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There are 190 millions of Roman Catholics, and 95 million members of the Oriental Churches embraced in the Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Abyssinian, and Nestorian communions, that have a Christ without a vital Christianity, and to whom we are called upon to give the Gospel.

There are 8 millions of Jews and 175 millions of Mohammedans, worshippers of one God, but without a Christ, the only way of salvation.

There are 850 millions of heathen or pagans who are without both God and Christ, degraded and miserable in life, and dying at the rate of sixty-six thousand a day.

If the world is our parish, the field is immense, and the need is heart-rending. The millions are hungry and starving for the bread of life, and we have that bread. They die, but their soul-blood shall be required of the faithless ones. What are you doing towards bring ing this world to Christ?

The Church of Jesus in the Republic of Mexics.

BY RIGHT REV. H. CHAUNCEY RILEY, D. D.

In the year 1821, Mexico acheived her independence from the mother country, Spain. Two antagonistic parties-one a patriotic liberal party, the other an unpatriotic Romish party-have struggled from that date to this for the ascendancy in that beautiful Southern land. During more than fifty years, while this struggle has been going on in the Republic of Mexico, a large number of copies of the Spanish version of the Holy Scriptures have been fowarded to Mexico, and there widely circulated among its people. Many earnest persons in Mexico, by God's blessing, through the study of the Holy Scriptures have learned to love the Gospel in its purity, and to discard the idolatry of the Roman Schism. In the year 1857 a wise and liberal constitution was promulgated in Mexico which, with some so-called laws of reform, subsequently given, have as far as laws can do it, given full liberty of worship throughout the whole of that Republic.

With the dawn of this new liberal era in Mexico, some of its citizens who had welcomed and studied the Spanish version of the Bible, endeavored to organize themselves into a patriotic Mexican Branch of the Christian Church which has gained the sympathy and good will of many in Mexico.

Two magnificent church buildings were secured in its behalf in the city of Mexico: a celebrated and noble hearted ecclesiastic named Manuel Aguas was elected Bishop of this native church: about fifty congregations having about 1200 communicants composed of persons gathered from the humbler classes, poor in earthly goods but rich in faith, have been organized in connection with its communion, and schools and orphanages established by its members in which hundreds of children have been carefully educated under Christian influences.

Glorying in the blessed name of our divine Saviour, and calling themselves by his holy name, this Church of

Jesus in Mexico has done a most precious work in that Republic.

Some Christians in the United States and in England have generously contributed pecuniary assistance to the noble band of workers in this Mexican church to aid them to continue their important work.

The Mexican Church of Jesus has also done a most important work across the Atlantic by befriending a sister Church in Spain. This sister Church in Spain, called the "Reformed Spanish Church," at the close of last year had eight organized congregations in Spain with 1084 members, 710 of whom were communicants, and had in its Christian schools 450 scholars.

Two former lay workers of the Church of Jesus in Mexico are now maintaining Christian services in Spanish in New York City, on Sunday mornings, in a chapel by the side of the church on 4th Avenue, on the corner of 21st Street.

It is hoped the Mexican Church of Jesus may yet extend its Christian work into the regions southward from Mexico. God is blessing its work.

Christians who may wish to aid the Church of Jesus in Mexico, or the Reformed Spanish Church to press foward their Christian work, are earnestly invited to do 80.

Contributions in aid of the work of the Church of Jesus in Mexico and of the Reformed Spanish Church can be forwarded to the treasurer of the "Christian Guardian Society," 43 Bible House, New York, to his address, J. P. Heath, 43 Bible House, New York.

In forwarding contributions in behalf of the Church of Jesus in Mexico, please to add the words "For Mexico;" in fowarding contributions for the Reformed Spanish Church the words "For Spain." New York, Dec. 26, 1885.

How to Raise Missionary Money.

BY REV. E. DAVIES.

This is a broad question and may refer to the preacher or to the people.

I. As to the preachers. The Discipline makes it the duty of the Quarterly Conference to appoint a Committee on Missions, to aid the Pastor in raising money for missions. He is also required to diffuse missionary intelligence in the church and congregation. Then he is to institute a monthly missionary prayer meeting, or lecture, on missions. Then he is to appoint missionary collectors who are to call on each member of the Society for their annual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly contributions for the support of missions. Said collectors are to make monthly returns to the preacher, who is to report the same to the annual Committee on Missions at the Annual Conference. He is also required to preach on the cause of missions at least once a year. Then the Sunday school is to be organized into a Missionary Society, and render such aid as they may be able for this cause.

