p. 10 | A Brahman’s Conversion to Christianity

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 4, 1910

A Brahman’s Conversion to Christianity

In a certain village of North India there resided an aged Brahman, skilled in the use of mantras,—magic spells to work good results or ill,—and especially in the art of casting the evil eye on any whom his clients wished to harm. He was resorted to from far and near by those who desired his services, and derived from them a fair income. He had taught the "black art" to his son, and at his death left to him his books and papers. It chanced that in some way this young man obtained an old copy of the Bible in Roman characters. In order to read the book, he learned the Roman alphabet, with which he was not previously acquainted. The result was that he gave up casting the evil eye, destroyed his books of magic, and was found by a missionary to be already a confessed Christian, although unbaptized.—Selected.