Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
INDIA RIPE FOR A REVOLT.
Or. BARRows SAYS A MOST SERIOUS
UPRISING IS IMMINENT.
He Believes II Was q knowledge of
Those Conditions That Led En-
gland to Seek nm Alliance
With America.

Re-. jhn Barrows, Of Chicago, who
was presru~nt OF the worlds parliament of
religions at the worlds fair. will speak in
the Second Presbyterian church.. at Thir-
teenth and Central streets. this morning
and again. this evening, in the First Con-
gregational church. at Eleventh and Nc
Gee. on missionary work in India. DR..
Barrows spent three months among the
Hindoos last year. during which time he
was establishing the Barrows ,ectureship,
founded by Mrs. Frederick Haskell, a
wealthy Chicago woman. for the purpose
Of setting before the people of India the
superior virtues of the Christian religion
over their own While he was in India
DIR. Barrows delivered LIS lectures on Chris
fianity. principally in Bombay. Calcutta
and Madras
Bombay was in the grasp Of the terrible
plague which swept over India in 1S96-97
when DR.. Barrows arrived in that city on
December Is. 1886. Thousands were dying
every day. and the condition of the city.
combined with the ravages Of the pesti-
1ence, was so intolerable that he was COM
PEELED, after a short reception given to him
by the missionaries stationed there, to
leave on the same day for Benares. the
sacred city of India. Three hundred thou
sand people had already fled from Bombay
to other places and hundreds more were
leaving the plague-str1cken city every day.
Five times. during the three months l
was there, / crossed the Indian peninsula
said DR.. Barrows, at the home OF Rev; MT
streets. whose guest he is during his stay
in Kansas City From the very time 1
landed In that country there were signs
lives of millions of people. more even than
euccurnbed to the plague. i have read ae-
magazines. Of the awful havoc in lives
wrought by the famine. Yet the printed
iS hss oP tRe st faIlsG to ps tel, all S se fhs s9 eo9Id
be more horrible than the facts. Relief
camps were established in different sections
Of the country; a,d in one such camp !
people breaking stones that they might
earn sufficient food to keep soul and body
great efforts to relieve the suffering. and
spent large sums OF money to that end
Most M n,o Of the eet,i money T Tas d itSlsn, Ro% OF ths
Hindoo is proverbial. They do not even
trust each other. 1 remember the question
of a Brahmin who one day asked me:
How is it that we have many gods, and
they do not make us honest, and you Chris,
tfans,. who have but one God. teach and
india" continued the doctor. sis in a
pitiful condition just now Win piague;
famine and a mutiny last year the iSt OF OF
enviable one. England has done much ior
India Her government. aside from the
been committed. has been a blessing. She
has given something of. Western ~civiliza.
tion to the people and in the building OF
IA okiC u VI
has greatly advanced the condition of the
country and its inhabitants. But because
of past abuses the Hindoos, especially
those Of higher caste, have open resent
ment toward their British masters. They
are always restless under the rule OF a for
eign nation, yet though they disIike the
Englishman they take very kindly to Amer
leans and especially American missionaries.
England is in a sea OF perplexities In the
East. The mutiny of the Afridis, or the
Mohammedan hillsmen, in the north Of In
dia, was the direct result of success Of Tur-
key in her recent war with Greece. Rus
STA has not been averse to taking a hand
in melting the Mohammedans to revolt and
probably had much to do with the recent
The real origin of the mutiny. however.
was Mohammedan success In arms against
a Christian nation, and the power of the
sultan has been so magnified that the fol
lowers OF Islam are becoming imbued with
the idea that their day OF bringing the
whole world to their faith by the sword is
near at hand. The time is not far distant,
a year at most, when England will have to
face a most serious uprising in India She
revolt. and that, In my opinion, has led her
10 seek an alliance with the United States.
To-day she is an isolared nation. one needs
friends and therefore she looks to U.s."
India was the greatest barrier to mission
airy work among the people The condi-
tion OF most OF the women OF the country Is
that of prisoners in their own homes, as II
houses that were formerly closed against
intrusion by foreigners are now largely
open to Christian women who carry the
Gospel to their prisoner inmates. On his
return to America DR.. Barrows spent three
weeks lecturing In Japan: He delivered one
the United States last May he has delivered
IN lectures In various cities in the country.