Show LECTURE ON INDIA two distinguished visitors from the far orient are sojourning sojo in salt lake city for a day or two one is the rev bev dr narayan adri the other his son Yeshwant ras the doctor is a venerable looking gentleman with a silvery mustache and though sixty years of age does not present the ag aged withered appearance peen peculiar I 1 lar to I 1 long g residence under the sun of india last evening at the assembly hall the doctor lectured on india to a fair audience he was introduced by president woodruff fr who said that owing to the short notice given the people were not fully advised of t the he rev gent lemans presence among them dr Shee hadri adri took for his text the verse of the psalm 1 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the he began uy by stating that last year his doctor ordered him to take a long sea am voyage for his health he did so and found himself in america arriving in salt lakebe La kehe called on president woodruff and other distinguished citizens and expressed his desire to say so something methin about india continuing he be said ia 1 I do not feel that 1 am among an alien people I 1 belong to the aryan race aej and from this same race came the indo germanic peoples who colonized europe and subsequently america so 80 that you are my first cousins after the confusion of tongues at babel my forefathers crossed the indus settled on the ganges valley and there taught the four books of the vedas there were aboriginal races there at that time also our sacred poetry try taught us that brahma was our md god and from him sprung our different casts from his mouth came the brahmins Brah mins or priests from his arms the warriors from his thighs the mercantile classes and from his legs and feet the workingmen and laborers I 1 be long to the highest class I 1 came from the brahmins Brah mins who are regarded as gods on earth I 1 claimed divine honors and received them this was flattering to kneir pride but I 1 was bigoted in my religion and did not see anything anomalous in it the rev gentleman then went on to say that several of the sacred legends began to excite his curiosity at an early age one was that a hindmo deity drank up the ocean in three sips another that a monkey god brought a huge mountain on the palm of his hand and a mountain on every hair of his body he began to doubt the philosophy of these miracles and while in this doubting condition he heard a presbyterian preacher speak of christ and his plan of salvation the result was that he be was baptized into that sect in september 1843 and was afterwards ordained a minister he has a mission now in india with acres of land attached he wants to study several of the the american industries so as to introduce them in india the system of artesian wells he says would benefit the country if adopted there so 80 would the extracting of oil from cotton seed education was being widely dif diffused fusi in india the scriptures were translated into the various dialects the old system of human sacrifices was abolished there were no more widows burned in funeral pyres ayres nor were the troubles of child widows widow s as frequent the doctors lecture on the whole was instructive he expressed himself enthusiastically over the hospitality extended to him by the people of salt bait lake city |