During the summer and autumn this year there was much: sickness in Amoy, especially among missionaries, but with the advent of colder weather it seems to have passed away. Several, however, had! to go to Japan for a few weeks' change, and are now back again very much better and able to take up their customary work. We have had some reinforcements this month, among others, the Rev. Campbell Brown for the English Presbyterian Mission, and Miss Home for the London Mission. The American Reformed Presbyterian Mission (Dutch) has been strengthened by the return to the field of Mrs. Talmage, the widow of Dr. J. V. N. Talmage, who died last year at home after a long service of 42 years. Her two daughters are still working out here and are delighted to have their mother with them again, The Rey. P. W. Pitcher has returned with his wife and children and Mrs. Pitcher is restored to health after to country, noting this, ganging that, and setting down at its true intrinsic value some institution or another altogether unduly appraised by the natives—well, in Germany) our enlightened traveller was struck with the simplicity, the heroic atmosphere of the place, the activity, and—it's an unpleasant drop, but it must out—the fatness of the horses. Picture the mental grasp, the breadth of view this indicates. Able to discern at a glance the prevailing characteristics of the men on the street, gifted with some subtle power which enables the possessor to draw confident conclusions as to the nature of the beings with whom he rubbed shoulders on the pavement, Mr. Ohashi still had an eye for the noblest of animals and was proud to admire sleek and fat condition. But the admiring eye is not suffered to remain on the scene. The enraptured listener is hurried back to America, and American newspapers. There, newspapers are in every household. There, women are frequently employed in offices. The advantage is obvious, supposing some one has to be interviewed. A man may be refused on the pretext that one is too busy, and so forth; but a woman cannot be 80 easily put aside, and moreover the party interviewed may easily be thrown off his is fair visitant and made to re-
Tough, so we are glad that their places are to some extent tilled up before they go.; strength of The new hospital for the London Mission is now being built in a suitable place not far from our houses. We hope it may be ready in May next year. It will accommodite some 60 odd patients, including 18 women, and will have rooms for students and servants, etc., as well as a fair sized chapel.
15th December, JAPAN, (from OUR OWN conRESrONDENT.)
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