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water. These are their offerings to the sea serpent, and their way of asking for a prosperous expedition. Whilst you are looking at these people you must take care that you are not tumbled into the sea by one of the boys in a hurry to scramble into his boat, and not lose his share of the feast; or if you are anywhere near the middle of the road, mind you are not knocked down by the chairs, or by the coolies (that is, the labouring class of men) carrying as fast as they can, slung on a thick bamboo, between two, the boxes, heavy bales, and burdens of cloth, silk, tea, luggage, fish, baskets, and I am sorry to add, loads of opium.

The Chinese shops are mostly built (for

NEW MISSION CHURCH AT OSAKA.

the sake of coolness) under a projecting colonnade; and on the pillars hang for each shop large white boards, with Chinese characters describing the nature of the wares sold. For example, "Ching Foo has all sorts of fine rice; customers, walk in." "Wang Ching has all sorts of large and small toys and sweetmeats; strangers are welcome." "Hong Loo has all kinds of nails, locks, and brass work for ships; wealthy customers are invited," &c. On both sides of the thoroughfare are quantities of street stalls, at which the small traders sit, inviting attention, sometimes by a drum or a fife. On the stalls for eatables are, according to the season, many very tempting-looking things. Pieces of sugar-cane, red and yellow plums, small Chinese peaches, bananas (looking like great windsor bean-pods, but yellow and black), lichees (a Chinese fruit like a large arbutus berry), oranges (some with their leaves on, others peeled and split), lumps of pink ginger, dried fruits, pieces of sickly-looking jelly, rice cakes, and shin

ing, sugary goodies of all colours and sorts, puffs, and meat pies, and glasses with lemonade all ready poured out.

When a steamer has newly come in, and especially when the two large white steamboats arrive from Canton, filled with Chinese, there is a fine rush and crush of the sedan chairs, coolies, boxes, and people of every sort. This Praya reaches an immense distance along the harbour side. The large vessels can only come up to it at a few places, where wharves have been built. So most of these lie at a distance, and their luggage and coal boats go out to them. The merchant ships and junks are only allowed to lie at one end of the

harbour. The other end is reserved by the Government for the ships of war and the mails. There is always good order. The Chinese labourers are immensely industrious and good-tempered. You hardly ever hear a quarrel, and if there is, it generally ends in a laugh; and there is no drunkenness except among the English sailors and soldiers, but I am glad to say we do not often see even that herenot at least on the busy Praya.

(To be continued.)

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AT Hong Kong the C.M.S. has 1 missionary, 1 Native clergyman, 10 Native lay teachers, 123 Native Christians, 2 schools, 125 scholars.

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Mr. Warren thus describes the new church:

"The length of the entire building is about 46 feet, and its

STATISTICS OF THE C.M.S. MISSIONS, 1878.
Condensed from the Annual Report.

breadth about 23 feet. The foundation is of granite, laid on well-pre-
pared ground just below the surface-about two feet of the wrought
stone being left bare between the ground and the plaster above. About
two feet from the ground, the wooden framework which supports the
roof, and gives stability to the entire structure commences. Between
the perpendicular timbers, strong bamboo is laced and tied with straw
rope, like lattice-work, and the whole is plastered with coarse mud, both
within and without, forming good solid walls. A strong lime plaster
covers all, and the corners of the building are made to resemble blocks of
stone, adding to the neatness of its appearance. The principal-or what
in an ordinary English church, built east and west, would be the west-
door faces pretty nearly north, and opens upon a much-used road, which
runs between the two principal bridges which connect the Foreign
Settlement with the Native city, and one of its most important suburbs.
The porch outside was erected so that we could always have the doors
open during our services, and to make shelter for any who, though not
sufficiently bold or interested to enter, might be willing to stand to hear
the preaching. An inscription on the porch in the Chinese Seal character,
and the small cross with which the building is surmounted, alike show
that it is a Christian building, where believers in the Crucified One meet
for prayer and praise. This porch may be looked upon as a perpetual
preacher of the unity of the Godhead. In the centre of it above is neatly Ceylon
inscribed in plaster, in Native Kana, 'There is one God, and there is
none other but He.'"

