10,000. What reports were made in 1885 by the English Missionary Societies working in Japan? The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland reports 4 congregations, 5 outstations, 4 ordained missionaries, 1 medical missionary, 2 native pastors, 9 catechists, 3 native teachers, 240 members. "Mission work in Japan is making marvellous progress, and giving promise that in a few years it will be widely, if not universally embraced." The Church Missionary Society reports 12 male and 11 female missionaries, 15 native helpers, 184 communicants, 6 seminaries and schools with 109 pupils. The English Baptists report 2 missionaries, 2 evangelists, 4 stations, 35 members, 23 day scholars and 37 Sunday school scholars. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel has 4 ordained missionaries and their wives, one single female missionary and 68 communicants. The National Bible Society of Scotland has two foreign agents in Japan. Dur. ing 1885 there were 52 colporteurs employed, and they circulated 44,570 volumes, of which 451 were Bibles, 5,848 Testaments, and 38,471 Portions. The British and Foreign Bible Society has had its work under the superintendence of the agent of the National Bible Society of Scotland. Fourteen colporteurs were employed in 1884 and they circulated 9,280 volumes. What reports were made by the American Churches in 1885 respecting their Missions in Japan? The Methodist Episcopal Church reports 14 male and 33 female missionaries, 101 native helpers, 1,296 members, 352 probationers, 832 pupils in day and high schools. The Protestant Episcopal Church reports 12 male and 12 female missionaries, 24 native preachers and other helpers, 131 native communicants, 190 day scholars, 115 boarding scholars, and mission property valued at $17,223. The Methodist Church of Canada reports 8 missions, 15 missionaries, 6 native assistants, and 465 members. At Tokio is an Anglo-Japanese College. WOMAN'S UNION MISSION HOME A male and 12 female missionaries, with three stations, Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Tokio. Connected with the stations are four organized churches, with a baptized membership of 833. There are 11 native ordained ministers. The American Board reports 5 stations, 55 out-stations, 19 male and 33 female missionaries, 37 native laborers, 33 churches with 2,856 members, 5 schools with 388 pupils. The Presbyterian church (North) has 13 male and 27 female missionaries, 64 native helpers, 1,572 communicants, and 823 scholars in boarding and day schools. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church reports 2 ordained and 5 female missionaries, and 124 members. The principal station is at Osaka. The Woman's Union Missionary Society has at Yokohama, 4 missionaries, 2 day schools, 70 pupils in the Home School. Six Bible women are employed. The American Baptist Missionary Union has in Yokohama, Tokio, Kobe, and Sendai, and the 14 out-stations connected with them 7 male and 10 female missionaries, 25 native preachers, 10 Bible women, 18 other native helpers, 7 churches of which 3 are self-supporting, 367 members, 6 day schools with 279 pupils. The Reformed (German) Church reports 2 missionaries and their wives and 13 members. The Evangelical Association has in Japan 3 ordained and 6 female missionaries, 4 native preachers and 207 members. The Methodist Protestant Church reports 1 male and 3 female missionaries. last ye Japan. porteur METH ment of Method ized by The and pa ages a 800. Duri adults tions c $1,826 The has be factor he establis Sion of t onary In 1873 the ng being the e are now H pils, 12 d : 27 Standar 12 churche 8, also fil e of orpha nated at baptized The contr s amounted f the mis the most s me brick e der Smith lical Institute ll probably be 3442 Pས་་ the effective ranks, who has been connected, during an only supply some important dates, and glance at the and results of a career The records of his Robert Samuel Maclay, the youngest but one of a family of four sons and five daughters, was born February 7th, 1824, in the village of Concord, Franklin Co., Penna. His early youth was spent with his pious parents in his native village, where he attended the public ་ས་བས་་, ་་་་་ on trial and appointed of marked success to one hundred united zealously in this fruitf on Rev. Robert Emor son College, who aske our church to China. mission compound ha ber 27th, 1848, an elig side of the Min River. chow. Soon was begu built by foreigners in 1 Mr. Hickok's failing the United States earl Maclay alone took pos The acquisition of th of the young missiona with vigor and succes spiring scenes of the re labors in the home lan to his continuance in the foreign missionary work. Preaching, as his diary shows, on nearly every page, was his delight, and to it he devoted the greater part of his time and strength for years. The parts of the