Morning Calm v.5 no.46(1894 Apr.)

THE MORNING CALM. No. 46, VOL. V.] APRIL 1894. [PRICE 1d. Lumen ad Revelationem Gentium. THE following is the Tract to which the Bishop alluded in his monthly letter to Morning Calm (published December 1893), and which may possibly prove interesting to our readers: — LUMEN AD REVELATIONEM GENTIUM. 1. Introduction:— 1. Acts xvii. 24-31. †N.B.—This paragraph is composed almost entirely of words and phrases from the first four verses of St. Luke's Gospel. †2. Of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach (Acts i. 1.), many were from the beginning eyewitnesses, and having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, that we might know the certainty of these things, they set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us. (St. Luke i. 1, 2, 3, 4).

• N.B.—The portion within brackets not to be translated.
• [Now although you cannot examine all these writings, yet we have formed a compilation therefrom and composed this tract, and deliver it to you, to help you in the study of these matters.]

2. Annunciation. 3. St. John xv. 30, 31. St. Luke i. 26-38 (beginning at “The Angel Gabriel").

3. Nativity. 1. St. Matthew i. 18-25. 2. St. Luke ii. 1-21 (omitting v. 2).

4. Epiphany. St. Matthew ii. 1-12

5. Baptism. St. Mark i. 4, 5, 7-11, and St. Luke iii. 23 (as far as "age").

6. Temptation. St. Matthew iv. 1-11.

7. Ministry. 1. St. Luke iv. 14-22 (as far as “mouth”). 2. St. Matthew iv. 23, 24. 3. St. Matthew v. I-12. 4. St. Matthew vii. 28, 29. 5. St. Matthew x. 1-4 (Call of Apostles). 6. St. Matthew xi. 1-6 (Question of Baptism). 7. St. Matthew xvi. 13-27. (Confession of St. Peter, &c.) 8. St. Matthew xvii. 1-9 (Transfiguration).   LUMEN AD REVELATIONEM GENTIUM—continued. 9. St. John xi. 45-48, and 53, 54 (omit “came to Mary and" in v. 45). 10. St. Luke ix. 51. 11. St. Mark x. 32-34.

8. Passion. 1. St. Mark xi. 1-19 (omit 12, 13, 14). 2. St. Matthew xxvi. 3. St. Matthew xxvii. 1-5, 11-46, 50-54.

9. Burial. St. Matthew xxvii. 57-66.

10. Resurrection. 1. St Matthew xxviii. 1-10. 2. St. John xx. 19-23. 3. St. Matthew xxviii. 16-20.

11. Ascension. Acts i. 2-5 and 8-12, beginning thus, “To the Apostles whom He had chosen, Jesus showed Himself," &c.

12. Pentecost. Acts ii. 1-8, 14, 22-24, 32, 33, and 36 to 47.

13. Acts of Apostles. 1. St. Mark xvi. 20. 2. Acts iv. 33. 3. Acts v. 12-16 (omit last part of v. 12, and 13, 14). 4. Acts x. 34-43.

14. Conclusion 1. Hebrews ii. 1, 3, 4. 2. 2 Cor. v. 10, and 2 Thess. i. 7-10, beginning “When the Lord Jesus," &c. 3. 2 St. Peter iii. 9, beginning thus, “But the Lord is not willing,” &c. 4. 1 Tim. ii. 3, 4, beginning thus, “For God our Saviour will have all men," &c. 5. St. John iii. 16.

Instructions to those who are engaged in the translation of the enclosed Tract. 1. Each Clerical member of the Mission is to be translator, and to work with the assistance of his teacher, who may be allowed to dictate to him. 2. The rough copy of the En Mour translation is to be in the handwriting of the translator. From this, a fair copy will be made in the handwriting either of the teacher or translator. 3. The teacher is not to be allowed the use of the New Testament, except in the presence of the translator, and then only for the purpose of assisting him in the particular passage under translation. 4. The translator is to be careful to look out, both in the Chinese and Corean dictionaries, all characters and words unknown to him, before accepting them from the teacher as the equivalent of the words in the English or Greek New Testament. 5. All disputed questions relative to the rendering of words and phrases are to be left open, so that if a translator has reason to doubt the accuracy of his teacher, he will accept the teacher's rendering, and note his objection together with his own amendment. 6. The Rev. M. N. Trollope has been appointed Revising Editor by the Bishop,   and to him each portion on its completion is to be remitted by the translator under a separate cover, so marked as to clearly indicate its contents. Instructions to the Editor. 1. The Editor is to inform each translator by what date he wishes to receive any given portion, so that the work may proceed continuously and, so far as is possible, at a constant daily rate of speed. 2. The translations of each portion, when received, are not to be opened by him until he has concluded his own rendering. He is then to collate the various translations with the Bishop's, and to report to him the result. N.B.—The Chinese version to be used in translation is that known as the “Delegates Version."

