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which wa- un-uece-sfnl. Tin- whole country 



north of Sana and llodeida was in open revolt. 



anil I he tribes of the south, with the except inn of 

 apart nf the l>ih:iin;i Arab-, wen- in sympathy 



with the rebel-, lie-enforcement- Were -elit in 



small iletaelinieiits. Kdib I'a-ha. with the garri- 

 son of .~>,IMi() men. was besieged in Sana liy the 

 Sheikh llamed Kddin at tin- head of 80,000 

 armed reln-ls. Kdib I'asha, wlio had I teen ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of pacifying, not light- 

 ing, the Aral)-, was relieved of I he coininand and 

 siiper-eded a- vali liy Fei/y I'asha. Four bat- 

 talion- embarked from Constantinople in steam- 

 er-, and other t fan-ports collected Itedifs at 

 Smyrna. Beirut, and Dageagbatcb sunicieiit to 

 complete twelve l>at lalioiis. The rel>cls retired 

 from before Sana and llodeida on the arrival of 



the Turki-h re-enforcement-. In the t, f 

 of the IJviii Saliar and HOUHCVII tnl.- It. 



trelieln-d lhem--Uc- in the frtlli'<l |OV 



linrntli. Kl rhumb. Kl Ithail, ..nd M..f. i.. Tl.. 

 Turkish commander-in-chief -aid it. 

 not Mippiv-. the reU-llion wilh Ics-. ihan JO.MiO 

 men. llamid Kddin returned to the >; 

 Sana, and demanded as hi* term- of | M -a<-<- ti.ut 

 the whole population sh,,uld U- exempt fr.m 

 taxation for live years, that the exorbitant tuv - 

 hitherto collected should then be reduced, tluit 

 natives should U- selected for judge-, and that a 

 native of the province should be ap| .ninlrd vali. 

 Though no terms of peace were settled, tti- 

 was again raised. After many weeks of inaction 

 the reln-ls again man lied on Sana, and tin- Turks 

 made ready to meet them. 



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UNITARIANS. American rnltarlnn As- 

 soeiatioil. The sixty-sixth annual meeting of 

 the American Unitarian Association was held in 

 Boston. Mass., May 26. The Hon. George 8. Male 

 I iie-id; (1. The treasurer's report showed that 

 272 churches out of the 42(3 churches of the 

 Unitarian societies had contributed to the funds 

 of the association about $54,000. This had all 

 been spent, with the addition of $20,000 from 

 the general fund, in the prosecution of the work 

 of the society. The report of the Hoard of Di- 

 rectors spoke of the increasing breadth, variety, 

 and amount of the work of the association, 

 which now included Hungary and Japan, and 

 extended on the'American continent from Win- 

 nipeg on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on 

 the south. It maintained, warmed. and lighted 

 headquarters in Boston for the Use of the whole 

 denomination : furnished its literature to all who 

 asked for it : supported preaching in college 

 towns; kept in existence about twenty old and 

 feeble societies; aided new societies in all stages 

 of their growth : helped young men to enter the 

 ministry: was engaged in work abroad; main- 

 tained missionary superintendents in the field: 

 helped the social and reformatory societies con- 

 nected with the several parishes; managed a 

 church building fund : and promoted educational 

 and civili/ing work in the South and among the 

 Indian tribes. The association pays ffilM) an- 

 nually toward the support of a church in Buda- 

 I'e-tli, Hungary, and the British and Foreign 

 I'nitaiian Association does the same. This so- 

 ciety had grown steadily in numbers and 

 strength, had gathered five - -ister churches " 

 around it-elf, and had within the year creeled a 

 fine church building. The mission in Japan had 

 resulted in the formation of a Japanese Unita- 

 rian a-soeiation. of which many of the people 

 had Itccome members. Several religion- s u( .i,.. 

 tie- akin to the Unitarian parishes had been 

 gathered, and three Japanese had become preach- 

 ers of the Literal faith. The Montana Indus- 

 trial School among the Crow Indians had fifty- 

 four pupils. Considerable money and a large 

 number of books for work among the colored 

 people, especially at Tuskegee School, had been 

 forwarded during the yean 



National Conference. The fourteenth ses- 

 sion of the National Conference of Unitarian and 

 other Christian churches was held at Saratoga. 

 N. Y.. September 21 to 24. Mr. (ieorge William 

 Curtis presided. The functions of this hmly are 

 purely advisory, but it is affiliated with tne sev- 

 eral special organizations and licnevolent ami 

 missionary enterprises of the Unitarian cln. 

 and receives their report-. Keport- were re- 

 ceived from the council, reviewing the work of 

 the Unitarian churches at large; from the 

 American Unitarian As.-oejation ; from the Wom- 

 en's National Alliance : from local sujK-rintend- 

 ents or conferences on church extension; fn m 

 the Meadville Throlo^irid School. I'a. ; from the 

 Japan Mission; and from the committee of the 

 Conference on Christian Fellowship. The lust 

 committee reported rules for insertion in the by- 

 laws, which were unanimously adopted, direct- 

 ing that "the Fellowship Committee shall in- 

 clude in its scope the extending of fellowship to 

 ministers from other conntrio coming to Amer- 

 ica and de-iring to engage in ministerial work 

 among our Unitarian Churches." and that "no 

 one admitted by the Fellowship Committee shall 

 be entitled to claim insertion in the list of min- 

 isters until after being settled in H me j aii>h or 

 other regular ministerial employment for at 

 least one ytar." The missionary work of the 

 Universalists in Japan was rvcogni/.ed as kin- 

 dred with that of the Unitarians: as.-u ranees of 

 regard and sympathy were eoiive\ d to the inin- 

 i-lers and churches of that denomination. The 

 desire was ex)He--.d for increased acquaintance 

 and closer co-operation with them, and concur- 

 rence was pledged with any arrangements that 

 may be made tor co-o|KTation with the Uni- 

 versalist missionaries or the (iermaii i 

 brethren lalK.ring in Japan. The next n 

 of the conference having been appointed to be 

 held in Chicago during the Exhibition of 1898. 

 a recommendation was made that that se ion U- 

 as far as |N. jble an International Umtarinn 

 Conference, in which the co-o|>cration of all for- 

 eign Unitarian organization- a- w.-i; :.- . f thtwe 

 at home was invited. The liquor -'unn being 

 de I a red by resolution the natin'- chief sourv 

 of crime, chief college of corruption in politic*, 



