THE Boys' School in Sistova, Bulgaria, is to be transferred to Rustchuk, Bulgaria.

The Bombay Guardian of February 11 reports that Bishop Thoburu has secured pledges for five hundred scholarships for boys and six hundred for girls. The scholarships cost thirty rupees for each pupil.

The Chinese Recorder reports that a leading exponent of Taoism, in one of the cities of Central China, has received baptism at the hands of Rev. E. S. Little, and is followed in the profession of Christianity by all the members of his family.

The Chinese Recorder for February says that Rev. James Jackson, of Kiukiang, China, is preparing a commentary on the book of Job, and has given himself to the preparation of an improved text in the Wêu-li. "We hope much from his careful scholarship."

Rev. W. N. Brewster writes from Hinghua, China: "There is a very hopeful outlook in this city among the literary people. Two degree men have been baptized within a few months, and there are four other degree men awaiting baptism, besides several literary men of .ood families."

Rev. J. W. Erikson writes from Stockholm, Sweden, January 27: "St. Paul's, in Stockholm, is the oldest of our pastoral charges. The seventh of this month they celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. During these 25 years 2,058 have been received into full connection; of these 506 are still members, 927 have removed with certificates, and 108 have died. In St. Peter's 27 were received into the church on January 15. We have four pastoral charges in the city, and they are all doing well."

Good news reaches us of progress in different portions of our Western home field. Among the items of interest is found the following from Rev. O. A. Smith, who was recently transferred to Pocatello, Ida.: "We found just six members on arriving, and no property. We now have property paid for amounting to $4,500, a membership of about 60, a Sunday school with an enrollment of 95. Last year the charge paid a salary of $600 and house; this year it is paying $900 and house."

The Muzaffarnagar Circuit, South India Conference, under Rev. J. D. Webb and his band of workers, made considerable advance last year. The most important work was among the chumars. During a tour of the missionary very interesting meetings were held, and a large number professed faith in Christ by baptism. Notwithstanding this success the presiding elder says that it is evident the ground has just been broken for extensive work among this class of people. "It is gratifying that the chief men have already become Christians, and it is expected that through them the masses will be reached erelong."

Rev. Dennis Osborne, Presiding Elder of the Mussoorie District, South India Conference, last year, reports: The past year is noteworthy as marking a remarkable advance in the work of the district, and in the development of new and important openings. Every circuit has prospered; in the eleven months embraced in this statistical year there have been over three thousand baptisms, and up to present report the district takes the lead in gains by baptism throughout our mission work in India. All the charges have been faithfully supervised, and devoted toil and energy have been bestowed by our preachers with evident manifestations of the divine blessing. The district comprises mission stations at Mussoorie, Rajpore, Rurki. Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Patiala, Lahore, and Delhi. Each station mentioned above has many substations, some of which are so overgrown and important that they must be formed into circuits before long."

Rev. George H. Jones writes from Chemulpo, Korea, of one of the natives who was an applicant for admission to church membership: "He told me his religious experience. Recently his little daughter was stricken and lay near death. In the deep of the night, as he sat with heavy heart watching her, she seemed already to have passed away, and in his grief he took her in his arms and uttered his first prayer to God, begging in the name of Jesus for the life of his child. Then an assurance came to him that God had granted his petition, and though she still seemed lifeless, he put her down and waited for the day. Then the neighbors came and begged him to call the moudang-witch-but he said: 'No, I have no business with her any more.' His mother-in-law also came and determined to take things in her own hands and consult the witch, but he stopped her. In reply to her angry remonstrances he told her that if any appeal was made to the spirits' the child would die. So in simple faith he trusted God, and 'the child is well to-day.'

Utah Mission Notes.

BY REV. J. D. GILLILAN.

SINCE the last letter to THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS several have been added to the force already here. Rev. John G. Clark, of Canton, N. J., takes the work at Scofield and Castle Gate, which was worked last year by Rev. B. R. Birchall, a local preacher formerly of the New Connection of England. Mr. Birchall saw fit last month to become a member of the Mormon Church and was baptized.

February 6. Rev. George P. Miller, of the Northwest Kansas Conference, came to Utah and was appointed to the work at Monroe.

February 15. Rev. Frank J. Bradley, from the South Kansas Conference, came to take the work at Heber,

Utah, making in all eight new men since last June, every post of honor filled. More men will be needed, however, at our next Annual Meeting in June, as some of the men now here will leave the field, some to go to school, others to permanent positions.

Revival fires are burning in many places in the mission and good is being done.

Two new churches have been formed from First Church since last June, and twenty-five have gone from it to Iliff Church; still First Church-now called the "Church of the Strangers "—has more than held its own. One hundred and twenty-five have united with Iliff Church in the last seven months; Liberty Park Church has a membership of sixty-two; Second Church a membership of twenty one, showing an unprecedented growth in Salt Lake Methodism in one year.

