the city, a large court enclosed by commodious apartments, kept up at great expense by the quasi generoùs sons of India. It is a hospital and asylum for poor, old and invalid beasts, birds and insects. No charitable institution in the city is remembered oftener in bequests than this Pinjar-pore. It is kept up at a cost of one hundred thousand rupees, or nearly fifty thousand dollars. Once within the court a curiosity shop opens before you. All the domestic animals, from the horse and cow to the flea and "B" flat are said to be there. The latter domestic I did not see, but strange stories are told, for the truth of all of which I will not vouch. I know that the larger animals are fed according to their tastes and appetites. I have been told that coolies-poor natives— who like to turn a copper or two for a consideration, are paid by the hour for feeding those fleas and B's, which live neither in hives nor upon honey. Do you call this a fish story?" Come to Bombay and see. 46 I never saw a more mangy, scabby, dilapidated assembly of "puir beasties" anywhere. Cows, you know, are in India held in special reverence. The five products of the cow-milk, curd, butter, dung and urine-are regarded as the most sacred and holy things in the universe. These alone will cleanse a man who has become a Christian, gone across the black water to England, or in any other way broken caste. Cows are special favorites in Pinjar-pore. In one department is an assembly of blind cattle-a bovine blind asylum. I cannot tell you all I saw. The dog department I think interested me more than any other. It was a menagerie. In one cage was a mad dog savagely raving, Í sometimes hear remarks about the foolishness of Christian missions. Is there not enough in Hinduism to elevate men? Are not the disciples of that ancient faith noble, generous and benevolent? Pinjar-pore is an outcome of the teachings of Hinduism. Its amusing absurdities, its wilful, woeful waste of sympathy, time, labor and money are the legitimate fruits of that religion which some would have Christians emulate. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ as taught in the Bible, invariably ennobles and elevates mankind. Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedism and Romanism invariably produce opposite effects. Among the wisest people this world ever saw were those who lived, thought and wrote on the banks of the Ganges. Mathematics, medicine, music and philosophy look to India for their fountain head. Yet caste, infant marriage, infanticide, degradation of women, suttee, the doctrine of the transmigration of the the important centers of Indi in Burma, the land of Buddh Bombay have come in contact Romish superstition. Let a man visit Rome and 1 in Alexandria and Cairo amor Coptics, and then come to Ind and Buddhism, and a flood him on the words of St. Paul after that in the wisdom of knew not God, it pleased preaching to save them which In America and England th and Voltaire, and the degener from them, may fill men wit doctrines. But these men are of Nazareth, they are the chi devil, the father of lies. Anarchists and Communists their elder brother in India Boycotting is carried on more sunshine than in Ireland or A All men in all ages and in Christ, and like Christ, bear t you in America now see in th Ingersol-Bennett plea for li States mail for the transmissi These symptoms were see years ago. They are now n Egypt and Ceylon. One of the curiosities of B used equally by Portuguese and Mohammedans. It is dec but all the above mentioned courts on feast days. You ligion of either class, so alik of superstition. This land lived by Jesus, and preached and Moody.. If ever I had been tempted and power of the Gospel of had dissipated that doubt. India is rising; the chains and specially from her daugh common-sense is being inaug direct or indirect influence duism has had its time, Bud and Islam made its attempt. in history. Now is the day Christ of the oben Rible home here. We rode to the end of the valley together, shook hands, and I came back alone. I looked out over the hills, down the valley at the villages which here and there dotted the mountain sides, thought of the fact that every soul in all the district was a stranger to me and mine, and that they were heathen, too, and then that I had come to bring them to Christ, and how difficult this would be. How suitable and precious in such a time the words Christ put on record for every such occasion, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Thy word's a tower to which I flee, For as thy day, thy strength shall be." Again and again after long absence I have entered the same valley with a feeling of real exhilaration. It came to be quite home-like. A man once came to visit me to whom I had often spoken about becoming a Christian. He had several sons Christians, but he himself kept away from us. This day he reminded me of my talks with him and said he had about concluded to come in among us. I expressed to him my joy at his decision. "There is one matter," he said, "by which I must be still detained a few weeks-I have a case in court. You English people don't know how much lying we have to do here. Without lying we always lose our cases in court. This matter is nearly through; there is just a little more to do. You Christians don't lie-so I can't come till I have finished my suit, and when it is finished I will be ready for baptism." Such a confession, made so openly and candidly, rather surprised me. Here was a man continually lyingacknowledging it, purposing to lie more, intending then to stop. I need not say he was not soon baptized. Over a year passed, and often his application was refused. Finally, at a camp-meeting, where God poured out his spirit, the man, his wife, and several others (fourteen in all) were baptized by Rev. Nathan Cheney, then on a visit among us, Nov. 14, 1877. Alas, how difficult it is for a man