minutes ago a wild-looking fellow came to complain of his sister's thieving. "I would have killed her," he said to me, "but now you are our chief, and have brought laws from the great Shigitumna, i.e., Queen." I must summon J- before you again, the man now on his way to hold services at the lower villages. I had called a council to discuss the whisky drinking at the mines. J- -'s turn to speak came. He proposed strong measures. An Indian I will call A- dissented. J- became impatient. "Did force make you good? if not, how can you expect to force any man to be good?" asked A-—. J's temper got beyond his control, and, dashing his New Testament on the table, walked away full of anger. This exhibition damaged our council. A- remarked, after the silence of surprise was passed, "He is a good man; I am sorry I provoked him." I said, "If he is good he will return and show his contrition." After some hours of bitter grief he returned with a parcel under his arm. He found me alone. "What do you want?" I somewhat coldly said. the ice in motion. The rising mass scalps the river's bank as an Indian would his foe. At last, with a sullen groan rising into a terrific roar, away goes the stupendous obstruction, and down sinks the river as if to rest after its splendid victory. Then succeeds the ministry of the south wind; then triumphs the gracious sun in his royal progress northwards. As the baffled ice king retreats, the snow-clad heights are melted as with the joy of freedom. The tears trickling from under the snowfringe swell the cascades that furrow the mountain's face. Down they roll, swelling the river until its volume sweeps away all obstacles, and leaves it ready to bear the traveller seaward. So is the Gospel ministry dissolving hard hearts around me; uplifting the dread incubus drawn over them by Satan, and setting free those streams of faith and love that remove all barriers between man and his rest in God. "To give him this," holding out the parcel. "He wants no gift," I said. Away he went and soon brought in A-. They stood near together, A waiting to hear why he was called, and J-- to master the emotion the twitching of the corners of his mouth betrayed. At length, in tones of contrition, he began: "I have sinned-against thee against the chief-against God. Thou art good-thy words wisdom-thy heart large. I am a fool, my enemy is myself." The The apology was ample, the confession noble in its fulness. bundle was opened. It contained a propitiation that cost him perhaps eight or nine dollars. There was unfolded a new garment of black cloth that, matched with coat and vest, would make the wearer respectable in the best company. But J-- stopped the whisky drinking. This Hotspur is a tender-hearted being. He found an old heathen dying the day after he had heard me speak of the penitent thief. At once he pressed the mercy of Christ upon her. Not satisfied with his own skill, away he ran to fetch the only Christian then here. "Hurry up, hurry, hurry up, the old woman is nearly dead." Almost dragging his friend towards the house of death, he urged him to tell the poor creature what I had told them the day before. "Make it plain, very plain, hurry up, Jesus may yet save her—make it very plain." But it was too late. The spirit had fled. behind to do what she could, and right well she carried on the Mission for months single-handed. Mr. and Mrs. Faulconer have arrived, and by degrees, I am passing the work into his hands, so that there may be no great change next spring when I go down the river to Fort Simpson on the break-up of the ice. OUR MEDICAL MISSIONS. E spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing." Such are the words in which "Luke the beloved physician" describes the Great Physician's work on that memorable day which ended with the miraculous feeding of the five thousand. For both the bodies and the souls of men the Lord Jesus cared; and that method of evangelisation which takes account of both most nearly resembles His work. His own command to the apostles was, "Into whatsoever city ye enter, heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." And although our modern missionaries are not privileged to exercise miraculous gifts of healing, yet it is still every where true that they who can relieve the bodily sufferings and ailments of those to whom they are sent have, humanly speaking, a road to their hearts more direct than any other. The Church Missionary Society has now no less than twelve medical missionaries; besides whom several other missionaries have more or less acquaintance with medicine and surgery, and have made very effective use of their knowledge. There are also two Native clergymen in India who are qualified medical Let us briefly glance at the work of these brethren. Beginning, as usual, with AFRICA, there is no medical mis men. As soon as navigation on the river was resumed, I left Mrs. Ridley sionary on the West Coast, but the Society is anxious to have one for the Niger Mission. A Christian doctor offering for the noble field on that great river would be warmly welcomed. On the East Coast, also, one is wanted for Mombasa. Mr. Price, who has just