p. 14 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 2. (1/9/1901)

STUDENT POPULATION IN INDIA.

By William A. Spicer

In a Signs that recently came to hand, it was stated in a selected article that surely the students in India who were receiving an English education would never go away from school to become idolators. One might think so at first thought; but when the real nature of idolatry is considered, one must see that mere intellectual education can never smite down the world-old idolatrous systems. Some of the pioneers in educational work in India thought to see caste and superstition vanish before an intellectual awakening. But year after year for two generations, it has become increasingly evident that the higher education is not of itself a missionary factor of great importance. It must not be forgotten that much that is studied as a part of that higher educational system which has obtained in Europe and America, the classics and the philosophy, is the product of the idolatrous schools of Greece and Rome. How, then, could these be expected to down idolatry in India?

I have been told that many a man going up to the university for his M.A. examination does worship to the little image of the elephant-headed god, Ganesa, who is supposed to preside over learning. Ganesa lost his head in infancy, and Brahma sent the father out to bring in the head of the first creature found with the head northward. An elephant happened to be the first so discovered, and its head was fixed upon the infant god. It is apparent that education is but a thin veneer over the native superstition when a full course in the sciences without God leaves the mind in such bondage. Every day one may see educated Indians, men engaged in government service and large commercial affairs, making the gestures of reverence as they pass the shrine of some god.

Education with God in it, the true education of heart and mind, alone can set men free. Educational systems, even in some famous mission institutions, leave much to be desired. As a consequence, there seems a dearth of educated Christian teachers even after many years. One such institution was the other day advertising for a teacher in one department, “Christian preferred.” In the organ of one of the oldest missions some time ago was a discussion as to whether it was better to have on the staff indifferent Christians or out-and-out heathen. The argument leaned toward the side of the professed tho indifferent Christian, tho, personally, I must say, one feels more drawn toward the frank Hindu than the indifferent professor of a Christianity that has not gotten into the life.

In the student communities of India there are to be found the coming men in India. With minds awakened and on the alert, they are in just the place where, as much as at any time in life, the seeds of truth may be sown in their hearts. But too often a science falsely so called is taught them, and they are further than ever from Bible truth. The European or American may allow false teachings to undermine his confidence in the integrity of the Word of God, and still social custom and tradition hold him in the groove of nominal Christianity. Not so the Hindu; everything in custom and tradition pulls him the other way, back under the shadow of superstition.

Principal Wordsworth, a leading Indian educationalist, once said that he formerly hoped to see the educated classes, who were patterning after English political ideas and receiving an English education, using their influence against infant marriage and other debasing social customs. “I have no such delusion now,” he wrote. “I find some of them employing all the resources of the theological sophistry and cant, not simply to palliate but to vindicate what is plainly one of the most cruel, blighting, and selfish forms of superstition and tyranny.” “Collegiate impressions,” says another Anglo-Indian publicist, “are at present like a tinselled outdoor decoration, discarded by their professor as a superfluity in private.” Education in America and Europe does not set men free from some of the most blighting ecclesiastical superstitions; how can it be expected to solve the problem in India?

It is a fact, however, that the young man who goes thru the Indian substitute for the English college course, must have his confidence shaken in the integrity of his own sacred literature. All learning in India was incorporated in the shastas; and, as Macaulay said, they taught an “astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding-school, history abounding in kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography made of seas of treacle and oceans of butter.”

But Hinduism is independent of sacred books. It is the deification of social customs and the ways that have been from of old, and it doesn’t fall with its old ideas of natural science.

The mission field among the student populations alone is a great one. The Student Volunteer Movement has gathered statistics showing that there are in India more collegiate students than in Great Britain. There are nearly 20,000 of them in the educational centers. About 2,000 are graduated each year from institutions conferring degrees. Including those attending schools which fit only for the colleges, the majority of whom turn to some occupation, the number of wide-awake young men gathered in the cities of India is enormous.

