The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-31

ourselves more 10 the Work
of the Master and less to the COM
mercialism, which, I fear, has blind
ed many men to their opportunity"
DR.. Homer Stuntz, secretary of the
board of missions, spoke on Men and
Missions" saying in part as follows:
A few of those who are supporting
the work OF foreign Missions, have
an adequate idea of the great victor
les which have already been won for
Christ on the foreign field. There is
no statistical table with a mesh fine
enough to catch the best results of
the work of Christ in the nations
where He is not working.
When the missionaries first went
to India they found that the Hindu
religion demanded that widows
should be burned alive with the
dead bodies of their husbands. The
best statistics available indicate that
not less than 10000 women a year
were burned in this awful fashion.
By a tireless campaign of rs years
the missionaries secured the aboli-
tion of this awful practice, more than
two generations ago, thereby saving
hundreds Of thousands of mothers
from an unspeakably horrible death.
Forty years ago. the first lady ply
stefan was sent to the heather world
from the United States-Miss Clara
Swain. The work which she and other
lady physician did for the women of
India attracted the attention of Queen
Victoria, and at her request Lady
Dufferin started a movement in In
dia in 1887 which resulted in the
establishment of a chain of hospitals
throughout the Empire of India, in
which tens of thousands of native
women are now receiving medical
care at the hands of trained English
ladies. India has five great univer-
stiles, with departments of law, medi-
cine and engineering in addition to
the regular arts course, and the idea
of English education for natives of
India was first brought to India by
such missionaries as William Carey,
Alexander Duff, John Wilson and
other missionary pioneers, and the
constitution of the universities, as
we'll as their first courses of study
were prepared by Duff and Wilson.
So that it may be fairly said that mil
lions who are now enjoying the adj
vantage of an English education in
India, are enjoying it because the
missionaries opened the way.
There are scores of leper asylums
now doing their Christlike work in In
dia and China and hospitals literal
ly by the hundred now minister to
the ills of hundreds of thousands of
patients and all these institutions
We're either begun by missionaries or
established according to the pattern
of those which had been opened by
the missionary force.
The missionary body in the Philli-
pine Islands opposed the attempt of
our government to enact an opium
law for those Islands, similar to the
Highest Bidder Monopoly law which
is the blacklist stain on British rule
in India. By all standing together in
the fight they secured Congressional
prohibition of the Importation ana
sale of opium in the PHILIPPINE Is
lands-a victory which in itself is
we'll worth all that has been spent in
sending the missionaries to the Phil
lipines and maintaining them during
the nearly ten years of missionary
activity. And when the missionary
forces in China learned of our victory
in the PHILIPPINES, they took fresh
heart of courage, began their fight
afresh and two years ago secured that
famous edict of the Emperor by the
terms of which the growth, transpor-
tation and sale of opium is to be
prohibited in the Chinese empire
within ten years, two years of which
have already passed. Never in the
history of moral reform has so great
a victory been achieved within such
a short space of time, for by this one
success the awful curse OF opium
smoking has been abolished among
%one-fourth of the human race, with
in three years from the beginning of
the agitation.
Cannibalism a been practically
stopped, the slave trade in Africa
diminished by more than Is per cent
and in process of utter extinction.
The worst feature of child-marriage
In India and foot-binding in China
have been modified by missionary
agitation and. teaching, and a thous-
and lesser evils have been either
modified or entirely done away with,
and that not only among small sec
tions of humanity but in great ma
tons and among counties millions O.
people.
Eyangelistic victories have more
than kept pace with those in the line