etc. The meetings at Carnegie Hall will occupy three days, February 6-8, the last evening being specially given up to the anniversary proper.

GOOD NEWS FROM RATNAGIRI, INDIA

One result of the convention at Coonoor, South India, in May last, is that daily meetings were held for five months, asking for revival in the church at Ratnagiri. A prayer band formed in Ramabai's mission, at Mukti, was invited to visit Ratnagiri, and Miss Abrams came with ten girls on November 26. Rev. A. L. Wiley writes that at the first meeting there was a general breakdown, "with strong crying and tears." There were agonizing confessions of sin and public reparation of wrong, and restitution of money. Some confessions were appalling, as when a former Bible woman and orphanage matron confessed to false accounts and restored hundreds of rupees. Others confessed sins of the most dreadful sort. At 3 A. M. the children in the orphanage were still praying to God for blessing.

During the meetings the Spirit of God compelled confession. Some fell on the floor in awful distress before they would yield, and nearly all acknowledged sins against the seventh commandment. Some seemed possessed of a demon, and at times their name was legion, but they were cast out in the name of Jesus. In one week 110 had confessed sin and come into blessing and victory. Here, as in so many other revival scenes in these days, prayer and song, and confession and testimony seemed to move over a meeting like successive tidal waves, irresistible in their movement

and momentum. In the later meetings new departures were conspicuous, abandoning ensnaring habits, etc. One teacher brought out a new supply of 600 cigarettes to be taken out and burned, and many others renounced the tobacco habit. One night a "hallelujah chorus" associated with Psalm cxxxvi was sung for more than an hour. Here again the testimony of the most conservative witnesses is that there was order even in the confusion. These scenes remind us of the Welsh revival, and Mr. Wiley bears witness that the ethical fruits already apparent stamp the work as no mere transient excitement. God is marvelously working. Let us continue to

pray.

THE SYRIAN CHRISTIANS IN INDIA

Another revival has occurred in Kunnankulum, a large Syrian town in Travancore containing over 8,000 inhabitants, all Syrian Christians. The results of the revival have been shown in a very practical manner. Wherever a true work of the Holy Spirit is done there is sure to be confession, repentance, restitution, unity, and love. In Wales that was manifested in the ending of personal animosities, the settling of social quarrels, the pacification of church disputes, and so in this case in Kunnankulum. The young men who have been especially moved belong to two opposite parties in the Syrian Church which have been most antagonistic and are even now involved in ecclesiastical lawsuits; but have united and formed themselves into a praying and preaching band, conducting services every evening. Surely these are signs that God has yet a place and a mission in India for

this ancient Syrian Church, and that He is about to breathe into the dry bones new life and power, and make them an exceeding great army to overcome by the word of their testi

mony.

PROGRESS IN BURMA

For years the average annual increase to the Baptist churches of Burma has been between 2,000 and 3,000. But last year witnessed the baptism of 7,000 converts. This large increase is chiefly the result of two wonderful movements. The one among the Karens, under the leadership of Ko San Ye, and the other, even more wonderful, among the Musos, on the outskirts of Burma.

Over 1,500 of these people were baptized during the year. We give a more full account of this remarkable movement on another page.

The missionaries in conference felt their hearts strongly moved to pray for twenty-five single ladies to be sent within the next two years to meet most pressing needs in manning existing stations and opening new ones at strategic centers. The work among the Karens and Musos also calls for immediate reinforcement.

ANOTHER UNIVERSITY MISSION

The universities are now planning to have representatives in the foreign field directly connected with these institutions at home. "Joe" McCracken (1901, Med.) has gone to China to look into the medical work and found a medical school to represent in Canton the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Andrew H. Woods ('99, Med.) already five years there, cooperates with Dr. McCracken. Fifteen hundred dollars has been pledged for the

year, and Dr. McCracken is a great favorite among the fellows, having been prominent not only in studies, but athletics and a "record man”— also president of the Christian Association, etc.

NEW RECRUITS AND THE STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT

Within the twenty years of its existence (since 1886) it has sent out 3,000 missionaries, and about onetenth of this grand aggregate in 1905 alone. This does not look much as tho the movement was a failure.

