Morning Calm v.5 no.49(1894 Jul.)

THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ No. 49, VOL. V.] JULY 1894. [PRICE 1d. ________________________________________ The Bishop's Letters. SEOUL : March 1894.

 DEAR FRIENDS, 

This month will always be memorable for the arrival and distribution of the fount of Chinese type which is intended to play so important a part in our future Mission work. It arrived in 32 boxes, and promised to give us plenty of work for many days. Considering that there were some 3,000 different characters represented in the fount, and that the number of pieces of type amounted to upwards of 100,000, you can form some idea of the difficulty which Mr. Hodge had to deal with in putting each character into its proper case, so that it could be found at once by the compositors. It would have been a difficult task for even a Chinese printer, owing to the peculiar way in which the type was packed. To Mr. Hodge's intelligence, industry, and good-humoured patience we owe it that, in spite of his very slight knowledge of Chinese, all this type, which I feared would take us months to dispose of, was quietly and completely stowed away in less than a fortnight. He first determined on a plan of action, the best way of dealing with such a large and complicated amount of matter. And having determined on this, he carried it out patiently and with-out intermission to the end. Cases had to be made by the carpenter, with partitions or boxes for containing the type ---each character having its own box. There were 140 of these cases, containing 3,360 boxes. Then each box had to be marked with the character which was to be placed in it. Then, and not before, were the blocks of type taken from their packing-cases and handed over to the Corean apprentices to be broken up and distributed. In this part of the work he was ably assisted by his four Coreans, who worked with a will, and were evidently pleased with their task-a task which seemed to bring them into close connection with scholars, though it could not be said that for the most part they could read the characters they were distributing. I had ample opportunities of watching them at this work, and am very much pleased with the way in which it was done. It augured well for the future, and convinced me that   98 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Coreans can do anything in the hands of a capable Englishman who understands and knows how to manage them. By Saturday, the 10th, the printing-house was swept and cleaned and ready for work, which began on the Monday. The 12th of March, therefore, is a date to be remembered by us. On it the printing of our first native book was begun. By the following day Mr. Hodge had got sufficient type together to enable him to "pull" a proof of the first few pages of the tract in Chinese and Corean. And to this occupation we will now leave him for the present. The next piece of news I have for you is that I have made up my mind to send Mr. Trollope to England in the summer for a year, to transact necessary business connected with the Mission. Before our evangelistic work begins in earnest, I feel that someone should inform the Society and our many friends in England what we have been doing for the last four years. Every mail I receive from England shows me how hopeless it is to endeavour to describe our position by means of letters. And both here and at home the Mission is growing, and in some direction or other taking root. In another year I should find it difficult to spare him. Now, however, he has finished his work of editing the tract for us. It will be the text-book of our instruction for years to come. And by the time he returns to us we shall perhaps have spelt some of it out. I know (who knows better?) what we lose in parting with him, even for a year. But I have the satisfaction of knowing also that all my clergy in Corea approve of the step, and, indeed, see the need of it for the benefit of the Mission as clearly as I see it in myself. The date of his departure I do not yet know, but I fully intend him, if possible, to be home long before the Church Congress. I know that you will give him a hearty welcome. Remembering, indeed, the overwhelming nature of your kindness to me in 1889-90, I tell him that he will not have much time to himself. Bishop Scott, who has recovered from the illness which attacked him last winter is, with Mrs. Scott, on his way to England, to return to China in the autumn. They were to have paid us a visit on their road, and so to have given me a much-needed opportunity of consulting the Bishop on matters of importance to both dioceses. As, however, it was under-stood that he could not visit Corea on his way, I determined to meet him at Chefoo. This has taken me away from home during Passiontide-a regrettable but unavoidable circumstance, for the Bishop was not master of his time. Easter falling early this year, comes just after the northern ports are free from   THE MORNING CALM. 99________________________________________ ice. But on no other ground have I occasion to regret my fortnight's absence from Corea. My visit to Chefoo has been most helpful. Some six months ago I sent to Mr. Brown's care (Mr. Brown is one of Mr. Scott's clergy in charge of native and European work in Chefoo) a Chinese servant, a very faithful man, who had been with us in Chemulpó since our arrival there in 1890. He was so faithful that I could think of no better reward for his services than to put him in the way of becoming a Christian. Although he speaks English and Corean, he did not know enough to enable me to give him instruction, while my knowledge of Chinese was too elementary for me to instruct him in his own language. His home is in Chefoo, where he has his wife and child. After a short holiday he went to St. Luke's Hospital, Chefoo, the head-quarters of Mr. Brown's native work, and has ever since been under instruction. The accounts of him which I have received periodically from Mr. Brown have been always most satisfactory. Advantage was taken of Bishop Scott's visit to Chefoo to baptize him and have him confirmed. You may imagine what an added delight this gave to my visit. On Palm Sunday I went to the Chinese Evensong at St. Luke's, and was present when my dear Wang received from his two Chinese sponsors the name of Andrew, and was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." Immedi-ately after he was led up to the Bishop, who spoke some very kind words to him (a few of which only I could understand), and then confirmed him, Veni Creator having just been sung by all the Chinese present, accompanied to the ancient tone by the Chinese organist. It was very delightful after Evensong to see the other Chris-tians welcoming Andrew on coming out of church, each one making him a profound bow. My greeting came last, as I felt that I had now a brother beloved. On Maundy Thursday he made his first communion in the same church, kneeling between one of his sponsors and me, Mr. Brown being the celebrant, and the service, of course, being in Chinese. It was thought wise to anticipate his Easter communion, because on Maundy Thursday he and I were to return to Corea, and both Mr. Brown and I were anxious that Andrew's first commu-nion should be made among his own people and at a service whose language he would understand. His communions in future (which will have to be made in our English churches) will be more edifying, or, I should say, less strange to him. Mrs. Bishop, the great traveller, is with us in Seoul. She   100 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ has come to Corea with the intention of making a journey through the country and across the border into Manchuria. She wrote to ask me if I could supply her with a trustworthy servant, who could speak English, Corean, and Chinese, a com-mission not easy to execute. Indeed, after much thinking, I have found no one so well suited as Andrew, whom I am taking across with me to introduce to her. If she approves he is willing to go; and, as she is a good woman, and will help him daily in his prayers and reading of the Bible, I am very willing that he should go with her. But the journey, like all her journeys, will be full of danger. Now please add Andrew to your prayers for us, and pray for him and for all the matters about which I have written in this letter very earnestly. Pray-ing for all Easter blessings on yourselves, I am, yours affectionately.

