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The Afghan Character

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Paradoxical--Ideas of honour--Blood-feuds--A sister's revenge--The story of an outlaw--Taken by assault--A jirgah and its unexpected termination--Bluff--An attempt at kidnapping--Hospitality--A midnight meal--An ungrateful patient--A robber's death--An Afghan dance--A village warfare--An officer's escape--Cousins 17-30

Afghan Traditions

Israelitish origin of the Afghans--Jewish practices--Shepherd tradition of the Wazirs--Afridis and their saint--The zyarat, or shrine--Graveyards--Custom of burial--Graves of holy men--Charms and amulets--The medical practice of a faqir--Native remedies--First aid to the wounded--Purges and blood-letting--Tooth extraction--Smallpox 31-43

Border Warriors

Peiwar Kotal--The Kurram Valley--The Bannu Oasis--Independent tribes--The Durand line--The indispensable Hindu--A lawsuit and its sequel--A Hindu outwits a Muhammadan--The scope of the missionary 44-53

A Frontier Valley

Description of the Kurram Valley--Shiahs and Sunnis--Favourable reception of Christianity--Independent areas--A candid reply--Proverbial disunion of the Afghans--The two policies--Sir Robert Sandeman--Lord Curzon creates the North-West Frontier Province--Frontier wars--The vicious circle--Two flaws the natives see in British rule: the usurer, delayed justice--Personal influence 54-67

The Christian's Revenge

Police posts versus dispensaries--The poisoning scare--A native doctor's influence--Wazir marauders spare the mission hospital--A terrible revenge--The Conolly bed--A political mission--A treacherous King--Imprisonment in Bukhara--The Prayer-Book--Martyrdom--The sequel--Influence of the mission hospital--The medical missionary's passport 68-77

A Day in the Wards

The truce of suffering--A patient's request--Typical cases--A painful journey--The biter bit--The condition of amputation--"I am a better shot than he is"--The son's life or revenge--The hunter's adventure--A nephew's devotion--A miserly patient--An enemy converted into a friend--The doctor's welcome 78-88

From Morning to Night

First duties--Calls for the doctor--Some of the out-patients--Importunate blind--School classes--Operation cases--Untimely visitors--Recreation--Cases to decide 89-97

The Itinerant Missionary

The medical missionary's advantage--How to know the people--The real India--God's guest-house--The reception of the guest--Oriental customs--Pitfalls for the unwary--The Mullah and the Padre--Afghan logic--A patient's welcome--The Mullah conciliated--A rough journey--Among thieves--A swimming adventure--Friends or enemies? --Work in camp--Rest at last 98-113

Afghan Mullahs

No priesthood in Islam--Yet the Mullahs ubiquitous--Their great influence--Theological refinements--The power of a charm--Bazaar disputations--A friend in need--A frontier Pope--In a Militia post--A long ride--A local Canterbury--An enemy becomes a friend--The ghazi fanatic--An outrage on an English officer 114-125

A Tale of a Talib

Early days--The theological curriculum--Visit to Bannu--A public discussion--New ideas--The forbearance of a native Christian--First acquaintance with Christians--First confession--A lost love--A stern chase--The lost sheep recovered--Bringing his teacher--The Mullah converted--Excommunication--Faithful unto death--Fresh temptations--A vain search--A night quest--The Mullahs circumvented--Dark days--Hope ever 126-139

School-Work

Different views of educational work--The changed attitude of the Mullahs--His Majesty the Amir and education--Dangers of secular education--The mission hostel--India emphatically religious--Indian schoolboys contrasted with English schoolboys--School and marriage--Advantage of personal contact--Uses of a swimming-tank--An unpromising scholar--Unwelcome discipline--A ward of court--Morning prayers--An Afghan University--A cricket-match--An exciting finish--A sad sequel--An officer's funeral--A contrast--Just in time 140-152

An Afghan Football Team

Native sport--Tent-pegging--A novel game--A football tournament--A victory for Bannu--Increasing popularity of English games--A tour through India--Football under difficulties--Welcome at Hyderabad--An unexpected defeat--Matches at Bombay and Karachi--Riots in Calcutta--An unprovoked assault--The Calcutta police-court--Reparation--Home again 153-167

'Alam Gul's Choice

A farmer and his two sons--Learning the Quran--A village school--At work and at play--The visit of the Inspector--Pros and cons of the mission school from a native standpoint--Admission to Bannu School--New associations--In danger of losing heaven--First night in the boarding-house--A boy's dilemma 168-178

'Alam Gul's Choice

The cricket captain--A conscientious schoolboy--The Scripture lesson--First awakenings--The Mullah's wrath--The crisis--Standing fire--Schoolboy justice--"Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you for My Name's sake"--Escape from poisoning--Escape from home--Baptism--Disinherited--New friends 179-189

Afghan Women

Their inferior position--Hard labour--On the march--Suffering in silence--A heartless husband--Buying a wife--Punishment for immorality--Patching up an injured wife--A streaky nose--Evils of divorce--A domestic tragedy--Ignorance and superstition--"Beautiful Pearl"--A tragic case--A crying need--Lady doctors--The mother's influence 190-201

