire  annual 
sum  appropriated  last  year  to  these  seventy- 
nine  aged  ministers  amounting  to  $21,740, 
an  average  of  a  little  more  than  $275  to 
each  family.  The  oldest  of  them  is  in  his 
ninety-fifth  year;  twenty-nine  are  over  eighty. 
The  average  age  is  over  78,  and  the  average 
number  of  years  spent  in  the  ministry  is 
nearly  48. 

Daring  the  five  years  in  which  the  new 
rule  of  the  Assembly  has  been  in  operation, 
the  whole  number  of  ministers  enrolled  upon 
this  list  is  122.  Forty- three  have  been  called 
to  their.reward  on  high,  leaving  the  present 
number  as  given  above,  viz.,  seventy-nine. 

THE  TRIASUBT. 

The  sum  distributed  among  the  seven  hun- 
dred and  fifty-four  families  upon  the  roll  of 
the  Board  during  the  year  is  (159,875  87, 
very  nearly  seven  thousand  dollars  more  than 


the  previous  year.  All  the  axipropriations 
recommended  by  the  Presbyteries  were  paid 
promptly  and  in  full,  and  the  Board  reports 
to  the  Assembly  a  balance  in  hand  of 
$4,548.95. 

But  there  was  a  great  falling  off  in  the 
contributions.  The  collections  sent  by  the 
churches  and  Sabbath-sch()ols  amount  to  only 
$78,262.90  and  the  gifts  from  individuals  to 
$10,771.74,  a  total  of  $89,084.64. 

The  number  of  churches  which  took  up  no 
collection  for  the  Board  last  year  was  8,798 — 
an  increase  of  217  over  the  number  of  ^^de- 
linquent" churches  reported  the  year  before! 
The  impression  evidently  prevails  that  the  an- 
nual interest  from  our  large  Permanent  Fund 
relieves  pastors  and  elders  from  presenting 
this  cause  to  their  people.  But  last  year  the 
entire  revenue  of  the  Board  fell  short  of  its 
expenditures  $19,858.12.  The  Board,  how- 
ever, began  the  year  with  a  balance  in  hand 
of  $28,907.07,  and  out  of  this  (the  contribu- 
tions from  previous  years)  the  deficit  of 
$19,358.12  was  made  up,  leaving  us  to  begin 
the  new  year  with  only  $4,548.95.  Unless 
there  is  an  advance  in  contributions  all 
along  the  line  the  Board  cannot  pay  in  full 
the  appropriations  asked  for  by  the  Presby- 
teries during  the  coming  year.  The  Board 
can  only  distribute  what  it  receives. 

The  estimated  value  of  the  boxes  sent  by 
Ladies^  Societies  to  the  families  upon  our  roll 
is  $4,758.23— another  falling  off  from  last 
year  when  it  amounted  to  $6,950. 

The  legacies  to  the  Permanent  Fund  (a  list 
of  which  is  given  in  the  Beport)  amounted 
to  $78,786.84.  This  fund  is  now  $1,886,- 
776.74.  But  will  not  this  large  sum  prove 
to  be  really  a  calamity  to  the  Church  if  it 
weakens  the  sense  of  obligation  on  the  part 
of  GKxl's  people  to  make  annual  contributions 
to  this  tender  and  sacred  causef 


CHURCH    ERECTION. 


THE  YEAB'S  WOBK. 

The  year  that  closed  with  the  first  of  April 

was,   as  is  well  known,   one  of  continued 

depression  in  commercial  and  financial  circles, 

and  the  fact  was  necessarily  reflected  in  the 


diminished  ability  of  the  Board  to  encourage 
church  and  chapel  building.  Aside,  too,  from 
a  decrease  in  the  contributions  from  the 
churches  the  effects  of  the  ^^hard  times" 
were  manifest  in  several  ways  in  connection 


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with  the  applications  for  aid  in  building. 
Taking  the  year  as  a  whole,  the  number  of 
applications  was  diminished,  showing  that 
many  congregations,  aware  of  the  difficulties 
before  them,  postponed  their  building  until  a 
better  day;  but  this  diminution  in  demand 
occurred  almost  entirely  in  the  latter  half  of 
the  year.  Ordinarily  there  is  more  building 
during  the  summer  months  forming  the  first 
half  of  the  fiscal  year,  but  this  year  the  dif- 
ference was  very  marked.  Taking  ihe  six 
previous  years,  58  per  cent,  of  the  implica- 
tions came  in  during  the  six  months  ending 
with  September  80;  this  year  nearly  66  per 
cent,  of  all  reoeiyed  were  during  these 
months.  Moreover,  in  the  early  part  of  the 
year  instances  occurred  of  applications  from 
churches  which,  when  planning  to  build,  had 
every  reason  to  expect  to  be  able  to  complete 
their  work  by  their  own  unaided  efforts,  but 
who  found  themselves  crippled  after  the 
work  was  too  far  advanced  to  be  stopped  or 
curtailed. 

To  this  general  statement  of  the  conditions 
under  which  the  work  has  been  carried  on 
during  the  year  should  be  added  the  fact 
that,  when  the  year  opened,  the  Board  had 
on  file  twenty-four  applications  postponed  on 
account  of  lack  of  funds  from  the  previous 
year  and  aggregating  in  amount  $14,466.  In 
effect,  this  sum  represented  the  net  deficiency 
of  the  previous  year,  burdened  with  which 
the  present  year  began.  The  Board  feels, 
therefore,  that  it  has  reason  for  gratification 
that  it  has  been  enabled,  owing  to  the  smaller 
number  of  applications,  to  reduce  this  defi- 
ciency and  actually  to  dose  this  year  under 
conditions  slightly  more  favorable  than  a 
year  ago. 

There  have  been  received  during  the  year 
214  applications,  of  which  168  have  been  for 
grants  or  loans  for  church  buildings  and  46 
for  manses.  The  amounts  asked  have  been 
as  follows:  from  the  General  Fund,  (79,280; 
from  the  Loan  Fund,  (72,050,  and  from  the 
Manse  Fund  (22,925,  making  a  total  of  (174,- 
255.  While  the  amount  is  thus  larger  than 
ever  before,  exceeding  even  that  of  last  year 
by  (7,672,  it  is  a  gratifying  indication  of 
advance  and  gp:owing  strength  and  independ- 
ence  that   the  increase  is  entirely  in  the 


requests  for  loans,  while  the  applicatimis  ^or 
actual  grants  have  scmiewhat  diminished  in 
number.  The  more  advance  can  be  made  in 
this  direction,  the  more  assured  will  be  the 
sense  of  responsibility  and  independence  and 
thus  the  permanence  of  the  churches. 

APPBOPRIATIONS. 

1.  The  General  Fund. — Appropriations 
have  been  made  from  this  fund  to  158 
churches,  and  to  an  amount  aggr^^ting  (80,- 

010,  an  advance  upon  last  year  of  two  in  the 
number  of  churches,  and  (1,298  in  amount. 

These  appropriations  have  been  distributed 
among  28  Synods,  92  Presbyteries  and  82 
States  and  Territories. 

The  comparative  distribution  has  been  un- 
usually equal.  Nebraska  has  received  18 
appropriations,  Pennsylvania,  12,  California, 

11,  Washington  and  Indian  Territory,  9  each, 
Minnesota,  8,  and  Colorado,  Catawba,  Indi- 
ana, Iowa,  Michigan,  New  York  and  Oregon, 
7  each. 

2.  The  Loan  Fkind, — From  this  fond  loans 
have  been  made  to  16  churches,  the  aggregate 
amount  thus  loaned  being  (59,250. 

These  loans  have  been  very  widely  and 
evenly  distributed  over  the  country,  vis., 
four  in  the  East,  (Massachusetts,  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania),  four  in  the  Cen- 
tral States  (Indiana,  8,  Michigan,  1),  two  in 
the  Mississippi  Valley,  (Missouri),  three  in 
the  Northwest  (Wisconsin,  1,  Minnesota,  2), 
and  three  upon  the  Pacific  Slope  (Idaho, 
Washington,  California). 

8.  The  Manse  Fund. — Eleven  applications 
for  loans  from  this  fund  came  over  from  the 
previous  year,  being  postponed  because  avail- 
able means  were  exhausted.  To  these  have 
been  added  46  new  ones,  making  in  all  57, 
aggregating  (27,075,  which  have  been  bef<ue 
the  Board.  To  40  of  these  loans,  amounting 
to  (15,904,  have  been  made. 

These  loans  have  been  distributed  among 
19  Synods  and  89  Presbyteries.  Geographi- 
cally, more  than  one-half  are  upon  the  east- 
em  side  of  the  Mississippi  Biver,  and  of 
those  upon  the  west,  nearly  one-half  again 
are  in  the  comparatively  eastern  States  ef 
Minnesota,  Iowa  and  Missouri.  There  re- 
mains a  great  work  to  do  in  this  department 


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in  the  broad  field — still  further  west — embrac- 
ing nearlj  two-thirds  of  our  land. 

From  the  statements  that  have  been  made 
it  will  be  seen  that,  notwithstanding  the 
financial  difficulties  of  the  past  year,  the 
aggregate  of  the  work  of  the  Board  has  been 
greater  than  ever  before,  and  also,  as  might 
be  expected  in  a  developing  and  maturing 
church,  that  the  relative  proportions  of  the 
different  departments  are  somewhat  changed. 

While  it  is  not  probable  that  the  number  of 
infant  churches  needing  grants  will  much 
diminish  for  many  years,  it  is  certain  that 
the  number  of  older  churches  asking  for 
loans,  both  for  church  edifices  and  for 
manses,  will  constantly  increase. 

This  year  the  number  reached  in  all  depart- 
ments is  236,  and  the  aggregate  amount 
pledged  for  their  aid  (165,000. 

For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
Board,  it  has  felt  constrained  to  allow  its 
appropriations  for  the  year  somewhat  to 
exceed  its  income.  It  has  done  this  in  view 
of  the  fact  that  the  deficiency  has  been  caused 
by  a  shrinking  in  the  aggregate  contributions 
of  the  churches,  which,  it  is  hoped  and 
believed,  is  but  a  temporary  and  perhaps 
inevitable  result  of  the  universal  financial 
distress.  Should  such  shrinkage  continue, 
or  even  if  the  contributions  should  remain 
stationary,  the  result  would  mean  disaster  to 
the  oldest  and  most  important  work. 


THE  COMING  YEAR. 
As  it  is  evident,  as  has  been  already  stated, 
that  the  financial  pressure  during  the  past 
year  has  restramed  many  churches  from 
building,  it  is  almost  certain  that  there  will 
be,  with  returning  prosperity,  an  unusual 
number  of  applications,  which  should  be 
promptly  met.  This  demand  will  reach  us 
from  several  different  classes.  The  largest 
number  of  these  applications  will,  of  course, 
come  from  the  great  Home  Missionary  field 
of  the  West.  Every  week  from  three  to  four 
new  churches  are  organized  as  the  normal 
growth  of  our  Church  in  these  new  regions, 
and  almost  without  exception  these  churches 
appeal  to  the  Board  for  aid  to  establish  them 
in  permanent  homes.    But,  in  addition  to 


these,  we  have  to  provide  in  some  way  for 
the  fast  increasing  Presbyterian  population 
of  New  England;  for  the  constantly  growing 
work  among  the  Freedmen ;  for  the  needs  of 
the  multiplying  villages  in  the  new  industrial 
South,  largely  the  homes  of  enterprising 
settlers  from  the  North,  and  last,  but  not 
least,  for  the  steady  influx  of  population  into 
all  of  our  older  cities,  an  increase  that  in 
many  instances  outruns  the  ability  of  local 
church  extension  resources.  It  should  be 
noted,  too,  that  scattered  among  all  these 
classes  we  find  a  constantly  increasing  num- 
ber of  churches  of  foreign  tongue. 

No  estimate  of  the  coming  demands  of  the 
work  can  be  complete  without  taking  into 
account  the  rapidly  growing  numbers  of  our 
German,  Bohemian,  Scandinavian,  Italian  and 
Slavonic  Churches  and  Missions. 


HUNGARIAN  MISSIONS  IN  PENN- 
SYLVANIA. 
Dr.  S.  C.  Logan,  speaking  of  the  import- 
ant movement  in  the  coal  regions  of  Penn- 
sylvania to  carry  the  gospel  to  the  thou- 
sands of  foreigners,  mostly  Hungarians  and 
Poles,  who  have  been  brought  into  that  great 
centre  of  mining  industry,  says: 

There  are  many  thousands  of  these  Slavonics 
in  our  field,  and  we  are  very  grateful  to  the 
Board  for  the  generous  help  given  our  Presby- 
tery in  this  case.  Our  churches  have  supported 
the  Board  generously  and  have  built  their  houses 
generally  without  outside  help.  But  if  we 
succeed  in  the  mission  to  these  foreign  masses 
we  shall  need  more  outside  help  for  the  building 
of  churches  than  ever  before.  I  suspect  that  we 
shall  have  to  build  at  least  two  Italian  churches 
within  the  next  year,  and  we  ought  to  have 
at  least  two  more  for  the  Slavonics.  We  may  as 
well  ask  the  Chinese  to  build  a  house  for  the 
missionary  we  send  to  them  as  expect  these 
Hungarians  to  build  their  own  churches.  After 
a  year's  investigation  and  hard  work,  I  am  com- 
pelled to  report  that  we  have  as  needy  and 
promising  a  mission  field  in  the  coal  regions  as 
may  be  found  in  any  part  of  the  world.  In  the 
Valleys  of  Lackawanna  and  Wyoming  we  have 
employed  about  the  coal  breakers  over  73,000 
men,  90  per  cent  of  whom  cannot  understand 
English.  The  great  body  of  them  have  come  to 
stay.  They  must  have  the  €k>8pel  or  they  will 
give  us  what  neither  we  nor  our  children  can  bear. 


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BUILDING  A  NEBRASKA  CHURCH. 

As  far  west  as  Hitchcock  County  churches 
are  few  and  far  between,  except  in  towns,  and 
country  congregations  worship  within  the 
small  school-houses,  which  at  the  best  furnish 
meager  accommodations. 

The  long-felt  want  of  a  meeting  place  other 
then  the  old  sod  school-house  was  accentu- 
ated at  one  such  place  by  a  slight  misunder- 
standing with  another  denomination  holding 
prior  claim.  It  was  on  the  last  day  of  the 
old  year,  and  public  spirit  grew  with  the  re- 
marks: 

''  If  we  only  had  a  church  I  " 

'*  I  wish  we  had  a  church.'* 

**  We  must  have  a  church." 

'*  Let  us  build  a  church.** 

The  crops  had  failed,  times  were  hard,  and 
money  scarce,  but  a  temporary  loan  was 
offered  if  a  subscription  paper  warranted  its 
payment. 

On  New  Year's  Day  a  committee  started 
out  to  see  what  could  be  done,  and  at  night 
the  subscription  list  footed  (70,  and  a  church 
was  assured.  A  frame  building  was  out  of 
question,  but  on  Wednesday  a  score  of  will- 
ing workers  were  plowing  and  piling  sod. 
It  was  a  formidable  undertaking  for  mid- 
winter, but  the  brave  homesteaders  are  ac- 
customed to  encountering  difficulties  and  sur- 
mounting obstacles,  and  in  two  day  the  walls 
had  risen  to  the  desired  height.  Un  ucky 
Friday  brought  a  storm,  and  work  was  sus- 
pended until  Tuesday. 

But  Friday  night  again  beheld  a  good,  sub- 
stantial church  building  completed  and  fur- 
nished, ready  for  occupancy.  It  is  16  x  32 
feet,  with  door  and  six  windows,  and  has 
cost,  besides  gratis  labor,  (100.     Part  of  that 


sum  has  already  been  paid,  and  the  balance 
guaranteed  by  solid  subscription. 

The  erection  of  a  church  in  six  days*  time 
is  one  of  the  achievements  of  ^'dried-out, 
bumed-up,  blown-away"  southwest  Ne- 
braska, and,  considering  circumstances^  is 
unprecedented.— -iir«6ni«;(Mi  Utate  Journal. 


OFFER  OF  A  CHANDELIER. 

The  Rev.  J.  K.  Gibson  of  South  Charles- 
ton, Ohio,  writes: 

We  have  a  good  chandelier  of  an  old  pat- 
tern which  we  should  be  pleased  to  give  to 
some  weak  church  which  would  accept  It.  It 
is  in  excellent  style  although  old.  It  is  for  oil 
and  coBtains  eight  lamps  and  is  as  good  as 
when  put  up ;  which  however  was  thirty  years 
ago.    It  then  cost  (75. 


SELF-DENIAL  IN  GIVING. 

ThefoUowing  letter  from  a  little  Freed- 
men's  church  of  thirty-four  members  speaks 
for  itself.  It  shows  a  spirit  which  if  univer- 
sal would  solve  the  problem  of  the  financial 
support  of  our  Boards : 

Enclosed  find  one  dollar  for  your  cause 
which  would  be  many  times  greater  if  the  writer 
had  the  means.  Do  you  know  that  we  have  no 
money  here  and  most  people  have  everything  to 
buy  and  absolutely  nothing  to  buy  with.  How 
they  will  reach  harvest  the  Lord  only  knoweth 
—we  hope  without  absolute  suffering. 

A  woman  to-day  told  us  that  they  had  noth- 
ing to  eat  for  days  at  a  time  except  com  breads 
absolutely  nothing  but  bread— and  many  more 
are  nearly  as  hard  pressed. 

Tet  we  send  you  the  mite.  May  the  Lord 
bless  it  to  somebody's  good. 

A.  M.  Pbnland, 
Beech  Pres.  Church,  N.  C. 


PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH-SCHOOL  WORK. 


THE  NEW  HYMNAL. 

The  following  paragraph  is  extracted  from 
the  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  to  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly. 

'^It  is  reported  with  great  pleasure  that 


under  way.  The  work  has  been  earnestly 
and  laboriously  prosecuted  by  a  committee  of 
the  Board.  The  best  Hymnals  of  this  coun- 
try, England,  and  Scotland  have  been  care- 
fully cross-indexed  and  collated,  and  a  large 


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The  selection  of  the  hymns  and  the  classi- 
fication have  been  largely  accomplished. 
The  editorial  work  upon  the  book  has  been 
committed,  nnder  the  supervision  of  the 
committee,  to  one  of  its  members,  the  Rev. 
Louis  F.  Benson,  who  has  temporarily  re- 
linquished pastoral  work  to  give  his  whole 
time  to  this.  The  book  will  be  pushed  for- 
ward with  all  practicable  speed,  and  it  is  the 
expectation  of  the  Committee  that  the  new 
Hymnal  shall  be  in  all  respects  abreast  of 
the  best  work  which  has  been  done  in  that 
department.*' 

CHILDREN'S  DAY. 

The  observance  of  this  beautiful  and  sug- 
gestive anniversary  will  be  more  general  this 
year  in  our  own  and  other  communions  than 
ever  before.  The  Sabbath-school  and  mis- 
sionary department  of  the  Board  has  been  at 
great  pains  to  reach  every  Sabbath-school  in 
our  Church  with  its  supplies  of  programmes 
and  exercises,  and  from  every  state  and  ter- 
ritory come  hundreds  of  assurances  that 
special  efforts  will  be  made  to  make  the  occa- 
sion one  of  spiritual  profit. 

The  great  majority  of  our  Sabbath- schools 
will  keep  the  anniversary  on  the  second  Sab- 
bath in  June;  in  a  few  cases  some  other  day 
has  been  chosen  as  more  convenient  for  local 
reasons. 

The  offerings,  which  will  be  brought  in  by 
the  children  on  this  occasion,  will  have  a 
most  important  influence  upon  the  work 
throughout  the  coming  year.  This  thought 
should  spur  every  individual  member  to  lib- 
erality. The  rich  out  of  their  abundance 
and  the  poor  out  of  their  poverty  will  find 
here  an  occasion  worthy  of  their  zeal.  How- 
ever small  the  offering  possible  in  any  in- 
stance it  should  not  be  withheld.  Nor 
should  the  affluent  diminish  their  gifts  be- 
cause they  go  to  the  Treasury  in  the  name  of 
the  Sabbath-school  and  by  the  hands  of  chil- 
dren. The  importance  of  the  work  becomes 
increasingly  evident  every  year,  and  it  de- 
serves a  place  in  the  affections  of  every 
patron  as  well  as  of  every  Christian. 


158  Sabbath -school  missionaries  were  em- 
ployed during  1898-4  in  twenty-seven  synods. 


CONVENTION  OF  SABBATH-SCHOOL 
MISSIONARIES. 

Last  Fall  some  important  conferences  were 
held  by  the  Superintendent  of  the  Sabbath- 
school  Department  with  the  missionary  breth- 
ren, one  in  Minneapolis,  attended  by  about 
28,  and  two  smaller  meetings,  respectively  at 
St.  Louis,  and  at  Greensboro,  N.  C.  So  in- 
teresting and  profitable  were  these  several 
occasions,  and  so  beneficial  and  helpful  were 
they  in  their  after  results,  that  a  plan  was  put 
into  operation  early  this  year  for  holding  a 
Sabbath-school  Missionary  Convention  to  ex- 
tend over  eight  days,  and  to  combine  the 
features  of  a  conference  with  instruction  and 
drill  in  practical  work. 

This  convention  met,  March  7,  at  Chicago, 
in  the  Church  of  the  Covenant,  Rev.  Dr. 
Breed,  pastor,  and  held  its  sessions  day  by 
day  until  the  evening  of  March  14.  Fifty 
missionaries,  synod  ical  and  presbyterial,  were 
present,  from  seventeen  States  and  Territo- 
ries, and  the  season  was  one  ever  to  be 
cherished  in  the  memory  of  all  who  shared  in 
its  privileges  and  opportunities. 

•    MISSION  WORK. 

The  meetings  were  under  the  management 
of  Dr.  Worden  and  were  invariably  opened 
by  a  brief  service  of  song  and  prayer.  At 
the  opening  service  Dr.  Breed  presided  and 
gave  a  warm  address  of  welcome,  after  which 
Dr.  Worden  stated  in  general  terms  the 
threefold  object  aimed  at  by  the  Convention, 
namely  spiritual  retreat  for  divine  com- 
munion, brotherly  fellowship,  and  instruction 
both  biblical  and  practical.  Responses  were 
made  by  several  of  the  brethren.  The  suc- 
ceeding services  followed  the  line  of  a  special 
course  of  Bible  study  on  the  system  of  the 
Westminster  Normal  outlines,  taking  up  the 
four  gospels  and  the  chronology  and  seven 
periods  of  the  life  of  Jesus.  Following  this 
study  there  were  papers  and  discussions  on 
many  features  of  practical  work.  The  papers 
on  all  these  topics  were  carefully  prepared 
from  an  essentially  missionary  point  of  view, 
and  the  hints  and  points  thrown  out  on  the 
various  discussions  were  often  most  exceUent, 
shewing  that  the  missionaries  were  no  mere 
theoristSf^but  knew  whereof  they  spake. 


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KYANOEUSnO  WORK. 

The  practical  work  of  the  Sabbath-school 
missionary  touches  at  many  points  the  gen- 
eral work  of  the  Church,  and  therefore  it  was 
felt  that  a  discussion  of  the  features  of  evan- 
gelistic work  was  very  desirable.  Thoughtful 
papers  were  read  and  speeches  made  on  this 
subject. 

OONYKRSATIONAL  MiniMOS. 

But  this  did  not  exhaust  the  feast  of  good 
things.  Fed  by  this  wholesome  diet,  and 
with  intervals  of  rest  and  exercise,  the  mis- 
sionary brethren  took  up  for  special  discus- 
sioaon  successive  afternoons  such  pertinent 
questions  as  ^^  Rivalry  with  other  Sabbath- 
school  mission  work — how  met  and  avoided," 
*^  How  to  obtain  superintendents  and  teach- 
ers for  new  Sabbath-schools;  "  ''How  to  re- 
claim backsliders; "  ''  How  to  make  Sabbath- 
schools  evergreen ; "  ' '  Making  new  Sabbath- 
schools  loyal  to  the  Church."  That  these 
topics  were  ably  and  profitably  dealt  with, 
and  that  the  papers  and  talks  left  many  a 
never-to-be-forgotten  impress  on  mind  and 
soul,  is  the  testimony  of  all  who  were 
present. 

RBOEPTION. 

And  still  the  Convention's  work  was  not 
done.  There  were  evening  meetings,  and 
meetings  in  various  churches  in  the  city  to 
which  missionaries  were  sent  singly  or  in 
pairs  to  tell  the  good  people  of  Chicago  of 
their  life-work.  On  Sabbath,  March  11th, 
many  of  the  pulpits  in  the  city  and  vicinity 
were  occupied  by  delegates,  and  one  evening 
was  pleasantly  taken  up  by  a  reception  to  the 
members  of  the  Convention  tendered  by  the 
Young  Men^s  Society  of  the  Church  of  the 
Covenant.  This  was  a  delightful  gathering, 
including  the  pastor  and  officers  of  the  church 
and  Sabbath-school,  the  faculty  of  the  Mc- 
Cormick  Theological  Seminary,  and  many 
visitors.  The  Rev.  Herrick  Johnson,  D.D., 
Rev.  Thos.  C.  Hall,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Milner  of 
the  Armour  Mission,  were  among  those  privi- 
leged to  speak  words  of  encouragement  and 
counsel. 

COMMUNION  AND  CLOSE. 

The  Convention  closed  with  an  ever-to-be- 
remembered  communion  service,   when  the 


very  windows  of  heaven  seemed  to  open  and 
let  through  a  flood  of  glory.  Back  to  their 
toils  and  hand-to-hand  conflicts  the  brethren 
must  now  go.  The  voice  of  Providence  which 
had  called  them  together  now  bade  them  sepa- 
rate. But  for  an  hour  or  two  before  they 
parted  came  this  hallowed  feast  of  love  at  the 
foot  of  the  cross.  Tender  and  helpful  words 
were  spoken.  Strong  men  broke  down  in 
sobs.  Hands  were  wrung  in  silence.  And 
thus  commending  eadi  other  to  the  covenant- 
keeping  GK)d,  and  with  renewed  strength,  joy 
and  consecration  of  spirit  and  purpose  to  the 
Lord.  They  ''  took  up  their  carriages  "  and 
went  forward,  each  to  his  work. 

RESOLUTIONS  ADOPTED. 

Two  important  resolutions  were  adopted 
by  this  Convention.  The  first  was  a  resolu- 
tion in  which  the  missionaries  agreed  to- 
gether to  assume  the  support  of  one  addi- 
tional missionary  to  be  commissioned  by  the 
Board  and  to  be  known  as  ^*-  The  Missionaries' 
Missionary."  The  other  resolution  was  in 
the  following  terms: 

TO  OUB  BELOVED  PRBSBTTBRIAN  CHUBCH. 

We,  the  Sabbath-Bchool  missionaries  along  the 
skirmish  line  representing  the  seventeen  difPerent 
states  and  territories  assembled  in  the  second  an- 
nual conference  held  in  Chicago,  from  March  7Ui 
to  14th,  1894,  have  become  thoroughly  convinced 
that  the  Sabbath-school  work  of  our  land  is  not 
keeping  pace  with  our  rapidly  increasing  popu- 
lation and  therefore  in  behalf  of  the  thoussDds 
of  neglected  families  unreached  with  the  Word 
of  Qod  and  calling  to  us  for  help,  we  appeal  to 
you  with  the  hope  that  our  churches.  Sabbath- 
schools  and  young  peoples'  societies  of  Christian 
Endeavor  and  individuals  may  heed  this  pitiful 
cry  from  fields  white  already  for  the  harvest,  by 
sending  forth  within  the  coming  year  the  twenty- 
five  additional  permanent  Presbyterian  Sabbath- 
school  missionaries  needed  to  sow  and  reap,  thus 
gathering  in  for  Christ,  our  country  and  our 
church  to  his  glory. 


A  full  page  illustration  reproduced  from  a 
photograph  and  representing  the  members  of 
the  above  convention  will  appear  in  the  July 
number  of  this  magazine.  The  group  com- 
prises fifty  synodical  and  presbyterial  mission- 
aries with  their  host  Rev.  Dr.  Breed,  and 
their  superintendent  Bev.  Dr.  Worden. 


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I. 

June  8. — T?ie  Passover  InstittUed, — Exod. 
xii:l-14. 

^^  As  birds  flying,  so  will  the  Lord  of  hosts 
defend  JemsalenEi;  defending  also  He  will 
deliver  it;  and  passing  over  he  will  preserve 
it.'' — Isa.  xxzi:5. 

The  deliverance  of  Israel  according  to 
the  flesh  from  the  bondage  of  Egypt  was 
always  so  regarded  and  describt'd  by  the 
prophets  as  to  render  it  a  most  apt  type  of 
the  deliverance  of  the  spiritual  Israel  from 
the  bondage  of  sin  into  the  glorious  liberty 
with  which  Christ  has  made  us  free.  The 
blood  of  the  flrst  paschal  lambs  sprinkled  on 
the  door- ways  of  the  houses  has  ever  been 
regarded  as  the  best  defined  foreshadowing 
of  that  blood  which  has  redeemed,  saved  and 
sanctified  us.  (Heb.  xi:28).  The  lamb 
itself,  sacrificed  by  the  worshipper  without 
the  intervention  of  a  priest,  and  its  flesh 
being  eaten  without  reserve  as  a  meal,  exhi- 
bits the  most  perfect  of  peace-offerings,  the 
closest  type  of  the  atoning  Sacrifice  who  died 
for  us  and  has  made  our  peace  with  Gk)d. 
Tbe  ceremonial  law  and  the  functions  of  the 
priest  in  later  times  were  indeed  recognized 
in  the  sacrificial  rite  of  the  Passover;  but  the 
previous  existence  of  the  rite  showed  that 
they  were  not  essential  for  the  personal  ap- 
proach of  the  worshipper  to  God.  The  un- 
leavened bread  is  recognized  as  a  figure  of 
the  state  of  sanctification  which  is  the  true 
element  of  the  believer  in  Christ.  (I.  Cor. 
v:8).  The  haste  with  which  the  meal  was 
eaten  and  the  girt-up  loins,  the  staves  and 
the  sandals  are  fit  emblems  of  the  life  of  the 
Christian  pilgrim,  ever  hastening  away  from 
the  world  towards  his  heavenly  destination. 

Smith. 

The  Lord's  Passover — **I  will  pass  over 
you,  I  will  spare  you  and  protect  you."  His 
people  are  safe  whatever  passes  over  them, 
no  harm  shall  come  nigh  their  dwellings. 


Paschal  Lamb,  by  God  appelated, 

All  our  sins  on  thee  were  laid. 
By  Almighty  Love  anointed 

Thou  hast  full  atonement  made. 
All  thy  people  are  forgiven, 

Through  the  virtue  of  thy  blood. 
Opened  Is  the  gate  of  Heaven, 

reace  is  made  'twixt  man  and  God. 

II. 

June  10. — Passage  of  the  Bed  Sea. — Exod. 
xiv:  19-29. 

It  is  important  to  remember  that  the  night 
of  crossing  was  a  terrible  one.  In  the  lan- 
guage of  the  Psalmist,  *^The  clouds  poured 
out  water;  the  skies  sent  out  a  sound;  thine 
arrows  (the  lightnings)  lightened  the  world; 
the  earth  trembled  and  shook."  (Psa. 
Ixxvii:  17,  18).  The  pUlar  of  fire  was  be- 
tween the  Israelites  and  Egyptians :  so  where 
the  latter,  accustomed  to  see  the  flaming 
torches  at  the  head  of  the  host,  supposed  the 
van  of  the  Israelites  to  be,  there  was  really 
their  rear.  Misled,  therefore,  they  forced 
their  jaded  horses  onward,  thinking  they 
had  already  got  into  the  very  midst  of  the 
flying  slaves.  Under  divine  guidance,  and 
perhaps  miraculously  hastened,  the  Israelites 
made  the  crossing  in  safety,  but  the  Egyp- 
tians labored  under  unexpected  difficulties. 
^^At  the  morning  watch,  the  Lord  looked 
unto  the  host  of  the  Egyptians  "  and  ^^  trou- 
bled "  (i.  e.  threw  them  into  confusion)  and 
'^  took  off  their  chariot  wheels,  so  they  drave 
them  heavily."  The  morning  dawned.  The 
Egyptians  saw  their  slaves  upon  the  bank, 
but  saw  also  that  the  sea  had  broken  its  bar- 
rier, and  was  pouring  in  on  them.  Amid 
groans  and  curses  the  pride  of  Egypt*s  army 
sank  beneath  the  waves,  while  the  Israelites 
sang  their  new  song:  ^^Who  is  like  unto 
thee,  O  Lord,  among  the  gods?  who  is  like 
unto  Thee,  glorious  in  holiness,  fearful  in 
praises,  doing  wonders? " 

^*  Thus  the  Lord  saved  Israel  that  day  out 
of  the  hands  of  tbe  Egyptians,  and  Israel  saw 
the  Egyptians  dead  upon  the  seashore." 

Schaff-Herzog  Encyclopedia. 

in. 

June  17. — 2%6  Woes  of  the  Drunkard, — 
Prov.  xxiii:  29-85. — (A  Temperance  LieasQu.) 


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Could  the  yoath,  to  whom  the  flavor  of  his 
first  wine  is  delioions  as  the  opening  scenes 
of  life,  or  the  entering  npon  some  newly-dis- 
covered  paradise,  look  into  my  desolation, 
and  be  made  to  understand  what  a  dreary 
thing  it  is  when  a  man  shall  feel  himself  go- 
ing down  a  precipice  with  open  eyes  and  a 
passive  will;  to  see  his  destruction  and  have 
no  power  to  stop  it,  and  yet  to  feel  it  all  the 
way  emanating  from  himself;  lo  perceive  all 
goodness  emptied  out  of  him,  and  yet  not  to 
be  able  to  forget  a  time  when  it  was  other- 
wise; to  bear  about  the  piteous  spectacle  of 
his  own  self-ruin;  could  he  feel  the  body  of 
the  death,  out  of  which  I  cry  hourly  with 
feebler  and  feebler  outcry  to  be  delivered, 
it  were  enough  to  make  him  dash  the  spark* 
ling  beverage  to  the  earth  in  all  the  pride  of 
its  mantling  temptation. 

Charles  Lamb. 

T?ie  Anointed  Kinff.^Fea.  ii:  1-12.  (A 
Missionary  Lesson.) 

Lord  Northbrook  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Church  Missionary  Society,  referred  to  his 
feelings  at  heanng  HandePs  '*  Hallelujah 
Chorus  "  sung.  He  said  it  was  not  so  much 
the  music  as  the  words  and  thoughts  that 
thrilled  him.  The  greatest  of  all  musical 
creations  was  inspired  by  the  faith  that  from 
sea  to  sea  and  to  the  ends  of  the  earth,  his 
dominion  shall  extend,  and  that  from  every 
part  of  this  earth  shall  yet  arise  the  choral 
shout,  ^*  EEallelujah,  for  the  Lord  Qod  Om- 
nipotent reigneth.''  That  is  the  grander 
chorus,  of  which  Banders  Hallelujah  is  but 
the  faint  and  distant  anticipation.  It  will 
combine  the  voices  of  all  loyal  loving  saints 
of  all  ages,  nor  is  there  in  all  the  world,  in 
the  obscurest  hovel  of  poverty,  one  humble 
soul  that  prays  ^*Thy  kingdom  come,*'  that 
lays  consecrated  offerings  on  the  altar  of  mis- 
sions, who  shall  not  join  that  final  anthem  as 
one  who  has  helped  forward  the  great  con- 
summation. 

Seven  Tears  in  Ceylon. 

IV. 
June  24. — Review, 
**  The  Lord's  portion  is  His  people." 
God  was  with  Jacob  in  prevailing  prayer,  in 
delivering  him  from  the  consequences  of  his 


own  sin,  from  the  wrath  of  his  own  brother, 
and  from  the  famine  by  the  hand  of  Joseph. 

A  mighty  God,  strong  to  help  was  He 
to  Joseph  in  delivering  him  from  the  hands  of 
his  brethren,  in  guiding  him  with  divine  wis- 
dom in  Egypt,  giving  favor  with  the  king, 
and  making  him  a  type  of  Christ  by  his  sav- 
ing much  people  from  death;  and  in  the 
development  of  his  spiritual  character,  so 
that  he  was  able  to  forgive  his  brethren ;  and 
in  his  end,  which  was  ^*  as  the  path  of  the  just 
that  shineth  more  and  more  unto  the  p^ect 
day." 

God  was  with  his  people  when  under  the 
yoke,  when  breaking  the  yoke,  and  was  their 
guide  when  seeking  their  inheritance. 

GKxi's  care  over  His  people  is  exemplified 
in  the  life  of  Moses.  He  was  delivered  from 
the  hand  of  a  wicked  king,  he  was  educated 
in  the  palace  of  the  king  and  became  the 
divinely  appointed  agent  of  Israel's  great 
king.  He  also  demonstrated  his  care  for  His 
people,  who  are  His  chosen  portion,  in  his 
providential  care  in  opening  a  way  of  escape 
from  bondage  and  symboUizing  greater  deliv- 
erance from  all  bondage  of  sin. 

And  thou  shalt  be  our  chosen  God 
Our  portion  evermore. 


JUST  A  MITE. 
'*  There,"  said  a  neighbor  pointing  to  a  village 
carpenter,  "there  Is  a  man  who  has  done  more 
good  in  this  community  than  any  other  person 
who  ever  lived  in  it.  He  can  not  talk  very 
much  in  public,  and  he  does  not  try.  He  is  not 
worth  two  thousand  dollars,  and  it  is  very  little 
he  can  put  down  on  subscription  papers.  But  a 
new  family  never  moves  into  the  village  that  he 
does  not  find  it  out  and  give  them  a  neighborly 
welcome  and  offer  them  some  service.  He  is  on 
the  lookout  to  give  strangers  a  seat  in  his  ^w 
at  church.  He  is  always  ready  to  watch  with  a 
sick  neighbor  and  look  after  his  affairs  for  him. 
I  believe  that  he  and  his  wife  keep  house  plants 
in  the  winter  mainly  that  they  may  be  able  to 
send  little  bouquets  to  friends  and  invalida  He 
finds  time  for  a  pleasant  word  to  every  child  he 
meets.  He  has  a  genius  for  helping  folks,  and 
it  does  me  good  to  meet  him  in  the  street."—^. 
Louis  Olobe-Demoerat. 

[Finding  this  little  spaeo  unoocupted,  just  as  ibis  ibeet 
should  go  to  press,  we  f^Te  it  to  the  above  '*  Mite,*'  not  si 
being  specially  appropriate  here,  but  because  it  is  a  good 
mite  any  where.— So.] 


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And  Abroad. 

THAT  OLD  TYRANT. 

boys'  LBTTBB8  ABOUT  HIH. 

Gkand  Junction,  Col.,  April  1, 1894. 

Dbab  Dr.  Cutlbr:~I  think  your  mother  did 
Just  right  to  make  you  "bounce."  My  mother 
would  make  me  '*  bounce  "  if  I  should  touch  or 
taste  a  drop  of  strong  drink. 

My  mother  is  the  President  of  the  Woman's 
Christhm  Temperance  Union  here.  We  have  a 
great  many  saloons.  Rev.  B.  F.  Powelson,  pas- 
tor of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  mother  and 
Alex,  and  I  are  members. 

My  father  is  in  heaven.  We  live  seven  miles 
from  town,  and  mother  has  a  little  Sunday- 
school  of  almost  sixty  members. 

The  Bible  says,  "  Wine  is  a  mocker,  strong 
drink  is  raging,  and  whosoever  is  deceived  there- 
by is  not  wise.    Prov.  xx,  1. 

**  Look  not  on  the  wine  when  it  is  red,  when  it 
shows  its  color  in  the  cup,  when  it  moveth  itself 
aright."   Prov.  xxili.  81. 

Respectfully, 

J.  H.  P.  FiSK. 

Grand  Junction,  Col.,  April  1,  1894. 
DsAR  Dr.  Nelson  :— I  thank  you  very  much 
for  being  so  kind  as  to  answer  my  letter  in  the 
February  number  of  the  Church  at  Home  and 
Abroad.  I  think  you  are  right  about  the  cruel 
tyrant,  and  one  of  the  best  ways  to  get  rid  of 
him  is  to  persuade  all  of  the  boys.and  girls  never 
to  drink.    Another  one  is  to  have  Prohibition. 

The  Bible  says,  *'  Wine  is  a  mocker,  strong 
drink  is  raging,  and  whosoever  is  deceived 
thereby  is  not  wise." 

Respectfully, 

Albx  G.  Fisk, 

We  understand  Alex,  to  mean,  that,  if  we 
can  persuade  all  the  boys  and  girls  to  be  tee- 
totallers, that  will  flnUHi  the  rum  tyrant;  will 
make  a  **  dead  mre  "  thing  of  it.  He  also  thinks 
that  "i^oAi&t^um"— that  is,  a  law  forbidding 
anybody  to  sell  intoxicating  drink  to  children  or 
men  or  anybody^would  help  make  such  a  sure 
thing  of  it.  Of  course  he  sees  that  the  more  tee- 
totallers we  can  get,  the  surer  prohibition  will 
be  to  come,  unless  we  should  get  everybody  to 
be  tee-totallers  and  then  there  will  be  no  need  of 


prohibition.  For  nobody  will  keep  liquor  for 
sale  when  nobody  wants  to  buy  it  or  to  drink  it. 
Now  will  not  Theodore  Cuyler— we  think  that 
name  does  not  need  any  titles,  and  we  think  that 
he  is  at  his  best  when  he  has  the  most  of  the  boy 
in  him^will  not  Theodore  tell  Alex,  and  all  the 
other  boys  which  he  thinks  best  for  them  to  be 
driving  at  Just  noi0— prohibition,  or  getting  all 
the  boys  and  girls  to  be  right  up  and  down  tee- 
totaUenf 

Brooklyn  is  so  near,  and  T.  L.  C.  is  such  a 
lively  boy,  and  so  prompt  in  answering  letters, 
that  we  have  been  able  to  send  him  Alex's  letter 
and  get  his  answer  to  it  before  putting  this 
number  on  the  press.    Here  it  is: 

Dear  Alex.  :~Prohibition  of  dram-shops  is 
just  what  some  of  us  veteran  tee-totallers  have 
been  striving  after  for  forty  years.  But  they 
did  not  get  it  in  Maine  until  there  had  been 
fifteen  or  twenty  years  of  educating  the  people 
not  to  drink  intoxicating  liquors.  We  never 
can  stop  the  $ale  of  liquor  while  a  majority  of 
the  people  are  determined  to  buy  it,  and  drink 
it  In  the  meantime  the  great  thing  is  to 
educate  all  the  boys  and  girls  never  to  touch  it. 
Many  young  people  learn  the  habit  of  drinking 
wine  and  ale  and  other  intoxicants  outiide  qf  the 
ealoan.  So  we  must  strike  at  the  root  of  the  evil 
by  fighting  against  the  drinking  customs.  I 
wish  all  the  boys  were  as  much  interested  in  this 
good  work  as  you  are.  In  haste. 
Yours  tee-totally, 

Theodore  L.  Cutler. 


THE  CHILDREN'S  SABBATH. 

I  think  that  almost  any  Christian  mother  who 
wishes  to  make  the  Sabbath  hours  pass  pleasantly 
and  profitably  to  her  little  ones,  will  find  a  help- 
ful ally  in  a  book  entitled,  "The  Little  Chris- 
tian's Pilgrimage."  It  is  an  admirable  adapta- 
tion of  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress  to  the  com* 
prehension  of  little  children.  The  author,  an 
English  lady,  has  succeeded  in  clothing  that 
matchless  allegory  in  language  suited  to  a 
child's  understanding,  without  losing  the  quaint 
beauty  of  the  original.  It  is  published  by  Wells 
Gardner,  Darton  and  Co.,  Paternoster  Buildings, 
London,  but  can  be  procured  at  book  stores  in 
this  country. 

Very  simple  games  of  home  manufacture  can 
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and  incidents  of  the  Bible.  Any  one  can  euily 
write  on  slips  of  paper,  or  cards,  questions  about 
persons  and  events  mentioned  in  the  Bible.  The 
children  may  be  called  on  in  turn  to  answer 
these  questions,  each  one  receiying  the  card  on 
which  is  written  the  question  which  he,  or  she, 
has  answered  correctly.  A  game,  to  be  played 
like  "Authors,"  could  be  arranged,  each  card 
containing  the  name  of  some  Bible  character 
and  three  prominent  events  in  his  life,  the  four 
bearing  the  same  individual  to  constitute  a  book. 
The  Scripture  clock  suggested  in  our  March 
number,  page  260,  has  brought  us  a  response 
from  a  home  in  Asia.  Two  little  girls,  with 
some  help  from  their  mother,  have  sent  us  Bible 
texts  selected  on  that  plan  and  written  opposite 
the  figures  on  the  faces  of  their  clocks.  Their 
word  for  No.  I  was  "Believe,"  and  their  text 
for  No.  XII  was,  "  What  I  do  thou  knowest  not 
now,  but  thou  shalt  know  hereafter."  Between 
these  are  ten  other  precipus  Bible  sayings. 
Ck>uld  so  much  attention  to  such  divine  words 
be  more  easily  or  profitably  secured  in  any  other 
way?  And  will  it  not  be  a  pleasant  thing  to 
bring  little  Christian  children  and  their  mothers 
into  fellowship  with  one  another  in  the  pages  of 
Thb  Chxtbch  at  Homb  akd  Abroad,  though 
their  homes  are  thousands  of  miles  apart?  We 
will  be  glad  to  use  some  of  our  space  in  that 
way,  for  "we  believe  in  the  communion  of 
saints." 


Young  People's  Christian 
Endeavor. 

THE  YOUNG  CHRISTIAN  AT  SCHOOL. 

JOHN  M.  COULTER,  PRE8IDBNT  LAKE  VORBST 
UNIVKRSITT. 

There  are  two  very  different  sets  of  condi- 
tions surrounding  our  young  people  at  school. 
In  some  cases,  the  school  experience  is  but  a 
thing  of  recitation  hours,  the  inflnenoe  of 
liome  life  not  being  interrupted.  In  other 
cases  there  is  complete  separation  from  home, 
and  the  young  life  is  put  to  severe  test. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  the  second 
situation  is  the  more  critical  one,  for  it  deter- 
mines whether  sound  character  has  been  so 
well  established  that  it  can  stand  alone  in  the 
presence  of  assault.  The  most  dangerous 
tendency  I  have  noticed  in  young  Christiana 


who  leave  home  for  school  is  the  desire  to 
conceal  their  ChristiaB  profession  in  the  new 
surroundings.  It  is  often  felt  that  this  pro- 
fession can  be  laid  aside  with  the  home  re- 
straint, and  that  such  an  attitude  will  bring 
more  delightful  companionship.  I  have  seen 
scores  of  such  cases,  and  never  yet  has  sodi 
action  faUed  to  lead  to  the  most  dangerous  con- 
sequences. The  only  safeguard  to  the  young 
Christian  entering  school  is  immediately  to 
make  his  position  understood.  [It  throws 
about  him  a  mantle  of  protection,  such  as  be 
will  soon  appreciate  more  fully.]  It  saves  from 
companionships  and  temptations  that  are  dan- 
gerous. This  prompt  and  positive  position  can 
be  announced  by  immediate  association  with 
the  organizations  which  stand  for  Christian 
manhood  and  womanhood,  to  be  found  now 
in  every  school  or  school  community.  Those 
who  are  working  for  the  good  of  their  fel- 
lows are  shut  out  from  no  companionships 
that  are  healthful,  and  are  spared  those  that 
would  lead  them  into  folly. 

