New-York tribune., 1900-04-28
on the self-supporting basis after giving six
months notice in advance 1t has worked first rate
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
LATENT POWERS OF NATIVE CHRISTIANS
QUICKLY DEVELOPED THEREBY.

Industrial training discussed at the Union
Methodist Church. in West Forty-eghthst., yes
terday afternoon. The Rev. James Smith. of AL
mednagar, India. made plea for an industrial
training of natives, which should develop their
latent powers As paupers and dependents the
natives of India came TO the missionaries. and
they could not be self-respecing until, by having
helping hand extended to them. they We're
enabled help themselves. For that purpose
manual training and technical instruction should
form part of the curriculum of the schools for
Indian youth. technical education. however.
should be adapted to local conditions
The Rev. DR.. j. O. Spencer. of Japan, said that
of the great problems of this. the industrial
age. how to make the masses work in harmony
with the classes. To-day. Japan striving to
stand foremost in the industrial world, and was
straning every to capture the industrial
army about 10 enter the great continent of China.
If the Christian world did not carry to these
people a Christian industry China would be In
= dus trialized by a materialistic grinding mill The
question was. whether not this work should be
accomplished by altruistic Christianity (which
hates to our neighbors bound in industrial
slavery"
Watson Grace secretary of the Friends Foreign
Mission Association London, read an interesting
paper. which was in part as follows:
In all departments of Christian mission work
the missionary needs to remember that his duty Is
not to Anglicise or Americanize the converts. but
tian spirit before them. Industrial missionaries
dnicuties in the way of missionary societies EN-
barking upon Industrial effort appear to me to be
the in other departments-namely the sup
ply of men and An industrial missionary
needs not only the other qualifications which other
er, requires special training and aptitude for spe-
cial work. The means supplied TO societies for
their primary objects all too Scanty FOR the
great work in hand, and properly equipped lndus-
trial effort requires Stnted supply, especially IN
its initial stages, and patient persistence In lis
maintenance and growth 1t is essentially an
agency in which immediate results cannot be
looked for but like other businesses in early
years, requires more than IL yields. Rigorous in
quiry needs to be made regarding the lnduStrlal
schemes which proposed, and most careful tests
applied to the agents who may be sent out. A
Board of Directors representing various church
interests and commanding full confidence in busi-
missionary societies and taking charge of indus
trial missions, would render valuable service here
as the Industrial Missions Aid Society Is doing in
England. Men of spiritual power need to be spe-
cially trained, so that they may go out and teach
useful occupations and conduct honest business in
the power of Jesus Christ. Such an agency would
often become means of interesting and practical
ly informing a class of Christian business men,
who too much Influenced by misleading tales of
travellers regarding the failure of foreign missions
There is immense field for industrial missions
opening before the Christian Church. There are
dangers in carrying on right work in wrong way.
but with the prayer Establish Thou the work of
establish Thou it," desire to see the forces of
Jesus Christ move forward in His
In the discussion which followed Joseph Taylor
the Friends Mission. India; w. B. Grubb. Para
quay; the Rev. J. E. Abbott Bombay; the Rev DR.
ter. the Rev. DR.. Charles F. Morris and Willis r.
HnfcLkiSS of Africa took