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BISHOP GOBAT'S MEMORIAL SCHOOL ON MOUNT ZION.

One likes, too, to linger a little over the name, as having something in it which might make it appropriate for many another child since his time. Given of God! Doesn't it add a sacredness to every mother's joy to think that that is true of her child? Giventherefore first of all something to be thankful for; and however many such gifts God may have given before, doesn't He bestow with each new little one an increased power of loving, another opportunity of self-forgetfulness, which are in themselves something for which to be thankful? Given of God-therefore a sacred trust, a thing to be guarded and kept pure for Him; a responsibility as great as it is holy. And given, as Philip Agustus was, to be heir to a kingdom, only to a greater kingdom than his-to be "an heir of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." To be guardian of the heir to such an inheritance as that, to be expected to train him so that he shall "walk worthy of the vocation whereto" he is called, so that he shall not madly "cast away" his crown "-is not this indeed a responsibility and an honour?

BISHOP GOBAT'S MEMORIAL SCHOOL ON MOUNT ZION.

BY JANE TUCKER.

HIS School was founded by Bishop Gobat, and as the princi. pal feeder of our Training Institution for schoolmasters and catechists, is essential to the existence of our mission work in Palestine." This School is closely connected with Christ Church, of which our picture * gives us a sketch.

The superstitions and traditions of the Greek and Romish Churches are such a stumbling block to Mohammedans, that nowhere is it more necessary to hold up the gospel in all its simplicity than in the land of the Bible, in Palestine. Our schools must become real homes to be truly efficient, on account of the miserable condition of the native population, among whom there exists no family life.

The Greek and Mohammedan schools have no moral nor religious training, the teachers are usually taken from the lowest class, and choose their calling because through some "infirmity of the flesh" they are hindered from more active employment. "The whole training

*Kindly lent by "The Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews." 16, Lincoln's Inn Fields, E.C. This Society is doing a valuable work and claims good support.

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consists simply in the exercise of the memory. The Greeks begin with the Psalms, and afterwards read the Gospel, while Mohammedans com

mit parts of the Koran to memory." "No attempt is made to develop intellect, or direct the hearts to spiritual truths." What is needed is,

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that men should be taught to feel their need of a Saviour. This is alone the Holy Spirit's work, and we must earnestly pray that He would convince of sin, and then lead to Him who alone can save.

There is a præparandi class or Training Institution, in connection with the Orphanage, into which the pupils are draughted, and it has sent out several efficient schoolmasters already. The C.M.S. undertook Bishop Gobat's work on the condition that it ceased to be merely an Orphanage, and that the parents and friends should pay something towards the board and education of their children, the preference of admission being given to those who do so. "Still the school cannot become selfsupporting until the new generation grow up."

The Rev. W. Allan writes: "The competition is with Latin schools, and to some extent the Greek, which are entirely free, and every effort is made to attract the pupils."Again Mr. Allan writes: "I never heard in any school in my life, or in any examination, such an amount of head knowledge exhibited. Still there were traces of their answers having been learned by rote; so I proceeded to question and cross question them, and the result showed that they had a considerable amount of intelligent acquaintance with the meaning of what they had been saying, though not so much as appeared on the surface. This refers only to their examination in English, in which language they seemed not only able to speak and read, but also to think. When questioned in Arabic, they appeared to answer in a different style altogether, and with a more perfect comprehension of what they had been talking about."

"Is this good work, we ask, to be allowed to languish? Shall we make no effort to prevent the closing of a school, to found, establish and perfect which has been the great work of dear and honoured saints who are now resting in hope' near its walls."

Mrs. Zeller writes under date of June 1883," Now, already, after the holidays, fresh applications are being made for admission, but of course we cannot make any promises. Jerusalem is very different from Beyrout, where there are many wealthy natives, and where there is so much business going on that almost every one can find work, and therefore have the means to pay something for the education of their children. Jerusalem is a poor place; there is little business or industry going on. The Latins and Greeks are, to a great extent, supported by their convents, and these denominations have their free day-schools, while the Roman Catholics have several free boarding-schools for boys and girls. Yet the education and training at our Orphanage is acknowledged to be

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so much the best that we could have three or four times our present numbers if we could possibly take them in.

