Excerpt from A Glance Backward at Fifteen Years of Missionary Life in North India The plan of this work is simple. It is to give Specimens of all kinds of experience, both happy and sad; and to display all our ordinary modes of work ing, the reasons for them, and their results. The people and the circumstances, that affect our work, must be taken into view. The mode of doing this, which has been chosen, is to give a personal narrative of my own experience - not chronologically, but as to different subjects. My object is, ...
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Excerpt from A Glance Backward at Fifteen Years of Missionary Life in North India The plan of this work is simple. It is to give Specimens of all kinds of experience, both happy and sad; and to display all our ordinary modes of work ing, the reasons for them, and their results. The people and the circumstances, that affect our work, must be taken into view. The mode of doing this, which has been chosen, is to give a personal narrative of my own experience - not chronologically, but as to different subjects. My object is, to keep the indi vidual out of sight, as far as the nature of the plan will permit; and on the thin thread of personal narra tive to string anecdotes, sketches, and specimens, until the reader shall be able to gather an intelligible notion of our life and labours in India. An attempt is made to keep the reader from being wearied by the mere clanking of machinery, by interrupting and illustrating the narrative with all sorts of facts related to it. An additional chapter contains a brief sketch of the government of that country, and of different classes of persons, who are mentioned in the course of the work, so far as is necessary for the understand ing of the narrative. The object of the book is, to help the friends of missions to a full knowledge of the work, so that they may form just expectations, and be led to go forward with more interest in the matter, more earnestness of desire and purpose, and more hepe, patience, and prayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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