The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-09-20

"A converted Hindoo is reported to
have said at public meeting in India =" The
very lowest caste in India is the cobbler caste
and it is remarkable that cobbler from Eng
land, William Carey, should bring them the first
tidings of the gospel"
DR.. Adams, of New York, said -
believe that more has been done in geogra
ply, philology and ethnology indirectly BY mis-.
sionaries than by all the royal and national
societies in the world that devote themselves
exclusively to these objects"
The Advance says of the Anti Chris
tian literature which is becoming so abundant
in India that in Lucknow and Cawnpore there
are no less than forty-fve publishing houses
doing this work. One of their publishers re-
ceived $4,000 from a well-to do Mohammedan
to assist in printing the Mohammedan books.
Another issued million of Hindu tracts at the
expense of Hindu prince. One hundred and
three newspapers mostly weeklies, are issued
to abet Paganlsm and Mohammedanism and to
attack Christianity. The native presses, says
Joseph Cook, are exceedingly active They
throw off immense editions of books intended to
defend Paganism and of heather classics motor
lously stained by passages of immoral tendency
sometimes of positive indecency. / went through
Hindu publishing. house at Lucknow which
had just sent an order to London for $25, 900
worth OF printing paper" Well, let it come
L hV SOop0l OIluSS d Sworn. lllS SUR ana Ter
ment is just what is to be expected and is an
augury of good. Any thing is better than the
old utter stagnation of heathenism. And the
Bible is good against them all.
-JAPAN-Rev. DR.. Verbeck, at the
9th annual meeting of the Evangelical Alliance
at Toxic, gave summary of Christian work in
Japan during 1881. There. are 10 British
and American missions, conducted by Is So
cieties, all since 1859. There are 1876 mission
aries at 36 stations, with Ill out-stations SO
organized churches, 10 wholly self supporting
and 80 partially O. The baptized adult con
verts number 3,Sll and the baptized children.
COL. There are 80 boys and mixed schools,
with ,5S4 scholars Is girls schools, with 6O7
scholars SO theological students in theologi-
cal schools. There are 1O1 Sunday Schools.
with 1884 scholars The native ministers num-
Der 80 the unordaned native preachers and
catechists, l24; the colporteurs, 10 mot incud-
ing the numerous colporteurs of the Bible Socie.
ty) and 20 Bible women
Rev. j. M. McComb, a graduate of
Allegheny Theological Seminary, and wife :;
Mrs. Cora e. Williamson, Miss Annie s. Geisng-
er and Miss Lizzie M. Pendleton, sailed from
New York, September 5, to engage in mission
work at Lodiana, India. under the care of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The
Board Is about to send out large number of
missionaries to China and Siam
The seventy-third annual meeting
of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions will be held in Portland Me-,
beginning on Tuesday, October 8.
The Irish Presbyterian Church an
pears to have suffered but little from the dis
turbed state of the country. The licensures
were Ia, or two more than last year, and the
ordinations %, an increase of g. The students
number 3d. the same as in the previous year.
Of the $40 ministers 5l8 attended the late As
sembly, with 3l4 ruling elders.