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I wish we could have one station in Japan so thoroughly worked by an adequate staff as to present a strong front to the heathen world, to the inquiring world, and to the infant Church. We know that Truth is strength, whether represented by one or many, but the heathen and inquiring world, and some of the Native Christians, cannot be supposed to have the same spiritual discernment that more enlightened people have, and are in danger of judging unfavourably of our own true Church, and joining an unscriptural one-the Church of Rome.

Compare our own Mission at Nagasaki with the Romish Mission here during the last ten years. Mr. Ensor comes, gets the language, leaves; then Mr. Burnside gets the language, leaves; then I come single-handed, and by this time can preach, &c. During all this time the Romanists have had their continuous seven or eight priests and a bishop. I do wish our staff were more like theirs-in one and the same Mission some to train, some to itinerate, some to translate.

The Bishop has quite approved of a desire of mine to put up as soon as possible a substantial church at Deshima, one worthy of our cause. The present one is in danger of coming down at the first typhoon. It is only a barn-like building, and the sooner we can get a better one the better for our Mission. Human nature will be human nature, and the Japanese are much more fastidious than the natives of some mission fields. As the Romanists are going to build here a Cathedral, the least I can wish to do is to put up a good church, especially when I have such a capital site as Deshima. If you know of any one willing to give, please say that anything between £5 and £5,000 will be most thankfully received. Could you secure one or more friends to collect for me?

The work is very promising in Japan-now is our opportunity. It is not too late for the Church of England to take a place worthy of her in Japan, but with strong Romish Missions everywhere there is no time to lose. We must do all we can to claim for our Reformed and Apostolic Church a status worthy of her, and it behoves us to do this without delay. If I did not feel this so strongly I would gladly leave the material buildings to others.

MR. SATTIANADHAN'S FAREWELL.

N October 16th the Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Sattianadhan left England for Paris, en route for India, viâ Italy and Egypt. In Paris he represented the Church Missionary Society at a meeting on Foreign Missions held at the Salle Evangelique, near the Trocadero. A paper written by him for the occasion, on Christianity in India, had been translated into French, and was read in that language. He also addressed the meeting in English, through an interpreter.

The following extract from a letter to the Editor contains a message for the numerous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Sattianadhan in England, and will be read with much interest and many prayers for a continued blessing on the labours of our brother and sister in their own land :

PARIS, October 22nd.

I cannot tell you how sorry we were to bid farewell, probably for ever, to dear England, and all our Christian friends there. Our six months' sojourn in England we shall always regard as the happiest period of our life. We cannot look back upon it without vividly calling to mind all the many interesting associations connected with it, and our frequent journeys over different parts of the country, and the many missionary meetings we had the privilege to attend and take part in, and the many churches in which I preached, and the pleasant intercourse we held with many of God's people. Whatever we may forget, sure it is we shall never forget, to our dying day, our happy sojourn in England. My only regret is that we have not been able to accept all the invitations of our friends. And indeed we were so occupied and so pressed for time that we were not able even to answer some of their letters. I trust that those friends will kindly pardon our apparent neglect, which has arisen, not from want of will, but entirely from want of power.

Should you think it right, may I ask you to make known my views and feelings to our numerous friends in England by means of one of your magazines, and to tell them how very sensible we are of all their kindness, and how refreshed we are by our intercourse with them, and how much we need the prayers that God may watch over us in our long journey and take us safely to our native land, and enable us to win souls for Christ. O for grace to be able to say with the Apostle, "Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify of the Gospel of the grace of God."

Good-bye! Please pray for us.-Yours very sincerely,
W. T. SATTHIANADHAN.

EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

The movement among the heathen in those parts of Tinnevelly, worked by the S.P.G., which has led so many thousands to place themselves under Christian instruction, has now, we rejoice to say, spread to the C.M.S. districts. Some hundreds have already been received by Bishop Sargent and his Native clergy in each of three or four districts. In the Paneivilei district alone, 419 families in 26 villages, comprising some 1,500 persons, have come over.

