eagerness to obtain a Company’s appointment, I fear that we must come to the conclusion that we are not yet awake to the responsibilities of our Stewardship, and not yet alive to the loud and solemn call with which the great Head of the Church is summoning us to the honour of his sacred service. The same may be said with reference to funds. In 1853 the large sum of 190,000_l._ was contributed, of which no less than 33,500_l._ was subscribed in India itself, leaving 156,500_l._ to be collected from the rest of the world. I am again unable to give the statistics of other bodies at the present time, but the two Societies already mentioned appear to spend between them money collected in England to the amount of only 76,834_l._, of which 57,635_l._ is spent by the Church Missionary Society, and 19,199_l._ by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. There is doubtless some that passes through other channels, in addition to the large sums expended by other bodies of Christians. But we may regard 80,000_l._ as a near approximation to the whole sum now spent by the Church of England on Indian Missions. Now just contrast this sum with the large fortunes made in India, with the number of families altogether maintained from India, and, above all, with the fact that the Company is deriving a net profit of 5,000,000_l._ a-year from the opium traffic alone, and there is, I fear, most overwhelming evidence that we have utterly failed in our Stewardship; that we have received much, but given little; that we have been entrusted with great wealth and great opportunities, but have made a most poor and pitiful return, having been content to grow rich on India’s produce without fulfilling our sacred trust, or employing even a decent proportion of the income derived from India on the evangelization of her people. And the result of this defective liberality is evident in the total spiritual destitution of vast districts, more especially amongst those which have been the scenes of the present outbreak. Let us examine the state of some of these districts, now too well known by the sad events that have happened there.