In  all  school  life,  however,  whether  at 
home  or  away  from  home,  there  are  certain 
thoughts  which  should  be  prominent  in  the 
mind  of  every  young  Christian,  thooghts 
which  should  steady  his  purpose,  which 
should  keep  him  strong.  He  should  remem- 
ber constantly  that  the  school  life  is  a  period 
of  preparation,  a  preparation  for  usefulness. 
This  is  probably  as  compact  a  statement  of 
the  real  purpose  of  education  as  can  be  made. 
It  is  the  time  for  the  storing  up  of  power 
which  is  presently  to  be  used  in  the  world. 
This  view  of  education  dignifies  every  task, 
and  through  every  day*9  drudgery  the  student 
can  look  into  the  future  when  his  power  is  to 
be  called  for.  It  is  just  the  case  of  those 
plants  which  for  a  long  time  quietly  store  up 
abundant  food-material  and  then  suddenly 
shoot  forth  flowers  and  bear  fruit.  An 
athlete  who  is  to  take  part  in  some  '*  event,'' 
enters  upon  a  period  of  careful  training,  and 
does  not  seek  to  escape  the  self-denial  and 
wearisome  exercise  that  is  necessary.  He 
does  not  expect  to  be  in  condition  for  service 
if  the  training  has  been  neglected.  The 
prominent  thought  then  is  the  cultivation  of 
the  greatest  amount  of  power  to  be  used  in 
service.  With  this  purpose  firmly  established, 


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it  bat  remains  to  determine  the  details  of 
effort  daring  the  school  life. 

Eyery  young  Christian  should  believe  that 
his  wonderfolly  complex  structure,  with  its 
various  powers,  has  been  given  to  him  for  the 
greatest  possible  development.  We  are 
coming  now  to  recognize  in  education  that 
we  are  to  deal,  not  simply  with  the  intel- 
lectual part,  but  with  the  whole  organization. 
Body,  mind  and  spirit  are  so  closely  con- 
nected with  each  other,  that  the  best  develop- 
ment of  any  one  of  them  calls  for  the  develop- 
ment of  all.  There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that 
every  great  region  of  our  nature,  which  is 
capable  of  development,  is  designed  for 
development. 

1.  No  one  any  longer  questions  the  propo- 
sition that  one's  physical  being  should  be 
carefully  developed.  He  knows  that  he  is 
entitled  and  the  world  is  entitled  to  the  full 
force  and  vigor  of  which  it  is  capable,  a 
force  and  vigor  which  involves  the  proper 
working  of  the  other  parts  of  his  nature. 
This  does  not  mean  the  special  training  of  an 
athlete,  but  that  all-round  culture  which  puts 
him  into  the  most  useful  relation  to  his  fel- 
low-man, that  enables  him  to  use  his  whole 
stock  of  possible  power  for  mankind.  For 
this  reason  great  attention  should  be  paid  to 
physical  organization  by  every  student.  To 
the  Christian  student  the  body  is  a  temple 
that  must  be  kept  fit  for  service.  To  every 
student  it  is  the  machine  which  is  to  bring 
him  into  helpful  contact  with  his  feUows. 
The  two  chief  causes  of  physical  degeneration 
among  students  are  lack  of  exercise  and  social 
dissipation.  The  former  is  the  danger  of  the 
serious  student,  the  latter  of  the  society-lov- 
ing one.  Both  temptations  are  dangerous 
and  lead  to  such  a  sapping  of  vitality  that  not 
only  is  there  less  bodily  vigor,  but  less  intel- 
lectual development. 

2.  The  second  care  is  for  the  inteUectual 
life,  which  needs  no  special  counsel,  as  every 
school  is  constructed  chiefly  for  this  puipose. 
However,  if  the  young  Christian  desires  to  be 
of  service  in  this  particular  he  should  always 
be  an  example  of  perfect  faithfulness  to  every 
duty.    The  spirit  of  study  is  the  one  to  culti- 


vate, and  nothing  is  more  helpful  to  the 
student  body  than  to  have  this  spirit  a  domi- 
nant one. 

8.  The  special  attention  of  the  Christian 
student,  however,  should  be  directed  to  his 
spiritual  structure.  The  possibilities  of  good 
influence  in  school-life  are  beyond  measure, 
for  there  is  no  association  more  intimate  and 
constant.  Such  influence,  however,  is  to  be 
gained,  not  by  pious  exhortation,  but  by  con- 
sistent living.  The  student  who  takes  an 
active  part  in  Christian  organizations  and 
then  enters  into  all  sorts  of  thoughtless 
schemes  to  waste  the  time  and  diminish  the 
faithfulness  of  others,  not  only  has  no  influ- 
ence for  good  but  makes  it  doubly  difficult  for 
the  Christian  life  to  make  its  way.  The  test 
of  Christianity  is  the  ball-field  and  the  class- 
room, not  the  prayer-meeting.  Students  are 
drawn  by  athletic  and  inteUectual  vigor,  and 
these  qualities  in  the  hands  of  a  consistent 
Christian  student  make  him  a  powerful  agent 
for  good.  Students  really  respect  Chris- 
tianity, but  they  have  little  respect  for  an 
inconsistent  Christian,  and  he  who  thinks  to 
gain  greater  influence  over  them  by  engaging 
in  questionable  things  reckons  entirely  with- 
out his  host.  To  be  pure  and  peaceable  is 
the  spiritual  motto  of  the  Christian  student, 
and  such  a  character  commands  the  hearty 
respect  of  associates. 

It  is  to  the  cultivation,  then,  of  his  whole 
being  that  I  would  direct  the  thoughtful 
attention  of  the  Christian  student,  a  being 
that  is  intended  to  be  made  powerful  for 
service.  Nothing  should  be  neglected  that 
will  increase  the  vigor  of  body,  of  mind, 
or  of  spirit.  This  noble  ambition  should 
enter  into  every  thought,  and  should  make 
one  look  beyond  every  present  impulse  to  its 
result.  The  sin  of  thoughtlessness  is  the 
most  common  one  of  youth,  and  they  cannot 
be  expected  to  consider  every  action  as  care- 
fully as  those  who  are  maturer  may;  but  the 
Christian  student  should  be  characterized  by 
thoughtfulness;  thoughtfulness  concerning 
his  own  development,  concerning  his  mflu- 
ence  upon  his  fellows,  and  concerning  the 
expectation  of  his  friends  and  his  GK)d. 


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8UGGE8TIVB  HINTS  POR  THB  STUDY 

OP  AFRICA. 

COontinued  from  tbe  Maj  iramber.) 

[TheM  hints  Are  iBtended  as  ao  experiment.  WfUthej 
not  help  Chrtatlaa  EndeaTorera  and  MiMton  Bands  in 
thetr  ttudv  of  the  topic  for  the  month.  pres»ntfd  under 
th«  head  of  Concert  of  Prajer  for  Ohnreh  Work  Abroad  r 
We  shall  be  elad  to  hear  from  anj  who  make  use  of 
them— whether  thej  find  them  helpfol,  and  how  such 
hints  can  be  made  more  helpfti].] 

LITINGSTONIA. 

The  whole  western  shore  of  Lake  Nytsa  Is  oc- 
cupied by  the  mission  of  the  Free  Church  of 
Scotland.  Here  are  Christian  schools  with  150 
teachers  and  7.000  scholars.  Tribes  that  once 
lived  by  plunder  are  becoming  civilized  They 
say  the  missionaries'  book  tells  the  thought  of 
their  hearts,  and  has  made  cowards  of  them,  so 
they  dare  not  go  out  and  plunder 

The  Moravian  and  the  Berlin  missions  are 
located  north  of  Lake  Nyasa. 

THB  MBTABBLB. 

For  their  recent  Zulu  origin,  and  the  story  of 
the  war  waged  against  them  by  the  British 
forces,  see  BMimo  qf  ReUew$,  November,  1808. 
Read  also,  Carnegie's  Ten  Team  Among  the 
MetabeU,  F.  H.  Revell  &  Co.,  and  "England's 
Latest  Conquest  in  Africa,"  The  OornnopoUtam, 
May,  1894. 

SOUTH  AFRIGAK  BEPUBLTO. 

President  Eruger.  Population,  60,000  Dutch, 
60,000  English,  600,000  natives.  This  republic 
yields  one-fifth  the  total  annual  gold  product  of 
the  world.  Describe  Johannesburg,  a  city  of 
40,000  inhabitants.  A  railway  is  in  process  of 
building,  from  Delagoa  Bay  to  Pretoria,  the 
capital.  The  Wesleyan  Mission  has  grown  in 
eight  years  from  774  to  8,689  members. 

OBAKOB  FBBV  8TATB. 

"An  African  Mesopotamia,  between  the  Or- 
ange and  Vaal."  President  Reitz.  Founded 
by  the  Boers  in  1848.  The  famous  Eimberly 
Diamond  Mines.  See  Church  at  Homb  akd 
Abroad,  March,  1894,  page  266. 
basutoland. 

"The  Switzerland  of  South  Africa."  6,000 
feet  above  the  sea.  Under  the  jurisdiction  of 
Cape  Colony.  The  people  intelligent,  industri- 
ous, progressive.  The  French  Protestant  Mis- 
sion has  done  much  for  them. 

THB  BAMANGWATOS. 

Their  king,  Ebama,  an  enlightened,  civilized, 
Christian  chief.  "  The  finest  specimen  of  a  na- 
tive I  have  ever  seen,"  says  the  Bishop  of  Mas- 
honaland,  "  a  man  whom  I  am  glad  to  know 
and  call  my  friend."  See  Mietionary  Bevi&w, 
Feb.,  1894. 


ZULULAKD. 

Population  146,000,  of  whom  650  are  whites 
Consult  Tyler's  FMy  Teart  Among  the  Zutut. 
The  chief  field  of  the  Zulu  mission  is 

HATAL. 

The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  its  annexation  to 
the  British  dominions  was  celebrated  May  12, 
1898.  On  the  day  before.  May  11,  Natal  ss- 
sumed  responsible  government.  Durban,  tbe 
port,  is  a  growing  town  of  nearly  80,000.  Im- 
ports in  1891  amounted  to  more  than  $21,000- 
000.  West  of  Durban  is  Bishopstow  and  tbe 
training  college,  the  residence  of  Bishop  Col- 
enso. 

CAPB  coLOirr. 

Sir  Cecil  Rhodes,  Premier,  *'the  African 
empire-builder,"  "the  foremost  man  in  Africa;" 
President  of  the  British  South  Africa  Company, 
which  controls  an  area  larger  than  France,  Ger- 
many, Austria  and  Italy  combined.  Recent 
annexation  of  Pondoland. 

Moravian  Mission,  1787-48 ;  re-established  1792. 
London  Missionary  Society,  1799.  Vanderkemp, 
Moffat,  Livingstone. 

What  was  once  known  as  Eaffraria  is  a  part 
of  Cape  Colony.  In  1828  Rev.  William  Sbaw 
established  Wesley  viUe.  There  are  in  the  South 
African  Wesleyan  Conference  72  Eafllr  ministers, 
some  of  whom  preach  with  acceptance  in  three 
languages. 

Lovedale  Institute,  founded  by  Dr.  Stewart  in 
1841.  Last  year  782  pupils  received  instruction 
in  eight  languages.  See  Church  at  Homb  ahd 
Abroad,  14:12. 

The  Kaffir  or  Bantu  race,  alone  amongst  the 
savages  of  the  world,  refuse  to  die  out  before  tbe 
advance  of  the  white  men.  Greswell's  Oeogra- 
phv  of  Africa.  The  Bantu  family  of  languages 
includes  nearly  all  spoken  south  of  the  equator 
except  that  of  the  Bushmen  and  Hottentots. 
Bantu  Fetish  Worship  and  Bantu  Theology. 
See  Chubch  at  Homb  akd  Abboad,  14:88,  273. 

WB8TBBN  AFBICA. 

Namaqualand  and  Damaraland  are  under  t 
German  Protectorate,  and  here  the  Rhenish  So- 
ciety has  a  mission. 

In  Portuguese  Angola  is  found  the  mission  of 
the  American  Board  at  Benguela.  Consult  file 
of  the  MietUmary  Herald.  See  also  lUuttrated 
Africa,  for  account  of  Bishop  Taylor's  Mission. 

CONGO  FBBB  8TATB. 

Constituted  1885  by  international  conference. 
900,000  square  miles.  Boma,  the  capital,  at  tbe 
head  of  the  Congo  delta.    The  railway  to  Stsnlej 


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Pool,  26  mileB  of  it  completed.  American  and 
English  Baptist  Missions  on  the  lower  Congo. 
Mission  of  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Church. 
Rev.  Mr.  8heppard*s  thrilling  story  of  his  jour- 
ney to  Ifuka,  capital  of  the  Bakuba,  in  Bouthsm 
Workman,  December,  1898. 

FBBNCH  CONGO. 

For  the  latest  items  of  information  from  Qtk- 
boon  and  the  Presbyterian  Mission,  see  this 
magazine  and  Woman*$  Work  for  Woman, 

Proceeding  northward,  we  find  in  Cameroon 
the  pros|)erous  Basle  Mission,  at  Old  Calabar, 
the  United  Presbyterian,  the  Niger  Mission  of 
Bishop  Crowther,  the  C.  M.  8.  at  Lagos  and  the 
Yoruba  country.  Learn  something  of  Dahomey, 
Ashantee,  Liberia.  (See  Chubch  at  Homb  Ain> 
Abroad  for  April,  1894),  Sierra  Leone,  Sene- 
gambia. 

THB  SOUDAN. 

'*The  country  of  the  blacks."  Sokoto,  one  of 
the  largest  states.  See  article  on  Timbuctoo  in 
LiUra^y  Digest,  April  21,  1894.  The  French, 
who  have  recently  occupied  the  city,  expect  to 
build  a  railway  from  Algeria,  1,750  miles,  and 
from  the  Atlantic,  1,100  miles.  The  natives  of 
the  Niger  Valley  are  manufacturing  and  trading 
people,  who  live  chiefly  in  large  towns,  and  are 
called  the  Jews  of  Africa.  Find  the  story  of 
the  mission  to  the  Soudan,  begrm  in  1870  by 
Graham  W.  Brooke  and  John  A.  Robinson. 

Further  references,  Johnstone's  BeaUty  vs. 
Bomanee  in  Central  Africa,  and  recent  articles 
in  Ths  Interior.    

NOT  MINE.  BUT  THINE. 

What  is  it  thou  dost  ask,  O  Lord, 
On  this  thy  bright  and  holy  day  T 

Is  it  my  wealth  T 
My  purse  containeth  nought  of  mine. 
It  Cometh  all  from  thee,  is  thine. 
And  to  thy  summons  open  lies, 
For,  more  or  less,  my  soul  replies,  . 

Lord,  take  my  wealth. 

What  is  it  thou  wouldst  have,  O  Lord, 
From  out  the  life  thou  givest  me  ? 

Is  it  my  time  ? 
My  life,  my  vears,  each  day  and  hour. 
Are  all  the  gilt  of  heavenly  power; 
Thou  wert  the  source,  thy  grace  sustains; 
So  ever  more  to  thee  remains, 

O  Lord,  my  time. 

What  is  it  thou  wouldst  have,  O  Lord, 
To  show  my  reverent,  thankful  love  ? 

Is  it  my  home  ? 
O  Lord,  my  home  is  e'er  with  thee, 
For  from  thv  presence  evils  flee. 
Here  I  would  have  thy  love  alway ; 
So  now  dear  Lord,  I  humbly  pray. 

Fill  all  my  home. 


What  is  it.  Lord,  thou  stm  dost  claim  ? 
What  is  there  I  can  yet  present  ? 

Is  it  myself? 
O  Lord,  one  wish  my  heart  doth  raise. 
That  thou  wouldst  use  me  for  thy  praise. 
Rule  in  me,  shape  me,  make  of  me 
A  holy  temple  worthy  thee. 

Lord,  use  mysel£ 

Thus,  O  my  Lord,  I  ask  thee  now, 
As  at  thy  ^t  I  humbly  bow. 

Take  thou  my  alL 
My  worldly  goods  are  at  thy  call ; 
My  home,  my  life,  my  health,  my  all. 
Use  me  and  mine  for  thine  own  praise ; 
Direct  me  in  thy  chosen  ways ; 

Be  thou  my  all. 

W.  S.  N. 
TripoU,  Syria. 


Gleanings 
At  Home  and  Abroad. 

[Gathered  and  CkMideosed  hj  Rkt.  Albert  B.  Robdisom.] 

—Dr.  Pentecost  says  he  has  never  yet  seen  a 
really  discouraged  missionary. 

— 700,000  acres  of  improTed  land  in  the  State 
of  Georgia  are  ss  id  to  be  owned  by  Negroes. 

— "To  know  the  facts  of  modern  missions  is 
the  necessary  condition  of  intelligent  interest" 

— The  reyelation  of  the  true  Ood  to  all  nations 
was  a  part  of  the  mission  of  the  Hebrew  nation. 

—The  Church  is  both  constituted  and  charged 
to  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  world. — Judeon's 
Motto,  . 

—The  record  of  a  Christ  like  life  is  a  better 
record  than  a  stained-glass  window. — Mid  Con- 
tinent. 

— The  Presbyterian  Church  in  Manchuria 
(Scottish  and  Irish)  has  gathered  in  20  years  up- 
wards of  2,000  conyerts. 

— The  21  men  on  the  roll  of  the  Bengal-Burma 
M.  E.  Conference  represent  eleven  different  na- 
tionalities.— Indian  Witneu, 

—During  the  year  1898,  says  Mr.  Hudson 
Taylor,  68  new  missionaries  of  the  Cliina  Inland 
Mission  reached  Shanghai. 

— Five  missionaries  of  the  Southern  Presby- 
terian Church  have  sent  $100  each  to  the  For- 
eign Missions  treasurer  in  Nashville. 

—An  English  and  Swahili  dictionary  for  the 
use  of  the  Universities'  Mission  has  just  been 
issued  from  the  Clarendon  Press,  Oxford. 

— ''What  the  source  is  to  the  supply,  what 
the  motor  is  to  the  machine,  the  home  Church  is 
to  the  foreign  field.  The  vigor  of  the  heart's 
beat  determines  the  pulse  beat  at  the  extremi- 
ties." 


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—The  late  Rev.  John  E.  Chandler  of  Madura, 
when  aaked  what  made  him  think  of  becoming 
a  missionary,  replied:  "  Reading  my  Bible. ** 

— A  Mohammedan  conspiracy  to  OTerthrow 
Dutch  rule  in  the  Island  of  Jara  was  recently 
discoTered  and  foiled,  says  the  Literary  Digest, 

— The  battle  of  the  future  in  the  East,  says 
a  missionary,  will  not  be  between  Christianity 
and  Buddhism,  but  Christianity  and  infidelity. 

— Faku,  a  Zulu  chieftain,  when  he  saw  the 
operation  of  a  plow,  leaped  in  excitement,  ex- 
claiming: "It  is  worth  six  wiTes. "—iftiM^a^ 
Harold, 

— Basutoland  is  kept  by  the  OoTemment  for 
the  occupation  of  its  own  natiye  inhabitants, 
settlement  by  colonists  being  prohibited.— Jfii- 
iianFiM, 

— A  railway  is  now  completed,  180  miles  in 
length,  from  Tientsin,  the  seaport  of  Peking,  to 
Shan-haikuan,  at  the  eastern  end  of  the  Great 
Wall  of  China. 

—The  Established  Church  of  Scotland  has 
1,848  parishes  with  604,984  communicants,  and 
2,180  Sunday-schools  with  200,668  scholars.— 
Public  Opinion. 

— A  lady  of  means,  prior  to  going  to  China, 
has  given  her  household  furniture  to  furnish  a 
missionary  home  in  London  for  the  China  In- 
land Mission. 

— ^British  and  other  foreign  residents  in  India, 
says  the  Misiionary  S&vimo,  give  more  than 
$800,000  a  year  towards  the  evangelization  of 
that  country. 

—Sending  out  new  missionaries  is  the*life  of 
the  work.  Each  missionary  by  his  constituency 
brings  in  more  money  than  he  takes  out  Dr. 
DuboU  in  The  Miaionary, 

— The  secret  of  peace  is  not  in  imagining 
that  Ood  will  do  all  that  we  desire,  but  in  mak- 
ing all  our  desires  find  their  fulfillment  in  what 
God  doe%,— The  Outlook. 

— The  Protestant  Bishop  of  Mashonaland.  who 
was  with  the  troops  in  Metabeleland,  does  not 
believe  the  sword  is  a  necessary  factor  in  the 
civilization  of  savage  nations. 

— At  the  meeting  in  March  of  Choctaw  Pres- 
bytery the  Presbyterial  missionary  reported  the 
organization  of  a  church  at  Tushkahoma  Female 
Institute,  with  a  membership  of  fifty-two  Indian 
girls. 

— A  change  of  missionary  methods  in  Burma 
is  absolutely  necessary,  writes  Rev.  A.  Bunker. 
We  must  emphasize  the  training  of  a  native  in- 
strumentality. Hereafter  the  missionary  will 
not  be  merely  an  evangelist,  but  the  trainer  of 
9van{^elist§. 


—The  missionary  problem  in  Japan  is  par- 
tially indicated  by  a  sentiment  which  prevails  hi 
that  country,  *'  In  order  to  Christianize  Japan 
we  must  Japanize  Christianity." 

—The  missionary  has  effected  greater  changes 
for  the  better  in  the  condition  of  savage  Africa 
than  armies  and  navies,  conferences  and  treaties 
have  yet  done.— Bet.  Jonah  Tyler. 

—Are  we  tempted  to  say  of  lives  laid  down  in 
Africa,  "To  what  purpose  is  this  waste?" 
Let  us  not  take  up  words  from  the  mouth  of 
JudM.—Biehop  Bardtley  at  Bseter  SaU. 

—Christopher  Columbus  was  the  first  and 
greatest  missionary  in  action,  as  his  contempor- 
ary, Erasmus,  was  in  writing  and  translating 
the  New  Testament.— Dr.  Oeorge  Smith. 

—The  sorest  trial  of  misdonaiy  life,  says 
Rev  F.  G.  Coan  of  Persia,  is  the  necessity  of 
refusing  help  to  the  needy  and  suffering  because 
the  Church  at  home  is  not  doing  her  part. 

—The  leaders  of  Hebrew  opinion  tare  resolved 
to  establish  order  and  discipline  among  the 
Jews  in  Palestine  before  seeking  to  attract  others 
to  settle  in  the  Holy  iMad.— Indian  Witness. 

— Negroes  in  southern  states  are  said  now  to 
be  paying  taxes  on  property,  mostly  land  and 
homes,  assessed  at  $264,000,000.  The  acquisi- 
tion of  land  is  now  "the  craze"  of  Negroes. 

—Bishop  Taylor  tells  of  a  man  converted  late 
in  life  who  wished  there  were  two  of  him  so  that 
he  could  make  up  for  lost  time:  he  paid  the  ex- 
penses of  a  missionary  whom  he  kept  in  the 
field. 

—What  many  people  regard  as  increasing  the 
army  is  only  shifting  the  troops,  says  Rev.  Dr. 
Donald,  speaking  of  those  churches  that  grow 
*<by  letter,"  and  attract  members  from  neigh- 
boring parishes. 

—As  a  false  coin  does  not  cease  to  be  false  coin 
because  it  has  a  few  grains  of  silver  in  it,  so 
neither  does  false  religion  cease  to  be  false 
religion  because  it  has  some  gndns  of  truth  in  it 
— OMnese  Recorder. 

—According  to  the  London  Bock,  the  official 
representatives  of  England  in  Persia  are  urging 
the  missionaries  of  the  C.  M.  S.  to  give  up  ag- 
gressive evangelistic  work  among  the  Moslems. 
— Litera/ry  Digest. 

—Of  all  the  races  in  South  Africa  the  Zulus 
possess  the  strongest  characteristics.  They  are 
of  fine  physique  and  remarkable  mental  endow- 
ments. Their  language  is  characterized  by 
extreme  refinement,  and  in  its  precision  of 
grammatical  forms  and  facility  fer^  making  com- 
pound words  it  is  scarcely  inferior  to  the  Greek. 
^JffM  AnnieJRusseU^jpL  To-day. 


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—The  churches  connected  with  the  Congrega- 
tional Union  of  Madagascar  have  decided  to 
send  ten  additional  missionaries  to  their  fellow- 
countrymen  in  different  parts  of  the  island.— 
Bombay  Guardian, 

—The  question  whether  there  shall  be  Adoni- 
ram  Judsons  in  1912  must  be  answered,  says 
Rev.  0.  L.  Barnes,  in  the  decade  from  1890  to 
1900,  by  the  right  teaching  of  boys  and  girls 
and  young  women. 

—yLr,  Louis  Joseph  Paplneau,  son  of  the 
famous  man  of  that  name  who  was  a  leader  in 
the  rebellion  of  1888,  has  been  converted  to 
Protestantism  and  received  into  the  Presbyte- 
rian church  in  Quebec 

—In  the  UQW  Scotch  Mission  Church  soon  to 
be  erected  in  Aden,  Arabia,  there  will  be  a 
memorial  stone  commemorating  the  labors  of 
that  noble  and  gifted  young  missionary,  Ion 
Keith  Falooner.—7^  Miuionary 

—Said  a  business  man  recently  in  a  devotional 
meeting :  "  I  am  thoroughly  devoted  to  business . 
I  love  it.  And  I  love  it.  not  because  of  what  I 
may  accumulate,  but  that  I  may  use  wliatl 
acquire  for  the  service  of  Christ" 

— Dr.  Duff  once  told  an  Edinburgh  audience 
that  if  the  ladies  of  that  city  would  give  him  the 
cost  of  that  portion  of  their  silk  dresses  which 
swept  the  streets  as  they  walked,  he  would  sup- 
port all  his  mission  schools  in  India. 

—In  July,  1898,  at  Dillon's  Bay,  Erromanga, 
Narie  Tangkou,  the  eldest  son  of  the  murderer 
of  John  Williams,  was  baptized  in  the  presence 
of  700  people,  and  took  his  place  at  the  com- 
munion table.— Am.  E.  A,  BoberUtm. 

—The  Jewish  colony  in  the  Argentine  Repub- 
lic raised  a  wheat  crop  last  year  valued  at  $150,- 
000,  of  which  one-fourth  was  sent  to  Baron 
Hirsch  as  the  first  payment  on  the  amount 
advanced  for  the  settlement  of  the  colony. 

—It  Is  too  late  to  speak  of  efforts  as  futile  or 
fanatic  which  have  literally  girdled  the  globe 
with  a  chain  of  missionary  stations;  and  those 
who  now  speak  scornfully  of  missions  are  sim- 
ply men  behind  their  age.— QiM»rf^^  Bnimo, 

—The  cross  of  Christ,  says  Mrs.  Balliogton 
Booth,  is  to  us  no  flowered  emblem,  no  JeweUed 
charm,  but  a  real,  wooden  cross,  which  means 
suffering  and  sacrifice,  but  at  last  victory,  not 
only  for  ourselves  but  in  the  hearts  of  others. 

—When  the  king  of  Uganda  recently  ordered 
a  defendant  to  make  owet  to  the  plaintiff  so 
many  women  and  so  many  head  of  cattle,  a 
Christian  arose  and  induced  the  king  to  with- 
draw the  order  for  payment  In  human  beings,— 
Sitihap  Tucker, 


—England's  mission  in  Africa  is  to  develop 
commerce  and  promote  civilization.  With 
proper  measures,  we  may  found  in  Africa  what 
we  have  established  in  India— a  vast  independent 
and  beneficial  empire. — dir  John  Pope  Hmnemy, 

—"I  have  lived  like  a  beggar  that  beggars 
might  learn  to  live  like  men, "  said  a  dying  philan- 
thropist. The  words  are  a  striking  presentation 
of  Christ's  sacrifice  for  humanity.  He  lived  like 
a  man,  that  men  might  learn  to  live  like  God.— 
Indian  Witnem, 

— ^A  bookseller  in  Prague  is  issuing  an  edition 
of  the  Bible  in  parts,  each  part  to  cost  about 
one  cent,  and  the  whole  Bible  not  more  than 
fifty  cents.  This  is  undertaken  as  a  business 
enterprise,  and  the  first  edition  is  to  be  fifty 
thousand  copies. 

— A  Christian  baker  in  Shangsan,  China,  placed 
on  the  baskets  in  which  bread  is  carried  to  his 
customers,  the  words,  "Jesus  Christ  appeared 
in  the  world  1894  years  ago. "  This  leads  people 
to  question  him,  and  gives  him  an  opportunity 
to  preach  the  gospel. 

—The  politeness  of  the  people  of  Japan,  says 
Dr.  Qeorge  W.  Enoz,  is  something  astonishing. 
In  Tokio  while  riding  on  my  bicycle  on  one 
occasion,  I  knocked  a  man  down,  and  he  jumped 
up  and  begged  my  pardon  for  at  least  five  min- 
utes.— Miuionary  Chiardian, 

—The  Calcutta  Bible  Society,  at  its  8l8t  annual 
gathering  in  March,  1894,  reported  an  increase 
in  issues  and  sales  over  the  previous  year.  The 
burden  of  distribution  has  been  transferred  from 
specially  employed  colporteurs  to  the  Missionary 
Societies  — Bombay  Guardian, 

— Some  one  has  proposed  a  revision  of  I  Cor, 
zvi,  2,  to  correspond  with  the  practice  of  many 
in  this  age,  making  it  read  thus:  Occasionally, 
when  impulse  moves  you,  let  some  of  you  who 
are  so  disposed  lay  by  a  little  something  accord- 
ing as  it  may  seem  convenient. 

—Mrs.  C.  H.  Carpenter  believes  there  is  i^o 
necessity  for  creating  a  Christian  literature  in 
the  Ainu  language.  Within  fifteen  years  this 
language  will  only  be  spoken  by  the  oldest 
people,  and  in  the  next  generation  the  Ainus 
and  Japanese  will  be  one  people. 

—Dr.  Lorimer  asked  one  who  boasted  of  his 
recent  conversion,  if  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Church.  "No,"  was  the  reply,  "the  dying 
thief  never  Joined  the  Church,  and  he  went  to 
heaven."  **  But  you  support  the  cause  of  mis- 
sions? "  "No,  the  dying  thief  never  contri- 
buted to  missions,  and  he  went  to  heaven." 
"Yes,"  said  the  doctor,  "but  he  was  a  dyinj 
^hief,  and  you  are  n  living  on^," 


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— ^To  supply  the  demands  for  preachers  of  the 
rapidly  increasing  Scandinayian  immigration  to 
this  country,  a  school  was  opened  in  I860.  The 
number  of  institutions  has  since  increased  to 
forty-two,  with  8,8M)  students.  Eleren  of  the 
number  are  theological  seminaries. 

—Out  of  40,000,000  people  in  Japan  probably 
85,000,000  have  never  even  heard  the  gospel 
at  all;  and  of  the  remaining  6,000,000  who.  per- 
chance, hare  heard  something  about  it,  fully 
one-half  hare  heard  it  in  a  second-hand,  round 
about  sort  of  wvf.—Mimionary  Tiding$, 

— Dr.  Pierson  mentions  a  missionary  who, 
when  asked  what  led  her  to  go  to  China,  replied : 
"  I  had  known  Jesus  as  Saviour  and  Redeemer 
and  Friend,  but  as  soon  as  I  knew  Him  as  Master 
and  Lord,  He  said  to  me,  '  Am  I  thy  Master? 
then  go  to  China.  1' " — Mittianary  Review, 

— Of  the  twenty*  five  additions  to  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Canton,  recently  re- 
ported, eleven  had  previously  been  treated  as 
patients  in  the  hospital.  The  missionaries  regard 
the  hospital  as  ^distinctly  medical  and  also  dis- 
tinctly evangelistic.— .fi<9raM  and  Fretbyter. 

— In  Bengal,  says  Bishop  Thoburn,  each  house- 
wife, in  the  morning  when  she  takes  out  tho  rice 
for  the  day,  puts  aside  about  a  tablespoonful 
towards  the  support  of  her  native  pastor — a 
humble  contribution,  yet  at  the  end  of  the  month 
an  offering  not  to  be  despised. — The  Miseionary, 

— ^In  no  other  state  in  India  are  caste  distinc- 
tions so  insisted  on  as  in  Travancore.  Low  caste 
people  are  not  allowed  to  come  within  00  feet  of 
the  sacred  person  of  a  Brahmin,  and  they  must 
cover  their  months  lest  their  breath  should  taint 
the  air. -^i>r.  Margaret  McKeUar  in  Presbyterian 
Beeord. 

— Every  Naga  (in  Assam)  is  reputed  to  be,  or 
to  have  been,  a  murderer.  If  the  traditions  of 
his  race  are  enforced  no  young  Naga  is  con- 
sidered a  man  unless  his  hands  have  been  im- 
brued in  the  blood  of  his  fellow  man,  whether 
in  war  or  in  cold  blood  makes  no  difference.— 
Indian  Witneu, 

—The  Bible  Lands  or  Turkish  Missions'  Aid 
Society  calls  for  50,000  picture  cards  for  Mace- 
donia. A  Scripture  text  in  the  vernacular  is  to 
be  printed  on  the  cards,  then  every  scholar  in 
the  Sabbath-schools  is  offered  one  on  condition 
of  learning  the  text  by  heart.  If  it  can  be 
repeated  from  memory  the  next  Sunday,  but  not 
otherwise,  a  fresh  picture-card  is  given  on  the 
same  condition.  The  system  draws  to  the  schools 
many  children  who  carry  Scripture  texts  to  non- 
Christian  homes  where  no  Bibles  are  found. ~ 
J^r  in  the  Baet 


— In  a  neglected  New  England  village  in 
which  no  religious  services  had  been  held  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  when  the  gospel  wss  re- 
cently preached,  some  children  in  attendance 
"thought  the  minister  was  swearing,  because 
they  had  never  heard  the  name  of  Clod  used  for 
any  other  purpose." 

—The  religious  life  of  Wales,  says  the  Bombay 
Ouardian,  is  interwoven  with  the  movement 
that  gave  rise  to  Calvinistlc  Methodism,  or  as  it 
is  now  commonly  called,  Welsh  Presbyteriani&m. 
It  proved  a  great  national  awakening,  and  influ- 
enced other  denominations.  The  third  Jubilee 
has  Just  been  celebrated. 

— In  educational  missions,  says  Mr.  Eugene 
Stock,  indirect  methods  are  used,  to  bring  the 
heathen  under  the  sound  of  the  gospel.  High 
schools  are  the  surest  if  not  the  only  way  of  get- 
ting at  the  upper-class  boys  of  India.  The  vast 
majority  of  upper-class  converts  in  India  have 
been  won  through  educational  missiona 

— India  has  no  history  worth  mentioning  until 
the  time  of  the  Mohammedan  conquest,  writes 
Mr.  Marion  Crawford  in  the  April  Century, 
There  is  nothing  to  take  hold  of,  nothing  that 
the  most  ingenious  school-master  can  find  to 
teach  It  is,  therefore,  not  unnatural  that  most 
people  know  so  little  about  the  country. 

— ^When  the  missionaries  in  Constantinople 
were  told  by  Bontineff,  the  Russian  ambassador, 
that  "the  emperor  of  all  the  Russias  would 
never  allow  Protestantism  to  set  its  foot  in 
Turkey,  Dr.  Schauffler  replied:  "Your excel- 
lency, the  kingdom  of  Christ  will  never  ask  the 
Emperor  of  all  the  Russias  where  it  may  set  its 
foot." 

—Mr.  W.  G.  Shellebeare  was  serving  a  few 
years  ago,  as  a  Captain  of  the  Royal  Engineers 
at  Singapore.  Yielding  to  a  conviction  that  he 
ought  to  devote  his  life  to  missionary  work 
among  the  Malays,  he  resigned  his  commission, 
went  to  London,  and  labored  in  the  West  Lon- 
don Mission,  while  picking  up  a  practical 
knowledge  of  printiog.  In  due  time  he  returned 
to  the  Straits,  and  has  recently  been  ordained.— 
Indian  Witness 

—A  special  edition  of  the  Epistle  of  Paul  to 
the  Romans  has  been  prepared  by  the  British 
and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  and  10,000  copies 
forwarded  to  be  distributed  by  post  to  the 
householders  of  the  city  of  Rome.  No  more  fit- 
ting part  of  the  Scriptures  could  be  sent  to  a 
city  which  is  one  of  the  headquarters  of  salva- 
tion by  works,  than  the  Epistle  which  has  as  its 
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—Replying  to  the  old  question,  why  go  to 
foreign  lands  when  there  are  so  many  heathen  to 
be  evangelized  at  home,  Missionary  Tidings Bhys: 
There  is  this  difference  between  heathen  at  home 
and  those  in  foreign  lands.  The  former  are  in  a 
.  very  large  measure  heathen  from  choice,  while 
the  latter  are  heathen  of  necessity;  they  know  no 
better. 

— Dionysius  Latos,  Greek  Archbishop  of 
Zante,  visited  in  February  last  the  Bengal  Bur- 
ma M.  £.  Conference,  and  at  the  request  of 
Bishop  Thobum  repeated  to  the  Conference 
Paul's  sermon  to  the  Athenians  in  Paul's  own 
words.  His  impassioned  rendering  of  this  fam- 
ous sermon  gave  a  new  glimpse  of  its  effective 
power. 

— If  civilization  triumphs  in  Uruguay  it  will 
be  because  of  the  heavy  preponderance  of  the 
European  element  through  immigration,  in 
which  case  there  will  not  only  be  a  new  state, 
but  a  new  people,  the  result  of  the  intermarriage 
of  the  Swedish,  German  and  Italian  settlers  and 
the  Spanish  and  native  populations. — New  York 
ObservefT, 

— Dr  Fairbairn  in  his  The  Church  of  the  Peo- 
ple expresses  the  opinion  that  the  Church's  re- 
ligious education  has  not  kept  pace  with  the 
intellectual  advance  of  the  world.  It  ought  to 
be  as  many-sided  and  comprehensive  as  religion 
itself;  sympathetic  to  poetry;  akin  to  art; 
related  to  history;  bound  up  with  philosophy 
and  embedded  in  science. 

— ^The  very  general  notion  that  the  Chinese 
are  a  stolid,  unemotional  race,  and  hence  we 
should  not  expect  to  find  a  joyous,  fervid  type 
of  piety  among  them  is  a  mistake,  writes  Rev. 
N.  W.  Brewster  in  Gospel  in  All  Lands,  When 
the  Chinaman  becomes  filled  with  the  spirit  he 
has  as  much  joy  and  manifests  it  in  much  the 
same  way  as  other  people. 

—The  evangelist  is  no  substitute  for  the  pas- 
tor. The  most  thorough,  abiding  and  valuable 
revivals  generally  are  those  which  come  through 
a  pastor's  faithful  preaching  and  skillful  man- 
agement. It  will  be  a  sad  day  when  pastors 
lose  their  converting  power,  and  when  no  gra- 
cious work  can  be  had  without  the  professional 
evangelist.—!!^  Presbyterian. 

—Dr.  Norman  L.  Walker  writes  in  the  Presby- 
terian and  Brformed  Beoieto  of  the  three  churches 
of  Scotland  with  an  aggregate  of  1,100,000 
members.  He  believes  that  the  disestablishment 
of  the  Established  Church,  which  is  surely  com- 
ing, would  aid  in  bringing  about  the  union  of 
the  three  bodies,  and  in  drawing  the  lines  more 
^harply  between  true  »nd  nominal  Oiiristians. 


— Judson  had  four  qualities  that  pre-eminently 
furnished  him  for  his  work  as  the  Burmese 
apostle.  His  conversion  was  a  fact  of  which  he 
had  clear  assurance.  His  call  to  the  work  of  a 
missionary  was  a  matter  of  conviction  and  con- 
sciousness. The  Word  of  Qod  was  to  him  a 
divine  book,  and  cherished  with  a  reverent  affec- 
tion He  had  a  scriptural  idea  of  missions. — 
Dr,  A.  T,  PiersoTi. 

—The  hope  of  the  negro,  says  General  Thomas 
J.  Morgan,  is  neither  in  the  bullet  nor  ballot, 
but  rather  in  the  Bible  and  spelling  book.  The 
truest  solvent  of  all  their  wrongs  must  be  found 
in  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ.  When  it  can  be 
said  that  they  are  not  only  religious  emotionally, 
but  practieally,  that  they  are  not  only  law  abid- 
ing, but  are  men  of  integrity  of  conduct  and 
purity  of  life,  they  will  compel  public  respect. 

—Said  an  old  lady,  living  an  isolated  life  in 
the  country,  when  waited  upon  by  a  church 
visitor  who  brought  her  a  little  money :  '*  Thank 
you  for  the  money;  I  need  it;  but  what  I  want 
more  Ib  folks.  I  want  sympathy.  I  want  some- 
body to  speak  to."  Is  not  the  energy  of  the 
church  often  so  confined  to*  broad  plans  and  in- 
numerable meetings  as  to  leave  little  time  for 
carrying  out  the  Christ  idea,  '*sick  and  ye  vis- 
ited me?  " — Oongregationalist, 

—The  women  of  Morocco  live  in  the  seclusion 
of  the  harem  an  indolent,  unambitious  life. 
They  rarely  venture  outside  the  grounds  of  the 
home,  and  their  unacquaintance  with  the  great 
world  and  its  doings  may  be  likened  to  that  of 
children.  Illiterate  with  rare  exceptions,  their 
spiritual  natures  wholly  undeveloped,  they  are 
creatures  of  passion  and  impulse,  knowing  noth- 
ing of  those  qualities  that  make  life  bright  and 
beautiful  to  the  women  of  Christian  lands. — 
Christian  Herald, 

—Mrs.  Donaldson,  wife  of  a  sugar  planter  in 
Queensland,  desiring  to  improve  the  character 
of  her  husband's  Kanaka  laborers,  invited  them 
to  her  home  for  instruction.  They  came,  bring- 
ing others  from  neighboring  plantations.  A 
schoolroom  was  built,  and  within  a  year  80  of 
the  men  were  converted  and  gave  evidence  of  a 
changed  life.  Of  67  who  returned  to  their 
island  home  20  were  Christians,  and  had  resolved 
to  teach  their  countrymen  to  read  the  Bible. — 
Christian  Adsocate, 

—Nicholas  Notovitch,  a  Russian  traveler,  re- 
ports the  discovery  in  a  monastery  in  Til>et,  of 
what  purports  to  be  a  Life  of  Christ  in  the  Pali 
language.  Bom  of  Jewish  parents,  at  the  age 
of  18  he  left  his  father's  house  and  went  to 
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and  afterwards  initiated  into  the  mysteries  of 
Buddhism.  He  was  known  as  the  prophet  Issa, 
and  trareled  in  Persia  and  elsewhere,  preaching 
against  idols.  At  the  age  of  20  he  reumed  to 
Jndea,  and  was  finally  crucified  between  two 
thieves,  by  GoTemor  Pilate.  On  the  third  day 
the  sepulchre  in  which  his  body  had  been  placed 
was  found  open  and  empty. 

--There  is  no  cause  for  lamentation,  says  the 
Indian  Witneu,  that  the  churches  of  India  are 
mere  reproductions  of  churches  and  denomina- 
tions in  Europe.  These  denominational  bonds 
are  essential  for  protecting  the  inmiature  Chris- 
tianity of  India  from  making  shipwreck  of 
doctrine.  The  deeply  religious  speculative  In- 
dian mind  will  in  time  most  assuredly  branch  oif 
into  hitherto  undreamed  of  vagaries  of  doctrine. 
But  the  Indian  Church  is  yet  too  weak  in  expe- 
rience, in  cohesive  power  and  in  momentum  of 
Christian  life  to  enter  safely  upon  the  pathless 
desert  of  unrestrained  religious  speculation. 
There  is  need  of  the  maintenance  for  several 
generations  of  the  great  Christian  denominations 
of  Europe  with  their  systems  of  doctrine  and 
polity  evolved  from  the  matured  experience  of 
centuries. 

— ^The  non-Christian  religions  were  not  inau- 
gurated by  a  board  of  directors,  or  formed  like 
a  steamship  company,  or  chartered  by  Act  of 
Parliament;  they  came  into  being  by  the  same 
divine  law  of  growth  which  has  lifted  man  above 
the  amoeba,  they  are  the  fruit  and  flowerage  of 
the  human  heart.  Corruption  has  touched  them 
all,  the  fogs  of  superstition  hang  heavy  over 
many  of  them,  but  in  their  first  origin  they 
were  essentially  good.  Whoever  will  study  their 
history  and  judge  then  by  their  own  acknowl- 
edged standards  may  be  sure  that  their  main 
purpose  and  drift,  having  regard  to  local  dr- 
cumstances,  social  conditions  and  prevailing 
evils,  was  a  lift  toward  a  better  and  freer  life. 
Each  in  its  turn  was  in  its  own  measure  and 
degree  an  inflowing  of  spiritual  life  on  the 
woM.—Bet.  O,  T.  Oandlin  in  Oo$pa  in  AU 
Landi. 

—The  greatest  need  of  the  city  next  to  its 
need  of  Christianity,  and  a  need  which  some- 
times makes  Christian  success  in  the  city  impos- 
sible. Is  the  need  of  homes  for  the  people.  Dr. 
Oeorge  P.  Mahis,  writing  in  the  Miuiona/ry  Be- 
new,  continues:  Eighty  per  cent,  of  the  great 
population  of  New  York  City  live  in  tenement 
houses.  In  one  district  comprising  not  more 
than  one  twenty- fifth  of  the  city's  area  there  is 
an  average  of  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  million 
of  souls  to  the  square  mil^.    Before  the  people 


of  these  over-crowded  tenement-house  sections 
can  be  Christianized  their  physical  environment 
must  receive  the  purification  of  fire.  We  need 
first  to  have  a  civilization  so  Christian  that  it 
will  permit  no  place  in  the  great  dty  where  the 
Shy  lock  landlord  shall  be  able  to  swell  his  sordid 
revenues  at  the  expense  of  all  that  may  pass 
under  the  sacred  synonyms  of  home,  of  health, 
of  decency. 

—The  extension  of  Cliristianity  means  the 
extension  of  a  civilization  which  brings  new 
ideas  in  its  train,  before  which  the  walls  of  the 
most  inveterate  exclusiveness  are  falling,  which 
opens  out  new  markets  for  the  world's  products, 
and  which  by  the  introduction  of  more  humane 
and  progressive  principles  into  the  government 
of  savage  and  stationary  races,  ameliorates  the 
condition  and  augments  the  happiness  of  a  large 
portion  of  mankind.  Such  blessings  inevitably 
follow  in  the  track  of  missions;  and  it  would 
seem  therefore  to  be  the  height  of  folly  to  sneer 
at  missionary  effort,  and  the  mark  of  culpable 
ignorance  not  to  know  what  is  doing  in  this 
noble  field  of  human  enterprise.  It  is  too  late  to 
speak  of  efforts  as  futile  or  fanatic  which  have 
literally  girdled  the  globe  with  a  chain  of  mis- 
sionary stations;  and  those  who  now  speak 
scornfully  of  missions  are  simply  behind  their 
age. — Qua/rtmiy  lUoiew, 

—Hold  fast  to  Love.  If  men  wound  your 
heart,  let  them  not  sour  or  embitter  it;  let  them 
not  shut  up  or  narrow  it;  let  them  only  expand 
it  more  and  more,  and  be  always  able  to  say, 
with  St  Paul :  **  My  heart  is  enlarged."— 2?".  F. 
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^T'We  ettrnmOj  request  the  tamiliee  of  deoeeaed  mlB- 
kien  and  the  stated  clerks  of  their  presbyteries  to  tor- 
ward  to  us  prompilr  the  facts  fl^ven  in  these  notices,  and 
as  nearly  as  possible  in  the  form  ezemplilled  below. 
These  notices  are  highly  ralued  by  writers  of  Presby- 
terian history,  compilers  of  statistics  and  the  intelligent 
readers  of  both. 


