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Here we can give only a few extracts: I have known a good many people who were opposed. to foreigh missions. 1 have known regular attendants at church, (consistent members, perhaps) who religiously, if you choose that term, refused to contribute to foreign .mis- It has been a custom in literature You remember 1 sions |to make fun of them. {in Dickens when Sam Weller came saw Tony, his father, and the | home, and r | widow whom Tony had married, The framed an widow and the Rev. Stiggins indictment against Tony, on the ground that he would not contribute any money to pay for 'flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs" for little heathen infants. He said they were little hym- bugs, and he said, moreover, in anun- dertone to Sam, that he could come down pretty handsome for some 'straight veskits" for some people at home. I confess there was a time when I was enjoying a snug provincialism, that I hope has left me now, when 1 rather sympathized with that view. Un- til I went to the Orient, until there was thrust upon me the responsibilities of the extension of civilization, 1 did not realize the immense importance of for- eign missions. The truth is, we have got to wake up in this country. We are not all there is in the world. There are hosts entitled to our effort and our money and our sacrifice to help them on in the world. No man can study the | movement of modern civilization from | d not realize {an impartial standpoint, an r that the spread of Christianity is the only basis for hope of modern civiliza- tion in the growth of popular self-gov- ernment. I have been at the head of the Philip- | pines, and I know that the hope of those | islands depends upon the development | of the power (of the churches there. One | of the discouraging things is the poverty- | stricken condition of the Roman Catho- | lic church, which has the largest con- | gregations, and every man, be he Pro- | testant or not, must in his soul hope for the prosperity of the Roman Catholic church in those islands, that it may up- Protestant missions lift those people. are doing a noble work. It may be that as large their congregations will not be as those of the Roman church. It is not Missions--Says Move-| crease the number of missionaries and | of nuclei of Christianity and of civiliza- | tion in that teeming population of 450,-| 060,000 must enlist the sympathy of all | who understand a great good. You can read books in which the missions are de- scribed as most comfortable buildings, where missioners are living more luxur- jously than they are at home, and there- fore not 'needing our support or sympa- | y. It is true a good many mission buildings age handsome. They are com- fortable, but 'they ought to be comfort- able. One of the things you have to do with the Oriental is to fill his eye with something, and if you erect a great mis- sionary building he deems the coming of the missionary into that community as of some importance. But it is not a/ life of ease, comfort or luxury. I don't know how many have felt that thing physicians call "nostalgia" --have expe- rienced that sense of distance from home, that being surrounded by an alien people, that yearning for two hours of association with old friends, to get into a street car and hang by a strap, to be near friends. I tell you when you come back after an absence of five or ten years, even the strap seems a dear old memory. Those men are doing a grand good work; sometimes they make mis- takes and sometimes they meddle in things it would be better from a politi- cal standpoint to keep out of, but as a whole, those 3,000 missionaries in China and those thousands in other countries worthily represent the best Christian spirit of this country, and worthily are doing work indispensable to the spread of civilization. SION COLLEGE. The Late Rev. w. H. Milman Was Interested. LATE REV. W. H. MILMAN, The death this summer of Rev. Wil- liam Henry Milman, rector of St. Au- gustine's, with St. Faith's--under Sf. to_be expected, but the spirit of Chris- tian emulation has the grandest effect upon agents of all the churches, and so | indirectly upon t influence of the churches upon an ig-| norant people that holds up the hands | of the civil governor, in maintaining | peace and order, in inducing them to | educate their children, and to go on up- ward toward self-government. I am talking practical facts about the effect of religion on political government. For- eign missions accomplish a variety