—A new Industrial School for Indian girls has been started by the Government at West Branch, Iowa. Mr. Benjamin Miles is to have charge of the enterprise. The school has capacity for fifty pupils, and by the terms of the appropriation, none can be received who are under fourteen years of age.
THE CHINESE.
—According to Missionary Butler, of China, as Buddhism has no heaven for women, the Chinese damsels labor with might and main to lay up merits that they may prevail with the judges of the lower world to let them be born again as men, so that they may have a chance to get there.
—More than 280 Christian women are banded together in England, daily praying for blessing to rest upon the work among the poor, degraded and down-trodden women of China. Three of the members of this Woman’s Prayer Union for the Women of China have been accepted by the China Inland Mission, and are hoping soon to leave for their future sphere of work.
—A happy thought for a Christian wedding party found expression at Norwich, England, on the occasion of the marriage of Rev. J. O. Hoare, son of Canon Hoare and Principal of the C. M. S. College, at Ningpo. After breakfast it was proposed to make a special collection for the China mission, which resulted in subscriptions amounting to about $2,200.
—The edict against Christianity in Japan has never been repealed. At first, only teaching was permitted, and that was to be secular; then preaching in private was tolerated; then followed assembles for Christian worship, and the organization of Christian churches; and in October, 1880, the natives held a meeting in the open air on the grounds of a hotel in the public park at Uyeno; some four or five thousand people were present, and the meeting lasted two days. It was openly advertised in the native newspapers and publicly announced by large post-bills which met the eye in all parts of the city, and one of which was on the very spot where the old edict board used to stand. And yet the government does not interfere.
THE SOUTH.
Rev. Joseph E. Roy, D.D., Field Superintendent.