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MISSIONARY HERALD

VOLUME LXXIL- NUMBER 8
AUGUST, 1876

CONTENTS

A Bloodless Revolution.

K. Greene, Constantinople
Financial Prospects ....

Sad News from a Far Country. By

Rev. E. E. Bliss

Retrenchment. By Rev. Chauncby

Goodrich, North China

Recruits for the “ Old Guard ” . .
Annual Meeting of the Board . . .

Missions of the Board

Japan Mission.

Visit to the Island ot Shikoku. — Call
for Christian Teaching — Going. —

The Way Blocked — Labors at Mitsu.

— Meetings at Matsu-Yaraa — Increas-
ing Congregations. — Invited to an-
other place. — Imabari — A Crowd of

Hearers 250

North China Mission.

Occasional Notes .... 255

Foochow Mission.

The First Native Pastor Ordained. —

The Native Letter of Invitation . 255

Ceylon Mission.

Light and Shade — Idolatry — Progress.

— Self-support — Heathen Festival. —

Labors of Catechists 256

European Turkey.

A Bulgarian Evangelical Society. — Its

Second Meeting. — Tours — Poverty.

— Evangelizing Work by Students

and Helpers 259

Austrian Empire.

Mr. Schauf&er’s Case 261

Missions of other Societies.

Southern Presbyterian Board. — Baptist
Missionary Union. — The Moravian

Church and its Missions 263

Miscellany.

The Indians and the War Department.
— Indians of Washington Territoiy.
— To the Owners of the “ Morning

Star.” — Gleanings. — Death . . . 266
Special Donations for the Debt . . 269

Centennial Offerings 269

Donations received in April .... 269

By Rev. J.

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MISSIONARY HERALD.

VoL. LXXIL — AUGUST, 1876. — No. VIII.

• A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION.

By Rev. Joseph K. Gkeene, Constantinople.

For weeks the intelligent Mohammedans of Constantinople have felt that
the Turkish Government was on the brink of ruin, and have been casting
about for relief. Strange to say, the Mohammedan clergy have been among
the leaders in attempts to save the country. Their first step was to secure the
removal of the previous Grand Vizier, Mahmoud Pasha, whom they regarded
as the tool of the Russians and a traitor to his country. The manifestations
which they made about three weeks ago, to bring about the deposition of the
Grand Vizier, produced great excitement and alarm, because the real motive
of the Mohammedan clergy was not understood. The new Grand Vizier, and
the able ministers of state associated with him, appear to have fully resolved to
carry out the measures deemed necessary to save the empire, and on Monday
last, May 29th, the Grand Vizier, and Midhat Pasha, the leading member of
the Grand Council of State, and, indeed, the real leader in all this movement,
formally proposed these measures to his Majesty the Sultan for acceptance.
The Sultan, instead of listening to these high personages, drove them from his‘
presence, and declared, it is said, that he would recall the recently deposed
Grand Vizier, Mahmoud Pasha. We have as yet no official information re-
specting the propositions made to the Sultan, but from the statements of Turk-
ish papers it is understood that it was proposed to establish a substantial form
of constitutional government, with a national assembly composed of representa-
tives elected by the people of all the communities in the empire, with ministers
of state no longer dependent for their official existence on the will of the Sultan
or the caprice of his harem, but responsible to the national assembly, and, finally,
with a fixed and moderate civil list for the sovereign.

It appears to have been anticipated that these proposals w'ould be rejected
by the Sultan, and all steps were fully resolved upon in view of such an event.
Whatever these steps were to have been, the knowledge of them must have
been confined to a very few high personages, and must have been resolved upon
with wonderful dispatch and secrecy ; for if a breath concerning the intended

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treason had got abroad in the city, the authors and participants in it would have
immediately lost their lives. So well laid, however, were their plans, and so
immediate and complete was the cooperation of the Mohammedan clergy, the
army, and the navy, that without a single miscarriage the whole programme of
the ministers was speedily carried out.

As soon as the Grand Vizier and Midhat Pasha left the presence of the Sul-
tan, they repaired to the ministry of war in old Stamboul, and there met not
only the other ministers of state but also the leaders of the Mohammedan clergy
and some Christian officials. It is said that the Greek and Armenian Patri-
archs were invited to send clerical representatives to the Council assembled at
the ministry of war, but both declined, being afraid to have anything to do with
the movement. The first act of the ministers was formally to inquire of the
Sheikh ul Islam, the ecclesiastical head of the Mohammedans, whether in cer-
tain contingencies it is lawful to dethrone the Sovereign of the Osmanlies and
the successor of the Prophet. To this inquiry the Sheikh ul Islam replied,
that in certain contingencies it is lawful thus to do. Having obtained this fetva,
or legal opinion of the highest ecclesiastical authority, that the Sovereign may
be dethroned for cause (a mere form, but deemed essential), the ministers at once
prepared to proclaim as Sultan, Murad Effendi, the eldest son of Abdul Mejid,
the previous Sultan. According to Turkish law and custom the succession
passes to the eldest male member of the imperial family. Murad Effendi was,
therefore, the rightful heir to the throne. The Sultan Abdul Aziz, however,
has been using every means in his power to secure the succession to his own
son, and for seventeen years Murad Effendi has been virtually a prisoner in the
palace. He is now thirty-six years of age, is of fine appearance, good mind,
and a benevolent disposition, and has occupied the period of his retirement with
study.

It was now near midnight of Monday. The ministers, having completed
their preparations, dispatched Redif Pasha, the president of the council of war,
with eight battalions of troops, to surround the palace of the Sultan on the land
side, and Ahmed Pasha, the minister of marine, with a force from the fleet, to
guard the palace on the side of the Bosphorus by a cordon of boats, to prevent
escape, or communication with other parts of the city. When these arrange-
ments had been completed, the minister of war, with two battalions of cavalry,
proceeded to the building occupied by Murad Effendi, which is near the impe-
rial palace, and conducted him to the ministry of war, where the council of
ministers was still sitting.

As the ministry of war is fully two miles distant from the palace, and the
Golden Horn intervenes, several hours had elapsed, and the morning of Tues-
day, May 30th, had begun to dawn. By this time there had assembled at the
ministry of war about six hundred officials and representatives of the Moham-
medan and Christian communities, and in the presence of this assembly Murad
Effendi was enthusiastically proclaimed Sultan, under the title of Murad V.
After all the ministers had sworn allegiance to him and all the assembly had
kissed the hem of his robe, the royal standards, used on the accession of a new
monarch, were hoisted from the towers of Stamboul and Galata, the iron-clad
fleet fired salutes, and telegrams were dispatched to all the Ottoman ambassa-
dors in Europe, and to the governors of the provinces, to inform them of the
event.

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As soon as the new Sultan was proclaimed, an officer was sent to inform
Abdul Aziz of what had transpired, and to request him at once to leave the im-
perial palace of Dolma Baghche, and repair to a place of retreat which had
been prepared for him in one of the buildings of the old Seraglio. He replied
that he had a communication to make to the Grand Vizier, and was allowed to
send his chamberlain and first secretary to convey this communication. It was
to the effect that he was willing to conform to the views of the nation and to
grant all the reforms demanded. The Grand Vizier simply replied that it was
too late, and sent back, as henceforth useless, the seal which he had received
only three weeks before from the monarch. The ex-Sultan was now informed
that he must no longer delay to leave the palace, and that boats were already
in waiting to convey him away. He made no resistance, and with his mother,
wives, children, and slaves, was quickly transported to the building prepared for
him, where he still remains.'

The (news that he had reached the place designed for him was conveyed to
the ministers at about eight o’clock Tuesday morning, and immediately the new
Sultan Murad was borne, amid the hearty acclamations of the multitude, to the
imperial palace. Before quitting the ministry of war, however, he pronounced
an amnesty for all persons condemned for political oflTenses, and announced
that all money and treasure found in the vaults of the palace were placed at
the disposal of the minister of finance. The French paper, the “ Stamboul,”
says that the value of this money and treasure is not less than thirty millions
of pounds. It is generally thought that this statement is extravagant, but it is
universally acknowledged that the amount of money and jewelry locked up by
the ex-Sultan is enormous. Indeed avarice, obstinacy, and sensuality were the
leading traits of Abdul Aziz. He was also not only totally devoid of sympathy
for his toiling and suffering millions of subjects, but utterly unable to compre-
hend the perils and the needs of the hour.

It is impossible to describe the calmness and wisdom which have presided
over this movement. The ruler of forty millions of people, and the commander
of a powerful army and navy, in the vigor of his age and the height of his
power, a man whose will was law, and whom to disobey was death, has been
dethroned without the spilling of a drop of blood ; a government has been radi-
cally modified without the disturbance of order for a moment, and without fright-
ening eitlier woman or child ! Has the like of such an event ever been wit-
nessed in history ? It is, indeed, a grand event, and presents a ray of hope that
there may be in the Turks a possibility of reform. The leaders in this move-
ment have represented not only the army and navy, and all sections of the
Mohammedan people, but also the Christian communities. The spirit of the
comments in all the Turkish papers is of happy omen. The leading Turkish
paper of Constantinople bids Europe learn from this event, that while the Turks
hold their religion in one hand they hold liberty and reform in the other. It is
observable, too, that the Turkish papers, which have always been wont to speak
of Mohammedans as the “Islam Nation,” putting their religious designation first,
at present group with the Mohammedans all the other subjects of the Govern-
ment, and call them all, conjointly, the “ Osmanli Nation.” This is the first
time that the idea of a single and united nationality in Turkey has found pub
lie expression.

1 This was written before the death of the ex-Sultan. — Ed.

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Since the new Sultan was conveyed to the imperial palace the ministers of
state liave been deliberating on the new constitution, which it is announced will
soon be proclaimed. What this constitution will be, and whether, when pro-
claimed, it will satisfy the rebels in Herzegovina, Bosnia, and Bulgaria, and
secure freedom from the threatened intervention of the European Powers, re-
mains to be seen. Thus far, wonderful success has attended the movement, and
great are the hopes and expectations of the people. The hand of God appears
to be in it, and we hope that the issue will be good.

Constantinople, June \, 1876.

FINANCIAL PROSPECTS.

The condition of the Treasury, and the prospects, as compared with last year,
have not changed materially since the statement published in July was prepared;
but it is pleasant to say, that so far as there has been change it has been for the
better. The receipts for June, from legacies as well as donations, were slightly
in advance of those for the same month in 1875, — donations, $3,254.17 more,
legacies $2,084.96 more. The total of receipts up to July 1st (not including
special contributions for the debt) is $27,386.87, less than for the same time last
year, still threatening, therefore, a necessity for continued and even increased
curtailment in missionary operations. On this subject two honored missionaries.
Rev. E. E. Bliss, of Constantinople, and Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, of the North
China mission, address the readers of the Missionary Herald this month, in com-
munications which follow. That from Mr. Bliss, it will be noticed, was written
just after reading the Herald for May, but no change has occurred since that
time that can much detract from the fitness or the force of what is said. Both
these brethren obviously speak from the heart, with a deep sense of the injury
that may be inflicted on the missions and the cause of Christ if “retrenchment”
must continue; an injury which it may surely be hoped their earnest words will
help to avert.

SAD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY.

By E. E. Bliss, D. D., Constantinople.

Sdch, to all laborers in the foreign field, is the statement in the Missionary
Herald for May, that the regular contributions to the A. B. C. F. M. for the
first seven months of the current year, were $7,754 less than those of the cor-
responding months of last year, and that the receipts from legacies were $24,000
less than the average, — making a deficit of more than $31,000. All this fore-
shadows, we fear, fresh and more stringent orders for retrenchment in our work.
The Annual Meeting of the Mission to Western Turkey, held in this city a
year ago, after a careful examination of the actual needs of the various depart-
ments of the work intrusted to the mission, and a thorough scrutiny of the esti-
mates of expenses to be incurred, as presented by the several stations, asked the
Boaid for specific appropriations, indicating in detail the objects for which the
several sums were to be expended. The diminished receipts of the Treasury
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appropriation more than $8,0©0 less than the sum asked. The result of course
has been, that we have been obliged to fall back all along the line of our opera-
tions, to stop work already commenced, and to give up cherished plans for ad-
vance into new and promising fields. And, alas, the prospect now seems to be,
that having begun to fall back we are to be compelled to continue our retreat.
Will the churches in America lay this necessity upon us ? There are, we pre-
sume, in all those churches, Christian men who, from personal experience dur-
ing the war of the Rebellion, know how sadly on the soldier’s ear falls the order
to retreat from positions gained, after perhaps long marching and hard fighting.
So much expense, and fatigue, and danger encountered in vain ! So much ter-
ritory given up only to be with difficulty regained, if the war is to go on to a
successful issue! Let such men tell their fellow Christians how disheartening,
how difficult, how dangerous it is to retreat in the presence of the enemy.

In view of the diminished receipts of the Board, missionaries have been asked
to consent to a diminution of their own salaries. To any such diminution all
will cheerfully submit, so far as possible, though these salaries are based upon
a careful estimate of the actual necessities of life, with but little if any margin.
We do not stand upon the amount of our own rations, but we do hope that the
churches will not fail to furnish us with the means to carry on with vigor the
work to which their Lord and ours has called them and us. We do most ear-
nestly deprecate any further retrenchment. That already enjoined has occa-
sioned us great perplexity.

As we have asked the question. Where shall we retrench ? each department
has seemed to answer, as if with the voice of God’s providence and of his Spirit,
“ Not here.” “ Certainly not here.” Must we go the rounds again, and raise
more peremptorily the question of dismissing candidates for the ministry from
our training-schools; of sending back to their homes the pupils of our high schools
for girls, who have just begun to appreciate the benefits of knowledge and the
blessedness of using that knowledge for the good of others I Shall we cease to
print books which the thousands on thousands of wakeful minds all over the
country (awakened, under God’s blessing, by our own labors) need to guide
them to the knowledge of the truth, and carry them on in that knowledge?
Shall we cease to print tracts that answer such questions as, “ What is it to
believe in Christ?” — tracts needed by every missionary and native Christian
laborer in the land ? Shall we cease to help the.«e feeble churches, struggling,
many of them, so manfully to provide, to the extent of their ability, for the sup-
port of their own institutions ? To give no aid to these churches, or to give less
than we are now doing, would at this juncture be especially disheartening to
them and to us.