• C. J. CORFE.

[We have received the following communication from a friend:-- “Accounts from the English Mission at Seoul have been received up to 22nd April. At that time there was no mention made of any insurrectionary movement or of any growing hostility towards foreigners. The Chinese soldiers who have been asked for by the Corean Government, and who have been sent, will probably soon settle the disturbance, and prevent its extension towards the capital. “The report of progress of the medical work of the Mission is most encouraging. “The Coreans' appreciation of the nursing done by the Sisters is steadily increasing, and the hospitals both at Nak Tong and the women's hospital were full of patients, and both Miss Cooke and Dr. Baldock report a large increase of applicants for admis-sion, and also of out-patients.”]

________________________________________ Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. A SET of twenty-one very beautiful magic-lantern slides has been added to the collection already possessed by the Association. Eleven are excellent views of Seoul and the other Mission stations, taken from photographs in the Association album, including interiors of the Church of the Advent and the Sisters' Chapel. A special interest attaches to the other ten, of which some are coloured, and which are done from pictures of scenes of native life, about which the lady traveller in Corea who   THE MORNING CALM. 101________________________________________brought them home and has generously presented them to Miss Wilson, our Secretary at Salisbury, partly for the service of the Mission, writes as follows: “I hope you will keep the originals, as they are very difficult to get. These were given me by one of the officers (English) of the Japanese Steamer Company running between Japan and the coasts of North China and Corea. He was a man of wide reading and art knowledge, and had cared to find out more than is usually known of the country (Corea) and its past and present. He had been into the interior where possible during his stay in port. He told me he had only been able to find one instance of the village artist left--the man who did these drawings; and because the art is almost wholly lost now (as every other art except the brass vessels has been lost) the Government now set great store by such drawings, and it is very troublesome to get them. If you notice, these have all the Government official stamp in the 'temple' Chinese character, and I valued them because they were theoutcome of a long experience and successful effort on the part of the finder, and always hoped to find them a home with someone who cared for Corea from the Mission standpoint." "What interested us also is the strange difference to the still living art in Japan--probably, like the pottery, derived from Corean prisoners--and the very striking similarity in character of drawing to the drawings of the last Eta chief and his son. Now there are some very strange problems waiting solution by the learned philologists or philosophers, and, amongst others, Where did the Coreans come from ? and, What was the origin of these Eta, who have existed absolutely as a separate nation in Japan for more than 300 years? Some think they were Coreans brought over, either as prisoners or as colonists, so long ago as the Empress Jingo's conquest. I do not know; but any-one can see that people who can draw apparently only by descent of power or tradition, like this last Corean native pro-duct, must have come from a nation that had at one period thoroughly studied anatomy in some form ; the pictures are not only life-like, they are absolutely the people one meets every day; and this same evidence--life study of some unknown gen- ration--is the same in the Eta drawings." The slides are extremely good reproductions of the drawings, and we are sure that in those localities where a meeting is called to exhibit them our friends will gain a vivid idea of the country and the people. The General Secretary will be away from home, and probably out of England, from July 12th to September 1st,   102 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________She would be very grateful if all the July reports could be sent in by the end of the first week in July, (Secretaries in counties provided with county secretaries please note, and post to the county secretaries without delay.) It is requested that all letters requiring an early answer, remittances of money, applications for papers, or for slides or album, &c., and also notices for the Association news in the September Morning Calm, may be sent to Miss Wilson, Ackworth House, Salisbury, who has kindly consented to fill the General Secretary's place during her absence. Letters addressed to the General Secretary will be forwarded to her, but there may be considerable delay in replying to them. The General Secretary would like to take this opportunity--when a small pile of wrappers of returned Reports marked “gone away, no address” is confronting her, and the Army List, Navy List, and Clergy List have all been consulted in vain--to repeat the petition that members of the Association on her own list of those who have no local secretary, when they change their places of residence, will kindly send her a post-card with their new address, and also to thank very heartily those who have done so this year. M. M. CHAMBERS-HODGETTS. Rowancroft, Exeter: June 9th.

