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Title: India and Malaysia Year: 1892 (1890s) Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922 Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: to strengthen our forces in the city at onceand very materially. We need especially, as also in Calcutta,to organize a strong working force among the native popula-tion. In the great city of Poona, which lies to the southeastof Bombay, at the edge of the great table-land known as theDeccan, we have a vigorous English church and school forEuropean boys and girls, and a well-organized and vigorousmission for the Maratha people. We also occupy two or threesmaller stations in Marathi-speaking districts. Very recentlyquite a number of converts have been baptized in the vicinityof Bombay, and the few attempts which have been made toreach the lower castes, of whom there are large numbers, havemet with a measure of success, which leaves no doubt in mymind that all we need in order to reproduce the success wehave achieved in Northern India, is to apply the same meth-ods and a similar Avorkiug force. In other words, I meanthat if we could even moderatelv strens^then our work in >> > oa

Text Appearing After Image: THE PANJAB AND WESTERN INDIA. 483 the three provinces—the Panjab, Gujarat, and the Marathacountry—it would be the most reasonable thing in the worldfor us to anticipate an ingathering of at least five thousandsouls annually in each district; that is, we ought to anticipatesuch a measure of success at an early day. Looking to theyears beyond, of course such figures would be altogether outof place. Here again our friends in America can see threewide-open doors clearly marked and easy of access. Each ofthese doors admits us not so much to a district as to an empire.If our church had no other calls in any part of the world, andwere to throw her whole strength into any one of these threefields, she would find enough, and much more than enough,to test all her energies and to call forth all her resources.But here, as elsewhere, we do not propose to accomplisheverything in a day. We only ask to be strengthened so asto make an advance, and create on the ground the resourcesby which future

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