The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-27 00:00:00

WHO ARE TIIE INFIDELS?

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It is a fact well known in India that while no notice is
now taken of moral defects, or infidel notions of teachers
In Government Schools, yet any one who dares attempt to
manifest any Christian seal among his 'choler'. though it
be done out of school hours, is • marked man. I say
' now. for such was not the case in days when the
lamented Lord Lawrence was Governor of the land. I
know a most able_profesior of a Government college who,
being an earnest Christian man. has thought it his duty
to use some of his spare time to teach his pupils the way
of life, whose promotion has been debarred for years on
account of his Christian seal, and who has again and
wan been superseded by Hindoo Baboon, who, in point
of education, are by no means his equal So much for
the neutrality of our Indian Government A Christian
teacher dares not ask his pupils to corns into his own
house to hear the Word sd God, but hundreds, yse
thousands, of Hindu Brahmin teachers are day by day
in the hall" and class-rooms of Government
conargsd and schools in teaching openly the' Rig Veda,"
the' Vishnu Pusan," the" Mahabharat," the " Rama-
yen," the '' Bkagerat," the " Premsegar," and the " Sebba
its," and many other such books, which are in every
sense of the word the sacred writings of the Hindus, and
are fraught with foul teachings and vile idolatrous
instructions. I simply translate, for the information of
your readers, some portions of a little book published by
Raja S,va Pragad, .R L. who is the °implies of a Lam
number of school books for Government in the North.
west of India, and who ham been rewarded by Govern.
mint with the title of a "Raj" and desked with the
honours of a Companion of the Star of India, for his
services in the Educational Department in the N.W.P. ,
This is a little book I saw advertised for sale, and seeing
that jt hat already got to the third edition, I thought it
might be useful for our native schools in Mouthy?.
Specimens of questions and answers from a "Catechism
on Moral Subjects," in Hindi, by Raja Minuend, 0.5.1.
lite inspector of Government schods in the N. W. P.
What is hell? A. Your own body. Q what is the
way to heaven A. To extinguish all &dim Q What
Is the chief door to hell? A. A woman. Q. tVhas can
procure heaven for men 1 A. Not to kill any creature.
Q. Who is the deliverer from earth A. The Veda,
when known spiritually. Q. What bewitches like wine?
A. A woman. Q. at should we forsake? A. Our
wealth and our wives. Q_ Who is the wisest and
greatest among men A. The man who has not been
enchanted by the glance of a woman's eye. Q. What
should be destroyed I A The love of tlie heart. Q.
Who among men is the wised of the wise! A. He who
has not boen deceived by women, who are incarnate
witches. Q. What is that which no man can know A.
The heart and the actions of women. Q. Who is not
worthy of trust? A. A woman. Q. What is that
poison which looks like nectar 1 A. A woman. Q. Who
are those enemies who appear as friends? A. A wife
and family.
I The above will suffice to give you some idea of the so-
!called "morals' of this educational catechism which has
had such a wide circulation that in a short time it has
reached the third edition. As soon as I discerned the
character of its "moral lessons" I at once returned the
copies I had ordered to the publisher, expressing nay
surprise that he (a Christian man) should ever have
allowed such morality to be printed at his prins.—Tnolus
lETANS, ill The Freeman.