The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-25

| pdeaching as the center and heart of
 this far-reaching system of operations. | The existing church accommodation
 is pitifully inadequate. There is no place where the great host of worship pers can gather beneath one roof. And
 so it is with great joy that note how Dr. Robert Hume has found in the very
 heart of the native city, just where the
 currents of it's life flow most vigorous ly, a commanding site whereon to build 8 great house of worship.
 | Is there not somewhere in the west
 some man or woman of wealth who will | build this church and build it now?
 Happy the man, happy the woman, to ! whose lot shall fall the honor and the
 privilege of building this church as it
 ought to be built!''
 Dr. Hume, who has led in this effort for the new church, should go on fur 1 tough in the spring of 1904.
 After May 1, correspondence in Amer
 lea about this church may be had with his son, R. T. Hume Ph. D., who &C., | companied Dr. Hall on his visit to In-
 dia. His address is Union Theological
 Seminary. Al East Sixty-ninth street,
 New York city.
 Ahmednagar is a city of thirty-five thousand inhabitants, one hundred and fifty miles east .os Bombay, and the
 center of the Ahmednagar district with
 population of S37,774. In this city and
 immediate vicinity the Marathi mission
 of the American board has consider
 able staff of workers and a large
 Christian community. It also has a
 missionary family and staff of workers
 at Rahuri, twenty-four miles north
 west in the Ahnednagar district, and
 still another missionary family and
 staff of workers at Vadala, twenty-six
 miles northeast. The S. P. G. mission of the Church of England has it's head quarters in the cantonmeht outside of the city, and district headquarters in two places with good many agents and Christians to the northeast and northwest. In the city there is a Nor nal school of the Christian Literature society, and rug factory of the In- dustrial Missions Aid society and com- pany. According to the government
 census of 1901, the population of the Ahmednagar district had decreased in the preceding decade by fffty-two thou sand on account of famine, plague and emigration, while in the same decade the Christian population had increased three hundred per cent, l. e., from 6,7S4 to 20,S64. According to the same census, the Christians of Ahmednagar city numbered S,572, i. e., ten per cent. of the whole population, and twenty one hundred of these, i. e., six per cent. of the population, were connected with the American mission. The fol- lowing is condensed statement of Christian work which is being carried on from the station of Ahmednagar city alone, except the work of the s. P. G. mission:
 There is Theological seminary, whose instructors are Dr. Hume, Mir Bissell, and an Indian Christian, MT. N. V. Tilak, with two classes of twen- ty-seven students. one of which is in- structed wholly in the Marathi lan- guage, and the other class half in Eng fish and half in Marathi. On the 29th of November twenty-one students of one class were graduated after course of four years. .s
 An unusual amount of attention is paid to industrial training in Ahmed nagar. MT. Smith superintends an in- dustrial school in which four hundred and thirteen boys and girls are taught three industries-rug-weaving, metal hammering and carpentry. MT. Churchill, mechanical engineering expert, who anne in 1901, has devised an improved hand-loom which can turn out thirty yards of cloth day, which is two and three times the output of other hand-looms, His looms and de- vices are inexpensive and such as con- mon weavers an understand and repair. At present he has twenty-one boys and some men working at weaving and car pentry in his workshop. Soon a large building will be erected in which many lads will find employment. MT. J. B. Knight is the agricultural expert, who also came from America in 1901. He has lass of forty boys--n1ostly famine boys-who work at farming half the day and study the other half, who are being trained, to become better farmers than are usually met with. Also he has an advanced class of ten young men, who together with practical farm ing are. receiving English instruction in agricultural chemistry and similar sub jects to become fitted to act as agricul- tural leaders in various districts. Mrs. Wagentreiber is the lady industrial ex- pert, who quite recently joined the sta- tion. She teaches lace-making to sev- enty girls and also to women who will become teachers of lace-making in oth- CT stations.
 In the great famine of 1S99-1900 American missionaries received a large number of famine children; SS4 such, 5s7 girls and 4s7 boys, are still in the care of Ahmednagar missionaries. They all receive secular and religious instruction. and many of them are en- ployed in house work and other indus tries, such as metal-han,nering, weav- ing, carpentry, farming, etc. Many | nave learned to cook and to sew their l own garments. Many have kindergar- len finger-work and drawing. This reg lment of famine children who are being | carefully trained forms a unique and |