Morning Calm v.2 no.16(1891 Oct.)

THE MORNING CALM. No. 16, VOL. II. OCTOBER 1891. [PRICE Id. The Bishop's Letter. CHEMULPO, COREA, July 20, 1891.

DEAR FRIENDS,

In my last letter I alluded to the satisfaction with which I had seen Dr. Landis enter the new Dispensary here on the morning of my departure for Gensan. 지난 편지에서 저는 랜디스 박사가 제가 원산으로 떠나는 날 아침 새로운 약방에 들어가는 것을 보고 기뻤음을 넌지시 알려드렸습니다.

Let me in this letter give you some description of it. The building is of grey brick, roofed with Japanese tiles. Feeling certain that it would only be used temporarily as a dispensary, and would ultimately be used as a schoolroom, I had this in my mind when building it. Briefly, then, it consists of a room 32 feet long by 15 feet broad, with an open roof 14 feet from the apex. Inside there is a temporary partition wall which gives the Doctor a room for himself 12 feet by 15 feet. The remainder, therefore, will make a schoolroom large enough for our purposes for a long time yet. The building stands east and west, with its long sides toward the north and south. On the south side there is a verandah running the length of the building and meeting a similar verandah on the east side, where the principal door has been placed.

This east end leads into the road, which, running from the sea northward at right angles, separates the foreign settlement of Chemulpo from the Corean town. On the other side of the road is the Yamên of the Kamni, or Superintendent of Trade, the highest Corean official in this town. Here all the punish-ments are administered. It is no uncommon thing for us to see men being whipped, for the wall is quite low. You see then how close we are to the Corean town. In fact we could not be closer without being actually in it. There are special advantages for not being in the town at present. In the foreign settlement all is clean and well cared for. In the Corean town all is very much the reverse. The large piece of ground which we have bought and of which this Dispensary occupies a tiny corner will always be airy and healthy. The Coreans are not at all shy of coming, and when the time comes for us to build a hospital for In-patients, we shall build it on a hill which can never be subject to the unhealthy influences of the low marshy ground on which the Corean town for the most part stands. But to return to the Dispensary. There is in front of it-that is to say, on the south side-a piece of ground which will serve admirably as a garden by-and-by. The Doctor has already planted a few shrubs there, but what with the lateness of the season and the trampling of the workmen's feet, I doubt if they will come to much this year. The money for this building, about ￡50, should properly come from the Naval Fund for providing hospitals in Corea. But so confident am I that soon a hospital will be begun on the top of the hill before men-tioned, and that this building will then be available for school purposes, that I have determined not to devote any of the Naval money to this purpose. I think I can do much better. In the first place our kind friend Mr. Church has given me 60 dollars towards it, and Dr. Wiles has given me 100 dollars. Then, ever since the beginning of the year Dr. Landis has, as you know, been teaching English to a large class of Japanese. All the school fees, amounting at present to 134 dollars, I am adding to the building fund, which has now reached over 300 dollars, leaving a balance of only 120 dollars, which will either be met by the school fees when the school reopens after the “long vacation,” or by the Education Fund Committee, which I am glad to see is at last in existence, thanks to the efforts of mem-bers, old and present, of my former schools, Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and Lancing College. But it is a great satisfaction to me to have made the Japanese students, unconsciously, the largest contributors to what will be, I hope, the first schoolhouse of the Mission in Corea. In the meanwhile, you understand, the Doctor holds undisputed sway over the building. It is filled with patients and redolent of drugs. And you have no notion what a difference this makes to the little house in which I am now writing, where for six months we have had importunate visitors all day long. The Doctor was the attraction. Now that he has moved off with his bottles there is no attraction, and the house is quiet all day long. There is, moreover, another room at our service, which, in a house of four rooms, of which one is the church, is a great consideration. My friends in Seoul have taken advantage of it, and are coming down one at a time to spend a few days with me-a great joy and privilege to me, as you may well suppose. Farewell for to-day.

