6 THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



majority had voted that I was to go to the college 

 at Allahabad. "All right," I said. "I am not willing 

 to break my contract. I will do the best I can. I go 

 under protest, and I do not hold myself responsible for 

 results. ' ' 



The more one studies the organization of a mission 

 and the various ways and means which it employs in 

 order to make Christ and His Good News known, the 

 more one will find that it is the spirit and attitude of 

 the individual missionary which matters rather than 

 the particular work to which he is assigned. If one 

 has the right attitude of mind and a broad and liberal 

 education, then whatever the duty assigned, one will 

 find a way of using his work to further the great end 

 in view. For the individual who has once seen the 

 vision of what the world might be if it had Jesus as 

 Lord and Master, and who has consecrated himself to 

 the will of God and to his fellow men in obedience to 

 Jesus' "Go ye into all the world," it is not possible to 

 conceive of any position in mission work in India which 

 will not call out all the energy, power, initiative of 

 which that individual is possessed. It is the fault of 

 the missionary if he, or she, does not go tired to bed 

 every night from a day well spent in the service of the 

 Master. The mission merely assigns the new arrival to 

 a station, it cannot give to him either the spirit or the 

 personality with which to work out his faith. The in- 

 dividual has invariably to make his own way of present- 

 ing Christ. Whatever his appointment he has to deter- 

 mine for himself the best way of carrying his principles 

 into practice. One of the joys of mission service is 

 that the individual missionary has such a free hand, and 

 is so much the master of his own work. During his first 



