“AND THE POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL.”
“DR. DUFF,” says Hugh Price Hughes, “made a tremendous mistake fifty years ago, when he persuaded missionary societies to concentrate their energies in India upon the education of the Brahmins, in the hope that they would become the leaders of a Christian movement.” That expectation has not been fulfilled; but, on the contrary, the Brahmins who have been educated in Christian colleges are, Mr. Hughes maintains, the deadliest enemies of the gospel, and are using the knowledge they have acquired to prevent the spread of Christianity. In a series of articles now published in the Methodist Times, a return to the primitive mode of beginning at the other end of the social scale, and preaching the gospel to the poor first, is, therefore, strongly advocated. This, we are told, “will evolve a re-arrangement of the stipends and the social habits of the next generation of Indian missionaries.”