will he be more missed or mourned than by the Officers and Managers of the Missionary Society.

A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.

the first collegiate building of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Japan. It is in the capital of Japan and is called "Goucher Hall" in honor of the liberal Baltimore Methodist who gave $20,000 to the college. It is of brick, four stories high, exclusive of the towers. A Japanese paper says: "The class-rooms and chapel are admirably arranged and beautifully finished, the latter with side rooms open into it, and capable of seating 1,000 persons."

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necessity. A portion at least of these educated men must be taught of God, as well as in science, or the loss to the millions of the land will be beyond remedy. A few special reasons for immediate action in this case. In the Centennial High School there are about four hundred students-the first or matriculating class numbers forty; the second class about the same number, while in the third class there are eighty. In the boys' schools of our North India Con

Resolved 3. That we remember with gratitude his manifold services to the Society after he became a Bishop. In the field his observations and experience were of the greatest value to the missionaries abroad and the Board at home, and while in the city his time and talents were always at our command, and his recommendations were largely followed by the Society. His residence in New York gave the Committees and Managers large opportunities to have the counsel of the Bishop. He was a man for the times, and he stamped his own thoughts and methods very largely upon all our Methodist Missions. Resolved 4. That the Secretary be in-ed from heathenism recently and have stricted to spread these resolutions upon our records and to send a copy of them to the family of the Bishop with the assurance of our increasing interest in their welfare, and our prayers for their prosperty and comfort.

Our Missionaries and Missions. During September the following missionaries have left the United States: For Japan-Rev. W. C. Davidson and wife and Miss Harriet S. Alling; for ChinaRev. J. C. Ferguson and wife, Rev. W. H. Lacy and wife, W. H. Curtiss, M.D., and wife. Rev. Spencer Lewis, Miss Vesta O. Greer, Mrs. Hobart and children, Mrs. Pilcher and children; for Bulgaria-Rev. E F. Lounsbury and wife.

In October or November the following are expected to sail : Rev. F. Ohlinger and wife for Korea; Rev. C. S. Long, PH.D., and wife and Rev. D. N. McInturff and wife for Japan; Rev. D. W. Nichols and wife for China; Mrs T. B. Wood and two children for South America.

Rev. G. A. Bond, whose health failed in Singapore, making it necessary that he should return to the United States. is at Perrysville, Indiana, in the N. W. Indiana Conference.

Two of our India missionaries were honored by colleges at their late commencements; Simpson College, Iowa, conferring the degree of D D. upon Rev. BH. Badley, M.A., and Boston University that of PH.D. upon Rev. J E. Scott. Rev. D. Wise, D.D., a member of the Board of Missions and of the Committee on Publications, has been elected Editor of the Methodist Review to serve until the meeting of the General Conference

next May.

The Rev. C. W. Drees has arrived in the Argentine Republic and assumed his duties as Superintendent of our South American Mission. His address is Buenos Avres.

Oa June 30, 1887, there was dedicated

"The work of the Lord in the Canarese Mission is moving on encouragingly. We have two young native preachers to help us preach and distribute tracts. Both of them have been convert

consequently been turned out of their homes. Both are devoted to their work and give promise of great usefulness. We have a school of eighty-five boys, nearly all Brahmins. We preach the Gospel regularly to attentive crowds of heathen, many of whom assent to the truth but do not as yet accept Christ. Pray for us."

A Christian College in North India. BY REV. T. S. JOHNSON, M.D.

At the last session of the North India Conference it was resolved-"In accordance with the action of our Conference in 1886 looking to the establishment of a Mission College at Lucknow - we recommend that the board of trustees of the Centennial High School at Lucknow, be authorized to take steps during the year to have the said school raised to collegiate grade by securing affiliation with the Calcutta University, provided the requisite financial help be secured from America or elsewhere."

The entrance or matriculating class of the Centennial School appeared for examination in April; ten of the class passed-all passing well. They, with a number from other schools, hoped the college would open in July, which by all means should have been done, and would have been, had the funds been available. The importance of at once opening a Christian college at Lucknow for all North India can hardly be overestimated.

