Notes for the Month. SPECIAL TOPICS FOR PRAYER. For the Morning Star, now sailing for Micronesia: that the vessel and those she carries may be kept in safety during the voyage; that the officers and crew may be true helpers in the missionary work; that those who are returning to service on the islands, and those who are going thither for the first time, may be upheld by Him who can make their work effectual; and that "the multitude of the isles" may be made glad by receiving the Word of God. DEPARTURES. June 29. From Boston, Rev. H. D. Goodenough and wife, returning to the Zulu Mission. ARRIVALS IN THE UNITED STATES. June 16. At Boston, Miss Laura B. Chamberlin, of the Western Turkey Mission. June 18. At New York, Mrs. A. T. Wilder and Miss Annie McMahon, of the Zulu Mission. June- At San Francisco, Mrs. Celia F. Peck and Miss Lizzie B. Pierson, of North China. ARRIVALS AT STATIONS. May 3. At Honolulu, Rev. W. D. Westervelt and wife. May 23. At Durban, South Africa, Miss Martha E. Price. DEATHS. May 4. At Benguella, West Africa, Ardell H. Webster, M.D. (See page 314.) June 21. At Duquoin, Ill., Rev. William Arms, a missionary of the American Board from 1833 to 1838. (See page 308.) For the Monthly Concert. [Topics based on information given in this number of the Herald.] I. Notable conversion in India. (Page 317.) 2. Religious awakenings in North China. (Page 329.) 3. The Wen Shui district in the Province of Shansi. (Page 332.) 4. The dark side in Africa. (Page 334.) 5. Out-stations of Marsovan. (Page 325.) 6. Towns south of the Taurus, Eastern Turkey. (Page 326.) ! Norfolk county. Brookline, Harvard ch. and so. South Weymouth, 2d Cong. ch. Bridgewater, A member of Cen. sq. East Bridgewater, Union Cong. ch. Boston, Union ch., 159.05; Shawmut Worcester county, North. Royalston, Cong. ch. and so. Worcester co. Central Ass'n. E. H. Sanford, Tr. Shrewsbury, Cong, ch. and so. Worcester, Union ch. and so. Worcester co. South Conf. of Ch's. Amos Armsby, Tr. Millbury, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Friends, for furnace in Smyrna ch., collected by Miss A. M. Lord, Legacies.Enfield, Henry Fobes, by W. B. Kimball, Ex'r, in part, Lowell, Nathaniel Bartlett, avails of 5 shares R.R. stock, Middleboro, Mrs. Miriam Wood, by Arad Bryant, Ex'r, 50 00 Nahant, George Curtis, by Richard H. Dana, Trustee, add'l, 6,000 00-6,813 70 416 35-581 95 Barnstable county. Yarmouth, 1st Cong, ch, and so. Berkshire county. Hinsdale, Cong, ch. and so. Mill River, Cong. ch. and so. Southfield, Mrs. E. S. Canfield, 410.35; A friend, 6, Bristol County. Norton, Cong, ch. and so. Taunton, Union Cong. ch. and so. Brookfield Association. Brookfield, Cong. ch. and so. Holland, Cong. ch. and so. Essex county. Lawrence, So. Cong. ch, and so. Methuen, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Salem, Crombie-st. ch. and so. Essex county, North. Ipswich, Linebrook Cong, ch. Newbury port, John W. Coffin, Essex county, South. Danvers, Maple-st. ch. Salem, Tabernacle ch, and so. Franklin co. Aux. Society. Albert M. Gleason, Tr. erts, Everett, Cong. ch. and so. 50 00 7 60 Framingham, Plymouth ch. and so. 100 00 Lowell, Eliot ch, and so. 55.49 RHODE ISLAND. 58 11 169.00 95 27-322 38 Central Falls, Cong. ch. and so. Pawtucket, Cong, ch. and so. Peace Dale, Cong, ch, and so. CONNECTICUT. Fairfield county. Kensington, Cong. Sab. sch., towards support of Mr. Spiridon in Marash College, Poquonock, Cong. ch. and so. So. Glastonbury, Cong. ch. and Sab.. Litchfield county. G. M. Woodruff, Tr. Thomaston, Cong. ch. and so. Woodbury, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Middlesex co. E. C. Hungerford, Tr. Durham, Cong. ch. and so. Higganum, Cong, ch, and so. Middletown, So. Cong, ch, and so. New Haven co. F. T. Jarman, Ag't. East Haven, Cong. ch. and so. New Haven, Center ch., m. c. North Haven, E. Dickerman, 50 00 35 35 3 65-344 25. 