MONTHLY MISSIONARY CONCERT.

The king possesses legislative power in "The Lord has blessed our work during matters of political administration, but in the year in Switzerland. We have 1,035 other respects that power is exercised by probationers-increase, 41; 5,307 memthe Diet in concert with the sovereign, bers-increase, 198; preachers, 29; helpand every new law must have the assent

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'Bethanien-Verein '-at Frankfort, Ber- Norway Conference, Methodist Epis- In the time referred to in the above

copal Church.

The Norway Conference was held in
Bergen, Norway, July 15-20, 1891, Bishop
Walden presiding.

All the appointments are in Norway.
Rev. Johan Thorkildsen is presiding
elder of the Bergen District; Rev. Andres
Olesen, presiding elder of the Kristiania
District; Rev. J. P. Lie, presiding elder of
the Northern District.

The statistics reported 4,508 members
and 566 probationers, 50 local preachers,
Members. 5,244 Sunday-school scholars.
34,837
24,870 The Missionary Enterprise a Warfare.
12,544
BY REV. FRANK W. WARNE, B.D.
2,861

978

100

Spain.....
The baptisms and contributions in 1890

Though in India, in a quiet way a few
Americans met for a Fourth of July din-
ner. After dinner, true to our American
customs, we had some toasts. Among
the guests was General S. Merrill, Ameri-
Contributions. can consul to India. The toast to which he
$98.793
was to respond was "The American Re-
public." He said many good things, and
among other things he gave us his con-
ception as a layman of the relation of the
missionary to his work, and of the Ameri-
can people to the missionary. It seemed
so good to us that I thought I would like
the home Church to have it through THE
GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS. General Mer-
rill said:

58,093
17,690
8,304
3,278

.....

Religious Work in Denmark.
In Copenhagan are twelve Lutheran,
one Baptist, one Methodist Episcopal, one
Irvingite, one Russian Greek, and four
Roman Catholic Churches.

The Baptists in Denmark report 311 baptisms in 1890 and at the close of the year a total membership of 2,861. The first five months of 1891 there was 141 baptisms, and a total membership of 2,931. The Annual Meeting of the Denmark Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held in Veile, commencing July 1, 1891. The reports showed that 647 persons had been converted during the year, 586 received on probation, and 385 into full connection, and there are now 2,042 members in full connection and 457 on probation.

Sweden Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church.

in

The Sweden Conference was held Upsala, Sweden, July 29 to August 3. 1891, Bishop Walden presiding. There are four districts in Sweden and one in Finland, Russia.

The presiding elders are Johannes

mothers were willing to give their boys and men their lives, and men who could not go to the war were willing at enormous prices to send a representative. It was this earnestness that won the cause.

Some such earnestness must come upon the Church before the nations shall be conquered for Christ. May such visions of earnestness as rise before the general's eye when he sees a lone missionary among many millions be a fact in the home Church!

Brethren, we are dependent on your prayers. The picture of the lone sentinel cannot fully represent the case. In Bengal there are 84,000,000 people, and the division of the Lord's army which we represent has only half a dozen lone American sentinels, with none to relieve them from duty at

the various watches of the night, but our hearts are cheered with the vision of the prayers being offered at home.

I wish I could have taken the American Church with me last night to the "monthly united missionary prayer-meeting." There were representatives of all the churches; there were old men who led us in prayer, men who left the home land in the vigor of their youth and have grown old and nervous in the service, and the fond hopes of their youth have not been fully realized; and as they poured out the desire of their hearts with mellow, sad voices, saying, How long, O Lord, O, how long," I could I think it would not keep from tears. move the heart of the whole home Church. Pray for us, and send us recruits. morning cometh!"

