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prospect of a cordial welcome being offered to his missionary friends, if they could now carry out their original intention of coming to settle there, and he sent to them accordingly. This appeal found Mr. Marsden in some difficulty. Prejudice against the Maoris had been strengthened by the untoward circumstances which had taken place, and the wisdom of returning amongst them was so strongly questioned, that though unaltered in his own views, he found it would be best to send two forward as pioneers, before advancing with the whole party. Mr. Hall and Mr. Kendall arrived in 1814, to Ruatara's great joy. One can imagine the rapture with which he would exhibit his most flourishing farm to his European allies, potatoes, carrots, and onions, all growing in profusion, and a good supply of wheat ready for the steel-mill, besides a most prosperous family of pigs! No time was lost in converting some of the grain into flour, to the unspeakable amazement of the onlookers, and when Ruatara proceeded to make cakes out of it, and bake them in a fryingpan, and then gave each a piece to eat, they danced and shouted with extravagant joy, and rewarded him by hinting that they did not now altogether discredit his extraordinary statements about the "pigs large enough to ride on," alias horses!

Six weeks' residence wholly satisfied these Christian spies sent forward to view the land, as to the safety and desirableness of regularly commencing the Mission settlement; and spite of some disadvantages from the feud consequent on the massacre of the crew of the Boyd, and the death of Tippahee, not yet healed over, and the hindrances arising from the low character of Europeans connected with the trading vessels that touched there, it was felt there need be no hesitation in fixing upon the Bay of Islands as a starting point.

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they landed; Ruatara went forward to explain, and was answered by a woman flourishing a red mat round her head, and bidding them come. Obeying the summons, they soon found themselves in the midst of these formidable cannibals. The chiefs sat upon the ground surrounded by their warriors, each having a spear, fifteen or twenty feet in length, stuck in the ground at their side. All were dressed in their native mats, some of them very handsome, and had their hair neatly tied in a knot at the top of the head, ornamented with long white feathers. Some wore the teeth of their slaughtered enemies round their necks as decorations, while some were adorned with dollars taken from the ill-fated British ship. All at once the warriors seized their spears and brandished them, as if in fury, one against the other; yells, shrieks and roars arose on every side, while the frightful gesticulations, and the variety of horrible contortions both of faces and limbs, were enough to strike terror into the most courageous beholder. It was sufficiently astonishing to be told this was the war dance of welcome.

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A friendly conversation ensued, but as the day-light hours had slipped past without discussion of the subject nearest Mr. Marsden's heart, he took the bold resolution of passing the night among these savages. "The night," he wrote, was clear, the stars shone bright, the sea before us was smooth; around were the warriors' spears stuck upright in the ground, and groups of natives lying in all directions like a flock of sheep upon the grass, for there were neither tents nor huts to cover them. I viewed our situation with feelings I cannot describe; surrounded by cannibals who had massacred and devoured our countrymen, I wondered much at the mysteries of Providence. I did not sleep much, my mind was occupied by the new and strange ideas the scene naturally awakened."

That evening and night were fraught with results of the

intrepidity of Mr. Marsden's conduct, and the cogency of his
arguments, so wrought upon the chiefs, that they not only agreed
to leave the new settlement unmolested, but to come to terms
of peace with the Chief of the Bay of Islands.
E. D.

THE NORWICH MISSIONARY EXHIBITION.

It was in the end of November, 1814, that Mr. Marsden embarked with his little party, in the small brig Active (which at his own risk he had purchased for Mission purposes) from Port Jack-deepest consequence to New Zealand's future. The fearless son; and on December 15th, when the summer sun was bathing the scene in evening splendour, they first came in sight of the land they were about to take possession of in their Redeemer's name. It was upon the 18th they actually disembarked, with Koro-koro, a chief who had accompanied them. His presence alone would have ensured them a favourable reception, but the welcome he received from his aunt was perplexing enough to have excited grave anxiety. Mr. Marsden thus describes it:"She had," he says, a green bough twisted round her head, and another in her hand. As she advanced she prayed very loud, and wept exceedingly. Koro-koro remained motionless till she came up to him, when they laid their heads together, the woman leaning on a staff, and he on his gun. Thus they stood, repeating short sentences aloud, which we understood were prayers, and here they wept aloud for a long time, the tears rolling down their cheeks in torrents. It was impossible to see them without being deeply moved. A daughter of the aunt also sat at her feet weeping; and the women who accompanied her joined in the lamentation, cutting themselves in their faces, arms, and breasts with sharp shells or flints till the blood streamed down." It is difficult to believe it, but this was all intended as a manifestation of the most intense joy! The missionaries afterwards found it was the universal way of expressing unspeakable rapture.

