The introduction is signed by a Major-General, and the body of the report is written by an army chaplain, secretary to the Association, who has the title of Bachelor of Divinity. Four reverends beside, army chaplains, are named among the list of officers of the Association. The language employed in the report is often very obscure, and needs close analysis to get at its real meaning. The introduction is a plea for the re-establishment of the abolished system of Regulation, and is little more than the expression of a desire to have legal sanction for what they were already doing illegally, as the report shows, and it is doubtless for this very reason that the language is so obscure. In one place it speaks of the "Gospel duty of healing diseases in a compulsory way," and as a precedent refers to the "Gospel record of healing even when a voice had come from the healed protesting against the cure." Certainly blasphemy could scarcely go further than to liken the compulsory indecent exposure of a woman to a miracle of our Lord. Every soldier should "do his best," says the report, "by the blessing of Almighty God, to resist all temptation leading to the evil." Close inspection proves that in this case "the evil" in the mind of the writer is not the vice but the disease. The soldier is recommended to the task of attaining to "self-command on pass," _i.e._, when outside the region of licensed brothels. The report states that a "Handbook" has been circulated "to all fresh arrivals in India," and the closing chapter of the report is a reprint of that Handbook, which is especially designed for army chaplains to circulate among the soldiers as a "religious" tract. Interspersed with the quotations of Scripture texts, is abominable instruction to the effect that a young man who will confine his visits to the Government licensed brothel can trust the Lord to keep him from contracting disease. This "religious" tract promises to keep infected women out of the chakla, and warns the soldier not to go "in an underhand way" to houses where he will not be protected from "disease."