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tion were partly in English and partly in Japanese. Dr. J. K. McLean was moderator of the council, presided over the details of organization, and welcomed the new church. Prayers were offered by Dr. Pond in English and Mr. Kozaki in Japanese. Five of the new members united on confession and were baptized by Mr. Kozaki. The others brought lettersfour from Bethany Church, San Francisco, the rest from Congregational churches in Japan. The Lord's Supper was presided over by the two Japanese pastors, Mr. Kozaki, of Tokyo, and Mr. Okubo, of Oakland. The benediction was pronounced by the Chinese pastor, Mr. Jee Gam.

The new church starts off with 20 members, excellent leaders, and a great opportunity. San Francisco has about 10,000 Japanese, including 500 or 600 families, and in the State about 60,000. The stream of immigration is continuous. Many are to be permanent residents; many are already real or nominal Christians. There are 2 other Japanese churches in San Francisco-a Presbyterian and a Methodist.

Japanese Studying Theology in America

The statement is made, and seems to be authentic, that at least 40 Japanese students are to be found in various divinity schools in the United States, of whom 9 are taking a theological course in Union Seminary, in New York City; a larger number than the Doshisha holds, the Meiji-Gakuin, or any other "school of the prophets in Japan.

What Women are Doing for Missions

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed the half-million mark some time since, and appropriated $542,779 for the current year. Last year the Congregational women added no less than $271,408 to the income of the American Board.

Jewish Mission of the M. E. Church (South)

After two years of tentative itinerant missionary work among the Jews in the Southern States, the Board of the M. E. Church South has decided that headquarters for the mission should be established in Atlanta, Ga. The North Georgia and the South Georgia Conference Boards of Missions have cheerfully appropriated money to pay the rent and other necessary expenses. Rev. Magath, the missionary in charge, reports many open doors and friendly welcomes among the Jews, and he is greatly encouraged by a number of conversions.

The Moravian Mission in Labrador The Governor of Newfoundland, Sir William MacGregor, recently visited the Moravian stations on the mended the self-sacrificing life and Labrador coast and highly com

effective labors of the missionaries at Uviluktok. Zechariah, the chief Eskimo, responded to an address by the governor as follows:

All the Innuit know how much they have to be grateful to the missionary for. They can not show this in their faces, but they can show it in their hearts. They are grateful because they have been told the Gospel and to worship God in the heart. They are glad to know that Jesus Christ died to save them from all sin. They are very glad to see all the people of the Coast of Labrador are brothers and sisters to the Eskimos. They are very thankful in the name of the Lord to know that all can be brought safely and taught by the Lord.

Zechariah displayed very considerable emotion during his speech, and tears were in the eyes of many of the Eskimos. The whole congregation at the close rose and spontaneously broke out singing "God Save the King," Ambrose, the Eskimo organist, accompanying.

Isolation in Arctic Missions

Some idea of how much the missionaries of the C. M. S. on Blacklead Island, Cumberland Sound, are shut off from the outside world may be gathered from the fact that a let

ter sent to Rev. E. J. Peck in September, 1903, has just been received by him. It was a year after his daughter's death before he learned. the sad news. A fellow missionary who carried the tidings from England was obliged to spend the winter at Kikkerton, and passed through much privation and many perils before reaching the mission station. Mr. Peck in the meantime was without much-needed supplies all winter. The work is prospering, the New Testament is translated into the language, and Eskimos are being trained for native agents.

Hindu Coolies in British Guiana

We little apprehend how widely the system is in vogue of importing laborers from the Orient to serve for a term of years in a state of semi-slavery, with China and India the source of supply. These toilers are found in Trinidad to the number of 90,000, and of 120,000 in British Guiana. For years the Canadian Presbyterian Church has made these. the objects of toil and prayer, and has been able to gather upward of 1,000 into Church fellowship, and 3.700 into Sunday-schools. The church-members contributed $6,630 last year, or at the rate of $6.53 per member.

EUROPE

Use To Be Made of the Arthington Fund

It is fully expected the London Society's share of this great gift will not fall short of $1,500,000. The whole of this sum, it will be remembered, has to be spent within a period of twenty-five years. It is reckoned that, spending interest and capital together, this will put at the society's disposal an annual income of $85,000 or $90,000 throughout the twentyfive years. The committee in charge have decided to base any extension of work which the society may undertake by means of the Arthington Trust on existing missions of the society, rather than to undertake mis

sions in entirely new regions. They have also decided:

1. That pioneering work among the unevangelized peoples by means of the Arthington bequest shall at present be limited to the further maintenance and development of the Awemba Mission in Central Africa, which was commenced by a generous gift from the late Mr. Arthington and has been entirely maintained since then by that gift; the establishment of a new station among the Matebele, and the development of the work in the Western District of the New Guinea Mission. 2. That half the residue of the amount annually available for expenditure be devoted to the further development of general mission work in such districts of the India and China missions, not exceeding 3 in each field, as may be selected because the need and the promise seem greatest.

