Tenth Tour

From Sept 7th, 1883, to June 5th, 1884.

ON Sept. 7th, 1883, Mr. Müller and I left Bristol for Perth, Scotland, where we arrived on the evening of the next day; and, whilst there, besides speaking five times at the Conference Meetings, he preached at the Free Middle Church, at Free St. Leonards, and addressed the boys and girls of two Industrial Schools. At Dundee he preached twice at the United Presbyterian Church in Bell Street, gave an address at the Brethren’s Room, and spoke twice at the Conference Meetings. On Sept. 20th we left for Edinburgh, and the next day proceeded to London, where, at a large Hall in Upper Clapton, he spoke on Sunday morning, Sept. 23rd.

On the 26th we left London for Tilbury, near Gravesend, where, embarking on board the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Compan/s Ship “Siam,” in the morning at half-past 11, we sailed soon afterwards for Madras. On Oct. 1st we arrived at Gibraltar, where, because the ship remained for six hours, we had a good view of the Rock of Gibraltar, 1,400 feet high, and its fortifications. On the 5th, at 10 a.m., we landed at Valetta, Malta, took a drive to the beautiful Orange and Lemon Gardens of St. Antonio, on the road to Civita Vecchia; and, continuing our voyage in the evening, on board the “Siam,” reached Port Said on the 9th. ‘Ftotd. Port Said we proceeded to Suez; but, being detained at Suez by the non-arrival of the “Venetia,” did not begin our voyage down the Eed Sea until the 13th. On the 18th, a little before noon, we reached Aden; and sailing on to Colombo, Ceylon, arrived there at 6 on the morning of Oct. 26th, and landed at 10 o’clock. At Colombo we were kindly entertained by Mr. John Ferguson, at his house, Calton Lodge, Cinnamon Gardens; and in the afternoon Mr. Müller held a meeting at one of the Mission Schools, and a drawing-room meeting in the evening at Calton Lodge, which was attended by about 40 gentlemen and ladies, including many missionaries. Early the next morning we took a long drive in an open “bandy,” through Colombo and its neighbourhood, and saw some of the beautiful tropical vegetation of Ceylon. On this island, it is said that a district of 200 square miles contains about twenty millions of cocoa-nut trees; sugar and date palms also, bread-fruit trees, cinnamon shrubs, plantains, banyans, tea, nutmeg, chocolate and cabbage trees (these last of a most brilliant green), together with a great variety of beautiful creepers, flourish in perfection. Ceylon, which is about the size of Lreland, has more than three millions of inhabitants, and Colombo is now its capital; but Kandy, 73 miles distant, was formerly its chief town. Amongst the Christians of Ceylon (so called), Roman Catholics are by far the most numerous; but Buddhism and Mahometanism are the principal religions of the Island; and much harm has been done there by extreme Eitualists from England, we were told. At noon on that day (Oct. 27th) we sailed again on board the ‘’Siam,’’ for Madras, and arrived there on the evening of the 29thj after a voyage of 7,388 miles from London, accomplished in 34 days, in the course of which my husband preached once in the saloon of the ship, and held two services on deck. We circulated a considerable number of tracts and of little books also amongst the passengers, and had conversation on religious subjects with some of them.

On Oct. 30th, as there was a heavy swell in the sea, we had a rough unpleasant landing, at 10 a.m., in a masulah, or surf boat, and were thankful to set foot safely upon the Madras Pier, from which place a carriage conveyed us to Newington, Teynampett, the residence of Mr. Robert Franck, where we remained until Nov. 21st. Whilst at Madras, Mr. Müller held meetings at the Memorial Hall, in St. Andrew’s Kirk at Egmore, at the Baptist Church, in the Evangelical Hall at Blacktown, at the HaU belonging to Doveton College, and at the Congregational Church; he addressed 400 educated Hindoos in English also at the Free Church of Scotland, preached in the Methodist Church at Vepery, and at the Wesleyan Church, Broadway, besides conducting several drawing-room meetings. During our stay at Madras, v(e took frequent evening drives to the Beach, where the waves roll in with great force upon the shore, and enjoyed the cool breezes, which, blowing over the ocean, were grateful in that tropical city, to the heat of which we had not yet become accustomed.

On the evening of Nov. 21st we left Madras for Bangaloi:e, 216 miles distant, accompanied by a native servant named Abraham, whom we had engaged to travel with us through India, in order that he might wait upon us, look after our luggage, etc.; and because, besides speaking a little English, and being acquainted with the Hindoostanee, Tamil, and Ganarese languages, he could make himself useful to us in many ways. After travelling by railway all night, at 7 the next morning we reached Bangalore, and remained at the house of Colonel Wraughton until Nov. 30th, the day which had been fixed upon for our departure to Colar. Whilst at Bangalore, Mr. Müller held meetings at Cubbon Hall, at St Andrew’s National Church of Scotland, at the Wesleyan Church of the Cantonment, at the Methodist Church, St. John’s HiU, at the Baptist Chapel, and at the Chapel of the London Missionary Society, besides conducting a service for educated natives at the London Mission Education Hall; meetings which were all well attended by Europeans, and by Hindoos also who understood English.

Before our departure from Bangalore, we took early morning drives when the air was cool, and visited Lall Bagh, a plantation beautifully laid out with trees, shrubs and flowers; saw the exterior of the Maharajah’s Palace; went to the Fort, formerly a palace belonging to Tippoo Sultan, but now in ruins; and entered the prison where Sir David Baird was confined. We visited Mysore Hall, the Museum, and the Market likewise.

On the morning of Nov. 30th we left Bangalore by railway for Colar Road Station, were driven from there in a palanquin coach, drawn by bullocks, for 12 miles to the town of Colar, and stayed for one night at the Institution for native Orphans, founded by Miss Anstey, where, in the course of the 30 hours we were there, Mr. Müller held three meetings for the young people, with interpretation into the Canarese language, by an intelligent native convert named Luksman Eao. These Orphans consisted at that time of 148 young men and boys, and of 151 young women and girls, who were being trained for useful occupations, and who, during our visit, were all actively at work; but a fe/w of the children were in a weak, disfigured state, in consequence of never having recovered from the effects of the dreadful famine of 1877, through which millions of the native population of India died. Whilst at Colar, we had the pleasure of walking through the Institution, of inspecting the Schools, Hospital and Dormitories, and sought to encourage Miss Anstey in her most interesting and important work.

