Missionary Societies of Great Britain: A Concise View of What Is Contributed to Them, Where It Is Spent, and What Are the Results. E-book. Formato PDF W. A. Scott Robertson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

So diverse are the methods in which the various Missionary Societies compute their annual income, that the mere enumeration of total incomes furnishes an erroneous idea Of the support given by the British Isles to the work of Foreign Missions. The two great Societies of the Church Of England state Simply what has passed through their Offices at home. Other Societies add to this the amount raised in the Mission fields. A third method is in use among the principal Nonconformist Societies, which include not only the receipts in Mission fields, but also grants in aid made to their Mission schools by the Colonial Government. The Scottish Societies, still more elaborate in details, include also the fees received from scholars in their Mission schools. A fifth variety arises from the custom of three or four Societies which include Ireland in their Foreign Mission field. It is evident, then, that before we can arrive at a true statement of British contributions to Foreign Mission work, we must analyse the total incomes ascribed to the various Societies. This is done in the following tables, wherein, as the only point common to all the Societies is the statement of British contributions, the column containing these sums is the only one added up and summarized. The result of the analysis clears away many erroneous ideas. It Shows that the Church Of England voluntarily subscribed during 1871 about 400,000z. Towards Foreign Mission work (m'de Tables I. And II.) such a sum as no other Single Church in the world, we believe, contributes voluntarily to' the same Object. The largest annual income given by the British public to any one Society is that of the Church Missionary Society. In these tables the Societies are arranged in the order to which the amount of support they receive from this country entitles them. In every case, the financial year of the particular Society is adopted.

The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush. E-book. Formato PDF Sir George Scott Robertson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the year 1888, in company with Colonel Durand, C.B., then a young cavalry captain, I was travelling through the Astor Valley of Kashmir to Gilgit. On one memorable occasion we had made a double march. The track was extremely arduous, and the waning light found us tired and jaded, and still some distance from camp. Silent and slow-footed, we rounded the Doian spur in the gathering darkness, and had begun the descent to the village, when a strange sight to the north-west startled us into open-eyed wonder. And indeed a wonderful picture lay spread out before and beneath us. It was bounded and restricted below by the large spurs which guard the mouth of the Astor Valley. Above, the pure sky domed over all, while in front a filmy veil of cloud was suspended, which seemed to magnify and accentuate, instead of dimming, the noble outlines which lay behind. Through this mysterious curtain could be seen a bold curve of the Indus flanked by mighty mountains, and the light yellowish-grey shades of the Sai Valley, which increased the general appearance of dream-like unreality.