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Search - On The Threshold Of Three Closed Lands - The Guild Outpost In The Eastern Himalayas

On The Threshold Of Three Closed Lands The Guild Outpost In The Eastern Himalayas
Author: J. Graham

INTRODUCTION THIS brightly written account of one qf the most interesting and prosperous Missions ini India needs no introduction for the benefit of those for whom it is principally intendedthe members of the Congregations, Associations, Branches, and Guilds scattered throughout the country, who are already acquainted with the work, who perhaps ... more »already support it with their contributions, or h y e helped to send out some o f . the workers and whose warmer interest and more activ assistanae will be called out by a perusal of this vivid narrative. But for the sake of thosewho hear of the Mission now for the first time, and who may be tempted to think that a Missionarys own account may be coloured, perhaps unconsciously, by too a v THREE CLOSED LANDS favourable prepossessions, it has been thought advisable that one who has held an authoritative position in the country and has seen the working of the Mission from outside should give his official testimony to the truth of Mr. Grahams description. During the five years that I was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal I spent a portion ot each summer at Darjeeling, and no year passed in which I did not pay a visit to Kalimpong I saw it first in 1891, when the church described in Chapter V. had not been-cornpleted, and the cemetery had only just been walled round. I saw it again when the tower of the church had been finished, and stood up a bright, conspicuous landmark visible from many miles around, as a lamp which shall not be extinguished till all the surrounding country is brought to the knowledge of our Lord and to faith in Him. I watched the growth of the little village chapels scattered about the hillsides, each gathering its little congregation under its wing. I visited, on the last occasion I was there, the well - arranged and admirably I VTRODUCT ON vii equipped Hospital under Dr. Ponder, where medical science is used to attract people to the ne. ws of salvation, and the cure of the body is made the forerunner of the cure of the soul. In the course of these years I became fairly intimate with the Missionary body and with some of the native Christians. T I knew their difficulties .-and discouragements as well as their joys and successes, and I can bear witness without hesitation to the accuracy of the picture drawn by Mr. Grahan, and to the blessing . which has rested or1 the Mission at Kalimpong. To take the lowest argument first, the assistance given by this Mission to the work of civilisation and good administration has been considerable. It has been the agent of the Government, as mentioned in Chapter V1 I., in the spread of education in this part of the country, in which some forty or fifty village schools are established, under the care of the Missionaries and manned by their staff. It has co-operated with the District officer in keeping order in the village and in putting down drunkenness, gambling, viii THREE CLOSED LANDS and other vices. It offers to all the neighbouring population an example of the beauty of a Christian domestic life, and of the proper position which womefi should take in that life. Turning . to the more definitely religious side, the Missionaries have been unusually successful in converting the simple tribes from their animistic or Buddhistic beliefs to the Christian faith. Of thk quality of the Christians Mr...

ISBN-13: 9781408636862
ISBN-10: 1408636867
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 174
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