Morning Calm v.16 no.103(1905 Feb.)

THE MORNING CALM. No. 103, VOL. XVI.]FEBRUARY 1905.[PRICE 3d. Bishop's address (while in England), 125 Vassall Road, Brixton, S.W.

The Bishop's Letter.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

Eight years ago, when I first went out to Corea, I little thought that I should ever be called upon to write to Morning Calm as Bishop of the Diocese, but just as Bishop Corfe felt it was his duty to accept the Archbishop's offer when it came to him, and now to place his resignation in his hands, so I have felt it my duty to accept the call, and I hope that when the time to do so comes, if it ever does, I may also have the courage to follow his example, and lay down the charge which I am now taking up, always bearing in mind that what one does or tries to do must be for the greater glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom, and not for one's own advancement or comfort or honor. In spite, then, of my natural shrinking from the responsibility of such a position and of my slight qualifications for the work, yet the very fact of the call itself pointed to its acceptance, apart from the advantage which my knowledge, small though it is compared with what it should be, of the language and the people and the workers, in and for the Mission, and the lines on which the work has been carried on, gives to one who has been on the spot some years.

Two things have given me great comfort and encouragement in looking forward to my new work, the sympathy and assurance of continued support from the members and many friends of the Mission, and the knowledge that in the S.P.G. we have a “Mother” which will do all it can for its "child." As to the latter point I need say nothing. Ever since the Mission was founded we have received nothing but kindness from the officials of the Society, and this kindness and help will I know be continued to us as fully as ever, and I hope none of our friends will ever forget what we owe them, or allow their interest in Corea and its needs to make them forget our debt to the parent society with its world-wide work and its constant need of our help in return for what it has done for us. As for the members and friends of the Mission, I know that I can rely on them to give me their fullest support in every way. The point on which our first Bishop laid, and rightly laid, the greatest stress was the need for constant, daily prayer for the work of the Church in Corea and for those working there. That was the only rule laid down for the Association he formed, and I need not myself say more now about it except to press upon you once more how much we need your prayers and how great an assistance we do feel it in Corea to know that we have the power of your prayers behind us, especially in times of discouragement and difficulty, and they are not few. As to other help which you have given, I need not say how glad we have been to receive it, and I can assure you that at any time that I feel we want your help I shall have no hesitation in telling you, and I feel sure that you will not fail us. At present I would only put before you one of our most urgent needs—that is men. In taking up this work I have to look to present and future needs, and in saying as I have said in my letters to the Guardian and the Church Times, that I want at least two men, I was thinking only of actual, present, imperative needs. If I could get four men I have no doubt that there will be work for them to do by the time that they are ready for it, for a man cannot prepare himself for work in Corea in a day; but now I want very badly one priest to help me in Seoul and one to superintend the work among the Japanese, who are coming to Corea in such numbers, and who will there, I feel sure, be more ready to receive Christian teaching than they are in their own country. I have had an offer of service from a student at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, who has for many years intended to offer himself for work in Corea. His time will be up in July, and I hope that we shall have him with us soon after that date, continuing his preparation for what we sincerely hope may be his life's work, by studying the language and helping, as he soon will be able to help, those who are now at work. But he naturally will not be able to do yet the special work for which we want the two men of whom I have spoken before. Then, too, we are in want of a nurse for the hospital at Chemulpó. Bishop Corfe mentions in his letter the completion of the hospital, and in addition to Miss Jephson, who will start early in February, Dr. Weir will shortly require a trained nurse's help. In this matter of need of men I know I may ask you to help us by your prayers that volunteers may come forward, and is there no one among our readers to whom the call may be a personal one? Or is there no one who reckons among his other friends a man who only requires to have his attention called to the need to offer himself as a worker in Corea?

I will only add in this letter that Bishop Corfe is remaining in Seoul till I get out there, and that I hope to start about the middle of March, to reach Corea in time for or soon after Easter. Before I go we hope to have a meeting in London on behalf of the Mission, of which notice will be given later. Now, commending myself and the Mission to your prayers,

I am, yours faithfully in Christ, A. B. TURNER.

Letters from Bishop Corfe. Ⅰ.SEOUL: September, 1904.

DEAR FRIENDS,

The end of this month finds us in very “low water" indeed. We have not yet heard of the return of Mr. Badcock to Kangwha on the expiration of his leave. Meanwhile Father Drake, whose plans for departure in October were made before Mr. Badcock went to England, has left, taking with him Brother Hugh Pearson-an irreparable loss. Thus the history of the Society of the Sacred Mission in this Diocese has, I greatly regret, come to an end, and for no other reason than that it has been impossible for me to retain these two valuable and zealous missionaries on the conditions imposed by the S.S.M

Kangwha-our largest parish-is, accordingly, deserted, and the church closed to all but lay ministrations. Of all our four parishes only one-On Sou Tong-is in its normal condition, and even there I have had to take Mr. Laws away from his growing and valuable work in the dispensary, to put him in charge of the S.P.G. properties in Kangwha City, and to give there what help he can, as lay reader, to the Christians, catechumens and enquirers-of the latter of whom, Father Drake tells me, some fifty have recently been brought in by the Christians, who seem to have caught his own missionary zeal.

With Brother Hugh's departure the printing press will have to stop work-notwithstanding that another instalment of the Old Testament has long been ready-for it is not to be supposed that Mr. Laws will have time for much activity in that direction. So our people must wait longer before they can hear of the Passover and the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. At Chemulpó Mr. Gurney is in charge. I am alone in Seoul.

It is thus just possible to provide a European caretaker of S.P.G. property in each of our four stations : but, as I said, On Sou Tong is the only one of our parishes which now has a Corean-speaking priest. Mr. Laws, who is very fluent, will do what he can in the city, and that will always be worth much. The work, both in Chemulpó and here, however, is suffering much from the need of someone who can talk to these people and really shepherd them. One of our oldest, most useful, and most respected Christians died a fortnight ago in Seoul. I was unable to give him any consolation in his last moments.

My own incompetence weighs heavily on me, as you will have heard, and I grieve that I can neither find ministers for these parishes nor minister to them myself. The sad part of the matter (for us in Corea) is that all our Chinese scholars and all our best Corean speakers have left us, having accepted "calls" elsewhere. It is certainly an honor for Corea to have trained clergy and laymen who, after years of devoted service here, have gone to give the Church just as devoted a service in other dioceses. But on our poor people this honor lies very heavily. They are simple and ignorant folk, who, as they see man after man withdrawing in the midst of their work, cannot but suppose that the Mission is to become extinct. Their reproachful looks are not lost on me, whom they regard (and rightly) as in some way responsible for depriving them of their most valuable men, good scholars and devoted missionaries. Nor is it possible for me to explain to them that my share of responsibility of all that has happened in the Diocese extends over fifteen years, nor to make them understand that Father Drake and Brother Hugh, whom I long to keep here, are people on whom the S.S.M. has higher- I will not say prior -claims. Our professions of lifelong service in this country have been before them now for so many years that they are quite unable to understand such subtleties. And the fact that many of our best friends in England share this inability does not make it easier for us who would fain justify on the highest grounds such departures from this Mission as, e.g., those of the S.S.M., Dr. Peake and Mr. Trollope, all of whom were not only our best men, but were thought to be devoted to Corea for life, as Corea certainly was devoted to them.

