Missionary Hopes and Fears
Basil J. Mathews , Professor of Christian World-Relations in the University of Boston, Mass.
One of the interesting features of this talk is that Professor Basil Mathews is to speak of a conversation he had with Mahatma Gandhi less than two months ago. And he will speak of Christian outcaste villages in which the faces of men and women, boys, and girls were somehow different from those of their fellow-outcastes in the non-Christian villages he had passed. On the former was some degree of happiness ; on the latter not even a glimpse of hope. He will speak of all that the Christian Church in India has done for the ' untouchables '
(and is still doing in spite of difficulties), as Mr. Gandhi agreed.
Basil Mathews , well known in this country as the author of ' The Clash of Colour ', ' Paul the Dauntless ', and other books, is just back from a three months' visit to India. He stayed with the poet, Rabindranath Tagore , toured Indian villages, and talked with Indians and Britons on many spheres of work.