World-wide Evangelization.. 37 Missionary Impulse and Motive. 43 Missionary Meetings... The Use of a Penny. 134 Recommended Books.. 144, 192, 336, 384, 432, 528, 572 Self-nutrition in Foreign Mission Churches.... Plea for Systematic Giving. AFRICA. Methodist Missions in 1898. A Mission Trip in Angola.. Help Needed for its Missions... Outlook for Protestant Missions..... 355 Mission Work in Madeira Islands... GENERAL. 364 Value of Medical Missionary Work 344 Religion as Related to Governments 372 519 520 Mission to City Children. Our United States Mission Field..... 118 120 122 123 Taking the Benevolent Collections.. 127 List of Missionary Biographies.. Memoir of Rev.Nathan J. Plumb 467, 478 Bishop Cranston and Missionaries at Missionary Exercise for Two Girls.. 515 G. C. Batcheller... J. L. Hurlbut, D.D... 350 C. S. Wing, D.D 352 Wm. F. Anderson, Ph.D 5 Bishop Hartzell... 14 372 Bishop Walden. 26 .383, 478 A. D. Vail, D.D.. 46 399 413 Rev. W. N. Brewster.. 54 JANUARY, 1899. BARONESS VON LANGENAU, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA. [Baroness Von Langenau is a member and a liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She has founded a Children's Home, and has given a fine house in the center of Vienna for a chapel and parsonage.-EDITOR.] THE editor of this magazine having asked me to tell in a few words how I was led to find peace in the blood of Jesus Christ, I declared myself willing to comply with his wish, trusting that this short testimony of mine will tend to glorify the never-wearying mercy and patience of our heavenly Father toward his poor erring children. For eight long years I gave myself up to all sorts of religious and social works, toiling like a slave, hoping thus to earn the forgiveness of my sins, but it only served to make me hard and self-righteous. My own Church had given me a stone when I asked for bread; the superstition and idolatry of the Roman Church repelled me; where could I turn to? But just when the anguish of my soul had become almost intolerable, when life seemed simply unbearable, God in his mercy directed my steps to the small and humble hall where the Vienna Methodists worshiped. There the way of salvation was preached clearly and forcibly; there I heard that Jesus The beginning of my life was very brilliant, spent as it was at different European courts, where my husband represented his sovereign, the Emperor of Austria. My home was a happy one. I en joyed the good things of this world, drinking deeply of its pleasures; yet in the midst of all these gayeties there was a constant void in my heart which nothing could fill. The religious Christ, though willing to save all men, teaching of the Lutheran Church, in which would not save them without their own I had been brought up, had left my heart consent; that we must put ourselves on the unchanged, and no kind of creed, no doc-altar as a willing sacrifice, trust him as our trine, no Church, can satisfy the craving Saviour, and then get up and walk in a new of the soul thirsting for the touch of the life, endowed with strength from above. Saviour's hand. It was not long, however, before the brightness of my life was dimmed. My only child, a lovely and gifted boy, died in my arms; my husband followed him after a few years, and I was left a broken-hearted widow, bowed down with an overwhelming sense of God's wrath-deeply conscious of my worldliness and sinful state, yet not knowing where to find the peace I longed for. I did as I was told. I trusted Jesus, and a new, wonderful peace filled my heart. On this 14th of March, 1890, I vowed to spend the remaining years of my life in my Master's service. I know that he will enable me to keep that vow. The years that followed my conversion were full of persecutions and difficulties; our hall was closed for fifteen months, and everything was done to crush the whole work; but in the spring of 1897 God inclined |