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MISSION LIFE
GARET W. LEITCH
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Stories of Mission Lif
BY
MARY AND MARGARET W. LET
FOR ELEVEN WEARS MSSIONARES OF THE AMERICAN
coMMissionirs For For EIGN MISSIONS
WITH P0RTRAITS ANO MANY ILLUSTRATIO
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HAVE CHEERED AND SUSTAINED US
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AR BROTHERS,
\ILING KINDNESS,
IN ALL WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DO
REIGN FELD,
Oeoicate this book.
HT, 189o. ACT SOCIETY

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Introöuctio1
IND friends ha why, at the which we have Jaffna College Mission about it, we have no which we our years which w
Our reply Britain with th this College meetings has the claims oft
- But while we had a compilation of some of the times, giving our actual every-day friends.
Them again young ladies have ofte your own labours in Ceylon, and j foreign field.” We have often felt ar into the bright, intelligent faces of that they might know more fully ab day for giving the Gospel to their si Christ is calling to the consecrated C
 
 

ve often asked us many meetings
addressed in behalf of the work of the 2 in Ceylon, and the General Medical to be inaugurated in connection with ot told inore about the specific work in 'selves were engaged during the seven e spent in Ceylon as missionaries. has been that, as we came to Great he special object of securing A3OOOO for and Medical Mission, the time at our
usually been consumed in presenting hese special causes. his was so, we have often wished that
letters written from Ceylon at different
experiences, to present to such kind
n said to us, “Now please tell us about ust what work we women can do in the
unspeakable longing, as we have looked the young ladies of this favoured land, but the great opportunities of the present sters in heathendom. We believe that hristian young women of to day, as He

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vi Introa
has perhaps never called before, for the ointment on His feet, in this work of g heathen darkness.
Love will count no gift too precic Christ say to each one of us to-day as “ Feed My sheep.”
And He says again, “ Other sheep IV , ALSO I MUST BRING, and they shall fold and one Shepherd.”
There are many of His poor, lost, wa of heathenism, and they have never he heavenly fold. Constrained by love, sh lost ones with the prayer in their hear for them 'f
MARY
 

uction.
breaking of alabaster boxes of precious iving His message to those who are in
sus, no service too great. Does not He said to Peter, “Lovest thou Me?'
have which are mot of this fold; THEM hear My coice, and there shall be one
andering sheep on the dark mountains ard of the good Shepherd or of the all not His disciples go out after these ts, “Let my WHOLE LIFE be a SEARCH
AND MARGARET W. LEITCH.

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VII. H VIII. MUTT:
IX. THE S X. LITTL XII. SECON HE.
A BRIEF VISIT To
ཚ XIII. A CONTRAST .
XIV. THIRD YEAR's Ex
FESTIVAL XV. LETTER FROM A CHRISTMAS.
XVI. THE WEEK OF PRAYER XVII. PROTECTION IN TIME oF DA XVIII. A CHRISTIAN WEDDING
XIX. PERSECUTION AND DELIVERA
 
 
 
 

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CHAPTER
I. ARRIVAL AND FIRST IMPRES
SIONS IN CEYLON . II. REVIVAL MEETINGS p III. Two LITTLE PARIAHs IV. FIRST YEAR’S REVIEW V. A VISIT TO A HEATHEN SCHOOL . WI. A GREAT HEATHEN
FESTIVAL .
oPEFUL SIGNS . NA HUCHAKDY'S MONEY-Box . d 8. SvITE PREACHER o
E THANKAM 0. O D YEAR's EXPERIENCE AT THE GREAT ATHEN FESTIVAL
THE PULNEY HILLS .
PERIENCE AT THE GREAT HEATHEN
TREE s
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ΧΧ. XXI. XXII. XXIII. ΧΧΙV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII.
XXIX. XXX. xxxI. XXXII. XXXIII.
Table of C
A BRIEF VISIT To NEWERA EL ITINERATING ON THE ISLANDS GNANAM UTTHU . o YoUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY OF C PRECIOUS PEARL . A. MEENATCHIE, THE ISLAND GIR) THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC, A GREA FAREWELL ADDRESS FROM THE MISS ELIZA AGNEW; OR ONE
FIELD . ToPSY AND THE FAKIR WoMAN DASAMMAH, THE LITTLE HEROI) JAFFNA CoLLEGE . o MEDICAL, MISSION AGENCY APPENDIX ; MARIA PEABODY .
 

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FoE OF MISSIONS .
NATIVE CHRISTIANS, AND LYRIC . WoMAN's WoRK IN THE FOREIGN
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COLOMA
SEVEN VEARS
CHAPT
ARRIVAL AND FIRST IMP
E arrived here safely from Colombc of Jaffna we saw several handker had come to meet us, and the wo water. We had supposed we morning to this we have felt that we were at were waiting to take us to the mission-house a the present. It seemed strange to be seated attached; but we saw our mistake when six st
今
 
 

8O.
IN CEYLON.
R I.
RESSIONS IN CEYLON.
Udupitty, Jaffna, Ceylon, Aeb. 6th, 188o. on Jan. 14th. As we neared the shore chiefs waved at us by missionaries who rds “Welcome home !" came over the were among strangers, but from that home with our friends. The bandies : Udupitty, which is to be our home for in a carriage before the horse had been out coolies (native runners) laid hold of

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2 An Ode of
the thills of the bandy and started off at a ra the way. They passed over the sixteen mile little over two and a half hours, preferring t be relieved by another set of coolies, becaus new missionaries home themselves.
When we were within a mile of the stat herald our arrival. As we reached the miss station boys' school on one side and the st: their best clothes, and the missionaries on th veranda entrance-door and sitting-room hac with festoons and wreaths of flowers, in ho and others were waiting to speak to us, and, Udupitty Boarding-School, twenty-five in nur lyric of welcome. Both words and tune w. very sweetly. We were deeply touched by I translate the lyric here,
“May the They ha To show
pou In their
That th
exр And all The Sol Come, li
Praise t A safe a hur Come, l
TAM IL GIRLS,
 

VVelcone.
ttling pace, which they kept up nearly all s between Jaffna town and Udupitty in a ) go all the way themselves rather than e they wanted, as they said, to take the
ion, one of the coolies was despatched to on premises we found the children of the ution girls' school on the other, dressed in he veranda steps ready to greet us. The l been adorned by the native Christians nour of our coming. The native pastor in true Oriental fashion, the girls of the mber, with their teachers, had prepared a ere original with them, and they sang it his so unexpected and kind a reception.
CHORUS. “ Come, let us sing—welcome !
Let us sing rejoicingly-joy ! hurrah !”
SUB-CHORUS. 'Ye united members of the church, The girls of the boarding-school, Come,' etc.
WERSES. new missionaries prosper. .ve come, with warm attachment,
the heavenly way to the multitudes of people, by trìng
ears the honey of the teachings of the Gospel. ! hurrah ! et us sing-welcome, etc.
le knowledge may increase and the darkness be elled,
sing hallelujah to the almighty Father, n, and the Holy Ghost. Joy! hurrah ! et us sing-welcome, etc.
he Lord for ever for the mercy of giving them (rrival in Jaffna, passing over a long voyage. Joy rah !
et us sing-welcome,” etc.

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First Sabba,
The second day after our arrival the an at Udupitty. This gave us an opportunity Among them were the Rev. and Mrs. W. grown old in this work. They have been Elisabeth, who walked in all the command There was also present Miss Eliza Agnew forty years without going home, and whi magnitude of the work carried on here one report after another, reviewing the lal training of native catechists and teache communicants, the house visitations, te wonder, and could only praise the Lorc were to be fellow-workers with such a bar
We are hard at work upon the langu regular lesson in the grammar and reade and hymns. We can sing already, “ Cc parts of other hymns in Tamil. We thi sufficient correctness to be able to join in
THE HYMN “CoME TO JESUs,” IN TAMIL,
யேசுவைச் சேர்.
1. யேசுவைச் சேர்-இன்றே.
2. மீட்பார் உன்னை-இன்றே.
3. அன்பு கூர்வார்-இன்றே.
4. நம்பி வாறேன்-இன்றே.
5. அல்லேலூயா -ஆமென்.
The first Sabbath we were here, M infant Sunday-school class. They come round me on a large mat, and look up w I am beginning to love them very muc
ten years of age. Perhaps some people and say something about beauty unador

Wh in Udupitty. 3
ual business meeting of the mission was held to meet the other missionaries in the field. W. Howland, who came out in I 846 and have called by some here a second Zacharias and ments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. , the veteran missionary, who has been here ) is a model of energy and decision. The far exceeds our expectations. As we heard pours of the year, the schools supervised, the rs, the village work, the baptisms, and the nt meetings, etc., etc., we were filled with i and take courage, thanking Him that we ld of noble men and women. lage, with a native Munshee. Besides our , we are learning some portions of Scripture ome to Jesus,” “The Sweet By-and-By,' and nk in a week or two we shall pronounce with
the congregational singing.
SOUND OF THE TAMIL WORDS
IN ENGLISH.
Yea-su-vayt chare.
1. Yea-su-vayt chare-eun-day.
2. Meurd-pār une-ney-eun-day.
3. An-pukoor-var-eun-day.
4. Num-pe val-rane-eun-day.
5. Al-le-lu-iah -ā-men.
rs. Howland gave me the care of the from the chapel to my veranda, and all sit ith such bright, intelligent faces, that already h. They number sixty little girls, all under : would laugh at me for calling them pretty, ned; but though many of them wear only a

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4 Tert M
single garment, yet their eager faces and many deficiencies.
About forty native children come upon talk to them, through an interpreter, and te: and I have gone out several times into t natives seem glad to see us, and ready believe in idols, and would become Christi. and be persecuted by all their friends.
The missionaries of this station, the Rev. end, go out often in the morning and in in the different villages. They have mothe well attended by the heathen women. Son several days at a time in one place, and th
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girl sitting right down on the mats by the : and one or two of the high-caste girls of th caste children around them. They talked missionary lady changed the order of exer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

eetings.
attractive quiet ways make up for a good
my veranda every asternoon to sew, and I ch them Bible verses. My brother, sister, he villages with the native helpers. The o listen. Some of them say they do not ins if it were not that they would lose caste,
and Mrs. S. W. Howland and Miss Townsthe cool of the evening to hold meetings 's' meetings at the mission-house, which are etimes they go out with the tent, remaining us gain access to those who could not be
reached in any other way. ul- A few days ago they had
OR the tent pitched at Thande38 N ᏳᎪL mannar. In the afternoon
the girls of this boarding school went down in a body to sing, as the natives are very fond of music, and can often be moved by Christian songs. After they had sung several hymns, as ther were a large number of heathen women and children present, Mrs. Howland suggested that each girl should take one or two women and talk with them for a little while. They received and acted upon the suggestion most beautifully, each ide of the one she was going to talk with, e school gathering some of the little fishervery earnestly, and when, after a time, the :ises, they came to her, one after another,

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with such glo such a pleasa amma ! the wı pray to-night; home Won' women '
A few days spending a di visiting the bc a lyric for us. all much plea buildings are i to be laid on examination a It was a most were in Engli knew concerni history, had been learned and must be re. credit to their instructors.
I should like to tell you of the comm Boarding-school, and of the monthly missionaries from the Wesleyan and Chur but I am writing too long a letter.
This is harvest-time, and the fields are done by hand, the grain carried home or or trodden out by cattle. I am glad tha be received now, after the rainy season, looks fruitful and inviting.
1 close with the following letter of gre soon after our arrival at Jaffna :-
MY DEAR MISSIONARY SISTERS:-With give you Eliezer's welcome, -“Come in,
For two years past have we sent the M Though I was so anxious for two, yet m in the anticipation that more than one wo
I do rejoice that our heavenly Father
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A Day at Oodooville. 5
wing faces, saying, “ Oh, amma ! I did have ut time with the little children !” or, “ Oh, man I was talking with promised to begin to and oh! won't we pray for her when we get we all meet together and pray for these
after our arrival we had the pleasure of y at Oodooville, seeing Miss Agnew and arding-school. Here also they had prepared
We listened to five recitations, and we were sed with the appearance of the school. New n process of erection, and the corner-stone is February I oth. We also attended the annual hd commencement exercises of Jaffna College.
interesting occasion. All the examinations sh, and considering that whatever the boys ng the sciences, mathematics, philosophy and peated in a foreign tongue, the boys did great
hencement exercises of the Udupitty Girls' missionary meeting, where we met all the ch Missionary Societies as well as our own,
full of reapers and gleamers. The work is all the heads of men and women, and threshed tour first impressions of the country should when the island is covered with verdure, and
sting from Miss Agnew, which was given us
a warm heart and inexpressible delight do I hou blessed of the Lord.” (acedonian cry, “Come over and help us.' r stinted faith would not allow me to revel uld be added to our mission circle. has sent you to this Eden of the East, and

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that you are allied in the ties of nature counsel you. This society may prevent corner of your hearts. Every day prayer w on the sea and on the land.
You are coming to a goodly country, “w to fear. Your necessary weapons will be in your hearts and upon your lips, and t Fear not: let timidity have no place: pre: anguage of the chief apostle to the Gentile thraugh Christ which strengtheneth me.” inscribe upon his breastplate, “Look untc disciples of John the Baptist, who, after blood-bought mercy-seat will appear to you in a Christian land. Deprived of so man inclined to enter the holy of holies, where
I hope that you are as highly favoured a in the house of the Lord. And though yi cymbal, or make melody on the harp, I enhance the sweetness of our music whene I know of no other individual in any mis station forty years. In relation to my work I am weary, weary, Weary, and need, as Jes
{ V {ణ్ణి አነ
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f Greetang.
, and that you have a brother to aid and loneliness from usurping even a small as offered for your safety while journeying
here every prospect pleases '-no Anakims he living coals from the altar of the Lord he sword of the Spirit in your right hands. ss forward; and in the spirit and with the :s, say, in strong faith, “I can do all things Necessity is laid upon every missionary to Jesus,” and to follow the example of the the burial, “went and told Jesus.” The 1 a more precious place in a heathen than y of your spiritual aids, you will be more Jesus answers prayer. s Heman's three daughters, who could sing Ou may not understand how to strike the trust you can handle the organ, and thus ver we frequent the gates of Zion. ision who has, like myself, remained at one (, in spirit I know no change, but physically sus did, to “turn aside and rest awhile.”
Yours, affectionately,
ELIZA AGNEW

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A CUMP OF
CHAPT
REVIVAL M
E lefthome lastweek, Tuesday, sta the Rev. and Mrs. T. S. Smith's ten miles-in time for breakfast.
Can you imagine our ride that r and invigorating. Our way lay through seve kept, and here and there shaded by beautifu
 
 

BAMBOOS
ER II.
EETINGS.
Udupitty, April 7th, 88o. rting out in the early morning, and reached , of Tillipally-having gone a distance of
morning? The misty morning air was cool ral villages. The road was level and well ll clumps of bamboo, or by banyan, olive

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8 Suffering Persecut
mango, margosa and other trees. The bi jack trees were laden with hanging fruit: climbing a smooth, tall palmyra palm. W flew over the ground, needing no word fro go so fast. It is their pride to go fast, and eacf other for going so slowly. When their rice and curry, and then lie dow) some tree, until we are ready to go on aga and listen.
From Tillipally we went to Oodooville. on Wednesday evening. Those who kne never been inside a church before. There sent in. They were given, in some instan faces, so much in earnest were they that One man arose, his voice choked with been convinced of the truth of Christial become a Christian that day. One after a than we his circumstances and the trials to he belongs to quite a good family, and his he reached home the word had gore bef his wife and family shut the door upon hir to sleep out of doors, and prepare his own at him, or refuse to notice him at all. W and that his younger son has joined hir The elder son sides with the mother.
I notice by the American papers that du subject of prayer; so that while we were were bearing us up in their hearts before petitions were answered, for it was the opi Spirit of God was wonderfully manifested. a distance of sixteen or eighteen miles, a people to hold special meetings among present, who were helping to erect the n men, from seven in the morning till six at morning prayer-meeting, and went quietly seven in the evening and staying till nine listened eagerly while she talked and pray

ion for Christ's sake.
rds were singing merrily; the cocoanut and ; and here and there a man might be seen a studied Tamil all the way, while our coolies m us except now and then a request not to they laugh and joke on the way, chaffing we reach our destination they usually eat n on the ground to sleep in the shade of in. If we hold a meeting, they come in
The special revival meetings commenced w the people said that many came who had were quite a number of requests for prayer ces, by people with tears running down their their friends might be brought to Christ. emotion, and intimated that he had long nity, and asked our prayers that he might nother prayed for him, as they knew better which he would be exposed. It seems that ; wife has a considerable property. Before re him that he had a ked for prayers, and m, and drove him from the house. He has food, while his friends either scoff and jeer e have just heard that he is standing firm, in and wishes also to become a Christian.
iring the month of March Jaffna was made a holding these meetings the people at home God. I have not the least doubt that those nion of all the missionaries present that the
Native ministers and workers came from nd they said they were going back to their them. There were many working-women ew school-building. They work as hard as night. But they attended the half-past six 7 out to work at seven, coming in again at ; then they went into my suster’s room, and ed with them. Nearly all expressed a desire

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An Aged Convert's Prayer.
to become Christians, and some said they had begun to pray for themselves. They were so much in earnest that they did not seem to know that they were tired, and showed no inclination to leave, until my sister, quite worn out with the labours of the daysinging, playing on the organ, etc.-would tell them they might go.
Some of the women of a higher caste came into my room and prayed for one and another of their friends. Two came who had just decided to become Christians. One asked us to pray for her two daughters. “Oh!” she said, wringing her hands, “I have given them to heathen husbands, and if they are lost it will be my own work!' We tried to tell her that if she would strive for them, and pray N in faith, God would hear her prayer. One woman prayed very earnestly She said she oved Jesus Christ with her if she came out openly as a Christian her old to earn her own living. What would sh starvation. We could only pray that the see how these people listen; how they l earnestly they pray. They seem hungry f Lord says, “They need not depart; give y ready to take the bread and give it to the p other all will soon be fed.
My sister and I had a meeting with the who were Christians coming to my room, an
 

EST oF THE TREE TERMITE (7ermes arborum).
that the Lord would make her duty plain. whole heart, and wanted to serve Him, but friends would discard her, and she was too 1e do in her old age? She would die of Lord would guide her. I wish you could ean forward to catch every word; how or the Bread of Life, and I am sure the e them to eat.” When His disciples are 2Ople, and they are ready to give it to each
boarding-school girls at Oodooville, those ld those who were not to my sister's. The

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O Voung Men deci
Christian girls promised me that they would girls and pray specially for them till they b told my sister, with tears in their eyes, th: day; they were sorry to see the meetings cl I have just received word from the Rev. the training-school, who attended the met and three from the Chunnargam boys' sch those who have been educated in missio but are kept back by their heathen wives extremely bigoted. They tell their husbanc throw themselves into the well; and they their young children to the temple and teac their faces with ashes. All this shows th boarding-schools.
The people seemed to be more and more hope to have another series of special meet
 

ding for Christ.
each take one or two of the non-Christian ecame Christians. Those who were not at they wanted to become Christians that
DS6.
Mr. Smith that four of the young men of tings, have decided to become Christians, hool. It is said that many men, especially h schools, would gladly become Christians, . These women, when not educated, are ls that, if they become Christians, they will mean what they say. These mothers take h them to bow before the idol, and smear 1e importance of the education of girls in
interested in the meetings each day. We ings before long.

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children c
Was attra
Or Sneezur which I h
These America
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PARIAH CHITLDREN AT PLAY.
 

CHAPTER III.
Two LITTLE PARIAHS.
Udupitty, 7une ist, 188o
OR several days, as I sat studying by my window, I noticed two bright little faces peering at me through the hedge. The new Ammas with their white skin and European a great curiosity to the little brown-skinned of this country. Some days after, my attention cted by a little coughing near my window. he way the Tamil people knock. When they all upon us or among themselves, instead of at the door as we would do, they stand outside a little noise, scraping with their feet, coughing, g. Looking up I saw the same two little faces ad noticed before through the hedge. two little boys were not dressed like children in or England, but, like all little children here, a strip of cloth about their loins. Their hair, generally allowed to grow long, was done up in in the left side of the head over the left ear.

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2 Сиst
But their little graceful bodies, and their brigh peculiarities of colour or dress.
“ Amma ! Amma !” they said when I ha reading at the boys' school.” “Well,” I said, about this ?” “ We cannot, we do not dare go into the yard, we are Pariahs,’” they said, as a pained look came into their eyes -a look sadly out of place in such young faces.
The system of caste runs through the whole fabric of society here. In each caste the descendants must follow the occupation of their parents. If a man is a carpenter, for example, his sons must all become carpenters, and his daughters must marry carpenters. The different castes have no opportunity to rise, but are doomed to remain in the condition in which they are born. They do not intermarry, do not mingle together socially, do not eat together, but are essentially different communities of people.
There is the highest, or Brahmin caste, who are priests-thick, fat fellows, who never do any work; then the farmers, their servants, carpenters, blacksmiths, goldsmiths and their washers; and next the treeclimbers and their washermen; and lastly the weavers, drum-beaters and their washern each are heartily despised by the caste abc upon the caste below them. Even the dru to do their washing. It was to this, the “ stood by my window said they belonged. A this caste of people were never allowed to then they were obliged to drag a large br higher caste walking in the street might h they had passed; for to touch, speak to, o was considered a pollution.

t, eager faces, soon made one forget any
i called them to me, “we want to study 'why do you not speak with the teacher
~.
rease حس ہست۔ ۔ محمحتھی۔ -حس ،
re as “ܥ ہ
ܚܝܒ ܐ- 7 ” ·ܕ݂ܢ
A CARPENTER
en. Each keep to their own work, and ve them, and in the same way look down n-beaters' castes have a caste under them Pariah Caste," these two little boys who :entury ago, in the darker days of Ceylon, eave their houses except in the night, and inch behind them, so that any one of a 2ar and call upon them to turn aside until even look at a person of this low caste

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A Scandy Wa
What a disgrace to put upon a human being the religion of Siva which upholds and fosters: the Pariahs have liberty to go and come as t scorned and oppressed.
They have some queer customs. Often pool In order to wash this they ask the washerma does not refuse, to lend them the cloth of sc person which he has taken to wash, while he washes theirs; thus it is not an uncommon thir to see his cloth, which he has sent to be was on the person of a stranger. The washerman stands knee-deep in water and bleaches the garments by knocking them over the stones, swinging them over his head as a thresher does his flail; to dry them he spreads them by the road-side on the hot sand, and places a few stones on the corners to keep them from blowing away. He is rarely paid in money, but is generally given the leavings of table food and a little rice and curry stuffs,
We told the two little boys, whose names we learned were Kassappu and Kadpeyal, that if they would come the following day, with their bodies bathed and their hair nicely combed, we would go with them our
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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made in the image of God! Shame on such wickedness. Under English rule hey please; but they are everywhere
r tree-climbers own only a single cloth. n, and he me other takes and ng for one hed, worn
WASHERMEN

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I4 Breaking dow,
selves to the school. The first thing wh early the next morning was the two little the school, but could hardly induce the with fear as they stood in the presence of effort, the missionaries have succeeded in i castes to study together in the schools, tl boys sometimes bringing little mats with th tottering dignity. The teacher, a Christi do his best for the little boys. We pas thatched roof, where the higher standard. the middle standards were reciting, and c sat twenty or more little boys busily engag. in the sand.
I motioned Kassappu and Kadpeyal quick as lightning, these twenty little nal as if they had been poisoned, crying, “ Cha boy a vicious pinch, and another actually sp and six years old could imbibe and cherish The two little boys sat that day in a cor day brought word that the whole school w; agar or head man of the village had sent would not allow his child to come. I dec woulti for the present teach the boys my a great surprise to me. The upper ca. will do our washing?'-the old spirit of sl in our own land.
The little boys came to our veranda each the 247 letters of the Tamil alphabet with things outside of their books, among otl you.” One day we showed them a pictu before in all their lives, poor things, bu and trees and animals in the pictures, seen their delight, and have heard their sl and a dog.
One day, while they were with us, a cla: in English my sister had kindly offered to ti saw these two poor little washer-boys they

Caste Barriers.
ich I saw on looking out of my window boys watching for me. I went with them to little fellows to enter; they fairly trembled higher caste boys. After years of persistent inducing the children of a large number of hough it is amusing to see the highest caste nem on which to sit, and so preserve their an native, willingly promised to receive and ised through the school bungalow with its s were studying, through the veranda where ame into the yard, where, under the trees, 2d writing out their lessons with little sticks
to sit down with the others, when lo ! as ked morsels of society scattered on all sides Cha” while one gave the youngest little at at them. How strange that children five
such bitter prejudices !
ner of the yard by themselves, but the next as threatening to leave, and even the Maniword that, if these low-caste boys came, he ided that rather than break up the school I self. This storm of public sentiment was ste said, “If this caste be educated, who avery which has only lately been wiped out
day for a lesson, and learned well, mastering
surprising quickness. They learned many hers to say “Good morning,” and “Thank re-book. They had never seen a picture t when I pointed out to them the children they caught at the idea. You should have hout when they themselves discovered a cat
is of fourteen large boys, whose Bible lesson ach through the term, came in. When they fairly glared at them. Sister said, “Why do

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Our Littl
you look so angry p” They answered, “ They are low caste. If we should take up not the custom of the country to show the for every kind of evil practice. “It is t went up to the little boys, and putting her made this little boy as well as you. He you. Jesus Christ died to save him and judgment. God says. He hates pride, and for whom Jesus Christ died, you sin agains The next day the school boys did not co had disgraced herself by touching these to be taught by such a person. We saic coming too well to deprive themselves of the following morning with a shamefaced li
Kassappu and Kadpeyal continue to funniest, most affectionate little boys I eve too; for finding themselves well received, in the sunshine, they came bringing three they insist, with all earnestness, must also l What a shame that all their caste, from be shut out from social privileges, and and despised, with no bright future befor view for the life to come, according to Hinc an insect or a snake
In contrast with all this how should we ti Son, a Saviour to the poor and the lost three hundred Christian natives sitting dov table of our Lord, gave proof of what the will do yet more abundantly in this land.
As sure as God's word is true, so surely earth shall be filled with the knowledge oftl
 

AParža/s. I5
Those boys have no right to come here. a little stick they would run from us. It is m any attention.” That is the excuse here he custom of the country, ma'am.” Sister hand on the head of the older, said, 'God gave to him an immortal soul as well as to you. You will both stand together in the if you are proud and despise this little boy t God.' me, and the reason given was that my sister boys of a low caste, and they did not wish l nothing, knowing that the class enjoyed it long. And we were right. They came ook.
come to us, and are just the brightest, saw. They are philanthropic little fellows and expanding under kindness like flowers other little boys and two little girls, who earn to read.
no fault of their own, should practically condemned to be always poor, ignorant, e them in this life, and with no prospect in luism, but to live again on earth, perhaps as
hank God for giving to the world His dear The sight which I saw a few days ago, of in without regard to caste at the common Gospel has done, and a promise of what it
" may we rely on the promise, “The whole he glory of God.”

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MIAN EPY MISSON HOUSE AND PUP
CHAPTIT
FIRST YEAR
RIME has flown so swiftly of late A three months since we left A Jaffna, and ten weeks since w the busiest, and I think, all th life. I can truly say that I have never f Ceylon, but have telt thankful to God for missionaries in this land.
As you may know, there are over 3oo.c among them are two families under the English Wesleyan Mission, and five under 3o,ooo people to each missionary family. such a charge?
Manepy is one of the smaller stations, about 1o,ooo people.' There are two Ch the other at Navaly-numbering togethe There is one pastor, and another to be o
A short time after this the station of P.
 
 
 
 
 

"ILS FROXI THE STATION SCIIOOLS.
ER IV
’S RIEVIEw.
Manepy, December 16th, 188o.
that I cannot realize that it is a year and merica, nearly a year since we landed in e came to Manepy. This year has been ings considered, the happiest year of my or one moment regretted my coming to permitting me to be a co-labourer with the
boo people in North Ceylon. Labouring English Church Mission, two under the our own; which allows an average of over What would any pastor at home think of
and we have within its boundaries only ristian churches - one here at the station, r one hundred and four communicants. rdained very soon. As helpers, there are
anditerippu also was given into our care.

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VVozok at
two catechists and two Bible-women. Th in the villages, hold cottage meetings and tent-meetings. The church-members, as have surprised us by their willingness to co tions. As far as I have means of knowing they are truly God's children, really chang work would not have been a failure here ha these men and women.
We have within the Manepy district eigh and an average attendance of eight hun organized during the last two months, and a station Sabbath-school has increased from 1 thirty-five, and will, I hope, number three hu look in upon us with our eighteen teache national Lesson Leaves,' and Sankey's board, you would forget for the momen land.
There are in the Manepy district ten day grants, but under the direction of a E Christians and missionaries. In these scho whom are Christians. This is an important The teachers, both Christian and heathen, the schools once a week and devote an ho We sold several hundred copies of the Gosp scripture to be learned and a portion to be the teachers in teaching the lesson every da mapped out the schools for our weekly rour The plan has succeeded thus far beyon have entered heartily into it, for they fee encouragement to the schools and an honol aries esteemed throughout Jaffna. The mo all lay aside their books, and when we en seats have been already arranged, and we ti different lessons of the week, which have be we had reason to complain. We try to n surely, we hope to win our way into the con friends. The aim of all our efforts is to wi
al wo

Alfamepy. 17
ese do much faithful house-to-house work Sabbath services, and assist in our large a whole, are active and earnest. They operate with us and act upon our suggesthem personally, I am led to think that ed by the Holy Spirit. The missionary d it done nothing more than save and bless
t Sabbath-schools, with thirty-four teachers, ired scholars. Three of these have been ill have increased in their attendance. The not quite one hundred to two hundred and ndred before New Year's Day. If you could rs and classes nicely graded, our “ Interhymns in Tamil, our organ and blackt, I think, that you were in a heathen
-schools, supported mainly by Government Board of Education, conposed of native bols are thirty-one teachers, the majority of : field, and we hope to make the most of it. were delighted with our proposition to visit ur in each to the study of a Bible lesson. el of Matthew in Tamil, selected a verse of read each day, secured the co-operation of y during the first hour in the morning, and rd of visits. i our highest expectations. The teachers l that our weekly visits will prove a real ir to themselves, so highly are the missionment we are seen approaching the school, ter they rise and give us salaams. The ake our different classes and go over the en so well prepared that only once have lake the lessons enjoyable, and slowly, but fidence of the children, and make them our n them to Jesus Christ.

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8 Young Men and ty
Sixteen young men are studying in a select heathen homes, they find, after having lived that their old faith is shaken, and their mir doubts we asked them to write out any point they would like to ask, and we promised on as far as we could. Since then the questions ness with which they lean forward and li they make in return, show that the difficu active.
I will give you a few specimens of their q is the cause of the existence of the different that the Christian religion is true?” “Wha rather than Mahomet and Buddha, was a re' penalty for our sins, why did He not suffer t the forbidden fruit in the garden, when Hek Jacob blessed instead of Esau ?” “Why place of temptation?” “What will becom ment?” “If the doctrine of transmigration deformed, if not for some former sin ?” etc.
Since they themselves ask these que tell them some truths from which they ca to stay in their minds until they are have had their cheerful assent, thus far, them perfect freedom of speech, and have e it was fully understood. Our hearts yearn opening manhood. Will you not pray with life?
We have a meeting for native Christian noons, which usually numbers fifty or sixty, repeat verses, and take turns in leading th lesson. Our great desire and hope for Mar take it up as her work to teach some three c This would be a permanent influence, reach by step, the heathen mothers might be led finally, to Jesus. The seclusive and exclusi caste distinctions and their strong prejudice plan; still, “with God all things are poss

heir. Difficultues.
school at the station. As they come from inder Christian influence for some time, lds are full of doubts. To meet these s that were troubling them, or questions each Monday afternoon to answer them, have poured in upon us, and the eagersten to our answers, and the remarks lties are real, and their minds alive and
(uestions: “What is religion?” “What ; religions?” “What are the evidences it are the external evidences that Christ, velation of God?” “If Christ paid the o all eternity?” “Why did God place new Adam would disobey?” “Why was did the angels fall from heaven-is it a e of the soul between death and the judgis not true, why are men born blind or
stions, we have an opportunity to innot get away, and which are destined
either answered or accepted. We to all we have said. We have allowed ndeavoured never to leave a point until over these sixteen young men in their us that they may truly find the light of
mothers and children on Tuesday after
The Christian women lead in prayer, he meeting and explaining the Scripture epy is, that every Christian woman may br four heathen women to read the Bible. ing out into the heathen homes, and, step to pray to God, to come to church, and, fe habits of Eastern women, together with s, make it very difficult to carry out this ible.” The women have already made a

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Our Coolies an
beginning, and twelve pupils were reported the Bible-women reach regularly.
In the moonlight evenings, through halfo are quite largely attended. We have a goo our coolies can put up in forty-five minutes, with the tent, organ, lamps, hymn-books, et almost any village. We have had from one gatherings.
The rainy season is upon us now, which through the muddy fields and lanes. The 1 always ready to take us anywhere and in a great comfort, and are useful in many way begun to learn to read, and are making go in the schools to see them sitting outside waiting. The three whom we employ reg Tamil, and their voices join with ours eve family prayers. They go to church and Sa may soon truly know our Saviour, and give friends to us now, and we are so accusto did at first, their dark skins, shaven heads, yard or two about the waist. They cannot of the heat and because it is not the custo rice and curry, which they cook themselves, 82.25 in American money per month for eac Our home in Manepy is a very pleasanto forty kinds of trees. Near the house we into a glory of scarlet blossoms; the cork-ti ing flowers, which cover the ground like sn with its acid fruit-pods. There are mahoga mango, jack, wood-apple, and many other shoot up the cocoa-nut and Palmyra palms, tufted heads.
Our house has three large and four small raised about four feet above the ground. floors are of the same, to prevent the inva glass windows; the other windows, as well which may be used at night to give security,

Our House. I9
at our last meeting, besides those whom
f the month, we have tent meetings, which l sized tent, received from Madras, which and take down in fifteen. If we go out c., we are sure to have a good audience in hundred and fifty to two hundred at these
makes it a little difficult to get about ice-fields are flooded, but our coolies are any weather. These coolies are really is besides drawing the bandy. They have od progress. It is interesting when we are , studying their books in the interval of ularly have learned the Lord's Prayer in ty morning as we repeat it at the close of bbath-school. It is our prayer that they their hearts to Him. They seem quite like med to them that we do not notice, as we , os the absence of all clothing except a be induced to wear more, both on account m among their caste. Their only food is Their whole expense amounts to about h. ne. The compound is large, and has over have the flambo, now just ready to burst 'ee, with its white clusters of sweet-smellow; and on the other side the tamarind, ny, olive, margosa, teak, iron-wood, ebony, kinds of trees in the yard. Above them with their magnificent tall trunks and great
rooms, all on the ground floor, which is The walls are of stone and mortar; the sion of white ants. We have only a few as the doors, are supplied with shutters, and a free access of air at the same time.

