Jownal., Ixicary, 891, Shanghai: America Presbyterian Mission Pre:
"There is-no paper of striking interest in the-opening'number 6f the new volume of the Recardder, the first, mimper under the etitorslip of Dr. L,..N, Wheeler. The. first article, by.the Rev. F. F. Ellinwood, D.D.; is devoted to an argument, reprinted fom tie Missiniury. Review, against the proposition sometimes-advanced that mis-signaries in foreign lads lave no right to live.in.ordinary comfort. Dr. Ellinwood writes. temperately and convincingly; how he puts his case will be seen in the fullwing quotation "Bat still it inlay be claimed that whatever may be said of missionary methods, the labour shonlil be cheaper, the salary should be only sifficiént for a bare subsistence, if not waived altogether; the work should be one of faith.
In reply to all such claims, it may Lo ocked, first, whether any special providence is sup: posed'to attend foreign missionaries, as com pared with the Gospelaninistry at home? If not, can any greater risks be assumed in a Reatlien land, here people are out of all sympathy with the truth and where no means of employment and self-Lelp are offered, than in the prosperous communities of our own land? Or is a comfortable and homelike welling less necessary ton missionary's wife in a dreary heathen community, where she finds perhaps no white woman besides herself, thai toa pastor's wife man American village? Of all women in the world, those who are weighted down with the sense of loneliness and the depressing contact of degradation and misery which are incident to missionary life need most the sanctuary of a home to which they may resort after the wearisome labours of the day—a bright little spot where they may find not merely comfort but the nameless objects of taste Which shall remind them of the old home far away. Depression its is often a more fatal cause of il ult of failure than either the work or the climate, This article is followed by a letter from Bishop Moule, explaining how the rules passed by the executive committees of the general missionary conference for Biblical lation and revision prevent his having any share in the revision of the wévli text. "Five, not to say twenty scholars were not tobe found in the missionary body, qualified by special study to arbitrate between the revised and the authorised texts A difficulty has been introduced into our task, to which all the eld animosity about Shin and Shaugti will prove to have been a trifle. T shall be glad to be shown Tam wrong."
Of special interest to missionaries will be the "Resolutions on Presbyterian Union, adopted by the Swatow Council of the English Presbyterian Mission", the last one being IX. Finally, that we regard. the action now: being taken by the Presbyterian Churches as fa step towards the ultimate unity of the Church of Christ in China; and that we record our earnest desire for all such local ce-operation and drawing together of all Christian Churches as may tend to this end and will heartily welcome such Christian fellowship, and will seek to give it practical expression in'every way that may be opened tous.
The short Chinese story " How a man's Life was Lengthencd" is pleasantly translated, and has an excellent moral, while at the same time, to quote from the translator's prefatory remarks, "it throws a side light on the beliefs of the Chinese regarding the relationship between the seen atid unseen, or the temporal and spiritual realms of life". We may notice as an instance of
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