Sing His praise

Without delays,

Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise

With Him mayst rise;

That, as His Death calcined thee to dust,

His Life may make thee gold, and much more just!

-George Herbert.

To prosper the work of Bishop Knight in Colorado, and of all others who in the new communities of this land are raising and upholding the standard of the cross. Pages 263, 271, 288.

To give wisdom and strength to the missionaries in Hawaii, that they may bring to Thee the many thousand Japanese and others who know Thee not. Page 260.

THANKSGIVINGS

"We thank Thee"

For the blessed assurance of another Easter-tide.

For the good example of Thy servant, Henry Yates Satterlee, first Bishop of Washington.

For the erection of the Church of the Holy Saviour, Wakayama, Japan.

For the larger share being taken by men in the work of Church extension.

For the larger things being done on behalf of the Negro people.

For the fruits of the Gospel manifested in the lives of the students at Boone College, Wuchang, and St. John's University, Shanghai.

INTERCESSION

"That it may please Thee”— To give all Thy people the will and the power to bear witness to Jesus and the Resurrection.

To bless the work at San Andrés, Mexico City, and to lead a larger number of native lads into the ministry of Thy Church. Page 279.

To be with the recent graduates of our colleges in China, that they may bravely and convincingly make confession of Thee before their own people. Pages 252, 254.

To guide and protect Bishop Rowe and all others in Alaska whose duties call upon them to travel during the Arctic winter. Pages 269, 286.

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A PRAYER FOR EASTER
WEEK

MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Resurrection and the Life, we beseech Thee to raise us from the Death of Sin unto the Life of Righteousness that we may have courage and power to tell abroad Thy love. Help us to pray reverently, to work diligently and to give liberally that the borders of Thy Kingdom may be enlarged, and the glories of Christ's Resurrection may be made known throughout the world. All this we ask in the name of Thy Son, our Lord. Amen.

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HE Board of Missions met at the Church Missions House on March 10th. The following members were present: The Bishops of Albany (vice-president, in the chair), Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Central Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Long Island, Newark and the Bishop-coadjutor of New York; the Rev. Drs. Eccleston, Huntington, Vibbert, Anstice, Stires, Parks, Morgan and Smith; and Messrs. Low, Mills, Thomas, Goodwin, Butler and Pepper.

The General Secretary announced the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Satterlee, at his home in Washington, on February 22d. The Chairman having appointed a delegation to attend the funeral at the Pro-Cathedral in that city on the Tuesday following, there were present representing the Board: The Bishops of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Newark; the Rev. Drs. Eccleston, Alsop, Parks, and Messrs. Thomas, Goodwin and Butler; the General Secretary, the Associate Secretary and the Corresponding Secretary. Dr. Satterlee, while rector of Calvary Church, New York, was a member of this Board from June, 1882, until the date of his consecration, March 25th, 1896. As Bishop of Washington he was re-elected to membership on October 12th, 1897. The Chairman bade the Board to prayer.

The Treasurer stated that he regretted very much to present a discouraging report, but there had been a still larger falling off than was stated last month in contributions toward the appropriations to March 1st as compared with the corresponding date last year.

"The decrease as reported at the last meeting of the Board, of $6,448.02 to February 1st, now amounts to $36,736.90, so it must be apparent to all that in all probability we shall have a larger deficit at the close of this year than in 1907." The Bishop of Minnesota accepted his election to membership in the Board and was assigned to the Standing Committee

on Africa and Haiti. The Bishop of Pittsburg was assigned to the committee having under their charge the missions in the newly acquired territory of the United States.

Dr. William Jay Schieffelin called the attention of the Board to the fact that the Laymen's Missionary Movement has arranged to have a great missionary meeting for men in Carnegie Hall, New York, on the evening of April 20th, at which Secretary Taft will speak upon his observations of the good missions are doing in the Orient. Mr. Silas McBee, Mr. John R. Mott and Mr. White will also speak. In connection with this the Board recognized the importance of the movement and expressed the hope that the members would be present.

