Kutra church on one occasion a mob of three hundred Mohammedans violently interrupted the service, until the police were called in. In the schools valuable particulars are given. For statistics see tables above. His monthly visits to Futtehpore, and the tour in that district of himself and Mrs. Alexander, accompanied by some of the native brethren, have been referred to already. His charge of the mission treasury accounts has become increasingly onerous, and the supervision of building the dispensary required much attention. Manuscripts for the press, referred to him for examination on behalf of the Tract Society of North India, and numerous papers of scholars in the schools, occupied valuable time.

Interesting accounts are given of natives making earnest inquiries concerning their spiritual interests, one of them a young man from a distant city, who applied for baptism, but was seized by his friends and compelled to go with them. On making his escape from them, they applied to the Civil Court for redress. Public attention was widely given to the case, but the decision left the young man free, and he was baptized. This litigation involved an expense of over $300 by the missionaries, which they hope may be shared by some of their friends in this country.

The missionary has to speak of the sad defects and faults of some of the members of the Kutra church, but he can also speak of the exemplary conduct of others, and of the blessed hope of Heaven in the case of several who had died. The notice of one of the catechists, who was also an elder in the church, will be read with special interest :

Robert J. Breckinridge was with me during our tour in the Futtehpore district last cold season. He was weak in body, but earnest in spirit, and although over seventy years of age, did full service with the younger men, walking daily to distant villages, and preaching the Word with more than usual earnestness. On New-Year's morning he remarked that he had come to his last year. The following April the end came. A sharp attack of pneumonia, following upon the influenza, took away the life of this man of God, beloved and sincerely regretted by all who knew him. He had just finished 50 years of service as catechist in the mission, his fields of labor being Futtehgurh, Mynpurie, Futtehpore, and Allahabad. He held the office of ruling elder for

many years.

Notices are here appended of two others who entered into rest : Ignatius David died in June, after a lingering illness. He was a young man, of earnest Christian purpose, thoroughly in sympathy with the affairs of the Church, and striving constantly to influence by word and example those with whom he came in contact. Just before the attack of influenza, which ended in consumption, he delivered a course of lectures on temperance, holding up Christ as the only source of strength, and the all-sufficient remedy for the weak and helpiess. He is greatly missed in the congregation and Sundayschool. His memory is precious to all.

J. Rendall, who had been a member of our Christian community for several years, united with the Kutra church early in the year. He was a bookbinder by trade, and worked hard to support his large family. His health began to fail several months before his death, which occurred in August. Through all his sufferings, which at times were great, he manifested a truly Christian spirit, being perfectly resigned to the will of God. He was a man of deep piety and constant prayer. Morning and evening prayer ascended from that humble family altar, and we may feel assured that the family, left without any visible means of support, can now look with confidence to Him who is the comfort

and strength of the widow and fatherless. Since his death his eldest daughter, sixteen years of age, who was a pupil in the Jumna Girls' Boarding-School, has also entered into the rest of the people of God.

Jumna Station.-The Rev. J. J. Lucas, D.D., writes of the work in this part of the city as follows:

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The report of another year's work may be told in a few words. The preaching of the Gospel in city and village, in church and bazaar, by the riverside and in quiet places, has never seemed a greater privilege. When in Allahabad, I have usually preached four evenings of the week in the city church. usually quiet audiences have listened to the truth, and listened to it at times with such interest and attention that we all felt sure their hearts had been touched. Some remained to talk after the service, and now and then one told us that he had accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour, but for some family reason was not prepared to be baptized. This class of unbaptized believers is largely on the increase. Let us pray and hope that speedily they may not only believe in the heart, but confess with the mouth the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.

Sunday morning I have conducted the service in the Jumna church, and also frequently the week-day service. I have tried to secure a native pastor for the church, but as yet have not induced the brother best fitted for the work to accept it. This has necessitated my continuing to act as stated supply of the church. Twenty have been added on confession of their faith, ten of them Hindus and Mohammedans, and ten who had been baptized in infancy. The young men and boys of the church organized in July a Philadelphia Society. The pastor's fund, of which I gave an account in my last report, is still flourishing. The people pay their subscription to it quite regularly. It now amounts to Rs. 221.

From January 10th to February 10th I spent among the villages across the Jumna, preaching morning and evening. Many of the poor villagers listened gladly to the Gospel, and were ready to become Christians could we guarantee them against loss of home and livelihood. This is the great problem in village work-viz., how to aid wisely sincere inquirers, so that they may live in their homes and villages after baptism. Some of them said to me: "We are ready to be baptized; but the day we are, the landlord of the village will turn us out of home and land. Then what shall we do?" Ten days were spent in Sirsa, a large town on the banks of the Ganges, 25 miles from Allahabad. The market is crowded twice a week with people from the surrounding villages, and thus many are reached. In May a charge of eating beef and throwing the bones on the street to defile the Hindus was brought against our catechists residing in Sirsa. The owner of the house in which they lived at once raised the rent from Rs.3 to Rs.30 a month, in order to drive them out, and with great difficulty they procured another house. This shows the necessity of our having a house of our own there, if we are to carry on work permanently and successfully. A good house can be had for Rs. 500, the half of which sum I have already secured by contributions from friends. One man, a Hindu fakir, was baptized in Sirsa in July; but as he was not a resident of the place, little impression was made by his baptism.

