CHOLCHOL

[s. 177] : A town in the province of Arauco, Peru, situated about 100 miles south of the city Station of the South American Misof Arauco. sionary Society (1895), with (1900) 1 mi ionary and his wife, a hospital and a dispensary. A CHOMBALA: town in Malabar, W. India, Stasituated about 25 miles N. W. of Calicut. Basel Mi ionary Society (1849), with of the tion wives, mi ionaries and their native 2 35 (1902) worliers, 6 outstations, 5 common schools, 1 high school and 219 Christians. CHOTA-NAGPUR (little Nagpur): One of the four great districts which make up the province It lies west of Bengal Proper; Behar of Bengal. adjoins it on the north and Ori a on the south Its western boundary is the native State east. of Rewa, and on the southwest it touches the Central Provinces. Its area is 26,963 square Of miles, and its population (1901) 4,900,429. these a little over 3,850,000 are reckoned as Hindus and about a quarter of a million as Mohamfurnish nearly medans. Aboriginal tribes 800,000 of the population, but many of those included religiously under the term “Hindus” are connected by race with these tribes, the members of which are continually adopting more and more of Hindu practise, and merging by degrees into the body of Hinduism. The tribes belong principally to the Kol and Santal families, who had no education and no writing until Christian mi ions came among them. Mi ionary work was commenced in ChotaNagpur in 1845 by the German Go ner Mi ionary Society. Its task was to carry light to those Kols sunk in ignorance, to whom even Hinduism was somewhat of an advance beyond their ancient worship of demons. The mi ion enterprise had great succe from the first. The SPG came into the field to take part in the work, and now the Christian movement seems to affect the people in ma , whole villages coming forward for instruction at once. The number of Christian Kols in Chota-Nagpur is about 80,000. CHRISTIAN CHURCH; Mi ion Board of the: For many years the Christian denomination in the United States and Canada conducted its mi ionary operations under two separate organizations, as departments of the American Christian Convention, the ecclesiastical body of the denomination. The Foreign Mi ion Department was organized in 1886 and commenced work in Japan in 1887. More recently these separated bodies have been reorganized as one and incorporated under the above title. The affairs of the Board are conducted by a Mi ion Board of nine (1903) members, elected quadrennially by the American Christian Convention and a Mi ion Council of five members. Clilnes** Tin!»• «rTi n a:e Clirlstian and MisNlonary the Secretary of the Mi ionary Department of Board. Tliere are also two Women’s Boards, one for Home and one for Foreign Mi ions, both auxiliary to the Mi ion Board. ’The foreign work of the Board is in Japan and Porto Rico (so considered by the Board). In Japan two stations are occupied, Tokio and Sendai, and there are 18 outstations. There are 7 mi ionaries, 10 native worlvers, 7 organized churches, with 382 church members and 795 Sunday school scholars. In Porto Rico the headquarters are at Ponce, with work at Salinas and 9 outstations; there are (1903) 4 mi ionaries, 1 native preacher, 1 organized church and 5 Sunday schools. The receipts for foreign work for the year closing October, 1902, were $10,329.40. tlie Convention acting as President of the CHRISTIAN FAITH, Society for Advancing the The Hon. Robert Boyle, distinguished for his learning and interest in the extension of Christianity, who was one of tlie governors of the “Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England” (1649), and a prominent director of the East India Company, not only contributed largely to various mi ionary enterprises, especially in the line of publications, but left a considerable sum in his will which formed the basis of a society organized after his death, This society, at first in 1691, by his executors. called the “Christian Faith Society,” afterward the “Society for Advancing the Christian Faith,” was designed for general charitable purposes, but the executors were directed to use the greater part for the “advancement of th e Christian religion amongst infidels.” The funds have been well invested and cared for and the grants have been of great value, many undertakings having been fostered which without this aid would never have For many years grants were made to succeeded. William and Mary College, in Virginia, for the Then attention was education of Indian youth. turned to the negro slaves in the West Indies and to Mauritius and other dependencies of the British Government. I. 177