46 RIGHT REV. BISHOP E. GRAHAM INGHAM, D.D., ON 



part of my life in India, and having many many friends amongst 

 my old Indian comrades, no one regrets the new situation that had 

 grown up in India more than I do myself. I have worked with 

 Indians in India, Persia, Arabia and Afghanistan, and I well know 

 the value of the Indian mind working in conjunction with the 

 British mind, and no form of government that I can think of would 

 be better for India than half a dozen Indians and half a dozen 

 Britishers sitting alternately round a table and all working together 

 for the common good. Unfortunately a new situation has been 

 brought in, and the Indian element in the Government is largely in 

 opposition to the British element, and we none of us can say what 

 this new spirit that has come in on the Indian side will lead to. 

 I quite agree with the Bishop that something more than a League 

 of Nations is needed to keep the world at peace and our Empire 

 undisturbed. 



Mr. Theodore Eoberts, while expressing the company's in- 

 debtedness to the Bishop for his paper, suggested that it was too 

 congratulatory to the British nation to-day, and referred to an 

 Austrahan writer's contrast between the " Mayflower's " voyage in 

 an atmosphere of prayer and praise, with that of the " Mauretania's " 

 characterized by gambling and debauchery, with detectives awaiting 

 her arrival to arrest some of the passengers for card-sharping. 



He thought the chief defect of the British in ruling other races 

 was a want of -sympathy, so that they failed to gain the affection, 

 while they obtained the respect for fairness and justice, of those 

 over whom they ruled. 



He suggested that the Bishop might have referred to the treat- 

 ment which the Jews had received in this country since the Pro- 

 tector, Oliver Cromwell, granted them leave to have a synagogue, 

 as conducing to the prosperity of the Empire in accordance with the 

 promise to Abraham (Gen. xii, 3). 



He suggested that the history of the world during the last few 

 centuries and up to the coming reign of Christ was somewhat analo- 

 gous to that of an unregenerate man up to his true conversion to 

 God. He often made efforts to reform, and fell back worse than 

 before, until he finally entered into blessing. So while he antici- 

 pated a worse time ahead than that during the late war, he looked 

 forward to the ultimate blessing of the reign of Christ. 



