. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). s. We getthe fever. Its the rule. New mission-aries get it and old ones too. There isno respectof persons. Some one hassaid that new missionaries must have itto take the conceit out of them. Bethat as it may, it does take some es-sential elements from us and gives ussomething in exchange much moreneedful. And when we have had re-peated attacks every month of the firstyear, many attacks the second and someless the third, we come to the conclusionthat the process of refining is necessaryto take out the dross in our lives. We have our physical tests and inthem ar
. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). s. We getthe fever. Its the rule. New mission-aries get it and old ones too. There isno respectof persons. Some one hassaid that new missionaries must have itto take the conceit out of them. Bethat as it may, it does take some es-sential elements from us and gives ussomething in exchange much moreneedful. And when we have had re-peated attacks every month of the firstyear, many attacks the second and someless the third, we come to the conclusionthat the process of refining is necessaryto take out the dross in our lives. We have our physical tests and inthem are wrapped up spiritual faith is tried. We have come tothe field, we have doubtless heard thecall, Go, and we have responded. Wehave come with the faith (?) that re-moves mountains, and while we feel thatwe have considered everything from ev-ery standpoint, before long some un-thoughtof things come to^try us in un-thoughtof ways. The language workdoes not go as we thought, we do not March, 1904] THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 83. Amletha, an Outstation in Rajpipla State. improve as well as we thought we could,constructions are hard to catch, darkplaces remain so long without any raysof light penetrating into them. Wewonder whether, indeed, we have beencalled to the field or whether we madea misinterpretation of the messagewhich came to us. About the time wethink we are making some progresssickness overtakes us. We get well on-ly to be stricken down again and again,and perhaps at last are taken off to thehospital. For weeks we remain. Wethink of the loss of time. We beginagain to wonder whether we might havemade a mistake. We wonder, perhaps,whether after all we had not betterstayed at home, to work in a languagewith which we were familiar. Perhapsin a dream some horrible monster—Sa-tan-like—arises and says, What areyou doing here? Why did you not re-main at home? You awake with astart and begin to wonder about the interpretation of the vision and whetherit might have been
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