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THE MEN OE INDIA 
 
 AND CEYLON 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD C. CARTER 
 
 GENERAL SECRETARY, INDIAN NATIONAL 
 COUNCIL 
 
 New York 
 
 Foreign Department, International Committee 
 Young Men’s Christian Associations 
 1908 
 
THIRD TRIENNIAL ASSOCIATION CONVENTION FOR INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON 
 
The Men of India and Ceylon 
 
 It was in one of the smaller Indian stations that a leading 
 Hindu remarked with sincerity: “Many of our people are at- 
 
 tracted by the purity of the teachings of your sacred writings, 
 but the attainment of a pure life seems just as difficult for the 
 Christian as for the Hindu. Of the half dozen European 
 Christians in this town, five are leading- lives as purely animal 
 as the most sensual rajah in the province; the sixth, the 
 ‘padre sahib," leads a pure life and one of great sacrifice, but 
 his life does not reflect credit on your religion, for I under- 
 stand that the missionaries are hired on the understanding 
 that they live above suspicion.'" The missionary knows no 
 sadder sight than that of the British soldier or the American 
 seaman (who to the native is, of course, a “Christian”) 
 staggering intoxicated from an Oriental brothel, a jeering- 
 crowd of coolies at his heels. After his sojourn abroad 
 Tommy Atkins sings: 
 
 “Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the 
 worst. 
 
 Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an’ a man can 
 raise a thirst." 
 
 And not only a thirst for whiskey, but a fiery, demon-like 
 thirst for long nights of reveling after the scorching days; a 
 thirst for that thrilling recklessness of absolute self-abandon- 
 ment which creeps over him with the thought that winding 
 lanes, green fields and happy kindred are leagues and leagues 
 away and he is unnoticed and alone. 
 
 If the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association is needed in 
 North America, where the 
 restraints of home and church and society are numerous and 
 alert, it is thrice needed for the European (in India all white 
 
 If Here Then There 
 
 3 
 
men whether American or British are classed as Europeans) in 
 a land where wholesome ideas are not all-pervading — where the 
 everyday religious exercises of the common people are loath- 
 some rather than uplifting, sensual rather than inspiring. In 
 India homesickness, the depressing environment of low stan- 
 dards, an almost universal ignorance and a widespread servility 
 combine to undermine even the strongest characters. With 
 great wisdom large sums of money are being spent by Christian 
 
 VIEW OF CALCUTTA FROM THE COLLEGE BRANCH BUILDING 
 
 people on mission work in India. The godless, careless lives 
 of Europeans are conceded to be obstacles to the largest suc- 
 cess. It is apparent that in order to safeguard these gen- 
 erous investments, money and energy must be used in throw- 
 ing about the European young men influences which make 
 for righteousness. If the Scottish employer of hundreds of 
 Indian laborers is a man of low morals, his example will raise 
 impassable barriers to the influence of the missionary in the 
 same district. 
 
 4 
 
In the large cities of India 
 the Association aims to 
 equip modern buildings 
 with the usual features of the best Xorth American Associa- 
 tions. One of the most fruitful of these is provision for “a home 
 away from home.” Most of the boarding houses and hotels are 
 unattractive; worse than this, they are frequently centers of 
 gambling and intemperance. The “chummery,” where a 
 group of fellows club together, hire their own butler and keep 
 bachelor quarters is an effort to realize a more homelike life. 
 Even the chummeries are honeycombed with temptation for the 
 lad just landed from the homeland. When the Imperial census 
 was being taken in Rangoon, at a house where a half dozen 
 young business men were living, one of the servants without 
 hesitation stated that he was the procurer for the house. So 
 faulty has been the standard in European society that when a 
 retired officer, whom the whole city knew had kept a mistress 
 in his house for years, was influenced by a friend to do the 
 right thing and marry, he was blackballed in the club, and at 
 once completely ostracized from society because he had mar- 
 ried such a woman. 
 
