Tue minutes of the seventeenth an: ual meeting of the Corea Mission, Methodist Episcopsl Church, are very complete and the reports from the various station capital rending, most of the missi writing in w fresh, lively, unconventional style that is really attractive. We note particularly, ard. this, neouraging, that the Con gor for conversion, For instance, Mr. Ge Bober Jones write T think we missional he (oe church is a church ¢f workers Lord. As soum as a Corean becomes converted he immediately begins work amorly his relatives and neighbours and presses home Christianity en them, As result the missionary, instead of having to go out seeking the people, hes more than he can do to care for the people who come secking him, And this is one of the peculiarities of the work in, Corea. I would like to mention each one ut thes: volunteers in the Lord's service, but to do justice to all it would be necessary to mention most of the members.
Here is another extvaet, from the report of the Rev, W. C. Swearer:—~ Our s-cond tip will take us from Seoul in n southwesterly direction 310 li, or over 100 miles. On the way, 3 miles from Suwon we come to our obiest church in the Whole south, in the village of Changchinnai, Here we have a nice chapel built several years ago, the old leader, Mr. Pak Hong-sheng, bearing most of the expense. During the past year Sarah Kim, a trained Vible woman, and her daughter, also well trained, have lived ina house' which we purchased for them. Mary, the daughter, conducts a day school and hus several pupils. This school was begun only last yer and is in the nature of an experiment, but we think that it is succeeding and will succeed. The boys of this village are absolutely the most troublesome and mischievous of any place T have visited in Qurea much 80 that T found it necessary to get up in the middle of the meeting not long azo and rap sone of them on the head, after which the meeting was exceedingly orderly: it was a means of grace.
We should like to make several more extracts if we had room for them; we will only add, while felicitating the Church on its evident success, that the great event of the annual session was the ordination of two deacons who were the first Corexns to be admitted to the ministry by a Protestant Church; while the reports show a net gain in membership of about 90)
Ir will be cause of considerable regret says the London and China Express, if the meeting called to em sider the question of. winding up th" Bank of China and Tapmn (Limited) should decide on such a course, The chance of recovering from the present defaulting Chinese share-olders would be greatly minimised by such a The claims amount to
that the' chances "f recovering anything will diminish very much if the bank is! put into liquidation. In addition, the principle at stake—whether agreements freely made by Chinese with foreigners are hindi one which all companies -having Chinese shareholders must and should hope will he contended for to the utmost. Of course, the Bunk of and Japan is not' a commercially philanthropic institution to s-ttle this point, for the tehoof of all companies with Chinese shareholders; but its chance of recovering for its own profit is greater as a going concern. Some—possibly considerble—portion of the outstandings may be imate} ered with the bink ws a live and institution; throu liquidator of a dead concern tie chances are mini a heading "Tandem State: rooms" es of Ceylon" says We have received from the head-office of Messrs. Bibby Bros., Liverpool, a pamphlet explaining a new board ship stateroom, which has lately been patented by Mr. A.W. Bibby, managing-owner of the bby Line, and Chairman of the Paci Company, The object ed by the "tandem" the present style mers lit sul two rows. Whilst the outer room is sought after by passer the inner one, which is removed ship's ride, has been ayuided, owing to the disadvantages of heat. Che object of the patent is to give all the tyes of the outside-room to the inner one, and it is claimed by the patentee that this has been fully achieved, for, equally with the outside room, it has a port available for a wind shoot, by which light and air are; admitted freely. Patents have been vrauted for the invention in the Uni ed Ki a, the United States, Franer, and gium; and the arrangement' is at the present time bei-g fitted wu steamers building with Messrs. Harland and Wolff, La. and other ship-builders. Full-sized bins have been built at Belfast, and viewed by a large number of experienced travellers, Tt is believed that the new arrangement will become very popular and will mark a new era of comfort to voyager:
'Tue Hamburg correspondent of the "London & China Express" writes A very prominent German journal, the "Cologne Gazette," the other day published an article about' the purchase of the Leylandline by an American concern, and the Atlas fine by che Hamburg-American Company. At the same time the mentioned journal pointed to the fact that the North German Lloyd, two years ago, bought the fleets of the Scottish Orienal Steamship Company, and of the East India Ocean Steamship Company. Thus it is added that four British companies of steamers have—changed their owners within a short time, and although the loss is not of any importance to the British flag, as this latter still rales the seas, it must he remembered that the British flag is driven fiom certain routes ofthe ocean. 'This fact is the more ren able as the new owners of the previous British lines have not been content to con duct the service of the purchased lines, as they previously have been doing, but hastened to improve them by adding' new vessels, so that their value is already or shortly will be far greater than in pst times under the British flag, Another fact of importance also to be considered is that not only the German shipbuilding industry has attained a position which challenges comparison with any other the world, but that also the recent establsihment of trainiay-ships by the Norddeutscher Lloyd, which shortly is to be followed by the Hamburg-American Line, ollivers for the Mercantile Murine tained or lines to those of must other
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