The Christian Conquest of India |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adoniram Judson agency American Aryan Aryan race Assam Baptist Beach become Bengal Bible Bombay Brahman Buddhism Burma Calcutta Carey caste cent Central India Agency century character Chris Christian conquest Christian Opportunity Church classes College conquest of India converts Duff Eaton & Mains empire England English European evangelization F. H. Revell faith Ganges gospel Hindu Hinduism History India and Christian India's Problem Judson Krishna or Christ land large number leaders LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS live London Madras ment miles millions Mission Fields Missionary Society modern Mohammedan moral movement native nearly non-Christian organization Polygamy population preaching Protestant Provinces PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Punjab race Religions of India religious river schools Serampur Shiva Sikhs sionary social southern India spirit square miles Telugu Thoburn tian tion Tract Society Veda village Vishnu wife William William Carey women worship York Young Men's Christian
Popular passages
Page 140 - No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Page 278 - The forward mission study courses are an outgrowth of a conference of leaders in young people's mission work, held in New York City, December, 1901. To meet the need that was manifested at that conference for mission study text-books suitable for young people, two of the delegates, Professor Amos R. Wells, of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, and Mr. S. Earl Taylor, Chairman of the General Missionary Committee of the Epworth League, projected the Forward Mission Study Courses. These courses...
Page 278 - Committee of the Movement. The books of the Movement are now being used by more than forty home and foreign mission boards and societies of the United States and Canada. The aim is to publish a series of text-books covering the various home and foreign mission fields and written by leading authorities.
Page 280 - A Study of Missions in India. By Caroline Atwater Mason. Rex Christus. A Study of Missions in China. By Rev. Arthur H. Smith, DD Dux Christus. A Study of Missions in Japan. By Rev. WE Griffis, DD Christus Liberator.
Page 279 - These books are published by mutual arrangement among the denominational publishing houses, to whom all orders should be addressed. They are bound uniformly, and are sold for 50 cents, in cloth, and 35 cents, in papf r, postage extra.
Page 279 - The aim is to publish a series of text-books covering the various home and foreign mission fields and written by leading authorities with special reference to the needs of young people. The entire series when completed will comprise perhaps as many as twenty text-books. A general account will be given of some of the smaller countries, such as Japan, Korea and Turkey ; but, for the larger fields, as China, Africa, and India, the general account will be supplemented by a series of biographies of the...
Page 113 - Kali is represented as a black woman with four arms ; in one hand she has a sword, in another the head of the giant she has slain, with the other two she is encouraging- her worshippers. For earrings she has two dead bodies...
Page 279 - DeForest. 5. HEROES OF THE CROSS IN AMERICA. Home Missions. (Biographical.) By Don O. Shelton. 6. DAYBREAK IN THE DARK CONTINENT. A study of Africa. By Wilson S. Naylor. 7. THE CHRISTIAN CONQUEST OF INDIA. A study of India. By James M. Thoburn. 8. ALIENS OR AMERICANS? A study of Immigration. By Howard B. Grose. 9. THE UPLIFT OF CHINA. A study of China. By Arthur H. Smith. 10. THE CHALLENGE OF THE CITY. A study of the City. By Josiah Strong.
Page 51 - As a representative of the educated community of India, — and I am entitled to speak on their behalf and in their name, — I may say that we regard British rule in India as a dispensation of Divine Providence. England is here for the highest and the noblest purposes of history. She is here to rejuvenate an ancient people, to infuse into them the...
Page 44 - Mill, were undertaken by him some four years after his retirement from official life, in consequence of the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown...