Andover review Author:Unknown Author 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: He will be remembered for many a long year by what is best and greatest amongst his countrymen. The verdict on such a man can be passed only by a judgment as cle... more »ar, calm, and yet as sympathetic as his own, and by a pen as skillful as his. If impartiality of judgment be possible to intimate friendship, we are confident that Professor Charles Eliot Norton is amply equipped for the service which the friends and admirers of Lowell so earnestly desire to see rendered. THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. A GENERAL VIEW OF MISSIONS. SECOND SERIES, x. India (continued). Sib William Hunter, than whom no higher authority can be cited for India, says, as quoted in the " Missionary Herald" for January, 1890, in speaking of the missionary work in India: " It has been rich in results in the past, and it is fraught with incalculable blessings in the future." " The Indian native Protestants have now grown into an Indian native Protestant church. They have their own pastors, numbering 575 men, ordained in one body or another of the ministry. They have also a body of 2,856 qualified lay preachers, born in the country, educated in the country, working in the country for the welfare of their own countrymen. The native Protestant church in India has ceased to be an exotic, and if the English were driven out to-morrow, they would leave a Protestant native church behind them. When the Protestant Christians in India numbered about half a million, there were nearly 200,000 pupils in Protestant mission schools. This is an immensely significant fact; significant of missionary zeal in the present, but still more significant of Christian influence in the future." Sir William guardedly commends " ascetic missions," defining them simply as a way of " quiet self-denial." There are hundreds of th...« less