Days of Grace in India, a Record of Visits to
Indian Missions, by H. S. Newman, Leominster (Partridge and Co.), is a curiously inter- esting book. Rather commonly got up, and with a portrait of the Prince of Wales at the beginning, one is hardly prepared to find, as we do, much that one can turn to again and again in its information, or to find, in its numerous engravings, a realisation of the things and people of India for which one is grateful. Than the catholic spirit of the record is delightful, for the writer shows sympathy with good, where- ever he finds it, even when, as in the case of Keshab Chunder Sen, it is mixed with much that is unintelligible, or even distasteful. As to the present effect of high-class education on the young men, the writer quotes the opinion of a native pastor at Madras, Rajahgopal. lie says that "in not a few oases, when students leave the Mis- sionary colleges, their attitude towards idolatry is one of marked and thorough antagonism. They have completely swept away every vestige of idol-worship from their houses, and are found years after clinging to their Bible tenaciously, but the numerical strength of those who have been morally and spiritually benefited is not to be measured by the number of baptisms or public professions."
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