The Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and Abroad. February 1 1888

And these three anti-cyclonic centres from which the clouds and darkness of earth hay% broken away and the rarer air the clear light has poured itself over the world have had this in common—they have been the scenes of great movments of the world's population the Church's relations with which have shaped her destinies and those of the world ; the dispersions of Israel giving us the Jewish [...] Paul to the native tribes in its midst and on its borders instead of becoming a Judas destroying them soul and body to reap the gains of a cruel traffic ; and in the coming confederation of the Empire there will be strong colonial Churches the puissant locks of the Samson strength of the Church of the Realm keeping the Empire Christian. [...] The chief and the great agency which the Church has used in the performance of this duty to which the providence of God has called her in this Empire has been the S.P. [...] He proved the reality of the religion of the converts by contrasting the idleness of a heathen Kaffir with the industry and the whole moral physical and intellectual state of the Christians and desoribed the gradual rooting of the Church in the land by the training of native clergy of whom there were already five. [...] The following is the last report on the male portion of the institution made by the Government Inspector of Schools :— The attendance in the S.P.