Mr. and Mrs. Last in the Nguru Country The Belgian Elephant Expedition ...... 64 76 The New Missionary Party at Zanzibar.......... 112 Death of Dr. Southon, of L.M.S.... 136 The New Missionary Party beyond Mpwapwa. 136 76, 100 Progress in Tinne velly.. Ordination of eight Tamils by Bishop Sargent 100 Death of Mrs. A. F. Painter..... Visit of Bishop Sargent to Tinnevelly......... 112 Return of Rev. J. and Mrs. Cain from Australia 124 to the Telugu Mission.......... Translation of Butler's Analogy into Malayalam 136 Rev. J. Stone's Labours at Raghavapuram...... 136 Visit of Governor of Madras to Tinnevelly...... 144 CEYLON. Future Organisation of the Church in Ceylon. 12 MAURITIUS. Ordination by Bishop Royston....... Testimony of Archdeacon Mathews...... 100 Christian Hindu Coolies in Mauritius Rev. H. Weber's Appointment............ 112, 144 Ordination of Samuel Sunger Singh.............. 144 CHINA. Rev. A. E. Moule's Return to China deferred 24 Leave-taking of Mr. W. Strickson Retirement of Rev. W. H. Barlow from Prin cipalship of C.M. College Conference on Juvenile Associations Day of Intercession Service .......................................... Appointment of Rev. T. W. Drury to Principal ship of C.M. College........ Appointment of Vice-Presidents, &c., to C.M.S. Ordination at St. James's, Clapham... Oxford and Cambridge Preliminary Theological Examination passed by Islington Students ... Appointment of Mr. E. Mantle to be Assistant Gift of £72,000 for Development of Native 12 Acceptance of Rev. W. Latham 12 76 The Society's Anniversary. ..... 24, 52 Epiphany Services at St. Dunstan's. 24 112 Death of the Rev. Gerard Smith 24 Deaths of the Hon. A. Leslie Melville, H. S. Thornton, Esq, Rev. Canon Bingham, and Dr. Krapf 222 76 The Henry Wright Memorial 124 Gift of £72,000 for Development of Native Churches.... The Appeal from the Children's Home re 88 sponded to 124 76 Lieut.-Governor of Bengal on C.M.S. Calcutta Committee..... Rev. A. E. Moule's Return to China allowed 100 Tour in Great Valley by Bishop Moule-Confirmations Ordination by Bishop of Dover of Mr. A. J. Shields and Mr. B. Maimon 124 100 Deaths of Revs. Canon Reeve and R. M. Chat First Report of the New Bheel Mission........ Death of Rev. C. T. Hoernle....... 76 Valedictory Dismissal of Missionaries..... 112 88 Extension of Mission in Quantung Province... 112 144 Valedictory Dismissal of Missionaries....... 112 Ordination and Confirmations by Bishop of JAPAN. Offer of Dean Bradley to have Sermon for C.M.S. in Westminster Abbey................. Death of Archdeacon Prest.... 144 144 Calcutta in Krishnagar...... 124 Progress in the Gônd Mission. 124 The Proposed Japan Bishopric....... Return Home of Mr. J. Batchelor..... THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER. JANUARY, 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. R I. EADER, you are deeply interested in the work of the Church Missionary Society. Pity for the heathen, gratitude to your Saviour, loyalty to God your King, make you seek the conversion of lands. lying in sin and misery. But you do not, you cannot feel so great interest in this work as God does. God's interest in it is infinite. "There is joy in the presence of the angels" when a prodigal returns-that is, God is glad, and makes His joy felt, when any sinner is rescued from the grasp of evil. Do you realise this, Christian reader? Do you bear in mind that that great missionary work which moves you with loving energy to read, to pray, to toil, to collect, to make self-denying sacrifices, is a work very dear to God? If so, how calm you will be, how patient, how certain of ultimate success! God the Father loves the children whom He made. "It is God, His love looks mighty, But is mightier than it seems; 'Tis our Father, and His fondness Goes out far beyond our dreams." God the Son loves the great wide world of sinners He came to save; and His love "knows neither measure nor end." God the Holy Spirit is equally love. He undertook a most loving part in the scheme of Redemption. It is His office to take of the things of Christ, and to show them with saving efficacy to the souls of men. But with God to love and to pity is to act. The blessed Holy Spirit, who, before man was made, brought order out of confusion, now moves over the wild wastes of human life with tender solicitude, and exercises His blessed offices of Advocate for God and Comforter of His Church. The operations of infinite love and the methods in which God works are revealed in a very interesting way in the pages of the Bible. They are not proved as theories, but exhibited as facts. Beautiful examples are given of the ever-present agency of God in the extension of the Saviour's kingdom. This everpresent agency is manifested in a combined action of God the Holy Spirit and the Church of Christ. There is a reign of law in all the works of God, and no less in the great work of the salvation of the world. The evangelisation of the world forms no exception to the universal rule. God and man are found co-workers in every other department of work that is done under the sun. God does not bless the field on which the farmer has expended no thought and no labour. God makes the timber to grow, and man builds the ships. Even here God and man work together, for "he doeth the work in such sort as his God doth teach him" (Isa. xxviii. 