250,000 pounds is being raised to endow the homes which he founded. He sacrificed his life to aid homeless children, working for twenty years without salary. 20,000 pounds are already promised.

Mr. William Baker, who succeeds Dr. Barnardo, was born in 1849. As a boy he attended the Protestant Church at Bansha, and has still his first Bible, given him in 1854. At Trinity College, Dublin, he was a prize and honor man. He has the same spirit as his predecessor.

Turmoil in France The separation between Church and State has given rise to riots in Paris and some other towns, which have accompanied the official attempt to inventory church property, with a view to its legal transference to the religious associations for which the law provides. Such disturbances were not strange; but the ease with which, generally, they have been put down, proves how far the new law has be

one.

hind it public opinion, and that the separation is likely to be permanent. Père Hyacinthe prophesies that in less than ten years the action of the French government, far from being recalled, will be imitated in other Roman Catholic countries. Meanwhile the Reformed Church in France, tho having no part in the quarrel, incident to the dissolution of the Concordat, is plunged suddenly into serious difficulties by the new law, the most obvious of which is the financial The French Protestant pastors must now look no longer to State subsidies, but to their congregations, for support. They heroically face the situation and, like the Scotchmen of Disruption times, prepare to bear the burden of the Church's foreign missions. The evangelical and liberal sections of the Church, now no longer bound together by the tie of a common establishment, are in danger of falling altogether apart. The liberal party are now seeking reunion with the orthodox, ready to accept with certain reservations the Declaration of Faith which they rejected in 1872. Brethren of the Union of Free Churches of France are unaffected by the recent changes, while the M'All Mission is likely to find in them increased opportunities for work.

Meanwhile whole villages are becoming Protestant. There are awakenings in many parts. At Malataverne, which contains about 300 inhabitants, the Roman Catholic Church

inhabitants,

having failed to do anything for the a colporteur provided them with New Testaments, and practically the entire village is now Protestant, and services are regularly conducted.

The Breklum Missionary Society

sionary Magazine, Basel, gives a fine An article in the Evangelical Misreview of the great work of the Breklum Missionary Society (SchleswigHolsteinische Missionsgesellschaft),

from which we take the following interesting statements. The income of he society, in 1878 a little more than

$5,000, was more than $42,250 in 1904, and the society has never yet faced a deficit. The main work of the Breklum Society during the last twenty-five years has been in India. It is located about half way between Calcutta and Madras, to the northeast from the river Godavery and to the northwest from the port of Vizagapatam, and it comprises the kingdom of Jeypur and the Telugu district. Forty-four European laborers have been sent to India from Breklum since 1881, namely 22 missionaries, 16 wives of missionaries and six

unmarried "sisters." Of these, 34 European laborers are now at work, viz., in Telugu 3 missionaries, with their wives, and 2 "sisters," and in Jeypur 14 missionaries, 9 wives of missionaries and 3 "sisters." To this missionary force 152 native teachers and catechists (28 in Telugu, 124 in Jeypur) should be added. The work of the society consists in preaching, stationary and itinerant, educational work among the children, work among the women, medical work and industrial work among the poor native Christians (especially Pariahs). It is most promising.

Burning of Aintab Girls' Seminary At midnight, February 16, the girls were awakened by the smoke. The southeast class room in the first story was on fire. Before the gatekeeper could get help, the east end of the building was in flames, and the girls saved almost nothing. The missionary ladies in the other end were aroused, and Miss Blake, just recovering from typhoid, was carried in safety to the hospital residence nearby, but they lost many valuables, and some of them nearly all their clothing. The police kept out the crowd, the military governor of the city being present himself. Friends helped in saving what could be saved, and in fighting the fire. The cisterns were full, but the special arrangements for putting out fires could not be used, there being no water in the windmill tank. The city fire-pump was chiefly instrumental in saving the basement

rooms at the west end, except which all is a ruin.

The Protestant Orphanage was offered for the use of the school, and friends took the girls home till other provision could be made, and contributions of clothing were sent in, both forms of ministry being in excess of need.

The cause of the fire is a mystery. The building was insured for the sum of Lt. 1,700,000.

Jews Returning to Palestine

It is reported that more than 100 Jewish families move into Jerusalem every week. Tho most of them are very poor, yet they find means to make a scanty living. Jerusalem is rapidly becoming once more a Jewish city.

Constantinople

Miss Kingsford, new head mistress of the girls' school, of the United Free Church of Scotland, has over 300 Jewish girls enrolled and lacks room for others who apply. Since the persecutions in Russia, she has almost daily to refuse children who are refugees. She reports that her pupils show interested attention in the Bible lessons and answer questions on them as promptly as any from Christian homes. Conversions are frequently occuring.

