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contrast them with the abuses of India ; when , at the same time , we believe that the worst of those abuses may be suppressed by one word from the legislative , one act of the executive power , what can excuse us from petitioning that that word may he spoken , and that act enforced ? The present
is the time when such an effort ought to be made . Now , when the interest of the United Kingdom is awakened on the subject of the commercial regulations of India ; when a wise and humane Governor-General is inviting information respecting the best modes of promoting the prosperity of his millions of subjects ; when the ear of Parliament is open to all communications respecting our Eastern possessions ; when the whole nation is anticipating a change in our administration there , —now is the time to petition that our sway may be rendered more merciful , our regulations more prudent , the
fulfilment of our engagements more faithful . If we approve the aids which our benevolent institutions afford to the sick , if we value our domestic security and peace , the repose of our death-beds , the sanctity of our Sabbaths , we are bound to afford those aids , to confer that security , to ensure that sanctity and repose , to our heathen brethren , as far as it rests with individual or united effort to do so . It matters not that we are separated by half the globe from the objects of our sympathy . True charity has the power of
annihilating space ; and even now an atmosphere of kindly sympathy surrounds the world through which every pulse may vibrate * and the faintest echo be reverberated . Kindly spirits exist in India , as in every other clime , which are ready to respond to every wish which may be uttered here , and anxious to accelerate every movement which may be here begun . But the utterance and the movement must be begun in our land . The season has arrived : let it not pass away unobserved and unimproved .
We have no room for more than a reference to the two remaining tracts . One contains some " Humane Hints for the Melioration of the State of Society in British India : " the other is an " Appeal to the Society of Friends for their Co-operation in promoting Christianity in India . ' * The latter originated in a request made to the authoT by a member of the Society of Friends , to furnish him with information respecting the circulation of the Scriptures and of tracts in India , the establishment of schools , and the
success of missions . For the facts , we must refer our readers to the work itself , as also for the consideration of Mr , Peggs' suggestions respecting the new regulations which might promote the salubrity of the climate of Calcutta , lessen the difficulty of obtaining medicines in seasons of great sickness , facilitate the establishment of dispensaries at the civil and military stations , and effect many other desirable objects . For the zeal and industry by which this gentleman has been enabled to lay before the public so large
a body of important facts , and for the benevolence with which he has long laboured to redress the miseries of the heathen population in India , his Christian brethren of every denomination must feel deeply indebted to him . We hope that his exertions will result in success ; and that his appeal to the natural sympathies and benevolent principles of his countrymen will not be unheard or disregarded .
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Indiu ' s Cries to British Humanity . 843
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 843, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/27/
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