Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-04

OF the cares Of the charming young woman
In charge Is the endeavor to find husbands
for as many as possible Of the fifty women
who come under her oversight every year.
In this same city Of Lucknow I found an
other f1ourishing institution for women, the
Isabella Thoburn College, said to be the old
est college for girls In India. having been es-
tablished in 1870. 1t Is affiliated with the
University Of Allahabad. and has more re-
quests than 1t can meet for graduates to fill
governmental and private teaching posi-
lions. The college has won favor with high
caste natives. and its nearly 200 students
represent all classes of society. 1 could not
see that the life differed greatly from the
life Of American college girls.
AS 1 watched file Of these lustrous-eyed
graceful, white-robed girls cross the campus
of the Presbyterian girls school at Alfalfa
bad on their way to chapel 1t seemed to
me that the spectacle was rather more pic
turesque than anything an American college
can boast. This building is the gift of Mr.
John Wanamaker A Christian Endeavor
meeting by the girls was quite a model
meeting of the American type. Christian
EndeavOr appears to be especially effective
among the Indian churches. Even a slight
association with the students here seemed
to show in their character reflection of
the charm of Miss Forman. their principal
The caliber culture and character of some
of the American women to be met on the
mission field are altogether beyond the i'm
agining of the public at home.
Among the Indian refOrmers there is dis
cernible a movement looking toward the
naturalization OF midas varying creeds.
which Is a step essential to political unity.
The national creed is not intended to be
Christianity. The one conspicuous agency
offsetting this tendency Is the mission
school. Up and down the length of India
are schools conducted by missionaries and
attended by the children of Christian con-
Verts (for they are part of the machinery
which must produce the next generation of
native preachers). by the children of low
castles who are thus equipped to rise in the
social scale and to an increasing extent of
late years, by the children of the higher
castles. 1t is almost hopeless to attempt
hne big Reid Christian College at Lucknow
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church stu
ated on ground made historic by the
mutiny. equipped with imposing buildings
attended by 500 students In dormitory
from wide region OF which Lucknow Is
the center. and administ cred to by men of
ability and breadth of vision Both COL
legiate and commercial courses are given
here.
Early this year many Methodists from
America iourneyed to India to attend the
jubilee of Methodist Episcopal missions at
Bareilly. where fifty years ago Rev. Will
liam Butler established the work of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. which has
now grown to a force of 5000 workers and
tion, which was attended by 1000 native
Christians. 800 converts were baptized on
single day a unique feature Of the bap
tismal service being the cutting Off of the
tuft of hair, the loss of which means sep
aration from Hinduism The occasion
focused the attention of the religious
world upon the fact Of Metho1istism's ag-
sressive. diversified. far-ramifying and
successful work in India. Thirty-seven
different languages used by Methodist
missionaries in this country.
Allahabad. the university center Of India,
boasts another great educational institu-
ton OF the western type, the Allahabad
Christian College of the Presbyterian mis-
sion. Its buildings are in quadrangle form
about an immense and symmetrical BAN
yam tree. One of the buildings Ia Prince-
ton Hall. a gift of Princeton alumni An
inspection OF this plant impresses a visitor
with the thoroughness of the standard
maintained. The principal Rev. DIR. Ar
thur II. Ewing. is rightly reckoned one of
midas great educational leaders In the
big preparatory school for boys which ia a
part of the institution. 1 had a chance to
test all the classes in English. and 1 can
not imagine a school in the homeland
emerging from this sort of ordeal more
successfully.
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