3. That the other half of the money available be expended mainly in India and China, and be devoted to the erection and maintenance of mission hospitals and the support of medical missionaries and medical evangelists; to educational work,special attention being given to that which relates to training of Christian workers in its various branches; and to the production of Christian literature.

The Centennial Bible Fund

It was indeed a great achievement when $1,500,000 were secured for the British Foreign Bible Society in connection with its 100th anniversary. And it is interesting to note how world-wide was the response to the call for gifts. The substance of the facts is contained in this quotation from The Bible in the World:

Thus, for instance, £12,000 was sent by British North America, £6,600 came from Continental Europe, £4,000 from India. £5,500 from South Africa, £3,500 from New Zealand, £3,600 from Australia, £740 from Egypt, £720 from Russia, £6 from Japan, and £1,100 from China. The great bulk of the fund, as much as £220,000, came from England and Wales. Among the most striking contributions to the fund have been one gift of £10,000, one anonymous gift of £3,000, one gift of 2,500 guineas, one of £2,500, five of 2,000 guineas (one of which was anonymous), one anonymous gift of £2,000, thirteen gifts of 1,000 guineas (two anonymous), and ten of £1,000 (four anonymous). By far the greater part of the fund, however, has been raised by comparatively small gifts. often from poor people. The smallest separate contribution acknowledged at the

Bible House was 11⁄2d. from a domestic

servant.

A Student Missionary Campaign This campaign is an annual enterprise of the Student Volunteer Missionary Union, which, since its formation in 1892, has seen 1,050 of its members, men and women, go out as missionaries; 1,200

more are now

preparing for the foreign service, of whom 200 have joined during the past twelve months. The campaign is an effort to quicken interest and, if possible, secure missionary candidates among the members of the C. E. and kindred societies, irrespective of denomination, and with the purpose of strengthening the effective force of existing missionary societies.

Gossner Missionary Society

In the sixty-fourth year of its existence the Gossner Missionary Society, in Germany known as "Berlin II," reported 5,252 baptisms of heathen. The number of baptized Kols of Chota Nagpur, in India, for among them the society chiefly works, was 64,145 at the end of 1904, while there were 18,000 candidates for baptism (inquirers). The native Christians under the care of this society are very liberal givers and are filled with missionary zeal, so that they themselves spread the Gospel among their heathen neighbors.

Nurses for Constantinople

A feature of social organization in Constantinople is the host of physicians inhabiting the upper part of Pera, the European district of the city. Medicine appears to be the only career open to educated young men in that carefully restricted country, and Pera is the only place where a thoroughly ambitious or even self-respecting physician can engage in general practise. Consequently, other districts of the city are left to chance practitioners or to their ingenuity in devising substitutes for the forbidden telephone,

which will reach the medical district of Pera in time for an emergency. Another singular feature of the same situation is the lack of nurses. Many and many a patient in serious disease suffers and perhaps dies simply because a nurse willing and able to carry out the doctor's instructions can not be found.

The Turk accepts this situation as a predestined affliction. It has remained for Americans to try to remedy the scarcity of nurses. The American Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Constantinople has been incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. William Ives Washburn is president of the board of directors; Rev. Dr. George Washburn, late president of Robert College, is vice-president.

This Hospital and School for Nurses will be located in a part of Constantinople far from the district where doctors most congregate, and its work is already cut out for it. The enterprise is certain to render notable service to humanity from the start, if the modest support needed to put it into operation is forthcoming.

The Turk Hindering the Word

A correspondent of the London Times reports that for many months the British and Foreign Bible Society has had reason to complain of the hindrances which are placed in the way of its work by local officials in various parts of Turkey. Its colporteurs have been prevented from going about their work in Monastir, Mosul, Bagdad, and many other places. The worst casces have occurred at Castamuni and Scutari, in Albania, where the colporteurs have been kept waiting six months and more for the renewal of their licences, without which they can not travel. The British Embassy has made frequent representations on this subject; but as soon as one difficulty has been settled another has arisen,

until it would seem as if the Turkish government had made up its mind to cripple the activity of the society. In reply to the latest representations of the embassy, the Porte has acknowledged that the colportage of the Scriptures ought to be freely permitted, but claims the right to refuse to allow it in towns and districts where the circumstances are exceptional, and insists that every colporteur shall find a resident in the locality to go bail for his good behavior. The Bible Society objects to these restrictions, especially to the last.

