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Excerpt from Beyond the Pir Panjal: Life and Missionary Enterprise in Kashmir
The writer has enjoyed the privilege of living and working in Kashmir for more than a quarter of a century.
During this period, the country has undergone great changes. The most rapid progress was doubtless made in the decade preceeding the year 1900. Politically, Kashmir is very backward, but a great work of prepara tion is going on. In spite of religious intolerance and social and official opposition, the Spirit of Christ is moving in the land, and the future holds in store spiritual blessings to which hitherto Kashmir, with its unhappy history of tyranny and religious persecution, has been a stranger.
In the chapters on the Mission Hospital, the School and District Work, I have endeavoured to show that the efforts of the Church Missionary Society have been fruitful, although the sphere is one of great difficulty. Much important educational work has been done. The moral and physical condition of the people has been greatly improved. In this work, the Mission has had a large share. The medical branch, in addition to its wide-spread ministry of healing, has been especially effective in delivering the great message of Christianity.
I have tried also to show the happy and useful life's work and the great opportunities for service which are possible to Christian medical men in the East.
If what I have written should inspire any qualified men or women, doctors or nurses, to take up such work as their career, the time spent in writing these pages will have been indeed worth while.
In the description of the manifold activities of the Mission School, I have in places quoted freely from the racy annual reports of that great Scout-master, the Rev. Cecil tyndale-biscoe.
Most of the illustrations are from my own photo graphs. Those which are not I have acknowledged, and am grateful for permission to use them.
I will only add that I am fully aware of the literary and other shortcomings of the following pages.
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