We congratulate the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, on its Methodist Review of Missions, which takes the place of the Missionary Reporter. It is enlarged to sixty-two pages, and otherwise improved. It will doubtless add to the interest in missions of the Church it so ably represents.

There are some watchwords which, as with trumpet tongue, should peal out all along the lines of the Church. Our great motto should be, "The world for Christ, and Christ for the world, in this our generation." The fullness of the times has come. The cup of God's preparation overflows. The open door of the ages is before us. The whole world invites and challenges occupation. Facilities a thousandfold multiplied match a thousandfold opportunities."-Dr. A. T. Pierson.

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Rev. E. H. Richards and wife are now on their way to Mashonaland, South Africa; by the appoint ment of Bishop Taylor they are to open a mission in that land. The Wesleyans of England started a mission in that country in 1891. The Rev. Isaac Shimmin is the missionary in charge. He is assisted by Rev. Mr. Eva and several native Christian teachers. There are also missions in Mashona

land of the English Church Missionary Society under the charge of Bishop Knight-Bruce. We presume there is room for more missionaries, but consider that Central and North Africa are more needy fields. The evangelist Henry Varley, writing of his preaching in India and of the native beliefs, says: "Idolatry is popular there, because the various idols worshiped are as tolerant of sensuality and all the lusts of the flesh as are the ungodly Europeans. Christ Jesus is unpopular, because his glorious character and holy word are intolerant of sin. No greater mistake can be made than to suppose that Hinduism, where there is anything like a goodly share of our Western education, is any longer an intellectual conviction. The offense of Christ is his cleanness and purity, and the great hindrance to the spread of his word is its unsullied holiness."

It is not the minister only who is called upon to preach the Gospel, but it is the whole body of Christian believers. Some personally are required to go forth to preach the Gospel with their own lips: but those who are not subject to that command must not think that all they have to do is to support the ministers who are secking to carry it out. Everybody, in his own measure, not only by his money, but by his prayers, by his frequent advocacy, by the general tenor of his life, is bound to show that he is not only a member of Christ's Church, but that he recognizes why Christ's Church has been created, and recognizes also his own share in the aim for which that Church exists, for the Church is the instrument by which God makes known his holy will and marvelous love to all the people on the face of the world.-Bishop of London.

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The British Mission to Lepers in India will henceforth be known as แ The Mission to Lepers in India and the East" as it has lately enlarged its work to take in China and Japan. It is doing a most excellent work and now has thirty-six different centers in India, Burma, Ceylon, and China, and has made a grant of one thousand dollars toward the erection of a home for lepers near Kumamoto, Isle of Kiushiu, Japan.

The most recent movement of Buddhism in Japan has been the organization of a "Salvation Army."

So far it is confined to the island of Kiushiu. They have adopted a most high sounding motto, namely, "The Stronghold of Truth, the Flag of Philanthropy, and the Sword of Justice." No doubt it will be quite popular, for a time at least, as one of the articles of their creed will be "to maintain and

develop the national characteristics and welfare of their country."-Dr. G. B. Norton.

Bishop Mallalieu writes: "What we need is an inspiration from on high which shall bring us into complete harmony with the thoughts of God in regard to the salvation of the world, and at the same time shall link our hearts in closest, tenderest sympathy with the heart of Christ, as in his soul he ever travails for the benighted millions for whom he shed his precious blood. We have the men, we have the money needed for the grandest aggressive evangelistic campaign this world has ever seen. Will we supply them?"

There are said to be over thirty thousand Protestant Kaffir members in the Wesleyan missions in South Africa, and they are all professed abstainers from intoxicating liquors. The Wesleyan Missionary Notices gives an account of the experience of one who gave up the use of both the native beer and tobacco. "He had gone home that night, thrown the beer away and destroyed the pot; heaven came down into his soul, and it was very blessed (mandi kakulu!); he assembled his family for prayer, and it was mundi kakulu he went to his place of privateprayer among the rocks, and it was mandi kakulu, God himself filling his soul with the joy of salvation. In the night he awoke: still mandi kahulu; but turning to seek a live coal with which to light his pipe, the ubanmandi (blessedness) vanished, he knew not where or how; but there and then he had fought. out the matter. His reason said, 'I have surrendered beer; surely tobacco is no sin!' His conscience answered, 'You have killed the cow; now you must kill the calf.' Still reason argued, but again and again conscience replied, 'You have killed the cow; now you must kill the calf;' and he could get no return of blessedness until his surrender was complete and the last idol was put away; he had destroyed his pipe and resolved that both beer and tobacco should henceforth be laid in absolute surrender on God's altar."

