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The Times-Dispatch, 1910
"AWAKENING OF THE HINDUS-- HOW MODERN CIVILIZATION AFFECTS THEIR CASTES AND RELIGION -- STRANGE GODS AND HEATHEN DEVILS"
#HindooHistory #FrankCarpenter
"AWAKENING OF THE HINDUS-- HOW MODERN CIVILIZATION AFFECTS THEIR CASTES AND RELIGION -- STRANGE GODS AND HEATHEN DEVILS"
#HindooHistory #FrankCarpenter
"In the holy city of Benares, on the banks of old Mother Ganges, where I can hear the splashing of the pilgrims as they wash off their sins, I write of the Hindu religion"
"The subject is too big for abstruse discussion, too varied for detailed narration and too complicated for the ordinary Christian mind, without study, to grasp it."
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."
