The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14

work,
 The present relations between this country and Spain have been dlsad- vantage to the mission, and yet through the time of excited public feeling the city government treated the school with the greatest kindness.
 | The international Institute TOT Girls" receives pupils from all over Spain, from the extreme south to the extreme north, where the school is To- | cated.
 1 For lack of support and larger ac- commodations, the number Of boardlng pupils is limited to fifty | The honors received in the govern ment examinations have been eXcep- tionally high and large in proportion to the number of applicants. These grad rates have taken their examinations with a. thousand men in the Madrid university and have received the high est mark given in every study.
 Two of the graduates are employed usefully in Madrid, one in translating for the Tract society and the other in | city evangelistic work. One who left the school the past year is teaching in the south of Spain in a position where she will need much grace to maintain a Christian life, and one of the same class has been chosen to remain and assist in the institute.
 MEXICO.
 The Chihuahua school, under the management of the Misses Hammond flM years work.
 There are fifty day and eighteen boarding pupils, all the latter being Christians, Each year the scholars seem more ambitious to excel and more interested in spiritual things. A libra ry, recently gathered for the use of the school, is greatly appreciated.
 The mission is anxious to prepare well qualified Protestant teachers to fill every opening, and many of the girls are looking forward to positions where they may be helpers in mission work.
 An advanced course has been estab- lished and this month the first class will be graduated.
 In addition to visitation among wo- men and her literary efforts, Mrs. Ea- ton has given much time to c, F. work The first Mexican c. E. convention held l cess. Two delegates walked five hun dred miles, bearing a new white satin banner" lettered with gold, in Mexican embroidery, by one of the Christian teachers.
 Mrs. Eaton has been appointed sec retary of the C. F. union of Mexico, in which sphere there is promise of fruit ful service.
 MICRONESIA.
 The Sunday school scholars who con- tribute to the Morning Star mission will be gratfied to hear that the work on the Micronesian Islands is encouraging except on Ponape and other islands from which Spain has permitted the Ronish priests to banish the mission aries.
 Among the rich fruits of this mission we find that the mission schools are providing preachers for forty-nine ma, Itive churches, and teachers for seventy. seven schools, in which there are nearly three thousand scholars. On some Is. lands every child old enough to attend Is found in the mission school. INDIA.
 With the opening of this year death and destruction came upon all western India. Starvation and the terrors oi "the dark death," as the plague Is call ed, spread like a pail over more than half the continent Except in Bombay mission work has not been seriously hampered; but poor half paid converts have been among the eighty millions who lie down at night hungry and ir want. The Christians however, have been better sustained than others, be. cause of their trust in God.
 Not one case of the plague has occur. red in our schools, mission families oi churches.
 The High School for Christian Chil. dren was kept up until the plague was spreading close about them, and then by medical advice, the entire schoo was removed to temporary quarters ir Ahmednagcr.
 The accommodations in Bombay have been very inadequate to the numbers and government inspectors have threat ened to withdraw their grants if larger quarters are not provided.
 The c. E. and Lend a Hand" socie. ties are developing the Christian activi ties of the school. Some Hindu boys were interested in the Endeavor society and came regularly until their heather friends became alarmed. One boy waf severely beaten and told that the pun ishment would be repeated if he ever mentioned the Bible or Christians. But the boy insisted that he was a Chris tan.
 The Parel school for high caste heath en girls has had fifty-three pupils. This school has opened the way for Mrs Hume into forty or more heather homes, which would have remained closed but for the mutual love and in !, terest between her and the dear little girls.
 These heather children sing hymns and learn portions of the Bible, but tht rings in their noses show that most o, them are already married, and this i! doubtless their last as well as their frs opportunity to learn about the Saviour What a privilege that we may share il giving them this opportunity.
 Miss Child tells us that these day schools in Bombay are the best Hind, girls schools she saw in India.
 The Ahmednagar Girls school closed the year with one hundred and eighty three names on the rolls, a larger mum Der than usual. Among these are si, bright girls preparing to cOmDate fo,