Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . king for anything, but not anxious to go away; juststanding and looking, making a most heart-rending appeal from theirexpressive eyes, like an animal in pain. They hang around until told togo away, that the meeting is over. They will then ask, When are yougoing to pass this way again? And we answer, In six months or ayear. And we part—they to their little cheerless huts, where the moraldarkness is greater than the physical; and we to our lodging. I
Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . king for anything, but not anxious to go away; juststanding and looking, making a most heart-rending appeal from theirexpressive eyes, like an animal in pain. They hang around until told togo away, that the meeting is over. They will then ask, When are yougoing to pass this way again? And we answer, In six months or ayear. And we part—they to their little cheerless huts, where the moraldarkness is greater than the physical; and we to our lodging. It isimpossible to throw off the feeling of depression after these and hundreds, working hard for a miserable living, withoutthe comfort of Gods Word. Their life is so hard and forlorn that wefeel tempted to harden our hearts against them. God help us to keep intender sympathy with them, though our hearts bleed and we are help-less! And God help Christendom to see in a vision the man of Chili,burdened, lost, weeping, buried in sin and despair, raising his eyes in themuteness of ignorance, and crying, Come over and help us!. COLOMBIA MISSION. Bogota: the capital of the country; situated on an elevated, plain; 4degrees north latitude; climate temperate; population 120,000; elevationnearly 9,000 feet; occupied as a mission station in 1856; missionaries—Rev. T. H. Candor and Mrs. Candor, Rev. A. R. Miles and Mrs. Miles,Rev. M. W. Graham and Mrs. Graham, and Miss Jessie Scott. Baeranquilla (Bar-ran-keel-ya) : near the northern seaeoast at themouth of the Magdalena River; 12 degrees N.; population 30,000;occupied as a station in May, 1888; missionaries—Rev. W. S. Lee andMrs. Lee, Mrs. E. H. Ladd, Miss Martha B. Hunter, and Miss Florence Medellin: population 50,000; occupied October, 1889; situated ontable-land at an elevation of 5,000 feet, between the two great riversMagdalena and Cauca, ten days north of Bogota; missionaries—Rev. Touzeau and M
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