MISSIONARY ALMANACK.

New Moon.... 6. 3h. 48m, a.m. First Qr.......13d. 12h. 42m. p.m.

AUGUST.

Full Moon.....20d. sh.18m, a.m.

Last Qr.......27d. 4h, 15m. p.m. [forth. Is. 49.9 1 S 10th aft. Trin. Slavery abolished, 1834. Say to the prisoners, G M. 1 Kings 12. Rom. 2, 1-17. E. 1 Kings 13 or 17. Matt. 16. 24, to 17. 14. 2 M H. Williams landed N.Z, 1823. Go in this thy might. Judg 6. 14. 3 T Speke discov. V. Nyanza, 1858. Shall I go up? And the Lord said, 4 W Who will go for us? Is. 6. 8. [Go. 1 Chr. 14. 10. 5 T Go ye also into the vineyard. Matt. 20. 4. 6F My presence shall go with thee. Ex. 33. 14. [possess it. Num. 13.30. 78 Crowther at furthest point on Tshadda, 1854. Let us go up and [the house of the Lord. Ps. 122. 1. 8 S 11th aft Trin. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into 9 M Go ye into all the world, and pr. the Gosp. to ev. creature. Mk. 16.15. 10 TI will go in the strength of the Lord God. Ps. 71. 16. 11 W Peet d., 1865. He goeth before, and the sheep follow him. John 10. 4. 12 T Go and do thou likewise. Luke 10. 37. [go no more out. Rev. 3. 12. 13 FC. F. Schwarz d., 1877. A pillar in the temple of My God-He shall 14 S Col. Taylor inv. C.M.S. to Derajat, 1861. Fear not to go. Gen. 46.3 [seven times. 1 K. 18. 43. 15 S 12th aft. Trin. 1st Niger Exped. entered river, 1841. Go again M. 1 Kings 22. 1-41. Rom. 12. E. 2 Kings 2. 1-16, or 4 8-38. Matt. 24. 29. 16 M Hunter reached Fort Simpson, 1858. Is not the Lord gone out be17 T Lord, to whom shall we go? John 6. 68. [fore thee? Judg. 4. 14. 18 W I will not let Thee go except Thou bless me.

M. 1 Kings 18. Rom. 8. 1-18. E. 1 Kings 19 or 21. Matt. 21. 1-23.

Gen. 32. 26.

19 T Krapf vis. Rabbai, 1844. God hath set the land before thee: go 20 F I go bound in the spirit. Acts 20.22. [up and possess it. Deu.1.21. 21 S Lord, I am ready to go with Thee. Lu. 22. 33.

22 S 13th aft Trin. We will go into His tabernacles. Ps. 132. 7. M. 2 Kings 5. 1 Cor. 3. E. 2 Kings 6. 1-24, or 7. Matt. 27. 27-57. 23 M I go to prepare a place for you. John 14. 2.

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St. Bartho. Jowett sent to Mediterranean, 1815. Living waters shall [go out from Jerusalem. Zec. 14. 8. 25 W Brass Mission beg., 1868. Thy sun shall no more go down. Is. 60. 20. 26 T Japan Treaty Ports op., 1858. Go through, go through the gates. 27 F I will arise and go to my Father. Luke 15. 18. [Is. 62. 10. 28 S How many loaves have ye? Go and see. Mark 6. 38. [against this multitude. 2 Chr. 14. 11. 29 S 14th aft. Trin. China Treaty Ports op., 1842. In Thy name we go M. 2 Kings 9. 1 Cor. 9. E. 2 Kings 10. 1-32, or 13. Mark 3. 13. 30 M Fuh-Chow outrage, 1878. If it had not been the Lord. . the proud 31 T Go forward. Ex. 14. 15. [waters had gone over our soul. Ps. 124. 5.

PROPOSED CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER

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EXAMINATION.

ITH a view to promoting interest in Missionary work, and a more accurate knowledge of the C.M.S. Missions, it is proposed to hold a Missionary Competitive Examination on Tuesday, December 14th, 1880.

The subject of the Examination will be the twelve numbers of the Church Missionary Gleaner for 1880.

The Examination will be conducted at as many local centres as the Society's friends in the various towns and districts may be able to arrange. Candidates must be not less than fourteen years of age.

The Question Papers will be posted in good time to every clergyman or other friend of the Society who may have arranged for the reception and supervision of the candidates.

