sion went to their pioneer field in Rhodesia impelled by the thought that there were men, made in the image of God, yet ignorant of their parentage, waiting to be restored to their birthright. They found men and women

OTHER TESTIMONY TO Mr. F. S. Arnot says of his visit to Bihe, etc. "God has wonderfully wrought in this country since I was last here. Then we seemed to be picking away with wooden picks at a mass of concrete, or as one native, since converted, said, our preaching "seemed like voices heard in dreams." Now within a radius of, say, 15 miles of the two stations of Ochilonda and Owhalondo are over 200 professing Christians, most of them evidently real, as this work is far from being popular. The Portuguese traders plot to overthrow the converts, and had a professing Christian put in prison on what we believe a false charge. Then the relatives have treated some of the young converts in the most cruel way. It is beautiful, too, to see an earnest desire to carry the Gospel to the tribes around, and we called all the Christians together for a "Missionary Conference;" some young men desire to go forth on a two or three months' journey, and we hope to see the whole church united in sending

them.

The death of a young convert just as we arrived has been a great encouragement; Namamba was her name. With a baby only a few weeks old she took cold and was soon very ill. The women attending offered to help her to turn, saying, "You must be tired." "I am not tired," was the reply. "I am already strengthened; there are only two roads to death, and mine leads to

ignorant, degraded, it is true, but even yet displaying some Godlike qualities. Are they worthy of the effort being put forth for their redemption? As worthy as any man for whom Christ died!

PROGRESS IN AFRICA the glory of God." And later, "My path is one only, praise the Glory of God." Those words had hardly passed her lips when her ransomed spirit fled. She must have seen "heaven opened."

Two young men, Maitland and Louttit, from the United States, who joined me at Lisbon, together with Mr. and Mrs. Agard from British Guiana, are to go on to the Chibokwe country."

Rev. Charles Collins, of the L. M. S., writes of a special week of meetings at Ambihimahasoa, Madagascar, when 341 persons professed conversion, the whole church being changed into a spiritual force, and the revival not being confined to the city. At many places charms were collected and burnt. A missionary also, at a crowded meeting invited all those present who had repented and decided to turn to God, to manifest it. A young man well-known for his bad life and the harm he had done, intelligent, but a drunkard, a debauchee, corrupt to the core, came, sat down and wept, and spoke with much feeling of his shame and repentance, crying: "Lord Jesus, have pity on me!" Another, who had disappeared for considerable time, having squandered part of his father's fortune, some weeks after, also came back in rags, having wandered about, sometimes in the forest, and having almost died of hunger. He told about his wretched life, and the meeting with his old boon-companion, now converted, was most melting.

Principal of the Education Department. The candidates show great eagerness to learn. Many of the students can not pay the full sum required for board, and some are quite destitute. So Mr. Louw impresses upon them the nobility of never accepting help without trying to repay it: "Every cup you wash, every potato you plant, every window-pane you fix in, I accept as payment in sterling coin." These men wash dishes, sweep rooms, make beds, and are taught gardening by an efficient and practical instructor, so much vegetables and fruit being produced that a large amount can be sold. Mr. Du Plessis, formerly a building contractor, teaches carpentry, and the students have erected wagon-houses and sleeping-rooms.

Students are prepared for admission in the Kweekschool at Stellenbosch, or the Mission Institute at Wellington, and they are also sent out direct to the mission field as missionary farmers or missionary artisans. Every station necessarily becomes a kind of farm, for the missionary has to plant his own vegetables, grow his own corn and sometimes even breed his own cattle. But as missionaries find that they can not both attend to farmwork and to their evangelical duties, so these missionary farmers and artisans are utilized. Some students are fit for missionary teachers. The Drostdy sends out young men, who for a pittance sacrifice pleasure and comfort to raise their fellow-Africanders from the bondage of ignorance. Their first object is to give secular instruction, but they will also be employed in religious work.

This institution is thus proving a blessing to South Africa and deserves support.