The brig lay becalmed a few days off the Cavalle Islands, and while there Mr. Marsden found that a large party of the very tribe who had killed the crew of the Boyd, the Whangaroan, were encamped on the opposite coast. As it was of the utmost importance now to establish friendly relations with them, the fearless missionary at once determined to visit them in person. Ruatara, knowing their unscrupulous ferocity, tried to dissuade him from going, but finding he could not do so, generously resolved to go with him, and make the first advances. They saw a body of armed men stationed on an opposite hill when

T. ANDREW'S HALL is, owing to its architecture and history, one of the sights of the ancient and interesting city of Norwich. Once, before the Reformation, the noble church of a monastic order, it is now the property of the city Corporation and serves the various purposes of a public hall. But perhaps never has it been better utilised than it was in January last, when it was for five days transformed into what might be called a Missionary Museum. The Norwich Church of England Young Men's Society, encouraged by a similar attempt at Cambridge last year, resolved to aid the funds of the Church Missionary Society by holding in St. Andrew's Hall a Loan Exhibition of objects of interest connected with missionary work, and also an Oriental Bazaar for the sale of articles specially imported from foreign lands. The design was a good one, and by God's blessing it prospered as it deserved. More than three thousand curious and interesting objects were lent, by friends residing in different parts of England, as well as by the C.M.S. itself, the Church of England Zenana Society, and the Missionary Leaves Association.

The exhibits were displayed in seven courts, named after the several parts of the world represented; and whichever way the eye turned it saw objects which were really an eloquent missionary appeal, telling of the degradation and misery of the heathen, and of the toils, privations, sufferings and successes of modern apostles of the true faith of the Gospel.

Here in the African Court is a slave-pole, of great weight and forked at one end; the neck of the unhappy slave was placed within the prongs and secured by means of an iron bolt passing through them. In this way he was led across the country by his brutal captors, and escape rendered impossible. Look, too, at that huge iron collar with four lengthy

projections having the appearance of feet. That was taken from the neck of a slave by the Governor of Jamaica, and sent to the first Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton about the year 1830. Lady Buxton lends it to the Exhibition. That tall ugly figure is an idol given up in 1877 to the Bishop of the Niger, Samuel Crowther (once a slave), by King Ockiya, of Brass, and is a striking illustration of Isaiah xliv. 13, 16, 17, as it shows, at the bottom, the tree from which it was carved. This, which looks like a small walking-stick, is in fact a slave whip, cut out of the hide of a hippopotamus, and a stinging weapon indeed it is.

A few steps, and we are in the court devoted to Palestine, Egypt, Syria, &c. Here is a crown of thorns from Jerusalem, and if the crown placed mockingly on the head of our dear Redeemer were like this one it must have cruelly wounded Him. Here is a shepherd's dress from Nazareth, comprising belt, great-coat, robe, cap, kafia and cord, sandals, scrip, dirk, flute, pipe and pouch, and sling. This rough piece of workmanship is a yoke made by a Nazareth carpenter, and although visitors should not touch, one's hand almost affectionately touches it, and one's mind reverently recalls what is written by the Evangelists concerning Joseph and Jesus. This is the head-dress of a woman of Bethlehem, lavishly trimmed with current coins, according to the local custom of wearing money (sometimes as much as £30) on the head. It is suggested, as we stand inspecting this curious specimen of Judean millinery, that the woman mentioned in the parable in the 15th chapter of St. Luke would probably lose her drachma from her bonnet.

We are now in the Indian Court. Here are torture clogs or shoes, such as are worn by devctees on their pilgrimages, with the spikes upward against the naked foot. They remind us of an affecting anecdote. On one occasion a missionary was preaching in India under a banyan tree. While he was preaching, a pilgrim shod with torturing sandals came up, and sat down to rest, within hearing. The missionary at that moment was repeating the text: "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." In an instant "marvellous light" shone into the deluded pilgrim's mind; he received the truth, and throwing away his clogs, cried with joy, "This is what I want." He ceased from doing penance, and returned home a new creature. Here is a cylindrical praying machine-so small and light a child can work it. The prayers are inside, and the ignorant worshipper believes they are offered acceptably as many times as he causes the cylinder to revolve. Are there no nominal Christians in danger of being guilty of a like absurdity and superstition? Are there none in our own land who have a notion that they have prayed, and prayed acceptably, when they have mechanically repeated a certain number of prayers, in which, alas! the heart has not joined ? This old sword of the reign of Shah Allum was used in 1857-1858, in the beheading of seventeen of the Indian mutineers. That coat, decorated with bright golden lace, was worn by Ayoob Khan in the fight near Kandahar, when he was defeated by Sir Frederick Roberts.

