Thread by @HindooHistory

Western Kansasn World, 1888

"The Religion of the Hindoo"

"Some people, indeed most people, think of the population of India as barbarous and heathenish. It is a great mistake, and many missionaries wish they were, so hard is it to make impressions on them"

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"They are skilled metaphysicians and accomplished logicians. Why, the theories of Huxley and Darwin were known and tried by Hindoo masters 2,000 years ago and rejected"

"The Hindoo Triad is Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The Triad stands at the head of a vast pantheon of gods, numbering no less than 330,000,000, all of whom are monstrosities of vice"

"The Hindoo believes that the spirit within him is a spark of God-- in other words, he is a part of God-- a spark of God inclosed in clay, by means of environment in clay, and destined to pass through a long transmigration"

"You look forward to heaven as a place of supreme rest and happiness, where all is free from sin, sorrow, and trouble, while the Hindoo tortures himself through life to gain his summum bonum, and what is it?"

"It is the entire destruction of all personal consciousness that they live and torture themselves to gain"

"When a girl is born in India it is a disgrace, painful and humiliating. When a boy is born the mother is happy; but when a girl, 'a wretched girl,' is born, her mother is grieved and her husband disappointed"

"Until the British law interposed, these unnatural females-- do not call them mothers-- were wont to throw their female children into the rivers, to be devoured by crocodiles"

"The girl now is neglected until she reaches a marriageable age, and she must be wedded between the ages of 6 and 7 years before she is a woman. The fate of the Hindoo widow is terrible."

"She can never again wed, but must live in desolation for the rest of her days, although but a mere child. There are more than 21,000,000 widows in India today"