returned from thence, earnestly begs for one. In the earlier days of Frere Town, it had a medical man, first Dr. Forster, and then Mr. Praeger; but they were both obliged to come home. The Rev. W. E. Taylor, who had some training at Edinburgh, does useful service; but a fully qualified surgeon who can be a real medical missionary is desired. In the interior, we have Dr. E. J. Baxter at Mpwapwa; but Uganda has had no successor to Mr. Felkin, whose brief sojourn there, and his attendance on King Mtesa, the readers of the GLEANER will remember. Meanwhile the other missionaries have had to doctor each other and the natives; Mr. Mackay and Mr. Pearson especially. Mr. Mackay's last journals (printed in the C.M. Intelligencer of August) describe important sanitary measures which he persuaded the king to introduce to ward off a terrible epidemic of plague. The breaking up this past spring I was fortunate enough to witness. It was not the immediate action of the sun that effected it, but the south wind and the consequent downpour of ice-cold water from the mountains, where the snows lie fathoms deep. The floods uplift the ice by slow degrees till the weight of water starts the ponderous mass that winter laid on the river's bosom. I have seen the rivers of Germany break up, but the scene was tame compared with the tumult on these swift rivers of North America. I was on the ice when the movement first took place. It moves! What moves? The banks seem to glide up stream. Then came a slight tremor beneath my feet, and I sprang to the shore. The sensations were like those produced by shocks of earthquakes. The stone-like surface I had often walked on was in motion from bank to bank. At no great distance the channel narrows, and the greater breadth of ice from above was here caught as in a vice. The river is in agony-groaning, gurgling, sighing, surging, tilting, hissing, roaring deep and loud like subterranean thunder. What can ever dislodge this piled up mass? The flood is rising at the rear foot by foot. Crack, crack, crack! Look! there go the trees falling inward. The forest king, that has drunk life from the river at its roots, is quivering. There it lurches ! Down, down, flat on the ground without axe or tempest, all its roots now exposed to In PALESTINE, our one Medical Mission at present is at Gaza. Of this, an account appeared in the GLEANER of June last, with a picture. Now that Dr. George Chalmers is on his way out, we may hope that this Mission will grow in strength and influence, and do much to win the hearts of the Mohammedans to Christ. Some of the Society's best friends are anxious to see a similar arrangement made for Salt, on the further side of Jordan. PERSIA has a missionary who is both a qualified medical man of Dr. Bruce in England, however, has thrown the whole work upon him during the past eighteen months, and the Medical Mission can hardly be said to be fairly started yet. In most respects (number of labourers, cost of the work, &c.) INDIA engrosses about one-half of the Society's resources; and it is so as regards Medical Missions also. Six of the twelve medical missionaries belong to India. The Society's first venture of faith in this direction was the despatch of Dr. Elmslie to Kashmir in 1865; and that noble pioneer has left a bright example of devotion to all who follow. After his death, Dr. Theodore Maxwell took up the work; and when he retired, Dr. Edmund Downes stepped into the breach, and for the last five years has carried on the Mission with untiring zeal. Notices of his work have appeared in the GLEANER in March, 1878, April, 1880, and January, 1881. What he did last year the following brief summary will tell :— New patients seen, 8,755; total number of visits received, 24,197; number of major and minor operations performed, 1,138; in-patients discharged, left, or died, 855; total days in hospital of all who left or were discharged during the time, 14,369. This last figure represents 28,738 meals to the patients, not including food given to friends of patients or extras, which have occasionally to be supplied. The direct missionary work done has been but small, the Native assistants in the hospital not being Christians; "but," says Dr. Downes, "a work has been done in God's name by Christian charity—a work such as Christ delighted to do. If we can only succeed in showing people that religion is goodness and not bitterness, that God is love and not Moloch, we shall soon succeed in gaining attention to our blessed Lord, who alone is perfect goodness and perfect love." The Rev. J. S. Doxey thus notices the widespread influence of the Medical Mission, and the opportunities it affords for setting forth the glad tidings of salvation : Opportunities offer themselves of conversing with the inmates of Dr. Downes' Mission Hospital, and with the out-patients, many of whom come from all parts of the valley and surrounding countries to be benefited by the skill and self-denying labours of Dr. Downes. Many of these are afflicted with the most loathsome of diseases, so that it is not easy or pleasant to say and do what one could wish. They are always however willing to listen, and