The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . eChristians only in name. Our early missionaries, asyou know, gathered in in crowds scores of thousandsof the fishermen castes along the coast, and, as wenow think, without due instruction baptized themand incorporated them into the Church, and they andtheir descendants now constitute a very considerableportion of our Church in the peninsula of India. They loyally attend all festivals and specialservices and ceremonies of our Church, and cometo Mass, and bring their numerous children to usfor baptism, and by the rules of the Church we can-no
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . eChristians only in name. Our early missionaries, asyou know, gathered in in crowds scores of thousandsof the fishermen castes along the coast, and, as wenow think, without due instruction baptized themand incorporated them into the Church, and they andtheir descendants now constitute a very considerableportion of our Church in the peninsula of India. They loyally attend all festivals and specialservices and ceremonies of our Church, and cometo Mass, and bring their numerous children to usfor baptism, and by the rules of the Church we can-not refuse to baptize their children unless we firstexcommunicate them; but, I grieve to say, themajority of them are not at all satisfactory Chris-tians, and we are at our wits end to know what todo with them. The number of missionaries of ourChurch sent to India in these days is not at all suffi-cient to fairly instruct all our nominal members andtheir children in the Christian faith as we receive it,and we are not much more than holding our own. I. Clay images of horses on which the gods are supposed to ride at night [ iw^te ^iii IP*-^ W ^KaHIT i pp^s p r#^. m^ 1 * w° »» r fc-. It ^^ jpjBf^H Pa P I .fl^fl Bm^ ^^ !i^^ .--*- . _ ,.* jK^^ P^ -. r«*«» Casting down the idols from their high places and removing them from theirshrines upon a village becoming Christian IDOLATRY IN INDIA Non-Christian Hindu Testimony 289 grieve to admit it j but you know that this is thefact.^ Our mission, and other earnest evangelical mis-sions in the Madras Presidency, have gathered inthousands of these Eoman Catholic Christians amongour converts. We find them making, usually, ahigher class of Christians in the first generation thanthe converts fresh from Hinduism, for they do havemany of the essentials of Christianity well drilledinto them before coming to us, and we have less oferror and superstition and false beliefs to overcomethan in the case of rank Hindus. While, however, the Eoman Catho
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