The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-04-03
THE MISSION FIELD

Oburch, except those In Brazil. retain their con-
nectlon with the home Presbyteries In Brazil
IL VIII be remembered our missionaries together
with those OF the Northern PRESBYTERIAN Church
severed their connection with the home Presby-
terles to form the Independent Synod of Brazil
we would call attention to the action taken by
the Northern General Assembly to meet such
case as this which we find quoted in The
Church at Home and abroad The object of the
action Is to retain sympathetic bond between
the missionary and his original Presbytery, even
though the ecclesiastical bond has been severed.
The resolution adopted by the General Assem-
bly, is as follows:
THAT each home Presby terry shall, from year
TO year, In Its statistical report, place on a sup
Elementary roll to be published with the re-
mainder of the report in tina Minutes of the Gen
eral Assembly, The names of all ordained mis-
slonarles who, having been sent out by it. are
still engaged in our Foreign Missionary work,
but who, by joining union Presbyteries in har-
mony with the reformed doctrine and Presby-
terrain polity, have severed their former mem
bership with the home Presbytery. - The Ms
sionGry for april.
During the last year at Ceara, Mr..
Wardlaw has received fifteen adults into the
communion OF the Church. and baptized fourteen
children He says; II have been back from
the States four years, and in that time l have
been permitted to receive into the communion
OF the Church sixty three adults, and to baptize
about as many minors. At all the places en-
braced in my work, our members have been in
strumental IN leading others to Christ They
have contributed about nine hundred milreis
(S45o) to the support Of the gospel '-Aission-
arg for Apr1l
The WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SooI-
ETY.--This society, with headquarters in Lon
don, has missions established in India, China,
West Africa, the Transvaal British Honduras
and the Bahamas. 1t reports 336 central sta
tions or circuits and 1888 chapels and preach
ing places. 1t has staff of 333 missionaries
ana assistant missionaries, with 1000 other paid
agents such as catechlsts, interpreters, etc. It
enumerates 3 S59 unpaid agents, such as local
preachers and Sabbath School teachers and a
church membership Of 80 1926, with 2 674 per-
sons on trial for admission to the church. The
method pursued by the society IS to send to the
held English missionaries for the purpose of or
ganlzstion and supervision or to give instruc-
hon IN training-institutions All subordinate
positions are occupied by trained native
agency while it is understood that every con-
vert, according to his ability, should be volun-
tary worker for Christ. The total income for
the past year was nearly $4,000. The report
for the year expresses great encouragement be-
cause OF debt Of almost $4,000 which has
been accumulating for the past three years In
addition to the above is the work done by the
Ladies Auxiliary connected with the society,
and reporting an income for the year of almost
5000.
The Method;sts purchased some
years since the Convent of San Francisco. which
was built on the site Of the old Palace Of Mon
tezuma, IN Mexico City and established there a
chapel a school and book concern. They alsot
purchased for $4,000 the InqusItion where the
awful crueltles common to such places had been
practiced. When the Revolution took place
the people burst l9to the building, as the French
did into the Bastile, and after careful examina-
ton of the walls, discovered the secret cells
where some victims had been built up alive and
allowed to perish. Four of these were brought
forth by the people and their photographs
taken In the public market-place, that the sun
might perpetuate to after generations the deeds
that had been done In darkness. In that place
the Methodiss opened an institution for train
ing young men for the ministry.-ReV YIN.
Butler, ID. d.
NO institution in India has the pop
ularlty that the Christian College in Madras has.
member of the Madras Legislative Council
used to send his son mile and half further
than the Government institution, to a school
where all religion was not ignored A Moham-
medan nobleman at the present time who was
educated at the feet of Huxley, and was learned
IN everything that Spencer wrote when asked
for hls patronage to aid the appointment of an
atheist, said Give me a Christian with his
Bible. Missionary.
-Mohammedans in Africa cannot
complain of being ignored or of being allowed
to sink into Oblivion Professor Drummond,
among many others, pays his respects to them
thus:
Wherever you go in Africa the followers of
Islam are the destroyers Of peace, the breakers
up OF The patrlarchal life, the DISCOVERS of the
family tie while they hold the whole continent
under one reign of terror They have effected
this IN virtue of one thng-they possess firearms;
and they do 1t for one object ivory and slaves,
for these two are one. The slaves are needed
to buy ivory with, then more slaves have to be
stolen to carry 1t. So living man himself has
become the commercial currency Of Africa.
Sir Charles Aitcheson, in a missionary
address at SlEla India, IN June 1888 said
1t is singular fact that many Of the m sions
of the Church Missionary Society in the Puniab
have been founded by Christian laymen in the
service Of the government. And now has It
struck you that the men who were foremost in
the encouragement Of missionary wpk who
honored their Lord and confessed him before
men we're the best and most distinguished adj
ministrators the Punjab has known-meu whose
names are most honored and esteemed among
the people-Lawrence, Montgomery, Edwards
Macleod, Reynell Taylor These names are
household words In this province, some Of them
beyond It, some in Europe, and wherever Indian
history is read.
INDIA The Hindus are not dis
posed to allow Christianity to win q victory in
India without struggle. Publications in de-
Tense OF Brahminism are scattered widely over
the country. just now we hear Of Hindu