Missionaries or Soldiers on the Frontier
By Indian Witness
HERE in India we are tossed about by varying winds of doctrine concerning a frontier policy. Granted a force of 100 missionaries of the right stamp, well re-enforced by the Christian people of England, with the funds to establish medical work and schools, turned loose on the frontier, with a guaranty of non-interference on the part of government, we believe that in ten years more would be accomplished in the taming and transforming of those turbulent border tribes than an army of 50,000 troops and all political power back of them could possibly achieve. Missionaries might find premature graves in the hill country beyond, but others would be ready to step into the vacant places. Buildings might be wrecked and tents destroyed,11but others would soon replace them, and the work would go on. The Gospel, given a fair chance, would in due time prove the power of God unto salvation to those vehement Moslems of the border, who are just the material out of which splendid Christians may be made.—Indian Witness.