Hume provides devoted a lot of their some time strength, aided of the a worthy and you will pious feminine, has numbered twenty-four boarding children, besides a number of day students

113 1854.] BOM BAY. 113 the purpose of contrary and you will reviling Christianity ; however these have got all had a primary-lived existence. T hello are trying to do much so you can diffuse useful information, also to ruin trust within the common superstitions. C H U Roentgen C H Roentgen Elizabeth L IG IO You S Yards Age Elizabeth T Within the Grams S S C H O o L S. T w o individuals was basically acknowledge towards the goal chapel during the year toward profession, you to this new partner off a native Christian away from Ahmednuggur, as well as the other an early people, and additionally regarding Ahmednuggur. One female associate could have been omitted, plus one suspended. T h elizabeth number of players is becoming twenty-four. Five babies were baptized in the seasons. The fresh new coaches and you will complex scholars of your vernacular schools see during the the fresh chapel for spiritual classes from the eight o time clock per Sabbath day. T the guy dominating Marathi services, always went to from the regarding 200 persons, is kept one hour later ; and there is an enthusiastic English provider, from which regarding the 40 people are usually expose, at the five regarding the afternoon. T he month-to-month performance when you look at the Marathi sometimes appears by the indigenous missionary area towards earliest Friday of any month ; and the indigenous brethren invade a sizeable part of the date. T he number collected at this concert in season try in the 50-a couple of bucks. In the evening of the identical big date the newest performance is seen inside the English, concerning the the new missionaries of 100 % free Chapel out of Scotland although some. For the Thursday nights a public prayer appointment try stored from the chapel, that has been proceeded instead of intermission for quite some time, and is w ell attended. There are even several other each week qualities. Mrs. Hume keeps two group meetings into the day with women, in which they look far interested, and another including on the youngsters, that is went to from the a sizeable matter. Three day universities to have boys, and you will three to have girls, had been suffered, the previous superintended of the a smart local sister, together with second of the an incredibly wise and you will excellent Religious woman, which devotes the majority of her time for you to offering religious training so you can the children. The feminine boarding college or university, to which Mrs. The latest true blessing from Goodness has been manifestly about it, claims the’report, and you will a beneficial goodly amount of its inmates enjoys, periodically, already been brought, even as we trust, to a protecting experience in the situation. present about three of your own huge girls is members of this new chapel.

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114 114 BOMBAY. [Statement, C O L-p O R T A grams Elizabeth T H E P Roentgen Elizabeth S S C O N C L You S IO Letter. T h e Scriptures and you can spiritual tracts are released commonly by the marketing. That colporter has just went from the 400 and you will fifty miles to the the within of the pretty Latina ladies country, and you will cut back more eighty rupees, the fresh new avails out of Christian tracts and you may courses offered on the natives. Another went southern as much as Goa, more three hundred kilometers, and you will cut back eightyeight rupees. Oftentimes, persons purchase these types of books from the numbers, during the reduced pricing, and you may merchandising all of them themselves membership. Vendors from heathen e-books usually get provides regarding Religious tracts during the this way, to market due to their individual finances. Possibly nearly the whole stock-in-trade includes the newest prettily had upwards Christian guides of the goal push. T he proven fact that cash is purchased these guides, implies that there was a desire for them ; plus the field to have tract surgery from inside the West Asia appears to getting peculiarly interesting. During the seasons, a changed and you will uniform edition of your own ent could have been completed towards the Bombay Bible Society. Associated with. Dr. Allen is actually the primary publisher. Due to the fact the guy remaining Asia, among missionaries of your own Church Missionary People has provided his lay, Mr. Hume which have refuted this specific service. That thousand copies of this work was indeed printed for the society because of the purpose drive for the a regal octavo amount of 398 pages, and you may five-hundred copies within the quarto. T the guy entire amount of printing from inside the 12 months is actually 10,838,794 pages, where step 1,362,000 profiles was of one’s Scriptures; and you may cuatro,215,five-hundred profiles had been religious tracts. Whole level of pages from the beginning was 135,719,747. T h age mission periodical, the brand new Dnyanodaya, which is still penned immediately after in 2 weeks, and contains a movement almost equivalent to compared to every other Marathi documentation build, is believed for exerted an effective and you may pleased determine. Because there is not any objective printer at Bombay, Mr. Fairbank is restricted, against their tendencies, so you’re able to invest much of their time and energy to secular labors connected with new push ; together with missionaries need the necessity of sending an effective printer, and also have a separate preacher to reinforce the new objective. T h ey be that it is especially-important, because of the wants of the feminine boarding college or university and you can most other colleges, and of the feminine members of the latest church while others significantly more otherwise reduced pertaining to this new objective, and also in view of the brand new tradition of the nation together with standard sentiment of the people, that they should not be versus extra feminine helpers. Mrs. Hume is actually the only real woman related to new purpose ; in addition to condition out-of their unique wellness is really regarding give it crucial one she is going to be alleviated for some time. She has remained