Greece. Dr. King wrote from Athens, March 16: "A few days since, Dr. Kalopothakes was presented to the Queen, for the purpose of giving her a copy of the Bible in Modern Greek, and also a beautifully bound copy of the New Testament in the same language, both of which she very graciously received, expressing her thanks. "He was also presented to the King; and when the King questioned him with regard to his religion, he did not hesitate to avow plainly, that he was no longer of the Greek Church, but evangelical, in other words, a Protestant, and that there were a few others here of the same denomination; that they have the communion among themselves, and that when I am here I administer it to them. "This is a bold step of Dr. Kalopothakes, who is looking forward to the time when an evangelical church will be organized here, similar to that in Demirdesh, and is desirous of obtaining a site for a building in which all who entertain evangelical views may worship together." Sandwich Islands. A call has been issued at Honolulu for a Convention of Evangelical Missionaries from different parts of the island world of the Pacific, to be held at Honolulu in June, 1870, when a half century of missionary labor at the Sandwich Islands will have been completed. It is hoped that the several missionary vessels may bring delegates from various missions; and also that deputations from European and American Societies, having missions in the Pacific, will attend. OTHER MISSIONS. China. The February number of the Chronicle, of the London Missionary Society, notices facts of much interest respecting Amoy and its out-stations, specially Bopien. It states: "One of the most healthy and encouraging modes of spreading the gospel is that which is the work of converts themselves. The new opening near Tientsin, in North China, was produced in this way. And thus sprang the commencement of this new station of the Amoy mission. A convert baptized at Hai Chung could not rest content till what had enlightened his mind should be told to his relatives in this village. The truth impressed both them and others, and at length Mr. Stronach was requested personally to visit them." The place is 90 miles from Amoy, in the district of Huian, in a small, retired valley, which contains also four other villages, the total population being about 1,000. Mr. Stronach states: "The whole aspect of the valley is peaceful and sequestered. We seemed, when approaching it, to be leaving the outer world, and to be entering on a spot where all nature was hushed in repose. We soon found we were anxiously expected. The doorways were occupied by men, women, and children, all on the outlook for the foreign missionary." Native helpers had been on the ground for nearly a year, and now, on examination and inquiry, 20 persons-13 men and 7 women—were considered fit subjects for the ordinance, and were baptized. At a subsequent visit, three others were baptized, and Mr. S. wrote: "On this, as on previous Sundays, there were present at the morning and afternoon services, a man and his wife, who came, not only on their own account, to worship God, but also to solicit the converts to 'come over and help' them, and their fellow-townsmen, belonging to a seaport, with a population of 6,000 inhabitants, situated about six miles off, called Lambang, where they maintained there were many who longed for Christian instruction, and were prepared to accommodate a regular congregation and preacher." He mentions another new out-station also, twenty-four miles from Amoy, where interest commenced through the influence of a native convert. He had recently visited the place twice, and had baptized 8 persons. There were still 7 applicants for baptism, "the sincerity of all," he writes, "being put beyond question, in my opinion, by the opposition and persecution they endure." The Missionary Advocate, of April 21, "Before (Methodist Episcopal,) states: the church shall read this brief notice, the Missionary Society will have been the first whilst their heads were decorated with such numerous and variegated-colored or to have planted the banner of the cross in another province of China.... Rev. Dr. Maclay, superintendent, writes to the Mis-naments as would baffle the most skillful sion Rooms, that on a recent tour of a week through the southern part of the mission, he had baptized 24 adults, and that the work in the south 'grows more and more promising.' He also reports Brother and Sister Todd at Shanghai, on their way to join Brother and Sister Hart in their new mission in Kiukiang. the capital of the province of Kiang-si. Our China mission is bringing forth glorious, we may say abundant fruit." India. The Missionary Advocate presents what it calls "glorious news from India," contained in a letter from Rev. T. S. Johnson, dated at Shahjehanpore, December 30: "Dr. Johnson advises us of the baptism of 87 persons in one day, mostly by families; and that the leading spirits in this unusual and glorious work were men of high caste, of respectable families, and landholders. The most marked and significant fact was the public appearance and baptism of the women, mothers of families. Within two weeks, 12 more were baptized, chiefly promising boys in the orphanage; making 99 baptisms, chiefly adults, within ten or twelve days. Dr. Curry, remarked, in the Board, that this glorious news was not wholly unexpected to him; he had noted the move. ments in the mission, and looked for great results." South Africa. The Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church, (Scotland,) for April, presents a case of impressive preaching by "a Caffre to Caffres." The occasion was the opening of a new church at Henderson, Caffraria. Rev. J. A. Chalmers wrote respecting the three Sabbath services after mentioning the morning sermon, by a missionary: "Then followed the Rev. Tiyo Soga, as represent ing the United Presbyterian Church. He had a noble audience. The church was crowded in every part by a most picturesque assembly of red-painted Caffres. On one side, to his left, sat the men in their red blankets; to his right were the women in