RESULTS THUS FAR OF THIS WORK.
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It now remains only to present the yearly contributions—the self-help, realized in India for the support and extension of this growing work of God—ere we close this exhibit of the condition which it has already attained.
| Benevolent Collections, 1893. | |
| Rupees. | |
| Missions | 2,590 |
| Sunday-schools | 1,736 |
| Church Extension | 252 |
| Tract cause | 62 |
| Bible Society | 316 |
| Children's Day | 696 |
| Dispensaries, etc. | 1,869 |
| Total | 7,521 |
| Educational Contributions. | |
| English residents, for schools | 9,333 |
| Government grants, for schools | 53,837 |
| Fees from scholars | 86,839 |
| Total | 150,009 |
| Ministerial Support. | |
| Europeans | 45,541 |
| Natives, for their pastors | 6,482 |
| For Bishops and Presiding Elders | 199 |
| For Conference Claimants | 622 |
| Total | 52,844 |
| Total raised in 1893 | 210,374 |
| Equal to | $70,127 |
The grants in aid of our schools are voted on the merits and results, which the government inspector of schools finds by his personal examination of them yearly, while the contributions of the English officers, civil and military, are given and continued on their intelligent conviction of the value of our work among the native people; and higher endorsement than both of these we cannot desire or look for.
