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gather up the fragments that nothing be lost. After the 

 years in India the greatest abiding impression that re- 

 mains, is the one of "loss" in India. Appalling loss 

 of human life, and stupendous economic waste. Human 

 life is so abundant, so cheap, so easily given up that it 

 is depressing. No other civilized country has such a 

 high infant death rate. Preventable disease is ever 

 carrying off great hosts who have survived infancy. 



A man can be hired for a dollar a month. A woman 

 or girl for less. A cooly will carry a one hundred and 

 sixty-pound burden eight miles up a mountain side, five 

 thousand feet high, for thirty cents. Men and women 

 everywhere used as beasts of burden but not so well fed 

 or housed as the beasts. The great loss due to poverty 

 and illiteracy is beyond power to compute. India has 

 a great religious sense, it has a great work to do. There 

 are great isolated landmarks in Indian history where 

 an Indian had a fair chance and where he has made 

 use of his chance. The results are part of the precious 

 heritage of all men everywhere. They are to be found 

 in the various fields of knowledge, philosophy, religion, 

 literature and science. They have enriched the world. 

 India's future can be richer than India's past. I am 

 always brooding over ways and means of avoiding this 

 fearful waste of human life, of transforming it into a 

 positive asset to enrich the world. Then there is fear- 

 ful economic waste due to ignorance and superstition. 

 If these wastes were stopped India would not be poor. 

 The present wastes are the potential capital which should 

 be used to get national income, the means with which to 

 get economic independence. As Jesus looks over India 

 to-day with its rich soil, and teeming multitudes as sheep 

 without a shepherd, so surely does He say to those who 



