The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

rugrvs 07 Tlll CIIVILCR IIISSION•RT SOCIETT ON TES

INDIAN ■CTINT IN ITS CONNIIION WITH

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The committee have published, from time to time,
the eller articles of intelligence which have been received
from the mienbeas of the gaiety in India, dace the lament-
able outbreak d rebellion in the Bengal Sepoy army. But
tliarzioil has new arrived when it becomes 14ht that they
put lidwie their friends the view they Wm of its in-
imam lapis naisienary operations, and of its results upon
the tea mistime of India with the Christianity of our
eannery.
The committee conceive that such a statement is especially
celled ler, in the prospect of a day of public humiliation, in
which, se a nation, we are calld. upon, by our supreme go-
vernors, to hunibls oumelve• before Almighty God, in
ceder to obtain pardon of our rine ; and in the most devout
sad ashes manner send up our prayers and supplications to
the Divine Majesty for imploring His blessing and assistance
en ow ems, trier the restoration of tranquillity.**
The eammities, therefori, at once take their staid upon
the obvious end el important truth that God ham a contra-
vene, wah ear leak and therefore bee visited um with this
IIY se andioratica leads the
at2htii of Mello
people above Ismilleas reepseties the Lulu of
me diedmat, policy, or of
meat, to fix ew maismpistlons upon our national ropes-
sibilithee. Thejmipsat le • netioad eau not only in the
same in vial a iwk is oar fag wan searup wor
,alayaralanalla halasa al.•
soss thad
he
unparalleled In our annals upsn eve
maismal
bower la a aniderset point, namely, respect for for mom
--on-

Amidst many abort sins and short-cooling', therefore,
of which oar country the been guilty in the eight of God, we
met sepecially loth et theta:oe to our relations with British
Indio, and our reepeseibilitiee, am • nation pemesaing in the
providence of Clod the eupteroe authority formerly err.
teed by Glade, and thahomeden powers ; this power bin
been transferred to no a Christen satire enjoying the 1181 A
of revealed troth, with its inesperable obhgation to Impart
that light to every cortau"
awe as brad ist studs sat to confront no, that India
has lath alp paths at as au of Great Bntain for the
grsalw pot ad a matey, ratabras the birth of a jut
govesumaa and d estuded esuusses, mil map altar
tamped abausgsa But two punting as hot et as
Waft mama bath been allowed to psensway untaught
is the nein truths of Christianity. Whit tons of thou-
sands el Asithnd's choicest eons have Booked to India to
rya horse of temporal wealth tom the labour and skill
st the whoa only • few Christian teaches ham been sort
elk to ambles utterly insignificant, compared with the
vs* Maw am, to nap adtla white with s thiritnel hare
ththel Imsstal amok

The OK ear& segienad raporiba nee must be di sided
Moms is of British India and the christen
timeles d ChM Britain. For • tool period the Indian
entruldee nerd .boo so Crimean raleeimary to reside
Ads Oat Wed airy._ The emprinisi inmerse with
Hadenashial Mied= imesinee. AM ais under
pesdries et avehetar mpg et stl gism
Mt ram this rift la Ma limply rune/' amnia
win Mimi los Ma tee as asst pet semed. Illedess
Me Ma body lama ; let as Clebilen ominia
the mass Mt len dieeme and as pad* of am
hsliq I. A Z. .The-
Marl dead k MY
gal. Pr • Mee dr Ina up so predating wiry std
mplesial as Mass of Judie She ken awelmell
liso 'Oa blimp lee not Salm to the ocalm
It me Yid ler ake wideb revelled over ea vitallag
the deer to mirsiaries, end be masa
I=reat nt open
ay ebeeeinadem but she hie net tern tall
sdaninge of the oppertaithe Me plead, be. les Mild la
the Magma disebscge of bee ma day.
Mit Wild be asked, Why as Ms bola sat,
set Is put mesas_ a new, ells bon the
permanent MAW begin to mad their
we" Yre be We the way of God's
awl WM,. Of and eir obstinate Sew, Ho my',
. " for them mienertll She memare of their intqcutsce
Sled. Be. We Ws HY labeefy correction upon those who
en so to, Mama ris Feet by Hit chairementa. Thus
the j les ins yen ua when there is a mere gene-
ref sp of papa is lier Church of Chris, and a greeter
modinesete dm it as lend that araiteth, and more proper -
err he brag lea tits firs meet for repentance, than at
say eislisr period of oar sonsection swab India. Hen is the
hops that the Lord will sill Wee mercy win
i that He A We the wrath of MOM to praise. the remaindered wrath will rentrain ,• so that the
= ell the
the Ge have hasp ppened may eventually turn out to the
od.
Is Ude hope the committee venture to urr their biers
throughout the country to maks the approaching day of no-
tional humiliation on. cif spatial remeinbruice of our pas and
plemt nos, In respect of our neglect of the beet interests of
Henn India, and of resolutions to Tenet. Notwithstanding
ear partial reformation, there i• • all for the deepest *en-
shrines& An God, and of the humblest confession of
is. The vast tracts of the country lying In unbroken
heareara—tit paucity of missionarie*, warmly one for
ken a map.—the gross darkness of the people—reproach

