Reflection 100

On combatting efforts to suppress Christianity in India – in a letter to Rev. Wrangham...

I trouble you with all this detail for the purpose of pressing on you the duty of endeavouring by all possible means to counteract these monstrous errors. To me, I frankly declare that our suffering our East India subjects, nay tenants, for such they are, to remain, without an effort to the contrary, under the most depraving and cruel system of superstition which ever enslaved a people, is, considering all our own blessings, and, which you truly urge, the safety and excellent policy of the attempt if judiciously and temperately made, the greatest by far, now that the Slave Trade has ceased, of all the national crimes by which we are provoking the vengeance and suffering the chastisement of Heaven.

Note: Rev. Francis Wrangham (1769-1842) was a Church of England clergyman

Date: November 23, 1807

Volume 3: Pages 351-352

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