SIR ANDREW WINGATE, K.C.I.E., ON INDIA. 



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devotion to the interests of the trusting masses has combated 

 self-indulgence. These qualities, and the Bible which has 

 produced them, are within reach of the new administrators, and it 

 is because Indian members of the Government Services and 

 Indian gentlemen of position have been exhibiting these qualities 

 that courage has been found boldly to place confidence in them. 



There are lines along which Indians may make faster progress, 

 such as giving the Bible to the schools and colleges, a knowledge 

 of which our neutrality has withheld from the boys and girls. 

 More courage in taxation to provide the wider education without 

 which an extended franchise is impossible, while it is at least 

 likely that temples, idols, caste, social abuses and domestic 

 wrongs would continue longer owing to our timidity before 

 religious questions. Prohibition is sure of strong support. 

 It is possible that the Indian Church and Missions will find 

 more appreciation of their value and Indian reformers a stronger 

 backing. There is hope, too, that, as Indian wishes prevail, 

 Indian Christians will free themselves quickly from the patch- 

 work of sects, which we have been struggling to impose on them, 

 and that they will determine to have one Communion Table 

 for all India. Similarly, India may be saved from the intro- 

 duction of an ignoble Party spirit. 



There are those who view the future with grave apprehension. 

 We all rejoice that the bitter feelings between Mohammedans 

 and Hindus, the cause of constant anxiety to our District Officers, 

 are being bridged, but we could wish the use of a more permanent 

 material than a common animosity towards ourselves. This 

 disquieting feature is the outcome of agitation, and is temporary. 

 It is the British who have guided distracted India into the 

 semblance of a hitherto unknown national sentiment. It is 

 the British who have made access to Mecca easy and safe, but if 

 Indian Mohammedans confront Arab aspirations, pilgrim^s may 

 be the sufferers. Early responsibility has forged the makers of 

 our Empire. Let us trust that it will steady the youth of India. 

 A son may share the world-wide impatience of any control, 

 but when in difficulty he seeks out his father. We shall need 

 each other. There are unknown forces generating in Asia. To 

 meet them a united India is essential. However antipathetic 

 these forces appear to be, they combine in the lust to loot, and 

 Northern India is wealthy. 



The king, out of the affection and devotion of the Eoyal 

 House for his subjects in India, and from his heart concerned 



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