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 . underthe preaching of the Rev. of the M. E. Mission,Gonda. But such baptismswere discouraged within ourown field, and at last by theMethodists themselves—partlybecause there was so little op-portunity of testing the genuine-ness of the conversions, andpartly because the applicantsoften lived at a great distance,even beyond the bounds of theminister
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 . underthe preaching of the Rev. of the M. E. Mission,Gonda. But such baptismswere discouraged within ourown field, and at last by theMethodists themselves—partlybecause there was so little op-portunity of testing the genuine-ness of the conversions, andpartly because the applicantsoften lived at a great distance,even beyond the bounds of theministers mission territory, andthe initial step could not be fol-lowed up with suitable pastoralcare and instruction. Like bazar preaching, how-ever, preaching at melas helpsmuch the diffusion of gospellight and tiie preparation forsuccessful work in other ways. In 1883 some men from the neighborhood of the Ravi river cameto our missionaries in Gurdaspar and Zafarwal for baptism, who hadheard the gospel at a fne/a and had thus become convinced of itstruth ; and, after inquiry, it was found that the good leaven had spreadin their neighborhood to such an extent, through their instrumentality,as to affect many villages and over 200 SEARCHING THE JUNGLE.
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