Reaching educated Indian Youth

The most urgent need in India was a four-foldincrease of missionaries to meet the target set at the Madras Decennial Conference (1902) – one missionary to every 25,000 native Indians; and it was emphasised that missionaries needed to be intellectually trained – on par with the Indian Civil Service – to evangelise the educated Indian youth.

World Missionary Conference proposal in Commission one: “Carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian World”