The prospect for full congregations was not flattering

The

he Christians live scattered over a wide district. increased in violence and I had given up hope of a lic service, when we were informed that the church well filled. A sermon was preached to a well behaved manifestly appreciative audience. Several in the ence, principally elderly men, instead of responding the stereotyped "Amen," invariably at the close of a age or fitting application, gave sanction nods which quite as helpful and do not attract so much attention. is most amusing, however, as one is preaching to a hen assembly to observe some old elders doing the I same, while the preacher may be shooting his iest charges against heathenism, attacking with t zeal the very idols which the assenters have all their 5 worshiped and fully expect to the full measure of r days.

here is very little contradiction in our most mixed informal assemblies, the speaker has his own way ever much he may court controversy.

here is a tacit understanding to allow a speaker the est liberty, to touch upon any and all subjects, ghter all creeds, call in question the ideas upon which r faith has rested for thousands of years, and they pass all his eloquence as unconcerned as though a intebank were reciting stories in a tea shop.

is not a simple matter to interest a Chinese audience re are before you say three hundred people, mostly . The boy of from ten to fifteen always manages to Iwich himself somewhere to crunch peanuts, chest, watermelon seeds or hard pears, and ever on the t for tricks, especially so when you are drawing your it comparisons, or telling an effective story. here is the old man with a thin growth of soft hair a chin and upper lip, the pride of old age, which he lly nurses while his eyes are fixed upon you; five ices out of ten he is deaf in one or both ears, and is polite to tell you so until after service, when a per1 question may be put to him and he replies by say"I cannot hear."

ou see before you the vain empty headed literate who quote the Four Books almost verbatim. He has manI by bribery or surreptitiously using smuggled copies le classics at examination to obtain a degree. He forthwith put on a pair of goggles, and cultivated inger nails, until their five inch growth demands silcases on their backs for protection.

e walks to the front seat, sits as he supposes Conis did, arranges his right hand palm upward finger nails neatly tucked under his flowing

He looks wise turns to right and left to soo if

the beasts, then there are lo

Out of the number there r way heard and learnt enoug them on a par with a Sunda age. It will require tact and find something to feed such

My congregation was not morning, yet there were som mentioned, except the liter Sunday service. Here were tant who had come through three years ago they were to now they find the text in the closely, and confess a hope i

The Sunday-school in th large, was a season of some i tion in the evening, notwiths large. This was my first Su press the pleasure it gave me professors of Christianity, w were totally ignorant of that listen to with so much intere

The Chinese are seldom or in imitation of some enthusi not their nature to show the secrete deeply;" their most pressed with a laugh. They and it requires many years cl their mental peculiarities, to the elastic coils are bound so your shrewd guesses may pro

The Chinaman recovers a quisite grace and coolness th unvarnished truth. If the he science it is like the soul of

ment.

March 8th. The fitful spri were dried by the rising sun We were in our saddles by 9 the wide valley to evergreen schools nearly equidistant f proach the first school, pass trees upon a hillside. Conica before the hamlet, brushwo ready for the arches. The around half dried pools; gee roaming at sweet pleasure in there are no such things as ba

A curious crowd is gather horses are hitched to the nea

unhraban nhalanw at an haal.

gant cathedral and a large French hospital. There is hip-yard where many ships are built. The gold and versmiths are celebrated for their fine filagree work. The Sultan owns half of the island and the Arabians n nearly all the rest. The Hindus are the merchants d bankers, and some of them are very wealthy. It is gular that the Parsees are the principal judges, teachs and doctors, while the natives are the laborers and vants.

The Sultan is quite civilized. He has abolished the ve trade, gives dinners in European style, with music om a fine band, with all sorts of luxuries, and rides in a lendid carriage and four, with six outriders in scarlet d gold. The Sultan's dominions are not clearly deed on the mainland, and his influence extends but a tle way from the coast.

The city is well supplied with good water by aquects from several small streams in the interior. The eets are crooked and dirty; some of them have streams water running in them. The different nationalities e in separate parts of the city and do not commingle gether as the people of most cities do. The men mix the marts of trade but not in society.

The city does a large trade in ivory, gum, copal, and in

oves.

The Arabs of Zanzibar are the most active and keen ders here, and seem to be the best of their race, havg many excellent qualities. They are fast friends, but rible haters of their enemies. The Wangwana include the colored people of Zanzibar, those that were vays free as well as those that were slaves, and they

e laborers.

The island has an interesting history. Formerly it was great slave market; much the greatest of any on the ast. The Sultan entered into a treaty with Great itain, and in pursuance of that treaty abolished slavery ich was strongly opposed by the Arabs. The old ve market was in a prominent position in the city, but er the abolition of slavery it became dilapidated and s purchased by a missionary society; and now on the y place used for the traffic in human flesh stands a irch, a school-house and a hospital. There are now een clergy, and as many lay, and nine female misnaries and about thirty natives engaged in the work, stly self-supporting. There are schools and seminas a little way out of the city, and the work is quite >mising.