Robert College Prospering

This famous institution upon the Bosphorus, a splendid monument to the foresight, zeal, and enterprize of Cyrus Hamlin, has recently completed its forty-second year (having been founded in 1863) with an enrollment of 342 students, represent ing no less than 15 races. Ten of the students were Turks, of whom 2 were withdrawn by command of the Sultan. The Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks have each a Y. M. C. A. For new buildings, etc., $200,000 have been received within a twelvemonth, and President Washburn is in this country endeavoring to add yet. other large sums to its resources.

ASIA

The First Congregational Assembly in India The churches of the London Missionary Society and the American Board of South India and Ceylon have recently held their first general assembly. This follows a similar union among Presbyterian missions. The assembly represented 132 Indian Christians reclaimed from idolatry. The Protestant Christians of Jaffna, Ceylon, number 4,500, and those of the Madura Mission of the American Board about 18,500. This new step toward union is another indication of the direction in which Christians are moving.

The Jubilee of Methodist Missions in India

It is fifty years since Dr. William Butler entered India as the first Methodist Episcopal missionary. The work has since grown to vast proportions, with five missionary bishops in charge, nearly 250 missionaries, and 3,000 native helpers. These have gathered over 150,000 converts, and have established schools, colleges, theological seminaries, hospitals, and orphanages. It is fitting that this semicentennial should be widely observed, and a great celebration is planned for both America and India. The last Sunday of May is designated as a day for addresses on the subject and offerings in support of the work.

Christian Growth in South India

"We publish," says The Harvest Field of Bangalore, "the annual statistical returns of the missionary bodies comprised in the South Indian Missionary Association. The growth under almost every head which the figures reveal will, we are sure, bring encouragement to all those who look for the Kingdom of God in South India. There is an increase of 202 in the number of evangelists and catechists and of more than 800 in the number of Christian teachers.

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Total Christian community

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A comparison of the returns for 1904 with those for 1903 shows that of the total increase of 9,487 in the number of communicants, 8,934 are to be credited to 6 missions."

The Worth of Educational Missions

A suggestive record given in the Indian Witness by a missionary who writes of 5" cases" met with during a recent tour in a North India mission. Space compels us to note only

one or two salient features of each case. (1) A Brahman Sadhu, educated in a mission school, a lawyer for fifteen years, disgusted with the world and with Hinduism, wants to live with Christians to learn of Christ. (2) A Mohammedan of good position, convinced of the truth of Christianity and associates with Christians, a serious "inquirer." (3) A young Banya, educated in an “unpromising" mission school, resolved while there to be a Christian, now, years after, has been baptized. (4) A young Khatri, educated in a mission school, but received apparently no conviction there, afterward met godly laymen who convinced him. On speaking somewhat timidly to his wife, she told him that she (educated herself in a mission school) knew Christianity to be true, and agreed to be baptized with him. (5) An inquirer, son of a teacher in a mission school, educated in it himself. Do not the facts show something of what the educational missionary is doing.-C. M. S. Intelligencer.

The Harvest Gathered by One Society

A century ago the Church Missionary Society (now the largest in the world) was just entering upon work in India, but now is able to report 164,300 Christian adherents. And yet "these are few compared with India's 300,000,000, the majority of whom are steeped in superstition.'

The British Government and Buddhism in

Ceylon

Ceylon missionaries are endeavoring to bring about a defeat of the British ordinance which appoints a government officer to assist Buddhist committees to manage temple funds and properties. The purpose is to secure honest administration, but the missionaries well point out that the practical effect will be to mix up the British officials with matters of temple worship, and the law will be construed by Buddhists to mean

that the British government stands sponsor for their religion. Previous legislation of a similar sort has already produced evil results.

Baptist Success in Burma

The Burma Baptist Mission, which has just completed its 40th year, has done useful work during the past year. Among other items of interest, the conference of misisonaries voted to raise a fund for the erection of a memorial building in the Baptist college compound in memory of the late Dr. Cushing, who was president of the college for ten years. The amount needed is Rs. 50,000, which is expected to be subscribed during the year. The conference also voted to ask for 27 new workers for Burma. There are now 805 Baptist churches in the province, with a membership of upward of 52,000. These maintain 606 schools, and during the year just closed contributed over Rs. 3,800,000 for religious and educational purposes.

What a Bible Did in Burma

A man in Burma possessed a copy of the Psalms in Burmese which had been left behind by a traveler. Before he had finished reading the book he resolved to cast away his idols. For twenty years he worshiped the eternal God revealed to him in the Psalms, using the fifty-first Psalm as a daily prayer. Then a missionary appeared on the scene and gave him a copy of the New Testament. The story of salvation through Jesus Christ brought great joy to heart, and he said: "For twenty years I walked by starlight; now I see the sun."

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