 Because the first few 
 months so often determine 
 a man's destiny in India 
 we make it possible for new arrivals to come to the Associa- 
 tion boarding house, live there for six months or so, and when 
 they have made the acquaintance of strong, clean friends, 
 they move out and make way for others fresh from home. Two 
 young Scots landed by the same steamer to join a firm in one 
 of the great port cities; one was persuaded to live at the 
 Association; the other went to a chummery because he said 
 he wanted to get on fast and so must get in with “the 
 crowd” from the start. The first, through the influence of 
 the Association, was led to a personal knowledge of the 
 Saviour, joined the Church and to-day, as the head of the de- 
 partment, is one of the most powerful forces for righteousness 
 
 A Right Start 
 
 “ Chummeries ' ’ 
 
in the city. The other did get on “fast,” but in another 
 direction; his passions became his master. When it was too 
 late he pleaded to be taken into the Association boarding 
 house. His firm had already booked his passage home and 
 thither he went, one of the sad bits of wreckage that line the 
 triumphant course of modern commercialism. 
 
 If this world-wide expansion of trade is to bring the largest 
 good, the business men of Christendom must invest largely in 
 the Association’s effort, not merely to make men cleaner and 
 fitter for the day's work. They must be turned into such 
 loyal believers in the expansion of the teachings of Christ that 
 they shall use their unique influence as men of affairs to 
 strengthen and make even more effective the splendid work 
 of the missionaries. 
 
 The Association is not in 
 India and Ceylon, however, 
 primarily to save Europeans 
 from themselves. The most urgent cry has been that of the 
 crisis among educated Indians. It has long been the policy of 
 Britain to throw upon the Indian people as much responsibility 
 as possible for the administration of the Government. Of 144,- 
 150 appointments holding *Rs. 1,000 annually, ninety-seven 
 per cent are filled by the natives of India themselves. To fit the 
 Indian, who has been used to a feudal order, to have a part in 
 this well-nigh democratic administration of affairs, requires a 
 modern and Western education. Following the lead of the 
 missionaries, who have ever been the pioneers of education, 
 Britain has built up a splendid system of schools and colleges. 
 There are 180 colleges for men in the Empire, and the Govern- 
 ment has great universities at Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, 
 Lahore and Allahabad. The Indian student of to-day works 
 almost wholly in the English language, and takes up about 
 the same subjects as the English lad at Eton and Oxford. 
 What must be the influence of a handful of college trained 
 
 *A rupee equals one-third of a dollar. 
 
 The Primary Task 
 
 6 
 
BRAHMAN PRIEST OR “ HOLY ” MAN 
 
 men in a land where only 12 per cent of the male population 
 can read! These students are to be leaders of the nation. 
 As magistrates, revenue officers, judges, lawyers, inspectors 
 of traffic and trade — replacing the rajahs and ancient princes — 
 they will have supreme influence in village and district. 
 
 During schooldays the new 
 knowledge of the Occident 
 is hardly assimilated. The 
 boy still remains devoted to the superstitious religious ob- 
 servance of his home. In an out of the way town I once saw 
 a high school boy, just out from recitations, his books under 
 his arm, starting down the street for home. He saw a 
 Brahman approaching; kneeling, he laid his Shakespeare on 
 the ground, and with his hands wiped the dust from the 
 dirty bare feet of the Brahman and then drew his hands over 
 
 Shattering Idols 
 
his forehead and eyes — because the very dust from the holy 
 man's feet was purifying to him. 
 