We will now cross the hall, and enter the Chinese Court. Here the great objects of attraction are undoubtedly the memorials of the imprisonment in Canton, in the year 1840, of the Rev. V. J. Stanton, formerly Colonial Chaplain at Hong Kong, and now Rector of Halesworth. There are his prison coat and pillow, and what is more impressive, the chains for the ankles and neck, and the manacles for the wrists. Here are two idols which were never the occasion of idolatry, inasmuch as the manufacture was not duly completed. The spirit of the god requires to be poured in through the hole in the back; when this ceremony has been performed, nothing will be wanting-meanwhile the images are powerless for good or evil.

Our visit must soon come to an end, but we must peep into two more courts for a moment or two. In the Australasian Court is a small pocket Communion Service, which belonged to the Rev. Samuel Marsden, the Apostle of New Zealand. "It is not too much to say that to Samuel Marsden Great Britain owes, under God, both the colony and the Church of New Zealand." In this court a place is found for a spear, a mat, and a few other things from the island of Madagascar, now so happily Christianised, and for whose people it behoves us at this time to pray that their rights and privileges may be continued to them, despite the designs of our French neighbours.

In the next court (American and Pacific), among other curious things is the equipment of the North-West American medicine-man, including

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his soul-holder, a piece of hollow bone, engraved on the outside, in which he professes to place the soul of his patient while he conjures over him. These five articles from the South Sea Islands-a stone adze, brush, whip, war-club, and bowl-are notable for their having been at one time the property of the famous martyr of Erromanga, John Williams.

We have not time to see the Zenana Court, or to inspect the stalls of the Bazaar, and accordingly take our leave of the Exhibition with praise for the past successes and prayer for the future prosperity of the Church Missionary Society. F. S. SWINDELL,

Curate of Holy Trinity Church, Norwich.

[We may add that during the week about twenty lectures were given, on the orchestra, by missionaries and other friends, upon the various C.M.S. Missions; which were largely attended, and much added to the interest and practical usefulness of the Exhibition. Also, that the Exhibition and Sale produced £800, which, after paying all expenses, will leave about £300 clear profit for the Society's funds.

We should like now to repeat Mr. Arden's question, put in the GLEANER after the Cambridge Exhibition of last year," What town will take the Exhibition next year?" and to hope that it will again meet with a speedy and hearty response. Perhaps we ought to add, Don't all speak at once!-ED.]

THE GLEANER EXAMINATION.

E regret to have to report that the number of competitors in the Gleaner Examination has again been less this year; and it is now clear that our friends are not prepared to take up the plan in such a way as to warrant its continuance. We propose, therefore, to seek the same objects by a scheme of a somewhat different kind, which we hope to announce shortly. There were twenty-five candidates in all, besides four others who paid the entrance fee but did not sit. Twenty competed in Standard A, and five only in Standard B.

Questions for Standards A and B.

1. Give a sketch of the origin and early history of the Church Missionary Society. Mention some of its founders and first friends.

2. Give a brief account (a) of the founding of the East Africa Mission by Dr. Krapf, (b) of its present position as described by Mr. Price.

3. Describe the work of the Society at any one of the following stations:Calcutta, Lucknow, Amritsar, Jerusalem, Gaza, Ispahan.

4. Where are Agarpara, Baddegama, Fulladoyo, Julfa, Otaki, Pannivilei, Port Lokkoh, Salt, Sharanpur, Skeena River, Tank, Tong A?

5. Mention examples of spiritual life and consistent conduct among the Native Christians in West Africa, South India, South China, North-West America; and relate more fully one example of the converting grace of God. 6. Mention any special reasons at the present time for the Society's appeal for "Half as Much Again."

Additional Questions for Standard A only.

7. Persia, Palestine, Egypt: Give a brief account of the Society's work in these countries, noting especially its peculiar difficulties.

8. What do you know of the Society's Medical Missions? Where are they carried on? and how?

9. Who are the Bheels, Copts, Dinkas, Gallas, Pulayans, Shintoists, Sikhs, Tamil Coolies, Telugus, Timnehs, Wakamba, Waziris?

