brought to give one postage stamp, per capita, a week, to foreign missions, it would give $10,000,000 in a year. If one carfare, a week, $50,000,000; if one dish of ice cream, a week, $100,000,000; if the equivalent of one hour's work at the rate even of the most unskilled labor, $150,000,000. We now give $7,000,000! Giving should be recognized as part of worship, and it is a 'shame' not to bring up children to give to the Church. The head of the house might as well do all the praying as all the giving."

MOTIVE IN GIVING

When we advocate giving, let us not forget that this Divine art of impartation has no necessary connection with money-with the amount given, the multiplicity of the objects given to, or the ability to give money

at all.

One may be a great giver and have all the blessedness of a generous and cheerful giver, who has not any money to bestow, or whose every penny is more than absorbed in keeping starvation away from a family of little ones or poor sick, aged parents. Giving is to be estimated not by the amount bestowed or the objects of our bounty, but by the motive and spirit of the giver. Love, not wealth, is the treasure out of which benevolence draws for its ministries, and God reckons our giving according to our receiving and our ability and cheerfulness in imparting. No man ever gave as Christ did, yet He had not where to lay His head. We have no intimation that He ever had a penny of His own. Even His tribute money was supplied by a miracle, found by Peter in the mouth of a fish. We have, therefore, no intimation that He ever gave a penny to even the most destitute, and the nearest hint we have that He ever connected money with His ministry of mercy is when we are told that His disciples construed His words. to Judas, "What thou doest, do quickly," as a possible direction

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about "giving something to the poor." Yet He who had no money to give, give, gave gave incessantly incessantly gave labor and prayers and tears and the touch of healing and the word of sympathy, gave instruction, help, comfort, blessing-made the afflicted to be consoled, the mourner to rejoice, the sinner to find forgiveness, the weak to earn strength and the desponding to sing and hope. He lived not to gather but to scatter, not to get but to give, not to receive but to impart. Every one who knew Him was blest or might have been; for virtue went out of Him to every one that touched Him in faith, or with desire for blessing. We may all, like Peter, say: "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I Thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." George Müller, when for months laid aside from active work, learned that when incapable of any other service, he could pray, and, as he said, fight the Lord's battles on his knees. those who believe in a personal devil and in the personality of demons— that a war is perpetually going forward between the powers of Darkness and the Sons of Light—prayer may serve to turn the tide of battle more than any other one form of resistance to evil and cooperation with good. Satan and his hosts prob.. ably fear a praying saint more than any other form of foe. Prayer brings God into the fight-to bare His right arm and wield His sharp sword. We may work and war in the flesh and be really helping the devil while we suppose we are doing valiant battle for the Lord. But when we pray in the Spirit we are not tempted to confidence in the flesh; we cast ourselves in helplessness upon the mighty God of omnipotence; we hold Him to His promise, to marshal His hosts to the war. Thus both giving and praying in their truest meaning are the heritage of all the servants of God and none are so poor as to be unable to serve God and man.

ISLANDS OF THE SEA

An Episcopal Cathedral in Manila

A few weeks since was laid the corner-stone of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary and St. John, Manila. Over 1,000 people, including Americans and Filipinos, were present at the ceremony. Official life was represented by Governor-General Ide, Admiral Train, General Bliss, and other heads of government departments. On the platform with the bishop were clergymen representing the various other American missions at work in the islands. The Rev. Mercer G. Johnston, rector of the cathedral congregation, made an address upon the fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy concerning the coming of Christ and traced the development of His Kingdom. The cathedral will probably be a year in building, and is to cost $100,000, given by one of Bishop Brent's Massachusetts friends.

Methodism in the Philippines

Methodism has finally pushed its way to the northernmost province of the Island of Luzon. The advance has been made up the valley of the Cagayan, which drains the provinces of Cagayan and Isabela. The Rev. Ernest Lyons with a native preacher visited many of the valley towns last August, preaching and distributing Bibles and tracts. On this tour of inspection, conditions were found so encouraging that after the next trip, in November, Filomeno Galang, the native preacher, was left at Aparri, the key city of the valley. Mr. Lyons returned to the Cagayan valley in February, and held meetings in which the people showed great eagerness for the Gospel. When the invitation for membership came, justices of the peace, members of council, clerks, and school-teachers joined. Altogether 182 united with the Church. Exhorters are now at work in Tuguegarao, Ilagan, and other valley towns farther south.

Presbyterian Missions in the Philippines

A visitor to these islands says: "One evangelist is as much of a pacifying force as a whole company of constabulary." There has been a rapid increase in converts of the Presbyterian Mission, which in five years has received over 2,000 communicants, 1,200 being the fruit of the past year's work. The church in Manila is to have a

large building very soon.

Scripture Translations for Filipinos

Rev. Eric Lund, having now completed the revised edition of the New Testament in Visayan, turns his attention to the Old Testament, at the same time directing the translation of the New Testament into the Cebuan

dialect, the work being done chiefly by competent native assistants.

