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THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF DR. KRAPF,
The Pioneer-Missionary of East Africa.
TOLD BY HIMSELF.

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 hut 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

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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,

no longer afraid of wild beasts, and the only was how to reach Kitui as soon as possible.

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 thought that occupied me Coming to a sand-pit with

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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.)

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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. 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

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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.

A Course of Missionary Sermons.

THH wing, sviler of Yoxford, and originally preached on Sunday

HE following subjects for a course of sermons suggested by the Rev.

Evenings, by various preachers, at his former church at Taunton, have been circulated among the members of the Suffolk Church Missionary Union:I. The State of the World without the Gospel.

II. Man's Spiritual Necessities provided for in the Gospel. III. Mankind humanised by the Influence of 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.

THE CHURCH MISSIONARY MISSIONARY GLEANER.

NOVEMBER, 1882.

THE WORKING TOGETHER

OF GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH IN THE EXTENSION OF CHRIST'S KINGDOM.

BY THE REV. J. B. WHITING, M.A., Vicar of St. Luke's, Ramsgate.

VIII.

CTS XV. "Apostles and elders" deliberate in Jerusalem on a critical matter which has arisen in Antioch. Peter, as an Apostle, having related his experience, the council suspend their judgment till "the multitude" have heard the reports of the missionaries, Paul and Barnabas, of what "God had done by them." After this instructive exercise they diligently search for scriptural light on the important subject, and realising the presence of the Comforter, the "Advocate" of God's will to the Church, they give their final decision (not without the concurrence of the "brethren ") as that which "seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us."

We carry on our enterprise with confidence, as we realise and rest upon this working together of the Holy Ghost and the Church; and seek that the Holy Spirit may continually direct and control the conclusions arrived at and the letters written.

How impressive is the responsibility which this casts on the writers of letters to and from the Mission field. Those who are successors of "the Apostles and elders and brethren" are thus bidden to depend on "the abiding Comforter." And how incessant should be the prayer of "the whole multitude" of the "brethren" that this sacred influence may be recognised in the council chambers of the "elders."

In a higher sense we observe the same principle at work in the preparation of the Scriptures themselves. Under the administrative action of the Holy Ghost, the circumstances occurred which prompted the writing of the Gospels and Acts and Epistles and Book of Revelation. Then the Spirit of Truth inspired the writers of the New Testament, bringing to their remembrance all things whatsoever the Lord Jesus had spoken, and unfolding unsuspected depths of meaning in the Old Testament. Thus the whole counsel of God was not only spoken to the early converts, but written down for the instruction of the Church to the end

of time.

To this inspired and infallible volume the Holy Ghost hath added no more. It contains the unalterable principles on which our missionary work must be conducted in "all the world," and tells the whole truth of God.

With deepening interest we note the especial prominence given in Acts to the written Word of God. Eye-witnesses spake of the Word Incarnate, that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, but from the first Christian sermon onward the witness is only given as in perfect harmony with the written Word. The Scriptures, then, which have the Holy Ghost for their Author, not only came through the original writers, but were copied and translated, and carried and distributed wherever the first misionaries preached "Christ and Him crucified."

To the converts the truth came "not in Word only, but in power and the Holy Ghost." The Word was not effectual without the Spirit. The Spirit still works by the Word, and not without the Word. The appeal of the missionary is still to the Bible. And in regard to no part of the great missionary work of the Church is it more imperatively necessary that we should pray for the guiding presence of the Holy Spirit than in reference to the laborious work of translating the Bible into the various languages of the world, and of distributing it among all nations.

OUR MEDICAL MISSIONS.
(Continued from page 121.)

T some other North Indian Stations there are small dispensaries: for instance at Jubbulpore, whence the Rev. T. R. Hodgson writes, "A charitable dispensary is carried on by a Native Christian brother, to the great benefit of many sick and In connection with it a weekly needy applicants for relief. service is conducted by a little band of volunteers; and the

Gospel is preached daily to from twenty to forty patients."

We have mentioned one of the two Native ordained medical the Tinnevelly pastors. He writes, "My work divides itself into men in India. The other is the Rev. Manuel H. Cooksley, one of two branches, medical and pastoral," and of the former he says:The work in the dispensary is commenced at 7.30 A.M., and continued till 10, and resumed at 4 and closed at 5.30 P.M. every day, with the exception of Sundays; a portion of God's Word is read and prayers offered before we commence giving prescriptions. I talk to the patients about Christ's incarnation, &c., individually to Hindus and Mohammedans; Christians too are not neglected, memoriter lessons or Scripture texts are often asked, with advices and counsels.

