THE

CHURCH MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER

AND RECORD,

A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MISSIONARY

INFORMATION.

VOL. VI. NEW SERIES.

" HE DECLARED PARTICULARLY WHAT THINGS GOD HAD WROUGBT AMONG THE
GENTILES. AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY GLORIFIED THE LORD."-Acts xxi. 19, 20.

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LONDON:
CHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE;
SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET;

HATCHARD AND CO., PICCADILLY;
AND J. NISBET AND CO., BERNERS STREET.

CONTENTS.

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LEADING ARTICLES, &c.

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TAE DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS OF JAPAN. By the Rev. A. B. Hutchinson

7

THE JONES FUNDS

27

JAPAN : Reviev of Miss Bird's, Sir E. J. Reed's, and Sir R. Alcock's Works on

Japan. By K.

72

THE Pope on Missions. By Robert Needham Cust:

101

Ox EPISCOPACY IN MISSIONS. By K.

129

REMINISCENCES OF MISSIONARY DEPUTATION WORK. By a « Deputation » 139

TWENTY YEARS' PROGRESS IN THE MISSIONS OF THE CHURCI MISSIONARY

SOCIETY

149

Taoism, Confucianish, Btdduism, the way, the Truth, the Life, in Heathen

Guess and Christian Verity. By the Rev. A. E. Moule .

193

Os Missions IN THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES OF INDIA. By K.:

201

MRS. E. HUTCHINSON'S “PIGAFETTA.” By Robert Needham Cust

225

Christian MISSIONS A CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE. By the Rev. W. A. Cutting

262

SELL'S “FAITH OF Islam.” By K.

266

Ox BOARDS OF MISSIONS. By K.

347, 591
MISERIBLE COMFORTERS. By K.

389

ON THEOSOPHISM IN INDIA. By K.

425

RETBENCHMENT AND EXTENSION

428

UNSETTLEMENT. By K.

513

THE GOSPEL NET, By the Rev. Canon Tristram

577

THE CEYLON “CHURCH ASSEMBLY"

584

PERSIA, IN ITS RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. By the Rev. R. Bruce.

Part I. The Medo-Persian Empire and Israel .

654

Part II. The Early Christian Church in Persia

734

The First MEETING OF THE BENGAL Native Church Council.' By K. 664

RELIGIOUS AND OTHER STATISTICS OF SIERRA LEONE. By K.

720

Discussions WITH MOHAMMEDANS. By K.

728

RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD :-

I. THE RELIGION OF THE SIKHS. By the Rev. T. P. Hughes

257

II. ANCESTRAL WORSHIP. By the Rev. A. E. Moule

339, 396

111. THE FETICHISM OF WEST AFRICA. By the Rev. J. E. Carlyle

449

IV. BUDDHISM IN CEYLON. By the Rev. R. Collins

641, 706

Biographical and Obituary Sketches.
THE LATE Rev. G. M. GORDON. By the Bishop of Lahore

164
ON A LATE AMERICAN MISSIONARY: M. W. PINKERTON, OF THE MISSIONS

OF THE AMERICAN BOARD IN SOUTII AFRICA. By Robert Needham Cust. 295
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE MRs. W. H. COLLINS. By the Rev. A. E. Moule

627
Sermons, Addresses, &c.

The GOSPEL OF ST. PAUL, THE LIGHT OF Asia. A Sermou preached before

the University of Cambridge by the Rev. G. E. Moule, D.D. (now Missionary

Bishop for Mid-China)

1

THE CALL OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE CALL' OF 'Difficuliy. sermon

preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, at the Consecration of Bishops Moule and
Scott, by the Ven. Archdeacon Perowne.

65
SPEECH OF SIR ARTHUR COTTON ON THE PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL IN
INDIA AND ENGLAND

241
SPEECH OF THE REV. E. H. BICKERSTETE AT Calcutta :

243
ORDINATION SERMON. Preached at St. John's, Paddington, by the Rev. F. E.
Wigram

281
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY Guost. An Address delivered at the c.m.s.
Anniversary Breakfast by the Rev. Canon Fenn

385

ORDINATION SERMON. Preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, on St. Peter's Day,

1881, by the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth

483

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