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Oxford for many years says, “I have lived both from necessity and choice very much among the Hindus and bad opportunities of becoming acquainted with them in a greater variety of situations than those in which they usually come under the observation of Europeans. In the Calcutta Mint for instance, I was in daily personal coinmunication with a numerous body of artificers, mechanics and labourers and always found amongst them cheerful and unwearied industry, good humored compliance with the will of their superiors and a readiness to make whatever exertions were demanded from them. There was amougst them, no drunkenness no disorderly conduct, no insubordination." This was before the rivalry for the premium on large reports of the success of Christian Missions in India. What is the state of the low class people now in India under the benign influence of Christian Missions ? The vice of drunkenness has become common to thein. The Christian Government of India has systemized the vice of drinking and turned it into profit whereas no native ruler had ever raised revenues by liquor. Under the reign of the King of Oudh, there was not one liquor shop in Lucknow; now, under the rule of Christian Government, there are more than a hundred. The same was the case in Upper Burmab under the reign of Theebau. Naw a large revenue is gathered from the liquor traffic. In one year only ( 1890-91 )
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