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mr.. HUME'S LECTURE.
SECOND ON YORK IN THE MIS-
SION FIELD

Delivered Friday Afternoon at Mar
quand Chapel-speeial Topic, .sThe
Native NOn-christian and the Prob
lem Of Reaching Him.
The Rev. =. S. Hume delivered the
second Of his lectures on Missions Fri
day afternoon at three o'clock in the
Marquand chapel. His subject was
The Native Non-christian and the
Problem OF Reaching Him" The fol-
lowing is an outline Of the lecture:
India is Inhabited by a great variety
of races. living. under different political
conditions and accepting various
faiths. Dravidians. aboriginal tribes,
Arians. Tartars. Moguls, Afghans.
Parses and other races have success
siyely found home there.
Under the British government, as
paramount power, there still remains
more than six hundred native states
with total population of sixty mill
lion. Some Of these states are small
OLAASAo iAS AslA GAtAA
| important, such as Hydeyabad, Mysore
and Barada. The first of these covers
a territory three-fifths as large as Italy
and has a population Of ten million.
These larger divisions are fairly inde-
pendent states.
While a majority Of the people may
] be classed as Hindus in religion, there
are sixty-five million of Mohamnedans.
| The latter are more difficult to reach.
Different methods of missionary
work should be employed to influence
! these various races. separated from
each other by political and religious
lines.
The Oriental is an entirely different
being from the Occidental, hence the
| Importance Of experienced workers.
The first essential In the problem of
reaching the native nom Christian Is
that he must be reached chiefly by one
OF his own race.
The native worker still helps his fell
low countrymen to understand that
Christianity is not the white mans re-
ligion, but his own.
i Knowing the people, he is better fit
ted than the miss onary to present
Christian truth to those of the same
race an himself
The second essential in the problem
of reaching the native nom Christian is
that he must be reached early in life.
The boys have to begin supporting
themselves, and often a family, while
still young. and girls are married
years before. entering their teens. II
ever effectually influenced, they must
be reached before entering upon the se-
rious problems Of life
The third essentials that he must be
reached through his own needs.
"a man is more accessible to uplifting
Influences when approached in time of
distress. Schools and medical work
supply what the fpor, ignorant and
needy all over India require.
The fourth essential is that he must
be won. Controversy should be avoid
ed. The Oriental isnot fair debater,
and is more likely p be alienated than
won by religious discussion
The fifth and most important essen
tial in the problem OF reaching the ma
tive nom Christian As that we must be
co-workers with God.
The spirit Of God working through
i us should enabls us,to exhibit q Chris
tian character and to impart moral
Il power. nv n
i The writer's brother few years ago
was preaching for the first time in a
j village at a distance from his station.
AT the close Q; the service man who
had heard him said, Il have a book at
] home which ellis all the things you
have just sale. If you will come with
me 1 will show you the book. The
missionary went with him and found
at the mans house a copy of the New
Testament that had evidently been
kept there fol many years. on open
ling it he found written on the fly leaf:
Presented 10 Sakharun.
.'R. w. HUME.
1881
That copy of the New Testament
i had been given to the owner more than
II fifty years ago BY the nlissionarys
father The seed thus sown soon bore
fruit. The man to whom the book had
been given was the first man baptized
lin his village, and a fiourishing church
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