The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-10-06
THE MISSION FIELD

them were seven young women, four of whom
Miss Maggie S. Webb, Miss Grace Greenough
and the Misses Marion E. Sheldon and Julia
Blssell-to go take positions in the seminares
OF Brouse, Adabazar, Adana, and Martin, in
Turkey. and Ahmednagar, in India. The others
go to Central Turkey, Japan and India.
Mr.. Henry Varley, the evangelist,
and Mr.. Joseph Huntington (brother of the late
Bishop Huntington who was killed in October
last while prosecuting mission work in Central
Africa have sailed from England for Cape
Town, with the view of conducting special mis-
sion there for a few months.
of the eighteen Or twenty members
of the Chinese Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton connected with the Chinese mission of the
Third Presbyterian church. Chicago. nine are
already engaged in studies preparatory to mis-
sionary work among their countrymen, and
more are to follow.
-CHINA.-One of the native preach
ers of Canton is wholly paralysed in his legs,
arms, and hands, except the partial use of one
thumb and fore6nger. Nevertheless, he is car
red to chapel and breaches either sitting or lying
on his back, and many have thus received the
saving truth of the Gospel from his lips.-Ths
Friend Of Missions.
The captain of a river steamer on
the Lower Niger states that in every trip during
the last two years the natives, among whom a
missionary is unknown, bave boarded his ship
with the invarable question: Is God palaver
man aboard p or, When is he coming? If he
come to teach us so that we know white mans
book, then we build him house and school and
give him chop-plenty" The Roman Catholics
are said to be ready to occupy this field.
The Swatow Medical Mission Hos
Pital is the largest of the kind in China No
fewer than 1867 in-patients have been treated
during the year, while of out-patients there have
been ITO. Over eighty patients declared their
faith and desired baptism, but it is not the rule
to grant this at the close of term in hospital
applicants are asked to return to their villages
and show by life and conduct that they are in
earnest, after which they are received at the
nearest station to their homes, During the wear
about fifteen were thus admitted.
Anglican missionaries in the diocese
of Maritzburg, South Africa claim that the great
SIN OF the Kaftrs is idleness. What work is done
falls on the shoulders of the women, and thew
don't work three months out of the twelve
When the people not off to a beer-drinking,
they are stretched out in the sun, idling their
time away. They don't, it seems, like to 90 to
church any better than they like to work.
Sometimes the impatient missionary will have
to wait for his congregation more than an hour,
even after messenger has been sent for them.
n ShEEhlNG 1NClDENf.-tGeV. w.
}. Price, of DInapore, India, writes Recently
had the pleasure of baptizing another convert
from Hinduism, Brahmin. His brother, who
has been Christian for some sixteen years, was
present on the occasion, and related how for
many years he had prayed for his brothers con-
version, that when he first became a Christian
he had urged him to become one too, but only
to be spurned away. To-day he reoiced before
God that his brother had been brought to Christ
The convert, too. before going down into the
water, in short address gave his experience,
and told how he had abandoned CASTE idols, and
everything and now placed his sole trust in
Christ This makes the eighth we have bap-
tized during the past six months; we thank God,
and ask for many more.
MEDICAL MISSION IN MOROCCO
DR.. Kerr writing from Morocco, gives the fol-
lowing notes from his diary-I have been very
busy, and am busy still. For a long time after
came, when called to case, about dozen of
the patients friends would be present, watching
my operations, and putting all manner of ques-
tions. Now, l am happy to say, many have
faith In me-ln fact, my name has become
famous. When the Modador called here on the
23rd of June one of the Moorish sailors was seri-
ously injured while in the act of dscharging
the cargo. l thank God he survived the shock
and has made an excellent recovery. A little
after ! was asked to 90 and see a slave who had
been stabbed He also has recovered well
These two cases have given me quite a name
They have not seen the art Of surgery much
practised here. A few days after / had a case
Of two dignitaries. One Of the Sultan's Govern
ors about two days Journey from Rabat. to-
wards Tangier, was very ILL., and be sent tor me
These things open the way for the Gospel 10 a
very cheering manner
The Karen missionaries, together
with the native Christians must feel that they
are now in the Church militant. The Dacoit
rebellion is really Buddhist insurrection
against Christianity and these Dacoits have
made their most savage assaults on the Karen
Christians. Messrs Bunker Case, Crumb Vim
ton, and Smith have become enlisting officers
and procured arms for the Karens, who 20 forth
to defend their homes against the Dloodthirsty
foes. On the other hand the Buddhist priests
are openly leading the Dacoits into battle. Tt
is felt on both sides that it is a relentless con
hct The Buddhists have appealed to arms.
and have chosen to make the battlefield the
arbiter between them and the Christians With
a heroism like that which David showed against
the uncircumcised Philistines, with quiet faith
\ in God and a coolness in the fight like that Of
/ Cromwells Ironsdes these hunted disciples
meet their foes. Between the armed Karens in
| the mountains and the British troops in the
| plains, the Dacoits must be crushed. The Bud
dhists have provoked conflict that must prove
\ their ruin.