three grandchildren in the same family were also baptized. Among these 29 there are several very interesting cases. One is a young man -Babu Ram-who grew up in our Mission school at Saadet Gunge, and was a regular attendant upon our Sundayschool for heathen children there. The truth found its way to his heart and while yet a boy he expressed his intention of becoming a Christian; his relatives were so opposed to it that he gave it up. He is now of age and has served two years as a teacher in one of our Mission schools; he finally decided to wait no longer, and a fortnight ago was baptized. His people were very angry and put him out of the house; he has prayed for and visited them, and the prospect now is that his wife and mother will come and live with him-not to become Christians, for they are determined not to do that-but simply to live together, they being able to cook for him on condition that he eats separately. Such is caste. It will end in their becoming Christians. The very next week after his baptism Babu Ram found an old friend, a Mohammedan-also a young man-and led him to the Savior; we trust he may be the means of leading many to the truth; he himself feels called to preach, and will probably be sent to the Theological Seminary. His conversion has made a great stir in the part of the city where he lives. Such instances make us all the more willing to go Sabbath after Sabbath through the dust and heat to teach these hundreds of heathen children. The good seed will surely spring up and yield blessed fruitage by and by. Old Sona ("Pure Gold") the oldest member of our Native Church, passed away to heaven last week. She was led to Christ by the kind English lady whom she served, (Mrs. Inglis, wife of the former Chief Commissioner of Oudh) and baptized in Lucknow eight years ago. She has grown in grace ever since and has had the pleasure of seeing nearly all of her relatives accept Christ. She was a pure-minded, happy, trusting disciple, walking close to Jesus' side, receiving rich blessings from him. Her words were full of joy and comfort. Not long before her death she said to me: O, what a good path this is in which A been enabled to realize that it was meant in love. On the 14th of March it pleased our Father in heaven to take to Himself our darling boy, who cheered our now lonely home only a little over one year with his sweet, loving nature. A strong, healthy child, sick only three days with bronchitis. I need not tell you how our hearts did bleed when that messenger came and carried away our precious jewel. My companion and I had just been congratulating ourselves that the Lord was favoring us with health, and was owning and blessing our feeble efforts both in the schools and in the chapel work, and we felt that we had great reason to be thankful, when of a sudden this heavy rod fell upon us. In none of the trials that have thus far fallen upon us have we found it so hard to submit to the will of our Master, and none of our trials have taught us so clearly the vanity of this present life. As I said before the Lord has been blessing us. During the last month almost every day, some one has come wishing to connect himself with our Church. Some, out of pure motives to serve God, while others more for selfish purposes. One, a literary man, who joined us some time ago, came the other day with his 21 pupils and offered to bring them to our church, if we could employ him as teacher. Last Sunday, the 4th of April, I received 18 into full connection, and several others, whose time of probation has expired, but who were not present, will be received soon. This is indeed the greatest joy of our work to see our converts steadfast during the time of their probation and ever afterwards. Incidents in India. that I kne posed a d ing to p large cro also sayin in pamph well. The gr the close last six e of the t Mohamm there and the Gosp He wa the other Christian notable a Needle occur. A Joh Children hundred hammed That m John B. to the ch teer to against Scarcely when th class a Komar teen yea Next like the all Hind enness all his and we A litt same noticed Moham em. Out Lee Festin igent bo and fror rent hu emed p When Is e little smiled ild wash tting f ill B e bell have to lo e. The br Rev. B. H. Badley writes from Lucknow, India, April 20, 1886: Praise God with us for two entire villages just baptized! Yesterday Brother Knowles of Gonda, one of our oldest missionaries, sent me (as editor of the Star of India) a postal as follows: "Baptized a whole Tháru village (Bankatwa) of thirty persons, men, women and children. Particulars will follow." This morning's mail brought another postal from this earnest worker : 'Baptized another whole Tharu village (Bhagwanpur, No. 2), of sixty persons, men. women and children, including a Brahman, a fakeer and a baniya (grain merchant.)" Brother