• C. J. CORFE.

CHEMULPHÓ, August 10, 1893. Note. We have had several applications for the first number of Morning Calm (July, 1890) from subscribers wishing to complete the first volume. Can any reader who has a spare copy help us? Copies may be sent to the Editor, 125 Vassall Road, S.W. Remittances by Postal Orders. BEING an honorary secretary of one of the Funds in connection with the Corean Mission, I feel sure that my brother officers will heartily join me in my request to friends who kindly send us contributions by post. Postal Orders are very convenient for remitting a few shillings as well as a few pounds, but there have been a number of these (not any of ours, I hope) stolen in passing through the post. The loss is easily guarded against by the sender simply crossing the Order like a Banker's Cheque, as below. If the money is not acknowledged at the proper time in Morning Calm the sender may conclude that it has miscarried, but will not be paid to the thief. J. B. HARBORD, Hon. Sec. H.N.F. & Co. Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. The record of the past month tells of large and most successful meetings at Hereford and at Tenby. We have not space to give any such full account of the proceedings at the latter place as they deserve. In the afternoon of February 20th a drawing-  room meeting, attended by about 100 people, was held at the house of the Local Secretary, Mrs. Elliot, at which Admiral Elliot presided, and the Rev. L. J. T. Darwall delivered a lecture on Corea, which, as well as Mrs. Elliot's most kind hospitality, seems to have been very much appreciated. A lady and gentleman in Corean dress assisted at the meeting. On the evening of the same day a large public meeting was held in the Royal Naval Reserve Drill Hall, with the Mayor in the chair. Mr. Darwall again lectured on Corea, with the help of a magic lantern, to a large audience—including many Naval Reserve and Coastguard men. We are most grateful to Admiral and Mrs. Elliot, and to Mr. Darwall, and all who helped to make these meetings so great a success. The total financial result was £14. 10s. profit to the Mission. On February 27th Mr. Darwall again lectured for Corea at Stockton Heath, in Cheshire. The following report has been received from our Local Secretary at Hereford:—"On Monday evening, February 12th, at the Corn Exchange, Hereford, the Rev. Edward Corfe gave a very interesting account of Corea and its people, and the missionary work now begun by Bishop Corfe and his fellow-workers in that distant land. The lecture was illustrated by a series of slides which were exhibited, with a magnificent magic lantern, by Mr. Horth, who kindly gave up his valuable time in order to show his interest in this Mission. The room, which is a large one, was filled to the doors, the prices of admission being 1s., 6d., and 3d. Some friends of the Mission who were not able to attend the lecture sent generous donations. Altogether £11. 12s. 3d. was taken, and after expenses were paid £7. 8s. 1d. remained to be sent to the General Secretary.” We will only add our warmest thanks to Mrs. J. R. G. Taylor for all she did to bring about so successful an undertaking. Only one change takes place in our list of Secretaries this month, Mr. W. Denley, Local Secretary for Chittlehampton, having been removed, as he is leaving the neighbourhood; his post is filled at once, we are glad to say, by Miss F. Vickery, of Chittlehampton. We are glad to report that a large working party, organised by Mrs. Ommanney and Miss MacEwan, at St. Michael's, Southsea, is devoting its labours to Corea, and also that there are rumours of another sale at Great Yarmouth in April or May. M. M. CHAMBERS HODGETTS, General Secretary. Exeter: March 9th.   St. Peter's Community Foreign Mission Association. We have to report the arrival of the stove and snow-boots at St. Peter's Mission House, Seoul, early in January. The stove is considered a great success by the Sisters, enabling them to keep up the temperature of the Community-Room to between 50 and 60 degrees, at the same time effecting an economy in fuel. Sister Nora writes: "The stove is put up and is most charming, looks well, and keeps the room warm all over." The snow-boots are also a great comfort, especially to the Sisters who go constantly to and from the Mission House to the Women's Hospital. They slip them over their house shoes, and they come off in true Corean fashion when they enter the paper-carpeted wards. Nurse W. writes from Nak Tong on January 7:—"Nothing could be better or more useful in this country than the beautiful snow-shoes. We have just had a very heavy snowstorm, so Sister M. came here yesterday in hers, and I put mine on and went out with her, and this morning went to church in them. It was a comfort to arrive with warm, dry feet, which certainly I should not have done in