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 . of management more and moreout of the hands of natives and into the hands of the Mission, andpartly perhaps to other causes. But this section of the machinery of the old Sialkot Presbytery hasbeen, of course, transferred to the Synod as a higher court, and in thefuture we ought to liear more of its activity and efficiency. On the whole, however, our India Ch
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 . of management more and moreout of the hands of natives and into the hands of the Mission, andpartly perhaps to other causes. But this section of the machinery of the old Sialkot Presbytery hasbeen, of course, transferred to the Synod as a higher court, and in thefuture we ought to liear more of its activity and efficiency. On the whole, however, our India Church lacks that thorough organ-ization which is necessary to its complete independence as an ecclesi-astical body. While it possesses all the grades of church courts whichare essential to its welfare, one of these grades (that of congregationalSessions) has been very poorly developed and extended, pastoral set-tlements are very rare, ordained ministers are very icw, and as a natu-ral consequence even the Presbyteries and the Synod lack the mem-bership that is needful to insure them a vigorous life. The bonyframework is there in all its parts ; but there is a lack of flesh andblood—of fullness, roundness and muscular 22
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