 When he leaves school, however, and goes up to the great 
 university, for the first time he begins to appreciate the learn- 
 ing - of the West. The modern commercial spirit is every- 
 where evident. On the train en route from home he travels 
 in a modern car. At every side station he notices Eurasian 
 officials, hustling holy Brahmans and coolie outcasts into the 
 same seat. Arriving at his destination, Madras, Calcutta or 
 Bombay, he is thunderstruck by the maze of trolley cars, the 
 telegraphs, automobiles, great department stores, magnificent 
 hotels, parks and boidevards. An air of scorn for anything 
 that savors of the old village worship pervades the college 
 lecture room. The “Holi,” which used to bring merriment 
 as a boy, now appears as one of the most obscenely disgusting 
 of religious observances. Features of the Mahurram, which 
 used to seem harmless enough, he now taboos as the 
 fanaticism of the ignorant crowd. In a word, the scales are 
 falling from his eyes. The old implicit faith in Hinduism has 
 vanished; with this discovery comes lack of faith in good. 
 Far better that he be held by his parents' religion than pass 
 through the critical college days and on into life without any 
 religion at all. There is a sad irony in the college, that by its 
 Western teaching shatters the student's faith in his ancestral 
 rites and at the same time is unable (because it is a Govern- 
 ment institution) to give a knowledge of the one religion 
 which will be satisfying. 
 
 The naked facts from the 
 census tables are un- 
 answerable appeals for the 
 establishment of Young Men's Christian Associations. Ac- 
 cording to the last census in Calcutta, in Ward Five, with a 
 population of 49,069, one woman in every four and in Ward 
 Six, with a total population of 52,968, one woman in every 
 five is a sister of shame. One of the most trustworthy 
 sociologists in Calcutta has written thus: “I have often been 
 
 Vice Rampant 
 
 8 
 
amazed at the bold 
 effrontery that char- 
 acterizes the evil. 
 
 Not content with 
 seeking the seclu- 
 sion impurity loves, 
 we have long streets 
 no respectable man 
 or woman cares to 
 walk. Even main 
 thoroughfares are 
 given up, it would 
 seem, to the mem- 
 bers of what the 
 census volume calls 
 a ‘disreputable pro- 
 fession.' Parts of 
 Chitpore road, Corn- 
 wallis street. College street, Amherst street. Corporation 
 street — all streets of importance with an enormous daily traffic 
 — are the visible haunts of hundreds of women and children of 
 ill fame. And Sodom itself could not have furnished a more 
 terrible picture, in its significance rather than in its indecency, 
 than can be witnessed by any one who betakes himself to the 
 quarters where the evil has segregated itself. Truly the evil 
 is obtrusive, nay, even defiant."’ 
 
 The Association is in India 
 at the call of the mis- 
 sionaries who represent the 
 Christian Church. It was in 1887 that Dr. Jacob Chamber- 
 lain of India came to Northfield to urge the claims of that 
 land upon the Young Men’s Christian Association. In 1888, 
 the missionaries of the evangelical churches of Madras sent an 
 appeal to the International Committee, asking that a secre- 
 tary be sent to their city. The International Convention, 
 which met in Philadelphia in 1889, authorized the appoint- 
 
 C ailed by the Church 
 
 9 
 
merit of a secretary to work in Madras. Mr. David Mc- 
 Conaughy, the general secretary at Philadelphia, sailed in 
 October, 1889 . No more striking testimony to the work has 
 been presented than a resolution passed at the Decennial 
 Missionary Conference in Madras in 1 902 , which was the most 
 representative gathering of missionaries ever held in India; all 
 the Protestant societies sent their ablest leaders. The resolu- 
 tion reads as follows: 
 
 “The Conference hereby records its hearty and thorough 
 appreciation of the work of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation in India, Burma and Ceylon. The Conference com- 
 mends its general principles and methods, and affectionately 
 accords to those engaged in its work its prayers and fellow- 
 ship, and emphasizes the strong claim which the Young 
 Men’s Christian Association work in India has already estab- 
 lished upon the prayers, sympathy and support of the home 
 churches.” 
 
