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Title: India on the march
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Clark, Alden Hyde, 1878- Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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t their God caresfor us too. They are ready to start schools for ourchildren. Shall we not become Christians ? So they talk it over among themselves. Some urgethe step. Others cling to their old worship. After awhile a part go to the missionary and say that theywant to become Christians. He welcomes the groupand asks them whether they are ready to give up en-tirely their idols and worship the one God who is theirheavenly Father. Yes, Excellency. The Hindus keep us out of theirtemples. Our own gods have done us no good. Wewill give them up. And will you go to church regularly and learn howto worship and live in the Christian way V Yes, Excellency. And will you give up immoral living, stealing, andthe eating of the flesh of dead animals ? Probably they have known beforehand that these ques-tions would be asked and have already made up theirminds. Yes, Excellency. Send us a Christian teacher, andwe will try to do all these things. And will you send your children to school ? Yes, we will.
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