I am always your affectionate friend, C. J. CORFE.   Association of Prayer and work for Corea. It will be easily seen by those who will glance at the list of Local Secretaries on pages vi. and vii. of the cover that a change has taken place in the organisation of the Association. It is a change of no small importance, and one by which it is hoped that the Association will gain in no small degree. The number of Branch and Local Secretaries at home and abroad having increased to 137, and every part of the work which devolves upon me as General Secretary having grown with unexpected rapidity, it was becoming impossible for me to deal alone with the whole of the correspondence involved therein, or to give to the work in every county or diocese the fresh impetus and the careful attention which it requires, and which local heads are always so much better able to give. The Bishop, who fore-saw this difficulty before he left England, gave me then sug-gestions as to the best means of meeting it, in accordance with which, in January of this year, as the Secretaries of the Association well know, I asked those amongst them who were able and willing to undertake more work and more responsibility than that which is laid upon Local Secretaries to help me by becoming District or Branch Secretaries. I have since, with the Bishop's approval, fixed upon the geographical division into counties as the simplest and best for our purpose. Nine friends of the Mission, so far, have most kindly re-sponded to my appeal, and their names with those of their counties, and of the Local Secretaries at present working under them, will be found on page vi. of the cover. By some mistake, as yet unaccounted for, I have not received from them in time to print this month either lists of new Local Secretaries or any accounts of the work they propose doing in their counties, but all Local Secretaries now under County Secretaries are asked to send to them, and not to me, their October and all subsequent quarterly reports on the 1st of each month, that they may have time to set them in order to forward to me before the 10th; and I also ask that in the counties for which County Secretaries have been appointed, applications for papers, the names of new members, where there are no Local Secretaries, &c., should be written to the County Secretaries instead of to me. Local Secretaries, members, and all friends of the Mission living in the counties for which there are at present no County Secretaries will, of course, continue to correspond with me. I need scarcely add that I am most glad and thankful, as I am sure will be all readers of Morning Calm who know how the Association is both helping in Bishop Corfe's great and noble work, and, according to his wish and plan, raising more enthusi-astic prayerful interest in all foreign missions, both for the delightful cause of the need of some such change as has just been carried into effect-ie., the rapid growth and spread of the work-and for the fact that nine friends of the Mission, new and old, have promised much of their time and thought and energy as County Secretaries to the continuance and further expansion of work which God has already greatly blessed.

The following pleasant announcement has been sent in by Mrs. Harford (22 Oldfield Road, Stoke Newington) : - “We intend having a Sale of Work and Concert on the 16th of November, to dispose of the articles we have on hand. We intend asking all our subscribers to give one useful or fancy article each. We should be very pleased to receive materials or worked articles to add to our own. We wish to have all the things for the sale in by the 6th of November, and they may be sent to my address. We all wish it to be very successful. At Stoke Newington it is sure to be successful. And the example of Exeter in this matter of sales is very encouraging !” The Bishop's Pastoral Staff-an ancient carved Austrian crook, a lady's kind gift to the Mission, for which she has had a fitting and beautiful staff made by Messrs. Cox, Son & Buckley- will be ready before long to go to Corea. I could pack a few small articles sent to me at once with it in its case, should any friends of the Bishop wish anything so sent. M. M. CHAMBERS HODGETTS, General Secretary.

