HINDU OPINIONS OF MISSIONS.
In the June number of the Missionary Herald, Rev. J. L. Barton, secretary of the American Board, has an interesting article composed mainly of words spoken to him while in India recently by both Hindus and Mohammedans in praise of missions. The following are representative of many such expressions:— A Hindu community in Ceylon in its address testifies to “the noble ideals of duty and purity of life which have been set before the people of this country by the exemplary lives led by your missionaries.” A Brahman editor in Madura said, “The names of your missionaries become household words in this district by the love and sympathy they bring.” In the same district a Hindu official said, “The last and most important of the work done by the missionaries is the elevation of the moral tone and sense of duty imbibed in the midst of my countrymen by free intercourse and friendship with them.” And the same official gave expression to his satisfaction that Christianity was making many converts among the lowest and outcasts, for whom there is no provision in the rigid and unchanging Hindu social and religious system.