Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren
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the bias of an increasingly disproportionate educated male population.
(5) for demonstrating the uplifting influence of Christ upon that sex which has been so disastrously ignored and repressed in India, and for proving that the best is none too good for Indian womanhood. 'Better women' are the strongest factor in the development of a Better India. (6) for definitely distributing the ideals of Christian womanhood to all parts of Southern Asia from which the College draws its students. Personal witness to the value of Christian education for women is a real Kingdom message. (7) for training women to take their part in the new national life of awakened India. This training must be by contact with lives already devoted to Christ, more than by precept, for 'character is caught, not taught.' (8) for meeting the needs of the more educated classes of India, as the evangelistic and other parts of mission work minister specifically to the needs of the masses." (9) In furnishing pre-medical training for the hundreds of women who must be educated to follow in the footsteps of the Great Physician. INTRODUCTION To say that the world is one is to-day's commonplace. What causes its new solidarity? What but the countless hands that reach across its |
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