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fluenced its action, and whose personal exertions and public support were given to its cause with unswerving fidelity. The Right Rev. Bishop Lonsdale, who died on October 19th, was incorporated in 1822, and, after serving for several years on the Candidates' Committee, and the Standing Committee, became a Vice-President in 1843. He preached the Anniversary Sermon in 1849 at St. Paul's Cathedral.

NOTES OF THE WORK OF MISSIONARIES.

Newfound

land.

THE Society supports many Missions in the poor and wintry Diocese of Newfoundland. The Rev. C. R. WEST writes (March 31) that there has been great want among his people, which has caused sickness and general despondency about the middle of March, however, the ice broke up, and seals came into Salvage Bay. Seal-hunting then cheered the men's desponding spirits, and procured food for their families. The Rev. W. NETTEN (December 31, 1866, and March 31, 1867) held a service for the seal-hunters before they started on their dangerous work. It is satisfactory to know that one of their last acts on shore was the offering of solemn worship. While a party of them were on the ice the wind changed; a ship saved some of them, but ten women and two young men were lost.

The people of the Rev. BENJAMIN FLEET (July 2, 1867) have been suffering from want of provisions. Over 1,000 children have died of scarlet fever in and near St. John's, and many throughout the island, during the past winter. Secular education makes progress. There are few persons who cannot read, write, and do sums.

The Rev. THOMAS BOONE (December 31, 1866) writes from his lonely out-harbour, where he has spent twenty-three years of his life, almost beyond the limits of civilization, in work vigorously and successfully carried on. The Rev. O. ROUSE (Christmas, 1866) has been tried by great want and sickness in his district. Like

many of his brother clergy, he is obliged to be to his people doctor as well as priest. The Rev. C. R, WEST (December 31, 1866) visits from time to time out-lying islands. His work is telling both outwardly and spiritually. The Rev. H. LIND (March 7, 1867) has enlarged his church, and is both clergyman and medical adviser to his people. The Rev. T. M. WOOD carries on his services regularly, notwithstanding declining years and failing strength.

The Rev. G. HUTCHINSON (Battle Harbour, Labrador, March 31, 1866) has spent most of the quarter in travel

Labrador.

ling to visit the small settlements, where he dis

charges the duties both of clergyman and of medical man. Mr. Hutchinson (June 30, 1866) visited twenty-eight places in his district, and travelled over 400 miles during a journey of six weeks. The people in the more distant parts of his Mission, who, have Esquimaux blood in their veins, are humble and teachable, and earnestly desire a clergyman of their own. A sailing vessel from Newfoundland gave him the first news he had received from the outer world for nine months. Mr. Hutchinson (September 30, 1866) says that the scattered villages in his district are well supplied with schools, and that every family has a Bible and Prayer-book. The failure of the seal and cod fisheries has caused such poverty among the people that many of them have left, and there is much want among those who remain, who give, notwithstanding, liberal gifts of fish to relieve S. P. G. as far as they can of the burden of maintaining him. The state of Mr. Hutchinson's health unfortunately compels him to return to England.

The Rev. R. T. DOBIE (Forteau Bay, Labrador, September 17, 1866) has been heartily welcomed to his new parish, which is very extensive, though thinly peopled. He has been cheered by a visit from the Bishop.

From Delhi the Rev. J. C. WHITLEY (June 24) writes that the cholera has subsided. He has been lately travelling Calcutta. on a Mission tour, and has been everywhere kindly received. An account is given of the services at the opening of the memorial church. Mr. Whitley has, at the request of the members, become Honorary Secretary of the "Delhi Society." He

Nov. 1, 1867.

has been a member of the Society since its foundation. Literature and social science are taken up by the Society. At its meetings he comes into contact with many of the leading men of Delhi. Mr. Whitley holds a Friday evening service in a private house, for the Christians in a regimental band. The Rev. TARA CHAND (June He has, in the last quarter,

30) continues his Chanar work. baptized a Chanar. There are several inquirers. He has published the two first numbers of a new Urdu periodical, entitled Mowavh-i-ookba, which is translated, Admonitions relating to the other World. He hopes it will be a means for preaching the Gospel to the middle and higher classes.

BOOKS.

