JOO 7c v - Yy 7. Yj Vif Uy ay W UY Yypyypyy pyuyyyy) Vy, YG 0607 Yy THE MASS MOVEMENT. The great problem facing the Missions in India centers around the establishment and maintenance of the Native Christian Church. Sixty million people in India—one-fifth of the whole population—are born “out-caste,” or, as the-Hindus call them, “untouchable.” Fixed at the bottom, socially and eco- nomically, with apparently no way out, the only hope they have ever had has come through Christianity, and it may also be said that in them lies the great hope of Christianity. It is from among these people that the larger number of Christian converts come, and there also that the Mass Move- ments favorable to Christianity crystallize. Three million of the sixty are now called Christian, and it is estimated that there will be thirty million in another generation. Within the bounds of the Punjab Mission of the Presbyterian Church there are now 20,000 Christians from this class, more than half of them having come within the last five years. In ten years at the present rate of increase there will be 80,000. Whole families and villages are turning en masse to Christianity and asking for Baptism and admission to the Church, and from all three India Missions reports come that with cumulative power this Mass Movement is developing. Joy in seeing this ] great company at the door of the Church is tempered by the two great problems that present themselves: (1) WHO SHALL TEND THESE SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP? (2) HOW SHALL THEY, AND ES- PECIALLY THE CHILDREN, BE TRAINED IN CHRISTIAN NURTURE? ONE OF THE UNTOUCHABLES THE NEED. In the Punjab and North India Missions at least 7,500 boys and girls for whom they are responsible are without any school privileges, and the very success of the work adds new thousands each year. United effort is being made to have every baptized adult trained in Christian knowl- edge so that he may be fitted to receive the Communion within six months after baptism and to have a Communion Service in each district at least once each year—a well-nigh impossible task. The high spiritual value of participating in this rite is so well rec- ognized at home that the loss of it to these simple, untrained souls reaching for the light is most pathetic. ‘Truly the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few—Pray ye therefore’—Can we honestly pray when we fail to partially answer the prayer our- selves, with opportunity pressing as it does? THE POSSIBILITY. Mr. Sherwood Eddy’s recent remarkable experience in India was partly reaping from others’ sowing, and partly a dem- onstration of what is possible at any time with proper leadership; able, earnest, con- secrated and in sufficient numbers. Ade- quate Christian leadership is essential. Here is the recognized weakness of the work in the face of all this overwhelming oppor- tunity that may pass at any time, “How 9 Oo SNVILSIAHO ALSVO-MO'T AO dNnowdy shall they hear without a preacher, and how shall they preach except they be sent?” There is large significance in the words of a placard prepared by the American Marathi Mission, adjoining the Presby- terian, which is hung in prominent positions in buildings and houses: EVERY MEMBER. . Truly converted. . Filled with the Spirit. . Studying the Bible. Strong in faith. . Prompted by love. . Zealous in service. Nm kWN THE GOSPEL PREACHED. ; By every Christian. . To every non-Christian. Ate alletimes, . In all places. s our standard at home as high as this? HR wWNe MOGA BUILDING FUND. As a direct contribution to the solution of the problems growing out of the Mass Movement the plans made by the Punjab Mission at Moga demand attention. The villages, where these humble Chris- tians who have flocked in multitudes to the Church live, must be provided with teach- ers and preachers. The people are farm 5 LOW-CASTE VILLAGE SCHOOL hands practically bound to the cultivators for whom they work. They are im- poverished. Their average wage does not exceed three dollars a month; and that is the total family income. They are illiterate. They live in surroundings unspeakably wretched, both morally and _ physically. Practically all will remain villagers per- manently engaged in their old occupations. The problem of the Church is to help them in the place where they are; to make 6 their community life clean, wholesome and Christian. To that end, in every village with a Christian community of sufficient numbers, there ought to be established a school for its boys and girls. There are now in the Punjab Mission alone 1,000 vil- lages in which there are Christians, and there are schools in less than 100 of these villages. The Mission is trying to meet the situation through the Training School for Village Teachers at Moga, where ninety students are now enrolled, preparing to be- come village teachers and religious leaders in their communities. Moga is a market town, strategically located in the center of a large farming dis- trict, and a wide area is daily represented in its market place. To meet the present need, to say nothing of that ten years hence, there ought to be three hundred students in preparation, yet the ninety who are there now are crowded into dormitories built to accommodate seventy. To house the present number and allow for an increase, more building equip- ment is immediately needed. A still greater need. In order that the training may be in terms of village life, it is necessary to introduce a course in agricul- ture, so that the knowledge of the simplest modern methods of farming may form part of the equipment of the students when they enter on their work as village teachers. = ‘ The present village school systetit does not meet the village needs, and there is no en- thusiasm for an education that is purely academic. From the parents’ viewpoint the time spent in school is wasted unless it brings some return. A course in farming will catch their imagination and they will send their children if there is profit in it, and a school of practical value to the vil- lager will furnish the best point of contact to promote his religious welfare. The Moga School, if properly equipped, must become a most important factor in the building up of a strong church in the vil- lages of the Punjab. Through its gradu- ates, both as pastors and teachers, it will LOW-CASTE PREACHERS S give an education suited to the needs of the villages that will improve their condition spiritually and economically and help pow- erfully toward the establishment of a church independent of foreign support. IMMEDIATE NEEDS. To meet the needs of the next five years an equipment for the education of 300 students should be provided. The immediate needs will be covered by approximately $25,000, to be expended as follows: SCHOOL BUILDINGS. MN GCu eC OLIIILOTICS. 87d. ce oe 6 ook $4,000 Dining Hall and Store House...... 1,500 BeEDE ete OD: fb aces ciate. cclepire sis 500 ee omeiitt PEON ODas, tsa x05 + Pea 500 TEMS LOD Beet ie ke: sor vce oka’ sl vi aike epee 500 emranise@iarters.. | ofits xs oe 1,200 FARM EQUIPMENT. CHE SWOLIATION, 0a. foe as ves pode $8,300 ema TLANATY was a eee eee eee 2,000 Werte ate ens foie. o cce ee a oee 300 CO NS 2,000 ne bert LONG YC) a 800 Emam NOCKIA Arts... i oc. chen Oe 100 MN Fs 5 cath ca 0 di doe ew Seve 1,000 UOT SIP holo iy, oss Ses se a bee 700 Machinery, plows, harrows, drills, TUES oo GE ae 1,600 $25 000 This offers unusual opportunities to help with a number of comparatively small gifts that will guarantee some of these features. Some thrifty Presbyterian farmers or con- gregations located in agricultural districts might well supply one or more features of the equipment or erect one of the needed buildings and then watch the school in its progress and rejoice in the advance made by this needy people, and their own share in it all will prove a great blessing. Who could ask for a more fascinating op- portunity to take advantage of a strategic time and place? 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