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degradation of caste) may be taught the plain and simple truths 

 of Christianity, I earnestly plead. That there are higher attain- 

 ments in its spiritual progress, is readily allowed; there is a conti- 

 nual improvement in religious wisdom; but the apostle seems to 

 limit that superior knowledge to a more perfect class, than he 

 generally expected among the Corinthian converts : " My preach- 

 ing was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demon- 

 stration of the spirit, and of power. Howbeit we speak wisdom 

 among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, 

 nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought; but we 

 speak the wisdom of God in a mystery ; even the hidden wisdom, 

 which God ordained before the world unto our glory V 



These mysteries will, in due time, be revealed ; and those in- 

 conceivable things, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, will be 

 communicated to the pious heart properly piepared for their re- 

 ception. Those spiritual joys are not the present object, but that 

 millions of British subjects do not share in the common blessings 

 of life enjoyed by the Negroes and Hottentots of Africa, and are 

 deprived of every religious pleasure, is evident in the Pariahs and 

 Chandalas, so numerously dispersed in every part of Hindostan ; 

 for their temporal and eternal happiness I become an advocate! 

 I know the pride and arrogance of the brahmins must and will 

 militate against every attempt for their liberation: " Procul, O! 

 procul, este profani !" has always been an exclamation among a 

 certain description of people, from Virgil to the present day: 

 " Stand off! for I am holier than thou," is no where more distinctly 

 believed, nor more rigidly practised, than among the brahmins. 



Much has been said respecting compelling the Hindoos to relin- 