The number of in-door patients being 35, we have had prayers every day with them, with short addresses. It is very pleasing to see the Hindus, many of them men and women, kneeling down with us for prayer, and to hear from their lips the loud "Amen,"

The total number of patients treated in out-door till November, 1881, was 2,776. Since the dispensary was aided by the Local Fund Board in 1878, I have furnished the Board with monthly and annual returns. The boarding-school children, the Mission agents, and the people have for the most part enjoyed good health. Vaccination is also involved upon medical subordinates as a part of their duty. The number of children vaccinated during the year was 120.

So much for India. In CHINA, Medical Missions have been very vigorously worked by some societies. The C.M.S. for several years had only one of a regular kind, the Opium Hospital at Hang-Chow, where Dr. Galt laboured with much success. He has been succeeded during the past year by Dr. Duncan Main. One of our oldest ordained missionaries, the Rev. W. H. Collins, late of Peking (now retired), is a surgeon; and it is noteworthy that the first-fruits of the Fuh-Chow Mission twenty years ago were gathered in by the instrumentality of a temporary dispensary opened by him in that city during a visit in 1860. The journeys from city to city of Dr. B. Van Someren Taylor, the Fuh-Kien medical missionary, during the last year or two, have been very interesting; and several converts have been the indirect fruit of his labours. One passage from his last report may be quoted :

At the city of Ning-Taik, upon the advice of the Rev. Ting Sing-ki, the Native pastor located there, the patients, instead of waiting in the chapel, waited in the clergyman's own reception room, and there were handed tea and tobacco: in other words, were treated as guests; and whilst waiting they were spoken to by the clergyman or the catechist.

Amongst my patients was the head military officer of the city. He here for the first time in his life heard the Truth, for he sat for some time and listened to the clergyman telling him of Christ.

Bishop Burdon is anxious to set two medical missionaries to work in the Province of Quan-tung, in the south-western corner of China; and Mr. W. C. Jones's munificent gift of £72,000 will be available to provide the hospitals and for the training of Native medical missionary agents; but meanwhile, the English doctors are first wanted, and we are looking to the Great Physician to move some to offer for His service.

Lastly, as a field for Medical Missions, there is the Far West of British America, the country of the C.M.S. NORTH PACIFIC Mission. Both at Metlakahtla and in Queen Charlotte's Islands, the Rev. W. H. Collison has done good service as an amateur in this branch of the work; and now a qualified medical

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missionary has been appointed, Dr. John Horden, a son of the Bishop of Moosonee.

Such is a hasty summary of the Society's Medical Missions. They deserve our warmest sympathy and our constant prayers. We cannot doubt that they are especially pleasing in His eyes who is the Healer of both body and soul. May He give them much influence in softening hard hearts to receive His word, and so in fetching home to His fold the wounded and the wandering sheep!

THE TAMIL COOLY MISSION, CEYLON. WO important branches of the work in Ceylon are the Kandyan Itinerancy and the Tamil Cooly Mission. Both work in the hill-country in the centre of the island, covering nearly the same area. The former is directed at the Singhalese village population; the latter among the Tamil Coolies on the coffee estates, some 1,400 of whom are now on the roll of Native Christians, besides many who have returned to their native country, South India. The Tamil Cooly Mission has been mainly supported for upwards of a quarter of a century by a committee of coffee planters, who have raised more than £1,000 to maintain catechists, schools, &c., the Society furnishing the funds for the superintending English missionaries. There are two Native assistant missionaries, the Revs. Pakkyanathan Peter and Aralanathen Gnanamutthu, and also fifty-three catechists and schoolmasters. The Rev. W. E. Rowlands writes encouragingly of the success which has attended the work, though it has

not been without trial. "Perhaps," he writes, "the greatest trial of all is to be continually met by one's own countrymen with the objection that what you are doing is worse than useless, that no results are seen, and that to make the Tamil labourer a Christian is only to make him twice as big a rogue as he was before."'" But he adds:

"For the fifty-six adult baptisms, which is a larger number than that of any previous year, I feel specially thankful to God. In many instances the examination preparatory to baptism has been most cheering, as manifesting a simplicity of faith in Christ which could only have resulted from the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart; and I have more than once been constrained to say to European planters who have thrown doubt upon the power of the Tamil people to receive Christian truth at all, I only wish you could have been with me this morning to hear the answers of such and such a candidate for baptism; for had you been, I am sure you would no longer speak or think as you do.'

The Bishop of Colombo visited the Tamil Cooly Mission last year, and confirmed 174 converts. In this work he spent three weeks riding and driving with Mr. Rowlands, and holding confirmations at fourteen different centres. "There was much," writes the latter, "that was gratifying in the earnest, devout spirit in which the candidates entered into the service; and the Bishop expressed himself much pleased with what he saw. I trust and believe it was an occasion when real spiritual life was deepened in the hearts of very many."

connected with the C.M.S., increased by nearly 5,000 souls last year. THE number of Native Christian adherents in India, including catechumens, The total is now close to one hundred thousand (99,543), having doubled in twenty years.

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