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The slur of Lieutenant Wood against our China missionaries has been published in the secular papers in all parts of the country. We would suggest to ministers and laymen to secure as large a circulation as possible of the facts given in reply in this number of THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD. Secular papers should be furnished with copies. ⚫

A difficulty has occurred in Korea between the French legation and the Korean government officials which threatens serious consequences. An arrogant sub-official of the French legation was turned out of the house of a Korean of high rank on account of his insulting conduct. On his return to the legation a posse of soldiers were sent to the house of the Korean, from which they dragged its offending owner ignominiously through the street, and shut him up in the legation building. This outrage ought to be resented with an emphasis which probably the Korean government is scarcely able to give it. It will hardly dare to take any stand which would be likely to have any appreciable influence with the French. The danger is that instead of this, the remembrance of the insult will continue to rankle in the breasts of the Koreans, and will result in a general prejudice and hatred of foreigners and all their belongings, including the work of missions. The occurrence is precisely in a line with the arrogant course pursued by the French government throughout the East, and it is humiliating to reflect that notwithstanding repeated outrages that have been committed, the French have gained greater concessions than any other western power, and that Roman Catholicism, whose propagandism France affects to foster, though from political motives, secures greater privileges than are accorded to any other faith.

In the Panjab persecution has become more bitter than ever. A Hindu lad who announced his determination to be a Christian received several severe beatings, and finally lighted lamps were held to the soles of his feet and palms of his hands till they

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were charred. Preparations were being made to kill him when the police arrived on the scene. In three other cases Hindu lads who had been baptized were poisoned until they became mental wrecks. In these cases the poisoners were relatives.

Meanwhile, that the baser forms of Hinduism are not dead among the lower classes is indicated by the fact of a "Cow Society" recently organized at Allahabad. An effort is being made to raise 25,000 rupees for the erection of a "Cow Hospital." One of the most influential Hindus of the city is secretary of the society. It is stated that the subscription drags.

executive officers congratulate themselves The Board of Foreign Missions and its on having secured the services of Rev. Samuel Jessup, of the Syria mission, to occupy Dr. Mitchell's desk during his absence among the missions. Mr. Jessup's admirable business qualifications, so conspicuous in his administration of the mission treasury and of the Beirut Press, together with his

large experience in other lines of mission work, mark him as the man for the place. The secretaries are under bonds to rememnative land after sixteen years of continuous ber that Mr. Jessup has returned to his service in Syria, and mean to lighten the burdens of his temporary position as much as possible.

MISSIONARY CALENDAR.

ARRIVAL.

FROM ABEIH, SYRIA.-August 15, Rev. T. S. Pond and family.

FROM NINGPO, CHINA.-June 18, Mrs. John Butler and son.

DEPARTURE.

FROM NEW YORK.-For mission in the Re

public of Colombia, Aug. 1, Prof. W. W. Findley. For West Persia mission, August 14, Rev. J. N. Wright and family.

For Syria mission, September 7, Miss Eliza D. Everritt (returning); Rev. and Mrs. W. Scott Watson.

For Brazil mission, August 28, Rev. W. E. Finley.

FROM SAN FRANCISCO.-For Pekin mission, August 13, B. C. Atterbury (returning).

MISSIONS IN PERSIA.

WESTERN MISSION. OROOMIAH: 600 miles north of west from Teheran, the capital of Persia. Station begun under the American Board, 1835; transferred to this Board in 1871. Laborers-Rev. J. H. Shedd, D.D., Rev. B. Labaree, D.D., J. P. Cochran, M.D., Rev. F. G. Coan, Rev. E. W. St. Pierre, and their wives; Mr. R. M. Labaree, Mrs. D. P. Cochran, Misses N. J. Dean, M. K. Van Duzee, Maria Morgan, Anna Melton and Mrs. E. W. McDowell; 28 ordained and 23 licentiate native helpers and pastors.

