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Our Methodist College in India.

the direction of Dr. Badley, until his death in November, 1891, when the present principal was placed in charge.

The school has made rapid progress, in six years from the time of its beginning having gained an enrollment for the year of four hundred. Since that time a number of rival schools have sprung up, which have affected our attendance somewhat, but the attendance of Christians is constantly on the increase. The school has throughout maintained its high standard as one of the leading schools of Lucknow; several times in the last few years standing highest or next to the highest among all the Lucknow schools in the percentage of its passes in the government examinations.

In 1883 a suitable site for the school building was secured and paid for. The corner stone of the high school building was laid on the 1st of May in that year, and the building was occupied on the 1st of November. In 1888 the high school was advanced to the grade of a college, and affiliated to the Allahabad University. This was the realization of the plans of the Conference which were first put forth almost at the very organization of the Conference, and which plans Dr. Badley never for a moment allowed to be lost sight of. As he saw the numbers of Christian young men continually increasing, and saw that some means must be provided for their education by our own Church if we would keep them loyal to the Church and to Christ, he bent all his energies to establishing the college at once, that our youth might have equal advantages with the best that secular and non-Christian schools could furnish.

For a long time the city was searched for a suitable site, and none could be found. At last, Dr. Badley one day, looking across from the schoolhouse, said, with sudden inspiration, “I have found the site we want for the college!" "Where?" asked his companion. 'There, just across the road." And strange to say, the thought had never come to any of the minds of those interested, that the site was just at hand. It was the work of much diplomacy to gain the consent of the government to allow that land, which was a large triangle surrounded by three public roads, to be transferred to the mission for the college, but by patience and wisdom the work was at last accomplished, and the government gave to the mission, free, the large and valuable tract of land immediately adjoining their own premises, and in close proximity to one of the most important thoroughfares in the city. A better situation could not have been chosen, if we had had unlimited means at our disposal. It was clearly the hand of God leading in the selection of this strategic position. A large tank, which one of the old kings had built in the years past, remains on the land and is our only trial, as it must be filled before the land will be made at all presentable in appearance, and the whole is so large that it is quite a financial burden to attempt to fill it.

But even adding the cost of filling the tank, the land still remains a remarkably cheap investment, probably the cheapest college compound in our Church, considering its real value.

Upon securing the site for the college plans were immediately drawn for the new building, and the building commenced on the 18th of March, 1891, and on the 6th of August the foundation stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies by Bishop Thoburn. The splendid building, an architectural pride for our whole Church, was formally opened by the lieutenant governor of the provinces on the 31st of October, 1892, and is now fully furnished and in daily occupation. The chapel hall will seat about seven hundred students, and is used for our daily chapel exercises, and for special addresses and sermons to the students.

The other appointments of the building are such as we should expect in a college, and the whole building and all its furnishings are, we are happy to say, all paid for. There is at the present time not a dollar of debt on the college-so wonderfully bas God led us along, and raised up the friends needed.

A word about the course of study taught may not be out of place here. As may be inferred from what has been said before, it is to be noted that our school is affiliated with a government university, which means that the course set by the Department of Public Instruction of the Indian Government is to be taught, and the examinations are to be conducted only by the government, and all the degrees are to be conferred by the government. While this may be to a certain degree a hindrance it is a great help, in that we are not our own examiners, and the quality of our work is always judged by absolutely impartial standards. As we receive no aid from the government in the way of money for the college, we are free in the matter of our methods, and can impose as much extra work as we wish, in addition to the gov ernment requirements, which we do when we require a strict examination in the Scriptures in addition to the required studies of the code. Here is the course taught, which will be seen to compare favorably with the courses of our colleges at home:

English Literature: Critical study of selections from Scott, Pope, Macaulay, Tennyson, Helps, Marryat, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Milton, Burke, Butler, together with biographies and topical discussions of particular phases of the development of literature.

Mathematics: Arithmetic (completed), Algebra, through quadratics, geometrical and harmonical progressions, permutations and combinations, binomial and exponential theorems. Geometry, including Conic Sections and Trigonometry.