Late on the evening of Dec. 1st we returned by carriage to Colar Road Station, travelled from there by railway in a compartment to ourselves; and, after a long journey all night, of 272 miles from the Umn of Colar, arrived the next morning at Coimbatore, where we stayed at the house of Mr. Ramsey until Dec. 4th. On the evening of the 2nd my husband preached at a large Hall in the town; on the 3rd, at the Memorial Hall, he held a meeting for educated natives who understood English; and we travelled on by railway to Mettapollium on Dec. 4th. From there, a “tonga” (or covered carriage on two wheels, drawn by ponies) conveyed us up the Nilgiri Hills for 21 miles to Coonoor; and at Femwood, the residence of Mr. Robert Stanes, we remained during our stay. At Coonoor and at Ootacamund, a beautiftd town 12 miles higher up the Nilgiri Hills, Mr. Müller held many meetings. On the 15th we took a drive through Ootacamund, and on the 17th returned by carriage to Coonoor. In the course of our visit on the Hills, we enjoyed drives round Tiger Hill, and in the neighbourhood of Coonoor, and greatly admired the picturesque scenery of that beautiful district. On the morning of Dec. 22nd we left Coonoor in a “tonga “; were driven at full speed down the Ghauts; and, after returning by railway from MettapoUium to Coimbatore, my husband preached both on the morning and evening of Sunday Dec. 23rd, at a school room in that town. The next afternoon we set off by railway from Coimbatore, travelled all night, and, arriving at Madras at 8 o’clock on the morning of Christmas-day, went to Newington once more, after a journey of 302 miles from Coimbatore.

At Madras, during this our second stay in that city, the labours of Mr. Müller in the ministry of the Word were resumed, and lasted until Jan. 11th, 1884, when, embarking on board the steamship “Teheran,” we sailed for Calcutta in the middle of the day. On the 12th, at their request, we were introduced to three of our fellow-passengers, educated Hindoos, namely to Norendronauth Sen, to Shamachurun Bhut, and to Protat Chunder Mozoomdar, with whom, as they understood English well, we conversed for some time. Our voyage, though rough at its commencement, was a delightful one upon the whole, and the brilliant moon-light nights of the tropics at sea, we shall not easily forget. On the morning and evening of Sunday the 13th my husband preached to the passengers and officers of the ship on board the “Teheran,” in the first and second saloons of that ship; and on the morning of the 14th we reached the entrance to the Hoogly, when our progress became very slow, because the river abounds with- dangerous shifting quicksands, so that Calcutta, which is 80 miles irom its mouth, is considered to be one of the most dangerous ports in the world. At 3 P.M. we passed the “James and Mary” Shoal, where a vessel of that name was wrecked; and, after winding slowly up the river, and anchoring for the night several miles further on, the next morning (Jan. 15th) we landed at Garden Reach, Calcutta, after a voyage of 770 miles from Madras, and were met by Mr. Eobinson Souttar, with a carriage, in which we were driven to his residence, 16, Loudon Street, three miles distant, where we remained until

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Feb. 4th. Whilst in Calcotta, Mr. MoOer preached on the afternoon of Jan. 16th, in the oaitre of Wdlington Square, in the open air, to a company of natiTes and Enropeans, with interpretation into the Hindoostanee language, by Dr. Thobnm, and held meetings aftenraids, in the course of our staj in the dtj, at Union Ckel Hall, at the Methodist £plsc(^»al Chorch in Dharamtolla Street, at the Lower Circo]ar Boad Baptist Chapel, at the Free Chnrcfa of Scotland, at the Hall of the Chmch of Fingland MissicMi, situated in Old Church Mission Row, at the LaU Bazaar Baptist Chapel, where Carey, Marshman and Wardnsed to preadi, and whereDr. Judson, on his way to Bangoon,Barmah, was baptized; at a Bengali Chnreh, to a natire congregation, with interpretation into the Bengali language by Kah Charan Banurji, a couTcrted Hindoo banister; at the Wesleyan Church, in Sudder Street, on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 27th; at Union Chapel on the evening of that day; at Duff’s College he conducted a service for 200 educated natives; preached at the Congregational Church, Bhowanipore, to a congregation of 400 educated Hindoos, addressed 70 pastors and missionaries on Jan. 30th, for an hour; on Jan. 31st preached in the Congregational Church at Hastings, one of the suburbs of Calcutta; qK>ke at a large drawing-room meeting for an hour, on Feb. 2nd, to 80 ladies belonging to Zenana Missions; gave an address on Sunday morning the 3rd, at a Brethren’s meeting held at the 6oq Hall in Bow Bazaar, and preached a furewell sermon on the evening of that day at St.

Andrew’s National Church of Scotland, to the largest of all the congregations he had in Calcutta. Besides all these services, he held a few meetings at private houses also, and on two week evenings at the Methodist Episcopal Church in DharamtoUa Street, answered in public 31 out of 64 written questions, which had previously been sent in to him, and only regretted that, for want of time, he was unable to answer every one of them. In the course of our stay in the city, we took many drives, including a visit on Jan. 16th to the celebrated ^’Black Hole of Calcutta,” which had then recently been excavated from a mass of ruins, but which is now completely covered over by the buildings which have been erected since, and where, on the night of June 18th, 1756, by order of Siraj-ad-daulah, one of the Independent Nawabs of Bengal, a monster of cruelty, a whole garrison of Europeans, consisting of 146 men, were crammed into a small dungeon, only 18 feet square, with very small apertures for light and air. In this miserable dungeon, ever since infamous in history under the name of the “Black Hole of Calcutta,” the torments of the prisoners, during a night of the hottest season in the year, were more terrible than can be imagined. They tried by alternate threats and bribes to induce their jailers, either to put an end to their tortures by killing them on the spot, or, to obtain better quarters from the Nawab, but failed entirely in their attempt; and, in the morning, only 23 wretched figures, almost in the pangs of death, were extricated from a pestilential mass of dead bodies.

A terrible vengeance, for this wholesale murder, was afterwards inflicted upon the Nawab; and his name and memory have been execrated ever since. We went likewise to the Burra and China Bazaars, to a Hindoo Temple on Jan. 17th, and, on succeeding days, visited the Eden Gardens, Fort William, the Meidan, and the beautiful Botanical Gardens, six miles distant, which contain a banyan tree, 1100 feet in circumference, including a number of fresh trees formed from roots, which, hanging down from its branches had reached, struck into the earth, and sprung up in the form of separate trees. On Jan. 30th, at 4 in the afternoon, a carriage conveyed us, by invitation, to Belvidere, the residence of Mr. Rivers Thompson, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, a Christian gentleman who had expressed a particular desire to see my husband; and, before taking tea upon the lawn in the gardens, we walked through the beautiful and extensive grounds, by which that mansion was surrounded.