In the great intellectual awakening in this country higher education is being sought by tens of thousands of the most promising young men of the land; but there is no Bible in the institutions where most of them are educated; and while many of them are educated away from their old religion, they become infidels or atheists. To help check the current of unbelief into which so many are rapidly drifting, Christian colleges are a

these are in the city of Lucknow. For the higher education of those who may desire it-out of these more than 10,000 pupils-there is no provision other than to let them go where a godless education is given. In addition-many other missions and new mission schools would gladly patronize our Christian college; indeed the desire for the college is quite general.

The Centennial High School, of which Rev. B. H. Badley, M. A., D.D., is principal, owns the very best site (with room for college buildings), in Lucknow-which is the largest city in North India.

The school house and dormitories are first class buildings. This school alone -which is flourishing and popular will send annually a good class into the college which would be largely augmented by other schools. The population within the bounds of our conference is 40,000,000; that of the province of Oudh-of which Lucknow is the capital-is about 12,000,000, and that of the city itself is 250,000. We have not only the best possible opening and opportunity, but the demand is imperatively upon us; we must go forward.

The Methodist Episcopal Church in all her history has hardly had such an opportunity, and as a church we cannot afford to lose it. Not only India, but God who has given our beloved church this enviable position, demands that we at once go forward.

Millions of dollars are being expended on a single institution at home whose future can never begin to compare with that of a properly endowed Christian college in Lucknow; still we do not call for a large sum. We need at present an endowment of $50,000; but can open the college if we get half this sum now, the balance later. Of course more will be required further on; also $25,000 will soon be needed for college buildings.

Who from among the Lord's stewards will come forward, and make this the best possible investment open to them?

If done by one man the institution might bear his name, while his money would work on the best possible advantage during the ages to come. Who will respond?

Lucknow, India, July 15, 1887.

Mhow and Railway Circuit, India.

BY REV. THOS. E. F. MORTON.

I left school in 1873 and joined the Commissary General's office at Madras as a clerk, which appointment I held till the early part of 1879, when the God of Abraham called me to the work of the holy ministry. The Rev. C. B. Ward, editor of The India Watchman, was at that time the pastor of the M. E. Church at Bellary and the Railway Circuit. He had been praying for an assistant, and the Lord answered his prayer by leading me out and away from my ink-spotted desk. For over a year I was constantly on the wing, visiting the following stations and conducting religious services: Arconum, Gripetty, Cuddapah, Gootz, Raichore, Vellore, Jollarpett, Salem, Erode, Pothanore and Corinbatore, on the Madras Railway; also Shahabad, Sholapore, Dexel and Dhoud, on the G I. P. Railway. In 1880 I was transferred to Nagpore, where I labored for over two years, and then to Bhosawal, a large locomotive station on the G. I. P. Railway. In the year 1884 I was posted to Jubblepore, a large railway junction, where the G. I. P. Railway meets the E. I. Railway. The year 1886 found me at Ajmere; consequent on the transfer of the Rev. Jeffries to Lahore (Punjab), I was sent here last February to fill his place.

This station is pleasantly situated, and at this season of the year, when refreshing showers of rain are falling, the country all around looks most beautiful with its natural carpet of rising green. On the whole, the weather here is far better than at the station adjacent.

Last year the M. E. Church here lost a good friend and supporter in Sir Robert Phayre, K. C. B., the General commanding the station. I know of but one junior officer who at present takes some interest in the work of the Lord in the army; his name is Lieut. Smerdon, of the 7th Dragoon Guards. He has two Bible classes for the soldiers of his regiment and those of the North Lancashire. I must say the soldiers here have abundant means of grace throughout the week. In the M. E. Church here we have a fellowship meeting on Monday evening, preaching on Thursdays, prayer meeting on Saturdays, and on Sundays we have the parade service at 6.30 A. M., and the evening service at 6.30 o'clock. Once a month we have a Blue Ribbon meeting and the Missionary Meeting.