BAiiDRmoB,  Herbxbt  Ck>nLTXR.— Bom  in  "the 
Wabash  Manse,''  Linn,  HI.,  Dec.  4,  1856.  He 
early  desired  to  be  a  foreign  missionary,  but 
found  college  life  so  injurious  that  after  seyeral 
trials  he  gaye  up  a  liberal  education.  As  a  pri- 
vate Christian,  howeyer,  he  proyed  so  capable 
and  consecrated  that  the  Presbytery  of  Cairo, 
on  their  own  motion,  took  him  under  their  care 
as  a  candidate  for  the  ministry.  In  1884  he 
entered  McCormick  Theological  Seminary;  in 

1886  was  licensed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Cairo;  in 

1887  graduated  from  the  Seminary  and  took  a 
charge  in  the  Iowa  Presbytery;  was  ordained 
by  that  Presbytery  in  1888.  January,  1891,  took 
charge  of  Wabash,  Pisgah  and  Bridgeport 
churches.  Died  March  18,  1894.  His  beloyed 
wife  had  preceded  him,  February  10.  Thej  left 
three  children  all  of  tender  years. 

BI88KLL,  Edwin  C,  D.  D.— Bom,  Schoharie,  N.  Y., 
1882;  graduated,  Amherst  College,  1855;  taught 
one  year  at  Williston  Seminary,  East  Hampton ; 
commenced  the  theological  course  at  Hartford 
(then  East  Windsor)  Theological  Seminary  and 
graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
New  York,  1869;  pastor.  Congregational  Church, 
West  Hampton,  Mass.,  1859-1864;  pastor  in  San 
Francisco,  1866-1869,  two  years  also  editor  of 
The  Paeifie  ;  pastor  one  year  at  Honolulu,  three 
years  at  Winchester,  Massachusetts;  missionary 
(A.  B.  C.  F.  M.)  at  Innsbruck,  in  the  Tyrol, 
1878-1878;  study  of  Hebrew  and  literary  labor, 
1878-1881;  Nettleton  Professor  of  Hebrew,  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary,  1881-1892;  McCor- 
mick Seminary,  1892-1894.  Died,  Chicago, 
April,  1894. 

Married,  1859,  Miss  Emily  Pomeroy,  of  Som- 
ers,  Conn.,  who  suryiyes  him. 

BuBBOWS,  John,  D,  D.,  (Lafayette,  1886).— Bom  in 
Arnold,  England,  December  25, 1 831 ;  came  to  this 
country  when  a  boy  in  his  teens;  attended  acad- 
emy in  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  graduated  from 
Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.,  in  1857;  ordained 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Raritan,  Noyember  26, 1861, 
and  installed  at  same  time  pastor  of  2d  church 
of  Am  well;  subsequent  pastorates,  Milford,  N. 
.  J.,  1868-1878,  Williamsport,  Pa.,  1878-1884, 
Glean,  N.  Y.,  1884-1889,  Chester,  N.  Y.,  1889 
till  death.  Died,  Chester,  N.  Y.,  April  10, 1894, 
haying  preached  Sabbath  morning,  April  8. 
Had  been  ailing  with  la  grippe,  but  died  of 
hemt  trouble. 


Married,  November  19, 1861,  Miss  Clara  Dayis, 
who,  with  a  son  and  daughter,  suryives  him. 

Cobb,  Nehbmiah.— Bom  in  Careen,  Mass.,  October 
6,  1808;  pursued  his  theological  studies  in  Au- 
burn Theological  Seminary,  1886-1889;  licensed 
by  Cayuga  Presbytery  in  1889;  ordained  in  1840. 
His  health  failing  he  neyer  assumed  a  pastoral 
charge,  but  acted  ns  colporteur,  Bible  agent  and 
occasional  supply.  Died  in  Washington  City, 
D.  C,  February  15, 1894 

Gould,  Samuel  MgLsllan.  —  Bom,  Gorham, 
Maine,  January  24, 1809;  began  his  ministry  in 
a  Congregational  church,  Berkshire  County, 
Massachusetts,  1835;  came  to  Philadelphia  Cen- 
tral Church,  Northern  Liberties,  January  7, 
1837;  Presbyterian  Church,  Norristown,  Pa., 
1838-1851;  pastor  at  Biddeford,  Me.,  and  other 
places  for  a  number  of  years;  returned  to  I'hil- 
adelphia,  about  1875,  and  preached  occasionally; 
died  at  the  Mercer  Home  for  Presbyterian  Min- 
isters, Ambler,  Pa.,  April  11, 1894. 

MiLLKR,  Gbabla^h  Hatmakbb.— Bom  near  Mur- 
rysyille.  Pa.,  1822;  graduated  from  Washington 
and  Jefferson  College,  1848,  and  from  Western 
Theological  Seminary,  1846;  licensed  by  Pree- 
bytery  of  Blairsyille,  March,  1846;  ordained, 
June  27,  1847,  by  same  Presbytery;  pastor  of 
Fairfield  Church,  1846-48;  church  of  Lebanon, 
1848-58;  WapeUo  and  Oakland,  Iowa,  1858-60, 
Centreyille  and  Armagh,  Pa.,  1860-68,  of  West 
Newton  Church,  1864-69;  Chaplain  of  the 
Twelfth  Pennsylyania  Reseryes,  United  States 
Army;  Pennsylyania  State  Librarian  six  years; 
Chaplain  of  Allegheny  Co.  Work  House  sey- 
eral years.  From  1885  to  his  decease  he  liyed  at 
his  country  home,  Mt.  Airy  Cottage,  near  Par- 
nassus, Pa.,  unable  to  undertake  the  labors  of  a 
pastor.    Died  December  9, 1898. 

Married,  June  25, 1846,  Miss  JuUa  A.  K.  Wil- 
son, of  Allegheny,  Pa.,  who  with  six  children 
suryiyes  him. 

Thomson,  William  McClurx,  D.D.— Bom  in 
Springdale,  O.,  December  31,  1806;  graduated, 
Miami  Uniyersity,  1826;  left  Princeton  Theo- 
logical Seminary  before  graduation,  1881;  or- 
dained. Presbytery  of  Cincinnati,  October  12, 
1831;  missionary  in  Syria  and  Palestine,  1882- 
1876 ;  author  of  ' '  The  Land  and  the  Book  *' ;  died, 
Denyer,  Colorado,  April  8, 1894. 

Married  Miss  Eliza  Hanna,  of  New  York, 
who  died  in  Jerusalem,  1834 ;  afterwards 
married  Mrs.  Abbott,  widow  of  the  British 
Consul  General  of  Syria.  One  son  and  two 
daughters  suryiye  him,  yiz:  Dr.  William  H. 
Tboms(m,  of  New  York  City,  Mrs.  F.  K. 
Walker,  of  Denyer,  Col ,  and  Miss  Emilia 
Thomson,  missionary  teacher  at  Beirut,  Syria, 
but  for  seyeral  recent  years  attending  her 
father  in  his  physical  infirmity  at  the  home  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walker  in  Penyer. 


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t0nt  If  of  great  Importaiioe  to  tibe  itttmamnd  all  tibe  boanlf  that  wfan  mam^  If  Mnfe  to 
dtine  of  the  church  from  which  it  comet,  and  of  tibe  preebytery  to  wfaioh  tibe  cfanroh  bel(ongf»  tfioviKl  oa 
diftdnot^  written,  and  that  the  person  sending  should  sign  his  or  her  name  distincay,  with  proper  titla,  a.  g^ 
AM<or»7Vecumrer,  lftMorifrs.,aatibecafleniajbe.  CarefiaattenliGn  to  this  will  saTeaonohtroiilitojaiiff 
perhaps  preyoit  flerioof  mistakes. 


BKOEIPT8  FOB  THB  BOARD  OF  OHUBOH  BBKOTION,  MABOH  1  TO  AFBEL  10,  18M. 


▲TLAMTio.-Auf  Florida  Stsrke,  8.  MeOUilamd-' 
lUttoon,  8  South  Florida-LakeUnd,  8;  Tarpon 
Springs,  t;  TitusriUe,  8  80;  Upsala  SwedSli,  t.         1880 

BAi;nifORS.—BalMmor«- Baltimore  1st,  18;  —  8d,  7  11; 

—  Abhoit  MemorUl.  1 ;  —  OoTeiuuit,  1 :  —  Polton  ATenoe. 
t:  «  La  Payette  Square,  10;  —  Light  Street,  ft  80;  — 
Madiww  Street,  6;  —  Ridgely  Street,  4  86;  —  WaTerbr,  ft; 

—  Westminster,  18  98;  Bethel,  ft;  Brunswick,  t;  Cumber- 
land, 10;  Qoranstown  sab-sch,  t;  Hsgerstown,  10;  High- 
land, 6;  New  Windsor,  1  90;  Relaj,  1 ;  Sparrows  Poiot,  8; 
The  Orove,  ft;  Zion,  9.  New  CaaiU- Chesapeake  City,  8; 
Delaware  City,  8  80;  Forest,  8  00;  Red  Clay  Creek,  8; 
Smyrna,  8;  St.  George's,  8  7ft;  West  Nottingham,  18  ft8; 
White  Clay  Creek.  8;  WUmington  OUTOt.  8.  WaOUngUm 
a<ty— Boyd's,  8;  Hyattarille.  8;  LewinsTiUe,  8  88;  Man- 
assas, 1;  VeelsTOle,  7;  Vienna,  8;  Washington  City  8th, 
91;  —  Iftth  Street,  10;  —  Assembly,  99;  —  OoTenant.  ft; 

—  MelropoUtan,  9ft.  909  tt 
Caluoeioa.— BeiiieicH-Aroata.  10;  Bhie  Lake,  8;  Co- 

▼elo,  ft;  Fulton,  8;  Napa.  49  95.  Lot  Angele*  Aliiambra, 
T;  AsusaHpanish,  4;  Bl  Csjon,  80  98;  Bisloore.  14  ftO; 
Inglewood.  8  AO;  Los  Aogeles  8d,  8:  —  Boyle  HelghU.  ft; 

—  Hpaolsh,  9;  Los  OUtos,  8;  NewhalL  5;  North  Ontario. 
18;  Palms.  8:  Pasadena  CalTary,  4:  Rivera,  4;  San  Ber- 
nardino. 10;  tSan  Diego,  80;  Ban  Fernando.  4  69;  Han  Ga- 
briel Spanish,  4;  Santa  Bsrbara.  9ft;  RanU  Maria,  9; 
BanU  Monica,  8  7ft;  Tustln.  19  49.  OaJkland— Berkeley 
1st,  1:  Oentreville.  4;  Concord.  8;  DauTtlle.  9:  Llvermore, 
1:  Oakland  1st  Boys'  Brigade,  0  80;  —  Brooklyn,  19  8ft. 
Biutramtito  Carsoo  city.  7;  Chlco,  8;  Colusa,  9;  Kirk- 
wood,  1  60  San  Jot^-Feiton.  60  cts. ;  GUroy,  8;  HoUis- 
ter.  8;  Los  Gates,  6.  ^toclctowFowler,  4;  Oakdale,  8  8ft: 
St.  James.  9.  804  IS 

Catawba.— dope  J'Var— Simpson  Mission  sabsch,  1. 
Oliilaur6a— Concord  Westminster.  9;  Davidson  College, 
90  cts.;  Lloyd,95ots.  boutkem  Ftr^nto-Bethesda,  7; 
BlgOaksab-sch,  1;  Cumberland  1;  DanTillA  Holbrook 
St ,  1;  Bbeneser.  1;  Grace  Chapel,  9;  Bossel  GroTO,  1. 
FodMn^ Aberdeen  1;  Hannah.  1.  10  4ft 

CoLOBAoa— B^mlder-Fort  Collins,  19;  Laramie,  7. 
Dsneer— Black  Hawk,  9;  Central  City.  4;  Denrer  North, 
1;  « South  Broadway,  4;  —  Westminster.  4  ftO;  Idaho 
Springs,  10;  Littleton,  8;  Wray.  8;  Tuma  9.  QunnUon 
— Poncha  Springs.  9;  Salida,  6.  AieMo— Antonito  and 
sab-sob,  1;  Cation  City.  1ft;  Colorado  Springs  9d.  1: 
Cucharas  Mexican.  1;  Durango,  6;  El  More  (Ladies^ 
Mite  doo>,  ft).  8  30;  La  Junta,  1 ;  Lockett,  1 :  t  Mesa.  87; 
Pueblo  Fountain.  980:  —  Mexican  ftth.  1;  —  Westminster, 
ft;  Rouse.  9  9ft;  Trinidad  9d  Spanish,  1.  141  85 

lLUMois.—iilto}i— Alton  (sah^ch,  8  81).  1ft;  Blair,  9  50; 
Bast  St.  Louis  10;  Virden,  4;  Whitehall.  10.  Blooming- 
ton— Bkx>mington  1st,  19;  Colfax.  5;  Mansfield.  4;  Onarga, 
10;  Paxton,  9;  Poatlac.  90;  Reading.  8  75;  Sheldon,  10. 
Gdiro -ATa,  ft;  Bridgeport,  ft  60;  Carbondale  (sab-sch.  6), 
10;  Centralia  sab-sch.  8;  Metropolis.  9;  Mount  Carmel, 
6  80;  Pisgah,  0  10;  Wabash.  8  ft).  OUoogo-Cabery,  8: 
Chicago  1st,  18  48;  —  1st  Gennan.  1;  —  9d.  Oft  7S;  —  8d 
sabsch,  18:  —  4th,  40;  —  tSth,  69  07;  —0th,  9;  —  4lBt 
Street,  48  60;  -Brookllne.  9  68;  -  Grace.  1:  —  Scotch,  ft; 

—  Woodlawn  Park,  47;  Bvanston  1st  81  78;  Gardner,  1 ; 
Hinsdale  sabsch,  1  84:  JoUet  Central.  80  71 ;  La  Grange, 
1;  South  Chicago.  4  90.  17Ve<»por<-B1fzabeth.  1;  Free- 
port  8d,  8:  Galena  South.  98  80;  Linn  and  Hebron,  6; 
Marengo.  8;  Oregon.  8;  Queen  Anne  Gennan,  9;  Scales 
Mound*  German.  6:  ZIon  German.  6.  ifaf^oofi— Bethel, 
8.  Otia%oa^Au  Sable  Grove,  4  60;  BariyiUe,  9;  MendoU 
7;  Morris,  4;  Sandwich,  6;  Waterman,  8  f^portfo-Brim- 
fleld  1;  Canton,  8  60;  Elmwood,  1;  Ipara,  19  90:  Lewis- 
town,  8  86;  Limestone,  7;  Peoria  1st.  IT  49:  —  Calvary, 
4;  —  Grace.  10  48:  Salem.  8.  Rock  A^ver-Hamlet,  8  40; 
Perryton.  8  06;  Woodbull,  6.  Schuyler— Augusta,  10; 
Bardolph,  10;  Clayton,  8;  Kirkwood.  4  60;  Monmouth, 
14  07;  Prairie  City.  8.  &>rtnorteM-Farmhigton,  8; 
Maroa,  6;  Murrayrllle,  9;  Petersburgh,  10;  Pisgah.  04 
cU. ;  Springfield  1st.  8;  Virginia,  10.  890  41 

Indiana.— Orav«A>rr<«viI/e- Attica.  9;  Bethel,  8;  Craw- 
fordsTllle  Centre.  16  00;  Delphi,  ft  49;  Lexington,  4;  Rock 
Creek,  8;  Rockfleld,  8;  Rockrflle  Memorial,  4  19;  Thorp- 


town,  10;  WilUamsport,  9.  Jbrt  ITayne— KeodalTiDe.  9; 
Salem  Centre,  1.  /iwiMiiMUM>lis— Acton.  1;  IndlanaooUs 
9d,  69  88;  —  4th,  8;  New  Pisgah,  1.  Looansport— Lonns- 
port  1st.  4  88;  MontloeUo,  6;  Rennselaer,  7;  RolUng 
Prairie,  8.  Ifimcis-Anderson,  18;  Elwood,  9;  Harttocd 
aty.  1ft;  Kokomo.  9;  Marion,  8  94;  Portland,  8;  Tipton, 
4;  Wabash,  80  Oft.  New  Albanp-UtonU,  9  86;  New 
Albany  8d,  4;  New  Philadelphia,  1 ;  Smyrna.  4  84.  Vin- 
oennM-SuUlTan.  8  46;  Vinoennes.  7.  White  Waters 
Connersville  1st,  ft;  —  German,  7;  Dunlapsrilleu  1;  Bbe- 
neser. 1;  Greensburgh,  95  04;  Lewisvllle,  9;  Liberty.  4; 
Mount  Carmel,  1  Oft.  890  97 

Indian  Tbbiutobt.  —  Cherokee  Nation  —  Muldrow,  1. 
Oftoctoto—PhUadelphia,  60  cts. :  San  Bois,  9.  Oklahowka 
— Ardmore,  4;  Deer  Creek,  4;  Edmond.  8;  Oklahoma  City, 
8;  Stillwater,  4;  WaterloO|9.    SeguoyoA— Girty*s  Spring. 

Iowa.— Cmfar  Bapids-Bmellne,  6;  Mechanicsriile,  ft; 
Scotch  Grove,  4.  ComMo-Creston,  10;  Essex,  9  96; 
Shenandoah,  6.  Council  Bi«#i— Audubon.  0;  Lone  Star, 
8;  Menlo.9.  De$  Ifoifies-CentreviUe,  0:  Colfax.  8;  Derby, 
8;  Des  Moines  6th.  6;  -  Bethany.  9;  ~  Clifton  Heights,  4; 
Laurel.  8;  Maripoea,  6;  Mllo,  50  cts.;  New  Sharon,  8  18; 
Plymouth,  6.  l>u6«giM— Centre  Township.  1;  Dyersrille 
German,  1;  Independence  German,  6;  lime  Spring,  8; 
Walker,  ft.  Fort  Dod^e— Armstrong,  4  75;  Bethel,  1  60; 
Churdan.  9  50;  Birtherville.  6;  Fort  Dodge,  11  70:  Ger- 
roania,  9;  Ramsey  German.  5;  Rolfe  9d.  ft  10;  Spirit  Lake, 
9.  /oiro-Bloomfleld  7  75;  Buriington  let.  94  88:  Fair- 
field. 88  OS;  Keokuk  «d.  2;  —  Westminster.  8  95:  Middle- 
town.  60  ot«.:  Montrose.  8:  Mount  Pleasant  1st,  88  86:  St. 
Peter's  Bvangelica].  1;  Wlnfield.  0.  Iowa  Ot/if— Bethel, 
45 CU.;  Crawfordsvllle,  1  60;  Muscatine.  17:  Wilton,  18. 
SiOHX  City  -Battle  Cn^k.  6;  Providence,  8  86;  Sanborn, 
1  76.  (Ta/erloo— Cedar  Falls,  16;  Conrad,  8;  Kamrar 
German.  19  849  04 

Kanmas.— ffiapoHa-  Clear  Water,  1 :  Cottonwood  Falls, 
9;  BmporiaSd,6  80:  Osage  aty.  5;  White  City,8:  Wicdi- 
Ita  1st.  6  70.  HtoAloHd-Atchlson  1st.  16;  Oir^ng.  1; 
Horton  (Y.  P.  9.0.  B..  1)  0;  MarysviUe,  8;  Nortonvflle, 
8;  VermUllon,  9.  Lar«>ed-Great  Bead.  1;  Halsted,  8; 
Lyons.  4:  McPherson.  0  76;  Sterling,  6:  Valley  Township, 
4.  i^eotAo-Carlyle,  1  78:  Central  City.  9;  CoffeyvUle.  6; 
Louisburg,  8  85:  Moran.  9 19;  Mound  Valley,  <;  Neodesba, 
8  60;  Oswego,  8  80;  Toronto  8.  Otftome— Fremont,  96 
cto;  Hill  City,  1  41:  Logan.  8  81:  Prairie  View.  8  60; 
Smith  Centre.  1  Solonum— BellevUle,  9;  Cawker  City,  4; 
Delphos.  18  80;  Providence,  6;  Saltville,  1.  Tbpdbo— Bala, 
9:  Clur  Centre,  9  60;  Junction  City,  0;  Leavenworth  1st, 
60;  Manhatten,  11;  Olathe,  9  60;  Topeka9d.  4  988  08 

KsNTOOKT.—ffbenexer— Ashland.  88  16;    Bbeneser,  9; 
MaysvUle,  6;  Mount  SterUnn^  1st.  1;  Paris  1st  6;  Bbarpe- 
burg 
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burg  sab-sch,  60  cts ;  Valley.  4.  Lou^setfUe— Chapel 
Hllf  1;  Gust  on,  9;  Princeton  1st,  8t  Shelbyvflle,  8  14. 
TVaiwyleania -Columbia  9;  Concord,  1;  Danville  9d,  80; 


East  gemstadt,  8;  U vingston.  8.  1 1 1  80 

MioHiOAN— De6^<t-Detroit  Central,  16;  —  Memorial, 
7;  —  Trumbull  Avenue,  10  96;  —  Westminster.  40;  How- 
ell. 10;  Marine  City,  7;  NorthviUe.  la  FUiU— Brent 
Creek,  6;  Denmark,  1;  Mundy.  4;  Sand  Beach  (sab-sdi, 
10  cts.),  Y.  P.  a  C.  B.,  18  CU  ),  ChUdren's  Miss.  Hoc'y,  8 
cts  ),  1  19;  Vassar,  7.  Grand  Rapida-Uuir,  1;  ttpring 
Lake,  8.  JTatomcueo— Kalaroasoo  1st.  40;  Marttai.  9. 
Lake  Superior^lron  Motutaln,  9:  Iron  River.  60  cts,; 
Ishpemlng.  6;  Mantstlque  Redeemer,  14;  Red  Jacket,  6. 
Lontino— Brooklyn.  4  96:  Concord,  8  90|  Dimondale.  6; 
t  Hastings,  10:  Jackson,  9  16;  Lansing  Ist  Y.P.aC.B.J: 
Mason,  lO;    Parma.   1  70.     Jfonroe-Cokl water,   10  98; 

8ulBcy.  10.  Pietod^ey— Alanson,  1;  Conway,  1|  I^e 
ity,  8  01;  Mackinaw  City.  9.  aoiKnaw— Aloena,  1;  Bfty 
City  Memorial,  8  91;  Caledonia,  9;  Grayling,  1;  Sa^naw 
Immanuel,7.  977  71 

MiNNSsoTA  ~Du2it(^— Duluth  8d,  8;  —  Haslewood 
Park.  8;  —  Highland,  1;  Ptoe  aty,  1;  Two  Hartiors,  Of 
Virginia  Cleveland  Avenue.  8.  Mankato—Bhie  Earth 
CHy,  7;  Delhi.  8  75;  Fulda  Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  1;  Lakeflekl,  ft; 
Mankato  1st.  18  80;  Redwood  Falls.  8:  Slayton,  6:  Tracy. 
5;  Winnebafo  aty,  8  06^  Wortl|ington  Weftmlnster,  48 


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cts.  MniMopolis— Minneapolis  Itt,  8  07;  ^  House  of  1 
Faith,  S  76.  %ed  Atver—Eibow  Lake,  6;  EvanftTille.  2  60;  S 
Moortiead.  e.  St.  C'totui— Kerkhoven.  1  86;  Rheiderland  I 
Oerman,  1;  Royalton,  S;  St.  aoud,  t  47.  St.  Paul—  t 
Farmington,  %-.  Hamline,  8;  Red  Wing,  19  66;  Rush  Citj.  1 
5:  Bt.  Paul  Bethlehem,  6;  —  East  sab  sch.  1 ;  —  House  of  ] 
Hope  sab-sch,  10;  Vermillion,  8;  Warrendale,  8.  Wituma  { 
—Winona  German,  9.  165  10      1 

Missouri.— JTanjcw     C<ty— Brownington,    1;     Centre       < 
View,  8;  Greenwood,  6:  Hoiden,  0  16:  Jefferson  City,  4; 
Kansas  City  6th,  SO;  —  HUl  Memorial,  1;  —  Linwooa,  0;      ] 
Rich  HiU,  10  90;  Salem,  »:  Sedalia  Broadway,  17;  Vista,      ( 
1  46;    Warrensburg.    19  00.     0«arfc -Carthage,   9  68;  —       < 
Westminster  6;  Fairplay,  0;  Irwin,  2;  Neosho.  7;  Pros-      I 
ton,  1;  Salem.  «:  Bpringfleld  Sd.  1  76;  Springaeld  Cal-      < 
Tary.  «4  98.    Pcamvra— Bethel,  S;  Birdseye  Ridge,  4; 
Brookfleld.  6  60;  Edina.  8;  Hannibal,  86;  Knox  CMty,  1;       . 
Milan,  8;  UnionviUe.  1^.    Platte— Albany,  %  65;  Graham,       i 
1;  Hamilton,  4  46;  King  City,  8;  New  Hampton,  1;   New 
Point,  3t.    St.  Loutf— Cuba.  8;  Jonesboro.  6;  RoJla,  8;  8t. 
Louis  1st.  90  61;  —  1st  German,  6;  —  Clifton  Heights.  %\      < 
—Glasgow  Avenue,  8;  —  Lafayette  Park,  87  «8;  —  West, 
18  41;  Windsor  Harbor,  5.    White  i^ioer^Harris  Chapel, 
t;  Homes  Chapel.  8.  888  58 

Montana.— ^ttfte— Butte  sab-sch,  5;  Hamilton,  8.  Hel- 
ena-Bozeman  88  55.  80  66 

Nebraska.— fla«ttn0r«—Aztel.  8 :  Beaver  City,  6;  Bloom- 
ington  8;  Seaton,  8;  Stamford,  8;  Thornton,  8.  Kearney— 
Ashton,  8;  Berg,  8;  BigSpring.  1 ;  Cherry  Creek.  8;  Genoa, 
8;  Kearney  German,  6;  Litchfield.  8;  North  Loup,  1 ;  Ord, 
6;  Scotia.  8;  »helton,  8  80;  St.  Edwards,  10;  Sutherland.  6; 
Wood  River,  9  81.  NebroMka  City— Adams,  10;  blue 
Springs,  7  06;  Gresham,  8;  Hickman  German,  18;  Hope- 
well, 4  58;  Hubbell.  4;  Nebraska  City.  4  50;  Plattsmouth, 


6  60;  Staplehurst,  6;  Sterling.  6;  Tamora,  8.  Niobrara-- 
Bethany,  8;  Cleveland,  8 15  Elgin,  4;  Inman,  8:  Lambert, 
8;  Madison,  8;   MiUerboro.  1;  Oakdale,  5;  Osmond,  t; 


Pender,  10;  Rushville,  4:  Stuart,  5;  Wiilowdale,  1.    Omaha 
— Ceresco,  8;  Craig.  4;  Omaha  8d,  10.  808  44 

Nbw  Jkrset.- £7<tca6etA>  Bay  onne  City.  10;  Bethlehem, 
6;  Connecticut  Farms.  12;  Craoford.  1;  Dunnellen,  7  68; 
Elizabeth  Ist  German,  8;  Plainfield  B<*thei  Chapel.  1; 
Pluckamin  (Ino  sab-sch,  6  0.^),  9  85:  Rahway  1st,  88  60; 
«  8d.  10;  Roselle,  7  11;  Rpriogfleld.  85.  Jer»ev  City— 
Arlington,  9  80;  Englewood,  76  7u;  Hoboken.  6  18;  Jersey 
City  Claremont,  8;  —  John  Knox,  8;  —  Scotch,  6;  —  West- 
minster, 9  47;  Passaic  sab-sch,  5  8$;  Paterson  1st,  8;  —  8d, 
48 17;  —  8d,  8;  —  Broadway  German,  6;  —  East  Side.  10;  — 
Redeemer  add'l,  1;  —  Westminster,  8;  Rutherford  (Inc. 
sab  sch.  38),  65  45;  West  MUford,  6.  JTonmout^- Allen- 
town,  80;  Asbury  Park  1st,  5;  Atlantic  Highlands.  8  09; 
Bordentown,  6;  Columbus,  8  88;  Cranbury  8d,  5;  Delanoo, 
60 cts.;  Farmingdale,  8  50;  Freehold,  18  81;  Hiq^htstown 
(Ina  sab-sch,  1  65),  85;  Jamesburgh,  10;  Keyport,  5;  Long 
Branch.  18  50;  Manalapan,  8  40;  Matawan.  15;  Perrlne- 
viUe.  1;  Plattsbuivh,  8;  Point  Pleasant.  9:  Red  Bank.  10; 
Shrewsbury,  10;  Tuckerton,  8;  Westminster,  8;  Whiting 
and  Shamong,  8.  Morrtt  and  Oronpe— Berkshire  Valley, 
1  86;  Chester.  8;  Dover,  19  80;  —  Welsh,  2;  German  Val- 
ley. 5;  Madison,  6  64:  Mendham  1st.  14  76;  —  8d.  10;  Mine 
Hill,  7:  Orange  Valley  German,  8;  Pleasant  Grove,  8; 
South  Orange  1st,  16  01;  —  Trinity.  «6;  St.  Cloud.  6; 
Wyoming,  8  60  ATeuKirA,— Montclair  Trinity.  6;  Newark 
9d,  80  06;  —  1st  German,  6;  —  Bethany,  6;  —  Memorial, 
14  85;  —  Park,  84  94;  —  Roseville.  808.  New  Brunewick 
— Amwell  8d,  1;  Dayton,  6  60;  Dutch  Neck,  80;  Hopewell, 
7;  Kingwood,  8;  New  Brunswick  8d,  8;  Princeton  1st, 
77  41;  -  8d,  88  80;  Titusville,  80;  Trenton,  4th.  87;  — 
Chapel  1st,  4;  —  Prospect  Street  Brookville  sab  sch.  81 
cts.  Newton— ABbnrj,  16;  Belvldere  8d  (sab-sch,  10), 
17  85;  Branchville,  18;  Deckertown,  14  48;  Greenwich.  8; 
La  Fayette,  1;  Oxford  8d.  9  35:  StewarUville.  10:  StiU- 
water,  5;  Wantage  1st,  7  86:  —  8d,  6  92;  Yellow  Frame, 
186.  IFesf  Jersey -Billinggport,  1;  Black woodtown,  80; 
Bridgeton  1st,  90;  —  4th,  8;  -  West,  10;  Clayton.  10;  Deer- 
field,  10;  Elmer  (Ina  Ladies'  Missionary  Society.  6),  7; 
Mlllville.  6;  Swedesboro.  8;  Tuckaeoe,  8;  Vineland.  10; 
Wenonah,  60;  Woodstown,  10.  1.488  80 

New  Mbxioo.— ilricono— PhoBnix  1st,  86.  Rio  Orcmde 
—Albuquerque,  1st  sab-sch,  10:  Jemes,  1;  LasCruces  1st, 
6  10;  Pajarlto,  8.    Santa  Fi-has  Vegas  1st.  8.  46  10 

Nbw  York— i4I6any-Albany  4th.  80:  —  6th.  5; » Madi- 
son Avenue  Y.  P.  S.  Cf.  E  .  85:  —  State  Street.  88  84;  Am- 
sterdam 8d.  50  60;  Batchellerville.  4;  GloversvlUe  Ist, 
tt  85;  Jermain  Memorial,  18;  Johnstown,  10;  Sand  Lake, 
9;  Saratoga  Springs  1st,  87  88;  Schenectady  1st.  47  58; 
Stepheatown.  1.  Binghamtor^^ Atton,  6;  Binghamton 
1st,  91  97;  -  North,  10  81;  Cannonsvllle,  8:  Union,  1  07. 
BoMton^Eaat  Boston,  10;  Fall  River  Globe.  9;  Houlton,  5; 
Lawrence  German,  10;  Lonsdale,  10;  Lowell,  6;  Provi- 
dence 1st,  10;  Quincy.  9;  South  Ryegate,  5;  Taunton,  4. 
ProoUyf»— Brooklyn  Ist,  848  68;  —  1st  German,  6;  — 
Ainslie  Btrest,  6;  -  Artliigtoii  Avenue,  S;  —  Bsfthanj, 


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t;  Dell  Rot,  t:  Deoniton.  7;  East  Liverpool  Ist,  flO  26; 
IrondAle.  8;  Kilgore.  4;  Leecrille,  1;  New  Philadelphia 
Csab^eh,  t),  16;  Ridm,  8;  Salinerille,  8;  Scio,  8;  Steuben- 
▼llle  8d,  8;  Toronto.  Il;  UrlchaviUe,  8;  Weet  Lafayette.  40 
Ota.  TFbotter— BetheU  1;  Creston,  4  16;  Dalton,  1  08; 
Frederlcksburgh.  6:  Jackson,  6  40;  Loudon  viUe,  1;  Orange, 
8.  Zdne«viti«— Coshocton.  89  75;  Dresden,  8  78:  Jersey, 
4  17;  Mt.  Vernon,  7;  Pataskala,  5  61  1,164  00 

OBMaon.'-Ecut  Oreoon— Baker  City,  6;  Monkland,  8  90; 
Moro,  8;  Union,  6.  An-f (ami— Bethel  8;  Clackamas  1st, 
1;  Oregon  CitT,8  60;  Portland  Mizpah,  8;  Sellwood,  8; 
Springwater,  8.  Southern  Oregon— Bandon,  8;  Jackson- 
Tille,  1.  fra<am«tta— Dallas.  6 ;  McCoy,  8;  Newberg,  8  60; 
Ootorara,  6;  Woodbum,  4;  Yaquinna  Bay,  8  60.         68  60 

PBmfSTLYAiriA.—iitfs^^sny— Allegheny  Ist  Oerman,  8; 
—  Bethel,  1;  —  North,  40  86;  -  Providence.  10;  —  West- 
minster,  4;  Cross  Roads,  8;  Hoboken,  8  76;  Sewickly, 
66  90.  BlairtviUe  —  Congruity,  4  85;  Ebensburgh,  4; 
Kerr,  8;  Latrobe,  10;  Murrysville.  8  60;  Salem,  5.  Butler 
^ArnitT,  8:  Middlesex,  18;  North  Washington,  4.  Car- 
IMe— Buffalo,  1;  Centre,  1;  Great  Conewago,  8  85;  Oreen 
Castle,  11  80;  Harrisburgh  Elder  Street,  1;  Lower  Marsh 
Creek.  8  10;  Mkidle  Spring,  10:  Middletown.  5;  Shermans- 
dale,  1;  Waynesboro,  7  ITT  CAetfer— A  vondale,  4  66;  Cal- 
vary, 18  41;  Chester  UL  10;  Media,  80  19;  Middletown.  5; 
New  London,  16;  PhoenizTllle,  8;  Upper  Octorara,  40  19; 
West  Chester  8d.  8.  Ciarion—Big  Run,  8;  East  Brady, 
10;  Edenburgh,  6;  Johnsonburgh,  64  cts.;  Licking,  8; 
Oak  Grove,  8;  Rathmel,l;  Sligo,  8:  Tionesta,  8;  Wilcox, 
66ots.  .Brie— Cool  Spring.  8  90;  Erie  Ist,  11  78;  Mercer 
1st,  8;  OU  aty  1st,  1  40;  TitusviUe,  5;  Union  City,  8  80. 
Huntingdon  —  Altoona  8d,  86;  —  Broad  Street,  8  86; 
Beulah,  8  69;  Birmingham,  5  68;  Clearfield,  18  86;  East 
Kishacoquillas,  17;  Everett,  8:  Houtsdale,  8  75;  Lewis- 
town,  88;  Uttle  Valley,  5;  McVeytown,  8;  Mann's  Choice, 
8;  Mapleton.  8;  Middle  Tusoarora,  1;  Mount  Union  T.  P. 
S.  C.  B.,  1;  Phillipsburgh.  9  91 ;  Pine  Grove  Mills  sab-sch, 
06 Ota.:  SUte  College,  10  41 :  Tyrone,  16  09;  Upper  Tusca- 
rora.  8:  Williamsburgh  sab-sch,  8  40.  Kittanning—A.t- 
wood,  8;  BetheL  (including  sab-sch,  8),  5:  Bethesda,8; 
Cherry  Run,  8;  Clinton,  ];  Elderton,  7:  GIlRal,  8;  Glade 
Run,  18;  Harmony,  6;  Homer,  8;  Mecbanicsburgh,  8; 
Midway,  8:  Mount  Pleasant,  8;  Parker  City,  9  58;  Rock- 
bridge, 8;  Union,  4  18;  Washington,  10.  L<Mckawanna— 
Bethel,  1;  Camptown,  8;  Dunmore,  4;  Montrose,  85;  New- 
ton. 1;  Orwell,  60 cts.;  Rome,  8;  Scott,  8;  Shickshlnny,  5; 
XJlster,  1;  —  ViUage,  1;  Warren,  8;  Wilkes  Barre  1st, 
168  96;  Wyalusing  1st,  4;  Wyoming,  6  50.  Lehigh » 
Audenreid,  10;  Bangor,  5:  Easton  1st,  17;  Lock  Ridge.  8: 
Lower  Mount  Bethel  (including  sab-sch  and  T.  P.  S.  C,  E.,) 
6  87;  Mountain,  8  10;  Reading  Olivet,  11 ;  —  Washington 
Street,  8;  Stroudsburg.  6:  Summit  Hill,  1().  Northumber' 
land— Briar  Creek,  8;  Buffalo,  8;  Elysburgh,  1;  Grove,  SO; 
Linden,  1;  Lycoming  Centre,  4;  Montgomery,  7;  Moun- 
tain, 8;  Renovo  1st,  10;  Rush  Creek,  1 :  Shiloh,  1 ;  Warrior 
Run,  6;  Williamsport  Bethany,  1.  Parkereburgh-Qnt- 
ton,  10;  Morgantown,  8;  Ravenswood,  8;  Sugar  Grove, 
8.  PhikuUlphia-Fhiladelphiai  2d.  78  11 ;  -  Carmel  Ger^ 
flum,  4;  —  Central,  89  80;  —  Cohocksink,  89  60;  —  Green- 
way,  6;  —  Greenwch  Street,  10;  —  Hope,  4;  —McDowell 
Memorial,  11  41;  —  North,  6  81;  —  Richmond,  8;  Susque- 
hanna Avenue,  10;  Tabernacle  GirPs  Mission  Band.  86, 
and  sab-sch,  81  06.  66  06;  —  Temple,  88:  ~  Trinity,  6;  — 
Wahiut  Street,  78  88;- West  Park,  10;-WoodIand,  866  90. 
PhUadelphia  Abr<^— Abington,  84  89;  Ambler,  6;  Bridtis- 
burg,  6;  Calvary,  8;  Chestnut  Hill  Ist,  88;  Forestville,  5; 
Frankford,  18  88;  Germantown  Wakefield,  7  81 ;  Hermon, 
85;  Holroesburgh.  8  78;  Huntingdon  Valley,  4;  Jefferson- 
vUIe  Centennial,  6;  Lawndale,  8;  Lower  Merlon,  8;  Nar- 
berth,  9  61;  Norristown  Central,  6;  Wisslnominr,  4.  Pitte- 
burgh^ Amity 1 8;  Concord.  8:  Duquesne.  4;  Lebanon,  80; 
Long  Island,  4  61;  Monongahela  City,  85;  Mount  Carm^ 
1;  North  Branch.  1;  Phiilipeburgh.  1;  Pittsburgh  6th, 
18  08;  — 48d  Street,  5:  —  BeUefleld,  58  68;  »  East  Liberty 
(sab-sch,  80  95),  60  61;—  Hazlewood.  10  57;  —  Parte 
Avenue.  80;  —  Point  Breeze,  800;  —  Shady  Side,  60  50;  — 
South  Side,  8;  West  Elizabeth  sab-sch,  5.  Red9ton4i— 
Belle  Vernon,  8  81;  Fayette  City,  1  50;  McC!lellandtown, 
8;  McKeesport  Central,  18;  Mount  Pleasant.  87;  —  Re- 
union, 8;  Mount  Washington,  8;  Pleasant  Unity,  8  65; 
Suterville  (Including  sab  sch,  6),  10;  Tent,  8;  West  New- 
ton, 81  90.  SAcnanoo— Leesburgh,  8;  ;  Sharpeville.  8  45. 
Wiuhington^BeihTehem,  Z;  Cross  Creek,  89;  Mill  Creek, 
8;  Mount  Prospect,  18  50;  Pigeon  Creek,  8;  Upper  Ten 
MUe,  10;  Washington  8d,  16:  Wellsburgh.  6  05;  West 
Union.  8;  Wheeling  8d,  6.  WeiUboro- Antrim,  8;  Amot, 
8;  Farmington.  1;  Mount  Jewett,  8:  Wellsboro,  8  11. 
WeMtminster—Belletae,  8;  Chanceford,  9  14;  Chestnut 
Level,  1  85:  Columbia,  84  56;  Donegal,  8;  Hopewell,  7; 
Lancaster  Ist,  11;  Slate  Ridge,  8;  Stewartstown,  6:  York 
Westminster,  6.  8,614  89 

South  Dakota. —ilfrerd«en—Groton,  6:  Leola.  1  50; 
WUmot,  8.    Black  Hittt-Hill  aty,  8;  Rapid  aty,  5. 


Central  DaJboto-Alpena,  8  06;  Bancroft,  1  85;  Bethel, 
8  60t  Canning,  10;  Colman,  88  cU.;  Hitchcock  Y.  P^  C. 
E.,  4:  Manchester,  1  86;  MUler.  5;  St.  Lawrence.  4;  Wentp 
wotth,  1  18;  White,  1  60.  DoJbo^a-AsoensioB,  1  South' 
em  Dototo— Alexandria,  8;  Bridgewater,  6;  CaaistoU,  4; 
Canton,  5;  Ebenexer.  8;  Harmony.  6  71;  Kimball,  4;Bp(rtp 
land,  8;  Turner  Co.,  Ist  German,  8;  White  Lakesl-    «*  " 

TKNNB8SKB.—B<rm<n{;Aam— Thomas  1st,  1.  Hoieton-- 
CoUege  HUl.  8  60;  Oakland  Heights,  6;  OUvet,  1;  St. 
Marks,  8.  JTinotton-Chattanooga  Park  Place,  4;  Harri- 
man  Ladies'  Missionary  Society,  8;  Pleasant  Union,  1. 
Union-Formt  Hill,  1 :  Knoxville  4th,  11 15;  Madisonvlll^ 
78  cts.;  Mt.  Zion,  8;  South  Knoxville,  1.  41  48 

Texas.— ^iMfin— Galveston  St.  Paul's  German.  4:  Kerr- 
viUe.  8;  New  Orleans  Immanuel.  10;  San  Antonio  Madison 
Square,  8;  Taylor.  8.  iVortfc  TTeajas-Adora,  8  50;  Dcnisonj 
10;  Henrietta,  4.    !FWn<fr-Dallas  8d,  5  15.  „  ?  ? 

UTAH.-Boise-Bolse  cSty,  8;  CaWwell  (Inc.  Y.  P.  8.  a 
E..  57  cts.).  8  45.  ITendalJUFrankUn.  1:  Paris,  8.  Utah 
-Box  Elder,  1:  Ephralm,  4;  KaysvlUe  Haines  Memorl^ 
4;  Manti,  10;  Mendon,  8;  Mount  Pleasant,  1  60;  Nepbl 
Huntington.  8  86;  Pleasant  Grove,  1;  Salt  Lake  aty  8d, 
8  60;  Smithfield  Central,  8;  Springville,  5.  44  80 

Washinoton.  — O/ympta— Centralia,  6;  PuyaUup,  8; 
South  Bend,  1  60;  Stella,  8.  Paget  Sound- Everett,  6; 
Fair  Haven.  6  65;  Lopes  Calvary,  1;  San  Juan,  1  65; 
Seattle  Welsh  8:  White  River,  8.  £l^>oiMme— Cortland,  1; 
Fairfield,  5;  Grand  Coulee,  1 :  Rathdrum.  4.  41  80 

WuooNsur.-CIkfopetM-Ashland  Bethel,  4;  Cadotte, 
8;  Eau  Claire  1st,  6.  La  OoMe-Bangor,  8;  La  Crosse 
1st  (sab-sch,  8  46),  11  76;  Mauston  Ist,  8;  New  Amster- 
dam,  8;  West  Salem.  8.  J#ad<M>n-C;ambria,  1  85;  Low- 
ville,  8;  Madison  St.  Paul's  German,  1  86;  Poynette,  8  81. 
jratoaulree- Cedar  Grove.  8  89:  Horicon,  6:  Manitowoc 
ist.  8  60;  Milwaukee  German,  7;  —  Holland,  8;  —  Im- 
manuel, 86  66;  —  Westminster,  8  88.  Winnebaao^-Af- 
pleton  Memorial,  10;  Buffalo,  4  40;  Depere,  10;  Fond  da 
Lac,  10;  Marinette  Pioneer,  5;  Oshkosh,  7  64;  West  Mer- 
rill, 10;  Weyauwega,  1;  Winnecanne,  8.  166  17 


Total  from  churches  and  Sabbath-schools.. 

OTHXB  OOHTBIBUTIONS. 
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16,686  81 


Mcaemens,  Micb.,  5.1 


168  66 


1^60186 


mSCKLLAKBOUS. 

Interest  on  Investments 8,868  84 

Payments  on  Church  Mortgagee. 8^1  66 

PUms .?.TT. 19  00 

Premiums  of  Insurance 918  60 

Sales  of  Book  No  5 1  50 

Sales  of  Chureh  Property 986  66 

Total  loss  collected  from  Insurance 

Company 860  00      T.984  54 

LBOAGISS. 

Estate  Joseph  W.  Edwards 86  06 

SFKOIAL  DONATIOHS. 

Illinois.  —  Springfield  —  Jacksonville  United 

Portuguese  Bible  Class,  1  60;  Lincoln  1st  8; 

North  Sangamon,  10. 
IowA.—2f\>rf  Dod^— Bancroft.  6;  Fort  Dodge, 

60.    louwOJty— Davenport  IstY.  P.  S.  as., 

10. 
Nkw  jKR8CT.—£Iira5effc- Clinton,  89  96;  Lam- 

ington,  50;  Plainfield  Crescent  Avenue,  800. 

JVetrton— Danville.  8. 
New  YoRX.-7Voy— Middle  Granville,  8;  Pitta- 

town.  8;  Waterford,  7  80. 
PxifNSTLVAifLi.—  Philadelphia  —  Philadelphia 

Corinthian  Ave.   Ctorman,   10;   —  Oxford, 

68  60. 
Rev.  H.  C.  Herring,  Wlnterset,  la..  6;  Rev.  8. 

