a large and lofty church. In January, 1874, Mr. Duncan.

wrote:

The massive timbers for framing, which Governor Trutch and Captain Cator, of H.MS. Scout, saw on the ground last year, and doubted of our ability to raise, are, I am happy to say, now fixed, and fixed well, in their places, and all by Indian labour.

The Indians are delighted with the appearance the building has already assumed, and you may gather from the amount of their contributions (176) how much they appreciate the work. They propose again subscribing during the coming spring, and I only wish our Christian friends in England could witness the exciting scene of a contributing day, with how much joy the poor people come forward and cast down their blanket or blankets, gun, shirt, or elk skin, upon the general pile, "to help in building the house of God."

By the end of that year the church was finished, and on Christmas Day it was opened for the service of God. "We had indeed," wrote Mr. Duncan, "a great struggle to finish it by that time-the tower and spire presenting very difficult and dangerous work for our unskilled hands-yet, by God's protecting care, we completed the work without a single accident. Over seven hundred Indians were present at our opening services. Could it be that this concourse of well-dressed people, in their new and beautiful church, but a few years ago made up the fiendish assemblies at Fort Simpson! Could it be that these voices, now engaged in solemn prayer and thrilling songs of praise to Almighty God, are the very voices I once heard yelling and whooping at heathen orgies on dismal winter nights!"

VII.-Lord Dufferin at Metlakahtla.

Four memorable events signalised the four years 1876-79 at Metlakahtla. These events were the visits of four important personages. First, Lord Dufferin, then Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, in August, 1876. Secondly, Bishop Bompas, of Athabasca, in the winter of 1877-78. Thirdly, Admiral Prevost, the founder of the Mission, in June, 1878. Fourthly, the new Bishop of Caledonia, Dr. Ridley, in Oct., 1879.

An interesting account of the Governor-General's visit appeared in the GLEANER of January, 1877. In reply to an address presented to him by the people, Lord Dufferin said:

I have come a long distance in order to assure you, in the name of your Great Mother, the Queen of England, with what pleasure she has learnt of your well-being, and of the progress you have made in the arts of peace and the knowledge of the Christian religion, under the auspices of your kind friend, Mr. Duncan. You must understand that I have not come for my own pleasure, but that the journey has been long and laborious, and that I am here from a sense of duty, in order to make you feel by my actual presence with what solicitude the Queen and Her Majesty's Government in Canada watch over your welfare, and how anxious they are that you should persevere in that virtuous and industrious mode of life in which I find you engaged. I have viewed with astonishment the church which you have built entirely by your own industry and intelligence. That church is in itself a monument of the way in which you have profited by the teachings you have received. It does you the greatest credit, and we have every right to hope, that, while in its outward aspect it bears testimony to your conformity to the laws of the Gospel, beneath its sacred roof your sincere and faithful prayers will be rewarded by those blessings which are promised to all those who approach the Throne of God in humility and faith. I hope you will understand that your White Mother and the Government of Canada are fully prepared to protect you in the exercise of your religion, and to extend to you those laws which know no difference of race, or of colour, but under which justice is impartially administered between the humblest and the greatest of the land. The Government of Canada is proud to think that there are upwards of 30,000 Indians in the territory of British Columbia alone. She recognises them as the ancient inhabitants of the country. The white men have not come amongst you as conquerors, but as friends. We regard you as our fellow-subjects, and as equal to us in the eye of the law as you are in the eye of God, and equally entitled with the rest of the community to the benefits of good government and the opportunity of earning an honest livelihood.

I hope you are duly grateful to him to whom, under Providence, you are indebted for all these benefits, and that when you contrast your own condition, the peace in which you live, the comforts that surround you, the decency of your habitations, when you see your wives, your sisters, and your daughters contributing so materially by the brightness of their

appearance, the softness of their manners, their housewifely qualities, to the pleasantness and cheerfulness of your domestic lives, contrasting as all these do so strikingly with your former surroundings, you wil! remember that it is to Mr. Duncan you owe this blessed initiation into your new life.