A Visit to Corea. MRS. GOODENOUGH kindly sends us the following extract from a letter of a member of the Japan Mission, describing her holiday visit to Corea : - “We took a longer holiday than usual after Easter, spending it in the Corea. We started a day after Miss Bristowe sailed for England, catching her up at Kobé. We spent a very happy day there, tramping off up the mountains together for the last few hours of her stay in Japan. It took us ten days to reach Corea. When you have once half crossed the world, ten days does not seem much ; but it is a bad passage round the peninsula of Corea, and you go to it in a roundabout way, by first scooping out of the Straits of Shimonoseki down to Nagasaki, and then up again to the Goto Islands and Isushima. This last is one of the most beautiful of islands, but dangerous. One of the very ships we were on, the Takachiho Maru, went to pieces on the rocks there, in her very next voyage, though the crew and passengers were saved. Now this is the island which the Japanese believe to be coveted by Russia. No foreigners are allowed to land therefore without a passport, and of the Taka-chiho Maru passengers only one Englishman and two ship's officers went on to the principal town. The rest had to stop where they landed under sailcloth. We passed the famous island Port Hamilton, and Captain Jones, our captain, said it was not really a good station, it was too small a harbour, and as the bottom of it was shaped like a basin, a ship's anchor always dragged itself out again in the change of the tide. So you see the grapes are sour to the English fox. There are other reasons of interest of course why we did not occupy it. I could give you also some more interesting stories-how the whole English naval squadron, one morning in a fog, went into Vladivostock harbour, and how scared the Russians were, when the fog lifted, to see the harbour full of British men-of-war-so scared indeed that we have been forbidden their harbours ever since, and they, upon that, forbidden ours, though it was all an accident. "Our ship touched at Fusan. This is an ancient Japanese colony in Corea, and there is no more to say except that Bishop Corfe thinks of a station there, if he has men and funds. He is right in thinking that he cannot ignore the Japanese and Chinese settlers in Corea, for their influence has always been a factor in Corean politics, social and religious. From the Japanese Roman Catholic Christians came the beginning of Corean Christianity, which, strangely, too, existed some twenty or thirty years and grew without a priest. “After a few hours’ stay in harbour we went on to Nisen, or, by its native name, Chemulpo, the harbour of Seoul, capital of Corea. We stayed with Mr. Johnston, Commissioner of Customs. “Now to those who read Morning Calm what I have to say will have little interest. Chemulpo is a terrible place to live in at least it would be an exercise of great self-denial to me to live there, and to one like Bishop Corfe I am quite sure it must be doubly so. Its one redeeming point is its lovely air and exquisite colouring, vivid blue sky, and red mountains, not covered with foliage like Japan. The Coreans do not let anything grow in the way of trees in the south ; it is cut down for firewood directly it struggles up. There is no shelter from the sun on the hills behind Chemulpo ; it is about the barest-looking place one could live in short of an African desert, I should say. At low tide there are miles of mud flats, and winding through them the narrowest of channels, in which ships touching there lie. This seems to be a feature of Corean harbours, and is perhaps both a safety to the country and a cause of its want of prosperity. A man-of-war can't get in. The French expedition, after the persecution of the Christians, came to grief on this account, and the successive American expeditions don't seem to have fared much better. “Chemulpo native town is a miserable collection of thatched huts, squalid and dirty. There is no art, no manufacture save paper and a few brass pots. Every industry is systematically discouraged, lest Corea, growing prosperous, should excite the envy of the Chinese or Japanese-at least this is the theory of their government. Their extreme poverty is to be their protec-tion. If a man more industrious than his neighbours scrapes together a little property, the Corean mandarins tax and mulct him of his gains in every way; and so there is no incentive to industry, rather the reverse. Their theory is-if you want to live in peace, be idle.

