things which may be mentioned as helping to account for this. First, the novelty of the thing has worn off; and secondly, there is no doubt the Romish Mission here, strong in both its foreign and Native elements, exercises a powerful influence against us. The morning and afternoon services at Deshima are chiefly for the Christians. The attendance at these has kept up well.

There has been an addition of fortythree to the number of professing Christians at this station during 1880. Of these nine, four adults and five children, belong to Nagasaki; eight, three adults and five children, belong to Kagoshima; ten, eight adults and two children, belong to Saga; and sixteen, eleven adults and five children, belong to Kumamoto. These numbers are not so high as I anticipated and hoped they would be, but they show that a gradual, and I trust, real work is going on. The children mentioned above are those whose parents were already Christians, or as at Kumamoto, the children of whole families that came over to Christianity. Most, if not all, of the adult baptisms are those of persons who had been influenced and instructed in Christian Truth by the catechists or senior students, or other members of our Church.

II. Out-stations: (a) Kagoshima.— Here Stephen Koba San has worked nearly two years faithfully, zealously, and lovingly. He has taken pains to instruct the adult Christians, both men and women, in Christian Truth and conduct. Assisted by Noah Murata San, an aged Kagoshima Christian, he has succeeded in working a day-school of forty children for four hours daily. These children, though mostly those of heathen parents, attend the Sunday morning service. I noticed a very considerable improvement in them on last year, both in behaviour and in Biblical knowledge, when I visited Kagoshima last month. I have made arrangements for Stephen Koba San to return to the college for a year's further study, so that he may be ready, when the Bishop approves, for ordination. During his residence in the college he will help me by taking the position of senior student. Paul Morooka San has already left Nagasaki to succeed him at Kagoshima.

(b) Saga.-Paul Yoshidomi San has been at this station during the past

year. He has regularly conducted Christian services for the converts Sunday mornings, and preaching services for the heathen Sunday evenings, and one or two other evenings of the week.

(c) Kumamoto.-I rejoice greatly that it has been possible to extend the Society's work to this very important centre. The connexion with it of some of the first Japanese that I baptized, and the fact that it is one of the largest and most central towns in Kiu-Shiu, have always made it a place of special interest. I have mentioned in former letters or journals what led to its becom ing a permanent out-station early in the past year. Mekata San, after active work here, was compelled through failure of health to return to his native province near Kiyoto. I am sorry to say that finding him not thoroughly trust worthy, I do not intend to employ him again. John Inudzuka, the next senior student available, has succeeded him as catechist at Kumamoto temporarily. The work at this out-station is also promising. Christian services and preaching for the heathen are conducted on the Lord's Day, and at other times not a few come to the preaching-place to talk with the catechist.

I have paid two visits to each of these out-stations during the year, spending some days at each, renewing my acquaintance with the older Christians, making the acquaintance of the catechumens, examining and baptizing them, administering the Holy Communion, preaching, exhorting to steadfastness in the faith, and consulting with and advising the catechists.

III. Schools: (a) Deshima Day-school. -This in the morning is purely vernacular, and conducted by a Native schoolmaster, under the superintendence of Mr. Andrews. It has not proved as successful as was hoped, the number of scholars being only ten or twelve. In the afternoon it is English, and conducted by Mrs. Goodall, assisted by one or two of the students, when the number of scholars is larger, swelled by the attendance of the junior preparandi students and the girls from the Girls' Training Institution. The school, however, though not what we wish it to be, is useful in affording opportunity to the Native Christians for giving their chil dren a Scriptural education, and also in bringing a few children of heathen

parents under the influence of Christian teaching, both during the week and at the Sunday-school. I must repeat that what is greatly needed to relieve Mrs. Goodall (who finds the work at Deshima too trying) and to make this school a real success-an efficient preparatory school to the college-is an English schoolmaster.

(b) Kagoshima Day-school (see ante). (e) Girls' Training Institution. This enjoys the energetic management and devoted attention of Mrs. Goodall, and is prospering. Eight girls are now under training. They come from Christian families at the out-stations: five from Kumamoto; two from Kagoshima; and one from Saga. They are instructed in both the vernacular and English; music and singing are taught them as accomplishments, and with a view to their future usefulness in the Church's services. Chief attention, however, is directed to training them in habits of truthfulness, and to forming and developing their Christian character. It is a source of sincere satisfaction and thankfulness that so excellent a lady as Mrs. Goodall gives her time and labours to this branch of the work.

From the Rev. H.

Osaka, January, 1881. During the year which has just come to a close, I have been alone at this station. Mr. Warren left Osaka on Feb. 2nd, and after a brief stay in England, where I trust his efforts for the extended increase in interest and sympathy with our work have received much blessing, he arrived in Osaka again on the 17th of December. We were all thankful to see him back again in health and strength.