There is a regular army of about 1,200 men. Monmedanism is the religion of the country.

There is perfect toleration and all the lower alongos

raphy of our country it n so small a body prosecu through the agency of tv

The Province of Quebec, Catholic Province, separat Provinces. Between the boundary of the Province of hundreds of miles, ther Church, and that a small o bec. Naturally, under the up separate and distinct m two widely-separated secti For some time our peopl West, contributed to the fu Missionary Union, before w organization of our own. tion of societies auxiliary Just twenty years ago the Ontario and Quebec was A. B. M. U. Seven years independent society. In t ren down by the sea sough mission among the Karen their missionaries, under th in Burma, and have had an quests of Christianity in tha Quebec, have been conned among the Telugus. The sionary of the American Ba native of Canada. According the Telugu Mission from its v It was at the suggestion an English Baptist missionary taken by the American Bap first missionary a Canadian.

During the period our s of auxiliary to the A. B. M. and wife (in 1867), and the wife (in 1869) were sent ou former during his location in sight of the building of the and was its principal for the to the general work of tha charge of the Ongole field di absence of Rev. J. E. Clough time he baptized eleven hund The work was greatly blessed the wondrous ingathering of months nine thousand six h

sized on menfaccion of their

I, AKIQU and Samuicotta. The number of comicants at the end of June, 1886, was 1,858.

The following is the missionary staff:

ev. John McLaurin and wife, Samulcotta. Rev. John Craig and wife, Akidu.

fiss M. J. Frith, (Zenana work) Cocanada. Rev. J. R. Stillwell and wife, Cocanada.

Rev. F. W. Auvache and wife, Samulcotta; and Miss ch,who has just been appointed to the Zenana work. t is expected that another missionary will be sent ost immediately. There are 2 ordained native achers on this field, 27 unordained preachers, 3 colteurs, 26 teachers and 7 Bible women.

The income of the Ontario and Quebec Society was year, $13,820.18. Of this amount $4,024.34 was ed by the Women's Circles. It is only ten years since women began their work in this organized way, and ir aid in carrying on the work has proved invaluable. e income of the society has greatly increased since first years of its existence. For the first year (1866) income was only $1,169.27.

'hree of the missionaries of the Ontario and Quebec iety have been removed by death, since the estabing of our independent mission, thirteen years ago. 5. John Craig was taken to her reward on the 2d of il, 1881. Symptoms of a sharp attack of cholera ibited themselves in Rev. A. V. Timpany at 8 o'clock the morning of the 19th of February, 1885, and at › in the afternoon he was beyond the reach of all 1. It is said of him in the last annual report of the ety, "Canadian Baptists had not realized that so tly and heroic a soul had served them as their misary in India. Theodore Parker said that, if modern sionary enterprise had done no more than produce Adoniram Judson it were worth all the cost.' A. V. pany was in his own place and measure another son in glowing devotion, another Carey in relentless

This society is honored in having had such a ser-let us preserve his memory as a rich treasure; let live as a perpetual inspiration." The Rev. G. F. rie was at home in Canada for much-needed rest, n the message of Mr. Timpany's death came to us. hough he had been home but a few months, and ild have remained much longer to recruit his health, the true Christian hero he was, he hastened away to India to take up the work of his brother who so suddenly fallen at his post. About two months e he entered into his reward. Writing under date ugust 10th the Rev. John McLaurin says: "Brother

blessed the work. What r

ponding period of its ex results? We devoutly tha mission. And may the frui even the bright promise of Ottawa, October 1, 1886.

Baptist Convention of No and Prince E

Rev. J. March, Secretary N. B., Can., Sept. 21, 1886:

"The Foreign Missional Board of the Baptist Conve Brunswick, and Prince Ed Telugus of the Presidency c lying to the north of that Ontario and Quebec.

Our stations are Bimlipa Bimlipatam has two outstati 3 native preachers, I colpor women. Chicacole has six members, 5 native preacher and 2 Bible women. Bob church, 17 members, 3 nativ teachers, 4 Bible women.

The missionaries in the fi and wife, Rev. J. R. Hutchi Wright and Miss A. C. G home but expect to leave Rev. R. Sanford and wife, and Rev. F. G. Harrington.

Five members were added June, 1886. Zenana work i aries' wives and by Miss H A boarding school for girls of Miss A. C. Gray. These tion of the Board, but are Baptist Missionary Union, a Board, which last year cont

Our receipts the past yea and our expenditures to $1 was for Home work (agents, the

year with a balance on the year with $500.83. The ing, and next year, with our for large results.

Miss Frith writes: "Many