Religion: Christian Engineering

What should a Christian think of a Brahmin? Have Christian foreign missions finished their work? Has their value in the Far East declined? Should they go on? Questions like these were interesting to laymen of seven U. S. Protestant denominations* whose 57,000-odd churches and ten million-odd members spent nearly $15,000,000 in 1931 on foreign missions.

Let us have a look, said they. They formed a Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, backed largely by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer —President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood...