Morning Calm v.22 no.130(1911 Oct.)

Editorial Notes.

The New Bishop.

BISHOP TROLLOPE, by the time that this number of MORNING CALM is in circulation, will have almost arrived in his diocese. His Episcopate, which, owing to the death of Canon Brooke, began under such depressing cir-cumstances, will, we hope and believe, be marked not only by a great advance in Corea, but by an enthusiastic effort on the part of the Church "to see this thing through," as the Bishop of London put it. The death of Canon Brooke, the one man at home who was all in all to the Mission and to its bishops was a terrific blow. It is with real thankfulness, therefore, that everyone reads the letter of the Bishops of London and Winchester to the Church. One by one, those whom we had learnt to regard as the persons who were quite indispensable to the work have been removed, and the death of the Bishop of Salisbury, who preached the sermon at the Consecration of Bishops on St. James's Day, left a sense of real loss of one more who was keenly interested. The Feast of St. James, 1911, will not be forgotten for many years to come by the supporters of the Mission. It has not only marked the commencement of a new period in the life of the infant Church in Corea, under one of whom great things are expected, but it has marked also the recognition by the Church in England and her leaders of the work that has been done during the past twenty-one years in Corea.  

Finance.

Partly as a result of the interest aroused by the meeting held in the Church House on St. James's Day. partly by the gift to the Bishop of a cheque from the members of the Standing Committee, S.P.G., as well as by the liberality of those who have always supported the Mission by their prayers, their work and their gifts, we are able to record that the Bishop enters his diocese without the burden of any debt upon the work for this year. That is much to be very thankful for ; but it is as well to understand how and why it is possible. It is possible because of generous donations--one of £500 and another of £200 were received by the Secretary. For these we cannot be too thankful. But donations are in the nature of capital, and to live upon capital is bad finance. Apart from the work and money given by A. P. W., the Secretary has received £1700 in donations alone, as compared with £47 in subscriptions. The work now before us is (a) to get together a larger number of annual subscribers; and (b) to get at least one year in advance of our estimated expenditure. For those who organise public meetings--and we shall hope to hear of many such during the autumn--it is well to remember that the meeting has almost failed unless there has been secured a fresh addition to the list of annual subscribers.

Education.

As was stated in the last number, money will soon be needed for educational purposes. The appoint-ment, therefore, of Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, sometime Head of Oxford House and a former secretary to the Archbishop of York, as Secretary to the Education Fund will be hailed with delight by all. As soon as the Bishop indicates to him exactly what he demands from his new Education Committee, he will take up his duties with all the enthusiasm that he put into his work at Oxford House.

“Morning Calm."

A suggestion has been made that MORNING CALM should once again appear as a four-page monthly. It is thought that by doing so more interest would be aroused, and a closer touch between the Bishop and his home worker's established. The matter will come before the next meeting of the Executive Committee for discussion, and expressions of opinion from the readers of MORNING CALM would be a welcome addition to their deliberations. The Editor would be grateful if readers would write to him on the subject. Address, 5 Amen Court, E.C.

Bishop Corfe.

At a time like the present, when the loss of Canon Brooke must necessarily be felt acutely, especially at the meetings of the Committee, it is good to know that Bishop Corfe is in England and at hand. Now that the one other person who knew intimately the inner working of the Mission has become its bishop, Bishop Corse's presence and help will be more than ever valued. He has consented to act as the President of the Association of Prayer and Work, and in that capacity is ready to address meetings and to preach in aid of the Mission as far as his engagements will permit. It is not often that any mission can have the benefit of such help, and it is to be hoped that the utmost use will be made of the bishop's offer.

St. Nicholas Day.

It has long been the custom to observe the festival of St. Nicholas as a day of prayer and supplication for the work of the Mission. There is much which should make this year's observance more than usually emphatic ; there is much to give thanks for, and much to pray for. Never, perhaps, did the bishop of the diocese so need the guidance of The Holy Spirit. The difficulties that confront him are not those which have been associated with the early stages of the work. They are greater and far more serious. Leaflets, giving headings for thanksgiving and intercession, will be obtainable from the Organising Secretary by the end of November. It is hoped that every centre of work for the Mission will, either on the day or some day within the Octave of St. Andrew, get their members together for the purpose of united prayer.

Copies of "The Anglican Church in Corea " are still to be had from Miss Maud Falwasser, at 2s. 6d. per copy.

Those who are organising sales and meetings should take note that there are very many picture postcards still unsold. They sell well, and children usually are only too ready to undertake to get rid of them for the benefit of the Mission. They may be had (in the absence of Miss Seaton, who has gone to Pekin, and who may possibly go on to Corea) from the Organising Secretary.

Letter from the bishop.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,--

I am just on the wing, hoping to start for Moscow to-night. And the Editor reminds me that I must do my duty to the readers of MORNING CALM, by writing my quarterly letter before I start. And what an eventful quarter the last one has been, packed with events of joy and sorrow blended. Of a truth "Man proposes, God disposes." I had intended, as I told you, to leave Birming-ham after the first Sunday in July (though I remained actually Vicar of St. Alban's until after the "Farewell Sunday," August 6) and to devote the three weeks between that and my Consecration, partly to business and partly to a short retreat, in preparation for “the laying on of hands" on St. James's Day. And then on the very morning on which I was to start to London (July 3) I got a letter telling me that our dear friend, Charles Edward Brooke, had passed away. Of all that his twenty-five years' friendship have been to me personally this is not the place to speak, nor have I time or space to speak in detail of all that he has been to the Corean Mission since its inception in 1890. It is not too much to say that, in regard to our home organisation at least, he had been almost everything to us—"the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof." And then just as I was coming to London to make my final dis-positions with him whose advice had weighed so much with me in accepting the Bishopric, just as I was looking for his promised help to show me how we were to face and to avoid the bankruptcy with which the Mission was threatened, he was removed. God rest his soul ! He being dead, yet speaketh And, indeed, the magic of his name has wrought for us almost more from behind the veil than we could have hoped for even from his living presence. And yet the sense of loss remains, and day after day one feels the lack of that strong, affectionate common sense of his which formed such a stand-by, even in the darkest hours. God be thanked for all that his servant was enabled to do, and grant him the fullness of reward in the enjoyment of eternal rest and peace.

Slowly and painfully one had to set to work to pick up the pieces and to try to think the future out afresh. And at one time so dark was the outlook, that it seemed quite likely that my Consecration would have to be delayed for twelve months. But the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of London and Winchester stood by me bravely. And, thanks largely to their action, S.P.G. was led to reconsider its decision that it could not grant us any more funds, and came to the rescue by deciding to double our central "block grant," raising it to ￡2000 from ￡1000, the figure at which it had remained since 1890. More generously still, members of the Standing Committee of S.P.G. raised a private subscription among themselves, which resulted in the presentation to me, on the day of my Consecration, of a handsome cheque, amounting to nearly £500, for the purposes of the Mission. This with other generous gifts, some sent in memory of Canon Brooke, have gone far to avert the threat of impending bankruptcy this year; while the increased grant from S.P.G. will enable us, with care, to keep our heads above water for the next few years to come. Deo gratia. Then came the great day--St. James's Day--the day of my Consecration, with its wonderful service at St. Paul's in the morning, and its extraordinarily uplifting meeting at the Church House, with the Bishop of London in the chair in the afternoon. Full accounts of these appeared in the Church papers, and I hope that some other hand than mine will describe them in these columns. It was indeed--to me, of course, more than to anyone--a day never to be forgotten.   Next, after a brief visit to the Archbishop of York at Bishop-thorpe, and to my first Vicar, Archdeacon Donne, in Yorkshire, I returned to London to spend an ever-to-be-remembered "week-end" at St. Saviour's, Poplar, to be followed by my farewell visit--no less memorable--to Birmingham, of which the special Birmingham correspondent had a good deal to say in the next issue of the Church Times. It is not easy to find words to express one's gratitude for all the kindness shown to one on these occasions by old friends and new ones--kindness which in many instances took the tangible form of handsome gifts. The people of St. Alban's gave me a most beautiful pastoral staff, which was blessed for me by the Bishop of Birmingham, as he publicly dismissed me with his blessing on the evening of Sunday, August 6. My three brother priests on the staff then presented me with a jewelled or "precious" mitre, while my friends the teachers in St. Alban's Day Schools, gave me what is known technically as a plain or "simple" mitre, for use on certain special occasions. Canon Brooke had ordered for me before his death a beautiful pectoral cross of gold, which was given to me after his death, on the day of my Consecration, by his good sister Miss Brooke; while the servers and acolytes of St. Saviour's, Poplar, have given me another, almost equally beautiful, of silver. And last, but not least, many of the clergy with whom I have worked in the Deaneries of Poplar (London) and Bordesley (Birmingham) united with other clerical friends to give me a magnificent episcopal ring, which was presented to me at the luncheon after my Consecration. Time, and your patience, would fail if I stopped to speak of the many other gifts--some personal and private, some for the use of the Mission--which have reached me since. Perhaps one of the most touching is the beautiful private Communion set, which belonged to the late Canon Body. R.I.P.

My efforts to finish my business, to pay some farewell visits, and to take a little holiday in the latter part of August, were a good deal spoilt by a sort of influenza attack which largely upset my plans; and I am afraid that I am leaving a good many ragged edges behind. Here, as far as the home organisation is concerned, I need only say that very few changes have been made, except where they have been forced on us by Canon Brooke's death. Canon Deedes, his successor, kindly consents to act as my Commissary. jointly with Canon Ottley, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford, and Mr. Mosley (late Rector of Poplar) and now Rector of Hackney. Bishop Corfe takes Canon Deedes' place as President of the A.P.W., and the Chaplain of the Fleet remains ex-officio President of the H.N.F. I have asked my brother, Mr. C.G. Napier Trollope, to act as Chairman of the Executive Committee (the Bishop of London being President of the Central Committee), in which he will have the able assistance of our indefatigable organising secretary, Mr. Childs Clarke.   And now, good-bye! I hope to leave England to-day, and at Moscow, on Sept. 20, to join Bishop Boutflower, en route for Japan, where I expect to spend a day or two (Oct. 2 and 3 ?) before pro-ceeding to Corea, which should be reached about the end of the first week in October. Pray for me.