Shortly after taking charge of this pastorate, I vigorously set to work visiting the troops and hospitals, and giving away large supplies of religious tracts and papers. I hadn't gone far when I found the canine tribe (the soldiers' inseparable companions) and the priests

of both the Anglican and Romish Church perfect nuisances. The R. C. priest warned me against giving tracts to any of his people in hospital, and threatened to report me to the Chief Doctor (a Roman Catholic); the priest of the other church also warned me against interfering with any of his people. Realizing the awkwardness of my position, I immediately drew up a report against the above individuals to the General. I stated that since my arrival in the station I had been round the wards and given away religious tracts to the soldiers without reference to their creed, and that my ministrations had been acceptable. The General sent for me, and in a familiar way remarked that, while he approved of my good intentions to help the soldier, he thought it advisable, with a view to prevent a disturbance, for each minister to "stick to his own last." The General, although a member of the Church of England, has no sympathy with the chaplain or his church. Though I am prohibited giving tracts and speaking to the men of other churches, still I get some of the working members of our little body to do successful work among them. I am watched as a cat watches a rat. I am regarded by the priests as a dangerous customer.

It is reported here that the R. C. priest (who looks like a Cabrillse, a young fellow said to me yesterday) is shortly to be transferred to Nasirabad. The work of God is seriously hindered by men of the above type.

A number of our young soldiers, especially the new arrivals from England, have died recently from enteric or typhoid fever, induced, the doctors say, by impurities in the water. There are several men in the hospital now who are dangerously ill. It is sad to think that they are snatched away by the cruel hand of death when so far away from earthly ties. We bespeak the prayers of your readers on behalf of our sick soldiers.

Oh! by the way, I am forgetting to write you about our Railway Circuit. Besides my ministrations here, I run out on the railway fortnightly and am away from my station two days. Khundwa, where Rev. J. D. Webb is doing mission work, and Hurdah, two stations on the G. I. P. Ry., are visited. Our congregations are very small, which, I believe, is owing to priestly influence. The R. C. and Anglican priests hate us. So you see we labor under difficulties.

I am glad to report the above individuals don't attempt to interfere with us in the streets. We have ready and free access to hundreds of natives; many of them, especially the Hindus, love to hear the Gospel preached and sung

Our vernacular work at this station

has opened up nicely. In a most prominent part of the native city we have hired a building for preaching and Sunday School purposes.

Nothing hindering we visit and preach in the city six times during the week. We have nearly seventy native children in our Sunday-school. Last Sunday

morning we succeded in getting some of them to our English church building where Mrs. Morton and a sister of the church instructed them. To encourage their attendance we give them, at the close of the school, vernacular religious tickets and tracts with pictures. Fresh children seem to be coming in all the time.

The Lord is blessing us financially. The Missionary Society has assigned us a grant of Rs. 200, we have applied for Rs. 400 for next year.

If the way opens up I am thinking, yea, I have written my Presiding Elder about the matter, of going heart and soul into the native work. It would be nice to have two ministers in this station, one to be chaplain to the Wesleyan troops, and the other to superintend the native work.

Cawnpore Circuit Hindustani Church.

BY REV. H. MANSELL.

The inhabitants of this circuit number 1,250,000. There are 190,000 in the city and suburbs of Cawnpore. Our mission occupies five posts in the city from which

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we readily reach its entire population. We have also two out stations. One is at Sheorajpur twenty miles West of us in a very populous and promising part of the district. The other is at Bithoor fourteen miles North on the banks of the Ganges. It is perhaps the most famous bathing shrine in India. It is the only shrine dedicated to the worship of Brahm the creator.

We have also the pastorate of 199 communicants, which with the children and adherents added makes a Christian community of 275.

For this pastoral and evangelical work, we have 2 native and 1 American missionary, 2 local deacons, 5 local preachers, 4 exhorters, 1 colporteur and 8 Christian teachers, 2 of whom are women. Mrs. Mansell has charge of 6 girls' schools and Miss Reed, with 2 assistants and 2 Bible women, has charge of the Zenana visiting and teaching.

