PUNISHING IDOLS IN INDIA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 51.

PUNISHING IDOLS IN INDIA.

During the recent famine in India the people prayed before their idols for rain. The following incident is narrated of the people of Aurungabad, in Western India: “The Hindus had hired Brahman priests to keep up their noisy worship before the village idols, and fully expected abundant rain as the result of their worship. But after waiting for days and weeks they resolved to punish the gods, who had received costly offerings without giving them the looked-for blessing in return. In some places they indignantly besmeared their idols all over with mud, and closed up the entrance of the temple with thorns. In others they filled up the temples with water and blocked up the doors, so that the idols might shiver in wet as a punishment for keeping their fields dry.” —Gospel in All Lands.