[and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Mat. 28. 19. 4 S Trinity Sun. 1st bapt. at Tokio, 1876. In the name of the Father, M. Is. 6. 1-11. Re. 1. 1-9. E. Ge. 18, or 1. & 2. to 4. Eph. 4. 1-17, or Mat. 3. 5 M 1st C.M.S. Miss. landed Calcutta, 1816. To take out a people 6 T Hallowed be Thy name, Mat. 6.9. [for His name, Acts 15. 14. 7 W Gen. Lake d., 1877. Gen. Hutchinson Lay Sec., 1881. Do all in [the name of the Lord Jesus, Col. 3. 17. 8TH. Venn' str. entered Niger, 1878. Up and down in His name, 9 F None other name under heaven, Acts 4. 12. [Zec. 10. 12. 10 S Whereby we must be saved, Acts 4. 12. [vessel to bear My name, Acts 9. 15. 11 S 1st aft. Trin. St. Barnabas. S. Crowther ord., 1843. A chosen M. Jos. 3. 7 to 4. 15, or De. 33. 1-12. Ac. 4. 31. E. Jos. 5. 13 to 6. 21, or 24, [or Na. 1. Ac. 14. 8. 12 M In His name shall the Gentile trust, Mat. 12. 21. 13 T Duncan's 1st Serm. in Tsimshean, 1858. Preached boldly in the [name of Jesus, Acts 9. 27. 14 W Persia Mission adopted, 1875. In the name of our God we will 15 T A strong tower, Prov. 18. 10. [set up our banners, Ps. 20. 5. 16 F Holy and reverend, Pa. 111.9. [child in My name rec. Me, Mat. 18.5. 17 S Adjai brought to S. Leone '22. Whoso shall receive one such little [His name shall dwell therein, Ps. 69. 36. 18 S 2nd aft. Trin. Adm. Prevost at Metlakahtla, 1878. They that love M. Judg. 4. Ac. 2. 22. E. Judg. 5, or 6. 11. 1 Pet. 3. 8 to 4. 7. 19 M If ye shall a-k anything in My name I will do it, John 14. 14. 20 T Queen's Accn. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee, Ps. 20.1. 21 W Not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory, Ps. 115. 1. 22 T They that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee, Ps. 9. 10. 23 F Let them also that love Thy name be joyful, Ps. 5. 11. 24 S St. John Bapt. Counted worthy to suffer for His name, Ac. 5. 41. [there am I in the midst of them, Mat. 18. 20. 25 S 3rd aft. Trin. Where two or three are gathered in My name, 26 M Call upon His name, Ps. 105, 1. [known My name, P. 91. 14. 27 T Ld. Lawrence d., 1879. I will set him on high, because he hath 28 W J. W. Knott d., 1870. Hazarded their lives for His name, Ac. 15.26. 29 T St. Peter. Bp. Crowther consec., 1861. I will write upon him My [new name, Rev. 3. 12. 80 F Blessed be His glorious name for ever, Ps. 72. 19.

M. 1 Sa. 2. 1-27. Ac. 7. 1-35. E. 1 Sa. S. or 4. 1-19, 1 Jo. 1.

EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

The Rev. T. W. Drury, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, Rector of Holy Trinity, Chesterfield, has been appointed Principal of the Church Missionary College at Islington, in succession to the Rev. W. H. Barlow. Mr. Drury was 25th Wrangler, 3rd Class Classical Tripos, 1st Class Theological Tripos, and Scholefield and Evans University Prizeman.

The C.M.S. Committee have appointed Admiral Prevost a Vice-President of the Society. They have also appointed the following to be Honorary Life Governors, who have rendered very essential services to the Society :-The Ven. Archdeacon Cooper, of Kendal; the Ven. Archdeacon John W. Bardsley, of Liverpool; the Rev. Canon Crosthwaite, Vicar of Knaresborough; the Rev. G. C. Hodgson, Vicar of Corbridge: the Rev. Prebendary Jarratt, Vicar of North Cave; the Rev. Prebendary Charles Marshall, Rector of St. Bride's, London; the Rev. C. Matheson, Master of the Clergy Orphan School, Canterbury; General F. Haig, R.E., who has taken an active personal part in the Society's work in India; James Hough, Esq., of Cambridge; Wm. Charles Jones, Esq., of Warrington; Charles Playne, Esq., of Stroud.

