American messenger . ferent Indian lan-guages. Moreover, to make these les-sons effective for the lower classes it isimportant that we should be able to is-sue pictures illustrating the lessons. Wehad thought of trying to issue three-colored pictures but have contented our-selves with a single color. We also needhelps for Sunday-School teachers in thevarious vernaculars and notes on Sun-day-School lessons which should be pub-lished annually. 3. A large amount of literature isneeded in the various languages for thetraining of men for the work of ministryand for work as evangelists. Among theboo
American messenger . ferent Indian lan-guages. Moreover, to make these les-sons effective for the lower classes it isimportant that we should be able to is-sue pictures illustrating the lessons. Wehad thought of trying to issue three-colored pictures but have contented our-selves with a single color. We also needhelps for Sunday-School teachers in thevarious vernaculars and notes on Sun-day-School lessons which should be pub-lished annually. 3. A large amount of literature isneeded in the various languages for thetraining of men for the work of ministryand for work as evangelists. Among thebooks required are the following: A Bible Dictionary. This has beendone in Tamil and now requires, or willrequire in the course of a few months,reprinting. It still remains to be donein many other languages more especial-ly in Telugu. Kanarese, Malayalam,Hindi, Gujerati, Marathi, Bengali, Sin-halese and Urdu. Commentaries on the New far as I am aware there is no singlelanguage in India in which commentaries. THE TELUGU MISSION HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ATNELLORE. INDIA on the whole of the books of the NewTestament are obtainable. In Tamil wehave less than half of the books of theNew Testament; in Telugu less than inTamil, and the same applies to Malaya-lam and Kanarese and mutatis mutandisto all the languages in India. A Handbook of Introduction to theOld Testament. A Text-Book of Old Testament His-tory. A Text-Book of New Testament His-tory. This is the program I have beforeme for the next few years, the carryingout of which is absolutely essential tothe efficiency of evangelistic and scrip-ture teaching work all over the country. I am sure I shall be justified in stat-ing that unless this literature is forth-coming the work of evangelism, theteaching of Scripture to the children inour Day and Sunday-Schools, and thetraining of workers for evangelists,teachers and preachers must be seriouslyhandicapped. We have been strugglingfor years to try in some small meas
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