The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-14

istence seven Protestant Missionary So.
cieties, three of which had been work
ing for nearly century, two of these
three being the Society for the Propa-
cation of the Gospel and the Moravian
Missionary Society.
At the present there are 70 Protest
ant Missionary Societies; 81 of these
belong to England, Is belong to Ameri.
ca, nine belong to Germany, nine be-
long to Holland and nine to Scandina-
via. There are also Missionary Socie-
ties in our colonies, Australia, the
Cape, the South Seas and elsewhere,
which are working in hearty co-opera.
ton with the Protestant Missionary So
cieties of Europe or America. Eighty
six years ago 10 male missionaries
were employed in connection with
these Protestant missions, 100 of whom
belonged to the Moravian Missionary
Society; to-day there are 2,400 Euro
pean and Americanmissionar besides
hundreds of native pastors; 1,60O in
India alone, and 900 in the South Seas.
There are $4,000 native catechists, and
many thousands of Sunday-school
teachers. Eighty-six years ago 10000
heather converts were reckoned; at the
present time 1,560,000 converts from
heathenism are computed in connection
with our Christian missions. In the
year 1873 alone, 10000 were added to
the converts of our Christian societies.
Eighty-six years ago 100000 were con-
tributed for Protestant missions; at the
present moment G1,250,000 are con-
tributed-fve times as much as the en-
tire amount contributed by the Roman
Propaganda. England contributes
G700,0 900, and America contributes
E300, 600, Germany and Switzerland
from 100000 to 9150,000. Eighty
six years ago seventy missionary
schools were in existence. At the
present time there are $4,000 mission
airy schools IN existence, with 100000
scholars, many of them high schools,
grammar schools, giving instruction
also to theological students. In India
alone there are $500 missionary
schools. In Madagascar our own soci-
ETY. alone has 784 day-schools with A.
794 scholars. Eghty-six years ago,
there were fifty TRANSACTIONS of the Holy
Scriptures, and about five millions of
copies had been circulated; at the
present moment there are 1926 transla-
tons of the Holy Scriptures into vari-
Gus languages and dialects, and 49,
900, 600 copies of the Scriptures have
been distributed.
Why, scarcely forty years ago-that
is, in 1845-all the English and Ameri-
can missionaries in China assembled in
Hong-Kong, and they numbered
twelve. In Hong-Kong they had six
converts. At the present moment
there are in China 240 Protestant mis-
sionaries, 90 principal missionary sta
tions, 500 out stations and some $4,000
or $4,000 Chinese communicates. In
India alone there are 600 European
missionaries and 430 central stations.
In 1852 the converts in India were 1885,
900; at the present moment there are
400, 900. The increase from 1851 to
1861 was SO per cent; the increase
from 1861 to 1871 was 81 per cent, and
during the last ten years the ratio of
increase has been greater still. The
last two years, especially, have wit
messed an increase almost unparalleled,
partly through the benevolent services
that were rendered in connection with
the famine. At this rate of progress
alone, supposing it to be maintained,
by the close of this century there will be
1000, 900 of Protestant converts in India.