TIBET is a Buddhist nation, that religion having been introduced into the nation nearly fourteen hundred years ago from western India. It is a religion intermingled with the Bompa faith,—a religion of demons, mysteries, and the grossest idolatry,—and the two popes, as the lamas may be called, employ all the power at their command to preserve it unchanged. The country is oppressed to the verge of ruin by this ecclesiastical system. There are thousands of monasteries, and ten thousands of monks. Eighteen thousand monks live in and around Lhasa, and in some parts of the country every seventh man is a monk, and must be provided for by others. Consequently the poverty of the common people is very great, and the state of morals is deplorable. Tibet has been known as the “sealed nation.” On account of the obstacles to be surmounted and the determined resistance of the Lamaic monks to the introduction of any new religions, it has been thus far impossible to secure a foothold for the gospel. There are several Protestant missions on the Tibetan frontier, and it is hoped that erelong the light will penetrate the spiritual darkness of that unhappy and neglected country.