271 721 . . . Our Chronicle continued. PAGE 612 161 284 673 736 737 285 Rev. Dr. Ales: 223 English Presbyterian Churches. 100 673 672 OUR COLLEGES. 487 488 486 487 487 487 138 253 279 522 645 257 481 279 517 464 648 464 641 416, 481 664 659 271 138 586 728 279 416 401 517 324 203 94 203 Gleanings continued. PAGE NEWS OF OUR CHURCHES. 39 100 162 224 286 347 426 488 561 613 674 737 102 164 288 428 490 552 614 676 738 40, 102 226 284, 350 425, 490 Missionaries needed for India 43 46 47 53 55 61 62 103 111 tracts 123 Proposed Mission on Lako 165 176 Love Sin. . . Success gowan PAGE . core. - . . . . Missionary Chronicle continued. PAGE Missionary Chronicle continued. 178 China-Out Stations of Peking 496 Madagascar - Congregational 179 505 182 511 184 511 SEPTEMBER- Proposed Mission on Lake 229 553 New Guinea-Visit to China 570 Notes of the Month and Ex: 231 573 Contributions 574 240 Proposed Mission on Lake Tanganyika . 615 245 621 627 629 Notes of the Month and Ex- tracts 635 289 636 303 Madagascar— The Ibara Tribes 677 304 Medical Missionary Work 685 309 691 Evangelical Alliance 696 Notes of the Month and Ex: tracts 697 698 DECEMBER Madagascar Elementary 429 739 South Seas- A Rarotongan 431 744 Female Education in India 435 746 Cape Colony—The Lovedale 437 750 441 India-South Travancore 754 Notes of the Month and Extracts. 758 709 Mr, D. L. Moody, Chicago, U. 6. A. Rev. F, Stephens, Birmingham. Rev, H. H, Carlisle, LL.B,, Southampton. . Rev. G. D, Macgregor, Paddington. . Rev. M. A. Sherring, LL.B., Benares. Rev. E. Jukes, Uxbridge. Rev. A, Macmillan, Bayswater. Nathaniel Rogers, L'sq., M.D., Exeter. . Rev. James Spong, London. . . . . The Gospel of Hope.-A Üdord for the New Year. The New Testament shows that life is to be interpreted by the principle of hope. It crowns hope, with faith and love, as unfailing and immortal. As love is to be the supreme principle in our conduct; as childlike trust is to be our feeling toward the unseen Father; so joyful ; expectation is to be our attitude toward the future. The whole tone of the New Testament is triumphant. Everywhere there is an inspiring sense of victory-a deep, fervent anticipation of a future whose glory cannot be measured. This element of joy and hope is very remarkable in a book which so fally recognises the evil elements in life.: Nowhere is there a deeper sense of the misery and degradation out of which the race is struggling. The weakness of the flesh that drags down the spirit has never been so described as by the Apostle Paul. The actual sins of the race, the animalism and cruelty and selfishness that reign among men, are nowhere else brought out so vividly as by the New Testament writers. We feel in Christ Himself an unspeakable sorrow for the woes and sins of men. So, again, this book has the most impressive teaching of personal responsibility. No other words so rouse the listener to put forth all his energies. The power of the soul in shaping its own destiny is the basis of endless appeal, warning, encouragement. There is no hint that the Divine government is a system which bears men on to happiness independently of their own will or effort. The human will is addressed in terms as vigorous as if on it alone depended everything. Taking into full view all the elements of evil in the world, keeping constantly present the freedom of human nature and its power of self B |