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It is confidently affirmed that maize and the potato which we must suppose to have been first cultivated at a much later period than the breadstuffs and most other esculent vegetables of Europe and the East are found wild and self-propagating in Spanish America, though in forms not recognizable by the common observer as identical with the familiar corn and tuber of modern agriculture.
Associated with men who gave their all to Christ, the native members could not but learn the lesson of self-support, so essential for a self-propagating church, and so often neglected in the early history of missions, and even still. On baptism Krishna received a new white dress with six shillings; but such a gift, beautiful in itself, was soon discontinued.
He had laid them down in his Enquiry, and every month's residence during forty years in India confirmed him in his adhesion to them. These principles are that a missionary must be one of the companions and equals of the people to whom he is sent; and a missionary must as soon as possible become indigenous, self-supporting, self-propagating, alike by the labours of the mission and of the converts.
"'An organic being, writes Mr. Darwin, 'is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in Heaven. As these myriads of smaller organisms are parts and processes of us, so are we parts and processes of life at large." A tree is composed of a multitude of subordinate trees, each bud being a distinct individual.
There is, however, this enormous difference between the effects of carbolic acid and those of decomposition; viz., that carbolic acid stimulates only the surface to which it is at first applied, and every drop of discharge that forms weakens the stimulant by diluting it; but decomposition is a self-propagating and self-aggravating poison, and, if it occur at the surface of a severely injured limb, it will spread into all its recesses so far as any extravasated blood or shreds of dead tissue may extend, and lying in those recesses, it will become from hour to hour more acrid, till it requires the energy of a caustic sufficient to destroy the vitality of any tissues naturally weak from inferior vascular supply, or weakened by the injury they sustained in the accident.
In such a mass movement as that among the Telugus, it was inevitable that the organization of the converts into distinct, self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating churches should be a gradual process and should require time. The poverty of the people was an obstacle to self-support.
The East India Company an unwilling partner of Carey Calcutta opened to the Mission by his appointment as Government teacher of Bengali Meeting of 1802 grows into the Lall Bazaar mission Christ-like work among the poor, the sick, the prisoners, the soldiers and sailors and the natives Krishna Pal first native missionary in Calcutta Organisation of subordinate stations Carey's "United Missions in India" The missionary staff thirty strong The native missionaries The Bengali church self-propagating Carey the pioneer of other missionaries Benares Burma and Indo-China Felix Carey Instructions to missionaries The missionary shrivelled into an ambassador Adoniram and Ann Judson Jabez Carey Mission to Amboyna Remarkable letter from Carey to his third son.
Christian men are prominent in business and professional circles, as traders, contractors, brokers, physicians, lawyers; and the Christian character is everywhere recognized and honored. A church, to a large degree self-propagating, has been planted in Burma. A complete system of missionary education has been organized.
Now the force which holds a compound substance together is generally weaker, the more compound the substance is; and organic products are the most compound substances known, those which have the most complex atomic constitution. It is, therefore, upon such substances that the self-propagating power of chemical action is likely to exert itself in the most marked manner.
"An organic being," writes Mr. Darwin, "is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars in heaven." As these myriads of smaller organisms are parts and processes of us, so are we but parts and processes of life at large. Let us now return to the position which we left at the end of the fourth chapter.
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