There is one bright lining to this cloud -the offer by the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Bishopric to Mr. Turner, and his acceptance of it. He too has left us for England this month, but will return, I trust, before Easter to assume a burden which we pray his comparative youth, his knowledge of Corean and Chinese, his greater knowledge of the people of every class, and his unvarying sympathy will enable him to bear for many years. The delight of the Coreans at his appointment is great and universal. They have come to look at me as a somewhat antiquated "figure-head.” In him they have long recognised a man who not only loves them but who knows how to steer.

I hope, therefore, that you will all approve of the step I have taken in resigning. At the rate at which we have been going on for the last three years there would soon have been nothing left to resign. The step which the Archbishop has been led to take-in answer, doubtless, to all our prayers - cannot but be of the greatest benefit to Corea, whose welfare, after all, is what you and I have had most at heart ever since we “discovered" Corea some fifteen years ago.

During the month we have had a very helpful visit from the Rev. C. Graham Gardner - a priest of the Osaka Diocese-who, living at Shimonoseki (and so the nearest of our neighbors), found himself able to accept an invitation, with the consent of Bishop Foss, to visit our Japanese Christians, who have had no clergyman to minister to them in their own language since Mr. Steenbuch left the Mission last Easter. I have not yet received his full report, but he worked hard, and the Japanese much enjoyed his visit. He made the acquaintance of them all in Fusan, Chemulpó, and Seoul, and demonstrated more clearly than ever how great is the need we have of a Japanese speaking priest for the preservation of Church life in Corea-to say nothing of the greater need of such a man, of men, in view of what is now being done by the Japanese in this country. We are very grateful to Mr. Gardner, whose sympathy and ready activity quickly endeared him to us all.

By closing our churches in Seoul I was able to spend a part of the Patronal Festival at Chemulpó on St. Michael's Day. Mr. Gurney had prepared a long list of services for Coreans, Japanese, and English. I could only take part in the first Evensong, and at 6.30 on the following morning the Holy Eucharist, which was preceded by a Corean Confirmation. I never before confirmed and communicated anyone with a baby tied on to her back! Whilst we were thus engaged in Chemulpó the husband of this poor woman was, unknown to us, dying in Seoul-the Christian referred to above.</sapn>

Nothing could exceed the glorious weather which we have been having this autumn. We are all well and, as you may suppose, kept fully employed. This letter should appear in the February number of Morning Calm-perhaps not too late for me to ask you to pray very earnestly for the Bishop-elect. It rejoices me to think that for fifteen years we have had so large a body of people, young and old, rich and poor, who have been trained to pray daily for Corea-whatever its needs happened to be—and who will now pray for us more earnestly than ever.

I am yours gratefully and affectionately, C. J. CORFE.

Ⅱ.SEOUL: October 1904.

DEAR FRIENDS,

Before Mr. Turner left we had begun to open up work in the neighborhood of https://www.culturecontent.com/contentdata/contentDataView.do?cp_code=cp0710&content_data_id=cp0710b20006 Syou Ouen], a town on the line of railway which is being laid between Seoul and Fusan, the south east port of Corea. Syou Ouen is about twenty-five miles from Seoul, and we find ourselves there in consequence of a request from several of the inhabitants who wish to be instructed in “the doctrine." In the present impoverished condition of the clerical staff it is impossible to accede to this request directly. All that could be done was to send as trust worthy a man as we could find who would go and, seeing for himself who these people were, would bring back a report. The man sent was a catechumen. He took some books, which were soon disposed of, and found that these people were in the habit of meeting together on Sundays for prayer and reading. Matters had reached this tentative stage when Mr. Turner left. Since then I have had a request from these people - about twenty in all—that we should buy a small house which will serve as a meeting-place for them. I sent one of our oldest Christians to prospect and bring me back word. His report was very favorable. Moreover, a small house was for sale, and after a few more negotiations the title deeds passed into my hands for the sum of a little over £3.

At the same time the catechumen who was first sent down moved into this house, of which he is now caretaker. Of course this work "hangs fire," like so much of our work, for want of men. A few weeks after the purchase of the house Mr. Gurney (accompanied by his teacher) paid it a surprise visit of a couple of hours (it is easily accessible by rail), and was received with much kindness by as many of the inquirers as could be gathered together. He even essayed to give them some instruction, and had prayers with them.

With regard to this railway, it has since been finished. Our mails are ceasing to go or come viâ Chemulpó, the train taking them daily by rail between Seoul and Fusan, thereby effecting a saving of about a day. At the beginning of next year the Japanese hope to have an accelerated service of trains which, by the help of a fast steamer between Fusan and Moji (in Japan), will enable passengers to travel between Seoul and Tokyo in fifty hours, a journey which now takes a week.

We are enjoying lovely weather, good health, and a time of great peace and quiet. I conclude a short letter with my love to you all, and am

Yours affectionately, C. J. CORFE.

III. SEOUL : November 1904.

DEAR FRIENDS,

No news has reached us this month of Mr. Badcock's departure from England. The consequences of the withdrawal of a priest in charge of this important parish were soon apparent. One of our Christians occupying a leading and responsible position has had to be dismissed and suspended for repeated misconduct. The formation of Christian character amongst the people of this naturally weak race is a long and trying process, requiring the closest attention on the part of the parish priest, who has to watch his people one by one, as nurses watch their babies.

This unexpected closing of Kangwha adds another to the catalogue of disasters which have befallen the Mission this year. On the other hand, we confidently expect Mr. Bridle's return before Christmas. During the whole of his furlough his letters have shown an eagerness which, in spite of the evident enjoyment he is getting at home, has never left us in doubt that November I would see him outward bound.

St. Luke's Hospital is now completely and beautifully restored. Dr. and Mrs. Weir revel in the large wards, the roomy passages, the new surgery and waiting-rooms. I hope that before long he will give some account of his work in Morning Calm. He has plenty of patients—so many, indeed, that in order to make his work possible he is obliged to issue tickets and to treat those only who present them. For a long time he has taken to reading Corean prayers to the patients and his household every morning, and he always manages to get some Corean to read or, from notes of the doctor's own providing, to speak to the patients in the waiting-room. Also, I was delighted to hear, he is now able to help Mr. Gurney in St. Michael's Church by reading the Litany at the Corean service on Sundays. From the notes I get from Mr. Gurney I gather that he too is happy, and certainly is not idle. Both he and I feel our limitations as parish priests amongst those whom we long to help and guide, but in vain. He will be as glad as I when Mr. Bridle is amongst his flock again.

Up here we go along in our uneventful way, services very regular with our average of attendances fairly well kept up. During the month there was a Confirmation of four adult Christians sent by Mr. Hillary from On Sou Tong-men who should have been confirmed by me there last Easter, but whose baptism had, unavoidably, to be deferred. They came up in charge of Mark Kim, our native catechist, and the old church warden, both of whom I was delighted to see again. On their return to Kangwha they were windbound at Chemulpó for a day and a night. Mr. Gurney, who never seems to lose an opportunity, "beat his drum" or issued a "five line whip" of some sort and gathered all the Christians for an Evensong, and on the following morning for the Holy Eucharist. Altogether they enjoyed themselves not a little.

