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Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMITATIONS. 66 Be sure the word Horsford's" is printed on the label. All others are spurious. Never sold in bulk. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Mission Rooms, Congregational House, Boston, Mass. Rev. N. G. CLARK, D.D. Corresponding Secretaries. LANGDON S. WARD, Treasurer. Rev. CHARLES C. CREEGAN, D.D., Field Secretary. 恰 Letters for the above-mentioned persons should be addressed CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, No. 1 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass. Communications relating to the pecuniary affairs of the Board should be sent to the Treasurer; subscriptions and remittances for the MISSIONARY HERALD, to the Publishing Agent. Mrs. ELIZA H. WALKER, having care of Missionary children, may be addressed Auburndale, Mass. District Secretaries. New York and the Middle States, Connecticut, and Ohio, Rev. Charles H. Daniels, No. 39 Bible House, New York City. Rev. S. J. 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THE receipts from donations for the month of December were cheering, reaching a total of $54,591.49, an advance over those of the corresponding month of the preceding year of about $5,600. The receipts from the same source for the first four months of the financial year were $117,241.49, about $4,500 less than those of the corresponding months of the preceding year. Legacies have amounted during the same period of four months to only $15,063.58, against $42,040.04 received during the corresponding period of last year. The total receipts for the four months are therefore, owing to this large falling-off in legacies, about $31,000 less than they were last year at the same date, about $1,400 less than the average for the preceding five years. Let us hope for unusually generous offerings during the early months of the new year. THE Condition of affairs at the Samoan Islands is a reproach both to the United States and to Germany. We have heretofore referred to the removal of King Malieotoa by the German authorities, and his transportation first to Western Africa and then to Germany. The United States had practically pledged itself to maintain the existing government at the islands, and to uphold the king against an insurgent chief. But the German officials incited further rebellion and supplanted the king by this insurgent chief, who was used as a tool for their own purposes. The result has been a bitter civil war throughout the Samoan group, which could have been avoided had the United States authorities given the protection they had pledged, or had Germany not interfered to support the insurgents. The natives will be ground to powder, as between the two millstones, and some foreign power, probably Germany, will make the prevalent disorder a pretext for annexing the islands. AFFAIRS on the east coast of Africa are in a sad condition, threatening the life of several missions, if not of the missionaries. The trouble has arisen, as Prince Bismarck clearly admits in his diplomatic correspondence, from the folly of the colonists connected with the German East African Company, who, instead of conciliating the natives near whom they settled, assumed that they were lords of the country. The natives rose against those whom they regarded as invaders and thieves, and the German war-vessels were called upon to defend their countrymen. The conflict has raged along the coast opposite and north of Zanzibar, and the Germans have been beaten and driven out. The native leader, Bushiri, has a large force behind him, and has captured and plundered Bagamoyo. So far as yet appears the hostility of the natives has not been aroused against the English, but it is to be feared that in their excitement they will drive out all foreigners. In the meantime the Sultan of Zanzibar, doubtless stirred up by the bloody doings along the coast, has been ruling as only a savage could, ordering brutal executions of prisoners, and affirming that henceforth he should govern strictly according to Mohammedan law! Those who are best informed regard the blockade of the East African ports, so far as Germany is concerned, as having no reference, except ostensibly, to the slave-trade. It is simply to defend her colonies and her prestige. Our chief interest in all this sad complication is for the missions at Mpwapwa, Uganda, Bondei, Magila, and at other points. May the Lord maintain his work, and protect his missionary servants! The latest word is that Bushiri has interposed, at the risk of his own life, to protect Bishop Smythies of the Universities' Mission. WE had hoped that before it was necessary to go to press with this number of the Herald more and more definite news would be received from Mr. Stanley in Africa. The reports received both from Zanzibar and the Congo of his arrival at Bonalya, on the Aruwimi River, seem to be authentic, and yet there is something suspicious about them. No one, outside of Central Africa at least, knows of any such place as Bonalya, and if Mr. Stanley was able to send letters to Stanley Falls it is certainly singular that in sending messengers to the coast these letters, or copies of them, should not have been brought, giving more details. The tidings which have been telegraphed from the several points are quite inconsistent. Possibly the solution of the enigma which still exists as to Mr. Stanley's whereabouts will be clearly solved before this paragraph reaches our readers. We trust it will appear that the intrepid explorer has accomplished all that these recent reports would indicate. THE American Board Almanac for the present year is receiving warm commendations from individuals and papers of all denominations. The call for it has been larger than ever before, but though thousands of copies have been sold there are still thousands of families that ought to be supplied with this handbook of our missions. Send ten cents to Charles E. Swett, 1 Somerset Street, Boston, for a copy. Two sections from the "Mission Stories of Many Lands" have been reprinted in pamphlet form with paper covers; one on Africa," of seventy-four pages, and one on "Micronesia and the Morning Star," of fifty-six pages. These "Stories" are given with abundant pictorial illustrations, and will prove attractive to the eye and instructive both to children and adults. They will be sent postpaid for fifteen cents each. Address Charles E. Swett, 1 Somerset Street, Boston. We have previously noticed the stirring volume entitled "The Crisis of Missions," by Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Pierson. The author and his publishers, Robert Carter & Brothers, have kindly placed with the American Board one thousand copies of this book, in paper covers, for distribution among our churches. So long as the supply lasts, one copy will be given to each person who will call for it, promising to read and circulate it. These copies can be |