Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-30

,Serampore, a small Danish settlement,
and the Danish government refused to
give them up. Hearing of TINS carey
came and joined them and in 1Sn began
the great Serampore Mission of India
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay says
Sydney Smith. writing TO the Edinburgh
Review in 1903. sarcastically referred to
William Carey as 'consecrated cobbler
and a maniac but the cobbler succeeded
in founding i'm 1919 the earliest Christian
lated the Bible-in whole or in parts-into
twenty-four Indian languages or dialects.
The Serampdre press. under his direction
rendered the Bible accessible TO 30oGOO.OO0
OF human beings. He prepared also
numerous pathological works. consisting
of grammars and dictionaries. in the
Sanskrit. Marathi. Bengali Punjabi and
Telugu dialects. And now. more than
hundred years after these words were
penned. Carey has come to an honor far
exceeding that of his witty. but mist AIKEN
critic.
The first American missionaries We're
fired with enthusiasm in a little gather
ing that met in Wiliamstown under the
shelter of a haystack. the members of
the little band resolving prayerfully 10
effect in their own persons a mission to
the heathen. Judson, Gordon, Hall and
Mott began their work in 1912. Judson in
Burmah. Hall and Mott in Bombay.
terrain Church sailed from Philadelphia
on the Star in 1S33-Rev. John c. Lowrie
and his wife and Rev. William Reed and
his wife. DR. Irenaeus Prime has told
of the crowd of students at Princeton
Theological Seminary whose shouts
aroused him as he lay sick and whose
meaning explained TO him by the
words: 1Lowrie is off for India This
missionary star ed with trials. for his
wife's health failed ia pidly on the voyage
and she died in the same year and was
buried I'm Calcutta Mr.. Reed also was
soon obliged TO return home on account
of health but died on the voyage Mr..
Lowrie alone. as soon as possible, how
the far northwest and there laid the
foundations of the great missions of his
church.
About 1880 the mission work took on a
new phase in India. Education began to
be more and more a necessity. About
that time DR.. Duff was sent by God He
had entered ST. Andrews at fifteen. had
studied under DR.. Chalmers and been sent
to India by the Church of Scotland. it's
legiate institute for the higher education
OF native Indian youths. particularly
those of the higher case. The Bible and
science were taught in such a way as to
show Christianity in a clear light. This
school, by 1899 had an average attendance
of 500 pupils and later 1000 1t was
known as Duff College and began with
five pupils. DR.. Duff's system of educa-
ton included all branches taught in
European higher schools and colleges
but nseparable from the principles and
evidences Of Christianity. Wilson College
at Bombay and Madras Christian College
We're modelled on the same plan. There
are many other large colleges. training
schools and theological schools carried
on by all the principal denomina tons
DR.. Scudder of India reformed church,
says; That the religion of Christ can
lay hold Of those classes of the people of
India who have been degraded by Hindu
ism to almost the level of beasts and
by loving sympathy can lift them up to a
position where it is really hard TO dis
tinguiSh between them and the proud
Rrahmans themselves is certainly the
most convincing proof of its divine
power
Bengal. said m a public address: There
is unquestionably an undercurrent work
ing among he higher classes in India to-
ward Christianity In spite of all the
open manifestations against it: and we
may lock forward with confident ex-
pectation to the day when all India shall
bow at the feet Of Christ. who alone can
uplift, purify and save"
DIR. Chamberlain of the Reformed
Church in America, missionary in India,
says: THE faith of all India in its
ancient system is shaken and nothing
has taken its place. Shall India be won
for Christ? We. your missionaries of all
the churches of all ChristendOm. locking
arms. are longing to press the decisive
assault. but we are too weak to make it.
We send an appealing voice to our home
churches in all the lands that support us
and beg of them to send on the needed
We listen for the reply
What is 1t that comes to our eager ears /?
Is it not in effect jus. this: Hold on; you
are going too fast. the home churches
cannot keep up with you. They cannot J
afford to let you advance any fartherv
Oh church of the living God, awake!
Fill up the mission treasures to the ever
flow. Let shout go forth that shall say:
March onward in the name of the King
of kings! Supplies to the full are com
ing; march on and conquer that land for
Christi Let that word come and within |
the lives of some sitting here will We