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THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ No. 29, VOL. III.] NOVEMBER 1892. [PRICE Id. ________________________________________ (We regret to say that up to the time of going to press we have received no letter from the Bishop.) Extracts from Letter from the Rev. Mark Napier Trollope. CHEFOO, NORTH CHINA, August 5, 1892. You see I have crossed the water and deserted Corea. I am on my way to spend a month at Niu Ch'wang, in Manchuria, where Mr. Pownall has been since the Bishop returned. The Bishop wanted me to see the place and the people there, and he also thought that I wanted a change. Then, as Bishop and Mrs. Scott are staying here with one or two of their Mission (to escape the terrible summer heat in Pekin), it was suggested that I should get away from Seoul as soon as I could, and get a week or ten days at Chefoo on the way. I doubted whether I should be able to manage this ; but I made a great effort to wind up all the building work in Seoul, and having practically got everything done, I then came down the river to Chemulpó last Saturday in time to catch a China merchant steamer which was leaving for Chefoo early on Sunday morning. I had time to dine with the Bishop (who is much better) and Mr. Davies and the two newly arrived laymen, who are all at Chemulpó, and then went on board, as we were to start early next morning. It is only about thirty hours' run (nearly due west), and we had a lovely passage. The steamer was a good one, with a pleasant Scotchman (from Broughty Ferry) for captain. There were a good many Chinese and a few Coreans on board, but my only companion in the saloon was a friendly and pleasant American from Seoul, whom I knew slightly before. . . . We reached Chefoo about mid-day, and I have been staying, and mean to stay here till August II, when a Japanese steamer will carry me on to Niu Ch'wang, taking Mr. Pownall back to Corea on its return journey. When my month at Niu Ch'wang is up, I expect the Bishop will change places with me, sending me back to Corea in   138 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ the latter part of September ; then we expect Mr. Small back from Canada, just in time to get to Niu Ch'wang before it is frozen up (as it is always for three or four months in the winter), setting the Bishop free to return to Corea for the winter. I look forward to the change immensely. Chefoo is delightful ; it is the summer retreat of most of the Europeans in North China, and nothing can exceed the kindness of my host and hostess. . . . You know they paid us a hurried visit to Corea last year. . . . The air is beautiful, and so is the view out to sea, and the whole place is much more civilised than poor old Corea. There are three or four large hotels and a good many merchants and foreign residents, including Sugden, an old Lancing schoolfellow, who is in the Customs service. Among the visitors I am delighted to find Mr. Hoare, from Ningpo, with whom I made friends on the P. & O. coming out last year. . . . It is a very busy place and full of news, which comes up from Shanghai very quickly. We know about the election almost as soon as you do, as it reaches Shanghai by telegraph. Although there is not much export or import trade, it is a port of call for more than a thousand steamers a year. There are no less than three lines of well-appointed steamers running up the China coast from Shanghai to Tientsin and Niu Ch'wang, with the result that an average of two or three steamers call here daily, to say nothing of occasional boats to Japan and Corea. It is quite a revelation to me to find how advanced this place is ; and how much more forward China is than people imagine. It is the most natural thing in the world to see a smart heavily armed ironclad come steaming into the harbour under the Chinese flag (lately built, probably, by Armstrong), fitted with all the newest inventions and officered and manned entirely by Chinese, except, perhaps, one European engineer. As one thinks of it, poor old Corea seems more old-world and behind the times than ever. Still, I don't think China nearly so nice as Corea, nor are the Chinese nearly such dear people as the Coreans. It seems quite strange to think of this curious little country (only thirty hours from here), so entirely cut off and separate and distinct in every possible way.

Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. A MEETING of about one hundred friends and supporters of the Mission to Corea was held at Hereford, in the College Library, on St. Matthew's Day, September 21st. The Rev. E. C. Corfe gave a most interesting address on the history of Corea, and on   THE MORNING CALM. 139________________________________________ the work being done by the Mission. A collection was made at the close of the meeting, which, when added to fifteen shillings given on that morning at the offertory at the St. John's early celebration, amounted to £9. 18s. 7d. WEM, SALOP. THE members and friends of the “Association of Prayer and Work for Corea” in this town held a meeting in the National Schoolroom on Tuesday evening, September 22. The assistant priest of the parish, who is also a local secre-tary of the Association, presided in the enforced absence, through illness, of the rector. The chairman briefly introduced the Rev. E. C. Corfe, M.A. (brother of the Bishop) to the meeting, assuring him of a very cordial reception, as bearing a family name so honoured by many amongst them. Mr. Corfe then gave a very able, lucid, and most interesting address upon Corea, its history, people, customs, characteristics, and needs. He further detailed the work already undertaken and accomplished by the Bishop and his Mission staff, and spoke of what has yet to be attempted, by God's help, in the future. The large audience listened with unflagging interest to the address ; and a very hearty vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Corfe at the conclusion of the meeting for his kind presence there that night, and for his helpful and encouraging words. There was a special celebration of the Holy Eucharist in the Parish Church on the following morning at 8 A.M., when 23 members were present. The sum of £3 has been handed over to the general fund of the Mission, being the amount of the collections in the church and at the meeting. There are now more than forty members of the Association in Wem parish. Mr. Corfe's visit has certainly done much to deepen the interest and intensify the enthusiasm of many. We look forward to welcoming him again amongst us at no very distant date. We hope other parishes will be equally fortunate in securing his kind co-operation and valuable assistance. We can wish them no happier experience than has been ours in Wem. BERTRAM G. DURRAD, M.A., Local Secretary. On Wednesday, October 5, a gathering of members of the Association and others interested in the Mission took place at Rowancroft, Heavitree, Exeter, at 4. P.M. After a short intro-ductory speech by the Rev. S. H. Berkeley (Vice-President of the Association), Mrs. Johnston, wife of the Commissioner of   140 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Customs at Chemulpó, who has lately returned to England, gave an account of Corea and its people, and of the first plant-ing of our Mission amongst them, which was full of the vividness and interest of personal knowledge of her subject. Her speech, with its earnest testimony to the great work which is being done in laying the foundations of the Mission, the future of which we all have so much at heart, was greatly appreciated by all who heard it ; as was also the delightful collection of Corean articles most kindly brought to Rowancroft and exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Johnston. On October 3, a meeting was held in the parish of St. John's, Clerkenwell, at which the Rev. E. C. Corfe was the speaker. The work of compiling the Association Register is still in progress, Miss Trollope having been unable to complete it, owing to lists not having been yet sent in by all the local secretaries. A full list of the corrections which will be neces-sary in the list of members will appear on the February fly-leaf. M. M. CHAMBERS-HODGETTS, Gen. Sec. Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. October 9, 1892.

first Annual festival of the Missionary Brotherhood. WITH ADDRESS BY FATHER PAGE. THE Feast of St. Michael and All Angels was observed as the first Annual Festival of the Corean Missionary Brotherhood, and at evensong on that day, in the chapel of the Community, Father Page, Superior S.S.J.E., gave an address to the members on the subject of the Religious Life, of which the following is a brief résumé. After speaking of the great pleasure it was to him to come and speak to men who were being trained for service in the Mission-field, and alluding to his own personal acquaintance with almost every part of that vast vineyard, which gave him the advantage of speaking from experience, he went on to say : - "You are called, like the Apostles and like the saints of the Old Testament-called from one work to another, from that which would have been, in the ordinary course of things, your natural occupation, to a higher duty. For most men it is right that they should be content to remain in that state of life to   THE MORNING CALM. 141________________________________________ which God has called them, but for you it would have been wrong, for you have received a call to greater things than these. “For the fulfilment of your vocation training is necessary, as it is for