On Feb. 4th we set off by railway, at 4.30 in the afternoon, for Damookdea Gh4t, on the banks of the Ganges, where we arrived at 9 in the evening, crossed the river by ferry-steamer to Sara Gh4t, and, after continuing our railway journey and travelling all night, on the 5th, at 9 in the morning, reached Siliguri. A tram-carriage, drawn by a steam engine, conveyed us afterwards slowly up the Himalayan Mountains for fifty-one miles, by a winding, circuitous route, surrounded by scenery grand and magnificent in the extreme, to Darjeeling, where we arrived at half-past 4 in the afternoon; and, going to the Woodlands Hotel, remained there until Feb. lltL Whilst at Darjeeling, where a revival of the Lord’s work was greatly desired, Mr. Müller preached four times at Union Chapel, and once at the Town Hall; and all the meetings were more largely attended than could have been expected, considering that our visit was early in the year, that the cold at a place nearly 8,000 feet above the level of the sea was severe, and that the season for that town does not commence until the very hot weather sets in upon the plains below. Whilst at Darjeeling, I called upon a Christian lady, staying at the Sanatorium there, who was one of the passengers in the “Siam,” the ship by which we came out to India, who, told me she should never forget the profitable meetings my husband held on board that steamer. In the course of our visit to Darjeeling, we took long walks, and some drives in small carriages called jinrickshaws, further up the mountains, and, in this way, were able to visit the Mall, Birch Hill Road, the Observatory Hill, etc.; we had frequent opportunities too of seeing the vast range of the Himalayan Mountains to advantage, with their tops covered with perpetual snow, and some of which, though 45 miles distant, seemed, from their stupendous height, to be in the immediate neighbourhood of Darjeeling. The grand appearance of Mount Kinchin Junga, 28,000 feet above the level of the sea, was particularly striking; but Mount Everest, 29,000 feet high, said to be the loftiest mountain in the world, was not

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visible, though, in clear weather, it can be distinctly seen from Mount Senchal, which is a short distance only from Darjeeling. The enormous depth of the valleys too in this wonderful region, the lower slopes of which were covered with jungles, and rich tropical vegetation, amongst which tigers and elephants are to be found, especially attracted our attention. At 11 o’clock on the morning of Feb. 11th we left Darjeeling; went slowly down the mountains by steam tram-carriage to Siliguri; and, travelling afterwards by railway all night, reached Sara-Ght on the banks of the Ganges early on the morning of the 12tb, crossed the river by ferry-steamer to Damookdea-Gh&t, and then returned by railway to Calcutta, where we arrived about 11 o’clock, after a little trip to and from Darjeeling of 732 miles. At half-past 9 on the evening of Feb. 14th we started by railway from that city for Bankipore, where, after travelling all night, as usual, in a compartment of the train occupied only by ourselves, we arrived at 10 on the morning of the next day, but remained for two days only at the Mission House there. From Bankipore, a carriage conveyed us through Patna to Dinapore, a large military station, where we remained until the 20th, at the house of Mrs. Strachan. At Dinapore, Mr. Müller held four meetings only, at the Baptist Church, at each of which many European officers and soldiers were present. On the 20th we took our departure, and, travelling by railway vi Mogul-Serai, arrived at Benares on the evening of that day, where, at the Mission House belonging to the London Missionary Society, we remained with Mr. John Hewlett until February 25th. Late on the evening that we arrived, a large drawing-room meeting was held, where my husband addressed 57 persons, including missionaries and ladies connected with Zenana Missions; and on the following afternoon, at the London Mission College, he held a service for educated natives, to whom he spoke from Isaiah liii. 5, 6, with much earnestness and great help from the Lord. He preached twice at the London Mission Church also, once at the Baptist Chapel, and addressed a few Hindoos who came to family prayer every morning at the Mission House, with interpretation into the Hindoostanee language by Mr. Hewlett.

On Feb. 22nd we rose before 5 o’clock, set oflf in an open carriage at half-past six, and spent more than three h ours, in driving about the city and its suburbs. Benares, which is passionately loved by the two hundred millions of Hindoos in India, because it is the chief of their sacred cities, contains 1,550 Idol Temples, and 250 Mosques, to the latter of which Mahometans resort for prayer, and bears much the same relation to Hindooism, that Rome does to Popery. We visited a celebrated School of Philosophy, where numerous Brahmins, pundits and their pupils, were at work; embarked afterwards in a small syteam-boat upon the Ganges, and from her deck had a full view of the city, as it extends along the river’s banks, with its numerous bathing-ghts, its burning-ght, for consuming the bodies of the dead, itg

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Temples, Mosques, sacred Wells, etc, for which the dty is so renowned; and landed, in order to look into these Wells, or Tania. We visited the Golden Temple also, dedicated to Shwa, the god of Benares, a large gorgeoas, bat most hideons building, which was crowded with devotees, where idolatry in its most revolting formg was brought before us; saw this miserable deity, and the bull upon which, it is said, he rode; and observed the dead bodies of three human beings floating down the G-anges, upon which crows were perched, pecking at their fiesh, becanae the poor, who cannot afi’ord to pay for the wood which is needed to consume the dead bodies of their relatives, throw them into the river instead of burning them. The Hindoos believe that Benares is reigned over by Shwa, the most famous of the multitudes of gods whom they adore; and the 40 annual magnificent festivals in this city excite such boundless enthusiasm towards the deities in whose honour they are held, that hundreds of thousands of Hindoos &om all parts of the vast, tropical country of India, accomplish very long pilgrimies in the burning heat of summer, during the heavy, drenching torrents of the rainy season, and in the cooler months of the year also, to seek for their souls the merit of performing worship in this renowned safired city. On the evening of Feb, 23rd we took a drive to the Maha Bodh, four miles from Benares, which is a massive brick temple, standing on a base nearly 50 feet square, and rising to a height of 1 70 feet It was built by the Emperor Azoka in honour of Buddha, B.C. 250, and, being a remarkable structure, is generally visited by strangers. On the morning of the 25th we rose at 5 o’clock, and, accompanied by Mr. Hewlett, took a drive in an open carriage soon after 6, to the Monkey Temple, where many hundreds of monkeys, considered sacred by the -Hindoos, were congregated, whilst numbers of them were climbing up the neighbouring trees. After this, as it was a grand festival day, we entered a boat upon the Ganges, were rowed out into the river, and saw dense crowds of natives assembled upon its banks, bathing in the sacred stream, and performing various religious ceremonies before going to their Temples. We then sailed up the Ganges in the boat, visited the Maharajah’s Palace on the other side of the river, and afterwards returned to the Mission House to breakfast. Before our departure from Benares, Mrs. Hewlett conducted me, on the afternoon of the 22nd, to visit a school for native girls, belonging to the London Missionary Society, situated in the Compound where the Mission House stands; and with these girls, most of whom were extremely poor, by means of interpretation I conversed. The delight with which they listened to a few particulars about our Orphans, at the Five Houses on Ashley Down, Bristol, was great; and my brief interview with them was a most interesting one.

