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Mission Chapel
Ahmednugguk
Cksakea — A Good AVoek Begun
Miss ItANKiN’s AVoek in Mexico .
The Ukcknt Revolution in Japan
JIissioNAUY Aspect oe the AA'oek
Japan. By Rev. K. A. Adams
l)it. Seelye’s Visit in India . .
Rev. Ahtemas Bishop ....
Mes. Mekcy P. AViiitney . . .
A Call to the Missionaey AVoek.
Rev. H. N. Baeni ji
Help Needed l■•ou the New Wokk
Mission to Spain.
The Congi'egation at Santander. — Bar-
celona l.AJ
Eukopkan Tuekev AIi.ssion.
AA'ork of Students — Opposition at Pan-
agureshte 154
AVesteen Tuekey AIission.
AVork among Greeks near Cesarea. —
Progress at Talas — Cases of Persecu-
tion.— A Prayer-meeting under Dif-
ficulties.— A Great Change. — Manis-
sa. — TheAVeek of Prayer — Self-sup-
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138
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port. — Encouragement among the
Greeks. — Openings which cannot be
entered. — Persecution and its Effect 155
Eastehn Tuekey JIission.
The Ilarpoot Field — Sore Trials. —
Kuzzelbash Koords. — A Tour — Miss
Van Duzec at Ordo. — Zeal of the
Ordo Protestants. — Greeks. — A Zeal-
ous Student Helper. — Van — ATaiting
in Hope 159
Mahuatta Mission — AA'estern India.
Station Reports. — Baptism of a “a Go-
savi.” — Other Baptisms — Interest in
A'illages 1G2
Maduua AIission — Southern India.
Gratifying Facts — Additions. — A Tour
— Ordination — A\''ork fop AA’'omcn . . 164
Foochow Mission. — China.
Miss Payson’s School — A Mother’s
Fears. — Abraham’s Obedience — In-
fluence of a Picture 1G6
Missions ok other Societies .... 1G7
Miscellany 1G8
Donations 174
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MISSION CHAPEL AT AHMEDNUGGUR.
MISSION BUNGALOW AT AHMEDNUGGUR.
THE
MISSIONARY HERALD.
VoL. LXIX. — MAY, 1873. — No. V.
MISSION CHAPEL AND BUNGALOW AT AHMEDNUGGUR.
In a letter inclosing photographic views from which the cuts opposite were
prepared, Mr. Bissell wrote : —
Ahmednuggur is surrounded by a mud and stone wall, twelve or fifteen feet
high, and three or four feet thick. Large gates open out in different directions,
called the “ Poona Gate,” the “ Delhi Gate,” the “ Sheep Gate,” etc. These
are guarded by Sepoys (native policemen), for municipal purposes, and are
closed at night.
The mission premises are just within the city wall, on the south side of the
town, and have a private gate leading out of the city. This place was purchased
by the mission about thirty-five years ago, for one tenth, probably, of wliat it
would cost now. The chapel was built soon after the ground was obtained. It
has a sweet sounding, American bell, which can be heard throughout the city.
The population of Ahmednuggur, according to a recent census, is 32,000.
The native church here numbers over 150 members, and in the districts near are
sixteen other churches containing over 350 members. This chapel is the place
where the annual meetings of the mission and of the native Christians have been
held for many years, and where precious seasons of refreshing have been en-
joyed. Yet we believe we shall see “greater things than these.” Will our
Christian friends help, with their prayers, the fulfillment of this desire ?
After a month of rain here, the foliage is so rank as to conceal many parts
of the buildings, but on the whole the foliage looks better than the houses, so I
think there is no loss in the view. The crow perched on the top of the bunga-
low (at the left) is natural, and his cunning in alighting there just in time to
have his picture taken for nothing is in keeping with his character. The artist
who took the pictures was educated in our mission school, on these very prem-
ises. The view of the chapel was taken from the veranda of the mission
“ Brick house.” The cart and bullocks are mine, stationed there for the occa-
sion, but the other persons on the road were casual passers-by, who were asked
to stop a few seconds when the artist was ready.
VOL. LXIX. 10
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Cesarea — A Good Worlc begun.
CESAREA — A GOOD WORK BEGUN.
[May,
It is less than twenty years since the city of Cesarea was occupied by mis-
sionaries of the American Board. The central city of what was formerly known
as Cappadocia, quite removed from the ordinary routes of travel, four hundred
miles from Constantinople, in the southeast of Asia Minor, it had been so little
affected by missionary influence as to be judged by Armenian ecclesiastics, at
the capital, a fit place to which men suspected of evangelical views could be
sent into exile. Several had thus been sent, but with a result quite like that
which attended the persecution of the church in still earlier days. A little band
of men and women, whose hearts the Lord had touched, was ready and eager
to welcome the missionary teacher.
It was not till 1854 that Mr. Farnsworth, accompanied by Mr. Ball, took up
his residence in Cesarea. On the first Sabbath morning an audience of thirty
persons listened to the gospel from his lips. The first Sabbath in July follow-
ing, eight believers, who had been enlightened by native agency, including the
exiles above referred to, were organized into a church, and a light was thus set
up once more in a region famous in apostolic days.
Cesarea at this time was supposed to have a population of about 60,000, with
ninety-six villages under its civil jurisdiction, within a distance of thirty-five
miles. It was also the center of a still larger territory, embracing not less than
20,000 square miles, or nearly one third as large as New England. Such was
the field, with a population of 400,000 souls, whose emancipation was now com-
mitted to the labor and care of two American missionaries.
Mr. Ball remained only five years ; one and another succeeded him for even
shorter periods, and the work, for a long time, was thrown almost wholly on
Mr. Farnsworth. But two pastors in New England were in training to aid
him by their labors and counsels, one of whom, Mr. Bartlett, from Vermont,
joined him in 1867, and another, Mr. Barrows, from New Hampshire, in 1869,
and the station was manned. The necessities of the wonTen were not neglected.
Mrs. Giles, who remained in the field after the early death of her husband, in
1866, welcomed Miss Closson in 1867 and Miss Griswold in 1869, both from
Vermont. After long waiting the station was fully equipped for work, and the
results are such as to make this one of the most promising stations in Turkey.
We pass by the trials and discouragements of its earlier history, the perse-
cutions by open enemies, the defection of trusted friends, the domestic sorrows
and burdens of the missionaries left alone for so many years, and note now only
the results. We find a Protestant community of more than a thousand; Sab-
bath schools numbering over seven hundred pupils; four strong churches, with
nearly three hundred members, active and earnest in the support of their pas-
tors, and schools for the education of their children ; the gospel preached in
more than a dozen towns and cities outside of Cesarea ; a lively interest awak-
ened in behalf of the native women ; and a fine class of young men in prepara-
tion for the ministry. “ On every side,” say the missionarie.^, “ are oj)en doors,
and men are waiting and calling for teachers and preachers of the gospel of
Christ.” The work is well in hand in all its departments ; and results already
attained, while sufficient to cheer the hearts of the mis.sionaries engaged, are
■stly regarded but as the first fruits of a yet grander work.
1873.]
Miss Rankin's Work in Mexico.
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MISS RANKIN’S WORK IN MEXICO.
The work so long carried forward in Northern Mexico by Miss Rankin, has
been transferred to the American Board. Submitting the case for the consid-
eration of the Prudential Committee, Miss R. presented a concise statement of
what had been done. The narrative was not designed for publication, but it
will be read with deep interest, and may well serve to incite many to Christian
effort, showing, as it does, how one has labored, and that such labors are by no
means “ in vain in the Lord.” The facts could hardly be presented in a better
way than Miss Rankin here presents them.
My interest in behalf of Mexico commenced during the war of 1846 between
the United States and that country. Residing in the State of Mississippi at
that time, I learned, through the returned soldiers, much about the moral desti-
tution prevailing in that Papal land ; and it seemed to me, that after conquer-
ing those miserable people, it was the duty of American Christians to attempt
something for their spiritual elevation. Indeed, I felt that the honor of Amer-
ican Christianity most imperatively demanded it. So strongly impressed w'as 1
of the importance of this, that I wrote several articles for publication, hoping to
elicit an interest among the churches and missionary boards. But my appeals
met with no response, and I resolved, God helping me, to go myself to Mexico,
and do what I could for the enlightenment of her long neglected people.
In pursuance of tliis object, I went to Texas in 1847 ; but finding the fron-
tier of Mexico in such an unsettled condition, I remained in Texas, establishing
schools in different parts of the State, until 1852.
In June of that year I went to Brownsville, a town opposite Matamoras, Mex-
ico, where I found a large Mexican population. This portion of Texas had been
claimed by Mexico previous to the war, and consequently was settled by Mexican
people, to a great extent. As I could not go into Mexico proper at that time, on
account of the prohibition against Protestant Christianity in any form, I con-
cluded to remain and labor among the Mexicans under our own government.
I opened a school for Mexican children, and soon gathered quite a number, to
whom I daily communicated Bible instruction.
Through the children, I gained access to the parents, and was much encour-
aged in finding many who could read in their own language. I procured Bibles,
in the Spanish, from the American Bible Society, and circulated them freely
among all who would receive the Word of God. An eagerness was manifested
to examine the book which the priests had told them it was not safe for them
to read. After examination, the opinion of the most intelligent class of people
was that the Bible was a good book, and should be read by all. I soon found
that Bibles were being passed over into Mexico in a private manner, by the
Mexicans themselves.
I supplied the demand, and some fifteen hundred copies of the Scriptures, and
more than two hundred thousand pages of tracts, were put into the hands of the
Mexican people before the prohibition was removed. Orders would come to
me from Monterey, and other places in the interior, for Bibles. I would in-
quire, “ Why do you want the Bible ?” The answer uniformly was, “ We have
seen the Bible, we find it a good book, and we want to get numbers of them to
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distribute among the people, to let them see that the priests have deceived them,
in telling them that the Bible is a bad book.”
In 1854, through aid received from friends in the United States, I built a
Protestant seminary for Mexican girls, at Brownsville. I found Mexican youth
susceptible of moral and mental improvement, and prosecuted my labors in this
department with much encouragement. In 1860, after a strife of some four
or five years, the Mexican Government proclaimed religious freedom. The
‘ gates of brass and the bars of iron were cut in sunder,’ and eight millions of
enslaved souls emerged into the light and liberty of the Christianity of the Bible.
It was a time of general rejoicing throughout the country. Persons came over
to me from Matarnoras for any amount of Bibles, Testaments, and tracts, which
I could furnish. I sent on to New York and obtained a full supply, and the work
©f circulation, in that hitherto Papal land, went briskly forward. After a few
months, I felt the work demanded an agent from the Bible Society. Accord-
ingly I procured a suitable man. Rev. Mr. Thompson, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, and wrote to the Bible Society; and he received an appoint-
ment in November, 1860.
Mr. Thompson went into Mexico as far as Monterey, and everywhere was
most cordially received. The authorities gave him leave to plant Protestant
institutions, circulate the Bible, and do anything which might conduce to the
benefit of the people. He continued the work until the commencement of our
civil war in the United States, when, on account of the blockade of the Southern
ports, all communication was cut off with New York, and after our supply of
Bibles was exhausted, we could procure no more. After waiting some time, he
felt obliged to suspend his labors, and returned to Texas.
At a later period a port was opened on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and
we were again in communication with New Y'ork. About the same time. Rev. Mr.
Hickey, colporter of the American Tract Society for Texas, was obliged to flee the
South on account of being a Union man, and came to Matarnoras. He saw what
a good work was commenced in Mexico, and being an earnest Christian man, he
entered upon it with true zeal. I furnished him with Bibles, and he not only
distributed them, but preached the Word to all who would listen. He expressed
a willingness to accept an agency. I wrote to the Bible Society, and he received
an appointment in 1863, and went to Monterey. He collected a congregation,
and after a little time administered baptism to a dozen Mexicans, who gave
evidence of genuine conversion. At Cadareita, a place some thirty miles from
Monterey, believers were found who evidently had received the truth in the
love of it before ever seeing the living teacher. I was not surprised at this,
because, when the Word of God found its way into that dark land, I believed
that the same Spirit which indicted that Word could carry the truths it con-
tained to the hearts of those poor enslaved people, to their salvation. Mr.
Hickey’s duties compelled him to leave Monterey, and he selected a suitable
man from the converts to continue religious services, and carry forward the
work.
In 1865 I went to Monterey, and found the way prepared for establishing a
permanent Protestant mission there. This city contained a population of forty
thousand, and was really the most important city of that portion of the country.
It was regarded as an important center, and I decided to build a mission house.
1873.]
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which might answer the purpose of chapel and schools, and also for a residence.
To obtain the means to do this, I was obliged to come again to the United States
and ask aid of friends, which I did in the fall of I860. In a few months I ob-
tained $15,000 ; $10,000 of which was given by one individual, E. D. Good-
rich, Esq., Cambridgeport, Mass.
I returned in 1866, and early in 1868 my edifice was completed, and we com-
menced religious services in it, and also schools for both sexes. Converts in-
creased, and among them were men well calculated to do good among their
countrymen. The first impulse of the spiritual life of these new-born souls w'as
to preach the gospel to their people. I consulted several of them in regard to
their going out as colporters and Bible-readers. They were delighted with the
idea, and said they would rejoice to work without compensation, but their fami-
lies were dependent upon them for their daily support, and in abandoning their
business they would require the necessary amount, which was about a dollar per
day. I applied to the A. and F. Christian Union for aid, but it could not be
granted, and rather than see such an important work neglected, I resolved to
appeal to the Christian ladies of the United States.
During the interval in which my building was being completed, 1867, 1 came
to New York, laid my purpose before the Society, received their approval, and
commenced the work of obtaining funds for the support of Mexican colporters.
I visited Hartford, Conn., and was very kindly received, the ladies of the differ-
ent evangelical churches pledging $1,000, yearly. I then went to New Haven,
and the ladies there pledged the same. (This liberal contribution from Hart-
ford and New Haven has been continued ever since.) I visited other places,
and obtained sufficient funds to employ seven native workers ; so that when I
returned, in 1868, and commenced work in my new building, I had the opera-
tives to go forth scattering precious seed broadcast over the land. In looking
back, it seems that an important position had been obtained in Mexican evan-
gelization, but at that time — so much work appeared necessary to be done —
I scarcely stopped to congratulate myself, but pushed forward to the things
which were before. The workers sent out proved efficient, and wherever they
went, gracious influences seemed to follow. Although comparatively illiterate,
some intelligent Mexicans received a saving knowledge of the gospel through
their teachings.
Two of these men went to the State of Zacatecas, in company with two of the
Bible Society’s agents, and labored there some five or six weeks. A work com-
menced which resulted in the conversion of thirty persons, among whom were
two highly educated men, who took up the work after the departure of the col-
porters, and carried it forward with great success. The number of converts
increased, and an evangelical paper has been published, which has done much
good in Mexico. Two years ago, the number of converts amounted to more
than one hundred.
The mission at Zacatecas was transferred last year, by the A. and F. Chris-
tian Union, to the Board of the Presbyterian Church, and they have now some
two or three missionaries on the ground. The Monterey mission has, at the
present time, six regularly organized churches, and two more, we expect, will
soon be formed.
In 1869, the work assumed proportions which required a regularly ordained
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[May,
minister, and I obtained Rev. John Beveridge, who has most faithfully labored
in bringing the work into a thorough, systematic arrangement. We have two
ordained native pastors, who are proving to be valuable assistants in the care
of the churches. The number of members in the churches range from twelve
to sixty. This, perhaps, may appear a small number ; but we have much pre-
cious seed scattered over an area of some four or five hundred miles, which is
waiting for laborers to come in and bring the work to perfection.
I fully believe a foundation is laid for a great work in Northern Mexico.
Another good man is needed immediately to aid Mr. Beveridge in carrying for-
ward the work as rapidly as the circumstatices are demanding. To each of the
churches is attached a missionary school, and these are doing a great amount of
good among the youth. In Monterey, we have what we regard as a training-
school for boys and young men, and in it we have several who promise much
future usefulness. The man at the head of it is a highly educated Mexican, a
thorough Protestant, and, as we believe, a true Christian.
Since 1856, this mission has been connected with the American and Foreign
Christian Union, and, as that Society is to suspend operations in foreign lands
after April 1st, I find it necessary to transfer it to some other Board. I ofier
the mission to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
in the confidence that it will receive the consideration which its importance
demands. It is the fruit of more than a score of years of “ weeping, and bear-
ing precious seed,” and I most urgently request, that it may be regarded as a
sacred deposit. It is a foundation for future work, laid in faith and prayer, and,
I trust, upon it may be reared a structure which shall eventually extend its
blessed influences over that whole land. That He who planted and has blessed
this mission in Mexico thus far, may continue to watch over and guard its pre-
cious interests, shall be my constant and earnest prayer.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN JAPAN.
The present condition of Japan, — civil, social, and religious, — and the
prospects of the missionary work there, awaken so much interest and call forth
so many inquiries, that it is believed the readers of the “ Missionary Herald ’*
will be glad to see here portions of an article published in February last, in the
“ Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church,” Scotland. For the
whole article, room can hardly be found ; the following are the more important
passages : —
“ Under various names, two Emperors, the one called the Tycoon and the
other the Mikado, tlie former a military and secular sovereign, the latter a
spiritual governor, technically supreme, have hitherto ruled the Empire of
Japan, with its thirty-one millions of population, scattered over its three prin-
cipal and its numberless smaller islands. These islands used to be divided into
sixty-eight provinces, over every one of which a prince, under the name of
Daimio, or Siomio, was set as ruler, under the two Emperors, whose relation to
one another we shall, in the course of this article, endeavor to explain.
