The work of education may well be longer and harder than that of conquest. The conduct of our countrymen here causes yet too much shame and doubt in thoughtful minds. But when we see the spirit in which many of India's rulers undertake their difficult task--the patient labours of officials, following the pattern of men like Outram, Lawrence, Havelock, the devotion to duty that often meets no reward but an early grave--we take hope that their work may after all weld into strength a free, prosperous, and united nation. And though we wisely forbear to force our faith upon these benighted souls, it rests with ourselves in time, through the power of example, to win a nobler victory than any in the blood-stained annals of Hindostan. Missionary teachings can little avail, if Christians, set among the heathen in such authority and pre-eminence, are not true to their own lessons of righteousness. Standing beside that proudly-mournful monument which now crowns the ridge of Delhi, and raises our holiest symbol over the once-rebellious city, every Englishman should be inspired to a braver struggle than with armed foes, that, mastering himself, he may rightly do his part towards planting the Cross--not in show alone, but in power--above the cruel Crescent and the hideous idols of an outworn creed! APPENDIX CHIEF DATES OF INDIAN HISTORY Alexander the Great's Invasion of India B.C. 327 Slave Kings of Delhi A.D. 1206-90 Tamerlane's Invasion 1398 Vasco de Gama's Voyage 1498 Baber founds the Mogul Empire 1526 Akbar's Reign 1556-1605 East India Company Incorporated 1600 Sivajee becomes King of the Mahrattas 1674 Death of Aurungzebe 1707 Nadir Shah plunders Delhi 1739 Clive's Defence of Arcot 1751 Battle of Plassey 1757 War with Hyder Ali 1780 Trial of Warren Hastings 1788-95 Storming of Seringapatam 1799 Battle of Assaye 1803 Overthrow of the Mahrattas 1818 First Burmese War 1824 Capture of Bhurtpore 1827 Lord William Bentinck's Governorship 1829 Disasters in Afghanistan 1841 Conquest of Scinde 1843 First Sikh War 1845 Second Sikh War 1848