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in India, were his uncles. In this connection it
deserves to be remembered that one Of DR..
Moffat's sons carries on his fathers work in
South Africa.
A correspondent Of the London Spectator says
of the late Bishop of Manchester, so greatly be-
loved by all evangelical Christians: "Of. his
episcopal career, it is not too much say that it
created or Disclosed to modern England q new
tyne Of a bishops excellence and usefulness.
Like some of the great bishops of early Chris.
tian centuries, DIR. Fraser was the first citizen of
his diocese, more influential than any of its ter
ritorial magnates or political leaders; not by his
official dignity, but because the active duties OF
his postgave opportunity for the display in a large
sphere of those admirable civic virtues which he
possessed-inexhaustible public spirit, untiring
energy, perfect candor, and honesty of judg-
ment, quick and generous sympathy with every
form of goodness"
Prof. A. j. Schem, one of the chief authorities
on statistics, has published a computation that
is both surprising and gratifying. He reports
the population of the world at ]. 1876, 752, 900 souls,
of whom 6S5, 459, All are under Christian gov
ernments, and I'll, 1888, $50 under fnon-Christian
governments. The total area of the earth he
reckons to be 50, 092. 470 square miles, of which
~, AIS, 9l5 square miles are under Christian gov
ernments. and 10, 942, 555 are under non-Chris-
tian governments. 1t is only about eighty
years since the Christian Church began to en-
deavor in earnest to win the world to Christ,
and SO great has been the success that already
Iearly half the population of the world is under
Christian influences. The superior vitality and
power OF Christian governments is shown in the
fact that nearly two-thirds the area of the earth
is under their sway.
The Presbyterian Church in the United States
has a membership of GA, 600, 20, COZ elders and
2 1000 Sabbath scholars. By far the most
efficient work yet done in Egypt in the cause or
Christian missions has been by the American
Presbyterians, and in this work the United
Presbyteriaps have been most effectively repre-
sehted. In Cairo, the headquarters of the mis-
SION, they own property to the extent OF $3.50, wv.
Among the existing machinery at Cairo for
carrying on the work is a theological seminary
for training native pastors, who 60 out to aid
the ordained missionaries, and who have the
care Of some ffty-fve stations. This, however,
is only a small part of the work carried on in
foreign fields by the Presbyterians. They have
missionaries in India. in China, in Japan, and i'll
many of the islands of the southeastern seas.
Their home mission work also is most extensive.
Now and then it is proclaimed that Christian
lty in the United States is declining. DR.. Park
hurst recently had an able article on the subject
in thu North American Review. He gives the
following statistics of the increase in the num-
Der of evangelical churches and communicate
from 1900 to 1880: In the year 1900 there were
in the United States 3.03O evangelical churches;
in 1880, 3.072; in 1870, 70, 148, and in 1880, 81
O9O-a gain of q, 600 in the decade between 1870
and 1880. In 1900 there were 1854, 600 communi-
cants; in 1850. $500, 900; in 1870, 6,673, 600;
in 1880. 10, O65, 900. OF course, during all
this time there was An immense increase
in population, but the increase in church mem
bership a good deal more than kept pace with
that of the population. Taking the whole coun-
try through, there were in 1900 one evangelical
communicate to ~everys144 inhabitants; in 1850,
one to every 6a; in 1870, one to every s., and in
1880, one to every 5. In 1915 only 5 per cent. Of the
students were church members. In 1880 26 per
cent. of the students Of all American colleges
were processing Christians; in 1850, 3S per cent;
in 1865. as per cent; in 1880. out of IL, 063 stu
dents in sixty-fve colleges, 6,O81. or a little more
than half, were professors of religion.