The next day I went to visit two of the Zenanas of Benares, accompanied by three European ladies, and by the help of their interpretation, conversed with a few native ladies, who expressed much delight at my visit; but though we were driven to see them in a covered carriage, the rays of the sun were so scorching, for it was in the middle of the day, that another such expedition would scarcely have been safe, unless undertaken in the cool hours of the morning or the evening.

On Feb. 26th, at 5 p.m., my husband and I went on by railway from Benares, vii Mogul Serai, to Allahabad, arrived there at 12.30 in the middle of the night, and remained at the Zenana Mission House in that city until March 3rd. Whilst at Allahabad, Mr. Müller preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Baptist Church, at St. Andrew’s Church of Scotland, at Mayo Hall, and held several meetings altogether; and, in the course of our stay there, we took early morning drives, before breakfast, to Kushroo Bagh, round the Park, and through the native town. From Allahabad, on the evening of March 3rd, we went on to Lucknow, where, after travelling by railway all night, we arrived on the morning of the 4th, at half-past 6, and stayed at the American Zenana Mission House there, until March 10th. At Lucknow, my husband held a few meetings only, including services at the Lall Bagh Methodist Episcopal Church, and at the Wesleyan Church in the Cantonment; and on Sunday morning, March 9th, he attended an early parade service, held in the same building, at half-past 7, where he preached to a congregation composed almost exclusively of soldiers. Whilst at Lucknow, a large city with a population of more than 300,000, we took a drive. early on the morning of March 5th, to the Eesidehcy, which was the scene of so many memorable events at the time of. the terrible Indian Mutiny, which broke out in the year 1867; saw the room where Sir Henry Lawrence received a mortal wound from the bursting of a shell; and, in another building, the apartment in which, on July 4th, that year, he died. All the grounds, where the various buildings connected with the Eesidency stand, and by which they are extensively surrounded, are planted with shrubs and flowers, and, being kept in excellent order, looked extremely beautiful The Cemetery belonging to the Eesidency is a spot of great interest also; for there, numerous monuments to the memory of the heroes who fell during the war, including the tombs of Lawrenqe, Neill, and many others, have been erected. On the morning of the 5th, too, we visited the Old Church of England Cemetery, took a drive, on the 6th, to Alum Bagh, four miles from the city, where a monumental pillar, bearing a long inscription, has been erected to the memory of Sir Henry Havelock; on the morning of the 7th, were driven in an open carriage to the Secundra Bagh, a spot memorable for the terrible massacre of the mutinous Sepoys, which took place in it at the time that Lucknow was relieved, but which is now a complete wilderness; and visited Wingfield Park, laid out as a beautiful Plantation, the great Emambarah and the Mosque. The Emambarah is a Mahometan Palace, containing a Hall 163 feet long, 53 feet wide, and upwards of 50 feet in height, and is said to be the laigest Hall in the world without any support whatever for the ceiling. Early on the morning of the 8th we took a drive to Dilkoosha, where Sir Henry Havelock died of dysentery, and visited the Martinire also. On the morning of March 10th we rose at 4, and, leaving Lucknow by an early train, travelled to Cawnpore, where we arrived at half-past 8, and stayed at the house of Dr. Condon, Civil Surgeon of that city, untU March 15tL On the evening of the 10th Mr. Müller conducted his first service at Cawnpore in the Theatre; on the evenings of the 11th, 12th and 13th, he preached at the Methodist Church, on one of which occasions he spoke particularly on the Second Coming of the Lord, and held a large drawing-room meeting, on the evening of the 14th, at Dr. Condon’s house, at which about 80 persons were present. On the morning of the 13th also, at 7 o’clock, he addressed a number of native boys at a large School Room, with interpretation into the Hindustani language by Mr. McGrew, and on the morning of the 14th, at 7 likewise, spoke to 80 girls (Europeans and Eurasians), in a School Room, with much help from the Lord.

On March 13th I received a letter from the Kev. John Hewlett, of Benares, with whom we had so recently been staying, from which the following is an extract: — “We have been exceedingly thankful to hear of the large meetings which Mr. Müller has had at Allahabad, and feel confident that, in answer to fervent prayer, great spiritual blessing was the result. The memory of your visit to Benares is never likely to be forgotten; for many continue, from their hearts, to thank God for bringing you here, and for the stimulus they received from Mr. Müller’s services, to a complete surrender and consecration of life to Christ. Words fail me, to express the debt of gratitude / owe to your husband, for the new impulse I received from him, to my faith and zeal. May the precious Saviour’s richest blessing be with you both; and may God spare Mr. Müller for a number of years, for farther apostolic work on earth.”

In the course of our stay at Cawnpore, we took early morning drives, and on March 11th visited the celebrated “Memorial Well,” into which, at the time of the Indian Mutiny, already referred to, numbers of the dying and the dead were thrown. This well is situated in a beautiful plantation, laid out with trees, shrubs, and flowers long since 1867, the year of the Mutiny; a large circular Monument has been erected over it, on which stands the figure of an angel, in stone, with folded arms and a most melancholy countenance; and this monument, erected to the memory of the poor, slaughtered victims, just mentioned, bears, in words which have been carved all round it, the following inscription: — “Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the Well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857.” About 40 yards from the well, but in the same plantation, sarroanded by an iron railing, stands a white cross on a pedestal, with the following words inscribed upon the pedestal: — ‘’Upon this spot stood the house of the massacre of July 16th, 1857.” We then drove on in the carriage for some distance to the Memorial Church, a beautiful building, entered it, and saw round the Communion Table, ranged in a semi-circular form, 14 long white upright tablets, upon the first of which, on the left is the following epitaph: — “To the glory of Grod, and in memory of more than a thousand Christian people, who met their deaths hard by this Church, between the 6th of June and the 15th of July, 1857, these Tablets have been placed in this Memorial Church of All Souls, Cawnpore, by the Government, N. W. P.” The tablets themselves contain the names of the multitude of the slain, including those of Sir Hugh Wheeler, Lady Wheeler, a number of officers, soldiers, ladies, children, and servants, and even of whole families who were put to death. The sight was a most affecting one. We took an evening drive, too, for an hour, on March 11th, before my husband preached at the Methodist Church, and visited the “Ghslt of the Massacre,” that is, one of the massacres connected with this Mutiny, and saw the Temple on the banks of the Ganges, in which the Nana’s chief officer sat, when he gave the word of command for the slaughter to commence.

