building a new chapel, and there are several candidates for baptism. The same is true of Shway-nau-ghyee.... "I have never wavered in my belief that it is God's purpose to introduce the gospel to the Shan tribes through these mountaineers. The light which God gives me upon this path is too clear and positive to allow me to waver. Every year the work advances, and bids fair to get a foothold in the Shan territory. "Our aim should be the evangelization of the Shan country, not simply the Shan race,—for the tribes are many. Already we are working beyond the English frontier; and if there were a Burman missionary to take charge of the Burmese department at Toungoo, I would at once move on to the frontier, where the tribes are ready to receive us with open arms. "I do not mean by this that they are ready to become Christians. They do not know the truth well enough for that yet; but they are ready to receive teachers and help support them, and they are ready to aid us in going to 'the regions beyond."" China. The (Presbyterian) Record, reports the admission of six persons to the mission church at Shanghai in April last, and notices "a beginning at Suchow," as follows: "Suchow is a large city in the province of Kiangsu, China, situated nearly eastward from Shanghai, which is in the same province. In this city, Mr. Charles Schmidt is conducting missionary work under peculiar and interesting circumstances. Reaching China from Europe some years ago, he entered into military service among the natives, became colonel of an imperial regiment, and gained credit for his energy and success. At the end of the rebellion, he spent some time in mercantile business, losing most of the property he had acquired. In the mean time he had married a Chinese wife. He was brought afterwards, as it is hoped, to a saving knowledge of our blessed Lord, and received as a member of our church in Shanghai as also his wife. And now he is earnestly laboring to make Christ known to the Chinese in the city where formerly he had been engaged in battles, and where missionary laborers are greatly needed. He is supported in part by his own means." Japan. The Record, of the Presbyterian Board, for July, states: "In Japan, Dr. Hepburn, April 24th, reports the baptism of two young Japanese. They are both married men, belong to the Samuria class, or gentry, are intelligent, and formerly attended our English school. They have been industrious students of the Bible in English, and seem to understand clearly, and to have a true love for its great truths. We hope they may yet become preachers of the gospel to their countrymen. This is our great desire, to raise up men to preach the gospel; and our daily prayer."" Presbyterian Board. The Foreign Missionary, for June, in assigning causes for an increased expenditure, presents briefly the progress of that Board's missions and work within the last ten years. It states: "In this decade, the stations of the Board have increased from 41 to 62; the missionaries, including missionary physicians, from 58 to 83; ordained natives and licentiates, from 4 to 22; the increase in the total of these laborers, from 62 to 105; the native helpers from 65 to 179—or an increase in the total number of laborers from 127 to 284. Communicants have increased from a little over 700 to 1,616.... Two new missions have been formed, one in Japan and the other in Brazil, and with the exception of the Indian tribes, and a slight decrease in the Jewish mission, nearly every other mission has doubled its expenditures; or where the Board appropriated in 1857-8, $104,170, the payments have been in 1867-8, $244,271. But including the Indians and Jews, the payments of the foreign work in the former period, were $140,949, and the last year, $256,081." EMBARKATIONS. Rev. Thomas W. Thompson, of Worcester, Mass., sailed from New York July 9, for Panama, on the way to San Francisco and China; to join the North China mission. Mr. Thompson was educated at Dartmouth College and Andover Theo- Bitlis. They were accompanied by Misses logical Seminary, and has already spent something more than one year at Kanagawa, Japan, and one year and