The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-10-08

VI the 10000 converts reported among the
Ieloogoos in the Orgola Mission, India, Mr.
Downle of that mission said, at a late Conference
IN India that it was not contested scheme, OF
prompted by insincere motives. A thousand
people came one day, and laying their village
idols down at the missionary feet requested to
be baptized Some had spoken of 10000 people
having come to Christ in three months, as if they
had never previously heard of Christ. For thir-
teen years the seed had been faithfully sown A;
for thirteen years the gospel had been faithfully
proclaimed throughout the length and breadth
of that district
The Rev. Titus Coan, missionary, writes
how church was built in the Sandwich Island
"Some of these islanders, when they wished to
build church, hitched 80 Of themselves to
each log, and dragged it eight miles; they dived
ten or twenty feet for coral to make lime The
women subscribed 5000 to the Church Erection
Fund, payable and paid by making mats at a
few week and subscriptions from men to this
fund were paid by the profits on hrewood sold
at eight cents per stick, after terrying seven
sticks in a canoe across twenty mile wide chan
mel Then they began foreign mission on the
Micronesam Islands, two thousand miles away.
Ought not the ready willingness Of the convert
ed heather to deny themselves, provoke other
Christians to selfdenial and good works?
A mission to lepers was established in India
last year, through the efforts Of Rev. W. C.
Bailey of the Church of Scotland and as there
are ninty -three thousands lepers in India the
Society has a very extensive place for work
The American Board reports large falling
off in its receipts for August from those of the
same month last year The board needed during
~ o1o IS 80 an
$4,000 to cover appropriations but only SAL,
$50 was received, which is less by S25 900 than
the income of August, 1873 tits believed that
the large donation by Deacon Otis, of nearly a
million dollars, has operated to decrease the col
lection.
At the late meeting of the Presbytery of San
Francisco Rev. Albert Williams on behalf of
the Committee on Foreign Missions, reported
that in the Chinese churches of San Francisco
and Oakland there had been large accessions to
their communion during the past year.
The new Grand Vizier of Turkey declares
that religious equality shall be upheld, and says
to Christians, We all pray to the same God
we in mosques, you in churches
1t is announced that the King of Siam has
issued proclamation allowing his subjects lib
erty of opinion as to religion and the right to
worship according to the dictates Of the individ-
ual conscience.
The various woman's foreign missionary So
cieties of the United States collected last year
S43S, 403 with which they maintained hundreds
of missionaries, bible readers teachers, &C., in
India and China
Joseph Cook, writing from San Francisco ex-
pressed much satisfaction that he had been able
to hear there Christian songs in good English
from the lips of Chinese and japanese converts.
At a mission school he saw three Cinnamon bap-
tized, and sixty men and twenty women Of the
same nationality were present to witness the GER
emony. Mr.. Cook took part in the ceremonies
at the meeting by an address of twenty or thir-
ty minutes, and was deeply impressed" by what
he saw. California" he says, is one of the
gates of Asia, and in the San Francisco Chinese
schools Christianity stands before gates ajar."