Africa. (See Zulu, West Central, and East Central
Missions.) Items, 192; Wissmann's explora-
tions-The Barotse, Lake Nyasa, 28; Uganda

Bishop Hannington, 69; Congo railway, 107;
Vei tribe Central Africa- Bishop Taylor's
Mission, 108; Commercial Africa, 109; Death
of Bishop Hannington, 125, 150, 171, 190, 241,
247.354: American Baptists on the Congo, 150;
Liquor traffic, 152, 167; Cruelties of heathen-
ism-Transvaal, 152; Mr. Arnot, 189; Uganda,
203, 247, 367, 489; The Congo - Universities
Mission, 232; Temperance in Basuto Land-
Livingstonia Mission, 233, 396; Life in, 313;
Future of South Africa, 415; Free Church
Mission, 500; Another mission steamer- Por-
tuguese on the East Coast, 511; Proposed
railway- Congo Free State, 512; Baptist Mis-
sion burned, 487; Revival on the Congo, 513.
Africa, East Central Mission. Items, 172, 328,
444; capable people, 20; Converts' class-
Kambini, 62; Catechumens-Mongwe, 107;
The converts' class, 144; A revival, 181; Kam-
bini The catechumens, 265; Condensed
sketch, 297; Converts - The school, 346; From
Mongwe and Kambini, 381.
Africa, West Central Mission.

Gleanings, 19;
Items, 43, 84, 369, 414, 444; Portuguese official
-From Bihé, 106; Condensed sketch of, 136;
Visit at Bihé, 142; Roman Catholic influence,
189; An African superstition, 215; Kings
quarreling, 228; Affairs at Bailundu, 348;
Items, 452; Bihé revisited-Bailundu, 508-9.
Almanac, 2, 41, 123, 485.

Annual Survey, 436.

Annual Meeting of the A. B. C. F. M., 411, 412;
From home department report, 460; Report of,
469; Resolutions passed at, 474-477; Reports
of committees, 478-484.

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Articles. Urgent need of men, 8; "In the power
of the Holy Ghost," 8; Our annual foreign
missionary offering - How is it distributed? 10;
Christian civilization a present missionary trust,
10; Condensed sketch of the Madura Mission,
12; Memorandum on religious liberty in
Turkey, 47; Glad tidings in the" Hill Country'
of Japan, 50; Missions in India not a failure,
53; Tenth anniversary of the Kioto training
school, 87; Missionary methods in Japan, 88;
A letter to native pastors in Jaffna, Ceylon, 91;
Rev. Dwight Baldwin, M.D., of the Sandwich
Islands, 92; Condensed sketch of the Ceylon
Mission of the A. B. C. F. M., 93; Sensation-
alism in missions," 129; The jubilee of the Zulu
Mission, 131; The beginnings of the Zulu Mis-
sion, 133; Condensed sketch of the West
Central African Mission, 136; Necessities ver-
sus luxuries, 173; A new peril in Japan, 174;
"Come over and help us " in India, 176; A plea
for helpers, 179; Day of special prayer, 209;
A conference of the Mexican missions of
the American Board, 209; Recent political
changes in Japan, 211; Missions do not pay,"
212; Mrs. Sophia D. Davis, of Japan, 214; An

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African superstition, 215; The city of Chihua-
hua, Mexico, 249; The gospel for the Turks.
I, 250; The welcome of a veteran missionary
to a new recruit, 253; Personal efforts in India,
255; The claims of China upon the Christian
world, 258; Condensed sketch of the Japan
Missions of the A. B. C. F. M., 260; Robert
and Mary Moffat, 290; The gospel for the
Turks. II, 294; The East Central African
Mission, 297; Charles Hutchins. -A memorial,
330; An appeal from the Zulu Mission, 331;
Kev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D., 332; A visit
to Micronesia, 333; What will one hundred
dollars do for the Board? 373; A trust not to
be declined, 375; Progressive Japan, 376; Sir
Monier Williams on the sacred books of the
East, 378; The future of South Africa, 415;
Anatolia college, Western Turkey, 417; The
interdependence of home and foreign missions,
419; Constant factors in the missionary prob-
lem, 425; Missionary comity, 431; Annual sur-
vey, 436; Work of the American Board for the
last three years, 497; National beneficence the
safeguard of national life, 490; Address of
Rev. Dr. Goodwin, 492.

