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A Hnrffst Hymn.
Wo have eecn tlio summer's glory on tho har
vest fields again,
Rejoicing In the sunshine and tho pure refroHh
ing rain,
And In gratitude and gladnoss we have reaped
tlio golden grain. j
Wo read a peaceful gospel, where the rich and
poor are fed ;
May the heroes of the harvoat fiolds havo bless
ings on their head 1
Let earth's millions all bo gratoful for health
an 1 daily read.
We eco tha Ool of nature in bounteous love
bestowing
In every year of life, wo reap tho seed wo have
been sowing,
Till our barns are filled with plenty, and our
cups aro ovei flowing.
Wo havo entered on a calling that will novor
know defeat ;
Tor honor and for daily bread we work in sum
mer's heat,
E'cr reaping golden harvests of the finest of
- tho wheat.
May tho day ot war and carnage and cruel
strilo he o'er,
And temperance, truth and righteousness ex-
tond from shoro to shore,
Gathering in tho sad and sinful to be puro for
cvormorel
And when we send tho bread of lifo to nations
o'er tlio sea,
May we praise tho Lord with thankfulnoss for
blessings puro and frto
In this.life, and the bettor land in ages yet to
be I . William Lambie.
BEFORE A FALL.
On Saturday evening I sat upon the
doorstep, waiting for John and Jennie.
We had been to choir meetings together
all summer long Jennie was such good
friends with me, and John was such
gooi friends with Jennie. She lived
just over tbe h 11 from our Louse, and
John liwd juRt beyend that. Bhe
waited till he came for her, and I wait
ed for them both. I should not have
thonuht of starting without them, and
I sat q.iietly, not noticing the flight of
time, i was thinking what a JoveJy
evening it was, and that mother's china
asters were coming into bloom, nd the
crab-onul8 wore rii-niig, nud tbat I
alw.ys thought crab-apple jelly the
prettiest mother ever made. I was as
peaceful as tbe old cat that fame and
curled up I eside ine, and had no more
thoucht than 6be of its being late.
But suddenly 1 heard Jennie's voice
calling uie ; it sounded so sharp, out of
the quiet, thut I was resliy Btartled. She
had paused at the gate and was saying,
" Goine, Fhojbo 1" I knew iu a minute
from her tone that something had wor
ried her. I was wondering what it
might b3 as I rose "and went down the
with, and I supoose I wont a little
7 ,
slowlv.
"Hurry, rnoaoor suecrieu , -uuu i
you know we are late ?"
But, instead ol hurrying, I stopped
short, for I suddenly saw that John
was not with her.
Where's John ?" I asked. '
" I don't know," sho answered, short
ly.' "Don't stand staring, rboobe I I
tell you we're la! e."
Now aomo people are afraid of Jennie
when she speaks that way, with her
cheeks red and her eyes snapping. But
I am not; it only makes me a little
cooler than 1 was before. I just stood
still. Sho shan't drive me, if I do love
" Suppose we are late ?" J said. " I
think we might wait a little for him,
just for once."
"You can doit, then," said bhe, and
walked straight on.
I looked up tbe road and reflected.
John was not in sight. If anything had
happened to detain him, it was Jennie's
company he would bo sorry to miss, so
my waiting couldn't do him no good.
I might as well go with Jennie. I ran
and caught her before she had gone far.
I suppose it mollified her to have made
mo run, for she laughed a little as I
came up. " You didn't wait as long as
. y - III V . '1 . 1(1 !L
did 1" she said,
" Then ou did wait a while ?"
, " Why, of course. Didn't I tell you
it was lata V"
" Well, you needn't have got mad
aViont it. Jennie 1"
" I didn't." said she, " or at least I
was onlv mad at myself for waiting
There is no reason why we should ever
wait for John, or expect him to come
with us every night, just because he
lives next door. Ho never said a word
about always escorting us. He's just
let it be a matter of course, and I'm not
iroinaf to have it so any longer. He
might want to go with some of the
other girls some time, and then just
think how ridiculous wo should be, sit
ting waiting for him. I'll never do it
again. Next week I mean to start real
early, and you may wait for him if you
like. I'll not expose myself to being
slighted again. I don't doubt he's gone
the other way, by East side, to-night."
