Sunday services are steadily attended by fairly good congregations, composed mostly of the old and elderly men of the villages, and we feel that the continued seed-sowing must in the fullness of time' bring fruit.

"As soon as the dry season is over, and I am not so tied to the station, I hope to do one day's evangelizing away from home once per week, some of the boys accompanying me. Thus far it has not been possible."

GROWTH AT DURBAN AND AMANZIMTOTE.

MR. BUNKER, writing September 9, reports that they are in the full swing of work at Amanzimtote. There are 75 boys in Jubilee Hall, 30 or 35 girls in the Home, and 12 young men in the Theological School. The mission feels keenly the loss of Dr. and Mrs. Bridgman, who have been obliged to come to America on account of the state of Mrs. Bridgman's health. Mr. Bunker writes:

more room.

"I was in Durban on September 4, and admitted twelve young men to the church there. There is crying need for Two or three hundred men at least were sitting out doors on the ground last Sunday. We are now planning to put on an iron addition 24 x 54 feet, with a wing for the preacher's house. The work is very promising indeed there. It is astonishing to me that so many young men who are far from satisfactory when at home, when they go to town enter the class there, and amid all the temptations of town life seem to be earnest Christians. I can only account for it by the fact that when they go to town they get away from the home surroundings of heathenism and can make a new start. It is a fact, at

any rate, that many more young men seem to be living good lives there than on some of our stations.

"We are planning for another communion here at Amanzimtote. It looks as though about thirty would join the church. The deacons are now examin

ing candidates. Umduzane has begun a sunrise meeting on Sunday, and says that there is a great deal of interest."

THE SCHOOLS.

MR. RANSOM, of Ifafa, while alluding to some discouragements, reports items of interest:

"There are some very encouraging tokens in the schools. I was at Idududu this week and found the young teacher, a Jubilee Boy,' full of hope and energy. He hoped that nineteen of the children had been converted this term, and the day I was there four more rose to confess Christ. I feel that these day schools are affording the greatest opportunities, and that we ought to have a thoroughly trained teacher, full of missionary zeal, who can superintend the whole school work from Mapumulo to Umzumbe, and unify the work, study the local and colonial problems in connection with education, and strive to make this wing of our work as efficient and spiritual as it ought to be."

AN INFLUX OF STUDENTS.

DR. TRACY, writing from Marsovan, September 21, in reporting the remarkable interest shown in the educational

work, raises the serious question what they shall do under these extraordinary circumstances:

"The influx of students surpasses all

precedent. We now have close upon two hundred and fifty in the college and its preparatory department. If we permit them to come, the number will rise to near three hundred. We cannot permit it, and are now shutting the gates against them.

"What shall we do? We are pressed upon by a crowd of students who pay fully, willingly, and promptly. In all probability the applicants next year will be far more numerous than this year. We thought when the influx began, three years since, that it was a wave soon to pass. On the contrary, it proves an ever-swelling tide. We now understand that there is a great movement in the matter of education, and that an institution with moral foundations like ours is in special favor. Though we are evangelical out and out, that makes no difference whatever with Gregorians; they accept the position we take, and seem to respect us for it. The same is fast becoming true of Greeks. We now have close upon fifty Greeks in the college, and as many in the Girls' Boarding School.

"What is to be done? Our accommodations might be considered sufficient for half the number of students now present. It is easy to say, with the sang froid of one who cares little, Refuse to take more than you have accommodation for.' It is not easy for one whose heart is in the moral enlightenment of a nation to turn away the youth who come to him with such desire, and offer to pay any charges that may be made. True, we may cut them off by making charges which it is impossible for people in Turkey to pay, or charges which will leave to us only a few, and they from the richest and least hopeful class. If colleges in a wealthy land like America cannot raise buildings and endow professorships with money amassed from the term-bills of students,

how shall a Christian college do it in Turkey? I wish some able man, capable of conviction on a subject, could look into our crammed audience and recitation rooms and dormitories, our dining room, seven feet eight inches from floor to ceiling, twenty-seven by twenty-eight feet, with an addition fourteen by sixteen, in which dark and dingy basement near one hundred and forty persons must sit at table.

"We abide by the will of God. If he requires us to go on in this way with the institution on which this great tract of country depends for the moral and intellectual training of youth, we humbly accept it. If common, human, Christian judgment indicates anything in the case, we ought to have a good, solid, adequate building for Anatolia College. Good judgment also indicates that it should be built of the brick material underlying our whole premises, that it should be so constructed as to be well-nigh safe from the danger of fire,- not difficult, in its isolated position,— and that it should be reared at a cost of about $20,000, onefourth of which is ready on call.

