The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-11-16
MISSIONS.

I'm the September number of E'Udaa-
gelical Chr,stendom we find the following extract
from letter, dated the 4th of August, from the
Rev. T. r. Sampson, Athens, which will be
read with interest 1t will be of interest to you
to know exactly what was done by the Powers
in Constantinople in reference to the question of
religious liberty, and for which the Greek
branch of the Evangelical Alliance has been
working so hard. The third article of the recent
treaty between Turkey and Greece is as follows:
" The life, the property, the honor the religion,
and the practices of the inhabitants of the pro-
vinces that shall be coded to Greece, and who
will remain under the Greek Government, shall
be preserved strictly inviolate." In Thessaly
we have had a school and church. with bell
on it,, and free from taxation. but which have
not been allowed by the Greek Government to
the Greek Evangelical Church without restric-
tions, and these cannot be submitted to. 1t will
greatly interest many OF your friends and the
Presbyterian readers of Evangelical Cristendom
to learn that Presbytery was created in
Athens in May last, with the title The Pres
bytery of the Greek Evangelical Church " per-
haps the first Presbytery held In Greece for
fourteen centuries The members of it are the
Rev. Stavros Michaelidas, of Yamina; Rev. De-
metrius Liaontsi, of Volos; and the Rev. Apos-
tolos Aegyptianus, of Salonica. The following
ministers were also present at the organization:
the Rev. DR.. Alexander Thomson, the Rev. NJ
D. Kalopothakes. the Rev Joshua Phpps, and
the Rev. T. R. Sampson" Gospel IN an
Lands.
After paying a visit to Algeria in
Africa In 1879, Rev. H. Grattan Guinness was
deeply impressed with the spiritual desutution
of the Kabyles nation of 100000 If people
totally unevangelized. He urged upon Rev.
George Pearse and wife to go there as missiona-
ries. They did so and were cordially received.
Mr.. Pearse who was in England last month to
lah nd m alran
terest for this nation of Mohammedans says that
mission house Is being erected for him and he
believes that much good can be done there, and
the coast of North Africa from Tangiers to
Alexandria has been hitherto entirely over
looked, and there is not a single missionary for
the natives along its whole extent. He also
says that in addition to the work amongst the
Kabyles, there is much to be done in the circu-
lation of the Arabic Scriptures, and a wide
sphere of labor amongst the French colonists
throughout Algeria.-Ib.
The Moravians have been taking
the lead in selfdenying zeal for the extension
of Christ's kingdom Although they do not
number at home more than 10000 souls they
have gathered into the fold $4,000 heather, of
whom "A 900 are communicates. Through their
labors the evangelizatlon of the Esquimaux in
Labrador and Greenland is almost compiler.
They have four stations among the American
Indians, and SIX stations on the Mosquito Coast.
They also at work among the negroes of the
West Indies, among the Katfirs in South Africa,
among the Aborigines in Australia, among a
Monaghan race of Buddhists in a high valley
of the Himalayas, and have stations in Dutch
and British Guiana Let their zeal stimulate
others l-Ib.
Canon Tristram publishes in the
Church Missionary Intelligencera very interest
ing detailed report of the Society missions and
schools in Palestine. He has visited thirty five
stations and thirty eight schools, many of them
in the outlying villages each of which he de-
scribes. He has become convinced from his
examination that the Society's work in that
country is real and vast one, that it satura-
ting the villages with Gospel knowledge" and is
reaching the Moslem youth of both sexes.
Without examining the outlying villages" he
says, it is impossible really to grasp the extent
and Importance of the Societys work
Think of Robert Morrison's waiting
seven years for his first convert in China or
Adams ten years at Port Natal or the London
Missionary Society's ten in Madagascar and
thirty in the Madras Presidency without any
and fifteen in Tahiti for its first convert or the
Baptists' twenty-one years for twenty converts
among the Teloogoos, as compared with the
gains of the last ten years counted by tens OF
thousands.
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