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Identifier: indiamalaysia00thob (find matches)
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
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all 25 386 INDIA AND MALAYSIA. Christians, and nearly all the licentiates are of the samefaith. The Christians are largely in the majority in Lahore,Bombay, and Calcutta. Some of these, when they go out,will be independent practitioners; some will work in themissions, but the majority will be employed by the DuiferinAssociation—all will be so employed who receive scholarshipsfrom that fund. It will thus be seen that the Dufferin As-sociation, secular as it is supposed to be, and supportedlargely by the money of Hindus and Mohammedans, mustdepend upon Christian women for its success. This givesan opportunity to show the capacity and trustworthiness ofwomen to those who have not only doubted, but deridedtheir claims to such virtues; it gives Christian womanhooda prominence which otherwise could not have been attainedfor years, and is one of the most active forces in bringingthe whole Christian community to the front among the manyclasses, castes, and countries of the Empire of India.
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IvUCKNOW CHRISTIAN SCHOOIv-GIRLS. Cf)apter XXIX. WOMAN IN THE CHURCH. THE work of a successful missionary in a country likeIndia, often illustrates important phases of Christian lifeand work in the primitive church. Society throughout thewhole Oriental world has, since the earliest days, been somuch alike in many of its features, that the modern mission-ary in India, Persia, or even China, frequently finds himselfin the midst of associations which remind him of events re-corded in the book of Acts, or alluded to in Pauls epistles.This is notably true in matters relating to the position ofwomen in the mission churches of India. Among convertsfrom Judaism the early Christian women no doubt enjoyed adegree of liberty which the women of India have neverknown; but in the Greek and Roman cities, and more es-pecially in all regions farther east, the women were kept ina state very much resembling that in which their Indiansisters live at the present day. Women have always held astrictly subor

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