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Excerpt from Christian Education in Its Principles: A Sermon Preached Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, May 12th, 1858, in Behalf of the Board of Education
Directly in point is the terrible testimony of British India, where, as is well known, the introduction of the Bible into their schools was expressly prohibited, and where the conversion of a native soldier to Christianity was made a penal offence. Our Christianity, says Dr. Guthrie, was blinked in India. We pan dered to caste there; we made concessions to a false religion and bowed down to priests; and what have we made of it? That system of policy has been by Almighty God condemned in the blood of the best and bravest of this country, and it is high time that the Government of this country, and of every other, had done with a policy that tampers in the smallest degree with the princi ples of eternal truth.
We may add that the principle is identical whether we pander to caste in India, or to corrupt public sentiment in Christendom.
The policy of excluding Christianity from the Government schools in that unhappy country has given to India an educated demon in the person of Nena Sahib, and the result is, that her plains have been deluged in the blood of thousands, not only of her own hea then children, but of those who were bone of our bone and ?esh of our ?esh. Nor may we expect a result less disastrous to the best interests of truth in our own Christian land, if we continue to pursue the same suicidal policy in our institutions of learning.
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