Natives of India. By India we mean the peninsula in the outhern part of Asia generally called Hinustan. It belongs to Great Britain. Here re 260 million of people, about four times s many as are in the United States. Most of the natives are called Hindus, and there are also many Mohammedans and Parsees. Nearly all of these are worshipers of alse gods, and though many of them have meard of the God of the Christians, they hink that their worship is the true one. But our young readers will be most interested in the young people. The schools, under the direction of the English government, have become much improved, but a missionary gives the fol lowing account of one of the old style, which can still be found in some parts of the country: "The exercises of the school are begun with an invocation to the god of wisdom. This having been sung, lessons are prescribed to the children which they learn by A SCENE IN INDIA. but all the pupils are jumbled together and all simultaneously vociferate their various tasks, making a harsh, discordant jargon. If their roars grow faint, if their lips cease to move, the rod of the master falls on their backs. "An hour before closing the school, the pupils are all made to stand up in a line; and with their hands applied to their hearts they repeat the multiplication table, the alphabet, and the sacred by mns or slokas, at the end of each one of which their hands are raised to their foreheads and their bodies bowed in reverence to the god in whose honor it was said. "The master then instructs them in a long and tedious catalogue of frivolous duties to be discharged in their houses, to which they all assent by loudly shouting, 'Yes, yes.' After this they prostrate themselves before the teacher and are dismissed to their respective homes." The same missionary also says: "Hindu children are timid, and, as a rule, respectful to their parents, and well be "The pare girls. The b in old age, w when their b after they ar departed spir into a better I once read When it was through the s cession. The gongs, and f streamers and the huge ima shoulders of The process time; but, su What do you god, which w contrived to p were very mu His sister was a missionary's wife in Af. rica, and the family were filling a box to send her. As one after another deposited their gifts, little Willie said, "I want to give my penny." "What shall be bought with the little of fering?" was the next question. It was decided to buy a tract, and write the history of the gift on its margin, and, with a prayer for its success, send it on its distant errand. The box arrived on the mission ground, and among its valuable, interesting contents, Willie's gift was laid away unnoticed and for awhile forgotten. But God's watch. ful, all seeing eye had not forgotten it. One day a native teacher was starting from the mission station to go to a Sunday school over the mountain, where he was to be em ployed. He was well learned in the language, and this tract was given him. It told him that he was a lost sinner in danger of eternal death, and that all his learning could not help him. It also told him of One who was able and willing to save. What years of Christian labor by the missionaries had not done, was now brought about by the penny tract. The strong man bowed in peniter ce and humble submission at Jesus' feet, and became a sincere Chris tian. The missionaries to whom he went praised God for the change by which they became blessed with a godly teacher. Those who put the tract in his hand were overcome with joy; and there is joy in heaven "over one sinner that repenteth." So you see how little Willie's penny made heaven rejoice. Girls in Mexico Earning Missionary Money. How did we earn our Missionary Money? Why we sewed, we washed and ironed, became housekeepers, copying clerks, seamstresses; and whatever our hands found to do, we did with all our might. The last Sunday of the month, being missionary Sunday, we brought our money together, counted it and gave to each girl exactly what she had earned. The pastor, together with a few friends, had been in vited to our afternoon meeting to receive the collection, and this collection, of course, had to be all gotten ready. Out of our thirty children there was but one who had not earned at least her medio, or six cents, and she. a little tot of only four years, had lying in bed with heavy weights attached to her foot, patiently and without a murmur, though she will not even be able to change her position for over a month. Our washerwoman having left us, the older girls after school hours, lasting from nine till five, did all the washing of the hou e, and did it with a cheerfulness most pleasing to see. You know, children, there are many ways of doing things, and it is very easy to sce from your actions whether the help you give comes from the heart or no. These children worked because they want ed to help to raise the $350 which is Mexico's share towards the "million for mis sions." Rev. follow In th a man from 1 little s hunger do not with h food. in the and th boy w other drown their o This and le he bec went o travell One of the girls who has been writing for