the increase has been so enormous in some of them that very little outlay then would have made a substantial endowment for the work now. The fact that the State Normal School is located in Lewiston adds a feature of value to any work that we may do there.

Entering the "Camas Prairie Country," we first came to a new town called Volmer. There is no church here as yet. We stopped at the little hotel with very primitive conditions and visited the Church people we could find, but had only a brief service in their hall. The next morning the proprietor of the hotel, when I went to pay my bill, said that he was a Canadian Churchman, that his children had been baptized in the Church, and that he would not allow me to pay the hotel bill. I made arrangements with him and with others interested in the Church to have the clergyman from Lewiston come up and baptize several children and have services.

Getting into a stage at this point we drove the forty miles or more across country to Grangeville, passing through Cottonwood on the way. We saw the wonderful railroad bridge now being

constructed across Lawyer's Canyon. It is 1,400 feet long and 300 feet high. As we watched great beams being put in place by men who were walking over narrow sills 250 feet above the ground, we felt that in worldly pursuits courage and bravery are being constantly showed that would make men famous if exhibited in religious work.

The Grangeville church had not been open for many months. The people welcomed us warmly and I held several services. Since then I have sent to them a young clergyman who has, I think, the perseverance to stay with them and do good work. The town has some 3,000 people and is situated in a picturesque and growing part of Idaho.

After a two days' visit we went out on the stage to the Northern Pacific Railroad at Stites, and thence through Spokane, to the mining camps of Wallace, Wardner and Mullen. Here the Rev. O. W. Taylor is doing splendid work. On this occasion I visited Wallace only as I had visited the other two towns a short time before. At Wallace we had an interesting service with a good confirmation class, and afterwards

a very delightful reception at the home of the rector, at which an opportunity was given Mrs. Funsten to arouse the enthusiasm of the ladies in behalf of the missionary cause. Wallace is another exhibition of what can be done by aggressive work among the miners. This is the richest lead mining country in the whole world, but the mines are largely owned by outside capitalists and here, as everywhere else, the Church has to struggle. We once had a nice hospital here, and it would be a great power if we could have retained it. It passed out of our possession before my day as bishop, and belongs to one of the memories of the past.

At Bonner's Ferry, near the Canadian line, I preached in a church lent us by the Methodists, to a large congregation, which I think in the main they also lent us, as their minister was away and we have but few people at that point.

At Sandpoint, on the beautiful Pend d'Oreille lake, I had services in the Odd Fellows' Hall, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Daughters, and preached to a small congregation. Sandpoint seems likely to become a place of considerable importance. Unfortunately, however, we did not secure a very good site for the church building in early days, and now that the town has grown from 300 to about 7,000 in the last six years, it is very difficult to repair our mistake.

Our visit to Coeur d'Alene was particularly interesting, as we have here also one of the instances of a rapidly growing town. Having a few hundred inhabitants, six or seven years ago, it has now as many thousand. During Bishop Talbot's time a very nice church and rec

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tory were built here, and the Rev. Henry G. Taylor, who recently took charge of the work, is very much encouraged with the outlook.

Crossing the Coeur d'Alene lake, some twenty or thirty miles, and going up a river known as the St. Jo, "the shadowy St. Jo," as the guide book calls it, we visited the new towns of St. Mary's and St. Jo, which are springing up on the railroad now being built across that part of Idaho. I was able to secure good lots for our future church in St. Jo, and took steps toward getting like property in the town of St. Mary's. On the boat we met a graduate of Yale who had attended one of our Church schools, and whose family expects to live in one of these towns. He said: "We are all anxious to have the church. I do not believe that I would be willing to leave my wife here unless we can have Church services at least occasionally, and I for one am willing to make a liberal contribution to that end and to see that you have both the lots and the lumber." So it is all through this country; there are little bands of people coming from eastern homes who are hungering for the ministrations of the old Church. There are many others, brought up in other communions, to whom somehow in this new land her worship and doctrine appeal with such strength that they will gladly come to her fold. I am oppressed rather with the multiplicity of my opportunities than with the difficulty of the work. Lack of workers, lack of means to support them-these are the things that weigh on a missionary bishop in the Far West much more than any personal hardships or discomforts.

