Hindu and Muhammadan Festivals

TO MISSIONARIES AND ZENANA WORKERS.

One great difficulty everywhere in India is to secure attention to the Gospel Message. The people have no deep sense of sin, and do not feel the need of the Physician of soul. On the contrary, they are warmly interested in their festivals; among the women especially they are for the time their absorbing thought.

Christian workers should, therefore, have a good acquaintance with them, and their origin, the legends connected with them, and their mode of celebration. Besides being used as starting points for Christian addresses, it is desirable to have cheap trats on the principle festivals, which night be offered for sale when they are about to be celebrated. Zenana workers might thus circulate a large number of copies.