10. What striking facts, and independent testimonies, have been recorded lately in the GLEANER, which may be well used in conversations with persons who doubt the success of Missions?

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in Class I. of Standard A have been in previous lists; but their relative positions are considerably changed. No. 3 was the winner of the 1st prize two years ago. Nos. 5 and 6 were last year in Class II., and No. 10 has leaped from honourable mention last year without stopping in Class II. by the way. No. 1 in Class II. was No. 2 in Class I. of Standard B last year.

Many of the papers are of real excellence. Some of the sketches of the Society's early history are admirable; and so are several of the answers to Question 7. One or two candidates occupied too much time on Palestine and Persia; and as more marks than the fair maximum caunot be allowed, they lost by doing so. Notwithstanding a caution appended to the Question Paper, two or three lost time by describing two or more of the stations named in Question 3, instead of one only; and no extra marks have been given in these cases. Nor are any marks given for some excellent accounts, in answer to Question 5, of converts belonging to other countries than those named; for instance, Ganga Bai and Guru Churun Bose, neither of whom belong to South India.

There are unusually few actual mistakes in the papers, and scarcely any of the odd blunders which we have recorded in previous years. One candidate, however, is determined that we shall not lose the chance of a pleasant laugh somewhere, and tells us that it was Professor Jowett who went to Egypt for the Society in 1815! We have succeeded, however, in giving our friends two puzzles. Out of the whole number, only five know that Otaki is in New Zealand (see GLEANER, Dec., p. 142). The majority place it in Japan, and two in West Africa. One actually wrote "In the south of New Zealand," and then scratched the words out, and substituted "In Japan"! The other puzzle was the Waziris. Only three rightly described them as the Afghan hill-tribe near Tank. The majority place them in East Africa; one, in New Zealand; and one calls them " a sect of the Bheels."

We have been particularly pleased with the answers to Question 10, which of course required a really greater effort of memory than any other question. Between thirty and forty distinct facts and testimonies are adduced. Among them are the following:-Mr. Darwin's testimony, Bishop Wilberforce's Jubilee Speech, the charge of the Bishop of Madras, the large numbers confirmed in Tinnevelly, the sending of two agents by the Tinnevelly Church to the Koi Mission, the Punjab Native Church Council supporting a mission of its own, Bishop Crowther ordaining a white man, the Marquis of Lorne at Battleford, the Sultan of Zanzibar's reception of Mr. Price, the contrast in East Africa between Krapt's time and now, Sir Bartle Frere's speech at Exeter Hall, the interest taken in Dr. Krapf by Prince Albert and the King of Prussia, the appointment of a C.M.S. missionary on the Indian Education Commission, Sir R. Temple's figures, the testimonies of Bishop Steere, Archdeacon Matthew, Mr. Odell, Col. Stewart, &c., &c. There could not be a more s'riking illustration of the abundance of the material supplied by a single volume of the GLEANER for speeches at missionary meetings!

A MISSION TO THE SIOUX INDIANS.

HE Sioux nation, we need not say, is one of the most important of the Red Indian tribes. No name is more familiar in connection with prairie life, whether described in traveller's story or in fiction. The old Sioux territories, however, lay south of the border line between British America and the United States, so that the C.M.S. has not had this historic name in its reports hitherto. But a band of Sioux came over into Manitoba some years ago; and at the earnest request of the Bishop of Rupert's Land, the Committee have in the last four or five years made an annual grant of £100 towards the support of a Mission among them. The Very Rev. J. Grisdale, Dean of Rupert's Land, has given us an interesting account of the work, which appeared in the C.M. Intelligencer last month. The settlement is on a piece of land given to the tribe by the Canadian Government, 125 miles west of Winnipeg, and near the new Canadian Pacific Railway, which is rapidly advancing across the continent. The chief of the band is called White Eagle. A young clergyman, the Rev. W. A. Burman, is labouring earnestly.

