This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...and were he to drink "a cup of cold water," received from his hand, he would be excluded from caste. There is prejudice against the missionary in all his personal and social habits. He is ceremonially unclean in all he does. His food is unlawful; his mode of eating it is unclean. His minutest actions lack ceremonial ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...and were he to drink "a cup of cold water," received from his hand, he would be excluded from caste. There is prejudice against the missionary in all his personal and social habits. He is ceremonially unclean in all he does. His food is unlawful; his mode of eating it is unclean. His minutest actions lack ceremonial purity; he contracts defilement in all he does. Nor does his moral purity remove this powerful prejudice. So much is the moral sense of the Hindu paralyzed by the superstitious part of his nature, that he is little able, and less willing, to perceive the beauties of moral excellence. A defect in the false standard of purity and righteousness, which Hinduism sets up, would not be compensated by a more than angelic fulfilment of moral obligations. Again, the missionary is destitute of the usual signs and accompaniments of a religious character. He comes "eating and drinking," like other men. He enters on the same domestic relations. The symbols of religion are in his case absent. He is invested with no sacred insignia. No paintings are on his body, --no sacred cord is suspended from his neck. There is 164 "a Real Shastri." nothing, in fact, to sustain his profession of being a devotee--a worshipper of God. He worships no object palpable to the senses; he performs no visible prostrations. His spiritual exercises are far beyond their cognizance. The missionary is also considered as belonging to a country thoroughly ignorant of all true religion. This sentiment is natural to the Hindus, who confine the knowledge of all truth to the country bounded by the Himalehs and Comorin. It has also been considerably strengthened by the actual ungodliness which they witnessed in the first European residents, who, in the neglect of al...
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