The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-19

soul. bat they know that they
have a soul, and all life in India is toward
the liberation Of the soul. They lock upon
the body as being merely the outward ex-
preston OF the soul, and an Indian will
say 10 you, this body i hungry. this body
wants rest; the real or individuality be-
ing himself. his own soul. l could fill
RACES with the beauty of this thought and
1 the life Of the soul, such as led in India.
where they care nothing for the comforts
of the body and the luxuries brought
| about by civilization.
'Siuce the advent of the missionary
/ schools grant there is d change. for the
/ children are taught to appreciate the
| things of the body, and are taught to de-
/ spise their own religion. ana so the curse
( of civilization is eating out the heart OF
India. and the necessary consequence. the
struggle for existence, has begun. When |
sa ~ the comfortable homes, pretty gar
| dens and beautiful carr ages of the mis-
| sioDaries / could not help thinking of all
{ the starving men and women in your own
4 country, and how much better the money
/ could be employed here in feeding them,
/ and in teaching your countrymen to find
/ their souls.
Mrs. Annie Besant is doing splendid
! work in India, and in all parts of that
/ country hearts are FACILITATING with joy
4 and gratitude to think that they will have
her with them again next winter in India.
Il have read with some surprise Mr..
Emmete Coleman's article on Hinduism.
for it seems to me to be merely preju-
diced attack on that religion and nothing
else. Ii congresses Of religion are to be
held in the world, surely those who speak
ought to know something about them.
otherwise no goGd can he gained, and that
is why l have such great adj
miration for the impartial way in which
/ Mr. Barrows treated the Religious Con-
gress at the Worlds Fair in Chicago. per-
hitting all delegates of religions to ex-
press freely the tenets of their own reli.
giODs without abuse of other faiths, but 10
ask Hlndoo to express his views of
Christianity or a Christian to explain
Hindooism is hardly the right method of
arriving at the truth contained In the two
religions.
LAS regards the Theosophical Society.
Mr.. EmmeIte Coleman seems TO have a
velysbitter hatred toward it and very ar.
dent desire for its disinEegration. Why. |
do not know. / do not believe that the
society has injured Mr.. Coleman, and yet
he tries in every way 10 hurt and wound
the individual members, even STOPPING SO
low as to make use of spy to obtain bis
knowledge. and printing in many in
stances what is not accurate. L feel very
sorry for Mr.. Coleman, because when his
death hour comes and he sees all his past
acts reviewed before him it will be
terrible for him to feel how many peo-
pie he has really hurt. and wounded
by his continuous attacks upon them.
He reminds me of little boy
who was standing before a window pane
pulling off the legs and wings OF the flies
as quickly as he could catch them and then
chuckling 10 himself with giee at his clever
ness That little boy did not understand
what pain he was iufiicting on those poor
flies, and SO with all my heart hope that
Mr.. Coleman does not understand that the
wounds of his attacks cause far more pain
than if he had the courage to take sharp
knife and thrust 1t through his victims"
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right the name of Constance Georgine
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