The faces on this page show the Sioux type of countenance; and the large portrait opposite is that of the famous chief Sitting Bull, who was at the head of another band that took refuge within the Canadian frontier some years back. The correspondent of a Toronto newspaper went to see him in 1877, and wrote as follows::

A fierce snow-storm had set in, and the soughing wind outside was bitterly cold, but the chief's lodge is well skinned, and with a hissing fire of poplar-sticks very comfortable. Two squaws-one a handsome maiden of twenty-sat huddled up in a corner, laughing and chatting with one of the young men. Poplar makes a smoky fire, and as the wind tore down the centre hole in big gusts, it was at times difficult for one to see his neighbour's face. The Marmot, a young Sioux of great renown, lay like a sleeping dog inside the door. Sitting Bull, gazing into the fire and speaking as though in a reverie, then slowly began. "The Great Spirit has made the red man and the white man brothers, and they ought to take each other by the hand. The Great Spirit loves all His children. He esteems the white man and the red man alike. The wicked white man and the wicked red man are the only ones He does not love. It was the Great Spirit, not the white man, who gave us these lands. I do not think that the Great Spirit sent the white man across the waters to rob us." I then asked Sitting Bull what he thought of his prospects for the future. He said, "I cannot say. I trust the Great Mother (the Queen). What am I? I am a poor Indian. I have no friend but the Queen and the Great Spirit." To people like these the good Bishop of Rupert's Land is trying to make known the real Gospel of the Indian's "Great Spirit"; and the C.M.S. is thankful to be able to take a small share in the work.

THE MONTH.

HE C.M.S. Committee has lost one of its most valued members by the death, on January 28th, of Mr. Arthur Lang, of Harrow. When a Government civil servant in India, first in Lower Bengal, and afterwards at Allahabad (where he was judge for thirteen years), he was a hearty friend of the missionary cause; and from 1858 to within a week or two of his death he was a constant attendant at the C.M. House, serving on almost every sub-committee, and sometimes spending the greater part of the week in Salisbury Square. He was a whole-hearted, loving, and thoroughly happy Christian man, and devoted to the interests of the C.M.S. and the Bible Society. One of his sons is a Clerical Secretary of the C.M.S., and another, the Vicar of St. Benedict's, Cambridge, and Assistant Tutor at Corpus, is one of the Secretaries of the Cambridge C.M. Association.

Two venerable clerical friends of the Society have also been called away, viz., the Rev. Prebendary Charles Marshall, Rector of St. Bride's, whose face and voice were familiar to all who have attended the C.M.S. Annual Sermon at that church; and the Rev. Josialı Pratt, formerly Vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, and son of the Josiah Pratt who was one of the founders of the Society and Secretary for twenty-two years. Mr. Marshall was Tutor in the Church Missionary College under its first Principal, Mr. Pearson, half a century ago. Mr. Pratt's church, St. Stephen's, under his son and successor, the Rev. J. H. Pratt, stands first of all the City churches in its contributions to the C.M.S.

WE regret also to have to report the death, on January 20th, of the venerable Rev. C. L. Reichardt, Tutor at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, and latterly Acting Principal. He was a student of the Basle Seminary, and afterwards of the C M. College, and having been ordained in 1849-50 by Bishop Blomfield, he went out to Fourah Bay; and there, with intervals in England, he laboured for thirty years. He was a faithful and laborious missionary, and rendered essential service by his linguistic researches, especially by preparing a grammar and other works in the Foulah language.

ONE of the oldest C.M.S. Native clergy in India, the Rev. Daud Singh, has gone to his rest. He was the first Sikh ever received into the Church of Christ. He was baptized about 35 years ago by the Rev. W. H. Perkins, then S.P.G. missionary at Cawnpore. When the C.M.S. Punjab Mission was begun in 1851, he joined it as a lay agent. In 1851, he was ordained by Bishop Wilson. He was for many years pastor of the Native congregation at Amritsar, and latterly of the Christian village of Clarkabad, where he died on January 6th.

THE new Bishop of Sierra Leone will (D.V.) have been consecrated

before this number appears, the day fixed being St. Matthias' Day, February 24th. We bespeak on his behalf the special intercessions of all our readers.

THE late Mrs. Stanton, of Halesworth, was a warm friend of the C.M.S., and an untiring worker in its cause. Her annual missionary sale was begun when the Rev. V. J. Stanton first went to that town in 1863, when it produced £7. In October last it produced £141, and the total amount thus raised for the Society by her personal efforts during the twenty years was £2,108 10s. 11d. Her husband has himself given much larger sums than that; but valuable as these gifts have been, there is always a peculiar blessing attaching to an aggregate of small contributions collected by the influence of an earnest and loving heart. Friends like these, "whose hearts God has touched," are the strength of the Church Missionary Society.

