Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ernment, but the gifts of missionary societies, charitable organiza-tions, special philanthropic committees, and donations secured throughthe personal efforts of missionaries, have amounted to a goodly andmost effective contribution. These benevolent ministrations have effected very much more thanthe mitigation of physical suffering and the saving of life. The spiri-tual results attained in past visitations, and no doubt to be duly recordedin connection with more recent experiences, have been a vast gain toChris
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ernment, but the gifts of missionary societies, charitable organiza-tions, special philanthropic committees, and donations secured throughthe personal efforts of missionaries, have amounted to a goodly andmost effective contribution. These benevolent ministrations have effected very much more thanthe mitigation of physical suffering and the saving of life. The spiri-tual results attained in past visitations, and no doubt to be duly recordedin connection with more recent experiences, have been a vast gain toChristianity in India. After the great famine of 1876-78 Dr. Cloughbaptized 9606 converts within six months. It was the beginning of 1 The hidian JF/Vw^-j-j, November 5, 1897; The Missionary Herald of the Eng-lish Baptist Missionary Society, January, 1898, p. 21; The Missionary Heraldof the American Board, August, 1898, p. 293; From Month to Month, one of theserial letters of the Church Missionary Society, dated July 18, 1898, p. 3. * The Missionary Record, April, 1895, pp. ai5 bn Oi OJ u W J=d > (J • 03 O °| —> .5 o c 2 < Cfi J£^ O I Wc H c 2 1 Cu ^1 H THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 397 an advance which is now represented by iii churches, 51,878 com-municants, 647 schools, and 11,930 pupils.^ Out of these ministra-tions have sprung flourishing orphanages, asylums,homes for widows and the aged, dispensaries, Years of spiritual plenty . . following years of hospitals, churches, and even thriving missions. physical of the present preachers, evangelists,and teachers in India, when children, were the inmates of orphanages,where they were nourished, trained, and saved from In passing on to China we cannot linger to speak in any detail ofthe philanthropic services rendered, in 1893, by the Presbyterian mission-aries in Laos. Through the bounty of Americanbenevolence, nearly ten thousand dollars were A truly heavenly phe- . nomenon com
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