CHRISTIANITY AND CASTE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa,—A gentleman, who has resided for many years in India and who ought to know, tells me that in the Madras Presidency the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Lutheran Missionary Society, do not insist upon the renunciation of caste on the part of those whom they receive as Christians.
The statement seems to me almost incredible, and I hesitate to receive it as accurate. Christianity and caste have always presented themselves to me as necessarily exclusive, and con- tradictory ideas, as light and darkness, or love and hatred. Can any of your readers speak certainly as to the facts of the case, at least as to our English Society P—I am, Sir, &c., Southport, September 8th. W. H. DYSON. [We believe the practice complained of has been abandoned. Christianity, however, does not prohibit caste.—En. Spectator.]
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