Missionary S. Knowles of India, 366. A New Church for Lucknow, 379. A Christian College in North India, 475. Conversion of a Mohammedan Weaver, 514. India Methodist Missious, 557. JAPAN. Missionary Rev. Julius Soper, 68. Heathen Gods and Temples, 78. Buddhist Temple for Protestant Worship, 93. Mission of Rev. C. H. Carpenter, 93. Methodism in North Japan, 177. Glorifying Christ in Japan, 186. Rapid Movements in Japan. 247. The Feast of Boug, 249. Children in Japan, 252. A Japanese Boy at School, 253. A Japanese Girl's Gala Day, 254. Japanese Feast of Dolls, 256. Changes in Japan, 258. Methodist Episcopal Missions in Japan, 259. Rev. Dr. C. S. Long of Japan, 260, Osaka Episcopal Conference, 261. Protestant Missions in Japan, 265. The Ainos of Japan, 405. First District Conference in North Japan, 462. A Japanese Girl's Sermon, 467. Little Lewen of Japan, 468. Christian Progress in Japan, 478. Mission at Mambo, 60. Country and People of Africa, 98. Dervishes of Egypt, 113. African Superstition, 115. Henry M. Stanley, African Explorer, 116. The Niger River and People near, 117. Mission Work in Morocco, 239. The Copts of Egypt, 278. Bishop Taylor in Liberia, 286. An Italian Missionary in Africa, §83. The Islands and Missions. Madagascar and its People, 63, 436. Capital of Madagascar and Protestant Missions of Madagascar, 225, Government and Missions of Java, 412. The West Indies, 434. The Hawaiian Islands, 437. Islands destroyed in Nanomanga, 451. Illustrations. Harvest Festival in Poland, 1. Emperor of Germany, 4. Scenes in Germany, 5. King of Bavaria, 6. Emperor of Austria, 7. Woman of Hungary, 7. Queen of Great Britain, 9. Prince of Wales, 9. Princess of Wales, 9. Peasant of Spain, 11. Queen Regent of Spain, 11. Mohammedan entering a Mosque, 12. King of Sweden and Norway, 14. A Girl of Roumania, 15. King of Roumania, 16. Acropolis at Athens, 18. Women of Greece, 18. Diagram: The World Divided Religiously, 39. Hindu School, Teachers and Missionaries, 40. Indian Boys before attending School, 41. Indian Boys after attending School, 41. Abyssinian Dinner Party, 49. King John of Abyssinia, 50. Scenes in Abyssinia, 51. Abyssinian Law-suit, 52. Abyssinian Boy, 53. Abyssinian Soldier, 54. Slave Girls of Madagascar, 64. Natives of Madagascar, 64. Missionary Julius Soper of Japan, 68. An Indian Doctor, 76. Canadian Missionary, 76. Types of Leading Races, 77. A Kadi of North Africa, 97. A Moor and his Horse and Servant, 98. City of Cairo, Egypt, 102. Lake Tanganyika, 105. Weze Island in Lake Victoria Nyanza, 105. An Abyssinian Soldier, 106. An Arab of the Soudan, 107. House of Arab Slave Dealer, 108. A Native of Zanzibar, 109. Natives of the Congo, 111. Dancing Dervishes, 113. Henry M. Stanley, 116. Bishop Haunington, 123. Bishop Crowther of Africa, 128. Mission House in Pungo Andongo, 132. Indians of Brazil, 145, 148, 150, 156. A Patagonian Funeral, 147. A Scene in Bolivia, 149. A Woman of Quito, Ecuador, 151. Ruins in Peru, 152. City of Cuzco, Peru, 153. Village of Indians of Venezuela, 151. Interior of Roman Catholic Cathedral in Church of Ex-convent of San Francisco, 194. President Diaz of Mexico, 196. A Girl of Mexico, 196. Mexican Indian Hut and Family, 196. City of Mexico, 198, 199. Woman of Mexico, 200. Cathedral in Mexico, 201. A View in Mexico City, 202. Mexican Minister to the United States, 202. Manuel Aguas, 215. Church of San Jose de Gracia, 215. Rama Indian of Central America, 216. Native Women and Children at Leopoldville on the Congo, 227. Missionary A. W. Greenman of Mexico, 229. Natives of Loochoo Islands, 245. City of Yokohama, 246. City of Kioto, 217. A Japanese Street Show, 254. Mount Fujiyama, 255. Japanese Girls, 256. St. Barnabas Hospital, Osaka, 258. First Graduates in the Presbyterian Theological King of Korea, 270. Korean Embassy, 272. City of Seoul, Korea, 275. Residence of Mr. Appenzeller and of Mrs. Scranton at Seoul, 277. Methodist Mission Buildings in Seoul, 277. A Chinese Mandarin, 293. A Chinese Carriage in the Rain, 294. Chapel at Bangkah, Formosa, 307. Missionary L. W. Pilcher of China, 321. Earl of Dufferin, 333. Hindu Princess, 338. A Carriage in India, 339. The Holy Cow of India, 310. Parsi Lady and Child, 312. Image of Kali, 345. A Holy Man of India. 