The opening of this church on August 23rd, just three years and three months after the opening of the chapel, suggested to Mr. Warren a comparison between the Mission then and the Mission now. Then, there was not a single convert-scarcely an inquirer; and those who attended the opening service (or rather preaching) were there merely from curiosity. Now, there was a congregation of eighty persons, "a fair number of whom were either Christians, catechumens, or hearers of the word "; and the singing and responding "would put to shame scores and hundreds of well-attended churches in our own favoured land." Then, there could be no Communion. Now, six consistent Japanese Christians united with the missionaries in commemorating the Lord's death. Then, Mr. Warren could only preach an elementary explanation of Christian worship. Now, addressing the converts, he could take for his text, "Ye are the light of the world."

Certainly there has not been very rapid progress. The Japanese are being "redeemed one by one." Perhaps their Church will be all the stronger for that. But at least our brethren have not had to wait eleven years for a convert, as in New Zealand and in Fuh-kien. A later letter mentions the baptism of four men and three women on March 10th last.

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A WEST AFRICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL.

MANY of our readers will note with much interest the following account of the Sunday-school at Trinity Church, Kissy Road, Sierra Leone, sent by the Rev. Nicholas J. Cole, Native Curate, in his Annual Letter:

Sunday-school.-This department of work, under its Native superintendent, Mr. Surry T. Cole, is very encouraging. The scholars number 306-101 adults and 205 children. The average number of attendants is 263. There are nineteen teachers connected with the school, of whom the students at Fourah Bay College and the advanced pupils of the Annie Walsh Memorial School form the greater number. Mr. Cole, the superintendent writes thus:-"It affords me very great pleasure to be able conscientiously to report that the state of the Sunday-school during the year has been very encouraging in respect to number and attendance. The scholars have given great satisfaction to the teachers and all interested, in the attention always paid to the instructions imparted to them, and in their gentle way of asking for explanation of what they do not understand. It is pleasing to see with what haste they run to school whenever they suppose they are late, and the excuses given for being late (and this without being asked). This sight is most affecting when seen done by the aged men and women."

The rainy season, which has always been pleaded as an excuse for the smallness of numbers in many religious assemblies, has not that effect in our Sunday-school, but has been the most convincing evidence of the earnestness of the scholars, who, notwithstanding the heavy and incessant falls of the rains in the months of August and September, were always seen present in their respective classes.

There have been four addresses delivered to the school during the year-First, "On the vanity of dress;" second, "To the teachers, on the importance of their work;" third, "On pride;" fourth, "On early death."

There was a treat given to the scholars, also an exhibition of the magic lantern. Prizes of books were awarded to fifty scholars for diligence and regularity; there were many more deserving ones, but want of means prevented prizes being given to them.

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EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

On July 2nd, a Valedictory Dismissal took place at the C. M. College at Islington. The instructions of the Committee were delivered to nineteen missionaries, four returning to their former fields of labour, viz., the Rev. H. K. Binns, to East Africa; the Rev. T. P. Hughes, to Peshawar; Mr. R. J. Bell, to Calcutta; and the Rev. T. Kember, to Tinnevelly; two transferred to new fields, viz, the Rev. A. Schapira, from Sierra Leone to Lagos, and the Rev. J. S. Hill, from the Yoruba Mission to New Zealand; and thirteen going out for the first time, viz., Mr. J. A. Alley, to Port Lokkoh; the Revs. C. H. V. Gollmer and T. A. Haslam, to Lagos; the Revs. H. P. Parker and H. D. Day, to Calcutta ; the Rev. R. Elliott, to the Santal Mission; Dr. Andrew Jukes, to the Punjab; the Rev. H. W. Eales, to the Telugu Mission; the Rev. I. J. Pickford, to Ceylon; the Rev. J. Grundy, to Hong Kong; the Rev. W. Andrews, to Nagasaki, Japan; Mr. W. Goodyear, to New Zealand; and the Rev. S. Trivett, to the Saskatchewan.

