The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-12
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

In Mr.. Spurgeon' church in London
the regular hearers absent themselves on Sab
bath evening every three months, and the house
is gwen up to strangers.
The veteran African missionary.
DR.. Robert Moffat, is still in good health though
in his seth year. He was compelled to leave
London recently and go into the country being
overrun with callers who taxed his strength too
much for endurance.
-Rev. James Smith, an English Bap-
list missionary at Delhi; in speaking of the pro-
gress OF the gospel In India, says, Thirty years
ago we used to have convert every two or
three years; now we count them by scores an
nually."
-Open-air religious services are now
held every evening in Calcutta, without inter
ruptlon from the police when short addresses
are delivered in English and Hndustanee, to
which Hindoos and Mohammedans listen with
respectful attention.
"A correspondent of the Christian
Commonwealth. writing from Bombay. on a
tour around the world, says: az have not seen
anywhere even in Turkey, Egypt. or India
among the Mohammedan or Hindoo women
single happy or hopeful face"
of the Ritualists of the Anglican
Church 1t is said that they will neither sub.
NIT, nor secede, nor beauiet," and ecclesiastical
law In England costs so much that generally
the lmpracticable Ritualist stays where he Is
ana does as he likes, until he is pleased to trans
fer himself to Rome.
"A Presbyterian minister writing
from Ind tells of whole villages coming over
to Christianity, and adds :-''There is a ire
miein1dou&upheaval going on all through India
at the present time, and 1 fear that Hinduism
VIII fall to pieces before the Church of Christ is
ready to seize the fragments of the ruins, and
build up the temple OF the Lord"
The New York Times saws
English missionaries have begun to work in
the peninsula of Corea-a land from which al.
most all Europeans have heretofore been zeal
ously excluded. The area of Corea is 10000
square miles, and the population about 10 600.
OOo souls The language is quite unlike both
Chlnese and japanese, and much difficulty has
peen experienced In learning it; Some progress
has, however, been made in this direction, and
translation of the New Testament has been
begun by Presbyterian missionary named
Ross"
Instead of sprinkling the places in
the Indian Zenanas with Ganges water, where
the missionary ladies had sat when thew came
to teach the inmates, their pupils now laugh
at the idea of being defled by their presence.
and fearlessly sit side by side with their
teachers.
In the Foreign Missionary for April
DIR. Murdoch, of Madras, in an article on the
American Presbyterian Mission in India. saws
Rev. W. j. johnson is the most popular tract
| writer In India. The reference is to Rev. Will
liam F. Johnson, of Allahabad. DR.. Johnson
has made this department OF missionary labor
a speciality, although by no means giving atten-
| ton to 1T exclusively. His tracts are largely
circulated among the one hundred millions of
hlndl-speaking people, while some of them have
been translated into the languages of Southern
India, thus reaching other millions" There is
no more competent witness than Dr. Murdoch
as to the point to which he refers.
Miss De Broen's Medical Mission in
Paris Is one of the most interesting features of
the evangelistic work in France The appli
cants assemble in a large room, which is well
supplied with Bibles and New Testamepts. and
listen to short gospel address from one of the
workers. The patients are then invited to pass
into the dlspensary. AS the majority have to
wait for some little time in the hall until their
| turn comes an opportunity is afforded them of
becoming acquainted with the Scriptures and of
religious conversation. This mission is exercis
ing an elevatlng influence on the lowest class of
the Partisan poor. 1t is in the Belleville quar-
ter Miss De Broen is an English lady
The earnest, aggressive missionary
labors of the Baptists in Northern Europe are
arousing the opposition of the clergy of the
State churches, whose Journalism or dead ortho
doxy IS rebuked by the zeal and singleminded
ness OF the teachers and their converts. There
hay1been many instances of persecution there
inflicted by the clergy and courts more worthy
OF Rome than of a Protestant Church and ma
ton. The Baptist ministers of Philadelphia
last week protested in the name of Christianity
against the recent act of the court in Norway
that sentenced Rev. G. Hubert, a Baptist pastor
at Skien, who served in our navy during the
war, to pay fine of $50 for baptizing a con
vert, and called the attention of our govern
ment to the case. In Russia, the Baptists are
causing much agitation and disquietude to the
orthodox clergy from their exemplary lives and
their devotion to their religious principles. In
! some places the priests have tried to stop the
circulation of their religious books and tracts
Selling them and taking them away in large
quantities; but to their great disgust the
police refused to con6scate them. as thew
had been allowed by the censor, and were
stamped with the diocesan seals. Failing in
this attempt to suppress them, they resorted to
public discussion, but were overthrown in their
first experiment A better way to hold their
followers would be to show in their example
and lives that they had more of the spirit of
| Christ than the teachers Of the new faith.