Missionary Geography. For the Use of Teachers and Missionary Colleges.
(Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—This is an odd idea worked out in a very practical and sensible way. When the collectors go their rounds, and people, "as they often will," make jokes and ex- cuses for not subscribing, the collector is to open this book, and say, "Indeed, you are mistaken. Look at the account of the progress of missions in South India; look what has been done," &c. But no one doubts the increase of the missions,—it is the converts who seem pro- blematic. However, missions exist, and there is no reason why the missionaries should not be classified geographically as well as nationally, or according to their religious belief. If Natal or Ceylon interests a man chiefly because of the number of societies who keep missionaries there, he will get the information he wants here in the easiest way. He turns to Borneo, and learns that besides the S. P. G. mission at Sara- wak, the R. M. S. have a flourishing mission on the south coast. Seven missionaries have been murdered, and this has a little disorganized it, but the work is going on again now under ten. The R. M. S. is, we will add, the Rhenish Missionary Society, for this little book includes all missions except those of the Roman Catholics—" for obvious rea- sons."
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