Four of our exhorters are also teachers, and we all superintend Sunday-schools among the Hindu and Mohammedan children. We have thus 28 Christian workers. But what are these among so many?"

We work on in hope and God gives the increase.

Bishop Taylor began the native work

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here in 1871. We had not a single native and especially those of his own family. Christian here then.

Now the year 1:87 is half gone. At our Second Quarterly Conference for this year the missionary in charge, reported 35 Sunday-schools, 6 of them for girls. Average attendance for quarter, 1,063; 76 of these are girls. Received into full membership 7; received on probation 10. Baptized 6 adults and 1 child during the quarter. Removed by letter 1.

Since the year began we have baptized 19 adults and 3 children. We have now a Christian community of nearly 300.

The air is hot and humid, thermometer scarcely ever below 89' and often above it in the coolest part of the house. Perspiration oozing out of every pore. We are too prudent to jubilate much just now, but when the cool weather comes we shall shout "with a very great shout." We give you the above cool figures; you may sing the doxology over them. They are facts as well as figures. This is from our little field. Good news (some much better than this) comes from every place.

The Million Dollar boom has caused such an echo of zeal and enthusiasm in our native preachers and churches as I

have never before seen.

The cry is "All India's Millions for Jesus." This will not cease till India is saved.

Cawnpore, India, July 9, 1887.

India Items.

BY REV. E. W. PARKER.

It is often remarked that the native Christians in India are mostly from the lower castes of the people. This is true, but at the same time the missionaries are having converts from all classes. A missionary noticing this says: "We have in our Sunday services regularly converts from Brahmins, Kayaths, Bäjfoots. Jäts. Thikms, Maraos. Bagwans, and Mohammedans. Still the larger portion of our people are converts from the lo ver castes."

This young convert being in good position, has been in the habit of aiding his brothers, and it is interesting now to see how they would cut off from their society forever this erring brother, but would hold on to his monthly allowance of money. They refuse to send him his family, but demand a very large proportion of his salary for their support. And, Hindu like, they threaten to do all sorts of things to themselves if he does not yield.

There is much conviction of truth such as is manifest in the friendly letters mentioned, and there is also much opposition. The opposition is taking on more and more an organized form, which may lead to the friends becoming more decided.

The Moradabad High School has about 150 Christians boys in attendance, and about as many non-Christians. The Girls' Boarding School has reached an attendance of 142. The Moradabad Central Sunday-school has an average attendance of over 400 since the new term of school opened.

At a Communion Service lately, two young men who had been high caste Hindus, were received into full connection, and ten other adults, with fifteen children were baptized in the Moradabad City Church.

Persecution at Lwin Chang, China.

Dr. Whitney, of the American Board Mission, writes from Foochow of the trouble in the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Lwin Chang. He says:

"It was caused by their trying to purchase the premises they had rented the past ten years or more. The bargain was made last summer and I took the purchase-money up last autumn on my way to Shaowu. But when the United States Consul sent up the deeds to be stamped. the district magistrate, being unfriendly, sent them round to the gentry to examine (manifestly to stir up a feeling of opposition), instead of discharging his official duty.

When the native presiding elder went up there a few weeks ago to see about taking over the property, the magistrate set a day to come and measure the grounds.' The night previous he dined with several of the gentry and on his way the next day he passed a theatre in full blast, where hundreds were gathered, and stopping his chair he went into the theatre and told them they might stop while he went to measure the grounds.' This was a most unheard-of procedure for an official.

A young Brahmin lately converted, an educated man, was a few days since shoving some letters from friends. One a native doctor, a high caste Hindu, commended him for his courage and decision in becoming a Christian, stating that he also believed in the Christian religion, was thoroughly disgusted with the folly of Hinduism, and asked the young convert to pray for him that he, too, might get courage to make a move. Another letter was from a man in the postal department, also commending the step as right, and also wishing that more young men might have the courage of "The rabble followed him to the chaptheir convictions. el, and after the measuring was done Other letters were, of course, abusive, (evidently by prearrangement), two com

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panies, of about twenty each, set upon the elder and the helper and beat them severely, and rolled them in the streets and gutters. Another squad went into the house and demolished what they could lay their hands to, except in the women's apartment, such as tables, chairs, cooking utensils, etc., and in the chapel-room they tore down the scrolls and Scripture writings. This shower of abuse was over in a short time, and all things were as quiet as ever. The elder demanded that repairs be made, and the demand was complied with. The other matters have been given into the hands of the Consul to settle.