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The Society of the Sacred Mission. OLD WANTS AND NEW WANTS.

In the May number of Morning Calm we had to make an appeal, and behold now we are begging again--we are very Sorry, but we cannot help it. Let us restate our case. Four candidates are leaving us at Christmas, and with their departure ceases also the money which has maintained them. If we cannot replace them we shall be involved in serious difficulties, and perhaps have to give up one of our two houses. Five men have offered, just the men it seems to us that the Church needs, and we feel bound for every reason to take them. The Church Times kindly inserted a letter asking for help. A very dear friend has sent us ￡1. No one else has taken any notice at all. Therefore I have told the candidates that we would take them, but some at least will have to continue in their work in order to earn their own living, and they must do what they can in the evenings until God opens to us a way. I think it speaks   THE MORNING CALM. 103________________________________________ volumes for their earnestness that they have accepted. It is not the course we should have preferred, but after all we are not concerned with what we prefer, but with what God permits. If this is God's will, we shall try and obey it. Nevertheless, I do think we ought all to do our best that at least the older ones may be able to commence their studies without having to live this distracted life. Perhaps at first we asked for too much. We will try now to be very humble and say simply that, without diverting subscriptions from anything else (we ought to be very particular about that), if there are any who can help us to raise even one to ￡50 for this next year, we will leave the future to God, and give thanks to Him and to His servants. There is another matter we had to speak of. The Bishop of the Diocese, all difficulties being at length solved, has promised to license our chapel for Celebrations. With this other far greater need still unsatisfied, we hardly like to begin begging for this purpose, but, after all, the necessities of worship must be supplied. Perhaps some who cannot give money might be able to do us some work. If any skilled in Church embroidery, or even in good plain needlework, would write to me I should be glad to send them a list of our requirements. HERBERT KELLY, Director, Society of the Sacred Mission. ________________________________________Jottings from a Journal. (Continued from May.) ON the morning of May 9th we left Kyo-Tong in a junk to go by sea to Yen-an, on the mainland; when we got about half-way we transhipped into a better boat, and arrived at dusk at the mouth of the Pouk-chin-kang River, and began to ascend it slowly towards the port of Yen-an. However, when we had all but arrived we stuck fast on a mud-bank, and despite all our exertions could not get off till morning, and as we had brought no food with us we were obliged to remain fasting for twenty-four hours. In the morning, however, we got off and made for the town to get breakfast, passing on the way the famous-fresh-water lake called the Nam-Tachi ; this we found all overgrown with weeds, and more like a morass, but the water is deep, and if cleared out it would be a fine stretch of water. The lake is three miles long by about a mile and a half wide.   104 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Yen-an is a small town of 550 houses, but it is well walled and possessed of fine gates. The following morning we started off en route for Tchai-ryeng, and slept at a small place called Chong Tan; here it was market day, and the village was decked out with flags and streamers, and there were several tents set up occupied by sorceresses, who were going through their noisy performances, beating cymbals and drums and tambourines all night long. Just before arriving we had to ford a deepish stream ; we were carried over on the shoulders of the aged ferryman, and just as Mr. Hodge was arriving at his destina-tion the man slipped and fell down, depositing his burden head over heels in the water, amidst roars of laughter from Coreans on the opposite bank. However, Mr. Hodge was none the worse, and we soon got into comfortable quarters for the night. The following night we slept at Eup-Chyen, and in the morning set out for Hai-Chou, the capital of the province of Hoang-Hai To. Just as we were nearing Hai-Chou a man with a loaded bull came along and was so careless as to run into our baggage horse and nearly knock it into the ditch. This so enraged our two grooms that they made for the poor man and caned him with their switches very severely, ending up by smashing in his hat. We were very sorry for him, but were quite unable to stop them ; indeed, it was all over before we realised what they were about. Hai-Chou, the residence of the provincial governor, is a very pretty town, surrounded by groves of beautiful trees. We stayed here very comfortably for several days, and left early on Tuesday morning. Close to the city there is a memorial tablet erected to the memory of a faithful dog. The story is that his master was returning from market in an intoxicated condition and lay down on the hill side to sleep. While he slept the grass and bushes around him caught fire, and the dog, seeing the danger, ran to the neighbouring stream and dipped his tail in the water and returned and extinguished the fire by beating it with his wet bushy tail. The man afterwards woke to find his dog dead and the fire extinguished, and so he erected this tablet in grateful recognition of the old dog's services. These memorial tablets are usually raised to commemorate faithful magistrates and outiful children, and it is quite unknown for a dog to have such an honour paid him. This stone is regarded as a great curiosity, and the inscription read by many wondering Coreans. From Hai-Chou we took two days to reach Tchai-ryeng, and there we hired a boat and went up the Kyel-Tong River and into the Tai-Tong River, arriving at Pyeng-Yang on the third day. The city of Pyeng-Yang was in olden days the capital of the   106 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ country, and the ruined walls of the ancient city show that it must have been of a very remarkable size. The modern city is removed about a mile from the old site, and extends down to the water's edge. This town is the second largest in Corea, and the Governor of the province ranks the highest of all the governors of the eight provinces. There are many junks and smaller boats occupied in trading and fishing on this fine river, which is navigable in a northerly direction for a hundred miles above Pyeng-Yang, and in an easterly direction by a tributary for about seventy-five miles. In Pyeng-Yang we heard many dis-quieting rumours about an insurrection which was said to have taken place in Seoul, and we saw one man who said he had just escaped from that city, which he left in the hands of the rebels, who had killed and driven out the foreigners and were parading the streets with guns. Added to this, we met two steamers carrying soldiers from Pyeng-Yang to Seoul, so that it looked as if there must be some truth in the report. I therefore telegraphed to Seoul, and was much relieved to find that there was no truth whatever in the report. Pyeng-Yang is a large place, contain-ing some 10,000 houses, or perhaps rather more, it is famous for the manufacture of a kind of line crepe much prized by Corean dandies, and also for its excellent tobacco, and for its macaroni shops and its dancing girls, who are the pride of the country. From Pyeng-Yang we went overland down to Hoang-Chou, the military capital of the province of Hoang-Hai-To, and the residence of the Pyeng-sa or General Commandant, and from there made a quick journey back to Tchai-ryeng. From this place we struck at right angles to the east over the moun-tains across Hoang-Hai-To, hoping to arrive at the highest navigable point on the Paik-chyen River. The roads were rough and difficult, and