Yours affectionately in Christ, MARK. FOLKESTONE. Bishop in Corea. EVE OF HOLY CROSS DAY, September 1911.

PS.--Our old friend Fr. Drake, S.S.M., has obtained permission to leave South Africa and to return to his first love, Corea, where a warm welcome awaits him on his arrival in November. Give God thanks for this.

Consecration of bishop Trollope.

THE consecration of Mark Napier Trollope as third Bishop of the Church in Corea took place in St. Paul's Cathedral on the Feast of St. James. A very large number of personal friends and friends of the Mission applied for the limited number of tickets which were available for the use of the three Bishops-Designate, for besides Bishop Trollope, two other priests were raised to episcopal rank, one to have charge over the diocese of Gibraltar and the other to be Bishop-Suffragan of Taunton.

Bishop Trollope stayed the night previous to the consecration with the Organising Secretary in Amen Court, which made it more convenient for him. Of the service itself it is not necessary to say much, since a full account, together with the sermon of the late Bishop of Salisbury. appeared in the Church papers. After the consecration, at which the Bishop was attended by Canon Brightman, who designed the Bishop's robes, a luncheon was given by the Bishop to members of the Home Organisation and other friends. There were present, among others, Bishops Corfe and Boutflower, Archdeacon Donne, Lady Fremantle, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Besley, Mrs. Napier Trollope, Miss Falwasser, Miss Seccombe, Miss Hall, Miss Seaton, Miss Merriman and Miss Atkins, Canons Hobhouse, Deedes, Bullock-Webster, Daniell-Bainbridge, Brightman and Besley, Rev. Fr. Adderley, Fr. Jenks, Hall Stanley Smith. H. R. L. Sheppard, Preb. Blason, H. Livesey, and H. J. Goffe, Sir John Riddell, Bart., C. G. Napier Trollope, Esq., C. E. Baxter, Esq., and the Organising Secretary. At the conclusion of luncheon Archdeacon Donne, a former Vicar under whom Bishop Trollope served in the north of England, presented to the Bishop a handsome episcopal ring, a gift from various priests with whom he had at some time worked in London and elsewhere.   There followed a meeting of the Central Committee, at which the Bishop announced the new grant from S.P.G., and at which a vote of condolence on the death of Canon Brooke with his relatives was passed. Some changes in the Home Organisation were out-lined by the Bishop, who also informed the Committee that the Bishop of London would act for the future as its Chairman, and would preside at the annual meetings of the Association. A meeting at the Church House had been suggested by the late Canon Brooke for the afternoon, and for the purpose he had himself taken the Hoare Memorial Hall. On his death the arrangements were handed over to the Organising Secretary. Canon Brooke was to have written to the Church papers announcing this meeting, and asking for the support of Churchmen. This the Bishops of London and Winchester did, issuing a joint letter in which they called upon the Church to really prove to Bishop Trollope that the day when a Bishop could be sent out to a far-away diocese and be forgotten and practically marooned was gone. Copies of this letter were sent to the Church and secular press, and the Home Organisation worked almost day and night to secure a good meeting. The Secretary took the precaution of engaging the large hall at the Church House, and it was as well that this was done: for once more it was clearly demonstrated that the success of any movement is assured so long as the Bishop of London is advertised to be present. On the platform he was supported by the Bishop of Stepney, the Archdeacon of London, Bishop Montgomery, Canon Alexander, Rev. M. P. Gillson, together with all those who had come on from the luncheon. In addition, Lords Halifax and Hugh Cecil were to have been present and to have spoken, and also Mr. George Lansbury, but these were all detained by Parliamentary duties. Their promise to support the Mission will not be forgotten. When the Bishop of London arrived and took the chair the hall was well filled. Tea had previously been provided by the kindness of Mrs. Trollope.

THE SPEECHES.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON: "I am only going now, as it were, to introduce, although he does not want it, the Bishop of Win-chester, because he has to catch a train, and I am very anxious you should hear all he has to say: and I will just read this letter which is now as a voice from the other world. We don't often have a family wedding at Fulham, but I have left the guests behind to see to one another because it has been impossible to resist the appeal which has sounded out in this letter to me. This is from Canon Brooke." The Bishop then read a letter in which Canon Brooke asked him to add to his many other engagements and preside at a meeting to "give Trollope a good send-off."   "I shall reserve what I have to say in regard to that appeal to a later stage: but my presence here to-day is an answer to that request." THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER: "My Lord Bishop, my Lord, ladies and gentlemen; You, my Lord Brother, have given a personal touch to what you have said ; and I think in doing that you will have done what your audience looked for. Certainly, if I may speak as one of the audience, my own heart is full of personal feelings to-day, and it was in response to a personal claim, to which you have alluded, that I came up from my own diocese for the purpose of this meeting. Personal reasons, personal thoughts cross one another in our hearts. There is a feeling of sympathy, and respect, and gratitude, and hope for our dear Brother here whom we are sending out. And then there is the feeling which, to me as his old Warden in the Oxford days, is a very real feeling for that true, simple-hearted, noble-hearted worker who did so much for the Church in Corea till it pleased God to take him away from its head; I mean, of course, Bishop Turner. But besides those, there is that special feeling which has brought many in this glorious meeting together to give this great ‘send-off to Trollope'; which he desired, and which, by his power lasting on beyond him, he has achieved. We are thinking of my dear Brooke : and as his Bishop I felt that I must try to throw in my little bit to what was done at his request. When a man comes to his dear friends and says: 'Brooke was everything to the in accepting, in going out, in my plans I relied upon him at every point,' I do not know how we can refuse when he says: 'Can you come and help me a little to fill that great void.’ Everyone who knew Brooke knew what a wonderful supporter he was; he had such a gift for supporting. He became a leader amongst us, but he did not make himself a leader; he got to be that by the excellence of his work as a servant. He was everywhere serving good causes--everywhere serving, if we may say so, those who were outwardly over him: and I take it that not one Bishop of Corea, but three Bishops of Corea will testify to what Canon Brooke was for them and for their work. And so it does give us a little pleasure, I was going to say a melancholy pleasure, and in a sense a melancholy pleasure it must be, yet I do not think that is quite the word he would have used or have wished us to use. We feel more a kind of joy in thinking that he who is at rest has handed on this effort, aglow with all his feeling and his power, and that it will go forward, please God, for many a year until that stream of Christian example and Christian sympathy merges in with many others to make the current of the life of the Church in Corea. "So far I have felt, so to say, in my element; I have known what to say ; at least I have known what I wishes to say, but when I come on to try to speak of the work I feel much less in my element. I feel, as we so often have to feel, we who don't do these pieces of work ourselves but only talk about them, how little I know and

D 2   how little I have to say. But I want to ask you whether you have been at all struck, as I have been, by a circumstance in the position of Corea which reminds us of something in history that is very parallel to it, at any rate from the outside. Bishop Trollope and others who know the place will perhaps laugh when I speak, because I speak so from the mere surface-look of the thing. There is Corea, a little people, comparatively, in a mountain land placed where empires clash; between the great empires of Japan and of China, for we are to leave, for the moment at any rate, Russia out of account--does it not recall a little the position of that people whom God used for His own purposes of old time, a little people, though like the sand on the sea-shore for multitude, a little people upon the mountain ridge of Palestine, close to the track of the armies along which empires marched to meet ; fated, destined, used for a purpose which was to touch on the right hand and on the left, the East and the West. And if we begin to talk in that strain, in a way it suggests that Corea may have in God's providence some great destiny; we shall not be arrested by being reminded that Corea is small or that Corea is humble, that she has been brought low by the greater powers about her, because there the parallel still holds true; it was the poor and afflicted people through whom God worked aforetime. It was in the days when the heavy land of a heathen power had been laid upon them that they learnt them-selves their deepest spiritual lessons, and that they garnered up that influence which was to be, when our Lord came to use it, the means by which the world was conquered and leavened.

"But there is a difference. I dare say there are a thousand differences ; but there is one great difference which strikes us all, namely that that little people of old had a treasure of the greatest power that could be--I mean the power of the faith in a living God, and of the hope which came from their faith in Him and in His power for His people. As I understand, the Coreans are said to have very little religious faith at all. I never quite believe it when I am told this or that nation, or this or that tribe has got no religious ideas. I have never forgotten how Dr. Codrington came back from Melanesia and told us how he had lived ten years, or some such time, among the Melanesians trying to find their religion, and that it was only at the end of the tenth year that he found it, but when he found it there it was sure enough. "But even if it is right that the Coreans have not their own ideals of conduct and so on, have not got any strong religious faith, then still I do not think I should be altogether daunted by that, because God fulfils Himself in different ways, and it may well be that some of the blessings on those in want, those that hunger, those that need may be meant for them; and that it is possible for this very thing that they have been outwardly brought low, lost their power, their prosperity and their place. "I must not detain you with more about that, or go into detail, therefore I will only just say this word, this single thing which occurred to me as a detail of comparison. Nobody can read what happened in the time of the Apostles without seeing the part that was played by the scattered Jews who had gone out from their own land and settled along the different parts of the Mediterranean ; nobody. I think, can doubt that, though in large measure they failed of what God meant for them and from them, yet a great deal was done through those little centres of life which were dotted along over the then civilised world. Now it is not the same, it is just the other way round; but we do find that in Corea you have Japanese who have left their own land and who in that scattered way. at a distance from home, may be possibly more accessible than when in the full tide of their own country's life. Those who know Corea will know better than I do whether there is anything in that ; but it seems to me a thing we might think of.

