MISSIONARIES IN INDIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 7

MISSIONARIES IN INDIA

LECTURE BY MISS lIUSSELL, OP BOMBAY. At the Concert Chamber of the Town Hull last evening, au interesting and instructive lecture was given by Miss Kus-sc-11, who is a missionary-doctor from Bombay, India. The lecturer dealt mo.-.t-l.y with the work done by the schools Kept by the missionaries, and missionary work itsell',. and various lantern slides were shown, dealing with diii'erent stages and places of work One picture showed a "Tower, of Silence," where, Miss Kussell explained, when a .I'arsee died his body was J laid. Immediately tho vultures descended on it and made short work of it, after which the bones were thrown into a nearby abyss. Another picture was of the residency at Lucknow, a remarkable building, and another, the Taj Mahal, which is a memorial, and 'the most magnificent building in India. This building, she said, took 29,(10!) workmen 30 years to build, and she vent on to explain the different parts she had seen. Miss Russell stated that an enormous amount, of cruelty went on among the heathen population, and widows especially were treated most abominably. They are considered to have laid a curse on their house, and "lily bad treatment can save the people of the house. A photo taken of a number of the people who had been through u famine showed that they wore indescribably emaciated, and were merely bags of bones. Miss Russell also showed a few scenic pictures, among which vere seen soma wonderful rope bridges over racing st-eams. Some Hi girls dressed as different Indian classes, were brought on to the stage, and Miss Tiussrll exnb'ined, as the girls vent through the different - ways of the Indians, how they wasted an enormous amount of time, and asked niimer ous silly questions. Miss Russell concluded ' 1 ;' shnwiw. what a large amount of patriotic spirit was manifested in Tndia. am' "noted one instance where a, number of fefliers were retting livr-neiice a day. ami by missing Hirrc meals a week a sum of KB wav rni«pd and forwarded to the Patriotic Society.