tion of episcopal jurisdiction, the Bishop of Tokyo says: "The question of the Japanese episcopate is settled so far as the archbishop and the committee of American bishops can settle it. The terms agreed upon will be eminently satisfactory to the Japanese Church. All that we want now is the approval of the American House of Bishops." The work at St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, has grown exceedingly. Dr. Teusler says the bishop has for some time advocated his having an associate and all the members of the Council of Advice have urged this for over a year. He thinks it important that a man should be there by January 1st, as he himself will be obliged to leave for vacation next spring. The private surgical practice is quite large. They are adding to the hospital at a cost of about $5,000, and also an annex to the nurses' home.

Upon representation from the field $800 was appropriated for evangelistic work at country stations.

Bishop Ferguson wrote that in his visit during the summer to the three southerly counties of the republic he baptized twenty-seven persons, eleven of whom were adults, confirmed 107 and advanced a native deacon to the priesthood. The Board was informed that Miss Emily de W. Seaman, of Fishkillon-Hudson, was going to Cape Mount, "privately, not under the Board," for a year to enable Miss Ridgely to take a vacation. Thereupon the Board arranged for Miss Protheroe, whose appointment had already been made as an assistant to Miss Ridgely, to accompany Miss Seaman. The Rev. James S. Smith wrote concerning the new church edifice in course of erection at Lower Buchanan. When finished it is to be the best and largest church in the country. The congregation is trying to build it without outside aid. So far the Woman's Auxiliary has contributed $200 and the Sunday-school $300, besides putting the teacher's house in thorough repair, and the Rev. Joshua R. Davis, of Tobaccon

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nee, reports that the work he is carrying on is the only effort in Grand Bassa County directly among the heathen. They have built a school-house and are trying to put up a small church. In the orphan asylum at Cape Palmas there are eighty-three pupils of aboriginal parentage and six Liberian girls, besides fourteen day scholars.

Letters were at hand from Bishop Holly, telling of the disastrous incendiary fire in which our church and that of the Wesleyans were consumed, besides the school-house and the contents of both buildings. There was no insurance, as it cannot be obtained on account of the inefficient fire department. They need at least $15,000 to rebuild the church. The country Church people have already with great self-denial erected six chapels and can hardly be called upon in their poverty to help the city, but the congregation of the Holy Trinity is disposed to do all that it possibly can. Our missionary, the Rev. Pierre E. Jones, lost his home and all his effects.

The Bishop of Mexico informed the Board that the Rev. H. G. Limric had been appointed archdeacon for the native work.

A MISSION CALENDAR FOR

1909

HE alumni of one of the Mission

Pennsylvania are to issue a missionary calendar for 1909. In addition to giving brief accounts of work in all parts of the field, there will be an appropriate text and a prayer-thought for each day in the year. The calendar will cost fifty cents, and orders may be sent to Mrs. M. W. Stroud, Villanova, Pa. It is not expected that at the low price fixed there will be any margin of profit, but if the calendar should have a sufficiently wide circulation, any money earned will be used toward helping to support a native clergyman in one of the China districts.

Alaska

BISHOP ROWE, upon his return from England, arrived at New York by the steamer Cretic on September 11th and left on the 29th for his home at Sitka.

AT the request of the Bishop of Alaska Mr. George Brooks Burgess, of Dallas, Tex., was appointed as missionary at Eagle by the Board of Missions on September 15th. Mr. Boulter retired June 30th.

THE REV. JOHN W. CHAPMAN, who, with his family, left Anvik on August 17th, arrived at his home in Middlebury, Vt., on September 14th.

THE REV. A. R. HOARE, en route to Point Hope, left his station at Tanana August 10th. Stopping a few days at Nome, he had the privilege of conducting the first services in St. Mary's Church that had been held in twelve months. He left Nome for the North August 25th. Mrs. Hoare and children are at Acton, Cal.

THE REV. THOMAS JENKINS and family, who sailed from Vancouver September 3d, arrived at Ketchikan on the 5th.