At home I see that you have been having in the newspapers much discussion on the use of the Quicunque vult in church. Our practical commentary on it here has been to introduce it every Sunday afternoon at the service for instruction of catechumens. We say the Catechism together (our Catechism, not the Church Catechism, of course, for they are not Christians), and, as I am unable to explain it to them, I use the Church's own explanation. As everyone has a copy in his Psalter, he can see for himself how closely that part of our catechumens' Catechism which deals with the doctrines of the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation follows the lines of "this Confession of our Christian Faith." We shall soon have the little orphans pattering it. These small people-about three feet high-make their little voices heard in the congregation, I can tell you. They repeat Creed. Confession, and Lord's Prayer very distinctly, and in the hymns have a trained "use" of their own, which there is no resisting, bless them! Advent has now come upon us, and we have changed our two Psalms-the fifteenth at Evensong and the first at Mattins-for portions of the twenty-fifth and ninety-sixth, both of them containing good Advent teaching. At Christmas we shall change them again. This will seem strange to you who have the whole Psalter. With only a limited number of Psalms translated, we must do the best we can. But, so slow of apprehension are these simple folk, it is no bad thing to have the same Psalm over and over again.

During the week my own time is much taken up with translation of the Old Testament-a work in which I am much helped by a Christian who speaks fairly good English, and a catechumen who reads the Chinese Bible as easily as any of you would read it in English. He dictates to me in the Corean vernacular. After I have written a rough copy of the passage or verse, I trim it as best I can, endeavoring to make it accurate in translation and intelligible in Corean (that is to say, not a bald translation of the Chinese), and then I make a fair copy, which is handed to one of our teachers, who writes beautifully, the copy which will be read in church. For years our people have been familiar with the Ten Commandments, but they know neither when nor how they were originally given. Now they will soon learn, for in this new section of translation I have got as far as Exodus xxxiv.

These details, I know, will interest you, and will show you how very backward the Church in Corea is with regard to matters with which all our Church people at home are familiar from their childhood.

By this time Mr. Turner will have been, we hope, nearly a month in England. How your interest will centre in him! How you are joining with us in daily prayers for him! We shall not allow our ignorance of the Scriptures to quench the Holy Spirit's guidance as He leads us to pray that the best gifts may be bestowed on him who is so dearly loved by us in Corea.

Farewell! With prayers for many Christmas and New Year's blessings on each one of you from

Yours affectionately, C. J. CORFE.

IV. SEOUL: December 1904.

DEAR FRIENDS

At the beginning of this month I have, I hope, time to add a few words by way of postscript to my last, and to tell you that I have at last received news of our missing Mr. Badcock. A telegram informs me that he left England with Mr. Bridle on November 1. "Stale news” for you indeed, but news, and, I need not say, very acceptable news, for us. They should both be with us by the new year, but I fear that the good people at St. Peter and St. Paul will not get their Christmas communion. Mr. Laws is holding that “fort” valiantly. I hope soon to send him back to reopen his dispensary at On Sou Tong.

I am, yours affectionately,

C. J. CORFE.

The Bishop's Engagements before his Departure. January 31, Exeter ; February 2-6, Cornwall; February 7, Bath ; February 8, Hereford ; February 9, Swindon; February 10, Oxford ; February 11, Dorchester; February 12, Oxford ; February 13, Birmingham; February 14, Uttoxeter; February 15, Stafford ; February 16, Whitchurch (Salop); February 17, New Brighton ; February 18-19, Ardwick, Manchester ; February 20, Barnsley ; February 23-26, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; February 27, Lincoln; March 1, St. Albans ; March 2, Berkhampsted ; March 3, Cambridge; March 5-8, London ; March 9, Wantage (S.P.G.); March 10-13, London. For any further information apply to the Local Secretary. March 12, Suggested Meeting on behalf of Corean Mission, Church House, Westminster.

“ Morning Calm." FOR many reasons the present seems an opportunity which it will be necessary for us to take of making certain changes in the Magazine, which for fifteen years has been the record of the Mission's work. The suggested changes will be probably as follows. Our own particular portion of the Magazine will remain much as at present, but with it, instead of some twelve or sixteen pages of “The Spirit of Missions," will be bound up three copies of the S.P.G. publication the Church Abroad. “The Spirit of Missions” will be curtailed probably to two pages, but it will not be lost altogether, as the lady who for so long has kindly supplied us with the material has promised to send us about that quantity each quarter; there will also necessarily be certain changes in the form in which the information given on the cover is now printed, but they will not be material. We feel that we are going in the right direction in thus “parochialising” or “diocesanising" the S.P.G. paper, and we hope that it will help to spread abroad the news of what is being done in all parts of the world by that Society. The price to subscribers will remain the same as at present, and we hope that, as the cost of production will probably be somewhat smaller, we may avoid any debt on the publication of Morning Calm in future. May we in this connection point out that the loss in the year 1903 was £15. 15s., but that if all our subscribers ordered their copies from Miss Trollope a great deal of this loss would be saved ? Another change which we think will be advisable is to publish as other magazines are published, in the first instead of the second month in the quarter. We hope that our readers will take notice of this change, and warn their booksellers, as the next issue will very probably be in April. The matter is not quite definitely settled, and any communications on the matter should be made to the Editor, 125 Vassall Road, Brixton, S.W., or to Bishop Turner.

Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

We have several changes this quarter to chronicle. Swindon sustains a great loss in the retirement of Mrs. Thompson, and we hope that Miss Toppin will be able to carry on the work which has been so ably commenced. Miss Wilshere will be very glad to hear of anyone willing to be Local Secretary for the Frythe district, in Hertfordshire. In Southsea we have another change: Miss Cholmely, who succeeded Miss Beckett last year, now gives place to Miss Marsh.

The fly-leaf of accounts gives all details as to money, and we are very glad to draw attention to the great help we have received this quarter from Sales of Work. Many members contributed to the Corean Stall at Kensington, but besides that we have to thank the Secretaries at Bath, Beddington, Buxton, Newquay, St. Albans, and Swindon for very substantial help. Leatherhead, where there is no branch of A.P.W.C., sends £10 from the Parochial Missionary Association, besides an Offertory, proceeds from Sale of Work, and collection at a meeting. Questions are frequently asked by Secretaries as to what should be the relations of branches of A.P.W.C. to Parochial Missionary Associations. Primarily we are an Association for Prayer, and to be a member of any local Association which does not keep our prayer rule is not tantamount to being a member of A.P.W.C. ; but the greater covers the less, and a member of A.P.W.C. can frequently be a member of an Association making a smaller claim.

Finance, however, stands on quite another footing. As all our money now goes to S.P.G., ear-marked for Corea, it is quite optional for members to make their money gifts through any Parochial Association provided it is still ear-marked for Corea. In an ideal state every parish would have a Missionary Association composed of members giving their prayers and money to the different Missions in which members are specially interested and uniting for common interests. Towards this we are all working, but until prayer is put before money (as it usually is not in Parochial Missionary Associations) there is a distinct work for A.P.W.C.

When any branch of A.P.W.C. has converted a Parochial Association to our principles, that branch of A.P.W.C. can vanish, becoming instead a branch of the Parochial Association. At present several branches pay their money in this way, and we might specially mention this quarter Harleston and Barnsley, where moneys have gone direct to headquarters of S.P.G. for Corea. The General Secretary hopes to make an arrangement with S.P.G. by which she will be able to publish in Morning Calm the moneys contributed through this channel. CONSTANCE A. N. TROLLOPE. Will Local Secretaries kindly send postcards to the General Secretary now, stating how many copies of the forthcoming Annual Report they will require ?

