The current Marathi publications, even when not merely that which we you certainly will desire to, all in all use an excellent salutary dictate

Hume enjoys faithful most of her time and stamina, assisted by a worthy and pious female, provides numbered twenty-five boarding people, in addition to several day scholars

113 1854.] BOM BAY. 113 the purpose of face-to-face and you can reviling Christianity ; however these have the ability to had a preliminary-lived existence. T hello are trying to do much to help you diffuse useful information, and also to wreck rely on from inside the common superstitions. C H You Roentgen C H R Age L IG IO You S M Age E T In the G S S C H O-o L S. T w o people had been cougar life acknowledge into mission church through the the season on community, that new spouse away from a local Christian regarding Ahmednuggur, and also the almost every other an earlier people, and off Ahmednuggur. One feminine member has been excluded, plus one suspended. T h elizabeth level of participants is starting to become twenty-four. Four infants was indeed baptized into the season. The fresh educators and state-of-the-art students of your vernacular universities satisfy from the the fresh church getting religious education on 7 o clock each Sabbath morning. T he dominating Marathi service, always went to by on two hundred people, are held an hour after ; and there’s a keen English solution, at which from the 40 individuals are often present, at four regarding the mid-day. T the guy monthly performance into the Marathi is seen because of the native missionary neighborhood into first Friday of each week ; therefore the native brethren consume a sizeable part of the time. T he number obtained at that concert in year is in the 50-several cash. Later in the day of the identical date the newest performance is observed into the English, in connection with the fresh missionaries of your Free Chapel out-of Scotland and others. Toward Thursday night a community prayer appointment try held on the church, which has been continued rather than intermission for many years, that is w ell attended. There are even other each week qualities. Mrs. Hume keeps a few group meetings in times which have lady, where they appear far interested, and one and on students, that is went to of the a significant number. Three day universities having boys, and you can around three to own girls, were sustained, the previous superintended by a smart native sis, plus the second from the an incredibly smart and you will advanced Christian woman, whom devotes much of their unique time to providing religious knowledge in order to the youngsters. The female boarding school, to which Mrs. The latest true blessing off Goodness could have been manifestly onto it, says the’report, and you can good goodly quantity of their prisoners has actually, periodically, been lead, once we believe, in order to a preserving experience with the case. establish around three of one’s large girls is members of the latest chapel.

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114 114 BOMBAY. [Declaration, C O L p O R T A grams Age T H Age P Roentgen Elizabeth S S C O N C L You S IO Letter. T h age Scriptures and you may religious tracts are nevertheless circulated widely by sales. You to definitely colporter has just ran regarding the four hundred and you can fifty miles to the the inside of the nation, and you will brought back more than eighty rupees, new avails of Christian tracts and guides ended up selling on the neighbors. Another went southern area so far as Goa, more than 300 miles, and you can cut back eightyeight rupees. Occasionally, people buy these e-books of the number, at the quicker costs, and you will shopping them by themselves account. Providers away from heathen products will get provides out of Religious tracts from inside the like that, to sell due to their individual earnings. Sometimes nearly the entire stock-in-trade contains the newest prettily got up Christian products of the purpose drive. T the guy undeniable fact that cash is paid for this type of products, implies that there can be an interest in all of them ; and also the career for tract procedures within the Western Asia seems to end up being especially fascinating. Inside the year, a changed and uniform release of your own ent could have been complete into the Bombay Bible Area. On the. Dr. Allen is actually the primary editor. Because the he kept Asia, among the missionaries of your own Chapel Missionary Community features provided his lay, Mr. Hume having rejected this service. One to thousand duplicates from the really works was printed into the people from the objective push when you look at the a regal octavo number of 398 profiles, and you will five-hundred duplicates within the quarto. T the guy entire amount of printing when you look at the year are ten,838,794 users, of which step one,362,000 users was basically of Scriptures; and you may 4,215,five-hundred profiles have been spiritual tracts. Whole number of pages from the beginning is 135,719,747. T h e goal periodical, the Dnyanodaya, that’s however penned after in two days, and contains a circulation nearly comparable to that most of the other Marathi files put together, is believed for exerted an effective and you will happy dictate. Since there is no objective printer ink at the Bombay, Mr. Fairbank are restricted, against their inclinations, in order to invest the majority of their time to secular labors pertaining to the newest push ; in addition to missionaries craving the importance of delivering a beneficial printer ink, and have now yet another preacher to bolster the latest mission. T h ey be it to be peculiarly-important, because of the wants of the feminine boarding college and you can most other universities, and of the female people in the newest chapel and others much more otherwise less connected with the latest goal, plus in view of the newest heritage of the nation and also the standard belief of those, that they shouldn’t be in the place of most women helpers. Mrs. Hume is becoming the actual only real woman connected with the new goal ; plus the condition from her wellness is really as to give they crucial you to she are alleviated for a time. This lady has remained