BRODHEAD, August us

[s. 129] : Born at Milford, Pa., May 13, 1831; graduated at Union College, 1855, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1858; ordained May 4 same year; sailed for India, November 7, as a mi ionary of the PN, reaching Calcutta April 4, 1859. At Mainpurie and Fatehgarh he spent nearly twelye years. In 1872 he was transferred to Allah a bad. Dr. Brodhead took a prominent part in the theological training school of the Synod of India, wrote and published valuable treatises in sacred and church history, edited the mi ion magazine published for the use of the native Christians, and a isted in preparing a hymn book for the church and Sunday school, for which he wrote and translated several hymns took an active part in the North Indian Bible and Tract Societies, and the Christian Vernacular Education Society. A succe ion of severe attacks of Ulne compelled him to return home. Died at Bridge ton, N. J., August, 1887.; BROOKE, Graham Wilmot Born at Alders hot, He was preparing to enter: BRITISH SYRIAN MISSION SCHOOLS and Bible Work (1860) In the year 1860 the Druses rose against the Maronites and Greeks in Damascus and the region of the Lebanon and Anti Lebanon, and fearful ma acres resulted. The: condition of the 20,000 widows and orphans who were left aroused the sympathy of Mrs. Bowen Thompson of England, who had spent many years in Syria as the wife of a physician, and was thoroughly acquainted with the country and its peoples. She went to Beirut and opened an industrial where 200 women and children gathered the first week. Schools were established and a training institution opened in Beirut. Within a few years the work spread to other towns and villages in Syria, and schools were attended not only by the children of the Christian denominations, but by Jewe es, Muslims and Druses. Mrs. Bowen Thompson was soon joined by her refuge, sisters, Mi Lloyd, Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Mott. With their aid and that of a small staff of native Bible women the work was well organized before Mrs. Thompson’s death in 1869. The schools of the mi ion extend from Damascus to Tyre. There is a night school of special benefit to Lebanon soldiers, day schools for boys, for girls, for the blind of both sexes, for Muslim girls and for Jewe es. In all, instruction is given in the Bible. Special cla es are held for women, both on week days and on Sun days, and are largely attended. In 1889 the corner-stone of a memorial school building was laid in Baalbec, and a medical work has been established in the same city. A quarterly paper, Daughters of Syria, is published in England in the interest of the schools. There are 4 stations and 19 outstations, 21 England, in 1866. military academy at Woolwich when he became interested in the Mohammedans of North Africa and the seeming impo ibility of informing them of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He gradually reached a deliberate conclusion that it was the his duty to try to reach the Mohammedans of the Sudan, who were then showing the fiercest fanaticism in connection with the outbreak of Mahdism in the region about Khartum, and to teach them how to walk in the light. He studied medicine at St. Thomas’ Hospital and went as an independent mi ionary to Africa, but failed in every attempt to reach the Sudan. He then returned to England and was appointed the same year, December, 1889, as an honorary lay mi ionary of the CMS, in order to be, with the Rev. J. A. Robinson, joint leader of the new Sudan and Upper Niger mi ion. In May, 1890, the expedition went to Africa and by way of the Niger He was principally at into the Western Sudan. Lokoja. There he acquired the Hausa language and labored with energy in preaching, until he was smitten with fever and died at Lokoja, March 5, 1892, in the 26th year of his age. Mr. Brooke was a hero in his calm, steadfast devotion to his mi ion. He felt called to preach in the Sudan, then one of the darkest regions of “But,” as has been said of his deter the earth. mined attempt to obey the call of his Master, was not easy of acce . He tried to “the land He reach it by way of North Africa and failed. Follow tried to enter it by way of the Congo. ing the course of that great river, far into the interior, beyond where foot of mi ionary had yet trod, past large and populous towns unheard of by the civilized world, among nations whose atrocities equaled those of the South Sea cann i- Broiisa Buddhism through untold risks and dangers, he pushed his way onward. But in vain. The Sudan was still barred to him. Finally he discovered that a door of entrance might be found by way of the Niger, and that he could best avail himself of it by joining the Church Mi ionary bals, Society.”How, arrayed in the native dre , which proved so commodious, he and the friends who with him started the Upper Niger Mi ion went about among the people of Lokoja and the country round, how quickly he obtained a mastery of the language, how he won favor among the Mohammeiians as well as heathen, and found ready lisall this has been teners for the Gospel story told in detail in his journals and leaflets, and forms a most deeply interesting and instructive In spite of the many trials which narrative. came upon the mi ion, he was able to record at the end of 1891 that the Word of God had been fully preached over an area equal to that of Hertfordshire, Middle sex, Kent, Surrey, and Hants, and not merely preached, but understood.” Mr. Brooke, besides preaching, found time to — But his translate several tracts into Hausa. life was much like that of David Brainerd, in that the remembrance of its high qualities is the His chief legacy which he left to the Church. was a case where “the highest mental and moral gifts, the prime of life with its vigor and its opportunities, were laid simply and wholly upon the altar of Christ, and this, not as a sacrifice, but as a matter of course.” BROUSA: Capital of the province of the same name, Asiatic Turkey, about 60 miles from Con Population, about 75,000, Mohammedans, Armenians, Greeks, etc. It is finely located at the base of the Bithynian Olympus. Has some mineral springs and is a health resort from Constantinople. It was the capital of the first Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, and the tombs built in their honor are well worthy of a stantinople. visit. Station of the ABCFM (1848), with 1 mi ionary and his wife, 1 mi ionary woman, 15 native workers, 12 chapels, 12 Sunday schools, 13 common schools, 2 high schools, 1 orphanage and ’255 church members. 130