In visiting India, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, former
vice-president of the United States, took pains to aline himself
with the Christian missionary movement in that country. In
a public address he said: “I believe the greatest influence
to-day--I speak from the standpoint of a layman but with
measured utterance--is the Christian religion. The largest
progress made in America has been under the influence of men
who have been profound believers in the Bible and its thoughts.
And what I say of America may also be said of other Christian
nations; the experience of one is the experience of another.
I wish to express my profound admiration--it goes beyond mere
respect--for the workers in the great missionary field. I
have seen many a work; I have seen the rich, abundant harvest
they have gathered and are gathering. They are evangels of a
new order of things. They are doing much to knit the peoples
together, and have earned their right to the gratitude of
mankind for their noble self-sacrifice.”
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