The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-07-05
FOREIGN ITEMS.

George GrOte the historian of Greece, died re-
Gently, at the age of seventy-seven. He was born
in 1894 at Clay Hill, Kent, and sat in Parliament
from 1882 until lS4l for the city of London. The
first volume of his great work, "The History OF
Greece, appeared in March, 1916, but it was not
completed until 1885, After its publication, he
prepared his incompatible treatise on "Plato and
the Companions of Socrates, which saw the light
in 1865. He has also written articles on Clinton's
"Fasti Hellenicis" aud Niebuhr's Heroic
Legends of Greece, ETC.
Field Marshal Count Moltke has declined the pre-
sent of million thalers offered him by the Federal
Council and the Reichstag.
The Gospel in Rome. Six Protestant Italian min
listers are nov preaching the pure gospel in Rome,
where but short time since 1t would have been a
crime. to be punished by the Inquisition. A Metho
dist chapel was dedicated and opened for regular
services on Faster Sunday, April 9, under the
charge of converted Italian. Bible and tract de-
posiories are established in the heart OF the city,
Civil marriage is for the first time performed, and
births are registered. The Italian government has
granted one of the old churches for Protestant
school, and many Of the converts are transformed
into public offices.
Enlightening the Regions Beyond.-The mission
press at the Sandwich Islands is issuing Christian
literature for the newly evangelical Micronesian
islands, $500 miles beyond them. There have re-
Gently been printed at Honolulu LOO copies OF
the epistle to the Romans for the Gilbert islands,
and 200 of the gospels of Mark and Luke for the
Ascension islands.
Better than was Expected. the telegraph
lines in England were placed under the control OF
the government, the business has increased 81 per
cent, and the revenue increased 81, $780, 900 during
the year, although the tariff was reduced so per
cent The experience of the past year in England
has been, that the public is vastly better accom-.
modated, and the telegraph better and more
economically managed by government than by pr
Vate companies
Social and Moral Changes in India.-Sir BartlC
Frere, late governor of Bombay, in very sugges
tive address to the students of Cambridge UniVer
sity England, referred to the great changes that
had been effected in India during his life. Wher
he first went there, there were few roads in the
country. Most Of the commercial traffic was or
pack CATTLE and the royal mails were carried or
mems shoulders now there are five or six thous
and miles of railroad and tens of thousands of miles
of made roads. Then there was but single news
paper in native language; now all the large cities
have their daily and periodical press The Eng
fish language is taught and understood, the Eng
ish publications are widely read. Then the bes
informed natives thought 1t was folly to attempt t
| OuTlotldu EO4iSiOH lulO uOh 4
is the general feeling among them that Brahmin
ism is at an. end.
| Tho Legitimate Occupation of the Foreign Mission
airy Field is defined as the organizing OF selt-sup
porting and self-propagating churches which shal
be able to plant like churches in the regions be
yond. Mission stations should be wisely seecte
at important centres. Different societies SHOULD
not ordinarily occupy the same ground or plant thei
posts along side Of each other at various places
To do this is to contract, and not to diffuse tn
moral power of missionary life and influence. Il
the words of Dr. Duff, ".the Foreign Missionar
field is of such vast extent, that there is roor
enough for all without entrenching on each other
then field pre-Occupied we should go elsewhere i
search of labor as there is plenty of vacant uncu
tivated territory for US all Mississippi Herald.