cants. Now there are 162, of whom 50 are women. There are seven organized churches, six ordained missionaries, and seven ladies, eighteen outstations, and two colporteurs and one Bible-woman. The missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church began their work in Fuh-Chau the same year the mission of the American Board was established. They have now eighty outstations, eighty chapels, and 2,083 members. In connection with the mission there are six ordained missionaries and eight ladies. The Church Missionary Society established a mission in Fuh-Chau in 1857, but no statistics of recent date are at hand.

The New Hebrides have a population of about 200,000 savages. No missionary work has yet been done in the larger and northern islands; but there is a Presbyterian mission in the southern islands, which has won some of them to Christianity. The first attempt to establish a mission in this group was made in 1839. In that year the London Missionary Society sent out the celebrated John Williams to explore the islands, with a view of planting a mission. Mr. Williams landed on Erromanga; but the savages only suffered him to live among them a day or two, when he and his companion, Mr. Harris, were put to death. A few years later other missionaries were sent out, and Aneityum was occupied. In 1852 thirteen people were baptized on this island, as the first fruits of mission work in the group. Three missionaries have been murdered in Erromanga since Williams's death-one as late as 1872. The mission now extends to ten islands, and is carried on by the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Ten missionaries are employed, who are assisted by seventy native teachers. There are 743 members, several thousand hearers, and 63 schools, with 2,000 scholars. Two of the islands, Aneityum and Anima, with a population of about 3,000, have abandoned idolatry and embraced Christianity. In the former a printing-press is established, the New Testament has been printed in the Aneityum language, and it is expected the translation of the Old Testament will be put to press next year. The missionaries have the use of a mission schooner, of 110 tons, to communicate with each other and with the several islands comprised in their field.

Subjects for the Missionary Prayer Meeting.

1. God's blessing on the brethren engaged in Bible translation, and on the circulation of the Scriptures in India.

2. The work done in the Zenanas: that God would open many more of them, and dispose the women of India to receive the Gospel.

3. Continued and increased prosperity for the work in St. Helena.

4. The work in Italy: that God will bless our brethren there and our brother recently accepted for it.

5. Great blessing to rest on the numerous missionary meetings to be held this month.

THE MISSIONARY HERALD.

ANNUAL SERVICES

OF THE

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18TH.

YOUNG MEN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

The Annual Members' Meeting will be held in the Library of the Mission House, Castle Street, Holborn. The Rev. C. Bailhache will preside. Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock.

Officers of Sunday Schools and Young Men's Auxiliaries are cordially invited to attend.

THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 19TH.

INTRODUCTORY PRAYER MEETING.

A Meeting for Special Prayer, on behalf of the Missions of the Society, will be held in the Library of the Mission House, Castle Street, Holborn, at Eleven o'clock. The Rev, Dr. GOTCH, of Bristol, will preside.

FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20TH.

WELSH ANNUAL MEETING.

A Public Meeting will be held, on behalf of the Society, in the Library of the Mission House. Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock. Several speakers are engaged, and there will be certain selections of vocal music during the evening.

Lord's Day, April 22nd.

ANNUAL SERMONS.

The usual Annual Sermons in the chapels of the Metropolis will be preached as follows:

JUVENILE MISSIONARY SERVICES.

The following services for the young will be held in connection with the Missionary Anniversary on the afternoon of Sunday, 22nd April, 1877. The Services as a rule commence at three o'clock, and terminate at a quarter past four. The Hymns, and one of the tunes, are printed in the Juvenile Missionary Herald. HENRY CAPERN, Sec. Y. M. M. A.