India's silent revolution . and Christianity into a generous recog-nition of every instrument for the elevation of India. K. Natarajan, veteran editor of the Indian Social Re-former, acknowledged this community of interest in hispresidential address before the Bombay Social Confer-ence of 1918 and appealed for closer cooperation betweenIndian and Christian forces. The fear of the Christian missionary has been thebeginning of much social wisdom among us, and even theDepressed Classes movement is, perhaps, no exception tothe rule. And let me say, in passing, that it is myearnest hope that more t
India's silent revolution . and Christianity into a generous recog-nition of every instrument for the elevation of India. K. Natarajan, veteran editor of the Indian Social Re-former, acknowledged this community of interest in hispresidential address before the Bombay Social Confer-ence of 1918 and appealed for closer cooperation betweenIndian and Christian forces. The fear of the Christian missionary has been thebeginning of much social wisdom among us, and even theDepressed Classes movement is, perhaps, no exception tothe rule. And let me say, in passing, that it is myearnest hope that more than the fear, the example of theChristian missionary, his devotion, his earnestness, hispower of organization, may in the times to come increas-ingly inspire our social workers. And is it too much tohope that the day is not far distant when the Christianmissionary and the Indian worker will be unhampered,the former by zeal for, and the latter by dread of, mereproselytism! It may be that in this constructive mingling of East. The Yankee and the Indian make a good combination. Prin-cipal T. C. Badley of Lucknow College and an Indian Memberof Faculty. Future statesmen for India are now seriouslytheir sums doing OLD ORDERS AND NEW 93 and West a new element will be precipitated; a new typeof religious aspiration, modifying the ethics and customsof Christianity to the Oriental mold, weeding out ofHinduism the elements which seem to the Westernerwasteful and degrading. Although the Arya Samaj as an organization repudiatesChristianity, the two have more in common than perhapseither of them realizes. In its watchword, Back to theVedas, it is rebelling against an organized and Phari-saical expression of religion. Samajists emphasize thesimple ethics of the Vedas; they insist upon purity ofpersonal life; they devote themselves to altruistic work;they live their love for the least of these. Whetherconsciously or unconsciously, they have really acceptedand are carrying out the principles an
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