AN INDIAN MISSIONARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 8

AN INDIAN MISSIONARY.

.'"WELCOME TO REV.. JOHN TAKLE. - The Rev.,.Tohri Takle; Baptist Minister irom Bengal, who hab just returned to New' Zealand on 12: months' furlough, after a long period of missioiiryiyork in-India,, was, welcomed' back at the .Vivian /Baptist' Schoolroom yesterday evening, the Rev. J. J,'North..presiding. Boforo,leaving'Wellington' to take up missionary' work.'about 13-years, ago, Mr'. Talde' was' employed, in the local office of 'Messrs. Thomas Cook,and Son, and, since then,- he has worked in what is.probablythe most disturbed-part of'lndia. , His headquarters are.' in- tho midst of the- district 'from whichthe present unrest in India springs, and it is his intention to.give. his impressions of the position At the forthcoming conference of the New.Zedind Baptist Union, at which gathering he'will be one of tie special judges. ~Speaking;last evening, the visitor remarked that;there was,at present.a great fight going r.on with"Mohammedanism/' That' fight- was -going vtb.berterrible in; the near future, and ;it was :.this. subject, which, he hoped, to .'deal ;with;..more fully.later.. If there was any place •on earth that needed .sympathy it.-was, in Ms opinion, IHdia. Whatever was, written;about the -Government 'officials there, he: could say-that'they-were determined to.sea;justice done i?\ ' ,ow closs P eo P le ' to' a'' man' would saythat they would rather have an English official, to. ;judga their.; caso - than any one else, as-they; cannot, trust their native" ■ officials-What'.they-'.wanted:was more power-in their"! TO -hands...;■.-The position .'altogether was a uinicultonß. On.the one hand, many'of the natives.had all the Eastern,superstition, and, on they, had most of the advantages given, by European educafion. ' There l were hundreds of students' aU over the land, who had_graduated at'.tho universities,"and expected to-find..-poahops;.with;-the Government, but tho Government .could not give them emplovment,. and .the..result",was that they .were stalking 'about idle, and talking anarchy,and-sedition.- The missionaries, however, were getting into'.touch with these men '??„"' ° n , one '. recently,:;no fewer than' 600 students packed a Y.M.C.i'. gathering, and sat out.overy. evening ;.of a. week's conference J°^ a; yery, general..;fe'eling of unrest,' 8^ es wero';deiivered .dunngvthP-evening.; Mr. ,W. H. George,, who had'; met Mr, and Mrs. Talde in India during Ins recent tour; of the world, stated,thatho had seen, tho, actual conditions under which they laboured, and one had to see these condltions m to . rea iso what missionary' lite reX was a work of faith from start to finish, and t was,. really .-remarkable' how well it"' ooked after, personally he tha 'dfttoK! - 3 '' on . e^ mme V'»°«er'' S nch 'cSn-