The theistic standpoint of the younger members of the educated class of to-day is easily discoverable. The word _God_ used in their English compositions or speeches, plainly implies a person. The commonplace of the anxious student is that the pass desired, the failure feared, is dependent upon the will of God--language manifestly not pantheistic. Religious expressions, we may remark, are natural to a Hindu. [Sidenote: The conception of the Deity as female has gone from the minds of the educated.] In the new theism of educated Indians we may note that the conception of the deity as female is practically gone. Not so among the masses, particularly of the provinces of Bengal and Gujerat, the provinces distinctively of goddesses. The sight of a man in Calcutta in the first hour of his sore bereavement calling upon Mother Kali has left a deep impression upon me.[83] Be it remembered, however, what his cry meant, and what the name _Mother_ in such cases means. It is a honorific form of address, not the symbol for devoted love. The _goddesses_ of India, not the gods, are the deities to be particularly feared and to be propitiated with blood. It is energy, often destructive energy, not woman's tenderness that they represent, even according to Hindu philosophy and modern rationalisers. We may nevertheless well believe that contact with Christian ideas will yet soften and sweeten this title of the goddesses. [Sidenote: The new theism is largely Christian theism--God is termed Father;] [Sidenote: Or Mother.]