Austrian Mission. Items, 125, 414, 488; Forward
steps, 20; Opposition yielding, 97; A notable
day, 229; A glad day, 509.

Baptists (English), 232.
Baptist Missionary Union, 123, 150, 208, 276, 487.
Bibliographical. Vahl's Missionary Atlas, 70;

Mrs. Murray Mitchell's In Southern India, 112;
Thomson's Through Masai Land, 153; Smith's
Life of William Carey, D.D., 154; Carmina
Sanctorum, 154; Stewart's Liberia: The Amer-
ico-African Republic, 193; Bartlett and Peters's
Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian, 236; Rago-
zin's Story of Chaldæa, 236; Lowe's Medical
Missions, 315; Robert and Mary Moffat, 290;
Marathi Bible Dictionary, 316; Blake's Sound-
ings, 316; Behrend's Socialism and Christianity,
316; Eells's Ten Years of Missionary Work
among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington
Territory, 358; Mombert's Great Lives, 358;
The Kindergarten and the School, 358; Pier-
son's Crisis of Missions, 515; Broomhali's A
Missionary Band, 515; Gordon's Our India
Mission, 514.

Bulgaria. (See European Turkey Mission.)
Items, 4, 6, 45, 127, 487.
Burma, 2, 68.

Ceylon Mission. Items, 230; Heathenism still
powerful, 66; Letter to native pastors, 91;
Condensed sketch of, 93; Oodooville, 301;
Societies of Christian endeavor in, 302; Results,
389; Signs of progress, 456.

China. (See North China, Foochow, Hong Kong,
and Shanse Missions.) Items, 4, 6, 325. 369;
Persecution, 29; Railroads in, 45; Twenty-five
years in Shantung, 109; Claims of, 258; De-
crease of Roman Catholics, 272; Formosa, 399;

Missions in, 441; New Year's visit in, 456; Anti-
foreign riot at Chungking, 513.
China, North Mission. Items, 85, 230, 248, 413;
Domestic life of women, 24; Native preachers,
25; Riot, 126; Peking college, 139; New sta-
tion in Shantung, 185; Lin-Ching-Friendly
people, 186; Lin-Ching, 267; Tientsin - Native
helpers, 269; Kalgan - The Bridgman school,
306; Tungcho-Medical work, 342; A rich
country-The future China, 458; Street-preach-
ing-Sabbath-keeping, 504; From Shantung,

505.

Church Missionary Society, English, 124, 150, 169,
171, 203, 247, 276, 288, 367, 397.

Deaths, 71, 113, 155, 194, 237, 317, 359, 517.
Departures, 33, 71, 194, 277, 317, 358, 401, 461, 516.
Donations, 33, 71, 113, 155, 195, 237, 277, 317, 359.
401, 462, 517.

Eastern Turkey Mission. (See Turkey.)

Editorial Paragraphs, 1, 41, 81, 123, 167, 203, 245,
285, 325, 367, 411.

European Turkey Mission. (See Turkey.)

Financial, 1, 41, 81, 123, 148, 167, 203, 245, 285,

325, 367; Report of special committee, 160;
Summary of Treasurer's report, 446.
Foochow Mission. Item, 1; Progress amid
idolatry, 24; Shao-wu, 225; Hospital burned,
458.

Hong Kong Mission. Baptisms and persecution,
23; Macao, 224; A preaching tour, 390.
Home for missionary children, 124.

