AFTER spending four months in India, the deputation sent out by the American Board has this to say:— We return from our work upon the deputation profoundly convinced that no country in the world ever needed or more sorely needs to-day the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ than do India and Ceylon. We seized every opportunity to investigate the religions of those countries, and to study the public and private life they produce. They have utterly failed to inspire the people to anything that is uplifting and ennobling. Three thousand and more years of Hinduism have fully demonstrated its lack of ability to hold a mighty race from sinking lower and lower in ignorance and immorality. This condition is observed by the intelligent Hindus, who are free to confess that India's only hope is in the Christian religion. It is impossible for the foreigner to appreciate or understand the utter lack of unity or co-operation among the native peoples of India. With their more than one hundred languages and races, with their minute subdivision into thousands of castes, with their perfect chaos of nature-religions and diversity of cults, there seems to be no ground in which this great and really capable people can meet or hold fellowship, unless Christianity can come to them with its one God, its one human fraternity, its one tongue, and its one blessed hope for all, high or low, rich or poor, male or female. Hinduism confesses itself powerless, and, in its helplessness, turns to the West, from which the light of Christian civilization sheds its inspiring rays upon caste-bound, hopeless India.