chased, must be bought with a price; and that the sole price, the sole purchase-money, must be our own works and deservings. Our own holy Bible, our sacred Book of the East, is from beginning to end a protest against this doctrine. Good works are, indeed, enjoined upon us in that sacred Book of the East far more strongly than in any other sacred book of the East; but they are only the outcome of a grateful heart-they are only a thank-offering, the fruits of our faith. They are never the ransommoney of the true disciples of Christ. Let us not shut our eyes to what is excellent and true and of good report in these sacred books, but let us teach Hindus, Buddhists, Mohammedans, that there is only one sacred Book of the East that can be their mainstay in that awful hour when they pass all alone into the unseen world. It is the sacred Book which contains that faithful saying, worthy to be received of all men, women and children, and not merely of us Christians-that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The Gospel There are 1,100 hosof Healing. pitals connected with Protestant missions in foreign lands, treating over 2,500,000 patients yearly. This ministry of healing is a most effective and practically irresistible means of gaining entrance into the homes and hearts of the heathen. It removes prejudice, inspires confidence and hope, and reveals the true genius of Christianity as perhaps nothing else can. DEATH NOTICE. Miss Thoburn, On September 1st of India. Miss Isabella Thoburn died in Lucknow, the city in which she has lived for so many years, and in the col lege which she founded, and which everywhere bears the mark of her strong but gentle personality. Cholera was the cause of her death. Miss Thoburn was born on March 29, 1840, near St. Clairsville, Ohio, and was graduated from the Female College at Wheeling, Va. When she wrote to the Secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society she was told that there was no work for a single woman missionary to do. She therefore applied to the Union Missionary Society, and was in correspondence with them when the Methodist women organized their Foreign Missionary Society. Miss Thoburn was at once accepted, and with Clara Swain sailed for India in November, 1869. Miss Thoburn from the first devoted her energy to educational work for women. She commenced in Lucknow a girls' school in one room. The school, through Miss Thoburn's effective and loving service, has developed into the beautiful college now known as "The Harriet Warren Memorial." Ten years ago the college was affiliated with the Allahabad University, and it now sends up graduates both for the B. A. and M.A. degrees. Miss Thoburn thus had the honor of founding the first women's college in this land. Miss Thoburn's last furlough was taken in 1899-1900, when she attended the Ecumenical Missionary Conference in company with her accomplished helper, Miss Lilavathi Singh, M.A. Scattered throughout India and even in Burma are educated Christian women of all denominations, who have been educated in her college, and who now as leaders and teachers are influencing countless numbers, and these in turn will influence others, as one ripple on the still lake is the progenitor of another, -The Bombay Guardian, The Moravian Brotherhood has been and still is a historic marvel. Herrnhut, about fifty miles from Dresden, is the center from which radiate the noble missionary efforts of the United Brethren. It is a plain village of Quaker simplicity and about one thousand people, where all is neat, orderly, and pervaded by the religious element. The "House of the Brethren" and the "House of the Sisters" are the homes of unmarried men and women, respectively; the former with thirty, and the latter one hundred, inmates. No celibate or monastic vows are taken, and the association is voluntary in the interests of economy and industry and Christian labor. On the slope of Hutberg Hill lies the peaceful burial-place of the community, with the tomb of Christian David, and slabs of stone lying flat on the ground and looking eastward, bearing the simplest record of the dead. The stone building at Berthelsdorf was, up to 1899, the residence of the Elders' Conference. They met thrice a week around their table, to examine the correspondence of the body, and talk over and pray over all the affairs of the Unitas Fratrum. Here was the hub of the great wheel from which extend to the utmost circumference of their work the various spokes-financial, educational, evangelistic, disciplinary. As the Moravian Brethren lead all Christendom in the high average of their missionary consecration and contribution, we may well ask, What is the cause? Their creed does not essentially differ from other creeds of Christendom's reformed churches. They especially emphasize, both by pulpit and press, the person and work of the Lord Jesus, as Redeemer. In Him, as they say, they "have the grace of the Son, the love of the Father, and the communion of the Spirit." The Holy Scriptures they cordially accept as the inspired and the infallible Word of God; and the living Word, the blessed Christ, is, especially in His character as a sacrifice for sin, the object of their trust and the model for their imitation. They lay stress not so much upon doctrine as upon life. The body is governed by a General Synod, meeting every ten years or so at Herrnhut. Provincial synods control the four provinces, Continental, English, and the two American (North and South). In constitution, their Church combines the features of Presbyterianism and Episcopacy, but they are not jealous of "Episcopal ordination" or "apostolic succession." They rather prize, as of unspeakable worth, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the apostolic spirit of self-denial and loyalty to Christ. Their morality is blameless. Capital crimes, divorce, etc., are unknown. Like the Waldenses, they seem to be appointed of God to keep alive the embers of the primitive faith and apostolic spirit in the midst of the worldliness, extravagance, and selfishness that would quench even the fires of God. Their illustrious "father" in modern times was Count Zinzendorf. But their spiritual ancestry in Moravia and Bohemia reaches back, more or less clearly traceable, even to the ninth century. John Huss (born 1369) was their most famous reformer. In 1457 they organized as a religious society; after years of fierce persecution, in 1467 they held a synod, and completely separated from the State, and obtained from the Waldenses the "Episcopal succession." Three bishops were consecrated. After a most remarkable history of alternating prosperity and persecution by the anti-reformation of Ferdinand II., Protestantism was totally overthrown in Bohemia and Moravia. Hundreds of thousands of people were driven out, as the Huguenots were from France, and for almost a hundred years the Unitas Fratrum was like treasure hid afield. The population of Bohemia was reduced from three million to eight hundred thousand by the Thirty Years' War. Just fifty years after Comenius, the last bishop of the BohemianMoravian provinces of the old Unity, died, two families of Moravian exiles reached Count Zinzendorf's estate in Saxony-Berthelsdorf— seeking refuge. This was in 1722, and, at that time, this company of refugees embraced only ten persons. There, under his sheltering care, they built Herrnhut (Protection of the Lord), and revived their ancient Church. Zinzendorf, resigning worldly honors and riches, became more and more identified with the Moravian Brotherhood, until in 1737, he was ordained as their bishop and the new "father" of this apostolic assembly. For nearly one hundred and eighty years they have been multiplying churches and missions. At Gnadenhütten (Tents of Grace), in Ohio, ninety Moravian Indians and six heathen were massacred in 1782 by suspicious whites. In Lapland, among the Samoyeds, in Algeria, Persia, Ceylon, the East Indies, Guiana, Guinea, among the Calmucks, in Abyssinia and Tranquebar, Greenland, Labrador, on the Mosquito Coast, in German East |