often to assent to the truths taught. To take the names and addresses of those recovered, and to visit them and their fellow-villagers afterwards, will be, I trust, a not unuseful part of one's work in the future. Dr. Downes' work is known now all over the valley, and there is, as one finds out by experience, scarcely a village in which there lives not some one who has benefited by his kindness. The poor owe their lives in many instances to the care and skill of Dr. Downes, and for this they are grateful, and at least see that the only desire of the missionaries is to do them good in body and soul. Last year, Dr. Alfred Neve went out to join Dr. Downes in Kashmir, and, in view of the latter's exhausting labours, to relieve him for a time if necessary. Another of what we may call the Society's Frontier Missions (ie., on the north-west frontier of British India) is one established two or three years ago for the Beluchis, at the request of the devoted George Maxwell Gordon, who was killed at Kandahar. He himself bore a large part of the expense, and assisted the two missionaries, the Rev. Arthur Lewis and Dr. Andrew Jukes, in beginning their work. Hitherto their head-quarters have been at Dera Ghazi Khan, on the Indus. In the summer months they have visited the mountain districts on the frontier, and they have been hoping to find some suitable place there where they might open a hospital in the midst of the Beluch mountaineers, but as yet without success. Medical and missionary work, however, has not stood still during the three years that have elapsed since Dr. Jukes performed his first operation, on May 19th, 1879: On May 19th I performed my first operation, in removing eight or nine tumours from a young woman's ear, caused by numerous earrings. Mr. Gordon first asked for a blessing on our efforts in Urdu, and when she was well we returned thanks in the same way for mercies vouchsafed. She was an intelligent girl, and was said to know much of the Koran by heart. On October 27th I removed eight or nine more tumours from her other ear. On the frontier also is one of the Native medical men, the Rev. John Williams, who has a small mission hospital at Tank, a town close up to the mountain barrier, and inhabited by an Afghan population. An account of John Williams, written for the GLEANER by Bishop French, with a portrait, appeared in our number for January, 1877. His influence over the wild Waziri tribes is remarkable, When Tank was sacked by the mountaineers during the Afghan war, his hospital was the one building spared by them. Last year, the Rev. A. Bailey visited some of these Waziris in prison, and found that every one of them knew and loved the "faqir doctor." For fifteen years he has been physician, surgeon, pastor, and evangelist in this remote corner of our Indian Empire. Punjab, is Dr. Henry Martyn Clark, the Afghan adopted son of Another medical missionary who has lately begun work in the the Rev. R. Clark, who has lately established himself at Amritsar, where he finds a ready entrance to an immense population, both for the medical skill which won him honours at Edinburgh University, and for the Gospel which he desires to press upon his Asiatic brethren. But it is chiefly among the aboriginal hill tribes that medical work is valuable as a pioneer for the Gospel. The Rev. R. Elliott went as a medical missionary to the Santals two or three years ago, and last year his dispensary at Taljhâri had "300 separate patients, representing 10,000 attendances." The Rev. F. J. Cole also has had a most useful dispensary at Dharampur, another Santal station. Both these brethren are just now in England, but Dr. W. Johnson is about to sail to join the Mission. For the Gonds of Central India and the Kois of Godavery, medical missionaries are earnestly pleaded for; but the men are not as yet forthcoming. The new Bheel Mission, started last year by means of the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth's gift of £1,000, owes its first little gleam of success to the influence of the healing art. These people are exceedingly timid and suspicious; they were terribly frightened by the census of 1881; and when the missionary, Mr Thompson, went among them, they said, “Who is he? What does he want? What will he do? Has he come to kill us ?" When I visited the chiefs I hardly dared to speak upon any topic whatever. If I enquired about the family, then they naturally looked upon me as another enumerator. If I spoke about their cattle, fields, or crops, then the tax question might disturb their minds. To talk about God, I knew that with them, as with others, nothing could so readily or so strongly call forth their highest fears. Patience, however, and gentleness triumphed : My catechist, Masih Charan, now arrived. For a few days I took him out simply to let the people have a look at him. The people soon began to bring out their sick they were losing their fears, and were drawing nearer to us. : We decided upon spending a week or so in one pál instead of going from place to place. Accordingly we left home early, and made our way to Obri, three miles distant. We sought out a shady tree as near the centre of the straggling pál as possible, and there remained all day. We took medicines with us. The first business in hand was to set a broken leg. It soon became evident that our new plan was going to work admirably. In the evening we returned home. On the Tuesday we had 15 visits for medicine or treatment; on the Wednesday, 30; on Thursday, 45; on Friday 59; and on Saturday 58: total, 207. Some had fever some colds -others enlarged spleens-some the itch-some ophthalmia-others nearly deaf-some headaches-others sores-one poor little emaciated sufferer was simply a walking skeleton-some of the old folks complained of rheumatics-one old woman, blind and deaf through old age, came to be, I suppose, made young again. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we held little meetings to make known the Saviour. We did not think it advisable to say too much in this way on our first prolonged visit. The great magnet for drawing the sinner is love. (To be concluded in our next.) THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF DR. KRAPF, VIII.-ADVENTURES IN UKAMBANI. Y journey to Ukambani was commenced on July 11th, 1851. The disorder, insane chatter, drunkenness, gluttony, and disobedience, of my people were great, and gave me much pain, until on the 14th of July we left behind us the inhabited country, and reached the great wilderness at Ndunguni, when the Wanika were obliged to be quiet and silent. On the 15th we were met by a caravan of Wakamba coming from the interior with ivory to the coast, and to some of them, who seated themselves on the ground beside me, I explained the object of my journey. We reached the Tzawo in safety, and on the afternoon of the 26th, we crossed the Adi and began to ascend the high land of Yata, my destination as a missionary. On the way, I besought earnestly in my heart the Father of all mercies to guide and help me to make a commencement of missionary work in this country. July 27th.-I felt rather low-spirited, and this mood was somewhat aggravated by the declaration of my Wanika, that next day they intended to return to Rabbai with a Wakamba caravan which was journeying towards the coast. I reminded them of their undertaking to build me a dwellingplace before they returned to the coast, which they did not deny, and at once set to work with it. In a few hours they had put together, with stakes fetched from the wood, a miserable hencoop, scarcely six feet high, and about as many feet broad and long, but with which I was fain to be content, as my things were lying in the open air, and I had neither shelter by day from the heat of the sun, nor by night from the cold of the bitter blast sweeping in from the southern mountains. August 5th.-To-day Kivoi introduced me to a native of the tribe Uembu, whose territory lies to the north-west, quite close to the snowmountain Kenia. He told me that he had frequently been to the mountain, but had not ascended it, because it contained kirira, a white substance, producing very great cold [snow]. The white substance, he added, produced continually a quantity of water, which descended the mountain and formed a large lake, from which the river Dana took its rise. August 13th.-Many Wakamba were here to-day; they sat in groups in Kivoi's yard, where I had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with them, and of speaking to them respecting the salvation of their souls. August 18th.-When I informed the chief to-day of my wish to return to Yata, he said I was not to do so, as he would soon accompany me to the river Dana and to Mbe. He would afterwards go with me to Mombaz; there I was to hire some Suahili, who could build me a substantial dwelling in Ukambani; he would then help me to visit all the countries round about, and I might do with him what I pleased. August 24th.-We started on our much-talked-of expedition yesterday evening, our route being to the north and north-west. WAKAMBA TRIBE, FAST AFRICA. July 28th.-My Wanika started this morning without finishing the roofing in of the hut with grass; and the single servant whom I had brought from Rabbai ran away, although I had always treated him with particular affection and kindness. I could not trust the Wakamba; my conscience forbade me to buy a slave; and yet I was obliged to have some one who could look after my things, and to whose care I could entrust my hut, and I saw that I must have a tolerable servant and a better dwelling-place, if I was to settle in Yata. In my hencoop I could neither write, nor read, nor sleep, and was continually besieged by the Wakamba, who by day, even before dawn, did not leave me a moment alone. If I wished to read, they asked if I was trying to spy into their hearts, or whether I was looking for rain and inquiring after diseases; when I wrote, they wanted to know what I had written, and whether it contained sorcery. Every one of my movements was sharply observed. Many came to beg this or that, to see new things, or to buy wares, as they took me for a merchant; others brought a few eggs or a little meal, and then asked for twice or three times as much as their presents were worth; whilst others, again, wished merely to be amused. My but had not even a door, so that I could not close it, and by night I was safe neither from thieves nor from wild beasts. July 30th.