“Well, now, what shall we say about the greatness of this need? I think just the simple things to say are these. We are bewildered, to-day, and sometimes appalled, sometimes stimulated by the tremendous appeals, tremendous opportunities that come in upon us. We turn perplexed from the great stretching fields of Canada to India with its great claim upon ourselves, to Africa with all its manifold need, and its especial appeal to our compassion for what is backward, and for what has been so cruelly and sadly handled and mauled by tyranny in many a part. But however great these needs are, and we cannot shut our eyes to, or turn our backs on any of them, certainly the 'Far East' as it is the custom to call it--the Far East does come to us in a way which is altogether one. Our best speakers and our best experts have exhausted themselves in the efforts to make us understand what the opportunity in the Far East is as compared with anything that went before ; what it may be as compared with anything that shall be when a few years later they shall have entered upon new stages of their course, having picked up so much of all that is Western. Well, there is this open door and shall we say that we enter it through Corea? It has been said (I do not know who is responsible for the phrase, which has become a kind of proverb)--Corea is the strategic point of attack, Somebody thinks that we can enter upon our opportunity there in some ways more advantageously than even in the greater lands on either side ; and what I tried to put before you was a mere suggestion, a suggestion by historic parallel, how it might be that God intends us to do this Corean work. But I think I would rather put it in a simpler way. We know now that in Corea there are thousands that are ready to hear and ready to learn, and I think our hearts ought to go out to them. They need, and know their need. We have that which God means for their need, surely the claim upon us is this--to carry it to them. There is much reason for thinking that true pastoral work--I see some here of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, and I know how strongly they feel that there is reason to think that true pastoral work exhibited in a heathen land is the very best witness and the very best power for conversion. And so if here we have a pastoral opportunity. then for goodness sake let us try to take it, let us grasp the opportunity of carrying a blessing where a blessing is needed and where we believe it will be welcome.

"We have here with us to-day in this hall our brother the true pastor priest. Canon Brooke, in his letter you have heard, writes of the culture and those other gifts which are needed to meet some of the other needs of the place to which Bishop Trollope goes, and we know full well the importance of those things about educa-tion, about studying the minds of the people, and all that ; but I put this first, that having been a pastor priest he goes out to be a great pastor Bishop. And I rejoice, my Lord Bishop, in this meeting, because I think there is an evidence in the fact that it had been drawn together by one who lives in our remembrance for many a cause; but who, I think, lives even in the memory of his friends most distinctly and most vividly as one of the very finest examples which they have ever known; an example which taught them much, stimulated and showed them what the pastoral life of a priest in the Church of God may be."

BISHOP MONTGOMERY: "My Lord, ladies and gentlemen, I stand here in the place of one who has passed away. I have no doubt myself that had God willed it I should not be speaking but simply listening. I cannot profess to be his equal, but I have had one advantage over him, I have lately been to this field. And I have come back enthusiastic in regard to what I have seen ; for I have seen the strong evangelistic tone and life of those who are there ; and I have come back with certainly one feeling--to help the diocese of Corea to the fullest possible extent. In due time God called him who could go as Bishop: but also called away the great help of the Mission at home, the great help at the home base. Then it seemed to us of the Standing Committee perfectly clear that He called us to step into the breach and to do what we could for the Mission in the name of him who has been taken from it. I trust this meeting will consider that what we did we did aright. We took our courage in our hands, and doubled the grant to the diocese of Corea knowing that the Church would support us in that act. We have no doubt whatever that it will and that we shall have no cause to regret our forward step. So I say that it is a kind of reparation for the seeming neglect of the past. It is true that we have made no addition to that grant for years. That day has passed, thank God, and we stand before you repentant as a Society. but yet hopeful that you will accept now what we have done in the best spirit, the spirit in which our gift has been offered. "I have one more step to take. The Standing Committee felt that they had acted in regard to the bigger grant in the name of the Church. But was it not possible that they might act also immediately on their own personal responsibility, and it was whis-pered round at the last meeting of the Standing Committee that if the members of the Standing Committee in their own personal attitude would present a gift to the Bishop on the day of his consecration it would be a welcome act. It was determined that no names should be mentioned of those who gave; it was deter-mined that all the sums should be anonymous, that the amounts should not be mentioned, but only one cheque given with a full heart as an act, again shall I say of reparation, on the part of those who have had to have a world-wide outlook and are often very sorry at heart that they have not been able to give more.

“My Lord, I think I am speaking for those who are members of the Standing Committee that they have no proud looks, that they are not high-minded, that they are always more conscious of their defects than of anything else, and therefore, in order to make some reparation, in order to come to-day with a present in our hands

COREAS BOAT.

for the new Bishop to help him in his task and to bring a cheer to his diocese, I have to hand to you, my Lord, to hand to the Bishop of Corea, a cheque as a present from the Standing Committee, a personal present from the Standing Committee. It is only a small sum compared to what we could wish, but if Bishop Trollope will accept this at the hands of your Chairman this afternoon in the spirit in which it is given by persons whom I have said are not high-minded, who have no proud looks, who are very conscious of their own imperfections--in that spirit we shall be most grateful."

THE BISHOP OF LONDON: "The cheque of which the Bishop has spoken-I thought perhaps it might be for ￡23--is a cheque for £496 19s. 6d."   Biskop TROLLOPE: “This has been a day of surprises, and I will not say that this is not the most welcome surprise of all. It has certainly come to me absolutely unexpectedly. I had no idea that Bishop Montgomery was coming to this meeting ; certainly not that he was coming with a gift in his hand. Of course, I take it in the spirit in which it has been offered, and I never felt less temptation to look a gift-horse in the mouth! It is indeed an extremely handsome gift, and will go far to remove much of the anxiety which we have been feeling and of which I wish to say a few words in a moment. I have said that this is a day of surprises and this surprising element reflects itself in our list of speakers. We really are not responsible for this unfortunate Parliamentary crisis which has kept the world agog during the last forty-eight hours, and which now largely engages those members of our legisla-ture who had promised to support the Bishop on the platform. Whether or not they will be able to escape from the stress and toil of that crisis in the Palace of Westminster sooner or later, and one or the other be able to put in an appearance here I am not prepared to say, but at least you will realise that it is a great and serious matter which has kept them from attending. "I used to be tempted to speak of the Corea Mission as the Cin-derella of foreign missions. Canon Brooke used to think I was over-sensitive, but I think I had reason for sometimes feeling that with all this talk about the importance of seizing such strategic points as Corea, there was not very much help to back it up, and I suppose that that was at the back of the mind of Canon Brooke when he organised this meeting which has turned out to be such ‘a splendid send-off for Bishop Trollope,' and certainly it is an occasion when ‘he being dead yet speaketh'; the action taken, the deeds done, and words spoken really spring from the moving power, that hand which is now behind the veil. This is not the time to go into sacred memories of one's affection for and relation to him who has been taken away, and of all I owe to in con-nection with, and apart from my connection with Corea, during the last twenty-five years, but those memories come to me with a great sense of cheer and uplifting: and if I have sometimes felt faint-hearted about the work lying ahead of me, I do not think with this platform behind me and with this meeting in front, I have any right to feel faint-hearted any longer; and I am most grateful to those who have turned up in such splendid numbers. I see friends here from all those parts of England with which in been connected, and from all the different strata of my life, and it gives me intense happiness to meet them this afternoon. I had the privilege of working some seven or eight years in East London and to find words of benediction come from York, from the lips of him who was my superior when I was at St. Saviour's, Poplar is indeed a tremendous help. I know it was with great regret that the Bishop of Birmingham found it impossible to be present at the consecration and at the meeting this afternoon, and though there is no letter from him I know how really he felt that it was a depriva-tion not to be here on this occasion. Therefore I feel now, what sometimes I had been inclined to doubt before, that I have got the heart of the Church behind me, and that if I am going out to a task that is difficult, yet at any rate I have the uplift which comes from knowing that one will not be left in the lurch and one will not be forgotten. Then, in going to the work to which I am called, I am happy not only in the support of which we have had evidence this afternoon, but also in the example of the two Bishops who have preceded me--Bishop Corfe, under whom I spent the first ten or eleven years of my life in the Mission, and to whom the Church at large owes a debt of which it knows not all--the first Bishop sent out by Archbishop Benson to undertake 'a forlorn hope, as it seemed, in Corea. Then, following him, came my dear friend, Arthur Turner--when he was raised to episcopal rank. we had to change the familiar name by which lie was so often known, of ‘Sheep' to 'Shepherd'--who was indeed a dear brother and friend to me and to all who knew him. And now I am called to take up the burden which I learnt somewhat to bear from Bishop Corfe, and still more from Arthur Turner. Now the Bishop of Winchester said enough to show that Corea has a real claim upon your support and interest. When people tell me, as they sometimes do, that Missions are a failure, I remember that only fourteen years ago we baptised our first convert after seven years of weary heart-breaking work. Now in that one district alone there are over a thousand regular communicants. Since I have been in England I have been called to work in the footsteps of Father Dalling in one place, and of the equally famous priests, the brothers Pollock, in another : but north, south, east, west, and even in England I do not think you can find results better than those the Church is now able to show for the work she has put in during these years than in Corea, and not merely in numbers but in good stuff. The Bishop of Birmingham is always telling us that what we want are not more Christians but better Christians. In Corea we have failures and disappointments, but we have Christians who would put to the blush a very large proportion of the Christians here at home, So I am not going out to a forlorn hope, though I am going out to what is a very, very difficult task. Racial feeling, racial difficulties in the Far East are now something almost beyond expression. However inevitable the annexation of Corea by Japan may have been, it has lead and must lead to great bitterness of feeling between the two nations. But we of the Christian Church, as Ambassadors of Christ, can do what the diplomatists and soldiers and legislators cannot do ; we can draw together those who have everything in this world to divide them asunder--and that is to be our idea. I go, I hope, as much to be Father-in-God to the Japanese Christians who live in Corea as to the Corean Christians themselves. And when you think of the task that lies before me will you remember that that is perhaps the supremely difficult feature in it that I have to deal with--two nations who are poles asunder in sympathy ; and to show that in the Christian Church we know how to draw together elements so very dissimilar.

