The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1891-01-07
THE MISSION FIELD.

The Church of Scotland, the
"Auld Kirk has made an investigation.
and come to conclusion in regard to a
much mOoted point in missionary work
In the year 1889 it resolved to obtain from
all its missionaries in India. and from per
sons in official life, an expression of opin-
ION I'm regard TO the continuance of mis-
slonary colleges, and of all classes of
missionary educational institutions which
have been established in that land The
| question of the value of the higher educa-
ton in the evangeliZation of the pople has
/ been much discussed in that and other
/ churches, but has now been brought to
something resembling vote Returns
from about one hundred circulars issued
snow that siXty-fve of the responses were
Pm favor of continuing the entire education
al system, and only sixteen unfavorable
TO their continuance. In vote of the
Presbyteries at home, founded upon these
answers from the field, sixty of the seventy
Presbyteries were found in favor of edu-
catlonal missionary work. The opinions
expressed by the civil officers consulted
were decided and emphatic in their tone
One of them, Sir Charles Aitchison, lately
Governor of the Punjab SAYS, "The impor-
tance of mission schools and colleges is
even greater now than when Duff initiated
his educational policy and converted a
reluctant General Assembly to his views
We want institutions like the Com
bridge mission College at Delhi, the
American mission College at Lahore, the
Established Church and Free Church
institution at Calcutta multiplied over the
country God forbid that | should
undervalue preaching and evangelizing. !
believe India is only waiting forsome native
st. Paul to turn by thousands TO the Lord
But the more active you are in your school
the better you viii be prepared for that day
when II comes" The careful inquisition
nale by the Church OF Scotland viii de-
th00e flla missionary pc:'Cv OF that
thufcl Tor many years 20 ~ ~. a. "
also show the way in IS hich other churches
may safely and wisely go.-TAe Pres6yt6-
rum.
THE ORIGIN OF ZENANA Work.
DIR. PiersOn, in theJuly number of the Ms
S'oRo1y Rerfe'o ofHe World, prints an inter
esting note from Mrs. Sale, of Helensburgh.
briefly describing the earliest movement in
Zenana work, which that lady inaugu-
rated in 1856. Our readers will recol-
lect that we published a full account of
Mis-. Sales pioneer Zena ana work i'm an early
number of the Le0der. Before Mrs Mullens
arrived in India in 1860, Mrs Sale had
obtained an entrance to three Zenanas.
where the ladies were daily hearing the
Scriptures read, and some had so far broken
lhrough thelr Tears that they were learning
to read. I'm 1860 says Mrs Sale. my
husband was ordered to Erope, when
heard of the arrival of Mrs. Mullcns and
her daughters wrote to her of this opin-
ing, when she came and was introduced to
the ladies of the three Zenanas And from
that time the work spread rapidly. Now
there is no =eed of work as a bribe to learn
TO read; so anxious are the ladies i'm the
Lenanas for instruction that where we have
one female missionary we ought 10 have a
hundred, and would if the Christian Church
were alive TO its responsibilities. CLliS-
tHH Leader (LODdOH).