The

"I remember years ago when on military duty among the mountains of Georgia, making the rounds' of the picket posts about two o'clock one tempestuous winter morning. On a rocky eminence the form of a lone sentinel was outlined against the cloudy sky, and this thought flashed through me with pain akin to agony: Poor soldier shivering in the driving sleet, how can you hope to crush the great rebellion? As quickly came the reflection, Ah, he is but a link of a great chain reaching from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, and back of him are the regiment, the brigade, the division, the corps, the by the Kolao Hui. It says: "The Kolao fathers and silver-haired mothers praying,ganization, is now thought to be a reproarmy, and linked to these the gray-locked Hui, originally a benevolent military orand over all the mighty God who has deduction of the old Taiping rebellion, having creed that right shall prevail.

Recent Disturbances in China. The Chinese Recorder thinks that the recent disturbances in China were caused

for its prime object the expulsion of the Manchus. The programme called for a decisive movement against French Catholics as a means of arousing foreign complications; popular superstition and ig

"A similar feeling of sadness comes over me at the sight of a missionary alone among the millions of heathen in the faraway land, but instantly arises a vision of tender mothers kneeling, of earnest fathers praying, of children in the churches lifting holy hands to heaven, of heroes who, be-norance were skillfully played upon by lieving in the brotherhood of man, make designing men, and it is more and more the American Republic great, and I seem evident that, on the part of many of the to hear this message for the toiling exile: rioters, there has been only a pretended The republic will stand by you, whether it promised day dawns when the earth shall be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.'

Roth, of the Finland District; Carl be for years or for centuries, till the long quarrel with Christian missions, there ob

Ljunggren, of the Goteborg District; Karl Lundgren, of the Gottland District; C. P. Carlsson, of the Malmo District; J. M. Erikson, of the Stockholm District. The statistics reported 13,689 members, 2,703 probationers, 16,682 Sunday-school scholars.

ject being disorder and plunder. The emperor's edict is inspiration to all who believe in a providential ordering of events. The conception of the missionary en- It is a distinct recognition of Christianity; terprise as a war lifts it out of that which more than that, it gives assurance of prois ordinary into the realm of tremendous tection to missionaries and native conearnestness, excitement, and self-sacrifice. | verts."

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Notes and Comments.

The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in Cleveland, O., November 12, 1891.

The General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in Kansas City, Mo., October 28, 1891. The English Church Missionary Society have adopted the plan of never refusing a candidate for missionary appointment on the ground of insufficiency of money to pay salary. If there is urgent need in the mission field for the appointment it is made. God honors a well directed faith! The indications continue good that the receipts of the Missionary Society for the present year will be sufficient to pay the appropriations. The missionaries in the field are anxious to know if the receipts will be sufficient to justify an advance for the next year. They become discouraged when they find that their successes cannot be followed up by enlargement, and wonder why they are sent out if not to increase the number of converts and prepare the way for more missionary workers.

Help the New Orleans University. Fourteen months ago Bishop Mallalieu purchased a property, most suitably located, for the Medical College of the New Orleans University. Upon this purchase he has collected and paid a little over $11,000 in cash. There yet remains $5,000 to be raised to complete the payment of the last dollar due on the purchase. It is of the greatest importance that all of this should be secured within the next four

weeks. Will all interested in helping the colored people send their contributions by letter promptly to

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

each a year would do it. The money
could be paid in weekly installments of
four cents, monthly installments of six-
teen cents, etc., just as best suits the con-
tributors.

What say you to it, brethren? Shall
we make the attempt for the glory of God
and the salvation of millions of perishing
souls? God help all Methodists-aye, all
Christians-to be faithful stewards! John
Wesley saw the need of getting the mass
of the Church to support our benevo-
lences; but at present we seem to rely
more on large contributions from rich
members. Should there not be a change
to the old policy? Let the well-to-do
give as much as they like-the more the
better; but let the poorer ones give their
mites regularly and form the backbone of
pur finances! Now, is not the above
scheme feasible?

