Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-26
r,..a, NUMBER 10,
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burn their dead. eNshenNa person Dies
there is DO gathering q = lends, no words
Of comfort and consolation. no song Of
faith in Reaeenerq hope of a resur-
rcction for the HindoOsD believe in the
transmigratioppf soul. slf when per-
son dies his soul may Hive millions Of
years in the form of.aldog,la cat, toad.
or snake The body yis' taken out to this
place laid upon the ground, wood heap
ed over it aud set on frc. There are
great FiIeste 0f,voOl for that purpose.
l have not. space %. tel you how wo
landed. went up the-stono steps and saw
an astromical observatory, Swherc many
years ago learned Hindoos astronomers
studied the movements Of the heavenly
bodies nor how we climbed to the top
of a high minaret and looked down upon
the city = its wilderness Of crooked. mar
row streets and queer houscs---the Ganges.
the multitudes on its banks rubbing and
scurubbing-the beautiful country, with
its verdsnt groves |; but imagine your
self. instead walking throgh the narrow
alleys--everybody staring at you; and
after while coming to the great golden
agoda-the holiest pace OF all. aiaF aat8
u... THE GOLDEN rAGoDA. ia......s
1t is not a tr5eabuil ling--thirty feet
square perhaps but it has a great many
mirerets and points rising from its roof,
which are all covered with pure gold IL
stands in court, where there are humid
reds of worshipers, men, women, boys
aud girls First we come to great stone
bull, much larger than any Of the, live
animals-a huge image, with wreaths Of
flowers ON his horns and on his back, and
laid at his feet A man with the fun
riest fiddle | ever saw. shaped like
crook necked squash, and woman with
a little tambourinc are doing the music
in the court, but in little chamber Oh
the other side of the court are six or eight
great kettle drums, which make tremend
Gus racket, rattle and rub dub. As We
come up to the bull we see poor woman
touching her head to its stony shoulders.
thus to have her sins taken away Ano-
ther woman has taken some wafer from
the holy we'll aud is sprinkling the stony
hoofs the sun dries it up in an instant,
but she goes from hoof to hoof, putting
on fresh water. So she worships
A little farther and We look down in.
to the holy well. Here comes man
with water from the Ganges in a, cup
which he turns into the WELL, and then
tosses in a flower. Another docs the
same. Each pilgrim does it We look
down into the well and see about thirty
feet below US dirty mess-fowers half
withcred and decayed. bushels Of them
also fresh flowers just thrown in, floating
on the filthy water, You hold your nos.
trill, for it is nauseating stencil which
ascends, but here sits, an old Brahmin
with bucketful of this water by his
side. and the pilgrims come up, one by
one, hold out their hands and receive
cupful Of just such stuff as you can see in
any sewer, which they drink as it was
the very water Of Life All this to get
rid of sin and secure salvation 80 #.
There are baskets filled with fruit,
vegetables grains, wheat. rice, peas, before
the god, which the Brahmins will take
to their own houses All around the
court are other shriRes, all to Shiv the
God of Evil, and there is great crowd
of worshipers coming and going.
Crossing the narrow alley we enter
another temple, which has no gold on its
roof, but which is gorgeously painted in
filming colors. Here is another crowd
mostly women ,;,
i This image which they arc bowipg
down to to day, tomorrow may be. thrown
out Of doors and another put 10 its place.,
They are not particular about worshiping
the same image all the time You see
gods which they have got tired Of, kick.
lug about the streets. 1t wonld bo an
easy matter to pick up q cartload Of old
gods .,.~s. ost. M. aiL.
From morning till night. from one end
of the year TO the other, this sort Of thing
, 6 'es onls There are probably more wor-
: shippers at this golden temple Of Benaies
!, tran in any church in the world, mere
! than at ST. Peters in Rome, and thoul b
!, there are SO many things calculated to
0 make us laugh. / do not believe but that
almost every boy and girl in 1.-THE United
0 States would turn away with sad heart
5 at the tight, lamentipg that such mul.
titude ofhuman beings know nothing Of
s the way Of salvation through Jens Christ.
oil w ''n y ~@'s ~ p CARLEpos.
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