eight months at Canton, China, teaching, and studying the Japanese and Chinese languages. Rev. Messrs. L. T. Burbank and G. C. Knapp, of the Eastern Turkey mission, sailed from New York for Liverpool, July 11, with their families, on their return to Charlotte E. and Mary A. C. Ely, of Cheektowaga, Erie County, N. Y., who are to join them in their work at Bitlis, Miss Jennie Dean, of Detroit, Mich., on the way to Oroomiah, to join the Nestorian mission, and Miss Rebecca D. Tracy, of Andover, Mass., who goes to join her sister, Mrs. Livingston, in missionary labor at Sivas, Western Turkey mission. FOR THE CHILDREN. LETTER FROM HARPOOT, EASTERN TURKEY. DEAR CHILDREN, The other day I read in the Missionary Herald, that you had given for "Mission Schools," during the year 1867, almost $14,000, besides the $28,000 you collected a year ago for the new "Morning Star." Well done for the children! I exclaimed, and turning to some friends, I asked if they knew how much money our little friends at home had given for Christ. 66 "Yes," said one, "but they spend more than that every year, for candy!" Can this be true, dear children? I do not wish to believe it. I don't like to think, even, that you beg money from your parents for the missionary-box, and keep your pennies for yourselves. I am sure some of you do not, for you love the dear Jesus too well to treat him so meanly. When you make him a present, you wish to give him something of your own--something which you could keep, and spend for yourselves, but because you love Christ more than yourselves, you had rather go without and give it to him. Is it not so? Now suppose you all count up the pennies, dimes, and half-dimes which were yours last year, and see how many of them you spent for candies and playthings, and how many you gave to Jesus. But why should you deny yourself to give to Christ? Is he not rich? Does he really need the children's pennies to carry on his work? Perhaps you sometimes think these questions, if you do not ask them; and it may be some older peo ple think it hard that you cannot spend the money that is given you, or which you earn, just as you please; that is, as children usually spend their money. But what do you suppose Jesus thinks about it? Let me tell you a little story. There was once a little boy whose mother had died, and he often saw his father very sad. They lived in a foreign land, among a strange people, and had few friends to comfort them. One day this little boy came to wish his papa a happy new year. "There are no more happy new years for me," said his father, sadly. The little fellow went away with his own heart full of sorrow, and of desire to show his poor father some token of love. Pretty soon he came back and presented him with a picture. It was one of those you often see pasted upon linen, worthless in itself, yet the most precious and prized of all the dear boy's treasures. With a burst of tears he laid it in his father's hand, saying, "I'm so sorry for you, papa!" Do you think his father scorned that proof of his dear boy's love? No, indeed. He said, in telling the story: "I knew what a struggle it cost the child to part with it— that nothing but his love for me made him do it-and for that reason the little gift became very precious to me. I have kept it in my desk for many years, and I never look upon it without seeing also that dear little weeping face and those quivering lips, and it tells me how much he loved me." And so, dear children, will Jesus prize your little gifts and self-denials, as tokens of your love for him. purpose of a cradle; and in this they follow the custom of the country. But no visitor to their houses would dare to put her child to sleep in this way, for fear, again, of the Swámy. "The people said that they would join us if we would first build a school-house in the village, and put in a door-frame and a door! W. B. C." WHAT ONE SABBATH SCHOOL DOES. THE Superintendent of a Sabbathschool in Providence, Rhode Island, sends to the Treasurer $68.07, and writes as follows, to tell how the money was raised :— “Our Sabbath-school recently observed its monthly concert as a missionary