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26 Items of Blissionary InteUigence.evangelization of the millions of this most interestingand needy land.In India the field embraced in our mission includesthe Districts of Sialkot, Zafarwal, Eastand West Gujranwala, Jhelum, Gurdaspur, Pasrurand Pathankot with the nearly five raUlionsoi people in their bounds. These millions are inall cases, except so far as tbe Gospel has beenmade to reach tbem, Mohammedans and Llindooheathen, witb no proper knowledge of the trueGod and Jesus Cbrist whom he has sent. Withthe exception of a few more or less irregular missionarylabors aniong them, all these people aredependent npon onr mission for any knowledge ofthe salvatiou—and as things are now, must, likethe vast multitudes in Egypt, have the Gospel atour hands or perish in their sins. What a responsibilityis thus laid at this very moment upon ourHnited Presbyterian Church! Can we as achurch fail through indifference or neglect orotherwise to send the Gospel to the multitudes ofthese two great fields and be guiltless ? " Noidolator shall inherit the kingdom of God."The laborers in both these missions from thiscountry are both male and female. Indeed thenuinber of unmarried female missionaries fromour home-churches is larger in proportion to thewhole niembership of the Hnited Pre.sbyterianChurch, than from any Protestant body in theworld, with the possible exception of the Moravians.The names of the missionaries with their stationsare as follows :In Egypt—Revs. G. Lansing, D. D., AndrewWatson, D. D. and Win. Harvey, with MissesAnna Y. Thompson, Margaret A. Smith andHarriet M. Conner at Cairo ; Rev. S. C. Ewing,D. D. and Misses Mary A. Frazier and MatildaStrang at Ale.xandria ; P^ev. T. J. Finney andMiss Isabella Strang at Moiisoora ; Revs. JohnGiffen, J, R. Alexander and J. K. Giffen andMisses M. J. McKown, Ella 0. Kyle aud JessieJ. Hogg at Asyoot ; and Rev. Chauncy Mnrchand Miss Adella Brown at Luxor, in all, 9 menand 10 women, total, 19 missionaries.In India—R,evs. Robt. Stewart, D. D. and D.S. Lytle and Misses Elizabeth G. Gordon andMaria White, M. D at Sialkot ; Revs. James S.Barr, D. D. and Samuel Martin, D D. audMisses Mary J. Campbell and Kate M. Corbettat Zafarwal ; Rev. .1. P. McKee and Mi.sses C,E. Wilson, Rosa A. McCullough and Rosa T.Wilson at Gujranwala ; Rev. T. L. Scott andMisses Emma D. Anderson and Annie F. Givenat Jhelum ; Rev. A. B. Caldwell and Miss JosephineL. "VVhite at Gurdaspur ; and Miss EupbieE. Gordon at Madhopur, in all, 1 men and 11women, total, 18 missionaries.Oi these missionaries, Rev. Dr. Martin andMisses Frazier and Eupbie E. Gordon are nowin this country, but will each return to the workat the earliest day the Providence of God permits.In each mission all ihe wives of the missionariesare doing much efficient work.With these foreign missionaries there are 375native workers, viz.: 221 in Egypt and 148 inIndia. Of these. It in Egypt are pastors andevangelists or licentiates, and 12 in India. Mostof all these workers, having been taught the Wayof Life themselves by our missionaries, are anxiousnow to make it known to their benighted people.'I he firstchurch organized was in India. Itconsisted of the missionary and his immediatecircle, and was at Sialkot, in 1856. The secondwas in Egypt, with native elders and deacons,and was at Cairo, in 1863. From these beginningsthe work has advanced until now there areeight organized churches in India and twentythreein Egypt, with a total native membershipon tbe 31st oflast .December o" 4,019 conimudcantsin tbe foriner, and 2,042 in the latter. Theincrease in the iorraer during the year was 1,936by profession, and in the latter of 246. The totalthus of organized churches is 31, and of nativeconverts gathered in to be communicants in themis 6,061 What a return for the labors of theseyears—over 6,000 souls turned fi'om darkness tolight, and from the power of Satan unto God !From the beginning both missions have feltthe importance—indeed, the necessity—of havingnative schools. All the people needed to readas well as hear in their own tongues the work ofGod. Only throngh proper schools also couldproper persons be brought forward to teach, andfurther ou iu the course of education become thesuitable and necessary native ministers andteachers of the people, and pastors of the nativechurches.Accordingly scarcely sooner had the pioneerlaborers in each field opened their mission thanthey took steps to meet this great want, aud tbework has steadily grown to be of very greatmoment. In tbe two missions there are now 194schools, besides the 138 Sabbath-schools. In