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 CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY 
 
 FOR INDIA. 
 
 FORMERLY CALLED 
 
 CHRISTIAN VERNACULAR EDUCATION SOCIETY. | 
 
 General Secretary; Rev. G. PATTERSON, 35 John Street, Bedford Row, London, W.C. 
 Organising Secretaries: Rev. G. W. JACKSON, 12 Merchiston Bank Gardens, Edinburgh, & 
 Miss L. G. DOWDALL, 35 St. John Street, Bedford Row, London, W.C, 
 
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 Ee Society was established in 1858, immediately after the 
 great Indian Mutiny, by a small band of Christian men, 
 
 among whom the late LoRD SHAFTESBURY and the Rev. 
 W. ArtHuR,: M.A. (author of ‘The Tongue of Fire”), were 
 prominent. Its object was to spread the knowledge of Christ 
 and Salvation among the youth of India by means of Christian 
 Vernacular Education and the circulation of Christian oe 
 
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During the fifty-three years of its existence it has educated in 
 Christian truth over 100,000 Heathen Children; trained as Teachers 
 over 1,300 Native Converts; published 4,737 Christian Books, &c., 
 in 23 languages, of which it has circulated Over 44,874,063 copies. 
 
 Its Educational work has now largely passed into other hands, and 
 the Society’s great work to-day is the publication and circulation of 
 Christian Literature in the Languages of India. For this there -was 
 never so wide a field and such pressing need. Be 
 
 India has now 20,000,000 non-Christian readers, and their number 
 is growing with ever-increasing rapidity. Education has shaken their 
 faith in Hinduism, and has left their hearts empty and desolate. 
 Millions of these can only be reached by the Press. 
 
 The Christian Church in India is rapidly growing and must be fed. 
 In this work the Pulpit cannot do without the Press if a high type of 
 intelligent piety is to be cultivated. 
 
 The women of India are slowly emerging into light and liberty and 
 waking up to thought, and Christian books for the Zenana are urgently 
 required. 
 
 The Christian Literature Society has done much to meet these varied 
 needs, but not a tithe of what ought to be done. 
 
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 Secularist and Atheistic Societies are flooding India with Anti- 
 Christian Literature WiLL YOU HELP TO FLOOD THE LAND WITH 
 CHRISTIAN TRUTH, in order that perplexed and troubled spirits may be 
 lead into the way of peace? 
 
 HE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY is INTER-DENOMINA- 
 TIONAL. All the great Missionary Societies are represented on its 
 Committees in England and in India. It is doing for them a work 
 
 which they could not do for themselves, and a few years ago they 
 commended it to the support of the Christian public by the following 
 
 JOINT ‘TESTIMONY. 
 
 “We gratefully acknowledge the important services rendered by the 
 Christian Literature Society to the Missions of our Societies labouring in 
 India, and commend the Society to the support of our Subscribers as the 
 VALUED AUXILIARY OF ALL MISSIONS IN INDIA.” 
 
 (Signed) H. E. Fox, Hon. Sec., Church Missionary Society. 
 B. Barinc-GouLp, Foreign Sec., Church Missionary Society. 
 A. H. BAYNES, Sec., Baptist Missionary Society, 
 R. WARDLAW THOMPSON, Sec., London Missionary Society. 
 MARSHALL HARTLEY, Sec., Wesleyan Missionary Society. 
 ALEXANDER CONNELL, Convener Presbyterian Ch. of Eng. F.M. Committee. 
 JOHN McMurtriz, Convener Ch, of Scotland F, M. Committee, 
 Gro. SmiTH, Sec,, United Free Ch, of Scotland. And 9 others. 
 
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 The Committee of the Christian Literature Society 
 earnestly appeals for enlarged support : 
 
 1.—Because. the Society is A NECESSARY HANDMAID TO 
 ALL PROTESTANT MISSIONARY SOCIETIES in India, 
 and is commended to the liberality of the Churches by the 
 above-named Secretaries of fifteen of them. 
 
 2.,—Because ITS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE 
 BY THESE SOCIETIES SEPARATELY without much 
 wasteful expenditure of money, and the sacrifice of the time 
 and strength of their Missionaries. 
 
 3.—Because at the present moment THE CIRCULATION OF 
 VERNACULAR CHRISTIAN LITERATURE JIS, accord- 
 ing to universal testimony, THE MOST URGENT NEED 
 OF THE CHURCH IN INDIA. 
 
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