The events of the year do not call for very much of special remark, although we have abundant cause for thanksgiving. We have not been visited either with war, famine, or plague, nor has Osaka suffered from any great conflagration such as those of Tokiyo and Hakodate. In Church matters, our progress has been slow and quiet. In some places we have to regret apparent failure; but if our increase in numbers has not been large, we are certainly not without encouragement. On the whole the Christians have stood firm, and have perhaps given as little cause for anxiety as any congregation of equal size. Although

(d) St. Andrew's College.-Eleven students have been under training most of the past year. The usual subjects have been taught, viz., Old and New Testament History; the Gospels, and the Epistles of St. Paul; Pearson's Church History, Euclid; Composition of Sermons, and English. The college has already borne good fruit. Stephen Koba San has laboured two years successfully at Kagoshima; Paul Yoshidomi San is at Saga; John Inudzuka San has gone temporarily to Kumamoto; John Ko San and Paul Morooka San have been doing good work at Nagasaki. There is now a nice junior class, and I find it impossible with the general work of the Mission, to do justice to the college work. The classes have been greatly interrupted: the students' time not made the most of; their progress impeded. Mr. Andrews' state of health forbids our expecting hard teaching work from him; besides which he wishes to give himself to evangelistic work. For this the recent extension of the treaty limits around Nagasaki (now comprising an area as great as one of the largest English counties) affords him an excellent opportunity.

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we should be glad to see a little more aggressiveness amongst them, there are some of the catechumens whose coming to us must be attributed solely to their personal and private efforts.

During the year we have required most of the occasional services in the Prayer Book. The baptismal services for adults and infants; the churching service once; the marriage service once; the burial service twice. The two latter are as yet not in print, and had to be read from manuscripts.

The services in the chapel on the Concession have been continued as during last year; the morning service consisting of Morning Prayer and Ante-Communion, followed by a sermon, with the exception of the first Sunday in each month, when Morning Prayer is omitted and the Communion Service only used. The average attendance at this service has been forty-one. The average number of communicants fifteen. In the afternoon we have used the Litany, with the exception of Sundays on which Holy Communion is administered; on those days the evening service has been sub

stituted. When the prayers are over the congregation divides into three classes; the children under the care of Aratani San and Nakamishi San, the adults I have taken myself. In all three classes the same lesson has been taught, the subject being the "Faith and Duty of a Christian." The average attendance at this service has been thirty-one. The teachers have met with me every Tuesday morning to take down a sketch of the lesson. In the evening there has been a regular English service, the duty of which has been chiefly shared by the American Episcopal Missionaries and ourselves, with occasional help from elsewhere. The attendance has averaged seventeen. The Holy Communion has been administered on the 3rd Sunday in cach month with an average attendance of ten.

The Native offertory has amounted to Yen 77 61, including a special offertory for the Hakodate fire relief of Yen 11: 61. With a currency varying from 35 to 75 per cent. discount during the year, it is difficult to state accurately in English money, but taking 55 per cent. as the average discount the Yen 77: 61 will be about equal to 107. 78. 6d. The foreign offertory amounted to Yen 76: 21, which at the same rate will be nearly equal to 107. 38.

There has been also a regular service on Thursday evening, with a sermon or exposition. On several occasions I have explained the prayers, versicles, and canticles, because I felt that there was much that was not appreciated because not understood. This service has usually been followed by a prayer meeting amongst the Natives alone. On about three Thursday evenings during the year the regular service has been substituted by a general gathering of Osaka Christians. We have had about eighty present on each of these occasions.

On three occasions we have had missionary addresses; the last of these was given by Dr. Murray Mitchell, a veteran Indian Missionary.

For the greater part of the year we have had two other preaching-places, where regular meetings have been held. The places themselves have changed, but the work has only been stopped in one of them for the space of a month.

Itinerating. I am sorry that under this head I have very little to report. From the beginning of the year I have

had only one place to which I have paid regular visits. I held my meetings in the house of a samurai in Asada.

In September I went to Shikoku for a few days' rest, and was enabled to speak to a few people there. Many of the officials came to see me several times. I met also many of the converts to the Greek faith, of whom there are about thirty in the old castle town of Tokushima. They came to question me as to our differences. After I had pointed out to them on different occasions that the Word of God is the one standard of doctrine, and Christ the only Mediator, I asked them to join with me in an extempore prayer, to which they agreed. There seemed to be some very interesting cases amongst them.

Classes. The regular class for women on Tuesday afternoon held in connexion with Mrs. Warren's work-class, has been continued with an average attendance of nine or ten. We have taken the events of our Lord's life as arranged in Lessons on the Life of our Lord.

The class for students has not been carried on at all to my satisfaction. The three men who attend are of very varying ability and culture, and with only one meeting a week, which has too often been interrupted, we have been able to accomplish very little.

Other classes have been held for catechumens, both for men and women, in which the usual instruction preparatory to baptism has been given.

Baptisms.-During the year I have been permitted to baptize eight adults and one child. One man who had been attending before the outbreak of the cholera in 1879, was baptized on Trinity Sunday; he was the firstfruit of the Toya bashi preaching-place. On the following morning early (May 24th) my servant was baptized, and died a few hours later. He had been under prepara tion for nearly six months, and if he had been well enough he would have been baptized the previous day. I wrote of these before.* The next baptisms took place on August 8th, when I bap tized a man and his wife, the result of the Toya bashi preaching-place; a young woman engaged to be married to the foreign police superintendent-they were married the following day, first in the chapel, then at the English Consulate

*C.M. Intelligencer, Jan. 1881.