PERSONAL A MISSIONARY HOME IN CONGO REV. A. CHRISTOPHER and wife of Bwemba, Congo, have returned to England. REV M. D. EUBANK, M. D., and wife have settled in their missionary home and work in Huchau, China. REV. J. F. SMITH and wife reached Rangoon, Burma, February 19. will have charge of the normal department Mr. Smith of Rangoon Baptist College. REV. E. T. WELLES and MISS GERTRUDE WELLES of Banza Manteke, reached New York April 7, returning for Congo, rest. REV. W. K. McKIBBEN of Swatow, China, has returned to America and is at Granville, Ohio. REV. A. SIMS, M. D., of the Congo Mission is making a tour of the Asiatic missions. He spent the winter in India, has visited Burma, and after seeing something of China and Japan will reach the United States in time to be present at the annual meetings in Detroit, Mich., May 23-30. REV. HORACE JENKINS, principal of the Baptist Biblical School, Shaohing, China, has just published a commentary on the epistle to the Romans and to Timothy in Chinese. The editor regrets that he is unable to speak of the excellences of these works from personal examination. DWIGHT L. MOODY THE far-reaching and beneficent character of Mr. Moody's labors will never perhaps be rightly estimated by men this side of the Great White Throne. Now that he is gone memory will refresh herself, and many stories will be told of what he was, and what, by the grace of God, he was able to do. Among the most notable results of his work was the effect of his first campaign in England in 1874. It was a genuine revival of religion, resulting not only in the widespread conversion of the ungodly, but in the deepening of the life of the whole Church in all denominations. The effect on the general beneficence of the Church also was very striking in the inauguration and enlargement of various Christian enterprises. There was a perfect flood of giving at the close of Mr. Moody's campaign, and one can only liken it to the effect of sunshine on a long frozen river, setting the precious flood a-running and sparkling in the light and bearing on its bosom every sort of kindly freight. Mr. Moody never contemplated, probably, anything of this kind, but it was the natural consequence of the genuine and widespread acceptance of the "simple" Gospel of Christ. England owes a great debt to Mr. Moody, and the Church there would doubtless readily respond to any call to suitably perpetuate his memory. AN OBSERVER IN ENGLAND. 11. Singing. 12. Letter from the Kifwa Churches (Congo) to Baptists in America. p. 169. 13. The Pentecost on the Congo. p. 163. 14. 15. Prayers for Africa, that its people may be delivered from war and bloodshed, and thanksgiving for the great blessings given to the Congo Mission during the past year. Singing. 16. Offering, Doxology and Benediction. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE MEETING OF MARCH 12, 1900. ELEVEN MEMBERS PRESENT. Miss Margaret Suman was appointed a missionary of the Union on the recommendation of the Woman's Society, and designated to assist Rev. Joseph Clark at Ikoko, Central Africa. Furlough was granted to Rev. J. McGuire of Rangoon, from February 1, 1901. It was stated that Rev. Alonzo Bunker, D. D., and Rev. Truman Johnson, M. D., have established their new station at Dau Shee Ee, a few miles from Loikaw. Permission was granted to Rev. G. J. Geis of Myitkyina, Burma, to exchange the present mission compound for a more favorable site offered by the government, as the river has encroached upon the land formerly granted by the government for mission purposes. Rev. C. B. Banks of the Congo Mission was authorized to engage in temporary work on the Juapa River, Central Africa. Necessary appropriations for outfit, passage and the beginning of the new mission in the Philippine Islands were made, and it was stated that Rev. Eric Lund, with the Visayan assistant, expects soon to start from Spain for the Philippines. It was voted that the Treasurer be authorized to close his books for the current year on Saturday evening, April 7. It was voted that a memorial be addressed to the Department of State at Washington, D. C., regarding the legal standing of the Missionary Union in Japan. THE MEETING OF MARCH 26, 1900. ELEVEN MEMBERS PRESENT. Francis E. Blake, Esq., of the First Baptist Church, Boston, was chosen a member of the Executive Committee, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Deacon George W. Chipman, in the class whose terms expire in 1901. In reply to a communication from the Conference of missionaries in the Telugu Mission, India, the Committee did not see their way clear to approve the raising of an endowment in this country for the school for English and American children at Ootacamund. It was announced that the directors of the Blackstone National Bank had decided that the interests of the stockholders would be best served by liquidating the bank, and the cordial thanks and appreciation of the Committee were extended to Mr. Joshua Loring, president of the bank, for his unfailing courtesy and kindness in serving the Union for thirty years as custodian of one of the keys of the box in the safe deposit vaults containing the securities of the Missionary Union. Rev. Charles S. Morris, who has returned from his visit to South and West Africa, was presented to the Committee and made a statement regarding his observations in Africa, with his views as to the opportunity which is afforded to the Missionary Union in developing the missionary activity of negro Baptists in this country, of encouraging the negro Baptists in South Africa, and the opening for industrial missionary work in Liberia. The approval of the Committee having been requested to the project of soliciting funds in this country for the Theological School in Finland, it was voted that in the present circumstances the Committee did not see their way clear to approve the plan. Horsford's Acid Phosphate The most efficient remedy known for the relief of languor and exhaustion, so common in the spring and summer months. Taken after exhaustive illness it acts as a wholesome tonic, giving renewed strength and vigor to the entire system. 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