Mr. Robert H. Gardiner communicated to the Board the information that, at a conference in Chicago of some of the executive officers of seven of the lay brotherhoods of the various Christian bodies in the United States, it was suggested that an effort be made to secure the observance of the week beginning Sunday, November 29th next (the first in Advent), as a special week of prayer. This suggestion was referred to the executive committee of each brotherhood for adoption. The council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew determined to observe the week and asked the president, Mr. Gardiner, to request the Board of Missions and all missionary organizations or churches in communion with it to urge their missionaries throughout the world to unite in the movement that men may be brought to Christ and that all Christians may come to feel their personal responsibility for the spread of His kingdom. The Board directed, by resolution, that the missionaries of the Church be requested to observe the week.

An announcement was made that an Ecumenical Conference for Foreign Missions, similar to that held in New York City in 1900, is to be held in Glasgow next year.

The Rev. J. V. Alfvegren, as archdeacon of Swedish work in the West, sent in a report of his work. The parish of the Church of the Messiah, Minneapolis, have been erecting a new church building this winter. Having purchased two lots for $750, the members have been donating their labor for the cause, which has made it possible for them to accomplish what they have. They are nearly ready for the inside work. They hope to use the church by Easter. The building will be worth $5,000 when completed. They are trying to free it from debt. If successful, the prospects in that locality will be bright. There is still $450 required beyond any resources of which he knows.

Bishop Rowe hopes to be back in Valdez in April, spend a few weeks at Sitka in May, and then leave for England by way of New York. The Rev. Dr. John B. Driggs wrote from Point Hope on November 14th. He had then just heard that the vessel carrying his year's supplies had been shipwrecked. He wrote: "It is slim living at the mission, but I will hold the work together and hope to pull through the winter all right." The Rev. John W. Chapman was heard from under date of December 27th. He reports himself in much better health; his assistants were well and the work at Anvik was going on regularly. Dr. Grafton Burke, who has been preparing for some time for work in Alaska, was appointed a missionary physician. For years Bishop Rowe has longed to have a medical missionary on the Yukon. For a distance of nearly 700 miles there is no physician. There are many places in need of one that are north and south from points on the Yukon. He was appointed.

Nine of the domestic bishops wrote with regard to appropriations, appointments, stipends, etc., and suitable action was taken.

The Bishop of Porto Rico is well satisfied with the hospital and what it is accomplishing at Ponce, but wishes that he might have more means so that its

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charitable work may be extended and in order that they may be free from the burden they are carrying. The room and seating capacity for the school at San Juan are quite inadequate. Overcrowded with eighty-one children, they have refused fifteen others since Christmas. They are greatly in want of English text-books. Spanish-English primers are also needed. The bishop is hoping to move the school back into the basement of the church at an early day, to get more room and for sanitary reasons. He is hoping to buy more property in Mayaguez, where Mr. Bland says the future life of the mission depends upon extension, and continues: "To hold our own and progress we need a church building where we are now, and another mission in another part of the town. It must be a church building, or we will not succeed."

As shown by the letters from Bishop Restarick, the Honolulu work is constantly progressing. On a Sunday night in January the bishop had on the Cathedral premises a service with fifty Japanese men in attendance besides women. Another class of catechumens has been formed among them. The bishop has recently succeeded, after long negotiations, in securing title to an acre of land on which St. Andrew's Priory School, Honolulu, stands. The land is worth $15,000, and the people locally have recently given nearly $25,000 for the erection of a new building for the school.

Letters were received from the bishops in China and Japan. The arrangements concerning the consecration of one or more Japanese bishops, or perhaps coadjutors or suffragans, at an early day, are to be brought up in London in July and it was felt necessary that the American Church should be represented. The Right Rev. Dr. McKim was therefore asked to attend such conference. He will probably leave Tokyo in the latter part of May and be back in his district by September. A question being raised by the bishop as to the desirability of obtaining a Government license for

St. Margaret's School, the matter was referred to the bishop with power.