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2O 7/e Pleasanu
THE JACK TREE, SHOWING FRUIT.
seldom rises above 93, and rarely falls in
 

Rainy Season,
Our furniture is the plain, cane-bottomed kind; some of it brought from America, the rest made here by native carpenters, who imitate English patterns with great exactness. We have learned to like rice and curry, and nearly all the native fruits and products. Our dress for the whole year is of white material, plainly made. Our flower-garden in front of the house provides our table with fresh roses daily; and our vegetable garden contains over forty plantain-trees. There is nothing dreary about the rainy season; it seems to us the pleasantest part of the year. Everywhere the new grass is very green and fresh, and the sun shines out brightly after the heavy showers. The mercury stands at about 85 in the shade without much change. In the house in the hottest season the mercury the coolest season below 76°.

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SIHRNE OF TH
CHIAPT
A VISIT TO A
UDGING by what we can lear. who have been here longest, young is followed by the most
We visit our schools every children can now repeat the Lord's Prayer, part of the fifth and sixth chapters of M seventh. Some have committed to memc third Psalms. We take our little organ w Sankey hymns, and many Christian lyrics.
girls shall have grown to be men and wo become to them.
3*
 
 

E GOD PULLIAR.
TER V.
HEATHEN SCHOOL.
Manepy, March I Ith, I88.
1 from the experience of the missionaries it would seem that the work among the encouraging results.
veek, giving a Bible-lesson. Many of the the Ten Commandments, and the greater atthew : they are at present learning the ry the twenty-third and one-hundred-andith us, as they have learned many of the I rejoice to think, when these boys and men, how very precious these hymns will

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22 A Too Zea,
Our great desire is to get all these childre to enlist the teachers on our side. In one wished. Only last week we discovered th: the scholars every Monday morning to as day before, and if they had not, they wou an explanation, we were told that they ha those who had attended, and a bad one scholars were always at the foot of the clas thought they would try something else. O this might be in one direction, it utterly fa was to win the love and sympathy of the c would try to make the place so attractive
In one school, a private school not Santilipay, which is the strongest Sivite obtained a permit to teach. We visite permission, or rather with an invitation, f one of the teachers volunteered to accon knowing that we were coming, had determ of their school. When we entered three the fourth seemed more opposed to Ch listened for awhile to various recitations w
“Is English taught in this school?” “Why should we teach English p” he Sanscrit is the primitive language.”
“Don't you think there are many valua “The most valuable books are in English are not true. The works of the Sanscrit.”
“You are an educated man," we replie books in science-those which you accept the Sanscrit, but in the English.”
What do we care for science?' he as Sanscrit.”
“Well, this is not a matter on which studied English, and we are learning Tami At this point one of the teachers said, " like to have you examine it, if you please,

lous Teacher.
in into the Sabbath-school, and we are trying : school, we have succeeded better than we at the teacher was in the habit of calling up k if they had attended Sabbath-school the ld receive a whipping. When we asked for d tried the plan of giving a good mark to to those who had not; but as some of the is, this had no effect upon them, and so they f course, we explained that however effective iled in accomplishing our main object, which hildren for the Sabbath-school; and that we that they would want to come.
connected with our mission, situated in community in this field, we have not yet 2d the school, a short time ago, with a rom the manager to do so. A relative of npany us; but it seems that the teachers, lined that Christianity should be kept out of the teachers received us courteously, but ristianity than the others. After we had e asked:-
asked. “It is not a primitive language.
ble books in English ?”
Tamil,' he answered. “The books in greatest writers who have ever lived are in
d, “and you know that the most valuable and believe-are found not in the Tamil or
ked in reply. “ Our religious books are in
we need to dispute,' we said. “You have l.
“We have a class in English, and we would ” So he called up a class, and my brother

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A Moonlight
examined them in their studies, commendec some subjects of which they had not thought As we had been visiting other schools in th us, and had let our coolies carry it into this sc had been regarded with considerable curiosi have us sing something. “Nothing religious, the others all said, “Yes, yes; please sing so that is fairer than day,” in Tamil. The child around as close as they could get to us. W go, not wishing to infringe upon their time. give us pleasure to have them call on us, they felt disposed to do so.
When coming away we noticed that the tea whom we had talked with had trouble with eyes, and on inquiry we were surprised to that he was totally blind. The moment showed interest in his eyes his manner char and his anxiety was very great as we exam the eyes. Oh, what would he not give for s We told him that possibly his sight might b stored; but he did not know that it could be, a has been doctoring with native drugs. We a him to come to our house, and we would down his symptoms; and he consented with eagerness. He came a little time afterward, and we had considerable conversation with him. If his sight could be restored by going to Madras for an operation, it would be a great event in favour of Christianity in the region where he lives.
The same day that we visited the Sivite school, we had a moonlight meeting in the village. We felt some anxiety with regard to it, as there were so many educated
 

Meeting. 23
them a little, and interested them in before. e morning, we had our little organ with hool-room. We noticed that the organ y, and we asked if they would like to said the teacher before spoken of; but mething.” So we sang, “There's a land en were delighted, and at once gathered hen we had sung a little we proposed to We said to the teachers that it would when
cher his learn
We ged, lined ight
e reas he sked
nOte great

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24 Caste
people in the place who were strong Siv looked troubled, and they told us afterwa said-to break up the meeting; but as H. who numbers the hairs on our heads, an hands, we were not molested. Fortunate with us, who had considerable influence ov it was something so new to hear ladies spe: but seemed to lean forward to catch every of saying to one of the Christians that w suppose, very clever for women.
We have tried to win the confidence of allies. When we wish to hold a meetil scholars, and they come, and bring with every day the children come to our house a The little things seem to have much confic they come to us at once, expecting that v cannot disappoint their faith in us, and so
It is one of the trials of a missionary I suppose there must always be in a col at home can hardly appreciate the d castes of this country. “What!' it is sa together in church?” But is it really : in handsome churches in America, but I into church by the arm an Irishman diri covered with mud, and his clothing guiltl him into his seat, and share his hymn-bc these two people would not represent that Brahmin is fastidiously clean; it is a part o day; he bathes before every meal; the polluted, should they touch him, are alm sense-is highly cultured.
But the low caste-God pity him - existence is so great that his spirit is brok washes his clothes-at least so I judge fro. love of God, of His fatherly care, of His Saviour, and he surprises me by saying, “ where I will get something for my child

Troubles.
ites. We noticed, also, that the Christians rds that several heathen had come-as they arranged it who cares even for the sparrows, d who holds the hearts of all men in His ly there was a Christian man of high caste er the people. As my sister and I spoke, ak that they listened not only with attention, word. They even paid us the compliment
re were “very clever speakers;” meaning, I
the children, and they are proving our best ng in any place we have only to tell the them their parents and friends. Almost nd ask, “Where is the next meeting to be?” lence in us; if any of their friends are sick we will certainly come and visit them. We we have a busy life.
to see so much sickness and poverty as 1ntry'so thickly populated as this. People ifference between the higher and lower id; “will not the people in India even sit such a strange thing? I have worshipped never saw one of the elegant members lead ect from his work on the streets-his seet ess of contact with soap and water-show ook with him. But the difference between between a Brahmin and a Pariah. The f his religion. His clothing is washed every things by which he would consider himself nost innumerable. His mind—in a certain
how hard a lot is his His struggle for cen; he has no courage. He very seldom m their appearance. I speak to him of the ity and sorrow for us, of Jesus Christ as his I will become a Christian if you will tell me 'en to eat.” I begin to think that he who

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A PREACHING SERVICE.
brethren in Christ. We have succeeded women and children, and some men, to at tried to have them sit on the benches. V let there be no difference.” But the lower are not accustomed to it: they have not st They sit on a mat spread on the ground seats, they would not come to church; si right and left side of the pulpit, and they a Our Christians, who are mostly of hig classes. I hardly know of a Christian won to give a part of one day each week to those poor people. They do this although work to do at home.
My letter has grown long, and yet it about our work. I will simply say that we it; and that we iike the field at Manepy v
 

Breaking Caste Barriers. 25
Cou'd make two spears of paddy grow where only one grows now would be a benefactor indeed. There is not a plough in this province. They still use a crooked stick, which only scratches the surface of the ground; and when a drought comes everything is burnt up, and we have a famine. I am mistaken; there is one plough here, but it is too heavy for use.
I am sure that the great poverty of many is a hindrance to their becoming Christians. We are trying to fight against the spirit of caste. We are endeavouring to teach the higher castes to pity and help the lower castes, and treat then as their in getting a good many of the low-caste tend the church and Sabbath-school. We We said, “When we come into God's house castes would not sit on the benches; they 1ch a thing as a chair in their small houses. , and if we should insist on their sitting on ) we have spread nice clean mats on the re very happy sitting there. n-caste, strive very hard to help the lower an in Manepy who has not pledged herself go out into the villages to teach and help some of them have large families, and hard
eems to me that I have scarcely spoken love it; that we feel strong and well, to do ry much.

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A HINDU TEMPLE.
CHAPT
A GREAT HEA
HE great annual heathen festiv began the Ist of April. Th celebrated in Jaffna, was forty large tree, and was suppose Superstitious and ignorant people vowed, this god if he would cure them. Gifts bege spread; and thus in forty years a large at which thousands of devotees flock yearly the fact that it was just opposite our Ch its growth, for many Sivites gave toward it to Christianity. It is one of eight large te are five hundred smaller ones, each with pr thousands of family shrines and household
The daily exercises of the twelve days' morning the bell is rung, and people gathe is in the innermost court ; it represents til arms, large abdomen, and two dwarf legs idol, bathed carefully with milk and perf jewels, and his forehead marked with the The veil is then opened, and fruits, rice, & before him. Incense is burned; prayers by the priests; and songs to his praise ceremony.
 
 

"ER VI.
THEN FESTIVAL.
Manepy, May Ist, 188r. ll of the temple here, lasting twelve days, is temple, which is now one of the most years ago only a little hut at the base of a d to be inhabited by the god Pulliar. in times of sickness, to make offerings to Ln to pour in ; the story of imagined cures ld richly endowed temple has grown up, to from all the surrounding country. Perhaps ristian church and mission premises helped for the purpose of showing their opposition mples in this peninsula, besides which there ests and daily offerings, not to mention the gods.
feast are as follows: At six o'clock every r at the temple. The stone idol of Pulliar Le god as having an elephant's head, four on which he sits Turkish-fashion. The
lmes, is then clothed and decorated with
sacred ashes, and the third eye of Siva. to, brought by the worshippers, are offered
unintelligible to the people are uttered
s, instrumental music, &c., complete the

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The Vors/
Some sacred ashes and pounded sanc the worshippers, who mark themselves on the stripes of Siva. As these things are o downward, many quarrels arise as to wh priest gives each one a flower, which is pli The same process is next gone through t courtyard; and thirdly to a small brass im some of the more devout, wishing to at roll on their almost naked bodies around t women, bowing and touching their hands ( rise and place their feet where the head measure their length around the temple.
During the festival the ceremonies are re out for a ride around the court of the tem of a large painted wooden rat or peacock, C one-which is borne on the shoulders of n lasting till two o'clock in the morning-wit ride around the outside of the temple. Fo broken by the deafening horns, drums, and people and the explosion of various kinds festivals a troop of dancing-girls of the mo idol and the populace.
The twelfth and last day of the feast y o'clock in the morning people on foot or in all sides, until the lanes, roads and bro; swarmed with more than ten thousand peo hundreds of fires, where on every hand food idol. Only the steam or odour is acceptal home, or given to the priests or to mendicant low caste people cannot be allowed even to own offerings; some high-caste person mus bringing it back afterwards to the donor. TI go to drink the muddy, stagnant holy wat bodies; and wash their clothes preparator tank the heated oxen stand, cooling their b. After a time the cavadies began to ar. decked with flowers, peacock-feathers and

b of Puliar. 27
al-wood offered to the god are passed to forehead, neck, arms, breast and back with fered first to the highest caste, and thence ch families are the highest in rank. The ced behind the ear or in the coil of hair. a flagstaff, standing in the middle of the age of Pulliar. Every morning or evening one for sin or to perform a work of merit, he temple, over the earth and stones; the on the ground, wipe their faces in the dust, couched before, fall forward again, and so
peated at noon, and the brass idol is taken ple. He is carefully fastened on the back or some other animal-each day a different hen. At night-beginning at midnight and h torchlight and music, the god is given his or twelve nights our rest has been entirely | cymbals, mingled with the shouts of the of fireworks. All through these midnight st abandoned character dance before the
was the great car-drawing day. By eight ox or horse-bandies began pouring in from di rice-fields on two sides of the temple ple. The air grew blue with the smoke of ! was being cooked in the open air for the ble to the god, so the cooked rice is carried , which is considered a work of merit. The 2nter the court of the temple and make their t carry the food in and present it for them. o the large temple-tank hundreds of people 2rs; wash away their sins by bathing their y to making their offerings. In the same dies and being washed by their owners.
ive. These are fantastic wooden frames tinsel, carried on the head and shoulders

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28 An Annual Feud.
of the individual from his house to the temple, in performance of a vow in སྟ time of sickness. The bearer prepares ş for the ceremony by some days of fasting. He is accompanied by a band of music, and comes whirling and dancing as if possessed with a spirit. The people suppose him to be filled with the spirit of the god, and so to be specially holy; but alas for the holiness of which this is a type A year ago a quarrel took place between a cavady bearer from Batticotta and one from Anikotty; and it was rumoured year. In the middle of the festival shouts v of people left the temple and the idols an stampede such as I have never before witnes or more Batticotta men, seizing sticks from half as many Anikotty men, and before they wounded. These were brought bleeding native Christian physician were left to undo In the case of one poor man it was all in va this as a warning and a sermon in many of C at once that going to the temples and washi holy. The older heathen, however, do not that the excitement will be twice as great n worship such cruel gods and goddesses shot
To return to the car-drawing: The huge decorated with flowers and flags and cloth and many Brahmans attended, to burn i se zed hold of the two thick ropes, and followed by rolling devotees. When half thousand cocoa-nuts, which one man had vo idol by throwing them one after another ol to its place, and the people began to disper
But what were our Christians doing durin Christian workers from this and the neigl
 
 

HINDUS BATHING.
that the quarrel would be renewed this vere heard, and thousands upon thousands d rushed to the scene of action. It was a ised. Instantly, as it seemed, four hundred che nearest fences, began to assault about could be separated several were severely to our dispensary, and my brother and a the work which heathen passion had done. lin; he died the next day. We have used ur talks with the young people, who admit ng in sacred waters do not make the heart seem troubled by what was done, but hope ext year. It is not strange that those who ld in a measure become like them.
old car on cumbrous wheels had been ; the small brass idol was placed within, incense before it. Eighty men or more
thus it was drawn around the temple, -way round it paused before a pile of a wed to break with his right hand before the n a stone. This finished, the car returned
S. gall this time? Over thirty of the leading hbouring stations, by our invitation, met

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together at our house in the morning, an help and blessing, they took bundles oft various directions on the different roads to meet and talk with the people on the books. Then we, with five prominent nati of the medical room, which is just across and benches had been arranged. We ope singing praise to Christ in a strong, full ch hundred people gathered around us. Ou and then sing; then another verse and si hours, a large and interested crowd bein audience Brahmans, Sivite preachers, an respectfully without a particle of disturba marked interest. Our book-stand near b and portions of the Bible; and word came nearly sold out their tracts, and that more
Our workers were thoroughly aroused, a good Christian from a neighbouring church not think it was of much use to try this kir long time, and not much if anything had ( his audience, became so interested that he away declaring that this was just the way from all the stations must come, and we The Christians returned encouraged, and good, if no one else. All seemed surpris bought religious books and tracts; and under trees and in their bandies, on their thousand nine hundred and fourteen tracts, s by us and our helbers, and three thousands
May the seed sown by the wayside, witl fruit to His glory !
 

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after a season of earnest prayer for God's acts, handbills and books, and went out in ind lanes leading from the temple, in order return, and sell or give away tracts and e Christians, took our stand on the veranda the way from the temple, and where mats ned all the stops of our organ, and began prus. Soon a crowd of from three to four method was to explain a verse of a lyric, ng, and so on. We kept this up for four g by us all the time. We noticed in our il the editor of a Sivite paper; all listened nce, and some faces here and there showed y was doing a good business in selling tracts back from several companies that they had were wanted. nd spoke and sang their very best. One n, who had said in the morning that he did ld of work-the festival had gone on for a ver been done about it--now, talking to refused the offer of lunch; and at night went to do, and that next year many Christians would have meetings on five or six sides. we could see that the effort had done them ed at the readiness with which the people many were seen reading them in companies way home. In all, during this one day, two mall books, and portions of Scripture avere sold ac Aundred and eighteen zeere given away.
God's blessing, spring up and bring forth

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A TAMIL
CHIAPT
HOPEFU!
NHILE we long and pray and ho i among us in an unusual manne blessing will come quietly thro Rag of the truth, and the inclining, confess that I find myself greatly perplexed example, our older English-speaking sc Sabbath-school, and in private talks, they h it. They can tell the story of Christ's lifer the nature of prayer, the duty of faith and r Why then do they not become Christians beliefs. These beliefs are ingrained into th every-day duty and thought. They say tha is right with them also. They are bound t fetters are riveted by caste. It is a terrible All these things, and many more, bear or we are 'sure, that the steady, faithful, earne
 
 

BOOK.'
ER VII.
L. SIGNS.
Manepy, Oktober 31st, 188r.
pe that God’s Spirit may be poured out ar, yet it seems more probable that the ough the widespread and faithful teaching of more and more hearts to accept it. I
to understand the mental processes of, for hool-boys. For a year, in day-school, have heard the truth, and have understood early as well as I can. They have had epentance, clearly explained. P They have not yet given up their old eir literature, their history, their song, their it, although we are right, there is much that their friends by the strongest ties, and the
wrench to break away from all,
the probable future. Yet of one thing st teaching of God's own word in church

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ands by a for tı larger
Ο
ра:
IIINDUS WORSHIPPING AN IDOL. Al
old the ceremonies connected with the Sivite participate in them. All through the vi, rub ashes or visit heathen temples, and m God and try to serve Him, but, like Ni Yet frequently such persons boldly confess and we trust many names not enrolled o “Lamb's Book of Life.'
We rejoice and thank God for all this, we long with almost a painful earnestness
JoIIN III.
 

Nicodemus in Ceylon. 3 I
hool, in public and private, must be followed teady growth of conscientiousness and love uth throughout the community, and by a and larger number of individuals turning God. The Gospel has all along in the it been moulding this whole community. Is it nothing that we have almost the whole ucational work in our hands, that nearly ry house is open to our visits and those the catechists and Bible-women ; that the endance at church and Sabbath-school is reasing; that moonlight, village, and Sabh afternoon meetings are so largely attended ? the educated men and women, and the ler children in the schools, are ashamed of worship and the great festivals, and do not llages there are men and women who do not any of these in their hearts worship the true codemus, they fear to confess Him openly. on their death-beds that they are Christians, n our church books will be found in the
and yet, with you, we are not satisfied, but for more to come to Christ.
ՆԸ 7 ர8ணி (5) nరరో ت( O @「す s Qélー
gra」@@ g6آکاکل águ」ea_* "て المسا
*தருனி இவ்" リ」g-r5号"
I6, IN TAMIL.

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BRACELETS, ANK
CHIAPT
MUTTHUCHARDı
OULD you like to hear a stor
church, and what came of it? Some years ago, the native
O R formed themselves into a mis teachers and preachers to the people of sev
A few Sabbaths ago, in Panditerippu, to give towards this society. Some of t perhaps they had enough to do to suppo little boy, named Mutthuchardie, sitting cl tively, and when he heard that there were had no schools, no kind teachers, no book no Sabbath-schools, no Bibles, and did n he looke pered, “ whatever give it little boy She now
 
 
 

.LETS, AND RINC3.
ER VIII.
E's MoNEY-Box.
Manepy, Wozentuber 1 Ith, 188I. y of what a Tamil boy did one Sabbath in
Christians of this mission in Jaffna, Ceylon, isionary society for the purpose of sending en small islands lying west of Jaffna. the native preacher was urging his people he congregation looked indifferent, thinking rt their own schools and church; but one ose by his mother, was listening very attenmany little children on these islands who s, as he had-that, worst of all, they had ot know of the Saviour whom he lovedi up quickly in his mother's face and whisOh, my money-box! You said I might do I pleased with it. Oh, mother give it, The mother was astonished that her had understood all the preacher had said. began to listen more carefully herself; and
ly

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every now and then, as if to emphasize ܔ the speaker's words, she felt a soft little pinch on her arm, and heard an eager voice close beside her whisper, “Give it, give it, mother.” And, along with the words of the sermon, some other words, spoken long ago, kept coming to her mind: “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein."
The little boy had his request, for the next Sabbath, when the bag came around, he dropped into it two little fists quite full of cents, half-cents, quarter-cents, and eighth-cents; for we have such small coins here, where so many people are poor and money is scarce. But, when the bag came to his mother, great was the child's surprise to see her quietly slip off her two gold bracelets from her arms and drop them both into the bag. They had come down to her, from her mother and grandmother and were part of her marriage-portion, and worth A5. But the words of her only child had rung in her ears all the week, and she said to herself: “I also will give to God and His cause something precious.”
Now, as of old, the words of the prophet are true: “And a little child shall lead them.'
“And Jesus called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
 

Lead Them.” 33

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A. CHILDRENS HYMN IN
Subject : Praise to Christ
CHORUS.
VERSE.
-H - سیاس-هی-بی- : Q/7 r
rh. · Rܠܐ ܥ w w
Sound of the Zam,
CHORUS. Bet-tha-la-yel per-in-tha-va-day Pöt-té thi-thee main-a-may. en-num,
VERSE I. Said-du-vat-thi-um pair-dit-thairn-da Sid-du-vá val-la-var. eng-kay,
 
 
 

| THE TAMIL LANGUAGE.
zuho zvas born in Asethlehem.
1st time, 2nd time.
N
1st time. 2nd time.
Ezra E2E2-Ess-2-SENADN
H-C-E-Ee
Ist tine. 2nd time.
--e-a-gaj-:-a-e-H
il words in English.
Tharl - mi-ül-lá thi- vi-út-til, Thal-li sik-ka-la-nar. eng-kay.
VERSE 2 Sing-kas-sān-am veet-te-duk-kim Thér-van min-than-air, eng-kay Pang-kam-ut-ta, pas-it thod-de-leel Par-dut-the-duk-ker-ar. éng-kay,

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CHAPTER IX.
THE SIVITE PREACHER.
Manepy, February 7th, 1882.
THINK our heavenly Father, when He allows ޔހ us to feel peculiar trials سمب۔۔کیسر-' and discouragements, sends also peculiar encouragements to counterbalance them. Such was your letter to me this morning, for, truly, I was weary in body and mind with the conflicts of a week which has been the hardest I have ever known in Jaffna. I think God knew I should need help, and so put all those loving, helpful words into your heart for me a month ago-another proof of His great, tender, ever-watchful care. I thank Him, over and over, with glad tears, for you and for loving Christian hearts who are praying for us and for Jaffna.
We need your prayers more than ever. Just when in all our schools and villages there was unusual interest, and we seemed almost on the eve of a blessing, what should Satan do but raise up what the heathen call a learned man, a holy man, a great Sivite preacher, who is a most bigoted, bitter, and
 

役)- 孔维
纽
影丝
A HOLY MAN AMONG THE HINDUS.

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36 Sivite Obje
unceasing enemy of Christianity? He has in the night, and is going about the count sentations of Christianity, and abuse of mis new thing to the Sivites. Their priests in and ceremonies, and knows nothing of spiri preaching he has copied from the missional because he appeals to men's worst passionscrowds. I suppose he has preached ten audiences of from one to three hundred. S purifications, bathes his body if he touches and can speak in high-flowing Tamil, which stand-so long as he does all this the peo temple managers throw open their doors to This preacher has spoken twice in the M evening and continued till nearly twelve o' know what he said? These are his princip the Christians is not omnipotent, for he tc might have been made in one. Jehovah is in the garden of Eden with Satan, and He because He did not prevent their sinning therefore Satan is stronger than God. TI therefore heaven is a place of temptation a two. God is not all-good, because He sav came to bring peace to the earth; but at F while He did nothing to prevent it, but ral You can imagine what an effect these ar of the low and ignorant at home. How n ignorant, and unreasoning masses here! ) Sabbath morning we found our Sabbath thought that, as wise doctors, we shoul after hastily going over the lesson, we tol half an hour or longer we answered one as there was another and better view on all th step, and never left a point until they un where we teach a Sabbath-school class ath teach one at three o'clock. In this way w forty and fifty upper-class boys whose min

tions Met.
prung up quite suddenly, like a mushroom y breathing out blasphemies and misrepresionaries and Christians. Preaching is a lver preach, their religion consists in forms cual worship or of edification. His plan of ies. Because this is something new, and -pride, hatred, selfishness-he draws great or fifteen times in the last few weeks to o long as he attends to all the ceremonial a low-caste man, eats neither flesh nor salt, four-fifths of his audience cannot underple think he is a very great man, and the him. anepy temple. He began at seven in the clock-this is his custom. Do you wish to al points against Christianity: The God of ook six days to make the world, when it not omniscient, for He put Adam and Eve ought to have known that they would sin: , He is not all-powerful nor all-holy, and 'ne angels sinned, and fell from heaven : nd sin, and hell is the better place of the es only Christians. It is said that Christ is birth Herod killed thousands of infants,
away to Egypt to hide. d similar things would have upon a crowd uch greater is the effect on the seething, His last talk was on Saturday night; and on school boys full of his arguments. We take the disease in hand at once; so, them they might ask questions; and for er another, until they seemed to see that points. We carried them with us in every erstood it. It was the same at Arnikotty, lf-past ten o'clock, and at Navaly, where we 2 met, in the course of the day, between s are in a formative state, and who are

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A MAN-EATER.
selfish. We told them how much had unselfishly by Christians, and asked if the them that the teacher who sent them awa new longings after a holy life, a determi friend, and asked if they left the Sivite m great problem of why God pernnitted sin, show how it was better and grander for right and refuse the wrong, than to be m will or choice. We tried to meet the c because the tide against us and Christiani would be to go into a school of one h Sivites, from Sivite homes, all bristling w not be faint and trembling. My siste wonderful way of winning the love and her whole soul has been in what she se glistening in the eyes of those who were of a life devoted to God, urging them for Jesus.
There was one cheering circumstance: things, “The missionaries do not really cal Over and over again, however, the teach have assured us that he was mistaken; t
4*
 

The Sivite Mistaken. 37
peculiarly susceptible of impressions. The next few days we visited some of our large English schools; and, being prepared, we took up the Sivite preacher's points one by one, and answered them. We were surprised to see how full they were of his sceptical teaching, and how “men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.”
We told them there were two powers contending for their souls- good and evil; that they might know which was good, because it was always unselfish, and the evil, because it was always been given and done for them, freely and ty could show a parallel in Sivism. We told y with new reverence and love for God, with nation to fight against sin, was their truest 2etings with these feelings. We took up the and tried to explain it as best we could, and us to personally, freely, gladly choose the 're machines compelled to do right without ther points, also; but it was a hard task, ty was so strong. Think for yourself what it undred, all but half-a-dozen of them strong th objections, and whether your heart would was the strongest of us all. She has a trust of the older boys, and in these days d; and it was a strange sight to see tears almost men, as she pictured the grandeur o choose that life, and live not for self but
f
ރަށ
the Sivite preacher had said among other for you; they are not your true friends,' &c. rs and the boys, and even bitter heathens, at he did not know us; that everybody in

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Manepy knows that we really love the peo blessed us in winning the confidence and all the praise. I realize more than ever words, and I am resolved to be doubly c everything I may honour Him. My siste in sucking the poison out of the veins of and we must keep on, day by day, and we We are planning to have some of the be points in the field and hold large open-air There is much work for us in the future, f may bring about, or whether others will joi
We li, of the We ar, the re. harm t boys a guish t Whe others whethe
Sun, w whatev I was despor world
THE BANYAN REE
I think this movement on the part o Christians. It is stirring them up to be more carefully over their lives. I do not t brought forward-they went all over the Christians-but, with us, they are trouble the young. We arranged two meetings f workers, men of recognized ability and le. was held in Manepy, and one at Arnikott hundred and fifty and three hundred, a r people. The low-caste people-–men wo
 

ite Audience.
ple, and are their friends. I think God has love of this people. To His dear name be he importance of character to support our areful in all my words and actions, that in says: “Our work for a few days has been hose who have been bitten by the serpent; 'ek by week, until it is thoroughly done.” st speakers in Jaffna goround to the central meetings, answering the Sivite's arguments. or we cannot know just what his movements n or copy him; but if we will be true soldiers st contest every inch of ground, and the sight enemy will only rouse us to fresh endeavour. e on the winning side; there is no fear of sult ; but the thing that troubles us is the hat may come meanwhile to some of these nd girls who are not wise enough to distinhe false from the true. ther it was that by sucking the poison from we have had a touch of it ourselves, or r it was being out many days in the midday hen the thermometer runs up to 14o'er was the cause, last night and this morning feeling very tired, and, I confess, a little lding; but your letter came to do me a of good.
A later.
f the Sivites is resulting in good to the more prayerful and earnest, and to watch hink they are at all affected by the arguments ground for themselves before they became di for the results such preaching may have on or the 6th and 7th. Two of our best native arning, came for both nights. One meeting y. The total attendance was between two majority of whom were high-caste, educated men. and children-were, in great numbers,

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Dr. Poor.
busy in the harvest fields, where the rice harvest has just begun, and where they work during the moonlight. So our audience was a thinking one of the higher classes. Two addresses in each meeting were candid, careful answers to questions; the third gave some strong reasons in favour of Christianity; and the fourth was an earnest appeal to seek salvation and a Saviour
OW.
We were much interested at these meetings in noting the line of argument often followed by the native ministers. One of them, at one of the
:
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meetings, laying his hand on the Bible and addressing his audience, said to them, “Many of you do not know what is contained within the lids of this book, but you do know the lives of the missionaries who for so many years have gone out and in among you.' He referred to the time when the cholera was prevalent in the peninsul: happened at that time. He said, “Many the plague-smitten districts; frequently th forsook them, leaving them to their fate. ) do at that time P Did they forsake those they ministered to the sick, they sat by dead, they counted not their lives dear ti necessary service. One of the missiona incessant and prolonged service to the sick died. His latest breath was spent in praisi good religion or a bad that can produce su This same Dr. Poor had been for some t speaker asked, “Is there a house in this and over again?" He told many touching

GRLS DRAWING WATER.
a, and asked his hearers to remember what of the people were panic-stricken and left e relatives of those who were ill fled and But what,' he asked, “ did the missionaries who were in such distress? By no means; the bedside of the dying, they buried the o them if so be they might render the ries, the Rev. Dr. Poor, after the most , at the last fell a victim to the disease and ng Christ.” The speaker asked, “Is it a ch a result as that?'
ime stationed in the Manepy district. The district which Dr. Poor did not visit over incidents of this beloved missionary, who

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laboured in Jaffna for over forty years. A one occasion Dr. Poor had been out all day in the evening lost his way. He called t him if he would show him the way. Ti returned found Dr. Poor on his knees, pr speaker asked, “Is it a good religion or a ness and hunger in the earnestness of his d race?'
The speaker referred to the boarding : allowing your daughters to be under the ca your daughters to the care of a Brahmin single night. Is it a good religion or a bad You always trust the word of a missionary, you go" on a journey, you often prefer to rather than with your own relatives. Is it truthful and honest? Have we not before power to do what Hinduism and Buddhi. change the heart and to make the mar continued for some time in this strain, ; which all knew, produced a great effect.
On account of the harvest, we shall d People who would not otherwise come ma answered, and so be brought under the inf truth. Will you not pray that the result m and a real turning to God? Oh, that Hew by bringing many new souls into the kingd
March 18.-I think God has heard our the sober-minded people, and the'temple r Sivite preacher to speak again; that he on are the true friends of the people, and oug though they may be wrong in their religior to stay away from Sabbath-school, came he was very sorry.
Best of all, the children have been rous came to us privately, asking us to kneel mates, who, they feared, were being drawn luttle seasons of private prayer with th

Labour in Vain.
Among other things he related how that on visiting in the villages, and when returning o some one who was passing by and asked he man went to get a torch, and when he aying aloud for a blessing on Jaffna. The
bad that can make a man forget his weariesire for a blessing on the people of another
schools, and said, “You feel quite safe in re of the missionaries, but would you trust
You know you would not, not even for a l that can make men moral and trustworthy P but you do not trust each other. When
leave your jewellery with the missionary a good religion or a bad that can make men our eyes the proof that Christianity has the sm have shown themselves unable to do, to a new creature P’ The native minister and his words, appealing directly to things
elay further meetings till the new moon. y perhaps be attracted to hear objections luence of earnest appeals on behalf of the ay be a new awakening in religious matters, ould make the wrath of man to praise Him om of His dear Son !
prayer. Our meetings seem to have affected manager has said that he will not invite the ly deals in abuse, and that the missionaries ht not to be disturbed in their good work, h. One boy who has tried to induce others yesterday to say he had done wrong, and
ed to work for Jesus. Hast week several down and pray with them for their classaway from Christ. We had a number of em Last Sabbath in the afternoon, the

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children prayed specially for their friends; of their own accord, went into the villages had eighteen, and another twenty-four ch very much encouraged. I felt that Jesus him in the midst, and was telling us to b remembered that other Bible saying, 'Ift would cry out.”
Oh, that our lives and words may mor Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
 

'rs for Christ. 4 I
and at four o'clock three little companies, to hold children's meetings. One company ildren, as an audience. They came back here, as of old, had taken a child and set a more child-like, earnest, hopeful; and I hese should hold their peace, the very stones
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Just across the road from our home h dedicated to the god Pulliar. This godh the god of wisdom, and when heathen in always bring them first to an image of this the child and make it a good scholar. children are taught to worship. What a friend of little children
In this temple there is a man called a stone and brass images with milk, coco receives offerings presented to the god. ) is of her that I want to tell you. Her na short.” The meaning of the name is Gol she is the head scholar among sixty girls began to come to school she has regularly many Christian hymns and Bible verses. children were examined, she was one of thr whole year, without a mistake. Hew ma She received a prize-a Tamil New Testa first came to school she used to have som rubbed on her forehead, but she left that well that she could repeat the whole of th Thankam's Sabbath-school teacher-a great interest in the little girl; and Tha
 

CHAPTER X.
LITTLE THAN KAM.
Manepy, April 28th, 1882. ID you ever see an idol temple, and a great many people boiling rice for the god? This is just what we see every day in Ceylon. are in Manepy stands a large idol temple as the head of an elephant. He is called nothers take their children to school, they elephant-god, that he may give wisdom to This is the first god which a great many pity that they do not know of Jesus, the
Pandahdam, whose business is to bathe the anut water, and perfumes daily. He also Now this man has one little daughter, and it me is Thankam Mutthu, or Thankam “for |-pearl, and the child deserves the name, for in our station girls' day-school. Since she attended the Sabbath-school, and learned
Last Christmas, when the Sabbath-school e girls who could say the Golden texts for the y children in the home land could do that? ment-from the Christmas Tree. When she sacred ashes, the marks of the heathen god, ff after a time, and she studied the Bible so fifth chapter of Matthew without prompting. very lovely native Christian woman-took a kam would steal into her house sometimes

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and beg her to pray with her and teach he father and nother know of these visits. T they did not want her to become a Christi sider them polluted because they partake people who have joined the church. . Thankam came home from school, both a her come into the house till she had bath afraid she might have touched a low-ca and so would defile the house.
As Thankam was on her way to school ( school teacher. While she was there she s "I have found a beautiful verse; it says me, then the Lord will take me up.' That
Poor child she did not know how soon father had seen her go into a Christian hou loudly and angrily:
o Thankam, Thankam, come to me.” Thankam looked out and saw him cut seemed to be in a terrible passion, and w abuse.
The poor frightened child clung to her te that he would not whip the child; but it angry every moment, and nothing could so the road and there he whipped her very cru standing near could not help weeping as th little girl went slowly away, and they knew
For a whole long month Thankam's fat house, and no Christian was allowed to se see the dear little face But it was of no made her parents angry and made Thank: school teacher who loved her, and the Chl about it and asked Him to help her. We After a time the father and mother said she would rub ashes and promise not to be her, for she would not promise. She cried relented and said, “Why should we make allowed her to return without making any c

ve Child. 43
how to serve Jesus. She feared to let her ley wanted that she should learn to read, but an. They despise the Christians, and con
of the Lord's Supper with the low-caste hey were so very particular that, when it noon and at night, they would not let 2d her whole body at the well. They were ste or a Christian child during the day,
one morning, she called to see her Sabbathaid: , “When my father and my mother forsake
means me, doesn't it?' her courage would be put to the test. Her ise. He hurried to the gate and called out,
tting a long switch from the hedge. He as uttering the worst kind of threats and
acher, and the teacher went out and begged : did no good. He grew more and more othe him. He dragged the child out into elly. The women and children who were ey saw him; they all felt very sad as the not what would become of her. her and mother kept her shut up in the e her or speak to her. How I wearied to use; to try to see her would only have am suffer more; so we and her Sabbathistian girls in the day-school, told Jesus all knew that He could and would. they would let her come back to school if a Christian; but Jesus must have helped so much that at last her father and mother
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You would have hardly known her whe sad; but as soon as she found herself a shine with joy! From that time blessi girl, and she has now become a pupil-tea Will you not pray for the child who l father and mother who are serving Satan :
PULLIAR, THE
 

5 Pupil-teacher.
in she came; she looked half starved and so mong us you ought to have seen her face ngs seem to have followed the brave little cher in the station srhool. pegged so hard to come to us, and for the so blindly?
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ARLY in the morning Our tent had been pitched in our compound very near the temple; an awning had been put up before the veranda of the medical-rooms, comfortable seats provided, and two bookstands had been arranged, giving us in all four preachingplaces. At nine o'clock in the morning about twenty Christians gathered together at our house, and after prayer for God's blessing, they took packages of tracts, Bible portions, &c., and went out a mile or more on the different roads to begin their day's work. My brother, with several helpers, took charge of the bookstands and the supply of the sellers; my sister, with a chorus of twenty children and three speakers, took the tent; while the other workers and singers came with me to the medical veranda.
At a few minutes after nine we were all ready, and made two openings in our hedge to admit the people, who had begun to arrive in large numbers. Immediately from fifty to a hundred people came into each place; but we had not spoken or
C
SECOND YEAR's E
AT TH
 
 
 
 

HAPTER XI.
XPERIENCE
E GREAr HEATHEN FESTIVAL.
Manepy, May Ioth, 1882.
HNDUS BATHING AND WORSHIPPING MUD Idols.

