Lowell, John St. ch. and so. 127.15; Eliot ch., R. Stevens, 10; Sherborn, Pilgrim Cong. ch. and so. Somerville, Prospect Hill ch. and so. 7.50; Franklin St. ch. and so. m. c. 5.98; West Somerville, Cong. ch. and so. Winchester, Cong. ch. and so. Middlesex Union. Ashby, Cong. ch. and so. Boxborough, Cong. ch. and so. Fitchburg, Calv. Cong, ch. and so. 195.44; Rollstone Cong. ch. and so. 88.89; Harvard, Cong. ch. and so. North Leominster, Mrs. Isaac Cowdrey, Norfolk county. Brookline, Harvard ch. and so. East Weymouth, Cong. ch. and so. Hyde Park, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 64; m. c. 15; Walpole, Cong. ch. and so. Wellesley, Cong. ch. and so. Old Colony Auxiliary. Mattapoisett, Cong. ch. and so. Rochester, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Plymouth county. Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Boston, Winthrop ch. 350.94; Old Chelsea, ist Cong. ch. and so. Worcester county, North. Athol, Cong. ch. and so. Thompsonville, James Ely, West Hartford, Cong. ch. and so. Windsor, Cong. ch. and so. Litchfield co. G. C. Woodruff, Tr. Ellsworth, Cong. ch. and so. Litchfield, Cong. ch. and so. 194; 137 15 24 00 13 48 2 65 m. c. 107.84; 201 85 525 01 New Hartford, So. ch. and so. 20 00 7 00 284 33 18.00 5 00-334 33 166 52 76 75 96 71 4 58 68 10--179 39 20 00 20 00 430 17-470 17 19 00 Whitinsville, Cong. ch. and so. add'l, 56 00 Collection of Worcester south conference, Legacies. -Enfield, J. B. Woods, by W. B. Kimball, Ex'r, to const. FANNY W. KIMBALL, H. M North Cornwall, Cong. ch. and so. West Winsted, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 53 03-493 47 Middlesex co. E. C. Hungerford, Tr. 58 25-133 25 5,868 90 Albany, W. L. Learned, 100 00 Amsterdam, S. Louise Bell, Bangor, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 5,968 90 Binghamton, 1st Cong. ch. and so. RHODE ISLAND. Brooklyn, Ch. of the Mediator, 9.50; East Granby, Cong, ch. and so. East Hartford, Cong. ch. and so. Farmington, Cong. ch. and so. Hartford, ist Cong. ch. and so. 1,806.43; Pearl St. ch. Rev. G. E. S. to const. Mrs. A. B. C. KEENE, H. M. 100; Jos. E. Cone, 100; D. H. Wells, 50; A friend, 2; Marlborough, Cong, ch. and so. Plainville, Cong. ch. and so. to const. L. B. TUCKER, H. M. Rocky Hill, Cong. ch. and so. 30 66 91 36--122 02 16 85 Bristol, Cong. ch. and so. 54 οι 12 61 40 00 59 30 Candor, Cong. ch. and so. 22 95 2,058 43 15 00 100 00 33 27 Clifton Springs Sanatarium, a friend, Mt. Morris, 1st Presb. ch. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. IDOLATRY IN INDIA. INDIA is said by good authorities to have a population of at least two hundred and forty millions, the larger portion of whom accept Brahminism as their religion. According to this religious system there are several principal gods, and under them no less than three hundred and thirty-three million inferior deities. Images of these gods are found everywhere, and as if there were not enough of these to worship, the Hindus bow down before monkeys, and serpents, and stones. In the picture above there is rep resented a little child taking his first lesson in idolatry. His mother has brought him to an image of Ganesha, and holds up his hands towards the hideous idol while the lad draws back in terror. Is it strange that he is frightened? Some of the converts from heathenism have told of the HINDU WORSHIPING THE SUN AND HIS TOOLS. agony of fear they had in their childhood when first brought into the presence of a monster idol. They were never told of a God who was gentle and loving. He was only hateful and ugly, like his image, and the only reason for worshipping was to escape his wrath. In the picture here given of Ganesha, he is represented with a better form than commonly. He is said to be the son of Siva, one of the principal gods, and to be master of all evil and mischievous imps. As these imps are supposed to do all the harm they can, whoever wishes success in his plans must invoke the aid of Ganesha. If one is to take a journey, or make a trade, he must pray to Ganesha or he will be hindered. One of our missionaries says that will take a handful of carpenters, when they have finished a day's work, mud and shape it rudely into an image of this god, setting it on guard over night lest some imp destroy the work. Ganesha is always represented as a bloated dwarf, with four arms and an elephant's head and trunk. The story about him, which is believed by the Hindus, is that when a child he angered one of the principal gods who cut off his head, but the murderer being sorry for what he had done, sought to replace the lost head by giving Ganesha the first one he met with. This happened to be an elephant's, and he placed it upon the shoulders of the boy. Better than the worship of such hateful beings is the homage a Hindu sometimes pays to natural objects. These objects, at least, are sinless. The picture here given of a Hindu worshipping the sun and his own working tools was drawn from a real incident. A missionary, at Madras, once met a road-mender kneeling at sunrise before his pick and crowbar. When told that this worship was folly the man replied, "Without these tools I could not do my work, and without the sun I could not see to do it. Since, therefore, I get my bread by them, it is only right that I should worship them." But many of the Hindus are learning of the true God, and a better service than that of idols. The verses on the next page tell a pleasant story of a lad who does not now bow in terror before Ganesha, but looks in love to Jesus Christ. A BRAHMIN FAMILY IN SOUTHERN INDIA. |