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India the things of which she stands so sorely in need. 

 This is the one sure way to rid India of the ever present 

 nightmare, as well as the reality, of famine, and from 

 the missionary standpoint the one sure way to get the 

 self-supporting, self-propagating, self-governing church. 

 Better farming for India means the introduction of 

 modern machinery adapted to Indian conditions. The 

 Indian farmer has gone about as far as any one can go 

 with implements made of bamboo tied together with weak 

 string; to get bigger crops he must have better tools. 

 The present tools and implements do not call out from 

 the user any large degree of intelligence. It is for this 

 reason that mission farms using Indian tools and meth- 

 ods have not made any substantial progress. But the 

 Indian boy who learns to care for a tractor, or a thresh- 

 ing machine, or a silage cutter, knows he has learned 

 something that calls for more brains and effort. Modem 

 machinery challenges the Indian farmer boy just as it 

 has the American farmer boy. 



" Give ye ear, and hear my voice ; hearken, and hear my speech. 

 Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he con- 

 tinually open and harrow his ground? When he hath levelled the 

 face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the 

 cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the 

 appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof? For his 

 God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him. For the 

 fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, 

 neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the 

 fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 

 Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: 

 and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he 

 doth not grind it. This also cometli forth from Jehovah of hosts, 

 who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom." 



Isaiah 28:23-29. Am. R. V. 