. Now Jessie Sear. lived cn EaBt bide.
John was the only fellow in tha village
whom 6he could not possibly induce to
liirt with her, and it seemed as if for
that reason lie was the one she most
wanted to make an impression upon.
He said nothing about it, and kept out
of her war. but even body knew ex
cept Jennie, who might have known if
she pleased that he disliked her. So
when Jennio made that insinuation I
ihmiodit it waa mv turn to be angry. I
faced about upon her with the facts,
Jennie Morris." said I. " you know
juht U well as I do that you're the only
girl ia this town John ever cares to go
anywhere with. I don't sea how you
can be so mean as to talk about him in
that way I" ,'.
Jennie a face got crimson, and she
hung her head and looked quite cowed.
I waH glad of it. -
"I don t see whore he can bo, then,"
she murmured after a while. He might
have sent us word if he was not going.
Yon'll acknowledge it was humiliating
for us to sit and wait for him."
" I don't see why."
" You'ro such a child," she said, pet
tishly.
." If it is childish to be unreasonable
but there I stopped. I saw Jennie's
face was twitching, and her color came
and went. She was always high-strung,
swift and spirited, and to-night she
seemed touchy and unnerved. I felt
sorry for her, and thought we would talk
about something else.
I will expla n now what had detained
John. Wo learned about it in good
time. There was an Irish family living
a little way from his father's house,
They were always in trouble, and always
keeping the neighbors in trouble. That
night, just as John was ready to start
for meeting, his mother came to his
door, looking quite distressed.
"John," she said. "Maggie Mo-
Creery and her children are in the kit
chen, and Peter has come home drunk
again."
'Is he verv bad?' said John, who
knew his neighbor of old.
" Yes. Oh, John, he has given her a
terrible black eye I She and the chil
dren just fled for their lives, and they're
crying and wailing so that I could
hardly get their story out of them."
" Well, what can wo do ?"
" Why, somebody has got to go down,
you know, John. He was a3 wild as a
mad man. They left him crashing the
dishes upon tho lloor and putting the
bed clothes and furniture into the lire,
Maggie is afraid he'll set the house
afire, and he is in a fair way to do it,
yon know, and burn himself up in it."
The beBt thing ho could do, mut
tered John.
" You mustn't eay so, you know, dear.
I hate to have you to go down there,
but it s dreadful to tLmk of the yoor,
raving creature just left to himself.
Where are the others ?" taid John,
"Why, Bess and Mark have gone to
tho fair in Barton. There's only Bnell
at home, and he's hardly old enough to
tro down there alone.
"No," said John, throwing off his
coat. "I suppose I've got to go with
him. Tell him to get a rope. We'll
have to tie the wretch, and then send
for the sheriff."
"It's dreadful you should have to go,
dear," said hii mother, pityingly, " and
just when we were all ready for meet
ing. The girls will bo waiting for you,
to-j. But you'll feel sorry enough for
MaarRip, poor thing, when you see her.
And there's no time to be lost. You
can hear l'eter cursing and throwing
things clear up to our kitchen door.
As John and Buell were ready to start,
Maggie said : " bhure, Bur, if je see
me cow in the road, wud yo plase drive
her back forninst ye ? l'eter left the
gate open when ho come in, and 1 was
that distracted I didn't see the craytur
till Bhe was gone. The byes will be
havin' her in the pound in a gifly, and
sorra a cint is Pettr after lavin' me to
get her out again I"
John did not see the cow. She was
like the rest of the McCreery's, unex
pected in her movements. But Jennio
and I saw her, grazing along tho road
side, with her head turned the other
way from homo. I had a presentiment
of mischief the moment I caught sight
of her. I half stopped, saying: " There'
Peter McCreery's cowl How could
they let her get cut ? Now, if the boys
put her in the pound they never can
raise fifty cents to get her out. I've a
srreat mind to drive her back a little
wajs, Jennie, just to get her headed to
ward home."