The political disturbances rampant’ in the land, and the utter uncertainties of
the future, are almost paralyzing all trades and business enterprises. Great
numbers are out of employment, and the resources of all are very much dimin-
ished. Very few, here, have those reserves which enable more thrifty commu-
nities to tide over times of depression in business. A failure -of ordinary re-
ceipts means utter poverty and want. It is inevitable that many of the churches
will find themselves unable to do what they and we have planned, and confi-
dently hoped -they would do. In this day of their calamity, of depression, and
trial, beyond anything known in America, we pray our friends in that land, that

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they will enable us at least to continue to aid -Ahese missionary churches to
the extent we are now doing ; that they will cheer the hearts of all here, both
missionaries and native brethren, by giving us the means to push on the work
vigorously. God grant that our forebodings may be speedily turned to joy by
the news that the Lord’s people are bringing all the tithes into the storehouse,
and that there is meat in his house, — a full supply for all the needs of his ser-
vice. We shall hail it not only as an omen of relief to us, but of the opening
of the windows of heaven and a pouring out of blessings, here and there, so
abundant that there shall be no room to receive them.

Constantinople, May 29, 1876.

RETRENCHMENT.

By Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, North China.

Retrenchment is my subject, what shall I take for a text? “And the

Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the children of Israel that they go”

backward ? Let me meditate a little on “ what I know.”

I know of two great provinces, just to the west of this, full of men, women,
and children, with half as many people as there are in the United States. I
have seen them — some of them. And in all that country there is not one
Protestant missionary ! But the mention of such a tract of country, and such
a throng of people, looks toward enlargement ; should they have been mentioned
here? We will wait for one or two more generations of men — say thirty or
forty millions — to die ! Sometime we may be able to send a missionary or two
there.

I know of a city (Yiicho), one hundred miles west from Peking, which has “a
name to live ” as a station of our mission. Within two days I have been asked
if we had not better give up our Pisgah station. Did you ever see the time
when you could look at one of your children and say “ I will give you up ? ”
Three years ago Yiicho was my home, the place to which I returned with my
now angel wife to labor. There are still a part of my household goods, and a
beautiful cabinet-organ, the gift of Mason and Hamlin. We could not bear to
take everything away, it seemed so like giving up the station. For years we
have been promised two missionaries for that region, and still we wait, and wait,
meantime visiting the place as we can.

I know of another city (Pautingfu), the capital of this province. I have
spent nearly all the past six months there, living since Christmas alone. Mr.
Porter is now on his way thither. He and I are a kind of forlorn hope, who
are doing what we are able to keep the breath of life in that new and very im-
portant station. At our recent Annual Meeting I worked down the estimates
for that station, with one eye looking toward America. I know of other needs
pressing enough, I think of losses trying enough, — and I think back to prom-
ises unfulfilled.

Sometimes men can learn to retrench. I remember how our army began
with 75,000 soldiers, and how 200,000 were added, and another 200,000, and
meanwhile the country was not growing rich. Did loyal men talk of retrench-
ment ? When a great subject fills the soul we can retrench in something

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else. If New York city should burn to the ground, millions of dollars — gifts
— would flow in to the sufferers in the next fortnight. Where would they come
from ? Where would they not come from ?

We think of our own plans and ask what we can afford, and our plans soon
outrun our income, and we can afford nothing. But let a great calamity near
by make its appeal to us, like the appeal of a child to the heart of its mother,
and suddenly our ability enlarges. We can give royally, and afford it, while
our own plans can shrink a little.

In Massachusetts, how many parents’ hearts, and hands, and time are full ;
hut suppose that, within the next month, fifty thousand mouths should be added
to those homes ; would there be room in those parents’ hearts ? Could they give
any time to the little strangers ? Could they possibly support them ? Who
does not know that they could die for them ? They would work early and late,
watch them, caress them, and often graduate their expenses on a new scale for
them. They would clothe, feed, school, and bless those children, and bless God
for them. They would spend five millions of dollars annually upon them, and
we should never hear that our dear Commonwealth was growing poor. How
often have I thought that if, instead of being a missionary to the heathen, I had
chanced to be the son of some gentleman of good income, in almost any of the
towns of Massachusetts, I might be studying in Harvard or Yale College, and
spending yearly a larger sum than my missionary salary ; all cheerfully given,
not by one church, but by one man in one church.

Would that the missionary work, abroad and at home, could be taken to the
hearts of Christians as if a new child were born into the family. And why not?
The work of missions is the church’s child.

A lady, formerly a scholar of my brother in Montpelier, Vermont, once gave
me this bit of history, which still lingers with me, as fresh as ever. “ One day,”
she said, “I was trying to write a composition, and had finally given up in de-
spair. I told your brother that I had tried and could not write anytliing. He
looked at me with such a pleasant smile, and said, ‘ Just think that you can and
you can.’ I felt encouraged, tried again, and soon finished my composition.
And since then those words, ‘Just think that you can and you can,’ have often
come to me, and helped me over very many difficult places.”

There is some difficulty ; I see it ; though, just now, I see no Red Sea. And
if there were, God could open the path through that. But it is, “Just think
that you can and you can.” We can. We can if we will ; and we will, if our
hearts are stirred deep down by the needs of the heathen.

Three brethren (Holcombe, Smith, and I) will not soon forget how thirty
Chinamen sat by the roadside in Shansi, for forty minutes, and curiously watched
our efforts to extricate our mules and litter from the mire. Had they given us
jive minutes of help, we should have been out of trouble ; but it would have
cost them something, — dirty hands and dirty feet, and some real effort. It
does cost something to help men ; and missions mean sacrifice.

Retrench 1 No, we cannot retrench ; we must not retrench. Retrench !
Would I could speak in clarion tones that would ring through the churches. I
would cry. Advance. I do believe we who are out here among the heathen
are too silent. We work, and pray, and look over the sea for sympathy, and
help, and prayer. And from over the sea help and sympathy come, and prayer

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goes up. Noble souls, whom God has touched with his own fire, bear us up,
and love the heathen. God bless them. Those will give most now who con-
stantly give, and give.

But, meanwhile, personal, family, town, and country needs press around you
at home, and the cry from abroad grows faint and low. Yet, all the while, this
great seething mass of heathenism is surging around us. If it does not seem
very real so far away, it seems very real here. And it is real.

Retrench! Did we talk about retrenchment in the war? Yes, we did, —
of tea, and butter, and sugar. In the army? No. And yet the country felt
straitened sometimes. I heard such words as, “ Victory or death I ” words that,
when meant, stand always for victory. And is not this the church’s battle ?
We send the word to you. Advance. Echo it back to us, dear friends.

On this side we are sick of loss. Think back to the meeting at Buffalo and
remember those promises to China, a land which, in men, is like both of the
American continents re|)eated over and over again. Do you know of our losses
in this mission ? 1 will not write here of my own ; hut loss after loss we have

met. Scarcely two thirds of our number remain, yet there is no reinforcement,
and no promise, for just now word comes that in our theological seminaries there
is not a prospective missionary in all the senior classes ! Think of that 1 Think
of it, young ministers. And now we are called upon to retrench I Yes, and we
have tried to retrench, but it is the wrong key-note for missionary work. It
means loss, if not defeat. Strike a different key, dear brethren. Tell us, now,
to advance. Let us hear the drum-roll and we are ready.

Retrench I Let the sun go back toward the east ! It is too hard work travel-
ing up the steeps of the sky. Let the spring go back toward winter ! It costs
too much to bring the year on toward the harvest time. Let the United States
of America shrink back toward the old dimensions. Send out the cry in your
glad centennial speeches to retrench, to shrink I As your children grow, cut
their clothes smaller.

But why must children grow? If God would only keep them little, and not
make their legs and arms constantly grow away from their clothes I And why
w'ill he make the feet grow, so that the shoes — the half-new shoes — begin to
pinch ? But you need not buy larger shoes for the children. I have a plan for
the feet at least. I, a poor American heathen, am learning much from the old
civilization of China. Bind your children’s feet ; that will keep them down 1

Is my meaning plain ? The missionary work has its infancy, but it also has
its growth and enlargement. Can you help the work in its swaddling period,
and be unwilling it should grow toward youth and manhood ? Shall we always
make it walk in baby shoes ?

I look over toward our great continent, limited only by two oceans, and watch
its grand enterprises, even in these times ; and I think. Are we, after all, so
weak ? In my boyhood days there was one speech that above all others stirred
my blood, and in it were these words : “ They tell us, sir, that we are weak.
.... Sir, we are not weak.” America was weak then, but America conquered.
And now, in this proud centennial year — God forgive us — we shall often
boast of victory. Would I could thunder across the ocean. We are not weak, if
we use the means that God has placed in our power.

Retrenchment ! The w’ord has been burning in me till my brain has grown

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red hot. Centennial, and retrenchment! Going back on the grandest work of
any land, and of all the ages I Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of
the church, hear the Lord’s word, “ Speak unto the children of Israel that they
GO FORWARD.”

RECRUITS FOR THE “OLD GUARD.”

Happy is it for the cause of Christ at home, as well as abroad, that there
are a few in almost every church, whose earnest, self sacrificing devotion to
every good work, whose generous contributions, up to and sometimes beyond
their ability, redeem the Christian name from reproach, and compel respect for
their character and convictions. It is these few that really bear the burden
of our Christian enterprises. Every pastor, and every individual in his parish,
knows beforehand who are to make the principal contributions to any cause
whose claims shall be presented. These few constitute the “ Old Guard,” to be
relied on in every emergency. There are a few men of wealth in the ranks,
and their large gifts supplement the equally generous offerings of the humbler
poor, whose prayers and self-denial for Christ’s sake sanctify the abundance of
the rich. Thanks for all. Thanks for the one dollar taken from the scanty
earnings of daily toil, and given in the faith and with the prayer that it may
bring light to some soul otherwise left in darkness ; thanks for the tens and
the fifties saved by a wise economy in family expenditure, that there may be
no retrenchment on mission fields ; thanks for the hundreds and the thousands
which it is the blessed privilege of some to give in gratitude for the Divine
blessing on their business and their homes, that others may have the like pre-
cious faith and the like precious institutions of the Gospel for themselves and
their children ; and thanks to all who, in this time of need, are giving of their
reserves, of the profits of past years, and even of their capital, that the work
of God be not hindered. Such men and women there are, whose devotion, sac-
rifice, and prayers are our present joy and hope !

What if the entire membership of our churches, what if one half or even a
fourth of this membership, realized their duty and their privilege in this ser-
vice of Christ I One after another of the “ Old Guard ” falls ; men and women
who, it would seem, could not be spared. Let the ranks be filled up, till every
man and woman bearing the Christian name is in line, obedient to the Great
Captain’s orders.

It is no small privilege to live in this nineteenth century, and to have part in
the grander movements of the Sacramental host. The great work of a world’s
evangelization is going forward as never before. Let no professed follower of
Christ fail of an honest share in the hallelujah chorus I

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD.

The Annual Meeting of the A. B. C. F. M. will be held this year at Hart-
ford, Conn., commencing on Tuesday, October 3d, at three o’clock, p. m. A
notice from the Committee of Arrangements will be found on the last page of
the cover of this Herald, to which the attention of those who think of attend-
ing the meeting is invited.

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MISSIONS OF
Japan ifWfssron.

VISIT TO THE ISLAND OF SHIKOKU.

Mr. Atkinson wrote from Kobe April
26th, reporting a visit to the island of
Shikoku, and a very promising move-
ment in that new field. The narrative
must be much abridged for use in the
Herald, but it will bear to be somewhat
extended. He writes : —

“ Shikoku is one of the four large isl-
ands of Japan. It is situated west and
somewhat south of Kobe, and derives its
name from its being divided into four
sections, or territories, — Shi, four, Koku,
country ; four countries. It is an exceed-
ingly mountainous island, yet it has many
fertile plains on the sea-coast. The towns
are largely on the coast, accessible by
sailing-boat, and many of them by steamer
also.”

CALL FOR CHRISTIAN TEACHING — GOING.

“ A call came from two men of Matsu-
Yama, a town of Shikoku, asking if some
one could not go from the Kobe church
and teach them, and a few others, the
Christian religion. The writer of the
letter had in some way become acquainted
with a native Christian here, and the let-
ter was accompanied by a line from an-
other person repeating the request. The
church considered the matter, but the
conclusion was that no one could go. The
call seemed to me truly Macedonian, and
I thought it ought to be heeded. I asked
permission of the government to visit the
island, and go anywhere in it during the
space of two months. A letter was writ-
ten to Matsu-Yama, — distant from Kobe
two hundred miles, — saying that I ex-
pected to go, and a reply of rejoicing
came. Then one of our young men con-
cluded he could go; but I wanted two.
Another, whom I desired, eoncluded he
would go also, and the church, because I
asked for two, voted that the two should
accompany me, and that their expenses
should be paid out of the church treas-
ury.

“ My passport came, but about the same
time a letter came from Matsu-Yama say-

THE BOARD.

ing there were obstacles in the way, and
asking us to delay a little. We waited,
impatiently, for my permitted time of
travel there was each day becoming less.
A month went by, we concluded to start,
and left Kobe on the night of March
24th. We, that is, Tsudzuki, Ono, and
myself, reached our port, I\Iitsu-ga-Hama,
the next evening (Saturday) about ten
o’clock. As the next day was Sabbath
we thought it best to remain in Mitsu un-
til Monday.”

THE WAY BLOCKED — LABORS AT MITSU.

“ On Sunday, about two o’clock, P. M.,
a letter came from Matsu-Yama, from
the elder brother of Kusoda, the man
who sent for us. He stated that Ku-
soda was not at home — had gone away ;
and he himself very evidently had no
desire to have any dealings with us.
Thus having reached the door it seemed
to shut in our very faces. As it was
the Sabbath, two of us decided to stay
where we were, and if possible get a
little congregation for an evening ser-
vice ; but Ono was quite bent on walk-
ing over to Matsu-Yama, distant three
miles. By night we had a line from him.
He had found a young man who was at
home on a vacation from the Tokio school,
and whom he had met in Kobe, — a Chris-
tian, though not yet baptized. He also
learned that there had been a quarrel in
the Kusoda family, and that the family
had been spreading the news far and
wide that the ‘Yaso Kiyo’ was coming.
(Yaso Kiy5 is the term by which the
Roman Catholicism of 350 years ago is
known, and it is feared as the black death,
or some other frightful disease, would be
feared in America. Hence to say that
the Yaso Kiyo teacher was coming, would
awaken an instant disposition to arrest
the evil.) Ono also said, in his letter,
that the Shinto and Buddhist priests had
held a long consultation, to devise effect-
ual means of blocking our way.

“ In view of this letter it was thought
best to wait a little longer in Mitsu.
But the Sabbath was not wasted. A few
were gathered in, both afternoon and even-

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ing, and the way of life was explained to
them. Monday forenoon Tsudzuki and I
entered a book-store ; a crowd gathered ;
we preached Jesus to them, gave away
some of our little books, and announced
a service for the evening. Returning to
the hotel, we found another line from
Ono. He had found another native
Christian in Matsu-Yama, who belonged
to the Episcopal mission in Osaka, and
thought that a preaching-place could be
secured. We decided to go over Tues-
day forenoon.

“ Monday night a little company gath-
ered in our hotel room, and we talked
and discussed till very late. We were on
the eve of dispersing when the sliding-
door was carefully opened and a shaven
head put in an appearance. I looked
at my watch and found it wanted eleven
minutes of twelve, midnight ! It seemed
possible that this might be another Nico-
demus ; but to outward appearance, he
was a Buddhist priest. He straightway
began to examine, investigate, and argue;
wanted to know if we had asked govern-
ment for permission to teach the Jesus
religion, etc., etc. He left at half-past
one A. M.

“ Tuesday morning we were packing
up, when some who had heard the Sab-
bath and Monday talks came for more
instruction. We were preparing for din-
ner when three other men came in from
a distance, and pretty soon two others,
from Matsu-Yama. A few hours later we
learned that one of these two was the
richest Shinto temple-keeper — they are
not called priests, this title being applied
only to the Buddhists — in all that re-
gion ! ”

MEETINGS AT MATSU-YAMA — INCREASING
CONGREGATIONS.

“ These had barely gone when Ono
came in, breathless, and much alarmed at
our non-arrival in Matsu-Yama. He said
there was considerable stir in M. ; that
there was to be a meeting of officials that
afternoon at three, and that they were
expecting me to preach to them. He
said also, that the Governor of the Dis-
trict had received a letter from one of the
departments of Government, saying that
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probably teach the Christian religion, and
asking him to see that there was no dis-
turbance.

“We hastened our departure, and in
due time reached the place appointed for
the service. The room was large and
pleasant; eleven men were gathered, and
the number increased to fifteen. Besides
these there were five or six women. I
spoke, among other things, of the differ-
ence between Protestantism and Roman-
ism, as I knew this was one of the sub-
jects on which they desired information.
In fact this is one of the very first topics
that has to be presented in addressing a
new audience in Japan. Roman Catholi-
cism is so feared and hated that the ex-
planation is a necessity.

“ At the close of the service, which be-
gan and ended with prayer, arrangements
were made for another meeting the next
day at half-past three p. M., and after a
pleasant chat we went our various ways,
my two helpers and myself, full of joy.
The door had been slammed in our faces,
but here was another door opened, in a
most unexpected quarter. There could
be no doubt in this case ; it was the
Lord’s doing, and we reverently and joy-
fully acknowledged it.

“ The next day, March 29th, twenty-
four men were present, while others were
in some side-room, hidden from sight by
sliding-doors. Who they were, or how
many, I do not know. The previous day
they had asked what this religion called
on people to do. They were answered
from the text, ‘ Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy mind, and with all thy strength ; and
thy neighbor as thyself.’ One of my
helpers preached first, and I followed.
At the close of the services more friend-
liness was manifested than on the previ-
ous day. The eyes of many had a changed
appearance, and a certain distrust that
had been apparent was absent now. Many
questions were asked as to the progress of
the work in Kobe, etc.

“ The following day, March 30lA, a ser-
vice was held in the same place, but on
approaching the building our attention
was arrested by a printed notice, in a
very conspicuous place in front of the
building and by the side of a thorough-

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fare, written in Chinese and Japanese,
which read as follows : ‘ A teacher from
America will lecture on the Bible every
day at two o’clock. Any one who will
may come and hear.’ Who put the no-
tice there I do not know. Our congre-
gation numbered at least two hundred 1
The room would contain only about one
hundred, but the verandah and the flower-
garden were full of people. Many were
students, some were officials, some ex-
Samurai, and besides these, men, women,
and children of various grades. Of course
curiosity to see the foreigner, and to hear
him talk Japanese, were powerful attrac-
tions to many of the audience, but we re-
joiced that, even if the motives for com-
ing were low, the truth was heard, the
marvel being, after all, that we were al-
lowed to preach so publicly ; and that
marvel was intensified by the notice I
have mentioned. At the close of the
service we gave away tracts, but it was
at the risk of being trodden under foot.
Everybody wanted one, and the pressure
was immense.

“ For the following day it was arranged
that the services should be in a larger
place, and we were to be informed in the
morning of the location. The place was
mentioned to us, but just before meet-
ing time a messenger came saying that it
would not be convenient for us to have
the building. We were somewhat taken
aback, of course, but as we had hardly
expected the continuance of such pros-
perity as we had had, we said little.
Finding that we must now help ourselves
if we expected to accomplish anything,
we inquired for a place where service
could be held, and Saturday evening had
found one. I engaged it for ten days.
The house would seat, in Japanese fash-
ion, three hundred and fifty persons.

“ We had a notice of the service posted
on the street, and began our ten days’ ef-
fort Sabbath morning, April 2d. About
a hundred gathered, but in the afternoon
the building was full, and, during the
whole ten days, with the exception of one
rainy day, it was packed. The place for
the preachers — one of my helpers and
myself preaching at every service — was
less than three and a half feet long, and
less than three feet wide. The audience

was composed very largely of ex-Samurai,
— men and women and priests came every
day. On the last day there must have
been at least four hundred persons pres-
ent, the owner of the place having invited
friends who occupied the flower garden.
The paper sliding-windows were entirely
removed from one side and end, and this
was equivalent to making the flower-gar-
den a part of the audience-room. The
verandahs, also, were full every day. Our
services on the week days were at three
o’clock in the afternoon, and on each of
the two Sabbaths we had two services,
during the day.

“ Besides these services in Matsu-Yama
we held frequent meetings in Mitsu-ga-
Hama; and at the request of our land-
lord, several sermons were preached in
the hotel, evenings. The attendance on
these was about fifty. We also, at the
request of the head-man of a village near
by, went out there and preached once.
Then of course there were many comers
to our rooms ; in fact so many came, that
our host said he should have to charge us
fifteen cents per day extra, for the ser-
vant whose time was so fully occupied in
showing people up.

“ During all this time there was no
disturbance and no indication of any.
The Governor was friendly, and desir-
ous, I think, of seeing the experiment of
preaching the Protestant form of religion
tried. We were informed that he had
told the various officials of the place to
render us what assistance they could.

“ As soon as I heard of the favorable
attitude of the Governor towards our work
I called on him. He is a man of between
thirty and thirty-five years, and is said to
be one of the very able governors in the
Empire. He received me affably, enter-
tained me kindly, and inquired as to how
the Bible teaching was received in M.,
the number of our audiences, etc. ; but I
found that he was quite well informed
before he asked.”

INVITED TO ANOTHER PLACE.

“ Before our ten days had expired, we
received news that some people in Ima-
bari, distant nearly thirty miles, wished
to hear of the Jesus religion, and that a
place for services was prepared. I con-

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eluded to go there, but as there were
some who wished to learn more particu-
larly o6 the Christian way in M., it was
decided that Ono should remain and teach
them. This he did, and returned to Kobe
two days after Tsudzuki and myself. He
thinks four or five men are certainly
■started in the Christian life. Two of
them had prayed in public before he left.
The native Christian belonging to the
Osaka Episcopal mission, and who ren-
dered us very valuable assistance, is still
detained there on business, and these five,
at the request of Ono, asked him to be-
come their teacher while he remained in
M. After this, the Kobe church will be
asked to send a man down now and then,
the people there bearing as much of the
expense as possible. I think if a mission-
ary and a couple of ladies could work
there for si.x months, a large church would
be the result. We were perfectly aston-
ished at the attentive hearing and kindly
disposition.

“ The people we came most in contact
with were of the Samurai class. These,
men and women, have largely given up
idolatry, and yearn for something true to
rest their faith upon. They seemed to
hear with gladness. We gave away one
thousand tracts in M., and we gave only
to those who visited us and to people who
heard the preaching. We could have
disposed of double the number in the
same way, but had not such a supply
with us. We also sold over a hundred
volumes of portions of the Scriptures and
‘Evidences of Christianity,’ and could
have sold as many more. I was en-
treated to go again, and hope to do so.
Matsu-Yama is a town of between thirty
and thirty-five thousand people, and the
villages within a radius of five miles must
be about fifty.

“ Kuroda, the young man who wrote
to Kobe asking us to come, was impris-
oned in his home by his relatives during
our stay. Tsudzuki and Ono managed
to see him, however ; and before that, he
had sent a long letter and his photograph
to us. We also found that it was owing
to him that we secured the house we did
for our services. He, also, is a Samurai,
and had worked through a friend who had
access to him.”

IMABARI — A CROWD OF HEARERS.

“ On the morning of April 12th Tsud-
zuki and I started for Imabari. We
reached there before dark, and were at
once waited on by the man who had
written for us, — a physician. He first
heard of Christianity from Dr. Adams’s
teacher, who is an Imabari man. Just
prior to our going to Shikoku he had
placed his daughter in our seminary in
Kobe. During the evening other physi-
cians and residents of the place came in
to see us, and to consult about the ser-
vices. They said the place rented would
contain two hundred, but thought it would
be too small. They had heard of the
crowds that had come out to hear the
teaching in M., and thought as many
would come in Imabari. They inquired
about the length of our services. We
thought we would tell them the full ex-
tent, and try their patience to its proba-
ble utmost, and said, ‘ About an hour and
a half.’ ‘ Is that an hour and a half for
each,’ they asked. ‘No,’ we said, ‘it in-
cludes both.’ ‘ But that is altogether too
little,’ they said. ‘ Please take at least
an hour apiece!’ We did not promise,
but we worked well on towards it.

“ The first day the house and flower-
garden were altogether too small for the
congregation. What should be done the
next day, was a query. That evening a
rich man, who had heard the service,
said he would loan his residence for Fri-
day, and it was hoped that for Saturday
and Sunday, one of the public school
buildings could be secured.

“ The condition of our having the use
of the rich man’s house for the one day
was that I should go there an hour before
service time, and also that I should write
something in English for him. At the
appointed time I went, accompanied by
Tsudzuki. I was ushered into the draw-
ing-room, and conducted to an arm-chair.
A feast was provided, which it seemed I
was to eat alone, and before the other
guests. This is a Japanese way. After
the feast and talk we adjourned to the
main portion of the house, where four
rooms were thrown together, and were
filled with people. The congregation
must have been four hundred.

“ The next day, Saturday, we had the

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school building, and the congregation
must have been nearly seven hundred.
The Japanese persist in saying there were
many more, but the appearance of num-
bers is deceptive. The same evening we
held a service for women in the house of
the physician already named. Sabbath
morning our congregation was three hun-
dred and fifty; in the afternoon about as
on the previous day. Sabbath evening
we held another service for women, in
the house of another physician.

“ Our stay in Imabari was very de-
lightful, and the number of hearers far
exceeded our expectation. On every
hand, as in Matsu-Yama, we heard that
the people were well pleased with the
new teaching. Of course the number of
hearers was owing in part to my pres-
ence, as I am the first foreigner who has
been through that region ; and I saw no
one speaking my own tongue from the
time I left home till I returned, just four
weeks.

“ Matsu-Yama is two hundred miles
from Kobe. Imabari is about thirty
miles nearer, but less accessible, as no
steamboats put in there. The inhabi-
tants of the town number between six
and seven thousand.

“ On Sunday evening one of the physi-
cians, a man near sixty years of age, and
said to be the most learned man there,
came to bid us good-by. VVe were to
leave Monday morning. He spoke of the
joy he had had in hearing the Bible way,
and talked as though its teachings had
gone directly to his heart. He did so
wish we could stay longer ! He seemed
almost as Simeon of old. He did not say,
like Simeon, ‘ Lord, now lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace, for mine eyes
have seen thy salvation ; ’ but the im-
pression left on my mind brought that
Scripture into full view.

“ Monday morning we started. Sev-
eral men said they wished to pay for the
conveyance of ourselves and our baggage
to the next town, distant twenty miles,
and I was glad to allow them to do it.
(The Matsu-Yama men had done the
same for us when we left for Imabari.)
We were loth to go, but necessity was
laid on us. During our stay we had
hardly a moment that we could call our

own. We were called on and called on ;
talked with and talked with. Many lit-
tle gifts were also brought, and my im-
pression is that a Christian church could
soon be gathered in imabari also. I told
them that if they would bear half the ex-
penses of the trip, and board the person,
we could send them some one from Kobe
now and then. I had told the Matsu-
Yama people the same. The M. men
would like to have a missionary reside
there ; but as no one could live there un-
less he taught a school, I do not think any
one can go. I hope, however, that we
shall be able to take the island for Christ,
and hold it in his name.

“ I was absent four weeks to a day. I
lived with my helpers all the time, ate
the same food they ate, aside from bread ;
slept as they slept, and sat as they sat,
i. e., on the floor. My table, as theirs,
was about three and a half or four inches
high. I think I absorbed a little language,
I certainly gained considerable insight
into the manners, customs, etc., of the
people.

“ The whole trip was one continued
surprise to us all. One of our shrewd
members here predicted that I should not
even get hotel room in Matsu-Yama, to
say nothing of an audience. But my
passport insured me that, and the Lord
provided for the other. This is the con-
clusion both of the missionaries and of
the native Christians. It was the Lord’.**
doing, and hence marvelous.

“ I feel that the standard of the cross is
erected on the island of Shikoku. May it
ever stand, and may the whole island soon
become our Saviour’s. This is the first
missionary entrance and work there, and
my brethren seem to consider it the most
remarkable work and tour that has as yet
been made in Japan. iUany inferences I
might draw, a few things 1 will say. First,
our native Christians have been stirred up,
and wonderfully eidivened by the report
of the work. Second, the conviction in-
creases that our work is moving on to-
wards us in power. Third, 1 am satisfied
that such tours are necessary. The minds
of the people must be set right about us.
They must learn that we are not Roman
Catholics, and the dreadful people they
think. Fourth, I need some one to help

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me. My health is good, and I rejoice in
the work, but iny body is only one, and it
cannot be in two or three places at once.”

On the 2d of May Mr. Atkinson wrote
a line, just to announce that, on the pre-
vious Sabbath he baptized, in the Kobe
chapel, nineteen adults, and five children.

Mr. Learned reported, April 29th, twen-
ty-four boarding and twenty-three day-
scholars in the school at Kiyoto.

Nort!) Clltna fBissfon.

OCCASIONAL NOTES.

The following “occasional notes,” for-
warded by Mr. Blodget, of Peking, will
be of interest to readers of the Herald : —

'■'■March 1, 1876. I estimate that twen-
ty thousand persons heard the gospel in
the chapel under my care during the year
1875. Of these, two have been baptized;
a third is an applicant for baptism.

“ March 8lh. Five persons were re-
ceived to the church the last Sabbath.
Two of them were members of the Bridg-
man school ; two others were men from
the city, a Chinese and a Manchu ; one
was a child, the son of a church member.