“ The recent revolution has been accomplished by the deposition of the Ty-
1873.]
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The Recent Revolution in Japan.
coon, and the assumption of his prerogatives by the Mikado, who has been, for
four or five years, the sole Emperor of Japan. This abolition of the office of
Tycoon has also completely changed the relation of the Daimios, and other local
rulers, to the government and to the people. Formerly these princes had to
reside in the city of Yedo for about half of their time, with their families, as
hostages, under the eye of the Tycoon, who had the power to depose them, and
who, through his council of state, surrounded them with an atmosphere of con-
stant espionage. These cireumstances lessen our surprise that the aristocracy
of Japan was to a large extent a consenting party to the revolution, which has
sent the Tycoon to virtual and perpetual banishment, and has left the Mikado
to rule without a rival, and to reconstruct the government.
“ The present Japanese dynasty, that of the Mikado, stretches so far back
into the past as to dwarf the antiquity of the oldest royal families of Europe.
We are not aware that any man can call in question the unparalleled claim of
the present Emperor, to a pedigree stretching back to the sixth century before
Christ. This Emperor has witnessed the most remarkable revolution that has
taken place in the empire since his fiimily began to reign, twenty-four centuries
ago. He is a young man of twenty-four years of age. Plis father and prede-
cessor died on the 3d of February, 1867, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.
The present Emperor was then a boy of seventeen ; and within little more
than a year of the beginning of kis reign. May 16, 1868, the turning-point of a
new regime, the hinge of Japanese history, was reached, unconsciously on his
part and that of his fellow-countrymen. He has indeed manifested no small
degree of vigor and intelligence, inasmuch as he has risen to his position in
spite of his youth and the incredible bondage of those associations and traditions
by which he was surrounded, and by which he w'as liable to be enslaved. It is
not, however, to be imagined for a moment that he, or his immediate advisers,
contemplated the marvelous consequences which have just began to develop
themselves, in changing the relations, the customs and habits, as well as the
beliefs of that singular people. The change was not a human policy, but a
divine and resistless providence.
“ The present revolution must necessarily awaken religious inquiry, inalimuch
as the Mikado, who was for ages shrouded in mystery, and viewed as an invis-
ible divinity, has found it necessary to come forth into the arena of action, and
take his place not only over his subjects, but side by side with his fellow-mortals.
The recent revolution of 1868 was the overthrow of a previous revolution, which
took place in the year 1142. Previous to that date, the Mikados of Japan
were the only sovereigns of the empire. Their sovereignty, however, was of a
spiritual kind. It made its appeal to imagination, and based itself on sentiments
of religion. To make use of an analogy, well understood in Europe, the Mikado
was, up to the middle of the twelfth century, more a pope than a king. He
shrouded himself in mystery ; lived invisible in an immense palace in the city
of Miaco, surrounded by a little army of guards, entrenched behind a bulwark
of superstition, more potent for his defense than all his soldiers.
“ The Mikado himself is believed to be the lineal descendant of the last of
four gods who succeeded the goddess Ten-sio-dai-zin, believed to be the daugh-
ter of the god who created the world. Of this divine race of sovereigns who
have ruled Japan, the present Mikado is the 122d. When the 76th in this
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long succession was on the throne in his secret place of thunder, that is, in the
year 1141, disturbances arose which needed to be suppressed by the sword.
The successful soldier, who became the general of the army which put down
the insurrection, used his position as generalissimos have often done, to lift him-
self to power. This he did by severing the temporal from the spiritual prerog-
ative, leaving the Mikado with his spii-itual supremacy in his sacred city and
palace, wrapped up in the power of his long and celestial pedigree, but stripped
of all immediate exercise of temporal authority. Thus the power of the IMikado
was divided between himself and the military emperor. For 716 years, up to
the recent revolution in 1868, Japan had two Emperors, one visible and the
other invisible, with certain acknowledged forms of subjection on the part of the
temporal to the spiritual ruler.
“ It would be an interesting but, endless process of anatomy, to pursue into
its details the complex constitution of this old government, which has worked
longer than any other in human history, without more than one great change
deserving the name of revolution. We refer to the revolution set up in 1142,
and upset in 1868. The former change set the Tycoon on a throne nearly as
high as that of the Mikado ; the latter laid prostrate the Tycoon and put the
Mikado on a solitary throne, by restoring that limb of his prerogative which
was broken in the twelfth century.
“ We cannot enter in this article into the growth of sentiment which, by
gradually advancing among the ruling class, prepared the way for the abolition
of the Tycoon’s power. The facts, however, must be noted, as essential to the
briefest narrative, that the old feudal aristocraey of Daimios and Siomios (the
higher and lower grades of provineial governors) have been to a large extent
superseded, and that an imperial parliament is on the eve of being elected,
which will ere long, if the experiment suceeed, exalt the mass of the people
from a position of serfdom to the exereise of political rights ; and will turn their
mechanical education, in the arts of reading and writing, into mental and moral
discipline, preparing them for a religious revolution, infinitely more benign than
any political change can ever help them to conceive.
“ If we enter into Japan now', when the people eall us to ‘eorae over and help
them,’ when Providence opens the way, and when the Lord of missions bids us
go, there are the best of reasons why we should be hopeful of success among
the people. Their repugnance to foreigners, too largely founded on their fear
of Jesuitical treachery and mercantile rapacity, wall quickly yield to the more
genuine and just procedure of Americans and Europeans promoting trade and
propagating Christianity. The unscrupulous cupidity of Portuguese and Dutch
traders, and the political ambition and tortuous policy of Jesuits, under the
guise of Christianity, cannot repeat themselves.
“ The call to enter Japan is new and almost startling. If it be a duty to ask
for the opening of wide and effectual doors into great populations heretofore
inaccessible, and if the prayer be answered, the Church has no choice but to
enter in at these doors, so long as they stand open. The Japanese people are
receptive and impressible. Their ambassadors are visiting the Western nations
in quest of truth in every form. Our commerce has no difficulty in interpreting
these things as a call to go. Is Ciiristianity alone to be timid and calculating,
lest it should land prematurely in that field.”
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Missionary Aspect of the Work in Austria.
An article from Mr. Davis — “One Year in Japan,” — indicating the rapid-
ity with which changes are taking place there, and the greatness and promising
nature of those changes, was published in the “Herald” for April, page 113,
and may well be read as a sequel to the foregoing. And another most notable
step in the line of progress is now announced. A note from Japan, dated Feb-
ruary 22, 1873, and received at the Missionary Rooms March 31, says: “ The
news, which you have doubtless received by telegram ere this, that the Govern-
ment has abolished all the edicts against the Christian religion, is indeed true.
Now, there is no law forbidding any one to read the Bible or become a Christian ;
and in this quiet way religious toleration is virtually declared.”
MISSIONARY ASPECT OF THE WORK IN AUSTRIA.
Bt Rev. E. A. Adams.
In conversations with brethren at home, just before I left America, I received
the impression, very decidedly, that this was not regarded as a real missionary
field. It was supposed that the self-denials and deprivations would be fewer
and less trying, and that the advantages would be such as to render it a very
desirable field of labor viewed even from a completely worldly stand-point.
These opinions have been more than once expressed to me.
I have no thought that such ideas are entertained by yourself or by the Pru-
dential Committee, but my feeling is that there may be those who would respond
to a call to come here, who would not as willingly go to other places, and chiefly
because of the supposed temporal advantages which this field possesses.
There are indeed certain obvious worldly advantages to be secured in coming
here, which could be had in no other field. Among these will naturally suggest
themselves, the fact that Austria is becoming more and more a resort for tour-
ists ; that many people from England and America are taking up their abode in
the cities ; that it is a land possessing many objects of historical interest and
much beautiful natural scenery ; that its prevailing language is one which pre-
sents peculiar attractions to the scholar ; and that a residence within its territory
would be a means of intellectual culture, and perhaps of rest from exhausting la-
bor. But there is another side which should be presented, lest some one should
come induced by these advantages, and find himself so seriously disappointed as
to cripple his labors. I wish to say something of this “ other side,” not to dis-
courage any one from coming, but that the position of things may be under-
stood.
However beautiful some portions of Austria may be, it is not likely that
many of the missionaries who come to this field will be located in the pleasant-
est places The common opinion is, that as we are to work among a civil-
ized and in some sense a religious people, our work will be far easier than in
heathen lands. To me, never before away from America, it is a constant
matter of surprise as I observe how low, degraded, and vicious many of this
people are. I should hope that children would not be exposed to worse influ-
ences even in distinctively heathen lands. Again, it is becoming more and more
clear to me that we cannot expect to work here very long without coming into
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Dr. Seelye's Visit in India.
collision with existing institutions. A church nominally Protestant that is almost
wholly gone over to unbelief, a state of public opinion that renders any kind
of manual labor almost a disgrace, which allows women to be compelled to do
the hardest work, and a government wdiich, though perhaps becoming liberal-
ized, is still administered almost wholly without regard to the lower classes, —
these facts indicate a condition of things that the gospel must change. We
shall preach, of course, as we ought, the simple gospel, and not aim directly at
any of these changes ; but if the Holy Ghost makes the preaching powerful, there
must be visible outward results.
Perhaps I make too much of these hindrances, but they seem to me really to
exist, and, if so, they should be taken into the account. And so far as I am
concei’ned, I do not feel that they discourage me in the least. I am sure that
the Lord of Hosts is mightier than all who can come against him.
Thus I have no idea that we need a different class of men here from those
who are needed in other places. Just the same self-denying, devoted men are
needed here as in other missions, and, indeed, in all the churches at home.
Men who go where they go, and do what they do, because the love of Christ
constrains them ; men who think of self and selfish interests last, and of the
cause of Christ and of humanity first.
That they should be men of intellectual power and culture ; that they should
be self-reliant and independent men ; that they will need such faith in God as
will enable them to wait till he brings forth results, and not, in their haste to do
large things, be deceived by the character of those among whom they labor; that
they should be prudent and careful, and at the same time ready to bear respon-
sibility ; and above all, that they must be men filled with the Holy Ghost, who
know no other will than God’s, and who decide to come here because they are
satisfied that they are called by God himself, — that they should be such men
is of course true. I cannot but feel that, however much intellect is needed here,
our great need is of men who are willing to be led by the Holy Ghost, and who
come intending thus to be led without seeking their own selfish interests. I write
all this because I feel utterly incompetent to do even a share of this work myself,
and would have my weakness supplemented by the strength of those who shall
in the future be sent out.
I am quite sure that you will at once see, that this letter has come partly, at
least, out of my own experience ; but I thank the Lord that he showed me the
real state of the case so clearly before I left home that I have not experienced
a single pang of disappointment. And I wish, both on account of the happiness
of the individual and for the good of the work, that no one who comes here may
be disappointed. And it is because I think that there are those who would be
inclined to come who might be disappointed on their arrival, that what I have
now said has seemed to me important to be said.
Prague, Bohemia, January 20, 1873.
DR. SEELYE’S VISIT IN INDIA.
Mr. Harding wrote concisely from Bombay, January 20th, in regard to
the visit of Prof. Seelye in India. The facts have already been noticed in the
“ Herald,” but for various reasons this letter should find a place in its pages.
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Dr, Seelyeh Visit in India.
“ The friends of Dr. Seelye who have followed him with their sympathy and
prayers, will expect some report of his labors in Bombay. It will be remem-
bered that, at the earnest invitation of our mission, he consented to pause here
in his journey for a season, and undertake an experimental work among the
English-speaking natives of this city. Most of this class, for various reasons,
stand aloof from the ordinary influences of Christian missions. Some are indif-
ferent, nearly all are skeptical, while others are hostile to Christianity ; and
many, perhaps from a kind of patriotic pride, refuse to yield to the religion of
their conquerors.
“ It was believed that Dr. Seelye was specially fitted to influence this im-
portant class of the native community ; and it was hoped that he might induce
some, at least, to attend to the claims of Christianity, who had not hitherto been
reached by ordinary methods. In this hope we have not been disappointed.
Dr. Seelye has been here only about twm months, yet it is evident that a real,
and we trust a permanent, good has been effected. His public lectures have
been well attended by those we desired most to reach. The lectures have been
a clear, bold, and powerful presentation of the vital truths of Christianity ; and
these truths were shown to have such a foundation in human nature and ex-
perience, that they must apply not to any particular class or nation, but to all
mankind. The various subjects, though often of a nature to excite opposition
and hostility, were handled with so much ability and with so much genuine
courtesy, that criticism was, for the time at least, disarmed, and the audiences
seemed to be carried along with the speaker.
“ Besides these public lectures. Dr. Seelye has had many opportunities of
meeting smaller or larger companies of natives at private houses, for conversa-
tion and discussion. Some of these conferences have been intensely interesting.
Doubts and objections were frankly stated. The deepest points in theology
were several times touched upon. Of the doubts and difficulties some were evi-
dently indigenous, and some were imported from Western skepticism. It is,
however, surprising to see how' the human heart, in its opposition to God, every-
where and in all ages lights upon essentially the same objections.
“ It should be added that the natives always manifested a friendly, and gener-
ally a fair spirit in these discussions. Dr. Seelye has several times met the
prominent men of the Brahmo Somaj party, and once at the house of their pres-
ident he met nearly all the members of that society. The main subject for dis-
cussion that evening was the divinity of Christ.
“ On the whole, the impression of the public lectures, and these more private
discussions, has been only good. There will hereafter be, among the educated
natives, a more kindly and respectful attitude towards Christian truth and Chris-
tian work ; and this class will, I believe, be more accessible to Christian influ-
ences. We have also reason to hope that some have received deeper impres-
sions, that may, under divine influence, lead them on to a new life in Christ
Jesus.
“ In addition to these efforts in Bombay, Dr. Seelye spent a short time in
Abmednuggur, and while there delivered two lectures to the educated Hindoos.
Our missionaries speak with great satisfaction of his visit there, and of the good
impression made.
“ In returning he stopped in Poona, and by invitation of a Brahmin, the head
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Rev. Artemas Bishop.
master of the government high school, delivered a lecture there. So much in-
terest was manifested, and such an urgent request was made for another lecture,
that he remained and addressed them the second night. These lectures were
given in the old palace of the ancient kings of the Deccan, an immense court,
now used for the government school. The natives of Poona had probably seen
accounts of Dr. Seelye’s lectures in Bombay, and hence they came out in very
large numbers to hear him, and much enthusiasm was manifested.
“At the request of many parties in Bombay, Dr. Seelye has consented to
write out, for publication, four of the lectures delivered here. This involves con-
siderable extra labor, but it will give a permanent and far more extensive influ-
ence to his work here, than it could otherwise have had ; for the lectures will
doubtless be read in all parts of India. The preparation for the press is nearly
completed, and in a few days our dear and honored brother, \vho has given us
such substantial aid, will leave us for the home-land. We are thankful to him
for coming, we are thankful to Amherst College for sparing him for a season,
and we cannot but hope that this experiment, that has been in all respects so
satisfactory, may lead some other one, whom the Lord has fitted for such work,
to ‘ come over and help us.’ ”
REV. ARTEMAS BISHOP.
One after another, the venerable laborers, whose lives of faithful service
have done so much for the people of the Sandwich Islands, are passing away.
The death of Mr. Bishop, one of the second company who went as missionaries
to those islands, was mentioned in the “ Herald ” for February. The following
notice of his life is gathered from a sermon preached at Honolulu, on the Sab-
bath after he died, by Rev. Dr. Damon : —
“ The Rev. Artemas Bishop was born in Pompey, N. Y., December 30, 1795.
Hence, in a few days, he would have been seventy-seven years old. He grad-
uated at Union College in 1819, and at Princeton Theological Seminary, in
1822. After marriage, with Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, of Boston, he embarked,
in November, 1822, at New Haven, with the first reinforcement of missionaries
destined for these islands. Among his associates were the Rev. Messrs. Rich-
ards and Stewart, Mr. Chamberlain, and several others. At his embarkation
a large concourse assembled, and then was sung, for the first time, the hymn
written by William B. Tappan, which has been so oft repeated : —
“ ‘ Wake, Isles of the South ! your redemption is near.
No longer repose in the borders of gloom.’
“The company landed at Honolulu on the last Sabbath of April, 1823, and
Mr. Bishop was stationed at Kailua, there to become the associate of the Rev.
Asa Thurston. Having acquired the language, he became associated with Mr.
Thurston in the work of translating the Bible. Together, they translated the
books of Genesis, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, and the Epistles of Paul to the
Romans and Galatians ; while alone, he translated the 2d book of Samuel and
the 1st of Chronicles.
“After remaining about twelve years at Kailua, he removed to Ewa, on the
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island of Oahu, where he labored for about twenty years with great usefulness
and success. While residing at this station, he translated ‘ Pilgrim’s Progress,’
and many other books. His accurate knowledge of the Hawaiian language
always gave him authority in all matters Involving questions of criticism and
translation. His fondness for study, reading, and literary pursuits was pre-
served to the very close of his career. He was wont to take cheerful views of
life, ever looking on the bright side of all subjects. There was a golden thread
of quiet humor interwoven into the texture of his mind. Solomon says, ‘A
man that hath friends, must show himself friendly.’ He was one of those
friendly, genial, and companionable men whose presence does not chill, but
warms society.
