Mrs. J. E. CUMMINGS of Henzada, Burma, is a daughter of Rev. W. H. Roberts, the devoted leader of the Kachin Mission at Bhamo, Burma. Mrs. Cummings is a graduate of Vassar College.

Mrs. TRUMAN JOHNSON, the wife of Rev. Truman Johnson, M. D., who has recently gone with Dr. Bunker to open a new station at Loikaw in the Southern Shan States, Upper Burma, is a daughter of Rev. Moses H. Bixby, D. D., formerly missionary to the Shans at Toungoo, and now for many years an able and successful pastor of the Cranston Street Baptist Church at Providence, R. I. Mrs. Johnson is at present in America with her father, while Dr. Johnson has gone to Burma to assist in opening this frontier station.

Miss EMILY M. HANNA, teacher in the Burman Girls' School, Kemendine, Rangoon, and also in charge of the Kindergarten Department at the Rangoon Baptist College, is a granddaughter of Rev. Adoniram Judson, D. D., the pioneer of American Baptist Missions.

IN ASSAM

The rich list of children of missionaries in Burma is not duplicated in Assam, both because there has been smaller number of missionaries and for special reasons at the present time. There have been in the past several children of missionaries in the service there, like Miss Maria Bronson, and Mrs. C. F. Tolman, wife of Rev. C. F. Tolman, D. D., in Chicago, daughters of Rev. Dr. Bronson. At present this list is represented on the Assam field only by

Rev. P. H. MOORE of Nowgong, Assam, son of Rev. C. C. Moore, formerly missionary in Burma.

Rev. P. E. MOORE, brother of Rev. P. H. Moore, and also son of Rev. C. C. Moore.

IN SOUTH INDIA

Turning now to the Baptist Missions among the Telugus in India we find a number of representatives of former generations in missionary work.

Miss MARY M. DAY of Madras is a daughter of Rev. Samuel S. Day, the founder of the Baptist Mission among the Telugus.

Rev. EDWIN BULLARD of Kavali is a son of Rev. Edwin B. Bullard, formerly missionary at Moulmein. Mr. Bullard's mother after the death of his father became the wife of Dr. Francis Mason of Burma.

Mrs. ELLEN B. BUSTARD, recently appointed missionary of the Union on recommendation of the Woman's Society of the West, and now at Ootacamund, is a sister of Rev. Edwin Bullard and daughter of Rev. Edwin B. Bullard, formerly of Burma.

Miss SARAH R. BUSTARD, also of Ootacamund, is a daughter of Mrs. Ellen B. Bustard, and granddaughter of Rev. Edwin B. Bullard.

Mrs. L. E. MARTIN, wife of the Principal of the Baptist Mission College at Ongole, is a daughter of Rev. J. E. Clough, D. D., the well known missionary of Ongole. Mrs. A. H. CURTIS of Madras is also a daughter of Dr. Clough.

Rev. J. S. TIMPANY, M. D., of Hanamaconda, is a son of Rev. A. B. Timpany, formerly of the American and Canadian Baptist Missions among the Telugus.

IN CHINA

The Goddard family occupies a distinguished place in the Baptist Missions in China.

Rev. J. R. GODDARD, D. D., of Ningpo, is a son of Rev. Josiah Goddard, the founder of the Baptist Mission in East China.

Mrs. J. R. GODDARD, his wife, is the daughter of Rev. William Dean, D. D., the eminent missionary of Siam.

Miss ANNA KATHARINE GODDARD of Ningpo is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Goddard, and a granddaughter of Rev. Josiah Goddard and Dr. William Dean. BRITON CORLIES, M. D., of Suichaufu, West China, is Goddard.

a grandson of Rev. Josiah Rev. WILLIAM ASHMORE, Jr., of Swatow, at present in America, is a son of Rev. William Ashmore, D. D., the veteran missionary of the South China Mission.

Mrs. S. P. BARCHET, now of Shanghai, is a daughter of Rev. E. C. Lord, D. D., formerly missionary at Ningpo.

Miss MARY K. SCOTT of Swatow is associated in the work with her mother, Mrs. Anna K. Scott, M. D. Mrs. Scott is the wife of Rev. E. P. Scott, who died in missionary service in Assam.

IN JAPAN

The missions to the Japanese are comparatively young and there has not been time for a second generation of missionaries to appear. However,

Captain LUKE W. BICKEL, in charge of the new Gospel schooner for the Inland Sea of Japan, is a son of Philipp Bickel, D. D., the director of the Baptist Publishing House, Cassel, Germany, and a missionary, for several years engaged in the Baptist work in Central Europe.

Aside from those already mentioned there are a number of others who although not formally appointed as missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union are still engaged in the work.

Mr. HERBERT VINTON has for several years been laboring in the Karen Baptist Mission School at Rangoon. He is the son of Mrs. J. H. Vinton, and a grandson of Rev. J. H. Vinton, D. D.

Miss MINNIE DOWNIE is engaged in missionary work at Nellore, where her father, Rev. David Downie, D. D., is in charge. Her sister, Miss Annie Downie, has also been engaged in the missionary work, but at present is at the Hasseltine House, Newton Centre, preparing herself or further labors in missionary service.

Miss GRATIA CLOUGH is at present with her father, Rev. Dr. Clough of Ongole, and is quite as actively engaged in missionary service as if she were under appointment. Dr. Clough calls her his "volunteer missionary."

We are glad to say that several others, children of missionaries now on the field, are engaged in their studies in this country in preparation for missionary service, and this long and inspiring list will undoubtedly receive increasingly frequent additions in the years to come.

WE find this list of missionaries who are said never to have returned to their home land: Archdeacon Henry Williams, during 45 years of labor in New Zealand; Oakley, during 51 years in Ceylon; Rebmann, during 29 years in East Africa; Robert Noble, during 24 years in Masulipatam; Bishop Bompas went out to Northwest Canada in 1865, and has since come home but once, viz., in 1872, for his consecration; Alexander Mackay, during 14 years of labor in Uganda.

From the lists of the American Baptist Missionary Union we can give the names of several who, although they have visited America once or twice, have labored continuously in heathen lands longer than some of these. Adoniram Judson remained at his post in Burma for thirty-three years, returning to America on account of Mrs. Judson's sickness in 1845. He again went to Burma in 1846, but died and was buried in the sea in 1850. Rev. Durlin L. Brayton, still living and serving at Rangoon, Burma, has visited America but twice in a missionary service of sixty-two years, his last visit being in 1872, twenty-nine years ago. Rev. Edmund B. Cross, D. D., yet in active service at Toungoo, Burma, has come to the United States twice in a service of fifty-five years. His last visit was in 1869, just thirty years ago. Mrs. Marilla B. Ingalls of Thongze, Burma, previous to her last visit to America had been in Burma twenty-two years. Rev. Francis Mason, D. D., in a service of forty-four years in Burma, came to America but once. Rev. Jonathan Wade, during a service of fortyDoubtless there are others with similar

nine years in Burma, came home twice.
records.

But the words "never came home," rather than those noted for length of service, call to mind those choice and devoted souls of whom these words are literally true. Those who have gone forth in the brightness and enthusiasm of youth, to lay down. their lives an early sacrifice to the cause of Christ in heathen lands: George Dana Boardman, dying in the Karen jungle after six years of labor, and his wife,

Sarah Boardman, afterward the wife of Dr. Judson. She sleeps on the island of St. Helena. Grover S. Comstock and his wife Sarah Davis who gave their young lives for Arakan. Norman M. Waterbury of Madras was also one of those who " never came home," so was Charles G. Hartsock of the Congo, Bennett J. Mix of Toungoo, Burma, Cyrus A. Chilcott of Siam, H. M. Campbell of Arakan, and many others, a "cloud of witnesses," martyrs for the name of Jesus among the heathen. Their terms of labor were indeed brief, but who will say that their devotion was less or their sacrifice less acceptable to their Lord than the service of those who have been permitted to spend long years among the heathen? If "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church," shall not these young lives early laid on the missionary altar also plead with the Lord of the harvest that these precious offerings shall also not be in

vain?

