Evening star., 1903-11-28
CHRISTIAN ,.ENDEAvOR I0JR
Conducted by
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL.
Fnr November %.

.. -.-. For November %. ..,
Topic: A Mission Study Of India-Zechariah 8: 1-8.
l. Again the word of the Lord of hosts
came to me, saying: -.
e. Thus saith the Lord Of hosts: 1 was
Jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and 1
was jealous for. her with great fury.
B. Thus saith the Lord: I am returned
unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called a
city of 8truth; and the mountain Of the
Lord of hosts the holy mountain.
T. Thus saith the. Lord Of hosts: There
shall yet old men and old women dwell in
the streets of Jerusalem. and every man
with his staff in his hand for very age.
5. And the streets of the city shall be
full of boys and girls playing in the streets
thereof. iss d"
g. Thus saith the Lord OF hosts If 1t be
marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in these. days, should it also be
marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of
hosts. -
7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Behold,
1 will save my people from the east coun-
try, and from the west country;
g. And l will bring them, and they shall
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they
shall be my people, and l will be their
God in truth and in righteousness.
In this passage of Scripture the over
throw of the heathen world by the hand of
Jehovah is predicted.
Beside me on the desk stands little il
Illuminated box wreathed in holly, and bear
ing the yellow star. the symbol of mission
work and on it this inscription: 1.-The
world for Christ in this generation" The
box is tei hold the offerings toward the
million-dollar Christmas gift for missions,
and Is sent out by the six national Congre-
gational missionary societies.
If then any Christians are daring to pro-
pose this great undertaking for this gen.
n r.
watching the signs of the times and grow
ing daily more eager and interested in the
progress made.irSEF ,Ef
Suppose any Of the great powers should
propose to conquer the world, and the fight
was on would we not watch the papers
daily and bes WeAi informed on every point
Yet our King has long been rejected and
we have not manifested an over amount of
zeal in His eausestnor many Of us cared to
study how the confict came on. For years
the gospel has beep preached In India, yet
war in Africa or the present political
troubles In the Isthmus of Panama
When will, Christians realize that the
great foreign missionary movement should
be more to them than any political strug-
giles of even theire6wn country For this Is
the bringing An efcthe kingdom of heaven.
India, the field 'fDr our study this month
is vast and full ofiinterest. 1t has a popu-
lation of 276lO0p,OOO.- and the last census
reports not lesssthan 100 languages. Think
of the undertaking. to enter India with the
gospel of ChffstL
Like some of the people in this country
and others perhaps-it is said that the law
of caste is amorep binding on the native
Hindus than theglaw of God.
1t is the pity and the shame of enlight-
ened people that we have allowed Hinduism
to be presented In America as a thing of
light and beauty, system of symbolism
representing God. A keen satire on this
will be found, in Mrs. Mason's book, "The
Little Green God" This, by the way, would
be good thing to have read aloud at a
missionary social. entire. It would be a
good. thing for Christian mission workers
to know what their sisters of leisure are
studying, and. nerhaps these mission study
classes that are becoming so popular might
steal into the circles where Hinduism has
had free neisn In our own Hand and do a
little foreign mission work at home.
India is the land of oppressed woman
hood and of the baby widows OF the
mighty change chat Christianity is making
IN tiris heathen land ayon may Judge from
shis quotation Mr. Speer gives, from q leaf
let Of one ef the Htndu societies: 5s
'sThey have caStlthsar net over our chill