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 . rally tends tothe decay of spirituality and the loss of moral character. Great gracewould be necessary to prevent a downward course. Nor would it be likely to enhance the reputation of a hope of his being considered a kindhearted, generous nourisherof the poor would have to be abandoned. It would be hard for himto avoid even the charge of niggar
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 . rally tends tothe decay of spirituality and the loss of moral character. Great gracewould be necessary to prevent a downward course. Nor would it be likely to enhance the reputation of a hope of his being considered a kindhearted, generous nourisherof the poor would have to be abandoned. It would be hard for himto avoid even the charge of niggardliness. Sufficient support, more-over, when drawn from the common treasury of a Brotherhood, would* In Hindu Heterodoxy, p. 187. 214 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA invalidate liis claims to voluntary poverty, or peculiar adoption of native costume, too, strikes the people as a kind ofdeception—a pretension to be what one is not—such apparent decep-tion as deeply distressed the Rev. W. C. Burns and led him to wishthat he had never abandoned European clothing.* Nor is the reputa-tion of heathen fakirs so holy in the Bible sense ot the word, as to in-crease that of Christians who follow their mode of life, but ratlier the. HINUU WASHERMEN. reverse. The fact of celibacy, indeed, is a presumption against chas-tity in India, and many fakirs are actually known to be depraved, im-moral men. Even in the bazar a Christian fakir would be regardedwith less favor than a resident laborer, while regularly organizedchurches would look upon him with suspicion if he came withoutproper credentials. Not likely, therefore, is it that the proposed new policy would be * Memoir of the Rev. William C. Burns, p. 590. PAKIRISM NOT MO HE SUCCESSFUL IN PRACTICE 21.) fttore successful in winning souls to Christ than that which has beengenerally adopted by Protestant Missions. And in accordance withthis judgment is its history, so far as it has been brought into prac-tice. Roman Catholics, after
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