. North India. rch. The gurus, or religious teachers of thenew sect, were themselves seeking for less than two years three thousand were addedto the Church. The movement for a while flourished, but after-wards the early indigenous and self-propagatingspirit signally failed. The German missionarieswho were in charge did not realize the vital valueof independence and self-support, and conductedthe Mission on the old paternal system, whichdestroyed initiative. The caste difficulty alsosprang up among the half-instructed converts, andwas tolerated by the missionaries for a time. TheChur
. North India. rch. The gurus, or religious teachers of thenew sect, were themselves seeking for less than two years three thousand were addedto the Church. The movement for a while flourished, but after-wards the early indigenous and self-propagatingspirit signally failed. The German missionarieswho were in charge did not realize the vital valueof independence and self-support, and conductedthe Mission on the old paternal system, whichdestroyed initiative. The caste difficulty alsosprang up among the half-instructed converts, andwas tolerated by the missionaries for a time. TheChurch members of higher origin called themselves Hindu Christians, Mussulman Christians, andthese two sections looked down upon the shoe-makers and refused to eat with them, calling them Mochi Christians. Padre P. M. Rudra was sentdown to them from Calcutta with two otherleading Indian Christians, and by their effortsa reconciliation was effected within the Church ;but the Mission has never recovered from its lack. Padre Piaki Mohan Rudra. To face page 30. Calcutta and its Bishops 31 of wise i^uidance and discipline at the first, andits early promise has never been fulfilled. Itshould be added that there has been slow butsteady progress in recent years. It was in the later years of Bishop Wilsonslong ministry that the development of Zenanamission-work began. He himself had stronglyobjected to unmarried lady missionaries. Iimagine, he wrote, * that the beloved Persisand Tryphena and Tryphosa remained in theirown neighbourhoods and families. But, fortu-nately for India, the Bishops illustration fromScripture was not regarded as final, and MissCookes great work, begun in 1822, was carriedon by a noble succession of workers. In thefifties Duff threw all his own enthusiasm andexperience into the work of womens education,just as, twenty years before, he had struggled forhis English-teaching college. The highest familiesin Calcutta opened their houses one by one, andthe Zenana missionary
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