all work, whether it be small or great ; and the higher the work, the longer and more complete the training must be, since in proportion as the work is difficult, the demands made upon the workers are greater. Mission work, as being the highest vocation, demands the absolute surrender of one's whole self, with all one's powers and faculties. It does not require a training of the intellect alone, but a discipline of the whole MONASTERY OF PYO-UN-SA. being ; and it is for this training that you have offered yourselves to this house. “Now it is a very beautiful idea, three or four men living and working together, only they generally can't. It is much easier for women to live together than for men, but there is no real reason why brotherhoods should not in the event be as successful as sisterhoods have been. There is a tremendous strength gained by association in work, only there must be perfect unity, and this is a very difficult thing to gain and retain.   142 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ “There are three especial ways which I would commend to you by which you may train yourselves in the spirit of unity and concord, and so strengthen your own and your brethren's hands : “(i) You must offer yourselves to God's service in the spirit of entire self-surrender ; and be ready to give up your whole selves into His hands to be used for His glory as He may deem most fit. Imitate the Apostles, who followed readily and immediately when Christ called, and whithersoever He went, and accepted the discipline which He saw fit to put upon them. They were not called because they were already trained, for they were mostly rough and untutored peasants, but they were called in order that they might be trained : our Lord said, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.’ They had quite as much to unlearn as to learn: for example, our Lord had to rebuke two of them for imagining that He would have them work according to their own preconceived notions-‘Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.’ You must be equally ready to give up all your own ideas, and submit perfectly and willingly to the guidance of superiors, keeping self entirely in the back-ground. Thus you will be like your own helpers and fellow-workers, the holy angels, whose festival you are keeping, for they know not what self is. “(ii.) There must be a complete discipline of the inner life, and this is best gained by practical subjection to one another, and especially to one's superiors. This is the great advantage of public school or college life, where a boy learns to find his level, and has his angularities rubbed off; and you will find the same help in your life here, which will teach you to see gladly others honoured before yourself, and to put up with the idiosyn-crasies of others. Be ready to suffer rather than to do, and be not only content to do God's will, whatever it be, but rejoice in doing it. “In connection with this, I would recommend to you very earnestly the great practical value of confession as a means of self-discipline and self-knowledge. It is an incalculable help to insight into and mastery over one's inmost self, if it be not merely formal, but real and sincere ; and this is especially true of those, like yourselves, in a religious community, where it becomes almost a necessity. All Christian bodies realise the importance of this great principle. "(iii.) Strive with all your powers to realise the happiness and mutual support of a religious life, and to live up to it. It means, in its most perfect form, a life-long dedication to God's service under three vows, and it is a ‘state,’ just as the married   THE MORNING CALM. 143________________________________________ life is a 'state,' and for one or the other of these two states ‘each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.' The highest life for each man is that to which God calls him ; He gives his vocations as He will, but we may be sure that the life to which He calls us is that in which we shall attain our highest perfection. To you, who have accepted the training of this house, He offers the three vows as a means of freer and more wholehearted service ; by them you are 'separated' to your vocation -separated, not from sin, from which all men are bound to be, but from things which, though harmless in themselves, might mar a perfect service. By them you are ‘bound’ to - “(a) Poverty. This brings freedom from the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, and fosters the right spirit of dependence upon others, and especially upon God. “(b) Chastity. This is the dedication of the body to God, and brings freedom from earthly ties and family considerations. "(c) Obedience. This is the highest, and consequently the most difficult, of the three vows, for it involves the surrender of the will, not, however, to one man, but to the constitution of the Society. It is a help to others as well as to oneself, for it is a terrible hindrance to work abroad if a missionary be unwilling to accept the work and position assigned him ; and, on the other hand, it is an equal help and strength to others, especially to his Bishop, if he readily and ungrudgingly acquiesces in it.”

