India and Malaysia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from India and Malaysia

In May, 1888, the writer of the following pages was elected to the superintendency of the missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in India and Malaysia. He had spent most of his life in India, and had enjoyed better opportunities for seeing all parts of the empire than fall to the lot of most missionaries, and yet a very brief experience in his new sphere of duty impressed him with a sense of the magnitude of the field and of its splendid opportunities for successful missionary work, which seemed to come upon him with all the force of an unexpected discovery. In making frequent tours he found but few workers who seemed to take broad views of the situation, or were alive to the emergency of the hour. With rare exceptions, Christians throughout India seemed to be unaware of the value of their magnificent heritage. They were not indifferent, but very many of them seemed despondent, and only here and there did the hope seem to be cherished that God was preparing the way in India for the greatest triumphs which had ever crowned the efforts of his Son to save the human race. Missionaries, and Christian workers generally, did not seem to understand the situation. They did not, in short, seem to know India. They saw missionary work only in glimpses, and seldom saw or heard of any marked token of victory.

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