provided carefully and amply; but nothing in his early circumstances or education tended to produce expensive tastes. He did not care for show, but lived a quiet life in a quiet town. He was a member, and for a time, a deacon of the First Congregational Church of New London. He never married. Habitually attentive and judicious in business matters, he accumulated a large fortune. A niece, always a member of his family in New London, was his only heir-at-law. Being herself provided for to her satisfaction by the gift of her uncle, she had a general knowledge of the disposition of his estate by testament, and was satisfied that he should do as he would with his own. For many years Mr. Otis has had a special interest in the work of the American Board, which he has shown by steady and large contributions during his life. He kept himself informed of its work, and for years has intended it should be the principal recipient and disposer of his property. His bequest coming in a time of straitness, and when an enlargement of its work, even in fields already occupied, seems imperative, when success already achieved calls for educational and native agencies in full measure, in order to conserve and develop all that has been done in the past, we must hope that God, in whose hands are all hearts, has ordered such a bequest that his people may be encouraged to increase, multiply, and make more constant their annual contributions, and so make more efficient the instrumentalities which, by this help, it is believed, it will be in the power of the Board to put on a firm foundation.

Trustworthiness in word and deed were marked characteristics of Mr. Otis's business life in Richmond, and he has left behind him a reputation for the same qualities in the town where his later years have been spent.

DONATIONS AND LEGACIES.

THERE is a commendable ambition in the donation account for March

which deserves a word of encouragement. It has advanced so handsomely that we are permitted to report that for the first seven months of our present fiscal year, the donations lead those of the same period the preceding year nearly $3,000. The addition of $12,000 to the same account would have made it equal to what it was at the same time two years ago. The legacy account, curiously enough, is still suffering from a tendency to decline, so that it has actually fallen off from last year's report at the same period, $30,735-75. However, let not the donations indulge in vain glory as yet; for there are some indications that they will need all their reserved forces to carry on their side of the treasury department proportionately with the legacies for some time to come. Would it not be a splendid record if the regular donations from the churches should now spring forward with a bound of exuberant joy, testifying with songs of thanksgiving that some of the friends of missions "still live?" It is a magnificent opportunity for the old and tried friends of the American Board to take for their doxology Psalm cxxvi.: "Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad."

170 Missionary Motives needed for Christian Work at Home. [May,

MISSIONARY MOTIVES NEEDED FOR CHRISTIAN WORK AT HOME.

BY REV. I. E. DWINELL, D. D., SACRAMENTO, CAL.

THE missionary work is based on the great unities of Christianity. They are such as these: that the race is one; that depravity is one; that redemption is one; that regeneration is one; that the Christian life is one. We do not reach the true spirit of our local work till we come down to it from the heights of these grand missionary unities. The kingdom of God, which knows no land, no race, no condition, as excluded from its provisions, must come into a man to enable him to put a cup of cold water or do any service, even, unto the kingdom. The "Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world," must be welcomed and reflected, to enable a man to walk a step according to the light in an old Christian community.

Thus, to specify to carry any real sense of the worth of the soul of our own child or brother or neighbor into our efforts in his behalf, we must realize, somewhat, the value of every soul, the value of the soul as a soul, and look at this particular soul in that broad light, seeing in it the divine. image, its relations to God, its responsibility, its immortality, in which light the distinctions of locality and kindred are faint. We must come down from this height of vision, from which all souls are sure to be unspeakably precious, to labor aright for those near us. Again, to take in justly their lost state, we must view it through our acquaintance with the universal human sinfulness, else we shall see in it but the accidents of its condition, and exercise ourselves over its surface treatment. Moreover, to go to this or that person with the story of redemption, and feel its value, we must realize that Christ died for sinners, the world through; and that one sinner has as much right to it, so far as he is concerned, as any other. The moment we regard it as merely a local blessing, and crib our sympathies accordingly, we drop down from the love of Christ to sinners to some lower principle. So it is with regeneration. To be able to detect the evidences of this in those about us, we must recognize the work of the Spirit in changing the disposition and purpose of the soul, - a change which is of the same nature in all regions. Unless we come down to this fundamental work, below the effect of this or that set of human agencies, this or that style of education, this or that church effort, below all local training, and find a kind of character identical in substance with that secured by the work of the Holy Ghost in China, Africa, and Turkey, we may be sure we are stopping short of regeneration. We must see, in the essentials of character, the same results at home as the missionary sees in pagan lands, or else one or both are one side of the evidences of the new birth. In like manner, Christian life, the world over, is of the same type, as contrasted with the life of any other class. It has everywhere similar experiences, similar aims, and a similar spirit. We must come out of this broad Christian atmosphere to detect and interpret the Christian spirit in our own Sabbath-schools and congregations. Our eyes must have back of them the world-wide Christian sympathy to see truly the Christianity at our own firesides.