"That is the first reason why the task is difficult. The second is, as you have been reminded, that the Mission is now coming of age. That means that we are now opening the second chapter in the Mission history. We are sometimes asked whether we have got a native ministry. It took seven years to get a single native convert, and although things are not so difficult now, it is quite plain that in the early days of a Church you cannot find a native ministry ready-made. But we shall be very untrue to our duty if we do not now make the first claim on our time, our interest, our work--the education of native Christians so that they may begin to carry their own burden, that they may provide their own ministry, and so learn how the Church is to stand on its own feet; for they ought to look forward with gladness to the day when they will see our backs. They ought to look forward with gladness to the day when they will be able, in the presence of their own brethren, to make Bishops, Priests and Deacons in the Church of God to carry on that pastoral work of which the Bishop of Winchester spoke so eloquently. That double task I have before me, and I go forth to it with a good heart. As I look at this magnificent piece of jewellery which adorns the marriage finger of my right hand. I hope it means that I am going to be married to the Church in Corea, that I am going to give my life to the work to which God has now bid me set my hand. Those of you who know anything about my call to this task know how I struggled against it. I myself little knew how much I should shrink from the burden if ever it should be offered to me, but there were no two ways about it. I do not know whether it is a poor compliment when one is told, ‘Well, you must go, because there is simply no one else to be sent.' or to regard it as a great compliment to find myself so indispensable at this particular crisis. But the call came in a way that it seemed almost impossible to refuse, and I feel now I have the sympathy of the Church behind me in my endeavour to answer to that call. You will not allow me and my work to be forgotten even although I cannot, as I hope I cannot, come back to remind you of my existence; and that if I do my best to keep up my end of the work out there you will do your best to keep up your end of the work here. I thank you, my Lord, for taking the Chair, and the Bishop of Winchester for the kind words he has spoken, and all my friends for the cheer and sympathy and comfort they have given me by their presence here this afternoon and at St. Paul's this morning."

THE BISHOP OF LONDON: "My heart has been burning to say a few words before the meeting draws to an end, and I am expressing what is in all our hearts when I say one or two things. And the first is that we all believe in old Trollope. I do not think there is any man I more thoroughly believe in in the Church of England than in him. I have watched him at work, and I know him well;   and there is no one we have more entire confidence in certainly at this particular moment. Then I want to say that we all feel, or ought to feel, that the S.P.G. has behaved splendidly. I confess it was a dreadful moment when not only had we lost our dear friend Canon Brooke, but we knew all that that meant financially to the Mission and to the new Bishop. Well, the S.P.G. came out, and in a few hours made up their mind what to do, and I know the Church will stand by them in that effort of faith which they have made. Then the third thing is (and I'm putting it shortly at the end of a hot meeting), speaking as shortly as I can. WE ARE GOING TO BACK UP THIS THING AND SEE IT RIGHT THROUGH. I think myself, and I follow on what the Bishop has just said, that the time ought to be over in the Church when a Bishop is sent out and left to fend for himself at the other end of the world; and I hope we shall never again have the accusation against is of doing it. There has been too much of it, or something like it, in the past, and it must never happen again. Then again, there ought to be an end of seeing tired, weary Bishops coming home after working at the end of the earth and being fagged round England without a moment's peace to get money for their diocese. That is the way we break our men down and break their hearts. What they ought to do is to come back and find a nice little holiday arranged at our seaside resorts, and be asked to attend one meeting like this and be handed a handsome cheque such as Bishop Montgomery has done, and then sent back with a blessing to their work.

"Now, the day may come when there shall be at the centre a body, such as Bishop Furze has pleaded for, which shall survey the whole ground and simply tell men where to go and settle the question. He says, my good friend Bishop Furze, that he comes back and has to bid against six other Bishops stumping round the country to try and get men, and he says that is all wrong ; that there should be some central body to say, ‘You ten men go to Trollope or you go to Furze, and settle the question.’ But until we have got that ideal state of things I myself have received an invitation and have accepted the honour of being Chairman of this Association in order that we may really ensure in London that at any rate this Bishop shall not be forgotten : and therefore I do hope you will back me up too at this end of the stick as he has asked to be backed up at the other. I have one or two other duties I may tell you at home besides this, but if you will come in great throngs to the annual meeting I shall always, while I live, take the chair at it when I am asked; and if you will always in other parts of England where you live go on backing up the Mission with your Prayers and Intercessions and getting small subscriptions or big ones to fill the flowing tide up here, then we shall have achieved something to-day. And this is the point which I would leave in your minds: this man is making a great sacrifice; he has heard the question addressed to him on St. James's Day—'Are you able to drink of the cup I drink of, and to be baptised with the baptism

D 3   that I am baptised with ?’ And he has looked up into his Lord's face and said, 'I am able; by God's grace, I am able.' And he has left behind his dear mother (I know what that would be), and be has left behind all the things the man of culture, such as he loves at home. He has made his great sacrifice, and I appeal to you that that sacrifice shall not be in vain."

Canon Brooke as a Missionary: a Testimony.

The late Canon Brooke's belief in the Church of England as a divinely appointed evangeliser of the heathen was as old as my recollection of him, which goes back to 1872. In 1879, when I returned to the Clergy House in Vassall Road after my voyages to Ashanti and China, I discussed with him the possibility of founding what, for want of a better name, we called a propaganda for foreign missions--a house in England where young men could be trained as missionaries. It was essential to the scheme that these men should be sent to the foreign mission field as they were needed, not as they wanted, the head of the college acting with the bishop of any particular diocese and selecting the man whom he and the bishop thought most suitable. Nothing came of these discussions just then. In 1889, however, after a commission in the Mediterranean. I received my call to the mission-field, and flew at once to my dear friend (as then he had become) for the sympathy and help which I knew would be mine. From 1889 to the day of his death the Canon proved himself (to my knowledge) as ardent a missionary as any of those who have gone to "foreign parts." As ardent? Ay, and as self-sacrificing.

He was no "one-mission" man-no “one-society " man either. U.M.C.A., S.P.G., North China, Shantung, Manchuria, Poonah, Calcutta, Corea, and, most recently, British Columbia, "all was fish that came to his net," provided that the net was the net of the Gospel and the fishermen were the successors of the Apostles. The gigantic amount of work and time which all this involved cannot be described in an article so short as this one has to be. It must fall to others to say how, as a hard working parish priest, a devoted Mission preacher in other pulpits besides his own, an industrious member of the Board of Guardians and an educationist who was returned to the London School Board by the largest poll ever known, the Vicar could find the time to throw his interest, his love, his powers of organisation into all this missionary work of the Church, whether amongst Church folk in the colonies or the heathen abroad.

It must suffice for me to speak of Charles Edward Brooke as (I had almost said) the mainspring of the Church's Mission to Corea. The Whitsun Bank Holiday of 1890 stands out in my memory. Through the kindness of Canon Scott Holland I "discovered” Father Kelly who, on that day, threw in his lot with me in Corea,   then a terra incognita to all of us, and gallantly undertook the in-struction and preparation of some twelve young men, all in good

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standing as Churchmen and well recommended, who desired to come with me and be missionaries in Corea.   To accompany me to Corea, then and there, was not to be thought of. The reality of their vocation had to be tested, and Corea was not the place for the testing. It was then that the pro-paganda scheme of ten years before almost took shape and, under God, the hand that moulded it was the land of Canon Brooke. He was always for jumping through breaches, attempting the seemingly impossible; and, by his simple faith and tremendous enthusiasm, he rarely jumped or attempted in vain.

Licensed by the Bishop of Rochester as one of the curates of St. John the Divine, Herbert Kelly took root in Vassall Road and these young men, with many another, flocked to the mission house, swamped it, and finally overflowed to Mildenhall. The Corean Missionary Brotherhood has long since served its original purpose, but the Society of the Sacred Mission, with its hundred students at Pelham Hall, will ever claim Canon Brooke as the close friend and generous patron of the larger scheme. And what shall I say of the Vicar as my commissary during the fifteen years of my episcopate or as Bishop Turner's commissary during the five years of his episcopate? No bishop ever used commissary as we used him. No commissary ever served bishops as he served us. The "willing horse" was also a "strong horse," and we knew it, and never spared him. Looking back on the hundreds of letters which I must have written to him during these years, I seem to think that there was nothing which he could not do for me. What mattered it to me that he was a busy parish priest, or a member of the School Board or of the Lambeth Board of Guardians or of a hundred committees besides? I had to be got out of a difficulty, sometimes of money, sometimes concerning men, more frequently want of men, and whose business was it to help the bishop but his commissary? I wrote reams to him. He answered, now and then, with a single sheet. How greatly I prized those letters--always opening first the one in which I recognised his handwriting amongst the pile which the mail brought me! Those letters never breathed a complaint, never breathed anything but the most firm belief in the Mission and in his own power to do what was needed if only I would give him time. And so all intending missionaries to Corea would go to him to be interviewed, questioned, approved or rejected. Priests and experiments, doctors and deacons, nurses and laymen--their names and faces pass before me in a long procession as I write, and there is scarcely one of them who is unconnected with Brooke. Then, if a new diocese had to be formed (and, during those fifteen years I both failed and succeeded in this respect), Brooke must help me with his advice, with his influence with others, with his money. "Put it down ‘anonymous.’ It is just as well that my name should not appear" are words which I have had the happiness to hear frequently from him. Again, the limits imposed on me prevent me from going into details, many of which have long become public property.   His position as chairman of the Standing Committee and sub-committees of S.P.G.—a position which he held to his death--was one which he greatly valued ; not because of the compliment (which it deservedly was) but because of the splendid opportunities the post gave him for the exercise of his wonderful power of organi-sation and the satisfying of his boundless appetite for work in the cause of foreign missions.