Knowles, accompanied by his native preachers, has been in camp all the month. Last week he attended the great mela at Tulsipur; 40 people declared their willingness to be baptized but the priests heard of it and bestirred themselves to such extent that only two were baptized. At the close of the mela (fair), Bro. K. marched north towards the mountains, and is now in the villages at the foot of the Hills along the Nepaul frontier-villages that I visited when stationed at Gonda ten years ago. Within a day or two after the closing of the mela Bro. K. had baptized 19 heathen people in various towns; and now comes the good news of 90 more, in all 109 within a week. This gracious work will probably continue to spread from village to village, and no one can tell whereunto it may grow. We are praying that the hundreds may grow into thousands this very month. These Thárus are a hardy set of people who live at the foot of the mountains; of late years they have been more accessible than formerly, and it now looks as if we would have thousands of them soon. Thus the good work spreads; 8 were baptized at the Ajudhiya mela last week; 2 at the Unao mela three days ago. Praise God, praise God! MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. The Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland reports that the gross income for the year just closed is £39,673, being £354 above that of the previous year. The total number The Wesleyan Missionary Society reports its income for the past year as £138,165, leaving a deficiency of £4,682. The Annual Meeting of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church was held in New York, May 11. The receipts had been $16,000. 28, and of this $15,271.73 had been paid to Synod's Board of Foreign Missions. The Board of Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church reports that for the year closing April 1, 1886, there were received for Building Fund, $2,455.53; Foreign Fund, $2,979.23; Home Fund, $2,484.71; Total, $7.919.47. The expenditures were $1,800 on the Japan Home; $2,150, salary and current expenses of Japan missionary ; $220, supplies and scholarships of the Japan Mission; $541.95, for five home missions; $2,085.24 for salaries and other administration expenses. The Executive Committee on Foreign Missions of the Southern Presbyterian Church reports that the receipts were $73,170.27 which is $606.06 in excess of the receipts of the previous year. The number of missionaries in the field, male and female, is 54, native helpers 45, principal stations 25, outstations 103. There hai fo in the tory a with 1 from h themse tory s as well the co Anglo concei ground thirtyings e thousa receive It is r ing. and la of sch still fu gospel port Sucho being presen where partm were 237 communicants added during By thi the year, the total number now amounting to 1,616. There are 721 pupils in the Sabbath Schools. Pupils in the day schools, 626. The sum of $1,490 was contributed by the native churches. M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. The Rev. I. G. John, D. D., of Texas, has been elected Missionary Secretary of the Southern Methodist Church. The eighth annual session of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Southern Methodist Church will convene in Augusta, Ga., June 10. Miss Mattie Jones, formerly of the Mission in Mexico, has gone to Brazil to re-inforce the mission there. Miss Mattie Watts has returned to the United States from Brazil. We regret to note the illness of Rev. D. F. Watkins, missionary at Guadalajara, Mexico. He has been very successful in his mission work. Southern Methodist Missions. The Bishops of the Methodist Episco assiste school of a hi The same in con tion of justify found curren one th curren dred a six cer cation eight b day-sc three The entere has a the S distric Its co the Fo gree in the mi male a dently the Holy Spirit is preparing to make the door effectual which His providence has so widely opened. The Mexican Missions, both on the border and in the centre of Mexico, have moved steadily forward. During the past four years they have grown to proportions warranting the formation of two Conferences. On October 29, 1885, the Mexican Border Mission Conference was formed at San Antonio, Bishop McTyeire presiding, at which thirtyfour preachers were appointed, nine remain on trial, four were received into full connection, and three were ordained deacons. The number of members reported is 1,354, and 16 local preachers; 57 Sabbath-schools; 1307 scholars; for salary of preachers there was collected $931.64; for building and repairing churches, $467.50; number of churches, 12; value, $23,848; 4 parsonages, and other items indicating an annual Conference fully equipped for regular work and divided into four Presiding Elders' districts. On the 26th of February, 1886, the