ear, of of the r's ago, years, ian of says a v York robust of 95, rand 1to the ionths meat 1at his Beavel of the ken im >TION DD. Acute ¥r- | ed Ap- 1t and) some er ancl these: use of ital ef- tigue— habits h and a sam- 5s abso- re the isensed s from ctivity ling it gastrie 1 cures rige of x, but fferers eipt of re will pon. \GAIN, ame | zgist mple 0 ‘hird. | oving arted Oiler and aight d got said: if he Jorld. 'n by t the ce of mag- Con- Lgeya ni of d by vy for 1 the the 1gine tates 3 had the t of -giv- > he hem- em), rit, PDT, ilate hys- cOm- ‘For less nful life well use kful that " foe »” ER I oe bs a 2 ,- . Empire Styles Lead... _ Empire lines are “most surely upon us, and. the fall promises tog be a sea- son for - slender - figures, though. of course,’ the fat woman in an Empire coat’ will bé inevitably sure. These semi-short-waisted' lines seem to have been promulgated from the bolero, and in many fall jackets or long coats both appear, bolero-like jacket effects being simulated on to the garments. The very extremely high girdle still comes out in spots, with coattails, usually the Louis XIV. style going with it. The continued vogue for circular skirts seems assured. All skirt models are distinguished by a great fulness at the bottom and are almost plain over the hips. Importers’ samples in cloth show material of the greatest richness. High grade goods include beth plain and’ fancy mixtures. , In trimmings there seems great orig- inality, a prominent feature is tleir re- semblance to hand work, and in many cases machine made trimmings are combined with needlework. Beautiful broadcloths are being im- ported for gowns of dress, and the most exquisite embroidered effects are among the trimmings for these. Cheviot and worsted * suitings for §treet gowns will be much trimmed with braids. | Very long, loose fitting coats of pale colored broadcloths promise to be fash- ionable, made on Empire lines. The postillion will reign. It will be on evening coats of silk, also on cloth street models. , Coats with the fronts cut like 2 man’s evening waistcoat will be prominent. The princessed skirt and princess gown still hold their own. Many orig- inal ideas are cropping up in the finish- ing of these corslet gowns.—Waching- ton Times. Advance of Turkish Women. The position of Mahometan women, according to Miss Mary Mills Patrick, who has an article in a recent number of The Forum on “Women in Turkey,” is very different from what it is usu- ally supposed to be. “To the superfi- cial thinker,” says Miss Patrick, “the condition of Turkish women has not altered for centuries. They still veil their faces except when at home. They never walk alone in the streets. They do not appear in public with their hus- bands, and they do not arrange their own marriages. But this, it seems, is all on the surface. Turkish women of the upper classes are highly educated. . They are eminent in literature, and one woman has exhibited her pictures in the, Paris Salon. They are in great de- mand as teachers, and when they marry are not. expected to abandon their positions, marriage being regard- ed by the educational authorities of Turkey as a “personal matter”—not, as in New York, as an act of insubordina- tion. One case is known, indeed, where the husband stays at home caring for the house and children while the wife goes to school. Nursing is another profession open to Turkish women, and a large number earn good incomes at it, As to the influence of Turkish wom- en in general affairs, it is “much great- er,” says Miss Patrick, “than it is usu- ally supposed to be. The person with the money in his pocket is the one who usually rules in the family, and Turk- ish women have complete power over their own property. According to the Mahometan law, any woman may sue or be sued, buy or sell, alienate or be- queath, without marital authorization —not being obliged even to inform her husband of what she is doing.” The Government provides primary and secondary education for girls, and maintains a normal school, the Dar-ul- Monalimat, or College of the Lady Teachers, at Conctantinople, New Rings and Ornaments. "A canary diamond, framed in fine diamonds, makes a beautiful ring. An- other costly ring noted ® surrounded by diamonds. An ingenious device for shaping ribbon girdles is a silver or gilt strip, which clips the material at top’and bottom, and is invisible while folding it in place. Very handsome as a cross-over bracelet, with five round gray pearls set diagonally in the opening. The folding toket is a little novelty to be worn as a chatelaine charm. It opens as a straight frame for six pho- tos, and folds into a perfectly round ball of bright er yellow gold. A pret- ty oblong card case of bright gold has a dainty chain attached. Very smart and unique is an ornament which has the red currant as the