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5,519,174 7,902,256 22,058 24,092 88,309 111,982 2,304,318 2,644,170 4,875,454 6,055,425 152,216 212,635
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000, 57,000 of these being in New Mexico and Arizona, among whom are 30,000 Navajos, who have a reservation about the size of Pennsylvania; The chief reservations east of the Mississippi, are in Michigan and Wisconsin, where there are 17,000 Indians, mostly Chippewas, and in New York State, where the descendants of the Iriquois, 5476 in number, live on six reservations under one agent. The reservations in Maine, South Carolina and Florida have onlv a few hundreds of them.— Miss. Rev. At least fifty million of the population of India are regarded by the Hindus as "un touchables.” Frow the point of view of orthodox Hinduism they are outcasts. They are not admitted to the temples, and their very presence is believed to convey pollu tion. They are known as the “deepressed classes.’’ The gospel has been reaching them and many have been received into the Christian Church. Bishop Whitehead, of Madras, writing of them, says: “If a prompt, aggressive and adequate campaign were carried on among them, it would be quite possibfe to gather something like thirty million of them into the Christian Church during the next fifty years, to raise them fhorally, spiritually and socially from the state of degradation and servitude in whiph Hinduism has. kept them for the last two thousand years, and to furnish to the whole people of India, especially to the educated classes, a most powerful wit ness for the truth and power of the Chris tian faith .”—The Christian Work and Evangelist. The Missionary Review contains probably the most remarkable statistics in connection with Protestant missions all over the world that has ever been published. It was com piled by Dr. Louis Meyer, who has hitherto been regarded as the greatest American statistician' on Jewish missions, blit this em braces world-wide missions. The following are among these interesting statistics: 1911. 1912. Home income of for eign missionary so cieties ...................... $25,297,074 $30,404,401
Rev. George Schwab, writing from Me- tet, West Africa, says that on a recent itinerating trip he found twenty-two boys of the mission school who had volunteered to do evangelistic work during the vaca tion, going from place to place, taking neither money nor price, but trusting in God to -provide for their needs. They had been sent out two and two, after the fash ion of the seventy, to eleven districts. But Mr. Schwab adds that he almost regretted their having gone, for their return has brought more prayers that must be un heeded: “When are you going to send someone to take away our shame?” “Fa ther, when are you going to tell us the things of God?” “Where is the man of God you must send us ?” “Build a town for u s! We "must have someone for us to show us the way!” “Just two words, and then go on !” And always the answer has to go back, “None to send! None to send!” The help afforded by these schoolbovs is a factor in the work. Another missionary who has recently returned from Africa says that it is surprising and pathetic to see the respect and attention the older and influential men pay to these boys who are able to read the Word to them and ex plain the vospel. She says: “One little fellow at Alim imitates Mr. Evans, even to the way he raises his hands when pro nouncing the benediction.” Pak Chango of Poong Chun, Korea, is one of the stalwart Christians of his neigh-
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