The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . MISS MARY REED,Missionary to the leper colony at Chandag, India. 684 The Illustrated History of MISS ISABELLA of Womans College, Lucknow, India. England and Germany. The story of itsplanting and growth is interesting. The city of Singapore, the. capital ofthe Straits Settlements, is one of the
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . MISS MARY REED,Missionary to the leper colony at Chandag, India. 684 The Illustrated History of MISS ISABELLA of Womans College, Lucknow, India. England and Germany. The story of itsplanting and growth is interesting. The city of Singapore, the. capital ofthe Straits Settlements, is one of the busymarts of Asia, where not only two seas,but two worlds, may be said to the vessels which sail eastward fromIndia or the Indian ocean touch at its har-bor; and it now numbers a Chinese popu-lation of nearly one hundred and fifty thou-sand, and is one of the most thriving Chi-nese settlements in the world. The whitepopulation includes about ten thousandEuropeans and Eurasians,and the remain-ing sixty thousand are of Malay and othernative stock. When Doctor Thoburn,early in the eighties, extended his workeastward to Rangoon, an invitation camefrom Singapore, a thousand miles still fur-ther off, to place a mission there. An ap-peal for unpaid workers he made, whichappeared at home in the Western Chris-tian Advocate, elicited twenty rejoinders,but none of the twent
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