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A most excellent plan of giving is practiced by one wealthy man. He says, "I have bank stocks, railroad stocks, United States bonds, etc. These all draw interest seven days in the week. One of these days is the Lord's Day. So one seventh of my income from these investments I devote to benevolent purposes."

We trust that the report is true that the British flag has been hoisted in Uganda and a protectorate claimed. The British East African Company was to withdraw by March 31, and it was feared that the withdrawal would result in the massacre of the Christians that have been gathered in the mission of the English Church Missionary Society. They will now be amply protected.

Alexander Duff was the first missionary sent out by the Church of Scotland to the heathen. In one of his addresses before going to India, he said: "There was a time when I had no care or concern for the heathen; that was a time when I had no care or concern for my own soul. When, by the grace of God, I was led to care for my own soul, then it was I began to care for the heathen abroad. In my closet, on my bended knees, I then said to God, O Lord, thou knowest that silver and gold to give to this cause I have none; what I have I give to thee-I offer thee myself; wilt thou accept the gift?'"

To be able to give to any good cause, and to be willing up to the measure of one's ability, is to have an opportunity for experiencing an exquisite sense of pleasure, of which the close, narrow, grasping, and grinding soul knows nothing. It is "more blessed to give than to receive." That word of our Lord Jesus, unrecorded in the Gospel history, but preserved for us by apostolic inspiration, goes deep into the inmost springs of human nature. He who has learned the blessed art of giving with an open hand and a liberal heart, thanking God for the privilege of giving, has discovered one of the surest avenues of attaining a happiness that glows and satisfies.

Some of the precepts of Buddha sound like echoes of the Sermon on the Mount, and Buddhist literature is full of excellent sayings on the duties of life. But as far as the testimony of experts can inform us on such an abstruse point as Eastern mysticism, we are forced to the conclusion that the center of each Buddhist of the religious world is the individual himself. He is practically an atheist, for Buddhism is not a theology, it is merely a sort of ascetic scheme by which each one is to accomplish his own salvation by his own efforts. Judged by its fruits we must pronounce it a failure. And just where Buddhism fails, Christianity triumphs. The Buddhist has no real love for man because he has no love for God. Christian love for the suffering, the sick, the weak, and the worthless is founded upon love for God as the Father and Redeemer of the world.-The Churchman.

The Presbyterian missionaries in Korea sent out by the Presbyterian Church, North, and the Presbyterian Church, South, of the United States, and the Presbyterian Church of Australia have organized themselves into the Presbyterian Mission Council of Korea, and this council has expressed "its judgment that it is best to carry on all the native work with a view to the organization of but one native Presbyterian Church in Korea."

The first Mexican National Sunday School Convention was held in June in Mexico city. There were present sixty-five delegates, twenty-two of whom were lady teachers. Steps were taken toward the better organization of the work in Mexico, and the preparation of a literature suitable for Bible study and Sunday school literature. It was decided to hold annual conventions, and Guadalajara was selected as the next place of meeting.

A member of the church who possessed considerable means gave but little toward the church expenOn this being referred to in a public meeting, he claimed that he was in favor of proportionate giv ing, and that he had given proportionately more than the others. After the others had expressed their amazement at this statement, he explained that he meant he had given more in proportion to the amount of religion he had than any of the others. This may be true. Is your giving in proportion to your means or your religion?

Rev. Thomas P. Hughes, D.D., who was a missionary for twenty years on the Afghan frontier, adopted the dress of the Afghan, and writing about it says: "Judging from my own experience among an Oriental race for twenty years, it seems strange to me that missionaries in all lands do not adopt the dress of the people among whom they labor. There are a great many arguments against it, but in my opinion they may be pretty well summed up in the word prejudice—that prejudice which sees what it pleases, but cannot see what is plain."

Taoism is a religious system in which men are finally judged according to their merits and demerits. Rev. George Owen, of Peking, gives the following illustrations: On the credit side, "Giving a coffin to the poor counts 30; exhorting a mother not to commit infanticide, 30; saving a child from being destroyed, 50; refraining from beef and dog flesh one year, 5; destroying plates of obscene books, 300; preserving lifelong chastity, 1,000." On the other side demerits score as follows: "Loving a wife more than father or mother scores 100; drowning an infant, 100; cooking beef or dog flesh, 100; misusing written paper, 50; for publishing immoral books the demerit is measureless." All Taoists admit that even for the best of men the score is on the wrong side. And it is said of one of their good men who lived forty-seven years, that his score stood 4,973 merits and 298,000 demerits.