The clergyman or other friend who has received the Question Papers must post the answers to the Editorial Secretary on December 15th. No answers will be received after December 17th.

Every candidate obtaining half marks will receive a certificate of merit. Prizes of books will be given as follows:-one, value half-a-guinea; three, value 7s. 6d. each; and six, value 5s, each.

Clergymen and other friends of the Society desirous of arranging for the examination to be held in their districts are requested to communicate with the Editorial Secretary, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.

Intending candidates must apply, not to the Parent Society, but to the local clergy or Secretaries of Associations.

EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

A letter from the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth has been printed and widely circulated, calling upon the friends of the Society to promise large annual subscriptions for the purpose of enabling the Committee to send out this year some of the men ordained on June 11th. Several liberal donations and promises of subscriptions have been received.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has fixed Oct. 28th, St. Simon and St. Jude's Day, as the date for the consecration of the Rev. G. E. Moule (C.M.S.) and the Rev. Canon Scott (S.P.G.) to Missionary Bishoprics in China.

The degree of D.D., jure dignitatis, was conferred on the Rev. G. E. Moule by the University of Cambridge on May 27th. The Public Orator among other happy allusions in his speech alluded to Mr. Moule's translation of the "Chinese Flower Ballad " in the GLEANER of Oct. 1877, the day being that of the Cambridge Flower Show.

Mr. W. E. Taylor, B.A., Scholar of Hertford College, Oxford, who was accepted for missionary work in Africa in Jan. 1879, and who has since been studying medicine at Edinburgh, has been appointed to the Nyanza Hampstead, by Bishop Royston, acting for the Bishop of London. Mission. He was ordained on Sunday, July 4th, at Trinity Church,

The Rev. Philip O'Flaherty, Curate of St. John's, Deptford, and Mr. O'Flaherty left England for Zanzibar on July 2nd. Mr. A. J. Biddlecombe, have been accepted for the Nyanza Mission.

The Rev. J. G. Garrett, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, has been appointed to the Principalship of Trinity College, Kandy, the principal educational institution of the C.M.S. in Ceylon.

The Rev. John Sharp, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, late C.M.S. missionary at Masulipatam and Principal of the Noble High School there, and subsequently Lecturer in Telugu at Cambridge University, has been appointed Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The following missionaries have lately arrived in England:-the Rev. J. A. Maser, from Lagos; the Rev. W. Thwaites, from the Punjab; the Rev. W. Clayton, from South India.

A remarkable speech was delivered at the Birmingham C.M S. Anniversary on June 22nd, by Sir Richard Temple, late Governor of Bombay. He said that at different times he had been officially connected with every part of British India, except Oudh, and was acquainted with all the leading missionaries; and he proceeded to speak in the warmest terms of them and their labours, and also of the Native Christians. The Waganda Envoys sailed from Southampton on June 23rd. Her Majesty the Queen presented each of them with her portrait, and also sent by them a large picture of herself for Mtesa. The Government also granted a sum of £30 for further royal gifts, which was expended upon a working model of a railway and locomotive, a die for a seal to stamp Mtesa's name in Arabic, a ring, two musical instruments (a cornet and a trombone), and cups and saucers, knives and forks, rugs, &c. Colonel Grant, whose kindness to the Envoys while in England was very great, laid out £100, partly in presents; and Miss Speke, the sister of Captain Speke, sent two silver drinking-cups for Mtesa. The C.M.S. Committee sent a handsomely bound Arabic Bible.

Very sad news comes from Fuh-chow. Two years ago the college for Chinese Christian students was burnt down by a hired mob. Last year an action of ejectment against the missionaries compelled them to leave the Wu-shih-shan site, which they had occupied for thirty years. The Chinese authorities then forbade any houses or land being sold or let to them within the city. Three houses they still held in the names of Native Christians have now been illegally and violently confiscated. Two Christians were seized, and required under threats of torture to sign papers delivering up the premises. Much indignation is expressed by English residents at Fuh-chow at the inaction of the British Consul under these glaring breaches of the simplest Treaty rights.

A Brahmin student at the C.M.S. Robert Money School, Bombay, was baptized by the Principal, the Rev. T. Carss, on New Year's Day. This is the first Brahmin convert from that institution.

Nineteen more of the freed slaves at Frere Town were baptized by the Rev. A. Menzies on Easter Day.