“ It is quite remarkable, that with the rapid tide of travel rushing past our
islands, he never should have left them after his arrival, except on a visit as
delegate to the Marquesas mission, in 1858. He never rode upon or saw a
railroad, or witnessed the operation of the telegraph. Few men, however, were
better acquainted with the progress of scientific discovery. Emphatically might
Goldsmith’s description of the Vicar, in the ‘ Deserted Village,’ apply to him,
while officiating, for nearly forty years, as a missionary at Kailua and Ewa : —
“ ‘ A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from towns he ran his godly race.
Nor e’er had changed, nor wished to change his place.
Unskillful he to fawn, or seek for power.
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learn’d to prize.
More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.’
“ It is quite impossible not to admire the life of such a veteran missionary,
who left his country fifty years ago, and after voyaging around Cape Horn, set-
tled down among the Hawaiians to learn their language, assist in reducing it to
a written form, and then spend a long lifetime in preaching and laboring among
this people. His thoughts have become their thoughts. By means of the ser-
mons which he preached, books and hymns which he wrote and translated, and
above all, by the life which he led, his own life-thoughts have become inter-
woven and intertwined with the life-thoughts and literature of Hawaiians.
“As a minister of the gospel, he necessarily made the whole Bible his life-
study, but when he ceased from the active duties of the ministry, and enjoyed
time for calm reflection and meditation, his mind dwelt almost exclusively upon
the prophetic parts of Scripture, and especially upon the Book of Revelation. It
afforded him unspeakable satisfaction to contemplate the future triumphs of the
gospel as unfolded in these prophetic portions. He had no doubts and misgiv-
ings upon the subject, but from his extensive reading of history, and the prog-
ress of the nations in science, art, religion, and civilization, he confidently
anticipated the universal spread of Chiistianity over the whole earth.”
MRS. MERCY P. WHITNEY.
The following is from the Honolulu “ Friend ” of February 1 : —
“ It becomes our duty to record the death of another of those pioneer mission-
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aries who came to these Islands when the people were savages, an 1 the voyage
hither was 18,000 miles, around Cape Horn. Mrs. Mercy P. Whitney died at
Waimea, Kauai, December 26, 1872, where she had resided since the summer
of 1820, or during the long period of more than half a century. She was
born in Pittsfield, Mass., August 14, 1795, and came to these Islands in the
first company of missionaries. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, on their arrival, were
stationed on Kauai, in consequence of a son of the former king of that island
having accompanied the missionaries on their voyage from Boston, where he
had been educated. This youiig man, George P. Kaumualii, on his return, was
kindly welcomed by his father, who made provision for the missionaries destined
for the island of Kauai. Mrs. Whitney labored there with her husband until
his death, in December, 1845. After his death she preferred to remain at her
early home. It has always been her practice, however, to visit Honolulu once
a year, at the annual meeting of the missionaries in May or June. She con-
tinued this practice when the infirmities of age would indicate that she should
have ceased voyaging among the islands. Her interest in the welfare of the
mission was abiding to the last, as indicated by her will, bequeathing her late
residence to the native pastor of tlie Waimea church, and one thousand dollars
to the American Board.”
A CALL TO THE MISSION .kRY WORK.
By Rev. H. N. Barnum.
[About to leave America again, returning, with health by no means as vigor-
ous as could be wished, to the work in Eastern Turkey to which he has conse-
crated his life, Mr. H. N. Barnum sent the following article to the Missionary
House. It is published in the hope that its words of truth and soberness may
not be wholly lost ujion young ministers and theological students.]
What is a call to the missionary work ? “A fitness for it,” is the answer
sometimes given. In other words, a man who is qualified for the work to be
done, and who can go, is morally bound to go. This principle, if strictly carried
out, would unsettle many a pastor, and swell the missionary ranks with a large
number of those who never so much as raise the question of personal duty to
the heathen. Can such a principle be justified ?
As the work of the foreign missionary is chiefly the laying of foundations, the
originating and shaping of agencies designed to evangelize and civilize the na-
tions, it is one of peculiar difficulty, and needing special qualifications. Not all
successful m^iisters would be successful missionaries. There are many others'
who would be useful abroad, but who are providentially hindered from going —
whose path is hedged up with insurmountable obstacles. This leaves a large
class of young men in the ministry, or about to enter it, who have the needed
qualifications, and who could go if there were a settled purpose to do so. What
shall be said of such ? Shall they go ? I think that the Master would have us
answer in the affirmative; because —
1. It is eighteen and a half centuries since he commanded that the gospel
should be preached to every creature. The early disciples began to execute the
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command, and they received divine aid, according to the promise. They labored
amid difficulties of which we know little, and had scarcely any of the helps which
we have ; yet the gospel spread with wonderful rapidity, and would have become
universally known, except that the church became worldly and apathetic, and
neglected this duty. The result is, that we have to-day the spectacle of nine
tenths of the race — a number much larger, numerically, than when Christ
uttered the command — living in a state of spiritual darkness almost as gross
as existed at that time ; to say nothing of the untold millions who have perished
during the interval, but who might have been saved except for this criminal
neglect. This command has lost none of its force with the lapse of time, but
every year has added to its emphasis.
2. The increased facilities for reaching all the tribes of men — the ability to
do them good — add greatly to the responsibility. There never was a time
when the external aids were so many, and wdien the hopefulness of effoi't to
evangelize and civilize the world was so great as now. Doors are wide o[>en
everywhere. The ends of the earth are brought together. Intercommunication
is easy. The press, science, and art, are all ready to be laid under tribute. Prot-
estant nations occupy a controlling position, and give a sort of prestige to those
who would carry the gospel abroad. The force of this argument is greatly
increased by the fact that all these facilities are equally open to the adversary,
and that he is straining every nerve to preoccupy the ground in such a way as
to shut out the gospel.
3. The condition of the rrnevangelized nations makes the case overwhelmingly
urgent. I shall not attempt to draw the picture. No man can do it adequately.
To say nothing of their spiritual state, and their prospects for eternity, their
wretchedness for the life that now is, is fitted to move every philanthropic heart.
There is no agency which is so well adapted to improve their temporal condition
as the gospel. It is cheaply and easily applied, and it brings in its train — the
history of every modern mission proves it — all the blessings of civilization.
This motive alone, if there were no other, this power of the gospel to make
men out of beings who are little more than brutes — to make happy, refined,
noble men — this alone, if it were only appreciated, would rouse philanthropists
to action everywhere, even such as are not Christian. But this is the lowest
motive. Every one, among all these millions, has a soul above all price. It is
hopelessly lost, not becau.se there is no way of saving it, but because he does
not know that there is. It is true that multitudes are perishing here too, but
it is in the midst of an abundant supply; while abroad the famine is absolute and
without remedy, except as we carry to them the bread of life. Here are the
Bible, a great Christian community, books and schools, light everywhere and
abounding, and scarcely anything which in the comparison can be called dark-
ness, except by a willful shutting of the eyes ; while abroad are whole tribes and
nations benighted, yet almost literally waiting for the light ; who not only do not
know the truth, but who could not know it if they would. Here, with all the
other sources of light which exist, and with thousands in other professions who
might be and probably ought to be in the ministry, there is said to be an aver-
age of one evangelical preacher to every six hundred of the population ; while
there, including all from every Christian land, there is only one missionary to
every half million souls — and that, too, in the midst of ignorance and deg-
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radation that are appalling. Here, the work of the preacher — multitudes of
preachers having given the testimony — is largely to invent new methods of
dressing up familiar truths in an attractive style, to urge and persuade men to do
what they already know to be duty, and to endeavor to keep the churches along
about as they are, with little hope of extensive growth ; but the work of the
missionary is to tell the simple story of the cross, of sin and the remedy, to men
who never heard it before, to originate evangelizing and soul-saving agencies
in large districts where none now exist, and to introduce the leaven which
is to transform the whole mass. If the needs of men have anything to do in
settling this question, and if grand opportunities, and a man’s ability to make
the most of himself — to do the most good — are to decide the sphere of his
labor, have we not somethmg to guide us here ? Can there be any higher
privilege than this — any higher joy on earth than that of seeing whole commu-
nities of degraded men rising to a higher plane of living through the incoming
of a Christian civilization, and to have a share in it ?
If we take everything into the account, can there be any question that this is
the great work of the church, from which no exigency, however pressing, should
turn her aside ? The missionary work has been prosecuted, hitherto, too much
as something incidental, and not as a great and all-absorbing business. Many
seem to fear lest disaster should come upon our home interests by greatly
enlarged efforts abroad. But the history of all Christian enterprises shows
that there need be no fear of this — that there is no way so sure of blessing
ourselves as by forgetting self in a measure, and laboring for others. The wisest
observers confidently assert that the sending of men abroad — the best men,
those who are occupying the most important positions — is productive of greater
good here, by the reflex influence which is exerted, than their direct labors here
would be likely to effect ; that is, saying nothing of the good to be done abroad,
good and not harm is to be expected, on the whole, here at home, from becom-
ing a foreign missionary. I am sure that there is nothing which would stir the
churches like a sudden uprising of hundreds of the best and most devoted men
to go to the heathen. It might exceed the present ability of the missionary
boards to provide for such a number, but the spirit which it would beget among
the churches would supply the means needed to send them forth.
The cry for men — men of the widest experience — has been ringing through
the land for years, with the assurance that there shall be full scope for the exercise
of every gift, and that a work is ready to the hand, to fill the heart and soul, —
such as cannot be found in a Christian land ; and yet there is a strange reluct-
ance to go, or even fairly and faithfully to consider the question of going, and
a singular readiness to be turned aside by minor considerations. The present
urgency and stress for men are very great. I believe that were the church fully
awake to its obligations, it would be possible to give a saving knowledge of the
gospel to all men during the present generation. New missions are organizing.
Important interests in the older missions are at stake from the want of reinforce-
ments. Laborers have fallen, and others are failing from over-work. The exi-
gency is a serious one. Who will heed the call, and say, “ Lord, here am I,
send me ” ?
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HELP NEEDED FOR THE NEW WORK.
When the Board resolved, at Salem, to extend its operations to papal lands,
it had reason to believe that the means therefor would be gladly furnished.
The last financial year fully realized the expectations of the Prudential Com-
mittee ; but they are obliged to confess that the present year has disappointed
them. Though the work which they have undertaken has constantly enlarged,
the contributions have actually diminished. The amount received for this
work from September 1, 1872, to April 1, 1873, was $7,293.17, or but little
more than $1,000 a month ; the disbursements for the same period were
$21,103, or $3,000 a month. It will be seen, therefore, that the balance of
$7,210.66, with which the year began, has been exhausted, and a considera-
ble debt incurred.
It is supposed that the expenses from April 1 to September 1, 1873, will
be about $2,500 a month. Hence, if the year is to close without a deficit,
the income during these five months will need to be $19,000, or nearly $4,000
a month. It is earnestly requested, therefore, that this amount be remitted
to the Treasurer. The reasons for this plea appear to the Committee excep-
tionally strong.
1. The changes which are taking place in Roman Catholic countries have a
special significance for the friends of evangelical progress. If any one had
predicted, seven years ago, what we are now permitted to see, he would have
been reckoned an unreasoning enthusiast. What constant and terrible hu-
miliations have been inflicted, within this brief period, on the papacy and its
adherents! Austria, France, Spain — what changes have swept over them!
Nay, tlie Holy Father himself has been given up to strong delusions, to the
end that he might propound a lie, and ask the world to believe it, and then
see the hand that upheld him paralyzed forever ! Never, surely, could the
churches which sustain the A. B. C. F. M. have been called to this new form
of evangelism in circumstances so favorable and so stimulating.
2. Not only is the time favorable, the fields which have been thrown open to
us are as promising as they are important. Within seventeen months from
the meeting at Salem, the Committee were able to report five missions actu-
ally commenced, all of them, it is believed, auspiciously commenced, and all
of them destined to exert a transforming influence upon multitudes who have
received “another gospel, which is not another.” If the Committee had been
asked, on the 1st of January last, to name the stations which they regarded
as the least hopeful for the present, they would have referred, perhaps, to
Santander in Spain and Guadalaxara in Mexico. And yet the Lord has set
before the brethren in both of these places, apparently, “ an open door, which
no man can shut.”
3. The plan which our fathers contemplated at Farmington, in 1810, is now
complete. In framing the constitution of the Board, they purposely left them-
selves free to undertake any work, outside of the United States, to which the
Lord might call them. There was no mention of any race or religion, in any
part of the world, which they might not seek to evangelize. They intended,
rather, to clothe the new organization with the fullest competency to preach
the gospel to Pagans, Mohammedans, Jews, Oriental Christians, and Roman
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Catholics. It was for this reason, that the Board instructed the Prudential
Committee, in 1813, “to make inquiry respecting the settlement of a mission
at St. Salvador, Brazil and that, in 1823, it sent two missionaries to South
America, in the hope that a field might somewhere be found prepared for
their occupancy. But the set time had not come. Now, however, all things
are ready; and we can almost hear the God of missions saying to his people,
“ Let every man go up straight before him.”
MISSIONS OF THE BOARD.
iWissfon to Spain.
THE CONGREGATION AT SANTANDER.
Some letters sent in January, by the
brethren in Spain, were lost — did not
reach the Mis.-ionary Hou.se. A note from
Mr. William Gulick, of Santander, dated
February 3d, refers to one of these letters,
and briefly notices the wondeifiil increase
of his Sabbath congregation, from five in
November, to two hundred and fifty. (See
“ Herald ” for March, page 95.)
“ 1 wrote on the 27th ultimo, that at our
last services a company of almost two hun-
dred were present, putting us at our wit’s
ends to accommodate them in our narrow
private quarters. I devoted the greater
part of last week to the search for some
room, or hall, that might serve us perma-
nently, but was not successful. 1 have,
however, got the promise of a public sa-
lon lor next Sabbath, and perhaps some
following ones — at hours, however, that
do not well suit us. For our yesterday’s
use, a French gentleman, occupying the
first floor of the house in which we live,
very kindly offered us a large store-room
on the ground floor of this building. It
was filled to its utmost capacity, there be-
ing present about two hundred and fifty
persons. About three fourths of them had
to stand, but they were perfectly orderly,
and listened closely.”
BARCELONA.
Dr. Luther II. Gulick, writing from Bar-
celona, January 27, mentions that he had
just “moved” for the third time, and says:
“ I hope we have at last got into the right
place. To be once more in the enjoy-
ment of the Christian privilege of having
a house ‘ by and to ourselves,’ is a luxury
we can now appreciate as never before ;
and it is a very important fact for the wel-
fare of the school, which goes on hardly
interrupted at all by the moving.
“ It is a year to-day since we crossed
the Spanish frontiers at Irun. I look
back over the time with rather mixed
feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
I could wish I had made more progress
in the language, that I had come more in
contact with the people, and that I had
been able to accomplish more for the
cause. But, on the other hand, I feel that
I have laid a good foundation in the lan-
guage, which by another year will, I hope,
come to something available (that is, audi-
ble) ; and it may be pleaded that the pur-
turbed st<ate of the country has made it an
unfavorable time for general missionary
work.”
He mentions ways in which he hopes
his influence has been for good, notices
aid rendered to sundry evangelistic agen-
cies in Spain, and efforts by himself and
others to increase the sale and distribution
of religious books and tracts.
25uropenn STurltep irHission.
WORK OF STUDENTS — OPPOSITION AT PANA
GURESUTE.
Mr. Locke wrote from Samokov, De-
cember 30th : “ Some two months since,
we thought best to suspend the recitations
of the male seminary for a week, and send
the students out two by two, to spend a
Sabbath in four or five of the towns, from
four to sixteen hours distant from this city.
It seemed to give a fresh impulse to all.
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Their accounts, limited to five minutes in
the weekly prayer- meeting, on their re-
turn, were eagerly listened to. Last Thurs-
day we sent them out again, i. e., all of
them able to go. Two of our most talented
ones are sick. There are now thirteen
pupils in the seminary. Whether all of
them will continue through the year re-
mains to be seen.
“ Three weeks ago to-day I was called,
at an hoar’s notice, lo go to the village of
Panagureshte, sixteen hours distant (re-
ferred to on page 15 of the “Herald” for
1868), to see about the burial of the sec-
ond child of one of our booksellers, who is
a resident of the village. As the case was
very urgent, the child having been dead
over twenty four hours when the news
reached us, I started at half-past two p. M.,
and traveled all night, in company with
the father — who happened, as men say,
to be here — and a guide, a relative of
the father. The story of our struggle to
obtain a burial-place for the Protestants
might be told at great length ; but suffice
it to say here, that by a series of remark-
able providences, after a severe contest
lasting a day and a half, a lot was obtained
and the child was buried an hour before
sunset, on the fourth day after its decease.
“ More determined opposition on the
part of the people I never saw. For two
days the citizens did nothing else but try
to circumvent us. So completely was all
work given up, that during those two days
not a priest was found to read pray ers in
the churches. The truth is well known
in the place, and we look and hope for
a speedy advance of the work of God.
