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dense forests, uninhabited, except by wild beasts, and a very few men, usually called "wild men." Living for several years in the neighbourhood, I became acquainted with the habits of the wild beasts of the forest. All of these (with one exception, of which I shall presently speak) will get out of a man's way if they can. I knew this fact from books, but I own I felt some surprise, when I saw how little the natives feared them. It is remarkable, that though I have often passed very near tigers and leopards, I have never seen one alive in his native forest, and the reason is, that I never looked after them. I was not hunting beasts to kill them, but men, that they might be saved. Yet I should not have felt at all secure if I had not known that they were more ready to keep out of my way than I was to keep out of theirs. Why should creatures so fierce and strong keep out of the way of a weak man? I have been very near wild elephants, tigers, bears, and leopards. I have seen their fresh tracks, and heard them moving amongst the bushes: they did not, however, come near me, but moved away. Why did they do so? On one occasion, I pointed out to a native hunter the spot where he would find a leopard. He went to the place and shot the leopard. I had passed close to that bush with a little

child in my arms! Why did he not come out and try to take away the baby? I might mention many such incidents. How is it that people can live near such a forest, and not be every minute afraid that they shall be torn to pieces? The truth is, that the ancient promise is still fulfilled to man, "The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the field."

But there is one description of tiger of which the natives are afraid. It is called a "maneater," because it is always searching after men to devour them, and drink their blood. It is not any peculiar species, but one which, having tasted human blood, likes it beyond all other food. This kind might be considered an exception to the rule implied in the former of the two passages of Scripture quoted above, although it still hides itself until it can find an opportunity of springing out on some unsuspecting traveller or woodcutter. But if, in some degree, an exception to the former passage, it is a remarkable illustration of the latter. There was a tiger of this description in the forests near my house, and the terror of all the woodcutters and herdsmen. He ranged over a tract of country about twenty or thirty miles in length, suddenly appearing, sometimes in one part and sometimes in another, and carrying off some poor man, woman, or child.

Hunters went after him, but he always eluded them. At last there was a sudden termination to his depredations, and the fears of the natives subsided. About five or six years afterwards, another of these monsters made more terrible havoc still. Whenever I asked any of the people how they knew that it was another, and not the same, they replied that man-eating tigers never live long; that they become diseased, lose all their hair, and die. I fully believe the testimony of the natives. They told me that, in a very few months, all further trouble from that creature would cease, even if he were not killed. He was not killed, but after about four months was heard of no more. If, then, every beast which feeds on human flesh dies, we have a striking illustration of the text,-"Surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it.

You will perhaps ask why I should go into such a terrible place, when the "man-eater" was there. I went to find those few men who were called "wild men," and who, I was told, had no idea of the existence of God, or of the immortality of their own souls. When I first went to tell them these things, and of Jesus Christ, I passed through a village in which were some native Christians, I told them where I was going, and for

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what purpose. One of them said, "Let me come with you, and carry your bed;" another said, "Let me come and cariy your food;" and another said, "Let me carry the things for cooking I had more volunteers than I wanted. I asked them what I should pay them, and they said they only wanted food, not money. Several of them went with me, and although they suffered much from jungle fever, there was never any lack of volunteers whenever I went up those mountains.

I told my native catechists I wished one or two of them to go and live amongst the people in the forest. I soon had two volunteers, who only requested that they might go together. They went, but one of them soon had to assist the other back again, in a terrible state of suffering from fever. Another volunteered and took his place. He too had to return. The sick man who first went, having recovered, though still very weak, offered to go again, but I would not permit him to do so. So many of my catechists were laid aside with fever, that I was obliged to desist for a time from sending them. It was I, however, who stopped them: they were always ready to go, to preach to those poor people the Gospel of the grace of God. Before I could establish a station there, ill-health compelled me to leave that country.

If even new converts are ready to risk their lives to tell others of Jesus, how much more should older Christians rejoice to help; some of them by going themselves, others

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by giving the money needed for the support of those who go, and all helping together by prayer?-Christian Missionary Juvenile Instructor.

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a literary man, recently went into a Buddhist nunnery and preached the gospel with such fervour, that the abbess, one of the nuns, and a neophyte about to take the veil were converted and added to the church. Another convert, a simple countryman, has so fully preached the gospel in his own neighbourhood, that, in going through it some twelve miles, the missionary scarcely met with an individual who had not heard more or less of Jesus from his lips.

says, "The Chinese temples strikingly reminded me of monasteries. Priests with shaven crowns and rosaries loitered about them, but I never saw the people come to worship at any. The daily monotonous worship is performed by the priests alone, which consists in muttering a few prayers, while they keep time with a wooden drum, and occasionally a bell. The pagodas are tall narrow towers with seven or nine successive stories, each story containing an idol. On festival occasions the Chinese temples are filled with the fumes of sandalwood and incense, the efful-nine (one of them a female) gence of tapers, the burning at Khi-boey. Of these last of tinsel, and the sound of the the missionary writes, that gong, all of which the Chinese not only have they given eviconsider as essential to propi- dence of their sincerity by a tiate their deities." long course of consistent conduct; but, what is more convincing still, almost every one has suffered, either in person or estate, for the name of Christ. Two of them were, not long ago, shamefully beaten because they refused to contribute the smallest sum for idolatrous purposes.

Recent accounts respecting the progress of the Gospel in China, are very encouraging. At Ningpo the labours of the missionaries have been in some cases largely blessed. We read of the baptism, upon one occasion, of sixteen persons. One of the converts,

The baptism of fourteen Chinese converts is reported by the missionaries of the English Presbyterian Church, five (all men) at Baypay, and

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The Mission Field.

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OT only is the name of Havelock yet fragrant, but his personal influence is still felt in Northern India. Six adults have been received into the Church by baptism at Allahabad, and of these, two-a brother and a sisterare the orphan children of an old servant of that Christian soldier. "I have no doubt," writes the missionary, "the good influence under which they were thus brought was the original means of impressing them with a conviction of the excellence of Christianity; and that the seed then sown has borne fruit after many days." Another missionary visited a bazaar in Kurnaul. Here he met with a banker, who took him home, with some friends, and there, with them, listened attentively while he explained the doctrines of Christianity. A

Brahmin, who was present, tried to establish his views, but as the company thought them less deserving of attention than the teaching of Scripture, he left in disgust. The missionary adds:

"The banker then asked me, how it was that Europeans, having such a holy religion, so seldom followed its precepts; how it was that such numbers lived according

to their own inclinations, without any regard to God's commandments; and whether we had two Bibles? He then mentioned some godly officers, among them, General Havelock and his son, and thought it a pity there were not more like them."

CEYLON.

At several places numbers of Singhalese have renounced Buddhism, and embraced Christianity. Three villages are named, at which the good work is most apparent. At one of these about thirty-five have been enrolled as Christians; thirteen at another; and several at the third. A very important discussion is going on, at a place near Galle, between the Buddhists and Christians. Nearly fifty Buddhist priests are present, including the leading men in the country. There are six missionaries, besides many catechists and other Christians. The natives appear to be deeply interested in the controversy, for more than two thousand assembled on the first day. It is a striking, and most hopeful sign of the time, that from the Buddhists came the determination that the whole discussion shall be carried on in writing, and afterwards printed.

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