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From  long  obaervatioii,  having  come  in  contact  with  many  young  men  irho
have  come  out  of  these  institutions,  haTing  had  from  ten  thousand  to  fifteen
thousand  native§  niider  my  own  gaidanoo  at  one  time  in  connection  with  railway
works  in  India,  I  hold  tb^it  the  outcome  of  these  inBtitutions,  considering  the

vast  sums  of  Misaionary  money  spent  upon  them,  i§  not  adequate  ;

EdQc»tioa«l     the  Christian  influence  that  oomes  from  them  is  of  a  very  meagre

»deqo»t«*tocort.  description  and  not  at  all  proportionate  to  the  amount  of  money

*  Hpont.  I  rejoice  in  the  education  of  the  Hindu,  but  that  is  not  the
question*  Tho  point  i§:  Do  we  collect  money  in  this  country  and  send  men  out
to  India  to  teach  that  the  angles  at  the  base  of  an  isosceles  triangle  are  equal  to
one  another  ?  Never.  I  have  seen  English  Missionariee  in  the  Mission  school
in  Madras,  giving  lesaoni  day  after  day  in  arithmetic,  in  mathematics,  and  all  the
scienoea.  Now  this,  to  my  mind,  deprives  the  Gospel  of  its  urgency  ; — it  is  an
urgent  thing,  this  Gospel  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  I  come  to  the  blessed  Word
of  God,  and  1  ask  whether  any  Missionary  in  this  gathering  ever  had  a  more
interesting  audience  than  the  Apostle  Paul  when  he  weut  to  Rome.     And  what

waa  Paul's  message  to  thoae  men  at  Rome  'f    Let  me  read  it :  **  I

am  a  debtor  both  to  the  Greeks  and  to  the  barbarians,  both  to  the

wise  and  to  the  unwise.  So  as  much  as  in  me  is  I  am  ready  to
preach  the  Gospel  to  yon  that  are  at  Rome  also..  For  I  am  not  ashamed  of  the
6o»pel  of  Christ,  for  it  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  to  every  one  that
believeth,  to  the  Jew  first  and  alao  to  the  Greek.  For  therein  is  the  righteous*
aesB  of  God  revealed."  It  is  the  righteousness  of  God  that  wo  have  to  bring
to  bear  upou  the  consciences  of  these  Hindus,  and  not  tlie  wisdom  of  man.
