MISSIONS IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2171, 9 June 1914, Page 6

MISSIONS IN INDIA

THE Y.M.C.A. EEPPESENTATIVB; . Kir., J. Harry Lang, representative of flie Australasian Yoiiiig, Meii's Christian Ass6C%t'i'oii§ iii this liidjaij mission field, and lift. Lang, were the guests ar honour at a reception held i:i -tin? Y.M.C.A, moms last evening. Mr. 11, W, Eersley, who preside,d> welcomed Mr, and Jbi, 3;p,ng to tha Wcllini'toii Association. progress, ■Jtr. Ij.aitg emohasiscj tho importauco of the work to tie done. in India. There was, ho said, a great field for further expansieji of mission work in that coiin. try. Most of the missionaries in India were highly -educated men, who had hearkened to the call of their follow Weil 'in the Eastern nations.- ijiditi was a very fascinating cousVtry. It was remarkable that so many "old English families had one of their number in the Eastern mission field. The, strangeness •(if the customs, speech, and social habits <sf the Indian people se.emcd to exer.a ptotuliEiy fascination brer most missionaries. When ft young rnfesibifa atjr went to India lio had to overcome «omo Croat diHicukie.i, Among ' the fifs't df these wa? t'lits .exaspetiitfhg problem of learning tlm native language, The -second prdblism was .{jfqspi ing. the people's tliopg'lit, To bo abio tp think 'bo Indian thinks was a difficulty which took yeri.i:k to ovoreoino. When the missionary iiar! boon nlkl'tel bis district-, lie had to adapt himself to a great variety of w,ar'E Usually h<> baa to liocome a land ef doctor, and do Iris host to remove bodily pain. Tin* speaker gavo an interesting account of tlio great- mass regligious movements which often occurred in <3liferent, Indian towns, r.nd illustrated. how, by -tfio belp of the educated native which tne Y.M.C.A. was reaching, India, would ultimately brcoroo coim-riod to tha Christian faith. Mr. Laiig will, .givo a lantern Igctiirfl on "India and its Problems" in ih» Y.M.C. A, vowns at h o'clock to-night