The Festival of the Brotherhood began with the first even-song of St. Michael, sung in chapel at 7 P.M., on Wednesday the 28th, followed by compline at 9 P.M., at which the Director gave an address on the dangers and responsibilities of a festival. On the feast itself matins was said at 6 A.M., lauds and prime at 7 o'clock; and at 8 o'clock the Brothers made their first corporate communion at a special celebration at St. Michael's Church. The service was fully choral, the music being the “Missa de Angelis,” and the celebrant the Father Director. There were several visitors at the Brotherhood during the day, including one from the Far West, the Rev. G. C. Rafter, Rector of Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A. Evensong was sung at 7 P.M., and compline at 9.30 P.M. The chapel, which owed much to the loving toil of the Brothers, presented a very festal appearance, but we hope for better things still. On the octave, October 6, the Festival concluded with a solemn “Te Deum," sung after evensong, at which the Director had given a very practical and helpful address on the obligations of Praise.   144 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ The hermit Nation. We are permitted by the Editor of the Christian World to copy the following interesting account of a journey in Corea : - “Being only less inaccessible than the sacred preserves of Thibet, the Corean peninsula has a great fascination for Western readers, and we are glad to be able to print some notes of two journeys through that country, undertaken in 1886 and 1888 by Rev. Evan Bryant, who represents the British and Foreign Bible Society at Tien-tsin. Two sea voyages, the first to Shanghai, the second thence to Japan and along the Japanese coast, brought Mr. Bryant to Fusan. But Fusan, though in Corea, was Japanese by right of conquest from 1592 to 1876, and is to all intents and purposes a Japanese city still. The steamship had another 418 miles to go, among the numberless islands and half-known sunken rocks that fringe the mainland and make navigation dangerous, before landing our traveller at Chemulpó, one of the ports which this ‘hermit nation' consented to open for trade in 1882. Mr. Bryant writes as follows : - THE WANING OF BUDDHISM. “According to Chambers's Encyclopædia ‘Chinese Buddhism is the prevailing religion, and its temples and priests are numerous.’ As a fact, the utter absence of Buddhist temples and priests from the cities, towns, and villages through which I passed was very marked. Buddhism was, no doubt, at one time very prevalent in Corea ; but now it is a shrivelled and ever shrivelling quantity. The Government is a despotism, and the people in times past have had little or no inducement to accumulate wealth, to foster art, and to multiply the varied comforts of even Asiatic civilisation. Literature, however, is not wholly neglected there; Confucian, Tauist, and Buddhist books are studied, especially those of the former class. Corean educa-tion is a copy of that which prevails in China, the Chinese classics being the chief text-books in the schools. The name Corea means ‘highly beautiful,’ or ‘high and beautiful’ ; but the name more often used by the natives is Cho-sen, or ‘fresh-ness of the morning.’ Contrast these, the Chinese ‘flowery kingdom’ and ‘great pure kingdom,’ and the Japanese ‘kingdom of the sunrise,’ with the prosaic and egotistic ‘land of the English,’ ‘land of the Irish,’ and ‘land of the Scotch.’ HOME-MADE AND HOME-GROWN.

“From an old acquaintance whom I discovered at Fusan I learned that the Coreans in that neighbourhood are well fed

  THE MORNING CALM. 145________________________________________ and well clad generally, but have no money. They live from hand to mouth. They grow rice and beans of several sorts, which form their staple food. The materials of their clothing they also grow on their own soil, the cotton and silk being woven and wrought into garments at home. Any little surplus of beans they may have they barter for Japanese articles. The natives also eat porpoise and shark flesh, and shark fins form an article of export. PROGRESS OF A COREAN PORT.

“In 1882 Chemulpó comprised only a few poor fishermen’s huts ; but now it has some scores of Japanese houses and shops, several business houses, two Japanese banks, a handsome wood-built Japanese Consulate in Western style, a British Consulate, a German Consulate, and a Chinese Consulate, three public-houses, euphemistically called ‘hotels,’ several Chinese stores full of foreign goods, a Corean Custom House, with a staff of eight foreigners and a host of natives. Merchants and trades-men of various nationalities and crowds of native coolies enliven the streets. A little distance from the settlement I descry a Japanese cemetery, with an extraordinarily large number of graves. Many of the Japanese immigrants come to the place in pursuit of a living without sufficient means to provide them-selves with the needful clothing against the rigours of the winter here. They, therefore, catch severe colds, which lead in many cases to pneumonia or phthisis. Probably cholera and kindred ailments should be added to the list of life-destroyers. A little east of the foreign settlement is a small native town, said to contain three or four thousand people, where a brisk market is being held this morning along both sides of the street. Here are Western calicoes, towels, and matches ; Japanese products not a few ; dried fruit, rice, garlic, small oranges, and tobacco ; fresh and salted fish ; coarse and crude native earthenware ; commonplace crockery ; a few simple bowls, pipes, &c., of brass ; a small variety of iron utensils, of the roughest make, such as knives, hoes, shovels, and tiny ploughshares.

