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THE

Missionary Herald.

Vol. LXXXIX. — FEBRUARY, 1893. — No. II.

It is pleasant to record that the receipts from donations for the month of
December were over $9,000 in advance of those for the corresponding month of
the previous year, so that the total advance from donations for the first four
months of the fiscal year reaches the sum of $ [3,888.56. This is a hopeful
indication, and we trust that a still larger relative increase may be the report for
the early months of 1893. The record is not so favorable as to receipts from
legacies. These for the month of December were about $4,400 behind those of
the corresponding month a year ago, so that the total decline from legacies for
the four months is over $34,000. We are obliged therefore to report that,
although there was a gain in the receipts for December of over $4,730, there
was a decline for the four months of over $20,000. We must therefore empha-
size the necessity of the regular and special offerings from churches and donors
being on a generous scale.

We repeat a request often presented from the missions, and recently renewed
from India, that churches procuring new ware for communion service will send
to the Rooms of the American Board their old sets, that they may be forwarded
for use in churches that have no such utensils. A half-dozen such sets could be
well used at the present time.

We trust that many friends have read and pondered, and beyond this are
preparing to act in view of, the suggestions made in tfye last number of the
Missionary Herald as to “What the Board can do in 1893” and “A Rare
Opportunity for Investment.” A good friend in Connecticut writes of his hope
that these opportunities for investment will be seized, and sends his own pledge
of $1,000 as an additional contribution. Why might not fifty or a hundred men
follow his example with gifts as large ? And why might not hundreds and thou-
sands of other Christians add something substantial to their gifts of previous
years? Who will respond?

The perversity of types is proverbial, but, of all forms of type, figures are the
most depraved, and the worst of it is that the errors they make are rarely de-
tected in proof-reading. We have to acknowledge two errors of this sor£ one
of them in the tabular view of the missions of the Board given in our last num-
ber as well as in the Annual Report, and perpetuated in the Almanac. The

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[February,

native contributions for benevolent purposes made by the churches in the Eastern
Turkey Mission should have been given as $11,843; this would make the total
native contributions in all our missions $104,089 instead of $92,723.

Another typographical error appears in the Table of British Foreign Mis-
sionary and kindred societies, on page 35 of the Almanac. This table was
prepared for us with great care by Mr. F. W. Broad, a gentleman connected
with the office of the London Missionary Society. In sending this report atten-
tion was called to the extraordinary statement of the Wesleyan Missionary So-
ciety in the column of “ communicants received last year” and that the figures
40,078 were according to the statement received from the society. The sup-
position which the editor of the Almanac entertained was that this somewhat
startling report must be due to the inclusion of some of the extensive missions
of the Wesleyan Society in Fiji and other South Sea Islands which had not here-
tofore been reported. Hence the report received was entered, though with
some misgivings. As if to aggravate the difficulty, a cipher was read as a figure
six, so that the statement appears as 46,078 instead of 40,078, but the summary
of the column is correct on the basis of the figures furnished.

A unique gift to the Treasury of the Board, one that may fairly be called
munificent, has just been received from a Greek Christian in Turkey, whose
name it is perhaps best we should not give. He sends a draft for 300 Turkish
liras ($1,320), one third to be used in whatever ways the Board may see fit, and
two thirds for objects in Turkey which he designates, but in the direct line
of our missionary work. In his letter conveying the gift, this friend says :
“ Feeling that God has placed me under great obligations for blessings bestowed,
I have decided to keep a part of the sums he has given me as a trust to be
administered for his glory, and a part I send you to be used as herein directed.”
We learn concerning this gentleman that this is by no means the first of his gifts.
He became a Christian some years ago, while at Constantinople. He has done
much evanglistic work, entirely at his own expense. He has been the object of
protracted persecution, often held in “ durance vile,” and from the first has
calmly faced the probability of losing all his earthly possessions. Yet he has
never spared his person or his purse in the Lord’s service. One who knew him
well says of him : “ Hexioubtless enjoys giving his money a thousand times more
than others do in keeping it.” May the number of such men be greatly
multiplied !

The work that presses upon some of our missionaries in India can be under-
stood by a statement of Mr. Perkins, of Arrupukottai, who says that there are
Christians in no villages of his station and that for any proper supervision he
ought to spend at least a day in each village. Thus one circuit of these villages
would require about four months. At this rate and with other imperative calls
of duty, not more than two visits could be made in a year. It can be readily
seen that such an amount of supervision for Christians who have but recently
come out from corrupt forms of religion is altogether too little to afford good
ground for expecting rapid progress. More help is needed, but to expect the
missionary to do more would be to demand of him superhuman endurance.

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We are happy to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from Rev. Dr. F. E.
Clark, reporting briefly his progress in Japan during the latter part of November
and early in December. Australian papers previously received gave extended
accounts of the extraordinary reception extended to Dr. and Mrs. Clark by the
Young People’s Unions in all sections of Australia. The Christian Endeavor
movement has taken a remarkable hold upon the churches of that great conti-
nent, and Dr. Clark, as the head of the movement, was received with greatest
enthusiasm and was able to give a new impetus to the work. In Japan, also, he
was received most cordially, and held many successful meetings, in Tokyo and
the towns of Joshu, as well as in Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Okayama. By the
time this number of the Herald reaches our readers Dr. Clark will be about
completing his stay in India, where he was to visit many mission stations. From
India he will go by way of Egypt to Syria and Turkey. The thoughts and sym-
pathies of tens of thousands of young people throughout America follow Dr.
Clark as he goes around the world in the interests of the Christian Endeavor
movement. We anticipate large results from the work that he is doing abroad
and from its reflex influence upon young Christians at home.

The sad lot of women in India should awaken the sympathies and efforts of
all generous souls. Mr. Wright, of Tirumangalam, in the Madura Mission, in a
recent letter speaks of hearing, while in his house, a piteous cry outside. On
asking his teacher what it could be, the munshi answered : “ Oh, that is probably
some man beating his wife.” On going to the gate, Mr. Wright saw lying in the
street a woman with scanty clothing and disheveled hair ; her husband stood by
her with his cudgel, a stick about two feet long of hard wood with a metal ring
on each end. Two brothers of the woman were there also, and she was crying
out, “ I don’t want to go with this man ; he beats me and is cruel to me ! ”
They had been married about three months and the young woman was in her
teens. Her brothers and relatives abused her, refusing her food and shelter,
since according to Hindu customs a woman must submit to any cruelty and
indignity from her husband. And there is no remedy for such woes in
Hinduism ; only the gospel of Christ can bring deliverance from such barbarities.

A new and aggravated case of persecution in Austria has occurred recently.
On November 23, a faithful evangelist, Mr. Wolf, connected with the mission of
the American Board, was sent to prison for permitting guests, who were not
actual members of the Free Reformed Church, to attend private worship in his
house. The government decree of 1880 allows this privilege, but an official
has interpreted the decree otherwise, declaring that it is a criminal offence to
allow any one to be present who is not already a member of the church that
holds the service. There are two students, belonging to other churches, who
are boarding with this imprisoned evangelist, Mr. Wolf, and, according to this
new ruling, if these students are not sent out when he conducts family prayers,
Mr. Wolf is liable to fine or imprisonment. This is intolerance of the worst
kind. We can hardly believe that the Austrian government will sustain the
decision of its official. Public influence in this nineteenth century should be
aroused to resent such an infringement of religious liberty.

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[February,

A few brief letters from Micronesia reached the Missionary Rooms December
20, but they gave no special news. Mr. and Mrs. Rand and Miss Foss were at
Mokil in July, and also Miss Fletcher, the latter not having been well, but the
others in good health. Mr. Rand speaks of manifest improvement among the
people at Mokil. It is reported that the governor of Ponape has said that he would
be glad to have the missionaries come back, since their presence enabled him to
get on better with the natives. Permission to return, however, awaits the action of
the Spanish authorities. Dr. Pease from Kusaie, his letter being dated July 22,
reports himself as being better and stronger than he had ever expected to be
after his sickness of a year ago. The Marshall Islands school had a total of
twenty-nine pupils, and a new schoolhouse had just been built to replace the one
destroyed by the storm. Dr. Pease was anticipating the return of the Morning
Star , in order to take him for a missionary tour through the Marshall group.

The Christian world is under many obligations to the F. H. Revell Company,
Publishers, of New York and Chicago, for issuing such a large number of valu-
able books bearing upon missions and mission lands. We have repeatedly
noticed the series of popular missionary biographies published by this Company,
specially suitable for Sunday-school libraries. Its imprint is also found upon
a large number of new and valuable works like Dr. George Smith’s Life of
Henry Martyn, the Memoirs of Gilmour of Mongolia, John Kenneth McKenzie,
and the Autobiography of Dr. J. G. Paton. We are glad also to notice among
its publications several standard works bearing indirectly upon missionary
themes, like Sir William Muir’s “ Mahomet and Islam,” “The Rise, Decline, and
Fall of the Caliphate,” by the same author, and two volumes on the Non-Chris-
tian Religions and Non-Christian Philosophies. Pastors, Sunday-school officers,
and others who are seeking for missionary books to replenish their libraries
would do well to send to the Revell Company, Union Square, New York City,
for its catalogue.

Some of the recent enterprises for the development of Africa, though a great
advance upon previous conditions, are yet quite rudimentary. For instance, it
is true that a railroad has been built from Benguella to Catumbella, a distance of
thirteen miles, but a letter from one of our missionaries says that the shortest
time made on the road is two hours, and the more frequently five or six hours
are consumed. On one occasion Dr. Clowe left Benguella at four p.m., and
the train did not reach Catumbella till one o’clock the next morning. It is a
regular practice to stop midway on the road and gather brushwood “ to fire up
with.” The business agent of the Board at Catumbella, Mr. Kamerman, often
rides out to meet the train if it is delayed ; and one evening, as he was accom-
panying the train on the road which ran parallel to the track, he asked the
engineer not to whistle, as his horses might be frightened. The engineer replied :
“We can’t whistle ; we have not enough steam.” When Mr. and Mrs. Stover
were at the coast recently and were starting homeward, the engine left the track,
and word was sent back that it was “ laid up with fever.” Altogether the road
is a considerable source of amusement as well as of annoyance, but it still is a
step in advance of traveling by carriers in Western Africa.

1893.]

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It seems to be most difficult for Christian churches and journals to keep
distinctly in mind the precise motive which led to the establishment of the Week
of Prayer. There are numberless excellent objects connected with the observ-
ance of the Week of Prayer, but those who suggested the observance had a
single and definite end in view, very precise though not narrow. It was to “ pray
that God would so pour out His Spirit upon all flesh that all the ends of the
earth might see the salvation of G<3d.” The specific point was the outpouring
and reception by Christians of the Holy Spirit, with this specific end in view,
that the whole earth may receive salvation provided for the race. We think it
would be helpful to the churches at home as well as to the great work of Christ
on earth if, for this one week of the year, this mighty theme connected with the
work of the Holy Spirit could be more strictly adhered to.

Can it be that, so near the close of the nineteenth century, nothing can be
done to put a stop to the shameful persecution perpetrated upon the Stundists
of Russia because of their religious faith ? The English papers are publishing
the details of the barbarous conduct of the authorities and local priests who are
trying to stamp out throughout the empire all dissent from the Greek Church.
The Stundists are an inoffensive and quiet people, who never disturb the peace
or raise mobs ; their only offence is that they will read the Bible and worship
God without the forms of the established church. For this they are driven from
their homes and subjected to most frightful indignities, yet with sublime faith
and stedfastness they hold to their faith and die rather than recant. As the sad
details of persecution come to us we can only read the Second Psalm and pray
God to interpose.

Manifestly in deference to the public opinion of the people in England, the
British government has decided to send a commissioner of its own to Uganda,
with a sufficient native escort, for the purpose of reporting on the actual condi-
tion of affairs and as to the best means of dealing with the country. This means
that the British East Africa Company, according to its recent announcement,
will be allowed to carry out its intention of withdrawing, and the government
will adopt some means of maintaining its own authority in accordance with the
report of its commissioner. It seems unfortunate that Captain Lugard cannot be
appointed to this commissionership, but inasmuch as his conduct of affairs has
been questioned by some European governments, especially the French, it
would hardly do to assign him to the investigation of matters in which he bore
so prominent a part. The British government has designated to this commission-
ership Sir Gerald Portal, who is now at Zanzibar and who is spoken of as
thoroughly competent for the position. There will be associated with him
several British officers of good rank, among others Commander Dundas, who has
just returned from an exploring expedition on the river Juba. Sir Gerald will be
accompanied by a force of 500 trained soldiers from the army of the Sultan of
Zanzibar. This is not a missionary expedition, certainly in form, perhaps not in
spirit. We know little of the personnel of this new expedition, but its work
cannot but have great influence on the development of Africa, and on the success
of missionary efforts at the heart of the continent.

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[February,

An illustration of the character of some of the people reached by the Ameri-
can Board’s mission in Austria is seen in the fact that at a recent service in the
Weinberg church, the pastor being absent, a young lawyer preached very accept-
ably, while the concluding prayer was made by a young judge. The hall was
crowded with interested listeners.

A singular story comes from Bombay that Mr. A. R. Webb, recently United
States consul at Manila, has professed conversion to Mohammedanism and that
he is seeking contributions in India for the purpose of commencing a missionary
campaign in the United States in behalf of Islam. His present plan is to pro-
vide lectures and newspapers advocating Mohammedanism. Why does he not
imitate his prophet and buy some scimeters and raise an army? Mr. Webb is
reported as saying that “ The Western world is waiting to be Islamized.” Our
impression is that it will wait some time longer.

“ They first took out their benevolences before they spent their money for
anything.” This is the explanation given by Mr. Jeffery, in a letter on another
page, of the fact that the poor Christians in Madura give so much for Christian
work. Is not this just the reverse of the prevailing custom among Christians?
Are not benevolences ordinarily left till the last, to be regulated by what remains
after other needs or luxuries are provided for ? What a change it would make
in the offerings for Christian work at home and abroad if a due proportion of
income were first taken for benevolences, and other expenses were regulated by
what remained !

The Woman’s Board of Missions is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary
of its organization while the last pages of this number are making ready for the
press. The occasion is one of great interest and will doubtless be of much
profit. In view of what God has wrought through this beneficent organization,
the wonder is how the foreign missionary work of our churches ever prospered
without it. With rare wisdom did the founders of this Board lay their plans, and
they and their successors have prosecuted the work during a quarter of a cen-
tury with great persistence and devotion. The record of twenty-five years is
one that calls for deepest gratitude. May God bless the Woman’s Board of
Missions !

The death of Rev. Dr. E. E. Bliss, of whom we are glad to give a brief
memorial on another page, from the pen of President Washburn of Robert
College, was not unexpected. For many months he has been in feeble condition
and wholly unable to attend to any work. Yet the loss of such a faithful man,
after fifty years of noble service, is felt very deeply. The funeral service was
held in the Scutari chapel on Thursday, December 22, conducted by President
Washburn and Rev. Messrs. Constantian and Stepanian, while Dr. Greene con-
ducted the service at the grave. The tokens of love received from all classes
of natives were very gratifying. Mr. Dwight well says : “ The influence of Dr.
Bliss’ life will long remain not only among his missionary associates but among
the mass of the people who watched him and felt his power in their consciences.”

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The spirit and intelligence of Turkish officials are seen in the fact that comes
to us recently from Hadjin that the governor of that town, after examining the
baggage of a missionary, seized and held a typewriter, regarding it as a printing-
press. Next to muskets, printing-presses are a terror to the Turks.

The venerable Dr. Elias Riggs, writing from Constantinople November 19,
which was his eighty-second birthday, speaks of his great gratitude that he is
able to continue his work in such good health. The printing of the Bulgarian
Commentary, upon which Dr. Riggs has recently labored, has been much delayed,
partly by the vexatious censorship of the Turkish government. Not much more
than one third of the volume, which is to include the Four Gospels, has as yet
been printed.

Relation between home and foreign missions is suggested by an incident
reported by Mr. Porter, of Prague. A lady, who had been in attendance at the
meetings for some months, was introduced to Mr. Porter as being about to leave
for Milwaukee, Wis. A Bohemian from Milwaukee gave to this lady the address
of the Bohemian pastor in the city to which she was going, and so she started
for her new home with the truth in her heart and the Bible in her trunk. Truly,
as Mr. Porter says, “ helping Bohemia is helping America.”

We hope soon to receive the accounts of the Decennial Missionary Confer-
ence for India, held in Bombay December 13 to January 4. On another page
will be found some reference to the statistical information secured for the Con-
ference. The program for the meetings is very full, covering papers and dis-
cussions on nearly all the great missionary problems that are pressing upon
Christian laborers in India. The reports of the meetings will certainly be of
great interest.

