Scope for work. Success. Appeal for help. 8. On the whole, in India, Burmah, and Ceylon, there is scope for the greatest variety of talent and an unlimited number of workers. The Hindus, Mahomedans, Buddhists, and Hill tribes all call for special labour to be devoted to them. Workers are needed in English as well as in the vernacular. Preaching, education, visiting, medical missions, work among the women, literary work, Sunday Schools, and other agencies, all must be carried on. Women are needed as much as men, indeed, almost more so; and in the review of the last decade no feature is more striking than the development of woman's work. Men and women of varied qualifications are required. The acutest intellect will find full scope in dealing with such systems as Hinduism and Mahomedanism; but, at the same time, men of ordinary ability will be able to do very good service among the masses of the people; and even amongst the most learned a loving heart will often accomplish more real work than the clearest head. India, like all other lands, must be won more by the heart than by the head; and a man of ordinary intellectual attainments, but with a spirit of faith and love and zeal, will, by God's blessing, accomplish a great and good work in this land. 9. With all the difficulties which we have to encounter in India, Burmah, and Ceylon, the success achieved during the last decade has been very marked. The Protestant Native Christian population has increased from 318,363 to 528,590; and the preparatory work accomplished, which is very important, but which cannot be tabulated, is still better adapted to confirm our confidence in ultimate success than any mere statistics are. 66 66 In the name of the great Conference which has recently met, we urge upon the Churches of Europe and America to do far more than they have yet done for India. We appeal especially to Britain, into whose hands God has in so wondrous a way entrusted this great Indian Empire; and to America, with its energy and wealth, the land of such marvellous growth, and we ask them to come to the help of the Lord against the mighty,"-those mighty giants, Hinduism, Mahomedanism, and Buddhism. We appeal to young men and women, who are strong and have overcome the wicked one," and ask if they will not devote themselves to this great work They will meet, it is true, with many discouragements and trials, and they will find the reality of Mission life different from the romance of it; but we believe we may confidently assert that, among the hundreds of men and women engaged in Missionary labour who were gathered together in the Conference, there were none who regretted that they had given themselves to this cause, or who believed that there was any nobler work to which they could have consecrated their lives. J. MURRAY MITCHELL, M.A., LL.D., G. H. ROUSE, M.A., LL.B., Secretaries, Decennial Missionary Conference. INDEX. ABORIGINAL Tribes, work among, ABUNDANT Work for all, 321. AFTERNOON service, a Sunday School, 48. 422. AHMEDNAGAR, Sunday School in, 51. ALL agencies co-operate, 180, 386. ALOOFNESS from Christianity, 158. CATALOGUE of Christian literature, 384. CENTRAL Missionary Dispensary, 413. CEYLON, Training of Native Agency in, 53. higher education, 326. CHURCH Council in Bengal, 275. CHURCH Constitution, differences, 63. CLAIMS of Mission work to be pressed, 319. CLOSING meeting, 423-429. CLOUGH, J. E., letter from, 53. COLDNESS, causes of, 104. COLEY, H., 174. COLLEGES, Mission, should be endowed, 326. COLPORTAGE, 363, 364, 367, 375. CONFERENCE in 1892, Committee to arrange CONSCIENCE to be aimed at, 179. CONTROVERSY, to be shunned, 26, 27, 29, 230. cautions regarding, 18. CONVERSIONS from Sunday Schools, 52. CONVERTS, Telugu, 309. in Chota Nagpore, 310. from Mission Colleges, 324. CONVICTION of sin, 179. CRUCIFIXION of the flesh needed, 86, 102. DAILY handful of rice, 273. DECADE, the past, progress in, 2. DEPENDENCE of Natives on Europeans, 87, 97. DINDIGUL, Work at, 395. DISCIPLINE in Colleges, 114. DISCUSSIONS, how far desirable, 169, 180, DISPENSARY work in Zenana Mission, 183. at Dindigul, 395. at Agra, 401. Central training, needed, 413. DIVISIONS in the Church, 277. DUFF, Dr., his work, 119, 175. DUTT, G. C., 27, 272. DUTY of contributing, 255. EDIFICATION, CATION, means of, 95. Higher Christian, 111, 162, 324. in Bengal, 145–152. among Mahomedans, 224, 243, Mission should be confined to Christians and low-castes, 177. ENGLISH speaking Hindus, work amongst, 156-181. ENGLISH services for educated natives, 178. spread of, 355. ENTHUSIASM, promotion of, 85-110. need of, 87, 101, 103, 106. ETHERINGTON, W. D., 49, 315. EUROPEAN Community, woman's work in, 197. EUROPEANS, influence of ungodly, 87.105,227. EUROPEAN Control still necessary, 274, 276. EVERY Christian to do something, 272. EXAMINATION of candidates, Telugu, 309. EXAMINATIONS, annual, for native ministers, 61. EXPENDITURE, carefulness in, 213. EXPERIENCE, personal, needed by preachers, DOCTRINAL training of Native Agents,69,79. FAITH, need of, 26. DOWNES, Dr., 179, 244, 411. DRINKING habits, spread of, 431. FAREWELL addresses, 424-429. demand for, to be created, 349. LITTLES, power of, 269. LIVING among the people, 14, 27, 82. LOCAL Education Committees, 328. LOCAL option needed in India, 439. LONDON Institute for medical training of LORD'S-SUPPER, a means of edification, 102. of the people necessary, 345. Low-CASTES, education of, 135, 153, 155. LOWER Classes, among Telugus, 308. LOWER Education, 128-156. LUCAS, J. J., 381. MACKENNA .ACKENNA, A., 81, 279, 325. MADRAS, Scripture teaching in College, 111, success in College, 117. Grant-in-aid rules in, 316. work among Mahomedans in, 235, 249. Tract Society, issues of, 357. MAHOMEDAN elementary schools, 140. 196, 219, 417. training of women assistants, 185, MEDICAL knowledge desirable for all Mis- MEHTER children in schools, 322. MELAS, Christian, 27, 274. METHODS, apostolic and modern, 92. MIKIRS, work among, 312. MILLER, W., 106, 111, 249, 331. MINISTRY, quickening of, 96. MISSION primary schools, 132. MISSION force should be more mobile, 305. MISSIONARY, his life and deportment, 21,402. MISSIONARY Census, 444-449. "MISSIONARY REVIEW," 383. MISSIONARIES, number of, 447. MISTAKES of early Missionaries, 273. MITCHELL, Dr. Murray, 29, 105, 128, 178, 247, 325, 387, 428. MONEY should be given sparingly, 302. MORAL training of native agents, 69. MORAL reading books in schools, 142. MUDGE, J., 107., MUKERJEA, P. M., 80, 277, 331. Music should be taught to native agents, 80. NAGERCOIL, Christian girls' school at, NAGAS, work among, 312. |