The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-03-06
THE MISSION FIELD

three recent baptisms at Swallow, China. and
seventy three at Ongole, India.
The grave of Henry Martyr is at
Tocat. Sixty miles south of 1t is Sebaste. mod
ernized into Slvas The American Board has
mission among it's $4,000 people All this in
the province of Cappadocis ad Pontum How
strangely events that overleap centuries touch
each other.
Prof Bryce, Winnipeg recently dis
pensed the Lords Supper in the Iceland Mission
Church. Fifty-6ve converts were admitted to
the Lords Table Nineteen more protested
their faith on the same day. The movement is
continuing and is full of promise.
Upward Of 1000 600 of the youths
of India are to day receiving liberal English ed
ucation, for the most part purely secular The
spread of Western knowledge is opening the
hood-gates of IL fidelity and of non-religion,
leaving the people in a state not only creedless,
but goddess.
Rev. E. Vanorden, of the Presbyterian
Synod of Brazil has opened a printing office in
Sac Paulo. Mr.. Vanorden is now publishing
an Evangelical Year Book, and the History Of
the Protestants in France, in weekly parts He
has also opened a new place for worship and
Sunday school at Rua Sto. Amaro, in the same
city.
The Rev F. L Neeld of Bareilly,
speaking before the Synod of the American
Church OF India as fraternal delegate, reported
the Bareilly district alone of the North India
Conference as having 600 members, 8 900 adj
herents, 498 day schools with 1900 male and
200 female pupils, 594 Sabbath schools, with
Is 600 non Christian and 900 Christian schol-
ars.
Fifty years ago Ray Palmer preached
sermon in which he drew this picture: II
fancy that 1 am coming back to the world 500
trOp I cbol
the gospel" DR.. Palmer lived to be writing
hymns when we had an Anglo Japanese college
and wonderful work in Japan.-Dr. j. II.
Buckley
DIR. Abel Stevens, writing from Yo-
kohama, Japan, says: II have been inspecting
the great Aslatic battle field, and l report the
general conviction Of both foreigners and intel
ligent natives here that the epoch of a grand
social and religious revolution has set in in
India, China and Japan-that this old Asiatic
heathendom is generally giving way before the
continually increasing power of Western thought
and Christian civilization"
AT the Keswick Convention in 1887,
an appeal was presented from Rev. ]. L.
Hall Church Missionary Society's missionary
at alta for ten ladies to go to Palestine as hon
orary missionaries. The whole ten are now
there. Four of them have gone in connection
with the Church Missionary Society. two in con.
nOS'AOA WIN luS bOCloly lOI IOmOllUS reual6
Education In the East and four in connection
with Mrs. Meredith's scheme for a Deaconess
House at Jerusalem. Ten were asked for and
ten God has sent
For many years the Russian Church
has been doing missionary work in Alaska,
chiefly among the Thlinkets of south eastern
Alaska. Sixty thousand dollars have been APP
propriated annually tor this work from the I'm
perial Treasury at st Petersburg, but in spite
Of he lahO If no, it, !
cons, the success of the movement has been
small and 1t is reported that "the strength of
the Russian Church seems to be waning before
the incoming of American influences" whatever
that may mean.
"A writer in the New York Tribune
says of the Samoans:
Since the advent of missionaries they have
become extremely religious. They are earnest
In their religion, and the great majority of them
protested Christians. Nightly in their rude
huts they read their native Bibles and sin
hymns, and in their daily life they live well mp
to the teachings of tho Bible. No more chaste
or honest set of people can be found. All this
applies to the people as they appear in their ma
tive villages, and does not apply to Apia where
under the civilizing influence of the white man
heir morals ave degenerated. In Justice
however, 1t must be said that this lowering of
the standard of morality Is due to the class of
white men that the native sees most of in Apia
namely, rough sailors and low traders.
Two GIFTED MIssIoNARIEs.-Tw
Of the most gifted men in the annals of missions
have ended their days IN labors among Moham-
medans, both dying in comparative youth.
These honored servants of the Master were
Henry Martyr and Ion Keith. Falconer They
had much In common, much in contrast Both
were Cambridge men, winning the highest aCad-
emlc honors that famous university could be-
stow; and both for a time resided there-the
one as fellow and examiner, the other as He
brew lecturer and lord almoner's professor of
Arabic. Both won lasting literary renown-
the one in Oriental translations, the other in
scientific contributions to the "Encyclopedia
Britannica" Both were unusually gifted, and
yet unhesltatingly laid all their gifts and hon
ors at their Masters feet. Devotedly pious. and
pre-eminently fitted for their work by their
rich ST. res Of learning especially in Semetic
tongues both turned to Mohammedan lands,
sront nearly the same brief period Of seed sowing
there, and at the same age (thirty-one) while
the dew Of youth was st on them sank to their
rest under the burning suns Of Persia and
Arabia They stand out, the one in the morn.
ing, and the other in the evening" Of this cen.
fury OF missions as among the noblest examples
Of missionary rehabilitation at York
THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The full and searching inquiry which if as pro-
posed should be instituted into the management
OF tho Church Missionary Society would he one
of the most interesting-aud perhaps exciting
events Of the day. The income Of the Church
Missionary Society last year was nearly G222
600. 1t ls stated that Of this enormous sum
nearly a font b that ia ,sloeo upou