The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-06
TOLD BY H1NDoo STUDENT.
Now in Corvallis Hindoos Never MUIR
der-Why They Marry


Though there are 900 millions of
people in India, murder is almost
unknown there. The condition is
phenomenal in contrast with other
countries, in all of which murder
and murderers abound. The fact
is ascribed by Mr.. Makurdji, Him
doc now in Corvallis, to the indu-
ence the Hindoo religion wields on
the people of India. Mr.. Makurdji
is highly educated. speaks English
huently and is an intelligent young
man Of 20 or 80 years of age. Sat-
urday night, he delivered an infor-
NAL lecture before the Ladies Read
ing Club at the home of Miss Smell,
with the religion and literature of
India for topic.
The Hindoos, according to Mr..
Makurji, are far more devout than
our own Christians. They believe
every man to be the son of God,
and accept Jesus Christ and believe
in the new testament. They believe
man after death is born again as a
child and he lives over and over a.
gain on earth. being always uneon-
scious of his former life. The
length of the period between death
and the new birth is neither fixed ncr
understood. Every Hindoo lives, not
Tor his own, but for everybody S
| benefit A Hindoo marries, not for
helping himself or for fulfilling his
own particular desires. but with the
idea of bringing another worker in
to the household
The new wife is brought into the
family, where the son remains to
help the parents until the father at
tains the age of fifty, when the lat
ter retires from work and spends
his time in thought and religious
meditation. Many Hindoos retire
from the world, and live in caves in
the Hima1aya mountains, subsisting
mainly on the fruits that abound in
that tropical cline. Charity and
aims giving is a national trait and
the beggar to whom a suit of clothes
and money is given at night, may
have bestowed it all on fellow beg
gar by the morning The main
thought of the people is their re1ig-
ion, and but little attention is paid
or interest taken in the accummula-
ton of property Though in social
life there are castes to the number
of four, with lines of etiquette tight
1y drawn, there are no sects in their
religion, and they are amazed at
the number and variety of denoni-
nations and churches in the Chris
tan religion. They dislike athe.
missionaries, whom Mr.. Makurdji
says undertake to teach them about
a Christ that the Hindoos have. al
! ready accepted as He is, but whom
the missionaries undertake to give
to them as the American or Europe
an churchmen accept him "They
| want to dress Christ up in their
kind of nectie, and hat and coat,
and give him to us that way" said
| the Hindoo student
The literature of the Hindoos
contains an epic, similar to Homer S
Il1iad, that tells a beautiful story,
which narrated in the foreign ac-
cent and graceful style of this Hin
doc student, far removed now from
his native land, was charming en-
tertainment for those who listened
to it at Miss Smells home
Mr.. Makardji is doing work in
the college laboratories, while he
waits for a friend who is to reach
Corvallis from Japan in two weeks
OF month, after which both leave
for the St. Lot1is Exposition. Mr.
Makardji may return to o. A. c.,
when school opens in thefall.