. A voice from the East to the young . cities, as wellin otber places, we see bow mucb tbe beatbenwill contribute to support tbeir wretcbed reb-gion. A ricb native of Calcutta bas beenknown to spend more tban one bundred thou-sand dollars at a single festival—^tbe festival oftbe goddess Karle—and more tban thirty thou-sand dollars every year afterwards during bislife for tbe same purpose. ISTot long since, arich native gave, at one time, to his idols moretban one million two hundred thousand what have Christians ever done to honortheir Saviour, which will bear comparisonwith what t
. A voice from the East to the young . cities, as wellin otber places, we see bow mucb tbe beatbenwill contribute to support tbeir wretcbed reb-gion. A ricb native of Calcutta bas beenknown to spend more tban one bundred thou-sand dollars at a single festival—^tbe festival oftbe goddess Karle—and more tban thirty thou-sand dollars every year afterwards during bislife for tbe same purpose. ISTot long since, arich native gave, at one time, to his idols moretban one million two hundred thousand what have Christians ever done to honortheir Saviour, which will bear comparisonwith what tbe beatben do for their idols?Alas I alas I bow few Christian men andwomen in all tbe Church are wilbng to giveeven one tenth of their annual income to theLord. Most of those who are rich hoard uptheir morj,ey instead of spending it for the pur-pose of saving souls. And there are manypsESons who have never given a farthing tosend tbe Gospel to the heathen. Oh! whatwii. such say when they must meet the hea-then ^t tbe bar of Grod ?. HINDOO GODDESS DDRGA. Pag 2 147. LETTERS TO CHILDREN. 147 NUMBEE XXYIII. My. Deae Children : Let me now returnto tlie subject from wliich. I told you, in mythirteentli letter, tliat I would, for a littlewMe, turn away. I will first speak of Dur-ga, tlie wife of Siva, a goddess wlio is muchworshipped. She has appeared in a thousandforms, with a thousand, different names. Ofall these thousand forms, Durga and Karleare the most regarded by the people. Dur-gas Festival is the *most celebrated of allEastern festivals. She has ten hands, inwhich she holds an iron club, a trident, abattle-axe, spears, thunder-bolts, etc. Thusarmed, she is very ready to fight with herenemies. Were you to be present in the city of Cal-cutta in the month of September, you mighteverywhere see the people busy in preparingfor the yearly festival of this goddess. Images 148 LETTERS TO CHILDIIEX. representing her, you would find in greatnumbers for sale, as bread or meat is sol
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