full dress' with their skin karosses on, pen to describe. He riveted the attention EMBARKATION. Rev. Alpheus N. Andrus, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Mrs. Louisa M. (Morse) Andrus, of Jewett, N. Y.; Rev. Lewis Bond, Jr., of Plainfield, N. J., and Mrs. Fannie G. (Russell) Bond, of New York City; Rev. Edwin Lock, of New Ipswich, N. H., and Mrs. Zoe Ann M. (Noyes) Lock, of Westmoreland, N. H., sailed from New York April 25, for Liverpool, on the way to Turkey. Mr. Andrus is designated to Mardin, Eastern Turkey, and Messrs. Bond and Lock go to the Bulgarian portion of the Western Turkey field. DEATHS. At Harpoot, Eastern Turkey, February 28, Harry Barnum, son of Rev. H. N. Barnum, aged 3 years and 6 months. The death was occasioned by an almond-meat passing into the wind-pipe. At Northampton, Mass., January 25, at the house of her son, Rev. Dr. Hall, Mrs. Margaret Hall, widow of Rev. Gordon Hall, one of the first missionaries of the American Board to India. Mrs. Hall was of English birth, and was married to Mr. Hall at Bombay, December 19, 1816. In 1825 she sailed for the United States, by the advice of physicians, with two children, in the hope of advantage to their health. The oldest son, however, died on the voyage, and the next year she was about to return to India, when intelligence was received of Mr. Hall's death, on the 20th of March, 1826. Thus left a widow she remained, with her one surviving son, in the United States, and as that son testifies, "loved the American Board, and taught him to love it"; and at her death, she requested him to pay to the Board $500 as a legacy from her. At the Sandwich Islands, March 11, Rev. Asa Thurston, in his 81st year. Mr. Thurston went to the Islands with the first company of missionaries, sailing October 23, 1819; and had therefore been engaged in the mission work more than 48 years. FOR THE CHILDREN. LETTER FROM MR. SNOW. MR. SNOW, who was at Kusaie when the Morning Star went there, in September last, at the close of a letter to the Secretary of the American Board, says something for the children about their vessel. "I ought to say a word, before closing, about the new and beautiful Morning Star. Like all the new things of God, each is better than the former. Like the wine for the marriage feast-Thou hast kept the good until now.' How almost miraculous that the dying brother [Mr. Bingham] should have been raised up to take such an important part in securing this invaluable treasure to the work of the gospel in Micronesia! In it we recognize a new pledge that God's hand and blessing is with us in our work. How nobly did the great army of little children respond to this second call to furnish a little ship to wait on their blessed Master. We cannot but feel that he is constantly with us, so obviously have we seen his hand in times of imminent peril. We love to feel that he is with us in the great Pacific, no less than he was with his disciples upon the beautiful Sea of Galilee. bor of Kusaie, when the children and their parents came on board to look at the vessel-'inte oaku' as they say. We had prepared a song of welcome to the new Morning Star. You would have been delighted to hear the little children, as they rang out their welcome with their sweet and harmonious voices. As they passed through the cabin to the music of the beautiful organ, seeing those excellent pictures of the launch,—the little child saying 'Now I lay me,' and 'Jesus blessing little children,' - you might have been most interested to see them pass that large side looking-glass, and so get life-like views of themselves. Their laughs there quite upset the equilibrium of our sober captain. But let us go out on the quarter, and the top of the house, and sing. After a few of their sweet songs, including the 'Welcome,' Mrs. Bingham suggested that we sing the favor ite song of Selpas, spoken of in the Story of the New Morning Star,'-' Awake, my soul, to joyful lays.' But the chord she touched was too tender. We could hardly get through the first verse before most of us broke down, and we had to turn to talking and praying. We shall long and tenderly cherish the memory of that dear Selpas. We pray, and trust, that the dear ones who gave their dimes and their dollars for the new Morning Star, may ere long be prepared to meet not only Selpas, but hundreds, yes thousands of other Micronesians, in That sweet home of glory."" LETTER FROM THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS. IN the Herald for March there was a letter from Mr. Schneider, of Central Turkey, about an interesting visit to a mountain town, Hasan Beyli; and now Mrs. Schneider has sent a letter from that town, for the children. "DEAR CHILDREN, - You will be interested to hear why we are up here, in this wild mountain region - the snowy peaks of the Taurus on our right and on our leftmore than two days distant from Aintab. Several years ago, a young man from Aintab labored in this and in other villages. He suffered much persecution, funds failed, and he returned home. But a few had learned to read, and the Bible left here was as leaven. Last fall, the native pastor from Killis labored here a few days, and after a few months an Aintab school-teacher succeeded him. They both found a new thrill of lifeArmenians waking up to the errors in their church, earnest discussion reaching far into the night, and straining of eyes by torch-light, to examine the Bible and refute the priest. 