Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India

About this book

Amy Carmichael's early account of missionary work in southern India grew out of letters written from the field and was published in 1903. It describes evangelistic journeys, the people she met, and the formidable customs and disappointments that made converts few and labor slow. Its candor about difficulty, joined to quiet faith, distinguishes it from triumphal missionary reporting.

Contents

1. Note
2. Preface
3. Chapter I · About the Book
4. Chapter II · Three Afternoons off the Track
5. Chapter III · Humdrum
6. Chapter IV · Correspondences 🔒
7. Chapter V · The Prey of the Terrible 🔒
8. Chapter VI · Missed Ends 🔒
9. Chapter VII · "The Dust of the Actual" 🔒
10. Chapter VIII · Roots 🔒
11. Chapter IX · The Classes and the Masses 🔒
12. Chapter X · The Creed Chasm 🔒
13. Chapter XI · Caste viewed as a Doer 🔒
14. Chapter XII · Petra 🔒
15. Chapter XIII · Death by Disuse 🔒
16. Chapter XIV · What Happened 🔒
17. Chapter XV · "Simply Murdered" 🔒
18. Chapter XVI · Wanted, Volunteers 🔒
19. Chapter XVII · If it is so very important. . . ? 🔒
20. Chapter XVIII · The Call Intensified 🔒
21. Chapter XIX · "Attracted by the Influence" 🔒
22. Chapter XX · The Elf 🔒
23. Chapter XXI · Deified Devilry 🔒
24. Chapter XXII · Behind the Door 🔒
25. Chapter XXIII · "Pan, Pan is Dead" 🔒
26. Chapter XXIV · "Married to the God" 🔒
27. Chapter XXV · Skirting the Abyss 🔒
28. Chapter XXVI · From a Hindu Point of View 🔒
29. Chapter XXVII · Though ye know Him not 🔒
30. Chapter XXVIII · How Long? 🔒
31. Chapter XXIX · What do we count them worth? 🔒
32. Chapter XXX · Two Safe 🔒
33. Chapter XXXI · Three Objections 🔒
34. Chapter XXXII · "Show me Thy Glory!" 🔒
35. Appendix · Some Indian Saints 🔒