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Letter from Japan.
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The station at Stanley Pool is now
well established under Dr. Sims,
Y okahama , 222 B. Bluff,
who is trying to master the difficult
Jan. 4, 1884.
languages of the interior tribes. Mr.
Dear Brother: ‘
We have the honor to make the Stanley writes to the mission au­
following report for the month of thorities in London that the station
at Stanley Pool is well located and
Decern bor, 1883:
By the first of the month we the buildings are the neatest and
were pretty well settled, although most complete he has seen on the
we had not yet gotten our ¿roods Congo. He expresses his keen sym-
from America. We received them ’ ”patfiy withi the mission in its work,
about Dec. 20th. During the month and adds : “ What I have done for
we have all studied the language, the Baptist, yours, the Algerian,
making as good progress as could and the Landana mission, ought to
be expected. Bro. Garst was siek prove to you that what assistance
a good share of the month with I can give will be ungrudgingly
Which attacked his siom , ogivfmrtrrthff WISeTor’wliicfi7 i” 6e-
ach. Of late he has been much lieve, we are all working.”
better, and nearly all traces of his
trouble have now disappeared. We,
after much considerationand “in­
quiry, think strongly of going to a
city in Northern Japan, on the west
- coast, named Kuboto, Akita Ken
(Ken—-province), in May next. Bro.
Poate, of the Baptist church, first
called our attention to tho place It
is a fine city of about 60,000 people.
There are no missions there except
Greek and Catholic. By being
where we can not see foreigners, we
can learn the language quicker, and
it is desirable to be in the place of
labor as 8Qon as possible. In order
to live out pf a treaty port, we will
have to teach school an hour a day.
~----- Should we go td-Kuboto, it will
cost about $200.00 to transport us.
It is not advisable to spend the
summer in Yokahama. The year
closed with all cheerful and hopeful.
We wish all the brethren a hap­
py New Year, ah< a bountoous one
in mission and hoi iß work, “liere-
in is my Father glorified, that ye
bear much fruit; and so ’shall ye be
my disciples.” John 15 : 8.
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Respectfully submitted,
G eo . T. S mith .
C has . E. G arst .
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Current Religious News
(Gleanings from our Exchan gen),
Dr. Howard Crosby says : “ Giv­
ing is worship. Every one should
give, whether rich or poor The
cent of the straitened is as much
needed for worship as the dollar of
the richer. The poor man should
- no more omit giving because of his
poverty than an illiterate man
should omit praying because of
grammar. • No Christian has a right
to except this from his worship.”
The Livingstone Inland Mission
F has dispatched a steam launch"to
Africa for use on the Upper Congo.
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One of the most interesting ser­
vices, in connection with the anni­
versary of the Marathi Mission of
the American Board in India, is the
communion. At the last annual
meeting, a great congregation gath­
ered around the table of the Load
Sunday afternoon. “ There were
about 700 communicants, most of
American Mission; but a goodly
number were from other Missions.
Such a gathering of native Chris­
tians, says a correspondent, is prob­
ably to be seen nowhere else in
J^ernlfl^
he adds, declaim about the ‘failure
but the sight of such a company as
this, of intelligent, joyous Christian
men and women, who were but
lately gathered from the darkness
and hopelessness of heathenism, is
sufficient proof that the Word of the
Lord has not lost its power, but
that it ‘ shall stand forever.’ ”
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The Seventh Day Adventists re­
port for the year ending October 1>
1883, a total of 16,951 members.
Robert Harris, the successor of
Villard as President of the Northern
Pacific Railway Company, has long
been identified with the Baptists of
New York City.
The^ 114,237 Baptiste -ef—New
York hold church property valued
at $9,036,969, on which there is an
indebtedness of $660,868.
The
sums contributed for the support of
worshjpand^currentL^^penses last
year amounted to $816,744, and
those for benevolence $369,756;
making a total of $1,186,500—an
average of over $10 a member.
The work among the Moslems of
Egypt has become very encouraging,
A R ich P arish .—Trinity Epis­
Dr. Watson, of thy United Presby­
copal Church is widely known as
terian Mission, writes that convert
the wealthiest parish in the United
after convert has been announced.
