Religion & morality > Deplorable effects of heathen superstition

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perstition from tlie thraldom of Satan. Of the
fifty languages spoken in India, twenty-five have
beeii acquired by the missionaries. Six hund¬
red Hindoos have renounced their gods ; fifty
have become missionaries. Schools for children
are earnestly solicited from the missionaries ;
and, moreover, the govern04001 of the country is
now countenancing and aiding the labour of
the missionaries.
HORRORS OF IDOL WORSHIP.
TOUR TO THE TEMPLE OF JUGGERNAUT, IN'
THE YEAR 1826.
We know that we are approaching Jugger¬
naut, and yet we are more than fifty miles from
it, by the human bones which we have seen for
some days strewed by the road. At this place
we have been joined by several large bodies of
pilgrims, perhaps ‘2000 in number, who have
come from various parts of Northern India.
Some of them with whom I have conversed,
say that they have been two months on their
march, travelling slowly in the hottest season of
the year, with their wives and children. Some
old persons are among them, who wish to die at
Juggernaut. Numbers of pilgrims die on the
road ; and their bodies generally remain un-
buried. On the plain by the river, near the
pilgrims’ Caravansera at this place, there are
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