Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . mutes. Industrial training is part of the educationalcourse. The report of 1896 states, regarding the graduates of theclass for the blind, that seven are already employed as teachers, having in almost every case they have their source in Christianity. This is victory. —Rev. David S. Spencer (M. E. M. S.), Nagoya, Japan. 1 Cf. Some Noted Indians of Modern Times, pp. 60, 68, 87, 95, 109;Bailey, Glimpses at the Indian Mission Field, p. 104. 2 According to the census of 1891, out of a population of some 274,000,000t
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . mutes. Industrial training is part of the educationalcourse. The report of 1896 states, regarding the graduates of theclass for the blind, that seven are already employed as teachers, having in almost every case they have their source in Christianity. This is victory. —Rev. David S. Spencer (M. E. M. S.), Nagoya, Japan. 1 Cf. Some Noted Indians of Modern Times, pp. 60, 68, 87, 95, 109;Bailey, Glimpses at the Indian Mission Field, p. 104. 2 According to the census of 1891, out of a population of some 274,000,000there were 458,868 blind. Including Burma and Ceylon, there would probably beabout half a million who, according to the census, are reported blind. But thisestimate, large as it is, must be far below the real number of the sightless who need tobe provided for. The census takes no note whatever of the people whose sight isso seriously defective as to render them for educational purposes practically blind,and these form a very large proportion.—The Christian, October II, a 3 i u THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 385 passed the government examinations successfully. One of them hasestablished a school in Pannevellei, his own village, where he givesinstruction to ten pupils. An Association for Work among the Blind has been formed, under the auspices of the Madras Missionary Con-ference, and chiefly through the instrumentality of the Rev. T. Much painstaking work had previously been done by Garthwaite, formerly Government Inspector of Schools, and alsoby the Rev. Joshua Knowles, of Mr. Garthwaite hasarranged an alphabet which can be adapted to any language of India,and has published primers of instruction. An institution for the edu-cation of the blind is about to be established at Bangalore. There isa school at Amritsar, under Miss Hewlett, in which twenty-sevenblind pupils—all Christians—are under instruction. The work of aBible-woman at the
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