The loss occasioned by the death of Rev. Dr. Constantine at Smyrna seemed
irreparable at the time, but the new Greek pastor at Smyrna, Rev. Xenophon
Moschos, is carrying on the work in a most acceptable manner. Mr. Moschos
was converted to Christ when quite young and before coming under Protestant
influences. His college course was taken at Athens and his theological course
at Edinburgh. It is a special occasion for gratitude that this important post
has been so well filled.

We learn from The Japan Mail that what it terms “another severe blow at
Buddhism ” has been struck by a recent decision of the Tokyo city council.
The decision is that the cemeteries which have hitherto been under the control
of the temple priests shall hereafter be controlled by the city officials. This
change is a radical one, and will deprive the priests of much of their power as
well as their income. They can no longer sell ground for graves or exact fees
for the performance of ceremonies. The Mail reports that the priests are not
disposed to submit tamely to this reform, but are to appeal to the higher courts.
It speaks of this event in connection with the cemeteries as next in importance
to that gravest one for Japan Buddhists which was taken when, at the time of
the Restoration, the government seized all lands attached to the temples.

Church Dedication at Chihuahua , Mexico.

[February*

CHURCH DEDICATION AT CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.

BY REV. JAMES D. EATON.

Three brilliant events on successive Saturday evenings have attracted wide
attention in this city. First came the grand ball at the Casino ; then the
opening of the new German clubhouse ; and finally the “ Inauguration of the
Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity.” The missionaries were not asked to
join in the dancing and feasting, but a large number of the same ladies and
gentlemen were present on all three occasions.

THE NEW CHURCH AT CHIHUAHUA.

Our new church in Chihuahua is located but a few short squares from the
main Plaza, and in plain view of it, while an abrupt rise in “ Independence
Avenue ” gives to the site a very commanding position. Through the efforts
of District Secretary Hitchcock, who visited us two years ago, friends in Chicago
and Ridgeland were interested to pay for the lot, with the understanding that
the building should be the property of the Board. The land forms part of th^
original “campo santo,” and there the citizens of a hundred and more yeayiS
ago were buried. The walls are built of adobe, plastered and tinted a dark-gray
which contrasts finely with the white stone trimmings. The octagonal tower is
twenty feet in diameter, and rises to a height of sixty-five feet. Within it hangs
a Meneely bell, the gift of the Montclair Sunday-schooL The pulpit furniture
and the chancel windows were the gifts of friends. There are no carpets.

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cushions, nor pews. But these are not missed in a Roman Catholic country,
and more benches can be added when necessary.

Freight and the customhouse charges on hardware, glass, and lumber about
doubled the cost of these materials ; but the completed edifice has involved an
outlay of less than $10,000. The chief contributors have been relatives of the
late Mrs. Julius H. Pratt; the American Board, which made a direct grant of
$1,250 ; and the church in Montclair, N. J., which has pledged over $2,000. • A
balance of about $2,000 remains still to be raised. A “ white bronze” tablet
in the lobby, wreathed with growing English ivy, from that planted beside the
New Jersey sanctuary by her own hands, declares that the church was erected
'“in memory of Adeline Barnes Pratt,” who gladly gave her daughter to the work
in Mexico, and for years rendered invaluable aid by her intelligent sympathy,
wise counsels, and faith-filled prayers.

At the dedication of the church, which occurred on November 12, the deco-
rations were simple. Along the edge of the unusually wide pulpit platform and
upon the floor below were arranged cut flowers and potted plants, and against
the high wainscoating, beneath the chancel windows, were draped the English,
German, Mexican, and United States flags. Upon an easel at one side stood
a large crayon portrait of the lady in whose memory the church was built.
When the seven ministers took their seats upon the platform, they looked into
the faces of 700 people, representing all classes in society, of whom probably
not more than 200 were Protestants. The first address was given by Senor Tito
Arriola, a member of the legislature, and one of the best speakers in the city,
who gave a brief survey of the world’s religious history, explained some of the
causes why Christianity had not yet gained the universal sway to which it is
entitled, calling attention to the harmony prevailing on this occasion in contrast
to the warring and bloodshed of the past, and closed by extending a welcome
to Protestant missions in the most cordial terms. He was followed by Senor
Zapata, superintendent of city schools, who, though not so outspoken as the
former, still expressed warm appreciation of what we are trying to do for educa-
tion. Both speakers have a fine presence, were faultlessly attired in evening
dress, and their words were greeted with hearty applause. They had carefully
prepared themselves by writing. There was next presented a brief memorial
sketch of Mrs. Pratt ; and then followed the services specially appropriate to
the occasion, including an excellent sermon on the nature of true worship, by
the Rev. Mr. Howland, of Guadalajara. Large programs, containing the respon-
sive readings and two noble hymns in full, were distributed to all ; and the
entire audience arose at the beginning of the act of dedication, and remained
standing during the chant and prayer that followed. There was also a very
general participation in some parts of the service. The entire program, which
was in Spanish of course, was rendered in less than two hours.

Three weeks have passed since this service, and we are sure that, as a liberal
Mexican remarked, “a long step in advance has been taken by this dedication.”
Senor Arriola’s address was printed in full in one of the daily papers ; many
new hearers are coming to all of our meetings ; the very boys of the street show
respect for the edifice by refraining wholly from acts of vandalism, and Protest-
ant Christianity has taken a position of dignity in the city which it never was

The Situation in India.

[February,

able to occupy during all of these ten years for lack of a suitable place of
worship. The building is not likely to be matched by another such, in northern
Mexico, for many years to come. It will elevate our standing not only in this
capital city, but throughout the State, and wherever we have churches or little
groups of believers. It is a distinctly valuable addition to the forces at work for
the moral and spiritual regeneration of the Mexican people.

THE SITUATION IN INDIA.

The statistics of Protestant missions in India recently made out for the nine
years from 1881 to 1890, to be presented to the Decennial Conference, are less
encouraging than was expected. One of the principal causes assigned is the
marked revival of Hinduism and the zealous efforts of its votaries — many of
them highly educated in government colleges, and a few also who have been
trained in some of the mission colleges. These men furnish fullest proof of the
need of thorough instruction in the gospel, as the leaven of all true culture, and
they show the results of the policy of indifference so long maintained by the
British government in reference to the higher education of the people. National
pride, too, has led to a new interest in the Sacred Books of India, and the moral
ideas scattered through them, as a few grains of wheat in a great mass of worth-
less chaff, are brought forward to show the equality, if not the superiority, of the
Vedas to the Scriptures of the Christian faith.

Another cause has been the neglect of India in favor of new or more attrac-
tive fields. This fact has not escaped the notice of the enemies of the truth,
both Hindu and Mohammedan, and has stimulated them to unwonted energy in
opposition. The methods found useful by the Christian evangelists in making
known the gospel are resorted to ; books and tracts for those who can read are
scattered far and wide ; colporters and trained preachers seek the attention of
the crowds in attendance on heathen festivals. Never since the work of mis-
sions began has such active opposition been developed, while the force of mis-
sionaries in some portions of the older fields has been diminished, sometimes
for want of men and women to sustain or to push forward the work in hand, and
sometimes in the hope of bringing the native churches forward to a true appre-
hension of their responsibilities. This latter experience has not proved a suc-
cess, whatever the motive for attempting it. The native ministry is not suffi-
ciently prepared by education and a wise experience to go alone.

And yet the revelations of this new census afford no real occasion for discour-
agement. If our hopes have not been realized fully as yet, we have perhaps
been too impatient of results. It is much that we can report the whole number
of Protestant native Christians at the end of 1890 as 559,661, being an increase
of 142,289 during nine years, from 1881-90. The number of communicants is
still more favorable, amounting to 182,722 ; a gain of 69,397, or over sixty per
cent, during the nine years. The number of pupils in the mission schools is
279,716, an advance of 92,064. Of the grand total, about 175,000 are boys, and
104,000 girls; while the number of pupils in the Sunday-schools is 135,565 in
1890 as compared with 61,688 in 1881. The growth of forty years, from 1851

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Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, D.D.

to 1891, is indicated in part by the increase of churches and congregations from
267 to 4,863 ; of native Christians, that is, of those who have placed themselves
under religious instruction, from 91,092 to 559,661 ; and of communicants from
14,661 to 182,722.

It is believed that a favorable reaction has begun, and that the next decade
will witness a far greater advance, if we turn to account the lessons of experience
and grapple vigorously with the situation.

REV. EDWIN E. BLISS, D.D.

BY GEORGE WASHBURN, D.D., PRESIDENT OF ROBERT COLLEGE.

Edwin Elisha Bliss was born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1817, and after a
lingering illness of many months he died at Constantinople, December 20, 1892,
just at eventide, while his room was flooded with the golden glow of sunset. He
was one of a family of nine children, of whom two others became missionaries
and died in the work. His sister Emma married his classmate, Rev. Henry J.
Van Lennep, d.d., in 1839, and died within a year at Smyrna. His brother Isaac
went to Turkey in 1847, and died in Egypt in 1889 — being at the time a resident
of Constantinople and Agent of the American Bible Society for the Levant. The
parents were Henry and Abigail (Grout) Bliss, whose home for the greater part
of their lives was at Springfield, Mass.

Edwin E. Bliss fitted for college at the Springfield High School and graduated
at Amherst College in 1837. Among his college mates were Richard S. Storrs,
Henry Ward Beecher, Roswell D. Hitchcock, Daniel W. Poor, and many others
who have since distinguished themselves in various professions. After leaving
college he taught in Amherst Academy, and entered Andover Theological Semi-
nary in' 1 839, graduating with the class of 1842.

He was ordained a missionary of the American Board February 8, 1843,
married February 20 to Miss Isabella Homes Porter, of Portland, Me., and sailed
from Boston, March 1, to work among the Mountain Nestorians, on the frontiers
of Persia ; but like Dr. Goodell he never reached the field to which he had been
appointed. The Turkish government refused him permission to go to Julamerk,
on account of the efforts which they were then making to bring their mountain
tribes under subjection. He got as far on his way as Trebizond and remained
there in the Armenian work until 1851, when he was transferred to Marsovan.
In 1856 he was again transferred to Constantinople, where his most important
lifework was done. He visited the United States in 1848, 1863, 1873, and 1885.

Of his first visit I have the most vivid recollection — for I heard him speak
and saw him at my father’s house. It was the beginning of my own interest in
the missionary work. There was a mingling of devotion, pathos, and humor in
his address and in his conversation which impressed me much, and in all the
years of my intimate acquaintance with him since 1858 I have seen nothing to
modify my first impression that he was a wonderfully good man and as agreeable
as he was good. My acquaintance with him in Constantinople has, however,
impressed me with another characteristic of the man, quite as remarkable as those
that I have mentioned. I have seldom seen a man of such sound judgment,

Rev. Edwin E. Bliss , D.D.

[February,

such rare common-sense, altogether unbiased by passion or prejudice. There
have been great men as well as good men in the Turkish Missions, men whose
opinions have commanded the respect of the world, but they have all recognized
Dr. Bliss as their peer, and in this matter of sound judgment I think he stood
first among them all.

As a missionary, although at Constantinople his work was largely literary, he
always had a keen appreciation of the fact that the great work of evangelization

EDWIN E. BLISS.

in Turkey could only be done by natives of the country, and a corresponding
interest in the native churches and pastors as well as in the people individually.
He never judged them harshly. He never forgot them. He never looked
down upon them or looked upon them as simply his “ helpers.” He felt that
he was here to help them, and in every question of support or of education his
sympathies were always with them.

In this, as in all other respects, especially in the simplicity and piety of his
private life, he was a model missionary, and although not so well known to the

1893.] Life or Death in the Missionary Concert . 57

world as some others, on account of his natural modesty and his devotion to
strictly missionary work, he was for almost half a century one of the most valu-
able men in the missions of the American Board in the East, equally beloved
and honored by his associates and the native churches.

LIFE OR DEATH IN THE MISSIONARY CONCERT.

BY REV. C. H. DANIELS, D.D., DISTRICT SECRETARY, <NEW YORK.

A Missionary Committee, to prepare for the Monthly Concert of Prayer for
Missions, is almost a necessity. Few pastors have the time for the details of
such a work, and, if they have, it may b^ better for others to do it. The benefits,
spiritual and mental, to be derived Py those who serve on this committee are
varied and rich. A pastor is glad to scatter such opportunities of Christian
culture among his people.

In ordinary cases let the church choose this committee annually, after consid-
eration. A person should not be chosen simply because he is a Christian and
wants more work to do. If he is an earnest and broad-minded man, with fair
intelligence upon missionary objects and methods, with familiarity with mission-
ary literature and societies, he is doubtless the right chairman. That earnest
woman, who has had the head and heart training of the Woman’s Auxiliary, and
has risen above the discouragements, may come next on the committee. Then
the young man from the Endeavor Society, or possibly a Student Volunteer, will
harmoniously complete the trio.

The Aim. — It should be nothing less than the broad culture of the Church in
Missionary Intelligence. Twelve opportunities offer each year to bring before
the people the work of Christ’s Kingdom in its length and breadth. Some have
favorite societies ; some believe only in Home Missions ; another looks not
Beyond his own city or hamlet. The duty of the committee is larger — to keep
a steady hand on the lines, and in the course of the months to present the great
phases of Christian Missions, leading the people, now by one turn, now by
another, ever toward a broader, truer missionary spirit. To reach this aim,
praying and planning go hand in hand. Great perplexity will arise in such
a committee over the details for a live missionary meeting. One committee,
after experience, suggests the following : —

Elements of Death, i. The reading of “ articles,” one after another.

2. Several parts taken at great length, to the discomfiture of the program
and committee, and the consternation of the leader.

3. Much recital of naked facts and figures. Clothe the skeleton with life.

4. Formal handling of the program by the pastor, with no appreciation of
its purpose. A lifeless calling of the parts will make the parts lifeless.

Elements of Life. i. Something which is the exact opposite of the last-
named element of death. It is well to pass the program, in neat, clear form,
to the pastor some days before the meeting, that he may make it his own and be
in sympathy with the aim of the committee. A bare announcement of parts, or
a reading from the paper as if for the first time, ill befits the occasion. Better

58 Life or Death in the Missionary Concert. [February,

for the leader of the meeting to conduct as if it were his own, from his own
heart, lighting and warming all through with interjected words, conveying
interest and intelligence. It is in the pastor’s power to create respect for an
otherwise torpid concert.

2. A well-defined thought or special topic around which all the parts gather.

3. Something to appeal to the emotional nature ; that is, touching stories from
missionary life, poetry and music that have a missionary meaning.

4. Those who bear a part should stand and speak distinctly, and, if the case
require it, should go forward before the people.

5. Let the parts be taken briefly, though the heavens fall. Let there be
variety, with more talking from the heart than reading from the book.

6. Let it be kept constantly in mind that it is a concert of Prayer. Make it so.

Hints. — Variety may be secured* by using: blackboard diagrams; “chalk-

talks ” (an artist not required) ; five-minute map exercise ; questions and
answers, conducted by some one of the audience, answers distributed previously ;
especial music ; Bible reading, led by one of the people ; five-minute talks upon
topics assigned ; letters from missionaries ; sketches of lives of missionaries,
especially those recently deceased, like Bliss, Noyes, Bissell, Howland, Bertha
Smith, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Sanders, and others ; imaginary journeys to the
field, and all these blended with many brief and definite prayers.

We add two suggestive Concert Exercises which have been used successfully : —

THE STORY OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM:

Told by the Prophets : Illustrated from the History of Missions.

1. Hymn.

2. Prayer, followed by Introduction and Explanation of the Subject.

3. Interpretation of Prophecies concerning Christ’s Kingdom, with Map showing the
Ancient World known to the Jews. By the Pastor. (10 minutes.)

4. Bible Reading. Certain facts taught us in the Prophets about Christ’s Kingdom; con-
ducted by one of the people.

( a ) Many and Strong Nations, of Many Languages, are to Come to Christ’s
Kingdom, (i) Zech. 8: 22, 23. (2) Is. 2: 2, 3. (3) Ps. 72: 8-1 1.

( [6] ) They Will Come in Multitudes and Flocks. Is. 60 : 4-8.

(These two points illustrated by a very brief recital of facts, showing that nations have thus come or

are about to come.)

vating Power to the Nations by Right. (1) Is. 63: 1-6. (2) Is. 60: 1-3.

(Illustrated by a simple story of the appeal of Jesus to the heathen.)

5. Hymn, or Special Selection of Music.

(d) Characteristics of Christ’s Kingdom.

(1) War and Violence shall cease and Peace shall reign. Is. 2:4; 60:18;.

65 : 25.

(Illustrated by the Islands.)

(2) Liberty to Captives; Comfort to the Broken-hearted. Is. 61 : 1-3.

(Illustrated by India’s Widows.)

(3) Prosperity and Comfort. Is. 65 : 21-23.

(4) Holiness, Purity, Consecration of Wealth, Joy. Is. xxxv; 60: 9.

