owered at sunset. The joy of the defenders and of
those whom they defended may be imagined, when General Havelock appeared
in their relief, and the great mutiny was suppressed. That victory
settled the prestige of the English in India. All classes now recognize
the military strength as well as the judicial fairness of British rule.
Without it, India would be a country of warring races, for Mohammedan
and Hindu even to-day live in slumbering jealousy of each other.

This latent hostility, I am happy to say, shows some signs of wearing
away. The desire for more of home-rule is bringing these two great races
together in conventions, with a view to the discovery of some method of
cooperation between them. Parliamentary government in China and Japan
has had its effect in India, and Britain will soon be compelled to admit
her Indian populations to a larger share in municipal and provincial
administration. But democracy can be successful, only when conflicting
classes find some basis for harmony. English missionary and educational
institutions are doing much to reconcile Hindus and Mohammedans to one
another, and this may prepare the way, not simply for free government,
but also for the acceptance by both parties of a religion in which all
their elements of truth are included, while their perversions of truth
are sloughed off.

By English educational and missionary institutions I mean much more than
Church of England schools and colleges. In Lucknow we visited the
Isabella Thoburn College, under American Methodist control, and were
greatly impressed by its noble equipment in the way of buildings and
teachers. Both boys and girls have here the opportunity of securing an
education as high in grade as the sophomore years of our American
colleges, and of preparing themselves for the advanced work of a great
Indian university. All this is under Christian influences, and has its
fruit in many a conversion to Christ. Martiniere College is also nobly
equipped and endowed, but it is solely for English boys, who are
generally the sons of British officials in India. I cannot speak too
highly of these means of education now furnished by all our great
denominations, in all the cities of India. I could only wish that our
Baptist people at home might see how far Christians of other names have
often surpassed them in their gifts and preparations for the future of a
country whose population is three times as large as our own.

At Lucknow we