of
this great conflict and see, through faith, the day when Christ shall
reign supreme in that land.

Chapter IV.

THE PRODUCTS OF THE TWO FAITHS IN INDIA. THE HINDU AND THE NATIVE
CHRISTIAN--A STUDY.

During the many centuries of its history and working in India Hinduism has
had ample opportunity to produce its own type of religious devotee, one
who is thoroughly representative of its teaching and life. This type
abounds in India today and is a faithful reflection of that faith. We
shall now endeavour to study that living embodiment of Hinduism. In one
respect it will be but another way of studying the faith itself--perhaps
the best of all methods of studying a religion, for it is thus presented
in life and action.

Protestant Christianity has not been sufficiently long in India to develop
and foster an Indian type of character of its own. And yet we see it
rapidly working towards that consummation. A century is too brief a time
for this purpose. Moreover, native Christian life in that land is too much
under the dominance and guidance of the West to enjoy a large degree of
spontaneity; and without spontaneity life is not natural.

Nevertheless, the century that has passed has brought into existence the
fourth generation of Protestant native Christians in India; and we are
able to see, to some extent, among these descendants of native Christians
that tendency and bent which will ere long develop into a definite and
settled type of its own. For the time being we can only study the native
Christian as a prophecy--a prophecy not for many years to be fulfilled in
all its details, and yet worthy of study both in itself and for what it
suggests.

Let us consider, then, these types of the two faiths which we see in that
land.

1. And First, The Hindu.

The Hindu Devotee is a genuine product of his religion, wrought out during
thirty centuries on its native heath. He stands before us as a distinct
type whose characteristics differentiate him from the followers of any
other religion.

It is well to remember here that that modern product--the Hindu of Western
culture who is so much in evidence today in India and who sometimes comes
West in flowing orange robes and turban to urge his mongrel philosophy
upon our fellow-countrymen--is not the type of Hindu appreciated by, or
representing, the people of that land. Neither in life nor in teaching
does he represent the fait