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represents the people. It can go no faster than they 

 will let it. The history of reform shows an individual 

 in advance of a majority of his fellows, in advance of 

 the government and often such an individual is a thorn 

 in the side of a government which wants peace. A gov- 

 ernment is not equipped to experiment, and seldom takes 

 up successful experiment. In the South it was Arm- 

 strong, Peabody, Miss Jeanes, The Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion and others who have advanced and compelled the 

 United States government to follow. In India Chris- 

 tian missions stand as the pioneers, the trail blazers. 

 In most educational affairs the Indian government has 

 followed the lead of the missionary, for example Carey 

 and Duff, and in this day when all men everywhere are 

 longing for the time when men shall beat their swords 

 into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, in 

 the day when agriculture and not war shall be supreme, 

 it seems entirely fitting that the Christian missionary 

 should maintain his place by demonstrating his fitness 

 to lead India out of economic bondage into economic 

 freedom, which is at the very foundation of all other 

 freedom. Christian missions are spending about five 

 million dollars on education in India. "India in 1919," 

 page 133, says, "The contributions from missionary 

 bodies and from charitable endowments is of rather 

 greater importance than is indicated by its financial 

 equivalent. Missionary bodies very often succeed in 

 enlisting the services of devoted men whose ability is 

 quite out of proportion to the remuneration which they 

 are content to accept. Indeed Indian education, as a 

 whole, owes to missionary bodies a debt which it is 

 very difficult to estimate with justice." 



