A glimpse of India : being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.

  • Clara Swain
Date:
1909
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    few little girls, children of the mission servants, gathered into a school on the veranda of the mission house, with now a school system for the education of girls all over the Empire. “ The Methodist Mission has a thousand schools with, at the best computation, ten thousand girls in attendance, and other missions, too, count their girl pupils by thousands, and a large per cent, of the girls are Christians,” she said. She showed the capability of the females of India in the fact that in the B. A. and F. A. examinations the last year girls held the first place, and she told of the in- fluence of Christianity on Hindu and Mohammedan women who are becoming morally and socially emancipated from the bondage of their former lives. Miss Budden who has had large experience in evangelistic work emphasized the need of consecrated Bible women to carry the message of salvation to the women of the towns and villages, and wished that we might have many more women trained for this special work. Dr. Edna Beck of Phalera gave an account of the medical work, and showed how beautifully the medical and evangelistic work supplement one another. Miss Blair’s practical paper on “ Literature for the Women of India ” gave food for thought. While editor ol the JVoman's Friend in Bengali she began to [ 352]