Before I conclude I cannot help expressing to Mr. Duncan, and those | associated with him in his good work, not only in my own name, not only in the name of the Government of Canada, but also in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, and in the name of the people of England, who take so deep an interest in the well-being of all the native races throughout the Queen's dominions, our deep gratitude to him for thus having devoted the flower of his life, in spite of innumerable difficulties, dangers, and discouragements, of which we, who only see the result of his labours, can form only a very inadequate idea, to a work which has resulted in the beautiful scene we have witnessed this morning.

Before he left British Columbia Lord Dufferin delivered an address at Government House, Victoria, in which, referring to this visit, he said :--

I have visited Mr. Duncan's wonderful settlement at Metlakahtla, and the interesting Methodist Mission at Fort Simpson, and have thus been enabled to realise what scenes of primitive peace and innocence, of idyllic beauty and material comfort, can be presented by the stalwart men and comely maidens of an Indian community, under the wise administration of a judicious and devoted Christian missionary.

VIII.-Admiral Prevost at Metlakahtla.

Since the foundation of the settlement there has been no day like the 18th of June, 1878, when Metlakahtla had the joy of welcoming, for the first time, the beloved and revered originator of the Mission, Admiral Prevost. He had never been in that part of the world since the migration from Fort Simpson in 1862, and had never seen the wonderful issue of his own plan. That he should see it now was a privilege rarely enjoyed. To few| men is it given in the Providence of God to initiate such an agency of blessing, and to still fewer is it granted to behold such | far-reaching results.

Of this happy visit the Admiral himself writes:

Three a.m., Tuesday, 18th June, 1878. Arrived at Fort Simpson in the U.S. mail steamer California, from Sitka. Was met by William Duncan, with sixteen Indians, nearly all elders. Our greeting was most hearty, and the meeting with Duncan was a cause of real thankfulness to God, in sight, too, of the very spot (nay, on it) where God had put into my heart the first desire of sending the Gospel to the poor heathens around me. Twenty-five years previously H.M.S. Virago had been repaired on that very beach. What a change had been effected during those passing years! Of the crew before me nine of the sixteen were, to my knowledge, formerly medicine men, or cannibals. In humble faith, we could only exclaim, "What hath God wrought!" It is all His doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.

It did not take long to transfer ourselves and our baggage to the canoe, and at 4.30 A.M. we started against wind and tide, rain, too, at intervals; but having much to talk about of past events and future plans, the twenty miles of distance soon disappeared, and about noon we crossed the bar and entered the "inlet of Kahtla." On the north side of the inlet stands, on an eminence, "the Church of God"; on either side of it spreads out the village of Metlakahtla, skirting two bays, whose beaches are at once a landing-place for its inhabitants and a shelter for the canoes. As we approached the landing-place two guns were fired and flags displayed from house to house-conspicuous by a string of them reaching to the Mission House verandah, inscribed, "A REAL WELCOME TO METLAKAHTLA." Near to this were assembled all the village-men, women, and children-gaily dressed.

The rise and fall of the tide is very great, often 25 feet. It was low water when we arrived, and diflicult to land, but this had been anticipated. We found a small canoe covered over with pretty mats (Indian manufacture from the cedar bark). Into this we were transferred, and when comfortably seated we were lifted quietly on the shoulders of the young men, and carried up to a platform close to the entrance of the Mission House. We were surrounded by kind hearts who had been long expecting us, and the flowers and garlands had withered; but joy was depicted in their countenances. The body of constables, dressed in a uniform given by the Government, presented arms; the small band played; and then all the voices, about 250 in number (the larger portion of the population being at the fisheries), joined in that beautiful hymn

"What a friend we have in Jesus,

All our sins and griefs to bear, What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer."

Then came the shaking of hands, and let me remind you a Metlakahtla Indian can give a hearty shake of the hand!

Rain obliged us to seek shelter indoors. We all met again in the

church in the evening, changing the weekly service to Tuesday. It was my privilege to address more than two hundred from Romans viii. 31-If God be for us, who can be against us?" It was an evening never to be forgotten. After twenty-five years' absence, God had brought me back again, amidst all the sundry and manifold changes of the world, face to face with those tribes amongst whom I had witnessed only bloodshed, cannibalism, and heathen devilry in its grossest form. Now they were sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in their right mind. The very churchwarden, dear old Peter Simpson, who opened the church-door for me, was the chief of one of the cannibal tribes.

