Bringing Light to Hindus

[phkrause]

Ministering during the festival of Diwali

What comes to mind when we think of Hinduism, the third-largest world religion after Christianity and Islam, making up 15 percent of the world’s population? For some it might be the religious teachings; for others it might be the festivals or something else. In Hinduism festival celebrations are a core value. One festival that is most important to them is called Diwali. For Hindus it is a religious and cultural event that marks the beginning of a new year in their lives, as Christmas does for many Christians.

https://adventistreview.org/perspectives/culture/bringing-light-to-hindus/

[Gustave]

I don't mean this to start an argument or dispute but was wondering if things have changed in the context of foreign mission fields. 

 

 

In the above 1923 report of the SDA Southern Asian Educational Department, it is stated SDA's had a problem with using "C.L.S. Readers" (Christian Literature Society). C.L.S. readers were Christian educational books and pamphlets that were generic Protestant in nature that were those Christian Doctrines agreed upon by Lutheran's, Anglican's, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, & other Reformed Denominations. On Page 8 of the report its stated that the SDA educators had to black out sentences in these books because they taught The Trinity, immortality of the soul and consumption of flesh foods. The jest of the article is an appeal for funding so that the SDA Church can produce its own educational materials, so they can shower Hindu's with the "latter rain" of truth. 

I'd be interested to know if the SDA India mission field is using their own readers and if so what these books and pamphlets say about the Trinity. I realize that the date of this report is only 8 years after the death of Ellen White so the Church may have been in its infancy of more favorable views of the Trinity - I'd like to know more about when the SDA Church started producing it's own educational material for the Hindu / India mission field and what those newly minted educational books had to say about the Trinity Doctrine - how the Doctrine was addressed. 

 

14 years prior to the above report of the SDA Education Dept. another article appeared in the Sabbath Herald - this article was extremely venomous against the Trinity Doctrine. I'm attempting to track the point within the time-hack that SDA Educators started producing their own religious educational materials and how those newly created materials dealt with the most important question / Doctrine in Christianity - WHO JESUS IS. 

[Gregory Matthews]

Your questions are valid.  I do not have the answers.