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But we have no adequate space at present for the further expansion of this thrilling theme. Let me close this series of papers with a few emphatic words. The fullness of the times has surely come for the last great crusade against the powers of Darkness. Everything of solitude and pover is providentially ripe and ready. Nearly fourscore North and South India missionary societies enclose the globe in their golden day after day by the ire network. The walls of nations lie flat, and challenge us with the nakedness and to move from every quarter, and move together and at decay and neglect, the once, and take the very capitals and centers of Satan's prise, and the monotono dominion. The Word of God may be had in every lead- But, perhaps, strange ing tongue, and the miracle of Babel is reversed and the tainly most typical of miracle of Pentecost crystalized into permanence! The it is, are the villages. coffers of disciples contain wealth so vast, that a tithe of are very numerous, not it would furnish all the funds for a world's evangeliza- alike, so that he who ha The unit of the villa tion; and the numbers of disciples are so vast that a tithe of them would give one missionary to every one a piece of ground perha hundred of the population of the globe. Time and closed by a high mud w space are practically annihilated and all nations are mud huts, the number neighbors. And in addition to all, from out the shining owner, placed against pillar of a luminous and leading Providence rings out court-yard open to the huts is a single room the trumpet voice of God, bidding us "go forward!" What opportunity and what inspiration! We need the roof, covered by a only organization and consecration to carry dismay and or chimney, and with defeat to the allied powers of hell. Wm. Carey's grand earth-there is no wor motto of 1792 should be emblazoned on the banners of express a wooden flo a Church that gathers all her hosts for one final, resolute ground stands for floor and overwhelming charge: "EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD. ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD." All around the signs are appearing which indicate, to him who watches, that a more momentous era is at hand than historic pen ever chronicled, or artistic pencil ever illustrated.

Dr. Anderson said with sadness, "the grand defect in the practical Christianity of our age is, that it does not respond as it should to the call of God's Providence." Let us roll away that stone of reproach, and it shall be our privilege to behold, issuing forth from the sepulchre of old but dead faiths, nations now hopelessly entombed; we shall see them, at the sound of the Word of Life, come forth, to cast off the cerements of idolatry and superstition, and to be clothed with the white robe of the saints.

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both themselves and their clothing, here the cattle come
to drink, and here the huge, ungainly, black buffaloes
love to be immersed. In the court yards of the houses,
or near by, stand the carts and cattle and primitive
ploughs. Cow-dung cakes, the common fuel, lie about
heaped in piles, or spread to dry in the sun, or plastered
for the same purpose against the mud walls, and bearing M. A. Sh
very distinctly the impress of the hand that has stuck it
there. Naked babies and small children likewise nude,
play merrily about after the fashion of their kind the
world over. Some wild creepers or vines perhaps
clamber over the weather-worn thatched roofs, and give
a touch of brightness to the otherwise dingy back-
ground.

Here and there a well, not too clean, supplies the indispensible water, and furnishes also to the women, as they come with leather bucket and rope to draw, a convenient place for gossip. Perhaps at the foot of some peepul tree, or in a small cheap temple, stands an idol enty feet by ten, low: smeared with red and surrounded with offerings of rice

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modates a number of villages. It is at such places, too,
that the potter, the blacksmith, and the carpenter ply
their vocations.

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ridges of earth and most carefully cultivated.

It is among these villages that the missionary finds his best chance of telling "the old, old story of Jesus and his love." It is these villages that yield nearly all the converts. Instead of the country districts being the ones most emphatically "pagan" and "heathen," as in the early days of the Church in the Roman Empire, in India Christianity seems likely to win in them its chief

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them better known to the readers of the GOSPEL IN
ALL LANDS.

Whitinsville, Mass.

The se Conferen ant Missi ment of e working last publi

The above account of a village in India_ought to in- and costi

sight is so novel and altogether different from anything they ever witness in connection with their own religion, that their attention is riveted while they remain.

A poongyee, or Buddhist priest, is easily recognized by his shaven, uncovered head and loosely-fitting, bright yellow robe. He cannot dig, but he is not ashamed to beg. Every morning the poongyees start out on their begging rounds, carrying their bowls, into which the people put handfuls of rice. They are forbidden to receive money, and the most honored and exalted are under obligation to beg their daily food; but they must never ask for anything.

To beg with the tongue is contrary to the rules of the order, and so also is working with the hands. They are not allowed to partake of food after the noonday hour, and the drinking water used by them must always be carefully strained, lest life should be destroyed, which, to them, is heinous sin.

Poongyees are not priests in the same sense as the priests of other religions, say of Hinduism or Roman Catholicism. Buddhism knows nothing of a personal God to be propitiated, prayed to, worshiped, loved or feared; hence the people do not feel any need of the offices of a priest or minister to intercede for or guide. them in the way of salvation. The poongyees are in no sense ministers of religion. Their principal business, indeed their only business, is to live meritoriously and seek their own deliverance out of a cumbersome state of consciousness into a state of nothingness, so to be forever free from thought, desire, and the possibility of knowing or feeling anything.