meeting, and to awaken a deeper interest ín the subject of missions, one of our lady teachers furnished a fine drawing on the blackboard, of the Harpoot station and female seminary. A very interesting description of the mission was given by Dr. Cour commissioner of public schools, which was listened to, by young and old, with great profit. One class resolved to support a pupil at the Harpoot Seminary, and an appropriation of $25, and a special collection for the support of two pupils was ordered that evening. May other schools do likewise." the village. Were we to try to have them, HOW I GOT MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES. our Swámy would kill our cattle and stone our children.' 'Where is your Swámy?' we asked. Out there,' they said, pointing to a giant image of potter's work in the distance, a sort of goblin on horseback, made hideous enough to frighten people even less ignorant than they. A LITTLE girl, in Illinois, has sent fifty cents to the District Secretary of the Board, with this letter, which she dictated and her father wrote for her. The picture which she speaks of is the Secretary's certificate for children who contribute, with a photograph of the Morning Star. "I am a little girl, almost five years old. My name is Carrie Moore. I go to Sunday-school, and one time when I was there, there was a man who is going to be a missionary, talking to the children; and he said, if any little boy or girl would give fifty cents to the missionaries, so that they could teach the little heathen children to read the Bible, and learn to be good, they would have a picture of a beautiful mis sionary-ship sent to them, that they might keep for their own. So I asked my Pa how I could get the fifty cents; and Pa said, for every time that I would eat a breakfast, dinner, or supper, without teasing, fretting, or crying for any thing, that Pa or Ma thought I ought not to have, he would give me a penny. So you see, I earned three pennies every day, until I got fifty cents, and now I mean to try to be a good girl all the time. Ma says I never was a very bad girl, only a little fretful. "I am going to put my fifty cents in this letter, and send it to the missionaries; and I hope I will get my pretty picture soon. "Carrie Moore."' DONATIONS RECEIVED IN JUNE. MAINE. 10 30 25 15 Cumberland co. Aux. Soc. Castine, Cong. ch. and so. (in part), Gents, 72, m. c. 13.78; Kennebec county. Gardiner, Cong. ch. and so. 34 50, Rev. A. L. Park, 10, Mrs. H. C. Park, 10, Agnes H. Park, 5; Hallowell, a friend, Lincoln county. Bristol, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 7.30, a 20 00 85 78 Gilmanton, Cong. ch. and so. Meredith Bridge, Cong. ch. and so. North Conway, Cong. ch. and so., add'l, Mrs. R. M. Colby, Sullivan Co. Aux. Soc. N. W. God dard, Tr. Claremont, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. (of which for support of a "BibleWoman" in Diarbekir, 5), 40.55; D. M. Ide, for China, 20; Legacies. Amherst, Aaron Lawrence, by R. M. Shirley and J. G. Davis, Ex'rs, 1,000, less tax, 60, 60 55 1,066 23 940 00 Candia, Mrs. Harriet M. Patten, Waterford, Cong. ch. and so. 50 00 57 00 Waldo county. Dover, William Woodman, by T. J. W. Pray, Ex'r, 1,000 00-2,222 00 Calais, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. Robbinston, Cong, ch. and so. 40 00 Nashua, Franklin st. Cong. ch. and so. 260.81; Olive st. Cong. ch. and so. (of which from m. c. 7.66), to const. J. N. BARR, H. M. 126.98; Hannah Woodward, 1; New Boston, a lady friend, Merrimack co. Aux. Soc. Geo. Hutchins, Tr. Fisherville, Cong. ch. and so. 40, Rev. Pembroke, Cong. ch. and so., add'l, 388 79 50-483 04 50 00 Washington co. Aux. Soc. G. W. Scott, Tr. Berlin, Rev. Truman Perrin, Windsor co. Aux. Soc. Drake and J. Steele, Trs. Ascutneyville, Rev. Seth S. Arnold, Sharon, Cong, ch. and so. Springfield, Cong. ch. and so., to const. GEORGE BOWERS, EDWARD INGHAM, LANGDON SAWYER, and 41 00 coll. ler, Tr. 14.00 800 100-9 00 3 00 15 00-18 00 5 00 Barnstable county. Falmouth, 1st Cong. ch. and so., ann. coll., to const. WARREN BOURNE and Mrs. C. L. BATES, Falmouth, Mass., and Rev. ALEXANDER PARKER, Los Angelos, Cal., H. M. Berkshire county. Hinsdale, Coug. ch. and so., annual coll., 185.75, m. c. 70, to const. LYMAN PAYNE and W. A. TAYLOR, H. M. Sheffield, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. Boston and vicinity. 