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 . hteous indignation of a Christian public. Lord Elgin, the successor of Lord Lansdowne on the viceregalthrone of India, was the third choice of the Gladstonian governmentfor that position, Sir Henry Norman and Lord Cromer having pre-viously declined it. His father held the same post thirty years pre-viously, and, having died in India, lies buried at Dharmsala
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 . hteous indignation of a Christian public. Lord Elgin, the successor of Lord Lansdowne on the viceregalthrone of India, was the third choice of the Gladstonian governmentfor that position, Sir Henry Norman and Lord Cromer having pre-viously declined it. His father held the same post thirty years pre-viously, and, having died in India, lies buried at Dharmsala. The presentLord Elgin was not prominent in home politics, and has never givenevidence of high administrative ability; but he is said to make on thewhole a very good Viceroy. According to the Simla Times he is per-sonally a teetotaler, strict in his views Avith regard to balls, parties, andthe gaieties of life. But officially, as far as the opium traffic and otherkindred evils are concerned, he appears to walk in the way of his pred-ecessors, and upholds the policy which from a moral point of view hasproved to be such a curse to the country and to the entire East. Of we have had four in the Punjab since the period. LORD LANSDOWNE. 34 LIFE AND WORK IN INDIA began of which we are specially writing—Sir Robert Edgerton, whoserved from April 2, 1877, until April 2, 1882 ; Sir Charles Aitchison,who followed him and ended his term April 2, 18S7; Sir James Lyall,who served from that date until April 2, 1892; and Sir Dennis Fitz-patrick, after whom came Mr. Mack worth Young, in 1897. Of all these high officials Sii Charles Aitchison, more than any other,impressed his own ideas upon the government of the Province. This,too, was specially manifest in the work of education and in tlie applica-tion of the principle of local self-government. He was recognized asan able ruler, with liberal ideas. His character and his religious viewsalso were of a high order. He was always
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