349. A Holy Man on Iron Spikes, 349. Temple of Jaganath, 352. City of Benares, 353. City of Lahore. 360. City of Calcutta, 361. Theological Seminary Class at Bareilly and their Instructors, 365. Missionary S. Knowles of India, 366. Missionary E. W. Parker of India, 368. Interior of a House in Central Asia, 386. Scenes in Central Asia, 387. City of Singapore, 388. Ameer of Bokhara, 389. Ameer of Afghanistan, 389. Ameer of Cabul, 390. An Uzbek of Central Asia, 390. Natives of Tibet, 390. A Governor of Central Asia, 390. Sacred Elephant of Siam, 391. Mohammed, 393. Kurdish Women, 393. Soldiers of Afghanistan, 394. A Buddhist Priest, 397. Natives of Beirut, Syria, 400. Hellab on the Euphrates, 400. Hindu Fakeer at Allahabad, 403. Ainos of Japan, 404. Governor General of India, 408. Missionary Keith-Falconer of Arabia, 410. Women of Arabia, 411. A Javanese Family, 413. A Malay Woman, 415. Missionary Griffith John of China, 417. Natives of the Phillipine Islands, 433. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 435. A Group of Hovas of Madagascar, 437. King Kalakua of Hawaii, 438. Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii, 438. City of Sydney, Australia, 447. Missionary J. Chalmers of New Guinea, 449. A Garden in Java, 450. Dyaks of Borneo, 452. Missionary B. A. Carlson of Finland. 453. Chinese ou Stilts, 466. In a Japanese Garden, 468. Chinese Fortune Teller, 469. Scenes in Greenland, 481. Indians of Canada on a Journey, 486. An Eskimo and his Belongings, 488. Indian Winter Encampment, 491. An Eskimo on Snow Shoes, 491. An Alaska Hunter, 491. Evangelist Dr. Munhall, 511. An Eskimo Chief, 517. Indian Mode of Burial, 530. A Tattoed Indian. 531. Emigration of an Indian Family, 532. First Trophy of an Indian Boy, 534. Indian Scenes on the Pacific Railroad, 538. Indian Earth Lodges of the Sacramento Valley, 541. Indians Thanking the Great Spirit, 545. Maps. Map of Europe, 20. Map of Bulgaria, 29, 559. Map of Germany and Switzerland. 30, 556. Map of Italy, 31, 565 Map of African Explorations, 99. Map of Egypt, 101. Map of Africa, 103, 126. Map of Madagascar, 110. Map of Congo Free State, 111, 553. Map of North Africa, 125. Map of Liberia, 129, 562. Map of British and Dutch Guiana, 163. Map of South America, 163, 554. Map of Mexico, 205. Map of Mosketo Coast, 217. Map of Japan and Korea, 242, 560. Map of China, 291, 555. Map of India. 341, 557. Map of Malay Peninsula, 363. Map of Asia, 418. Map of Micronesia, 440. Map of Australasia and Polynesia. 444. Map of New Hebrides, 445. Map of Australia, 448. Map of Northern North America, 483. Map of Greenland and Labrador, 484. Map of Alaska, 497. Map of Burma, 558. Map of Scandinavia, 564. The Country and People of Europe. It is believed that the earliest inhabitants of Europe lived by hunting and fishing and were in their general characteristics much similar to the Eskimo. The change in the climate prepared the way for the Aryans who came from India and Persia and first settled on the banks of the Danube, and to-day nearly all the people of Europe belong to the Aryan race. The people of Europe may be divided in three great divisions of Mongolians, Uralians, and Aryans. The Mongolians are the Tartars, Osman Turks, and Kalmucks. The