The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-24

cutting OF Of the tuft of hair, the loss
Of which means separation from Hin
duism. The occasion focused the at
tention Of the religious world upon
the fact of Methodistism's aggressive,
diversified, far-ramifying and success
full work in India. Thirty-seven differ
ent languages are used by Methodist
missionaries in this country.
Allahabad, the university center of
India, boasts another great education.
al institution of the western type, the
Allahabad Christian college, of the
Presbyterian mission. Its buildings
are in quadrangle form about an inn
mense and symmetrical banyan tree.
One of the buildings is Princeton hall.
a gift of Princeton alumni. An inspec-
ton of this plant impresses visitor
with the thoroughness of the standard
maintained. The principal, Rev. DR..
Arthur H. Ewing, is rightly reckoned
one of India's great educational lead
ers. In the big preparatory school for
boys, which is part of the institu-
ton, l had chance to test all the
classes in English, and cannot imag-
inc school in the homeland emerging
from this sort of ordeal more sue.
cessfully.
The Living Dead.
At Allahabad is situated a large
leper asylum, maintained jointly BY
the government and by the beneficen
Mission to Lepers in the East 1t ID
managed by Mr. Samue4 Higginbot-
tom, of the Presbyterian mission
one of the innumerable extras that I
found missionaries everywhere carry
ing. 'Salaam, sahib," the lepers
full stumps of fingerless hands to their
foreheads. A more desolate spectacle
than leper asylum can scarcely be
imagined; yet here was to be found,
in some cases, the grace of Christian
resignation, with cheerfulness, which
is not always present amid scenes of
health and prosperity.
Not all leeprs are in asylums; I'M
numbered thousands roam the streets
at will. While attending the daily
clinic of DR.. Charles r. Cook, of Luck
now, the only missionary in all India
of the Reformed Episcopal church, 1
sat within five feet of two lepers
crowded in the press Next to one Of
them was a man whose family was
suffering with the plague, five having
died, and four being ill at the mo-
ment. Another one of the patients
hu
a wife and four brothers, and his
father lay dangerously i'll, all with the
plague. One convalescent plague pa
tient, whom the doctor had cured, was
mildly rebuked by this quiet, unruffled
missionary for leaving his bed too
soon. A boy smitten with the plague
was brought by mother with dread
filled eyes, and carefully examined by
the bare hands Of the doctor.
This one doctor, with single ma
tive assistant, had 61,63S cases last
year, including few in his well-kept
little hospital. All classes, rich and
poor, Mohammedans, Hindus and
Christians, come for help. I counted
80 crowded into the small room at
one time, while outside larger crowd
of waiting patients was listening to
the native preacher.
A MedaIed Missionary.
One of the star missions Of the
American board is at Ahmednagar,
where Rev. DR.. Robert A. Hume is
senior missionary Dr. Hume is less
widely known as the recipient of
medal from King Edward for his fam
inc relief work than as the author Of
Missions from the Modern View
point" That he and his associates
stand high in native esteem was evil
dent from the constant salaams he re-
ceived as We rode about the city to-
gether in tonga, or native cart.
Many non-Christian natives have
given largely to this mission work for
Indians, and the government also con-
tributes to the industrial school,
found all sorts of educational and
industrial enterprises under way,
some of them, from a bicycle repair
shop to tract depot, being wholly or
in part self-supporting. The big
church in native style, where even
Hindus have been known to worship
unknown gods, interested me less
than the extensive industrial estab-
lishments where oriental rugmaking,
weaving, woodcarving, carpentry and
brass and silver working are carried
on for the market, under the direction
of D. G. Churchill, of Oberlin college
and the Massachusetts Institution of
Technology, and ]. B. Knight, of Am
herst college, and an agricultural col
lege-types of the nonministerial, col.
lege-bred missionaries who are doing
pioneer work for the orient. Mr..
Churchill has invented a new hand
loom that is within the compass of
the average Indian mind and purse.
Miss Emily R. Bissell and her bro
Their, Rev. H. G. Bissell, carry on in
this mission the work which their
mother, who had been 81 years in In
dia, laid down last year. While watch
ing the arrival at the hospital here of
a woman patient in a bullock cart 1
saw Miss Moulton comforting the
weeping husband, Christian teacher,
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