COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL MISSIONS

[s. 198] : These are mi ions established by the different churches of England, Scotland and Ireland, primarily for work among the English residents of the colonies and on the continent of Europe, and secondarily, to a ist various evangelical churches in Europe in their own home work. They carry on their work by sending out special mi ionaries, appointing chaplains, a isting in the erection of chapels, giving grants in aid to local churches and organizations, a isting in schools, providing for divine service at army and navy stations, etc. One of their most important lines of work is that of supplying services at the various resorts of summer and winter visitors on the continent of Europe. Almost every prominent resort of tourists has one or more chapels, where there is preaching on the Sabbath by a minister, who is on hand also through the week to render a istance such as a pastor can give in case of need. These stations are in some degree, sometimes entirely, supported by the gifts of those who attend. But it is the rule that some one of these societies is the actual supporter of the services, without which the Sabbath of the traveler would give no opportunity for congenial worship. Another line of work scarcely le important than the so-called regular foreign mi ionary work is that of supporting those evangelical churches that, under great discouragements and amid much opposition, in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Bohemia, and Moravia, are seeking to stem the tide of priestly domination and preach a pure Gospel. Many of them would be not only weakened, but crippled and even overpowered, but for the timely aid received by them from the Christians of Great Britain, largely through the medium of these societies. Many of the foreign mi ionary societies carry on a colonial and continental work of the above description in connection with their work for heathen and Mohammedan lands. Among these are the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the South American Mi ionary Society, the Methodist and Baptist Societies. COLUMBA A settlement in the Transkei dis: trict. Cape Colony, S. Africa; situated about 18 miles S. E. of Butter worth. Station of the UFS (1878), with (1902) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 27 native workers, 18 schools, and 363 communicants. 198