The Arya samaj; an account of its origin, doctrines, and activities, with a biographical sketch of the founder . of direcalamity. But still more blessed are those who paid for theirown bread and did not spend even a pie of publicmoney on their own food. Personally my grateful-ness to them is indescribable. They have earned theeverlasting gratitude of their people by setting sucha good and noble example of self-sacrifice to theother members of the rising generation. Let us hopethat these services are an earnest of what may beexpected of them in the future. This record of theirwork is a magnific
The Arya samaj; an account of its origin, doctrines, and activities, with a biographical sketch of the founder . of direcalamity. But still more blessed are those who paid for theirown bread and did not spend even a pie of publicmoney on their own food. Personally my grateful-ness to them is indescribable. They have earned theeverlasting gratitude of their people by setting sucha good and noble example of self-sacrifice to theother members of the rising generation. Let us hopethat these services are an earnest of what may beexpected of them in the future. This record of theirwork is a magnificent ray in the sunshine of Hindurevival, to which we all look with hope and pleasure. 3. Famine Relief in 1908 In 1908, however, the movement was expandedand general relief was aimed at. The followingextract from the Census Report of the UnitedProvinces of Agra and Oude for 1911 will give someidea of the extensive scale on which work was doneduring the famine :— The emissary of a well known Arya leader cameround distributing relief during the famine of 1907-8and visited a certain village near which I had. / PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES 219 encamped. After his visit, the recipients of his bounty,being not quite sure whether they were doing right inaccepting private charity when Government was lookingafter them, sent a deputation to ask me whether theymight keep his gifts. I, of course, told them to takeall they could get; and then their leader asked mewho was the man (the Arya leader) who was distri-buting money in this wholesale 4. Social Service The philanthropic work of the Arya Samaj is not,however, confined to famine relief, but includesvarious kinds of social service. In times of pestilenceit organizes medical relief, nursing the sick, and help-ing in the disposal of the dead. At the time of thegreat earthquake in the Kangra Valley in 1904 itorganized relief on a large scale for the sufferers, andearned the thanks of the people and the this calamity the A
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