6. Music, or Hymn.

(5) Prayers for the Increasing Power of Christ’s Kingdom.

7. Pastor in closing asks: “What is our confidence that these things are so?” Answer:
Is. 40: 5-8; 55 : 10, 11.

Benediction.

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Further Messages from the Missions .

THE CHINESE EMPIRE.

1. Hymn.

2. Announcement of Topic, with Scripture Lesson.

3. Brief Prayers.

4. Map Exercise. f

Proportions and Contrasts.

Provinces; Unity from Language.

Location of Missions.

5. Stations and Out-stations and number of Churches and Missionaries.*

6. Talk upon the Elements of Greatness in the Chinese Nation. f
.7. Are the Chinese intellectually strong? f

8. Biography of “ The Chinese Silversmith.” f

9. Outline of Missionary Work in the Chinese Empire.*

10. Especial notice of North China Mission; religious interest and work among the
women.f

11. Brief Prayers for a general revival in China and the safety of our missionaries in riotous
districts.

12. Closing Words by the Pastor upon Chinese Schools in this country; their influence
upon China and upon us.

Hymn and Benediction.

* Three minutes. f Five minutes.

FURTHER MESSAGES FROM THE MISSIONS.

[The following communications were not received in season to insert among the New Year’s Messages from the
Missions given in the January issue.]

From the Foochow Mission.

At no time in the history of the Foochow Mission has there been more cause
for thanksgiving and for a hopeful looking fonvard to the future. At our late
annual meeting a most harmonious spirit prevailed. The reports from all sec-
tions showed increased and excellent opportunities for work, the attitude of the
heathen friendly, and the number of new converts more than for years. One
preacher reported a wonderful deliverance of a few Christians from impending
evil through faith and prayer.

In the city of Foochow and its suburbs the work shows an advance all along
the line. Our churches are filled with interested audiences. Our city pastor
has been most faithful in his efforts to save men, and his methods of work
among opium-smokers have been imitated, to a certain extent, by some of our
friends among the gentry who have opened an opium retreat on a hill near by.
It is to be regretted, however, that they do not yet realize that the Spirit’s power
is an essential element in the rescue from sin. Our Boarding Schools have been
and are in a flourishing condition. We send out four young men next year to
take positions as teachers in our day-schools and from our Theological School
four young men will go forth to begin work as evangelists.

We are still reaping good results from the visit of the government officials last
June in the much more friendly attitude of the literary class toward our work
and in the growth of the idea among them that our presence here in the city is
an advantage. Recently, on the eve of a great festival, the Taotai, all unknown
to us, placed sixty soldiers as a guard over our chapel to prevent disorderly per-
sons from making a disturbance in our evening meeting. There has never been

Further Messages from the Missions.

[February,

an instance in the history of this mission where a high official has thus voluntar-
ily sent soldiers to ensure us immunity from disturbance in the prosecution of
gospel work, and we hail this instance as an emphatic testimony to that favorable
change in the attitude of the higher class toward the “ Christ-doctrine ” which
has been on the increase for the past year.

Three schools have been opened on the plain to the east of us, forming three
centres of religious activity. There are grand opportunities for work in this
direction, and it was with the realization of this fact that these schools have been
opened and maintained by the funds of individual members of the mission.
The work of the Ponasang Hospital is of unusual promise. At present the
daily average of dispensary patients is greater than for years, and during the past
year some of the in-patients who have come for treatment have gone away not
only with bodies cured but with souls saved.

We look forward, therefore, with hope, but it is a hope mingled with fear. We
are like an army which has already invaded the enemy’s territory, but which,
owing to a want of reinforcements, must continually be on the defensive. The
greatest and grandest opportunities are opening before us in every direction
and from every department of work comes the cry, “ More workers ! ” How to
meet the needs of the fast growing work is the anxious question constantly before
us. Do you wonder that we enter upon the new year with fear, and are at times
despondent as we see such grand opportunities slipping by us, perhaps never to
be met with again ? Our daily prayer to God is, “ O Lord, raise up consecrated
laborers, that the coming of thy kingdom here in China may not be so long
delayed ! ” L. P. Peet.

Foochow, November i, 1892.

From the Mission in Austria.

The labors of the Austrian Mission in 1892 were, through the great mercy of
God, crowned with cheering success. For several years the gain in membership
in this difficult field has been about twenty per cent. The year just closing is,
in some respects, the best this mission has ever experienced. Figures are not
always the mark of reliable progress, and yet they should not be lacking, even in
a brief report. It fills our hearts with rejoicing to report a net gain in 1892 of
twenty-five per cent, in membership to our churches, and a similar gain, twenty-
five per cent., in contributions from the people toward carrying forward the work
of evangelization in Bohemia. In the same line of progress may be gratefully
mentioned the growing feeling among our members of personal responsibility for
direct Christian work. It may be safely questioned whether any similar number
of churches in America have so many men and women who are willing and able
to conduct small Bible services among neighbors and friends.

Another fact that cheers us is the growing interest in America for work in such
countries as Spain, Mexico, and Austria. During my recent six weeks in my
native land, I met many who remarked that they now saw as never before the
great need and the encouragement for evangelistic effort in Papal lands. If this
indicates increased pleading at the throne of grace for those bound in supersti-
tion, then we may look for larger blessings upon direct Christian work in the
countries mentioned.

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6 1

Another item promising well for the new year is our better organization and
equipment for the work before us. This of course does not imply that we shall
place any less reliance upon the guidance and blessing of heaven. We fully
believe the Master’s words, “ For without me ye can do nothing.” In Eastern
Bohemia, until recently, we had but one church, with members in several coun-
ties. That one church has now become four, each with its own preacher, and
laboring in and from such important centres as Bystrey, Nachod, Skalitz, and
Koniggratz. The last two places are famous in the annals of 1866. The one
church in Southern Bohemia has been reorganized into two, with work and
responsibility in four cities. In the mining town of Kladuo, where we have a
blessed work among miners, we are to organize in February a church, the tenth
Congregational in Bohemia.

In the new year 1893 the mission will begin evangelistic labors in Husinec,
the birthplace of the great reformer, “Jan Hus.” Those who have helped us
buy the original garden and barn will help us with their prayers, and those who
are willing to send extra gifts to enable us to change the old solid barn into a
chapel and home for preacher may well pray for the work before their gifts
reach us. Who in America will be helpers for Husinec ?

Another great blessing for the future of this mission is its reinforcement in the
person of my beloved associate, Rev. J. S. Porter. Although but one year on
the ground he is able to render most valuable assistance. After ten years’ sole
responsibility for such a difficult work I can appreciate as no one else the good
cheer of a devoted associate. Albert W. Clark.

Prague, December 29, 1892.

ILetters from ttje missions.

fHaratlji fRtsston.

A NEW CHAPEL.

Dr. Ballantine, of Rahuri, reports the
erection of a new chapel at Rahate, the
centre of the northern portion of the Ra-
huri District, “a region of great interest
and ever-increasing promise.” The chapel
was built by a former collector of Ahmed-
nagar as a memorial of a deceased daughter,
but it was in an unhealthy location, and
hence the materials were removed and a
new building erected at Rahate. Dr.
Hazen and Rev. Henry Fairbank were
present with Dr. Ballantine at the dedi-
cation. Dr. Ballantine writes : —

“ Several native pastors and preachers
also were present on the occasion and
added to its interest. The wife of the
pastor in the place gathered in many Hindu
women to witness the dedicatory exercises.
These women she teaches faithfully as she

has opportunity, and in this way she exerts
a powerful influence over them all. She
told them how we Christians worship the
great God in our temple made for him, and
how he hears us when we pray and sing
his praise. They seemed to be very much
pleased and impressed by what they saw
and heard. Perhaps one of the chief
things that struck them was the fact of
there being no image of the God we wor-
shiped set up in the chapel. This fact
was pointed out by one and another, and
commented upon, and was used as a text
by one and another of the Christians
to force the main truths of Christianity
upon the hearts of their heathen hearers.

“ This church has a membership of
ninety-two, of whom seventy-four are men.
This in itself shows the need of more work
being done to gather in the women into
this as well as our other congregations.
For it is a truth that cannot be denied

Madura Mission.

[February,

that the women are backward in entering
our churches. They are uneducated, and
we hope that such schools as our Rahuri
Girls’ School will do much to uplift the
status of the women in this region.”

WORK AMONG WOMEN.

Miss Millard, of Bombay, writes of the
school in that city : —

“ The girls are a joy and a comfort,
and there is an unspeakable gratification
in comparing them with the women whom
we meet in Hindu homes. I have of
late seen and learned more of the widows
and their sufferings, and my heart goes
out in gratitude that there are some
who will never be subjected to such
sorrow and indignities. In one day’s
work of last week, I counted ten widows
in the houses that I visited, some old,
some younger, and one of perhaps fifteen,
fair and beautiful, but subjected like the
others to the indignities of widowhood,
with her shaven head, and the thin, un-
bleached cotton cloth around her body
her only garment. I asked some of them
why they continued to endure such things,
and it had never occurred to any of them
that there was any other way or that they
might ever expect anything else. They
said, ‘ These are our customs, and if we
did differently we would be laughed at.’
This ridicule seemed to them to be the
worst thing that could befall them.

“ I long to devote my whole time to that
work, but it cannot be now ; we can only
hold our own while we are in such straits
And may the dear Lord soon send us
workers, not only two or three, but a
dozen, that we may enlarge our borders and
gather in the fruit that is already ripe to
the harvest. We see so many opportuni-
ties on this side and that, people calling
us to come and we obliged to refuse until
we are ashamed. May the day speedily
come when we shall be reinforced with
many workers ! and then we can with- sin-
cerity pray for the immediate blessing of
hundreds — nay, thousands — who have
already heard and who know the truth, that
they may be brought into the true and only
way ! ”

fHalmra fELtssfou.

BATTALAGUNDU.— A NEW CONGREGATION.

Mr. Jeffery writes from Battala-
gundu : —

“The pastor together with the young
men, members of the church, have organ-
ized themselves into a Y. M. C. A. and
are very enthusiastic in a weekly Bible
class and in street preaching in the sur-
rounding villages. One of the church
members, who had grown indifferent to
Christian work, has entered heartily into the
XY. M. C. A. work. He not only takes an
active part in the prayer-meetings himself,
but he also gathers in the young men
outside.

“ Our new congregation at Attoor is
still growing. Forty-three souls have,
since January, left heathenism and em-
braced Christianity. They are now being
carefully instructed in the Bible and in
Christian doctrines. Two high-caste men
in the village also are studying the Bible
with the catechist, and I hope may soon
embrace Christianity. A new church has
been built there and also a house for the
catechist. The house cost about $10.
Were you to see it, you would probably
call it a shed. Still it is as good as most
of the common people have.

“ Our church here at Battalagundu has
just closed the fiscal year with 170 rupees
in the treasury. Of this amount 40 ru-
pees were given to the church by one of
the Native Benevolent Societies. The
officers and members of the church held
a meeting and the matter of the church
assuming entire self-support was dis-
cussed. But they decided that, as it was
a partial famine time, it would be wise to
wait at least another year before attempt-
ing to get on without the help of the
Benevolent Society. However, it has
been a marvel to me, since I have come
to India, to see how the native Christians,
who receive so small a salary, can give so
much for benevolences. But they do it
by giving systematically. When they are
paid they first take out their benevolences
before they spend their money for any-
thing.”

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Japan Mission .

Sapait fHtssion.

GENEROUS GIFTS.

Mr. Stanford, of Kyoto, writes under
date of November 26 : —

“Rev. Edward P. Thwing, m.d., of
Brooklyn, N. Y., was here a few years
ago. He paid us a flying visit a few weeks
since and informed us that he had con-
cluded that the Doshisha was a good in-
stitution in which to invest. Accordingly
he announced his decision to establish an
annual theological scholarship of fifty yen
for the encouragement of study in the
direction of practical sociology. While
he lives, we shall look to him for the an-
nuity ; upon his death, the principal will
fall to us ; thus the scholarship is in per -
petno. On the same occasion, Miss Den-
ton reminded Dr. Thwing that we have a
Doshisha Girls’ School, and the next morn-
ing he visited the school and promised a
like scholarship for students in graduate
courses.

“ Dr. Thwing talks about men of the
present day making history and building
into the twentieth century. He and his
excellent wife are doing both by their
labors and gifts to the cause of Christ in
China and Japan. On the former visit
they came to establish an asylum for the
insane at Canton, and to leave their son in
charge. Now they have returned in the
interests of the work at Canton. At least
one student at Peking and a lady mission-
ary in China are supported by the gifts of
the doctor and his wife.”

TSU.

Mr. Severance and wife, by appoint-
ment of the mission, have removed from
Tottori to Tsu, where they find much to
encourage them. Mr. Severance expresses
the hope that they may stay there twenty
years. He speaks in warm terms of the
native pastor, who seems like a good New
England preacher. Mr. Severance writes :

“ The Christians of Tsu are many of
them very weak and cold and irregular in
church attendance, but there are some
very faithful ones. Our welcome has been
cordial, and we anticipate days of joy and
profit.

“ I find my old delight in teaching, and
the young men are bright and eager to
learn. Some sixteen young men from the
government offices, or schools of the city,
or from private homes, come into the night
school and get a start in English. Five
of them already attend church services
occasionally, and it is our hope to give
them some Christian uplift eventually.
Mrs. Severance is already training some
little ones for a Christmas service, and
they come gladly to the house to learn.
We have begun a Bible-class work in our
house, studying the Acts of the Apostles
from nine a.m. to ten, five days each
week. My teacher here, Mr. Hori, has
been in actual evangelistic work and will
continue to go to a place some twelve
miles distant on Sundays. He bids fair
to be a good helper, and I shall hope to
make reasonable progress in the language.

“ I gave a talk of ten minutes at the
welcome meeting when we came, and the
people here seem to understand me. The
reason is that I differ from Shakespeare
and repeat much, using a variety of words
to express a simple thought. Later on I
shall have to employ some other method
to make myself certain that they under-
stand, but now this method seems inevit-
able. The Japanese have a way of ex-
pressing approval of what is said in all
conversation, enough to indicate that what
has been said is understood. Generally a
Japanese says after every other word you
say, unless he has seen foreigners a good
deal, Hoi , hoi , hoi , he, he, he, ah l So
desu ka. Naruhodol so that you feel
sure your hearer is giving attention to
you.”

THE KOBE GIRLS’ SCHOOL.

Under date of December 6, Miss Dud-
ley writes : —

“ Our school has been in operation for
a month, and I am glad to tell you that
we have every reason for satisfaction both
with the women in attendance and with
the teachers who work with us, save one.
These are the same as last year. It is a
pleasure to know that the women who
have been at work during the summer
are, with one or two exceptions, all

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[February,

wanted in the same places next year. I
find that the care and oversight of the
women in the work is a greater burden
than the school. Mr. Atkinson’s return
will relieve ‘me of the care of the evan-
gelistic work very soon. Our entire field
is in better condition than a year ago, but
it needs care and hearty cooperation on
the part of the missionaries and the na-
tive ministry. Mr. Atkinson met a warm
welcome from the people and pastors in
this vicinity.”

NIIGATA.

Mr. Newell writes from Niigata, Decem-
ber 2 : —

“ The students and teachers of the
schools form at present the strongest and
most influential body in the church, and
it is a matter of vital welfare to the church
that we keep in touch with them. The
number of students is at present neces-
sarily small, but there was never a time
since the foundation of the schools when
the Faculty were so united and harmo-
nious in their aims and cooperation as at
present.

“ In the Boys’ School there are only
about forty pupils at present, of whom
nearly one half are Christian. The Y.
M. C. A. is in a flourishing condition and
is attracting many of the other students.
They hold a preaching meeting every
Sunday night in the city.

“ We have an excellent Faculty, all en-
thusiastic and united, and a high grade
of scholarship is maintained. Only this
week a graduate of one of the city Ko-to
Schools was refused admission because of
failure to pass the required examination.
There is of course a temptation to take
any who may present themselves when
the number is so low ; but I am glad that
they are maintaining the high standard
which has always characterized the school.

“ They are laboring under much disad-
vantage just now in the abundance of
subsidized schools in the province. Here
at Niigata a new Government School of
the same general grade with ours has
been started, opening in August last.
They have now about 175 students.
Then the Provincial Assembly recently

voted to the two schools at Nagaoka and
Takata (of about the same grade) a sub-
sidy of 4,000 yen each per year for five
years. The Nagaoka School has become
a government affair since we left. This
of course puts them in easy circumstances
and renders private competition along
just those lines difficult. But our school
still holds its unique position as the only
school which has any principle back of it,
and which pretends to do anything for
the moral training of its students. And
on this one thing I base great faith that
the school will in the near future prove
that it has a right and reason for existing
and will attract many students of the
better grade who can look beyond the
new glamor of fresh buildings and a
novel Faculty, such as the latest school
is now parading in.”

fHcxicatt fHtsstcm.