The ff;sienter—rical.
Ger nee lenity e 1111
this outbreak, the tendency of minder education without
Christianity to make an unconverted man a more
darulenemy, evidenced in the case of Nana
have punished this neglect. Thies and
mr sack toeice will readily occur to every Ch Indian
The committee, therefore, abstain from the mime's-
tins off them. But they venture to select • few points la
whisk they ounceive that the government of India end the
amok of Chilli are specially called upon by the present
ticket to show forth the sincerity of their repentance, If
bark• our Inchpire.
1. Irg gieur7gsd ." = emupon the government of India to honour
God by avowing 'tapir • Christian government—not neutral
or Indifferent to the religion of its milijects, but wishing that
ell should have the opportunity et knowing and judging at
the claims of revealed truth, end desirous of their becoming
Christiana, upon Personal conviction of the truth of
Let this avowal be eixonipanied with the widest
pesdlile prixlemelion that no compuDion will be used, no
bribe will In glees. The consistency and honesty of such
ikekrations wild be easily understood by the natives.
Wheless the asieliel end equivocal position which the
Mirrof Intik kne hitherto attempted to maintain bag
ismitdalkible. The inatingen have diecredited the en-
mity ef govenaNN, erg Wm charged it with ferret
t 4 maids, lidora. Not • votes has been begird
Christian mlmiensrise—aot a complaint against the
ties of the Bide, er of Christian tracts. For he,,
the agents have avowed their object. The irritation has
sprung from summed sets of government, under a charge
equally Wee and ridiculous. Than that honour me I
wW honour, smith the Lord ; and they that despise me shall
be 1' fitly estoensed." The avowal for which we
world facilitate and ensure the severance of the last lint of
governmental cennelion with idolatry. Such links do
remaln, and must be severed, if we are to poised
der mercy before Ood with clean hands
desire to render again unto the Lord according
te HL lesrcin, when he has granted us the deliverance we
milkilmte. It IMO a noble act of Lord %ban Go-
venaw.General of India, after our deliverance from the first
war, to Dew an ordinance that all public works otiuul,l
hi skipped on the Lord's-day. The spirit of this public m•
segaition of the Christian Sabbath is • precedent for such a
ffselaration as is hen advocated.

2. Lod the leheration of all forms of religions be
teed, so tar lie sooners- a MAD.s opinlopa and hie =ad-
, woreldp, lee net sobs a. to tolerate anti-social costume, or
immoral prneekee emir the garb of religion. Let the moral
law of Engird be the semi law of India. Very much has
bees Abend allele yaws in conformity with the principle.
shown sod We tithe have been pnlibited ; slavery bee
also ebellehed • deli disqualincetious upon conversion to
been In some measure removed; the re-
MOOCIW=. whew bOl been suctioned by law. But there
meek siker mamma et • like kind, especially much es are
teleired be the rescue of the female ere from its present de-
fur the t
.o-tz religious of
eipprosio rite,
the public exhibition, and fur the discourage-
mint etemtedietinctions, as Pausing • barrier against Chris-
timely. • single specimen will show how government gives
hind unction to such public indecency. An act wee pared
by the Inglektive Council of India (No. I, 1843) to prevent
lbseder expo...re of obscene books sad pictures. The
=Utry properly Oates that, "The practice of offering
se ezpoomag to public view, oboes. books and *-
tune, osocalragre Immorality, and it ia expedient to make
provision ke the prevention such practice. Bat it enacts
that nothing contained is the set shall apply to any rope.
sent 'lion Kul pt u red, engraved, or painted on or ins) temp*
sie an any car used fur the conveyance of idols." Yet them
lespies and can are the most public and frequented abject,
of observation to the whole population ! The instrounsat of
Divine judgroent has been the cherished bigh-nest. Bengal
army. front which the first Sepoy Christian convert VMS ex-
pelled thoough cote prejudices on the year 1119, by order et
the Governor-6 , after en official inquiry at Meerut, la
which the soldier was acquitted of every charge except tint
of becoming a Christian on conviction. At Meerut the lest
blood wee shed by &pop, "Whose is wtse shall observe
theme things," end will mark in this end other peculiarities
cif the judgment the eglection of our national lane.
3. Let Gemmed /Ida:anon comprise the teaching of
the Word of God. • eyeteen of grants in aid to schools of all
dinenimelans hub( born eemblished, government Ina
Om education;
t to yet in its own
abode rusentalishenamistres= The pretence that the Bible
A east pnlnllttes le premed unsound by the feet that mis-
deeds, Win* eines% lees larger numbers of heathen and
Nelenaalia Mina tam government schools; and heathen
rejoin introduce the Christian Scriptures into their *cheek se
ea important part of western literature. Why, therefore,
should • Chnitian government put such dishonour upon the
book of God P Let this nimagut al ea almost elide 031111110.
Wu be removed; or Ist the siailies of goveramit to