“We saw three men at work digging up a field ; one man held the spade, to which was tied two ropes on either side, one man drove it into the ground, the other two raised it under the clods. This was the style of their ploughing. The women work and wash all day to keep the men's clothes clean, the native dress for men being white, the women's either blue or white. The men lounge about nearly all day, except the coolies down in the foreign settlement, or play at archery or gamble. Women are nothing accounted of; they are a kind of irresponsible creatures, who wander in and out where they like, just as a dog might. At times they have been known to avenge this position, or rather they have taken advantage of it. “These are the people whom Bishop Corfe has to work amongst. They are gentle and amiable, that is something, but self-respect there is none, and I think that makes them peculiarly difficult. Centuries of oppression and depression ruin a people's moral character ; they do not want more than they have-in fact, it is positively un-wisdom to them to go and look or ask for more. But in God's good time that will be overcome. The Bishop seems cheerful over the day of small things. He lives in a room a few feet square, next to the Doctor's dispensary, also about the same size, and I don't think either of them ever get a quiet moment. “Through his medical work Dr. Landis is fast making friends with the people, and when he is not running to heal their bodies, he is trying to open their minds by teaching them. Moreover, both are hard at work learning Corean, a crux in itself. The Bishop doesn't mind sitting down to teach two or three Japanese English : as he says, he does not like to neglect them if he can touch them anyhow ; they are part of his care, and so he was struggling to teach them English if peradventure he might get hold of them too. “I don't think it is suitable for him to have to do it ; but at present he works at anything that comes up, and after all it is like a good captain to share in the general work, if it seems to need it. Miss Burnett, who stayed behind on account of Mrs. Johnston's illness, has, I think, been doing what she can to take the Bishop's odd pupils off his hands for the time being. “We did not go to Seoul ; it is a day’s journey there and a day’s back, unless you rush it. There the Bishop has to some extent organised his work. His clergy and other helpers live together and study hard for the present. The doctor there has the charge of Dr. Scranton’s hospital, whilst the latter is on his holidays, so Dr. Wiles’ hands are full. “It is all very interesting, and a real hard-working Mission ; but its struggle has yet to come. Its weapons are all being sharpened and made ready, but the enemy has not attacked there as he does all along the line here. Bishop Corfe said to me one day, ‘I always say the Bishop of Japan has the most difficult post of any bishop in the East,’ and that is very true."

The Spirit of Missions THERE are very cheering signs that the harvest may be near at hand in the Report of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi. “I was preaching,” writes the Rev. G. A. Lefroy, “in the great central bazaar at Delhi one evening, and some question arose as to the different accounts of the Crucifixion contained in the four Gospels. We were looking the point up when the darkness closed in on us, and one of the men said he could not see to read the passage. I said, ‘Then why don't you ask me to meet you somewhere, in a mosque or wherever you like, at some other time, where we can talk the matter thoroughly out?’ He said, ‘Will you come to the Fáttehpuri Mosque?’ naming one of the largest in Delhi, just in front of which our preaching was then going on. I said that of course I should be very glad, and a day was fixed. I had supposed that it would only be another meeting on the comparatively small scale of the former ones, but when I got to the spot I found a packed and eager crowd of some three hundred Mahomedans, while at a table, covered with copies of the Bible, the Koran, and other books of reference, sat about half-a-dozen ‘Maulvis,’ not by any means of the first rank, but still of a certain status amongst them, and especially interested in the Christian controversy. . . . The meetings begun that day have gone on almost weekly, till we have now had seven or eight, at some of which the attendance has amounted to over a thousand Mahomedans, and these by no means of the lowest class, indeed chiefly ‘Panjabis,’ one of the largest and most prosperous commercial Mahomedan classes in the city. Moreover, we have now got to a far more orderly and satisfactory kind of discussion than our earlier ones were. Instead of simply arguing against each other, we agree beforehand on a subject, and then, for half an hour at a time, one of their Maulvis and myself expound by turns for about three hours the doctrines of our respective faiths upon it. . . . . “One little incident I must tell you of, for, though we know not yet in the least how it will turn out, it has much cheered and helped me. At the earliest meeting there was seated in the chair of honour, as a kind of president, a blind Mahomedan preacher who had been a most determined opposer of our work for some time past, and whose opposition last summer reached a pitch of such violence that it proved nearly a case for police intervention. Latterly, however, we had noticed a distinct change for the better in his manner. In the middle of the meeting, the Mahomedan controversialist having got into some difficulty, this man, to my intense surprise, stood up and said in an excited way that the people might as well know that for some time he had been thinking very seriously about the faith of Christ, and that now, if no more argument were forthcoming on their side, he would take the Padre's hand and leave the mosque with him and become a Christian that day. The effect on the assembled crowd of Mahomedans was electrical, and the study of faces for the next few minutes would have been strangely interesting for anyone whose own mind was more at leisure to appreciate it than mine was, under this most unlooked-for dénouement. What might have happened if he had really kept firm to his avowal and tried to come away with me I do not know. He did not, however. They reasoned with him, were lavish in their promises of what they would prove another day on any required subject, and quieted him down, till, after four of about the most exciting and exhausting hours I have ever been through, I had to come away without him. Since then he has been in a strange position, one day closeted with Mr. Winter * or myself for hours, asking for baptism, the next opposing us in the bazaar, though, I am thankful to say, in a very much more subdued and pleasant way than he used to do. It is impossible to say how far he is consciously actuated by false motives of covetousness or the like, or how far it is simply a case of moral weakness. I incline myself to the latter. I think that he is being genuinely drawn in both directions, that he is, if not thoroughly convinced of the truth of Christianity, yet feeling the pressure of its claims very

