Nan Temate, is a warm-hearted Christian, has an organized police force and guard, has gathered in and destroyed all the guns except rifles for the guard, has destroyed all the maneabas (the name given to the large dance and vice houses), has imposed heavy fines for theft, gambling, and licentiousness; the fermentation of "toddy," the sap of the cocoanut blossom, which is regarded not only as the drink and food of children, but the daily nourishment of all, is strictly forbidden. What cannot be used within a few hours, when it is sweet, must be poured out, or boiled down into syrup for future use. No work, either fishing or traveling, can be done on the Sabbath. The king has now a foreign house for government use, also two frame houses for his family. Although a king, and portly, weighing from 250 to 280 pounds, he is not afraid of work. Mr. and Mrs. Rand went with us to pay him a visit. He had just returned in

a pajama suit, wet and soiled, with his company of natives, some girls being among the number, from gathering stones from the reef at low tide, bringing the stones in four large surf boats, to build a dock to land upon and also a walk to his house. Trading by foreigners is prohibited unless they pay a tribute of one hundred dollars yearly, and the selling or giving guns or liquor to the natives is forbidden entirely. Four firms, two of them American, one German, and one from Sydney, have stores and warehouses at the king's village, with branch stores at other villages on the island, to sell, if tobacco is excepted, only useful articles. Is it not a shame that these few foreigners from so-called civilized countries must have a saloon, signboard and all, just for themselves to drink and gamble in? Shall not the first be last and the last first?

You will now find the people well dressed, except when fishing or working in the water. In villages where we have been able to furnish them teachers, all the children, and many older ones, are in schools. The teachers thought the

1,800 books left them would not supply the demand of the market for books. On the Sabbath all are not only expected to attend worship and Sabbath-school, but seemingly enjoy attending, if a walk of three or four miles will enable them to do so. There are eight places for stated preaching, with five dedicated houses of worship, four of which were enlarged last year; all the people, including men and women, working as they could, the women making the matting to cover the large buildings.

They have a bell costing $350, purchased to take the place of one costing $180, a few years ago, and cracked by vigorous pounding. An outlying church has a bell weighing 128 pounds. There are 750 church members, 112 of whom were received on confession the past year, and 200 restored. The contributions for missionary work amounted to $111.75, besides a contribution of $250, gathered to help supply the American evangelist with a craft much needed for

touring among the islands. The prince, an exceedingly fine-looking, portly young man, stands with the choir and carries the bass in Coronation, Beulah Land, The Precious Name, or The Sweet By-and-by.

The directors in the work the last few years have been an aged Hawaiian couple, Rev. R. Maka and wife, and they have been asking for recruits to hold their work while they secure a rest in their homeland at the Sandwich Islands. This request has been in vain, until this year. Now all the students in Dr. Hyde's Institute at Honolulu, as also the wives of all, have volunteered to go anywhere in the Gilbert Islands. The Hawaiian Board's treasury is about empty, but nevertheless two families are to be sent. Where are the two families our American Board has been looking for in vain, from our seminaries and 6,0cc student volunteers, who can be sent at once to hold the islands of the Marshall and Caroline groups and in time to bring about a similar result to that seen at Butaritari?

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VOL. LXXXVIII. AUGUST, 1892. — No. VIII.

THE receipts for June from donations were nearly $2,300 less than those for the corresponding month last year, from legacies nearly $15,000 in advance, so that the gain for the month was $12,557.51. For the first ten months of the financial year, the gain from donations has been nearly $5,000, while the legacies have been about $10,000 less than those for the corresponding period last year, so that the receipts for the ten months are behind to the amount of $5,146.71. The next two months are important months if the donations for the year are to increase as we all desire.

SINCE the present year came in, the treasurers of the funds which have been specially contributed for two of the mission colleges in Turkey have died. In place of the Hon. Arthur W. Tufts, Joshua W. Davis, Esq., has been chosen treasurer of the funds of Euphrates College, at Harpoot. His address is Sears Building, Boston, Mass. In place of James M. Gordon, Esq., Samuel F. Wilkins, Esq., has been chosen treasurer of the funds of Central Turkey College, at Aintab, and he may be addressed at the Howard National Bank, Boston.

By the last mail from West Africa there came ten letters from as many boys, or young men as they should rather be called, at Kamondongo, Bihé, addressed to Secretary Smith, asking for another lady to assist Miss Bell in her school. It seems that some allusion was made in the school to the fact that another lady might possibly be sent for this school, and so much pleasure was manifested at the announcement that Miss Bell told the young men that, if they desired, they might write to Boston, expressing their wishes in the matter. Ten of them availed themselves of the permission. The letters are all written in clear, bold hand, in the Umbundu language, and translations by Miss Bell have also been forwarded. The following extract from one of these letters well illustrates their general character: "Yes, strengthen yourself to look for another to help Miss Bell; she has much work teaching boys and girls. We are well at the school of Miss Bell, learning to read and to write, and arithmetic. So we write to you to send us teachers, that they may teach us well, that they may bring us the words of our Redeemer. We were being lost with our sins. Our Redeemer is Jesus. In our school thirty-eight are seeking the path of redemption, of eternal life.

Farewell. Cisapa." To understand the full significance of these letters, we must remember that eight years ago the language in which they are written was not reduced to writing, and that these lads were then naked and untaught savages.