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sung many minutes before we noticed a c had collected, and, placing themselves in and shout at the top of their voices, at the through or enter our yard. At my side ( Sivites right across the opening, and at the Soon a crowd of hundreds of persons h disturbance, and all the more anxious to co Without appearing to notice them, and gc coolies and said, “Open six places imm our opposers seemed rather non-plussed, foi and that we would cut down the whole he handful of men who would sit all day in th need a thousand to encircle a whole comp Listeners began to come through the n whole crowd which had collected broke aw From that time onward we spoke and sang two to four hundred people. It was ve listened better than last year. They enjo in no hurry to go. I was also struck with They were from the islands and distant audience that I had seen before, and perh gospel for the first time. There was ve toward us seemed to be a very kind one. had opened our yard, they gladly availed t trees, and thanking us for the shade from th good audiences, and our colporteurs had ple It is estimated by our workers that one-t to worship at all, but spent the time with temple was very small this year-not as la the various items, and the whole came to thousand people; while the single Christi offering meeting Rs. 18o. Our workers ar if we have two or three more tents and pr large share of the festival, and many peo festival will really be coming to a gospel m I want to tell you what gave me the mo the way the school-children from six differ

estival Declining.
mmotion in the road. A few bitter Svites each opening in the hedge, began to sing same time declaring that no one should go if the compound they seated a number of other side they filled the gap with thorns. d collected at each place, attracted by the me in because they were forcibly prevented. ing right on with our singing, we called our :diately in the hedge” It was done, and they saw that this could go on indefinitely, dge rather than give up. There might be a e burning sand to stop a gap, but it would bund. ew entrances, and after a little while the ay in a body and came pouring in upon us. without ceasing to solid audiences of from ry noticeable that they stayed longer and yed the speaking and singing, and seemed the fact that they were not Manepy people. villages. I saw almost no faces in the aps many present heard something of the ry little disturbance. The general feeling I knew they liked what we said, and as we hemselves of it, sitting under the beautiful a scorching rays of the sun. This insured us inty of work visiting and speaking with them. hird of the people did not go to the temple us in the compound. The income of the rge as last year. A reliable man gave me less than Rs. I4o, the total gifts of ten in church of Batticotta raised at the thankquite jubilant over the day, and say that, aching-places next year, we shall absorb a le who appear to be coming to a heathen eeting. st pleasure in this day's experience; it was 2nt schools came voluntarily to help us sing

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I wish you could have heard their clear you words, and have seen the interest in the audiences, many of whom were listening to songs for the first time. During those lon the workers became tired, and asked to singing children, with few exceptions, staye their bright faces, so eager and willing, wer At the close they came and said, “Oh, Amn day.' They were having their first taste c and for those whom He loves. Many of th families, and two years ago would have wi selves. Some of them were children of t were that very day offering incense to the other children have been severely beaten fo they may be again; but "none of these thi made them brave and strong.
I know that the Good Shepherd will c bring them into His fold at last. Dear frie that they may be faithful, and for the hund yet given their hearts to Christ.
 

arry Choir.
ng voices ring out the faces of those large those sweet Christian ; five hours some of be relieved; but the d by to the last, and an inspiration to us, na, it has been a happy f working for Christ, m were from heathen orshipped idols themhe Pandahdams, who idol god. These and r not going to temples, and they know that ngs move them.” The love of Christ has
A TAM. GIRL,
:are for them through the rough way, and inds at home, pray for these boys and girls reds of other boys and girls who have not

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CHAPTER XII.
A BRIEF VISIT TO THE PULNEY HILLS.
Pulney Hills, South India, Sune 25th, 1882.
UNET me tell you, first of all, a Missionary Society, and a conc Tamil language. Both were h 1N at Batticotta Church, the larges the church and the mission compounds wer people in hackeries, horse-bandies, ox-bandi in flowing white and the women in gay-co little children. These, with the boarding-s and the young men from the Jaffna Colle peculiar to college-boys, made a very pretty
It was an all-day meeting, and both the f interest. The audience was a fine one-ove and several hundred children. As I sat or good view of their faces, and a more intellig the one thousand and twelve communicants who cannot read. Most of the audience h were well educated. This Native Mission neighbouring islands, has been officered a years. It is probably the oldest missionary supported and conducted by native Christia the funds raised, mostly from native sources, collection came to Rs. 1.5o. The reports o by one pastor, one catechist, and several d fine large map, twelve by sixteen feet, of th drawn by the secretary and hung before th
 
 

bout the annual meeting of the Native ert of Christian songs and hymns in the eld on the same day-the Ist of June– t one in North Ceylon. All the morning 2 gay with the arrival of crowds of happy les, and on foot. The men were dressed loured robes, and there were a great many chool girls all in white like vestal virgins, ge with the unmistakable wide-awake air
picture. orenoon and afternoon sessions were full of *r six hundred men, four hundred women, the platform, to play the organ, I had a gent gathering of people I never saw. Of in this mission there are only about thirty had been through the higher schools, and ary Society, which carries on work in the nd managed by natives for the past thirty society in Ceylon or India which has been ns for so long a period. For the past year amounted to Rs. 872. 13. On this day the f work done in the islands during the year ay-school teachers, were encouraging. A e seven islands, the field of the society, e audience, was an appeal through the eye

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to the heart. The addresses by the four by Rev. S. W. Howland, of Oodooville Mission, were specially interesting. At th administered.
As the concert was to be on the san stayed to attend, and the native Christian generously provided for all an abundant plan, carried out with true hospitality, judices, which was a real triumph of gi directions, and crowds of people, began brilliantly lighted; the organs and choirs the rest of the large church was filled with within a circle of three miles. The peopl of standing-room was taken, and then the thousand people were present. The singel choirs from the two girls' boarding-schools, with some little children from Manepy a songs specially adapted for infant voices. by the Rev. Mr. Chandler and myself, thre drum, and cymbals. When all the instru four chorus pieces it was very stirring. T off better than I expected. The little chil clearly as little bells, and were repeatedly lyric, sung by three tiny boys between six a school girls from Oodooville, and a violi eleven, was very prettily rendered. This mother and child about the slaying of the into Egypt. The tenth lyric, which w contained twenty-four different movements the students of Jaffna College. The aud out, and we felt that they spent an el multitude of heathen present a pleasant a sented, and the sweet story of Jesus told it hearts.
The same evening we, with Mr. Chand for India. At our last helpers' meeting to be absent from them for a little time,
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native speakers were very good; and those , and Rev. J. C. Chandler, of the Madura afternoon session the Iord's Supper was
e evening, about two-thirds of the people of the Batticotta Church most kindly and meal of rice and curry. It was their own and with the putting aside of caste preace. In the meantime, bandies from all o arrive for the concert. The church was of singers were arranged in the centre, and every available seat that could be obtained e poured in until every seat and every inch 7 overflowed into the road. More than two is, in all, numbered over one hundred, being the training-school, and the Jaffna College, nd Oodooville day-schools, who sang some For instruments we had two organs, played 'e violins, one flute, bagpipes (native make), ments and all the voices came in on the here were no failures, and everything passed dren from Manepy sang out as sweetly and cheered by the audience. The thirteenth nd seven years old, with two older boardingin accompaniment played by a boy about hymn represented a conversation between a infants by Herod and the escape of Christ as very long, more like an oratorio, and or tunes in four different keys, was sung by ence was very quiet and attentive throughjoyable and profitable evening. To the nd attractive phase of Christianity was presong could not fail to open a door in some
er and his singers, went on board the boat in Manepy, when they knew we were going instead of being discouraged, they gathered

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around us, and said: “We will do our ver up the moonlight meetings and the school will find everything all right when you con letters from them since we reached the P India, about noon on the following day, a Was it not grand to feel one's self flying aw; a beautiful moonlight night, such as only t after hour watching, as we flew on and on p by the swift motion, and the wild, free, glad burden had been dropped-an anchor lift winged ship or a bird flying before the w passing through an interesting country. I country of India-this strange, this storied l
Coming up through the hot plains of Inc gorious mountains, towering up between se
A BATIHIN
 

talia.
y best when you are gone. We will keep |-work just as it is going on now, and you ne back.” We have had some very good ulney Hills. We landed at Negapatan, in nd left in the six o'clock train. Train ay, propelled by steam once more It was those in the tropics know, and I sat hour ast trees, and fields, and towns, intoxicated feeling which it brought, as if some heavy ed, a cage-door opened, and I, a whiteind. In the morning we found ourselves could hardly realize that I was in the great and. lia, what a joy it was to catch sight of the ven and eight thousand feet, and to think
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he cool, clear, invigor. g atmosphere inswath- G
their tops It is a nfort to know that there are h cool places in this hot land. w delightful it was to see mounscenery again, after two years a half on an absolutely flat n-for I was craded in the of the grand old New gland hills, and in sight 2 ny home, stretchaway to the east, e the peaks of the ite Mountains, w-capped for nine ths in the yearDelectable hills of childhood.

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GOING UP TH)
These Indian mountains ascend almost p. custom is, un chairs borne upon the shoulde path, right up the side of the mountain, the is twelve miles. We started from the foot a
How delightful it was to hear again the s over the stones; and how good the pure, ci forgotten that water could be so cool, or tas
How can I describe to you the delights mountain air fanned our brows. The bird brooks, broke out in melody: every little mountain-tops loomed up majestic and mys
Now we came into the heart of the jur entirely strange to me, stretched out their l; by the many kinds of creepers that in trop where, making the thickets dense and sh beautiful kinds of ferns. They say the
 

n Forests.
E MOUNTAIN.
erpendicularly. We were carried up, as the rs of four coolies. They go, in a zig-zag whole length of which, from base to top, it about four o'clock in the morning. ound of roaring mountain brooks dashing old water tasted! What a luxury I had te so refreshing.
of that cool, misty morning? The fresh s overhead, as if in rivalry to the singing throat seemed bursting with song. The terious in the mist. ngle, and great forest trees, many of them arge arms over us, their stateliness relieved ical luxuriance ran and clambered everylady; and underneath I spied the most re are eighty different varieties of ferns

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and kinds. very curiou accustomed the first tim every variet yellow; and Here, on the v a home, a little look away down a grand sight to s and the lightning feet, and we here gilding the moun' and shadow on t the north, and o and sparkling on where we mean t is a beautiful casc side-a stream of a precipice of a thousand feet, anc midst of this grandeur, and subli near to God, and to be filled with wisdom, and love.
 
 

in these woods. Strangest of all, to me, were the huge tree-ferns tossing their giant plumes high in
the air.
Nature here constantly fills me with wonder at her lavishness. There were many wild-flowers. I began to count, and before we reached the top I had counted over fifty different varieties Many of them were entirely new to me, and is. Others were those which I had been to see growing in hot-houses, but now for he saw growing wild-begonias; heliotrope; y of geraniums; roses, white, climbing, and
great white lilies. ery summit of the mountain, our mission has cottage, and from the front veranda we can upon the plains-seven thousand feet. It is see the clouds gathering and rising below us, g, in a storm, glittering and flashing at our high and calm above it all. The sunlight tain-tops about us, and the play of sunlight heir slopes, is very charming. Below us, to nly a few rods away, the ripples are laughing a charming lake three miles in circumference, o have a boat-ride soon. To the south-west rade, that goes winding down the mountainmolten silver. At one place it dashes over i falls in feathery spray at the foot. In the mity, and beauty, one seems to come very adoration at the thought of His power, and

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OHAPTH
A CON
A HEATHEN FAMILY.
Shall I tell you some of the changes Panditerippu, the fields under our immedia come to my mind this morning?
Three years ago we had a station Sunda Now we have 395 scholars on the roll, 20o officers. There is now a native pastor, an have increased Rs. 257, besides which the 9 lamps, new mats, &c., by its members Station Boys' English High School, costi Station Girls' School, and an additional tea In two private schools near the station, lessons were taught three years ago. But in them, both on week-days and Sundays. Boys' School was nearly dead, and a lar usurped its place. Now we have regaine vernacular School, with 5 teachers and 125 brought to the Sunday School.
 

Manepy, 7 anuary I 4th, I883.
UNHREE years ago we landed in Jaffna. Three very short years, and yet as I look back on ܚ ܚ them the retrospect seems full of encouragement. “These anniversary days are not like tombstones of the buried past, but like milestones, marked on the other side, “so much nearer the goal,' or like triumphal columns, trophies of victory won for Jesus.’”
which have taken place in Manepy and te care, in these three years, as they have
y School of IOO scholars and 5 teachers. average attendance, and 2 I teachers and il our station church annual contributions church has been furnished with Io seats, We have a fine new building for the ng Rs. 35o, also a new building for the her, and there are more children in each umbering together 16o pupils, no Bible low the Bible lessons are regularly taught Three years ago, at Arnikotty, our Tamil e heathen Anglo-vernacular School had il our footing, and have a large Angloboys who are taught Bible lessons, and are

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A new girls' school of 6o children has b new school building was erected and furnish Arnikotty Girls' School. We have an a Mixed School, and 28 more scholars. T. School of 68 children, where it was not School we have an additional teacher anc building has been finished and repaired, a Rs. 162 We have there a Sunday School 75 three years ago.
In North Navaly we have a new Girls' Sc 60 pupils. We have a similar Girls' Sch Santillipay. A compound has also been t cost of Rs. 265. A new catechist is statio and week-day services, and superintends a of 5o.
At Panditerippu Station, the average att 25. The church building has been repaire also new seats and a new pulpit introduced Station English Boys' School we have : flourishing school than three years ago. building, an additional teacher, and 3 I new To sum up in a few words, we have u 27; 14 more teachers, including sewing t 1865. The above does not include two also co-operate with us. The Bible lessor not taught three years ago. At the close review Bible-examination showed 1565 sc verses recited from memory 883, and of qu have now in our Sabbath Schools 94 teac of 88 over three years ago. In the annua Sunday-school Lessons, held in last Decem the whole year, 27 for three quarters, 49 f Our church membership has increased 4o, churches in our field were Rs. 454 more thi We have sent from our field to the Jaffna Schools, and other higher institutions of le. Many of these decided to give themselves

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:en organized at Suthumalay, for which a ed. We also have a new building for the lditional teacher at the Arnikotty South he Bible is taught in the Arnikotty West three years ago. In Navaly Station Girls' | 36 new scholars. The Navaly Church ind new seats and mats added, at a cost of of about 175 average attendance, against
hool, with new building and furniture, and ool with new building and furniture, at bought there, and a bungalow erected at a ned there, who conducts regular Sabbath Sabbath School with an average attendance
endance at Sunday School is increased by d and the floor relaid at a cost of Rs. 72 I, at a cost of Rs. 75. In the Panditerippu an additional teacher, and a much more In the Sirruverlan School we have a new
scholars. inder our care 3 more day-schools, total 2achers, total 57; 395 more pupils, total private schools before mentioned, which is taught in seven schools where it was : of last year, a most carefully conducted holars examined, and the total of Bible uestions of various catechisms 42,736. We hers, and 1529 pupils on the list, a gain l review examination on the International ber, 244 pupils recited the golden texts for or two quarters, and 125 for one quarter. total II 9o. The contributions of the three s year than three years ago.
College, Training School, Girls' Boarding arning, 49 young men, 38 young women. Lo Christ while in our day and Sabbath

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AND THER BOYS,
A,
wARANI, oF KAPARTHAL

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schools, and 54 of them have already joi schools, or have applied for church men about 5o New Testaments in English, w school children. Many more were b hundreds given out as Christmas reward tracts and 1514 handbills distributed du
 

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ned the churches connected with these higher bership. 757 Bible portions in Tamil, and ere bought from us by the day and Sundayought from the depository, besides several s. 468 religious tracts were sold, and 55.65 ing the past year. Three years ago we had only 4 Bible-women, now we have 9. They report having visited 4o9 houses regularly during the past year, besides teaching Bible lessons, sewing, and singing to the girls in nine day-schools, and holding many cottage meetings. They are teaching I 25 women and grown girls in their homes to read the Bible. These have memorized altogether, during the year, 207o Bible verses, 209 hymns, and ص 458 questions, which must have given them employment and food for thought in many otherwise vacant or unhappy hours. Of these women and girls, 39 have begun to pray to Christ, and, we hope, to love Him. If you read between the lines in these statistics, if you try to ke the facts real in your mind, I think you l be encouraged, as we are, and hopeful and yerful about the future.

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gether in the morning to organize into C invitation to the tent and preaching pa went out a mile or so on the roads as las'
Also about 4o children from our day sc for this occasion, came early with hymn
 

CHAPTER XIV.
THIRD YEAR's EXPERIENCE
AT THE GREAT HEATHEN FESTIVAL.
Manepy, April 13th, I883.
HIS is the day after the great car-drawing day and tempie festival; and perhaps you would like to hear about it and our meetings on that day.
We had hoped some of the missionaries would be with us and assist this year, but as it was the day of the quarterly business meeting they were not able to come. Even our brother, called to America by our dear father's illness, was not with us, but we were not alone, for the Elder Brother was with us, and we seemed to feel His presence all the day, and He made good His promise, “I will never leave thee.' About 3o of the leading Christians from our own and various other stations came to:ompanies for work. Some came with us by ndal, others went to book-stands, and others t year. hools, whom we had been specially preparing -books and bright faces. After refreshment

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and prayer we all the tent, and I to had been erected
joining in a br violin and cymb
We had Jaffna, fou speak wel. little whil
some appr
This ye beforehan
V * W NWN Sapapathi -.2 ད་ ༥ v༠༄་སྒང་ to speak,
BRAHMAN FAKIR ENGAGED IN MEDITATION. that they
they would had been some such floating talk and so to that effect, yet God must have been sp happened, and we had altogether quieter a tried to hinder people from coming, or to d: numbers and stayed longer and listened be year. Many stayed from an hour to an thousands of people found a refuge from under the large shade trees, and some spc privilege. Thus we won much good feeling and I hope some carried away real good.
On the white wall of the veranda we ha these verses : " God is love.” “Alessed ar. “2 here is foy in heaven over cne sinner ty give you rest.' Those who came from a d with these verses shining out from the wh They would begin to read, and I could set lines as they read one and another, and the the speakers as if to say, “Can you exp them, weaving all they had to say about the over and over again. Thus they served thought when having them written-th
 
 
 
 

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Degan work at Io a.m. My sister went to he medical veranda, where a large pandal and seats provided. Our children's voices, ght ringing hymn accompanied by organ, als, soon brought us large audiences. eight of the best speakers we could get in r with each of us, and they did indeed , so simply and earnestly, relieved every : by the children echoing their words in opriate song. ar-although there had been some talk l that there would be opposition, that ullai the Sivite preacher would be present that heathen tracts would be distributed, would not let any one enter our yard, that dispute at our meetings-although there me articles published in Sivite newspapers ecially with us, for none of all these things nd better meetings than last year. No one isturb our meetings, but people came in large 'tter and went away more quietly than last hour and a half, and even longer. Many the burning sun in our veranda, tent, and ke gratefully to us for allowing them the g and many seemed to enjoy our meetings,
d painted in Tamil in large scarlet letters the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” at repenteth.’ “Come unto Me, and I will stance toward the meeting seemed struck ite wall, illuminated by the noon-day sun. their lips move and their eyes follow the would come nearer and look inquiringly at ain these ?' And the speakers explained m, and pointing to them and reading them a second purpose of which we had not y unified all the addresses. These four

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verses were silent preachers of repentanc during the day; surely they must be r singers did beautifully; they sang off ar growing tired at last, but their faces still shi Mr. Twynam, the English Government A the afternoon to see if all was quiet, and ing order; for there are disturbances amon I think our opening our grounds and c lessening the crowd about the temple, has fights.
He drove slowly past the temple just car, and instead of the people opposing upon hundreds forsook the idol car to wal respect for him, and their really small revel Mr. Twynam sent his salams to us, said told us to go on, and all the headmen h little folks sing, so I sent fifteen or so of n pastor to him. The great crowd which w of the violin, cymbals, and the children' a quarter of an hour the largest service o highly respected Government Agent as th of the day, and pray that He may bless many who were present.
WORSHIP
 

sful Day.
e, purity, peace, and love to thousands emembered in some hearts. Our little d on for five hours, their little throats ning. gent of this province, came on from town in if the headmen were at hand and preservg the people at such large festivals; and illing in so many of the people, thereby tended to preserve quiet and to prevent
at the time when they were drawing the his passing, to our astonishment hundreds k after his carriage, a mark of their high. "ence for or faith in the idol.
he was glad we were having meetings, and eard him say so. He asked to hear my my station school children in the care of a as about him was attracted by the sound s voices, and thus my little folks held for f Christian song during the day, with the e centre. We thank God for the success all that passed to the good of some of the

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ASTREET IN CEYLON LINED WITH TAR
CHAP
A LETTER FROM
EAR CHILDREN-I am a C
Santillipay.
I am not a spruce-tree such but a tamarind-tree with very valuable and plentiful acid fruit. A tamar this country, and one of the most valuable worth of fuit in a year. But a tamarimai fruit, for the toys with which I am cove Tamil Bibles and Scripture portions and h I grew in the mission compound in S; preaching bungalow was all lined by the cloth, and after a beautiful arch of strun erected and other decorations put up, I wa
 
 

dARIND, COCOANUT, AND OTHER TREES.
ITER XV.
A CHRISTMAS TREE.
Manepy, December 25th, 1883. Christmas tree which you helped to plant in
as you use in your country, as I am told, beautiful soft foliage like a fern, and a very ind-tree is one of the largest kind of trees ın ; a full-grown tree sometimes produces A1 Christmas tree produces still more valuable red delight a hundred little eyes, and the ymn-books will feed the heart.
antillipay, and after the roof of the large teachers and native Christians with white g red and white oleander blossoms was s brought in and planted. Immediately the

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children brought more flowers, limes, pla gifts sent by you, and prepared by the n owner written on each, were hung upon m roast peas, roast rice, native sugar and sw my branches were bending down with til children helped me to keep up a stout he Then the missionary ladies arrived, an company of people, and a native band c flutes, large and small, a kind of native b: A canopy of red cloth decorated with missionary ladies, rose water from silver two large baskets full, were strewn before surprise by the people, to show their goo from the year before last, when at some in Christians were stoned, the fruit-trees belo fowls killed ? At that time all the boys ir which the secular lessons were taught on th the students were taught to mock at Ch here with I2O children, where the Bible and the children are brought on the Sabb These children were all present arou spread on the floor. They were all dresse are much liked by the people, they look brothers and sisters came also, and m These were all seated around the four were prepared with many dialogues, re the occasion, in English and Tamil, all Some were about Christ, His birth, His his address opened the Bible and read a the heathen present listened with attentic was much singing, Miss Leitch had her “ part of the Manepy children's choir with Then several persons present gave distributed. Quite a number of boys an of honour,” because they had recited perf lyrics, and fifty-two golden texts, which as shown a perfect or nearly perfect S

e Mission-school.
tain fruits, &c., to decorate me. Then the issionary ladies with the name of the future 2, as well as lots of little bags full of popcorn, !et cakes. These were brought and hung till e heavy load. But the merry shouts of the art and not give way. d to their surprise they were met by a large f music consisting of five instruments, two gpipe, a drum, and cymbals.
flowers was carried over the heads of the vases was sprinkled over them, and flowers, them. This was all arranged as a pleasant dwill and love. Was it not a great change noonlight meetings the missionary ladies and nging to a Christian family robbed, and their the place were studying in a Sivite school in e Sabbath as well as on week-days, and where ristianity. Now there is a Mission-school essons and Christian hymns are daily taught, ath to Sabbath school and church service. hd me, and they were seated on ola mats :d in their best clothes, and, as bright colours ed like a flower garden. Their little baby any of the fathers and mothers as well. sides of the building. The boys and girls citations, compositions, &c., appropriate to of which they recited very well, I thought. (eachings, &c., and one boy in the midst of part of the Sermon on the Mount, and all n to those beautiful and lofty words. There American baby organ' with her, and also a violin and cymbals.
addresses. After this the presents were girls whose names were found on the “roll actly the 145 Bible verses, twelve hymns and ormed the Bible lesson for the year, as well unday School attindance, received prizes of

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AFute of the (
New Testaments or hymn books. Have write done as well as they, and do you st: After the meeting all the men, wo ladies half a mile on foot toward their h music.
My work is done. A coolie has come family, so in death as in life, I am,
s
A VIEW
 

2/hristmas Tree. б3
any of you little girls and boys to whom I. and on the roll of honour men, and children escorted the missionary ome, walking in procession and headed by
to cut me up for firewood for the catechist’s
Your faithful
CHRISTMAS TREE.
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A BANYAN
CHIAPT)
THE WEEK
As IKE the banyan tree, the King extending here, taking deeper upward.
We were much encouraged English-speaking children from our large came into the meetings, not reluctantly as 1 the last day, after several addresses, in whicl they were asked how many wished to giv the new year, and many hands were held u The Christians took. new courage, and in the children, and in ten or fifteen years, ins this field, there will be thousands." The C
 
 

ER XVIII.
of PRAYER
Manepy, 7 anuary I4th, I884. gdom of Christ seems to be growing and root downward, and sending new shoots
this year during the week of prayer. The English schools at Maraepy and Arnikotty ast year, but always with a glad rush. On n they were urged to decide for Christ now, e their hearts to God at the beginning of p.
their evening meeting said, “Let us save stead of one or two hundred Christians in Christians consecrated themselves anew to

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Christ's service with earnest prayers and the work this coming year. We distribute of D. L. Moody's book of sermons, and a are having an excellent effect. We expect printed before next Christmas. You ask steps?” I answer, “Yes, yes; there are ev fields white for the harvest.” The question are the reapers?" During the past weel and I attended thirty meetings. But there which we could not attend. How are my the Bible lessons to nearly 20oo children i people, and every village open for the ( We have had the Christians, not only m companies to go to these meetings, but the if sister or I can go, from one to five hu had to go through a village and call the he could get a dozen or two to listen to hi harvest, we are short of labourers.
A BIBLE-WOMAN.
 

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tears, and we are looking for a blessing on 'd during the past year twenty-four copies large number of his tracts, and we see they to have the book translated into Tamil, and “Do you see signs of His coming footerywhere signs of His coming. I can see the I would send back to my friends is, “Where c, which was the week of prayer, my sister were calls from villages for Gospel meetings sister and myself to direct the teaching of n schools? In our field are nearly 20,ooo 3ospel, and calling for moonlight meetings. en but women and children, organized into y are not enough. At any of these meetings, Indred will attend. Formerly a missionary people, and he thought he was successful if m; but now, when the fields are ripe for the
I am just now enjoying very much accompanying our dear native Biblewomen, and visiting the homes usually visited by them, and going over the Bible lessons taught by them during the last three months. I think they are doing very good work. I see real progress in the women whom they visit-not only that they can say more Bible verses, but that they show more earnestness and more desire to know God, and more wish to serve Him. I have hope that in many hearts there is true love for Christ. Though fear of husbands and friends and custom keeps them from coming out to Church, or openly acknowledging Him by joining the Church, yet they do acknowledge Him in their homes and before their families and friends, and are known in their homes as

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women zuvho do mot go to heathen temples or Let us rejoice in this, and pray the Lord which is, oh, so hard in this country Y customs and caste prejudices here, or ho wish you could go with me to these homes words of welcome, and see the serious ea and recite their Bible lessons. I cannot he are granted the great privilege of sowing willing hearts. I hope our friends at home At the annual meeting of the Jaffna Au town of Jaffna, I heard an English Churc been told him by a missionary from Chine great deal since. He said that in the Chin seemed very hard and discouraging, but in native pastor, there were always inquire) Church, and this was so remarkable as to e. in China. One of the missionaries of th met by a gentleman from Bristol, who invite asking him the most careful questions, showi with the work. In the course of the conve gentleman had undertaken some time ago mentioned, and had sent the funds regularly pastor should send him very frequent acc missionary said he understood the secret this gentleman pray. He prayed for the yo quirers, stating their various difficulties, he pl tians. He prayed as one speaking to a de And he was answered. God had in a wor and believing prayer. When I heard it I co believing prayers offered for Jaffna. It seen “The Lord's hand is not shortened that i cannot hear." Is it indifference and unt which He was willing and waiting to give?
“God be merciful unto us, and bless us, ' THAT THY wAY MAY BE KNowN UPON . NATIONS. Aet the people praise Thee, O Goa nations begaad and sing for foy.'

at Home.
rub ashes, but who study the Bible and pray. to give them strength for the other part, ou at home cannot know the strength of difficult it is to break away from these. I and see these bright faces, and hear the irnestness with which they at once sit down lp thanking God, again and again, that we the precious seed of His Word in so many will continue in prayer for this work. xiliary Bible Society, recently held in the h missionary relate an incident which had l, and which has been in my thoughts a a Inland Mission the work in some places one native church, under the care of a is and conversions and additions to the cite the attention of many of the workers at mission on going home to England was 2d him to his house, and surprised him by ng a remarkable and thorough acquaintance rsation it became known that this Bristol the support of the native pastor before through the society on condition that this ounts of the work in all its details. The of the success of that work when he heard ung converts by name, he prayed for the in'ayed for the pastor and for the native Chrislar and tried friend, and sure of an answer. derful way honoured that man's intelligent uld not keep back the tears. We want such ns as if we could not do without them. t cannot save, neither His ear heavy that it elief which have kept back the blessing
and cause Ais face to shine upon us.” EARTH, THY SAVING HEALTH AMoNG ALL let all the people fraise Zhee. Olet the

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seeing twelve person: membership They will j Sabbath. There are a number of others thought best for them to wait till next have time to know them better and hav may prove true.
Last April and May the smallpox bro making it necessary for us to close a nu one of our Christians or Sabbath School C the time nearly 20oo children were learni secret place of the Most High shall abid This lesson had been fixed months be: only that the precious words should come not a special providence that none of our Providence whose love plans every momei nothing can go wrong with us.
A few months ago a Christian girl lay to stay; I want to go, for heaven is better heaven they are giving in their account sister there;” and stretching out her hand native Christian lawyer, has just given Rs two scholarships in the Wesleyan Girls' BC This is an index of how true a hol
 
 
 

CHAPTER XVII.
PROTECTION IN TIME OF DANGER.
Manepy, 7uly 4th, I884.
UST five years ago to-day we left our Vermont home and turned our faces toward Boston and the foreign field.
We are celebrating the day in what is to us a very joyful manner, viz. in examined by the committee for Church oin on profession of faith on the coming who have asked to be received, but it was occasion, in order that the Christians may e fuller proof of their sincerity. I trust they
ke out in several of the villages around us, mber of our day-schools for a time, but not hildren, as far as we know, has suffered. At gthe 91st Psalm: “He that dwellethin the e under the shadow of the Almighty,” &c. fore for this time. Was it a coincidence to give courage in time of danger? Was it dear people were stricken? Yes, the special ht of our lives, and therefore in life or death
dying of fever. She said, “I do not want .” A little later she said, “Mother, I see in s,” and a moment later, “I see my little is she died with a glad smile. Her father a So in memory of his two daughters, to found arding-School where they studied.
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Christians here. Many in years to come, i. departed ones, will receive the blessings of a School.
*。 After reaching Ceylon one of the first ti the sight of a heathen funeral. On going I found the mother beating her face on the human heart is fust the same all the world a poor mother had no hope of ever seeing this anowing it as her child, and her heart eas pressed so convulsively to her bosom wo village and reduced to ashes in the burning the sea. She thought the child she loved seemed all dark to her. Very often mothe to eat food for days together, and someti are such that she commits suicide.
Dear mothers in the home land, someo you do in that sad hour? You went into your Christ, and poured out all your sorrow had said, o Suffer little children to come un is the kingdom of Heaven.' You thought His arms and blessed them, and you believ with Him, that He was caring for it better see it again, and your hearts were comforte other mothers who need the same comfor great sorrow. Oh, make haste to tell the Saviour, the infinitely compassionate One, f Some time after we landed in Ceylon I a a little child that had died. I looked into although their eyes were full of tears, I saw of native Christians had come to the house, hymns. The native minister came and he body to the grave-yard, walking in processic
** There's a land that is fairer tham da
For our Father waits over the way,
In the sweet by-and-by we shall met In the sweet by-and-by, we shall me

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n the name and for the sake of these dear Christian education in this Girls' Boarding
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hings which affected me very deeply was to the heuse where a little child had died, ground and wailing most piteously. Zhe ver, and mothers love their children. This child again or taking if an her arms or breaking. Soon the little body which she uld be carried away by the men of the ground, and the ashes would be strewn in was lost to her for ever, and the future irs, under such circumstances, will refuse mes a mother's hopelessness and despair
f you have lost a little child. What did your closet and looked up into the face of 's before Him. You remembered that He to Me, and forbid them not: for of such how He had taken up little children in ed that your little one was safe and happy than you could care for it, that you would d. Was it not so? Aemember there are t which comforted you in your hours of : heathen mothers of Jesus, the Almighty or they need Him as much as you do. ttended a Christian funeral. Again it was the faces of the father and mother, and a look of hope on their faces. A number and we joined together in singing Christian ld a brief service. Then all followed the n and singing in the Tamil language :-
y, and by faith we can see it afar, to provide us a dwelling-place there.
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We stood around the open grave, and the those words of Christ's: “I am the Rest Me, though he were dead, yet shall he but a JDivine Saviour could have spoken human heart. I looked again at the fa upturned to heaven, and I saw in them a I thanked God that we had such a Gospe presents such glorious hopes. Our dead a them again on the other side, and there wipe away all tears from all eyes."
 

