Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . rmine hea-then superstition and false systems ofbelief. No doubt it will be interesting toknow something as to the amount andgrowth of Christian education in the 16,707 students in the colleges,5,930 are in the forty mission Julius Richter calculates that pupilsof mission schools compose 35% of stu-dents in colleges, 10% of matriculatesfrom high school, 25% of B. A., 16% ofM. A., 25% of scholars in boys primaryschools, 15% of scholars in girls pri-mary schools. The following is from Dr. Huizinga: The number of children of school-going age
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . rmine hea-then superstition and false systems ofbelief. No doubt it will be interesting toknow something as to the amount andgrowth of Christian education in the 16,707 students in the colleges,5,930 are in the forty mission Julius Richter calculates that pupilsof mission schools compose 35% of stu-dents in colleges, 10% of matriculatesfrom high school, 25% of B. A., 16% ofM. A., 25% of scholars in boys primaryschools, 15% of scholars in girls pri-mary schools. The following is from Dr. Huizinga: The number of children of school-going age in all schools: Moham- Chris-? Hindus medans tians Boys 1 in 5 1 in 6 1 in 2 Girls 1 in 51 lin81 lin2 The number of girls of school-goingage who are in secondary schools, ,middle and high schools: Hindus Mohammedans Christians 1 in 3703 1 in 20,000 1 in 35Of a total of 393,163 girls in schools,45,844 are Indian Christians, nearly12%; while Christians form only oneper cent of the population. The Missionary Visitor January1912. One of the Schools in Raj Pipla. The Little Ones Attend During- the Day and theGrown People in the Evening*. The following- shows the populationaccording to religions who can read andwrite: Hindus Males 1 in 10T^Females, 1 in 213 Moham-medans Chris-tian s 1 in 16^ 1 in 3*/21 in 328 1 in 8 Says Dr. Richter: Of the in India who understand Englishone is a Jain, seventy-seven are Moham-medans, 1770 are Hindus, but 18,402 areChristians. At present the population of India isabout 315,000,000, of whom, as per 1901census, only 4,521,000 were in of these 12% were in missionschools. But there are ten times morechildren out of school than are in school,or approximately only one-tenth of theboys and one-fortieth of the girls arefound in schools. There are fewer than ahalf million girls in all the schools in In-dia, leaving twenty-two million otherswho ought to be there. The State ofMichigan for her public schools alone spends dz much as Grea
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