Diamond Jubilee Edition. the Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam

25 of the independent Order of Good Templars the.Somasundaram Mudaliar Reading-Room and Library the Anjuman-e-Mufidul Muslimin and the ' past and present' Parsee students of Mahboob College besides of course the.general body of students and the members of the staff. [...] Among the administrative iprovements of a far-reaching character were : the reconstitution of the Management the free admission of girls and of members"xxv of the depressed_ classes' and the enforcment of the principle of strict religious netrOity at school. [...] Now we see not in dim distant dream but in „close and clear perception in direct vision the immediate contact—nay the inseparable though mysterious comminling the inalienable and ever-deepening interfusion of the Master and the servant the Preceptor and the pupil the Deity and the devotee in all the concerns of life. [...] the eternal verity of the religious sense ; the essential unity of divine truth ; the inexorable unifomity of divine law; the inviolable right of spiritual freedom ; the impartial univesality of divine inspiration ; the increasing glory of divine vision ; the inevitable fluctutions and varieties of religious expression ; the imperative duty and the incalculable worth of -spiritual worship [...] The inspiration of the ancestral example is the cheering outlook of the dutiful successor ; the acquisition of the sturdy sire the starting capital of the"ambitious son ; the glory of past national achievement the load-star--the light on the pa‘th—of the advancing generations.