a crowd round them in the markets. The native music is very monotonous and strange to our ears, but they like it best, and do not care at all for the hymns set to our tunes. The distribution of medicines is a great help; in every village there is an average of forty people who receive it, and the opportunity is taken then of telling of the Great Physician ready to heal their souls. There seems to have been a special blessing on this branch of the work, and many wonderful recoveries. We find that they nearly always attribute their recovery to "Isa Masih," Jesus Christ, saying, "He healed us." One youth told us that when he got better he offered a cocoanut and some money to Jesus Christ as a thank offering. While my husband preaches to the men I go amongst the women, and nearly all the villagers gather round me and listen most attentively. At one village, which we were in last year for the first time, the women were greatly impressed, and this year the wife of the Patel or landowner, when she heard of our arri val, came to see me with a crowd of women, saying she wanted some more books about Isa Masih, she had read those she had. Later on when I went to see her she had a number of her neighbors assembled. I was hardly seated when she said, "We are all waiting to hear about Christ." I read them the account of His birth, some of His miracles, and part of the Sermon on the Mount, and told them of His death, and the Ten Commandments. They were so interested, and the time passed so quickly, I quite forgot myself, and when I reached the tent was surprised to find my hus band in, and that it was long past the dinner hour. think I might say that the Patellin herself believed, though of course her light is small. She asked, "If I believe on Him with my heart will He bless me?" I told her most assuredly He would, and told her to pray morning and evening, and He, Himself, would teach her by His Holy Spirit. I I could write many more interesting incidents, but time fails. Our numbers are so small it is hard to keep up the work properly; two missionaries are required in each station, one to do the preaching, the other to care for and teach the people when gathered in; for they are very ignorant. Have you any friends in America ready to come and help us? Results of course appear small with so few workers, but I was encouraged by seeing from the reports of other missions that we can show almost as much, by the Lord's blessing, in proportion to our numbers. The Bâle Mission publish an increase of 265 members last year, but they have 110 European missionaries, which means little more than two converts to each missionary. Here in Hoshangabad we have had six for the last year, all the result of my husband's work; four of them through the medicine. If we had a few more men it would be a great help; he is perfectly overburdened with the secular work. Preaching and medi. cine he feels his proper sphere. Thy friend very sincerely, ANNA BAKER. 56 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO, Fourth mo. 1st, 1885. Editor Friends' Review :—We are pleased with the well-written review of the Memories of Angela Aguilar De Mascorro and Sketches of Friends' Mexican Mission, by Samuel A. Purdie. It will be highly ap preciated by Samuel A. Purdie as it is by the Publishing Association of Friends. But pardon us for calling thy attention to the last paragraph. It says: "Had the book been issued from the press in Matamoras we might have pronounced it a creditable production, but hardly so coming from Chicago." Now if there is to be any credit given or eulogy pronounced on the execution of the mechanical work, Samuel A. Purdie and the Matamoras press should have it, for all the work was done there except the binding. The Pub. lishing Association of Friends did the binding and undertook to advertise and sell the book in order to assist the Mexican Mission, in which we feel greatly interested. It was thought advisable that the imprint of the Publishing Association of Friends should be placed on the book, as it is. The above facts were stated in the Christian Worker some time ago. It was with a degree of apprehension that we consented to allow our imprint to be thus used, but thinking, as the Friends' Review expressed it, that it was a "creditable production," we consented. We are glad we can say the book is much valued and sells very well; we would like to see it in every Friend's family. Respectfully, Publishing Association of Friends. By A. H. PICKERING, Manager. ITEMS. THE Congo Valley is opening. A large emigration of blacks from the American Republic to Africa is, perhaps, not to be expected; but if I were a black man or a bronze man, I think no quarter of the world would call me with so loud a voice as the free states of the Congo. Victor Hugo has said that the nineteenth century has made the slave a man, and that the twentieth century will make out of Africa a world. Let us encourage the negro here to labor first for his own race on our own soil. Let us repudiate the theory that the Freedman, who helped us