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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 43.

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Indian Ascetics and Morality

THERE are about five million five hundred thousand men in India who have given up all earthly employment, who live apart as ascetics, and spend their time in roaming around the country as religious mendicants. These persons are, in the main, doubtless possessed of the laudable ambition to be holy and to prepare themselves for union with Brahm. And yet, as a matter of fact, they are the most pestilential in their morals of all the people of the land. At the same time many of them regard themselves, and are regarded by their co-religionists, as the acme of piety. Nevertheless, they daily trample under foot every command of the decalogue.—Selected.