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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 41.

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A CROWD OF WORSHIPPERS AT A HINDU FESTIVAL, DEHRA DUN, NORTH INDIA
A CROWD OF WORSHIPPERS AT A HINDU FESTIVAL, DEHRA DUN, NORTH INDIA

The Hindu’s Gift

By W. R. French

A BENGAL Hindu, who is feeling after the Christian’s God, had been attacked by fellow Hindus, with some loss of his goods, for having deeded to the mission a plat of land—the finest in the village—for a Christian church.
“Are you sorry now that you gave the land to the mission?” I asked, seated with him on the mat covering the dirt floor of his little cottage.
“Sorry?—Never!” he replied. “Why should I be sorry? I have done nothing wrong, and why should I be sorry when I have only made an offering to my God?”
This man’s gift represents a twentieth of his entire wealth, and I am sure his heart goes with the gift. Many of the Hindu people in this village are favorable to the truth, and they have erected a school building where we teach about one hundred of their boys.
W. R. FRENCH.
Calcutta.