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HEN I became English instructor in the Government college in Kanazawa, I wondered what I would do for Church services. I had been living in the great metropolis of Tokyo. where I had enjoyed the privileges of the services at Trinity Cathedral. Kanazawa in the feudal days was the castle town of the wealthiest of all the feudal princes. Now an imperial regiment occupies the fortress of the great House of Maeda; the famous pleasure ground where for three hundred years the princes took their recreation is now a public park. The present progressive imperial government has equipped this old provincial capital with a great college of arts and sciences, a medical academy and excellent hospital; commercial, industrial and common schools. Into this strong

hold of the Buddhist faith have come the bearers of Christ's Gospel. Their work has been long enough established to begin to show significant results. Both Presbyterians and Methodists have each two chapels in Kanazawa. The Presbyteriana girls' school, called the Hokurika Jo Gakko, is a particularly good institution.

I was extremely glad to find that the Church was also established in Kanazawa. Through the efforts of the Rev. Isaac Dooman, nearly or quite twenty years ago, and by the aid of the Board of Missions, work was opened in Kanazawa. Not long after St. John's Church was built. To this church I came on Sundays, and, although the services were entirely in the Japanese language, I had as many Church privileges as if I had been in a Christian land.

For eleven years Miss Suthon has superintended the women's work in this station. One of the pictures shows the Sunday-school at her dwelling. There is need of development of this work among the women of Kanazawa and there should be another American lady there. This is especially urgent as Bishop Partridge has asked Miss Suthon to undertake a different work in another city.

The services in St. John's were hearty and well attended. An especially large number of men and students from the government institutions came on Sunday mornings and evenings. Seven or eight of the students from the medical academy are confirmed. They live together in Trinity House. This is a commodious Japanese building across the street from the residence of the Japanese rector, the Rev. R. Ohashi.

Trinity Sunday was a memorable day for St. John's Church, Kanazawa. On this day Mr. Ohashi was ordained to the priesthood. He has served in this church wisely and faithfully as deacon for over ten years. He came to Kanazawa before the present church was erected. During

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the seven years that the Rev. J. J. Chapman was the resident missionary in Kanazawa, Mr. Ohashi worked under him. Now that Mr. Chapman has removed to Nara it seems fitting that Mr. Ohashi should have full charge of the Kanazawa church. The vestry pledged the amount necessary to pay their share of the increase in his salary; his papers were signed by the Rev. Messrs. Chapman and Reifsnider; Bishop Partridge made a visitation to Kanazawa on June 13th. That was the eve of Trinity Sunday. Service was held at 7:30. Some fifteen candidates were presented for confirmation. The great ordination ceremony drew a large congregation to the Sunday morning service. Besides the bishop and Mr. Reifsnider, a Japanese priest, a deacon and a catechist were in the chancel. An excellent sermon was preached by the bishop's Japanese chaplain. The service was profoundly impressive. It was entirely in Japanese, but as the service is the same as that in the Book of Common Prayer it was not difficult to follow. A number of persons of other Christian bodies were present.

The newly ordained priest is a native of Kanazawa, the son of a retainer of the former lord of the province. Mr. Ohashi graduated from the Tokyo Divinity-school. He has one of the pleasantest homes I know of in Japan. His aged grandmother of eighty-seven is still able to go about. His mother and wife are delightful types of Japanese women. He has three jolly little boys; a little daughter came to the family this spring. During my stay in Kanazawa I found Mr. Ohashi unfailingly kind and helpful. It will be interesting to watch the growth of St. John's Church under his direct leadership.

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CHURCH STUDENTS AND MISSIONS

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of the Church Students' MissionHE twenty-second annual convention ary Association meets in Toronto as the guest of Trinity College, November 5th to 8th. In addition to an attendance of about one hundred student delegates from the universities, colleges and seminaries in the United States and Canada, it is expected that a number of American and Canadian bishops and missionaries will be present. Among the subjects to be discussed are: "The PanAnglican Congress and Its Message to Students"; "The Mohammedan World and Its Call to Christians"; "The College and Its Responsibility to the Preparatory School and the Problems of After Life." An interesting feature of the convention will be the presence of the Rev. D. T. Huntington, of Ichang, China, who for more than ten years was supported through the Board by the members of the association. He will speak on "The Work of an Inland Mission in China." Further particulars concerning the convention can be obtained from the Rev. H. A. McNulty, 175 Ninth Avenue, New York City,