SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTelligence.-Advices from Europe are to the 13th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-1000 shipwrights at Hartlepool have struck against a reduction of 7 per cent. in wages.

A Cabinet Council on the 7th decided, it is said, to extend the Bechuana frontier in South Africa, northeast to the Limpopo river, the western frontier to include both banks of the Fish river. This would cut off the Transvaal from a chance of German connection. The English authorities have recently annexed the region on Santa Lucia Bay, in Zululand, and the Transvaal Government is said to be preparing to protest against the proceeding.

The requests from Great Britain and the Continent for space in the International Inventors' Exhibition are much in excess of the available area. The allotment for America will probably be trenched on unless applications are immediately forwarded. The time for receiving applications from the United States has been extended to the 31st inst., but to arrive by that time they should be sent before the 20th.

The London Missionary Society has sent to Earl Derby, Colonial Secretary, a protest against French annexation of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The Society's agent in the Loyalty Islands, which are near New Caledonia, writes that the French authorities have forbidden English missionaries to continue their labors. He has transferred the care of the schools and chapels to native pastors to prevent their seizure by the French.

The Colonial Government of New Zealand has asked the permission of the Home Government to annex the island of Samoa to its jurisdiction.

GERMANY.-A statement has been published that one Luderitz, who established a trading settlement at Angra Pequena, on the west coast of South Africa, and claimed to have purchased the territory from the native chief, prior to the recent extension by the German Government of its rule over it, now claims to have similarly acquired possession of Santa Lucia Bay, on the east coast, which the British authorities have just added to their territory in that quarter. The North German Gazette of Berlin says that no official reports of such purchase by Luderitz have been received; and that a treaty with native chiefs would not insure the validity of such an acquisition with the transfer of sovereign rights. It would require the consent of the Transvaal Government, which has assumed a protectorate over Zululand; and England's claim of the right to confirm treaties made by the Transvaal would also have to be considered. It is said that Prince Bismarck does not encourage Luderitz to expect other than British protection.

In the Congo Conference, the British Ambassador has distributed among the delegates a proposal that the Powers agree that freedom of transit on the Lower Niger shall not include alcohol when traffic in that article is prohibited by the native chiefs. A protocol is under consideration providing that any Power annexing territory in the Congo country shall notify the other Powers concerned in the Conference of the fact, that they may either recognize the protectorate or advance their own claims to the territory. Any Power establishing such protectorate must agree to maintain peace in respect to the rights of nations as to commerce and transit.

FRANCE. Dissension is said to have arisen in the Cabinet on a proposal by the Minister of War to declare war against China. Premier Ferry opposed it on the ground that he had given a formal promise to the English Government that he would not officially

take such action.

A serious revolt, headed by the brother of the King, has occurred at Cambodia. The revolutionists have obtained possession of several French posts, killing the garrisons. The King, who recently submitted to a French "protectorate," declares himself powerless to resist the revolt, and a large force of French troops has been ordered to Saigon.

SPAIN. Several additional earthquake shocks have occurred. At Malaga, although the mortality has been less than in many other places, the panic is extreme. At night people forsake their houses and collect in the gardens in the suburbs. Orders have been issued that vehicles pass slowly through the streets, lest the jarring should cause the buildings to fall. Other towns in the province suffered more than the city. Many villages are in want of food. It is said that 15,000 persons have left Granada. A village called Gueveja has moved bodily down the mountain side a distance of 60 feet, the houses, though damaged, still standing. The former site is marked by a deep semicircular crevasse. An official bulletin states that up to the 8th inst. in the provinces of Granada and Malaga, 1400 persons had been killed, 800 wounded, and 43,000 were homeless. Alhama is to be rebuilt a mile from its present site, the expense to be defrayed by a grant from the Cortes.

The King left Madrid on the 9th for a tour of inspection to the districts which have suffered most severely. He took with him $18,000 raised in London, to distribute to the destitute. His visit, it is hoped, will have a good moral effect in encouraging the suf ferers and lessening panic.

DOMESTIC.-A shock of earthquake was felt on the night of the 2d inst. at and near Frederick City, Md. At Frederick Junction, on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R., the engineer of a train which was passing at the time put on the air-brakes and stopped the train, thinking an accident had occurred. Slight earth tremors were felt near Washington, D. C.