Bishop Sargent's Annual Report gives the number of adherents in the C.M.S. districts of Tinnevelly as 53,210, an increase of 3,135 in the past year. There were 1,511 adult baptisms. The Bishop mentions that of the many thousands who have joined the Christian community since the great famine, only 300 have gone back, some to their old heathen ways, and others drawn aside by the Romanists.

The Rev. John Piper, C.M.S. missionary at Tokio, has been Secretary to the Committee formed for relieving the distress occasioned by the great fire in that city on Dec. 26th last. Within four months he received and distributed some £1,600; and a highly complimentary letter was sent to him by the governor of the city, Matsuda Michiyuki. "I can assure you," Mr. Piper writes, "that the beneficence of foreigners shown through the missionaries has produced a profound impression in the minds of many Japanese in favour of Christianity, May it result in some souls being eternally saved 'so as by fire."

THIS YEAR'S REINFORCEMENT. UCH disappointment was caused three months ago by the announcement that, notwithstanding the unexpected and remarkable deliverance of the Society from a heavy financial deficit, the Committee had determined to keep back the sixteen new men ordained on June 11th. We explained why this was in the GLEANER of May and June. It is not because the funds have gone down; not because they have stood still; only be cause their advance is not rapid enough. We have sent out so many missionaries within the last three years, that the number now in the field is larger than the Society can support with its present average income. This difficulty can be met in two ways, either by recalling some who have gone out, or by sending out fewer each year for a while, and the Committee chose the latter course. They resolved that unless the funds speedily showed a decided advance, only five new men should go out each autumn for three years, together with eight of those at home on sick leave or otherwise. And, remembering that there were already at least five of last year's men waiting, who were then kept back, it was plain that there would be no room yet for any of this year's contingent.

We are thankful indeed to be able now to say that the prompt liberality of some of the Society's friends has enabled the Committee to relax a little the severity of this rule. In June, the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth wrote a most earnest appeal on the subject, which was widely circulated. Another was written by the Rev. V. J. Stanton, of Halesworth. Several friends have in consequence put their names down for large additional annual subscriptions, expressly for the extension of the work. One gave £1,000 to support another missionary for three years. Others offered gifts (or collections) of £320 to cover one year's expenses of a new man. Of course it would not be prudent to let these kind contributions involve the Society in extra liabilities which might extend over many years. What they do enable the Committee to do is to send out some of the men kept back one year sooner; that is, to send this year some of next year's five. But we beg the readers of the GLEANER to lay this to heart-that only a general advance throughout the country, more and larger subscriptions and collections in each parish, can possibly effect what we all desire, namely, to respond more promptly in all parts of the world to the cry, Come over and help us!

The five men for this year under the Committee's scheme are the Revs. J. Redman for Sindh, C. Mountfort for Bombay, W. G. Peel for the Telugu Mission, and W. Banister for Fuh-chowthese four having been kept back last year; and the Rev. G. H. Pole, B.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who offered specially for Japan. Four others are now also to go out, who would have waited till next year, viz., the Rev. T. C. Wilson (one of last year's contingent) to East Africa, and the Rev. A. E. Ball to the Punjab or Sindh, the Rev. G. T. Fleming to Jaffna in Ceylon, and the Rev. F. Glanvill to the Tamil Cooly Mission in Ceylon. In addition to these, the Rev. C. A. Thompson is appointed to the new Bheel Mission, which is specially provided for by Mr. Bickersteth's gift of £1,000; and the Rev. J. G. Garrett, B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to the Kandy College, Ceylon, a post previously estimated for. The Nyanza Mission, which is also separately arranged, is reinforced by the Revs. P. O'Flaherty and W. E. Taylor, and Mr. A. J. Biddlecombe. The eight men proposed as those to return to the mission field are the Revs. J. H. Bishop, E. Champion, W. Clark, J. G. Deimler, J. Harrison, W. Hooper, and T. J. L. Mayer, all for India; and the Rev. G. E. Moule for China, as Bishop in succession to Bishop Russell.

It is proposed to hold the Valedictory Dismissal, which usually takes place in July, on October 5th, at the C.M. College. On that occasion earnest prayer will be offered up, not only for the brethren whose way has been so providentially opened, but still more for such an outpouring of the grace of liberality and selfdenial upon the Church at home that the twelve still detained at home may ere long be enabled to follow them into the field. We would invite the readers of the GLEANER everywhere to join in these supplications. Let them be supplications with thanksgiving-thanksgiving for past mercies-thanksgiving for the mercies which we know will be vouchsafed to us for the time to come. It was before and not after the battle that Jehoshaphat's men sang, "Praise the Lord, for His mercy endureth for ever."

