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The city has a population of 870,000. The fort was built at a cost of $10,000,000. contains an arsenal, armoury of 80,000 rifles, great barracks, fine officers quarters and a handsome church.

T is often that the most graceful touches of beauty in a landscape are revealed only as get farther and farther from the scene. Things then appear in their right relation to other things. The scrubby hemlock, that blurred your vision when you stood beside it, takes its proper place beneath the giant pine. As with landscapes so with nations. To know one's country one should live for a while in other countries and see her with other nations' eyes. It is easy to grow up in China and believe her to be the Celestial Kingdom. The test comes when one gets beyond its great wall.

So with the whole giant structure of Christendom. Christendom! It is probable none of us

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ever comprehend that word till we stand with our feet on heathen soil. So it often happens that in the dark recesses of heathendom, men in the front of the ranks often catch the first faint foregleams of great events toward which civilization makes its way. Take, for example, the federation of the churches which is absorbing so much attention to-day. It is no new thing to the missionaries in their outlying posts. They caught the vision of it long before we were awake.

So with Butler, the founder of the American Methodist Mission in

India. A refugee among the peaks of the Himalayas, with the Sepoy rebellion raging below, a land of massacre and bloodshed, of pillage and flames, William Butler looked down upon the land with a faith in God undaunted, and saw out of all this turmoil the emerging of the Christian India of the future. He beheld, too, a

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INTERIOR OF FORT WILLIAM, CALCUTTA, WITH BARRACKS, CHURCH, ETC.

is a real contribution to literature. One might search long to find a story of the Indian Mutiny that impresses the mind more forcefully than this story of Butler's.

The man himself seems to have had a remarkably cosmopolitan life. Born in Dublin in 1818, he came, however, of a family of English descent, and it was while on a short visit to England he preached his first sermon. Shortly after he was led to the United States, and soon came the call to found a mission in India, and in later years to found another in Mexico. Thus Ireland, England, America, Mexico and

est children, he was sailing for India, where he was to lay broad and deep the foundations for a new mission. Dr. Duff, the founder of the Presbyterian missions in India, had set forth with a similar purpose in 1830. He had been shipwrecked, escaping barely with life, only to be shipwrecked a second time off Mauritius. The

first Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission had died on the outgoing voyage, but Harvard, William Arthur, and other pioneers had won great success, and now Dr. Butler was setting forth with eyes that were veiled in mercy from

the struggle before him. The long and difficult journey in the days before the construction of the Suez Canal has already been described in his book, "From Boston to Bareilly." It was a journey into a land of three hundred and thirty million gods, among whom there is none of love and mercy toward men; a land of belief in transmigration, with its possibility of eight million successive births. As they

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sing in one of their own sad songs:

"How many births are past I cannot tell; How many yet to come I cannot say ; But this alone I know, and know full well, That pain and grief embitter all the way!"

Dr. and Mrs. Butler witnessed among their first impressions of India one of the processions in honour of the horrible goddess Kali. Of this terrible creature the Purana states: "By the blood of a crocodile the goddess will be pleased three months, by that of a tiger for a hundred years; the blood of

a lion or a man will delight her appetite for a thousand years, while by the blood of three men slain in sacrifice she is pleased a hundred thousand years." The followers of this cruel goddess were the terrible Thugs, who made it their custom to seize unprotected travellers and strangle them for a sacrifice at her shrine.

The three faiths of southern Asia have each failed to bring either hope, love, or mercy to these benighted millions. Hinduism has offered the escape from evil transmigration and the reaching of Maya-illusion-as the reward of virtue. Buddhism holds forth Nirvana, the extinction of all desire, as the final object of life. Mohammedanism urges the acceptance of Kismet or fate. Of its god, Allah, the Koran itself states that he took a lump of clay, and dividing it into

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A NATIVE WELL, INDIA-DRAWING WATER.

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THE FAMOUS RESIDENCY," LUCKNOW.

"And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew."

three times the population of Boston. The province throughout gave evidences of peculiar difficulties, with its many shrines, and its pilgrimages of hundreds of thousands of worshippers every year. This province he chose as a field worthy of the efforts of Methodism, little deeming that the red hand of war was to open wide the door of opportunity before him.

Unable to find property adapted to his purpose at Lucknow, he moved on. At Bareilly a suitable property was purchased. Soon

restored. Naini Tal, a beautiful Himalayan village, was selected as their refuge. Strongly fortified by nature, it was doubly safe because the mountain people had no dealings with the people of the plains and there was therefore little danger of their joining them in the mutiny.

In the darkness of the following Sunday night the little company prepared to leave Bareilly. Here is recorded another of those wonderful deliverances that make one realize God is still as near His chil

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