India’s Religious Millions

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 30, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 21.

India’s Religious Millions

SAYS the Journal des Missions: "The late census of India gives the number of Animists as 9,000,000. This is simply the worship of spirits, conceived as localized or ubiquitous, a religion mainly of superstitious terror. The religious condition of the lower castes of Brahminism or Hinduism differs but slightly from this. Grouping the two classes together, we have an aggregate of about 50,000,000. This mass, relatively inert, will become the prey of the Brahmanist revival or of Islam unless the Christian mission lays hold of these elements. It ought to do this without neglecting any of the other elements of Hindu society; but, alas, how little the Christian church yet comprehends the grandeur of the task which Jesus has confided to her!"