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practical philosophy of his great teacher as well as his own luminous mind.
The Illustrated Buffalo Express, Aug. 12, 1894
On Saturday afternoon one of the most enthusiastic audiences ever known to the auditorium of Cassadaga listened to "The Message of India to the People of America," by Virchand R. Gandhi, B.A., of Bombay, India, who was elected by a vote of 5,000,000 Jains to represent them at the late world's Congress of Religions in Chicago.
Mr. Gandhi was given a perfect ovation as he stepped forward in his Oriental costume of royal purple silk and yellow turban and sash, and said : "Brothers and sisters of America: I greet you in the name of India and her three millions of sons and daughters. I greet you as brothers and sisters and bring you a message of peace, love, universal brotherhood and fellowship from the aged and wellpreserved nation of India, which is proud to clasp the hand of the youngest child of the ages. Our country in all confidence places in your lap the key to its archives of ancient philosophy and attainments, because you are in a perfect intellectual condition to appreciate its mystical treasures of religious lore. India has been studied from the outside and from a limited point of view and consequently misunderstood.” The Jamestown All, New York, Aug. 13, 1894
The Buffalo excursion brought six carloads of people, and the Jamestown and Titusville the same.
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