"In view of recent utterances, the integrity of our missionaries in past years is beginning to shine forth in the eyes of the central government. I think it not improbable that there may soon be favorable conditions for securing the necessary permission to build as we need to build. When the favorable time comes, as I believe it will, it is very important that we have the means to go ahead. It has been said more than once in our official documents, that what is needed is $75,000 for endowments and for building. If the Lord on whom we wait sees it to be so, some person or persons will be moved to furnish that sum. At any rate, we wait upon him. It is better to wait singing than to wait sighing, and the former we propose to do."

BEILAN AND KESSAB.

MR. SANDERS, of Aintab, reports extended visits at these two outstations in company with Professor Livonian, of Central Turkey College. Of Beilan Mr. Sanders writes:

"You will remember that last year a number of prominent Armenians came to us, but not from good motives. A very great effort has been made the past year to get these people back into the Gregorian fold — an effort which has been by

no means unsuccessful. Yet a number will probably stay with us. They are somewhat uncertain, but good has been done. If they go back they can never again be blind followers of ceremony, though of course the question arises whether changing their status again for merely worldly reasons will not rather tend to make them merely nominally Christians. If they stay with us after all the inducements that have been held out to them, it will mean that true religion, as we understand it, has gotten a strong hold on them. While less result has appeared than we had hoped, this church is now on the mend, the demoralization of recent years having been arrested. The instrument of this advance is the present acting pastor, Hagope Koondakjian.

"From there we went on to Antioch. Our little congregation here are a trial to us, and I presume they look on me as a dispensation of Providence. Still they have been offered plenty of money, good school, etc., if only they will wholly cut loose from the Board, and they have declined; at least the majority declined. A large slice of the Gregorian community are coquetting with us.

people understand justification by faith. I preached on the Prodigal Son at Antioch, emphasizing the elder brother in the line of Trench's comments on the parable, and was very much surprised when one of our more intelligent members said to me: We supposed until today, when we heard your sermon, that the elder brother was without fault!'

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We had practically daily services which were quite well attended, and on Sunday throngs which could hardly be accommodated. The Sunday before we left we received 103 persons into the church, and about 88 children were baptized. The old quarrels also seem to be a thing of the past. My experience in this country does not allow me to suppose that these quarrels are wholly past, but when they break out again it will be on somewhat different lines. It will not be just the same thing over again.

"The preacher we have is very good - one of the last graduates from Marash. We like him very much. There is a greatly increased desire in Kessab to read the Word, to have school privileges, etc. In fact, there seems very great reason for encouragement, coupled with much anxiety.”

CHANGED CONDITIONS.

PRESIDENT FULLER has been absent from Aintab for a little over a year on account of physical prostration incident to the labors and anxieties of the past few years. He has now returned to Aintab, finding himself so much improved that he speaks of his work as having been "transformed from a weary and oppressive drudgery into a joyful. privilege." Writing September 16, he refers to the contrasts which he finds between the present situation and that of a year or two ago:

"In taking account of the changes

which have occurred during our absence from the field we find that it has been a period of gradual adjustment to new and very difficult conditions on the part of all our people. As a mission it has been necessary to reduce the work sharply to correspond with the reduced appropriations of our Board; schools and churches have been obliged either to suspend their work or to get on with very inadequate means, and very promising opportunities for the enlargement of the work have been in many cases quite neglected for lack of means. The Armenians, as a race, have apparently accepted the situation so savagely forced upon them, and are sadly but diligently setting themselves to the work of gathering up and securing what remains to them after the storm. It is a pitiful thing to contrast the courage, hope, and aspiration which were everywhere observable among them three or four years ago, with the humble, crushed, and impoverished condition which they now generally present. Still the amazing vitality of the race is wonderfully asserting itself, and if even the present degree of privilege which is allowed them could be permanently secured, their condition would soon be very materially improved.

of the good intentions of each other will be held in the future. For the present it seems certain that a substantial basis for future coöperation in many forms of work has been reached. Politically, everything but the deathless love of their race, their name, their history, and their religion seems to be swept away. No thought of national rehabilitation seems to remain, except in connection with their religious faith. In the college and in all our mission schools there are the most marked indications of a very general and intense desire to make the most of their opportunities for education. All departments of our schools are besieged with applicants for admission whom it is often very difficult to turn away, even with the assurance that there is no longer room or means for support. Notwithstanding the great poverty of the people, there is in the college this year a larger number of students, and a larger proportion of them are paying expenses than ever before.

"The hospital is still increasing in efficiency and usefulness, and is filling an increasingly important place in our mission work. As a direct means of meeting some of the direst needs of this suffering people, and as a practical illustration of the gospel which we teach, nothing could be more important and effective. Both college and hospital are being conducted on the most economical basis, and any aid the friends can send us will be applied to meet the most urgent necessities. We have long been laboring under serious embarrassment for lack of sufficient means to carry on our work with the vigor which the circumstances require, and we intend as soon as the stress of the present hard times is a little abated to make an appeal to the friends and patrons of the institution to endow it in a manner more worthy of its past service and more adequate to its splendid opportunities."