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AS AN AID TO MISSIONARY WORK. The Church Missionary Society has shown wisdom as well as enterprise in adopting the Phonograph as a means of instruction. Some missionaries who went to Tripoli to learn the Hausa language took a Phonograph with them. After having mastered the language they spoke the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments into the Phonograph and sent it home, so that intending mission- aries should, before leaving England, be able to acquire the native pronunciation. It will thus not be necessary for them to proceed to Tripoli for that purpose preparatory to leaving for West Africa. Efficiency is gained at a minimum of expense, and a great saving of time. In Uganda, King Toro, known to his friends as Daudi Kasagama, has been presented by the same Society, with a typewriter, which * has pleased him immensely, and of which he has rapidly made himself an adept. The Church Missionary Society is to be congratulated on its adoption of the latest mechan- ical inventions in furtherance of its own ends .—Fall Mall Gazette. THE DEACON WHO PASSES THE PLATE. By Me. Opwem. Passing the Collection Plate always puts me into a Blue Funk. The anticipation of it sets my nerves on edge, and spoils entirely, for me, the hymn that immediately precedes it. The doing of it is one long nervous trial, and the realization that it is done is a relief unspeakable, and the one thing that smooths out my frazzled feelings and restores my quivering muscles to the normal.