Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities of Calcutta and Madras what might be called the bootleg price of abducted Kashmiri trebled and quadrupled last week...
...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...
Throughout his book he traces his brilliant idea which must perforce rank with the most gracious, sympathetic?and effective?missionary approaches. Two figures loom: the Christ, of course, and Mahatma Gandhi.? It is in Gandhi, he finds, or in one like him, that India will find the Christ. Curious is the parallel which Indians already draw between their great leader and Jesus Christ. Gandhi has suffered, fasted, been imprisoned. And many an Indian, now first glimpsing the new figure on the Indian road, has reverently paralleled Yerravada, Gandhi's first prison, with Calvary...
Sometimes too, Indians have spoken of Dr. Jones as a saint, or a reincarnation of a Rishi.* But Dr. Jones discourages meta physical attributes. In the U. S. he has lately been speaking to students and congregations throughout the land. Next week he will return to India. Claimed alike by U. S. Fundamentalists and Modernists, he is independent of both, holds theologic allegiance only to the Methodist Church and to its Board of Foreign Missions...
...From India, Dr. Jones brought this message to the U. S.: "The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred...