Published by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, I SOMERSET STREET CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS Letters for Rev. N. G. CLARK, D. D., Corresponding Secretaries, LANGDON S. WARD, Treasurer, Rev. E. E. STRONG, Editor of Missionary Herald, should be addressed No. 1 Somerset Street, Boston. Communications relating to the pecuniary affairs of the Board should be sent to the Treasurer; subscriptions and remittances for the MISSIONARY HERALD, to the Publishing Agent. REV. RUFUS ANDERSON, D. D., may be addressed Cedar Square, Boston Highlands. MRS. ELIZA H. WALKER, having care of Missionary children, may be addressed Auburndale, Mass. WOMAN'S BOARDS OF MISSIONS. W. B. M., Boston. MRS. ALBERT BOWKER, President. MRS. BENJ. E. BATES, Treasurer. MISS EMMA CARRUTH, Assistant Treasurer. W. B. M. of the Interior. MRS. MOSES SMITH, Jackson, Mich., President. MRS. E. W. BLATCHFORD, 375 No. La Salle St., Chicago. MRS. J. K. MCLEAN, President, Oakland, Cal. MRS. S. V. BLAKESLEE, Secretary, Oakland, Cal. Secretaries. All communications to officers of the Woman's Board, Boston, should be sent to No. 1 Congregational House, Boston. Checks and drafts should be made payable to Miss Emma Carruth, Assistant Treasurer. Letters relating to "LIFE AND LIGHT" should be addressed "Secretary W. B. M.” DISTRICT SECRETARIES. New York City and the Middle States, including Ohio, Rev. Charles P. Bush, D. D., No. 39 Bible House, New York City. Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, Rev. S. J. Humphrey, Prairie State Bank Building, 112 West Washington St., Chicago, Ill. HONORARY MEMBERS. The payment of $50 at one time constitutes a minister, and the payment of $100 at one time constitutes any other person an Honorary Member of the Board. LEGACIES. "The Ameri In making devises and legacies to the Board, the entire corporate name can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" should be used; otherwise the intent of the testator may be defeated. Form for Bequest to the Woman's Board. I give and bequeath to the WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS the sum of to be applied to the mission purposes set forth in its Act of Incorporation, passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in the year 1869. THE MISSIONARY HERALD. VOL. LXXV. -JUNE, 1879. — No. VI. SUGGESTIVE papers will be found in this number upon missions on the Gold Coast and in Polynesia, as well as upon religious liberty in Greece and Turkey. The question, as presented, "Who will go for us? should be pondered by all young pastors and theological students. The map which traces the route of the "Morning Star" will assure the reader that this is an actual voyage which is described in the letters, and not a fairy tale, as some portions of the narrative might lead one to suppose. THE Bulgarian Assembly, in preparing a constitution for the reorganized principality, is acting firmly on the side of religious liberty. When a clause against religious proselytism was recently proposed in the assembly, it was received with derision, and upon its being put to vote, no one supported the motion. A few days later, according to the London Times, "the Bishop of Sofia introduced a motion to insert an article in the constitution requiring all religious publications to be subjected to the censorship of the Holy Synod before being put on sale in Bulgaria. The motion was indignantly rejected. All previous attempts of the clergy to introduce intolerant regulations have resulted in ignominious failure." THE English Missionary Societies are finding that the difficulties connected with their operations in Central Africa are very great. For the purpose of organizing and guiding the work of the London Society more efficiently, Dr. Mullens, the secretary, has just left for Zanzibar, with two missionaries sent out to replace the losses by death. It is even proposed that Dr. Mullens proceed to Ujiji should he find it expedient to do so on reaching Zanzibar. WITH a view to readiness for action in entering Central Africa, the Prudential Committee have decided to send at once to Great Britain and the Continent some person thoroughly qualified to gain, both from missionary and geographical societies as well as from individuals, all possible information concerning the various openings in Africa, the best methods of reaching the interior, and what equipments will be required in undertaking a mission. Rev. John O. Means, D. D., has been invited to go upon this errand, and he will probably leave for England on May 24th. REV. DR. HYDE, of Honolulu, has prepared a sketch of Hawaiian literature, giving a catalogue of 107 works published in the Hawaiian language. He specially praises the industry and devotion of the early missionaries in reducing the language to writing, and ascribes the success of Christianity in the Islands to the fact that the Bible was so soon translated, and that the people were taught in their own tongue. SIAM has taken an open stand for religious liberty. Would that the Emperor of Austria were as enlightened as the King of Siam, in whose recent proclamation are these words: "Whoever is of the opinion that any particular religion is correct, let him hold to it as he pleases: the right and the wrong will be to the person who holds it. In the treaties, and in the customs of the Kingdom of Siam, there is no prohibition against persons who shall hold to any particular religion. If any one is of the opinion that the religion of the Lord Jesus is good, let him hold to it freely." IN 1863 Dr. Livingstone explored to some extent the region west and northwest of Lake Nyassa. In the map given in his Narrative of the Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries this region is marked “High Table Lands inhabited by Zulus, or Mazitu." A recent letter from Major Malan, now in England, says that a Kaffir evangelist has read to envoys from the Mazitu chiefs the parable of the prodigal son in Kaffir, and has traveled in this tribe, being understood, and finding a welcome everywhere. The kinship of these central tribes west of Lake Nyassa, with the Zulus of Natal in race and language, suggests the method for their evangelization. Major Malan strongly advises the reinforcement of some central stations in Natal, for acclimatizing missionaries and the training of native evangelists, and then moving on to the Mazitu, by way of the Zambezi and Shirè and Lake Nyassa. "This is your quickest, safest, and easiest way into the interior." Livingstone reported the atmosphere on these high plains of the Mazitu as exhilarating to Europeans, and although in latitude 12, the mean temperature was 76°, the lowest being 52°, and 82° the highest. A MINISTRY which fails to waken in men an interest in works of benevolence may well be set down as a failure. An exchange tells of an elder who was recently looking for a pastor, and while making special inquiries about a certain candidate, he discovered that the church over which this person had been settled, had contributed nothing to missions. He inquired no further, but simply remarked, "That man won't do." THE English government has already concluded arrangements for telegraphic communication with South Africa. It is expected that a cable. will be laid between Zanzibar and Delagoa Bay, by June, and between Zanzibar and Aden by the end of October. We are sorry to see that the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, at the close of its financial year, May 1, has not succeeded in canceling its debt of $47,000, but has increased it by $15,538, so that its total debt is now $62,538. REV. PETER J. GULICK, MISSIONARY TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. We are glad to be able to give the above portrait of "Father" Gulick, as he was called with great affection, by all who knew him. After forty-six years of labor on the Sandwich Islands, he lingered a few years among his children in Japan, and then went to his heavenly rest in December, 1877. Not for his honor, who is now shining among those who turn many to righteousness, but for our quickening, would we recall the face and the work of this faithful servant of God. Arriving at the Sandwich Islands in 1828, he saw the Hawaiians in their nakedness and degradation, and he lived and wrought until he saw them a Christian nation. He was not only a missionary father, but a father of missionaries. Two of his sons are missionaries in Spain, and three sons and one daughter in Japan. Surrounded by these children in Japan, he witnessed the beginning of a work on that island, destined, we believe, to be grander than that on Hawaii in which he had a personal part. Who would not covet such a work and reward as his ! |