The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-22
EVANGELIST BROWN
TALKS ABOUT INDIA
THRILLING EXPERIENCES WHILE
TRAVELLING IN lNDiA-MoNkEY
AND COW WORSHIP.


interesting and instructive lecture az
the Christian church last evening on
India. He told Of the burning Of the
dead, COW and monkey worship, and
in thrilling way told Of some Of
his experiences while there. It is a
rare opportunity that the people Of
Ardmorc have in having a man in
the city who speaks from personal
experience in describing the various
countries in which he has travelled.
Mr. Brown delighted the children and
teachers oi the third ward school
Friday In his lecture on China. He
will speak at some of the other
schools this week. He uses very
fine stereopticon in his Saturday
evening lectures.
Among other things Mr. Brown
said: India is one of the most inter.
esting countries in the world in
which to travel India has a number
q good hotels ia the larger cities
and good eating houses at most ali
the railway stations. Living is very
cheap. II costs about half as much
TO travel in India as it does in this
country. Boys and girls marry at
the age of seven, the wedding and
match are always arranged by the
mothrs and fathers of the contract.
Ing parties, as they frequently are
in this country. Many boys think
they are too old 20 attend school
after they marry and since they
marry at such an early age in life
YOU can see that but few of them
ever ge5 much Of an education"
In a mission school there were
about forty children, picked up most
ly from the streets | saw one girl
with twelve earrings in each ear.
rings on her toes. rings on her fin
gers, bracelets on her wrists. anklets
on her ankles, and a ring in her
nose. After they become Christians
they take off this iewelry. Most Of
our customs come to us from some
heather country. can remember
the time when girls and women
used TO wear earrings in this coun-
try, and We claim to be civilized
Those who are opposed TO foreign
missions in the states tell us that
the Indians have a religion and that
We should not molest them. Such
people are ignorant as to the real
conditions in foreign countries. We
will look at the Hindu religion for a
moment. We find that they worship
COWS and monkeys. have entered
those old dirty COW and monkey
temples and have seen men and
women, by the thousand bowing be.
fore the COWS and placing wreaths
or flowers upon their heads and
then pour sacred water upon them.
The people themselves are half max
I'd and know but little of cleanli.
ness. fefore mixed audience |
cannot tell you all about their wor-
ship. II ! should you would call me
vulgar, yet | would only be describ-
ing the practice OF the Hindu wor.
shippers. They believe in the trans.
mission of the soul; when they die
they expect to come back TO the
earth and inha.it a COW or a mon
key; hence they never kill either
fer fear they might kill their grand
father or mother
"Of course, there are rich people
IN India, but most OF them are eX'
tremely poor | saw hundreds OF chill
dren on the streets and along the
highways whose only dress was a lit
tie chain around Their waists, and
many did not even wear the chain
| was ON one street where seventy
. people had died of the terrible plague
the day before saw them take dead
bodies off the trains on which | was
- travelling. They never quarantine in
india II is claimed by our medical
missionaries that they can cure ninety
five per cent Of al plague diseases
il they get them in time. But they
usually wait until it is too late and
If the patient dies they say that the
doctor put a devil into it and killed
IT,"
The Tag Mahal Is the most beauti
. ful building in the world 1t took TWEEN
q ~ thousand men seventeen years ia
build 10, and five thousand of then
died of fever or were accidentally
killed while erecting il, and it cost fif
teen million dollars. The workmer
received from four to eight cents Q
, day for their labor II was built for
. a tomb for one OF the emperor's five
hundred wives. Look this up in youl
} cyclopedias"
The revival has grown in interest
. until il has become necessary to gc
/, 10 the opera house for the Sunday ser
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