H. A. Jones, of Logan, reports forty conversions. Joseph Wilkes, of Mount Pleasant; W. M. Crowther, of Provo; G. W. Rich, of Payson; and others report conversions and accessions. The good work goes on.

Miss Mattie E. DeMock has been appointed to the school at Cannon, and Rev. C. R. Graves to the school at Benson.

Miss Belle Peterson, who taught at Elsinore so long without a pupil, has been sent to do city missionary work at Provo.

Rev. C. J. Heckner, the Scandinaviar pastor in Salt Lake, has gone to Butte, Mont., to edit a paper. Mrs. W. M. Crowther, wife of our pastor at Provo, was translated December 2.

The Mormons are turning every stone possible and setting the rest on edge in their zeal to procure Statehood for Utah.

The Mormons and Judge Zane want it; the nonMormons and Governor Thomas do not want it; financial and social reasons being the chief objections urged.

Congressmen want it for political reasons, the Mormous for religious reasons, while Christians oppose it for moral reasons.

Notes from Korea.

MRS. DR. ROSETTA SHERWOOD-HALL writes from Seoul, Korea, December 14: "Since the Annual Meeting in August last, when the bishop appointed me to the medical work in the Woman's Hospital, I have treated 1.329 dispensary patients, admitted 18 into the wards, and have made 42 professional out-calls. A number of books and Sunday sheets have been sold, and some given away. The average attendance at the Sunday afternoon service in the dispensary has been twentythree.

"The new dispensary in connection with the Baldwin Chapel, at the East Gate, will soon be finished, and I expect to open medical work there. It promises to be a good field for much-needed work.

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houses of persons of rank; among these, to the home of the grandchildren of the former king's daughter. We are always received so gladly into any of the homes where we have been called professionally that I am sure as soon as we are able to follow up this work there will be far greater results."

Dr. W. B. Scranton writes from Seoul, Korea, December 23: "The work of Dr. Hall on the Pyengyang Circuit to which he was appointed at the last Annual Meeting has opened well, and the missionary received an unmistakable welcome. Pyeng-yang is two hundred and fifty miles from Seoul. Baldwin Chapel is being built at the East Gate. It is the gift of a lady in Ohio after whom it is named, and will have a dispensary connected with it. The neighborhood shows much interest in the undertaking.

“I could easily and profitably spend all my time in evangelistic work in this city. I have never known a time of greater encouragement in Korea since our first coming, but there is a great need for more laborers. The seekers come seeking us out and asking for instruction. We do not need to hunt them, but they come to us openly. I have fifteen names on my list of probationers for this official year.

"I asked one why he desired baptism and iustruction, and he replied, 'I am secking salvation in the life to come through the mercy of Jesus.' Two of the number have become very active workers. One, a soldier, has turned his barracks into a chapel, and he says he has seven or eight men who are nearly ready to come among us as the result of his work. Another has turned out a most excellent student.

"Chemulpo Circuit, in charge of Brother Jones, is developing well. It has enrolled twenty men since the Annual Meeting and is the banner charge for collections. During last Sunday's services two men were on their knees and in tears asking for pardon.

"A school in the care of Brother Jones, assisted by Brother Noble, is going on quietly and on a good basis. It is making its way and will be of increasing value and appreciation as its purpose is known and its name found to be a statement of fact, A School for Rearing Useful Men.' It has forty-two enrolled this year, and an average attendance of twentysix, ranging in age from eight to twenty-five years.

"By invitation I was present yesterday at the closing exercises of the term to distribute a few small prizes the teachers wished to give. It was a happy, intelligent little company. I asked them why they came to the school, and they said that they might the better understand the Bible. The school is known as Christian, and one recently said when he was told that if he entered he must study the Bible as a text-book, 'If that is not my reason for going to the school, why should I attend?' Its Christian character is stamped upon it, and we believe most of the boys are trying to follow Jesus.

"One of our native local preachers has just returned from a second trip to the south districts,

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where he has been preaching and selling books. He reports that there are twelve who have been aroused and desire baptism. This field is almost new. Our medical work at the capital and elsewhere is received with marked favor. We are making decided gains, and many of us believe we are on the eve of a great ingathering. Roman Catholicism is forging ahead once more. Protestantism is unmolested. The converts of either are not troubled by the government."

Concerning the Iong-bing District, China.

BY REV. M. C. WILCOX.

RECENTLY I returned from an interesting aud, I trust, profitable tour of the Iong-bing District. Some who read these lines will perhaps remember that this district has for years borne a reputation for turbulence and for uncivil treatment of missionaries and native Christians.