On May 1st, an ordination was held at St. James's, Clapham (of which the Rev. W. H. Barlow is the new Vicar), by Bishop Perry, under a commission from the Bishop of London, and with the concurrence of the Bishop of Rochester. Eleven C.M.S. missionaries were admitted to deacon's orders, viz., Mr. Thomas Phillips, B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, who had resided two terms at Islington College; and ten other Islington students, Messrs. R. R. Bell, J. Blackburn, T. Dunn (late a lay missionary in Ceylon), W. J. Edmonds, A. R. Fuller, C. Harrison, L. G. P. Liesching, E. C. Gordon, A. J. Santer, and C. Shaw. The sermon was preached by Canon Hoare, and the candidates were presented by Mr. Barlow.

The ten Islington men above named all competed in the Oxford and Cambridge Preliminary Theological Examination, and all passed, viz., Messrs. Edmonds and Santer in the 1st class; Messrs Bell, Dunn, Harrison. Liesching, Gordon, Shaw, in the 2nd; and Messrs. Blackburn and Fuller in the 3rd.

The locations of five of the eleven men ordained were mentioned in our last.

The remainder are appointed as follows:-Mr. Shaw to the Yoruba Mission; Mr. Bell and Mr. Santer to Bengal; Mr. Harrison to the Gônd Mission, Central India; Mr. Liesching to Ceylon; Mr. Fuller to Mid-China.

The following appointments have also been made:- Mr. A. J. Shields, B.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, to the Santal Mission; the Rev. A. J. A. Golmer, an Islington man of 1880. to the Koi Mission on the Godavery; the Rev. J. Field, who was a lay missionary at Lagos, and was also ordained in 1880, to Ceylon; Mr. E. Elliott. B.A., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, to Fuhchow; and Mr. J. A. Wray as a lay missionary to East Africa,

Mr. John O. Horden, M.B., of Edinburgh University, a son of the Bishop of Moosonce, has offered himself to the Society as a Medical Missionary, and has been appointed to the North Pacific Mission.

The following missionaries have lately returned home:-Mr. D. W. Burton, from Sierra Leone; the Revs. F. T. Cole and J. Tunbridge, from the Santâl Mission; the Revs. W. Keene and F. A. P. Shireff, from the Punjab; the Revs. R. T. Dowbiggin, J. T. Simmonds, and D. Wood, from Ceylon; the Rev. J. C. Hoare, from Mid-China; Mr. J. Batchelor, from Japan; the Rev. T. S. Grace, from New Zealand.

We ought before to have mentioned the appointment, by the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy of India, of the Rev. W. R. Blackett, M.A., Principal of the C.M.S. Divinity School at Calcutta, to a seat on the important Commission on Education in India, as a representative of the Church of England.

On March 19th, Bishop Royston, of Mauritius, ordained a Tamil catechist named John Ernest, who was trained in Archdeacon Hobb's school at Crève Coeur, Mauritius, and afterwards in the Rev. T. Kember's Training Institution in Tinnevelly.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the Lambeth degree of B.D. on the Ven. Archdeacon E. B. Clarke, of Waimate, New Zealand, who has been a C.M.S. missionary for twenty-two years.

Mrs. Landall, of the China Inland Mission, whose recent death has caused wide-spread regret among the friends of Missions in China, was a step-daughter of the veteran C.M S. Mis-ionary of Ningpo, the Rev. F. F. Gough, and had worked with him devotedly for the good of the Chinese women for thirteen years prior to her marriage-in fact from her childhood, for she died at the age of twenty-seven.

Letters are to hand from Uganda, dated Christmas Day last. Mr. O'Flaherty and Mr. Mackay were well, and the work was going on prosperously. Me. Copplestone also writes from Uyui on March 4, and Dr. Baxter and Mr. Cole from Mpwapwa on March 23; a'l well.

A favourable review of the book lately published by the Rev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. Felkin, Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan, having appeared in the Times, the Rev. J. Hannington, the leader of the new missionary party going to Central Africa, wrote to that paper to appeal for help in purchasing a boat to put on the Victoria Nyanza; and several contributions were sent in.

