The World's Sickness and What It Promises: An Optimist Even in Discouragement An audience, which crowded the floor and balcony of the Lyceum Theatre, gathered on Monday afternoon to hear Miss D. M. Maya Das and Dr, John R. Mott of the "International Team" from the World's 'Christian Students' Federation. The speakers were introduced by Mr. E. S. Cunningham, U. S. Consul-General.
Miss Maya Das wore the national Hindu costume of a white silk sari. richly embroidered in gold. She 1s the associate general secretary of the National Committee of the ¥.W.G.A, of India, Eurma, and Ceylon, a graduate of Int. Holyoke College and a most forceful "and magnetic speaker.
Miss Maya Das announced her subject as "India of the Past, Present, and Future," and her main thought was the importance of real international fellowship which could come only through true knowledge and understanding of one nation with another. "The outstanding characteristic of India," said the speaker, "is its passionate and intense religious mysticism. This vast country is undergoing a tremendous upheaval not merely political but social and religious. The causes are western influences, the new idea unity, education, but particularly the coming of Jesus Christ to. this country, "India, China and Japan are being torn again. Do you realize your responsibility to them? Do you want them to copy your industrial system exactly as you have it, war exactly as you have it, religion exactly as you have. it? Whether you wish it or not, that is what they are doing. Sometimes, when think of your responsibility I am glad I do not come from the West I do not forget the good that has come from the West but I beg you here in China to remember that the Eastern lands are looking to you for guidance.
"Has the country of religious mysticism nothing for you? Is the East just a market for your goods, just a place to exploit the people? Has it not something to give you, something you can only find if you endeavour to understand it? I beg of you from the West to try to understand us in the East, not in a cursory way buf with true knowledge."
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Dr. Mott, who was enthusiastically received, said in part: "On this, my fifth visit to China, reviewing the impressions received a decade ago, it seems to me that I am living in an entirely new world. Internationally, I should characterize the world as in a state of suspicion—distrust within and without and irritation—since I must agree with Herbert Hoover that there are more friction points between the people of the world to-day than before the war.
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