Excerpt from A Letter From a Layman in India: On the Policy of the East India Company in Matters of Religion I conclude that attention at home has already been called to some of the most recent illustrations of our Government's real temper, such as the launch of a new Pilot brig under the heathen name of the Deva; the proclamation of a day of Humiliation ignoring Christianity, and inviting all faithful subjects to join in an offering of prayer; and the refusal to receive an address from the Kishnagur Native Christians, while addresses from the Hindus and Mahomedans were welcomed. It is a melancholy fact that up to the time of General Sir Henry Havelock's first tele graphic message attributing his success to the bles sing of God, not a syllable had been published by Government from which it could be inferred that any God was acknowledged by it at all, save a brief message from our friend Henry Tucker of Benares. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.