“ Last year the ‘ China Inland Mission’
sent two missionaries to Burmah, to find
their way, if possible, to the Province of
Yunnan, by the route to be opened by
the English in the negotiations conse-
quent on the death of Margary. The
king of Burmah has granted permission
to their missionaries, and also to two
American missionaries of the Baptist
Board, to reside in the frontier town of
Bahmo, close upon the borders of Yun-
nan. Thus the death of the lamented
Margary is made the occasion of the in-
troduction of the gospel into a hitherto
inaccessible region of China. The Amer-
ican Baptists have for many years looked
longingly upon that field, and now at
length begin to see their hopes realized.

“A young Manchu from Tsi-tsi-har
(Ch’i-ch’i-ha-rl), one thousand miles
northeast from Peking, in the region of
the Amour River, has recently been a
constant attendant at the chapel. He
describes this city as located near the
northern boundary of a fertile plain, ex-

tending four hundred miles north and
south, and five hundred miles east and
west, and as being only four miles from
the boundary of the present Russian Em-
pire. There are two mosques in the city,
and there are twelve languages spoken
by persons who frequent the place. The
Russians in that region are of course
members of the Greek Church. This city
is the capital of one of the three prov-
inces of Manchuria. The name of the
province is also called Tsi-tsi-har. Some
description of this region, so little known
to Europeans, may be found in Williams’s
‘Middle Kingdom,’ vol. i., pages 161 to
164. It is worthy of note that Moham-
medanism extends from the northeastern
extremity of Asia to the Gaboon River
in Africa, and from Java to the western
boundaries of the European provinces
of Turkey, while Christianity is still be-
yond it on every side, and quite sur-
rounds and incloses it.

March 28th. In a recent journey in
the country I baptized the mother of the
young man who died at Peking last year,
while attending a station class here. The
surname of the woman is Fan. She is the
first woman to receive baptism in that vi-
cinity.”

jyoocl;oto ifWlssfon.

THE FIRST NATIVE PASTOR ORDAINED.

Writing from Foochow on the 6th of
May, Mr. Woodin reports an event of
much interest, saying : —

“ You will be glad to learn that we have
just ordained the first Chinese pastor of
our mission, the first native pastor in the
missions of the American Board in China.
Rev. Ting, Long K6 (Kaw) was ordained
over the Yungfuh Church, April 23, 1876.
The church, after calling the pastor and
receiving his acceptance of the call, sent
an invitation to all the missionaries of
our mission to come and ordain him. As
the document is of interest, — being the
first of its kind in our missions, I send
you a fac-simile copy, and translation.

“ We had delegates present from three
churches, and with them organized the
first Congregational council, as I suppose,
ever held in China, with the Chinese. It

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met at Yungfuh, the evening before the
ordination. The delegates having been
invited by the church to aid in consider-
ing the matter of the ordination of their
pastor, I briefly explained the idea of a
council, and proposed the election of Mr.
Nga, as scribe, and afterwards that of Dr.
Baldwin as moderator.

“We then proceeded to assign the
parts. The examination was conducted
by all, the ordaining prayer was by Mr.
Walker, right hand of fellowship by Mr.
Blakely, charge to pastor by Mr. Woodin,
charge to people by Dr. Baldwin, bene-
diction by the pastor. The exercises
occupied the whole forenoon, and were
listened to by a most attentive audience.
In the afternoon one person was received
to the church, on profession, and a child
was baptized by the pastor, who, with Mr.
Walker, also conducted the communion
service. The church numbers about
forty members, who heartily love their
pastor, and agree to raise one fourth of
his salary, of ten dollars per month.

“ We trust that God’s blessing will rest
upon both parties in their new relations
to each other. Mr. Hartwell was de-
tained by important 'business, from the
ordination service.

“ We expect to ordain a pastor over
the Ponosang church in about a month.
The church building is mostly ready for
use.”

TUE NATIVE LETTER OF INVITATION.

■The following is a translation of the
letter from the church, calling the coun-
cil : —

“All the members of the Yungfuh
Church respectfully invite peace to
Messrs. Baldwin, Hartwell, Woodin, Os-
good, Walker, and Blakely, the mission-
aries whom the American Board has sent
to Foochow and the neighboring regions,
to preach doctrine.

“ We, having been baptized previously,
were organized into a church during the
years of the reign of Tung Chi, and have
received aid from the mission bishops for
several years. Now, desiring that the
true doctrine may be more clearly set
forth, and more beneficial to our church
and to the neighboring villages, and judg-
ing that we ought to have a Pastor to set

an example for us, on the first days of
the 3d moon we chose and invited the
preacher who is at present stationed at
our humble city, Mr. Ting, Long K6, to
be our Pastor. But as we are not wholly
able to offer the pastor an adequate sup-
port, we still ask the mission to aid us in
carrying out the arrangement. Hoping
thereby to proclaim the Holy religion of
Jesus, and give glorj' to God, we rever-
ently invite all the teachers, — Messrs.
Baldwin, Hartwell, Woodin, Osgood,
Walker, and Blakely, to meet at the
chapel, on the day of the 3d moon, and
ordain a pastor for us, in accordance with
our settled purpose. (April 3d, 1876.)

“ On the 9th day of the 3d moon of the
2d year of Kwang Su, all the members of
the Yungfuh Church unite in this.

“ P. S. — Will the teachers please to
consult together and set the day for com-
ing to Yungfuh for this business, and send
a letter beforehand to let us know, so
that we can conveniently inform all the
members ; so you will do us a favor.

“ We respectfully present this, and ask
all the missionaries to give it their high
consideration.”

(Sieglon ilHtsston.

LIGHT AND SHADE — IDOLATRY— PROGRESS.

Mr. W. W. Howland wrote from
Tillipally, April 1 1 th, noticing gratefully,
first of all, merciful preservation from the
pestilence, the cholera having prevailed
very fatally in a village only three miles
away. He notices also the great relief he
finds in his work through the faithful
services of the native pastor and other
native helpers, and then writes : —

“ But while I speak of the work and
workers in our gardens, I find I am in
danger of neglecting to represent the
waste wilderness around. When travel-
ing once on the continent, on a very
rough road, which, with its mud-holes,
ruts and ridges, made our bullock-cart
not a very comfortable and hardly a safe
place of rest, my little boy, noticing a
telegraph-pole by the side of the road,
exclaimed, ‘ Only think of it, a telegraph-
wire along such a road as this ! ’ The

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moral contrasts here are still greater. It
is very pleasant and encouraging to meet
the Christians in our churches, but all
around the contrast is strange and sad.
In the very next compound to us is a
large tamarind-tree, where the demon
Karte is supposed to dwell. Within a
few days, the night will be made hideous
by drums, rude music, and the firing of
guns ; and as the dawn approaches we
shall hear the noise of sheep and fowls,
as they are being sacrificed to the devil
supposed to reside there. There is scarce-
ly a house, excepting of course the few
houses of the Christians, in this and the
surrounding villages, but will be repre-
sented there ; and when we go out in the
morning we shall recognize our nearest
neighbors in the crowd. Many of them
have read and studied the Bible in our
schools, and could now repeat verses, and
perhaps ,all the Commandments, and the
Lord’s Prayer. Some even have received
the seal of baptism in their childhood,
and there will not be wanting even those
who have once entered into covenant
with God, and commemorated the dying
love of Christ.

“ Some weeks later we shall hear the
throngs of people passing all night long,
in carts and carriages, with bullocks and
horses, and on foot, by thousands, all
flocking to the sacred bathing-place on
the seashore, about three miles from us.
There are fresh water springs on the
shore, below high-water mark, and spe-
cial sacredness is attached to the place
and the mingling of the waters. At sun-
rise the god is taken into the water and
bathed, and those who flock in afterwards
believe in some particular efficacy con-
nected with bathing then and there. I
do not find that there is any sense of sin,
or of being cleansed from sin, but that
they have in mind some worldly benefit,
as being saved from sickness or other
calamity ; but often, perhaps generally,
there is no definite idea save of its be-
ing a good thing thus to bathe after the
idol, and a means of securing the favor of
their gods. As we notice the multitudes
on their return, we see among them, here
and there, a highly educated man, in his
horse carriage, who, notwithstanding all
the light he has received, and all the la-

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bor that has been bestowed upon him,
follows the multitude in their downward
course.

“ When we see these multitudes so mad
upon their idols, and steeped in wicked-
ness, our hearts often sink within us. If
we judged by what we see on the surface
we should conclude that we have scarcely
made an impression upon the masses, or
that the impression made is only one of
contempt for our religion, on account of
the number who have turned back to
heathenism, or who are believed to re-
main outwardly as Christians only for
worldly gain. Yet the work goes on,
slowly to be sure, but there is progress.
It is much of it foundation work, much
of it undermining work, — honeycombing
the foundations of heathenism. We often
grow impatient. We want to see more
rapid progress, and consider anxiously
our way of working, — what may be our
deficiencies, — what may perhaps be hin-
drances to the work of the Spirit; and
we seek for guidance and help. The mis-
sionaries, pastors, and catechists of the
three missions here, have recently had
three successive meetings for prayer and
conference with special reference of our
need of the influences of the Spirit ; and
another meeting is appointed for the com-
ing week. A good state of feeling has
been manifested in these meetings.”

SELF-SUPPORT — HEATHEN FESTIVAL.

Mr. Smith wrote from Manepy, April
12th: —

“ During the past year, this church, of
twenty-eight members, only ten of whom
are resident adult males, raised very
nearly three hundred rupees for the sup-
port of preaching, and other objects
This was an increase of about eighty
rupees over the contributions of the
previous years. The church assumed
the entire support of the catechist, of
their own accord, from about the middle
of 1875. They paid him promptly eight-
een rupees per month, from the first of
September. In the annual meeting of
the church, in December, the church
committee reported the results of the last
year, and suggested plans for the new
year, proposing that the church should
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the amount raised last year, and that
they should add two rupees to the preach-
er’s salary, making it 20 rupees per
month, or 240 for the year ; and, with
the rest of the 400 rupees, meet the calls
of the Native Evangelical Society, the
Bible and Tract societies, church poor,
repairs, etc., etc. The church heartily
agreed to the proposal, and in renewing
their subscriptions nearly every man in-
creased his quota so liberally that the
subscription list alone provides for the
400 rupees required, leaving a margin of
nearly a hundred rupees to be almost cer-
tainly derived from the annual Thanks-
giving, and other incidental but reliable
sources. Besides this, the Christians
here are raising additional funds for seat-
in<T and lighting their church, and wall-
ing in an adjacent verandah as a lecture
and committee room, and pastor’s study.

“ All this is very cheering ; but more
comforting are the evidences which we
have of spiritual life on the part of some
who have been cold and dead. Many
seemed to feel real grief and self-re-
proach that none were brought in from
without during the previous year, and
resolved to try, this year, to work for the
salvation of others. I hope that we may
see decided and blessed results before
the close of the year.

“ These are the lights ; but there are
shadows, too, in the picture of our life
here. A prominent member of this church,
for many years past, has married his only
daughter to a non-Christian son of a strong
heathen family; and his only son, a gradu-
ate of the Government Normal School at
Colombo, and a teacher in the Colombo
(Government) Academy, is said to be
betrothed to an uneducated heathen, with
the consent of his Christian parents. This
case is a very sad one. The father feels
that it is wrong, but cannot bring himself
to resist his heathen relatives, and his
more than half heathen wife.

*' The great festival of fifteen days,
ending with the Tamil new year (April
nth), which is celebrated with excep-
tional pomp at the temple just across the
road from our Manepy church, has just
closed. It was never more numerously
attended, nor more elaborately observed.
For two weeks, night and day were made

[August,

hideous with the din of native music,
native fireworks, and native mobs of
shouting, yelling men ; and hundreds of
pounds have been spent in these vain
and idolatrous spectacles. We could
rarely get any sleep till after midnight —
some nights not till after two o’clock —
during the ‘ festive fortnight ; ’ and on
the last great day of the festival, the
Tamil new year, we could hardly hear
each other speak at our own table, and
the air was filled with dust and smoke
from the hundreds of fires where the
family offerings of the first fruits of the
harvest of rice were boiling. There were
some, doubtless, who came to fulfill their
vows, and to worship what they really
believe to be their gods ; but to the great
majority this is, un<juestionably, little
more than a grand holiday. More than
1500 tracts and handbills were distributed
among the multitudes who came to this
festival, by our catechist and several vol-
unteer assistants, from our church and the
churches at Oodooville and Navaly ; and
as they were not scattered promiscuously,
but given in each case after a few words
of conversation, to those only who re-
ceived them cheerfully and promised to
read them, we hope they may really do
much good.”

LABORS OF CATECHISTS.

Mr. Hastings wrote from Batticotta,
April 15th, mentioning the addition of
three persons to the church there, by pro-
fession, on the first sabbath of the month,
— all from the College — and saying : —

“ During the past two months, several
of the native assistants have been labor-
ing upon the islands connected with this
station, in company, particularly in the
Bible work, under the auspices of the
local Bible Society. They have dis-
tributed a good number of portions of
Scripture, and have been encouraged by
the manner in which they have been re-
ceived. As we have not been able to
supply the more distant islands with resi-
dent catechists, these occasional visits
are the more valued. This year the aim
has been to call at every house in the
villages in which they have labored, and
to leave at least one portion of Scripture
with the inmates.”

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European Turkey.

A letter from Mr. W. T. Howland
(April 13th), mentions the graduating of
a class of eight, and the admission of a
new class of seventeen, at the Oodooville
girls boarding school, a growing congre-
gation, progress in the matter of self-sup-
port, several candidates for admission to
the church there, and the recent admis-
sion of one at Alavetty.

SEuropean ffiurftep.

A BULGARIAN EVANGELICAL SOCIETY.

Mr. Clarke, of Samokove, in a letter
written partly in January last, and partly
April 29th; gives some notice of the “Bul-
garian Evangelical Society,” organized in
July, 1875, which will interest the readers
of the Missionary Herald. The forma-
tion of such a Society, its constitution,
and its early operations, indicate a very
encouraging degree of Christian charac-
ter and enterprise in that small body of
evangelical Christians now connected with
the mission churches. In January Mr.
Clarke gave the following outline of the
constitution : —

“ The object of this Society is to seek
to spread a pure Christian faith and good
morals among men, especially among our
Bulgarian nation. It shall also oppose
everything which tends to undermine
Christian faith and good morals. In or-
der to accomplish these objects it will,
with half its funds, print and scatter re-
ligious and moral books at a fair price,
and with the other half, employ colport-
ers and settled preachers, — the latter,
however, not till the income of the Soci-
ety shall exceed one hundred Turkish
pounds (about $500).

“ Annual members of two classes shall
pay one half, or one fifth of a pound ;
life members of the same classes shall
pay four, or one and a half pounds ; and
life directors twenty pounds, — the latter
having a vote with the Executive Com-
mittee of the Society.

