. North India. g pressure of a cityatmosphere filled with intellectual questioningsand feeble moral standards. The young Christianstudents, often the sons of Indian clergy, who hadcome into Calcutta for the first time; the childrenof catechists, sent up for the school examinations ;the children of Christian villagers, sent in for in-dustrial training—these and many others, whenthey came to reside in the great city, needed tohave a high spiritual ideal put before them ; other-wise they would fall. This, then, was a primarywork ; and it explains the readiness of the Brethrento come to the aid of
. North India. g pressure of a cityatmosphere filled with intellectual questioningsand feeble moral standards. The young Christianstudents, often the sons of Indian clergy, who hadcome into Calcutta for the first time; the childrenof catechists, sent up for the school examinations ;the children of Christian villagers, sent in for in-dustrial training—these and many others, whenthey came to reside in the great city, needed tohave a high spiritual ideal put before them ; other-wise they would fall. This, then, was a primarywork ; and it explains the readiness of the Brethrento come to the aid of the Indian Christian studentsby means of boarding houses, industrial schools,and at Bishops College, equally with their readi-ness to undertake the pastoral care of feeble, sink-ing Christian communities at Dacca and Barisal. That this work has not been in vain maybe gathered from the sight of numbers of IndianChristians who are living lives of sacrifice to-day. To take an example, one of the Brethren ^ f^*m.
Size: 2469px × 1012px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectchurchofengland
