A Californian circling the globe . s Shearer, on Sunday, One of the men workingon your well yesterday died of the plague today. The remark caused no surprise, as it would if uttered inAmerica. I have talked with missionaries in many separateparts of India. Nobody knows in America, except they comeand see, of the work that missionaries do, and of the priva-tions they go through, yet to the true missionary (and I sawno others) each difficulty only presents an opportunity. Thereal cause and want of greater success in missions is in so-called Christian lands. The man or woman in England orAmerica
A Californian circling the globe . s Shearer, on Sunday, One of the men workingon your well yesterday died of the plague today. The remark caused no surprise, as it would if uttered inAmerica. I have talked with missionaries in many separateparts of India. Nobody knows in America, except they comeand see, of the work that missionaries do, and of the priva-tions they go through, yet to the true missionary (and I sawno others) each difficulty only presents an opportunity. Thereal cause and want of greater success in missions is in so-called Christian lands. The man or woman in England orAmerica that gives a few dimes to missions, and one hundreddollars to build and adorn some costly home church that neverprays for a foreign mission, that breathes a sigh of reliefwhen the missionary collection is raised, knows of and caresbut little for missionary work. With the scanty funds with which missionaries are providedI think they are accomplishing real miracles. Then again,real men and women are wanted as well as money, that are. NATIVE CARTS LOADED WITH COTTON DHARANQON, INDIA INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. 301 called by the Lord, as there are many, many millions ofeven Indias 280,000,000 that have never heard about Jesusthe Saviour, and never will under the present order of Indian people are different from your idea of them. Sad-dled with notions of caste, almost entirely destitute of anysense of gratitude; immorality and Mohammedanism runningrampant in the land, unable to comprehend even if convertedthat anybody should do Christian work without pay, craftyand cunning on their level, and if you treat them too kindlythey will respect you less, taking kindness for weakness. Couldyou expect them to be different? I do not think it wise toeducate them into English or American ways and customs, asthat only will increase their wants, and for missionary workis only a detriment to them. There is a hope that in thedifferent training schools natives will go out equipped for thewor
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