ASIA

Tibet

writes from Leh: "in a book on Tibet Dr. Ernest Shawe, L.R.C.S. Ed., and Turkestan,' the author, Mr. O. T. Crosby, referring to the Moravian Mission at Leh, makes incorrect statements which might cause distrust as to the methods and work. In chapter ix., p. 125, he states that 'for forty years this mission has been at Leh, and there are forty poor Ladakis who profess some sort of allegiance to the god of good Sahibs.' As this mission station was only opened in 1885, twenty years would be nearer the mark. He describes what he calls the "usual course of conversion." attributing it to the patients' gratitude for the good

offices of the mission doctor. After a somewhat crude and fastastical description of the preaching to the outpatients at the mission dispensary, Mr. Crosby thus sums up results: "The medicine brought back the little one's fleeting life. Such a brain and such a heart find God in the quinine and give Him such name as may please the Sahib."

If Mr. Crosby saw the dispensary work at all, it was merely when he ran in to say good-bye to me as he was leaving Leh. As to his idea of the preaching and the results of the medicine, up to the present I do not know that the medical work here has been the means of making a single convert who has confessed Christ by baptism. I believe it has been the means of introducing the Gospel to thousands, and I have every reason to hope that some of the patients did trust in Christ, tho they never openly became Christians. As it is, I believe that all the converts here have been won by the efforts of the clerical missionaries, and not by the doctor. As I am the doctor, my good faith can hardly be doubted. Our native Christians also are of a higher intellectual order than Mr. Crosby seems to think, but as I am not aware that he met any of them, or saw much of the mission work at all, they, too, are perhaps creatures of his imagination. I am sorry to write at all slightingly of one who proved a pleasant acquaintance when here, in 1903, and who in his book has written kind words about the missionaries themselves; but, in the interests of truth, I must ask you to publish this correction."

Pundita Ramabai

Pundita Ramabai has again been taken to task for saying that home life in Hindu society is not what it should be. There is much that is rotten. But Rajah Prithipal Sing says in his article on "Purdah, Its Origin and Effects":

To remove the disabilities of our ladies owing to the "Purdah"-the baneful,

thorny screen must somehow or other be removed without delay. We must first give our prompt attention toward the real culture and development of our women; then we must purify our own society by putting down all coarse jests and improper behavior, and learn to be more moral before allowing our ladies into it. Thirdly, we must allow social intercourse between our women and the nearest relatives of the family who are refined, and moral and should gradually widen the circle by introducing them to our friends-friends not in the sense of mere acquaintance-whom we in many cases prefer to our blood relations.

Another writer gives three reasons why Christians should be glad in her work.

We see in Ramabai a native convert called and specially equipped of God to direct the attack of the soldiers of Christ on the central citadel, the Satan's seat, of Hindu idolatry.

We see in her the mind of the East in direct touch with Jesus Christ, and the understanding His will by God-given spiritual insight without the medium of the Anglo-Saxon interpreter.

We see, also, an Indian woman, member of the most down-trodden and despised class of all Eve's children, capable of attaining the highest degree of mental culture and spiritual communion with the Unseen.

Let us learn once more that all class distinction, all priestly assumption, all "caste," whether Eastern or Western, is contemptible, vain, and a thing of naught in the eyes of God. All His poor earthly children are dear to the Father in Heaven. "God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth Him and doeth righteousness is accepted of Him."

Human Sacrifices in India

Missionary Kiefel, of the Gossner Missionary Society, reported the following significant case a short time. before his death (1905) at Nagpur, India. On an afternoon in May, 1905, a young Hindu was brought to the Mission for medical help. His throat had been cut. The windpipe had been hacked across deeply in several places, a piece about the size of a nickel had been cut out, and a cut almost two inches long had been added lengthwise. The criminals had taken their time and left the attacked for dead. Yet the wounded man has recovered. But what was the reason for such cruel attack? His

assailants were four Orkas, paid servants, who were employed to sacrifice his life to the goddess Kali. He is now consecrated to Kali and must expect further attacks by the hired assassins, until they succeed in killing him. Have human sacrifices really ceased in India? We think not.

India's Need

A motive power is her supreme need. Earthly wisdom will afford her many, but there is no motive power that earth can give which can compare with the quickening vital energy that will come from the Vision of the Christ, Living from the dead, the personal Savior of men, the King of the East and of the West, the very Image of the unseen God, to see Whom is to be in contact with the Unseen. The new life and movement that will come to India from that Vision, that contact with the Unseen, is the one only force that is needed to lead her to fulfill her destiny in the world. So writes a native of India.

Marvelous Influence of Medical Missions Dr. Arthur Neve relates that Dr. Pennell, of Bannu, having crossed the frontier to itinerate against the half savage tribes of the Kurram Valley, was seized by brigands. They at once recognized him, as one or two of them had been treated in the Bannu Mission Hospital, claimed him as an honored guest, took him to their cave, feasted him, and sent him forth with their blessing to preach in the regions beyond. Dr. Neve himself, when traveling in Baltistan, was supplied by the rajah with his own pony, gay with trappings of scarlet and gold, and with a band of four men with flageolets preceded by another man with an eight-foot long trumpet. Ten days later, having crossed a lofty snowy pass, and been transported across a tributary of the Indus half a mile wide. on skin rafts, in the district of the adjoining rajah of Khapalla, he removed a wen from the head of the chief priest of one of the Mohammedan sects, who sat for hours reading aloud from St. John's Gospel to his disciples. The same day he performed twenty-four operations, chiefly on eyes, working from morning till night while a Swedish missionary friend

sang hymns and preached to the people. Dr. Neve also has seen the influence of medical work in Madura, Damascus, and Jerusalem in overcoming fanatical opposition and racial prejudice. Similar testimony could be gleaned from many another field.

