1 Xvi PREFACE,
2 identify yourselves with their interest, for in their hterest lies your
3 well-being. Gain their confidence by honest deed’ Think “not,
4 under any guise or pretext whatever, of rivalry wit \your rulers,
5 for that is sure to bring upon you the wrath of God ind misfor-
6 tune. Remember that you are as yet but learning your ahabet in
7 the great School of Progress, that you have only just set
8 on the threshold of that Grand Institution, that you are as
9 on the first step of the ladder which leads to the lofty pale of
10 Human Glory, and that the ambitious ideas of some among Jon,
11 of equality with the conquerors of the East, however mildly you
12 may desire to express them, or in whatever phraseology you may
13 endeavour to cloak them, will, in the end, redound to your own \
14 discomfiture and hurt. Learn, then, to respect your rulers heartily,
15 and look upon the lowest of their rank as your protector and
16 master. Serve them heartily, and, in so doing, forget not what the
17 poet of Shirdz has said :—
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20 “Do not serve, like a mendicant, in the expectation of getting a return for your labour;
21 For your master himself knows how best to reward his servant.’
22 My last advice to you, young men, is, Pear God, love mankind,
23 and honour the Empress. Let this motto be instilled not only into
24 your own minds, but into those of your children, and you will then,
25 let me assure you, be, in your turn, honoured in this world and in
26 the world to come.
27 And let me now, dear countrymen, pray unto God, the merciful
28 Father of us all, and let all who read this, or hear it read, join with
29 me in the prayer :—
30 “ Long live our Gracious Queen, the Empress of India!” ‘
31 Amen!
32 M. ZL.
33 JHANG, March 20th, 1889,
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