Children's Branch of the Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

MY DEAR CHILDREN,

In this letter I must try and tell you something about the Corean orphans, for it is so long since I have given you any news of them.

The reason is that I had nothing to tell you before, but the Sister who takes care of the orphans is now in England, and has just been to see me, so I was able to ask her all sorts of questions about the children, and she showed me some very interesting things that she had brought with her from Corea. I told her I wished she had brought all the nineteen orphans for us to see.

I heard about a good many of them. Theresa, the eldest, seems to be a very good girl, and able to help with the younger ones in all sorts of ways; and she can cook the rice, which the Coreans eat so much of, very nicely. Phoebe is very full of fun, and up to all sorts of mischief. Little Mark, with his one arm, who used to be so delicate, has got on nicely now, and is able to run about and enjoy himself. Elizabeth seems to be a dear little girl, and Baby Bridget, who is just beginning to walk, is a great pet. We talked too about Emma, who does needlework so well, and about a good many of the others, but I am afraid I cannot remember all their names. The elder ones are getting on very nicely with their lessons. I saw two letters that they had written, and I wished I could read them, but, of course, they were written in Corean. They wrote the letters first of all with their teacher, but when Theresa got home she burnt hers and wrote another one, as she thought it would be so much nicer to do it all by herself!

Six of the orphans went away to the sea for a few weeks last summer, just as they did the year before. They went to Chemulpó and had a very jolly time there. It was very hot weather, so they spent most of their time in the garden under the shade of the chestnut trees. There they played with their toys, did needlework, and lay down for a nap in the middle of the day. Sometimes they chased the large butterflies, but of course they never caught any. These butterflies are larger than humming birds, and about the size of a wren. They are different colors; the prettiest are peacock blue, with darker shades, and they are all like the softest velvet.

I have more to tell you about the orphans which I must keep till next time; if I can find a picture of them I will send it with this letter. Don't you think it would be very nice if we could send a few presents to the orphans when Sister Barbara goes back to Corea later on in the year? I will tell you some of the things that they are always glad to have, and then, perhaps, you will be able to find something that you can give them.

First of all, they would be very glad of some bright pictures to put on the walls of the Orphanage, but remember, the pictures must be colored, for Coreans do not like anything dull. Then they are very fond of all sorts of fancy buttons, and odds and ends of bright material, and they are always glad to have beads to thread. If some of you would like to do needlework for them they will be very glad of bibs, cuffs, small night-gowns, and pillow-cases, colored handkerchiefs, socks, squares of towelling for washing, and patchwork rugs. But please do not make anything without writing to me first, so that I can tell you exactly how these things are to be made.

We have only one new member added to our list this time; but I am very glad, Cecil, that you have joined the Association. Will you all try this year to pray more earnestly, and to help the Mission in other ways as well, more than you have ever done before ?

Always your affectionate friend,

MAUD I. FALWASSER. Ashurst, Winchester: January, 1905.

NEW MEMBER.

Beckenham-Cecil Mason.

CHILDREN'S FUND

Children at Harvington. 4s. 1d.; Pearl Bracher, 2d.; Kenneth Wilson, 4s. 9d.: Joan and Peter Crofts, 8s. ; Children of St. Saviour's, Swindon, 19s. 2d. ; St. Saviour's Senior Band of Hope, from their Annual Sale of Work, £1. 11s. 3d.; Nessa Tawke, 2s. 60d. - Total £3. 9s. 11d.

St. Peter's Community Foreign Mission Association.

OWING to the combined efforts of the members of both Associations, the Corean stall at the Bazaar was again well provided with contributions, in addition to the curios, of which there were several new varieties.

The Misses Trollope and their helpers realised over £80 in the two days at the stall, and with some after-sales and a show of curios at St. Peter's Grange, St. Leonards-on-Sea, the total received by the end of 1904 was £100

In spite of the great sorrow which fell upon the Community of St. Peter in the last days of November, in the death of the Reverend Mother (R.I.P.), and which necessitated the postponement of the Day of Intercession to December 6, there was a Targe attendance, especially at the afternoon meeting, to meet Mr. Turner, who most kindly came up from Worcester on purpose to be present and to preach at Evensong. Once again the large room at St. Peter's Home was spoken of as the "meeting-ground” of the members of the Corean Mission by Rev. A. G. Deedes, who, with Rev. M. N. Trollope, contributed largely to the interest of the gathering.

The subject of Mission-work was most ably dealt with by Mr. G. W. Russell, M.P., who spoke of the encouraging interest now increasingly shown in the Mission-field by all classes, and pointed out that the cost, sacrifices, and glories of the lives of martyrs are not only past history, but may be seen in many lives to-day.

The beautiful address on Intercession by the Rev. Newton Mant has been written out, with the notes of the other addresses, and the sermon at Evensong, and the Secretary will be glad to send them on receipt of a stamped envelope. Lay-Sister Barbara is now in England for a much-needed rest, and can give any information about the orphans who are her especial charge in Seoul.

The Secretary is so often consulted as to the kind of work suitable for working-parties, that it is refreshing to speak of the result of the work of a Girls' Club in South Devon in a year by which they have been able to raise the necessary sum of £5 for the support of a child in the Orphanage ; and the G.F.S. candidates at Winchester have offered a contribution of cuffs, bibs, &c., for the children, which are most welcome. Nothing comes amiss, and everything can be turned to account. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary, S.P.F.M.A

Hospital Naval Fund.

At the meeting of the Executive Committee, held at the Royal United Service Institution on Wednesday, January 11, the Bishop-Designate was present, and addressed the meeting on the future of hospital work in Corea; and on behalf of the Committee the Chairman (Ven. Archdeacon Harris) and Admiral Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle thanked him for his address, and wished him God-speed in his work.

The Bishop-Designate estimated the amount required for the forthcoming year at £300, and stated that he would be glad to have an immediate advance of £100 to replace the same amount which he had borrowed from another fund, which had been used in structural repairs and alterations to the hospitals. The Hon. Treasurer, the Rev. S. Kenah, having resigned his post, Captain J. H. Corfe has been asked to take on his duties, and it is hoped he will consent to do so. C. E. BAXTER, Hon. Sec. Er. Com.

Hospital Work. We have received from Corea excellent accounts of what is practically the new hospital at Chemulpó. The old wing containing wards and nurses' quarters has been entirely rebuilt and considerably enlarged, and the nurses' quarters have been removed to the old out-patients' waiting-rooms and dispensary, which have been rearranged internally, and are connected with the doctor's quarters; a new room has been added to Dr. Weir's house to give him a room in which he can receive European patients who come to see him ; there will be two large wards containing about ten to twelve beds each and two small wards for private patients, in one of which a European patient is now under treatment; the operation room remains as before, and several small rooms have been added-bath room, patients' kitchen, drug room, laboratory, &c. The out-patients come in great numbers, and, in spite of the fact that there is no nurse at present, several in-patients have been already admitted. We are glad to be able to announce that Miss Jephson, who offered to go out to Corea a year ago, but was delayed owing to the outbreak of the war, is intending to leave for Chemulpó at the beginning of February, and we hope she will soon be able to relieve Mrs. Weir of some of the many duties for which she is now responsible, and to assist Doctor Weir with the dispensary and general work of the hospital. We hope too we may soon hear of a nurse who will go out and join her, that the hospital may have its full complement, and so the workers may be enabled to use to the full the plant with which we have been able to supply them.

