. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . ement of Hindu children,after even a twelvemonths training in school, hasbeen well described by the late Mrs. Emlyn, in thefollowing words :—* The day scholars join, accordingto their ability, in all the classes : a few of them are inthe highest class ; but the majority are httle childrenwho came to us ignorant of everything. Asregards these, the result of the years treatment canbe clearly seen, and is very satisfactory. Severalwho did not know all their letters a year ago, nowread the Bibl
. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . ement of Hindu children,after even a twelvemonths training in school, hasbeen well described by the late Mrs. Emlyn, in thefollowing words :—* The day scholars join, accordingto their ability, in all the classes : a few of them are inthe highest class ; but the majority are httle childrenwho came to us ignorant of everything. Asregards these, the result of the years treatment canbe clearly seen, and is very satisfactory. Severalwho did not know all their letters a year ago, nowread the Bible with tolerable fluency; those who atthe same time began to learn writing in the nativestyle, by tracing letters with their fingers in the sand,can now produce neat copy-books; and those whohad never threaded a needle, can without much help EARLY PIETY. 191 make their own jackets. There has been a greatadvance in personal neatness. Not a few of theparents are too poor to supply the children withclean clothes; but the smooth hair and clean handsand face show that the desire for neatness and clean-. HINDU GIRL WEITING ON THE SAND. liness has been awakened. Some of the little girls,at their teachers suggestion, have bought cheapcalico, and brought it to the sewing class to makeup into jackets for themselves. To many of thesechildren the Bible stories are new, and we gettouching proof sometimes of the hold that they take 192 THE GOSPEL IN SOUTH INDIA. upon their young minds. One child whose father laydying—a new scholar, and of a family newly turnedfrom heathenism—said to a neighbour, ** Jesus didmuch more difficult things than this; perhaps Hewill yet cure my father. Three of the scholars arethe children of heathen, but these are as regular asthe others at the services in the chapel, and at theSunday-school at the bungalow; one of them hasseveral times foregone her midday meal rather thanmiss either the one or the other. The change is even more marked in the degradedPulayar
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