Report of the Second Decennial Missionary Conference Held at Calcutta, 1882-83; With a Missionary Map of India (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...often do, only for a home, but that they might be enabled to devote the best, unfettered years of their lives to our Master's service? I say what follows with diffidence, but I have a shrewd suspicion that one key to the difficulty is not far to seek. What if it should be nothing more nor greater than the re-placing of the chaddar by an English hat 1 know there are various opinions on this point, and that those occupying a different standpoint to that occupied by me, will probably come to an opposite conclusion. Yet, it is not without solid foundation that I speak. Instances Female Medical Missions. I have in view (two at least) of young Christian native ladies fearlessly threading the mazes of native towns, without insult, their only visible protection being their own modesty under English dress. I speak plainly because my conscience says I must. No one admires the white chaddar more than I do, when it is white. It is most graceful and becoming, and I have heard it also styled picturesque. I quite endorse all this, and yet--Do we come here to see that our native Christian women look graceful or picturesque? Is this any part of our work? I would impose no pressure with regard to dress, but just let the matter quietly act of itself. But if, on consideration, it shall appear that such a simple thing as a slight change of costume would place at the disposal of heads of Missions a large staff of workers, whose services must otherwise be lost to them, or available only in a very mutilated form, surely we cannot, dare not, hesitate to permit or even to advise the change, following our Divine Master's example in thus esteeming the matter of dress, together with all other matters, purely external, as the small dust of the balance. Mrs. Mcgrew, M. E. C, Oawnpore, sa...