The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for May contain an interesting account of the march of the Belgian Elephant Expedition from the east coast of Africa to Mpwapwa in 1879. The writer warmly acknowle ges the "exceeding kindness and attention of Mr. J. T. Last of the Church Missionary Society."

The S.P.C.K. has granted £500 towards the fund now being raised by Bishop Horden for the maintenence of missionary clergy in the Diocese of Moosonee; and also £360 towards his church building fund.

Mr. Rivers Thompson, the new Lieut. Governor of Bengal, is a member of the C.M S. Calcutta Corresponding Committee. The late and present Lieut.Governors of the Punjab, Sir R. Egerton and Sir C. Aitchison, are also hearty supporters of Missions.

The Bishop of Madras, in his recent charge, takes a very encouraging review of the progress of Missions in the diocese. Since his last visitation four years ago the number of baptized Native Christians connected with the Church of England has risen from 79,917 to 101,246, an increase of 21,329, or 27 per cent. Just one-half of this increase belongs to the C.M.S. There are, further, 38,000 catechumens. No less than 8,722 Natives had been confirmed in the four years. In the twenty years to which Bishop Gell's faithful and happy episcopate now extends, 120 Native clergymen have been ordained, 75 of them in connexion with the CMS.

The increase in the number of baptized Christians last year in the C.M.S. districts in Tinnevelly was only 23 short of 2,000. There were 936 adult baptisms, 1,919 infant baptisms, 713 burials, and 415 marriages, performed by the 57 Native (C.M.S.) clergymen in the 1,027 (C.M.S) villages in which there are Christians. In the six months following his return to active work after his severe illness, Bishop Sargent confirmed 2,565 Native candidates.

A most interesting first report of the new Bheel Mission, at Khairwarra, in Rajputana, has been received from the Rev. C. S. Thompson, the zealous missionary supported by Mr. Bickersteth's benefaction. He describes the great difficulty he has experienced in getting access to the timid and suspicions highlanders, who doubted whether he had come to kill them or to levy fresh taxes; and the steps by which he has already succeeded, through patience and the exercise of his medical knowledge, in winning the confidence of many. Bishop Stuart, of Waiapu, has presented to St. John's Church, Napier, a handsome pulpit, made entirely of New Zealand woods, as a memorial to the late Bishop Williams.

We ought before to have mentioned the appointment of Mr. E. Mantle as Assistant Central Secretary, with a view to his developing Juvenile Associations and other branches of home work, by magic-lantern lectures, Sunday. school addresses, promoting the sale of the periodicals, &c. It will be a great assistance to him if those of our friends who possess pictures, diagrams, or lantern-slides to spare, would kindly place them at the Society's disposal.

THE CHILDREN'S HOME.

Home; asks for presents of books and magazines for the use of the HE Rev. A. J. P. Shepherd, Director of the C.M.S. Missionaries' Children's

children, both for Sunday and for week-day reading. Volumes of good magazines are especially attractive. Perhaps also some friend would pay the cost of re-binding some of the books now in use, and of binding periodicals. He also writes that two pionos would be very acceptable. Requests like these will surely meet with an immediate response. We are almost inclined to take up the old school-boy phrase, and say, “Don't all speak at once!" But we hope many will speak-or write-to Mr. Shepherd, at the Home, Highbury Grove, London, N.

THE STORY OF THE PERSIA MISSION.

BY THE REV. ROBERT BRUCE, D.D.

T is remarkable that, in the second Report of the Church Missionary Society, published June 8th, 1802, when that Society which is now the mightiest and most highly honoured Society for the extension of Christ's Kingdom in the world was herself hardly born, and had not yet given birth to a single Mission, the Persian language is mentioned as one of the very first to be cultivated for the purpose of spreading the knowledge of the Gospel in the heathen world. It was, however, reserved for Henry Martyn to carry the message of Divine grace to Persia in 1811, and to translate the New Testament into the Persian language, which he accomplished in the one year of his residence. But his translation came to London, and remained there; nor was any attempt made to carry it back to Persia until more than half a century had elapsed. The American Mission at Ooroomiah was to the Turkish-speaking people of the extreme north of the country. The C.M.S. Mission at Ispahan is the first Mission which has been established by any Protestant Church in the Persian-speaking parts of Persia.

