Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Work of the Friends. [ARTICLE]

Work of the Friends.

The Society of Friends in England and America, though numbering but 100,000, contribute to foreign missions upward of $90,000 annually. A beginning was not made until 1866, and siuce then representatives have been sent to Syria, India, China, Madagascar, Mexico and the American Indians. Though efficient work is done in other fields, yet Madagascar has been tho scene of their greatest successes. Entering the Island in 1868, they now have eighteen missionaries, forty native pastors, and 370 other native assistants; 130 churches with 4,000 members and 40,000 adherents, and 132 schools with 14,600 scholars. Special emphasis is laid upon educational work, and they are generous contributors to the funds of the missions of other churches. —[Now York Witness. It costs $1,500 to dischargee Kropp gun