In the Jumna school my work as principal has been very much the same as last year. I have opened the school with a brief exposition of a few verses and prayer. Every Saturday I have given an evangelistic address to the whole school assembled in the church. Since July I have taught the Bible to the two higher classes three days in the week, giving an hour a day to this. Before the close of the school in May for the summer vacation, I spent parts of six days-eighteen hours altogether-in examining and marking every boy in the middle and primary classes on his knowledge of the Bible. As a result, I can speak most highly of the work of the Christian teachers of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th classes. Nearly every boy of these classes can repeat the Lord's Prayer. Of the 38 boys in the 7th class, 32 can repeat large portions of Matthew, having committed a few verses every day. Many of the boys of these classes are quite familiar with the parables and miracles of our Lord.

The Bible is not a neglected book in the school, nor is it put in a corner. When that day comes, its doors as a mission school ought to be closed. That the truth has wrought in the hearts of some of the pupils I have good evidence. One of the pupils I might have baptized, but deferred it for reasons I need not here mention. In the school at present are 34 Christians, 56 Mohammedans, and 153 Hindus. This is a most interesting and encouraging field of work, and my regret is that I can give so little time to it.

My work as superintendent of the Blind and Leper Asylums has been the same as in past years-a very pleasant work in the main. In the Blind Asylum are 65 inmates, and in the Leper 38. The asylums draw nothing from the mission, but are supported by contributions from the municipality and friends. The prayers and love of many of the blind and lepers I count a great privilege to have.

As editor of the Makhgan-Masihi, my work has been the same as in past years. The paper is intended to provide healthy Christian reading, and that it is appreciated by many of its readers I have ample evidence.

The secretaryship of the Christian Vernacular Educational Society for the Northwest Provinces involves some correspondence, relating chiefly to the bringing out of revised editions of the society's publications. The translation of several new books has also been secured. The seven weeks I spent in the Hills in May and June, during the school vacation, were given almost entirely to the writing of my commentary on 1 Cor.-a work on which I have spent much time, as I have found leisure, during four years past. I hope another year will see it through the press. At the beginning of the new year, a Christian Mela was held. It was attended by native Christians of all denominations. Probably 1,000 persons were present. It was a time of great religious and social enjoyment.

With the close of this year, 1890, I finish twenty years of my missionary lifeyears not without trials, but in all there has been grace and strength, according to my need and faith. That I may be spared many years more to engage in a work which every year seems more precious, and a greater privilege to take part in, is my prayer.

ALLAHABAD, Jan., 1891.

Women's Work.-The work of the ladies at this city has been conducted with great efficiency. A full record of it will no doubt be given in reports of the Women's Boards, auxiliaries of the General Assembly's Board, but it may be briefly referred to here. The widowed and the two married ladies, for whom thirty years, twenty-five, and twenty respectively have passed since they went to India, have been influential in their labors, as true missionaries; and the single ladies also. Mrs. Newton had charge of the Christian girls' boardingschool, with its 61 scholars. Miss Babbitt aided Mrs. Newton in this school, and her work was highly approved by the Government Inspector. Miss Hutchison also gave assistance for a part of the year. As these young ladies have felt called to work of a different kind, their names will be found at the stations to which they have been transferred. They are succeeded by Miss Colman and Miss Morrow, lately arrived from this country in India. Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Lucas found invaluable opportunities of usefulness among the native women in the city and its suburbs, and with their husbands on missionary journeys.

Miss Seward, M.D., returned from her visit to this country with renewed health, and entered on her medico-missionary work with her usual vigor. In this work she had Miss Sykes' valuable assistance, and that of a Christian female teacher. They were also permitted to engage in visits to zenanas, as well as to share the oversight with Miss Seward

of religious instruction to the patients at the dispensary. "The number of patients at the dispensary for the year was 3,738, a daily average of 44. The whole number of visits made there, 13,000." Besides this large work, Miss Seward has had almost entirely the zenana medical work-one involving a severe tax on the missionary's strength, .ombined often with serious responsibility, but also with encouragement in pointing these patients to the Great Physician. In August the new dispensary was occupied, with great satisfaction for its increase of usefulness. The building formerly rented had become so dilapidated as to be unfit for use. It is hoped that plans now initiated may secure a suitable dwelling-house at an early day, to complete this medical establishment.

Without adverting specially to other subjects in connection with these North India Missions, this report of them may be closed with a reference to two matters which are of encouraging interest. One is the access to the lowest castes among the Hindus. Out of eighteen millions of people in the Punjab, Mr. Velte, of Lahore, sends an estimate of two millions as Chuhras and Chamars-occupying so low a place that they are barely recognized as having any caste. References have been made to them in our periodicals. And somewhat similar classes are found in other parts of India. They were in former years regarded as hardly open to missionary labors; but of late a good many of them have come to a knowledge of Christ as the Saviour even of the poorest, and have been admitted to the Church by missionaries of different denominations. The other and corresponding reference is to the interest which our missionaries are led to take in these poor people, now that they seem to be within reach; and also, in general, to itinerating work among people of all castes so far as practicable. One of the brethren says: "I feel strongly that we must give more attention to village work." The plans of another, as shown above, in connection with the station at Ambala, are adjusted to similar work; and he has lately been permitted to baptize eight adults, and to restore two who had forsaken the Gospel. This itinerant and village work, indeed, is work that has never been overlooked by our missionaries in this country, but which Providence is bringing more within their reach. The Board cannot but hope that it will be largely increased, both by American and native agencies. And so, without disparaging or neglecting educational and other kinds of evangelistic work, preaching to the poor will become, as it was in the days of the Apostles, the leading feature of our missionary work in India and in all the missions of our Church,

Kolhapur Mission.

KOLHAPUR: 200 miles southeast of Bombay; 45,000 inhabitants; mission station commenced, 1853; taken under care of the Board, 1870; laborers-Rev. Messrs. Galen W. Seiler and Jas. M. Goheen and their wives, Rev. J. M. Irwin, Mrs. J. J. Hull, Miss Esther Patton, Miss Margaret L. Ewalt, and Miss Rachel Irwin; thirteen native teachers and helpers; one native licentiate; and two outstations.

PANHALA 14 miles north of Kolhapur; mission station commenced, 1877; laborersRev. and Mrs. George H. Ferris; five natiye assistants; two outstations.

SANGLI 30 miles east of Kolhapur; work begun 1884; laborers-Rev. Messrs. J. P. Graham and L. B. Tedford and their wives; and W. J. Wanless, M.D., and Mrs. Wan

less, Mrs. R. G. Wilder, Miss Grace E. Wilder; one native licentiate; five native helpers; one outstation.

RATNAGIRI: 70 miles northwest of Kolhapur; mission station commenced, 1873; missionary laborers-Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Hannum and Miss Jennie Sherman, and one native Christian assistant.

In this country: Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Graham, Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Seiler, Mrs. J. J. Hull, Miss M. L. Ewalt, and Mrs. L. B. Tedford.

The Kolhapur Mission is located in the southern part of the Bombay Presidency, among the Marathi-speaking people. It extends from Ratnagiri on the west to Jath on the east, and from Karar on the north to Nipani on the south. With the exception of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which has a mission in Kolhapur, the nearest mission stations of other societies are Satara, of the American Board, seventy miles north of Kolhapur; Belgaum, of the London Missionary Society, seventy miles south; and Bij Apur, of the Basle Missionary Society, one hundred miles east. The work of the mission is mainly among Hindus, although a few Mohammedans, Jains, and others are reached. During the past year the missionary force has been increased by the arrival of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Hannum, Rev. J. M. Irwin and Miss Rachel Irwin. In view of this addition to the force, the mission has determined to reoccupy Ratnagiri, having assigned Mr. and Mrs. Hannum and Miss Sherman to that station. Owing to serious illness, it has been necessary for Miss Ewalt to return to the United States, at least temporarily, and Mr. and Mrs. Seiler, with their children, have also been compelled to leave their field one year earlier than they had intended, because of the impaired health of Mrs. Seiler. In addition, it is deeply to be regretted that Mrs. Hull, after nineteen years of connection with the mission, has felt constrained to resign, that she may make a home for her children in this country. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris, with their youngest child, rejoined the mission after an absence on furlough, having left three of their children in the United States for education. ton also returned to her field after a visit to this country.

Miss Pat

The year has been one of spiritual blessing to the mission. The missionaries have been greatly strengthened by delightful Christian fellowship. A marked improvement in the spiritual tone of the native Christians has been evident, and a larger number have confessed Christ than during any previous year of the mission's history.

Kolhapur Station.

Kolhapur is the capital of the native State bearing the same name. The State has a population of upwards of 800,000, and the city about 45,000. According to the last census, there are no less than 88 different castes of Hindus in the State, and 38 different divisions of Mohammedans. The converts to Christianity are largely from the class called Mahars, who are spoken of as despised and ignorant; and yet when touched by the grace of God, many of them have developed into spiritually-minded and efficient helpers.

The church in the city is under the pastoral care of the Rev. J. M. Goheen, and has a membership of 75, 13 having been received on confession during the past year. In addition to the usual Sabbath