The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

tween hours when he should be rest
ing in the shelter OF his home My
own little experience. hazardous as it
was, taught me the price that some
missionaries are paying for the ser
cIIned to include many OF these I'M
distinguished missionaries OF the
present day in the role OF heroes
The tremendous increase of con-
verts in some parts Of India. and es-
peciaIIy in the Methodist Episcopal
fields. has laid gigantic burdens
greater, in a way. than Carey ever
knew-upon the shoulders of leading
missionaries; such as Bishop Warne,
he of the statesman-Ifke vision and
child-Iike heart
India has throughout her history
been the scene OF religious conflict
One faith has succeeded another Only
today the newspaper reported armed
fighting between Mohammedans and
Hindus in Bengal Buddhism has been
crowded out into the friugeS Of the
country, making its last stand in Cey-
lon NOW the greatest struggle Of all.
the final one. is on. with Christianity
arrayed against all non-Christian
faiths The progress OF the battle is
increasingly dramatic: the issue will
mean not only the redemption from
ignorance, superstition and misery of
one fifth of the human race. but il will
also mark the conquest of the greatest
stronghold OF heathendom-
The people OF India, ike those of
Athens are too religious" as Paul
said The whole life Of the nation is
frnpre grated with the religious idea.
with the religious practices and re-
IIgtous beliefs, 70 degree nowhere
else to be paralIeled- Yet lower
level OF immortality and degradation
Is reached IN connection with the re-
Iigious rites of India than 7 have bean
able to discover anywhere else in the
world
MuItiforrn Hinduism, with its mil
lion deities and its blight of caste. is
the principal faith Of India Then
come AIohammedauism, Christianity,
Zoroastrfauism or dre-worshtps and
various smaller sects.
For every man. woman and child on
the great North American continent
there are three in the smaller land of
India
Somehow. the shining names of
Carey. Judson- Duff and Martyr will
not flow from my pen, as con-
template IndTa's missionary heroes
For cannot help thinking Of Hume,
and Ewing. and F0rman. and Robert
son, and Jones, and Cook. and a whole
company Of present successors TO the
high office Of these famous ones who
have gone 10 their grave In qualities
OF craftsmanship. devotion, efficiency
not TO be mentioned results-these
latter are fully the peer of their pre-
decessOrs-
If had the power to paint the pic
ture Of Miss NouItou. OF the American
board Of mission, as I one day saw her
at the verauda Of the hospital in
Ahmedagor. comforting native
ing brought IN, sick unto death, I
would have penned q sufficient answer
to all criticism Of wOmau'S work in
missions. Or could 1 describe the
clinic which I one day witnessed in
the Lucknow hospital OF Dr. Cook. OF
the Reformed Episcopal mission, l
would start such a tide Of support for
all India medical missions as would
never abate until this sorely-smttten
land has found the great healing at
the hands Of the great physician
There would be a new figure In the
realm of WOmau'S education to rank
with Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman
adequately represent Miss FOrman- OF
the Wanamaker Girls school in ALA
habad as I saw her amid her girls
and heard, up and down the land. or
her work In that same city also /
met two Michigan girls, Misses Wish /
ard and BerIsch Of the Wonan's
Union Zenana mission, whose simple |
narrated achieveme among their
dark-skinned sisters who live behind !
the Purdah. would satisfy the most |
ambitious college girls conception OF
, career
All Of midas needs are compre-