The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-15

reached almost from sea 10 sea- It was a vast region, and contained an extraordinary mixture of climate, races, languages and so forth render ing the diocese one of the most dl1llcult to handle in all India The chairman having briefly referred to the nature or the work in the diocese, closed by com mending it to the sympathy and sup port of the meeting. Many or them knew Bishop Chatterton personally and he (the chairman) felt quite sure that anything that he might ask them to do would be the right thing.
 Sir F. Lely said that all must realize that the people of this country were hardly conscious of the responsibility which was involved in ruling three hundred millions of human beings.
 They had all heard of people who re- turned from India and spoke dlspara-
 gingly of missionary work in the coun- 1 try. They said that the converts were
 drawn from the dregs Of the popuia- ton, and that they professed ChrlstlSlh- ity simply in order to secure the loaVes
 and fishes; this, in a word, meant thal
 the missions were a failure. AS one
 who had livsd for many years ln lnola' land had lived on intimate terms with
 all classes, from the rajah ln ms palace
 to the native in his hut, he asked them lnot to believe such statements. lie Twas ready to admit that these state lments were often made by honorable linen, who would not on any account m tentionally bear false witness agalnst Iany one. The explanation was to pc found in the old saying that when an
 Englishman went abroad he always
 carried some of the soil of his native
 Hand on the soles of his l2oots' the
 meaning of which phrase was lhat
 when the typical Engllshmah went
 abroad he lived in world of his own,
 more particularly if he regarded the
 people among whom he lived as his ln- feriors. Again, it was objected tha'
 the number of converts was few Well
 he believed that according to the las'
 cenuss there were over two millions ol
 native Christians in India. That dlc
 not seem to him to be such pad re'
 cord when one considered that cen
 turv ago there was not a single conVer
 in India. He did not however, ilA
 stress on numbers, as such a. test wal altogether fallacious The indirect re
 suits of missionary work could not b' set forth in statistical form Wlth rs { gard to the diocese of Nagpur' ne wa q glad to know that between the Centra rovinces and Richmond there eXlstea strong human link in the person p , their good Bishop Chatterton. lh , church in India owed the church a
 home great debt of gratitude Tn send ing ont such a man to them, Althougl z absent, he spoke to them that hter noon, and asked them to send out me , of kindred spirit to himself to share [ the work; ha asked them for thel ' nravers and their help, and he tth . speaker) could not think that ne Woui y ask in vain Sir Frederic then passe ? on to sleak of the Central Provnca 4 and dealt with their industrial posslpn ! ities The wealth of the provinces wa v increasing rapidly which meant ths f Europeans were constantly co1lhg U
 It was highly important that the ht
 ropeans should be men of good charaS
 fer. who would set a good example I the natives. He was afraid that U l. native did not always view our Ieiigla - and ourselves as we should llKe' 2 o was afraid that the general impressio <, among the natives was that we had N N ,f much religion worth spaaking anou ,e x and that we had not many aualtl <, <, worth initiating. In conclusion ne r ' ferred to the importance of religiol 'o e work among the Eurasions, and q s s served that they were a most dittitu S class to deal with.