 Now that at last the obli- 
 gation has been assumed, 
 there is nothing ahead but 
 increasing energy and sacrifice. Let this not appear as a mere 
 side issue in the work of the home Associations. Unless we 
 spring into the fray with our best men backed by most gen- 
 erous resources, the North American Associations will have 
 failed to discharge their duty to the Church of Christ. The 
 missionaries who have bade us do this work are the ambassa- 
 dors of the home Church which every Association aims to 
 serve. 
 
 The same principles underlie the Association work at home 
 and abroad. The Indian student, like his cousins across the 
 seas, has a body, a mind and a soul. Our largest Associa- 
 tions have well-equipped gymnasiums. Much attention is 
 given to out-of-door recreation. Association teams have stood 
 high in public athletic contests. The occasions for social in- 
 tercourse are doing much to establish the idea, so foreign to 
 India, of a universal brotherhood. The public restaurant and 
 
 iVot a Side Issue 
 
 10 
 
lunch counter lias been potent in breaking down the artificial 
 restrictions of caste and racial jealousy. 
 
 The department which tow- 
 ers above all others is that 
 of religious work. To 
 many a student, doubting his own religion, we have been 
 able to open the Bible for the first time. Bible classes, per- 
 sonal work, lectures on Christianity and preaching in the open 
 air to great audiences of college men are means used effectively. 
 Many come from curiosity and some to hear correct English, 
 but others come in earnestness to discover the way of life. 
 Appeals to lecture on Christianity have come to us from col- 
 leges where there was not a single Christian student. In one 
 college, after I had spoken without compromise on the supre- 
 macy of Christianity, the Hindu students and professors waited 
 on me in a body, begging me to remain with them a solid 
 fortnight. 
 
 Bible study is conspicuous among Association activities, for 
 the teaching of the Scriptures is the prime thing that we have 
 to give. During the last year the number of young men in 
 Association Bible classes increased from 2,300 to 3,010. One 
 hundred and forty-eight young men were reported in 1906 to 
 have joined Christian churches as a result of the Association's 
 influence. With an exceedingly inadequate staff of secre- 
 taries we are touching the fringe only of the real opportunity. 
 
 Calcutta is the leading stu- 
 dent center; in its colleges 
 are registered more men 
 than in Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Chicago. Besides the 
 10,000 university students there are upwards of 30,000 boys in 
 the great high schools of Calcutta. Within a mile of 86 Col- 
 lege street — the student and boys' buildings — there are 7,000 
 University men and 10,000 high school boys. The Association 
 conducts two hostels or boarding clubs and maintains numer- 
 ous Bible classes, lectures and religious meetings. Open air 
 services are frequently held, attended largely by students. 
 
 Met r op olita n Models 
 
 The Dynamics 
 
 ii 
 
BUILDING— COLOME 
 
 Adjoining the college branch is the Boys’ building, given by 
 Mr. Wanamaker. The well-equipped gymnasium is an abso- 
 lutely unique thing among Indian schoolboys. The Central 
 branch, in the business section of the city, is working for 
 Europeans and is paying all expenses, including the salary of 
 the secretary. Another vigorous branch is maintained among 
 the Eurasians which promises to become the largest in the 
 city. 
 
 Madras is the metropolis, capital, social and educational 
 center of a Presidency more populous than the British Isles. 
 In this city, to which millions turn for their standard of civil- 
 ization, the Association is becoming an increasing force for 
 righteousness. Within the splendid building on the Esplanade 
 600 members are being influenced in the direction of Christ's 
 conception of manhood. Caste is being destroyed among the 
 
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NATION —FIELD DAY 
 
 sixty residents (twelve races) of the hostel and the many more 
 restaurant patrons who eat together — Mohammedans, Parsees, 
 Hindus and Christians. For several years its business and 
 technical courses have led the Presidency in the number of 
 students who made the Government examinations. The phy- 
 sical department is leading men to supplement the reflective 
 Indian life with an appreciation and possession of the physique 
 demanded by modern conditions. Without devices inquiring 
 Hindus fill the Bible classes, limited in number and duration 
 only by the endurance of the available teaching force. Busi- 
 ness men are being won to Christian faith and to belief in the 
 whole missionary enterprise. These activities involve a budget 
 of Rs. 8,000, exclusive of rentals, raised in Madras, and their 
 direction taxes the time and energy of one foreign and three 
 Indian secretaries. North American secretaries are also in 
 
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V 
 
 ESPLANADE, MADRAS 
 
 Colombo, Allahabad, Jamalpur and Bangalore, while Britain 
 has representatives in Bombay, Simla, Rangoon and Lahore. 
 
