The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-10
ADDRESS BY REV. Mr., HUME
DELIVERED AT 18TH ANNUAL
SESSION
of the New Haven Branch of the wO-
mans Board of Missions at United
Church May 8. ................

mans Board of Missions at United
Church May s.
The following os a summary of the
address Of Rev. E. S. Hume Of Bonn
bay, India; subject The Urgency of
the Harvest Call delivered at the
above named meeting:
More events of far reaching influence
are transporting on the mission field at
the present day during a single week
than happened in a lifetime when my
parents went to India, sixty-seven
years ago Hence. the urgency of the
harvest call which is coming. to us,
AT the last meeting of the Decennial
conference in India, held three years
ago last winter, it was voted to ask
the societies and churches of Europe
and America for nine thousand new
missionaries; a number considerably
more than twice as great as was then
laboring in that country. This APP
peal has been received in different
United Presbyterians of this country
have a large and successful mission in
northern India. That mission deter
mined to carry out the proposal to the
very letter. Mr.. Campbell White, who
was at the head of the Young Mems
Christian association work at Calcutta,
resigned his important position there
and returned to this country in order
tc stir up the Unlteu Iresbyter.ans of
the United States to furnish their quo
ta of the new missionaries This mis-
sion to the home churches has been
successful. One hundred and eighty
new workers are being sent to that sin
gle mission in northern India. Think
what an effect upon the missionaries
the native Christians and non-Chris-
tians in that land this magnificent rein
forcement must have The churches al
home ALSO which are sending forth this
splendid body of young men and Wo-
men, will also receive great reward
Probably few Of those present here
to-day have heard of this appeal for
nine thousand new missionaries for In
dia, because our board has not under
taken to fulfil it's share Of the quota OF
workers called for. In the three mis-
sions of our board in India there are
to-day considerably less than one hun
bred missionaries, and the prospect for
large reinforcements Is very small.
DR.. Hume, of Ahmednagar, recently
wrote letter to two young men OF that
mission, who are studying in this coun-.
try, advising them on their return to
India not to join our mission, but to at
tach themselves to new native socie-
ty which is to be supported and carried
on entirely by natives of India. The
policy of retrenchment from which we
have suffered, has produced no little
encouragement. The native Christians
are not only easily discouraged by re-
trenchment, but they regard this policy
as positively immoral and even dishon-
est. 1t is impossible to explain to them
how it can be right for a society to un-
dertake work, to train laborers, and
then to curtail this endeavor or dis
miss the workers. They think that this
Is positively wrong.
call attention to these facts in order
to give point to my contention that the
call to the harvest field at the present
time is most urgent. The workers
themselves have more ardent desires
and greater expectations than ever be
fore
A second reason for this urgency Is
the fact that unusual opportunities are
presenting themselves to US in recent
times. In western India there are many
descendants Of the Portuguese Roman
Catholics, who, long ago, went to that
country and intermarried with the ma
tives. Not far from Bombay there Is
group Of little villages, in which there
are about a thousand of these people
who, fifty years ago. became dissatls-
fed with their religious guides and
sent away their priests. During these
past fifty years they have called them
selves New Mahrattas. Five years ago
they sent me several requests to come
and work among them, and desired to
become Christians like ourselves, For
lack Of time and strength and workers
this urgent call could not be accepted.
1t is but one of many of the same KIND
that could be mentioned.
"A LnlIu IGdHOLl ull1l 6iNC1 ASANS ~ Ni'S
call from the harvest field Is the fact
that a great religious awakening is al
ready in progress in India. This Is es-
pecially true at Calcutta and in the
Pasumalai college at Madura. OF the
eight hundred students in this institu-
ton one hundred have recently become
protesting Christians, while all the rest
have been profoundly stirred. Surely
the expectations of the mission work.
ers. the coming into prominence of OPP
portunities such as we have never
known before, and the religious awak-
ening, which is already stirring the stu
dent body of that land, should make us
feel how urgent is the call which has
now reached our ears.
ROARD OF GOVERNORS.