Central Mexican Mission was organized into the Central Mexican Mission Conference, in the City of Mexico, Bishop Keener presiding. This Conference consists of six Presiding Elders' districts, in which there were forty-five preachers appointed, with nineteen hundred and seventy-eight members and twenty-two local preachers. There were 13 received on trial, 7 remained on trial, 6 were adImitted into full connection, 4 ordained deacons, 22 day-schools with 733 scholars, 65 Sabbath-schools with 1,369 schol ars. field, thus giving us TWO HISSOS 11 Orient. nve un four I The expenditures of the Foreign Board hundr have outrun its resources. In the true We ha spirit of enlargement it ventured upon mies the mind of the Church, in view of the exclus recent successes of our foreign mission Confer work. But in this it was disappointed. 142,240 The Centennial contribution for missions twenty barely suffice to hold the collections of Cheye 1884 up to the usual annual advance. The amount raised for Foreign Missions from June, 1878, to April, 1882, was $354,371.99; from May, 1882, to April, 1886, was $678,039-an increase of more than $300,000. Chocta Kansa ria, Sac a Shawn -with In th It is important that your action thousa should regulate the Missionary Boards whites collecting funds from the same surface, so as that they shall be corelated both in their methods of collection and in the directing of their appropriations. The establishment of the Woman's Board of Missions in the Church has called out its wealth of female membership into active service in behalf of the heathen. Its collections have increased to a total of $175,054 for the present quadrennium. It has sent out female missionaries into the foreign work to China, to Mexico, to Brazil, and to the Indian Mission Conference. It has 15 missionaries in active service; 7 boarding-schools and 15 day-schools, with 536 pupils. It will be seen that by some oversight the Constitution of this Society was left by the last General Conference in an unfinished state, no sufficient provision having been made for the election of the Board, and the Society disconnected from the control of the General Conference. We recommend that it should be held by the same tie of responsibility, and that the election of its Managers by the General Conference should be placed on the same footing with the foreign Board of Missions. toral c distric and on preach burder the go Church Besi are th memb ence the C an inte and e have of An until the Ge Durin missic ville, tage 1 cation The work in Brazil moves forward under conditions that present some encouragement. A secure lodgment has been effected in the city of Rio Janeiro by the Foreign Board. The Board has in Brazil five missionaries, one hundred and thirty-one members, and one self- The systematizing of the entire work supporting English congregation. The of Missions as connected with our conWoman's Board has two missionaries, gregations, with our Sabbath-schools, advar one school, eighty-eight scholars. We and with all the children of the Church, but h prayerfully await the hour when the so that they may be formed into socieHoly Ghost will unlock this great Em- ties auxiliary to the Foreign Board, pire to the preached Word. The Church and contributing regularly to Foreign there and at home has been called to Missions, is of great moment, not only mourn the death of our efficient and de- to the present efficiency, but to the fuvoted superintendent, the Rev. James ture solidity of this aggressive arm of La diad at San Paula of vel- the Church of God The missionary decre into t of th isiana ity o affect preac whose territory they at present lie, both These are our convictions of the rightful- Mrs. An entirely different question is pre- SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVEN- Annual Meeting. The Foreign Mission Board reported The following are some of the statistics: 1. It would introduce confusion into our missionary operations. If we applied the rule to missionaries now in the field, they might find occasion to complain that we had imposed conditions upon them that did not enter into the original agreement; and if we restricted the application to new missionaries, a difference would be made between the old and the new which might become a source of discontent and friction. Wh Mrs. J vault. Sha W. I San; Kw Soo and c Chi Hunn Car Mrs. Simm Stein, nativ Μα son. Tur Sho contr Car 2. An inflexible rule would seem to assume what we think the facts would not sustain. It would assume that circumstances and conditions are the same everywhere; that missionary labor has bersh like environments under every sky, and among every people and tribe; that one method is equally suited to the plodding Chinaman and to the restless Mexican, to the jungles of Africa and to the classic 3. It would seem to imply a distrust 