of things. They have reached the conclu- sion that to make a man a good Chris- tian you have got to make him useful in the community and teach him something to do and. give him some sense and in- teiligence. So, connected with every successful foreign mission is-a school, ordinarily an industrial school. You have also got to teach them that cleanli- ness is next to Godless, and that one business of his is to keep himself health- ful: and so in connection with foreign missions they have hospitals and doc-| tors. The mission makes a nucleus of modern civilization, with schools and teachers, a physician and a church, and in. that way having educated the native, he people; and it is the | ppp TL ELE EEE CREST pp NEW es CORSET Has THE UNBREAKABLE HIP CANT BREAK AT THE WAIST LINE |} i H This charmingly shaped model will enable you to be chic and stylish without transgressing the laws of ealth. A radical departure ia corset constryction-- it is equally adapted to figures varying from average to over-stout and deserves the attention of every woman. Abdominal bands on each side gently distribute the excess flesh at hips giving the straight back and Hat hip effect, while elastic gores positively prevent any breaking at the waist line -- thus practically doubling the life of this corset. Price $2.25 Ot imported coutil, best quality obtain. able; 20 to 36. Superiatively chic and dainty as well as hygienic. snare CO. MrFrs. -- QUEBEC, MONTREAL, TORONTO. having taught him how to live, they are| sure they have made him a consistent | Christian. | It is said there are many rice Chris- | tians in China Doubtless--there are. | Chinese don't differ from other people, and are quite willing to admit a conver sion they don't feel that they may fill | their stomachs. But the real fact i that every mission in China is a nucleus for the advancement of modern civiliza tion. China is in a state of transition | China is looking to progress. i | be guided by the young Christian _stu- | | dents and scholars that either learn Eng- | lish or some other foreign language at home, or are sent abroad to be instruct- ed and who come back to be listened to by those who exercise infiuence at the head of the government. Therefore it is | that these frontier posts of civilization are much more important than the mere | ll | numerical account of those converted. | There are 3,000 missionaries in China | The number of students last year was 35.000; they must have a good effect | ighout that great empire to promote ristianity and the ideas of civilization. | Two or three things make one im-| patient when he understands the facts. One is the criticism that the missionary | is constantly involving governments in trouble. The truth is that western civil- | ization in trade is: pressing into the Ori | ent, and the agents sent forward are not | the best representatives of western civil- | ization. Many are excellent, honest, | God-fearing men, but there are gentle-| III SIIIIICISISRISRISISIIIICIIIBICIION DULCET RRR AFTER DINNER MINTS PUT ' UP IN TINS. 15 and 30 Cents Per Tin THE FINEST MADE,' TRY THEM. A.J.REES, 166 Princess St HHAAAN AA HAAAN HK men who left the west for the good of | the west. It is not human nature that | | they should resist the temptations that | {not infrequently present themselves, to| | get ahead of the Oriental in business | transactions. They generally are quite | out of sympathy with a spirit of brother- | hood toward the native. | | Then thegrestraints of public opinion | {at home to keep men in the straight | | path are loosened in the Orient, and a| | host of foreigners are not models in pro- | { bity and morality. Hence it is that | through missions we must have the true | | picture of Christian brotherhood pre-| | lof Christian sympathy. If in China you | {try to find out what the conditions are | lin doctrime, love in convers It is tofu Paul's since 1837, removed qne of the best known of the London clergy. Be- | sides being a son of the famous Dean Milman, of St. Paul's, he was minor canon of the cathedral for nearly fifty years. Mr. Milman's great work was, however, in connection with Sion Col- ege, of which he had been Librarian since 1857. The college was founded by Dr. Thomas White, a rector of St. Dun- stan's-in-the-West, who died in 1621. He left £3,000 for the buying (to use his own words) "of a fair house and court- yard to make a fit college for a corpor- ation of all the ministers, parsons, vicars, The First College. rs, and curates within London and th irbs thereof; as also