We announce, with deep regret, the death of the Rev. David Fenn, Secretary to the Madras Corresponding Committee of the C.M.S. He went out to India in 1852, and joined the Itinerant Mission in North Tinnevelly, then just planned by Ragland. In 1868 he started a similar Mission in the environs of Madras. For the past seven years he has been Secretary at Madras, and his death is a severe loss to the missionary cause in South India. He was son of the Rev. Joseph Fenn, whose death was recorded in the GLEANER of March last, and brother of one of the Secretaries of the Parent Society.

We have also to report the deaths of the Rev. J. P. Mengé, a retired C.M.S. missionary, who laboured in North India thirty years, from 1840 to 1870; the Rev. G. T. M. Grime, a young missionary, who had just returned home after five years' service in North India; and Mrs. Sharkey, widow of the well-known missionary in the Telugu country, after thirtyone years' most valuable work at Masulipatam.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the degree of D.D. on the Rev. S. Dyson, Principal of the Cathedral Mission College, Calcutta, and the degree of B.D. on the Rev. A. E. Moule, of Hang-Chow, in recognition of their eminent services as missionaries of the C.M.S., and particularly of their literary labours.

At the Archbishop of Canterbury's ordination on September 22nd, the Revs. W. Andrews, B.A., Arthur Lewis, B.A., and I. J. Pickford, C.M.S. missionaries for Japan, the Punjab, and Ceylon, respectively, were admitted to priest's orders.

Mr. B. Van Someren Taylor, M.B., Edinburgh, has been accepted by the Committee as a Medical Missionary, and designated to Fuh-Chow. The Rev. W. T. Pilter, Curate of St. Clement's, Leeds, has offered himself to the Society for missionary work in Palestine or Turkey, and has been accepted by the Committee.

The Bishop of Rupert's Land had an interview with the C.M.S. Committee, on Oct. 8th, when it was agreed to continue the Society's grants to the Sioux Mission in Manitoba, and to St. John's College, Winnipeg. In the Valley of Kashmir, described in last month's GLEANER, a terrible famine is prevailing. In some parts it is believed that from one-fourth to one-half of the population have perished. The Punjab C.M.S. Committee, having received handsome contributions for the relief of the people, including £450 collected at Simla after a sermon by Bishop French, have directed two missionaries, the Rev. G. M. Gordon and Mr. W. Briggs, to buy up grain in the Punjab and hasten with it across the mountains into Kashmir.

On another page we give an account of a serious outrage perpetrated on the C.M.S. Mission at Fuh-Chow. Only a few weeks before that, the new chapel at Kiong-Ning-Fu (see GLEANER of September) was pulled down, and the catechist expelled from the city.

The C.M.S. North Pacific Mission was founded in 1857 at the instance of Captain Prevost, R.N., who gave Mr. Duncan a free passage to Fort Simpson in H.M.S. Satellite. After the lapse of twenty years, the same excellent officer, now Admiral Prevost, has lately visited Metlakahtla; and on October 14th he attended the C.M.S. Committee meeting and described what he had seen. Where savagery and heathenism formerly reigned, he now found peace, security, and industry, and having visited Missions in all parts of the world, he could say, after spending a whole month among the Tsimshean Christians, that he had never seen anywhere such simple and truthful Christianity.

The C.M.S. is about to take over a Mission at Gaza, in Palestine, carried on for the last three years by Mr. W. D. Pritchett; and the Rev. A. Schapira, late of West Africa, who is a Christian Jew, has been appointed to the new station.

We can only just mention the General Conference on Foreign Missions held at Mildmay on October 21-26. The proceedings were interesting throughout, delegates being present from almost all the English, Scotch, Irish, Continental, and American Missionary Societies, and information being given about their work in every part of the world. Of C.M.S. Missions, East and Central Africa, North-West America, Metlakahtla, the Fuh-kien province, and the Afghan Mission at Peshawur, were particularly noticed. In the following week, Dr. Clark and Dr. Thompson, Secretaries of the American Board of Missions, attended the C.M.S. Committee, and gave a most encouraging account of the work of that Society in Asiatic Turkey.

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