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the call of Christ and follow Him, for
God Himself will not do this work alone. He has chosen that it shall be
done through you. From our colleges and medical schools recruits and
funds must be sent until those who are in the new colleges over there
are trained and ready to win India for their Master. To bring them over
here for training is not altogether good. There are dangers in this our
age of jazz. It is not good to send out very young girls to a far country
during the formative years lest a strange language and customs and a
new civilization should unfit them to go back to their "Main Street" and
adjust themselves. The Indian Colleges are best for the undergraduate
Indian girl and are the only ones for the great majority. We must make
these the best possible, truly Christian in their teaching and standards,
in impressions on the lives of students as well as in their mission to the
people of India.
This book is for study in our church societies of older girls and of
women, and very especially for girls in the colleges, who should

consider this as one of the greatest fields for service in the world to-day.
We preach internationalism. Let our churches and colleges practice it.
Mrs. HENRY W. PEABODY Miss ALICE M. KYLE Mrs. FRANK
MASON NORTH Miss GERTRUDE SCHULTZ Miss O.H.
LAWRENCE MRS. A.V. POHLMAN Miss EMILY TILLOTSON
NOTE: The Central Committee recommends Dr. Fleming's book,
"Building with India", for advanced study classes and groups who wish
really to study. For Women's societies wishing programs for meetings
we think Miss Van Doren's book better as it is less difficult and more
concrete.
CONTENTS

CHAPTER
FOREWORD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE
INTRODUCTION I YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY II AT SCHOOL A
HIGH SCHOOL III THE GARDEN OF HID TREASURE
LUCKNOW IV AN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE V SENT
FORTH TO HEAL VI WOMEN WHO DO THINGS INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Regina Thuniboo What Will Life Bring to Her? Meenachi of Madura
Married to the God Will Life Be Kind to Her? A Temple in South India
The Sort of Home that Arul Knew Priests of the Hindu Temple Tamil
Girls Preparing for College The Village of the Seven Palms Basketball
at Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow Biology Class at Lucknow
College A Social Service Group-Lucknow College Village People Girls
of All Castes Meet on Common Ground Shelomith Vincent Street
Scenes in Madras Scenes at Madras College At Work and Play The
New Dormitory at Madras College The Old India Contrasts First
Building at New Medical School, Vellore Dr. Scudder and the Medical
Students at Vellore Where God is a Stone Image--Where God is Love
A Medical Student in Vellore Better Babies Freshman Class at
Vellore-Latest Arrivals at Vellore Dora Mohini Maya Das Mrs. Paul
Appasamy Putting Spices in Baby's Milk Baby on Scales A
Representative of India's Womanhood

PREFACE
These chapters are written with no claim to their being an accurate
representation of life in all India. That India is a continent rather than a
country is a statement so often repeated that it has become trite. To
understand the details of girl-life in all parts of this continent would
require a variety of experience which the present writer cannot claim.
This book is written frankly from the standpoint of one who has spent
fifteen years in the South, and known the North only from brief tours
and the acquaintance which reading can give.
For help in advice and criticism thanks are due to friends too numerous
to name; especial mention, however, should be made of the kindness of
three Indian critics who have read the manuscript: Miss Maya Das of
the Y.W.C.A., Calcutta, Mr. Chandy of Bangalore, and Mr. Athiseshiah
of Voorhees College, Vellore.

TO-MORROW
"If there were no Christian College in India, the foreshadowings of a
great To-morrow would demand its creation. It is needed:
(1) for training native leadership in this age when all India is
demanding Indian leadership along all lines, and is impatient of foreign
control.
(2) for developing Christian workers for the multitudes in India who
are turning to Christianity and need care and shepherding in schools
and in all phases of daily life.
(3) for the education of those who will be the homemakers of their
country, that the stamp of Christianity may be upon the minds and lives
of mothers and wives in this New India.
(4) for moralizing the social life in India which otherwise would have
the bias of an increasingly disproportionate educated male population.
(5) for demonstrating the uplifting influence of Christ upon that sex
which has been so disastrously ignored and repressed in India, and for
proving that the best is none too good for Indian womanhood. 'Better
women'