The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-01-18


phragm into exclamation, topples gravity
INTO play and aceompllshes that Tor which Il
was created. Toe eagle, ana the lioni hnd
the gazelle. and the robin no more certainly
have their mission than has the monkey.
But It implies low form OF Hindoolsm
when this embodied mlmlcry OF tine human
race Is lifted into worship.
In enc OF the cities Tor the lrst time In my
llie had an opportunity Of talking wltP u
ialsir or Hindoo who has renouneoi tho
world and lives on aims. He sat under
rough covering on platform OF brick. lle
was covered with the ashes OF the dead anil
was at the time rubbing more OF those ashes
upon his arms and legs. He understood and
spoke English. I said 10 him. ''How long
have you been seated hereY He reptile :,
s'Fiheen years. "Have thosa idols which
] see power to help or destroyY' He said,
"No they only represent God. There lsbut
one God"
Questlon-when people die, where DO
they go to2
Answer That depends upon what they
have been doing. If they have been doing
good. to heaven II they have been doing
evil, TO hell.
Q.-But do you not believe in the transml-
grafton OF souls. and that after de9th we 20
into birds or animals OF some sort2
Ayes ;the last creature n man is thinking
OF while dying Is the one into which he will
90. If no is thinking Ola bird, he will q
into bird, and IL he Is thinking OF COW he
will go into COW.
OIL thought you said that at death tho
soul goes to heaven or hell?
Ale goes there by a gradual process.
II may take him years and years.
Q.-Can anyone become a Hindoo? Coul1
I become a Hineoo?
Ayes. you could.
Q.-How could / become n Hind0o?
A.-By doing as the Hindoos do.
But as I looked upon the poor. filthy
wretch, bedaubing himself with the ashes of
the dead, I thought the last thing on earth
would want to become would be q Hindoo.
] expressed to a missionary who overheard
the conversation between the fakir and my
self my amazement mt some OF the doctrines
the fakir announced. The missionary said.
"The fakirs are very aecommo dating. and
supposing you TO be friend OF Christianity
he announced the theory OF one Col, and
that OF rewards and punIsbmenls"
There are. however alterations for
Benares. attended worship ia one Of the
Christian missions. The sermon. though
delivered IN Hindoosianee. OF which could
not understand a word, thrilled me with its
earnestness and tenderness OF tone, espe-
ciallY when the missionary told me at the
close OF the service that he recently baptized
a man who was converted through reading
one Of my sermons among the hills OF India.
The songs OF the two Christian assamblages
visited in this city, although the tunes
were new, and the sentiments not trans
lated, were uplifting and inspiring to the
last degree. There was also q school OF 900
native girls, m institution established by
Fniab IF and xxFaotfb n "a
OF Madras University. But, more than all,
the missionaries are busy, some OF them
preaching on the CHATS. some OF them in
churches. in chapels and bazaars. The Lon
don Missionary Society has here its college
for young men and its schools for children
and its houses OF worship for all. The
Church Missionary Society has its eight
schools. all filled with learners. The evan
gelizing work OF the Weseyans and the
Baptists is felt in all parts OF Bsnares In its
mightiest stronghold Hindooism is being
assaulted.
And now as 10 the industrious malign-
ment of missionaries 1t has been said By
some travellers after their return tc America
or England that the missionaries are living
a life full of Incidence and luxury That is
a falsehood that I would say is as high as
heaven II it did not 50 down In the opposite
direction. When strangers comes into these
tropical climates the missionaries do their
best to entertain them, making sacrifices for
that purpose. In the city OF Benares mis-
sionary told me that, gentleman coming
from England into ono OF the mission sta
tons OF Indians, the missionaries banded to-
gether 10 entertain him. Among other
things they had ham boiled prepared and
beautifully decorated, and the same ham
was passed from house to house as this
cfrnD nnnnnraH ~ ~ a
conspiracy Of Kindness was affected. The
visitor went home to England and wrote and
spoke OF the luxury In which the mission
aries OF India were living.
Americans and Englishmen come to these
tropical regions and find a missionary living
under palms and with different styles OF
fruits on his table and forget that palms are
here as cheap as hickory or pine in America
and rich fruits as cheap as plain apples.
They find here missionaries sleeping under
punkas, these fans swung day and night by
coolies, and forget that four cents day is
good wages here, and She man finds himself.
-Four cents day for a coachman, mission
arY can afford to ride. There have been
missionaries who have come to these hot
climates resolving to live as the
natives live, and one or two years
have finished their work, their CHIEF
use on missionary ground being that
of furnishing for large funeral
the chief object OF interest. SO far from
living in idleness, no men On earth work 80
hard as the missionaries now In the foreign
field. Against fearful odds and with $780,
600 Of Christians opposed to 250000,OOO OF
Hindoos, Mohammedans and other false
religions, these missionaries are trying to
take India for God. Let the good people OF
America and England and Scotland and all
Hhriafbo Il rdN NQgX M IN hat m,
preciatian oil the fidelity and conservation
OF foreign missionaries. Far away from
home, in an exhausting climate. and com
PEELED to send their children to England,
Scotland or America so AZ to escape the cor
rupt conversation AMI behavior of the M.
tives, these men and women OF God toll on
until they drop into their graves. But they
will gat their chief appreciation when their
work is over and the day Is won, as it viii b.
won. No place in heaven will be too goo1
Tor them. Some OF tho ministers at home
who live on salaries of $4,000 or $4,000 n