'This is all new,' they said. Have we been so long blinded?' Robbers. "Many families left the Armenian church, and quite a number found Jesus, the blessed One. Five, who be came Protestants, had been robbers and outlaws. The owner of this cabin where we live, while robbing a man from Aintab, cut off several fingers. A gruff man, with grisly beard, who gives evidence of conversion, told us he once took down his gun and threatened to kill a man from Aintab. Another famous brigand came to be examined for admission to the church; but it was thought best to give him a longer trial. He was a tall, gaunt man, and my eye often wandered to him during service, to watch how gospel truths vibrated upon the chords of a nature hardened by crime. Those ears, now drinking in the story of a Saviour's love and sufferings, had been trained to catch the foot-fall of some unwary traveler, previous to stopping and plundering him. "When Mr. Schneider was examining candidates, their artless narratives of Christian experience surprised him. So much light upon so dark a background — such clear convictions of truth, in those who had only within a year heard, or read, the story of the cross, (some were unable to read at all,) he has not found elsewhere. Good Meetings. The Saturday evening prayer-meeting was a foretaste of the treat enjoyed yesterday. The helper Sakis led in a short prayer, and then twelve, or more, followed him, without a moment's pause, often two rising at a time. Thoughts and words flowed from a full fountain. Yesterday was the fullest of our twelve days of mountain life. Would that you could have seen that group of thirteen men and two women, gathered around Christ's table for the first time. When the emblems of his body and blood were passed, audible sobs broke from those sturdy men. I saw several in convulsed weeping, with heads bowed to the ground. The tin plate and simple white mug, in which were passed the bread and wine, did not detract from the solemnity of the scene, but were rather in keeping. Chapel-Inquirers. "The rustic chapel, built without a para of help from abroad (of small limbs of trees, interwoven, and plastered), overlooks a lovely valley-framed in by spurs of the Taurus. "I was delighted with the effect of the services on the women, many of whom had never heard a Protestant before. Moistened eyes, and quiet, falling tears, told how deeply their hearts were touched. One woman, of rare refinement and sense, is deeply in earnest to know the truth. She came to us yesterday, twice, as an inquirer. 'In our church,' she said, 'we are taught so and so. How is this?' With tearful eyes she said, 'We are like those in a dark well. A little light has come down to us, and shall we not accept the help given to lift us out of the well?' We fondly hope that, having found Christ herself, she will afterward lead many of these poor women to him. The Women. “You are aware, dear friends, that where the gospel is unknown women are looked upon as drudges, not as companions of the men. Up here they never eat until after their husbands. They share in the toils of the field; horses, cows, sheep, and goats are quartered in their houses, passing in and out of their front doors; and yet these women are very impressible and gentle. I had many pleasant meetings with them. Several have commenced learning the alphabet, others have cut off the dirty coins attached to their head-dresses. "My dear children, to what shall I compare these towering head-dresses? I know not, since there is nothing so uncouth in America. A foot in height, with numberless foldings of gay silks and cotton around a fez, to which perhaps some forty silver coins are attached, which cover the face, and weigh four or five pounds! A young, promising girl will accompany us to Aintab, to be educated for a teacher of these women. The House Stopped in. "But before we leave I would love to introduce you to the half cave, half cabin, where we have spent some of our happiest days in the East. It is dug from the mountain, which forms our wall on two sides - dirt and gravel. For ceiling above, there is a layer of branches of trees, and on this a layer of dirt. Of rain and dirt we often have an inundation, which is not agreeable in the night. As our room is innocent of windows, when I read or write I creep quite into the fireplace, as the hole above my head, for chimney, affords the only avenue for light. Were you so kind as to visit us, I should seat you on the ground, á la Turk, and give you some pomegranates to eat with your fingers; because people up here go back to first principles, and ignore what we think are the necessaries of life. Not an article of furniture in this village! But we've had no intrusive neighbors, like those who shared our room on the journey, -fif teen very filthy people on the ground, at our feet, and thirty (or more) cattle, including horses, mules, sheep, and goats, at our heads. Indeed, the very little space occupied by our camp bedsteads was refused us. Mr. Schneider made a forcible intrusion, else we must have slept out in the cold. "In returning, we shall suffer from benumbed limbs and great weariness, and probably from rain and snow, on account of which our horses sometimes refuse to proceed. But our hearts will keep warm and glowing, remembering what the Lord, by his Spirit, has wrought for the mountaineers of Hasan Beyli. "Affectionately your friend, S. M. A. SCHNEIDER. HENRY PARSONS BARNUM. A LITTLE boy died at Harpoot, in February last, about whom the children will be glad to hear something. He was the son of a missionary, three and a half years old, and his father writes respecting him, his death, and the accident which caused it, as follows: "At dinner he called for an almond, as was his custom at the close of the meal, and his mother gave him one which had been blanched. This must have slipped as he put it into his mouth, for it passed into the wind-pipe and lungs. It is a short, but sad, sad story to us.... He continued for four and a half days, at times suffering greatly, especially during the last twelve hours. He was slowly suffocated, and thrown into frequent convulsions. No one of us ever witnessed such dreadful suffering, but the Lord helped us to bear it, and I think he helped Harry to be patient. His mother's faithful instructions, and his frequent inquiries respecting those who had died here, gave him an understanding, beyond most children of his years, of death and heaven, and his first hours of suffering appear to have turned his thoughts in that direction. In answer to our oft-repeated questions, he invariably expressed a wish to go to be with Jesus, with his little brother and sister who died three and a half years ago, and with little Alice Allen who died in October, and even to leave his |