inured to hardship, and accustomed to support life on the scantiest conceivable pittance, we cannot imagine a more fitting object for our pity, nor a more encouraging one for our effort, than the members of India's " submerged tenth.."
Leaving to the care of existing agencies those whose bodies are diseased, General Booth's-scheme seeks to fling the mantle of brotherhood around the morally sick^ the destitute and the* despairing. It seeks to throw the bridge of love-and hope across the growing bottomless abyss in which are struggling twenty-six millions of our fellow men, whose sin is their misfortune and whose poverty is their crime, who are graphically said to have been "damned into the world,, rather than born into it,"
The question is a national one. This is no time therefore for party or sectarian feeling tobe allowed to influence our minds. True for ourselves we still believe as fully as ever that the salvation of Jesus Christ is the one great panacea for all the sins and miseries of mankind. True we are still convinced that to merely improve a man's Circumstances without changing the man himself