Church Missions, are they not starved? (24 pages) is printed by the Church Press Company, 13, Burleigh Street, Strand. This useful paper, which was read at Ludlow by the Rev. E. S. LoWNDES, urges the clergy and laity of the diocese to increased exertion. Much has, indeed, been done; thus the Diocese of Hereford remitted, in 1863, 5047. to S. P. G., in 1866, 9247.; yet it is confidently stated that, by systematic offertories and collections, much more might be obtained. The diocese contributed, in 1866, towards

Now 166 parishes in the diocese subscribe to no Missionary Society. Also, 82 parishes (there are 358 parishes in the diocese) paid, not for poor-rate, but as an additional item, 4,2001. for cattle-plague

rate alone.

poor-rates.

The diocese pays probably not less than 76,500l. in

In the view of the above facts the Church's Missions must be considered as "starved." The clergy are therefore urged to endeavour, both publicly and privately, to remove this reproach. They are pressed to get laymen to join with them in the work of begging money, if possible; and, if that cannot be, still to labour alone, and to accept, as part of their cross, the obloquy which undoubtedly attaches to such work, remembering that "the support of Church Missions is a fair test of spiritual life and growth.”

The Negro Sidesman (pp. 48, published by Mozley).—The office of the Sidesman is to assist the Churchwarden in his duties (see Canon 90), and he was formerly required to attend Bishops' Visitations and Synods, whence he was called Synods'-man or Sidesman. The sidesman of whom the Rev. GEORGE MEYLAR SQUIBB, formerly Missionary of the S. P. G. in the Diocese of Capetown, gives an account in the tract which we here notice, was, in his early youth, a slave in Madagascar. Arab traders had probably brought him and his mother there from Africa. His master was cruel, and hard work, scanty food, constant punishment, and torture made life a burden. A blow from the slave master struck his mother dead, and, when he was about twelve years old, an English botanist, after employing him to collect specimens, bought him, and took him to his home at the Cape as a servant.

Slavery was not entirely abolished at the Cape till 1836. Still the young negro orphan had a kind owner, who not only cared for his bodily comforts, but trained him, by precept and example, in Christian faith and morals, and stood his sponsor at the font. He was christened Nicolas, and was generally known by the shortened form of the name "Klaas."

Mr. Squibb gives an interesting account of his life after the emancipation, which took place when he was thirty years of age. Though he lived to be an old man, he was, to the last, an active servant of the Church; as sidesman he promoted the observance of Sunday, helped the clergy to enforce discipline, and exerted himself to place the village school on a permanent footing. His zeal

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brought him prominently forward, but he never displayed the conceit which is generally the failing of Africans under such circumstances. The Negro Sidesman is an interesting and useful tract, and helps to give an idea of the great progress which the Church has made in the Diocese of Capetown during the episcopate of its energetic Bishop.

The Englishman in India. By Charles Raikes, Esq. C.S.I. published by Longman and Co. pp. 346).—All who heartily desire the spread of Christianity must feel that among matters of the first importance are the history and prospects of Missions

India.

Subject

But we cannot either understand the past important. or estimate the probable future history of those Missions without some knowledge of the character of the natives of the Peninsula, and of the English by whom our Christianity has been there represented or misrepresented. On both those points much may be learnt from The Englishman in India, a series of sketches which bring before us, in a very effective manner, the chief characters and events connected with our countrymen in the East. Indeed the book wants but one addition to make it, to our mind, perfect after its kind; and that is, a map to show at least the chief districts and towns which are mentioned. The Englishman in India is perhaps scarcely conscious of the utter ignorance of the Englishman at home concerning such matters.

The first of our countrymen who went to India (A.D. 1579) round the Cape of Good Hope, was James Stephens, a native of Wiltshire, educated at New College, Oxford, and a member of the Jesuit Mission at Goa. But it was not as Christian teachers that our name was known in the Peninsula in the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries. Our dominion over India was won by cruelty, forgery, (p. 88) and injustice, and mainly for selfish ends. With these lower motives and acts higher motives and nobler deeds were mingled with a strange inconsistency. Patriotism and undaunted valour had their share in accomplishing the great conquest, and so too had the energy and decision of the English character (p. 114). Interesting accounts are given of Clive and Warren Hastings, and of the model Indian ruler, Sir Thomas Munro. We much wish that the English