The character which my dear friend had as a chairman of committee was always in evidence at the meetings of our Corean Executive Committee over which he nearly always presided. There was no opportunity there of going to sleep or for irrelevant talk. To the point always, and with his eye on the next item on the agenda paper, he swept us through the business as with a whirl-wind and yet, withal, patient, courteous, sympathetic. As with himself, so with his parish. He has taught his people to be missionaries. The Mission Band of St. John the Divine has always seemed to me to be the ideal parochial missionary organisa-tion. Everyone must be a missionary, and so everyone must meet to pray for, to hear about, and to support foreign missions. But each might choose his mission--or missions--of particular interest. And so every missionary found a home in that parish. No matter where he came from, he was welcome, and nowhere so welcome as in the Vicarage. Endowed, seemingly, with perpetual youth, Brooke had a marvellous power of taking up and throwing himself into new work. His splendid and wise experiment in British Columbia is the latest illustration of this. But I am now thinking of the support, which, not three years ago, he gave the Bishop of North China's scheme for supplying the funds and the men wherewith to give the Church's ministrations to the English in Manchuria-a province in the Bishop's jurisdiction, which was then being opened up after the Russo-Japanese war. As a friend of Bishop Scott I had something to do with this and. of course, brushing aside Brooke's duties as Bishop Turner's com-missary in Corea and all his other obligations, turned at once to him. With the old result. He leapt at it as a hungry dog leaps at a bone and never rested until he had pushed us off to Manchuria last year--me and the two chaplains whom he had helped me to engage and to supply with the necessary funds. Until quite recently I had thought that it was this scheme of Bishop Scott's which gave him the idea of his wiser scheme in British Columbia. I find that the reverse was the case. It was because for fifteen years he had been thinking of doing this in Canada that he was so ready to help Bishop Scott in a similar endeavour in North China. I was so fully occupied with China during the years which followed my departure from Corea that I am unable to speak in detail of the assistance which Canon Brooke continued to give in Corea as Bishop Turner's commissary. There was, lowever, no  slackening in his energy when a new bishop took the place of the old one. With Brooke it was not the man but the cause which evoked and secured enthusiasm. If my dear successor could speak I know that he would give an even longer list than I of help rendered, of advice given, of dangers--even disasters--avoided by the wise counsel and ever-ready assistance of his commissary.

When, on Bishop Turner's death, Mark Napier Trollope (for twelve years my chaplain in Corea) was chosen by the Archbishop to succeed him, Brooke had nearly reached the grave. But he knew it not. With the gaiety of youth, he threw himself into the game once more. The long vacancy in the see, the pressing financial needs of the diocese, and the uniqueness of the present opportunity, rallied him to the side of the Bishop Designate, in-spiring him with his own joyous and eager hope. The wonderful meeting in the Church House on the day of the Bishop's Consecration was designed by him. It was to be "a magnificent send-off" for the new Bishop. It was to be and it was. But he who had planned it had received his own beautiful "send-off." He was already with the Church--at rest. There was not one, however, at that meeting who, knowing him as some of us did, was not aware that to Brooke were owing the crowded state of the hall, the unforeseen presentation to the Bishop of the purse, the enthusiasm of the speakers--all bishops--and the attention which was too close to allow of cheering. Brooke was behind it all. Bishop Trollope reminded us at this meeting that if he is to keep up his end of the stick in Corea we must keep up our end in England. Can we have a better missionary to serve as our example than Charles Edward Brooke, the South London parish priest, who for twenty-on years devoted himself as whole-heartedly to the Church's well-being in Corea as he did to the well-being of the poorest of his parishioners in St. John the Divine ? C. J. CORFE, Bishop.

Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

WHEN this number of our magazine appears in print our new Bishop will be arriving in his distant diocese, where I hope and believe that he will be supported by the earnest and constant prayers of every member of A.P.W With the arrival of Bishop Trollope in Corea, there opens a new chapter in the history of the Mission, and as we enter upon it we must surely pause to consider our individual responsibility, and to remind ourselves that the contents of this new chapter must depend very largely upon the reality of our Prayer and Work. Our Association is now in its twenty-first year. How can we mark the year better than by taking upon ourselves afresh all the responsibilities of membership, and thus showing our thankfulness for the great privilege that is ours in being allowed to assist in holding up the hands of the workers, not in Corea only, but through-out the whole mission-field? When we realise our privilege more fully, shall we not show a greater readiness in drawing in others to share it with us? We are particularly encouraged in making a fresh start by the fact that Bishop Corfe, the founder of A. P. W., has consented to become its President, and offers his help and advice wherever they will be welcome. The more we can avail ourselves of this offer, the better will it be for us as individuals, and for our Association as a whole, and I shall be glad to hear from any local secretary who would like Bishop Corfe to visit his or her centre. This need not necessarily entail the organisation of a meeting, for in many cases a

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talk with the local secretary and an informal gathering of the members may be more practicable and, indeed, more helpful to the centre. There have been several changes in the ranks of our secretaries during the summer. Through the death of Miss Young at Lincoln, A.P.W. has lost a most valuable worker, and we shall greatly miss the help that she has so generously given, both as county and local secretary, and as secretary for the "unattached members." Her place will be hard to fill. We are sorry to lose the Rev. F. F. Crombie as local secretary in Scarborough, but we look forward to welcoming him again before long as local secretary in his new parish of Hovingham. His successors in Scarborough have our best wishes in working the strong A.P.W. centre which has been entrusted to them. Mrs. Ducket is another secretary whose loss, we hope, is only temporary. We are grateful to Miss Lance for taking her place at Taunton. Will some member volunteer to carry on the good work which Mrs. Fox has done for so many years in Tunbridge Wells? Miss Lewis, who has been one of her members, has offered to form an A.P.W. branch at Maida Hill. This is a most welcome offer which is gratefully accepted. Will other members follow her example, so that we may not only open up fresh spheres of work, but also multiply the number of secretaries in every existing locality? Bishop Trollope has left behind him in Birmingham an A.P.W. branch with both adult and children members, whose prayers will surely be a tower of strength to the Mission. At High Ham (Somerset) we welcome another new branch, which has not forgotten the value of the prayer and work which children are always so ready to give. One feels, therefore, that A.P.W. is beginning to grow, so that it behoves us all to see that this growth is never hindered through any want of devotion on our part. We have had a wonderful incentive to prayer during the last few weeks, for the £1700 which seemed so impossible to find at a short notice has been gladly given by many contributors. May this increase our thankfulness, and the faith in which we are so often lacking ! It is hoped that every member will keep St. Nicholas' Day, December 6, or a day within the octave, as one of special intercession with thanksgiving for the Mission to Corea. MAUD I. FALWASSER, General Secretary.

Needlework.

Our best thanks are due to all those who have made so many and such useful garments, and to those who have sent articles for sales in England. Since last year 493 garments and 2 scrap-books have been received:--18 combing jackets, 16 nightgowns, 43 hospital jackets, 66 girls' jackets, 20 skirts, 132 pinafores. 34 pillow cases, I quilt, 48 pairs cuffs, 10 pairs socks, 11 comforters, 1 woollen jacket, 2 overalls, 28 vests, 63 veils, 2 scrap-books.

The contributors are :--Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Tolley, Miss M. G. Hendley. Miss Madan, Miss Cow, the late Mrs. Windsor, Miss Jesson, Miss Spragge. Working Parties per :--Miss Caswell, Mrs. Nutt, Mrs. Napier Trollope, Miss Mary Oliver, Miss C. M. Beilby. Miss Drake, Mrs. Arthur, Miss E. C. Orr, Miss Badcock, Miss Brooksmith. It would be most satisfactory if this excellent record could be repeated next year. Very acceptable articles for sales were sent by Miss Downall, Miss Presser and Miss Rigden.

I hope, by the time this is in print, to have met Sister Nora, and to have heard about the present needs in Corea, and I shall be glad if intending workers will write to me for particulars. M. C. NEWMAN.

Children's Letter.

DEAR CHILDREN,--

A very important event has occurred since the last number of the magazine was issued. And that event, which I dare say most of you have already heard about, is the consecration of our Bishop. It was a very beautiful and impressive service in St. Paul's Cathedral and one full of instruction. In the afternoon a very large and important meeting was held, at which the Bishop of London presided and expressed his interest in the Mission and his intention of helping the work of the Mission in London by coming to our annual meetings. Bishop Trollope said how helped he felt in going forth to his new work by the send-off he received at that meeting and knowing what friends he had at his back. And

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so in September he started on his journey to Corea helped forward, we hope, by the faithful prayers of members of A.P.W. and the children. He started a very large children's branch in his late parish of St. Alban's, Birmingham, before leaving. A sad event occurred shortly before this important time, and that was the death of Canon Brooke, who has done so very much for the Mission.

A little piece of news I have from Corea itself is that, on St. Peter's Day, the children were invited to a private garden by Miss Grosjean, who has taken a summer house just beyond the palace walls and where they had twelve hours of pure pleasure. Sister writes that they started at six in the morning with Sister Barbara, she herself following later with the two babies in a rickshaw with the rice for the children's dinner and the two ladies to whose garden they went gave them tea. Dinah and Lucy were the two babies in the rickshaw and they beamed with delight with the food basin at their feet. The children had their breakfast under a very large spreading tree and then roamed about all day and ate melons and had a final meal at five before starting back again. The children were all very good and Sister writes that she does not know which enjoyed the day most--the two-legged or the four-legged--as the dogs there also had such an enjoyable day.

Writing of Corea brings me to another point and that is to say how sorry I am that at present I do not see much likelihood of my being able to go to Corea, though I shall not be very far off. I should so like to go on to Seoul and to see the Orphanage, so as to be able to tell you all about it and see the little ones you are keeping. A friend of mine is taking me with her out to Pekin, and we start in September. I expect to be back in November, so you see there will not be very much time to go on.

There is the good news to tell you of the starting of three new branches of the children's A.P.W., and you will see what large branches they are. Just picture to yourselves what a little army you now are. There is the new branch at Birmingham, started by Bishop Trollope; a new branch at a new centre in Croydon, started by the Rev. C. Monteath Thompson, who has on his return to England from the Malay States again shown his interest in Corea by continuing the work he did for it before leaving England. I have not yet the names of these children, but it is a large branch and Sister Nora is going down in September to speak to them and tell them about the children in the Orphanage. And then there is another new branch at High Ham, of which Miss F. Drewett is secretary.

Owing to illness the box of things, which Kathleen and her helpers in Pinner made, was not sent to Clapham, but is going to the St. Peter's Sisters' sale in London, and those things which are suitable out to the children in Corea. Helen also made some nice warm comforters and Miss Wells sent some warm cuffs for which we thank them and may safely say the children will also thank them when they wear them in the cold weather. Two very nice picture postcard albums, made and sent by William and Henry will, I feel sure, be a delightful present at the Orphanage. While I am away Miss M. Falwasser has kindly promised to answer any letters.

Believe me, Yours affectionately, BEAVOR LODGE, HATCH END. MABEL SEATON.

