of the world. All I have to request English residents in India to do is this-let them help us to have English charity here. There are many who have fallen into the lowest depths of sin, ignorance, and superstition. Let us, then, have the thousands of charitable institutions you have in England transplanted into our country. Such we like and must have. While we guard our nationality, let us bring from England the charitable institutions-let all good and charitable men and women come out to regenerate this country. Against denationalization I have protested, but do not understand me to say that you shall keep back the tide of trade and civilization -that you shall say to the wave of the refining sea of true refinement and philanthropy coming from the West to the East, "Thus far shalt thou come and no further"--but you must allow the advancing wave to come and encroach on our land, to break down the multitudinous evils that have been allowed to accumulate in the course of centuries, and break down the embankments of

superstition, idolatry and caste. Let us be prepared for that-let it be proved to God and the world that England has nobly fulfilled her mission in India-(applause)—and that all India is now freed from ignorance and prejudice. Oh, what a glorious day that will be when we shall see throughout the length and breadth of our country such pious, charitable, and Christian ladies as we

see in England, and such disinterested, generous, Christian-minded men as we see in England. There are some men and women of this character in India, I must say. Oh, may their number multiply--may the number of those who come to India simply for the sake of money be less and less, and may those who come to India for nothing but the glory and redemption of India be greater day by day. (Applause.)

APPEAL TO HIS COUNTRYMEN.

Before I depart from this hall, allow me, my friends and fellow-countrymen, to say that, having returned from that great country, I cannot allow you to sleep in such a critical age as this. I can tell you in distinct and emphatic terms that England, and the whole of the civilized world through England, has assured me of Western sympathy with Eastern nations, and specially with India, the noble representative of the East. (Applause.) Such assurance carry home, but do not go to bed till you have offered an humble and heartfelt prayer to your God and the God of India and England that He may put into your mind a noble resolution from this night not to shrink back with detestable cowardice, and timidity, from a duty which must be done-from sacrifices which must be submitted to. Pray that He may put into your mind energy and resolution which will compel and cause you to

submit to all manner of privations and sufferings in order to do good unto your country. Be loyal to the Queen and to the British Government. Be thankful to all those, whether men and women of your own country or men and women of England, who have in any way done you good. Let not our enemies, let not our friends say that we are wanting in gratitude. Let all India unite in one chorus of sweet and unanimous gratitude flowing towards God as an appreciation on the part of the whole nation of the blessings that have been conferred upon the people by foreign nations. (Applause.) While you have love and thankfulness, tell your hands to be active. Now, Prarthana Somaji brethren, will you call upon all Bombay to come forward and unite with you? Are not the people of Bombay believers in the one living God? Am I to be told at this meeting that educated and enlightened natives of India, Hindus, Mahomedans, or Parsees, believe in idols? Enlightened men still tied and fettered by the horrid bonds of idolatry and superstitution? No; in your hearts, whatever you may say, I see an acknowledgment of the one true God. Then stand up and say, in India the banners of truth must be unfurled. Lo, the light is streaming in from the West; lo, ten thousand hands are outstretched over mountains, across seas and oceans-outstretched to redeem the millions of the Indian population from ignorance

and sin and idolatry. Then we shall not be idle. When all the world says to India, "Arise," let not India stop. Now are the grand and glorious days of reformation at hand-the Kingdom of Heaven, methinks, is drawing nigh for India's redemption. Sleep not, humbly I beg and beseech you. I will go down at your feet and most humbly I am prepared to beseech and implore you to take this exhortation into your thoughts. Many of our countrymen and country women are dying in ignorance and darkness, in sin and superstition. Say not, then, that indolence and apathy, hypocrisy and inaction shall characterise young India, but rather say from this night forward there shall not be compromise or sleep, apathy, hypocrisy, or inaction, but young India knows what England says to her, knows what liberal, generous minds in England, on the Continent, and in America say at the present moment. The voice of civilization is "Onward, forward, and Heavenward,” and let India's motto from this night be "Onward, forward, Heavenward." (Prolonged applause.)

A brief impressive prayer was then offered by the lecturer, after which the company sang one or two hymns.

The meeting then separated.

THE RECONSTRUCTION

OF NATIVE SOCIETY.

Thursday, 14th March, 1872.

YOUR Excellency, Your Honour, Ladies and

Gentlemen,-That was indeed a very important day in the history of India when the English first set foot on its soil. From that evermemorable day we may date the commencement of a new and glorious era in our social, moral, and intellectual life. Then for the first time was opened to the view of my fellow-countrymen a new world, a world of new thoughts, new literature and science, and new civilization. The leading nation in Europe met the leading nation in Asia, and the sight was indeed morally sublime and grand. It was not merely a mechanical contiguity of races. I may say the elements supplied by each race entered into a sort of chemical solution and fusion. Fermentation was the natural consequence, and since that time

[The Address was delivered extempore by Babu Keshub Chunder Sen, Chairman of the Education Section, at the Annual Meeting of the Bengal Social Science Association on Thursday, the 14th March, 1872, before an audience of nearly twelve hundred men, including His Excellency the Viceroy and Lady Napier, His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Hon. J. B. Phear, and Revd. Dr. Mitchell.]