My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. This title is in the public domain.
Foreword
I had the privilege of seeing something of Mr. and Mrs. Irvine’ s work in Belgaum as long ago as 1922, and I am sure that the homely sincerity and vividness of this short account of that work will appeal to others as it does to myself. Mr. Irvine tells no rose-water story. Theirs has been, as the Commissioner remarked (see p. 55), the “dirty work” necessary to help the most wretched members of our race.
It is good to see how simple and straight is the line taken by these devoted Christian workers, and how thorough is the conversion and implicit the faith of those whom they win over to belief. What the barriers are against conversion, either of Mohammedan or Hindu, few can realise who have not lived in India. [Continue reading]
Irvine also wrote one of the first widely-read books on New Religious Movements called “Heresies Exposed” in its later editions. I had a copy of this book on my bookshelf, so have digitised it here.
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