Year: 1879

fervor, but the secular world always knew
perfectly we'll that 1t was not Christianity,
not the brotherly love, the eager spirit OF
helpfulness to all humanity which Jesus
taught.


We venture to say that the hearty work OF
the American Sunday School Union for one
year in striving to train little children into
truthful manhood, into temperate, devOut SER
wants of Christ, has accomplished more actual
good in the world, has helped the progress OF
mankind upward, higher than all the doctlinaI
squabbles or fires kindled against heresy since
time began, whether lighted by Papst or
Protestant. Human thought has grown too
big and free for petty dOgmatic bounds. You
cannot sWathe the man in the sWaddlng
clothes Of the infant. "The Christian Union
Schools" says the report from the West,
"succeed in cur frontier towns when denoml-
"natiOnal ones take no hold" Very reason
ably; the man who goes out of the over
crowded cities of the East with their
seethiDg nationalities and parties, their
crime, fraud and corruption, to dig
his living out of the ground, comes face to
face with realities that brush the cobwebs
forever out of his brain. There is a magnificent
untamed nature to be conquered. There are
the hordes of negroes periohing like The Jews
of old for lack of knowledge. There are the
Indians going down to death physically and
morally. There are other hOrdes of heather
coming in mt the Pacific Coast asking for civ
ilization. With these cries of life and death
all about him, He'll below and Heaven above
he wants to get hold, not of mans doctrine
but of Christ's hand, and the man who can
give him that Is the real helper He does not
care so greatly whether he shall be dipped
into the water or find it sprinkled on him, OF
whether he shall sing out of a hymnai or
missal.


The work done by union schools and mis-
sionary societies is encouraging as to its ex-
tent as well as its sincerity. The most cheer
ful report probably comes from Japan, whose
women are apparently as eager as the men
to find out the best IN every civilization, and
to adopt it. One of the Commissioners on
Education who was here II 1876 bOasted that
they would soon have a woman's college at
Toxic, founded upon the plan OF that OF Vas
sar; and, owing to gift of the young EN-
press and the help Of the American WOman's
Society, the boast is realized. The Home
Missionary Society, too, had good showing
OF steady, secure progress, especially III the
West 2,126 churches were supplied by 946
ministers.


A pregnant hint of usefulness was given to
Christians in New-York during this week
by the opening of Chinese school by
Chinaman, Moy jim Kee. There is
large body of these people in this city
anxious for education, which the simple,
direct means devised by this man will
give them. There are, too, millions of other
needy folk scattered through every town and
village in the country asking for education,
ci7izatIon-for all that help in short, which
only Christians can give. If every man or
woman with such help in their hands would
earnestly set to work, ike this poor China
man, to give it to their ncighbor who lacks,
the Anniversary Week of 1850 would have a
record which would revive the glory OF the
days Of the Apostles preaching.