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 . riter in 1880-81 was the first that occurred after the origin oXthe Mission in 1855. Since then seven Americans have either goneexpressly to see it or have included it in their tours—two young ladies(Dr. Adamson, of Philadelphia, and Miss Mary H. Peirce, of Sioux City,Iowa), in the spring of 1890; Miss Ida Gordon, in the winter of 1891-92; the Rev. John Gill
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 . riter in 1880-81 was the first that occurred after the origin oXthe Mission in 1855. Since then seven Americans have either goneexpressly to see it or have included it in their tours—two young ladies(Dr. Adamson, of Philadelphia, and Miss Mary H. Peirce, of Sioux City,Iowa), in the spring of 1890; Miss Ida Gordon, in the winter of 1891-92; the Rev. John Gillespie, D. D., in December, 1891; the Rev. * Anglo-Indian Society is perhaps the most exacting in the world in regard to therules of social precedence. f In Anglo-Indian society the stranger (new-comer) is expected to call first; andinvitations to call are never given by either party—it being considered bad form toask others thus to pay you their respects. NATIVE LIFE 65 D. A. Murray, a Japanese missionary, in 1893, and two sisters of theRev. J. H. Martin (Mrs. E. M. Giffen, of the Egyptian Mission, andMiss Dora Martin), in 1894-95. As might be imagined, such episodesare interesting events to us. We wish they were more w^^m^mMWri:^^.
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