is not coming in that land!

CENSUS OF CHRISTIANS IN INDIA, MAY 2, 1901.(12)

Total of all denominations 2,923,349
European and other races 258,990
Natives 2,664,359

_Total Returned._ _Natives._

Anglican 453,612 305,907
Baptist 220,863 216,743
Congregationalist 37,876 37,313
Lutheran and allied denominations 155,455 153,768
Methodist 76,869 68,451
Presbyterian 53,829 42,799
Friends 1,309 1,275
Roman Catholic 1,202,039 1,122,378
Salvationist 18,960 18,847
Syrian 571,327 571,320
Scattering 131,210 125,558

Of the above number of Christians 2,664,359 are natives of India. This is
an increase of over 630,000, or about thirty-one per cent, of Indian
Christians during the last decade. And during this time the general
population of India has increased only about two and one-half per cent.!
Analyzing this aggregate of all Christians we find that 970,000 of them
are native Protestant Christians. This represents an advance of sixty-four
per cent, during the last ten years in that community; while the Romish
and Syrian native Christian communities have gained hardly three per cent,
in the same time. Thus it will be seen that the rapid progress of our
faith in that land of the East depends almost entirely upon the remarkable
advance of Protestantism among the people of India. This is certainly a
result most encouraging to Protestant Christian workers in that land. That
this decade's growth is not abnormal is attested by the fact that the
native Protestant Christians of India are more than ten times what they
were fifty years ago.

In view of the fact that the whole Christian community of India is only
one per cent, of the total population, one may be inclined to feel
discouraged. And yet if the relative growth of the whole population and,
say, of the Protestant Christian community for the last decade be
maintained for one hundred and thirty years more, the whole population
will be found Christian of the Protestant type.

These figures indicate the magnificent development of our work in that
land. And when we remember the splendid equipment and wonderful modern
appliances of