Article September 2, 1922 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from A. J. Arkin, W. T. Walsh, Sherwood Eddy

["India in the New Age," from the Congregationalist, Boston, Mass.]

It must be remembered that religion both with the Moslem and the Hindu is much more a matter of daily custom and social cleavage than it is perhaps anywhere else in the world.

In this condition of affairs the Christian schools which are beginning to be so influential must have a large part in bringing the people together and breaking down hatreds and caste laws. We get an interesting sidelight on the whole Indian situation, therefore, in the editorial summing up by a college periodical, the Ewing Christian College Magazine. The college is situated at Allahabad, in the Northwest Provinces. The editor is a Hindu professor. He says: "We believe equally in the British connection and in our people. And howsoever the two faiths might seem to conflict at times, we cannot let either go. We see no future for us as a people outside the British Empire, and we cannot reduce Britain's dealings with us to the level of mere self-interest. ... In the annals of the relations of people which history discloses, the dealings of the British with India hold, on the whole, a unique and an honored position. . ."

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