The death of Mr. Russell Gurney, the Recorder of London, has deprived the C. M. S. of an old and valued friend. He took a peculiar interest in all labours for the welfare of Africa and the suppression of the slave trade, and was chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the East African slave trade in 1871.

The Bishop of Colombo had an interview with a few members of the C. M. S. Committee on June 26th, with reference to the differences between them respecting the Society's Missions in Ceylon.

The oldest of our missionaries, Mr. W. G. Puckey, died in New Zea-
land at the beginning of April. He was born in Australia, and joined the
New Zealand Mission in 1823, fifty-five years ago.
Letters from him

appeared in the GLEANER of May, 1874, and March, 1876. The oldest
name now on the list is that of Bishop Gobat, of Jerusalem, and, among
those still in the Society's service, Archdeacon Brown, of Tauranga.

In February last, the Bishop of Calcutta, while at Benares, ordained Aman Masih Levi, late of the Lahore Divinity College, to the pastorate of the C. M.S. Native congregation at Sigra.

The Nile party for the Nyanza Mission arrived at Suakim on June 9th, and hoped to leave for Berber on the Nile, on camels, in a day or two. The Henry Venn, with Mr. Ashcroft on board, arrived at Lagos on May 25th. She was about to convey Bishop Crowther on to the Niger. The Mission at Leke, on the Guinea coast, begun three years ago by Mr. Hinderer, continues to progress. Twenty-two adults and five children were baptized there by the Rev. J. A. Maser on April 28th.

Mr. Duncan announces the death of his eldest convert, Samuel Marsden, who was the first Tsimshean baptized at Fort Simpson in 1861. "He was a faithful follower of Jesus, and the clear testimony he bore on his dying bed to the blessedness of the Christian's hope and the presence of his Saviour was very cheering. His end indeed was peace; and such a funeral the Indians never saw."

THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER.

VINEYARD WORK.

BY THE REV. G. EVERARD, Vicar of St. Mark's,

SEPTEMBER, 1878.

and quite right too. Wolverhampton.

IX. THE MINISTRY OF PERSONAL EFFORT. "Philip findeth Nathanael."-St. John i. 45. N John i. we have plain evidence of the power God gives to a word spoken to lead another to the Saviour. The Baptist cries, "Behold the Lamb of God," and the two disciples henceforth follow Christ. Andrew, one of these, finds his own brother Simon; speaks to him, and brings him to Jesus. The next day, Jesus having found Philip, Philip findeth Nathanael, and, after removing his difficulty, brings him to Christ. It is the privilege of every believer to act in the same way. I must aim at winning souls for Christ. How may I best do this? What means may I employ that the Spirit will be most likely to bless, in leading a brother, a sister, a servant, a friend, a neighbour, to find salvation in Christ?

I must be consistent in my daily walk. If I have grace to live a holy, loving, watchful life, this will give double weight to the least word I speak. "It was not master's sermons, but master's life, that made me think," was the remark of a servant in a clergyman's household.

I must be well skilled in the use of God's Word. An arrow from this quiver will often pierce a hard heart. A leaf from this tree of life will often heal a wounded spirit. A ray of light from this lamp will often remove some dangerous error.

I may do much good by a timely, courteous question. Avoiding all roughness, harshness, and lofty self-assumption, I may yet give a quiet home-thrust in the shape of an inquiry that may awaken a sleeping conscience. "Have you the presence of Christ in this trial?" "Can you rest on the promises?" kindly question of this kind may make conscience speak out and thus open the door for further counsel.

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I must watch my opportunity. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. We need to be wise and prudent as well as faithful. Though Christians may often be far too cautious, yet it is the word in due season that is usually most profitable. A time of sickness, of bereavement, of adversity in some form, a moment when something has stirred the heart, a season of revival, a quiet Sunday when alone with an unconverted one, an opportunity when something at hand suggests a profitable lesson-any such season ought not to be lost.

