My Indian Jatra Half A Century Life in India Paperback Book Frances Major

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"This book affords an unusual glimpse of the life and work of a missionary. Most of this volume has been generated from letters written by the author to family and friends over several decades.? Thus there is a freshness and immediacy about the narrative. ???The reader is there,? present to the sights and sounds and smells of a teeming Asian metropolis or remote village.? She recounts the coming of Indian Independence, the birth of free India, the genesis of Pakistan, the assassination of Gandhi in remarkably vivid phrases.?? Mostly, she shows us people, people in need.? But also some captives of greed, the sick, the persecuted, the hungry, the forgotten ones of earth; and always we find her serving the least ones in the name of Christ. Frances clearly loves India and her people.? She loves Bengal.? She loves Calcutta (and wore a badge which said so), while most visitors have seen only its sordid side.? As I read this book, I experienced a growing pride in the mission of the Church, in rediscovery of what it is to be a faithful missionary, a fresh summons to be a better missionary myself.' Bishop, James K. Mathews, Retired This description may be from another edition of this product.