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In the year 1858 I first went out as a missionary of the C.M.S. to the Punjab, and the greater part of the first three and half years of my mission life was spent at an out-station called Narowal. Though the greater part of the inhabitants of the Punjab are idolaters, I was led from the first to study the Mohammedan religion; and when I received an order from the Committee to leave Narowal and go to the new Mission to be opened in the Derajat, on the Afghan frontier, which was entirely to Mohammedans, I saw that it had been of God that I had made choice of Islam for my sphere of labour.

I laboured for six years among the Afghans, and Pushtu was the language through which I held intercourse with them. But in the last year of my stay in the Derajat I began to think that the Persian language would be a better means of aiming at the extension of Christ's Kingdom in Central Asia than Pashtu, and with this object I began to study Persian. Eighteen months afterwards I found myself in Persia.

In the spring of 1868 my wife and myself were both obliged by illness to visit England for awhile. And when having, by God's mercy, regained my health, I was planning a return alone to India in the spring of 1869, I met a friend who had travelled in Persia. What he told me created a desire in me to go through that country. When I mentioned this to Mr. Venn, his eyes filled with tears, and he said with emotion, "I am thankful for this opening; it is one of those things we looked for in vain in times past, but which God is giving us now." What to me was but a journey was to him an opening made by Him "who openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth"; and such, we trust, it has proved.

In March, 1869, I left London for Persia, en route, as I thought, for India, and with the permission of the Committee to spend one year in that land. During my first year there, I felt deeply the spiritual famine of the land, and I asked and received permission to prolong my stay for another year. My wife joined me in 1870, and we took up our abode in Julfa, the Armenian suburb of Ispahan, the ancient capital. When only a few months remained of my second year's sojourn, I received a letter from Mr. Venn, saying that if I could make a good revision of Henry Martyn's translation of the New Testament the Committee would consent to my staying in Persia for that purpose; if not I must go on to India in May, 1871, when the second year would have expired. The postal arrangements were at that time so bad

that it generally took from five to six months to get an answer to a letter from Europe; and as I could not be a judge as to whether I could make a good revision of the Persian Testament or not, we earnestly prayed that God would make His way plain. The month of April arrived, when the decision must be made; and lo! in that very month nine Mohammedans, all respectable, intelligent men, asked me to baptize them. I felt sure that this was an answer to our prayers, and a plain guidance from God that we should stay in Julfa.

There had been great distress in Persia, though no famine, during the winter months of 1870-71, and as the summer and autumn of 1871 passed away the near approach of a dreadful famine became more and more manifest. My wife and myself daily prayed that God would send us money to relieve the want of the sufferers, but we made no appeals to any human being except one-to my sister. In September the first answer to our prayers came in a telegram from Colonel (now General) Haig, of Calcutta, offering to collect money for the Persian famine. The result of Colonel Haig's noble effort was that he sent us during the winter months £3,500 for the Ispahan poor, besides other sums which he sent for the poor of Shiraz and Teheran. We soon had about 7,000 poor on our list; and most anxiously did we look and pray for more aid, though we knew not whence it could come; when one day I received a telegram from Pastor Haas of Stuttgardt, Wurtemberg (whose name, as well as Colonel Haig's, I had never heard before), saying, "Draw on me for £1,000." We drew £4,600 from this aged servant of God during the winter months, and I received a letter from him saying, We know Mohammed taught his followers to hate Christians, but Jesus taught us to love our enemies, and we have collected this money in sixpences and shillings, as it were, from the poor Germans, and we hope you will distribute it among Jew, Christian, and Mohammedan without any distinction.' We received also £3,500 from the London Committee for Persian Famine Relief, £1,500 from Sir Moses Montefiore for the Jews, and several smaller sums from private friends. We received in all £16,000.