There are now two men and some three
or four women there who are not afraid to
be called Protestants, and so far as I could
judge, they honor the name. There are
none but Bulgarians in the place. The
citizens take great pride in this fact, and
are, determined not to allow any but tho.se
in full sympathy with them, as regards
matters of government and faith, to reside
there. More than all others are the Prot-
estants to be guarded against.”
EStestern €Tutltes jflilfssfon.
WORK AMONG GREEKS NEAR 0E3AREA.
A LETTER from Mr. Bartlett, of Cesarea
(370 miles south-southeast of Constanti-
nople), to a friend in Massachusetts, sent
to be read also at the Missionary House,
gives a very interesting account of jnove-
ments among the Greeks in that vicinity.
The letter was dated at “ Talas, near Ces-
area, December 12, 1872.” Only a few
extracts can be given here : —
“ The work of the Lord among the
Greeks of our field has, of late, assumed
a very interesting phase, and we trust the
day of more rapid progress is near. We
have in the Cesarea field a very large
number of Greeks, and some of the
largest, finest towns in this immediate
region, are occupied largely by this class.
They are a shrewd, enterprising people,
everywhere engaged in trade of some
kind. Large numbers of them spend
most of their time in Constantinople,
Smyrna, Tarsus, Adana, and other large
places, leaving their families in these vil-
lages. Some return to spend the winter
every year, while others return only once in
three, five, seven, or eight years. In Zin-
jirdere, a large Greek village only three
miles from us, are some fifteen Piotestant
brethren ; but these, with sometimes one
or two exceptions, leave the place for
traffic every winter, though most of them
return to spend the summer.
“ Within the year, a new bishop has
been appointed for this region of ancient
Capadocia, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by' the death of the former incumbent, who
was nearly a hundred years old. You
may be aware that this bishopric ranks
next to Constantinople, as being the same
formerly presided over by Basil, bishop of
Cesarea. This newly appointed bishop,
feeling it his duty to preserve intact the
large flock committed to his care, and to
rescue, if possible, those who had left the
old way, and had been led astray by ‘ false
teachers,’ began at once a series of vigor-
ous efforts to extinguish Protestantism.
“ And what is the result of all this ef-
fort V Its full results do not yet appear,
but it is evident that the Lord is over-
ruling it for good. It is awakening a
spirit of inquiry', and leading some, at
least, to examine the truth for themselves.
People will, of course, inquire, ‘ Why does
the bishop persecute the Protestants ?
Wherein do they differ from us ? ’ And
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all this inquiry will help to spread the
light, and to dispel the darkness.”
PROGRESS AT TALAS — CASES OF PERSECU-
TION.
“ Here in Talas (only three or four
miles from Cesarea) we have much to en-
courage us. This large place, of at least
ten thousand inhabitants, four years ago
was almost wholly in darkness. There
were then three Protestant brethren, with
the family of one of them, and these had
suffered great persecution. But now there
are eleven persons who have united with
the church in Cesarea — nine of whom
are Greeks, and a Sabbath congregation
of not less than one hundred, and often
more ; while many are searching the
Scriptures who have not yet identified
themselves with us.
“ We have here, just now, an interest-
ing case of a young man, the only son of
his mother, and she a widow. Last year,
while in business in Constantinople, he
received the truth, and appeared so well
that the missionaries sent him to Broosa,
to begin study preparatory to entering the
seminary at Marsovan, if he should be
found worthy. He is a native of this
place, and has recently come home, but
only to receive the most bitter persecu-
tion from his mother and other near
friends. He lives in one of the wealthy
quarters of the town, where the truth has
gained no footing, and the most flattering
ofi’ers, and many threats, have been made
to induce him to return to the mother
church. But he is firm. His mother is
almost crazy over the ‘ loss ’ of her only
son. She will sit and wail for hours, beat-
ing her breast, and threatening to put an
end to her own life. The other day she took
his Bible and Hymn Book and gave them
to a priest, who concealed them for sev-
eral days. She is constantly tormenting
him in one way or another. He is calm
and firm through it all, and invites the
priests and teachers to reason with him
out of the Scriptures. But none are will-
ing to engage in discussion, knowing well
their own ignorance of the Word which
he handles so skillfully. We expect him
to continue his studies, and hope he will
become a faithful and successful laborer.
“Another case of persecution is that of
a poor shoemaker, whose wife is bitterly
opposed to the truth. He is also some-
what dependent upon a single rich man,
who does all in his power to keep him
away from us, and at one time, last sum-
mer, beat him cruelly. He is fully in
sympathy with us, but for a few months
has not attended our service. He says,
‘ I have a wild beast in my' house, and
wild beasts are all around me, and what
can I do ? ’”
A PRAYER-MEETING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Writing to the Secretary of the Board
a month later, January 14, Mr. Baitlett
says : —
“ If you read my letter to Dr. , a
fe'w days ago, you will be prepared for an-
other chapter so soon. The young man to
whom I then referred as being severely per-
secuted by his mother, had invited us to
meet at his house and hold a prayer-meet-
ing, on the last evening of the week of
prayer. As I said, he is the only child of
his mother, and she a widow. They live
in the upper part of the town, in a wealthy
quarter, though poor themselves, and some
of their neighbors have been very bitter
towards the Protestants. We had seme
doubt about the propriety of attempting
to hold a meeting where we were almost
sure to meet with opposition, and possibly
with violence, but our young brother was
very urgent, and we consented. As he
had requested that we should all come in a
body, a company of brethren and sisters
met at our house, and at the appointed
time we proceeded, in the bright moon-
light, up the long, steep hill, to the house
where we were to hold the first prayer-
meeting ever held in that part of the town.
As we approached the door we heard con-
fusion within, and as we entered, we were
met by one cursing and sweating in a
most frightful manner, intending, evi-
dently, to oppose our entrance, though
not daring to lay violent hands upon us.
This person was a woman dressed in men’s
clothing, which habit she has worn lor
many years. She is notoriously rough in
manner, and profane in language, associ-
ating much with the lowest class of men,
and is often employed to sing songs, and
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to aniu?e others with her profanity and
vulgarity. She had evidently been called
to withstand us and oppose our entrance,
since, whatever insults she might offer, as
she is a woman, the law would not touch
her. We were not disposed to listen to
such remonstrance, and entering the small
room were warmly welcomed by our young
brother, and seated ourselves around the
room upon cushions laid upon the floor.
Behind us followed a crowd of women in
the greatest confusion, some crying one
thing and some another, and heaping upon
us the most .shameful insults, in language
fearfully profane and vulgar. Then ap-
peared the persecuting mother, and in a
perfect tempest of rage ordered us to leave
the place, cursing us all, and especially
one of our number, who had been the
means of her son’s conversion at Constan-
tinople. The young man vainly attempted
to remonstrate with her, but she would
listen to no entreaty, and left the room
in a rage, while her son repeated the words
of the Saviour, ‘ Whosoever shall do the
will of my Father which is in heaven,
the same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.’ All this while, the crowd of
women at the door were swearing and
shouting and laughing, in the greatest
possible confusion. Before we had time
to begin our services the frantic mother
returned, and with loud voice and wild
gestures accused us of ruining her son,
and finally, with a shriek of distress, fell
to the floor, as if in a fit of hysteria ; but
with the help of others she soon rose and
left the room, and we saw her no more.
“ In the midst of this confusion several
men came in, and saluting us respectfully,
seated themselves to listen, and when we
left they thanked us for coming. It was
not without frequent interruptions that a
hymn was sung, two brief exhortations
made, and three prayers offered — one
by the persecuted young man himself, in
which he seemed to draw very near to
the throne of grace and gain strength
from on high. The crowd of women con-
tinued their clamor, sometimes cursing and
sometimes jesting and laughing, though at
very brief intervals perfect silence would
reign. At length, as we rose to sing the
doxology and close the meeting, one
woman in the crowd amused the others
by a dance, in true Oriental style. With
many thanks from our young friend, and
with kind words from several who had
listened patiently, we dispersed, the boys
pelting us with snowballs as we descended
the hill.
“ In all this affair, we were pleased to
see the respect shown us by the men who
were present, and I doubt not we should
have received civil treatment from the
men of any other quarter of the town.
But the women are exceedingly ignorant,
very few being able to read, and believe
just what they are taught by their priests,
who are almost as ignorant in regard to
religious truth as themselves. Only yes-
terday I had a long conversation with an
Armenian priest, who acknowledged that
he had no Bible in bis house I
“We have hope that this persecuting
mother will yet yield to the power of the
truth and become a follower of Jesus.
The wives of several of the brethren here
have at some time almost as bitterly per-
secuted their husbands, but they have
yielded one after another, until now we
have an earnest band of Christian sisters
laboring for Christ and for souls.
“ The work of the Lord here in Talas
is very encouraging. Our congregations
are large and attentive, the brethren and
sisters are active and earnest, preaching
Christ everywhere, as they have oppor-
tunity. Reports from other parts of the
field are also encouraging. Brother Farns-
worth is spending several weeks among
the villages to the north and east of our
central station, while I am giving daily
instruction to a class of eight or ten young
men, candidates for the ministry.”
A GREAT CHANGE.
“ Did we ever write you how, a year
ago, Mrs. Bartlett and Miss Closson were
insulted and driven away from a certain
house where they were calling ? They
had called to see a woman with whom
they had conversed at another place, and
who had manifested an interest in the
truth. But they were hardly seated when
a Greek priest came in and ordered them
to leave; insulting them in the most shame-
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ful manner, and even laying hands on them
to hasten them out of the house, while a
crowd of women and boys added to the
priest’s violence their own taunts and
jeers. You will now be pleased to learn
that this week, by special invitation, the
Protestant sisters, with some of the mis-
sionary ladies, held a prayer- meeting in
that same house. Twelve women from
that quarter were present, and listened
very attentively ; and when they left,
begged them to come again and hold an-
other meeting. The woman of the house
is now a firm Protestant, attending every
service on the Sabbath and during the
week, and manifesting a very lively in-
terest in the truth. Thus the leaven is
working, and the seed of divine truth
bearing fruit.”
MANIS3A — THE WEEK OF PRAYER — SELF-
SUPPORT.
Mr. Baldwin wrote from Manissa (28
miles northeast of Smyrna), January 15:
“ Last week was the week of prayer, and
meetings were well attended by all the
brethren and by a number from outside.
It was a pleasant and profitable season,
I trust, to us all. In connection with it
we heard the voices of some of the breth-
ren for the first time in public prayer, and
it cheered us to see signs of their spiritual
progress, and join in their simple, child-
like petitions.
“ At the business-meeting, new year’s
evening, moreover, we had substantial
evidence of progress, in the fact that
every one increased his subscription to-
wards the preacher’s salary, and in ad-
dition, contributed liberally towards a
fund which is being collected to purchase
ground for a Protestant cemetery^. So far
as I am able to discover, there is perfect
unanimity and harmony of feeling and of
purpose among all, and we enter upon
the labors of the new y'ear, so far as our
relations with the native brethren are
concerned, under the most encouraging
auspices.”
ENCOURAGEMENT AMONG THE GREEKS.
“As a rule, in nearly all the stations of
tlie Turkey missions, the Armenians have
been foremost in receiving religious im-
pressions ; but Manissa seems likely to
prove an exception. Here the spirit
of inquiry is more manifest among the
Greeks, and they form the larger part of
the attendants upon our public services.
It was not so at first, but quite the reverse.
Then, large numbers of Armenians came,
and some manifested great interest. Per-
secution, however, or rather the hostility
of the Government, served to awe those
who had begun timidly to search after the
truth, and they have not yet overcome
their fear of men.
“ It is proper, too, that I should men-
tion the indirect influence of our work
over the Greeks, as manifested in the re-
moval of an old Greek despot (bishop),
for inactivity and inability to check the
spread of Protestantism, and the appoint-
ment of a younger man in his place ; and
again, in the zeal they display in the mat-
ter of education. They seem determined
to offer such facilities that none may be
tempted to patronize our school. Accord-
ingly, instead of inferior schools, with a
scarcity of second-class teachers, supported
from the general funds of the church, such
as they had when we came here, we now
find schools of a much higher grade, with
better teachers and more of them, and the
instructors of the boys’ school giving les-
sons in their various departments to the
more advanced girls.
“ But in our efforts to overthrow false
systems of religion, whose main strength
lies in the ignorance of the people, we
have every reason to be cheered and en-
couraged by every advance they' make in
the direction of educating the rising gene-
ration. Intellectual enlightenment breaks
the power of superstition, and so long as
we are the universally confessed instru-
ments of this awakening among the peo-
ple, we may' hope and pray, in confidence,
that many may be led to search after the
reason of our influence; which manifestly
does not result from anything we are in
ourselves, hut from the great cause which
we represent, and the mighty truth which
we defend.”
OPENINGS WHICH CANNOT BE ENTERED.
Writing again January 24, Mr. Baldwin
notices the little time he can find for tour-
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ing, mentions one tour, with his colporter,
encouraging indications at places visited,
etc., and then says ; —
“ You see that new and inviting fields
of labor are continually opening up before
us, but alone as I am, I cannot even find
time to visit them all. When shall our
force be so increased that we shall be able
to educate ministers and teachers for the
many important cities in this vast field)
and — while we shall not neglect to ex-
hort and entreat men to be reconciled to
God — our main work may be that of or-
ganizing, helping on, and guiding native
evangelical efforts?
PERSECUTION AND ITS EFFECT.
“ During the past week a new case of
persecution has occurred. The new des-
pot, of whom I spoke last week, is trying
the influence of anathemas upon the Prot-
estant Greek brethren. Although he has
no jurisdiction whatever over them, he pre-
tends to have, and because one of them,
a flour-merchant, refused to obey his sum-
mons, he took occasion to pronounce an
anathema of the severest soi't upon him.
None are to speak to him, or do business
with him ; the public bakers are forbidden
to bake his bread and the millers to grind
his flour ; in short, every effort is made to
coerce him to obedience.
“ Such an interference with one’s private
business on the part of a minister or bishop
would seem strange enough in our coun-
try, but it is one of the favorite means em-
ployed by the ecclesiastics in this land to
keep their weak and ignorant flock in sub-
jection. I am much pleased with the no-
ble stand this brother has taken, and the
excellent spirit he manifests under what
is, of course, a great trial to him. Although
the despot intended by his anathema to in-
jure the Protestant cause, God can and
doubtless will make it a means of good ;
and already we begin to have the proof of
this, in the influence it has had over the
persecuted brother’s wife. She has not
heretofore openly opposed her husband
but on the other hand, she has not posi-
tively favored his renunciation of the
Greek Church. Now, however, we hear
that she joins him heartily in family prayer,
and has begun herself to pray alone.”
JSastern ©urkeji JWissfon.
TIIE HARPOOT FIELD — SORE TRIALS.
Mr. Allen wrote from Harpoot, Decem-
ber 13, with reference to various matters,
pleasant and unpleasant. He had re-
cently visited all the out-stations in the
western part of the field, and states : —
“ We see much to cheer us in the midst
of many trials, of a peculiar nature. For
some time past a spirit of disaffection to-
ward the missionaries has been growing,
fostered, as it seems to us, by one dis-
affected man and his adherents. When
we remember in what condition we found
these people fifteen years ago, and con-
trast it with what we now see, it certainly
is natural to feel that we have been the
means, with God’s blessing, of a great
change for the better. But instead of
grateful recognition, some say we have
done them more harm than good. The
results of good Brother Walker’s life labor
in Diarbekir are gathered up by Pastor
T., entirely ignoring the missionary who
actually sacrificed bis life for that people.
“ This spirit prevails somewhat among
the men we have educated. The men
who are known as friends to us are jeered
at as ‘ under the missionaries.’ There are
men even of the graduating class of the
present year whose minds are poisoned
with this spirit. But do not imagine that
we despond, though we are deeply pained
to see manifestations of a spirit which
must for a time be a hindrance to the
work. I believe it is the Lord’s work,
and that he will not suffer it to fail. How
speedily would a powerful work of grace
sweep away these cobwebs of prejudice,
selfishness, pride, and ambition from the
hearts of those who really love the Sav-
iour. We will not forget where our
strength lies.”
KDZZELBASII KOORDS.
“ While at Chemishgezek I was much
gratified to learn that our preacher and a
Protestant brother had made a tour among
the Kuzzelbash Koords. A great change
has taken place among them during the
last ten years. There are seven tribes,
occupying for the most part the Anti
Taurus range of mountains, from Erzroom
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to Sivas. Many of them were formerly
robbers, and rebellious against the gov-
ernment. They have been placed under
a Caimakam by the government. He is
chief of one of the tribes. Our preacher
visited him and was received with great
cordiality. Tlie Caimakam expressed a
wish that a preacher might be sent to
preach the gospel to the people. AVe
have now written to this chief, Yuseph
Agha, expressing our readiness to begin
work among his people. Our faithful
helper Bedros has gone to examine into
the state of the case. AVe shall hope soon
to let you know what encouragement there
is for commencing labor among that race.
They are nominally Mohammedans, but
there are many varying accounts of their
religious belief, of which, doubtless, we
shall have frequent occasion to speak in
future letters.”
A TOUR — MISS VAN DUZEE AT ORDO.
