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 . narrow and filthy, often only three or hyena. four feet wide—that the houses are all built of mud and consist each of only a room or two, facing a smallcourt which is surrounded by a mud wall—that the furniture of the poorpeople comprises simply one or two charpais, a spinning-wheel, somecooking utensils and a few other articles—that the dusky children ofthe
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 . narrow and filthy, often only three or hyena. four feet wide—that the houses are all built of mud and consist each of only a room or two, facing a smallcourt which is surrounded by a mud wall—that the furniture of the poorpeople comprises simply one or two charpais, a spinning-wheel, somecooking utensils and a few other articles—that the dusky children ofthe place go about without much if any clothing on, and that generallythe men and sometimes the women, appear in such soiled and scantyattire that they would be arrested as public nuisances in any Americantown. Remember, too, that the men are generally absent in daylightat their field work; that all, old and young, are at the outset perfectly * Fields adjacent to an Indian town are always covered with the remains of deadanimals, deposits of human filth, and rubbish of every description, while scavengerbirds and animals are often present, busy at their gluttonous and nasty, but highlynecessary, work. \ See illustration on p. 204 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA illiterate and that at first there is no public meeting-place, except an opencommon, where a person can collect the people to give them an address. Under such circumstances, the Christian worker who has taken uphis abode among them, or perhaps hired a house in some more desir-able quarter, begins his labors. One by one the people are taught alittle of Gods Word and introduced into the outskirts of the greattemple of divine truth. Wherever he can get an opportunity two orthree persons are, for a few minutes, formed by him into a class tolearn passages of Scripture and questions in the catechism—women andchildren by day, and men at night—and at set periods, especially onthe Sabbath, as many as possible are assembled on t
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