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...into a chance conversation with a stranger on a trolley. The stranger was a missionary, and what he had to say persuaded the student to go to India for a few months' work among the Untouchables. Last week, after 41 years in India, big, burly, British-born Sam Higginbottom, 70, left his "temporary" job and came back to the U.S. for good...
Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...
...years later, with $30,000 and an agricultural degree in his pocket, Sam Higginbottom went back to India with modern implements and began farming 275 acres of the poorest land he could find. Discarding the surface-scratching wooden plows which Indians had used for centuries, he cut deep with tractor-drawn, modern plowshares-into amazingly rich soil. His seed sprouted into such grainfields as India had seldom seen...
...concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest. Dr. Sam Higginbottom, third layman to head the Church, is president of India's Allahabad Christian College, and rated the ablest agricultural missionary in the world...
Born in England, educated at Mount Hermon School (under Dwight Lyman Moody) and at Princeton, Sam Higginbottom was sent to India in 1903 as an "unordained experiment." Since then he has never had time to take five years off to become a U. S. citizen. (But in 1928, Princeton classmates paid his passage to their 25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched...