CIIAPTER IV. 



MALAYSIA MlvTHODJST Mission t s. 



From the first occupation of thesc Jands 

 by the Portuguese, aud later by the Dutch 

 aud English, Christian missionary oper- 

 ations have been steadily maintained. To 

 the town of Malacca 011 ihe Malay Peniu- 

 sula came Prancis Xavier, that apostolic 

 soul who carried Christianity from India 

 to Japan. Here are still found the ruins 

 of a Christian cluirch called by Xavier's 

 name, and in this church is a tablet to 

 his memory. A cousiderable Roman Cath- 

 olic congregation remains to this day, 

 though it is without intluencc or much 

 token of Christian lifc. Tn thc Dutch East 

 Indies the Dutch missionaries have had 

 large success, At one time there wcre 

 more Christians in these islands than in all 

 Rritish India. But alas! a rationalistic 

 wave sprcad over Holland during the mid- 

 dle of the last century, and the result has 

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