AUSTRALIA. Two sehoolmasters and farmers, who were sent out from England to take (Marge of the eonviet schools, established the first class, in Sydney, March 6, 1812. They soon applied for a missionary and in 1815 Samuel Leigh, the Apostle of Australia. landed and took up the work. Others followed, and wonderful success at tended their labors, often wrought with heroic self-sacrifice and bravery. In 1820 Methodism went to Tasmania, 1822 to the Friendly islands, 1823 to New Zealand. 1835 to the Fiji Islands, 1838 to South Australia, and 1839 to Western Australia. In 1S54 all the Wesleyan Methodist Churches were united in one eonference ( includ ing New Zealand I, and in 1873 those of Tasmania and the South Sea Islands were united with these, making the Australasian Church. The Primitive Methodist and other English Methodist denom inations were also established in Australia, but in 1900-02 these all united with the Wesleyans, making one Methodism in the South Pacific. MissioNs. All the Methodist Churches sus tain extended missionary operation-, but it is impossible here to do justice to their work. A society was gathered in Sierra Leone in 1792, and in 18l1 the Wesleyan Conference sent George Warren as the first missionary to Africa. Churches have been established among both na 1 tives and Europeans. and in 1884 William Tay lor opened up the Congo country. Bishop Hartzell has done much toward co6rdinating the work neer a vast territory with the progress of civilization.
In 1814 Thomas Coke, with six missionaries, founded the first Methodist missions in Asia, 1 which have realized great results in converts, lit, crature, and scholarship. The American Church sent Melville B. Cox to Africa in 1833. and William Butler founded missions in India in 1850. which have recently achieved notable results among the peasants of North India—the natives coming into Christianity faster than they can he eared for. In 1873 Butler also began work in Mexico, where hospitals. schools, and churches have been estab lished. Numerous missions exist in South America. Scandinavia has proved a good soil for Methodism; even Finland has been entered, and Switzerland has several societies. In 1900 the Methodist Episcopal Church made John II. Ain , cent resident Bishop in Europe, where there are already five conferences. Mission work in China has had marvelous success, considering the cir cumstances, where various Methodist bodies are working in harmony. This is eminently true of Japan, thongh here efforts have been made to merge the Methodist denominations into a single i Japanese Church. The Malay country has been entered, and in 1900 missionaries were sent to the Philippine Islands.