“ No drunkard or immoral person can
be received or remain as a member. All
officers must be members of some evan-
gelical church. No moneys can be bor-
rowed in the name of the Society except

as ordered by the Society or the Exec-
utive Committee, at a regular meeting.
Only such moneys as are on hand (in the
treasury) shall be expended, and these in
accordance with the laws of the Society,
and no officers can use or lend the Socie-
ty’s moneys.

“ The whole Constitution makes a tract
of seven and a half pages. It is the work
of one who has been in America, whose
whole heart is in the work ; and was drawn
up wholly without missionary aid, after a
careful examination of the constitutions
of different benevolent societies. It was
then thoroughly revised and approved by
a committee chosen by those forming the
Society. It seema complete and well
adapted to its work.

“ This Society is an agency which in
many respects cab do evangelical work
here better than foreign missionaries.
Missionaries may become members, and
thus have whatever influence may be de-
sirable. During the first meeting the sums
pledged, to be paid within a year, were
over forty Turkish pounds. Since that
time, besides new memberships, one man
has given a thank-offering of ten pounds.
This first year two tracts, the Constitu-
tion, and some necessary papers, have
been published, and a student from the
theological school employed for the win-
ter vacation of ten weeks. The time for
the second annual meeting is April 20th.

I hope that Christian friends in America
will pray for the success of this new na-
tive enterprise.”

ITS SECOND MEETING.

In April Mr. Clarke noticed the meet-
ing of the Society thus : —

“ The meeting of the Bulgarian Evan-
gelical Society took place here last week,
and was all we could have expected un-
der the circumstances. Notwithstanding
many rumors [connected with the civil
commotions] which almost prevented the
meeting, twenty-seven men were present,
— some with their families, — from eleven
different places. The pastor from Yam-
boul represented twenty-nine members.
1 think their whole membership is now
over ninety. The total amount received
since last July is 6,195^ piasters. They
now have On hand for a bookseller 1,700

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piasters, and propose to employ a man
for the whole year if they can get a good
person.

“ Four missionaries were present and
took part in all the exercises, as mem-
bers. A most cordial feeling was mani-
fested through all the meetings. Each
day, from April 20th to 24th, commenced
with a prayer-meeting at six A. m., where
hearts seemed to blend together. The
whole meeting was a success. But for
the disturbed state of the country a larger
number would have been present. Next
year the gathering is to be in Yamboul.
God has blessed this work.”

TOURS.-; POVERTY.

In the same letter Mr. Clarke reports
a tour of seventeen days, by himself and
a deacon of the Samokove church. The
narrative indicates that, aside from the
disturbed condition of the country, there
is much to encourage in the missionary
work. A few extracts will be given
here : —

“ Three years ago, Kustendil was re-
garded as one of the darkest places
around us, but a loving Christian brother
and his wife have had an influence there,
and now there is freedom for conversa-
tion in the streets and shops, though the
hearts of our brother and sister are sad
that none in that city have become true
followers of Jesus. We spent two days
in seeking access to the people, and were
encouraged by the result.

“ In Palanka, where the Sabbath was
spent, nearly the same experience was re-
peated. Twelve or fifteen years ago our
rooms at khans were, on Sabbath days,
often full of inquirers. Of late years
few come to us, and we are obliged to
seek men wherever they can be found,
in the rum-shops or half-opened stores.
There is a great increase in the knowl-
edge of Bible truth, but in many places
the leaders are more decided than ever
in their opposition.

“ Komanovo and Vranya were open for
work, and there was scarcely any oppo-
sition. On the Sabbath a company of
thoughtful men gathered into a little
store and asked many questions as to the
reasons why missionaries had come here.

Greek tried to stir up opposition, but

[August,

his words had but little influence on the
Bulgarians.

“ The political situation of the country
keeps all classes in expectation. Some
would not subscribe for the ‘ Morning
Star,’ as they believed Servia would in a
few days declare war, and they fail to
receive their papers. In a little village
among the mountains, twenty-five miles
from any large place, the same questions
as to the prospects of the nation were
asked with intense earnestness. Our
government guard, who had been among
those mountain places with tax-collectors,
spoke of the utter inability of the people
to pay their taxes. One village was owing
11,500 piasters, but any one entering their
houses could see that they had absolutely
nothing of money value. A man had just
brought to the khan a chain for hanging
kettles over the fire, the only salable arti-
cle he possessed, and even for this there
was no buyer. Poor crops and heavy
taxes have almost ruined the people in
this vicinity. AVe met one man who had
bought millet-bran for bread, at the rate
of ten cents per hundred-weight. Our
guide said the caimakam was not in fault.
AVord is sent to the A^ali at Ruschuk,
from Constantinople, ‘ AA^e must have
money ; ’ so he passes the order on to
the pashas under him, and they to the
caimakams, etc. As the tenure of office
depends on money, each one fears to fail,
and the weight falls on the people with a
crushing force. AA’hat the end will be we
cannot guess.

“ In this tour I have seemed to get
nearer the common people than ever be-
fore. The people do not seek us, but are
open to warm-hearted effort when we seek
them. In leaving each place we felt that
our time in it had been too short. AA’^ere
it possible I should like to spend months
in this work.”

EVANGELIZING WORK BY STUDENTS AND
UELPERS.

“ 'ITie students of the theological school
have been at work during their ten weeks’
vacation, going chiefly by twos, in six dif-
ferent directions, to jilaces the extremes
of which are about three hundred miles
distant. Their experience has been simi-
lar to our own. In the excited state of

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feeling among the people we had feared
persecution, perhaps personal danger. In
one case only have they met with real op-
position.

“ Part of a letter from a helper — who
was accompanied by a Christian brother,
at his own expense — may interest you:
‘We first visited Sestremo. Before we
were fairly in the khan a company of
men filled our room, and immediately
commenced conversation on spiritual sub-
jects We understand their object

was to overcome us in the discussion, and
then, having proved to the people that
we were going about to deceive them,
to drive us out of the place. But being
Unable to hide the hideousness of their
“ Orthodoxy,” and overcome the truth,
they took to their old rusty weapons of
abuse and reviling, — threatening to beat
us with clubs if we did not leave the
village. Under the circumstances we
thought best to leave the khan, and in
truth found God’s hand was in the driv-
ing us out, that we might go to the home
of a friend in the village where we had
far better opportunities for work than we
could have hoped for in the khan. We
had good talks with our friend, who much
needed counsel.

“ ‘ I can’t tell you how I wondered and
rejoiced to see how gloriously God turned
the efforts of the devil against himself.
Six persons in the home of our friend are
agreed with him to serve God, and ac-
cording to the light they have seem try-
ing to live as Christians. The leaders in
Sestremo are ready to burst with anger,
because they, with all their power, and
wealth, and learning, cannot annihilate
this poor, weak, ignorant man, whom they
regard as they would a fly. AVe have the
greatest assurance that an Almighty arm
is on the side of this Christian. He has
suffered very severe persecution. Among
other things they have taken away his
anvil by force, and now say to him, “ If
you will give your written promise not to
work on holidays we will return it,” and
it is already a long time that they have
not returned it.

“ ‘ Besides Tsarovo we visited three
other villages, L., K., and K. O, how
white a harvest we found in those places I
As soon as we entered Lacechovo, as it

was a holiday, at once we were surrounded
by a crowd of men thirsty for learning the

truth Afterwards I went to the

school, where some of the men followed
us and begged us to continue the conver-
sation. All our short stay there was con-
stant work.’ ”

^ustrfan Hmpfte.

MR. SCHAUFFLER’S CASE.

A LETTER from Mr. Schauffler, announc-
ing the suspension of his Biblical lectures,
and charges against him before the Police
Direction, was published in the Herald
for July. That letter was dated April
8th and 11th. On the 11th of May he
wrote again : —

“ The sunshine which gladdens all na-
ture this morning, after a long time of
cold, wintry weather, is not so bright as
the sunshine in our hearts. A month
and a half has the storm of persecution
lasted, and now we learn that the bitter
attacks and false accusations have failed
of their object, which was nothing less
than my renewed condemnation for viola-
tion of the press and meeting laws, and
my consequent expulsion from the coun-
try. Last year I was fined for holding
meetings in my dwelling (alleged toh.ave
been public), and my wife and I for lend-
ing tracts to children. Could I be found
guilty again of the same offense, it was
thought I could be expelled. In' my last
letter, I gave you an account of my ex-
aminations by the police. My case, and
that of our colporter, were then handed
over to the Attorney General for Mo-
ravia. The trial took place last Satur-
day. The first charge taken up was
that against me, for violation of the meet-
ing law. I was very curious to hear in
what way it was to be proved that I had
violated that law. The police official, who
was present at my last public lecture, had
indeed maintained that I had preached
instead of lecturing, because I had spoken
of the transforming power of the love of
God, and wished that my hearers might
be affected by that love; but I could
fully prove that I had not preached in
any proper sense of the term, and that.

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Austrian Empire.

if I had, the official permission I had re-
ceived would cover it. To my astonish-
ment, the prosecutor announced that my
offense consisted in having renewedly
held public meetings in my dwelling. I
declared that I had held none since, more
than a year ago, I was forbidden to do
so. The judge ruled that, inasmuch as
the complaint now brought against me
was an entirely new one, not even men-
tioned in the pile of documents (relating
to the case) before him, the trial on that
charge must be adjourned, to give the
prosecutor time to ground the charge,
and me time to prepare my defense.

“ The second charge against me was
for violation of the press law, in that I
had furnished our colporter with some
tracts not on his license. One little tract
of this kind bad been found, but as I
could not tell whether I had given it to
him or not, and he thought he had pro-
cured it himself in Prague, and no other
proof of the charge was furnished, I was
acquitted.

“ The colporter admitted that he had
sold books outright, instead of keeping
strictly to the law, which allows only the
gathering of subscriptions, after which,
in due time, the book subscribed for can
be furnished to the subscriber. For tbis
offense he was fined $2.50. The second
charge against him was that he had held
meetings in his dwelling, accessible to all
comers ; but as he was able to convince
the court that his meetings were private,
and that all who attended them were in-
vited by him, he was acquitted on this
charge.

“ It now remained to be seen whether
the prosecuting attorney would appeal
from these decisions of the lower court,
and what he would do with the charge
against me for violating the meeting law.
This morning I learn that no appeal will
be made against the decisions rendered,
and that the prosecuting attorney has
dropped the charge against me of violat-
ing the meeting law. This is, of course,
better even than an acquittal, for it shows
that the government, through its attor-
ney, finds no case against me.

“ That the desperate efforts of my bit-
terest enemies, the Catholic Consistory

and the Lutheran minister, who left no
stone unturned, and no misrepresentation
unmade, whereby they could hope to in-
criminate me and procure my expulsion,
should end in the dropping and complete
ignoring by the government of their
charges, affords great cause of rejoicing.
Of the nature of the attacks made on
me, you can judge from the facts that
the bishop’s consistory declared me a
dangerous person because I belong to the
Independents, a fanatical sect with politi-
cal aims ; and that the Lutheran minister
complained that I had settled down in a
house adjoining the Lutheran parsonage,
apparently in order to deceive the public,
as several persons had called at the par-
sonage and inquired for me ; and that my
standpoint is that of an unscientific and
intolerant pietism !

“ The charge of intolerance from a
Protestant minister who scours the town
for accusations to carry to the police
against me, is as remarkable for its apti-
tude as an ultramontane Bishop’s charge
of fanatical furtherance of political aims.
The latter, however, we expect, and re-
ceive with a smile, while the former
makes us blush for the Protestant name,
as it has become town -talk, and people
who do not know me reason that, if the
Protestant minister is against me, I must
be a suspicious character.

“ When official investigation of the
charges against me began, I had received
permission to hold my tenth lecture (on
the Brazen Serpent). This permission
was suspended until the result of the
investigation should be reached. Now,
having been completely vindicated, I
shall at once claim my right to deliver
that lecture.

“ Whether those who have so strenu-
ously sought to prevent me from explain-
ing and commending the Word of God
in this city will renew their attacks, I
know not. I think they will. But the
cause is not ours; the responsibility is not
ours. Endurance, wisdom, and strength
for the conflict will be given us as we
need it, and the ultimate triumph of the
truth is certain. I feel as though the Lord
were saying to us, as to the children of
Israel under Jehoshaphat, — ‘ Ye shall

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Missions of other Societies.

not need to fight in this battle. Set
yourselves, stand ye still, and see the
salvation of the Lord.’ ”

On the 20th of May, Mr. Schauffler
wrote that he was not permitted to re-

sume his lectures, was informed that he
would not be suffered to engage in any
religious work in Moravia or Silesia, and
that, indeed, it would be useless for him
to undertake such work anywhere in
Austria.

MISSIONS OF OTHER SOCIETIES.

SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN BOARD.

The Fifteenth Annual Report of this
Board (1876) gives the receipts for the
year as $61,273.27. Of this amount
$7,817.85 were from ladies’ associations,
and $6,605.51 from Sabbath -schools.
“ The expenditures, in despite the most
rigid economy that could be practiced
consistently with the preservation of the
missions, has amounted to $56,498.76.
This leaves the debt reduced to $9,848.-
67. The number of churches that have
contributed during the year is 1121, being
an increase over those of last year of 224.
This shows also that nearly two thirds
of the whole of the churches have con-
tributed during the year, and the aggre-
gate of their contributions is an increase
of very nearly fifty per cent, on those of
last year. The number of Ladies’ Mis-
sionary Associations which have con
tributed is 108 to 58 of last year, being
an increase of fifty new ones.”

The Report states : “ When the an-
nual estimates of the different missions
were laid before the Committee in Jan-
uary last, it was found that they amounted
in the aggregate to $60,000. A careful
examination of these estimates left the
impression upon the mind of the Com-
mittee that there was scarcely an item on
the long list laid before them, which did
not seem to be very important in itself,
and which would not have been gladly
granted if the state of the funds would
have allowed. No little perplexity was
felt as to what particular items .should be
stricken from the list. The pruning knife,
however, had to be applied, and the
schedule was reduced to $50,000. In
consequence of this retrenchment, schools
had to be reduced, colporters dismissed,
the salaries of missionaries in some cases
reduced, and some of our missionary
brethren will have to live another year in

uncomfortable and unhealthy houses. By
this general arrangement the debt is can-
celled in part, but nothing will be left
either to repair the breaches that have
been made in the work by death and re-
moval, or to send out any of the new
missionaries who have been waiting so
long for the order to ‘ go forward.’

“ In view of the embarrassed condition
of the treasury, the Committee have not
felt themselves authorized to send out
any new missionaries. This is the first
year since the church has fairly entered
upon the foreign missionary work, that
no new missionaries have been sent
abroad. At the same time, the call for
laborers was never more urgent ; nor have
our young people ever manifested a
greater desire to consecrate themselves to
the work. One young minister, who has
heen under appointment for nearly eigh-
teen months, holds in his hands at this
present moment a call from one of our
best churches, waiting to hear what com-
mand the Assembly shall issue in relation
to the matter. Not only have no new
missionaries been sent out during the
year, but in the judgment of the com-
mittee none can be sent for some time to
come, unless the receipts of the treasury
are rapidly and greatly augmented.

