Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-01-10
after death we 60 into birds or animals

after death we 60 into birds or animals
OF some sort?
Answer-Yes; the last creature man
is thinking of while dying is the ono
INTO which he will go. If he isthinking
OF bird he will go into a Bird and II
he is thinking of q COW he will go into
COW.
Question: thought you said that at
death the soul goes to Heaven or hell?
Answer-He goes there by gradual
process. 1t may take him years and
years
| Question-Can anyone become Hin
doc? Could become Hindoo?
Answer--Yes, you could.
Question-How could become Hin
doc?
Answer-By doing as the Hindoos do.
But as | looked upon the poor, filthy
ashes OF the dead, l thought the last
thing on earth would want to become
would be Hindoo. / expressed to a
missionary who overheard the CONVEX
sation between the Fakir and myself
my amazement at some of the doctrines
the Fakir announced. The missionary
SAID: THE Fakirs are very accommo,
dating, and supposing you to be a
friend OF Christianity. he announced
the theory of one God, and that of re-
wards and punishments
There are, however. alterations for
Benares ! attended worship in one of
the Christian missions. The sermon,
though delivered in Hindoostanee, of
which could not understand word,
thrilled me with its earnestness and
tenderness of tone, especially when t.
missionary told me at the close of the
service that herecently baptised man
who was converted through reading one
OF my sermons among the hills of India.
The songs of the two Christian assem-.
blages visited in this city, although
the tunes were new, and the sentiments
not translated, were uplifting and in.
spring to the last degree. There was
also school of 600 native girls, an in
stitntion established by rajah of gen
crosby and wealth. graduate of Ma.
dras university But more than all,
the missionaries are busy, some of them
preaching on the CHATS, some of them
in churches. in chapels, and bazars.
The London Missionary society has
here its college for young men. and its |
schools for children, and its houses of
worship for all. The Church Mission |
airy society has its eight schools, all
filled with learners The evangelizing |
xxnf.ly af ha tVa.1a,-,rr al
lists are felt in all parts of Benares In
its mightiest stronghold Hindooism is
being assaulted.
And now as to the Industrious ma.
lignment of missionaries. 1t has been
said by some travellers after their re.
turn to America or England that the
missionaries are living life full of in.
dolence and luxury. That is false
hood that would say is as high as
Heaven if it did not go down in the
opposite direction. When strangers
come into these tropical climates, the
missionaries do their best to entertain
them, making sacrifices for that pur-
pose.
In the city of Benares a missionary
told me that gentleman coming from
England into one of the mission sta
tions of India, the missionaries banded
together to entertain him. Among
other things, they had a ham boiled.
prepared and beautifully decorated,
and the same ham was passed around
from house to house as this stranger
appeared, and in other respects con.
spiracy Of kindness was effected The
visitor went home to England end
wrote and spoke Of the luxury in which
the missionaries of India We're living.
Americans and Englishinen come tc
these tropical regions and find mis-
sionary 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 are 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 the
man finds himself Four cents day
for coachman; a missionary can af
lOIu w lnStC navy oCCi mis-
sionaries who have come to these hot
climates resolving to live as the ma .
tives live, and one or two years have
finished their work, their chief use on Il
ground being that of fur d
nishing for large funeral the chief II
object of interest So far from living O
in idleness, no men on earth work SC !.
hard as the missionaries now in the Il
foreign field. Against fearful odds, a.
and with three millions of Christians
opposed to two hundred and fifty mil :,
ions Of Hindoos, Mohammedans and 3
other false religions these mission s,
aries are trying to take India for
God. Let the good people of America. "
md England, and Scotland and Of all y
yhristendom add ninety-nine and n
per cent. to their APP o,
probation of the fidelity and consecra. al
ion Of foreign missionaries Far away
rom home, in an exhausting climate,
md compelled to send their children A
o England, Scotland, or America SO T
IS to csc - tho corrupt conversation =
md behay ~ Vi lhe natives, these men y
md woll.n of God toll on until they
Irop into their graves. But they will
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