Notes on Missionaries, Missions, Etc. HE following young men sailed October 21 from among the Methodists, and make as good converts as do sweepers and chamars-but no better! The wisdom of the move for the depressed classes is Gos THE young men work in India and Ma- pel both in its spirit and in its power. Hundreds of laysia: Revs. R. L. Faucett, E. B. Lavalette, B. L. Van Dyke, Karl E. Anderson, H. G. Ozanne, Mott Keislar, Homer Wroten. Miss Josephine Carlisle sailed for Santiago, Chili, October 25. Rev. Ernest S. Lyons sailed for Singapore No vember 18. Dr. M. C. Wilcox has been appointed Presiding Elder of the Foochow District, Foochow Confer ence. Bishop Thoburn sailed for India November 22. Mrs. Thoburn remains in the United States. Her address is Kingston, O. Rev. Charles W. Drees, D.D., of the South America Mission, has been appointed superintendent of the Mission to be commenced in Porto Rico. young men born with the mehtar's broom in hand, now as educated young Christian men hold positions of influence in many communities. Others, once dogged by the stigma of low birth, now fill positions of honor and trust in government courts, offices, and executive bodies. A unique feature of Methodist polity is that it knows no caste but merit, assimilates all races and classes, and puts to use as an evangelizing agent every convert who loves the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.' Among its ordained ministers in these provinces are Americans, Canadians, Englishmen, Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, Jews, and Indians. An object lesson was presented in a recent Methodist Conference. Two ministers for comfort and convenience occupied the same room and united to do their own cooking. Both had become converts in early manhood. One had been a sweeper Rev. Frederick H. Wright and wife sailed for by caste and occupation, the other a high-caste BrahItaly November 25. Mrs. Mary S. Badley, formerly connected with our India Mission, will be at 2180 Fifth Avenue, New York city, for several months, and will be pleased to deliver addresses on Missions. She is an interesting lecturer on missionary subjects. The Methodist Episcopal Mission School in Hinghua, China, was reorganized last year; the former boys' boarding school was made a middle science school, and a new department was added, the Anglo-Chinese Scientific High School. Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher Brewster writes: "We have completed one year's work, and it has been first class in quality. Young men without means have worked to pay their expenses, and carried a full quarto of studies, and these boys took five out of seven honors in the high school, thus dispelling the fallacy that to work is incompatible with literary ability in China. We have worked under the most unfavorable conditions as far as buildings were concerned. We rented the best available tenement house. It has unplastered earth walls, and uneven earth floors, which, with the leaking roofs, were mud in rainy weather. We greatly need school buildings, and an outlay of $8,000 will provide them. Is there not some steward of God who will give this to us?" min and respectable school-teacher. Each knew the other's original caste but cared not. They lived together as Christian brethren, having been fashioned in the mold of merit to equal honor." Recommended Books. Laos Folklore, published by the Fleming H. Revell Company, at 75 cents, is a collection of 48 stories gathered and translated by Katherine Neville Fleeson, for many years a missionary in Siam. They were intended to instruct and amuse the young of America, and to those who are older they give people, and will be found interesting to the children some light as to the thoughts and desires of the Laos people. In Primo is a narrative which shows the obligation we are under to use our influence and property for the advancement of God's kingdom and the betterment of the human race. The author," Eniled," is probably a Methodist preacher or his wife. It is said to be "A Story of Facts and Factors." We know that its representation of some Methodist class meetings and churches is not a fair portrayal of many with which we are acquainted. It is not until near the close of the book that you are satisfied the author is in sympathy with the Methodist Discipline. The careful reading of the book will do good. It is published by the Fleming H. Revell Company. Price, $1.25. Nineteen Centuries of Missions, by Mrs. Wm. W. Dr. T. J. Scott forwards a clipping from the Pioneer, Scudder, is published by the Fleming H. Revell the "ablest secular daily in India," which says: "The Company. Price, $1. It is a very good compendium of missions, giving a brief history of the past Methodist Episcopal Mission in India very early in and a summary of the work as it is at present, with its history began a bitter war with all that savors of questions, etc. The author was for many years a caste and recognition of former caste of converts. missionary of the Reformed Church in Southern It opened work among the Mussulmans and Hindus, Methodist Episcopal missions in India in the followIndia. She, however, gives scant justice to the low caste, high caste, and outcast alike. The de-ing note: "The Methodists have a most prosperous pressed classes were quickest to respond to their mission in the Northwest Provinces with Bareilly as The name of Dr. Wm. Butler, who wrote teaching, and furnished converts by the thousand. a center. the Land of the Veda, was early connected with Hence the impression got abroad that the Methodists that mission, and of late years Bishop Thoburn has were working exclusively among low caste and had had the entire supervision of Methodist missions in mere rice Christians, a great mistake. Few missions India." Bareilly has not been the center for over of even longer standing can show as large a number thirty years, and the Methodists have in India five large Conferences and missions in all the most imof converts from among Mohammedans and so-called portant cities. The author was probably not accaste Hindus. They are numbered by the hundred quainted with these facts. |