"These things retard the work somewhat at the time, but in the end they often hasten the advance of the Gospel."

Methodist Mission in Berlin, Prussia,

The Rev. Theodor Odinga, who was in Berlin last year as a student in the University, writes us Sept. 8, respecting the Methodist Churches in Berlin, etc.

"It may be the first time that you receive a short report of Berlin, and of our Methodist mission there; but I hope, nevertheless, you will find a small spot in GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS to print it.

"Berlin, the capital of the German Empire, has made, the last five years, rapid progress in every relation. Berlin has now nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants; but has for this people not more than sixty churches and chapels; and if all this 2,000,000 one day should want to go to church, they would not find place, and most people must go home without having been in the Lord's house,

"But of this multitude only a few go to church. There are many of the few churches in Berlin which are not filled on Sunday. I know men and women in Berlin who did not go to church since they were confirmed. And there are many children, four years old and more, who are not baptized. And also the immorality in Berlin has large dimensions. There are more than 50,000 public girls, who live in prostitution. The misery in this large city is very great.

"A few years ago Pastor Stoecker, court-preacher of the German Emperor, began the Berlin Stadt-Mission.' The missionaries of this Society do a great work, but a difficult work. The difficulties they have to overcome are the same to which the Methodists occur. There are some pastors of the State Church in Berlin who do not like that laymen preach the Gospel, and, therefore, are against the work of Stoecker; but for all these difficulties the Berlin Stadt-Mission does well, and the Lord is with the missionaries.

"Our Methodist Church has, also, in Berlin a blessed work. In 1966 the work

was begun by the late Dr. Jacoby, and since the work has grown and done well. There are four places where we preach in the city, and one station in the country.

"We have now in Berlin about 400 members Last conference, which was held at Cassel, our dear Bishop Ninde sent three preachers to Berlin to work for the Lord and to win souls for Him. Now, the Berlin preachers are full of good hope; they know that the Heavenly Father has sent them on to this place, and that He will be with them. But they have to work hard, and need the prayers of their brethren and sisters in the Lord. "Will you not forget to pray for us? Not only for our own ministers in Berlin, but for all ministers of our Church in Germany and Switzerland? It is important and exalting for us to feel that our American brethren and sisters pray for

Christian Progress in Japan. Rev. Geo. W. Elmer writes from Yokohama, Japan, July 23, 1887:

DEAR GOSPEL:-My last told of the conversion and baptism of our Kanagawa school teacher; now I have to report the conversion of his mother, and she is to be baptized next Sunday. The daughter is also a diligent student of the Bible, and we are hoping that she, too, will soon learn to love the Lord. There are also ten hopeful probationers on our list, and a number of earnest inquirers at the night school.

"One of our Kanagawa Christians, brother Nishikawa, is a feeble old man who tries to support himself and wife by teaching a few private scholars; among these have been the daughters of a man engaged in a wicked business. These two girls through the efforts of brother Nisikawa were brought to love the study of the Bible, and soon they began to use their Testaments at home; the father at first objected, but the girls continued to study in secret. After a while they once more essayed to use their Bibles in their father's presence; this time he did not forbid them and they soon succeeded in getting him interested as well as themselves. Brother Nishikawa has lately been talking to him, and he professes to be thoroughly ashamed of his present life.

“Christian lectures and preaching services continue to be as well attended as ever. The papers still report about one and fifty baptisms a week.