• Who now rests in Paradise. He died on August 6 this year.

strongly, while, on the other hand, he shrinks from the thought of what an open profession of faith would involve. Anyhow, we leave him in God’s hands. I have made it perfectly clear to him that, if he comes at all, it will be not with any worldly gain, but at a loss, for, though we should of course have to provide for him in some way, yet we should certainly give him less than he is getting at present from his Mahomedan co-religionists. In this and other ways we have tried to deliver him from wrong and unworthy motives ; and if other and higher ones are by God's blessing strong enough to bring him into the fold, it will be a very happy thing ; if not, he had far better not come at all. It is, however, I think, a case in which we may most fairly ask your prayers for him that he may be shown what is right, and given grace and strength to do it, and for us that we may have judgment and wisdom to deal with this and similar very difficult cases that occur. A little point occurred in our last meeting which is worth mentioning, just to bring home to you some of the conditions of work out here. In the middle of the discussion, while the Maulvi was speaking, this blind man, who was sitting with us on the platform, leant forward and asked me to give him a glass of water. This would seem to us Englishmen a sufficiently matter-of-course occurrence, and in theory it ought to be just the same to Mahomedans, who according to the Koran may eat and drink freely with Christians, provided they abstain from certain prohibited articles of food. In point of fact, however, they have been so tainted by their long sojourn among the Hindus that they have imbibed many of the Hindu prejudices in such matters, and regard any contact with our food almost as a breaking of caste. This applies only to the more southern parts ; up towards Peshawar they make no scruple whatever in the matter. In the present instance, however, I felt quite sure that he had asked for the water intentionally, in order to show the people that he was drawing nearer to us ; and as I sent for some water, and then, in the presence of the hundreds assembled, filled out a glass and handed it to him and he drank it off, the faces around us were again an interesting study. It is not easy for us to connect in thought such a simple act as that I have described with an avowal of faith in the Holy Trinity or the Divinity of our Blessed Lord, yet it is certain that to many there his action implied that he had gone over to the Christians, with all in the way of dogmatic belief that that involves.” “I am truly wonderstruck,” writes one who has just joined the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, “when I look round and see what has been done and the hearts that have been won. It would do your heart good to talk with the dear boys here.   The other evening a boy said to me, ‘You are just from England, Bwana Herbert.’ ‘Yes, I am.’ ‘Do you know my mother?’ I looked in his dear black face and said, ‘Your mother?’ ‘Yes, my patron mother ; she loves me much, and I love her and pray for her every night.'=’ I thought, Yes! patrons need have no fear that they are forgotten by their children out here.” A doubt is sometimes expressed whether it is wise to found churches in places which are for many months in the year cut off from all communication with the Mission centres, and can only be visited at long intervals by the priest responsible for the working of the Mission. Such doubts are, to a great extent, set at rest by the account of the quiet steady work of the Church that is going forward at Ambodilazana, in the forests of Madagascar, where not very long ago a school was started and placed in charge of a native teacher by Mr. Hewlett, of Cowley, who is working at Tamatave. The little village of Ambodilazana is within forty miles of the large and civilised town of Tamatave, but it is, notwith-standing, in a region of utter isolation and barbarism, where the people are rough and suspicious of strangers, and are said to be all more or less robbers. But the softening and refining in-fluence of the Gospel is already beginning to tell upon the people of Ambodilazana, and when Mr. Hewlett paid them a visit last Ascension Week-the third since the work there was set on foot-he met with a most friendly reception, and had the happiness of baptising the