36 THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



to be strong, healthy and efficient, the better for him. 

 They used to talk of the great danger of the "rice con- 

 verts," of those who followed for the loaves and fishes 

 and of those who sought material gain. The Bible says, 

 ''What? know ye not that your body is the temple 

 of the Holy Ghost . . . therefore glorify God in your 

 body. ' ' Cor. 6 : 19-20. The body surely has its rightful 

 demand for care and protection. 



Investigation shows that most mission industrial en- 

 terprises in orphanages and for low-caste converts are 

 failures, that generally, just as soon as a mission could 

 close down its industrial work it did so, and only opened 

 again when famine provided large numbers of children 

 to be cared for. The causes of failure are : 



First: The lack of properly and technically trained 

 missionaries. Seldom did a mission have a member, man 

 or woman, with the necessary technical training to make 

 industrial work a success. Most missionaries have 

 special training for evangelistic work, that does not 

 imply the training necessary for a good blacksmith, or 

 carpenter or shoe-maker. It would be much wiser for 

 Foreign Mission Boards to take a leaf out of business 

 experience and to appoint missionaries who have had 

 special training for the particular piece of work to be 

 done. An evangelist for evangelistic work: a black- 

 smith for iron work : a carpenter for working in wood : 

 a farmer for farming. All should be controlled by that 

 One Spirit without which no mission work can succeed. 

 "There are diversities of operations, but it is the same 

 God which worketh all in all." 



Granted that a certain ordained evangelist who had 

 been brought up on a farm, and remembers the labors of 

 his youth makes a success of managing an orphanage, 



