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Hindu Abuses are not arguments against any reli. gion nor self adulation the proof of the truth of one's own. For such I have the greatest pity. There are a few Hindu temples in Southern India where women singers are employed to sing on certain occasions. Some of them are of dubious character, and the Hindu Society feels it and is trying its best to remove the evil. These wornen are never allowed to enter the main body of the temple and as for their being priestesses, there is not one woman priest from the Himalay to Cape Comorin.
If the present abuses in India have been produced by the Hindu religion' the same religion had the strength of producing a society which made the Greek Historian say, "No Hindu was ever known to tell an untruth, no Hindu woman ever known to be unchaste," and even in the present day, where is the chaster woman or milder man than in India ?
In the last place I am very, very sorry for those who criticise the great ones of India, and my only consolation is that all their information about them has come from third hand, or fourth hand sources, percolating through layers of superstition and bigotry. To those who find in the refusal of the Hindu to criticise the character of Jesus tacit acceptation of the superiority of the finatical nil admiraricult they represent, I am
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