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 { APPENDIX I? aeuffering people, have been subjected to all manner of abuse. and have been made to suffer with them. It is this discrepancy bet- ween a beautiful creed and our tre itment of the Indian at the door, which repels the man who thinks. We have failed, too, I believe, to realise the inwardness cf this Passive Resistance movement; and the apparent indifference of the Churches has been deeply felt by these men. In reality, it is not a. trade dispute, nor is it a political move : these are incidents of the struggle. It is a sign of the awakening of the Asiatics to a sense of their manhood, the token that they do not mean to play a servile or degraded part in our Society; it is their claim. put for- ward in suffering. to be treated by Christians in a Christian way. This is the wonderful vision which Government and Churches alike have failed to see. Meanwhile. although, to my thinking, the seeker has not yet reached the goal, that wonderful experience of Christ which is the glory of the Christian faith, enriching the wealthiest life, and giving new power to the strong, I cannot forget what the Master himself said 1-"Not everyone who saith unto me, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven." (From Rev. Doke’s Gandhi).