Identifier: christianmissi01denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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we find that men who wouldnot dream of doing their neighbours injustice or injury in the ordinaryaffairs of life have no hesitation in overreaching them in a commercialbargain. Trade is thus placed by immemorial custom outside the sphereof morality,—it is something to which ethics do not apply any morethan they apply to the differential calculus,—and the result is whatmight be expected. In India deceit is regarded by the mass of the people as the guar-antee of business success. There is a story of a magistrate who planteda bazaar with pipal-trees, but was waited upon byDearth of commercial a deputation of the shopkeepers, who begged him integrity in India, . ,, „ .. Persia, and Turkey. to remove the trees, for they could not tell liesunder them, and business would come to a stand-still. This request was based upon the common belief that gods re-side hidden among the leaves of the pipal-tree, and inflict punishment , , r >• See The Nineteenth Century, November, 1896, p. 727.
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Euphrates College, Preparatory Department for Girls. Primary School, No. i, Harpoot. Euphrates College, Preparatory Department for Girls. Primary School, No. 2, Harpoot. American Educational Work in Turkey (A.B.C.F.MO THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 287 upon any one whom they hear telling lies. A common oath is made,while crushing the leaves of the tree in the hand, by invoking the godsto crush the maker of the oath as he crushes the leaf in his hand if heis not telling the truth.1 It was formerly the custom for the Govern-ment to superintend the management of Hindu temples, but this dutywas afterwards handed over to the Hindus themselves. Many com-plaints have resulted as to the maladministration of temple revenues,and the British Government has been invited to interfere again.-These remarks do not apply to all sections of the Hindu population, asthe influence of the British element, and the contact of the larger mer-chants with European commerce, have brought new standar

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