Illustrations. Christ for the world-the world
for Christ, 1; A Micronesian village, Marshall
Islands, 39; A scene on Ruk, Micronesia, 40;
Philippopolis, Bulgaria, 44; Wailuku, island of
Maui, Sandwich Islands, 78; Wailing scene at
the death of Keopuolani, 80; Kodi-kanal, on
the Pulney Hills, Southern India, 120; Musical
evangelists in India, 122; Beirût, Syria, with a
portion of Lebanon, 163; A young Syrian
gentleman, 164; The convent of Canobeen,
Mt. Lebanon, 165; A Maronite patriarch, 166;
Ganesh, 199; Ganesh with his eight attendants,
200; The god Puliar, 202; Shimonoseki, Japan,
206; Bishop Hannington, 241; Lions and jack-
als disturbed by hunters, 243; A missionary at
work, 256; Micronesian village, 281; Marshall
Island house, 283; Micronesian islanders at
play, 284; Indian fakir, 321; The iron cage,
322; Indian ox, 323; Rolling fakirs, 324; John
Coleridge Patteson, 363; Island scenery, 364:
A native house, 365; A woman of Melanesia,
366; Church and schoolhouse in South India,
373; Slaves at work in Africa, 407; Brainard,
the first station of the American Board among
the Indians, 409; Kimberly, the centre of the
South African gold-fields, 416; A Chinese
schoolroom, 466; Outdoor preaching in China,
468; Sandwich Island sports, 522; Marquesas
Islanders, 523.

India. (See Madura and Maratha Missions).
Item, 440; Narayan Sheshadri, 29; Missions
in, not a failure, 53; Sights and sounds in, 119;
Travancore Converted Moslem, 153; Mad-
ame Blavatsky, 171; Help needed, 176; Telugu
jubilee, 193; Ganesh, 199; Caste in court, 233;
Secret disciples in, 235; Anti-Christian news-
papers, 246; Personal efforts in, 255; Sacred
men in, 321; What one hundred dollars will do,
373; Sacred books of the East, 378; Child-
marriage, 513.

International Missionary Union, 370.
Italy. Free church, 193.

Japan. Items, 4, 46, 82, 83, 208, 370, 442; A trip
to Fukui, 26; Glad tidings in the Hill Country,
50; Reinforcements needed, 67; Presbyterian
missions, 69; Kioto training school, 87; Mis-
sionary methods in, 88; Saijo-Komatsu, 104;
Sakaide, 105; Opponents of Christianity, 110;
Christian Association hall, 127; Church dedi-
cation at Okayama, 139; Mountain parish, 140;
New peril in, 174; Plea for helpers, 179; Spirit
of the Pilgrim Fathers, 188; Recent political
changes, 211; Additions to the churches -
Upper classes, 227; Passports, 246; Condensed
sketch of, 260; Additions, 266; Statistics, 286,
395; Kochi-Boy with a story, 307; Church
organized, 339; Chautauqua circle - Okayama
church, 341; Progressive Japan, 376; Tour in
Shikoku, 390; Shinto temple-Sakaide and
Marugame, 392; Pilgrim colony in Yezo, 448;
Japanese inquiry- meeting, 450; The Kioto
school, 506; Foreigners in- Cholera in, 514.
Korea, 29, 42, 70.

London Missionary Society, 28, 84, 108, 109, 110,
152, 276.

Madagascar. Treaty with France, 69, 153, 513.
Madura Mission. Items, 5, 150, 288; Condensed
sketch of, 12; Palani-Large accessions, 22;
Opposition - Prejudice yielding, 102; India's
millions, 147; Tirupuvanam, 148; Results, 304 ;
Sciopticon preaching, 343; A converted village,
344; Melur, 345; A zealous pastor, 388; Re-
vival in girls' school, 501; Villages of Periaku-
lam, 503.

Maps. Lagoon of Ruk, 37; Jaffna, Ceylon, 95;
Yezo, now Hokkaido, 448.
Maratha Mission. Sholapur, 223.

Marriages, 33, 71, 155, 236, 317, 400, 462, 517.
Mexico, Northern Mission. Items, 299, 369;

Leaven at work, 18; Conference of the mis-
sions, 209; Chihuahua, 249; Seed bearing fruit,
394.

Mexico, Western Mission. Items, 299; Gross
darkness, 141; Growth, 394.