Our short stay at Cawnpore having come to a close, at 8 on the morning of March 15th we left the city, and. travelling by railway, vii Tundla (an oppressively hot journey of eight hours), arrived at Agra at 4 o’clock, and went in a carriage to the Medical Mission Training Institution, under the direction of Dr. Wilson, two miles from the railway station. At 6, my husband preached in the Hall belonging to this Institution, a service which lasted for an hour and a half; and at 8 o’clock a large party of Christian friends assembled to meet us, at the teartable, in the dining-room of the Institution. On the following morning (Sunday, March 16th) Mr. Müller preached at Havelock Chapel, at half-past 7; on the evening of that day he conducted a service at Metcalf Hall, where he addressed a large congregation of attentive hearers; and on the mornings of the 17th, 18th and 19th of March, held meetings at the Hall of the Medical Mission Training Institution, where, upon the last occasion, he particularly addressed a considerable number of Christian Workers.

Whilst at Agra, we rose, as usual, very eariy, and on the morning of the 17th took a drive, at 7 o’clock, to the Tomb of Mariam Zemani, the Christian wife of Akbar Khan, a famous Mahometan Emperor, one of the Moghuls, and contemporary of Queen Elizabeth. This Tomb, an immense building, is now used as a Protestant Orphanage, where, at the time of our visit, 214 native boys and 200 native girls were educated and provided for. One of the boys, a youth of about 17 years of age, whom we saw, was called “the wolf man,” because, some years before his admission to this Orphan Institution, he was caught wild in the jungles, where he had been living amongst the wolves. At that time he went upon ‘all fours,” that is, on his hands and feet, and used to spring at and bite people, like a wild beast. Besides being deaf and dumb, he continued, when we saw him, to be so destitute of intelligence, that nothing could be done with him by the missionaries; who could only take care of him, and prevent his doing mischief either to himself or others, because, if irritated, he became dangerous.

On the same morning (March 17th) we drove on to the Tomb of Akbar Khan, the Mahometan Emperor already mentioned, at Secundra, and early on the morning of the 18th took a drive to the. magnificent Taj Mahal, which stands in a beautiful garden on the banks of the river Jumna, rather more than a mile to the east of the Fort of Agra, and is celebrated as being the most wonderful building of its kind in the world. The Taj is an immense dome of white marble, inlaid with precious stones. It has been constructed with extraordinary art and beauty, is surrounded by many marble turrets, and is the Mausoleum of Mumtaz-i-Mahal, or, the “Exalted one of the Palace,” who was the favourite wife of the Emperor Shah Juan. In the centre of the building, exactly under the Dome, is the Sepulchre in which her remains and those of her deceased husband were deposited. On the front gateway is the date A.H. 1057 (that is Anno Domini 1648), which marked the completion of the building. The Taj cost between two and three millions of pounds sterling, according to English money, and 20,000 men were employed daily, for 22 years, in erecting it. Early on the morning of March 19th we took a drive to the Fort, to the Palace, and to the Mosque of Agra, and visited the Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah, a Persian Prince, which is of white marble, exquisitely carved, and is considered interesting, as being the only jrork of the period in which he lived, now in existence.

On the morning of March 20th we rose at 4, left Agra by moonlight, by an early train, and, having received an invitation from Sir Charles Aitchison, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, to join him at the Gamp at Umritzur, travelled vit Tundla and Ghaziabad to that city. The journey was long, and the heat at Ghaziabad, where a hot wind raising clouds of dust set in, was excessively great; but, after travelling that day and all night, in a compartment of the train reserved exclusively for ourselves, on the following morning, at 6 o’clock, we reached our destination. An open carriage, sent by Sir 0. Aitchison, conveyed us to the Camp, a mile distant from the railway station, which contained about 70 tents, including those belonging to the officers and servants; and in a large tent, divided off into a sitting-room and bed-room, we soon found ourselves comfortably located. After breakfast, we rested during the remainder of the. morning, had tiffin at 2 o’clock, and at 5 in the afternoon took a drive with Mr. Wade, a clergyman connected with the Church of England Missionary Society, to visit the Alexandra School for native girls. We saw a little also of Umritzur, a city of 130,000 inhabitants, which is Remarkable for the Golden Temple which it contains, and is to the Sikhs, what Benares is to the Hindoos. In the evening, at 8 o’clock, we dined with Sir Charles Aitchison in his tent, where the party of 50 persons included several missionaries, officers and ladies.

On the following morning (March 22nd) we rose at 4, left the Gamp, and started at 6 o’clock, with the Lieutenant-Govemor and his suite, in special saloon carriages attached to the ordinary train, for Lahore, the capital of the Punjab, where we arrived at 8. From the railway station, a large waggonette, drawn by four camels, with riders on them in scarlet livery, conveyed Sir C. Aitchison and ourselves to Government House and there my husband and I remained in large, cool apartments, prepared for our recepliion, until March 31st. In the course of our stay at Lahore, Mr. Müller held meetings nearly every evening, including services at the Union Church, at the Hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association, at the Rang Mahal (a service for educated natives), at the Railway Theatre, and at Lawrence Hall. The meeting for educated natives, at the Rang Mahal, was crowded to overflowing, and was a most interesting and important service.

The following extract from a letter written by a Christian gentleman, and received by my husband just before our departure from Lahore, will show how much his labours in that city were appreciated: — “I cannot express to you how much we enjoyed your Sunday and Monday evening sermons. On Sunday evening your sermon strengthened my faith exceedingly; and I shall never, never forget, all you told us regarding prayer. I niean now to persevere in prayer, and to expect answers from God. Our heartfelt gratitude is due to you, for coming to minister to us from so great a distance. May God bless you, and give you physical and mental strength!”

On the evening of March 25th Miss Aitchison and I, accompanied by Captain Lambert, rode through Lahore upon an elephant in a “howdah,” containing seats constructed to carry four persons, which was considered the best way of seeing the city to advantage. The huge animal, with a mahout, or driver, riding on his neck, knelt for us to mount him; but even then, a short ladder was necessary, for us to get into the “howdah.” We visited the Mosque of Wazir Khan, the Jama Musjid, Kungit Singh’s Mausoleum, and other objects usually considered interesting by strangers. On the morning of the 28th Sir Charles Aitchison kindly took my husband and me for an early drive in an open carriage to the gaol at Lahore, which contained 1,600 prisoners. Upon entering the building we found them at work, manufacturing carpets of a superior description, printing, etc., etc. The sight was an interesting but a melancholy one, and it was surprising, on inquiry, to hear that those poor criminals never receive instruction in the truths of Christianity, because such instruction is not permitted by the British Government; and, as missionaries are not allowed to labour amongst them, they never hear the glad tidings of salvation. Surely it is a solemn thing for a Christian Government (so called)’ to act like this.