-Meditating this morning on my painful position, I resolved to visit the interior of Ukambani as far as the river Dana, and first of all to repair to my old friend Kivoi, with whose help I might attain my object. August 4th.-About noon we reached the village of the chief, Kivci. August 25th.-We broke up early, and after a short march we came upon four rhinoceroses grazing; but as we did not disturb them they remained quietly where they were. I used to have a great dread of those ugly and clumsy creatures, but by degrees I grew accustomed to them. All day we were gradually ascending; there was not a single tree to be seen, nothing but grass. August 26th.-While we were resting, the Wakamba saw a number of vultures flying upward and downward. My servant ran immediately to the spot and found a great piece of a fallowdeer, which had been seized and partly devoured in the morning by a lion, whose footprints were apparent. I was glad of this roasting-joint, as Kivoi had but indifferently fulfilled his promise of furnishing us with provisions during the journey, and on the first day we had had nothing but bananas. After we had enjoyed our venison, we continued our journey. August 27th.- When we were within a good league of the Dana, Kivoi's slaves on a sudden pointed towards the forest towards which we were marching from the grassy and treeless plain. I ran to Kivoi's side, and saw a party of about ten men emerging from the forest, and soon afterwards came other and larger parties from another side, evidently with the object of surrounding us. Our whole caravan was panic-stricken, and the cry "Meida," they are robbers, ran through our ranks. A great confusion arose; our people threw away their burdens, and discharged their arrows at the enemy, begging me imploringly to fire as quickly as I could. I fired twice, but in the air; for I could not bring myself to shed the blood of man. Whilst I was reloading, a Mkamba rushed past me wounded in the hip, a stream of blood flowing from him. Right and left fell the arrows at my feet, but without touching me. When our people saw that they could not cope with an enemy 120 strong they took to flight and left me quite alone. I deemed it now time to think of flight, especially as in the confusion I could not distinguish friend from foe; so I set off at a run in the direction taken by Rumu and his people; but scarcely had I gone some sixty paces, when I came to a trench or rather the dried-up bed of a brook, some ten feet deep, and from four to five in width. The Uembu-people had thrown their loads into it, and leapt over the trench; but when I made the attempt I fell into it, breaking the butt-end of my gun, and wounding my haunches in the fall; and as I could not climb up the steep bank of the brook I ran on along its bed until I came to a place where I could emerge from it. When I had gained the bank I ran on as fast as I could after the Uembu-people, pursued by the arrows of the robbers which reached the brook; but as I could not come up with the former, my gun and the heavy ammunition in my pockets impeding my progress, I remained behind all alone in the forest; all my people had disappeared from before my face, and not one of them was to be seen. I now ran on as quickly as I could by the side of the brook into the forest. As I was re-entering the wood two large rhinoceroses met my view, which were standing quietly in front of me, some fifteen to twenty paces from me, but they soon turned aside and disappeared in the forest. For eight or ten minutes I resumed my flight at a run, till I thought I was out of the robbers' track, and emerged again into an open and grassy plain, where I lay down beneath a tree, first of all giving thanks to the Father of mercy who had preserved me through so great a danger. I then reflected on my critical situation, and the possibility of returning to Kivoi's village; but how was I, without a guide, without food, and without a knowledge of the water-stations, to make a return-journey of thirty-five or thirtysix leagues? In this difficulty I remembered that Heaven had yesterday caused a lion to furnish me with food; I was now one of God's poor, for whom He could and would provide ; "Man's extremity is God's opportunity!" My most pressing and immediate want was water; for I was extremely thirsty, and had not had anything to drink all day. I knew that the Dana was near at hand, and seeing at some distance very lofty trees, I conjectured that the bed of the river was there. I saw, too, the mountain past the foot of which, as Kivoi told me yesterday, the river flows, and so I determined to press forward to the river, towards which I was not now and I was troubled, too, by thoughts of the many wild beasts known to be in the neighbourhood of the Dana. I was so impeded and wearied by the tall grass that I determined to lie down and sleep, even if I were to die here in the wilderness; for it seemed as if I never should reach the coast again; but then I thought, straightway, that in