I am proving this here. I have begun this plan of raising funds for missions. We have not a single English member or probationer in Kampti except my wife and myself, but I have already eighteen names on my list, and expect more soon. I also expect some of our native members to subscribe. Eighteen persons means $36 a year. Last year Kampti gave about $5 for missions, a good sum for one collection in such a place. This year I expect we will raise two or three times as much, though we have commenced late. Next year, unless some untoward circumstance arises, we should give eight times as much. Our experience here shows than many of our adherents can be got to subscribe. At my last charge, Igatpuri, I had just begun working this scheme when I was transferred to Bombay. I have asked my successor to try to carry it out. Igatpuri gave a little over $3 last year for missions; if the system I am advocating were adopted it would give ten times as much.

There are, I presume, some 20,000,000
people connected in some way or other with
our Church. Surely we can get a quarter of
them to guarantee to pay four cents each
a week for missions! The sum is small
enough for almost any one to be able to
give it, and the aggregate results will be
glorious. Cannot, ought not, a large
Church like ours to give that much to help
on the Lord's cause in heathen and Rom-
ish countries?
The advantages of this plan over the way, but they can be overcome.
one yearly collection are:

Will you not, dear brethren, try the plan? It need not necessarily stop the present one of a yearly collection, but may be worked along with it. Will you not, brother pastors, take it up, and lend your influence and wisdom to carrying it out all over Methodism?

1. More money will be raised.
2. It will be raised more easily.

3. The givers will not feel the burden
so much. Ask many a poor man to give
you $2 at once, and he cannot do it; ask
him for four cents a week, and he can
easily spare it.

the line of giving.
4. It will educate our people better in

5. The burden will be equally distributed, whereas at present some give more 1428 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, La. At present we raise $1,200,000 a year apthan their due, while others give nothing.

BISHOP W. F. MALLALIEU,

$10,000,000 for Missions.

BY REV. C. G. ELSAM.

parently with difficulty. It is a grand
sum in the aggregate, and we have cause
to be glad and thankful our Church gives
so much. But it is far from equal to the
requirements of the hour; and, if divided
up among our very large membership, it
begins to look very small indeed. At the
most we average half a dollar a year a
member.

The title of this article may surprise and alarm some timid souls, but why should we not devise liberal things for the spreading of Christ's glorious Gospel in all lands? Human enterprises are being constantly started on vast scales requiring great sums of money, and people are But," some one will say, "your plan found ready and eager to invest in them is based on our being able to get between in hopes of reaping temporal benefit. Can two and three millions of our adherents to we not find sufficient devoted souls in the subscribe besides our members, and all great Methodist Episcopal Church who our adherents are not enough interested desire to show their love for Christ and in missions to give any thing." Very true. to lay up treasure in heaven to raise But a great many are, or could be, inter$10,000,000 a year for evangelizing the ested, especially when personally apworld? Five million persons giving $2 pealed to.

Of course, there are difficulties in the

Since writing the above I have read in the June number of THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS, just to hand, Brother McCabe's grand scheme. Amen! Let us carry it out. But $3,000,000 is not enough for missions. Get 5,000,000 people to give a penny a day each and we can give $10,000,000 a year to missions, and also carry out all the other benevolences put down in his schedule. If all the Church benev

olences are to be lumped together certainly the people ought to give as much as $4 a year each. May the Lord enable us all-bishops, presiding elders, pastors, and people-to see the glorious possibilities lying before us, and to do our duty faithfully to him and dying souls!

Kampti, C. P., India, June 29, 1891.

The Bulgaria Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In our August number we gave an article on Bulgaria written from Bulgaria by Bishop Walden, which closed with the statement that in another article he would give his views respecting our Mission in Bulgaria. From that article, which appeared in the Western Christian Advocate, the following extracts are made:

"It has been noticed in the Missionary Committee that whoever has visited Bulgaria has thereafter warmly favored the

maintenance of our mission there. If there had been a prompt and liberal response, if the work had been projected on the scale of that in Mexico or Italy, who shall say that there would not be a stronger Methodism on the Danube than we have either in Italy or beyond the Rio Grande?"

