New-York tribune., 1901-06-06

speedier development and uplifting of India TO an
exalted place among living nations
would Ike to say to American friends you
help yourselves when you help the Of mis-
sions in India. Had there been American mis-
sions in India. there had been market for
American products there is to-day. Christanize
people, and you bring them into the cooperative
society Of producing and consuming nations.
Pagan superstition keeps people in an infantile
state, ignorant OF the good God has put all around
them. careless OF the webeing OF the mind
body. the victims Of much poverty deception and
diabolism. But with the quickening touch of the
religion of the Son of God they rise shake off
their fetters. and in amazement soon find their
way into a worldwide brotherhood India Is
awakening. She is hungry She will buy and pay
for what America makes and sells. And this will
be more and more the case in the future TO an
extent few people now dream. The American
chanic. merchant, farmer banker. manufacturer
traveller. educator. scientist and scholar will all
proht more and more Christian missions
tlnue 10 triumph in India. The missionary cause
is not subject of charity. 1t is an investment.
paying better financially than any guaranteed
financial enterprise ever yet inaugurated. Yea its
success insures the success of all other worthy
Now that the commercial kings Of America are
looking so vigorously toward midland l am one
who believes the looking will pay in gold-let them
gives them out OF India help upIft the millions
of the empire. Education, medical work charita-
direct evaneesm@What nced5 there are! What
room for help by which the people can rise TO
traSh'
Millions are being made Of poor India.
Christian business Of America. improve the
status of your patrons in India, and more numer-
Gus millions await your count. Millions of Guilt
Tators will want a steel plough in the place of
the crooked stick in use for centuries. Mechanics
must have tools instead OF the things their fathers
used. thousand new industries springing up.
All call for what you must supply. and make
money supplying. Your profits in days come
will be slow or quick in proportion as you invest
IN the moral, mental. spiritual and physical up
Ift OF these three hundred millions. Farmers,
remember India. Your corn fruit and meat is
coming Invest something in India. and you help
yourself TO the largest speedy development OF a
market for your products
i have been twenty-five years here in India
" what change in this quarter of a century! But
II is nothing TO what is coming one hundred
thousand heather are this day knocking at The
door OF our missions. Missionaries are handi-
capped for means and men to receive and instruct
them. Can there be given needed help. the day
will be seen by the missionaries now in he field
when there will be more Christians IN India than
the present population Of the United states. What
a mercantile market these seVenty-hve million
Christians will provide Worldly wisdom joins
with the divine purpose and says. Haste the day
OF their being" All, but this is a begging letter?
No, dear reader. ! lay the facts before you We
do need money In every branch of missionary
work. | but tell you how you invest and help
yourself Dy helping the Of missions In India.
c. p. WARD. Methodist Missionary
Yellandu, India, May g. 1901.