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missionary goes and lives in that little colony and keeps himself steady. He is bound to fawn and flatter these Anglo-Indian officials and condone, and directly or indirectly sanction all the horrible brutalitties which the anglo Indians perpetrate. Like other missionaries Bishop Thoburn has devoted one chapter in his work on India in toadying to the English officers and their conduct.
Ladies and Gentlemen, you have heard all your lives from your missionaries who claim to be the messengers of God how ugly, wretched, immoral, and vile the heathens of India are; you have heard it over and over till it has become the national idea of your people. Your children are taught these ideas as they take in the mother's inilk; but did you ever hear from these missionaries--the messengers of love to all mankind, of the tyrannies that are perpetrated over the Hindus in India; government have abolished duties on fine dry goods from Liverpool and Manchester for the purpose of finding a good market in India and have levied a 200 per cent, tax on the manufacture of salt in India to maintain a costly government. Did they ever tell you about all such things ? If they have not, whose messengers would you call these people who always side with tyranny, who throw their cloak of hypocritical religion over murderers and all sorts of criminals who happen to belong to their religion
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