The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-29
MISSIONS.

| Wnere formerly 0O,UUO slaves were sold
annually, has been transformed into mis-
sion premises, with church, mission
house, and school, under the charge of
the Universities Mission to Africa, started
In 1859 at the suggestion of DR.. Living
stone.
In India within the last few years
native women have been able to travel
on the cars in comparative seclusion, be-
cause OF the provisions Of the government
IN arranging special apartments for them,
or, as they are styled, "zenana cars"
These cars are run on nearly all trains,
and frequently our missionary women
ride in them, and have rare opportunities
for conversation and mission work. In
many of the railway stations native
Christian women are employed as at
tendants.
PROVOKING TO Coon WoRKs.-It
seems that the Chinese officials of Kink-
lang, perceiving the influence which the
medical work of the missions exercises
over their own people, have Just opened
an opposition hospital under native
management in one of the city temples.
In the proclamation they have issued
calling for subscriptions, they say: "The
foreigners by their hospital, schools, and
other charitable institutions are rapidly
stealing the hearts of the people," The
influence of mission schools is evidently
appreciated, for during the past year the
Mandarlns have on their side opened no
less than eight free schools.
Bishop Cheetham stated at the last
anniversary meeting of the Church Mis-
sionary Society that in his fourteen par
lshes of Sierra Leone the entire ministry.
with the exception of the bishop, was
composed of black men, and that the
same was true of all school teachers in
his diocese. The further cheering fact
was stated, that these African pastors are
so we'll sustained by their people {" that
there is no such clerical poverty or des-
titution in Sierra Leone as, it is to be
feared, prevails to considerable extent
In England" Each year has been
marked by continuous progress in the
amount contributed by the people
" Any one visiting Sierra Leone" the
Bishop adds, would find land as
thoroughly Christian as our own, whether
that be saying much or little. He would
find land of churches, schools, and
chapels, land of liberty and freedom"
STARTLING STATEMENT.-In paper
read by an American lady before one of
the recent missionary conventions,
statement was made that NAV well
startle every Christian into renewed
activity IN the cause of missions. She
asserts that seven hundred millions of
human beings are living on this earth
who have never heard the Word of God
"a number so vast that the mind is al
most overwhelmed, and ones heart sinks
within onein the effort to realize it. IF
all the missionaries Of all the Christian
societies in the world could be equally
divided among them, there would be but
one missionary to half million of pee.
pie. In many parts of China and Japan
there Is but one to four millions. In
provinces in Western China, containing
hive millions of people, not one missionary
has penetrated. Even in India, where :
the largest number of societies are work.
ing, and where they have been working
the longest, there is but one to 100000.
-MoRAyIAN MISSIONARY SP1R1r.-In
the recent celebration of the one hundred
and httleth anniversary of the commence
ment OF the Missions of the United Breth-
rem, an eloquent grafton was delivered
at Bethlehem, Pa, by Rev. A. @. Thomp-
son, of Roxbury, Mass, in which he said:
Missions are the expression of the
Church regarding the world that stitch
IN darkness; test of loyalty to the
Messiah. No missions, little fealty. For
fifteen hundred years there has been a
crying want of appreciation Of the most
patent fact and feature of genuine Chris
tianity-that it is something to be COM
municated, not simply enjoyed; and that
cosmopolitan evangelism was contem-
plated in all its provisions and precepts
The merit Of revived, collective COM
prehension of the grand aim Of Jesus
Christ in His kingdom on earth belongs
to the Renewed Church of the United
Brethren. What Wttenberg was to
Rome, Herrnhut became to Protestant
Christendom. In modern times the
Moravian Church was the first, as a
church and at the outset of her career, to
render practical in her life Just con-
ception Of what Christianity has to do
for our world These are words Of
high praise, but they are Justly deserved.
Since its outset the Moravian Church has
sent out more than two thousand mis-.
sionaries, and the number of its members