But Jennie was too impatient. "Please
don't Btop, Phcebe," Bhe said, "iti
not your place to do it, and we're so late
already.
It was so late that all the pews
on
the girls side of the choir-gallety
were filled, except the two farthest
back. By eroinK to the head of one
of these I could be among the altos.
and Jennie, by going to the head of the
other, could be among the sopranos,
while at the same time we could sit to
jyether. I was clad to be near her tbat
night, and I knew she was glad to have
me. she was so nervous. I hoped the
sineinf? would quiet her, and so it did
for a little while, but she could not get
ouite out of her flutter. Proud as she
was. she couia not nem casting a giance.
now ana then, towara me aoor, anu
occasionally she would give a little sigh.
m . m .1- 1
She was uneasy every minute tut lie
came.
And oh, dear ! Bhe was a good deal
more uneasy afterward. For will you
believe it ? who should walk in that
door beside John but Jessie Sears !
She did look pretty that night.
There was no denying her good .'coks
even when you d lost every bit ot iMtn
in her. To-night she wore a new pink
muslin dress: a thin, fleecy white shawl
was round her shoulders, and one point
of it was laid over tho brown pull's on
her head, but not far enough to hide
the pretty pink rose she had stuck be
tween them. She was all smiles and
brightness. We usually sat near the
front, but Jeswie spied where wo were
to-night the moment she came in.
John, however, did not eee us. He
pushed toward tie front row, and Jessie
of courso foil? red him. Bho did "not
mind it that every eye was upon her.
She was as composed and complacent
as possible."
Somebody moved up to make room
or her and John found a place across
the aisle. Before she was fairly seated
she had contrived to drop her hand
kerchief, and John was obliged to stoop
and pick it up for her. I saw his facu
then. It was not gay and smiliug like
Jessie's, but he looked pale and tired.
It somehow set me considering. When
had first seen him coming in with
Jessie my heart had stood still, and then
was bo angry I could have shaken my
fist at him. But now I began to
be confused in my thoughts about
him. There he sat, the same old John,
and I couldn't believe he was a traitor.
Yet, what had brought him here in
Jessie's company ? The more I cooled
down, however, the more sure I was
it would be explained in some way.
But of course my feelings couldn t
help Jennie at all just now. I knew
she had jumped to her own con
clusions. How she straightened up 1
There wore no sighs and no more turn
ings of her head. The color was fixed
in two bright spots upon her cheeks.
She looked right at her book and be
gan to sing so clear and strong that I
was startled, and was afraid everybody
would notice the change. John knew
well enough where she was by this
time. He gave one half glance round,
that was all. Poor innocent John ! He
told us all about it afterward. Well,
as I was saying, Jennie sang firmly for
verse or two, then she suddenly
ceased.
"What is the matter?" I whispered,
for I was frightened about her.
"Imtoo wicked to sing words like
these. Bhe said.
She did not Bing another note tbat
night, but when the meeting was about
to close, she whispered to me: "Now
Phcebe, muid you don t loiter. We re
nearest the door; get outside just as
fast as you can, before the people get
round us."
Now in my heart I would rather have
lingered a little just for tho chance of
learning something that might explain
it all, but of course I couldn t refuse to
do as Jennie said. Wo got out the door
quickly Jennio first, though I hurried
as fast as I could. Unce outside she
took hold of my hand and started off
liko a deer. Tho sky had become over
cast, and it was perfectly dark. It was
one of those hushed, breathless nights
that sometimes precede a summer rain
storm. It seemed as if the very crick
ets were smothered by the dark and the
silence. We ran headlong, but wo knew
the path well enough, and it was toler
ably smooth. We got well away from
the" crowd coming cut behind us, and
had turned off tbe main street and were
half-way down the second hill beyond..
