"Much as the English authorities would like to abolish the appalling Indian worship of Kali, the Goddess of Revolution, the popularity of her little shrine within easy reach of government house seems to increase year by year"
"And the strangest part of the whole thing is that this worship is not confined to the most ignorant of the Hindoos, but is participated in to an equal degree by those who have had the advantage of European residence and education"
"Kali is known to the revolutionists of India as the Mother; she has four arms; her hands are covered with blood; in one she holds aloft a dripping sword and in the other a freshly severed head;"
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"Hidden in the treacherous and wild recesses of San Antone canyon, thirty miles back of Mount Hamilton and fifty-seven miles from San Jose, is a Hindu camp, known as the Shanti Ashrama, meaning a peace retreat..."
"where the hundred members of a peculiar Asiatic cult practice their fanatical religion and hold nightly orgies. The recording of a deed here last week brought to light the location of the strange camp where men live alone, hoping by solitude to gain spiritual advance..."
"The first Hindu temple in the western world according to the San Francisco Vedanta society, was dedicated last evening in the new building at the corner of Webster and Filbert streets"
"The edifice ois unique in a western city, being modeled after the great Taj Mahal of India, one of seven wonders of the world, the famous temple of Benares, of Shiva, and after some of the old European castles"
"India is the strangest, most colorful, and weirdly mysterious land under the sun. It at once fascinates and repulses; thrills and appalls; delights and saddens. Bound up in a bundle of complexes so legion that even the thought of understanding it is futile"
"India the eternal, the immutable, remains a challenge to a modern world of realities-- the iconoclast of nations-- ruthlessly disproving the accepted beliefs of a scientific world, laughing at man-made conventions, and transforming the impossible into the commonplace"
"Baba Bharati discoursed last night on the modern preachers of Christianity, some of whom he called 'kid preachers of Christ,' which formed the title of his talk, with special references to the attacks made on him last Sunday by a minister"
"He said in part: 'Poor Christianity, the great religion of the greater Nazarene, has suffered horribly through the centuries at the hands of unchristian, fanatical preachers, while its most sacred emblem, the cross, has been bathed in the blood of myriads of human beings..."
"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"