The Jesuit in India: Addressed to All who are Interested in the Foreign Missions

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Burns & Lambert, 1852 - 227 páginas

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Página 135 - Within thy wounds hide me; Suffer me not to be separated from thee; From the malicious enemy defend me; In the hour of my death call me, And bid me come to thee. That with thy saints I may praise thee For ever and ever. Amen.
Página 5 - ... festival, the distinction of castes is forgotten ; all descriptions of pilgrims feast and associate with the Brahmins. Some old persons come on purpose to die in the presence of Juggernaut, measuring the whole distance with their bodies. SUTTEE. The most shocking practice of self-immolation is the suttee, or the burning of widows on the funeral pile of their husbands. The ceremonies are various, and last from a quarter of an hour to two hours. Sometimes the widow is placed in a cavern prepared...
Página 20 - The life to which he thus condemned himself was most severe : he could associate only with Brahmins ; his whole food was milk, rice, herbs, and water, once in the day ; his dress a long robe of yellowish cotton, covered with a surplice of the same ; a white or red veil on his shoulders ; a cylindrical cap on his head ; and on his feet wooden soles, resting on props two inches high, and held on by a peg passing between the great toe and the next. To this he added a cord, the distinctive mark of the...
Página 22 - To this day the visible action of the evil spirit is by no means uncommon in India, and what reason is there to disbelieve the present existence of what, we know on the authority of Scripture to have unquestionably existed formerly ? If Christianity has diminished the power of the devil in Christian countries, we may naturally suppose that his power remains unbroken were the cross has never been planted.
Página 52 - One missioner would be seen moving about on horseback or in a palanquin, eating rice dressed by Brahmans, and saluting no one as he went along; another, covered with rags, walked on foot surrounded by beggars, and prostrated himself as his brother missioner passed, covering his mouth lest his breath should infect the teacher of the great.
Página 147 - REVENUES OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. — The London Missionary Society commenced its operations in 1800, and up to 1849 it had expended £ 1,922,346 : 18 : 2.

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