Medical Missions gives a list of all who as Medical Missionaries hold British degrees or diplomas, as follows:

Church Missionary Society, 70; United Free Church, 58; L. M. S., 38; Church of Scotland, 23; English Presbyterian Church, 20; Irish Protestant Church, S. P. J., Church of England, Zenana Society, Baptist Missionary Society and Wesleyan Missionary Society, each 16; China Inland Mission, 13; total, 370, an increase of 13 over the previous year.

Revival in Korea

Rev. J. F. Preston, of the Southern Presbyterian Missions, writes from Mokpo:

The awakening which began early in the year has grown steadily, until there is not a square foot in the church not occupied by the packed congregation now numbering four hundred. We decide to double the size of the building at once. The best element is being reached. When subscriptions for the new church were called for, 1,157 yang were subscribed by the natives. and I pledged yang for every two of theirs on behalf of the missionaries, so the 3,000 yang needed is assured. One yang

is actually 10 cents in United States currency; but considering the difference in the scale of wages it is equivalent to 50 cents gold. Twenty cents is the price of a day's labor here. How these Koreans give! Even those we consider objects of charity think themselves defrauded if not allowed to give at least a few days' labor. A band has been organized for the development and instruction of those coming in, and a class is meeting every night in the native guest room, which is the rendezvous for the men of the church. Seventy Bibles have been sold from our book room within the last month besides other literature.

Century of Protestant Missions in China

The year 1907 will mark its completion. In 1807 Morrison sailed for China and labored for years without one convert. Thirty-six years later there were twelve missionaries and only six converts. Fifty-six years later there were less than 2,000. Now there are 150,000. The missionaries

number 3,270, and represent seventyeight societies. The centennial will be kept by a general conference at Shanghai for ten days.

Idols Fall Before Thee

Mr. J. Blundy, itinerating in the Kienning district of China, showed his lantern slides to astonished crowds. The first night 100 came. The following evening the place was packed. "Oh, there will be more still to-morrow," they said. But where would they stand if they came? When night arrived the street itself was blocked with men who could not get in. An idol procession which had been passing up and down the street all day had to take another route. Quite 500 men witnessed the views one night. Some of these held up their Chinese lanterns to get a better view! A discordant chorus of voices

cried out at once, "No want light! No want light!" No-they were hearing of "the True Light which lighteth every man that cometh into world."

Chinese Torture

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A few days since a notorious river pirate, murderer of several persons, was confined and exhibited publicly in a cage, so constructed that he must either stand erect at full height or strangle to death. After six days the stones on which he stood were removed, one a day, giving him less and less support, until he died a slow death by strangulation. Before the end some friends managed to give him a deadly opiate. But such barbarous forms of punishment-such refinement of cruelty-are the natural outcome of a Christless system, albeit it boasts its high ethics.

The Most Wonderful Thing

A veteran missionary from China tells of a Chinaman who had read the whole New Testament three times. He was not an avowed Christian, but when asked what most struck him in

his reading, he replied, "The most wonderful thing I read was that it is possible for us men to become temples of the Holy Ghost."

Presbyterian Missions Prospecting in China

The missionaries in China are among the hardest worked men and women in the world. The Presbyterian missionaries, excluding wives, many of whom have family cares, number only 165. They have 40 hospitals and dispensaries, which treated, last year, 137,274 patients; 252 schools, with many thousands of pupils; two printing presses, which issued last year 81,160,218 pages; 130 organized churches and 396 out-stations, where evangelistic work is regularly carried on. The work is successful to an extraordinary degree. The last year has been the best in all the history of Protestant Missions in China. The number of adult baptisms for the Presbyterians alone was 2,662, but there are likely to be more this year. In every part of the empire churches, chapels, schools, and hospitals are crowded, and many of them have been compelled to turn away Chinese who desired to enter. Formosa

On Saturday, March 17, the whole island was shaken by an earthquake from early morning until late at night, the shocks being continuous. The same seismic disturbance was felt at Kumamoto, in Japan. The towns of Datiyo, Raishiko and Shinko were totally wrecked; at Kagi alone 2,000 Formosans and seven Japanese were killed. Thousands have been killed and hundreds more injured. The disaster is roughly estimated as causing $50,000,000 damage.

President Roosevelt Appeals for Japan

On February 13 he took official cognizance of the famine which has grown to such serious proportions in the northern part of the flowery kingdom, and requests that contributions for the sufferers be forwarded to the American National Red Cross. In response Dr. Louis Klopsch, editor of The Christian Herald, on the follow

ing day sent a check for $10,000.

Famine in Japan

Mr. Christopher Noss writes correcting the statements in the March