ber of years but its founding had been deferred on account of financial and other considerations. The Canadian Congregational churches having raised a fund of $10,000 for instituting a new work, the mission was able to proceed. After extensive exploration, a magnificent site was found at Dondi which is 6,000 feet above sea-level and has an unexampled climate for tropical Africa. The first night after the missionaries arrived water froze to the depth of an inch, greatly to the astonishment of the natives who passed the morsels of ice from hand to hand, watching it melt with great glee. The annual meeting of the mission was held on the new site and during a period of one week only two mosquitoes were seen, a truly remarkable thing for Africa. Here

touched by Christian-missions. It is the purpose of the Board to send out three or four missionaries as soon as plans can be completed. An appropriation of $15,000 has been made for the beginning of the work. Among the missionaries will go a medical-missionary and one representative of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. It will be remembered that Bishop Lambuth explored this region during the last summer, and was hospitably entertained and assisted by the Presbyterian mission at Luebo. There is a large field for missionary labor on the upper regions of the Kongo and there is no indication that it will be overdone.

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Cooperation in Cape Colony

generosity of the Canadian churches, the central training institute for the mission and in fact for the whole of Angola, a district as large as from New York to Chicago and from Lake Erie to the Gulf. The institute will combine industrial, agricultural, normal and theological courses, the object being to equip native workers for all departments of the work.

A New Mission on the Kongo HE board of missions of the Episcopal Church, South, has authorized the establishment of a mission-station on the Kongo, not a great distance from the Southern Presbyterian stations on the Lulua River. This will open up work in the Batatala tribe. Dr. Verner says of this tribe that they

are "the most famous warriors in the whole Kongo regions. They have never been conquered by another tribe, by the Arabs, or by the white men." The country in which they live is said to be exceedingly rich and fertile, being a level prairie-land, with deep, black soil. The Belgian government enlists a great many of the Batatala men as soldiers. The tribe has hardly been

the German Missionary Societies, viz. The Berlin Society, the Rhenish Society, and the Moravians, met on December 28, 1911, and discust the important question of closer cooperation. It was decided to prepare a common book of discipline first of all, and to use the missionary training school of the Moravians in Genadendal for the training of the native workers of the three Societies. An agreement was entered into that the Moravian paper, Genadendaler Bode, and the Berlin. paper, De Pilgrim, should be united and become the one weekly religious paper for adherents of the three societies in the Cape Colony. A common hymn book will be gotten up in the near future.

A Central African Pentecost

REV. CHARLES INWOOD, who

has just concluded a tour of the American continent in the interests of the Evangelical Union of South America, tells a most interesting story in his little book, “An African Pentecost." In 1910 he acted as deputation from the Keswick Convention in Central Africa. At Loudon, in the Nyasaland Protectorate, he witnessed a remarkable scene in the mission of the United Free Church of Scotland.

The big church building seats 2,500 people, yet it was filled at the first meeting, as many women as men being present, and hundreds of noisy, crying babies as well. The first meetings seemed to bring little real conviction of sin, but at the close of the week remarkable scenes ensued. First came a great stillness over the vast audience, then prayer commenced. Slowly one and another rose, and some sad confessions of sin were made. Then two prayed together, then three; then suddenly, as if a divine breath had passed over the audience, everybody began to pray. The sound rose like the murmur of the sea-deep, solemn, sacred. In a few moments absolute quiet was restored, and the meeting was closed. On the Lord's Day not less than 7,000 people came to the morning service. A number of heathen chiefs and people were present. When the Word was preached, lips quivered and tears flowed. The Lord was present. Then came again a flood of prayer, and as the whole congregation began to pray, the heathen at the outskirts of the crowd fled in alarm and terror. But again this mighty sound of crying and weeping and praying subsided, and the service closed in profound silence, such as the Spirit alone can produce.

The influence of that awakening extended far and wide, and it was followed by a great ingathering of souls.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Marvelous Livingstonia Mission "CAN NOT attempt a description of the marvelous place, or the marvelous work," writes the Rev. T. M. Napier, of Stitchel. "The mag"The magnificent site, the well laid-out estate, the substantial houses, the beautiful hospital, the church and school, dispensary, industrial-buildings, the power-station, the agricultural department, all these, that impress so much every visitor, are only the externals-the throbbing center of a great system of activities, evangelistic, medical, educational, indus

trial, and civic, that is transforming a vast extent of Central Africa, and effecting a revolution in the whole life of the people of which the record shall remain always among those of the greatest achievements and romances of missions. If Livingstone could have foreseen this answer to his prayers and his hopes in this place and work which perpetuates his name!, "On Sabbath, June 16th, Communion-services were held at which 2,000 people gathered."

