p. 20 | An Effective Agency by J. L. Shaw

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

An Effective Agency

By J. L. Shaw

MISSIONARY NURSES ON TOUR AMONG THE SANTALI VILLAGES, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

PERHAPS no other single agency of mission work appeals more strongly to the Indian mind than the mission school. It furnishes one of the happiest combinations of influences for doing good to soul and mind that can be devised by the missionary. The very character of heathenism makes Christian schools a necessity. The philosophy and ethics of Hinduism have a strong hold upon the people. Its castes and superstitions are wrought into the very framework of society. The intellect and heart of every man, woman, and child have been thoroughly steeped in principles and practises that are utterly opposed to the gospel of Christ. For these reasons, more can be accomplished in Christian lands in a single sermon than by several months of effort in a Hindu congregation. Heathen errors must be corrected and right thinking encouraged. For this reason, mission schools offer the means of accomplishing this end. They form a regular congregation and give the missionary the surest means of overthrowing heathen sophistries, cultivating right principles, and erecting Bible standards. It is through schools that people are being brought to see the foolishness of the caste system. Here Hindu, Jewish, and Mohammedan children meet on common ground.

J. L. SHAW.

Lucknow, India.

WORKSHOPS OF THE MEIKTILA INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, BURMA—CLASSES READY FOR WORK