he has forfeited six months' pay, thus leav- [ friends to help her, and I collected money ing his wife, who is not able to work, and for this purpose, the donors perfectly unthree children, without any means of sup- derstanding that they were not giving to port. I directed her to the Relief Union, our Society or our schools, but for this where she can get food and some clothing, but they give no money for rent. I saw no especial case. I knew the woman to be better way than for me to ask my personal worthy and in great need. MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. TURKEY. At the meeting of the mission of The Annual Conferences of the bre- | Eastern Turkey, held at Diarbekir, thren connected with the American Baron Thomas Boyajian was ordained Board in Western and Central Turkey and installed pastor of the first Evanhave just been held. The Western at gelical Church of Diarbekir. The ser Constantinople and the Central at Ain-vices were deeply interesting, and wittab. The native churches in Western Turkey are making rapid progress towards self-support. The additions to the churches during the last year have not been large, but the piety of the membership has been such as to exert a healthful influence on the surrounding population. nessed by a very large concourse of people. The examination was very strict and thorough, and well sustained by the candidate. The church agrees to pay nearly half his salary. ORDINATION AT KILLIS. The Herald for September contained notices of no less than four ordinations At the meeting of the brethren of of native pastors over evangelical Central Turkey at Aintab, the m embers churches in Central Turkey, which oc of the mission seemed deeply impressed curred in the month of May. Mr. with their numerical weakness. There Schneider now mentions another, that are only seven male members of the of Thomas Kalfa, at Killis. The call mission, and two of these are absent on of the church was given a year preaccount of ill-health. There has been viously, but circumstances had occaan interesting state of religious interest sioned delay, and he was not ordained at Aintab and Oorfa. The native until the 28th of June. The council churches here as in Western Turkey was composed of the two native pastors are making vigorous efforts to sustain and two delegates from Aintab, the their own pastors. Three congregations are now waiting to have their pastors ordained and eight others are ready to call and settle them as soon as suitable men can be found. The Eastern Turkey mission of the American Board has connected with it twelve churches with 353 members.There are thirteen native preachers, three of whom are pastors with fortytwo preaching places and forty common schools. native pastor from Aleppo, and Mr. Schneider; and our brother remarks: "It is a pleasing fact that, we have progressed so far in our work that so important a matter as that of ordaining a man to the ministry can be accomplished with the presence of only one missionary." CONSTANTINOPLE. The Rev. A. L. Long, Methodist missionary among the Bulgarians, who has heretofore been stationed at Tirno va, has, with the consent of the bishop ( dumb institution, and several hospitals. having charge and the Missionary It was the birth-place of Mozart. Board, removed to Constantinople.- At Brauna, another town of Upper This removal has taken place with spe- Austria, there are a few Protestants cial reference to the work of translating who regard Salzburg as their mother the Holy Scriptures into the Bulgarian. church, and have procured a building He has, moreover, a more numerous for a place of worship, expecting that population of Bulgarians even than in the pastor of Salzburg will officiate for Tirnova, among whom to preach the them as often as his other duties will word of life. He was much hindered allow. in securing a suitable location by those who feared his influence among the Bulgarians; but this opposition has JAPAN. A number of American Christians, served to increase his courage and his of different denominations, have just faith; he is looking for fruit with the organized the first Reformed Protestant greater confidence in consequence of Dutch Church in Japan. this very opposition. ROBERT COLLEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. The movement originated with the Hon. Mr. Pruyn, U. S. Minister. Most desirachurch edifice, and for missionary resible sites have been procured for a This college, under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Hamlin, is to be opened dences on the Yokohama buffs. The on the 16th of September, in the old new organization is full of Christian seminary building of Bebek. The Faculty consists of the President, the vigor, and is likely to prove an unRev. Dr. Hamlin, Rev. George A. Per-speakable blessing to all the English kins, from the scientific department, speaking people in that district. Yale College, and Professor Henry A. Shawffler from the Law School of Harvard University and Heidleburg, Ger many. AUSTRIA. SANDWICH ISLANDS. The Hawaiian Evangelical Association met at Honolulu on the third of June. Thirty members, including nearly the whole company of missionIn our last number we spoke of re- aries, and five corresponding members, ligious liberty in Austria, and the dis- among whom was Doctor Anderson, position of the Emperor to give full Secretary of the American Board, were toleration to his Protestant subjects-present. also, that he had given a place of wor- An Ecclesiastical Council ordained ship to the Protestants in Vienna. We and installed the Rev. H. H. Parker learn still further, by late intelligence, over the first native church of Honoluthat the Protestants in Salzburg are lu. The exercises were exceedingly engaged in the erection of a place of interesting. Mr. Parker is a native of worship, and have elected a pastor, M. Aumuller of Augsburg. the islands, and was educated there.