Rev. Isaac T. Headland writes that there are more temples, and more expensive temples, in Peking than there are churches in New York city. Many of them are small, and only a few are very largo and expensive; but in addition to these all the surrounding hills are thick with temples.

Rev. E. G. Phillips writes that the present outlook of mission work in Assam is one of much promise. Among the Garos the work is moving on with increasing momentum. At the beginning of the year the number of communicants was about twenty-four hundred. More than eight hundred were baptized last year. Nearly all the churches are financially self-supporting, and a genuine missionary spirit evinces itself. The prospect in Upper Assam, among the tea-garden laborers, is also full of much promise.

Last month we gave our readers an article from A. L. O. E. in India. We find in India's Women for July a statement that Miss Tucker has been laboring as a self-supporting missionary among the women of the Punjab for nearly eighteen years without once returning home. She is the active and beloved head of the mission at Batala. There are in Batala one hundred and forty-three places usually open to her or the Bible woman, and about twenty-four villages or hamlets. She has a school of thirty pupils, and also makes many visits to the zenanas, though "weighted with the burden of seventy-one years."

Bishop Thoburn, writing from Singapore, says: Every day it becomes more apparent that as a distinct people the Malays of this region have no future. In Singapore there are 121,000 Chinamen and only 22,000 Malays proper. The Malay state of Johore, lying immediately north of Singapore, has 150,000 Chinese and only 35,000 Malays. The Chinese are constantly receiving reinforcements from the home land, while the Malays have no such reserve to draw from, and in the very nature of the case the Chinaman must remain master of the situation. Opium may destroy his supremacy, but nothing else at present threatens it."

Dr. A. T. Pierson writes of the heroic way of giv ing. He says, "This is limiting outlay to a certain sum, and giving away the entire remainder. This is stewardship in exercise. It was John Wesley's way, who never exceeded his fixed sum of personal outlay. It is Hudson Taylor's way. It makes an habitual, conscientious, proportionate, prayerful, liberal, unselfish, consecrated giver. Adopted as a rule, it would turn God's people into a body of givers whose unceasing contributions would be a river of water of life to a dying world. Such giving would insure praying, and be the handmaid of holy living. With such giving of money, giving of self would inevitably follow, if it did not precede; and with a rapidity now incredible a world's evangelization would move toward its consummation and the coronation of the coming King!"

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Dr. Herrick Johnson says, that while we are called upon to hold the fort at home, yet holding the fort will not win battles a thousand miles away, and we will not hold the fort long if battles out on the distant fields are not won.

Rev. Dr. R. H. Nassau, of the West African Mission of the Presbyterian Church, writing of the marriage of missionaries, says: "Let the missionary workers be married, for the sake of their personal comfort and also for the removal of unjust but still possible cause of scandal before impure minded heathen; but let both men and women go to the field unmarried. If they can stand the climate let them return in two or three years for marriage, or, better, marry on the field. The objection that the married man or woman is hampered in their mission work by family and personal cares is counterbalanced by (1) advantage of marriage for personal comfort, (2) immense advantage for an object lesson of the Christian family to the heathen, (3) the prevention of a growth of selfishness in the man or woman who lives alone."

Mrs. Joseph Cook, writing of the opposition lately shown to the higher education of women in Japan, says: "When one considers that polygamy is not uncommon in Japan and has the sanction of the Imperial Court, it is easy to understand that it might be a dangerous thing to do too much for the elevation and education of the women. An educated woman may become sufficiently self-assertive to protest against such a wicked and unnatural state of things. Is this what the government of Japan fears in its present attitude toward the education of girls? We hear that the higher schools for girls are being closed all over Japan. What does it mean that such a progressive nation should take this course of retrogression ? Centuries of subjection have thoroughly taught the Japanese woman submission, even to permitting her own most sacred personality to be sold to pay her father's debts if he demands this sacrifice. The greatest need of the Japanese is to be taught that they must give up their chief vices, licentiousness and lying, for this was Neesima's verdict against them, if they are to take the place they covet among the enlightened and progressive Christian nations of the world."

Notice to Pastors and Conference Treasurers.

BETWEEN the close of the Spring Conference sessions and the beginning of the Fall Conference sessions the Missionary Society generally has to carry a large debt. It would save thousands of dollars of interest if the people would promptly pay their subscriptions, and the pastors and Conference treasurers would promptly send the money forward.

Please make drafts payable to S. Hunt, Treasurer, and send to him at 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. MISSIONARY SECRETARIES.

