Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . the Babies Pond. This was the place where littleones were thrown by their mothers. There were always several bodiesof infants floating on its green, slimy waters, and the passers-by lookedon without any surprise. The influence of Christianity in Amoy hasbanished this scene. As the Church grew, he writes, the truthspread, and street preachers pointed to this pond as an evidence of theheartlessness of idolatry that tolerated such wickedness, and the peoplebecame ashamed. Foundling Institutions were established, wh
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . the Babies Pond. This was the place where littleones were thrown by their mothers. There were always several bodiesof infants floating on its green, slimy waters, and the passers-by lookedon without any surprise. The influence of Christianity in Amoy hasbanished this scene. As the Church grew, he writes, the truthspread, and street preachers pointed to this pond as an evidence of theheartlessness of idolatry that tolerated such wickedness, and the peoplebecame ashamed. Foundling Institutions were established, which arecarried on to-day and which now have fully two thousand children inconnection with them. To-day thousands of women are alive who, Christianity, would have been put to death. The pond has long agodried While, of course, no statement can be made which is other 1 Fagg> Forty Years in South China: Life of John Van Nest Talmage, ,pp. 66-70; Graves, Forty Years in China, p. 89. 2 Infanticide is practised in Cheh-kiang Province. One of our native Christians. A Childrens Refuge in Singapore. Two Groups of Children in Mary C. Nind Deaconesses Home and Orphanage.(M. E. M. S.) THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 1LJ1 than an estimate, yet it seems beyond question that tens of thousands(we have seen it named as high as two hundred thousand) of infantgirls are annually sacrificed in China. The custom is practised also inFormosa, as Dr. MacKay reports in From Far Formosa (p. 298).The testimony concerning the prevalence of infanticide in India be-fore the advent of British rule is hardly less abundant than in may be drawn largely from Indian sources. Ina volume on Medical Jurisprudence, quoted by infanticide amongWilkins, it is stated that the murder of female the Hindus, children, whether by the direct employment ofhomicidal means or by the more inhuman and not less certain measuresof exposure to privation and neglect, has for ages been the chief a
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