The demand for new workers has never been more imperative and pressing than now. The boards are urging all who are ready to go abroad to correspond without delay with the secretaries. Mr. T. P. Turner, General Secretary, 3 West Twenty-ninth Street, New York, will gladly act as medium of information as to the vacancies to be filled.

Some idea of the needs and their locale can be obtained from the following, and the demand is about half and half for married and unmarried men and women:

China needs 35: 10 evangelists, 3 medical missionaries, 12 for professorships, I for a training-school, 5 lady evangelists, 2 lady physicians, and 2 lady teachers.

Japan clamors for 12: 3 evangelists, 2 medical missionaries, 2 theological professors, I teacher, and 2 lady teachers and 2 lady evangelists.

India asks 17: 5 missionaries, I professor, 5 female physicians, 3 trained nurses, 2 women for orphanage work, and I for teacher.

Korea should have at once 8: 4 evangelists, a medical missionary, and

an industrial superintendent, and two women for evangelistic work.

Africa asks 8: 5 evangelists, 2 medical missionaries, and a colored woman as teacher. Similar needs which the Boards are proposing to supply exist in Ceylon, the Hawaiian Islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Syria, Brazil, Alaska, etc. For all that are ready to go there are now openings of every sort.

Canadian and American students, during the year 1904-5, contributed $84,000 for missions, an increase of over ten thousand over the year before, and about seventy per cent. went through denominational channels.

CONVERSION OF A NOTED PRIEST IN SIAM

For many years Nan Boon Pan was a highly honored and popular priest. His prosperous temple is within the shadow of the Chieng Mai Church, and his pilgrimages to distant Buddhist shrines gave him distinction. He spent nights and days in meditation, seeking for light and satisfaction. When the late Laos king died, Boon Pan was chosen to sit at the king's

head and do the last offices. When a prince of high rank recently entered his new palace, Boon Pan was chosen to pronounce a blessing upon the new domicil.

He became ill, and after native remedies and charms had been tried for months without avail, he came to the American Presbyterian Mission Hospital, in spite of the protestations of his friends and fellow priests. So anxious were the Buddhists of his village to prevent his coming under Christian influence that they threatened to remove him from the hospital

by force. By the blessing of God, Boon Pan was cured, and is now a joyful believer. A few weeks ago he publicly professed Christ and was baptized in the very village where for many years he was the leading spirit in Buddhist merit making.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR IN INDIA The seventh all-India Christian Endeavor Convention was held in India Allahabad, December 20-22. has now 613 societies and nearly 25,000 members. The delegates were full of enthusiasm, and reports show that the organization has been a means of great blessing to the native churches.

MARY REED HEALED OF LEPROSY

The Bombay Guardian sends the gladsome and encouraging news that Miss Mary Reed, of the Methodist Mission, who has been suffering from a mild form of leprosy and who has worked for so many years among the lepers in the Himalayas, is now quite healed from the malady. Miss Reed has been stationed in Bhot for the past year, filling the place made vacant by Dr. Sheldon's furlough to America.

RESULTS OF VICTORY IN JAPAN

Japan's victory over Russia was ascribed by the generals to the virtues of the emperor and the powerful presence of the spirits of the imperial ancestors. This seems to indicate a deliberate effort on the part of the government to emphasize the claims of Shintoism upon the Japanese people and thereby to strengthen the spirit of nationalism. Some years ago official announcement was made that Shintoism should no longer be regarded as a religion; it

was simply a convenient and patriotic method of commemorating the virtues of ancestors. One of the results of the war is apparently a revival of Shintoism, tho no official proclamation has reinstated it as a religion of Japan. In November, 1905, the Mikado made a pilgrimage to the shrines of Ise, and made offerings to the ancestral spirits. To emphasize the solemnity of the occasion, all the government offices and schools were closed. Bishop McKim writes that the Japanese leaders wish to show that "Christianity may be looked upon

a foreign religion which loyal Japanese should not accept." The work of the foreign missionary and of the native clergy will be more difficult until this phase of national emotionalism is passed.