motif, with graceful stem and leaf work in dia- monds, while rubies simulate the drooping bunch of currants. A pearl- like Australian shell of a rare shade of pink forms an exquisite brooch. It is set on a bar, with a cluster of dia- monds at each end and a diamond on the pink shell. Dog collars come in many taking styles, from the simple bead collars to those composed of elaborate rose Bold filigree in corjunction with diamonds, pearls or sapphires. A beautiful fruit basket of silver gilt has the circular sides of open ovals, with bunches of grapes and leaves at regular intervals, while the bottom of the basket is cov- ered with a mass of leaves. Pretty bonbon dishes and cut glass berry dishes have two or three loop handles. A six handled fruit dish of Irish silver is also shown. Berry and leaf designs in a variety of arrange- ments are shown in strawberry short- cake servers and other flat ware. The broad, heavy effect is now seen in comb tops.of plain gold or of plain gold ornamented in delicate vine work or set with pearis. Both bright and rose gold are employed in ornamenting the curved tops. A toilet table set of carved ivory is further embellished with silver gilt tracery on a vine-like pattern of the fuchsia, the brush and mirror backs being somewhat triangu- lar in form.—Jewelers’ Circular Weekly. 4 .. The Oldtime Domestic. 3 “Phe old fashioned patriarchial sys- tem which permitted the ‘help’ to be- come an integral part of the family presented many objectionable features, yet the natural and logical result of such relations between employer and employed was to secure a better and more intelligent class of service,” says Martha Baker Dunn, in the Atlantic Monthly. “It would not be a difficult bstndss to collect a sheaf of testimonies from housekeepers who are able to remem- ber the changes of the last fifty years, certifying that the thrifty, capable and reliable ‘hired girl,’ with whose virtues and usefulness so many New England households have informer days been happily familiar, no longer exists ex- cept :in infrequent and sporadic in- stances, “The younger class of: girls wiio un- der the old regime went out to. service now employ themselves in the shops, factories and similar establishments where their time after working hours is their own. They know the sweets | ot independence and the proud, if im- aginary, satisfaction of being ‘just as good as anybody. wtb “The domestic ranks in the New England towns of to-day are largely recruited from a wandering tribe of more mature women, who vary the serial of matrimony by divergencies into the field of working out. Some of them belong to the variety known as grass widows, some of them have either just got a bill or are just about to get a bill from their husbands, some have husbands who appear spasmodi- cally and then pass once more into ob- scuration. During the intervals of these interrupted romances the hero- ines of them bestow a somewhat inter- mittent and perfunctory attention on households whose need is so urgent that the members thereof are willing to suffer and be strong. “There was a certain neat, spare, gauntly decorated, middle-aged woman who, during my girlhood, always spent a part of each day ‘helping out’ in our crowded household, whose memory re- tains for me an abiding fascination. She exemplified a type which had in those days many representatives; a type of woman strong both in mind and body, with an untutored intelli- gence born of necessity and exper- jience. These women were apt to be sharp cornered, full of individuality, incisive of speech and act, a surface ungraciousness which did net long con- ceal a repressed sweetness of nature, often the outgrowth of deep and con- scientious religious feeling. “It was always a gala day with me when ‘Aunt Sophia’ came to abide with us. It meant that there would be things doing, fresh interests added to life, interests more or less piquantly flavored with the newecomer’'s individ- uality. Aunt Sophia’s sharp sayings, her idiomatic stories gathered from experiences in many households, the very unexpectedness of her stand- points, all helped to flavor the common- placeness of daily living: and though I have spoken of her and her class as creatures of untutored intelligence, in comparison with many of the flippant and shallow beings who inhabit our kitchens to-day, these old fashioned domestics were admirably educated. Sophia read her Bible as eagerly as her prototype of to-day reads novels.” Bangs are threatened. ‘Felt hats have made their appear- ance. White skirts are found in the shops. They are tucked and finished fairly well, Black taffeta is used in making a lot of swell little skirts and coat suits for autumn wear. Particularly charming for wear with embroidered linens are the Oriental belts of dull Japanese embroidery. The newest