we passed many places where foreigners had not previously been seen. It is amusing to hear the grooms rating and scolding their horses if they do not go quick enough, they shower down all sorts of names upon them, calling them "thieves," "butcher fellows," "evil-minding things,” &c., and talk to them just as if they were reasonable beings. The following day we arrived at a small hill village called Kuivin, where there are some very fine caves; one of them is said to run for six miles into the side of the mountain. The caves are full of bones, which are said by the Coreans to be the bones of the numerous oxen which were devoured by a giant who dwelt in the cave many years ago. There is a beautiful stream running through the village, and the boys of the village went and caught us a plentiful supply of cray-fish in return for a small present of   THE MORNING CALM. 107________________________________________ cash. On the road from kuivin we passed a mountain where legend says one of the Emperors of China was born in bygone ages. A little boy in one of the villages gave out in awe-struck tones that we were not inhabitants of the earth at all, but were people who lived in Heaven, and were only on a visit to the earth. Other people wished to examine us to see if we had not got holes through our stomachs, as they have a rooted idea that this is the case with foreigners. I think they were rather disappointed to find this was not so. Others wanted to know if we had ever visited the country where the people had only one eye in the middle of their foreheads, and when we said no, they were in-clined to think that our experience must have been very limited. Near the Paik-chyen River we came across a man who lived at Tong Mak, the small village by the riverside near Seoul, where I have been living for the past few months. He was glad to see us, and spoke in high terms of our good qualities to the villagers, so that we were exceptionally well received. At Cho-po, the highest navigable point of the Paik-chyen River, we took a boat and went down the river for two days and up the Hou-sye-kang tributary, which runs to within ten miles of the city of Song To; here we left the boat and walked into Song To. Song To is an interesting old city, and was in ancient times the capital of the country; it possesses a most interesting old city bell, which is twelve feet high and six feet across and a foot thick. We were shown the site of the old palace at the foot of a neighbouring hill, and various other sites of interest. Here foreigners are not at all an unusual sight, and so we were not persecuted as usual by sight-seers and curious people wishing to question and examine us. On June 5th we started for To-san, a small riverside town in Hoang Hai-To, and on the way paid a visit to a famous monastery among the hills called Ha-chang-sa, which Mr. Trollope had visited in the previous spring. Here they have a wonderful old relic, a book written on some kind of leaves like palm leaves ; possibly they are the leaves of large bamboos; there are eleven leaves in all, and they are covered with Thibetan characters, and the leaves are enclosed in a wooden cover. The book is evidently very old indeed, and they prize it highly, for they refused to part with it, although I tried hard to persuade them to do so, and usually they will part with anything for money. Our road to To-san lay through some lovely valleys and moun-tain gorges; but we were told that the place was impassable in the winter because it was so infested with brigands, who robbed and killed all who passed that way. At To-san we found that   108 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ the water was so low in the river that boats which had come up from lower down were stranded and could not get back, so we went further down to the town of An-hyep, and from thence to Nyen-Chyen, where we found that the navigation was still very difficult, so we decided to go on to Ma-Chyen, where we got a boat and set out down the Im-Chin River. Our progress was very slow indeed, as we were heavily laden with a cargo of earthenware jars, and at Chang-Tan, which is situated about three miles below the little fortress town of Im-Chin, we took another boat, in which we got along much better, and arrived on June 14th at the town of Tong-Chin, on the River Han. Here we hoped to get baggage horses or bulls to take our things, but were disappointed, as the horses were all away, and the bulls all engaged in ploughing the rice fields. So being unable to get on overland, we took to the boat again, and dropped down with the tide to the island of Kang-Hou, resolving to land here and wait for the arrival of a river steamer to take us back. The steamer came in a few hours and we went on board, and arrived in Seoul about 9.30, just before the closing of the city gates. We had made an excellent journey, and had covered a good deal of ground in a short time. One improvement on my last trip was that we obtained letters of credit from a Corean mer- chant, and were so saved from carrying loads of the heavy money about with us. It was much pleasanter travelling in company than alone, and we were enabled to have a celebration of the Holy Communion every Sunday, which was delightful. And now I must finish, begging you to excuse the dryness of the account, and assuring you that, although it may seem to be monotonous from the account, yet the journey was quite the reverse in reality. ________________________________________ The Spirit of Missions. “MEN say to me, not unfrequently, as though expecting to wring an unwil-ling concession, ‘Well, but you must admit that there is much that is true in Mahomedanism, much that is beautiful and unselfish in the teaching of Buddha, or the like. Admit it! Why should not I ? Should I rejoice more in iniquity than in the truth? Should it be a greater satisfaction to me to trace the workings and power of the evil one--prominent and unmistak-able enough in any case-than to discern the inner workings of God's Holy Spirit, not willing to let any who have been created in the image of God wander wholly away into the blackness of error, with no clue no hints, no deeper thoughts by which they may yet return and recognise their true Lord--theirs and ours? Is it on to the blots and falseness of their system that the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus will most easily fit, and by means of which   THE MORNING CALM. 109________________________________________ they will most easily recognise Him as their alone true Lord and Saviour, or rather on to whatever there is in it of higher thought, of dim anticipation, of ‘unconscious prophecies,’ of seeking after God if haply they might feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us? Surely the most generous and sympathetic line of approach, as it is by all laws of human nature and of grace the most likely to be successful, is also the truest in itself and the worthiest of our Faith.”—The Rev. G. A. Lefray in – Mahome-danism, its Strength and weakness." ________________________________________ Those who were able to be present at the Missionary Conference of the Anglican Communion, or who have followed its proceedings in the newspapers, will readily bear testimony to its great value as a means of kindling missionary zeal; and it is to be hoped that the papers and discussion may be of very real value to missionaries and workers at home by supplying guidance as to ways and methods of working. Although the attendance was not all that might have been looked for, nothing was more remarkable than the keen interest with which the questions under consideration were followed ; and the high note struck by the Bishop of Durham in his opening sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral on May 28th made the week a week of prayer to very many, while the solemn words in which the Bishop of St. Andrew's closed the last meeting will live long in the hearts of all who were present to hear them. ________________________________________

