New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . and alone has played inthese enterprises of reconstructing and elevating thislife of the Far East, no man can tell. The efforts ofits sons and daughters are inextricably bound up withthose put forth by men and women of the Englishrace like William Carey, Scotchmen like ArchibaldDuff, Germans like Ziegenbalg and Schwartz, andAmericans whose lineage, like that of the Scudders,identifies them chiefly with sections of the United Statessomewhat or entirely removed from New honors that go with any reclamation o
New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . and alone has played inthese enterprises of reconstructing and elevating thislife of the Far East, no man can tell. The efforts ofits sons and daughters are inextricably bound up withthose put forth by men and women of the Englishrace like William Carey, Scotchmen like ArchibaldDuff, Germans like Ziegenbalg and Schwartz, andAmericans whose lineage, like that of the Scudders,identifies them chiefly with sections of the United Statessomewhat or entirely removed from New honors that go with any reclamation of the FarEast, any assimilation of its thought to Western con-ceptions, any purifying and ennobling of its lifeaccording to the highest standards of the West, be-long to all earnest, unselfish men and women of everyland who have had any part in effecting the trans-formations that have taken place. But if all that those who were born and reared in NEW ENGLAND AND INDIA 275 New England have done to civilize and Christianizethese Oriental lands could be visualized in one com-. NEW ENGLANDS TOUCH UPON INDIA OF the first group commissioned at Salem, Gordon Sail and SamuelNewell went to Bomiay and Adoniram Judson, horn in Maiden,Mass., to Eangoon. The second company, starting from Newburyport,made Jaffna its center of operations. Bishop and Mrs. E. W. Parker ofSt. Johnsiury, Vt., did a notable work at Moradahad. prehensive look, New England would be seen to havedone its full share. 276 NEW ENGLAND IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD From the strands of external influences which, com-bining with all that is best and most inspiring in thenative character, are lifting the Far East out of ig-norance, superstition and degradation, it is obviouslyimpossible to disentangle and hold up to view all thedistinctively New England threads. They are wovenin with others to the mutual advantage of all theenergizing forces. Nevertheless it is alike interestingand profitable to trace as far as may be feasible th
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