HOW A CONVERTED INDIA WOMAN VIEWED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
SOME years ago the well-known Pundita Ramabai, a converted woman of India, came to this country. The following are her impressions after hearing about "Christian Science:" "On my arrival at New York last spring, I was told that a new philosophy was being taught in the United States, and had already many disciples. The philosophy was called Christian Science, and when I asked what its teachings were, I recognized it as being the same philosophy that has been taught among my people for four thousand years. . . . As I was born and educated in this philosophy, having taken my degree of pundita in it, I am acquainted with both its literature and its influence on my people, and I want to witness to its degradation. . . . You are to take the whole universe as nothing but falsehood. You are to think it does not exist. You do not exist when you realize that; that is philosophy. "You, Christians, are a people of some feeling. Everything is real. You feel when other people are starving you ought to give them something to eat; but out in India, they do not feel that. Men do not feel any sympathy for others. They do not feel for people who are starving or being killed in war. In our late famine our philosophers felt no compassion for sufferers, and did not help the needy. Why should they help them when they claimed the suffering was not real, neither the dying of children real? The first results, then, of this philosophy is the basest cruelty and selfishness; no compassion for sufferers, and supreme egotism."