Christian herald and signs of our times . l work at home and abroad, it findseven its phenomenal facilities hardly adequateto the work, which has now grown to propor-tions beyond all precedent. This should en-courage the liberality of Christian peopleeverywhere, to find that so much can be ac-complished with their aid. The present officersof the Society are Hon. Enoch L. Fancher,, New York, President; Rev. Edward , , Rev. Alexander McLean, ,and Rev. Albert S. Hunt, , Secretaries;William Foulke, Treasurer ; and Caleb T. Rowe,General Agent. Portraits of several of theseg
Christian herald and signs of our times . l work at home and abroad, it findseven its phenomenal facilities hardly adequateto the work, which has now grown to propor-tions beyond all precedent. This should en-courage the liberality of Christian peopleeverywhere, to find that so much can be ac-complished with their aid. The present officersof the Society are Hon. Enoch L. Fancher,, New York, President; Rev. Edward , , Rev. Alexander McLean, ,and Rev. Albert S. Hunt, , Secretaries;William Foulke, Treasurer ; and Caleb T. Rowe,General Agent. Portraits of several of thesegentlemen are published in this issue. On thefirst page is depicted a most interesting scene :Rev. Mr. Bingham dictating the translation ofthe last verse of the Old Testament, on April11, 1890, and so completing his version of theGilbert Islands Bible, begun at Apaiang, in Feb-ruary 1859—a task involving an amount of long-continued energy and devotion difficult to realize. s may 13. 1891. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. 293. THF BIBLE AND THE NEWSPAPER. < ill/.us t Keep Hm streets Glenn The Escape of the Chilian War Vessel—A Child Lost -A Woman in Pris-on Fifty Tears—A Physician*! Midnight Adventure. T REET-CLEANING pledges were circulatedfor signature last week inNew York. The streetsof the city have longbeen notoriouslyfilthy, and there is a pros-pect of their becomingworse, for the Legisla-ture has refused topermit an increaseof the appropriation for cleaning them. Asociety has, in consequence, been organized toaid the Street-Cleaning Bureau. Any personmay become a member by signing the pledgeit has issued, and forwarding it to the offices ofthe Society. In signing the pledge the citizenbinds himself to have the sidewalk in front ofhis own residence swept every morning, not tothrow orange or banana peelings on the side-walk, nor in the gutter, and to scrupulously ob-serve certain city ordinances now commonly dis-regarded. There can be no doubt that if th
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