band. The heathen women, with a basket of offerings in one hand and incense-sticks in the other, were wending their way to the ried nothing in their hands but a slip of paper on which was printed the Bible promise I had been teaching them. Very small in num another way; but, with God on our side, we were more than they all. This being the day of one of the heathen festivals, an unusual excitement prevailed, which became so great towards night that the native preacher came down, and advised us not to attempt to go to the chapel that evening. So we remained in our boat just outside the city wall. Even here we might have had a hard time, had we not, earlier in the day, placed ourselves under the protection of the chief magistrate; for twice during the afternoon stones were hurled at our boat. Could we have looked inside the city walls that beautiful Sabbath evening, I know not what we should have done; for we saw and heard enough from our boat to make our very hearts sick. This foolish people were having their annual time of driving the evil spirits from the city, and the babel they kept up was terrible. A procession of thousands of men was formed. This was headed by men entirely devoid of clothing, carrying in sedan-chairs far above their heads two interpreters of the gods, in whom the spirits of the gods were supposed to dwell. Next to these the principal idols were carried, and then followed the crowd. Fires were burning at every gateway. Through all the streets, market-places, and lanes, outside as well as inside the city walls, this frenzied crowd ran, screaming, yelling, beating on tins; thinking thus to drive out the Evil One. Too bad they couldn't! The leaders of their band looked to us like the very demons themselves, as, with wild yells, they rushed straight through the flames of fire. This dreadful scene was kept up until cock-crowing, when all the evil spirits were supposed to leave. If only they would leave this people, and never return, very soon would this kingdom become the kingdom of the Lord. If we, as Christians, were only as intent upon worshipping our God as these heathen are their idols, I do not think the work would suffer, either for want of workers or funds to carry it on. Although such sights look very discouraging, and make the heart faint, yet the work of our Master is going on, spreading surely though perhaps slowly. Souls are being brought to Christ, and converts continue to come forward for baptism. lies, and met 84 Christian women. Besides this, my companion has pointed out the way of life to a great many heathen. On our way home we stopped about ten miles from Swatow at Tie le city, intending to spend the Sabbath there with Christians. As we walked through the streets Saturday evening, on our way to the worship at the chapel, a rough crowd followed, and threw stones at us. Some of these stones hit and hurt, so that we were indeed thankful to reach the chapel. After dark, we returned safely to our boat. The next morning, while we were at breakfast, stones struck our boat; and, upon looking out, we saw that a rough crowd of boys had assembled on the bank, from whence came the stones. They came faster and thicker, accompanied by loud yells. One of the window-shutters was broken, and we feared lest at any moment the stones would come through. We knew we were at the mercy of the crowd, and did not dare go outside the cabin. We sent for the native preacher to go to the chief magistrate, and demand our protection; but the boy whom we sent returned, saying he could not find the way to the chapel. For two hours the stoning was kept up; our boat, meanwhile, sailing slowly down the canal, to get, if possible, beyond their reach. At last, the native preacher Po Heng having come to escort us, we went up to the chapel. But so rude a crowd gathered here, that Po Heng went to the chief magistrate for help. He sent at once four men to our protection, but kindly invited us to leave the city as quickly as possible, for the people were very hard to control. On account of the noise and confusion, the preacher closed the service; and we returned to our boat, thence out of the city. What caused such a hostile feeling against us, we did not know, unless it might have been the recent war news. Surely these are troublous times, with wars and rumors of wars all around; but God holds the reins in his hands, and we may safely leave matters with him who is so wise and good. FOR the best results there needs be the longest waiting. The true harvest is the longest in being reached. The failures come first, the successes last. The unsatisfactory is generally soonest seen. -Henry Calder At Home again, after having been absent seventeen days. During this time we have TO KYOUK PHYOO AND CHEDUBA. THE appliances of civilization are becoming more and more tributary to the evangelization of the world. Never before would it have been possible for us to make the round trip which we have just made, from Sandoway to Cheduba, and return, in the short space of eight days. Cheduba is an isolated corner of the world, which has heretofore been so cut off from the rest of Burma that it has been almost