THE MEN ARE WAITING, BUT THE MEANS
ARE WANTING.

ROM Britain's shores the wind blows fair,
And, loosed from every straining bond,
The white-winged ships their treasures bear
To all the lands that lie beyond
The circling lines of sea and sky;

But ever as the ships sail on,
Sweeps past them a distressful cry

From souls benighted and forlorn.
"Come over, help us, ere we die!"

Such the sad prayer that day and night,
Across the sea, beneath the sky,

To England wings its urgent flight;
And millions hear, and they who wait,
A chosen, consecrated band,
Eager to bear, for Christ's dear sake,
The lamp of life to every land.
Waiting, they watch the white-winged ships,
Bound where they ask and burn to go,
God's word of "Peace" upon their lips,
Which He has given that all may know.
There go the ships, but they are left,
Whilst still is heard the pleading cry-
"Of every balm and joy bereft,

"Oh, come and help us, ere we die!"
Dear land of light, so blest of Heaven,

Answer to-day the piteous prayer, Send out the men the Lord hath given The tide is full, the wind is fair; And back to thee shall surely come A sevenfold blessing, freely given, Through all thy parts broad streams shall run, Their source the Lord of earth and heaven. Studley Vicarage, June 15th, 1880. HENRY C. HOWARD.

A VISIT TO JAPAN.

BY THE REV. A. B. HUTCHINSON, C.M.S. Missionary at Hong Kong.

IX.

Modern Yokohama-Tokio-Shiba Woods-Shoguns' Tombs-The Sumidagawa Festival-Fireworks-C.M. S. Mission-Bookshops.

N the third day, after leaving the old home of the great Taira family, whose ancient seat was at Hiogo (Kobe), we arrived at Yokohama.

Men of war and merchantmen of different nationalities were uneasily rolling and pitching in the capacious harbour, boats of all sorts and sizes were passing to and from the shore, whilst ever and anon was heard the shrill scream of the ubiquitous steam-launch. A long semicircular sweep of shore is descried in the distance, lined with European built houses, surrounded with abundant foliage; behind these is a fringe of hills, along the brow of which peep

out the broad roofs of many

bungalows, whilst behind all sweeps

upward far into the brilliantly

blue

sky sky the gracefully curved outline of snowclad Fuji; the mountain form which sketches

on Japanese lacquer and Chinaware have made SO familiar to English eyes.

A warm welcome awaited us at the chaplaincy, where we were unexpectedly greeted by an old fellow-student, the Rev. W. Dening, who was returning to his northern station at Hakodate. Under his guidance we set out to see the curious spectacle presented by a fullgrown city of 50,000 inhabitants, which eighteen years since was only a fishing station of 1,000 people. In the settlement we found magnificent public buildings, consulates, and mercantile houses; wide roads, streets paved and lighted by gas, brilliant shops, several places of worship, and abundant signs of great commercial activity. On the bluffs, as the hills in rear are called, are elegantly appointed residences, surrounded by lovely gardens opening

on to good roads,

which towards evening present a very animated

appearance, when all who can command the leisure enjoy the daily walk or drive. Groups of the blue-clad natives of China thronged the paths; and, judging from their well-to-do appearance, they have found here a good market for their industry and skill. In the native town, which has sprung up with mushroomlike rapidity, curio shops abound, the majority of which offer an abundance of those cheap showy articles which tempt the unwary seaman to part with his hard earnings to carry back home a memorial of his voyage. Would that these were the worst temptations to which he is exposed in Yokohama !

Many missionaries from America are permanently stationed here, but one cannot help feeling an earnest longing for the time to come speedily when these shall be enabled to go everywhere throughout the empire preaching the Word. There are many influences always at work in a busy seaport most prejudicial to the spread of the Gospel-terrible hindrances to the quiet formation of consistent Christian characters in the converts.