26). It is God, moreover, who gives the workman strength and opportunity. But in the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom the agency is more closely combined. The Church labours in vain unless the Spirit works in her. The Spirit works not without the instrumentality of means. The object of this series of papers will be to set forth in plain and simple manner this great truth, this blessed fact, that the Holy Ghost is a co-worker with the Holy Catholic Church. We propose to linger among the remarkable life portraits and the thrilling incidents of the Acts of the Apostles. We shall take the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch first, and, meanwhile, we ask the readers of the GLEANER to study that touching narrative. us. ABROAD AND AT HOME. THE NEW YEAR'S OUTLOOK. NOTHER year, by the mercy of Him who is from everlasting to everlasting, is now opening before We are spared for fresh labours, if it be His will, in His most blessed service. Let us for a few moments look out upon the wide field to which He invites those of His servants who are members and friends of the Church Missionary Society, and see what they are doing to occupy it in His name. Look at India. Our strength there is entirely overweighted by our work. The C.M.S. has a hundred missionaries in India. A goodly number, certainly; yet it is much as if, comparing the populations, two clergymen, instead of a thousand, had the spiritual charge of the people of London. We must not, indeed, forget other societies; yet if we reckon them all, the result is Of the sixty only equal to eight or ten clergymen for London. or seventy C.M.S. stations, twenty-three have only one missionary apiece, and two or three are without any at all. Meanwhile the work expands; no less than 1,650 adults and 3,620 children were baptized in India in the C.M.S. Missions alone, last year; and to maintain the stations, and the missionaries, and to help the Native Churches to maintain the 110 Native clergy, and the 2,000 Native lay teachers, and the 1,080 schools, the total grants asked for rise year by year. Look at China. Here it is much worse. The twenty C.M.S. missionaries are to the population as if one-fifth part of a clergyman had the charge of London; or those of all societies as if one clergyman and a half had that charge. How can we be doing our duty to China when, as Mr. Moule says, during the thirty-six years of C.M.S. work there, only thirty-nine clergymen of the Church of England have gone out, and when the British Government in India derives more money from the Opium Trade in one year than has been contributed to the C.M.S. in the whole eighty-one years of its existence! And has not God encouraged us by the harvest He has given even to our feeble efforts? Think of Lo-Nguong, and Ang-Iong, and San-poh, and Great Valley. Look at Japan. A few years ago there was nothing to look at-not a Native Church, not a Native Christian, not a solitary missionary. Now the Japanese newspapers openly discuss the possibilities of Christianity becoming the national religion. America has done its duty well by sending sixty or eighty missionaries. England is content with twelve or fourteen, of whom nine are from the C.M.S. Ought we not to take a more respectable share in the work? 66 Look at the Mohammedan regions of the East. No fields are more difficult than Turkey, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Persia, Afghanistan, Central Asia. Some of them, indeed, are quite closed at present. Yet in Palestine the Church Missionary is sowing the seed; in Persia it is "gathering out the stones." Of the former Mission, Canon Tristram declares, from personal observation, that we are saturating the whole country with Gospel truth"; and of the latter, Colonel Stewart tells us, also from personal observation, that the Moslems of Ispahan now for the first time understand what Christianity really is. Two years ago the Society was proposing to reduce the staff in Palestine, and even asking whether it was worth while to stay in Persia at all. Now, both Missions are to be reinforced; yet both need much more enlargement than can be granted them. Look at Africa. The wonderful development of our Missions there in the last few years is a familiar story to the readers of the GLEANER. Yet after all, what are we doing? The vast |