great Empire in which he mostly labored were Foochow city, and in the Min, Ankwan, Futsing, Kutsin, Yuenfu and Yuki districts, and in Hinghua prefecture, where it was his privilege to proclaim the Gospel message to many hearers. Recognizing the value of educational facilities among a people like the Chinese, Mr. Maclay in November, 1849, united with the other members of the mission in a letter on the subject to the Missionary Board-an appeal which received a favorable response. A letter written by him in July of the same year recommending the erection of a suitable church edifice in Foochow, resulted in the raising of five thousand dollars for the purpose, half of which was given by the Methodist churches of Baltimore city, and the other half by the churches of New York, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg. The fund was sufficient to erect two substantial brick buildings with granite foundations, both of which stand to-day, unharmed by fire or flood, silent but eloquent witnesses of the power of Christianity. July 10th, 1850, Mr. Maclay was married to Miss Henrietta Caroline Sperry, who, during twenty-nine years of missionary life, was ever the loving wife, the devoted mother, the faithful missionary. In 1852 he was appointed superintendent and treasurer of the China Mission, which offices he filled till November 15th, 1872, when he was appointed superintendent and treasurer of the Japan Mission, which was then founded. To meet the needs of the millions speaking the Foochow dialect, a committee of Protestant Missionaries was formed in 1852 to translate the New Testament into that dialect. Mr. Maclay was a member of the committee, and in the prosecution of this work, prepared the first draft translation of Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, II Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, and the Epistles of Peter and John. In the final revision Matthew, Romans, Galatians, I and II Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews were assigned to him. The American Bible Society in 1854 appointed him a member of its committee to prepare a translation of the Bible into the general language of China. The other members of the committee were Bishop Boone, Rev. Drs. Bridgman, Jenkins and Culbertson. Owing to the pressure of his work in Foochow, it was impossible for him to join the committee which met at Shanghai, and excepting through correspondence in the earlier portion of "Life among the Chinese. study of Chinese, he began range a plan for a dictionar the Foochow dialect. Subs Rev. C. C. Baldwin, D.D., sion in Foochow, who was a different plan. The dicti containing 1107 pages wa with Mr. Maclay's plan. Baldwin, to state that the la the dictionary was done by Want of space compels u of Mr. Maclay's life in Ch with the organization of th sion, the commencement o in the valley of Yangtsz, a sion with its chief station a Bishop Kingsley during hi Missions in China, and I with his labors among the Mr. Maclay's transfer fr Mission was not of his own senting to the change, he s representations of those in terests of our church, in wh to concur. Having finally entered upon his duties wi impossible for him to sever labor to which he had give of his life, and the langu come to him as his mothe but the call of duty seeme a more bracing climate was new position were congen up the new lines of work a pendence on divine guida Landing in Yokohama, ant passage from San Fran a pleasant home in that po known as the Bluff. At o of the new mission and th guage. September roth, visited Nagasaki, where h n purchasing a valuable f following April Dr. Macla Hokodate, from which cit Harris, he proceeded thr the west coast of Japan Sado; the object of the ti ings for mission work. I Rev. I. H. Carroll visited nguages with the ard Ma work corda work in y features connecte chor Me hina Ms mpany on to ar connect the Jap was w change, -five res a strugge change Cuties of s and he to hopeful de ter a plea amily four! settlement organizati panese Dr. Mach Rev. M Strait da he island in the onth he a Ims Convention recommended that a committee consist ing of one member from each mission desiring to co- March 5th, 1879, Dr. Maclay went to Nagasaki, and July 28th, 1879, Dr. Maclay suffered an irreparable loss in the death of his beloved and faithful wife, who was struck down by apoplexy while presiding at the organ and leading the singing of the congregation in the Japanese church. She was interred in the Foreign cemetery at Yokohama, where she awaits the resurrection of the just. While attending to the duties above mentioned Dr. Maclay devoted himself earnestly to preaching the Gospel to the Japanese and baptizing converts, and organized societies in Yokohama, Nishiwo, and Nagoya. May 7th, 1880, Dr. Maclay, at his request was relieved from his duties as treasurer of