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Hospital Naval fund.

THE 85th meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the Royal United Service Institution at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, July 5. Present: Rev. J.C. Cox-Edwards (in the chair). J. R. Clark, Esq., Captain J. H. Corfe, Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke, C. E. Baxter, Esq., and the Bishop-Designate of Corea. The Chairman welcomed the Bishop-Designate in a few appro-priate words, expressing the pleasure of the Committee that he had accepted the post and the confidence that they would have in his administration of the Fund.

The Bishop having asked for information as to how far he could depend upon the H.N.F. for money to carry on the hospital work in future, it was the opinion of the Committee that with Mr. Childs Clarke as Organising Secretary, and il endeavours were made to strengthen local interest in H.N.F. on the China Station, which interest might be fostered and continued during the further service of officers who had been there, they had considerable hope that the funds might be increased, rather than allowed to fall off still further. The Chairman then wished Mr. Trollope God speed in the name of the Hospital Naval Fund. The following, having consented to act, were appointed Vice-Presidents of the Fund: Admiral Rt. Hon. Lord Charles Beresford, Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton. C. E. BAXTER, Hon. Sec. Ex. Com. H.N.F  

St. Luke's hospital, Chemulpo.

SECOND QUARTER, 1911. In a Mission Hospital we are always being reminded of the many and great differences between our work and the work of an ordinary hospital at home, and the loss of one of the staff brings this very much before our minds. At home, changes can take place frequently without making so very much difference, but here they come as heavy blows, from which it takes a long time to recover. Even a furlough throws the work out of gear for a much longer period than it lasts, but the departure of one of the missionaries is a much more serious matter, and when it comes suddenly we can only feel most

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thankful that the work is not more hindered than it is. For some time we had known that Miss Rice would have to leave us this autumn, but in April she had news from home which made it necessary for her to hasten her arrangements, and to set out on her journey home at the beginning of May. It would be impossible to describe the work which she has done during the years she has been in this hospital, but during that period a very chaotic state of affairs has been reduced to a very fair amount of order, so that the hospital is able to do many times as much work as was at first the case, and to do it much more efficiently. No one will ever again have to face the difficulties that she faced and overcame, and we cannot express our gratitude to her for all that she has done. May we find a successor like her.   Her activities were not confined to the hospital, for she taught the boys of the congregation and managed the music of the church in such a way that Chemulpo has been often praised for its singing by those who had much larger material to work on, and she managed to find time to visit many old patients and try to conserve what they had been taught while in hospital. This is a work which is not at all easy to do, and one in which there is a good deal of failure here. It is true that all the staff, Corean and foreign, are busy, and have not much time for such outside work, but more of it ought to be done, and even with the help of the catechist most of the patients seem to drift away after they leave, even though they may appear much interested while in hospital. Of course, this does not mean that they are entirely unaffected, and we may not doubt that the seed sown will bear fruit in time, even though we do not see it. It is the experience of all medical mission work that patients long lost

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sight of turn up in other places as Christian leaders, but more ought to be done to try and follow them up. In the same way it is most important that in all our dealings with them we should be sym-pathetic, and take enough time to win their affections, but besides the difficulty of always being sympathetic in mind even though tired and worried, there is the further trouble that if much time is given to one patient others will suffer, and probably one of the greatest difficulties of the work lies in this. We all need the help of your prayers that we may not be forgetful, and that we may have grace both to know and to do what is right for each one, not only for their bodies, but for their souls.

Since Miss Rice's departure we have been very fortunate in having the help of Miss G. Bourne, the sister of Miss Bourne who is working in Kanghwa. She came out to be with her sister, but finding our need very kindly came here and takes Miss Rice's place in the house, doing all she can to help with the work. Though she has no nursing training, she has managed to make herself extremely useful, and without her it hardly seems possible that we should have been able to keep all the wards open.

It is often said that a Chinaman expects his doctor to cure him with the first dose of medicine, and the same is to a large extent true of the Corean. Nowadays many of them are becoming more reasonable, but there are a large number to whom something of that sort would truly apply, and it is often necessary to use some guile to persuade them to return should the first application not effect a marked improvement. For the same reason it is very needful to be cautious in giving out medicine to be taken away, for there is always the chance that they will take the whole at one dose. There is a story current of a doctor, who wishing to avoid this danger, warned the patient that if he took too much at once he would die. The next day the patient reappeared and remarked: "Doctor, you said that if I took all that medicine at once I should die; well, I took it and am not dead." In order to avoid both this Scylla and Charybdis, it is our custom to give a patient not more than enough medicine for four days, to so regulate the strength of any poisonous ingredient that it is not likely to be fatal should be take the whole straight off. When they have been attending for some time and have proved themselves to have some idea of quantities, it is possible to increase the period for which they may be supplied. They dearly love a change of doctor, and we recently had a very sad case of the truth of the proverb that too many cooks spoil the broth. An old man attended for a few days with some trouble in his chest, and was then admitted and explored with a needle to see if there were fluid there. A very little was found, but he did not think his quarters good enough for him, and went home. It appears that he at once went to the Japanese hospital, and, tiring of that, to various Corean doctors of the old school. The details of his history during this period are not known, but the end of it was that the last Corean doctor applied a small fire to his chest which opened up a large abscess. This discharged freely, and was, of course, not kept clean, and a little later he sent up again (he only lives a few yards from the hospital), to ask if we could do anything for him. We took him in and did our best, but he was too far gone as the results of his many and varied treatments.

Another case, which we hope we have not yet seen the last of, is that of a woman who brought a small baby to the hospital in a very weak condition. It did not seem to have anything the matter with it beyond being badly nourished, and questioning revealed that she had lost her milk, and, not being able to buy any, was feeding it on rice water, the usual thing in this country, where it is related that a Corean, giving a lecture on various animals, said of the cow ; “This is the animal, as we all know, which ploughs our fields and carries our loads." It was quite clear that food, and not drugs. were what was needed, so a tin of condensed milk was prescribed and given, and the mother went away most grateful, but was so ashamed that she did not come back again for about a month. After a serious talking to she realised that at any rate we did not approve of her action, and came regularly for some time but then stopped again. This time it turned out that she herself was ill, and both she and the baby had to come into hospital, where the young one developed German measles. It got over it very nicely, and the mother was just ready for an operation for appendicitis when she insisted on going home, and neither of them has yet turned up since. What the end will be we do not know, but there is still some hope that they will come again before it is too late. By the way, it is interesting to note that this is only the second case of appendicitis I have seen here in seven years, so that it looks as if Corea were behind the times in more ways than one. Perhaps, as the country becomes more "advanced," it may develop the popular disease.

Ap-in hospital, Chin-Chun.

HALI-YEARLY REPORT.

THE hospital has justified the suggestion of the late Bishop Turner that medical work should be undertaken in this the newest station of the Mission. Patients come from far and wide as the existence of the hospital becomes known. While every endeavour is made to get patients to pay for their treatment, yet the cost falls on those able to pay for it. People are encouraged to come and bring one of their relatives to look after and prepare food for the patient. The aim being to make them "feel at home" by giving them a room fitted out in Corean style, and thus win their confidence, paving the way for the visit of the Corean whose work it is to preach the Gospel, to be followed later by visits in their homes. In this way we are able to follow cases to their homes and continue what is begun during the patient's stay in the hospital. I append figures for the hall-year together with a balance sheet. The new operating room given by a lady in South Africa has proved an indispensible adjunct. An interesting case was provided by a man who cut his throat in the presence of his creditors to prove his assertion that he could not pay them. He recovered, but his creditors did not.

ARTHUR F. LAWS, M.D. COREA, July 9, 1911.

St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association.

THERE will be a stall of Corean curios, &c., at the Combined Sale for Foreign Missions to be held at Kensington Town Hall on November 2 and 3. This is quite a new venture, and Corea has been so warmly welcomed amongst the other Church Missions that it is hoped all Corean members and friends will help in some way. Mrs. Robertson-Macdonald and the Misses Trollope are kindly responsible for the stall, and the Rev. S. J. Childs Clarice has promised one of his breezy "ten-minute talks" during the first evening. The Committee would be glad to hear of two or three gentlemen who would act as stewards at the Hall.   All contributions should be sent to Sister Helen Constance at St. Peter's Home, Kilburn, by October 16, and will be most welcome. There will also be a small Corean Stall at the Annual Associates' Bazaar at Portman Rooms, Baker Street, on November 14 and 15. It is proposed to hold an Afternoon Meeting on behalf of the Mission on Thursday, October 12, at St. Peter's Memorial Home, Woking, at which Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke has kindly promised to speak, and an opportunity will be given to members to see and wish God speed to Sister Nora and Sister Rosalie who are returning to Corea late in October. Any member of Prayer and Work or S.P.F.M.A will be most welcome.

Owing to the increased pressure of work entailed by the growing needs of the Association, it has been thought well that the Secretary-ship of the Seoul Orphanage should be a distinct piece of work in future. Miss Sanders, niece of the late Bishop Turner, has most kindly undertaken to be Secretary, and will receive all contribu-tions and answer all letters concerning the Orphanage from January 1, 1912. Address: Miss Sanders, Charlton Vicarage, Salisbury. The Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving at St. Peter's Home will be held on the first Tuesday in Advent, December 5. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, General Secretary, S.P.F.M.A. JUNE, JULY, AUGUST--RECEIPTS. Sai n s Alice G S Ni F Leady. 3. Mis The Home Hansikals Hester Leban- N eill El Collin, MD , MIN G . rs Wed Maritt : Mis Siola. ter Carl CV S atel S SH Seal Co Cha Nne Anem I for at N's Son. He Tell the

Japanese Work.

The chief event at Fusan during the last quarter has, of course, been the move into the new buildings, which was successfully accomplished on June 20. We had not very far to go, only just round the corner, and were much assisted by various members of the congregation who arrived on the scene in good time to help carry our things over. In fact, some of them helped for two or three days at that time in doing all sorts of odd jobs, and little things that needed finishing off. The new buildings are very much larger and more convenient than the old, in which of late we have found ourselves somewhat tightly packed. The Mission House and Church room are, as before, under one roof, but there is a separate little house beside the larger building, in which I am installed for the present, with one of the congregation, a widow, who is acting as my servant. It is a very comfortable and pretty little house, and I am delighted with it. We have been very busy getting the Church room rather better furnished, and now it looks much better and more Church-like, but I pray that the day may not be too far distant when we shall be able to build a proper Church on the ground awaiting it.

