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 . n Catholic missionary has been known to pass without abashmentinto themidst of one of our audiencesand quietly drive out all whom heclaimed to be his own people. Husbands sometimes treat their wivesin the same manner. One day, says a zenana worker, while wewere reading the Bible in a water-carriers house to his wife, a verybeautiful woman who loved to listen
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 . n Catholic missionary has been known to pass without abashmentinto themidst of one of our audiencesand quietly drive out all whom heclaimed to be his own people. Husbands sometimes treat their wivesin the same manner. One day, says a zenana worker, while wewere reading the Bible in a water-carriers house to his wife, a verybeautiful woman who loved to listen, her black, ugly, pock-pitted,one-eyed husband came in and asked, * What is the use in your read-ing to these cattle? —that is, his wife and other women. Finding thatwe did not mind him, he got back into a corner and beckoned hiswife away, leaving us to finish and depart witliout meeting her again. At one place, says Miss Gordon, we were refused a hearing alto-gether, and at another tlie people not only would not liear, but fol-lowed us and threw clods after us. Plowever, a young woman in thecrowd who had been a pupil in the Girls Mission School at Gnjran-wala, began eagerly to rehearse portions of the Bible and we became n^*. OBSTRUCTIONS TO INQUIRY AND CONVERSION 229 much interested in her; but a man appeared and rudely drove heraway. Amir Bibis baptism in 1886 was the cause of the closing, tozenana laborers, of all Muhammadan houses in Gujranwala near whereshe lived, except two. Fear was entertained that otlier convertsmight be made. And a similar fear seems to have i)rompted the greatHindu revolt against mission work among women in Jhelum duringthe spring of 1884, when the native authorities of the place wereranged against us and our Hindu Girls Schools were for a time en-tirely closed. Such also was the root of the Moslem opposition toDr. Johnsons dispensary work in the same city six years afterward,when applications for medicine greatly fell off and on two days tlie
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