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great deal of truth, to whom God our Father has given much, 

 though He Las given us more, I think, if we meet them in that 

 spirit, the time will come when it will leaven the whole lump. 

 Those who can shed tears over these rapturous songs are in a 

 measure prepared for the Gospel. This is as the Book of Psalms 

 to the people of Sou.th India, and I think is a preparation for 

 better things. 



One word more I would say, and it is this — that our Hindu 

 fellow-subjects in South India are inferior to no people on the 

 face of the earth in that particular element — deep religious 

 fervour. You may say what you like of Hindus in other 

 respects ; but they are people who love God — feeling in the dark- 

 ness after Him that " hajaly they may find Him," and they love 

 Him whom they do not as yet fully know. Before I left India, there 

 came a carriage and pair to my door and a fine intelligent Hindu 

 stepped out. I had often seen him in my little church there ; but 

 I bad never spoken to him. He was a high officer of the 

 Mabarajah's Court. I gave him a seat. He said he had heard I 

 was going, and he added, " I am a Christian." I said, " My dear 

 sir, is that so ? " He said, " If you only knew my mother, sister 

 and wife you would see that 1 cannot be baptized ; but I am a 

 Christian all the same — I would die for Chi-istianity." He added, 

 " I want a book (I i*ead the Bible regularly) that I can pray over 

 day by day and hour by hour, that will guide me." I had just 

 received an edition, ,in two volumes, of Jeremy Taylor's Holy 

 Living and Holy Dying, which I took out and showed to him. I 

 did not give them to him, but said, ''You can take down the 

 publisher's name and I think they will suit you. " ; and so, after a 

 little talk and trying in a quiet way to bring it home to him, he 

 left. Some two months after, just immediately before I left he 

 came and said, " I thank you so much for recommending me 

 those books. I have got them, and I am dealing with the 

 Holy Living ; it is a way we have, that I work it out as I should 

 Euclid. I am trying to make it my own in thought and in life ; 

 but I am getting on very slowly." I said, " My dear finend, I 

 am not a third, or a quarter through it myself yet." And there 

 he is still, I believe, studying Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living. 

 He is one instance of the natural piety of those people, if one raay 

 so speak, of people who only need sympathetic and brotherly love 

 to bring them much nearer Christianity. 



Then one final word about Buddhism. In the notes in the 

 Appendix you will find a full account of the discussion thereon. 



