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 . ce can change hisheart, revolutionize hisintellect, and make hima true Christian. Great external ob-struction also meets him when he is ready for baptism—the recog-nized sign of a Christian profession. The trials to which he waspreviously subjected by unbelieving friends are now redoubled. Ifa high-caste school boy, he is generally compelled to seek baptism
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 . ce can change hisheart, revolutionize hisintellect, and make hima true Christian. Great external ob-struction also meets him when he is ready for baptism—the recog-nized sign of a Christian profession. The trials to which he waspreviously subjected by unbelieving friends are now redoubled. Ifa high-caste school boy, he is generally compelled to seek baptism ina distant city where his relatives will not be likely to interfere withthe performance of this rite. If under age, or alleged to be so, hiscase is probably taken by parents, or guardians, to a civil court and anorder asked in favor of their custody of the boy. Detention of a childless than fourteen years of age is considered kidnapping. At eighteen,however, he is in all respects legally free from his natural of persons between the ages of fourteen and eighteen are treatedon their merits. If such a convert is able to judge and act for himself,he may be legally baptized and need not be restored to his parents, or. CAS/^S OF PERSECUTION 231 guardians. All depends upon whether he acts freely and intelligentlyHI receiving baptism and has the ability to earn a living for himself.*Should he be restored to his Hindu or Muhammadan friends, he canexpect only the greatest indignities. He will be kept closely guarded,or be transported to a distant part of the country where he will behelpless; and in almost all cases he will be subjected to personal vio-lence. He may be even poisoned and altogether put out of the a Hindu, his head will be shaved and he will be compelled to par-take of a mixture of cows dung and urine—a recognized means ofceremonial purification and restoration to the religion of his fore-fathers. And in the case of high-caste persons of any age
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