The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . in married life to be shorn of any part of it is aloss from which she never recovers. The careof the long, fine tresses is one of very great personalpleasure, and the pride in them is manifest in thecarriage of her head. THE TIK THAT BINDS. 215 Fraternal affection and filial constancy arestrongly demonstrated in the Hindu, whose charac-teristics in such respect, have ever led him to bedutiful and obedient toward his elders, among whomnone have place in his estimation e
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . in married life to be shorn of any part of it is aloss from which she never recovers. The careof the long, fine tresses is one of very great personalpleasure, and the pride in them is manifest in thecarriage of her head. THE TIK THAT BINDS. 215 Fraternal affection and filial constancy arestrongly demonstrated in the Hindu, whose charac-teristics in such respect, have ever led him to bedutiful and obedient toward his elders, among whomnone have place in his estimation equalling that ofthe mother. She is a kind of deity to him, the ven-eration paid her being akin to that bestowed upon thehighest of the gods. Indeed every village has itsmother god, which is reverenced as the symbol ofall that is holiest in earthly life. Through thisfiguration of the common motherhood oblationsare offered for those who are about to become moth-ers, and to these, as to the family and all centeringin and about it, this, the guardian saint as our Cath-olic friends would say, is the nearest and dearest. A BOY! Motherhood is the supreme earthly joy of theHindu woman. From a child she has looked for-ward, made sacrifices, performed her religious duties,preserved her purity and unceasingly prayed for itsconsummation. It has been the transport of herwaking, as it has been the blissful vision of hersleeping hours, to be the mother of a boy ; to havea son who shall grow up to be the delight of bothparents and perform for them the death rites whichnone but a direct male descendant can in the fullsurety of effectiveness. It is the deep down andunutterably solemn sense of the religious aspect ofthe situation, as between the advent of a son and thatof a daughter, which marks the difference in thereception. The one means the realization of thesacred hope so long and fondly cherished, the frui- A BOY I 217 tion of gladness to be followed by the joyful par-ticipation of r
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