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 . rdained ministersand other laborers. Less force would be required to hold one of thedivisions of a District, called a Tahsil, provided work had been com-menced there previous to the arrival in the metropolis of the Districtof a missionary force sufficient, as above-described, to hold the entireDistrict. That portion of India whic;h Providence gave our Missio
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 . rdained ministersand other laborers. Less force would be required to hold one of thedivisions of a District, called a Tahsil, provided work had been com-menced there previous to the arrival in the metropolis of the Districtof a missionary force sufficient, as above-described, to hold the entireDistrict. That portion of India whic;h Providence gave our Mission as aspecial field, when it began work there in the year 1S55, lies in thePunjab. The Punjab (or land of the five rivers, as the name signifies,) is theextreme northwestern part of the Indian peninsula. In shape it maybe compared to a great hour glass about 450 miles high and 160 milesthrough the waist, lying on its side, with its western end slightly tiltedup. Its area (including the feudatory States) is 144,436 miles, and itspopulation, according to the census of 1891, 25,061,956 souls. Thatis, the Punjab is a little larger than Prussia or the combined territoriesof New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware, and con-. INDIA MISSIONS—THEIR FIELDS AND DATES, Baptist (British) 1793 London 1798 American Board 1813 Church of England 1814 S. P. G. (English) 1817 Wesleyan (English) 1817 General Baptist (English) 1822 Church of Scotland 1828 Free Church of Scotland 1828 American Presbyterian , 1834 Basel (German) 1834 American Baptist 1836 Free Baptist (German) 1836 Gossners (German) 1840 Leipzig (German) 1841 Irish Presbyterian 1841 Welsh Calvinistic Methodist 1841 American Evangelical Lutheran 1842 American Reformed (Dutch) 1853 Moravian 1854 American United Presbyterian 1855 Methodist Episcopal of America 1856 United Presbyterian of Scotland i860 Danish Lutheran 1861 English Presbyterian 1862 7 Hermannsburgh (German) Friends Mission Indian Home Mission American Germ
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