Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . ay to Egypt to hide. You can imagine what an effect these and similar things would have upon a crowdof the low and ignorant at home. How much greater is the effect on the seething,ignorant, and unreasoning masses here ! His last talk was on Saturday night; and onSabbath morning we found our Sabbath-school boys full of his arguments. Wethought that, as wise doctors, we should take the disease in hand at once ; so,after hastily going over the lesson, we told them they might ask questions; and forhalf an hour or longer we answered one after another
Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . ay to Egypt to hide. You can imagine what an effect these and similar things would have upon a crowdof the low and ignorant at home. How much greater is the effect on the seething,ignorant, and unreasoning masses here ! His last talk was on Saturday night; and onSabbath morning we found our Sabbath-school boys full of his arguments. Wethought that, as wise doctors, we should take the disease in hand at once ; so,after hastily going over the lesson, we told them they might ask questions; and forhalf an hour or longer we answered one after another, until they seemed to see thatthere was another and better view on all the points. We carried them with us in everystep, and never left a point until they understood it. It was the same at Arnikotty,where we teach a Sabbath-school class at half-past ten oclock, and at Navaly, where weteach one at three oclock, in this way we met, in the course of the day, betweenforty and fifty upper-class boys whose minds are in a formative state, and who are. The Sivite Mistaken. 17 A MAN-EATER. peculiarly susceptible of next few days we visited some ofour large English schools ; and, beingprepared, we took up the Sivitepreachers points one by one, andanswered them. We were surprisedto see how full they were of his scepticalteaching, and how men love darknessrather than light, because their deedsare evil. We told them there were two poweiscontending for their souls - good andevil; that they might know which wasgood, because it was always unselfish,and the evil, because it was alwaysselfish. We told them how much had been given and done for them^ freely andunselfishly by Christians, and asked if they could show a parallel in Sivism. We toldthem that the teacher who sent them away with new reverence and love for God, withnew longings after a holy life, a determination to fight against sin, was their truestfriend, and asked if they left the Sivite meetings with these feelings. W
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