Lux Christi - An Outline Study Of India - A Twilight Land (Paperback)

LUX OHRISTI AN OUTLINE STUDY OF INDIA Hans BY CAROLINE ATWATEE MASON ftrrfe THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON MAOMILLAN 00., IUD. 1902 All OOPYRMMIT, 1002, BY TUK MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and dectrotyjied August, 1909, PUBLISHED FOB THE CENTRAL OOMMITTEB ON THE UNITMD STUDY Off M1MION8, r. fif I 1 K ltl liS THE ANUKL OF CAWNPOKK STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OK THE UNITED STUDY OF MISSIONS IT is well known to many friends of missions that one of the results of the Ecumenical Conference of Foreign Missions in 1900 was a movement for a system, of united study among all the womens foreign missionary societies in the world. During the year 1902 the plan has been tried and proved most successful. The first course in the regular series was introductory and historical, concerning the progress of missions from apostolic times to the close of the eighteenth century, and was entitled An Intro duction, to the Study of Missions. The general idea and the special topics have been taken up with great and unexpected enthusiasm in nearly all of the forty womens foreign missionary societies in the United States and in Canada, and in some societies in Great Britain. The text-book for the course, Via Christi, has reached a sale of thirty-five thousand copies, and testimony as to the vahie and interest of the course has been, almost universal. The Central Committee now present as the second course in the series, for 1908, A Study of India, for which Lux Christi is the text-book. India is a f asci VI STATKMKNT OF THK VOMMITTEK nating country to study, an l encouraged by past sweens this second outline and t xl-book are sent out with great confidence in tholr cordial rocoption. Mma A. B. CHILD, CHAIRMAN, r wCongregational 7 oww, Bo ton t Mtutt. MIHH CLEMENTINA BUTLER, SECRETARY ANT TRKABUKEK, Jtfmntvn, Centre, Ma. MRB., T. T. ORACKY, 177 Pearl Street, Rochester, N, Y. MIHH ELLEN 0. PAHSON8, Pre, bf tcrl tn Kuildinff j ft y fth Avenue, JVVw Turk C. v. M. N. M. WATEEBtJRY, Tr tnont Temple JBoston, PBEFACE THE foundation of the United Study of Missions was laid by Miss Hodgkins in Via Christi. It is fitting-that the next subject of study should be India, for two reasons India was the first field of Anglo-Saxon Prot estant Mission, and by reason of the seclusion and oppression of its women, it is preeminently womans foreign missionary field. It can be said without hesitation that no portion of the heathen world can offer us a more fruitful sub ject for study and investigation, whether we regard the kinship of the great Aryan race, the romance and adventure of early missionary his tory, or whether we consider the land itself, with its wealth of ancient literature, profound philosophy, and wonderful architecture with its story of dramatic conquest and its haunting sense of mystery. The present position of India as a dependency of our Anglo-Saxon kinsmen brings it pecul iarly within the range of our interests its vil viii Pit K FACE prominence In tlie diction of the day brings it vividly before our imaginations. May God grant that a year of earnest study shall lay the burden of its Christless millions heavily upon our hearts. In Lux Christ the author Becks to furnish simply a starting-point from which sttulents may work out in all directions into the rich store of literature accessible. The little book is an outline, not a picture a condensed sum mary, not a history of India, religious, political, or social. Neither is it a study of Christian missions in India in detail. To enter in any real sense upon that undertaking would require a series of volumes, and but a portion of two chapters was available. The attempt has been made to give the master motives, major powers, and great historical workers their fitting place only a few words, however, could be allowed to each, and many worthy names have been of necessity omitted altogether...