332 TRIBUTEs. To His MEMORY. was simply amazed at this performance; this performance of one whose end was expected every moment. The letter will live in history. The Amrita Bazar Patrika. 4th December, 1918. A GREAT link with the past has snapped asunder. The mind still refuses to think that dear old Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee, who was an institution in himself and combined in him the best that is in Western with the best that is in Eastern culture, is no more. The benignant, lovely soul passed quictly away on Monday night. Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee was a man of many-sided activities. He was great as lawyer, great as a judge, great as an educationist, but he was, above everything else, a great Hindu. He was a Hindu of Hindus, who lived his life and died, a Hindu. Those who scoff may remain to pray. His remarkable life and character, indeed, furnish a wonderful object-lesson for all who have cycs to sec and ears to hear. Is the offering of daily prayers to your God according to the rites of your faith incompatible with being learned in the lore of the west? In the supercilious contempt they may dub Hindu rites a bundle of superstitions, but the fact how these were practiscd by some of the wisest and holiest of men remains to be explained. Sir Gooroo Dass was a Hindu of the old type, but Hinduism of the old type does not necessarily mean narrowness and bigotry. He was broad and catholic and liberal
