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 Missions, describing them as "beneficent and ennobling agencies."

It is fairly certain that the bulk of the Hindu and Mohammedan people of India will never embrace the Christian faith. The West has brought Christianity to the East; but the West has also introduced philosophic doubt and the rationalising tendency of the age. The message of the evangelical creed makes no appeal to the high-caste cultivated Hindu.

Any unprejudiced Englishman acquainted with Indian life will testify that we have made certain grievous mistakes in the administration of the Indian Empire. Tampering with ancient religious practice is always dangerous. The most sympathetic understanding and the rarest tact are necessary in dealing with the subject-races. These virtues are not always exhibited by administrators. "Our intolerance of a morality other than our own," writes Mr. J. H. Nelson, an English barrister, "brings about again and again the saddest results."