The cost of these alterations and additions has been considerable, as will be seen from the letter we print below, and when the work has been completed we hope to obtain a statement of accounts which will show our readers the sources from which the money has been drawn and the way in which it has been spent. At present we can only say that the accommodation is in no way complete, for Dr. Weir urges very strongly, and we think rightly, that a women's ward is as necessary as a men's ward, and although women are ready to come into the hospital for treatment yet they cannot be put into the common wards. This means that we very badly want a separate ward for women. For this we want money, and as yet we hardly see where it is all coming from ; but if, as we hope, the land adjoining the hospital can be procured, we must try and provide a building on it for the women. As we have had, at least temporarily, to close the Women's Hospital in Seoul, we feel it is all the more incumbent on us to do what we can for the women at Chemulpó. We hope, at any rate, that those who in former years have supported beds in the hospital at Seoul will continue their help during the coming year, and allow us to use the money this year for building a women's ward, and then next year, and we hope for many years after, their help will be all the more needed for the support of the ward they are building or helping to build now. Any help towards the building of this ward will be very gladly received, for we feel very strongly that we ought to do all we can to give to Dr. Weir and his staff a hospital in which he can adequately tackle the heavy work he will have thrust upon him. The Bishop speaks in his letter of the work Dr. Weir is doing, and we echo his hope that we shall have an account of his work from himself soon. It is growing and will grow, and we have no doubt will be of the very greatest help in relieving the physical needs of a people whose doctors are absolutely incompetent, and we hope that it may be more and more a help also to them spiritually, and that by the teaching given within the hospital walls and by the prayers of those without, as well as by the mere breaking down of prejudice against the foreigner, it may lead the Coreans to throw themselves on the mercy of the Great Physician of souls, as they now trust to the kindness and skill of their earthly physician.

We print below a letter issued in Corea some months ago, which has already received a generous response from those who are living in the country and know the need of the people. We confidently look forward to their further help in years to come. We thank them heartily for the willingness they have shown in assisting us and the Coreans for whom we are working. We may explain that in the accounts yen 10 may be taken as equal to £1.

ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, CHEMULPÓ.

After fourteen years of medical work in Seoul and Chemulpó the Mission has found it impossible to carry on, satisfactorily, the work in both places from lack of funds, and has decided that it is better to concentrate its efforts on Chemulpo. To do the work as we should wish we have found it necessary to spend a considerable sum of money on the reconstruction of the building at Chemulpó, the contract for which has cost 7,000 yen. This money we have been able to raise among the friends of the Mission in England.

There are, however, other things which are absolutely necessary, such as the enclosure of the premises and the internal fittings of the Hospital, for which the funds in hand are insufficient. These additions will involve an expense of at least 3,000 yen, towards which the Bishop has contributed a sum of 500 yen, and it has been thought that some of our friends in Corea would be ready to supply the rest, thus helping on a work the necessity for which anyone who is at all aware of the condition of the Coreans in Chemulpó cannot fail to recognise. Subscriptions may be sent to H. H. Weir, Esq., English Church Mission Hospital, Chemulpó.

C. J. CORFE, Bishop. A. B. TURNER, Bishop-elect. H. H. WEIR, Medical Officer.

Chemulpo: October 24, 1904. The following donations which have already been received, or promised, are gratefully acknowledged :

Local Notes.

LETTERS from Corea show that the political condition of the country is still one of considerable unrest, and this, we fear, must continue to be the case till the end of the war. The Japanese are taking hold evidently by degrees, and naturally the Coreans object very strongly to their interference in the management of the affairs of the country. Though such interference is inevitable, and will in the long run, we may hope, be for the benefit of the people at large, yet it must at first cause a good deal of friction, for if the people at large benefit, still many will suffer severely, especially those of the official classes.

There has been, for instance, a riot of some importance in the capital, and the Japanese are now policing the town, while the newly-appointed financial adviser has stopped the coinage of the five-cent nickel pieces, which were at a great discount, and the price of which varied so much from day to day as to make business conducted through their medium a mere speculation. The Emperor, who depended to a great extent on the profits of the mint to pay his expenses, feels now the pinch of poverty, as naturally the price of the nickel coin is rising, and we fear that the people generally will suffer at first with him, though the introduction of a stable medium of exchange will, of course, soon be of immense benefit to the trade of the country. The new adviser to the Foreign Office has not yet arrived in the country, but is expected shortly. He is an American citizen, and will, no doubt, be backed up strongly by the Japanese, through whose influence he has been appointed, and with whom he has been closely associated for some years at the Japanese Legation in Washington.

We have received letters from all the stations in the Mission, and the accounts are all fairly cheerful. Mr. Gurney writes to say that the services, day-school, and night school are all going on under his supervision at Chemulpó, but that he is looking forward eagerly to Mr. Bridle's return. We have heard by telegraph that he had arrived safely a day or two before Christmas, and that all was well- except that a Christmas cake he was taking out from some friends in England disappeared mysteriously on the way! With him went Mr. Badcock, and he will be by now hard at work again in Kangwha City, relieving Mr. Laws, who has been in charge there since Mr. Drake's departure. Anyone who knows Mr. Laws will be sure that he has not been idle, and with the conduct of the services on Sundays and week-days -so far as a layman can supply the wants of the station-instruction in the school, and visits to neighboring villages with the magic lantern, plus the thousand and one details of management which take up so much time in a country like Corea, where so much requires the personal attention of the head man. he has had his hands very full. But we believe he has enjoyed it, and that the experience gained will be of great value to him in days to come.

Mr. Hillary has written very fully from On Sou Tong, where he and Mrs. Hillary have been hard at work with the winter routine, during which season so much can be done in the way of instruction, and which cannot be undertaken at any other period of the year, when the field-work requires everyone's attention. He has had to walk into the city once a week, and on every other Sunday to celebrate for the Sisters and the Corean congregation there. Sister Alma's arrival in Kangwha from Seoul has set Sister Margaretta free to visit some parts of the south of the island, especially Chojee and Tójokol (this is phonetic spelling approximately), where there are many women, and it cannot be impressed too strongly upon our readers how important the women's work is owing to their ignorance, which demands so much individual attention and teaching, and to their power and influence among their children. Unless the whole family come forward, the result of our teaching is never safe, and there is always danger of relapse into heathen practices. One thing that we are trying to impress upon our people is that they must learn to be independent of our pecuniary support. It will be long before they can do everything for themselves perhaps, but they must be taught to do what they can, and in On Sou Tong they are trying to help with all the ordinary expenses of the church. Naturally we do not expect them to help the European members of the Mission, but the congregational expenses should, where possible, be met by the congregations. The night school, children's services, lantern services are all being well attended, in addition to the ordinary Sunday services, which go on much the same all the year round. Some new candidates for Baptism have come forward, and four Confirmation candidates went to Seoul to receive Confirmation from the Bishop, as he was unable to come down to them.

In Seoul the Bishop is, as you know, single-handed, and will have very hard work there, what with English and Corean services, until the new Bishop arrives to relieve him; but he writes in very good spirits, at any rate, only speaking of the minor worries and difficulties by which he must be surrounded. Sister Isabel has changed places for a time with Sister Alma, and we hope soon that she will have so improved the singing of the schoolboys that they will compare favorably, if not with English choirs, yet with the Corean choirs whose singing we have heard. She is also carrying on Sister Alma's work among the women, which she finds more interesting than the work in Kangwha, inasmuch as city women are more intelligent than the country women and better educated. The orphanage too has changed rulers, for during Sister Barbara's furlough Miss Pooley has taken charge, and is winning their hearts (not weaning them, we are sure) to a rather inconvenient extent ; for they, or some of them, follow her everywhere, calling on " Poolee Pooin," as her title is in Corean, from morning to night. This change in the personnel of the whole European staff in Seoul, except that Sister Nora still presides in the Sister's House, will, we fear, try the constancy of some of the members of the Church, but if it does weed out a few of the weaker members it will all the more clearly prove who are those upon whom we can depend in the future, and strengthen them in the faith.

The following letter was written by a Corean political prisoner, who is a member of the Episcopal Methodist Church in Seoul, to one of our doctors, and may interest our readers as showing that our hospital work is really valued by the Coreans. The writer acted for some time as a missionary among his fellow-prisoners, teaching them Christianity, and we were glad to learn that he was released, after some years' imprisonment, a few months ago on the occasion of the Crown Prince's birthday, when, as is usual, many prisoners were set free. We print it as it was written, not correcting the mistakes, but wishing that we could write a Corean letter as well as he writes English: - “To Dr. - "Dear sir: I, an imprisoner, beg your indulgence in allowing me to introduce to you myself as your sympathetical friend who unforgetfully desire to express my gratelul feeling toward your long valuable work having been spiritually and medicaliy done during so many years for your dearly beloved people, the Koreans. "Among the merits executed by your highly qualified skill, and among the kind treatments under which thousands of poors have been well treated, especially the most remarkable remedy lately given to a pityful young man, Yu Yungsok, whose internal disease had been deplorably given up, but, as I am informed, was wonderfully recovered after several severe surgical operations. “Of course, I was so exceedingly glad that I should have gone to see you and him as soon as I heard of it, but, as you know, the prisoner is not even permitted to write publicly. “Under this and some other circumstances, it is only now that I send you a few words instead of a personal interview. "Being impossible to help my poor young friend, Yu, I must ask you to do much more favor by taking good care of him until he becomes a quite healthy strong man, and in the meantime I pray the Lord to bless showeringly upon you. “I remain, sir, "Yours sympathetically, "YE SEUNGMAN." Devil worship. THERE is a small village about five miles from Kangwha City which is emerging from heathendom. As a first and important sign of this, various families in it are requesting that their "devil-worshipping" things should be burnt. The Bibleman accordingly asked the Sisters to go out there with him to perform this necessary act. As I accompanied them, I am asked to give a short account of the proceedings.

When we entered the village-which consists of about a dozen houses, surrounded by beautifully kept fields of rice and other grain-a man, evidently of importance in the place, met us and escorted us to his house. We only stayed there a short time, as the "devil things” had already been burnt there, so we proceeded to a house where the people were anxious to have theirs destroyed. As I knew that, when "devil things" were first burnt in the island, the people to whom they belonged were afraid of removing them themselves for fear of misfortune befalling them, I was much struck with the advance of ideas among them now, for these people helped the Bibleman to take the "devil offerings" out to the bonfire. Such a collection of things was there, some dating back to the days of long dead ancestors. As none had been touched since, the dust and dirt had accumulated to such an extent that when they were moved the air was clouded with dust. In each corner of the room was either a stick with ribbons of paper affixed, or a bunch of paper ribbons minus the stick, or a basket, in some cases filled with clothes offered to the evil spirit. Superstition has so far lost its power that if these clothes are good the people keep them to wear, and brave the evil spirit's wrath at losing them. In one case we saw a man tearing up a garment to get a good bit to tie round his head-which piece he afterwards discarded for a better, which he found in one of the "devil baskets” at the second house to which we went. This time it was a piece of blue silky stuff, and made him a conspicuous headdress! In the garden of each house were several straw "devil houses” like beehives, in some of which were bowls of food, and in some shoes ; the former being to make the evil spirits so comfortable that they would not enter the dwelling house and annoy its inhabitants, the shoes, I imagine, being to speed them on their journey elsewhere, after they had feasted.

After all these things were destroyed, the Bibleman gathered the men into one room where he taught them, and the women came to the room where we sat on the floor and Sister Margaretta taught them ; only most elementary truths, naturally, as they (the women) were in most cases for the first time listening to God's message, and some were very reluctant to hear, while some were evidently impressed, and many declared their intention of coming to church to be taught. There is no doubt they will do so, though it means, in all, a walk of ten miles. It is wonderful, in this island of Kangwha, how the people will walk many miles, in all sorts of weather, to come to church either in the city, or On Sou Tong, and it shows the earnest ness of their belief. Kangwha. ENGLISH CHURCH MISSION, KANGWHA CITY: October 10, 1904. REPORT and Balance-Sheet for the third quarter of 1904 of the On Sou Tong Dispensary : I have to ask your indulgence for sending what is seemingly a bald report of mere figures. One quarter so very much resembles preceding quarters that little occurs to make material for a report. The advent of Dr. Weir-the placing of Chemulpó Hospital on a working basis - and its nearness to On Sou Tong will, I believe and hope, greatly extend the scope of the usefulness of this work in Kangwha. From patients whom I have sent to Dr, Weir, one's observations are confirmed in the belief that in him we have a very powerful agent in commending Christianity to sick Koreans - skill combined with sympathy and insight into the Korean mind. A. F. LAWS. KANGWHA DISPENSARY ACCOUNTS FOR THIRD QUARTER OF 1904. (KOREAN CURRENCY.)

The Spirit of Missions.

1. “THE Bishop of Durham, in one of his valuable commentaries, has placed on record the words of a sick missionary, too weak to control his thoughts for prayer on his own behalf : 'Lord, hear my praying friends in England!' We believe that such a silent petition often goes up from the hearts of our brothers and sisters in the far-off corners of the earth, in times of isolation, depression, or sickness.”—(C.M. Gleaner.)

2. THE SUPPLY OF CLERGY FOR THE COLONIES.-" The Rev. G. R. Bullock-Webster, speaking at the Church Congress, said that the only way of supplying a great need was 'for a great body of Clergy to dedicate themselves to whole-hearted service in our Colonies. S.P.G. has just started a new undertaking, i.e. that of training all suitable candidates who offer themselves, if need be, free of cost.' The scheme involves a very considerable outlay. If we are to deal in any adequate way with the spiritual necessities of our Colonies, we ought to be sending out forty or fifty new workers annually for some years to come. Putting the average period of their training at four years, we must have in constant training some 200 candidates. This must mean an annual expenditure not much short of £10,000. A Special Candidates' Fund has been opened, and we have to set ourselves, by God's help, to support it. ... Such a scheme promises new succour and new help to our Church in the Colonies, for we shall have taken a step which gives every promise of wiping away the reproach under which we at present lie that the Mother Church cares little for her children beyond the seas.”—(Guardian.)