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The faithful following of this plan by all the pastors would greatly increase the amount raised for missions. Then why not put it to the test? Why does the pas

tor take on him the whole burden?

After this plan is followed out as near as the circumstances will allow, there is no doubt but that the million for missions will be raised from year to year. One minister in East Maine, on a poor charge, was so determined to raise his part of the million that he went right out on the street and collected money till he had his proportion, or more.

II. How can the members of the Church raise money for missions?

1. Much may be done on the line of self-denial. A company of Christians were together talking on missions, and one said "We ought to be more interested on the missionary subject." One of the rest said to him, "I have already given all I thought I could spare for missions, but I will give $10 on the principle of self-denial if you will give the same."

Thus twenty dollars were secured, the rest of the company gave $10 more, the $30 were sent on directly to the Missionary Society.

One man was so baptized with missionary fire that when he heard that the Missionary Society was heavily burdened with debt, he decided to give $50 for missions, although his salary was only $375 a year, and he had a family to support. So he kept sending on $5 or $10 as he could spare it till his $50 were paid up. So far from his family suffering on account of it, it was not long before he had $100 to put into the Savings Bank. He is now living in a home of his own all free from debt, and is saving money for missions still, and denying him self to do it. He believes that it is a good investment for time and eternity. "There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, there is that witholdeth more than is mete and it tendeth to poverty."

None are so poor as those that are without the Gospel, and "he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," and surely the Lord will not be in his debt long, but will pay him a good interest on the investment.

Reader, will you make a generous subscription for missions, even enough to make you practice self-denial! You will then only be paying a little of the interest on the great debt that you owe the Giver of all good.

"Soon may the last glad song arise,
Through all the millions of the skies;
That song of triumph, which records,
That all the earth is now the Lord's.

"O let that glorious anthem swell;
Let host to host the triumph tell;
Till not one rebel heart remains,
But over all the Saviour reigns.'
Reading, Mass., Dec. 26, 1885.

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Point De Galle, Ceylon.

BY N. F. GRAVES.

Point De Galle is an important port in the southern province of Ceylon. The natives call it Galla Rock, but generally it is called Galle. It is the coaling depot

for many steamships and for transferring passengers and goods from one steamer to another. A great numBombay, Singapore, China, Japan, and from the Dutch ber of steamers stop here from Calcutta, Australia, Java, possessions in the Indian Archapelago.

The city is on a promontory, and from a remote period has been one of the most important cities of Ceylon. Two thousand years ago it was the commercial emporium, as well as the largest and by far the most wealthy city on the island. From the earliest time it has been the meeting place of the navigators from other lands.

The situation of Galle is unsurpassed for beauty and its natural advantages. It consists principally of onewith tile. Almost every house has a garden, where story stone houses surrounded by wide verandas coverd beautiful flowers are in constant bloom, and the broad streets are shaded with large, beautiful trees. The trees have a shining green leaf and crimson flowers.

There is a delightful promenade around the fort on The view of the city harbor, the wooded hills and disthe wall. These walls were built of brick by the Dutch. tant mountains is very fine. The coral gardens display a great variety of flowers, some like animals. The corals at different points in the harbor are very fine, and heavy valuable specimens are collected. Tons of coral are taken from the harbor and small streams, and is used to macadamize the streets of the city.

The rains are frequent and abundant in Ceylon, so that green prevails. It is called the "Evergreen Isle;" not only is the verdure but most of the animals are green. The butterflies and birds are mostly green, and many of the fish wear the same green livery. The English church is one of the most conspicuous public buildings in the city. It is well located on high ground and has thick stone walls, and is surrounded with large trees. It is a beautiful church and is well sus

tained.

The Dutch church is also of stone, and is an old but

elegant church. Service is maintained in both of these churches in English. The hymn books used in the Dutch church were printed in New York. We rode along the rocky shore of the bay to the east of the city, and ascended a high hill called "Bella Vista," from which we had a beautiful view of the city and harbor.

We visited the Orphan House on this beautiful hill, under the care of the Rev. Philip Marks, a missionary laboring for the Society for Propogating the Gospel. This ancient society, with its five hundred and fifty missionaries and fifteen hundred native helpers, occupies mission fields in almost every part of the world, and the mission work is pressed onward with vigor and with a large measure of success. Mr. and Mrs. Marks came to Ceylon many years ago, and opened an Orphan House on this beautiful hill, a little east of the city of Galle. Then good people have, from time to time, gathered from the city young girls who were outcast, and have here washed and clothed them, taught them to labor, and educated them.