The school has been too great a help to the Mission hitherto, and has had too good an influence throughout the country, for us to reduce it or change its plans and systems without a struggle and a great effort to help it on its old footing; therefore we trust and pray that the Lord will raise up friends willing and able to help us in this endeavour.

The Auxiliary Helper, Mrs. Maude, Pen Dyffryn, Ruabon, N. Wales, or Mrs. Malaher, General Manager of the Missionary Leaves Association, 20, Compton-terrace, Islington will thankfully receive contributions towards the maintenance of Bishop Gobat's Diocesan School, alluded to above. Annual subscriptions are specially solicited. £10 per annum is the cost of each child.

Why should not the subscribers to LIVING WATERS make up £10, to pay for one child for a year? Any who send contributions to Mrs. Maude will kindly say that it is in response to this notice of the school.

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BY FREDERIC T. GAMMON.

ROM statistics given in the "Annual" for this year, just published by the National Temperance League, it appears that the temperance efforts now being made by the various religious denominations are meeting with great success. We find that the Church Temperance Society includes all the bishops, several thousands of the clergy, and 432,672 members. Amongst Nonconformist Churches the cause is making rapid headway, especially in the Wesleyan and Baptist denominations. The connexional temperance committee of the Wesleyan Conference reports an unprecedented growth. In thirty-five districts of Great Britain, 2,644 Bands of Hope, with 271,700 enrolled members are reported. The Temperance Societies number 321, with 28,414 enrolled members. The Baptist Association has now two travelling secretaries engaged in promoting the movement. There are at the present time 1,045 abstaining ministers. The Congregational Association has also made considerable advance. For the first time the council reported a majority of abstaining ministers-viz., 1,317 out of a total of 2,605. Other denominations show a proportionate advance.

Dr. Henry Tomkins, who recently delivered a lecture at Manchester on "Working," said that in order to get a maximum amount of work

from the body, it must be kept in good order. If proper food was no supplied the working stopped, as in the case of supplying steam to an engine. The consumption of alcoholic liquors did not help us in our work. Its use as food was totally and utterly unstable. To healthy people drink was not necessary, and it would be better for people to say plainly that they took it because they likeu it, and not for anything else. The immediate effect after taking drink was a stimulating one, but it was immediately followed by a re-action, and it too often led workmen to repeat the dose. The result was a bad headache and thirstiness in the morning, and he repeated that for all healthy working men alcoholic drinks were unnecessary.

Mr. Herbert Herkomer, a distinguished artist, has opened a school of art at Bushey, near Watford; from several hundreds of applicants for admission, fifteen young men and nineteen young ladies have been selected as pupils. Mr. Herkomer is a total abstainer. After his introductory lecture to the class, the pupils dined with him, and one of them writing to a friend, says: "You will be glad to hear there was no wine upon the table."

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Mr. Mundella has been comparing the amounts spent on education and intoxicants. Speaking of a block of buildings which contain 1,082 families and 2,153 children of school age, and which includes three schools, two churches, three chapels, and forty-one public-houses, he says: I want you just to think this out for a moment. For these 1,082 families-wretched, poverty-stricken, miserable in all their surroundings-there are forty-one public-houses! That means that every twenty-five of these wretched families have one public-house! If you will carry it out for yourselves-that is to say, if you consider what its costs to maintain an average public-house in London, and consider what these twenty-five families must spend in drink to maintain it— you will form some idea of one of the greatest causes of this misery among our population. When Mr. Forster was passing his Education Bill, Mr. Bartley made an investigation, which showed that less than one perny per week per family in a square mile of the East of London was spent on education, and more than 4s. 3d. in drink. That means in the whole of this area of wretchedness of a mile square, the educa tion costs less than 4s. a year for the family, and the drink more than £11."