Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...out and are baptized.--After reading three weeks with a fine secondyear student, he said, "I believe that Jesus is God. I pray to him in my difficulties. I have done everything he requires with the exception of baptism. Why does not Christ give us the faith? If we had faith, we would have courage to come out and confess him." Several days later, he came to tell me that for three days he had not attended class because he was so exercised about his future. He had decided to become a Christian, but deferred baptism until his wife could become convinced. We read together Luke ix. 59-62. At a later interview he declared his purpose to confess Christ; but explained that if he were baptized now alone, that his wife would be a widow for life and would live a life of sadness. "Let me wait until she comes to me; she too will become a Christian." After an absence of two months, he came again, and offered a most earnest prayer telling God that be had forsaken all for Jesus, father and friends. Later I received the following letter: "5th January, 1894. "My Dear Sir: "I have come to a fixed determination which is worded thus: My wife is not yet of age. She is now in her fourteenth year. A lawyer who lives in our neighborhood tells me that our females come of age when they complete their sixteenth year, so it is not at all practicable to bring her to Christ even if she is so inclined after I have been baptized. The moment after I am made a Christian the news reaches my mother-in-law and uncle-in-law, and they will not allow her to join me... though without me her life is a wretched and miserable one, the cruel superstition which has been laying a firm hold on Hindu minds from time immemorial will prevail on her. I do...