Reverend R. A. Hume, the Director of a Mission in India, who wrote to Swami Vivekananda from Auburndale, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1894, in an obvious attempt to draw him into a public debate. Mr. Hume was born in India and started his letter with "Swami Vivekananda, my fellow-countryman from India". His thesis was that the Missionaries were justified in what they did in India and how they spoke about her abroad and that Swamiji was misrepresenting India and the Christian Missionaries in Detroit and other places in the U.S.A. — Ed.