Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India

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Title: Lighted to Lighten: The Hope of India
Author: Alice B. Van Doren
Release Date: April 16, 2004 [EBook #12062]
Language: English
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Lighted to Lighten
The Hope of India
A Study of Conditions among Women in India
By ALICE B. VAN DOREN
1922
FOREWORD
The Central Committee sends out this book on Indian girlhood to meet the young women of America with their high
privilege of education, that often unrealized and unacknowledged gift of Christ.
Miss Van Doren has given emphasis in the book to the privileged young woman of India; she shows the possibilities, and
yet you will see in it something of the black shadow cast by that religion which holds no place for the redemption of
woman. If you could see it in its hideousness which the author can only hint at, you would say as two American college
girls said after a tour through India, "We cannot endure it. Don't take us to another temple. We never dreamed that
anything under ...