Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . made known, and itcame to him as acall of God. He married MissLaura E. Carpenter,a teacher in the sem-inary of Granville,O., and with hersailed for Canton inJanuary, were obligedto return on accountof Mrs. C o n d i t shealth in 1865. He was first calledto take charge of theChinese Mission inSan Francisco tem-porarily during theabsence of His wife died in Ohio, Decem-ber, 1866. After laboring in two orthree different pastorates, he was invitedby the Board of Foreign Missions in 1870to engage permanently in the work inSan Fr
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . made known, and itcame to him as acall of God. He married MissLaura E. Carpenter,a teacher in the sem-inary of Granville,O., and with hersailed for Canton inJanuary, were obligedto return on accountof Mrs. C o n d i t shealth in 1865. He was first calledto take charge of theChinese Mission inSan Francisco tem-porarily during theabsence of His wife died in Ohio, Decem-ber, 1866. After laboring in two orthree different pastorates, he was invitedby the Board of Foreign Missions in 1870to engage permanently in the work inSan Francisco. In 1872 he married MissSamantha D. Knox, of Virginia, a gradu-ate and teacher in the female seminary atSteubenville, O. Dr. Condit has been permitted to baptizeover 300 Chinamen, most of whom haveremained faithful until the end. He hasprepared various books for the use of Chinese pupils. His career has been oneto which the word faithfulness is eminentlyappropriate. He is still in principal chargeof the Chinese work on the Pacific Ira M. Condit, REV. JONATHAN WILSON, ,OF THE LAOS MISSION. Jonathan Wilson was born in Beavercounty, Pa., in 1830; graduated at Jeffer-son College in 1851, and at Princeton Theo-logical Seminary in 1856. He was commis-sioned by the Board of Foreign Missions inMay of that year, and labored a short timeamong the Choctaws at Spencer reached Bang-kok, Siam, with hiswife, in June, 1858,and ten years laterhe began his laborsamong the Laos peo-ple of Cheung reaching Siamhe has a been fel-low-worker with hisclassmate, Rev. , were welcomedto Siam by Mattoon,, and Rev. House, M. D.,and their wives, whowere the pioneermissionaries of theBoard in that coun-try. In August,1859, they witnessedthe baptism, by , of Nai Chune,the first Siamese con-vert. In September,1858, they joinedDrs. Mattoon and House in the organiza-tion of Siam Presbytery, and in 18S4, inthe organizatio
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