ordinary boots, for the roads are very bad, and when I came back the roads were almost like a running stream. It is bitterly cold here now.... I am so glad to be really at work, and cannot help feeling what a great privilege it is to be one of the first to work in a ward for sick men. The patients are all very nice, and we have two dear little boys, one of whom I do not think will live many days." The General Secretary would be glad if those members who usually send in their subscriptions before Easter, and have not done so this year, would let her have them as soon as convenient. £50 was remitted to Sister Nora in January, and it is hoped that the funds at the bank will soon allow of another £50 being sent to Seoul. ANNA GRAHAM, General Secretary. Correspondence. KAP-KOT-CHI VILLAGE, ISLAND OF KANG-HOA, COREA. MY DEAR MR. EDITOR, I have a dim sort of foreboding that there have been very few contributions sent you of late by members of the Mission. With the exception of the Bishop, who has sent you his letter month by month with machine-like regularity, the whole staff  has been very remiss in the matter of contributions to Morning Calm. Force of circumstances has combined to keep the Bishop at Chemulpó, which is not at all a favourable place for seeing much of Coreans, or for learning more of their habits and characteristics, but despite of this disadvantage he has put the rest of us to the blush over and over again by his regular contribution. However, perhaps it is as well for us that he sets us such a high standard in this, as in all other matters, for it should help to keep us up to the mark, and act as a reproach to our laziness. Not having anything very interesting to describe, I thought that perhaps some few of your readers might like to have some little account of the Mission station recently opened on the Island of Kang-Hoa, which the Bishop has given me the charge of. Kang-Hoa, as many will be aware, is a largish island, about thirty miles long by twenty miles broad, situated near the mouth of the Han river, distant about forty miles from Seoul, and about twenty from Chemulpó by water. The village which we have chosen for our station temporarily is called Kap-kot-chi, a small place with about a hundred houses. This village is a place of call for steamers running between Seoul and Chemulpó, and it is here that the King intends to place his new Royal Naval College, of which we have been hearing a good deal lately. The students are now arriving daily in batches of about half a dozen. There are to be fifty in all, and the Government is enlisting sailors already. The houses for the instructors and the storehouses are already built, the latter being plentifully stocked with native cannon of various sizes and shapes, and of the most antiquated manufacture. What use the King supposes a European instructor will make of such weapons I do not know. I am also told that another storehouse is filled with bows and arrows, which still hold a place in the Corean's notion of warfare; but as the place is kept under lock and key, I have been unable to verify this report. I don't know when the instructors are coming, but I know that it will be a dismal surprise to them to see the houses which have been prepared for them, which are not very comfortable; they will, however, have an unexpected surprise of another nature, in being provided with a chaplain, for whoever is resident here will be bound to do what he can for the spiritual interests of his fellow-countrymen. On arriving at the village, I took up my quarters at the inn, which was more worthy of the title of "Beerhouse," I think; but it was the only one in the place, and there for a fortnight or so I existed. The flies were a terrible plague, and the neighbouring piggeries were   barely endurable during the exceedingly hot weather; food also was hard to obtain, and I had no bed; but all things have an end, and I got out of this experience, a great deal of the hardship of which was due to my own want of forethought, with nothing worse than a disordered stomach, which, however, did not trouble me for very long. The end of it all was that I succeeded in renting a house for half a year, at the cost of thirty dollars, or about £4 sterling. The house is situated on the river bank, and has three rooms and a covered verandah, with a kitchen and outhouse; at the side of it there is also a small patch of garden, which is at present looking very bright with China asters planted by the previous occupier. The place was naturally in a dirty condition and needed setting in order and re-papering throughout, while the roof needed re-thatching in parts; this entailed another disbursement of about £4, and then the place was made really very habitable and comfortable. I do not think it is central enough for a permanent Mission station, but it is the right place to