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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 protraying the excruciating pains and heart-rending agonies of the poor animals, writhing under the knives of the heartless butchers, have reclaimed many flesh-eaters to the pure Hindu vegetarian diet and have taught them to respect the feelings even of the lower creation -an object lesson of spiritual life which India has still to preach and teach to most of the civilized nations of the world.
Your strong protests against the misrepresentations by the American missionaries of the Indian life and morals, your valuable advice, for the introduction of the American system of practical education in Indian schools, your genuine desire to see our Indian students in England, paying particular attention of English arts and manufactures with the object of improving and promoting Indian industries, your contributions of the Indian press for drawing the attention of our educated youths to commercial fields that are open for them in England and America - these are some of the multifarious subjects that have held us in unspeakable wonder, and speak volumes for your sound judgement and comprehensive abilities.
This large and influential gathering rejoices to see that you are the first Hindu among the whole Hindu Community of India, to take your wife to America and to give a partial
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