B.  Mcaelland,  Grand  Junction,  la.,  10;  Ber. 


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WnL^MiUer,  OrestoD,  la.,  10 478  88  spkoial  donatioks. 

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T.i^Aitf  vnwTk              ■— -^^M       Nbw  York.— J?o*ton— Holyoke  Igt  sab-ech,  6. 
IiOAH  FUI¥D.                                     PH!fN8TLVAinA.-i%fla3e4>A<o- Philadelphia 
It  on  loan $186  00  Ooveoant.* \9  (iO 


Interest Oil  70        74670 


906  88 


MANSE  FUND.  If  acknowledgement  of  any  remittance  is  not  found  in 

•r                 r,  :»       ^j.  ,^       -,  *  ^^  ttwee  leports,  or  If  they  are  inaccurate  in  any  item, 

lLLnfois.-^<ro-Mt.  ^rmel,  1  60... prompt  advice  ahould  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 

IMBIAMA.— Fincennet-Petersburgh,  6 8  60      6oard  giving  the  numhw  of  the  receipt  held,  or,  in  the 

ifiBGKi.LA)rBoim.  absence  of  a  receipt,  the  date,  amount  and  SfJrm  of  re- 

'       "»»wui».  mittancew                      Adam  Campbell,  TreoMurerj 

Installments  on  loans 860  98  68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 

Interest 10  68 


Premiums  of  Insurance 0  87        879  88         t  Under  Minute  of  Assembly  of  1888. 

BBOEIPTS  FOB  IBDUGATIOlf,  BfAJtCH,  1894. 

ATLAMna— ilttont/c— Amwell,  1  86;  Walllngford,  S  90. 
EaatFUnHda^SUrke,2,  ifeCIeUand— Mattoon, 8.  South 
^torida-Upsala  Swedish,  8.  10  16 

BALnMOBB.—^aU<more— Baltimore  Ist,  60;  —  2d, 
49  74;  —  Abbott  Memorial,  1;  —  Aisquith  Street,  8;  — 
Fulton  Avenue,'  8;  —  Qrace,  1 :  —  La  Fayette  Square,  10; 

—  Light  Street,  8  60;  —  Ifadison  Street,  6:  —  Ridgely 
Street^  4  88;  —  Westminster,  40  74;  Cumberland,  10; 
Fallston,  8;  FrankUnviUe,  4;  Frederick  City  add'l,  6; 
Frostburgh,  1;  Qovanfftown,  8;  Hagerstown,  10;  New 
Windsor.  76  cU.;  Paradise,  6;  Relay,  1;  Sparrows  Point, 
8;  The  Qrove,  6;  Waverly,  6;  Zion,  1.  Ifew  CowUe— Ches- 
apeake City,  6 V  Christiana,  1 ;  Delaware  City,  9  47;  Forest, 
4  46;  Pencader  sab-sch,  7;  Smyrna.  6;  White  Clay  Creek, 
7;  Wicomico,  7  88.  Wathinifton  Ctty— Boyd's.  4;  George- 
town West  Street.  47;  Hyattsville,  6;  Lewinsville,  1; 
Neeisville,  80;  Vienna,  8;  Washington  City  4th,  80;  — 
16th  Street,  10;  —  Metropolitan,  10;  —  New  York  Avenue. 
90  76;  —  North,  8.  489  tf 
.  OALiFOBinA.—£e»<c<a— Areata,  10:  Two  Rooks,  6;  Val- 
lejo,  16.  Lo9  Angelet-^Aswuk  Spanish,  1 ;  Los  Angeles  8d, 
4:  —  Bo/le  Heights,  11;  —  Bpanish,  S;  Montedto,  6; 
Pafans,  8;  Riverside  Calvary,  6;  San  Gabriel  Spanish,  8; 
Santa  Barbara,  86;  Tustin,  1.  OoJUand—Berkeley  1st, 
10  60:  Centrevme,  8;  Danville,  8:  Oakland  1st  (Boys'  Bri- 
gade), 9  80:  —  Brooklyn,  14  46:  Yalona,  8  96.  Saerch 
mento-Chloo,  8;  Oohisa,  8:  Red  Bluff,  Sj  Roseville,  8. 
San  .VVcmcitoo— San  Francisco  Trinity,  o  90;  —  West- 
minster, 14.  San  Jb«^— Hollister.  6;  Ban  Jos6  1st.  88. 
i8toeH<m— Fowler,  Sz  Madera,  8.  199  40 

Catawba.— Cope  irtor— Ebenezer,  8;  Simpson  Mission 
sab-sch,  1;  T.  Darling  Mission,  1.  Ca tot06a— Concord,  8; 
Davidson  College,  80  cts.:  Lloyd,  86  cts.  Soutkem  Virginia 
—Cumberland,  1;  Danville  Holbrook  Street.  1:  Ebenezer,  1; 
Great  Creek  sab-sch,  1.  FadA:<n— Cool  Spring,  1;  Mebane, 
8;  St.  James,  1:  Winston  Uovds.  1.  18  46 

Colorado.— BouMer^Berthoud,  8  48;  Boulder,  7;  Fort 
OolUns,  10)  Laramie.  4.  Denver— Denver  1st  Avenue, 
9  46;  —  North  (sab-wh,  8),  13;  Idaho  Springs,  8;  Piatner 
German,  1  60;  South  Denver,  1  86.  Qunniton—Tonchtk 
Springs.  1;  Salida.  4.  PueMo— Antonito,  1;  Canon  City, 
9;  Costilla,  8  60;  Durango,  8;  El  Moro,  8  60;  La  Junta,  1; 
Lockett,  1;  Mesa,  80;  Monte  Vista,  7  86;  Pueblo  1st.  10; 

—  Fountain,  1  46;  —  Mexican  C6th),  1;  Rocky  Ford,  8  60; 
Trinidad  8d  Spanish,  1 .  119  08 

lLLiiiois.—^ton— Blair,  1  94;  East  St.  Louis,  8;  HIUs- 
boro,  8  88;  Jersey ville,  9:  Ylrden,  6.  Bloomington— 
Bement,  6;  Bloomington  1st,  7  68:  Elm  Grove,  1;  Fair- 
bury.  3;  Hey  worth,  8;  Mansileld,  8;  Onarga,  9;  Pontlac, 
80:  Wayneeville,  7.  CSairo- Bridgeport.  6  40;  Carbondale 
sab-sch,  6;  Carmi,  16;  Centralia  sab-scn,  6;  Du  Quoin,  8; 
Harrisburg.  1:  Mount  Carmel,  6;  Pisgah,  7  90:  Sumner,  1 ; 
Union,  1;  Wabash.  8  80.  CAicai70--Chicago  1st.  18  88;  — 
1st  German,  8;  -  8d,  164  76;  -  8d.  sab-sch,  18;  -  4th 
additional,  40;  —  7th,  1  67;  —  9th,  8: — 41st  Street.  48  60;  — 
Grace.  1;  —  Normal  Park,  17;  Evanston  1st.  86  48:  Gard- 
ner, 1 ; Herscher,  1 ;  Hinsdale sabsch,  1  84:  Joliet Central, 
89  95;  Kankakee,  10;  Moreland,  1 :  Oak  Park,  87  60.  ^ee- 
port— Oedarville.  4;  Freeport  8d  German,  8;  Galena  South, 
88  41;  Linn  and  Hebron,  6:  Marengo,  9;  Queen  Anne  Ger- 
man, 4;  Rock  Run.  1  90;  Willow  Creek.  87  85.  Mattoon- 
BetheL  8;  Tower  Hill,  6.  O^totra-EarlviUe,  8:  Morris,  6; 
Sandwich,  6:  Waterman,  8.  Pleoria— Brimfleld,  1;  Can- 
ton, 6  86;  Elmwood,  8;  Ipava,  10  80;  LewJstown.  9  66; 
Peoria  1st,  8  60;  -  Calvary.  4;  Prospect.  9  88;  Salem,  8. 
Book  River— Ashton,  8;  Dixon,  81:  Franklin  Grove,  8; 
Hamlet,  8:  Perryton.  66  cts.;  Woodhull,  10.  Schuyler-^ 
Appanoose,  6;  Brooklyn,  4;  Carthage,  10  60t  Clayton,  8; 
Doodsvllle,  8;  Huntsville,  1;  Kirkwood,  8  60:  Monmouth, 
9  99;Sal«mQermiiai,8.   £k>rifi«/leid-Bate8,  8  80;  Brush 


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Oonoord,  1 ;  DanTlUe  9d,  196.  «80  17 

MioHiOAN.~Z>efrY>it— Detroit  Be^huiy,  1;  —  OeotnO,  16; 

—  Forest  Ayenue,  8  80;  ^  WMtmlneter,  86;  HoweU,  6;  Mt. 
Olemena,  4;  Wyftodotte*  8.  Flint— Sand  Beech  sab-ech 
and  eooieiiee,  70  cts.  Grand  /fapid*— Qrand  Bapids 
Weetminster,  16;  Huir,  1;  Spring  L4Uce,  8.  Kakmatoo— 
Benton  Harbor.  1  85;  I?iainwell,  4.  Lake  Superior --Iron 
Mountain,  g;  Iron  RiTer,  60  cts.;  Ishpeminr,  7;  Manis 
tique  Redeemer,  8;  Newberry  sab-sch.  1  80;  Bed  Jacket, 
4.  LofMiM^— Battle  Creek,  80;  Brooklyn,  8  86;  Ooncord, 
8  04;  Jackson,  4;  Lansing  let,  8;  Mason,  18;  Oneida.  1  08; 
Parma,  1  OJ.  Monroe-XyoidwAter,  8  80;  Erie,  I:  Hills- 
dale, 6  80;  Qnincy.  7;  Tecumseh.  6.  PMotlMW— Alanson, 
1;  Oonway,  i.    £MiMito— Saginaw  ImmanoeC  6.     198  86 

MnrNBsoTA.— ZHtlttiA-Dalath  8d,  8;  Willow  BiTsr,  1. 
Uankato—Bloe  Earth  City,  7:  TracT,  6;  Worthington 
Westminster,  7  88.    iftimeapoiia— Minneapolis  istT?  90; 

—  House  of  Faith,  8:  —  Stewart  sab-sch,  8.  Bed  Riv^r— 
Maine,  8;  Moorfaead,  9  10.  St.  Cloud— St  Cloud,  4  04. 
at  Pkiia-Farailngton,  1;  Bed  Wing.  18  tt;  SUllwater. 
8  00;  St.  Paul  Arlington  Hills,  8;  -Bast.  1;  -  Houseof 
Hope,  10;  —  Merrlam  Park,  18  80:;VermiUion,  8.  Winona 
—Winona  1st,  11.  106  79 

Missouri.— CanMs  C^ty-^efferson  City,  8:  Kansas 
OitT  Linwood,  6  49:  Baymore,  4  18:  Bich  Httl,  9  68; 
Sedalla  Broadway,  47;  Tipton,  1;  Warrensbunr.  IS  86. 
Oaarlr— Ash  Grove,  8;  Carthage  Westminster,  6;  Irwin, 
1;  Joplin.  9  70;  Preston.  1;  Salem,  1;  Hpringtleld  Sd, 
8  86;  —  Calvary,  4;  Webb  City,  6.  PSoimyra-Birdseye 
Bidge,  6:  Edina,  8;  Hannibal.  85;  Knoz  City,  1;  Louisi- 
ana, 1;  Pleasant  Prairie.  1;  Uoionville.  10.  Platte -Car- 
roUton,  8;  Hamilton,  4  88;  Martinsville,  1;  New  Point,  1 ; 
Oregon,  8  8«;  Stanberry,  1;  St.  Joseph  Westminster,  86; 
Tarlio,  14.  8t.  Lou<«-Cuba,  2;  De  Soto,  8:  Bella,  8; 
Salem  Qerman,  8;  St.  Louis  1st,  80  61;  —  1st  German,  6; 

—  Carondelet.  16  65;  —  Oliften  Heights,  8;  —  Gla«row 


Nbw  Ton -.^UboMT- Albany  4th.  100;  -  8tb,  8:  - 
Madison  Avenue.  10;  —  State  Street,  20  16;  Amsterdam 
8d,  6  06;  Batchellerviile,  6:  OarUsle.  1;  QloveraviUe  1st, 
2i  90;  Jermain  Memorial.  7:  Johnstown,  10:  New  Scot- 
land, 10;  Northville,  1;  Sand  Lake,  4  60;  Saratoga 
Springs  1st,  14  80;  Schenectady  Ist,  48  IS;  Stepbratown, 
8.  BingKamUm-mngiMrnXjoa  1st.  91  97;  —  North,  10; 
OaanonsviUe,  8;  Cortland,  88  86;  Union,  10  81.  BostONr- 
Boeton  Scotch,  4;  —  Ht.  Andrews.  6;  Bast  Boston.  6; 
Houlton,  6;  Lawrence  German,  10;  Lonsdale,  8;  Lowell, 
6;  Providence  1st.  8;  Bozbuiy,  18  i8;  South  Byegate,  8. 
BrooHdyn  -Brookija  1st  German,  SO;  —  AinsUe  Street.  6; 

—  Arlington  Avenue,  8;  —  Bethany,  1  87;  —  Bast  WU- 
Uamstnirg  German,  8;  —  Frledenskirche,  8:  —  Greene 
Point,  10;  —  Mount  Olivet.  8;  —  Prospect  Heists,  6;  - 
Boss8trset>  88  70;  -South  8d  Strtset.  10.  B«^alo-Bar- 
falo  1st,  100;  —  Bethany,  18;  —  Bethlehem*  8  81;  —  Cal- 
vary. 88  71:  —  Bedeemer,  1;  —  Westminster,  7  80;  Bast 
Hamburgh  (sab-sch.  8),  10-  Franklinvilie,  4;  Fredonla, 
18:  Hambuiv  Lake  St.,  8;  Clean,  8;  Hherman.  81 ;  Spring- 
ville,  7  86;  Westlleld,«6  64.    Ctoyvoa-Aubum  ist,  67  tt; 

—  8d,  8  87:  —  Calvary.  1  87;  Dryden,  6;  Genoa  Sd,  1; 
Ithaca,  100  49;  Scipioville,  1.  CAemim^— Burdett,  1  60; 
Elmira  1st,  18  88;  —Franklin  Street,  8;  —  Lake  Street, 
80;  Horse  Heads,  4,  Mecklenburgh,  1;  Bock  Stream,  8. 
OolMmMo— Ancram  Lead  Mines,  8;  Greenville.  1 ;  Jewett, 
16;  Valatie.  4.  (Tene^ee- Attica,  10  88;  Batavla,  14  16; 
Byron,  6;  Perry,  80:  WarMw,  18  60.  Oemeeo— Bellona, 
8;  Naples.  8  10;  Ovid,  11  84;  Phelps,  86  01;  Borauhis.  6; 
Trumansburgh,  88  68.  Hndeon^AxoMj^  8;  Ceatreville 
South,  1 ;  Clarkstown  German.  6:  Denton.  6  16;  Florida, 
6  60:  Good  WIU.  1  06;  Greenbush.  6  08:  Haveratraw  1st, 
4;  Hempstead.  1;  Uberty,  8;  Livingston  Manor,  1;  Mil- 
ford,  6:  Montgomery,  8;  Monticello.  7;  Mount  Hope,  8; 
Palisades,  18;  Port  Jervls,  18  60;  Bamapo,  10;  BMge- 


—  Carondelet,  16  65;  —  Cliften  Heights,  8;  —  Glasgow  bury,  60  cts.;  Scotohtown,  10;  WashingtonvOle  1st.  10; 
Avenue,  6;  —  Lafayette  Park,  87;  —  west;  88  70.  White  W««t  Town,  8.  Long  Iiiaiid— Amagansett.  8|  Franklin- 
iZtoer-Harris  Chapel,  8;  Hohnes  Chapel,  5;  Hot  Springs      ville,  2;  Mattituck.  848;  Moriches,  8  48;  Soothhold,  8. 


8d-l.  "     '  "898  60 

MoifTAHA.— BosemoH— Boteman,  86  88.  Butte— Butte 
sab-sch,  6;  Hamilton,  1.  ildntono— Boseman,  1;  Lewi8- 
town,  9.  41  86 

Nebraska.- fioftiniyf— Bloomington,  1;  Hastings  Ger- 
man, 1;  Nelson,  8.  Kaamef— Berg,  1 ;  Big  Spring.  60  cts. ; 
Kearney  German,  1;  Litchfield,  1;  North  Loup.  1;  Suth 
eriand.  1.  Nebratiha  Ctty— Plattsmouth.  8  88;  York,  10. 
.yio6rara— Cleveland,  1  16;  Millerboro,  1;  Stuart,  1. 
OsioAo— Omaha  Lowe  Avenue,  8;  South  Omaha,  8. 

Nbw  Jn8KT.—^tsa5«tA— Bethlehem,  6;  Clarksville,  1; 
Clinton,  80;  Connecticut  Farms,  8;  Dunellen,  11 ;  Elizabeth 
1st  German,  8;  Lamington  (sab  sch.  14),  81  75;  Liberty 
Comer,  6  60;  Perth  Amboy  sab-sch,  6  14:  Plainfleld 
Bethel,  1:  Pluckamin  Tsab-sch,  7  28),  10  88;  Bahway  1st, 
14  80;  -  8d,  86;  Boselie,  4  44;  Weetfleld,  20;  Woodbridge, 
10.  Jereetf  CVty— Hoboken,  7;  Jersey  aty  1st,  48;  — 
daremont,  2;  —  John  Knox.  8;  —  Scotch,  6:  Paterson  let 
(sab-sch,  4  88).  8  88;  —  8d,  8;  —  Broadway  German  (sab- 
sch,  1),  8:  —  East  Side.  10;  West  Hoboken  sab-sch,  10; 
West  Milford,  8.  ifonmowtA— Allentown,  80;  Asbury 
Park  1st,  8;  Atlantic  Highlands.  1  81;  Beverly  sab-sch, 
10  96:  Bordentown,  6  50;  Buriington,  49  98;  (Calvary.  8; 
ColumbuB.8  88;  Cranbury 8d,  5;  Hightstown  (sab-scb  8  76), 
84;  JamesDurgh,  16;  Keyport,  4;  Manalapan,  8  40:  Man- 
asquan,  7  80;  Matawan,  81  60;  PerrineviUe,  96  cts. ;  Platts- 
burgh,  8;  Point  Pleasant,  8;  Bed  Bank,  15;  Shrewsbury, 
10;  Tennent,  8  18;  Tuokerton.  8;  Westminster,  8;  Whiting 
and  Shamong,  1 .  Morrie  and  Oranire— Chester.  8;  Dover, 
40  M;  —  WeLA,  8:  German  Valley.  6:  Madison.  89  98; 
Mine  HilL  8  60;  Morristown  let,  50:  Mt.  Freedom,  8; 
Orange  Isi,  160;  —  German,  8:  Orange  Valley  German,  8; 
Pleasant  Grove,  8;  South  Orange  let,  9  88;  —  Trinity,  80; 
St.  Cloud,  8;  Suooasunna,  10:  Wyoming,  1.  Newark— 
Bloomfleld  lst,8S  78 ;  Montdair  Trinity  ,6 ;  Newark  lst.81 40; 

—  1st  German,  80:  —  8dGerman.  10  98; — 8d.  6t  —  Bethany, 
6;  —  Park,  80;  —  BoseviUe  (sab-sch,  86),  88  89;  —  WickUff^ 
7  49.  New  BrunMfficib— Bound  Brook,  18;  Brookvllle  sab- 
sch.  1  15:  Dajrton.  8  60;  Frenchtown  sab-sch,  1 :  Hopewell, 
4;  E:ing8ton,  6;  KIngwood,  8;  Lawrence,  19:  New  Bruns- 
wick £i,  8:  Princeton  Sd,  86  59;  Titusville,  8;  Trenton  Ist, 
106  49;  -  8d.  104  68;  -  4th,  10  76;  Bast  Trenton  Chapel,  4. 
iVewton— Belvidere  8d  sab-sch,  10;  Branchville.  14:  Dan- 
ville. 8;  Deckertown,  9  05;  Delaware.  4;  Greenwich,  4; 
Hackettstown.  26;  La  Fayette,  8;  Marksboro.  e;  Newton, 
86;  Oxford  8d.  18  40;  Stewarisville.  16:  Wantage  Ist  1  86; 

—  8d,  8  70.  Weei  Jereey  -  Billingsport,  1 ;  Bridgeton  1st, 
60;  —  4th,  8;  —  West,  80;  Osdarviile  1st,  11  07:  Deerfleld, 
5;  Elmer.  5;  Millvllle,  5;  Plttsmve,  10;  8al«>m,  68  14; 
Swedeeboro,  4;  Vineland,  10;  Wenonah,  80;  Woodbury, 
87  60;  Woodstown,  16.  1  981  08 

Nbw  MBXioo.—.lr<sona— Florence,  4.  Bio  (Trande— 
Albuquerque  1st  (sab-sch,  5),  14  75;  Jemes,  1;  Pajarito,  8. 
*mtaJV-LaaVegasl8t,2;Baton,6;SanUFd,2.    80  75 


48;  Soothhold,  8. 
1.     N«i«scm— Fsr 


Bockaway,  10;  Glen  Cove,  8;  Glen  Wood,  8  86;  Melville,  8; 
Newtown,  100;  St.  Paul's  German,  4.  New  ForJp— New 
York  8d  German,  8;  —  18th  Street,  18;  —  14th  Street, 
17 18;  —Bethany  (sab-sch,  10),  11;  —  Calvary,  10{— French, 
6;  —  Harlem,  16;  —Mount  Tabor,  8;  —  Mount  Washtag- 
ton,  47  70;  — Spring  Street,  f|  —  Washingtoo  Heights, 
8  60:  —  Westminster  West  88d  St.,  9  68.  iVto^oro- 
Albion,  8;  HoUey,  60  cts.;  Lockport  1st,  88  57;  —  8d 
Ward,  1;  North  Tonawanda  North,  10;  Wrighra  Comers, 
65  cU;  North  Biver-^AmeoiB  South  18  47;  Cornwall  on 
Hudson,  8  98;  Uughsonville,  870;  Maiden,  165;  kfattea- 
wan.  10  68;  Newburgh  1st.  17  90:  —  Calvary.  1.  Otsei^^- 
Delhi  ist.,  66  88:  -  Sd.  86;  Hamden,  1.  itod^ster— Avon 
Central  8;  Brighton,  18;  Caledonia,  8;  DansviUe,  10:  Gen- 
esee Village,  aO;  Groveland,  878;  Honeoye  FaUs,  8; 
Nunda,  10;  Ogden  Centre,  1 15;  Pittsford,  1060;  Bocfaee- 
ter  1st,  100;  —  Brick,  85;  —  Emmanuel.  88  cts. ;  —  Memor^ 
Ul,  4;  —  North  T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  16  60;  Springwater.  8; 
Wheatland,  1.  St.  Latorence— Oswegatcfaie  1st,  IS:  Wa- 
tertown  1st,  111.  5teu5ei»— Arkport,  81  cts.;  Bath,  88; 
Canisteo.  18;  Coming,  8  68;  Hammondsport,  8;  Homells- 
viUel8t,9l8;  Howsrd.  4;  Jasper,  8  17;  Prattsbumh,  8. 
;9tfracuM— Baldwinsville,  8;  Fulton,  10;  Oswego  Grace, 
80  86;  Pompey,  8;  Syracuse  Memorial,  7  87.  Troif— 
Brunswick,  4  54:  Cambridge.  4  88;  C!hester,  1  87:  Green 
Island,  7;  Hebron,  1:  Lansingburgh  1st,  8888;  Maha.  8; 
Melrose,  8;  Middle  Granville.  8;  Pttt8town,2;  Schagfatl- 
ooke,  6;  waterford.  7  80.  CTtieo— Cochran  Memorial,  80; 
Kirkland.  8;  Mt.  Vemon,  4;  Norwich  Comers.  8;  On^da, 
2670;  Sauquoit,7  60:  Turin,  8  68;  Utica  1st,  6008.  WeH- 
c^Mter— Cfroton  Falls,  8;  Greensburgh,  87 17;  Katonah.  5; 
Mahopac  Falls,  6  80;  New  BochelTe  1st.  4406;  Pound- 
ridge,  8;  Bye,  88  28;  Sing  Sing,  47  78;  South  Bast.  4: 
Scarborough,  6.  8318  08 

NoBTH  Dakota.— PmnMna— Cavalier,  8  16;  Drayton,  1 ; 
Mekinok.6  86;Milton,l.  10  40 

Ohio.— .iltAeiM-Bashan,  1 ;  Bristol,  8:  Chester.  8;  Logan, 
14;  McConnel1f«viIle,  8;  Marietta,  4th  St ,  10;  New  Mata- 
moras,,  6.  fieUe/ontaina— Belief ontaine  1st,  8  08;  Hunts- 
viUe.  1;  Bushsylvania,  8;  West  Uber^.  8  80;  ZanesfleMl, 
1.  C%inicotAe-Belfast,4:BcMrota,l;BournevlUe,4;Ghil- 
licotbe  1st,  10;  Greenfield  1st  Men*s  Benef.  Sode^,  18  70: 
Marshall.  180;  New  Market,  2;  White  Oak,  4.  CtnekmaH 
-Batavia.  8  66;  (^dnnati  8d,  866  28;  —  8d.  7;  —  8th.  11; 

—  North.  16  55;  —  Pilgrim  H.  and  F.  Missionary  Sodetr, 
4;  —  Poplar  Street,  6  40;  —  Westmhister,  86;  OtMef  HIU, 
8;  Hartwell,  4;  Loveland,  10  80;  Ludlow  Grove  8;  Madi- 
sonville,  8:  Morrow,  4;  Norwood,  10  66;  Beading  and 
Lackland,  6;  Westwood  German,  8i  WHliamsburgfa  sab- 
sch,  8.    Cletielaiuf— Akron  Central.  8 ;  CJIeveland  1^  50  01; 

—  8d,  88;  —  Beckwith,  5  66:  —  Bethany,  6  86;  -  CalvaiT, 
46; -Madison Ave.  (sab-ech  8 89).  8  fll;  - Mfles Park, 8; 

—  South,  8  88;  —  Wilson  Avenue,  8  80;  —  Woodland  Ave^, 
87  94;  imton  sab^oh,  1;  New  I^yme,  8;  North  Hpringtleld, 


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1;  Pftrma,  i;  Solon,  10.  Colum^tw— Clrcleville,  10;  Qreen- 
field,  1;  WestervUto,  5.  Dayion—BeUe  Brook,  8;  Dayton 
4th,  6;  -  8d  Street.  ISO;  -  Riverdale,  48  cts;  -  Wayne 
Avenue,  12;  Eaton,  0;  Franklin,  4:  Hamilton,  7:  Riley,  9; 
Somerrllle,  1;  Springfield  3d,  6  76 ;  Washington,  2.  Huron 
^Jhicago,  1;  Clyde,  8  78;  Elmore,  2;  Fremont,  14:  Genoa, 
1;  Huron.  4  25;  Monroeville,  1  14:  Norwalk,  15;  Ciena,  2. 
Lima— DelphoB,  4;  Lima  Ist.  15;  St.  Mary's,  10:  Van  Wert, 
18  75.  ifa^oning— Alliance  let,  7  84;  Canfield,  5;  Cham- 
pion,  2;  Clarkson,  1;  East  Palestine,  4;  Hubbard.  8;  Lee- 
tonia.  8  80;  Mineral  Ridge,  1;  New  Lisbon,  7;  NUes.  8; 
North  Benton,  8;  Salem.  0;  Warren,  6:  Touogstown.  48  M. 
iforion— Marion,  6;  Milford  Centre,  2.  Ifautnse— Delta, 
8;  Eagle  Creek,  1:  Grand  Rapids,  2;  Holgate,  1;  Mont- 
pelier,  2;  Toledo  8d,  4  95;  —  1st  German,  1;  West  Unity, 
5.  Por<«mouf/i— Georgetown,  5;  Portsmouth  1st.  81  80; 
—  1st  German,  11;  RusselUiUe,  2.  St.  Clairwille— Barnes- 
▼ille,  7;  Bethel,  2;  Cadiz,  20  70;  Cambridge,  10;  Concord, 
14;  Kirkwood,  7  84;  Lore  City.  1  50;  ^whatan,  2  10; 
Seneca ville,  1 ;  St.  Clairaville.  15;  West  Brooklyn,  8.  Steu- 
ben vaU«— Amsterdam  (sab-sch,  5),  16;  Bethel,  2;  Bethesda, 
8;  Bethlehem,  4;  Bloomfield,  8;  Buchanan  Chapel,  10: 
Cross  Creek,  4;  Dell  Roy,  4;  Dennison,  10;  East  Liverpool 
1st,  61;  Irondale,  2;  Kllgore,  4;  LeesviUe,  2;  Minerva.  6; 
New  Hagerstown,  2  58:  New  Philadelphia  sab  sch,  8;  Oak 
Ridge,  8;  Ridge.  6;  SalinevUle,  4;  Scio,  4;  SteubenTiile  8d, 
4;  Toronto,  9;  Two  Ridges,  10  60;  Urichsville.  8;  Waynes- 
burgh,  8:  West  Lafayette,  1  OS.  TToocrer— Dalton,  2  92; 
Fredericksburgh.  12;  Hopewell,  6;  Loudonville,  2;  Orange 
and  Bethel,  8:  Perrysville,  1  70;  Plymouth  Y.  P.  S  C.  E., 
2;  Wooster  Westminitter,  16  91.  Zane«tn7{« -Frederick- 
town,  5;  Jersey,  2  60;  Keene,  4;  Mt.  Vernon,  4  40;  Newark 
2d,  49  20;  New  Lexington,  1  83;  Pataskala,  4  67:  RosevUle, 
2  29;  Unity,  8  15;  West  Carlisle,  8;  ZanesviUe  Putnam. 
9  66.  1.594  50 

Orkoon.— JZicM^  Orei^OH— Baker  City,  1 ;  Monkland,  2  06; 
Moro.  1  90;  Union,  8.  Porttond— Port'and  8d,  5;  —  Cal- 
vary, 17  65;  —  Mizpah,  2;  Springwater,  1 ;  Tualitin  Plains, 
2.  eiouthem  Oregon— QranVs  Pass,  6;  Medford.  1.  Wil- 
lamette—Albany  ^  5;  Brownsville,  2  57;  DaUas,  8;  McCoy, 
1;  Spring  Valley,  1.  54  17 

PKimsTLVANiA  —Jllegheny—A\\eg;heDj  Bethel.  8;  — 
Central,  65  41;  —  North,  64  26;  —  Providence,  25;  — 
Westminster.  5;  Avalon,  10;  Bull  Creek,  5;  Cross  Roads, 
4;  Glenfleld,  8;  Hoboken,  1  80;  Tarentum,  10  59  Blairs- 
vill«— Conemaugh,  8;  Oongruity,  6|  Derrv,  10  78;  Ebens- 
burgh.  6:  Irwin,  8;  Johnstown.  26  43:  Kerr,  2;  Murrys- 
ville,  8  60;  New  Alexandria,  82  25;  Pleasant  Grove,  8; 
Salem,  20;  Wilmerdlng.  2  50.  fu^fer— Centreville,  5; 
Concord,  8  53;  Fairview,  2;  Grove  City.  17  02;  Middlesex, 
18;  North  Butler,  3;  Petrolia.  1;  Scrub  Grass,  2.  Carliile 
—Buffalo,  1;  Burnt  Cabins*  2;  Centre,  1;  FavetteviUe.  2; 
Green  Castle,  7;  Harrisburgh  Elder  Street,  2;  —  Market 
Square,  11  21;  Lower  Marsh  Creek,  4  70;  Lower  Path 
Valley,  10;  MIddletown,  4;  Shermaosdale.  1;  Steelton,  4; 
St.  Thomas,  2;  Waynesboro,  4  48.  Chester^Aahmun,  20; 
Bethany,  5;  Calvary,  6;  Chester  let.  10;  —  8d,  32  45;  Doe 
Run,  9  50;  Moores,  8;  New  London,  20;  Phcenixville,  4; 
West  Chester  2d,  2;  —  Westminster,  5.  Ctorion— Big  Run, 
1;  Brook  ville,  11  60:  Cool  Spring,  1;  Emienton,  6:  John- 
sonburg,  84  cts.;  Leatherwood,  9  50:  Licking,  2;  New 
Bethlehem,  9;  Oak  Grove.  2;  Pisgah,  9;  Rathmel,  1; 
Richland,  1  40;  Siigo,  2;  Wilcox,  41  cts.  JSHe— Concord, 
1  91;  Erie  1st.  11  72; —Central  20;  Evansburgh,  8;  Faii^ 
field,  8;  Fredonla.  8;  Greenville,  28;  Harmonsburg,  2; 
Mercer  1st,  15;  —  2d,  6;  Mount  Pleasant,  2  08;  New  Leba- 
non. 1;  OU  City  1st.  2  70;  Pleasantville.  6;  Salem.  1; 
Union,  1  70;  Utica,  8;  Venango,  1;  Westminster,  2  50. 
Hun^in^on— Altoona  2d,  18;  —  8d.  11;  Birminflrham, 
18  77;  cTearteld,  29  85;  Everett,  1;  Fruit  HiU,  5;  Houtz- 


1;  Ely8burgh,8;  Grove,  25;  Linden,  1;  Lycoming,  5;  I>- 
coniing  Centre,  8;  Montgomery,  6;  Montourevllie,  4;  Mt. 
Carmei,  12  26;  Orangeville,  1;  Renovo  1st,  10;  Rush  Creek,  8; 
Shiloh,  2;  Warrior  Run.  7  68;  WUliamsport  1st.  10;  —  2d, 
2  42;  —  Bethany,  1.  Parkeraburgh—FalrmonnU  4;  Grafton, 
5;  Morgantown,  8;  Parkersburgh,  1st  7  45;  Ravenswood,  2; 
Sugar  Grove,  1 ;  Terra  Alta,  6.  P^OadeZpAia-Philadel- 
phia  Ist,  879  28;  —  8d,  88  17;  —  4th,  18  66;  —  Arch  Street, 
189  56;  —  Carmei  German,  8;  —  Central,  86  82;  —  Cohock- 


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SoiTTH  Dakota.— ^6erd««n—Britton.  6;  Groton,  8  79; 
Leola,  1;  Pembrook,  1  50.  Black  HUla-mW  City,  2; 
Rapid  City,  8.  Central  Dakota^Bitchcock  Y.  P.  S.C.E., 
8;  Huron,  10  16;  Pierre,  5;  St.  Lawrence,  8;  White*  2. 
Dalcoto— Poplar  Creek,  2  68.  Southern  Dakota— CaniB- 
tota,  1;  Kimball  1;  Scotland,  60  cts.;  Turner  Co.  1st 
German,  9;  White  Lake,  2.  54  58 

TEifNXSSXB  — Birmtno/iam—Thomas  1st,  1.  HoUton— 
CollegeHill,2:  Oakland  Heights,  8;  Olivet.  1;  Salem,  8; 
St.  Marks,  2.  Atno«ton— Harriman  Ladies'  Miss  Soc.,  2. 
CTnion-Forest  Hill,  1;  Knoxville  4th,  5  05;  Madison- 
vilie.46cts.;  Mt.  Zion,  2;  New  Prospect,  2  15;  South 
KnoxviUe,  1.  25  66 

Texas.— ^iM^in— El  Paso,  5 ;  Fort  Davis,  5;  Galveston  St. 
Paul's  Gtorman.  2.  North  Tearoa— Adora,  8  50:  Denison,  10. 
Trinity— DaUas  2d,  9  12;  —  ExposiUon  Park,  8;  Terrell, 

Utah.— Bowe— Bethany,  8;  Caldwell  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
86  cts.),  158.  ITendoli-Franklin,  1;  Paris,  8.  Utah— 
American  Fork,  1;  Ephraim,  4;  Haines,  4;  Manti,  7; 
Mendon,  1;  Mount  Pleasant,  6;  Smlthfield  Central,  2. 

67  88 

Washington.— OZympia—OIympia,  2;  South  Bend,  60 
cts.  Paget  Sound— EUensburgh.  4  40;  Port  Town  send, 
4.  Bpofcane— Cortland,  1;  Grand  Coulee,  1;  Rathdrum, 
8;  Waterville.  1.  16  90 

Wisconsin.— C^(ppetca—Eau  Claire,  1st,  6:  Hudson,  7. 
La  OroMe— Bangor,  2;  New  Amsterdam,  4;  Salem  West, 
8.  If ad<«on— Cambria.  2  25:  Marion  German,  5;  Prairie  du 
Sac  sab-sch,  1  86.  Milwaukee—CeAar  Grove,  16;  Manito- 
wock  1st,  8  60;  Milwaukee  German,  8;  —  Holland,  6;  — 
Immanuel.  18  80;  —  Perseverance,  10;  Westminster,  2  82; 
Richfield,  8;  Waukesha,  9  45;  West  Granville,  2.  TTtnne- 
^o— Depere,  6;  Fond  du  Lac,  5;  Fort  Howard,  1  70; 
Omro,  5:  Oshkosh.  5  89;  Stevens  Point  (sab-sch,  5),  15  84; 
West  MerriU,  6.  146  70 

Receipts  from  Churohes  from  Maroh  Ist  to 

April  16th $  18,888  26 

Receipts  from  Sabbath-schools  from  March  1st 

to  AprillOth 264  06 

Total $  14,087  84 

LBGACIB8. 

Estate  of  John  8.  Kergon.  N.  Y.,  8,500;  Estate 
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MI80BLLAMK0U8. 

Mrs.  B.  p.  Tbompson.  Phila.,  10;  Miss  S.  M. 
FauDoe.  Wabash.  lod..  1;  "M.  L  R.."  1:  ''A 
Friend,''  8;  Mrs.  Caleb  8.  Green.  Trenton,  N. 
J.,  100;  Mr.  E.  F.  Partridge,  20:  Mies  A.M. 
Cooper,  Jefferson,  N.  T.,  40 ;  *'One  who  was 
helped,''  8;  Rer.  F.  E.  Armstrong,  8;  W.  Q. 
Smith,  1  ;  W.  L.  Austin,  1 ;  M.  M.,  86;  a 
Peima.8;  »*H.  T.  F.,"  6;  H.  Phila.,  6;  "A. 
Friend,"  07  cts.;  Rev.  W.  H.  Edwards  and 
wife,  1 ;  Cleveland,  O..  6;  Rev.  B.  E.  Grub  and 
wife.  1:  Mrs.  Joseph  Piatt,  10;  Geo.  8.  Will, 
8;  Friends,  MarkleCon,  Pa ,  8;  John  Mains,  8; 


68  75 


G.  L.  K.,  7  85;  Mn.  A.  M.  McMUlen.  80;  Miss 
R.  T.  Williams,  N.  T.,  40:  Ber.  T.  J.  SJkeplMsrd. 
D.  D.,  10;  C.  Penna,  3;  Rev.  W.  L.  Tarbet  and 
wife,  80 cts.;  Cash,  5;  Mr.  Pedro  Padilla,  1  85; 
Ca8h,884  88. 804  79 

XNOOm  ▲COOUHT. 

G8  80;  18;  619  07;  146  86;  90;  169;  161  80;  90 l^UO  78 

Total  receipts  from  March  1st  to  April  16th, 

1894 $  19.800  75 

Total  reoeipU  from  April  80th,  1888 128,888  08 

Jaoob  Wilson,  Treaturer, 

1884  Chestnut  St.,  Phila. 


KBOBIPTS  FOB  FRBEDIIKM,  MABOB,  ISM. 


ATLAimo.—AUantie—Aimwe\L9\  Berean  (C.  B,  1  89), 
sab-sch,  8  88),  86  16;  Bethel,  8;  Hebron,  8;  Mount  Pleas- 
ant, 1  60;  OliTet,  1  60;  Summenrille,  1  80;  Wallinfl[ford, 
8;  Zion,  8  70;  —  Charleston,  6.  Ecut  Florida— Qnen 
Core  Springs,  6:  Jacksonville  8d,  8;  Starke,  8.  Fair/Uld 
— Blaoksburgh  8d,  1  60:  Camden  Sd,  1 10;  Fairfield  Pres., 
6  98;  Hermon,  9  60;  Hopewell,  6  AO;  Mizpah,  1  80;  Mt. 
Tabor,  8:  New  Haven  School,  1  80;  Olivet,  1.  £>iox— Ezra, 
4;  New  Hope,  8:  St.  Paul,  1.  ifcC/eUand— Mattoon  (sab- 
sch,  1),  4.    South  FloridaSoTTeBio,  8  55;  TitusviUe,  1. 

99  94 

BiLTiMORa.—BaUimore— Baltimore  Ist,  86:  —  8d.  88  64; 

—  Abbott  Memorial,  1;  —Aisquith  Street,  8;  —  Brown 
Memorial,  166  81;  —  Central,  16  86;  —  Grace,  8;  —  La 
Fayette  Square.  10:  —  Light  Street,  8  60;  —  Madison 
Street,  8;  —  Ridgely  Street,  8;  —  Waverly,  6;  —  Went- 
minster,  6  88;  Cumberland.  10;  Govanstown  (sab-sch, 
4  17),  9  17;  Hagerstown,  6;  New  Windsor,  75 cts.;  Relay, 
1;  Sparrows  Point,  1 ;  The  Grove.  6;  Zion,  9.  New  CcutU 
— Bridgeville.  8;  Christiana.  1 :  Delaware  City,  4  89;  For- 
est, 8  90;  Red  Clay  Creek.  5;  Smyrna,  8;  West  Notting- 
ham, 18;  White  Clay  Creek,  7;  Wicomico,  7  88;  Wilming- 
ton GUbert,  1;  —  Olivet.  2.  Waahington  City -Clitton, 
1;  Darnestown,  8;  (Georgetown  West  Street.  10:  Harmon, 
1;  HyattaviUe,6;  Neelsville.  4;  Washington  15th  Street. 
85;  —  New  York  Avenue,  6  25;  -  North,  8.  400  80 

CALiroRNiA.—Bent'cia— Areata,  6;  Big  Valley,  1;  Val- 
lejo  1st,  10.  Lo8  i4n9e<««— Alhambra,  8;  Azusa  Spanish. 
1;  C!arpenteria  1st,  7  44;  Los  Angeles  Grand  View,  6  10; 

—  Spanish,  3;  Orange,  6;  Palms,  8;  Pasadena  CJalvary,  6; 
Ban  Gabriel  Spanish,  1;  Santa  Barbara  1st,  81;  Tustin 
1st,  8.  OaJUand-Centrevilie,  8;  DanviUe.  8;  Oakland  1st 
(Boys'  Brigade.  9  80).  67  96:  —  Brooklyn.  10:  Pleasanton, 
8.  Sacramento— Otico,  R;  Colusa,  8;  RoeeviUe,  1.  San 
Francitco-Stai  Francisco  Ist  sab-sch,  86;  —  Trinity, 
8  40;  —  Westminfiter,  18  70.  San  Jos^-Qilroy,  8;  Hoi- 
lister.  5:  Han  Jos6  1st,  48:  —  8d.  6;  SanU  Crux,  4  60; 
Templeton  1st.  9.  ^^ocUon— Grayson,  8;  Madera.  8: 
Merced,  7;  Sonora.  8;  Tracy.  9.  296  09 

Catawba.— Cape  FWir— Allen's  (Chapel,  45  cts. ;  Friend- 
ship, 1;  Mt.  OUve.  sects.:  Mt.  Pleasant.  18  60;  Hhiloh,  4; 
St.  Paul,  8  50.  Catoi06a -Bethlehem.  1;  Charlotte.  8; 
Davidson,  1  90;  Lloyd.  7  40;  McCiintock,  1;  Westminster 
(sab-sch.  6),  10.  Southern  rirptnm— Albright.  8;  Allen 
Memorial,  6:  Bethesda.  7;  Big  Oak  sab-sch.  1;  Christ,  10; 
Danville  Holbrook  Street,  4;  Grace  Chapel,  1;  Mt.  Cal- 
vary. 3;  Mt.  Hermon,  1;  Nottoway  sabsch,  8:  Oak 
(irove,  1:  Ogdea  Chapel,  84  cts.i  Richmond  1st,  8;  Russel 
Grove  ((J.  E  .  1  60),  6.  FodJb'n— Aberdeen.  1 ;  Al'en's 
Temple,  1  60;  Bowers  Chapel,  1  86;  Cool  Spring,  1 ;  Dur- 
ham, 1;  Hannah,  1;  Lexington,  4;  Mebane,  8:  Moores- 
ville  8d,  3;  Rockingham  8d,  1;  Salisbury,  608;  St.  James. 
l;8t.Paul,l.  115  12 

Colorado.— PotiMer—Berthoud,  7:  Fort  Morgan.  3; 
Laramie,  6;  Longmont  Central.  9  80.  Denver— Black 
Hawk,  8;  Central  City,  4  50*  Denver  Central,  66  88;  — 
North  (sab-sch,  2),  17;  —  South  Broadway.  8;  Idaho 
Springs,  8.  Ounnt«on— Balida.  4.  Piie6to— Antonito.  1; 
C»non  CJity  1st.  8;  Cinicero.  2;  Cucharas  Mexican,  1; 
Durango,  8  10;  Huerfano  Canon,  1 :  La  Junta,  1 ;  I^  Luz, 
1;  Pueblo  Fountain,  1  46:  Quinta.  1;  Rocky  Ford,  8  50: 
San  Rafael  Mexican,  1 :  Trinidad  1st  sab-sch.  6.       141  07 

iLLiNois.—^iton— Alton  1st  (sab-sch,  8  85).  10;  Blair, 
88  cts.;  East  St.  Louis,  4;  Ebenezer,  8;  Hillsboro.  6. 
Bloomington— Elm  Grove,  1;  Gibson  (Jity  1st,  16  48:  Hey- 
worth,  16;  Mansfield,  1:  Normal  6  45:  Onarga.  10;  Philo, 
19.  Cairo— Centralia  (sab-sch,  5),  16;  Du  Quoin  Ist,  6; 
Harrisburg  1st,  1;  Metropolis.  8  58;  Mount  C^rmel,  4; 
Saline  Mines,  2;  Sumner,  1;  Union,  1.  (7Aic(Xfio— Brook- 
line.  8  40:  Chicago  1st,  80  73;  —  1st  German.  1;  —  8d, 
58  41;  —  8d  sab-sch,  80  19;  —  4th.  45;  —  9tb.  2;  —  41st 
Street,  48  50;  —  Belden  Avenue,  10;  —  Central  Park,  8;  — 


nezer,  8;  Lewisville,  8.  848  59 

Indian  Tbrritobt.— C%octoic  Nation— Vet  Mias  Lucy 
Howard.  86  80:  per  Miss  Bertha  Ahrens,  46.  Mu9cogee 
—Muscogee  Oklahoma,  10.  Oifekt^mo— Edmond,  4; 
Oklahoma  City,  6;  Purcell,6.    S^^uoyo^-Park  HiU.  5. 

