GOSPEL IN INDIA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 4

GOSPEL IN INDIA

MISSIONARY ADDRESS “TROPHIES OF GRACE” Three hundred and fifty six million people in India still remain to be evangelised, declared Mr. Eric Johnston, a missionary from Southern India, in the course of a review of Christian mission work at the Baptist school hall last evening. The visitor, who is home on furlough after seve-n and. a half years in India, emphasised the duty of the Christian church carrying the Gospel message to these teeming millions in order that their burden of sin might be lifted and in order that their lives might be relieved of many sad and degrading heathen practices. A splendid collection of coloured lantern slides depicting the life and custom of the people a-nd the scenery of the plains and hill resorts of South India were shown and- explained. Pictures were given also of the activities of the Ceylon and India General Mission, with which Mr. Johnston is associated, together with some of the “trophies of grace” that have been won from fear and superstition. Several New Zealanders are included amongst the workers in the field. The speaker mentioned that the mission had lately sustained a serious loss in the death of Mr. Thomas Thompson, a graduate of the New Zealand Bible Training Institute, Auckland, who bad been in charge of the new work in the United Provinces of Northern India. The mission is of an interdenominational character carried on on the lines of the China Inland Mission.