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[s. 718] : A town in Cape Colony, Africa, a little south of the Orange River, 56 miles E. of Port NoUoth. Station of the Rhenish Mi ionary Society, with (1903) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 14 native workers, 2 outstations, 2 day schools, 1 Sunday school, and 1,171 profe ed Christians, of whom 375 are communicants. STELLENBOSCH A town in Cape Colony, South Africa, 25 miles by rail east of Cape Town. Population, 3,173. Station of the Rhenish Mi ionary Society, with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and: wives, 1 woman mi ionary, IS native workers, 1 Sunday school, 1 day school, and 2,915 profe ed Christians, of whom 1,260 are com their municants. STERN, Rev. Henry Aaron, D.D. Born in 1820 Died in 1885. His paat Unterreichenbach. rents were zealous and orthodox in the Jewish creed. It was their hope that he might become a doctor, and to that end they sent him to a school at Frankfort. While there he developed a taste for commerce. When seventeen years old he got a situation in Hamburg. While there he used to pa the house of Mr. Moritz, one of the mi ionaries of the London Society for the Jews, who had a gla case by his door in which were open: Hebrew and German books. Through reading these from time to time he became convinced that Christianity was more rational than Judaism. In 1839 he went to London, and one Sunday a young friend suggested they should go to Palestine Place Chapel to see the “apostates.” Dr. McCaul was preaching, and his words impre ed him so much that he began to read the New Testament, which led him to exclaim, “If there be a Savior, it must be Jesus.” Now came the struggle, as he gradually came out of death into life. He had to suffer for Christ’s sake and the Gospel. At last he was baptized, March 15, 1840. For two years he remained in the Operative Jewish Converts’ Institution, when he entered the training college of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews. In 1844 he began mi ionary work at Baghdad, previously being ordained in Jerusalem by Bishop Alexander. His great work in Persia was done by means of long mi ionary journeys, distributing the Scriptures, reaching Jews who had rarely or ever been visited by Christians. Later on his dauntle nature and Christian zeal led him to undertake, dre ed as a native, a most perilous journey throughout Arabia Felix, where his terrible experiences were similar to those of St. Paul as told in II. Cor. xi. 23-27. But his greatest work was that among the Falasha Jews of Aby in i a in 1859, and again in 1862. Owing to political difficulties between England and the King of Aby in i a, the latter 701 determined to vent his rage on Mr. Stern, and for four years and a half kept him and his fellow workers in prison and in chains. Nothing but the mighty power and faithfulne of God could have sustained them during those years of agony and suspense. When Lord Napier of Magdala relieved them, some of his officers brought the captives into a tent, and all knelt down and thanked God for their wonderful deliverance. He then became head of the London Mi ion. In 1881 the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him. His deeply lamented death, in 1885, closed a life of faithful service. STEWART, Robert “Warren: Born March, 1850. Died August 1, 1895. He was accepted by the CMS Committee for service abroad in 1875, and in 1876, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, he was ordained. In the September following his ordination he For several years he was sailed for China. principal of the divinity school at Fuchau, where Chinese evangelists and pastors are Mr. and Mrs. Stewart called forth, trained. almost entirely by their personal influence, a noble band of women from England and Ireland, who worked in the Fu-kien province, in connection with the Cliurch of England Zenana Society. Some years before his death Mr. Stewart left the college and took charge of the interior district of Kucheng; but severe illne drove him home. While at home he supervised the printing of the Romanized edition of the Fu-chau Colloquial New Testament; and in 1891 he was appointed by the CMS to accompany Mr. Eugene Stock to On his return to China, in 1893, he the colonies. was appointed to Ku-cheng city; and he threw himself energetically into the opening of day a form of mi ion work that was very schools His ideal of a native church dear to his heart. was one entirely supported by thn natives; and — This to this end he exerted his potent influence. devoted mi ionary of the Cro was murdered at Hwa-sang. 719