Christian herald and signs of our times . the former capital Shos-hong, having become uninhabitable throughscarcity of water. The new town covers sometwenty square miles ; it has broad avenues, bri-dle and foot-paths and the dwellings are all ofred clay, well-built and thatched, each having aplot of land contiguous. He has also encour-aged the building of many churches and he isthe stanch friend of the missionaries. Moreover,the wife of this Christian kingisherself aChris-tian and an active worker in the church; In strong contrast to this happy condition ofaffairs in Bechuanaland, is the pictu
Christian herald and signs of our times . the former capital Shos-hong, having become uninhabitable throughscarcity of water. The new town covers sometwenty square miles ; it has broad avenues, bri-dle and foot-paths and the dwellings are all ofred clay, well-built and thatched, each having aplot of land contiguous. He has also encour-aged the building of many churches and he isthe stanch friend of the missionaries. Moreover,the wife of this Christian kingisherself aChris-tian and an active worker in the church; In strong contrast to this happy condition ofaffairs in Bechuanaland, is the picture presentedon the first page of a trading caravan near Ben-guella on the west American coast. Thecaravan is composed of Biheans and Bahmdosamong whom the missionaries of the AmericanBoard have been laboring with considerablesuccess, during the last ten years. In the trading caravan are a number of slaves, who ma)be distinguished in the illustration by their abject posture. April 8, 1891. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. 213. THE BIBLE AND THE NEWSPAPER. Kvidence From a Coffin—A Fathers Long Search Tor aDaughter—A Family Quarrel—A Marriage in a Prison—A Skilful Counterfeit Itill—Inspection of Immigrants. N Exhumed Bible was presented as evidencein a law-court in Bos-ton, Mass., last Transcript of thatcity states that theclaimants to a largefortune, part of whichis some valuable realestate in Alabama, havefound long missingevidence, substantiating their title, in a evidence needed was a family record prov-ing their relationship to a milionaire who diedin Boston more than twenty years ago. Theyobtained permission from the court to open thegrave of a member of the family who died in1866, and when that was done they found aBible which was serving as a pillow under thehead of the corpse. On the fly-leaf were en-tries of births, marriages and deaths whichshow their relationship to the deceased mil-lionaire. It is likely to prove a valuable boo
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