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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 44.

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A New Cry in the Old East

By J. L. SHAW

Young India at School

A NEW day has dawned in India, and there is a cry for knowledge abroad in the land. It is estimated that in India and Burma there are one hundred fifty thousand schools, with upward of five million students. There are one hundred sixty colleges granting degrees, with eighteen thousand students. It has been said, and it is probably true, that more degrees are granted in India than in Great Britain. In conversation on a street-car, while in Madras, a graduate of a university, holding a B. A. degree, told me there were so many university graduates seeking clerical employment at so small a salary that he found it advisable to become a cook.
GUATEMALA ENGLISH SCHOOL
GUATEMALA ENGLISH SCHOOL
This knowledge of Western learning is arousing India. She is waking up, as from centuries of slumber. A leaven is working in her, the result of which only the future can reveal. One thing is sure,—the call of the hour is for Christian schools in India. The time is ripe. Our missions are besieged. Heathen villages call earnestly for teachers. These requests for schools come from those who expect the teaching of the Bible, and allow us to give as much religious instruction as we see fit. We regard these openings for schools and the educational awakening all over the East as a sign of the times, a moment in the history of southern Asia freighted with the glorious privilege of carrying the gospel to its present generation, and declaring unto them the near coming of Christ.
Everything conspires to make the present a time of great moment in India. As missionaries, we have the protection of a stable government; thousands of miles of railway plying to all parts of the empire, opening up the country for mission work; an excellent postal and telegraph system; a rapidly growing reading public; and a vast educational system. This is the time to enter in. Who will volunteer for service?
J. L. SHAW.
Washington, D. C.