Hume has faithful the majority of her some time electricity, helped by the a worthy and you will pious female, provides designated twenty-five boarding students, and a number of big date students
113 1854.] BOM BAY. 113 the reason for reverse and you can reviling Christianity ; nevertheless these have all got a preliminary-existed lifestyle. T hi do much to help you diffuse useful information, and also to destroy rely on in the common superstitions. C H U Roentgen C H Roentgen Elizabeth L IG IO You S Meters E E T During the G S S C H O-o L S. T w o persons were acknowledge on mission chapel during the entire year into profession, one to brand new partner of an indigenous Religious of Ahmednuggur, plus the other an earlier guy, together with out-of Ahmednuggur. One women member has been excluded, plus one frozen. T h elizabeth amount of players has become twenty-five. Five infants was basically baptized in season. The brand new teachers and you will complex students of vernacular colleges meet on the fresh chapel getting spiritual knowledge at the eight o clock for every single Sabbath morning. T he prominent Marathi provider, constantly went to by regarding the 2 hundred people, is held an hour or so after ; and there’s an English services, where on the 40 individuals usually are establish, on five regarding the day. T the guy monthly concert when you look at the Marathi is observed of the local missionary neighborhood with the basic Tuesday of each and every times ; together with local brethren occupy a considerable part of the date. T the guy matter accumulated at this performance into the season are throughout the fifty-a few cash. Later in the day of the same date the new concert is observed for the English, about the the missionaries of your Free Church out of Scotland and others. To the Thursday night a community prayer appointment was held about church, that has been proceeded as opposed to intermission for many years, which can be w ell attended. There are even many other weekly characteristics. Mrs. Hume provides a couple meetings when you look at the times having women, where they look much interested, and another plus for the children, which is went to because of the a significant number. Three day schools getting boys, and around three to have girls, was in fact suffered, the previous superintended because of the an intelligent local cousin, while the second by the an extremely smart and you will excellent Christian lady, which devotes a lot of their unique time to giving religious tuition to help you the youngsters. The feminine boarding university, to which Mrs. The fresh true blessing out of God might have been manifestly about it, says the’report, and you can a goodly quantity of their inmates has actually, occasionally, already been produced, once we believe, so you’re able to a rescuing knowledge of the fact. establish around three of your large girls was people in the fresh chapel.
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114 114 BOMBAY. [Report, C O L p O Roentgen T A g E T H E P R E S S C O Letter C L You S IO Letter. T h e Scriptures and you will spiritual tracts are released widely because of the purchases. That colporter has just went about four hundred and you will 50 miles towards the inside of the nation, and brought back more eighty rupees, the latest avails out of Christian tracts and instructions ended up selling for the residents. A different went south so far as Goa, more three hundred kilometers, and cut back eightyeight rupees. Occasionally, people pick these e-books by the quantity, within less cost, and you can merchandising them on their own account. Vendors away from heathen e-books have a tendency to get provides of Christian tracts into the like that, to sell due to their individual finances. Sometimes almost the entire stock-in-trade consists of the latest prettily had upwards Religious products of your purpose push. T the guy proven fact that money is paid for such books, implies that there’s an interest in them ; as well as the profession to have region operations in the Western India seems to become peculiarly interesting. Into the seasons, a changed and you will uniform model of the ent has been complete with the Bombay Bible Society. Regarding the. Dr. Allen are the primary publisher. While the he kept Asia, one of many beautiful Taishan women missionaries of one’s Church Missionary Society possess given their lay, Mr. Hume with refused this particular service. That thousand copies of the functions was basically published into the area by objective press for the a regal octavo level of 398 profiles, and you may five hundred duplicates during the quarto. T the guy whole level of printing inside seasons try 10,838,794 profiles, from which step one,362,000 pages was indeed of one’s Scriptures; and you will 4,215,five-hundred users were religious tracts. Whole quantity of pages from the beginning is actually 135,719,747. T h age purpose periodical, this new Dnyanodaya, that’s however typed shortly after in two weeks, and also a stream almost equivalent to that most of the most other Marathi paperwork build, is assumed to have exerted good and pleased dictate. Since there isn’t any mission printer during the Bombay, Mr. Fairbank is constrained, facing his inclinations, to input the majority of their time for you secular labors about the press ; therefore the missionaries craving the necessity of sending an excellent printer, and possess a new preacher to reinforce the fresh new purpose. T h ey feel that it is especially-extremely important, in view of one’s wishes of women boarding school and you can almost every other colleges, and of the feminine members of the church although some a whole lot more otherwise smaller about the brand new purpose, plus look at the brand new tradition of the nation as well as the standard sentiment of the people, which they really should not be instead of a lot more feminine helpers. Mrs. Hume has grown to become truly the only lady related to the brand new goal ; therefore the county out-of their unique wellness is such about provide they crucial one she would be relieved for a time. She has stayed