 Reeently a new type of 
 work in the Orient has 
 been begun, namely, for 
 railroad men. India has 
 extensive railways, aggre- 
 gating "28,000 miles, with about 125 division points, making 
 this land the fourth in the world in mileage. Most of these 
 lines are owned by the Government. Three hundred and fifty 
 thousand men are employed. The men in the higher grades 
 of the service speak English, though only 5,300 are Europeans. 
 Three years ago the home Associations sent out Mr. E. J. 
 Michel to study the railway field in India. All the principal 
 railways were visited and the social, physical, intellectual and 
 spiritual needs were studied. A report was submitted to the 
 Government Railway Board, who recommended that an experi- 
 mental Association be started at Jamalpur, the headquarters 
 
 Work for 
 Railway Men 
 
 14 
 
of the largest Indian railway. The Mechanics’ Institute, the 
 Gymkhana, the Swimming Bath Club and the Apprentice 
 Engineers' Club all voted to disband and to be reorganized as 
 departments of the Railway Association. Of the success of 
 the experiment the chief official at Jamalpur writes as follows: 
 “In the Railway Young Men’s Christian Association, after an 
 experience of twenty-nine years among the railway folk in 
 India, I have found an organization which has it in its power 
 
 RAILWAY YARDS, JAMALPUR 
 
 to supply some of the most pressing needs of the daily life of 
 the Indian railway man. I have known Jamalpur now for a 
 period extending over twenty-six years and been closely 
 associated with its gradual development. The past year has 
 been the most active in its history from four points of view — 
 social, educational, spiritual and physical, which are all invari- 
 ably comprised in the work of the Association." 
 
 15 
 
In spite of great obstacles 
 and serious undermanning, 
 the movement is showing 
 steady numerical growth. After scarcely fifteen years of effort 
 there are now over 100 Associations in India, with a member- 
 ship exceeding 8,000. In the same period the Association 
 property has increased from §11,000 to §4-50,000. Three years 
 ago there was but one native on the staff of the Indian Na- 
 tional Council, which is the supervisory committee for India, 
 Burma and Ceylon, to-day there are five; three years ago the 
 total number of young men enrolled in Bible study classes was 
 1,880, at present there are over 3,000; in 1904- the budget of 
 the National Council was §2,000, in 1908 it will exceed §8,000; 
 in 1906 seventy-one Associations expended §60,000 for current 
 expenses. There are now forty-eight Association libraries 
 with forty-two thousand volumes, thirty-two Associations pro- 
 vide football, twenty-six cricket, and fourteen hockey. There 
 are forty-five tennis courts. During the two years, 1905 and 
 1906, the number of Indian secretaries increased from nine to 
 seventeen. The total membership of the Associations in- 
 creased thirteen, and the enrolment in Bible study thirty-two 
 per cent. In 1907 five student conferences, or camps, similar 
 to Northfield and Lake Geneva, were held in different parts 
 of the country. 
 
