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death. His late Highness Sir Bhavsinhji, K. C. S, I., Maharaja Saheb of Bhawnagar, with whom Mr. Motichand, grand-father of the hero, had come in contact in early years and remained a life-long acquaintance, took a keen interest in the welfare of our friend and his lamented father Mr. Lalloobhai, B. A., LL. B., and a respected State official who died of in the prime of youth.
His Highness's solicitude in the welfare of the family of Mr. Motichand was so genuine that Mr. Prataprai was placed, by his orders, under the care of a civil surgeon for treatment. The doctor, while he saw the visible and sure signs of a body that was doomed to an early and premature death, was struck with the serenity and the balanced calm of the soul within. With the true religious instinct of a Jain, a believer in the infimite potentiality and immortality of the soul, and with a firm and unshakable belief that the soul has a body, not the body a soul, the body being only a transient and transitory clayey vesture for the expression of the emotions of the soul, he quietly bore the untimely death of his dear father and showed resigned and calm attitude as of elderly saint at his own shuffling off of this mortal coil.
He faithfuly inherited the characteristics of toleration, forgiveness, nobility of heart, spiritual patience and religious devotion from his parents-the qualities which are personified in the life and action of his widow-mother Maniben who leads now a strictly religious life.
Such should be a short account of a spirit that had only a short span of early life, but a large and a higher mission to unfold to parents, friends and acquaintances,
• Give me that man that is not passion's slave, . And I will wear him in my heart's core.'
F. K
