The democratic movement in Asia . or theChurch, and hold his own with any one. Thereis no reason why the Church cannot make con-verts among the outcastes at the rate of a milliona year. That means, that, in forty or fifty years,the entire outcaste population will be would then have a Christian populationnearly as large as the present Mohammedansection, but far stronger and more influential. But missions have not merely to deal with out-caste Hindus. They have also to reckon withother and quite different people. I searched out the leaders of Mohammedanismin India. At Lucknow I h
The democratic movement in Asia . or theChurch, and hold his own with any one. Thereis no reason why the Church cannot make con-verts among the outcastes at the rate of a milliona year. That means, that, in forty or fifty years,the entire outcaste population will be would then have a Christian populationnearly as large as the present Mohammedansection, but far stronger and more influential. But missions have not merely to deal with out-caste Hindus. They have also to reckon withother and quite different people. I searched out the leaders of Mohammedanismin India. At Lucknow I had an interview withthe Secretary of the All-India Moslem League,a political organization now seeking to lead theMohammedans to unite with the Hindus. What do the Moslems propose to do for Indiain the matter of religion? I asked. He looked at me a moment, smiled a little,and said: We Mohammedans cannot close oureyes to the fact that Islam is a decaying anddiminishing institution. At Aligarh, the city of the great Mohammedan[848]. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FINDSIT WISE TO ESTABLISH A QUARAN-TINE FOR ALL RETURNING EMI-GRANTS, WHERE EVERYONE IS CARE-FULLY SCRUTINIZED FOR POSSIBLEDISLOYALTY. DURING THE WAR MANILA HAS BEEN A POPULAR RE-SORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PLOTTEDTO STIR UP REVOLUTION IN INDIA. FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY university of India, I went to the leading pro-fessors and asked, How do you state yourpersonal religious faith? What have you, as aMussulman, to offer to India? Their replies were almost uniformly the same:We are not religious men. Islam is not a vitalspiritual force in India, and never will men are all of them cultured and welleducated; many of them are graduates of Englishuniversities. They are practically without re-ligious faith; and, by their own statements, theirattachment to Islam is by the slenderest ofthreads. It is largely fraternal. In Japan I said to a prominent Christian lay-man in whom the pride of race and sense ofnationalism run strong:
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