— Dr. Anderson, of the American Board, Salzburg lies about 156 miles W. S. was present, and took part in the exerW. of Vienna, and has a population of cises, and when the ordaining prayer 14 to 18,000. It is the See of an was made by the Rev. Mr. Coan, he Archbishop-has a lyceum, an exten- stood by the side of the Rev. Mr. sive library, a gymnasium, a deaf and Kuaea, one of the native Hawaiian pastors, and with him laid his han upon the head of the candidate. Africa have been eminently successful At one place, Stellenbosch, near Capetown, the mission church " contains not less than 1,200 members, all converted The past year, in the churches of the Islands, has not been as in some former years one of revival and spiritual har- from the darkness of idolatry." Saron vests. On the contrary, many things" contains a church of between 500 and have tended to depress. Yet, on the 600 baptized individuals, and its school whole, the churches are growing in is attended by 350 children." At anoknowledge and grace. There never ther station, commenced in 1854,.there INDIA. has been a time when a larger number are 250 communicants. Many of the members are deeply interested in the work of Foreign Missions. The Marquesas Mission has been in existence ten years, and entirely sustained by funds from the Islands. The six missionaries laboring there are all Hawaiians. SOUTH AFRICA. Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Madura mission, stationed at Mandapasalic, writes that the gospel is making slow but silent progress in his field. He gives an account of the ordination of another native pastor, making the fourth in that station field. The London Missionary Society's agents at Calcutta, report the reception into the Christian church of two Kulin Brahmins (the highest order of Hindoo ZULU MISSION.-Rev. Mr. Grant, of priesthood) on the same Sabbath.— the Amer. Board, gives some interest- Both converts were students of the ing facts respecting his station. He Presidency College, where direct Chrishas a congregation which has averaged tian instruction is prohibited. Yet it the past year about 250 hearers. His shows how a good secular education church numbers 65. He hopes that tends to undermine the foundations of during the present year his chapel will heathenism. be completed. KALAPOOR.-The Rev. Mr. Wilder From the Wesleyan missionary sta- writes in his last letter, that he is going tions of both Western and Southern forward in his daily work without hinAfrica, we hear of most remarkable re- drance or interruption. And though ligious awakenings. A minister wri- some enquirers have turned back to the ting from Batharst, Gambia, states mire of Hindooism, others continue to that the revival of last year still con- encourage him. At his last communtinued, and about three hundred had ion season one was baptized and added found peace in believing. In the Fort Peddie district, D'Urban, the revival has extended from the English residents to the foreign population. On the first Sabbath of the year 142 persons renounced heathenism and were baptized. to his little flock. LODIANA.-The Rev. Messrs. Rudolph and Thachnell with their wives, assisted by three native Scripture-readers and a young lady from Germany, have conducted the missionary work at this station the past year. During the The missions established by the year four adults have been received into Rhenish Missionary Society in South the church and five children baptized. mental of all our labors as missiouaries of the cross of Christ; suspending the carrying out of our great commission to preach the gospel to every creature. They would compel us to abandon the most sacred of MAHRATTAS.—Mr. Harding wrote from Sholapoor, June 17: "I am encouraged to hope that the Lord will prosper our work in this new field. Already we observe a spirit of inquiry not only in Sholapoor, but in several tific instructors and educators of children; of the near villages. In a town five at the same time limiting the number of pumiles to the east of us, there is a very pils who may attend upon our instruction, decided interest among the Mahars, and to one hundred and fifty. They place our in a village still nearer, there are other favorable indications." PERSIA. all our privileges, and become mere scien press under the censorship of a Mussulman agent, ignorant of the Syriac language, who might, if he should choose, appoint a papist as a supervisor of our books. They would at once smother the little fire kindling in Salmas, which we watch over with such tender and affectionate interest. CHINA. JESUIT INTRIGUES AGAINST THE NESTORIAN MISSION.-An obstacle we have long expected to the missions among the heathen, has been thrust in the way of the missions among the Nestorians. Mr. Peet, of Fuh Chau, reports Wherever Protestant missionaries go, the organization of a church with there sooner or later, you may expect seven members, at Changloh, a place some emissary of the "man of sin" to which has been occupied for a short counteract, if possible, his work. The time, as an out-station of the mission. AMOY.