101  80 
Iowa.— Cedar  i2apul« -Blairstown.  17;  Cedar  Rapids  9d 
(sab-sch,  85).  60  78;  Clinton  1st,  68  81 ;  Mechanicaville,  7; 
Mt.  Vernon,  18:  Onslow,  1  80:  Scotch  Grove.  7.  Coming— 
Creston  1st,  10;  Emerson,  1  86;  Lenox,  9;  Malvern.  5; 
Prairie  Chapel.  (C.  B.,  58  cts.),  8  58.  CouncU  Bluffs— 
Audubon  1st,  10;  Carson,  8;  Greenfield,  8;  Qriswoldlst, 
8  5S:  Guthrie  Centre,  4;  Menlo.  8;  Missouri  Valley,  6; 
Hhelby,  8  De*  ifoinM- Allerton,  6;  OentreviUe  let,  4; 
Dallas  Centre.  6:  Des  Moines  6th.  8;  —  CJentral.  18  60; 
—  Clifton  Heights,  6:  —  East,  11  86;  Garden  Grove,  4  10; 
Lineville.  1  15;  Milo  sab-sch,  4;  Newton,  1;  08kaloo6a,8; 
Plymouth,  6:  Winterset.  87  80.  Du^uoim— Centretown 
German,  1:  Dubuque  8d.  10;  Dyersvllle,  i;  Independence 
1st,  87;  —  German.  1 ;  Sherrills*  Mound  German,  8.  Fort 
Dodge—Coon  Rapids  Ist,  5  60;  Fonda,  8:  Fort  Dodge 
1st,  24  06  ;  Rdfe  Sd  sab-sch,  5.  /owa— Bonaparte,  9; 
Buriington  1st,  16  88;  Fairfield  1st.  81  80;  Keokuk  West- 
minster, 9  16:  —  9d.  ~  s 
8;  Morning  Sun  1st.  U  >, 
1;  f>haron,  1;  St.  Pet  '; 
Winfleld,  6.  Iowa  Ci  », 
1;  Davenport  8d,  8:  u 
8;  Montezuma  1st.  4  i  e, 
8;  Summit.  8  86;  Wee  r 
Ct^y— Battle  Creek.  i, 
8  85;  Odebolt,  3;  Sac  i- 
ship.  8;  Vail.  9.  Wc  ^ 
11:  Grundy  Centre  (i  l 
5:  Morrison.  1;  Rock  <  1; 
West  Friesland,  5.  vw  « 
Kansas— JSmpoWa— Arkansas  City,  6;  Belle  Plalne, 
4  50;  BurUngton,  8  81;  aear  Water,  61  cts. ;  Marion, 


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11  70;  Osaffe  City  let,  8  88;  Feotone,  8;  WichtU  1st, 
8  If;  -  Oak  Stroet,  8;  —  West  BideTl  87.  Highlatid- 
OorniDg,  1;  Horton  C.  B.,  1;  ManrsviUe,  8|  VermiUon, 
1.  Lamed— Great  Bend,  1;  Haistead*  1;  Lyons.  8; 
McPheraon,  7  84;  Sterling  1st.  1.  iVeoMo-Carlyle,  1  10; 
Qirard  O.  E.,  8  60:  Mound  VaUey,  1;  Osawatomie  1st, 
1.  Soiomon— Cawker  City,  8;  Hope,  8;  Lincoln,  6  66; 
SaltTille,  1.  7Vn>eJI;a— Junction  City  1st,  6;  Olathe,  8  50 ; 
Topeka  8d,  8;  Yinland,  8  60  80  86 

KKNTUCKY.—£&0neser— Ashland,  88  85;  Ebenezer,  8; 
Lexington  2d  (8ab-8ch.8  85).  196  85;  HaysrilletO;  Mount 
Sterling  1  St,  1;  Sharpsburg  aabsch,  60  cts.;  valley.  1. 
LouOvirie-Craig^s  OhapeL  6  70;  Plum  Creek,  1;  Princs- 
ton  Ist,  8;  ShelbyviUe  1st,  8  40.  3Van«tfivan<a— Colum- 
bia. 8;  DauTille  8d.  80.  888  10 

MicBiOAii.—/>etrott— Brighton,  8;  Detroit  Central,  15; 
—  Fort  Street.  106  88;  —  Memorial  (sab-sch.  88),  48;  — 
Westminster,  85;  Howell  Ist,  6:  Mount  Clemens,  5; 
NorthTille,  10:  Wyandotte.  4.  Flint— Akron  let,  8  75; 
Columbia.  4:  Denmark,  1;  Fenton.  4;  Marlette  8d,  8; 
Sand  Beach  (sab-sch,  6  cts .),  (C.  E..  11),  (O.  M.  Soc, 
5  cts.),  60  cts. ;  Yassar  1st.  6  60.  Grand  £ap<d«— Grand 
HaTenlst.  A:   Muir.  1;   Hpring^  Lake,  8.    Kalanuuoo— 


Allegan.  5;  Kalamazoo  Ist,  85;  PlainweU,  5.  Lake  Super- 
ior— E8canabalst,8  71;  Ford  River  Mission,  5  90;  fron 
Mountain,  8;  Iron  River,  50  ds.;  Ishpeming,  5;  Manis- 
tique  Redeemer,  8;  Red  Jacket  1st,  6.  Lon«<n(^Con- 
oord,  2  54;  Jackson  1st,  5;  Lansing  1st  C.  E..  8;  —  Frank- 
lin Street.  5  05;  Mason,  25;  Oneida,  1  06;  Tekonsha  W. 
Soc,  5.  ifonroe— Adrian  1st,  41:  Cold  water.  10  08;  Erie, 
1;  Hillsdale,  9  40;  Jonesrille,  8  60.  Pistocfcey-Alanson, 
1:  Conway,  1.  Aiytnato— Alcona,  5;  Black  RlTer,  6;  Cal- 
edonia 7.  464  50 

MiNNKsoTA.—  DvZtt^^— Duluth  8d  sab-sch.  8.  Manhato 
—Blue  Earth  City.  5  85;  Tracy.  5;  Wells.  86;  Winnebago 
aty  1st,  80.  ifinneapo/i*— Minneapolis  1st.  18  87;  — 
Andrew,  68  77;  —  House  of  Faith,  8;  —  Shiloh,  5;  Stewart 
Memorial  sab-sch,  4.  Red  Biver^MtAne  8:  Moorhead.  8. 
8t.  C/ottd— Rheiderland  German,  1;  8t.  Cloud.  4  04.  St, 
Ptaiul— NoHh  St.  Paul,  8  40:  Red  Wing  1st.  18  82:  Rush 
City,  1:  St.  Paul  Ariington  Hills,  1;  —  Central,  18  88;  — 
Dano- Norwegian,  1  78 :  —  East  sabsch.  1;  —  House  of 
Hope  (sab-8ch,  10).  108  4ft.  TTtVuma— Henry  town,  1  68; 
Winona  1st  (C.  E.,  8  18).  88  18;  —  German  sab-sch,  8. 

885  67 

MisBOUBi.— JSTafMowOJ^y.- Brownington,  1;  Clinton  Ist, 

8  60;  Jefferson  City,  1;  Kansas  City  1st,  88  75;  —  8d, 
96  64:  —6th,  18  50;  -  Hill  Memorial,  1;  —  Linwood,  8; 
Sedalia  Broadway,  80;  Warrensburg.  10  15.  Otarh— 
Ash  Grove.  6;  Carthage  Ist,  9:  —  Westminster,  9  70; 
Irwin,  1;  Preston.  1;  Salem,  1;  Springfield,  8d.  8  86;  — 
Calvary,  5.  PlaJmyro— Bethel,  1;  Birdseye  Bidge.  8  48; 
Brookdeld  1st.  I:  Edina,  5:  Hannibal.  85;  Knox  City,  8; 
Louisiana,  1;  Mew  Providence.  8:  Pleasant  Prairie,  1. 
Plo/te— Cameron,  6;  Carrollton,  8;  Gallatin,  8:  Hamil- 
ton, 8  80;  Mound  City,  8;  New  Point,  1;  Parkville  W.  M. 
Soc  6  04.    St.  Loui«— Cuba,  8:  De  Soto,  S;  Kirkwood, 

9  60;  Rolla,  8;St.Louislst,806i:  —  8d,  100;  — Ist  German, 
6  —  Clifton  Heights,  8;  —  Glasgow  Avenue,  6;  —  Lafa- 
yette Park.  50;  Zion  German,  5.  White  iNver— Camden 
8d,  1;  Harris  Chapel,  6;  Holmes  Chapel,  18;  Hopewell, 
1  85.  604  78 

Montana.— ^M^te-Butte  1st  sab-sch,  5.  Helena— 
HamUton.  1.  6  00 

NKBRA8KA.—HcMfin9«— Beaver  City  1st,  8:  Blooming- 
ton,  1;  Edgar,  4  88;  Oak  Creek,  8;  Stamford,  1:  Wilson- 
ville,  8.  Aeam«y— Big  Spring,  60  cts.;  Central  City.  8< 
Kearney  German,  1 ;  Lexington,  6  81 :  Litchfield,  1;  Ord 
1st.  8;  Scotia,  1;  St.  Edwards,  1;  Sutherland  1.  Ne- 
braska City— Adams,  4;  Hebron,  6  87;  Hubbell  (sab-sch, 
1),4;  Nebraska  City  1st,  1:  Plattsmouth  1st,  8;  —  Ger- 
man, 8;  Seward,  8;  Table  Rock,  8.  iViiofrrara— Cleve- 
land, 1  16;  Madison,  8;  Millerboro,  1;  Pender,  5  80;  Stu- 
art, 1.    OnuiAo— Bellevue  sab  rch.  5;  Blair.  8  51;  Omaha 


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▲rgrle,  S;  Ohettortowii,  1  87;  Oohoes  1ft,  81  85;  MelroM, 
9;  MidcUe  Gra&yUle,  S;  PitUtown,  8;  Sandy  Hill,  5: 
Sohaghticoke,  4;  Troy  lit,  86;  —  tth,  80;  —  Oakwood 
Avenue,  10 ;  Waterford  let,  7  90.  Utica—OochTma  Me- 
morial, 10 ;  KIrkland.  5 :  Utile  FaUs,  10;  Lowville,  4  69; 
I^ons  Falls,  9;  Mt.  Vernon,  4;  Utica  lot,  07  9C.  WeH- 
ehetter—Oroton  Falls,  8;  Qreenbunrb,  48  91;  Mt.  Kisoo, 
5;  Mt.  Vernon  1st  salHich,  88  96;  New  Rochelle,  49  10; 
PeeksklU  Ist  aab-sch,  16  06;  Poundridge,  8;  Sinff  Sing, 
47  79;  South  East.  4;  Stamford  1st,  81 07;  ThompaonTille, 
46  60;  Tonkers  1st  aab-sch,  16  06;  —  Dayspring,  6. 

6,010  84 

North  Dakota.— Pembina— Bay  Centre,  6;  Emerado 
Caab-soh,  1  85).  (Jr.  C.  E.,  1).  0  85;  MUton,  1  16  86 

ORio.—Athent^Beverlj,  1;  Chester,  8;  QallipoUs,  8; 
liarietta  Fourth  Street.  9;  New  MaUmoras,  8.  Belle- 
/ontaine-BeUefontaine  Ist,  9  OS;  HuntsriUe.  9.  ChUli- 
cotA«— Bainbridge,  4  80;  BoumeTille,  8;  ChilUcothe  1st, 
15;  Greenfield  Ist  (Men's  Hociety  of  8.  B.,  18  45),  18  75; 
Hamden,  6  67;  Hillsboro,  88  76;  MarshaU,  9;  New  Market, 
1  95;  White  Oak,  9;  WUkesville  sab-sch.  8  08.  Cincinnati 
—Bethel  aab-sch,  1  99;  Cincinnati  1st,  16;  —  8d^:  —  6th, 
16;  —  CalTary,  2;  —  Westminster,  40;  College  Hill.  8  07; 
Lockland.  5;  Ludlow  Qrore,  8;  Morrow,  i:  Weetwood 
German.  6.  Cleveland^Akron  Central.  9;  Clereiand  1st, 
988  17;  —  9d.  109  76;  —  Beckwith,  6  65;  —  Mohawk.  6;  — 
Stone  1st  aab-sch.  96  68;  —  South.  9  08;  —  Wilson  Avenue. 

8  80;  -  Woodland  Avenue,  86  76:  East  Cleveland  1st,  9  69; 
Guilford,  10  75;  Northfleld,  8;  North  Springfield,  1  70; 
Parma.  4;  Solon.  10;  South  New  L«yme,  6.  Oolumbui— 
Bethel,  1;  Bremen,  9;  Columbus  Ist,  15:  Rush  Creek,  4. 
Dayion^BeUe  Brook.  1 ;  Dayton  4th  per  *'H.  S.  Williams 
EsUte,''  5;  —  8d  Street,  898:  —  Rlverdale,  48  cts.;  — 
Warne  Avenue,  16;  Eaton.  4;  Middletown  1st,  46:  Monroe, 

9  96;  New  Carlisle  C.  E  ,  10;  Osbem,  1;  Riley,  1;  Somer- 
vilie,  1;  Springfield  9d,  58  72;  —  8d.  14  80;  Washington.  1. 
Huron -Chicago,  4;  Clyde.  9  78;  Elmore  9;   Fremont, 

iaab-sch,  6),  90;  Genoa,  1 ;  Huron,  4  95;  Monroeville,  1  78. 
iima— Lima  Main  Street.  1 ;  St.  Mary's  1st,  90;  Van 
Wert,  12  91.  ifoAoninff—Canfleld,  5:  Canton  1st.  95  98; 
Champion.  8;  East  Palestine.  6;  Hubbard,  4;  Kinsman 
1st  sab-sch.  16  18:  Mineral  Ridge  1st,  8;  New  Lisbon, 
10;  Nllee,  4;  North  Benton.  10;  Salem,  14;  Warren.  6; 
Toungstown  1st,  48  66.  Ifarion^KingstOB,  1;  Marion 
1st  CO.  E.,  15).  90:  Porter,  1.  2ranm««— Bryan,  11; 
Delta,  9;  Eagle  Creek,  1;  Montpelier.  9;  North  Baltimore, 
9;  Perry sburgh  Walnut  Street  (sabHBch.  1  95).  6;  Toledo 
8d.  9  45;  —  1st  German,  1.  /\>rt«mouf^— Decatur,  8; 
Georgetown,  8;  Manchester  (sabsch.  8),  19;  Mount 
Leigh.  4:  Portsmouth  1st,  99  80;  —  Ist  German.  8.  8t. 
Ctotr«t;<U«~Bameeville,  6;  Bethel.  8;  Cadiz,  80  66;  Lore 
City,  1  60;  SenecaviUe.  1;  St.  Olairsville,  6;  Washington, 
9  95.  ateubensviUe—AmnterdAm,  11;  Bethel,  5;  Be- 
thesda,8;  Bethlehem,  5;  Bloomfleld,  8;  Buchanan  Chapel, 
10;  Cross  Creek,  8;  Deereville,  9;  Dennison,  5;  Irondaie,  1 ; 
Kllgore.  6;  LeesTllle,  9:  New  Cumberland,  1 ;  New  Harris- 
burgh,  6;  Kidge,  8;  Salineville,  8;  Toronto  1st,  7;  Urichs- 
ville.  16.    TFootter- Apple  Creek.  6;  Bethel.  9;  Creeton. 

6  77;  Dalton,  1  06;  Jackson,  4  08:  Mansfield  1st,  80;  Nash- 
ville, 9;  Orange,  6;  Wooeter  Westminster,  86  18.  Zanee- 
viite— Fredencktown,  6;  Hanover.  9;  Jefferson.  4;  Jersey, 
9  60;  Keene,  4;  Mt.  Vernon,  17  40;  Newark  Salem  Ger- 
man, 8  95;  Pataskala,  6  16.  1.849  45 

Obsoon.— JCcuf  Oregon— Baker  City.  1 ;  Monkland,  9  05; 
Moro,  9  10;  Union.  5.  Portland— Portland  Calvary,  91  ; 
Springwater,  1;  Tualitin  Plains,  1.  Southern  Oregon^ 
Grant's  Pass  Bethany,  5.  WiUamette—DaXiaaj  5 ;  Leba- 
non, 9  90;  Pleasant  Grove,  8;  Spring  Valley,  1.  49  85 

PBNMSTLYANiA.—^iieofceny- Allegheny  1st  German.  9; 
'  Bethel,  6;  —  Central  (sab^sch,  9^),  (0.  E.  ,  87  62), 
196  51 ;  —  North,  87  96;  —Providence,  45;  Avalon  0.  E  , 
5  50;  BeUevue  sab  sch.  8  50;  Bull  Creek  C.  E.,  6;  Cross 
Roads.  6  41;  Evans  City,  4;  Fairmount,  6;  Glasgow,  1; 
Hoboken,  1  67;  Leetsdale  sab-sch.  6  67;  Sewickly.  96  97; 
Sharpsburgh  (C.  E.,  2  57).  48  91;  Springdale,  7.  Blairs- 
viU«-Beulah  97:  Blairsville,  40;  Congruity,  4  65;  Derry, 

7  84;  Ebensburgh  1st,  4;  Kerr,  9;  Livermore,  8;  McGin- 
nis,  9  70;  Murrysville,  9  98:  Pleasant  Grove.  8:  Salem, 
10.  PutZer— HarrisviUe,  9  88;  Middlesex  rsab-sch.  6),  17; 
Muddy  Creek,  8  25;  North  Butler,  6;  North  Uberty  (sab- 
sch,  5),  9  90;  Pleasant  VaUey,  1  47;  UnionviUe  (sab-sch, 
9),  4  25.  Car2i«J«— Buffalo.  4;  Centre.  4;  Chambers- 
burgh  Falling  Spring,  90;  Dauphin  1st,  1;  Duncannon,  9; 
Fayetteville.  9;    Great  Conewago.  6  61:  Green  (^stle. 

8  44;  Greenville,  10  08:  Harrisburgh  Elder  Street,  8:  — 
Market  Square.  162  06;  —  Pine  Street.  97  04;  Landis- 
burgh,  2;  Mechanicsburgh,  5  18;   Mercersburgh  (C.  E., 

9  20),  19  66:  Middle  Spring,  16  89;  Shermansdale.  1; 
Upper,  9;  Waynesboro,  4  48.  C%M^«r^C^lvary,  6i  Ches- 
ter 1st,  15;  Downingtown  Central,  7  98;  New  London,  20; 
PhoBulxville  1st,  4;  Upper  Octorara.  1  77;  West  Chester 
?d,  2.  Ctorion— BrockwayviUe.  10  08;  GreenvlDe,  20: 
Johnsonburg,  84  ots.;  Licking,  4;  New  Bethlehem  B.  and 


burgh.  1;  ^rove,  64;  Linden,  1;  Lycoming  Centre,  8; 
Montgomery,  5;  Montoursvllle,  9;  Mountain,  1:  Orang»> 
ville.  1:  Rush.  9;  Shiloh,  4;  Warrior  Run,  5;  WilUamsport 
Ist  (sab-sch,  26).  85;  —  8d.  9  49;  —  Bethany.  1.  PkxrJterv- 
frun/A— Fairmount,  9;  Grafton.  6;  King  wood,  5  60;  Mor- 
gantown,  4;  Ravenswood,  9;  Sugar  Grove,  1.  PhUadel' 
p^ia- Philadelphia  1st  N. L..  1195;  -  Arch  Street.  144  54; 
—  Carmel  (German,  8;  —  Central,  98  60;  —  Cohocksink 
(sab-sch,  9  60),  89  60:  —  Grace,  6;  —  Greenway,  6:  Green- 
wich Street.  15:  —  Hope,  8;  —  Lombard  Street  Central, 
5:  —  North,  7  80;  —  Richmond.  8:  —  Susquehanna  Ave., 
10:  —  Walnut  Street.  141 70;  —  West  Park.  10;  —  Whar- 
ton Street  OorneU  Soc.,  6  86.  PhOadelphia  North— Cmr- 
mel.  9;  Chestnut  Hill  1st,  87:  Doylestown  sab-sch,  2  97; 
ForestvlUe,  4;  Krankford,  17  69;  Germantown  9d  sab-sch, 
10;  Huntingdon  Valley,  4;  Lawndale.  1;  Leverington.  6; 
Lower  Menon.  9;  Narberth,  260;  Neshaminyof  ^rwick, 
6  50;  Norristown  Central,  6:  Overbrook, 51 ;  Springfield. 8; 
Thompson  Memorial.  4;  Wissinoming.  9.  Pitt^ntrfth-^ 
Amity.  8:  Charleroi,  4;  (X>urtney  and  Coal  Bluff,  9;  Fair- 
view.  4;  Forest  Grove,  10;  Hebron,  1;  Lebanon,  10;  Long 
Island,  6  75;  Monongahela  City,  95;  North  Branch,  2: 
PhiUipsburg,  2;  Pittsburgh  8d.  8M;  —  4Sd  Street,  10:  — 
Bellefield.  88  68;  —  Covenant.  1  99;  —  East  Liberty  (sab- 
sch.  6288),  196  54  •.—  Grace  Memorial,  5;  —  Haslewood, 
21  77;  —  Mt.  Washington,  6;  —  Park  Avenue,  49;  Shady 
Side,  74  87;  —  South  Side,  6:  Valley,  8;  WiUdnsburgh,  60. 
Red9tone—Be\\e  Vernon,  8  88;  Fayette  City,  1  60;  Long 
Run,  8;  McClellandtown,  8;  McKeesport  Central,  8;  Mount 
Pleasant,  80:  Old  Frame,  9  19 :  Sewickley.  6;  Suterville,  1; 
Tent,  4  76;  West  Newton.  45  96.  8%enanoo— Leesburgh. 
9  60;  Mahoning  a  E..  10;  New  Castle  Ist,  17  89;  Transfer 
Helping  Hands,  6.  IFcu^tnoton— Bethlehem,  1 ;  Forks  of 
Wheeling,  59;  Frankfort.  7  06;  New  Cumberland,  10; 
Washington  2d,  18;  —  8d.  40:  WeUsboro,  10  06MVest  Ub- 
erty,  8;  Wheeling  1st  L.  H.  Soc..  6;  —  8d,  6.  Wetteboro— 
Antrim.  2;  Amot,  8;  Farmlngton,  9;  WeUsboro.  6  07. 
ir(Mtmtn<f^— Chanceford  (sab-sch,  8  69).  9  41;  Colum- 
bia. 4675;  Donegal,  8:  Hopewell,  7;  Lancaster  1st,  19; 
Marietta,  18;  New  Harmony.  9;  Slate  Ridge,  8;  Slate- 
ville,  5  48;  Stewartstown,  5;  York  Westminster,  6. 

4,181  49 

SocTH  Dakota.— Aberdeen— Groton  1st,  9  98;  Leola,  1 ; 
Pembrook.  1.  Black  HtUa-mU  City.  1 ;  Rapid  City,  8. 
Central  Dakota— Bethel,  8;  Colnmn,  9  88;  Hitchcock  C. 
E.,  8;  Miller  1st,  8  95;  St.  Lawrence  1st,  1  60;  Wentworth, 
92  cts.  Souihem  Dofcof a— Ebenezer,  1;  Kimball,  1; 
Scotland,  1;  Sioux  Falls  (Jr.  C.  E.,  6),  9  67;  Turner  0>. 
1st  German,  6;  White  I^ake,  1.  41  50 

TaNNKS8BB.—Bt'nntnoftam— Thomas  1st,  1.  Holgton^ 
Calvary.  4;  College  Hill,  1:  Jonesville,  8;  Oakland,  6; 
fit  Marks.  8.  ^t no«/on— Bethel.  2  80.  Union— Forett 
HUl,  1;  Knoj^vUle  4th,  9  41 ;  MadisonvUle,  46  cts. ;  Maiy- 


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rUleScU  1  00;  Mt.  Zion,  2;  South  KnoxTille,  1.  84  17 

TuLAS.— ^iMtin— tian  Antonio  Madison  Square.  S. 
North  3V«a«— Henrietta,  3;  Jacktboro,  2.  Trinity^ 
Dallas  EzpoBition  Park,  8;  Terrell.  8.  V*  00 

UTAH.-Soi«e-Bethany,  9;  Oaldwell  CO.  B..  85  cts.;), 
1  68.  e7ta^~American  Fork,  60  cts. ;  Box  Elder,  1 ;  Eph- 
raim,  4;  Hyrum,  8;  KaTsrille  Haines,  4;  Manti,  8;  Mendon 
Mission,  ];  Mount  Peasant,  5;  Smlthfleld,  9;  Bpring- 
▼ille.  8.    Afonf ana— Missoula,  8;  Boseman,  2*  76.        69  78 

WisHiKOTON.—Ofympia— South  Bend,  76  cts.  Rugei 
Sound—  Port  Townsend  1st,  1 ;  Whit  e  River,  9.  Spokane 
— Ck>rt]and,  1 ;  Qrand  Ooulee,  1 ;  Spokane  Centenary  C.  E., 
8  96;  WaterviUe,!.  18  00 

WiscoiroiN.—aAtppeiMi— Ashland  Bethel,  9;  Cadotte,  1; 
Eau  Claire  Ist  (sab-sch,  9),  8.  La  Cro—e-  Greenwood,  1 ; 
New  Amsterdam,  8.  ifoditon— Baraboo.  8;  Belleville,  2; 
Beloit  Ist,  0  08;  Cambria,  1  60;  Madison  Christ,  10;  -  6tb, 
67  00:  —  St.  Paul's,  1  95;  Marion  German,  8;  Reedsburgh, 
10.  if atoatdbee— Milwaukee  Bet  ban  j.  9;  —  Grace,  2;  — 
Holland,  8;  —  Immanuel,  87  19;  —  Perseverance,  6;  — 
Westminster,  9  89.  PFinne&ago— Applet  on.  9;  Depere, 
0:  Fond  du  Lac,  6;  Oshkosh,  10  77;  Shawano,  6;  west 
MerriU,  6;  Weyauwega,  1.  909  90 


1:  Mr.  James  M.  Ham  and  wife.  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  20;  "  A  Believer  in  Missions,''  Pitts- 
burgh. Pa..  60;  Thoe.  Cooper,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  10;  Rev.  Jos.  D.  Smith,  Delta.  Pa.,  9; 
Mrs.  M.  R.  Harlan  and  Mrs.  M.  P.  Ball. 
Thomas  Run,  Md.,  4  60;  '*A  littie  girl,'^ 
Winnebago,  Neb.,  1;  Cash,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
150;  '^C.  Penna,"  8;  Rev.  A.  M.  Lowrv, 
Watsoniown,  Pa ,  6:  Ida  S.  Templin,  6;  Kli 
Templln,60cts.;"H.  T.  F.,"6;  A.  B.  Kerr, 
Titusville,  Pa.,  6;  Mary  E.  Sill,  Geneva,  N. 
Y.,  6;  "A  Believer  in  Missions,"  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  960;  ♦'Royal  Band,"  Wilson,  N.  C,  8; 
"B,"  Slate  Lick,  Pa.,  46  cts.:  Mrs.  Cyrus 

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Total  from  Churches,  March,  1894.... 

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.$  17.667  80 


94,104  04 


ToUl  receipts  in  March,  1894 $41,761  48 

Previously  reported 141,419  10 

Total  receipts  to  April  1st,  1894 $188,168  68 

JoHK  J.  BsAOOM,  TreoBwrer, 
616  Market  Street,  PitUburgh,  Pa. 


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Oraston.  10;  Leoox,  18.  OouneU  Bii^a— Andubon,  10; 
OouncU  Bluffs  1st,  7  90;  Orlswold,  0  60;  Logan,  0  80; 
Mftrne,  1  60;  Menlo,  8  60;  Missoari  VaUej.  10;  8h«lb7,  S. 
l>e«  2ro<iM«— Allerton,  8;  OentrevUle,  4;  OoUaz,  S;  Dallas 
Centre,  5;  Des  Holnes  6th,  S;  -Bast.  1;  Unerille.  1; 
MUo,  4;  Newton  add*l,  86  cenU;  Winteraet,  16.  Dutmaut 
— Oentretown  Qerman,  1;  Dubuque  8d,  10;  DyersriUe  Oer- 
man,  1;  Independence  1st,  86  68;  —  German,  8.  F^ort 
Dodff*— Ohurdan,  8:  Fort  Dodge  1st,  18  46;  Spirit  Lake,  8. 
/oioa— Burlington  1st,  87  40;  Fort  Madison  Union,  18  76; 
Keokuk  Westminster,  0  84;  —  8d,  6:  Middletown,  M  cenU; 
West  Point,  10;  Winfleld,  10.  lotoa  City-Bethel,  8  66; 
OrairfordsWile,  1  80;  Keeta,  9;  Lafayette^;  Montesuma, 
8  65;  Muscatine  1st,  18:  Sugar  Creek,  8;  West  Ubertj,  6; 
Wilton,  17.  Sioux  C<ty-Battle  Cre«»k.  8;  Ida  Grore,  80; 
Odebolt,  8;  Sanborn,  1 ;  Union  Township,  8.  Waterloo^ 
Holland  German,  18;  Kamrar  German,  10:  La  Porte  City, 
9;  Morrison,  1  60;  Bock  Creek  German,  9;  Union  GermiUDL 

Kansas.  — IPmporia  — Clear  Water,  1|  El  Paso,  4  16; 
Emporia  1st,  67  60;  Pvotone,  9;  Quenemo,  4  60;  Warerly, 
8  88 ;  Wichita  1st,  8  88.  Highiand-Oornhkg,  8;  Horton 
"Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.).8;  MarTSTille,  8;  NortonvfUe,  1;  Vermtt- 
.ion,  6.  Lamed— Burrton,  4  84;  Great  Bend^  1;  I^ons, 
19  60;  McPherson,  7  94.  iVeofAo-Carlyle,  1  96;  Fredonia, 
8  06;  Girard  Tsab-sch.  ^  T.  P.  a  C.  E.,  9  60),  4  60; 
McCnne,  8;  Mound  Vallej,  1.  Offrom«— Fairport,  5; 
Wakeeny,  7.  Sotonton^BeUeTille,  6:  Delphos,  8  90;  Hope, 
8;  Mankato,  4;  Providence.  4 ;  Saltriile,  1.  2VM>elMi-  Junc- 
tion City,  4;  Manhattan,  18:  Olathe,  4;  Sedalla,  8.    190  86 

KCRTOCKT.— l?6eii«Mr-Ashland,  88  89;  Lexington  9d 
sab-sch,  9  U;  Mount  Sterling  1st,  1;  Sharpsburg  (sab-sch, 
60  cents).  9  90.  Lott<«9ille-8helbyTille,  8  Sa  Trantul- 
oania-Columbia,  8;  DanviUe  9d,  80.  68  68 

MioHioAN.—i)«trotft— Brighton,  8;  Detroit  Central,  16; 
—  Trumbull  Avenue,  10  96;  —  Westminster,  46 ;  East 
Nankin,  80;  NorthviUe,  16;  Tpsllanti.  8  86.  jnitU-Flush- 
ing.  6;  Sand  Beach  (church,  86  oonte.  sab-sch,  19  cents, 
T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  80  cents,  Childrens*  Missionary  Society, 
0  cents),  1  96.  Orand  Bapida-Vnir,  1:  Spring  Lake,  7. 
ITcUatmupoe— Kalamasoo  1st.  46.  Lake  Superior— Eactai' 
aba,  6;  Iron  Mountain,  9;  Ishpeming,  6  06;  Manlstique 
Redeemer,  15;  Marquette  1st.  17  86;  St.  Ignace,  6.  Lan»- 
iiH7 -Concord,  8  68;  Eokford,  6;  Jackson  1st,  4 ;  Mason, 
80:  Parma,  1  98.  2foi»ro€-Coidwater,  18  tt;  Hillsdale, 
6  90-  Quincv,  6;  Tecumseh,  6.  iVfoAfcey— Petoskey,  18  88. 
/9ao<na«h-Mount  Pleasant,  8.  806  06 

MiicNBSoTA.— />ia«<A— Duluth  9d,  8;  Two  Harbors,  8; 
Willow  River,  1.  ifinneapoJit— Minneapolis  Stewwt 
Memorial,  11  06;  —  Westminster  sab-sch,  86  17.  Bed 
iZiver-Moorhead  1st,  11  68.  St.  Paul-Bed  Wing,  88; 
Rush  City,  1;  St.  Paul  House  of  Hope,  10.  Winona— 
Preston,  6;  Winona  German,  8.  96  87 

MiBnouRi.— JSTanMW  C^ty—Brownlngton,  1;  Butler,  8; 
Centre  View,  8  45:  Clinton,  8  60;  Greenwood,  6;  Jefferson 
City,  8;  Kansas  City  1st,  16;  —  Unwood,  6  77;  Raymore, 
8  14;  Warrensburg,  16  06.  OsarA;— Carthage  (sab«ch, 
8  16).  85  61;  —  Westminster,  6;  Irwin.  1;  Preston,  1; 
Salem,  1;  Springfield  Calvary,  8.  Piolmyra— Bethel,  1; 
Birdseve  Ridge.  5;  Edina.  10:  Knox  City.  8.  Ptatte- 
Gallatin,  7:  Graham,  1;  New  Point,  8;  St.  Josej^  West- 
mlniter,  18.  St  Lowif-Cuba,  9;  De  Soto,  8;  Rolla,  8; 
St.  Louis  Ist  German,  15;  —  Glasgow  Avenue,  11  48;  — 
Lafayette  Park,  84;  —  West,  10.  White  IMver— Holmes 
Chapel  8.  889  86 

MoKTAHA.— J^tfe  -Butte  sab-seh,  6;  Missoula,  6.  Hele- 
na—Bozeman,  47  86.  68  86 

NsBRASKA.— HicMiinyt— Bloomington,  1 ;  Oak  Creek  Ger- 
man, 4.  JSTeamey— Berg,  8;  Big  Spring,  1 ;  Buffalo  Grove 
German,  8;  Kearney  German,  1;  Lexington.  6  19;  Litch- 
field, 1;  Ord,  8;  Sutherland  Irt,  9;  West  Platte,  7  05. 
Nebrcuka  City—Blue  Hprings,  6  80;  Gresham,  9;  Lincohi 
8d  (sab-sch,  70  ots.),  9  45;  Nebraska  Cltv,  5;  Plattsmouth 
1st  additional,  8  50;  —  German.  4.  JViioSrara— Cleveland, 
8  15;  Madison,  4;  Millerboro,  1;  Pender,  5  44;  Stuart,!; 
Wlllowdale,  1.  OmoAo— Omaha  9d,  16;  —  Lowe  Avenue. 
8.  '  87  01 

Nxw  JcRSKT.— ffZteofretfc— Bayonne  City.  15;  Clinton 
(sab-sch.  10),  86  66;  Connecticut  Farms,  18;  Dunellen.  0; 
Elizabeth  1st  German,  5;  —  8d,  19  88;  Lamington  sab-sch, 
18  64;  Piainfleld  Crescent  Avenue  (Bethel  Chapel,  9),  609; 
Pluckamin  (sab  sch,  6  06),  11  45;  Rahway  9d,  40;  Roeelle, 
8;  Springfield,  80.  Jereey  City—Jeney  City  John  Knox, 
8;  —  Scotch,  6;  Paterson  1st,  9;  -  8d,  111  86;  —  8d,  9;  — 
East  Side,  10;  Rutherford  Ist  sab-seh,  88;  West  Hoboken 
sab-sch,  86;  west  Mllford29.  ifonnumt^— Allentown,  20; 
Asbury  Park  1st,  7  98;  —  Westminster,  9;  Atlantic  High* 
lands,  9  86;  Bordentown,  4  45;  Calvary,  5;  Columbus,  5  70; 
Cranbury  9d,  5;  Hightstown  (sab  sen,  5  80),  86;  James- 
burgh,  16;  Keyport,  7;  Long  Branch,  6;  Manalapan,  8  40; 
Matawan,  94  f&;  New  Gretna,  8  66;  Perrinevflle,  1  95; 
PlatUburgh,  8;  Point  Pleasant,  4;  Red  Bank,  10;  Shrews- 
bury, 10;  Whiting  and  Shamong,  1.    Morris  and  Orange 


— Boonton  T.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  98  65:  Chester,  10;  Dover,  89  9§; 
—  Welsh,  8;  East  Orange  Arlington  Ave.,  88;  German 
Valley,  6;  Madison,  7  48;  Orange  Valley  German,  8; 
Pleasant  Grove,  9;  South  Orange  Ist,  16  86;  St.  Cloud,  6; 
Succasunna,  10;  Summit  Central,  188  08;  Wyoming  Ist, 
161.  JV«icwr*-Montclair Trinity,  5;  Newark 8*174687;  — 
1st  German,  80;  —  9d  (German,  16;  —  8d  German,  5;  — 
Bethany,  S._  NeufBrunewieh—Bow^  ^TP^^  additional. 


/Nver^Hlghland  Falls,  6  ^7;  Hughsonville,  8  TO;  Maiden, 
9  79;  Mattoawan,  6  14;  Newburgh  1st.  98  18.  Oteego— 
Cherry  VaUey,  41  80;  Delhi  1st,  60;  — ^d,  86;  Stamford, 
20.  ifoc^«fer— Honeqve  Falls.  5;  Ogden  Centre,  9  08; 
Rochester  1st,  100;  —  Emmanuel,  87  cts.;  —  Memorial,  6; 

—  North,  11;  —  St.  Peter's  additional,  90;  Springwater,  9; 
Sweden  1st,  7  50;  Wheatland  1st,  2.  St.  Lawrence— 
Morristown,  0;  Oswegatcbie  1st,  14.  Steuben— Arkport, 
1  09;  Bath,  11;  Canitteo,  9;  HomellsviUe  1st,  18  87; 
Howard,  6 ;  Prattsburgh.  8  86.  Swracuee—  East  Syracuse, 
4;  Fulton,  18;  Oswego  Grace.  86  46;  Syracuse  4th,  15; 
Whitelaw,  8.  3Voy-Argyle,  8;  Brunswick,  6 17;  Chester, 
8  88;  Coboes.  7;  Green  Island,  8;  Hebron,  1;  Melrose, 
4  86:  Middle  Granville,  8;  Pittstown,  9;  Troy  1st,  69  88; 

—  9d  sab-sch,  50;  -  Second  Street,  174  51 ;  Waterford  Ist, 
7  90.  C7(ica— Cochran  Memorial,  18:  Norwich  Comera,  2; 
Oneida,  18  46;  Turin,  9  96;  Utica  Memorial.  60.  Weet- 
Chester— CroUm  Falls,  10;  Greenburgh,  89  80;  Hartford, 
15;  Hugenot  Memeria],61;  Mt.  Klsco.  6;  New  Rocbelle 
1st,  100  79;  Poundridge,  8;  Sing  Sing,  86  90;  South  East, 
6;  Yonkera  Day  spring,  16.  6,778  10 

North  Dakota.— JPhrj^o— Tower  City,  9.  Pemoina— 
Drayton,  1;  Mekinok(Emerado),  11.  14  00 

Ohio.— il^^etu— Chester,  6;  Marietta  4th  Street,  16; 
New  Matamoras,  6:  Stockport,  9.  Bellefontaine—heMe' 
fontalne  1st.  8  68;  Huntsville,  1.  ChiUicothe—Chniicothe 
1st,  16;  Greenfield  1st  Miss.  Soc*y,  12  60;  WhHe  Oak,  8. 
Cincinnati— Cincinnati  Fairmount.  4;  —  Mount  Auburn, 
64;  —  Westminster,  96:  Lebanon,  18;  Ludlow  Grove,  9; 
Morrow,  16;  Westwood  Gtonnan,  9.    detwland— Akron 


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Centrales;  ClerelaDd  Ist,  Ml  28:  —  U,  160;  —  Euclid 
Avenae  L.  Bener.  Sodetj,  20;  —  South,  8  M;  —  Wilson 
Aveoue,  8  SO;  —  Woodland  Aywrne,  108  56;  Solon,  10. 
Co{tt1R^u«-ClrclevUle.«0;  Oreenfleld,  1;  WeetervlUo«  ft, 
Z>aytoi»^Bell  Brook,  2;  Dayton  4th,  6;  —  Riverdale.  70 
Ota.;  Hamilton  Westminster,  12  60;  Middletown,  61; 
Piqua.  47;  Riley,  2;  Springfield  8d,  14  10;  Troy  Ist,  22  07. 
Hurcm— Huron.  8;  MonroeyiUe,  1  20.  i><ma— Lima  Mala 
Street,  2;  Van  Wert.  18  84.  ifaAonino-Canfleld,  6;  Can- 
ton, 10  76;  Bast  Palestine,  6;  Hubbard  4;  Kinsman,  80; 
Mineral  Ridse,  6;  New  Lisbon,  11;  North  Benton,  10; 
Salem,  9;  Warren,  9.  ifarion— Marion  1st,  9.  Maumee 
—  Delta,  6;  Toledo  Sd,  0  02;  —  Ist  Qennan,  2;  West 
Unity,  6.  Pcrttmouth^DecMXnr^  4;  Georgetown,  6; 
Portsmouth  1st,  6.  St.  CtoirttrOie— BamesTille,8;  Bethel, 
6;  Cadis,  60  85;  Lore  aty.  1  60;  SeneoaviUe,  2.  Steuben- 
«<U« -Amsterdam  (sab-sch,  6),  10;  Bethel,  4:  Bloomfleld, 
8;  Buchanan  Chapel,  5  87;  Cross  Creelc,  0;  Dell  Roy,  8; 
Dennison,  0;  Kilgore,  5;  Leesville,  1;  Monroeville.  6; 
Ridge,  8;  Saliaeville,  5;  Toronto,  18;  UrichSTille,8;  West 
Li^ette,142.  TToo^^er— Bethel,  2;  NashvUle,  9;  Or- 
ange  4;  Wooster  Westminster,  42  88.  ZdnetoOle— 
Fredericktown,  5:  Hanover,  2  20;  lit.  Vernon,  7  90;  Pat- 
askala  1st,  6  27;  ZanesviUe  Putnam,  12  66.  1,841  84 

OnMQov.—Etut  Orei;oi»~Baker  City,  1 ;  Monkland,  2  20; 
Moro,  2  80;  Union,  6.  i\>Wtond— PorUand  1st.  4  66;  — 
Calyai7,9;  — Misi>ah,  1;  Springwater,  1.  WiUametU— 
Albany,  6;  Dallas  Ist,  6.  86  66 

PcNNSTLVANiA.— ^UegAeny— 1st  German,  8;  —  Bethel. 
2;  —  Central,  6;  —  North.  158  84;  Providence,  80;  Bull 
Creek,  16;  Hoboken,  1  96;  Sewlckly  addn,  68  80.  Blair9- 
tnUe— Congniity,  4;  Ebensburgh,  4;  Murrysville,  6  68; 
Pleasant  Qroye,  •;  JPoke  Run,  16;  Salem,  8;  Wilmerding, 
2  60.  Bu<Z«r-Middlesex,  16;  Plain  Grove,  6.  CaWicle-Buf- 
falo,  4;  Centre,  4;  Green  Castle,  12  60;  Harrisburgh  Elder 
Street,  1;  —Market  Square  radd^),  25  76;  —  Pine  Street 

gsb-soh.  class),  10;  Landisburgh,  8;  Middle  Spring,  16; 
iddletown,  6 ;  Paxton,  10  58;  Snermansdale.  1:  Upper,  2; 
Waynesboro,  8  07.  CAe«ter— Calvary  Otutledge;.  11  88; 
Chester  1st,  20;  Fairriew,  4;  New  London.  25;  Phoenix- 
▼ille,  4.  C<ar<on- Cool  Spring,  1 ;  Johnsonburg,  61  cents; 
Oak  Grove,  2;  Penfield,  6;  Rathmel,  1;  Sligo,2;  Wilcox, 
74  cents.  J^fs-Atlantic,  1  68:  Cool  Spring,  2  94;  Erie  1st, 
18;  Fairfield,  8;  Franklin,  26  88;  Fredonia,  2  75 ;  Milledge- 
vUle,  2;  New  Lebanon,  1:  OU  CHy  IstaddU,  8  86;  Pleasant- 
▼Ule,  6;  Union.  2  80;  Venango,  1  17;  Warren,  194  06. 
fTuntin^on— Altoona  2d,  86;  —  Broad  Avenue,  8  60; 
Beulah,  2;  Birmingham,  6  16;  Coalport,  2  14;  Everett,  8; 
Houtsdale,  4  24;  &vona,  4  87;  Lewistown,  29  25;  Little 
Valley,  6;  Mapleton.  4;  Middle  Tuscarora,  1;  Milroy,  6  20; 
Mount  Union  (sab-sch,  6  17),  19  87 :  PhUlipsburgh,  20  55 ; 
Pine  Grove  sab  sch.  74  cents;  Shellsburgh.  7;  State  Col- 
lege, 14  61;  Upper  Tuscarora,  8;  WilUamsburgh  sab-sch, 
1  72.  JTtttonn^n^— Atwood,  2:  Bethel  (sab-sch,  2),  b; 
Bethesda,  2;  Cherry  Run.  6;  Clinton,  1;  Concord,  8  52; 
Elderton,  18;  Gilgal.  2;  Glade  Run,  8;  Harmony,  4;  Homer, 
2;  Mechanicsburgh,  2;  Midway,  8;  Mount  Pleasant,  2; 
Parker  City.  29  81 ;  Rockbridge,  8 ;  Union.  8  60;  Washing- 
ton. 5.  LacleoiMinna— Bethel,  1;  Brooklyn.  6;  Dunmore 
add^L  IS  69;  Elmhurst,  2  61;  Montrose  sab-sch,  10;  New- 
ton, 1 ;  Orwell,  1 ;  Rome,  2;  Scran  ton  Green  Ridge  Avenue, 
74  20;  Sugar  Notch,  2;  Ulster,  1 ;  Warren,  8  76;  Wyoming. 
6  60.  LtfMffA^Audenreid,  20;  Catasauqua  1st  Ladies^ 
Association,  8;  Easton  1st,  48;  Lock  Ridge,  11;  Mahanoy 
City  (sabsch,  18  75),  81  02;  Reading  1st  (in  memoriam), 
5;  —  Washington  Street,  4;  Shawnee  (sab-sch,  1  76,  C.  E., 
1  78),  7;  Slatington,  10  08;  Btroudsburg,  8;  Weatherly, 
10.  Abrt^ttm6«r{atul- Berwick  add'l,  6;  Briar  Creek,  2; 
Grove.  50:  Jersey  Shore,  45;  Montgomery,  8:  Mount  Car- 
meL  18  46;  Renovo  1st,  20;  Shlloh,  4;  Warrior  Run,  10; 
Wiulamsport  1st,  20:  —  2d,  58  58.  ParX(er«<mry^- French 
Creek,  7;  Grafton,  10;  Morgantown,  4;  Parkersburgh  Ist, 
25 ;  Sugar  Grove,  1.  i>!^tiad«{p^ia— Philadelphia  Arch 
Street,  111  11;  —  Bethany  sab  sch.  88  08;  —  Carmel  Ger^ 
man,  2;  —  Central,  84  56:  —  Cohocksink,  58;  —  Greenway. 
5;  —  Greenwich  Street,  10;  —  Hope,  14;  —  Lombard  Street 
Central,  5;  —  McDowell  Memorial,  11  41 ;  —  North,  7  90; 

—  Northmlnster,  151  25;  —  PrinceUn  sab-sch,  17;  — 
Richmond,  8;  —  Susquehanna  Avenue,  10;  —  Temple,  80; 

—  Union,  10;  —  Walnut  Street  (addU),  5;  —  Zion  German, 
6.  PhiiadelpMa  iVbrtA-Abington  (Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M. 
Colton).  100;  Bridesburg.  10;  Calvary,  8;  Carmel,  8;  Chest- 
nut HiU  Trinity.  24  50;  FUU  of  SchuylklU,  16;  Forestville, 
6;  Frankford,  18  64;  Germantown  Market  Square,  86  68; 

—  Wakefield,  60  56;  Huntingdon  Valley,  4;  Jeffersonville 
Centennial.  8:  Lawndale.2;  Lower  Providence*  16;  Nar- 
berth,  6  46;  Newtown  sab-sch,  28  28;  Norristown  2d,  6; 

—  Central  (W.  McD.  and  daughter),  6;  Springfield,  8; 
Wissinoming.  4.  Pittsburgh— Asnitj ^  5;  Concord,  2; 
Ckmrtney  ana  Coal  BlufT,  1;  Duquesne,  5:  Lebanon,  10; 
Long  Island,  9  16;  Monongahela  City,  25;  Mount  Carmel, 
2;  North  Branch,  1;  Oakdale,  21;  PhiUipsburg,  2;  Pitts- 
burgh lstsab-«oh,2l49;  — 8d,8l6  70;  -  48d  Street,  11 ; 


—  Bellefield,  106  68;  —  Covenant,  9  27:  —  East  Liberty, 
49  44;  —  Grace  Memorial,  1;  —  Haslewood,  14  65;  — 
Knoxville,  8  25;  —  Park  Avenue,  80 ;  —  Point  Breeze,  250; 

—  Shady  Side.  87;  —  South  Side,  6;  West  Elisabeth  sab- 
sch,  6.  i2»d«<one— Belle  Vernon,  10;  Fayette  City,  2; 
Laurel  HUl,  25  57;  McClellandtown.  2 ;  McKeesport  Cen- 
tral, 14;  Mount  Pleasant,  80;  Old  Frame,  8;  West  Newton, 
82  87.  ^Aenanyo— Hermon,  8  28.  TTcuAingfofv— Bethle- 
hem, 4;  Pigeon  Creek.  4;  Upper  Ten  Mile,  10;  Washington 
2d.  20;  West  Alexander,  17;  West  Union,  8  50.  WeVMtoro 
—Antrim,  5 ;  Beecher  Island,  8 ;  Farmlngton,  1  80:  Knox- 
ville, 1;  Tioga,  6.  TTestmJnsftfr— Bellevue,  14;  (}olumbia, 
46  80;  Donegal,  6;  Hopewell,  11;  Lancaster  Ist,  16;  Slate 
Ridge,  8;  York  Westminster,  10.  8.718  78 

South  Dakota.— fitocik  Hii/s— Rapid  City,  4  50;  White- 
wood,  2.  Centra/ DcOcota— Hitchcock  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8; 
Miller,  6;  St.  Lawrence,  1.  Daikota— Ascension,  2.  S^<A- 
em  I>aJtoto— Bridgewater,  5;  Ebenezer  German,  1;  Kim- 
ball, 2;  Scotland,  1 ;  Sioux  Falls,  8  84;  Turner  Co.  1st  Ger- 
man, 16.  50  84 

TxMNKSSiB.—Birmtn0^m— Thomas  Ist,  1.  HoUtott'- 
College  Hill,  1 ;  Mount  OUvet,  1 :  St.  Marks,  2.  Kinfuton 
—Bethel,  4  40.  CThfon— Forest  Hill,  1;  Hebron,  8;  Knox- 
ville 4th,  12  90;  MadisonviUe,  82  cts.;  Mt.  Zion,  8;  Boulh 
Knoxville,  1.  81  12 

TKXAs.—^ii««n— Galveston  St.  PauPs  (German,  2;  Tay- 
lor 1st,  25.  North  7«xa«— Henrietta,  4;  Jacksboro,  8. 
2Vt'niftf-DalIas  Exposition  Park,  5.  89  00 

Utah.— BotM-Caldwell  (C.  E.,  1  18).  8  80.  KendaU— 
Franklin,  1;  Idaho  Falls,  1.  C7/aA— American  Fork,  4; 
Kaysville  Haines,  5;  Logan  Brick,  2  95;  Mendon.  1 ;  Mount 
Pleasant,  1 ;  Nephi  Huntington,  8  16;  Smithfield,  2.    24  41 

WASHiNGTOM.—Oiympio— South  Bend  1st,  2.  Puget 
Sound— Port  Townsend  1st  Y.  P.  S.  (3.  E.,  4.  £Fpofcane— 
Cortland,  1 ;  Grand  Coulee,  1.  8  00 

Wisconsin.— CAippeira— Ashland  Bethel,  4;  Cadotte,  2; 
Eau  Claire  1st  (sab-sch.  2),  11.  La  CroMO— Bangor,  2; 
Greenwood,  1 ;  New  Amsterdam,  6;  West  Salem,  4.  Modi- 
•on— Cambria,  1  26;  Madison  St.  Paul's  German,  1  60; 
Marion  German,  5;  North  Freedom.  1;  Poynette,  5  46. 
2ratMiuJlr«e— Milwaukee  1st  German,  2  28;  —  Holland,  10; 

—  Immanuel,  27  90.  irinne6aoo— Depere,  10;  Omro,  10; 
Oshkosh,  10  77;  West  MerriU,  8.  127  15 

From  the  Churches  and  Sabbath-schools $  18,186  98 

FROM    INDIVIDUALS. 

