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Show Mi;. Elekiugs loiuir made a state mcnt before a migjiomtry meeting in Boston last week which had a loosen ing ellect upon the purao strings held by tho board of cornmisaioners of foreign for-eign missions. Ho ei'id that while the board was depressed on account of itj financial oondition, and tbo necessity ne-cessity which had exi-ted to cut down tho appropriation lor missionary mission-ary stations all over the world, the cheering news had come that, in Madura dialiict, India, converts to Christianity bad been mnde, numbering num-bering in all 00,000. Theao persons had not only thrown away their idols, but had actually been converted and were living Christian livef. |