New Britain herald., 1921-10-08

glad to have three full f1edged Indian secretaries, and four other Indians are just coming to us on the first of Sep tember for a period of training. Even with this considerable staff of secre- taries we are not able to provide all the activities which are' crying to be undertaken in this great center.
 Educational Work.
 ''The strongest feature of our work CT similar commercial lines. We have the largest commer cia1 school in the Panjab, and last year some 52S young men were enrolled in the classes, learning such subjects as type writ ing. shorthand. bookkeeping and oth- CT similar commercial lines. He have good hall, in which we have courses of lectures, very often using lantern slides with out lectures. We have good reading room with the common daily papers and weeklies from India and a selected number of weeklies and monthlies from England and America as well. There are social rooms with various indoor games, among which billiards and ping-pong are the fav- orites. We have a good outdoor gym. nasiunl, with a good equipment of American gym apparatus, and this year we too have an Indian associate phyical director to assist our American expert in the physical department. The most constructive piece of service which i3 being carried on by us is, feel, the work of training the drill masters, as they are called, of the schools of this great province. Last year some 9S men were sent to us by the Panjab, government to be trained by our physical director in the latest and best methods of physical educa- ton, and, in this way, we are multi plying ourselves a hundred fold by reaching out to the boys in the schools, whom otherwise we could not hope to touch ourselves, and adapting to In- dian conditions and requirements, the best Knowledge and practice that the west, mas to give concerning physical education. Part of our religious work consists of special meetings for college students on Sunday afternoons, for we are practically the only Christian body who are responsible for delivering the Christian message to the non-Chris- tian students of this great university center, who do not attend the Forman Christian college, a Presbyterian mis- sion institution which is doing a won. derful work in Lahore.
 ''But the best religious work we have found, is that which is done for individual college men and others who come to study the Bible and to talk over their personal and intellectual problems with us. We have a hostel, or boarding house for about 25 col lege men and this also gives us an opportunity for closer touch and
 
 men In these and other ways we are striving to make clear that in Christ there is true fullness of life.
 Getting Many Friends.
 Perhaps the most important single problem we. have tackled this year is that of building up a constituency of friends and supporters, for our Y. M. c. A. work throughout the Pan-- jab. The letterhead with which this letter starts indicates the committee which is in charge of our finance ap- peal. We are trying to raise 35,00o rupees, and this is quite as hard to accomplish in India as it would be to obtain an equal number of dollars in America. We have the additional comp1exity here. that the great ma jority of the people who cam make subscriptio ols is made up of nom Christians who are often indifferent too, if not definitely opposed to our Christian message. But we believe that the people here, as everywhere in the world, must be educated to take lan interest in true social and welfare work, and we find that the 1 best way to educate them is to ob- tain their financial support. India ought to provide the support for those movements which are trying to uplft her own young men, and I am sure she will do it. But it is surely . wonderful opportunity for America, England and other Christian lands to
 show the true Christ-spirft which lives
 in the hearts, of so many of their
 people, by providing the support for
 their own representatives who go to
 carry that same Christ-spirit to for eign lands, in order that Jesus praye, may be realized, that they may al be one" t
 Frequently we do get most satis. flying opportunities to tell of the gread good news of Jesus Christ. Last Sun.
 day evening I went with one of the For1nan Christian college professor, to little chapel in the heart of th'
 busiest section of Lahore, and spok, , tO the HIAeQ group Ol uleu WAO dS sembled on the thought, that 'Jesu
 Christ is the same yesterday, ant
 today.-yea and forever A few Ian tern slides helped to make Jesus Tiff on earth seem real to them, and 1 { was surprising to me to see how intent ly they listened and the apparent long ing in their faces for just that whfcl Christ alone can be to them,-th same yesterday, and today yea an 5 forsver. And the conviction grow . on me that we need to have faith an. the insight to sense how God is pres ! ent and working. and loving in 1ndi :, today,-using even Mahatma Gandh } to help spread the truth, with hi E remarkable life of devotion and self sacrifice and with his great emphasi 5 on the power of the spirit over ma ) terial things, even oyer violence an 8 force. Then, as India arrives nor : and more at self realization, must sh ] come to see and know and choos 8 Jesus Christ for herself and of he l own free will. It is the greatest an 3 truest service anyone can render, t olv rd fhiS Il