coiffure is indulated in front to form a light bang across the forehead. It must not be too heavy. A lace collar is made wearable by tying about the top on a bit of narrow velvet ribbon made into a neat bow in front. For small change and tickets the smart young woman carries an oblong case of embroidered white lifien, lined to match her parasol. The short jacket has a dainty collar of lace and muslin, and on the front of the coat near the waist are huge motifs of broderie anglaise. ' Burnous wraps are worn by the mo- dish, and one cloudlike affair of silky muslin is in three layers, first dark gray, then silver gray and on top vio- let. 9 i 3 — THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY BISHOP. LEONARD. g Subject: Giving Freely. _ Brooklyn, N. Y.—At Holy . Trinity . Church the, Rt. Rev. William A. Leon- ard, Bishop of Ohio, preached Sunday, ' morning 6n the subject, “Giving Free- ly” from the text, Matfhew x:8: “I'reely ye have received, freely give.” The preacher said: “Our blessed Lord had just’ endowed His apostles with fome of His power. Ie had granted ‘them authority to preach, to heal the sick, to ‘baptize : converts tind to lay the foundation of - His church. f and on earth had heen conferred upon As all power in heaven Him, so now He imparts. the tre- mmendous donation to them. This is what is meant by the divine origin of the ministry. But this power and those gifts must be utilized; they can- not be retained or buried; they must’ be dispersed abroad. They are given only for service. ‘Freely ye have re- ceived, freely give.’ In some measure we must generously give to the world. “These words. however, may be ta- ken from their primary place, so that they have a general reference and ap- plication for every child of the king- dom, and thus we use them to-day for our instruction and guidance. This text, ‘Freely ye have received, freely give,’ is classic in its clear expression and in its world-wide application to literature, science, music—in the art of centuries; and many races find their ideal in this fact, for Christ, the In- carnate, is Himself God. Christ is here in our human.nature since the period of His incarnation. You can- not drive Him forth, for He has found room for residence in the very heart of this old world. 1t is of this con- scious liberality of God to us that I want to speak, and of the sincere and willing response which we ought to make to Him for His gifts to us: ‘Free- ly ye have received. freely give.’ The gospel of our Father has this word ‘give’ written all *hrough. Its first letter is the initial of His own name. Its first introduction in the Garden of Eden and a picture of the Divine Pa- rent, whose hand is ever outstretched with loving intention to us, and it is His desire that we should realize this. The Bible is replete with the.story of His giving and our receiving. Read your 3ible this year with this thought in your minds. Recall avhat God has given to His children. and you will be amazed at the sum; it will be such a great one that at least you will be constrained to sing a benedicite, to praise God for His goodness; you will cordially begin to appreciate how ‘free- ly ve have received.” Is it not well to make some sort of a tally, to run up our account with God? We who take so much for granted and simply accept the blessings He gives us without a word of thanks. We think >f them and use *hem as if they ~were ours and are sometimes angry if we happen to miss or lose them. We have re ceived so much and se freely from Him that we have omitted Him and His relationship from our calculations. We have’ credited Him only with our spiritual blessings—our religious priv- ileges, the church and sacraments, of course, our salvation. But what about the ordinary things that He never for- gets, that He never neglects? He keeps His work going on every day in the year, while we, like the children of our modern time, are satiated with luxury... We are aroused sometimes, as at Christmas time, to realize how good God is. “‘I'reely ye have received, freely give’ Thus He gave out of His gen- erous heart the very creation itself: the world and all in it, at the very hour of its conception, its power of production, teeming life. vegetable and animal. We take possession of it: we bargain and barter its fields and flocks and herds: we call it ours: we call the land after our own name. But these things are mot ours. They are His. He controls, He directs and per- mits; we are but the tenants of His will. “Then consider in the next place His providence. That is, the continuous remembrance of our needs—food, rai- ment, climate, and so cn. The seasons that God only swings round in their course; the sunshine—think of the sun- shine, that is God’s gift. Suppose He covers over the sun for one day! Man cannot, with al! his genius, manufac- ture