beyond the reach of the British Government, not to say the missionary of the cross. A little steamer, however, now plies weekly between this island and Kyouk Phyoo, connecting at the latter place with the regular coasters between Rangoon and Calcutta. It was by the combined use of both these lines that we were enabled to make our round trip. Cheduba will be remembered, by the older friends of missions, as an island on which the sainted Comstock distributed thousands of tracts. From the nature of the case, however, he could give but a small share of his time to an island so effectually cut off from Ramree Island. There is every thing, however, about this "isle of the sea" to attract the missionary. Nowhere have I been more reminded of Heber's isle, "Where every prospect pleases, Surely Nature could have done no more for Nowhere, however, could the shock be greater in passing from the charms of Nature to man. A penal colony in Burman days, it has fared even worse under British rule. The opium-traffic that darkest blot upon the fair fame of a Christian nation has here left its deepest stain. Although it has of late been - such that there is evidently no lack of the deadly drug for which an appetite has once been contracted. Not only are the men and women steeped in it, but the very children beg for it. Indeed, I am informed that mothers quiet troublesome babies with it, something after the style of "soothing syrup." Here, then, is a chance for those who prate of "the sublime influence of Buddhism," to learn its utter powerlessness to cope with human depravity under the most favorable circumstances. Such Utopian philosophers, however, would find these poor islanders the last to stand up for the so-called religion which has so miserably failed to save them. We received a most favorable hearing for the gospel during the short period of our stay, and hope to report more permanent results before long. On our return trip to Kyouk Phyoo, our little steamer went up the Ramree River to a point from which a walk of four miles after dark brought us to the most hopeful city of Ramree, for the third time within the last two months. This visit, as well as the one before it, witnessed baptisms in the city consecrated by the labors of the Stilsons and Comstocks. This time another Chin joined the lone Chin, who, with the wife of the chief Burman magistrate, confessed his newly found Saviour two weeks before. We were also glad to hear that Mrs. Comstock's grave had been completely cleared of jungle since our first visit, entirely by voluntary Christian hands; among whom were those of the Presbyterian Burmese magistrate, whose wife was baptized on the occasion of our second visit. Having reached Kyouk Phyoo on our return from Cheduba, we had a day or two of spare time in which to visit the graves of our fallen heroes, and to follow up as best we could their long-abandoned work. We are glad to report that we found the graves in comparatively good condition. We first stumbled on the well-worn stone which marks the final restingplace of brother and sister Hall, who were so mysteriously called to their reward before their work had fairly begun, as will be seen from REV. LEVI HALL, MISSIONARY OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST BOARD, ARRIVED AT KYOUK PHYOO MAY 8, 1837. DIED SEPT. 12 OF THE SAME YEAR, AGED 32. CATHARINE B. M. HALL, WIFE OF THE ABOVE, DIED JULY 9, 1837, AGED 24. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Near by is the single monument which significantly indicates the union in death of a brother and sister who hoped to be united in mission-work, but were forbidden the lesser, that they might enjoy the higher, union in service. I refer to the graves of brother Campbell, whose inscription is also in Burmese; and of his sister, the former wife of brother Rose, whose remains were brought from Akyab, where she arrived too late to be welcomed by her brother on earth. The inscriptions are as follows: REV. H. M. CAMPBELL, AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY, DIED OF CHOLERA, AT KYOUK PHYOO, FEB. 22, 1852, AGED 28 YEARS, 9 MONTHS. MARY C. C., WIFE OF REV. A. T. ROSE, AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY, AND SISTER OF REV. H. M. CAMPBELL, FORMERLY OF HAMILTON, N.Y., DIED OF CHOLERA, AT AKYAB, OCT. 21, 1853, AGED 22 YEARS. It gives me peculiar satisfaction to report an indirect result of the labors of these early missionaries in the very city which proved so fatal to them. I refer to a Burmese young man who has long been a believer in Christ, and whom I had the privilege of baptizing at This Kyouk Phyoo during our late visit. young man was brought in through the efforts of a dear old "mother in Israel," an aunt of his, who was baptized some ten years ago in Maulmain by the younger Haswell, but who was converted years before through the labors of the early missionaries in Arracan. This thirty-fifth convert baptized in Arracan this year would therefore appear to be the spiritual grandchild of those "others who have labored, and into whose labors we have entered." Thus it would appear that all our work is connected, and that we can