It was Christmas, and the girls wore their loliday dresses. They came out, and in a grove of palm trees they went through their exercises, and sang very sweetly, and were then dismissed to play by themselves. Mr. Maiks said the girls did not return to their friends when grown, but generally were married to native Christians.

Mr. Marks stated that a few liberal persons at London sent him all the money he needed, and sometimes more than he asked. He said, "we have all the consecrated money we need, but what we need most is consecrated talent."

Syracuse, N. Y.

Anniversary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The 65th Anniversary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held in the Acad. emy of Music in New York City on the evening of Dec. 17, 1885. The large attendance evinced the deep interest of the people in the Missionary Cause.

Bishop W. L. Harris presided. A choir of 400 persons under the lead of L. E. Perkins, conducted the singing.

The 932 hymn of the Methodist Hymnal was sung: "The Morning Light is breaking."

The Rev. Wm. Butler, D. D., founder of Methodist Episcopal Missions in India and Mexico, offered the following prayer:

Our Heavenly Father: We thank thee for this hour. We thank thee for the vital Christianity which has warmed our own hearts, and which we are anxious to see diffused throughout the world as a personal experience of all men. We adore thee that thou hast offered free salvation to every human being, and that we live in a day when thy Church is beginning to devote her energies to carry thy free mercies to the last man on earth.

We thank thee for the churches which have been gathered out of heathendom into the fellowship of the religion of the Son of God, and who in all parts of the world to day are in the enjoyment of the grace that will save, and have a good hope of eternal life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We commend this precious work to thy care, the care of thy Providence, the care of thy Grace. O, may thy gracious power be exerted to remove every difficulty out of the path of thy truth, all over this wide world, and to inspire the hearts of thy Christian people at home with a more worthy liberality to meet the rising wants of the work of the kingdom. We commend to thy blessed care our brothers and sisters who have gone forth to the ends of the earth. They have gone in faith in the Savior; believing that although they may have left behind father and mother and kindred, the blessed Christ himself would bear them company; for thou didst say: “Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of

and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever, Amen.

The following hymn, written by Fanny J. Crosby, was then sung:

Awake! awake! the Master now is calling us,
Arise arise and trusting in his word,

Go forth, go forth! proclaim the year of jubilee,
And take the cross, the blessed cross, of Christ our Lord.

Chorus: On, on, swell the chorus ;
On, on, the morning-star is shining o'er us;
On, on, while before us

Our mighty, mighty Savior leads the way:
Glory, glory, hear the everlasting throng
Shout hosanna, whi'e we boldly march along;
Faithful soldiers here below,

Only Jesus will we know,
Shouting "free salvation," o'er the world, we go.

A cry for light from dying ones in heathen lands:
It comes, it comes across the ocean's foam;
Then haste, oh, haste to spread the words of truth abroad,
Forgetting not the starving poor at home, dear home.-Cho.
Look up! look up! the promised day is drawing near,
When all shall hail, shall hail the Savior King,
When peace and joy shall fold their wings in every clime,
And "Glory, hallelujah," o'er the earth shall ring.-Cho.

Bishop Harris introduced Rev. J. M. Reid, D. D., Senior Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society, who spoke as follows:

Dr. Reid.-I was startled, sir, when I was informed by this programme that I had to open the speaking of this hour. I was yet more startled when I found that I was expected to review the year; by which I understand that I am to present to you that which will give you some clear comprehension of the work we have been doing for the last 12 months. My anxiety was increased when I perceived that I was to be followed by two Bishops, one Editor, and one Military Gentleman, the Military Gentleman, however, not bringing up the rear. I had some anxiety for fear the cakes and the coffee in And, now, Heavenly Father, we ask thee to crown the morning would be cold before we got home. I was this hour with the benediction of thy Holy Spirit. Let greatly perplexed on this subject. I remembered that all that shall be done and said here receive thy endorse- if I should expend but two brief minutes in telling ment, and be according to thy will; and let the outcome what has been done in China, where one-third of the and effect of this great service promote thy glory, and population of the entire globe is found; two minutes inaugurate a more worthy liberality on the part of thy more in telling what has been done in India, where are Christian people. five times as many people as are in the United States Hear us in mercy and answer us, for his sake who and its territories; and two minutes more to tell of that taught us when we pray to say:

the world."

Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,

great Empire of Japan, where there are 36 millions of people, and where during the year one of the grandest revivals of the work of God that has ever been known has been spreading, and so, sir, only two minutes for

each of those great fields we have abroad,-then the same amount of time for each of the other dozen classes of missions that we have been carrying on among different nationalities in this country, and I should have spent a whole hour. It would then be almost the ordinary time for adjournment for a religious meeting.

I hardly knew what to do in my embarrassment; but I resorted to the treasurer, whose safe advice I so often seek and so often follow. With his usual promptitude, he said to me: "Why that is easy, there is no difficulty there. Just stand up and tell the people that the Chaplain has been busy all the year raising a million. That has been his work; and then tell them that you have been busy all the year spending it." (Laughter). "And then," said he, "you may add, by way of closing the address, that you have had a more successful time than he." (Laughter). I have done the bidding of this wise

adviser of mine.

That such a thought should have leaped to his mind indicates one very important truth to us, viz.; that we have broad fields and many necessities, that there is a world crying for the Gospel; that all over our land, and all over other lands, money is needed, and that it is far easier to find wise ways of distributing the money than it is to find hearts ready to give it in sufficient quantities to meet these demands.

I cannot tell you with what astonishment, and with what gratitude I have perceived the readiness of the Church to respond to the clarion cry that my colleague has sent forth throughout the land: "A Million for Missions." I believe from one end of this land to the other that cry has been heard, and the propriety of it has been felt. We have nearly two millions of members. That means perhaps ten millions of Methodist people; and if we could only get every man, woman and child, rich and poor, every one to give a single dime, the thing would be done, and the Chaplain would then be ready to take up my song, for I have believed that the cry. ought to be, and in fact it is now, "A Million a Year for Missions," and that is only a beginning to many millions to follow.

Look at this great rich Church which is asked to give this sum, and you will see that our call is not by any means unreasonable; and I have felt joy at the readiness of the Church to respond to this cry.

to whom the voice of this meeting shall come, you have placed the administration of this Society in such a position that they were compelled to appropriate a full million, and I insist upon it you ought to be compelled to give the million. (Applause). You are placed in such circumstances that through this wide Church, we are bound to fulfill our promise to the General Committee and to give the million.

I have sometimes wondered what our successors would

think of us. We look back a few years and we smile at our forefathers, as the story is told of Stephen Roszel shouting of the mighty faith that was in him, the belief that the day would come when the Baltimore Conference would give a thousand dollars a year for Missions. We have spent our merriment upon other grand projects that have been suggested in the earlier history of the Society. But I wonder, Mr. President, when you and I, and the youngest here are gone, and these sweet voices of melody have been hushed in death, I wonder whether in some great meeting, they will not then tell to the merriment of those who listen, the agony of a great Church, ten million strong, to raise one million dollars for missions. It does not seem at all improbable to me, and this goes further to strengthen my conviction that this is not an unreasonable asking. If I chose to dwell upon the nature of our work, you would say that it is a most proper and necessary asking; and yet, despite all I have said, this attempt to raise a million of dollars is a great undertaking.

miliating sense of inferiority; and I often recall the wis-
When I think of my predecessors, I have a most hu
dom and devotion of those mighty men of the past. I
remember that, years ago, many years ago, Dr. Durbin
suggested the idea that a million dollars was the proper
sum to be given by the Methodist Episcopal Church for
its great missionary work. That was at a time when we

there were eight hundred thousand dollars behind
were raising about two hundred thousand dollars, and
it before we could get to the million. Thank God
we are now standing where the eight hundred thousand
and we can make the leap, and God will help us.
are ours, and only two hundred thousand beyond us,
He
is ever ready to do this.

But it is a great thing to do; to add one-fourth (onethird I perhaps ought to say), to all the contributions that have been made by a generous and devoted Church to these great interests.

All over the land, from far off California, from the South, from our poorer frontier districts, everywhere, we have calls for aid. Such was the pressure upon the General Committee at its recent meeting that they would have been guilty of the basest cowardice if they had hesitated to believe the Church which everywhere has been shouting, "we will give the million during the year." They would have been guilty of the basest cowardice if they had not permitted us to expend a million during the year, and therefore I say to you, you people from all parts of the country, and there are those here from every section of it,—you people of this great mediate the claim either in part or in whole. tropolis abounding in wealth; Methodists every where

I did not mean to say so many words, but what I have heard of our programme gives me the license of a few minutes longer, and I am impressed with the idea, that this is to be a meeting pregnant with great results bearing upon the response to the question whether the draft of the Missionary Society upon the Church shall be honored for one million dollars-whether after having neces sitated us to make the draft, the Church will then repu

Important and pregnant influences will go out from

this meeting, that will be felt as far as the land reaches, and after some weeks, falling in with a few brethren to indeed, far as the sun shines.