Progress in New Guinea

The following extract from the official report of the resident magistrate for Western New Guinea (1905) will be read with interest: "Much of the spirit of unfriendliness, and even hostility, shown to the mission by the natives of the division during the past five years, has passed away, and provided the efforts put forth are not relaxed, good results should follow. Many of the villages where a short time ago the missionary was scorned are now anxious to obtain the services of a teacher. To show the amount of earnestness with which the native is taking up his religious beliefs, the inhabitants of two of the Western villages have during the year subscribed the sum of £405, for the purpose of erecting buildings for holding relig ious services and for school work. Four other villages have subscribed a total of £114 13s. 6d., and propose to increase this to an amount sufficient to defray the cost of a building at each place. One interesting feature in the matter of the erection of these buildings is that the timber to be used is to be procured in the country, and the carpenters employed are Papuans.”

Needs of New Guinea

Dr. Lawes writes: "The hills and valleys of the interior, the mountain ranges and broad plains, are all as open to the missionary as Port Moresby when the first missionary landed there in 1873; and there is no missionary for them! Thousands ready for the Gospel, and no Gospel for them. Only little strips of coast-line have light; all the rest the darkness of night. Much land to be possessed, but few to go up to possess it."

The Gospel in New Caledonia

The Paris Missionary Society is doing evangelizing work in this forlorn region with two missionaries and several native Christian teachers from the Loyalty Islands. The island was long a mere convict settlement, and the wretches brought nameless vice and degradation to the native tribes.

Bible Circulation in Samoa

Writing from Apia, Rev. J. W. Sibree, of the London Missionary Society, asks for a further consignment of 2,500 Samoan Bibles, and reports that the German governor has granted permission to import Bibles or educational books free of duty. Mr. Sibree has remitted $1,410, representing the proceeds of sales of Bibles in Samoa during 1904.

AMERICA

San Francisco Disaster and Missions

Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and other churches were destroyed in San Francisco. The Chinese missions and numbers of other institutions shared a similar fate. The Woman's Work of the Presbyterian Church says: "At ten o'clock on the morning of the earthquake, some half dozen of the Presbyterian women were assembled at the Mission Home in San Francisco, arranging the removal of the Chinese girls. Amid personal losses and with their churches laid low, they have since been carefully following up the ends of such business as pertains to the close of the fiscal year. From Mrs. C. S. Wright, the president, comes the undaunted

message: We expect to meet our pledges just as we have always done. Mrs. Robbins had fled from a doomed house; it was easy to picture her prostrated. Not a bit of it! As is her always prompt habit, on the day it was due and not a mail behind, her monthly monthly communication arrived in New York, unexcited, without exclamation points. It is not surprising that many people went insane in We those days of consternation. know that such calmness and strength, as have been given to our friends, belong only to those whose hearts have long rested on the Eternal God and who have long been saying, 'Therefore will not we fear tho the earth be removed.''

The Revival in Philadelphia

The Mission in Philadelphia closed amid general rejoicing, after three months of victory. Thousands of professions of conversions have been enrolled; thousands of revived Christians have been started to do personal work; and fires have been lighted in many churches in Philadelphia and the surrounding district.

The crowds which tried to gain entrance to the meetings during the closing days were such as have rarely been seen in Philadelphia. On the last night that both men and women were admitted it is estimated that not less than 10,000 people came, tho only 6,000 could be admitted.

A prominent leader of the Presbyterian Church has been so aroused that he has begun the custom of having a prayer-meeting with the employes in his office each morning before beginning the day's work. The six or eight people in the office meet together for ten or fifteen minutes; first a brief passage of Scripture is read, then every one present recites a verse of Scripture, and the service. closes with two or three brief prayers.

Another feature has been the sending out of "Revival Bands," as was done in Wales, and as is now being done in India. These are composed of about half a dozen converts and

others whose hearts are aflame with fervor. They take the Sunday morning service in city churches, telling the story of their conversion and how they are leading souls to Jesus Christ by personal work. A few weeks ago a group of business men visited a Presbyterian church, and gave such stirring testimonies that over fifty people declared they would try the plan of speaking to some one each day about accepting Christ.

Summer Missionary Gatherings

Missionary work at home and abroad holds a prominent place in many summer assemblies and the opportunities for mission study and the hearing of missionary addresses is increasing year by year. The student assemblies are held in June, under the direction of the International Y. M. C. A., at Northfield, Mass.; Lakeside, Ohio; Lake Geneva, Wis.; Asheville, N. C., and Gearhart, Ore. These are all strong missionary centers and many volunteers join the ranks of the army of Christ in preparation for foreign service.

The summer school of the Women's Foreign Missionary Societies will be held at Northfield, Mass., July 16-23. This has already proved a most helpful school of methods for the work of women's societies. This year they are to study "The Island World," by Mrs. W. A. Montgomery.

The general conferences at Northfield, Winona, Ind., Ocean Grove and elsewhere also have many missionary addresses by men and women of the first rank.