Our visit to Lahore having come to an end, on March 31st we left Government House in the camel carriage, and at 6.20 in the evening started by railway for Delhi, where, after travelling all night in a sleeping compartment to ourselves, we arrived at 3 on the afternoon of April 1st. During the latter part of our journey, between Ghaziabad and Delhi, a hot, parching, high wind prevailed, which raised clouds of dust, and the heat occasionally was overpowering. Upon our arrival at Delhi, we intended to go to an hotel; but, on alighting from the train at the station, received from a native servant, sent to meet us, a note from Mr. Tremlett, formerly Judge of the High Court of Delhi, but then Commissioner, which contained a kind invitation to take up our abode at Ludlaw Castle, his residence, about a mile distant from the railway station. This invitation we accepted, were driven oflP immediately in a carriage to the Castle, and remained there until April 4th; but, during our short stay at Delhi, Mr. Müller had time to hold one meeting only, and that was for soldiers at the Barracks, on the evening of the 2nd, to whom he gave an important address, and with whom he had a happy meeting. On the 3rd, having been inated to take tiffin at the house of a clergyman at 2 o’clock, we had an exceedingly hot drive there in the middle of the day, when this clergjrman (Mr. Griffiths) introduced some missionaries from Cambridge to us, who desired to become acquainted with my husband, and with them we had a long and interesting conversation.

As Delhi was the ancient capital of India, and is full of the ruins of various grand buildings which formerly belonged to the Moghul Emperors and Kings of that country, it is considered, in this respect, the most remarkable and interesting city in the whole of that vast empire. Delhi, too, has many associations connected with the Indian Mutiny: the siege of Delhi will never be forgotten, nor Brigadier-General Nicholson, without whom, it was said, “Delhi could not have fallen.” He was mortally wounded during the siege, shot through the body, on Sept. 14th, 1857, whilst attacking the Lahore Gate and Bastion; died on Sept. 23rd, and was buried in the new Cemetery, just outside the Cashmere Gate, with full military honours. On April 2nd we took an early morning drive to the Fort, to the Audience Hall, and to the Palace, and sa’w other ruins of departed grandeur and magnificence. The walls and ceilings of the vast halls and apartments of the Palace were most elaborately decorated; and the Pearl Mosque is considered to be a perfect gem of architectural beauty. The great Mosque was afterwards visited by us; and, mounting to its corner towers, we had a magnificent panoramic view of the whole of Delhi and its surrounding neighbourhood for many miles. On Af)ril 3rd we took

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K-’r i -^ -^ ^^- “• an early morning drive also, and visited the Mausoleum of the Emperor Humayoom, six miles distant from the city, which is a large, remarkable edifice like a Palace; it contains a great number of royal Tombs, and is noted for the beautiful marble trellis work, exquisitely carved, in a numberless variety of patterns, with which the entire structure abounds. From the top of this Mausoleum, to which we ascended, at a great height from the ground, a most extensive district, embracing a vast area of many miles, lay spread out before us, completely covered with ruins of Temples, Mosques, Palaces, Tombs, Forts, Towers, castellated battlements, etc., etc.; and, as we gazed upon the scene below, it looked like an immense city of the dead. All was as deserted, as silent, and as desolate, as were the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, near Naples, Italy, on the 15th and 21st April, 1879, when we visited them; not a single building fit for a human habitation tould be seen, and we were forcibly reminded, that “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thei;eof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever.”

At 3.20, on the afternoon of April 4th, we left Delhi; and, after travelling all night in a sleeping compartment of the train reserved exclusively for ourselves, reached Ajmere at noon the next day, where, at the bungalow of Dr. Husband, we were entertained until April the 8th. At Ajmere Mr. MiQler held two meetings only, namely one at the Railway Institute, on Sunday evening, the 6th, and the other on the following evening at the Presbyterian Mission Church; he had a few interviews also with Christian friends. On the evening of April 5th we took a drive through Ajmere, a beautiful town in the midst of a neighbourhood almost as mountainous and as picturesque as Switzerland is; but, as our stay there was short, we were unable to undertake any excursions into the country, and so could see nothing more of that delightful district.

On the morning of April 8th we left Ajmere by the 8.20 train, accompanied, as always during this Indian Tour, by our servant, Abraham; and, after travelling the whole of that day and all night, for 26 hours in succession, arrived the next morning, at half-past 10, at Mhow in Central India, a large military Cantonment, where a carriage conveyed us from the station to the bungalow of General Sir Robert Phayre; and there we remained until April 14:th. On the evening of the day we arrived (April 9th), and on the evening of the next day, Mr. Müller held meetings in the open air, by the brilliant light of the full moon, in the compound which surrounded the bungalow, where, upon each occasion, many officers and soldiers formed a portion of the congregation. On April 11th he preached in the evening at the Presbyterian Church, on the morning of Easter Sunday, the 13th, he conducted an early parade service in the Garrison Church at 7 o’clock, and preached at the Free Church of Scotland on the evening of that day.

In the course of our short stay at Mhow, we took two evening drives with the General; on the evening of April 14th my husband preached a farewell sermon at the Methodist Episcopal Church at 7 o’clock, and that night, after returning to the bungalow, and taking leave of Sir Robert Phayre and of his son, Captain Phayre, we took our departure from Mhow by the 11 o’clock train; and, after travelling all night, arrived at Khandwa the next morning at half-past 7. At Khandwa, in order to avoid continuing our journey by day during the excessive heat, we spent nine hours at a D4k Bungalow, that is, a kind of poor hotel, but the best in the place, which, to some extent, screened us from the fiery wind that was blowing outside, like blasts from a hot furnace; but at 5.20 in the evening our journey was resumed; and, after travelling all night to Callian, where we arrived the next morning at half-past 7, and going on further by railway from that town, after ascending the Ghauts, and passing through fine mountain scenery, at half-past 3 on the afternoon of that day (April 16th), we reached Poona, and went in a carriage to the Mission House there, two miles from the railway station, where we remained with Mr. Beaumont until April 21st.

At Poona my husband held five meetings only, namely, on the evening of April 17th, at the Free Church of Scotland; at the Baptist Chapel on the evening of the Idth; at the Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday mprning the 20th, at half-past 7; at the Free Church of Scotland on the evening of that day, aind at the Methodist Episcopal Church on the evening of the 21st; when he addressed the members of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and many other persons, at 8 o’clock, with great help from the Lord. In the course of our short stay at Poona, though the heat was most exhausting, and sufficient to deprive him of his usual energy and power, there was abundant evidence that his ministry in that city was greatly blessed, both to believers and to the unconverted persons who heard him preach.

