Identifier: reportsofmission1894pres (find matches)
Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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isnative village, the school being entirely supported by the ChineseMissionary Society of New York. Two men from this Missionare engaged as assistant-superintendents in Brooklyn. Twoothers are working in San Ui, China. The local reports speaksof the need of effort on behalf of the wives of Chinamen in MottStreet, of whom there are at least 20. The husbands of theseChinese women seem glad to have American women visit theirhomes and seek the enlightenment of their wives. This wouldseem to open a door of effort which must be self-denying butwhich has good promise of success and of the highest of allrewards. In closing our report it needs only to be added for the encour-agement of all who are laboring for the Chinese in this country,that the experience which has been gathered has already demon-strated the feasibility and success of all efforts to reach thepeople of China through the conversion and enlistment of theircountrymen who are among us, and most of whom return totheir native land.
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MISSIONS IN INDIA. The outlook in India to-day is full of promise. There is notwanting opposition to Christianity, organized, well-defined, per-sistent, but the character of this opposition is rapidly changing.The old faiths are taking on new forms and adopting new meas-ures borrowed from the Christian propaganda. There is now anew Hinduism and a new Islam. Both have changed front forthe purpose of meeting and counteracting the aggressive forceof Christianity, seconded by Western science and literature.Indeed, it is this force from without which has compelled thischange in the old ethnic faiths. One of the most eminentMohammedans in India is quoted by Dr. George Smith in hisrecent lectures on The Conversion of India, as saying : Tome it seems that as a nation and a religion we are dyingout. . . . Unless a miracle of reform occurs we Moham-medans are doomed to extinction, and we shall have deservedour fate. For Gods sake, let the reform take place before it istoo late. Another Mohammed

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