FAMINE RELIEF.

Writing from Parral, December 19,
Mr. Case says : —

“Our attempts to relieve in some de-
gree the suffering caused by the famine
have taken no little of our time and
thought. In order to avail ourselves of
some concessions offered by the general
government to regularly chartered relief
societies, we, some two months ago, ef-
fected such an organization, your mission-
ary being its president and its other mem-
bers being the officers of our church.
Our first carload of corn arrived three
weeks ago, having been contributed gra-
tuitously by friends in Iowa. Another
carload has been ordered from Kansas
City. We have adopted the plan of sell-
ing the corn at a figure somewhat below
the regular price so that with the proceeds
we may purchase more, and thus extend
the benefaction as far as possible. The
crops this year were scarcely better than
they were last, and the suffering, instead
of diminishing, is becoming more severe.
This is especially true in the agricultural
districts, such as Las Cuevas.

“ Miss Prescott has taken advantage of
the present short vacation to visit Zara-

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West Central A frican Mission.

goza in the interests of our school work
there. Her school in this city is now
larger than ever before in its history.
Several large girls have come in from the
smaller towns near by, in order to be
under her teaching.

“ On our return from Allende we found
that the work had suffered during our
absence ; and while we were permitted to
see a remarkable progress in the church
affairs at Las Cuevas during our stay there
we are convinced that our place is now
in this city and that our hold upon the
work in general will depend largely upon
our hold here. I am happy to report that
our congregations were never larger than
at the present time, and this in spite of
the fact that more than one half of our
membership is now on the absent list.
Several new converts are also seeking
admission to fellowship.”

fflHcst Central African iHtssiatu

ENCOURAGING INCIDENTS.

An excellent health report comes from
all the members of this mission. Miss
Clarke, who had been sick at Bailundu,
was to return to Chisamba early in Novem-
ber.' Mr. and Mrs. Read continue to be
much pleased with the outiook for work at
Chisamba. Miss Bell, of Kamondongo,
reports with great satisfaction that six
girls who had been in her home, but who
for one reason or another had gone away,
have now returned. Mr. Lee reports the
following incidents, which give great en-
couragement : —

“It gives me sincere pleasure to be able
to tell you that there are very marked
signs of a deep and strong work by the
Holy Spirit having begun in the hearts of
some of the people here. I will cite an
instance or two. Ngulu, our oldest
Christian boy, came to me the other day,
saying, ‘ Nana, I have some good words to
tell you. Makimba, the priest of Chis-
amba, was sent for yesterday to go off to
some distant villages with Kandundu1
(Kandundu is the chief fetich), ‘but he
9ent back word that he was not going to
carry Kandundu any more, as it made

him ashamed since he had heard the
words of Suku’ (God). If this man is
really determined to abandon Kandundu,
it is no small thing, because it will entail
a loss of his priestly fees. We are
earnestly praying that he may not only
stick to his resolve, but will advance until
fully accepting the truth as it is in Christ
Jesus.

“ Another most pleasing thing occurred
last Saturday. In the morning I was
riding past Sahosi, a group of villages
about two miles from our station, and, as
usual, stopped and invited the chief and
his people to come to the next day’s serv-
ice. They promised to come, but late on
Saturday evening a messenger arrived to
say that the chief had forgotten to tell me
that on the morrow there would be an
ovimbu (a trial) held at his village, and
he wanted to know if a trial could be held
on Sunday. I explained the nature of the
Sabbath and our duties concerning it,
and, to our joy, the old chief and his
young men were present at the Sunday
service, and that ovimbu was not held !
The chief, Sahosi, is a regular attendant
on our services, and his sending to ask
whether it would be wrong to hold an
ovimbu on Sunday shows that the old man
is at least considering what he has heard
here.

“ Several other instances of equal im-
port I could give, had I time. Our Chris-
tian lads are greatly stirred by the interest
shown by the old men, and are most
earnestly praying for and working that a
fulfilment of our present hopes may be
accomplished. May God give me grace,
patience, and wisdom rightly to lead these
people to himself!

“ All our industrial department work is
going forward very satisfactorily ; and we
think the station will be much healthier
after we have completed the draining
planned to be done this season.”

A HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

From Bailundu, Mr. Woodside re-
ports a good attendance at the boys’
school. Mr. Stover writes of the way in
which the church at Bailundu has become
a home missionary society : —

West Central African Mission.

[February,

“ At the monthly missionary meeting of
the church this month we had a home
missionary topic and formed a Home
Missionary Society. There was no formal
organization, no election of officers, or
adopting of a constitution, etc. We have
no time nor taste for such things here.
The society is the church, the church
officers are its officers, and the Word of
our Lord is its only constitution. What
was done was to vote that Samuel, the
junior deacon, should begin to devote his
time to teaching, and that the church would
support him. The vote was a rising one,
and I saw no member of the church nor
any catechumen who kept his seat. In
accordance with that vote, Samuel began
a school two weeks ago at the village to
which he goes on Sunday. He is to have
the same salary as the older young men
who work for us. The church saw the
propriety of such an arrangement quite
readily, and entered into it with a hearti-
ness that was very encouraging. Samuel
goes to his school in the morning and
returns for the school here in the afternoon.
By a similar arrangement in the case of
others, when we get more who are com-
petent to teach, we can sweep a circle of
about ten miles on every side of us with
teachers who can at the same time be
carrying on their studies here ; and that
will reach a large number of people. We
move slowly and with small immediate
results, but we are moving surely, and, I
think, in the right direction.

“ School work goes on fairly well. I
find that there was great need of just the
work I am doing in the instruction I am
giving in Bible history. Even those who
were best instructed know absolutely no-
thing of the historical relations of the
events narrated in the Gospels with which
they are familiar. I suppose that out of
this work will grow the beginning, at
least, of a book on history. I have no
light yet for a geography. We shall have
first to find a name for the earth before
we can teach them much about it. I do
not think that I shall do very much per-
sonally in that line of literature. My
work is the sacred Word.

“Two more boys and one young man
have come here from the villages to which
Moses and Jacob are going on Sundays.
The latter is quite well on in years, fully
as old as the eldest of our young men —
say thirty years. He came here one day
and inquired for me. He was asked what
he wanted, and replied : ‘ I want to come
here to live to get Jesus.1 The young
man who came last season in the same
way is still here and is doing well in every
respect ; but his wife will not come. He
says he will not leave, even for his wife,
and wants to know what he is to do. All
I could do was to tell him what Paul says
about the unbelieving wife or husband,
and leave the same Spirit who guided him
here at first to teach him in this also.'1

THE LANDSCAPE AT BAILUNDU.

From a private letter from Mrs. Stover
we are permitted to give the following ex-
tract relating to the scenery at Bailundu :

“ How I wish you could sit opposite
me by my double window and look out on
all the wealth of green, radiant as it al-
ways is after the first glad rains. I am
reminded of a remark made by our Helen
a short time since. She said : ‘ Mamma,
if all the people in America who despise
our Africa could only come here now and
see as we do all this beauty, — the new
flowers, trees, mountains, and all the rest,
— would not they be put to shame?1
She is very loyal to her African home ;
I have even seen her eyes fill with tears
when we have been talking of the time
when she shall leave it for school. Sit-
ting here by my window day after day
there rises before my vision a mountain, —
an iron mountain, — not a lofty peak, but
rather long and low. Watching it as I
have so many times in its various phases
and changing lights it has seemed to me a
very good symbol of the different condi-
tions of this dark land.

“ In ihe morning we see it only in
shadow, lifting its great black bulk against
the eastern sky. It is not a thing of
beauty, but looks, oh ! so dreary and
deformed.

“When the full noontide glare is on

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it, its appearance is wholly changed. We
can see the deep seams and scanty foli-
age. But in the sunset’s golden light
how beautiful it appears ! And day after
day as I watch it, sitting at my sewing,
many thoughts come to me of the changes
that have come and are still coming to this
poor land.

“ There is the dark morning shadow —
the irreparable past, wrong and cruelty,
which must stand through all ages as a
black stain upon the pages of her history ;
the present seeming the noontide hour
— the Sun of Righteousness sending his
all-searching beams into the very heart
of darkness ; these rays of light here and
there making the surrounding darkness
all the more black ; and the golden
promise of the future, when this land
shall lift its head and become a nation
among nations, through the redeeming
power of God, — this is portrayed by the
flood of light which covers this dark
mountain-side at the quiet sunset hour.”
Mrs. Stover sends also a brief account
of a new and hopeful inquirer : —

“ About two months ago a young man
named Hungulu (great tusk) came, saying
he wished to stay here, work, and go to
school. He said he heard we had ‘ the
words of God ’ and he wanted to know
what they were. On inquiry we learned
that he had never heard a word of the
gospel, but only that we had it. We
gladly gave him a place to stay and to
work. He came regularly to school and
in many ways showed his sincerity.”

A few months later the missionary wrote
that so intent was Hungulu upon his read-
ing that after the vacation began he asked
to be taught by himself after his day’s
work was over. Still later letters say : —
“ Hungulu has gained our confidence
and admiration. He is not brilliant but
he is in earnest. When school closed he
went to Mrs. Woodside every day for his
lesson. When we went to the coast he
accompanied us. He took his book with
him and afternoons in camp would come
to me to read, or, if I was too busy to
hear him, some of the boys heard him
read. He cut the sleeve off his shirt to

make a bag to carry his book in. He tells
his wife she need not remain here if she
does not want to, though he wishes her
to ; and that she need not come thinking
she will get lots of cloth — ‘ he is not here
for cloth, but for the words of God.’ ”

European Eurkep fission.

WORK IN ALBANIA.

The Missionary News, published by
our brethren at Samokov, contains a letter
from Mr. Kyrias, reporting progress of
the work at Kortcha, in Albania, in
which he refers with greatest pleasure to
the new building for church and school
which had been purchased and fitted up,
the hall holding 100 hearers. The cost of
the building, including repairs, was only
165 Turkish liras, and but a small debt
remains, contributions for the work hav-
ing been sent from Samokov and other
places. In referring to this Albanian
work Mr. Baird, of Monastir, says, in the
Missionary News : —

“ Last June the Albanian Girls’ School
in Kortcha closed with public exercises in
which the pupils showed such progress as
to surprise many of their friends. During
the summer a suitable place for the school
and chapel was found. Mr. Kyrias at
once began to raise funds for its purchase
and, as soon as prospects warranted him.
bought it, paying $528. Repairs and
other expenses cost $198 more. The
building is well fitted for preaching and
for a school and has, in the lower story,
rooms for a small family.

“The Greek party has tried very hard
to stop the Lord’s work. Attendants on
preaching have been summoned before
the church officers, and rebuked for at-
tending as well as threatened with the loss
of all services of priests for baptisms,
funerals, and other religious ceremonies if
the offence was repeated or they sent their
children to the Albanian school. The
lurking of some men in the evening around
the house of Rev. G. D. Kyrias, who has
brought the work to its present promising
condition, led to the discovery of a plot

European Turkey Mission.

Western Turkey Mission.

[February,

to kill him. The failure of this plot, the
refusal of the Patriarch to approve the
severe measures proposed by the Greek
party of Kortcha against all who favor
Protestantism, and their vain attempt to
turn public opinion and the government
against Mr. Kyrias and his friends by
calling them Farmason (Free Mason), a
most opprobrious name, have caused a
temporary lull in the storm. That per-
secution will break out again is to be
expected.

“ At present Miss Sevastia Kyrias and
Miss Fanka Eftimova are working in
Kortcha, the former spending most of her
time among the women, visiting and con-
ducting prayer-meetings in which she
meets with much to encourage her, and
the latter teaching in the school which
lately had twenty-seven pupils. A Samo-
kov student works among the men and
finds favorable opportunities for religious
conversation, especially in the market.
Rev. G. D. Kyrias expects to be absent
soon to put through the press an edition
of the Psalms in Albanian. His brother
George and his bride are expecting to
reach Kortcha this month to work in this
promising field.”

Western £urkcg fHtsston.

BITTER PERSECUTION.

Our readers will remember the reports
already printed of the difficulties experi-
enced by Mr. Bartlett and his daughter at
Afion Kara Hissar, shortly after the burn-
ing of their house at Bourdour. Mr.
Bartlett now writes of the rebuilding of
the house at Bourdour, and the better
feeling in the place toward the missionary
work. But at Afion Kara Hissar the
storm of persecution is most severe. Mr.
Bartlett writes from Constantinople : —
“For several months past there has
been the most bitter and persistent opposi-
tion to the preacher and the few Protest-
ant brethren there. This opposition has
showed itself in various ways . Very heavy
and wholly unjust taxation has been laid
upon the brethren by their Armenian
friends (?), and for this there is no rem-

edy, for the government leaves the appor-
tionment of the military tax to each com-
munity ; and as there has been no formal
separation of the Protestants as a com-
munity, they are subjected to this oppres-
sion and are plainly told that it is because
they are Protestants. Another way of
showing opposition is by disturbing their
worship on the Sabbath, by stoning
the house in which worship is held, by
stoning the brethren on their way to and
from church, by a party of boys collecting
and with fifes and drums making such a
din that the peace of the worship is
destroyed, by unruly young men present
at the service, insulting the preacher to
his face, etc.

“ My daughter and I arrived there Octo-
ber i, and stayed about three weeks, and
our presence had little or no effect to
diminish the trouble. One Sabbath our
worship was nearly broken up, and the
next Sabbath I called policemen, who were
present at both services. The house
rented for worship and for the preacher’s
family, and where we also were accommo-
dated, has been stoned by day and by night
for months, and were not the windows on
the front side protected by wire screens,
not a pane of glass would have re-
mained. On the back side the windows,
being unprotected, have suffered badly,
and one room cannot be occupied with
safety. During the time we were there
the house was repeatedly stoned, so that
we could not feel safe in sitting before
windows which were exposed to the aim
of the boys. We complained to the
local authorities, and they would make
a show of effort by arresting a few boys
and reproving them, only to let them go
and do the same thing again. I have, to-
day, received a letter from the preacher
saying that the stoning of the house con-
tinues, and that there is no abatement in
the enmity of the people. A formal suit
has been brought against him through the
government, charging him with saying in
the public place that the Virgin Mary
was an immoral woman ! He was ex-
amined on the charge and released until
the witnesses should be examined. What

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will be the result remains to be seen.
The pasha informed me that such a suit
had been presented, but that he should
not allow it, for it could be only falsehood.
The preacher writes that a petition against
him is in circulation, with some 200 names
already signed, accusing him of reviling
the Armenian religion, which of course
he utterly denies ; and I have no reason to
believe that he is capable of any such
thing.

“ You can imagine how difficult it is to
work under such circumstances, and the
present prospects for an improvement are
not good. The Turkish authorities here
seem quite out of patience with me, both
for my connection with the Bourdour af-
fair, and for complaints which I have
made through the legation in the Afion
Kara Hissar case. On the whole the last
few months have been very trying both
for me and for my daughter, who has
been with me through it all, and now I
see no other way but to go back to Kara
Hissar and spend the winter, and stay till
a better spirit prevails.”

Central Curkcg fHtsston.

THE YEAR PAST AND TO COME.

Mr. Mead writes from Adana, No-
vember 22 : —

“ During the present year much time
and strength have been given to the dis-
cussion of questions relating to the bring-
ing forward of a larger number of stu-
dents for the ministry. Our mission has
suffered greatly from the lack of more
educated ministers. It has been felt that
our young men have been lacking in a
proper degree of consecration, and that
for this reason many have turned aside to
business and other professions, aftfer hav-
ing been educated largely at mission ex-
pense and with the expectation of their
entering the ministry. As a result of the
discussions, we believe that the question of
individual responsibility for the bringing
forward of a larger number of more con-
secrated men to the ministry, and for the
evangelization of the whole empire, has

been been brought more clearly than ever
before to the minds of all our Christians.

“ The number of missionaries in the
field this year has been small, in conse-
quence of which certain parts of the mis-
sion have not received the careful and
personal supervision of a touring mission-
ary which they needed. Another hin-
drance has been the neglect which large
and important churches have suffered from
having been pastorless all the year. In
parts of the mission, a year of unusual
prosperity in business has been attended
by a corresponding degree of coldness and
worldliness in the church. These are
some of the causes working against larger
additions to the churches which we would
have been glad to report.

“ On the other hand there has been in
general a quiet substantial growth which
is full of encouragement. In some of
the churches it is exceedingly gratify-
ing to note how they have been living
down local prejudices and gaining favor
among those who but a year or two ago
were bitterly opposing and persecuting
them. The schools have never been
fuller. Nine were graduated from the
Central Turkey College at Aintab ; three
from the Girls’ College in Marash ; and
five young men, all graduates from the
College in Aintab, completed a three years’
course in the Theological Seminary at
Marash, and were immediately licensed to
preach. Nine men have entered the new
class in the Theological Seminary this fall,
three of these being Gregorian Armenians.
This last fact is significant. It indicates
how things are progressing in the Grego-
rian Armenian Church.

