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2 Our Views of Mission Work.hammedanism. Thus it is itt India. The relig- in a Telugu city. It -was the firsttime the GoS'ionoi India is Brahminism, or Hinduism, with pel was ever preached there. I said to the audithe exception ofthe ilesceudants of the I\iohamme- ence -which had gathered in the street to hear me,(Ian invaders of some seven centuries ago. Of that no matter what their religion might be, allthese 40,000,000 remain in India still, and are intelligent people admit certain acts to be sinful.Mohammedan, but the re.st oi the people of India I mentioned different acts, and then I came toare Brahminists, for Buddhism is not now found falsehood. As I weut on expatiating upon that,atfill in Hindustan itself the audience, an uneducated audience, assented toLet me remind you also \'ery briefly of what -what 1 said, and admitted that lying was a sin.Brahminism or Hinduism is. With their ancient " But,'' said I, " yon Hindus tell a lie as oiten asYedas, the most ancient of-which is believed to yon tell the truth." "What, sir ! " saida Brahhavebeen written about the time of Moses, they min before me, " do yon say that we Hindus tellhave many glimmerings of Noachic traditions, a Ue as often as we tell the truth ? " " Yes," saidand many pure and holy ideas. The Yedas teach, I, intending to stand my ground. " Sir," said he,in the main, a true conception of God, and man " -we Hindus tell ten lies for every truth weand sin, and sacrifice. But, though they have utter." That time he certainly told the truth.ihese ancient Yedas, and these purer ideas oi Hinduism lias two chiei bulwarks in this gener-God, as man wandered into sin, and farther away ation. They are, caste and the endowed temples.from God, there came later the teaching and the Caste, you know, is a religious distinction. It ispractice of polytheism and idolatry, until at last not a social distinction, but one of birth ; forwhat there once was of light in Asia has become Brahma created each caste by a diff'erent creation,darkness. they hold. The Brahmin claims that he is holierAs the purer religion of the Y'edas degenerated than the rest. " Stand by thyself, for I am holierinto polytheism and idolatry, their purer morals than thou.'' If we give place to caste, we can nogave place to sensuality, corruption and vice. I longer proclaim, "As in Adam all died even so.speak on this matter as a physician who has in Christ shall all be made alive," for they holdtreated many thousands of patients, and mingled that there were a dozen Adams. Caste is soin their homes from the highest to the lowest, firmly rooted that I have known of a Bramiufrom the Ra,]ah on his throne to the beggar in that died by starvation, when there was foodhis hut, when i say that there is no such thing placed by liis side for him to eat, because, foraspurity or virtue among them. And I have sooth, that food was cooked by one of a lowerthis from the confessions of their best men. caste. " Better die," said he, " and reach heaven.Honesty in dealings is scarcely known. Caveat than eat that food and live, and lose caste, andeinpjtor is the rule, for houesty is not expected in lose heaveu." Caste, then, is the adamantinetrade, and no oue is disappointed. And as for the chain \vliicli Satan has wound around people totruth, although their ancient Yedas, although hold them back from embracing the trutli.their poets and sages, call on the people to main- The second ,nreat bulwark whicii supports thetahi truth as their choicest herita,,u-e, yet there is system is its myriads of Endowed Temples. Fromno truth among the people. A. common provevli Cape Comorin to the Himalaya ^Mountains, theyamong the Telugu people is. dot every hill-top and every plain, endowed inUnna marta cheppite urn atsa radu : former ages with rich lailds—the choicest of thei. e., " If a man tells the truth, the town will soon fields. All the reveiiiies of those lands go to thebecome too hot for him/' i was once preaching support ofthe priesthood, who ca,rrv on the cere