A COREAN, BAPTISED ON EASTER DAY, AGED 80

The day after we moved in, a thanksgiving service was held, and the following day, being Coronation Day, we had quite an assembly in the evening, the service being attended by a good many Fusan officials.

The Union Jack was hung out at the gate beside the Japanese flag, and as it was all so entirely on their own initiative, one could not but feel that the friendly spirit was really meant. We had the English National Anthem at the end. Some who were anxious to join in it, but who cannot read English, practised with great diligence from a copy translated into the Japanese syllabary, which gives the sounds of the English letters. It went wonderfully well considering all things !   The Sunday School has increased enormously since our move. We often get fifty or more children, boys and girls--and among them are some who attend fairly regularly. The evening service is now entirely given up to Mission preaching, with hymns and a lesson, and a few prayers. Evensong being said directly after Sunday School--so the day is pretty full.

At Taikyū there are now seven communicants, all of whom are earnest, and at present there is no one there who forms the usual drawback to evangelistic work, viz. a thoroughly slack Christian. Mrs. Yasunaga, whose husband is a jail official, and who is a Christian of a good many years standing, has just come over from Shizuoka to join her husband, and is prepared to make herself very useful to the other women there, who seem to be quite ready to follow her lead. I am most thankful for this, as it is so hard to do what one would wish to do to help them, on my occasional visits.

During the last quarter I paid two visits to Taikyū, staying there or four days each time, and I went once to Masampo, which is in a far less hopeful state. I hope to be able to get to Masampo again in September and stay a few days there. During the rainy season one cannot do so much moving about.

The women's attendance at Church has immensely improved since last year--it was then very bad indeed, but now it is a great happiness to see so many more of them coming, and I think they join in the service more intelligently and reverently.

The women are also very good in helping with any sewing that has to be done, in fact, whenever anything wants doing I have only to say so, and can get help with it at once, or sometimes it is taken off my hands altogether. This makes a great difference to me, for when we moved in there was a great deal to be done, as every-thing needed altering, besides the making of new things. We have also made a good deal of profit by our working party, which will be used in some way for the benefit of the Church.

I am glad of orders for Japanese dressing gowns and tea-jackets, also Costume dolls.

BEATRIX ELRINGTON. FUSAN, July 15, 1911.  

Local notes.

Seoul.--On St. Mark's Day prizes were distributed at the girls' school. The Guardroom at the Consulate, kindly lent by Dr. Hyde Lay, was decorated for the occasion with exhibits of the girls' school needlework, drawing and Chinese writing. About 250 guests were present, and nearly 100 children dressed in bright pink and white, the uniform chosen for festive occasions. Mrs. Hyde Lay kindly distributed the prizes, afterwards some of the school-girls drilled in the school compound and wound the Maypole. On May I, when the school re-opened, a class was formed of elder girls, commencing their training as teachers.

On Whitsun Eve, Mr. Badcock baptised a few Coreans in their own Church. Amongst the candidates were three girls and one family, the first-fruits of our work in connection with the school. On Whit Monday five women came from Chin-Chun district, and with five others had special study for eight days with one of the Sisters. These women are all employed in teaching ; one of the objects of the special study is to train them in teaching, During this last year decided progress had been made, the courses of study were of a much higher standard, and the intelligence and keenness shown mark advance.

On Holy Cross Day the members of the Mission in Corea Joined with those at home in keeping the Missionary Festival. At the celebration were special intercessions: Evensong was said at 4 P.M., afterwards the Rev. J. S. Badcock and the Rev. and Mrs. F. R. Standfast entertained the members of the Mission at tea.

Coronation Day was kept with great enthusiasm. The celebra-tion at 7 A.M. was fully choral and was well attended, nearly all the members of the Mission being present. At II A.M. the service in the Church of the Advent followed the form sent from England--it was open to all who wished to attend, and many high officials were present in full uniform. A large garden-party was given by Mr. and Mrs. Hyde Lay in the Consulate grounds in the afternoon, when about 300 guests were entertained.

St. Peter's Day was kept much as usual--Corean choral celebra-tion at 7 A.M., evensong and address in the Church of the Advent at 4.30, followed by tea given to about 50 guests in the Sisters' House. Afterwards there was a small exhibition and sale of work done by the orphans, in Mr. Badcock's garden.

Chemulpo.--The chief event of the quarter, both in connection with the Church and hospital, has been Miss Rice's summons to England, which took place somewhat suddenly at the beginning of May. The loss of organist, choir-trainer, boys' Sunday-school teacher, and sacristan at one sweep--to say nothing of her very valuable help in the hospital--has been a great blow, and it has been difficult to keep things going.   The catechumens' class and service on Sunday, managed almost entirely by the catechist, Soh Mattai, and his wife Hilda, goes on steadily, and it is hoped that there may be some candidates for Holy Baptism at Christmas. Dr. Borrow's teacher, An Yohann, has undertaken the boys' class on Sundays.

Since Easter, the Corean Christians have had the privilege of two celebrations of the Holy Communion each month, the Rev. F. R. Standfast coming down on the third Sunday of the month to minister to them.

Kanghwa.--Nr. Hillary has gone home on furlough, and before this reaches the reader will probably have told you much about the work here. Although Ascension and Whitsuntide came very late this year, and so just at the time when our people were beginning to be very busy in the fields, the number of Communi-cants at these Festivals was very good. Mr. Wilson spent Ascension-tide in the south of the island and Mr. Weston in the north, and then changed round for Whitsuntide. Mr. Hodges went over to Paikchön and stayed over there for the two festivals. In Whitsun week seven adults and eight children were baptised at Kyotong. There will be some twenty communicants on that island after the Confirmations. At Napsumi (a more beautiful island than which cannot be desired), a new chapel has been built and provision made for celebrating the Holy Communion there ; another chapel is being built at Sanmuni and will be ready for use in the autumn. The materials for building a chapel at Seiro (an island between Kanghwa and Chemulpo) were bought, but as it was being shipped over from Kanghwa a heavy storm came on and about half of the timber was lost. The Christians on the island, being too poor to replace what was lost, have delayed the erection of the chapel. In Kanghwa city and at Onsoutong things are going on much as usual. Mark Kim is doing very useful work in the city and is full of energy and too much praise cannot be expressed for the excellent work which Kim Persita is doing amongst the women at Onsoutong.

The work on the south side of Mari San, at Henngwang, and Yaihaul is very full of life, and appears to be very sound. At Ankol and Jaouni there have been many difficulties during the last two months, but it is hoped now that the troubles have been settled. It has been thought best to move the catechist, Yee Moses, from Ankol, and send him to Paikchön until the end of the year. Han Mark, who was catechist at Paikchōn, has had to resign and go back to his trading as he finds it impossible to support his family on his wages as catechist. You John, the colporteur employed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, has gone to live at Ankol, and whilst doing his other work will overlook the Ankol district. The above arrangements have only been made to meet present needs, and are subject to alterations on Dir. Hillary's return.

Su Won.--The event of the quarter from the Corean point of view was undoubtedly that of the annual sports held on Ascension Day. This year, for the first time, a number of lads from the village schools in this district and a small contingent from St. Paul's, Chin-Chun, were able to join us. They arrived here on Ascension Eve in time to join in the first Evensong of the Festival, and, with our own people, the Church was crowded out. On the Festival itself Matins began at 5.45 A.M. followed by the Holy Eucharist with procession and sermon, and although there were over 200 communicants, the service was well over by 8 o'clock. The sports-ground was marked out and roped off and various tents erected for the use of clergy, visitors, teachers and school children. The scholars, about 180 altogether, reached the sports-ground at 9.30 A.M., and races were going on continually from 10.30 A.M. till 5 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Standfast, Dr. Borrow, Miss Ingman and Mr. Dallas were with us for the day : Mrs. Standfast kindly dis-tributed the prizes at 5 P. M. The schools closed on July 8 for the summer holidays after examination. Su Won boys' school, owing to various causes, has not done so well this year as we had hoped. As Sister Cecil was ill, it was not possible to examine the girls' school ; they will, however, be examined at Christmas. The country schools are doing fairly well, that at St. John the Baptist's Chapel, Poutori, being far away the best. The rainy season is now with us, and for the next two months travelling will be well nigh impossible. We hope to begin active work again in September.

Chin-Chun.--The great feasts were well kept, and we had large gatherings for Corpus Christi and St. Peter's Day. On the latter festival the three schools (two boys' and one girls') in our com-pound were closed, not without ceremony and feasting. We total four teachers and fifty-six scholars.

There has been much hunger and want during the past spring and early summer by reason of the abnormally high price of rice. Owing to this and other subtler causes, I grieve to say that some thirty of our seven hundred Christians have lost heart and prac-tically given up the faith. Some are already beginning to repent, and we hope--by God's help--to recover most of these strayed sheep before long, but amongst them are several rather desperate cases, including two of polygamy.

Fr. Hewlett has been doing his share of the work, especially in journeying round, and is rapidly gaining experience. Mr. Dallas is progressing steadily with the language and takes great delight in all things Corean (except food !) He is looking forward to the priesthood--we hope next Lent. Also by his skill we are enjoying an abundant crop of all manner of vegetables from the patch which is waiting in hope of becoming the site of the C.S.P. house some day. There is general joy in anticipation of the new Episco-pate. Dr. and Mrs. Laws are well, and the hospital has been continuously full up with in-patients during the quarter; amongst them have been a good proportion of Christians, including several Roman Catholics from a considerable distance.

The station has received welcome first visits from Fr. Hodges and Dr. Weir.   Like the people of Su Won, our Christians have erected a stone tablet outside the Church in pious memory of our late Bishop. The new Lady Chapel is finished, but will not be ready for use for some time ; Dr. Laws superintended the building of it. We hope that the Bishop will be able to consecrate it himself before. the next cold weather has set in. During the first week of July, the three local catechists met with the priest-in-charge for study and discussion of points connected with our work. I think we all found profit--collectively and individually. We have a steady attendance at the 6 A.M. Daily Eucharist, wet or fine, averaging about sixteen souls.