“ One of the most hopeful signs of the
times is the desire manifested by many in
that church for a better educated and
more thoroughly evangelical priesthood.
And another hopeful sign is that in many
of the Armenian churches in the mission
the Bible is regularly read in the vernacu-
lar. The hostile attitude of the govern-
ment toward our work during the year has
given us not a little annoyance. This
hostility seems to be increasing in severity
every month. Under the pretext of sup-

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Notes from the Wide Field.

pressing imagined conspiracies against
itself, the Turkish government has in-
creased the rigors of its already oppres-
sive and despotic policy toward Christian
peoples, and seems to be bent on crushing

out the Christian faith. Of course we
have no misgivings as to the triumph of
the Kingdom of Christ in this land, but if
ever we needed the prayers of Christian,
friends we need them now.”

Notes from t|)e EHttie jftcltj.

INDIA.

A Telugu Christian Poet. — An article in the Harvest Field for December gives
an interesting account of Chandhari Purushottam, who died about two years ago at the
advanced age of eighty-seven years. He was born in 1803, and in early life was spe-
cially religious. He copied many of the books of the Veda and committed portions to
memory. He sought various teachers who might tell him of the way of union with the
God. He went through various ceremonies, many of them loathsome and disgusting,
that he might crucify his earthly passions and become a saint. His religiousness made
him disagreeable to his wife and mother. While in this state of mind he read a Chris-
tian tract which he had had in a box for seven years. He was greatly pleased with the
tract, and determined to learn more of Christianity. Never having seen a missionary
he wrote a letter, addressing it to any missionary who might be in Berhampur. A
native Roman Catholic received the letter and replied that there was no missionary
there. Purushottam then went on a quest to Chicacole, where he found an earnest
Christian lady, who first distrusted him but afterward came to have confidence in his
sincerity and gave him much Christian instruction. Receiving a New Testament in
1833, he read it through from cover to cover, and on June 10 of that year he threw
away his sacred cord and openly abandoned caste. Shortly after he met for the first
time a Christian missionary, one connected with the General Baptist Mission, and was
by him baptized. He immediately began preaching the gospel in the streets and
markets, bearing all reproaches with great patience. After a year and a half of these
labors he sought his wife, who joined him in professing the Christian faith. For fifty-
four years Purushottam labored as a preacher and writer, part of the time in connection
with the London Mission and a- part with the Baptist Mission. At one time he fell into
grievous sin, but like David he bitterly repented, and his deep contrition was expressed
in many of his hymns. He was received back into the church and labored faithfully,
though the latter part of his life he was nearly or quite blind. Efficient as was his
preaching, he will be held in remembrance specially on account of his writings. Aside
from tracts and other books, he wrote 120 hymns, some of which are among the choicest
Telugu hymns now in use. They were not written originally for publication but for the
expression of his own thought, yet they have been taken up and sung, and they will be
sung doubtless for years to come. He died August 24, 1890, and is spoken of as “a
most consistent, humble, earnest, and useful laborer.” It is a striking case of one wha
came out of the darkness of paganism into the light of the gospel without the inter-
vention of any Christian missionary.

A Refuge for the Immoral. — A Baptist missionary in northern India states a
remarkable fact connected with their church work, that whenever a member is brought
under discipline for drunkenness or immorality of any kind he speedily becomes a
Mohammedan ; he cannot remain in the church and practise these vices. Especial
mention is made of two young men who were suspended from the church for good
reasons, who openly said that they had no belief in Mohammedanism, but that they
turned to a faith where they might live in immorality and drunkenness without fear of
being called to account.

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Notes from the Wide Field.

7 1

Hindus Aroused. — Rev. Mr. Douglas, of the English Church Missionary Society,
reports a series of meetings held in a town of 15,000 inhabitants in North Tinnevelly.
The people are absorbed in trade, and they scoffed and sneered at the Christian
preachers. An opposition preaching service was set up, and a Brahman appeared to
drive the people away from the Christian stand, compelling them to go where Hinduism
was preached. So matters went on for a few days, the crowd evidently preferring the
Christian preaching. On one evening a catechist, without proper caution, said some-
thing disparaging of the native religion : “You must not worship Brahma, or Siva, or
Vishnu, or images of wood or stone.” Mr. Douglas says this expression was as
though one had put a match to a powder magazine. The people sprang to their feet
with shouts and furious gesticulations. It was like the scene in the theatre at Ephesus
when Paul preached. There was no quieting the crowd, who shouted in defence of
their gods. Mr. Douglas says that anything is better than stagnant indifference, and
that though the immediate result seemed depressing he has no doubt that good will
finally come out of the incident.

AFRICA.

The Slave-trade. — We are sorry to find in the August number of Life and
Work in British Central Africa a report that at the north end of Lake Nyasa there
was never a time when there were more guns and powder in the country. A corre-
spondent sa)rs : “For many months back dhows have been kept constantly running
from Amelia Bay to Deep Bay with cargoes of guns and powder. Great caravans have
gone to Tanganyika, Bangweolo, and Mwero to supply the Arab demand there. I never
knew a time when there was more actual slavery than there is now, or when more of
the Arab followers were armed. You meet often long strings of Arab bearers, carry-
ing loads of fifty or sixty pounds, and each man has his heavy cap gun. I am told too
that the powerful Awemba tribe is being armed at the present moment with English
guns, and sent to hunt for slaves.”

The Sultans of Central Africa. — Count Schweinitz, an officer of the German
expedition, charged with the construction of a shipbuilding yard at Victoria Nyanza,
writes interesting reports concerning the natives of that region. He says: “The
sultan Maharouri came to ask me to visit his dominions. I was prepared for a hostile
reception, but I find I have had erroneous ideas of these savages. The sultans are
very intelligent and charming men. I visited the village of the sultan Wamba, and I
can assure you that many German peasants do not have dwellings as pleasant. . . .
There are goats and game in abundance, but unfortunately no cattle ; all the cattle died
in a cattle plague two years ago. At present I am on good terms with the sultans ;
they are powerful sovereigns who reign over large territories.”

The Congo. — VAfrique reports that Major Thys, administrator-general of the
societies of the Upper Congo and of the railroad, reports that the problem of food for
the whites living in that country is solved by the successful growth of a herd of cattle
on the isle of Mat6ba. Three hundred head of cattle were placed there two years ago
and the number has increased in that time to 1,560 ! Major Thys had himself counted
the herd.

Uganda. — The Church Missionary Intelligencer for January contains many letters
and journals from the missionaries in Uganda and Busoga, the last date being August
18. The story of missionary life at Mengo, the capital of Uganda, subsequent to the
war and the return of King Mwanga, is fully told. The king was fairly friendly and
declared that he wished to become a Protestant, and would like to have Mr. Ashe go
up daily to instruct him. The final arrangements give to the Protestants two thirds of
the country, the rest being divided between Roman Catholics and Mohammedans. A
service was held each Sunday afternoon at the king’s. Many persons were coming for-

Notes from the Wide Field.

[February,

ward as catechumens, and tnere were also many baptisms. The people had determined
to give to the missionaries four houses in Mengo, and have also arranged to supply
them with food, each of the big chiefs taking one European as his special charge.
They also determined to build a large church ; this was done without cost to the mis-
sionaries, and at one time Mr. Baskerville found 500 people at work upon it. On July
31 the church was dedicated. It is a huge structure, and at the dedicatory service each
person put into the offertory a single shell, which is their small currency, the poor not
less and the rich not more than one, and in this way it was known that 3,731 persons
were present in the new church. This certainly was a remarkable congregation. The
people were fulfilling their engagements to supply food in a commendable manner, but the
mission does not regard the popular rising in favor of the Protestant religion, caused by
the king’s coming to church, as without perils. They are anxious to keep a pure church,
and they would much prefer persecution to any insincere professions of fidelity.

Mr. Roscoe has left Mengo to reside in Luba’s country, Busoga. Luba received him
cordially and was made to understand from the first that Mr. Roscoe had no connection
with the British East Africa Company, but was purely a religious teacher. Mr. Roscoe
told him that he did not come for trade or war or to interfere with the politics, but
simply to preach to his people the religion of Jesus Christ, if the king desired it. Luba
replied in a most friendly way. He promised to build a house and provide food ; also
offering a tusk of ivory to Mr. Roscoe, who refused it, saying he did not want gain but
only food. The king sent his katikiro to select a place for the mission, and one was
chosen which greatly pleased Mr. Roscoe. It is near the lake and 200 feet above
Luba’s residence. A number of boys are coming daily to read, and four chiefs, three of
them sons of Luba, are also learning. It seems from this summary of the report that,
notwithstanding the great anxieties of the mission, the present outlook is most hopeful.

Mashonaland. — A recent report of the British Central Africa Company shows that
the Company is exerting its influence over three quarters of a million square miles south
and north of the Zambesi. In Mashonaland there are now some 3.500 settlers. It
seems that Lobengula, the paramount chief, receives from the government monthly a
hundred sovereigns in gold. So far the operations have involved an expenditure above
receipts, but it is hoped that from this time onward the colony will be self-supporting.

Kaffraria. — The foreign secretary of the Scotch United Presbyterian Mission,
Mr. Bachanan, has recently visited Kaffraria and reports that all the tribes of south-
eastern Africa are open to the gospel. People gather around a missionary wherever he
goes, and large numbers are brought into the church. Mr. Buchanan speaks of one
station, open only five years since, where there are now upward of 600 persons in full
communion. The converts show the genuineness of their professions, not only by
attendance on ordinances, but also by contributing to the cause of Christ, in many
cases devoting themselves to active Christian work among their less enlightened
neighbors.

East Africa. — A telegraph line is now completed from Mombasa to Lamu, a
distance of about two hundred miles. Bishop Tucker was expected to leave Kikuyu
about the middle of November for Uganda. The Juba River has been successfully
navigated by a stern-wheeled steamer, under an English captain, who ascended the
river some two hundred miles, trading and establishing friendly relations with the
people. Such developments of commerce promise much for Africa.

CHINA.

Attitude of Officials. — It is difficult to understand the exact position of affairs
in reference to the efforts of the Chinese government to suppress the libelous literature
put in circulation in regard to Christians. We reported some time since that Chou Han,

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Miscellany .

the leader in the publication of these scurrilous pictures and tracts, had been degraded
by the officials and driven from Chang-Sha. This was true, but Chou Han has only
gone to Chang-teh-fu, from which city the indecent literature is sent out without check,
the officials apparently conniving at the offence. So long as the people and officials
of any particular province are fired with this spirit of hostility to foreigners, it is no
doubt extremely difficult for the central government to suppress these publications.
Our belief is that the imperial authorities would gladly do so, could they manage affairs
in the disturbed sections. But, doubtless, to the Chinese official, from highest to lowest,
the foreigner must be an unwelcome presence, causing no end of trouble.

fHtscrllarm*

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.

A Christian Business Man. The Life of Deacon
Caleb Foote Gates. By his son, Rev. Caleb Frank
Gates, pp. 200. Price, $i.

Those who were acquainted with the
subject of this memoir only during his
Jater years, when he was in the full tide of I
successful business and Christian enter- |
prise, will be interested to read of his
boyhood and early youth, when through
some peculiar trials he was disciplined and
trained for his mature life. It is a good |
book for boys and young men, during their j
educational period, as well as for men of
business to read. The noble elements of
his character appear all through his life to
the end. He was a grand, unselfish man,
with broad views as to missionary work in
connection with city and home evangeliza-
tion as well as with the spread of the
gospel in foreign lands. How such a life
contrasts with that of one who has
amassed his millions of dollars, and has
lived and died, apparently without a
thought of the millions of needy souls
around him !

‘ The Wonderful Counselor: All the recorded sayings
of the Lord Jesus, chronologically arranged on a plan
for easy memorizing, in single passages, one for each
day in the year; with brief notes connecting words
and phrases. By Rev. Henry B. Mead, m.a. With
an Introduction by Rev. Francis E. Clark, d.d..
President of the United Society of Christian En-
deavor. New York: A. D. F. Randolph & Co., In-
corporated. Price, 50c.

This certainly is a novel and interesting
plan for bringing the words of our Lord
Jesus to the attention of the reader for
each day in the year. This is not a Life of
Christ, but it presents his utterances on

the varied occasions in which he conversed
with men so that his whole wondrous life
will be best understood.

Simple Bible Lessons for Children. By Frederick A
Laing, f.e.i.s. With an Introduction by Rev.
James Stalker, m.a., d.d. New York: A. C. Arm-
strong & Son. 1892.

This is a book that mothers and those
who have the training of children will
find helpful in bringing out the beautiful
stories from the Book of books.

Select Notes on the International Sunday-school
Lessons for 18Q3. By Rev. F. N. Peloubet, d.d.,
and Mrs. M. A. Peloubet. Boston: W. A. Wilde
& Co.

If there are any better comments upon
the International Sunday-school Lessons,
we do not know where to find them.
These notes are condensed and yet not
meagre. They cover all points upon
which inquiry is needed, not avoiding the
j difficult points, yet they are eminently
1 practical and evangelical. The successive
j volumes have been of greatest service to
our missionaries in different parts of the
world, both in their own study and in aid-
ing the native pastors and preachers.

Rev. John Lowe, F.R.C.S.E., Secretary and Super-
intendent of the Edinburgh Missionary Society.
Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson.

This is a pleasant memorial of the
author of that standard work, “ Medical
Missions : Their Place and Power.” It
gives a brief sketch of his life, with
extracts from many sermons and articles
in the newspapers and magazines subse-
quent to the death of this much-honored
and useful man.

Bible Studies from the Old and New Testaments,
covering the International Sunday-school Les-
sons for j8q3. By George F. Pentecost, d.d.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. Copyright, 1893.

This is the sixth volume of Bible
Studies issued by Dr. Pentecost. They

[Febr -ary,

are preeminently homiletical in their char-
acter, and are marked by all the spiritual
insight and evangelical fervor of the
author. They are admirable as exegetical
discourses.

Monthly Concert. — Donations.

ftotts far tije filontf).

Special Topics for Prayer.

For the colleges and seminaries of our own and of mission lands ; that their instructors may be
wise and holy men, filled with the spirit of Christ ; that the students may consecrate their
powers to the service of their divine Master, and may turn in large numbers to the work of
preaching Christ. Thursday, January 27, is the Day of Prayer for Colleges.

For the persecuted laborers in Austria and for the Stundists of Russia, that God may deliver
them from their enemies, and make their trials serve for the advancement of His kingdom.
(Pages 47 and 49.)

Arrivals at Stations.

November 7. At Pao-ting-fu, Willis C. Noble, M.D., and wife. It has been decided that Dr.
and Mrs. Noble shall remain for a time at Pao-ting-fu.

November 17. At Yokohama, Rev. J. L. Atkinson and wife, Rev. George Allchin and wife, and
Miss Lucy E. Case.

Marriage.

November 21. At Kobe, Japan, Rev. Hilton Pedley to Miss Martha J. Clark, both of the
Japan Mission.

Death.

December 21. At Constantinople, Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, d.d. (Page 55.)

JFor tije JHontijlg Concert.

[Topics based on information given in this number of the Herald .]

1. The situation in India. (Page 54.)

2. A new chapel in the Marathi Mission. (Page 61.)

3. How they give in the Marathi Mission. (Page 62.)

4. Items from Japan. (Page 63.)

5. Work among the Albanians. (Page 67.)

6. Outlook in the Central Turkey Mission. (Page 69.)

7. Persecution in Western Turkey. (Page 68.)

8. Influence of the gospel in West Africa. (Page 65.)

13 0 nations Eecetbcti in JDecemlier.

MAINE.

Bangor, Central Cong, ch., 125; Ham-
mond-st. Cong, ch., 44.42,
Biddeford, Pavilion church,

Boothbay Harbor, M. A. B.
Brunswick, 1st Cong. ch.

Farmington, A friend,

Gorham, 1st Cong. ch.

Gray, Ansel W. Merrill,

Greenville, Union ch.

Hampden, Cong. ch. and so.
Kennebunkport, South Cong, ch.,
26.40; 1st Cong, ch., 15,

Milltown, Cong. ch. and so.

Minot Centre, Cong. ch. and so.

169 42
19 00
5 00
66 93
5 00
101 89
4 00

41 40

5* 78
32 00

Norway, 2d Cong. ch.
Richmond, Cong. ch. and so.
Rockland, Cong. ch. and so.
South Paris, Cong. ch. and so.
Southport, John McKown, Jr.

5 00
7 00
36 00

4 00

5 00 574 4&

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Amherst, A friend in Cong. ch. 2 00

Concord, Mrs. Sarah E. Sanborn, 10 00

Dunbarton, A friend in Cong. ch. 5 00

Exeter, Rev. Jacob Chapman, 100 00

Gilmanton Iron Works, Cong. ch.

and so. n 33

Gilsum, Cong. ch. and so. 617

Hampton, Cong. ch. and so. 8 00

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Donations.

