THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION TO MISSION WORK IN INDIA 



In the month of February, 1903, while I was still an 

 undergraduate in Princeton University, I was invited 

 by an old school friend, Mr. W. W. Fry, then Secretary 

 of the Trenton Y. M. C. A., to spend Sunday with him. 

 I accepted his invitation, and accompanied him to the 

 men^s meeting on Sunday afternoon. When the meet- 

 ing was over he introduced me to a missionary from 

 India, the Rev. Henry Forman. On the following morn- 

 ing in the street car on which I rode back to College, 

 the only vacant seat was beside the missionary to whom 

 I had been introduced the day before, and whom I had 

 never expected to see again. As soon as I had taken 

 my seat he began to ask all manner of questions. 



**What year are you in colleger' 



**This is my last,'* I answered. 



*'What next?" 



**A theological seminary." 



**Then what?" 



**The foreign mission field, I hope.'' 



** Where do you want to go?" 



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