The Bulgarians are the kind of people that make Protestants of the best type when brought under the power of the Gospel. Because of the relation of their State Church to their recent career they cling to it with the spirit and tenacity of loyalty; but if they now reject priests for officiating in a foreign tongue the time may come when they may be rejected for not preaching a plain and pure Gospel."

THE FLOODS OF CHINA.

sent out eighteen years ago, and have
been in the field, except when the work
was interrupted by war, giving their time
and strength to what too many considered
a forlorn hope. As I saw these brethren
I could but think of how they had stood
with little in the field to inspire them, and
in the great Church which sent them out
but little sympathy to cheer them. Their
patience under these trials and their per-
severance in their work are worthy of all
praise. Brother Davis has just entered
the field. He brings to his position a
varied experience, the needful vigor, and
a Methodist devotion. No one could de-
sire a more cordial welcome than he has
received."

"Those educated in America, except As yet our work in Bulgaria has not Brother Constantine, have been mainly in any marked degree become an aggres-employed in teaching. The other natives sive force, and has not gathered a sufficient have been the pastors at every point, exmembership at any one place to be a po- cept at Loftcha, Sistof, Rustchuk, and tent factor. The largest societies are at Varna. They give evidence of being conSistof (35 members, 3 probationers) and verted men. But they have not been in Rustchuk (23 members, 5 probationers). position to do thorough Methodist work. There are only two church buildings in They have had little opportunity to know the Mission-one at Rustchuk and one at any thing about such work. Necessarily Varna. At Sistof there is a commodious they began without Methodist training, room for church services in one of the for Methodism was as foreign to them as mission buildings, but the greater part it was to their country. They have never was designed for and is used as a parson- had the advantages of that supervision age, and the whole does not have the ap- which a superintendent with only the pearance of a church. The services at duties of his office would have given. Durother points are held in private houses, ing the years that Brother Challis was except at Loftcha, where the study-hall acting superintendent he had in his schoolin the school-building is used." work alone enough for any man to do; hence it was not possible for him to discharge, in addition, all the duties of a superintendent. It was not to be expected that these brethren would contract Methodist usages and develop Methodist efficiency."

"In Bulgaria, as in Roman Catholic countries, the people are accustomed to churches which are usually the largest and best buildings; hence as long as our services are confined to private rooms we labor at a disadvantage. If we cannot husband the results of mission work in our West and South without building churches, how can it be done in a country like Bulgaria? Church buildings are the great need of our missions in Mexico, South America, Italy, and Bulgaria."

"At Tirnova the services are held in one of the rooms of the building rented for a parsonage. One member has an important position in the public hospital -an active and intelligent young man, whose wife is sister to the pastor's wife. Look in upon the Annual Meeting He has bought, and is holding, an eligible and see the band of missionaries. There and relatively cheap lot with the hope that are three Americans—G. S. Davis, D. C. the Mission may take it at cost. It is Challis, and E. F. Lounsbury; four of large enough for both chapel and parsonEuropean birth, but educated in America age, and no better investment could be --T. Constantine, J. I. Economoff, S. made. Further, this brother stands ready Thomoff, and M. Vultcheff; and nine na- to put the whole price of the lot into a tive Bulgarians, who are traveling preach-church building. He will not donate the ers, the oldest of whom, Gabriel Elieff, is the veteran, he having come into the work under Dr. Long soon after it opened. Besides, there are the local preachers and exhorters, who are employed as supplies Miss Fincham, now in charge of the girls' school at Loftcha, and a native Bible

lot, as it might long remain unoccupied, and his aim is to secure a permanent place of worship for Methodists. That Methodism has raised up in Tirnova one man with such a spirit is the earnest of a hopeful work. With mosques for the Turks, and great edifices for the orthodox (nationa!) masses, are there not good reasons "Brothers Challis and Lounsbury were to expect that even Methodist missiona

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ries cannot succeed in gathering congregations in upper rooms in obscure locations? When a layman is raised up, such as the one just named, is it not a call to the Church to go forward by promptly cooperating with him?"