Thus the work of the place is done by the students, a striking exception where negro service is well nigh universal; they find much time, however, for prayer. The garden is remembered as a Garden of Prayer-so constantly do groups of students with

draw there for prayer. One evening the students, on fire for God, gathered here along with the matrons, teachers and superintendent, to hear the story of the Welsh Revival. All knelt on the ground, and such a "season of prayer" one does not often experience. Had the meeting not been checked it would have continued for hours, if not all night.

Aside from his duties at the Drostdy, Mr. Louw goes much about among the Dutch Christians, leading their conferences into deeper spiritual channels. At a remarkable conference held not far from Johannesburg he was a blessing to many. The ordinary business was abandoned and many, both ministers and laymen, definitely sought a personal "Pentecost," some meetings lasting into the morning. Individual Christians were filled with the Holy Spirit and ministers returned to their churches with new power, and to begin special revival

services.

Drostdy is thus the spiritual spring of new life in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa. Some of these young men will go direct to the up-country mission fields, where as artisans they will find a waiting field, but they have also spiritual impulse to impart. Life, rather than light, is the country's need; in perfecting one's culture the spiritual is too often sacrificed to the intellectual.

The "Drostdy" movement is providential, and is a pronounced blessing, not only in arousing young men among the soldiery and in raising up. workers for the mission fields, but in reaching the Dutch Church and Christians of South Africa as a means of missionary and spiritual quickening.

Mr. Snow, a godly and sweetspirited man, a nephew of Rev. Andrew Murray, was at the prison centers during the war, ministering to the young Boer captives and was probably the chief human agent in the remarkable spiritual uprising, something like that in Wales, experienced in those trying days and culminating

I have recently discovered Africa. I knew there was a country of that name, and I had read a great deal about it. I knew that we French people had a colony called Algérie, the capital of which is Alger, with 140,000 inhabitants, situated some 600 miles from Marseilles, across the blue and stormy Bay of the Lion. But I had no real knowledge or true idea of it until it was my privilege to visit that country, at the united request of the Christian people who live there.

I believe there are in the city of Alger alone twenty-six persons engaged in mission work among the Arabs, the Kabyles, the Jews and the cosmopolitan European population. I have seen them all; greatly enjoyed their fellowship, and been mightily encouraged by their humble, unostentatious and persevering fidelity.

For months before my visit they had assembled at regular times for prayer, that the forthcoming meetings might be blessed. English, Swiss, and French, they were but one heart and one soul in this matter; and the pastors of the Protestant (then) Established Church had been drawn to their praying circles. And so when we landed on November 23 we were taken to a prayermeeting that had been convened, preparatory to our campaign, in the Temple (Reformed Church building). As soon as we entered the place we felt the atmosphere of prayer.

On the three following days services were held afternoon and evening, at which a large number of church members, seekers after truth and righteousness, pastors and missionaries from the city and other places-some very distant-prayed and sang, and heard the Word,

*Condensed from the Sword and the Trowel.

which the Spirit searchingly applied.

Meetings were held, one for the French pastors and missionaries. (men only), and one for the missionaries only (men and women). At the French pastor's private meetings a great blessing was realized. Deep humiliation was the keynote.

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On Sunday morning, at the Temple, I had the privilege of preaching before a large congregation-comparatively, for all the Protestant forces of Algiers do not amount to more than 1,200-and this includes many, Protestant only in name. It was commonplace to see, among the congregation, the Queen of Madagascar, H. N. Ranavalona, with her godly aunt, and another member of her household. Since the French government has assigned this place as her residence, the queen has seldom missed attendance at the Protestant place of worship. As we looked upon her intelligent and kindly face we could not refrain from thinking of the glorious victories of the Gospel in her native land, and thanking God for the faithful testimony of missionaries and martyrs of many years ago.

On Monday, the 27th, in the evening, we adjourned to a large concert-hall-Salle Barthe-to which outsiders had been invited to come by means of large posters and thousands of handbills, which had made the invitation very widely known. The place, holding 1,000 to 1,200, was crowded to hear the "Preacher of the Gospel" speak of the religious. revival in Wales.

I cannot give a full account of that meeting, nor of the three that followed. Protestants, Catholics, Jews, infidels, spiritualists, and even some Moslems, were there. People of rank, side by side with the poorest;