It is illogical and foolish, therefore, to put the missionary spirit off from us as foreign to the home work, or try to make a distinction in kind and an opposition between the two. If we make such a distinction, the worse it is for the home work; for the missionary spirit is certainly founded on the great unities of the gospel, and if we come short of them, we fall from the gospel. We need all the height, breadth, and depth of the spirit of the gospel for home work, lest in falling under lower motives, we fall out of sympathy with Christ. There are lower motives which, if pure and subordinate, are worthy, as the love of country, church, neighbors, kindred; but they need to be taken up and made to float in the higher and broader ones, as down in the air. If we find the spirit of home work, as we cherish it, hostile to the missionary spirit, we need to beware. Even if we feel indifference towards it, we need to have our hearts rise and touch again the heart of Christ and catch

the beatings of his broader love.

It follows, if we have the true spirit of home work, we shall have longings that outreach the home field. We shall need a service that corresponds with our larger sympathies. We shall easily and naturally rise to a work that is as large as our principles. We may not have much to give or much that we can do abroad; but our hearts are as large as the world, and we must have an opportunity to do what we can for the world. Not to do this is to stifle Christ in the soul.

IN MEMORIAM.

An impressive service was held in the chapel of Wellesley College, on a recent Sabbath, in commemoration of a young missionary who has just rested from her earthly labors. Miss Henrietta S. Chandler, who died at Madura, India, January 23, was daughter of Rev. John E. Chandler, of the Madura Mission. She completed her special studies at Wellesley College in 1876, and in August of that year returned to India to give her life to Christian service in that land. The report for 1878 from the Madura Mission, written before her death, speaks especially of the faithful and successful labors of Miss Chandler in her school at Pulney. Suddenly, and almost at the beginning of her work, was she called away, but not before she had seen such results of her toil as made her glad and will make her glad forever. It was eminently fitting that in the college where she was known, in which there exists a missionary society that had adopted her as its missionary, having assumed her entire support, a memorial service should be held. Amid beautiful flowers, and with fitting hymns of praise and trust, the glory of an unselfish life, devoted to Christian service, was well set forth. The influence of that life, which seems to us to have been too soon ended, will long remain in this land as well as in India.

Christian heroism is not confined to one sex. During each year of the existence of Wellesley College, one of its students has given herself to foreign missionary service. And now another, soon to graduate there, is ready to enter into the place just made vacant. May the light of all our Christian colleges shine upon every land from this time on "until the day break and the shadows flee away."

IN SIGHT OF THE PROMISED LAND.

It is hardly possible to realize the progress made by Christian missions during the last few years, or the opportunity now presented for the early evangelization of the world. No one society or denomination has any exclusive privilege, though sometimes one and sometimes another may seem to be specially favored. The blessing of God everywhere attends earnest, self-denying labor in the promotion of his cause. At the late Conference in London, the representatives of the leading missionary societies of the world appeared under different banners indeed, but all giving heed to the one voice of the Leader. The gospel was seen and felt to be the power of God unto salvation, wherever and by whomsoever preached.