to change old habits. This poor man did seem to try to be better, but as years have passed his record has been one of great crookedHis family, by God's blessing, have been consistent Christians, and five or six of his sons are grown to manhood and doing very well. ness. It has been good to see again a man whom I asked to become a Christian many times before he yielded to the request. He often had heard our preaching, but put off a decision from year to year. In August, 1877, he was baptized, and has since, with his family, been faithful, and continues his farm work entirely inde His oldest con ic now in them. His horoscope had b marriage by his old rel posed match would be f also a horoscope to be s pared the Pundit said th as every sign in the astr "But," said the young marry her, anyway, whet not." He did. He has his Hindu teacher's pr children. This circums version. One day a man came boy by the hand. Said had seen a tract written ject of the Mission. H "And yourself," I said Christian?" "I'm not I took the boy and pu rious stoppage in his sp prevent him ever becomi eighteen months passed, rest of the family were b Amos Miller is in char and Dispensary; is mar man. His younger brot Pauri School. His father of the out-stations of Gu home, have also become This man, after his which had been worshipe (a saligram). I remembe said, "I have no more a of excellent memory, an yarns which he learned fr in conjunction with gyr bread. His promise was travel all over Gurhwal te I hope this is now being. It is a question, ofte baptized until he has bee among missionaries as to Fiji, John Hunt always b were willing to give up the seems to me the right me really renounces his heath estly proves his willingne will baptize that man. John Hunt always had The nominal Christi and Sunday-schools of the Mission attached to us from childhood, and make often very useful helpers and excellent Christian people. Care of the children should be a distinguishing mark of every missionary. Among a low type of people, where communities are all vile and bad and corrupt, no work is so satisfactory as the work done for the children. Therefore, it is wise to keep up the schools and the boarding-scoools for boys and for girls. Of the missionary appropriations none are more useful than that "for educating Christian boys." A few of our boys here grew up bad, but such were bad before they came to us. The great majority of them have done very well indeed. I long to see the time when some of them will make their home up near the Mana and Niti passes, on the very border of Thibet. The Moravian missionary and his wife who died, away to the Northwest of us at Poo, after twenty years labor and no converts, makes us think it will be a hard field—but we must attempt great things for God. It is ours to preach the gospel. God will make it effectual. The Moravians, too, have made a dictionary and grammar of the language of Thibet, and printed several parts of the Bible. Our work would, for the present, be on this side of the pass, among the Bhotias, who speak two languages. Thompson, Miller, Sabine, Chanfin, Shadullah, Lachchum, are all Gurhwalie boys, among whom some one might be found to undertake the work in the North. I call them boys, for they used to be, but now they are men. May God put it in some heart to undertake this work. Tihree, too, our next neighbor, is untouched, and there live two hundred thousand people. The Temple of Durga Khand at Benares, India. BY HON. N. F. GRAVES. This temple is better known as the Monkey Temple, being the place where monkeys and apes are worshiped. It is a lofty and graceful building of pyramid form, with all the lines broken with numerous turrets. The whole temple is covered with elaborate covering, with carved figures of all the animals that are considered sacred in Hindu mythology. There is a very fine view from the roof of this temple. It stands in an open place surrounded by an open colonnade. The porch of the temple stands on twelve elaborately carved pillars and is surmounted by an elegant dome with cupolas at each corner. Son seemed fearless, bu the columns, climbing from t the pinnacles, some with thei the slightest alarm. Many o are beyond your reach and s with you. They chatter, la side glance at you, but most o A few large, venerable mo floor and you do not care you. They look savage an neighbors, but the Hindu ven character, and to him they are of adoration. These monkeys run at larg and grounds in the vicinity, jure them as the Hindus hold Close by this temple there up with marble steps so that and drink and bathe in the s that the tank contains. flock to this temple daily to strew their offerings on the s V These monkeys having h for many years, and having b been provided for, have incre number in Benares. They go out to the ferry and go into the groves in th return at night. They are the only passeng boatmen allow them to pas numerous in and around the some and some have been t several miles, but they return It is estimated that there a sacred animals in Benares and It is believed that each me support as it does to feed a intelligent animal and know and is contented. He gets limited vegetables, fruit and verandas and corridors, a s cannot meet elsewhere. M: have been taken into the co monkey will share the same They are called "the four mon people complain of the wish most of them removed they are removed, they wil The Hindu says they are too S reached me, bearing on its vivid pages, among other in- * * Yes, "let the messenger in," and when the simple monument" to a brave missionary marks her grave, let the corner-stone of the "Wilkins Industrial Home for Poor Women" be laid in the island empire. When Hawaii helped rear the first Christian church in Japan, is it a strange plea that an inspiration born of toil in far Africa should rear the first "Home" for homeless, starving women on Japan's shores? I write the words "first