INTRODUCTION,. CONTENTS. Origin and Object of the American Board,. Schools and Oral Preaching one in Aim, Difficulty of communicating Christian Truth to Heathen Minds, Education appeals to the Worthiest Motives and Better Classes, Schools remove Ignorance and lay Stable Foundations, Facts and Conversions in the History of the Schools, Influence of the Schools in changing Public Sentiment, Rev. S. B. Fairbank's Plea for Schools, Rev. George Bowen's Plea for Schools,. Rev. Henry Ballantine's Plea for Schools,. Rev. A Hazen's and L. Bissell's Plea for Schools,. Rev. Messrs. Burgess and Wood's Plea for Schools, Rev. S. B. Munger's Plea for Schools, Result of these Pleadings in Boston,. Second Series of Pleadings by all the Missionaries, Commencement and Success of Bombay High-School,. Result of these Second Pleadings in Boston, How did the Deputation effect their Object,. Absolute Authority of the Deputation, . General Meeting at Ahmednuggur, Dr. Anderson's Opening Address, Report committed to Another Chairman and changed, How was the Report accepted, . Votes for the Employment of "Heathen Teachers," Suppression of the Bombay Institution,. 107-119 Tabular View of the Missionaries of the Bombay Mission, Estimate of the Schools by the Missionaries, by the Board, by Europeans, 168–73 Unwise to limit efforts to the Low Castes,. Value of the School at Newase, Huipunt, Ramkrishnapunt, etc.,. 194 Converts from the Seminary-Rama, Vyenkutrao and others,. Change of Policy, disparaging the Schools, Unhappy Results of breaking up the Schools,. Letter from the Mission Secretary to Dr. Anderson, Ordination of Native Pastors,.. Mrs. Wilder's Account of the City, Temples, and Schools,. SCHOOLS OF THE CEYLON MISSION. Description. Origin of the Mission, 283 Lamentations on account of Retrenchment,. Father Spaulding's Lament for the Schools suppressed, MISSIONS AMONG THE ARMENIANS OF TURKEY. Teachers become the first Converts, The Schools provoke Persecution, The Schools an Entering-Wedge, Effective Influence of the Schools, Revival in the Schools in Turkey, INTRODUCTION. MODERN Missions have become a fact and a power in the world. Their results, for the last fifty years, put to shame alike the timid faith of the Church and the scornful predictions of the infidel opposer. A recent vigorous writer in India, with the fruits of Protestant Missions around him there, and looking only at their temporal results, very justly remarks: "We are tired of listening to nonsense about the small results of missionary work, the enormous revenue expended, the inadequate return secured. In the midst of the mighty events now passing over Asia, though every throne is rocking, and every dynasty crumbling into dust, though the Tartar lords are ceasing from the face of the earth, and the great struggle of the North and the South seems rapidly approaching, there is no event more wonderful than the progress of the mission power. Within one poor half-century the unregarded effort of a few fanatics, with a visionary cobbler' at their head, has become the strongest of social levers. If a third of the human race are now in internecine struggle among themselves, it is because a missionary instructed a poor Chinese lad sick in his hospital." This last remark refers to the internal conflict then waging in China, the end of which is not yet. Our writer might have added, if the degraded islanders of the ocean have been raised from their ignorance and pollution and blessed with a written language, and with all the arts and sciences of civilized life, it is the result of missions. If the vast regions of Central Africa are being opened up to the light of science and civilization, it is because missionary zeal impels the explorer. India is the great land of idolaters, and in regard to India, |