Sunday, 23rd. To me, all days at Metlakahtla are solemnly sacred, but Sunday, of all others, especially so. Canoes are all drawn up on the beach above high water mark. Not a sound is heard. The children are assembled before morning service to receive special instruction from Mr. Duncan. The church bell rings, and the whole population pour out from their houses-men, women, and children-to worship God in His own house, built by their own hands. As it has been remarked, "No need to lock doors, for no one is there to enter the empty houses." Two policemen are on duty in uniform, to keep order during service time. The service begins with a chant in Tsimshean, "I will arise and go to my Father," &c.; the Litany Prayers in Tsimshean follow, closing with the Lord's Prayer. The address lasts nearly an hour. Such is the deep attention of many present, that having once known their former lives, I know that the love of God shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost can alone have produced so marvellous a change.

First, there was a very old woman, staff in hand, stepping with such solemn earnestness; after her came one who had been a notorious gambler; though now almost crippled with disease, yet he seemed to be forgetting infirmity, and literally to be leaping along. Next followed a dissipated youth, now reclaimed; and after him a chief, who had dared a few years ago proudly to lift up his hand to stop the work of God, now, with humble mien, wending his way to worship. Then came a once still more haughty man of rank; and after him a mother carrying her infant child, and a father leading his infant son; a grandmother, with more than a mother's care, watching the steps of her little grandson. Then followed a widow; then a young woman, who had been snatched from the jaws of infamy; after them came a once roving spirit, now meek and settled; then, a once notorious chief; and the last I reflected upon was a man walking with solemn gait, yet hope fixed in his look. When a heathen he was a murderer: he had murdered his own wife and burnt her to ashes. What are all these now, I thought, and the crowds that accompany them! Whither are they going? and what to do! If there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, with what delight must angels gaze on such a sight as this!

July 10th. Before my departure from Metlakatla I assembled the few who were left at the village, to tell them I was anxious to leave behind some token both of my visit to them after so long an absence, and also that I still bore them on my heart. What should it be? After hours of consultation, they decided they would leave the choice to me, and when I told them (what I had beforehand determined upon) that my present would be a set of street lamps to light up their village by night, their joy was unbounded. Their first thought had a spiritual meaning. By day, God's house was a memorable object, visible both by vessels passing and repassing, and by all canoes as strange Indians travelled about; but by night all was darkness-now no longer so-as the bright light of the glorious Gospel had through God's mercy and love shined in their dark hearts, so would all be reminded, by night as well as by day, of the marvellous light shining in the hearts of many at Metlakahtia. When Duncan first settled at Metlakahtla, even the Indians who came with him were in such fear from the neighbouring tribes, that they begged him not to have a fire burning at night or show a light in his house. The system of murder was then so general, that whenever an enemy saw a light he sneaked up to it, and the death of the unsuspecting Indian was generally the result. Thus my selection was a happy one, and I thanked God for it.

IX. Outlying Missions-(1) Kincolith.

Both Metlakahtla and Fort Simpson are situated on a peninsula which juts forth from the coast between the estuaries of two rivers, the Sheena to the south, and the Nass to the north. The mouth of the Nass River is one of the great fishing resorts of the Indians. From long distances the tribes of both the mainland and the adjacent islands flock thither every year in March and April, the season when the oolikan, a small fish about the size of a smelt, is caught.

As many as five thousand Indians gather together on these occasions, and encamp for miles along both banks of the river.

Having put up their temporary bark huts, they dig pits to store the fish in, and then quietly await their arrival. Meanwhile, The towerhardly a sign of life is to be seen on land or water. ing mountains, that rise almost from the banks, are covered deep with snow, and the river is fast bound in ice to the depth of six or eight feet. Slowly the ice begins to break higher up, and the tides, rising and falling, bear away immense quantities. At length a few sea gulls appear in the western sky, and the cry echoes from camp to camp that the fish are at hand.

