Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . nFounding of the Mission Edinburgh, and in whose behalf Mr. Wellesley C. to Lepers in India and . the East. Bailey, the founder and efficient Secretary and Superintendent, has long labored with assiduous Mr. Bailey, who was originally connected with the Mission Marsden, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers; Reportof the Leprosy Commission in India, 1890-91 ; Report of the Third DecennialMissionary Conference Held at Bombay, 1892-93, vol. i., pp. 96-119; Church 0/Scotland Home and For
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . nFounding of the Mission Edinburgh, and in whose behalf Mr. Wellesley C. to Lepers in India and . the East. Bailey, the founder and efficient Secretary and Superintendent, has long labored with assiduous Mr. Bailey, who was originally connected with the Mission Marsden, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers; Reportof the Leprosy Commission in India, 1890-91 ; Report of the Third DecennialMissionary Conference Held at Bombay, 1892-93, vol. i., pp. 96-119; Church 0/Scotland Home and Foreign Mission Record, October, 1895, June, 1896, September,1897; The Missionary Review of the World, May, 1897, pp. 345-349, and May, 1898,pp. 330-337; Hodder, Conquests of the Cross, vol. iii., pp. 499-510. 1 Without the Camp, January, 1898, pp. 34, 35. 2 Mission to Lepers in India and the East (founded 1874), Wellesley C. Bailey,Esq., Secretary and Superintendent, 17 Greenhill Place, Edinburgh. While the Mission aims to minister to the physical needs, it gives special atten-. u THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 435 of the American Presbyterian Church in the Punjab, as early as 1869had his attention especially drawn to the condition of lepers at theAmbala asylum of that mission. A hearty interest in the victims of thedreadful malady was at once aroused in his mind, and he soon found him-self conscious of a clear call of Providence to a direct service on theirbehalf, a duty which he has discharged with enthusiasm and labored in Ambala for a time, and in 1874 visited Great Britain,where he awakened the desire among Christian friends to organize aspecial work for this neglected class. A society was formed, whichhas been generously supported from the outset. It has grown andflourished and wrought, until it occupies at the present time a uniqueposition of usefulness among the beneficent forces of missions. Its plan of operations is independent, and at the same time coopera-t
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