TIASY: new mountain station-opened in 1889; 150 miles west of Oroomiah, in Turkey. LaborersRev. E. W. McDowell and J. G. Wishard, M.D.; 3 ordained and 5 licentiate native pastors and helpers.

TABRIZ: nearly 500 miles north of west from Teheran; station begun, 1873. Laborers-on the field, Rev. Messrs. J. M. Oldfather and S. G. Wilson, and their wives; G. W. Holmes, M.D., and his wife; Miss Mary Jewett, Mrs. L. C. Van Hook, Misses G. Y. Holliday, A. G. Dale, M. E. Bradford, M.D.; 2 ordained and 4 licentiate native ministers. SALMAS: Hoft Dewan village; station begun in Laborers-Rev. J. N. Wright, Rev. J. C.

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Mechlin, and their wives; Misses C. O. Van Duzee and Emma Roberts; 1 ordained and 3 licentiate native ministers.

In this country: Rev. J. H. Shedd, George W. Holmes, M.D., and their wives; Mrs. B. Labaree, Misses Maria Morgan and Emma Roberts.

To sail October 2: Dr. J. P. Cochran and wife, Mrs. D. P. Cochran and Miss G. Y. Holliday (all returning).

EASTERN MISSION.

TEHERAN (capital of Persia, population 200,000): work begun in 1872. Laborers-W. W. Torrence, M.D., Rev. Messrs. S. Lawrence Ward and Lewis F. Esselstyn, and their wives; Miss Anna Schenck, Miss Cora Bartlett, Rev. Kusho Reuben; 1 licentiate and 6 male teachers.

HAMADAN (200 miles southwest of Teheran, population 40,000): occupied, 1880. Laborers-Rev. Messrs. James W. Hawkes and W. G. Watson and E. W. Alexander, M.D., and their wives; Miss Annie Montgomery, Miss Charlotte Montgomery, Rev. Pastor Shimon; 2 licentiates, 6 male and 5 female teachers.

To sail September 25: Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Potter (returning), Miss Adeline Hunter, Miss Mary Ward Greene and Mary J. Smith, M.D.

Building operations in Persia are proverbially slow, necessarily so indeed, as far as mission premises are concerned. At the very outset there is the difficulty of procuring a suitable site, secured by such title or guarantee as to warrant the investing of sacred funds in the enterprise. This was the chief difficulty encountered in the case of the hospital in Teheran now in process of erection. Several years ago, on the basis of the generous gift of Mrs. M. W. Ferry of Lake Forest, the Board authorized the establishing of a hospital, it being understood in advance that a site for the purpose was to be given by the prime minister of Persia. This hope, however, was never realized, owing to a succession of causes which need not here be detailed. It was finally determined to abandon the idea of securing a gift and to purchase a site for the hospital

over which the Board might have control. Through the kindness of some of the officials this was secured at a comparatively low price about one mile from the present mission premises, the Shah having suggested that it would not be well to plant it too near the government hospital. The lot comprises twenty-four thousand square yards. Upon this is being erected at present a large pavilion for the accommodation of thirty patients and also a house for the resident physician. This pavilion is part of a plan drawn under the supervision of our medical missionary, W. W. Torrence, M.D., which contemplates a substantial and commodious structure. The plan has the approval of the English royal engineer stationed at Teheran, who has had large experience in the building of military hospitals, and also of a physician and surgeon who has had

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much to do with hospitals both in London and Paris. It is believed that sufficient money is now in hand for the completion of this part of the hospital together with the physician's residence. It is very desirable, however, that without delay provision be made for equipment, especially in the direction of beds and bedding.

Dr. Torrence, whose professional skill, familiarity with the native languages and assured position in Teheran, qualify him for the important position of the head of such an institution, is soon to have the assistance of Dr. Mary J. Smith, now under appointment to Teheran. It is believed that the hospital will be a valuable addition to the evangelistic agencies of the Persia Mission.