We give below Mr. Travers' account of the death of Bishop Smythies :-- “Bishop Smythies returned from Magila, where he had been spending Holy Week and Easter, on April 3rd. While there he had worked very hard, taking a Retreat, the Three Hours' Service on Good Friday, ordaining Mr. Gerrish on Easter Eve, and celebrating and preaching on Easter Day. This was evidently more than he was fit for, for in the afternoon of Easter Day he was taken ill, and was in bed for some days with fever. “When he arrived in Zanzibar he was jaded and worn, but not more than was to be expected after his hard work and subsequent illness at Magila. He went, however, to Kiungani, and threw himself at once into the routine of work-Celebrations, classes, interviews, revising Swahili publications, visiting the other stations, and giving addresses daily, &c., &c. At times the Bishop spoke of feeling fatigued by his work, and he had to abandon a Retreat and a Quiet Day which he had arranged to take. On Sunday, April 8th, he celebrated at Kiungani at 7, and   110 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ preached there, and at the Cathedral at the English Evensong at 4.45. On the 10th the Bishop gave what proved to be his last address. It was at the Nurses' Guild service, postponed from the previous day. “On the 14th he said that he was not feeling well, and went to bed with fever, and the next day was taken to the hospital at Mkunazini, where he remained till he left by the French mail on May 4th. During the whole three weeks the fever never left him, and the exceptional heat tried him severely. He was able, however, to walk downstairs to the hammock in which he was carried to the boat, and to climb up the ship's side. Taking

