ay become when existing apart from divine revelation.

There is another temple in Calcutta of a somewhat better sort. I refer
to the temple of the Jains, that mongrel sect which is partly a
reformed Hinduism, and partly a worship of Buddha. Its temple is a
model of cleanliness and of Oriental art. Its decoration consists
largely of inlaid glass of all the colors of the rainbow. Walls,
ceilings, and columns are fairly ablaze with tinted arabesques that
reflect every ray of the sun. Fountains and lawns and statues mingle
their attractions. The effect is one of splendor and beauty. Jainism
is conservative Hinduism, recurring to the ancestral worship of the
Vedas, exaggerating its doctrine of the sanctity of animal life,
repudiating its later licentious developments, and taking in Buddha,
not as the supreme and sole teacher of religion, but as only one of
its great saints and heroes.

The real glory of Calcutta is its relation to modern missions. Here is
the chapel in which William Carey preached, and in which Adoniram Judson
was baptized. Its spacious construction evinces the faith and hope of
its founders. But it is in Serampore, which, though fourteen miles away,
is almost a suburb of Calcutta, that Carey's work was done. How
wonderful that work was! "A consecrated cobbler," he mastered the
languages of the Orient, and gave the Bible to India in several of its
tongues. He received from the British Government large compensation for
his services as interpreter and translator, but he gave back all the
money he received, in order to support schools and missions. The noble
college at Serampore, with its hundreds of students, is his best
memorial. His tomb in the cemetery witnesses to his humility of spirit.
It stands at one corner of a triangle, with the tombs of Marshman and of
Ward at the two remaining corners, but the only inscription he permitted
to be engraved upon it is the two lines of the hymn,

A wretched, lost, and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms I fall.

So he left his testimony to the need, and the power, of Him who will
ultimately demolish Hindu temples and enthrone Christ in India.

From Calcutta we traveled about three hundred and seventy miles
northward to Darjeeling. We wished to see the Himalayas. A most tortuous
narrow-gage railway lifted us gradually to a height of seven thousand
feet. And there we had the unusual privilege of seeing the sunrise
tipping with rosy light the snowy peak of Kinchi