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Mr. Gandhi was given a perfect ovation as he stepped forward in his Oriental costume of royal purple silk and yellow turban and sash, and said : 'Brothers and sisters of America: 1 greet you in the name of India and her three millions of sons and daughters. I greet you as brothers and sisters and bring you a message of peace, love, universal brotherhood and fellowship from the aged and well-preserved nation of India, which is proud to clasp the hand of the youngest child of the ages. Our country in all confidence places in your lap the key to its archives of ancient philosophy and attainments, because you are in a perfect intellectual condition to appreciate its mystical treasures of religious lore. India has been studied from the outside and from a limited point of view and consequntly misunderstood'. THE JAMESTOWN ALL, NEW YORK, AUG. 13, 1894
The Buffalo excursion brought six carloads of people, and the Jamestown and Titusville the same. It was a big day' and most of the people came to hear the learned Hindu, Virchand Gandhi. His subject Sunday afternoon was his impressions of our country and its varoius institutions. He complimented us, as a nation, on our hospitality, our common schools and universal education, thought our natural resources and industries marvellous, and made comparisons between us and his own Jainist people. In his lecture Saturday he gave, "India's Message to America”, and the lecture took every one by storm. He is so full of kindness and brotherly love for the American people, and so clear in expressing his ideas to us that no one can help but feel, after listening to him, that the Jainist people did well in
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