Joeiah  Markle,  Albany,  N.  Y..  1;  Mrs.  A.  P. 
Thompson,  Phila.,  5;  Anna  B.  Warner,  West 
Point,  N.  Y.j  15:  Anonymous,  Bridgehamp- 
ton,  N.  Y.,  2;  Rev.  F.  A.  Shearer,  Colfax, 
Iowa,  5;  Rev.  H.  H.  Benson,  Wauwatosa, 
Wis.,  2;  Miss  Jane  L.  C^thcart,  York,  Pa., 
80;  Mit>s  Jane  C.  Latimer,  York,  Pa.,  6; 
'*  State  of  Olifomia,'' 8000;  Miss  S.  Amelia 
Gunn,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y^  10;  **  Cash,  2;  **A 
Friend,*' 6;  Rev.  C.  W.  Wycoff,  Upper  St. 
Clair,  Pa.,  10;  •'  A  Believer  in  Missions,"  250; 
Rev.  J.  H.  Phelps  and  wife.  Flushing,  Mich., 
6;  Miss  Phelps,  Flushing,  Mich.,  8;  Rev. 
Wendell  Prime,  D.  D.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  60; 
Robert  Dollar,  tten  Francisco,  Cal.,  16;  E.  B. 
McLane,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  10;  Rev.  Jos- 
eph D.  Smith,  Delta,  Pa.,  2;  Mrs.  M.  D. 
Ward,  Afton.  N.  J..  5;  Mrs.  E.  J.  Dixon.  Ed- 
gar, Neb.,  2;  "C.  Penna.,"  6;  Rev,  A.  M. 
Lowry,  Watsontown,  Pa..  6;  *•  W.  B.,''  Mt. 
aemans.Mich,5;  »*H.  T.  F.,"5;  ••M.8.M.'' 
Phila.,  5;  Mrs.  Cyrus  Dickson,  Montclair,  N. 
J.,  50;  •*  H.,*'  Phila.,  5:  "  Friend  of  Minister- 
ial Relief,  Slate  Lick,  Pa.,  1  23;  a  Dodd,  Gar- 
field, N.  Y.,  1;  "  Friend  In  Colorado,"  2;  W. 
U.  Hambly,  Hamden,  N.  Y.,  1 ;  Thos.  Mc- 
Geehan.  Coltsville.  O  ,  1  50;  Rev.  Chas.  H. 
McCreery,  Northfield,  Minn.,  8;  Esta  E. 
Grosh  and  wife,  Brandon,  N.  Y.,  1;  Rev.  D. 
Hughes,  Los  Angeles,  C^al.,  160 8,627  28 

Interest  from  the  Permanent  Fund  (including 
9519  07  from  the  Roger  Sherman  Fund) 7,479  76 

For  the  current  fund 29,142  92 

psrmanbnt  fund. 
ilntereti  only  uttd.) 
Legacy  of    Albert    M.   Whitten,    deceased, 
Washington,  Ind 404  46 

Total  receipts  for  March.  1894 29,547  88 

Total  for  the  current  fund  from  April  Ist,  1898 

to  April,  1894 152,008  86 

Total  for  the  current  fund  for  the  same  period 

lastyesr. 168,794  18 

W.  W.  Hbbkrton,  Trecuurer^ 

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Atl^mtic  — ITcCZtft/and— AbbeTTiUe,  2  80;  Mattoon,  1. 
South  Florida-Up«a*  Swedish.  5.  8  80 

BALTniORB.—£a]tt'more— Baltimore  lit,  80;  ->  2d,  4  74; 
—  Albeit  Memorial,  8;  —  Oovenant  (0.  E.  S.,  6>,  8:  —  La 
Fayette  Square,  10;  —  Light  Street  sab-sch,  8;  —  BCadiaon 
Htreet.  1;  BetheL  5 :  Frederick  City.  6  60:  New  Windsor, 
46  cents;  Relay,  8;  Sparrows  Point,  1 ;  Waverly,  6;  Zion, 
1.  New  aMtle-Bridgeville.  4;  Chesapeake  City,  8;  Dela* 
ware  City,  6  06;  Forest,  4  86;  Pencader  sab-sch,  7;  WU- 
mington  Hanorer  Street,  10;  —  OUvet  (sab^sch,  6  84), 
8  84.  Wa^UnfftoH  0<ty-Oeorgetown  West  Street,  9  87; 
HyattSTiUe,  6;  Washington  City  4th.  8  80;  —  8th,  11 ;  — 
16th  Street,  6;  -  New  York  ATenuer6.  167  80 

GALiFOBinA.—ll»n<cia— Areata,  6.  Lot  ^InoeJ^s—Asusa 
Spanish,  1;  Ballard  sab-sch,  1;  ElCaJon  (sab  sob,  8  18), 
17  80;  El  Monticeto,  8  64TLos  Angeles  Spanish,  8;  Los 
OUtos  sab^h,  8;  North  Ontario,  4;  Palms,  8;  San 
OabrieLl;  Santa  Maria.  8.  OaXOand-Berkeley  1st,  88  66; 
Oakland  Brooklyn,  11  60.  adcram«n^o— Chioo,  10.  San 
i^ratMifco— San  Francisco  1st  sab-sch,  88;  —  Calrary  sab- 
sch,  10  00.  San  J<M^-Hollister,  8.  StockUm-rowler, 
4.  147  89 

Catawba.— Cap«  ^^sor— Panthersford,  80  cents;  Bo- 
land,  88  cents.  CSa<aio6a— Daridson  College,  80  oenU ; 
Lloyd,  ae  cents.  Southern  Firg^nia- DanviUe  Holbrook 
Street  sab^ch,  8;  Great  Creek  sab-sch,  1 ;  Richmond  1st, 
1.  6  71 

Colorado.  —  BouMer—Laramie,  4.  Denver  —  Denver 
North,  8:  —  South  Broadway,  8:  Idaho  Springs.  1.  Pueblo 
—Antonito  sab-sch,  1;  Cafioo  City.  4;  La  Junta.  1 ;  Pueblo 
Fountain,  86  cents;  —  Mexican  (5tb),  1;  Trinidad  1st 
ch.  and  sab-sch  87.  64  86 

lLLnfoi8.~.il{toM~BelleTiUe  sab-sch,  10;  East  St.  Louis, 
0.  Bloomington^B&ment,  6;  Onarga,  6;  Rankin,  1. 
Cairo— Carml,  16;  Centralia  sab-sch,  8  66;  Mount  Carmel, 
8;  NashYille  sab-sch,  80:  TanuutMt,  14  80.  CAicooo-Chi- 
eago  1st,  18  88;  —  1st  German,  1 ;  -4th,  48; —8th  a  E. 
S.,  7  60;  —  0th.  1  60;  —  4l8t  Street,  48  60;  —  CoTenant, 
186  60;  —  Grace.  1;  Scotch,  6;  Eranston  1st,  10  60;  — 
South  W.  H.  M.  S..  8  67;  Joliet  Central.  71  84;  Kankakee, 
8  86;  Oak  Park,  1.  .FVe«|>or<— Marengo.  6;  Oregon,  8. 
Jfotioon— Areola,  8;  Assumption.  8  05:  Kansas  sab-sch, 
6;  Yandalia,  8  86.  Oftaioa— Morris,  8;  Paw  Paw  sab-sch, 
8;  Sandwich,  6.  PleoHd-Elmira  0.  E.,  6;  Ipara.  18  16; 
Peoria  Calvary.  8;  Salem.  8.  Rock  Bitwr— Hamlet.  1  40; 
Perryton,  40  cents;  Viola,  8  68.  S<rAt^Zer— Clayton,  8; 
Kirkwood.  8;  Monmouth.  6  00;  Nauroo  1st  sab-sch,  6  76. 
^Sprino/IeM— Farmington.S:  Jackeonrille  8d  Portuguese 
sab-sch,  60  cents;  Murrayville  76  cents;  North  Sanga- 
mon. 8;  Virginia.  6.  688  88 

lNDiAifA.—Oraii/ordev/aa— Bethel,  8;  Rockrille,  1  64; 
Thomtown,  6;  Williamsport,  8,  Fort  Wayne— Fort 
Wayne  8d  0.  E.  S.,  10;  Salem  Centre,  1.  IndianapoUe— 
Acton,  8;  Indianapolis  East  Washington  Street,  6. 
JLooatMoor^— Bethel,  8.  ifuncie— Kokomo,  1;  Marion, 
8  88;  Wabash,  1  06.  New  .ilZfrany— Chariestown  sab-sch, 
8  00 ;  Corrdon,  8  10;  Salem  sab-sch,  8  10.  Vincennee— 
Sulliran,  8.  White  fTaf er—Connersrille  German,  4;  Lew- 
Isrille,  8.  81  11 

Indian  Tbrritort.— C%octoio~Oak  Hill,  1.  Oklahoma 
— Edmend,  8;  Kingfisher  sab  sch,  1  46.  6  45 

Iowa. —Cedar  ifapide— Cedar  Rapids  Bohemian  sab- 
sch,  6;  Onslow,  8.  Corniny— Creeton,  10.  Council 
B2tf^«— Audubon,  6:  Missouri  Valley,  8.  Dee  Moinee— 
Columbia.  8;  Des  Moiaee  Bethany,  1;  Humeston.  1  50; 
Indianola.  6;  Leon  sab-sch,  0  85;  Milo,  60  cts.;  Newton. 
86  cts.;  Winterset,  11.  I>u6u<7ue— Centretown  German, 
1 ;  Dyersrille  Gtorman,  1 ;  Independence  German,  1 ;  Lime 
Spring.  1.  .F^f  Do<I(7e— Arm8trong8ab-sch.8  86;  Chur- 
dan.  8.  Jotoa— Burlington  1st.  0 14. Keokuk  Westminster, 
8  09;  —  8nd  Church.  S:  Mlddletown,  80  cts.;  St.  Peter's 
Evangelical.  1 ;  Winfleld,  4.  Iowa  Cify— CrawfordsriUe, 
80  cts.;  Keota,  1;  Malcom,  8;  Montezuma.  14  98;  Musca- 
tine. 17:  Sugar  Creek,  8;  Wilton,  8.  Sioux  Ctty— Battle 
Creek;  8;  Odebolt.  8;  Sanborn.  1;  Sioux  City  8d  sab-sch, 
4;  Union  Township,  8.    TFa^erloo— Kamrar  German,  6. 

147  91 

KANSA8.—J^poria— Clear  Water,  80  cts. ;  Marion.  6  80; 
Peabody,  6;  Warerly,  8  60;  Wichita  1st,  8  84.  Highland 
—Coming,!;  Horton,  8.  Lamed— Great  Bend.  1;  Hal- 
sted,  8.  iVieM^o— Carlyle,  86  cts.  SdZomon— Cawker 
CiU,  8;  Minneapolis  sab-Bch.  94  10;  Saltville.  1.  Tbpeita 
—Kansas  City  Grand  View  Park  C.  E.»  6;  Lawrence,  8; 
Sedalia.  5;  Seymour.  1.  158  80 

KcNTUOKT.—.E6ene2«r— Ashland,  88  88;  Corington  Ist, 
88  88;  Lexington  8d.  8  86;  Mount  Sterling  1st.  1.  Louie^ 
ville— ShelbyVille,  8.  TVanxviixxnia— Columbia  8;  Dan* 
TilleSd,80.  88  88 

MioHiOAN.— Detroit— Detroit  Westminster,  16.  Flint- 
Akron^  lOf  Flynn  sab  sch,  7;  Huron  C.  E.  8..  6;  Sand 
Beach,  48  cents.    G^rand  i2apid<— Muir,  1.    Kalametzoo— 


Kalamasoolst,  16:  Stnrgis  sab-sch,  10  58.  LakeSuperiar 
—Iron  RiTor,  1  88;  Ishpemtng,  i  70;  Manlstiqne  Be- 
deeoier,  0  18;  Marquette,  0  Si.  Laiwinir- Battle  Creek 
C.  E  S.,  6;  Brooklyn.  7  85;  Oonoord.  1  88;  Marshall,  4  04; 
Mason,  10;  Parma.  84  cents.  ilonroe—Coldwater  (sab- 
sch,  m,  11  00;  HUlsdal^  18;  Quinpy,  10;  Raisin,  8.  Sagi- 
nai-fthaca.8  06.        '^     '  ^       ^'     '  ,5390 

Minnesota.- I>ul«<\— Pine  City,  4;  Virginia  sab  sch, 
8;  WiUow  Riter,  1.  ifantoto -Mankato  1st,  6  80.  Red 
River ^Argyle,  4;  Hallock  sabsch.  8.  St.  PsiaI— Red 
Wing,  7  88:  St.  Paul  Goodrich  Avenue,  (O.  E.  S  ),  6;  — 
House  of  Hope,  10.  ITtfnona— Lanesboro,  1 ;  Winona  1st 
C.  E.  S.,  6;  —  German,  1.  68  68 

Missouri.— JTaneae  Cify— Jefferson  City  sab-sch,  88  00; 
Kansas  City  Linwood.  8  40;  Warrensbnrg,  8  11.  Oxark— 
Ash  GroTe,  8:  Carthage  a  E  S.,  6;  Irwin,  1;  Preston,  1; 
Salem,  1;  Springfield  CalTaiy,  6  60.  Pkilmifra— Edina,  8; 
Knox  City,  1;  New  CambrU,  1.  Pfa<(e- Oregon.  8  66. 
St.  Louie-Si.  Louis  Lafayette  ParlL  86;  —  Wa^ingtan 
and  Compton  Avenue,  60.     White  iZioer- Harris  Chapel, 

Montana.— Bttl^e—Anaoonda  (sab-sch,  6),  8;  Butte  sab- 
sch.  80.    Beteno-Boseman,  7  60.  46  60 

Nebraska.— fldeMn0»—Bloomiogton,l;  Holdrege  sab- 
sch.  8  60.  JTeameyAshton,  1 ;  Big  Spring,  1:  Buffalo 
Grove  German  sab-sch,  1 :  Kearney  German.  4;  LitchflekU 
1;  Ord,  6.  ^e6raeto  City-BUikmvi  German,  7;  Ne- 
braska City,  6;  Tecumseh,  4.  JV^to6rara— Millerboro.  1 ; 
Valentine  sab-sch,  8  60;  WUlowdale,  1.  41  00 

Nbw  JsR8KT.—£UM6e<^— Clinton  sab-sch,  10;  Con- 
necticut Farms,  80;  Oranford,  10  88;  Dunellen,  te  Elisa- 
beth 1st  German,  8;  —  Marshall  Street,  88  74;  PlalnAeld 
Bethel  ChapeL  1 ;  Piuckamln,  8;  Rahwur  8d.  10;  Roeelle, 
8  88.  Jer«ey  Ct<y-Garfleld,  8:  Jersey  dity  let,  a  80;  — 
Scotch.  5;  Passaio  sab-sch,  8  18:  Paterson  1st  8;  —  8d 
sab-sch,  80;  —  8d,  8.  ironmouf ^Allentown,  80;  Asbury 
Park  1st,  0  08;  Atlantic  Highlands.  79 cts.;  Beverly  aB&, 
8;  BordeBtown,4  90;  CranburySd,  6:  Uighlstown,  4  80; 
Keyport.  8;  Manalapan,  8  40;  Matawan,  17  61;  Oceanic, 
8:  Piattsburgh,  8:  Point  Pleasant.  6;  Red  Bank,  85; 
Snrewsbunr,  10;  Whiting  and  Shamong,  1.  Morrie  and 
Oranpe— Chester,  10;  Dover,  17  80;  —  Welsh,  8;  German 
Valley,  6;  Hanover  a  E.  S.,  6;  Madison,  8  49;  Orange 
Valley  German,  8;  Pleasant  Grove.  7;  South  Orange  1st, 
6  88;  -  Trinity,  86.  i^etoarlp-Montclair  Trinity,  6: 
Newark  8d,  7  88;—  1st  German,  4;  —  8d  German,  8;  — 
Bethany,  17.  ^eae  J^rufuvidlr— Bound  Brook,  16  88; 
Dayton,  8  10;  Kingwood,  8;  Kirkpatrick  Memorial  sab- 
sch,  11;  Princeton  8d,  40  88;  Trenton  Prospect  Street, 
17  88.  iVei0/oa— DanriUe,  40  cts. ;  Greenwich,  4;  Newton, 
80;  Oxford  8d.  8  47;  Stewartsville  (sab-sch,  18  18).  18  18. 
West  Jersey— Brldwton  1st,  80;  —  4th.  8;  —  West,  88  70; 
Camden  Ist  C.  E.  S.,  10;  Deerfleld.  8;  Elmer,  8  80:  Pltts- 

f:rove  sab-sch,  16;  Vineland,  i;  Wenonah,  80;  Woods- 
own,  10  84.  778  06 
Nbw  Mbxioo.— ISio  G^ronde— Jemee.  1;  PsJarito,  S. 
Santa  Fd-LM  Vegas  Ist,  8.  6  00 
New  YoRK.-^EKiny-Albany  4th,  80:  -  8th,  8;  — 
State  Street,  18  09;  Amsterdam  8d.  88  86;  Gloversville 
1st,  18  86;  Saratoga  Springs  1st,  11  02|  Schenectady  1st 
sab-sch,  8  89;  West  Troy  Jermain  Memorial,  6  Ring- 
Aamfon-Binghamton  1st,  88  58;  Deposit  a  E  S.,  8  50; 
Waverly  C.  fi-  S.,  10.  Boef on— Lawrence  German.  7; 
Lowell,  10;  Providence  1st,  8.  .VroolrZyn— Brooklyn  If^t 
German,  6;  —  Ainslie  Street,  6;  —  Arlington  Avenue,  8: 

—  Friedenskirche,  8:  —  Mount  Olivet.  4  48:  —  South  £d 
Street  sab  sch,  10.  Bu^olo— Buffalo  1st,  lOO;  —  Redeem- 
er, 1;  —  Westminster,  m  89;  Clean.  8;  Portville  sab-sch, 
14;  Sherman  sab-sch,  8;  West  field.  7  85.  Gtzytii^- Drr- 
den  (sab-sch,  9  44),  14  68.  (}^ini>ia<n— Port  Henry  safc- 
sch,  8  60.  (T^emuno- Elmira  1st,  8  81;  —  Franklin 
Street  sab-sch,  6;  —  North,  8:  Monterey  sab-sch,  8  87. 
OofumMa— Greenville,  1;  Hunter,  8  14;  Valatle.  4.  Gen- 
eeee- Attica,  18  ^8;  Byron,  4.  Oenetw— Canandalgua, 
8  88;  Geneva  Norih,  86  88;  Grid  sab-sch,  18  96;  Romulus 
Mission  sab-sch,  8.  Jiudeon— Clarkstown  German,  8; 
Florida,  8  80;  Good  WiU,  88  cU.;  Hempstead,  1;  Uberiy 
sab-sch,  7;  Palisades,  8  80:  Port  Jervis,  7  60:  Rldgebury, 

80  cts.;    West  Town,  8.    Long  /«<and— Briogehampton, 

81  88;  Frankltnville,  8;  Soutbhold,  6;  West  Hampton. 
88  10.  Lyone- Woloott  1st,  8  98.  Musau— Far  Rocka- 
way,  86;  Huntington  1st  (C.  E.  S  ,  6),  86  85;  Melville,  1. 
New  Forib— New  York  2d  German  sab-sch,  8;  —  4th 
Avenue  Chapel  sab-sch,  86;  —  Bethany  1;  —  Faith  sab- 
sch.  86;  —  Mount  Tabor,  8;  —  Mount  Washington,  61  90; 

—  Mizpah  Chapel  sabsch,  86;  —  Zion,  8.  Niagara— 
Holley,  80cts.;  Knowlesrille,  8;  Lockport  8d  Ward,  8; 
Maploton  C.  E.  S.,  8;  Niagara  Falls,  80  80;  Wrifffat's  Coi^ 
ner,  80  cts.  Oteeyo— Cooperstown  sab-sch,  6;  Delhi  8d, 
10;  Laurens  sab-sch,  95  cts.  Aoc^efey^>Geiieseo  1st, 
88  25;  Lima,  18  40;  Ogden.  80  cts.;  Rochester  1st,  100| 


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—  Immanuel,  86  cts.;  —  Memorial.  8;  ^  St.  Peter's,  10; 
8pftrte9d8ftb-8ch,8  16:  Bpringwater,  8;  Wheatland,  1. 
8t.  Ixnm-eitce— BrownTiUe  sab-sch,  8;  Canton  0.  E.  8.,  6; 
Oswegatohie  Ist,  86;  Pottedam,  10.  fifteti^en— Arkport, 
86 cts.;  Bath, 44;  Canaseraga  sab-Bch,  8;  HomeUaville 
l8t,  0  18.  S^ractiM— ArabOY,  5;  Fulton,  6;  Oswesp 
Oraoe,  18  15;  Syracuse  4th,  14  87:  —  East  Genesee  C.  E. 
8  , 1  86.  7Voy» Brunswick,  88  60;  Chester,  1  18:  Hoo- 
sick  Falls,  16  40;  Middle  Qranville,  1;  Waterfonl,  8  61. 
Cr^ico— Cochran  Memorial,  14  60;  Litchfield,  1;  Norwich 
Comers.  8;  Oneida,  9  88.  ire«fcAe«t«r— Qreenburgh, 
27  16;  Mt  Kisco,  5;  PeekskiU  1st  sab-sch.  86:  Sing  8b)g 
(sabsch,  41).  69  68;  South  East,  8;  Stamford  1st,  80  94; 
ThompeoDTille,  118  78;  Yonkers  DayBpring.  6.       1.608  98 

Ohio.— ^<A«rw— Chester,  8.  5e</</on<a<ne-BeUefoc- 
talne,  1  81;  Urbana  sab-sch,  10.  CAi/ZtcoMe— Belfast,  8; 
Greenfield  1st,  9  60.  Cincinnati— Cincinnati  8d,  6  08; 
^  8d  (sab-sch,  10),  15;  —  Westminster,  86;  Morrow,  8; 
Westwood  Gf  rman,  1.    CZevetond— Cleveland  1st,  19  90; 

—  8d,  8«;  —  South,  1  50:  Solon,  6.  Colttm2>ia— Greenfield, 
1.  Dayton— Dajton  4th.  6;  —  8d  Street  (sab-sch,  86  50), 
68  60;  —  Memorial,  7;  —  Riverdale.  87  cents;  Eaton.  8  60; 
Hamilton  (sab-sch,  10),  14  80 ;  Middletown,  80;  Riley^  8. 
Huron— Clyde,  8  78.  Lt'ma— Ealida  C.  E.  S.,  6.  i#a/um- 
iny— Canfield,  6;  East  Palestine,  8;  misworth,  10;  Hub- 
bard, 6;  Mineral  Ridge,  1 ;  Salem,  4;  Vienna,  1:  Warren, 
8.  if aum^e— Delta,  8;  Toledo  Ist  German,  1.  PorU" 
moutA— Georgetown,  8.  St.  C/air«;iii«— Bamesrllle,  5; 
Bethel,  5;  fjadls,  88  85;  Crab  Apple,  7  16;  Kirkwood  C. 
E.  S.,  10;  Senecaville,  6.  SfeiA&envi/Ze- Amsterdam  sab- 
sch,  10;  Bloomfleld,  6;  Corinth,  6;  Cross  Creek,  8;  Dell 
Roy,  8;  Kilgore  sab-sch,  5;  Leesviile,  1;  Ridge,  9;  Steu- 
ben ville  8d  sab-sch,  11  48.  ITooater- Bethel,  1  16;  Cres- 
ton.  6  68;  Jackson,  4  87;  Orange,  8.  Zan««tnUe— Blad 
ensburgh,  1:  Mt.  Vernon,  8  70;  New  Lexington  (sab-sch, 
1),  8  15:  RoseTille,  1  44;  Uniontown,  1  88;  Unity,  1  98; 
Zanesville8d,80.  456  18 

Orboon.— £^t  Oreoon— Baker  City,  8;  Monkland.  8  05; 
Moro,  1  86;  Union,  6.  i\>rtZand— Portland  8d  (sab-sch, 
10  76),  17  86.  SoufKem  Oreoon— Myrtle  Creek  sab-sch, 
8  65;  Oakland  sabsch,  4  05.    TFtUamefto-Dallas,  4. 

89  76 

PimfSTLVANiA  —jlZZ«aA«ny— Allegheny  8d  sab  sch,  85; 

—  1st  Gterman,  6  88;  —  Bethel,  1  50;  —  North,  17  57 ; 
Bellevue,  8  16 ;  Ooss  Roads,  8;  Hoboken,  1  44;  Sewickly, 
85  57.  BZair«W2(e-B]airsWlle  (sab  sch,  18),  88;  Ebens- 
burgh,  8  01;  Manor,  8;  Murrysvilie,  8  04;  Pine  Run,  9; 
Balem,  5.  ^uiZer- Amity,  8;  Buffalo  sab-sch,  4;  Middle- 
sex, 18;  PortersTille,  4.  Carlisle— Great  Conewago,  1  50; 
Green  Castle,  4  80;  Harrisburgh  Eider  Street,  1 ;  —  Mar- 
ket Square,  10  08;  —  Pine  Street  C.  E.  S.,  6;  Lower  Marsh 
Creek,  4  85;  Middle  Spring,  5;  Shermansdale,  1 ;  Waynes- 
boro, 8  69.  Cfcetter— Calvary  sab-sch,  40;  Chester  1st, 
16;  New  London,  16.  Clariorv- Beech  Woods^  18  91; 
BrookTille  sab- sch,  70;  Johnsonburg,  80  cents;  Leather- 
wood.  4  68;  MariouTiUe,  48;  Rathmel,  1;  Richland,  8  50; 
SUgo,  8;  Tylersburch,  8;  West  MUlTille  C.  E.  8.,  5;  Wil- 
cox. 85  cents,  ime— Concord,  1  91;  Erie  1st,  41  88;  — 
Park  sab-sch,  IS  18;  Jamestown  C.  B.  8.,  10:  New  Leba- 
non, 1 ;  Pleasant  ville,  5 ;  Union,  1.  I/un#in(7aon— Alt  oon  a 
8d,  5  49;  Birmingham,  9  14;  Hollidaysburgh  (sab-sch, 
8  69).  81  58;  Houtzdale,  1  40:  Lewlstown.  9  76 ;  Mapleton, 
0;  Middle  Tuscarora,  1;  Phillipsburgh.  18  48;  Pine  Grove 
sab-sch,  86  cents;  Shaver's  Creek,  8;  Williamsburgh  sab- 
sch,  1  87.  Jti/tonnino- Atwood,  8;  Bethel  (sab-sch,  4  82), 
6  88;  Bethesda,  8;  Boiling  Spring,  8;  Cherrv  Run,  8; 
Clinton,  1 ;  Elderton,  6;  Gilgal,  1 ;  Harmony,  8;  Homer, 
8;  Marion,  6;  Mount  Pleasant,  8;  Parker  City,  10  04; 
Rockbridge,  8;  Saltsburgh  sab-sch,  87  18:  Slate  Lick, 
1  76;  Union,  8  61.  LocAraiMrnna  -Bethel,  1 ;  Brooklyn, 
4;  Newton,  1 ;  Orwell,  80  cents;  Scranton  1st,  156;  Union- 
dale,  4;  Wilkes  Barre  Grant  Street  sab-sch,  7  58;  Wyom- 
ing, 6  60.  LeAiyA— AUen  Township,  4:  East  on  1st  (sab- 
sch,?  84),  17  84;  Lock  Ridge.  6;  Mauch  Chunk,  86;  Stat- 
ington  sabsch,  6;  Stroudsburg,  5;  Weatherly,  10. 
JVdrtAufm6«rIand- Briar  Creek,  1:  Grove,  29;  Montgom- 
ery, 8;  Mountain,  1;  Muncy,  5  18;  Renovo  1st,  11 ;  Hhlloh, 
4;  Williamsport  Bethany,  1.  /"arlrerftmroA— Morgan- 
town,  8  75;  Sugar  Grove,  1.  PAtIad«2pAi«— Philadelphia 
8d  Street  Misdon  sab-sch,  88  51 :  -  Bethlehem,  88  25;  — 
Central  (C.  E.,  10),  15  60;  —  Cohocksink  (sab-sch  8  45), 
49  45;  —  Gaston,  88  84;  —  Greenway,  10;  —  Greenwich 
Street,  10;  —  Hebron  Memorial  C.  E.  S.,  5;  —  Hope,  5;  — 
North,  6  81;  —  Temple,  84  18;  —  Union  C.  E.  8.,  81;  — 
Walnut  Street,  5;  —  West  Spruce  Street,  841  78.  Phila- 
delphia iVbr/ A— Abington  C.  E.  8.,  88  88 ;  Bridesburg,  5; 
Forestville,  15;  Frankford,  18  64 ;  Gtermantown  8d,  188  96; 
—  Market  Square  (sab-sch,  1  60).  84  85;  Huntingdon 
Valley,  4;  Lawndale,  1;  Narberih,  8  65;  Wissahickon  C. 
E.  8.,  10.  Pi<i«6ttroA— Amity,  5;  Concord,  8:  Courtney 
and  Coal  Bluff,  8 ;  Highland.  10;  Lebanon,  10 ;  Mononga- 
hela  City,  86;  Mount  Carmel,  8;  North  Branch,  1 ;  Phil- 
Upaburg,  1;  Pittsburgh  BeUefleld,  86  18;  —  East  Liberty, 


14  88 ;  —  Haslewood,  li  87 ;  —  Knoxrllle,  8  25 ;  -  Park 
Avenue.  10 ;  —  Point  Breeze,  100;  West  Elizabeth  sab  sch, 
6.  i2e<utone— Fayette  Cltj,  1  50;  McClellandtown,  8; 
Mount  Pleasant  Reunion.  6;  West  Newton,  40  68.  She- 
nan^  ^  Leesburgh,  8.  fTasAinirion— Bethlehem,  8; 
Upper  Ten  Mile,  10;  Washington  8d,  6;  Wheeling  8d,  6. 
TFes6nin«/et^Bellevue,  4{  Cnestnut  Level  \  89;  Colum- 
bia, 18  84;  Donegal,  8;  Hopewell,  88  88;  Lancaster  1st, 
16;  Little  Britain,  5;  Slate  Ridge,  10.  8,184  18 

South  DAKOTA.-Bi«cib  Hil{«>Rapid  City,  1.  CentraX 
JDoJIrof a- Miller,  1  76;  St.  Lawrence,  8.  Scuthem  Dakota 
—Kimball,  8;  Turner  Co.  1st  German,  5.  11  76 

Tbrnbsssk.— Birmtn(7ftam~Thomas  1st,  1 .  HoU  ton— 
St.  Maries,  8  JTinotton— Harriman,  8.  Union- Forest 
Hill,  1 ;  Knoxville  4th,  9  96;  Madisonrllle,  87  cts. ;  Mt.  Zion, 
1.  17  88 

Tkxas.— 7Vini<v— TerreU,  8.  8  00 

Utah.— Boi#e— Bellevue  ssb-sch,  10;  Caldwell,  1.  Ken- 
daZi— Franklin,  1.  Uto A— American  Fork,  4;  Mendon,  6; 
Nephl  Huntington,  8  86;  Pleasant  Grove^  1;  Smithfield 
Central.  8.  88  86 

WA8Bii9OTON.—0Zynipia— South  Bend,  65  cts.  Pufe* 
Sound-Mount  Pisgah,  8  80.    WaUa  IFolla-Kendrick,  1. 

8  86 

Wisconsin.— C^ippf  too— Eau  Claire  1st  (sab-sch,  8),  7; 
West  Superior.  14  89.  La  Croeee-^Vtw  Amsterdam,  4. 
ifadison- Cambria,  1  50;  Janesvllle  C.  E.  &,  5:  Madison 
St.  Paul*s  German,  1  85;  Poynette  sab-sch,  16  40.  i#ii- 
i0oiiilree— Milwaukee  German,  8  56;  —  Grace,  9  71;  — 
HoUand,  6;  —  Immanuel,  60  88.  TFinnebo^o— Depere,  7; 
Oshkosh,  5  89;  Weyauwega  sab-sch,  1.  141  41 

Total  for  Churches,  March,  1894 fi^TM  88 

Total  from  Sabbath-schools,  March,  1894 1,108  08 

Total  from  Churches    and    Sabbath-schools, 
March,1894 6,896  81 

MISCSLLANXOnS. 


Swift,  Chicago,  6;  i^rthur  J.  Waugii,  Clev^ 
land,  Ohio,  6;  Dano-Morarian  ch,  St.  Paul, 
Minn., 78  cts.;  J.  D.  Thompson,  CaL,  400; 
Primary  Class,  Cleveland  Cnurch,  Ohio,  6; 
Mrs.  E.  P.  Thompson,  5;  C.  Penna.,  1;  Mrs. 
Geo.  L.  Dunning,  Rapid  River,  Mich.,  8  50; 
T.  W.Synnott,Glassboro,  N.  J.,  1000;  Mrs. 

A.  A.  Friend,  Fond  dn  Sac,  Wisconsin,  1;  J. 

B.  Davidson,  Newville,  Pa.,  10:  F.  E.  Arm- 
strong, Eingwood.  W.  Va.,  8  50;  Rev.  O.  A. 
Raber,  Mt.  Csrmel,  Indiana,  1 ;  Algona  sab* 
sch.  Iowa,  8;  Interest  Trustees  General  As- 
sembly. 1,090  15;  Interest  Trustees,  8,871  OS; 
Hiintsville Church,  Ohio, 50 cts.  Pilot  Grove 
sab-sch.  Minn.,  1  44;  Rev.T.  J.  Hedges,  Idaho 
Falls,  Idaho.  5;  Esta  E.  Groeh  and  wife, 
Brandon,  N.  T.,  1:  Edw.  E.  Weaver  and  wife, 
Baltimore,  8;  W.  J.  Young,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  8;  ** Friends,**  Markleton,  Pa.,  8;  T. 

A.  McKinstry,  8 6,918  44 

Total  receipU  for  March,  1894 12.808  76 

Deduct  contribution  from  Des  Moines,  Central 
Church,  Des  Moines  Presbytery,  Iowa,  in 
February  receipts  intended  for  Babbath- 
school  of  said  church 80  17 

$18,778  68 
Contributions  acknowledged  previously 87,881  91 

Total  contribuUons  since  April  1st,  1898 100,060  49 

C.  T.  MoMuLLiK,  Trecuurer. 

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^  ATULVnc— Atlantic— Oliyet,  1.  Eatt  Ftorida-CtM- 
dler,  14  06;  Creooent  Oitr  (sab-sch,  18),  89;  Jacktoaville 
ltt,48  67;  San  Mateo.  M;  8aUuiiia,5;  Ber.  H.  Keigwin, 
10.  JreOleUand-MattooD,  1.  South  Florida— Altoona. 
8;  Anburndale  a  EL,  2  79;  Orange  Bend.  0  65;  Sorraoto 
(sab  8ch,  8  M),  97  54;  Tarpon  Hprin^.  5;  TitutrlUe.  S4  46; 
Tncy,i  W;  Upwila  (W.  M.  8.,  6;,  lOj  Winter  Haven.  11  M. 

as9  8« 

BALTHfoRS.— Baltimore— Annapolto.  U  86 ;  Baltimore 

Ist,  780;  >  Al  (Aab-8ch.  60),  166;  —  Abbott  Memorial.  10; 

—  Central.  18  67;  —  Covenant  (C.  E  .  2),  11;  —  Grac^,  1; 

Lafavette Square,  81  40:  -  Liffht  St..  (sab-sch.  6).  17  90;  — 

mberland  let 
h,  6;  Oovane- 
»Jew  Windtor, 
aport  (Caspar 
New  Castle^ 
re  City,  28  60; 
ikb-sch.  7),  22; 
St.  Qeorice's, 
Gilbert.  2;  — 
WaahinQton 
1 ;  Georgetown 
nnassas.  2  10: 
ihington  City 
Mills.  Sodetv. 
politan.  66  15; 
2,681  89 
3— Albion  sta^ 
K>mfleld,  2  80; 
15;  Lakeport, 
av  «w.  mM»wiw  &M  *  «?• ,  w  wvf  iuouuwiiuw,  •«  ^v,  Napa  sab-sch, 
6  68;  Point  Arena,  IS  80;  Two  Rpcks,  80.     Los  Angeles- 
Azosa  Spanish,  4:  Ballard,  10;  Burbank,  6;  El  Montecito. 
7;  Elsinore.  20;  Glendale.  16;  Inglewood,  12;  Lankershim 
Station,  1  66:    Los  Alamos,  5;  Los  Angles  Bethesda, 
8;  —  Grand  view,  4;  —  Immanuel,  804  75;  —  Rpanlsh 
(sab-sch,  6).  28;  Los  Nietos  Spanish.  8;  Los  OUtos,  10; 
Monrovia,  14  16;  National  City,  21 ;  OJai,  12  50;  OUve,  8  60; 
Palms,  16;  Redlands.  180  70;  Rivera  (T.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  6).  18  60; 
Riverside  Arlington,56  80; — Calvary.40;  San  Gabriel  bpan- 
Ish,6;8anUMaria.  8;SaBtaPau]a  L.  M.  S..  10;  Tustin,8  05; 
Ventura,  86  66;  Westminster,  8;  Rev.  F.  D.  Heward,  62  10. 
OoMond— Alvarado.  4  86;  Berkeley  1st  (sab-sch,  26  10), 
81 15 ;  Centre ville,  6;  Concord,  6 ;  Elmhurst  C.  E.,  6 ;  Hay- 
ward,  4;  Livermore,  10  50;  North  Temescal,  15;  Neusek 
SUtion,  1  75:  Oakland  2d,  10;  —  Brooklyn,  92  82;  —  Pros- 
pect HilL  5  6d;  Pleasanton,  2  60.  Sacram«nfo— Anderson, 
5;  Arbuokle,  5  15;  Carson  City  C.  E.,  10;  CSilco,  16;  Colusa 
(sab-sch,  1  26).  80;  Elk  Grove  sab  sch,  2  26;  KIrkwood,  2; 
Redding,  17;  Sacramento  Westminster,  24;  Tehama,  8  60. 
San  i^aftci«eo~San  Francisco  Calvary*  (sab-sch  Mission- 
ary Society,  SI  55).  1S5  25 ;  —  Franklin  Street,  5 ;  — 
Welsh.  5;  —  Westminster  Mrs.  M.  Greenwood,  100.     San 
JomI -Cambria,  6 ;  HoUister  (ssb-sch.  1  40).  (Rev.  M.  W. 
Morse,  6,  C  E.,  1),  17;  Los  Gates  1st,  10;  Monterey  Sd, 
8  55;  San  Jos6  1st,  194;  BanU  Cms.  10;  WatsonviUe  (C. 
E.,  1  80),  6  70.    StocMon— Gn^son  sab-seh,  2:  Hickman, 
6  55;  MontpeUer,  8  90;  Modesto,  11  00;  Oakdale,  10  85; 
Sonora,  16.  4,845  15 

Catawba.— Cope  Fear— Bethany,  1  16:  Simpson  Mis- 
sion sab-soh.  1.  Catatr6a- Concord  Westminster.  5; 
Davidson  College.  10  cts. ;  Lloyd.  16  cts.  S<mtKem  Vir- 
^ntfo— Bbenexer,  1;  Grace  Chapel,  1.  9  40 

Colorado.— fioMlder— Cheyenne,  12  90;  Fort  Collins, 
20;  Fort  Morgan  1st  (sab-sch,  9.  L.  M.  8.,  6),  15;  Fort 
Steele,  1  69;  Holyoke,  80:  Laramie,  25;  New  Castle,  8; 
Rawlins,  22:  Saratoga,  8  8();  Wolf  Creek,  4  25.  Denver- 
Akron,  8;  Brighton  (sab-sch.  8  60),  21;  Denver  Capitol 
Avenue,  16  86:  —  Central  sab  sch,  28  27;  —  North  nsab- 
sch,8),88;  nlghland  Park.  25;  Idaho  Springs,  86;  Otis, 
16;  Platner  German,  2;  South  Denver,  18;  Tuma,  8. 
Gunnison— Aspen,  88  60;  Delta,  10;  Grand  Junction  C. 
E..  6  25;  Ouray  sab-sch.  6.  Pueblo- Antonlto  and  sab- 
sch.  1  60;  Bessemer  Westminster.  10;  CaOon  City,  46; 
CInicero,  6;  Colorado  Springs  2d,  8;  Costilla,  6;  Cucnaras 
Mexican.  5  70;  Durango.  6;  Florissant.  5;  Hastings,  10; 
Huerfano  Cafion,  2;  La  Junta.  7  12:  La  Luz,  4;  La  Veta, 
1  16;  Las  Animas,  5;  Lockett,  8;  Mesa  (sab-sch,  40  76), 
143  81;  Peyton  1st  L.  A.  Society,  5;  Pueblo  1st  (Jr.  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E  ,  20),  40;  —  Fountain.  10  85;  —  Mexican  5th,  1 :  Rocky 
Ford,  5;  Rouse.  1:  San  Pablo,  1;  San  Rafael  Mexican,  4; 
Silver  aiff.  45; Trinidad  1st  sab-sch,  15;  —  2d,  16;  Walsen- 
burgh,  40 ;  Rev.  J.  A.  Todd,  5.  882  97 

Illinois.— i4Z/on— Blair,  1  96;  Brighton,  8;  Carlinville 
sab-sch«  6  35;  Chester  25;  CoIlinsvUle,  25  85;  East  Bt. 
Louis,  7;  Edwardsvllle,  10  55;  Greenville  (C.E.,  10),  (sab- 
sch,  17  40),  27  40;  Lebanon  Ist,  8  60;  Moro,  6;  Nokomis, 
11;  Plainview,  8  95;  Shipman,  6;  Spring  Cove,  5:  Virden 
(Jr.  C.  E.,  8),  18.    Bloomin^on— Bement  (sab-scn,  8  60), 


