Tárogató, 1946-1947 (9. évfolyam, 7-10. szám)
1947-01-01 / 7. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 measurably improved by Britain’s attempts to reach a settlement. Through her policy affecting Indian citizens (British subjects) in this country Canada is directly involved. And across some of the more backward areas of that vast illiterate mass that would fain become a democracy are scattered the stations of our Central India Mission. What an opportunity! And what a responsibility! OUR ENGLISH SECTION. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD TASK II By Jesse H. Arnup, Toronto, Ont. Mission and International Problems Since returning to my office in the Mission Rooms I have been impressed afresh with the degree to which The United Church of Canada, through the work of its Board of Overseas Missions, is tied in with the situation and problems which are fundamental in the establishment of a permanent and peaceful world order. The world’s colonial problem (and therefore its Imperial problem) centres in Africa. And in one of the most difficult of Africa’s colonial areas, whose greatness in comparison with the holding power reduces Imperialism almost to an absurdity, is set down the Canadian West Central Africa Mission. Intimately related to a mission from the United States, similarly founded in freedom, its workers are obliged to maintain outward relations with a type Of colonial organization which tends to obstruct and contradict their fundamental teaching. At the other end of the colonial scale, consider Trinidad. There an experienced and humane colonial power is spending large sums of its tax-payers’ money in an endeavour to lift the level of social and economic life so as to prepare the people for a larger measure of self-government. There has come into my hands a recent Report on Development and Welfare in the West Indies which indicates some of the results already achieved. Through its widespread system of schools our Trinidad mission is glad to be a junior partner with the government in this programme of uplift and progress. For Great Britain, the greatest single imperial problem is to be found in India. The world-shaking results of its solution, if peaceably achieved, can scarcely be doubted. The American attitude towards the British Empire already is So one might go on to speak of the new China, of defeated Japan, with her future still to be shaped, of Korea, whose delayed freedom is obstructed by an “iron curtain,” clamped down by that much misunderstood Power which so troubles the councils of the nations. In all these lands our evangelistic work, our schools and our hospitals have their contribution to make, not only to the lives of individuals but to the solution of national problems and the establishing of a peaceful world order. Many Refugee Students The present extremely cosmopolitan character of the student body is in part accounted for by the many refugees which the war brought to India. A goodly number of these fled Europe and Asia because of religious or political convictions which brought them persecution. One of these refugees, who graduated last year close to the top of his class, was of Austrian-Jewish parentage. His parents fled from Austria when Hitler’s armies approached. This son, Walter, escaped to England and was there adopted by an English Christian family and treated as their own. In the meantime his parents had wandered to India. Four years ago the boys and girls of Woodstock Christian Endeavour raised money to bring Walter to India so that he might attend school at Woodstock and at the same time be re-united with his parents. This boy is typical of the type of student whom Woodstock often attracts to its doors. A brilliant scholar, he is at the same time tolerant and considerate, and so kindly and gentle in all his attitudes that he has been a real inspiration to the other students. Recently the whole family accepted the Christian faith. With such a conglomeration of races
