ation and all sorts of evangelization; and to reduce the
whole work to a unified system. And the result has been the raising up
of a large native ministry, churches with twenty-two thousand members,
schools of every grade from the kindergarten to the college and the
theological seminary. We were most hospitably entertained by the
principal of the college, Dr. J. X. Miller, and the other missionaries;
and we met and addressed both the native church at their Sunday service,
the faculty and students of the seminary, and the annual conference of
Congregational missionaries. The Madura Mission is a light shining in a
dark place, the darkest place indeed in India. But it is a light that
cannot be hid. Like our missions to the Burmans and the Telugus, it is
showing the power of the gospel to "cast down imaginations and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God," and to
make a spiritual desert "bud and blossom as the rose."

XII

TWO WEEKS IN CEYLON

Ceylon is not a part of India. It is a Crown Colony of Great Britain,
and is administered directly from London, while India has more of
independence and self-government. The relation of Ceylon to Britain is
somewhat like that of the Philippine Islands to the United States, while
the relation of Britain to India resembles that of the United States
Government to our several territories. Ceylon, however, is very
productive and prosperous. Surrounded by the sea, it is free from Indian
droughts and famines. Its people are stalwart and loyal. The English
language is fast becoming the easiest method of communication between
Cingalese and Tamils, Hindus and Malays. Colombo is really a European
city, as large as Rochester, with noble public buildings and lovely
parks. Our Galle Face Hotel, on the very edge of the sea, with a great
stretch of green lawn in front of it, is one of the finest hotels in the
East, and our week of rest here was delightful.

Buddhism has been one of the great missionary religions of the world. It
was a reform of Hinduism. But the Hindus, with their caste system, would
have none of it and drove it out. The Buddhist triumphs were in Burma,
Tibet, China, Japan, at the north; in Ceylon and Java, at the south.
Here in Ceylon is preserved a sacred tooth of Buddha; and one of his
bones, recently discovered in northern India, is to be brought next week
with great pomp and ceremony to the temple in Kandy, which already ranks
in sacrednes