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conditions which call for such institutions. As I go 

 about America many say to me: — ''Yes, what you say 

 about India is interesting, but after all what business 

 have American Missions in India? India is Great Bri- 

 tain's job/' Frankly I admit that American Missions 

 have no ''business" in India and that no legal claim can 

 be made upon American Christians to send help to India. 

 It is only in the abundance of America's good-will, of 

 her resources, of her conspicuous ability to help, and 

 finally in her obedience to the command of Christ to 

 go to the uttermost parts of the earth that justify her 

 in giving this assistance to India. Even in my copy 

 of the American revised version it does not say to Ameri- 

 can Christians "Go ye into all the world except the 

 British Empire." India's need, America's ability to 

 meet that need in relation to the command of Christ, is 

 America's reason for sending of her sons and daugh- 

 ters to help this great and ancient people to gain the 

 fullest measure of human freedom, and to learn the 

 peace of God which passeth understanding. The reason 

 I advise that so many properly qualified Americans be 

 sent out is not that India's own sons and daughters afe 

 not capable, but they have not had the chance for train- 

 ing in India which they need and which America has. 

 Other things being equal, the greater the number of 

 American helpers as a temporary measure, the quicker 

 India will be able to manage her own affairs. 



After I had made a study of the problem of mission 

 industries and saw they must be an essential part of 

 the missionary method, I decided to choose agriculture 

 in preference to anything else for the following reasons : 



1. Agriculture is to-day the main occupation in India. 

 It is the basic industry of the world. 



