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Omaha Bee, 1910
"Benares, Holy City Where Sin is Nullified Regardless of Conditions"
#HindooHistory #FrankCarpenter #Benares
"Benares, Holy City Where Sin is Nullified Regardless of Conditions"
#HindooHistory #FrankCarpenter #Benares
"This is the holiest city on the face of the globe. All who die within fifty miles of Benares, whether they be Hindoos or Mohammedans, Buddhists or Christians, liars or thieves, go straight to heaven"
"Even to visit Benares wipes away sin, and to bathe in the holy Ganges which flows by it will make you eternally happy. It is the greatest pilgrimage city on earth."
The Grenada sentinel, 1894
"BURNING THE DEAD"
"Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Hindoo Custom"
"Refutation of Slanders Upon the Missionaries to India, and a Contrast Between Christianity and Idolatry Drawn"
#HindooHistory #Benares
"BURNING THE DEAD"
"Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Hindoo Custom"
"Refutation of Slanders Upon the Missionaries to India, and a Contrast Between Christianity and Idolatry Drawn"
#HindooHistory #Benares
"The following discourse by Rev. T DeWitt Talmage, being the third of his round-the-world press series, is on the subject of 'Burning the Dead,' and is based on the text:
"They have hands but they handle not, feet have they but they walk not. neither speak they through their throat. That they make them are like unto them"
“It seems hard to believe that in this civilized day there should exist anywhere, such preposterous absurdity as are practiced in India in the name of religion”
“Although England has ruled here for more than a century, and the Protestant missionary societies have spent upwards of a hundred million gold dollars in trying to make converts to Christianity, the mass of people still adhere to the ridiculous practices of the ancients”
