ics, logic, ancient history, modern history, physics, chemistry, Sanskrit, Telugu, Urdu, and Tamil.

From an educational standpoint, the most urgent need in connection with the college is that it should cease to be a second-grade college-in other words, that it should give the full four years course instead of taking its students to the end of the sophomore year only. A second-grade college is really an anomaly, and it will be probably only a few years until the Government of India will give all colleges of the second-grade type the choice between becoming first-grade colleges or sinking to the level of high schools. It would be a cause for great regret if the Guntur College should be compelled to close its doors, for it holds a position of importance and influence not only in the mission but throughout the entire district in which it is located. However, it is not an easy matter to be recognized as a complete college. A liberal endowment sufficient for all the needs of a higher grade institution must be shown, while all the buildings necessary for administration and dormitory purposes must be provided. An adequate equipment of laboratories and libraries must also be assured. To meet all these requirements only $194,000 are needed. We believe

that the Church will not fail to make this college what it ought to be and that it will do it in the near future in order that the college may be prepared to advance when the Government makes its demands.

I would not wish to leave you under the impression that we devote all of our attention to the college. The fact is that the largest proportion of our boys are in

the high school. The photograph taken at the main building one morning after chapel will give you an idea of the large number of boys who attend the institution. The other photograph with Mrs. Strock in the midst of the boys shows some of the high school freshmen, about one-third of the class. Her section is a fair example of what we find throughout the entire school, there being in the class Christians, Mohammedans, Brahmins, low-caste Hindus, and out-castes. In the institution as a whole there were, during the school year 191617, 1,598 pupils. Of these, 262 were Christians, 185 were Mohammedans, and the rest were Hindus from all castes. By departments, there were 145 in the college, 367 in the high school, and 1,086 in the grades below the high school-an average of 123 to a class. Of the 1,598, about 900 attended the main institution, while the remaining 700 attended the branch schools located in four different sections of Guntur. These 1,598 boys were looked after by seventy-six professors and teachers.

I should like to tell you of the college Y. M. C. A., the literary societies, the student senate, the athletic association, and other student activities. I should like to describe the athletic activities and the cups which the college has won. The Lutheran college in Guntur is an institution in which every Luther Leaguer should be interested. May the young people of the Luther League remember the Guntur college in their prayers to the end that year by year there may go forth from it many strong young men well equipped by character and training for the great work of the evangelization of their native land-India!

HE Reformation of the sixteenth

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eign missions as no other event in the history of the Church did, since Christ died on the cross. Luther himself has been regarded on the part of some as unsympathetic with the foreign missionary movement. DeWitt Mason, in his "Outlines of Missionary History," a Dutch Reformed writer, thinks that Luther failed to apprehend "the abiding missionary obligation of the Church." He thinks Luther taught that it rested on the Apostles alone and, as "the end of the world was at hand," did not bind him and his followers. It is sufficient to say that Luther expressed him

self also very differently, as is shown from reliable authority. He ever reminded his hearers "of the distress of the heathen and Turks, urging them to pray in their behalf and to send missionaries to them." A correct interpretation of the Gospel, for which the Reformation stood, could not but involve the foreign missionary enterprise. Twenty-five years after the Diet at Augsburg, the first work was commenced by Primus Truber in the Slavic tongue among the Croats and Wends. St. Matthew's Gospel and other books were translated. In 1559 work was commenced among the Lapps in their own tongue, and in 1648 among the Finns. This accounts

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for the fact that these two lands are so largely Protestant and Lutheran today.

In 1637 the Swedish Church began work on the banks of the Delaware. The first pastor was Rev. John Campanius. He learned the language of Delaware Indian and translated Luther's catechism in that dialect.

It should also be noted that the Danish Church in 1672 organized the first Foreign Missionary Association, under Ernst Von Wels. The purpose was to carry the Gos

Mission College faculty in April, 1916, Guntur. Mrs. Strock, Rev. Strock, Dr. Uhl, and Rev. Rupley. pel into the colonial possessions of Denmark. Other laymen became interested. Von Wels himself became a missionary to Dutch Guiana, where he died. The philosopher Liebnitz, the merchant Michel Hawemann, other laymen such as Dannhauer, Scriver and Von Seckendorf-all became interested in the foreign mission movement in the great lands of China, India, Africa and the Mohammedan countries.

The so-called Danish Apostle, Jacob Worm, went out in connection with the Danish East India Company to India as early as 1620.

Peter Heilig and his associates in Lubeck became deeply interested in missionary work in Abyssinia and made translations of the New Testament in the Amaharic dialect. Thus, before 1705 the Reformation Church did not fail to appreciate the obligation which it had laid upon it by the "open Bible."

From 1705 to the beginning of the modern mission movement the Lutheran Church performed very signal service in the foreign field. Space does not permit us to go into details. In Denmark the Court Chaplain, Leutkens, a friend of Spener, brought the great cause to the notice of the King. Bartholomew Ziegenbalg was a student at Halle University, and here the first great missionary was discovered. With his friend, Plutschau, they began work on the southeast coast of India, July 10, 1706. It is not claiming too much

that this early mission should be regarded as the beginning of modern missions, although too often missionary books of today are wont to fix that date almost a hundred years later, with the work of Carey, who went to India at the close of the eighteenth century.

Three years after the birth of Ziegenbalg (1686) there rose in Norway a pioneer in the foreign work, Hans Egede. He urged work to be commenced in Greenland, under the mistaken idea, it is true, that he would find Norwegians there. He has well earned the name "Greenland's Apostle." He and his sons founded a Christian Church among the aborigines of that ice-bound land, and for fifteen years he and his devoted wife continued their labors. After he retired the work continued, under his son, Paul, until at length Greenland became Christ's.

Thus we may say that the eighteenth century closed with the foreign missionary movement firmly established in the thought of the Church of Luther. At the close of this century, small though the beginnings.