INDIA, AND INDIA MISSIONS: INCLUDING SKETCHES OF THE GIGANTIC SYSTEM OF HINDUISM, BOTH IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; ALSO NOTICES OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL AGENCIES EMPLOYED IN CONDUCTING THE PROCESS OF INDIAN EVANGELIZATION, &c. &c. BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DUFF, D. D., CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MISSION, CALCUTTA. OTH BIBL EDINBURGH: JOHN JOHNSTONE, HUNTER SQUARE, WHITTAKER & CO., AND NISBET & CO., LONDON. MDCCCXXXIX. 1116. BOD TO THE REV. ALEXANDER BRUNTON, D.D., CONVENER. THE REV. ROBERT GORDON, D.D., SECRETARY. THE REV. THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., & LL.D. THE REV. DAVID RITCHIE, D. D. THE REV. WILLIAM MUIR, D. D. THE REV. JAMES GRANT. THE REV. JOHN PAUL. THE REV. JOHN HUNTER. THE REV. JOHN BRUCE. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS: UNDER WHOSE WISE, PATERNAL, AND PRAYERFUL COUNSELS, THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE OF THE CHURCH HAS HITHERTO BEEN CONDUCTED WITH SUCH UNBROKEN HARMONY OF DESIGN, AND SUCH MULTIPLIED TOKENS AND PLEDGES OF THE DIVINE APPROBATION, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE appearance of the following volume in its present form, demands a few preliminary explanations. During the last four years, whenever health permitted, the Author has been in the habit of addressing mixed audiences in England and Scotland, both from the pulpit and the platform, on the subject of Christian Missions. He has also largely enjoyed the inestimable privilege of advocating the same blessed cause before the Presbyteries, Synods, and General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland. Of the Addresses delivered on different occasions, some have already been published by special request, and widely circulated. Of the greater part, no written record ever existed, beyond the reports of the public journals, and a few loose scattered. headings or notanda,-intelligible to no one but the Author himself. When, in May last, it was judged that, in the good Providence of God, the state of his health might reasonably be expected to admit of his once more braving the fervours of a tropical clime, it came to be a question how he could most profitably dispose of his time and strength during the interval of a few months which must elapse previous to his final departure; whether, for example, he ought to resume his wonted vocation of addressing public meetings in different parts of the country; or whether he ought to commit to writing, with the view of publication, the substance of what he had |