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sum of thirty cents each for the day were waiting for our baggage, and so lively did they travel that, with but a little start, they kept ahead of us the whole way into Kotchvara. One dooley with six men took Mrs. G., and baby, one man called a bangewala, fastening our lunch and wraps from a bit of bamboo that rested on his shoulder. Like a pair of scales his load hung from his shoulders as he trotted off with a spring.

The rest of us were accommodated with ponies, two of which had been sent us by the kindness of the Rev. J. H. Messmore,

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whole surrounded It was simply an inverted charpoy and cost less than sixty cents.

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Our road lay through the jungle land Iowa Confere

which is called, where dry, the "bhabir," and where
wet, the "tarai," and is a part of that great belt
of forest which skirts the whole of the Himalayas.
Government has encouraged the inhabitants on all sides

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have no living faith in Christ, and be making no effort
to do his will. It is in this broader sense we use the
word when we speak of the progress of Christianity.
The number of Christians at different periods in the
past has been given as follows:

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These 415 millions of Christians in 1880 include all the members of the Protestant, Roman Catholic, Greek, Armenian, Nestorian, Coptic and Abyssinian Churches, and all who claim to believe in the faith of one of these rather than that of any other.

It will be seen that there was an increase of 50 millions during the first 1,000 years; doubling in the next 500 years; doubling again after 300 years, and more than doubling the first 80 years of this century. According to Behm and Wagner, the population of the world in 1880 was as follows:

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These were divided as follows: Christians, 415 millions, of whom 135 millions were Protestants, 195 millions Roman Catholics, 85 millions members of the Eastern Church; Mohammedans, 175 millions; Jews, 8 millions; Pagans (Shintos, Buddhists, Brahmanists, Fetish, etc.), 835 millions..

Christianity was at first considered by the Roman
authorities as a sect of Judaism which needed to be
watched and possibly repressed. During the first three
hundred years there were ten distinct persecutions of
Christians under the following Emperors, and in the
following periods: Nero, A. D., 64; Domitian, 95;
Trajan, 107; Aurelius Antonius, 163; Severus, 201;
Maximinus, 235; Decius, 249; Valerian, 257; Aurelian,
274; Diocletian, 303.

These persecutions did not destroy the Christian
Church. "The united conclusion of Gibbon and Dr.
Lightfoot is that in the middle of the third century, the

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Line under the control or the Christians. IDе dark ages that followed resulted from a reliance upon forms and ceremonies and a neglect of the spiritual claims of the Gospel upon the inner life of the soul.

The reformation under Wiclif and Huss, Luther and Knox in the sixteenth century aroused the Church not to evangelize the world but to seek its own salvation. It was a "Home mission to Christendom." It was a successful struggle against the tyranny and the blighting superstition of the Papacy.

"As a Protestant Foreign Mission the Reformation had only indirect or long delayed results, and for two reasons. The spiritual conflict against so tremendous a power as papal Rome required and received the aid of -(1), Political and civil authority, through which it worked out personal liberty in Europe, but sacrificed or obliterated the duty of every individual Christian to propagate the Gospel; (2), Reason or intellect as a basis of private judgment and necessary for the study of the Bible and elaboration of Divine truth, but this became exaggerated into the intellectual orthodoxy of the seventeenth and the repellent rationalism of the eighteenth century."

It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that the missionary spirit exhibited itself in Protestant Christianity. In 1705 two missionaries went out from Denmark to India. They were Bartholomew Ziegenbalg and Henry Plutschau. In 1721 Hans Egede, a Norwegian pastor went forth as a missionary to Greenland. In 1732 two Moravians, Dober and Nitschmann left Europe as missionaries to St. Thomas in the West Indies. The same year the Moravians sent missionaries to Greenland, in 1734 to the American Indians, in 1786 to the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa. The Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was organized in 1701, but did little mission work in heathen lands until the present century. In the latter part of the eighteenth century the labors of Wesley, Whitfield and others in England spiritualized the Church and started missionaries first to America, and afterward to the East Indies, West Indies, and other lands. The English Baptist Society was organized in 1792.

William Carey, who is called "the first Englishman who was a Foreign Missionary," went from England as a missionary to India in 1793. Before the close of the century there were organized the London Missionary Society (1795); Scottish Missionary Society (1796); Netherlands Missionary Society (1797); English Church

century:

British.-London Societ leyan, 1814; General Bapti Colonial and Continental, Scotland, 1827; Free Presbyterian Church of I terian, 1841; Edinburgh 1 for the Jews, 1842; Primi American Missionary S Church of England, 1847; of Scotland, 1847; Free United Free Methodists, nection, 1860; Universit 1865; China Inland Missi sion to the Santhals, 1868 1878.

American.-American I ary Union, 1814; Methodi Church in Canada, 1824; | 1832; Protestant Episcopa Presbyterian North, 1831 1839; Seventh-Day Bapt Episcopal, 1844; Presbyte Southern Baptist Conven pal, South, 1845; Discipl Christ, 1853; United Pr Presbyterian, 1859; Presb Church of Canada, 1866 1869; Friends, 1869; Chris byterian, 1876; Evangelic tists, 1876; Reformed, Reformed Synod of the S tant, 1878; Baptist Southe Free Methodists, 1881; Tu Continental.-Basle, 18 Paris, 1822; Rhenish, 1828 Berlin, 1836; North Ger 1840; Norwegian, 1842; I Hermannsburg, 1849; St 1855; Ermelo, 1856; Neth Dutch Reformed, 1859; Angarius Union, 1865; Fi Canton de Vaud, 1869; N

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10; Baptist Missio pal, 1819; Methodis Church in America

Free Baptist, 183

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