Micronesia. Items, 5, 6, 43, 205. 443; A year on
Ruk-School opened, 15; The Uman Islet -
Willing people, 17; Gilbert Islands, 57; Two
new islands- Pleasant Island, 59; Ponape, 60;
German annexation, 170; Ruk in 1885, 281;
The Islands of Ruk, 308; The Mortlocks, 310;
Visit to, 333; From Ponape, 451; Ponape-
Spanish occupation, 507; The gospel-boat,
507; Fourth of July on Ponape, 521.
Miscellany. How missionaries grow rich, 31;
Secret disciples in India, 235; The materialism
of the age, 314; Giving made easy, 315; Amal-
gamation, 356; Reorganization of Christian
giving, 399; Traffic in native African girls, 461.
"Morning Star," 43, 281, 287, 289, 333, 339, 486.

Palestine, 312.

Persia, An awakening, 192, 313; Mohammedan
convert, 397.

Polynesia. Gifts in, 4; Fify-five years in Samoa,
110; Eromanga, 112; New Hebrides, 193; Fiji,
193, 234, 314; Persecution at Mare, 234; Bishop
Patteson, 361.

Prayer. Special, 3, 124, 128, 169, 209, 413.
Presbyterian (American) Missions, 85, 109, 205,
313.

Report of special committee on Treasurer's
office, 160; Reports of committees at annual
meeting, 478.
Russia, 231.

Tabular view, 7.

Testimonies to missions, 4, 5, 86, 289.
Turkey. Items, 285; Religious liberty in, 47,
126; Intrusion of Baptists, 127; Robert college,
168; Gospel for the Turks, 250, 294; Missions
in, 438; Taxes, 486.

Turkey, Central Mission. Items, 207, 208, 287;
College, 41, 326, 488; Gifts from Marash, 184;
The girls' college, 301; Hadjin, 328; The women
of Zeitoon, 351; Plain of Issus-Adana, 454;
Hassan Beily-Girls' seminary, 456.
Turkey, Eastern Mission. Items, 84, 149, 248;
Across the Russian border, 64, 223; Hagop of
Byrakdar, 64: Fruit of an old mission, 65;
Bitlis and out-stations-Erzingan, 101, 350;
Mosul- - Van, 184; From Erzroom, 221; The
Molokans, 231; A happy tour, 269; Hindrances
to education-Moosh, 270; Khozloo, 272;
From Harpoot, 349; Favor of officials, 510.
Turkey, European Mission. Items, 327,368, 487;
Joy at Monospitovo, 21; Effects of the war, 63,
Work in war times, 98; The Bulgarian war,
144; The church at Samokov, 145; Friendly
Turks, 182; Service in hospitals, 183; The
political outlook, 217; Spiritual awakening,

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218; Revival at Samokov, 274; Bansko
secution, 352; Christian patriotism, 353; The
political situation, 371; Okol - Bansko - Rus-
sian influence, 382; Bible-work, 383; Cheer
amid uncertainties, 510.

Turkey, Western Mission. Items, 82, 149, 329,
370, 412; Samsoon - Interesting converts, 99;
First sowing at Harpoot, 101; Gedik Pasha-
Smyrna- The Greek work, 146; Trebizond,
147; Visit to Ordoo, 219; Yenije — Gedik
Pasha, 273; Two successful schools, 274; New
pastor at Trebizond-Smyrna, 300; Ordina-
tion at Trebizond, 350; Smyrna- The board-
ing school, 384; Soloz and Yenije, 385; Azizia
-Zilleh, 386; Ordoo - Trebizond, 387; Ana-
tolia college, 417; Zornitza suppressed, 368,
486.

Weekly offerings, 128.

Young People, For. The first year at Ruk, Mi-
cronesia, 37; Keopuolani, Queen and Christian,
77; Sights and sounds in Southern India, 119;
The martyr of Lebanon, 162; Ganesh, the
Hindu Lord of Hosts, 199; Another martyr in
Africa, 241; Ruk in 1885, 281; Sacred men in
India, 321; A Christian knight-errant and hero,
363; "Old Lester," 407; A New Year's Visit in
China, 465; Fourth of July on Ponape, 521.

Zulu Mission. Items, 124, 149, 444; Revivals, 61;
The jubilee, 131; The beginnings of, 133;
Feuds healed, 264; Appeal from, 331; The
"Sugar Rebellion," 347; The Polela district,

453.