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3 MH. Budd d., 1875. Saved by His life, Ro. 5. 10.

4 T Stanley's meeting with Mtesa, 1875. Look unto Me, and be ye 5 W Behold the Lamb of God, John 1. 29. [saved, Is. 45. 22. 6 T He hath poured out His soul unto death, Is. 53. 12. Good Friday. Even the death of the cross, Phil. 2. 8. M. Ge. 22. 1-20. Jo. 18. E. Is. 52. 13, & 53. 1 Pe. 2.

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11 T [Lu. 19. 10. 12 W C.M.S. established, 1799. To seek and to save that which was lost, 13 T Freed Slaves bapt. East Africa, 1879. Redeemed out of bondage, [Deu. 13. 5. 14 F 1st Af. bapt. S. Leone, 1816. Redeemed from the hand of the 15 S Their Redeemer is mighty, Prov. 23. 11. [enemy, Ps. 107.2. [our justification. Ro. 4. 25. 16 S 1st. aft. Easter. Delivered for our offences, and raised again for M. Nu. 16. 1-36. 1 Cor. 15. 1-29. E. Nu. 16. 36, or 17.1-12. Jo. 20. 24-30. 17 M The Author of eternal salvation, Heb. 5. 9. 18 T Proclam. of Sultan of Zanzibar against slavery, 1876. Who gave [Himself a ransom for all, 1 Ti. 2. 6. 19 W One Mediator bet. God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Ti. 2. 5. 20 T1st bapt. at Ningpo, 1851. His arm brought salvation, Is. 59. 16. 21 F Waganda Envoys arr., 1880. All flesh shall see the salvation of 22 S Show forth His salvation fr. day to day, Ps. 96. 2. [God, Lu. 3. 6. [1 Pet. 2. 21. 23 S 2nd aft. Easter. Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, M. Nu. 20. 1-14. Lu. 17. 20. E. Nu. 20. 14 to 21. 10, or 21. 10. Eph. 6. 10. 24 M Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation, Ps. 35. 3. 25 T St. Mark. He loved me, and gave Himself for me, Gal. 2. 20. 26 W 1st bapt. at Kagoshima, 1879. Thy salvation cometh, Is. 62. 11. 27 T We look for the Saviour, Phil. 3. 20. [Heb. 9. 28. 28 F Unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time, 29 S Imad-ud-din bapt. 1866. Mighty to save, Is. 63. 1. [Me there is no Saviour, Is. 43. 11. 30 S 3rd aft. Easter. 1st C.M.S. bapt. at Constantinople, 1862. Beside

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THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER can be ordered through any bookseller in town and country. As accounts reach us that it is not always easily procured, we beg to say that it has never once been late in appearing, and there is no reason why it should not be in the hands of every subscriber by the 1st of the month. All back numbers are kept in stock. Orders can also be sent direct to Messrs. Seeley & Co., Fleet Street; or to the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London, E.C. One copy, post free, 1d.; for twelve months, 1s. 3d. Twelve copies, post free, 1s. 3d.; for twelve months, 15s. P. O. Orders payable to General George Hutchinson, Lay Secretary.

The GLEANER has been localised in several parishes as a Parochial Magazine. Apply to the printers, Messrs. James Truscott & Son, Suffolk Lane, E.C.

THE CAMBRIDGE MISSIONARY EXHIBITION. VERY remarkable sight was presented by the spacious Corn Exchange at Cambridge on the 7th, 8th, and 9th of March. By the enterprise of the Rev. John Barton, a Loan Exhibition of objects of interest from the various countries in which the Church Missionary Society labours had been projected, and articles had poured in from all parts of quarters. The result was most surprising. The Africa, India, China, Japan, and North America courts, as well as others, were full of interest; and everything was arranged with the utmost taste. Our only regret was that the Exhibition was so little known beyond its immediate locality, and that it could only be kept open three days. It ought to have been visited by the Society's friends from all parts of the country.

The place and the date of the Exhibition were singularly appropriate. It was Charles Simeon, of Cambridge, who originated the idea of a Church Missionary Society, and March 8th was the 78th anniversary of the sailing of the first missionaries for West Africa. It was impossible to walk round this Exhibition, and at the same time to look back to those days of old, without the exclamation rising to the lips, What hath God wrought!

EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

The annual C.M.S. sermon is fixed for Monday evening, May 1st, at St. Bride's, when (as before mentioned) the Bishop of Ossory will preach. The annual meetings will be held next day, Tuesday, May 2nd. Among the speakers appointed for the morning are Sir Bartle Frere, the Bishop of Victoria, Canon Tristram, the Rev. R. Bruce, and the Rev. R. C. Billing. The address at the Breakfast is to be given by the Rev. Canon T. Green, formerly Principal of the C.M. College. Bishop Cheetham, of Sierra Leone, will preside in the evening. Further arrangements are in progress.

We greatly regret to announce the retirement from the Principalship of the Church Missionary College of the Rev. W. H. Barlow, who has accepted the Vicarage of St. James's, Clapham.

On February 20th a social gathering and conference was held at the C.M. House for the purpose of considering the best ways of fostering Juvenile and Sunday-school Missionary Associations, which was attended by a large number of representatives from Sunday-schools supporting the Society. The Rev. F. E. Wigram presided; and the Revs. J. M. West, H. Sutton, and Gordon Calthrop, General Hutchinson, and many others spoke. The conference was of a very practical and helpful character; and it is proposed to repeat the meetings three or four times each year.

Our last number quoted a letter from the Rev. J. Deck, Vicar of St. Stephen's, Hull, respecting the late Mr. Vaughan. Before that number appeared, Mr. Deck also had been taken to his rest. By his death the Society has lost a faithful friend, who for forty years promoted its interests in Hull. Another old and valued friend has also passed away, the Rev. R. Collins of Kirkburton. The Society's venerable missionary, the Rev. J. T. Wolters, of Smyrna, and Mrs. Wolters, died almost together on February 17th and 20th. Mr. Wolters, like Hoernle, Pfander, and others, was first a missionary of the Basle Society in North Persia, whither he went in 1832. On that Mission being expelled by the Russians, he, like them, joined the C.M.S. in 1837. He was stationed first at Syra, and then at Smyrna, and at the latter city he lived forty years, to the day of his death, although the Society's Mission was closed in 1877. His son, the Rev. T. F. Wolters, is one of our missionaries at Jerusalem.

The Rev. Piripi Kingi Patiki (i.e., Philip King Patiki), one of the C.M.S. Maori clergy, and the senior in the Diocese of Auckland, died on October 4th, at the age of about seventy. He was baptized by the Rev. W. Williams (afterwards Bishop of Waiapu), in 1839, and ordained by Bishop Selwyn in 1861. "As a preacher he was unequalled among the Maori clergy.'

We hear with much regret of the death of Isaac Nyondo, one of our best Native agents in East Africa. He was son of the late Abraham Abe Gunga, and for many years personal attendant to Mr. Rebmann, and he has worked most faithfully under the Rev. H. K. Binns, of Kisulutini. His portrait was in the GLEANER of May, 1877, with that of his wife "Polly."

In December there was a renewal of persecution at Bonny, the still heathen chiefs prohibiting the attendance of the Christians at church. Bishop Crowther advised them to stay away a Sunday or two until he could arrange with the chiefs; but as the latter paid no attention to him, the people resolved to attend, and on Christmas Day between 400 and 500 were present at St. Stephen's. Two or three were arrested, and threatened with death; but on the rest avowing themselves also guilty and demanding to be killed too, the chiefs gave way, and withdrew the prohibition.

On October 31st Archdeacon Crowther baptized eighty-six candidates at Bonny, of whom he writes, "They had all been well prepared in class. Most of them had been under training for the last eighteen months."

***In a footnote in our February number it was stated that the Rev. W. H. Perkins, S.P.G. missionary at Cawnpore, was killed in the Mutiny. This was a mistake, which we much regret. Mr. Perkins is living in England now. Received:-From "The Little J's," for Japan, 108.

"S. R." should apply to a good local printer.

"J. G. C." is requested to write to the Rev. F. E. Wigram, Hon. Sec.

THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER.

MAY, 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.

