“The Garrison, where tap of drum was rule,
Is now the famous Indian Training School.
In days of yore, the Soldiers there were taught
That RED MEN’S USE WAS ONLY TO BE FOUGHT.
But note the change! The reign of Peace is near,
The ploughshare conquers deadly sword and spear.
The cunning pen shall in their swarthy hand
A swifter missile be than burning brand.
Their only WATCH-FIRE shall be Reason’s light—
Their only WARFARE, BATTLING FOR THE RIGHT.”
THE CHINESE.
—It is a significant fact that nearly all of the thirty men-of-war composing the fleet of the Chinese navy are commanded by European officers.
—The Young Men’s Christian Association at Tokio, Japan, consisting wholly of natives, has concluded to start a religious magazine.
—During the past eight years, which will measure the time of actual service of the Protestant missions in Japan, the work has been so far advanced that at present there are 160 missionaries, with 50 churches organized and a total membership of 8,000. There are also schools, dispensaries, colleges and publishing houses, which circulate the Scriptures and religious reading in all parts of the empire.
—It is reported, concerning the Chinese boarding-school for boys at Ningpo, that nothing has appeared for years that seems to so fully enlist the interest and co-operation of all the natives. Although the school is under native management, the foreign members of the Presbytery with which it is connected have a voice in its affairs. Contributions for its support have been given freely both by the converts and heathen people. It seems that the method pursued is similar to that carried on so generally in the A. M. A. schools South.
—Lai Tip, a Chinese laundryman, was recently murdered on Spring Street, New York, while returning from the Sunday-school of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. It appears he was set upon by two or three roughs, and while stooping to recover his hat, which had been knocked off, received from a knife fatal wounds from which he died on the third day. His funeral was attended by Rev. Drs. Hall and Crosby, and he was buried amid a large attendance of Chinamen at Machpelah Cemetery, Hoboken, N.J. The murder was most shameful and unprovoked.