me for over a year put all she had earned in the box. Two little sisters whose yellow hair and light complexions show their pure there t Andalusian blood, had saved twenty-five cents of what their mother had given them on her last visit. We asked them what part of it they wished to give, thinking they would say six or eight cents. But no, they wished to give it all! And when we asked them what they would do the next time they wanted to buy candy,-they did not seem to know exactly,-but want ed to give it all. I wish I could show you as it actually took place, that afternoon missionary meeting. It would do you good I know. he four father were li Moses with h and p with t a great some Christ the or Do: 44 me co such a teache he. The girls were seated all around the parlor, the little ones on the floor, and the old er ones near the piano. We began by sing. ing, "O word of words the sweetest," which we translated into Spanish for the occasion," Vocablo ei mas dulce." Then as the pastor held the missionary box, each girl passed up to drop in her carnings, reciting at the same time a verse on giving. Even the baby put in her medio, saying, "Con mi voluntad, dari a Dios." Our second hymn, "Not half has ever been told," was surg as a solo, the children and t coming in on the chorus. think we would sing that in Spanish?"Ni dear I aun la mitad se oy)." And comed him w enter 1 ing n How do you Christ How the children do love to sing new hymns! At the close, amid breathless attention, the money was counted, and we were subprised to find it amounted to $10.08, every cent had been earned by the girls themselves, independent of what the teachers had given,—earned too, you should achaber, up hi sin. Rev New us to! all cry missio number, not credited to others, are preby the Editor. request of the Board of Managers we e fourteen pages to the account of the Onary Anniversary. This has crowded ome of the notes respecting other misy Societies, and also makes it necessary er the account we expected to give of ssionary Socities of the world statis&c. e GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS enters its th year in the full asurance that its is blessed of God. It will continue retofore to give an account of the of all Churches and Societies, especn the countries to which its illustrated e is devoted each month. With the Elitor who has been in charge for the six and a half years, the experience of ast will be able to make it more valu. o its readers each succeeding year. is Magazine has demonstrated its right bility to live. It makes no claim for nage except that which arises from its ulness to its readers. We have been ful for criticisms kind and unkind. ympathize with those who believe they make a better Magazine. We are very om our own ideal, but we do rejoice in nowledge of good done and we "thank and take courage." what has been done has returns. Italy has been more responsive, Africa has witnessed the ingoing and es Africa is still the Dark Continent. Asia embraces the largest and most suc cessful of the Mission Fields of Protestant ism. The past year has witnessed a most gracious revival in Japan, and the Japanese have been more responsive than any other people to the claims of the Gospel, the rate of progress in church membership being much larger than in any so called Christian countries. India reports a year of unequalled spiritual progress. China has made an advance, notwithstanding the interruptions caused by the war. Burma has been opened to the Gospel by the deposition of its king. Work among the Armenians and Nestorians of Persia and Turkey has ad e past year has been one of steady advanced, but the door to Mohammedanism e by the Protestant Church at Home in these countries has been persistently and successfully closed. The Review of the year is encouraging because of the advance, but humiliating because the Christian Church has had the ability to do much more for the Evangelization of the world. Abroad, and the outlook was never the Harvest Field are increasing, and ear 1836 promises grand results for the stian Church. our own land the labors of some noted gelists have been attended with a large ber of conversions, especially in south cities. The work among the Indians not yielded as much spiritual fruit as her years when the Government enlist eco operation of the Christian churches eir Agencies. We have been ashamed he outrages committed against the ese in some of our cities, but this has prevented some success in the work ng them by our missionaries. We are glad to note the fact that the bloody reign of King Taeebaw is ended and what has been known as Independent Burma will hereafter be a part of India. The American Baptist Missionary Union and the China Island Mission have both established missions in the country only to be obliged to give them up. The way is now open with every prospect of success. Honor to brave Bulgaria. The missions of the American Board and of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been interrupted to some extent by the war, but the missionaries write in a hopeful spirit, and claim that they are meeting with a more ready hearing from the