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Show The work of converting the Hindoos Hin-doos is progressing satisfactorily. The movement is described as wonderful, 18,000 persons having renounced their former faith and become Christians in the single province of Tinnevelly, In-1 dia. An Anglican missionary, recently re-cently returned to England from the East, says: Tho moat peculiar feature in this stirring stir-ring of tho heathen mind has been the part taken in it by tho native women. They havo baon veriUble missionaries, forming themselves into guilds, und spreading the knowledge of tho truth from vihtigo tovillago. Another powerful power-ful cause iu producii g thesB important results has been the relief Bout out from England to the sutlerors from the Indian famine When nearly half a million of money wa3 distributed to Christians, Hindoos, and Mohammedans aliko, simply sim-ply according to Ihoir needs, they exclaimed: ex-claimed: "It must bo tho true religion which teachos Eiich charity as luisl" |