Introduction
These pictures were gathered and stored in a missionary’s heart in a land of sunlight and shadows. While visiting the Tamil people with the message of God’s Grace, in and around the city of Madras, one walked unexpectedly into scenes of tragedy, or stepped unawares on holy ground. Glimpses of twilight, and flashes of starshine, were unwittingly disclosed; and this little book is an endeavour to reproduce faithfully things as we have seen them.
The pictures make no claim to beauty, for the writer is fully aware of their artistic lack; but they are every one of them true. They are reproduced to depict a few of the joys and disappointments of missionary service in India, also as an appeal for more labourers into His harvest field.
If, through God’s blessing, they accomplish this twofold purpose, they have not been published in vain. [Continue reading]
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