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24 TH The Brst Reed Organs the Knows ol are ORGANS Sixty-three years nco Jacob Estey Invented tho first "Estey." and from that day to tills tho one purpose of Its builders has lieen ?tin prove m ent. To-day tho Estey Orean leads-In tone qualltv. In mechanical perfection. In durability. Many builders Imitate, none surpass, tho Estey. We sell tho Estey in a KToat variety of stvles and slr.es. Make a specialty or Church. Chapel aud School Organs, and guarantee satisfaction. ItiHHon X, Rotoc cnniu.n n_ buuuvu u uu(VS) juuuiii u niuait uuux l>cpU EF, Smi nnnnh, Ul, | SERMONS! + ? * BY THE ~ $ REV. G. B. STRICKLER, D.D. $ ? $ on $ jj $ Doctrines of Calvin ? $ and other vital subjects $ :j t A TITT* from Pastor jj Suitable Vjlf X for Pastor ** XX t* Now in PRESS of Revell | Price $1.00 Postpaid ? $ All orders must be sent prepaid to a ? REV. H. W. PRATT XX The Decatur Washington, D. C. V . : a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a-fa+a* Chesapeake and Ohio Railway SCENIC ROUTE OF THE EAST. FAST VESTIBULE TRAINS. With Dining Cars and Pullman Sleepers Between New York, Washington, Norfolk and Richmond, and Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis. Direct connections to and from all points West. Two Fast Trains between Richmond and Norfolk. JOHN D. POTTS, W. O. WARTHEN, Gen. Pas. Agent. Dist. Pas. Agent Richmond, Va. A RARE10PP0RTUNITY One month in Cuba. Visiting principal cities, from Havana to Santiago de Cuba. Party will consist of one hundred young women and their ten chaperones. Accompanied by six or more ministers and laymen. All Evangelical Churches represented. Party leaves Richmond, Va., by rail for Havana?returning from Cuba by steamship to New York. Everything first class by sea and land. Special train, Pullmans, Buffett, and on steamer?first cabin. Only six weeks' absence from business. Still vacancies. Party leaves when complete. Total cost.?One hundred and sixty-two dollars. For particulars, address, MISS JANET HAY HOUSTON, 206 S. Fourth Street. Richmond, Vs. BELLS. SUet Alloy Church and School Bells, orsead tm Ceuioaue The C. 8. BELI. CO.. Ulfifbere , o E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS. (Published by Request of Synod of Georgia.) Your Committee on Foreign Missions respectfully reports: By the blessing of our God and to His praise, every department of this great work has made cheering progress during the past year and the outlook was never so bright and promising as it is at this time. Our missionaries in every part of the field were never more hopeful nor more successful nor more afire with the enthusiasm of the faith that sees God in his providence fulfilling His promises. Report from all our stations in the seven countries in which we are prosecuting this great work make mention of such a manifest change in attitude on the part of the people toward our missionaries and their work as gives promise of unprecedented harvest in the near future. The spirit of the Welsh revival passed through India into Korea where during the past year more than a thousand members were added to our churches and tne number of candidates under special instruction was multiplied several fold. One missionary during the first six months of this year examined 1,400 applicants, of whom 273 were baptized and 600 were enrolled as catechumens. Good progress was made in Africa in the face of peculiar difficulties and the prosecution of our missionaries Morrison and Sheppard has turned out to the furtherance of the gospel in that dark continent. Our missionaries in Brazil, while pressing their evangelistic work to the full measure of their resources, have revolutionized the educational system of that great and growing republic and are doing their utmost to provide a native ministry to meet the needs and opportunities of this difficult and exceedingly important field. The Theological Seminary and Cam pinas ana me industrial School at Lavras and the training classes under Mr. Henderlite, in Northern Brazil, are doing splendid work. With new buildings costing |20,000 and a new dormitory costing half that amount the Lavras school will do better work than ever before and especially in supplying students for the seminary. The liberality of the native churches in supporting their own work continues to excite admiration and to Justify yet more generous appropriations for this Held. The improvements recently made in the girls' school at Matamoras and the establishment of a boys' school for training a native ministry for the Mexican people place this mission In far better condition than it has been in hertofore and give promise of results in the future that will gladden the hearts of all who love our Lord and look for his coming. In Cuba our chapels and halls of worship are crowded to their full capacity and the progress of the work is limited i>ui/ uy lue lewneHs or our laDorers. Here, as in Brazil and*Mexico, especial responsibility is imposed and great encouragement is given by the (act that TH. December i, igog. the people have lost confidence in the priests of Rome and are turning to our missionaries for instruction or to infidelity. The arranging of a satisfactory basis of cooperation between the Mission and the native church in Japan, and the subsidence of an anti-foreign spirit which at one time gave some anxiety and the willingness of the masses of the people to hear the Gospel from our missionaries and the recent establishment of a theological training school in Kobe, which is doing excellent work and is full of promise, constitute a message that should give great force to the appeal of our missionaries for a large increase in their number and the better equipment of our work in that exceedingly important field. The many thousands of students pursuing their studies in the universities of Japan, and the dominance of Japan, in all the political and commercial and educational affairs of the Far East seem to warrant the very large claim that Japan leads the Orient. There 13 enough truth in this claim, at the least, to justify and demand our most earnest endeavors to so press our work in that Island Empire as to secure the enthronement of Jesus Christ our Lord in the hearts of the people and in all centers of influence as speedily as possible. China, the greatest mission field in the world, is now passing through so great changes in attitude toward Western learning as constitutes a crisis of opportunity and responsibility, the like of which has never been seen before in the history of this vast empire. The native Church has never before so commanded the respect of the nation as now, nor been so possessed of the evangelistic spirit, nor been more successful in winning to Christ multitudes of those for whom He shed His precious blood. Mr. wrier writes: "As It appears to us, there has never been a time when the prospects here were so encouraging. At our recent communion ninety applicants were examined, of whom twenty-two were baptized. At our morning service our church seating capacity of 350 is crowded and as many more are gathered in the yard to an overflow service." To meet only the most urgent of the calls enforced by these opportunities there will be needed during this present year at least $600,000. The amount received last year by our Executive Committee was $412,156.63, and this was a gain over the previous year of $88,277.99. The amount received from the Synod of Georgia last year was $31,278, about $1.53 per member. This was a gain over the previous year of thitrty-eight cents per member. This is far short of the four dollar per member called for by the missionary platform of our Church. The ' offerings by Presbyterians per member were from Atlanta, $2.04; from Macon, $1.76; from Augusta, $1.50; from Savan nan, ji.03; rrom Cherokee, ninety-two cents; from Athens, eighty-eight cents. Of the thirtyelght churches in our Assembly that gave last year four dollars or more per member, seven are in this