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Hindu's religion until these missionaries landed in India. From that time instead of the government supporting the Hindu's religion the Hindu is forced to support the Christian's religion out of his own pocket and to look at his own expense at the solemn farce which is carried on in the mission schools. Bishop Thoburn in his work on India honestly admits that stratagems had to be used in getting children into the secular and Sunday schools; he mentions how successful the missionaries were in establishing a dozen or so Sunday schools in Lucknow in 1877, but he omits to mention that before that time there was not one drinking saloon ip that city, but now there are more than a hundred.
My brothers and sisters of America, there is not a shadow of hope of christianizing India. You send the missionary to my country to make converts but every convert he makes he transmits an industrious tiller of soil into an idle worthless loafer and frequently a drunkard and he becomes a charge on the contributions which are yearly sent by English and American Societies to convert the heathens to christianity. After two hundred years of spending inillions of dollars, with the prestige of a conquering religion and with the British bayonet to back, with a conquered nation forced to support it even when they are starving themselves. Christianity in India is not supported by the converts
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