REV. C. B. WARD reports from Yellandu, India, that he has been exploring the Bustar field, and there are 600,000 people scattered over 20,000 square miles of territory. He has selected seven centers for mission stations. They are Yellandu, in the Nizam's dominions, Sironcha, in the Central Provinces, and Jagdalpur, with four other centers in Bustar State.

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Rev. Ernest A. Bell writes from Madras, India: "Here in Madras we have a good deal of civilization. There are Anglican and Roman cathedrals, a great Scotch kirk, many churches, a university and several colleges, high schools and girls' boarding schools. Some of the government buildings are very fine, especially the new building of the high court. are about ten hospitals and a medical college, which trains both men and women. The general hospital has six hundred beds. There is a hospital for lepers, an ophthalmic hospital, and a beautiful and homelike hospital for women. We have daily papers without Sunday issues, a harbor, railways, telegraph, and post offices (combined as in England), and perhaps everything but street cars. We are to have electric cars in a few months."

The annual session of the Utah Mission was held in June last, Bishop Joyce presiding. On June 26 he made the following appointments: Superintendent, T. C. Iliff. Presiding Elder, J. D. Gillilan Beaver, M. O. Billings. Bingham, (S. Hooper). Corinne and Brigham City, E. H. Snow. Eureka, (G. W. Comer). Heber, (F. J. Bradley). Logan, R. M. Hardman. Monroe, G. P. Miller. Mount Pleasant, Joseph Wilkes. Nephi, to be supplied. Ogden, G. P. Fry. Payson, G. W. Rich. Provo, W. M. Crowther. Salt Lake: First Church, W. D. Mabry; Iliff Church, T. C. Iliff; Liberty Park, E. G. Hunt; Mission, G. E. Jayne. Tooele, J. G. Clark. Park City, G. M. Jeffrey. Murray and West Side, G. C. Waynick. "Methodism is well adapted in doctrine and in spirit to meet the exigencies of the hour and to take Utah for Christ.' There are 1,200 scholars in the mission schools.

"The business of the Utah Mission was transacted with great economy of time and in the most delightful manner, due largely to the spirituality of the presiding bishop and the pervading influence of the meetings under Dr. Keen's direction. The reports of the preachers showed most valiant service and general progress under most strenuous difficulties. In

one place the preacher has one member besides his wife. Yet all the means of grace are steadily maintained in the stronghold of Mormonism. At another place an aged brother lives who never hears the Gospel unless he travels about twenty miles to the preaching place, their being none but Mormons about him; yet he was shouting happy at the Mission.”

The Indian Witness of May 27 says that Rev. D. D. Moore, at Penang, Straits Settlements, has bap. tized a Chinese lady with her three children. She is in independent circumstances, and has entered her three children in the Christian Girls' School.

Bareilly Theological Seminary, so important to our work in India, closed its first term of '93 (four months) May 12. There were seventy-one students in attendance. The junior class of twenty-nine is the largest that has been formed in this seminary. Thirty-five women were in attendance in the woman's department. The normal department has been closed for want of funds. The addition to the faculty of the Rev. Professor Neeld has greatly strengthened the institution. The $50,000 additional endowment called for is slowly coming in. This sum made up will aid much in supplying a native ministry for the most wonderful missionary movement of modern times.

The Hyderabad District, South India Conference.

BY REV. GEO. K. GILDER, P. E.

1. INTO how many districts is the South India Conference divided?

Two; Hyderabad and Madras.

2. What territory is comprised in the Hyderabad District?

The Nizam's dominions; the adjoining stations of Bellary (in the Madras presidency), and Sironcha (on the Godavery in the Central Provinces); and the native State of Bustar.

3. What is the area of the Hyderabad State, or Nizam's dominions?

82,697 square miles. This does not include Berar, which by treaty is under British rule since 1860. 4. How is the territory situated? Approximately between 15° and 20° N. lat, and 75 and 81 E. long.

5. What is the population?

11,489,210. Of these about a tenth only are Mohammedans, the rest being Hindus.

6. What are the principal vernaculars? Hindustani, or Urdu, the tongue in use among Mohammedans, who are most numerous in the capital; Mahrathi, in the north; Telugu, in the south and east; Canarese, in the west.

7. What are the prevailing religions? Mohammedanism, Brahmanism, and Demonolatry. 8. How is the state divided?

For administrative purposes the state is divided into four divisions, or subas. These subas are divided again into districts, or zilas; and the districts into talukas. There are in all 4 divisions, 17 districts, and 122 talukas.

