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until the whole of Indian educational machinery is taken
out of the hands of Government and the missionaries, to be-
controlled hy ourselves. And as at present so many of us-
are almost as unfitted by the existing systems of so-called.
education as the missionaries themselves to do this work,
let us prepare ourselves for it, (as Professor Geddes-
suggests so forcibly in a letter quoted above) by studying -
the most important educational movements going on in the
West, and specially by studying the educational systems
of small and important independent nations, such as
Denmark, Hungary ; but above all, by deeper knowledge of."
our own country, which contains within itself all the*
elements of a cult more profound and a faith more reasoned
than that of any other land.

A most clear recognition of the true character of
missionary activity, and a most determined resistance to*
its aims and methods are needed now. The author of"
* Holy Himalaya ' writes :

'* The true friends of India are those who would change Its

root ideas......the bogey of religious neutrality......will have to be

laid to a considerable extent......else in the end we shall have to*

make the confession that we, as a nation, have no rational objects,
in India beyond commereialisra and exploitation."

It has been well said that the Nonconformist consci-
ence is the greatest barrier to Indian freedom !

In a recent number of the School G^^,curd^an^ the editor-
refers to the Church Missionary Society's school at Srinagar-
as follows:—

" 1.400 boys—mostly Hindus and a large proportion of them-
of high caste—ore being changed from superstitious, cowardly,
idle, and untruthful beings into manly Christians."

As a commentary on these characteristic statementsr
and in illustration of the effects of the policy they reflect,
the following extract is given here from an article by Lala..
Har Dyal:—