CONGRESS. The Senate has passed a resolution asking of the President a copy of a paper recently filed in the War Department by Gen. Sherman, relating to the policy of the Executive Department of the Confederate States. The House has passed the Inter-State Commerce bill prepared by Reagan of Texas; and a bill making appropriations for the Navy for the re mainder of the current year. The bill appropriating $50,000 for the relief of the destitute Piegan Indians has passed both Houses and is now a law.

Schuyler Colfax died suddenly in a railroad station at Mankato, Minn., on the 13th inst, in his 62d year. He was a native of New York, but removed in boyhood to Indiana. He was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1854 to 1868, and was Speaker of the House from 1863, presiding with marked ability and courtesy during a period of turbulence and bitter party strife. In 1868 he was elected Vice President of the United States, serving with President Grant, After the close of his term he retired from public life..

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A CALL TO A SLUMBERING CHURCH.

BY DR. MURRAY MITCHELL. *

A thousand millions of the human race are still ignorant of the work of Christ! Let us pause for a moment and try to realize the fearful truth. How does it affect us? The shepherd who had

ninety and nine sheep secure within the fold, went sorrowfully in quest of the straying one; how would his heart have been wrung if more than seventy of the flock had been wandering in the paths of the destroyer !

"Give me Thy heart, O Christ, Thy love untold, That I like Thee may pity, like Thee preach!" And the great sorrow is that not only the professing church, but even converted men and women in all our congregations pray so little and give so little and care so little for the propagation of the Gospel in heathen lands. The duty of helping Missions is probably admitted; but it is done coldly the heart responds not to the appeal. It is startling to remember what a depth of darkness may rest on the mind even of a true Christian, in reference to the evangelization of the world. We

all remember the answer of Dr. Ryland to Carey, when he pleaded on behalf of Missions-"Young

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A Call to a Slumbering Church..
Memorial of Titus Coan, continued
Thoughts for the Hour. No. 3
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man, God will convert the heathen in His own time; it is not for you or me to do it." Yet that good man read his Bible and thought he understood and obeyed it. Read the commentary even of John Calvin on the Great Commission, given at the end of St. Matthew's Gospel, and see how deplorably even his mind failed to penetrate to the meaning, or feel the inspiration of the glorious words: "Go into all the world; preach the Gospel to every creature ;" and, "Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world." And the great Luther was on this point as ill-instructed as the great Calvin. "Put not your trust in princes."

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But how deplorable are the consequences of this apathy, not only to the perishing heathen, but to the Church herself! Can an individual live in daily disregard of any one commandment of God and not reap the bitter fruit of disobedience? Surely Can the collective Church do so? Surely no. Deadness, divisions, disputes among Christiansare not these the natural consequences? Is not the Holy Spirit grieved? and, though we cannot still the beatings of Christ's loving heart; do we not arrest the movements even of His wonder-working arm?

Would it not be the noblest apologetic-the most cogent of arguments in defence of the Gospel, were to march forth, as, in the might of her Living in these days of much scepticism, if the church

Head, she easily might do, for the evangelization of the world? Et vera incessu patuit dea, says the Roman poet; "the true divinity stood revealed by her majestic walk." I lately saw in London a pla card headed, "The Dying Creed." I thought I knew of a good many dying creeds in heathendom, and wondered which of them this might be. As I read on I saw that the dying creed was affirmed to be Christianity. Even so, a well known sceptical writer in England has been saying of late that religion itself is dead, and that we have only its ghost still lingering among us. Some men have a pecuculiar faculty for seeing ghosts. But let us show that if religion can in any sense be called a ghost, it is only because we may apply to it the words used in reference to the spirit of Hamlet's father: "We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence, For it is like the air, invulnerable,

And your vain blows malicious mockery." Let, then the Church of Christ go forth, strong in immortal youth, strong in the strength of her risen Lord; let her go forth on her high mission of mercy to the world; let her fixed aim be to obey the command of Jesus, "Preach the Gospel to every creature ;" and then those signal triumphs which have been already granted in the Sandwich Islands, the Society Islands, the Feejee Islands, in Madagascar, at Ongole, in South India and elsewhere, will be repeated all over the world. And then if the gainsayer be not utterly shamed into silence, his paltry cavils will be drowned amid the shout of regenerated and rejoicing millions, when as Cowper says—

"One song employs all nations, and all cry, Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us,' Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round." The grand necessity, then, is that the slumbering mind of the Church be aroused to a far higher state both of thought and emotion in reference to the evangelization of the heathen. Conversion is the work of God; but that of evangelization is ours, even that of evangelizing "" every creature."