405 00 80.00 18 00-499 00 660 68 56 03 800-1,700 71 250 12.00 24 37 Framingham, Hollis Evan. ch. and 255 75 5 00--260 75 1,240 28 Boston, of wh. from Dr. Rufus Anderson and wife, 50, Mrs. Alvan Perry, 50, Henry D. Hyde, for a student in Marsovan Sem'y, 40, Mrs. Ira Greenwood, 20, a friend, 10, unknown, 10, ditto, 2; Chelsea, Broadway Cong, ch. and so. m. c., 2 mos., 52.82; Winn. Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 32.71; a friend, 20; Brookfield Asso'n. William Hyde, Tr. North Brookfield, Miss Persis Howe, Essex county. Andover, Hiel Proctor, Ballardvale, Union Cong. ch. and so., annual coll. Essex co. North Aux. Soc. William Thurston, Tr. Amesbury and Salisbury, Female Newbury, 1st Cong. ch. and so. and so. 351.75; Whitefield Cong. ch. and so., to const. Mrs. Mary Rolfe, H. M. 100; North Cong. ch. and so. 55.86; Essex co. South Conf. of Ch's. C. M. Richardson, Tr. Danvers, Maple st. Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 62.44; 1st Cong. ch. and so., add'l, 5; 105 08-1,845 81 5 00 20 00 69 00-89 00 24 50 10 55 507 11--542 16 part, Malden, Trin. Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 25 00 Medford, 1st Trin. Cong. ch. and so., to const. D. W. WILCOX, GEORGE PRATT, and H. C. KIDDER, H. M. 341 69 North Chelmsford, Rev. B. F. Clark and wife, Foxboro, Cong. ch. and so. 26.60, Daniels Carpenter, to const. HORACE CARPENTER, H. M., 100; Medfield, 2d Cong. ch. and so. and Sunday-school, Medway, 1st Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. from m. c. 17.04), to const. JOHN CLARK, H. M. 147.94; Village Cong. ch. and so. coll., with other dona., to const. Mrs. S. B. METCALF, H. M., 90.40; Sharon, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. Walpole, Ortho. Cong. ch. and so. West Roxbury, South Evan. Cong. ch. and so. m. c. Wrentham, 1st Cong, ch. and so. m. c. 5.50; Cynthia Hawes, for China, 50; Old Colony. Marion, 1st Cong. ch. and so. New Bedford, Rev. Wheelock Craig, 40; Rev. Asahel Cobb, 20; 25 00 10 00 25 12-785 96 28.87 50 200-81 87 126 60 58 00 288 34 14 25 81 53 88 97 55 50---568 19 16.00 60 00 -76 00 Palestine Miss'y Society. E. Alden, Tr. Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Bridgewater, Cong. ch. and so. coll. 860 00 98.50, m. c. 12.50; 111 00 10 00 5.00 201 42-588 60 Easton, Evan. Cong. ch. and so., to const. L. S. DRAKE, H. M. North Abington, Cong. ch. and so. 109 00 6:30 100 00 67 44 Gloucester, Evan. Cong. ch. and so. 304 74 Marblehead, South Cong. ch. and so. 5; a friend, 5; Peabody, a friend, Topsfield, Cong. ch. and so. Franklin co. Aux. So. E. D. Merriam, Tr. Greenfield, a friend, m. c. North Bridgewater, Porter Cong. ch. and so. 247.48; 1st Cong. ch. and so. 65: North Weymouth, Pilgrim Cong. and 80. Randolph, Winthrop Cong. ch. and so. (of wh. from E. N. Holbrook, to const. Mrs. RELIEF HOLBROOK, H. M., 100), 347 77; 1st Cong. ch. and so. 336; South Abington, S. Blake, South Weymouth, Union Cong. ch. and so. Weymouth, a member of Rev. A. A. Ellsworth's church, for a female student at Harpoot, 312 48 23 50 683 77 25.00 26 00 30 00-1,687 05 East Hampton, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Hadley, Russell Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 31.50; 2d Cong, ch. and so. 29; Northampton, Edwards Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 18; "From an old friend," 1,000; 60 88 Plymouth county. Halifax, Cong. ch. and so. 12.00 1,013 00 36 51-86 79 Plainfield, Mrs. A. G. Pixley, 10 00 Southampton, a friend, 5. 00 Worcester co. North Aux. Soc. C. Sanderson, Tr. South Hadley, Teachers and Pupils of Mount Holyoke Sem'y, for outfit of Olive S. Parmelee, to const. M. ELIZABETH CHILDS, HANNAH NOBLE, and MARY EVANS, H. M. 347 10 South Hadley Falls, South Cong. ch. and so. Ashburnham, "An aged female friend," Winchendon, North Cong. ch. and 80. m. c. Worcester co. Central Asso'n. E. H. 10 00 5 0015 00 Sanford, Tr. West Cummington, Cong. ch. and So. m. c. 88 20 500 |