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(o) Many pigs are sacrificed each week in the villages quite close around the sacred city vï Kashi”—The Central llindu College Magazine, Nov., 1911.
(6) “ There is a class of Brachmins who andually offer animal sacrifices, in the belief that their scriptures require them. Such sacrifices hare, of late, become very numerous. In offering goats, they are killed by a slow process of excruciating torture which is, or should be, revolting to human nature. The Theosophist, Juve, 1899.
(7) A missionary lady, writing to the Indian Witness, " deplores the expensire babit of meat-eating which is spreading among Indian Christians-Indian Spectator, October 18th, 1914.
's The total number of Christians is now twice as large as in 1881. - The Commonweal, February 27th, 1914.
I koor that you, Reverend Sir, are a rery great and earnest advocate of the Vegetarian Diet, and that your Salvation Army has come to India for the material as well as the spiritual welfare of the mn:llions of ber people. I, therefore, pray that you may kindly order your Army officers in all parts of India to live as vegetarians, and also to preach to the people the various advantages of the regetarian diet, thereby trying to stop the huge and steadily increasing butchery of millions of poor animals in India, with all the diabolical horrors inseparably connected with the Meat Trade and Religious Bloodthirstiness.
Yours respectfully, Junagad, Inda,
25th March, 1914. LABHSHANKAR LAXMIDAS.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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