The presence of priests, therefore, is not at all necessary at Buddhist marriages and funerals, or at the dedication of pagodas, etc. They are under no obligation to study homiletics, for they have no sermons to prepare or preach. Nor are they liable to be roused at all hours of the night to visit the dying, as Christian ministers often are. They have no responsibility whatever for the souls of the people.

Notwithstanding that the offices usually pertaining to the priesthood have no place in Buddhism, the poongyees are held in high honor by the people. They are exempt from all pains and penalties of civil and criminal law, and their persons are held sacred and inviolable. Of course British law, which, theoretically at least, is no respecter of persons, makes no scruple of dealing out justice to poongyees as well as to ordinary

mortals.

But in Upper or non-British Rurma much reverence.

Buddhist youths, but the boys, quite willing to le norance. Probably a boys can read and write country in the world. part of the Buddhist rel unlearned Buddhists, for and write. Here in Bu its poongyee kyoung (w have), which is open to they may learn to read out charge.

A few months ago ty

arrived at Rangoon with hill country to engage Karens. Remaining in a field of labor and o being settled, they exp knowledge, however s them over to the Kyou school, and after our de poongyee, had the pleas as pupils.

Day after day for a f floor after the manner o ceived kindly attention Kyoung, except, perhap infest that as they do al In broaching the questi yee, we were frankly in ask for anything and no objection whatever t accordingly given him.

With the single exce impart, I know of no m dolent class of men tha fluence over the masses be the least on the wan rier in the way of the p seen at a glance when male youth of the I through their hands.

Yet missionaries occa version of poongyees, s faithful preachers of Buddhism is not likel sooner or later the scep

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east of the Porcelain Tower, upon the bank of the little river which flows from the romantic mountains, whose verdant peaks are discernable some fifty miles southeast of the city. Here, upon the banks of the little stream, he passed eighteen of his fifty-nine years.

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the ships of war, which came to Nankin in 1842, under the command of Sir Henry Pottinger, to execute a treaty

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thence he went to Tsungmin, where he engaged in the manufacture of satin. The product of his looms he took to the foreign mart of Shanghai for sale.

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Nankin

is rumored that sanitaria racks for troops will sho of the Himalayas almost means a revival of busin nities for service to hosts

vankers and principal n babad to Kotdwara, (the southermost limit of Gurhwal) were originally merchan is only fifteen miles. Never before had we such comings of comparatively pa fort in traveling in these parts, and we have journeyed to a condition of things by "bail gari" (slow bullock cart), by "baile" (fast way, however, promises bullock cart), by dooley (palanquin) and by saddle. 'Sitting in a comfortable railway car as we rolled through the Bijinour district we distinctly called to mind the time when over the same ground in the rainy season the floods of the Ganges extended. On every side of us was water like a little sea as far as the eye could reach. Often the road was only kept by the aid of the shade trees on its margin, and the dooley bearers betimes had to put their shoulders underneath the dooley, leaving the pole high in the air. When the weather was dry the march was always long and tedious. But these days are past, let us hope, forever.

The railway intended to be a highway for commerce and a miiltary road for the British soldier is also, as Providence ever orders it, a path for the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth salvation. I spent the Sabbath at Najibabad and held several services with the brethren there. At Sacrament some fifteen persons united with us in the solemn service and all afterwards spoke in the Love Feast. The chapel was crowded at Sunday school and at the preaching service -over 100 persons being present.

An inquirer was introduced to me here who, while I stayed, came to talk with me several times. The last time he brought in his hand a book which on noticing I inquired about its contents. Its name was "The Graces of the Devil" (Farzilat Shaitan) and it was in lithograph Urdu and printed at the Gyan Press Lodiana. My inquirer did not turn out to be a hopeful character. The talk I had with him and several of his friends showed plainly they were not anxiously seeking instruction but were ready to dispute and argue on any religious topic.

Among my visitors here was a clerk from the native magistrate's office, named Kanbhiyerlal, a young Hindoo, an alumnus of our Mission School at Moradabad. He seemed very glad to see me and brought his little son of eight years to pay his salam. This young man has passed the Calcutta University entrance course and tells me he still betimes reads the Bible.

The native doctor here in charge of the Government Hospital also called. He proved to be an old soldier who had served his Queen Empress as a cavalryman with a detachment doing duty in the Red Sea. He

telled intelligently of AL

Our Mission is the onl English school. The nat deacon, Rev. Benjamin an enviable reputation he educated in the La Mar expects this year to join

During a former visit a blind convert, a boy, rea in his own language f The shape of the letters and the invention was th The boy's teacher was Sis a Bareilly orphanage girl girls at Bareilly are now interim some wiley Moha the blind convert and ma Our mission has a nice

Najibabad. It has been by the addition of a piece smithy. This is now gon a substantial brick wall main room also answers Rev. H. Jackson. It is ver with four good class ro The plastering, long post lately completed, and now for generations to come.

I visited here in the ou of a Christian hermit. H alone in his hut. After h the life of a devotee, b was drawn back to it and him, though they knew money and property he p ficient to bury him decent but his Christian influer There are but three o Najibabad.

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