44  59;  Bloomington  Ist,  117  60;  -  2d,  265  57;  Caynga,  5; 
Cerro  Gordo,  6;  Champaign  (sab-sch,  15  38),  181  77; 
Chatsworth,  8  OJ;  Clarence.  8  82;  Clinton  (a  E.,  25), 
106;  Colfax.  6;  Cooksvilte.  8  41;  Danville.  128  70;  Ehn 
Grove,  5;  El  Paso  (sab-sch.  5),  47  20;  Fairburr,  10; 
FMmer  City.  7;  OalesvUle,  9  80;  Gibson  City,  88  28;  GU- 


man,  25  60;  Heyworth.  87;  Homer,  6;  Hoopeston  (sab- 
sch,  6  84),  24  44;  Jersey,  8  06;  Mahomet,  4  25;  Minonk, 
25;  MontloeUo,  4  15;  Mount  Carmel.  7  80;  Normal,  22; 


Onarga,56;  Paxton,  15  40;  Philo  (sab-sdi,  8),  51;  Piper 
City,  58  96;  Pontiac,  42;  Prairie  View,  14;  Rankin.  2  81; 
Reading.  7  80;  Selma,  8;  Hheldon.  25;  Sidney.  8  bO:  To- 
lono,  84  20:  Towanda,  4;  Urbana,  ti  05;  Watseka,  86; 
Waynesville,  10  60;  Wenona,  10.  (7a<ro-Anna,  10;  Ava 
(C.£.,8  10),  8  10;  Carmi  sab-sch,  6;  CartervUle,  4;  Cen- 
tralia  sab-sch,  25;  Oobden.  7;  Eagle  Oeek,  8;  Enfield,  20; 
Mount  Carmel,  16;  Murphysboro,  25:  Vergennes,  5;  Wa- 
bash, 4.  C^^caoo— Arilngton  Heights.  7  20;  BrookUne, 
2  71;  C!abery  C.  E..  8  68;  Chicago  1st,  280  76;  —  8d,  980; 

—  4th,  70;  —  6th.  841  48;  —  9th.  40  60;  —  41st  Street, 
276  69;  —  60th  Street,  7  60;  —  Bethany,  1  75;  —  Camp- 
beU  Park,  85;  —  Central  Park  (sab  sch,  11),  46;  ~  Cov- 
enant, 64  75;  —  Emeraki  Avenue,  7  56;  —  Fullerton 
Avenue, 61  56;  —Grace,  6;  —  lUlian,  6;  —  Lakeview, 
28  94|  —  Scotch.  9;  Deerfleld,  4;  Du  Page  (sab-sch,  18  60), 
28;  Evanston  1st,  182  42;  —  South  (si£^sch,  4  Oi\  46  67; 
Gardner,  15;  Highland  Park  C.  E..  5;  Joliet  Central, 
126  56:  Kankakee  1st  (sab-sch.  20),  72  86;  Lake  Forest, 
148;  Morgan  Park.  2  80;  New  Hope  (sab  sch,  6  88).  46  88; 
Oak  Park  Ist,  47;  River  Forest  1st,  It  12;  South  Chicago 
1st.  25  PVeeoori— Cedarville,  14;  Elizabeth,  2;  Freeport 
8d  German,  5;  Galena  1st  sab-sch,  28;  —  South  Csab-scb, 
25),  45;  Linn  and  Hebron,  20;  Marengo.  25;  Oregon.  IS: 
Queen  Anne  German,  6;  Ridgefleld,  17  20;  Rockford  Ist 
C.  E.,  8  21;  Willow  Creek  (sab  sch,  21  26).  85  67.  Mat- 
toon— Areola,  5;  Bethel.  4;  Edgar,  4;  Kansas  aab-sch.  4; 
Mattoon  (Jr.  C.  E.,  8  60).  80  5b;  Morrisonviile,  10;  New 
Providence,  1  80;  Pana,  2  85;  Paris,  86  50;  Prairie  Bird, 
10 :  Shelby  ville,  17.  Of  tatcm— Aurora  add*],  6  25 ;  Au  Sable 
Grove  (C.  E.,  36  40),  (sab^ch,  11  20),  57  00;  Elgin 
House  of  Hope  ( W.  M.  S..  12),  25;  Morris,  6;  Paw  Paw 
(sab-sch,  4).  14:  RocheUe  Ist.  44  04:  Sandwich.  80; 
Streator  Park  sab-sch,  20;  Waltham  C.  E..  5;  Waterman, 
6.  PtooHo— Brimfleld.  1;  Canton  1st,  15  60;  Delavan, 
8  76;  Elm  wood,  12;  Green  Valley,  6;  Ipava,  84  86;  lime- 
stone, 21  60;  Oneida,  12;  Peoria  1st,  1 0  60:  —  8d,  29  89; 

—  Calvary,  Jr.  C.  B.,  7;  —  Grace,  44;  Prospect,  7  79. 
/^ocIe  leaver- Aledo,  19;  Alexis,  25;  Ariington  (sab-sch, 
8),  20;  Ashton  (eab-sch,  IS).  (C.  E  .  6).  17;  Coal  Valley, 
2  40:  Dixon.  61  90:  Garden  Plain  C.  fL,  7  60;  Geneseo. 
24;  Hamlet,  14;  Morrison  (sabsch,  5  60),  (a  E..  10  02). 
16  52;  Norwood  sab-sch.  11  50;  Perrytim,  5  05:  Princeton 
C.  E.,  2  25;  Woodhull,  20.  ^S^^uyter- Bardolph.  6  88; 
Camp  Point.  7  60;  Clayton,  8;  Elvaston,  8;  Henmaa,  80; 
Kirkwood,  15  60;  Macomb,  08;  Monmouth  (sab-sch,  5  79), 
95  86;  Mount  Sterling  1st  sab-sch,  48  61 ;  New  Salem.  16; 
Olive,  5;  Perry  sab-sch,  4;  Plymouth,  5  15;  Prairie  City, 
8.  A>rinff/leld-Brush  Chreek,  4  81;  Farmington,  81; 
Jackson vUIe  State  Street  C.  E..  15;  Blaroa,  11;  Masen 
City  sab-sch,  7;  Murray  ville,  7  50;  North  Sangamon,  20; 
Petersburgh,  84  15;  Pisgah.  1  91;  Springfield  let,  21; 
Virginia.  16;  Rev.  W.  LTTarbet  and  wtfe  2  40       6,815  67 

Indiana.— Oaw/brdtvitte— Delphi  C.  E.,  6  25;  Frank- 
fort sab-sch,  10;  Lexington  sab-sch,  8;  RockvIUe  Memoi^ 
ial,  20  48.  JndianapoMt— Greencastle  sab-sch,  8  6& 
Lo^anfport— Kentland  C.  E  ,  6;  Logansport  1st,  fO  42; 
Mlshawaka,5;  Union,  5  9t.  New  ^l6any-MitcheU  sab- 
sch,  8.  87  66 

Indian  Tirritort.— CAoctou^-Atoka  (sab-sch.  6),  7; 
Big  Uck,  6  40;  McAlester,  4  60;  Mount  Gllead,  1  60; 
Philadelphia,  00  cts.;  Tushkahoma,  10;  Wheeloc^,  10. 
Ol^kiAoma— Anadarko,  8  60;  Calvary  and  sab-sch,  1  01; 
Chandler  (sab-sch,  60  cts),  5;  Chickasha  (sab-sch,  4  6<n, 

g:^  M.  S..  14),  84  26;  Deer  C^raek,  4  64;  Edmond.  12  12; 
1  Reno,  80;  Guthrie  1st,  19  62:  Puroell.  5;  Rush  Springs, 
5  76;  Tecumseh  1st,  6;  Thurston.  2  75;  Waterkx>,  2  20; 
Winnview,  80  cts.;  Wynnewood,  6  40.  Sequoyah— 
Achena,  12;  Barren  Fork.  4:  Claremore  Mound,  27  80; 
Elm  Grove,  4;  Fort  Gibson,  10  05;  Girtv^s  Spring,  2  76; 
Hanson.  2;  McKey,  2;  Muldrow,  8;  Nuyaka  CL  E.,  10; 
Pleasant  Valley  (sab-sch,  1  05),  (C.  E.,  2).  8  05;  Bed  Fork. 
10;  Tulsa,  5;  White  Water.  4 :  Rev.  W.  Tanyan,  5.  291  41 
Iowa— Cedar  iSap/de— Bellevue  sab-sch,  5:  BetheL  2  80; 
Blairstown  C.  E.,  9  80;  Cedar  Rapids  2d,  60  66:  -  8dC.  B., 
5;  -  Bohemian  (sab-sch.  8  85).  (C.  E.,  1).  14  85:  EmeUne, 
6:  Mechanicsville,  6;  Onslow,  5  66;  Scotch  Grove,  U; 
Shellsburgh,  8  60;  Vinton  additional  (Mb-seh.  18).  (C  E.. 
10).  66;  Wyoming  1st  sab-sch,  3  87.  CSonUn^— Afton 
(sab-sch,  1),  (C.  E..  1  50),  4;  Anderson  Westminster,  6  60; 
ArUngton,  4;  Brooks,  6  40;  Clarinda  (C.  E.,  9),  80;  Coming 
1st,  29  67;  Creston,  86;  Diagonal  (sab-sdi,  1),  (C.  E.,  1),  f\ 


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Emerson,  7  50;  Essex,  t  86;  GraTlty,  S  86;  Hamburg,  6  08; 
Momins:  Star  sab  8ch,  9  60;  Nodaway,  7;  Norwich.  8  86; 
Red  Oai  (Y.P.8.0.B.,9  40),  18;  Shenandoah,  18;  Yorktown 
(sab-sch,  1  50),  18  50.  Ck>uncU  B/uiT*- Adair  (sab-sch.  16), 
17  60;  Audubon.  81 :  Quthrie  Centre  (C.E.,  7  itf ),  (Jr.C.E  ,1), 

8  85;  Ijogan  sab-sch,  5;  Menlo.  IS;  Blissouri  Valiey,  88; 
Woodbine.  11.  De*  ifo<ne«— Albia.  88  6L;  AUerton,  seO  85; 
CentraTille  1st,  80;  Dallas  Centre.  88  16;  Des  Moines  6th. 
6;  ~  Bethany,  8;  —  Central,  146  88;  —  Clifton  Hefehts, 
18;  —  East.  27  85;  —  Highland  Park  C.  E.,  4;  —  West- 
minster sab-sch.  9  50;  Garden  Grove  (sab-sch,  8  86).  (C 
Em  1  16),  86  81;  Grimes  (C.  E.,  6),  i8  70;  HoweU,  6; 
Indianola  (C.  E..  5),  (<«ab.sch,  14),  88  70;  Jacksonville 
sab-«ch,  2;  Lineville.  4 ;  Mik>,  7:  New  Sharon,  6;  Newlon 
(sab-sch,  5  6«).  (C.  E.,  6  8)),  18  85:  Panora,  8  60;  Ply- 
mouth, 6;  Ridge  lale,  11  70;  Russell  (sab-sch.  4  19),  (C. 
E.,8  14),  7  88;  Waukee,  10.  />uA»ugue- Bethel  C.  E.,  10; 
CentretownGh  "  "^  ;  Dubuque  1st  (sab- 
sch,  30  11),  50  (C.  E.,  1),  (sab-sch, 
6  88),  9  88;  Dj  rley.  7;  FrankTiUe, 
8;  Hazleton  C.  18  69;  Independence 
German,  10;  J<  M.  8  ,  5  80),  (C.  E., 

I  60).  17  8  i;  LI  ,  18  80;  Mount  Hope, 
8;  Oelwein  (L.  69;  Pleasant  Grove. 
15;  Prairie,  10;  06;  Wilson's  Grove, 

9  80;  Zion  T.  E  Dodae -Armstrong, 
8  50;  Bancroft  >I1,  16:  Coon  Rapids 
sab-sch,  8;  Di  la,  8  86;  Fort  Dodge 
(sabsch,  87  90^.  i«  •*»,  vjiuuuro  v^n.^,  6  17;  Glldden  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E.,  8  80;  Irvington,  6;  JelTerson  Tsab  sch.  8  88), 

15  88;  Lake  City,  16  VO;  Paton  (sab-sch,  5  18),  10  16; 
Plover,  6  18;  Pomeroy  sab  sch,  8  08;  Ramsey  German,  6; 
Hpirit  Lake.  4;  West  Bend,  6;  A  Friend,  5.  Iowa— 
Bentonsport,  15  85;  Birmingham,  18  60;  Bloomfleld  T.  P. 
S.  C.  E  ,  6;  Bonaparte  (sab-sch.  8  60),  (W.  M.  8.,  6  50), 

16  10;  Burlington  1st,  81  63;  Croton,  10;  Fairfield,  119  08; 
Hope,  8  61;  Keokuk  Westminster.  82:  —  8d,  16  80;  Liber- 
ty ville,  18  50;  Martinsburg,  10  88;  Middletown,  15;  Mont- 
rose (sab-sch,  8),  6;  Mount  Pleasant  1st,  91  06;  Mount 
ZIon.  85;  New  London.  18  85;  Ottumwa  1st,  (L  M.  8., 
80  40),  49  10;  —  East  End,  18:  Primrose,  6:  Sharon,  14; 
Hpring  Creek,  8;  Troy,  7  25;  Union,  45  86;  West  Point.  10; 
Winfleld,  45.  Iowa  (T^ty-Bethel  6  85;  Blue  Grass.  8  60; 
Columbus  Central  Csab-sch,  4  75),  10;  Crawfordsyllle, 
16  10;  Davenport  sid  (.King's  Helpers,  6  10)  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  , 
1<),  13  10;  Fairview,  6  60;  Iowa  aty  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  tO; 
KeoU  (sab-sch.  53  cts.).  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  ,  1  18),  7  65;  Lafa- 

Jette,  6;  Malcom  (sab-sch,  8),  (T.  P.  8.  C.  E ,  6).  44; 
[ontezuma  (sab-sch.  8  46).  83)  01 ;  Muscatine  1st  Csab-sch, 
8  60).  48  50;  Scott.  10  60;  Sigoumey  sab-sch.  1  15;  Sugar 
Creek,  18;  Summit  Y.  P.  S.  C.  R.,  8  58;  West  Liberty  (sab- 
sch,  1  85).  81  85;  WilUamsburgh  Csab-sch,  7),  (Y.  P.  R.  C. 
E.,  8),  10;  Wilton.  86.  Sioux  City-Battle  Creek  (sab- 
sch,  6),  (Y.  P.  S.  0.  E..  5),  86;  Hosper's.  5;  Inwood.  10; 
Le  Mars,  88;  Lyon  Co.  German.  10:  Odebolt,  8:  Sanborn, 
80  40;  Schaller.  50;  Hioux  City  8d  Y.  P.  H.  C.  E..  8  60; 
Union  Township.  8  80;  Woodbury  Co.  Westminst^^r,  8. 
TFaterloo— Ackfey,  96  40;  ApUngton.  80  90;  Cedar  Falls 
(sab-sch,  5),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  4),  19;  Cedar  Valley,  7; 
Olarksville,  l<t;  Ck>nrad  10;  Dows,  18  45;  Dysart,  18; 
Eldora,  6  85:  Kamrar  German.  8;  La  Porte  City  Jr.  Y.  P. 
H.  C.  E.,6;  Marshalltown.  84  75;  Morrison.  5  60;  Nevada 
sab-sch,  8;  Rock  Creek  (German.  6;  Salem,  9  50:  State 
Centre,  17  50;  Steamboat  Rock,  2  50;  Tama  sab  sch.  8  87; 
Toledo  (sab  sch,  1  76).  4;  Tranquility.  47  80;  Waterloo 
(sab-sch,  8).  (Friend,  150),  1S8;  Williams,  8.  8.117  48 

Kansas.— Emporia— Argonia.  6  '/7;  Bethany,  6  95;  Big 
Creek,  8  81;  Braioerd,  1;  Burlington  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8), 
19  46;  Caldweli.  48;  Cottonwood  Falls,  10;  Eldorado,  18; 
Elmendaro,  7  50;  Emporia  '^d  Welsh.  15;  —  Arundel  Ave. 
(sab-sch,  1  15).  86  15;  Florence  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  4;  Geuda 
Springs,  6  15;  Indianola,  1:  Madison,  5  58;  Maple  City,  7; 
Marion  sab-sch.  18  50;   Mayfleld,  5  88;  Mount  Vernon. 

II  50;  Neal,  5;  New  Salem.  8;  Osage  City.  18  80;  Oxford, 

10  63;  Peotone,  8;  Pleasant  Unity,  i  70;  Potwin.  8;  Quene- 
mo,  8  60;  Springside.  6;  Walnut  Valley,  7;  Waveriy  (Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E..  18  84).  8S  88;  Wellington,  10;  WichiU  1st. 

88  40.  H/p^land— Atchison  1st  (sabsch.  8).  89;  Avoca.  60 
cts.;  Aztef,  4:  BaiIeyville(Y  P.  S.  C.  E.,  1  77).  8  87;  Blue 
Rapids,  19:  Highland  (sab-sch.  15),  41  65;  Holton  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  B.,  15;  Horton  (sab-sch.  4),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  1  56).  5  60; 
Huron,  8;  Marysville,  18;  Netawaka,  8  50;  Norton  ville,  10; 
Soldier,  60  cto. ;  Troy.  8 ;  Vermi  llion.  7.  Lamed—  Arling- 
ton Y.  P.  H.  C.  E.,  8  86;  Dodge  City.  8  85;  Edwin.  8  M; 
Garden  City.  14;  Great  Bend.  6  28;  Greensburg.  6:  Halsted 
(sab-sch,  1  86),  (Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  1  54),  86;  Harper,  5  50; 
luka,  4;  KendaU.  1;  Lamed  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8).  (Band  of 
Workers,  4  75).  7  75;  Liberal.  84;  Lyons,  81  86;  McPherson, 

89  80;  Nashville,  10;  Ness  City,  17;  Pratt  (sab-sch,  5).  21; 
Roxbury,  7  50;  Spear^iUe  (sab-sch,  7  75),  14  85;  Sterling, 
10;  Ulysses,  1  48;  Rev.  D.  M.  Moore,  5.  ^tfo«fto— Baxter 
Springs  1st,  6;  (Tarlyle,  6  82;  Central  City,  6;  Cherryvale, 
6;  Ohetopa,  80;  Cohimbus,  17;  Fort  Soott  Ist,  80;  Gkunett, 


17  96;  Gtrard  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6),  88;  loU  (sab-sch,  10).  86; 
Kincaid,  8  82;  Lake  Creek.  6  60;  Lone  Elm,  8;  Mlliken 
Memorial,  1885;  Mineral  Point,  8;  Moran.  6  68;  Neodesha, 
7;  Neosho  FaUs,  5;  Osawatomie,  18;  Ottawa,  18  76;  Par- 
sons (sab-sch,  5  84).  86  69;  Princeton,  18;  Kcammon  sab- 
sch. 8  68;  Thayer,  6;  Toronto,  4;  "Tithe,"  8.  Otbome— 
Bow  Creek,  A;  Calvert,  8;  Ck>lby,  81  71;  Crystal  PUlns,  8; 
Downs,  8;  Fremont.  50  cts.;  Hill  City.  50  cts.;  Hoxie,8; 
Norton,  8  65;  Oberlln.  19  88;  Fhillipsburg.  85;  Prairie 
View,  8;  Rose  Valley,  8  67;  Wakeeny  (sab-sch.  8  60),  8  60. 
^otomon-Belleville,  5;  Beloit,  68;  Cawker  City,  8;  Fort 
Harker,  8;  Glen  Elder.  8;  Herrington,  4  70;  Lincoln  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E..  4;  Minneapolis  sab-sch.  85;  Mt.  Pieanant,  4;  Salt- 
vlll<*,  8;  Sylvan  Grove.  4  14;  Vesper,  2  55;  Rev.  R  Arthur, 
tithe,  6.  7\>|>eita— Adrian,  8  50;  Bala.  8;  Baldwin.  10; 
Black  Jack,  5  87;  Clay  Centre.  14  08;  Clinton,  17;  De  Soto, 
4;  Falrmount.  4;  Idana,  8  50:  Junction  City,  86;  Kansas 
Grand  View  Park  sab-sch,  7  81;  —  Western  Highlands 
(sab-sch,  1  40),  98  06;  ~  Westminster  sab-sch,  8  85; 
Leavenworth  1st.  860;  Lowemont.  6;  Media,  M;  Olathe 
(sabsch,  8),  7;  Perry  sab  sch,  1  84;  Riley,  4  80;  Sedalia,  0; 
Seymour.  II.  1,744  49 

KsNTCOKY.—lE^benexer— Ashland  (sab-sch,  7  68),  58  91 ; 
Ebenezer.  6;  Falmouth,  7;  Flemingsburgh,  15  08;  Frank- 
fort add'l,  85 ;  Qreenup,  8  76 ;  Lexington  8d  (sab-sch, 
64  88),  618  65;  Maysville,  101  06;  Mount  RterUng  1st 
(sab-sch,  8  70), 6;  New  Concord,  8;  Paris  1st,  15;  Pikeville, 
8  06;  Bharpsburg.  6  60.  Lou<n;iZ/e--Chapel  Hill.  8  80; 
Craig,  8  9S;  Grand  Rivers  Ohio  Avenue,  1  70;  Guston, 
8;  Hopkinsville  1st,  6  65;  LouIsviUe  4th,  5;  -  Calvary, 
20;  ^  Central,  95  76;  —  (}ovenant.  94  68;  Owensboro  1st, 
97  60;  Princeton  1st  (sab-sch,  2  05),  6  98:  Shelbyville 
(Assembly  Mission  Band.  8  50),  88  18;  South  Carrollton, 
1  60.  TVatMyivanta— Danville  8d,  150;  Dicks  River,  8; 
East  Bemstadt,  1;  Edraondton.  8  65;  Lebanon  1st,  6; 
Livingston,  6;  Richmond  8d  (sab-sch,  5),  (Y.  P.  B.  C.  E., 
1).  6.  1,828  58 

MicHioAN  —Detroit— Birmingham,  10;  Detroit  1st,  800; 

—  Forest  Avenue  addM,  88  57;  —  Fort  Street  add'l.  800; 

—  Memorial,  98;  —  Trumbull  Avenue,  104  71;  —  West- 
minster (Two  Members,  150),  848:  Howeli,  40:  Milford 
United,  80;  Mount  Clemens,  1;  NorthvUle.  85;  White 
Lake.  15;  Ypsilanti  sab-sch,  7;  Rev.  E.  Jamieson,  5. 
Flint— AvocAy  8;  Brent  Creek,  5;  Bridgehampton  1st,  8; 
Brockway,  8:  Caseville.  4;  Chandler,  6;  Columbia,  6  40; 
(}oranna,  80  70;  Denmark,  1  40;  Flushing.  16;  Flynn,  8; 
Frazer,  6;  Fremont,  5;  Gaines,  11  40,  Grindstone  City,  8; 
La  Motte.  6  66;  Lexington,  8  60:  Linden  sabsch,  8;  Pin- 
nebog,  8;  Popple.  6  61;  Band  Beach  (sab-sch,  89  cts.)* 
(Y.  P.  8  O.  B..  68  cts  ).  Children's  Missionary  Society, 
80  cts  ),  9  80;  Vassar^S;  Rev.  Jas.  Halliday.  10.  Grand 
Rapid9-'B\%  Rapids  Westminster  (sab-sch78),  9;  Evart, 
85;  Grand  Haven  (sab-sch,  4  40),  18  51 ;  GrandRapidslst,  40; 

—  Immanuel  (Boy's  Missionary  Band,  5),  (Y.  P.  Society, 
5),  (L.  M.  8 ,  5),  88  58 ;  —  Mission  Wood  sab-sch,  7  85; 
Liidington  sabsch,  4;  Muir,  10;  Tustin,  8  60;  Rev.  A. 
Stewart.  15.  IToZamasoo— Allegan  Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  9; 
Burr  Oak.  10;  C^assopolis  1st,  8;  Edwardsburgh,  5  85; 
Kalamazoo  Ist,  155;  —  North.  4  18;  Schoolcraft,  4  88; 
Three  Rivers.  11 ;  White  Pigeon,  4  80.  Lake  Superior— 
Escanba  T.  P.  8  C  E.,  4  41;  Ford  River  (sab-sch,  8  50), 
(Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  ,  8  80).  6  80:  Qrierville,  1  50;  Hay  Lake,  8; 
Iron  Mountain,  15;  Iron  River,  4  81:  Ishpeming  (Y.  P. 
8.  C-  E.,  5),  16  26;  Manistlque  Redeemer  (sab-sch.  16  9^, 
( Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  ,  6  57),  55  18  ;  Marquette  1st  Y.  P.  8.  a  E., 
88  89;  Mount  Zion,  8  50;  Negaunee,  17  8A:  Newbeny 
(sab-sch.  5  81).  10;  Pickford.  ^  85;  Red  Jacket  Ist,  10; 
Hault  Ste.  Marie,  9  50;  Stalwart  sab-sch,  2 ;  St.  Ignace,  8; 
Town  Line,  1  75  Lanting -BaXWe  Creek  Y.  P.  8.  C.  £., 
8;  Brooklyn,  7;  Concord,  15  17;  Jackson  1st,  84  50;  Lans- 
ing 1st  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  3  75;  Mason.  98:  Parma,  6  88; 
Runfleld,  4;  Windsor,  11.  ifonroe— Adrian  Y.  P.  B.  C.  E.. 
10;  Biissfleld  (an  elder),  85;  Clayton,  10;  Cold  water  (sab- 
sch. 10).  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  10),  66  01;  Dover,  4;  Erie,  17; 
Hillsdale,  88  76;  Jonesville  (sab-sch.  6  69).  (Y.  P.  8.  C. 
E.,  8).  84  89;  La  Salie,  4:  Monroe.  87  98;  Raisin  T.  P.  8.  C. 
E  .  5  35;  Reading,  59  68:  Tecumseh.  65.  Pttotkey—Bojne 
City.  4;  Cadillac.  87  18;  Harbor  Springs  sab-sch,  7; 
Omena.  6;  Petoekey.  9  06.  Saatnai47— Alma,  41 ;  Bay 
City  1st,  68  85;  Gladwin  8d,  8;  Mungers.  10;  St.  Louis, 
18:  Taymouth,  10;  West  Bay  City  Covenant,  5;  —  West- 
minster, 60.  8,686  68 

MiNNKSOTA.  —  Dviuth  —  Brsluerd,  18 ;  Cloquet,  8  06; 
Duluth  Hazlewood  Park,  8;  —  Norwegian,  1  80;  Ely,  4; 
Grand  Rspids.  9  OSjHinckley.  8;  Highland.  8;  La  Prairie. 
2;  Pine  City.  1  60;  Thomson,  8;  Tower  St.  James,  6;  Two 
Harbors  sab-sch.  8  50 ;  West  Duluth  Westminster,  6  88. 
ifanfcato -Balaton  (sab-sch,  8  06),  6  60:  Blue  Earth  C!ity, 
8;  Brewster.  8  85;  Elk  Center.  8  15;  Island  Lake,  8  64; 
Kasota,  5;  Le  Seuer,  6  85;  Mankato  1st,  78  68;  MarshaU, 
18  50 ;  Montgomery,  8;  Red  Rock  and  sab-sch,  8  60; 
Redwood  Falls,  14;  Round  Lake,  8:  Summit  Lake,  7; 
Woodstock,   4  60 ;    Worthington   Westminster,    11  06. 


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Minneapolii-DelMMko,  0  85;  Eden  Prairie.  7  10 ;  Howard 
(sab-flch,  1),  11  66;  Maple  Plain,  8  17;  Minneapolis  lit, 
MM;-5th,10;  -  Higfiand Park sab-Boh and tTpTs.  C. 
B..  11  60;  -  Shilo^Tft:  —  Swedish  1st.  1  76;  Winsted, 
6  66.  Aed  INver— dowiown,  1 :  Elbow  Lake,  7 ;  GranTille. 
1;  Hallock,  10;  Moorfaead,  5;  Northcote,  6.  at.  Cloud— 
Brown's  Vallej,  4  76;  Burbank,  1;  Rheiderland  Qerman 
(sab-sch,  a  4;  Bmralton,  8  76.  at,  Ai«Z-BeUe  Plains  T. 
P.  a  O.  B.,  1;  Dundas  (sab-seh,  S),  4  76;  Empire,  1; 
Farmlncton.  8:  Goodhue,  8;  Maoalester  sab-sch.  6  76; 
NorthSt.  Paul  sab-sch.  6;  Red  Wine  1st  (sab-sch,  80). 
88  85:  Bush  City  (Peers  sab-sch,  1^),  11  87;  St.  Paul 
BethleheBi  Ctonnan,  5;  —  Dajton  Arenue  (T.  P.  S.  a  B. , 
10),  81  50;  —  House  of  Hope  (sab-sch,  80).  484  76;  ~ 
Park,  8  78;  YennUlion,  8;  White  Bear  sab-soh,  8  08. 
TTinono— Austin,  5;  Chester  (a  family),  7;  daremont 
(sab-sch,  5).  (T.  P.  a  C.  B.,  6  60),  11  60;  Bbeneser  Ger- 
man, 6  78;  Frank  Hill  German,  0;  Fremont  sab-sch,  10; 
Owatenna,  10;  Riplej,  8;  Rushfbrd  1st  sab-sch,  1  70; 
Station,  1  06:  BtewartTille,  97  cts.;  Washington,  8  60; 
Winona  1st,  86;  —  German,  10;  Bar.  L  H.  Hajenga,  5. 

^  Mu«ouBi.7-ran«M  Qfy—Ajppleton  Ci^7, 17;  Butler  Irt, 


loMTAHA.—ffwfts— Anaconda,  80s  Corrallis.  76  cts. ;  Cox- 
r  Minejttets.;  Granite,860iPhiUipsbuivr550;SteTens- 
le,  7;  victor,  8;  Returned  by  a  misstonary,  00  cts. 


MOMTAHA.— £ 

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JETelefia— Boseman  (T.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  86),  80;  Hamilton 
Bast,  11  16;  Helena  1st,  89  85;  —  Central,  7  SO;  Spring 
Hill,  8;  Wiekee,  5.  Qrtat  ^Vll^•-HaTr^  6;  Kaliqpell  sab- 
sch,  6.  ^95  80 

Nebraska.— H(iuNna«—Axtel,  6;  Beaver  City  1st,  19  60; 
Bloomington,  4;  (Campbell  German,  6;  Friendship,  1; 
Hansen,  7;  HartwelL  8;  Hastings  German,  8;  Kenesaw, 
9  89;  Orleans,  4  67:  Seaton,  8;  Stamford,  8;  Stockham, 
1  60 ;  Thornton,  5 ;  Verona.  8.  Zeoniey— Big  Spring,  8  86 ; 
Broken  Bow,  88  60;  Buffalo  GroveGerman  (Bab-sch,6),  9; 
Fullerton  1st  sab-sch,  1 1 91 ;  Gibbon,  5;  Litchfield.  8 ;  North 
Loup,  1  60;  Ord  1st,  10;  Salem  Gkrman,  4:  Scotia,  8; 
Sumner,  8;  Sutherland,  6;  Wilson  Memorial,  8.  Nt- 
hra$ha  CVtef— Adams,  16;  Bameston,  5;  Burohard,  14  90; 
Ftdrbury,  18  71;  Hebron,  10;  Hickman  German  sab-sch, 
5:  Hubbell,  9;  Lincoln  1st,  80;  Nebraska  City  1st,  86  88; 
Plattsmouth  1st,  15  80;  —  German,  8;  Seward  (sab-sch, 
l),(;jr.T.P.S.C.E.,  80  eta.),  81 11 ;  titaplehurst,  6;  Tecumseh 
(sab-sch. 4),  61 85;  Utica, 8.  iVifo6rara~Belmont,  880;  Beth- 
any, 1  50;  Cleveland  (T.  P.  S.  0.  E.,  1  66),  8  40;  Inman,  8; 
Lambert,  4;  Marseland,  45  cts.;  Millerboro,  16;  Csmond, 
8;  Pender  and  T.  P.  8.  a  B..  8;  Randolph,  8:  RushvlUe, 
6;  South  Fork,  8  50;  Willow  Creek,  8  96:  WiUowdale, 
5  64;  Winnebago  Indian,  18;  Rev.  N.  8.  Lowrie,  1. 
OmaAa— Bellevue  sab-sch,  6;  Ceresco,  8;  Creston,  9; 
Fremont  let  additional,  8  rO;  Marietta,  80;  New  Omaha 
Mission  School.  8  67;  Omaha  Ist,  86  99;  -  Ambler  Place, 
8  85:  —  Bohemian,  7;  —  Castellar  Street,  6  80;  —  Knox, 
8:  Plymouth,  4i8chuyler  Bohemian,  4  68;  Schuyler,  8  79; 
Wahoo,  18  38;  Webster,  10;  Zlon  Grove.  1  86.  707  86 

Nsw  JsRSKT.—^isa^e^ft— BayonneClty,  80;  Bethlehem 
8:  Clinton  (sab  sch.  95),  660;  Connecticut  Farms,  70; 
CJranford  1st,  8  14;  Dunellen  sab-sch,  86;  Elisabeth  Ist 
Murray  Miss.  Soc.,80  60;  —  1st  German,  10:  -  8d,  818; 
—  8d  Y  P.  S.  C.  E.,  7;  —  Westminster  O*.  M.  8.,  5), 
(sab-sch.    48  86),  949  86;    Lamington    sabHMsh,  86  M; 


Jemes.  90;  Las  Oruces  1st,  k  90;  l^ajarito,  6:  Socorro  1st, 
8.  aanta  ^-Rl  Ranche,  2:  Las  Vegas  1st,  it;  Peoasoo,  1; 
J.  E.  Cms.  8  86;  Pedro  PadUla,  4  60.  188  66 

Nbw  Yowt.-4/6anr-Albany_4th,  786;  -  6th,  4;  - 
State  Street.  884  20;  —  West  End  T.  P.  B.  C.  E.,  8  98; 
Amsterdam  8d,  198  80;  BaUston  Spa  (A  lady,  9),  (sa^sch, 
85  66),  87  66;  Batchellerville.  10;  Bethlehem  (sab-sch,  4), 
7:  Esperance  sab-sch,  4;  Galway,  %  GloversTllle  1st, 
170  10;  HamUton  Union  (sab-sch,  6),  SO;  Jefferson,  9  60; 
Jermain  Memorial,  1,056;  Johnstown,  186:  Princetown, 
10  60;  Saratoga  Springs  1st,  90  48;  Schenectady  1st  (sab- 
sch,  69  64),  869  17;  West  Milton,  4.  ^^na^mtoii-Afton, 
10;  BInghamton  let,  888  47;  —  North  T.  P.  &  a  E.,  16; 
Coventry  2d,  81;  Freetown,  6;  Marathon,  6|  Masonville 
(sab  sch,  6),  9  4(i;  Nineveh,  51;  Uoion,  48  84.  ^Of^Ofi- 
Antrim  sab  sch,  7;  Barre.  6;  Fall  River  Gk>be.  8;  Houlton 
sab-Bch,  8;  Lonsdale  (sab-sch,  6),  16;  Lowell,  86;  L^nn 
(sab-sch,  16),  (W.  M.  S.,  10),  (Y.  P.  8.  a  E..  10),  60;  Man- 
chester 8d,  10;  New  Bedford  L.  A.  and  M.  Society.  5; 
Providence  1st,  88;  Routh  Ryegate  1st,  18;  Taunton  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  E..  1  68;  Woonsocket,  15.  .9rool;Zyn— Brooklyn  1st, 
85;  — 8d,Mrs.  A.  L  Bulkl^,  89  60;  —  1st  German,  96;  — 
6th,  9;  —  Arlington  Avenue,  8;  —  Bethany,  8  70;  — 
Central,  86  58;  —  East  Williamsburg  German,  10;  — 
FriedensUrche,  10;  —  Green  Ave.  sab-sch,  10  40;  —  Lafa- 
yette Ave.  (M.  a,  40  88),  166  88:  —  Mem'l.  400;  —  Mount 
Olivet  (Y.  P.  8.  a  B.,  5),  (sab-S(di  Mlssionaiy  Society,  46), 


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67  (Kte  — Noble  Straei,  18  89:  —  Proapeot  Heights,  10;  — 
South  8d  Street  (nb-sch,  60),  18S  IS;  —  Throop  Avenue 
Mission  sftb-sch,  116  68;  Woodhaven  1st,  6:  —  French 
Evangelloal,  10.    Buffaio-AliegKajt  4;  Buffalo  1st,  860; 

—  Bethany,  8S  90;  —  Betbesda,  16;  -  Bethlehem  0^.  P. 

5.  O.  E.,  6  86),  18  61 ;  —  Calyarj,  147;  -  East,  6;  —  North, 
77  81;  —  Redoemer,  10;  —  West  Avenue,  7  66;  —  West- 
minster (sab  8ch.  40),  818  81;  Dunkirk  Y.  P.  B.  O.  E.,  16; 
East  Aurora  (sab-sch,  16  41).  80  04;  East  Hamburgh  (sab- 
sch,  2),  17;  Franklinville  1st,  18;  Hamburg  Lake  Street,  8; 
Jamestown  1st,  84  70;  Old  Town,  1 ;  Olesn  1st  (T.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  8  48),  15  68;  Sherman,  6;  Springville,  18;  TOnawanda 
Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  8  10;  Westfleld  1st.  148  88;  Rev.  Wm.  Hall, 
12  60.  Cayuga— Auburn  Westminster,  10;  Cato,  7;  Cay- 
uga, 5  09:  Dryden  (Extra  Cent  a  Day  Band,  6).  80:  Genoa 
Ut  (Mission  Band,  7  60),  (Y.  P.  S.  0.  E.,  10).  17  60;  -  8d 
(sab-sch,  8  78),  6  40:  Ithaca  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  10;  Meridian, 
18  74;  O wasco,  5  97.  Champlain  -Beekmantown, 4  0 J; Cha- 
teaugay  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..640;Cbazysab-sch,506;  Essex,8  86; 
Fc.  (}ovlngton,  6  10;  Ifalone  Ist,  85  88;  Moores,  6;  Saranac 
Lake,  10.  CAsmunp-Dundee,  80;  Ehnlra  1st  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E., 
80;  -  Fraoklin  St.,  86;  -  North  Chapel  (Y.  P.  8.  C  B..  10), 
181  80;  Horse  Heads,  21;  Meoklenburgh,  18;  Mouterey, 
6  18;  Southport  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  4;  Sugar  Hill,  10.  Oolum- 
bto— Ancram  Lead  Mines,  8;  Centreville,  17  66;  Durham 
1st  (Y.  P.  H.  C.  E.,  6),  10;  Qreenville,  84  64;  Jewett.  88  18; 
Valatle,  96.  Gtene«06-Attioa,  70  Of;  Bethany  Centre,  8; 
Byron  (Y.  P.  S  C.  E.,  18),  81:  Corfu  10; EastBethany, 8; 
Elba,  7;  North  Bergen  sab-sch.  1  67:  Oakfleld  (Y.  PTS.  C. 
E.,  8),  8;  Perry,  76;  Wyoming,  8  06;  Rev.  J.  C.  Long,  6. 
Geneva-Gorbam.  88:  Naples  T.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  8:  Oak's 
Comers,  8  57;  Ovid  sab-sch,  10  86:  Romulus  additional,  1; 
Trumansburgh,  60  78;  Waterloo  1st,  84;  West  Fayette,  4. 
fludson- Amity,  6;  Callicoon.  9;  Centreville,  8;  Clarks- 
town  German,  7:  Congers  1st,  Mrs.  Anne  Qllmor,  6;  Florida, 
64  80;  Good  Will,  6  80;  Goshen,  888  64;  Haverstraw  1st 
sab-sch,  10;  —  Central,  80;  Hempstead^  10;  Hopewell  Y. 
P.  S.  C.  B..  18;  Liberty,  14;  Middletown  1st,  810;  -  8d  ( Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  10),  41  78;  Milford  additional.  10;  Monticelk) 
(sab-sch,  10).  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6),  16;  Mount  Hope  (sab- 
sch,  9  60),  10:  Nyack  German,  6;  Port  Jervis  1st,  80; 
Ramapo.  195  66;  Ridgebury,  1  60;  Rockland  8d,  8;  Hcotch- 
town  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6;  Unionvllle,  4;  West  Town,  16; 
White  Lake  Bethel,  7.  Lona  Aland— Bridgehampton, 
94  50;  East  Hampton,  90;  Franklinville,  19;  Greenport,  60; 
Setauket  (South  SeUuket  sab-sch,  1 17),  ( Y.  P.  B.  0.  E.,  1), 
(Stony  Brook  Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  9),  8  98;  Southhold,  6;  Speonk, 

6.  LyoYU— East  Palmyra.  0  96:  Fairville,  10;  Junius,  10; 
Palmyra,  98  76;  Sodua,  98  18;  Wayne,  8.  AoMau— Bell- 
more.  8  &i;  Brentwood,  10;  Comae,  10;  Glen  WockI,  8  08; 
Hempstead  Christ  Church.  6;  Jamaica,  76;  Melville^  6; 
Newtown,  166;  Springfield,  6;  Bt.  Paul's  German,  4; 
Whltestone  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6  87;  A  Pastor,  7  60.  New 
Forib— New  York  7th  sab-sch,  86;  —  8d  German  (sab-sch, 
8),  6;  ~  4th  Avenue  (Hope  Chapel  sab-sch,  86),  986;  —  6th 
Ave.  Y.P.  A.,  83  26;  —  Bethany  (sab-sch.  86),  69;  —  Calvary, 
6;  -  Central  (sab-sch.  95),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18  60),  186  88;  - 
Chapel  of  the  Good  Shepherd  Y.  P.  S.  a  B.,  16;  —  Bast 
Harlem,  6  00;  —  Faith  sab  sch,  86;  —  French  Evangelical 
(sab-sch,  6).  80;  —  Harlem  (sab-sch,  18  71),  88  71;  — 
Madison  Avenue  (sab-sch,  160).  420  42;  —  Madison  Square 
additional,  86;  —  Morrisania  1st  sab-sch,  6  86;  —  Mount 
Tabor,  8;  —  Mount  Washington,  146  66;  —  Puritans  add'l, 
188  68;  —  Spring  Street,  80  19;  —  West  End  sab-sch,  92  81 ; 

—  West  Farms,  6;  —  Westminster  West  98dSt.,  121  84; 

—  West  6l8t  Street,  6:  —  ZIon  Grorman,  10.  Niagara- 
Albion,  60;  Holley.  8  10;  KnowlesvlUe.  6;  Lockport  1st 
(sab-sch,  150),  908  78;  North  Tonawanda  North  sab  sch, 
8  85;  Tuscarora  Mission,  1  76;  Wright's  Comers,  1  96. 
North  ieiver-Maldeo,  16  80;  Milton,  6;  Newburgh  1st, 
180  67;  Poughkeepsie  sab-sch,  08  86;  Westminster  (sab- 
sch,  8),  (lTm.  S..  6),  14.  Otwoo-Delhi  1st (Y.  P.  8.  <3.  E., 
10),  140;  -  8d  (Y.  P.  S.  a  E  ,  86),  (Mrs.  O.  H.  Seeley,  60), 
100;  East  Guilford  (Y.  P.  B.  O.  E  ,  1  60),  6;  Milford,  9  60; 
New  Beriin,  6;  Oneonta  Y.  P.  S.  C  E..  6;  Otego.  10; 
Springfield,  18  69.  Rochester—Aron  Central.  6  75:  Bast 
Kendall,  2;  Honeoye  Falls,  14;  Livonia,  80;  Ogden  (jentre, 
6  01 :  Pittsford  (sab-sch.  1  61),  6  04;  Rochester  1st,  196;  — 
Brick,  904  18;  —  Central  Bal ,  101;  —  Emmanuel  (sab-sch, 
85),  97  16;  —  Memorial  (sab-sch.  10),  88;  —  St.  Peter's 
(Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  16),  178  08;  —  Westminster  sab-sch,  16; 
Sparta  1st  sab-sch.  10  60;  Bpenoerport  Ogden  sab-sch,  6; 
Tuscarora,  8  61.  St.  Laiorence— BrowoviUe,  9;  De  Kalb, 
8;  Dexter,  10;  Gouvemeur,  14;  Hammond,  78;  Heuvelton 
sab-sch,  1 :  Le  Ray,  1  60;  Louisville,  6  57;  Morristown,  19; 
O^wegatchie  1st,  96  66:  —  9d,  15  90;  Ox  Bow  sab-sch,  90; 
Plessis.  8;  Rossie  (Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  8),  18;  Watertown  Ist, 
60;  —  Stone  Street,  16.  i9<«i4^en— Addison,  48;  Andover, 
6  50;  Arkport,  8  68;  Campbell,  68  48;  Coming,  81  00; 
Hammondiroort,  7:  Hartshom,  10;  HomellsvUle  Ist,  09 10; 
Howard  8:  Prattsourgh,  16;  Pultney,  8.  .S^yrocuM— Am- 
boy,16:  BaldwinsvUlcll;  Camillus,  8  86;  CanastoU,  6;  CSiit- 
tenango,  80  94;  OoUamer,  8;  Oonstantia,  6;  Fulton,  64  80; 


Hannibal.  88;  Maroellus sab-sch,  4  80:  Oswego  1st  (Friends, 
6),  86;  —  Grace.  86  08;  Parish  sab-sch,  8  60;  Pomp^  (sab- 
8ch,4  26),  94  86;  Skaneatelee sab-sch. 85;  S^racuse4th(Y. 
P.  S.  C.  B.,  16),  67  69:  —  East  Genesee  Y.  P.  a  C.  B..  1  96. 
!7Voy-Bmnswick,  9  88:  Chester,  10;  Chestertown,  ll  68; 
Green  Island  Y.  P.  S.  O.  E.,  10;  Hebron,  11;  Johnsonville, 
12;  Middle  GranviUe,  18;  North  GranviU^  6;  Stillwater 
1st,  80;  Troy  1st,  226  66;  —  2d  (sab-sch,  76).  110  06;  — 
Memorial  sab-sch,  6  81 ;  —  Oakwood  Avenue,  10;  —  West- 
minster, 88;  Warrensburgsab-sch,  1  66;  Waterford.  14  40; 
Rev.  W.  M.  Johnson,  6.    c7Nc<i— Alder  Creek  and  Forest- 

Ert,  6;  Boonville  (Y.  P.  S.  a  B.,  2  60).  0;  Cochran 
tmoriaL  40  16;  Ilion  and  sab-sch  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6  28), 
14  47;  Kirkland,  6;  Litchfield,  8;  Little  Falls  (sab-sck.  68), 
101 ;  Mt.  Vemon  sab-sch,  10;  Norwich  Comers,  4:  Oneida, 
88  78;  Rome,  40  40;  Bauguoit  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  8  86),  8  86; 
Turin,  7  91;  UticaOUvet  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.^;  —  Westminster, 
60;  Yemen  Centre  sab-sch,  10  89;  Walcott  Memorial, 
23  60;  WaterviUe,  66:  West  Camden,  10;  Westerville.  82; 
Whiteeboro,  10;  WilUamstown  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  4.    Weat* 


