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Letters for

Rev. N. G. CLARK, D. D., Corresponding Secretaries,
Rev. E. K. ALDEN, D. D.,

LANGDON S. WARD, Treasurer,

Rev. E. E. STRONG, Editor of Missionary Herald,
CHARLES HUTCHINS, Publishing and Purchasing Agent,
CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE,

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.
MISS ABBIE B. CHILD, Secretary.

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.
MISS MARY E. GREENE, 75 Madison St., Chicago.
MISS HARRIET S. ASHLEY, 75 Madison St., Chicago.
MRS. J. B. LEAKE, 499 La Salle St., Chicago, Treasurer.
W B. M. for the Pacific.

MRS. J. K. MCLEAN, President, Oakland, Cal.
MRS. R. E. COLE, Treasurer, 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.

In making devises and legacies to the Board, the entire corporate name "The American 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.-JULY, 1879.- No. VII.

An unusual amount of space in the present number is given to communications from the missions. These communications cover the annual reports from the Central Turkey and the Mahratta missions. The letters of Mr. Parmelee, concerning the burial of the Greek bishop of Trebizond, and of Mr. Atkinson, as to the character of native converts in Japan, are of special interest. Missionaries and their friends in this land will find matter for thought in the article on Special Donations. A double number is given in the Young People's department, with abundant illustrations of scenes in Africa.

NUMEROUS requests have been received that the Young People's portion of the Herald be issued separately, for distribution in Sabbath-schools and elsewhere. The eight pages of this number will be so issued, and may be obtained at the publishing office at the rate of $2.00 per hundred. Should it appear from the call for this special issue that there is a wide spread desire for a Young People's Missionary Quarterly, to be made up from the Herald, such a publication may be commenced with the coming year.

MR. COMBER, of the English Baptist Mission on the Congo, asserts that the climate in that section is salubrious, there being no sign of sickness in their mission at San Salvador. He says that the weather in England during March and April last was far more trying than that he experienced in Congo land. Mr. Comber also speaks of the natives as intelligent and kindly disposed, and not given to superstition.

ON the 23d of March last, Mr. Davison, of the American Methodist Mission in Japan, received forty-four persons into a church organized at Kagoshima, on the island Kiushiu.

REV. DR. FARNSWORTH, of Cesarea, in concluding a detailed and encouraging account of a twenty days' tour among the out-stations of his field, says: "The kingdom is coming; wait patiently; pray earnestly; watch continually; forward the supplies!"

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THE General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, at its recent session at Saratoga, honored itself as well as one of its best sons by choosing Rev. Henry H. Jessup, D. D., the Syrian missionary, as its moderator. The papers are referring to this action as a compliment to missions. What is of far more account than any supposed commendation of this sort is the statement that this session of the General Assembly was particularly distinguished by a missionary spirit. A single fact may serve as an index of this spirit. In view of the debt, amounting to $62,538, resting upon the Board of Foreign Missions, it was proposed that a large legacy, soon to be available, should be used in canceling the debt. Instead of so doing, the Assembly assigned to the various Synods the amount they should each pay for the liquidation of the indebtedness, and voted that the legacy should be used solely for the extension of the work in the foreign field.

WE are glad to welcome among our exchanges The Missionary Tidings, a new monthly magazine, devoted to the interests of the missionary work of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is issued by private enterprise, with Rev. A. C. Rose as editor, at 805 Broadway, New York. We wish it much success in its announced purpose to infuse a more intense and intelligent missionary zeal" into that great branch of Christ's church with which it is connected.

He has gone

MR. STANLEY's arrival at Zanzibar has been announced. there as an adviser of the Belgian exploring expedition, but whether he is to accompany that expedition to the interior no one seems to know.

THE receipts of the Board during the month of May were $21,578.27, of which $19,881.44 were from donations, and $1,696.83 from legacies. This is a decrease in the amount received of $5,057.86 as compared with the corresponding month last year. For the first nine months of this year the donations equal within about $500 those of the same period a year ago, but the legacies have fallen off $28,720.47.

AT the annual meetings held during the past few weeks by several of the State Associations of Congregational churches, the representatives of the American Board have received a cordial welcome. Dr. Bush was in attendance at the Ohio meeting in Cincinnati. Rev. Mr. Humphrey has been present at the Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas meetings. The editor of the Herald addressed the brethren of Rhode Island at Providence. Rev. George F. Herrick, of the Western Turkey mission, represented our work in the Ottoman Empire at the Vermont Convention in Burlington. The Home Secretary was not only able to meet the Associations of Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa, but also to spend a Sabbath with our faithful missionary laborers among the Dakotas at Santee Agency, Nebraska. Some further account of this visit will be given in the next number of the Herald.

DR. ROBERT MOFFAT, than whom no one is better informed on whatever concerns that part of the world, says that "mission work all over South Africa has been thrown back fifty years by the present war with the Zulus."

RECENT papers from Southern India indicate that the famine has by no means ceased. Food is scarce and prices are high, particularly in Eastern Deccan. In view of continued distress the government has issued a call for the establishment of relief-works, and has invited Messrs. Fairbanks and Ballantine to take part in a famine-commission.

FOLLOWING the New York anniversaries, at which a meeting in behalf of the American Board was addressed by Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, Rev. G. F. Herrick, and President Hopkins, came the single day of Congregational anniversaries in Boston. The closing hour of this day was assigned to the Board, and brief and effective addresses were made by the Foreign Secretary, Rev. Messrs. Adams, of Austria, and Herrick, of Turkey, and by Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Boston.

THE May anniversaries of London, full reports of which are now coming to hand, indicate no diminution but rather an increase of interest on the part of British Christians in the benevolent operations of the day. In view of the extraordinary business depression prevailing throughout Great Britain during the past year, a decrease in the receipts of missionary societies might have been anticipated. We have, therefore, been greatly gratified in looking over the financial reports just received, and comparing them with the tables of ten years ago, to find that there has been no falling off because of recent financial troubles. The receipts of the prominent societies reported in 1879 and in 1869 are as follows:

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These seven societies, therefore, show an increase in their receipts of $674,825, as compared with the period of prosperity ten years ago.

HOW MISSIONS PROMOTE Commerce. A few years ago no artificial light was used in Syria save that afforded by the little.wick floating in a cup of olive oil. The people then seemed to have little need for lamps, but now that schools have been multiplied, and the people have learned to read, they desire to use their evenings for study. The result has been, according to Dr. H. H. Jessup, that there has been a great demand for oil for illuminating purposes, so that there is not a village or nook about Mt. Lebanon in which empty boxes, marked "astral oil," may not be seen. The first shipment of American oil to Syria was made by a Boston merchant in 1866, and last year the imports at Beirut alone amounted to 1,500,000 gallons. In more senses than one is America giving light to Syria.

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