ill afford to draw odious comparisons between the little work which we may be enabled to do, and that of those who labored in the face of difficulties of which we may know nothing. May we all win as welcome a plaudit as these noble martyrs of Arracan, "of whom the world was not worthy," and who may "in the ages to come" be found to have slain more by their death than we by our lives! SANDOWAY, May 13, 1885. OUR field is the world: whether sowing or reaping, THE KAREN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. REV. D. A. W. SMITH, D.D., PRESIDENT. APRIL 15 Occurred the exercises in connection with the fortieth anniversary of the Karen Theological Seminary. They were deeply interesting, I am assured by missionary and other friends who favored us with their presence. The graduating class consisted of only four members, the remnant of the thirteen who once composed the class. The rest have been prevented from finishing their course by sick ness, death, and other causes. The four young men who remain to graduate have also been hindered more or less by sickness at various times during their course of study. May their persistency be a token of what they are going to prove themselves in their future career as gospel ministers! The subject of the addresses at the graduating exercises were as follows: 1. The Gospel the Power of God unto Salvation. 2. Ministerial Support to be earned, and not to be given or received as a Gratuity. 3. The Problem of Redeeming Love. 4. Paul the Universal Debtor. I am thankful to be able to say that the health of the students, during the past five and one-half months of study, has been unprecedentedly good. Two days preceding the day of the anniversary exercises were devoted to oral examinations in the presence of an examining committee elected by the board of trustees, and consisting of Drs. Vinton and Packer, and Mr. Denchfield. In these examinations, it seemed to me, though perhaps it is not becoming in me to say it, that the young men acquitted themselves very well, especially when it is considered that the studies under review were not those of the preceding session only, but of the entire year. For the first time in the history of the seminary, the graduating class were presented with diplomas, accompanied with a parting address by the president. The issuing of these diplomas will have the effect, I trust, to make the students more anxious to complete their course. Not infrequently has it happened in the past, that quite a percentage of the senior class have failed to return after the brief autumnal recess, when only three months were lacking to a completion of the year. Making much of the day of graduation will have the same tendency; and there is no reason why these devices, found so variously useful in the home-land, should not be employed here. Until within a very few years, there have been literally no graduating exercises whatever, not even a farewell prayer-meeting. This year, besides the issuing of diplomas, a simple collation was prepared, to follow the services in the chapel, and at which, after the repast, speeches were delivered after the home style, very much to the edification and delight of the Karens present. Another step, when the time comes, will be to form an alumni association; and, as the facilities of intercourse with different parts of the country are yearly increasing, such an association will be practicable; and this, again, will add interest, and attach importance, to the anniversary occasions. Such an association, too, when well and firmly fixed, will contribute no little to the permanency and prosperity of the seminary when at last foreign support and supervision shall be finally withdrawn. RANGOON, April 16, 1885. 1 A JOURNEY INTO NORTHERN SIAM. WE made two excursions during our stay-at Kenghsen. One was across the Cambodia River, to visit a place where an inscription was reported to exist. We secured a dugout, which took us across the broad, swift river. A march of three miles, over stretches of sand-bank, covered by the river in the rains, brought us to an opening in the dense forest, where we found a narrow foot-path leading to a small clearing, and a deserted house. Clambering over the felled trees, we reached the vicinity of the house, to find nothing but a piece of bronze used for capping the top of a pagoda. The inscription was of no value, as it gave nothing but the date of the erection of the pagoda in 1732. The coun XI. ited, and abounds in deer, tigers, cheetahs, wild oxen, and other wild animals. One other excursion was to the site of the ancient city of Keng Mee-ang, five or six miles north of Kenghsen, on the Cambodia River. We followed the river-bank, which was thickly wooded with excellent teak all the way. We found nothing but the remains of the moat that surrounded the city, and the remains of its principal shrine. These remains are upon a hill, whose sides are covered with pieces of brick and tiling, which have fallen down, or been washed down by the rains, from the building that once occupied its summit. The principal idol, which was of brick covered with plaster, had been treated barbarously by |