Hume have faithful most of their unique some time energy, assisted by the a worthwhile and you will pious feminine, has actually designated twenty-four boarding college students, and a number of date scholars

113 1854.] BOM BAY. 113 the intention of face-to-face and you will reviling Christianity ; nevertheless these have all got a short-existed lifestyle. T hello are trying to do much in order to diffuse useful information, and to ruin count on inside commonplace superstitions. C H You Roentgen C H Roentgen E L IG IO U S Meters Age Age T Within the Grams S S C H O-o L S. T w o individuals were accepted on goal chapel during the the entire year to your occupation, you to this new wife out-of a local Religious out-of Ahmednuggur, and the other an early man, and of Ahmednuggur. One to feminine user could have been excluded, and another frozen. T h elizabeth number of participants became twenty-five. Four infants was in fact baptized during the year. The fresh teachers and you can complex scholars of your vernacular universities satisfy at the fresh new chapel getting spiritual tuition during the 7 o time clock for every Sabbath early morning. T the guy prominent Marathi solution, constantly went to by from the two hundred persons, are held an hour or so later ; and there’s an enthusiastic English solution, at which on the forty persons are often present, at the five in the day. T the guy monthly show inside the Kolumbia naiset Marathi is observed of the indigenous missionary area toward earliest Saturday of each and every week ; and the native brethren consume a significant part of the time. T he matter accumulated at that show during the season is in the 50-a few dollars. Later in the day of the identical go out the concert is seen when you look at the English, concerning the missionaries of the Totally free Chapel regarding Scotland while some. On Thursday night a community prayer fulfilling try held from the chapel, which has been proceeded in place of intermission for quite some time, which is w ell went to. There are even a great many other weekly attributes. Mrs. Hume have a couple group meetings during the day that have people, in which they appear much curious, and another as well as into the pupils, that is went to from the a significant number. Three day schools for boys, and around three to own girls, was sustained, the former superintended because of the a sensible indigenous aunt, and the latter by a very wise and you will expert Religious lady, whom devotes most of their unique time and energy to offering religious instruction in order to the youngsters. The feminine boarding school, to which Mrs. The fresh true blessing out-of God has been manifestly on it, claims the’report, and an effective goodly level of the inmates possess, occasionally, been put, while we trust, so you can a rescuing experience with the outcome. present around three of big girls was members of new church.

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114 114 BOMBAY. [Statement, C O L p O R T A grams Age T H Elizabeth P Roentgen Elizabeth S S C O N C L U S IO Letter. T h e Scriptures and spiritual tracts will still be circulated generally by sale. One colporter recently went regarding 400 and 50 kilometers to your the inside of the nation, and you can cut back over eighty rupees, the fresh new avails out of Religious tracts and you may guides offered towards locals. A unique went southern area so far as Goa, over 3 hundred miles, and brought back eightyeight rupees. In some cases, persons buy such e-books from the numbers, within quicker pricing, and merchandising them on their own membership. Manufacturers out of heathen guides will get offers regarding Christian tracts in this way, to sell due to their individual cash. Sometimes nearly the entire stock in trade includes new prettily got upwards Religious e-books of your own objective drive. T he proven fact that cash is purchased these publications, means that discover an interest in them ; and community having system businesses for the Western Asia appears to getting very fascinating. When you look at the season, a changed and consistent version of one’s ent could have been finished on the Bombay Bible Area. Of. Dr. Allen is actually the principal editor. Due to the fact the guy remaining India, one of many missionaries of the Chapel Missionary Neighborhood has supplied his set, Mr. Hume having rejected this service. You to thousand duplicates of this functions was posted on area because of the mission push from inside the a regal octavo volume of 398 pages, and you will five-hundred duplicates during the quarto. T he whole quantity of print in the 12 months is actually 10,838,794 pages, of which step one,362,000 users was of Scriptures; and you may cuatro,215,five-hundred profiles was in fact spiritual tracts. Whole number of profiles right from the start is actually 135,719,747. T h elizabeth goal periodical, the newest Dnyanodaya, that is however authored once in 2 months, and it has a movement nearly equivalent to that of all the most other Marathi documentation put together, is assumed having exerted a and you may happier influence. As there is no mission printer ink from the Bombay, Mr. Fairbank is actually restricted, against his tendencies, to help you devote the majority of his time and energy to secular labors regarding brand new press ; together with missionaries need the necessity of giving a printer, and then have an alternative preacher to reinforce new mission. T h ey getting that it is peculiarly-essential, in view of one’s wants of your feminine boarding school and you can almost every other universities, as well as the female people in the fresh new church although some even more otherwise faster related to the mission, and in view of the latest culture of the country and the general belief of those, that they should not be without most feminine helpers. Mrs. Hume is now the sole woman linked to brand new goal ; in addition to county regarding their particular health is such as to bring it extremely important you to she is treated for a time. She’s stayed