One of the most important and influential gatherings is that of young people at Silver Bay. Here gather, July 20-29, secretaries and other officers and leaders of young people's work. These conferences have already proved very effective in increasing the missionary interest in local churches. This year similar gatherings are to be held at Lake Geneva, Wis. (June 26-July 4), Asheville, N. C. (June 29-July 8), and Whitby, Ont. (July 9-15).

Another assembly in the interest of missions, which shows which way the wind is blowing, is the Pocono Pines Assembly. This is on the same lines as the Winona gathering last yeara conference of forward movement leaders (men) of the Presbyterian Church. It is to be held on September 4-7 at Pocono Summit, Pa. We shall be pleased to answer further inquiries in regard to any of these

conferences.

Missions and Newspaper Enterprises

A syndicate of dailies in the United States and Canada has commissioned William T. Ellis (one of the editors of the Philadelphia Press, and also a member of the editorial staff of The Westminster), a trained investigator, "to go abroad with the avowed purpose of telling with the utmost frankness, in popular form, just what he finds foreign missions to be doing or failing to do; how they work and in what conditions; and the sort of men and women who represent the American churches abroad. His tour, beginning at San Francisco, will include Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, Burma, India, Egypt, Persia, Syria, the Holy Land, and Turkey in Europe."

The Reformed (Dutch) Church Centennial

The centennial of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America was celebrated in the Collegiate Reformed Church, at Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, New York, June 6-13. It was in session all day each day, except Sunday and Saturday afternoons. This is the 100th anniversary of the Synod, and the 278th of the Reformed Church. Up to 1772 the Church had been subject to the ecclesiastical authorities of Holland, but in that year the American Church was made independent and self-governing.

According to the last annual report, the Reformed Church had 649 churches, 704 ministers, 62,623 families, a total in communion of 116,668, and 763 Sunday-schools. It has 97 foreign missionaries-21 in China, 30

in India and 16 in Arabia. There are 273 mission stations and outstations, where missionaries or native preachers live, and there are 373 native men and 187 native women who are trained preachers or teachers of the Gospel. There are three theological seminaries-New Brunswick, this

State; Western, at Holland, Mich., and the Arcot, Palmaner, India. The Synod boasts of two colleges-Rutgers and Hope College, at Holland, and numerous preparatory schools.

Rev. Donald Sage Mackay was elected president and Rev. S. M. Zwemer, D.D., of Arabia, vice-president of the Synod.

Six Calls for Aid

In a single recent issue the Congregationalist calls attention to no less than 6 specific and urgent cases of need in the home work among the foreign-born. In one city the "Armenian Church can have no Sundayschool because it can not hire a house. It can not even sing at its church services, because it must meet in a room underneath another service for another race. Syrians in Brooklyn have organized a Congregational Church and are knocking at the home missionary door, at present in vain. Greeks on the lower East Side of Manhattan have also organized, and have stood in the same secretary's office with strong appeal. At Hunt's Point, north of Harlem, where Long Island Sound begins, another application comes, because of the population pouring in. A Finnish congregation meets in Bronx store and waits a solution of its situation. An Italian Church, near Pilgrim Chapel, Brooklyn, among 50,ooo Italians, will be glad even to get a private building to serve as a home for the social and industrial work amid the crowded population."

Reform in the Mormon Church

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The report is abroad, and appears to be based upon fact, that after exercising from the beginning despotic control in all business matters, such as owning much real estate, managing railroads, trading concerns, theaters,

etc., is to withdraw from such secular affairs. The reason alleged is, that hitherto the foes of the Latter-day Zion were so strong and fierce the sinews of war must needs be provided, but now it is possible to turn to loftier concerns. If now, in addition, these "prophets" and "apostles" will proceed to let politics also alone, a vastly better day will soon dawn.

A Record Year in Baptist Missions The Baptist Missionary Union is able to report that in the foreign field the number of additions to the churches last year was the greatest ever known, being 15,621 in heathen lands, and in Europe 6,965 more, a total of 22,586. In Burma alone the native Christians now number 53,500; so that, verily, Judson's toil and pain were a magnificent investment.

Presbyterian Union and Missions One result of the reunion of the Cumberland Church Presbyterian with the Presbyterian General Assembly of the Northern Church will be to unite mission boards of the former with those of the latter Church. This will mean a saving of money and energy for the work of the The Kingdom. Cumberland Church has 1,600 clergymen and 190,000 communicants. Its missionary headquarters have been in St. Louis and it has supported 30 men and women missionaries in Japan, China and Mexico. They have only about 900 communicants on the foreign field and spent annually on mission work about $150,000. work will soon be controlled by the Board of the Presbyterian Church (North) in New York.

The Missions of One Church

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The Presbyterians (North) sustain work in these 15 countries: West Africa, China, Japan, Korea, India, Siam, Laos, Syria, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico; with a total of 137 stations and 1,663 out-stations, or 1,800 points on the globe where the Gospel is preached to the heathen. In