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 missionaries, 3 Indian clergymen, 14 doctors with European qualifications, 6 doctors with Indian qualifications, 8 European nurses, 5 schoolmasters (Christians), 12 catechists and readers, 32 Christian medical agents.

The earliest mission on the frontier was at Peshawar, and this was inaugurated in the year 1854 by some distinguished frontier officers, among whom Sir Herbert Edwardes and General Rannell Taylor may be mentioned. There have been some remarkable converts, and there are little Christian congregations at many stations along the frontier. Some of the converts have given their lives for their faith. More than one has been martyred in Afghanistan, preferring a cruel death to a denial of his faith. Other converts have gone forth as missionaries of the Cross to other lands, to Arabia, East Africa, Bengal, Burma, and other countries. Though numerically the congregations are small, the work accomphshed is very encouraging in other ways. An enormous amount of prejudice and opposition has been worn do^vn, welcome has been obtained in places formerly close barred, a large amount of Christian knowledge has been diffused, and wherever one goes along the frontier one meets with those who, well acquainted with the doctrines of Christianity, are frequently secret disciples of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ.


 * T. L. Pennell.
 * Bannlly India.