Jabel el Sufar to the wells of El Mileh. There, in places, the country was full of people and children, and flocks and herds-a rejoicing picture of pastoral existence in all its abounding wealth; while here, in the country of tillage, and towns, and villages, the whole land seemed to lie under a -spell.-Louth's Wanderer in Arabia.

SUCCESS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS..

"The degree

THE North British Review has the following statement. of success obtained by Protestant missions is, we think, considering that their efforts were trifling until within the last sixty years, very encouraging. Wherever heathens have been brought into connection with Christians in the dependent relation of slaves, they have been led to adopt their masters' religion. Thus the liberated populations of the British West Indies are as Christian as any European peasantry. The same is the case with the slaves of the United States and elsewhere. The East Indian colonies of the Dutch contain a large number of nominal, but, we fear, only nominal, Christians. Amboyna, for example, with 5000 inhabitants, is said to be entirely Christian. Celebes and the other Moluccas contain very large numbers who have at least professed Christianity under the direction of the Netherlands Society; and, to judge from the returns made by the missionaries, these numbers are very fast increasing. The Protestant missions in British India are said by late returns to contain about 22,000 communicant members, with probably about 130,000 professed Christians. In China the work is yet in its infancy, and the communicants of the mission are numbered as yet only by units and tens; all the societies together only claim a total of 361 communicants. In the Birmah, the American Baptists return 8000 communicant members, who would represent, according to the Indian scale, a population of nearly 50,000 professed Christians. In South America, the societies return 14,000 communicants, and in Western Africa, 13,154. In Polynesia and New Zealand the native Christians must amount to nearly 200,000. Considering that no force has anywhere been employed in favour of Protestant missions, and that, with the exception of some of the Dutch possessions, Government influence has never given them much assistance, and, in the case of British India, has until lately perseveringly opposed them, we think that these results are as great as could be expected.

"We attach no slight importance to the fact, that the success of missionary enterprise has been so variously distributed. Episcopalians have been permitted to plant Christianity at the head-quarters of the African slave trade, and to raise up a new Christian nation in New Zealand. Presbyterians, Independents, and Methodists, are the founders of the Christianity of Polynesia. Scottish Presbyterians stand in company with American Congregationalists and Presbyterians at the head of the highest kind of intellectual education in India. One of the most successful and interesting missions belongs to the Baptists, who have also taken the lead in forming vernacular literature. While the highest place in missionary honour must be reserved for the Episcopalian Moravian Brotherhood, who, while they have made themselves an apostolic history, have,

as our High Church friends inform us, neglected to continue in its due channel the apostolic succession. Yet, if outward or inward symptoms be any sign, these men have been inoculated with the true primitive virus.

Statistics.

OURS A "GREAT COUNTRY."

THE following table, showing the comparative distances between some of the American and foreign cities, affords a very good idea of the extent of our continent:

THE provisions for high education in the United States are continually growing. The total number of colleges is one hundred and twenty-two. The students exceed twelve thousand. This is exclusive of the high schools, many of which take rank with the best colleges. These, and one hundred and twenty-two colleges, employ more than a thousand professors; and possess extensive laboratories. Nearly three thousand students are honorably dismissed from these colleges annually. Of medical schools, there are about forty. The students exceed five thousand. The professors are not less than two hundred and fifty. The theological schools of the United States number forty-four. The professors number one hundred and twenty-seven. The students vary from thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred. The libraries belonging to these schools contain about two hundred thousand volumes. The law schools of the United States are but sixteen, and the pupils about six hundred. But this gives no fair estimate of the number of young men engaged in the study of the law. It is supposed that between thirty and forty thousand young men are engaged in such studies.

BENEVOLENT EFFORTS IN ENGLAND.

THE London Christian Times gives an extended report of the receipts and expenditures of the principal benevolent associations and societies, whose operations are conducted in London. The various amounts, reduced to dollars and cents, give the following grand result:

NOAH employed many carpenters to aid him in building the Ark; yet though they assisted him in getting a refuge, none of them had any benefit from it. Though helping Noah to be saved, they were lost.

Though Noah's carpenters were all drowned, there are a great many of the same stock now alive; of those who contribute to promote the spiritual good of others, and aid in the upbuilding of the Redeemer's kingdom, but personally neglect the great salvation.

Sabbath school children, who gather in the poor, or contribute their money to send tracts and books to the destitute, or to aid the work of missions, and yet remain unconverted, are like Noah's carpenters.

Teachers in Bible classes and Sabbath schools, who point their pupils to the Lamb of God, but do not lead the way, are like guide-boards that tell the road, but are not travellers on it; or like Noah's carpenters, who built the Ark, and were overwhelmed in the waters that bore it aloft in safety.

Careless parents, who instruct their children and servants, as every parent should, in the great doctrines of the Gospel, yet fail to illustrate these doctrines in their lives, and seek not a personal interest in the blood of Christ, are like Noah's carpenters, and must expect their doom.

Printers, sewers, folders, and binders, engaged in making Bibles and religious books, booksellers and publishers of religious newspapers, who are doing much to increase the knowledge of the Gospel and to save souls, but so many of whom are careless about their own salvation, will have the mortification of knowing that, while their toils have been instrumental of spiritual good to thousands, they were only like pack mules, that carried a load to market without tasting it, or like Noah's carpenters, who built a ship in which they never sailed.

Wealthy and liberal, but unconverted men, who help to build churches. and sustain the institutions of the Gospel, but "who will not come