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cannot but protest with all our soul against using the privilege and necessity of education as a means of propagating religious tenets, repulsive to our conscience and to our sense of moral obligations and relationships. I beg that I be not misunderstood. I would plead for tolerance, before you for my brotbren and their religion and in the same breath beg of you secular education and the means of that education. When you suppress and limit your common school curriculuin by imposing upon it the catechism, with the approval of the populations of your great country, it would be time enough to make it the shibolleth of your onslaught upon the "benighted Hindus under the white banner of education."
Because I dispute the correctness of the Christian inissionary method and deny its value, I must not be understood to dispute the right or to deny the importance of missionary labor along right lines and inspired by the true spirit of universal brotherhood. The possession of truth implies responsibility for its distribution, Truth is not sectional-I mean, essential truth. It belongs to the world, to all mankind. The spirit of truth is the right inissionary spirit and carries with it credentials in that language which is understood by universal intellect and universal reason. The religious community to which I have the honour to belong has from its beginning been a missionary conserving influence, on the one
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