The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-10-08
MISSIONS.
Monthly Review from the Missionary for 0,

Monthly Review from the Missionary for Oc-
tober
Our latest intelligence from Campinas is the
30th of July. The missionaries and their fami-
lies in their usual health, and the different de-
partments of the missionary work going on as
usual. Mr. Boyle and Wingertur, the colporteur
were absent on one of their evangelistic tours in
the direction of Franco.
From Soochow our latest dates are to the 18th
of July. Rev Messrs DuRose and Davis with
their families, were temporarily at Poodoo Is
land for the benefit of the sea air. The heat in
SoochOw becomes so intense in the summer
months that a temporary withdrawal to the sea
coast becomes an almost absolute necessity
Miss Stafford was still in Soochow but much
Frustrated from the effects of the heat. Mr.
Davis has been engaged for year or two in
translsting the New Testament into the Soochow
dialect He had got Matthew and large part
of Mark printed before he left Soochow. Let
ters both from Mr.. and Mrs Stuart of the Hang
chow Mission, published in our present issue
will be read with much interest.
From Greece our latest intelligence is to the
9Th of August. DR.. Kalopothakes was expected
back at that date from a short tour he had taken
to recruit his health. Mr.. Sampson it was eX,
pected, would have to visit England soon, to at
tend to matters connected with his Mission. HI
reports that the prospects Of his mission were
encouraging.
We have postal from Mr.. Reid, of the Choc-
taw Mission, as late as the 18th of August His
health, as well as that of his family, had been
greatly improved in the connection with the va.
cation in the school, He was in Texas, on the
18th of September. Messrs. Hagan and Harri
son were already on the ground to commence
the labors of the coming session.
The authorities of the Catholic Church in
Mexico have lately given their sanction to the
printing and circulation of Spanish transla-
ton of the New Testament in that country. II
is regarded as one of the most remarkable and
hopeful things that has occurred in Mexico for
many wears There is said to be no essential diff
ference between this translation and the one in
ordinary use among Protestants There are en-
tire chapters without comments attached to
them; and on many of the passages especially
relied upon by Rome to uphold her teachings
there are only few brief words.
The American Baptists have a theological
seminary in India 1t Is located at Ramapa
TAM and is called the Brownson Theological
Seminary. The native assistants of TeloOgoo
Mission receive their training in it. The first
class, consisting OF seventeen men anu Iour Wo-
men, We're graduated this year. The women are
wives of some of the graduates, and have made
as good a record in their studies as any Of the
men.
The Rev. Albert Whiting, of the American
Presbyterian Mission in China, who fell victim
to famine fever in the midst of his labors for the
relief of the suffering and dying, was held in
such high esteem by the Chinese that, when he
was buried, they offered to worship him as they
worship their own ancestors.
Messrs. Johnson and Richardson, coIored stu
dents of Mr. Surgeons college who sailed from
England last September as missionaries to Ba-
kunda, on the West Coast of Africa, have gained
already a very strong foothOld among the PEG
pie. Through the influence of the king all the
boys in the village of one thousand people have
been sent to their school