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EADER, the Gospel is not only a priceless blessing to a sinner's own soul. Salvation sets the believer free to work out the will of God in the salvation "of the world." "Ye are the light of the world;" "Ye are the salt of the earth." To the disciples, men and women, gathered on the side of Olivet, the ascending Saviour said, "Go ye into all the world;" "Ye shall be My witnesses to the uttermost parts of the earth."

Since all cannot go, some must be sent as " messengers of the Churches." Where are the men, and of what sort are they? Before we reply, we must read another lesson out of the Acts-x., xiii., xiv., xv. Driven by persecution, unauthorised evangelists went "as far as to Antioch." Tidings came to "the Church in Jerusalem." The watchful "Church" immediately sent a well-chosen man to guide and organise the company of believers. The evangelists, loyal to the Church at Jerusalem, at once acknowledged Barnabas. A "Church" was immediately formed (xi. 26). In that Church "the middle wall of partition was completely broken down. Jew and Gentile were gathered under one new name, the glorious name of Christian, which does away with all race distinctions.

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In the city to which this high honour was given of finding a common name for converts of every land the foundation was laid of Church missionary enterprise. Internal indications at Antioch point to external action. To the believers assembled as a "Church" the Holy Ghost manifests His will: "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." The Church laid their hands on them after "prayer and fasting," and "sent them away. So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost went away" to their missionary work. Here is the combined action of the Holy Spirit with "the Church" in "that city," in the selection and mission of the men. On their return they rendered an account of all that the Holy Ghost had done by them in a missionary meeting of the Church (xiv. 27). And being brought on their way by the Church" at Antioch, they were received of the Church at Jerusalem, and again related all that God had done by them.

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In after years the Churches of whose formation we read in the Acts are still separately exhorted to maintain a missionary spirit. The Roman Church must take a missionary interest in Spain. Some Churches must be "robbed" that the Gospel may be preached in Corinth, giving "wages." The Thessalonians must pray with missionary energy that "the Word of God may have free course and be glorified." To older Churches all owe the missionary labour which led to their conversion, and by "the Church" is made known the manifold wisdom of God. How beautifully does Ephesians iv. blend the responsibilities of the individual with the action of the whole body!

Thus the Churches were instructed to seek the spread of the Saviour's kingdom. It was as much an essential part of their Christian life to unite in missionary operations as to unite in public worship. Is this the case now? Does the "Church," or body of believers in each separate parish, find the missionary idea not only engaging attention now and then, but entering into the substance of its "life," so that it can be said of that Church, "It is clothed with the testimony of Jesus"? How few are our parochial churches" where the pleading of Isaiah is fully realised: "Arise, shine, for thy light is come!"

NOTES FROM EAST AFRICA.
Sent for the GLEANER by the REV. W. S. PRICE.

N December 9th, just three weeks from leaving England, I landed at Zanzibar. A sudden transition from wintry winds and overcoats and snug firesides to the temperature of a Dutch oven, where everybody night and day is melting away, and the only luxury is a bit of ice from the Sultan's machine.

To my dismay I found I was just a week too late. The N.E. monsoon had set in steadily, and as Frere Town, my destination, lies 120 miles to the north, I was sorely puzzled to know how to get there. Few native craft will venture the passage at this season, and those that do are generally two or three weeks tacking about among reefs and currents before they reach the port.

Zanzibar is not a pleasant town to live in at any time, especially in the hot season and when you have nothing to do; and to make matters worse, just now, owing to the cruel massacre of Captain Brownrigg by Arab slave-traders, the gloom of the shadow of death hangs over the place and finds its way into every house. The lamented officer was deservedly popular-a kind-hearted, genial man, and the very life of the station-and so every one seems oppressed with a sense of personal bereavement.

No wonder I was restless and anxious to get away-longing to reach Frere Town, and set about my work. But my wings were clipt, and I had to learn, not for the first time, that, in East Africa, Patience is a cardinal virtue. My only comfort was in the thought that the Lord knows all about it, and that no doubt there is some good "wherefore" for my detention.