I was going to ask Jennie to Btop run
ning, lor I was out oi Dieatu, wnen
some obstacle in the path struck our
feet from under us. We fell headlong
over a mass of something hairy, soft and
warm, and our heads and hands were
thrown. sharply against the gravel be
yond. We could not recover our senses
before tho heap ever which we had
fallen began to rise under us. I was
rolled to one side, Jennie to the other,
and with a snort of dismay and dis
pleasure Peter McCreery's cow switched
her tail across my race and gauoped on
into the road.
She had been lying across the warm
gravel, and we had run full against
her.
When I began to recover my wits I
heard Jennio laughing in a weak, hys
terical way : then she began to sob,
and then to half shriek again with
laughter. I elowly picked myself up,
lame and bruised, and very much sur
prised to find that no bones were
broken. Half the plaited flounces of my
dress that had got over the cow s horn
was ripped off and dangling under my
feet. I could dimly see Jennie sitting
on the path where the cow had leit her,
weaving to and fro, her face in her
hands, crying and laughing both at
once.
I went to her, asking if she were
hurt. "Can't you ee t up. dear?"
said. "Just try and see. The folks
will be coming along pretty soon."
I thought I already heard feet upon
the path, and I did not want anjbody
to see Jennie quite like this. She made
a crreat effort to control herself and to
get upon her feet. I took hold of her
to try and help her. But no sooner
did she attempt to raise herself than
she fell buck with a little cry of pain,
and then began to laugh again in the
same distressful manner.
"I can't," she said. "It's my foot,
Phcebe. The cow trod upon I o uui
can't stir. What sh J.l we do ?" '
By this time I hau aaught her ex
citement, and was near to giggling as
insanely as she. " What shall wo do
I echoed.
But now there were approaching
steps upon the walk that we both heard
Jennie knew them in a minute, and
that minute restored her to herself,
"Phcebe." sho said, firmly, "I'll
tell you what we must do. You must
run home and tell father to come with
the wagon. I'll creep up hore off the
roadside and keep perfectly still, and
nobody'll know I'm here till you come
back."
" But I can't leave you alone so bad
ly hurt. I can't, Jennie !"
"Please, Phoebe! please, dear I
Somebody is coming 1'
"I'm glad of it," said I. "Some
body ought to come and help us."
"But. Phoebo. Phoebe don't let
him find us it's John 1"
" I don't care if it is; I'm glad of it,
and iuKt reneniber. if he was going
over to East ide with Jessie Sears he'd
not - be here now. You've been too
quick, Jennie; there's some mistake."
l'oor Jennie could onij give a Jittie
moan of pain for answer. Her ankle
was beginning to hurt her badly. Lit
tle as her moan was John was near
enough to catch it, for that instant we
heard his anxious voice calling:
"Girls! Phoebe, Jennio, are you
there?" There was silence for a min
ute, then I spoke out: "Yes, John,
we're here, and we want you."
"Yon want me! What is the mat
ter? What made you run away from
me? I got out as fast as I could to
catch up with you "
Dear ! how troubled, and how kind,
and how full of comfort too, his famil
iar old voice sounded.
"I'm so glad you've come !" I cried.
" Jennie is hurt."
"Jennie hurt 1"
Ah, you should have heard the tone
of his voice when he said that; I almost
felt a3 if I ought not to be there to hear
it; why, there couldn't have been more
feeling in his voice if she had been his
sister and mother and wife and child all
in ont 1
I guess John was pretty well worn
out with what he had gone through at
McCreery's, to say nothing of having
wanted Jennie's company all the even
ing and missed it. And sometimes to
be tired out and sacrificed in the service
of others softens and opens a person's
heart before he knows it.
He knelt down beside Jennie and lit a
match to look at her. I hope it was not
wrong for me to havo taken a glance at
the two faces that match lighted up
John's so troubled and devoted, and
Jennie's sciatched and tearful, pitiful,
wistful. Questioning.