thirty-six children who were learning in the school, many older people witnessing the ceremony, and being exhorted to become little children themselves. The teacher and his wife received the Holy Communion with Mr. Hewlett before the baptism of these children, and thus the two great Sacraments of the Gospel were for the first time celebrated in this place. The village has increased from five houses to fifteen in consequence of the school, so it has the advantage of gathering more together in one centre, and bringing about a mutual understanding and co-operation. The people have built a nice little chapel of leaves. The New York Spirit of Missions says with great force, “They who think that any race of the heathen is too degraded to be converted and civilised may learn from Cicero's advice to the general to make slaves of all prisoners except the British. They were too lazy and stupid to be of any use ! ” Father Osborne, of the Society of S. John the Evangelist, writes from Cape Town on July 29 to the Cowley Evangelist : - “Our two little Dutch Missions have made a good beginning, and promise to do good work. One is at the Dry Dock, as it is called, and the other in Wahl’s Row. They are conducted by two laymen, one a schoolmaster, the other a theological student, and the people are attentive and interested. At the Dry Dock we have also a reading class and a sewing school for the women, and hope to have the same at the other room after a time. The people who attend there are of the poorest in the district. Some of them are described by the police as “Rock Rabbits.” These have no houses. In fair weather they sleep on the slopes of Table Mountain, and in wet weather creep under the rocks, or wild shanties of old tin or galvanised iron, and rags. They live by stealing and collecting rags and bones. For them all work must be in Cape Dutch. The work is very primitive up there, as an instance will show. A woman was deserted by the man who lived with her in the mountain side, and the woman at the cottage where we have service took her in. A baby arrived at 9 A.M. on Sunday, but all the people came to service at two o'clock as usual, the mother and child remaining on some boxes in the corner covered with two old coats and a ragged quilt. No one thought this strange, but they did not sing lest the noise might be bad for her. Two men have applied for baptism at this place.” There is an interesting account in the July Quarterly Paper, of the Archbishop's Mission to the Assyrian Christians, of the work of the Mission printing press in providing educational books for the East Syrian schools. Considerable difficulty arises in writing such books from the fact that until recently the vernacular Syriac had never been written. As nearly every district speaks a different dialect, scarcely understood elsewhere, one dialect, that of Urmi, had to be adopted as a basis. Great care is taken to spell the words used with a due regard to ety-mology, thus making them intelligible in different districts, even where they do not agree exactly in each case with local usage. Catechisms, histories, grammars, reading-books, &c., are printed. There is pressing need for trustworthy histories; those of the Syrians are like our mediæval chronicles, and are largely fabulous, but they are believed without a doubt, and give rise to many misconceptions both of fact and doctrine. A Church history of the first four centuries has been issued by the Mission-a period of special interest to the Syrians-dwelling on the lives of the first teachers of the Church in the Far East, such as St. Ephraim. The two catechisms already published have been “specially designed to meet the difficulty of a want of proper technical terms in Syriac, and to suit the peculiarities of Syriac life and thought. For instance, it is no use to begin as so many English catechisms do with Confirmation. Such ideas as the affirmation of baptismal vows can find no place among a people who practise infant Confirmation and Communion. And so also, in giving proofs and references to Holy Scripture, it is necessary to take care that any argument is not only borne out by the original, but also bythe Pshitta translation, which alone appeals with any force to a Syrian. In these catechisms the Incarnation is dealt with at considerable length, in very simple and untechnical language. The proofs from the Bible are also given at great length."

