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Editors will confer a favor by inserting the following announcement.

METHODIST MAGAZINE AND REVIEW
FOR NOVEMBER.

The illustrated articles in this number are: An account of the remarkable missions maintained for over one hundred and fifty years by the Moravians at Labrador; also an account of the Underground Railway, by means of which thousands of slaves escaped to Canada; "Modes of Travel in China," "Peasant Schools in Russia," and Current History in Cartoon, all copiously illustrated. Other articles are: "Our Summer Schools," by Rev. Dr. Carman; "The Simpler Life," an antidote to tuberculosis, by Sir James Grant, M.D., K.C.M.G.; "With Christ at Sea"; "Sweden's Queen"; The Young Man Problem," by Rev. Dr. J. S. Ross, a study of the remarkable life of Quentin Hogg, founder of the London Polytechnic; "In the Streets of Tokio," a story of Japan in war time; Summerwild," an attractive serial, and other stories, make up an interesting number. November and December numbers are offered free to new subscribers. A fine programme for 1906 is announced.

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NOVEMBER, 1905.

MORAVIAN MISSIONS IN LABRADOR.

BY THE EDITOR.

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toric martyrs, John Huss and Jerome of Prague. We will never forget the thrilling interest with which we stood. beside the underground dungeon in the convent at Constance where Huss was imprisoned, in the church in which he was condemned and upon the spot without the walls where he was burned to death.

Amid the bitter persecutions which assailed them the Moravians proved faithful, though fifty thousand of them were driven out of Bohemia and Moravia. They settled in Saxony on the estate of Count Zinzendorf. The Count was born at Dresden two hundred years ago, was possessed of wealth and was the glass of fashion and the mould of form. In visiting one day a picture gallery at Dusseldorf he saw a remarkable painting of the crucifixion, beneath which were

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