9. What are the chief cities?

Hyderabad, the capital. Population, 392,730. Hyderabad was founded in 1589 by Kutub Shah Mohammed Kuli, who removed the seat of government from Golkonda on account of its want of water. Secunderabad, the largest military cantonment in India. Golkonda, a fort and ruined city five miles west of Hyderabad. The diamonds of Golkonda have obtained great celebrity, but they were merely cut and polished here, the mines being situated near a place called Koilkonda, south of Hyderabad. Gulbarga, once the capital of the Mohammedan kingdom of that name. Warangal, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Telingana; Beder, Aurungabad, Jalna, Shorapur, and Raichur.

10. Who is the ruling chief?

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His Highness Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur Asaf Jah Nizam-ul-Mulk, G. C. S. I. The dynasty of the Nizam was founded by Asaf Jah, a Turkoman general in the service of the Emperor Aurungzeb. 1713 he was appointed Subadar of the Dekhan, with the title Nizam-ul-Mulk (regulator of the State). On the death of Aurungzeb and the dissolution of the Mogul Empire, Asaf Jah established himself as an independent sovereign with Hyderabad for his capital. The present ruler is ninth in the list of Nizams, and was not three years of age when proclaimed successor to his father in 1869.

11. What Christian missions have been established in the Nizam's dominions?

The Free Church of Scotland Mission among the Mahrathis with one missionary whose headquarters are at Jalna; the Church Missionary Society (Church of England) among the Mahrathis in the north, with one missionary having his headquarters at Auranga bad, and among the Telugus in the southeast with one missionary at Khamamet; the American Baptists with seven missionaries, and the Wesleyans with five missionaries among the Telugus, with headquarters at Secunderabad; and the Methodist Episcopal Mission.

12. What are the Annual Conference appointments?

Hyderabad, the capital; Secunderabad, Gulbarga, Kopal, Yellandu, and Vikarabad, representing mission work carried on by six missionaries with their wives, and two ladies of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, in Hindustani, Telugu, and Canarese; besides regular English work among Europeans and Eurasians in Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Bellary -Hyderabad and Bellary being supplied by local preachers.

13. Where is the native state of Bustar?

Bustar is situated in the southeast of the Central Provinces. Area, 13,062 square miles. Population over 200,000, principally Gonds and Kois, simple aboriginal tribes who are demon worshipers and accessible to the Gospel.

14. What is the capital?

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Jagdalpur, the residence of the rajah, who is a minor. Population, 7,000.

15. What missions labor in Bustar?

None, except the Methodist Episcopal Mission, which providentially has been the first called to enter the field, one missionary, a local preacher, having been appointed to Jagdalpur.

16. In how many stations has work been opened? We entered Bustar only this year, and have practically occupied four stations, namely, Jagdalpur, Vijyapur, Autagarh, and Kunta. Liberal grants of land for mission purposes have been made by the state authorities in each of these stations, and the outlook is exceedingly hopeful.

17. Is there room for more missionaries of our Church in the Hyderabad District?

Yes. We need at present at least four new mis. sionaries in the Nizam's dominions alone, and two more for Bustar.

18. Has the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society any work in the Hyderabad District?

Yes. An English girls' school, and four native girls' schools, with zenana work in Hyderabad; and native girls' schools in Gulbarga and Kopal.

19. What are the prospects for extending Woman's Foreign Missionary Society work?

A native girls' school and orphanage in Vikarabad; another orphanage in Gulbarga, and medical work and schools in Bustar.

20. What encouragements have our missionaries received in their work in the district?

Considering the many and peculiar difficulties of the field, and the comparative newness of our native work (most of it also in regions hitherto unoccupied by any mission), we have much to be thankful for. Our schools and Sunday schools, a form of mission labor specially helpful in a native state, have been a source of strength; our colportage work has resulted in the sale and widespread distribution of a large amount of Christian literature, including Bibles and Scripture portions; and our evangelistic efforts have borne fruit in several baptisms and numerous inquirers.

21. Does the Church at home owe any duty to this important section?

Most decidedly, most emphatically YES. Much of our work in the district is, after all, pioneer in character and prosecuted under severe disabilities. We believe that while the Church is already aiding the missionary cause nobly, she only needs to know the facts regarding this particular portion of her huge India parish to make it a special object of her practical sympathy. Men and women are needed. To quote the words of the late Decennial Conference appeal: "In the name of Christ and of the unevangelized masses for whom he died, we appeal to you to send more laborers at once." Let the Church send us meu and women "full of faith and