Now all this seems to be changed. Nearly everywhere there was manifested an unusual eagerness to hear the glad tidings of salvation. In scores of towns and villages, when the weather permitted, crowds gathered to listen to preaching and to buy tracts, of which I sold large numbers. In a few cases the crowds were somewhat boisterous, and rather too lavish in using such epithets as devil," "foreign dog," and others more polite, but nowhere was the slightest violence attempted. many parts of the district the Foo-Chow dialect is not understood, so I was often put to the disadvantage of speaking through an interpreter. Still the crowds were generally patient and eager to hear.

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After I had been six weeks on the district the weather turned so cold and snowy that it was impossible to secure an audience even of those most friendly to us, so I was obliged to shorten my visit a week or two. However, my recent experiences fully convinced me that the time has come when we should establish a foreign mission station in that district, perhaps at Iong-bing city, which is central and the capital of the prefecture. It seems to me that two missionaries-one a physician-should be sent as soon as practicable to study Mandarin, which is widely spoken in that region. They would thus be ready for residence and labor in that part of our territory as soon as an appropriation for the necessary buildings could be secured. Our brethren of Central China are gradually advancing toward us in the Kiangsi Province, and we ought to push forward our outposts till the two mission fields join.

Let me add that our native preacher and members on the long-bing District earnestly desire that a foreign station be opened as soon as possible in their midst. The constantly increasing contributions by the Church in the home land will, I trust, make possible an advance in every form of missionary enterprise, including the establishment of this very important outstation.

Missionary Personals.

WE regret to hear of the death of three of Bishop Taylor's missionaries, Mrs. Withey and two of her daughters, in Angola.

Rev. I. B. Case and wife, of Kansas, and Miss Bacon left, per steamer Servia, March 11, for Liverpool. Thence they will sail for St. Paul de Loanda, Africa, to enter Bishop Taylor's Angola work.

Rev. C. P. Hard and family, of India, arrived in New York, on March 1, and went on to Evanston, Ill. Their return was occasioned by the health of Mrs. Hard, who underwent a successful surgical operation in England.

Dr. C. W. Drees, the superintendent of our South American Mission, on his return to South America last month was accompanied by Mrs. Drees, Miss Amy Wood, the daughter of Rev. Dr. T. B. Wood, of our Peru Mission, Miss Lizzie Hewett, Miss Alice Hayward, and Miss Maggie Collard.

Rev. G. B. Smyth, of our Foo-Chow Mission, has arrived in New York. He returns on account of his health, and his address for the present will be Mission Rooms, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. His wife and children remain in China, and his wife will supply his place as far as possible in the Anglo-Chinese College, and on the Fokien Christian Advocate.

Missionary Literature.

The Deaconess and Her Vocation, by Bishop Thoburn, is published by Hunt & Eaton, at sixty cents. The contents embrace chapters on The Deaconess and Her Work, The Modern Deaconess, The Deaconess Movement, The Deaconess and Her Vocation. Many new features of this most blessed movement are here discussed, and the reading of the book will enable us to see what a grand work is being done, and can be done through its instrumentality.

Madagascar, Its Missionaries and Martyrs, is written by William John Townsend, D.D., and published by the Fleming H. Revell Company, at seventy-five cents. The introduction, progress, and triumphs of Christianity in the island of Madagascar is a marvelous story, and is here well told. The London Missionary Society has met with great success in the missions in Madagascar, reporting 700 ordained native ministers, more than 5,000 other preachers and teachers, over 60,000 church members, and 200,000 adherents, exclusive of nearly 100,000 scholars. This book is an excellent one for our Sunday school libraries.

Hunt & Eaton are publishing some excellent manuals, under the name of "The Ten Minute Supplemental Lessons for the Sunday School," at sixty cents per dozen, postage prepaid. They are prepared by Judge L. E. Hitchcock, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school in Chicopee, Mass. The series of seven books embrace: 1. The Life of Jesus; 2. Studies About the Bible; 3. Bible Geography; 4. Bible History; 5. History of the Christian Church; 6. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 7. Government of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Each series contains thirty-six lessons, and the books should be in general use in all our schools.

A Winter in North China, by Rev. T. M. Morris, describes a journey taken with Rev. Dr. Richard Glover from England to China, and a stay of several months in China. The two constituted a deputation sent by the English Baptist Missionary Society to examine the work of the Chinese missions of that society, and this is in part the report made by one and the conclusions reached by both. There is connected with the report other interesting information respecting the Chinese country, people, religions, missionary work, and methods, which give increased value to the book. It is China seen by one more independent witness, who believes strongly in the encouraging progress and ultimate success of Protestant missions. The book is published by the Fleming H. Revell Company. Price, $1.50.