hina and India will hereafter be associated by a new band but one of a sombre shade. In many of its features the outbreak of the Boxers is strikingly similar to the Sepoy Rebellion in India. Two events in each are peculiarly parallel. The memorable defence of the British Residency at Lucknow, with the heroic relief by the British column under Sir Henry Havelock, is duplicated by the brave defence of the British legation in Peking and the rescue by the allied forces, and the terrible slaughter of men, women and children at Cawnpore in 1857 is reproduced in the frightful atrocities of July 9 and 10, 1900, at Taiyuenfu, in Shansi Province, China, when thirty Protestant missionaries, ten Roman Catholic priests and many Chinese Christians were barbarously murdered.

The Locations of Our Missionaries in China on September 11 are given by Re J. T. Procter in the following note:

"Mr. Sweet, Dr. Finch and myself represent the Union just now in Shanghai. Drs. Goddard, Grant and Corlies are in Ningpo. Drs. Huntley and Eubank are in Japan. How long we shall have to remain here it is impossible to say. It is hardly probable that any of our stations, unless it be Ningpo an Hangchau, can be occupied before the beginning of the new year. For my self I can put in the time to positive advantage in the study of the language This is also true of Mr. Eubank and some others. Then also I can do a great deal through correspondence and by having the preachers come occasional to Shanghai for conference and prayer. We are very glad indeed for the e dence that so many in the home land are just now praying for poor Chins We are really expecting great things in the future as the answer of these pray ers. All your representatives here are quite well. We are looking for Eubank back from Japan this week."

"The Next War in China." For several years the officials of Protestant sionary Societies have held an annual meeting in the city of New Y to consider important questions relative to the management of missi work. They have brought their best wisdom and experience to bear these questions. Doubtless they have thought that they were making s progress. One topic which has specially engaged their attention is the tion of "comity" in missionary work. Much interest and good feeling been developed in the discussion of this question, and an able comm been appointed to report on the subject at the next meeting in Jan appears that the work of this committee will be unnecessary. A write Boston Transcript has forestalled the report and announced with certa future course of missionary work in China. The policy is to be one s sectarianism." The course of missions, he says, "is bound to lead sectarianism, so that while the war against the Christian missionary the government opposition is concerned, may cease, there is to be ve tween Christian sects." "The future policy of the Christian bodies s more than ever to advance their own cause." "The next war in Chi a religious war." In the face of this assertion it is evident for missionary officials of experience and even some ability to further the question of Christian comity in missions in China. Doubtless th in the Transcript will be ready to give his dogmatic and exact advice points of missionary work, so that the trouble and expert meeting of the missionary officials might be avoided and all questions of sionary polity of every sort referred to the writer in the Transcr

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N the MISSIONARY MAGAZINE for April, 1884, attention was called to a pastor in Kansas who settled with a small church where not one copy of the MAGAZINE was taken, but before three months passed twenty-four copies were subscribed for and the church began to send its regular contributions to the Missionary Union. After a time this pastor was laid aside by ill health, but he by no means lost his interest in missions. As he is no longer permitted of the Lord to lead the churches in their Christian and missionary work, he is endeavoring to do what he can personally, and has made a resolve that he will send one dollar a week to the treasurer of the Missionary Union. To do this he has started a business which he is carrying on for the Lord, and every week Mr. Coleman, the treasurer of the Missionary Union, receives the dollar. His view is, "There is money enough and the churches are willing to give it if the pastors would do their duty;" and he is an illustrious example of the truth of his own views. If pastors and others would follow the example of this devoted friend of missions, both in their leadership of the churches and their personal contributions, missions would never suffer for lack of means. We take the liberty of saying that this devoted brother is Rev. L. M. Barnes, now a resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan, and the father of Rev. Lemuel C. Barnes, D. D., pastor of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, Pa. It is easy to ee where the son gained his well-known interest and enthusiasm for Christian nissionary work.

dditional Aid in the Home Department. It has already been announced that the health of Rev. Henry C. Mabie, D. D., the Home Secretary of he American Baptist Missionary Union, demands some temporary relief om the full burden of the exacting duties of his office. Dr. Mabie will take complete rest of two months, and hopes to be able to resume work about the eginning of the new year. In this emergency the Executive Committee has vited Rev. F. P. Haggard of Assam to render such aid as may be necessary securing the relief required by Dr. Mabie. Mr. Haggard has been in merica for a year or more, and has visited many churches both in the East id in the West. His services have been uniformly acceptable, and his adesses on the work of missions aroused so much interest as to mark him as e one most fitted to be called upon in this special emergency. Mr. Haggard d already started on his return to Assam, but received in England the cable viting him to return. He is expected to arrive in Boston about November and to enter at once on his work. He may be addressed at the Mission >oms, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

