I am not surprised that anyone unacquainted with mission work in India should be staggered at the facts narrated in _Things as They Are_. But as one who has worked for nearly thirty years in the heart of heathenism, away from the haunts of civilisation, I can bear testimony _that the reality of things far exceeds anything that it would be possible to put into print_. One's tongue falters to tell of what is custom in this country. I know a case where a young girl of ten was placed in such a position that her choice lay between two sinful courses of life, _no right way being open to her_. I think one of the most distressing things we have to meet in caste work in this country is the fact that often as soon as a soul begins to show interest in Christ _he or she disappears_, and one either hears next that he is dead, or can get no reliable information at all. _Extract from_ a letter to Miss CARMICHAEL on _Things as They Are_. (The writer is a veteran American missionary.) _I could duplicate nearly every incident in the book_; so I know it is a true picture, not alone because I believe your word, but because my experience has been so similar to yours. Many times, while reading it, the memory of the old heart-break has been so vivid that I have had to lay the book down and look round the familiar room in order to convince myself that it was you, and not I, who was agonising over one of the King's own children who was being crowded back into darkness and hurled down to destruction, because Satan's wrath is great as he realises that his time is short. I wish the book might be read by all the Christians in the homeland. _From_ PANDITA RAMABAI. While I was reading _Things as They Are_, I fancied I was living my old life among Hindus over again. I can honestly corroborate everything said in regard to the religious and social life of the Hindus. I came from that part of the country, and I am very glad that the book has succeeded in bringing the truth to light. _From_ Miss L. TROTTER. There is hardly a phase of all the heart-suffering retold that we have not known: page after page might have been written out here, word for word. Preface THE writer of these thrilling chapters is a Keswick missionary, well known to many friends as the adopted daughter of Mr. Robert Wilson, the much-respected chairman of the Keswick Convention. She worked for a time with the Rev. Barclay Buxton in Japan; and for the last few years she has been with the Rev. T. Walker (also a C.M.S. Missionary) in Tinnevelly, and is on the staff of the Church of England Zenana Society.