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a mass movement at some centre and make it
spread to the surrounding districts.
The first systematic effort of the Methodist
Church to reach the Mohammedans is in opera-
tion at Tjisaroea, Java. Here a modem, well-
equipped hospital with a hundred beds has re-
cently been made possible through the generosity
of the Dutch Government, the young people of
Ohio, and Mr. Bruno Bik who gave a beautiful site
of twelve acres of land. Thousands of cases are
already being cared for by the doctor. With the
doctor is a missionary evangelist who follows up
the cases to their homes. In the whole region
about the hospital are being established verna-
cular schools for the boys and girls. Through
the medical work and the schools the whole fam-
ily is reached. By massing the schools a public
sentiment is created and an impression is left
that Christianity is a going concern. Prejudice
is dissipated, and it becomes easier not only for
the missionary to get a hearing but also for the
people to break away from the chains of custom
and belief.

Policy for the No body of missionaries can hope
Immigrants* to evangelize the five hundred
thousand Indians and Chinese
who are pouring into Malaysia every year. More
and more the overcrowded provinces of India and
China are sending their surplus population into
this tropical region. Here free from the petty
oppression and squeezing of a corrupt govern-
ment, free to develop to its fullest extent a natur-
al field capable of wonderful expanison, the
Chinese and the Indians are laying the founda-
tions of the great republics which are about to
be born.
What shall be the ideals, the morals, the re-
ligion of these new nations? This is a question
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