Christian Century (1917) (14595177540)

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Title: Christian Century
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) -- Periodicals
Publisher: Christian Century Co.
Contributing Library: Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois



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to occupy a catholicpoint of view and it seeks readers inall communions. DISCIPLES PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 700 EAST 40th STREET, CHICAGO. Dear Friends:—I believe in the spirit and purposes of The Christian Century and wish to be numbered amongthose who are supporting your work in a substantial way by their gifts. Enclosed please find$ Name...,Address. April Wins and Loses fj The month of April fell considerably short of the monthof March in subscriptions to The Christian Century. Thatis not to be wondered at when it is remembered that Marchmarked the highest point in a series of four months, everyone of which outstripped the best months record in thehistory of the Century. ^ But Aprils receipts for new subscriptions and renewalswere nearly double the receipts for April of last year! •J Of the readers who agreed to send three new subscrip-tions during April but failed to do so, a number have writtenthat we could expect to hear from them early in May. THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY May 10, 1917
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Orphans Being- Reared by the Christian Womans Board of Missions at Bilaspur, India. THE AGONY OF INDIA The greatest subject empire in the world, 1,900 miles from tip to tip, either north and south,or east and west, its 1,766,000 square miles of territory unsurpassed in fertility, and its 315,000,000people, largely of Aryan stock, and so closely akin to their English rulers, unexcelled in natural worth,is the saddest of all known lands, having neither the enjoyment of the life which now is nor the hopeof that which is to come. There are a few great cities, Calcutta, with 1,222,000 people, Bombay 979,000, Madras 518,660,Hyderabad 500,000, but most of the people live in villages and are agricultural. There are a smallnumber of native princes and others of dazzling wealth, but the mass of the population is wretchedlypoor. Starvation is common, millions never have enough to eat, and the majority are ready preyfor famine or pestilence. They are hedged in by caste, paralyzed by fatalism, and