The Story of a Convert

A trans-frontier merchant--Left an orphan--Takes service--First contact with Christians--Interest aroused in an unexpected way--Assaulted--Baptism--A dangerous journey--Taken for a spy--A mother's love--Falls among thieves--Choosing a wife--An Afghan becomes a foreign missionary--A responsible post--Saved by a grateful patient 202-210

The Hindu Ascetics

The Hindu Sadhus more than two thousand years ago much as to-day--Muhammadan faqirs much more recent--The Indian ideal--This presents a difficulty to the missionary--Becoming a Sadhu--An Afghan disciple--Initiation and equipment--Hardwar the Holy--A religious settlement--Natural beauties of the locality--Only man is vile--Individualism versus altruism--The Water God--Wanton monkeys--Tendency to make anything unusual an object of worship--A Brahman fellow-traveller--A night in a temple--Waking the gods--A Hindu sacrament--A religious Bedlam--A ward for imbeciles--Religious delusions--"All humbugs"--Yogis and hypnotism--Voluntary maniacs--The daily meal--Feeding, flesh, fish, and food 211-226

Sadhus and Faqirs

Buried gold--Power of sympathy--A neglected field--A Sadhu converted to Christianity--His experiences--Causes of the development of the ascetic idea in India--More unworthy motives common at the present time--The Prime Minister of a State becomes a recluse--A cavalry officer Sadhu--Dedicated from birth--Experiences of a young Sadhu--An unpleasant bedfellow--Honest toil--Orders of Muhammadan ascetics--Their characteristics--A faqir's curse--Women and faqirs--Muhammadan faqirs usually unorthodox--Sufistic tendencies--Habits of inebriation--The sanctity and powers of a faqir's grave 227-240

My Life as a Mendicant

Dependent on the charitable--An incident on the bridge over the Jhelum River--A rebuff on the feast-day--An Indian railway-station--A churlish Muhammadan--Helped by a soldier--A partner in the concern--A friendly native Christian--The prophet of Qadian--A new Muhammadan development--Crossing the Beas River--Reception in a Sikh village--Recognized by His Majesty Yakub Khan, late Amir--Allahabad--Encounter with a Brahman at Bombay--Landing at Karachi--Value of native dress--Relation to natives--Need of sympathy--The effect of clothes--Disabilities in railway travelling--English manners--Reception of visitors 241-256

A Frontier Episode

A merchant caravan in the Tochi Pass--Manak Khan--A sudden onslaught--First aid--Native remedies--A desperate case--A last resort--The Feringi doctor--Setting out on the journey--Arrival at Bannu--Refuses amputation--Returns to Afghanistan--His wife and children frightened away 257-266

Frontier Campaigning

The Pathan warrior--A Christian native officer--A secret mission--A victim of treachery--A soldier convert--Influence of a Christian officer--Crude ideas and strange motives of Pathan soldiers--Camaraderie in frontier regiments--Example of sympathy between students of different religions in mission school--A famous Sikh regiment--Sikh soldiers and religion--Fort Lockhart--Saraghari--The last man--A rifle thief--Caught red-handed 267-276

Chikki, The Freebooter

The mountains of Tirah--Work as a miller's labourer--Joins fortune with a thief--A night raid--The value of a disguise--The thief caught--The cattle "lifter"--Murder by proxy--The price of blood--Tribal factions--Becomes chieftain of the tribe--The zenith of power--Characteristics--Precautionary measures--Journey to Chinarak--A remarkable fort--A curious congregation--Punctiliousness in prayers--Changed attitude--Refrained from hostilities--Meets his death 277-286

Rough Diamonds

A novel inquirer--Attends the bazaar preaching--Attacked by his countrymen--In the police-station--Before the English magistrate--Declares he is a Christian--Arrival of his mother--Tied up in his village--Escape--Takes refuge in the hills--A murder case--Circumstantial evidence--Condemned--A last struggle for liberty--Qazi Abdul Karim--His origin--Eccentricities--Enthusiasm--Crosses the frontier--Captured--Confesses his faith--Torture--Martyrdom 287-295

Deductions

Number of converts not a reliable estimate of mission work--Spurious converts versus indigenous Christianity--Latitude should be allowed to the Indian Church--We should introduce Christ to India rather than Occidental Christianity--Christianizing sects among Hindus and Muhammadans--Missionary work not restricted to missionaries--Influence of the best of Hindu and Muhammadan thought should be welcomed--The conversion of the nation requires our attention more than that of the individual--Christian Friars adapted to modern missions--A true representation of Christ to India--Misconceptions that must be removed 296-304

A Forward Policy

Frontier medical missions--Their value as outposts--Ancient Christianity in Central Asia--Kafiristan: a lost opportunity of the Christian Church--Forcible conversion to Islam--Fields for missionary enterprise beyond the North-West Frontier--The first missionaries should be medical men--An example of the power of a medical mission to overcome opposition--The need for branch dispensaries--Scheme of advance--Needs 305-312

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