Life in India, and scenes in the mutiny : being a lecture, delivered to the n.c. officers and men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, in the gymnasium shed, Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, on Friday afternoon, April 27th, 1860 / by H. Chalmers Miles.

  • Miles, H. Chalmers.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Life in India, and scenes in the mutiny : being a lecture, delivered to the n.c. officers and men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, in the gymnasium shed, Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, on Friday afternoon, April 27th, 1860 / by H. Chalmers Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Here lies the imminent peril of our tenure in India—in this the cbiefest obstacle to the progress of the missionary. But in the dawn of a fre.sh career of financial prosperity, of wliicli there are tidings—it is not forbid- den to hope that a brighter future may also be at hand for this glorious EmpirOj and that, taking ‘ wisely and well ’ the rough lesson of t!ie past, we may temper with keener sagacity the asperity of our governance in the ages to come. If w'e lay aside the policy of unprincipled aggrandizement, if we strive by just and equitable laws to augment the security of human life, to ele- vate the social position of the millions now groaning beneath our sway ; if we endeavor by wise and humane legislation to show the native subjects entrusted to (fur charge -that we will not henceforward mediate with the strong and oppress and enslave the weak ; that the rule of Christian chan- ty and forbearance, if it obtains for .the wliite man, is not abnegated for the colored race—and that whatever may have been the arbitrary injus- tice of our goverament in times past, we have now, under the august domination of our Sovereign Lady, the Queen, i*iaugurated a new (ira, with Peace and Justice* as its guiding stars;—we may then hope that at no distant day the dark bight of heathenism may pass from the land, and that instead of bowing down to their ghastly idols, or celebrating amid human torture, the rituals of their creed, the people of Hindostan may be brought to a sense of the beauty of that holy and pure religion which com- menced its beneficial career at the Cross of Calvary anci in the City of Jesus. * ‘ Pax ct Ju.sticLa.’