The lads in the school at Urmi are very intelligent ; they show considerable love of learning, and make great progress. But the missionaries have to face the great difficulty of trying to make them realise that Christianity is not a matter of books and language only, but a rule for daily life. The power of the Holy Spirit is indeed needed to rouse in these people a deep sense of sin and love of holiness.

A great proclamation has been issued by the Emperor of China against the anti-foreign agitation. After noticing the recent attacks on Mission stations, it continues : “The pro-pagation of the Christian religion by foreign missionaries is protected by treaty and by Imperial edicts issued from time to time to the provincial authorities for the protection of such missionaries ; and for years past the relations which have existed between the Chinese and the foreign missionaries have been those of peace and goodwill. How, then, comes it that several missionary establishments have been burned and destroyed, and all at about the same time? It is indeed strange, nay, even incredible. It is evident that among the perpetrators of these outrages there have been some influential miscreants whose object it has been to plan and to fan an uneasy and dis-contented feeling among the Chinese people, by the circulation of false and alarming rumours, so that they might take advantage of the agitation thereby created to rob and plunder. . . . If strenuous action be not taken to punish these miscreants how shall the majesty and dignity of the law be maintained, and peace and quiet be secured? We therefore command the Go-vernors and Lieut.-Governors Liang, Kiang, Hu-Kwang, Kiang-Pu, Au-Hui, and Hu-Pek that they do without delay issue such orders to the civil and military officials under their respective jurisdiction as may cause the arrest of the leaders of the said riots, their trial, and the infliction upon them of capital punish-ment, as a warning and example to others in future. . . .”   Missionary Intercessions and Thanksgivings. James v. 16.-“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

MISSIONARIES TEACHING. That God would bless them in teaching (1) individuals, (2) classes, (3) congregations, (4) children, (5) the unlettered, (6) the learned, (7) the unbaptized, (8) the faithful, (9) the lapsed. MISSIONARIES IN SACRAMENTS AND RITES. That God would bless them in (1) administering baptism, (2) celebrating the Eucharist, (3) hearing confessions, (4) confirming, (5) ordaining clergy, (6) solemnising matrimony, (7) preparing souls for death, (8) reciting the offices, (9) celebrating funeral rites, (10) consoling the bereaved, (11) exorcising evil spirits, (12) dedicating churches, (13) consecrating offerings for the service of God. MISSIONARY COLLEGES. Intercession for (1) St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, (2) Dorchester, (3) Islington, (4) Warminster, (5) St. Paul's Mission House, Burgh; for those in authority : zeal, wisdom, insight, aptness to teach ; for those learning : guidance as to vocation, perseverance, prayerfulness, illumination of intellect, health of body, soundness of mind. SPECIAL INTERCESSIONS. (1) For God's blessing on the beginning of the Corean Mission, (2) for more priests for Corea, Central Africa, India ; (3) for the opening out of new fields for missionary labour ; (4) for wise and holy bishops for Bloemfontein, Maritzburg, Lebombo ; (5) the formation of the missionary brotherhood at Chota Nagpore. THANKSGIVINGS.

(1) For missionary zeal at home increasing, (2) devotion and zeal of missionaries, (3) the triumph of the Church over Satan, (4) the holy example of devoted men called to their rest.

October. 5. Golden Hill, Staffordshire. 19. Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire. 8. St. James's, Great Yarmouth. 21. Warminster, Wilts. 12. Thurlby-by-Bourne, Lincolnshire. 22. Melksham, Wilts. 18. Westminster Abbey. 26. Upchurch, Kent.