পাতা:দর্শন দীপিকা.djvu/৬২

[ 5 J displeasure of our Government in the East; in having, unsanctioned by its authority, assumed the dangerous province of attempting to regulate the consciences of its native subjects; to the manifest tendency of disturbing that repose and public confidence, that forms at this moment, the chief security of our precarious tenure in Hindostan : if men, thus labouring for subsistence în their vocation, and under the necessity of making converts, at any rate, in order to insure the continuance of their allowances, and the permanency of their mission, rashly venture to hurl the bigot anathema of intolerance, at the head of the “Barbarian Hindoos ;” and, unadvisedly, to vilify the revered repositories of their faith; we may find some colour of excuse, in the seeming necessity under which they act: but, that a member of the English Church, a public servant of the Company, and holding a distinguished situation under Government, should wantonly step forth, and make, in the most public manmer, an avowal of his sentiments, not only of the necessity of a hierarchy of British clergy, to combat the Indian hydra of superstition; but even the “policy” of somewhat employing the dread engine of coercroN; towards effectually performing