At the end of a fortnight, one evening as I was at dinner, to my joy came a note from Colonel Miles to say that the Sultan was sending some troops next day to Lamoo, and that His Highness was kind enough to offer me a passage as far as Mombasa in his steamer. I gladly jumped at the offer, as giving me my only chance of escape perhaps for weeks to come. Not that the prospect was in any way inviting, but it promised at least to give one a new experience, and some faint idea of what "the middle passage used to be.

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Next morning I rose with a light heart, packed up my traps, and having taken a hasty leave of the Consul and other friends who had shown me much kindness and hospitality, I went on board the Sultan's little Star. As it was nigh upon Christmas the name naturally suggested to my mind "the Star of the East"; but, alas! the happy train of thought this might have led to was soon sadly disturbed by my surroundings and the necessities of the moment. Presently boat after boat came off laden with sepoys going to the war in Lamoo, firing off guns and shrieking and yelling as only East Africans know how. Then came a scene of indescribable confusion. The decks swarmed with a dusky crowd of men of all ages and sizes, clothed and armed after every possible fashion, scrambling for places amidst piles of boxes and iron cooking-pots and kegs of powder. Soon after 5 P.M. the last instalment came and we steamed away, and very glad I was to find myself on the wing again, and to watch the Sultan's electric light fade away in the distance.

Verily it was a night long to be remembered. Pigs and sheep in a railway truck in England have a jolly time of it as compared with our condition. Travelling under such circumstances makes one acquainted with strange bed-fellows. Here in a boat with bare accommodation for 20 passengers, there were 200 of the dirtiest, noisiest, most disreputable-looking fellows that even Zanzibar could produce. Some of them were just recovering from small-pox, whilst others were suffering from disagreeable ulcers; and I had to shake down with this filthy herd in the best

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tion of a silver sword paved the way. This I declined, as altogether inconsistent with my missionary calling. My retinue consisted of ten armed servants, partly to wait on me, and partly for protection.

On the 16th we reached the hill of Dair, on which is the hill fort of the governor of the province of Geshe. My road lay through the country of the Wollo chief, Adara Bille, to whom the governor of Geshe was to send a soldier with me recommending me to his protection. On the 19th of March I arrived at Gatira, the residence of Adara Bille, who received me hospitably, and at our interview asked several questions, which, believing in the friendliness he expressed, I answered fearlessly. He appeared pleased with my presents, and provided a guide. Very different was his treatment on my second visit!

On the 20th of March I left Gatira. The road to Gondar was made very unsafe by numerous predatory bands, who were hovering about and plundering travellers; and on the 23rd fugitives met us with the alarming tidings that the governor had that morning been killed and his son taken prisoner. The population of the whole plain was in the greatest consternation, every one removing his property to a place of safety. In the morning came the news that the enemy was approaching, so I decided on returning to the friendly Adara Bille.

On the 28th of March, we reached Gatira again, and I was received by Adara Bille not only with friendliness, but with emphatic expressions of sympathy with my disappointment, and congratulations upon my escape and safe return; yet when two days afterwards I wished to leave, he desired me to remain until he received permission from the governor in Dair to send me back to Shoa, as the King of Shoa had only ordered him to send me forward to Gondar, but not back. Vain were protests. Meanwhile, however, I was plentifully supplied with meat and drink, and sent a messenger and a letter to Dair; but, as I afterwards heard, neither reached their destination, as my messenger was thrown into prison at the frontier. I made several presents to Adara Bille, thinking that perhaps this was what he wanted, which were accepted; but when on the 31st of March I again sought permission to leave Gatira, he replied that I was not to

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return. I was surprised to learn that my messenger had been imprisoned, and to hear one of Adara Bille's counsellors say: "You have no friend or kinsman here, save God." I packed up all my valuables, and resolved to steal quietly out of the house at midnight, and if possible to reach the frontier of Shoa by daybreak. During the day I explored the roads in the environs of Gatira. Through my faithless servant, probably, Adara Bille received information of our intended flight, and sent for me, telling me that the governor of Dair had nothing to object to my return to Shoa, and that I might depart next morning early. I was led away by this apparent

