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Title: India and Malaysia
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r a glimpse, in out-line merely, of the many doors which God is setting beforeus, east, west, north, and south, any one of which affordsmore signs of promise than were found in all parts of Indiaand the East w^hen I entered upon this great work thirty-twoyears ago. P. S.—The above was written in August, 1891. A briefyear has passed, and the march of events has thrown muchlight upon some of the estimates then made. In three placesI have changed the estimate of annual increase from fivethousand to ten thousand. One year ago we ventured tohope for fifteen thousand baptisms from heathenism duringthe year; but the actual number was over nineteen thou-sand. My estimate of fifteen thousand converts every yearwas then considered a sanguine, if not extravagant,, calcula-tion ; but now few, if any, of our missionaries would fix ona lower number. I have not made an estimate of probablesuccess during the past four years, which did not prove toolow, instead of too high, when tested by the event.
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p-ipo o H<1 o Cbapber XXXII.THE PANJAB AND WESTERN INDIA. THE Panjab—literally five rivers—is the name given tothe large and important province which lies in the ex-treme northwestern part of India. It contains about 142,000square miles, and a population in round numbers of 25,000,-000. Its Government is administered by a Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, but a number of feudatory States are included withinits boundaries. The western part of the Panjab is the regionwhich was conquered by Alexander the Great when he invadedIndia. No event in the career of that great conqueror addedmore to his fame than his invasion of the mysterious realm,at that time hardly known, which lay east of the Indus; but,as a matter of fact, it seems to have been a very unimpor-tant conquest. He was not able to penetrate as far as theJumna, much less to the Ganges, and after a few unimpor-tant victories was obliged to retrace his steps. The Panjab is famous as the home of the Sikhs, one ofthe most recent races of

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