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Mr. H. D. Griswold, writing in the Assembly -Herald, o f the Union Seminary in India, says: “ Thursday, May 27, 1915, was a great day in the history o f the Sahar- anpur Theological Seminary. It marked the graduation o f a class o f seventeen, the largest in the history o f the institution, and besides the seventeen who graduated in the Licentiates course, eleven more fin ished a Village Pastor’s Course a month later, making a total output for the year o f twenty-eight. O f the graduates in the Licentiates Course two received their instruction through the medium o f Eng lish, one being a B. A. of the Panjab Uni versity, and the other having completed the same course o f study, both old students o f the Forman Christian College. These two men are as amply equipped as the average graduate o f a Theological Seminary in America. A large number o f the students have wives and children, no less than thirty- two o f the total of forty-seven students being married, and the number o f children amounting to fifty or sixty. The wives are taught in the Women’s Training School, and they work about as hard at their studies as their husbands. Theirs is a three years’ course, including such subjects as Contents o f the Bible, Life o f Christ, Apostolic History, St. Paul’s Epistles, Urdu Hindi, Arithmetic, Sanitation, Needlework, etc. The purpose is to make them capable o f being fellow-laborers with their husbands. One o f the four students who made seven-minute addresses at the graduating exercise was a Bhil, a member o f one o f the wild aboriginal tribes o f central India. His talk was forceful and to the point.”
The report o f the Primitive Methodist Mission Station., in China tells o f great increases. Fifty thousand people have broken with their idols, and are looking to-the piissionaries for guidance, There is a great demand for men to train native workers. One- o f the most remarkable war-time gifts from overseas comes from the natives o f the Island o f Tanna, who were until recently cannibal savages. Seventy pounds was collected by them and handed over to the missionary in connection with the “J. G. Paton Missionary Fund,” in order that it should be sent to England for the widows and orphans o f the British soldiers. Dr. S. P. Tipton, a medical missionary o f the Presbyterian church in Korea, in an article on “Why I am a Medical Mission ary,” published in the Assembly Herald, says among other things: “There is one doctor to between five and six hundred people in the United States. On a certain street in New York I counted seventy-two doctors having offices in one block! While in my province in Korea there are two lit tle hospitals o f .twenty beds each in the midst o f a population of 300,000—an abso lute impossibility to reach them all—and we are well off here compared with China and some parts o f India, where they have one doctor to a half million or even 3,000,- 000 people.” The total additions to the - church' in Negros (Philippine Islands) during the year were 350 adults and 196 infants.
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