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Aryan ascetic Asoka baptism Benares Bengal Bihār Brahmă Brahman British rule Buddha Buddhism Burma Calcutta Carey caste century chap chief Christ Christian Church Christian community Christian ideas classes converts death desire district Dravidian Dravidian races early educated efforts existence faith famine Ganges Ghats Gospel heart Hindu Hindu society Hinduism history of India human ideal Indian Christians Indian Church Indian village influence invasions Krishna labour languages lives London Missionary Society Madras ment millions Missionary Society Missions in India moral movements Muhammadan native northern opportunity out-caste peasant plains population problem prosperous Protestant Provinces Punjab races Rāma Rāmānuja Rāmāyana reach religion religious rites rivers sacred salvation Schwartz Shānān shrine Sītā Siva social soul south India southern spiritual story Sūdra Tamil Telugu Telugu country temple thousands tianity Tinnevelly tion to-day touched tracts tribes truth Vishnu western Western Ghats women worship
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Page 125 - applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India.
Page 20 - in which her image is worshipped or a single priest to profit by the delusion. As in the case of the Ganges, it is the river itself to whom they address themselves, and not to any deity residing in it or presiding over it—the stream itself is the deity which fills their imaginations and receives their homage.
Page 155 - suggested that they should consider " whether the command given to the apostles to teach all nations was not obligatory on all succeeding ministers to the end of the world, seeing that the accompanying promise was of equal extent.
Page 111 - quickly healed ; the ravaged fields smiled again as the patient oxen and no less patient husbandmen resumed their interrupted labours, and the places of the slain myriads were filled by the teeming swarms of a population which knows no limits save those imposed by the cruelty of man or the still more pitiless operations of nature.
Page 154 - consisting of several sheets of paper pasted together by himself, on which he had drawn with a pen a place for every nation in the known world, and entered | into it whatever he met with in reading, relative to its population, religion.
Page 112 - His majesty feels remorse on account of the conquest of the Kalingas, because, during the subjugation of a previously unconquered country, slaughter, death and taking away captive of the people necessarily occur. Whereat his majesty feels profound sorrow and regret.
Page 155 - You are a miserable enthusiast for asking such a question. Certainly nothing can be done before another Pentecost, when an effusion of miraculous gifts, including the gift of tongues, will give effect to the commission of Christ as at first.
Page 146 - young candidate for this arduous undertaking afraid of a refusal, the rest equally fearing a consent. At length his father came down from his chamber, gave him his blessing, and bade him depart in God's name ; charging him to " forget his native country and his father's house, and to go and win many souls
Page 111 - She continued to live her life of " splendid isolation " and soon forgot the passing of the Macedonian storm. No Indian author, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain, makes even the faintest allusion to Alexander or his deeds.
Page 220 - I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed . . . nothing shall be impossible unto you.