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MISSION WORK IN SOUTHERN INDIA BY AMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL Keswick

Note

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Glossary

THINGS AS THEY ARE MISSION WORK IN SOUTHERN INDIA

CHAPTER I About the Book

CHAPTER II Three Afternoons off the Track

CHAPTER III Humdrum

CHAPTER IV Correspondences

CHAPTER V The Prey of the Terrible

CHAPTER VI Missed Ends

CHAPTER VII "The Dust of the Actual"

CHAPTER VIII Roots

CHAPTER IX The Classes and the Masses

CHAPTER X The Creed Chasm

CHAPTER XI Caste viewed as a Doer

CHAPTER XII Petra

CHAPTER XIII Death by Disuse

CHAPTER XIV What Happened

CHAPTER XV "Simply Murdered"

CHAPTER XVI Wanted, Volunteers

CHAPTER XVII If it is so very important. . . ?

CHAPTER XVIII The Call Intensified

CHAPTER XIX "Attracted by the Influence"

CHAPTER XX The Elf

CHAPTER XXI Deified Devilry

CHAPTER XXII Behind the Door

CHAPTER XXIII "Pan, Pan is Dead"

CHAPTER XXIV "Married to the God"

CHAPTER XXV Skirting the Abyss

CHAPTER XXVI From a Hindu Point of View

CHAPTER XXVII Though ye know Him not

CHAPTER XXVIII How Long?

CHAPTER XXIX What do we count them worth?

CHAPTER XXX Two Safe

CHAPTER XXXI Three Objections

CHAPTER XXXII "Show me Thy Glory!"

APPENDIX Some Indian Saints THERE was one he has joined the

Old India. "You think you know us; you know nothing at all about us!" and the old eyes peer intently into yours, and the old head shakes and he smiles to himself as he moves off. Every bit of this picture is suggestive: the closed door behind,—only a Brahman may open that door; the mythological carving,—only a Brahman has the right to understand it; the three-skein cord,—only a Brahman may touch it. Even the ragged old cloth is suggestive. In old India nothing but Caste counts for anything, and a reigning Prince lately gave his weight in gold to the Brahmans, as part payment for ceremonies which enabled him to eat with men of this old man's social position. Look at the marks on the baby's forehead; they are suggestive too.
Old India. "You think you know us; you know nothing at all about us!" and the old eyes peer intently into yours, and the old head shakes and he smiles to himself as he moves off. Every bit of this picture is suggestive: the closed door behind,—only a Brahman may open that door; the mythological carving,—only a Brahman has the right to understand it; the three-skein cord,—only a Brahman may touch it. Even the ragged old cloth is suggestive. In old India nothing but Caste counts for anything, and a reigning Prince lately gave his weight in gold to the Brahmans, as part payment for ceremonies which enabled him to eat with men of this old man's social position. Look at the marks on the baby's forehead; they are suggestive too.

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