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 . se primary object is evangelistic,have also been utilized for this purpose, while Central Schools andMedical Classes have accomplished something in the same direction. Central Schools in Mission Districts have already been referred to asa means of completing work imperfectly done in village But occasionally they have been used to carry child
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 . se primary object is evangelistic,have also been utilized for this purpose, while Central Schools andMedical Classes have accomplished something in the same direction. Central Schools in Mission Districts have already been referred to asa means of completing work imperfectly done in village But occasionally they have been used to carry childrenforward into the Upper Primary; and now that the Christian Train-ing Institute has been raised to the grade of a High School, it isprobable that they will be utilized more than they have been heretoforeto prepare pupils for entrance into the Middle Department of theInstitute, and that the Upper Primary of the latter will vanishaltogether. This School (The Christian Training Institute) was begun by theSialkot Presbytery I in the summer of 1881 and is located at Sialkot. *See p. 271. f See p. 270. I In 1887 the management of the school was transferred to the Mission; and atthat time also a special Board of Directors was TH}^. CUNIST/AA^ TRAIiV/iyG IKSTITVTR 279 For many years previously sucli a school had been desired; but thegrowing needs of the Theological Seminary and the work generallythen absolutely demanded it, and the funds received from what iscalled the Stewart legacy then for the first time gave complete assur-ance of its pecuniary support.* At that time, too, the brethren ofthe field had the prospect of help from one who was specially calledfrom America to take charge of the school and thus relieve them ofa work which, without such help, might have unduly increased theirburdens. The school was organized on our old compound at Sialkot ; but anew and better location, three miles north, was procured for it fromthe Ladies Association of the Church of Scotlan
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