ARE MISSIONS A FAILURE?
By Sabbath Recorder
SEVENTY years ago the fires of suttee were publicly blazing all over India, upon which the screaming and struggling widow, in many a case herself a mere child, was bound and burnt to ashes with the dead body of her husband. Infants were publicly thrown into the Ganges as a sacrifice to the goddess of the373river. Young men and maidens, decked with flowers, were slain in Hindoo temples before the hideous idol of the goddess Kali, or hacked to pieces as the Meras, that their quivering flesh might be given to propitiate the god of the soil. The cars of the Juggernaut were crushing thousands. For these scenes, which disgraced India seventy-five years ago, we may now look in vain. The church now numbers 400,000 members, and the work is making steady progress. In view of all these things, who can be so unthankful to God as to declare that missions have proved a failure?—Sabbath Recorder.