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I went soon to bed that I might rise very early in the morning, and was already asleep, when I was suddenly awakened by a servant, with the command to repair immediately to Adara Bille, who wished to bid me farewell. This late invitation rather startled me; but I complied without delay, hoping to have done, once for all, with the annoyance. At the same time, all my servants, including the treacherous one, who was to take care of the baggage, were summoned to the chief's. When Adara Bille saw me enter his chamber he bowed, and said that he was very glad that I had complied with the invitation. He had summoned me so late, he said, only because on the morrow he should have a great deal of business on hand, and thus could not personally bid farewell to his departing friend, whose conversation, too, he desired once more to

enjoy. He then wanted to try on my spectacles; but could not see with them, as his sight was good. The cunning rascal, too, wished to know what was in my boots, and asked me to draw off one, which I did, not to offend him by a refusal. The conversation was then prolonged, and meat and bread set before us. At last I grew tired of the farce, and was rising to say "Good night," when Adara Bille rejoined: "Go not yet, my father, I have not yet sufficiently enjoyed your conversation; nor have you eaten and drank enough." After a brief interval I stood up, determined to go home. The chief, too, now rose, went into a little closet behind his bedstead upon which he had been sitting, and that very moment the soldiers fell upon me and my people. One seized me by the arm and said: "You are a prisoner; give security that you will not escape!" At first I thought that it was a practical joke of Adara Bille to test my courage; but I soon saw that the Wollo chief was in earnest. I was taken into a little room, and the contents of my pockets were demanded. As I hesitated, the guards declared that they had orders to kill me forthwith, and my Abyssinian cloak was torn from off my back. Upon appealing to Adara Bille's justice and friendship, I was answered derisively with the exclamation: "Out with your treasures! Death if you conceal the smallest of your goods!" The female slaves, who were grinding corn in a corner of the room, began to shriek, thinking that the foreign man was about to be murdered. Wearied out and full of the saddest thoughts, I lay down on the ground to sleep, but sleep fled my eyelids until after midnight. Out of the depths of my soul I called on the Good Shepherd, the God of all help, who knows the cares and sorrows of His servants, and who had ever been my trust and support!

I awoke with the consciousness of being a prisoner, yet still one whose life had been preserved by the mercy of Providence. I requested an interview with Adara Bille, as also leave to depart, and necessaries for the journey; but he would neither see me nor grant anything, sending me word that he did not care if I had to beg my daily bread. At length, however, he sent me three dollars and my worst mule, which I had to dispose of on the road to purchase food and shelter. So, too, my manuscripts -an Amharic dictionary and my diary-as well as my English Testament, were restored. The paper which was not written upon was retained by him, along with 140 dollars, five mules, my watch, the compass, and many other valuables.

On the morning of the 5th of April I was told that I and my servants were to be conducted beyond the frontier by six soldiers of the chief; but the route and the direction were not mentioned. In silence and unarmed we followed the men, who had spears, shields, and swords. Whatever the way, it was a matter of indifference to me, as I had nothing more to lose, and in any case, had to journey by a route never before traversed by European. I consoled myself with the thought of Abraham, to whom God had promised to show the way that he should go, and to be his shield.

We met by providential guidance a merchant coming from Totola, who was surprised to see a white man on foot and without baggage. I told him what I had suffered at the hands of Adara Bille, adding that I had heard the orders of the soldiers were to take me to Ali Gongul, the governor under Amade, chief of the Wollo tribe, whose teritory now began. It struck the merchant as singular that Adara Bille should send us to the governor and not to the chief, Amade, himself. He therefore advised us to set up a loud cry, on which the people in the fields would come to our aid, and conduct us themselves to their prince, who lived in Mofa on a high hill. We followed this excellent advice; and when we were about half a league from Mofa, observing from the way some country people in a field, we sat down and told the soldiers that we wished to be taken to Amade, and not to Ali Gongul. The soldiers were furious and brandished their swords; but we called the peasants, and told them the story of our robbery by Adara Bille, and after some resistance the soldiers were obliged to give in, and, with the peasants, we all repaired to Amade. After listening to our story, he was angry that Adara Bille should send soldiers through his territory, and ordered them to turn back immediately, or he would throw them into prison. Amade gave us permission to go whithersoever we chose, and we were immediately set free.