TRAVELLING IN A BOX. “Next morning, shortly after eight, I leave for the capital-the city of Seoul, twenty-seven miles away-with a brother missionary who lives there. Each of us has his sedan-chair-a light, but clumsy and inconvenient box-borne along by four coolies, with a relay of four others. The Chinaman rides high; he has a seat of some kind or another, and his sedan is elevated on the coolies' shoulders. In Corea the traveller has to squat on   146 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ the floor of his box, which is held by the bearers' hands. This road is evidently much used, though it is sometimes little more than a footpath, varied by bogs and quagmires. Traffic is carried on by coolies or porters, by small ponies, and by huge bulls-not bullocks, as in China and Western countries. The coolie's load, which as a rule is cruelly heavy, is fastened on a wooden frame slung across his shoulders and resting on his back. Each of the animals has a double frame slung over its back, with a tremendous load. Along this highway are a good many well-peopled villages ; the houses, which are miserably low and supremely filthy, are all nearly alike in form. A wooden frame is filled in with stone and mud, or mud alone, and a rice-straw thatch extends about two feet all round, to prevent the rain from washing the walls away. Little hamlets and farmers' homesteads dot the country in every direction, surrounded by small paddy fields and smaller garden plots, rice being evidently the staple article of food Ranges of pretty hills flank the high road on either side. On some of these I see clusters of fir-trees; but on most of them there are only the scraggiest and most shrub-like forms." (To be continued). The Spirit of Missions. "THE command to preach the Gospel and the mission to all nations were so given to the Apostles that they must be understood to be binding on the Church also. The injunction to preach the Gospel to all nations of unbelievers had respect not only to the age of the Apostles, but to all ages to come till the end of the world. In the last chapter of St. Matthew, when the Lord says that ‘all power had been given Him in heaven and in earth,’ and com-manded the Apostles to ‘go and preach to all nations,’ He added, ‘and lo, I am with you alway, until the end of the world’ ; which cannot be under-stood as referring to the Apostles only, but to all ; our Saviour bidding all be of good cheer, and promising to be with them. This promise cannot be disjoined from the precept preceding, and it consequently appears that Christ commanded His Church to provide that the Gospel should be preached to unbelievers, after the departure of the Apostles.”-HADRIAN SARAVIA [A.D. 1590]. It is always interesting to hear of one Mission supplying assistance to the work of another, and the following instance is no exception to the rule. When Bishop Knight Bruce, then Bishop of Mashonaland, was in Capetown for the Provincial Synod early in last year, he asked whether there were any Christian Kafirs, belonging to St. Philip's Mission, who would be willing to accompany him in the journey to Mashonaland which he was expecting to take later in the year. Two,   THE MORNING CALM. 147________________________________________ Bernard Mizeki and Charles Makomlani, volunteered to go with the Bishop as his personal attendants, and as interpreters and quasi-catechists, if they should be found competent for such work. Bernard was one of the firstfruits of the Mission (which is that of the Cowley Fathers at Capetown), and was baptized on Septuagesima Sunday, 1886. Charles is a younger Christian, the son of a chief, and was baptized on Christmas Eve, 1889. Both have lived consistent Christian lives ever since. These two started with the Bishop when he set out for Mashonaland in May 1891, together with a third native from Capetown, who had been under the instruction of the Wesleyans, and desired to join the party. When the Bishop left Mashona-land to seek helpers in England for his new diocese, he had already found work for them, and the news of them since then is in every way favourable. “The Bishop,” writes the Rev. J.W. Williams, “has the very best tidings of Bernard and Charlie. They were ready to do anything-even act as porters for miles and weeks and live on hunger, and finally they seem to have developed real powers as catechists, e.g Charlie and the other (the ex-Wesleyan) are left with one chief ; Bernard with another. Bernard was to have had a son of one of the Indunas (the chief's counsellors) to live with him, but the chief said, ‘No, he shall have my son,' which was satisfactory. Moreover, he was made arbitrator in some great cattle dispute, which shows that they gave him confidence." "I have done my utmost this spring to obtain more