On April the 21st, before our departure from Poona, we rose at half-past 5, and took an early drive to Parr buttee, a high hill, four miles distant from the city; and, ahghting from the carriage at the bottom of the hiU, walked up to the top of it. From the summit of this hill there was a magnificent prospect, embracing a vast circumference of many miles, extending far and wide before us* Upon the top of this hill an idol Temple stands, containing a representation of the god Shwa, and other heathen abominations, about which our guide, an intelligent Hindoo, who spoke English tolerably well, was going to give us all the information he possessed. I remarked to him, therefore, with considerable emphasis: “We do not believe in Shwa in the leasts but in the true and living God, who made heaven and earth, and who sent His Son to die for poor lost sinners, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures.” “I, too, believe in a supreme Being,” said he. “Did you ever hear of Jesus Christ?” I asked. “Never,” was the reply. “Can you not then ask some kind missionary to teach you about Jems for without faith in Him you will never get to heaven.” “I must try and learn about Him,” said he, “I must try, I must try” When this brief conversation was over, we descended the hill, returned in the carriage to Poona; and, after taking a walk in the Bund Gardens, went back to breakfast at the Mission House. At 8 o’clock on the evening of that day (April 21st), as already mentioned, Mr. Müller held a meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he preached a farewell sermon; the same night we started by the 11 o’clock train for Bombay, arrived in that city at 7 the next morning, and, going to the house of Captain Hutchinson, remained there until May the 2nd.

In the course of our stay at Bombay, my husband preached at the Free Church of Scotland on the evening of April 23rd; at the Baptist Chapel, Byculla, on the evening of the 24th; at the Hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association on the 25th, and on the 26th he held a drawing-room meeting in the evening, for more than 40 Christian Workers, at the house of Captain Hutchinson. On the morning of Sunday the 27th, he preached at the National Church of Scotland, and at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Grant Road, on the evening of that day. On the 29th he addressed 150 educated natives at the Free Church of Scotland Institution, preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Grant Road, on the evening of the 30th, and held an evening drawing-room meeting on May the 1st, at Gergoum, where, at the house of a missionary of the Church of England, he addressed a large party of Christian Workers, with much earnestness and great help from the Lord. This was his last service in India, in connection with our tenth long missionary Tour.

On May 1st I received the following letter from the Kev. John Fordyce of Simla, well known in India as a devoted servant of Christ, which it may be suitable to introduce into this portion of my narrative: — “Dear Mrs. Müller, In a few days you will leave India, and I wish to write a few words of prayerful farewell to you, and to your dear and honoured husband, who is loved by’ thousands in India, and I believe by hundreds of thousands in other lands. I have only had a few glimpses of you since you left Lahore;. but I hope to learn more by and bye. My prayer is, that the precious and rich seed sown in India, by Mr. Müller, may bear much fruit. Some of his words in Calcutta are like living seeds in my own soul up here. With my love from the Himalayas to you both. Believe me, Yours very sincerely, John Fordyce. Simla, April 26th, 1884.”

Whilst at Bombay, as the climate was oppressively hot, we took evening drives to Back Bay, Apollo-bunder, Breech-Candy, Scandal Point, and to Colaba Cemetery. On April 28th we crossed the Harbour in a small steamer, and visited the Caves of Elephanta, which are large and remarkable Hindoo Caverns, containing idols which the Brahmins worship; and on the afternoon of May 1st took a drive to the Parsee Cemetery, situated in a beautiful Plantation on Malabar Hill. There we saw the “Towers of Silence,” five in number, where the* dead bodies of Parsees, instead of being interred in graves, are torn to pieces, and devoured by vultures, crows, kites, and hawks; and we observed numbers of those birds of prey perched upon the Towers, where, flapping their wings in an excited manner, they were evidently on the look-out for other funerals as they came up the hill, in order that they might pounce down upon the corpses, and take their fill again of this disgusting prey. Strangers are not allowed to enter these “Towers of Silence;” but a model was shown to us of one of them. They are high and circular, and, being without roofs, are open at the top; and, as the dead bodies of the Parsees are laid flat upon the ground, without coffins, inside these buildings, the birds, which perch upon the walls of each Tower, can easily fly down upon the corpses and devour them as quickly as possible.

Before bringing this account of our Indian Tour to a close, I desire to make some remarks with reference to the various false religions that abound in India, in Africa, in China, in Japan, and in other countries where heathen darkness reigns. Though from our earliest days, we had heard and read about missionaries and mission work, never, until we visited Benares, did we to some extent take in the awful condition in which the heathen of India, and of many other idolatrous lands, are Uving, and dying also. Millions upon millions of our fellow-creatures, plunged in the deepest darkness, are, from their birth to their death, a prey to the wildest delusions. and most devoutly believe the thousands of lies which the Devil palms off upon them. The various forms of Satanic religion which prevail in those countries, show how true it is, that “the whole world lieth in the evil one.” In India, in China, and in Japan there are more than 500 millions of Buddhists, to say nothing of Mahometans, and the hundreds of millions belonging to the various false religions besides Buddhism, which abound upon the earth. In connection with this subject too, we cannot fail to remember how small the number of Christians is, compared with the hundreds of millions of heathen in existence; and, as out of these Christians (so called) vast numbers, and by far the greater proportion of them, are nominal Christians only, true believers, real disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, become an exceedingly “little flock,” in comparison with the enormous multitudes, who either have never heard of Christ at all, or, who have no saving knowledge of Him whatever. When we consider, too, that, according to prophetic Scripiture, the time is fast hastening on, when Christendom, as represented by the ten kingdoms of the Roman earth, yet to be revived and developed, will completely cast off and reject the true and living God altogether; will receive and worship the Antichrist, or “man of sin” (see 2nd Thessalonians, chapter II, and Revelation XIII), and at last will far exceed in abominable wickedness even the heathen themselves, we cannot but exclaim: “What an awftU condition the whole world is in!”