home," advisedly, for the "Industrial places for women" founded by the authorities, cannot be called Homes, or agencies of moral reform. For nearly two years, even when my hand has scarcely been able to guide a pen, letter after letter filled with facts that were an appeal has gone out from my sickroom. A harvest of earnest interest and sympathy has been the result; hearts "on both sides the sea" are enlisted in behalf of women starving on five, yes, on three cents a day, with no brighter outlook than death or infamy; but money, money, the inexorable necessity, has not been available. The workers in the field have their hands over-full of labor; but when the funds are secured, suitable directors for this work of rescue can be found. My motto now is,-" A Million for Missions," and—ten thousand dollars for a Home of Industry in Japan! To us in America, so accustomed to view intemperance as the great source of suffering poverty, it seems strange in the far East to see industrious multitudes clothed in "vile raiment" and dwelling in comfortless homes; and one almost shrinks from declaring the future "Joys of Heaven" to poor women who sadly need the present joys of earth; but when it comes to preaching "deliverance to the captives," with pen and voice, while starvation drives them into bondage worse than death, can mockery go further? The marvelous development of Christian work in "Dai-Nippon" has forced upon the large societies earlier in the field, during the past few years, what may be of offert bath in adu ational and northern Hakodate to N and 1880, the sum of t The Capital where, ac told, did not equal the c the first claim in this ma The Executive Commi as I have reason to belie take this needed enterpri of its first mission to the women of Methodism wi as Mrs. Chandler says, child and every toiling wo not only raise an "In Me one of our most memor distant shores, that long suffering womanhood. But why should womer of humanity? A noble gifts a Biblical Hall for Japanese Capital, and wh erous heart, in kindly ri an evangel of salvation f spairing women ? Pardon is begged of yo a suggestion which may b but which may seem int may not prove impractica By th BY FLORA I strove to s Who seen CHORUS-Oh! sing the st I sought am With earn "Twas in the But ere th The gleaner And since m In respect to the vernacular schools, it may be said to be with us the day of small things. The minutes of the Conference give 12 schools with a grand total of 458 pupils of whom 346 are heathen boys and girls. These are the nucleus of the coming army of students that in a few years will be found in Methodist schools within the bounds of the present Conference. By the year 1900 the twelve schools will have been, we hope, multiplied many times over. Of English schools there are 10, with 47 teachers and 920 enrolled pupils of both sexes. The great majority of these pupils, say 95 per cent., will spend their lives in India and Burma. Probably half the number speak a native language. In all these schools some native language is systematically taught by competent instructors. From the ranks of these pupils we confidently hope to get many valuable workers, who in the time to come will render valuable service to Christianity and Methodism. Our schools have already won position and influence, which time will fortify and enhance. It is generally conceded that thus far the girls' schools have gained greater efficiency and achieved more satisfactory results than those for boys. This is not surprising. The girls' schools have not had the same government competition to contend against, and have been more largely manned (or womaned) by competent American instructors. For this our hearty thanks are due to the noble W. F. M Society, which has done such great and generous things in the way of sending out devoted ladies for this particular work. In this connection, let me say for the special satisfaction of the kind friends who, in response to the earnest appeals of Mrs. Martha J. Inskip, contributed towards the Building Fund of the Calcutta Girls' School, that their gifts have been well laid out. Exercising the utmost economy and sacrificing the ornamental to utility,the projectors now rejoice in a building that leaves nothing to be desired. It is indeed one of the finest buildings of its kind in all India. And from personal knowledge I can say it is doing a most valuable work-one that will widen in usefulness with every passing year. The great importance of this work among the Eurasians of India and Burma finds appropriate illustration I noburn passed to an ex of the important truth th of women in India must l Special stress he laid upo best workers were of th which had hitherto beer founded prejudice. This ling facts, which went to be trusted with important By way of practical co as to the encouraging re among Eurasians, I desir letters which my wife and pupils of the Rangoon Gi superintendence of Miss. rea, Ohio. This school the recent Government passing six out of eight ca centage than was passed of the successful candida number of marks obtain referred to are the sponta friendship for an old past One writes: "Two we N-, and I went to co glad to hear this, and I I am so glad that our bles more and more to Him. good, and has promised a * * Another says: "I hav Church, and am trying to Mrs. R., I do wish to begi served. I know how muc he wishes my love. difficulties, but I live in th came into this world and near me. I know that h helper. Please pray for m go on in the way He has A third, the daughter of one of the first boardingafter mentioning that thre taken of the communion day as herself, writes: "G I feel that I ought to give hope that my whole life s me spend it. I know He forter, and my Friend. me in this school, where I h Him." This dear girl and the convent and placed i opened. This must suffice. I wish LANDS could see the sever composed letters that lie be |