, THE MISSIONARY'S TASK
* "To resist the influences that too frequently make of the missionary an unconscious despot requires both strength and a sympathetic imagination. It requires strength because power is too often thrust upon us ; and to thrust this from us— to insist on being not administrators only but comrades — is a task so hard that it is only those who have tried it who can appreciate its difficulty. It requires imagination because the use of that faculty 13 our way of salvation from that unconscious condescension which so often marks the attitude of the westerner to the Indian, an attitude which especially in hypersensitive India/ is an absolute bar to real intimacy yid understanding. That is why devoted missionary labour often seems to awaken so little grateful response. We should not wonder at this for our own feeling would be the same. To spontaneous friendliness and uncondescending love the response of India is an utterness of giving." — Mary M. P. Hogg, in. the International Review of Missions.
"Th« 'c' in humane is a» characteristic of snobbery as the 'p ' in Smithe." — >J. Montgomery.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 13
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