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 . where they have worked so long and beburied among the people to whose eternal good they have beenspecially devoted. That is more like home than any other spot onearth. Wliether missionary life is calculated to have a good or a bad effectupon the piety of those who engage in it is a question upon both sidesof which much can be said. No doubt the climate is ap
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 . where they have worked so long and beburied among the people to whose eternal good they have beenspecially devoted. That is more like home than any other spot onearth. Wliether missionary life is calculated to have a good or a bad effectupon the piety of those who engage in it is a question upon both sidesof which much can be said. No doubt the climate is apt to try ones temper. During the dry,parching heat of May and June, or the sultry, steaming heat of Julyand August, Satan finds many opportunities for a powerful attack uponsuffering, unwary souls. It is hard then to maintain that sweetnessand equanimity of spirit which ought to characterize a Christianlaborer. Piety transplanted from a temperate to a tropical zone islikely to wither when the thermometer rises to ii8 degrees in theshade and 170 in the sun. Provocation from human sources, too, issure then to be at its most active point. If outbreaks or storms everarise among either natives or foreigners they are certain to occur in. EFFECT ON THE TEMPER AXD PRIVATE DEVOTION 369 the summer season. Even if missionary correspondence is undated,an expert miglit often discover by its very tone during what part ofthe year it was written. Hot season letters are frequently tales ofwoe. A good many vexations of late — I am too much out ofhumor to write— This hot moist weather seems to put me all outof sorts entirely. I have very little appetite, and my stomach seemsall out of order, and my nerves are not in good shape at all. Theseare specimens of the summer communications which we get. The diseases of the country, too, produce a peculiarly harassingeffect upon the temper. Everybody knows how liver complaint, dys-pepsia, malarial fever, and affections of the nervous system tend todep
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