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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. It's 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 II. Ewing, is rightly reckoned
one Of India's great educational lead
ers. In the big preparatory school for
boys, which is a part of the institu-
ton, ] had chance to test all the
classes in English, and | cannot imag-
Inc a 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 beneficent
Mission to Lepers in the East. 1t is
managed by Mr.. Samuel Hlgginbot-
tom. Of the Presbyterian mission
one of the innumerable extras that
found missionaries everywhere carry
ing. "Salaam, sahib," the lepers
would cry as we passed, lifting pitt
full stumps of flngerless 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,
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 i'll at the mo-
ment. Another one of the patients
had, within few days, lost a baby,
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 a single ma
tive assistant, had 1888 cases last
year, including a few in his well-kept
little hospital. All classes, rich and
poor, Mohammedans, Hindus and
Christians, come for help. l counted
80 crowded into the small room at
one time, while outside larger crowd
of waiting patients was listening to
the native preacher
A Medaled 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 a
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 a 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 bicycle repair
shop to tract depot, being wholly oil
in part self-supporting. The big
church in native style, where ever
Hiudus have been known to WORSHIP
unknown gods, interested me less
than the extensive Industrial estab
lishments where oriental rugmaking
weaving, woodcarving. carpentry ant
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on for the market, under the direction
of ID. G. Churchill, of Oberlin colleg,
and the Massachusetts Institution o
Technology, and j. B. Knight, of Am
herst college, and an agricultural col
lege-types of the nonministerial, col
lege-bred missionaries who are doini
pioneer work for the orient. MI
Churchhill has invented a new han
loom that is within the compass @
the average Indian mind and purse.
Miss Emily r. Bissell and her bro
Their, Rev. II. G.. Bissell, carry on 4
this mission the work which thei
mother, who had been 81 years in Ii
dia, laid down last year. While watcl
ing the arrival at the hospital here {
woman patient in a bullock cart
saw Miss Moulton comforting tn
: weeping husband, Christian teache
: in manner which revealed to me tn
beautiful devotion of the missionarie
2 to this people.