Identifier: christianmissi01denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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bearing upon the problem of poverty, introducedby Mr. Seymour Keay, M.P., in which it was urged that this Congress,concurring in the views set forth in previous Congresses, affirms thatfully 50,000,000 of the population, a number yearly increasing, aredragging out a miserable existence on the verge of starvation, and that was reported that the living were feeding on the dead. Two years after the dearthWarren Hastings made a progress through Bengal, and he states the loss to havebeen at least one third of the inhabitants, or probably about 10,000,000 of people.Nineteen years later, Lord Cornwallis reported that one third of Bengal was a jungleinhabited only by wild beasts. — Pictorial Tour round India, pp. 33, 34. 1 See The Literary Digest, December 7, 1895, Famines in India. 2 Report of the Leprosy Commission in India, 1890-91, p. 98. 3 Satthianadhan, The History of Education in the Madras Presidency, p. 7.* Report of the Tenth Indian National Congress, Held at Madras, 1894, p. 20.
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A Typical Group from one of the Indian Hill Tribes.Victims of an Indian Famine, Madras, 1877, Scenes in India. THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 233 in every decade several millions actually perish by starvation; andhumbly urges once more that immediate steps be taken to remedy thiscalamitous state of affairs. l Sir William Hunter is authority for thestatement that 40,000,000 (that is, about one sixth part of the popula-tion of India) go through life upon insufficient food.2 The address ofMr. Keay in support of the resolution is full of startling statements asto the deep social misery which Indian poverty inflicts upon the people.Dr. Uhl, in an account of a missionary tour in 1895, in which he visitedone hundred and eight Indian villages, speaks of the poverty of thepeople as a bondage killing the soul. The subject has been fullyand ably treated in a very recent volume entitled The Poverty Prob-lem in India, by Prithwis Chandra Ray, published in Calcutta. Hestates substantia

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