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પરિશિષ્ટ - ૬ જ્યારે ત્રીજી વખત અમેરિકાના પ્રવાસે “શ્રી વીરચંદભાઈ ગયા. ત્યારે સ્વ. ન્યાય મૂર્તિ મહાગોવિંદ રાનડેના પ્રમુખપણા નીચે જુદી જુદી કોમનો એકત્રિત મહાન મેળાવડો થયો હતો તે વખતે તેમને અંગ્રેજીમાં માનપત્ર અર્પવામાં આવ્યું હતું – તેની નકલ આ પ્રમાણે છે -
To,
Virchand Raghowji Gandhi, ESQ., B.A., M.R.A.S.
Dear Brother,
We, your friends and admirers, have assembled here to day to give expression to our sentiments of deep gratitute and high admiration, which we so sincerely cherish for you, in due appreciation of the invlauable 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, 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 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
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