3. THE GREATEST NEED OF THE CHURCH.—“ Bishop Awdry (South Tokyo) says that as long as the vast claims of South Africa, which had come so suddenly upon us, were claiming nearly the whole strength of the English Church to meet an emergency, it would have been useless to make a special appeal (for Japan). Burma, too,... by its extreme destitution, had for English men a prior claim, but that claim, thank God, is nobly met. One cannot think of the spiritual destitution of New Guinea, and of its noble and holy Bishop broken in health and withdrawing, through lack of support, from stations once established, without deep distress and sympathy; but his first appeal is rightly to the Church of Australia, although we hope that the Mother Country will also come to his help. But now the time is ripe for strengthening and extending the Missions of Japan. The leaders of Japan are looking more and more to Japanese Christianity to help forward the national character. They are more disposed to trust Christian Japanese to behave well under difficult circumstances than they have ever been. Within the last week a Japanese in a provincial city wanted the permission which the law requires to go and settle in a foreign country. The local authorities required him to get testimonials from two substantial Japanese and a missionary. The War Office would only sanction Christian Japanese going with the foreign correspondents as interpreters, for the temptation would be great, and the authorities are determined that in Corea, Manchuria and China, of which they purpose to work out the regeneration, Japanese shall be known, in contrast to Russians, as considerate, sober, and selfcontrolled in their behavior to the people generally, and to women in particular. They intend to be the leaders in the Far East, and it is pretty plain that they will be so. For this reason, Bishop Awdry makes a strong appeal, and especially to members of the Universities, to consider whether Christ has not for them here a call nobler than any the world can offer.... For St. Andrew's Mission, in particular, which is incorporated with S.P.G., Bishop Awdry wants to hear of four new missionaries. Bishop Montgomery says of this appeal: 'We endorse every word he says. We put the Mission of the Church to Japan in the forefront now, and we shall strain every nerve to uphold the hands of those who give themselves to this call.’" -(Mission Field.)

4. “ CAN Japan be called a Christian nation or not? It is certainly not Buddhist, or even Shintoist. As elsewhere in the East, the old faiths have been greatly undermined, specially by European professors in the universities, who have spread the rationalistic tendencies of the West. I think it would be true to say that there is a strong leaven of Christianity at work in Japan. Bishop Bickersteth succeeded in persuading American, Canadian and English missionaries (both of S.P.G. and C.M.S.) to unite together in forming the National Church of Japan, which, although a small body, has a strong and decided influence. He was wise enough to try from the first to avoid foreign authority, and to aim at establishing a Japanese ministry, with the hope of Japanese Bishops in the future. It would be unfair to say that the Japanese are mere imitators. They never copy slavishly, but often improve as well as adapt what they have learned from the West. Outside the national Church are large numbers of Christians who belong to other denominations. Many Japanese who are filling high places in army, navy, and public service are Christian. “ The Japanese are already undertaking Missionary work in Formosa and in the Bonin Isles, and a Christian Japan may be in the future a strong force in China and Manchuria. “It is very wonderful to watch the effect of the reflected light of Christianity, and to realise how works of mercy to the sick, the destitute, and, above all, to wounded enemies, are planned and undertaken by Japanese who do not call themselves Christian, but who have grasped that spirit of mercy and selfsacrifice which is the very essence of our religion. Patriotism is the inspiring motive of Japanese life, even the very children caring to learn their school lessons, because some day they will be able to serve their country better. Some of us may be acquainted with George Herbert's poem of the ‘Church Militant,' which traces the progress of the Gospel westward from its cradle in the East, and prophesies that America would be the next nation to take a leading place in the religious life of the world. As that prophecy has been fulfilled long ago, we have always expected that the call to spiritual leadership would come to Japan, and certainly it looks as if such a result might be in the near future."

5. WHY DO NOT LADIES COME OUT?-“ Bishop Ridley asks this question, after describing the work among women in Japan. He says: ‘It is a beautiful sphere for the Church's best women, and such I felt it an honor to see at work. Work it is, remember-persistent work, hard and happy work. The climate appears to me to over-stimulate the nervous system, and accounts for the remarkable activity of heart and brain, which if not restrained must surely wear out the workers sooner than at home. They rarely live at home.. . After a while the lady missionary is invited to the best Japanese dwellings, and there she meets the gentlemen as well as the ladies of the household. At every turn the foreigner must remember that she is Christ's ambassadress, and that it is expected of her. Here also training tells for ignorance of books is unknow Japan. Bible knowledge is essential, because awkward questions for a beginner are sometimes asked; but some knows Of modern thought is desirable also. . . . It must be evident that women's work cannot be allowed to suffer from retrenchment. Besides what we have described, there is the itinerancy in the villages. Why do not many ladies of means and piety come out at their own charges and take this up under C.M.S auspices ? Great would be their happiness after the language is learned.'”—(C.M. Gleaner.)

6. AN APPEAL FOR INDIA.—" During the past winter, the Girls' Friendly Society has endeavored to extend its work in India , and a member of the Central Council has spent months in visiting the different dioceses. This has led to a recognition of the value of the Society's work and rule of life amongst the large communities of English-speaking women and girls born and bred up in India -the really stable population of the country. The Bishops of Lahore, Lucknow, and Rangoon are asking the Girls' Friendly Society to send out ladies to organise the work in their dioceses. In the Punjab five branches are established, a Home of Rest formed at the hill station of Murree, and now they ask for a lady who will act as Diocesan Secretary, and develop what has been so admirably begun. The Bishop of Lucknow appeals for a Girls' Friendly Society worker to help in Church work among the Eurasian girls in the Cathedral city. These posts are all among English speaking people, and therefore do not entail the great strain of speaking Oriental languages. The writer of the letter from which this appeal is taken says: 'Are there not some women, earnest and devout, who for love of our Lord would be ready to give themselves to India for this cause? It is most truly, though indirectly, Mission work.'"-(Guardian.)

7. MISSION OF HELP. –"‘On all hands we hear of the blessing which has attended it.' The writer of the article from which this extract is taken was much impressed by the witness borne by at least a dozen of his fellow-passengers, coming from different parts of South Africa, to the good which had been effected in their town and in themselves through the visits of the Missioners. In every diocese and town in South Africa the Mission of Help has created new responsibilities, and the Church has to face them without any addition to the slender forces of the permanent staff of clergy. No doubt, from every diocese in South Africa, we shall soon hear the cry reiterated for More men,' and even though the men are sorely needed at home, yet the absence of clergy when they are needed in South Africa means a greater loss there than it does at home.”—(Guardian.)

8. S.P.G. MISSIONS are specially strong in South Africa, and have their own difficulties, chiefly arising from racial problems. Industrial Missions have been most valuable in developing character and helping negro converts to understand the dignity of labour, instead of being content with emotional religion. It is much to be hoped that Missionary influences may be brought to bear on the mining districts of Pretoria and Mashonaland, otherwise the effect of bringing native converts up from the coast for labor there will continue to be most disastrous. A Bishop of Rhodesia is greatly needed, as the present diocese of Mashonaland is larger than one man can possibly superintend.

9. THE NEW UGANDA CATHEDRAL.—“The scene at the consecration of the cathedral was one never to be forgotten by an English visitor, above all when we consider that less than thirty years ago Stanley gave to the King of Uganda his first instruction in the truths of Christianity. At five in the morning people began to assemble, and had filled every available space long before the service began at nine. The most striking part of the service, next to the reverent behavior of a congregation of 3,500 people, was the heartiness of the responses, and the volume of sound produced when the same words were repeated by all in remarkable unison. The collection of the offertory was most interesting-quite a little army of men were employed going to and fro with large bags and cloths, and returned again and again to the chancel heavily laden with strings of cowry shells, besides the more regular coinage introduced with British rule. Many brought offerings in kind, and the English section of the congregation could not repress their smiles when the first chicken was solemnly carried up the aisle and deposited at the foot of the Table, followed almost immediately by a couple of goats, which showed a marked objection to being dragged back and removed by a side door. This collection, both in money and in kind, has more than wiped off the deficit on the Church fund."-(C.M. Intelligencer.)