INTERESTING scholars to become missionaries is the highest department of our work, and the one most of all neglected. It is not enough to watch among the scholars for an interest in missions. We must watch for the dawn of the missionary spirit, and direct the picked few who manifest it by solemn and careful steps. The missionary spirit steals into the mind at a very tender age. It is too great a thing to come late-it has to bear too much strain to be of hasty growth. Its seed must be in the virgin soil of the heart, and it must mature from the beginning of active growth. The few missionaries whom I have ventured to sound upon this matter have unanimously testified that the call came to them when very young; and I am inclined to place the usual time of impression at about the age of twelve years. This fact gives a new impulse to all the missionary work of the Sabbath-school.-Prof. H. Drummond, at Glasgow.

For Friends' Review. MEMORIAL OF TITUS COAN.

(Continued from page 371.)

On the 17th of April, 1833, the Presbytery of Cayuga county, meeting in Auburn, N. Y., licensed Titus Coan to preach, and he spent his next vacation at Rochester, where he supplied a vacant pulpit. From this place he writes:

May 18th, 1833

"Beloved Father-I joyfully embrace the oppor tunity to send you a line by Heman, who has called on me to-day, on his way to Conn. Hitherto the Lord has blessed me beyond my fondest hopes. I have had health and have succeeded in my studies, and have been brought into the holy ministry under circumstances and prospects which impose peculiar obligations, and call for peculiar gratitude and undivided consecration to the work of the Lord. Ever since I tasted the love of God my heart has been turned towards the benighted heathen, although once I did not suffer myself to indulge a distant hope of laboring among them. I feel poorly quali fied and very unworthy to become a missionary of the Cross, but the heathen are perishing by mil lions every year, and the command of Christ Go ye into all the world,' has been rolling down through 1800 years upon the dull ears of a worldly, unbelieving Church, and somebody must go; there fore, if those who are best qualified will not break away from the endearments of home, and obey the command, others who are willing must take the field against the dark empire of Satan in heathen lands. To me it appears an unspeakable privilege to spend my days in leading the wandering and benighted pagan to the Lamb of God, in pointing him to that bright Morning Star which gilds the sacred page with such glory, and sheds such effulgence on the grave and on the land beyond the flood. Will my dear father pray for me that I may have humility and faith, and be an instrument of honoring my Master in the conversion of souls?"

He resumed his course of study at Auburn, and soon after "came the call to embark in the hazardous Patagonian enterprise."

He had been unanimously appointed by the Prudential Committee a missionary of the American Board, and selected as one of two to go to Patagonia, and explore it, in order to ascertain whether it could be wisely entered as a mission field.

He sought the advice of his preceptors, and the venerable Dr. Richards, speaking for the faculty, assured Mr. Coan of their approval of the proposed mission; that he should be honorably released from the further duties of the Seminary, and that their prayers should go with him. He hastened to Rochester that he might confer with his espoused (Fidelia Church). They had parted but a little while before in the hope of an early reunion, and a nuptial day that should consummate their longpledged vows. But this reunion was unexpected. The letter of the secretary was put into Miss Church's hand in silence. As she read her emo

tions deepened, her tears flowed.

What a change of situation! What an uprooting of long-cherished hopes! The struggle was intense, Soon, however, faith gained the victory. And the memorable answer was given :—“ My dear, you must go."

This was in accordance with his own decision, and there was no longer a doubt to deter him. Brief visits were made in Western New York to bid brothers and friends farewell, and then his face is turned eastward for ordination and embarkation.

His book published in 1880, entitled "Adventures in Patagonia," is a thrilling narrative of the experiences of the two young men among the wild natives of that inhospitable land. Taking passage in a vessel from New York, 8th mo. 16, 1833, they were put off in Eastern Patagonia, and left to share for months the lot of the wandering tribes which took them under their care.

