Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE AGENCIES. The agents of twenty-five Protestant missionary organizations are now labouring in India. Most of them are British, but several belong to Germany and the United States of America. The following is a list of the principal English Societies, with the number of their agents:— ,, - ,. European and Native societies. Ordained Miasionaries. Church Missionary Society .... 124 London Missionary Society . . . . 53 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 52 Baptist Missionary Society .... 48 Free Church of Scotland 28 Wesleyan Missionary Society ... 28 General Baptist Missionary Society . 9 Church of Scotland Mission .... 5 The tnost important foreign societies are the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which has recently had about forty missionaries in India and Ceylon; the American Presbyterian Missionary Society, which, before the mutiny, had twenty-eight; and the Basle Missionary Society, which has about thirty. The total number of European and American missionaries is 440, and of native ministers and cate- chists 730. This is just about one-third of the Protestant missionary agency employed throughout the entire heathen world. These numbers do not include the missionaries in Ceylon and Burmah. Uniformly in this volume India Proper in alone alluded to. But let us compare this agency with the extent and population of India. Were all the missionaries equally distributed amongst the people, there would be one for every 400,000, that is, in the proportion of six for London, one for Liverpool, one for Glasgow, six for all Scotland, and one for each of the counties of Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Sussex, or the whole of North Wales. Viewed geographically, there is one ...