p. 12 | OPEN DOORS IN INDIA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 15, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 20.

OPEN DOORS IN INDIA.

In many cases the missionary is unable to present the Gospel message to the people, because he can not speak their language. But there are many thousands of English-speaking people in India.

First, there are the Europeans. They may not seem a large class in that land of teeming millions; but those who go to India, go there, as a rule, in the employ of the government, or to conduct or assist in conducting some important business enterprise, and so they are usually persons of superior intelligence and good habits.

Second, there are the Eurasians, persons of mixed parentage—European and Asiatic. Of these there are a multitude who are intelligent, English-speaking people.

Then there are thousands of natives who speak English. Many of these are students. It is estimated that in Calcutta alone there are 10,000 university

students. “India graduates more young men from its universities than does England, and they are bright youth. The young men there are men of thought.”

There are thus many thousands in India who can read and understand English. Some are Christians, but many are heathen, infidels, or at least irreligious persons. They need Christ, and there is no language-barrier to keep the Gospel from them. The young people in the universities “like to read and talk English, if but for practise; and so they are ready to hear, ready to flock about you, to look into your eyes,” as they listen to the story of Christ.