The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-28

while the minister points out the phil
| osophy of the efforts Of the other two
and presents the conception of life
which leads both medical missionary
and teacher to separate themselves
| from home and friends and devote
| themselves to people who are connect
ed with them only by the primal ties
| which bind each human being to every
| other
1 shall long remember two meetings
which / addressed in India. One was
/ held under the auspices of the Y. M.
| G. A. at Allahabad, one of the centers
/ of the Hindu religion. At the cOnclus-
/ ion of my address an Indian arose and
! addressed me as follows: Mr.. Bryan,
you cannot judge of the influence of
| Christianity upon our country by the
number of church members. The spirit
| of Christ and the Christian ideal have
made an impression far wider than the
! church membership would indicate. Tell
your people that the Indians are CRATE
| full to them for the missionaries and
| teachers whom they have sent among
us, and tell them how few these are in
number compared with our needs Send
us more. and assure your people that
we appreciate the benefits received
/ from America.
This unsolicited testimonial to the
i good work of our missionaries and
teachers is entirely deserved. The In
i fuence of Christianity upon the orient
| is vastly greater than one would think
it if church membership were the test
| The stimulus which is given to eastern
4 thought is enormous, and already the
| Hindus, Parsees and Mohammedans are
4 initiating the methods of the Christian
world and establishing schools indie
pendent of the government. The educa-
ton of the boys is proceeding more rap
idly than the education of the girls, but
the latter is not entirely neglected one
i Mohammedan woman, of Bombay, Of
i unusual mental strength and charac-
ter. outlined a plan which she had
formed for establishing a school for
II the women of her religious faith.
i The Bombay meeting was in some
/ respects the most remarkable meeting
i that / ever addressed. Rev. Mr. Nell,
i an American, is pastor of the Metho-
dist church in Bombay While in Cal
4 cutta I received a letter from his ask
ing me TO deliver in Bombay, in his
church, the lecture entitled 1.-The Prince
Il of Peace" which / delivered at Toxic
and at Manila. As the time approached
} for the meeting. he concluded that his
; church would not be large enough for
the audience. and arranged to secure
the town hall which accommodates
about 1900 people. He was somewhat
than necessary but it was the only au-
J; dience room that he could secure
T When the time came for the meeting,
the hall was not only filled to over
flowing but the crowd outside was
: such that it was difficult for US TO eff
: feet an entrance On the platform were
: prominent HinduS, MOhammedans and
u Parsees. and three-fourths of the au-
: dience at least, were made up of non
Christian Indians. Yet these people lis
, tened for more than an hour to a de-
! Tense of the Christian religion-lis-
tened as attentively as any audience
ever listened to a political speech, and
when 1 went from the hall, the younger
men were massed along the way and
; cheered as our people cheer during the
: campaign. The next day / received q
( letter from one of the young men
= thanking me for shaking hands with
: him as passed out
81 In the letters on India have referred
4 to the Presbyterian college at Allaha-
I bad At Bombay we found a Congrega-
tional school for boys and girls and q
s school for the blind. 1t touches ones
/ heart to see these sightless little In
I dams cared for by American philan-
+ throphy, and under the teaching OF
sympathetic friends. made more cap
: able Of self support and raised to g
4 higher intellectual level than millions
81 who can See- Many or the chlIdrer
h taken into these schools are orphans
a whose parents have died during the
= famines What a, history might be writ
y ten if the events of their lives were
@ nut on record, and how much evidence
n would be furnished to those who en-
e deavor to trace the providence of Goo
q i'm the lives of individuals as well as In
a. the course of nations.
= I have in another article referred u
q to the work of the United PreSbyter-
Z ians in the valley of the Nile. 1t would
: be difficult to overestimate the influ.
ence which these pioneer American:
f have exerted over the descendants o.
n the Pharaohs. The government is Civ.
o ing more and more attention TO educa
e tional matters i'm Egypt, but the frs
: work was done by the missionaries
f and no one can appreciate what this
= work, but laboring with Anticipated
v tunity to compare the boys and girl!
g i'm the schools with the children who
J. are growing up I'm ignorance outside. II
@ Jerusalem the Catholic school for girl.
: most interested us, and / need not ado
e that the Catholic missionaries have il
IL many countries been the first TO risl
!, their lives in the spread of tie gospe