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APPENDIX - 7
SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE
WOMEN OF INDIA
Mrs. Marion Spencer, President. Col. F.W. Parker, Vice-President, Mrs. Chas. Howard, Secretary. Mr. W. M. Schrempf, Treasurer.
Chicago Office
6558 Stuart Boul Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi, Bombay India. My Dear Brother,
in your letter, which I have just received, you ask me for the news. The most interesting and perhaps the most important news (at least which appears so to me) is the announcement in this morning's paper of the resignation of Dr. Barrows (President of the Chicago Parliament of Religions) from his Church for the purpose of lecturing in India on Christianity. I presume it is the only thing he can do to save his reputation as a true orthodox minister, especially since so many so many old fogies, incarnations from the dark ages, and who are still five hundred years behind times, have found much fault with his liberal and unbiased way of conducting the proceedings of the Parliament. I have, in my travels through the Eastern States, heard him being accused by ministers who are not abreats with the times, as not being a true Presbyterian. You may not be sufficiently
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