Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . e impenetrability of the caste system,that on his return to France he expressedhis despair of the human possibility of theconversion of the natives of India to Chris-tianity. Reviewing the new translation ofthe Abbess book, in which the translatorclaims that the facts justify that gloomyforecast, the London Spectator dissents fromthe conclusion and adds: Slow as the progress of Christianity has been throughoutthis century, we are convinced that the manwho wrote so despairingly of its future in1823 would be surprised with its results to-day. Aga
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . e impenetrability of the caste system,that on his return to France he expressedhis despair of the human possibility of theconversion of the natives of India to Chris-tianity. Reviewing the new translation ofthe Abbess book, in which the translatorclaims that the facts justify that gloomyforecast, the London Spectator dissents fromthe conclusion and adds: Slow as the progress of Christianity has been throughoutthis century, we are convinced that the manwho wrote so despairingly of its future in1823 would be surprised with its results to-day. Against obstacles which are fargreater than they were in the Roman Em-pire, because more deeply rooted in the lifeof the common people, the rate of the Chris-tian increase has been greater in India thiscentury than during the first centuries ofthe Church. DEATH OF THE REV. SAMUELW. DUNCAN, OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. The loss of Dr. Duncan, who died ofheart failure, at his home in Brookline,October 30, is great, not merely to the mis-. Mexico, Man and Boy. sionary work of the Baptist Churches, butto the great cause of Foreign Missionsthroughout the world. There is somethingpathetic in the disappointment and sorrowattendant upon the arrest of his tour amongthe Baptist Missions of the East. Dr. Duncan left New York, August 27,for an extended inspection of all BaptistMissions and other missions engaged in thecommon work. Accompanied by his wifeand daughter, he proceeded as far as PortSaid, where he was compelled by illness toturn back. He arrived in this city onSaturday morning, and was at once takenta his home, where he died on the next day,October 30. He was but sixty years ofage, and had been supposed to be still in hisusual health. Among the executive 488 1>EATH OF THE REV. SAMUEL W. DtJNCAN. [December, officers of all our American ProtestantMissionary Boards and Societies he wasuniversally esteemed for bis genial andhighly Christian character, and also for hisso
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