1.398 Total, Your committee have heard with in- We alcal voooonizo colf-cunnort 98 Lag Mrs. tive a Abl vey, Smith Ogl evang Ga На Bay To the foregoing views your commit- 220; tee append two resolutions. Resolved, 1. That while the principle of selfsupport in our mission work is essential to healthy progress and ultimate success, we believe its practice is to be established not by formal rule, but as the result of growth and development 2. That we urge upon our missionaries the duty of holding constantly in view self-support as an object to be at Ro Mrs Tor Pin Mil Ver Rio de Janeiro and Santa Barbara: W. B. Bagby; Mrs. Bagby, Senhor Mesquita, E. H. Soper, Miss Nina Everett, E. A. Puthuff, Mrs. Puthuff. Bahia and Maceio: Z. C. Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, C. D. Daniel, Mrs. Daniel, Senhor Teixeira. Statistics. Rio: Baptized, 6; received by letter, 4; membership, 18; contributions, $350. Santa Barbara: Baptized, 4; membership, 50; contributions, $75. Bahia and Maceio: Baptized, 13; membership, 100; contributions, say, $60. MEXICAN MISSIONS. Stations and Missionaries. Saltillo: W. D. Powell, Mrs. Powell, Miss Addie Barton, Miss M. C. Tupper, Mrs. M. E. Graves and three teachers. Rio Grande District: W. M. Flournoy and Mrs. Flournoy. Patos and Parras: F. M. Myers, Miss Annie J. Maberry and Senor Gonsalvez. Monclova District: Senor Rodriguez. able on Mission. On March 2, the house of Mr. Cady, of Kioto, was burned and all that it contained. Dr. Gordon's library and much of his furniture were stored in the building and were consumed by the fire. On March 14, twenty-one of the students of Kioto, Japan, were baptized. Rev. O. H. Gulick writes from Okayama: "There have been ten new members lately added to our church here. There is a condition of readiness to receive the Gospel message on every hand, and the lay members of the Okayama church are nobly at work preaching the gospel in the different towns around." state th penses, ought t Inter The is an a mission the obj sympat aries in meeting questio the diff The pre Roches S. L. B East B Two associa Rev. Mr. Atkinson writes from Kobe, Japan: "The outlook is very encouraging. Reports from pastors, evangelists, and colporter-evangelists, indicate a new interest and express the expectation that | the present year is to be one of great in- nationa Statistics. Baptized. 87; scholars, 216; church- gathering." members, say, 270. Rev. Lyman Jewett, D. D., and wife, of Madras, India, have returned to the United States on account of the health of Mrs. Jewett. Rev. C. H. Carpenter, formerly of the Bassein mission, has been appointed a missionary to Japan. He will be in charge of the work on the island of Yesso. The receipts of the Union for the year closing March 31, were $384,996.73. The donations from churches, Sunday schools and individuals exceeded those received in last year by $47,051.08. The debt of $50,615.76 has been paid, and a balance left in the treasury of $2,938.19. Rev. D. A. W. Smith writes from Rangoon, Burma: "Buddhism is literally tottering on account of the removal of all government support. The Burmans feel and acknowledge it, and have memorialized the viceroy on the subject, asking the English Government to appoint from henceforth the Buddhist pope, which the viceroy has declared the Government unable to do." AMERICAN BOARD. The following missionaries have returned to the United States: Rev. C. C. Rev. Mr. Clark writes from Austria, March 26: "Yesterday, in a legally constituted meeting, and in the presence of a special commissioner from the GovernMen's Christian Association of Bohemia." ment, we organized the first Young FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. where These aries fr of all d United spiritu enthus The sand Is scenery St. Lay All for tlemen or per ship. The missionaries in Bilaspur and Mungeli, India, have written that they cannot render efficient service without homes of their own. The Executive Committee have appropriated $3,200 to Bilaspur for a tract of land and a Bun- ing to galow, and $2,000 to Mungeli for a Bungalow. Dr. Macklin is in Shanghai, China, studying the language with diligence and enthusiasm. He asks for an associate. He says: "I sincerely hope and pray that another man will come out before long. Think of one weak man in a country with seven times as many people as the United States! We should have shortly here a man in each of the large cities. China is the most important field in the world, considering the number and intelligence of the people. We are late in entering the field, but let us start out strong." The young ladies who were appointed missionaries to Japan will start this month. The Committee are arranging to It is the sa sible. him t nomin gest, work sion. nience tive of inform like to the m tures to giv As a their sirabl Secre know |