“ We have now six principal stations
in the southwestern Indian Territory ;
one in Mexico ; two in the United States
of Colombia ; two in the Empire of Brazil ;
one in Italy ; one in Greece proper and
one among the Greeks in European Tur-
key ; and two in China, with a much
larger number of out-stations in all these
different parts of the world. Connected
with these various stations there are
twelve schools of various grades, embrac-
ing more than 500 pupils in all, many of
whom, it is hoped, will become efficient
laborers in the great harvest field.”

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Missions of other Societies.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.

The last (sixty-second) Report of the
American Baptist Missionary Union
states : “ The total receipts for the fiscal
year, ending March 31, applicable to the
work in hand were $245,997.23. The
total of liabilities for the missionary year,
on the foreign field ending September 30,
1876, are $223,176.68. This leaves a bal-
ance of $22,820.55 applicable to the de-
ficiency of the last year, reducing it to
$30,136.17. This total of receipts is $4,-
026.59 in excess of the total of last year.’’

The receipts appear larger than in any
previous year with the exception of 1874,
when they amounted to $261,530.91. The
statistics of the missions are presented in
the following tables : —

ASIATIC MISSIONS.

MISSION STATIONS.

Missionaries.

Native

Preachers.

1 Churches.

Baptized.

Members, j

Burmah.

Rangoon ....

21

86

90

258

3,859

Maulmain ....

14

24

18

61

1,077

1,021

Tavoy

21

21

62

Rassein

io

112

87

839

7,056

Henthada ....

10

52

47

134

1,885

Shwaygyeen . . .

4

21

15

35

810

Toungoo ....

11

90

120

64

8,560

Prome

3

9

3

12

217

Thongzai ....

2

8

3

17

236

75

433

404

982

19,671

Teloogoos, India.

Nellore .....

4

5

1

16

188

Ongole

4

30

1

181

2,825

Ramapatam . . .

7

16

2

48

764

A 1 loop

1

Secunderabad . .

2

2

i

i

i7

Kurnool ....

1

60

19

53

5

246

8,837

Assam.

Gowahati ....

2

12

1

9

111

Nowgong ....

3

1

10

77

Sibsagor ....

3

4

1

14

95

Gowalpara ....

6

7

8

162

891

Naga Hills ....

2

21

16

23

11

195

670

China.

Ningpo

7

12

3

1

164

Swatow

7

12

49

827

Bangkok (Siam) . .

2

9

5

90j

317

Zoa-hying ....

2

5

7

18

38

8

147

889

Japan.

Yokohama. . . .

3

1

1

7

15

Tokio

3

Totals ....

134

548

436

1,577

25,135

ECROPEAN MISSIONS.

Sweden *

130

234

828

10,495

Germany ^ . . . .

270

108

19,997

France ^

10

9

47

506

Spain

4

3

260

Greece

2

1

2

Tot^l ....

6

410

850

877

81,247

> Carried on entirely by native agencies.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Whole number of missionaries, includ-
ing wives and single women, 140 ; native
preachers, ordained and unordained, 958 ;
number of churches, 786 ; number of bap-
tisms, so far as reported for the year 1875,
2,373; whole number of members con-
nected with the churches, 56,382.

THE MORAVIAN CHURCH AND ITS MISSIONS.

The “ Missionary Record ” of the
Church of Scotland, for March last, con-
tains a letter from Dr. Hutchison, medical
missionary of that church in Chumba,
giving some account of a visit he had
recently made to the mission of the Mora-
vians, or United Brethren, in Thibet.
As introductory to his account of that
mission he makes the following more gen-
eral statements in regard to the Moravian
Church and its work, which many readers
of the Herald will be glad to see: “Be-
fore giving the details of my visit to the
Moravian mission in British Lahoul, I
may say, in reference to the Moravian
Church itself, that it owes its origin to
the preaching of John Huss, the Bohemian
Reformer. In spite of violent persecu-
tion, the United Brethren, as they were
called, spread rapidly in Bohemia and
Moravia. In the course of the seventeenth
century, however, they were nearly extin-
guished in their native home, and only
rose once more into prominence in Saxony
in the beginning of the eighteenth century,
in connection with the name and pious la-
bors of the well-known Count Zinzendorf,
who founded and encouraged a settlement
of them upon his estate, which was named
‘ Herrnhut.’ This settlement gradually
took up its position as a distinct Protes-
tant Church in the midst of the other Re-
formed churches of the Continent, main-
taining, however, also the character of a
select Society. In this sense they were
joined by many members, even office-bear-
ers, in other churches, who, at the same
time, retained their position in their own
church.

“ ‘The Brethren,’ rapidly increasing in
numbers and activity, soon sent forth
missionaries to the heathen, and estab-
lished colonies or settlements as centers
of their evangelizing work, and on the

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plan of the original sect at Herrnhut, not
only in Germany, but also in Great
Britain and North America. From one
of the original homes of the church, its
members ^have been popularly called
‘Moravians,’ though very few amongst
them can now trace their descent to these
early emigrants.

“ The correct name of the church is
‘Unitas Fratrum ’ — Unity of the Breth-
ren — indicating that it embraces Chris-
tians of various shades of opinion on
minor points, and consists of a union of
distinct parts or provinces (Germany,
Great Britain, and North America) joined
in the bonds of a Christian confederation,
under one church constitution, and with
the same orders and ritual.

“The first Moravian congregation in
America was organized in 1 736, and there
are now 34 congregations and 27 mission
stations. The first Moravian congrega-
tion in Great Britain was organized in
London in 1 742, and there are now 38 con-
gregations — one of which is in Ayr — and
about the same number of mission stations.

“ The constitution of the Moravian
church seems to be closely allied to Pres-

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byterianism. There are bishops, but
these have no administrative authority ;
and the continuance of the office seems
designed chiefly for the purpose of keep-
ing up the episcopal succession. The creed
of the Moravian church is very brief, con-
sisting of only six doctrines, which are
deemed most essential to salvation : —

“ ‘ 1. The doctrine of the total deprav-
ity of hunian nature.

“ ‘ 2. The doctrine of the love of God
the Father.

“ ‘ 3. The doctrine of the real Godhead
and the real manhood of Jesus Christ.

“ ‘ 4. The doctrine of the atonement
and satisfaction of Jesus Christ for us.

“‘5. The doctrine of the Holy Ghost
and the operations of his grace.

“ ‘ 6. The doctrine of the fruits of
faith.’

“ The Moravian church began very
early to send forth missionaries to the
heathen — the first being in 1 733 to
Greenland. Since then, missions have
been established in Labrador — for the
North American Indians, — West Indies,
Mosquito Coast, South Africa, Australia,
and Thibet.”

Miscellany. ,

STATISTICS OP THE MISSIONS.

The last report of the London Association in aid of the missions of the United
Brethren presents the following tabular view of the missions : —

MISSION PROVINCES.

Stations.

Missionary Agents.

Natiyo Ministers and
Assistants.

Native Helpers and
OccasU Assistants.

Communicants.

Baptized Adults.

Candidates, New Peo-
ple, etc.

Baptized Children.

i

Total.

Greenland

6

23

90

840

124

168

417

1,549

Labrador .......

6

47

56

450

177

140

439

1,206

North America

4

8

15

168

74

26

153

421

St. Thomas and St. Jan . .

5

9

1

56

1,248

348

75

759

2,430

St. Croix

3

8

1

42

1,241

272

38

697

2,248

Jamaica

14

32

7

253

4,511

2,542

268

5,875

13,196

Antigua

8

12

5

151

2,651

660

2,457

5,768

St. Kitts

4

6

2

87

1,216

645

73

1,215

3,149

Barbadoes

4

4

2

70

1,006

372

26

1,117

2,521

Tobago

2

6

1

68

869

280

109

923

2,181

Mosquito Coast

6

14

4

9

205

224

87

441

957

Surinam

13

67

, .

387

5,413

5,979

5,252

5,827

22,471

South Africa, West . . .

7

38

4

189

1,763

1,193

1,825

3,144

7,925

“ “ East . . .

6

20

2

55

332

139

653

487

1,611

Australia

2

8

2

37

10

54

35

136

Thibet

2

6

10

7

2

7

26

92

3071

29

1,530

21,960

13,046

8,796

23,393

67,795 2

1 During the past year 8 persons have retired or withdrawn, 3 have died, 16 have been appointed.

2 Of the whole number, 2,755 are Eskimos, 1,378 Indians, 9,534 South Africans, 53,964 are of
West African descent, 162 natives of Australia and Thibet.

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[Au^st,

MISCELLANY.

THE INDIANS AND THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The “ Word Carrier,” published by the
Dakota mission, noticing the proposition
to transfer the care of the Indians of this
country from the Department of the Inte-
rior to that of War, says : —

“ Evidently there are large classes of
men who hate Indians, and want by all
means to get rid of them. There are
many who, notwithstanding all the evi-
dence produced, have no faith in the ef-
fort to civilize the Indian races

Supposing the desire is to educate them
up to the status of self-supporting men,
it would seem as if thinking men would
hardly claim that the army is the best
educator. Our own personal experience
has been that the Indian, of all men, must
have the force of example to induce him
to work. It will hardly be claimed that
the officers in our army are in the habit
of working at manual labor, so that they
could thereby be the best teachers of In-
dians in this regard. If 'work is not made
honorable by the white men who are among
them, our North Ameriean Indians will
not degrade themselves by working. This
much our legislators should consider.

“ In the discussions on this subject in
Congress, it has been claimed that the
change proposed would save millions of
dollars to the government. Just there

has been the fallacy But if our

Government does such an unwise thing,
we will endeavor to make the best of it.
As missionaries among the Indians, we
have always found the officers of the
army our best friends. Furthermore, we
have found many of them in large sym-
pathy with our missionary work. In one
instance, within a few years past, the no-
ble Christian wife of a commanding offi-
cer raised over three hundred dollars for
foreign missions.”

INDIANS OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

Rev. Myron Eells, in the “ Word
Carrier,” states some interesting facts in
regard to Indians in Washington Terri-
tory, among whom the American Board

once had a mission. The Colville Agen-
cy, in the northeast part of the Territory,
he says, is now in the hands of the Ro-
man Catholics, and embraces the rem-
nant of the Spokanes (about 680 persons),
as well as other tribes : —

“ Mission work was begun among them
by the American Board in 1838, Rev. E.
Walker and Rev. C. Eells and their wives
being the missionaries, and was carried
on until 1848, when it was broken up on
account of the massacre of Dr. M. Whit-
man, another missionary of the Board,
who was stationed near Walla Walla, in
the southeast part of the Territory. Since
that time the Cayuse tribe, which mur-
dered Dr. Whitman, has been blotted out
of existence.

“ Under the present Indian policy, the
Nez Perces were assigned to the Presby-
terians, while the Spokanes, being in the
Colville District, were assigned to the
Catholics.

“When the mission among the Spo-
kanes was broken up there was not one
of those Indians who, after ten years of
teaching, gave such evidence of conver-
sion that the missionaries were willing to
receive them into the church. But when
they were deprived of religious teaching,
some of them still held on to the princi-
ples which they had been taught. They
observed the Sabbath, asked a blessing
on their food, held religious meetings, and
remained friendly to the white people in
time of Indian wars. In connection with
the Nez Perces they twi9e prevented an
outbreak, and when, in 1861, one of their
old missionary teachers moved back with-
in one hundred and fifty miles of them,
they often went there for more instruc-
tion.

“ When they were placed under the
Catholic agent, they persistently refused
Catholic instruction, but constantly asked
for Protestant teachers. Finally the
Agent recommended that a Protestant
teacher be sent to reside among them,
since their home was about seventy miles
from the Agency, so that there was no
probability of a collision between the two

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kinds of teaching. This was accordingly-
done, and for three or four years they
have had instruction from the Presbyte-
rians. About one hundred and ten of
them have united with the church. With-
out any assistance from the Government
they have erected a commodious school-
house ; and with their own means, also,
they have built a comfortable house for
their minister during the past year.

“ The other station, formerly under the
care of the American Board, among the
Nez Perces, is in Idaho. This Agency
was assigned to the Presbyterians, and
their old missionary. Rev. H. H. Spald-
ing, after many years of separation, re-
turned to labor among them, and before
his death, a year and a half ago, he was
permitted to see four or five hundred of
them become members of the church.
Others have since been added. Thus
the seed sown thirty years ago, and cov-
ered with rubbish so deep that to human
view it would never be seen again, has
in these latter days sprung up, and, with
comparatively little cultivation, brought
forth a hundred fold.”

TO THE OWNERS OF THE “MORNING STAR.”

[The following letter from Mr. Sturges,
written on board the Morning Star, Oc-
tober 21st, 1875, was received in March
last and at once prepared for use, but
until now no place has been found for it
in the Herald. “ The owners ” are not
all children now, but they will all be glad
to see tbe letter. Ed.]

“My VERY DEAR Friends, — I am
now on board your packet, very kindly
cared for by Captain Colcord and lady,
having much enjoyed this my yearly trip
to see my dear children out in the west. If
to take people over the ocean and not
shake all good feeling out of them deserves
praise, then your good little vessel should
be first remembered.

“ We are now in about 6° latitude north,
155° longitude east, between the Mort-
lock, or Young Williams group, and Pon-
ape. It is not quite two years since the
Morning Star took Ponape teachers and
landed them on Mortlock. It was after
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she dropped her anchor in the largest
lagoon of that little cluster. At that time
all was darkness. Not one of the wild
natives had ever heard of the Saviour. We
ofl’ered them teachers, and the simple, in-
teresting people took them, agreeing to
feed, and house, and hear them.

“Just one year ago I came to these
teachers, and found them all living in neat,
substantial houses, teaching large, atten-
tive congregations, in good meeting-
houses, all happy and beloved. Then I
had the joy of a father in seeing his chil-
dren settled and happy ; now I am leav-
ing them with still more and higher joy,
for those dear teachers, who have been
some time calling me ‘ father,’ brought
along three little groups, asking me to
own them and baptize them into the
family of Christ ; and after inquiring long
into their knowledge and feelings, I was
very glad to own them. So these thirty-
eight — shall I call them grandchildren ?
— make me feel quite like a grandfather 1
I am very grateful to you for this
‘ Thanksgiving ’ to my dear children, for
without your vessel these teachers could
not have got here, and I could not have
come to them. Then I have on board the
manuscripts for a Spelling-book, Hymn-
book, Bible Questions, etc., which I hope
will be printed and brought back to them
next year. There are also two bright
little boys on board, going up to be edu-
cated on Ponape, and then to come back,
we hope, to preach Christ to their coun-
trymen.

