The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ly touchy on the subject of idols,when we all have them of one kind or another, andnone of them would pass muster as anything else ifsubjected to the strictly scriptural test. The markings upon the face one notes amongthe Hindus are indicative of the sects, and theirpresence show the prescribed bath of the day hasbeen taken or that he has conformed to other re-ligious regulations. Two perpendicular white lines passing from the MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS. Ill roots of the h
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ly touchy on the subject of idols,when we all have them of one kind or another, andnone of them would pass muster as anything else ifsubjected to the strictly scriptural test. The markings upon the face one notes amongthe Hindus are indicative of the sects, and theirpresence show the prescribed bath of the day hasbeen taken or that he has conformed to other re-ligious regulations. Two perpendicular white lines passing from the MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS. Ill roots of the hair to the eyebrows, a transverse linecrossing the top of the nose, connecting the othertwo, and a centering transverse streak of red, to-gether with the patches of white and red on thebreast and arms, denote the devotional latter, notwithstanding so frequently seen, is,nevertheless, the exception rather than the to marking is, as other things in religion,subject to the will being taken for the deed, and inthis I do not know that the average Hindu differs-very much from the average XV. THE WAY OF THE REFORMER. Native movements in India looking to the Chris-tianizing of the people have not received encourag-ing cooperation on the part of the EuropeanMissionaries, upon whom naturally depend theextent of the outside support accorded. Generallyspeaking, the English Protestant Missionary goes toIndia with the conviction that he has but the onething to do, and the one way to do it. There mustbe no compromising with the Devil, and he of thebig D is incarnated in Hinduism which, to a Churchof England man, is simply another name for heath-enism. No half-way measures, no acknowledgmentof anything whatever good in the old belief. Every-thing inherited, hallowed and cherished by theHindu must be thrown over, and at once. No useto continue the category, its operation as evidenced THE WAY OF THE REFORMER. II3 in what has not been accomplished is the s
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