another. Suppose it stops shining for twenty-four hours. Such a chill of ice would result that all life would go out. Do you ever thank God for the sunshine? No. We take it for granted—it belongs to us—we consider it our inherent right. “God gives us power as well as crea- tion to utilize. So lavishly spread that all man has to do is to pluck the fruits of it. We dig mines, sail ships, write books, paint pictures: it is only the exercise of power which God gives. Wealth, competency. wages. all the capacity of power—God grants it all. He gives the brains, the ingenu- ity, the business, the opportunity for every advancement and all you and 1 have to do is to utilize all the power He gives us.. Some other men’ use these and prosper: other men waste them and are failures in life: but those who are opportunists in the best sense gain rewards. Do you ever real- ize that God could becloud and ob- scure your faculties of reason so that you would become insane in a mo- ment? He might be excused from so doing because of your ingratitude, your neglect of Him, for all these things you call yours are His. I often wonder how many successful men can retain their self respect, ean make their treatment of “od agree with their ethics. They never enter His house to thank Him ang yet He asks them to do so. They are getting on without Him they believe, but they are as helpless and powerless as the weakest imaginable thing. They are absolutely His dependents in whom they have their being. How long suf- fering and patient He is. His only to be found in IIis un- He simply says, ‘My con, forsake Me utterly: hear My voice; come to Me: give Me thy heart. for 1 love thee, I am thy Father. 1 can afford to wait.’ “So with our virtues. they are al inbreathings of the Holy Spirit: every man, no matter how depraved. will have some spark of good that God put there to Le fanned into burning heat. rebuke seems failing love. do mot ‘stinc: as He gives them, but you and i SOE EET TE HTH SCADOL LESSON] EPWORTH LEARE LESSONS: His image. Your capacity of joy and love are from Him. You could not find happiness or gladness or any kind’ of pleasure in the material, intellectual or moral spheres unless the Holy Ghost permitted it. You could not love your wife, your child, your parent, your friend, without Him. You Chris- tians, you could not have happiness or love for God unless He grants you-the power. Stones and earth have them not. Animals only have as much in- I have received more than this. We have received inspirations and aspira- tions ‘that reach from soul to soul and heart to heart. There is a beautiful prayer in the prayer book. I do not consider "it in ‘exactly the fight in whieh T am presenting this truth. ‘Oh, God.’ it says; ‘pour into our: hearts such love for Thee that we loving Thee. above all things may at last at- tain Thy gracious promises.’ We can- not love “God unless the power be giyen us; we have not the capacity ourselves. “Now, the greatest gift of all; the gift'of His dear Son. Creation, provi- Gence, power and faculties, ean have Is reason or right of. operating unless interpreted by. the coming of Jesus Christ to earth for you and me. This incarnation is the key to unlock the cause of our being. His birth is the solution of each man’s existence. He is in ‘this sense ‘The Light of" the World.” . Now God gave the best that He bad, the very. best that He was capable. of bestowing—His only begot- ten Son. Nay, more, His Son is God— He gave Himself. We shall not try to explain its mysteries; it is unsolv- able.” It is an illustration of what we may ‘do in small matters. It means sacrifice and surrender and unselfish giving, for He came to do God’s will. That will was to save us from our sims. God gave up:His best and left the joy and sanctity of Heaven tof clothe Himself with our broken ‘hus, manity that we might see the godhead bodily, touch Him with our hands and go to Him with our sins and knowing Him might accept Him as éur Savior. He folded IIis eternal nature around His person and He led it forth to sac- rifice, so that His earthly life was a long series of sacrificial acts. When He lay in. the manger this life of sac- rifice had .begun: when He hung upon. the cross it was the continuation of It In the last moment of agony and shame He was controlling forces that seemed to be mastering Him. He was the priest upon the cross; He was His own victim. . His life was not wrung out of Him: He, Himself, pronounced its dismissal. Ife gave it up to Him whose it was, saying: ‘Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit’ Al} this for our redemption, for our rescue and that we might have peace in be- lieving and serving and following, for our eternal joy and peace hereafter in the Divine comradeship. Now, will ye ‘freely give? “This is our practical issue: the question of our