“ These are only some of the reasons
for being glad that you have sent us the
Morning Star. Soon we hope to go be-
yond, to ‘ Ruk,’ the group of high isl-
ands to the north, where our teachers will
find more large fields. We have now on
Ponape six very smart pupils, from three
widely separated groups, who are getting
ready to go home to teach their friends,
and we are glad to have the Morning
Star ready to go with them.

“ I expect to sail by my dear Ponape
home in a day or two, to go on to Pingelap
and Mokil, to visit and help our teachers
there, and to look after some more of our
grandchildren, whom I have heard of,
but have not yet seen. If you could have

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268

seen and heard the groups of little ones
gathering on the beach, and singing wel-
come to the Star, I am sure you would
all be glad to own stock in a vessel so
useful in bringing teachers to the Mort-
locks.

“November ith. Since my last date I
have exchanged my residence from the
Morning Star to my dear home on land,
so I write now from Ponape, and not the
ocean. You will be glad to know about
your vessel during the latter days of my
residence on board. When I last wrote
we were becalmed, — that is, in the ‘ dol-
drums,’ — of course you know what the
doldrums are ! Most people, big and little,
get sometimes into very hot days, when
they dont feel like doing anything or
going anywhere, when they feel ‘ all out
of sorts ; ’ and this is the way your Morn-
ing Star sometimes feels, and nobody can
coax any go into or out of her. All she
wants to do is to toss up and down, to
shake and roll, as if she wanted to get
rid of her burdens, as an elephant does
when he wants to get the boys off his
back I I am almost ashamed to tell tales
about your very kind Star, she always
treated me so nicely, but it is so seldom
she hears anything but praise, she might
get proud 1

“ About the time I wrote you, she was
playing her pranks. I asked the captain
if she would not be a better and happier
Christian if she gave a shirt and pants to
little Charlie (a Mortlock boy I was tak-
ing up to our school on Ponape, who till
then was just as naked as when he was
born). The captain took the hint; so
his good wife and the missionary cut the
clothes, and the boy’s father made them,
and we had hardly dressed up the pretty
little fellow when the wind came, and we
were hurried on and by Ponape, and soon
brought up at Pingelap.

“ Four years ago the Star took teachers
to that island, but the people would not
have them. A year later she returned
with two natives of the island, who had
strayed into my school and who intro-
duced the Word. The next year the
Star took up Ponapean teachers ; and last
year she went up with a full force ; and
now she finds a little church there of 114

members, worshiping in a lar^e stone
structure, with its Sabbath and day school,
and the teachers loved and fed by the
people 1 When I was there two years ago,
hardly a native had any clothing; now,
not one on all the island is without some
clothing I After spending a day and
night with that most wonderfully changed
and interesting people, the Star brought
us to Mokil, where we have teachers and
a little church, doing nicely.

“ From these two islands we bring eigh-
teen scholars to our school. We hope in
a few years to take these pupils back to
teach their countrymen, and some of
them, and also some of our Ponape
teachers, tostill other i slands.

“ These islands of the circuit now
visited by your Star, are all occupied by
teachers sent out from here. They are
mere children, most of them born since I
came here ; they need to be seen and en-
couraged in their work ; and there is no
way of getting to them but by your vessel,
and dont you think she is doing a good
work. Three trips only to these heathen
islands, and from her third trip, she
comes back with report of five churches,
with an aggregate membership of 154, all
taught and gathered in by native teach-
ers ! Your missionary,

A. A. SXUKGES.

GLEANINGS.

The “Spirit of Missions” states that
education in Japan “is coming more and
more under Christian influences. The
present Government Director of the Im-
perial University at Tokio (Yedo) is
Hatakeyama, a native Christian gentle-
man, who was educated in America, and
who now wields an immense influence in
his own country. Several of the profes-
sors, also, are Christian ministers.

“The Government Female Normal

School in Japan, established to train
teachers for the girls’ schools throughout
the country, has been placed under the
superintendency of a native Christian
gentleman of gi-eat learning, whose wife
and daughter have also quite lately re-
ceived Christian baptism.”

Mr. Hutchinson, of the Presbyterian

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mission, wrote from Mexico, May 13:
“ We are in the midst of the fires. Have
just buried [or held a burial service for]
two brethren from San Lorenzo, who
were murdered last Thursday night.
One, a judge, and the most influential
member of our church in that place, was
killed in his own house at midnight, about
forty men surrounding and entering his
house. He died exhorting the few breth-
ren who were near not to fear to confess
or die for Jesus.”

“ The Basel German Evangelical

Mission in S. W. India reports the past
year as the most fruitful this mission has
yet had. Number of adults baptized,
206 ; increase in number of communi-
cants, 274. The total number under care
of the mission is 5,757, an increase of
473. The European missionaries, male
and female, number 103 ; native pastors,
five. The number of converts has doubled
in fourteen years.

The receipts of the British and For-
eign Bible Society, for its last financial
year, were, in all, about $1,110,000, gold.
The issues amounted to 2,682,185 copies.

DEATH.

At Great Barrington, Mass., June 13th,
at the residence of his son. Rev. Isaac
Bird, one of the earliest missionaries of
the American Board to Syria. Mr. Bird
was born at Salisbury, Conn., June 19,
1793, and was therefore within a few
days of 83 years of age when he died.
Educated at Yale College and Andover,
he went to the East with Mr. Goodell,
sailing from New York December 9, 1822,
and was a much esteemed missionary at
Malta, Beirut, and Smyrna, — for a short
time at Jerusalem, — until 1836, when
the ill-health of Mrs. Bird constrained
him to return to the United States. He
was afterwards Professor in the Theo-
logical Institution at Gilmanton, N. H.,
but removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1845,
and established a school, in which he
taught for many years. He lived, and
died, as a faithful servant of Christ.
Two of his children have followed him
in missionary work in the East ; his eld-
est son. Rev. William Bird, being now in
Syria.

SPECIAL DONATIONS FOR THE DEBT.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Suncook, E. G. OreeD,

5 00

MISSOURI.

Utica, Rev. Israel Carleton and wife,

6 00

CONNECTICUT.
New Haven, a friend,

Stafford Springs, a friend,

NEW YORK.
Port Henry, for the Debt,
Sherburne, Mrs. William Newton,

10 00

1 00 — 11 00

100 '■
25 00 — 26 00

WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

Colville, Rev. Cushing Eells, 25 TO

Received for the “ Debt” in June, $72 00

Previously acknowledged (see July
" Herald ”), 39,197 82

839,269 82

CENTENNIAL

St. Johnsbury , Vt. St. .Tohnsbury Academy,

63 scholars. 838 00

Springfield, Mass. “ Centennial Year,” 950 00

Greenwich, Conn. ‘‘In memory of a departed
mother,” for Fort Berthold, 6 00

New Haven, Conn. A friend, 10 00

OFFERINGS.

, Minn. Mite for Fort Berthold, 1 30

Received for above in June, 81,006 30

Previously ack’d (see July ‘‘ Herald,”) 3,150 57

84,165 87

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN MAY.

MAINE.

Cumberland county.

Falmouth, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 8 00

Gorham, Cong. ch. and so. 5.40; a
friend, 10 ; 15 40

Portland, Plymouth Cong. ch. and
so. m. c. 29.50 ; Sc. Lawrence Cong,
ch. and so. 5. 48 ; State St., a thank-
offering, 50 ; Mrs. Dr. Ellingwood,

20; 104 98

New Gloucester, Cong. ch. and so.,
to const. Samuel R. Fooo, H. M. 110 10
West Falmouth, 2d Cong. ch. and
so. 19 75—258 23

Hancock county.

Castine, Cong. ch. and so. 10 00

Penobscot co. Auz. Soc. E. F. Duren,

Tr.

Hampden, Balance of Collection, 90

Orono, Cong. ch. and so. 17 &' — 18 40

270

Donations.

[August,

Somerset county.

Norridgewock, Gong. ch. and 80. m. c. 27 00

Union Oonf. of Cburohes.

Hiram, a friend, 1 00

York county.

Kennebuuk, Cong. ch. and eo. 62 14

366 77

Legacies. — Greenville, Oliver Eveleth,
by John U. Eveleth, Ex’r, 630 00

NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Cheshire co. Conf. of Ch’s. George
Kingsbury, Tr.

Gilsum, Cong. ch. and so.

Rindge, Cong. ch. and so.

Troy, Cong. ch. and so. 40; Dea. A.
Baker, 10 ;

Grafton county.

Bristol, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. 2
for Dakota Indians), 4.96, ditto
2.91;

Campton, Cong. ch. and so.
Hanover, Cong. ch. and so.
Piymoutb, Cong. ch. and so. m. c.
West Plymouth, Rev. and Mrs. John
Clark,

Hillsboro co. Conf. of Cb’s. George
Swain, Tr.

Francestown, Joseph Kingsbury,
Hollis, Cong. ch. and so.

Merrimac, Cong. ch. and so.

Nashua, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
Merrimac county Aux. Society.
Boscawen, Cong. ch. and so.
Pembroke, Cong. ch. and eo.
Suucook, E. G. Green,

Strafford county.

Sanbornton, Cong. ch. and so. m. c.
Wolfboro, S. Clark,

Sullivan county Aux. Soc. N. W.
Goddard, Tr.

Claremont, Cong. ch. and so., m. c.

for May and June,

Meriden, Cong. ch. and so , to const.

Frank DeF. B.aker H. M.
Newport, Cong. ch. and so.

896 77

34 00
10 26

60 00 — 94 26

7 89
31 00
25 00
12 24

10 00 — 86 13

10 00
6 00
16 00

23 33 — 54 33

23 00
46 18

6 00 — 73 18
12 62

4 00 — 16 52

7 86
28 60

,46 75 — 82 61

407 02

Legacies. — Pelham, Miss Sarah Church, by
Mrs. T. C. Tyler, Ex’x, 325 00

732 02

VERMONT.

Bennington county.

Bennington, 2d Cong. ch. and so.,

Anna C. Park, to const. Sophia E.

Park, H. M. 100 00

Caledonia co. Conf. of Ch’s. T. M.

Howard, Tr.

St. Johnsbury, U. 1 00

Ctiittenden county.

Essex, Cong. ch. and so. 60 00

Jericho Centre, Ladies Cent Society, 20 00
Williston, Cong. ch. and so. (of wh.

m. c. 33),

110 60-180 50

Franklin co. Aux. Soc. C. B. Swift, Tr.

EDOsburgh, Cong. ch. and so.

26 00

Orange county.

North Thetford, Mrs. E. Q. Baxter,

2 00

Orleans county.

Coventry, a friend.

3 70

Derby, Cong. ch. and so.
Glover, Cong. ch. and so.

12 72

15 00

Greensboro, R. Crane,

6 00

North Craftsbury , Mrs. D. W. Loomis,

30 00 — 66 42

Washington county, Aux. Soc. G. W.

Scott, Tr.

Waterbury, Cong. ch. and so. 30 00

Windham co. Aux. Soo. C. F. Thomp-
son, Tr.

Brattleboro, H. 10 00

Windsor co. Aux. Soo. Rev. C. B.

Drake and J. Steele, Tr’s.

Norwich, Cong. ch. and so. 11 12

Plymouth Union, Rev. Thomas Bald-
win, a thauk-offering, 10 00 — 21 12

Legacies. — Springfield, Mrs. Phebe Whit-
comb, by I. Whitcomb, to constitute
Lucy P. Whitcomb, H. M. 100 00

Sutton, Mrs. Lucinda B. Hyde, by S.

M. Lane, 100 00—200 00

636 04

MASSACHUSETTS.

Berkshire county.

Lenox, Mrs. Amanda Washburn, 10 00

Lenox Furnace, Mrs. Emily Wash-
burn, 10 00

Pittsfield, South Cong. cb. and eo. 66 30
Sheflield, Cong. ch. and so. 6 75

Stockbridge, Cong. ch. and eo. 116 05 — 197 10

Bristol county.

West Attleboro, Cong. ch. and eo. 28 60

Brookfield Asso’n. William Hyde, Tr.

Charlton, Mary L. Dodge, 2 00

Gilbertville, Cong. ch. and so. 10 10

Southbridge, Manning Leonard, to
const. Miss Sarah C. Leonard,

H. M. 100 00

West Brookfield, 1st Cong. ch. and
BO. 22 17—134 27

Dukes and Nantucket counties.

West Tisbury, Jona. Allen, 1 00

Essex county.

Andover, West Cong. ch. and so.

71.75; Chapel Cong. ch. and so.,
add'l, 10; a friend, 5; 86 76

Essex county North.

Haverhill, Centre Cong. ch. and so.,

to const. 0. S. WiLUAMS, H. M. 102 50

Merrimac, a friend, 6 00

Newburyport, Mrs. T. C. Tyler, to
const. Rev. Georoe Thompson,

H. M. 60 00—167 60

Essex CO. South Conf. of Ch’s. C. M.

Richardson, Tr.

Beverly, Dane St. ch. and eo. (of wh.

4.83 for m. c.), 300 51

Boxford, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 61 71

Lynnfield, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 6 92

Lynnfield Centre, Evan. Cong. ch.

and so. 7 25

Peabody, Cong. ch. and so., to con-
stitute Mrs. Lucy K. Upton and
Mrs. Harriet A. Coolidqe, H. M.,

396.80, m. c. 65 74 ; 462 64

Salem, South Cong. ch. and so. 700 90
Swampscott, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
extra, 34 02-1,662 86

Franklin co. Aux. Soc. William F.

Root, Tr.

Buckland, Cong. ch. and so. 17 42

Charlemont, Cong. ch. and so. 1 00 18 42

Hampden county, Aux. Soc. Charles
Marsh, Tr.

Springfield, a heave-offering, l,C0O 00

Hampshire county Aux. Society.

Cummington, Village Cong. ch. and
so. m. c. 16 14

Granby, Cong. ch. and so. 176 45

Hadley, Russell Cong. ch. and so. 23 99
Northampton, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

10.07 ; a friend, 15 ; C. H., 400 ; 425 07

South Hadley, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 14 60 — 656 16
Middlesex county.

Burlington, Cong. ch. and eo. 21 47

Cambridgeport, Prospect St. Cong,
ch. and so. m. c. 69.73; Chapel
Cong. ch. and so. 24 ; 83 73

Dracut, Central Cong. ch. and so. 16 00
East Somerville, a friend, 3 00

Malden, Cong. ch. and so. 300;

“Three Friends,” 6; 305 00

Medford, Mystic ch. and so., to con-
stitute Rev. Charles H. Baldwin
and Mrs. Elizabeth McM. Bald-
win, U. M. 154 61

Natick, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 98 26

Newton, a friend, 600 00

Newton Highlands, Cong. ch. and
so., to const.' S. U. Dana, U. M. 125 00
Saxonville, Edwards Cong. ch. and

BO. 49 76

Somerville, Franklin St. Cong. ch.
and so. 6 96

486 04

1876.]