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Many new fields of labor, which have hitherto been closed to the Gospel, are being opened to its influences; one of the most notable among these is the town of Mito, where some years ago Brother Soper and his helper were stoned by the people and had to run for their lives; it is now anxious to receive Christianity. Only a few weeks since the principal of its high school-himself an earnest Christian-came to me with the request that I would enter the employ of the school to teach English. He was willing to take fifteen hours' teaching a week and give me all the opportunities for preaching that I desired. I could not go at the time and they have secured the services of Rev. Mr. Fisher of the American Baptist Mission.

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Nagoya, the third city of the empire, has been for years one of the hotbeds of Buddhism. It, too, is now open to the Gospel. The Rev. F. C. Klien and his wife, of the Methodist Protestant Mission, have lately gone there to take a place in the government school, and they have full permission to preach and teach Christianity. The Presbyterian Mission are expecting to send a man and his wife there also, and our own mission will probably send some one to the same place soon after Conference.

"Many more such encouraging incidents could be given did time and space permit. Discouragements there are as well, though a lack of laborers seems to be the greatest hindrance to the progress of the work to-day. There are hundreds of schools now seeking Christian teachers and though some give but nominal salaries, all readily grant every facility for spreading the Gospel not only in the schools themselves but also in the surrounding country."

Utah Mission and its Annual Meeting.

BY REV. J. D. GILLILAN.

The settlements of Utah are, except the mining camps, all in the valleys among the Wahsatch Mountains, whose green, grassy slopes and timbered ridges reach up to the regions of perpetual snow; consequently the people are agriculturists, and in their shady nooks and glens grow everything found in semi-tropical countries, from the fig at St. George to the more hardy fruits at Lozan, in the Cache Valley.

The people are gathered from every part of the world flocking hither to this Latter Day Zion, to become the "handful of corn on the tops of the mountains," to bathe in the fabled "Fountain of Youth," etc. The poor deluded souls leaving their heathen homes in Calcutta to find a grosser form of idolatry or ancestor worship in the Adam-god theology, and a superstition as degrading and

hard to break as their own native caste; coming from the spicy islands of Ceylon and Java and the peninsula of Malay that they may come face to face with the religion of Jesus and the white man's; bidding farewell to friends in Iceland and Africa, and in baste forsaking home, friends and loved ones to escape the destruction speedily to come upon Babylon. How we pity them! With their sorrowful, tear-stained faces they look upon us and say: Is it true? Is there balm in Gilead?” "Is there a peace for the soul, which we may know even in this life?"

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Such is the granite wall the missionaries are called upon to face, an accretion and conglomeration of all faiths, schisms and heresies, like the bed of the geological glacier, composed of fragments and bits of rocks of all ages. The predominating nationalities are English, Scandinavian, and Scotch, with far too many Americans, and a few Welsh.

Our last annual meeting was held in the San Pete Valley, one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, in the appropriately-named town of Mount Pleasant. Bishop Walden presided. From the beginning it was manifest that the Holy Spirit was present in power, and the sessions of the Conference of 1887 will long be remembered on account of its

Pentecostal showers.

The superintendent, Rev. T. C. Iliff, D.D., who with ceaseless energy renders himself as nearly ubiquitous as any man can, reported the work as advancing "all along the line" so evenly and with such rapid strides that it is with difficulty we keep pace with it; here is wanted a church, there a school; here a resident pastor the center of a circuit; there they will give a lot and half enough money to build a church and support a pastor or teacher. "Only come over and help us.'

Was Macedon ever darker or the cry for help louder? Bishop Walden says we ought to be called foreign missionaries. Incidents were related which would melt the most hardened, each pastor and teacher bringing a sheaf of rich experience. One brother, Rev. M. Anderson, has died full of faith and good works; his successor the Rev. E E. Mörk planted on his grave at Richfield, on the Fourth of July, the American flag, thus decorating the grave of the first patriot in that town.

The membership is increased, and the "Million Dollar Line" passed by more than $100. Several new missionaries enter the field to take charge of new schools on new circuits in new fields. Daylight has come and the workers have received the first light. May their light shine.

Beaver, Utah, Aug. 23, 1887.