He spoke right out like a man to the
silent cry of the heart. "My darling,
he said "my darling, what is the mat
ter ?"
That was more than Bhe could bear
just then; she wavered as sho sat, and
fell back in a dead faint. John sprang
to raise her head, and I ran to the brook
to sop my handkerchief with water to
bathe her face. I begged John to let
mo run home at once and Kend the
wagon. It was plain he could not bear
to leave her, and I ran on as fast as X
could.
I was back acaiu before tho horse
could be harnessed, bringing with me
camrhor and cologne. But Jennie had
recovered her senses before I arrived. I
heard her talking in a low voice to John
before I reached them. What he ea;d
to her I do not know, but she was meek
enough now as humble and grateful as
poBsiblo when wo lifted her into the
watron and got her home.
And how heroic she was while the
doctor was setting her ankle. At least
they all said she was heroic ; but it is
my private beliei sne did not ieei tne
least pain for sheer happiness, and
therefore there was no virtue whatever
in her keeping as still aB a lamb.
I told her the next day that she did
not deserve her happiness, and she
owned sho did not. I asked her if Bhe
w?.s not ashamed thut I, who was only
his friend, bad stood up for John more
stanchly, in my mind, than she who was
his lady-love.
It was only an accident, his appear
incr with Jessie at tne cuoir meeting
A youraf man from woodvine nad Been
over to meet her and detained her until
it was late. On his way home he had
brought her in his buggy as far as the
church, and left her in the vestibnle.
Right there she had met John, and hud
made as much of the opportunity as
she knew how.
Would you like to hear what else
John did that night? When we had
brought tho doctor and gone again on
errands to the druggist's, . and then
stayed by till ho could learn that Jennie
was made as comfortable as possible for
the night, without saying anything to
anybody he got a lantern and went to
search for that unhappy cow. He
found her. drove her home, and shut
her into. Mrs. McCreery's yard. The
poor woman did not know till long
afterward who had done her the kind
ness, Sprivfjfield Rep ublica n .
Novel Uses of the Electric Light.
Several jockey clubs of the South are
discussing the plan of lighting up
their race courses by lines of powerful
electric lamp3, and having their races
run at night. One great advantage will
resnlt from this. The spectators, as
well as poor horses, will be protected
in summer from the broiling rays of
the sun.
A company is now negotiating- with
the government for a contract to light
the city of Washington by placing
around the dome of tho capitol a
aeries of powerful electric lamps, ag
gregating several hundred thousand
candles in brilliancy. It is proposed
in this way to light the city to the clis
tance of a mile in all directions better
than it is usually done by street gas
lamps.
Pearl fishing, it is now thought, can
be conducted with great success by
means of submerged electric lights in
place of the old mode of employing
divers. Incandescent lamps of the
Edison form will be let down to the
ocean bed, making it as light as the
Burfaco in daylight, whilo operators
with suitable grappling tongues, at tho
sur.ce, will pick up the pearl oysters
and deposit them in crates sunken for
the purpose at the depth of a hundred
feet or more. Look out, now, for a
supply of those lovely gems, larger
than have yet been B03n, eince aged
oysters can be taken from a depth fur
beyond the reach of the old-time
diver.
' SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Meat immersed in molasses has been
n reserved for months.
Ether is so volatile that it cannot be
poured from one vessel to another with
out lots.
Sugar, like salt, takes the water from
animal substances, and thus prevents
putrefaction.
Dragon's blood is a resin which ex
udes from various trees. It is so called
from its red color.
Oxygen to the amount of five per
cent, of the quantity inhaled disappears
at every breath, absorbed by the blood.
The partiality or antipathy (o certain
odors is unaccountable. The Italian
ladies who dread the rose delight in
rue.
An essential oil is obtained from
cloves by repeated distillations. It.is a
common trick to mix cloves thus de
prived of their oil with others.
Case-hardening is a process by which
a thin coat oi steel is given to iron.
The steel can be hardened to that par
ticular depth, leaving the iron soft.
