He was deeply
affected by it, and wanted very much to give something to send the
Gospel to India. But he had no money. He was, however, willing to labor
in order to earn some. Hearing that a gentleman wanted the chips removed
from the ground near his woodpile, he hired himself to him, removed the
chips, got his money, and, with glistening eyes, went and delivered it
up, to be sent to the heathen, repeating, as he went,
Send, O send the Bible there,
Let its precepts reach the heart;
She may then her children spare,
Act the mother's tender part.
About one hundred miles above the mouth of the Hoogly is the city of
Calcutta, and about five hundred miles above that city is the city of
Benares. In these cities, as well as in other places, we see how much
the heathen will contribute to support their wretched religion. A rich
native in Calcutta has been known to spend more than one hundred
thousand dollars on a single festival--the festival of the goddess
Karle--and more than thirty thousand dollars every year afterwards
during his life, for the same purpose. Not long since, a rich native
gave at one time to his idols more than one million two hundred thousand
dollars.
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