Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . will go up to England, Father, Father, give us faith !Knowledge alone does not suffice men, nor material prosperity, nor good government;the things of this life are fleeting, the life to come is eternal ; and men and nationscan only be happy in recognizing and acting righteously on this Divine fact. Withoutfaith, life is without an aim, death without hope, and there can be neither individualhappiness nor national greatness. If England will not hear our cry, and indeedanticipate it, then will the shriek go up to our Father in heaven, Father, Fath
Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . will go up to England, Father, Father, give us faith !Knowledge alone does not suffice men, nor material prosperity, nor good government;the things of this life are fleeting, the life to come is eternal ; and men and nationscan only be happy in recognizing and acting righteously on this Divine fact. Withoutfaith, life is without an aim, death without hope, and there can be neither individualhappiness nor national greatness. If England will not hear our cry, and indeedanticipate it, then will the shriek go up to our Father in heaven, Father, Father, givpus faith. Is not this appeal most touching, considering the source from whence it comes ?Will not Christians respond to it, and do more to support the Christian Colleges ofIndia and Ceylon, and Christian work in every department ? A missionary in Lucknow, India, writes :— We in India are in the midst of a great educatiomd movement. The intellect ofthese people is awaking from the sleep of twenty centuries, and everywhere the youth 138. may be seen thronging toward the school-room. We have boldly entered thecountry and challenged Buddhism, Ma-hommedanism, and Hinduism to combat,and now we have no alternative short of TKICHINOPOLY ROCK AND Zii-VrLE. Chrisdan Teachers IVnntcd. 139 retreat lett us save that of manfully trying to meet the momentous responsibilitieswhich the intellectual awakening has imposed upon us. We cannot confine our workto preaclvng alone. As well try to persuade the churches at home to abolish theircolleges and seminaries. We have no choice. To shirk our responsibility wouldbe to postpone the final triumph of Christianity for generations to come, and consignthe intellect of the country to a depraved infidelity compounded of the superstitionof the Hindu, the bigotry of the Mahommedan, the lethargy of the Buddhist, and theSadducean heartlessness of the European rational st. Christianity must at once assumeher full responsibility in trying to guide thi
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