Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-13

medan slipped quietly away. That night
about midnight we were aroused by the
police officer. He had gathered up po-
licement from every village through which
he came and had a small army with him.
He was a Mohammedan, had been educated
in mission school at the expense of a
missionary and was friendly. He went
into the village at midnight and aroused
as many families as he could. Arrested the
| leaders of the mob. Next morning he
brought them to our camp, frightened
nearly to death. They begged. they
pleaded for mercy. The snsrling, stalwart
man of the previous day. who was then
giving commands to the mssionary's wife,
| now fell at her feet and stroked them and
begged. He, with the others, were gladly
forgiven, on one condition only, that they
would stop all persecution of Christians.
That evening as we walked through the
village and every day for week after,
the Mohammedans met us with bows and
obesiance, praise and fiattery which seemed
too profuse to be genuine. so extreme as
to be sickening. But the missionary be-
lieved 1t to be sincere. He recalled how
as a boy in the middle west, when he en-
| tered a district school. the attitude OF the
boys changed just as radically after win
ming fight And So" he said, 1T is not
peculiar Mohammedan nature which we
have run against-only the same old hui
man nature
After the police oficer and his men had
spent the day eating at the expense Of the
village, they stopped at our camp. The
officer said THAT is all humbug about
spreading plague. These people know that
you are not doing any harm, save that you
win isach and lift up these out castles whom
they depress, despise. prosecute and take
service from. You will make them their
equals. Then who will do their drudgery?
They say II you will open a school for Mo-
hammedans there will be nc. more trouble"
The missionary said: I'VE will send a
teacher and open school for the Chris
tians. Mohammedans and Hindus will not
be excluded, but we will open no separate
school. We have neither men nor money
to open separate schools on caste lines,
even II we had the disposition to do So"
Position of the out Castles.
This, of course, will not satisfy them.
For neither can a Hindu or Mohammedan
touch an out caste Without being deflled.
II sweeper is to hand anything to an
other he must first lay it on the ground;
even when buying anything In the bazaar
the thing bought is thrown at him like
throwing a bone to dog. He in turn
!, throws down the money and so contact is
prevented. Like the prodigal son, they
, have wandered clear away They tend the
swine, they eat the husks and like the
prodigal. all over India, they have come
; to themselves and are saying, Let US
! arise and go TO our Father" And the
Father. as of yore. is saying, IT call W
not servants. but sons" They are receiv
; ing education and are Strengthening VI
= morally. They are literally being picked
up from the dunghill. They are foolish
they are weak, they are base, they are
despsed, they are not out caste. yet Goo
! hath chosen them and can use them to SCI
at naught the things that are They whC
: have been without a caste are fast becOm
ing an influential Christian brotherhood
! They who have been last and least in tn
q land are becoming first. That no fesl
should glory in His presence"
: MARY Z. DANDY