have selected for a beginning, and, if the Naval College succeeds, may rise to be a place of some importance in the country. My work here is to do my share with my teacher towards the translation of our first book, which we hope to finish by the end of the year. The book consists of some three hundred and seventy verses of Holy Scripture, in which the Life of our Blessed Lord is plainly set forth, and it is to form the basis for our preaching, which we hope to begin next year. I have also leave to explain the meaning of the translation to any who may wish to hear, and, generally, to try and get a hold on the people. I had not been established here many days before I was called in to see a little infant girl who was in violent convulsions, the result of having eaten a whole vegetable marrow raw. I soon saw that she was dying, and after having tried to ease her pain by hot applications to the stomach, I asked the parents if they had any objection to my pouring a little clean water on the child's forehead, explaining at the same time that such was the custom in England, and that even though she did not get better, yet that the act would be beneficial to her after death; so having obtained their willing consent, I made what few reverent preparations I could, and administered the sacrament of baptism to the child, calling her Maria, the native form of the name Mary. Shortly after this had been accomplished, our first little Christian on the Island of Kang-Hoa went home, to find what an inexpressible benefit she had received from what was outwardly so small and insignificant an act, and to form one of the throng of the redeemed gathered from out of every nation.   My teacher is a man who came to us from the Hoang-Hai-To province at the beginning of the year, inquiring after the truths of Christianity, and the translation work which we do together helps to answer a great many of his inquiries. He is an earnest man, and looks forward to being an evangelist in the future, and, owing to the fact that he is a very good scholar and exceptionally steady, I think this is not an unlikely future for him. He is very anxious to be baptized as soon as he has learned enough, and he has a deep sense of sin, which is quite remarkable. He often says that he wants "a new heart," and looks forward to baptism to wash away his past sins. He found out for himself a good deal about the necessity of confession of sin and about the efficacy of the baptismal washing, and I think we have got hold of a remarkable character. However, time will show us whether he is truly in earnest or not, and we must be prepared for disappointment. I have many friends in the village, and they are not badly disposed towards Christianity, though in no wise anxious to learn. Many of the students in the new Naval College, however, come to see me, and claim my services as a right, to teach them something of the rudiments of English. This, however, I am not very enthusiastic about, as I have found that a knowledge of English often proves detrimental to the trustworthiness of a Corean. This may be prejudice, but I have not seen many favourable specimens of English-speaking Coreans. However, in the case of those at the Royal College, they are learning for a definite purpose, and certainly could not get on without it. The other day the Governor of the island arrived from Seoul. He is a nobleman of very high rank, and a relative of the Queen. The little river steamer brought him, and, contrary to custom, anchored alongside of the village. All the retainers of the Governor were drawn up on the bank, together with two hundred troops in uniform, and with fixed bayonets; the officials who came to greet him were in full dress, i.e., in black silk gowns with scarlet sleeves, and looked like so many Doctors of Divinity. The Governor was met by his private barge, and rowed to the shore; on his landing there was an attempt to let off some fireworks, but only one cracker went off; the rest fizzed away dismally and made no report; but it is only fair to say that this was the only fiasco in the reception, for the rest of the function was really well carried out. After landing, the Governor was placed in an open chair, seated on a leopard skin, and eight trumpeters with long shawms marched   in front of him, clad in yellow and blue uniforms. The first thing the Governor did was to go and inspect the Royal School buildings, and I understand he expressed himself very well satisfied; but then he looks at things from a Corean standpoint only, and I fear the European instructors will not share his satisfaction entirely. The days pass away here very uneventfully, and do not bring much that is out of the common, or worth relating. The Bishop made a journey up to Seoul in a sampan the other day, and called here on his way for a few hours, in which time he was just able to