people. The care à Roman Catholic countries the Pro- they have taken of the wounded, and their its influence by speeches there fully read. Our mission forced by Rev stationed at Pa Rev. A. W. Gr for Puebla last South Ameri Bishop Fowler York in Decem thence to the A accompanied b F. Thomson, th Ayres, where fo successfully. The Mission rupted to some from Brother number. The missions Oct. 27, by the L. W. Pilcher ther Pilcher go remains at Tier Isabella Fisher Rev. W. R. I J. W. Lambu Mission of the M South, has bee ily to North Ch of his wife. I join our missio He is an able missionary. Miss L. E. A sionaries at Pe to Rev. H. R. American Boar We give som the Foochow C expect to be al pointments and all our Chine China Mission Tientsin, Sept. The latest fr gathered from from Bishop Ta The Bishop ret to hold the L February. Our South In forced by the F. A. Clifton and their wive Clifton will ta Mussoorie. T 'In its last issue the 'India Methodist Watchm in,' makes some characteristic re marks about the lapse of the South India Conference from the principle of self-support. As the editor of that paper has an app al now pending before the public of India and America for fifty thousand rupees, to be expended irresponsibly at his sole discretion, it does not strike us that he is in a good position to exercise the functions of a critic." The plan of Uniform Studies for 1886, adopted by the Woman's Missionary Sɔciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church pro vides for January-The outlook, backward and forward; February-Open doors; March-Bulgaria; April--Individual Responsibility; May-Nankin; June-Singa. pre; July-General Survey of Missionary Effort throughout Christendom; August General Survey of Missionary Effort in Heathen Lands; September-Mexico; October-Missionaries of the Bible; Novem ber-Objects of Worship in various lands; December-For How Long, or Occupy till I Come." Duck and ташну тeave Cawпрого for Bombay to morrow, expecting to sail from Bombay on Dec. 1st. to Italy and thence direct to New York. They will be greatly missed and many prayers will be offered in their behalf. It is indescribably sad when a man so well prepared for the work and so happy and successful in doing it is thus laid aside. We hope that our brother may be speedily restored to health, but the physicians say if he should return to India he could labor only in the mountains. Who will come to take his place? The annual prize-giving to the students of the Centennial High School occurred on the 24th of Nov. A large number of the friends of the school, European and native, were present. The Chairman, Haruan Singh, the leading native Christian of Oudh, gave a gold tuoheer (twenty rupees) to the first scholar of the matriculating class; a gentleman present offered a silver medal for next year. The school has 375 students. Born in the Methodist Parsonage, at Calcutta, Nov. 23d, to Mrs. Rev. Dr. Thoburn a daughter. The District Conferences at Dwarabath, Mrs. A. R. Johnson writes from Luck- Lucknow, and Chandansi, were very interLOW, Nov. 24: esting and profitable. Our people are growing more and more enthusiastic every They enjoy Methodism. Rev. P. M. Buck is sick and leaves soon for America. My husband, in addition to bis Presiding Elder's work, has had to take charge of the Cawnpore native work until Conference and he is obliged to be away most of the time. The great Ajudhiya Mea has just closed, and for the first time the ladies of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society went to the Mela, and they did good work. Mrs. Badley and baby Bessie have reached here safely. Mission Notes from Lucknow. year. It is now a week since the great battle of Slinitza, and some of the wounded are on the way here, riding in ox carts 150 miles over roads that are as muddy as they can be. We have been busy converting our school building into a hospital, and prepar Rev. B. H. Badley writes from Lucknow, ing mostly at our own expense beds for Nov. 24: twenty men, and propose taking care of them. The Ajudhiya mela came off Nov. 21231, and was atten led by vast crowds of Hindoos, flocking to the sacred river to wash away the sins of the past year. It is gratifying to know that in the midst of these thousand the Gospel was faithfully and earnestly preached. Among those present were Rev. Dr. Johnson, P. E., Rev. S. Knowles, Mrs. Gll, Mas Sparks and Miss English of Bareilly; Miss Blackmar and Miss Nickerson of Lucknow, and the native preachers and colporteurs of Lucknow, Goulda, Babraich and Barabauki, in all about thirty n The Bulgarians are making great sacrifices. Every effective man and nearly every yoke of oxen are in the field. Every school is closed, and teachers and scholars who are old enough are in the service. The brilliant series of victories of the past week greatly encourage the people. I shall ask for help in the name of the "Red Cross," and be assured that any help friends may be able to send us now will be most opportunely bestowed. We ought to have a thousand dollars, and it would be most thankfully accepted. Is there not by wei distress Nov. vian p Many o just ac impress tricidal Alexan