JAPANESE WORK.

I write this report from our new premises into which we entered at the beginning of June. Looked at from any point of view, I think all will agree that they are a great improve-ment on the old place, and much more suitable for our particular work. It was impossible to begin the removal of the church till we ourselves had gone, but it was commenced as soon as possible, and is now at the time of writing, July 11) not quite finished. We had hoped to have the re-opening service on July 16, which could have made it in time for this report, but the bad weather has caused it to be postponed for a week ; at present we are using the whole of the ground floor of the Japanese house for our services. We were very fortunate in one respect. Two days after the old church had been pulled down, a fire broke out, which in two hours completely destroyed five houses standing on Church property around our old houses. One small part of the old buildings left standing was badly scorched, and it looks as if all would have been burned had it been there to burn. The amount of business involved by the change has prevented me from visiting the distant scattered Christians, with whom, however, I am in touch by correspondence. In this connection I should like to acknowledge a generous gift from England of ￡20 (in addition to the ￡25 received some time ago from another source), which I hope to spend in purchasing a piece of land at Taikyū, the first step towards per-manent work there. Meanwhile, thanks to further assistance from Canada, Mr. Nuyazawa from Ueda, in Japan, has come over to take uppermanent work in Chemulpo. We had a well attended “welcome meeting” for him the other day, and I believe his coming will make a great advance in the work there, but it is too early yet to speak of that. In another way we have to thank Canada for him, as it was through Mr. Waller's efforts we were able to get him. From Fusan I bear news of steady progress. They also have moved into their new buildings--and though they have not yet got the new church, there is an evident determination among them not to be satisfied until they do get it.   This last quarter has been one of material rather than of spiritual progress, but the one is a means to the other, and now that our three chief stations--Seoul, Fusan and Chemulpo--are better equipped and manned, and with a somewhat nearer hope of opening up new work in Taikyū, I pray we may henceforth be able to make further spiritual progress. There is need enough. The last report gives over 50,000 Japanese in Seoul alone, and they are increasing all over the country, and though we have made some advance, the need and the opportunities are advancing much faster, and therefore all I have ever said in these pages remains in force more than ever before.  

The Spirit of Missions.

A RECENT article in the Saturday Review contained the following passage :--"If the Anglican Church would rise to its opportunities it must plan boldly and largely. It must strike the imagination and in no way be ashamed of what is hazardous and untried. It must, in fact, believe in the greatness of its faith and the need of the world for its message. No better thing can be hoped from the Coronation of George V, whose interest in every portion of his empire is widely known, than that new enthusiasm and statesman-like self-sacrifice should quicken the Church which is established in his realm. The British Empire at this moment perhaps affords greater opportunities for advancing the service of Christ than any other human agency, and with these opportunities the British rule provides the material power to turn them to account. That is its ultimate reason of being. The spirit of service in simplest truth keeps it alive. And unless the inspiration and example of the Church be there to meet the pressing need, that spirit will die."--Mission Field, September 1911, p.263. A LANCASHIRE clergyman writes as follows:--"I have on my sick list a very poor woman who has been confined to her bed for many years. I spoke to her about missionary work in November last and gave her a magazine to read, and she at once became interested. I asked her to take a medical mission collecting box, but she said she could not afford more than a half-penny a week. I told her to give that, and took her a box. When the boxes were opened this poor woman's was at the top of the list with 6s. 2d. She is now a most enthusiastic supporter of missions, reads both Mercy and Truth and the Gleaner and is doing a most excellent work among the many friends who go to see her."--C.M.S. Gazette, July 1, 1911. SIR H. HESKETH BELL, who had been Governor of Uganda for three years, has been appointed Governor of Northern Nigeria. . . . On his way to West Africa he wrote to Bishop Tucker and also to the Regents of Buganda bidding them farewell. In his letter to the Bishop, Sir Hesketh speaks of the missionaries as “most valuable collaborators,” and says: "Any success that may have attended my administration during the past three years has. I think, been largely due to the good feeling and harmony that has prevailed among us all, and to the generous appreciation which we have all felt for each other's work. No one admires more than I do the wonderful work of the Church in Uganda, and my heartiest good wishes accompany the continued progress of the work."

"THERE has come to us a deeper realization of the imperative need that to the service of Foreign Missions we should offer of our very best. Money alone is but a poor thing to give with such an opportunity before us. We need, we call for men and women aflame with high enthusiasm for Christ, endowed with capacity, knowledge and strength, and trained with eager and thoughtful care to discharge aright the noblest of all human responsibilities."--Encyclical Letter of the Lambeth Conference, 1908, p. 38. "It has been said that it is kindness to leave savages alone to pursue ‘the peaceful tenor of their lives.’ Let there be no delusion on this point. I have inquired deeply into the lives of savages, and if anyone reads the worlds of Anglican, Roman Catholic, or Free Church Missionaries who have lived among savages it will be found that there is scarcely any form of depravity known to the criminal records of white people that is not known to the savages existing in the world to-day. We might sum up the situation by saying that no such thing as the innocent, pure-minded savage exists. The worst type of white man is no worse than the worst type of savage."--Sir Harry Johnston in S.P.C.K. Nodes, June 1909. p.386. "SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY, who died on May 10 last, was never afraid to allow their full value to Christian missions. ‘The best way to stop the slave-traffic,' said he, ‘is to multiply mission stations in the interior. You will never stop slavery in Africa until you mark the country with the sign of the Cross. Wherever the missionary goes, slavery is doomed.' To Stanley belongs the honour of initiating the idea of a mission to Uganda. It was on November 15, 1875. that he wrote to the Daily Telegraph from the court of King Mtesa, 'Oh that some pious, practical missionary would come here! Such a one, if he can be found, would be the saviour of Africa. Now where is there in all the pagan world a more promis-ing field for a mission than Uganda? Here, gentlemen, is your opportunity: embrace it! The people on the shores of the Nyanza call upon you.' It is well known how promptly the appeal was met. Three days later the C.M.S. received £5000 from 'An Unprofitable Servant’ to commence instantly ; another £5000 quickly followed ; and £24,000 was soon in hand to start what has proved to be the very romance of Christian Missions, and the most apparently successful mission in the world. The Scottish Geographical Magazine reminds us of Stanley's 'latent energy and iron will, under an almost taciturn air of self-possession. He might well be called the Napoleon of African travellers.’ Such being his character, his testimony in behalf of the Church's pioneer work is the more valuable.--Foreign Mission Chronicle, C. of Scotland, July 1904."

Correspondence.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,-- On the morning of February 8 I left Seoul to pay my first visit to Paikchön. . . . . My first day was spent visiting some of the city Christians. The second I went out with three of the women to the village of Sampatchi, where Mr. Wilson was examin-ing baptismal candidates. Here, as in most of the villages I afterwards visited, no foreign woman had ever before been. On the way back we called at two houses in Hong-hyen, my visits at these two places being types of subsequent ones. When we went into a house I was given the seat of honour, that being on the floor just over the fire and sometimes unpleasantly hot. The women sat round talking and smoking and I was usually given a table of food, hard boiled eggs, persimmon, pears, and chestnuts. Once I was offered a pipe !

My first Sunday was a very full and a very happy day, beginning at 5.30 with a baptismal service, when forty-six new members were added to the Church. The majority of these came from the village of Kon-am and had arrived in the city by 4 A.M. During the next week I visited the villages of Konam, Sorubon, Pomori, Mothong and Nangmah, in all of which there are Christians. Our women workers willingly gave up their time to go with me though, on some occasions, it took up the whole day. What strikes one most on first coming to Paikchön is the friendliness and affection of the people, including children, and the good attendance at the daily service, it being taken for granted that all attend when they are able. The second Sunday we went out to Jamboni, where the Christians were starting a weekly mid-day service. There was only one room available which was given up to us women, while the men, about seventeen in number, sat on mats spread in the compound outside, We got back to Paikchön in time for Evensong. At the mission service that evening the church was again crowded.   My next visit was to Munchai, a walk of thirty li. Three of the women went with me. My last and perhaps most interesting visit was to Munmi. It had been visited the previous Sunday by one of our Christians and his wife, who brought back word that though we had no women there they would like to be taught and, consequently, she and four other women offered to go out during the week and asked me to go with them. We accordingly went, accompanied by Miss David from Konam, who had also volunteered to go. About eight women came in to see us and, after our women had talked to them for some time, David held a little service and gave them an address. Now, two months later, Mr. Wilson tells me we have between thirty and forty women inquirers at Munmi. It is interest-ing to know that the woman who visited Munmi with her husband and suggested our visit was, eighteen months previously, persecut-ing her husband for being a Christian and even threatening to burn his house down. She and her children were among those baptized on February 12 ISABEL M. BOURNE.

Wants.

SEOUL.--Small crocifixes for wearing.--Scarlet blankets or pieces to make warm quilts for the use of Christians who come from the country to make their Communion, and have to be put up the night before. Odds and ends of bright wool, silk or cotton for crochet or knitting. Address: "Sister Edith Helena, St. Peter's Mission, Seoul." CHINULPO.—Water-proof sheeting for the Hospital. Address, “St. Luke's Hospital, Chemulpo." KANGHWA.--Altar linen, (fair linen cloths for measuring 4 ft. by 1 1/2 ft). Thurible for Paikchön (asked for many times. Will no lover of incense take note ?) Address: "Rev. F. Wilson, Kanghwa," Household materials for the ladies' houses at Onsoutong and Paikchön (for the former, please address : “Miss France, Kangwa," for the latter: "Miss Bourne, Kanghwa") CHIN-CHUN.--Three hundred small crucifixes; ten for 2s. 6d.; please send half-crowns to Str. David Jones, 18 High Street, Clydach Vale, Tonypandy. Glam. Fair linen clothes for six Altars in district chapels, 6 ft. by 2 1/2 ft . One or more banners without staves, with no English words on them.