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Immense shoals of oolikan come in from the Pacific, followed by larger fish, such as the halibut, the cod, the porpoise, and the finned-back whale. Over the fish hover the sea birds" an immense cloud of innumerable gulls," wrote Bishop Hills after a visit to the place, so many and so thick that as they moved to and fro, up and down, the sight resembled a fall of snow." Over the gulls, again, soar the eagles watching for their prey. The Indians go forth to meet the fish with the cry, "You fish, you fish! you are all chiefs; you are, you are all chiefs.' The nets haul in bushels at a time, and hundreds of tons are collected. "The Indians dry some in the sun, and press a much larger quantity for the sake of the oil or grease, which has a considerable market value as being superior to cod-liver oil, and which they use as butter with their dried salmon. The season is most important to the Indians; the supply lasts them till the season for salmon, which is later, and which supplies their staple food-their bread."

It was in 1860 that Mr. Duncan first visited the Nass River. He received a most encouraging welcome from the Nishkah Indians one of the Tsimshean tribes-dwelling on its banks. Everywhere he found a readiness, sometimes most touchingly expressed, to receive Christian instruction. At one interesting gathering, a Nishkah chief named Agwilakkah, after hearing the Gospel message for the first time, stood up before all, stretched forth his hands towards heaven, and lifting up his eyes, solemnly said:

Pity us, Great Father in heaven, pity us! Give us Thy good book to do us good and clear away our sins. This chief [pointing to Mr. Duncan] has come to tell us about Thee. It is good, Great Father. We want to hear. Who ever came to tell our fathers Thy will? No, no. But this chief has pitied us and come. He has Thy book. We will hear. We will receive Thy Word. We will obey.

Four years, however, passed away before regular missionary operations could be extended to the Nass River. Then the Rev. R. A. Doolan went there to establish a permanent Mission. In 1867 the work was taken up by the Rev. R. Tomlinson. By Mr. Doolan's efforts some fifty Indians had been influenced to abandon their heathen customs and to desire to live together as a Christian community; and a settlement similar to Metlakahtla was now planned. This settlement received the name of Kincolith; and here Mr. Tomlinson earnestly laboured till 1878. The Mission, though not exhibiting rapid success, grew steadily. Year by year the number of settlers has increased, and now exceeds two hundred, of whom three-fourths are baptized. One chief, who joined on New Year's Day, 1877, was well known as the fiercest savage on the river. He was baptized by Bishop Bompas in March, 1878, taking, like Legaic at Metlakahtla, the name of Paul. He was very penitent for his past life, and was overtook him. Just before he died, he gave very clear testimony earnestly trying to follow good ways, when illness and death that he had found pardon and peace.

X.-Outlying Missions-(2) Queen Charlotte's Islands.

On the group of islands named after George the Third's Queen dwell the finest and the fiercest of the coast tribes. The Hydahs are a manly, tall, handsome people, and comparatively fair in their complexion; bnt they are a cruel and vindictive race, and were long the terror of the North Pacific coast. They even ventured to attack English ships, and in 1854 they plundered an

American vessel, detaining the captain and crew in captivity until they were ransomed by the Hudson's Bay Company. No tribe, moreover, has been more fearfully demoralised by the proximity of the white man's "civilisation." Drunkenness and the grossest vices have spread disease and death among them. Mr. Collison thus describes a remarkable peculiarity of the Hydah villages (see the picture on p. 110):

In approaching a Hydah village from a distance one is reminded of a harbour with a number of ships at anchor, owing to the great number of poles of all sizes erected in front of every house. These are carved very well, with all kinds of figures, many of them unintelligible to visitors or strangers, but fraught with meaning to the people themselves. In fact, they have a legend in connection with almost every figure. It is in the erection of these that so much property is given away. They value them very highly, as was instanced lately on the occasion of the GovernorGeneral's visit. He was most anxious to purchase one, but they would not consent to it at any price.

The principal trading post, Massett, is on the northern coast of the northern island, Graham Island. Here Mr. and Mrs. Collison, with their two little children, landed on November 1st, 1876. Patiently and prayerfully, for the next two years and a half, did Mr. Collison labour among the Hydahs. Very quickly he gained a remarkable influenco over them, and though the medicine men were, of course, bitterly hostile, the tokens of the working of the Holy Ghost were manifested sooner than even an ardent faith might have anticipated.

The first Hydah to come out distinctly as a Christian was a chief named Cowhoe, concerning whom an interesting incident is related. One day he brought a book to Mr. Collison, saying it

had been given him many years before by the captain of an English man-of-war, and asking what it was. It proved to be a Testament, with this inscription on the fly-leaf-" From Capt. Prevost, H.M.S. Satellite,' trusting that the bread thus cast upon the waters may be found after many days." More than twenty years had passed away, and now that prayer was answered.

