Luke, dealing with the <;.ukrene demoniac who was restored to health by Jesu3 Christ, and the subsequent fate of the herd of swine who became pos sessed of the devils, and suddenly rushed down a steep place into the sea and perished i;i the waters. After the narration of this much-discussed episode Mr Yercoe, the

leader of the choir of St. John’s Church, Peel street, of which Mr Macqueeu is the minister, rendered the solo ‘ Out of the deep have I cried unto Thee, 0 Lord.’ Mr Vcrcoe is a gentleman with a fine bass voice, and he sang hia music, accompanied by the organ, in a very effective and resonant style, with no display of gesture or theatrical mannerism, but in a, solid, capable style, of which any Presbyterian might be proud. After the sermon several hymns were sung, Mr Macqueen put on his overcoat, and pronounced the benediction.— ‘Argus.’ ’ THE CHINESE MISSIONS. Cardinal Moran, in the course of a recent address at Sydney, said that there were people who claimed the right to speak about things with which they were not acquainted. In a report published in the ‘ Sydney Morn ing Herald’ Dr Davenport, a medical mis sionary belonging to the London Missionary Society, was reported to have said that the Catholic missions were very successful in China, and he seemed to imply that they were encouraged by slavery, drinking, and opium. Now, in all of that he wished to state that there was not a fact. _ The Catholic Church was proud of her missions in China and her martyrs. He need not tell them that slavery, drunkenness, and opium were not equipments of martyrdom. He feared that Dr Davenport knew as little of the Protestant missions as he seemed to know about the Catholic ones. Dr Davenport had stated that Protestant mis sions had been established in China about seventy years, and that during the first thirty-five years there had been only six communicants, and during the last thirty five years 70,000. It was hard to think that a medical missionary from China did not know what he was talking about. He sup posed that medical missionaries were so much engaged in extracting teeth and in doing other missionary duties that they had not much time to devote to figures. 