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tenets of Hinduism, and we are extremely glad to endorse the opinion of the American public and the press, that you have succeeded with all the moral triumph of a conscientious preacher, in awakening American interest and sympathies for the religion and philosophy of India, which has been so gloriously hailed 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 the 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 pratronizing female education in India.
Equally precious are your services, during the recent famine of India, when you got enlisted, with your characteristic promptness, the sympathy of the kind hearted Americans for the poorer masses, who were straving to death for want
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