some sewing or fancy-work, and listened while the gentlemen engaged in the discussion of various matters relating to the work. There was a request sent in from each of our three schools for more workers. Miss Clarkson and Miss Hooper of Kioto are over-working. Miss Daughaday of Osaka is now alone in a school of between ninety and one hundred pupils, and here in Kobe four ladies would not have much time hanging on their hands. Misses Talcott, Dudley, and Davis have a school for Bible-women not far from our school, and they are just as busy as they can be. One of these ladies recently had a pleasant little experience in connection with her Sabbath-school work. One day a little boy, with wideopen eyes, was seen sitting among the other children, and appearing to be deeply interested in all that he saw and heard. The next Sabbath he was there again, with his sister, and for several Sabbaths the attendance from this family kept increasing, until the little fellow had his sister and brother and the baby and the nurse with him.

Finding where these children lived, Miss Dudley called, and was kindly received. Their father is a judge, and he had been studying Christianity, and was very much interested to know more about it. His wife had learned the Lord's Prayer from some one, and was in the habit of repeating it night and morning. We all hope to see this family soon coming from darkness in to light. A few weeks since, Miss Brown and O Fuji San (our most dependable native helper) called on a wealthy man whose daughters attend our school. When one of the little girls entered the room, she fell on her knees and bowed her head to the floor,- according to the native custom,- but her father bade her to rise and shake hands with Miss Brown. We are always glad to meet with people who take kindly and easily to our ways, and in whose presence we do not feel obliged to assume Japanese manners. . . . Some of our oldest and most valued workers are leaving us: Dr Gordon and family having left already, and Dr. Davis and family being now in a state of preparation to take the steamer next month. It seems strange to us that those who have been here so many years, and have made sufficient progress in the language to do efficient work, should be called away from that service which is so dear to them. But we cannot be discouraged, remembering who is our Master, the God of heaven and earth, who doeth all things well. Pray for us, dear friends, that we may have a special outpouring of the Spirit here in the Kobe School.

THE many expressions of interest in the survey of foreign work given a year ago, lead us to repeat the attempt this year. While lack of space prevents more than a meager outline of this work in all its length and breadth, we trust it will be valuable for reference, and that those more thoroughly informed will be able to read between the lines the evidences of patient, exhausting labor, untiring energy, and perseverance, and the real heroism that has brought about such results. We regret that its length will defer valuable foreign articles till our next number.

ZULU MISSION, SOUTH AFRICA.

MISSIONARIES.- Miss Mary K. Edwards, Miss Martha E. Price, Miss Fidelia Phelps, at Lindley (21 miles northwest from Natal); Mrs. Susan W. Tyler, at Umsunduzi (30 miles northwest from Natal); Miss Gertrude R. Hance, at Umvoti (40 miles northeast from Natal). SCHOOLS.- Lindley Female Seminary, in charge of Mrs. Edwards, Misses Price and Phelps, 33 boarders and 6 day-scholars; boarding-school at Umzumbi, 25 pupils. Bible-women at Groutville and Umvoti.

The seminary at Lindley has been under the care of Mrs. Edwards and Miss Phelps, Miss Price having been in this country for rest. The proportion of those who have been able to pay the required sum for board, is smaller than in some years past. The cry of "hard times" is heard on every side, among both Europeans and natives, and it is difficult to turn away promising girls

because their fathers really have no money to pay for them. The teachers joyfully report that the Holy Spirit has been doing a quiet work in many hearts. At the beginning of the present term nearly all the pupils signified a desire to be on the Lord's side, and it is evident, by the faithful, obedient spirit of many, that they are in earnest. A very remarkable awakening among the outstations and kraals, both as to spiritual things and to education and civilization as well, promises to largely increase the numbers in the schools and seminaries.

The good work done by two of the pupils from Lindley Seminary, as related in the July number by Mrs. Richards, shows the capability of these girls, and the good training they receive. The school at Umzumbi, under the care of Miss Gilson and Miss Welch (ladies who kindly undertook its management in the lack of regular missionaries of the Board), has had a prosperous year, and is full to overflowing. Miss Gilson being obliged to return to her aged parents in this country, Miss Kate Houseman (to be supported by the Woman's Board of the Interior) has been appointed a missionary of the Board, and designated to Umzumbi. Miss Hance, who has continued her efficient labors among the kraals during the year, is now on her way to this country, for much-needed rest. Mrs. Tyler is still at Umsunduzi, doing her many sided work among the families about her, and the Bible-women are giving good service among the kraals.

The adoption of Mrs. Wm. E. Fay, who left Boston for Bailundu early in April, gives us a prospective interest in the West Central African Mission.

EUROPEAN TURKEY MISSION.

MISSIONARIES.- Mrs. Ellen R. Baird, Mrs. Fannie G. Bond, and Miss Harriet L. Cole, at Monastir (400 miles north of Constantinople, in Macedonia); Mrs. Isabella G. Clarke, Mrs. Mabel Sleeper, and Miss Sara E. Graves, at Samokov (300 miles northwest of Constantinople; Miss Ellen M. Stone, at Philippopolis (150 miles northwest of Constantinople). Six Bible-women.

