last, at the latest of these gatherings, at Allahabad, 121 missionaries met together, belonging to twenty different societies, and including several men of long experience who have been twenty years in India.” _India, Progress and Condition_, 1873, p. 134.] [Footnote 22: Brahma-Samâj, the Church of Brahma, is the general title. When the schism took place, the original Samâj was called Adi Brahma-Samâj, _i.e._, the First Church of Brahma, while the progressive party, under Keshub Chunder Sen was distinguished by the name of the Brahma-Samâj of India. The vowels _u_ and _o_ are often the same in Bengali, and are sometimes used for _a_.] [Footnote 23: This sermon, which was preached by the Dean of Westminster in the forenoon of Wednesday, December 3d, 1873, and in which his reasons are stated for inviting a layman to speak on the subject of missions in the evening of the same day, and within the same sacred precincts, is here reprinted with his kind permission.] [Footnote 24: _Prospects of Christian Missions_, a sermon preached in Westminster Abbey on December 20, 1872. Strahan & Co., London.] [Footnote 25: Phil. i. 13-16.] [Footnote 26: Acts xiv. 16, 17; xvii. 23, 28; xix. 37; xxi. 26; xxii. 28; xxv. 11. Rom. ii. 6-15; xiii. 1-7; xiv. 9; 1 Cor. ix. 20-22; xx. 33. Phil. iv. 8.] [Footnote 27: 1 Cor. ix. 20-22.] [Footnote 28: In the well-known passage where, speaking of the moderation and humanity of these heretical Arians in the capture of Rome, he concludes: “Hoc Christi nomini, hoc Christiano tempori tribuendum quisquis non videt, cæecus; quisquis non laudat, ingratus; quisquis laudanti reluctatur, ingratus est.” _De Civitate Dei_, i. c. 7. Compare Ibid. c. 1, and Sermon cv., _De. Ev. S. Luc._] [Footnote 29: “Sir Thomas More, after he was called to the Bar in Lincoln’s Inn, did, for a considerable time, read a public lecture out of S. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, in the Church of S. Lawrence in the Old Jewry to which the learneder sort of the City of London did resort.” Wood’s _Athenæ Oxonienses_, fol. ed. 1721, pp. 182, 183.] VII. OPENING ADDRESS. DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE ARYAN SECTION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS, HELD IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 14-21, 1874. No one likes to be asked, what business he has to exist, and yet, whatever we do, whether singly or in concert with others, the first question which the world never fails to address to us, is _Dic cur hic?_ Why are you here? or to put it into French, What is your _raison d’être_? We have had to submit to this examination even before we existed, and many a time have I been asked the question, both by friend and foe, What is the good of an International Congress of Orientalists?