In the autumn of 1878 some touching evidences of the Spirit's work gladdened the missionary's heart. He wrote:

Not a few are inquiring earnestly for the way of life. At a little social meeting which I had a few days past, the principal chief said:"I was careless and unconcerned about the message which the white chief brought us, but I can be so no longer. Even at night, when I lie awake on my bed, I cry to God to pardon my many sins and save me. I know it is true-all true, and I want to be safe in the Ark, even in Jesus the Saviour"; and he continued at some length exhorting the others to receive the Word.

Another chief also spoke with intense earnestness and feeling. He said, "A short time since I was blind, and knew nothing of these great things. But Jesus has opened my eyes, and now I see. Jesus is the way, and I am in that way now. keeps me back, and when that is over I will seek to be baptized, and live I am happy, very happy; but one thing only for God."

This one thing referred to is a giving away of property on account of a deceased brother whose effects he took charge of, and promised to give away property, and put a carved pole to his memory. As he had already promised, and given notice to the tribe, he does not wish to draw back.

Another a young man-is already obeying the injunction, "Let him that heareth say, Come"; and at the salmon fishing and elsewhere has endeavoured to gather his friends together for prayer and praise.

At Christmas (1878), when the Indians from other villages came in canoes to Massett, the usual festive custom of "dancing

with painted faces, and naked slaves with their bodies blackened," | was dispensed with, and in lieu of it the visitors were received by a choir of a hundred Hydahs, children and adults, chanting the anthem, "How beautiful upon the mountains." "The unanimous opinion of all was that the new and Christian welcome was far superior to the old heathen one."

Mr. Collison has since removed to Metlakahtla, to undertake the pastoral and school-work there. His place at Massett has been taken by Mr. G. Sneath, a zealous young missionary artizan, who twice went to East Africa to join the Victoria Nyanza Mission, and twice was ordered home by the consular surgeon at Zanzibar, and who has now essayed missionary service in a colder climate.

XI.-Outlying Missions-(3) Fort Rupert. Fort Rupert is a trading post at the northern end of Vancouver's Island, some three hundred miles south of Metlakahtla. In that neighbourhood are found the Quoquolt Indians, and among them a Mission has lately been begun. This is, however, but a tardy response to their repeated entreaties for a teacher. It has always been a problem beyond their power to solve, why, when Mr. Duncan first arrived on the coast, he actually sailed past them on his voyage from Victoria, and went first to the Tsimsheans, who were so much further off; and on one occasion they stoutly remonstrated with the captain of a man-of-war, sent to punish them for marauding on the territory of another tribe, that they were left without a teacher, and were only visited when they had done wrong.

In October, 1875, the head chief at Fort Rupert took the three hundred miles journey to visit Metlakahtla, and once more

preferred his request. He addressed the Christians of the settlement, and said that "a rope had been thrown out from Metlakahtla, which was encircling and drawing together all the Indian tribes into one common brotherhood." Mr. Duncan planned to go and begin a Quoquolt mission himself; but it proved quite impossible for him to leave his multifarious work at the settlement, and ultimately the Rev. A. J. Hall, who was sent out in 1877, volunteered to go. On March 12th, 1878, he landed at Fort Rupert, and has since laboured there most zealously; but, he writes, "At present the Indians are only hearers of the Word, and I pray for signs of the Spirit's work among them."

XII.-Outlying Missions-(4) The Interior Mission. The claims of the numerous Indian tribes in the interior were strongly pressed upon the Society by Bishop Bompas of Athabasca, who, on his journey across the Rocky Mountains to Metlakahtla in 1877, found them wholly neglected-there was no man to care for their souls. In consequence of this appeal, the Rev. R. Tomlinson, of Kincolith, was instructed to move up the Nass River, and establish a new station. This he has done at a place called Ankihtlast, where a mission farm is being worked, and where it is hoped many Kitikshean Indians will be attracted to settle down under Christian instruction.

Since then, the new Bishop of Caledonia has begun a most promising work at the forks of the River Skeena, where he spent last winter, entirely cut off for some months from the outer world. Interesting letters from him were printed in the GLEANER of July. The Society has sent out another young missionary, the Rev. W. G. Faulconer, to assist the Bishop at this remote station.