 There are results, not only 
 in statistics of attendance 
 in gymnasiums, reading 
 rooms and Bible classes, but also of Hindus who have left all 
 to follow Christ. There are no mass movements among the 
 students; for this reason the individual decision is all the more 
 significant. A Brahman student, after three years’ residence 
 in an Association hostel, decided that he could only serve his 
 country the most fully by becoming a Christian. It meant 
 torture, starving, threatening and final disinheritance. But 
 he forsook all, remained staunch and is to-day a tower of 
 strength among his fellows. Our Saviour’s word that a man's 
 
 Untabirfated Results 
 
 Facts of Progress 
 
 16 
 
ONE OF FIVE STUDENT CAMPS 
 
 foes shall be those of his own household is being constantly 
 illustrated. The fibre of some of the young Indian converts 
 would do credit to the young men of any land. 
 
 A year ago I was traveling - 
 from Calcutta up to Allaha- 
 bad. Half way up the line 
 a Brahman gentleman entered the car. We engaged in con- 
 versation. At length I brought him to his attitude toward 
 Christianity. He soon inquired if I knew anything about the 
 Young Men's Christian Association. With a good deal of 
 pride he told me that his son, a medical student in Calcutta, 
 was living in the Association hostel (boarding house). “ Has 
 he no Brahman relatives in the city with whom he could live?'' 
 I asked. “Don't you know that in the Association hostel he 
 is daily eating with low caste Hindus, with Mohammedans and 
 with Christians, and so losing his caste?” “Yes,” he said, 
 
 Caste or Character 
 
 IT 
 
“there are Brahman relatives he might live with and they 
 have been anxious to have him, but I would much rather have 
 him live at the Association and lose his caste but keep his 
 character, than have him live with the holy relatives, adhere 
 to the forms of caste, but lose his character.” Indian parents 
 are quick to realize what is beneficial to their sons. In the 
 great cities there are none who understand more vividly than 
 the educated men that India’s only moral hope lies in the 
 teachings of the gospel. 
 
 Our aim is not to undertake 
 all this work ourselves. 
 The great bulk of Indian 
 young men can only be 
 evangelized by Indian 
 young men. We are building up strong Associations at 
 pivotal points to be examples to an entire community, and to 
 serve as training schools to the large numbers of 3 r oung men 
 on whom will rest ultimately the entire burden. It is apparent 
 that a high standard must be set. We must have a force of 
 secretaries at all these places sufficient not only to carry on the 
 daily routine of an all-round Association; they must have a 
 large amount of time to give to teaching, training and inspir- 
 ing strong men to lead the Indian Christian forces. Largely 
 through the influence of one of our splendid native secretaries 
 two significant movements have been organized by which 
 Indian laymen are rallying to the evangelization of India as 
 never before. One of these societies, the Indian Missionary 
 Society, of Tinnevelly, of which Mr. Azariah is general secre- 
 tary, has sent out four of their own young men as missionaries 
 into another language area, a thousand miles away. These 
 missionaries in the past four years have secured seven native 
 associates, forty-one baptized adherents and two hundred and 
 thirty-one catechumens. The second society, the National 
 Missionary Society of India, has received the cordial support 
 of Indian Christians of every Protestant denomination. From 
 every province and city of India financial contributions have 
 
 By Indians 
 For Indians 
 
 18 
 
been received. A large unoccupied territory in the Punjab 
 has been selected as the first mission field, and the first 
 missionary is a graduate of the Punjab University and of 
 St. John’s Divinity 
 School. He volun- 
 teered for this field 
 when attending the 
 World’s Student 
 Christian Federa- 
 tion Conference at 
 Tokyo. In the theo- 
 logical seminary at 
 Insein, Burma, 
 about one-fourth of 
 all the students are 
 volunteers prepar- 
 ing to turn a deaf 
 ear to the pastor- 
 ates in their home 
 churches in order to 
 go into far districts 
 among strange peo- 
 ples of different 
 tongues as foreign 
 missionaries of the 
 Church in Burma. 
 