achieve our deliverance from the Rebellion, has no right to stay here and enjoy the fruits of liberty. As Frederick Douglas has said: "The dust may fly off; the mass of the black population will not move." Americans do not wish it to move. But, among the acutest minds in the colored population, and among the hearts of profoundest religious instincts, I hope Almighty God will raise up a great number to lead civilization in Africa. In opening the giant gates of the Congo, at about the time when many Freedmen in the South are becoming fairly well educated, and some of them self supporting, Providence seems to be likely to give Africa more or less into the hands of black leaders. Africa will be fleeced by white traders. It will be filled with merchants of all colors; but may we not hope that men of their own type will lead the multitudinous populations of the Dark Continent into the light of commerce, liberty, law, education, and religion? And may we not expect that from the edges of our own Gulf, and from the colleges which are now being founded in the Southern States for the blacks, will come forth spiritual successors of Moses and Aaron, and a race of prophets to lift the populations of Africa into advanced civilization and Christian culture?- Joseph Cook. FREDERICA H. LEIBRANDT, who died lately in Philadelphia, at the age of 91 years, joined the German Lutheran Church at 16 years, and, soon becoming a Sunday-school teacher, continued faithfully and punctually to perform that service until about two weeks before her death. WATER POWER IN AMERICA.-The extraordinary development of water power for economic purposes is an American idea. In no other country has it been so extensively and so successfully utilized. This will be apparent by considering some of the rivers which have been dammed for the benefit of mankind, and the force which they furnish reduced to the standard of horse-power: The Passaic at Paterson, New Jersey, 1000 horse power; the Merrimac at Lowell, 10,000; the Mohawk at Cohoes, 14,990; the Connecticut at Hadley, 17,000; the Androscoggin at Lewiston, II,000; the Housatonic at Canaan Falls, 3000; the Mississippi at the Falls of St. Anthony, 15,000; the Oswego at Oswego, 4000. The sum total of these is 75,000-horse power, as estimated at a given point on each river. But this is used over again on an average not less than three times. This would show a larger total of 225,000-horse power. There are also very many smaller streams in all the hill sections of the country which are utilized and may furnish, used and unused, power equal to the last named total of 225,000; thus giving a grand total of 500,000-horse power, distributed over a wide extent of country, and supplying, In their way, the wants of 50,000,000 of people. But these are only the minor powers, so to speak, of the hills and valleys. The grand dominating power that could absorb them all and still have room to give hospitable refuge to four times as many remains to be noticed. It is the Niagara river. From data furnished by the United States Lake Survey Bureau in 1875, it appears that the average flow of the river above the Falls is 10,000,000 cubic feet per minute. Converting this into horse power under a head of 200 feet, we have a grand aggregate of 3,000,000 horse power-a mighty force that would supply the economic wants of 200,000,000 of people.-Industrial News. NOTHING is more improving than the domestic altar, when we come to it for a daily supply of soul nourishment. THE BAIRNS. I'm sadly thinking of the time, When round about our house will be There is a horse quite nondescript, That little boys first ride; And there a baby's rattle tossed, And thus my rooms and usual haunts, For ever littered o'er, Though swept and garnished early morn, But I've no wish to scowl at that The time will come-'tis coming fast, No boyish whistle then we'll hear; Oh Time, just wait a little while, But when they've passed into the world, -Monthly Record. A. L. PRICE. THE EASTERN AND THE WESTERN GATE. Open the East Gate now, And let the daylight through. Uplift the daily toil With brain as fresh and clear, Strong hands that have no soil, And heart untouched by fear. Marching unto thy noon, Marching unto thy restWhen shadows lengthen, soon Comes calm and peaceful rest. Open the Western Gate, And let the daylight go In pomp of royal state, In rose and amber glow. It is so late, so late, The birds sing sweet and low, Pray at the Western Gate And let the daylight go. Lay down thy daily toil, Glad of thy labor done, Glad of thy wages won; Pray at the Eastern Gate The night falls cold and gray; But through life's Western Gate Dawns life's eternal day. -Selected. MARY A. BARR. From Faith and Works. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. Only a woman alone at the well, Only a woman, she hasted away, Only a woman, the words she brought Only a woman, oh! women tell, From the Master's lips in His precious word. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 7th inst. GREAT BRITAIN.