XIII. The Diocese of Caledonia.

When Mr. Duncan went out in 1856 there was but one clergyman of the Church of England on the whole western coast of British America. The colony of British Colombia, however, grew apace; and in 1859 it was formed into a diocese, Dr. Hills being appointed the first Bishop.

In 1879 Bishop Hills, being on a visit to England, arranged with the Society a plan for providing its Missions with more immediate episcopal oversight. He had come charged by his Diocesan Synod to take steps for dividing his vast diocese into three-Vancouver's Island, New Westminster, and Caledoniawhich would form an ecclesiastical province on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, just as, on the east side, the four dioceses of Rupert's Land, Moosonee, Athabasca, and Saskatchewan form the province of Rupert's Land. The northernmost of these three divisions, Caledonia, would comprise the field of the C.M.S. Missions; and the Society therefore undertook to guarantee the income of the Bishop for this division, provided that the Committee were satisfied with the appointment made. The scheme was happily consummated by the choice of the Rev. Wm. Ridley, vicar of St. Paul's, Huddersfield, who had been a C.M.S. missionary in India, but whose health had been unequal to the trying climate of the Peshawar Valley. Mr. Ridley was consecrated on St. James's Day, July 25th, 1879, at St. Paul's Cathedral, at the same time as Dr. Walsham How to the Suffragan-Bishopric of Bedford (for East London), Dr. Barclay to the Anglican See of Jerusalem, and Dr. Speechly to the new Diocese of Travancore and Cochin.

The Diocese of Caledonia comprises the territory lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, with the adjacent islands, and is bounded on the south by a line drawn westward from Cape St. James, at the south end of Queen Charlotte's Islands, and on the north by the 60th parallel of latitude. It comprises, therefore, the mining districts on the upper waters of the Fraser and Skeena and Stachine Rivers, with their rough white population, and many thousands of Indians of the Tsimshean and Hydah nations on the coast, as well as others in the interior.

Bishop Ridley sailed from Liverpool on Sept. 13th, 1879, for New York, crossed the States by the Pacific Railway, took steamer again at San Francisco, and reached Victoria on October 14th. There he met Mr. Duncan, and also Admiral Prevost, who had again gone out a few months before; and a few days after they sailed together for Metlakahtla.

A portrait of Dr. Ridley appeared in the GLEANER of Sept., 1879, with an account by him of his new field of labour. In that letter he appealed for a mission steamer to carry him backwards and forwards along the coast, among the islands, and up the great river estuaries. This steamer has been provided by the liberality of friends, and was to be launched at Victoria on Aug. 11th.

On the 1st of this present month of October, twenty-four years ago, William Duncan landed at Fort Simpson. Now there are six stations and eight missionaries. Look at the text given for this day in the Almanack in next column. Has not the promise been abundantly fulfilled? Do not the Tsimsheans and Hydahs live at the ends of the earth? And have they not looked unto God, and been saved?

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

N. V. asks, "Can females become missionary candidates?" Certainly. There is a great work for women to do in all heathen countries. The C.M.S. itself only employs a few, however, and generally passes on applications to one of the Zenana or Female Education Societies. Write to the Rev. F. E. Wigram, Hon. Sec., Salisbury Square, E.C.

B. C.-Your second application would no doubt be favourably considered. Whether it would be accepted or refused, we cannot of course say. But Try arain" is always a good motto.

Received for the Society's funds-A Widow's Mite, 8s.; Woodland and Woodbee, 3s.; E. T., for Japan or China, 28.

1 S Duncan landed, B. Columbia, 1857. Look unto Me, and be ye [saved, all the ends of the earth. Is. 45. 22. 16th aft. Trin. We all do fade as a leaf. Is. 64, 6. M. 2 Chr. 36. Eph. 3. E. Neh. 1. 1 to 2. 9, or 8. Lu. 5. 17. 3 M All flesh is as grass. 1 Pet. 1. 24.