Journeying on first in a north-easterly direction, and then in a northwesterly direction, seventeen days elapsed before we reached Tekunda,

the frontier village of Tigre. The way lay through every description of country; fruitful valleys and plains, mountain heights, past desert wildernesses; sometimes amid dense populations, sometimes where no human soul was to be found; and for the most part, we had to beg for food and shelter. Occasionally a Mohammedan would receive us hospitably, occasionally a Christian; in the latter case the motive frequently was to receive an amulet against illness, or some magical cure from the white man; for it is a common belief in Abyssinia that all white men come from Jerusalem, where they think there is no sickness, and all is plenty and splendour. When I contradicted these superstitious notions, we would sometimes be hustled out of the Christian's house, as Mussulmans in disguise, sent to sleep in the open air and the cold, and ordered to depart before break of day. A few horse-beans grudgingly given were often all that we had to subsist on, and once, even to procure them, I had to sell the girdle of my chief servant. We longed, day after day, for our arrival at the coast.

At last, on the 29th of April, after unspeakable perils, sufferings, and fatigues, we reached Tekunda, where my miserable and beggarly condition made no very favourable impression on the Governor. On hearing, however, that I was an English subject, and acquainted with Bishop Gobat, he became a little more friendly, bringing me and my people some bread and horse-beans. He listened with great apparent sympathy to the recital of our robbery by Adara Bille, and when it was concluded, he showed me some Mohammedan pilgrims, who had come from Mecca, and who were subjects of Adara Bille: "Take these," he said; "revenge yourself on them, and spoil them of their clothes." But I declared that, as a Christian and a messenger of the Gospel, I could not repay evil with evil, especially on that day, Good Friday,* which reminds the Christian that Christ, the Son of God, died for all-the unjust no less than the just, in order to reconcile them to God, and to bestow on them the spirit of love and peace. The Governor assigned to me a spacious dwelling and provisions, so that after long suffering, privation, and severe exertion, I enjoyed a little repose, and could solemnise the holy day in tranquillity.

At last, after intense fatigue and several menaces from the surrounding savages, we arrived at Harkiko, on the Red Sea coast, on the 2nd of May. On the 4th I set out for Masso wa along the coast, till I approached near the island upon which it stands. My feet were swollen, so I adopted the Abyssinian fashion of going barefooted. Our subsequent voyage from Massowa to Aden lasted fifteen days; and from Aden I proceeded to Suez. I remained in Egypt up to the time of my marriage with my wife, Rosine Dietrich, in the autumn of 1812.

I then returned with my colleagues, Isenberg and Mühleisen-Arnold, to Aden, with the intention of proceeding to Shoa; but we were informed by the Sultan of Tajurra that he had received written orders from the King of Shoa to grant no European an entrance into the interior. All our protests were in vain, and I now wished to betake myself to the south, having heard that the Gallas, whose conversion I had had at heart since the commencement of my residence in Shoa, extended as far as the Equator. Yet I could not bring myself to take a final farewell of Abyssinia before a last experiment had been tried. At Aden I resolved, therefore, to proceed to Massowa. From Massowa I proceeded with my wife through the Shoho land to the frontier of Tigre, with a large supply of Amharic and Ethiopic Bibles and Testaments. On the way we had to submit to the probation of a severe trial; for in the Shoho wilderness my beloved wife was prematurely delivered of a little daughter, whom I christened "Eneba," a tear. I had to bury the dear child, for she lived only a few hours, under a tree by the wayside, and her mourning mother was obliged to prosecute her journey on the third day after her confinement, as the Shohos would not wait any longer, and there was no village in the neighbourhood where she could have enjoyed repose. We arrived safely at the frontier of Tigre, and busied ourselves distributing the Bibles.

But this last attempt to work in Abyssinia also failed through the hostility of the priesthood of Adowa, though we had the consolation of knowing that we had distributed nearly 2,000 copies of the Scriptures, and from first to last, nearly 8,000. My wife and I now returned to Aden, and thence undertook the voyage to the south-east of Africa.

*"Old Style" prevails in Abyssinia, which accounts for Good Friday falling so late as April 29th.

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