Jyotirdharni Jivan Gatha Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

SR No.: 005204
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pannalal R Shah
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 82
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 6 MB

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જ્યોતિર્ધરની જીવન ગાથા – by foreigners from times immemorial, as the Mother of Religions and the Cradle of Civilization. This, in itself is a sign, prophesying good for the Orient and the Occident.
But your Mission did not end here; you next concentrated all your energies in a pitched battle against the giant of darkness assuming various forms and especially against lack of education among the women of this country, which is one of the saddest and most deplorable condition of Indian Society, and leading the van of most of the sympathetic and humane sisters of America you succeeded in founding an “International Society for the Education of Women in India,” which Society, we are much pleased to hear, has sent three of our Hindu sisters to America, with the offer to maintain and educate them, for three years at the expense of the Society, so that they may be enabled to practically study how to become proper help-mates to their husbands and pioneers in the work of reforming our Society. We respectfully solicit your favour to convey to our American Sisters our feelings of the deepest gratitude for the noble help they have offered to our Indian Sisters, and also to convey our best sympathies and choicest blessings in their noble mission of patronizing female education in India.
Equally precious are your services, during the recent famine of India, when you got enlisted, with your characterristic promptness, the sympathy of the kind-hearted Americans for the poorer masses, who were starving to death for want of sufficient food, and sent a ship to India, ladon with American maize for free distribution among the famine stricken people. These services, and these touches of your philanthropic disposition, we assure you, our dear brother, have rightly earned for you our leasting admiration and gratitude.
The cause of vegetarianism is equally commanding our admiration-your numerous addresses so vividly portraying the excruciating pains and heart-rending agonies of the poor animals, writhing under the knieves of the heartless butchers,
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