The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-09-29
THE MISSION FIELD

The China Inland Mission has been
obliged to abandon new mission at Wan Shien
on account of the anti-foreign sentiment in that
place.
Madagascar is almost a miracle of
missionary triumph. The native Christians of
that island have given more than eS00000 for
the spread of the Gospel within the past ten
years.
In ten years more than thirty thou
sand people embraced Christianity in the
Samoan Islands. 1t is thought there are not
more than twenty houses in the whole group
where there is not Bible and family worship.
Madame Sofia Bompiani, of Rome,
declares that the chief torch-bearer in Italy is
the British Bible Society. Through its agency
there has been an enormous diffusion of Scrip
tnre in Italy during the past twenty FIVE years
The Bible, OF a portion of it, is much more
readily accepted or bought by the people than is
generally supposed.
James B. Thompson, M. D., from
Allegheny City and graduate of the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania,
with his wife, also T. Hayward Hays NJ. D., of
Baltimore graduate of the University of Mary
land, and IN Pharmacy, sailed for Siam, from
San Francisco lately DR.. and Mrs. Thompson,
go to Petchabura, and DR.. Hays goes to Bang
kok.
The Karen missionaries, together
with the native Christians, must feel that they
are now In the church militant The Dacoit re-
beillon Is really Buddhist insurrection against
Christianity, and these Dacoits have made their
most savage assaults on the Karen Christians.
The Rev. B. G. Henry, Presbyterian
missionary to Canton China, has made visit
10 the Island of Hainan, WI ich is largely in
habited by aboriginal tribes not Buddhists nor
Confucanists, and hence more ready to receive
gospel truth. He says that scores of chapels
could be opened without the slightest opposition
and with prospect of immediate results. The
people are anxious to welcome schools.
About fifty years ago DR.. Ray Pal
mer preached ard published missionary SER
mon IN which he pictured how his soul return
Ing i've hundred years later to visit the earth
might see closed Japan open to the gospel, and
It's people instructed in Christianity. 1t will
not take seventy. FIVE years to accomplish that
for which his faith required FIVE hundred years.
Independent.
"A fire has destroyed the Arthington
station at Stanley Pool, Africa, established by
the Baptist Missionary Society of England. The
loss IN money is said to be about $4,000, but
even more serious than this is the consequent
crlppling of the establishment and equipment of
new up-river stations. The delay thus necessi-
tated will have an untoward effect on the pro-
gress Of missionary work.
The two greatest statesmen of China
have both relations of an intimate kind with
Christians The Viceroy Ii Hung Chang, ever
since he owed his wifes life to the medical
skill OF one of the doctors of the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society, has shown his graft.
tude in many philanthropic ways. Since the
wife OF Prince Kung was converted, twelve or
fifteen ladies in the Emperor's palace in Pekin
have become Christians, and on each Sabbath
Christian services are held within the palace
walls.
Cambridge has now its own corpor-
ate Mission in the seat of the old Mogul Empire
at Delhi; Oxford in the modern capital of Cal
cutta. The two Universities combine to sustain
powerful Mission for Eastern Africa at Zanzi
bar. Dublin has lust caught the sacred fire.
From the three hundred Colleges in the United
States one hundred and eighty seven candidates
are reported az offering themselves for the mis-
slonary fields. China is being traversed by a
band Of pioneers, recruited from among Cam
bridge athletes and Edinburgh students To
Japan, stretching out her arms to us Cambridge
again is giving of her best. Here is a better
augury than even the steady growth Of funds.
When the first important surg.cal
case came TO DR.. Parker in the Medical Mission
IN Chlna requiring the amputatlOn OF an arm,
the patient firmly refused to permit the opera
ton, and only consented when Il gift Of $50 was
made to him Now" says Mr.. Nye, the
willing recipients of the ministrations Of the
hospital and its disp6nsaries, and their families
are numbered by many hundred thousands Of
millions, and the local rulers and gentry are the
most munifcent supporters Of the work Tecuni-
arily the American Board Of Missions original
ly, and the Presbyterian Board subsequently,"
-In8titltta Judojca, established with
IN the past three years for the purpose Of prose-
cutting omission work among the Jews exist now
at nine German universities The leadingspirit
of the movement is Prof. Franz Delitzsch, Of
Leipzig the translator into Hebrew of the Greek
New Testament. An appeal is now published
by The authorizes of the Leipzig institute for
fur ds TO establish a special school in that city in
which young men are TO be educated for this
work. Professor Delizsch will himself arrange
the course and teach some Of the leading branch
es. About three hundred young theologiaDs
are in connection with these institutes, and the
prospect for a harvest among the lost sheep Of
the house Of Israel s now better than it bas been
for centuries.