A classical language, which may be Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, or French. The course in Latin comprises Horace, Odes and Epistles: Livy, Book XXI; Cicero, Amicitia and De Oratore; and Tacitus, Annals.

Logic in India as to Christ.

Logic. History: English and Indian, with electives of special subjects.

Philosophy: Locke's Human Understanding, Sully's Psychology, McCosh's First and Fundamental Truths, Calderwood's Moral Philosophy, and Flint's Theism.

Electives in Science are allowed, and other electives in special lines touched above. All the teaching of the above courses is done in English, and all the examinations except those in the Oriental languages are given and must be answered in English.

This college enjoys the distinction of having two of its professors supported by the students of the school from which they graduated. Mr. Mansell is supported by the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and Mr. Hewes is the representative of the De Pauw University. They are assisted in their work by a native professor, who has charge of the department of mathematics, and also native teachers of the Oriental languages. But another American professor is much needed. What school will take up the work of supplying the funds for the support of our third professor, and sending him out?

We have just opened a new department in the school, for teaching shorthand and typewriting, and fitting our students for taking first-class appointments as government and civil clerks. This new business department is under the charge of Mr. H. L. Roscoe who has come out to us as a pioneer in this work, starting our first missionary business and commercial college. It is too soon to measure our success in this line, but we have seen enough to know that the young men of India are not one whit behind the young men of America in their aptitude at learning these subjects, and the first class of five young men promises to be a success from the rapidity with which they are mastering the intricacies of their tasks.

It will be seen from this account that we have no small work on hand. Our school cannot be called an experiment, for it has for many years been recognized as a standard school, and has come to its present position as a college in the regular order of development. Our old students are to be found all over the country and in every department of government and mission service. The prospects for the future are bright. The need for our school for our own young men is becoming more and more urgent, and the number of Methodist young people in India is already increasing at a surprising rate. With our converts coming to us by thousands, and our Christian pupils filling our schools (last year there were more than ten thousand Christian scholars in our mission schools), we need a wide-awake evangelistic school to finish the course, where our young men will be received, kept alive, and sent out full of enthusiastic love for Christ and his work, and loyal to the Church. Our college intends not only to impart a standard classical education to our youth, but also to inculcate vital

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and experimental Christianity by preaching and direct influence.

We need a live Methodist college for India. We need a fully endowed Methodist college for India.

We need a successful Methodist college in India. We need money to make it a success.

We believe the Church at home will stand by us, and see that this ideal is fully realized, and that the Lucknow Christian College will soon be such a representative Methodist college, fully endowed, fully equipped with professors, and a successful and live revival college. In order to accomplish this, an endowment of at least $60,000 is needed to set the college on a self-supporting basis for many years to come. This amount will provide for three American and three Indian professorships, and leave the fee income to be devoted to current expenses and additional tutors as needed. This is a rare opportunity to invest money for the Lord's work. A dollar sent to India now will reap a rich harvest. The possi bilities of coming silver legislation in England warn us to make the most of our present opportunities. While so many of our American colleges are being so liberally helped, may we not expect that some one will turn his eyes toward India, and help where help is so urgently needed?

Correspondence regarding the needs and prospects of the college is earnestly requested, and may be addressed to the principal, or to Rev. E. W. Parker. D.D., Lucknow, the president of the board of trustees.

Logic in India as to Christ.

BY REV. JOSEPH H. GILL.

A NATIVE of India has written a pamphlet to prove from the New Testament that Christ is not divine. In order to establish this proposition he uses the following logic:

"God is the Father;

Christ is not the Father;
Therefore Christ is not God."

A Christian native answers this logician as follows (see Mak'hizan is Masihi for December 1, 1892), and I have translated the answer: "I object that the foundation of the argument is faulty and therefore the conclusion is faulty. The New Testament declares that 'the Father is God, that the Son is God, that the Holy Ghost is God.' Our Unitarian friend errs in that he only presented one truth and suppressed two other truths. A full and perfect setting forth of New Testament doctrine on this point is that the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God, or Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is God. Therefore the three are one.