Hanover Centre, Cong. ch. and so.
Hebron, Union Cong. ch.

Hopkinton, Cong. ch. and so.

Hudson, Corig. ch. and so.

Jaffrey, Cong. ch. and so.

Littleton, Cong. ch. and so.
Manchester, ist Cong. ch.

Nashua, ist Cong, ch., of which ioo
from Mrs. H. A. Allbee for work of
Rev. J. E. Abbott, 200; Pilgrim
Cong, ch., 86.77,

Newport, Cong, ch., estate of John
Towne,

Penacook, Cong. ch. and so.

Pittsfield, Cong. ch. and so.
Somersworth, ist Cong. ch.

Tilton, Cong. ch. and so.

West Hampstead, A friend,

, A friend,

VERMONT.

Bellows Falls, ist Cong, ch., 19.27;
Young People's Miss’y Legion, ist
Cong. Sab. sch., 1,

Bennington, 2d Cong. ch.

Bradford, ist Cong. ch.

Brandon, Cong. ch. and so.
Brattleboro, Centre Cong, ch., m. c.
Brownington and Barton Landing,
Cong. ch. and so.

Burlington, College-st. Cong. ch.
Castleton, W. T. and L. C. Herrick,
Colchester Centre, Cong. ch. and so.
Fairlee, Cong. ch. and so.

Ferrisburgh, Rev. Levi Wild,
Franklin, Cong. ch. and so.

Granby, Miss Lucy E. Rice,
Greensboro, C. L. Baker,

Jamaica, Cong. ch. and so.

Jonesville, Friends,

Middlebury, Cong. ch. and so.
Northfield, Cong. ch. and so.

Peacham, Cong. ch. and so.

Richmond, Cong. ch. and so., 33;
Friends, 30,

Rochester, Cong. ch. and so.

Royalton, Cong. ch. and so.

South Hero and Grand Isle, Cong,
ch. and so.

South Royalton, Cong. ch. and so.

St. Johnsbury, A friend, South Cong.

ch. 1

Thetford, ist Cong. ch.

West Brattleboro, Cong. ch. and so.
Westminster, ist Cong. ch.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Abington, ist Cong. ch.

Acton, Cong. ch. and so.

Amherst, College Cong, ch., 168.11;

ist Cong, ch., 100,

Andover, West Cong. ch.

Athol, Cong. ch. and so.

Attleboro, 2d Cong. ch.

Becket, C. B. Ferry,

Berkley, A friend,

Boston, 2d ch. (Dorchester), 188.33;
Union ch., 163.84; Phillips ch. (So.
Boston), 39.70; Pilgrim ch. (Dor-
chester), 32.46; So. Evang. ch. (W.
Roxbury), 24.90; Park-st. ch., 20;
Eliot ch. (Roxbury), m. c., 11.37;
A lady, 200; Benjamin F. Dewing,
50; Miss E. P. Underwood, 25;
T. G., 20; A friend, 5,

.Boston, Summary for i8q2 :•

286

00 778 40

116

130

146

[,000

47“

268

137

780 60

Old South church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Park-st. church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Central church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Mount Vernon church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Eliot church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Shawmut church,
do., to Woman’s Board,

6,431 64
769 49-7,201 r3
3.337 69
682 50—4,020 19
2,427 90
642 02—3,069 92
2,036 24
432 75”2,468 99
I»5°5 36
495 22—2,000 58
972 66

879 04—1,851 70

807

911

420

995

721

598

2d church (Dorchester),
do., to Woman’s Board,

Union church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Walnut-ave. church,
do., to Woman’s Board,

Central church (Jamaica
Plain),

do., to Woman’s Board,

Phillips church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Immanuel church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Brighton church,
do., to Woman’s Board,

Village church (Dor-
chester) ,

do., to Woman’s Board,

Allston church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Winthrop ch. (Charlest’n) ,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Berkeley Temple church,
do., to Woman’s Board,
Harvard church (Dor-
chester) ,

do., to Woman’s Board,
Highland church,
do., to Woman’s Board,

South Evang. ch.(West
Roxbury) ,

do., to Woman’s Board,
Boylston ch. (Jamaica
Plain),

do., to Woman’s Board,

Pilgrim church (Dor-
chester) , 32

do., to Woman’s Board, 33

ist Cong. ch. (Charles-
town) , to Woman’s
Board,

Roslindale church, 9

do., to Woman’s Board, 29

Trinity ch. (Neponset) , 29

do., to Woman’s Board, 5

Olivet church,
to Woman’s Board,

Maverick church,
to Woman’s Board,
Advanced Contributions,

Hollis Moore Memo. Fund,
Miscellaneous, to A. B.

C. F. M. 1,363

do., to Woman’s Board, 728

Special, to A. B. C. F. M.
Legacies to A.B.C.F.M. 23,764
do., to Woman’s Board, 11,096
School Fund, to A. B. C. F. M

388

560

249

485

146

344

228

113

128
108

129
162

178

125

5®

98-1,719 77
74

06—1,415 80
94

80-1,320 74
57

40 948 97

44 735 *4

55 491 47

86 277 93

38 241 69

20 237 53

25 224 18

00 — 222 66

5°

59-
75

56 144 31

[76 09

63 138 88

68 45

-78 45
-65 46
54 55

00 38 00

00 34 08

S 00
500 00
300 00

20—2,091 63
477 00

80-34,861 13

J9^_33

67,619 30

Boxboro, Cong. ch. and so.

Bradford, Mrs. Warren Ordway,
Brimfield, Cong. ch. and so.

Brockton, ist Cong. ch.

Brookfield, Cong. ch. and so.
Brookline, Harvard Cong. ch.
Cambridge, Mrs. M. E. Brown,
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim Cong. ch.
Campello, South Cong. ch.

Chelsea, 3d Cong, ch., 30.27; ist
Cong, ch., 14; Central Cong, ch.,
10.97: Miss A. M. Dutch, 5,
Chesterfield, Cong. ch. and so., 25;
“ Special,” 50,

Chicopee, ist Cong, ch., 51.75; 3d
Cong, ch., 43.21,

Chiltonville, 4th Cong. ch.

Dover, Cong. ch. and so.

East Bridgewater, Union Cong. ch.
Easthampton, Payson Cong. ch.

East Northfield, Rev. F. J. Ward,
Enfield, Cong. ch. and so.

Fall River, Central Cong, ch., for new
work of East Central Africa Mission,
Fitchburg, Calvinist Cong. ch.
Georgetown, ist Cong. ch.

Greenfield, 2d Cong. ch.

Grafton, Evang. Cong. ch.

Granby, Cong. ch. and so., add’l,

9 00
10 00
8 70
32 65
6 10
486 10
10 00
37 24
50 00

60 24

75 00

94 96

5 50

6 25
16 64

134 91
5 00
8 22

30 00
12 00
7 60
36 59
73 9°
5 00

Donations.

[February,

Hadley, ist Cong. ch. 33 25

Hanover, ist Cong. ch. 3 61

Hardwick, Cong. ch. and so. 10 00

Harvard, A friend in Cong. ch. 100 00

Haverhill, North Cong, ch., of which
10 from Mrs. A. B. Kimball, 175;

A friend, 20, 195 00

Haydenville, Cong. ch. and so. 15 00

Hinsdale, Cong. ch. and so. 7 15

Indian Orchard, Cong. ch. and so. 31 81

Leominster, Cong. ch. and so. 23 50

Lenox, Cong. ch. and so. 13 15

Lexington, Hancock Cong, ch., 33.28;

Lex., 20, 53 28

Linden, Mrs. T. D. Goodhue, 1 00

Longmeadow, Ladies’ Benev. Assoc.,

5; Gentlemen’s do., 6.04, 11 04

Lowell, ist Cong. ch. 28 86

Lynn, ist Cong. ch. 43 00

Malden, Cong. ch. and so. 146 70

Mansfield, Cong. ch. and so. 14 00

Marblehead, ist Cong. ch. 42 00

Mattapoisett, Mrs. P. G. Hubbard, 5 00

Medford, Mystic Cong, ch., with other
dona., to const. Mrs. D. W. Wilcox
and Mrs. E. Boynton, H. M. 179 33

Medway, Village ch., with other dona.,
to const. Henry F. Spencer, H. M. 45 00
Middleton, Cong. ch. and so. 10 00

Millbury, ist Cong. ch. 73 36

Millers Falls, Cong. ch. and so. 6 00

Monson, Cong. ch. and so. 22 n

Montague, ist Cong. ch. 29 00

Natick, ist Cong. ch. 300 00

New Bedford, North Cong, ch., of
which 568.93 for sup. of Rev. and
Mrs. Bunker, 579 63

Newburyport, North Cong. ch. 85 27

Newton, Eliot ch., of which 456
toward salary of Rev. G. M. Row-
land, Tottori, Japan, 630.06; Mrs.

Louisa J. Byington, 45, 675 06

Newton Centre, ist Cong, ch., 147.74;

S. F. Wilkins, 45, 192 74

Norfolk County, B. C. 100 00

North Amherst, Cong. ch. and so. 20 18

Northampton, Benevolent Society of
Edwards Cong, ch., 15.68; Rev.

H. L. Edwards, 10, 25 68

Northbridge, ist Cong, ch., 50; Rock-
dale Cong, ch., 16, 66 00

North Brookfield, ist Cong. ch. 33 00

North Wilbraham, Grace Union ch. 10 30
Oxford, Cong. ch. and so. 25 00

Phillipston, Cong. ch. and so. 16 24

Pittsfield, ist Cong, ch., 150; South

Cong, ch., 41.36, 191 36

Plympton, Cong. ch. and so. 5 00

Reading, Cong. ch. and so. 5 24

Salem, A friend in South ch. 5 00

Sheffield, Cong. ch. and so., 15.17;

Y. P. S. C. E., for native preacher,

Madura, 20.28, 35 45

South Hadley, ist Cong. ch. 20 00

South Hadley Falls, Friends, 10 00

South Natick, John Eliot ch. 13 12

South Walpole, Missionary, 3 00

Springfield, ist Cong, ch., 187.85;

Park Cong, ch., 114.50; Olivet
Cong. ch. , with other dona. , to const.

Arthur J. Berry, H. M., 42;
Memorial church, 18.20; Ruth A.
Rockwell, in mem. of Uzal Rock-
well, 25; Mrs. A. C. Hunt, 1;

Mrs. C. E. Hitchcock, 1, 389 55

Stockbridge, Cong. ch. and so. 33 78

Sturbridge, ist Cong. ch. 34 92

Templeton, Trin. Cong. ch. 20 54

Upton, ist Cong. ch. 35 33

Warren, Cong. ch. and so. 160 00

Webster, ist Cong. ch. 34 34

Westboro, Cong. ch. and so. 92 26

Westfield, ist Cong, ch., 164; A
friend, 1, 165 00

West Hawley, Cong. ch. and so. 8 00

Westport, Pacific Union ch. 13 00

West Springfield, A friend, 2 00

Weymouth and Braintree, Union

Cong. ch. 43 00

Whitman, Cong. ch. and so. 50 00

Williamstown, ist Cong. ch. 46 98

Wilmington, Cong. ch. and so. 25 58

Winchendon, North Cong. ch. 30 58

Woburn, ist Cong, ch., 428.53; North

Cong, ch., 19.28, 447 81

Wollaston, Cong. ch. and so. 42 58

Worcester, Union Cong, ch., 94.20;

ist Cong, ch., 74, 168 20

Yarmouth, ist Cong. ch. 20 00

— , P., for support of a preacher

in Bohemia, 150 00-8,140 53

Legacies. — Boston, Clementina B.

Minot, bv Robert S. Minot,

Adm’r, bal. 2 63

Ipswich, Mrs. |Miriam G. Burrows,
by F. W. Coburn, Ex’r, add’l, 80 00
Monson, Cyrus W. Holmes, Jr., by
E. F. Morris & S. F. Cushman,

Ex’rs, 2,000 00

North Brookfield, Hammond Reed,
by J. E. Porter, Ex’r, 35 00

Springfield, Levi Graves, by D. W.

Wells, Trustee, add’l, 60 00

West Newbury, J. C. Carr, by J.

G. Tewksbury, Ex’r, for North

China College, Tung-cho, 500 00—2,677 63

10,818 16

RHODE ISLAND.

East Greenwich, James Roomian, 3 00

East Providence, Newman Cong. ch. 35 00

Providence, Pilgrim Cong. ch. 79 66 117 66

CONNECTICUT.

Bridgeport, ist Cong, ch., 513.52;

Olivet Cong, ch., 13,

Bristol, Cong. ch. and so.

Cheshire, Cong. ch. and so.

Chester, Cong. ch. and so.

Clinton, Friend, for native helper,
Madura,

Colebrook, Cong. ch. and so.
Columbia, Cong. ch. and so., 93.45,
incorrectly ackn’d in J anuary Her-
ald as from Columbus.

Cornwall, 2d Cong. ch.

Cromwell, A friend,

Danielsonville, Westfield Cong. ch.
Deep River, Cong. ch. and so.

East Avon, Cong. ch. and so., add’l,
East Hampton, ist Cong. ch.

East Hartford, Catherine Kingsbury,
East Haven, Cong. ch. and so.
Ellington, Cong. ch. and so.

Fairfield, ist Cong. ch. of Christ,
towards sal. of Rev. E. P. Elwood,
Fair Haven, 2d Cong. ch.

Farmington, ist Cong, ch., of which
100 toward sal. of Rev. G. P.
Knapp,

Gilead, Cong. ch. and so., with other
dona., to const. Rev. Henry B.
Mason, H. M., 21.25; Ladies’ Aux.,
toward support of Rev. A. W.
Clark and Rev. John S. Porter,
28.75,

Goshen, Cong. ch. and so.

Greenwich, 2d Cong, ch., of which
28.48 for Papal lands,

Groton, Cong. ch. and so.

Haddam, ist Cong. ch.

Hartford, Mrs. Maty C. Bemis,
Kensington, William Upson, 10;

Mary H. Upson, 5,

Lyme, Grassy Hill Cong. ch.

Madison, Cong. ch. and so.
Manchester, 2d Cong. ch.

Middletown, ist Cong, ch., 60.49;

South Cong, ch., 52.99,

Millington, Cong. ch. and so., 2.65; A
friend, 2.35,

Morris, Cong. ch. and so.

New Britain, South Cong, ch., to
const. Edwin M. Schultz and
Catherine A. Stanley, H. M.,
220.54; ist Ch. of Christ, 77.62,

526 52
60 02
35 00
26 77

40 OO

26 65

84 25
50 00
26 00
50 3»
5 00
33 27
4 00
32 25
218 00

50 00
90 50

212 50.

50 00
157 21

364 04
45 00
5 00
150 00

15 00

33 85

34 80
98 37

113 48

5 00

6 51

298 16

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Donations.

New Haven, ist Cong, ch., 394.67;
United ch., 304.75; Anonymous, 20;
A friend, 2,

New London, ist Ch. of Christ, of
which 16.27 m. c., to const. James
E. Goddard, H. M.

New Milford, ist Cong, ch., 174.50;

James Hine, 15,

Newtown, Cong. ch. and so.

North Branford, Cong. ch. and so.
Norwalk, ist Cong. ch.

Norwich, Park Cong, ch., toward sup.
of Rev. J. H. DeForest, 703.98;
Broadway Cong, ch., 200,

Orange, Cong. ch. and so.

Oxford, Cong. ch. and so.

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

Katherine B. Robbins, H. M.
Plymouth, Cong. ch. and so.
Poquonock, Cong. ch. and so.
Ridgefield, ist Cong. ch.

Salisbury, Cong, ch., Young men’s
Bible class, 3.25; “ The mites,” 1.25,
Saybrook, Ann A. Pratt,

Sharon, ist Cong. ch.

Somers, C. B. P.

South Britain, Cong. ch. and so.

South Norwalk, C. M. Laurence,
Stafford Springs, Cong. ch. and so.
Stanwich, Cong. ch. and so.

Terryville, B. E. C.

Unionville, Mrs. Mary M. Smith,
Vernon Centre, Cong, ch, and so.
Wallingford, Cong. ch. and so.

West Hartford, 1st Ch. of Christ,

West Haven, Cong. ch. and so., 28.15;

Mrs. Emeline Smith, 10,

Westport, Saugatuck Cong. ch.
Windsor, ist Cong. ch. and so.

Windsor Locks, Cong. ch. and so.
Winsted, ist Cong. ch.

Wolcott, Cong. ch. and so.

