Evening star., 1904-02-23
DR.. Hune's Great Work.

DR.. Hume's Great Work.
B. A. Brendom, the highest English off,
cial in the district of Ahmednagar, upon
his retirement from authority in 1901, wrote
DR.. Hume as follows:
Before I surrender charge of this dis
trict desire to place in your hands my
opinion of the work which the American
mission Is carrying on here. / think
have seen all your institutions with the
exception of the experimental farms The
mission is housing, feedingi clothing, edu-
eating and teaching a trade to some 1900
children whom the famine. has bereft of
their parents. What, perhaps, pleased and
impressed me most was the iconviction that
your training of these children is proceed
ing on the right lines The money spent
upon these children is being spent to full
est advantage, and l sincerely trust that
the scope of the great work inaugurated
during these famines may not have to be
curtailed for want of funds"
DR.. Hume says that during the first
twenty years of mission work in India
more missionaries died than, converts were
baptized but the seed was sewn and is now
bearing fruit, as the census returns show
Yes, there are 1,5OO American mission
aries in India,' said DR.. Hume, "and they
are all busy, doing good with the liveliest
encouragement and the greatest confidence
in the usefulness and the success of their
labors They have all of the North Ameri-
can character, and although they are a
long way from home. they keep in close
touch with everything that occurs, in the
United States, and probably have, more
patriotism In proportion to their numbers
than any other set of Yankees on earth
Nearly every denomination is engaged
here. The PreSbyterianS are solid and de-
termined, the Congregationalists are en-
terprising and eager, the Methodists are
hustling, Just they do at home the
Lutherans are steady. slow and sure, and
the Baptists are emphasizing individual
salvation.
Advantage Over Europeans.
I'VE have an advantage over European
missionaries because we have no connec-
tions with a government. hence people un-
derstand that no political. considerations
are mixed up in our work. We have friend
ly relations with all the sects and denomi-
nations, and the respect of everybody.
Parsees and the Brahmins actually con-
tribute to the support of our work, because
they know the good we are doing without
distinction, and that they can give ex-
preston to their spirit Of benevolence
through us without interfering with any
other interest. Educated Indians generally
have the highest respect and admiration
for the United States and relations be-
tween the two countries are older and have
been closer than most people realize Eli
Yale. who founded Yale College, made his
money In India. He was once governor
of Madras. The University of Chicago is
highly appreciated because it has sent so
many accomplished men to lecture in india
DR.. Barrows is remembered with great re-
spect and affection by all .elasses-by the
Brahmins, the Buddhists, the Parsees and
the Mohammedans, well as the Chris
tians, because of his distinguished ability,
his Observation-Disclosures and his personal
qualities exhibited at the Congress of re-
ligions in Chicago, and afterward as the
first of the Haskell lecturers here Every
educated man in India kns% Fr. fsarrowts
and mourned his death Rev. Cu.hbert
Hall. who was the Haskell lecturer last
year, left very pleasant Impression.