68 THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



his life. His salary ranges from three to six dollars a 

 month. When the British official in charge of the dis- 

 trict, the Honorable Mr. S. H. Freemantle, C.I.E., read 

 of what had been done in the southern states of America 

 by the Rockefeller Foundation, and in the Philippine Is- 

 lands by the United States, he arranged that every 

 school should have a fenced-in school garden. We had a 

 special summer school for these village teachers and 

 while not much agriculture could be taught in ten days 

 to these men, it was wonderful to see how their whole at- 

 titude of mind toward the importance of agriculture was 

 changed, and with what enthusiasm they went back to 

 their village schools. We have had two or more of these 

 Government teachers each year taking a special two 

 years' course in practical agriculture suitable for school 

 garden work. The most important part of the work the 

 Mission Agricultural School has done in India, is not 

 the very few small things which it has done of itself, but 

 the fact that it has aroused interest and called attention 

 to the fact of India's need of better farming and has 

 caused other people to do very much more than we our- 

 selves could have done. Being a mission institution 

 every student, Christian or non-Christian, attends a daily 

 Bible class because the institution believes that it is not 

 better plowing or larger crops that is going to save India, 

 important as they are, but a faith which comes from 

 knowledge of Jesus, the world's Saviour. It is not that 

 we want men to change their religion just for the sake 

 of changing it, but because we believe that in Jesus there 

 is the complete and adequate satisfaction for every 

 hunger of man whether spiritual or material, whether 

 for time or eternity. 