Many in the student towns live with friends or relatives, many by themselves in hired rooms, and numbers find lodging in the student hotels, where numbers mess together, thus reducing the expenses. It is with an odd sensation at first that one sees young Hindu men clad in strange costumes, faring schoolward along the streets with the familiar English school-books in their hands. Education is made easy for them, too easy a good many think. Professor Ladd, of Yale, who went thru India on a lecture tour recently, expressed himself thus:—

I confess to a prejudice in favor of self-help and hard work. . . . In a word, I do not believe in giving away the higher education, or in making it so cheap that almost any boy, irrespective of a determined character and a strong and worthy ambition, can have a try at it. . . . Moreover, it seems to me that the missionary colleges might wisely combine with the government to change, as rapidly as possible, the character of the university education, so as to fit more of those taking the examinations for other and sturdier ways of earning a livelihood. As he says, “the government does not know what to do with so large a multitude of ‘baboos,’ too often they do not know what to do with themselves; for it is a well-known fact that only a small proportion develop any ‘initiative,’ or are ready to tolerate the notion of doing what would be called ‘hard work’ in the United States or in England.”

This repugnance to manual work on the part of the educated is due to that terrible caste idea. But the Christian principles strike straight and lustily at every custom that would hold a man back from being the man that God wants every son of His to be. In among these student communities the mission worker can find multitudes who have a mind to think about principles, and every collegiate town is a grand field for work for the young men of India.

W. A. SPICER.

Calcutta, India.

Glucose Made from Old Linen Rags

A PHYSICIAN points out that a German firm turns out over a ton a day of glucose made from old linen rags, the rags being converted in the process, by the use of sulphuric acid, into dextrin. Glucose is largely used in the manufacture of lager beer, which, according to the above, is liable to contain the results of the conversion of old rags. The truth is that many people do not know half the time what they are drinking. There is a deal of possible harm in many so-called “harmless” drinks.—New York Observer.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

BROTHER T. H. WATSON reports nine conversions at Ben Lomond, Cal.

BROTHER WM. J. BOYNTON reports the conversion of five souls to present truth at Cicero, N. Y.

BRETHREN JOHN W. COVERT and J. W. WESTPHAL organized a church at Narka, Kansas, December 2.

BRETHREN KNIGHT and EVERSON report revival meetings in progress at Millville, Cal., that promise good results.

MONEY for the foreign mission work should be sent to the Foreign Mission Board, rooms 1905-7, 150 Nassau Street, New York.

BROTHER C. A. WASHBURN recently admitted three members into the church in Iowa City, Iowa, and three more into the church at Mt. Pleasant.

BROTHER A. SCHLOTTHAUER has been elected a member of the Upper Columbia Conference Committee in the place of Pastor Haffner, resigned.

NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE has elected as its president Pastor S. A. Farnsworth. Fannie M. Dickerson was elected president of the Sabbath-school association.

BROTHER A. G. CHRISTIANSON goes to the Utah mission field from the Upper Columbia Conference, at the request of the General Conference Committee and by the agreement of the brethren in Upper Columbia.

IN closing his work in the Upper Columbia Conference, preparatory to going to Oklahoma to labor, Pastor G. F. Haffner reports the organization of a German church at Lind, Wash., making six German churches now in that conference.

BROTHER O. S. FERRIN reports a new church building in process in Box Butte County, Neb. A Sabbath-school was organized, and two united with the church at Black Hills. A Sabbath-school was organized at Boyd, Wyoming, and another at Sheldon. He further reports twenty-five persons in all who have united with the various churches that he has visited during the last four months.

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Worth of Note

ANOTHER serious battle has been fought between government troops and rebels in Colombia. The battle lasted two days, and resulted in a victory for the government troops. It is reported that 600 were killed and many hundreds wounded. This rebellion in Colombia is being waged as a protest against the influence and interference of the Catholic Church in public matters. The church party now holds the reins of government, and the liberals are holding that party responsible for the greatly depreciated currency of the country.

AN agent of the British Government is now in Kansas City for the purpose of purchasing 50,000 horses and mules for the army in South Africa. As fast as inspected, they are sent to New Orleans, and shipped in British transports to South Africa. The waste of horses and mules in the South African campaign has been enormous, and the renewed activity of the Boers is making it necessary for England to increase her military strength in the field.

A NEW system of wireless telegraphy has been perfected by Professor Slaby, of Germany, which he calls spark telegraphy, because the electric spark has been indispensable in its use. It is claimed that many of the defects of the Marconi system are overcome in this new system. Demonstrations show that the new method is accurate, and much quicker than the ordinary telegraph.

THE Senate Committee on the Army Reorganization Bill has made its report, substituting a bill of its own for the House Bill. By the provisions of the Senate bill the standing army is raised to a total of 100,000 men, and the canteen provision is so amended as to permit the sale of beer in all the canteens, thus prohibiting all other liquors.

