Page. 304 In reference to Preaching, the great practical question considered, Occasional itineracy a very inefficient means of evangelization, . 310 311 313 314 Superiority of the localizing system, 315 Other arguments, besides the numerical one, in favour of an extensive native agency, 319 The diminution of expense, 326 The necessity of the mode of life being such as to bring a holy example fully to bear upon the people, 326 The necessity of a familiar acquaintance with the tones and idiom of speech; the manners, habits, and prevalent modes of thinking, 327 Natives, the real reformers of their own country, 329 How qualified natives are to be raised, 331 Objections to Educational Institutions in connection with the missionary enterprise fully considered, 338 That missionaries are thereby converted into Professors in stead of Preachers, 338 That the scheme is different from that which was blessed Question considered as to the amount of good to be expected from the written word in the absence of the living voice to direct attention towards it, 376 To raise up a native agency ought to be not a secondary, but a pri- Corroborations from the work of the Rev. Howard Malcom, just pub- 392 398 399 CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE CONSIDERED. Page. The objection of the careless scoffer, who summarily denounces the whole as novel and visionary, the growth of modern fanaticism, 405 Page. The objection of the worldly politician, who, with a special reference to India, dreads the propagation of Christianity as dangerous to the stability of the Anglo-Indian empire, The objection of unreflecting economists, who allege that, as so many return with immense fortunes from India, we should restrict our pecuniary demands to the people of that wealthy region, The objections of the latitudinarian liberalist,— . That it is an insult to obtrude our religion on the upholders That to teach our religion to their children is an invasion of 416 433 436 ... 437 the natural rights of parents, 437 . 440 443 449 The objection of the luxuriously wealthy, who evade every petition by replying that they have little or nothing to spare, The objection of the humble poor, who are fearful lest their mite should be too insignificant to prove of any avail, The objection of the speculatice theorist, who waives all active support on the ground of hypothetical reasonings and anticipations, 451 The objection of the merely nominal, or sincere but weak-minded Christian that there is enough of heathenism at home, without troubling ourselves with foreign lands, Concluding appeal. 459 470 CHAPTER VI. AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND EARLY PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND'S INDIA MISSION. Page. The Church of Christ ceases to flourish when it ceases to be missionary,. 474 Towards the close of last century, the Protestant Churches began to awaken from their long slumber, 475 The Church of Scotland, which for years had maintained the attitude Dr Inglis the undisputed author of it, Notices of preparatory measures during the years 1825, 6, 7, 8, 485 In 1829 the first Missionary nominated, His disastrous voyage to India, and reception there, Dr Bryce's disinterested services, Difficulties in ascertaining the existing state of things, with a view to missionary operation, Reasons for preferring Calcutta to a rural station, The primary design to establish a central Institution for higher education, . Page. 489 492 496 497 501 . 506 507 508 Reasons for abandoning this design at the outset, Resolutions to institute preparatory schools, Elementary schools in the Bengali or vernacular dialect totally inefficient for the purposes of a higher Institution, Choice to be made between Sanskrit and English as the medium of superior instruction, . . 517 English pronounced the grand instrument for conveying the entire range of European knowledge,-literary, scientific, and theological, to the select few who, in various ways, are to influence the minds of their countrymen, 512 518 Account of the opening of the first English mission-seminary at Calcutta, with a specific view to an enlarged European Education, Various incidents connected therewith, The Bible an essential part of the scheme of instruction, 534 Notices of the early impression produced by its perusal, 540 Illustration of the effect of general knowledge in demolishing the The happy effect of that examination on the European and native community, 584 Some of the present and anticipated results of the Educational part of the system pointed out, 585 Its general bearing on the evangelization of India, 600 APPENDIX. Brief sketch of the circumstances which led to the delivery of the first series of Lectures on the Evidences and Doctrines of Natural and Revealed Religion ever addressed to an Audience of educated Hindus in Eastern India, with notices of some of the results, as more especially manifested in the ultimate conversion of a few to the faith of Jesus.. 607 CHAPTER I. THE PARAMOUNT INFLUENCE WHICH INDIA HAS SUCCESSIVELY EXERTED ON THE PROSPERITY OF THE LEADING CITIES AND NATIONS OF THE WEST- THE REMARKABLE SERIES OF PROVIDENTIAL EVENTS BY WHICH INDIA HAS BEEN OPENED UP AS THE LARGEST AND MOST PROMISING FIELD FOR CHRISTIAN MISSIONS NOW IN THE WORLD-AND THE CONSEQUENT OBLIGATION THAT DEVOLVES ON BRITISH CHRISTIANS IN PARTICULAR, TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THE PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE MILLIONS OF FELLOW-SUBJECTS IN THAT BENIGHTED LAND. Announcement of the grand historic fact or law of the paramount influence of India on the Western Nations-Proofs and illustrations of this fact-The Peninsula of Arabia-Palmyra— Tyre-Alexandria-Bagdad-Ghizni-The Crusades open up Eastern Asia to Western Europe-Venice-Attempts to discover a new passage to India-Henry of Portugal-Columbus-Vasco de Gama doubles the Cape-Effect of this discovery-LisbonAmsterdam-Splendid series of English voyages, with the view of reaching India-The final supremacy of Britain-Three distinct eras or epochs of peculiar interest in behalf of India—The era of romantic imaginative interest-The era of romantic literary interest-The era of vivid religious interest-Designs of Providence in subjecting India to Britain-Glance at the remarkable series of events which have thrown all India open as a field for Missionary enterprise-Analogy between the condition of the Roman empire at the commencement of the Christian era, and the present position of India-Argument and appeal founded on this, in behalf of the spread of the Gospel. FOR the last three thousand years has India, unexhausted and inexhaustible, been pouring an uninterrupted stream of opulence upon the Western World. A |
