covered with lighted tapers and incense pots, in which "Beyond these altars are mats upon which the wor- "We turn aside, and wander a short distance from the temple, where we find a number of women, whom we tell of our God. Some listen, others examine our dress and inquire after our families. When we ask them regarding their worship, the greater number acknowledge that the goddess can hear nothing, can see nothing, can say nothing, and can in no way help them, and they worship because it is their custom. Others say they did not come to worship, but are out for pleasure; others hold that the goddess does help them. Thus, we spend four hours talking with these poor women; and hope that some may have heard the gospel, to accept it in future." The Goddess of the Erain. Miss Sophia A. Norwood writes from China about the worship of the goddess of grain at the time when the rice harvest is completed : "What do you suppose represents the goddess? Nothing more or less than a quart measure of rice, stuck full of burning incense sticks. The offerings consist of paper money, fish, pork, eggs, a chicken or a duck, a goose and a pig's liver, five kinds of cakes, five tiny cups of wine, aud a large pot heaping full of boiled rice and covered with five inverted rice bowls. In the openings between the rice bowls are stuck five pairs of chopsticks. The number five is symbolic of the term 'ngo kak,' which in ancient times meent "the five grains," but has now come to be applied to rice alone. The name of the goddess translated literally means the five grains' god. dess.'" 6 send another year a ple which the people are so de A Chinese Boy's A writer in "Mission D pened to a Chinese boy, na day, and the day before. Wah Lee is in a great s row will be New Year's d knows are to have a gra call Fourth of July and you would think it better lasts for five or six days. little and see what he doe Wah Lee likes the day as well as New Year's its hurly-burly both in the h house the walls are being going on the windowswindows in China, you ki all the dishes and tin pail till they shine like new o turvy that delights the he Things gradually get in comes one of the best eve the kitchen god. Perhap every kitchen in China th with a long black mustac watches everything that come for him to go bac heaven, and how do yo says: "Just burn him an Wah Lee and his fathe sisters live mostly in th has heard everything the have done through all going back to where the he will tell the higher go He might tell the godde be angry and send the d or he might tell the god away from them. They done so many bad things they will make him as he goes; so Wah Lee's 1 him. Now she has put a lar and all the things he lik ow him how very humble they are. It so happens this ear that the family have done more to be ashamed of an usual, so Mr. Wah-they always put the last name, hat we call the last name, first in China-says the god's Os must be stuck together. Wah Lee is glad to hear os is because it is such fun to do it. It is done with ery sticky candy, and now Wah Lee is daubing it all er the god's lips and face, so that he is quite sure that hen it is dry he cannot possibly open his mouth. CHINESE GOD OF WAR. He looks quite fierce, and is d Wah. According to Chinese paid in one way or another bef not paid the creditor can take the house of the man who owe ing very low before him, knoc a great many times, and tryin him good-natured, but it is of grim and stern and he says he what is worth it, before he le great deal of talking and man the house to see what he can first thing that he takes is which he was expecting to we their best dishes, and so on, til week; then his little sister's pr lars' worth. By this time Wa lars' worth. By this time Wa his little sister. Mr. Wah is taken too many things as he iug the children, and altogeth tion. Aren't you glad you do The next thing is to decorat to help this year; this is the enough. He is pasting a larg with some queer looking mark door. Wah Lee says it means want to be happy, as we can s house up and down the stree gate, in every place they can red and gilt papers with pictu with the characters for wealth kinds of things on them, "just Mr. Wah hangs out some flag house is ready. By this time it is almost nig ment will be at sunset. The s a commotion! Fire works a gongs sounding, drums beating of musical instruments-some July, only there is about ten t Wah Lee keeps awake just but now he cannot keep his he rolls himself up in a comfo that stone platform which goe room, and goes to sleep. Th to bed at all. At midnight th the incense burned, and all th to worship their ancestors, the Now comes the exciting moment. The paper god is mothers who died years and ships" him as it is called. He folds his hands before he soon finds out that the stops to listen. And he It is about a kind father w all the good things we hav the world to teach the ped Now such a long, delightful day as Wah Lee is going he wants people to do; ho th every th di Ents d the kas of the A MISSIONARY IN A CHINESE TEMPLE. to have! He is dressed in his very best with a borrowed tunic in place of the one which was given for the debt; and with his very particular friends, Quong Cheng, Moi Foo, and Hop Wang, he expects to spend the day in the street. There they go and we will follow them. The first stop they make is before some of the booths that have been put up for the New Year's holiday. They are filled with beautiful red and gilt papers, with health, happiness, riches, and the like things upon them, pictures of all the gods and goddesses, all kinds of pretty vases, lacquer boxes and trays, candles, and all the things used for the temples. Then there are the charming street shows, the games, street music, fire-crackers, and everything that boys delight in. Isn't this enough