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Titus Coan had adopted from firm conviction the principles of peace, and declined to take any weapon for defence. The first act of the natives on finding them was to search their clothing thoroughly, and on finding no weapons, they spared them and treated them with confidence. dition from England had been previously sent on the same errand for which they went, but taking weapons they fell a prey to the savages. When they had spent sufficient time to acquaint themselves with the country and people, Titus Coan and his companion found an opportunity to get on board a passing vessel, and after nine months' absence returned in safety.

He was soon after appointed to the Sandwich Island Mission-the field of his choice. On the 3d of 11th mo., 1834, he was united in marriage to Fidelia Church, and soon after wrote from Boston: "Dec. 3, 1834. We have now been here nearly two weeks waiting for the ship to be ready. We hope to go to morrow. Twelve missionaries sailed to-day for South-eastern Africa. There are eight of our number, making twenty in all who met in this city at the same time. We received our instructions together on Sunday evening, the 23d of Nov., in Park St. Church. The meeting was crowded, solemn and impressive. The people of Boston take a deep interest in the cause of missions, and are very hospitable to missionaries."

A picture of their voyage is given in the following letter to his brother:

"Ship Hellespont. At Sea, Jan. 27, 1835. "We have been almost two months on the great and wide sea, on which are things innumerable, and yet we have hardly seen a living thing beneath, around, or above us since our embarkation. You have learned that we left Boston on the 5th of December. It was a day of deep interest. A large company of friends collected on the wharf to witness our embarkation, and to unite in one last prayer and one final song of praise with us, until we bow around the throne of our Common Father and mingle our voices with the great multitude, whose notes are like 'many waters and like mighty thunderings.' As the sails of our gallant ship were

unfurled to the breeze, and we glided down the smooth bay, and as we exchanged the last signals of adieus with weeping friends, and gazed upon the city, the temples, and hills of the Pilgrims as they faded in the distance, we thought and felt and wept. But we were not sad. Oh, no! though our emotions were tender and strong,-they were joyful. Our Master left a better country for our sake, and his example and the pledges of his presence and fellowship were enough to cheer us. Our ship is 128 feet long, 28 feet wide and 18 feet deep. We missionaries have four temporary rooms, 6 feet by 5 feet, built directly in front of the steerage, and into these rooms we entered 'two and two. Our rooms are lighted only by one solid piece of glass, 6 inches by 2 inches, set in the deck over our heads. We have two chests, four trunks, a medicine chest, and writing-desk, several bags, bundles, boxes, etc.; a looking-glass, some bookshelves, a chair, a lamp, a pitcher suspended in a cot like a swallow's nest, a berth, garments hung around the walls, etc. What a little creature man is! and what an insignificant space in God's universe he needs to put himself in. I had forgotten to tell you that our little room contained as happy a husband and wife as ever shone in a palace, and besides we often get parents and brothers and sisters and multitudes of dear ones with us, and there is room enough for them all; and sometimes our hearts grow and enlarge, and we feel that we could entertain all the Church militant and the Church triumphant, with our Elder Brother, in this little apartment. Capt. Henry is very kind, and does all he can to make us comfortable. She is a temperance ship. The Captain allows preaching on the Sabbath, and the distribution of tracts, but no personal conversation with the sailors. In the mission family we have prayers morning and evening, and a Bible class exercise twice a week. The first two or three weeks of our voyage were dreadfully boisterous -a violent storm raged almost without intermission. The wind howled and the sea roared and foamed, and rolled its angry billows to the clouds. Our ship is heavily laden, and every wave seemed to sweep over her like a log. She labored and creaked and groaned as if in the agonies of dissolution. But what was worse than this, we found that her decks leaked, and during the whole storm the cabin and all our rooms were constantly drenched,-even our beds were insecure; but we were obliged to sleep in them wet, with the water dripping in our faces. There was no remedy; to calk was impossible, and every seaman was at his wits' end to manage the ship and keep her above water. For two or three days all our company were sea-sick and unable to rise or to help one another. But out of all these troubles the Lord delivered us, and we are now in good health and pursuing our voyage prosperously."

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After a voyage of six months he writes:

"Honolulu, June 26th, 1835. My eyes at last behold these Isles afar off," and my feet tread on these long-desired shores. But I would here first record the goodness of God in guiding us through