Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . IMAGJt OK UNE Ob Tilh. FIVK IANUIANS IN Back to Heathenism 149 heathen relatives. We have knownfourteen of our dear boys, whomwe had taught for years, and hadlearned to love, go over to India inone night, most of them to study inthat sink of iniquity and moralleprosy—Kompa-kornum. We knew that these boys would board in heathen families, would be compelled the first night, before they ate their food, to put on the heaihen ashes, and to wear them always; that they would not be allowed to attend any Christian services, but would
Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . IMAGJt OK UNE Ob Tilh. FIVK IANUIANS IN Back to Heathenism 149 heathen relatives. We have knownfourteen of our dear boys, whomwe had taught for years, and hadlearned to love, go over to India inone night, most of them to study inthat sink of iniquity and moralleprosy—Kompa-kornum. We knew that these boys would board in heathen families, would be compelled the first night, before they ate their food, to put on the heaihen ashes, and to wear them always; that they would not be allowed to attend any Christian services, but would be obliged to go to. temples, perform heathen ceremonies, study the heathen books; that they would hear Christ constantly reviled, and the Christian religion mocked and scorned, and that being under these influences for a period of years, they would come back to us bitter heathens, or agnostics, or infidels, to be our worst opposers, and morally unfit to become the husbands of the pure young girls who were being trained in mission day and boarding schools, to whom in many instances they were engaged.
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