The First C.M.S. Mission in Eeypt. rs Krusé kindly; but in Upper Egypt, which was frequently visited at the outset by Mr. Lieder, and in the Nile Delta, where Mr.

Miiller spent several weeks in 1828, the people showed themselves ready to receive Scripture portions and tracts when presented to them, though they were too poor to be able to make any payment in return. The Greeks assumed a less favourable attitude, for the Patriarch forbade his people to accept books from the missionaries; and little could be done among the Moslems, for, as one of the workers wrote, in consequence of the law of Islam which punishes with death a Mohammedan who changes his religion, the Moslems regarded the missionaries as ‘men who aimed at their life.’ There was a good deal of timidity, too, among the ‘deeply-benighted Christians’ in Cairo. Services failed to reach them, since their fear of the priests prevented them from attending. Visiting them in their homes was but little more successful, until one of the missionaries studied medicine, and, beginning to practise it, found that a ‘wide door was now opened for the preaching of the Gospel from house to house.’

Educational Work.

Some success also attended the educational work, which was begun in 1828 by the opening of a school which was attended by eighteen pupils; two other schools were soon afterwards set on foot and attracted a few Mohammedan lads; and in 1833 a Seminary for training schoolmasters and catechists was established, which, after an existence of five years, numbered among its students three Copts, two Greeks, three Mohammedans, one Abyssinian and two Protestants, while many Copts and Mohammedans were seeking in vain for admission. The Seminary was remodelled in 1842 so that it might be better adapted to the wants of Copts intended for the ministry, and three of the students were ordained by the Patriarch a year or two later. But the Coptic Institution, as it was now called, did not answer its object, for ‘only the scum of the Church’ were sent to it, and in 1848 it was closed. Some of the day-schools, too, of which at one time or another seven had been opened, were discontinued, and at the end of 1850 the educational work of the Mission was confined to a single school for girls.

Trials and Encouragements.

In reading the record of these years one cannot fail to be