Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...entire discardment oE European habits, manners, and even thought; and when the brief visit ended, he and his allies left behind them many warm, whole-hearted friends and sympathisers. A VIRGINIAN DOLLARS A touching interest attaches to many of the small sums offered to the Indian work, since they must always mean self-denial on the part of the sender. One of Her Majesty's soldiers in Madras has given up using butter in order to contribute two rupees monthly to the village war; and a writer signing himself "A Stores' Lad," has sent a two-dollar Canadian note "to help Major Tucker." The story of a Virginian dollar on its way to India is told in the following extract from the letter of an American Quakeress to the Honorary Secretary for the Army's Foreign Fund. "Some months since there was placed in my hands the pamphlet, 'What is The Salvation Army Really Doing in India 'i' I was at the time on my way to attend one of our Western yearly meetings, and took this for my railway reading. I know not when I have been so stirred. I wished I had a mint of money to help forward a work so evangelical, so effective, so economic of resources. "On my return I found a letter from a Virginian, who knew of me through my connection with the Missionary page of 'The Gospel Expositor.' The good honest fellow had given up tobacco, and hence thought he could spare one dollar for missionary purposes. He sent it to me to apply at my discretion. There seemed to me a peculiar interest, almost sacredness, about the offering, and as I was wondering where I could invest it most profitably, it occurred to me to make it the nucleus of a little collection to aid The Salvation Army in India. 1 now have some twenty dollars. "Will thee allow me to say that my...