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48 Items of Missionary Intelligence.Small missions had just been formed inSyria and Palestine.The missionaries in India did not exceed180, wbile tbe native Christians did not numl«r75,000.Ceylon had several missionaries : Burmah,•ot more than six.T'here were about twelve missionaries forthe whole Cbinese people. Half of them werein the straits of Malacca, where there wereknown io be seven converts and one ordainedaative evangelist. The other missionarieswere on tbe coast, but did not know of a singleeon vert, and ihe Empire was practically®losed io Christian effort till 1842.The remarkable movement in Japan towardCibristian civiUzation had not yet revealed itself;nor was there in all ibe Empire, or inSiam, or throughout all central Asia, one singleProtestant representative of missions.The considerable though defective efforts®f the Dutch to Christianize iheir splendidpossessions in the Indo-China seas, early inthe 17th century, had died down, and most ofihe congregations iben gathered were left" assheep without a shepherd," until early in this1836 the last missionaries were constrained todepart. About 15,000 had passed througiioeniury. The London, and subsequently the the schools, numbers had heard ot Christ, between1,000 and 2,000 attended worship inNetherlands Society, sent missionaries to Amfeoyna,Tinor, and Riouw, in 1831 to Celebes, the capital and 200 bad applied for admissionand in 1834 to Borneo. But whilst ten or into the Christian ohurch. But now thetwelve islands were most inadequately held schools and chapels were closed; tbe professionfor Christ by as many missionaries, hundredsof Christianity became a penal offence;©f other islands, some of tbem large and populousas S'jmaira, had not one.tbe first martyr fell in 1837, and not until1862 were missionaries allowed to return orThe most successful and promising missions people to worship God.at that time were in Polynesia. The work Passing by tbe Mauritius, where for thebegun in Tahiti in 1797, whioh blossomed first time the gospel was preached in 1837 byabundantly after 1815, was extended after the missionaries exiled from Madagascar, we1812 to the Society Islands, to ihe Harvey turn to Soutb America. Captain Allen Gardener,group in 1821, io the Samoan in 1832, bad turned bis attention to itsin 1836, andwith more or less success to other islands bythe London Missionary Socieiy.wants, but absolutely nothing had been doneby Protestants for its evangelization, exceptingIn 1820 missionaries from ihe kindredby tbe Moravians on the extreme northAmerican Board landed in ihe Sandwich east. There, and on tbe West India Islands,Islands, and nineteen years afterward a most small companies of the brethren bad laboredjiemarkable and genuine manifestation of the since 1732. Later on in tbe century EngUshpower of the spirit of God occurred, whichoverthrew heathenism and finally led to iheconversion of about 90,000 people, 23,000 ofwhom became members of churches.Similar results were produced at the sametime by tbe labors of Wesleyan ministers inthe Friendly Islands with iheir 50,000 inhabitants.Begun by two Tahitians in 1823, whowere joined by two Wesleyans in ihe followingyear, ihe work developed into a remarkablereligious movement in 1834, which culminatedin tbe islands becoming Christianeleven years after.But most of the islands in the vast Pacificwere yet heathen. Two missionaries hadsettled among the Fijis in 1835; but morethan 200 small islands of Melanesia, tbeLoyalty and Penrhyn groups, tbe NewHebrides, New Caledonia, and numerousisolated islands had not yet heard the voicesor beheld the feet of tbose who bring goodtidings and publish peace.Samuel Marsden had carried the gospel toNew Zealand in 1814. In 1825 the firstconvertswere received, and tben came presagesof a glorious harvest; but war between thenative tribes and enmity between the aboriginesand Europeans checked its ingathering,A thick cloud overhung Madagascar.Ranavalona had been crowned in 1829, and inEpiscopalians and tben the Methodists sentevangelists. The Baptists followed in 1813,and the London Society in 1834.In North America, isolated endeavors hadbeen made since 1640 to convert the Indians,but only in 1820 did missionaries settle yet