clergy from England, but at present without much success. The Eastern Provinces of Canada seem to have all they can do to keep up the supply they need for themselves. At the formation of a new diocese, as for new fields of work, it seems to be easy enough to obtain a supply of volunteers, but the difficulty is to keep up the supply when the attraction of novelty is worn off, and other, and perhaps more attractive, fields of work have been opened out. However, I earnestly trust that somehow our number may once again be raised to a measure more adequate to our needs." The following is Father Benson's account of the parish of Moratuwa, in Ceylon :-“Moratuwa," he says, “is a parish entirely self-supporting, except that the Bishop supplies one priest out of three, and they support their own missions to the heathen of the neighbourhood. One place was especially men-   148 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ tioned as yielding now to their missionary influence, although for some time very stubborn and bigoted-the island of Dewa. Everything there is native. The church (a very good church, too, with a tower that would look well in any English village), was designed by a native architect, who had never seen any other tower than the one which he built. The brass eagle was made in the place. The population is about 20,000. Of these 5,000 are Church of England, about the same number Romans. There is a considerable number of Wesleyans, the rest Buddhists." The Diocese of QU'APPELLE is much in need of our prayers just now. After nine years of work, during which the very greatest progress has been made, the Bishop has announced his approaching resignation to the Synod. No better account of the work of this period could be given than that which was given in the resolution made in the Synod at the time: “Nine years ago, when the Bishop first came to this country, there was no church or parsonage, and only one clergyman, who held services at various points on the newly-built railway. The work accomplished since that time is due to the self-sacrificing mis-sionary zeal of the Bishop. An endowment of $50,000 has been raised for the Bishopric, twenty-four churches have already been built, parsonages are found in almost every parish, and for several years past a staff of eighteen clergy has been maintained. In addition to this, St. John's College, the Diocesan Institution at Qu'Appelle, has been built, and has already done useful work in the diocese." Just now, however, things are not so prosperous as they have been. Owing to lack of funds, it will be necessary to close St. John's College and School unless a guarantee fund can be raised to tide over present financial difficulties. Considering the importance of St. John's to the whole Church, and also the fact that St. John's supplies the only religious education for boys in the diocese, it would be hardly possible to over-state the magnitude of such a disaster. Again, the number of clergy in the diocese has become slightly smaller; and as the Bishop says, it is becoming abundantly clear that the western dioceses in the Dominion will have great and increasing difficulty in keeping up a staff of clergy suited to this work. For although of the present clergy, all but four (out of sixteen) were ordained in the diocese, the time has not yet come when the extreme West can supply its own ministry. It is perhaps partly in consequence of this dearth of clergy that the rate of increase of the Church in the   THE MORNING CALM. 149________________________________________ diocese has been less than that of another body; and the Presbyterians are slightly more numerous now than the Church. But three other reasons are given by the Bishop in his Charge : (1) Want of power of united action, (2) want of freedom and elasticity in modes of conducting services, and (3) “There is another thing which I believe to be a very real hindrance. . . . I mean the name of our Church. . . . We may be-we are-the offspring of the Church of England, but we are not, and cannot be, anything within the bounds of Catholic unity but the Church NYANG-BANGS IN COURT DRESS. of the country in which we dwell. But the present name is not only meaningless; it is, I believe, positively harmful. In this country it partakes of the nature of sectarianism, making us one among many ‘denominations’. . . So far as it has any mean-ing at all, it is an attempt like that so successfully made in old times by the Church of Rome, to raise up a mere local Church to a kind of sectional empire within the Catholic Church, which true Catholic principles forbid us to allow. And in new countries such as this, where people from all nationalities are   150 THE MORNING CALM.