THE REV. CHARLES WINTHROP PEABODY, who sailed from Dawson, Y. T., on August 13th, arrived at Tanana on August 17th.

DR. GRAFTON BURKE arrived at Fort Yukon August 15th, and expected to leave on the 17th for his winter journey, returning to his station about Christ

mas.

MR. LEONARD E. TODD, who went to Cordova for the summer, has returned to the Berkeley Divinity-school, Middletown, Conn.

MISS ELIZABETH M. DEANE, deaconess, on regular furlough, left Ketchikan Aug

ust 31st, arrived at Seattle September 2d, and reached her home at Hoboken on the 10th.

MISS ADDA KNOX, who sailed from Seattle July 14th, arrived at Fairbanks on the 31st of that month.

Porto Rico

AT the request of Bishop Van Buren, Miss Lettice R. Kennedy, of Muscatine, Ia., has been appointed teacher in the San Juan School. Miss Kennedy sailed from New York by the steamer Carolina on September 5th and arrived at San Juan on the 10th.

Honolulu

Ar the request of Bishop Restarick, the Rev. Neal Dodd and Mrs. A. M. Dodd, his mother, were appointed by the Board at the September meeting for work in Iolani School, Honolulu. They sailed from San Francisco by the steamer Mongolia September 15th.

BISHOP RESTARICK reports that Deaconess Evelyn Wile retired from the work in Honolulu on June 30th.

The Philippines

BISHOP BRENT, returning to his district after leave of absence on account of illness, left Halifax, N. S., September 23d, expecting to sail from Vancouver by the steamer Empress of Japan October 7th.

AT the request of the Bishop of The Philippines, Miss Zaida A. Freese was appointed by the Board as missionary. nurse vice Miss Mabel F. Smith, resigned. Miss Freese left her home at Topeka, Kan., September 7th and, join

ing Miss Henry, sailed by the steamer Mongolia September 15th.

THE REV. FREDERIC C. MEREDITH left New York September 1st, and sailed from San Francisco by the steamer Mongolia.

THE REV. ROBB WHITE, JR., and family, left Staunton, Va., on September 6th, and the Rev. Myron B. Marshall and family left Portsmouth, Va., on September 7th; all sailing by the steamer Mongolia.

MISS LIZZIE WHITCOMBE, who sailed from San Francisco on March 10th, has reported her arrival at Manila on April 10th.

MISS ANNA I. HENRY, of Topeka, Kan., under appointment to The Philippines, left her home on September 7th and joined the party sailing by the Mongolia.

Africa

THE Bishop of Cape Palmas has informed the Board of the death, on August 1st, of the Rev. N. Yuko Valentine, curate of St. James's Church, Hoffman Station.

MRS. ELIZABETH M. Moort, on leave of absence, sailed from Monrovia by the steamer Muraji August 31st, and arrived at Liverpool September 10th. She expects to spend a few weeks in England before coming to this country.

MISS CLARA M. GRAY retired April 21st and Miss Maud S. Hustace retired May 4th. Miss Rose Gray and Miss C. Brewer were appointed to fill the vacancies.

Hankow

THE REV. ALBERT S. COOPER, after a brief leave of absence, sailed from Seattle by the steamer Tango Maru on September 15th.

AT the request of Bishop Roots, appointment was made by the Board of Mr. Fell as teacher in Boone College, Wuchang, in the room of Mr. William Craig Martin, who resigned May 31st.

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DR. EDMUND L. WOODWARD left Battle Creek, Mich., on September 14th, arrived at New York on the 16th, and has entered upon his course at the General Theological Seminary.

Tokyo

MISS BESSIE MEAD, on leave of absence, coming by way of the Suez Canal, sailed from Yokohama by the steamer Prinz Ludwig on July 18th, and arrived at New York from Bremerhaven by the steamer Kronprinzessen Cecilie on September 24th.

MISS ETHEL H. CORRELL, whose appointment has already been announced, left Philadelphia on September 4th, and sailed from San Francisco by the steamer Mongolia on the 15th.

Kyoto

THE REV. AMBROSE D. GRING, late of the Kyoto District, has retired from further service abroad as of date of June 1st last.

