Protestantism and India
By Editor
"G. H. ROUSE, of the English Baptist Mission in Calcutta, says, that if the same rate of progress is made by Protestantism in India as during the past century, it will be Christianized in the sense that England is, in 108 years."—Christian Cynosure. Well, and what if it should be? what would then be gained? That expression, "in the sense that England is," takes all the life out of their glorying. When we consider England's fastening of the accursed opium habit upon the Chinese, by force of arms, to say nothing of other acts of tyranny, and then glance at the manner in which church "livings" are bought and sold by unscrupulous politicians, to say nothing of the millions of human beings in the large cities of "Christian England" who never heard the name of the Creator except in blasphemy, and who are living in worse than heathen degradation, we may well ask if India will be any better off than she is now when she is "Christianized in the sense that England is." If that is the highest ambition of the English Baptist Mission in Calcutta, we would advise them to give up the job.