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 . A GROUP OF b nilAK 1 Ml N 1 , CHRIhllAN iN^lllLTK. CHURCH COURTS AS TRAINING SCHOOLS 20<) officers of the church. Here ministers and elders learn parliamentaryand ecclesiastical law and become skilled in the management of churchbusiness. Here they learn that self-restraint, that deference to authority,that discrimination betw
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 . A GROUP OF b nilAK 1 Ml N 1 , CHRIhllAN iN^lllLTK. CHURCH COURTS AS TRAINING SCHOOLS 20<) officers of the church. Here ministers and elders learn parliamentaryand ecclesiastical law and become skilled in the management of churchbusiness. Here they learn that self-restraint, that deference to authority,that discrimination between the true and the false, that regard for therights of others, and that obligation to seek the edification of the wholechurch, which are necessary to make them safe and useful rulers overthe people of God. Missionaries, of course, are expected to co-operatein such organizations, and, when they are qualified by gifts and ex-perience for the business, do mucli, by example and precept, to instructtheir native brethren and prepare them for independent action. Co-operation by them in tlie lowest courts (Sessions) as elders, under thenioderatorship of native pastors, as is sometimes done, also gives apattern of humility, submission and brotherly love, which h
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