THE ISLAND WORLD

Y. M. C. A. in the Philippines THE HE $10,000 with which the campaign for a Y. M. C. A. in Manila was started was the gift of Mr. Teodoro R. Yangco, a leading shipping and business-man of Manila, himself a Filipino and president of the Filipino Young Men's Christian Association. Among his other philanthropies have been the gift of two public school-buildings to his native province, the gift of a dispensary to a poor part of Manila (in the house in which his father started in business, now rebuilt and equipped with all appliances for surgery, etc.), the support of a dozen Filipino girls studying to be nurses, and of several students in Europe and America. Mr. Yangco is further director of an association for the development of the agriculture and industries of the islands.

Christian Endeavor in Micronesia

"THE

HERE are 4,000 Christian Endeavorers in the Marshall Islands," declares Rev. C. F. Rife, M.D., for many years a missionary. of the American Board in Micronesia, "more Endeavorers, indeed, than there are church-members. This is because when the Marshall Islanders are converted they are not immediately admitted to the churches, but undergo a period of testing and training lasting about six months. They are, however, immediately admitted to the Christian Endeavor Societies, and get a large part of their training from the Christian

Endeavor work.

There are Chris

tian Endeavorers on every one of the 22 islands of the group. Their weekly prayer-meetings are held at more than 80 centers, so that the Marshall Islands have at least 80 Christian Endeavor societies. Only Only 2 committees are used by these societies the prayer-meeting and the lookout. Entirely of their own motion the Marshall Island Endeavorers have established the custom of building Christian Endeavor houses. These are buildings near the churches, but separate from them. Each is about 12 by 12 feet, and the houses are used solely for the meetings of the lookout and prayermeeting committees."

Darkness in New Guinea

MISSIONARY work among the

Papuas, the heathen inhabitants of New Guinea, has been carried on for many years. In Dutch New Guinea the Utrecht Missionary Society maintains a good-sized work; in German New Guinea, the Rhenish and Neuendettelsan societies are established; and in British New Guinea, the London Missionary Society and the Australian Wesleyans are laboring. But New Guinea is a hard and dangerous field. The pernicious climate has caused the death of many a consecrated laborer and the Gospel is making progress only slowly. Sorcery still prevails, and the annual report of the Lieutenant-Governor, presented to the Australian Government, gives a revolting picture of native customs and beliefs. The English officials, and the press, are inclined to think that the best way to deal with these superstitions and cruelties is to ignore them, except they are used for a purpose evil in itself. To us, however, their existence reveals the crying need for continued faithful preaching of the Gospel among the Papuas.

PERSONAL

A Missionary to Chinese Moslems N September 21, William Whiting Borden took the vows of ordination in the Moody Church in

Chicago, to become a missionary of the China Inland Mission among the Mohammedans of the province of Kansu, China, one of the darkest sections of the earth. The Christian influences which surrounded him throughout his youth, and finally a visit to the mission fields in 1904 and 1905, caused him to decide to become a missionary himself. At the Student Volunteer Convention of 1906 he decided that his work would be among the Mohammedan Chinese.

Mr. Borden graduated from Yale. University in 1909. While a senior there he established the Hope Mission in New Haven. He bought the property and started the work. It is still going on and much blest. In the winter on cold nights as many as 150 men go there at night, but nothing is ever charged for board or lodging. Afterward Mr. Mr. Borden went to the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated last spring. He has been engaged in work for the Student Volunteer Movement until December, when he sailed (December 17th) for Cairo, where he will study Arabic under Dr. Zwemer, thus preparing himself most thoroughly for the great work before. him.

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G. Fred Bergin of Bristol GREAT loss has come to the Christian world and to the orphans of England in particular by the passing away of Mr. G. F. Bergin, the honored director of the Ashley Downs Orphan Homes, and second successor to the late George Mueller. April he would have reached the threescore years and ten, having seen 53 years of service for Christ. Mr. Bergin was converted in his youth through words spoken to him by his dying father, and while still in his teens gave himself to preaching the Gospel. He identified himself with the Open Brethren, and for 24 years ministered as a pastor in Bristol.

On the death of George Mueller,

in 1897, James Wright succeeded to the great work of ministering to the hundreds of children gathered in their Orphan Homes, and he requested Mr. Bergin to share his responsibilities, so that when in 1905 Mr. Wright passed away, the charge of the great family of 2,000 children devolved upon Mr. Bergin.

He and his family have been united in their faithful devotion to this service of faith and of love. We pray that his son, who is in the work, may be sustained and guided so that the work may continue to be a testimony to the faithfulness of a prayer-hearing God.

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Albert K. Smiley of Mohonk

N December 2d at his home in Redland's, California, there passed away Albert K. Smiley, organizer of the Lake Mohonk Conference on Indians and prominent in the world peace movement. Mr. Smiley was born in Vassalboro, Me., March 17, 1828 and was graduated in 1849 from Haverford College. With his twin brother, Alfred H. Smiley, he founded the English and Classical Academy in Philadelphia. In 1869 Mr. Smiley purchased property at Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, N. Y., and built there a large summer hotel, where every autumn since 1882 he had called a four-day conference to discuss the Indian question. For the last 8 years the question of the Filipinos, Porto Ricans, and Hawaiians had been included.

