3-043-734 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Christian Vernacular Society's Training Institution at Umritsur, in the Punjaub, [India], 1872. A 'training institution for native teachers...During many years this institution laboured under the disadvantage of insufficient accommodation; but it has now been supplied with a commodious and imposing building, which has been erected from funds contributed by the public and the Government. Under skilful and untiring supervision of the Principal, Mr. Rodgers, this institution occupies a very important position amongst the educational institutions of the province. There is, perhaps, no part of India in which vernacular and Oriental teaching is more highly appreciated than in the Punjaub...the aims of the Vernacular Education Society are quite in accordance with the wishes of the people, though they cannot, of course, be expected at present to appreciate its main object - that of disseminating Christian instruction. They do not, however, present any active opposition; and a decided Christian influence is, without doubt, largely going forth from the institution. Already, up to the date of the latest report, twenty young men had left it to become teachers in various parts of the Punjaub'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.