LONDON: SEELEY, JACKSON, & HALLIDAY, 54, FLEET STREET, E.C. YORUBA. 132 ...... 140 Ordination by Bishop Crowther at Lagos........ 36 Establishment of the Lagos Church Missions... 48 Arrival of Rev. V. Faulkner from Yoruba....... 96 Death of Rev. J. A. Lamb.......... 108 Appointment of Rev. T. Harding to Lagos..... 120 The late Rev. J. A. Lamb on Progress at Lagos........ Memorial to Lord Granville on Slave Trade Arrival of Rev. F. A. Klein at Cairo................ The Cholera at Cairo.......... Encouraging Accounts from the Niger......... Departure of Rev. J. Hamilton and Dr. Percy EAST AFRICA. Launch of the Henry Wright........ .... Dr. Downes's Kashmir Medical Mission andra School by the C.E.Z.M.S. The Society's Publications.. 96 NORTH-WEST AMERICA. The Rev. T. Vincent appointed Archdeacon of Moose Return of Rev. J. Hines to Saskatchewan Departure of Rev. J. Tims to Saskatchewan... The Rev. J. A. Mackay appointed Archdeacon of Saskatchewan.... Bishop Horden's, Archdeacon Vincent's, and Mr. Sanders' Translations...... The Kwagut Mission: First Converts Confirmation by Bishop Ridley at Kincolith... 84 Appointment and Departure of Mr. J. B. McCullagh........... NORTH PACIFIC. Page 60 84 84 108 120 60 108 96 108 Circulation of the GLEANER.... 12, 140 12 120 140 SOUTH INDIA. and the Bishop of Llandaff.... Special Prayer for Men........ The Revs. J. H. Horsburgh and V. Young accepted for Mission Work....... "Half as much again" at Christ Church, Hampstead..... Special Communion Service at St. Dunstan's... 24 མམ མསམ་ྲམ 24 24 24 36 Reception of Archdeacon Farler by C.M.S. Church... 103 Committee 96 140 CEYLON. Return of Rev. R. Dowbiggin to Ceylon......... 84 Return of Rev. D. Wood to Ceylon........... MAURITIUS. Appointment of Rev. C. A. Blackburn......... 108 Eastbourne Juvenile Association.............. Day of Intercession for Foreign Missions 48,72 Pargiter, Drs. P. Brown and Horder, Mr. New Vice-Presidents and Honorary Life Another Letter by the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth 72 Dr. Westcott on the C.M.S. College............ Return of Missionaries to England.......... Death of the Duke of Marlborough... Ladies' Church Missionary Union in Norfolk... 96 Ordination by Bishop Burdon 140 Riots at Canton 140 Lahore in Persia.......... 96 The Daily Telegraph on Bishop Moule 140 ......... NORTH INDIA. JAPAN. Appointment of the Rev. A. W. Poole to the Bishopric of Japan.......... Deaths of Canon Battersby, Professor Birks, 108 120 ..... 96 Conference of Protestant Missionaries at Osaka 120 Consecration of Bishop Poole............120, 132, 140 Departure of Bishop Poole........ Deaths of Colonel Buckle and Rev. Sydney Gedge...... 120 140 Deaths of the Very Rev. J. Mee and Rev. A. Matchett... 132 The Census of 1881..... 72 Appointment of Rev. J. B. Brandram to Nagasaki The Frances Ridley Havergal Fund 132 140 Reception by the C.M.S. Committee of the The Christian Vernacular Education Society... 132 Death of Canon Clayton......... 140 NEW ZEALAND. The Luther Commemoration..... 140 Bishop of Calcutta... 84 Deaths of Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. Spencer......... 48 The GLEANER as a Localised Magazine 140 84 Acceptance of Revs. A. G. Norman and J. B. 108 Brandram 140 [NO. 109. THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER. JANUARY, 1883. F.Qr.16, 12.48a.m. | F.M.23, 7.15a.m L. Q. 31st 10.27 a.m. 8 M The eternal God is thy refuge, Deu. 33. 27. 9T French and Knott sailed for.India, 1869. Underneath are the 10 W Thy years shall not fail, Heb. 1. 12. [everlasting arms, Deu.33.27. 11 T 1st Miss. Sermon at Lagos, 1852. The word of our God shall 12 F Eternal power and Godhead, Ro. 1. 20. [stand for ever, Is.40.8. 13 S H. Venn died, 1873. Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever, La. 5. 19. [ending, saith the Lord, Rev. 1. 8. 14 S 2nd aft. Epiph. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 15 M 1st Arrian baptisms, 1852. Called us unto His eternal glory, 16 The living God, and stedfast for ever, Dan. 6. 26. [1 Pet. 5.10. 17 W The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, Is. 57. 15. 18 T The King eternal, immortal, invisible, 1 Tim. 1. 17. 19 F Who only hath immortality, 1 Tim. 6. 16. Lyears, 2 Pet. 3. 8. 20 S Tinnevelly Centenary, 1880. One day is with the Lord as 1000 [Thou art God, Ps. 90. 2, 21 S Septuagesima. Before the mountains were brought forth... M. Ge. 1. & 2. to 4. Rev. 21.1-9. E. Ge. 2. 4, or Job 38. Rev. 21. 9 to 22. 6. 22 M J. Vaughan d., 1882. Thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever, Ps. 102. 12.] [from of old, from everlasting, Mic. 5. 2. 