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THE CRY OF THE HINDU

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 45.

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THE CRY OF THE HINDU.

WEARY are we of empty creeds, Of deafening calls to fruitless deeds; Weary of priests who can not pray, Of guides who show no man the way; Weary of rites wise men condemn, Of worship linked with lust and shame; Weary of custom, blind, enthroned, Of conscience trampled, God disowned; Weary of men in sections cleft, And Hindu life, of love bereft, Woman debased, no more a queen, Nor knowing what she once hath been; Weary of babbling about birth, And of the mockery men call mirth; Weary of life not understood, A battle, not a brotherhood; Weary of Kali-yuga years, Frightened with chaos, darkness, fears. Life is an ill; the sea of births is wide, And we are weary. Who shall be our guide? —Gospel in All Lands.