During the war priests sold thousands of charms to soldiers to preserve life. It is a decided step in advance that in December last the Japanese government issued a proclamation forbidding all traffic in charms and divination on pain of fine or imprisonment. Thus another link is broken in the chain that binds them to superstition.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR BOLIVIA

All Christians will rejoice that in both houses of Parliament a bill has

been passed granting religious liberty throughout Bolivia. As it means a change in the constitution, it must be passed again next year before it becomes a law. The state religion will still be the "Roman Catholic Apostolic," but instead of prohibiting, the law will permit the public exercise of all other religions. All who are interested in Bolivia's welfare should pray

for her at this juncture. There is no doubt that the Church of Rome will use its utmost influence to defeat the bill. Next August it should be presented again.

Rev. John L. Jarrett, a missionary, writes from La Paz that while the Christian and Missionary Alliance of New York, the Canadian Baptist Missionary Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and other independent workers have done work in the city, at present there is not a single worker there. Even now meetings can be held without much difficulty.

THE FAMINE IN JAPAN

Rev. John Batchelor, the veteran missionary to the Ainu, in Northern Japan, appeals for help for the native Christians and others who are in dire distress because of famine. In three provinces of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi, one million are said to be in a starving condition. This is due largely to the fact that thousands of farmers left their fields to engage in the war with Russia and consequently no crops were raised.*

A CHINESE GOVERNOR'S GIFT

The Governor of Hunan has recently given 2,000 taels ($1,300) toward the China Inland Mission Hospital in Changsha. The change of attitude toward the foreigner that such a gift signifies is almost incredible. Thirty years ago the C. I. M. first attempted to work this province, and nineteen years ago one of its missionaries first entered the city of Changsha, but was soon escorted out. again by the officials. So strenuously

* Christians in America are asked to send aid through their missionary societies or to Rev. H. Loomis, Yokohama, Japan.

have the officials and literati opposed the incoming of the foreigner that it was not till 1901 that Dr. Keller and the evangelist Li succeeded in renting the first mission premises in that city.

To those who remember the repeated and frequently unsuccessful attempts which have been made to gain an entrance into this province, this news will call forth praise to God for the favor and consequently enlarged opportunity for useful service that this gift indicates.

THE FRENCH AND MISSIONS IN
CHINA

A report of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the French Chamber of Deputies recommends the abandonment of the practise of putting the power of France at the service of the Roman Catholic Mission in China.

M. Gervais, Deputy for the Seine, gives as the reasons for the change of policy that "the biassed protection of those elements for which the Chinese people have only mediocre esteem draws down upon the French Government on the part of the country and the mandarins the expression of the same feelings." The perception on the part of France of the truth that her prestige, so far from being enhanced, is materially lessened by her protection of these missions, is the surest way to a solution of difficulties which seriously complicate the missionary problem in every province of the Chinese Empire.

REFORMS FOR PERSIA

Word has been received from Teheran (via St. Petersburg) that a constitutional government for Persia is to be the outcome of the sudden exodus

of 1,000 merchants and Mullah priests from the Persian capital as a protest against the Shah's government.

It is reported that the insurgents went out to the village of Shah-Abdul-Azim, where the Shah presided over a representative assembly elected by the Mullahs, merchants, and landowners. The assembly is to be called the House of Justice, and is to exercise administrative and legislative powers.

It is too much to hope that so radical a change will become effective immediately, but reform is in the air and must surely come in Russia, Persia, and Turkey-three of the worst governments in the world.

A MOST NOTABLE DEATH

At half past five A. M., on Friday, February 9th, Rev. S. H. Hadley passed away at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York city. He had undergone an operation for appendicitis on the 31st of January, but never rallied. His departure will be lamented. the world over. He was the Knight of the Slums, and was probably one of the most conspicuous winners of souls in his generation. He followed Jerry McAuley at No. 316 Water street, and had a hold upon the outcast classes unequalled by probably that of any other single man. A fuller notice of his life and career will follow later. But we cannot postpone at least a word of sincere tribute to this remarkable man. We have heard a score of times the melting story of his own conversion, but always with unabated interest. And his long suffering patience with the victims of drink and crime was the most Christlike trait we have ever seen.