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 . st day of the week as the Lord has prospered them ifthe stipendiary system, as it is called, is to be abolished—if their FA KIR ISM A HINDRANCE AND A DAMAGE TO MISSIONS 217 ministry is to be sustained by alms, or haphazard instrumentalities?And must the Church in Christian lands be deprived to any extent ofthe spiritual benefit and the great joy which arises
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 . st day of the week as the Lord has prospered them ifthe stipendiary system, as it is called, is to be abolished—if their FA KIR ISM A HINDRANCE AND A DAMAGE TO MISSIONS 217 ministry is to be sustained by alms, or haphazard instrumentalities?And must the Church in Christian lands be deprived to any extent ofthe spiritual benefit and the great joy which arises from the exerciseof a grace that God has heretofore so largely blessed? While then, we should welcome help from any source or class ofpeople that promises usefulness, even from a Christian fakir, and whileit is doubtless true that missionaries and upper-class native preachersare too much inclined to stand aloof from those who are socially be-neath them, and would have more power for good if, through thecultivation of a Christ-like spirit, they could condescend more fullyto men of low estate, we cannot but think that the adoption of asceticmethods as a common policy would be a hindrance rather than a helpto our evangelistic CHAPTER XX
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