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native minister opened the Bible and read rrection and the Life: he that believeth in
live." Marvellous words Surely none words so suited to meet the needs of the ces of the father and mother; they were look of resignation and feace. In my heart l to give to the heathen-a Gospel which re not lost, but gone before. We shall meet shall be no partings there," and God shall

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CHAPTER XVIII.
A CHRISTIAN WEDDING.
Manepy, Gouly I Ith, I884. E had a very large Christian wedding in our church the o other day It was attended by at least 8oo people, many of them from amongst the highest families in Jaffna. The father of the bride years ago came from a high heathen family, to study in the mission boarding-school. To enter there, one of th catechism. Although his father was a si private heathen school, yet he sent him to just in order that he might learn the Christ This was the beginning of his knowledge
the Batticotta Seminary (a school which student there he became convinced of th his parents knew this they were very angry inheritance. On the Sabbath, when he w and took away all his clothes. When, la by his parents, but our mission sent him to the late Dr. Green. He is now the leadin
has a large practice and wide reputation.
He married a Christian girl, having ref heathen girls. He has now a large, fine children. His wife is a very lovely woma It is a joy and satisfaction to have her visiting in the homes of the pupils of the l
 
 
 

e subjects for examination was the Scripture tiff heathen and had his son taught in a a Christian village school for a few months, ian catechism and pass a good examination. of Christianity. He then went to study at preceded the Jaffna College), and while a e truth and was brought to Christ. When f, and threatened him with the loss of his as to have been baptized, they shut him up liter on, he received baptism, he was cast off Manepy, where he studied medicine under g native Christian doctor in Manepy, and
used offers from the parents of much richer stone house, and an interesting family of n, beautiful in person, in mind, and in heart; Sompany and help in village meetings, or in Bible-won)en. She teaches a class of girls in

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Sunday School, though most women with three of them little ones, would not t promptly at 8.3o. a.m. on Sabbath morni goes out every Sabbath afternoon to hold the neighbouring village, taking her little ( The eldest daughter, about whose marri is a beautiful girl, nineteen years old, ed school, speaking English, able to read n organ, and a good singer; she sews anc good housekeeper; but more important th; loving Christian.
A young man related to a high heathen the Jaffna College and became a Christian in marriage, because she was a true Christ man's parents heard of it, they were ver him to marry a rich heathen girl, and They offered if he would do this to give h he would marry with heathen ceremonies. with the Christians. The persecution of h either accede to their wishes and become did. His mother threatened to throw her to disinherit him, and finally they sent hin It was very trying that not one of his imn but the Christians and the missionaries were present, to the number of 8oo. T church. I was glad that so many should marriage, and hearing the words of the nearly dusk when they left the church, ( occasion, and sung with accompaniment c filled up the time.
As the bridal party left the church, g: way to their home, an arch of flowers wa preceded them, and the whole company brilliant glare of torches, blue and red ligh to grace the occasion.
We hope that they may have a very happ of devoting themselves directly to Christia

Heathemism.
a family of six children, hink they could come ngs as she does. She a women's meeting in hildren with her.
age I began to tell you, ucated in the boarding nusic and play on the embroiders, and is a an all, she is an earnest,
family, who studied in , asked for the daughter ian. When this young y angry. They wished A LITE BRIDESMAD
return to heathenism. im Z3oo, and the elatives offered 41 oo if He refused, and chose to cast in his lot is friends was so great that he felt he must a heathen, or else leave his home, which he self into the well, and his father threatened h word that they regarded him as one dead. mediate relatives was present at his marriage, and many educated and influential natives he marriage was celebrated in the Manepy have the opportunity of seeing a Christian native pastor and our missionaries. It was christian lyrics in Tamil composed for the of native instruments, having very pleasantly
arments were spread before them the whole is borne over their heads, a band of music of people accompanied them on foot in the ts, rockets and fireworks, provided by friends
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EAR the close of last year we we mile distant from Manepy, a given the charge of the Oodoo A pray that grace may be given u The past year has been one of much united with the three Churches in our fie Navaly, and three in Panditerippu. Besid former members of our day and Sabbath received on profession of faith in the We are now students in the boarding-schools Our native Christians, at the beginning of together to pray that fifty might be brought
 
 

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D DELIVERANCE.
Oodooville, 5anuary, 1885. 're stationed at Oodooville, a place about a ld in addition to our other work we were ville Girls' Boarding-School. Will you not s to meet these added responsibilities p encouragement. Fifty-nine persons have d, namely forty-five itu Manepy, eleven in es these, quite a number from our field, schools and inquirers' classes, have been leyan and Church Mission churches, and of those Missions. In all this we rejoice. the year, during the week of prayer, united to Christ within the year. Some thought

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it was a very large request, but it was the They now feel that God has heard this pra things this coming year. We do not foi been praying especially for this field an have been and are being answered, and we last greatingathering.
Another encouraging feature of the y inquirers' classes. There are now he total average attendance of about 1.5o. appointed to be read during the week is e verse of Scripture and to offer prayer. T each one in the class in regard to hab attendance. The classes are conducted native Christians, and by ourselves. To people to take a step toward confessing Christians, and thus, by meeting together friends to encourage each other. They inquirers. Inquirers' classes are rallying interest is at once invited. In countries public profession of Christianity is so vas is a great help. It is our desire to see an school before the end of the coming year, inquirers, we ask our home friends to pra
The religious history of some of those interesting. I will mention a few instance
Chelappah, a man in Arnikotty, was led Christian boy. He has shown so much e as quite to put to shame many of our O children to church. He did not make t beautiful clothes, and though the heathe took no notice. He had his children bal family prayers. He sought the Bible-v He brought his daughter often to the g ways and waiting patiently outside during wife join the church at the close of they One of the inquirers, a young man of : great success in being married without

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prayer of faith from more than one heart. yer, and they take courage to ask for great get that dear friends in the home-land have d work, and we are glad that these prayers : believe that we shall rejoice together at the
ear has been the forming of several new d weekly seventeen such classes, with a in these meetings the portion of Scripture xplained. Each one is expected to repeat a he leader also inquires after and encourages its of daily prayer, Bible study, and church by the native pastors, catechists, leading join one of these classes helps the young Christ, puts them under the care of older from week to week, they become a band of also become known in their villages as points to which any one showing signs of where to leave idolatry and come over to a t a change, such a class as a stepping-stone inquirers' class, however small, in every dayFor God's help in this, and for these 15o y.
who joined the church this year seems to us
S. to Christ by the persistent efforts of a young arnestness in regard to bringing up his family, lder Christians. He brought his wife and he common excuse of want of jewels and n relatives persecuted and ridiculed him, he tized. He bought a whole Bible and began vomen and invited them to teach his wife. rls' inquirers' class, walking the mile both the meeting. He had the joy of seeing his
€3T, a high heathen family, has lately achieved a heathen ceremonies. The parents of both

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parties were strong Sivites, but the young bride had formerly learned the Bible lesson old to go to day-school, i.e. after the age of by one of our Bible-women, so she also fa many good results of Bible-women's work.
Another, a young man of the Pariah caste, was threatened by the higher-caste heathen punishments if he should join the churc though under the English Government it i. greater or less degree, and the Pariahs stand the higher castes. For three years he hid Christian, but fearing to confess Christ. A joined the church. The next Sabbath he service and ordered to work, and beaten h attend church, and because of this, one day of cloth to sell, he was caught, robbed of his pelled to walk ten miles in the hot sun, an if he ever returned to his home he would b to intimidate other low-caste people from become enlightened and no longer submit away some weeks, and then ventured back : late masters then instituted a false case agai our native Christians it was abandoned, thc sum for non-appearance. The heathen pe this sum, and forthwith dragged the youth three hours in the mid-day sun, with his face on his forehead-a, most cruel torture. Or if they committed another act of violence to the next Sabbath the youth, notwithstandi his place in church both morning and ever about Paul’s willingness not only to be boun Jesus, and I noticed, while teaching it, tha light of heaven. Poor youth, I little thou him! On the very next day those men too and feet, beat him in the most shameful n some hours. My sister was called by a r moment she had left him in order to seek f

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man never for a moment wavered. The s in our day-school, and again, when too twelve, she had been taught in her home voured a Christian marriage-one of the
who had studied in one of our day-schools, people, his former masters, with dreadful h; for the old system of master and serf, s done away with in name, still exists in a | much in fear of, and are in subjection to,
the light in his heart, living privately as a At last the light would not stay hid, and he
was stopped on his way to the morning because he refused. He still continued to when on his way to town with a bundle cloth and earrings and waist-chain, comi left in a strange village, with threats that e imprisoned. This was done, it appears, h becoming Christians, lest they should to heathen control. The youth stayed and still continued to attend church. His inst him in court, but through the efforts of ugh both parties were fined a considerable 'ople were enraged that they had to pay
to their house and made him stand for turned toward the sky and holding a stone learning this, we warned the people that ward him they would be prosecuted. On ng threats and punishments, was found in ling. The lesson in Sabbath School was d but also to die for the name of the Lord at his face was shining as if with the very ght how soon another trial would come to k him to their house, and, tying his hands nanner and left him bound in that way for elative and saw him in this state. The or help, they, fearing she would take a case

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against them, dragged the youth for some c bleeding back, which was unprotected by ar town over fields and fences a round-about w their object being to get a false case into c But their plan did not succeed, for my s morning, and the magistrate at once gave or jail. with the prospect before them, if the ca: a turm of years. They begged for mercy, wh we thought best to grant, but they had to pay Rs. Too, I think, and they have promised i incident has proved a complete success, fo the church, they will feel at liberty to do so. several lessons. And I want to say that a courage of the youth were admirable, and sh a Pariah.
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listance over the dust and stones on his ly clothing, and then marched him off to ray, for fear that others would see them, ourt before we could enter a true one. ister saw the police inspector the next ders to have the men arrested and sent to se were tried, of being sent to prison for ich for the sake of peace in the village fines and costs, &c., amounting to about n future to let the youth alone. The r if any low castes wish in future to join
The people of that village have learned ull along the self-control, firmness, and owed what Christianity could do even for

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ELEPHANTS BATHING.
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in Jaffna, of hills over 5ooo few weeks of rest missionary of the Jaffna for some ye are our dear frien their works' sake' I was very glad to escape for a little wh season, February to May, was unusually it and as we had more than the usual an missionaries being absent in America on overworked a little, for I began to be, ver with my duties. Now, after a little per delightful climate, with the beautiful woo home land, and a pleasant change fro self again, am able to eat and sleep well a morning and evening. I shall soon retur you may think of me as back again at Oc school, and with sister, who has been finc she has been going on with the work in women's meetings, also a thank-offering in
 
 

CHAPTER XX.
IEF VISIT TO NEWERA ELLIA.
Newera Ellia, 57uly 3oth, 1885. by the heading that I am not at this moment but in the interior of the island, on the top feet above the sea. I have come here for a at the invitation of a lady, the wife of a Church Missionary Society. They were in ars, our neighbouring fellow-workers. They lds, and “esteemed very highly in love for
hile from the trying heat of Jaffna. The hot ong this year, for the wind was late in coming; nount of work on our hands, three of the account of health, I suppose I must have y easily tired, and to feel unable to go on fect quiet and freedom from care, in this ded hills all about me, reminders of the dear m Jaffna which is quite flat, I feel my old ind to take long walks of two or three miles to Jaffna, and when this letter reaches you, dooville with our I o8 girls in the boardingling it a little hard to be without me. But obly, having large moonlight meetings and heeting, besides the Sabbath-school, whose

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numbers have now swelled to 34o. I lon. new courage, and hope to make up for my which I shall be able to go on with my dut over from India during my absence. Two from Trichinopoly, South India. The latt Gregorian or Free Chants, which are ver native Christians, and thus God's words
The Madura men have been teaching sor and lyrics lately composed in South India
 

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g to be back again. I shall return with short holiday by the renewed vigour with ies, Sister has had three Christian singers were from the Madura Mission and one er chants the psalms beautifully, using the y easy, and which are liked much by our are becoming more known and precious. ne of the beautiful new Christian hymns adapted to native tunes, collected and

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arranged by the Rev. J. S. Chandler, of the by the Religious Tract Society. The sing being eagerly bought up by our native the heathen community. These new songs of the easiest and best ways of diffusing C we hope to arrange for a large public conc held on two previous occasions.
Now I will tell you a little about my pre: beautiful. The house in which I am is situ four miles in circumference. This lake i surround it on all sides. There are three b down the sides of these hills like silver thre: saw in Switzerland when we were on our w carriage drives and walks all about, for this the island, and there are about forty Euro The Governor and his suite come here in th
My hostess-when the pony is at home preaching tours in the surrounding estatesof from six to twelve miles in the afternoons with our hands full of wild flowers and ferns is at 65 in the middle of the day indoors. and the perfume of flowers floating in and fil here so easily, and many varieties are in blo Some of them are old home friends. The n thrive well. Mignonette, fuchsia, and gere than my head. Peach-trees have both bloss trees hang golden with oranges. Several kir duced into the country some time ago, now ferns, tossing their huge soft feathery plumes all about, and are my constant wonder and ferns here; I am making a collection in my
The tropical sun retains its old power eve it unprotected without getting a headache. go out in the middle of the day and get suns struck down to the ground, had to crawl ho for a long time afterwards, all because he w hat or umbrella.

Zangers.
Madura Mission, and published in Madras ers brought over 3Ooo copies, which are christians, day-school children, and even are being widely learned and sung-one hristian truth. When I return to Jaffna ert of Christian song, such as has been
sent surroundings, which I think are very lated on the shore of a little lake, some s nestled in the lap of the hills, which eautiful little waterfalls in sight, winding lds, and reminding me of the waterfalls I ay to Ceylon. There are many well-kept place is the Government Sanatorium of bean residences, besides the native village. e season. Then the place is very gay. and not in use by her husband on his takes me out for long and pleasant drives , which I much enjoy, and we come home The air is mild, and the thermometer So we sit with doors and windows open, ling the air with fragrance. Flowers grow oom in the garden surrounding the house. host lovely budded roses of all varieties uniums grow here into tall shrubs higher oms and fruit at the same time. Orangends of Australian trees, having been introgrow and flourish everywhere. Great tree twenty to thirty feet high in the air, grow | admiration. There are many kinds of walks, and pressing them to send home. n here, and one cannot long be out under Some people, deceived by the cool air, troke. One man, a little while ago, was me on his hands and knees, and was ill alked out in the sunshine without a pith

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All this interior part of Ceylon has by E into huge tea and coffee and cinchona es over from India, and are employed on th Colombo to this place, and a small steame is by this steamer that I will return from C
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glish industry and capital been converted es. Thousands of Tamil coolies come se plantations. There is a railroad from goes round the island twice a month. It
lombo to Jaffna.
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ITINERATING ON
ITHIN the fourteen months sinc Oodooville church on professi thirty from the boarding-scho young girls with bright, earne manhood, fathers and mothers with their li their garments, old men and women feeble staff, all standing up together, the rich and confessing before all the congregation thei their one Lord.
At present the list of inquirers connected copy of the list is given to each of the leadi they will pray for and encourage these indi for women, the other for men, are regularly morning service.
 
 

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THE ISLANDS.
Oodooville, March 31, 1886. e we wrote to you, sixty have joined the on of faith, thirty from the villages, and ol. It was an interesting thing to see est faces, young lads in the promise of ttle children in their arms or clinging to and bowed with age, one leaning on his the poor, the high and the low, together faith in Jesus the Saviour of the world,
with this church alone numbers 130. A ng church members, with the request that viduals. Two meetings for inquirers, one held every Sabbath immediately after the

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In Oodooville, Manepy, Navaly, and Par trees, and gave away to the Roll of Hon. Will you not pray with us that God will bl and in so many homes? The well-filled before Christmas lightened our labours gr ones to hundreds of pleased recipients. C the gifts have seen the joy of all the littl they would have felt repaid for their trou beautiful scrap-books, work bags, &c., \ children, proved just the thing for prizes were glad to carry them home and show total attendance at all our Christmas-trees w children.
On February 15 the Oodooville Girls' Bo: ating a class of twenty-four girls, all professi attended by several missionaries and by a many of the leading educated men and won how large a number of the women present faces showed the pleasure they had in revisi recitations and songs of their children no took part in the exercises, eighteen giving Tamil essays on the following subjects: Th Nineteenth Century, The Power of Christi Women of Jaffna in Regard to Temperance The exercises were varied by frequent songs English play-song, a tonic sol-fa round, a cha lyric composed for the occasion and sung r school. Six girls also in turn played on the close, the chairman, the Rev. Dr. Has which he pictured the condition of things first came. Then not a single woman ol Now there are nearly 5ood girls studying in in Mission Girls' Boarding-schools, and the communicants in the different mission ch work for Christ. We may well exclaim, presented to each of the class a diploma, hymn-book. Nineteen prizes were award

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diteripu, we had altogether ten Christmasour children I o2 Tamil New Testaments. ess His own Word to these young hearts home-boxes received from America just atly, and made the occasions very happy ould the children at home who prepared e ones here who received them, I think ble. The more expensive picture-books, which seemed too choice for the village for the girls of the boarding-school, who them with pride to their friends. The 'as over three thousand-men, women, and
arding school closed its school year, gradung Christians. The public exercises were large number of native friends, including hen of Jaffna. One could not help noting were graduates of this institution. Their ting their Alma Mater, and listening to the w in the school. All the graduating class short English recitations, and six reading e Women of India, The Wonders of the anity, Lord Shaftesbury, The Duty of the , and The Class History and Valedictory. -a Tamil lyric, a motion song, a children's ant, two English part songs, and a good-bye sponsively by the graduating class and the the organ, accompanying the singing. At itings, made some appropriate remarks, in in Jaffna in 1816, when the missionaries girl in the whole peninsula could read. mission schools, 4oo of whom are studying re are over I ooo Native Christian female urches, many of them actively engaged in
“What hath God wrought !” He then a Tamil Reference Bible, and a lyric and ed for general scholarship, as well as for

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needlework and deportment; eight for pu mental music ; four for neatness of perso occasion seems to have been enjoyed by a held a few days ago, the school passe rupees.*
The day after the graduating exercises islands lying south-west of Jaffna. These took with me our tent, folding organ, v. native pastor, a catechist, a Bible-womar * This school receives no aid from any missio missionaries. The expenses of the school are met and the interest of an endowment and scholarship fund, mostly from native sources, of Rs. 15,ooo. Of der is to be paid in monthly or quarterly instalmen
in America have most kindly sent to us or paid to been invested for the school.
 

} VW1TIH PALMIS
nctuality and attendance; three for instrun and dress; and two for cooking. The ll. In the Government Grant Examination eighty-four per cent, and earned 245o
of our boarding-school, I took a trip to have a population of 28,ooo people. I olin, cymbals, and five singing children, a and two young men, one a student in
lary society, excepting the superintendence of the by the Government grant, the fees of the pupils und. We have secuied subscriptions toward ths his Rs. 7 Ioo have been already paid, and the remains through a period of years. Friends of this scho l our brother sums amounting to 416o, which has

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magic-lantern and Bible pictures. Ve visi islands, but spent most of our time on the meeting of different currents within a mil access, and although sometimes visited b within the knowledge of any one living ther lady. The people seemed delighted to se arrival a meeting of perhaps one hundred a showed our magic-lantern pictures; first,
coming of Christ and our need of a Savic blessing little children, raising the dead, and Mount, the returning prodigal, &c. All l After this we held meetings each morning : homes during the day, but not in the midd permit our going out; but at that time the island contains about 20oo people. The m Catholics, but all the others are Sivites. T the Native Missionary Society, with an atte Christian teacher. There are as yet no co Canapathy Pullay, belonging to one of the
studying under this teacher. He is now st and we hope when he shall have finished h work on his native island. This young bc was very diligent in helping to arrange for
attend them. His grandfather is the most engaged in building an expensive heathen Canapathy Pullay as we were calling peop brushed the tears from his eyes and said
a Christian.” It is said that, if this man sh of the people of the island would give up h to know the firmness with which this yo to Christianity, refusing in any way to partic grandfather said to me: “Take the boy; h religion.” The boy's mother and her four
much adorned with jewellery, came to see his mother, and that I was kind to him,
them that if I was the boy's mother, then
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in the Tillipally Training School, also our ed and held meetings at three of these island of Delft. This, on account of the 2 or so of the shore, is quite difficult of missionary gentlemen, it has never before, e, so I was told, been visited by any white e us, and we had on the evening of our nd fifty-men, women, and children. We the birth of Christ, explaining about the our; then the beautiful pictures of Christ giving sight to the blind, the Sermon on the istened with attention and great interest, and evening, and visited the people in their le of the day, as the sun was too hot to people, at our request, visited us. This ost of the lower castes have become Roman There is a good school here, supported by ndance of about fifty children taught by a onverts on the island, except a young boy, highest families. He was converted while udying in our English school at Manepy, is studies he will go back as a catechist to by was at home while we were there, and our meetings and in calling his friends to influential man on the island, and is now temple. I passed it in company with le to a meeting, and as we looked at it he : “I wish my grandfather would become ould become a Christian, most likely many eathenism. It has been a great joy to us ung boy, Canapathy Pullay, has adhered ipate in heathen rites or ceremonies. The he belongs to you; he has given up his old sisters, all respectable married women and ne. They told me the boy had said I was and so they wanted to see me. I told it must follow that they were my sisters.

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They seized the idea with apparent delight, an my hands with kisses in the native manner, rose or something fragrant. I told them become Christians. They have consented to join our boarding-school next year. His sist a smile as any pcrhaps I have ever seen on a our return to Jaffna a cousin of this Canapath school.
I think our meetings were greatly bless expressed a wish to be baptized, and to be formed them into an inquirers' class, and ask morning to the teacher's house to be instruc why he believed in Christ, answered with emol great battles and doing many wonders, but and dying to save us.” These high families that when they begin to become Christians th were very kind and hospitable to us. Whe usually asked was: “What can we give yo cow or a goat, or perhaps a buffalo, lassoed a would give us fresh milk to drink. They dre and we drank it from a folded plantain-leaf.
We enjoyed our stay very much, and the pe Some of the women clung to me and said: “ dearly have liked to do but for my much-lo my wealthy sisters in more favoured lands, so homes. They are spending their time perhaps well enough in a way, but I wished they could having a child or woman with a dark skin, but b with a grateful gaze and say: “You have mac Could you bring from the piano a strain of m on a canvas a face that would shine like such “My great grief is that my pictures cannot beat or feel.” But you might draw pictures ( feel. We bade the people farewell, promising

| Pay.
d, putting their arms around me, covered that is, smelling them as if smelling a that if they were my sisters, they must let Canapathy Pullay's sister and cousin er is a beautiful girl, and has as sweet child's face. We also took with us on y Pullay, to join the Tillipally Training
ed. Of those who attended, eleven
known thenceforth as Christians. We ed them to go regularly every Sabbath ted. One of the inquirers, when asked ion: “I have heard of our gods fighting I have never heard of their loving us
seen to be all related, and believe ey will all come together. The people n we visited a house the first question up” and forthwith they would have a nd brought to the door and milked, and :w the mik into a hollow bamboo-stick
'ople seemed sorry that we should leave. You must stay with us.” This I would ved work in Jaffna. But I thought of me of whom could be spared from their ; over music, painting, or such things, all l know something of the supreme joy of right, intellectual face, look up into theirs je known to me my Heavenly Father.” usic as sweet as that? Could you draw a face? A painter once said to me: breathe or speak, that the heart cannot on faces that speak, and on hearts that
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NėF the 12o girls who are no Church members and sever the school this year were frc no heard of Christ before. told her of heaven, asked in great wond To lead these girls to Christ, and to f stand the test of the sore trials to which is sufficient for these things?” and the t the different classes, never to return to the school to be married. Their heath relatives. What we do must be done for us and ours God's blessing? We th of dear ones to train for Him. It is a h April 3oth.-Jesus has called one of day-scholar of the boarding-school, an only two or three compounds from us. was quite unexpected, but the Master ca feel sure that she was ready to go. Thou her Saviour and to work for Him also. last communion, and this dear child Gna thought she was too young. Now they was a member of the Young People's S “ Look-out Committee,” and a faithful li!
 
 
 

APTER XXIII.
ANAM UTTHU.
Oodooville, April, 1886.
w studying in the boarding-school, fifty are ity are not. Many of those who have entered }m heathen families, and some had never really A little girl from one of the islands, when we er if we had come from there. orm in them a Christian character which will they will surely be exposed hereafter-"Who ime so short. Every year girls drop out from the school. Often our girls are taken out of en parents will try to marry them to heathen Juickly and well. Will you not specially ask ank Him daily for giving us so large a number appy work. It is His work.
our dear girls home to Himself. She was a d lived with her parents, who are Christians,
She was sick but a few days and her death me and called for her. It is a joy to us all to igh only nine years old, she had learned to love
Her older brother joined the Church at the namutthu begged hard to join, but her parents are very sorry. Gnanamutthu (Wisdom Pearl) Society of Christian Endeavour and one of the itle worker. The subject for our next meeting,

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appointed at our last, 1s “Heaven.” Ho meeting came to be held one of our nur dear and real has the place now become
Gnanamutthu used often to call her scho her own or neighbouring homes. The prie that when his little son was very sick, Gnar down by the sick child prayed so earnestly it seemed as if she were talking with God, recovered, and the father believes it was ir going to the funeral-house, I found there th had come in of their own accord, accordin for the dead. These women were beat and swaying their bodies back and forth, This they will do for seven days, gatherin cries can be heard a long distance off. At to them of Jesus, the friend of little childrer of the joy and peace He had given her in s. which we believed. He had taken her. Th with eager, hungry looks. Many of them hac they would ever see them again. One said it would come again to this world in the animal. The Hindus believe in 8,4oo, ooo those hungry mother-hearts of a better h gathered in the Saviour's arms, to “go n. sheltered in His bosom, and that this Savic come to Him, and that He had taken thei after.
When I left the house one of the wo that, since the death of her two Christian cl left off going to temples, and now she wante and to meet them in heaven.
* Let sorrow d Send grief Sweet are T
Sweet thei When they c
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w little we thought that before the next ber would be called to enter there How
ol-mates and hold little prayer-meetings in it of a neighbouring Sivite temple told us amutthu came to the house, and kneeling for his recovery that all who heard it said and as if He were very near. The child answer to her prayer. This morning, on irty or forty of the heathen neighbours who ng to the custom of the country, to mourn ing their breasts and tearing their hair, and all together uttering piercing shrieks. g together morning and evening. Their my coming they became quiet, and I spoke ... I told them of this child's faith in Him, ickness, and of the glorious happy home to ey gathered close around me and listened i lost little ones, and they asked if I thought her little babe had died, but she supposed
form of a snake or a rat, or some other transmigrations. How glad I was to tell ope, a hope that their dear infants were o more out,' but to be for ever safe and ur was their Saviour too if they would but little ones in love that they might follow
men walked home with me. She said hildren; she had lost faith in idols and had d to worship the Saviour they worshipped,
) its work, and pain; y messengers,
refrain, un sing with me
Christ, to Thee, o Thee.”

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CHAPTER
THE YOUNG PEOPLE's SoCIETY
T is a striking truth which is emb 2. to-day is the man of to-morro workers wish to win and hold t cara hold the children, for the boys and women of the future, the not distant bu
A little boy, when asked derisively by sol good for?' replied, “Please, sir, little boys His answer was one which every worker for to heart. Work for the children is the stra women in heathen lands are bound by the ti are darkened by superstition and worldly w sin. But the child's heart is open and t not a half-wasted life but a whole life saved
Two questions had long been pressing ol for the children, viz. how could we best fo: children and train them into useful and acti lead heathen children to take a first step to and voluntarily placing themselves under C
 
 
 
 
 
 

'DOOR MEETING,
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OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR
odied in the familiar saying, “The boy of w.” If we as Missionaries and Christian his country for Christ, we must win and and girls of the present will be the men It mear future. me one, “What are little boys like you like me are the stuff they make men of.” Christ and humanity would do well to lay tegic point in our campaign. Men and rammels of custom and habit, their minds isdom, and their consciences hardened by ender, and if saved and won to Christ it is and won. n our minds in connection with the work ster the spiritual life of the native Christian ive Christian workers; and how could we ward Christ, by giving up heathen practices histian influences? On reading a book

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entitled “The Children and the Churc founder of “The Young People's Societ feel that the methods of this society, wh were adapted to heathen lands as well, and and having the constitution and bye-laws of 17o, have been formed in different part is, “To promote an earnest Christian life a acquaintance, and to make them more us consist of two classes, Active and Asso Secretary, and Treasurer, are chosen from applying for active membership are requir the revised version) :-
Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength, I would like to have me do; that I will make it the day; that I will support my, own church in every and mid-week services, unless prevented by sor Saviour, and that, just so far as I know how, thrc Christian life.
As an active member, I promise to be true to all aside from singing, in every Christian Endeavour I can conscientiously give to my Lord and M consecration meeting of the society, I will, if possi response to my name at the roll-call.
In the three societies formed various co the membership, viz. the Prayer-meeting Missionary Committee, and, most importa It is delightful to see how heartily they of the society. Oftentimes the native weekly prayer meetings, and when they see member as far as possible present and reciting a verse of Scripture, or speakir subject, a look of renewed hope comes in faces of old veterans when they behold the On Sabbath mornings all the Endeavo schools, which are growing through their e morning service, when the native pastors g and the Endeavourers sit with their Bibles read or quoted. But in order that the dyspepsia” by eating too much gospel food

indeavourers.' 9.
n,' by the Rev. F. E. Clark, of Boston, of Christian Endeavour,' we were led to ich had proved so successful in America, as a result three societies bearing this name of the parent society, and with a membership s of our field. The object of these societies mong the members, to increase their mutual eful in the service of God.” The members ociate, and the President, Vice-President,
among the active members. All candidates ed to sign the following pledge (I append
promise Him that I will strive to do whatever He rule of my life to pray and to read the Bible every way, especially by attending all her regular Sunday me reason which I can conscientiously give to my oughout my whole life, I will endeavour to lead a
my duties, to be present at and to take some part, prayer-meeting, unless hindered by some reason which aster. If obliged to be absent from the monthly ble, send at least a verse of Scripture to be read in
ommittees have been appointed from among Committee, Sabbath School Committee, nt of all, the Look-out Committee. oung people enter into the spirit and work pastor, catechists, and teachers attend the in the one brief hour of the meeting every aking some part either by offering prayer, ng a few words relative to the appointed to their faces, such as might be seen on the
approach of reinforcements. burers are present in their various Sabbath forts. After the Sabbath school comes the give to their people good, plain, gospel food, in their hands ready to turn up the passages native Christians may not get “spiritual i and doing too little gospel work, Sabbath

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afternoons are devoted to direct efforts in t 3.30 p.m. small companies of Christian m directions, north, south, east, and west, to h Sabbath schools in the surrounding heathen may be seen three or four Endeavour boys, and with the singing. In the same way con or four in a company, may be observed going afternoon to hold meetings in different villag every company of women go three or four hymn-books, to help gather together the h singing, and to act as little nurses to any ci able to listen without distraction. Many afternoon by the native Christians, attended b We earnestly desire to see a large workin the great fight of light against darkness, trut and enlist the young, fresh energies of the C solemn covenant daily to read the Scriptures either to offer public prayer or bear public their only Redeemer,' we trust they will go brave soldiers of the Cross. If India and Ce soon, every native Christian, high and low, enlisted as a warrior. It has been said that st to Christ in China have been won by the eff the same proportion would hold true of col gentleman, after listening to an able address f comment :- “Once a forest was told that a down. “It does not matter in the least,' said When, however, it heard that some of its owr axe-heads, it said, “Now we have no longer “as long as we only had foreigners to deal where our own countrymen are enlisted on th This utterance is significant as showing the in the Gospel is preached to them by converted If the hope of the speedy evangelization o agency, then surely the training from earlies to devolve such great responsibilities is a task devoted missionaries.

he Aare-heads.
ehalf of the heathen around. At about en may be seen going out in different old evangelistic meetings or to conduct illages, and with each company of men who go to help in calling in the people panies of native Christian women, three out in different directions every Sabbath es among the heathen women, and with Endeavour girls to carry the Bibles and eathen women and girls, to aid in the ying babies, so that the mothers may be meetings are thus held every. Sabbath by hundreds of heathen. g force developed in our Churches. In h against error, we must gather together hurch. “Trained under the arch of a , and pray in secret to God, and weekly testimony in honour of Jesus Christ as out to fight the good fight of faith as ylon are to be won for Christ, and won rich and poor, old and young, must be aven-eighths of all who have been brought orts of converted Chinese, and perhaps nverts in Ceylon and India. A Hindu rom a native pastor, made the following load of axe-heads had come to cut it the forest. They will never succeed.’ branches had become handles to the any chance.' So,” said this gentleman, with we were safe, but now that everyat side, certainly our faiths are doomed.” npression made upon the Hindus when
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* The Maister a
We all remember the story of the famous used to give his lessons to his pupils with did this, he replied that it was to hono masters who would one day proceed from with their badges,” he used to say, “it is teacher's school at that time was a boy who world; the boy Martin Luther. I think, a of the Endeavour Society, “These boys wil teachers one day, and these girls will be w. in the Sabbath schools, Bible-women, an religious instincts are so strong, their con willing and eager, with what care, with wh nurtured and trained for the service of Chri
In this great work for the conversion and not confidently look for the blessing and he His arms and blessed them, and who said, and forbid them not, for of such is the king
THE MAISTER AI
By A YOUNG S
The Maister sat in a wee cot hoose Tae the Jordan's waters near,
An' the fisher fowk crush'd and croodit roun’
The Maister's words tae hear.
An” even the bairns frae the near-han” streets
War mixin' in wi' the thring,
Laddies an' lassies wi' wee bare feet,
Jinkin' the crood amang.
An” ane o’ the Twal” at the Maister’s side
Rase up an' cried allood
** Come, come, bairns, this is mae place for you,
Rin awa' hame oot o' the crood.”
But the Maister said, as they turned awa', “Let the wee bairns come tae Me!'
An' He gaithered them roun' Him whar He sat,
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master at Eisenach, John Tribonius, who uncovered head, and when asked why he ir the consuls, chancellors, doctors, and nis school. “ Though you do not see them ight to show them respect.' And in that se words, when a man, were to shake the s I look into the faces of the young people
some of them be pastors, catechists, or ves and mothers in the homes, teachers il Christian workers.” Now, when their sciences so tender, their young hearts so at prayer, with what love, should they be st and the Church. Christian nurture of the children, may we lp of Him who took up little children in “Suffer little children to come unto Me, dom of heaven ” ?
ND THE BAIRNS.
COTTSH PoET.
Ay, He gaithered them roun' Him whar Fesat,
An' straikit their curly hair,
An' He said tae the won'erin' fisher fowk
That croodit aroun' Him there
'Send na the weans awa' frae Me, But raither this lesson learn
That mane'll win in at heaven's yett That isna as pure as a bairn.'
An' He that has ta'en us for kith and kin,
Tho' a' Prince o' the Far Awa',
Gaithered the wee anes in His airms,
An” blessed them ane an” a”.
豪 拳 游 桑 称
O Thou who watchest the ways o' men, Keep oor feet in the heavenly áirt,
An' bring us at last tae Thy hame albume,
As pure as the bairns in he'rt.