no situation should man despair, but do the utmost for self-preservation and put his trust in God as to the issue. I called to mind Mungo Park, who had been in a similar strait in Western Africa. So, taking courage, I marched forward again as swiftly as I could, and in due course emerged from the jungle and reached the great plain. Believing myself on the right track, I lay down behind a bush; for I was so wearied out that I could scarcely keep my feet, and for protection against the keen wind which blew over the plain, I cut some dry grass and spread it over and under my body. After I had started again, I felt the pangs of hunger and thirst; the water in my telescope-case had run out, and that in the barrels of my gun which I had not drunk, had been lost on my way, as the bushes had torn out the grass stoppers, and so I lost a portion of the invaluable fluid which in spite of the gunpowder-flavour imparted to it by the barrels, DR. KRAPF LOST IN UKAMBANI, AUG. 28TH, 1851. impelled by geographical curiosity, but by extreme thirst. As the country through which I was wending my way was without either trees or brushwood, I was afraid of being seen by the robbers; yet the river had to be reached at any cost. After a short march I came to a trodden pathway, which I followed, and soon saw the surface of the river gleaming through the trees and bushes on its banks with a pleasure which no pen can describe. After my thirst was satisfied, for want of water-bottles I filled the leather case of my telescope as well as the barrels of my gun, which was now useless to me; and I stopped up the mouths of the gun-barrels with grass, and with bits of cloth cut off my trousers. Revived by the water of the Dana, I began again to think of my returnjourney, and as it was still day it did not appear advisable to proceed any further at present, so I concealed myself behind the bushes, and waited for nightfall; and then, as may be supposed, I could not see the path in the deep darkness, but followed as much as possible the course of the wind; for as it was in our backs when we came, I judged rightly that returning I should always have it in my face. I wended on my way through thick and thin, often tumbling into little pits, or over stones and trunks of trees; but the thorns and the tall grass impeded me most of all, thirst had rendered delicious. My hunger was so great that I tried to chew leaves, roots, and elephant's excrement to stay it, and when day broke to break my fast on ants. The roar of a lion would have been music in my ears, trusting he would provide me with a meal. August 28th.-When day dawned I saw that I was a good way from the Dana. I thanked God for His preservation of me during the night just gone by, and commended myself to His protection for the coming day. Soon after daybreak I saw four immense rhinoceroses feeding behind some bushes ahead; they stared at me but did not move, and I naturally made no attempt to disturb them. On the whole I was no longer afraid of wild beasts, and the only thought that occupied me was how to reach Kitui as soon as possible. Coming to a sand-pit with a somewhat moistish surface, like a bart panting for the waterbrooks, I anticipated the existence of the precious fluid, and dug in the sand for it, but only to meet with disappointment; so I put some of the moist sand into my mouth, but this only increased my thirst. About ten o'clock I began to descend, reaching a deep valley about noon, when I came upon the dry and sandy bed of the river. Scarcely had I entered its bed, when I heard the chattering of monkeys, a most joyful sound, for I knew that there must be water wherever monkeys appear in a low-lying place. I followed the course of the bed and soon came to a pit dug by monkeys in the sand, in which I found the priceless water. I thanked God for this great gift, and having quenched my thirst I first filled my powder-horn, tying up the powder in my handkerchief, and then my telescope-case, and the barrels of my gun. To still the pangs of hunger I took a handful of powder and ate with it some young shoots of a tree, which grew near the water; but they were bitter, and I soon felt severe pain in my stomach. (To be continued.) 1 S 17th aft. Trin. Duncan landed, Brit. Columbia, 1857. Peace on [earth, good will toward men, Lu. 2. 14. M. Jer. 5. Eph 2. E. Jer. 22 or 35. Lu. 5. 1-17. M Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Ro. 5. 1. 3 T Peace by the blood of His cross, Col. 1. 20. [peace, Lu. 2. 29. 4 W Rebmann d., 1876. Lord now lettest Thou thy servant depart in 5T Bp. Russell d., 1879. He walked with me in peace, Mal. 2. 6. 6 F Bp. Cotton drowned, 1866. He shall enter into peace, Isa. 57, 2. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, Isa. 57. 21. [the city, Jer. 29. 7. 18th aft. Trin. Fuh-Chow Miss. Ch. op., 1865. Seek the peace of 7 S 8 S M. Jer. 36. Phil. 2. E. Ez. 2, or 13. 1–17. Lu. 8. 26. 9 M Bp. Hadfield consec., 1870. Rest in the Lord, Ps. 37. 7. 10 T Price sailed for E. Af., 1874. Cause the weary to rest, Isa. 28.12. 11 W We which have believed do enter into rest, Heb. 4 3. 12 T Let not your heart be troubled, Jo. 14. 