-The reply of Russia to the English proposition respecting the Afghan boundary, is said to have been a virtual acceptance of the more important points. Earl Granville proposed that Russia should agree to limit the dispute to a zone including all the debatable points, to be called the zone of survey; and Russia consented to do so, provided the zone should be extended southward to the foot of the Parapamisan range of hills. The English Cabinet was considering this response at its meeting on the 4th. The Russian Ambassador to England had sent a separate commu. nication to Earl Granville, which was said to urge that England agree with Russia to abandon all military preparations and demonstrations in reference to the Afghan frontier, until the conclusion or failure of the pending negotiations. Gen. Wolseley has sent to the War Office a signifi. cant report made by the medical staff of the Khartoum expedition, respecting the probable result of the exposure to ihe desert heat of the British troops stationed along the borders of the Soudan desert. The report says that if the present military stations in the Soudan be maintained, fully one-half of the troops may be expected to die or be disabled by the heat before the autumn. It is supposed that an early withdrawal of the whole British force from the Soudan to Egypt will take place, and that the Nile expedition to Khartoum will be abandoned. It is announced that Gen. Graham, commanding the force operating from Suakim, has been ordered by the Government to open peace negotiations with Osman Digna or the sheiks between Suakim and Berber who have power to control the natives; and it is reported that he has been instructed to make such terms as will enable him to evacuate the country at once. On the 4th, the whole force was withdrawn back to Suakim except a small contingent left in a "zereba" or stockade. The heat in the desert west of Tamai is intolerable. In Yorkshire, 25,000 colliers have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent. in wages. Twelve hundred had previously offered to compromise by accepting a five per cent, reduction. Earl Cairns, the eminent lawyer, formerly a Judge, and Lord Chancellor in 1868, died suddenly on the 2d inst. FRANCE.-M. de Freycinet did not succeed in form ing a Ministry, and Henri Brisson then accepted the task, and on the 6th completed a Cabinet, with himself as Premier and Minister of Justice; Goblet, Public Instruction; De Freycinet, Foreign Affairs; Allain Targe, Interior; Clamageran, Finance; Gen. Campenon, War; Sadi Carnot, Public Works; Pierre Legrand, Agriculture; Herve Magnon, Commerce; Sarrien, Posts and Telegraphs; Admiral Galiber, Marine and Colonies. Most of the members have not been very prominent in public affairs heretofore. It is understood that the policy of the new Ministry will be the opposite of that of the Ferry Cabinet. It is asserted that the Chinese Legation in London has forwarded to the Chinese agent at Paris renewed peace proposals, on the basis that the French blockade of out the country, and he received many special honors from the Emperor, and from all classes of the people, RUSSIA. According to official returns, the number of men in actual service in the Russian army at the beginning of the year was 662,449. exclusive of Cossacks. The officers numbered 30,889. EGYPT.-Gen. Graham's force from Suakim ad. vanced to Tamai Springs on the 3d, and occupied the village with slight opposition. Very little water was found, and that of bad quality. After burning Tamai, the troops returned to their previous position. INDIA. The chiefs and princes of the whole Indian Empire, either in person or represented by deputies, have been assembled at Rawilpindi, together with the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, and the Ameer of Afghanis tan. Lord Dufferin has obtained from the Ameer a formal treaty recognizing the right of England to lay out and fortify the northeastern frontier of Afghanistan. The Ameer has been granted from India a special subsidy for the maintenance of an Afghan garrison in Herat sufficiently strong to protect the entire district. It is also intended to give him the services of an English engineer and other officers to superintend the construction of a series of fortresses along the frontier, to be garrisoned by Afghans. The English are also to construct a railway from Bolan to Candahar, and a military road thence to Herat; and to connect the fortresses by telegraph. This agreement has been approved by the British Government. The Ameer having expressed a wish to visit England, the Viceroy has been instructed to invite him to do so as the guest of the crown. CENTRAL AMERICA.-The Guatemalan forces invaded San Salvador, and a battle took place on the 30th and 31st ult., in which the Guatemalans were defeated and Gen. Barrios is reported to have been killed. A telegram of the 4th from La Libertad, San Salvador, said that an armistice of one month had been concluded between Guatemala and the allied republics; and that the Legislature of Guatemala had annulled the decree of President Barrios proclaiming a union of the Central American States. DOMESTIC.