Winning India by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

Winning India.

By Editor

A Church of England magazine, the Mission Field, suggests the following manner of winning the people of India:—

"It is not a question of individual conversions by individual Englishmen. The people of India must be won by members of their own race. But who is to be instrumental in converting these? Who is to teach them the faith in its soundness and fulness? Where is to be the nucleus of the native church into which they are to seek admission? By forming Christian congregations of those who can be in some degree living exponents of the Christian life, by maintaining colleges where the best minds of the rising generation can be influenced, by encouraging the increase of the body of native clergymen, by preaching, translations, and other means, we are endeavoring to prepare for what the future has in store for India. But the missionary work there needs to be sustained by the prayers of the church at home, that the will of God may be carried out."

We would add this also: "Preach the Word"—the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Jesus says, "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." John 12:32. Then to lift up Christ before the people of "every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" (Rev. 14:6) is the only way to win them to Him.