States. Its property has been pop- *
He mentions five, all of whom “had
ularly estimated at a value of mil­
to pass through stripes and impris­
onment before ^receiving their re­
From-the figures which follov^L lions of dollars, and some indiscreet
ligious freedom.” All of the mis­ appears that the Christian Church­ advocates of the taxation of church
sionaries have become objects of es of the country are not altogether property have pointed to Trinity
hatred to the Mohammedans be­ forgetful of the spiritual needs of corporation as an example of what
cause of their recent successes, and Utah; and the results specified are the law exempting churches from
some have been treatened. Dr. all the more cheering when we re­ bearing their proportion of the cost
Watson says he never, saw such member that, until within five of government may and does lead -
hopeful signs in Egypt as he sees years, scarcely any work was at­ to. It wodld, indeed, be a system
now. The school in Cairo has 122 tempted."Certainly here is a most of oppression of actual tax-payers
day scholars; among whom are a potent auxiliary to any wise legis- if legal exemptions went so far; but
they do not. We cannot learn,
number of new ones, chiefly MQ,-Jfc]ation which. congress may s )t on
from the Year Book of Trinity Par­
homme dans.
foot. Churches to the number of ish* for 1884, what the value of the
The Finnjsh missionaries.-!«- JihirtyJour have been planted on property of the corporation is, nor
Ovamboland, Africa, have at last Mormon soil, with 42 ministers and is it even stated wh^t^the annual
been rewarded for twelve and a 1,297 members. In Salt Lake the income is, but it is admitted that,
half years of labor there by the Congregationalists have a self-sup­ in round numbers, $500,000 a year
privilege oi organizing the first porting church of 150 members, and will include all the revenues receiv­
Ovambo church at Ondonga. Six the Presbyterians and Methodists ed. The same authority states that
youths were baptized on the occa­ each one nearly as large. There the annual taxes amount, including
sion. The first convert from among are. also 80 Sunday-schools, with water rents, to $63,000-, and that
this people was baptized in Finland 4,150 scholars, as well as 86 Chris­ “ taxes are paid on every square
in 1876. Affairs were very much tian day schools, with 170 teachers, inch of ground used for secular
disturbed in the home land, so that, and nearly 6,000 pupils. Salt Lake purposes, and on every building
in 1879, a number of youth, who has eight churches and Ogden five. owned by us, excepting the church­
wished to be baptized, were obliged
Some one represents an Episcopal es, school-houses, infirmary and bur-
to flee to Omarurtf* where they
ial gro unds. ’—A. F. Iindependent.
Rhenish Mission, and received the
sacrament in 1881. This news had
a good influence on their fellow
tribesmen, and other youth became
candidates for baptism. One of the
baptized persons ventured to return
from Otnaruru and teach in the
school, although he had barely es­
caped being murdered on a previous
visit he had made to his home. Now
others of the converts in Omaruru
are thinking of returning, and the
missionaries are greatly encouraged.
The Mission is conducted by six
missionaries at two stations and re­
turns 89 pupils in the schools.
rector of the church, but my moth­
Pope Leo XII is now 74 years of
er-in-law is director and my wife is
age. He is tall, thin, bony, and is
corrector.”
said to resemble Voltaire. He wears
There is a report that John Peter his age well and walks very erect.
Lange, the distinguished German He rises early, devoting his first
commentator and theologian, is dead, hours to prayer, saying mass at six
in his 82nd year. “ His body was o'clock eating breakfast while he
found in the canal near Hamburg,” looks over his letters. He is a man
and some suppose that he commit­ of business methods, who enjoys
ted suicide.
the reputation of never saying or
doing a foolish thing.
“ Some people believe themselves
saved,” says a Frenchman writing
It is stated that out of 129 stu­
about Religion in •England, “if they dents now in residence at the four -
can only touch the coat-tails of Mr. Wesleyan theological institutions
Moody or Sankey.” ’
110, are total abstainers«
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