We press on to the capital. Tokio is about eighteen miles from Yokohama by rail. The villages through which we pass have a prosperous appearance, and there is quite a little crowd at each of the stopping places. The railway is evidently a popular institution. On leaving the terminus we are besieged by a crowd of jinrikishas, porters, and guides, and are soon being wheeled comfortably along through the wide and busy streets. The station being on the southern side of the city, and business taking me first to the northern quarter, I had an opportunity of forming an idea of the vast extent of the Japanese metropolis. It is indeed a city of magnificent distances. Its main street is twelve miles long. In size it ranks next, I believe, to London, and containing about 1 millions of inhabitants. Now we passed through long streets of shops, then past fine temples, and along quiet silent thoroughfares lined with houses of brilliant whiteness; then we wound along by a river, and turned off past long park-like enclosures; skirted the base of wood-crowned hills, turned into more busy streets; crowds everywhere; jinrikishas passing and repassing.

over which we step carefully, with shoeless feet, are of extreme fineness. All is magnificence, yet all is of the past. As these proud Tokugawas have passed away, so also has crumbled to the dust the exclusive policy they sought to perpetuate. Passing from these halls, sacred to the memory of departed greatness, we wander on through park-like scenery and come to an acclimatisation garden, in which we see English apple-trees bearing an abundant crop of fruit. A small notice-board informs us that an adjacent temple is used as the Legation Church. It is a large roomy structure, stripped of all idolatrous paraphernalia, matted and seated. The Communion Table stands on the former site of the altar. It was very interesting, and suggestive also, on the Sunday morning to hear the praises of Jesus ascending from halls once dedicated to the worship of devils.

The annual festival, called the opening of the Sumida River, afforded me an opportunity of seeing a Native crowd in the metropolis at night. Soon after nine P.M. we started in jinriki

shas for the river's mouth. In half-an-hour the crowd became so dense that we had to leave our vehicles, and after threading our way amongst the good-humoured people we found ourselves on the granite coping of the river's bank. The full moon was slowly rising on our right at the wide junction where the Sumida flows into the still larger Ogawa River, and thousands of boats illuminated with variegated lanterns were pressing forward to a bridge on which set pieces of fireworks were being displayed. Procuring a boat we were soon hemmed in between others containing happy family parties, laughing, talking, singing; whilst, as piece after piece burst into light, a hearty murmur of applause arose from the dense masses that lined the banks. Some pieces were very clever. One represented a lady leading a lap-dog, which suddenly turned into a sheaf of wheat, and that in turn became a flight of rockets. On shore again we found the vendors of sweetmeats and light refreshments doing a good trade amongst the laughing masses, over which ever and anon the bursting rockets shed a wild and fitful glare. Of riot or confusion we saw nothing. In fact, the impression produced upon the mind. of the visitor, after rambling about alone in various quarters, is that the natives are a very quiet, orderly, law-abiding people.

At last ascending a hill we drew up at the door of the Rev. A. C. Shaw of the S.P.G. at Shiba. This district is famous for its lovely woods, which afford a quiet and shady retreat for the resident weary of the constant turmoil of city life; it is noted also as being the burial-place of several of the great commanders in chief (Shoguns) who for 700 years (till 1868) usurped the imperial authority. The builder and founder of the city, Iyeyasu (1600), is buried at a beautiful spot called Nikko, 100 miles north of Tokio. Of his descendants, six sleep surrounded by magnificent shrines amid the fir-forests of Shiba. We prevailed with difficulty upon the door-keeper to admit us one afternoon within the gates. It needed the silver key, but we were well repaid. The timbers, the walls, the doors are all panelled in lacquer of the richest description, black, red, green, and gold; the ceilings are covered with carving delicately painted to represent silk embroidery; round each granite-paved courtyard stand hundreds of massive stone or bronze lanterns, gifts from princes and mercantile corporations. The corridors are all lacquered and gilt; the very steps by which we ascend to the gorgeously gilded doors are carefully lacquered; the mats

It was a great pleasure to find my predecessor at Hong Kong, the Rev. J. Piper, happily established in the foreign settlement called Tsukidji. His church, which had been recently opened, is certainly the finest in point of size and completeness of all that I visited in Japan.* After much unsettledness and discomfort, owing to the difficulty of procuring a suitable headquarters for the Mission, a house and site for church, schools, &c., was happily secured, which promises excellently for the future development of the work. I walked into the city with Mr. Piper to his preaching hall. After crossing several bridges and traversing many streets we came to a corner house, having a long room opening on to a busy thoroughfare. It was not very brightly lighted, but after waiting a short time an audience of some forty or fifty was assembled, who listened attentively to what seemed a very long sermon. The Japanese think nothing of an address less than an hour in length. The hall-keeper, an

* A picture of this church appeared in the GLEANER of February, 1879.