Mr. Parmelee, of Erzroom (150 miles
southeast of Trebizond), reports a long
tour by himself and Mr. Cole, in Novem-
ber and December last. He notices spe-
cially their visits at Gumish Khaneh, Kara-
hissar, Kerasoon, Ordo, and Trebizond.
Gumish Khaneh — “ Silver Station ” —
they reached in five days. It is a place
originally settled for silver mining pur-
poses, “ up a steep, wild gorge of the
mountain,” now decreased to about 1,000
houses. Here, Mr. Parmelee writes, “ all
day Sunday our room in the khan was
crowded with attentive listeners to the
word of truth”; and “there was a strong
desire, especially on the part of the young
men, that we should send them a teacher.”
The journey from there to Karahissar, an
out-station of Sivas, of the AA^estern Tur-
key mission, “ occu[)ied four days, over a
rough mountainous region Thence they
started for the coast of the Black Sea, and
“after three days of hard travel, over
high mountains and rough roads,” reached
Kerasoon, a town of about 1,000 houses.
Respecting Ordo Mr. Parmelee writes : —
“From Kerasoon we sent our horses
along the coast to Trebizond, and taking
steamer soon found ourselves among our
friends in Ordo. Miss Van Duzee had
preceded us by a month in this place.
and was doing a most interesting work
among the women, some account of which
she has already given you.i But the in-
conveniences of her residence there you
cannot well conceive. To give you a lit-
tle idea of it let me first describe the style
of the houses of that city. They are built
of wood, framed, and when finished are
neatly lathed and plastered, both inside
and out, with lime-mortar — having glass
windows — the sloping roofs being first
shingled, then tiled. But when a man is
troubled with impecuniosity (a common
disease of individuals as well as the gov-
ernment of this country), the mildness of
the climate on the coast permits the occu-
pancy of the house in a partially finished
state ; that is, the tiles are omitted from
the roof, the plastering from the walls,
and for glass in the windows are substi-
tuted rough board - shutters, which are
necessarily open in the day.
“The bouse in which Miss Van Duzee
had a room was of this class. Imagine the
comfort you would get in such a place on
a day like one of your cold, wet, Boston
October days, with only a pot of coals
to tantalize your longing for the genial
warmth of your own quiet sitting-room.
I said Miss Van Duzee had a room in
such a house. I should have said she had
a very small fraction of a room. At night
she shared it with four or five members of
the family, and during the day her room
was the family kitchen, dining-room, and
place of all work. To live in this way for
weeks, without a moment’s quiet, with no
place of retirement, with no confidential
companion, is a missionary trial which
many of us would hesitate to incur. But
Miss Van Duzee endured it bravely, cheer-
fully, and is now away on a second tour,
after only ten days rest in her Erzroom
home, working alone under circumstances
even more trying than those I have de-
scribed.”
ZEAL OF THE ORDO PROTESTANTS.
“ AA’e found the Ordo community, though
not materially increased in numbers since
our last report, yet self-denying, and ac-
tive for the welfare of Zion. They are
anxiously looking to us to send them a
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pastor, for one half of whose support they
are ready to provide. Until a pastor is
found, they will pay $60 in gold towards
their teacher’s salary. They have agreed
also to collect $80 to pay for the remain-
ing unbought portion of the parsonage.
In addition to all this, they are eager to
provide themselves with a more suitable
chapel. One brother, who is living in a
partially hnished house, such as I have de-
scribed, said he would live in a stable if
by that means he could help provide a
fitting place for the worship of the Lord.
They propose in the spring to prepare for
building, though we have promised them
a very moderate proportion of help. It
was very gratifying to us to see not only
the earnest labors of this people in their
own behalf, but also their hearty appre-
ciation of our efforts, which they took oc-
casion to express in a written paper which
was read in our hearing. The extreme
distance of Ordo has often led us to con-
sider whether we ought not to give it up
to some nearer station, but when we see
the zeal, faith, and energy of the brethren
there, we feel ready to endure almost any
hardship in order to gain the refreshing
of an annual visit. It is painful to thipk
that nothing but the difficulty of finding a
suitable man for pastor prevents the or-
ganization of a church. But we still labor
and pray in the hope that not long hence
so desirable a result will be attained.
GREEKS.
“We were pleased to notice consider-
able interest among the Greeks, who con-
stitute three fourths of the population.
Two or three are already avowed Prot-
estants, and the truth is spreading among
them. AVe heard of a large Greek vil-
lage, fourteen hours distant from Ordo,
which is said to have become almost com-
pletely transformed through the leaven of
the truth. Indications of this kind strongly
favor the plan which I have once or twice
proposed, of locating missionaries at Treb-
izond to labor for the 100,000 Greeks of
the coast region.”
A ZEALOUS STUDENT HELPER.
From Ordo the company went to Treb-
izond, and Mr. Parmelee writes : —
“ Our time at Trehizond was so limited
that we divided forces, and while Brother
Cole and Miss Van Duzee remained to
labor there, I mounted my horse to climb
the rough but romantic height on which
Gouklon (or more properly Gooklah) is
built. Six years ago, while visiting that
village, I asked a boy of twelve if he would
like to be a preacher. He said he would,
and intended to be. I asked his father if
he really knew what he was saying, and
he replied that to become a preacher was
the one dream of his boyhood days ; and
the boy’s clear black eye and thought-
ful face confirmed the father’s statement.
Last summer that boy, grown to the stat-
ure if not to the years of a man, was in
our school in this city (Erzroom), one of
the most studious and upright of our stu-
dents. On this visit I found him in the
school diligently training the boys and
girls of the village, while on Sundays he
gathers the villagers to guide them in the
worship of the Saviour. It seemed mar-
velous that a young man, in his own home,
could command so universally the love and
respect of all. If he does not break down
from too close application to study, — a
danger against which I felt obliged ear-
nestly to caution him, — we anticipate that
he will grow into a most valuable hel[>er.
It was truly refreshing to see the simple,
earnest faith of these villagers, and their
zeal for the spread of the truth in their
region. They have already planned a new
and more commodious chapel and school-
room, which they will build with little as-
sistance from us. It seems fitting that in
such a very paradise of nature the bless-
ing of a pure religion should bear full
sway.
“ In speaking of Ordo, I should have
said that Miss Van Duzee made provision
for the continuance of the lessons of the
women whom she was teaching to read,
and that she found a young widow who
seemed a suitable candidate for the girls’
school, and who showed the sincerity of
her interest in the Lord’s work by giving
her ornaments to pay the expense of her
journey here.”
VAN — WAITING IN HOPE.
From the new station. Van (about 300
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miles southeast of Trebizond), Mr. H. S.
Barnum wrote, January 7: —
“In this city we have as yet witnessed
no decided manifestation either of hostil-
ity or friendship. There were two avowed
Protestants when we came, nearly three
months since, and there are no more now.
The large congregations which gathered
when we first came, do not come to our
places of worship now. Still we hold two
services at the gardens and two at the city,
every Sabbath, besides speeial meetings
for women. Some two months since the
priests warned their flocks not to come near
us. The Sabbath after, we had no audi-
ence at the gardens in the afternoon, and
once since, when nearly all the shops were
opened because the Sabbath chanced to
be a Turkish feast day, our morning ser-
vice failed. With these two exceptions
we have held our four services regularly.
The past month our audiences have aver-
aged larger than the month previous, and
from fifty to seventy- five adults have
heard at least one presentation of the
truth every Sabbath. Still there are none
that can be called regular attendants save
our two Protestant brethren. Occasional
sales of Scriptures are made. Since we
came, five Bibles, as many as thirty Testa-
ments, and perhaps forty Gospels, have
been sold, besides a few other religious
books. It is a pleasant fact, however,
that of every five who come to the book-
room four wish only Scripture. 1 urge
other good books upon them, but they
say, ‘No doubt they are good, but the
great thing is the “Holy Book.” We’ll
read that first, and then think of some-
thing else.’ Perhaps more than half of
the gospels, and a few of the others,
have been bought as reading-books for
children ; but this does not prevent
their doing good in the families they have
entered. We sometimes feel almost im-
patient for immediate, tangible results,
especially as this seems, for a new field,
unusually ripe for the harvest. Still, we
know that crops are sometimes injured by
appearing above ground too soon, and so
it may be best that the silent, subsoil work
of enlightenment should go on for awhile,
before the manifestation of a few, as Prot.
estants, arouses violent antipathies and
[May,
makes it more difficult for us to reach
the masses.”
ilflaljratta ^fssfon — C®estern £nhfa.
STATION REPORTS.
Several station reports for 1872, and
other communications, have been received
from this mission field, and were- marked
for use in the “ Herald ” more extensiv'ely
than they can now be used. From Mr.
Bissell’s report of “ Ahmednuggur and the
Southern Districts,” a few extracts will be
given : —
“ The year just closed has been one of
blessing to the churches in this District,
though not without its trials also. Many
of the Christians will remember it as a
time in which they received new impres-
sions of the greatness of the work in which
they are engaged, and a new sense of their
need of the Holy Spirit’s help.
“ Pastor Modak, of Ahmednuggur, re-
ports : ‘ Twenty-five persons have been
received to the church on profession of
their faith, and sixteen have come from
other churches. The regular preaching
services on the Sabbath, and other days
of the week, have been attended by more
outsiders than ever before. Even at the
special meetings of the church for prayer,
many have been present and listened
attentively. At the time of our annual
meeting, the crowd was so great that the
doors and windows were all blocked, and
yet many left because they could not hear.
Including tithes for the support of their
pastor, this church has collected for differ-
ent objects during the year 356 rupees.
I am encouraged to believe the church is
being built up in faith, and is growing in
numbers and graces ; and for this I praise
God.’
“The pastor of the Seroor church re-
ports no additions during the year, while
four have, for unchristian conduct, been
subject to discipline. ‘ In the hot season,’
he says, ‘ Seroor was visited with cholera,
which proved fatal to many. Several of
the Christians were attacked, but to none
of them did it prove fatal. During the
prevalence of this disease, the calm trust
of the Christians in their Heavenly Father
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presented a striking contrast to the terror
of the heathen around them.’
“ Woman's part in the missionary work
in India is each year becoming more im-
portant and more fruitful. Much atten-
tion has been given by the wives of the
missionaries to the instruction of the na-
tive Christian women. Many of these
have read the Bible more, and know
more about it, than they know of all other
books. Some who cannot read at all can
repeat a good many precious promises
from the Bible. There is a ‘ Maternal
As>ociation ’ here, numbering forty-two
members. They meet each month for
prayer, and once in three months an ad-
dress is given by one of the missionaries or
native preachers, to the assembled mothers
and children.
“ At the time of the anniversary, when
many Christian families from the districts
were here, the wives of the missionaries
and the native Christian women, on one
occasion, met by themselves. About one
hundred and twenty adults were present,
and many children. There were six great-
grandmothers at the meeting, and in some
instances the four generations of Christians
sat side by side. Prof. Seelye, after meet-
ing with us on the Sabbath, and seeing
the goodly company of men and women
met for worship, said the sight of that con-
gregation paid him for his visit to Ahmed-
nuggur.
“ The four Bible-women under the di-
rection of Mrs. Bissell have continued
their work, with some interruptions, dur-
ing the year. Partly, and perhaps chiefly,
through their influence, four women are
now asking to be received to the church,
and come to the pastor or myself each
Tuesday to receive instruction. Last
Tuesday, the pastor being absent, eleven
persons came to me for this purpose.
“ The Girls’ School has been larger than
ever before, numbering eighty pupils in
the latter part of the term. There has
been unusual seriousness in the school
this year, and a carefulness to obey the
rules most pleasing to see. Many of the
girls declared their purpose, at the com-
mencement of the year, to seek Christ;
and before its close eleven of them we be-
lieve found him, and were received into
the church during the last two months of
the term. Others are asking the same
privilege, and we trust will not long be
denied.”
BAPTISM OP A “ GOSAVI.”
Mr. Park, in his report of the Sholapoor
Eastern District, mentions a case of much
interest, which he presents more fully in
a letter written on one of his preaching
excursions, under date “ Dhotre, 40 miles
north of Sholapoor, December 9,” as fol-
lows : —
“ You may remember that in my letters
of about a year ago, I spoke of one Ramji,
a member of one of the lowest castes, who
had formerly been a ‘ gosavi,’ or religious
teacher among his people, but who then
began to express a desire to become a
Christian. 1 then felt considerable doubt
as to his sincerity. But during this past
year he has seen Bhiwaji [a helper] a
number of times, and has read and studied
the Bible and some of our Christian books.
He has also done a good deal of preaching
among his own people, on his own respon-
sibility, in this and neighboring villages.
In fact he has spent a good share of his
time in this way. We therefore came
here to examine him, and if it seemed
best to baptize him. His examination
was quite satisfactory. His whole appear-
ance was far different from that of a year
ago, his manner was changed vastly for
the better, and from what he said, as well
as from his conduct, we could have but
little doubt of his sincerity and of the
reality of his conversion. He seems also
to have made a good use of his opportu-
nities— the few he has had — and his un-
derstanding of the essentials of Christian-
ity is by no means poor. So we regarded
bim as a fit subject for baptism. His
mother, wife, and sister, were also exam-
ined and approved. His wife appeared
the best of the three. Several others also
asked to be baptized, and were examined,
but it seemed best for them to wait a little
longer. All that any of these candidates
know about Christianity they have learned,
so far as human sources are concerned,
from Ramji ; and it would have pleased
you, as it both pleased and surprised us,
to see the degree of knowledge which
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some of them evinced. It certainly spoke
well for their teacher. Yesterday was
Sunday. In the morning we preached in
the Mang wada, the part of the village
where Ramji and his people live; and in
the afternoon I baptized the four whom
we had approved. It was the first time
I had performed the rite. I pray that in
the future there may be frequent occasions
to perform it. After the baptism we came
back to our tents, and held a pleasant
communion service.
“ Ramji has followers in eighteen neigh-
boring villages. He says that they number
about a hundred, and that it is his prayer
that they may all be led to Christ. It is
evident that he has a great deal of influ-
ence among them.
“ A party in this village, headed by the
Kulkarni (a Brahman), is more than usu-
ally hostile to Christianity. They had
previously announced their purpose of de-
stroying Ramji’s house in case he became
a Christian, and of driving him out of the
village, in order to prevent the infection
from spreading. It is doubtful whether
they will go to that length, yet likely
enough Ramji will be subjected to con-
siderable annoyance of one kind and an-
other, not to say persecution. This must
be endured, and I think he will endure it
in a proper manner.
“ We are gratified to hear of a number
of others, several here and some in other
villages, who are thinking about these
things, and considering the matter of be-
coming Christians. We look upon Ramji,
and upon the whole movement which he
has been almost the only human instru-
ment of originating, with much hope. Yet
we remember that there have been sad
instances of defection, many who seemed
to start well, have run only for a season,
and many movements among the people,
at first far more promising than this, have
had but a small, if any, result. We pray
that it may not be so in this case.”
OTHER BAPTISMS — INTEREST IN VILLAGES.
On the 31st of December Mr. Park
wrote from Pangri, a few miles from Dho-
tre (to which place he removed, with his
tent, soon after the baptism at Dhotre) : —
*• Three persons have received baptism
here, but only one of them is a resident
of this place. The other two are women
from neighboring villages. They are all
former followers of Ramji, and all met
with us at Dhotre. One of them is a
blind woman, quite old — at least sixty I
should say. Her examination was very
interesting. Her love and faith, and the
reality of her experience could hardly be
doubted. She says that for many years
she has been a worshiper of Vithoba, but
he has never done anything for her ; and
now she has heard of Jesus Christ, who so
loved her that he died for her.
“ Thus our little church in this region
is growing. Others still are asking to be
received, and Ramji told me the other
day of over fifty persons, in different vil-
lages, who are Inquiring. It cheers us
much to see Ramji’s earnestness. ‘ If
these men are not all brought to the
truth,’ he says, ‘ it will be my fault.’ The
interest is not, as we believe, confined to
the circle of Ramji’s followers. There
are a number in this village who I think
have never heard the gospel before, and
who, since our coming, seem to be much
attracted by it. Some prominent men in
the village, of good caste, have expressed
their interest in what they have heard,
and a desire to know more. One, espe-
cially, called one of our native brethren
to his house and had quite a conversation
with him. But caste is in the way. Sev-
eral Mahars have been to us, evidently in
considerable concern. They admitted the
truth of the gospel, and said they would
gladly embrace it, but they were afraid of
provoking opposition from their families.
They said their wives and other friends
were already beginning to find fault with
them for coming so much to us, and how
they could cast them off, and adopt this
hated religion, which they felt to be true,
they did not see. Truly ‘a man’s foes
shall be they of his own household.’”
Ifttaltuca JWfssfon — Soutjetn finhfa.
GRATIFYING PACTS — ADDITIONS.
'Pwo letters from Mr. Rendall, of Bat-
talagundu station (having charge also of
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Periakulam), mention pleasant facts in
regard to his field. A few extracts will
be given. Writing on the 26th of Novem-
ber, 1872, he said : —
“ Two Sabbaths since, the native pastor
at Battalagundu received five of the pupils
of the station school to the church. My
last monthly meeting at Periakulam was
of great interest. The churches had con-
tributed, during the previous month, a
little over forty rupees for the support of
their pastors, and the women of the con-
gregations had collected over eleven ru-
pees, by their Sabbath contributions in
grain. In Battalagundu station, more
than six rupees were collected by the
women, so that my expectations from this
new effort have been realized. In some
congregations in Periakulam station, the
catechists remarked that this efibrt was
leading the women to be more regular in
their attendance at divine service, and it
was also stimulating the men to do more
than before. The success of this new
plan, to increase our collections for be-
nevolence, was very stimulating to the
pastors and catechists. There is now a
feeling of pleasure in every effort to ad-
vance in the support of their own institu-
tions.”