-Gen. Grant, who has been suffering for some time from a cancerous affection of the tongue and throat, was so ill on the 30th ult. that it was thought death might occur at any time; but from this condition he rallied considerably, and for several days was comparatively comfortable, though very weak. On the morning of the 7th inst. a slight hemorrhage from the throat caused renewed alarm, but it soon ceased, and did not appear to have much increased the weakness. He passed a quiet night, and at 5 A. M. of the 8th was able to take food, and his mind was clear, as it has been throughout. He has shown much patience and firmness in his protracted sufferings. The U. S. Attorney General has given an opinion that the Executive order of Second mo. 27th, opening to settlement the lands of the Crow Creek Indian Reser vation in Dakota, is inoperative, because the Sioux Indians hold title to the lands under the treaty of 1868. The land has already been covered with entries by white settlers, under the order, but these of course are illegal. Petcheli and Formosa shall be immediately raised; ALKETHREPTA that Tonquin shall be ceded to China; and that no indemnity shall be exacted by France. It was previously reported that the Chinese Government, subsequently to the French defeat at Lang-Son, had accepted the previous proposals of peace made by Premier Ferry. GERMANY.-The 70th birthday of Prince Bismarck was celebrated on the 1st inst. very generally through There is a large and increasing demand for this Superior Chocolate, and we would call special attention to it as an exceedingly wholesome beverage for the healthy and ailing, children as well as adults. A sample package will be sent by mail by addressing Smith's Manufacturing Co., 107 Fourth Avenue, New York. 17-261 More than thirty years ago, one lovely Sabbath morning, eight young men, students in a law school, were walking along the banks of a stream that flows into the Potomac River not far from the city of Washington. They were going to a grove, in a retired place, to spend the hours of that holy day in playing cards. Each of them had a flask of wine in his pocket. They were the sons of praying mothers. As they were walking along, amusing each other with idle jests, the bell of a church, in a little village about two miles off, began to ring. It sounded to the ears of those thoughtless young men as plainly as though it were only on the other side of the little stream along which they were walking. Presently one of their number, whose name was George, stopped, and said to the friend nearest to him that he would go no further, but would return to the village and go to church. His friend called out to their companions, who were a little ahead of him: No. 37. R. Newton 577 Thos. Clark 578 Fno. Hemmenway 579 ... Independent 580 Gospel in All Lands 580 ..Southern Workman 581 ....Exchange 582 ..A. S. Reporter 582 ...... 583 EDITORIAL.-Canada Y. M.-Young Men's Christian Associations-African Colonization-Bryn Mawr College-Mission School Teachers Wanted.... International Lesson.. 584 586 586 CorrespondenCE.-Bryn Mawr College-Chilocco Indian School 588 Psychic Research....................... Items ............. POETRY.-He Knoweth Best-In April...... SUMMARY OF NEWS 589 591 ....... 592 told him that the only way in which he could save himself from having a cold bath was by going with them. In a calm, quiet, but earnest way, he said: "I know very well that you have power enough to put me in the water and hold me there till I am drowned; and if you choose you can do so, and I will make no resistance; but listen to what I have to say, and then do as you think best. I never remember home; but you do not know that my mother is a "You all know that I am 200 miles away from helpless, bedridden invalid. seeing her out of her bed. I am her youngest child. but our teacher is a warm friend of my father, and My father could not afford to pay for my schooling; offered to take me without any charge. He was very anxious for me to come; but mother would not consent. The struggle almost cost her what little life was left to her. At length, after many prayers on the subject, she yielded, and said I might go. The preparations for my leaving home were soon made. My mother never said a word to me on the subject till the morning when I was to leave. After I had eaten my breakfast she sent for me, and asked if everything was ready. I told her At her request I kneeled beside her bed. With all was ready, and I was only waiting for the stage. her loving hands upon my head she prayed for her youngest child. Many and many a night since It is then I have dreamed that whole scene over. the happiest recollection of my life. I believe, till the day of my death, I shall be able to repeat every word of that prayer. Then she spoke to me thus: "My precious boy, you do not know-you never can know, the agony of a mother's heart in parting, for the last time, from her youngest child. When you leave home you will have looked