speaking, or in pronunciation, like one sees here in the United States between the South and North, and between the East and West. Many of the blacks still cling to their own language.

Summer comes in December, January, and February; and winter in June, July, and August. The warm wind comes from the north, from the equator; the cold winds from the Antarctic regions. The sun is seen to the north. The Polar star can not be seen, but the

Southern Cross shines resplendently in the heavens. Vegetation is green the year around; trees shed their bark, but ever have a heavy, green foliage. Very little frost comes with the coldest weather; in the summer the temperature rises high, but the air is dry and the weather is not so unpleasant as some might suppose. At Christmas all vegetation is throbbing with life. At that season ladies are seen dressed in white, with parasols to ward off the rays of the sun. There is little twilight, darkness setting in soon after sunset. A gentleness of twilight and a lovely afterglow emphasize the departure of day.

It was to this far-off land the church many years ago sent to labor in its interest, Elders Glaud Rodger and C. W. Wandell. These pioneer missionaries performed a great work. They met with some opposition, but meekly spoken of by those who knew

it was borne, and to-day they are well them. Could these early laborers in the vineyard of the Lord see the conferences that now assemble there, the hundreds in the church, the headway being made, what a contrast they could draw between the present and their early days of toil. Some of the children of those who opposed them are now stanch defenders of the faith.

Since those days the church has sent from America, Elders T. W. Smith, J. W. Gillen, J. F. Burton, J. W. Wight, C. A. Butterworth, Gomer R. Wells, Alexander H. Smith, John Kaler, Alma C. Barmore, E. F. Robertson, and J. W. Davis, some of whom are now in this land of the southern seas, laboring and sacrificing for the church. From the Australian ranks, too, have come standard bearers of the

Lord; those now laboring under General Conference appointment being Elders W. J. Haworth and J. H. N. Jones, of the Seventy; John Jones, of the High Priests, and George Lewis of the Bishops; the last named having been appointed by the missionary in charge since last conference.

As a rule one can not hold a series of religious meetings in Australia with the same degree of success, respecting attendance, as in America. Much of the preaching is done on Sundays. But not

ELDERS A. J. CORBETT AND W. J. HAWORTH.

Brethren Haworth and Corbett are active missionaries; also members of the editorial staff of the Gospel Standard. They are here shown as they are about to start on one of their bicycle missionary tours.

infrequently preaching is arranged for through the week and the minister is greeted with from a fair-sized to a large audience; halls, schoolhouses, and churches being used for the services.

At the end of three years, I did not feel that I was in a topsyturvy country. Much of the strangeness that was inspired within me at the first had worn away. I became accustomed to the vegetable, animal, and bird life; to the sun being north of me, the seasons, and my environments.

The Australians were found by me to be generous, very sociable, and given to hospitality.

Experiences in the missionary field there are much the same as

here. There are those who write against us, then refuse to acknowledge their wrong or meet us on the public platform; but our friends are not few; the columns of the press are often open to us; like a trumpet pealing forth its tones the gospel is being heralded through the land and many are rejoicing.

As an instrument to assist in the shedding forth of this light, after I had been in New Zealand about a year, I went to Australia,

and when the time came to say farewell to the people and take my departure from their fair land, tender chords were touched. I thought of the people with whom I had mingled, of their hopes, aspirations, and good, deeds, and rejoiced that my lot was cast with the people of God-then wended my way to Perth, West Australia, and from there started across the Indian Ocean, homeward bound. I would have booked my passage from Australia on a French

boat going to Marseilles, but there was plague in Bombay, where this vessel called, and I was afraid we might become quarantined, and be prevented from landing at Port Said, or in Palestine. This would indeed be a serious disappointment; so I embarked on a large German vessel, the Grosser Kurfurst, and was well pleased in every way with my choice. The service was very good, and a sociability, not of a conventional type, was found among the officers.

Elder Burton was at one time a missionary to
Australia.

The vessel was unusually large, a veritable floating palace. All seemed to enjoy sailing on the sea. There was no doleful sounding of the fog horn dying on the waves. The waters were like a sea of glass, the smoothest I had ever seen, scarcely a ripple for days and days. The shining stars and passing clouds were mirrored in the water; and at night phosphorescent creatures, like dancing stars, would illuminate the sea near the side of the boat as it glided

along. Beautiful were the equatorial sunsets; the sun behind tinted clouds of orange and red sinking to rest beneath an unruffled sheet of gold.

We have seen many flags and what they stand for; we now think of our own flag. It represents union, strength, and liberty. What gladness has been inspired within us when we have seen it in a

foreign port in the midst of other flags floating in the breeze! No comparison sullied it. We saw it not, except to be proud of it. I am glad that I am an American; such pride is not based on any accident of birth, but because I am proud of the Constitution of our country. Our republic is exerting an influence that is causing monarchies to tremble. From every country many are coming to our shores, seeking liberty. To the shelter of the American flag there is a great exodus taking place, of oppressed, but honest people. And whoever comes, it is not long before he becomes an