On the 2d of January, 1873, he wrote
again ; —
“ In this letter, I will refer briefly to the
work during the past year at the two sta-
tions under my care. There were seven-
teen additions, during the year, to the
churches at Battalagundu station, and
thirty-one to the churches at Periakulam.
All the churches have shared in these gra-
cious manifestations, and we have reason
to thank God for these tokens of his pres-
ence.
“There has been decided advance in
benevolence. During the latter part of
1872 I presented this subject to the pas-
tors and catechists, and to the churches,
urging the importance of giving regularly
and weekly. To aid in this matter, an or-
ganization was effected among the women
in many of the congregations, through
which contributions in grain have been
made every Sabbath, set aside daily, by
handfuls from the family meal. This ef-
fort has proved a success, especially in the
Periakulam station, where there has been
an advance in contributions of at least
twenty five per cent. The pastors and
catechists have taken a lively interest in
the subject, and the churches have ad-
vanced to the position of paying one half
of the pastor’s salary instead of a fourth,
as in the year previous.
“ The church at Periakulam is nearly
finished and will soon be open for service.
It is a neat, substantial building, and the
people will prize it the more as they have
been without a house of worship for nearly
two years. They have contributed about
one hundred rupees towards its erection,
during the year, and it will be necessary
for them to add something more, as there
is a debt of nearly one hundred rupees on
the church.”
A TOUR — ORDINATION — WORK FOR WOMEN.
Mr. Kendall wrote, January 2 : —
“ During the month of December, I
spent twelve days with my daughter on
the itineracy, in the Periakulam station.
The pastors and a number of the catechists
were with us, and engaged most heartily
in the work. Some most interesting inci-
dents came under my notice during this
tour. In one village we met with a few
who expressed a desire to become Chris-
tians and have a congregation organized
without delay in their village. In two vil-
lages we met with people who have the
subject under consideration. In one vil-
lage my daughter had an audience of fifty
heathen women, all assembled in one court-
yard, and there would have been many
more, had there been room. One old
woman, after the conversation, said that in
her heart she often prayed to the true God,
although she did not know who or w’here
he was. But hereafter she would pray to
Jesus, as he must be the true God, and
she had heard of his love to them. We
addressed over 4,000 souls on this itiner-
acy, and arrangements were made to con-
tinue it after a short interval, by the pas-
tors and catechists.
“ Whilst engaged in this work, one day
was given up for the ordination of cate-
chist Isaac, over the church at Kambam.
The occasion was a memorable one for
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that church. The church members, and
all the con<>regation, are united in their
pastor, and I was much pleased to notice
the progress made by this people in order
and knowledge during the seven months
Isaac had been with them. Forty-three
Christian women were at a meeting con-
ducted by my daughter, and more than
half of them were well prepared in ad-
vanced Bible lessons. The pastor’s wife
had been most active in instructing the
women, and had proved herself a real
helpmeet to her husband in his work. A
number of the younger women were anx-
ious to learn to read, and they will with-
out doubt redeem the pledge they gave
in this matter, as this faithful woman will
be instant in season and out of season in
teaching them. The Kambam church has
a good plan for promoting benevolence,
and for reaching their heathen neighbors.
They will give half of their pastor’s salary
at once, and I hope the time is not far dis-
tant when they will give the whole. We
returned from our tour greatly encouraged,
and with the full assurance that God’s
name will be glorified throughout that sta-
tion by the conversion of many souls.”
jfoodjoto iWfssion — €:?)ina.
MISS PAYSON'S SCHOOL — A MOTHER’S FEARS.
hliss Payson reported, December 3,
1872, that her school has increased to
twenty-four pupils, and she hoped it would
increase to thirty in the new building,
nearly completed, which would accommo-
date that number. The following inci-
dents are noticed in her report : —
“ Seven new scholars joined our num-
ber soon after tbe opening of school in
September, who seem much interested in
learning to read, and are making very
good progress. I felt much sympathy for
the mother of one of them, who came to
see her little daughter a few weeks since.
She is a young widow, and has but this
one child — a quiet, well-behaved little
girl, about nine years of age. Some of
her relatives had induced her to send the
child here, but as soon as little Sang Mwoi
was out of her sight the mother’s loving
heart began to be oppressed with all man-
ner of misgivings and forebodings. She
was sure those foreigners would not take
care of other people’s children, and half
support them in this way at their school,
unless they meant to profit by it somehow.
She feared all sorts of evil. Perhaps they
had already sent her daughter to that far
away Flowery- Flag Land (meaning Amer-
ica), to be sold as a slave, and she should
never behold the dear face again.
“ She grieved and wept so much over
the affair that two of her neighbors agreed
to come with her to the school, and let her
see for herself how matters stood. The
three women came in, one Sunday after-
noon, just as I was about to hear the
Bible recitations, which the school girls
have every Sabbath. Afrer the recita-
tions we had singing and prayer, and the
women listened to all with much apparent
interest. When the services were ended,
they told me why they had come, and how
inconsolable the poor mother had been
about her child. Reference to her anxi-
ety at home brought the tears afresh to
her eyes, and though she tried to smile
through them, I could see that the tears
came far more readily than the smiles. I
felt half like shedding teais myself at see-
ing her so moved, and said, as kindly as I
could, ‘ You need not fear at all about your
little girl. I love her, and will do all I
can to make her happy. So go home
and feel no more trouble about her.’ The
school-matron and another woman present
then added their words of exhortation and
comfort, saying, ‘ There is no need to fear.
The ku-niong (meaning me) only wants to
teach these, gii ls the Bible doctrine. She
teaches them about the true God and to
obey him.’ Then her neighbors took up
the strain of encouraging words, and so,
before she left, the mother succeeded in
looking quite cheerful, and carried home
with her, I hope, a consoling thought or
two of God’s great fatherhood, and his in-
effable love and tenderness for her and her
little one.”
ABRAHAM'S OBEDIENCE — INFLUENCE OP A
PICTURE.
“ One of my former scholars was mar-
ried about two years since, and removed
to a small village, about twelve miles from
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here, where she has been teaching a small
school. Her scholars have learned to re-
peat all the hymns in our Hymn Book,
and two or three of them are now reading
the New Testament.
“ Some time in September last I sent
her a number of large, highly colored
Scripture pictures, illustrating scenes in
Old Testament history, for her to exhibit
and explain to her pupils and others. A
fortnight since I went, with two of the
other missionaries, to visit her school, and
was greatly pleased to learn while there,
that these pictures had been the means of
leading two persons in the village, a man
and his wife, both I think over fifty years
of age, to become earnest inquirers after
the truth. The man is a doctor, and a
person of some property, and considerable
influence in the place. The picture which
especially affected his mind was that of
Abraham offering up his son. ‘ This,’
said he to himself, ‘ is the picture of an
old man obeying the will of God. How
readily he obeyed the Divine command I
I am an old man also. I will be like this
one hereafter — will strive continually to
serve the Lord.’ He kept his word, and
both he and his wife have refrained from
work on the Sabbath, and have been ear-
nest in prayer for some weeks.
“It is encouraging thus to see what
humble agencies God can and often does
use, in bringing honor to his great name,
and salvation to perishing souls.”
MISSIONS OF OTHER SOCIETIES.
FREEtVILL BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCI-
ETY.
The thirty-ninth Annual report of this
Society, presented at the meeting at Ha-
verhill, Mass., in October last, is a pam-
phlet of G4 small pages, filled with matter
of great interest, which should be care-
fully read by all ministers and church-
members of that denomination. It is
made up mainly of reports from the dif-
ferent missionaries in India, and presents
a very gratifying record of earnest, cheer-
ful work, and of encouraging success. The
mission stations are four, in the Province
of Orissa, India. There are five American
missionaries, seven female assistant mis-
sionaries, seven “ordained and licensed”
native preachers, and seven lay native
preachers. The additions to the four
churches during the year, by profession,
were 44, the present number of members
being 282.’ One native preacher, a la-
borer for twenty-five years, spoken of as
eminently able, earnest, and faithful, died
during the year. The following statement
in the Report is well worthy of notice : —
“ The native Christians are still en-
gaged in mission work, and are repre-
sented as entering more heartily and ear-
nestly into it than they' were last year;
and even then their zeal and interest were
very cheering to the friends of the mission.
At Midnapore this feature of encourage-
ment is peculiarly systematized, and con-
sequently made more successful. Six regu-
lar committees, for special Christian work,
are established in this church, on some one
of which every member in the church is
placed, thus giving to each a place to work
for Christ and (or souls. This-plan is found
to be very effectual in keej)ing those thus
engaged in the love of God, and in strength-
ening their own spiritual life.”
In connection with such a statement,
it is not surprising to find it stated, also:
“ The mission is very prosperous and hope-
ful ; signs and indications of future good
are more abundant than ever before.
“The heathen are ready to hear, and
more serious attention seems to be given
to the word heard. More than the usual
quantity of Scriptures have been sold this
year; and without doubt in many cases,
these are sowing the seeds of truth in the
homes of the people. Former sneerers
are studying the Bible. In some instances,
the heathen are asking for teachers for
their wives and daughters, and in one case
they have provided a house, and raised
twenty one rupees per month for a native
Christian woman, to reside among them,
and teach in their zenanas.”
168
The home “ contributions ” to the Soci-
ety, for the year, amounted to $6,785.15;
“ donations and bequests,” $3,746.70. The
■whole income -was $10,952.17; expendi-
tures, $11,154.73. The mission received,
also, in India, from Goverment grants-in-
aid, and donations, from individuals, for the
schools, asylums, zenana work, etc., 12,340
rupees — $6,1 70.
The home aspect of the Society’s work
seems to be much less cheering than the
foreign. The Report states : “ A few
brethren, and a number of churches, are
devising liberal things for the mission.
One brother supports ten boys in India,
at an expense of two hundred dollars an-
nually. Another, with his family, sup-
ports five children, while many others are
supporting one each. One brother, within
a few months, placed five hundred dollars
at the disposal of the Board.
“ But when we look over the whole
denomination the prospect is daik and
discouraging. During the financial year
[May,
which closed August 31, 1872, only three
hundred and forty-two churches have con-
tributed to Foreign Missions, leaving one
thousand and seventy-one non-contribut-
ing churches. This, however, is better
than any previous year But these
years of labor have taught us the sad and
lamentable fact, that many ministers do
not and will not make any effort in their
churches for missions Churches sel-
dom do anything unless the pastor leads
otr, though we have a few that are so im-
bued with the spirit of work and of mis-
sions that they can go on without pastoral
cooperation.
“If three quarters of our churches ■would
do something for the cause, we could en-
large our work in India, and promptly
meet the urgent calls for help from the
missionaries. As it now is, this Society
belongs, virtually, not to the whole de-
nomination, but to about three hundred
and fifty churches, and to the individual
donors who sustain it.”
Miscellany.
MISCELLANY.
THE PROPOSED COLLEGE AT AINTAB.
The “ English Independent,” of Feb-
ruary 13, gives the following notice of a
meeting in behalf of the college for which
Mr. Trowbridge, of the Central Turkey
mission, is now laboring in England : —
“ On Friday last, the Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Kinnaird invited a large number of
ladies and gentlemen, interested in mis-
sionary operations, to a private meeting
at their own house, to listen to statements
from the Rev. T. C. Trowbridge in regard
to education in Turkey. Mr. Trowbridge
then made a somewhat full statement in
regard to the missionary work among the
Armenians of Turnkey. He stated that
in 1855 there were only 5 ordained native
pastors, now there are 50 ; during the same
time the number of educated licensed
preachers had increased from 10 to 56; of
common schools, from 44 to 222 ; of schol-
ars, from 1,151 to 5,080 ; of churches, from
24 to 76; of church-members, from 626 to
4,032; the average attendance, from 2,451
to 13,701 ; and the number of Protestants
including women and children, from 3,536
to 19,4 71. There are now 128 Sabbath-
schools, with an attendance of 8,790 schol-
ars. The mission press at Constantinople
has, since its establishment, issued no few-
er than 711,700 bound volumes, of which
166,500 were copies of the Scriptures,
167,400 were school-books, and 377,800
were religious books ; the whole number
of pages printed by the mission amounts
to nearly 300,000,000. It seems plain that
a large number of evangelical Christian
natives of the country must be so trained
that all the vast interests of this work may
be safely left in their hands. Hence arises
the necessity for the proposed college at
Aintab. £1,333 have already been con-
tributed in England towards this object.
Mr. A. Arnold, the Rev. Dr. Palteson,
Rev. Dr. Barclay, Dr. Protheroe Smith,
the Rev. H. Jones, and the Rev. Newman
Hall, severally addressed the meeting in
support of the college.”
1873.]
A PLBASANT CONTRAST.
Mrs. Coffixg, of Marash, Central
Turkey, writing to friends in the United
States, notices a very interesting occasion
at Hadjin, in September last, when a
church was organized and a pastor or-
dained there, and refers to the contrast in
her experience at that place then and
eleven years before, as follows : —
“ That you may somewhat appreciate
my feelings in those days, open the Mis-
sionary Herald for June, 1862, [pages
177-181,] and contrast this week with the
one there spoken of. Under the heading
‘ Sickness,’ we have ‘ inferior and insuffi-
cient food,’ ‘ rumors of threats,’ ‘ a gun
fired,’ etc. Under ‘ Expulsion,’ ‘ the mob
came to the tent about eight o’clock.’
That was Thursday, September 11th, 1861.
Thursday, September 12th, 1872, ‘about
eight o’clock,’ the council rode down the
long hill into the town. For more than an
hour we were seen from the town. Hun-
dreds were on the ‘ house-tops ’ watching
the procession. What is that we hear ?
The cry and shouts of a mob ? No ; the
boys and girls with their teachers, the
Bible reader and some of her scholars,
and many of the brethren, have come out
to meet us, and without fear or molesta-
tion they are singing the hymns of the
church and Sabbath -school. We are,
now, ^forced to return,’ but we suffer not
from ‘ anxiety or hunger,’ neither are
there any ‘ rumors of murder.’ The forc-
ing power is love, this time, not hate. On
the ‘ Sabbath, hundreds came,’ but there
was no expression of ‘ sorrow,’ no ‘ curs-
ing,’ though some of the ‘ Charbadjees ’
were present, and it was true that many
came from ‘ curiosity.’ This is not ‘ a
trying day.’ Like Peter we say, ‘It is
good to be here,’ and we ask not for ‘ three
tents,’ but for three churches. ‘ Monday
came, and still they would not let us start.’
‘ We were virtually in prison,’ but in a
most convenient one. ‘ Tuesday morning
came, and we were permitted to load,’
and left rejoicing much for the 20,000
souls, — that light, at last, had dawned on
them.
“ Can you doubt that these were among
the happiest days of my lifeV Cannot I
VOL. LXIX. 12
169
say that ‘ It is good to wait on the Lord ’ ?
More than one of those who were formed
into the church trace their first impres-
sions of the truth to the hymns sung dur-
ing that day when the mob pulled our
tent down over our heads. ‘ Cast thy
bread upon the waters, for thou shalt
find it after many days.’ ”
SANDWICH ISLANDS — THE NEW KING.
Readers are already informed of the
important facts connected with the acces-
sion of a new king to the throne of the
Sandwich Islands — elected by the almost
unanimous voice of the people ; yet a con-
cise statement of the case should perhaps
be presented in the Herald. Mr. Pogue
wrote from Honolulu, January 9 : —
“The Hawaiian nation has just passed
through a crisis in its history, such as very
few nations are called to pass through.
During this period the people have de-
meaned themselves as a Christian, God-
fearing, law-abiding people. In my letter
of December 13, 1872, I said the nation
was in affliction. His Majesty Kameha-
meha V. had been taken away, and left
no heir. Soon after his death, his Royal
Highness Prince William Lunalilo issued
a manifesto, claiming the vacant throne,
but calling on the people to elect, by bal-
lot, on the 1st of January, the chief they
desired as a king. Soon after, another
one of the candidates issued a warlike
document.
“ On the first of January, the people
met in their several districts, and voted
for a new king. The votes cast for Luna-
lilo, or Prince William, were over 10,000
— perhaps nearer 12,000 ; and only some
400 or 500 for all other candidates.
“ The legislature, however, had been
called to meet on the 8th of January to
elect a king in accordance with the d#*
cree, or constitution, so called, forced
upon the people by Kamehameha V.
On that day there was much excitement.
Members of the legislature were being
tampered with. The body met at noon,
and after some preliminary business com-
menced voting. On the first ballot all
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present voted for his Royal Highness
Prince William, and he was declared
elected unanimously. To-day he took the
oath of office in the presence of a vast
multitude in the stone church, where the
jubilee meeting was held when you were
with us. This has all been done without
much contention or strife. Excitement
there was, strong and deep, but much
prayer has been offered, both by foreign-
ers and natives, and the crisis is passed,
Lunalilo I. is King of the Hawaiian Isl-
ands. The Lord be praised 1
“ The new king, since he issued his
manifesto, has used no spirituous liquors.
