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Title: World friendship, inc
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Murray, John Lovell, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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onary, now makethe most of it. At first the villagers were hostile, butrecognizing that the newcomers were there on a friendlyerrand, they gathered to listen. The New Yorkerpreached as he had never preached in his life, and themissionary interpreted. As the tonga rumbled off, thepeople all crowded out to the edge of the village andshouted a farewell in Tamil. Do you know what theyare saying? said the missionary. They are saying, When will you come again to tell us more of the goodstory ? And, he added, unless you can come back,they will probably never hear it again. Very often these impromptu services are conductedunder trying conditions. There is likely to be noise andcommotion and much coming and going. Frequent ques-tions are interjected. No political campaigner in NorthAmerica or in Britain is more liable to get a severeheckling than is the Christian missionary at times in aheathen village or in the bazaar of a great city. It callsfor ready wit, tactful wisdom, sympathy, patience,
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PLANTERS EXTRAORDINARY 123 prayer, and a great good humor to g&t away with such a situation; and the nervous strain of a service likethis is most exhausting. Of course the reception accorded to the preaching ofthe gospel varies greatly. There are some regions intowhich the missionaries do not penetrate at all, so intenseand fanatical is the resistance. Afghanistan, Turkestan,inland Arabia, and much of Tibet are some of the fieldswhich cannot now be entered. Beginning with the stageof prohibition, the pendulum passes many degrees ofopposition, tolerance, indifference, curiosity, interest, andwelcome till it swings to an attitude of intense inquiryand an actual longing for the truth. This difference in attitude on the part of the peopleimplies a great difference in the visible results. In allcases the harvest is sure, but the interval till the harvest-time varies a great deal. Evangelistic meetings amongthe educated classes in India, where caste holds a re-lentless sway, have produc

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