1. [bulation, Jo. 16. 33. 13 F Miss. expelled fr. Abeokuta, 1867. In Me, peace; in the world tri14 S West at Red Riv., 1820. How beautiful are the feet of him that [publisheth peace, Is. 52. 7. 15 S 19th aft. Trin. D. Fenn d., 1878. There remaineth a rest, He. 4. 9. M. Ez. 14. Col. 3. 18, & 4. E. Ez. 18, or 24. 15. Lu. 12. 1-35. 16 MI will fear no evil, Ps. 23. 4. [peace, Ps. 37. 37. 17 T Noble d., 1865. Mark the perfect man: the end of that man is 18 W St. Luke. Peace to him that is afar off...and I will heal him, Is. 19 T Mrs. Crowther d., 1880. I will give you rest, Mat. 11. 28. [57.19. 20 F Mohammedan Conf. at C.M.S., 1875. Toiling in rowing, for the 21 S Peace, be still, Mk. 4. 39. [wind was contrary, Mk. 6. 48. [de-ired haven, Ps. 107. 30. 22 S 20th aft. Trin. Ragland d, 1858. He bringeth them unto the M. Ez. 34. & Thes. 2. E Ez. 37, or Dan. 1. Lu 16. 23 M Peck reached Whale R., 1877. To guide our feet into the way 24 T He is our peace, Eph. 2. 14. [of peace, Lu. 1. 79. 25 W My peace I give unto you, Jo. 14. 27. [Christ, Ac. 10. 36. 26 T Townsend sailed for W. Africa, 1836. Preaching peace by Jesus 27 F 1st stone Childr. Home, 1851. Peace be within thy walls, Ps. 122. 7. 28 S SS. Simon and Jude. Bp. Moule consec., 1880. Peace to thee, and peace to thine helpers, 1 Chr. 12. 18.] [be peace, Is. 32. 17. 29 S 21st aft. Trin. 1st Sikh ord., 1854. The work of righteousness shall M. Dan. 8. 1 Tim. 6. E. Dan. 4 or 5. Lu. 20. 1-27. 30 M Great peace have they which love Thy law. Ps. 119. 165. 31 T Thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel, [Ps. 128. 6. THE A Course of Missionary Sermons. THE following subjects for a course of sermons suggested by the Rev. II. Man's Spiritual Necessities provided for in the Gospel. IV. The Duty of the Church with regard to the Spread of the Gospel. V. The Church, if flourishing, interested in the Cause of the Gospel. VI. The Encouragement to endeavours to Spread the Gospel. VII. The Opportunities now Afforded for Making Known the Gospel. VIII. The Blessings reacting on those who Promote the Spread of the Gospel. IN A New Juvenile Association. N June last year a new Juvenile Association was inaugurated for Newport, Monmouthshire, and the first year's report has just been sent to us. At the first meeting the Revs. J. R. Wolfe and J. M. West spoke. In October the first quarterly meeting was held, when the Rev. J. T. Wrenford presided, and the Rev. J. Spear, an Indian chaplain, gave an address on the Hindus. At the February meeting three Christmas trees were provided, and the sale (purposely restricted to articles of small value) realised £12. At the April meeting the Rev. F. Bedwell presided, and the Revs. J. M. West and A. T. Hughes spoke. The total amount raised in the first year is £83 9s. 8d., a truly noble example of what young people can do when they try. More than one hundred children's names are on the list of collectors by boxes and cards. We hope that, by the blessing of God, they will go on and prosper. "TERM" inquires if the edicts against Christians and Christian preaching in Japan have been repealed. Never formally repealed, but withdrawn from the notice-boards and virtually obsolete. But foreigners can only travel without a passport within a radius of twenty miles from one of the seven treaty ports. Beyond that distance they require passports, which would not be granted them for avowed and open missionary work. They travel, however, for health and to learn the language, and have many opportunities of making known the Gospel. There is no restriction on the work of Native Christians. "A YOUNG FRIEND" suggests that special missionary boxes for "ThankOfferings" or "For Travelling Mercies" should have illuminated cards on them explaining their object; which cards she thinks many would be pleased to make for the purpose. Received with thanks :-"D. B.," 10s., for the Society. EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS. By the lamented death of Bishop Steere, Africa has lost one of its ablest missionaries. Dr. Steere went out to the East Coast in 1863, in connection with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, which was then being established at Zanzibar after the failure of its first attempt on the Zambesi. He afterwards had a parish in England for three or four years, but in 1874 was consecrated Bishop in succession to Dr. Tozer. Under his leadership the Universities' Mission has become one of the most important agencies in East Africa; and his own Bible translations and other literary work have been of great value to other Missions, including our own. It was only in May last that the C.M.S. Committee had an interview with him, and expressed their gratitude for his kindnesses to the Society's missionaries sojourning at Zanzibar. The Rev. John Perowne, who died on August 26th, at the age of eightyeight, and who was the father of the Dean of Peterborough, of the Master of Corpus, and of the Archdeacon of Norwich, was a C.M.S. missionary sixty years ago. He went to Burdwan, North India, in 1820, and laboured there seven years, when he returned home in ill-health. The name of Perowne is now a distinguished one in the