 SIR HARNAM SINGH, 
 
 CHAIRMAN INDIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL 
 
 The Christian Church in 
 India has claims on the 
 Church in the West as 
 never before. Turn to the 
 Imperial census. The 
 native Protestant Christian community in 1891 was 59-2,355; 
 in 1901 it was 970,421, an increase of 63.8 per cent. Accord- 
 ing to the most reliable statistics the native Protestant Chris- 
 tian population in India (excluding Burma) in 1851 was 91,092; 
 
 Increase of 
 Christianity 
 
 19 
 
in 1901 it was 871,991, showing the almost unbelievable in- 
 crease of 857.2 per cent. The careful student of history bases 
 his belief on the ultimate triumph of Christianity in India not 
 so much on these statistics, striking though they seem, but on 
 the remarkable similarity in the conditions of the ancient 
 Homan world and those existing in India to-day. Christianity 
 is working in India to-day precisely in the same way as it 
 worked in the Roman Empire. It is not often that invest- 
 ments give such a large and, best of all, such a soul-satisfying 
 return. 
 
 SHERWOOD EDDY ON AN EVANGELISTIC 
 ITINERARY 
 
 The president of the Cal- 
 cutta Association is Sir 
 Andrew Fraser, the gov- 
 ernor of the province of Bengal. The treasurer is the head of 
 the largest steamship company in Asia. The honorary presi- 
 dent of the Rangoon Association is the Lord Bishop; the 
 president is a justice of the High Court. The president at 
 Bombay, the Honorable H. E. E. Proctor, is the head of the 
 largest commercial firm in the city, president of the chamber 
 
 High Recognition 
 
 20 
 
of commerce and a member of the governor's council. In 
 Allahabad the Association's honorary president is the Honor- 
 able Sir John Stanley, the chief justice of the United Prov- 
 inces, and the president is the commissioner of the Allahabad 
 district. Colombo's president is a justice of the Ceylon chief 
 court, and the vice president is the Honorable Mr. John 
 Ferguson, C. M. G., the editor of the leading newspaper of 
 the colony. The president at Hyderabad is the mayor of the 
 city; at Simla, the legislative secretary to the Government of 
 India; at Naini Tal, a British colonel; at Bangalore, the 
 Honorable Mr. Stuart Fraser, C. I. Ii., the political resident 
 for the native state of Mysore. These men and many others 
 are not figure-heads. For example, the auditor of one of the 
 largest railways in India spends on an average over an hour a 
 day as treasurer of the local Association. The head of the 
 leading law firm in Calcutta in the recent financial canvass 
 secured over $8,000 in subscriptions from various business 
 men on whom he called. 
 
 Even more significant is the 
 approval shown by the 
 Government itself. T h e 
 Government of Burma sold the Association a building site 
 valued at $33,000 for $10,000, to be paid without interest in 
 ten annual instalments. Besides this they made a cash grant 
 toward the building of $"2,500. In Calcutta, besides making 
 a grant of $14,000 toward the support of the college branch, 
 the Government of Bengal is now making a yearly grant of 
 $800 to the work of the various branches and has promised an 
 additional grant of $920 annually as soon as a physical director 
 is appointed. Within the past month the Government of 
 Bengal has made a grant of $12,000 toward the work of the 
 Central branch. The Bombay Association has recently re- 
 ceived a grant of $1,000 for their library. Nagpur received a 
 grant of $1,330 toward their building's total cost of $5,000. 
 Government grants for current expenses to the several Asso- 
 ciations amount to nearly Its. 1,000 per month. 
 
 Government Favor 
 
 21 
 
FORTY BIBLE CLASSES— ENROLMENT THREE HUNDRED 
 
‘ 'A nyvchere. Provided 
 It be Forward 
 
 It is not with hesitancy 
 that the movement in 
 India appeals to the North 
 American Associations. It 
 is their creation — it has 
 
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 myriad nation. Not only without hesitancy does India ap- 
 proach the home Associations, but also with a great boldness 
 and confidence that they will rise to their splendid privilege 
 in sending out men and money and prayer on such a scale 
 that the world shall realize that the religion of Christ is in- 
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