MELUR

[s. 472] : A village in Madras, India, situated 20 miles N. E. of Madura. Station of the ABCFM (1857) with 1 mi ionary and wife, 31 native workers, 10 outstations, 8 places of worship, 10 Sunday schools, 8 day schools, 1 boarding 1 Young Men’s Christian A ociation, and 119 profe ed Christians. school, MEMIKAN: A village west of Urmia, Persia, on the border of Turkey. At various times mi ionaries from Urmia have been stationed there for work among the mountain Nestor i ans, but the work is usually conducted by the native church and pastor. MENADO A town in Minaha a, the northeastern peninsula of Celebes, Dutch East Indies, noted as a great coffee emporium. From 1830 to 1874 it was the chief seat of the Netherlands Mi ionary Society, which worked with great succe among the heathen Alifures. Difficulties arising from the different languages spoken by the Alifures were overcome by the introduction of the: Malayan language in church and school, and in the peninsula there are now 147,000 Christian Alifures as the result of this mi ion. Lack of money compelled the mi ionaries to enter the service of the state church in 1870, and the Society supports a printing house and a few schools only, the support of pastors, as well as their appointment, resting with the Colonial Government. The I5atavia Committee for the evangelization of the Sangir and Talaut islands use Menado as a supply station for their mi ion. 472