Each spring since 1894 Mr. Smiley had invited from 200 to 300 guests to a similar conference held in the interests of international arbitration.

Mr. Smiley was a Christian of rare spirit and nobility of character. He stood firmly by his principles and convictions of a Friend in spite of all temptations to turn aside into the ways of the world.

Dr. Geo. A. Gates of Fisk

born at Topsham, Vt., Jan. 24, 1851, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, and later from Andover Theological Seminary.

Dr. Gates was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1880, his first pastorate being at Upper Montclair, N. J. In 1887 he became the President of Iowa College. He was President of Pomona College, from 1902 until 1909, when he became President of Fisk University and there devoted the last years of his life to teaching the negro.

DR.

Dr. Martha Sheldon of Tibet R. MARTHA A. SHELDON, one of the missionaries of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, died in October in Bhat, India, her field of tireless and renowned labors for 20 years, just on the borders from Tibet. Dr. Sheldon was born in Excelsior, Minnesota, in 1860. While in her teens she read an appeal from Dr. Joseph Cook and formed the plan of going to India as a medical missionary. She was a graduate of the State University of Minnesota and of the Medical School of Boston University. Her ministrations among the Bhatiyas and among the Tibetans who heard of her skill and crossed over into her province to see her, made the Bhatiyas and many in isolated Tibet regard her as a being to be worshiped.

Rev. S. V. Karmarkar of India

THE Indian Church has suffered a

great loss in the death of Sumant Vishnu Karmarkar. He was the son of the Rev. V. B. Karmarkar (a Brahman convert), and began his life-work on a printing-press in connection with the Bombay Guardian. In 1889 he sailed with his wife for the United States, and while he, after study, obtained the theological degree of B.D. from Yale, she obtained that of M.D. from Philadelphia. Return

GATES, President of the Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., died recently at Winterhaven, Fla. He was

been laboring in a spiritual fellowship in connection with the work of the Church Missionary Society.

MISSIONS: Their Rise and Development.
By Louise Creighton. 16mo. 256 pp.
50 cents net. Henry Holt & Co., New
York, 1912.

Mrs. Creighton is one of the leading missionary women of the world. She is the widow of a former Bishop of London and a member of the Continuation Committee of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.

Mrs. Creighton therefore has unusual capabilities for the difficult task of telling the story of the development of missions in such condensed space. As a contribution to the Home Universal library the volume is an excellent introduction to the subject of missions. From apostolic days Mrs. Creighton proceeds briefly to describe the progress toward reformation and the branching out into remote regions following the era of worldwide exploration and colonization. The book is more than a history since it touches also briefly but ably on the problems of governments and missions, Islam, social work, and work among Colonists. There is a good brief bibliography and an index.

CAN THE WORLD BE WON FOR CHRIST. By Rev. Norman MacLean. 12mo. 194 pp. $1.25 net. Hodder & Stoughton, New York and London, 1912.

The main portion of this volume is made up of reports and observations made in connection with

World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910. The spirit and impressions made by the Conference are well brought out in these pages and many who could not attend may receive from this brief epitome benefits that they would not have patience to dig out from the eight volume reports. New chapters are added by Mr. McLean on Christianity's claim to be the final religion, the impelling motive for missionary work, the call to union and the great opportunity. There is no better popular interpretation of the Edinburgh Conference-not even

that officially prepared by Rev. W. H. T. Gairdner.

THE CALL OF THE WORLD. By W. E. Doughty. 16mo. 111 pp. 25 cents. Laymen's Missionary Movement, New York, 1912.

As Educational Secretary of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, Mr. Doughty has had an unusual experience and an opportunity to specialize on the appeal which missions should make to laymen and the methods by which men may be brought into line. This book is excellently adapted for men's missionary study groups and to furnish suggestions for good sound arguments in missionary speeches. It is full of facts and true principles.

ΜΕΝ AND RELIGION MESSAGES. Seven Volumes. 12mo. $4.00 net per set. The Association Press, New York, 1912.

The men and religion movement enlisted many of the strongest men in the country in its campaign and expended many thousands of dollars in its efforts to bring men and boys into harmony with God. The platform was broad, and made it possible for all creeds and sects to work together. It is almost impossible to ascertain what were the permanent results for men or for the church, but one benefit has taken tangible form, namely, the publication of these seven volumes prepared by experts in their departments.

Volume One contains the stirring addresses delivered at the Conservation Congress in Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19 to 24, 1912. These addresses include strong utterances by Hon. William J. Bryan, Dr. James E. Freeman, J. A. McDonald, LL.D., of the Toronto Globe; the Toronto Globe; Bishop William Anderson, Booker T. Washington, Richmond P. Hobson and Dr. John Henry Jowett. These addresses present the many-sided relationship of Christianity to the world, the State. the Church, the negro, and temperance problems, and the student classes.