to occupy a whole day or several days? You will think so if you try to see them all. how he died to save every them fit to live with him i This seems a wonderful we will hope that he will to love the dear Saviour w this will be a Happy New The present emperor of is the son of Prince Kh Hien-fung. The widow o press Dowager, is the reg until the emperor is twent "Superstition is ever t China has aroused the bas with violence the advance is not only directed agains As Wah Lee walks along one of the streets he hears attacks the individual m Cuviano osvaviipucu missivos tuere. The first Protestant missionary to China in modern mes was the Rev. Robert Morrison of Scotland, who ■iled from London for China in January, 1807, as the epresentative of the London Missionary Society. The hinese were very jealous of foreigners and he was not ble to teach Christianity openly. He first went to anton, and afterward to Macao, a Portuguese settleent, eighty miles south-east of Canton, where he learn the language and by 1814 completed and printed is -anslation of the New Testament. By 1819, aided by Rev. Mr. Milne he finished the anslation of the Old Testament. He baptized the first Onvert in 1814, but so slow was the progress made that 1830 he reported but ten baptisms. He died at Canon, August 1, 1834, in the fifty-second year of his age. The work of missions in China from 1807 to 1842 was reparatory, and carried on chiefly from stations outside f the country, as any attempt to interfere with the region of the people was considered a crime punishable y death. In August, 1842 treaty was made between the Chiese and British Governments by which Hong-Kong was eded to Great Britain, and the ports of Canton, Amoy, "oochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai were opened, giving oreigners the privilege of residing there and erecting hurches. The Missionary Societies took advantage f this and ere long had some missionaries in each ty. In 1861 the treaty made at Tientsin secured toleration nd protection for the missionaries in all parts of the Empire, and since that time there has been a steady adance in the mission work in that country, temporarily elayed by war with other countries, or by the superitions of the people and the interference of some of ne minor officials. The Government has endeavored to ■aintain the American treaty of 1861 which said, "The rinciples of the Christian religion as professed by the rotestant and Roman Catholic Churches, are recog ized as teaching men to do good; to do to others as ney would have others do to them. Hereafter, those ho quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not harrassed or persecuted on account of their faith. ny person, either a citizen of the United States or Chinese convert, who, according to these tenets, peacely teaches and practises the principles of Christianity, all, in no case, be interfered with or molested." In 1861 there were 7 British, 5 Continental, and 10 merican Missionary Societies represented in China, and the number of converts were about 1600. These Rev. B. C. Henry, a Presby ton, China, last year wrote the of Protestant Missions in Chir "The whole structure of h mined and weakened in a way reveal. The supercilious, self dread of the Gospel, and the the clearest proof of its power ing influence is seen in the riv cope with the missionary hosp everywhere opened to counter proclamation of the Gospel; benevolent associations in i schools. Imitation is the hi tion, so we may infer the pow the rivalry they have excited. "Two years ago a compa the subject of Christianity, a men of intelligence, but not that it was destined soon to of the drift of public sentime dences of its power in the just then was especially mark serting the shrines; and the for their living on the sale were in despair, and bitterly Jesus, who had shaken the fa gods. "In the great city temple had fallen off to such an e place, which was formerly co lation, often commanding six a year, for a term of three y being willing to undertake it at a time. This falling off in occurred, moreover, at a tim fering from drought, whic stances, would have sent the to the shrines to pray for rai by these Chinese scholars w: missionaries had been so far confidence of the people in t ped; and their belief was th toward a much wider and from the habits of their anc me the details of this conver repute, assured me that they intelligent people who belie but awaited a favorable tim no secret in the town; his ready witness for Christ and 'Father Tsun in our village is a Christian, and teaches "By the constant and wide-spread proclamation of the "China, as the oldest and most populous nation on the clusiveness can never ret desire it; and the probab will be the fuller cpeni of preparation already advantage, and enable th of prosperity, equipped, that opens before her. other parts of China, are results of the past, both employed and the influen what is to be done. Th widely opened, merely to It is meant that we shoul it. The messengers of t most every part, and bri even now be possessed. native and foreign, and country, the whole land period of five years, and town and village. The w fully adequate to the wor go." One Day's Miss BY REV. Early one morning the me to Ta-kau (ten mouth) large and curious crowd t house in which a girls' sc After waiting half an h that they had never seen into his awful presence to The teacher tried to pers were about to take our moment, a little girl, the her way through the crow character classic. After another girl to come in, a hear four of the pupils. To each of those who and told them I would bri hence for those then will times it is very difficult t interior, but all these girls out fail. All our girls' so Foreign Missionary Socie Soon after returning to good-bye dinner given |