life experience. Do we give, and what, and when? But try and consider the paradox of our lives. What do we give? When do we give? Do we give ourselves? Yes, but how? Is ‘it unreservediy? Is it bountifully? Yes, we give something sometimes—some prayer, some wor- ship, some money. Is it enthusiastic? At the price of sacrifice? Does it real- ly cost us much? We give ourselves to this world—our time and ability, with zeal and zest in business affairs. That is right. Christ does not tell us to be sluggards in business. But He does tell us to give in the same meas- ure of earnest interest to Him—some measure of earnest interest to Him. 1 mean no standard of gold. I am not talking about gold to-day. I mean no measure of payment. I mean the full and long living surrender of every- thing to. His will. I mean’ the conse- cration of each stroke of the laborer’s brawny arm, of each device of the in- ventor's power, the consecration of our whole being and service to the su- preme Master of our destiny. Such a consecration makes life beautiful. It sanctifies labor, trade and business: it lifts every project of human ambition up to a level on which angels tread and where we may talk to God Him- self, It tires itself out in its arms for the redeeming of the world. It sees Jesus walking up and down in the earth and it must impel every human being to follow Him. It impels men to go forth into the world to others. The saint leaves his closet and goes abroad instead of pondering by him- self homeless that he may carry the Gospel, that he may lift the cover off ignorance for some benighted soul; the missionary makes himself homeless that he may carry the Gospel to the heathen. Where we do the service and will of Jesus is our free giving in re- tarn for what He has given us. Then, and only then, do we amend the con- tradiction. There is the soul and spirit of the incarnation. ‘Freely give, is the word. Really that means fully— fully give. It requires us to say, ‘Here Lord am I. I have no reservation, no propect, no duty, no joy that I will place between Thee and me. I yield myself absolutely to every manifesta- tion of Thy will. I am all the time eager to know what Thy will is. This is my duty; show me what Thou wouldst have me to do and give.” - The saint of old said: ‘Master, show me Thyself and then show me myself. Such a prayer should be offered from hour to hour, and then at last there will be the gradual giad consciousness coming to us that we have freely re- turned to God a thank offering. “Then the giving of our time to His service and to other people will be so natural that we shall do it spontan- eously. "It will be so casy to offer pioney and ‘heart and interest to Christ's service that it will be second nature.” = Love Leads to Service, A loving heart and an obedient life are inseparable. The one cannot ex- ist without the other. As soon as a man loves God, he has the spirit of consecration, the spirit of the spirit of service; and while love continues to dominate. the heart, that spirit of service manifests itself in the life. It is true that “love is the ful. filling of the law.” Heart religion is the only kind of religion worth having, It is the pure in heart who shall see God. FRiethodist Recorder. You win Get It. Look, expect, wateh; look as if you wanted the blessing, and you will get it.—Joseph Parker. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 29. w a : 5 I Snbject: Power Through God’s Spirit, Zech. iv., 1-10=Golden Text, Zech. iv., 6—Memory Verses, 8-10—Commentary on the Day’s Lesson. I. Zechariabh’s vision (vs. 1-5). 1. “The angel.” The same angel who had shown Zechariah his other Visions “came again. “Waked me. The prophet had slept after-the first series of visions, and he is now aroused to be instructed further. 2. “Behold a can- dléstick.” Solomon's temple, although the bowl, the pipes and the two olive frees were peculiar to this vision. » The candle- stick was, 1. A type of the Jewish na- tion, God’s chosen people to shed light to the Gentiles. If they were willing to carry out God's purpose they could not fail. 2. A type of the Christian church (Rev. 1:20). (1) Its purpose was to give light. (2) Its miterial was, precious and costly, showing the preciousness of the church. (3) Its seven lamps in one denote the unity of God’s people. (4) There was a con- stant supply of oil, so the Holy Spirit supplies the church with the grace of Jod. (5) The candlestick was not the light, but held the light; it is the work of the Christian to hold up the true light, which is Christ. “All of gold.” Pure in doctrine and practice and indestructible—the true ideal of. the church. “A bowl.” The fountain of supply of oil fo the lamps. the Spirit is given. “Seven lamps.” There was only one lamp stand, de- noting the unity of God’s people, but it had various branches