, A friend,

721 42

124 92

189 50
10 00
14 91
hi 10

903 98

14 15

17 60

123 28
25 46
38 43

37 33

4 5°
50 00

15 62
9 00
9 55
1 25

21 44
1 00
40 00
25 00
72 00
30 00
U3 72

38 15
56 37
92 75

4 50

30 00-6,133 °8

Legacies. — New Haven, James P.

Dickerman, by George L. Dicker-
man, Adm’r, 5,000 00

Rocky Hill, Rev. Asa B. Smith, by
Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex’r, 165 00—5,165 00

Utica, Bethesda Welsh Cong. ch. 5 00

Warsaw, Cong. ch. 13 08-8,614 84

Legacies. — New York, John S. Ken-
yon, by Erastus F. Brown, Ex’r, 5,000 00

NEW JERSEY.

East Orange, Trinity Cong. ch.
Haddonfield, J. D. Lynde,

Newark, Belleville-ave. Cong. ch.
Plainfield, Mrs. Sarah F. Johnson,
Vineland, Ch. of the Pilgrims,

13,614 84

68 50
100 00
143 53
10 00

12 00 — 334 03

PENNSYLVANIA.

Braddock, Woman’s Miss’y Soc.

East Smithfield, Cong. ch.

Guy’s Mills, Mrs. F. Maria Guy,
Kane, J. M. Gillette,

Lansford, 2d Cong. ch.

Philadelphia, “ Lancaster,”
Wilkesbarre, ist Welsh Cong, ch.,
12.75; “ In mem. of Albert Samuel,”
5>

MARYLAND.

6 00
16 00
3 00
5 00
9 50
100 00

17 75 157 25

Baltimore, “ Gratitude,”

8 00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Washington, A thank-offering from

Rev. and Mrs. B. N. Seymour, 40 00

GEORGIA.

Atlanta, Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Atlanta

University, 4 80

FLORIDA.

Georgiana, F. W. Munson, 3 00

Key West, Men’s Miss’y Soc. 10 80 13 80

TENNESSEE.

Knoxville, Pilgrim Cong. ch.
Petway, A. P. Highland,

Pleasant Hill, Cong. ch. and so.

21 20
2 00

NEW YORK.

Angola, A. H. Ames, 5 00

Brooklyn, Central Cong, ch., of which
500 from D. M. Stone and 212.25
m. c., 3,814.14; Tompkins-ave.

Cong, ch., 940; Church of the Pil-
grims, 477; Plymouth Cong, ch., 86;

South Cong, ch., add’l, 79.11 ; Trinity
Cong, ch., Miss’y Soc., 17.85;
Beecher Memo, ch., 15, 5,429 10

Brookton, Cong. ch. 10 00

Buffalo, Pilgrim Cong. ch. 7 01

Camden, Cong. ch. and Sab. sch. 42 26

Canaan Four Corners, Mrs. A. Barstow, 15 00
Canandaigua, ist Cong. ch. 96 46

Chateaugay, Joseph Shaw, 5 00

Chenango Forks, Cong. ch. 10 80

East Bloomfield, Cong, ch., 28; Mrs.

Eliza S. Goodwin, 1.90, 29 90

Hamilton, Cong. ch. 12 00

Jamestown, Miss J. A. Moses, 25 00

Middletown, ist Cong. ch. 8 99

New York, Broadway Tabernacle, to
const. William Ives Washburn,

Jr., and E. M. Cravath, d.d.,

H. M., 2,590.25; Two friends in
do., 15; Rev. J. H. Worcester, Jr.,

30; A friend, 25; C. Irving Fisher,

20; C. T. Kilborne, 4.25; A friend,

2, 2,686 50

North Walton, Cong. ch. 8 50

Oswego, ist Cong. ch. 74 06

Portland, ist Cong. ch. 12 15

Poughkeepsie, ist Cong. ch. 38 28

Rocky Point, Cong. ch. 13 54

Saratoga Springs, New Eng. Cong. ch. 34 63

Setauket, Julia Hale, 2 00

Sidney, ist Cong. ch. 27 58

Union Centre, I. T. Brown, 3 00

11,298 08

TEXAS.

Denison, ist Cong. ch.

Saif Antonio, Mrs. S. M. Newton,

INDIANA.

Terre Haute, ist Cong. ch.

25 00

MISSOURI.

Mine La Motte, Cong. ch.

14 40

OHIO.

Andover, Cong. ch.

Austinburgh, Y. P. S. C. E., toward
sup. of native preacher in Marshall
Islands,

Burton, Cong, ch., for new work in
East Cent. Africa Mission,

Charlestown, Cong. ch.

Cleveland, Union Cong, ch., 8.35;
Mrs. E. F. Harrington, 10,

Columbus, Mayflower Cong. ch.

Coolville, A friend,

Geneva, Cong. ch.

Hudson, Cong. ch.

Nebo, Cong. ch.

Oberlin, 2d Cong, ch., 135.92; ist
Cong, ch., 68.75,

Painesville, ist Cong, ch., of which
36.65 for sup. of Bible reader in
Africa,

Ravenna, Cong. ch.

Sandusky, ist Cong. ch.

Springfield, Elenor M. Purssell,

Thomastown, Cong. ch.

Wellington, Edward West,

York, Cong. ch.

Youngstown, Welsh Cong. ch.

14 00

15 00

10 00
2 00

18 35
3 36
40
22 00
20 00
5 80

204 67

90 02

11 52

4 35

5 co

6 ©o
15 00
20 00

14 00 481 47

Donations.

[February,

ILLINOIS.

Albion, Rev. P. W. Wallace and
family,

Cambridge, Cong. ch.

Champaign, Cong. ch.

Chesterfield, Cong. ch.

Chicago, Kenwood Evang. ch., 300.77;
1st Cong, ch., 199.62; New Eng.
Cong, ch., 136.38; Plymouth Cong,
ch., 111.85; Lincoln Park Cong, ch.,
94.48; Central Pai'k Cong. ch. and
Sab. sch., 40.75; Leavitt-st. Cong,
ch., 14.14; Douglas Park Cong, ch.,
8.35; W. B. Jacobs, 50,

Decatur, Cong. ch.

Delavan, R. Hoghton,

Englewood, Pilgrim Cong. ch.

Forrest, Cong. ch.

Freeport, Evang. Asso. and 2d Presb.
ch., toward support of Rev. T. W.
Woodside, West Cent. Africa,
Geneseo, 1st Cong. ch.

Kewanee, Cong. ch.

Knoxville, H. Rowles,

La Moille, Cong. ch.

Moline, 2d Cong. ch.

Neponset, Cong. ch.

Ottawa, 1st Cong ch.

Pittsfield, Edward Doocy, to const.

Mrs. Clara L. Doocy, H. M.
Plano, Cong. ch.

Polo, Ind. Presb. ch.

Quincy, xst Union Cong. ch.

Roberts, Woman’s Miss’y Soc.
Rockford, 2d Cong. ch.

Rogers Park, Cong. ch.

Springfield, 1st Cong. ch.

Tonica, Cong. ch.

MICHIGAN.
Ann Arbor, 1st Cong. ch.

Detroit, 1st Cong, ch., 224.94; Wood-
ward-ave. Cong, ch., 151.59,

Flat Rock, Cong. ch.

Grand Rapids, Smith Memo, ch., for
work in Sholapur, Marathi Mission,
Hudson, Cong. ch.

Red Jacket, Rev. J. W. Savage,
Romeo, A friend,

St. Clair, Cong. ch.

Utica, Cong. ch.

Wayne, 1st Cong. ch.

WISCONSIN.

2 50
5 00
J5 73
7 5i

956 34
20 00
20 00
72 00
16 82

20 00
91 97
70 40
5 00
16 00
20 07
5 00
42 11

100 00
4 60
10 10
98 27

587 28
16 72

50—2,247 30

376

10 00 642 73

ch., 19.18,

72 43

British Hollow, Thos. Davies,

30 00

Clinton, Cong. ch.

12 00

Delavan, Cong. ch.

10 00

Janesville, 1st Cong. ch.

5 00

Koshkonong, Cong. ch.

7 15

Lancaster, Cong. ch.

5 25

Milwaukee, Grand-ave. Cong. ch.

46 00

Navan, Karl Mueller,

2 00

Oshkosh, Zion Cong. ch.

36 40

Racine, 1st Presb. ch.

24 32

Ripon, 1st Cong. ch.

18 42

Rosen dale, 1st Cong. ch.

10 50

Waukesha, “ C.” 10 00

Whitewater, Cong. ch. 22 86 312 33

IOWA.

Burlington, Cong. ch. 18 23

Cherokee, Cong. ch. 32 00

Chester Centre, Cong. ch. 12 61

Denmark, Cong. ch. 5 00

Gem Point, Cong, ch., for India, 2 40

Grinnell, Cong. ch. 21 00

Hull, Cong. ch. 15 28

Iowa City, Cong. ch. 63 60

Keokuk, Cong. ch. 15 00

Marshalltown, Cong. ch. 21 52

Orchard, Cong. ch. 9 00

Stuart, Cong. ch. 30 00 245 64

MINNESOTA.

Excelsior, Cong. ch. 10 15

Mankato, Sewing Soc. in Swedish
Cong. ch. , for work in China, 25 00

97 87
53 54

15 80

84 98
146 56

68—

-457

;io

00 142

3°

55 —

-56

Minneapolis, Plymouth Cong, ch.,
65.87; Pilgrim Cong, ch., i7,add’l;
A friend, 12; W. N. R., 3,
Northfield, Cong. ch.

Rochester, W. J. Eaton, 10.80; Rev.

John A. Ainslie, 5,

St. Paul, Plymouth Cong, ch., 68.31;

Pacific Cong. ch. , 16.67,

Winona, 1st Cong. ch.

Worthington, Union Cong. ch.

KANSAS.

Alma, Cong, ch,

Council Grove, Cong. ch.
Leavenworth, 1st Cong. ch.
Wabaunsee, 1st ch. of Christ,

NEBRASKA.

Aten, Cong. ch.

Blyville, Cong. ch.

Cambridge, 1st Cong. ch.

Creighton, 1st Cong. ch.

Fowler, George Osborne,

Grand Isle, 1st Cong. ch.

Grant, Cong. ch.

Inland, Cong. ch.

Sutton, H. B. Battishill,

CALIFORNIA.

Avalon, Cong. cb. 12 00

Oakland, Pilgrim Cong, ch., 39.52;

Class of ’93 in Pacific Theol. Sem.,
for sup. of theol. student at Tung-
cho, 12.20; Plymouth-ave. Cong,
ch., 5.20, 56 92

Pasadena, Jas. W. Scoville, 1 15

Rio Vista, Cong. ch. 29 00

Sierra Madre, 1st Cong. ch. 14 51

Woodbridge, Mrs. M. Skey, 10; Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Skey, 5, 15 00-

COLORADO.

Denver, 1st Cong. ch.

WASHINGTON.

East Tacoma, Cong. ch.

Houghton, Cong. ch.

Shokomish, Cong. ch.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Mayville, Cong. ch. 7 65

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Alexandria, Cong. ch.

Egan, Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Mathews,

Friedensfeld, Cong. ch.

Hoffnungsberg, Cong. ch.

Meckling, Cong. ch.

North Kassler, Cong. ch.

Parkston, Zion Cong. ch.

Seimenthal, German Cong. ch.

Yankton, Cong, ch., add’l,

MONTANA.

Red Lodge, Rev. W. H. Watson,

IDAHO.

Challis, 1st Cong, ch., of which 2.50
from Mrs. I. Morgan, 10 00

WYOMING.

Cheyenne, 2d Cong. ch. 5 00

UTAH.

Salt Lake City, Members of Phillips ch. 5 00

OKLAHOMA.

Kingfisher, Cong. ch. 6 75

DOMINION OF CANADA.

Province of Quebec.

Montreal, Y. P. S. C. E. of Amer.

Presb. ch., for sup. of Rev. Hilton
Pedley,

-128 58

76 00

5 5°

5 20

12 05 22 75

56 —

-57 11

3 00

300 00

18930

Donations.

FOREIGN LANDS AND MISSIONARY
STATIONS.

Micronesia, Monthly contrib. at Pon-
ape and Pingelap in 1891, per Rev.

F. E. Rand, 40 00

Turkey, Alacham, Nicola Kouzoujouk
Oglou, for gospel work in heathen
lands, 440 00 480 00

MISSION WORK FOR WOMEN.

From Woman’s Board of Missions.

Miss Ellen Carruth, Boston, Treasurer.

For several missions in part, 10,072 85

For trav. expenses and salaries of
missionaries in 1892, 6,321 35

For allowances to missionaries in this
country in 1892, 4,461 88

For outfits of missionaries and freight
and insurance, 5.271 75-26,127 83

From Woman’s Board of Missions of the

Interior.

Mrs. J. B. Leake, Chicago, Illinois,
Treasurer , 1,000 00

For Miss Houseman’s trav. expenses, 327 94

For Miss A. D. Graham, for do. 160 49—1,488 43

27,616 26

MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE.

Maine. — Andover, Cong. ch. and Sab. sch.,

8; Gorham, Y. P. S. C. E., 14.60; Green-
ville, Cong. Sab. sch., 10; Machiasport,

Cong. Sab. sch., 5.65, 38 25

New Hampshire. — Canterbury, Y. P. S.

C. E., 15; Gilmanton Iron Works, Y. P. S.

C. E., 5.20; Gilsum, Cong. Sab. sch., 14.04;
Hampstead, Cong. Sab. sch., 25; Hollis,

Y. P. S. C. E., 28.26; Wilmot, Cong. Sab.
sch., 1, 88 50

Vermont. — Fairlee, Y. P. S. C. E., 3;

Grand Isle, Cong. Sab. sch., 2.79; South
Hero, Cong. Sab. sch., 8.71, 14 50

Massachusetts. — Boston, Y. P. S. C. E of
Eliotch. (Roxbury), 8.04; Boylston Centre,

Y. P. S. C. E., 25.02; Dalton, 1st Cong.

Sab. sch., 10; East Longmeadow, Y. P. S.

C. E., for pupil in East. Turkey, 10; Lynn,

Y. P. S. C. E. of 1st Cong, ch., 15; Middle-
ton, Y. P. S. C. E., 1; Monterey, Cong.

Sab. sch., for Africa, 7.56, 76 62

Connecticut. — Canterbury, Y. P. S. C. E.,

2.80; Columbia, Cong. Sab. sch., with other
dona., to const. Albert A. Latham, H. M.,

20; Hartford, Centre Cong. Sab. sch., for
school in Marathi, 25; New Britain, Stand-

ard Bearers, South Cong, ch., 20, 67 80

New York. — Brooklyn, South Cong. Sab.
sch., 50; Chenango Forks. j^ong. Sab. sch.,

1.70; Fairport, Cong. Sab. sch., 10; Say-
ville, Cong. Sab. sch., 16, 77 70

New Jersey. — Vineland, Y. P. S. C. E. of
ch. of the Pilgrims, 15 00

District of Columbia. — Washington, Y. P.

S. C. E. of 5th Cong, ch., for school, Ma-
dura Mission, 10 00

Tennessee. — Pleasant Hill, Y. P. S. C. E. 4 60

Missouri. — Green Ridge, Y. P. S. C. E.,

3.25; Kidder, Y. P. S. C. E., 5; Republic,

1st Cong. Sab. sch., 9; St. Joseph, Y. P. S.

C. E.,4.60, 21 85

Ohio. — Cleveland, Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E.,
for work in Marathi, 10; Cuyahoga Falls,

1st Cong. Sab. sch., 20, 30 00

Illinois. — Seward, Grove Sab. sch. 10 82

Michigan. — New Haven, Cong. Sab. sch. 5 00

Wisconsin. — Clinton, Cong. Sab. sch., 11.50;
Milwaukee, Grand-ave. Cong. Sab. sch. (of
which 4.88 for Mexico, 9.19 for China, 6.68
for Ruk), 42.57; Ripon, Cong. Sab. sch.,

3-86, 57 93

Iowa. — Atlantic, Cong. Sab. sch., 14.88; Bel-
mond, Cong. Sab. sch., 1.95; Newburgh,

Cong. Sab. sch., 2.50; Storm Lake, Cong.

Sab. sch., 1.84, 21 17

Minnesota. — Mankato, Y. P. S. C. E. of
Swedish Cong, ch., for China, 10 00

Kansas. — Kirwin, Y. P. S. C. E. 4 50

California. — Sierra Madre, Y. P. S. C. E.

of 1st Cong. ch. 1 50

Washington. — Houghton, Cong. Sab. sch. 2 30

558 04

CHILDREN’S “MORNING STAR” MISSION.

New Hampshire. — —James L. Batchelder,
Connecticut. — Farmington, 1st Cong. Sab.
sch., 20.32; Haddam, Cong. Sab. sch., 6;
Plainville, Cong. Sab. sch., 10; Waterbury,
Infant class, 2d Cong. Sab. sch., 15,

5i 32

Pennsylvania. — Mahanoy City, Evan Jenkins, 50

Iowa. — Dubuque, German Sab. sch. 8 03

California. — Highland, Y. P. S. C. E. 7 50

New York. — North Walton. $6.00 in January Herald should have read from this place.

