( 16 ) she had agabhorrence to touch them, but lest she infringed a religious ordination. Hers is not a solitary instance in Hindoo Society. Well may the lines of the Poet apply to members of that Society. Full many a gem of the purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. We intend to resume the subject on a future opportunity. National Paper, Oct 9th, 1872. We revert to the article of the Friend of India on Christianity and Hindooism. We shall try to continue our remarks on it in the same fair and dispassionate spirit with which our contemporary treats of the question. He says: “Is there any representation of the character of God known to men that will bear the slightest comparison with that of the Bible? Is there any other Sacred "Book that makes perfect holiness to be the first characteristie of the Supreme and that demands from man truth in the inward parts f" We firmly maintain, that the Hindoo Shasters are replete with sayings that represent God as perfectly pure and inculcate to man the paramount importance of internal purity. The Ishopanishad says:– God is pure and impervious to voice, The Swetaswatara Upanishad says;--- God is the fountain spring of all righteousness. e The Vishnu Purana says;– He is one, all pervading and pure. The Brahmanda Purana says;
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