. The Lushai Hills : a story of the Lusahi pioneer mission . fter the days work, stories of folk-lore orof the chase would be told, whilst the English visitors listenedand learnt. In the same spot later on the lads were heldspell-bound over another story—the most wonderful ofall—of a Saviours life and love—and in turn their earscaught strange accents, but these were charged with themusic of heaven. The first book printed in Lushei was a Childs was published by the Assam Government, and schoolwork began in earnest. The young people, timid at starting,proved to be apt scholars and re
. The Lushai Hills : a story of the Lusahi pioneer mission . fter the days work, stories of folk-lore orof the chase would be told, whilst the English visitors listenedand learnt. In the same spot later on the lads were heldspell-bound over another story—the most wonderful ofall—of a Saviours life and love—and in turn their earscaught strange accents, but these were charged with themusic of heaven. The first book printed in Lushei was a Childs was published by the Assam Government, and schoolwork began in earnest. The young people, timid at starting,proved to be apt scholars and ready pupil-teachers, and theart of reading and writing spread rapidlj-. Government RELIGION AND LANGUAGE. 31 encouraged the work, offering three months hospitahtyto anj^ man (chief or other) from a fresh village who wouldcome to the fort to learn, and when the missionaries wishedmore time for translation, a Bengali was sent for them totrain as schoolmaster. After a while no more verbal messageswere sent to the villages, everything went in writing.* In. The Zawtbuk, or Young Mens Quarters. the Blue Book of 1901, Mr. B. C. Allen reported: Thenumber of educated men censused in the Lushai Hills isvery high for a newly-annexed district, but the Lushai is,I believe, easily wooed from the paths of barbarism. ^ Later a manuscript newspaper, written by Lushais, began to be circulated, Now (in1907} this is printed, and contains muoli besides Government orders and local news. 32 THE LUvSHAI KlhhS- Of the hill tribes (of Assam) the Khasi is the most educatedand, after him, comes the Lushai. Both of theseare the direct results of Christian Missions. All along children had visited the missionaries verandah,and there b>- simple stages began the higher work. E\erySunda} a sacred picture was shown and talked they had composed or translated were taught andbecame popular—the Lushais are distinctly musical. Thena Catechism on the Bible was prepared with Scripture answers,th
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