The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24

much honored a. in the ceremony We hse
that evening witnessed AZ the Farsee
welding The Hin1oo women are not
50 married They are simply cursed into
the c0ujueal relation Many q the girls
are married a. alt - years q age. and
some q them are Erardmothers a. 81
They can never go forth into the sunlight
with their faces uncovered They must
stay al home. All styles q naltreatrlen1
are theirs u they become Christians,
they become outcasts- A missionary told
me in India Cf a Hildoo woman who
became a Christian she had nine chill
6ren. Her husband vas over % years %
age And YET at her Christian baptism
he told her 20 80. and she went out. home
less. As long as woman Is down. India
viii b. down No nation was ever ele-
waited except through the elevation q
woman. Parsee marriage Is an improve
ment on Hindoo marriage, but Christian
marriage is an Improvement on Parsee
marriage.
a feIlow-t-aveler in India told ne he had
been writing 70 MS home IN England Try
ing 70 get q law passed THAI no white
woman could be legally married in India
unless she hal been Their six months At-
mirable law that would be-, II a white
woman saw what married life with a Hin
COO IS she would never undertake H. on
with the thick and ugly veil from womsn's
face. or with the crushing burdens from
her shoulder, %Cthirg but the gospel Of
Jesus Christ viii ever make life in India
what IT. ought 70 De-
But Wha- an afternoon Of contrast in
Bombay we experienced From the Tenn
ple Of silence go the Temple OF Hlarity.
From the tu.tures 20 the doves, From
mourning 70 laughter, From gathering
shadows 20 cleaning lights, From obse-
cuies 20 wedding, But how much OF all
cur lives Is made up OF such opposites2 I
have carried IN the same pocket. and read
from them 10 the same hour the liturgy
a. the dead and the cermony OF espous-
ais An SO the tear meets the smile and
the dove meets the vuiture.
Thus have ser before YOU the best OF
all the religions OF the heather world. and
I have done 50 in order that you might
come 10 higher appreciation Of the glorious
reliElon WHICH has put its benediction over
Us and over Christendom.
Compare The absurdities and hummer
les Of heather marriage with the plain.
Il viii. o. Christian marriage. the hands
Joined in pledge It'll death 60 YOU part"
Compare the doctrine that the dead may
not be touched, with as sacred. and tend
er. and loving a kiss as is ever given.
the last kiss Of lips that never again will
speak % US Compare the narrow Bridge
ChinFat over which the departing Parsee
soul must tremblingly cross. to the wide
-i+~-A -F-r- va --frAf-AA AAAADAAA WHICH the
departing Christian soul may triumph
antly enter. Compare the twenty
books Of the Zend-Avesta Of the Par
see. which even the scholars Of the earth
despair Of understanding with our Bible,
so much Of it as is necessary for our sal
walton in language so plain that "a way
farlng man, though fool need not err
therein. Compare the Tower Of Silence"
with its vultures At Bombay with the
Greenwood OF BrOokIvr'f with ifs scuID-
tured angels Of resurrection. And bow
yourselves in thanksgiving and prayer as
you realize that if al the battles Of Mara
thon and Salamis, Persia had triumphed
over Greece, instead OF Greece triumphing
over Persia, Parseeism. which was the ma
tional religion Of Persia. might have COW
cred the earth, and you and l instead OF