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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 . GREAT MELA AT HARDWAR—HINDUS BATHING. Each viaka/Za, or ward, is generally inhabited almost exclusively byone kind of people—Hindus, Muhammadans, Sikhs or some other , when the service is finished at one point the preacher andhis assistant can move on to another quarter and obtain a new a great variety of work can be done and a la
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 . GREAT MELA AT HARDWAR—HINDUS BATHING. Each viaka/Za, or ward, is generally inhabited almost exclusively byone kind of people—Hindus, Muhammadans, Sikhs or some other , when the service is finished at one point the preacher andhis assistant can move on to another quarter and obtain a new a great variety of work can be done and a large number of hear-ers can be reached. Preaching at me/as partakes very largely of the characteristics of 160 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA bazar preaching. A tnela (or fair) is a great gathering of people as-sembled for the purpose of celebrating some religious event, or for com-mercial purposes; and very often both objects are combined. It alsoprovides an occasion for friendly intercourse and for amusements ofevery description. Almost always such 7nelas are held at stated places—near a temple, a shrine or a celebrated tomb. Every one, too, hasits appointed season—generally annual, but sometimes after longer in-tervals. Of these
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