Uralians are represented by the Magyars and the Finns. The Aryans embrace the remainder and nearly the entire population-the Germans, Dutch, Flemish, English, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders, French, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Roumanians, Moldavians, Greeks, Russians, Poles, Bohemians, Bulgarians, Celts, Albanians, Armenians, etc., etc. The languages vary considerably, there being 60 distinct languages spoken in Europe, without including Latin, Greek, Old Slavonic and Hebrew, which are still used in literature. The English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Spanish are the most important. The population of Europe in 1787 is said to have been 144,000,000; in 1815, it numbered 180,000,000; in 1854, it was said to be 258,778,850, which in 20 years had increased to 309,178,300. The latest census obtainable gives the area and the population of the different nations of Europe as follows, taking them in the comparative order of their popula province of Eastern Roumelia, area 13,500 square miles, population 976, 100; provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Novi Bazar occupied and administered by AustriaHungary, area 24,247 square miles, population, 1,504, 091. Several of the countries of Europe have large and important colonies, exceeding in some cases both in size and in population the mother countries. The colonies of Great Britain and Ireland have an area of 7,938,422 square miles and a population of 213,917,942; the Netherlands, 682,792 square miles, 26,841,597 population; Portugal, 705,778 square miles, 3,723,967 population; Spain, 165,734 square miles, 8,175,467 population; France, 382,706 square miles, 8,722,857 population; Denmark, 87,124 square miles, 127,122 population. RUSSIA. Russia in Europe (including Poland and Finland,) comprises an area of 2,095,500 square miles and a population of 87,105,089. In the Russian European provinces are 77,879,521 persons; in the Kingdom of Poland 7,083,475; in the Grand-Duchy of Finland 2,142,093. The great majority of the population are devoted to agricultural occupations, and dwell in villages. A large part of the people are without education, except in Finland where the whole of the inhabitants can read and nearly all the children of school age are at school. The people are divided religiously, according to the census of 1879, as follows: Orthodox Greek Church, 61,941,200; United Greeks and Armenians, 55,000; Roman Catholics, 8,300,000; Protestants, 2,950,000; Jews, 3,000,000; Mohammedans, 2,600,000; Pagans, 26,000. The established religion of the empire is the GræcoRussian, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Faith. It has its own independent Synod, but maintains the relation of a sister church with the four patriarchates of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria. The Emperor is head of the Church and appoints to every office in the church, but in official documents the Emperor is not the head, but the Protector or Defender of the Church. There were in Russia in 1882, 620 cathedrals and 39,949 churches, and 89,722 clergy of the established faith. The Government of Russia is an absolute hereditary monarchy. The administration of the empire is entrusted to four great boards, or councils. The reigning Emperor, Alexander III., born February 26, (March 10. new style) 1845, the eldest son of Emperor Alexander II., ascended the throne at the death of his father March 1, 1881. He was married Nov. 9, 1866, to Maria Dagmar, daughter of King Christian IX. of Denmark. They have five children. The heir-apparent, Nicholas, was born May 6, 1868. St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, had in 1884, a population of 929,100. |