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CHAPTER
PRECIOUS
HEN the Society of Christian End
boy who lived near the church attended the meetings. When forward and said he wanted to his two front teeth were fallen out, so th: all shaven except a little round place on, was tied up in a knot. He wore a yard all. This little half-naked person, with his begged to join the society. He was frol was that he was too young, and did not
 
 

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PEARL.
leavour was started in Oodooville, a little was attracted by the singing, and always others were joining the society he came join. He was a very little fellow, and at he spoke with a lisp. His head was
the top, where the hair that was left of cloth about his loins and that was head only a little higher than the table, m a heathen family. My first thought know what he was asking, but when I

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told him so, tears began to gather in his ey of the “Look-out Committee” promised t had no Bible portion. I told him he must he came bringing some vegetables with whi
At the next meeting of the society he Matthew’s Gospel in which, according to ou had learned and recited the Lord's prayer. in his own words like the other children. his earnestness, we did not like to discourag favoured it and said they would look aft proudly and wrote his name, Vidamutthu, “Precious Pearl.' At the next meeting he One evening that week, as I was takin laboriously reading something aloud. I stC Mount. I peeped through the hedge and sa, children, all listening, and this little sevenaid of a dim native lamp. I thought of Je the midst. After reading, he sang the ver schools that week, and then he prayed a Lord's prayer. I stood listening without, within. The next Sabbath his mother can to come, and so had our Christian women, a Christian woman brought her to the innu. her to come to church. She said that her that she could not resist, that he prayed fo to be a Christian. Since then she has com how one little “pearl’ has begun to reflect There are pearl fisheries off the coas monopoly, and nobody can fish for pearl But there is another kind of fishery in Ce belongs to Him who said, “ Follow Me, a every little boy and girl in the home and in this pearl fishery, and can gather gems f
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es. He did not know how to pray, so one o teach him. He said he could read, but buy one. The next day, to my surprise, ch to buy a Tamil Gospel of Matthew. again asked leave to join. He showed his r rules, he had read ten verses a day. He He said he would soon be able to pray He begged to join the society. Seeing e him, and as the “Look-out Committee' 2r him, we let him join. So he came up in large Tamil letters. His name means brought in two of his companions. g a moonlight walk, I heard a little voice opped to listen. It was the Sermon on the w a family circle: a father, mother, and four year-old Vidamutthu reading aloud by the asus taking a little child and setting him in se of the Christian lyric taught in the daylittle prayer and at its close recited the and all the family sat quietly listening e to church. I had often before asked her but she had always refused. After church irers' meeting. I asked her what had led little son had begged her so hard to come r her every night, and that she had decided e regularly to church. This is the story of
Jesus. t of Ceylon. They are a Government s except those appointed by Government. ylon, in which all are free to engage. It hd I will make you fishers of men,” and who gives and prays for Ceylon has a share or the Saviour's crown.

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WHEN my sister made a tou found a very bright little gir of age, who had been study to read, but who had never heard of Christ parents to allow this little girl to be educated Girls' Boarding-school, and they consented.
There is a custom in this school that, wil received, each of the older girls who have be school for two or three years selects a girl frc as one for whom she will specially care; a “mothers” the little new girl, caring for her ing her in the ways of the school, and ab portion of the Bible with her morning a teaching her to pray. There is a row of sn “prayer-rooms” built off from the school, in can go and be quite alone for private prayer wish. When the new class was received into of the elder girls chose Meenatchie as her sp began to teach her the wonderful stories of of a Saviour who died for us, and of a heaven were all new stories to the little girl. Afte came to us saying, “The other girls have Bil
 

CHAPTER XXV.
(TCHIE, THE ISLAND GIRL.
r among the islands west of Jaffna she | named Meenatchie, about twelve years ing in a heathen school and had learned
She asked the in the Oodooville
hen a new class is een pupils in the »m the new class nd the older girl comfort, instruct»ve all reading a nd evening, and all rooms called to which the girls s as often as they the school, one ecial charge, and God's love for us, y home. These a few days she les of their own,
MEENACHIE (SEATED) AND HER FRIEND.

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I have no Bible. My father did not giv shall I do?” We gave her a copy of on just a penny : you see what a penny wil some child in England or America. It wil or John, in the native language, to some telling the whole story of the life of Chris use to make of a penny ?
We told Meenatchie that when she ha something of what it said, we would giv afterwards diligently reading it aloud to he she came to us, saying, “I have no hym one, so that I might learn to sing these be containing twenty-four Christian hymns in penny. The next morning, when we sang her new hymn-book, and began to sing wi she did not in the least know the tune : her she must sing softly and listen to the o good ear for music, she soon learned to our school choir.
A weekly prayer-meeting for members afternoons. At the first prayer-meeting manifested. The older girls felt the grea regard to the younger ones, many of who not yet given their hearts to Christ. So their need of a Saviour, and many earnest meeting, I said, “Are there not some h Christ to-day? If so, will they not com further time in prayer?” At once little her hand into mine, said, “Amma, I'll c more than thirty girls came to my room and for the conversion of their heathe strangely that those who had just begun t were longing so intensely that their parer We continued to have a second meeting and I think these meetings were blesses Meenatchie, it seemed to us that her hea opens to the sunlight.
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e me a Bible with my other books; what e of the gospels in Tamil. A gospel costs do if dropped into the collection-box by give a gospel of Matthew or Mark or Luke boy or girl in India or Ceylon. A gospel, t and the words of Christ. Ís it not a good
il read this gospel through, and could tell e her a New Testament. We noticed her rself out of school-hours. A few days later a-book of my own, and I do wish I had autiful hymns.” We gave her a little book the Tamil language. This also costs just a the opening hymn, Meenatchie found it in th the others at the top of her voice, though such was her eagerness to learn. I told thers. She did this, and having naturally a sing very well and became a member of
of the boarding-school is held on Friday in the new term there was much interest t responsibility which rested upon them with m had come from heathen homes, and had me of the younger girls had begun to see prayers were offered. At the close of the are who would like to give their hearts to e to my room, and we will spend a little Meenatchie came to my side, and, slipping ome.” Others followed her example, and ; many prayed with tears for themselves, :n parents and relatives. It moved me o know a little of Christ's love themselves its, brothers, and sisters should know it too. ; for inquirers after the first for some time, to the girls. Day by day." as we taught rt was opening to the truth, just as a flower

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After Meenatchie had been in the school to see her. As she saw him coming in at t meet him, and my sister, who was standin glad to see you, O father; I want you to be and joy was in her little heart, and she n she wanted her father to possess it too. Sh but already her heart had come in some me: heart of Him who said, “Other sheep ha must bring.”
When Meenatchie had been two months i. Supper was celebrated one Sabbath in the cl school were among the number received int Meenatchie had never seen a Communion At its close she came to us and said, “Plea church to-day.” We explained that we wer He had asked those who loved Him to do eagerly, “ Amma, may I join with the others she learned that He had told us to do this, call; so she said, “ May I join next time?’ dates' class first of all, which she did.
At the end of three months a brief vaca dismissing the girls, my sister told them s would all attend the Sabbath services in the that she hoped they would all try to be pre mission, which was to be held at Batticott not think of them being carried out by Me and attended neither the Sabbath services in never thought my sister meant her remark all home to herself.
Ongoing to her island home she took he first evening, after the family had eaten their all seated on the veranda enjoying the quie the labours of the day, Meenatchie said, " sing some sweet songs. May I sing them inc people are all very fond of singing. Then the beautiful Christian hymns which she h school I read some good stories out of a b

Missionary.
a month, her father came from the islands he gate she ran from the playground to g near, heard her say to him, “I am so come a Christian.” This new-found light ever thought of keeping it all to herself; e had only known of Christ one month, asure into harmony with the great loving ve awhich are mot of this fold, them also V
n the school, the Sacrament of the Lord's hurch, and some of the older girls of the to the church-fold on profession of faith. Service before. It was all new to her. se tell me what they were doing in the e commemorating Christ's death, because so in remembrance of Him. She said next time P' She loved Christ, and when her little heart responded “yes” to His ” We told her she might join the candi.
tion was given to the school, and before he hoped that during the vacation they ir various villages with their parents, and sent at the great Annual Meeting of the a. In giving these injunctions she did :enatchie, as her parents were Hindoos, or the Annual Meetings. But Meenatchie s for others, she was so busy taking them
er Tamil gospel and hymn-book, and the
evening meal of rice and curry, and were t and bright moonlight and resting after * When I was in the school, I learned to ow?” They readily assented, for the Tamil the little girl sang from memory several of ad learned. After this she said, “In the ook. May I read some of them to you

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now?" They assented, as Tamil people a this, the resting-time of the day, amuse Meenatchie lighted the little lamp, which earthen vessel with oil and a bit of twisted her little gospel the story of the birth of Cl to the true Lord in the school, may I pray family circle, as all were worshippers of id and prayed aloud a simple childlike pray forgive her sins and help her to do right, a and mother and brothers and sisters, and This she didnight after night all through he leading the family devotions by the light lamp struggling to shine for Jesus in the gl
When the Sabbath came she said to must go to the church on the Sabbath, fath the father said, “No, daughter, I cannot and Vedavan, and Kanther Swami, and Siva neighbours would laugh at me and say I “Oh, please, father, take me to the church, to the church;” and she began tó weep so l fast. When her father saw this his heart was hearts in Ceylon are just about as soft as t and they love their children just as well, an So the father said, “Do not cry, my littl time.” He went, and heard the singing, thi native Christian catechist, noted the quiet, find ; so at the invitation of the catechist he When my sister and I went on the di Batticotta, who did we see, to our astonishm but the little Meenatchie with her father c other, her face radiant with joy as she said ti she had; yielding to her daily entreaties, the and then a good many miles on foot, and t been the motive power. They enjoyed the by the services, and by the large orderly a contrast to the noisy crowd which surround When the new term commenced the father:

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'e always very fond of stories, and often at :ach other by telling stories and riddles. is of the simplest construction-a small cloth for a wick, and read to them from rist. Then she said, “I learned to pray now P' There was a dead silence in the ols. But the brave little girl knelt down :r, asking the true God for Christ's sake to nd bless her dear grandmother and father help them all to know Him and love Him. r vacation, reading, singing, praying aloud, of a little flickering lamp-herself a little DO her father, “The Ammas told me that I er; please take me to the church." But take you to the church ; I worship Pulliar, ... If I went to the Christian church all the had become a Christian.' But she said, for I promised the Amma that I would go bitterly that she was unable to eat her breaktouched, for you must know that the fathers' he fathers' hearts in England or America, d are as ready to make sacrifices for them. 2 daughter; I will go with you this one e reading, the prayers, the addresses by the reverent behaviour, and had no fault to 2 came again the next Sabbath. ay appointed to the Annual Meeting at hent, standing in the doorway of the church, on one side of her and her mother on the o us, “ Amma, I've brought them.” And so y had come across the water in a small boat, he loving earnestness of a little child had Annual Meeting, and were much impressed ssemblage of native Christians-a striking the heathen temples on festival occasions. und mother both came, bringing Meenatchie

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back to the school, and they brought a s present, saying that their daughter had imp had been a good girl in the vacation, and 1 We earnestly begged the father and mothe islaad, and they promised to do so.
Meenatchie was received into the Christ is not the custom to receive those who com in the school a longer time, but an exceptio all her teachers and the native pastor and
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the Goddess.
heep and a bottle of melted butter as a proved very much while in the school and they wished to express their thanks to us. r to attend the Christian church on their
tian church before the end of the year. It e from heathen homes until they have been in was made in the case of Meenatchie, as the church committee felt convinced that she was truly a converted child, and that in her daily life she was trying to serve Christ.
I shall never forget the look of joy on her face, or the shining in her large, beautiful black eyes, as she stood up to be received with others into the visible church. Did the “Father of lights' see the shining too, and rejoice with His child? The joy of that day, and of others like it, a hundred-fold more than repaid us for any little sacrifices we may have made in going to the mission-field.
When Meenatchie was baptized she took the English name, Clara Kimball, and dropped the name Meenatchie, which is the name of a heathen goddess, whose great temple stands in Madura. Little Clara still studies in the Boarding-school, and we hope that when she graduates she may go back to her island home, followed by your prayers, to be a blessing to her own people.

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Strong drink a more deadly foe to India. “At last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”
hearted wives and mothers, whose husb; curse, asked us zwhysuch temptations we continue f must they suffer them 2 The G bitterness, of the sorrow and despair wit absolutely ruinous traffic, thrust upon til revenue. In India and Ceylon the liq The right to sell liquor in a district is so When some one has bought the right an sum of money for the same, he does no opens as many liquor shops as possible towns and villages near the tea and cinc the roadsides along which there is mos places of temptation “a nation of abstain The religions of the Hindus, Mohan strong drink, and formerly the people c total abstainers. Formerly spirits were h was uncommon because there was little the facilities for obtaining strong drink if the facilities for obtaining strong drink a In India and Ceylon the facilities for ol increased. The British Government fo drink to be cheap and plentiful. In Cey
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CHAPTER XXVI.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC A GREAT FoE OF MISSIONS.
E found the liquor traffic, authorized and licensed by the British Government, a great foe to D Christian work in North Ceylon. The voices of Rachels weeping for their children and refusing to be comforted fell on our ears and aroused our hearts. Brokenands or sons had fallen through the drink re placed in their midst were these always to overnment certainly does not dream of the h which many of the natives look upon this nem against their wishes for the sake of a uor traffic is purely a Government monopoly. ld at public auction to the highest bidder. d promised to give the Government a large t wish to be a loser by the transaction, so he in the district. These are located in the hona estates, in the mining districts, and on t travel, and by means of these multiplied ers is fast becoming a nation of drunkards.” hmedans, and Buddhists forbid the use of of India and Ceylon were for the most part high-priced and hard to get, and drunkenness temptation to drink. But in any country it are increased the consumption is increased; ire diminished the consumption is diminished. btaining strong drink have been abnormally r the sake of a revenue has made stron lon nine times as much is spent for

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drink as is expended by the Government “outstill” system prevails, “Bhuli” is sold In that province the excise revenue has in rupees. In Assam the excise revenue has ty Provinces the excise revenue has more than India the excise revenue has increased in thi Archdeacon Farrar said in a recent add that an Archdeacon of Bombay, with who testimony in public that for every Christian India we had made Ioo drunkards.” What tens of thousands and hundred of thousand. total abstainers, have fallen before the multip this to be wondered at? If men and wom centuries of civilization behind them, with cannot withstand the temptation of the op could it be hoped that the poor ignorant temptations? Is it not a shame to place such peoples It is the glory of the strong to pr British nation protect rather than tempt its Government to make it easy to do right an matter of this liquor traffic Government has
It has been said by a great English stat “ the combined evils of war and pestilence a which flow from strong drink;" and it has of the crime is caused either directly or indire not poor India crime enough of its own, sorro having this, the curse of Great Britain, impor the wishes of the people, for the sake of a statesmen has said, “Gentlemen, I refuse to of a question of morals,” and he has said people, and I will soon show you where to get The Government in India for the sake of business it is to push the traffic in strong drink men who are able to pay it. We should not allow their homes to be destroyed for the sak feel less shame for the savage who, with ru cannibal and picks the bones of human bein

me in India.
for education. In Bengal, where the or four annas and less per quart bottle. en years increased twenty-nine lakhs of ebled in ten years. In the North-West doubled in ten years. In the whole of teen years seventy-five per cent / ess, “It is now a considerable time ago m I was acquainted, gave the shocking whom we (Great Britain) had made in lo these figures mean? They mean that of people in India, who formerly were lied temptations placed before them. Is ten in Great Britain and America, with Christian influences all around them, en public-house and liquor saloon, how people of India could withstand such n temptations in the presence of heathen otect the weak. Should not the great ; subject races? It is the province of d hard to do wrong, but in India in the lone just the reverse. esman in thê House of Commons that nd famine are not so great as those evils peen estimated that eighty-four per cent. :ctly by strong drink. If this be so, has w and poverty enough of its own, without ted into India and fostered there against revenue? Another of England's great consider a question of revenue alongside again, “Give me sober and industrious , a revenue.' a revenue creates a class of men whose Surely a revenue should be paid by tempt men to give up their purity and e of a revenue. Some one has said, “I de conscience and untaught life, turns gs that he may live, than for those who

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stand up and plead that this traffic may exi pockets of the poor, and destroy hearts and may be lessened.”
Sometimes it is said by Englishmen wh true that the liquor shops are there, but the cannot help feeling that a great wrong is b are being tempted. As it right to tempt T he only tempts, yet the devil is the devil beca We were grieved to find that intemper North Ceylon, that many were using coun families were in great sorrow because a hu some of the large towns in Ceylon or Indi prevailing in those towns, had learned to di tales from weeping wives and mothers in ma temperance meetings among our people. literature in the native language ; we hac hymns prepared in the Tamil language, and wished to have temperance tracts to circi several of John B. Gough’s temperance lec: few thousand copies which had been printe spoken by sixteen millions of people in Sot habits were spreading there, and in all pa temperance lectures might be circulated ar drink blindly, but might know what ruin anc made arrangements with each of the five great Tract Societies of India to have these lectures, in whole or in part, translated and published by them in six or seven of the leading languages of India. The Madras Tract Society has also agreed to publish a temperance catechism of I37 questions and answers which we had had prepared in the Tamil language.
We held many temperance meetings in our district, and at
 

adang in Ceylon. IO3
st which shall take the money out of the homes, in order that their own taxation
in speaking of India and Ceylon, “It is natives are not forced to drink.” Yet we eing done, because those ignorant people he devil does not force people to do wrong, use his business is to temfit. ance was spreading among the people in try-made and imported liquors, that many sband, or son, or brother, having gone to a and adopted the drinking customs now ink. We frequently heard the most pitiful iny villages around us. We began to hold In so doing we felt a lack of temperance l a little book of thirty-seven temperance 5,ooo copies of this book printed. We ulate among the people; we therefore had cures translated, and circulated in Ceylon a :d un our mission press. But as Tamil is uthern India, and as we knew that drinking arts of India as well, we wished that these mong these millions, so that they might not i degradation would follow. We therefore
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these meetings over I4oo pledges were taken for this cause, we feel as if awhile zve have be shops have been making ten. The petition of th Union was sent to us for circulation. We and circulated in those languages, and in En what similar petition to be signed by men. V aries in Ceylon, who gave them into the teachers, and Bible-women, and they were The natives in general expressed great eage. that many Hindus signed these petitions wit to heaven, they would say, “Thervan ethu se this.” In traversing India in 1886 we had t ten of the leading Indian languages througl Tract Societies of India. We secured from II these petitions. These have been forwarded Christian Temperance Union. We also sect in many of the leading newspapers of India much of mission work, and of addressing v during our visit. We have great pleasure which we met over 2oo missionaries and w we never saw a drop of strong drink on any missionaries to be earnest temperance work their churches and schools. We pray that ti missionary may be a pledged total abstainer. real desire of the people, viz. the entire ab the British Government is willing to take a us that their Hindu and Mohammedian ruler intoxicating drinks, but instead forbade the and Indian soil furnish better sources for ob they would ask the Christians of Great Brita which they are taught to pray, “Lead temptation may be removed from them. Car voice in this matter which so closely affects and India had local option in regard to quickly shut up these liquor shops.
Surgeon-Major R. Pringle, M.J., of Her experience in India says, “I can speak for t

emanded.
But although we have worked earnestly en trying to rescue one drunkard the liquor e World's Women's Christian Temperance had it translated into Tamil and Singalese glish, circulating at the same time a someWe sent these petitions to various missionhands of their native pastors, catechists, : thus circulated by responsible parties. mess to sign the petitions. We were told h a prayer. Raising their hands and eyes ly-ert-thume," i.e. “May the Lord prosper his petition translated and circulated in h the medium of the five great Religious hdia and Ceylon over 33,ooo signatures to to the secretary of the World's Women's ured the insertion of temperance articles a, and we had the opportunity of seeing 'arious assemblies, mission schools, &c., in stating that throughout this tour, in are entertained in many mission homes, missionary's table; and we found many :ers, having total abstinence societies in he day may come soon when every foreign We believe these petitions voiced the polition of the traffic. They wonder that evenue from such a source; they remind s did not take a revenue from the sale of sale, and they suggest that Indian seas taining a revenue than the liquor traffic; in, who have sent them the Scriptures in us not into temptation,” that this great n nothing be done to give the people a their homes? If the natives of Ceylon this matter, they would, we believe, very
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when I state that, if local self-governm remain in twelve months; the Mohammed gathered by 'shame-water, and the H opportunity of showing his contempt for thirst for silver was so great that he bought Government 'shame-water.' '
A native of India, Nauda Lal Ghosh, a question is not only a question of morality, forty millions of people in India do not har end, and when this poison of drink is economical condition of India? We hav are in abject poverty, and yet there com misery, introduced by a Christian Gov Government too much, but I hold it is destiny of two hundred and fifty millions stop the current of that poison, and to give appeal to you to abolish the poison of drin elective and nominative basis, and I think matter into serious consideration and allow the highest bidder.”
Is the liquor traffic to be allozeled to entre India through this trafficsimilar to that ze traffic forced upon her by the British Gover amount of strong drink consumed in India as yet. Perhaps it is, but it is a growing concern. When the opium traffic was beg was 2 oo cases, and though some protested Great Britain was lulled to sleep by being The traffic is a little thing.” But can we Now the amount sent annually from Ind 85,000 cases, containing over 5,ooo tons of and sent to debauch the Chinese. The traffic, since the opium in India is which it derives a revenue of over A. the missionaries in China that if the hour the poverty and wretchedness, by the use of opium, they would be

ostering Evil. IOS
nt were granted, not a grog-shop would uns would not soil their fingers with rupees indu would gladly avail himself of the and disgust with the co-religionist whose at a public auction the privilege to sell the
Barrister-at-Law, says: “ The temperance but also an economical question. About re enough of food from year's end to year's spreading among them, what will be the e statistics, and know well that the people es the demon of drink to intensify their :rnment. I do not wish to blame the he duty of all Englishmen, who hold the of their fellow-subjects in their hands, to 2 to India true moral teaching instead. I k. We have municipal institutions on the it is high time the Government took the ed local option instead of selling licences to
'nch itself in India f is a curse to come to hich has come to China through the opium ament 2 There are those who say that the in proportion to the population is small 2vil, and this is surely cause for the gravest un with China, the amount sent from India against the traffic, the public conscience of old “ two hundred cases is a small amount. versay of any evil “It is a little thing”? ia to China is not merely 20o cases, but opium All this is exported from India, British Government is responsible for this a monopoly of the Government, from ,ooo,ooo annually. It has been said by
people of England could see for one the ruin and death caused in China
horrified. What notion of the justice

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of Him who rules the world must he commit such exceeding wickedness and ye God is not mocked, for whatsoever a 1 also reap." There is no power on earth missionaries from China tell us that this and is one of the greatest obstacles to poor opium victim, to satisfy his fearful crav all his property is gone, he will, in many inst his wife into a life of shame. Missionaries they have stood outside of Chinese homes it of women and girls who were being sold by, death, because the opium-smoker must h To-day, while we sit in our comfortable hom in China suffering unspeakable misery on ac nation in this matter. When one of the m company in the open-air, and speaking abou we know about hell; since England sent u On another occasion, when a missionary wa Christ, one old woman said, “Was it not Well, we don't want your opium, and we do is thus put upon that Name which is above nation engages in this accursed and soulTaylor, Director of the China Inland Miss; held in London in I888, said, “When we labour in China, and compare it with the labour, I am afraid our brows must be c with sorrow. After eighty years of mission thousand communicants. After eighty ye hundred and fifty millions of the Chinese Y opium or sufferers by the opium vice of hu relative. You may go through China, and tens of thousands-of towns and villages in Bible or of Christian influence. You will si pipe does not reign. Ah! we have give something that is doing more harm in a Christian Missionaries are doing good in a trade was bad ; the drink is bad ; the licens

r against Christ.
have who supposes that a nation can escape retribution? 'Be not deceived; han (or nation) soweth, that shall he an escape from this sentence. Returned trafic is “one huge ministry of vice” the evangelization of China. When the ing, has sold one article after another, till ances, sel his children into servitude and lave told ushow, powerless to interfere, the dead of night, and heard the screams a husband or father into a life worse than ave money with which to buy the drug. |es, there are tens of thousands of families count of Great Britain's dealing with that issionaries in China was preaching to a it hell, one in the crowd replied, “Yes, s the opium China has become a hell.' is urging some Chinese hearers to accept ; your country that sent us the opium ? n't want your Christ.” Oh! what a blot every name, because a so-called Christian destroying traffic The Rev. J. Hudson on, at the great Missionary Conference took back to eighty years of missionary results of eighty years of commmercial 'overed with shame and our hearts filled ary labour we are thankful for thirty-two ars of commmercial labour there are one who are either personally smokers of the sband or wife, father or mother, or some you will find thousands-I can safely say which there are but small traces of the carcely find a hamlet in which the opiumn China something besides the Gospel; week than the united efforts of all our fear. Oh, the evils of opium The slave ing of vice is bad; but the opium traffic is

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the sum of all villanies. It debauches mor directly than the slave trade, and it dem systems in the world. Will you not pray, mighty God that He will bring this great et forward in extenuation of the traffic is this Now, I would say, England cannot afford ti wrong thing to escape another. It is said deliver China. My dear friends, it is a heaven, who is the great Governor of the U lines that the only way to properly govern curse in God's government. The Indian C has the right to prevent the production of c Let it add to this, that it shall not be proc ask no more.'
The late Earl of Shaftesbury well said, “
and every woman, and every child, refrain :
 

NMENT OPUM FACTORY AT PANA
e families than drink, it makes more slaves oralizes more lives than all the licensing my friends? I entreat you to pray to the til to an end. The common reason brought :- England cannot afford to do right.' do wrong. Nay, you must not do one
you must not starve India in order to ways right to do right, and the God in niverse, never created this world on such India was to curse China. There is no overnment has taken this ground-that it pium, except at the Government factories. uced at the Government factories, and we
Let every missionary, and every lay agent, rom being silent upon that question' (the

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opium question). Henry Richards on one ashamed to say that I am one of those who the kingdom of men, and that it is not individual, recklessly and habitually to af justice, and humanity, on which, I believe. quite sure of this, that, in spite of our pride possessions and enormous resources, in spit if we come into conflict with that Power w a granite rock.”
This opium traffic between India and Cl responsible, is a great national sin, and, il national judgment, for the government of ( butive, and if God calls Great Britain to acroman in Great Britain to an account? and will He not hold each one responsible all they might do ? What makes it possible India and the opium traffic with Chinament in Great Britain makes it possible. Th people; therefore these great evils exist bec that they should exist, and the work to be and Great Britain herself, is to arouse a shall demand the overthroze of these evils. the power, if they were thoroughly awake a which would demand of Parliament, in thi two great iniquities should be prohibited? on in the future it will not be because th them, but because these churches were asle hold the Churches responsible for the conti Some one asked the venerable Dr. Be continue P” His reply was, “Just as long it should, and mot a day longer.” “The me resfronsibility.” Not to protest against til that is complicity with the evil. “To him to him it is SIN.' We are accustomed to t on account of what we have done. Perha have failed to do. Christ has told us. He hungred, and ye gave Me no meat, I was t

les Responsible.
occasion used these words:-" I am not believe that there is a God who ruleth in safe for a community, any more than an front those great principles of truth, and He governs the world. And we may be
of place and power, in spite of our vast te of our boasted forces by land and sea2 shall be crushed like an egg-shell against
hina, for which the British Government is unrepented of, will surely be followed by 3od is just, the government of God is retrian account, will He not call every man and For the nation is made up of individuals, -not only for what they are doing, but for for these great evils-the liquor traffic in to exist under British rule ? Apublic sentie British Government is a government by the cause the people of Great Britain are willing done by those who love India, and China, Christian public sentiment in Britain which Have not the Christian Churches of Britain nd in earnest, to create a public sentiment 2 name of God and of humanity, that these They have the power, and if these evils go he Churches of Great Britain could not stop 'ep, and would not stop them, and God will nuation of these evils,
scher, “How long must the liquor traffic as the Christian Churches are willing that :asure of our ability is the measure of our is evil-not to act-is to acquiesce, and that knoweth to do good aned doeth it not, hink that at the last day we shall be judged ps we shall rather be judged for what we will say to some at that day, 'I was an hirsty, and ye gave Me no drink I was a

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stranger, and ye took Me mot in ; naked, an ye visited Me not. Inasmuch as ye did if n NoTr Tro ME.”
Look at the magnitude of the evil of th going on in Africa. It has been said t evangelize its heathen tribes there are s barter. It was stated in the Church M. coast-line in the tropical region of Afric ships a year arrive there, with, on an av on each of them. Think of it-twenty th poured in on that limited tract of country the Church Missionary Society says, “If t of a, few years for me and my people.” Si writes, “It is my sincere belief that if the and Africa could get rid of the zwhite mat in ta ?auzea, Afria zvould be a gainer in hap late Commissioner to South Africa, has s the present time crying to heaven against , exp:diency, we refuse to take any action.” From a memorial sent out by the World the following statement is made:- It is operation of a few merchants and trading England, France, and Portugal, a flood of into the Congo Free State and the Basin c last year for which we have full statistics) and villest spirits ever manufactured were st ignorant savages of Africa.” Mrs. Mary memorial before the great Missionary Con “We have been trying to keep the Atlantie want to get at the great basal truth, prohil parts. This memorial is sent out by the W to do with any other parish than the world to do anything else than sound the note revenue, God forbid I should mention it nations to talk about a revenue that come greans, and moans, and the damnation of th Is it nothing to us that whole nations

of Wative Races. IO9
iye clothed Me not sick, and in prison, and oT to one of the LEAST of THESE, ye did if
e liquor traffic. See, for example, what is hat for one missionary sent to Africa to 2nt 7o,ooo barrels of rum for purposes of issionary Intelligencer that on 25o miles of 'a-on the west coast-no less than twenty erage, a thousand tons of intoxicating drink ousand tons of intoxicating drink every year
One of the missionaries connected with his thing is continued, it is only a question r Richard Burton, the great African traveller, save trade zevere revived, 7eith all its horrors, s, zwith the gunpowder and rum awhich he has biness by the exchange.” Sir Charles Warren, aid, “ The blood of thousands of natives is at the Aritish vace, and yet, from motives of
l's Women's Christian Temperance Union a fully authenticated fact that, through the companies in America, Germany, Holland, deadly, intoxicating liquor is being poured f the Niger. During the year 1885 (the more than ten million gallons of the cheapest ent from these six Christian countries to the C. Hind, speaking on the subject of this ference held in London in 1888, said:- : back with a broom too many years. We ition, so that the liquor does not go to these .C.T.U. of the World. They have nothing Beloved, it is too late in the day for us of prohibition. And as to the matter of It is a burning shame to our Christian from the blood, and tears, and cries, and usands of precious souls.” are being demoralized by this iniquitous

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traffic. If some one were to tempt and ruit it, but these are the sons and daughters of the for them. He gave His Son for their r Christians to account for their negligence is causing the ruin of millions for whom ( became as zweak, that might gain the that I might by all means saze some.” Al are strong ought to bear the infirmities of th even Christ pleased not Himself.” Rememb us, would that those everywhere who profes of banishing strong drink as a beverage frc influence of their example, as well as their overthrowing of the great evil which is ruin Christ our Lord and Master was on this e. “ Zhou shalf love the Zord thy God with all Love will not sit idly down in despair. Be out a way.'
Clarkson, in contemplating the horrors ( these things were true, it was time that som end," and forthwith he went to work, with energy that never tired, and faith that nevel efforts with success. He had to work in th and cool-hearted men pronounced against Johnson,” said that “to abolish the slave tr on mankind.” We are told by Mrs. Memories,' that, “As usual, the cause o impudent lying. The slave trade was ass philanthropy.'"
It was said that the poor African-the country-was wafted by it to an asylum in a was to the poor negro a perfect elysium, in known in his own country. All this was thumbscrews, and instruments to force ope stock for a slave-ship, and were hanging i. It was perfectly well known that in very incursions into the country, kidnapped a villages, but the question was, how to

