Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . l forms of Civilisation, deliveredon behalf of the London Christian Evidence Society, in 1872, re-marks : Whatever you may be told to the contrary, the teachingof Christianity among 160,000,000 of civilised, industrious Hindusand Mohammedans in India is effecting changes moral, social, andpolitical, which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more extraor- 1 The paper may be summarized as follows: (1) the influence of the Bible inchanging evil customs, several of which, such as divination, divorce, polygamy,
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . l forms of Civilisation, deliveredon behalf of the London Christian Evidence Society, in 1872, re-marks : Whatever you may be told to the contrary, the teachingof Christianity among 160,000,000 of civilised, industrious Hindusand Mohammedans in India is effecting changes moral, social, andpolitical, which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more extraor- 1 The paper may be summarized as follows: (1) the influence of the Bible inchanging evil customs, several of which, such as divination, divorce, polygamy,idolatry, slave-dealing, and infanticide, are specially referred to; (2) the powerof the Bible in banishing immorality; (3) its influence in strengthening and devel-oping character; (4) the inspiration derived from the Bible in calling out anddeveloping every good quality. The writer refers also to the stimulus to educationand to general progress in civilization. He enforces his points clearly, and fromthe standpoint of one who has observed the progress of these social J ~ :- ->5 S < THE DAWN OF A SOCIOLOGICAL ERA IN MISSIONS 89 dinary than anything that you or your fathers have witnessed inmodern Europe. x Lord Napier, late Governor of Madras, said: I have broken themissionarys bread, I have been present at his ministrations, I have wit-nessed his teaching, I have seen the beauty of his life. The benefitsof missionary enterprise are felt in three directions—in converting,civilising, and teaching the Indian people. It is not easy to overrate thevalue in this vast empire of a class of Englishmen of pious lives anddisinterested labors, living and moving in the most forsaken places,walking between the Government and the people, with devotion toboth, the friends of right, the adversaries of wrong, impartial spectatorsof good and evil. Sir Richard Temple, , , late Governor of Bombay,and Finance Minister of India, in a speech delivered before the Bap-tist
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