"When we examine the New Testament further we find the above assertion has abundant confirma

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The Origin of Rice Throwing at Weddings.

tion. For instance, whoever possesses power over heaven and earth he is God; but Christ has all power in heaven and in earth, therefore he is God.

"Again, whoever is in existence the first and the last he is God. But Christ is the first and the last, therefore he is God.

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The Origin of Rice Throwing at Weddings. THE Chinese Times gives the following version of the origin of the custom of throwing rice at weddings: In the days of the Shang dynasty, some fifteen hundred years before Christ, there lived in the province of Shansi a most famous sorcerer called Chao. It happened one day that a Mr. P'ang came to consult the oracle, and Chao, having divined by means of the tortoise diagram, informed the trembling P'a g that he had but six days to live. Now, however much we may trust the sagacity and skill of our family physician, we may be excused if, in a matter of life and death, we call in a second doctor for a consultation, and in such a strait it is not to be wondered at that P'ang should repair to another source to make sure there was no mistake.

To the fair Peachblossom he went, a young lady who had acquired some reputation as a sorceress, and to the tender, feminine heart unfolded the story of his woe. Her divination yielded the same as Chao's; in six days P'ang should die, unless, by the exercise of her magical powers, she could avert the catastrophe. Her efforts were successful, and on the seventh day great was Chao's astonishment, and still greater his mortification and rage, when he met P'ang taking his evening stroll, and learned that there lived a greater magician than he.

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would soon get about, and unless he could quickly put an end to his fair rival's existence his reputation would be ruined.

And this was how Chao plotted against the life of Peachblossom. He sent a go-between to Peachblossom's parents to inquire if their daughter was still unmarried, and, receiving a reply in the affirmative, he befooled the simple parents into believing that he had a son who was seeking a wife, and ultimately he induced them to engage Peachblossom to him in marriage. The marriage cards were duly interchanged; but the crafty Chao had chosen the most unlucky day he could select for the wedding; the day when the "Golden Pheasant" was in the ascendant. Surely as the bride entered the red chair the spirit bird would destroy her with his powerful beak. But the wise Peachblossom knew all these things, and

feared not. defeat him." When the wedding morning came she gave directions to have rice thrown out at the door, which the spirit bird seeing made haste to devour, and while his attention was thus occupied Peachblossom stepped into the bridal chair and passed on her way unharmed. And now the ingenious reader knows why he throws rice after the bride. If any interest has been engendered in his breast by this tale of the fair Peachblossom let him listen to what befell her at the house of the magician.

"I will go," she said; "I will fight and

Arrived at Chao's house, no bridegroom was there, but an attendant was given her, and the two girls prepared to pass the night in the room assigned to them. Peachblossom was wakeful, for she knew that when the night passed the "Golden Pheasant" would be succeeded by the evil star of the "White Tiger," whose power and ferocity who can tell! "Go you to bed first," she said to the maid. The girl was soon asleep, and still her mistress slept not, but continued to pace the room, and at midnight the tiger spirit came, and the morning light showed Peachblossom still pacing the room, while on the bed lay the lifeless body of the little maid. Thus were the magic battles of Peachblossom and Chao, and many more were there, until they took their flight to heaven, where now they reign as gods. And on earth the actors have not idols more prized than those of Peachblossom and Chao Kung.

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MISSIONARY CONCERT.-ITALY AND BULGARIA.

Popery, A Form of Paganism.

BY REV. DR. WYLIE, OF EDINBURGH. POPERY is but the Church of Satan, and is a counterfeit Church. We run our eye over it, and see how the form of the Church of God has been copied, while the Spirit is utterly extinguished and the end completely inverted. First of all, Satan's counterfeit Church has its high priest, not to speak of its pontiff, who, like the great Druid of our ancestors, and the Pontif x Maximus of the Romans, stands at the top of the system. There is a body of men in the Church of Rome who profess to off r for the sins of the living and the dead, and to mediate between God and men in virtue of their powers as a priesthood. Second, this Church has its

believed, that all the links are broken, and one whole link there is not in it all.

