the story of which is full of romantic interest and ought to be told better than a few words here can do it. The Rev. Elias Bond, of blessed memory, was the missionary. He labored here many years and taught the natives much. There is left here one fine memorial of his work in the native church. It is a massive stone structure with sittings for 750 people, and used to be crowded with native worshippers. The unique thing about this fine old church is that it was entirely built by hand. There was no

now, the most permanent and spacious edifice in Kohala. Its massive walls, pointed arches and square tower suggest one of the fine old churches one might look for in an English landscape.

The best work yet surviving of these early foundations is the Kohala Girls' School. It has buildings and equipment for fifty native girls; and it provides them with refined Christian home life and instruction through the usual grammar-school grades for the mere cost of their living.

But many changes, and some very sad ones, have passed into the religious life of the district since "Father" Bond used to gather such crowded congregations into the old stone church. Sugar-planting, in course of time, began to attract white people here, and they drew apart into a congregation of their own; this came to be known as the "foreign church." Later there came in among the planters a considerable element of English people who had been brought up in the use of the Prayer-book, and these drew together a second white congregation commonly spoken of as the "English church," though it is technically St. Augustine's, as the other is the Union church.

Meanwhile the Hawaiian people began to prove as apt in learning the vices of the white man as they were easy at first in accepting his religion. Intemperance, immorality and the ravages of disease thinned them out sadly, and dissensions among them have so broken up the old native congregation that only a few of them are left. A good many in this place have joined the Mormons. On the heels of these unhappy divisions there came into Kohala a swarm of foreign laborers, mostly Asiatics, drawn by the growing demand for plantation hands. Of these we have among us near the church about 600 Chinese, 250 Koreans and 1,200 Japanese. There are also about 400 Portuguese and Porto Ricans, differing from the others in that they are of European descent and are nominally

Roman Catholic. In the district there are many more of all races.

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We have missions in Kohala for the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans. Of the Chinese and Koreans about one-half are nominally Christians. The Chinese Christians are, as a rule, very constant. They have two local congregations, one associated with the Union church and the other with St. Augustine's. older leaders among them were Christians when they came out to the islands from China. A good many also who have embraced the Christian faith among them here have gone back to China to become helpers of the missionary life there. One prominent English missionary in Central China now, the Rev. Louis Byrde, was formerly a resident English clergyman here, and got his first strong impulse for that work and learned the Chinese language in preparation for it among our Chinese Christians in Kohala.

With the Japanese in Kohala the missionary outlook is not so promising. They have shown little interest in Christianity thus far. Very few of them here are even nominally Christians. The fact is the more serious because they outnumber the others two to one, and more of them all the while coming who are establishing themselves, acquiring property, making homes and rearing families. Obviously to win these Japanese is going to be the hardest part of our new missionary problem. Here is going to be our test.

Here is a glimpse of the religious life at St. Paul's College, Tokyo, from the Rev. Roger A. Walke:

RESIDENT TUCKER is working

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at the problem of how to get at the day scholars. It is not altogether easy, but steady progress is being made. Each class in the college has its Bible class, taught by some of the Japanese teachers. These are well attended. There are in addition, English Bible-classes. The Young Men's Christian Association has been working more vigorously of late. The second and third year classes had a joint meeting the other day. It began about 1:45. First there was a religious meeting a hymn, several short talks, prayers and a closing hymn. Then the inevitable cakes and tea appeared and were followed by games until about 4:30. The meeting is managed entirely by the boys.

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TE were forced to spend nearly a month in Manila on account of heavy rains, bad typhoons leaving the rivers so swollen as to be impassable. We reached Sagada September 28th. I am very glad to be here again, although I am still in the old grass shack along with the seventeen native boys and girls. In teaching them the other day I asked one boy what "full" meant. He said: "The house is full of boys." I quite agreed with him. It certainly has been a great pleasure to me to see how glad

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Y first impression of the Indian village was a group of tents, a number of children and grown people, nearly all with sore eyes and some of them so dirty you hated to look at them, and halfstarved dogs. There is a nice little cabin, warm, cosy and comfortable. It makes quite a lovable little home. A store-room had to be built, for there was no place for supplies. But the Indians. proved very nice-kind and helpful.

For a month school was kept in the missionary's cabin, but by the first of September, the new schoolhouse was finished, and the Indians at different places have been invited, to bring their children home to school.

Most of these poor people live in tents all winter.

There is no post-office, and the mission is dependent on the kindness of passing travellers for bringing the mail. The telegraph office is sixteen miles away.

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Many friends of the work among the Asheville mountains will be grateful for this message from the Rev. McNeely Du Bose, of Morganton :

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RUMOR has gone abroad that there has been some abandonment of the work at Morganton since the Rev. Mr. Hughson has moved to Waynesville. The truth is that there is no change or diminution of the work in any way.

The seven missions, each with its resident teacher, are faithfully at work. With the assistance of the Rev. Geo. Griffiths, we give each mission from three to five clerical Sunday services each month, besides such week-day and lay services as we can supply. Our workers are experienced and faithful. We still need the help of our friends in sending