Blood Money.
h your sons and daughters, you would feel
Living God. He made them. He cares edemption. Will He not call professing
and indifference towards this evil, which Ohrist died? Paul says:-"Zo the weak teleak. I am made all things to all men, nd he admonishes us:- We, then, that e zeileak, and mot to please ourselves. For ering the great sacrifice which He made for s His name might make the little sacrifice m their tables and homes, and give the prayers and most earnest efforts, to the ing so many millions of mankind. When arth, He gave us the great command:- thine heart, and thy neighbour as thyself.” the task never so gigantic, “love will find
of the slave trade, said to himself that “if ebody should see these calamities to an heart and soul and mind on fire, with an : faltered, till God crowned his Herculean e face of fierce opposition. Cool-headed the enterprise. Boswell, in his “Life of ade would be to shut the gates of mercy Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her “Sunny f oppression was defended by the most erted to be the latest revised edition of
slave of miserable oppression in his own Christian land; that the middle passage initely happier than anything he had ever said while manacles, and handcuffs, and n the mouth, were a regular part of the n the shop windows of Liverpool for sale. many cases slave traders made direct nd carried off the inhabitants of whole prove it. A gentleman whom Clarkson

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accidentally met on one of his journeys inf about a year before with a sailor-a very : actually been engaged in one of these exp him at an inn. He described his person, abode. All that he knew was that he bel knew nothing of the post. Clarkson deter a witness, and knew no better way than to until the individual was found. He actual every ship, till, in the very last port and
individual was found, and found to be po which were necessary. For seven years Cl 4oo persons with his own hand. He annu In that time he had travelled more than 35 labours of Clarkson and his companions throughout all England. Pictures and 1 cruelties practised in the trade, were circule zwoman, or child in England uninstructed. A and sent them to every town in England,
to all the places to see that they were read at this time Clarkson writes:-' First, I m: which II passed in which there was not som of sugar. In the smaller towns there were larger from 200 to 5oo who made this sac and parties. Rich and poor, Churchmen : Even grocers had left of trading in the families where the master had set the e followed it, and even children who were c sufferings of the Africans excluded, with th which they had been accustomed from thi able to make from notes taken down in
had abandoned the use of sugar." It was t feeling thus roused which pressed with resistle. ment of England yields to popular dema After years of protracted struggle, the victo finally abolished throughout the British El conscience of England gained through thi lost. The principle adopted by them w

z Clarkson. I
ormed him that he had been in company espectable-looking young man-who had :ditions. He had spent half an hour with but knew nothing of his name or place of onged to a ship of war in ordinary, but mined that this man should be produced as go personally to all the ships in ordinary ly visited every seaport town, and boarded in the very last ship which remained, the ssessed of just the facts and information arkson maintained a correspondence with ally wrote a book on behalf of the cause. ooo miles in search of evidence. By the
an incredible excitement was produced models of slave-ships, accounts of the ited with an industry which left not a man, or After the committee had published the facts Clarkson followed them up by journeying and attended to. Of the state of feeling ay observe that there was no town through he one individual who had left off the use from ten to fifty by estimation, and in the rifice to virtue. These were of all ranks and Dissenters, had adopted the measure. article in some places. In gentlemen's xample the servants had often voluntarily apable of understanding the history of the e most virtuous resolution, the sweets to ir lips. By the best computation I was my journey, no fewer than 3oo,ooo persons he reality, depth, and earnestness of the public is force upon the Government, for the Governnds quite as readily as that of America. ry was at last won. The slave trade was mpire. At this time the religious mind and very struggle a power which it has never as the same so sublimely adopted by the

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Church in America with reference to the fo world " Shall not those who love the Lol their fellow-men, encouraged by the exam aevith like self.denying earnestness, unzolaveri the emancipation of their brothers and : fearful slavery, the slavery of strong drink traffics? We believe in the possible and fi we believe in God. We have the glorious full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the w; because, “if God be for us, who can be a are not in the minority; we are in the majo
“ History’s pages but One death-grapple 'Twixt old systems : Truth for ever on th Wrong for ever on t Yet that scaffold swa And behind the dim Standeth God withi Keeping watch abov
If He is but watching over us and carin labour on in boundless hope, knowing that “He shall not fail nor be discouraged t Christ taught His disciples to pray, “Thy k as it is in heaven.” All down the ages m prayer. Would Christ have taught us to p to answer it? Surely He is the hearer and answer that prayer, and the time will col according to their measure, as the angels do foreseen by the beloved disciple shall be re become the kingdoms of our Lord and of ever.” (Rev. xi. I 5.) Those who in Chris the ennobling and the purifying of humani
the victory they fight for is sure.
“There is no hopeless s
Wrong ever builds a ti And Christ shall reign

pry Sure.
reign missionary cause: “The field is the rd Jesus Christ and care for the welfare of ble of such heroic toilers as Clarkson, zuvork ng faith, and whole-hearted devotion toward sisters, all the aworld around, from a more and opium, by the entire abolition of these nal overthrow of these traffics, just because promise that one day “the earth shall be aters cover the sea.” Let us work in hope, gainst us?” Though few in numbers, we rity, for “one with God is a majority."
record in the darkness, and the Word. le scafoldhe throne. ays the future,
unknown
the shadow, re. His own.'
g for the cause so dear to us, then we can the truth and the right are sure to prevail. ill He have set judgment in the earth.' ingdom come; Thy will be done on earth ten and women have been praying that ray that prayer if He had never intended answerer of prayer. Surely He means to me when men on earth will do His will it in heaven. One day the glorious vision alized. “The kingdoms of this world are His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and 's name and for His sake are working for y are “labourers together with God,” and
orrow ; ttering throne, to-morrow.'

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TRUE MISSES LELTCH AND A G
CHAPTER
FAREWELL ADDRESS FROM
EAR MISSIONARY FRIEND little on your valuable time on t to be allowed to give expression entertain for you. Your connection for the past seven year consequently with the Christians and other ri
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! XXVII.
THE NATIVE CHRISTIANS.
S,-We are assembled here to trespass a he eve of your departure home, and desire to the sentiments of respect and esteem we
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we represent, we are happy to say, has bec missionary point of view.
You have always evinced a deep interest h and the occasions in which your guidance an us have been many. The progress our you through your efforts in several department highly. The catholic spirit with which you tion of views that we noticed in you in ally minent points of admiration to us. Your 1 are taught, in our church meetings, inprov have inspired always a new life into then you have made the Christmas-tree a regi children, Christian and heathen, for whose e much indebted to you.
Your eforts to spread a taste for Christi our district, and your work in connection Endowment Fund of the Oodooville Girls' all the sacrifice you made in leaving your ho unnecessary here to mention the numerous and social kindness have shone in our m patience with which you have reflected the l these, dear friends, we assure you will e gratitude and thankfulness.
Although your short absence from our m: home (“Home, Sweet Home”) will eventua when, in the providence of God, you may re We would take this opportunity to tende Mr. G. W. Leitch, who had, we are sorry to the same time we would send through you c in America, which have contributed their m. ask of them still to continue in their wrestli the work already accomplished in Jaffna will of Satan's raising, that are yet to be removed We also beg you to accept the accompany of remembrance from us. We will not take
a safe voyage forth and back, and a hearty g 哆 非
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in altogether pleasant and successful in a
both in our spiritual and temporal welfare, d advice and prompt help have benefited ng men and women especially have made s of social Christian life is prized by us went through your work, and the tolera'our dealings with us, have been two proresence in the schools where our youths 'ement societies, youths' associations, &c., h. It may not be amiss to mention that ular institution with the Sunday-school fficient training in Bible knowledge we are
an music, both vocal and instrumental, in with the temperance movement, and the Boarding-school, will by themselves repay Ime on a missionary enterprise. But it is ways through which your missionary spirit hidst, and above all the meekness and ife and doings of the Great Master. All ver be remembered by us with heart-felt
idst will be felt by us, we hope your trip lly prove beneficial to Christian work here, turn with redoubled energy and health.
our compliments to your dear brother, say, to cut short his work amongst us. At our hearty thanks to the Christian churches lites towards Christianizing this land, and ngs for us before the throne of Grace, as not bear comparison with the mountains, l. ing presents of two Tamil Bibles, as tokens up more of your time now, but wish you ood-bye.
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FAREWELL LYRIC No. . (Translation from the 7amil.) I. Ogentle ladies, who have come from a distant
land ; Who have left relatives and friends for our
sake; Who have come over in ships and boats; Who have shown us the path to the distant
world; How shall we bear it if you leave us? How
shall we bear it
2, O pious and chaste ladies; O pure treasures; Who have opened schools in different places; Who have taught sinners the way of redemp
tion; How shall we bear it if you leave us? How
shall we bear it?
We have prospered by the good done by you ? It is difficult to reward you; We bless you, O dear jewels; We have been brought to life; We will not forget you ; We have come to thank you heartily; How shall we bear it when you leave us?
How shall we bear it?
 

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FAREWEL, LYRC No. 2.
(7ranslation from the 7amii.)
I. Oladies, good mothers,
Good-bye to you.
We prostrate ourselves at your golden feet.
Good-bye to you.
2 Your love did bind us like a cord.
We cannot bear separation, The moment for which has come.
Good-bye to you.
3. You dealt with us like parents;
You forgave us our faults; You fed us with knowledge; We bid you good-bye lovingly;
Good-bye to you.
4. Our spirit trembles, we faint:
We have lost our comfort;
Yet it seems necessary that you should go, We bid you good-bye lovingly;
Good-bye to you.

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THE TRAVELLER's PALM. geogra and th spoken some very earnest words to them, for age, named Eliza Agnew, resolved that, if it v when she grew up, and help to tell the heatl resolve. Until she was thirty years of age were near relations who needed her care. B her dear ones had been called away from 6 home, and she went as a missionary to Ceylo Some years before this, when the first n could not find, among the more than 3oo,ool girl who could read. There were a few men did not think it worth while to teach the girl excepting to cook food?” &c. “Besides," any more than sheep.” The missionaries s can learn to read as well as boys.' So they boys, but for girls also.
 

CHAPTER XXVIII.
A AGNEw, OR ONE WOMAN's WoRK iN
THE FOREIGN FIELD.
NE day the teacher in a day-school in New York City, while giving a lesson in phy, pointed out to her pupils the heathen he Christian lands, and she must have then and there a little girl, eight years of vere God's will, she would be a missionary hen about Jesus. She never forgot this she was detained at home, because there ut when she had reached that age, and arth to heaven, she was free to leave her
hissionaries reached North Ceylon, they o people there, a single native woman or and boys who could read, but the people is. They said, "What are girls good for, they said, “girls could not learn to read aid to them, “You are mistaken. Girls opened mission day-schools not only for

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Though the parents willingly allowed th very unwilling to let their daughters remain was common for parents to give their da ten or twelve years of age. Seeing this, commence a boarding-school for girls. Sh from the influences of their heathen hol influence. But none of the people would s
One day there were two little girls pla missionary's house at Oodooville. Ceylon of the equator. In North Ceylon there a The dry season lasts nine months, and di but in the wet season, November, Decemb and sometimes the rain falls in torrentsknown to fall in twenty-four hours. While
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eir sons to attend these schools, they were long enough to receive an education, as it ughters in marriage when they were only one of the missionary ladies wished to a wished to have the native girls separated mes, and brought under daily Christian send their daughters to her. ying in the flower-garder, in front of the is in the tropics, only nine degrees north re two seasons, the “zeet” and the “dry.” uring that time there is scarcely any rain ; er, and January, it rains nearly every day, -between nine and ten inches have been : these two little girls were playing, there
R 娜 函
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came on a heavy shower of rain, and as th shelter into the missionary's house. It c evening, and the little girls became very hu lady gave them bread and bananas. The y( eat. After a time, when the rain ceased a daughters. They had supposed they would them in that of the missionary. When the they were very angry, for they said, “She h missionary lady, and the mother said, “Y broken caste and is polluted, and now we s it. What shall we do? You may take the
The missionary lady had been wishing f might educate in a boarding school, and he take her daughter, so the missionary lady way of enabling her to start the boarding clothed her, and began teaching her the sprinkled a little sand on the floor of the ve letters in the sand. By-and-by, some of th her, and when they saw her writing the lett some kind of new play, and they also wal good memories, and in a very short time th of the alphabet, and were able to read. Ti girl was well cared for and happy, soon beg the care of the missionary lady. This w Boarding-school, which was, perhaps, the fi land, having been commenced in 1824.
After Miss Agnew went to Ceylon, she b She remained in Ceylon for forty-three year change. When friends would ask her, “Are she would always reply, “ No; I have not all those forty-three unbroken years, durir health, she was too busy even to think of go
In the Oodooville Girls' Boarding-school the grandchildren, of her first pupils. Mc She was much loved by the girls, who eac poetically called by the people, “The moth years she taught in the school more than 6o

rathout a Aoliday.
ey had not time to go home, they ran for ontinued to rain all that afternoon and ungry and began to cry. The missionary ounger girl ate, but the older girl refused to little, the parents went to look for their be in some neighbour's house, but found y heard that the younger one had eaten, as lost caste.” They found fault with the ou have given my child food, and it has hall not be able to arrange a marriage for child and bring it up.” or native girls to come to her, whom she re was a mother actually saying she might thought that perhaps this was the Lord's -school. She took the little girl, fed and 247 letters of the Tamil alphabet. She randa, and taught the child to write the e playmates of this little girl came to see ers in the sand, they thought that this was nted to learn. The Tamil children have ey committed to memory the 247 letters heir parents seeing this, and that the little an to entrust more of their daughters to as the beginning of the Oodooville Girls' rst boarding-school for girls in a heathen
became the head of this boarding-school. s without once going home for a rest or a you not going to America for a vacation?’ ime to do so. I am too busy." Through ng which God granted to her remarkabie ing home.
she taught the children, and even some of ore than ooo girls have studied under her. h regarded her as a mother, and she was er of a thousand daughters.” During the o girls went out from it as Christians. We

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believe that no girl having taken its whole course has ever graduated as a heathen. Most of these girls came from heathen homes and heathen villages, but in this school they learned of Christ and of His great love, and surrendered their young hearts to Him.
Miss Agnew lived with us in our home the last two years of her life, when she had grown feeble and was no longer able to retain the charge of the boarding-school. We felt her presence in our home to be a c Near the close of her brief illness, and w to live, one of the missionaries present a eagerly assented. He asked, “Is there an to pray?" She replied, “Pray for the wom She had no thought about herself. All t very little about herself. Her thought might know Christ, that they might kn Saviour, a great burden-bearer, a friend that borne their griefs and carried their sorro
 
 

THREE GENERATIONS
aily blessing.
hen we knew that she had not many hours sked her if he should offer prayer. She thing for which you would like me specially en of Jaffna, that they may come to Christ.” hrough her missionary life she had thought was for the women of Jaffna, that they w that in Him they had an Almighty sticketh closer than a brother, one who had ws and could give their troubled, hungry,

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sorrowing hearts A is ozen Aeace. At the ver women of Jaffna, every room in our hous who, when girls, had been her pupils, and th Lord's will to take her then to Himself, He God heard their prayer, and she passed awa. attendance at the funeral service was very teachers, lawyers, Government officials and o who had married girls trained in the Oodo funeral service, bringing their wives and audience and saw everywhere faces full of lo hundreds of homes she had brought the l could not help thinking how precious a life a
In hundreds of villages in Ceylon and to be done by Christian young women a Agnew accomplished in the Jaffna Penins they have never been open before. The v The stronghold of heathenism is in the h some extent lost faith in their old superstitiot in the homes, cling to the heathen worshi cling to something, and the majority of them ing the children to perform the heathen cer heathen gods, and thus they are mouldi generation. Some one has truly said, “If v cur hands on the hands that rock the crac that sing the lullabies, and if we can win the will soon be brought to fall at the feet of the There are in India I 2 o millions of womer are there working among these ? In the re. number is given as 48o, counting those of a not more be sent to that great work? We women than men in Great Britain. Could homes, and could not some possessed of mission to this great field?
Think of the 2 millions of widows in Ir are regarded as under a curse. They are deemed meritorious to heap abuse upon th them, and that the death of their husban

AMiss Agnew.
7 time when she was asking prayers for the e was filled with native Christian women ey were praying for her-that if it were the would save her from suffering and pain. y like one going into a sweet sleep. The large. Many native pastors, catechists, thers, the leading men of Jaffna Peninsula, oville Girls' Boarding-school, came to the children. As we looked over that large ve and eyes full of tears, and knew that to ight and hope and joy of the Gospel, we onsecrated to Christ may be. India there is just such a work waiting is that which, with God's blessing, Miss ula. Heathen lands are open to-day as women of heathen lands need the Gospel. omes. Many of the men in India have to is creeds, but the women, who are secluded p. What else can they do? They must have not heard of Christ. They are teachemonies, to sing the songs in praise of the ng the habits of thought of the conning ye are to win India for Christ, we must lay illes, and teach Christian songs to the lips mothers of India to Christ, her future ions ir Redeemer.” h and girls. How many lady missionaries port of the last Decennial Conference, the ll Protestant missionary societies. Might are told that there are a million more not many of these be spared from their private means go on a self-supporting
ndia. What a terrible lot is theirs! They doomed to innumerable hardships. It is em. It is thought the gods are angry with ds is a punishment on them for some sin

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committed either in this or in some previc Their lot is so hard to bear that again an they have said to the missionaries, “Why English Government take from us the righ burnt on the funeral pyre with our dead hus for that were better than what we have to e But Christian women could give to these of India the Gospel with its message of ho before the brightness of its shining the dark their despair would flee away. The knowl the love of Christ would help them to be otherwise intolerable burdens. Let us rer that Christ has told us that whatsoever ser render to the least of His little ones, F regard it as done to Him, and that what leave undone of that which was in our pc do, He will regard the neglect and slight as to Him. Are there mot many in darkness zwho might have had the Gospel had Christia awhat they could for them ?
Failure to realize responsibility does not di it. Zenanas which forty years ago were and barred are to-day open. Especially the case in towns where there are Christian been educated in these mission colleges, th their wives, daughters, and sisters should b gentlemen, that there are many educated the truth of Christianity, and would confes: who has never been instructed about Christ
Shall not Christian women, who owe so work allotted to them? What a consummat Are we giving the best we have to Christ an he be of you that forsaketh not all that Christ only mean that for those who lived those words for us to-day? In the prese Mohammedans meeding the Gospel, with their old beliefs and asking for the new,

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us life. l again id the t to be pands? ndure.” widows )e, and ness of edge of ar their hember vice we He will
Ver We
Wer tO
shown
to-day ns dlone
minish
locked MOTER AND BABES. is this
colleges. Wherever the Hindu men have sy are now willing and even desirous that be taught. We have been told by Hindu men in India to-day who are convinced of Christ, were it not that a wife or mother, would bitterly oppose their doing so. much to Christ, be foremost in doing the a blunder to live selfishly in this generation d to His cause? Christ says, “Whosoever he hath, he cannot be My disciple.” Did hundreds of years ago, or does. He mean nce of a thousand million heathens and multitudes in heathen lands losing faith in does He not mean those words to-day P

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Does He not ask that our time, our mon entire fossessions should be laid at His absolutely at His disposal P Opportunities not come again.
It is said that when the decisive hour in troops were lying in the trenches, waiting fo been ordered not to fire until the French there in silence, Wellington rode up and do “What will England say to you if you fal he said it a thousand times, but it is no burned into those waiting troops till they fel of Parliament, and when the command was felt that the honour of England was in his
Do we not near the voice of a greater Le and I will give thee a crown of life”? W. Christians are worldly now, if they are Chris only say “Lord, Lord,' but do not the thi think of us if we are not brave and true now Let us, at Christ's command, be ready to Christ's. Surely we will do well to place ou end His cause shall prevail. We know that swept away, and that the kingdoms of this Lord and of His Christ. Lord Northbroo Missionary Society, referred to his feelings sung. He said it was not so much the mus him. The greatest of all musical creations sea, and to the ends of the earth, His dom part of this earth shall yet arise the chore Omnipotent reigneth.” That is the granden but the faint and distant anticipation. It saints of all ages, nor is there in all the w( humble soul that prays “Thy Kingdom cor altar of missions, who shall not join that fi the great consummation.

Hallelufiah Chorus.
y, our influence, our friendships, and our eet, consecrated to His service, placed such as we have to-day, if neglected, may
he battle of Waterloo came, the English r the onslaught of the enemy. They had were close upon them, and while they lay wn the lines saying over and over again, ter now P” One old officer declared that matter how many times he said it, it was as if they were lying under the very walls given, “Now up, and at them,” every man hands, and he was invincible. ader saying, “Be thou faithful unto death, hat will the result be if we falter now, if tians only in name but not in deed, if they ngs which Christ says? What will Christ t?
go forward, for the battle is not ours, but rselves on His side, for we know that in the : all darkness and every evil thing shall be world shall become the kingdoms of our k recently, at the meeting of the Church at hearing Handel's “Hallelujah Chorus' sic as the words and thoughts that thrilled was inspired by the faith that from sea to inion shall extend, and that from every il shout, “ Hallelujah, for the Lord God chorus, of which Handel's Hallelujah is will combine the voices of all loyal, loving orld, in the obscurest hovel of poverty, one ne,” that lays consecrated offerings on the hal anthem as one who has helped forward

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CHAPTER XXIX.
Topsy AND THE FAKIR WoMAN.
OPSY was the name given playfi missionary lady in Midnapore, ) a little girl in her orphanage (wi isang name was Sudean), because, Topsy in “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” she seemed of mischief as an egg is full of meat. Her ir pranks and practical jokes, perpetrated with a intense gravity, eaused her school-mates and much annoyance, and drove the missiona almost to her wits' end, because she feared that her example might prove contagious among the others. Yet the lady could not dismiss her, for the child, like most others in the school, was a famine orphan, without father or mother or a home of her own, saved from starvation by the kindness of the missionaries.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ully by a India, to )ose real like the l as full genious face of teachers
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One Sabbath, when the missionary was p. for us, he noticed Topsy, usually so rest. tears gathering in her large lustrous eyes, Topsy gave her heart to the Saviour who h. her. The Good Shepherd had sought al lambs. The missionary and his wife rejoice in vain. From being their greatest cause of comfort and blessing to the orphanage. A into channels of service. She asked and after school hours with an aged Bible-wom and Christian hymns to the Zenana women
One day as they were going through the behind the Bible-woman, as is often the cu: looking object seated by the roadside on was dressed in a very odd yellow dress, he combed, her face and arms rubbed with sac necklaces of a kind of sacred nut which fa to worship her as a goddess, giving her mc and placing it as something sacred upon th and asked her if she had ever heard abou not, so Topsy began to tell her the story, bl who had gone on for some distance witho her in some alarm, and when she found he in great distress said to the fakir woman, " if you will come to the house where the home then, and he will tell you all about it I will tell him to expect you.” When the daily rounds, Topsy told the missionary ab see him; and though he hardly expected magic earnestness of the little girl. Was i and now watched for her appearance?
The missionary received her kindly, and and what He had done for us. The faki discovered that she was a Brahminee r remarkable education, being able to read in Bengalee, and Hindi, and familiar with Her husband, who had been a noted man, ;

kir Woman.
eaching about Christ's death on the cross ess, sitting strangely quiet, and two great which were fixed upon him. That night ld so loved her as to lay down His life for ld found another of His restless straying i that night that their labours had not been anxiety, Topsy became little by little a real ll her restless energy seemed now turned obtained permission to go out every day an, to help her to teach the Bible lessons whom she visited.
streets, the little girl walking a step or two stom in India, Topsy espied a very strangea tiger skin. It was a fakir woman. She r hair all matted as if it had never been red ashes, her neck loaded with numerous kirs wear, and those who passed by stopped oney, and rubbing the dust from her feet heir foreheads. Topsy sat down beside her it Christ. The fakir woman said she had ut before she had ffinished, the Bible-woman, ut missing Topsy, came back to look for r, blamed her for stopping behind. Topsy can't stop to tell you the rest now, but missionary lives, this evening, he will be at much better than I can. Be sure to come. Bible-woman and Topsy returned from their out the strange woman who was coming to her, sure enough she came, drawn by the not God's answer to the child who prayed
when she was seated told her about Christ woman had never heard this before. He amed Chandra Lilavati, and possessed a four different languages, viz. Nepalese, Origa, many of the sacred books of the Hindus. learned Brahmin Pundit, had instructed her

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and since his death she had wandered duri visiting numerous shrines and temples, and piety, she was worshipped as a goddess. language most familiar to her, and she we learn more and more, until she was led to accept Him as her Saviour. On the day was baptized, throngs of people came to they had formerly worshipped as a godd privileges, and give up her lucrative profess After this she begged to be allowed to cc ing his class of young Theological Stud granted to her, and day by day she was fo large-print Bible open on her lap, study the precious truths contained in them. look at her eager, upturned face. Amon followed him more closely, or who searche see whether these things were so.
When the students were ready to enter you would like to become a Bible-woman, you a salary sufficient to meet your living ex go back, and in every city where I have tola And she who had so long been an object attention, lifted up and placed on her he and religious books with which she ha started on foot, though an old woman wi previously visited, and put right what in ig The missionary heard of her from time Lucknow, Cawnpore, Delhi, and other places writing that she had visited them a Christian people by her presence and the Hindus who had formerly known and fakir. From time to time she returne back at the end of each journey every p had carried away, and, asking for and obta off on her journeyings, rejoicing in God v who sustained her in it by the conscious

to (Vzdo. I25
ng many years all over India on pilgrimages, everywhere, on account of her learning and The missionary gave her a gospel in the ht away, only to return again and again, to believe in Jesus as the Son of God and to when she publicly professed her faith and fitness the ceremony, and to see her whom 2ss renounce all her worldly honours and ion to become a humble follower of Jesus, me daily while the missionary was instructants, and to listen to his words. This was 1nd sitting at the missionary's feet with her ng the sacred pages as he tried to expound It was an inspiration to the missionary to g all his students there was not one who d the Scriptures more earnestly than she, to
upon their work, he said to the woman, “If I would provide you with a house and give penses;' but she answered, “Avo, no, I must the wrong story, I must tell the right one.’ of worship and received every honour and ad the heavy basket of Bibles and tracts id begged the missionary to supply her, and th white hair, to revisit the cities she had norance she had put wrong.
to time in Calcutta, Burdwan, Monghir, cities in India, the missionaries in these ld greatly revived and stimulated their native words, causing great astonishment among worshipped her as a very holy and learned i to the missionary at Midnapore, bringing :nny of the value of the books which she ining a new supply, she again and again set tho had called her to this His work, and resence of His Spirit in her heart.

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CHIAPT
DASAMMAH, THE
SHOULD like to tell about a girl wł will call her Dasammah, though that to the mission school she was about twel husband allowed her to attend school. S take her seat back in a corner, and draw should not be much noticed. When que: very timid about answering, but the missione the Bible lesson, this girl seemed always word. One day when Dasammah went hon believe that the idols which they worshipp that Jesus Christ was the true Saviour. V alarmed, for he feared she would become , to her, “Get your things ready quickly; I'r house; be ready to leave in an hour.”
If you who read these lines were to be to go to a distant village to live, and that you are the things you would select to take wi But she must not be seen in the street at little neighbour girl of lower caste, and sai house and get that book we study in the sch the missionary's house and got a Bible and her cloth, and that was the only thing she village to live with her husband's mother. S there was not a missionary there, or a nat by day she studied her Bible, and day by da real and more precious to her.
 
 
 

བྱི) Ν N.)
kamp
ER XXX.
LITTLE HEROINE.
to studied in a mission school in India. I
was not her real name. When she came e years of age. She was married, but her She was a very modest girl, and used to her cloth closely over her face, so that she stions were asked of her she seemed to be ury lady noticed that when she was teaching :o lean forward and to be drinking in every ne she told her husband that she did not led were true gods, but that she believed When her husband heard this he was much a Christian. So the next morning he said n going to take you to live at my mother's
ld that you were to leave your home and were to be ready to start in an hour, what th you? This girl thought of her Bible. hat time in the morning. So she called a d to her, “Run quickly to the missionary's pol-the Bible.” And the little girl ran to brought it to Dasammah, and she hid it in
took with her when she went to a distant he was the only Christian in that village; ive pastor, or a native Christian. But day y the Christ of whom it told became more

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After a time her husband died suddenly, relatives treated her very cruelly, and cha saying she had used charms or something that she had done nothing to cause the will of God that he should die at that time. given up worshipping our gods, and are w must come back and worship our gods, Christian.” The girl said, “Oh, how can I am a Christian.” They spoke with her mar give them the one-answer-" I am a Christi
One day the men of the house banished and taking this little girl out into the ya tied the girl's hands and feet to these stake bring fire and burn your feet, unless you pr And the girl answered, “I do believe in Ch fire to her feet and let it burn them, and th her, “Now will you promise that you'll not “Oh, I cannot promise, I am, I am a Chr three children of Israel in the burning, fi strengthened her in the hour of her great tri could not bear it, and she fainted away. V she would die, and that the English Governi conduct. So they untied her hands and fee room, and left her there. In the middle of and she got up and felt for the door, anc made straight for the missionary's house. I late into the next night, to reach it. She wa on her poor sore feet, and when she coulc and crawled on her hands and knees. Wh knocked. The missionary lady came to the recognize her, she was so covered with du the girl, “Who are you?” The girl told come?” The girl said, “I believe on the La
The missionary lady took her in, and whe in, she was very sorry for her. She dressed this the girl never uttered a single murmu good you are how you must love Jesus Ch

haristian.” 127
and then, as is the custom in India, her rged her with the death of her husband, which had caused his death. The girl said leath of her husband, but that it was the Then they said, “It is because you have orshipping the Christian God. Now you und promise that you will not become a promise that? I do believe in Christ. I y times on the subject, but she could only an.' all the women to the women's apartments, 'd, drove four stakes into the ground, and s. Then they said to her, “Now we will omise that you'll not become a Christian.” rist. I am a Christian.” They put the e pain was very great. Then they said to become a Christian?" The girl answered, istian." Surely. He who walked with the ery furnace, was with this poor girl, and al. After a time, the pain was so great she When the men saw that, they were afraid nent might call them to account for their t, and then carried her away into a dark the night consciousness returned to her, | found it was open. She went out and t took her that night, and the next day, and lked part of the way, as well as she could, | not travel thus any further, she got down 2n she came to the missionary's house, she door and looked at the girl, but did not st and looked so wretched. She said to her. Then she asked, “Why did you rd Jesus Christ, and I eant to be baptized.' n she saw what a condition her feet were her feet, and all the time she was doing r or complaint, but only said, “Oh, how ist, to be so kind to a poor girl like me!"

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After a time her feet healed, and she sa Bible-woman who visits in the homes and help her to tell the women about Christ. I would be rice and salt; two shillings a mont If you could find some one who would på time teaching the women in the homes." T needed means, and she is now a Bible-wo girl had only known about Christ a short til she desired to tell others about Hinh.
I wonder if you who read these lines love your light shine as brightly. If Christ were say to you as He said to His disciples, “A you,' how would you feel in His presence: dear face and say, 'Lord Jesus, I do desia zuorld. Make me move and more to be like T.
 

o tell. Others.
d to the missionary lady, “You have a teaches the women; I should so like to could live on very little, all I should want h would be quite sufficient to buy my food. ly that for me, I would spend my whole he missionary lady furnished her with the man, and very happy in her work. This me, but He was very precious to her, and
: Christ as much, and if you are letting
to stand before you in bodily form, and
My father hath sent Me, even so send ? Would you be able to look into His re to be in the zworld as Zhou wast in the hee.'

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OTLEY HALL, JA
CHAPTE
THE JAFFN,
HE Jaffna College, situated at B. anow, the first attempt of a establish a college of their own. r. It originated in a spontaneou fna in 1867, to establish a Christian education both in the English and verna Tamils was called, and was largely atte adopted, and a committee appointed ti toward establishing a Christian College native committee, A17oo were raised in C that in Jaffna the wage of a labouring m America, hearing of this effort on the part most worthy of help who try to help
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A COLLEGE.
atticotta in AVorth Ceylon, is, as far as ave Christian community in a heathen land to
s effort, made by the native Christians of College, which should give a superior cular languages. A meeting of educated nded. At this meeting a scheme was collect funds and take initiatory steps Principally through the efforts of this eylon-a large sum, when it is remembered n is only sixpence a day. The people of of the native Christians, and believing those hemselves, contributed A6ooo, and the

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American Board of Missions gave, for the us worth A5OOO,
Early in 1872 the College was started under a Board of Directors. This Board of Direct missionaries of the three Missions avorking in Mission, the Wesleyan Mission, and the Americ Agent of the Worthern Province, and represen, community.
The Jaffna College, it will be noted, is not controlled by any one missionary body, though the three missionary societies which are at work institution. The Rev. E. P. Hastings, M.A., L. a missionary of the American Mission in Jaffna, tion as its first Principal, and he continued to seventeen years. His unwearied devotion for enabled him to win the confidence and affection of the whole community. Having resigned his position in June, 1889, the Rev. S. W. Howland, M.A., for sixteen years a missionary of the American Mission in Jaffna, was chosen as his sucCeSSO.
Besides the Principal, there are in the College two foreign professors who hold the degree of B.A., and five able native professors, all of au/hom are Christians. 7here has never been a heathen teacher employed in the College, and it is hoped there never avial be, for it is believed that one heathen teacher in an institution like this could undo the work of many Christian teachers. It is desired that this be first of all a Christian College, with the current all one way.
 

ngs.
se of the College, land and buildings
the general management and control of ors is at present composed of the senior Jaffna, namely, the Church of England an Mission , along with the Government tative native Christian gentlemen of the
a denominational institution. It is not it has the sympathy and direction of in Jaffna. It is a thoroughly Christian ).D., who had been for twenty-five years was invited to preside over the institufill the office with great acceptance for over forty years to the people of Jaffna
REW E. P. HASTINGs, D.D., For nineteen years Principal of Jaffna College.