ADVANCED CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 1893.

Vermont. — Barton, Rev. A. C. Swain, 15 00

Massachusetts. — Boston, A friend, 500; Norfolk Co., C. M. B., 100, 600 00

615 00

FOR SUPPORT OF YOUNG MISSIONARIES.

Connecticut. — Hebron, Y. P. S. C. E.,

12.50; Lisbon, Y. P. S. C. E., 6.25, 18 75

Ohio. — Harbor, Y. P. S. C. E., 3; Newark,

Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E., 25, 28 00

Indiana. — Whiting, Plymouth Cong. Sab.

sch. 6 25

Illinois. — Ashkum, Y. P. S. C. E., 25;

Downer’s Grove, do., 25; Farmington, do.

and Sab. sch., 25; Loda, do., 12.50; Odell,

do., 12.50; Sheffield, do., 15, 115 00

Minnesota. — Owatoma, Y. P. S. C. E. 25 00
Kansas. — Chapman, Y. P. S. C. E., 6.25;

Linwood, do. and Sab. sch., 6.25, 12 50

Nebraska. — Columbus, Y. P. S. C. E. 6 25

North Dakota. — Cong. Sab. sch. 12 50

224 25

ADDITIONAL DONATIONS

Maine. — Castine, The Desert Palm Soc., for
“Aghavni,” Harpoot, care Miss Seymour,

30; Rockland, Golden Sands Mission Band,

FOR SPECIAL OBJECTS.

for Ardashes Hovasapian, care Rev. Robert
Chambers, 25; South Brewer, Y. P. S. C.

E., for work of Rev. Horatio Newell, 11.35, 66 35

Donations.

[February, 1893.

New Hampshire. — Gilmanton Iron Works,
Children’s Nickel Soc., for work of Miss
Price, Zulu Mission, 6.72; Littleton, Y. P.

S. C. E. , for work of Rev. E. P. Holton, 40, 46 72

Vermont. — Westminster West, Cong. Sab.
sch. , for sup. of girl in Batticotta Sem. , care

W. E. Hitchcock, 12; , A friend, for

work of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Pixley, Zulu
Mission, 30, 42 00

Massachusetts. — Boston, Mrs. S. C. Warren,
lor “Garmond Type, ”100; 2d Cong. Sab. sch.
(Dorchester) , for M. Solomon, 30; Park-st.
ch., E. K. A., for books for Girls’ Sch.,

Samokov, 13.35; Brookfield, C. P. Blan-
chard, for work of Rev. W. P. Elwood, 25;

Dedham, Miss M. C. Burgess, for North
China College, Tung-cno, 50; Fall River,

A friend, for Boys’ School, Cesarea, care
Rev. W. A. Farnsworth, 25; Haverhill,

Chinese Mission school of North Cong, ch.,
for proposed Training School for South
China Mission, care Rev. C. R. Hager, 25;
Lawrence, Trinity Cong Sab. sch., for sup-
port of pupil, care Rev. W. A. Farnsworth,

40; Malden, 1st Cong, ch., for Okayama
Orphan Asylum, care Rev. J. H. Pettee, 5;
Northboro, Cong. Sab. sch., for the Do-
shisha, 9.76; Plympton, Extra-cent-a-day
Band of Cong, ch., for educa. of boy in
Anatolia College, 14; Quincy, Y. P. S. C.

E., for work of Miss Alice P. Adams, Oka-
yama, 5; South Acton, Cong. Sab. sch.,
for work of Miss C. Shattuck, 5; Wake-
field, Cong. Sab. sch., for North China Col-
lege, Tung-cho, 18.29; Worcester, Ply-
mouth Cong. Sab. sch., for cottage at Pasu-
malai Sem., 150; do., Primary dep’t in
Piedmont Sab. sch., in mem. of Miss Kate
Taft, toward educa. of boy, care Mrs. Geo.

P. Knapp, 18, 533 40

Connecticut — Danbury, Primary Sab. sch.
class, 1st Cong, ch., fey use of Rev. J. E.

Tracy, Madura, 25; do., Y. P. S. C. E. of
do., toward sup. of Japanese student, care
Rev. J, D. Davis, 10; do., 2d Cong. Sab.
sch., for work of Rev. W. N. Chambers,
xo; Huntington, Cong. ch. and Sab. sch.,
for native ch., Madura, care Rev. Geo. W.

Wright, 10; East Windsor, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for support of boy, care Rev. J. C. Perkins,

7.50; New Haven, Asher Sheldon, for work
at Choonkoosh, care Rev. H. N. Barnum, 2, 64 50

New York. — New York, Mrs. Julia Bil-
lings, for industrial work at Samokov, 100;
do., Z. Stiles Ely, for native preacher in
Madura Mission, care of Rev. J. E. Tracy,

50; do., Mrs. I. G. Bliss, for Bible-woman,
care of Mrs. H. O. Dwight, 5; North
Haven, King’s Daughters, for native
preacher, care of Rev. J. E. Tracy, 40;

Oxford, Dr. E. L. Ensign, for native
preacher, Madura, care of Rev. J. C. Per-
kins, 50; Rochester, Mrs. Geo. W. Davi-
son, Christmas offering for Okayama Orphan
Asylum, care of Rev. J. H. Pettee, 25, 270 00

New Jersey. — Boonton, Friends, by Rev.

Thomas Carter, for Talas Dispensary, care

of Dr. Dodd, 71.07; Lakewood, A. W.
Kenney, for scholarship at Anatolia Col-
lege, care of Rev. Geo. E. White, 25;
Montclair, xst Cong. Sab. sch., for school
at Chihuahua, care of Rev. J. D. Eaton,
34.58; Plainfield, Cong. Sab. sch., for
scholarship at Anatolia College, 30; Tren-
ton, John C. Smock, for theol. student,
Japan, care of Rev. J. D. Davis, 35; do.,
for pupil, Madura, care of Rev. J C. Per-
kins, 30; do., for native preacher, care of

do., 50; Westfield, Cong, ch., for use of
Rev. J. D. Eaton, 10, 285 65

Pennsylvania. — Morristown, Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Whiting, 100 00

Arkansas. — Rogers, Y. P. S. C. E., for use

of Miss Mary G. Webb, 5 00

Kentucky. — Berea, Cong. Sab. sch., for use
of Rev. C. A. Clark, Japan, 8 55

Missouri. — Kansas City, Y. P. S. C. E. of
1st Cong, ch., for Kyoto Training Sch.,
care of Miss H. E. Fraser, 25 00

Ohio. — Toledo, W. I. Squire, for work of
Miss L. Miner, Tung-cho, 10; Wellington,

Mrs. Austin Chapman, for use of Mrs.

H. C. Haskell, Samokov, 10; do., Edward
West, for do., 5, 25 00

Illinois. — Chicago, W. B. Jacobs, for work
of Rev. T. W. Woodside, 50; do., Mrs.

John Wade, for do., 6; do., T. B. Khun-
gian, for Absalom Shirinian, care of Rev.

W. A. Farnsworth, 20; do., Junior Y. P.

S. C. E. of Millard-ave. Cong, ch., for
educa. of girl at Erzroom, care of Mrs.

M. E. Richardson, 10; Harvey, Y. P. S.

C. E., for student at Marsovan, care of
Rev. Geo. E. White, 15, 101 00

Wisconsin. — Elkhorn, Friends, for books
for Miss M. G. Nutting, 4.50; Madison,

Friends, for room in memory of Miss
Bertha Smith, care of Miss Jane C. Smith,
Marsovan, 50; Wauwatosa, Cong. Sab. sch.,
for salary of Wen Lin, care of Rev. Chaun-
cey Goodrich, 30, 84 50

Iowa. — Des Moines, Mrs. A. Y. Rawson’s
class in Plymouth Cong. Sab. sch., for
Bible-woman, care of Rev. G. E. Albrecht,

30; do., Mrs. E. T. Whitman and daugh-
ters, for school at Pasumalai, care of Rev.

G. T. Washburn, 15, 45 00

Minnesota. — Minneapolis, Plymouth ch.,
for work of Rev. E. B. Haskell, 15; do.,
for work of Mrs. Mary E. Stanley, 3, 18 00

Kansas. — Westmoreland. Harry and Willie

Cotton, for use of Rev. T. W. Woodside, 2 00

California. — Petaluma, Friends, for support
of “Annal,”care of Miss M. M. Root, 15;

Redlands, Cong. Sab. sch., for sup. of
pupil, care of Miss Denton, 16, 31 00

South Dakota. — Watertown, Cong. Sab.
sch., for Boys’ sch., care of Mrs. D. H.

Clapp, Shansi, 14 00

Turkey. — Alacham, Nicola Kouzoujouk
Oglou, for sup. of two evangelists among
the Greeks in Turkey, 440; do., for the
Greeks’ Turkish child’s paper for 1893, 44;
do., for other special miss’y work, 396, 880 00

MISSION WORK FOR WOMEN.

From Woman’s Board of Missions.

Miss Ellen Carruth, Boston, Treasurer.

For building for girls, at Sirur, care of

Mrs. Winsor, 560 00

For add’l premises at Ahmednagar,
care of Miss E. R. Bissell, 240 00 800 00

For Marash girl, one year in Cons’p’le
Home, care of Miss E. M. Blakely,
For Miss E. O. Prescott’s trav. ex-
penses tq Mission Annual Meeting,
For pupil, care of Miss Meyer,

For pupil, care of Miss Dudley,

66 00

45 00
10 00

7 00 — 648 00

4,095 67

From Woman’s Board of Missions of the
Interior.

Mrs. J. B. Leake, Chicago, Illinois,
Treasurer.

For rent of house for Miss Zimmer, 200 00
For furnishing do. 200 00

For teacher at Hermosillo, for 1892,
care of Rev. M. A. Crawford, 120 00

Donations received in December,
Legacies ,, „

65,886 05 *
12,842 63

78,728 68

Total from September 1 to December
31, 1892: Donations, $157,397.83;

Legacies, $33,293.01 = $190,690.84.

For Young People

HENRY MARTYN : SCHOLAR, SAINT, AND MISSIONARY.

The bearer of this illustrious title was the leader of a noble army of heroes
and of martyrs for the faith who have been stirred by his example and have
followed in his steps. Attention has recently been recalled to him whose name
was a household word to an earlier generation by an admirable biography, by Dr.
George Smith, issued by the Fleming H. Revell Company, to whose kindness we
are indebted for the use of the cuts in this article.

PAGODA, ALDEEN HOUSE.

This beloved man was born in 1781, in Truro, county of Cornwall, England,
and was at seven years of age a clever, careless boy, of delicate constitution. At
sixteen he entered college at Cambridge ; a restless, brilliant, irritable youth,
with an uneasy conscience which provoked him to sudden bursts of passion.
At nineteen, under the shadow of his father’s death and through the influence
of faithful fellow-students, he began, as he said, “ to consider that invisible world
to which I must one day go. I began to attend more diligently to the words of
our Saviour in the New Testament and to devour them with delight.” All the

82 Henry Marty n : Scholar , Saint , and Missionary. [February,

longings of his impulsive nature now found rest and satisfaction in the living,
reigning, personal Christ. At the same time, calmed and steadied by his new
faith, he won great distinction as a student and came out as Senior Wrangler
before he was twenty years of age. The next year, 1801, saw him Fellow of his
College, and winner of a University Latin Prize, and also witnessed his resolve to
renounce the study of law, to which he had looked forward, and became a mis-
sionary of Christ. His pastor, Rev. Charles Simeon, secured his appointment to
the Bengal Chaplaincy to the East India Company, and a sympathizing circle of
college friends cheered him on. William Carey had then been nine years in
India, and from the moment that Henry Martyn’s attention was called to his
work, his own thoughts had centred about the far East.

As he was not yet of the required age, he spent two years in the home duties
of a curate, and during this time he suffered a severe discipline of alternate hope

SHIRAZ.

and fear in regard to Lydia Grenfell, the lady whom he loved and whose heart
was truly given to him. The pathetic story of their struggle with obstacles —
which at present seem unreal — to their greater usefulness and to their happiness
is now for the first time fully told. However unnecessary this heartbreak of
separation may have been, being borne by both in a very passion of submission
and trust, and in the comfort of their fellowship with Christ, it wrought out last-
ing results of holy character in the sufferers.

Martyn was twenty-four when he sailed, in 1805, on his nine months’ voyage
to India, with an English fleet. Of a regiment of soldiers with their officers
and of all the East India cadets on board his ship, only five would join in his
daily worship, and from the rest he endured a blasphemous opposition. He fed
his splendid courage with Bible truth, and worked hard at the Hindu, Bengali,
and Portuguese languages, which he was to use. From Madura he wrote to Miss
Grenfell’s sister : “ God knows how dearly I love you and Lydia and Sally, and
all his saints in England, yet I bid you an everlasting farewell almost without a
sigh.”

1893-]

Henry Marty n: Scholar , Saint , and Missionary.

On the voyage out, the captains of the fleet were informed that the object oi
the expedition was the Cape Colony and that a stout resistance was expected
from the Dutch, who had then misgoverned South Africa for nearly 150 years.
Thus Henry Martyn became a witness of the battles which gave the Cape of
Good Hope to British rule and made it the base from which Christian Missions
have slowly spread northward toward the heart of the continent.

Landing at Calcutta in May, 1806, Martyn first sought out Mr. Carey, who, in
his delight with him, declared that wherever Martyn went no other missionary
would be needed. While waiting five months for his appointment to his first
military station, he preached on Sundays in Calcutta and studied through the
weekdays at Serampore, residing at Aldeen House, in the family of Rev. David
Brown. In the garden still stands the ancient idol temple in which Martyn
lived, the picture of which we give on a previous page, and which has ever since
been known as “ Henry Martyn’s Pagoda.”

Henry Martyn : Scholar , Saint , and Missionary. [Feb., 1893.

His special object was to give the gospel message to Mohammedans, and he
devoted his fine linguistic powers to the translation of the Bible into Hindustani,
Persian, and Arabic for their use. At last his appointment came ; it was to
Dinapore. There, and at Patna and Cawnpore, he faithfully performed the
duties of his chaplaincy during the four following years, from 1806 to 1810, all
the while translating, and declaring the gospel truth to the natives with incessant
industry and zeal. To Mrs. Sherwood, an English officer’s wife, we owe most of
the outside knowledge we have of this period of Martyn’s life. She pictures
him thus : “ His features were not regular, but the expression was so luminous,
so intellectual, so affectionate, so beaming with divine charity, that no one could
have thought of his features — the outbeaming of his soul would absorb the
attention. He had a rich, deep voice and a fine taste for music. There was a
very decided air, too, of the gentleman and a perfection of manners ; he was as
remarkable for ease as for cheerfulness, and he was one of the humblest of men.”
He lived with his Arab and Indian language teachers ; the former of whom was
a wild man of the desert, so that Martyn describes himself as “ the keeper of
a lunatic,” and was ever surrounded by a crowd of natives, beggars and ascetics,
to whom he “ preached wonderfully He finished the Hindustani New Testa-
ment in 1807. Toil such as this soon wasted his strength; he was supported
under it, he said, by a daily miracle. Often he entered the Sherwood home and
sank down almost fainting with exhaustion and with the raging heat. He lost
the use of his voice for public speaking, but could still translate and converse.
At length even this brought on pain in the chest, and he left India in January,
1 81 1, for Arabia and Persia, there to employ his enforced silence upon the Per-
sian New Testament. He lived nearly a year in Shiraz, and through him the
gospel first entered Persia, whence he departed amid the blessings and tears of
many friends, having finished his translation in February, 1812. The extreme
hardships of an eight weeks’ journey developed the weakness of his lungs and
a raging fever increased his sufferings. He applied for leave to return to Eng-
land, being too ill to traverse Asia toward India. Though reduced to a mere
skeleton he still pursued his painful way until he reached Tocat, in Western
Turkey, where, on the sixteenth of October, 1812, he rested from all his toils.

Never were his hopes more clear and strong than amid these last distresses.
Even at Tocat he wrote, “ I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort
and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter.”
Thus passed away this young man of thirty-one, who compressed into six years
the work of a full lifetime, and whose death accomplished as much as his life.
Many have been moved to missionary service by his example, and thousands
have been stimulated to a new spiritual activity by his Journals. His grave
took possession of the land for Christ, and Tocat is now an out-station of
Sivas, in our own Western Turkey Mission. And always on the anniversary of
his death a memorial sermon is preached in the cathedral of Truro, in which the
cause he loved is set forth. Young people who wish to make the most of their
lives may see in the high honor given Martyn, in the unsought but real and
lasting fame and influence for good which he acquired, an illustration of our
Lord’s saying, “ He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”

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