for the last time, this side of the grave, on the face of her who loves you as no other mortal does or can. Your father cannot afford the expense of your making us visits during the two years that your studies will occupy. I cannot possibly live as long as that. The sands in the hour-glass of my life have nearly run out. In the far-off, strange place to which you are going there will be no loving mother to give you counsel in time of trouble. Seek counsel and help from God. Every Sabbath morning, from ten to eleven o'clock, I will spend the hour in prayer for you. Wherever you may be during this sacred hour, when you hear the churchbells ringing, let your thoughts come back to this chamber, where your dying mother will be agonizing in prayer for you. But I hear the stage coming. Kiss me: farewell.' "Boys, I never expect to see my mother again on earth. But, by the help of God, I mean to meet her in heaven." As George stopped speaking the tears were streaming down his cheeks. He looked at his companions. Their eyes were all filled with tears. In a moment the ring was opened which they had formed about him. He passed out, and went to church. He had stood up for the right against great odds. They admired him for doing what they had not courage to do. They all followed him to church. On their way there each of them quietly threw away his cards and his wine-flask. Never again did any of those young men play cards on the Sabbath. From that day all became changed men. Six of them died Christians, and are now in heaven. George is an able Christian lawyer in Iowa; and his friend, the eighth of the party, who wrote this account, has been for many years an earnest, active member of the church.. Here were eight men converted by the prayers of that good Christian woman. And if we only knew all the results of their example and their labors, we should have a grand illustration of the influence of a mother's prayer. CHRIST'S name and government gloriously declared-For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.-Isaiah ix. 6. THE inheritance of God's faithful co-workers They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.-Daniel xii. 3. For Friends' Review. THE GOSPEL AS OLD AS EDEN. BY THOMAS CLARK. (Concluded from page 562.) Now while Paul and Peter tell us we live in the times when the Spirit is poured out upon all flesh, and the Master assures us that one of His special functions is to reprove the world of the sin of unbelief, and Paul tells us that God has concluded all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all, and has put no difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the saine Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him; and while we would not make the naked declaration that the written and the living word are one, yet it is my full conviction that their teaching will ever harmonize, and that we cannot over-estimate the blessing to the human family of the revelation of the Divine will contained in the Holy Scriptures. We fully concur in the expressed sentiments of J. J. Gurney, that it is only through the teachings of the Bible that an adequate knowledge of the Supreme Being is obtained. Surely no branch of the Church would liberate any of its servants to labor for the conversion of the heathen, depending upon any form of spiritual guidance unsupplemented with a mind richly stored with Scriptural knowledge. Wanting this, his bell would not manifest the presence of the pomegranate-his breastplate the urim and the thummim. He would be like the lion denuded of his claws. He might still be heard but would be wholly powerless in rending asunder the whole network of infidelity and unbelief in which the heathen world is only too completely enchained. The Bible was the constant companion of the early Friends, and its too general neglect the bane of the middle period of our history. And not only so, but the aged Christian looking back to his early impressions, to the tender visitations of a Father's love to his infant le heart, is prone to ask how he would have known that it was the same loving voice that was speaking to him, that was once heard in Eden, saying "Where art thou?" But like the youthful Timothy, he had been taught the Holy Scriptures, which the Apostle tells us were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Surely the Christian soldier, in his conflict with sin, needs all the appliances of spiritual warfare, even the whole armor of God, needs to be girt about with all the truths of God, to take the shield of Faith, the helmet of Salvation, the sword of the Spirit, the word of God. There is great beauty as well as instruction in these figures, taken from carnal warfare, as used by the Apostle to illustrate the struggles and victory of the church and its members, showing that though all the means necessary both for defense and conquest are provided by our great Leader and Captain of salvation, these must be used in accordance with their several designs, in order to accomplish their intended purpose; that they only represent |