the Japan Mission and Rev. Julius Soper was appointed to the office. Yielding to medical advice, Dr. Maclay sailed for While in China he received notice of his appointment vited speakers of the Conference day oг YOкoпama, v took possession of the gone forth a little mo ing spring Dr. and M Conference of Prote Maclay was one of the and also one of the s hama, they visited the At the annual mee Tokio, July, 1883, D Merrill, president of to which place he re In accordance with Society, Dr. and M Yokohama for Korea, of a mission in the Seoul, the capital of there, were successf visit, and on their ret August 28th, 1885, Conference of the M this action abolished Mission, the follow adopted: "Resolved, That th Conference do hereb sense of the marked characterized as it h caution and a single attribute the splendid time very largely to of the duties of the After the organizat of the Mission electe sion for the ensuing ence in 1885, he was ted president of the of the Mission. His health has ste Japan. He is now th district, gives a cons supervision of the sc a week in the The quently in Japanese, a ous work in the evan The Tokio Ei Wa Ga copal College comprisin partments. 168 studer On the 21st of January the college closed for the Chinese New Year holidays. These are the great holidays of the year to the school boys of China. Except on a few feast days the native schools are open all the rest of the year. They have no long summer vacation, such as we have, neither have they any Sunday. All days are alike to them; Sunday has no sacredness and the summer's heat no terrors. All the more eagerly therefore do Chinese school boys look for the New Year holidays. In this school there is of necessity a long vacation of two months or more in the summer, as the foreign teachers could not possibly continue their work. The Chinese teachers, however, must be on hand if required to teach any scholars who wish to continue their studies. This long holiday time does in no wise lessen the joy of our students when New Year comes, they must have their holidays then with the rest. The closing exercises were extremely simple, no long commencement orations, no fine singing, and no immense assemblage of gentlemen and ladies to applaud their favorites. We trust these will come in time when the school becomes popular, and the ladies and gentlemen of China take an interest in it. There were public examinations, the reading of essays, and some interesting gymnastic exercises. The trustees of the college, and others who were present, declared themselves pleased with what they heard and saw, and expressed their satisfaction at the progress the pupils had made. This was all the more gratifying to the teachers as their work had been done under great difficulties. As a short statement of the work done may be interesting, I give a list of the studies of each class. The boys were arranged in four classes. The fourth had reading, writing, dictation and elementary arithmetic; the third, reading, grammar, arithmetic and geography; the second, reading and grammar, arithmetic, algebra through simple equations, and geography with mapdrawing; and the first finished Loomis' Treatise on Algebra, studied four books of Loomis' Geometry, and parts of Swinton's Universal History and read selections. from Addison. Five days every week were given to this work. Saturday morning was spent in writing compositions, reading before the school and practicing simple gymnastic exercises. A little time each day was given to systematic physical exercises. In addition, all the students. studied the Chinese classics, to teach which two com Dr. Rennie, one of the for offered to spend two or th physiology. I hope after t elementary physics or chen pends somewhat on wheth education will give us the Our numbers were not u years. We have much to prejudice on the part of th the "almighty dollar." A of as being the favorite divinity, but one must con people fall on all fours and the people indeed are the is perhaps on this very a so earnestly. In educatio difficult to interest the a can show him that in a y begin to enrich him. The Chinaman is not a He lives in the present, shown him to be profitab persuaded that Western k of acquiring it. He must have any thing to do with the course of events will s The government scho from here, is crowded w attractions to which we c students there are well themselves as scholars an are sure of lucrative posit ernment. Of course we pretend to compete with higher aim, however; we education, and if we have If it should occur to a lege and its work are for missionaries are sent her ing directly to Christiani we are educating, and ed the church in our day. of the apostles; we hav and for that very reason Many of our students Sunday-school, and the interested classes there a the first and second cla fortunate in having as th 11 |