1425 14 3028 55. 13 18 24 00 47 13-84 31 1976 4 24 20026 00 New London co. L. A. Hyde and Greeneville, Cong. ch. and so. New London, 1st Ch. of Christ, m. C., 27.30; A member of do. for chapel at Guadalajara, 10; A friend for do., 50, Norwich, Broadway ch. and so., 200; Park ch., 4,135.56; do. for repairs of native ch., Tarsus, 50, Old Lyme, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Tolland co. E. C. Chapman, Tr. Talcottville, Cong. ch. and so. Windham county. 4,385 56 OHIO. 25 00--4,529 86 290 53 20 00 17 50 14 59 Medina, Cong. ch. 107 05 Oberlin, 2d Cong. ch. Painesville, A friend, 37 25 6 50 200 00 Toledo, Washington-st. ch. 9 35-460 58 Danielsonville, Westville Cong, ch. Voluntown and Sterling, Cong. ch. and so. Westford, Cong. ch. and so. A friend, 100 00 1,000 00 Brooklyn, Clinton-ave. ch., add'l, 25; do., Mrs. H. M. Remington, 200; G. H. Nichols, 200; W. H. Nichols, 200; Two friends, 20, Cortland, Cong, ch. and so. Jamestown, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Mt. Sinai, Cong. ch. and so., 5; do., m. c., 19.54, Newark Valley, Mrs. Sally Turner, New Rochelle, Eliza Moulton, for girl in Cesarea, New York, Madison-ave. Ref. ch., 800; Broadway Taber. Y. L. F. M. Soc., for scholarship at Aintab, 70; Pilgrim ch., 10; T. Eksergian, 2, Orient, Miss. Circle, for Samokov, Peekskill, Friends, Reed's Corners, Cong. ch. m. c. Rochester, Myron Adams, Sherburne, 1st Cong. ch., to const. Rev. W. H. KELLEY, H. M. Syracuse, Plymouth church, 100 00 2,000 00-3,200 00 8,922 73 120 35 645 00 22 00 14 00 Chagrin Falls, A friend, Cleveland, 1st Cong. ch. ILLINOIS. Aurora, ist Cong. ch. Chicago, Kenwood Evang ch., 431.93: New England ch., 54.63; Lincoln Park ch., 29.15; H. D. Bigelow, extra, to const. Mrs. C. E. BIGELOW, H. M., 100; T. M. Avery, extra, 100; A friend, extra, 25; A friend, 5, Hennepin, Cong. ch. Joy Prairie, Cong. ch., to const. Mrs. IDA C. JOY, H. M. Peoria, 1st Cong. ch. for Raggel school, Aintab, 5; Miss Fahrenstock, for Hospital, Aintab, 5, Plainfield, Cong. ch. Ridgeland, Cong. ch., 24.33; E. A. Cumming, extra, 25, Rockford, Thomas D. Robertson, Wyanet, Cong. ch. Legacies. Bridgewater, Ilura Geer, add'l, by M. A. McKee, Ex'r, Homer, Elias Root, by V. T. Stone, Adm'r, 5,000 00 841 44 Throop, William M. Gibson, by Detroit, Trumbull-ave. Cong. ch. Kalamo, Cong. ch., 4.04; Mission ch., Tipton, Cong. ch., Woman's Mis. Soc. Legacies. Detroit, Elizabeth Gibson, by Elisha A. Fraser, Adm'r, add'l, Detroit, Ellen Gibson, by Elisha A. Fraser, Adm'r, add'l, Pontiac, Jackson Voorheis, by Rev. W. R. SEAVER, of which 50 to const. W. R. S., H. M. 1,500 00 1,500 00 100 00-3,100 00 3,187 74 50 00-186 88 IOWA. 15.00 13.95 Central City, La. Mis. Soc. Chester Centre, Cong. ch., for Erzroom, Clay, Cong. ch. Eldora, Ist Cong. ch. 5 00 10 72 II 00 8 30 5 00 Kelley, Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Arnold, 5 00 2,500 00 5 0015 02 NEBRASKA. 8 20 5 00 30. 00 Edgar, S. F. Pomeroy, York, 1st Cong. ch. CALIFORNIA. Fort Jones, I. Titcomb, Los Angeles, 1st Cong. ch., Rev. Ed. Hildreth. Riverside, C. W. Herron, for Japan, San Diego, Cong. ch., thank-offering, D. W. P. Westminster, Cong. ch. OREGON. Portland, 1st Cong, ch. La. Miss. Soc., 60; Helping Hands, 30, for Japan, 10 00 10 00 36 35-64 55 14 00 100 00 15 00 10 00 6 50-145 50 WASHINGTON TERRITORY. NEW HAMPSHIRE. - Amherst, E. D. Boyls- NEW YORK.-Flushing, Cong. Sab. sch., MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE. MAINE. Perry, Cong. Sab. sch. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rye, Cong. Sab. sch. VERMONT. - Barnet, Y. P. S. C. E. MASSACHUSETTS, — Auburndale, Cong. Sab. sch., for work of Mrs. Gulick, 27.04; Boxboro, Y. P. S. C. E., to; Florence, Y. La. Miss. Circle, 50; Ipswich, South Sab. sch., for scholar in Ceylon, 20; Lynn, Currier Y. P. S. C. E., 2.05: Norwood, 1st Cong. Sab. sch., 25; Shrewsbury, Lights on the Hill, for Meng Chang Soa, 50; Westfield, Mrs. J. A. B. Greenough, for Stavraki, 50; Wilmington, Snowbirds, for Edu. work Misses Leitch, 8.50, 12.00 of Presb. ch., 85: Infant class of do., 15, both for mission school, Tung-choFairport, Cong. Sab. sch., 17.57, PENNSYLVANIA. - Scranton, Band of Reapers, for two pupils in China, NEW JERSEY. South Orange, Montrose Sab. sch. class, for teacher in Egin, Turkey, OHIO. · Cincinnati, Central Cong. Sab. sch., 19.13; Cleveland, Y. P. S. C. E. of Ist Cong. ch., 17.50, ILLINOIS. -Chicago, Y. P. Mis. Soc. of U. P. IOWA. Clay, Cong. Sab. sch., 3; Clear MORNING STAR" MISSION. 3663 50 19 15 46 8 00 2 19 3 00 53863 42 93 4 50 I 00 500 00 775 41 Donations received in June, Legacies received in June, 32,443 37 23,371 21 55,814 58 Total from September 1, 1888, to June 30, 1889: Donations, $303,658.50; Legacies, $82,848.73=$386,507.23. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A VILLAGE SCHOOL AND CHURCH IN INDIA. BY REV. ROBERT A. HUME, OF AHMEDNAGAR. As the American Board is asking Sunday-schools and Societies of Christian Endeavor to assume the support of village schools in the Ahmednagar district at forty-six dollars a year, an account of one such school will interest many who are thinking of adopting these schools. Hingangâw is a village of about a thousand inhabitants seven miles west of Ahmednagar. Only a few rods from it is another small village of less than two hundred inhabitants, called Hamidpur. In August, 1879, a school was opened in Hingangâw among the low class called Mahârs. The teacher's name was Nânâ. He worked faithfully till June, 1883, but saw no persons asking for baptism. In June, 1883, another teacher, named Tukaram, took the school, and has taught it till now. In 1883 four men were baptized. In 1884 four more were baptized. In 1885 more became Christians. As there was no church in that part of my field nearer than the church at Jâmbgâw, nearly eight miles away, these men became members of the Jâmbgâw church; and pretty regularly they attended church services at Jâmbgâw, having to walk eight miles there and eight miles back. When I went to America, in 1885, these Christians wished to be organized into a separate church. They were told to wait till I returned from my furlough. In February, 1888, an independent church was organized at Hingangâw with fifteen male and four female members. At the same time they made arrangements with the pastor of the Jâmbgâw church to act as their pastor for the present. They pay him one third of his salary, that is, five rupees a month, worth about two dollars. He lives at Jâmbgâw, preaches there two Sabbaths, and every third Sabbath at Hingangâw, but visits the latter place often for pastoral work. As the new church had no suitable place for school or church services, they greatly wished one. Being poor they could not give much money. But every Christian man and woman promised four days' labor, and several Hindu neighbors promised labor also. Then the Sunday-school of the United Church in New Haven, Conn., promised and sent one hundred dollars for the new building. The Indian government wishes to encourage all non-governmental educational efforts. Therefore, as far as possible, it makes a grant of one half the cost of buildings that are to be used for schools. So half the cost of this building was secured from government. The building was dedicated on March 30. The English judge of Ahmednagar, who had given a hundred rupees for the building, came out and took part in the dedication service by making |