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Title: India and Malaysia
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n care which they notonly personally deserve, but which the religious situation inIndia makes absolutely imperative. Some of the blindestwork I have ever known to be done by good Christian men,has been accomplished in this illogical eifort to keep mis-sionaries from helping their own countrymen in India. I am 326 INDIA AND MALAYSIA. glad that in our mission a wiser policy has prevailed in re-cent years; but it has cost us more than one contest to main-tain it. Our policy has not met with the uniform approvalof all our friends, either in America or in India. I am per-suaded, however, that in this work we have been led fromon high. As indicated in a previous chapter, our workamong these people has not only been a blessing to them, butit has been overruled so as to be made a great blessing to ourcause in India. Whatever others may do, there will be, Itrust, no retreat so far as we are concerned. We must main-tain this department of our work throughout the empire, andmaintain it strongly.
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o h4OU %< t-H h-1 o (J Cl)apter XXIY. MISSION-SCHOOLS.* THE mission-scliool in some form is inseparable from or-dinary missionary work. However widely the mission-aries themselves may differ concerning the best school policy,thev one and all admit that sooner or later the mission- ml school must have an important claim upon their labor andcare. For a dozen years past a very earnest controversyhas been carried on both in India and in the home lands, es-pecially in Scotland, with regard to the proper educationalpolicy for missionaries to pursue. The Scotch have alwaystaken the lead in school-work, especially in its higher de-partments, and as they have not reaped as rich a harvest ofconverts as some other missions which have pursued a differ-ent policy, not a few of their supporters at bome are begin-ning to protest against making school-work so prominent,w^hile some go to the extreme of opposing it altogether.Dr. Duff, Avho, taking him altogether, was, perhaps, after thedeath of Dr.

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