“Among the reasons why a Missionary should be sent to this country, in preference to any other, I would beg leave respectfully to suggest two; viz. the teeming population of India, and the protection of equitable laws, which put it in the power of a Missionary to do more good with less personal inconvenience here than in any other heathen country. “The objections raised at home to the evangelization of India, on the score of political danger, are founded in entire misrepresentation of the subject. It seems not to have occurred to either friends or foes of the measure, that there are none among the natives who have the means, whatever might be their will, of resisting the British Government. Almost all the ancient reigning families are reduced to a state of dependence: nor at any time, did ever the zeal of the Hindoos lead them to any formidable opposition even to the intolerant and avowedly proselyting Mahomedans: so that neither do past experience nor present probabilities oppose any difficulty in the way of publishing the gospel in India. “Besides, it might well be expected that reflecting men should discriminate between a senseless attack upon images, processions, &c. and the simple inoffensive statement of Divine truth. The former might well be expected to rouse every bad passion of the human mind; the latter will always command respect if not obedience, whilst the same Divine truth assures us his word shall not return void. Our method is to state the plain truths of the gospel with little or no reference to any other system called religion. By pointing out the Scripture doctrines of man’s fall, through the transgression of Adam, and his recovery by the Lord Jesus Christ, which appeals to matters of obvious and general experience, usually such a sensation is produced as leads some one or other to examine what foundation he rests upon; and the result is always, that there is salvation in none but in God incarnate!