Identifier: northindia00andr (find matches)
Title: North India
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Andrews, C. F. (Charles Freer), 1871-1940
Subjects: Church of England Missions
Publisher: London : A. R. Mowbray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is year thatan Indian Christian has crossed the frontier, andopenly preached the message of CllRIST inAfghanistan, and has been detained and im-prisoned. Whether it be true to-day or no, therecan be little doubt that in the near future, withthe National Missionary Movement spreading inthe North, and the higher ideal of missionary workgaining ground in the Indian Church, some IndianChristian will soon pierce through the barrier thatno Englishman can pass, and young India willshow the glorious heroism of faith. Afghanistan,from which so constantly in Indian history, fierceraids have been made down the passes to plunderand to kill, may in its turn be conquered throughthe same passes by the greatest of all conquests—the victory of the Gospel of Peace. If this book meet the eye of any Indian Chris-tian in the North, may it quicken in him thethought that Afghanistan will be Christian Indiasspecial and unique opportunity—a work of evan-gelization left for the sons of India to accomplish;
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Padre Thomas Edwards. To face page 153. Thk Frontikr Missions 153 and may wc offer up one lonf^inc^ prayer to GoDthat the true nobility of self-sacrifice may befound burnini^ brightly in the Indian Churchwhen the time arrives for action ! I will take one more scene from another ofthese Frontier Missions. Kotgur lies fifty milesnorth of Simla, on the road to Tibet, with thesnow-peaks rising high beyond it. In earlydays it had been an outpost in the Gurkha wars,and there are still signs of cantonments, thoughnow no armed garrison is needed, for the wholeinterior is peaceful. The Mission work was startedby the generosity of a civilian, named Mr. Gorton,and an officer. Captain Jackson, and is an offshootof the Simla Mission in which Padre ThomasEdwards carried on a devoted work for manyyears, respected alike by Indian and European.Last year I walked out from Simla with theBishop of Lahore, who was to hold at Kotgura Confirmation. On the way we passed theshrines of the different gods and g

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