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APPENDIX
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When Virchandbhai went to America for the third time, various communities arranged a function, under the chairmanship of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and gave him the following address :
To,
Virchand Raghawji Gandhi, ESQ., B.A., M.R.A.S.
Jain Education International
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Dear Brother,
We, your friends and admirers, have assembled here to day to give expression to our sentiments of deep gratitude and high admiration, which we so sincerely cherish for you, in due appreciation of the invaluable and innumerable services, which you have so creditably rendered to the members of your Community and to the people of India in general, by fostering brotherly feelings in the hearts of the kind and courteous Americans for the people of our renowned India.
We feel much satisfaction and pride to repeat that we find in you, not only a representative of the Jain Religion, at the famous Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago, but at the same time, we find in you a most energetic and competent advocate of the cause of Indian Philosophy Disregarding the unavoidable inconveniences, which present themselves to an orthodox Hindu traveller scrupulously following the prescriptions of religion, while prosecuting noble work, which you have so cheerfully undertaken, you visited different parts of America and preached in lofty tones from public and private pulpits, the religious and philosophical
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