The Bishop of Kyoto wrote that the new buildings at Wakayama, where the Rev. Mr. Dooman is stationed, were all finished and the church will be consecrated as soon as the last bills are paid. It is likely that the Rev. Dr. I. H. Correll, on regular vacation, will come home by way of the Suez Canal in order to attend the Pan-Anglican Congress, as he has been requested to do by the bishop and the Japanese clergy of the district.

Bishop Aves has two posts for work among English-speaking people at present unfilled-Guadalajara and Aguas Calientes. The Rev. Harry G. Limric, recently of Texas, has taken up work in

Mexico. The Rev. Hector E. Clowes wrote from Chihuahua that his people have a very strong desire to place the mission on a permanent basis. They have purchased a building site of the value of 10,000 pesos. They now need gifts from outside or a loan at a low rate of interest; having which, they are quite sure that they could raise more among themselves.

The Board requested Mr. John W. Wood and Miss Julia C. Emery to attend the Pan-Anglican Congress in London.

The Standing Committee on Audit reported that they had caused the books and accounts of the Treasurer to be examined to the first instant and certified the same to be correct.

Tokyo INFORMATION has been received from Bishop McKim of the death on February 10th, of the Rev. Sakko Kurubara, who was for many years a catechist and was ordained to the diaconate on March 11th, 1900. Four years ago he retired from active service as curate of All Saints' church, Tokyo, because of the infirmities of age; he being then seventy-four years old. The services at his funeral were conducted by the bishop, assisted by the Rev. J. A. Welbourn and the Rev. T. Minagawa.

Kyoto

MISS GEORGIANA SUTHON, whose departure from San Francisco was unexpectedly delayed, sailed by the steamer Siberia on March 10th.

MISS SALLY PERRY PECK sailed from Kobe by the steamer Siberia on February 9th and arrived at San Francisco on the 28th.

Mexico

UNDER the Woman's Auxiliary United Offering Miss Frances B. Affleck, now at the New York Training-school for Deaconesses, was appointed to do missionary work in the City of Mexico at the request of Bishop Aves.

OTHER assignments at the same meeting (March 10th) were as follows: The Rev. Efrain Salinas as principal of the Escuela Vicente Guerrero, Teloloapan; Señorita Paula Rivera as principal and Señora Rafaela Rivera as matron of the Escuela Leona Vicario at Teloloapan (the Señorita is one of the graduates of the National Normal School at Toluca); and, as teachers in the Mary Josephine Hooker Memorial School, Señorita Berta Barsuto, Señorita Esther Ortega, Señorita Natividad, Señorita Hernandez, Señorita Agripana Camancho and Señorita Josefa Romero. The five last named are graduates of the Toluca Annex of the Hooker School.

Canal Zone

ARCHDEACON BRYAN sailed from Colon by the steamship Finance on March 20th, and arrived at New York on the 27th.

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MISSIONARY

SPEAKERS

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SOR the convenience of those arranging missionary meetings, the following list of clergy and other missionary workers available as speakers is published:

When no address is given, requests for the services of these speakers should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

Department Secretaries

Department 1. The Rev. J. DeW. Perry, Jr., 213 Wooster Street, New Haven, Conn.

Departments 4 and 7. The Rev. R. W. Patton, care of the Rev. C. B. Wilmer, D.D., 412 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Department 6. The Rev. R. W. Clark, D.D., 720 Jefferson Street, Detroit, Mich. Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Alaska

Miss Florence G. Langdon, of Fairbanks..

China

Mr. M. P. Walker, of St. John's University, Shanghai.

Japan

The Rev. George Wallace, of Tokyo.

Work Among Negroes in the South

The Rev. S. H. Bishop, Secretary of the American Church Institute for Negroes: 500 West 122d Street, New York.

The Rev. G. A. McGuire, of Arkansas. Address direct at 281 Fourth Avenue, ' New York.

The Rev. P. P. Alston, St. Michael's School, Charlotte, N. C. Address direct at 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

Archdeacon Russell, of St. Paul's School, Lawrenceville, Va., is prepared to accept invitations whenever travel expenses can be provided. Address Lawrenceville, Va.