________________________________________ gathered together, it must be specially detrimental. Why should Scotch, Irish, Americans, Lutherans, Germans, or French be asked in this country to join themselves to a body that calls itself ‘the Church of England’? If it boldly proclaimed itself by its name of the old Catholic Church in this country, neither of Rome nor of England, but of Canada, it would obviously have a claim to demand allegiance from those who desired to walk in the old paths. It has that claim now, doubtless, as we know, but it is disguised from outsiders by the use of a false name." There are, however, many signs of very real success. The number of Communicants has grown steadily, and so quickly that it has more than doubled in the last five years. The number of Con-firmation candidates, too, has increased much; and the work among the Indians goes on steadily. Nothing could be more cheering than this glimpse of work by the Rev. L. Dawson among the Indians of the Saulteaux Reserves, which are within the Diocese of Saskatchewan, but which the Bishop of that diocese cannot reach without great difficulty: “Mr. Dawson was the first missionary to visit these Indians; yet in no case did a single Indian refuse to listen to his teaching. Old chief Yellow Quill came to his tent and listened for some time to the account of Christ’s work on earth. At the end he asked, ‘Why did the Jews kill our Lord ?’ and ‘Why, being God, did He allow Himself to be killed ?' One evening, when sitting in the tent, a number of young and light-headed men were sitting with the missionary, and it did not seem wise, at that time, to speak on religious subjects. Gradually they departed until one tall, fine-looking Saulteaux was left. He suddenly said, 'I have waited these two hours in order to ask you to deliver your message, which I understand has to do with God. He has spoken to me much lately in the woods when hunting.’ Two others came back after two or three conversations, because they wanted to hear the Bible read to them." It is good to hear that the NYASSA Bishopric Fund has re-ceived an anonymous donation of £1,000 ; so that the total amount, either promised or in hand, on September 17 was £7,600, out of the £10,000 required. Peter Limo, one of the converts of the Central African Mission, who has been studying at Dorchester College for three years, returned to Africa on September 10th. He has passed his examination for deacon's orders, and Bishop Smythies will ordain him on his return to Zanzibar.   THE MORNING CALM. 151________________________________________ The Mission Field for September contains an account of the taking possession of their new home by the Dublin University Mission in CHOTA NAGPORE. It is at Hazaribagh, which was formerly a military station of the Government of India. “It was abandoned about ten years ago, and since that time the buildings in this compound have been lying idle. Some time last year it was decided by the authorities to dismantle and demolish these buildings, when Bishop Whitley made an offer to the Indian Government to secure them for the purposes of the Dublin Brotherhood. After fairly considering the proposal, the Indian Government decided to let us have them at a nominal rental of three rupees per annum. In every respect they are most suitable. They are close to the native town, close to the station church, and have a fine open stretch of country on the east and south. Still, of course, we shall be compelled to spend a good deal of money in repairing the buildings in the compound before we can make use of them. We hope to be able to use them, when repaired, for the following purposes : - “The long building on the north-east of the compound is to be the residence of our ‘Dublin Brotherhood.’ We hope to have in it, besides our private rooms, a good-sized dining-room, library, and private chapel. "The long buildings on the south-east will, we hope, one day be used for our native school. "One nice-sized building is already being got ready by the Rev. Dr. Kennedy for a male hospital. Another is being pre-pared for a dispensary.”

Wanted, a Photographer! THE Corean Mission has many friends; it also has many wants. Just now we want a photographer capable of making good lantern slides, so that we might have a set to lend or to use ourselves this winter. To get even a plain slide made by a professional costs eighteenpence. We have many negatives, and if someone who has a little time and experience in slide-making would undertake the operation, will he kindly write to the Rev. Herbert Kelly, 97 Vassall Road, Brixton, S.W.? If any very devoted person would make prints for sale it would give an opportunity of earning money for God's work, to some who perhaps could not afford to give it. In both cases, however, we must remind people that the work, like all God's work, needs to be well done.