Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . gan in1877, published soon after hisreturn to this country in 1888a volume entitled The OgoweBand. In it the writer pre-sents attractively just such in-formation about Africa asyoung people can use in theirmissionary meetings. One of the elders in thenative church was Adande,who had been a slave in earlylife but had become an ignorant man hewas an ideal Christian whomone could not help loving. He was everywhereknown as Good Old Uncle Adande. Faithfuland true as a man, he was a safe and prudent coun-sellor. He would come to the missi
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . gan in1877, published soon after hisreturn to this country in 1888a volume entitled The OgoweBand. In it the writer pre-sents attractively just such in-formation about Africa asyoung people can use in theirmissionary meetings. One of the elders in thenative church was Adande,who had been a slave in earlylife but had become an ignorant man hewas an ideal Christian whomone could not help loving. He was everywhereknown as Good Old Uncle Adande. Faithfuland true as a man, he was a safe and prudent coun-sellor. He would come to the missionary for instruc-tions and then start out on foot for an itineratingtrip of a few days to tell the people in the villagesand country hamlets about Jesus Christ. The portrait, as well as the pictures on pages 158and 166, are reproduced from the volume by kindconsent of Mr. Reading. In her introductory noteMrs. G. R. Alden heartily recommends the book,which, she says, abounds with charming pen pic-tures as well as deeply interesting literal Good Old Uncle Adande. BABIES IN writer in the Japan Evangelist describes aJapanese Sunday-school which opened with songand prayer and the recitation in concert of the TenCommandments, the Apostles Creed and the Beati-tudes. Then, after another song, the teacherstake their own pupils around them and teach themthe lesson for the day. And now the babies beginto cry. They have been very good as long as theirlittle nurses have been moving around, getting upand down for the singing and reciting, and thesongs have helped to keep them still ; but now,when all settle down to the quiet of the lesson 166 A HERO OF THE STOKEHOLE. [August, hour, the babies most decidedly object. Do youask why the babies are there? Because theirsisters are their nurses and must take care of cannot come to Sunday-school unless theybring them tied on their backs. To the mothersSunday is only a day when the children are at homefrom school, an
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