and lamps, denoting their multiplicity in unity, and the number was seven, the symbol of their completeness. See R. V. Each lamp had seven pipes connected with .the bowl. : 3. “Two olive trees.” The oil usu- ally burned in the lamps was olive oil, pressed from the fruit’ of the olive tree. The olive trees, of the lamp stand, express the source of supply. . The bow] of oil would soon be exhausted unless a ‘contintial supply flowed into it. The {trees represent an inexhaustible fountain connected with the.very nature of the Creator. The supply of power does not come through human ministrations, but directly from God. 4. “What are these.” Even in- spired men do not always undérstand’ divine teachings. It is sometimes wise to ask questions. 5. “No, my lord.” If we would receive instruction. we must be rcady to acknowledge our ig- norance. IL... The. interpretation. (vs. 6-14). 6. “Word—unto Zerubbabel.” This vis- ion was to inspire the people with con- fidence in their leaders as divinely sus- tained, and the leaders with contidence in their divine appointment to the work, and to lead all to the true source of strength and success. “Not by might.” Of thy own. Not by their ar- mies, for they had none. “Nor by power.” Authority from others. “But by My spirit.” The providence, au- thority, power and energy of the Most High. No secular arm, no human pru- dence. no earthly policy, no suits at law, shall ever be used for the found- ing, extension and preservation of My church. 7. “0 great mountain.” This was a figure suggesting the great work to be accomplisired and the many difficulties in the way. The opposition from his enemies and the lack of zeal among his own people had tended to discour- Zerubbabel. “Become a plain.” Be wholly removed. At that very time God was influencing Darius to refuse the desires of the Samaritans and give his favor to Jerusalem (Ezra 6). “Headstone.” = As he had laid the foun- dation stone, .so shall he put up the headstone; as he has begun the build- ing, so shall he finish it. “With shout- ings.” Joyful acclamations. 9. “Shall also finish.” An encour- aging assurance to the prince of Judah. 10. “Day of small things.” Zerubba- bel belonged to the day of small things, He did not appear like Solomon in all his glory, but more like a common man than a great ruler. He seemed infer- for to the governor of Samaria, and was subject to the King of Persia. We people the past with heroes. We dream of a future full of heroes. But how blind we are to the heroes of our own day and our own time! This is a universal error. ‘Shall see the plum- met.” The perpendicular line with which he should try the finished work. He is master builder, under God, the great Architect. “With those seven.” Referring to chapter 3:9. “They are the eyes of the Lord. In contrast with those who might be despising the day of small things, the eyes of the Lord were beholding with joy the work in the hand of Zerubbabel. The Jews themselves despised the foundation of the second temaple because it was likely to he so far inferior to the first (Ezra age 3:12). Their enemies despised the wall when it was in process of building Neh, 2:19; 4:2 3). “To and fro” A beautiful figure of God's oversight over the whole earth. 11-14. Three times Zechariah (vs. 4, 11. 12) asked as to the two olives before he got an answer; the question be- comes more minute each time. What he at first calls two olive “frees” he afterward calls “branchez,” as on closer looking he observes that the branches of the trees are channels through which a continual flow of oil dropped into the bowl of the lamps; and that this is the purpose for which the two olive trees stand beside the candlestick. Primarily the “two” re- fer to Jeshua aud Zerubbabel. Zerub- babel and Jesauva {typified Christ as anointed with the Holy Spirit without measure, to be King and High Priest of the church, and to build, illuminate and sanctify the spiritual temple. A Sermon to Self. Te work fearlessly. to foliow earn- estly after truth, to rest with a child- like confidence in God's guidance, to leave one’s lot willingly and hearti to Him—this is my mon to myself. If we could live more within sight of Heaven, we should care less for the turmoil of earth.--John Richard Green. Se Un the ope g mignt or a temper- ance crusade in Melbourne, Australia, Father Hays secured the pledges of 2200 people, This was no doubt similar | to ‘the seven-branched : candlestick of . This is - the emblem of Christ, through wiom . “Seven pipes.#™ ofieée or each side’ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29. 68. 31; African Missions. .Psa. Isa. 9. 2; 45. 