spiritual good of the whole neighbourhood. In the course of time this, with its affiliated station, Zion Hill, will be able to support a pastor. 5. ZION HILL is situated in the mountains betwixt Mandeville and the parish of St. Ann's, and is quite a wild, romantic, and far-off district. This station has abundantly repaid the efforts our Brother Williams has expended upon it. A very substantial and commodious chapel has been completed, and opened without a farthing of debt, that will accommodate at least 300 persons; and here also there is a day and Sunday-school in effective operation, and there are the most pleasing prospects of future usefulness and success. The church numbers ninety-three members and thirty-nine inquirers. 6. PENNY GARN is a small station further back in the mountains, that until recently was under the care of Mr. Williams; but, with a view to the better oversight of the few people there, it has been handed over to our brother, the Rev. W. Hathaway. Our brethren at the above-named places have been labouring faithfully and successfully during the last three years, and we wish to see their work continued until the stations, with the blessing of God, shall be worked up to a condition of independence. In order to do this we venture to ask for an extension of aid to them for an additional two years. We press this request upon you the more earnestly because we have been very much disappointed in only receiving two instead of the four we were led to expect under the Appeal Fund. Our hands are full-more than full-of home mission work. We have lately taken upon ourselves the support of Mr. Brown, at Santa Cruz, in St. Elizabeth. We have just agreed to assist Mr. Tharpe, a young brother from college, as a missionary at St. Andrews, taking Mount Charles as a centre. We are sustaining Mr. Gilling as a missionary in Portland, taking Buff Bay as a centre. We are also sustaining Mr. E. Jones, just from Calabar, at Clonmel and Mount Olive, in St. Mary's. Lately we have entered into an engagement to employ Mr. D. B. Campbell in the lower district of Clarendon, taking Hayes, lately under the care of Mr. Duckett, as a basis from which to work this important district. And, further, it has been found necessary to relieve our Brother Teall of a portion of his arduous work in the mountains of St. David's, in consequence of his failing health. To effect this we have placed Mr. Porter, just from college, at Galloway, in this district. And now also the support of Brother Teall devolves entirely upon us. The employment of these six brethren in important spheres of usefulness involves an expenditure of £600 per annum. We are desirous of sending another agent to share the work of the five stations under the care of Mr. Service, in Portland. We have also the most urgent solicitation from Westmoreland to send Christian ministers to carry on and extend the work of God in that populous parish; but for the present we must withhold our hands, for we have neither men nor money for the opening fields that are calling for our aid. We think, dear brethren, that you will see, from this short statement of facts, that our hands are full, more than full (though we have made no reference to our efforts in regard to Hayti), and that the churches in Jamaica are using their best efforts to extend the Gospel in their own land; and we venture to think that we have made out a case that will lead you to grant our request in regard to those who are now receiving support from the Appeal Fund, but which will cease, according to agreement, in a short time. We are, dear brethren, Yours in the Gospel of Christ Jesus, (Signed on behalf of the Committee) ELLIS FRAY, Secretary. Eight Days' Mission Work at Rajnuggar. THE THE following is a translation of a discourse addressed to the Bengali Church at Sewry, on Sabbath morning, October 4th, by the Rev. W. A. Hobbs : - to come. "My dear people,-In the 13th and warning men to flee from the wrath 14th chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, you will find that Paul and Barnabas, after making a long missionary journey, returned to the church which sent them forth, and when assembled with the brethren, related where they had been, what they had done, and the extent to which God had blessed their message. Brothers, this is the way to interest God's loving people in the spread of saving knowledge. It makes the church feel, not simply that they have been preaching Christ through the lips of their itinerating brethren, but stirs them up to pray in their homes for the success of those who are away from their homes "You know that Brother Gobindo and I have been for eight days at the old city of Rajnuggar, and that we went there not to see or be seen, but to try and weaken the hold which idolatry has over the minds of the people, by declaring the blessed doctrine of a happy everlasting life after the judg ment of the Great Day, and all through the mercy of our God, and the atoning death of