-The missions of the ReformFrench jesuits have concocted a scheme to cripple the missionary work in Per-ed Protestant Dutch Church in Amey sia. By bribes and by falsehood, they are prospering. There are three churchhave obtained a royal firman, in which es, the communicants of which number referring to these instructions the Rev. Mr. Labaree writes: upwards of 600. The mission supports seven native preachers. The native "The Government states, that it recogconverts are earnest and self-sacrificing nizes no other Christian sects in Persia than in their labors for their countrymen. Armenians, Nestorians, and Catholics; CANTON.-A church has been recent[Chaldeans;] that proselyting from one ly organized at Canton by the missionsect to another is forbidden, and no new aries of the Presbyterian Church from creed is to be introduced; that young gentlemen did not come to proselyte, preach or exhort, but to educate the children of Armenians and Nestorians, and teach them the sciences. If you proselyte, preach, dr exhort, the agent is to put a stop to it, and report to Tehran. By firman, the number of schools in Oroomiah is not to exceed 30, and the pupils 150. No departure from this is to be allowed, and the superfluous schools are to be suppressed. this country. The church was constituted of seven native members, all of whom were baptized by Dr. Happer. Mr. Preston is making arrangements to open a new chapel in one of the most desirable parts of the city, "The Book Store Street." The great want of the mission is that of native preachers and colporteurs. MADAGASCAR. The recent revolution in Madagascar "These instructions, if literally obeyed, would strike a fatal blow at the root of many of our most important operations. ended in the death of the king and his They would arrest us in the most funda- favorites. His consort has succeeded to the sovereignty upon conditions and thirty persons were baptized the which convert the government of the past year. island from a despotism into something like a constitutional monarchy. The ITALY. Rev. Mr. Ellis, the missionary, thinks The work here has gone forward there will be no hindrance in their mis-wonderfully. Recent letters from Mr. sionary work, but that the prospects of Hall indicate a great advance movethe mission are better than ever before. ment. And we heartily rejoice in the POLYNESIA. work which is now occupying the attention of Mr. Woodruff, from Brooklyn, In some parts of Fiji the people ex- who is so deeply interested in reference hibit considerable reluctance to aban- to the work of S. Schools, as will be don their superstitions, although they seen from a short notice of his work see and admit that they are doomed to under the head of perish. The state of the churches, however, iş encouraging, and several cases of conversion have taken place. The French Roman Catholic priests are following in the wake of the Protestant missionaries. The natives call them the dividers of towns, because they aim at perversion rather than conversion. LIBERIA. GENOA. Dr. de Sanctis writes :-Sunday-schools are spreading in a way to rejoice every friend of Italian evangelization. I may say here, that for my part, Sunday-schools have always been my passion, as it were, and my favorite occupation, and God has not seldom permitted me to witness such conversions as have confirmed my convictions of their immense utility. Of late the arrival of Mr. WoodRev. B. R. Wilson, who presided at ruff, an American, has given a fresh impulse the late session of the Liberian Mission to the work; new Sunday-schools have been Conference, writes: "I have visited opened, and some of the old ones have adoptnearly one-half the quarterly confer- not done so; not that I disapproved it, but ed this gentleman's method. I myself have ences, and although our churches are judged it inexpedient to introduce innovathe largest of any in the republic, they tions in a system that was already working are over-crowded, and a good work is well. But I feel myself bound to acknowin progress among the people and ledge the truly admirable zeal of Mr. Woodamong the natives." CANADA. ruff, and his kindly and Christian idea of establishing an Italian magazine for the sole purpose of instructing the Sunday-school The Grand Ligne mission, whose children, to whom he gratuitously distributes a number every Sunday. This magaoperations are carried on among the zine is as good as it can possibly be, and I French settlers of Lower Canada, and have gladly availed myself of it, and circuwhich originated with our Society about late it amongst my scholars. The editortwenty-five years ago, has been very ship has been entrusted to an experienced successful in their efforts. Through Christian, Signor Damiano Bolognini, and their instrumentality about five hun-I am convinced that a magazine so well dred families have been delivered from managed and well printed will be productive of much good, not to the children only, but the yoke of popery, and about a thouto their parents. Here is a work to which sand persons have made a profession of English Christians, who take an interest in their faith in Christ. Fifteen stations Italian evangelization, may profitably conare now occupied by the missionaries, tribute. |