with al Sever now in waiting their to hear th and an ey and in Ame hundre men? and to Church T Rev. of the The ference Chung began was pr Wedne Rev. H ing a t was he Frida was he preside English Tang S eral pr sicknes excelle Sund no dou time w encour souls. eloquer viewin apos le study After t the sa very 1 feast afterno In the the mi each year. The missionaries are ly interested in this question of how ovide for ministers who are no longer to do effective work. If they do not ve appointments they must starve; and ve them appointments perhaps keeps ger and more vigorous men out of places. veral preachers are appointed this year are hardly fit to preach because of eness, yet they have no means of subice out of the ministry. One preacher this year, leaving a wife and several ren without adequate support, and a ising young preacher is now very low consumption, not able to return to his ; he also has a family. Most of these chers have suffered more than persecu and now in old age they are perhaps uled and disowned by their relatives. is is a worthy object which ought to ve attention, and if any of our friends | merica are inclined to help us, please your contributions to the Mission ms, 805 Broadway, N. Y, with in tions to forward to the writer, and shall have credit for the same. "And soever shall give to drink unto one of e little ones a cup of cold water only in name of a disciple, verily I say unto he shall in nowise lose his reward." ne presiding elders' reports were encourg and showed a healthy growth through the conference. Ninety were received full membership and about forty were ved on probation. Missionary money -d, $168 62, a decrease from last year of 3. But for self-support there was an ase of $89 35, and for church building ncrease of $423.69. thodist Episcopal Mission in South Central Africa. rom Bishop Taylor we have received following information respecting his ionaries and the stations he has estab-d: nder God I took forty-four missionary ,women, and children to South CenAfrica last March. Of these, three , three women, and five children reed, with my approbation, one man and e ladies on account of ill health, and well men, who were well adapted to work, went with their families-total en. he leader of the "Quaker wing" of the sion has returned to the United States et missionaries to help him to found a We have opened and manned six stations of a line of sta in the following order: year by year to and onward as These are al missionary ligh 1st. At Mamba, a purely native town inland from Mayumba, two degrees south of the equator. We have there but one man, who in the past few months has built a mis. sion house, and is calling for recruits to help him push the work into the opening fields beyond. 2d. At St. Paul de Loanda, the port of entry to Angola, a town of probably ten or twelve thousand population, we have sta tioned two young men, who are teaching the English and French and German, and learning the Portuguese and the Umbundu languages. 3d. Dondo, the head of steamboat navi gation on the Coanza river. We take steamer at Loanda, and go sixty miles by sea, and 180 miles up the river to Dondo, a town of five or six thousand population, where the caravans of carricadors (freight carriers) lay down the "cargos" they have carried for hundreds of miles from the interior. I stationed in Dondo two men and one lady, who have opened a self supporting school, and are learning the languages es sential to their Gospel ministry. 4th. Nhanguepepo. From Dondo we travel by the ancient highway of the caravans, a path in the main, fifteen inches wide, through a rugged mountainous country, with fertile valleys intervening for fifty one miles to our 4th mission, in a populous dis trict called "Nhanguepepo." There, by the generosity of a dear friend in London, we have bought houses for the residence of a working force at present, and a receiving | station for yearly recruits, where they can get their seasoning and learn languages to fit them for their work further inland. We have stationed at Nhanguepepo two men with their wives, and two single men-each one has a special department of work as signed him—a press, and a printer to run it; an industrial school farm, and a man to manage it; a school for ten of our missionary children, besides a native school-all earnest Christians, and will make good mis sionaries as soon as they can master the languages that will give them access to the heads and hearts of the people. A Mexica BY RE Leaving the east by rail and to the edge of mount horse of ons cannot be whither we are On our sure-f till the clouds a valley is so dee scarcely peeps along the edge last, the second we slowly clim Xochiapulco. This village i flat top of a mo about, and se ravines. heard the Оп ΓΟΥ a thousand or fi and hidden fro its rocky walls. pillars make the the wide main As we appro little or nothin adobes or wood of snarling hu every Mexican dark skinned, with black or rebosa-a large head, or fastene the baby carried of the doorways warming thems near mid-day m to return till patches of corr scattered abou oftentimes in pl to climb, let alo In the center a rather large, |