Donations.

271

100

72-1,365 49

6 25
37 99

41 00

25 53—110 77

32 47

Stooebam, Mrs. U.

West SomervUle, Cong. ch. and so.

Middlesex Udiod.

Fitchburg, Calv. Cong. ch. and so.

Lancaster, hlvan. Cong. ch. and so.

Maynard, Union Evan. Cong. ch.
and so.

North Leominster, Cong. ch. and so.

Norfolk county.

Braintree, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 27 00
Brookline, Uarvard Cong. ch. and
so. 160 00

Dedham, A friend,” 6 00

Medway Village, Cong. ch. and sq, 116 50
North Weymouth, Pilgrim Cong. ch.

and so. 67 50

Quincy, B. C. II. 100 00

Randolph, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 100 00
Wellesley, Wellesley College Miss'y
Society, 14 72

Wreotham, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 11 00 — 591 72
Old Colony Auxiliary.

Lakeville, Cong. ch. and so.

Plymouth county.

Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

Bridgewater, Central Sqr. Cong. ch.
and so.

Middleboro, 1st Gong. ch. and so.

North Middleboro, Cong. ch. and so. 62 85
Scituate, Rev. W. B. Greene,

South Abington, Friends,

Sutlolk county.

Boston, Shawmut ch. 1,800; Old
South eh. 500; 1st ch. (Charles-
town), 187.70; Union ch. 4.41;

“Mrs. , Union ch.,” 60; Cen-

tral ch. 58.66; Highland ch. 16.04;

Vine St. ch. m. c. lo ; a widow,

100; D. M., 25; a stranger, 5; a
friend, 6 ; a friend, 6 ;

Chelsea, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

Worcester co. North,
ilubbardston, Cong. ch. and so.

Petersham, Cong. ch. and so.

Winchendou, North Cong. ch. and
so. (of wh. from Mrs. James Wil-
son, deceased, 10), 136 66 — 169 66

Worcester co. South Conf. of Ch's.

William K. Hill, Tr.

Saundersville, Cong. ch. and so.
m. c.

Sutton, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

Upton, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

15 46

11 00
2 23

200

40 00 — 133 64

2,766 80

90 90-2, 85f 70

28 00
6 00

20 00
43 90
15 63

Westboro, Evau. OoDg. ch. and so. 195 53—274 96

9,373 86

Legacies. — Braintree, Key. Richard S.

Stores, 5ve bank shares (and divi-
dend, 35), 647.50; Mrs. Anne S.

Storrs, by Rev. R. S. Stores, Ex’r,

100; 747 50

IVhately, Elliott C. Allis, by Austin
De Wolf, Ex’r, 600 00-1,247 60

10,621 36

RHODE ISLAND.

Providence, a friend, for Austria, 6 00

W'oonsocket, Rev. B. E. Parsons, 6 00 10 00

CONNECTICUT.

Fairfield county.

Bridgeport, a member of Park St.

Cong. ch. and so. 100 00

Greenwich, 2d Cong. ch. and so., for
Papal Lands, 131 54

Southport, Cong. ch. and so. 475 03-

Hartford county. E. W. Parsons, Tr.

Collinsville, Cong. ch. and so.

Litchfield county. G. C. Woodruff, Tr.
Bantam Falls, Lucy A. Knight, 2 00
Canaan, Fanny S. Cowles, 2 00

Falls Village, Cong. ch. and so. 17 68
New Preston, 1st Cong. ch. and so..

Rev. George Tomlinson, by Rev.

II. Up.sou, 6 00

Roxbury, Cong. ch. and so. 19 26

Salisbury, Mrs. M. M. Blake, 2 00

South Canaan, Cong. ch. and so.,
add’l, _ 12 60

■706 67
30 92

Thomaston, Cong. ch. and so. 13 20

West Winsted, Cong. ch. and so. 51 30
Woodbury, a friend, 1 00 — 126 93

Middlesex co. E. C. Hungerford, Tr.

Deep River, George Spencer, 25 00

Easthampton, Union Cong. ch. and
so. 22 65

Middletown, J. F. Huber, for Mad-
ura, 1 ; 1st Cong. ch. and so. 27 ; 28 00

Old Saybrook, Cong. ch. and so. 18 00 93 66

New Haven county. F. T. Jarman,

Agent.

New Haven, Prof. George E. Day,

26; a friend in 3d ch., for Mah-
ratta Mission Theol. Seminary , 25 ;

Mrs. Rachel B. Tomlinson, 60 ;

East Cong. ch. and so. 25 ; M
Cong. ch. and so. 43.32 ; North
Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 9.20; 1st
Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 14.41; 191 93

Norihford, Cong. ch. and so. 23 03 — 214 96

New London county. C. Butler and
L. A. Hyde, Trs.

Griswold, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 5 00
Ledyard, John T. Leach, 1 00

New London, a member of 2d Cong.

church, 60 00

Norwich, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c.

9.04; 2d Cong. ch. and so. m. c.

31.07 ; Broadway Cong. ch. and so.
m.c. 11.27; 5138

Salem, Rev. Jairus Ordway, 10 00 — 117 38

Tolland county. E. C. Chapman, Tr.

Rockville, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 70 67

Windham county.

Pomfret, Cong. ch. and so. 109 60

1,469 68

Legacies. — Bridgeport, Mrs. Lucinda
C. Bradley, by Ed. U. Bradley,

Adm’r, 600 00

Hartford, Edward H. Perkins, by
John C. Perkins, Ex’r, 6,000 00-5,500 00

6,969 68

NEW YORK.

Albany, a friend, 5 00

Belmont, L. A. Ileekok, 2U 83

Binghamton, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 180 73
Brooklyn, J. Davenport, 100 ; Park
Cong. ch. and so. 10.15 ; 110 15

Buffalo, S. A. French, 10 00

Canandaigua, Friends, for relief from
retrenchment, 11 00

Eldred, Cong. ch. and so. 1 00

Elma, Mrs. E. 8. A. Bancroft, 2 00

Gainesville, Cong. ch. and so. 5 00

Gilbertsville, A. Wood, 16 00

Hamilton, Cong. ch. and so., for Papal

Lands, 10 00

Medina, Mrs. G. Samson, 5 00

Mineville, Cong. ch. and so. 10 60

New York, Elisha Wilson, 10; I. J.,

10; a friend, to const. Rev. James
H. Guilds, H. M., 50; Mrs. 8. M.

Ballantiue. 10 ; 80 00

Pekin, Abigail Peck, 60 OO

Rodman, John Sill, 6 00

Rushville, 1st Cong, ch and so. 4 13

Sherburne, William Newton, to const.

Lois Amelia Newton, II. M. 100 00

Steamburg, Sophia Wellman, 4 00

Syracuse, Plymouth Cong. ch. and so. 26 46 — 656 89

NEW JERSEY.
Bloomfield, Rev. D. B. Coe,
Newark, 1st Cong. ch. and so.
Plainfield, 11. A. Newhall,

South Orange, Presb. church.

25 00
60 00
4 00

60 00—129 00

PENNSYLVANIA.
Mahanoy City, John W. Williams,

6 00

OHIO.

Castalia, Cong. ch. and so. 4 16

Cincinnati, Columbia Cong ch. and so. 35 00
Elyria, M. W. Cogswell, 10 00

Gambler, Cong’l Miss’y Society, 10 00

Greenwich Station, “ Friends of Mis-
sions,” 12 00

272

Donations.

[August, 1876.

Marblehead, Cong. ch. and so. 3 00

Oberlin, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 30.33;

Rev. E. P. Barrows, 25 ; 65 33

Painesville, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 36 76
Sullivan, Cong. ch. and so. 16 00

West Willlamsfield, Cong. ch. and so. 6 00
“ “ Centre, Cong. oh. and

so. 1 00—188 24

Legacies. — Clarksfleld, Spelman Pelton, by
S. P. De Wolf, Ex’r, 750 00

938 24

10 00

INDIANA.
Crawfordsville, Rev. Caleb Mills,

ILLINOIS.

Chicago, Rev. E. W. Clark, 10 ; Mrs.

S. H. Nichols, 6; Plymouth Cong.

ch. and so. 52.69 ; 67 69

Galesburg, Mrs. B. F. M. 6 00

Harvard, Cong. ch. and so. 3 00

Joy Prairie, Cong. ch. aud so. 70 70

Malden, Cong. ch. and so. 36 30

Malta, Cong. ch. and so. 7 56

Monticello, Cong. ch. and so. 71 45

Newark, U. Day, 6 00

Peoria, 1st Cong, ch and so. 100 00

Peru, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 30 10

Pittsfield, “ A friend,” 20 00

Ro.seville, Rev. A. L. Pennoyerand wife, 5 00
Toulon, (Jong. ch. and so. 47 36

Wyoming, Cong. ch. and so. 3 42—472 67

MICHIGAN.

Almont, Cong. ch. and so.

Augusta, Cong. ch. and so.

Bedford, Cong. ch. aud so.

Cheboygan, Rev. J. U. Maile and wife,
per Sec’y Clark,

26 60
2 00
6 60

20 00
6 00

Detroit, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

679 21

Dexter, Maria B. Field,

9 90

Grand Rapids, Rev. E. C. Olney, per
Sec’y Clark,

Hudson, Cong. ch. and so.

2 00

14 86

.Tackson, 1st Cong. ch. and so. (special).

36 00

Kichland, Presb. ch. and so.

5 40-806 37

MISSOURI.

Brookville, Cong. ch. and so.

6 00

Greenwood, Mrs. B. C.

25

La Grange, Mrs. Jno. Scherer,

2 00

Meadville, Cong. ch. and so.

3 00

Memphis, Cong. ch. and so.

100

Stokes Mound, Cong. ch. and so.

5 00

Utica, Rev. I. Carleton and wife (of wh.
2.60 for Papal Lands),

6 00 — 21 25

MINNESOTA.

Cottage Grove, Rev. E. J. Ilart,

6 00

Hawley, Adna Colburn, for Japan,

10 00

Marshall, Cong. ch. and so.

6 74

Minneapolis, Plymouth Cong. ch. and
so.

9 66

Spring yalley, Cong. ch. and so.

57 00 — 87 30

IOWA.

Big Rock, Cong. ch. and so.

4 00

Davenport, German Evan. Cong. ch.
and so.

9 00

Dubuque, Cong. ch. and so.

14 85

Durant, Cong. ch. and so.

10 00

Muscatine, German Cong. ch. and so.,
H. Metzger,

6 50

Sherrill’s Mount, German Cong. ch.
and so.

1 76

, a friend, per Sec’y Clark,

10 00 — 55 10

WISCONSIN.

Bashford and Jenkinsville, Cong. ch.
and so.

860

Beloit, 2d Cong. ch. and so.

60 00

Delavan, Cong. ch. and so.

46 56

Durand, Cong, ch and so. 3 40; Rev.
A. Kidder, 5 ;

8 40

Genesee, Cong. ch. and so.

12 00

Milwaukee, Spring St. Cong. ch. and so.

30 00

Sun Prairie, Cong. ch. and so. m. c.

3 00—158 46

KANSAS.

Millwood, Charles S. Foster,

Valley Falls, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

NEBRASKA.

Strahmburg, Pilgrim Cong. ch. and so.
6 ; “ A friend,” 5 ;

CALIFORNIA

Oakland, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c.
43.80 ; ditto special, 69.13 ; ditto
regular coll, for June, 46.07 ; ditto
special coll, for June, 38.64 ;

16 00

14 76 — 29 76

10 00

187 64

DAKOTA TERRITORY.

Riverside, Cong. ch. and so. 4 00

Yankton, Cong. ch. and so. 23 00 — 27 00

FOREIGN LANDS AND MISSIONARY STATIONS.
England, Liverpool, J. Q. 60 00

London, Miss Ropes (of wh. 30 for
Japan), 60 ; Mrs. Charles, for Miss
West’s work in Smyrna, £6 (827.40) X 87 40 — 137 40
Japan, Kobe, Rev. P. J. Gulick, 6 00

South Africa, Cape Town, F. F. Ruther-
ford, for use of Mrs. Wilder, 66 64

Wellington, Teachers and pupils of
the Huguenot Seminary, for the
Zulu Mission, 76 68 — 142 22

MISSION WORK FOR WOMEN.

From Woman’s Board op Missions.

Mrs. Benjamin E. Bates, Boston, Treasurer.

For outfit and traveling expenses of Mrs.

Williams aud children to Constantinople,

746.66 ; for do. do. of Miss Ellen C. Par-
sons, 361 62 ; for traveling expenses of Miss
Powers, to Manissa, 254.60; for purchases
in England for ‘‘the Home,” 117.04; for
salaries of Mrs. Williams and Miss E. C.

Parsons at “the Home,” to December 31,

1876, 130.13; 1,608 96

From Woman’s Board op Missions por thi
Interior.

Mrs. Francis Bradley, Evanston, Illinois, Treas-
urer (of which 8600 from the Board of the
Pacific, and 66.43 for support of Maritza,
Turkey), 2,609 61

MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE.
Maine. — Biddeford, Pavilion s. s. 95; East
Machias, Cong. s. s. 29.50; Lake s. s. 1.60;

Sandy Point, Cong. s. s. 10.82 ; Waterford,

Cong. s. 8. 9.10; 61 87

New Hampshire. — Gilsum, Cong. s. s. 8 ;

Meredith Cong. s. s. 6 ; Pembroke, Cong,
s. s. 30; Sanbornton, Cong. s. s. 33.68; 77 68

Vermont. — Burlington, 3d Cong. s. s. 30 ;

Pittsfield, Cong. s. s. 3.60; West Town-
shend, Cong. s. s. 9; 42 50

Massachusetts. — Brookline, The Mary and
Phebe Bible Class, for school at Amasia,

Turkey, ‘25; Lakeville, Cong. s. a. 33; 68 00

District op Columbia. — Washington, 1st
Cong. s. s. 35 00

Illinois. — Bradford, Cong. s. s. 12 ; Peru,

Cong. 8. s. 3.08 ; 15 08

Iowa. — Chester, Cong. s. s., for Ilarpoot
Seminary, 30 ; Davenport, German s. s.

2.60; Grand View, German Cong. s. s. 10; 42 50

Wisconsin. — Mount Sterling, Fannie’s Mis-
sionary Fleece, from her pet “ Zulu,” 1 90

Donations received in June,

“ for the Debt, in June,

“ for Centennial, in June,

Legacies received in June,

Total, from Sept. 1st, 1875, to
June 30th, 1870,

819,734 54
72 00
1,005 30

*20,811 84
8,552 50

*29,364 34

$340,937 17

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