The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-03-30
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.
The Rev. Arthur P. Chaplin, a Wes-
leyan missionary in Natal, writing of an in
crease OF eighty converts in the Natal district
says this encouraging result is largely due TO
the energy and zeal of the native preachers
never, he testifes, saw the equal of a good
Zulu Christian anywhere for zeal in seeking the
salvation of his own brethren 1t is a passion
with him that puts many of us to shame" Two
old and Inhrm couples, husband and wife. bv
their quiet and perseverng labors induced four
teen women to abandon heathenism and become
Christians. the wife was blind, and could not
herself go out to visit her neighbours but she
sent her husband, telling him where to 90 and
whom 10 address, and their mission was only
known to themselves. Mr.. Chaplin recalls
many such cases.
1t is now said that Monsignor
Capel, the Roman Catholic bishop who has been
Tor a number of years the ornament of London
fashionable society but is now bankrupt. was
LED INTO ms difficulties by the vision of a great
English Catholic University, the rival of Oxford
and Cambridge, which he was to found in the
realm OF Queen Victoria. The dream has faded
away, the Catholic University is only on paper
and the sheriffs hands have seized the prelate's
house and its adornments.
The Waldensian Church reports that
progress has been made in all departments the
past year. Matteo Prochet writes of changes in
public opinion as follows:
AT Pignerol, at the very gates of the Van
dos Valleys, clerical agitation, which has for
Its centre the pull pit of the Catholic Cathedral
has had the effect Of bringing hundreds of
hearers to the meetings of our evangelist and
10 the funeral services conducted by him in
the cemetery. All honor to the authorities
who have 1npa vui+ h
tween Protestant and Catholic cemetery
The good example which they have gwen in
TINS matter has greatly contributed 10 remove
the preludlces of the middle class of society.
AT Susa the gross attacks of the Canon Pein-
ETH have also served to bring us a number of
hearers. AT Aosta the front of our chapel
decorated with the inscription CapeNn Eynn1eL
tca and the escutcheon of the Vaudols Church
Is set exactly opposite and in contrast to the
famous fountain erected in memory of the
night OF CALVIN. AT 1vrea pastoral diatribe
OF the bishop, directed expressly against the
Evangelicals, has called forth on the part of
our evangelist a pamphlet, 800 copies of which
nave been sold. AT Favale Liguria), where
ltinerant evangelization is pursued with suc
cess, many thousands of copies of the most
beautiful OF our hymns have been brought ont
and may be heard sung in stables houses
schools, IN the fields, and even in certain Cath
olic churches"
REMARKABLE MEETING FOR BIER
LIN.-Dr. Sommerville, the venerable evanpe-
list and minister at large of the Free Church of
scotland, continues to meet with marked success
In Berlin, the great capital of Germany. In
addltlon TO meetings In smaller halls, he has
recently held five services in the Reichsballen
which we find thus described in the March Re.
cord: ~
AT the first of these meetings 1000 nersons
were present and after the address which was
listened to with the utmost quiet and reverence
l,4OO " Gospels were given away. AT the
second meeting the interest had deepened and
z'oOo attended, among whom large proportion
were young men from the government Offices
1nu ELSEWHERE falr representation of the
Jewish community being also observed At the
onlrd meeting the attendance reached 5000
Inc fourth was childrens meeting. largely at
tended, 2,2OO children and 900 adults being
gathered together. At the fifth 3 500 were nre
sent, and as they overcrowded the hall several
hundreds failed to obtain admission. The re.
presentation of all classes of the communitv
rom Ihe nobllity to the poorest citizens has
Deen singuarly affecting characteristic of these
remarkable meetings and at the fifth and final
meeting spirit of earnestness and solemnitv
prevailed In marked degree. The Rev. Dr.
Wangemann, whom many will remember at the
Presbyterian Council in 1877. gave a hearty
farewell address, grasping the hand of DIR. som
olVnIe' ana giving loving expression to the uni
VerSal feeling OF gratitude and respect.
The revival at Peterboro Canada and
surrounding towns still continues altbopgb NJ
Hammond has now been in Toronto for several
weeks. In q private note just received from
MN he alludes to the fact that little has been
published IN the States relative to the rneetinos
IN Manitoba, Psterboro, etc. and adds that
many of them have been as remarkable az
any l have ever witnessed" The Rev DR.
Harper Of Peterboro, in the course of a recent
address decribed the work in his church and
community as truly wonderful no less than
eleven hundred individuals having. after due
consideration, given in their names as converts
"a number equal TO one seventh of the entire
population of the place Years ago. as will
be remembered, Mr.. Hammond labored with
much success in Harrisburg Pa. and Waterloo
N. T., and hence we venture to mention that
he is just now much cheered by letters of Chris.
tan greeting and remembrance from the ven
cradle DIR. 5. H. Gridley and DR.. I'll. Robinson.
II we mistake not, that model elder. the late
James Weir Of Harrisburg yyas also a vigorous