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A RICH YOUN MAN IN INDIA.

A RICH YOUN MAN IN INDIA.
 One of the three Yale students ' ho went out from "Old Elie ten years ago to make an appeal to the students of the colleges and universf= ties of North America to go as mis- sionafies to foreign countries, WAS q youns "Shef" science student by the name of Eddy. He paid his own Way He liked to play the game for the sake of playing il. as much as any nan who ever went on the griliron CT the track. His colleagues Were P5tkin and Luce. Pitkin was butch cred bv the boxers in China He was square jawed fellow who did things Robert Speer says that pi. kin fairly won his place among he foes. Luce is now a missionary in China. Eddy, after finishing his Work at Yale, went to India as Y Nj. C. X. college secretary. and work. ed sfor the fun of Working,' without salary He made other mon work with his own enthusiasm at the busi. hess of Christianizing their fellows. The Y. M. c. A. method of catching the best man in the crowd who can do things, getting him converted, showing him how 10 do it himself, and making a missionary of him to his own set he put in operation with the HindOO and the Brahmin uni Yersity men. As in America. the col lege men enlisted and trained in the Y. NJ. c. A. influenced their fellows: the railroad men, the engineers and prakemen they worked with: the sol Gier, the soldier; the sailor. the sail or; the miner, the miner: so he made men work to better each other and make them Christians in Indla. > A few years ago he asked the presi. cent of theological seminary to give his his entire class of twelve theological students, native Pasuma- hdns. 10 try an experiment with for ene year With these native stud. ents he went from village to village. talking with groups of mon and hold ing serHices-@Witnessng" they call el it. Their converts were nrmber- cd by the hundreds. and they left in each place some men who were fired with their leaders own enthusiasm to keep at work on he same plan. The students Were passionately de- voted to him. He was a most sym fathetic and tolerant man, but=he had no tolerance or sympathy for anything crooked or unclean. He has injected American energy into Indian intellieenee
 With. Carter. the National Y. NJ. C A. secretary fer Inais, who was sent out from Harvard, he called represen- tatives from each province of India. Purmah and Ceylon. to meet in Ca. 'ey's historical library in Serampore to set up a scheme to do for ovor che hundred million people who, as yet. are not reached by the gospel what this native band of theolo@s had Gone for a few. It is stupendous enterprise It will unite the Christ ians and churches of the provinces and the leading missionaries are hacking it. the veteran mission lead CT Dr. Chamberlain. being one of it's strongest advocates.
 This meeting happened on the two hnndredth anniversary of the first .frotestant missionary's advent into India. the one hundredth anniversary of the "Haystack Meeting at Will Hamstown, Mass. and of the land ing of Henry Martyr in India, at whose old pagoda some of the meet ines were held.
 This will be movement of the native Indians for India. One man said, q will give my son, who is just