Church of England, and especially in the University of Cambridge. Two of the sons are Vice-Presidents of the C.M.S., and the third an Honorary Life Governor. Sir George Grey, formerly Secretary of State for the Home Department, who died on Sept. 9th, was an active member of the C.M.S. Committee fiftyfive years ago. He joined in 1827, and continued his attendance until he took office. He was afterwards a Vice-President. We deeply regret to announce the death of Mrs. Baring, better known to the readers of the GLEANER as Mrs. Elmslie. Margaret Duncan was married in 1872 to Dr. Elmslie, the founder of the C.M.S. Kashmir Medical Mission, who died in the same year. She remained in the Punjab, working with great devotion for several years in connection with the C.M.S. Amritsar Mission. Last year she was married to the Rev. F. H. Baring, and went out with him to Batâla; and just a year afterwards she entered into rest, on July 28th. The many friends who contributed to the Henry Wright Memorial Fund will be glad to hear that the steamer is now being built. There has been much delay, owing to differences of opinion amongst the best authorities as to what kind of vessel would be most suitable. The tender of Messrs. Green, the eminent shipbuilders of Blackwall, was ultimately accepted for £5,252, and within a few months the Henry Wright will, we trust, be at her post. A sum of £1,600 is still wanted to place her at Zanzibar, including the cost of transport thither; and we hope that many who may have waited to contribute till they saw exactly what would be done, will now join heartily and liberally in so appropriate a memorial to the beloved friend and brother whom it pleased God to take from us two years ago. In February last, the Bishop of Calcutta admitted to Deacon's Orders a long-tried and zealous C.M.S. catechist in the Krishnagar district, Babu Koilash Chunder Biswas. At the same time the Rev. Molam Biswas, of Thakurpukur, received priest's orders. The Rev. K. C. Biswas has been appointed pastor of Bollobpur, where he had been catechist for several years. During the same tour in Krishnagar, the Bishop of Calcutta confirmed 318 Native Christians, and dedicated two small mission churches built by the late Rev. J. Vaughan. Letters are to hand from Bishop Bompas, of Athabasca, dated Fort Norman, Mackenzie River, March 6th. It was a relief to hear of the Bishop's safety. The latest previous news was that he had embarked at Fort Simpson on October 13th, to go down the Mackenzie to join Mrs. Bompas, at Fort Norman, on a raft consisting of a few logs lashed together. We now hear that he was for some days and nights "carried about like a cockle shell" among the drifting ice. Archdeacon McDonald's health was in a weak state, and he was hoping to come over to England next year, bringing his valuable Tukudh translations to be printed-a most important work, for it is scarcely possible that any one else can get the mastery of that little known tongue which he has acquired during so many years of constant travel among the people. Concerning the Gônd Mission in Central India, the Rev. H. D. Williamson notes progress in three respects, viz. (1) "in the interest taken by the people in our preaching," (2) "in their understanding us and our aims," (3) "in our understanding them." To assist the progress in the two latter respects, Mr. Williamson travels from village to village without tents, in as quiet a way as possible; while the progress in interest is illustrated by a man-the first Gônd met with who could read-coming eighty miles to get a copy of the Scriptures. The Rev. John and Mrs. Cain, of the Koi Mission, who have been in Australia for some months, visiting the friends of the latter, and doing much to spread interest there in C.M.S. work, were to sail from Melbourne on their return to India, on August 15th. We rejoice to hear that they will be accompanied by two more Australian ladies, Miss E. Digby and Miss Mary Seymour, who have volunteered for the Telugu Mission, and whose expenses will be paid by Christian friends in Victoria. In the June GLEANER there was a request from the Rev. A. J. P. Shepherd, Director of the Missionaries' Children's Home, for two pianos, and books and magazines. In his Annual Report just issued he says:-"Many laughed and doubted when a short public appeal for books and pianos was made in the Society's magazines for June. Now it is our turn to laugh at the doubters. We have received some forty most useful books and magazines, £4 in money for binding, and a capital piano from Mrs. Fisher. The piano was waiting to be sold, but the appeal changed its destination, and transferred it to us. Gratitude is the expectation of favours to come. We are still waiting for some more books for our library, and also for the second piano." **We are requested by the Editor of the forthcoming "Official Year-Book of the Church of England" to invite communications to him respecting any systematic plans which may have proved successful in bringing the children of Day and Sunday schools into intelligent sympathy with the work of Foreign Missions. Address, Rev. F. Burnside, Hertingfordbury, Hertford. |