The period of beginnings is past. Our prayer now is not that God will open the world to the efforts of his people, but that he will give them the faith and the courage to enter and take possession in his name. It is no longer the time of preparation; that, too, is past. The Scriptures have been translated and a Christian literature developed in nearly all the principal languages spoken by mankind. Churches have been gathered among all the principal races. Men everywhere are attesting the power of the gospel in their changed lives, and in their devotion to Christ. It is no longer the time for vindicating the character and motives of missionaries; no longer the time to be content with individual conversions here and there, but to expect great movements by which hundreds and thousands are to be brought to the truth.

The Divine hand comes out more plainly than ever before in breaking down opposition and clearing the way for the grander triumphs of the church. How wonderfully within the last twenty years has God's presence been manifest in the historic development of the nations making the wrath of man to praise him in the enfranchisement of millions of bondmen, delivering Italy from the thraldom of the Papacy, turning the humiliations of Sadowa and Sedan into the conditions of new life and hope to Austria and France, while giving to the world a lesson of the corrupting influence of Romanism on the national life of great peoples as contrasted with the quickening energy of Protestantism. See how the political power of Islam has been broken down, while there has been manifest a singular care of the evangelical agencies at work in the Turkish Empire, overruling the ambition of princes and the craft of statesmen in the interest of the kingdom of God. See how war and famine and pestilence become agents in his hands to overcome the pride of caste, the hatred of foreigners, the traditions and prejudices of centuries, that men should come by thousands, and even tens of thousands, to put themselves under religious instruction. In India it is no longer the humbler and ruder tribes like the Kohls, the Santhals, and the Karens, but the Teloogoos and the Tamils are coming,sixty thousand the past year, and still they come, the beginning of a movement that is ere long to sweep over India. And what shall we say of the results in China, and the conviction of the missionaries convened in conference at Shanghai, that in a single generation that great Empire may

become Christian! And then, what of Japan and the Islands of the Sea, and of Africa, now as never before open to Christian effort!

Is it too much to say that we stand as it were in sight of the promised land, and that it is for the church of Christ to decide whether we shall now go up and take possession in the name of the Lord of Hosts, or turn back and wander in the wilderness, and leave to another generation the great privilege which God, in his all-wise providence, is offering to the church of our day and challenging its faith to accept?

A VOICE FROM THE PACIFIC.

THE REV. Titus Coan, who is now pastor of the native church at Hilo, in the Sandwich Islands, was born in 1801. He commenced his missionary work forty-five years ago, and during this period over 12,000 persons have been baptized by him. The record of benevolent contributions made by this church at Hilo during Mr. Coan's pastorate, is also remarkable. At the first their gifts amounted to not more than five dollars a year, and were made in kapa, fish, etc. But the increase has been to ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred, three hundred, five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand — until the sum of four thousand dollars annually has been reached. $120,000, mostly in gold and silver, have been contributed by this one native church during this pastorate. The following ringing words have just been received from Mr. Coan, who, though now seventy-eight years of age, is still in active missionary service. Referring to the papers read at the annual meeting at Milwaukee, he says:

"What startling bugle blasts break over the sleeping camps and echo along the tardy lines of the sacramental host,' calling upon Zion to shake herself and put on her beautiful garments. And yet the sleep of ages rests upon many. How painful the low-tide statistics of hundreds of churches, and the negative statistics of many hundred more! We love to hear the clinking of silver coins into the Lord's treasury, like the rattle of small arms, and the thud of the double eagle, like the booming of heavy ordnance, in this great battle against the powers of darkness. And we long to hear the sustained rattle along the whole line of conflict.

"We have just read that marvelous tale, Through the Dark Continent, and we blush for a Christianity that can suffer millions of the human family to remain from century to century in a state worse than brutal. Why is it that the late revelations concerning central and equatorial Africa made by Livingston, Speke, Grant, and by the indomitable Stanley, do not arouse the slumbering zeal and pious devotion of Christendom? It is a pity that the American Board cannot be furnished with one million of dollars, annually, and other Boards with a like amount, to send the bread of life to the perishing millions who are following other uncounted millions, all going down to the grave, without the knowledge of the way of life. Oh! if the dear Master would give me another life on earth, how gladly should it be consecrated to the proclamation of the gospel to the tribes still sitting in the region and shadow of death. Why not be willing to toil and suffer on