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 . ncouragement in the history of monasticismfor its adoption by Protestants of the present day. For the simple,divine way of salvation, says Dr. Schaff, monasticism substitutedan arbitrary, eccentric, ostentatious and pretentious sanctity. It dark-ened the all-sufficient meiits of Christ by the glitter of the over-meri-torious work of man. It measured virtue b
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 . ncouragement in the history of monasticismfor its adoption by Protestants of the present day. For the simple,divine way of salvation, says Dr. Schaff, monasticism substitutedan arbitrary, eccentric, ostentatious and pretentious sanctity. It dark-ened the all-sufficient meiits of Christ by the glitter of the over-meri-torious work of man. It measured virtue by the quantity of outwardexercises, instead of the quality of the inward disposition, and dissem-inated self-righteousness and an anxious, legal and mechanical favored the idolatrous veneration of Mary and the saints, the wor-ship of images and relics, and all sorts of superstition and piousfrauds. It lowered the standard of general morality in proportion as itset itself above it and claimed a corresponding higher merit; and itexerted in general a demoralizing influence upon the people. * And besides this, almost everything that is good in the policy pro-* Schaffs History of the Chrislian Church, Vol. Ill, pp. 177, (211) 212 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA pounded has already been incorporated into our present system. If,as is supposed, a large amount of voluntary help would thus be securedin propagating the gospel, it may be replied that such help is had have just seen how much the unpaid common people have to do inmaking converts among their neighbors. And marry honorary—that is,self-supporting—missionaries, too, are operating in various parts ofIndia.* Such devices also as are employed by the Salvation Army toobtain audiences are not unknown in well-established Missions. Amember of the London Missionary Society says, We carry a flag, usea fiddle and give short sparkling addresses in the bazars. And as forunmarried workers, especially women, they have for
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