All the persons in the Godhead popery denies. It denies them after its usual manner of supplanting them and adroitly substituting counterfeits for them. It denies God the Father by installing the pope as the divine vicegerent of the world and infallible ruler of the conscience. It presents him sitting aloft, above magistrates and kings, with power to annul their laws, cast them down from their thrones, plant or pluck up nations, and abrogate even the precepts of the moral law. Popery writes on the papal chair: This is the seat of God, the throne of the infallible and holy one. He who sits here can pardon or retain men's sins; in other words, save or destroy their souls.

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great sacrifice-the mass, to wit. The worshiper is bidden look, not to the sacrifice on Calvary, but to the sacrifice on the altar, for the pardon of his sins and the salvation of his soul. Thiri, this Church has its Bible-the traditions of the fathers, together with the Canon Law; the Canons of the Council of Trent occupy the place in the Church of Rome which the Scriptures do in the Church of Christ. They are her rule of faith, and are held by her to be an infallible revelation of the will of God, and an infallible director of the conscience. Thus Christ as the One Priest, his death as the one all-sufficient sacrifice, and the Bible as the one infallible guide. popery puts aside, and puts counterfeits in their room.

For an apostolic succession, which consists in the doctrine of the apostles, it substitutes a succession of matter; a long succession of official men, who alone have the power of conveying grace; a chain which has not in it, from beginning to end, one broken link; while the fact is, if history is to be

Popery denies God the Son. It robs Christ of his priestly office by assuming the power of offering efficaciously for the sins of men. It is the priest's sacrifice, not Christ's, that saves the sinner. Popery robs Christ of his prophetical office, by presenting itself as the infallible teacher of the will of God, and the only authorized expositor of the true sense of Scripture, without whose guidance we are sure to err in interpreting the Bible. It robs Christ of his office as the one Mediator and Intercessor, by making Mary and the saints intercessors with God for men. It robs Christ of his kingly office, by exalting the pope to his royal seat as Head of the Church, and Head of the world for the Church. In his vesture and on his thigh the pope has a name written, "King of kings and Lord of lords."

Popery denies God the Spirit. For the Spirit it substitutes the sacrament, by giving to the sacrament the power, by its own inherent efficacy, to regenerate the soul, and to make men holy, and heirs

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of heaven. It robs the Spirit of his honor as the medium through which divine blessings are communicated to the soul, and by which at last it is made perfect in holiness, by making its priesthood the only channel of communication betwixt God and men, without whose agency all grace and blessing are utterly beyond the reach of men.

Here, then, is what professes to be a Church, a perfect and complete Church; and yet is an out-andout counterfeit. Every element of strength and every principle of evil that were found in the ancient idolatries lives over again in the papacy. That same paganism whose cradle was rocked in Chaldea. whose youth was passed and the olive groves and matchless temples of Greece, and whose manhood was reached amid the martial sounds and iron organization of Rome, has returned anew in the papacy, bringing with it the old rites, the old festivals, the flowers, the incensings, the lustral water, the vestments, the very gods-but with new names; everything in short. And were an old pagan to rise from the dead, he would find himself amid his old environments, and, without a moment's doubt, would conclude that the ancient Jove was still reigning,

and was being worshiped by the same rites that were practiced in his honor two thousand years ago.

To conclude, popery is an effacement of the Christian Church; by the substitution of a Pantheon of idols, extinguishing the great lights of revelation, it rolls back the world, and places it once more amid the ideas, the deities, and the rites of early and idolatrous ages.-The Christian.

The Claims of the Pope.

BY CHARLES J. LITTLE, LL.D.

To the pope there is no Roman Church. There is a Catholic Church of which he, the Bishop of Rome, is the supreme and infallible head. This exists for the entire world, and is the only body authorized, informed, and inspired of God for the teaching of mankind. The Church is the sole judge of true and false doctrine, of what ought to be taught, how much ought to be taught, and under what circumstances and by what instrumentalities even the truth shall be taught. And since the Vatican Council the pope is the ultimate and infallible mind and will of the Church. I prefer living authorities to

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