After all, it is the Spirit of God that must give wisdom, and then add the blessing. "Who is sufficient for these things?" "Our sufficiency is of God."

PRIZE DAY AT THE CHILDREN'S HOME. ND a very pleasant day it is this Prize Day at the Children's Home. "What Home?" asks some reader; and whose children?" To answer the second question first-The children of the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society. To answer the first question next-The Home which the Society provides for their reception and education. But why are they not at home? Ah, "home" is one of the things their fathers and mothers have given up. When they heard Christ's call to them to go to the heathen, they

Turned from home, and toil, and kindred,
Leaving all for His dear sake.

No doubt they have made the Indian bungalow, or the African

compound, or the American log-hut, as home-like as they can; But when in the far-off land God sends them children, they know that one of the heaviest trials of a missionary's life must soon come. In three or four years the pale, pining faces of the little ones will remind them that an English child cannot thrive out of its proper climate; and even if it could, where is the good school for it in the Yoruba forest, or the Travancore jungle, or the Chinese paddy-field, or the wild waste of Athabasca ? So the parting must come; parent and child must be separated, "it may be for years, and it may be for ever"-in this world; the little one is sent across the sea, and the Society takes it into the Children's Home.

For the first fifty years the Society had no such Home. It was one of the fruits of the Jubilee Commemoration of 1848-9. In the following year it was begun on a small scale in a house in Milner Square, Islington. In 1853 the new Home, built to accommodate eighty-four children, with Director's house, &c., was opened; and for many years past it has always been full. Among the numerous institutions of all kinds which abound in London, the Church Missionaries' Children's Home is one of the very pleasantest to visit; and the pleasantest day in the year is Prize Day.

This year it was Wednesday, July 3rd. At two o'clock the large hall is filled with friends, parents (those who chance to be at home), and the children themselves. Good Mr. Auriol, whose sunshiny presence has not been missing once during the whole twenty-seven years, occupies the chair. Prayer ascends to the Father of all; the 103rd Psalm is read; and the Director, the Rev. John Rooker, reads his Annual Report. Whatever other reports may be, this one is anything but "dry," as our readers shall see for themselves presently. Then come the reports of the Examiners, whose names will be seen in Mr. Rooker's; and we all mark with interest and pleasure that these gentlemen, who have acted quite independently and without even meeting each other, point out exactly the same features in the children-the brightness of their manner, the evenness of their answers, and the accuracy of their language. Then some singing by the children; and then the great business of the day, the distribution of the yearly prizes.

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To us who know so many of the fathers and mothers, it is a most touching sight to trace the likeness in graceful girl and bright boy as they answer to their names. Vaughan"; this name is called over and over again, and each time our thoughts wander back to a beloved mother gone to her rest, and away to a father "spending and being spent" under the sultry sky of Bengal, with a burden of trial and perplexity there such as is laid on few even of the most laborious of missionaries. Bruce"; another name entered in several prize-books, for there are three Bruces, and our thoughts fly to the ancient kingdom of Persia, and to the one only missionary representing (with his devoted wife) Christian England there. Cowley"; a name suggestive of an Archdeacon in snow-shoes, "the father of all the Cowleys"-for since the Home was opened it has always had a Cowley within its walls. And so on with the familiar names of Wolfe, and Moule, and Hughes, and Thomas, and Grace; and some that remind us of those who have laid down their lives in the field-Dibb, Mahood, Davis.

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The books in their calf and gilt having been borne off in triumph, we have more singing and some speeches. Mr. Boyd Carpenter tells the children a quaint story about an ambitious and philosophical duck, and gracefully draws the moral thereof; Mr. Gollmer, the veteran from Yoruba, speaks with a full heart as the father of one who was brought up in the Home, and who,

only the day before, had in his turn donned the armour of a missionary; Mr. Hughes, of Peshawar, happily reminds the children that if their fathers are preaching "the truth" abroad, they should speak "the truth" at home; Mr. Lang, for the Committee, and Mr. Wright, encourage with kindly words those who did not take prizes; and so the time goes pleasantly by.

