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As Pope’s lines occurred to me on the spot, and were inserted 
in my manuscript of the evening, I have not suppressed them: a 
Christian enjoying the light of revelation, will confine them within 
proper limits; and notwithstanding my general remarks on the 
moral character of the Indians, will not forget that love which 
forms the grand test of his own religion, nor the charitable senti- 
ment ot an inspired apostle, that God is no respecter of persons: 
X willingly allow the Hindoos all the merit they can claim; but 
the veil is now as much withdrawn from the inner temples and 
mystical reveries of modem brahminism, as from the ancient 
Eleusinian mysteries: nor can an unprejudiced mind, conversant 
with both religions, admit that the followers have no need of the 
gospel: those who best know the Hindoos, know them to be im- 
mersed in ignorance, superstition, and idolatry! happy is the 
humblest Christian, beyond all the attainments of ancient philo- 
sophy or brahminical absorptions, who, under the cheering beams 
of revelation, finds his heart influenced to love God, and to evince 
that love by benevolence to his fellow creatures: who, lamenting 
the evil propensities incidental to his fallen nature, is enabled to 
look up to a Redeemer, who made an expiation for sin, which 
not all the penance of the Hindoo fanatics, nor even the typical 
sacrifices of the Jewish altars could ever have effected. 
Our ride from Govindsett’s temple, to the place of embarkation 
for Bombay, offered nothing interesting: he took leave at his gar- 
den gate, ordering a party of horse to escort us to the sea-port, 
and an officer to accompany us in the vessel, to inform him of our 
arrival at Bombay. They conducted us several miles over the 
salt-marshes, and passing through the Mahratta town of Tull, we 