REPORTS from Turkey tell of terrible atrocities practised by a band of Mohammedan fanatics upon the Christians of the central provinces of Turkey. The report states that 1,100 persons have been killed in the most horrible manner, and hundreds of women mistreated and carried off to Turkish harems. The Turkish Government displays its usual indifference to the outrages.

ON December 18, President W. R. Harper, of the University of Chicago, announced that that institution had received from John D. Rockefeller a gift of $1,500,000. This brings the total amount of money given to that university by Mr. Rockefeller to $9,133,874, and the amount of money given the institution by large contributors to the sum of $13,005,874.

THE Santa Fe railway telegraphers’ strike ended December 21, the telegraphers admitting their defeat. No concessions were made by the railway, and many of the places of the strikers have been permanently filled. The strike, which threatened to tie up the whole system, caused much less disturbance to the traffic than was expected.

THE French Government has seized the church property of the Passionist Fathers in Paris for taxes, and the officials of that church are appealing to American and British Catholics to pay the taxes for them and enable them to retain possession. This church was built by American and British subscriptions.

THE Naval Board of Construction has apportioned among the various ship-building companies of the country the six new cruisers and five new battleships for which bids for construction were recently opened. Two of the cruisers will be built in San Francisco, the remainder being built by Eastern firms.

THE assistant surgeon of the United States Army has returned from Porto Rico, where he has been investigating the condition of the people. He found much sickness and an abnormal death rate in nearly all parts of the island, owing to lack of food. Chronic starvation is the diagnosis in most of the cases.

CHINESE papers assert that a serious rebellion has broken out in the province of Kansu, whither the imperial court had fled, and in consequence of which the emperor and empress dowager will be compelled to flee to some other province. Prince Ching reports that the emperor is on his way to Peking.

THE German Government has protested to Turkey against paying her deposit on an American-built war ship (which was to include missionary indemnity) before she has paid for naval guns built in Germany. This will doubtless delay again the payment of the long-delayed indemnity.

THE Board of Health of Hartford, Conn., recently ordered the extermination of all the cats in a certain district of that city, on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. Many of the cats were afflicted with the disease, and its prevalence was partially due to the agency of the cats in spreading it.

THE board of naval officers is now in session in Washington to examine a new torpedo-boat, said to possess the possibilities of the most powerful destruction. It is termed a one-man torpedo-boat, as only one man is required to operate it when in action it is wholly submerged.

AMERICANS holding valuable concessions in Venezuela are calling for a United States war ship to prevent the Venezuelans from dispossessing them. The report states that a general attack is being planned upon all American interests in that country.

A MEMBER of the hospital service in Cuba has volunteered to submit himself to the bites of mosquitoes that have bitten yellow-fever patients, for the purpose of demonstrating the theory that this disease is carried by the mosquitoes.

THE total popular vote for the last election was announced on December 20. Including 6,211 scattering, it amounted to 13,967,299, of which Mr. McKinley received 7,217,677, and Mr. Bryan, 6,357,853.

MOROCCO has paid $5,000 to the United States as indemnity for the killing of a naturalized American. An American war ship had been ordered to Morocco to enforce the claim.

WESTERN opposition to the Ship Subsidy Bill has increased to such an extent that it is believed there is little possibility of its passage in its present form at least.

THE British Museum has recently received a collection of 20,000 moths from Western China. This is said to be the finest collection of lepidoptera in the world.

ONE of the electric street-car lines of St. Louis has fitted one of its cars with a telephone, which can be used while the car is in motion.

RECENT criminal statistics published in Berlin, show an increase of fifteen per cent. in “immoral crimes against children.”

IT is reported that Mississippi River fishermen are canning catfish and placing them on the market as canned salmon.

THE street-car system of Scranton, Pa., is tied up by a strike of all its motormen and conductors.

HONOLULU

By W. B. Scott

A PERSON'S first visit to Honolulu is a most novel experience, for almost every nationality is represented, all retaining their native costumes and customs. China itself could not be more distinctively Chinese than Chinatown in Honolulu. The same could be said of the Japanese, Portuguese, and native districts; and, as elsewhere, Europeans cling to their national characteristics. These, together with a predominating American influence, and in addition hundreds of tourists and thousands of troops, who are constantly passing thru the city, give a variety of scenes.