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There are at present 67 students, with paratory school for the College, and al It is a rule of the College that all the st athus separated from heathen influence, and continuously, refraining from all heathen marks on their foreheads. Yet so great is and so highly is the education prized whic high-caste are zwilling to enter this Christia of board, also AI as entrance fee, and a Hindu young men are accustomed to eat, sl be present at morning and evening praye weekly prayer-meetings, also Sabbath-sch Sabbath.
So greatly has God blessed the College t 142 have gone out into the aerorld as professed professed Christ after leaving the College, an
 

ENTS IN JAFFNA COLLEGE.
seven teachers, in the High School, a prebout 1oo students in the College itself. Ludents reside on the premises. They are are under the strongest Christian influence bractices, even from Zwearing the idolatrous the desire for education in the community, sh is given, that many Aindu young men of n College as boarders, faying the full cost 3 for tuition annually. These high-caste eep, and live with the Christian students, to 's, to study the Bible daily, to attend the hool, church service, and Bible-class on
at, of the 326 who have entered its doors, Christians and communicants, others ave d the majority of the nearly Ioo students at

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present in the College are Christians. Many become pastors, catechists, and teachers, not on It has been said, "Whatever you awould schools.” Zhe teachings of Christ are given held up as the one perfect model for imit ministered unto, but to minister,” and “My Me' are sounded as the key-note for every with the Divine ideal.
There is in the College an active Young Me, of this association not only labour for the the College, but also do much valuable wo regularly go out and conduct six Sabbath sch Sabbath schools are attended by nearly 4oc have originated and for the past three or fo lying near Jaffna, called Ninathevu. They paid for several years the whole salary of the how the young men are able to raise the mol land belonging to the college grounds which as a garden, selling the produce for the benel companions are playing cricket or other gam at work, hoeing, watering, walking the well-s’
A number of young men, graduates of entered upon evangelistic work. Were they the Government, they might expect to receiv with a prospect of promotion, but they have of the Gospel, with a salary of AI Ios, to than 43 or 44, as few pastors in Jaffna ri We feel that they have made this choice ot Him. They show a similar spirit to that sl converted, was earning C6 a month. Perceiv withal, the missionary said to him one day preach to your countrymen? I may be abl this. Can you do it?" The man thought face and tears in his eyes: “No, I can't do to it for the love of the Lord Jesus Christ.” animating many of the Jaffna College gradua About five years ago there came a request

and Prospects
of the graduates of the institution have in missions in Ceylon, but also in India. put into the life of a nation, put into its
the first place in the College, and He is ation. His words, “I came not to be meat is to do the will of Him that sent one who would make his life harmonize
a's Christian Association. The members conversion of the Hindu students in rk outside. On Sabbath afternoons they ools in the neighbouring villages. These children. Not content with this, they ur years supported a school in an island have built a school-bungalow, and have teacher. It may be interesting to know ney for his support. There is a piece of the members of the Y.M.C.A. cultivate it of the school; and while some of their es in the recreation hours, they are hard weep, &c., &c. the College, have studied theology and 7 to engage in secular employment under 'e a salary of from A5 to CIO a month, voluntarily chosen the work of preachers begin with, and a prospect of not more eceive more than 64 a month as salary. ut of love to Christ, and a desire to serve hown by a Burmese boatman who, when ing that he was a ready speaker and clever : “Can you give up your business and le to give you half-a-pound a month for a moment, then replied with a beaming it for the half-pound a month, but I can We believe it is the same spirit which is teS.
from the missionary at Indore, Scindia,

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India, for a graduate of the College to c High School there. Mr. Chanmukam, a College course, consented to go. In then missionary, saying that as they were in unfavourable to the introduction of Chr. their mission work; that they were not all had to live and teach in buildings outside services, the native police often broke u even taking the native helpers to prison. was read to him. While he listened, tear close he looked up with a radiant and det can leave his home and come all the way Christ, I think I ought to go and help hi spirit to a country I6oo miles distant from language, and where the climate, food, dre
The missionary wrote as follows of him
has more recently gone to the same place:
In reply in regard Jaffna gra have had a with men
Mr. Ch Mathemat is seen f Entrance stood first all the su superior t about us successful and in imp teacher in confidence here can b start and
PORTRAT OF MR. CHANMUKAM.
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ome as a teacher of English in the Mission graduate who had been converted during his eantime there came a second letter from the the territory of a native prince who was stianity, they met with much opposition in owed to buy or rent a house in the city, but of the city; that when they held preaching p the meetings, dispersing the people, and Mr. Chanmukam was called, and the letter s began slowly to gather in his eyes. At its ermined face and said: “If that missionary to India and endure all that for the sake of m.' And he went with a true missionary Jaffna, among a people who speak another ss, religion, all are different. and of another Jaffna College graduate who
Indore, Central India, October 1, 1886. 7 to your letter, I most gladly bear testimony to Mr. Chanmukam and Mr. Charles, two duates at Indore, the former of whom I ample opportunity of testing, as he has been ow for about two years. anmukam is very well up in English, ics, History, Geography, Grammar, &c., as rom the fact that he so easily at the last Examination of the Calcutta University in English and Mathematics, and fourth in bjects. His knowledge of the first two is o that of many of the B.A.'s that we have here. As a teacher, he has been most both in winning the confidence of the boys arting knowledge, and is to-day the favourite the school, as well as the best. So much have I in him, that as soon as his place e filled, I intend to send him to Ujjain to take charge of a new High-School which I

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hope soon to start there. What especially earnes' consistent Christian life-an examp here. His duties do not allow him much he gets opportunity he does not fail to us men, and my warmest thanks are due to the sending him, and to the Grace of God ab shown to the heathen its power.
Though of Mr. Charles I cannot speak sc us, yet we all like very much his earnest, fait more appreciated I doubt not.
With thanks for your kind interest in our
More than five years ago a call came frc Deccan, India, for a teacher in the mission the Jaffna College, a native Christian of the missionary wrote of him :-
Two years ago you sent a young man to more than satisfied with him as a scholar, t congratulate you on turning out such a man become by far the best man I have or have good knowledge of Marathi, I could have th could not be better done by any one, and
anything and everything.
With best wishes, yours very truly,
JAMES SMITH,
After this young man had been in Ahmet month, he received an offer of AIo a mont “No ; I think I can do more good here,' a high-caste Hindu young men, and he has students of his classes often go to his room i. subjects, and for Bible-reading and prayer. College, is likewise now employed in the sar
Numbers of Jaffna young men are emplo

Ζιαλς.
has pleased me has been his modest, le that alone has done much to help us time for direct Christian work, yet where it. My earnest wish is for more such Institution which trained him, to you for ove all, which has in him so manifestly
fully, as he has been a shorter time with hful efforts, which as time goes on will be
work, I remain, yours sincerely,
J. WILKIE, Canadian Mission,
om a missionary at Ahmednagar, in the college there. Mr. Lee, a graduate of third generation, accepted the call. The
Ahmednagar, Deccan, India,5'une 28, 1886.
help us here- Mr. G. C. Lee. We are eacher, and above all as a Christian. I He is more than I hoped for, and has had. Had I some more like him, with a e best school in India. As it is, his work Desides, he is always at my elbow to do
American Missionary,
Arincipal, AAimednagar College.
lnagar for some time on a salary of 44 a. h if he would go elsewhere, but he said, hd he stayed. He teaches large classes of so won their friendship and esteem that n the evening for conversation on religious His brother, also a graduate of the Jaffna he Institution.
red in similar capacities and with much

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acceptance in Bombay, Madras, Ujjain, and other parts of India, as well as in Rang of the graduates a missionary spirit, and a z. of India on small salaries, to engage in the z fact seems to lie an indication of Providen future, to which we should take heed, and in It is now proposed to make the Jaffna course of study, to add to its staff of for improving its building accommodation, red Aermanent scholarships in aid of necessitious College enables its students to pass the Cal
 

AND A FEW OF HIS STUDENTS
Coimbatoon, Roha, Madura Passumallui, bon and Singapore. God has given to many villingness to leave home and go to all parts York of teaching in mission schools. In this ae as to the work before the College in the which we should rejoice.
ollege a First-Grade College, to extend its :gn and native professors, enlarging and acting the general expenses, and aroviding students. At the present time the Jaffna abridge Junior and Senior Local Examina

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tions, and gives a select course of study numbers of the graduates of the Jaffna C Mission Schools in India, this College mu Educational Department of the Madras Pre: only those who have matriculated or who salary grants from Government. As it is by are largely supported, Indian missionaries hereafter, to any large extent, unless they cc The Mission Colleges in India are doing a to the youths of India, and stemming ti like a flood, owing to the fact that only a s Colleges.
Major-General F. T. Haig, R.E., writes a in India :-
“There is a great thirst for education th like wildfire. Hindoos are already beginni that will be the most popular tax in the co The Government are in earnest in this matt of these 250 millions. But it will be a go Bible in the Indian school; it is utterly absolutely secular. What is to be the res political movement that avid take place among ozen ancestral religion has been destroyed by th nothing else ? A statesman, however world having to deal with such a people, and yet tl the Christian Church will do its duty, a instruction which cannot be given in the Go “We have in India 25o millions of peop subjects; for they are really and truly subj millions are the subjects of the feudatory St. without whose permission nothing can be practically our fellozef-subjects, we are d subdued the country in the most perfect ma for the welfare of its people. We cannot pu remainder of the heathen world if we will, b set aside. We must feel that we are respo salvation. What is the spiritual provision

tcation in India.
beyond that. But if larger and larger ollege are to find places as teachers in st be affiliated with a University, for the sidency has lately passed a resolution that hold degrees will be eligible to receive these grants that Indian Mission Colleges will be unable to employ Jaffna graduates omply with this Government requirement. great work in giving a Christian education he tide of infidelity which is coming in secular education is given in Government
s follows respecting Government education
roughout India. Education is spreading ng to tax themselves for education, and untry. But observe what is being done. er. They are going in for the education dess education. There is not even the put aside, and the education given is ult ? MVWhat zevill be the vast social and 25o millions of people, athose faith in their eir education, and to whom we have given ly, might be appalled at the prospect of hat is what we have got before us, unless nd impart to the people that religious vernment sechools.
le, 2 oo millions of whom are our fellowlects of the Queen. The remaining 5o ates, in each of which we have a resident done. For all these millions, zwho are publy responsible before God. We have inner, and we are responsible before God t this thought aside. We may ignore the ut these 25o millions of India we cannot nsible before God for them and for their that we as a Christian people are now

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making for the people of India? Let us. that we make for our own spiritual needs ; “In England we have 20,ooo clergyme many more ministers of the different No1 one of these clergymen and ministers y Christian workers, like city missionaries, S and every conceivable form of paid and l the clergymen and ministers who are s least 4o,ooo in this little island ministerir people, or one to every 650 people.
“Now, let us look to British India. W forty ministers, or one to every 45o,ooo with regard to the heathen world at large power. We send to India, where we ha ministers! Is there not something monst We would like to insert also an extra Indu Prakash of Bombay :-
“Education provided by the State sim its place. It is founded on the benevolen but in practice it is the negation of God in the State education of India, benevolent leaves its victims faithless. Our young m unhappy position of the sceptics and infid perceived and felt, the cry will go up to Knowledge alone does not suffice men, no the things of this life are fleeting, the life can only be happy in recognizing and actiu faith, life is without an aim, death withou happiness nor national greatness. If E anticipate it, then will the shriek go up to us faith.''
Is not this appeal most touching, cons Will not Christians respond to it, and do India and Ceylon, and Christian work in
A missionary in Lucknow, India, writes “We in India are in the midst of a gre these people is awaking from the sleep of

45O,OOO People l I37
ust for one moment remember the provision at home :-
n of the Church of England and at least as conformist denominations. Then for each pu must allow several additional classes of unday-school teachers, visitors, Bible-women, inpaid Christian labourers. Taking simply pecially ordained for this work, we have at g to the religious wants of 26 millions of
What have we got there? Six hundred and people. Please note these facts. The facts are very few and simple, but of enormous ve been these two hundred years, only 64o rously wrong there?' ct from a non-Christian Hindu paper, the
ply destroys Hinduism; it gives nothing in t principle of non-interference with religion,
life. Education must destroy idolatry, and in its idea, practically teaches atheism. It len are, many of them, forced by it into the els of Europe. As soon as this is generally England, “Father, Father, give us faith ! r material prosperity, nor good government;
to come is eternal ; and men and nations ng righteously on this Divine fact. Without hope, and there can be neither individual ngland will not hear our cry, and indeed our Father in heaven, “Father, Father, give
idering the source from whence it comes? more to support the Christian Colleges of very department?
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retreat left us save that of manfully tryin which the intellectual awakening has impos to preaching alone. As well try to persua colleges and seminaries. We have no cl be to postpone the final triumph of Christ the intellect of the country to a depraved of the Hindu, the bigotry of the Mahomm Sadducean heartlessness of the European r her full responsibility in trying to guide thi blessing instead of a curse to India.”
The missionaries in India are thus str measure of success, to impart a sound re number of youths who throng into their in Andian Mission Colleges labour as yet un, sufficient number of able Christian teachers a While recently in India we visited th Negapatam; S. P. G. College, Tanjore: S. College, Madras; Free Church College, London Mission College, Calcutta; Am now. We found in these great institutions ments, altogether 5030 students; of the native teachers, fifty-one of whom were Christians. These facts speak for themsel teachers for the mission colleges of India. a rule, outnumber the native Christian teac Mission Colleges and High Schools, Brahm foreheads, sitting before their students in subjects, while the native Christian teach Pariah or Shanar native pastor teaches the tends to make an unfavourable impression the value and importance of Christianity. ) Indian Mission Colleges have to report so c among their students. Mission Colleges agencies as they ought to be until this stat themselves deplore it, and zeould most glaa zeith Christian men of influence and thor obtained. The Principal of the Lucknow

hers Wanted. I39
g to meet the momentous responsibilities ed upon us. We cannot confine our work le the churches at home to abolish their oice. To shirk our responsibility would ianity for generations to come, and consign infidelity compounded of the superstition dan, the lethargy of the Buddhist, and the tionalist. Christianity must at once assume s educational movement, so as to make it a
ving in a devoted spirit, and with a large ligious and secular education to the vast 1stitutions. But it is widely felt that the aer one great difficulty, viz. the lack of a fgood caste. e following colleges:-Wesleyan College, P. G. College, Trichinopoly; Free Church Bombay; Free Church College, Poona; erican Methodist Mission College, Luck, in the preparatory and collegiate departse 374 were Christians. We found I63 Christians and II 2 of whom were nonves as to the need of additional Christian The Hindu and Mahommedan teachers, as hers. It is not unusual to find, in Indian nin teachers, with heathen marks on their the class rooms teaching B.A. and F.A. hers take lower subjects, and sometimes a Bible lesson. This, as can be easily seen, on the minds of the students in regard to it may be partly as a result of this that many omparatively small a number of conversions will never be such powerful evangelizing e of things is rectified. The missionaries tly fill the places of these heathen teachers ough education, if enough of such could be American Mission College writes in a

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recent annual report, speaking of that larg the field is rapidly increasing: we could once were they available; as it is we are ob) teachers.'
It is to be borne in mind that the Chris small as yet (one in IOOO of the population) the low caste or outcast classes, and not fror castes, having been ground down by poverty inferior to the high castes, and many woul B.A. course in English. Besides, the low c of them have not the means to give their so) Avow, turning and viewing the facts in things. The English and American missio been able largely to evangelize the upper a three missions in Jaffna over 25oo communi tion, mostly of high caste, and there are in t I5,ooo children, also mostly of high caste. able and reliable men. A former Gove said that he found no young men so useful trained in the College (Seminary) at Jaffna opportunity to help India, and that with ( to India in reaching its upper castes. India i boats can cross to India in a night.
Were the Jaffna College well equipped graduates could be sent as helpers to many in a service this would be rendering to missic Just as formerly missionaries from the little Scotland is now a Christian land, so from in the future, many native Christian workers make that great land one day a Christian la caste, in the Christian day-schools of the bright, promising lads, eager for an educat whole or in part, should not the College en Christian work in Ceylon and India?
Almost the whole education of the penins the parents, as a rule, do not object to the Christian songs, nor to their attending the

ey to India.
e mission: “The demand in all parts of amploy two hundred Christian teachers at liged to employ Hindu and Mahommedan
tian community in India is comparatively , and is composed mostly of converts from m those who are Hindus proper. The low and oppression for centuries, are mentally ld not be intellectually able to take a full aste as a rule are poor, and therefore most ns an extended education. Jaffna, ace find an almost opposite state of ins, by God's providence and blessing, have 'stes. There are in the churches of the cants, or nearly one in Ioo of the populahe Christian day-schools of these missions Educated Jaffna Christians are, as a rule, rnor of Madras, Sir Charles Trevelyan, zo him in administration of affairs as those ... We believe that this is Jaffna's great 7od's blessing Jaffna may prove to be a key s very accessible from Ceylon, and native
and affiliated with a University, Christian missions in India. Who can tell how great ons, and to the cause of Christ in India ? island of Iona went over Scotland, and
the island of Ceylon shall go, we trust, to India, and, by God's blessing, help to nd. With 15,ooo children, mostly of high missions, a large proportion of whom are ion and able and willing to pay for it in deavour to train as many as possible for
ula is in the hands of the missionaries, and ir children learning the Bible lessons and Sabbath-school. Young men and women

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from heathen families of good caste, on be seldom meet now with any great persecuti allowed to live as Christians in their homes, Child marriage is not practised as in India common. The Zenana system of India women of good families are kept in son strong as in India. The people are not so idolatry. Almost every house is open to v. and Christianity, instead of being bitterly o respected in the community. These and C to be a nursery for Christian workers. In ti strong, vigorous, well-balanced Christian ch Missionaries alone cannot accomplish t the 250 millions of India. The missionary missionary to 45o,ooo people). It is by r done. Hence the urgent necessity to train staff of native agents. A native can get 1 understand better their difficulties, feels affected by the tropical sun as a foreigner i a financial standpoint, we find that the workers is trifling compared with the cost foreigners.
The cost of educating a student in ty books, incidentals, and tuition, does not said that care is taken not to allow the stu wear the native dress, eat the native foo native style Aence the graduates are evangelists on small salaries, supplied entire native churches in Jaffna, the majority are In a recent conversation with a missio years connected with a missionary college “Our great difficulty is that, though we ha from our college every year, we cannot s The reason is that the Government offers t is able to give, and the temptation proves ment service.”
But the glory of the Jaffna College is t

istians Declining. I41
oming Christians and joining the Church, on from their relatives, but are generally ating with the other members of the family. , and widow re-marriage is becoming more loes not prevail, though girls and young he seclusion. Caste prejudices are not so priest-ridden, and many are losing faith in sits of the missionaries and native helpers, pposed and looked down upon, is generally ther advantageous circumstances fit Jaffna his favourable atmosphere they may develop LaraCtCrS. he vast work of reaching and evangelizing force on the ground is small (one ordained latives that the bulk of the work must be and send forth a large and well-qualified hearer to the people than a foreigner, can more free with the language, and is not is apt to be. Viewing the matter also from cost of educating and maintaining native of educating, sending out, and maintaining
e Jaffna College, including food, clothing, "xceed AI o a year. It need scarcely be Idents to learn extravagant habits. They d of the country, and live in the simplest awilling to become fastors, catechists, and ly by native churches. Of the twenty-two self-supporting. nary from India, who had been for many in one of the Presidency towns, he said, ve native Christian young men graduating 2cure them, as a rule, for mission helpers. wice or thrice as much salary as our mission too much for them, so they enter Govern
hat many of its graduates do not want to

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MR. EIDWIN, R. FITCH (A GRADUATE OF THE JAFFN MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE CANADAN MI ASSISTANTS A
engage in Government service, but seek mi. only one-half or one-third of what they could found something better worth living for than has never been such giving toward religiou their worship, and if they have done this for them when they know the true God?” Ma may more and more in the future possess meat to eat that ye know not of,” and “M Me...'
It was most touching to note in the Chu, 1887, that two young men, natives of Syria College at Beirut, on hearing of the mart themselves to the Church Missionary Societ the difficulties and dangers of the work, the
 

A coLLEGE), HEAD MASTER IN THE ENGLISH SSION IN UJJAIN, AND SOME OF HIS NO PUPLS.
ssion work, even though the pay may be get in secular employments. They have making money. It has been said, “There s objects as has been shown by Hindus in
false gods, what may we not expect of we not hope that the native Christians
the Spirit of Him who said, “I have sy meaf is to do the will of Him that sent
ch Missionary Intelligencer for September, graduating from the American Mission yrdoms taking place in Uganda, offered r for mission work in Africa. They knew climate, the degradation of the people, but

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they said, “We have taken all this into a live and die if need be for that people.” kind of work. They were mindful of their of Me . . . unto the uttermost part of the supreme love to Christ.
When Garibaldi had been defeated a “Soldiers, I have nothing to offer you but let him who loves his country follow me: their feet. If the young men and young ease and comfort too much to follow is coming when the very stones will cry ou those shall arise who will improve the gre of evangelizing the whole world.
Jaffna College graduates could readily Ceylon but all over South India, as the Jaffna, is the language of sixteen millions
"fn towns and villages much work can ments are not high-earnest, humble won But besides these, we must have for the l; answer the numerous and often difficult obj But, apart from the growing demand fo requires a class of educated native C usefulness of influencing other educated n: forgotten that our plans, having for their o churches, are sure to prove abortive if na education for the responsible and remu monopolized by Hindus, Mussulmans, Bu There are in Jaffna over 25oo native C college would be the greatest boon to th munity, insuring to the sons of native col they could not enjoy, and thus giving the lives of the highest Christian usefulness. strong, intelligent, clear-headed native C. our converts and their children remain on Gospel found them. We wish for them the wisest methods of insuring these is to of which will be felt for generations to col

pers Meeded. I43
ccount, and we wish to go to Africa and to They made no stipulations as to salary or Master's last words, “Ye shall be witnesses earth.” Obedience is simply a guestion of
t Rome, he issued his immortal appeal : cold, and hunger, and rags, and hardships; and thousands of youths of Italy sprang to women in Christian lands love their own Jesus to the mission-field, surely the time t, and from among the converted heathen at opportunity, which others have despised,
engage in evangelistic work not only in Tamil language, which is the vernacular in of people in Southern India.
be done by those whose scholastic attainkers, labouring among their own relatives. arger places well-educated helpers, able to ections which their opponents bring forward. r first-class preachers, the country urgently hristians, capable in different spheres of atives all around them. And it must not be bject the perfect independence of the native tive Christians are not prepared by superior inerative posts which have hitherto been ddhists, and Eurasians." hristian communicants. “A well-equipped nis raipdly-increasing native Christian comnverts educational facilities which otherwise 2m a preparation which would fit them for
We want not only a warm-hearted but a hurch. We would not be content to have the same low level of intelligence where the growth, advancement, success; and one of build up this college, the uplifting influence me.'

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REQUIREM
Endowment for the Salary of Principal Endowment for the Salary of one
Professor Endowment for One-Third Salary of
Medical Professor Endowment for the Salary of Native M. Endowment for the Salaries of three N. Permanent Scholarships of AI oo each (Ten of these Permanent Schd
Medical Students.) General Endowment House and Furniture for Married Foreig Building Sites and Houses for Th
Professors O - - Improvement of College-Dining Hall Laboratory and Physical Science
additional Apparatus New Dormitories ... v Km Library Building and Library General Improvements on existing Bu
Total sur
The foregoing Estimates of Requirements Directors of the Jaffna College.
NAMES OF IDI
Foreign Re W. C TwyNAM, Esq., C.M.G. Government A Rev. E. P. HASTINGS, D.D., M.A., American Rev. W. W. HowLAND, M.A., American Miss Rev. R. C. HASTINGS, M.A., American Missi Rev. E. M. GRIFFITH, M.A., Church Mission Rev. W. R. WiNSTON. Wesleyan Missionary, (

[ENTS.
Fund. Yearly
Income.
· ·65,००० 625०
Married Foreign
- ... 5, ooo 25o Married Foreign
a 2,ооо I OO edical Professor... I, loo 55 ative Professors... 4.5oo 225 for 6o Students 6,ooo 3oo larships are for
a . . . 4.5oo 225 gn Professor A6oo ree Native
3oo
- OO Hall with
3оо
2 Ο Ο
- - - 2 Ο Ο ildings ... 2oo
п,9оо
m required ...a3oooo
received the sanction of the Board of
RECTORS.
vidents.
gent, Northern Province.
Missionary, Principal Jaffna College.
ionary.
onary.
ary.
hairman Northern Ceylon District.

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Wative A C. W. CATHIRAVALU P1ILLAI, R. BRECKENBRIDGE, Esq., Su Rev. E. CHAMPION, Native F Rev. B. H. RICE, Native Pa. J. R. ARNOLD, Esq., Joint E Rev. T. P. Hunt, Native Pa T. C. CHANGARA PILLA, Est T. M. TAMBU, Esq., Proctor, L. S. STRoNG, Esq., Medical WM. PAUL, Esq., Dispenser, J. P. CookE, Esq., Head M
We hope that friends of education an A3o,ooo may seem to be a large sum, but be accomplished by it, viz. the extending a College, and a General Medical Mission? endow one additional chair in the Glasgo professors and teachers.
It is proposed to have 18o students in th to pay the whole cost of their education, one-third of the whole number, we wish to of one-half of their expenses, or 45 a year There are in our Missions pastors and c; or A3 per month, who might have bee employment, 68 or AIo a month, and y they have chosen Christian work. Schola the sons of these Christian workers, for whole sum required to give their sons a hope that such boys, if taken into the Coil in their turn, having been from earliest chi Christian home.
Over 5o Bible-women are employed u) receive from 8.s. to 16.s. a month as sal widows who support themselves and their of these Bible-women by scholarships w native Christian mother, a widow, has dedi

d Salaries. I4S
εσία ενιές.
Esq, Magistrate. b-Inspector of Schools. astor, Church Mission. stor, American Mission. ditor, Morning Star. stor American Mission. l, Proctor, Supreme Court.
Supreme Court. Practitioner. Friend-in-Need Hospital. uster, Batticotta High School.
d of Christianity will aid this enterprise. is it large considering what is proposed to nd permanently endowing of a Christian A lady in Glasgow gave recently a 2,5oo to w University, where already they have 5o
e College. Of these, I2O will be required viz. AI o a year, and the remaining 6o, or be able to aid by scholarships to the extent
atechists of good ability receiving only 42. n receiving, had they sought Government et, from love to Christ and to His cause, rships could sometimes be used in aiding hey must find it very difficult to pay the :ollege education; and we have reason to ege, would become useful Christian workers ldhood brought up in the atmosphere of a
nder the three missions in Jaffna. They ary. A considerable number of these are little ones on this small sum. To aid soms ould be a truly Christian deed. When a cated her most precious treasure, her eldest

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son, to mission work, surely it should be a j country to helpsuch a one pecuniarily in tl the blessing which is sure to follow.
AIoo will found a permanent scholarship or, if given by a congregation, Sunday-scho school superintendent, or teacher. When once, it might be paid in instalments of a 2 themselves afford such sums, yet out of love circle of ten friends who would each undert: a whole scholarship would be secured. An to a temporary scholarship. Students will w accounts of their studies and progress.
Only Christian young men zvill be aidé Aach young man so aided will sign an under under some Mission in Ceylon or India for that, if he is in any away prevented from doi money which he has received from the schola training up native Christians fledged to missi A Scotch laird once said to his son, 'A growin' when ye're sleepin’.” We think Christian college in a heathen land is to b while we are sleeping in the dust, or rathe rejoicing in the presence of our Saviour.
A missionary of long experience in Ind follows:-
“The people in heathen lands can worshi the open street with little aid from outside. matter of Christian education. Without it t will grow up in ignorance; there is no assur: begun in them will retain its hold upon the for a training which shall produce a native teachers, is coming up from all quarters. I call not for a luxury but for a necessity. It aries who are temporarily at home open the oftener, the record of a gift often or twenty college or other institution of learning. Pe tion to the twenty or thirty, or forty others r

t a Tree, Jamie.'
oy for fathers and mothers in a Christian le education of that son, and so share in
It might bear the name of the founder, }l, or Bible-class, the name of the pastor; not convenient to pay the whole sum at o a year for five years. Many who cannot for the cause might be able to interest a ke to give A2 ayear for five years; thus annual subscription of a 5 would be equal rite yearly letters to their patrons, giving
d by scholarships or annual subscriptions. (aking that he aetill engage in mission zerork a period of years after his graduation or ng this, he will reyund to the College all the rship. Thus the scholarships will aid in on zuork.
ye be stickin' in a tree, Jamie ; it'll be that to be endowing a scholarship in a e sticking in a tree which will be growing r when we have left this earth and are
ia, when at home on furlough, wrote as
p in private houses, or under trees, or in , but they imperatively need help in the he churches cannot flourish, their children ance that the Christian life which has been next generation. The honest, earnest cry evangelical agency, both as preachers and in some cases it is a piercing cry It is a ought to be heard and heeded. Missionpapers and find every week or two, perhaps thousand pounds sterling to this or that haps it may be for a professorship, in addilow secured. Perhaps it may be for an art

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gallery or a gymnasium, or some other des tion. They are not narrow-minded men a portance of having everything that may ten come. But they cannot help saying with will add something to the value of a pr time a whole institution in our field. It w education to scores and scores of young me to fit themselves as preachers or teachers. the luxuries which are provided for institut a little, is it not right that they should ask table, so that the people for whom they la
We have been sometimes asked how we of securing the needed funds for this ins missionary families among a population of of a district. We were the only missionar were in our district twenty-six day-school these, several were English schools. Two 2oo students, were situated near the missi attended our station Sabbath-school. The to our house daily for a Bible lesson in En Having them thus with us daily, both di classes, we became deeply interested in the Most of them came from heathen homes, a foreheads, yet we noticed, as we went on asking them to do so, one after another be heathen marks. Many of them began to the inquirers' class, and some from time received into the Church. We knew th; convinced of the truth of the Gospel, and v Many of these boys, on leaving the Eng education. What would they do? Some be received, but the college has at present could not pay the required fees. Perhap schools in our district each year, two or What would the others do? They were They would go to India, to study in heat could live in the houses of their heathen r

took this Work. I47
irable thing in connection with the institund women who do not appreciate the imto the development of the generations to n themselves, “That gift of 420,ooo; it sperous college, but it would found for all ould at once open the way for a Christian n, who, without it, will have no opportunity If missionaries do not ask that some of ons of learning in this country be curtailed for some of the crumbs that fall from the bour may not be left to starve?” were led first of all to undertake the work titution. In North Ceylon there were ten 316,ooo people. Each family had charge ies in a district of 20,ooo people. There s, with about 20oo children in them. Of of these, with a total attendance of about on house, and the majority of the students ; upper classes from both schools also came glish, and for help in their secular studies. uring the week and in our Sunday-school m, and regarded them as younger brothers. nd wore the marks of the god Siva on their teaching them the truth, that without our gan of their own accord to leave off the attend the church services, several joined to time professed faith in Christ, and were at many more were, in their hearts, really vere just at the turning-point of their lives. glish day-schools, were desirous of a higher would go to the Jaffna College and ask to limited accommodation, and perhaps they s of twenty boys leaving the English daythree would be received into the college. determined to have a higher education. then or non-Christian schools, where they elations, and be aided in their expenses by

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young men who were studying in the heathen or Gover hearts to find them living among heathen surroundings
II +
 

) Back to Heathentism I49
heathen relatives. We have known fourteen of our dear boys, whom we had taught for years, and had learned to love, go over to India in one night, most of them to study in that sink of iniquity and moral leprosy-Kompa-kornum.
We knew that these boys would board in heathen families, would be compelled the first night, before they ate their food, to put on the heathen ashes, and to wear them always; that they would not be allowed to attend any Christian services, but would be obliged to go to temples, perform heathen ceremonies, study the heathen books; that they would hear Christ constantly reviled, and the Christian religion mocked and scorned, and that being under these influences for a period of years, they would come back to us bitter heathens, or agnostics, or infidels, to be our worst opposers, and morally unfit to become the husbands of the pure young girls who were being trained in mission day and boarding schools, to whom in many instances they were engaged.
When we were in India in 1882, É, and again in 1885, we took occasion to visit the cities of Negapatam, * Tanjore, Trichinopoly, s Madura, and Madras, and to see the Jaffna hment schools in those cities. It pained our and to see how worldly and irreligious they

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had grown, and how far they hal retrograded since they had left us in Jaffna. We knew that had these young men been studying instead in the Jaffna College, under the strong Christian influence there, they would in all probability, with God’s blessing, have given their hearts to Christ, and been preparing for lives of Christian usefulness in Ceylon or in India.
As we went on teaching large classes of boys from year to year, on week-days and Sabbaths, loving them, labouring and praying for their conversion, seeing them almost persuaded to be Christians, large numbers of the brightest and most heathen schools in India, it seemed as til census of the peninsula of Jaffna, and found then studying in schools outside of Jaffna almost overpoweringly evil influences wi in India, and the effect these must have ( that were the Jaffna College enlarged and of these students might have been kept to India away from parental restraint and heard at the Union Missionary Prayer M. societies in Jaffna again and again depl that something ought to be done, that it w thing, that we ought to try to remedy it. men of high caste might do, if brought to mission schools in India, was constantly pré A circumstance which took place at th We were told, one afternoon, that a boy his parents to India the next day. We wi Christian boy, the son of Christian paren'
 

A GROUP OF CHRISTIAN SENGERS.
(PonNTAH wrTH THE vIoILIN.)
and then at the critical moment finding promising leave us year by year for these hough we could not bear it. We made a that about 2 oo Jaffna young men were a. When we pictured to ourselves the h which we had seen them surrounded on their characters; and when we reflected its course of instruction extended, many in Jaffna instead of being allowed to go from all Christian influence; and as we eetings the missionaries of all the three ore the existing state of things; we felt as not enough merely to deplore the evil The thought also of the good these young Christ, in replacing heathen teachers in sent to our minds. at time helped to lead us to a decision. named Ponniah was going to be sent by 're specially attached to this bright young s. He was always ready to do Christian

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work ; he was a sweet singer, and had consta and village meetings. We went at once to could with the parents, begging them not
“What can we do? We have, as you kn Ponniah must be educated, that he may be sisters. We are unable to educate him i
A PROFESSOR AND STUDENTS
Principal of the College and all the missionarie aiding as many as they possibly can. A heat India. We do not believe he will become : heathen school. We see no other way; we with them till far into the night. We told his bosom and not be burned, and that we
 

e AEducated. ' I5.
intly assisted us by singing at our open air the house. We spoke as earnestly as we to send their son to India. They said, ow, a large family of little children, and 2 able to help his younger brothers and in Jaffna College. We have asked the
N THE JAFFNA COLLEGE.
is to help us, but they say they are already hen relative has offered to educate him in heathen, even though he studies in a must send him to India.” We pleaded them that a man cannot take fire into had seen the state of things in these

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heathen schools in India, and felt sure that t of the most formative period of his life ther we could not shake their resolution to send
In imagination we saw the long process promising boys going to India and returning We could not bear the thought. We went h asked God to help us to raise the funds needea that hour to this our courage has never falter laid the burden of this work on our hearts, a who is the great burden-bearer.
The Board of Directors of the Jaffna Coll Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missi kindly granted us permission to come home our furlough that we might go on with this England om January Ist, I 887. The same y formed in Edinburgh. God has opened believe, to the prayers of many in Jaffna wh the throne of grace. We have secured promised for the Jaffna College and Genera yet to be secured to complete the A3o,o short a time it may take to secure this amol long as we believe it to be God's will, ar. wide open door, until the whole sum is secu
We would consider several years of work College permanently equipped with addition a larger staff of earnest Christian professor Christian students, with some additional b better to meet the needs of the people c Medical Mission established in connection w undenominational and unsectarian Board of peninsula. We also desire to see, in due ti for Women.
We have often been asked if we did not fee Did we think we should realize our ambitic worked among the negroes of the Southern the seven years we were in Ceylon, if we hac good. But two years ago, when one of us

lf Subscribed.
his boy could not spend four or five years e without being contaminated. However, the boy to India.
ion in years to come of just such bright, g lost to purity and to the cause of Christ. ome that night, got down on our knees and to extend the awork of the College. From ed-not for a moment. We believe Christ na zve took it up in the strength of Aim
ege sanctic ned Cur efort. The American ons in Boston, whose missionaries we are, on furlough, and they have since extended work till its completion. We arrived in 'ear, a committee to aid us in this work was many homes and hearts in response, we o daily remember us and this cause before up to May, 1890, CIT,ooo, given or Medical Mission. This leaves A13,ooo oo aimed at. However long or however unt, we intend to continue our efforts, so ld so long as He gives us health and a red. well spent if only we might see the Jaffna al foreign and native professorships, with s and teachers, with scholarships for needy uildings and appliances, and thus enabled of Jaffna ; also a fully-equipped General rith it, and under the d rection of the same ' Directors, to be a blessing to the whole me, the establishment of a Medical Missioni
:l anxious as to the success of our scheme. n? During the six winters in which we States, before going to Ceylon, and during one ambition, one aim in life, it was to do was ill for two months, and it looked as if