for a house or place fast by to make a convenient almshouse for twenty persons, viz, ten n and ten women." This he did in regard to the clergy to ain truth g together, to repress such sins as do follow men'; and in regard to the alms- house, with the laudable desire of reliev- ing the suffering and misery attendant upon impecunious old age. He also left £40 yearly for the maintenane¢ of the college, and £120 for the almshouse. The college was first established on London Wall. In 1886 the present hand- ' lectn and The Present One. some structure on the Thames embank- ment, near Blackfriars Bridge, was open- ed by the King (then Prince of Wales). I'he new building, designed by Sir Ar- thur Blomfield, cost $140,000. There is a magnificent library of one hundred thousand volumes, man of which are of priceless value. Phe care of this library was Mr. Milman's life work, and his name will ever be linked with the story of this famous old clerigal founda- sented to those natives, the true spirit | tion. ~ . . | Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000 to- | 1 the interior, you go at once to the yards an organ for St. John's, Chelms- | | missionari the men who have spent] ford E | ! » : pent | ford, Eng., an vi | their lives far advanced into the nation, | Hatfield eg, 36d $1,500 towards one at 1 IN TINNEVELLY. A Harvest Festival When Offerings Can Be Made. Mission Field. February is the best time for a harvest festival in Sawyerpuram, Tinnevelly, In- dia, being the only time when offerings can be made. The early rice crop has been reaped and dried, and vegetables are plentiful. So the Christian village and all its neighboring villages are en fete. The bell of the church gives no- tice for the celebration at 7.30. Near the church are the boarding-schools for boys and girls, and from each proces: sions start for service. The church is decorated with strings of oleander flow- ers, white and red. Towards the end of the service offerings begin to pour in. By 10.30, the time of the special service, the nave has a curious appearance. By' the north door are many earthen pots full of palmyra sugar, dark and treacly; at the south door are heaps of paddy (rice in the husk) and palmyra shoots (a much appreciated vegetable). Sacks and bundles arrive all through the ser- vice. At the lectern are piled pump- kins and snake gourds, green cocoanuts, millet, eggs in palmyra-leaf baskets, col- ored cotton cloth woven in the village, balls of palmyra-sugar, and many miscel- laneous objects--pins, boxes, a fan-- bought for the occasion. From the west door come the sounds of a farmyard, for there are bestowed outside the cat- tle and ducks and chickens. : The church holds 1,000 persons, and it is nearly filled--men with wild locks and scanty wraps of white muslin, cthers in semi-European dress, but all barefoot; women in brilliant saris pull- ed over their heads for sgrvice (red, orange, brown, are favorite colors) ; children in white or colored waistcloths like scanty petticoats. There are no scats in the nave except for casual Euro- peans; others kneel or prostrate thém- selves reverently, and join heartily in the singing or recitation. After sermon gifts in cash are made by worshippers. The missionary, standing near the lec- tern, receives them. & the close a Te Deum is sung. Service over, begins the auction of the produce. A pandal, or temporary por- tico, has been erected outside the church, decorated with plantain trees and ceiled with women's cloths or saris. tioneer patiently and warily watches for bids, and reiterates the Tamil for "go- ing, going, gone," for two or three hours. The bidding is spirited, for the people are not trying to make bargains, but to secure money for furnishing the tower of their beautiful church. The live stock having been disposed of, fruit, eggs, cocoanuts, cloth, and miscellaneous goods are exhibited in order, and only the paddy, palmyra roots, and part of the jaggery (sugar) left to be sold at market rates. The total of the offerings in cash and kind this year for this day was over 400 rupees, f.e. £27, and the number of individual gifts showed that the people understood the joy of bring- ing their first-fruits to God's house for His service. Advance In Japan. To estimate the advance of Christian work and influence in a non-Christian land, one must view the situation from the inside and look backward. From his vantage point of eight years' resi- dence in Japan, Rev. H. St. George Tucker, president of St. Paul's college, Tokyo, writes: "We seem possibly to but the work from within appears to be growing stronger and more secure all the time. Christianity may be said to have taken root. papers now write of it as one of the re- ligions of Japan, even when they op- pose it, which is a big advance over the time when it was referred to as a for- eign religion. 