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 . zette, that one-half ofthe above, so far as it relates to Europeans, was as universally true, asthe writer evidently believes. Certainly Anglo-Indian society is notwhat it should be, and by its character argues weakly in favor ofChristianity. Besides occasional instances of bribery, dishonesty, in-justice and political corruption, there is a vast amount of p
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 . zette, that one-half ofthe above, so far as it relates to Europeans, was as universally true, asthe writer evidently believes. Certainly Anglo-Indian society is notwhat it should be, and by its character argues weakly in favor ofChristianity. Besides occasional instances of bribery, dishonesty, in-justice and political corruption, there is a vast amount of pride, im-morality, unseemly strife, intemperance and dishonorable ambitionamong English officials and their families; and, as for British soldiers,the less said about their virtue and their freedom from profanity thebetter. Indeed, only a short time ago, a writer in the St. StephensReview, as quoted by the same Lahore paper, said that, in point ofmorals, Anglo-Indian society is worse than any civilized nation. It isutterly corrupt. Good men and true women are the exception andnot the rule. And such is the impression which one gets from read-ing Rudyard Kiplings stories. No doubt Rudyard Kipling and the St. SieJ>hen^s Review make. TYPES OF A Fakir. A Frequent Lowly People Sweeper Children. A Vender of Sweets. A Bihishti. MORALS OF THE PEOPLE 125 highly exaggerated representations of the wickedness of Anglo-Indiansociety. But, granting the worst that can be properly said in regardto it, there is as little doubt that the Oudh Akhbar was right in con-trasting it favorably with the morals of Hindu and Muhamniadan so-ciety. That paper did well to speak of the deception and the falsehood ofnative East Indians, and their unfaithfulness to promises. Violationof the ninth commandment is well nigh universal. The atmosphereof the whole country is full of deceit. We find it among householdservants, in the bazar, in the civil courts, in the palaces of nativepr
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