It will remain

The he International Missionary Conference which will convene in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on the 21st of next April will be the third world's Conference on foreign missions held, and the first on the American continent. in session ten days, discussing the planting and development of the Christian religion among unevangelized peoples, and will unquestionably be an occasion of great interest and largely attended by representatives from all parts of the world. It will be a cosmopolitan missionary conference, and it is thought that it will probably be the largest conference of the kind which has ever been held. We again urge our readers, and especially pastors of churches, to arrange to be present at this unique and important and inspiring gathering to consider the world-wide interests of the kingdom of Christ.

Charle

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harles W. Perkins, Esq., cashier of the Massachusetts National Bank, the oldest bank in Boston, has been chosen chairman of the Finance Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union in place of the late Deacon George W. ChipMr. Perkins is a deacon of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Missionary Union since 1888, and a member of the Finance Committee for several years. this important committee, which controls the investments of the Missionary Union, are, John Carr, Esq., president of the First National Bank of Boston, and Dudley P. Bailey, Esq., attorney at law, of Everett and Boston. Mr. Carr is a deacon of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Boston, and Mr. Bailey, a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Everett, Mass.

The other members of

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issionary Representatives of Notable Families. Globe trotters and other occasional visitors to Asia have sometimes referred to missionaries as persons of little importance, of low social standing, and of inferior education and breeding. Those who are familiar with the membership of the missionary force of various societies and denominations are perfectly well aware that this is far from being the truth. In making up the list of missionaries' children in service of the American Baptist Missionary Union we have been impressed with the large number of missionaries who belong to families of high standing. As this matter has been brought so forcibly to our attention in this way we made a record of the names of some of the missionaries of the Union, whose family connections will exempt them from the slighting allusions of travellers above referred to. It would be interesting to give the names, but we respect their personal feelings, which would lead them to avoid such public parade of their family connections. There are four sons or daughters of professors in our denominational colleges, seven who are members of the families of eminent ministers and pastors, two nearly related to distinguished writers of national reputation and two of the families of high officials of the Missionary Union. This list might be much extended, but will serve to show that as far as a large number of the missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union are concerned, at least, when occasion arises, as it has seemed to in the present instance, they can claim, like the apostle Paul, to defend themselves from the aspersions of their would be detractors by a just and dignified reference to their birth and family connection.

nother Famine in India is prevailing in the western and central divisions. It is stated that no such general and prolonged scarcity of rain has been known in India for many years as has occurred in the affected portions during the last few months, and it is feared the present famine will exceed all those of recent years in disastrous results. The revival of the bubonic plague in the Bombay Presidency adds to the terrors of the situation. So far few of our own mission stations are affected, none coming within the famine territory except the fields in the Deccan, and those are not in the regions most severely afflicted. Northwestern India and Southeastern Russia are now the plague and pestilence spots of the earth.

he Trustees of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon, Burma, are arranging to have the Pagoda regilded, as stated in "The Indian Witness." That portion of the Pagoda, immediately below the hti is to be covered with gold leaf to the thickness of the sixteenth of an inch, while the remaining portion is to be sprinkled with gold dust. The cost of this work is estimated at about five lakhs of rupees, or about eighty thousand dollars. Buddhism is evidently by no means defunct or even moribund in Burma, and our missionaries on that oldest field of American Baptist Foreign Missions still have a great work before them.

The Missionary Calendar of Prayer for 1900 has been issued, and can be obtained from Mrs. H. N. Jones, 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price twenty-five cents. It has twenty-seven missionary portraits, and is a thing of beauty.