4 OCTOBER 1902, Page 41

Report of the London Missionary Society, 1901 - 1902. (Alexander and Shepheard.

Is. 6d.)—The directors' Report gives a favourable account of the operations of the Society. Its chief fields of work are China, India, Madagascar (where "the missionaries are no longer the objects of suspicion and mistrust "), South Africa, Polynesia, and New Guinea (where the Society has one hundred and ten native pastors). The only adverse condition is the finan- cial, but that is common to all good works ; the needs of men always outstrip their benevolence.—With this may be mentioned the Report for 1901-1902 of the Medical Mission Auxiliary, one of the agencies of the Church Missionary Society, most useful, and achieving an encouraging success.