INDIAN CASTE VANISHING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 5

INDIAN CASTE VANISHING

'A PROPHETIC STATfiJI ENT. fix T<?!csr,iph- Pre%> tooctoUoiMftiwigbi ' London, April 30. Sir Geofge.Macalpine., addressing the Baptist Missionary Society, csiiplinsise.d that caste, in India \va.s disappearing. A learned Indian had declared that it would not endure beyond another docadb. Sir Ge-orgo Maea-Ipino added iiiat wliei-i casts was goire there would be a great in fins liito the- Christian Church.

Sir vcorr.c. Mncalpine and hi's daughter. Mis? Macalpiiw, received a special, welcome home at Camion Street Baptist Chinch, AfOiinp;lon. on their return from India, where thoii- tow oa behalf of tlia Baptist Missionary Sorieh eov(JWd Woro than fivo thousand mites, From espericaico gained civiri'ng his iour, lie same back perfectly astounded at tho progress' hciug made bv Christianity in India, for. to his griso, lie constantly found himself in an atmosphere almost as Christio.iv as at Home. Ho had given many'otnugcfisk tic addresses to 'students," and these men, who were Hindus a«d Mohammedans, had listened with tho utmost interest, -Tha universal testimony Ira had received' from Europeans in India was that Cii.sto was crumbling both nt tho top and bottom. , The low castes were in large numbers coming over to Christianity, and tho higher cjistts found that their customs iiov.ld not be TDnintaniecl in the civilisation of the West which they sflnc;lif. to adept. Very soon the system of ciiste would be broken down, nnd tliere would be a sreat movement- cif tire educated 'Indians to Christianity.