This summer, through the generosity of R. R. Graves, a large wing, which has been so much needed, is being added to the girls’ building. $25 will buy a neat, plain set of furniture for each of the rooms. I am sure there are some friends who will be glad to know of this further opportunity of sending $25 and some dear name.
Yours very truly,
Mrs. T. N. Chase.
AFRICAN NOTES.
—Lovedale: The Missionary, a few months since, gave facts to substantiate the assertion that the Free Church’s Industrial and Mission School at Lovedale was one of the busiest in the world. A magnificent pile of new buildings, which will cost £10,000, will soon meet the demand for enlargement which has been most urgent. The old school buildings will still be used, and these, with the new, the girl’s boarding-house, and the shops required for the various trades, will form a collegiate establishment of which Scotland may well be proud.
Lovedale is the centre and source of healthful educational and saving influences which are reaching out into a large portion of Southern Africa—a true missionary centre. It has a large native church under charge of a native pastor, who has studied the Scriptures in their original language. A missionary association has connected with it several Kaffir young men who preach in all the kraals of the vicinity, and Evangelists who have carried the gospel to Nyassa, and even to Tanganyika. It has also a literary society, a training society, a Young Men’s Christian Association, and other societies such as the best-working churches of this country find necessary for best efficiency.
—The Free Church of Scotland, since the death of Capt. Benzie, of the Ilala, and of Mr. Gunn, last April, are making explorations with a view to a removal of their Station from Livingstonia to a more healthful location. The probable site is Bandawi, midway on the western shore of Nyassa, and contiguous to the promising tribes of the Atonga and the Mangoni, who have reproached the missionaries for not settling among them. The Royal Geographical Society has published in its proceedings the letter of Mr. Stewart, the civil engineer of the Mission, describing his explorations in search of this site, with two maps showing his route on the western coast.
—A Mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States on the West Coast of Africa, at Cape Mount, among the Vey people, has been commenced under the supervision of a young man of such energy, talent and Christian spirit, as give promise of successful prosecution.