Jesus Christ our Lord. What we did and where we went looks very small by the side of the tremendous journeys undertaken by Paul; but, such as it was, I now proceed to detail to you, in the hope that each one of you will be stirred up to take a more lively and abiding interest in the propagation of our divine religion. "FIRST DAY. "On Tuesday morning, Brothers Gobindo, Spurgeon, and I, left Sewry, and about two o'clock arrived at the former capital of the district (Rajnuggar). After we had arranged our boxes, &c., and had a cup of tea, we left our room at the police-station, and, walking down the ruined bazaar, looked about for a congregation to preach to. Seeing three or four persons sitting in a shop, listening to a man (whom I subsequently found out to be a priest of Shiva), we joined them; and, as they were talking about nothing in particular, I suggested that we should talk about sin, and how to get it pardoned. In a few minutes we had a score of people around us, to whom I explained what sin is; that, of course, God does not like it; that He has threatened to punish men heavily for it; that we are so steeped in it and entranced by it that we do not try to break its bondage, and, consequently, unless aid come to us from without, sin will prove our eternal ruin. 'Priest,' said I, 'are my words true or false? false, refute them; if true, instead of leading men away from God to Shiva, lead them away from Shiva to God.' To this he replied, 'Just before you came up, I had been telling the people that faith in Shiva would give them all kinds of prosperity; do you expect me to burn down my own house? I don't wish to argue with you, but if you have anything more to say about sin, say on' Said I, I have only spoken half my words at present, and they hers all been shame and sadness If producing words. But the other half of my words are hope and joyproducing words; for God has made known to men an acceptable atonement for sin, and urges the people of the world to believe in it, and thus change death for life.' The entire group of people seemed to listen with marked attention; but no sooner did Brother Gobindo begin to address them than a young man present, by asking a number of irrelevant questions, threw everything into confusion, so that the end of the meeting was not so profitable as was the beginning. It was nearly dark when we returned to our room at the policestation. "At early dawn, walked to Pátmoore, two and a half miles distant. Last year at this place we got a good reception, and anticipated the same today, but we scarcely got it. The old ruler of the house was soured by losses and distress arising from the famine; and, though he did not exactly refuse to hear the Gospel, he did not take his former lively interest in gathering us a congregation; and in the course of conversation was as captious and surly as he well could be. It is always a pleasure to answer (if one can) sincere objections, but many of his were very vague. For instance, after I had been speaking of the Lord Jesus as the only way to God, he said: 'Look you, from this spot, if I wish to go to Sewry, I can go by three routes; there is the highway, there is a footroad, and there is a winding path by the river. Now, just in the same way, there are three roads to heaven; you Christians go one road, Mahommedans go another, and we Hindus go a third.' To this I replied, Brother, what strange people you Hindus are! In arguing about any matter, you to think that if you can bring an illustration that will coincide with what you wish to prove, the illustration proves your point. Because there are three roads from here to Sewry, what in the world has that to do with there being three roads to heaven? Sup, posing that your village contained 199 people, is that an argument that there will be just 199 persons in heaven? Again, who does not know that good bread is made from a white sort of powder called flour; but chalk powder also is white, and so is arsenic. Does it follow, therefore, that chalk powder and arsenic will do to make bread with ?' Finding that he could not disparage Christianity by means of his three roads, he ventured an attempt to raise Hinduism to an equality with it, by trying to show that it also possessed definite evidence of its divinity. "IS HINDUISM DIVINE? "Said he, "Is the prognostication of an utterly improbable event a proof that God has inspired the prognosticator?' 'Yes, providing the prognostication occur.' 