A

REPLY

TO THE

LETTERS

OF

THE ABBÉ DUBOIS,

ON

THE STATE

OF

CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.

BY THE

REV. JAMES HOUGH,

CHAPLAIN TO THE HON. EAST-INDIA COMPANY, ON THE
MADRAS ESTABLISHMENT.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY R. WATTS.

PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY & son, 169, fleet street.

CONTENTS.

SECTION I.

P. 1.

THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVERTING THE HINDOOS

TO CHRISTIANITY.

SECTION II.

P. 61.

THE NATURE OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED BY THE

ROMAN - CATHOLICS FOR THE CONVERSION

OF THE HINDOOS; TOGETHER WITH THEIR

FAILURE, AND THE CAUSE OF THAT FAILURE.

SECTION III.

P. 111.

THE NATURE OF THE MEANS WHICH PROTEST.

ANTS USE FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE

HINDOOS.

SECTION IV.

P. 155.

THE SUCCESS WHICH HAS ALREADY ATTENDED

THE MEANS USED BY PROTESTANTS FOR THE

CONVERSION OF THE HINDOOS.

SECTION V.

P. 214.

THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SYRIAN CHURCH IN

TRAVANCORE, TOGETHER WITH THE SUCCESS

THAT HAS ATTENDED THE MEANS USED FOR

ITS MELIORATION.

SECTION VI.

P. 248.

THE DUTY AND POLICY OF PROMOTING CHRIS-

TIANITY IN INDIA; AND THE NECESSITY OF

IMPROVING THE CHARACTER OF THE SER-

VANTS OF GOVERNMENT, BOTH EUROPEAN AND

NATIVE.

APPENDIX.

P. 305.

TWO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALCUTTA

JOURNAL-

66 Ought Christians to allow People of any Faith or Sect, as Hindoos,

Mussulmans, &c., to work at their Houses on Sunday ?"

SECTION I.

THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVERTING THE HINDOOS TO CHRISTIANITY.

In a work recently published by the Abbé Dubois, late Jesuit Missionary in Mysore, entitled, "Letters on the State of Christianity in India," the Author replies in the negative to the following questions: "First, Is there a possibility of making real converts to Christianity among the natives in India? Secondly, Are the means employed for that purpose, and, above all, the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the idioms of the country, likely to conduce to this desirable object?" His negative to both these queries he hesitates not to repeat in various parts of the work; stating it as his "decided opinion, First, that, under existing circumstances, there is no human possibility of converting the Hindoos, to any sect of Christianity: and, Secondly, that the translation of the Holy Scriptures circulated among them, so far from

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