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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

■ .INTERESTING STATISTICAL' SOMiTABT. Tho 114 th report of tho London Missionary Society is 'full 'of' vital interest, hnd: Contains a comprehensive survey • of the holds of labour covered ,by the society.' These inclnde Nortb and South' India, Travancore, China, Africa, . Madagascar, (Polynesia/ and the West' Indies. In the general statistical summary, the total of-, toined''? missionaries is' 'given as ; 2?5,'' as against 235 in,last;, year's.report. There 'aro also 9?1 ordained native pastors,-4091. prea'chers,: HOG male Christian teachers,- ,442; female' Chris- ' tian and 255 Biblowom'en.' The church • members- numbor 84,826,': and - there are, 295,530 native ■ adherents; In the 1754 schools there are 75,639, scholars, arid in .thc day schools 80,477 '• scholara.:,. Tho . statistics: of ■;the, : Medical Missions' report. 37 fuUy - missionaries and-,9 ; missionary -nnrses.: i'here are 55 hospitals,, leper ' asylnnißi ; contalii- . ing 1176 beds, ,'with 1176. inpatients.'',li; addition, 2C0,226' OTit-patiente; attended' ,at the - hos-. pitals last, "year,; and- the. number, of : visits'of out-patients; totalled 405,561. ;The work of-the hospitals is' further' augmented ,by - saries, with- 43'. assistants. Tho . total- amonnt ; raised at' mission stations was M 0,172,■ including >£9769 for school foes aiid £7748 in medical mission receipts.; ;The gonoral income of the 1 society - for [the past year amounted' to .6130,088, and with;.legacies, and .special; funds; together with' the amount received and appropriated at i mission- stations, tfyo income summaiy " totalled i 5198283." Tho 'accumnlated .deficiency at" the , close of the -year's' accoant was .£40,087. ';

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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

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