INDIA has many languages, and a training school is confronted with this difficulty. In the picture on the preceding page are represented the following: Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Panjabi, Hindi, Urdu, and Burmese. Later, Bengali will be added. So we teach in English; yet these men will represent all these languages, and can teach their own people. In nearly every division, we have schools for younger students; but for those desiring further education and special training, this school is designed. India has need of all the workers we can put into the field; and the earnest native worker who is filled with the love of Christ, can do more for his own people than can the foreigner.
The picture represents converts from Mohammedanism, Buddhism, and Brahmanism,—three of the most ancient, custom-binding religions of the world. Some of these men know by experience the fierceness of persecution. Two of them paid a visit to their homes just before the school opened. Each received, not a parting blessing, but a severe beating, with the loss of all things earthly. Even their wives were taken from them.
