Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-01-30

such are the contrasting adJectiYes
which one may apply to this third
largest city in the British empire,
seated on the banks of the Hoogli
river. whose shifting currents are her
best defense against an invading fleet.
1t is a city of color, from the fat,
shiny, black babu, scantily clad only
In few yards of purple cheese cloth
and dazzling yellow shoes, to the pale
and immaculate Briton, in top hat and
frock coat 1t is a city of historic In
terest; everybody goes first TO see the
famous Black Hole.
But to all the world that is in any
way interested in missions this Is re-
membered as the scene of the labors
of William Carey, the father of mod
ern Protestant missions, who did his
lifework at Serampore, few miles
from here. In the cathedral also one
sees a fine statue of Reginald Heber,
the famous missionary bishop of the
Church of England and author of the
most widely-!nown missionary hymn,
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains"
Dus<y Europeans"
My work deals with to-day so must
introduce the reader instead to the
most curious company Of Europeans"
he has ever met, as they are gathered
for worship, several hundreds of
them, in the fine big church of the
American Methodist mission. These
dusky Europeans" are mostly half
castles, Eurasians, but they dislike the
M oil 20
claim identity only with their white
ancestors. Thus a dark brown man,
three-fourths native, will speak osten-
tatiously of going "home" to England,
though he never saw England, and
only one of his forbears for centuries
past has ever been outside OF India
This very pride indicates that the
Euraslan has certain qualities which
go with white blood, and this self.sup-
porting, aggressive church, with re.
tinement written on the faces of many
OF its members, indicates the impor.
lance of this branch of the Methodist
Episcopal mission. The Methodists
have been very successful throughout
India in this work for Eurasians, and
for the whites who have married ma.
tive women, thus losing social caste
In addition. other white people who do
not care for the established church
services. attach themselves to these
churches for Europeans
The Really White Europeans.
II the blended brother is a problem
In India needing the missionarys at.
tention, no less Is the simon-pure
white man, And l must say that, so
far as could learn, the life of the Eu.
ropeans (as all Caucasians are desig-
mated east of Suez) is more whole.
some and normal in India than in the
far east, This is doubtless due to the
fact that British influence is alto.
gether dominant, and British ideals
have followed the flag The white
people generally attend the estab.
lished churches, just as at home, as q
matter of course.
For the young men-who are every.
where the crux of the social problem
spicuously successful work. In the
farther east 1t has been failure SC
far as the white men are concerned
although Its work for the natives. as
these articles have reported, has been
of high grade. Here, however the
association is good FORM" and the
larger Indian cities have fine build
tngs, verit~ gentlemen's clubs, with
chambers for any number of mer
from a score to hundred, and in gen
eral doing sort of Christian work
which deserves great praise. 1t would
cause an American secretary to If
his eyebrows were he to see the nun
Der OF men In evening clothes (includ
Ing, OF course, the local secretary him
self to be found of an evening in tn,
Calcutta or Bombay association
Therein. though. is a sign of success
for that is the very crowd that tn
association needs to reach here TIL
work for the native Indians, conduct
ed in separate buildings. OF course, i
equally notable.
There are white women in the cas-
as we'll as native and half-caste W.
men. needing the peculiar sort of hel
which the Y. w. G. A. affords. / wa
greatly struck by the hold that thi
organization has taken In India; theT
Is sanity, careful, confident facin
of actual conditions, and an effectiy
dggressiveness about it which shoul
place the association very high in ii
-ank of missionary agencies.
One sort of work open to the Y. v
G. A. is Illustrated by the following /
cident. Every ship sailing to Ind
from England carries young wom6
going out to be married, and to liN
with fathers. brothers, or other rel
tiyes Not always do the relativ,
turn up, or the bridegrooms pro,
available; in which case the your
woman sadly needs womanly help al
safe shelter. On the ship in which
went to Calcutta were three SUI
young women; one of them disco
cred that her uncle had gone to Jap
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