'Would God inspire a man who was passionately attached to a false religion ?' I should say not.' Then, Sahibs, listen to me, and you shall have a proof that the Hindu religion is a god-given one. A few years ago, a very devout Hindu said to his disciples, 'I have received a private intimation from God, that to-night at nine o'clock I am to be miraculously consumed by fire. Be present, and witness my dissolution; it will be to you a certain proof that all I have told you is to be believed by you.' A little before nine o'clock, seven of his disciples met him. Whilst he was conversing with them a flame of fire burst forth from his navel, which burnt up his flesh without inflicting any pain. Shortly afterwards other flames burst out from his mouth, his nostrils, his eyes, and his ears, and thus in painless glory he left the earth. What greater proof could the God of the world give to honour Hinduism? This fact is known all over the country.' Is it?' said I; 'I have been in India fourteen years, and have never heard of it till now. Gobindo, brother, have you ever heard of it?' 'No.' Turning to his two grown-up sons, who sat near him, I found that they too had never heard anything of this wonderful event. 'Friend,' said I to him, if I were to tell you that I spent last night in the clouds, and dropped down to earth again this morning, you would not believe me; you would want a number of good honest witnesses to prove that they saw me mount to the clouds or else descend from them; what witnesses have you that this Hindu devotee was miraculously and painlessly consumed by fire. My witnesses,' said he ‘live at Khoddeah,near Sewry.' 'At Khoddeah? What are their names?' 'I don't know.' 'Have you ever spoken to them?' 'No.' 'How many witnesses are there?' 'I think there are two.' 'Brother,' said I, 'you are either trying to deceive me or to deceive yourself. I have a school of sixty boys at Khoddeah, and I go there almost every week. I have preached Christianity in that village at least fifty times, and I should say there is scarcely a person living there who has not at some time or other heard my teaching. Do you think that I should never have heard of this wonder you have referred to, if it had actually occurred. If this is the only thing you have to urge in favour of Hinduism being as Divine as Jesus Christ's religion, have respect for your good name, brother, and never urge such vain words again.' "NEED OF AN ATONEMENT. "In the afternoon we went to the village of Deegerpárâ. The head man of the village received us kindly, brought out his bedstead for us to sit upon, and summoned the villagers to assemble and listen to us. Nearly thirty persons came together. 'Brothers,' said I, 'just as a tree has its roots, so religion has its root facts. I have heard of your religion's root facts, and have decided that they embrace none which provide a worthy atonement for sin. Listen to the root words of the Christian religion, and then judge about them with this thought in your mind, "I shall soon die, and be judged by a strictlyrighteous judge."" All present listened with breathless attention whilst I unfolded to them the essence of the Gospel of Jesus. Many of the people seemed delighted, whilst one man observed, pointing to the hills eight miles distant, 'The rain might as well try to wash them away as for any one to contend against such a religion.' Nevertheless, one present did contend. 'Sahib,' said he, 'great sinners, of course, require a great atonement, as great as your Jesus made, but I don't need such an one.' 'Why not?' 'Because I have always tried to be good, and have succeeded.' 'Indeed, I cannot say as much, and I am sure you are deceiving yourself; however, let us see. Do you worship idols?' 'No.' 'Are you ever conscious of being covetous ?' 'No.' 'Do you ever recollect being passionate ? ' 'No.' 'Have you never had any lustful feelings in your mind of which you have felt ashamed?' 'No.' 'Have you ever spoken a false word?' 'Not more than five times, and then almost unintentionally.' Said I, turning to the people, 'Can you testify that what this man says is true?' 'It is partly true,' said one; he pays no respect whatever to our gods, but as for the other matters, what can we say? He is our leading man, and we do not wish to offend him.' I then informed him that the Holy Book laid down the law of holiness so strictly that an intention to deceive, a resolve to tell a lie, a desire to commit sin, are regarded by God (as far as He is concerned) as transgressions, although, from lack of convenience or want of suitable opportunities, the action may not have been accomplished. This I explained to them by a variety of illustrations. Now,' said I, 'I will leave you; but before doing so, I want to pray God to bless the people of this village by shedding spiritual light into their dark minds.' I then rose, and prayed for their well-being, more particularly commending to the mercy of God the man who said he had but five times sinned against God. Will not you pray for him too ?" Sree Nath's Disciples. N the Report of last year reference was made to the existence of a re IN the markable sect which has arisen in the district of Dacea, and owing its origin to the reading of the Scriptures by Sree Nath, its founder. At his death, some years ago, he left two followers, one of whom, Radha Krishna, continued the work of his teacher. The present head of the sect is a man Bamed Gaddadhar, who is a disciple of Radha. The account of our native |