The following extract from an article, entitled **Re-

! MISSIONARY TOUES AND LABOURS

on,” in Chambers’ “Eneyclopsedia,” was copied ont I sent to UB by & nuHsionary of Benaree in the month April, 1884, and was received by us, just before we. India for London, on the 2iid May, in that year; but this article was written several years, probably, before ri], 1884, it is almost certain that, in the present’ year 189), many thousands, and perhaps even millions, more human beings have embraced each of the false relins mentioned in the list, which the extract contains, n have been mentioned therein. It has recently been [mated, I believe, that at the present time (1889) the [>le earth contains about 1400 millions of inhabitants, I, out of these 1400 millions of human beings, it is bable that not 20 millions, even, are really converted sons — true, decided believers in the Lord Jesua Christ. 3 extract to which I have referred is as follows: ‘The religions of the world may be summarised in nd numbers thus: —

ra 8,000,000

[nan Catholics 182,422,532

)ek Church 74,624,300

iteatants 95,755,534

hometans 120,000,000

ihminica! Hindoos 120,000,000

sees 1,000,000

Idhists 483,000,000

which may be added the Fetishism of
be aboriginal tribes of Africa, America,
Polynesia, etc 189,000,000”

If this list be tolerably correct, what a fearful state of darkness and delusion hundreds of millions of the inhabitants of the whole earth are in now! — and that the whole world will not be converted during the present dispensation, as some people fondly imagine will be the case, is not only certam from the Scriptures, beyond a doubt, but is manifest from the wretched state of wickedness in which, with comparatively few exceptions, the heathen world and Christendom have always been; in which they are now; and in which they will continue; because, though multitudes may yet be converted before the Lord Jesus comes, the word of Grod plainly declares, that no improvement of a universal character is to be expected before that event, but that spiritual darkness will increase, and that iniquity will abound more and more, as the present dispensation draws nearer and nearer to its close. There will be no Millenium until Jesus comes; but, at His appearing, a glorious period will be ushered in, when “the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.” “Oh, what a sun-rise will that Advent be!” But wrdil that blessed event shall come, and hecavjse this poor earth is in its present deplorable condition of spiritual darkness and of death, true believers should be most earnest and unceasing in their efforts to win souls for Christ, and should seek to become the instruments, in His hand, of gathering out His own elect, before the end of the present dispensation comes. Our long and interesting Tour through India, had the effect of deepening intensely our interest in Missions, and in the missionary labours of brethren and sisters in that country, and in other lands where idolatry and heathen darkness reign; for, coming personally into contact even with a few only of the various false religions, that prevail upon the earth, awakens a far more lively sense of their awful character, than merely hearing or reading about them ever can accomplish. True believers in Christ, therefore, are asked to pray earnestly that God will have mercy upon India, and the many other countries which are in darkness and in the shadow of death, and that, while the Lord Jesus tarries, He will gather out yet, from amongst them, vast multitudes for His name. The deep sjnnpathy and earnest prayers of Christians, too, are continually needed for the Lord’s missionary servants in foreign lands, who have numberless difficulties and discouragements to contend with, and who often find, that labouring amongst the heathen has a deadening effect upon their own souls. Should not brethren and sisters in the Lord, too, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the United States of America, etc., give themselves most earnestly to prayer, in order to ascertain whether the Lord would not have them to go abroad, and to labour as missionaries in foreign lands. There are many hundreds of true Christians who have been living nearly all their lives in one place; and many pastors of Churches, in the countries just mentioned, and elsewhere, have preached over and over again, for 30, 40, and even for 50 years, in the same cities, to congregations who have heard them many hundreds and even thousands of times. My husband has been praying daily for a very long time, that the Lord Jesus will soon accomplish the number of His elect, and hasten his return; he prays likewise that all true believers may do their pa/rty to bring dbmt that glorious event, and that the preaching of the gospel, all over the world, may take place, amongst the heathen who have never heard His name. Instead of remaining, therefore, year after year, at ease and in comfort at their own homes, ought not real Christians to rouse themselves? Should they not be willing to go abroad, to

endure the trials and the hardships which are often connected with the labours of missionaries in distant countries, and contend with the difficulty of learning foreign languages which they will have to overcome? and should not believers, who are unable to go abroad themselves, give as much mon as they can spare, towards the support of Missions, especially of those in foreign lands, because there are true, devoted servants of Christ in abundance, in Great Britain and Ireland, and in the United States of America, for instance, whilst there are comparatively but few of them in coimtries where idolatry and heathenism reign? That much has already been done, and is still being accomplished, in the way of sending out brethren and sisters from the countries just mentioned, I am quite aware; but ought not great numbers more, of experienced, instructed, godly persons, to follow the example of those who have thus gone forth? I think, sometimes, that many people, who are true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, do not half give credit to the great traths which they profess to hold; for, if we really believe that an eternal Heaven, or an eternal hell, is awaiting every human being under heaven; that the “New Jerusalem”, or the “LaJce of fire and brimstone”, will be the portion of every individual upon the face of the earth, and Aa throughout eternity, how can we be as careless about, and as indi£Perent to, the spiritual welfare of the numerous persons with whom day after day we come into contact, as we so often are? When we remember, too, that those persons only will be saved, whose sins have been washed away in the blood of Christ, who, as poor lost sinners in themselves, trust in Him, and in His blood and righteousness alone, for pardon, acceptance and salvation, and who thus have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in their hearts, how earnestly ought we to warn «mbelievers of the exceeding great danger they are in, and urge them, “to flee from the wrath to come.” That God may graciously be pleased to deliver us, as believers, from this most culpable lalf-heartedness and unconcern; that we may seek to walk now, as in the light of that day — even the great day of Christ’s appearing — is my daily fervent prayer.

Our long Tour through India having come to a close, on the morning of May 2nd, at 11 o’clock, a steam-launch conveyed us from Mazagon-bunder to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Ship, “Indus,” accompanied by our servant Abraham; but on board that ship he took a respectful leave of us, and returned on shore, intending to leave Bombay immediately for Madras. At noon we left the harbour, and sailed for Aden. On the morning of Sunday, May 4th, my husband preached in the saloon to the passengers and officers of the ship, and at 8, on the evening of the 13th, we landed at Suez. From that town we travelled by railway all night to Alexandria; arrived there at half-past 8 on the morning of the next day, and, embarking on board another Peninsular and Oriental Steamship, sailed t 11 for Brindisi in the South of Italy, where, after a pleasant voyage of 825 miles, across the Mediterranean, we landed at 8 o’clock, on the morning of May 17tL At noon that day, we started by special mail train, in a Pullman’s carriage, for Bologna; arrived there the next morning at half-past 4; and, finding an express train waiting for the passengers, engaged a compartment to ourselves, in which we travelled on at once, vis, Turin, the Mont Cenis Tunnel, Dijon and Paris, to Calais. After crossing the Straits of Dover on board the “Calais-Douvres,” we proceeded in a train, that was waiting, to London direct; and, at 6 on the evening of May 19th, arrived in that city, after a rapid but expensive journey from Brindisi of 1483 miles. In London we remained imtil June 5th. On the afternoon of that day we left the Paddington Station by an express train, and, reaching Bristol in two hours and a half, went immediately to New Orphan House No. 3, Ashley Down, where we arrived at 6 o’clock,, after a Tour of 20,475 miles, by land and by sea, since, on Sept. 7th, 1883, we left Bristol.