Miss Stone speaks of the work in this mission the past year as "kaleidoscopic, so rapidly have experiences shifted." The political events have "modified every department of national life, therefore could not fail to modify, more or less, every effort for the elevation of that life." Its effect on the Bible-work was to "widen its limitations, giving a special service among the wounded and in hospitals." Tours that have been made since quiet was restored, show that the work of God is taking deeper root in the hearts of the women and children, and that the laborers are appreciating more and more the privileges and responsibilities of their position. The training-class for Bible-women held by Miss Stone, in Samokov, through the months of May and June, has proved very suc

cessful. Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Sleeper, at Samokov, are still laboring among the women, and special mention has been made of the good done by the native female benevolent societies, and of the prayer-meetings, which have been "maintained with unwonted interest and frequency, especially during the dark days of the war, when mothers, wives, and sisters unburdened their hearts before the God of battles, and pleaded for their loved ones and their nation." Miss Cole, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Bond, has had a prosperous year in the school at Monastir (supported by the W. B. M. I.), and a rich spiritual blessing has attended her efforts. At the commencement of the year only two of the fifteen boarders gave evidence of a Christian life, and the general coldness of the pupils in this respect was a source of great anxiety. The Holy Spirit came to the school, however, and his influence spread from heart to heart, till there was reason to hope that all but two or three of the boarders were within the fold. The interest extended to the day-scholars, even to the young children, and a delightful spirit of helpfulness to those yet in darkness was manifested. Mrs. Bond's medical work has continued with good degree of success; on days specially devoted to patients, quite a large number have come for treatment. Mrs. Baird has given assistance in the girls' boarding-school, more particularly by instruction in sewing, and has labored among the women so far as her family cares would permit. Miss Graves, who has continued in the school at Samokov, is now on her way to this country, for a period of rest.

WESTERN TURKEY MISSION.

MISSIONARIES.- Miss Clara Hamlin, Miss Isabel F. Dodd, Miss Flora A. Fensham, Miss Helen E. Melvine, Miss Ida W. Prime, at the Constantinople Home; Mrs. Susan M. Schneider, Miss Martha P. Gleason, Mrs. Fannie M. Newell, Miss. Olive N. Twitchell, at Constantinople; Mrs. Catherine Parsons, at Nicomedia (50 miles southwest of Constantinople); Miss Laura Farnham, at Adabazar (about 30 miles from Nicomedia); Miss Mary L. Page, Miss Agnes M. Lord, Miss Emily McCallum, Miss Rebecca G. Jillson, at Smyrna; Miss Phebe L. Cull, at Manisa (6 miles from Smyrna); Mrs. Myra P. Tracy and Miss Eliza Fritcher at Marsovan (about 350 miles east of Constantinople); Miss Fannie E. Burrage, Miss Sarah A. Closson, at Cæsarea (370 miles southeast of Constantinople); Miss Laura B. Chamberlain, at Sivas (400 miles southeast from Constantinople). SCHOOLS.-The Constantinople Home, Misses Hamlin, and Patrick (Miss Patrick is supported by the W. B. M. I.) associate principals, 54 boarders, 47 day-scholars; boarding-school at Talas, Misses Closson and Burrage in charge, 27 boarders; boarding-school at Smyrna, in charge of Misses Page, Lord, McCallum, Jillson, and Lawrence, 28 boarders, 70 day-scholars; boarding-school at Adabazar, Miss Farnham in charge, 18 boarders, 52 day-scholars; boarding-school at Marsovan, Misses Fritcher and Wright (supported by the W. B. M. I.) in charge, 45 boarders, 25 day-scholars; boarding-school at Sivas, Miss Chamberlain in charge. Thirty-five day and village schools; 10 Bible-women.

During the winter term at the Constantinople Home there was a slight diminution in the number of boarders, owing to the detention of some of the Bulgarian girls by the war. A class of ten

graduated the last of June, and the Commencement exercises were reported "a success in every respect. The officers of the Kearsarge were present, also Admiral Franklin, who gave them the service of his band for the occasion. Mr. Cox, our ambassador, made a very pleasant address. Some twenty of the alumnæ were present." Seven of the class are earnest Christians; the other three are dayscholars, and consequently have not come so much under the direct religious influence of the school. Of the seven who graduated last year, one has remained in the school another year, five are teaching, at the Home, at Adabazar and in the kindergarten at Smyrna, and one, a Bulgarian, is living in her own home. Very much to the regret of all, Mrs. Williams "has felt obliged to sever her connection with the Board." The Home also meets with a great loss in the return of Drs. Wood and E. E. Bliss, with their wives, to this country. Dr. Wood as chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Bliss as one of its members, have been wise advisers and most helpful friends in the management of the Home. The city mission work in Constantinople built up by Mrs. Schneider and Miss Gleason, and consisting of a large Sabbath-school with three Bible-classes in Turkish, Greek, and Armenian, and a children's department of sixty, a coffee-house with an average attendance of from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty, a night-school with an attendance of twenty, a boys' society, tract distribution, and its various social meetings, is now under the charge of Mrs. Newell and Miss Twichell; valuable assistance is also rendered by Rev. Mr. Fuller, who returned to Constantinople about a year ago. Mrs. Schneider and Miss Gleason reached this country early in June, the former feeling compelled, by failing strength, to lay down the work, and the latter needing a period of rest.

The school at Adabazar, under the care of Miss Farnham and Miss Parsons, has succeeded beyond all expectations. It will be remembered that the school was removed from Nicomedia, at the request of the natives in Adabazar, with the understanding that they should assume all the expense aside from the salaries of the American teachers. The arrangement has proved an entire success, and the native people have admirably fulfilled their part of the agreement. Miss Parsons is soon to remove to Aintab, as Mrs. Charles Riggs, and Miss Marion Sheldon, of West Newton, Mass., has been appointed to fill the vacant place. Mrs. Parsons, who still remains at Nicomedia, finds her hands full with the broadening work among the women. The school at Smyrna has had a prosperous year. Eight of the girls were admitted to the church the first Sunday in January; two of these met with much opposition