. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . in the primitive looms of Amritsar. Here is rough paper, made of bamboo and the bark of tr<just such as merchants wrote their letters on, and sent them byswift couriers up and down the valley of the Euphrates, many along century ago. Here are monumental tablets, with worn in-scriptions, reared by kings whose very names are forgotten inthe rapid march towards the newer and the more is a warriors freak. It is a sword, with open steel handle,richly inlaid with gold and silver. It has a long hilt, and up anddown its lengt


. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . in the primitive looms of Amritsar. Here is rough paper, made of bamboo and the bark of tr<just such as merchants wrote their letters on, and sent them byswift couriers up and down the valley of the Euphrates, many along century ago. Here are monumental tablets, with worn in-scriptions, reared by kings whose very names are forgotten inthe rapid march towards the newer and the more is a warriors freak. It is a sword, with open steel handle,richly inlaid with gold and silver. It has a long hilt, and up anddown its length run beautiful grooves, into which loose pearls arelet, which glided back and forth as the sword was handled. Buthere in rich and great Labor there is no dearth of emeralds,pearls, and diamonds. They were the playthings of kings andtheir wives. Special emissaries were sent out on long missionsto search the world for the best. Many a life was wasted in tho(piest, and many a province was lost and won when the stakewas one woman and a handful of HINDU rOTTEK, LAHOR. CHAPTER LXXVIL THE GOLDEN TEMPLE OF AMRITSAR We were met at the Amritsar station by a Christian native,the Padre Rajib Ali. He is a fine illustration of the power ofChristianity to gather grand trophies from any false faith. Hewas formerly a Sikh, and a firm believer in the teachings of theSikh Gurus. He came in contact with the Gospel, however, andresolved to accept it. He made public profession of the Chris-tian faith, and was baptized by the Rev. Mr. Knowles. He nowedits a Christian paper, which is doing excellent service in prop-agating the gospel among the Sikh people. The padre is tall,grave, serene, and in personal appearance as fine a specimen ofthe physical man as I have ever seen. We were to see nothing in Amritsar until we had taken must be in the good padres own house. His wife anddaughter were in Calcutta, and we saw only his beautiful niece. Amritsar, with its 134,000 people, and i


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