The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-10
debarred from filling any public office

~ ulSlnlSSeu IRON lne army LOT having
embraced Christianity" This shows
how sincerely Lord Macaulay wrote:
I've abstain; aud trust shall always
abstain from giving any public en-
couragementto those who are engaged
insthe work sof converting natives to
Christianity" In 1853 director Of the
East India Company wrote: at ap-
pears to me absolutely necessary that
we should scrupulously avoid all inter-
ference with the religion of the Hin
doos.". Lord Cummings having sub
scribed to missionary society made
him, in Lord Lansdowne's judgment,
mo longer deserving to be continued as
governor Of India."
To the present day, as it was recent
~ set forth in memorial of the Cath
Ole bishops of British India, British
law there, even against the wishes of
the more tolerant native rulers, de-
prives Of all civic rights any native
who may embrace Christianity.
Beyond this the British positively
support the native idolatry and Islam
ism. Lord Wellesley, collected the Jug
gernaut pilgrim taxes for the repair
of the pagodas. British officers super
intended the management of this hide
GUS worship and the receipt of it's pro-
ceeds. So they imposed tax OH those
desiring "the privilege of drowning in
the Ganges," a scheme calculated to
yield $50 rupees. Down to 1871 more
than 100000 year passed through
the hands Of the Madras government
in connection with heather temples,
and the annual profit was 1000. "In
one of the presidencies," said the bisll-
+ p of Carlisle in 1857, "for the support
Of idolatry and Mahomedan supersti-
ton upwards of 100000 are expended
every year. Here is Il positive and
downright encouragement of it." 1.-The
Company" wrote Russell of the Lon
don Times in 1850, "seems to have
thought that they held their position in
India upon much the same terms as
the Dutch held their footing in Japan
by tenure of trampling on the Cross.
Practically they worshipped those ugly
Indian deities more sacredly than their
own votaries did. This idolatry of
other mems superstitions is mania
by no means yet extinct. Some time
ago an officer marched down his regi-
ment to slaughter the goats sacrificed
OH one Of their festivals. The colors
We're actually carried in front of the
idols, blank cartridges We're issued
from the government magazines" Eng
ishmen have been known to paint
themselves and perform Pujah, or
worship at the river side like heathens
They have been thus complaisant with
the native, idolating and superstitious,
whilst revolving them in all else. I'VE
have lowered instead Of raised the
standard of morality" says one Of
themselves. "Why do you preach to
the English in Hindostan, who have
no religion at all?" said native to,
missionary. 1--WE would rather be as
we are than change to religion
whose professors give us such poor
specimens of their sincerity" Only
last fall no less a person than Lord
CuZon, the viceroy, advised the native
Princes Of Kathiawar to keep to their
Hindoo religion,
Whilst more than so years elapsed
from their first appearance in India
before the British thought of building
themselves Il church, Immediately on
the Inauguration of British rule the
great Jumna' NIusjid mosque at La
hore, which Runiset Sing had con-
verified into an arsenal, was put into
repair and order and handed over to
the Mussulman Moollahs for its origi-
nal purpose of religious worship. At
Delhi is mosque built by Col. Skin
ner. This very year Vicer9y Curzon
was not only careful to cover UP his
boots when he went to look over II
mosque, but presented lamp and Il
pulpit to tho Nlohammedan mosque in
Lahore. And addressing the Moham-
medan professors and students Of
Aligath College said: "You are quite
right. Adhere to your own religion,
which has in it the ingredients of great
nobility and of profound truth, and
make it the basis of your instruction
| for education."
| Twas British "strict neutrality
chiefly that allowed the recent desp0il-
ing and massacre of the Armenians
by the Kurds. Last year the secretary
Of Il missionary society in Alexandra,
got out in Arabia a controversial tract
Jesus, or Mohammed." and sent it tc
the mudirs Of provinces, the principal
sl,eikhs and omdehs and the ulema o,
doctors of the I'll Azhar university
mosque, in wrappers resembling those
used for government circulars. In
stantly Indignation in Islam and mp
peals to the minister of the interior
and as instantly circular therefron
!, to the mulirs. etc. and special lettel
to the head of the Ell Azhar, disavow
ing the governments connection will
the tract. Mr.. Arnold Ward. in til,
Nineteenth Century, August, 1900, re
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