The early chapters bring out with vivid, striking, almost startling reality the wayside hearers in India. One can almost see the devil plucking away the words as fast as they fall, and hear the opposers of the Gospel crying out against it. Paul did not hesitate to write things as they were of the idolaters to whom he preached, even though the picture was very dark. _It is all the more needful now, when so many are deceived and being deceived as to the true nature of idolatry, that people at home who give and pray should be told plainly that what Paul wrote of idolaters in Rome and Corinth is still true of idolaters in India._ Miss Carmichael has given only glances and glimpses, not full insights. Let those who think the picture she has drawn is too dark know that, if the whole truth were told, an evil spirit only could produce the pictures, and hell itself would be the only fit place in which to publish them, because in Christian lands eyes have not seen and ears have not heard of such things. _From_ Rev. C. W. CLARKE, M.A., Principal, Noble College, Masulipatam. I have worked as Principal of a College for over seventeen years amongst the caste people of South India, and I entirely endorse Miss Carmichael's views as to the actual risks run by students and others desirous of breaking caste and being baptized. While the teaching of the Bible and English education generally have removed a great deal of prejudice, and greatly raised the ethical standard amongst a number of those who come under such influences, Hinduism as held and practised by the vast majority of caste people remains essentially unchanged. To break caste is held to be the greatest evil a person can inflict upon himself and his community, _therefore practically any means may be resorted to to prevent such a calamity_. It is a commonplace amongst missionaries, that when a caste man or woman shows any serious intention of being baptized,--in any case, where caste feeling is not modified by special circumstances,--the most stringent precautions must be taken to protect the inquirer from the schemes of his caste brethren. _From_ KRISHNA RAN, Esq., B.A., Editor, _Christian Patriot_, Madras (himself a convert). The question is often asked whether a high caste Hindu convert can live with his own people after his baptism. _It is only those who know nothing of the conditions of life in India, and of the power of caste as it exists in this country, who raise the question._ The convert has to be prepared for the loss of parents and their tender affection; of brothers and sisters, relatives and friends; of wife and children, if he has any; of his birthright, social position, means of livelihood, reputation, and all the power which hides behind the magic word "caste"; of all that he is taught from his childhood to hold as sacred. _From_ Miss READE, South Arcot, South India.