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from the neighbourhood. Mr. Royle, of Aitutaki, and Dr. G. A. Turner were present. We sang the Samoan version of For ever with the Lord, after which I read some appropriate passages of Scripture, and the native pastor Tonga offered a most affecting prayer. We then went to the grave, where I conducted a short service." The loss to the Society and the Samoan mission in particular by the removal of Dr. NISBET is very great. From his length of service, his large experience, and eminent adaptation to his appointed work, he was looked upon as one of the leaders in the mission alike by his brethren and by the native churches. To his widow, his colleagues, and the members of the native community whom he so well and so faithfully served, the Directors tender their most affectionate sympathy.

4. DEATH OF MRS. THOMSON, OF NEYOOR.

Our brother, Dr. T. S. THOMSON, Superintendent of the South Travancore Medical Mission, has, in the mysterious providence of God, been called thus early in his missionary career to mourn the removal of his devoted wife. Threo and a half years since Mrs. THOMSON left our shores for India with bright hopes of lengthened service in the Lord's vineyard. She at once entered heartily into the work of female education, and was instrumental in commencing schools for caste girls in the villages surrounding the NEYOOR mission station. To these schools Mrs. Thomson devoted earnest effort and fervent prayer, the fruit of which still remains. Her last thoughts had reference to the carrying forward of these labours. Mrs. THOMSON died on Monday, the 12th of June.

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It is requested that all remittances of Contributions be made to the REV. ROBERT ROBINSON, Home Secretary, Mission House, Blomfield Street, London, E.C.; and that if any portion of these gifts is designed for a specific object, full particulars of the place, and purpose may be given. Cheques should be crossed Bank of England, and Post-ofice Orders made payable at the General Post-office.

YATES & ALEXANDER, Printers, Chancery Buildings, Chancery Lane, London

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THE

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE

AND

MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

SEPTEMBER, 1876.

The Golden Harvest-Fields.

WE want Vicat Cole, R.A., with us now as we sit by field and shade, and watch the waving corn and the rolling sea. He could well give us the picture of this soft, delicate haze, this purple-tinted distance, this golden foreground of corn-this sharp, clear, crisp contrast of rock and sea. I cannot! All I can do is to talk with you a little about these harvest-fields themselves. And what a world-old, worldwide word it is. Harvest-everywhere that season comes. Some This same

Naomi is watching the old harvest-fields in Palestine. year some grain is being stored in the vicinage of Joseph's granaries in Egypt. This same year golden fields of red Indian wheat are waving in the valleys out there where the Pilgrim Fathers found to their intense joy a little sand-heap newly done, for "they saw how the Indians had paddled it with their hands." Oh, moment of joy! how the aisles of the neighbouring forests must have rung with their cry of ́delight they found a basketful of red Indian corn! Yes, everywhere wide as the offer of a Saviour's mercy is the provision for earthly bread-and harvest is the spectacle that greets, and the supply that gladdens, the whole family of man. It is perhaps the most beautiful season of the year in England. Our summer-time is short, and the harvest month brings out the fulness and sweetness of fruit and flower! God has linked use and beauty together. The useful is not unlovelythe bloom of the grape-the blue of the sea-the russet of the applethe silver of the river-the gold of the cornfield-these teach us that God "has made everything beautiful in its time." It may be that the teachings of harvest have been the theme of so many minds that it is

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