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leave of his friends on board exhausted him greatly, but even then no one imagined they were taking a final leave, not even the Bishop himself. Some, indeed, thought that he would be able to return from Suez or Port Said without going on to England. “From this time everything seemed to be too great an effort to the Bishop, even the exertion of holding a book to read, and he complained of the pain it caused him to be unable to compose himself to say his offices and prayers as was his wont. All through the 5th he was very restless, sleeping and waking by turns, and continually shifting from his berth to his   THE MORNING CALM. 111________________________________________ couch just outside. On Sunday, the 6th, he was no better, but was able to give the Absolution at Evensong, which Mr. Travers said with him. In the evening he was moved to a more airy cabin, but later on he looked so much worse that the ship's doctor was called in and did all that medical skill could do to bring down his temperature, but any success in that direction was only temporary, and at an early hour in the morning all hopes were abandoned. At 6.30 Mr. Travers celebrated, and the Bishop was intermittently conscious when he began, but when he approached to communicate him, and said, ‘Bishop, the Blessed Sacrament,’ he smiled sweetly, and received It in a way that showed that he knew and felt what was taking place. After this the end came quickly. At first there was a loud, harsh breathing, but presently that ceased and his breath came calmly and easily for the last half-hour, and at 9.30 A.M. exactly the Bishop's spirit fled. “Had the steamer been one day nearer Aden it might have been possible to bury him there. However, being three days out, this was out of the question, and so at sunset, robed in his white cassock and purple cincture, with his hands folded over a little crucifix upon his breast, the Bishop's body, covered with the English flag, was borne by eight sailors, followed by the few English on board, to the ship's side, and committed to the deep by Mr. Travers with the solemn words of the English Burial Office-- “ ‘ The sea is His, and He made it. ’ ”

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“The strongest church in the United States is probably at Old Chief's Village, Red Lake, where the Rev. Mr. Willis, assisted by the Rev. Mark Hart (a native clergyman), is labouring. There almost the entire adult population are communicants. Before 1878 there was not one; nor, with the exception of the old Chief and his brother, one who had ever seen a Christian church. All in the place were utter heathen, and they came over to us in a body. Has there been a similar instance in our country?—Minnesota Missionary, quoted in New York Spirit of Missions.