But rather than add more-though much more might be added-let us now "read the Report" (a little condensed for our narrow space); and those who don't skip it will agree that it is worth reading

The brief report of another year's proceedings at the C.M.C. Home has no event of special magnitude or significance to chronicle. Not a death has occurred; but very few cases of temporary sickness have intervened. There has been no change in the regular staff of directors or teachers, and thus we have been permitted, without any serious interruption, to pursue a comparatively even tenor of way.

Perhaps the briefest outline of daily routine may interest as well as give information to some who are here to-day.

Fancy, then, the tones of a large handbell beginning every morning at 6.15, and sounded vigorously from top to lower landing, along each corridor, and in

front of every bedroom. That bell! a terror to sleepy heads, a friend to all who wish to be in school at 7. Breakfast each morning, winter and summer, at 7.30; family prayers at 8. On Sundays, Bibleclasses at 9, and afterwards the children are dispersed at different churches.

Mondays: bell at 6.15, school at 7 and at 9, with short interval before dinner at 1. Afternoon: school from about 3 to 5, tea 5.30, prayers 6, preparation of lessons 7 to 8, all in bed by 9. On first Monday in each month, called visiting Monday, there is a whole holiday,

summer holidays and beginning of school year, we welcomed Beatrice Stiles Cowley, the last of eleven who have entered the home in unbroken succession from Robert George Sainsbury Cowley, who was admitted on the 16th of January, 1852. The Home has never been without a Cowley since that date. Well might the Archdeacon playfully ask us to pay the succession duty once more, when asking for the admission of Beatrice. Six sons and five daughters! The last is a regular Cowley in appearance and good temper; she bears an honoured name, and we all wish her God speed. On the same day, September 3, were admitted another Sell, and two Kembers-a new name. These were followed in January by another Hale, two more Hughes (from Peshawar), Minnie Smith (an orphan), and two little Streeters, the first instalment from the East African Mission. In March we received another Vaughan, and in April two little Hornles, also little Henry Davis from the Santal Mission, age 4 years; and lastly, in May, two more Gmelins from Krishnaghur, making in all 16 arrivals during the year. [Here follow the departures.]

It has been very cheering to us to receive such good reports of many who leave the Home. Thus, from the girls' side, two elder ones who left us last year, and who entered a first-class or higher school, were found to be so far in advance in a certain subject (arithmetic) as to be placed in a class by themselves. They also stood first, respectively, in two other subjects-one being first in English, the other in French and German. We continue to receive good reports of S-- D-- from Marlborough, and the two Ms from Monkton Combe. One of our boys, B-C, took a Foundation Scholarship at St. Paul's, direct from the Home, in January last. Two others, who left us for public schools, have each taken a Scholarship at Cambridge. Whilst R- D-, once under this roof, was placed fourth in the Cooper's Hill Examination -a position of real merit. I may mention here that, with very few exceptions, the children have turned out well. We know of 42 who have given themselves to Foreign Missions. This is very gratifying and cheering. For we

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This routine has recurred without interruption as a whole. has never failed to ring, nor the schools to commence as usual. Scarce a class lesson has been omitted. Our daily meals are as regular as clockwork, and what I consider as worthy of special mention and thankfulness is that not a night's rest has been disturbed, either by alarm or by sickness, but we lie down and rise up in God's mercy, like a small or an ordinary family, though there are sheltered beneath our roof 112 persons.

As to the number of children. The Home was built for the accommodation of 84, for boys, girls, and infants, from 4 to 15 or 16 years of age; and this total has been sustained during the year.

India, North and South, has contributed, as usual, by far the larger portion-viz., 51; China 6, Ceylon 9, West and East Africa 5, Northwest America 7, New Zealand 2, Persia 3, Mauritius 1-total 84.

Arrivals. First and foremost, on the 3rd September last, after Mid

never inculcate the idea that they must be missionaries, but we do teach them to feel it a great honour to tread in parents' steps, if they feel the call and the love of Christ constraining them. One was ordained on Trinity Sunday last, and received his dismissal only yesterday for West Africa-Rev. Charles Gollmer.