10;  Cleveland  1st  (Mrs.  Julia  A.  Stone,  f,000),  (Mrs. 
Flora  A.  Mather,  200),  1,415  68;  —  9d.  874  68;  -  Beckwith, 
44  89;  —  Bolton  Avenue,  18  44;  —  Euclid  Avenue,  900  20; 
—  South  (sab-sch.  10  70).  10  96;  —  Wilson  Avenue,  88  70; 
GiOlford,  17  18;  New  Lyme,  11  50;  Northfield  rsab-sch,  6), 
86;  Parma,  16;  Solon,  6;  Streetsborough,  6.  Columbus'^ 
Amanda,  19;  Bethel,  9  80*  Bremen,  9:  Cirdeville,  50; 
Columbus  5th  Avenue,  16  80;  Rush  Creek,  6  70.  Dayton 
Dayton  4th  per  Exrs.  A  S.  Williams'  Will,  10;  —  Park, 
14  76;  Middletown  sab-sch,  89  64;  Oxford,  98  60;  Piqua, 
51 ;  Springfield  1st  sab-sch,  90;  West  Carrolton  Y.  P.  8.  C. 
B.,  7  80;  Xenia  sabHKsh,  9  10:  Yellow  Springs,  160.  Huron 
— Bloemville,  8;  Elmore,  8;  Fremont,  70:  Genoa,  9;  Huron 
(sab-sch,  6  61),  80  81;  Milan,  90.  X^mo— Bluff  ton.  9; 
Delphos,  6|  Findlay  IstaddM,  10;  —  9d.  6;  KaUda,  19  01; 
Lima  Main  Street,  6;  New  SUrk,  9  89;  Rockford  (sab-sch, 
19).  96:  St.  Mary's  sab-sch.  16  91 :  Turtle  CJreek  sab-sch, 
7  &;  Van  Wert  ( Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  10),  62  04 ;  Wapakoneta, 
90.  ifa^onina— Belolt,  1 ;  Brookfleld,  1 ;  Canton  (sab-sch, 
6  98),  (Y.  P.Mlss*y  Soc.,  16A4;,8877;C«arkson,  10;East  Pal- 
estine, 10;  Hubbard,  8;  Middle  Sandy,  16;  Mineral  Ridjra.  8; 
New  Lisbon  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  6),  (Jr.  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E,  6),  86  60; 
NUes,  10;  N.  Benton  (sab-sch,  18),  86;  Pleasant  Valley.  8; 
Poland  sab  sch.  11  08;  Salem.  98;  Vienna.  4;  Warren,  81; 
Youngstown  Westminster.  68 15;  —  1st,  141  46.  Marion— 
Berlin  (Y.P.  B.  C.  E.,  1  87),  6  87;  OhestervUle,  8  48;  Dela- 


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ware  sab^ch,  60;  Delhi.  6;  Iberia,  4;  Marion  (lab^ch.  10). 
CT.  P.  &  0.  B..  7),  48;  Mount  GUead,  8  66;  Radnor  and 
Thompeoo,  5.  JfaiMMe- Bryan,  10  80;  Cecil  8;  De 
Vema,  8  88;  Grand  Bapids  (sab-ech,  8),  10;  Holxate,  6: 
KuBkle,  8;  Milton  Centre,  0;  Montpelier,  6;  Totodo  8d 
(sab-ich,  14  88),  38  86;  —  1st  German  (Misaion  Band,  6), 
13;  Tontogony.  84  38;  West  Bethesda,  16;  Bst.  G.  M. 
Miller.  6.  Porttmouth—BnmtB,  Vista,  1;  Georgetown, 
17;  Hanging  Rock,  8  60;  Manchester  (sab-8ch«  7),  89; 
Portsmouth  1st,  6;  —  Ist  German,  16;  Red  Oak  add'l,  0; 
Wellstoo,  16  60;  Winchester  (sab-sch,  6),  81  60.  St 
CkdrsviUe—Baxmock,  11:  BamesrUle,  88;  Bethel,  17; 
Cadiz,  84;  Cambridge  add'l,  7  86:  New  Athens,  17;  Rock 
HUl  sab-sch,  6;  SenecariUe,  89;  StUl  Water.  8  86.  Sieu- 
benvOle-Amsterdam  (sab^ch,  6),  16;  Bethel  sab-sch,  11 ; 
Bethesda  (sab-sch,  11),  38;  Bethlehem,  8;  Bloomfield.  10; 
Buchanan  Chapel.  6:  Cross  Creek.  88;  Dell  Roj.  6;  Iron- 
dale,  6;  KUgor«,  18;  LeesriUe,  8;  New  Philadelphia  (sab- 
sch,  8).  (Cfeaners,  6),  8;  Richmond  sab-sch.  8  «;  Ridge, 
16;  SalineriUe,  16;  SmithOeld  (Y.  P  8.0.B.,8;.6;  Steu- 
benville  3d  sab-sch,  88  88;  —  8d,  10;  WellsviUe  1st  sab-scb, 
88;  West  Lafayette  3  86.  IToottsr-Bethel,  8;  Congress, 
4  87;  Dalton.  6  80;  Jackson,  6  76;  Lexington.  17  60; 
Ontario.  1;  Orange,  18;  Wayne,  8;  West  Salem.  4; 
Wooster  1st  (sab-sch,  10  08),  111  46:  —  Westminster  Y.  P. 
8.  C.  B.,  7  18.  Zdne«v<l/«-Bladensburgh,  6  69;  Browns- 
Till^  6  60;  Clark  (Ladies.  8  88).  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  B.,  16),  86; 
Coshocton,  6;  Fredericktown,  86;  Homer  sab-sch,  8  80; 
Jersey,  16  16;  Madison,  36;  Martinsburgh,  6;  Mt.  Pleasant, 
6 ;  Mt.  Zion,  18 ;  Newark  8alem  German,  8  89:  New  Con- 
cord, 18;  Norwich,  8:  Oakfleld,  3:  Pataskala,  7  88;  Rend- 
Tille.  4;  Utica  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8;  Waterford,  8;  ZanesriUe 
Sd.  7.  7.074  82 

OBaaov.—E(ut  Oregon— Kltkitmt  1st,  6;  La  Grande, 
8  60;  Union.  86.  Pbrt/and— Bethel,  8;  Browers,  1  86 ; 
Bridal  VeU.  8;  Knappa.  6  76;  Latourells,  70  cU. ;  Portland 
Calvary.  108  70;  —  Chinese,  8  OS;  ~  8t  John^s  (sab-sch, 
11  86),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  18  80).  80  66;  8mith  Memorial.  4  66; 
8pringwater,  4.  Southern  Oregon— Ashland  sab«6h,  6; 
JacksonriUe,  8;  Marshfleld,  4;  Phoenix,  4;  Rot.  M.  A. 
Williams,  10.  Willamette-AuroTtL,  7  26;  Dallas,  80; 
Eugene,  14;  Fairfield.  8  60:  Gerrals,  6;  Lebanon,  8;  Spring 
Vaney,  7;  Yaquinna  Bay.  6.  899  60 

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Rathmel,  8;  Richland.  4  67:  Rockland,  1  76;  Scotch  Hill, 
8;  Sligo,  8:  Tionesta,  88;  Tylersburgh,  3;  Wilcox,  2  66. 
Ji?rie— Atlantic  8  58;  Cochranton,  4;  Cool  Hrring  Y.  P.  8. 
C  E.,  6:  Corry,  18;  Erie  Ist,  66  88;  —  Park,  87  68;  Fair- 
Tiew,  4;  Fredonia,  4;  Girard,  81  81 ;  Kerr^s  HiU  (sab-sch, 
96  cts.).  6  44;  Mercer  1st,  98;  North  Clarendon.  8;  North 
East,  76  76:  Oil  (^ty  1st,  8  30;  Pittsfleld  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8; 
Salem,  1;  Springfield,  8;  Tideoute  sab-sch.  18;  Union,  7; 
Venango,  1;  Westminster  sab-sch.  9  66.  Huntingdon— 
Altoona  3d,  120;  —  8d  (Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  10),  84;  Bedford  (Y. 
P.  S.  C.  E.,  8  86).  37  86;  BeUefonte  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  6), 
(Two  Members,  30).  35;  Beulah  (sab-sch.  8  60),  18  01: 
Buiffaio  Run.  1  86:  Ererett  6;  Houtzdale.  14  63;  Lewis- 
town,  100  76:  Little  Valley  Ladies'  Mite  Society,  8;  Lost 
Creek  sab-sch.  3  88;  McVeytown  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E..  1  35), 
(KauOman  Union  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  1  34),  77  98;  Mapleton. 


8;  Middle  Tiucarora,  8;  Osceola  MUls  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  14  96; 
Peru,  8;  Phillipsburgh  (sab-sch,  88  09),  86  69;  Pine  Grove 
(sab  sch.  8  66),  7  18;  Shade  Gtep,  16;  Shaver's  Oeek,  3; 
Spring  Mills.  8;  RUte  CkiUege  (Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  7  60),  17  49; 
Tyrone.  84  58:  Upper  Tuscarora,  30;  Williamsburgh  sab- 
sch,  6  87.  Kittanntng^AwyUo.  6  85;  Atwood,  4;  Bethel 
(sab  sch,  6),  16;  Bethesda,  15;  Cherry  Run,  18;  CUntoa.  8; 
East  Union.  3;  Ebeneaer  David  8t iffy,  10;  EMer's  Ridge 
Y.  P.  3.  C.  B„  6:  Eklerton,  18;  GUgal,  6;  Harmony,  19; 
Homer.  8  58:  Indiana  (sab  sch,  60),  136;  Marion  (Mission 
Band.  6).  17;  Midway,  8;  Mount  Pleasant,  8;  Parker  City, 
81  68;  Plumrille,  1;  Rockbridge,  3;  Union,  7  80;  Washing- 
ton (sab  sch,  10),  38.  I.arfco«oanna— Bennett,  4;  Betb^ 
8;  Canton  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E  ,  10;  Carbondale  additional,  17  86; 
Columbia  Cross  Roads,  8  81 ;  Duiyea,  4;  Great  Bend  John 
Humphries,  8;  Herrick,  10;  Montrose  sab-sch,  17  89; 
Mount  Pleasant  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E ,  1;  Newton,  6;  Orwell,  8; 
Soott.  34;  Scranton  2d.  10;  >-  Green  Ridge  Avenue,  60;  — 
Providence,  84  50;  Shickshinny,  10;  Sylvania  (Cameron 
Missionary  Circle,  6),  9  44:  Taylor,  4:  Towanda  Y.  P.  8. 
C.  E..  7 11 :  Tunkhannock  (Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  10  W\  (sab-sch, 
16  50),  67  76:  Ulster,  6;  -  ViUage,  2;  Uniondale.  18;  War- 
ren, 6;  Wilkes  Barre  Westminster  sab-sch,  90  88;  Wyo- 
ming. 10.    Lehigh- --^    -    ---^-  --^    -. 

Lehlghton,  6;  Loc 
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White  Haven,  6  7 
Nittany,  14;  Beed 
Briar  (3reek,  4 :  Ei 
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ing  addlUonal.  10; 
Mo«mt  Channel,  Ifi 
(sab-schandJr.  Y. 
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(sab  sch.  10^,  (W. 
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Grafton,  5;  Hughei 
8;  Manning! on.  8; 
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Arch  Street,  800;  - 
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Mission,  5  16;  —  Gaston  sab-sch,  80  06;  —  Greenwaj,  10; 

—  Greenwich  Street,  15;  —  HoUond  Memorial.  66;  — 
Hope.  30;  —  McDowell  Memorial,  6  77;  —  Memorial  (J.  R. 
H.,  100),  190  88:  -  North,  18  60;  -  Northern  Ubertles  1st, 
54  11;  —  Northminster,  add'l,  63;  —  Princeton.  1,168  90; 

—  South,  18;  —  Susquehanna  Avenue,  86;  —  Tabernacle 
Y.  M.  A.,  135;  —  Tabor  and  sab-sch,  183  50;  —  Temple, 
73  77;  -  Union.  86:  —  Walnut  Street.  1,389  85:  —  ¥7ePt 
Spruce  Street,  1,464  66;  —  Wbarton  Street  (L.  M.  &,  15), 
(Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  10),  85;  —  Woodland  a  friend.  80;  —  Zion 
German.  4.  Philadetphia  ^<>rM— Abington  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  M.  Colton,  100:  Ann  Carmichael,  6;  Ashbourne,  17: 
Bridesburg  (sab-sch,  40),  50;  CarversviUe,  1  46;  Chestnut 
Hill  sab-sch,  80;  Conshohocken  sab-sch,  8;  Doylestown. 
50  68;  Fairview  Union  sab-scb.  3;  Forestville,  o:  Frank- 
ford.  30  38;  Germantown  Market  Square  sab-sch,  36;  — 
Wakefield  additional,  1 ;  Holmesburgh,  6  58;  Huntingdon 
Valley  (sab  sch,  35).  40;  Jenkintown  Grace,  1;  Lawndale, 
3;  Leverington  (sabsch,  34  81),  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  ,  8).  44  86; 
Lower  Merlon,  7:  Narberth.  18  18;  Norristown  3d,  10;  — 
Central,  6;  Oak  Lane.  5;  Tavlorsville  Davis  Memorial  sab- 
scb,  1 ;  Tacony  Disston  Memorial,  18  31.  Pitt9burgh— 
Amity,  10;  Cannonsburgh  1st  sab-sch,  16  88;  Cbarieroi 
(sab-sch,  10).  16;  O>ncord,  4;  Courtney  and  Coal  Bluff,  4; 
Edgewood,  83  04;  Forest  Grove  A.  B.  Speer,  10;  Lebanon, 
60:  Long  Island,  8  71 ;  McDonald  1st,  89  35;  Mooon^ahela 
City.  100;  Montours.  4 ;  North  Branch,  2;  Oakdale  sab-sch, 
17;  Oakmont  1st  (sab-sch.  14  08),  44  08;  Phillipsburg,  6; 
Pittsburgh  3d,  135  66;  -  BellefieM,  398  16;  —  Covenant, 
15  84;  —  East  Liberty  (sab-sch.  69  84),  168  78;  —  Grace 
Memorial,  1 ;  —  Haslewood.  48  90;  —  Park  Avenue,  87;  — 
Point  Breeze  (Jno.  G.  Stephenson,  1,000),  1,108;  —  Shady 
Side,  119;  —  South  Hide,  4;  SheridanvUle,  8  60;  West 
Elizabeth  sab-sch,  10;  Wilkinsburgh  (Interest  Reed  Fund, 
60).  18i  61.  i^edsfone- Fayette  dty,  3;  Laurel  HiU  sab- 
sch,  9  76;  Little  Redstone  sab-sch,  7  16;  McClellandtown, 
6;  McKeMport  Central.  46  90;  Mount  Pleasant.  14;  — 
Reunion  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  60:  Mount  Washington,  8; 
SutervUle.  8:  West  Newton,  181  87.  Shenango—BeiLweT 
Falls,  76;  Mahoningtown  Y.  P.  8.  a  E.,  10;  Sharon  (Y.  P. 
&  C.  E.,  35),  89  60;  SUppery  Rock  (Y.  P.  S.  C.  B.,  4  50), 
18  50;  Unity  sab-sch,  40.  TFcuMnyf on— Bethlebem,  7; 
Burgettstown  Westminster.  6;  Cove,  9  96;  Cross  Creek, 
7;  Frankfort  sab-sch,  10  36;  Washington  8d  (sab-scb, 
30  84),  819  84;  Wellsburgh,  80;  Wheeling  8d  sab-sch,  6  19. 


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Tre/M>oro— Antrim,  10;  Aniot»  10;  CoTinston,  5;  Elkland 
and  Osceola,  40;  KnoxrUle,  1;  Mansfield,  8;  Mount  Jewett, 
8;  Wellsboro,  81  42.  YFIff^ffM^er— Bellerue,  17;  Centre 
T.  P.  8  C.  E.,  8;  Chanoeford,  0  88;  Chestnut  Level,  2  70; 
Oolumbia,  91  80;  Donegal,  7  76:  Hopewf-U.  17;  Lancaster 
1st  (sab-sch,  81  05),  61  05;  Marietta,  70;  Slate  Ridge.  5; 
Slatevllle,  8;  Btewartotown  (Y.  P.  8.  O.  E.,  10).  84;  ifnion, 
85;  WrightsrUle  sab-sch,  10;  York  1st,  80  07;  —  West- 
minster, 18.  15,884  85 

»ouTH  Dakota.— ^fr€rde«n~Aberdeen  (sab-sch,  10), 
85;  Bradley,  4  10;  Brantford,  8;  Castleirood,  18;  Ellen- 
dale  (sab-sch,  10),  84  98;  Groton  (Y.  P.  H.  C.  E.,  8),  83; 
Knox.  8  80;  La  Grace,  7:  Leola,  5;  Melette  Union  sab- 
sch,  8  fiO;  North  Gair  Clearriew  sab-sch,  1  10;  Oneota, 
8;  Palmer  Ist  Hollond.  6  50;  Pembrook,  5;  Raymond,  10; 
RondeU,  4;  Wiknot,  10.  Black  HtU«-Hill  City,  5;  Hot 
Springs,  8  85;  Lead  City,  8:  Minnesela,  5;  Pleasant  Val- 
ley, 8;  Sturgis  (sab-sch.  8  50).  5;  Whitewood  (L.  A.  Soc.  4), 
11.  ContnU  DaJto/o— Artesian,  4  81;  Blunt  (L.  A.  Soc., 
5),  (Miss  Lizzie  Smith,  8),  15;  Endeavor,  5;  Forestburgh, 
91  ct&;  Hitchcock  Y.P.  S.  C.E.,  10;  Lake  Co..  1  86; 
Madison  (sab-sch  birthday  box,  7  45),  88  85;  Miller,  80; 
Pierre,  10;  Rose  HiU.  8;  Union,  6  08:  Wentworth,  14  68; 
Wolsey  16  46;  Rev.  G.  A.  White,  14  78.  Daibo/a- Ascen- 
sion. 5;  Good  Will,  18  14;  Yankton  Agency,  8  66.  Soufh- 
em  Dalcota— Bon  Homme  Co.  Ist  Bohemian,  5;  Bridge- 
water  sab-sch,  10;  Brule  Co.  1st  Bohemian,  8:  Canton 
(W.  M.  8.,  18  75),  89  54:  Ebenezer  German,  4;  Emery  1st 
German,  6;  KlmbaU,  11  50;  Parker  (sab-sch,  5  84).  48  84; 
Parkston,  7  50;  Scotland,  5;  Turner  Co.  Ist  German  (sab- 
sch,  5),  85;  Tyndall,  6;  Union  Centre,  8  87;  Union 
County,  8;  White  Lake,  8;  a  thank  offering,  10.       528  46 

Tkhnsssbb.— ffol^^on— Jeroldstown,  5  85;  Jonesboro, 
5;  Kingsport  (Ladies,  5),  10;  Olivet,  1;  Salem  (sab-sch, 
18)  88;  St.  Marks,  8.  Kingttim- AjmhBUm,  7;  BHdge- 
port,  75  cts;  Chattanooga  8d,  88;  Ft.  Cheatham  Chapel, 
86cts.:  Harriman,  6;  HiU  City  North  Side,  1  80;  New 
Decatur  Westminster,  6  90:  Pleasant  Union,  1;  Sheffield, 
75  cts. ;  Thomas,  8;  Welsh  iJnion.  8  67.  C/nion— Centen- 
nial. 1  85;  Erin,  18;  Forest  Hill,  8;  Knoxville  8d,  10;  — 
4th  (sab-sch.  81  41),  69  80:  —  Belle  ATcnue  (Jr.  Y.  P.  S. 
C.  E.,  10),  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  2),  18;  Madisonville.  8  75| 
Shannondale,  6;  Spring  Place,  8;  St.  Paul's,  8  88;  Unitia, 
8;  Washington,  11.  854  90 

Texas.— ^t<«Mn— Alpine,  9;  Austin  1st  (a  member.  5). 
(sab-sch,  86  70).  (O.  E.,  18  15),  48  85;  £iu[le  Pass,  8;  Fort 
Darls,  5:  Galveston  St.  Paurs  (German,  7;  Lampasas.  4; 
Marfa  Station,  9;  MenardsviUe,  R  60:  New  Orleans  Im- 
numuel,  86;  Paint  Rock,  4  40;  Taylor,  85;  Rev.  W.  B. 
Bloys,  10.  North  7>a:a<— Adora,  4  50;  Denison,  81  80; 
Gainesrille,  15;   Henrietta.  18;  Jacksboro,  10;  Seymour, 

4  85.  TWnity-Baird,  11 ;  Dallas  8d  (sab-sch,  6  95).  87 10; 
—  Exposition  Park,  5;  Pecan,  1 ;  —  Valley,  8;  Sipe  Springs, 
8;  StephenviUe,  5:  Windham,  8.  805  60 

Utah.— Boiae— Boise  (5ity.  85.  JTemfatt- Franklin,  15; 
Malad,  10.  UtoA— American  Fork,  75  cts  ;  Ephraim,  7; 
Hyrum  Emmanuel  sab-sch.  8;  Kaysville  Haines,  12;  Lo- 
gan. 5  70;  Manti.  19;  Mendon,  10:  Mount  Pleasant,  5  08; 
Nephi  Huntington,  5;  Ogden  1st,  21;  Payson  Y.  P.  S.  C. 
E.,  8;  Pleasant  GroTe  (sab-sch,  1).  11;  Richfield,  18  85; 
Salt  Lake  (Mj  Ist,  88;  -  8d  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  1  18),  5  18;  — 
Westminster,  6  50;  Smithfleld  Central,  8;  St.  George,  10; 
Springville  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  8:  WeUsyUle,  4.  898  85 

WASHiNOTON.—Olympia— Buckley,  1;  Centralia,  86  85; 
Hwaoo.  8;  La  Camas  St.  John's  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  84;  Puy- 
allup,  5;  Ridgefleld,  14;  South  Bend,  8  50;  Stella.  10;  Van- 
couver, 5:  Wilkeson,  8.  Pu^et  Sound— Anacortes  West- 
minster, 5;  Kent  (Y.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  8  10).  11  10:  Lopez  Cal- 
vary, 8  60;  San  Juan,  6  50;  Seattle  Clalvarv,  6  50;  — 
Welsh,  8;  Wenatchee,  7.  fiSpoIrane— Coeur  d^  Alene.  8; 
Cortland,  8;  Fairfield,  6;  Grand  Coulee,  8;  Spokane  1st, 
7  90;  —  Centenary,  5  Walla  TFaUa-Lapwai,  8;  Lewis- 
ton.  10  65;  Moscow  Y  P.  a  C.  E.,  5.  178  74 

Wi800M8iN.—C%<pp«toa— Ashland  Bethel  (Mb-ech,  5), 
10;  Baldwin,  6  58;  Bessemer,  8;  Chetek,  5;  Eau  Claire  1st 
(sab-sch.  4),  81;  -  8d,  80;  Maiden  Rock,  10  50;  Phillips 
(Rev.  B.  H.  Murphy,  5).  85;  Rice  Lake,  5;  South  Superior, 
7.  La  Orosse— Bangor.  5:  Mauston  German.  50  cts.; 
ShortTiUe.  2:  West  SiQem,  88.  Madiaon--  Belleville  (Y.  P. 
B.  a  E.,  8),  %\  Beloit  German.  10  88:  Cambria  V .  P.  8.  0. 
E.,  6  49;  Eden,  5;  Janesville  Y.  P.  8.  C.  E..  8 ;  KUbourne 
CHty,  8  95;  Lima  sab-sch,  6  68:  Madison  St.  PauVs  Ger- 
man, 4;  Muscoda,  8;  Oregon,  8;  Pleasant  Hill  sab-sch, 

5  50:  Portage,  88  50;  PoynetterY.  P.  8.  C.  E.,  4  68).  15  68; 
Prairie  du  Sao  (sab-sch,  5  76),  84  79:  Reedsburgh.  5: 
Richland  Centre,  9;  Verona,  1  04.  Milwaukee— BeMvw 
Dam  1st,  84^;  Cato,  8  08;  Mebiik  Bohemian.  6;  Milwaukee 
Gkrman,  10  68:  —  Grace.  8  88;  —  Iromanuel.  114  94; 
Oostburg,  10;  Richfield,  5;  West  Granville.  6:  Wheatland 
(German,  5.  TTinnedctoo— Amberg,  4;  Aubumdale,  8: 
Badger,  8  60:  Depere,  40;  Fond  du  Lao  40;  Fort  Howard 
Y.  P.  8.  0.  E.,  5  05:  Marshfleld  (sab-sch,  10  74).  87;  Mon- 
tello,  5  50;  Oshkosh,  86  98;  Robinson,  8  80;  Rural,  48; 


Sherry,  8;  Sheridan  SUtion,  18  50;  St.  Sauveur,  1  80; 
Wausau,  818  78;  Wausaukee,  5  46;  Wequiock,  1  88;  West 
Merrill,  10:  Weyauwega,  5.  968  85 
Woman's  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mis- 
sions  $116,684  11 

Total  from  Churches 195,488  41 


Elizabeth  W.  Galbralth.  late  of  Dickinson 
Twp.,  Pa.,  60;  John  Love,  Sr,  late  of  Greens- 
burg,  Pa ,  100;  Albert  M.  Whitten,  late  of  Indi- 
ana, 404  46;  Magdalene  M.  Craft,  late  of  New 
York  aty,  8,000;  Harriet  E.  Brown,  late  of 
Baltimore,  Md..  80.000;  Frederick  A.  Hoag, 
late  of  Binghamton.  N.  Y.,  81  79;  Mary  A. 
Doston,  late  of  Coshocton,  O.,  500;  John  8. 
Kenyon,  late  of  New  York  CMy.  8,500;  Anna 
Goodyear,  late  of  C!amden,  N.  Y.,  100:  Sallie 
Thompson,  late  of  Hagerstown,  Md.,  18; 
Wm.  D.  Jewell,  late  of  Cranbury,  N.  J., 
958  50;  Mrs.  P.  V.  Newoomb,  late  of  Daven- 

S»rt,  la,  975;  Sidney  DiUon.  late  of  New  York 
ty,  5,000;  Calvin  W.  Bradley,  late  of  Spen- 
cer, N.  Y.,  5,000;  Julia  A.  Fitch,  Ute  of 
Youogstown,  O.,l,000 $80,615  75 


lOSOXLLAinEOUB. 


Miss  E.  Jacobs,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  80;  **A. 
Friend,''  80;  Abbey  K.  Sayre,  East  Orange, 
N.  J..  8;  Mrs.  Ellen  L.  Welles.  Kingston,  Pa., 
10;  Mrs.  M.  J.  Reeder,  Edinboro,  Pa..  8; 
Sarah  Williams,  Rve,  N.  Y..  1;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  G.  Beboteguy,  Wooster,  O.,  15;  A  Friend, 
6;  "A  Friend,"  Newark,  N.  J.,  1,000;  "T. 
and M," 69;  A  Friend,  Parsippany,  N.  J., 
Rp.,  5;  *'L.  P.  8.,"  800;  J.  E.  Treat,  Colony, 
Kans  ,  5;  Miss  Jane  L.  Cathcart,  York,  Pa., 
80;  Chas.  M.  Earle,  N.  Y.,  Up.,  15;  Mrs.  Ca- 
leb 8.  Green,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  1,800;  "Mrs.  M. 
C.  M.,"  100;  F  A.  McFarlan,  Corland,  84  75; 
Rev.  H.  C.  Keeley,  Indianapolis,  Ind,  10; 
Rev.  H.  H  Benson,  Wauwatosa,  Wla,  8; 
Miss  Jane  Ten  Eyck,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  5;  Mrs. 
C.  A.  BaU.  Corfu.  N.  Y.,  1;  BCrs.  J.  H.  Ed- 
wards, Los  Angeles.  Cal.,  5;  *'A  Widow's 
Mite,"  1  ct.;  *' Envelope,"  Newark,  N.  J.,  1; 
Miss  Mary  E.  Dickensheels,  N.  J.,  10;  ''E.  O. 
G." 800;  '•  C. Penna.,"  14;  Rev.  A.  M.  Lowry, 
Watsontown,  Pa.,  10;  T.  Blaachard  and  wife, 
Tamaroa,  lU.,  40;  "A  Friend,"  8:  Mrs.  F.  R. 
Welles,  Alasso,  Italy,  9;  Rev.  J.  8.  Davis  and 
wife,  5;  Rev.  A.  8.  Peck  and  family,  Armour, 
S.  D ,  5:  James  M.  Ham  and  wife.  Brooklyn, 
N  Y.,60;  "A  Friend."  50;  Mrs  G.  B.  Mun- 
ger,  Chicago,  11L.5;  Mrs.  Nannie  H.  Robin- 
son, Pittsburgh.  Pa.,  10;  J.  A.  Boyden,  Dan- 
ville, Ky..  1;  Emma  3.  Farr,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  86;  B.  F.  Felt,  Galena,  III.,  100:  Mrs.  C. 
A.  Pryer,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  85:  Rev. 
WendeU  Prime.  D.  D.,  N.  Y.,  50:  Stanley 
Larson,  Tobias,  Neb  .  1;  Rev.  J.  G.  Woods, 
Mexico  City,  Mex.,  "  tithe,"  8a  18;  Mrs.  C.  A. 
BaU.  Corfu,  N.  Y..  8  OS:  "H  M  ."  150;  ••  A 
Presbyterian,  5:  Mrs.  Barnes,  Whitelaw,  N. 
Y.  85:  Geo.  Hills.  Towanda,  50  cts.;  E.  O. 
Emerson.  TitusvIUe.  Pa.,  800;  Mrs.  M.  L  a. 
Blackford,  W  L ,  Ohio,  25;  Mrs.  M.  D.  Ward, 
Afton,  N.  J..  10;  Mrs  Susan  Priests,  Shelby- 
vUle,  Mo.,  100;  "Special  Cash,"  800;  E.  P. 
HiU,  Decatur.  Mich.,  80:  Rev.  J.  G.  Craig- 
head, D.  D.,  Washington,  D.  C,  85:  John 
Thomas,  Coolidge.  Kans..  1:  "H  T.  F.,"  10; 
••  A  Friend.  Pa.."  600;  Rev.  T.  L.  Sexton,  10; 
♦•A  Friend,"  10;  Mrs.  E.  O.  Junkln.  Wyan- 
dotte, C  5:  Rev.  M.  C.  Hamblv,  Hamden. 
N.  Y.,  10;  **E.  L.  T.,"  16;  •'  Cash,"  6;  Miss 
Lucy  F.  Anderson  and  Mrs.  L.  E.  Wood- 
bridge.  Bellaire,  O.,  5;  '*My  wifeand  I," 8  50; 
S.  H.  Miller,  Beatty,  85:  J.  Johnson,  Coch- 
ranville,  Pa.,  1;  0.  E.  King,  Philadelphia, 
Pa..  1;  ••  M's  tea  table,"  60  cts.;  M.  H.  Blrge, 
Buffalo.  N.  Y.,  50;  A  Friend,  Slate  Lick,  Pa., 
8  80;  B.  A.  Davidson,  Newvllle.  Pa.,  7  50; 
Rev.  A.  J.  Waugh.  Cleveland,  O.,  4;  John  H. 
Converse,  Philadelphia.  Pa  ,  Sp.,  850;  *'  Bing- 
hamton." 25;  Peter  C!ameron,  Houtzdale, 
Pa..  1860;  J.  McOardle,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  C; 
Edwin  F  Partridge,  Germantown.  Pa.,  10; 
•»E.  M.  B.."  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  5;  Dr.  L.  M. 
Ross,  5;  Thomas  fC  Bigton,  5;  Rev.  Wm.  H. 
Hannum,  Ratnagiri,  India,  85;  R.  B.  Mowry^ 


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Oatawba.— Cato«06a— DayidflonOollese.  lOcts.;  Lloyd. 


80,564  17 

Total  receiTod  for  Home  Miastons,  March, 
18M $«65.«18  88 

Total  reoeived  for  Home  Miasiong  from  April 
1st,  1898 761,896  81 

Amount  recelTed  daring  same  period  last  year,  026,058  01 

O.  D.  EAtON,  Treasurer, 
68  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


Box  L,  Station  D. 


8USTBNTATI0N,  MARCH,  1894. 

ATLAMTia— S(m<^  Florida— Titusrille,  1.  1  00 

BALTiifOiiB.—BaZttmor«— Baltimore  Abbott  Memorial, 
1;  Govanstown  sabsch,  8;  New  Windsor,  15  cts.;  Spar- 
rows Point,  1.  Wcuhingtan  Ci<y— Washington  City  15th 
Street,  6.  10  15 

Oalifoknia.— Lo«  ^noalM— Azusa  Spanish,  1 ;  Los  An- 
ireles  Hpanish,  1;  Ban  Gabriel,  1;  Tustin.  1.  OtAland— 
CentreVille,  9;  LiTormore,  1.    San  Jos^— Santa  Cruz,  2. 

9  00 


2:PurceU~&.  ^ '      '      '  » 0^ 

Iowa  —Cedar  i^opieU— MechanicsTille,  8.  Coming— 
Clarinda.  5;  Emerson,  85  cts.;  Lenox,  1.  Cauneil  Bluff t— 
Missouri  VaUey,  8:  Shelby,  8.  De*  Moines— Dm  MtSbies 
6th.  2.  Du^>uau€— Dubuque  Ist,  80.  /oti»a— Kossuth  1st, 
6  16;  Mediapolis,  8  45;  Middletown,  10  cts. ;  Montrose,  1. 
Iowa  GVfy— <3olumbus  Central  Csab-sch,  1  73).  4  87:  Craw- 
fordsrille.  80  cU.;  Keota,  1:  Malcom.  8;  Muscatine.  16: 
Sugar  Creek,  1 ;  Wilton,  8.  Sioux  City  -Battle  Creek,  1 ; 
Odebolt.  8;  Sac  atT,  8  88;  Vail,  1.  74  87 

Kansas.— JE^porfo— Council  Grove,  5;  08a«re  City,  i. 
H^aMand-NoitoBville,  1.  Lam«d- Great  Bend,  1:  Bter- 
ling.  6.  iVeosho— Carlyle,  8.  Solomon— Bellerille.  4; 
Clyde,  5  58.  7VM>dka— Junction  City  1st,  8;  —  Grand  View 
Park,  5;  -  Western  Highlands,  5  48.  48  00 

KsMTcoKT.—IVanjylvania— Lancaster,  10  21.  10  81 

MicHiOAN.— Dtf<roiF-Detroit  Westminster,  6;  Wyan- 
dotte, 15.  Flint-Sand  Beach  (sab-sch,  1  ct.>,  CO  E..  8 
eta.),  (ChUdren's  Missionary  SocietT,  1  ct.),  18  cts. 
JTolamacoo -Martin.  6.  Lake  auperior— Iron  Mountain 
Y.  P.  S.  a  E.,  5;  Iron  River.  60  cts.;  Isbpemhig,  10  04; 
Newberry,  1  Lannnp -Lansing  Franklin  Street,  6  05. 
Jfonro«--Coldwater,  8;  Erie,  1.  Fetonkey^Vetoakeji  6. 
&ii7inaio— Bay  Citr  1st,  18  81 ;  Mount  Pleasant,  2.      60  58 

MiNMBSOTA.— DMlufA— Two  Harbors,  10.  Mankato— 
Blue  Earth  City,  1 ;  Redwood  Falls.  8;  Windom,  8.  ifin- 
neqpolt* -Minneapolis  1st.  18  76.  St.  Plsvl— Bed  Wing, 
8  45;  Stillwater,  6  69.  88  80 

Missouri.— fanfcw  Ci^— Kansas  City  Linwood.  4; 
Sedalia  Broadway,  16.  Osarib— Irwin,  88  cts.;  Ozark 
Prairie,  8;  Preston,  88  cts.;  Salem,  84  cts. ;  Springfield 8d, 
1  75:  —  CaWary,  50  eta  Plolinyra— Bethel.  1;  Edina,  4. 
PtoMe-Oallatln,  8.    St,  Louis— Bethel,  8;  De  Soto,  8. 

87  85 

Nebraska.  —  Hatting*  —  Holdrege,  18  60.  Kearney— 
Kearney  German,  1;  North  Loup.  1;  Ord,  1.  Nebrotka 
City— Hebron,  8  86 ;  Nebraska  City.  1;  PUttsmouth  Ger- 
man, 1;  Seward,  8;  Staplehurst,  1;  Tamora,  L  Omaha— 
Fremont,  10  98;  Omaha  Westminster,  18  68.  60  08 

New  Jersey.- J0r««y  City-^3vntfS  City  Scotch,  5; 
Paterson  1st,  8.  JfonmoutA— Red  Bank.  5.  Morrie  and 
Orange -Madison,  88  eta.  ^etMsrfc— Newark  Bethany,  8. 
^euTton— Wantage  8d,  74  cts.  15  57 

New  Mexico.— iBio  Orande—Albuquerque  1st  sab-sch,  5. 

North  Dakota.— Ptotn&ina—Mekiook,  7 .41.  7  41 

Oregon— lf^ittam«»e-Dallas,  5.  5  00 

South  Dakota— BlocJk  Hill«-Hill  CStv,  8.  Southern 
DoJIcotci— Bridgewater.  1;  Canistota,  1;  Ebenezer.l;  Kim- 
ball. 1 ;  Turner  Co.  Ist  German,  8:  White  Lake.  8.  10  00 
Tennessee.- Birmingftam- Thomas  1st,  1.  HoUtonr- 
St.  Marks,  8.  Union-Forest  Hill,  1;  KnoxTille  4th,  6; 
Madlsonrille,  9  cts.;  New  Market,  7;  New  Providem^ 
6  79.  88  88 

Texas. -TVinifv-Dallas  ErposiUon  Park,  1.  1  « 

UTAH.-Jrendall— Idaho  Falls,  1.  l7taA— Amsricu 
Fork,  a.  •  S 

Wasbinoton.— S^feane— Rathdrum,  8.  8  w 

Wisconsin.- La  Cro««e— La  Crosse  1st  sab-sch,  8  80. 
JfodiMm— Kilboume  City.  6  JfiltoauJkee-Milwaakee 
Calvary.  16  66;  —  German.  8  86.  TFinne&ayo— Depere,  1; 
Marinette  Pioneer,  7  18;  Shawano.  5.  42  80 


Woman's  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Mis-  _ 

sions,  10 1000 

Total  received  for  Suatentation,  Maroh,  1804. .. .  648  46 

fromAprill.Mtt.  11,764  » 

Amount  received  during  same  period  last  year. .  4,816  81 

O.  D.  Eaton,  TreoMurer, 
Box  L,  Station  P,         (8  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


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Offieeps  and  Agencies  of  tbe  General  Assembly. 


THE  CLERKS. 

Bta)ed  Clerk  and  2Vea«urer— Rer.  William  H. 
Roberts,  D.D.,  No.  13S4  Chestnut  Street,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Permanent  Clerk— "Rev,  William  E.  Moore,  D.  D., 
ColumlmSt  O. 


THE  TRUSTEES. 

President — George  Junkin,  Esq. 

Treasurer— Frank  K.  Hippie,  1340  Chestnut  Street. 

Recording  Secretary— Jacob  Wilson. 

OFFiCB'Publicatlon    House,   Na     1334    Chestnut 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


THE  BOARDS. 

.     HOME  niSSIONS,  SUSTENTATION, 

Corresponding  Secretaries— R&y.  William  C.  Roberts,  D.  D.,  and  Rer.  Duncan  J.  McMillan,  P.  D. 
2V«cwur«f^— Oliver  D.  Eaton. 
Heoording  Seoretury— Oscar  E.  Boyd. 

Ofpicb— Presbyterian  House,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  Tork,  N.  T. 

Letters  relating  to  missionary  appointments  and  other  operations  of  tbe  Board  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Correspondinr  Secretaries. 

Letters  relating  to  the  financial  affairs  of  the  Board,  containing  remittances  of  money  or 
requests  for  reduced  railroad  rates,  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  D.  Eaton,  Treasurer. 

Applications  for  aid  from  churches  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  O.  E.  BoTD,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

Applicationa  of  Teachers,  and  letters  relating  to  the  School  Department,  should  be  addressed 
to  Rev.  O.  F.  MoAfks,  buperintendent. 

Correspondence  of  Young  People's  Societies  and  Sabbath-schools  should  be  addressed  to  Rev. 
Thornton  B.  Penfield. 
).     FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

Secretary  Efneritus—R&v,  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretaries— Rev.  Frank  F.  Ellinwood,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D.;  and  Mr, 

Robert  E.  Speer.  Reeording  Shoretary—Resr.  Benjamin  Labaree,  D.  D. 
SVeasurer— William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq. 

IHeld  Secretary— Rer,  Thomas  Marshall,  D.D.,  48  McCormick  Block,  Chicago,  IlL 
Office— Presbyterian  House,  No.  58  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Letters  relating  to  the  missions  or  other  operations  of  the  Board  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries.  Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing  remittances  of 
mon^,  should  be  sent  to  William  Dulles,  Jr.,  Esq.,  Treasurer, 

Certificates  of  honorary  membership  are  given  on  receipt  of  $80,  and  of  honorary  directorship 
on  receipt  of  $100. 

Persons  sending  packages  for  shipment  to  missionaries  should' state  the  contents  and  value.  There 
are  no  specified  days  for  shipping  goods.  Send  packages  to  the  Mission  House  as  soon  a^  they  are 
ready.  Address  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
YorfcN.Y. 

The  postage  on  letters  to  all  our  misdon  stations,  except  those  in  Mexico,  is  5  cents  per  each  half 
ounce  or  fraction  thereof.    Mexico,  3  cents  per  half  ounce. 

|.  EDUCATION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rev,  Edward  B.  Hodge,  D.  D. 
3V«asurer— Jacob  Wilson. 

Offiob— Publication  House,  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pla. 

g.  PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH -SCHOOL  WORK. 

Secretary— Rer,  Elijah  R.  Craven,  D.  D. 

Superintendent  of  Sabbath-scJiool  and  Missionary  Work— Rer.  James  A.  Worden,  D.  D, 

Editorial  Superintendent— Rer,  J.  R.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Business  Superintendent— John  H.  Scribner. 

Manufacturer— JoYm  A,  Black. 

IVecwurcr— Rev.  C.  T  McMuUin. 

Publication  Housb-  No.  1884  Chestnut  Street,  Pliiladelphia,  TtL 

Letters  relative  to  the  general  interests  of  the  Board,  also  all  manuscripts  offered  for  publicatioB 
and  communications  relative  thereto,  excepting  those  for  Sabbath-school  Library  booKs  and  the 
periodicals,  should  be  addressed  to  the  Rev.E.  R.  Craven,  D.  D.,  Secretary, 

Presbyterial  Sabbath-school  reports,  letters  relating  to  Sabbath-school  and  Missionary  work,  to 
grants  of  the  Board^s  publications,  to  the  appK)intment  of  Sabbath-school  missionaries,  and  reports, 
orders  and  other  communications  of  these  missionaries,  to  the  Rev.  Jambs  A.  Worden,  D.  D.,  Super* 
intendent  of  Sabbath'School  and  Missionary  Work. 

All  manuscripts  for  Sabbath-school  Library  books,  also  all  matter  offered  for  the  Westminsteb 
Tbacher  and  the  other  periodicals,  and  all  letters  concerning  tbe  same,  to  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Miller, 
D.  D.,  Editorial  Superintendent, 

BusinesB  correspondence  and  orders  for  books  and  periodicals,  except  from  Sabbath-school  mi» 
Monaries,  to  John  H.  Scribner,  Business  Superintendent. 

Remittanoes  of  money  and  contributions  to  the  Rev.  C.  T.  McMuLUN  Treasurer, 

$.  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rer,  Erskine  N.  White,  D.  D, 
2Veasurer— Adam  CampbeU. 

Office— Presbyterian  House,  No.  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  T. 


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6.  MINISTERIAL  RELIEF. 

Corresponding  Secretary—Rsy,  WflUAm  C  Cattell,  D.  B. 
Recording  Secretary  and  Treasurer— RefV.  William  W.  Heberton. 

Office— Publication  House,  1334  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Flk 

7.  FREEDMEN. 

President— Bav.  Henry  T.  McClelland,  D.  D» 
Vice-President— Bjdr.  David  8.  Kennedy. 
Recording  Secretary — Rev.  Samuel  J.  Fisher,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretary —R^y.  Edward  P.  Cowan,  D«  D 
Treasurer— Rev.  John  J.  Beaoom,  D.  D. 

Officb-516  Market  Street/Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Field  Secretary— Rty.  Henry  N.  Payne,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  Qtu 

S.  AID  FOR  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEHIES. 

Corresponding  Secretary— Rer.  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.  D.         ^ 
2Ve<uur«r— Charles  M.  Chamley,  P.  O.  Box  2»4,  Chicago,  Hi. 

Offick— Room  23,  Montauk  Block,  No  115  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  HI. 


PERMANENT  COMMITTEES. 

COMMITTEE  ON  SYSTEHATIC  BENEFICENCE. 

Chairman— R&y,  Rufus  S.  Green,  D.  D.j^lmira  College,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Secretary— KiliAen  Van  Rensselaer,  £6  Wall  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

C^airman^Rev.  John  J.  Beaoom,  516  Market  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Ptt. 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev,  John  P.  Hill,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Reeording  Secretary— Rev.  Joseph  B.  Tmrner,  Glenshaw,  Pa. 
TVsosurer—Rev.  James  Allison,  D  D.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

PRESBYTERIAN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

President— Rev,  W.  C.  Cattell,  D.  D.,  Philadelphia* 
Corresponding  Secretary— Rev.  W.  L.  Led  with. 
Treasurer— Deh,  K.  Ludwig,  8800  Locust  fcitreet,  Philadelphfak 
Library  and  Museum— 1229  Race  Street,  Philadelphia. 


TREASURERS  OP  SYNODICAL  HOHB  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTBNTATION. 

Kew  Jersey— ^mw  Ewing  Green,  P.  O.  Box  18S.  Trenton,  N.  J. 
New  York—0.  D.  Eaton,  SS  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
i^nsyfvanta-Frank  K.  Hippie,  1840  Chestnut  Street,  Philailelphiaj  Pla. 
BcUtimore^D,  C.  Ammidon,  31  South  Frederick  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 


BEQUESTS  OR  DEVISES. 

In  the  preparation  of  Wills  care  should  be  taken  to  insert  the  Corporate  Namo,  as  known  and  reoof^ 
nised  in  the  Courts  of  Law.    Requests  or  Devises  for  the 

Oeneral  Assembly  should  be  made  to  "  The  Trustees  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyteriaa 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Home  Misslons,^to  **  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  UniCad 
States  of  America,  incorporated  April  19, 1872,  by  Act  of  the  legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.** 

Board  of  Foreign  nuslons.— to  **  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Caiurch  in  tb« 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Church  Erection,-  to  *^  The  Board  of  Church  Erection  Fund  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Incorporated  March  27, 1871,  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  State  of  New  York." 

Board  of  Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work,  to  **  The  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  <^  Pabli> 
cation  and  Sabbath-school  Work." 

Board  of  education,— to  ^  The  Board  of  Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  In  the  United  States 
of  America,"  • 

Board  of  Relief  .—to  **  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Ministers  and  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  Deceased  Ministers."  ^ 

Board  for  Preedmen,— to  •^  The  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  tb* 
United  States  of  America." 

Board  of  Aids  for  Colleges^—to  '*  The  Presbyterian  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges  and  Academies.** 

Sustentatlon  is  not  Incorporated.  Bequests  or  Devises  intended  for  ibis  object  §honld  be  made  to  *'  Thd 
Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  Incorporated  April 
19,  1872,  by  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York, /or  Sustentatum,^ 

N«  B.— Real  Estate  devised  l^  will  should  be  carefully  described. 


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