He has taken counsel with such men as
Hall, Bishop, Whitney, Franklin Judd,
H. H. Parker, and others. He seems to
be in perfect sympathy with us. He sent
for Rev. H. H. Parker, and invited him to
offer prayer at the public meeting to day,
when he took the oath of office. The
Bishop of the Reformed Catholic Church
was present, but took no part, nor was
asked or desired to do so ; he was simply
one of the audience. The Roman Catho-
lic Bishop and his clergy, so far as I saw
or have heard, were not present.
“ The people, both Protestant and Ro-
man Catholic, desired Lunalilo for their
king. If any other person had been
elected by the legislature, war to the
death would have been the consequence.
The people would have risen in their
power, and hurled such a one from the
throne. We who are here feel that a
Divine Providence, in answer to prayer,
has guided us through this ‘ Red Sea.’
In him we trust for the future, hoping
that he may give to ‘ the people’s king ’
a new heart, and that he will rule in the
fear of God. His Majesty will have much
to contend against, but he will be upheld
by the countenance and prayers of God’s
people.
“ Our meetings on this week of prayer,
notwithstanding the excitement, are well
attended, both by foreigners and Ilawai-
ians. We feel that the blessed Spirit is
operating on some minds. May the good
Lord add to this great blessing which he
has given us — a king — the outpouring of
his Spirit, that we may see many turning
to the Lord with purpose of heart.”
[May,
" A MODEL EOREIGN MISSION.”
Under this caption, the “New York
Observer” of March 13, notices the de-
parture of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Barnum,
on their return to Eastern Turkey, and
then gives an outline of the work in their
field, and its results, most of which is re-
produced here : —
“ This mission [station] has been so
signally blessed from its first establish-
ment, only about fifteen years since, that
we are sure the following sketch of its
history and success will be read with deep
interest.
“ Harpoot is a city of 25,000 inhabi-
tants, just east of the river Euphrates,
and near the 39th parallel of north lati-
tude. The mission field of which it is
the centre, embraces a region of more
than 20,000 square miles, extending be-
yond both the Euphrates and Tigris, and
taking in the intervening country. It
was first occupied as a mission station by
Mr. Dunmore, in 1855. In 1857, he gave
place to Messrs. Allen and Wheeler, who
still remain there. Mr. Barnum joined
them in 1859, after a year spent in Con-
stantinople and Broosa.
“ When Harpoot was first occupied, the
whole region was one dead level of dark-
ness. There were no books in the mod-
ern Armenian language, and no schools
worth the name. Probably not more than
one in a hundred of the people could read.
They were ignorant of everything. The
system of agriculture and the mechanic
arts were of the rudest kind. There was
no enterprise, no energy, and very little
that could be called civilization. In spirit-
ual things, their condition was still more
deplorable. Those who bore the Christian
name were so ignorant and so regardless
of the principles of their religion, as to be
in a state little better than heathen, and
the dominant Mohammedan population
showed very little of the restraining power
of the few wholesome precepts of their own
systems of faith.
“ Along with the preaching of the gos-
pel common schools were organized. All
the people who came under the influence
of the missionaries, old and young, as far
as possible, were taught to read. In 1860
a theological seminary was opened, and in
Miscellany.
1873.]
1863 a female seminary for the education
of female laborers, and in 1869 a normal
school for young men. With the blessing
of God upon the system employed, the
missionaries were able, last April, to re-
port as under their care 77 cities and vil-
lages as ‘out-stations,’ with 83 schools,
in which were 2,331 pupils; 61 congrega-
tions, with an aggregate average attend-
ance of more than 4,000 persons; 19
churches, with a membership of 897;
and a corps of native pastors, preachers,
teachers, etc., numbering 125. Of these
churches, all but seven had become self-
supporting and of the work included un-
der the head of native agency, education,
and building, for the current year, the
people themselves bear about one half of
the expense.
“ The churches are described as careful
in the maintenance of discipline, and as
possessing the character of the primitive
churches, in their readiness to practice
self-denial and to labor for the enlighten-
ment of others. They are withal gain-
ing largely in intelligence, especially in
a knowledge of the Scriptures, which are
habitually read and studied. The congre-
gations, too, as distinct from the churches,
are characterized by the same growth in
intelligence, by a new spirit of enterprise,
and by such a reformation in the outward
life as to make the name ‘ Protestant ’ in
all the region, a synonym for all that is
good and honest. These are, in short, the
beginnings of a Christian civilization.
“ There have been sold at Harpoot
about 4,000 copies of the whole Bible
and 20,000 portions of the same, with
nearly 55,000 volumes of other books, re-
ligious and educational, from the Chris-
tian press. These have found their way
among all classes of the community, and
along with the influence of the Christian
example and precept of those who have
begun the new life, are exerting a power-
ful leavening influence among the mul-
titudes who are outside the Protestant
ranks, as seen in an increasing intelli-
gence and knowledge of the truth, a
decline of superstition, decrease in in-
temperance and vice, and in the promo-
tion of enterprise and good order. In
short, the way has been prepared, in the
171
general sowing of seed, for a great har-
vest, when the Spirit shall be poured out
from on high.
“ The cost to the American churches,
for maintaining the work in all this re-
gion, including the labors of missionaries
and native laborers, education, etc., is
about $8,000 a year, which is less than
the annual cost of maintaining many of
our city churches.”
THE “DECCAN HERALD” ON PROP. SEELTE.
The “Bombay Guardian,” of January
11, gives the following from the “Deccan
Herald ” : —
“We had the pleasure of being pres-
ent last night at the Vishrambagh palace,
when Prof. Seelye, of Amherst College,
Massachusetts, lectured on the Goal ot
Civilization. We would not have missed
being present on any account. It was a
most wonderful lecture, embracing a his-
tory of all the changes going on in the
world, and the shades of philosophical
thought which are prevailing in regard
to the question. What is the ‘ Goal of Civ-
ilization.’ .... The hall of the palace was
crowded in every part ; several hundreds
of young men were there, and some of
them representatives of the highest edu-
cational institutions in Poona. Five or
six hundred gentlemen must have been
present, and there were also a few Eng-
lish ladies who came to grace the scene.
The lecture was most enthusiastically
cheered, and listened to throughout with
rapt attention. It was a scene which we
would not have missed seeing.”
— t —
GRANTS FROM THE TRACT AND BIBLE SOCIE-
TIES.
The American Tract Society has just
made a cash grant of $1,228.60 in aid of
religious publications in the mission fields
of the Board, as follows : —
For Foochow, China, . . . $200 00
“ Tientsin, “ . . . . 100 00
Turkey Missions 928 60
An additional grant of printing at the
Tract House has been made, of $324.80,
making an aggregate of $1,553.40, for
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which the thanks of the Board and its
friends are due to this Society.
They are also indebted to the Amer-
ican Bible Society for a grant of $1,000
to print the New Testament in the Zulu
language, and of $100 in aid of the cir-
culation of the Scriptures in the Madura
mission.
THE LENOX CmjRCH — DONATIONS.
Mr. Hobbs, laboring again among the
Choctaw Indians, writes to the Treasurer,
that “ the donations for the Lenox Church
have been most thankfully received, ap-
preciated, and appropriated as far as ma-
terials could be obtained. Some of the
money will be applied to finishing the
school-house which was raised and cov-
ered the winter before the war, so that
the school may not be kept in the meet-
ing-house.”
GLEANINGS.
The translation of the Old Testa-
ment into Turkish, by Rev. Dr. Schaufller,
will soon be completed.
It is bad enough to be obliged to
contend with all possible forms of error
and superstition in India, without the hin-
drances thrown in our way by the Eng-
lish Government. From the March num-
ber of the “ Foreign Missionary Record,”
of the Church of Scotland, we learn that
at Madras “ the Government publish and
use in their schools certain Tamil books
which teach pupils to invoke and to wor-
ship heathen gods and to believe in pan-
theism, fatalism, and transmigration of
souls.” One of the books which the Uni-
versity prescribes as one of the examin-
ation books, “contains obscenities which
are actually untranslatable.” Such is the
training still given by a neuti'al govern-
ment to the higher classes of Hindoo
youth. Shall we wonder at their indif-
ference and opposition to the gospel, and
that our missionary efforts are so much
limited to the poorer and humbler classes ?
Rev. Dr. Tracy, of the Madura mis-
sion, presented a valuable paper at the
Allahabad conference, on the training of
native agents.
The famous sermon on tithes, by
[May,
“John Concordance,” of Shepik, East-
ern Turkey, has been reprinted lately in
the “ Missionary Record ” of the U. P.
Church, at Edinburgh, and also as a tract
for church use, at fourteen shillings the
thousand. This illustrates the reflex in-
fluence of foreign missions.
Mr. Howland, of Ceylon, pays the
following tribute to the love and faith of
the native Christians of Batticotta, whom
he was about to leave to occupy another
station : “ One fear I have is, that I may
not be sustained as I think I was at Batti-
cotta, by the prayers of others, who felt
that I had a great burden. I have often
drawn comfort from the remark of one of
the mothers there, who, coming to their
weekly prayer-meeting and hearing that
I was not well, came into my room to see
me. When I said that I hoped I should
soon be better, she replied, ‘ Yes, you will
be well and strong. God will hear our
prayers.’ It was a better tonic than the
doctor could furnish. She had said before
that she always prayed for me.”
The Greek Church of Russia has en-
tered upon missionary work in .Japan. A
Russian paper speaks of a church formed
at Hakodadi, to which 95 Japanese were
recently received, while 500 more desired
baptism.
The question is already raised in In-
dia in regard to donating the public reve-
nues of the temples to the interests of popu-
lar education. The native Christians are
reminded, by one of the leading journals,
of their right to a portion of the vast sums
now devoted to mosques, monasteries, and
temples.
Miss Carpenter, an English lady,
went to India a few years since, and en-
deavored to promote female education on
a purely secular basis. Though receiving
liberal government grants from Lord Law-
rence for these normal schools, her efforts
have utterly failed. The government now
recognizes the fact, that the instruction of
women must be based on religion.
Nine pages are given in the March
number of the “ Chronicle” of the London
Missionary Society, to correspondence be-
tween that Society and the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, and officials of the
Miscellany.
1873.1 Miscellany. 1 i 3
English Government, and between mis-
sionaries of the two Societies in Madagas-
car, — presenting an ineffectual attempt
to dissuade the high church Episcopalians
from intruding their missionaries and a
“ bishop ” upon fields so long and so suc-
cessfully cultivated by the London Soci-
ety in Madagascar, — to induce them, in
accordance with common rules of mission-
ary courtesy, to limit their operations to
unoccupied portions of the island. The
Church Missionary Society has fully rec-
ognized the rights of the London Society,
but the Propagation Society is quite an-
other body.
The directors of the London Mission-
ary Society have memorialized the Eng-
lish Government, urging “ to the adoption
of every wise and vigorous effort to put
down the labor traffic [slave traffic] in
Queensland and Fiji”; and also in regard
to recent violent proceedings of Roman
Catholic priests against Protestant con-
verts on the island of Uvea, asking the
intervention of Her Majesty’s Govern-
ment with the Government in Paris.
Rev. Dr. Wenger has completed the
translation of the Scriptures into the Sans-
krit language, — a work which has cost
more than twenty years of labor, and has
received high encomiums from some of
the most learned Sanskrit scholars in
England.
The Wesleyan collegiate institution
in Jaffna furnishes instruction in Trig-
onometry, Natural Philosophy, and
Whateley’s Logic. Good for a mission
school.
The Church of Scotland “Mission-
ary Record ” says, there is one Protestant
missionary, European and American, in
British India, for each 350,000 of the
population ; equal to “ ten ministers only
for the whole of Scotland.”
The average annual contribution
from each member of the Church of
Scotland, to its Foreign Mission Scheme
is “ under fourpence farthing, or less than
a farthing and a half per month.”
The governor of Ceylon, on visit-
ing the schools of a missionary station re-
cently, remarked that, “ as far as he could
judge, the progress which education had
made in Ceylon, was to be attributed far
more to missionary efforts than to the
operation of Government schools. To
the energy and activity of missionaries
were due, not only the prevalence of ed-
ucation, but the desire which existed
among the people for instruction.”
The new Theological Seminary at
the Sandwich Islands was opened in Oc-
tober last. In December there Avere thir-
teen students, admitted “ on probation of
six months,” and several other applicants
for admission.
The “ Lucknow Witness,” India, re-
joices to hear that the good work among
the Santhals stilt goes forward. “ The
applicants for baptism are literally num-
bered by thousands, and the missionaries
are overwhelmed with their abundant la-
bors.”
The Papacy does not remit its mis-
sionary efforts, because of its recent trials
at home. The “Annals of the Propa-
gation of the Faith,” published in Janu-
ary, announces the departure of sixty-four
“ missioners,” for Australia, Africa, South
America, the United States, and the
British Provinces of North America. An
“ apostolic caravan, consisting of nineteen
persons,” arrived at Cairo on the 26th of
September, on its way to Central Africa.
And yet it is very difficult, as well in
England as in this country, to obtain the
men who are urgently needed for Prot-
estant missions 1
Rev. Robert Moffat, D. D., the apos-
tle of Africa, has just received, as a tes-
timonial of esteem, the handsome sum of
over £5,000, from friends of missions in
England. Richly deserved is the tribute
of love which accompanies the gift, and
finds substantial expression in it.
DEPARTURE.
Rev. John T. Guuck and wife, of
the North China mission, sailed from San
Francisco April 1, returning to their field.
DEATH.
At Marsovan, Turkey, January 13,
Fanny, youngest daughter of Rev. J. F.
and Mrs. L. E. Smith, of the AVestern
Turkey mission.
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Donations,
[May,
DONATIONS RECEIVED IN IklARCH.
MAINE.
Cumberland county.
Cumberland, Cong. ch. and so.
Nortb Yarmouth, Mrs. M. T. llolt
Portland, State st. ch. and so. m. c.
Franklin county Aux. Soc. Rev. I.
Rogers, Tr.
Wilton, Cong. ch. and so. 15; J.
Cooledge, 10;
Hancock county.
Castiue, Trinity ch. and so.
Tremont, a friend,
Somerset county.
Skowhegan, Cong. ch. and so.
Union Conf. of churches.
Oiisfieid, Missionary tree,
Waldo county.
Belfast, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 10 ; E.
L. Snow, with prev. dona , to
const. Charles C. Haskell, U. M.
20;
Washington county.
Cherryfield, John W. Coffin,
York county.
Saco, Cong. ch. and so. add’l,
York, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
25 80
100
14 00— .40 80
25 00
10 18
20 00 30 18
3125
5 25
30 00
100 00
5 00
14 76 — 19 75
282 23
NEW HAMPSHIKE.
Coos county.
Colebrook, T. W. Atherton, 12 00
Hillsboro co. Conf. of Ch’s. George
Swain, Tr.
Hillsboro, Dea. S. Richardson, 2 ;
John Adams, 10 ; 12 00
Hollis, a friend, 2 00
Mt. Vernon, Cong. ch. and so. 43 00
Nashua, Pearl st. ch. and so. 71 06 — 128 06
Merrimac co. Aux. Soc.
Concord, South Cong. ch. and so.,
to const. Cl.\ra a. Abdot, U. M. 121 35
Rockingham county.
Derry, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 75 20
Exeter, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 110.20 ;
Union m. c. 6.60 ; 116 70 — 190 90
Strafford county.
Laconia, Cong. ch. and so.
Legacies. — Tilton, Mrs. Nancy Hana-
ford, by L. C. Morrison, Adm’r,
VERMONT.
Addison county, Amos Wilcox, Tr.
Bristol, Rev. Stillman Morgan, I'OO
Middlebury, Cong. ch. and so. 52.21 ;
Mr.s. Eliza M. Elmer, 60 ; 102 21
Orwell, Cong. ch. and so. 62 00
Weybridge, Cong. ch. and so. 60 00 — 206 21
Caledonia co. Conf. of Ch’s, T. L.
Hall, Tr.
Lower Waterford, Cong. ch. and so. 43 00
St. Johnsbury, South Cong. ch. and
so. 69.42 ; Dea. Luke Spencer, 60 ; 119 42
St. Johnsbury East, Cong. ch. and
BO. 76 82—239 24
Chittenden county.
Burlington, 1st Calv. Cong. ch. and
SO. (of wh. m. 0. 18), 232 00
Orange county.
Chelsea, Donation acknowledged in March
“Herald” as from Mrs. Martha, should
have been from Mrs. Sophia D. Drew.
North Thetford, a friend, 2 00
Orleans county.
Newport, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 3 60
Rutland co. James Barrett, Agent.
Pittsford, Cong. ch. and so. to const.
Rev. Russell T. Hall, H. M. 100 00
Rutland, Cong. ch. and so. hal. coll.
42 97
495 27
122 60
617 77
22.22 ; m. c. 21.03 ; John B. Page,
to const. G. 11. Reynolds, W. S.
Terrill, F. E. Cheney, G. H.
Paine, and B. D. Paine, H. M.
600.00 i 543 25-643 25
Windham county Aux. Soc. C. F.
Thompson, Tr.
Putney, Leri L. Houghton, 3 00
Windsor co. Aux. Soc. Rev. C. B.
