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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt:...that a proper adjustment... has been made. The League has not lost any time in feeble complaints, but has said, Let us then ' support the weak,' and, to the best of our ability, act on St. Paul's maxim, 'Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.'" There are many dispassionate persons, lay and clerical, in the Church, who are entitled to their conviction that, whatever difficulties now environ the work the Church has undertaken in Mexico, it is yet the most hopeful and most useful of all our foreign Missions. Through the League, those who share in these convictions will now find an opportunity to dispense their offerings, with every assurance that they will reach the objects that may be specified, without any entanglement in, re-entanglement of, other plans and enterprises. It would be well, as it strikes us, if the League could establish its own fiscal agency for this purpose in Mexico. Without any discourtesy to the diocesan authorities, direct aid could thus be ministered to worthy objects, just as, at home, a school or a hospital is aided by direct contribution, and not through the standing committee or diocesan treasurer. This is done every day without offence to anybody, and for the present it seems to be the only way of saving the character and credit of our Church, in this part of its Missionary enterprise. Justly, the Church shall become the scorn of men, if she prove herself unequal to the task of ministering to the spiritual wants of Mexico, because of disagreements about individuals. 0tf)er Warfs of ®t)rtsfenoom. THE REFORMED CHURCH OF BOHEMIA. Among the martyr churches of Europe, none was more cruelly treated or more unsparingly exterminated by the Church of Rome, than were the Reformed Churches of Bohem...