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Missions.

SAD NEWS FROM AFRICA. The following important items of news have been received by the Church Missionary Society.

The narrative may be thus briefly summarised: The November letters had been brought across the Lake by Mr. Mackay. On this trip he was commissioned by the young king to bring over to U-Ganda three English missionaries, who it was hoped would by that time have arrived at Msalala. Of course there were none, the men having been detained at other stations nearer the coast; and on Mr. Mackay's return to U-Ganda, in December, Mwanga was very angry at their non-appearance. Just then rumours were spread that white men were in Busoga, the country on the east side of the Victoria Nyanza, with a large force. These rumours were supposed to be due to Mr. Joseph Thomson's visit to that end of the Lake just a year before; but the suspicious king, stirred up by hostile chiefs, chose to think that the men Mr. Mackay had failed to bring were in Busoga, and were negotiating with the enemies of U-Ganda. This was the beginning of a series of absurd suspicions and accusations; until, at the end of January, Mr. Mackay, having obtained permission to cross the Lake again, was met on his way to the port by an armed force and compelled to return to the capital, while some of the Christian lads who were accompanying him to the boat were arrested on the charge of attempting to leave U-Ganda. Being unable to get at the king, Mr. Mackay and Mr. Ashe (Mr. O'Flaherty was ill) appealed to the Katikio (chief judge and virtual prime minister), but were ejected from his presence with violence and insult. A judicious present of cloth appeased both Mwanga and the Katikiro, and earnest efforts were made to obtain the release of the arrested boys. Three of them were liberated; but two of these reported as follows: "That they had been taken with Kakumba and Ashe's boy, as also Serwanga, a tall, fine fellow, a baptized lad whom Mujasi (the leader of the hostile party) had caught, and Duta's wife Sarah and her child, to a place outside the capital. That Serwanga, Kakumba, and Ashe's boy had been tortured by having their arms cut off, and were then bound alive

to a scaffolding, under which a fire was made, and they were slowly burnt to death. Mujasi and his men mocked them, and bade them pray now if Isa Masiya (Jesus Christ) would rescue them from his hands. The dear lads clung to their faith, and in the fire they sang, Killa siku tunsifu (the hymn, Daily, daily sing the praises')." "Our hearts breaking," writes Mr. Mackay, closing his journal entry for that day, Jan. 31st. The missionaries now, in the near probability of being compelled to leave, made plans for the incipient organization, if so it may be called, of the Native Church they would leave behind. Half-a-dozen "of the more staid and advanced men," having besides "a respectable standing among their fellows," were chosen to be leaders or elders, to conduct services at various centres in case of the regular services at the Mission being discontinued. Of the Church Prayers, and the texts, hymns, &c., which had been prepared, 1,000 copies were printed for distribution. But the storm blew over, and

through God's mercy, the Mission still goes on.

Meanwhile, neither Christians nor inquirers seemed at all daunted. On February 22nd, Mr. Mackay writes: "Considerable numbers still come on Sundays, while those in greater danger of arrest come at nights. Not a few have been eager for baptism, and have, after examination, been admitted into the visible Church. Strange that the present time has rather increased than diminished the desire to become Christians. We are astonished at the fortitude of many. Even some of Mujasi's men, who helped to entrap us, have come for instruction. One of these was so impressed by the behaviour of our dear boys under torture of knife and fire that he has determined to learn to pray also." Up to the middle of May there had been twenty more baptisms, one hundred and eight in all from the first.

In May we find the king "very gracious," and listening repeatedly with marked attention to Mr. Mackay's instructions in private interviews. The Katikiro also was friendly again. From Msalala Mr. Mackay appeals most earnestly for reinforcement, pointing his representations by the statement that Mwanga, on the non-appearance of the expected Englishmen, had sent to the French priests on the other side of the Lake to come back again; and three had arrived. If God prosper the way of Bishop Hannington, and of Mr. Hooper and his companions, both their parties should be in U-Ganda by the end of the year. (Signed) T. DODD.

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