PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2997, 23 September 1878, Page 4

PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY.

A paragraph has lately appeared in several papers giving an extraordinary account of a religious movement taking pTace in British India. ; According to this statement, no.fewer that 16,000 persons in the district of Tinnevelly, have, owing mainly to the ministrations of Bishop Caldwell, in seven recent months placed themselves under instruction with a view to Baptism; and' village after village, laying aside its heathenism; is seeking admission into the Christian fold. "The event," it is further stated is "'without precedent." - Certainly, assuming the statement to be; correct, the Went is unprecedented: but .the -Madras Mail easts doubt upon the whole story. .The first, tiews of the : affair, says, the Mail, came from London, and it adds : .," Our Tinnevelly, correspondent, who; lives; in the: heart,of the Society for the 'Prdpagation of the Gospels-Mission Districts, has told us nothing about so remarkdhie an event." If there really is any reason for doubt on the subject, which'we do riot by any -means assume: the Propagation Sbciety will, it is to be hoped,, speedily clear it! up 'by the publication: of authenticated evidence.