The annual cotton plant as cultivated
m America attains its growtn during
four months, though it continues to de
velop seed and fiber for a longer
period.
Native bitumen, pit coal and naphtha
are now regarded as products of tha
decomposition of organic or vegetable
matters beneath the surface or the
earth.
' A paper lately lead before an English
society 6tates that British heads are
growing smaller, the dimensions hav
ing shrunk on an average one-seventh
of an inch during the last quarter of a
century.
The chief use of sulphur in gun-
powder is to increase its combustibility,
which it does in consequence of tho low
temperature at which it burns. But
the larger the proportion of sulphur
tho weaker will be the powder.
A telegraph wire in India is stretched
botween the summits of two hills
each hill being 1,200 feet high across
tho Kistnah river. The span of wire is
overUOOO feet in length, and is be
lieved to be the longest in the world.
The only engineering appliance used
in stretching this cable was a common
windlass.
Tho cranium in giants is usually
small in jelation to their stature, but
oiten enormous in aDsomio measure,
although their intelligence is generally
small An example was Broca s giant,
Joachim, credited with a very slight
imount of sense, let this great imbe
cile had a huge cranium, and his brain
weighed nearly as niuoh as that of Cu-
vier.
Skhi Grafting,
Hitherto in skin grafting it ha3 only
then possible to use 6km or mucous
membrane which had been taken from
the living. Dr. J. H. Girdner, of New
fork city, has, however, succeeded in
removing a portion or tne skin or a
Geiman who had committed suicide six
hours before, and in engrafting it on
the arm of a child which had been
struck by lightning. The grafts took
well, and the resnlt was that the thud
was much less disfigured than might
have been expected, considering tho
nature of its injuries. Speaking on the
8ubiect, Dr. Girdner says:
It seems to me that any one who has
witnessed, as I have done repeatedly,
skin taken from the dead body several
hours after death return again to life,
adhere to a granulating surface and
with surprising rapidity send out pro
longations of delicate skin in all direc
tions, covering the surface with a new
skin comparatively free from contrac
tion, must agree with me that skin
grafting is in its infancy, and that when
men of ability have given it more atten
tion and found out the possibilities of
the proceeding, we may expect to see
frightfully contracting cicatrices which
follow burns and nam removed by ex
cision, and their places filled with a
skin almost as perfect as tho surround
ing, and which has been removed from
the dead or living body or another
person.
Mouth Breathers.
Dr. Wagner says that habitual mouth
breathers can be at once recognized, as
the practice stamps itself indelibly on
tho physiognomy. The retracted lips,
open mouth, receding gnms, proirau-
ing teeth, diminished size oi the orifices
ot- the nostrils, tne wrinmes oi me
outer angles of the eyes, Aid tho lines
extending from the wingil of the nose
to tho angles of the mouth, give tho
person addicted to this habit a silly
and sometimes idiotic expression. Iho
nasal ducts, being vacated, like disusod
roads that grow up in grass and weeds,
become the seat of polypus and other
diseases; the sense of Buiell is greatly
weakened no altogether lost.
A Mild Winter Predicted.
A mild winter Is being predicted by
some meteorologists. As the excessive
heat of the summer 18 attributed to the
increase of solar radiation, and that in
crease ii due to violent disturbances
and the sun's atmosphere, where spots
of vast magnitude, following a period
of Quiescence, began to show them
selves in May, and have continued
since, it is argued that the temperature
in Arctio latitudes is and will contiuuo
to be above the average, and that com
paratively mild currents of air will bo
wafted down upon us during the winter
months.
SUN DAY READING.
A Ilnd Ktnte f Titling.
An old missionary once said to
Ilev.
John Wangh:
Years ago I pet out to labor m In
diana. A friend, who had been a long
resident, was with me to give me such
information as might be necessary. I
remarked that the land around us was
low and poor quality.
" True," said he, " but wait a little,
and I will show you as handsome a
praitio as God ever made."
We rode on. and gradually tne iana
spread out before us, rich in its soil and
beautiful in its carpet of verdure.
