| Show editorials I 1 T 0 R I 1 ALS A LS INA lna IN A QUANDARY Tin tiie ivery very virtuous christian people Y opie ople who lve 1 vo in british india aro are somewhat ex exercised erched in their minds over the circumstance that mr my it G melville elvIlle of tilo the british civil service enthat in that country has become bedonie a Maho 0 and married a native P giri girl iri lri irl in addition to ills his christian wife who Is still living ill lil now nov acho anglo indian t aillia CI aie not only sorely vexed in their righteous I 1 bui bul over oven circumstance but they are perplexed per lexe as to how to proceed agra agya against hist mr melville he cannot be prosecuted for bigamy bagain y bo b ause it has liag been the policy of me ho british in 1 india to permit polygamous aln ain 1 s having pre pro re availed id in ill hindostan hindustan Hind flin dost in from time immemorial ile he cannot be removed from the civil service for changing his hs religion but his position can be anade a sinecure that is lie he can be kept unemployed whereby ills his in omo amo will be reduced 1500 a year now that ia Is not a very terrible punishment in fact there is good reason to suppose that numbers of men would be willing to abjure what little 1 atle christianity they na may have 11 a e and take a second wine wife on n those terms fifteen hundred dollars a year in british gold is not liot a trifle trillo to bo be despised in india whelo luxurious living is isso eo very cheap a mau man with ills liis two wives too could live like a prince on that income so mr melville lias not fallen on very evil times timos yet for ills acting upon the apostol leai leal pre capt that marriage Is honorable in all meantime if it those distressed christians in tho the orient desire a sympathetic counsellor iii in this their hour of trial we may suggest that wo we know a learned and and very christian judge who is fanatically bitter upon this subject which so afflicts them and he would enjoy nothing better than to aid ald and counsel them as ag to tile the ways and means law or no law of punishing shing the contumacious mr melville iol iel fol ville for this learned judge c is understood to have sworn with an oath gath to put down all that sort of thing 0 if lie he can those oriental cil christians cli ri and this christian jud judge ge might at least communicate on oin the matter even oven if they failed to do good in it the judge can well le be spared from liis ills present position on for ho he is of little uso use in it and like IZ nowman I 1 he e na might ht succeed in be ild a handsome hand ome salary irl in U S greenbacks green g ee n backs or gold while he p paid ild a visit to Hin doostan on iid lid I 1 this his sympathetic and philanthropic mission bythe by the baho by ho is I 1 a missionary judge of the first water that is lie he is so much of a missionary iary lary that lie is best known as til the 1 e judge with a mission and his mission sits so heavily upon him thab that it really does seem eem s at times ag as if It swallowed up and completely absorbed his judgeship |
