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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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n. by mrs. h. j. bruce. Angels are mighty to sympathize, devils are mighty to destroy, but Jesus is mighty to save. Yes. Victory to Jesus ! is the triumphant shout that is being rapidly passed along throughout the great provinces of India, where mission stations have been planted east, west, north and south, until there is at the present time a net-work of centers from which the light 538 LIFE AND LIGHT. \^Decembery, is radiating. It is true that vast numbers have no intelligent idea ofChristianity, and millions have no idea at all, except to know there issuch a religion ; but in those large areas—where the Bombay Presi-dency alone equals Germany in extent—there are some fifty difterent mis-sionary societies representing all the principal branches of the ChristianChurch. We read of a baptismal service in Poona when more than seventy publiclyconfessed Christ, and a missionary who took part in the services describedthe scene on that joyful occasion, and what followed. She writes: We
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A GROUP OF MISSIONARIES WITH CANDIDATES FOR BAPTISM AT POONA. assembled at the Lords table, after which we marched in double linps allabout this our Zion. We were bidden to walk about Zion, and go round-about her. Our lines seemed interminable as we encompassed Zion withsongs of rejoicing. We could not sing together, but we sang, and couldhardly stop singing when we gathered in the audience hall. Over and overagain the children sang their choruses, leading off anew when we supposedthey were readv to stop. Shouts of Victory to Jesus, Messiah ! filled theair. The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those that pub-lished it. i899-^ VICTORY TO JESUS. 539 When we recall the fact that some of the missionaries in the early part ofthe century labored lifteen and twenty years before baptizing their first con-verts, it is refreshing to read in these latter days of large accessions to thechurches; but gratifying as this may be, it does not constitute the soleground of encouragement and

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