The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-02-28
Mt. STERLING. KENTUCKY. TUESDAY FEBRUARY %, 1899

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hsmmedsn will always wear beard
A Hindoo is seldom seen with .
beard. Hindooism is the religion Of
the bulk of the people.
The Hindoos are divided up into
innumarable castles. They believe men
are distinct rs to their origin. The
Brahmsn came from the head of Goo.
the Kshatri from the arms of God,
the Vaishva from the thigh of God,
the Sudrs from the feet of God,
and he IL the slave of the higher
castles. A man of the higher castles
will have no direct contact with
the lower castles. This caste sys-
tenn is great barrier in the way of
the gospel. For man of the higher
castles to become a christian means
that he must be equal with the chris-
tisns of the lower csstes. The grace Of
God can alone remove the prejudices
Of lifetime. Hindoos believe that
God may be worshipped in the COW,
the monkey, the elephant, the rock,
the tree. the stone, the sun, etc. Hin
dooism teaches that lite is sacred in
all animals. The Brahman who kills
an animal without reason will die
violent deaths in future incarnstions
10 the number of hairs in the body of
the animals he killed. Hinduism
teaches that there have been many
incsrnstions of the Deity, but the
Hindoos know of no Savior from sin
and guilt.
There are 100000 lepers; 4l7,0O0
die from cholera every year; $1,000
die from snake bites, and 100000
die from mslarial fever. The average
term Of life is twenty-six years. June
aud july the months for cholera cpl
denies. September and October Is
the time when fever prevails. The
people of India are very poor. Fifty
million have only one meal a day.
They live mostly on rice. Some OF
the very poor people eat the carcasses
of oxen and buffaloes. A day laborer
receives from Eve to ten cents. The
average population per square nile is
1874; in United States OF America it
is Is. NJ. Moozsmder writes: AS
Christ's religion consecrates suffering,
crowns sorrow, raises the fallen, heals
the afflicted, it has supreme message
for tue affi icted Hindoo."
The Danes began mission work in
l705. Carey was not allowed to work
IN British India. His work was done
under the Danish flag. There are now
So societies at work, with S57 or
daiaed missionaries, 797 ordained ma.
tive ministers, 3,49l native unordain-
ed preachers, and I'll lady mission
aries. There are 81 theological and
training schools. There are 81 medi-
cal missionaries, and l6S native ply
sicians with l66 hospitals or dispen.
saries. In one field, in one day, 1922
were baptized in the same field, in
forty-five days, there were 5000 bap-
tisms upon confession of faith. When
Carey entered India of a night he
would see the glare of fire in the
distance. The breezes would bring
to him the odor Of burning flesh and
hair and bones. Ten thousand wild
ows were burned every month with
their husbands. Now the unusual
suffice affairs are seen by the mission
airy, and the old men tell of the last
suffice they witnessed as children.
When Carey entered India, schools
for children were unknown. The BIZ
BILE was not translated. Now the BIZ
BILE is translated in every written Ian
suage in India. In Bombay there is a
large native church paying its own
pastor, churches are being organized
all over the country, and the day of
redemption draws nigh.
Our own work was begun in In
dia was begun in 1882. The F. C. NJ.
s. has four stations and several out
stations. The missionaries do preach
ing, pastoral work, teaching, zenana
work; orphanages are opened, medi-
cine is distributed with the preach
ing of the Word, and books are sold
The claims of so large an empire as
India should surely not only be ad.
mitted. but realized. Should not the
interests of one-fiith of our race stir up
our deepest sympathies and the ardu-
Gus effort of our blood-bought pow
ers? Does not the low wall of the
helpless, hopeless misery, arising from
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