The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-26
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

When Carey went to India and
Judson to Burma, practically all the
world was closed against foreign mis-
SiOns; now practically all the world
is open to them, with the Bible trans
lated into more than four hundred
languages and dialects. covering the
vast majority of the people on the
globe.
Missionary work in India has been
officially permitted since 1904. Some
of the hOnored names on the mission
ary roll in India are William Carey,
Henry Martyr, Reginald Heber, Bish-
Op of Calcutta, Alexander Duff, Will
liam Butler and Bishop Thoburn of
our own time.
Thirty-five American societies are
at work in India at the present time.
The work of Pandita Ramabal for the
child widows of India. includes a
school for high-caste widows at Poo
ma as we'll as a mission for child wild
Ows, deserted wives and famine or
phans. where more than a thousand
girls are sheltered and cared for by
this devoted Christian woman, who
! began life as a daughter of a Brah-
du widow early in life Because of
her own experience came the longing
TO aid the millions of girls whose
lives were wrecked through the
wrongs done to the child widows.
Ninety-two per cent of the people
men Of the country pass some time
in a monastery. The pioneer of mis-
sionary work in this country was
AdOnaram Judson, whose words, THE
prospects are as bright as the prom
ises Of Cod has become a mission
airy proverb. Definite work is now
done for the At tribes that comprise
the population of the country.
Churches, colleges and theological
seminaries are the outgrowth of the
missionary work in Burma.
Siam. which is one of the small
countries of Asia, has Buddhism as
its state religion. The principal mis-
sionary body now at work in this
country Is the Northern Presby-
terrain One of the early missionaries,
Rev. Stephen Nation. so won the
confidence of the SiameSe that when
the first treaty in behalf of the United
States was negotiated they insisted
on having the missionary as the first
American consul
For nearly fifty years John G. Pa
ton watched Christ work and worked
with Christ. in the New Hebrides. In
/ deaths Oft" he yet was preserved in
/ such marvellous ways that we cannot
wonder at his simple. chiIdlike trust
in personal heavenly Fathers pc
| culiar care. He proved the PROPOSE
ton that the way to know the truth
Is TO do it; that the proof of God
comes in putting him to the test.
The new woman" is finding many
strange careers for herself; but which
of the most ambitious of these has
dreamed of a career greater than that
OF the woman missionary who DELHI
erately immures herself in the foun-
dations of a new nation? Ffdelia Fiske
chose TO bury herself in Persia;
and. 10, her life is emerging in a
greatness and power that shine in
creasingly with the passing days.
Some of the heroes of the missions
/ are Christians who never left their
/ homeland; but whose interest and de-
/ votion has borne unreckoned fruit in
! that distant country.
Morrison, Milne, Chauncey Good
/ rich, Walter LOwrie, J. Hudson Tay-
/ Tor, John L. Nevius, DR.. Peter Parker
/ Bishop Boone. Wells Williams. H
/ BlOdget, DR.. Griffith John. James
| Meadows, Hunter Corbett-how the
/ names of the great servants of God
/ in China mount up The Western world
( little knows what they have done, but
/ some day China will enshine them in
/ her hall of great ones.
| Verbeck, Brown. Hepburn, Messina
/ are names high upon the roll of for
e1gn missionaries who were shaping
/ forces in the life of the new Japan
| Thev gave themselves for God and &
1 nation, and only the succeeding cen
turtles can rightly appraise the ser