10. NEWS FROM AN OLD FRIEND.-" We are glad to hear that Mr. Stewart has at last succeeded in embarking for his destination at Fort Chimo, Ungava Bay, Labrador. Canon Pilot writes: ‘His house and fixings are now on their way.... Mr. Stewart was fretting at the prospect of all his hopes being frustrated (it being nearly impossible to find a ship). He was hoping and praying for a way to open up, and now he is buoyant and bold for any sort of hardship. Let us pray all will go well, and that the Eternal Father will give the ship and her company a safe and speedy voyage.'” -(Greater Britain Messenger.)

11. THE need of men - great as it is in all parts of the world—is nowhere greater than in some parts of AUSTRALIA, specially in the Dioceses of Perth and Rockhampton. The Bush Brotherhoods have done noble work, but are fearfully undermanned. We have heard of one district in Rockhampton where no Christmas service had been held for more than ten years! It has been impossible for Church work to keep pace with the enormous stream of immigrants who have been, as usual, attracted by the sound of gold! It is much to be feared that the education question in Australia is in a very dangerous state. In many of the schools religion is forbidden altogether. “ Australia for the Australians" is a party watchword, and there seems to be a strong desire to keep out foreign labor. It seems specially hard if the Kanakas (laborers from Melanesia), who have settled down, according to treaty, become Christians, and married in Australia, are forced against their will to return to their heathen islands.

12. CHURCH LIFE IN MINING DISTRICTS.—“ The Rev. Godfrey Smith has just entered on some new work in Cooktown, Carpentaria. He tells us that outside Cooktown itself he has to visit dozens of little centres at distances of from 20 to 200 miles, in all which there are groups of miners who are growing up practically white heathen. He adds: “It seems to me that nine men out of every ten in North Queensland are open infidels, and are very ignorant with their unbelief.... I have heard many people confidently assert that religion (meaning Christianity) must soon die out of Australia...."-(Greater Britain Messenger.)

13. PROBLEMS IN AUSTRALIA.-" At a Synod recently held in Adelaide, the Bishop declared that 'we are holding our own except in the teaching of the young, and on that most vital matter we need to concentrate our special efforts without delay.' Of the debates, the one which provoked the warmest discussion was a protest against the sweepingly exclusive clauses of the Commonwealth Aliens Immigration Act, as being opposed to the brotherhood of humanity. Ultimately the Synod disposed of the matter in the following amendment to the original proposition : 'That the Synod declares that the principle of the policy called the White Australian policy, is contrary to the principles of modern civilisation and Christianity, and must, so long as persisted in, result in moral and material harm of the worst kind to Australia.'”—(Guardian.)

14. THE BISHOP OF MELANESIA.—“Captain Sinker sends us a report of his first experiences with the new Southern Cross. This is his opinion of the Bishop : 'No one not actually on the spot can form any idea of what he goes through. ... The See is reckoned by thousands of miles, scattered, one might say, over the least known parts of the globe, away from all communication, with an inadequate staff. He is toiling night and day in a tropical climate, working at times like an ordinary laborer, suffering from sickness, and sometimes in danger of his life. I sometimes get angry when I see money and energy being expended at home on all kinds of useless things and so little on Missions ; but being only a sailor, I might be told I don't know what I am talking about, and that I had better mind my own business.'"-(Report of Mission.)

15. THE DARK SIDE OF MISSIONARY LIFE.-“ Captain Sinker also says that it is impossible to speak too highly of the work at the islands, or the splendid training the natives get. Only those who have been on the spot can form any idea of the life these men lead.... A man given solitary confinement in a prison is less solitary in a way than one of these men in the islands; yet he does it cheerfully, each looking on Christ's last message as a trust to himself. The climate there is not the beautiful climate of the story-books.... Sometimes it rains continuously for long; the ground gets sodden, vegetation rots, the air gets full of poisonous vapours, breeding fever which lays hold of the missionary, stretching him repeatedly on a bed of sickness. ... Once fever gets into the system, it stays there, and even when a man is on furlough he has it. (Report.) For these reasons Mr. Robin (Secretary of the Mission) has appealed for the means to provide medical comforts for the islands, as a breakdown can so often be averted by wholesome food, but the response to his appeal has been most inadequate.”—(Report of Eton Branch.)

16. THE MAORIS IN NEW ZEALAND.-"Most of us know that when Bishop Neligan went out to Auckland last year he intended to give his whole mind and heart to the consideration of how best to carry on the work among the Maoris, a work he rightly calls the special duty of the Church in New Zealand. We know now, from his primary charge, what he thinks of the existing state of things. He says, ‘I cannot hide from you that the present condition of our evangelistic work among the Maoris is in certain parts of the diocese positively appalling.' "We, as a Church, do need to pray for forgiveness from Almighty God for neglect of the Maoris. For God's sake, for the honor of the Empire, let us face the present; do something, and go towards the future with courage and hope.... In the Diocese of Auckland the Maoris number 20,000, only about one-third of whom are nominally Christian. Although the different religious bodies are careful not to intrude on each other's 'spheres of influence,' the Maori Mission is essentially an Anglican Mission, and the Church cannot leave people exposed to the teaching of those who, like the Mormons, can hardly be called religious teachers at all. “The following extract from the Goverment census for the North of New Zealand gives a more hopeful picture than some others : Just as drunkenness is decreasing, so is crime with the Maori, more than with the European population in the North'; again, ‘I cannot conclude this report without stating that the healthier state of the natives, both young and old, is largely due to the training and assistance of the native teachers and the present working missionaries of all denominations.’ In Waikato, where only two Maoris have been brought forward for confirmation for forty years, the Bishop is yet able to say that there is growing up a hopeful band of young Maoris under the native priests, anxious to help them to help their race. One of these young fellows works in the bush, felling timber for a time ; having made a little money, he returns to the house of the native priest, and acts as his lay reader until the savings are all gone; then he returns to the bush, earns more money, saves all he can, and gets back to his church work among his people.' In other parts of the diocese the prospect is much darker. "A native clergyman writes to the New Zealand Gleaner in December 1900: 'In many instances the very suggestion of Christianity stirred up bitter feeling, and reference was generally made to some of the more painful aspects of the Maori war. “Your pakeha (foreign) missionaries," they said, “taught us to keep the Sabbath Day sacred. We did so, imagining that the pakeha would do the same ; but at the time of war we found that even during our karakia (worship) on Sunday, the pakehas would attack us and fire their guns at us." Painful reference was constantly made to the fact that the pakeha soldiers burnt some of the Maoris alive during the Waikato war. These and many other bitter references were made by the old Maoris, indicating a feeling of hostility still existing against, not only the Church, but more especially the Government. The Bishop tells us that no explanation or contradiction has been furnished of the truth of the second extract. ‘If the story is true, for God's sake let us wipe it out by faith and love. If the story is false, for the honor of this Empire let us have it contradicted in every Maori “whare" in New Zealand.' In conclusion, the claims of the Maori Mission are pleaded in these words : "The pakeha came, and the result was that the Maori religion went: Are we giving our faith in exchange ?’"-(Primary Charge of the Bishop of Auckland.)