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{{Style P-No indent|ried misses, poor devils, destitute vagabonds, helpless orphans, and children of poor people (with a few honorable exceptions) are generally brought up for missionary work, and we do not know exactly, to which of these classes Mr. Hastie belongs; but whatever his pedigree may be, the coarse, and vulgar language he has used, bespeaks sufficiently of his mean-mindedness. No son of India can bear all this. Breathes there no soul in India to read him a lesson? Our icy blood boils at the idea of a Christian Missionary designating our nation “a mass of shrinking cowards of unscrupulous deceivers, of bestial idlers, of filthy songsters, of degraded women and of lustful men.” Can abuse proceed farther? And this is poured not only upon ourselves but even upon our idolatrous forefathers of happy memory. What Hindu heart can pass this over in silence? Who can permit such malignant calumniators to give vent to their ravings without a word of protest? Has India no heart? Is she deprived of all vitality? Is she deaf to this contumely with reference to herself and her children? “O Bharat Varsha”—cries the blockhead—“the once fair daughter of the morning, how hast thou fallen from thy throne of pride and become the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth.” People of India, Brothers and sisters, are you prepared to be called ''harlots'' and ''abominations of the earth?'' Can not such haughty insolence, such rude speech, this reproachful language, these reviling words, stir your spirits up? Do these not wound your feelings? Then why do you not take measures against such malicious slanderers. Why do you give ear to such knavish defamation and base calumny?}}

Here is an incarnation of St. Paul amongst us—crying forth—“Ye men of Calcutta ye are too superstitious” And men of Calcutta, reply in the same strain—“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” (Matt. vii, 5.) You who believe that the death of a virgin’s{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-127}}