ssionary's first object with the natives must btain their confidence: for, until this be ached, they will neither send their children to ols, listen to his instructions, nor accept of s. This will not be found so difficult a task may at first apprehend. If he treat them sly, refrain from abrupt attacks upon their and superstitions, pass over minor peculiarities athen scholars, and personally superintend cation, the neighbourhood will soon give him benevolence of intention in coming amongst But too great familiarity with them genefeats this object. Urbanity of manners is npatible with that degree of reserve which found necessary to maintain.

eathen can seldom appreciate the kindness ch a Christian addresses an inferior; and if ay connected with your establishment, they st sure to make an improper use of your nsion. The first object of a Hindoo in the f a gentleman is to gain, what they call, s favour;" and if you, by any unusual faof manner or expression, give them cause that they have succeeded, it is the common vith them so to presume upon their supposed e as to exact fees from all your tradesmen,

and a premium monthly from the other servants, as the condition of their continuing to enjoy your countenance. This, however, is the least evil that sometimes results from a well-meant, but injudicious familiarity with the Hindoos: for it enables them to practise every nefarious art under the sanction of your name, and your own character would suffer from their misconduct. It cannot be necessary to explain how fatal this might prove to your missionary undertaking. A blind confidence should never be reposed in the natives of Hindoostan. It is true, breach of confidence is a crime of too frequent recurrence in a Christian land. The nobility and gentry of England too often suffer in their characters and estates from the unprincipled conduct of stewards or other confidential servants. The human heart is naturally the same every where-morally corrupt; and often do its foulest weeds seem to flourish with rank luxurience within the reach of means best adapted to check their growth. From Hindoos, however, you have nothing else reasonably to expect. Their religion and education provide not a solitary antidote for the worst passions of the heart. They have no moral principle to guide or restrain them. They understand one another so well, that a father will rarely trust and I know of

his own son in pecuniary matters no security against their dishonest practices but that of constant vigilance over every one in your service.

While, however, it is seldom or never advisable to let heathen servants imagine that they possess your confidence; it would be equally unadvisable to treat them with apparent suspicion. The feeling im

on their minds should be, not that the master as their integrity, but that it is his "custom" to o every thing himself. He should carefully atting temptation in their way, by being negf those things of which he professes to take ge. In that case, he would be almost sure them. I have found, and was taught the y experience, that it is much safer to make a responsible for such things as it would be ome to look after yourself, and to require of a matter of course, a monthly account of under his care.

reasonable to expect that the Brahmins and whose interests would suffer from the introof Christianity, will look with a jealous eye - Missionary's progress. They seldom venture o oppose him, but, under cover, will use every at they can devise to thwart his plans, and is labours abortive. It is often in their power ent his obtaining ground for schools or a to deter parents from sending their children -uction; and to annoy the converts in a vaways. These things cannot but try the most and patient man; but let him pray for grace -e the trial. He has only to persevere with s and deliberation, and, when beaten off at t, to advance with a steady foot at another. ng in this manner, with his temper unruffled, likely soon to give way, in admiration at his ance and self-control; or to desist, from a n that he is a man not to be opposed. necessary immediately to check any secular

motive that may be discovered or suspected in candidates for Christian instruction. Our Heavenly Master acted thus when he said to the crowds that flocked after Him, " Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you: for Him hath God the Father sealed" (John vi. 26, 27). Notwithstanding all that is said about the invincible prejudices of Hindoos, a very small temporal advantage would induce many of them, even those of the highest caste, to embrace Christianity. My reasons for this opinion I have given elsewhere*: and a little further experience on the subject, attained since my former statement was published, has tended abundantly to confirm the conclusions at which I then arrived. It requires no experience in the missionary vineyard to understand how those who may embrace Christianity merely to promote their temporal interests, must prove a disgrace to the cause, and soon bring the Protestant Church in India into the same disrepute as that in which the Roman Communion is held. At present the Hindoos often confound both under the general designation of " Christianity ;' but it will be the Missionary's duty to take such precautions against the admission of hypocrites, and so to raise the character of the converts, as to lead the heathen to discriminate between the two creeds, and

* Reply to the Letters of the Abbé Dubois on the State of Christianity in India, pp. 238, 239.