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 . t. Sliahpur is a District of mediumsize, lying between Jhelum on theHOOPOE. north, and Jhang on the south; while Gujranwala skirts its southeastern bor-der. It has a dense population, and is more easily reached than this District, Bhera is the most eastern, and in some respects themost important, tahsiL* Its chief town, called also Bliera, is thelar
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 . t. Sliahpur is a District of mediumsize, lying between Jhelum on theHOOPOE. north, and Jhang on the south; while Gujranwala skirts its southeastern bor-der. It has a dense population, and is more easily reached than this District, Bhera is the most eastern, and in some respects themost important, tahsiL* Its chief town, called also Bliera, is thelargest in the District and contains about 18,000 inhabitants, mostlyHindus. The country around it, moreover, is fertile and well culti-vated ; while a branch of the Sind Sagar Railway, having its terminus atBhera, connects it with the outside world. For some time Shahpur was claimed by another Mission wliich hadestablished its center in Find Dadan Khan, one of the/a/ii-Z/y of ourJhelum District; but the claim never was sealed by important work,and in Bhera no missionary operations whatever had been carried on, * Pronounced tie-seal, A tahsil is one of four or five subdivisions into wliich aDistrict is divided, \ See Note i on p. CHANGES IN OUR OWN FIELD 101 Hence, as it could be conveniently reached by our Jhelum missionariesand formed a good substitute for Find Dadan Khan, work was begunthere by our people in the spring of 1884, and ever since has beenpushed forward with energy. The next most important change in our field came with the readjust-ment of boundaries between our Mission and that of the Scotch Es-tablished Church. As early as 1861 a regular agreement was enteredinto by the two bodies according to which the Wazirabad road formedtheir separating line in the Sialkot District. Owing to a resolutionpassed by the Punjab Missionary Conference of 1862-1863, however,which the Scotch considered a nullification of the above-mentionedcompact, this dividing line ceased to b
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