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 . special rates for com-munications containing more than eight words. These are always sentin English as that tongue is found to be the most compact and themost convenient for telegraphic purposes. Connection is also madeby ocean cables with all the other telegraphic systems of the necessary a man at Sialkot, or Rawal Pindi, can hold converse anyday w
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 . special rates for com-munications containing more than eight words. These are always sentin English as that tongue is found to be the most compact and themost convenient for telegraphic purposes. Connection is also madeby ocean cables with all the other telegraphic systems of the necessary a man at Sialkot, or Rawal Pindi, can hold converse anyday with his friends in China, Europe or America. Telephones,however, are seldom found in India—if found at all. Nor is it likelythat they will become common in that country soon—for the simplereason probably that they cannot be kept so completely under thecontrol of the government, as can either railways or telegraphs, andshould disaffection or mutiny arise, they might be made a means ofgreat embarrassment and serious political trouble. It is supposed thateven if a Mission would establish a system of telephonic communica-tion between its various houses in the same station the authoritieswould interfere and order its
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