My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of this superbly illustrated book to scan. This title is in the public domain.
Preface
Across India the Sun is rising. How deep the shadows lie, how few are the points of illumination still; yet how surely the Light of the world has dawned; and in what ways we may help to bring the coming Everlasting Day, these pages seek to show.
They are very simple pages; glimpses caught in a brief winter visit of three months, commonplace glimpses such as everyone sees who has the privilege of visiting our vast Eastern Empire. As a traveller’s tale their view is. limited – Bombay, Poona, Anantapur, Madras, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Mirzapur, voila tout. But where we did not go in fact, we have since gone in heart, and with the help of Dr. George Smith’s Conversion of India, of Mr.Wilder’s Appeal from India, and of every other Indian missionary book I could obtain, I have tried to bring together facts for the whole Empire, and to justify from the missionary standpoint the title Across India at the Dawn of the 20th Century. [Continue reading]
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