Show 1 1 EAST INDIA MISSION 0 o 1 extracts of afi a letter t e wit flom afier er I 1 to john ta T I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 madras may I 1 it at the present timp time but bt lithe is di I 1 notwithstanding din 9 we have done ali a tbt tha be been en directed to do to alph awaken and d effi interest terest among the ingegard I 1 an dj toja I 1 j I 1 E e peli pel aad the great message which wh ic q 0 us forth foith lo ao proclaim the in interest t re nt tt by many has dwindled awa away y j till it t t died a nat natural lital or ora I 1 should rather sen oy s lamsin e no tural death two weeks ago we t the i pe people 0 ale were beginning to be totally ent nt an and d in to try and awak awaken est we published 00 copies of attend two courses of twelve feb I 1 course in madras and the other in latter place is outside the walls of theart th east I 1 t the first lecture in both places es 40 W by about abou it twelve elve I 1 persons only T gyc evening in in fadrag madras only one stran stranger gei 4 ana I 1 in velery V apery two or ai three a and ful wilether adv will attend the next A taj thas J people I 1 belie believe vf th thoroughly oro llly 11 H it our 0 o ur mission and it it is this t his that tha t cacis ai aversion to it they faey will n not t a suffer u er 10 to believe that they are wrong andl day saints right they jov ove their 0 rity and I 1 have no longer any awai faita do bro skelton and 1 I have labored ac I 1 li day aay and night for nearly twelve 49 0 bring souls unto repentance but abey I 1 0 hear and they now biow treat the mattea mat contempt we vve would immediately wpc go somewhere else in india if chest wi wy 0 reasonable prospect e ct of our ur doing a ji we ie had received counsel or was di Spi spirit ritso so to lo do but bui this we ar are ellot lio toys I we have tried four other places io 1 I 1 military the would not suffer us wp to pr rea eachin clim atheni I 1 io 1 we v visited from house to hoose I 1 az I 1 those places would receive our tei geitino tino t V ther other place p I 1 ices jiLin iq i lais chis presidency are ar I 1 W coh condition rn in all places oats whre sf language is spoken military milita iv role rule af pf Z ly there is is no toler toleration tolerate 0 n for us or i on ow rp pr T I 1 alp ilp I 1 1 judge bis from our own experience 1 I 1 peri ence of all the other elders i in 0 0 far then as the englich Exi glish shayn uon lion in india except it i irp 0 A it presidencies cies which are v r Q r id als bombay and wa ma I 1 dras werly of preaching to tk them is allowed I 1 us and ana in regard to ao the native population I 1 feel ron constrained strained to say that I 1 do not co consider isider I 1 i them worthy of the gospel this may seem a aj i very uncharitable saying but I 1 am only forced arce i to this conclusion by what I 1 have seen jand land ex perien ced anti and from the universal testimony of the elders in india suppose an elder were avre sent to a nation of liars that dont know the difference in iii point of moral obligation between the truth and a lie would you expect to be in I possession of a sufficient portion of the spirit of 1 r christ to lead them to sacrifice all things for the gospel if I 1 should say aay that india is sue bucl a nations nation I 1 should only be stating my honest convictions and that to which every honest person bears record again the native population are universally disposed to cheat and take the advantage I 1 have never yet jet seen one or at least I 1 have never yet yet had any acquaintance wi with thone one that I 1 could even trust with one rupee if there was any I 1 possible chance of his robbing me 0 of f a part of it this disposition to lie and cheat and div evento onto perjure themselves for a trifle on the part of t the 3 I 1 e I 1 natives is is the result of a long period of grinding oppression treachery and misrule inthe in the country in the absence at the same time ol of moral and religious instruction of the right kind and further encouraged by that system of idolatry here established the fathers have eaten sour grapes and I 1 the childrens teeth are set on edge I 1 I 1 could not have believed before I 1 came here that among so vast a po population pu lation there would scarcely be a soul ready to receive the gospel when I 1 arrived in calcutta I 1 really thought when I 1 learned that the church there had gone to wreck that there must have been some mis mismanagement on the part of my brethren but my subsequent experience has taught me that hat was not so but on the contrary though they had labored diligently to sow the seed and bring it to perfection it was waa sown in rocky ground and having no depth of earth it was impossible to bring it to maturity over one hundred natives ti ves there sold themselves after being baptized to tradition for a few rupees and this I 1 verily believe most apy any of the natives will do they have no integrity that which they incessantly seek after is pice and rupees I 1 we made every calculation hereto here to lay jay the foundation of f a lasting work but this we haye hare I 1 failed to accomplish and I 1 could hardly believe bro jones when he wrote to roe me a few months ago stating that the atlie time had not yet come for this people to receive the gospel but I 1 am now reluctantly compelled to believe it the monthly paper which we publish and gratuitously ui tui distribute is treated with entire contempt as are also all the other tracts we have freely circulated there is no love for the truth by letter from elder robert skelton to elder taylor written at madras june 6 1854 we Y I 1 learn that elder Ballan tynes health is very poor the climate not agreeing with him and that he will probably be obliged to return home on that chit t account the thermometer at writing ranged from 99 to degrees they had labored at velery eight months baptized 7 cutoff I 1 land and there were 3 wishing to be baptized the opposition of foreign missionaries residents officials and soldiery the gross gross ignorance and wicked wickedness I 1 of the natives and the unhealthiness of the I 1 f climate make the proclamation of the gospel gospe I 1 1 into india indi a a tedious operation and sorely tax the patience and health of eur elders in that region |