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110 perhaps, than any other among the upper classes of India. There were hundreds of men who, though not Christians, adopted an attitude towards Christianity entirely different from that of their fathers. Industrial missions have been left for the most part to the Germans and others, but we are doing more than formerly in giving technical instruction to boys in several schools. One, for example, in Bengal is turning out excellent railway engineers, and another in the Punjab is making fair carpenters and joiners. Besides this a good deal is done in a quiet way in teaching women to earn a living by making lace and other ornamental work. The greatest developments of our modern missions are those in connection with women and medical work. The seclusion of women in the East makes it essential that they should be approached by their own sex, and it is not surprising that the visits of bright English ladies, bringing not only new interests but, above all things, the knowledge of Divine love into the dark homes and darker lives of their sisters, should be almost invariably welcomed, and that more houses are open to our missionary ladies than it is possible for them to enter. And this is the case not only in country villages and with the poor women of the towns, but in the houses of the highest and wealthiest.”

“What should you say is the most gratifying feature of your work in India to-day?”

“Well, I should say not so much the actual