If a believer in the world’s conversion were asked upon what nations the hope of this great work of evangelization principally rests, he would doubtless reply, England and America. But what has England done for those countries where she has acquired a foothold, and extended her influence? What has she done, for instance, in India? Too often the same vessel that carries out a missionary, carries out also a cargo of whisky! and all who dare look at the statistics, know that civilized vices spread faster in heathen lands than civilized religion. Baboo Chunder Sen, the man who is now in England as a missionary from India to the English people, in a recent address at the Crystal Palace, charged upon the British government the crime of fastening intemperance upon India, in the following language:— “I represent a nation remarkable for sobriety, temperance, and abstemiousness. If you desire to see homely and conclusive illustrations of the golden principles of temperance, go to India. Go from village to village, and from town to town, and you will see with your own eyes what wonders have been achieved in that nation by the power of temperance, and temperance alone. But alas! if you wish to see the effects which have resulted from the interference of a Christian nation and a Christian government with those principles and practices of temperance, you must go to India. There you will see how hundreds upon hundreds, aye, thousands upon thousands, of enlightened, energetic, and promising young men and young women are dying month after month and year after year, as the necessary and inevitable consequence of that iniquitous system of liquor traffic which the British Government to its shame has introduced into India. “Christianity is a mockery, and civilization a solemn sham, when I see the tide of intemperance, drunkenness, and demoralization, carrying away in its violent and impetuous stream, thousands of men and women in this great country. It profoundly distresses my heart to see this.” He not only shows its terrible evil, but points to its only cure:— “Do not religious books tell you that you should not place stumbling-blocks in the way of your brethren? Do not your religious books teach you to keep yourselves, your countrymen, and all those who are near and dear to you, from temptation? When we look into the records of our jails and hospitals, should we not at the same moment say that there is enough of appalling evidence in them to convince us of the dangers of intoxication, and of the evil effects of encouraging, directly or indirectly, by legislative enactments or by personal influence, demoralization and drunkenness?”