Christian missions in the Telugu country - Uecf.net

130 MISSIONS IN THE TELUGU COUNTRY
movement. But here is one that has outlasted many
others and stood the test of opposing circumstances.
If we consider this Mission we find that it has had to face
a good proportion of the difficulties that confront missions
anywhere in India : a bad climate, a country particularly
difficult for travel, the opposition of the influential
classes, and frequent famines. Add to these that the
Mission has been to a quite remarkable degree per-
sistently undermanned. Yet it has gone on growing
steadily for sixty years. After all records of opposition,
difficulty, failure, and loss, there has always come, decade
after decade, the statement of actual growth. This
fact arrests attention. It argues some power behind
the movement and behind the Mission. It remains for
us to see whether, in the more detailed description of
sections and results of the work, we can trace the
working of a Will, higher than the will of men, and
using men as its instruments.