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perhaps this work, so dear to us, must b now p Now our ambition is to do the zen His will is perfect, We know it is tl and that the highest and the only success day by day.
With regard to the urgent claims of ti quote a few words from an address of Mr in Philadelphia:-
I want to give to you a thought which was sug. one of the streets of New York City. The thou people in India; I remembered the story of the said, 'Sahib, I have been up North and bathed been to shrines in the East and shrines in the hair and beard have grown gray, but I have not í of that man, my mind went back to the time whe Orontes. But they go East instead of going W instead of Rome, and Asia instead of Europe, so It seemed to me that my own father journeyed fr last he goes to the northern part of the British Isl Druid priest, trying to find peace. And when h once I was young, and now I am old. My hair found peace. Can you help me?” And I ans study medicine and astrology, trying to find peace a man who has seen a missionary. "Oh," he say that “God so loved the world that He gave His might not perish.' I stopped him. “Sir,' sai me. I start off, and aster two weeks' walking, I those wonderful words that "God so loved the w soever believeth on Him should not perish, but h; since Christ died?' ' Eighteen hundred yea “Your grandfather knew about . hrist?' 'Yes My father spent from childhood to old age see there many people in your country who know minister to every 8oo of our population, we have eight, and we have an average of one church com sir,” said I, “ why don’t they come over and te answer, and in the still watches of the night, it see “If thout forbear to deliver those that are drawn . sajest, Aehold we knew it not, doth not lie that to thy soul, doth He not know it f And shall not lie
Some of the native Christians in Cey much persecution and ridicule from their so have proved themselves worthy of the

bles Turned. I53
2 given up, we changed our aim in life, and of God, whatever that may be. We know e one utterly good thing in all the world, for us in life consists in doing the will of God
e foreign field, we would like just here to R. P. Wilder, delivered at a recent meeting
gested to me a few months ago, as I was walking up ght was this I put myself into the places of those Brahman who came to one of our missionaries and in the Ranga Nadi to wash away my sins. I have West. Once I was young, and now I am old. My ound peace. Can you help me?’ As I was thinking n Barnabas and Paul crossed the bridge spanning the est. India is evangelized instead of Greece, China that the Anglo-Saxon race is left in heathen darkness. om one shrine to another trying to find peace. At es; and there he sits, under a towering oak. with a e is dying he calls me to his side and says: “Son, and my beard have grown gray, but I have not yet wer, “No, father, I cannot,’ and he dies. Then I 2. But one day, in the course of my studies, I meet 's, “ that missionary used wonderful words. He said only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him d I," where can I find that missionary?' He tells meet him in a little village in Spain. Again I hear orld that He gave His only begotten Son, that whaave everlasting life.' 'Sir,” said I, “how long is it 's.' ' Your father knew about Christ?' 'Yes.' .” “Why did not your father come to tell my father? king peace, and died without it. Sir,' said I, “are bout Christ?” "Yes, we have an average of one an average of one Christian worker to every fortymunicant to every five of our population.” “Well, il us Anglo-Saxons about Christ?" He could not med to me I could hear a voice from on high saying, o death, and those that are ready to be slain, if thou idereth the heart consider it And Ae that keepeth render to every man according to his works 2'
on have made great sacrifices, and endured riends and relatives in confessing Christ, and aid which it may cost Christians in this

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happy and favoured land some little sacri shall confess Me before men, him will angels." Is it enough to confess Christ b church at home? Surely it is not for s reward is promised. In the early day martyrdom, if need be Christ asks nothi us. “ Whosoewer he be of you that fors disciple.' The test of discipleship is the consecration to Him of all that we are none at all, and our time, our talents, a placed at His disposal. The Apostle Paul with a price.” Not Paul only, but every
ze s Christ /"
Livingstone, in Africa, said, “I aerial possess, except in relation to the Aingdom of ( of that &ingdom, it shall be given away or key Aromote the glory of Aim to avhom I owe all be given me to adhere to this.”
If when we read Christ's command at always," we could say with Livingstone, “ sacred and strictest honour, and there's an e a joy, and we could add with that veteran that be called a sacrifice which is simply fai God, awhich we can meter repay ? Is that a healthful activity, the consciousness of doing glorious destiny hereafter ? Away zeith t thought ! It is emphatically no sacrifice, say
 

acrifice.”
ce to give. The Master says, “Whosoever confess before My Father and before the afore a small circle of loving friends in one's ich a Small and easy thing that so great a , confessing Christ meant loss, suffering, ng less of us because He asks everything of aketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My same now as then. Christ asks for entire and have. He wants our whole hearts, or nd our entire possessions said at His feet, tells us, “Ye are not your oven, ye are bought Christian should be able to say, “AFor me to
flace no value on anything have or may 2hrist, f anything zeill advance the interests st only, as, by giving or keeping it, I shall most my hopes in time and in eternity, may grace
nd promise, “Go . . . Lo, I am zith you At is the word of a Gentleman of the most indon't,” surely every service would become missionary, “A never made a sacrifice. Can a back as a part of a great debt owing to our acrifice zwhich brings its own blest reward in good, Aeace of mind, and a bright hope of a he zevord in such a zieze, and zeith such a
rather IT IS A PRIVILEGE.'

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MASK OF A DEWIL-IDANG ER,
CHIAPT
THE MEDICAL
T is our earnest desire to see North Ceylon, also a Medic harmony, and the one being
Are Medical Missions nee field? We would like to give, in answ Dr. Lowe's able book on Medical Mission
“The Gospel means 'glad tidings, ar forth of the best of all glad tidings-the l can best be taught, as we teach little chil Gospel ought, therefore, to be preached t unmistakable argument of loving deeds. the workman that needeth not to be ash deed I have fully preached unto the Gent
 
 

OR PROFESSIONAL EXORCIST.
ER XXXII.
MISSION AGENCY.
a General Medical Mission established in ul Mission for Women, the two working in he complement of the other. led as an evangelizing agency in the foreign :r to this question, a few extracts from
l preaching the Gospel means the setting te of God to man. The heuthen, as a rule, en in our schools, by object lessons. The them alike by the living voice and by the
Like the Apostle Paul, the true missionary, med, must be able to say, “By word and es the Gospel of Christo

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“To the heathen abroad as well as to the g of the reality and power of the Divine love Hope, Love, these three, but the greatest o love for man; and what is the aim and C welfare of my brother, the welfare of his bod time, his welfare for eternity. Holding fort voice and by a practical manifestation of the meaning of Preaching the Gospel. It proclamation of the Gospel message; it i substance of the Gospel sympathized with st the sick, and went about continually doing His own religion, and teaching by His gr its principles, so His ambassadors must 'p likewise by a loving, benevolent, Christ-like for His sake.
“The evangelization of the world is C instruments, are called to engage in it, a represent Him in His tender pity for the lo in His care for the sick and His compassic to Christ's ministry on earth for the interpr into all the world and preach the Gospel to “In reading the New Testament one can Lord's personal ministry on earth as well as that of the medical missionary. In the last Matthew's Gospel we read: “And Jesus synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the ness and all manner of disease among the all Syria; and they brought unto Him all diseases and torments, and those which wi and He healed them. And there follow Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jeru Jordan.'
“Our Lord was just then entering upon the way to gain access to it, its prejudices, people receiving His teaching; and knowii ployed to reveal His character and claim nearer to Himself. By the exercise of His

Medical Missions.
godless at home the most convincing proof is that it begets love for man. “Faith, f these is Love,' love to God begetting bject of true Christian love? It is the y, the welfare of his soul, his welfare for h the Word of Life, both by the living a spirit of the Gospel, is therefore the true
implies something more than the mere mplies that, as He who is the sum and uffering humanity, fed the hungry, healed good, thus ever manifesting the spirit of acious words, and by His loving deeds, reach the Gospel, not by word only, but ministry performed in Christ's name and
Ehrist's own work, and those who, as His re commissioned to represent Christ, to st, in His loving sympathy for the afflicted, on for the suffering. We turn, therefore, etation of His own commission, “Go ye
every creature.’ not fail to be struck with the fact that our that of His Apostles was pre-eminently three verses of the fourth chapter of St. went about all Galilee, teaching in their kingdom, and healing all manner of sickpeople. And His fame went throughout sick people that were taken with divers ere lunatic, and those that had the palsy; ed Him great multitudes of people from salem, and from Judea, and from beyond
His public ministry. He knew man's heart, and the many obstacles in the way of the ng all this, such were the means He ems, to remove prejudice, and to draw men healing power He gathered around Him a

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great congregation, with hearts overflow truths of ' The Sermon on the Mount ' f we inquire into our Lord's recorded mira avere miracles of healing. . . . These mi able proofs that He was, what He cli were more, they were living manifestatio spoke a language intelligible to every hul compassion, His loving sympathy, His in own disciples regarded them as the fulfill our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.'
“As the Divine Author and Founde personal ministry must ever be to us deep of that ministry claims our devout attentic so far as it was supernatural, we cannot ir mighty works' was meant to be a manife needed now as then) He hath left us steps.”
“As our authority for the employment example, but likewise His direct commant His Apostles and the first teachers of Ch ever city ye enter . . . heal the sick t Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.' by the forth-putting of His own Divine p which spread His fame throughout all miraculous endowments (now no longer a hear, the blind to see, and the lame to wa now be a model for our imitation. Such miracles intended merely as attestations t the Divine origin of the Gospel which the but, as we have already seen, they were m festation of the compassionate spirit of C that could not be misunderstood, of Him to save them.' And surely, in so far as t of healing are recorded for our instruction prises, the consecration of the healing art accordance with the Divine method, but f “The “gift of tongues, which enabled

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g with gratitude, and thus the searching ll as living sced on a prepared soil. When les, we find that no fewer than two-thirds aculous works of healing were unanswerimed to be, the Son of God; but they is of the spirit of His own religion; they nah conscience; they revealed His tender :omprehensible love, and in this light His ment of the word of Esaias, Himself took
of Christianity, the record of our Lord's ly suggestive and instructive. Every feature in. His mode of commending the truth in nitate, but in so far as the outcome of His station of the spirit of the Gospel (as much an example that we should follow in His
of this agency we have not only our Lord's i. What He did Himself He commissioned ristianity to do likewise: “And into whatsohat are therein, and say unto them, The . . . It may be said, however, that it was ower that Christ did these mighty works, Syria, and that it was in virtue of their vailable) that His disciples made the deaf to lk, and that, therefore, their method cannot an inference would be legitimate were these the Divinity of Christ, and as proofs of disciples were commissioned to proclaim; ore than this-they were a practical manihrist's religion; they spoke in a language who came, "Not to destroy men's lives, but his was the Divine intention, these miracles teaching us that, in our missionary enterto the service of the Gospel is not only in rms a part of the Divine intention. nese first heralds of the Cross to proclaim to

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men of all not now m healing; b qualificatio) patiently ar to preach tl
The C preach the upon her, r of tongues, reference t prominent : that of His miraculous Nay, rather all the more imperative that we should c energy and devotion, not only the science ( that so we may fulfil our Lord's commiss following His example, preach the Gospel
Missionaries of three societies have been for over seventy years. At the present time municants in the province. If the remainin generation, and surely nothing less than this desirable that an additional agency, and es should be introduced. As the large number of the heathen priests in Jaffna, so a Medica ally of all the Christian agencies now at Christian so long as the majority of the peo doctors, and make vows and offerings to hea and rampant in North Ceylon, that mission to be much more than begun.
We need Medical Missionaries who will g anxiety, and by giving them actual relief, showing them the very spirit of Christ, gain Medical Missionary comes nearer to the p missionary who has no medical knowledge.
 

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nations “the wonderful works of God,' is 'aculously bestowed, neith r is the “gift of ut in the one case as in the other, the which the 'gift conveyed must be d laboriously acquired. ' He sent them e Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." urch recognizes the Divine commission to Gospel to every creature' as still binding otwithstanding the withdrawal of the “gift Shall the command of our Lord in o “healing the sick,' which formed so feature of His own earthly ministry and Apostles, be ignored on the ground that gifts of healing are now withheld p , the withdrawal of those gifts renders it ultivate and consecrate, with the utmost of philology, but likewise that of medicine, ion in all its breadth and fulness, and oy word and deed.''
at work in the northern province of Ceylon there are less than 3ooo Christian comg 313,ooo are to be zeron to Christ in this should be our aim and effort, it seems very pecially the agency of Medical Missions, s of heathen doctors are the strongest allies l Mission in Jaffna would be the strongest work. How can Jaffna become largely ble in times of sickness resort to heathen then gods? Heathenism is still so gross agencies can hardly count the battle there
to the people in their times of sorrow and in their gratitude and affection, and by the assent of their hearts to Him. The ople in loving ministry than the average
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and January, 1889, about 2 ooo people among whom very few had received prop epidemics of malignant fever break o' thousands. Forty native communicants lives of some of these trained and experie value to the cause. Of course, as a Chri to improve every opportunity of doing pe and dispensary, and at their own homes. His Excellency Sir Arthur Gordon, K. a medical work similar to that done form followed up his suggestion by heading the object. W. C. Twynam, Esq., for somet Ceylon, and an able, far-sighted, and put a Medical Mission should be establishe conduct will be under the direction of a Christians of the Church of England, V missionary societies carrying on work in Directors of the Jaffna College.
John Henry Marston, M.R.C.S., I connected with the Mildmay Mission in appointed by the Board of Directors to General Medical Mission in North Ceylo out with his wife to undertake this work. We would earnestly commend Dr. an the affectionate and prayerful remembra the Master and desire to see His Kingdo Dr. Marston is the only Missionary Northern Province among 316,ooo pec exception of the civil surgeon, the o medical man, we believe, in the province A Medical Mission Aospital is the str ez angelistie zuvork of a Medical Mission Mission Aospital that the majority of co. come, in the experience of the most Missions on record. It is in the Missic patient comes to know the missionary ar see exemplified in their daily lives the

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died in Jaffna from an epidemic of fever, per treatment. When smallpox, cholera, or ut from time to time, the people die by died in Jaffna last year. To have saved the nced workers would have been of incalculable stian man, the Medical Missionary will strive rsonal work among his patients in the hospital
C.B., when visiting Jaffna, strongly urged that erly by Dr. Green should be resumed, and a list with a subscription of Rs. Iooo for this hing like thirty years Government Agent in olic-spirited man, has also strongly urged that d. The work the Medical Missionary is to
Board composed of missionaries and native Wesleyan, and American Missions, the three Jaffna. This Board of Directors are also the
.R.C.P., formerly London, has been take charge of the n, and he has gone
d Mrs. Marston to nce of all who love m come in Ceylon.
Ahysician in the ple, and, with the nly fully qualified
ategic point in the
It is from the nverts are found to successful Medical in Hospital that the ld his assistants, to spirit and power of
A FAKIR
The water um which the feet of a fakir is washeu is given to the sick to be drunk as a Inedicine.

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the Gospel. It is there that he learns, little by little, to believe the truth which he hears read an i sung and spoken from day to day, and to reveal his doubts and difficulties, and have them removed.
On this point, Dr. Lowe says in his book on Medical Missions: “It is in i the hospital that the most satisfactory and successful medical and surgical work will be accomplished-work which will produce the deepest impressions, and direct public attention most favourably to the higher objects of the mission. It is here, too, that the Medical Missionary will be able most succesfully to accomplish evangelistic work - here that he may expect to gather the most precious and enduring fruit. While dispensary work and occasionally medico-evangelistic tours among the surrounding towns and villages are important features of Medical Mission work, still the hospital wi will be reaped, and therefore the establish kept in view, and accomplished at the earl erection of a Medical Mission Hospital in J One hundred pounds will endow a bed in Aart of the expense of its wa-keep), C5o aci the en 'ovement of a bed, AIo will provide a
Are there not some friends in Great E tribute one of the above-named sums, witho to other Christian objects, and thus have a medical work in Ceylon ?
This will provide for the patients the shelter attendance of the raissionary physician, free of ch food, and incidentals, which expenses they would own homes.

DR. J. H. MARSTON.
ll be the field in which the richest harvest ment of a hospital should from the first be iest opportunity.” Sums sufficient for the affna have been given or promised.
the hospital (providing permanently for a ld brovide the half, and 425 the 7uarter of share in a bed. Britain and America who could each conut diminishing their ordinary subscriptions real part in this much-needed Christ-like
and ordinary comforts of the hospital, and the arge, leaving them to meet the cost of medicine, have had to bear had they remained in their

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courag these, at the the Ja Gener helpec
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tOWarC the fr first h; and g the fu
It w donor or the and lé brass
eCte give a peopl Christians in distant lands had loved th were entitled to their gratitude in return.
We will most gladly pledge A.Ioo ir others be found who will do the same i. for the sake of a work which has as its Redeemer's kingdom? The members congregations, Sabbath-schools, Bible-cla unite their gifts to present such a tribu! teacher, a presideht, or a friend, who has acceptable monument than a memorial w in response to our appeal, the student merely a donation of AI oo, but AIoo a I.F.N.S. and I. Society as their own missi liberality set by the students in this scl promised for beds might be paid in in. collectors so desired.
TWO OEW-ANCERS
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Hints to Benefactors. I6
ee kind friends have of late greatly en(ed us by donations of A1 oo each. One of J. Campbell White, Esq., who gave AIoo beginning of our effort for a scholarship in ffna College, has kindly given A.Ioo for the al Medical Mission, saying that, as he had | us to secure the first half of the fund which re seeking, he would give us a similar help ls the last hal/. Are there not others among iends who have helped us in securing the alf of the fund who will follow his example, ive a second donation towards the last half of End P
Tould add to the interest of the effort if the s were to associate with their gifts their name, name of some one whom they have honoured oved, and if these names were engraved on tablets, which would be permanently coni with the beds thus endowed, this would personality to the gift in the eyes of the e of Jaffna, and would lead them to feel that em, and made sacrifices on their behalf, and
h memory of our beloved parents. Cannot n remembrance of those dear to them, and
great object to promote the progress of the of some family circles, and perhaps of some Lsses, Y.M.C.A.'s, Y.W.C.A.'s, &c., might te to the memory of a parent, a pastor, a.
gone to be with Jesus. Would it be a less indow or a costly tomb? A short time ago, is of the Old Hall, Wellington, pledged not nnually to support a medical lady under the onary in Benares. Might not the example of hool be followed by many others? Sums stalments during five years if the givers or

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We earnestly hope that there may be mai to God, a permanent aid to the Medical Mi of friends whose work on earth is finished. oppressed, and there are thousands upon th in and superstition, and held down by he cause which seeks to deliver their bodies f and hearts from the powers of darkness and of Christ.
Feeling the great and pressing need of a Women in North Ceylon, and believing th that such a work should be begun, since He entirely unasked by us, to promise the salary other friends to promise and give additional : present the matter to the Committee of t Society. We offered to transfer to that Soc sums already given for the object, and to do occasion arose to secure for them the remai needed to organize and sustain such a work, erection of a Medical Mission-house an Children's Hospital, and A45o in annual : the up-keep of the hospital and dispensary, the European and native workers, provide inaugurate the work as their own, and take i control.
To our great joy, on the 19th of last Jun the I.F.N.S. and I. Society, in the most cord to our request that they should establish women in North Ceylon, having in contemp women and children, a mission-house, two doctors, with a staff of native assistants, the wi at the earliest date possible. We thank Go His favour, and take new courage to go on w Women and also the General Medical Miss Each of these missions will have its separate can do, and both, we trust, will co-operate to already employed in the great work of evange the knowledge and service of Christ. Thes

for Women.
y who will thus provide a thank-offering sion in Ceylon, and a grateful memorial Surely God will plead the cause of the ousands in North Ceylon oppressed by then priests and doctors. Surely the om needless suffering, and their minds evil, must be the cause of humanity and
Medical Mission for at it was God's will had led kind friends, of a lady doctor, and sums, we were led to he I.F.N.S. and I. iety all pledges and all in our power as nder of the amount viz. A3ooo for the d a Women's and subscriptions toward and the support of il the Society would it under their entire
e, the Committee of ial manner, acceded a medical work for lation a hospital for fully qualified lady MOTHER AND CHD. prk to be undertaken
ld for this token of 'ith the effort. This Medical Mission for on will both be located in North Ceylon. and distinct work, a work which it only the fullest extent with every other agency lizing the people and bringing them to e two Medical Missions, working side by

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We Miller of the He sai
6. W
Warra our L
1S O with t as far:
Low CASTE woMEN, sucH AS ARE NOW COM- in ou MONLY EMPLOYED AS NURSES TO THE SICK. appro
eWe us that they find the medical element so they are compelled sometimes to pract quarters of the mission-field, men gal day, are calling to us anxiously for med health, but to assist them in their great souls they seek to save; and when, had plant, not one or two or three, but mau strongholds of heathenism, where they supported to a considerable extent by claims as these, surely it is neither ul earnestly and importunately for your sy remind you that you have an importa profession, that you owe it a debt. Is acknowledge that debt? Has no fathe or child, been saved to you, under Gc the physician P. At a time when all not look into the future, at a time v down, and well-nigh shut out heaven fr
 

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nd in fullest harmony, will each strengthen rk of the other. According to God's arithtwo are worth not merely twice as many as ut ten times as many. “ How should one a thousand, and two put ten thousand to ” (Deut. xxxii. 3o.) wish to quote here the words of Professor , in an address at one of the annual meetings : Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. d :- hen we come before you with Scripture it on our side-with the personal example of ord and His Apostles not only beckoning t, but reproving us for mot having comehe successful experience of medical missions, as they have yet been tried, speaking strongly r favour, and with the united and cordial val of every missionary with whom we have come in contact; when missionaries all tell essential to the success of their work that ise it themselves; when labourers from all lantly bearing the burden and heat of the ical colleagues. not on account of their own work of reaching the hearts of men whose we but the means and men, we might now ny Medical Missions in the very heart and would be gladly welcomed, and by-and-by the very heathen themselves; with such hbecoming nor unwarrantable that we ask mpathy and aid. And bear with me, if I nt duty to discharge towards the medical there any one here who does not feel and r, or brother, or sister, or husband, or wife, bd's providence, by the skill and care of seemed dark and hopeless, and you dared when the blackness of despair had settled om your sight and prayer from your lips, at,

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a time when you would gladly have given or ever might possess, in barter for the li ebbing away, has not the physician then sent to comfort you? Have you not then c your only earthly hope and stay? And whe with disease and death, when life, and hope not wet his hand with your tears of gratitud blessing and your prayers? Or was it your at a time, perhaps, when a downward turn w when the upward cast, still due, apparently live again for time and for eternity? Ah, th use will come home with a double force. this, will surely acknowledge a large and gro be all accumulated into one vast whole, not individual man, but to the God-like proses tunity is given you to discharge in some mea “Honours, in old times, were freely accor medals were struck in their honour, bearing of citizens preserved). We seek no such the profession by helping it to honour and bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord, the souls as well as the bodies of men, by h of greatest value and of brightest lustre, b wreath from the ever-green and ever-growin; in thus honouring the profession, you will ho cine has been at no time without her gods. him came AEsculapius ; and gods and de power of advancing civilization struck away wise goodly column; not to leave it mutilat headstone, to exalt and acknowledge the gre healer-no mythical personage, but He wh earth, who went about continually doing His faithful followers alway, even unto the e “Such is the double debt and double dul to discharge. But do not mistake the n: seek your pecuniary aid to carry on this g men, so glorifying to God; but we do not

id Double Duty.
all the earthly treasure you possessed, fe which seemed so fast and hopelessly seemed to you as a ministering angel lung to him as your best earthly friend, n success attended his efforts in battling , and health came smiling back, have you e, and sent him away laden with your own life that was quivering in the balance rould have hazarded a double death, but , to the hand of the physician, bade you ensurely the argument we now venture to Each one who has felt this, or aught like wing debt of obligation. Let those debts due, or at least not to be rendered to the ision which they represent. The opporsure that debt now. ded to individual practitioners of renown; the legend “ ob cives servatos” (on account personal gifts, but we ask you to honour | adorn itself, by helping it to write on the by helping it to be instrumental in saving elping it to place in its coronet new jewels y helping it to twine in its garland a new g plant of renown. And let me add that, onour also that profession’s Head. MediThe early Greeks owned Apollo; after migods followed in abundance. But the those unsightly capitals from the othered and bare, but to make way for the true at Physician, Jehovah Rophi, the Lord the o in very deed dwelt with men upon the good, and who has promised to be with nd of the world. y which we ask you now in part, at least, ture of the claim which we make. We reat and noble enterprise so beneficent to want your money only. "Your money or

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your life' is the startling demand of the l “ Your money and your life." Of some se lives, wholly devoted to the death if net But of all, we seek their life in one sense, life depends, that whereby spiritual life is prayer-intercession at the Throne of G1 conflict is now at hand between truth and powers of darkness, if the time is now ne: for very life in that eventful struggle, how ask it, unless we be on Heaven's side, and there? How can we, in the shock of the approaching fray, be otherwise than helples the Cross, we be found mustered around a of the hosts of the Lord, following where tha of it-the banner of Him, whose latest co, the fight is, “Go ye unto all the world, and “And Hesent them to preach the Kir And they departed, and went through the everywhere.” (Luke ix. 2-6.)
A compariy of devil-dancers.

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ighwayman; ours is more startling stillect, gifted, and gallant few, we seek their d be, in the service of their great Master. in the sense of claiming that on which true ed and maintained, without which it dies, ace . . . . And if it be true that the deadly error, between the powers of light and the r when we shall be involved as combatants can we look for Heaven’s aid, how dare we doing the will of Him who sits almighty coming battle, and in the turmoil of the and overborne, unless, as faithful soldiers of nd fighting under the banner of the Captain it banner leads, losing neither sight nor hold mmand it was, whose very watchword of preach the Gospel to every creature.' gdom of God, and to heal the sick . . . a towns, preaching the Gospel and healing

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WHA’S MY NEBOR P
BY GEORGE MACDON ALD, LL.D.
DooN srae Jerus'lem a traveller tuik The laigh road to Je It had an ill name an' mony a cruik, It was lang an unc
Oot cam' the robbers an' fel on the man, An' knockit
the heid;
Took a whauron they could lay their han’, And lest hi
for deid.
By cam' a minister o' the kirk : “As “Whakens whaur the villains may lu
By cam' an elder o' the kirk; Like a “ Fie ! there's a bonny mornin's wark
By cam' ane gaed to the wrang kirk, I * Puir body!" he cried, an' wi' a yerk
He ran to the body an' turn'd it ower, He wasna ane to stan' an' glower, An”
He doctor'd his wounds an' heised him An' held him there, till, a weary man,
He tend him a' nicht, an’at dawn ood There's auchteenpence ; ony mair ootl
Sae nae mair, neibors–say nae sic wo No, “Whae's the neibor to me, O I.or

ericho ; o how.
him on
m nakit
air mishanter' he cried; rk? I's haud to the ither side.
young horse he shied;
!' An' he spang't to the ither side.
Douce he trotted alang; , Aff o' his cuddy he sprang;
** There's life i' the man' he cried; haud to the ither side.
on To the back of the beasty douce; He lingt at the half-way house.
ay, "Ian'lord' (he says) “ latna him lack; ay I'll sattle as I come back.”
rd, Wi” hert aye arguin' an' chill; d? ” But, “ Wha am II meibor till ?”

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NATIVE BIBLE
READER. the h M no si.
Jesus Christ; but awe are not left awithout a the measure of our FAITH, LOVE, AND DEvo THOUSAND MILLIONS OF HEATHEN IN THE practical Gifts that cost us no pers?nal sel
THE STORY OF
“Of a truth I say unto you, that this . . . ha their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God; had.'-St. Luke xxi. 3, 4.
In the beautiful island of Ceylon, many long worshipped in bungalows and old Du a church built for themselves. Enthusiast new enterprise. But to the amazement o who had been a beneficiary in the girls' offered to give the land upon which to buil village.
Not only was it all she owned in this portion, and in making this gift, in the eye
 
 

APPENDIX.
HE story of Maria Peabody, from the pen of some unknown friend, appeared in Life and Light. It is true in all its details, and we append -re in the hope that it may encourage those cannot go to the foreign field in person to in aid of the work. Ought not every man every woman, who can do so, to support a sentative as their fersonal substitute among leathen ? rs. Grattan Guinness has said, “We have res of martyrdom now to test our fidelity to test. God is testing us all continually as to EDNESs To His So by the presence of on E woRLD. It is a tremendous tesf, so real, so f-denial are no proof of devotedness,”
MARIA PEABODY.
th cast in more than they all; for all these have of but she of her penury hath cast in ali . . . that she
years ago, the native Christians, who had toh chapels, decided that they must have c givers were euch eager to forward the f all, Maria Aeabody, a lone orphan girl, schools at Oodaouille, came forward and d, which was the bast site in her native
world, but, far more, it was her marriage s of every native, she renounced all hopes

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of being married. As this alternative in many thought her beside herself, and t renunciation. “ No,” said Maria ; “ I accepted it, you must.' And so to-day th chapel built by natives) stands upon land g The deed was noised abroad, and came student, who was also a beneficiary of the could he rest, until he had sought and v willing to give up so much in her Master's
Some one in the United States had annually for the support of this young Hin Rev. Dr. Poor, a missionary in Ceylon, v ascertain who was the faithful sower, an himself in Hanover, AVAZ, preaching ti happened in conversation to hear some “Aeabody; what Aeabody ?” “Mrs Ma of a former professor,” was the answer. the earnest man, about to continue his jou at her house, were: “I have come to brin that it is to you we in Ceylon owe the opp as lovely and consistent a native convert interesting, devotedly pious, and bears you “ Alas!” said the lady. “ although the g honour of educating her; it belongs no coloured cook. Some years ago in Salem, meeting, saying: "I have just heard that they could support and educate a child in say that along with the money I can send you if you would object to my sending y “a servant's wages ranged from a dollar to had for a long time been contributing half for foreign missions. There were those wh much for one in her circumstances, as a t I have thought it all over, she would r what I can while I am earning, and then : there is the poor-house, and I can go thi heathen lands, for it is only Christians wh Dr. Poor used to pause at this point, an
* This young man. after completing his theologi called Alavertty. At that time nearly all the p district there is a chirch with forty members, an six village day-schools with several hundreds of ch regularly taught. This change, through God's ble two consecrated Christians.

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the East was regarded as an awful step, ried to dissuade her from such an act of have given it to Jesus, and as He has e first Christian church in Ceylon (the first iven by a poor orphan girl.
to the knowledge of a young theological mission, and it touched his heart. Neither von the rare and noble maiden who was cause. been for years contributing twenty dollars du girl, but the donor was unknown. The gi"g America about that time, longed to di report the wonderful harvest. Finding o the students at Adartmouth College, he one speak of Mrs. Aeabody, and repeated, ria Peabody, who resides here-the widow “Oh! I must see her before I leave," said rney. The first words after an introduction g you a glad report; for I cannot but think ortunity of educating one who has proved as we have ever had. She is exceptionally r name." irl bears my name, I wish I could claim the t to me, but to Louisa Osborne, my poor Mass., she came to me after an evening if anybody would give twenty dollars a year, Ceylon, and I have decided to do it. They a name; and I have come, mistress, to ask ours.' " At that time,” continued the lady, a dollar and a half a week, yet my cook a dollar each month at the monthly concert no expostulated with her for giving away so ime might come when she could not earn. eply, and concluded I would rather give if I lose my health and cannot work, why, are. You see they have, no poor-house in o care for the poor." In telling this story. d exclaim: “To the poor-house ! Do you
cal studies, was stationed, with his wife, in a district tople in that district were idolaters. Now in that inquirer's class, a large Sabbath school, and five or ildren in attendance, to whom the Bible lessons are ssing, has largely resulted from the efforts of these
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believe God would ever let that good woma shall see.
The missionary learned that the last kn residing in Lozwell, Mass. In due time hi close of an evening service before a crow incidents, as a crowning triumph, the stor The disinterested devotion, self-sacrifice, an giver in favoured America has been develo her faithful protégée in far-off benighted : deeply stirred by the fresh retrospect of thenism, he exclaimed, "If there is any good woman, Louisa Osborne, and will leac The benediction pronounced and the crow of the aisles, chatting with the pastor, whe waiting for him. Could it be her? Yes. Aouisa Osborne. With quickened steps ဒူးဝှိd emotion, “I believe this is “That is my name,” was the calm reply. heard my report, and know all; but before this world, I want you to answer me one q downcast eyes, and in a low and trembli know, but I guess it was my Lord Jesus.”
They parted only to meet in the streets c returned to his adopted home, where, ere native brethren bore him to his honoure Lord laboured meekly on a while, and is er verily, but, through the efforts of those who Old Ladies' Home. “Him that honoureth The seal of Calvin, one of the great : hand holding a burning heart, illustrative keep back nothing for myself.” Centurie Master caught a kindred inspiration from t so much of privilege and bounty is grant renunciation, and let its lesson be lost on o “ Unto whomsoever much is given, of hit
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ay Lord Jesus.'
un die in the poor-house ? Never !” We
(own of Louisa Osborne was that she was s duties called him to that city. At the ided house, he related among missionary y of Louisa Osborne and Maria Peabody. d implicit faith and zeal of the Christian ped, matured, and well-nigh eclipsed, by 'ndia. His heart glowing with zeal, and the triumphs of the Gospel over heaone present who knows anything of that i me to her, I shall be greatly obliged.” vd dispersing, Dr. Poor passed down one in he espied a quiet little figure apparently it was a coloured woman, and it must be he reached her, exclaiming in tones of my sister in Christ, Zouisa Osborne 2' 'Well, God bless you, Zouisa ; you have : we part, probably never to meet again in uestion. What made you do it?” With ng voice, she replied, “Well, I do not
of the Meze Jerusalem for the missionary a long, the loving hands of his faithful d grave. The humble handmaiden of the lding her failing days, not in a poorhouse, knew her best, in a pleasant, comfortable Me, I will hononr.” apostles of the Reformation, represents a of his life-principle: “I give thee all; I s afterward, two humble followers of the he same divine source. Shall we, to whom 2d. lay down this marvellous story of self. ur own lives ? n shall be much required.” (Luke xii. 48.)

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