" Do you see," sid he, that uric
house yonder ?"
" Yes."
" Well, the owne mg in it has had
two sons hung You eee that stone
house?" . .. .
Certainly." '
' You may think it remarkable, but
the builder of it, who lives thro,4)as
two sons in the State prison. You can
not fail to see that house on the left?"
"I do."
' Well, the resident of that has had
. ,i i
a son hung, uurtner on, qo you see
that grove and that house pretty well
set back V"
"Yes."
" The man living there has a son in
the State prison. Over there you can
see another residence.
"Yes."
" You may think it incredible, but
the man living there has also had a eon
The fads stated led me to as my in
formant:
How came these things to happen
The record is black as any I have ever'
heard. 'Do give me the explanation."
I will do so in brief. When I set
tled on the other side of tho marsh
thoR6 eople Hettled there. The land,
as mignt nave Deeu iorseeu, piuvcu
very productive. They cultivated corn,
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wheat, oats, and planted orcnuros. j.u
markets paid good prices. They soon
came to be wealthy. The grain mar
keted in the fall left them little to do
in the winter; so they gave themselves
up to dissipation. They built neither a
church nor school-house. Their chil
dren grew up idle, ignorant and vicious.
Their apples were turned into cider,
and their winter evening3 were given up
to conviviality. Soon cider was not
strong enough, and other intoxicants
came into use. lhey nad irequeni par
ties, and these parties meant dancing,
and the dancing meant dnnking, and
the drinking meant a tlrunken revelry,
the drunken revelry a fight, and the
fight meant too often a murder. Ihese
are but the outlines. I need not en-
largo upon the particulars.
Ht-liiclous News and Notes.
The jjutherans havo only twelve com
municants among the colored people at
the South.
There aro said to be 30,000 out of
40,000 townships of Fiance opened to
Protestant preaching. f
Syria, it ia said, has eighty foreign
preachers, 300 native helpers, l.UiiU
Christians and 50,000 church-goers.
The sale of Bibles has recently been
very large in Bulgaria, and there are
signs, it is said, of deep religious in
terest. The Presbyterian churches in Europe
and America have raised a fund of $45,
000 for the support of Waldensian
pastors in Italy.
The Methodist Episcopal churcn nas
five pastoral charges and threo church
buildings in the Black Hills, and is
about to build another church in Dead
wood. Tho number of white Baptists in the
State of Alabama is said to be about
76,000. In the last year $7,718. bO was
raised for State missions. Thirty mis
sionaries baptized 1GG converts.
The American United Presbyterians
aro
about to establish an institute in
Sealkote, India, with literary and theo
logical courses extending over nino
years, five years preparatory and four
years in the seminary course proper.
The reports from the camp-meetings
held during tho past summer speak as
rule of good attendance, weu-oc-
haved audiences, and excellent preach
ing, but the conversions were not con
sidered proportioned to the numbers in
attendance.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
in India 4,068 church members, b.buu
native Christians. i. 10:5 secular and
0l. . .,,),,,- ftn
V'"-. d
un-
ahtv foreign and na-
tive ministers and pastors, and 124 un
ordained preachers.
Princess Eugenia, tho Bister of Oscar
II., king of Sweden, has recently or
ganized a society of ladies at Stock
holm who devote their time and means
to a mission in Lapland. She has also
formed at her castle a sewing ecnooi ior
missionary objects, and also a bazaar
which she supplies liberally ia order to
raise money for missions.
The Congregationalist churches in
tho Ohio association have gamed ouu
members in the past year, liie asso
ciation inoludds seventeen churches
that are in Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia aud Kentucky. The total contri
butions for benevolent purposes
amounted to 03,518, an increase of
$27,1(51 over the year before. There
are 230 churches in tho association a
gain of five.
The steamer Cuzoo, of the Orient
Line, has arrived at Plymouth, England,
from Australia, with an experimental
shipment of fifty tons of meat in good
condition.