The Examinations are all over, and we are all so glad. We have had the same Examiners-Rev. E. Matheson, Rev. C. J. Hutt, Rev. Edward Auriol, Rev. G. Calthrop, Monsieur Ragon, Rev. L. B. White. "The same Examiners as last year," exclaimed some of our young friends: "Mr. Auriol for Scripture, and Mr. Calthrop for English." "Are you very glad ?" "O yes, we like Mr. Auriol and his questions.' "What of the other gentleman ?" "Oh, we like him too, but he sets such odd, out-ofthe way questions-but then we know the kind of questions." "What do you mean?" "He always asks about the social condition, area, and population, and he always gives us a map to do. It will be West Africa, or very likely Turkey, this year. I shall be ready for him."

Gentlemen of the Committee, if it has come to this state of things I think we shall have to "change the bowling" another year, and provide Examiners who can give a new kind of twist to the questions. And this illustration brings me to the last examination of all, where I feel sure there is no need of change, for if any one knows the best way to the stumps, it is Mr. Catlin, the dentist. Four examinations each year have perfected his knowledge of the Home children. Well, I am glad to say his final examination on Monday last proved very short, and more satisfactory than

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TRADERS FROM CENTRAL ASIA, DESCENDING INTO THE DERAJAT. usual. There was more of vivâ voce in the way of kindly advice as to scrubbing and cleaning, and fewer of those sharp, though short, extracts. We all like Mr. Catlin-only a few are afraid of his visits; even a little girl said, "I don't mind having a tooth out if he won't give it a twist."

The report then proceeds to thank several friends, particularly the medical attendant, Dr. Allan, and a good lady, Miss Pratt, who has a working party for the benefit of the Home. But, naturally, it does not thank those who most deserve thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Rooker themselves. No one can be at the Home on Prize Day, or, indeed, on any other day, without not only thanking them, but thanking God for them. Truly they have been made instrumental in the fulfilment, both spiritual and temporal, of the inspired words that meet the eye as we enter the building -"The children of Thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before Thee."

SKETCHES OF THE PUNJAB MISSION.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "MORAVIAN LIFE IN THE BLACK FOREST," &c.
VIII. The Mission to the Derajat.
OMEWHERE about the year 1820, an Afghan youth
named Mohammed Ali Khan, a chieftain's son, of
the Derajat, went down to the North-West Pro-
vinces of India to sell horses at the Hurdwar fair.
Here he was accosted by a missionary, who offered
him a Bible in the Pushtu tongue, largely spoken in his own
country, enjoining him strictly to take great care of it, for it

was a precious book, and must be preserved from fire and flood, and some day he would surely find the value of it, when the English should reach his country.

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"I," wrote Sir Herbert Edwardes long afterwards, "was the first Englishman whom Mohammed Ali Khan saw from that time. It was in 1847 or 1848, and the old man brought out the Bible to show me, carefully wrapped up in many folds of silk. See,' said he, I have preserved it from fire and water.' I asked if he had read it. He said, 'The village priest, who was a scholar, had looked into it, and said it was a good book, for it was all about father Moses and father Noah.' Strange to say, when the Peshawar Mission to the Afghans was founded in 1854, and we wanted to reprint the Serampore version of the Bible in Pushtu, the only copy that could be found in India was this one that had been treasured up in the Derajat for twenty or thirty years.

The Derajât is a long reach of frontier which lies between the right bank of the Indus and the eastern slope of the great Suliman range, which separates British India from Afghanistan. It extends from the Salt range, which is the southern limit of the Peshawar division, to the north-eastern frontier of the province of Sindh, and is over 300 miles long, by 50 or 60 broad. [See Map in February GLEANER.]

Some thirty years ago, every village in the valley of Bunnoo, the upper part of the Derajat, was fortified with a high mud wall, from the top of which it carried on war with its neighbours. The Sikhs never subjugated this tract of country, and when we first took possession bloodshed and crimes were so rife that it

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