Clip of the Day 5/19/2022

From the Montpelier Examiner, 1906

"India Supreme as Land of Idolatry"

"It seems hard to believe that in this civilized day there should exist anywhere such preposterous absurdities as are practiced in India in the name of religion"

"Although England has ruled here for more than a century, and the missionary societies have spent upward of a hundred million gold dollars trying to make converts to Christianity, the mass of the people here still adhere to the ridiculous practices of the ancients"

"We find them worshiping snakes and monkeys and held in awe by the false pretenses of charlatans and sorcerers. Although the message of the Nazarene has gone afar, it has affected India so little that the dead are still burned on the banks of the sacred river..."