-y important that this should be done. hope.

ore will attend with better accommoda-
ns. It is matter for profound joy that
ere should be a call for such a form of
istance.
DAVID TRUMBULL.

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BUENOS AY

Rev. Dr. Goodfellow wi Ayres as follows:

We have now a service Spanish, and are working day-schools in all parts The Superintendent of P is working heartily for th to introduce the Bible, Protestant publications in country. He does not red as working for the educat and so he plants these sch cipal school-houses.

We could circulate and rial Spanish paper, withi paying for 1,000 copies of my residence here...

We want "cartillas," t for one thousand accessib Before you can answer t

SANTIAGO, Sept. 5th, 1867. We have need here of all the force at our posal. The Romish Church in Chili is tting forth great efforts to increase its uence. Within a month three newspapers ve been established for the express purse of opposing Protestantism. Artisan ociations, with the parish priest and ne rich man or woman to patronize them, e being formed with the real object of ecking the spread of Protestantism among t class. Perhaps our work has not inested and encouraged Christians at home, t it has alarmed the clergy in Chili. As ited as has been our success, the clergy longer look upon our efforts with conmpt. In some quarters, the jesuitical influence gaining ground. A day or two since, a _n who is said to be a Jesuit, was chosen tor of the University. Last week, a new cretary of State was appointed, who is voted to the Church. An effort is just w being made to introduce by law, in all e government schools, a book called Grounds of Faith," which opposes Protes-ciety, composed of memb tism. The clergy are intelligent, influtial and active. Their efforts are comed and concentrated.

To oppose error in this country, we must Heed use "The light horse infantry," that what the American Tract Society is now ading us : tracts, and a beautiful" Child's per." But we must, also, bring to bear

mand will double. You s on well.

NESTORIAN MISSIO

MR. PERKINS, under da 1867, writes: "Fruits of vals of last winter are gathered into our reform edified. Quarterly reports which are thus becoming the mission, contain some agement. For instance,

of the female seminary, as pecuniary result, presente dollars, it having been year. Its members are a most of them young mo them wives of pastors;

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denial. Who hath des Their mites are thus the small things?' And mos to budding charities in a

great. Then, we were met empt, and open opposition; ns were found who knew how -, there are large numbers of y village, and everywhere we with cordiality by the people, prolong our stay. nined to make preaching the - great object, and with the d we were enabled to carry s very fully. In the coffee eets, in open-air meetings, by nd in khans, we told the old oss. What a wonderful story ower there is in it to hold the company of rustic villagers! is the most suggestive and ne in the whole range of theeties. This I knew before, has deepened the impression ry much. In one mountain t into a coffee shop where shepherds, seated in a row, hepherd's crook in his hand. aght home and folded their 1 come together to gossip a e evening. At nine o'clock Testament, and read to these e mountain, the words, I epherd," &c., coming at last tic passage, I lay down my p.' The whole scene left an my mind not easily for

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ORTH CHINA.

= reports "An Open Field." language was reduced to six centuries ago, and they anslations of the Chinese clasuddhist writings, and a limof their own. Their writing and many of the people can ble and several tracts have

DR. WILLIAMSON says: "It is ve markable that more than 360 memb the Pilgrim Church have all been cony within the last five years. About dozen bad been baptized in infancy these, and a few others, perhaps, had some progress in learning to read; bu had ever partaken of the Lord's Su years ago only one of the whole nu and he had been for sometime suspe and had never learned to read. The o were wild heathen, and none of them received into the visible church pri the 3d of February, 1863. The two pas and most of the ruling elders, learned alphabet in the prison at Mankato, in early months of that year, and most of other members have learned to read s that time, (for a large majority of t now read, and use their hymn-book. public worship).

"The harvest here has been gathere less than five years, but it was among t Indians that Messrs. Pond, and Aiton Hancock, and our brethren of the S and Methodist missions, had toiled years. They saw little or no fruit of t labors, which nevertheless accomplis much in preparing the ground."

THE missionaries of the Episcopal chu in Tinnevelly, India, have traveled, prea ing the gospel throughout a district of 1.2 miles square, living in tents and movi from place to place. In this way the g pel has been made known to more than 30 000 souls in 1,500 villages by these fait ful itinerants.

tantism is his imperish Such a name as that of M not belong to any party, Evaugelical Church. Ma of a place called Wittenb

Perhaps this will meet the eye of some stian who will be glad to make an innent here for the Lord and replace a Protestant Christian Church, the e Roman Catholic Cathedral which in Germany, which has be recently gave to the flames.

and classic ground. Th arrest the attention of the

MI-CENTENARY OF THE REFORMATION. Augustinian Convent, i e closing day of October, 1867, com-rooms the Elijah of the R his life; the home of his c ed three hundred and fifty years since plain church beneath wh tin Luther nailed to the church of mains of LUTHER are sle tenberg, his memorable theses on the 31, 1517, LUTHER nailed u uptions of the Papacy, and thus sion to the blessed Reformation from

ery.

gave

ninety-five-Theses,-but th doors, on which are engra has replaced the old wood LUTHER expressed great Pope of Rome, but the tr tute the whole system of P outward penance, but in a came from the Theses, do The ages before LUTHER gling to grasp these truth not a sudden thing on the He was an innocent reform affixed those ninety-five-Th he had no idea of the c would grow out of them. formation was prepared teenth and fifteenth centur fruit of the seed that had ries before. These Theses

levangelical Christians commemorated noble act by appropriate services, in - several churches, on the Sabbath preg. The Synod of New York and Jersey recommended that its ministers race the opportunity to call the attenof their people to the events growing of that occurrence; to give most hearty ks to God, in their public services, for unspeakable blessings, temporal and itual, in Church and State, that have e upon the world by reason of the bold d thus taken by Luther, and his fellow for a spiritual battle tha rmers, against the hateful error and over the country-they w -handed apostasy of the Papacy, which, of the Reformation. Pr so many centuries, had kept the Church ondage and in the darkness of spiritual h; and to urge upon their people to d sedulously against the insidious atpts, so industriously and artfully made he present day, to introduce once more reign of the Man of Sin, and to gain olic hardly ever prays dir session, in the name of the Pope of but through the Virgin Ma ne, of this Western world. ism always addresses itsel

not a negative protest The nature of Protestantis

freedom from restraints of ny of Popery; it was freed of obedience to God. The principle had proclaimed a gelical freedom, and broug diate relation to Christ.

■re Christianity, and the con- jects, but I will protect Christianity

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