The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-04

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is Whom do you worship?' sI wor.
ship Maruti. Maruti is the image Of
. monkey. cut ont Of stone and daubed
ALI over with red paint. This monkey
god is one Of the most popular gods
I Of India. In Vadala, where we live,
four or five hundred yards away from
our house, is q temple in which there
! is q stone image Of 3 man. 1t is hid
eous figure, all covered with red
paint The people Of Yadala 20 there
and worship this god They take
their children there and teach them to
worship this god. What do you SUP.
pose his name is? Bahiroba or the
Deaf Man During one season Of the
year thousands Of people come and
worship this Deaf Man. Yon will no
along the street and see people stop
before q heap Of stones. painted red,
shutting off their shoes, and bowling
down This is IDOLATRY, the second
great fact about the people of India.
Again Jet us ask one more question
of this boy. In this country we are
always asking our boys what they are
going to become. a boy here usually
answers right up, I am going to be q
doctor, or minister, or a business
man. But this boy Of India does not
even understand what you mean.
What am | going to become? Why, /
don't understand you, he says. You
explain. Oh, he replies, my father is
a farmer, or my father is merchant,
and Of course am to be farmer or
o merchant. That is CUSTOM. Born
farmer, always farmer Born q
merchant, always merchant. The boy
must not do anything different from
the father; always the same. In fact
the boy can never be quite as good
as the father, that is their idea. So
it is that they use the same tools, the
same implements, the same dishes,
etc, that they used in India four thou
sand years ago. Hard custom has
fixed things for that people.
Children under these circumstances
surely need something better. Here
in this Sunday school, you have the
very best that the world offers taught
you. The children over there in In
dia need to be taught the very best
too. That is the reason why some Of
us are over there as missionaries.
Now word as to what we are do
ing for the children in India. / can
tell you only a little. We have for
these children schools. Here is viii
lage. It is not like village in this
country. The walls of the buildings
are all Of sundried bricks, mud walls.
Here is rather low building; we
enter it STOPPING very low, for the door
way is not high as in this country.
AS soon as we enter, we hear great
shutting and boys and girls calling
out to us sSalaam" from every side.
That is "Peace be with you. !"
Here then is a mission school The
children are taught the three Rs, viz.
reading, writing and arithmetic.
They are taught about Christ and
what is told in the Bible. They have
in their Sunday schools on Sunday
the same lesson from the Bible that
you do. All this does not perhaps
mean much to you, but it means q
great deal to the children over in In
dia. Many of them have never had
the opportunities Of school before.
Their forefathers for hundreds and
hundreds of years have never had
schooling. So to them it is great
privilege. These little schools are not
very costly, the average cost of one of
the twenty village schools that l have
is not more than $40 year. That is a
little over So month. And yet these
little schools are of the greatest bene-
fit to these villages. They are trans
forming some of them. Here, for in
stance is a school that has been going
only six months. There never has
been school in that village before.
But after six, months, between fifteen
and twenty children are baptized
there with twenty or thirty OF their
parents and relatives Here is another
town. in which. there are two schools,
Work had not been successful there
once. But year ago. between sixty
and seventy children were baptized
after two years of labor. Over hun
dred people were baptized at once.
Still another village--the teacher has
been faithful in going around among
the neighboring villages and all at
once over ninety are baptized there.
So it is that these little schools are
lights that are lighting the dark
regions in which they are placed.
Finally just word about the great
opportunity in India today
/ was off twenty -fiye miles from my
station A boy came to my tent and
begun to ask me if he could not 20 to
a school where the Bible was taught.
The boy was about sixteen OF seven
teen wears of age. He said he learned