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 . igh-caste. The fact, too, that New India, with its aspirations after greater * See pp. 89, 95, 96, 220. t See pp. 87, 167, 195 and 196. WffRN WILL INDIA BE CONVERTED? 559 freedom of all kinds and its hope of the creation of a reformed religionto take the place of old faiths, is beginning to raise its head, shouldonly make us all the more careful to avoid thi
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 . igh-caste. The fact, too, that New India, with its aspirations after greater * See pp. 89, 95, 96, 220. t See pp. 87, 167, 195 and 196. WffRN WILL INDIA BE CONVERTED? 559 freedom of all kinds and its hope of the creation of a reformed religionto take the place of old faiths, is beginning to raise its head, shouldonly make us all the more careful to avoid this mistake. Of one thingwe may rest assured : that Mission or Church in India which does notrecognize the spirit of patriotism and independence now rising so rap-idly there among all classes of educated people and that spirit of con-scious manhood now affecting so many of the more advanced Chris-tians of the country, is doomed to take a secondary, or a third-rate,position in the advancing columns of the Redeemers army—to beshorn of many of her brightest and best leaders—to lose a large partof the rank and file of her soldiers—perhaps, to be overrun or entirelyswallowed up by wiser and more efficient, though mayhap less scrupu-. INTERIOR OF A PUNJABI PRIVATE COURT.{From a Punjabi drawing.) lous, less courteous and less honorable, corps. The prosperous andfinally triumpliant missionary bands will be those which early appro-priate and thoroughly attach to themselves the growing life andmanly vigor of an aspiring native Christian community—which love toexalt the native church and set a crown upon her head.* And we have faith that most Missions will recognize, sooner or later,this road to success and avoid not only the last danger mentioned, butall the others to which we have referred. This is one of the reasonswhy we believe that Christianity will continue to advance in India. Present indications in the field, however, do not encourage the hopewhich some cherish, that that c
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