EARL CAIRNS presided at the annual meeting of the Bournemouth C.M.S. Association on January 15th. He said that some people attended a meeting like that, and gave in their guinea or half-guinea subscription, just as if they were paying a Christmas bill, doing something that had to be done once a year, and need not trouble them at any other time. With this he contrasted three objects which subscribers ought to have in view in attending. (1) To show that they considered Christ's last command, to make Him known to the heathen as a personal Saviour, just as binding

on us as any other commandment. (2) To hear what was being done with the money subscribed. (3) To testify their heart-felt sympathy with the missionaries in the field. His lordship concluded by appealing for "Half as much again." The report of the Association, read by Canon P. F. Eliot, showed a total sum for the year of just over £500, an increase on the preceding year, and twice as much as it was three years ago.

THE Earl of Northbrook took the chair at the annual C.M.S. meeting at Micheldever on Sunday evening, January 21st. His lordship spoke of the good work done by the Society in India generally, and in the Punjab in particular. He said, "We are old friends and admirers of this Society. We have great confidence in it, and believe its work to be for the advantage of the world and for the real spread of Christianity through the world."

ON December 24th, at Christ Church, Faji, Lagos, Bishop Crowther admitted to deacon's orders two African lay agents of the C.M.S., Mr. Samuel Doherty, of Abeokuta, and Mr. Edward Buko, of Otta. At the same time the Rev. E. S. Willoughby (also an African), Curate of Breadfruit, received priest's orders. The Rev. James Johnson presented the candidates, and the Bishop preached on Acts xiii. 1—3.

WE are glad to say that the new Nyanza party, the Revs. J. Hannington, R. P. Ashe, and C. E. Gordon, and Mr. C. Wise, with Mr. Stokes as conductor of the caravan, reached the south end of the Victoria Nyanza in October. Mr. Hannington's health had somewhat improved, though he was still very weak. They went by a new route through Mirambo's country, and reached the Lake at a point some distance west of Kagei and Jordan's Nullah. Mr. Stokes has since returned to Zanzibar, accompanied by Mr. Copplestone, of Uyui, the latter being now relieved by the Revs. W. J. Edmonds and J. Blackbura.

THE Rev. F. A. Klein arrived at Cairo on December 16th. He was very kindly received by Miss Whately and her helpers, and has also been welcomed by Dean Butcher, the English chaplain, by the American Presbyterian missionaries, and by natives of Syria and Egypt whom he had formerly met in Palestine. He held his first Arabic services on January 14th and 21st in the hall of Miss Whately's school; and there was a large attendance. "I am sure," he writes, "that the fact that there is here an open door for preaching the Gospel will be considered cheerful news by our friends at home."

THE Decennial General Conference of Protestant Missionaries in India was held at Calcutta from December 28th to January 3rd. The first of the kind was held at Allahabad at the end of 1872, and was attended by 136 missionaries, representing 19 societies. Its proceedings excited much attention, and the volume in which they were recorded has been a standard book of reference ever since. The Calcutta Conference just held was attended by nearly 500 missionaries, and the debates, condensed reports of which have now reached this country, seem to have been very important. The subjects discussed were, Preaching to the Heathen, Sunday-schools, Native Agency, Promotion of Spiritual Life, Higher and Elementary Education, Work amongst English-speaking Hindus, Work amongst Mohammedans, Woman's Work in India, Self-support and Selfpropagation of Native Churches, Work amongst Aboriginal Tribes, the Press as a Mission Agency, and Medical Missions. The C.M.S. men who contributed papers were the Revs. W. Hooper, A. Clifford, M. G. Goldsmith, T. P. Hughes, J. Caley, J. Cain, W. T. Satthianadhan, and Dr. E. Downes, but several others took an active share in the debates, including the Revs. Dr. Weitbrecht, W. R. Blackett, H. C. Squires, H. Stern, T. R. Wade, A. Stark, W. A. Roberts, Piari Mohan Rudra, &c. The Hon. Sir H. Ramsay, K.C.S.I., C.B., acted as chairman. The full Report, when it appears, will be a volume of great value.

THE accounts of the Eastbourne Juvenile C.M.S. Association show a total for the year of £193, a considerable increase on the preceding year. In the printed report, the good plan has been adopted of putting an asterisk against every missionary-box which has collected "half as much again." We are glad to see several of these marks, and one in particular against the sum raised in the Boys' Sunday-school.

RECEIVED.-A Constant Reader, £10, "left behind by a beloved son lately deceased, which his mother wishes applied to the Egypt Mission Fund." For Persia," Half as much again," 15s. Also, for General Fund, E. H., 2s. 6d.

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