Drake and J. Steele, Tr’s.
Springfield, Cong. ch. and so. to
const. Miss H. N. Locke, Miss E.
P. Proctor, Mrs. M. G. Holbrook,
Mrs. Augusta Derby, Charles D.
Walker, and I. W. Barnard, H.
M. 630 60
Woodstock, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 48 41 — 679 01
2,007 21
Legacies. — Berlin, Rev. Truman Per-
rin, by S. F. Nye, Ex’r, in part, 112 15
Middlebury, Chester Elmer, by Ches-
ter Elmer, Adm’r 400 00
Sheldon, Sally Wooster, add’i, 393 86 — 900 01
2,913 22
MASSACHUSETTS.
Barnstable county.
North Truro, S. Paine,
South Wellfleet, Cong. ch. and so.
m. c.
Yarmouth, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
Berkshire county.
Curtisville, Cong. ch. and so.
Peru, Cong. ch. and so.
Sheffield, Cong. ch. and so. 6.43;
Salmon Hunt, 6 ;
Boston and vicinity.
Boston, of which from Capt. G. S.
Holmes, 100 ; F. B. P., 10 ;
Bristol county.
East Taunton, Cong. ch. and so.
Fall River, let Cong. ch. and so.
to const. Mrs. Sarah J. Brayton
and Mrs. Fidelia B. Durfee, U. M.
Norton, Cong. ch. and so.
Seekonk, Alice II. Carpenter,
Essex county.
Andover, N. S. Wright, Theol. Sem.
5 ; a friend, 2 ;
Methuen, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c.
Nov. to March, 95.02;
Essex CO. South Conf. of Ch’s. C. M.
Richardson, Tr.
Beverly, Dane st. ch. and so. m. c.
Lynnfield, 2d Cong. ch. and so.
Marblehead, 3d Cong. ch. and so., to
const. James J. H. Gsegory, H. M.
North Beverly, Mrs. Rebecca Conant,
Rockport, Joseph Bartlett,
Saugus Centre, Cong. ch. and so.
Franklin county Aux. Soc. William B.
Washburn, Tr.
Charlemont, Cong. ch. and so.
Coleraine, Cong. ch. and so.
East Charlemont, Cong. ch. and so.
East Hawley, H. M. S.,
Greenfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so
Sunderland, Cong. ch. and so.
Hampden county Aux. Soc. Charles
Marsh, Tr.
Chester, 2d Cong. oh. and so.
East Longmeadow, 11. Burt,
Springfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
165.71 ; a friend, 6 ;
Thorndike, Mrs. E. G. Learned,
VV'est Springfield, Park ch. and so.
Hampshire county Aux. Soc. S. E.
Bridgman, Tr.
Northampton, Mrs. A. Lyman, 200 ;
a friend, 300;
10 00
10 00
77 00 — 97 00
19 00
14 02
11 43 — 44 45
4,248 10
31 66
200 68
18 56
2 00—252 80
7 00
95 02-102 02
14 00
6 00
75 00
10 00
6 00
89 23-198 23
60 00
15 00
24 35
6.00
8 30
112 91-215 56
30 00
20 00
170 71
600
9 00-234 71
500 00
1873.]
Donations.
175
West Cummington, Rev. J. U. Par-
sons, 6 00
Westbampton, Cong. oh. and so. 82 00
Williamsburg, Cong. ch. and so. 41 23— 5V8 23
Middlesex county.
Brighton, Cong. ch. and so. 186 37
Cambridge, Sbepard cb. and so. m.
c. 46.96 ; a friend, 10 ; 65 96
Cambridgeport, Prospect st. ch. and
so. (of wb. m. c. 8) i 230 34
East Somerville, Franklin st. ch. and
so. m. c. 7 62
Framingham, Plymouth Cong. ch.
and so. 76
Lowell, Appleton st. ch. and so.
64.70; Joel Powers,!; 66
Newton, 1st Cong. ch. and so. in
part, 322 ; 2d Cong. ch. and so.
in part, 284.76 ; Eliot ch. and so.
in part, 1,000 ; N. 314.30 1,921
North Reading, Cong. ch. and so. 18
Watertown, Phillips ch. and so. 63
Woburn, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 400
Middlesex Union.
Harvard, Cong. ch. and so. 72
Shirley Village, Cong. ch. and so. 24
Townsend, Ortho. Cong. ch. and so. 19
Norfolk county.
Brookline, a friend, 2
Foxboro, Daniels Carpenter, 200
Jamaica Plain, Central Cong. ch. and
so. m. c. 10
Needham, Ev. Cong. ch. and so. 10
South Braintree, Cong. ch. and so. 6
West Roxbury, South Ev. ch. and
so. m. c.
Plymouth county.
Abington. 1st Cong. ch. and so.
Hingham, Cong. cb. and so.
Marshfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
Plympton, Cong. ch. and so.
Worcester county, North.
Athol, Lois and Chloe Bassett,
Petersham, Cong. ch. and so.
Templeton, Cong. ch. and so. add’l,
Worcester co. South Conf. of Ch’s.
William R. Hill, Tr.
Saundersville, Cong. ch. and so. with
prev. dona, to const. C. U. Ssarles,
U. M.
a friend.
06
00
31
00-3,015 08
25
76
45-116 46
OC
00
26 79-256 64
00
76
00
76-159 60
60
60
60—19 60
35 00
100 00
9,672 18
Legacifs. — Boston, Tra Greenwood, by
3.3. Soren, Trustee, 100 00
Brookfield, Oliver C. Howe, by G.
W. Johnson, Ez’r, 500 00 — 600 00
10,272 18
RHODE ISLAND.
Pawtucket, Cong. ch. and so. Gents’.
Mi.ss’y Soc. 100; m. c. 171.99; to
const. A. R. Matteson, T. P.
Bar.nefield, and Dea. IV. D. Bul-
lock, U. .'I. 271 99
Providence, Pilgrim Cong. ch. and so. 11 51 — 283 60
CONNECTICUT.
Fairfield county.
Bridgeport, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 157 25
Ridgefield, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 87 43 — 244 68
Hartford county. E. W. Parsons, Tr.
Farmington, R. Lewis Hills, 10 00
Suffleld, 1st Cong. cb. and so. 31 71
Wethersfield, a widow's mite, 6 00 — 46 71
Litchfield county. G. C. Woodrufif, Tr.
Warren, a lady, ^ 2 00
Mildlesex county. John Marvin, Tr.
Middletown, J. F. Huber, for Ma-
dura, 1 00
West Chester, Cong. ch. and so. 31 00 — 35 00
New Haven co. F. T. Jarman, Agent.
East Haven, Cong. ch. and so. 47 ;
a friend, 10 ; 67 00
Guilford, 1st Cong ch. and so. 2n4 50
Meriden, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 123 46
Middlebury, Cong. ch. and so. 31 30
New Haven, 1st ch. m. o. 13.88 Ch.
of the IMeemer m. o. 9 ; Daven-
port ch. m. c. 8.16 ; North ch. m.
c. 5.75 ; College st. ch. add’l, 3 ; 39 79
Waterbury, a friend of missions, 100 00
Wolcott, Cong. ch. and so. 6 00 — 662 06
New London county. C. Butler and
L. A. Hyde, Trs.
New Loudon, 2d. Cong. ch.Jand so.
m. c. 20 45
Windham county. Rev. H. F. Hyde,
Tr.
Central Village, Cong. ch. and so. (of
wh. m. c. 23.20), 71 70
Chaplin, Gents’ Asso’n, 44.96; La-
dies’ Asso'n. 37.65 ; m. c. 58.80 ; to
const. William Martin, Jr. H. M. 141 30
East Hampton, Union ch. and so.
m. c. 6 00
Pomfret, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 158 93—377 98
1,288 87
Legacies. — Hartford, Mrs. Mary A.
Warburton, add’l by N. Shipman
and H. A. Parker, Ex’rs, 2,882 65
4,171 62
NEW YORK.
Albany, 1st Cong. cb. and so. 214 95
Baiting Hollow, G. L. Edwards, 10 00
Binghamton, Daniel Munson, 10 00
Brooklyn, Ch. of Pilgrims, Arch. Bax-
ter, 1,000; State st. ch. and so. 66 ; 1,066 00
Catskill, Miss J. R. Day, 10 00
Harpersfield, Cong. ch. and so. 3 20
Havana, Sophia B. Brown, 10 00
Homer, Cong. ch. and so. 168 10
New York, Mr. and Mrs. James Stokes,
600 ; Taber, ch. Thomas Ritter, 25 ;
A. A. 5 ; 630 00
Perry Centre, a friend, 10 00
Warwick, I. R. Christie, 1 00-2,020 25
NEW JERSEY.
Jersey City, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 46 10
Newark, C. S. Haines, 40 00
South Amboy, A. Blodgett, 6 00 — 91 10
Legacies. — Union Township, Jona-
than Townley, by R. VV. Townley,
Ex’r, 2,166 76
2,256 86
PENNSYLVANIA.
Brownsville, Com. on Missions of Pa.
Synod of Cumb. Presb. ch. (of wh.
from Windy Gap Cong, to const. Rev.
I. N. CoRT, H. M. 64.80), 200 00
Philadelphia, James Smith, 100 00
Providence, Welsh Cong. ch. and so.
to const. Rev. R. S. Jones, II. M. 60 00
Summit Hill, Rev. J. M. Thomas and
family, 6 00
Taylorville, 1st Welsh Cong. ch. and so. 7 60—362 60
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Washington, Assembly’s Presb. ch. 7 ;
“ First Assistant,” lo ; 17 00
KENTUCKY.
Berea, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 9 22
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Coleman Hitchcock, to
const, his son, Willie F. Hitchcock,
H. M. 100 00
Delaware, Rev. John II Jones, to const.
Rev. David Jones, H. M. 100 00
Elyria, 1st Presb. cb. 190 20
Lyme, Cong. cb. and so. 43 72
Mansfield, Cong. ch. and so. 95 10
Oberlin, Rev. F. Shipherd’s Bible Class, 10 00
Toledo, S. D. Harrington, 6 00 — 544 02
INDIANA.
Fort Wayne, Plymouth Cong. ch. and
so. 44 31
ILLINOIS.
Aurora, N. E. ch. S. B. Dyckman, 6 00
Chesterfield, Cong. ch. and so. 20 00
Dixon, Cyrus A. Davis, 10 00
Gale.sburg, two members of 1st Cong,
ch. 25 ; Mrs. W. Davis, 5 ; 80 00
176
Donations.
[May, 1878,
Jefferson, Cong. ch. and so. 16 02
La Moille, Cong. ch. and so. 9 00
Marshall, John Hamnierly, 6 ; Mrs. D.
Andrews, 1 ; Uev. J. T. Graves, 1 ; 8 00
Quincy, Mrs. Mary Ballard, 10 00
Tolono, Lamed Haskell, 5 00
Woodburn, Cong. ch. and so. bo.l. to
const. William Alvin Hamilton, II.
M. 68 66-178 68
MICHIGAN.
Battle Creek, Cong, and I’resb. ch. 22 00
Baton Rapids, Cong. ch. and so. 36 70
Grand Rapids, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 76 00
Greenville, Cong. ch. and so. 3 00
Richmond, Cong. ch. and so.m. c. 2 76
St.Johns, Cong. ch. and so. 6 00
Webster, Cong. oh. and so. 21 00 — 165 45
MISSOURI.
Hannibal, G. A. Collins, 4 00
Kansas City, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 18 26 — 22 26
MINNESOTA.
Anoka, Cong. ch. and so. 10 00
Mankato, Cong. ch. and so. 8 50
Minneapolis, Vine st. Cong. ch. and so. 7 00
Plainview, Rev. U. Willard, 26 00
Rushfurd, Cong, ch. and so. 6 00 — 56 60
IOWA.
Denmark, Rev. H. K. Edson, 16 00
Genoa Bluffs, Cong. ch. and so. 13 15
Keokuk, Cong. ch. and so. to const.
Rev. Clayton Welles, H. M. 64 80
Lansing Ridge, Cong. ch. and so. 3 00
New Hampton, Cong. ch. and so. 12 00
Osage, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 26 00 — 132 95
WISCONSIN.
Appleton, Rev. Ed. Ebbs, 10 00
Green Bay, 1st Presb. ch. to const.
M. Dewitt Peak, H. M. 101 12
Platteville, Cong. ch. and so. add’l, 1 00
Ripon, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 61 00
Two Rivers, F. Barns, 2 00
a friend, through Mrs. J. Por-
ter, 400 00-565 12
KANSAS.
Fredonia, Rev. C. H. Richardson, 6 00
Oswego, Cong. ch. and so. 4 00 9 00
NEBRASKA.
Columbus, John E. Elliott,
Omaha, Reuben Gaylord,
6 00
2 00 7 00
OREGON.
Salem, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 30 00
CALIFORNIA.
Grass Valley, Cong. ch. and so. 12.60,
gold, 14 40
Oakland, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 76 00,
gold, 86 44—100 84
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
Greenwood, Rev. J. P. Williamson, 6 00
Riverside, L. Bridgman, 2 00 7 00
IDAHO TERRITORY.
Kamia, H. T. Cowley, toward support
of Mr. Sheffield, of North China, 3 00
FOREIGN LANDS AND MISSIONARY STATIONS.
Mahratta Mission, T. Bosanquet, Rs.
300 : Mrs. Severance, of Cleveland,
0., 72 ; a friend, 9; Dr. C. Jynt, 25;
Col. J. Field, 26 ; Col. Wahab 30 ;
L. A., 15; Wm. Thompson, 2; =
Rs. 478, 2'2 46
Madura, Mission Prayer Meeting, 11 60
MISSION WOKK FOB WOMEN.
MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPKISE.
Maine. — Gariand, Cong. s. s. 7.75 ; Norridge-
wock, Cong. s. s. 32.50 ; St. Stephen, Mill-
town, Cong. s. s., for school in Turkey,
86.90 ; 127 15
New Hampshire. — Amherst, Cong. s. s. 25 00
Vermont. — Gaysville, Chil. Miss’y Soc'y,
2.50; Cong. s. s., for pupil at Mansovau, 40 ; 42 60
Massachusetts. — Boston, Old Colony s. s.
(of wh. for Pilibos, Harpoot, 30 ; for David,
Madura, 25), 65 ; Charlemont, Cong. s. s.
6.50 ; Fitchburg, Calv. Cong. s. s., to sup-
port Muggerdich and wife at Erzroom,
92.80; Granby, Cong. s. s., for pupil at
Harpoot, 30; Northampton, Edwards ch..
Miss Goddard’s s. s. class for an orphan
iu Mrs Bissell’s school, 7 ; 201 30
New York. — Brooklyn, New England ch. s.
8. Miss’y Asso’n, with prev. dona, to const.
Charles Em.mons, II. 51. 60 00
New Jersey. — Cong. s. s. Miss’y Soc’y, 60 00
Ohio. — Huntington, Cong. s.s.,for Training
School at Samokov, 24 03
Illinois. — Chicago, 47th st. Cong. s. s., for
the printing of Dakota books, 11.50 ;
Princeton, Cong. s. s. 4 ; 15 50
Missouri. — La Grange, Salems Ev. Cong. s. s. 2 35
Iowa. — S. s., for a scholar in Ceylon, 12 00
Wisconsin. — Platteville, Cong. s. s. 10 45
Turkey. — Harpoot, Willie Wheeler, 50
660 78
Donations received in March, 20,166 28
Legacies “ “ “ 6,676 92
$26,843 20
Total, from Sept. 1st, 1872,
to March 31st, 1873, $212,563 60
Andover, Mass. Stephen Tracy, M. D. Three boxes
medical books and surgical instruments for missionary
physicians.
FOB WOBK IN NOMINALLY CHBIS-
TIAN LANDS.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Boscawen, Cong. ch. and so. $13 00
Stratham, Cong. ch. and so., with prev.
dona, to const. E. M. C. Lane, II. M. 20 00
Swanzey, Rev. Charles Willey, 6 00 — 38 00
MASSACHUSETTS.
Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 28 76
Andover, N. S. Wright, Theol. Sem’y, 6 00
Boston, Park st. ch. and so. 281.32;
Old South ch. and so. 256 ; F. B. P.,
5 ; 542 32
Framingham, Plymouth Cong. ch. and
so. 84 87
Groton, Union Cong. ch. and so. 46 35
North Bridgewater, 1st Cong. ch. and
so. 35 00
Shirley, Cong. ch. and so. 4 70
Sprin^eld, Indian Orchard ch. 11 11
Wakefield, Cong. ch. and so. 26 00
Ware, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 8 25
Worcester, Central ch. and so. 69 66
Yarmouth, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 40 00 — 850 91
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence, George U. Corliss, 80 00
CONNECTICUT.
Westbrook, Cong ch. and so. 24 26
NEW YORK.
Flushing, friends in Cong. ch. 6 00
ILLINOIS.
Council Bluffs, Rev. B. Talbot, for
Italy, 2 ; Farmington, 1st Cong. ch.
and so. 28.90 ; 80 90
From Woman’s Board of Missions for the
Interior.
Mrs. Francis Bradley, Evanston, Illinois,
Treasurer. 926 99
Total for Nominally Chris-
tian Lands, from Sept. 1st,
1872, to March 31st, 1873,
$979 07
$7,293 17
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