the runas or th Missionary Society wou Justify measure. The first missionary was not sent out until 1832. It was Rev. Melville Beveridge Cox.

Rev. Dr. J. M. Reid gives the following account of this first missionary :

On May 7, 1832, Cox announces the fact of his appointment and hails it with exceeding joy. He writes: "I thirst to be on my way. I pray that God may fit my soul and body for the duties before me; that God may go with me there. I have no lingering fear. A grave in Africa shall be sweet to me if he sustain me."

Indeed, his mind seemed to have conceived the thought that if he could but

die for Africa he should have achieved something for its millions. He said at this time to Mr. Alexander Cummings, afterward Governor of Colorado: "I know i cannot live long in Africa, but I hope to live long enough to get there; and if God please that my bones shall lie in an African grave, I shall have established such a bond between Africa and the Church at home as

Wright died February 4,

Mr. Spaulding's health was tinue his work and he sai May 17. Miss Farrington

Rev. John Seys reinforce ing in Liberia on Oct. 18 Francis Burns, a colored 1 became Bishop. Mr. Seys

in 1872 was identified with most of the time he was act in Liberia.

Mrs. Ann Wilkins went

shall not be broken till Africa be redeemed."
During his last visit to Middletown, Connecticut, he
said to one of the students of the Wesleyan university
"If I die in Africa you must come over and write my
epitaph."

"I will," replied the youth, "but what shall I write?" "Write," said Cox, "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up."

He left for Africa on Nov. 6, 1832, and arrived in Monrovia, March 7, 1833. Some Methodist churches had previously been organized by colonists. These were brought into organic connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and conformity to its discipline. But the work of Mr. Cox was soon brought to a close. He was prostrated by African fever, and died on July 21, 1833, crying out as he passed away, "Come, come, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly."

Rev. Rufus Spaulding and Rev. Samuel Osgood Wright with their wives and Miss Sophronia Farrington.

ple of human knowledge, divine truth. When thir thrilling story of our mis one who had been in that Her great heart swelled the perils of that mission, Bangs, then Missionary noble words:

"A sister who has but lit that little cheerfully, and a female teacher if she is

Such grand spirits are ous work is to be done in dom. Hence, a few mor others to combat, both wit spirit of evil. The sight coast filled her soul with the pestilential fever lurk

Her feet scarcely touch

o watch over and guide them until they were acclimated of the session of the Liberi nd fairly established in their work.

Two years more of suffering and toil in Liberia comelled her to quit the work she so fondly loved. The oyage and her native climate so far restored her that he entered the Juvenile Asylum of New York as one of s active officers. But she only went there to die. Six ays of sickness in that institution bore her to the gate f heaven. But they were glorious days to her, for the ght of her coming bliss so glorified her that she apeared to her astonished attendants more like an angel f God than a dying woman.

In 1842 the membership of the Methodist Episcopal hurch in Liberia was one thousand, of whom one hun.

last February.

At the present time there beria sent from the United S a few names of the more th this country who have so n instances given their lives to More than 3,000 members sl

in vain.

LIBERIA CONFERENCE OF T

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The session of the Liberia Methodist Episcopal Church

REV. J. L. WILSON, D.D. workers in Liberia was Re in South Carolina July 13 Carolina in 1809 and grad cal Seminary in 1833. In as a foreign missionary. and at the close of the ye Cape Palmas where for ei sionary of the American organized a church and r educated more than a h the Grebo language to wri dictionary of the langua Matthew and John and pi in the native language. boon river where he rema

During the past year there had been 61 deaths; 101 children and 157 adults baptized; $2,503 were paid for compelled his return to A building and improvements; $240 were paid on current expenses, and $687 for ministerial support; $4 from Mount Olive circuit for missions; $30 from Monrovia, and $7 from Mount Olive for education.

The appointments made were as follows:

MONROVIA DISTRICT, C. A. Pitman, Presiding Elder. Monrovia Station, H. B. Capeheart; Robertsport and Talla Circuit, B. K. McKeever; New Georgia Circuit, J. W. Early; Johnsonville Circuit, G. J. Hargraves ; Paynesville Circuit, C. A. Pitman; Marshall Circuit, to be supplied.

ST. PAUL'S RIVER DISTRICT, W. T. Hagan, Presiding Elder. Upper and Lower Caldwell Circuit, T. A. Sims; Virginia Circuit, to be supplied; Brewerville Circuit, F. A. Holderness; Clay Ashland Circuit, G. W. Parker, D. Ware, Sup'y; Millsburg Circuit, A. Watson, W. P. Kennedy, Sr., Sup'y; Robertsville, to be supplied; Careysburg and Bensonville, J. W. Cooper; Brown Station, to be supplied.

BASSA DISTRICT, J. H. Deputie, Presiding Elder. Paynesbury Circuit, E. L. Brumskine; Mount Olive Mission, J. H. Deputie, J. P. Artis, Sup'y; Upper Buchanan, Lower Buchanan, Carterstown, Edina, Bexley, and Bullemtown Circuits, left to be supplied.

of the secretaries of the Missions, and became the eign Missions of the South it was organized at the of continued in this position cepted the position of E a Christian gentleman, a s and honored secretary.

ANNA MORRIS SCHOOL were in type Mr. E. S. M "My school is located at opened in 1881. Mrs. O went out as teachers, but ken down with the fever, months. They returned son soon died. A colore The school has not

er.

except for the two month
coffee season.
One year
ploy an assistant as he h
the one teacher $300 per
desks, clothing for the p
twice a year.
On the fir

ceived my own machiner
The
of the teach
reports
of forty boys and girls.

"Well will be ended what ill begun,

Out of the shadow into the sun.'

A young Hindu girl sat in the court of her father-inlaw's house one afternoon about the hour of sunset. Her bright, soft, dark eyes looked as if they ought to be windows into a mind filled, even at the moment, with beautiful thoughts. Her head rested on her hand in a graceful reflective attitude. But Mooniatta was not. thinking; indeed, she could never be said really to "think" at all. Her mind was not originally a vacant oue, nor her tem

the court and verandahs, enough little games to be and freedom compared to

her behavior by her husba aunt, who formed the fem household. Hitherto she pet; now she became the cording to inexorable cust being intentionally cruel, means of teaching her hov

berament apathetic; but circumstances had made her both. "Ignorance," says a Tamil proverb, "is a chief Ornament in a woman." If this were the case, then Mooniatta Ammah was, indeed, plentifully bedecked. Belonging to a high caste family, she had been rought up in superstition and dullness. From infancy he had been betrothed, as was the custom of her people. Her marriage took place a few months previously to this vening, at her father's house. After the ceremonies, he girl bride was put into a closed palanquin carriage, nd taken to her husband's home. The wedding feast ad made a very lively time; and Mooniatta had been uch taken up with her jewels, and the gold broidered aree, in which she had been dressed. But the novelty f these had passed away, and she began to find that the

ing the immemorial custo strike her as hard; indeed, sing it, far less of rebell probably a deeper inactivit lessness under the habitua Indeed, it may be thought cing such an uninteresting except that this evening Moona; was, in fact, the absolutely vacant mind.

In another corner of th pened to be going on. T familiar enough to Moona grandmother and aunt. more excited key than u