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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 40.

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MISSIONARY MURMURINGS.

THE gage of the piety of a church is its missionary spirit. A church without a missionary spirit will soon be a church without a minister; for emphatically, a Christian is and must be a missionary, and missionary zeal is the inspiration that gives life and growth, breadth and depth, richness and power, to both the Christian and the church.
THE Marathi (India) mission of the American Board has made gratifying progress during the past ten years. The gain in the different departments of work has been as follows: Number of churches, 43 per cent.; communicants, 76 per cent.; baptized, 63 per cent.; native contributions, 228 per cent.; schools, 160 per cent.; pupils, 281 per cent.; Sunday-schools, 930 per cent.; pupils, 452 per cent.