The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-02-20
MISSIONS.

Rev w. w. Curtis, missionary from
Osaka, japan. s spending vacation of several
weeks with his brother. Rev A. W. Curtis, pas
tor of the Congregational church at Marion,
Ala
"A steamer sixty feet in length, and
twelve feet in width, was recently finished in
England for the use of the colored missionaries
at Sherbro, West Africa. The mission occupies
coast line of $50 miles, and has fifteen stations
from which the gospel Is carried into l79 towns
and villages.
The Rev. j Hudson TAYLOR, address
ing meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, the other
day stated that the China Inland Mission.
which was started by himself thirty FIVE years
ago, has now 120 missionaries, who have
preached throughout the whole of the forty
provinces of the empire. In response to his APP
peal, some months ago, for seventy additional
missionaries, up to the present he, had procured
thirty-6ve.
The Ongole field in India has been
divided into four missions Reports from the
divisions will not come in as large numbers as
when all were rolled together into one But
with more adequate oversight we may look for
larger results. AT Cumbum there is the report
OF 80 baptized, making 220 within three months.
Numbers have been received in six villages
"ueIe tueTe were no pr0feSSeQ be-
lievers." A, Baputla % have been baptized
At Kurnool more than half the population are
Mohammedans, and many of them hear the
gospel.
There is a strange revival work
gong on In Russia. a work TO which the
national Greek church has long been a stranger.
The men and women who are carrying it on are
called Siundlss. They began their work in
Norway and Sweden before the Methodist and
Baptist missionaries They carry the open
Bible, and thousands gather about them to hear
the gracious words of life. They take their
name from the German word stund, meaning an
hour-an hour with God. They call men and
women In the busiest time of the day to come
and spend hour with God The sect has
swept over large part of Russia and made
captive one village after another.-The Advance
Prof. M N. Wyckoff, writes from
Tokyo, January 9th, to the Christian bateni.
gencer: We are just holding the meetings oil
the Week Of Prayer, and we have much cause
Tor encouragement in prayer, and for thanks
giving to God for the prospects of the new year
as well as for the blessings of the past one. For
several days past daily prayer-meetings have
been held, and every day without exception q
am teld) there has been one or more conversions
This interest is being felt among both natives
and foreigners | heard last night that there is
a great religious interest being manifested in
the Shltaya Church, under the care of our Mis-.
sion here in Tokyo. There Is, also. a very
| steady earnestness visible in all the churches.
Last year the Lord did great things for us,
whereof we are glad and they seem to us as
the promise OF greater things to come.
The mission church in Shanghai con-
nected with the Presbyterian Board appears to
be specially successful and presents two or three
features of great interest. The church, consist
ing OF lC0 members, has native pastor, is en-
tlrely selt-supportlng and raises money enough
to keep one member at work in the interior as
an evangelist. 1t has Sunday School of 36S
scholars, said to be the largest in the Empire.
There Is printing office. also, in connection
with It, and schools for general education. DR..
Farnham, who has been engaged in mission
work In China for many years has alo succeeded
IN establishing in Shanghai, a Chinese Religious
tract Society, which has thirty two repositories
In different parts of the Empire one iii San
Francisco and one in the Sandwich Islands
Such facts are full of future promise as we'll as
indications OF general good, and in a city like
Shanghai, with its 100000 inhabitants and great
| commercial Importance and influence, such pro-
gress Is cause for general thankfulness.
-ZENANA MIssIoNARIEs.-One of the
noted men of India at the present time. Sur.
endra Nath Barnarjee, editor of leading ma.
tive paper IN Calcutta, in a recent speech al
ludes incidentally to the efficiency of female
MISSIONARIES IN the Zenanas. Coming from such
source the testimony is striking. He said
live in village and therefore l am, to
some extent, able to gauge the influence which
ladies working in noble cause are oftentmes
able to exercise. There are Christian ladies in
connection with the Zenana Missions, and there
is one such mission in the village where live
l may truly say, speaking of this mission, that
IT has shattered to pieces the fabric OF Hinduism
In the village, and has created revolution in
our domestic circles The work of construction
may not be so perfect but the work of destruc.
ton Is all but complete. Therefore we have
this fact clearly established that the European
and Eurasian ladies, although they are stranger
to our language, and strangers to our manner
and customs, yet, when they become missionarie
IN good cause, are able to effect mighty re
voluuon in our homes"