. In brightest Asia. es flag. Arriving atCalcutta, we see similar fleets. Europeai7i2(^d Ipdia. In the days that followed our arrival, while visiting the splendid suburbs at Barrackpore, fifteenmiles above the city, and others, filled with villas of the most costly character, studding largevelvety green swards, ensconced beneath great spreading banyans,— places in which the Europeanelite of this part of India havetheir residences, where tradersand merchant princes and queensof fashion are serving Mammon tothe full, — we felt sure that thechurch had arrived tardily on thespot to follow up with
. In brightest Asia. es flag. Arriving atCalcutta, we see similar fleets. Europeai7i2(^d Ipdia. In the days that followed our arrival, while visiting the splendid suburbs at Barrackpore, fifteenmiles above the city, and others, filled with villas of the most costly character, studding largevelvety green swards, ensconced beneath great spreading banyans,— places in which the Europeanelite of this part of India havetheir residences, where tradersand merchant princes and queensof fashion are serving Mammon tothe full, — we felt sure that thechurch had arrived tardily on thespot to follow up with the gospelthe manifold forms of Westerninfluence of another kind. Thetruth is that India, as well asother great parts of the East, hasbecome immensely you take a train from Calcuttaand pass southwestward throughBenares, Allahabad and Agra toBombay, along the great railwayover one of the great trunk lines,now extending for 18,000 milesthrough various parts of the vast DAKJEELIXG, IN THE .140 In Brightest Asia. peninsula, passing through stations of the most sohd and stately character, every mile of thisrailway parallelled by telegraph lines, with the best of service, you will be amazed at the progresswhich civilization is making in this great heathen land. These stations are manned by babus, as they are called, — educated natives, some of themEurasians. They manipulate the telegraph instruments, they keep the books, sell the tickets, man the capital restaurants, often conduct the trains, etc. There are5,000,000 of these English-speakingnatives in India to-day. Bombay hasone of the most elaborate and costlyrailway stations in the world. Look-ing at these marks of Occidentalenterprise which have filled the East,the traveller will be forced to say thatwhether or not missionaries go tofollow up these strides of civilizationwith their divine work, all the rest ofthe world has made up its mind insome representative way to go East. Why should even a y
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