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 . s, underthe advice of well-educated doctors, secure them either immunity al-together from prevalent diseases, or the most rapid recovery is their practice, moreover, to seek every summer freedom from badsanitary surroundings, reinvigoration of body, and complete recoveryfrom many ailments, in a sojourn at health resorts on the with
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 . s, underthe advice of well-educated doctors, secure them either immunity al-together from prevalent diseases, or the most rapid recovery is their practice, moreover, to seek every summer freedom from badsanitary surroundings, reinvigoration of body, and complete recoveryfrom many ailments, in a sojourn at health resorts on the with tlieir young children, who suffer most from the climate,spend three or four months at some such mountain retreat during theworst season of tlie year, while unmarried ladies and gentlemen alsoget a briefer yearly vacation of rest in a similar way. Of course I amspeaking here of ordinary missionaries. Some with mistaken ideas of * Only 8 deaths have occurred abroad in our missionary circle during the past 15years—4 adults (all married ladies) and 4 children. This does not include one malemissionary and one child who died in America. Our missionary band during these 15years has comjirised altogether 16 men, 45 women and 35 m 50 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA higher consecration shorten their lives, and exhibit a greater mortalitythan even natives, by their ascetic practices. The liealth resorts to which we go are usually on some spur of theHimalayas from 5000 to 8000 feet above sea-level. Those for thenorth are scattered all along the border in that direction from Abbota-bad to Darjiling, Simla, the summer capital of the Empire, being thelargest, richest and most celebrated. At these places, the families ofEuropean officers live during six months of the year; and here theofficers themselves often spend their vacations. Every house (accord-ing to English style) has its own name and is generally at some distancefrom its neighbors—located wherever a favorable spot can be found
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