INDIA TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 6

INDIA TO-DAY

“Strange New Awakening” THRALDOM OF THE OUTCAST By Telegraph—Press Association.’ Hastings, December 30. “Communism, anarchy aud antiChrist are all making a bid for this plastic India to-day.” said the Rev. J. L. Gray, a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary of 14 years’ service, at the Presbyterian Bible Ciass Conference ou Saturday night. Before India could rise to her rightful place in the world, he said, the caste system must somehow be shattered. There could be no change, of heart in India, and for an outcast, no hope’ of freedom from his unimaginable disabilities except through Christian religion and its doctrine of love. Mr. Gray stated it was'an interesting fact that according to a census covering the period 1921-31. the Christian population of India had in creased by 12,000 a month for every month of the ten years "Those teeming millions,” he added, “are awake today, and will never sleep again. Through the intelligentsia a new lite is filtering and going down till the outcast' is stretching iip~ the hands Of faith to see whether fitnyone in this universe of God will take him out of his thraldom. Jesus is doing that. Our Presbyterian work is only a drop in the great, movement’ that is.sweeping over India. ; “The possibilities are immense, ami through this strange new awakening that is taking place in India we are faced- with a success that sometimes terrifies us. What are we to do-about our responsibilities?” ■ > ■