Mexico.

DEACONESS FRANCES B. AFFLECK left San Antonio, Tex., September 16th, and via Monterey arrived in the city of Mexico on the 20th.

Cuba

AT the meeting of the Board of Missions on September 15th the appointment by Bishop Knight of the Rev. Charles E. Snavely, lately a missionary. in Porto Rico, was formally approved. Mr. Snavely sailed for Camaguey, with his wife, by the steamer Curityba on September 25th.

AT the instance of the Bishop of Cuba, Miss Mabel D. Smith, who had previously taught in the cathedral school at Havana, was appointed by the Board on September 15th, under the Woman's Auxiliary United Offering, as missionary teacher at Guanbacoa.

MISS ELIZABETH S. ATTEE, of Cincinnati, sailed from New York by the steamer Havana on September 26th.

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MISSIONARY

SPEAKERS

OR 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. Wil

mer, D.D., 412 Courtland Street, Atlanta,

Ga.

Department 6. The Rev. R. W. Clark, D.D., 113 N. Eighteenth Street, Omaha, Neb.

Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Africa

The Rev. Nathan Matthews and Mrs. Matthews, of Cape Mount.

Alaska

The Rev. J. W. Chapman, of Anvik. Deaconess Sabine, of Anvik.

China

The Rev. D. T. Huntington, of Ichang. The Rev. Edmund J. Lee, of Anking. Mr. M. P. Walker, of St. John's University, Shanghai.

Miss Ida Porter, of Tsingpoo.

Cuba

Bishop Knight until November 15th. Idaho

Bishop Funsten until November 1st. Japan

The Rev. I. H. Correll, D.D., of Osaka. The Rev. C. S. Reifsnider, of Fukui. Miss C. G. Heywood, of Kawagoe. Miss Bessie Mead, of Akita.

Porto Rico

Bishop Van Buren until November 15th.

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.

Archdeacon Russell, of St. Paul's, Lawrenceville, Va., and the Rev. A. B. Hunter, of St. Augustine's, Raleigh, N. C., are always ready to take appointments, especially when a number of engagements in the same neighborhood can be grouped.

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GETTING THINGS DONE

Can a method which to some people seems as intricate as the Apportionment Plan be worked speedily and effectively? Here is the record of an eastern diocese:

HE

member of the diocese, who has

been especially appointed to look after apportionment matters, learned on September 17th, at 3 P.M., that the amount apportioned to the diocese was $8,400. The apportionment to parishes was completed September 18th, at 1 A.M. The apportionment was adopted by the diocesan committee on September 18th at 3 P.M. The copy for the apportionment circular, to be sent to every congregation, was delivered to the printer on September 21st at 10 A.M.

The question now is, Will the diocese maintain the record for speedy work by giving the apportionment in full by June. 1st, 1909?

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N international conference of college students for the promotion of Bible study among men is to be held in Columbus, O., October 22d-25th. The number of delegates will be limited to 1,200, and no college or university will be permitted to send more than ten representatives. The distinctive object of the convention will be to promote intelligent, systematic, personal study of the English Bible among thinking men, and to secure the active co-operation of the Church at large in immediate and concerted effort to win students to Christian living by means of the English Bible.

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N visiting London a second time,

the secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary most pleasantly anticipated renewing her acquaintance with the women of the two great missionary societies in the Church of England, the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to which our Church in America owes so much, and the Church Missionary Society, which for more than a hundred years has devoted itself to spreading the knowledge of Christian love among the heathen peoples of the world.

It is the most natural thing for American Churchmen coming to London to make their way to Westminster Ab

bey, and many on going there go into the Dean's Yard also; but all may not walk around it and discover the plain gray building with white trimmings, whose name above the door tells that here is an entrance to the Church House whose offices and halls gave room for much of the business in preparation for the Pan-Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Conference and for many meetings. As one faces this door, a short distance to the left is a narrow archway of ancient stone which leads into a street where the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel within the last few months has made its home. Fifteen Tufton Street, Westminster,