"Selvi is the Turkish, Seblivi the Bulgarian, name of a town nine hours west of Tirnova. Here Gabriel Elieff had been pastor a dozen years, and the membership is less in number than the years of his service. He is the oldest native preacher, a good man, but immovable from the belief which has prevailed-that our work must be conducted in a private way. The services have been held in rooms in his home, shut in by a high wall-a light under a bushel. A few persons partook of the Lord's Supper, with which I closed the evening service. Brother Economoff, trained in America, is pastor here now, and we may hope for progress."

"Loftcha, called Lovitch by the Bulgarians, is nearly west from Selvi, and reckoned nine hours distant. Here Brother Challis secured property and established the school now belonging to, and maintained by, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The property could hardly have a better location, and the school is doing a splendid work. The parsonage, a good building, is on a lot adjoining the school property. The study hall is granted for the public services of the church. The Mission has a lot large enough for a church and a parsonage on the opposite side of the street. The school needs, and it is to be hoped may soon have, the present parsonage property. The results of the school are among the hopeful features of the work in Bulgaria.

The Floods of China.

BY REV. FREDERICK BROWN.

The Rev. Chen-ta-Yung, of our North China Mission, while preaching the other day, said, in reference to the floods we had last year:

"Have you ever asked yourself the question, Why did the floods come and wash all our houses and crops away? Why was such a calamity allowed to come upon us? I have an opinion that for several years some of you have neither rested yourselves, nor allowed the land to rest on the Sabbath; you think it waste to let the land alone for one day in seven. And so the Lord sent the rain, and forced you to submit; your farming had to be laid aside, and a whole year you were obliged to keep as a Sabbath.

Sooner or later the Lord, the ruler of all, will have his will done on earth even as in heaven."

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OUR MISSIONARIES AND MISSIONS.

Our Missionaries and Missions.

month.

Rev. J. R. Hykes returns to China next The address of Mrs. Julius Soper, of the Japan Mission, is Carlisle, Pa.

H. L. Canright, M.D., and wife leave for China this month to re-enforce the West China Mission.

sionary selects the best one he can find among the new converts, and gives him, if not a salary, at least a subsidy, to enable him to devote part of each day to teaching the converts, and especially the children.

Rev. D. Davis Moore, of the Malaysia India costs very much more, but a wide Mission, writes from Penang: "At the late | field had been found among low-caste Conference in Singapore Brother Hedley people in some parts of Northern and Balderstone and I were appointed to open Central India, and the necessities of the a new mission in this city, which has a case had led the missionaries to adopt a population of about 120,000, composed very inexpensive course of procedure. Not chiefly of Chinese, Malays, and East having enough trained helpers to put in Dr. W. H. Curtiss and Rev. W. C. Indians or Klings. The European pop-charge, it frequently happens that the misLongden return to China this month. ulation is very small. Life at Penang is about the same as at Singapore, only that the population is much more dense, the heat is greater by a few degrees, and the atmosphere more dry. We have opened an Anglo-Chinese school in the heart of the Chinese quarters of the city, more than a mile from the dwellings of white heathen life and baseness. men, all around being a great babel of But we are regarded with respect and are perfectly safe. Indeed, for the most part our visits are cordially received. The prospect of success is encouraging. The Resident has promised his support with government aid in the shape of land and grant. My address will now be Wesleyan Chaplain, Penang, Straits Settlements, East Indies."

The address of Rev. F. L. Neeld, of the North India Conference, is changed to Madison, N. J.

The address of Rev. N. J. Plumb, of the Foochow Mission, is 120 Dwight Street, New Haven, Conn.