14. g, Africa is the oldest field in the begun in 1833. The first missionary was Melville IB, Cox, who went to Liberia. * His famous utterance, “Though a thousand fall lef Africa be redeemed,” was a potent factor in arousing the church to thissidnary ‘en- thusiasm. We have three ’ distinct mission fields here—the Liberia Con- ference, the West Cenfral Africa’ Mis- sion Conference, and the East Central Africa Conference. Africa is an im- mense continent embracing 12,000,000 square miles, with a. population - of about 150,000,000. There are only some 3,000 missionary workers of all kinds’ in Africa. Our church has about 60 altogether. The superin- tendency of our. Bishops Hartzell and Scott is rapidly strengthening the work in Africa, and the increase of colored missionaries will, in the be- lief of many, solve the problemn of Africa’s redemption. i Liberia was born in a mistaken zeal to colonize the colored #han in Africa. We have had varied success in this oldest mission. But the out- look iS mere hopeful in recent years. We have a strong church in Monro- via,” the capital. It is not only self- supporting, but gives much money to the college work of the mission. We have our college :in Monrovia and about thirty other schools in differ- ent parts of the republic. We also have a printing jress which scatters good literature over Africa. The in- dystrial schools are giving new hope to the natives. New churches are being erected in this mission. Bish- op Scott, the new Bishop elected: by the last General Conference. resides in Libria. Theré are three presiding elders’ districts and a membership of about 3,006 in this Conference. West Central. Africa field includes the work on the West Coast south of the equator, and has a line of mis- sions extending from .Saint Paul de’ Loanda about ritory of Angola, Portuguese government. cludes our work lands. Our work Bishop Taylor in Central Africa was organized in It also in- began here under 1885. The West Mission Conference "1902 by Bishop Hartzell. Over 20 missionaries ‘and nearly 1,000 members are. in this field. We own fine property at Loan- da. : East Central Africa Mission in- cludes our work on the East Coast and lies south of the equator. The mission was organized at Umtail, Rhodesia, in 1901. We have two cen- ters of mission work-—one at Umtali and the other at Inhambane. The Umtali Academy is doing a good work. This is our newest and in some sense our most primitive field in the character of the inhabitants. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH. Work of Denomination.—Dan. 2:31-45. The Foreign-Mission our The stone was cut out of the meun- tain without hands. Missions need our hands, but they are powerless un- til God has set His hand to the task. There is not an evil on the earth but the spirit of Christian missions will smite to its doom and this not only in distan: countries, but in our own land. : The world has seen nothing so small grow to anything so big as the beginnings of Christian missions compared with their present stupen- dous size. . If mere men had to do the work that lies before missions. they might well be staggered; but it: is God’s kingdom, and God Himself is setting it up, A Programme for the Meeting. While the missionary committee should oversee this work, planning for it long in advance, yet they should get all the society to take part in the meeting, so far as possible, as- signing the different parts to differ- ent Endeavorers. The missionary Boards and the pastors will direct You to full sources of information. All Endeavorers Should Know. There are some things that every Endeavorer should know about the foreign missions of his denomination; just what fields are occupied; how they are occupied, whether exclusively or with other denominations; where the principal living missionaries are at work; the names of the greatest missionaries of the past, and what they did; the characteristics of the missionary work of his own denomi- nation; the Boards, and periodicals, and other means by which mission- ary work is pushed among the churches; the present condition of the work abroad, at least in outline. How many of these things do you know? To Think About. Is there any one foreign mis for whom IT pray daily? Do 1 long for the spread of the gos- pel over the earth? What are my direct contributions to > foreign missions? ci mirgiiiiisicse The Fifth Vice. “Four great vices confront the United States,” said Dr. Lyman Abbott to the students of Columbia University the other Sunday. Then the doctor gave a list of the “vices,” to-wit: sionary Materialism. Reif-conceit. Lawlessness. Caste. While we that are not disposed to deny these ‘vices’ are more or less wt in the country, we are in- to suspect that the vice of drink- ing alcohol visits upon the country nearly as great a burden of distressing S as slither “self-ce or -New Voie foreign Work of our church, and was’ 350 miles into the ter- which is under the . in the Madeira Is-- 2
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