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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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here are sixty mil-lion who do not get enough to eat except during theharvest time. Is it part of the missionarys job totry to help them earn a better living ? The missionaryanswers emphatically, Yes! Jesus fed the hungry,and we would not be true disciples of our Master ifwe did not try to help men and women and little chil-dren to get enough to eat and enough to wear. Ourvillage schools with their 500,000 pupils help. It is notso easy for the money sharks of India, who alwaysprey upon the poor, to get into their clutches menwho can read and figure. Moreover, thousands of boysand girls from dark, one-room, poverty-stricken homeshave gone through the village school into higher educa-tion and are now earning fair incomes as doctors, nurses,clerks, teachers, or workers in other useful callings. Another way in which the missionaries try to helpis through Cooperative Credit Societies. Have youever heard of a missionary banker? Come to Jalna,and I will show you one who has been decorated by
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Dr. Anna S. Kugler working; with her clerk at the GunturHospital which, under hsr leadership, developed in fifteen yearsfrom a medicine chest to one of tlie largest and finest missionhospitals in South India, with maternity block, chapel, nurseshome, and dispensary. THOSE POOB MISSIONARIES 149 the Government for his services. Rev. W. E. Wilkie-Brown is another typical missionary, a kindly, vigor-ous Scotchman. He found many of the villagers ofthe Jalna district practically the slaves of the moneylender. They had to have money for seed every rainyseason, and they had no money to huy it with, so thatthey had to horrow from the money lender, who waswilling to accommodate them for a little matter ofsixty or eighty per cent a year. Once in the hands ofthe money lender, the poor man never gets out. Hetoils on, and his wife and children toil on. They keeppaying of their little earnings on their deht, but it doesnot grow less. A wedding comes, or sickness, andmore deht and more interest are a

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