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    "ocrText": "service: till finally some outcastes became\nIndia. The newly-expanded Vellore Medical\nleaders of India's life. And today people\nCollege, in which Methodism is sharing, is\nFor Inter-American Understanding\nfrom the higher castes are seeking Christian\nnow training scores of doctors and nurses\nbaptism.\nfor this post-war need; its other hospitals\n\"The evangelical movement in South America\nbecause the movement stands for freedom\nIndustry will boom in tomorrow's India.\nhave long been in service.\nis moving in from the fringes of life and\nand liberty-and it is freedom and liberty\nHundreds of thousands of men who can use\n\"No post-war planning can be done ade-\nbecoming the center of life and activity,\"\nfor which the intellectuals are looking. I\nboth their heads and their hands will be\nquately by anyone or any group that does\nsaid Dr. E. Stanley Jones upon his recent\ndid not anywhere have to soft-pedal the\nrequired. Already at Raewind Christian In-\nnot fully understand and believe in the\nreturn from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay,\nevangelical approach or teaching.\nstitute, at the Ushagram Schools, a Ingra-\ncapacity of India and Indians to become a\nBrazil and elsewhere in South America.\n\"I think there will be a movement against\nham Institute at Ghaziabad, at the Mission\ngreat nation,\" says Dr. Titus. \"They must\n\"Seventeen years ago, when I first visited\nclericalism in parts of South America. The\nSchool at Pantamba, and elsewhere, trained\nunderstand, as Lord Linlithgow once wrote,\nSouth America, the evangelical movement\nRoman Catholic Church, people feel, has\nindustrial teachers have been preparing\nthat India's wealth, in an overwhelming de-\nwas out on the edges of life-it was confined\nmapped the wrong course. One of the best\nboys for all manner of shop and forge and\ngree, is in her agriculture; and that upon the\nto little churches,\" he said. \"But in these\nthings for evangelicals was the recent pas-\ncraft work-\"from weaving to blacksmith-\nfields of her cultivators is found the whole\nyears something has happened. The intel-\ntoral letter of the Catholic bishops warning\ning.\"\nstructure of India's economy.\"\nlectual Latin Americans had passed up re-\nthe people against the evangelicals. It made\nThe \"Sargent Report\" calls for compul-\nWithout the undergirding of the spirit of\nligion years ago. Now they want to know\nthe thinking people say, 'If they (the bish-\nsory basic education for all Indian children\nChristian life and service, all progress in\nwhat it means for them and their countries.\nops) are against you, we would like to see\nfrom six to eleven years of age; with a\nlearning and in the acquisition of things\n\"Newspaper reporters, on this trip, asked\nwhat you are for; we are probably with\nchoice of three more years of schooling de-\nwould be worse than useless. For almost a\nme what the evangelicals and the mission-\nyou!\nsigned to train for industrial or commercial\ncentury the Methodist Church has been liv-\naries believed on this and that subject.\n\"One of the interesting movements in\noccupations or for university entrance. It\ning and teaching the Christian Way in\nSeventeen years ago they avoided the\nBrazil is the new and independent group\nwould mean more than 50,000,000 children\nIndia; and today that Way is the ideal, even\nevangelical viewpoint. The fact is that the\nknown as the Brázilian Catholic Church. It\nin new schools! Methodist and other Chris-\nwhen not the practice, for all that is good in\nevangelical movement is becoming a public\nis a movement centered in Christ. It does\ntian schools have for years been preparing\nthe land.\nissue-people are talking about it. That is\naway with the saints, but it retains the\nmany of the young people who will be\nsacraments of baptism, communion, and mar-\nqualified to teach in these schools.\nriage. It is a movement for the regeneration\nThe \"Bombay Proposal\" calls for doub-\nof the people who have been exploited by\nling India's agricultural output within fifteen\nboth church and state.\nyears. The Indian Government is now press-\nЦо hé venido para que\n\"The morale of the evangelical churches\ning a \"grow-more-food\" campaign-to double\ntengan vida para que\nis far better today than it was seventeen\nlivestock and farm production in fifteen\nyears ago, and they can and will have a\nyears. It calls for trained people to train\nla tengan en abundancia\ngreat place in the future development of the\nmillions of farmers. The Ushagram Schools,\nlife of these republics.\"\nRaewind, Ghaziabad, Leonard Theological,\nIn our own land, Catholics and Protest-\nLodhipur and other Methodist institutions\nants have learned, in general, to live to-\nhave been training likely Christian boys for\ngether in physical peace, and with a good\nthis service.\ndegree of understanding and toleration.\nFor forty years, the Allahabad Agricul-\n(Proof of that is that when there is devia-\ntural Institute-in which the Methodist\ntion in word or in deed it becomes \"news.\")\nChurch is now a partner-has led all India\nSince the United States is largely Protestant,\nin training agricultural and livestock au-\nand South America, Mexico, and Central\nthorities. Now the Institute is extending its\nAmerica are largely Catholic or Catholic\nprogram, and will be able to serve the com-\nin name only-many intellectuals calling\ning leaders of the masses as they reshape\nthemselves atheists-it is extremely im-\nIndia's agricultural economy.\nportant for future peace and harmony, not\nMethodism has led the way for half a\nonly in the Americas but in the world, that\ncentury in hospitals, medicine, nurse train-\nthese two groups understand and tolerate\ning, public health, and sanitation throughout\neach other. That, in essence, is what evan-\n21\n20"
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