Excerpt from India: Its Natives and Missions
He is not content simply to re-echo the conclusions of other minds; but, in submitting each question to the review of a judgment which can lay no claim to the submission of others, he has endeavoured briefly to assign the reasons which have convinced himself.
If the reader shall derive from his labours some more definite conceptions, than are generally entertained, of the extent and nature of the dominion which a gracious Providence has intrusted to the British Crown in India, may the result he to augment the efforts for the subjugation of its vast and varied population to the sceptre of Christ. No political or financial reforms can he compared in urgency with this indispensable obligation; nor will any he successful, save in proportion as the higher object is faithfully kept in view.
It is not to the political government, but to the heart of the British Christian, that India sends her cry for the gospel. The author is anxious, indeed, to see the great questions of caste, and the position of the Bible in native education - happily all that now remain of the long controversy with Indian statesmen - entertained in a broader and loftier spirit, than seems as yet to have been inherited by the Ministers of the day. But this will follow when the British public shall be in earnest for the conversion of the natives, and testify their zeal by multiplying a thousandfold the men and the means for the direct preaching of gospel truth among them.
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