h and their loving offering to
advance the Kingdom of the Lord.

In this way the infant Christian Church of India, in its poverty of this
world's goods, is revealing a wealth of spirit and a richness of purpose
such as are worthy of emulation in Christian lands today.

The organized effort of the Indian Church for self-extension is rapidly
multiplying. Every endeavour is put forth to train them out of that spirit
of dependence which is one of the necessary evils incident to modern
missions.

In nearly all well organized missions in India are found, as we have
already seen, Home Missionary Societies, which are conducted and
maintained by the people, and which constantly direct their thoughts to
their privilege to further the cause of Christ in their own land and among
their own people.

Work by the young for the young, also, is being conducted with increasing
prevalence, zeal and success throughout the land.

Indeed, all departments of a healthful, normal life and activity are
vigorously prosecuted on mission territory with a view to imparting to the
Christians, not only a knowledge of the highest type of Christian
altruism, but also for the purpose of making them partakers of the same.

And the Indian Christian community at present, notwithstanding all its
faults and weaknesses, which I would not conceal, furnishes us much
encouragement as a product of past effort and as a growing power which is
to be used by God in the speedy upbuilding of his Kingdom in that great
land of the East.

There are, indeed, not many forms of organized Christian activity
conducted by Indian Christians themselves--apart from Western missions.
There are some, however, which are worthy of note and commendation. Such
are Pandita Ramabai's Mukti Mission for Widows; Miss Chuckerbutty's
flourishing Orphanages; Mrs. Sorabji's High School for Women; the
Gopalgange Mission started by the Rev. M. N. Bose, and Dr. P. B. Keskar's
Orphanage and Industrial School at Sholapur.

Recently a novel enterprise was inaugurated in the American Mission,
Jaffna, Ceylon, in the form of a Foreign Missionary Society, which sends
forth, to a region in Southern India, its missionaries to carry the gospel
of Christ to the non-Christians of that place. It is chiefly conducted and
supported by the young people of the mission and is prophetic of a
movement which will, ere long, spring up throughout India as a result of a
growing sense of responsibility and opportuni