Dr. E. W. Parker announces that Rev. Enoch Joel, of Gonda, India, has withdrawn from the Methodist Episcopal Church under complaint.

Rev. H. H. Lowry writes from North China that the Annual Meeting of the Mission was a great success and that the membership had doubled in three years.

Miss Watson will leave for Japan, and Miss Ogborn for Kiukiang, China, on October 8 from San Francisco. They will re-enforce the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

The Switzerland Conference, that met in Zurich, beginning June 11, was one of unusual interest. The congregations on Conference Sunday were very large, and the sermon of Bishop Walden greatly

blessed the hearers.

Bishop Taylor writes from Africa that he has now in Angola five self-supporting mission stations. One of them, Quionqua, is new. He proposes to double the central stations in Angola, and quadruple the number of workers.

The Moody "Missions " in India.

BY BISHOP J. M. THOBURN, D.D.

on

The teaching is of the most elementary character. In the absence of books the children are often taught to read and write by sprinkling sand on the hard ground and writing in it with the fingers. The teachers thus employed are frequently called "pastor-teachers." A large num ber of such have been put to work since this movement began, and as a part of the impulse which was given to this kind of work by Mr. Moody's generous appeal it may be mentioned that no less than twenty-five men are now working in this simple way who have been baptized since the beginning of the present year.

While attending the conference of The results, as far as they can be tabuChristian students at Northfield last July lated at the present time, show that Mr. I chanced to say, in a pubiic address on Moody's appeal has resulted in a large mission work in India, that for the sum measure of very solid success, for which all friends of missions ought to feel deof $30 a mission could be started a very simple basis, and maintained for voutly thankful. The collection was made a year with the almost certain result of during the first week of July, 1890. The planting Christianity in a new place in news of the meeting at Northfield and of that needy land. The statement was the great collection did not reach India made merely to illustrate the simple life until August, and some weeks elapsed of the people and the very simple method before the first little beginning was made. of labor which has been introduced among Even up to the first of the present year them, and with no thought of soliciting not more than one half of the projected funds for the work. Very unexpectedly, schools had been taken in hand, and yet, however, Mr. Moody made an appeal to counting from September, 1890, to April the audience, which was responded to in 30, 1891, we find that 1,465 persons have a way which those present will never for- been baptized in connection with these get. In a few minutes the support of one new missions, while 2,032 children are hundred such missions was pledged, and enrolled in the schools which have been pledged not only cheerfully, but with deep established. In addition to these it must and irrepressible enthusiasm. This noble not be forgotten that the missionaries on contribution to the great cause of Chris- the spot estimate that at least 6,000 who tian missions attracted wide attention are nominally heathen are now more or both in America and in many foreign less under the influence of these new fields. Some of the money was paid on missions, and that large numbers of these the spot, while other contributions came will undoubtedly be gathered into the ChrisRev. H. Olin Cady writes from Chung-in later. Owing to the unavoidable delay tian fold before the close of another year. king, West China, that he has received in collecting the money pledged the proseventeen persons on probation this Conference year. One of the number comes from a place 150 miles distant and is a literary man, having taken the first degree. Brother Cady was to leave in June for Chentu, to open work there in that the largest city in western China. His address is Chentu, via Chungking, China,

The mission work in Korea is full of promise. Our Mission has now Christian teaching and preaching at nine different points-four inside the city walls of Seoul, and five outside in the country Through the hospitals and dispensaries successful evangelistic work is being done. In 1890 there were fifteen received on probation, and five into full connection in the Church.

posed new work was taken in hand some-
what slowly, and up to the present day
only ninety such little missions have been
opened.

A powerful stimulus was also given to our work throughout a large section of North and Central India when it became known that these little village missions were being opened, and it is perhaps sale It may be well to explain here just to say that as many more converts have what is meant by the kind of missions for been gathered in other places through which the money was pledged. Ordi- the indirect influence of this special work narily a mission station or a sub-station in as are reported in the above statement.