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[Gen. 48. 15. 4 T Rebmann d., 1876. Fed me all my life long unto this day. W Bp. Russell d., 1879. The God of all comfort. 2 Co. 1. 3. Bp. Cotton drowned, 1866. All his saints are in thy hand. 7 F These all died in faith. Heb. 11. 13. [Deu. 33. 3. 8 S All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. 25. 10. [and meekness. Eph. 4. 2. 17th aft. Trin. Bp. Hadfield consec., 1870. With all lowliness

9 S M. Jer. 5. Phil. 3. E. Jer. 22 or 35. Lu. 9. 1-28. 10 M Price sailed for E. Africa, 1874. In all labour there is profit. 11 T Trust in Him at all times. Ps. 62. 8. [Prov. 14. 23. 12 W Strengthened with all might. Col. 1. 11. [conquerors. Ro. 8. 37. 13 T Miss. expelled fr. Abeokuta, 1867. In all these things more than 14 F West at Red Riv., 1820. Unto Thee shall all flesh come. Ps. 65. 2. 15 S D. Fenn d., 1878. He did it with all his heart, and prospered. [2 Ch. 31. 21. 16 S 18th aft. Trin. Above all taking the shield of faith. M. Jer. 36. 1 Th. 1. E. Ez. 2, or 13. 1-17. Lu. 12. 85. 17 M Noble died, 1865. The angel which redeemed me from all evil [bless the lads. Gen. 48, 16. 18 T St. Luke. Healeth all thy diseases. Ps. 103. 3. 19 W Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Prov. 23. 17, 20 T Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Col. 1. 10. 21 F Do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor. 10. 31.

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24 M Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse. Mal. 3. 10. [Pr. 3. 9. 25 T Honour the Lord ..... with the firstfruits of all thine increase. 26 W This poor widow hath cast in more than they all. Ln. 21. 3. 27 T The love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Tim. 6. 10. 28 F SS. Simon & Jude. Why stand ye here all the day idle? Mat. 20.6. 29 S 1st Sikh clergyman ord., 1854. He is a buckler to all them that [trust in Him. Ps. 18. 30. 30 S 20th aft. Trin. All things are ready: come. Matt. 22. 4. M. Ez. 34. 2 Ti. 1. E. Ez. 37, or Dan. 1. Lu. 20. 27 to 21. 5. 31 M Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my [life. Ps. 23. 6.

EPITOME OF MISSIONARY NEWS.

We regret to have no less than four deaths of C.M.S. agents to report. Miss C. Young, of the Female Institution at Sierra Leone, who came home on sick leave a few months ago, died on Aug. 3rd. The Rev. II. George, of Portage la Prairie in Rupert's Land, who went out in 1854, died on Aug. 7th. The Rev. Elijah Hoole, Native Tamil Pastor of Jaffna, Ceylon, died in July, on board ship, on his way home after attending the Bishop's assembly at Colombo. He was originally trained by the Wesleyans, but had been con nected with the C.M.S for thirty years. The Rev. M. Perianayagam, of Tinnevelly, is also dead. "He was," says Bishop Sargent, "one of our oldest and choicest pastors."

The C.M.S. Committee have also lost one of their own number by death. Mr. Charles Woolloton, J.P., ex-Sheriff of the City of London, who died on Sept. 7th, had been a respected member for the last two or three years.

Day, has been appointed to Ceylon, in lieu of the Rev. A. J. A. G‹llmer, who

The Rev. J. W. Balding, one of the Islington men ordained on St. Peter's

is not going out at present.

Bishop Sargent, we rejoice to say, has returned to his important work in Tinnevelly, after his four months' absence from serious illness."

Bishop Moule held his first ordination at Shaou-hing on May 8th, when the Rev. J. B. Ost received priest's orders.

Mr. W. Spendlove, of the Athabasca Mission, was ordained by Bishop Bompas on March 18th, at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River,

The Rev. P. O'Flaherty and Mr. Stokes, with the Waganda envoys, reached Rubaga on March 18th, and were warmly received by Mtesa. Mr. Stokes, with Pearson, then re-crossed the Lake to Kagei, where they found Mr. Litchfield ill. Leaving Pearson there, Stokes and Litchfield then came on to Uyui, where they were on June 11. This leaves O'Flaherty and Mackay in Uganda.

We hope many of our readers are remembering the GLEANER EXAMINATION to be held in January. Circulars respecting it can be had on application at the C.M. House, Salisbury Square, E.C.