National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-10-16

CRY love. May God preserve this sense OF fra.
tefnal feeling between US may no dlnerencea
Christ, Tor civiIsston, for everything that Ia for
the good Of mankind.
REV. NARAyAN sHEsHADRI.
address, to the Chiidrcn at the X Street
baptist Church Yesterday.
Tue E-strect Baptist church yesterday after
noon was literally packed with an audience three
fourths Of which was composed Of children, all
eager to sse the "Mogui," "a some Of them rather
irrcverently termed the reverend gentleman who
was TO address them. Long before the hour an
nounced for the address the church was full TO
overlooking. At length the time arrived, and
the superintendent Of the Sunday school intro.
duced to the .childred Rev. Narayan Shcshsdti,
OF Bombay, who spoke as follows:
Mn. snEsHApRIs ADDRESS.
Have you ever thought dear children. how
peculiarly you arv blessed above millions o. emu.
dren that are on the face OF the earth bencIe
you have ell seen map Of Indla. That country
toes not appear very large upon the inhp, out
Just think oftwo thousand miles long from noI.n
10 south Then 20 from the Indus 10 the 6anges,
nfteen hundred miles 10 India there are about
two hundred and nfty million people, anu spout
thirty millions are ttlo chiuren san ~, a. say
that these children are as happy as you Me'
will tell Won something about these children.
on the nfth day after a child Is born Silva,
goddess. writes something ~ for n "a viii.
Ten under the skin. But whatever " y twill
come 10 pass. As the child grows and becomes
S,a ar soci forehead ~ tho silva 5, they are
IN great dread OF this goddess, aud worship II
~" Non. nv dear children, arc dedicated to the
true God, and you are brought up amidst the
sounds VI praise and Thanksgiving In your fam
ty. -.., - 49,. 49,,
laJn on ThQV n 4 school All tho age OF
I'VE or SIX. They are taught to worship Ganpati,
who, they say, Is the patron OF learning: Well,
Avn, w .e eS9 NV who lives IN cemeteries, not such
beautiful Ones a. you have here.
our cemeteries are full OF foul things and
mi (. VAN. w oIooa arops and drops and
his hands, We'll, his wife always grumbcd be-
for wears. 30 at last she made a little boy TO
comfort her, and she called him Ganpati: lie
was about ave or sir years old when she left the
house IN n, eha,Ss one Jay telling MIN no, 20
back; but Ganpat would not let him In. 30
silva cut on his head. When the wife came
back and saw what had been done sne cried and
"Do not cry. lie Is not dead; ho only has his
head cut on. will give MIN smother head" SO
he az o. ne sssa e an s IND
pati is represented with an elephants head.
Another god Is Hanuman-a monkey god; and
this god worships anotnet goo whose name Is
Ram. Rams wife was stolen away by power
ful giant, who lived In the island OF Ceylon.
Ram was sorry. and lamented and wept much,
asking the trees and birds whether they knew
where his wife had gone. But they did not
Know. SO nAnuInan, bis favorite worshiper,
went 10 the island OF Ceylon- He found Ram s
wife and restored her 70 her husband; But thls
lid not satisfy Hanuman. lie wanted To punish
the giant for being so wicked. Now, how was
he TO do this? Well, Hanuman, rs l told you,
vas monkey god; He had great long tail.
were soaked full OF oil. Now. you know tina,
monkeys can jump from Tree 70 tree. Wen, TINS
monkey god could jump from house 70 house
SSuse so .n ss m the stand o ceyon
he had set the whole island on IRE. Aud th,
Hndoos believe that the island Is still burning
,asTe Te stories Of very
beings called sages. one OF these, whose nam,
Is Asast, drank upa whsle ocean. And how
called NJ qTS az oo 5ss
months and remain awake SIX months. sup
pose none o. You boys can do that kumbh- Kari
slept 20 harI mat tnere was no way 70 wake him
Sometimes great many men with drums wen
into MS ears-he had very large eas-out thel
could never wake MIN. once " so happenet
IA. barrier aroppea ~ p.no 81 1n,o ha ina
When he got IN ne met man riding on camel
Here MI. SheshadIi ventured 70 remark that ht
supposed little ehraren IN ms country nad never
all pars 81 the house ".ircus "BaInums or,
cusl"l The barber said he came In % md his
p,nceis; whereupon Inc man SAID, "Why, you
must be Tool have been riding around here
for three months, trying 70 md stray camel
How ~ -ou expect 10 nnd your plncersF
Is y not great pity that these thirty millions
OF children and their parents believe these
foolish things? But / must tell you what has
been done Tor them. missionaries went to India
from America, Ireland, England, Scotland and
Germany and set up Christian schools, and, by
the blessing OF God, thousands OF souls have
been brought to knowledge OF Christ. Thert
are now two hundred and forty thousand mem
bers Of Christs church in my country. We arr
placing these children in Christian schools
where they are not taught these stories which
have lust told you; but we teach them the Bible
We tell them OF Adam aud Eve. We tell them
OF Cain, who was wicked man, and OF Abel
who was good, and loved 70 serve the Lord.
And then we tell them OF the prophets. And
then we tell them OF Jesus-how he came into
sinful race. l have told you something oil
the Christian churches In my country.
10 my own church we have about ave hundred
people-men, women and children. II Is my
idea to build for these people q sanitary town.
Now you must know that In India the people do
not live In beautiful and clean towns like yours.
They DO not know how 70 keep themselves and
their places clean. want to have all the houses
well ventilated, and we musf have plenty OF
water. Asw nave no rain Nr eight months In
the year, we have not eaeer IN abundance as
you have here, and. thcrefofv, we must dig deep
wells. We have already one well which IL
twenty-five or twenty-three feet IN diameter and
forty-eight feet deep. II Is always full OF water,
being fed by living springs; and at this well Is a
marble slab, on which Ia written In our language,
"He that 1fllketh of this water shall thirst