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on. James Buchanan, LL. D. We regret to learn of the decease of Judge Buchanan, a member of the Board of Managers of the American Baptist ssionary Union, who died on Tuesday, October 30, at his home in Trenton, J. Mr. Buchanan was a lawyer of eminence in his state and had occupied esponsible position on the bench. He had also served four terms in the ngress of the United States. His engagements did not permit of frequent endance at the annual meetings of the Union, but when present his counsels the meeting of the Board of Managers were highly valued. His death was den and due to heart failure. His decease brings a great loss upon the eɔtist denomination as well as the professional and political circles in which moved.

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THIS goodly volume, just issued by the American Baptist Publication Society, does not purpose to be a missionary book, but is so closely allied that it comes within the larger circle of Christian missions in the subjects of which it treats. The volume is the result of twelve lectures delivered by the author, Rev. George C. Lorimer, D. D., LL D., before the Lowell Institute, in the city of Boston, and its scope is well indicated by its title. It treats of the conditions and progress of Christianity during the century now closing, in its broadest aspects, beginning with "The Christian Faith in the Twilight of Two Centuries" and closing with "The Religious Message of the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth." In this broad survey of the progress of Christianity during the century, Dr. Lorimer has covered the growth of the Kingdom of Christ in all lands, and his method of treatment necessarily leads him to the discussion of all the chief principles and many of the facts of Christian missions. Many of such discussions will be found as is embraced in the following

extract:

"It has been frequently charged that sectarian divisions have impeded the progress of the gospel in heathen lands. Twenty different churches, we are told, are content ing with each other and laboring for the conversion of the Hindus. And it is asserted that a similar spectacle may be witnessed in China and elsewhere. I am certain, however, that these representations are, as is usual in such discussions, too wide sweeping Missionaries of evangelical societies assure us that there is very little, if any, friction between the teachers and preachers of the various denominations. They rather operate with each other and assist one another and refrain from discussions among themselves. A missionary comity has likewise been developed of late years, and t forces at work are not being wasted in unseemly strife. The evil complained of, w ever it may have been fifty years ago, is now one of appearance mainly."

In all his treatment of missionary topics, Dr. Lorimer has shown tha breadth of view for which he is so justly celebrated, combined with a faintes and keenness of discussion which will afford genuine help where hepa needed. All who desire an insight into the progress of the Christian churc in the last century, including Christian missions in the broadest sense, will themselves deeply interested in this volume, the scope and spirit of which are well shown in the following extract, which we take the liberty of reprodu to close the notice of this admirable volume:

"Christianity was never more extended than she is now, her outposts were e farther from her centre, and her circumference was never so vast. If there are sect signs of heart failure where vitality should be strongest, and if here and there i traces of wasting tissue, still the continued aggressiveness and the constant expa ness of the faith warrant the most optimistic expectations. Those of our readers recall the dreary and depressing prospects that confronted the church a hundred ago, if they will only contrast with those dark times the brightness of the p hour, will perceive that she has not only gained in power and influence, but has quered for herself a position fruitful in unmeasured possibilities. Then she was be tering on her missionary operations; then she was but inaugurating her num benefactions; but now she is the greatest of all imperialisms, girding the globe broad zone of light; and now she witnesses the flowering of her philanthropy radiant hues and sweet fragrance of modern humanitarianism, which, however,

pily often ignores or denies the roots whence it sprang. The Boden professor S

skrit at Oxford has recently assigned Christianity the foremost place

among the religions of the world. In 1800 the total number of Christians in the words set down at about two hundred millions; in 1900 the grand total exceeds five

millions."

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REV. WILLIAM ASHMORE, D. D., OF SWATOW, CHINA

From a multitude of such passages we are able to construct for ourselves an outline of a missionary policy and of the work in its various and successive stages which we have to undertake. Men are lost-are dead in trespass and sin-the Gospel of Christ alone can save them. The times of their past ignorance God hath winked at, but now commandeth he all men everywhere to repent. To us is the whole work now committed. In addition to the affirmation in the Union Constitution, we may further say that our missionary errand to China is to plant Christianity in that empire and among that people. By