In passing along the street, one may see Japanese women with babies strapped to their backs, Chinese with vegetable baskets suspended from the ends of long poles balanced upon their shoulders, Portuguese women carrying large washings upon their heads, natives dressed in their holokues, Americans dressed in every shade, from a black dress suit to oriental duck, tourists from all parts of the world, and soldiers and marines from every civilized nation. Horseback riding is indulged in quite largely by the natives, who all ride astride; and every style of vehicle may be seen, from the Chinese home-made wooden cart to the automobile.

Evidences are abundant to show that the islands are volcanic in their foundation. They are high and mountainous, and bristle with both active and extinct volcanoes. Just back of Honolulu, Punch Bowl, an extinct volcano, rises to the height of 500 feet. Yet the city itself stands on a plain of coral formation so level that from the upstairs windows of the few houses that have more than one story, or from a low tower, with which a few are provided, one may look out over almost the entire city and far out over the ocean. This plain is so very low that natural drainage for sewerage is impossible, so Honolulu has never had a sewerage system. Mechanical ingenuity is at last supplying the deficiency, and pipes are being laid, to empty into a large cemented reservoir several feet below the sea level, where enormous engines have been placed to force the refuse far out into the ocean.

To me, one of the most striking characteristics of Honolulu and the islands is the great numbers of a certain kind of little bird that is very tame here. One may see these birds about nearly every home. They fly into the houses, and will light on your nose, or eat from your fingers, but dislike to have you catch them. They have two very peculiar traits,—they always sing at night, and they seem desirous of making the acquaintance of strangers. They sing us to sleep every night. The people here call them Mosquitoes. There are two varieties, a day Mosquito and a night Mosquito, and they make life a torture.

W. B. SCOTT.

Box 291, Honolulu, H. I.

FOR NEEDY INDIA.

It may be well to state that all the money that is sent for India will be faithfully used by Pastor Spicer. There may be those who wish to contribute toward supplying the Bread of Life for the souls of the people of India. This need is even greater and more urgent than the needs created by the famine, great as they were.

Thus far the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has sent to India’s needs the sum of $2,400. It has received up to the date of this writing as follows:—

Previously acknowledged, $2,504.57.

D. W. C. McNett . . . $1.00　　　 Fred H. Seeney . . . $1.69 Mrs. T. W. Clark . . . $1.00　　　 A friend . . . $2.00 S. D. A. Ch. of Brantford . . . $11.00　　　 M. C. Van Atta . . . $1.50 Colo. Tract Society . . . $6.50　　　 Isaac M. Biglow . . . $1.00

Total to date (December 20) . . . $2,530.26

Genuine Waltham Movements

By Editor

Gentlemen’s Watch

The works are solid nickel. It contains fifteen jewels, compensated balance, patent breguet hair-spring. The case is solid silver, either open face or hunting. It is handsome, but not showy; valuable, but suggests no extravagance; a neat, attractive, and very serviceable watch. Stem winding and setting.

One of the above described watches given free to every one sending us 15 new yearly subscriptions to the “Signs of the Times” at $1.50 each

Ladies’ Watch

The Waltham is too well known to need any recommendation. In the above offer the publishers sincerely believe is a rare chance to obtain a good watch. We have examined them personally, and can recommend them as being just such watches as we would be inclined to purchase. These watches would usually retail for at least $15.00 and $10.00 for the gentlemen’s and ladies’ respectively.

Also has solid nickel works, seven jewels, patent breguet hair-spring, solid silver case, very neatly engraved, beautiful hunting, or open face if preferred. Stem wind and set.

This is given free to every one sending us 10 new yearly subscriptions to the “Signs of the Times” at $1.50 each

This offer is made as liberal as possible because the object is not to make a profit on the premiums, but simply to encourage readers and friends to aid in increasing the circulation of the SIGNS.

N. B. If preferred, you can have the Elgin movement instead of the Waltham

If interested in the offer, write us, addressing

SIGNS OF THE TIMES OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

VIRGINIA HOMES.

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The U. S. Census Office after trying all Competitors adopts the Densmore exclusively

Since its origination about one year ago, the U. S. Census Office has had considerable experience with various typewriters. They are now, however, purchasing the Densmore exclusively, having bought over fifty during the past two months.

Their choice should exert a strong influence with the individual purchaser, for the ball-bearing Densmore satisfies the exacting conditions of the Census Office, hence it is remarkable both for speed and durability.

UNITED TYPEWRITER and SUPPLIES COMPANY

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