Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions (1897) (14781285454)

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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914

Subjects: Missions Christian sociology

Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell

Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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es of Hindu society apart from any profession of Christianity. Ithas, however, been largely under the stimulus of the various movementsknown as Somajes, and is itself an indirect result of the entrance ofChristianity. It is a question how these reform movements will suc-ceed without a closer touch with a living Christianity. Very com- 1 As a leading Hindu paper of Southern India said not long since of the degradedPariahs, so we may say of all the social evils that afflict India: Hinduism can donothing for them; Christianity must reach them. — Rev. T. E. Slater (L. M. S.),Bangalore, South India. 2 Sir H. S. Maine has said: On the educated native of India the past presseswith too awful and terrible a power for it to be safe for him to play or palter with it.The clouds which overshadow his household, the doubts which beset his mind, theimpotence of progressive advance which he struggles against, are all part of an in-heritance of nearly unmixed evil which he has received from the past.

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