1 wish friends at home could have attended the Sokwai (the synod) to see representatives from Hok- kaido to Kyushu, lay and clerical, dis- cussing with dignity and intelligence questions of canon law and church pol- icy. cese--Mr. Kawaguchi, the well-known Aomori lawyer, Judge Yasuda, of Mae- bashi, and Dr. Suguira, of Tokyo--were among the leaders in the debates. To hear such questions discussed by Japan- ese Christians and to see the church re- presented by such men was an inspira- tion and a sufficient answer to doubt ers. A Mission Shrine. The grave of a missionary is one of the most pathetic things in existence. Alone in a savage country he has toiled on, seeing but little reward for his la- bors; and even, in deagh his body is ex- iled from hiY"country"and kindred. The grave of Mrs. Livingstone, who died while accompanying her husband on one of his great explorations, is situated a hundred miles from the mouth of the Zambesi river, at a little place called Shupanga. It is a place of pilgrimage for other missionaries who, working in the interior, do not think that their so- journ in Africa is complete without a visit to the burial spot of one of the greatest of them all. They travel up the Zambesi on the little river steamers, and are hospitably welcomed by the French mission, which has a station near the grave. At Chinde, at the mouth of the Zambesi, the steamship Ilala is to be seen--the small boat sent in 1871, by the Church of Scotland Mission, to search for Livingstone. Fine Old Churches. tn London are eight fine old churches, the remnant of the thirteen which es- caped the great fire of 1666. The gem of these is St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, a beautiful specimen of Norman work. It was founded by Rahere, or Rayer, King's Minstrel to Henry the First. He also/ established St. Bartholomew's hospital, a celebrated London charity. A view is given above of Rahere's tomb in the church of St. Bartholomew. Thomas Lord, Congregational, the oldest preacher in the world, has died at Horncastle. He celebrated his The auc- | the outside to be making slow progress,' The magazines and | Three of the laymen from our dio- |. 7) v 'Belnlt WithBoth Feet HEISE i \ We are receiving many compli- § : ments over our New F all Lines. Let § the pleasure of showing them \ J. H. SUTHERLAND & BRO. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. SIIIIRISRICORIIIICIINIOING Z Dining Room Furniture. OUR SPECIAL SALE Of China Closets, Combina- tion Buffets, Sideboards and Extension Tables. : Also Parlor Setts, Couches and Carpets, Rugs and Mats. James Reid's, The Leading Undertaker. "Phone, 147. THE BEST ADVERTISE- MENT FOR The Happy Thought Range § is the great army of women in whose kit- chens they are. 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Telephone, 577 Advise the purchase immediately of the fol. lowing Cobalt Silver Stocks: Nova Scotia, Trethewey , and Chambers-Ferland. Buying or selling orders may be wired at my expense. All marketable securities handled. Corres- pondence invited. : J. O. HUTTON, 18 MARKET STREET, KINGSTON, ONTARIO. { that the Boxer war was due to the in-| i national convention in Boston, marked | pis ! 1 ; n | {aroused the Chinese was the feeling that | remendous favorite {tom has been observed of holding ser-; Christian nations were sitting around | { terference of missionaries and the feel- | { by aggressive interest in economic legis- | hs : everyw | waiting to divide up the middle king-| Ty here, because of | ing of the Chinese against them That | 1s not true e first outbreak was] {lation and soctal reform. The discus- | sions were heard by thousands and made | { dom, and I am not prepared to say that | its richness and pleasing flavor. against missionaries, because it was easi- | {est to attack these men furthest in the | la deep impression. Chinese nation. But that which really| At Ranworth, Eng. the ancien cus- | {vice in the wheat fields, for a safe gath- {ering in of the harvest - Nb man of good sense will brag | there was not some ground for suspi-| !about the amount of money he has. J cion. : 2788 | It's easy to make love when single, A movement to raise money to id- {but when married often difficult. | pS