Several articles prepared with reference to the Monthly Concert for October, procured and sent to us by the secretaries, are placed among the Contributed Articles beginning on page 313, viz.: Progress in Persia, The Work in Teheran, Intemperance in the

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Last month-as nearly every month-we sent forth appeals for more men! This month it seems fit that we should appeal for more money! For more men involves the need of more money. Let us then emphasize the monthly concert, this month, by appealing to God, whose are the silver and the gold, for the necessary means to enlarge and carry forward his work.

1. The ordinary work needs enlargement and therefore more funds. Last year was a successful year. More money was raised for home missions than ever before in a single year. But there were 1592 missionaries and 318 teachers, making in all 1910, at work, and the money was used up in their support. It was a successful year for the whole Church: 55,144 were received by profession, and by letter 36,130, a total of 91,274, of which 17,075 were gathered into our home missionary churches.

But the demand was not met, the whole

work was not done. The success achieved proved the readiness of the people to hear the gospel. More men are needed to do the work of this year and the work left over from the last year. Enlargement of the work demands enlargement of resources.

2. The foreign population in our country has grown to such proportions that the Board is forced to take a new departure in its behalf. The whole Church is waking up to the necessity of the case--the General Assembly has ordered an advance. The Board is not loath to make it, but it cannot do so without additional funds. This feature becomes at once like a new department of work-its proportions are so vast.

3. The school work needs enlargement. The turning over to us of whole tribes of Indians involves more work and expense. The division of land in severalty and the purchase money paid to the various tribes where they have sold portions of their reser

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vations increase the need of school work among them and their ability to share with us therein. For in it all, with what the government and the five nations do, full half of the expense of Indian schools conducted by our Board falls on the Board itself. Never before was the opportunity for Indian school work so great as now.

The school work among the whites in the South so auspiciously begun is also most promising. What the Methodists are doing shows what we might do if we had the means.

The older work among the Mormons and the Mexicans is equally promising and needy. In fact, there is the greatest need where there has been the greatest success. The better the school, the greater the number of pupils, the greater the need of enlargement of buildings and corresponding increase in the mumber of teachers. The four oldest and largest schools in Utah, namely, at Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan and Mount Pleasant, imperatively need and must have enlargement.

In New Mexico and Arizona the same is true. Santa Fé, Albuquerque and Tucson are undergoing necessary enlargement, which makes room for more pupils, involving also additional expense. The correspondence of our teachers and preachers among the people in New Mexico and Arizona-one people-is full of encouragement. The school work is very promising. Santa Fé, Albuquerque, Tucson, Las Vegas, Taos, Mora and many other smaller schools have borne fruit abundantly. These schools have led on to the organization of numerous churches. Recent correspondence reveals a general thoughtfulness most encouraging to teachers and missionaries.

The Mexicans are really a foreign people. They were born in what was a foreign country, they speak a foreign tongue, and none of them were trained in the Protestant faith. No people could be more un-American than they. But good inpressions have been made. Other schools are called for and other churches can be organized. Railroads are rousing the people to a better life and better thinking, and in many respects work among the people gives promise of still better things to come.

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Nearly all the schools are growing in popularity; the success of the non-Mormon political party in Ogden and Salt Lake City, the secret effort of the Roman Catholic priesthood in New Mexico to prevent similar results, indicate new opportunities and new calls to duty in the school work. From Alaska on the north, across the continent to the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, the school work is all ripe to the harvest. Delay now is at the great risk of the ripening grain. We need more money to meet the necessities of the present year.

We have had an unusual summer. Beginning with the Johnstown disaster we had floods and cyclones, and in places fires to devastate and destroy. We are told that the wheat crop in Manitoba is destroyed by drought and the cotton crop of Texas by floods; and that Kansas from Topeka to Kansas City is under water, crops and railroads destroyed. Still, on the whole, the season has been prosperous, and if the prosperous people will cheerfully undertake to do their whole duty there will be no lack, and we may expect the present to be one of our most successful years in home missions.