'Henry Venn' launched, 1878. Whose goings forth have been 24 W From everlasting to everlasting Thou art God, Ps. 90. 2. 25 T Conv. St. Paul. The Lord shall be thine everlasting light, Is. 26 F I am He that liveth, Rev. 1. 18. [60. 20. [ations, Ps. 90. 1. 28 S Sexagesima. Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all gener M. Is. 55. Matt. 8. 18. E. Is. 57 or 61. Acts S. 26. 23 T 27 S Behold, I am alive for evermore, Rev. 1. 18. M. Ge. 3. Matt. 15. 21. E. Ge. 6 or 8. Acts 17. 1-16. 29 M Nyanza reached, 1877. The counsel of the Lord standeth for [ever, Ps. 33. 11. 30 T The thoughts of His heart to all generations, Ps. 33. 11. 31 W Islington Coll. op., 1825. This God is our God for ever, Ps. 48. 14. MORE JERSEY BREEZES. I. Our Own God. "God, even our own God, shall bless us."-Ps. lxvii. 6. E are entering on a New Year. We stand on holy ground. The Hand of Mercy has drawn a veil over the future of life's wide, wild sea, and ere our frail bark sails onward, we crave an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. Here we find it, in three precious weighty words, "OUR OWN GOD." Is not this a fitting New Year's motto to cherish in our hearts until the day break, and we see Him as He is? Let us rest our anxious souls upon this sweet strong truth. Let us make it our spring carol, our summer shadow, our autumn jubilee, our winter cordial. Come joy or sorrow, peace or perplexity, all will blend in holy harmony, if accepted as the wise discipline of our own God. At a season like this, the GLEANER Would fain reach out the warm hand of sympathy to all the faithful workers in its many harvest fields, and our motto seems to draw us very close with cords of Christian love. Though parted in seeming, we all look up to the same blue heavens; we all rejoice in the same bright Go forth, dear wondrous words, and cheer the desponding, comfort the weary, and give a glad impetus to the successful and the happy. Is He not God, and is He not our own? What a blessed union of earthly weakness with almighty strength! What is hidden within the hours of this New Year? For each of us much joy; much sorrow also for most. We shall sun. need again and again to stay ourselves on One that is mighty. We shall find rest in dwelling upon His attributes, as we severally need their re-assuring comfort; on His Omniscience, His Omnipotence, His Omnipresence. Are we looking this way and that way, eager for work, yet doubtful what to do? Our path is all marked out by One who cannot err; let us look up and listen to hear His sweet voice say, "This is the way, walk ye in it." He will never chill our ardour, nor repress our enthusiasm, for both are His gifts; but He will temper our zeal with prayerful patience, and then send us onward, rejoicing. Are we hedged about with difficulties, sowing much and reaping nothing? Ah, the Lord's mighty hand can extricate us from every seeming hindrance. Let us cling to the safe, sure refuge of faith in One who neither fails nor forsakes His own children. For if we can look up with clear and trusting eye, and call Him from the very depths of the heart "our own," so will He look down with approval and whisper the assurance that He acknowledges us as His own also. We need no more than this, till time shall be lost in the bright ocean of eternity. And what can we say of His Omnipresence? It is this which makes us glad as we write, the feeling that He is everywhere, by night and by day, protecting His dear ones and ours, so that we need not mar the peace He loves to bestow by faithless broodings over what may be. Surely all the experience of past years has been only goodness and mercy. The woes we dreaded have never come; the menacing cloud has dropped on our path in a soft, refreshing shower. We have found Him all He has promised to be, and as we journey on, we would say to each and all, Only trust Him; trust our own God. ance. Thoughts such as these will bear us onward in happy assurIf the New Year is to bring us accumulated work and responsibility, His secret support will make us a wonder unto many. If we are to be laid aside, He will give us songs in the night of affliction; and if we are to be called home, what will that be to those who have leaned upon and loved Him? Oh, let us be up and doing through all this glad New Year, trusting ever, doubting never, certain that all must prosper, according to the will and the rich blessing of "our own God." A. M. V. OUR NEW YEAR PRAYER. "Ask of Me and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance." AVIOUR, plead on! our hearts are sorely yearning, Soul-gems to jewel Thine eternal crown. Strange stones of beauty, dug from midnight darkness, EVA TRAVERS POOLE. |