had turned out the believing husband from the house. She gave up her idols and with her daughter sought baptism. The Tharans are an aboriginal tribe in Northwest Province of India. They are a simple people, observe no caste distinctions, are honest in their dealings, maintain a kind of devil-worship for a religion, and are much given to drunkenness. They have little shrines under trees, and they believe that local demons or spirits hover near these places, and at times they make offerings to appease them. They are the people among whom Rev. S. Knowles has baptized over 500 per sons. Rev. G. H. Rouse, a missionary in India, gives the following encouraging signs respecting Protestant progress in India :-The growing friendliness of the people, the growing knowledge of the people, the lessening prejudices of the people, the decreasing faith in Hinduism, the growing reverence for the person of Christ, especially in Bengal, the readiness to purchase and read the Scriptures, the growing independence of the Church of Christ, the spread of the work among the women, and the formation of philanthropic associations, apart from Christianity, for the social elevation of the people. These A missionary writes from China that the wife of Prince Kung, the son of one Emperor, and the brother of another, has become a Christian. One of her lady attendants visited the Presbyterian missionaries and procured a New Testament and some other Christian books. were seen by the wife of the Prince; she read them and became very much interested. The Gospel was talked about and discussed, until now there is reason to believe that no less than thirty-o inmates of the palace have renounced their idolatry and professed their faith in Jesus as their Savior. They meet together for worship on the Sabbath. -one MISSIONARY QUESTIONS. BY THE REV. J. CLARK. O ye followers of Christ, who live Your sovereign Lord's commands? On Olivet He gave? Have you told the great wide world That Jesus died to save? Have you each, in deep, and solemn Bowed down before His feet, Have you given to Him your heart's best And yo Your Will y That Will yo I Will Have y t Whe No reco No g Will yo G Will Have y W Of yo Have yo On Ol O, will That Nova "Our Your wealth, your strength, your all? just iss Stand pledged beyond recall? Your promised offerings given? All registered in heaven ? Do you think of sorrow-laden souls, Whose sacred name you bear? Do you never give more thought to self Whose boundless grace you know? hearts, The Rev. Mr. Forbes, Secretary of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, furnishes the following interesting information respecting the Hawaiian Islands: The Did you ever feel, in your heart of first Hawaiian pastor was ordained in 1849. Since that time ninety-five Hawaiians have been ordained, of whom thirtyeight are at present pastors in the home field and nine are in foreign service, The blessed Saviour's love? written for 30 y contains dia Mis Church sonal re tion con The pric $3. It i sample author a Pa. See of cover We th teresting senting work in reading knowled mission our inter save ther our reade large cir In 1856 is is an increase upon the increase of ear. The increase of last year was y-five thousand dollars, but forty sand of it was by bequest from one e. Deducting this, the total increase e income of the Missionary Society not be less than one hundred and one thousand dollars over the in> of 1884. ? must make an increase of one Ired thousand dollars more to reach million line. The five thousand odist pastors of the West can do it 'finding the last man, woman and 1." Do it for the sake of Him who Himself for us. .....$ 96,355.42 Waters of of Acre Miorias. Gables Mount Nazeroth ter from Rev. Dennis Osborne. aplain McCabe wrote to Rev. Dennis orne, of India, asking him to come America to help on the million, and following is his reply, written Mussoorie, May 11, 1886 : CAR BROTHER-I should have acvledged earlier your very kind letter esting my making a visit to much d America, in the interest of mission othing would have afforded me greaty or satisfaction for the object is one armony with my deepest sympathies loftiest hopes, while the pleasure of n associating with beloved and hon1 friends, afforded a feast of anticion. Polla Engannini Shech Ramleh Jericho. JEHUSARIG Bethlehem Dead Sea ms Map is divided into Squrres of 10 mil CATECHISM ON SYRIA. Where is Syria? It is in Western Asia, and borders on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Palestine is now included in it. To whom does Syria belong? Since What is the population of Syria? Who are the Mahommedans? The ut I could not feel, after much Who beside Mahommedans are found verts from Catholic lowed to 50,000. m How About 50,0 Which o Christians Jacobites, nians. Who w sionaries Rev. Pliny in 1820; R seph Wolf and Rev. Smith in 1 the repre Board. To whom ican Boar the Amer 1870. What t missions ‹ Church, 1 byterian What have Mi Church Missiona Society, Christiar of the I Schools, are some independ What work for College. What Protesta intolera which and is THE EUGENE R. SMITH, Editor. COO AUGUST, 1886. The Country and People of Lib Liberia is a republic on the west coast of Africa, extending from the south-east bank of the Manna river on the