I cannot but recollect at this hour, William Carey. You know his history; how he loved Christian Missions, and there are scarcely any of us but know of a remarkable sermon of his preached from the 2nd and 3rd verses of the 54th chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah; and I at first thought that as so many speakers were to follow me, I would simply rise and propose to this meeting the text of William Carey on that occasion, as the toast of the hour, if you please. You remember the words perhaps. Many of you do, I doubt not: "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation. Spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.”

That is my motto for you to-night, and I cannot but repeat also the two points which Mr. Carey chose to make in his discussion of that subject. He said, in the first place, "ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD." In the second place, he said, "EXPFCT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD." I repeat this to you then as my additional word. With this spirit I believe benedictions will come down not only upon India, and China, and Bulgaria, and Mexico, and South America, and Italy, and all our missions in Europe and elsewhere, but they will come down upon our own hearts and our homes and Churches. God will abundantly bless us.

Another great Divine has said: "Aim high, and it will please a high and holy God." Do not let us be satisfied in such a great undertaking as this with small things. Let us accomplish this undertaking of ours in the name of the Lord of Hosts; A MILLION A YEAR FOR MISSIONS. (Applause).

Bishop Harris.-The next speaker is one whose voice is often heard in advocacy of Christian Missions, and in advocacy of almost every other good cause, and it has always seemed to me that the last speech he makes is the best one I ever heard him make. I have the pleasure of introducing to the audience General Fisk. (Applause). →

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General Fisk.-Bishop Harris and Friends: When Dr. Reid intimated that he might talk all night, I began to feel happy, as then I would be left off; and I was quite sure that in that event the Doctor would get some response from the gallery towards daylight, that they said did come to a certain minister in New England not long since. He had been for a long time a Methodist preacher, but thought that for some reason or other he ought to leave our communion and go to another. The people said "God bless you; go and do them good."

He went into the Presbyterian Church, and securing a Pastorate, began to write and read his sermons, and preach very long, but he soon began to miss the responses which had cheered him in a Methodist meeting;

whom he had preached when in our Church, he said, "Come round to my meeting next Sunday evening and teach our folks how to say 'Amen' and 'Hallelujah.' Help me to put some life in my quiet Presbyterian Church." They said they would come. On Sunday evening they went and took seats in the gallery, and the good brother went on with his discourse, firstly, secondly, thirdly, fourthly, fifthly, and so on. But there was not a response from the gallery. By and by, he said, "Brethren, I have but one word more to say," and then a brother in the gallery shcuted "Hallelujah, 'tis done." (Laughter.)

One of the few immortal names not born to die is that of Nathan Bangs, who in the first year of our century became an itinerant Methodist preacher, and by the imposition of the hands of Bishop Asbury was ordained into the Christian ministry, and became a great and shining light. He at once stepped into the ranks of a host of evangelical heroes then in the New York Conference, among whom were Garretson, and Thatcher, and Snethen, Ezekiel Cooper, and Hibbard, and Ruter, and Ostrander, and Clark, and Crawford.

How the old times come thronging back upon some of you at the mention of the name of Nathan Bangs:

Ford memory to its duty true,

Brings back that faded form to view,

How lifelike through the mists of years,
That well remembered face appears.

It is almost a century ago since his familiar form, that grand, gray, leaning head, but always leaning on the right side, vanished from our presence. "He was not, for God took him." He was the founder of our periodical literature, and one of the founders of our present system of educational institutions. He took high rank among the ablest editors of the Church. Under God, he was the father of this Missionary Society, whose 66th anniversary is celebrated this evening.

It was the theme of conversation with him for months with his brethren, and with the chief laymen of that day, and his voice rang out clear and eloquently, in the old Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, then the Metropolitan Church of this city. Speaking there in behalf of this great cause, he rejoiced in seeing a large meeting with an unanimous vote organize this Society. With his own hand he wrote its first constitution, its first circulars of appeal to the Church at large, and many of its first reports. Nathan Bangs as Secretary, as Treasurer, as Vice-President, as Manager, was always the faithful friend and servant of this Society, until he was called to his reward in Heaven.

What hath God wrought in sixty-six years? Where you now sit, in this beautiful, almost matchless temple of music was then a wheat field of the old Brevoort farm, and there were but few scattered houses this side of Canal street. It was only six years before the introduction! of gas below Canal street, and twenty-three years before

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