During the late war there came a time when the resources of the Christian Commission had given out. George H. Stuart, the president, telegraphed to various cities for help, for instance to Boston, “May we draw on you for ten thousand dollars?" The response came back promptly, "You may draw on us for sixty thousand dollars." In a city of the West Mr. Stuart was trying to raise $20,000 for the same purpose. In the midst of a great congregation a wellknown gentleman rose and said, “I have agreed to give $1000, but I now wish to withdraw it." Every one was astonished, for he was a man of known ability and liberality. After a moment's pause he said, "If Mrs. General H." (whose husband had been just killed in battle)" can give her husband to save the country, I cannot afford to give less than five thousand dollars."

Oh, shall not the Christian zeal for the welfare of our country equal the patriotic zeal of our citizens in the most trying times?

The heart of Dr. Livingstone is enshrined in the Universities' Mission. It was he who proposed the holy enterprise in 1857, and subsequently stirred as with blown trumpet his fellow countrymen by the message that he had opened the door to central Africa. The time is historic when Livingstone went forth accompanied by Charles Frederick Mackenzie, archdeacon of Natal, who was consecrated first bishop of the mission at Capetown on January 1, 1861. In his train followed a saintly band of university grad uates, “full of sunbright jubilation." Neither are the memorable scenes forgotten when at Cambridge, Oxford and Canterbury the famous Bishop Wilberforce pronounced his perfervid benedictions upon the Master's heralds of peace.

Through the intervening years of splendid self-denial, thirty-six young men and maidens, the flower of English birth, education and piety, have found rest in African graves. To this martyr circle is added Archdeacon Goodyear, whose spirit fled at Magila on the 24th of June. Pathetic recollections entwine themselves with the vanishing years. English travellers up the Zambesi waterway seldom fail to pause at the simple tomb of Dr. Livingstone's wife beneath the baobab tree at Shapunga or before the grave of Bishop Mackenzie at Mlolo, where the Ruo joins the Shiré. After one brief year of sowing, the pioneer bishop fell from exposure and fatigue in January, 1862. The inscription on the brass plate affixed to the cross which stands over his dust reads: HERE LIETH

CHAS. FRED. MACKENZIE,
Missionary Bishop,

who died January 31, 1862.

"A follower of him, who was anointed to preach deliverance to the captive, and to set at liberty them that are bruised." The growth of the Universities' Mission,

which is closely identified with the Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London universities and the English dioceses, has been remarkably progressive. All along the line of the mission great advance during the last four or five years is reported. In 1880 the teaching staff, English and African, was under forty, with an income of £6000. Four years later the workers numbered eighty and the receipts £8000. The past year marks a more notable increase, comprising in numbers 1 bishop, 25 English and 2 African clergy, 25 laymen, 20 ladies, and 32 native readers and teachers-105 in all, with a financial return of £16,280. The whole of the funds are sent to the bishop, who disburses them according to his own judgment. From 1881 to 1888 a sum of £107,000 was expended in miscellaneous outlays. The mission has four bases of operation. These are respectively situated on the eastern shore of Lake Nyassa, with Lukoma Island as the headquarters, the Rovuma River, of which Newala is the central station, Zanzibar Island and the Usambara country represented by Magila. Through its fourteen stations it is estimated that the influence of the mission covers an area of twenty-five thousand square miles. Principles not inferior to those of a Gregory or a Francis control its polity. These are: (1) to have no resort to civil government; (2) not to seek after political power; (3) to have nothing to do with annexation. With these are united the system of voluntary workers and of community life in its active aspect. In a House of Lords debate lately on British missionaries in east Africa, Viscount Halifax said, "There was no nobler record of work done for God, or with a more absolute and entire sacrifice of self, than was to be found in the history of that mission." To the credit of its ambassadors, the Universities' Mission "had already suc