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That winter was a season of distress never to be forgotten; we devoted our whole time to the relief of the sufferers. The Mohammedan priests and governors in Ispahan did nothing themselves, and instead of assisting us in our work rather looked upon it with disfavour. In April I received a telegram from the same Pastor Haas of Stuttgardt, saying, "We have £1,700 more for you if you will get up an orphanage." As we had in our relief list a great number of poor children whose parents had died of hunger, we thought this a call from God to begin an orphanage, and accordingly did so. Five months passed before we received a letter (in September) from our German friends, who with Pastor Haas formed the Wurtemberg Persian Famine Relief Committee; and when the letter reached us it was in these words: "Since telegraphing to you about the orphanage we have corresponded with your Society in London, and they inform us that they have not taken up the Persia Mission, and that you are only on a visit to that land; this being the case it will not be possible for you to continue the orphanage; we have therefore given the £1,700 to the Basle Missionary Society, who have undertaken to send out missionaries and to get up an orphanage." I had already been supporting the orphans for five months when I received this, which seemed to me unpleasant news. But God makes all things work for His own glory. The Basle Society sent out two Armenians trained in Basle to Tabreez; they spent nearly two years trying to get up an orphanage, and having failed to do so, in the end £1,300 of the money was handed over to the C.M.S., £400 of it having been spent in the transaction and lost

The C.M.S. Committee still hesitated to start a Persia Mission, partly from a doubt whether the door was really opened, and partly on account of the loud calls from other fields. But they allowed me to have a Persian schoolmaster from their Bombay Mission, Mr. Carapit Johannes, who has been of the greatest service to us. The boys' school has continued to flourish under his care; it now contains 150 scholars, and has already brought forth fruit in young men, who are being employed as agents and colporteurs of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the dissemination of God's Word among the Mohammedans.

In 1875 my wife and I paid a visit to England, and during the five months which I spent there the Committee felt that they were led by God to enrol Persia on the list of their Missions. This accounts for the date of her birth being given in the Report as 1875. In the winter of 1878-9 we had the great privilege of a visit from Mr. Watt, the able and devoted agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society for Southern Russia; and the result of his visit was. that I undertook the agency of the Bible Society in Persia.

We have yet one more link in the chain of God's gracious providences towards our Mission to relate, with feelings of deep gratitude to the Hearer and Answerer of prayer, to Him "that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth." (Rev. iii. 7.) In 1877 I felt the absolute necessity of seeking for another missionary for for the Persia Mission. During the first three years of our Mission life in Persia we had

add commodious boys' and girls' school buildings, an orphanage and industrial school to the Mission-house, and also to build a fine Mission-hall or chapel, in which we hold Divine service in the Persian language. We have a congregation of about 150 members, of whom 56 are now communicants, a boys' school with 150 and a girl's school with 50 scholars, and we have about 20 boys in the orphanage. We felt that the time was come when we ought to seek to make our Church a light to the Moslems also, and that nothing would be so likely to do that as

worked solely for Moslems, and as related above we had numbers of Mohammedans coming every week to the Mission-house for prayer and reading the Word of God, and we had thirty Moslem boys in our school. The opposition and persecution set on foot by the Armenian and Roman Catholic priests for a time changed the aspect of our Mission work, and we had felt ourselves compelled to confine our labours chiefly to the members of Eastern Christian Churches. Through the liberality of kind Christian friends in England and Ireland we had been enabled to

the establishment of a Medical Mission. We knew that the Committee of the C.M.S. had neither funds nor men sufficient to work the fields already occupied by their missionaries; so after having made it a subject of earnest prayer, we wrote to an unknown friend, Mr. Edmond of Edinburgh, who had shown by a letter a great interest in the Persia Mission, asking him to look out for a medical missionary for Persia. In a very short time Mr. E. not only found the man, but also most kindly undertook to raise £100 per annum for three years towards his salary. Two other friends of the Persia Mission also undertook to give £150 per annum towards the local expenses of the medical mission; and on the 1st of January, 1880, the Rev. Dr. E. Hoernle, sent out by the C.M.S., arrived in Ispahan. Being the son of one of the oldest missionaries of the C.M.S. in India he had known Hindustani from his youth, and had studied the Persian language a little in India, so he was able to commence active work almost

from the time of his arrival amongst us in Julfa.

I cannot sufficiently thank God for the special qualifications with which He has gifted His servant Dr. Hoernle for the great work he is now carrying on during our absence. He has indeed more on his hands than any one man can do. Rightly valuing the great importance of educational work, he has thrown himself into the work of the school, for which he is eminently fitted, and teaches two hours daily in the boys' school. He has opened a dispensary for the poor, aud built a hospital on the Mission