north, to the San Pedro river on the south, a distance of about 500 miles, and running back from the coast. from 50 to 200 miles. Rev. Dr. G. W. Samson writes: "Liberia had its origin in a want and duty of the United States." It was deemed desirable to set apart a place on the west coast of Africa where slaves, who had been a bill of sale of certain lar the Republic of Liberia. man, suggested the name The colonists in Liberi made for them in the Uni Colonization Society, until cided to give the colonists In July, 1847, a convention present President is пary $900. Johnson, an able Christian man, who is serving his second term. The President is assisted in his executive function by five ministers-the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior, the AttorneyGeneral, and the Postmaster-General. The total population is estimated to number 1,068,000, all of the African race, and of which number 18,000 are Americo-Liberians, and the remaining 1,050,000 aboriginal inhabitants. Monrovia, the capital, has an estimated population of 3,000. The laws prohibit white persons from becoming. citizens or holding property. In 1871 the republic contracted a loan of $500,000 at 7 per cent. interest to be redeemed in 15 years. No interest has been paid on it since 1874, and the principal and interest. due this month amount to nearly one million of dollars. EDUCATION. The American Colonization Society furnishes the following report respecting education in Liberia : The American Colonization Society schools are reported to have been regularly attended, and with encouraging results; that at Arthington having 20 male and 26 female scholars, of whom 10 are Aborigines, and the school at Brewerville 34 Liberian and 4 native boys. The increasing number of children and the rapid extension of this settlement make additional educational facilities necessary. A high school, with an industrial department, is very desirable. The Hall Free School, at Cape Palmas, under the auspices of the Maryland State Colonization Society, is stated to have 50 pupils of both sexes and nativities. The Anna Morris School at Arthington, is said to have 49 boys and 23 girls; of the former of whom 27 are natives. This interesting school was founded and is sustained by the disinterested efforts of Edward S. Morris, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions report 4 not given, and there is not nativity of those reported. The Liberia College was in and the first regular term be schools which had chiefly p closed soon after it opened. 14 pupils in the College, (of man, 3 in the Sophomore an in the Preparatory departme The Liberia College is su Donations for Education in New York State Colonizatio nia Colonization Society he teacher of the female school The foregoing returns, in they are, show an attendance to the inconvenience which a state of absolute dependence upon friends at a distance must necessarily entail. no PEOPLE. Mr. Wm. Coppinger says of the people: "Liberia has an element of progress in her Aboriginal population which no other civilized government in Africa can command. In her jurisdiction there are Veys, the ingenious inventors of an alphabet; Mandingoes, the enterprising merchants and Mohammedan missionaries, who fill Soudan with their wares and letters; Pessehs, who are the laborious and indefatigable workers of the soil; Kroomen, without whom extensive enterprises can be carried on in Africa; Bassas, who supply palm oil by the millions of gallons, camwood and ivory by the thousands of tons; besides Golahs, Deys, Queahs, and the indomitable and irrepressible Gre boes. All these God has given to Liberia. Are these not a people for whose elevation it is thought worth while to la never a slave; he was too us sailor. In order to prevent th the tribe adopted as a sign a b Every male child is tatooed, stamp upon his face, of w proud. These tribes dwell in town or headman. The houses are boo. Many of them are obl FAVORITE WIFE OF AN AFRICAN CHIEF TRAVELING. bor? They are coming forward, and they will bring their contributions to the markets of civilization and their offerings to the Most High." The fullest account of the people we have seen is that given by Prof. T. McCants Stewart, now of New York, but formerly the Professor of Belles Lettres and Law in Liberia College, in a pamphlet lately issued. He says: The people of Liberia, the Americo-African Republic, are divided into two classes: (1). The Aborigines, who are (a) the indigenous tribes, and (b) the slaves recaptured from slave-ships and returned to Africa; and (2). The colored colonizers from the United States and the West Indies, and their descendants. The Natives, as the Aborigines are called, numbering about 800,000 persons, are divided into tribes, named Veys, Mandingoes, Kroos, Golahs, Greboes, Pesehs, pretty. They combine differ They cover the dining-room well-to-do Americo-African, skillful, industrious natives. they use no nails, but a rope make, which are as strong ar manufactured in Europe or A Most people have an idea t an idle being who sits around will hardly believe that they in iron and gold, their weave their dyers, carpenters, merch farmers, and are engaged in mon to our more advanced c many of the Liberian tribes. them, the various industries |
