ABSTRACT

The overlapping of Christian Missionary work by the forceful and pervasive environment of the British ad­ ministration in India-so that in many missionary stations there is very little outward sign of any distinction between the British civil rule and the Mission work-has led to a painful and almost universal confusion about the essen­ tial meaning of the Christian Religion among orthodox Hindus and Muhammadans. This confusion has been acutely apparent for the last fifty years or more, and has been heartily disliked by every earnest missionary who has come out to work in India. It is only just beginning to break down to-day.