The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ts stress. It is within a recent period the English authori-ties caused to be cabled broadcast throughout theworld, the press dispatch giving the interestingdetails of the conference of Brahmin priests, ar-ranged at Calcutta by the government of it, prayers were made to Brahma for the especialprotection of Great Britains army in South Africa,as also for the peace of mind and continued good ACCORDING TO THEIR UGHT. 141 health of the Empress-Queen. Mention was m
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ts stress. It is within a recent period the English authori-ties caused to be cabled broadcast throughout theworld, the press dispatch giving the interestingdetails of the conference of Brahmin priests, ar-ranged at Calcutta by the government of it, prayers were made to Brahma for the especialprotection of Great Britains army in South Africa,as also for the peace of mind and continued good ACCORDING TO THEIR UGHT. 141 health of the Empress-Queen. Mention was madein the cablegram, of the presents by the govern-ment of her Majesty, of costly shawls to the of-ficiating priests, and in every manner eclat andimpressiveness were added to the religious demon-stration. Granted, that all this was for effect uponthe millions of Hindus within the Empire, ratherthan upon the world at large, this in no wise altersthe fact, that the course taken was by a great Chris-tian country, through its highest dignitaries, and at atime when the friend in need, coerced or complacent,was friend XIX. THE NERVE OF THE JOGEE. Probably in no one respect is Hinduism morewidely misunderstood through the representationsmade of its principles, than as regards its our pulpits, one usually hears the religionof the Hindus summed up as the absorption of selfinto idiocy, the inane concentration of the visionupon nothingness, and complete inactivity of thebody to the point of paralysis. This is about ascommon in India as the strained conceptions enter-tained in Christian lands, of the highest spiritualismof the Gospels. In all religions there has been, still is and everwill be, asceticism, but it is exceptional in every oneof them, and in none is relatively less the rule thanin Hinduism. Christians naturally object, and very rightly, to THK NERVK OF THK J0GE:E. 143 having their faith painted on the lines of SimeonStylites perched upon a lofty pillar
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