Life and religion of the Hindoos.

The Marriage.--Polygamy.--Koolyn and Moulick.--Marriage. --Age.--Selection.--Agreement.--Anointment.--Bachelor and Maiden Feasts.--The Joy-Cakes.--Bridegroom starts for Bride’s...

First Views of Christianity.--Prejudices.--Sermon on the Mount.--New Testament.--Efforts and Struggles.--Comparison of Hindoo and Christian Doctrines.--Conversion.--First Zeal.-...

Interest in America.--Desire and Purpose to go.--My Friend agrees to accompany me.--Ill Reports of America.--Horror of Slavery.--My Friend fails me.--Will go alone.--Arrangement...

Almost every school-boy or girl in America or England knows that in India the people are divided into castes. Foreigners interpret the caste system of the Hindoos in various way...

The Hindoos hold their male and female children in different degrees of estimation. They prefer one son to ten daughters, whom they represent as the worthless slaves of others,...

I would, in this chapter, treat of the education of the Hindoo boys. But ere I commence this, a little description of the Sanscrith language seems desirable. It is universally o...

In the interesting conversation of Christ with Nicodemus, St. John iii. 3–7, we hear him say, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Again, “Marvel not...

THE MARRIAGE.--POLYGAMY.--KOOLYN AND MOULICK.--MARRIAGE.--AGE.--SELECTION.--AGREEMENT.--ANOINTMENT. --BACHELOR AND MAIDEN FEASTS.--THE JOY-CAKES.--BRIDEGROOM STARTS FOR BRIDE’S...

“None but the sinners die under their own roof,” is the prevailing belief among the Hindoos. The person who dies at home, and on Tuesday or Saturday, is believed to be surely po...

According to their ideas of good and bad, the Hindoos teach their children in their early days to love the former and shun the latter. They are taught to fear the gods, love the...

Although there are months many and days many, the Hindoo regards some with peculiar reverence, believing they have in their very nature some efficacy and sacredness which others...

day the book begins by depositing a little money to some deity, and at the close of the year this little money is accurately collected and disposed for the worship.

This month has only a few leading religious observances which have no sanction in the Shasturs. The worship of Shus-ty, the watching goddess of the babies, is entirely a female...

It has been observed in the beginning of this book that the structure of modern Hindooism is the work of time. The fancy, ignorance, and interest of men have decorated its diffe...

Foreigners in general, misled by the reports of missionaries, have some incorrect ideas of the worship of Jogger-nauth by the Hindoos. They say that the Hindoos throw themselves...

The Hindoo mythology relates the birth of Krishno as having taken place in this month, on the “eighth day after the full moon.” He was born to redeem the world, which was then t...

This is the grand worship of the Hindoos. Men of humble circumstances cannot bring the image of Doorga into their houses, because it requires a large amount of money to make the...

It has been observed before that the Brahmuns attach some degree of sacredness to the months of April, October, and January. The month at hand is October, and is a sacred one, a...

The goddess Juggur-dhartree, in the present form, was unknown to the Hindoos who died a few centuries ago. Her name has a fine meaning,--“the nurse or upholder of the universe.”...

This month, from its being very cold, I suppose, has no public worship. Nothing particularly religious attracts the minds of the people, or pleases their eyes. In fact, the arti...

This month, though third in order, is the first of the three which are held sacred by the Hindoos. On the first day of Magh, at five in the morning, the whole country is up to b...

The Thole-jatha. This means the amusement of Krishto and his female friends with a swing. In the temple hall, or on some high altar, a throne is set, and the images are placed u...

This is the last month of the Hindoo year, and witnesses that bloody religious ceremony which is so much talked of in Christian countries. It is Churuck-pooja; or, graphically,...

I was born of a Brahmun family, in a place called Balie. It is nearly seven miles from Calcutta, the metropolis of British India, and is beautifully situated on the river Ganges...

The Brahmun boys are not permitted to touch idols or to perform any religious services until they are become “Second born.” Accordingly at the age of thirteen, I believe, I was...

FIRST VIEWS OF CHRISTIANITY.--PREJUDICES.--SERMON ON THE MOUNT.--NEW TESTAMENT.--EFFORTS AND STRUGGLES.--COMPARISON OF HINDOO AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.--CONVERSION.--FIRST ZEAL.-...

clap their hands, ridicule me, and report it to my mother and other high-caste relations. I realized in a measure how our Master had been troubled by the cunning Jews who now ca...

Before I begin to give my reasons in regard to my taking the Unitarian name, I should say that these reasons are my own. They are the fruits of a mind uninfluenced by Unitarian,...

INTEREST IN AMERICA.--DESIRE AND PURPOSE TO GO.--MY FRIEND AGREES TO ACCOMPANY ME.--ILL REPORTS OF AMERICA.--HORROR OF SLAVERY.--MY FRIEND FAILS ME.--WILL GO ALONE.--ARRANGEMENT...