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as BAI‘AT AT LUDHIANA 211 but we held nothing else till 1835, when, on the death of Rajah Sangat Singh, the town and country about became our own possessions. ' There are two points which strike one in connection with Ludhiana. It was in the days of Ahmad as a very active centre of Christian missionaries. The leading Christian paper, N u r Afsh a Ĕ , was published from here. Its first issue was dated, March 6th, 1873. 46 The Mission High School of Ludhiana was one of the oldest schools in India, and it was in a very flourishing condition. Another high school was known as the Christian Board School, and was run on residential lines. The former has been recently converted into a market and the school has ceased to exist, which is a sure sign of the decay of the Mission. But Dr. E. Brown’s female hospital, founded in the autumn of 1894 by the American Presbyterian Mission (North India School of medicine for Christian Women), shows that Christian missionary activity is still carried on in that town though it has now lost most of its momentum. 47 In those days Muslim 46 The Civil and Military Gazette began to be published from Lahore on Thursday, December 19th, 1876. 47 The Western Foreign Missionary Society of America sent two young missionaries of the American Presbyterian Church to India. They sailed from Philadelphia on May 30th, 1833, with their wives. They belonged to the Presbyteries of New Cartle and Huntingdon and the students of Princeton Theological Seminary saw them off with shouts. They reached Calcutta on October 15th. Mrs. Lowrie died there on November 21st. The Rev. William Reed and his wife sailed for America on July 23rd, 1834, for reasons of health and he died at sea. The other, the Rev. J. C Lowrie, D. D. , son of a judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, reached Ludhiana on November 5th, 1834, and laid there the foundation of the first Christian