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Title: India on the march
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Clark, Alden Hyde, 1878- Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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o the most abstruse problems of Hindu philos-ophy. It amazed me to see how here the most pro-found problems were completely solved. I went oneagerly reading to the last page of the Bible that Imight learn more of Christ. It was not long beforeChrist had completely won him. Tilak had already earned a reputation as a greatspeaker and a writer of beautiful prose and verse.He began to express his Christian faith in his writings.Although he used an assumed name, his friends recog-nized his style, and persecution began. He lost hisposition and was reduced to want, but his answer toall this was to take the final step of baptism. Thisbrought even fiercer persecution. His wife took theirbaby boy and left him. His life was threatened. Hewas a man of very great affection and was terriblylonely far from his friends and without his family;yet his very loneliness drove him to love Christ moreand to find his joy more completely in Christs fellow-ship. He began to write Marathi hymns, so beautiful in
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