THE BENGAL FAMINE.

Now Ready, with 3 Maps, Crown 8vo. 5s.

ON THE IMPENDING FAMINE IN BENGAL. How IT WILL BE MET, and How TO PREVENT FUTURE FAMINES IN INDIA. BY SIR BARTLE FRERE, K.C.B.

SIR BARTLE FRERE, G.C.S.I., K.C.B., D.C.L.,

Member of the Indian Council

and President of the Royal Geographical Society.

THIRD EDITION, WITH AN APPENDIX.

LONDON:

OHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1874.

Ind208.73.3

Reprinted from the

Church and the Age"

C

Watson and Hazell, Printers, London and Aylesbury.

CONTENTS.

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What are Missions of our Church doing in India?
General want of appreciation in England of the extent of
Mission work, and of its results

What is real Missionary work? and what the progress we may

expect?

The words are here taken in their most extended sense

Other causes have contributed to the great changes which are coming over India

The changes amount to a revolution, not only political and

material, but moral and religious . Retrospect Christianity not new to India

It has been constantly preached in India from the earliest ages
Caution of the early English settlers regarding Missionary work
This caution fortunate for the growth of political power .
Nor less so for the advancement of spiritual Christianity.
Change in English views regarding Missionary work coincident

with the progress of the revolutionary spirit in Europe, and
with the establishment of our Empire in India .

Growth of the Missionary spirit

Example of Western India and Bombay.

Comparison of Bombay Missions as they existed in 1834 and in

1869

Missions of Protestant Churches in 1834

Roman Catholics

General Mission prospects in 1834

Political and Religious changes during forty years
Mission statistics in 1868.

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23

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20

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Effects of Bible and Tract Societies

Changes during forty years in Churches at home

General results as affecting-

and India

Glance at possible results, political and religious, to England

Appendix: Statistical returns of Missions.

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