Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . nd also blood-relation-ship to the rulers of the have likened the effectto that which slavery has overslaveholders. Great watch-fulness and prayer are neces-sary if the missionary is tocontinue free from it. Aliroper Christian spirit ismaintained with much diffi-culty under such circum-stances; and the provocations received from subordinates only a
Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . nd also blood-relation-ship to the rulers of the have likened the effectto that which slavery has overslaveholders. Great watch-fulness and prayer are neces-sary if the missionary is tocontinue free from it. Aliroper Christian spirit ismaintained with much diffi-culty under such circum-stances; and the provocations received from subordinates only add tothis The secular work which missionaries have to do may also be men-tioned as one of the unfortunate characteristics of their life. Suchwork is not necessarily injurious to religious progress, but it is far frombeing favorable to it. It is hard for the spirit to rise above businesscares and attach itself warmly to higher things. The world sweeps inon the soul and, like an eastern luh, dries up its juices. Yet the mis-sionary, as we have already seen, has a great deal of secular work toperform, far more than an ordinary minister at home, where there are* See pp. 59, 123-128. f See pp. 66, 67, 137-139. 273, 341-344-. HOMEWARD BOUND. DISCOURAGEMENTS AND CONELICTS 373 plenty of other people ready and fitted to build churches and servetables.* Add to all this the discouragements of every kind which a mission-ary is continually encountering and we discover another jungle ofdifficulties obstructing his progress towards heaven. His heart is seton the conversion of this or that man, on the establishment of this orthat congregation, on the adoption or the abolition of this or thatcustom, on the development of the native church in this or that direc-tion, on the success of a multitude of plans and purposes, great orsmall, which he feels would help the cause for which he is laboring ;but in many cases he meets with failure and disappointment. Thegospel car moves but slowl
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