view the house and situation; but as it was night, he could not get a very clear idea of things. When I have anything worth writing about I will let you have another letter, but I feel so ashamed of having spun the present one out to such a length, that I don't think I shall have the assurance to write again just yet. Yours faithfully, L. O. WARNER. The Spirit of Missions. "IF asked where I have seen the greatest faith, I think I should say, In some of the Indian men and women whom I have known, some of whom are now waiting for me in Paradise. Two years ago at White Earth the locusts came. Sometimes they sweep everything off in one day. A poor Indian woman had a little garden which was her all; one day the locusts came: she went out and knelt down in the garden and prayed; then she took her broom and fought locusts, for she believed in work as well as prayer; then she would pray again, and this was her prayer: ‘Oh, Lord Jesus, Thou knowest how much I love Thee, I am a poor widow woman and have nothing to live on but this garden; do, do drive off these devil's lice!’ All other fields were destroyed, but hers was saved…. I have been overpaid ten thousand fold by the blessed rewards that have come to me in the work. There is no failure in Christian work; the only failure is in not doing it."—Bishop Whippli, at Mohonk Conference. On Sunday, March 4th, in Lambeth Palace Chapel, the Rev. H. Evington was consecrated Bishop for Kiushiu, Japan, and the Rev. H. Tugwell to succeed Bishop Hill in Western Equatorial Africa. Information has now been received of the circumstances of the death of Bishop and Mrs. Hill; indeed, Mr. Tugwell, as well as Bishop Phillips, was present at the time. Both the Bishop and his wife died of the terrible blackwater fever, within a few hours of each other, on January 5th; and they were buried together. "It was most touching," writes the   Rev. J. Vernall, “to see the two coffins lying side-by-side in the same open grave. It seemed to bring us very near to the eternal realities of the other world." The following is enough to show that Bishop Carter of Zululand has very little time on his hands. “The Bishop," writes a correspondent to the Southern Cross, “has at length returned to Eshowe. Like the rest of his episcopal brethren at the Cape, he is travelling chiefly on horseback most of the year, traversing all parts of his huge diocese. The life of a Missionary Bishop is evidently no bed of roses, combined as it is with much unrest, many physical discomforts, some personal dangers, and little time for spiritual and mental culture. He had only just returned home from a long journey into Swaziland, chiefly made for the purpose of visiting the Rey. R. Robertson, who was incapacitated for work by sickness, when he had to start off again for Grahamstown to attend the meeting of the Provincial Synod and the double consecration of the Cathedral Chancel and the Bishop of Lebombo. After these events were over, duty did not allow him to return home at once; but he had to make his way via Maritzburg and Dundee to S. Augustine's, Rorke's Drift. Here the Rev. C. Johnson had plenty of work for him to do, in the shape of two confirmations and the dedication of a school-church at one of his numerous outstations. Nondweni had to be visited next, for another confirmation, when four adult Europeans were presented. Then intervened a week's rest, which the Bishop enjoyed, though not altogether in perfect quiet, at Isandhlwana. Then Nondweni had to be visited again, though this time for a secular event, viz., the opening, by Mrs. Addison, the wife of the Resident Magistrate, of the Ngutu District, of the Enterprise Syndicate's Battery. This event, long delayed, attracted to the spot most of the inhabitants of Vryheid, who were chiefly interested in the concern, and Nondweni was quite en fete for the occasion. As this is not an item of 'ecclesiastical intelligence,' our readers will not care to be troubled with details, so we will only just note this: that the good Bishop was not averse to descending the Enterprise shaft, thereby catching a cold, we believe! There may be some people, perhaps, who would think that the presence of a Bishop on such an occasion was entirely uncalled for and inexpedient; but there exists, we fully believe, a large number whose mental vision is not so cramped and short, who would agree that the Church ought not to stand altogether   aloof on such occasions, but should rather seek, by the presence of one of her chief pastors, to sanctify and hallow all the researches and undertakings of men which are not positively mischievous and wrong. “Vrijheid next summoned his presence, though we are sorry to hear that, owing to the heavy rains, his visit was a fruitless one, at least as regards the object for which he went there. The Rev. J. Morris has, we regret to state, been

[사진] ST. PETER'S CHAPEL (FOR THE SISTERS), BEHIND THE EAST END OF THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT.

obliged to give up his work in Swaziland (the mission station is situated close to the border), as the climate does not suit him. He has been down with fever repeatedly during the past year, which has proved fatal to a very large number of natives. So it was arranged that on Advent Sunday he should be instituted to the charge of Vrijheid. But swollen rivers upset men's calculations, and have prevented his arrival up to the time of writing." The Bishop of Lahore, on Sunday, December 17, held an ordination at Baitul Masih, or Christ Church, Amritsar, at   which the Rev. John Williams, of Tank, was admitted to the priesthood. Mr. Williams is the descendant of converts baptized by S. Francis Xavier in the sixteenth century. His father's original name was Pedro. This was changed to Williams when he left the Roman communion for the Church of England. Mr. Williams, senior, left his home at Patna and settled as a farmer at the Christian village of Basharalpur, near Gorakhpur, where his children were brought up. His son John was trained to be an army apothecary, and, for some tiine, was in charge of a Sikh regiment at Benares. When the regiment was sent to Lahore to be disbanded, Mr. Williams accepted medical service on the frontier, and was stationed at Dera Ismail Khan. There he was met in 1862 by Mr. (the late Bishop) French, who prevailed upon him to take up missionary work under the C.M.S. In 1868 Mr. Williams was sent to the isolated outpost of Tank to found a medical mission for the benefit of the frontier tribes, and there he has steadily worked for the last twenty-five years, being ordained deacon in 1873. The tribesmen, at least on one occasion, have shown their regard for Mr. Williams by sparing his dispensary when they looted the rest of Tank; and many of them have learned something of Christianity, but owing to their lawless fanaticism the life of a convert is in peril, and one lately baptized was terrorised till he recanted. There is, however, a little Christian flock in Tank, due to immigration, and to these Mr. Williams will now be able to minister the Sacraments. The prayers of Christians in easier surroundings may well be asked and given for him and his work. Nothing could be more delightful than the following account, by the Rev. J. E. Hine, M.D., of his work at a new station at Unangu, fifty miles east of Lake Nyasa. He has set to, with all the vigour that comes of high zeal and splendid mental powers, upon the most elementary work,—bargaining, collecting materials, building, healing, learning a new language, and moreover teaching everything, from the alphabet to the Faith. Here is his account of the school:— "I have started (under a very Elementary Education Act) an infant school, and sit for an hour or so every morning, with a piece of a boxlid for a blackboard, and a bit of chalk, teaching some twenty little boys the alphabet. It strikes me more and more what a detestable thing the alphabet is, each letter   having at least four different forms. You no sooner get them accustomed to 'A' than you have to introduce 'a,' and, having got that, then comes 'A' and 'a' till one feels quite ashamed at having to bring up such a monstrous regiment of ‘a's.' However, we have reached 'K' to-day triumphantly, and some of the boys actually remember next day what they were taught the day before! We finish up with a sort of choral performance, in which we go up and down the gamut, from A to K, which always ends in a loud shriek of laughter, as being an excellent joke. “Then I try a little religious instruction, reading first Bible stories out of a Yao lesson-book. I read a sentence, and then all the boy's repeat it after me. This is not quite a success, for if I try to question them on the subject-matter, they only repeat my question, and whatever I say, they say. Thus, yesterday, having read to them about the Creation, and Adam and Eve, I asked them in the best Yao available, ‘Who made the world?' The boys all echoed, 'Who made the world?’ “I then said, 'Don't repeat my words, but answer me.' “The Boys (all together): ‘Don't repeat my words, but answer me.' “Teacher: 'I want you to tell me who made the world.' “Boys: ‘I want you to tell me,' &c. “Teacher: 'No, don't say my words.' “Boys: 'No, don't say my words.' “Teacher (getting impatient and lapsing into English): ‘Oh, you sillies!’ "Boys: 'Oh, oo 'illies!' (Loud laughter.) “One does not seem to get much forwarder by this plan. However, by-and-by we shall hope to do better. “I find it rather hard to get any hold of the Yao language yet. I have not sufficiently purged my memory of Chinyanja, and having to speak Swahili more or less also complicates the matter. When one has only one language one can do something. But having a fragmentary knowledge of three makes it difficult to speak any one of them correctly. I have to speak to Lewis and Wallace—the two Likoma boys who came with us—in Chinyanja. Simeon, the cook, having been at Kiungani, is addressed in a mixture of Swahili and Chinyanja. The general public outside get a few Yao words and sentences and a good deal of Swahili, with a general pervading influence of Chinyanja also, when the required word is not forthcoming in either of the other two languages. The wonder is that they all seem to   understand, which says much for the intellectual capacity of the native." The following, from the account of the tour of the Bishop of New Westminster in autumn of last year, shows rather a dark side of the life of a young Colony:— "After five days spent in Nelson, the Bishop, with Mrs. Sillitoe and the Rev. H. Akehurst, started to visit other points on Kootenay Lake. Numerically these ‘points’ are many, for the real estate 'fiend' has blocked out town sites every few miles, without regard to anything but his own aggrandisement; a feat in which he is only too successful, for it is no exaggeration to say that one-tenth of the money sunk by the unwary investor in those embryo cities that will never be born could have accomplished such a development of mineral resources of the district as would have advanced by many years the prosperity both of the country and of the investors themselves. There are, for example, largely advertised 'towns' on the lake which consist of a shack and a tent or two. There are ‘towns' where, instead of new buildings going up, the existing buildings are being torn down to be removed elsewhere. And yet the maps of these 'towns’ are to be seen posted in every real estate office throughout the land, and lots are being sold at prices which will certainly never be warranted during the present century. It is waste of breath, probably, to preach caution to the man to whom the hope is held out of cent. per cent. on the purchase of a ‘town lot,’ but it would be largely in his interest if a fee, say of $1,000, were required for the registration of a map of a new town site. Such a fee would have relieved the country of most of the ‘bogus' township sites that exist, and would have saved many thousands of dollars to the pockets of a too confiding public.” It will readily be understood that such a state of things as that described by the Missionary Bishop of WESTERN TEXAS, in the following letter, if it presses upon ordinary every-day life, presses even more grievously upon the work of the Church in that land:— “I have just struck the railroad and the daily papers after a journey of three weeks over 300 miles in a buggy on the dustiest roads I ever travelled, and through a country that ‘devoureth its inhabitants,' as it has not rained in it sufficiently to wet the ground and fill the water-holes since October 1892.   It is almost exclusively given up to raising sheep, cattle, and horses, but, on account of the present financial condition of the country, the people can sell nothing that they have except at the most ruinous sacrifice. Sheep, which a year ago were worth $2.50, can scarcely be disposed of at any price, because wool, which was worth fifteen cents to eighteen cents, will now, owing to the proposed tariff revision, bring only six cents, with little demand even at that price. Many are hauling it home, after having brought it to market, in order to save insurance and storage. Horses, which last year were worth from twenty dollars to forty dollars, are sold, when a purchaser is found, at from ten dollars to twenty dollars. Cattle can scarcely be given away, as there is neither grass nor water to keep them alive during the winter, which is almost on us. There can be but one result, a great ‘die up.' This, coming on one only two years ago, will be a crowning disaster from which many cannot possibly recover. The drought extends from the Panhandle to the coast, and from Central Texas to the Pecos in the far west, beyond which they have had rain in abundance. The region affected embraces an area of about 400 square miles, and includes all of the most populous portion of my jurisdiction; and I am afraid that it is going to cause serious suffering to all of the interests of our Church. "Money is scarcer than ever known, and in many instances people are forced to the primitive practice of barter. There has never been a time when our Christian brethren could more effectively show their sympathy for us than at present. I know, of course, that there is stringency in money everywhere, but with our people, where there is no accumulated capital, such a failure of products as has overtaken them, means actual poverty and suffering. "I cannot come north this winter to plead the cause of our missions, and last summer I was there in the very darkest days of the panic, so that I received very little assistance. I shall attempt no extension of work, nor any new buildings, though several rectories are badly needed. I shall be satisfied if I can hold the ground at present occupied, and keep our band of faithful clergy from suffering. We have the largest number ever employed in this field. There are only two vacancies, and those of recent occurrence. Most of our clergy have been in their places for over three years, and are doing most effective work; but, unless I can tide them over these trying times, I cannot hope to retain them all."