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 . r. But the time is com-ing when they will doubtless be utilized more than they are now. Wehave several Districts in our own Mission where they would answer agood purpose. Especially is this the case with Jhang. Jhang is trav-ersed by the Jhelum and the Chenab rivers ; and, as the country notwatered by these streams is largely desert, most of the towns and th
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 . r. But the time is com-ing when they will doubtless be utilized more than they are now. Wehave several Districts in our own Mission where they would answer agood purpose. Especially is this the case with Jhang. Jhang is trav-ersed by the Jhelum and the Chenab rivers ; and, as the country notwatered by these streams is largely desert, most of the towns and thepopulation are located on or near their banks and can be easily reachedby boat. The day, therefore, may not be far distant when a mission-ary vessel will play as important a part there as the Ibis does on theNile in Egypt. Itineration, with us, has proved to be an exceedingly fruitful meansof disseminating truth and making converts to Christianity. This isdue probably, under God, to the number and the character of thepeople who have been reached. Perhaps ten times as many differentpersons are in this way made to hear the gospel as could be brought * Indeed, tenting, even among the civil officers, is not as common as it once (194) CONGREGATIONAL EVANGELISM 195 to hear it with the same efforts in a large city, and especially in acentral station which had been occupied by missionaries for then the classes met with are not usually so rich, or proud, orcaste-bound as city people are. Many of them are poor and humble ;many belong to the depressed tribes; many are outcastes. Itineration has also grown to be an indispensable means of inspectingand edifying native Christians and native churches. So great, indeed,has this work become that evangelization proper has been reduced toa secondary and somewliat incidental place among the labors of atouring evangelist. But remarks on this aspect of the subject will bemore appropriate in Chapters XX and XXIII. The services held
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