members of the Bible classes to 23,000; the 2,000 members of mission student classes to 5,000. Whereas there were then 10 national students' movements, now there are 15, and the World's Student Christian Federation unites all these different movements in a sympathy which has developed a world consciousness. Instead of 38 secretaries there are now 101, and the 21 buildings, valued at $400,000, devoted to the work of these associations, have increased to 39, valued at over $1,000,000. Five years ago there were 10 National Student Conferences, attended by 2,600 delegates. During the past year there were 20 such, with an attendance of over 5,000. The 50 pamphlets and books published in the interests of the movement have grown to nearly 200, and the 6 periodicals, with a combined circulation of about 6,000, have increased to 13, with a circulation of fully 20,000. At that time the Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions had been organized in but two countries; now it includes students not only of all Protestant Christian lands, but of Asia, and more students have gone to the mission field during the past five years than during the preceding ten years.Independent.

Children's Aid To readers whose Society. memory goes back a generation or more, few names are more familiar than this, with C. L. Brace, the soul of its energy. It is pleasant to be reminded that not less than $382,537 were received for its uses last year, and to the substantial betterment of 38,232 boys and girls. The total income from the beginning is $9,740,523.

Brooklyn. They give $20 toward the support of a missionary in Japan, and $15 to help support a missionary in Persia. They give $5 each to the Freedmen's Board and Synodical Fund, and $15 toward the support of a missionary in the Asheville Farm School. They are raising money for a missionary library, and expect to adopt an India famine orphan. It is needless to say that this society has adopted the system of tithe-giving, and that it has joined the Macedonian Phalanx.

The Bible for Rev. Egerton R. The Red Men. Young's book, “On the Indian Trail,"

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gives vivid pictures of the romance and hardships of such missionary work in the far Northwest. describes how the language of the Cree Indians was first reduced to writing by the Rev. James Evans, one of the early Methodist missionaries in the frozen land. "Mr. Evans invented a special alphabet, each sign of which represented not a letter, but a syllable, to express the sounds of this strange tongue. At first he used birch bark for paper, and made ink out of the soot from his chimney, mixed with sturgeon oil, and in this fashion he succeeded in printing portions of the Scripture and some hymns in the language of the Cree Indians. Later on the whole Bible was translated; the British and Foreign Bible Society took up the work, and now all Bibles these Indians require are furnished them by that society." EUROPE.

the Roman Catholic population is diminishing both relatively and actually; and he says that it is a fact that the Catholic population of the isles is hardly two-thirds what it was at the beginning of Victoria's reign. "England, Ireland, and Scotland had then 8,000,000 of Catholics in a total of 25,000,000. To-day they have 5,500,000 in a population of 33,000,000. Catholics were then a third of Victoria's subjects; to-day they are hardly a sixth." And there are now in all the queen's dominions a million fewer Catholics than when she came to the throne. In every other country they have increased; in the British empire alone there has been a steady decrease. "Year by year they are diminishing, as if struck by some fatal disease, wherever the English flag flies." Father Lynch argues that the spread of the empire is no preparation for the growth of Catholicism.

The Gospel to The London Society Israel. for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, is the oldest organization of the kind, having been founded in 1809. It has to-day 55 stations in 19 different countries, with a force of 194 laborers (including wives of missionaries, 227). Of this force 28 are ordained missionaries, and 82 are converted Jews, some of these being men of great scholarship as well as devout spirituality. The society has done an important work, not the least being in the literature it has put forth for enlightening the Jewish mind concerning Christ and Christianity. Its annual expenditure for all departments of work is about $200,000.

of the century. These are a few of the figures: An increase since 1887 from 309 European laborers (excluding wives) to 889 (up to June last), from 225 native clergy to 365, from 3,500 native lay agents to 6,500, from 182,000 adherents to 270,000, from 44,000 communicants to 71,000, from 2,600 adult baptisms in 1887 to 8,478 last year. Thus far the foreign field. The ordinary income at home, excluding special efforts such as the centenary fund, has grown from £210,877 to £304,000.

Woman's Work for Woman.

The annual report of the Zenana Bible

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Medical Mission shows that altho the expenditure for the year increased by £2,339, there was a decrease in income of £1,321. Nevertheless, the sum received from associations was larger than ever before, and reached a total of £9,453. The society employs 415 workers, of whom 95 only are Europeans. They have 2,610 zenana pupils, and over 3,000 in their schools. Their hospitals have received 1,487 in-patients during the past year, while 63,949 have been treated at dispensaries, and over 600 have been attended in their own homes. Eleven new missionaries, 2 of them medical women, sailed for India last autumn.

The Christian Literature Society for India published during last year 134 new works, in 11 languages, and reprinted 124 others. It is stated that the number of readers in India increases at the rate of about 2,000,000 yearly.

Sabbath Re- It is said that reform in Paris. cent visitors to Paris have noticed the great advance which has been made in the direction of Sunday rest. Very few shops are now opened on the Sabbath, and scarcely any after midday. On the wooden shutter of a business house

NAMES OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND UPON THE CONTINENT, AND SUMMARIES FOR ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, ETC.

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ical, or Protestant societies. list gives the baptisms of the heathen apart from infant baptisms of the children of Christian parents:

Die Rheinische Mission, 4,456; Die Gossner Mission, 3,119; Die Basler Mission, 2,224; Die Berliner Mission I., 2,089; Die Hermanns

burger Mission, 2,074; Die Leipziger Mission, 812; Die Brüdergemeine Mission, 602; Die Breklumer Mission, 433; Die Bremer Mission, 157; Die Berliner Mission III., 155; Die Neukirchner Mission, 64; Die Neuendettelsauer Mission, 27-16,212 in

church of their fathers. Patriotism moves them to wait for reformation within. The old church accordingly has a growing element of enlightened men. Cities like Tocat and Sivas have large congregations seeking the truth as it is in Christ,. but with no present purpose to leave their mother church. Picture worship is losing its influence. Many are calling on their ecclesiastics to give them the Gospel, not rites and forms. Many feel that they have lost the way to God, and

they want to find it. Here a monk and there a teacher rises up to preach Christian truth, and the people welcome it. Sometimes fervent prayer-meetings are held. Sporadic attempts are being made to introduce Sunday-schools, the leaders in all such endeavors being frequently students from the missionary schools. The patriarch encourages the reading of the Bible, and the American Bible Society reports a circulation of over 11,000 volumes in its Armenian department in 1899.—Rev. G. E. White.

A Busy Physician.

Dr. D. M. B. Thom, our medical missionary at Mardin, in Eastern Turkey, for the year 1899, states that on account of his absence from the station for two months, and for other reasons largely connected with the poverty of the people, a smaller number of patients was treated than usual. This number was 5,280, which seems large enough for one man to care for; but during the 26 years of his connection with the station, the total number treated is 290,686, making an average of 11,180 per year. In the hospital there had been treated, the past year, 59 patients, 26 of whom were Christians, and 23 were Moslems. One of the most remarkable features in Dr. Thom's medical practise has been the extraordinary number of cases