: TERMS: ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM; SINGLE NUMBERS, TEN CENTS. Postage ten cents a year, payable at this office. RAND, AVERY, & CO., PRINTERS, BOSTON The CORRESPONDENCE of the Missionary Union is conducted by Rev. J. N. MURDOCK, D.D). Letters containing money for the general treasury should be addressed to FREEMAN A. SMITH, Esq., Treasurer. Drafts, Checks, and Postal Money Orders, except for the publications, should be drawn in his favor. Letters relating to the Business De ent of the publications, ing remittances for the MAGAZINE or MACEDONIAN, should be addressed to JAMES M. EDWARDS, Superintendent of Publication!! Address all letters as above, directing to MISSIONARY ROOMS, TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MASS. THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. A monthly periodical of 32 pages, in the interest of Foreign Missions, published by the American Baptist Missionary Union. A full Repository of Missionary Intelligence. Seventy-third year. in The oldest Baptist periodical in America Matter mainly original. Price, $1.00 per copy. Ten copies and upwards, to one address, 75 cents per copy. Ten cents additional each copy for postage, paid at this office. The cheapest periodical published of its size. ver As a special inducement to obtain new subscribers, we offer the following Premiums. For fize new names and $5.50, we will send, postage prepaid, one copy of GAMMELL'S HISTORY OF AMERICAN BAPTIST Missions. For eight new names and $8.80, we will send either “THE JUBILEE VOLUME" of our Missions, or our New MAP OF Asiatic Missions. This is a good way to get a map for the vestry. THE MACEDONIAN AND HELPING HAND. Single copy, 35 cents, with 5 cents for postage ; 4 copies or more, to one address, 25 cents each, with 4 cents each for postage. Both the MAGAZINE and the MACEDONIAN will be sent to pastors for $1.00, with 10 cents for postage. Direct all lettets with orders and remittances for either periodical to JAMES M. EDWARDS, Superintendent of Publications. Mission Rooms, TREMONT TEMPLE, Boston, Jan. 1, 1876. LETTERS FOR MISSIONARIES Can be mailed direct from any Post-Office in the United States, at the following rates per half-ounce : BURMAH, ASSAM, MADRAS, 10 cents, via Brindisi, Southampton, or German Mail. Friends who may prefer to forward their letters through the Missionary Rooms can enclose them, with the postage, in an envelope directed to F. A. SMITH, Treasurer, Tremont Temple, Boston, who will mail them with the official correspondence. THE REVERENCE PAID TO A WHITE ELEPHANT. AMONG the animals which in various countries have been the objects of superstitious veneration, few have ever received the attention accorded in the kingdoms of Siam and Burmah to a white elephant. Such an animal, when he makes his appearance in the forest, is regarded as sacred. No effort is spared to capture him ; and when caught he is housed in regal state, a long train of attendants being allotted to his service. “King of the White Elephants” is considered one of the proudest titles of which the monarchs of these countries can boast; and fierce wars have been waged for the possession of one or more of the beasts. They are looked upon as the symbol of all kingly authority; and to be without one would be taken as an indication of the displeasure of heaven, and a certain omen of disaster. In Ava, especially, the white elephant is held in the highest honor. He bears the title of “lord,” and is ranked next to the king, and before the queen, in dignity. His house is sumptuously decorated, and he has a minister of high rank to superintend his household. When the Burmese enter this house, or when the elephant is led forth into the streets, they prostrate themselves, and do him reverence. The Chinese, the Singhalese, and Asiatics generally, have a great regard for a white elephant, though they do not consider it so sacred an animal, nor do they pay it such almost divine honor, as do the Siamese and Burmese. a REV. ARTHUR R. R. CRAWLEY. IN MEMORIAM. BY REV. W. S. MCKENZIE. On the Basin of Minas, at the head waters of the Bay of Fundy, in the Province of Nova Scotia, is the charming village of Wolfville. To the region of country in which the village is situated, attaches more than ordinary historic significance. It is the |
