3. Features deserving special notice. - Though adopting the main framework of the Pilgrim's Progress, it will be found that the poem before us is original in many particulars. Every opportunity has been seized, consistently with the continuity of the story, for the introduction of fine passages which clearly enunciate the distinctive truths of the Gospel, as contrasted with the tenets of Hinduism. The existence of a future state, - the true doctrine as to heaven and hell, - the teaching of the Bible as to sin and righteousness, - the consequences attending merit and demerit both in this world and the next, - the Gospel plan whereby Divine justice and mercy meet together in perfect harmony, - the advantages of connexion with the Church of Christ and the bright realty of the 'communion of saints', - the spiritual exercises of Christianity in contrast with the ceremonial observances of Hindusim, - 'the means of race afforded us here and the hope of glory hereafter', - all these themes and topics are finely treated by the author. Quite a number of model sermonettes and exhortations are interspersed throughout the poem. It should be specially noticed also that those attributes which are so highly extolled by the Tamil moral poets (e.g. patience) are here held up to view, so to speak, in the light of the Gospel and transfigured by the glory which falls on them from the face of Jesus Christ. The careful reader will hardly fail to recognise, also a wealth of illustration and quotation taken both from the inspired pages of Holy Scripture and also from standard Tamil works.