India without missionaries?

One day one person asked his son who is sponsoring a child through a Christian organization, Why are you supporting an organization that propagates Christianity?

I just want to ask him. Do you know what our lives would have been in India today without the efforts of Christian Missionaries in the history? Our country cannot be what it is today without the efforts of God’s people who showed God’s love to the people of our country. Each and every cultures in India one time or the other has been influenced by missionaries. Missionaries have changed the very course of our nation.

Let us reflect on the life of William Carey.
Carey began dozens of schools for Indian Children of all castes and launched the first college in Asia at serampore, near Calcutta. He wanted to develop the Indian mind and liberate it from the darkness of superstition. For nearly three thousand years. India’s religious culture had denied to cost Indians free access to knowledge, and the Hindu, Mughal and British rulers had gone along with this high caste strategy of keeping the masses in the bondage of ignorance. Carey displayed enormous spiritual strength in standing against the priests, who had a vested interest in depriving the masses of the freedom and power that comes from knowledge of truth.’

He introduced the idea of Savings Banks to India, to fight the all-pervasive social evil of usury. He was the first Englishman to introduce the Steam Engine to India, and the first to make indigenous paper for the publishing industry.

Carey brought the English Daisy to India and introduced the Linnaean system to gardening. He also published the first books on science and natural history in India such as Flora Indica, because he believed the biblical view. “All Thy Works praise Thee, O Lord.”

He was the first man, who led the campaign for a humane treatment for leprosy patients. He , was a Christian Missionary who established the first newspaper every printed in any oriental language because he believed that, “Above all forms of truth and faith, Christianity seeks free discussion.”

He introduced the study of Astronomy into the Sub-continent. He wanted to introduce India to the scientific culture of astronomy. He did not believe that the heavenly bodies were “deities that governed our lives.” He knew that human beings are created to govern nature, and that the sun, moon, and the planets are created to assist us in our task of governing. He pioneered the idea of lending libraries in the Subcontinent.

Carey thought that if the Gospel flourishes in India, the wilderness will, in every respect, become a fruitful field,’ He became the first man to India to write essays on forestry, almost fifty years before the Government made its very first attempt at forest conservation, in Malabar .

Carey the first man to stand against both the ruthless murders and the widespread oppressions of women. Virtually synonymous with Hinduism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The male in India was crushing the female through polygamy, female infanticide, Child marriage, widow burning. Euthanasia and forced female illiteracy, all sanctioned by religion. He opened schools for girls. When widows converted to Christianity. Be arranged marriages for them. It was Carey’s persistent battle against sati for twenty-five years which finally led to Lord Bentinck’s famous Edict in 1829. banning one of the most abominable of all religious practices in the world : widow-burning.’

“He was the firs man to translate and publish great Indian religious classics such as Ramayana the and philosophical treaties such as into English. He transformed Bengali language which was previously considered ‘fit only for demons and women” into the foremost literary language of India. He wrote Gospel ballads in Bengali to bring the Hindu love of musical recitations to the service of his Lord. He also wrote the first Sanskrit dictionary for scholars.’

This account can never end. Missionaries wrote dictionaries to many of our languages, gave script to few languages, started education to all people and taught us English because of which the development of our country based on, opened hospitals, and on and on. And even today God is working through His people.